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YOU AND I CAN GET MORE PLEASURE \ OU T OF LIFE IF WE TASTE ; the joy of giving ; TONIGHT, neighbor, you’ll crank up the bus and take the wife and children out for a cooling-off spin along the country roads. The chances are, you won’t think |,bout the tired-faced little neighbor | woman whose husband is not fortun ate enough to own an automobile, and who sits on her front porch close to your home, njght after night, rock ing her baby and trying to keep it cool. ' Have vou any idea how much she would appreciate a trip into the cool country with her baby on one of these blistering nights? Ju t drop over there tonight, and ask her to ride along with you. Get a t:i te of the joy of giving. REAL MENACE The war which has been going on for months between the Kemalist Turk and the Greeks is an affair of niv.-h greater magnitude than the people of this country realize. If there were not so many other great events occurring throughout the world, this TurKo-Greek war would be considered news of the first im portance. the great European powers are becoming alarmed lest the Turks under Kemal follow up the advan tage they have already gained by making Constantinople and the Dar danelles untenable for Allied troops ami ships anti thus upset the whole settlement of the near-East question. There seems little doubt that the situation has developed into one of great seriousness. One of the incidents of the war which i:; rather amazing to us Ameri cans i that 700,000 Greeks are al rc.-.'iy numbered among the victims. It is estimated that the total loss of life directly due to the war was at least a million up to July 1. And the end is not in sight. KITTY’S RIGHT A cat's right to look at a king was long ago recognized. Now, a cat’s right to use her claws in a cat and dog fight is established by the Su preme court, of Massachusetts. Mrs. Fannie F. Goodwin sued a grocery because she. was scratched while trying to protect her pet dog from the grocery cat. The court held that it was up to the dog to look out for himself, and that his owner could collect no dam ages because she “voluntarily ex posed herself." 1 LOWER RATES k That President Harding is keenly | Hkirous of having railroad freight I Bd pa enger rates pd justed down ward and that he is bringing all the! of his great office to bear. on the Interstate Commerce Com- Imssion to get results as soon as pos-! V ible, is the good news that comes j from Washington. The president recently conferred ! with President Clark of the Inter state Commerce Commission for the) purpose of making the views of the i administeration known. The president’s position is that I lower rates are necessary to stimu-1 late the movement of certain com- j modifies. In this he is in agreement with the ; judgment of the leading economic experts of the country. In fact the railroad owners and managers seem to be the only people who want the } prohibitive rates continued. “FORGETTING” [here is a growing disposition in I tins country to criticise France be-1 cause of the intolerance of her at- I titude toward Germany on all ques tion relating to the enforcement of the peace treaty. “France should for give and at least try to forget,” sums tip the attitude of many Americans. Il"- may bi good advice, but the I trench have suffered too greatly to | be able to take this charitable atti tude so soon after the tragic events ■meh caused the suitering. For in • anci, it has just been disclosed that up to dale there have been filed with i' 1 ‘■iK'h government ,400,000 ap- P'cation:; for widows’ and orphans’ pern ions. AVIATORS U'' arniifc e day 251 American 7'77''' killed in flight. + •hem there was not the 'glory 7'7, cro ™. ns warrior who dies I' ■ ' , 1( '- v went ahead, did each dangerous round of duty and , J died doing the day’s work. , r ii our °Pi n ' on > the sacrifice u the follow who thus gave his life doing his job as best he knows, uo locs to be honored than the j.i, - him who laid down his ■ m the zt .al, inspiration and glam or f, t battle. T ? ’ arc hhe Heroes of the Daily MEANEST MAN Pi j' 1 ’- 0 ’umsts. the meanest man ! lii n' u ' W ‘ t hin her corporate) <>i. latest candidate for this I ♦u ' has just been sentenced to ! for 5 years by Fed ed P 7|’ Landis after Ge had plead nirti! 7m* 10 cllar ® e robbing the t ,7 disabled service men’s com- P'usatmn checks. s.nd - I7. ss * sentence Judge Landis i 7 7 . 