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Americus Spot Cotton /
Strict middling 33 cents.
N. Y. Futures Dec. Jan. March
Previous Close .32.75 32.50 32.61
Open 33.65 33.25 33.50
11 am . .... 33.80 33.50 33.69
Close 33.95 33.65 33.82
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.-—NO. 256
SCORES OF TAX LAWS INTRODUCED
Fox, Ku Klux Editor Goes On 7rial f Next Week
»HF CBBIIH
WILL Fit f Jim
FIM WHffl
Unable To Serve Warrants On
Wizard Evans and Other
Klan Officials
MORE WARRANTS ISSUED
Dr. Johnston. Fearing For His
Life, Asks Officers For
Protection
ATLANTA, Nov. "‘.—lf neces
sary arrangements can be complet
ed, Philip E. Fox, publicity chief of
the Ku Klux Klan, will be placed
on trial next week for slaying Cap
tain W. S. Coburn, Solicitor Cen
tral Boykin said today.
In the meantime authorities have
been unable to serve peace war
rants on Imperial Wizard Evans
and three other klan offiicals.
Warrants Were taken out by Dr.
Fred B. Johnston allied with the
Simmons faction of the klar on
the ground that he, too, feared for
hi.- life.
Dr. Linton Smith, maily •phy.-.i
cian for Fox declared that in .hi;'
belief the klan publicity man. i
suffering from mental disorders
and announced he had called rn
alienist for consultation.
Peacn warrants against H. K.
Ramsey, Brown Harwood and T. J.
McKinnin, Kirn offiicals, were dis
missed when they later appeared
voluntarily in court and Dr. John
ston did not appear.
The peace warrant against Ev
ans remains to be disposed of as
he is out of the city. Johnsen also
is reported to have gone to Bir
mingham to consult Simmons.
POSSIBLE MOTIVE
BEING SOUGHT
ATLANTA, Nov. 7.—Following
thd indictment of Philip E. Fox,
editor of The Nighthawk, official
organ of the Ku Klux Klan, for the
murder of Captain Coburn, city
and county officers worked dili
gently throughout Tuesday in an
unsuccessful effort to arive at a
possible motive for the deed.
Meanwhile Fox, in his cell at
Fulton jail, remained silent as to his
reason for shooting Coburn to
death as 'he sat in his law office
in the Atlanta Trust company
building at 4 o’clock Monday aft
ernoon. "
Thus far the statement of Fox to
hia captors to the effect that Co
burn. had in his possession certain
documents derogatory to his char
acter, the publication of which
Wopld have ruined him, is the only
reason for the shooting which has
beep hinted.
Existence of such documents was
emphatically denied Tuesday- by
Dr. Fred B. Johnston, chief of staff
of Emperoy W. J. Simmons, who
stated that he h - "' • ted Coburn
11’, ,i: r: ■ the pap.ir.:
to which FoxNvas thought to have
referred end said that “he was
certain no document in Coburn’s
possession referred in anyway to
Fox.
Atrtthe imperial palace Tuesday
afternoon reporters were told that
“there was no one at headquar
ters who cared to make any stTte
ment.” When en attache of the
palace was asked if headquarters
would deny or affirm the statement
Fox is alleged to have made to
Dr. Johnston to the efect that there
was a plot to kill four prominent
members of the Simmons faction,
he replied, “We don’t know any
thing about it and certainly aren’t
going to talk about a matter wc
know nothing about,” he conclud
ed, “we have nothing to say.”
FOX OFFERED AID
FROM TEXAS.
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 7.—Sheriff
Dan Koriston and District Attorney
Shelby Cox, Tuesday, wired Pfiilin
Foy.- charged with the slaying of
W. S. Coburn over dissention with
in the Ku Klux Klan, at Atlanta,
offering to go to his assistance.
The telegram expressed regret
that Fox had become entangled in
klan affairs at Atlanta, but stated
they were certain he was in the
right and that the tragedy was un
avoidable.
LOUISVILLE BUILDS
FINE NEW HOTEL
J
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 7.——A con
tract calling for an expenditure of
832,000 end specifying that the
new hotel to be built at this city
be finished by May 1, 1924, has
been let to T. B. Kelley, the suc
cessful bidder in the project. The
hotel will have about twenty rooms
and will be extremely modern in
all its features. Willis Inin, of
Augqsta, has been named as the
architect and work is to begin im
mediately.
THE
IN HExXRT_OF DIX~I£'
NEW YORK FUTURES ATTAIN NEW HIGHS
BlfflNG ORDERS'
IICMHKET
1—
Over-Holiday Orders Flood Ex
changes, Resulting in Rapid
Rise in Quotations
REACH NEW 7 HIGH LEVELS
December Sells at 33.75 and
January Reaches 33.48 On
. Bull Coup
NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Heavy
accumulation of buying orders over
the holiday inspired by a big ad
vance prices on. New Orleans and
Liverpool exchanges yesterday re
sulted in an advance of about 100
points i i local cotton markets at
the opening. .