1 hakes a man without any '' rob a disabled war hero.” Keer Bill Struggle Next Week In Senate | othV^f 11 *GT°N, July 16.—A11-1 (| 'li lted struggle is promised in | effm-t e i a T Xt w f ek , as c resul t of! Willhfr!? la he, vesterday to take the .-Campbell anti-beer bill up for, i, ut''i e ’f t ’ t u n fo . l *? win P the re-com- ' The pt soldier bonus measure.! -Mondavi-?!? JO x rr J ed y. ester day until I upon thp 'ithoirt debating or acting • Were b - r 1)1,1 m °tion, ’but there ! - Pi onuses of opposition Monday; I THE TIMES-RECORDER IN THE HEART OF FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 164 CONFESSION BY HUDSON NOW AWAITED ASSEMBLY TRUE TO FORM-LITTLE CARE OF SAVING House Refuses Economy Opportunity—Test Next Week Times-Recorder Bureau, Kimball House. ATI ANTA, July 16.—(Special.) —With approximately $1,000,000 in volved in special appropriation meas ures now before the general assem bly and nothing accomplished toward placing in effect Gov. Thomas W. Hardwick’s retrenchment program, Georgia lawmakers will enter their session next week with an opportuni ty either to accept or reject the chief executive’s income tax bill. Almost every member elected to the legislature this summer ran on a platform of rigid economy. Yet when Zach Arnold's resolution to re move appropriations from the vari ous committees that roam over the state every summer investigating dif ferent departments came up, the house gave it an adverse report. Here was an opportunity for the state to be saved approximately $20,000, but the “knock on the door” brought no favorable response. And consider the vast sum de manded in special appropriations. Then think of the fight which will be made on Governor Hardwick’s taxation system. Allow the thought of many hours of debate and explana tions of votes to occupy your mind for a few moments. Senator John H. Jones has others who agree with him when he srated this morning that “it is time for more work and less oratory. Unless the senate and house get to work the session will end with nothing accomp lished.” Representative George Carswell, of) Wilkinson, has succeeded in securing! a favorable report from the house' appropriations committee on the ! graduated income tax bills, and it will come up for passage the early part of next week, unless a delay., is sought in order that he may build up a machine in an attempt to make sure of its adoption. Realizing the seriousness of the sithation, the house after this week will hold session Saturdays, and in both branches committee meetings are being held more frequently. The vari ous chairmen are urging all members to attend and seek to hasten the transaction of business. There has, of course, been some reports of an, extraordinary session, but little cred ence is given to them by the leaders of both branches. How well the chairmen have suc ceeded in concentrating their forces* will be shown next week. If the sev en days pass as those of this week, Georgia will witness another extrava gant session, the result being a worse financial condition than the present. Ellis To Defense Os District Schools Times-Recorder Bureau, Kimball House. ATLANTA, July 16.—Representa tive R. C. Ellis, of the Forty-seventh district, is opposed to any effort tot abolish or combine the district agri-! cultural and industrial schools of the; state, according to a statement he! issued this morning in reply to the' recent assertions that one of the best ) places the retrenchment program, could be practiced is in these vari-) ous institutions. “The agricultural class composes I the largest part of the state’s popu-' lation,” said Senator Ellis. “Their) business is greater than any other. ! The state depends upon them, and ; I say it would not be fair or just to consolidate these schools or con centrate agricultural education in the state college at Athens. “We cannot lose on this invest ment. The training of our children of the rural districts, the work that these schools accomplish is very valu able, and I will do all in my power to prevent any disadvantageous j change.” I WEATHER. Forecast for Georgia Thunder showers this afternoon or tonight; Sunday partly cloudy, thundershow ers on the coast. AMERICUS TEMPERATURES (Furnished by Rexall Pharmacy ) 4 pm 83 4 am 76 6 pm .•.83 6 am 77 8 pm 80 8 am 84 i 10 pm 78 10 am 90 | Midnight —77 Noon 93 ! 2 am 76 1 pm 93 | MARKETS NEW YORK FUTURES Oct. Dec. Jan. ! Prev. Close 1.12.90 13.32 13.35 I Open 12.95 13.38 13.39 10:30 am 12.92 13.34 13.38 10.45 12.90 13.32 13.35 11:00 12.88 13.32 13.33 11:15 13.01 13.44 13.44 ,11:30 .12.93 13.33 13.42 11:45 .'13.00 13.40 13.38 Close 13.03 13.45 13.46 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON i Good Middling, 11 t-4c. CARTOONETTE ! ..I ■ « 1 —I. LETS (Joj ( M 7_. Z / / _ A « THE OLD SWIMMIN’ HOLE. TWO STILL RAIDS HARD ON THIRSTY Source Os Grog Inter fered With By Officers Two sources of some of the best grade of moonshine liquor that has been coming into Americus for many months coming in fine class cop per stills, were destroyed, at least for the present, Friday by two raids cunducted jointly by Sheriff Harvey, of Sumter county, and Sheriff Chris tian, of Webbster county, assisted by Deupty Sheriff Summers and City Marshal Pouncey, of Americus, Mar shal J. C. Arrington, of Plains. One of the stills was taken in Webster county not far across the Sumter line, and the other near Americus. Both were brought here, but the Webster contrivance was taken to Preston later by Sheriff Christian to be held as evidence for the grand jury and courts. The Sumter officers met Sheriff Christian Friday morning at Parker’s mill, near the Webster line. They started westward, drove into Webster past one of the old Reid places, turn ed to the left and followed a blind trail that led through a large wood. Following this road, they finally came upon wagon tracks which were followed to a swamp. There the st,'ll location was found, with four barrels of beer. A search of the vicinity revealed a long copper worm and condenser hidden in the weeds, evi dently against theft, but the boiler was not found. Nobody was seen and no arrests made. “We have all necessary informa tion, however, as to the owner of the still,” said Sheriff Harvey Saturday, “and it is the intention to wait un til the Webster grand jury meets, when all the facts will be laid before it. The. case also will be reported to the federal authorities.” The second raid was made at the home of Wade Frazier, well known offender of times gone by, who now lives on the farm of A. R. Chunn 3 miles out on the Friendship road. A quarter of a mile from the Frazier home in a pasture, and fenced in to protect it from the cattle, was localed a fine copper still of large capacity. It was located on a creek, and could be seen a distance of 150 yards. It was not in operation and no one was found near it. The outfit was con fiscated and brought to the city Fri day afternoon along with the Web ster still, and later Frazier was ar rested on Forsyth street in Ameri cus. Afterward he made bond of S9OO. Frazier, who not long ago served a jail term under a federal sentence, for making liquor, moved his family the first of this year from Webstar county not far across the line to the present home 1 . Sheriff Harvey states he was notified about three months ago that Frazier was then moving a still from his former home to his new location, but he waited until it was reassembled and had been put j into operation again before raiding it. Both stills, it is said, have been furnishing plentiful quantities of liquor in Americus. The Webster still is said to have been a source of supply of a young man who was caught in making deliveries from a salesman’s auto in Americus a few weeks ago, several quarts of liquor being in the car when captured. 4 YRS. FOR FIRING ON LIFE BOATS LIEPSIC, July 16—(By Asso ciated Press.) —Lieufs. Dittmar and Boldt. Gefman naval officers charged with murder in the first degree for firing on lifeboats after the, Canad ian hospital ship. Landoverv Castle had been torpedoed in. the summer of 1918’. each were sentenced today to four yeats imprisonment. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 16, 1921 AGRICULTURAL PROBE IS PUT UP TO GOVERNOR Senator Brown Insists l axpavers Be Given Facts Times-Recorder Bureau, fjimball House. ATLANTA, July 16. Governor Thomas W. Hardwick is expected this afternoon to announce his decision on a written request from Senator L. C. Brown that the state depart ment of agriculture be investigated since serious charges have been brought against Commissioner J. J. Brown. The chief executive held a conference relative to the matter with Attorney General George M. Na pier this morning. Senator-Brown’s letter, which was made public at noon, is as follows: “Due' to the fact that serious charges have been made against J. J. Brown, commissioner of agricul ture, and departments under his su pervision, the taxpayers of this state are demanding, and according to my candid opinion arc entitled to. a fair showing as to the money derived from taxation. “1 want to call your attention to the act of 1918, page 155 to page 158 inclusive, which provides tor an examining commission of state gov ernment departments supported by appropriations. 