December contracts so'd at 33. ij
cents a r.'im’. and > i -t.arv at
33.48 cents, both establishing new
high levels for the season.
Burned body found
IN NEGRO CHURCH
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov.
The charred body found in the
ruins of a negro church near Tus
caloosa has been positively identi
fied as that of a Birmingham wo
man, Chief Deputy Sheriff IL 3.
Hill, of Jefferson county, said upon
.his return rom r>, personal investi
gation and .conference with au
thorities of Tuscaloosa county.
Beyond the fact that the woman
was from Birmingham, Deputy Fl’ll
would not give any other informa
tion because of “certain complica
tions” whic hhe said must first be
cleared up, though he did say that
the body is not that of any of the
women end girls previously named
in the investigation.
“We have established the fact
that the body is that of a Birming
ham woman, and we know the mo
tive behind the crime,” Dempsey
Hill said.
WINSTON CHURCHILL MAY
SUCCEED BONAR LAW
LONDON, Nov. 7.—lnterest in
domestic politics is focused on the
representation of the Glasgow cen
tral division in the house of com
mons, for a succassor to the late
Andrew Bonar Law’ is to be elect
ed forthwith.
A report that W.ir.ston Spencer
Chicchill las received •’ > invitation
f;-. m local liberals to become their
candidate has caused a flutter in
official quarters as the invitation
apparently involves an attempt to
rc-unite the two wings of the party
—the Aso.uithian and the Lloyd
Georgian grbup.s The invitation is
1 said to ’ have come Jrom the As
quithian side.
The stir created by the sugges
tic i of Mr. Churchill’s candidacy is
| partly due to the opinion in some
circles that liberals through a lack
of energy; that the distrust of
Lloyd George by the independent
liberals is unconquerable and that
Mr. Churchill is the only man who
can reunite the party.
EDITOR PHINIZY SEES
ERA OF PROSPERITY
ATLANTA, Nov. 7.—Discussing
what he terrps, “The Sign of Times’
Bowdre Phinzy, owner and editor
of the Augusta, Ga., Herald says:
“There has never been a brighter
sign for prosperity than is now
downing upon us. The seasons
i this year have been ideal and. the
I planter has enjoyed a perfect plant
| ing and harvesting time. Food-
I stuff has been raised in abundance
I and an unusual crop of cotton has
I been made to tly acreage. Hogs,
I cattle and poultry are plentiful and
j the cribs and haystacKs are loaded
■ with the bijst corn, outs and hay
I this section has ever produced. All
I in all, the people of this section
| have something to be thankful for
j ?.l I era o. l etter times is now upon
I ui.
“Business conditions are grow-
I ing stable; the banks have tlie
j largest deposits they have carried
in years; the merchants are enjoy
! ing :,1 unusual trade.”
BERLIN, Nov. 7.—The leader
lof the band which murdered the
i late Czar of Russia and his family
i is at present : i Beilin, according
to the Lqkal Anzeiger. The man
is under medical treatment in a
nursing home suffering from hallu
cinations which have haunted him
since the day of the murder.
The Soviet Embassy in Berlin,
Which is said to. be bokiig after
the man, has provided him with
money and put a motor car ut hit
disposal, \
AMERICUS, GA.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 7, 1923
TWENTY TWO PERSONS
KILLED DMG RIOTS
Strike of Railway Workers In
Warsaw Causes Serious
* WARSAW, Nov. 7. —Twenty-two
persons have been killed and 60
wounded in riots and bombings
growing out of the strike of rail
way workers.
Disorders occurred despite an
agreement of the socialists to call
off the strike in return for the gov
ernment’s promfee to withdraw the
military from the railroads.
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PfWTIM FORCED
President Harding Had Directed
Removal of Bureau Direc
tor, He Asserts
WASHINGTON, November 7.
President Harding called for the
resignation of Charles R. Forbes
as director of the veterans’ bu
reau as a result of the Perryville,
Md., surplus supply sale transac
tion, Brigadier. Genera] Saw’yer, the
late president’s personal friend and
pyhsician, testified before the sen
ate veterans committee here to
day.
COTTON VESSEL AFIRE
NEAR ENGLISH COAST
roldsociety ..etao etaoi etao .etaoi
HAVRE, France, Nov. 7. —The
British Steamship Hannington
Court, with a cargo of cotton from
Galveston for this port, wirelessed
last night that she was afire 1,200,
miles west-southwest of Queens
town.
COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA
MEETS THURSDAY NIGHT
The orchestrations for the Com
munity orchestra having been re
ceived by Alfred C. Gane, director,
a meeting will be held Thursday
ujght at 8 o’clock at the Communi
ty club to which every member'
is urged to be present.