1 especially call your attention to section 5 of said act, which is as follows: “ ‘Be it further enacted, that in the discharge of its duties the said commission ‘shall be authorized to employ necessary clerical help, but the said expenses for clerical help shall not exceed in any year the sum of $12,000. In addition to the said clerical help, the said commission is authorized to employ an expert ac countant whenever it shall deem the same hecessary for the purpose of making the examination above pro vided for, and for the establishing of such uniform system of account ing.’ “I hope that you will be kind enough to call a meeting of the com mission (the budget commission.)” MRS. CLAY GETS FIRST OPEN BOLL Honor Goes Fo Sumter s Champion Woman Farmer To Sumter county’s champion wo man farmer—and contender for first honors in the free-for-all class—goes the honor of the first open cotton boll of the season locall. A fully matured and open boll was brought to the city Saturday morning by Mis Mary B. Clay from her large planta tion southeast of Americus. Mrs. Clay is a highly successful farmer and business woman. She employs 150 workers and two over seers on her plantation. She goes to the farm every day in person from her city home and directs the operations. Her corn this year is in splendid condition, and every year she fares as well as the next one. Besides field crops, Mrs. Clay pro* duces an abundance of milk and but ter, hogs, chickens, vegetables and fruit. TO FIX COTTON LOANS POLICY Reserve Governors Call ed I o Discuss Coming Crop Plans WASHINGTON, July 16.—Gov ernor Harding of the Federal Re serve board announced today that he had called a conference here Tues day of the governors of the five re serve banks in the great cotton pro ducing sections to adopt a uniform policy on cotton loans during the coming marketing season. Many requests have been received from cotton interests, the governor said, asking the board to make known its Dolicy on cotton loans. 20 Millions Recovered In Income Tax Frauds WASHINGTON, July -6.—Approx imately $20,000,000 was added to government revenues during the fis cal year just ended through recover ies from false and fraudulent income tax returns. Commissioner Blair an nounced today, Indictments have been returned during the year in every section of the. country,.he said, and many jail sentences have been imposed, in ad dition to fines and penalties which also were assessed.- 7 \ ■ . . Is She a Lady ‘Bluebeard’ or Innocent Typhoid Carrier? - . ; ■■ \‘ I 1 \ - f . .7' I \ f 7 r* MB Mrs. Lydia Southard and her fifth and present husband, Paul Vincent Southard. Much-Married Mrs. Southard’s Trial For Hus band’s Murder I o Decide TWIN FALLS, Ida., July 16. Lyda Southard, deliberate modern Bluebeard, or Lyda Southard, afflicted typhoid carrier? The question will be answered here in the fall term of court when Mrs. Southard goes on trial fur mur der. Prosecution and defense are marshaling their evidence. The trial promises to be the most bitter that the west has seen for years. All Idaho is aroused over it. Mrs. Southard was arrested re cently in Honolulu, charged with the murder of her fourth husband, Ed- LIFE SENTENCE FORMRS.KABER Husband Slaver Found Guiltv With Recom mendation CLEVELAND, July 16.—Mrs Eva Catherine Kaber today was found guilty of first degree murder, with a recommendation of mercy by the jury which tried her on the charge of plotting to kill her husband, Dan iel F. Kaber. Under the verdict, Mrs. Kaber must serve the remainder of her life in prison. Though the jury had not reported I officially to the court. Judge Bernon ! announced the decision to Attorney I Francis Poulson, the woman’s per sonal counsel, so he might inform her in the hope she would revive suffic iently from her stupor to appear in court and hear the official announce ment. ■*’# Mrs. Kaber was carried into court at 10:30. The jury was brought in a few minutes later and made its of ficial report. Mrs. Kaber, who was lying limp in the arms of a deputy sheriff, when asked if she had any thing to say, shook her head nega tively. Judge Bernon then pronounc ed sentence, and she was taken back to her cell. Under the Ohio law there is no hone for nardon under such a ver dict. William Corrigan, her counsel, said he was well satisfied with the verdict. The same expression was made bv County Prosecutor Stanton. Attorney Poulson said he would not appeal Mrs. Kaber’s case. Marian McArdle, who was with her mother when told of the verdict, said she was well pleased with the decision, according to Poulson. League Disarmament Work To Continue PARIS, July 16. (By Associated Press.)—The temporary mixed com mission for reduction of armaments, appointed by the League of Nations, decided today that the conference on this question to be called by Presi dent Harding would not conflict in any way with the league’s disarma ment move. Instead of adjourning' therefore, the commission will con-, tinue its sessions, expecting its work, to be. useful in a preparatory way fqr the Washington deliberations. ' *-• • . Two trains start at the same time, one from A to B, the other from B to A. If they arrive at their destina tion one hour and fours respectively after passing each other, how much faster is one than the other? Answer to yesterday’*: Sunday. ward F. Meyer, a ranchman who lived near Twin Falls. Three other of her former hus bands had died as well as a daughter by the first husband and a brother of the first husband who lived with the couple. Good sized insurance poli cies were carried by all four of the husbands who died. Married Fifth Time. At the time of her arrest, Mrs. Southard was living with her fifth husband, Paul Vincent Southard, a naval officer. They were married in Los Angeles, and Mrs. Southard Continued on Page Two.) FRIENDS SEEK TO AID DR. BAGLEY Delegation Mav Make Appeal To Judge Evans A movement for intercession with Judge Evans, of the South Georgia federal court, in behalf of Dr. H. A. C. Bagley, of Sumter county, sen i tenced this week to serve nine months in the federal penitentiary on a plea of guilty of violating the anti- I narcotic act, has been started here,' and it is said to be likely that a dele-1 gation of his neighbors in the Twen- ; ty-eighth district may go to Macon ’ to present to Judge Evans a plea . for modification of the sentence im posed. One of the chief reasons for the ) contemplated action is that Dr. Bag ley is 70 years of age, and many of ! them feel that the humiliation of serving a prison term in the twilight of his life, after many years of use fulness. would crush him and proba bly result in him never leaving prison alive. Another is that they feel he ' was the victim of a trap set for him i by the federal investigator making the case, falling unwittingly into it. They also feel that he acted unwise ly in not employing an able attorney to represent him in the case, and that the result might have been much different had he been ably advised and had his own advocate appearing for him, instead of merely employing a Macon attorney to enter his plea of guilty, formally and making a brief statement to the court to save him the personal embarrassment of doing it. The sentence of anything more than a fine came as a distinct surprise to him and his friends. Dr. Bagley is the son of a New England man who immigrated to Sum ter countv many years ago. He was horn and reared on the scene of his present home and his practiced medi cine as a country physician since a young man in his native locality. He is held in high esteem by all who know him and, as one of his friends put, “has done good all of his life, instead of harm.” He has many family connections who are among the most prominent people of the community. • Dr. Bagley’s friends' feel that a personal appeal by them .to Judge Evans may result in a suspension or modification of the sentence that will prevent him having to. serve the sen‘- tence iipposed. Dr. is at home here, having been given a stay of sentence. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TWO BOYS SLAIN BY STEP FATHER, MOTHER ADMITS Accused Man Now Held In Macon Jail For Safetv ALBANY, July 16—Confession by Glen Moore Hudson to the murder this week of his two step-sons, Rob ert and Isaiah Temple, aged 10 and 4 years respectively, following the confession of their mother, who is his wife, in jail here yesterday, that he killed them, is hourly expected. Hudson was taken to Macon yester day for safekeeping following her confession and before news of the development became publicly known. Hudson was reported from Macon as having acted nervously and queer when told of the confession, but per sisted in denying his guilt. While still held here Hudson spent Thurs day afternoon reading from the Bible, and was stiy very nervous and very unwilling to discuss the case with the officers. When an acquaintance from Alabama visited him at the jail Thursday and asked him what he was charged with, it is said that he was barely able to answer, his throat filling up and almost choking him. How to proceed with the prosecu tion of Hudson unless he confesses it; a problem for Dougherty county officers, inasmuch as a wife is not permitted to testify against her hus band in a capital offense in Georgia, and vice versa, and she is the only witness connecting him with the crime. Feared to Confess. Mrs. Hudson made her confession to former Sheriff L. E. Black, of Early county, who now makes his home in Albany. Mr. Black knew the women while they both lived at Blakely, and has known her and her family since she was a child. She told Mr. Black, he says, that she would have made a clean statement of the whole tragic story as soon as the ■ murders occurred had she not beer# • afraid of death at the hands of her ■ husband, and remained silent after both had been placed in jail for fear that he would succeed in carrying out his threat to have some one else kill her if he were placed where he could not do it. The confession Mrs. Hudson is al leged to have made to Mr. Black fix ed the time of the murder of the ■ two little children at about 5 o’clock "Tuesday morning, which coincides with the testimony of several wit nesses in the neighborhood who said i they heard pistol snots in the direc | tion of the Hudson home about that | hour. Mrs. Hudson, according to the ! story, had left the house with her I husband to drive to town, where she had secured a position with a local candy factory. It was to be her first day of work in this new job. The wagon stood outside, ihitched to a mule ready to take them to town, when Hudson, she says, told her that he had to go back into the house for something and for her to go across the road to the stable lot and wait for him there. She asked him why it was necessary for her to go to the •lot, and he replied, she says, by ) threatening to kill her if she did not I shut her mouth and do as he told her. When she reached the lot, the wo ! man’s story goes, she heard the little i boys screaming, indicating to her ! mother’s intuition that they were be i ing beaten. She ran in the direction ! of the house, and before she reached ! there she heard three shots and the : screams ceased. Threatened Her Life. Her husband came out of the house, she says, and she frantically accused him of killing her little boys. Tv her queries as to what had hap pened to the boys she said he re plied: “It’s all right about what hap pened to them; if. you don’t keep your d mouth shut I’ll kill you, and if they put me where I can’t kill you, I’ll have you killed.” All the way on .the two-n.ile drive to town, Mrs. Hudson says, her hus band repeated his threats to kill her u>r have some one else kill her of she opened her mouth against him, and after he was placed in jail she fear ed that his brother would kill her if she told what she knew, she is alleg ed to have said. Mrs. Hudson said she was so nervous when she went to work she could not understand in structions given her by her new em polyeis, and actually forgot to count. This statement of the woman was corroborated by R. E. McCormack, of the Mills-McCormack Candy com pany, who says he thought her in ability to count was due to illiteracy, but that he did not observe any evi dence of nervousness otherwise on her part. • Mrs. Hudson said that before she and her husband left the house on the tragic morning, both of them had cautioned the little boys not to touch either of the two watermelons that were,in the house under the Led. Those who hold to the .theory that, the woman’s story is true, in sub stance, and that Hudson killed' the boys in .a fit of ange.r, believe h? took a last Idok before leaving for own and Found th.at the two.Uoys- had.dis (Continued on Page 2.) • • * HOME EDITION