The delay in delivery was caus
ed by some of the music having to
be ordered, and Mr. Gane an
nounces that everything is now
ready for a meeting which he an
ticipates as being fully attended.
WESTERN UNION SUPT.
DIES SUDDENLY AT POST
JACKSONVILLE, Nov. 7.—L. J.
Maxwell ,for many years district
commercial superintendent for the
Western Union Telegraph company
of this state, died suddenly in his
office today.
SUITS FOR FAILURE TO
DELIVER CAN INSTITUTED
CAIRO, Nov. 7.—Suits will be
entered immediately against sev
eral members of the Cane Grow
ers association for failure to deliv
er their syrup to the association in
violation of their contracts, accord
ing to a resolution adopted by the
association’s board of directors.-
CLAIMS ENFORCEMENT
RESTS ON PEOPLE
ATHENS, Nov. 7.—Judge Sam
uel H. Sibley, in charging the grand
jury here recently said that the en
forcement of the prohibition laws
as well as other laws depended up
on whether the people wanted them
enforced. Judge Sibley said that
the courts of the country were as
powerless to enforce the laws as
a mason, is to build a house with
only a trowel unless , they .vote
backed by the sentiment of thq
people. Judge Sibley made a short
charge which was to the point, the
grand jury taking up presentments
immediately.
UPSON COUNTY COTTON
SHOWS IMPROVEMENT
THOMASTON. Nov. 7.—Already
more cotton has been ginned in
Upson county this year than during
the whole of the previous season,
and according to the reports much
more is expected. The crop will
exceed that of last year by more
than one thousand bales according
to the recent ginning estimates.
Many potatoes of large size are
being brought into the local mar
ket as well as other farm products
which have enjoyed a good yeai.
The high price of cotton has in
creased the prospects for the farm
ers in this territory and has done
much to alleviate the hard times
propaganda.
MINISTERS’-LAYMEN
CONFERENCE BACKS
GO TO CHURCH MOYE
-J.
More Than Hundred Men At
Get-Together Gathering To
Discuss Religious Work
CAMPAIGN JlivEN PRAISE
Attendance At All Churches On
Sunday Far Jkhead of Prev
ious Sundays
One hundred /men, officials and
n\. listers of the Various churches of
the city, assembled Tuesday night
in the basement of the Furlow
Grammar school, where a supper
prepared by the women of the First
Methodist chu;<4 w »s
The gathering, was a get-to-geth
er of minister 4>d layman, for the
purpose of bringing about closer
relations oetween the two.
J. E. Hightower. of the Chris
tian church. piesided as toastmast
er; Frank Harrold, of the Episco
pal church, was song leader; Fur
low Gatewood, of the. First Baptist,
offered the opening prayer.
Dr. Cail Minor, speaking for the
Ministerial association, assured the
laymen of the appreciation of the
ministers for their 100 per cent
response to the suggestion that the
He*.said the reason for the con
meeting be held
ference was to bring about a closer
Christian co-operation between pas
tor and official, and to enlist the
aid of the layn en in. the November
go-to-church campaign inaugurated
by the Ministerial association.
Dr. Minor said the Ministerial
had results. That approximately
800 people attended church serv
ices the last Sunday in October,
whereas more than 1300 were pres
ent the first Sunday in Novembrf)
It is the expectation and hope of
the ministers to have 4,000 people
present at the services the fourth
Sunday in November and the drive
is now leading up to that.
Dar. Minor said the. Ministerial
association would welcome a quar
terly meeting of all religious forces
of the cjty gathered for the pur
pose of advancing spirituality in
the community.
Bradley Hogg, of the First Bap
tist church, followed Dr. Minor, ii\
a plea for more constant church at
tendance by the lay officials of the
church. He said too many of the
official were “off and on” in their
attendance; that a church official
should attend all services or resign
bis office.
A. C. Crockett, of the Presby
terian church, plead for a closer
co-operation between ministers and
laymei\ officials. He said the of
ficials should give the go-to-church
campaign every aid, goiflg them
selves and persuading others to go
to all services.
H. 3. Walker, of the Lee Street
Methodist, spoke of the three C’s
—Consecration, Co-operation and
Church attendance. “Consecrate
ourselves to the co-operation with
each other in Christian service,” he
said.
R. L. Maynard, of the Central
Baptist, said those not attending
services regularly might be called
slackers, in some eases. “Those
church members and officials who
stay at home on Sundays are slack
ers in the Lord’s work,” he said. Ho
suggested that all automobiles stay
off the streets between the hours
of service at 11 a. m. and 7p. m.
and cited methods used during the
war to persuade people to do then
duty.
Frank Harrold, Episcopal church,
thought’ the gathering was the first
of its kind and that it had great
possibilities if continued regularly.
He plead for closer co-operation
between official and minister.
John Sheffield, First Methodist,
said “I see before me tonight the
most inspiring sight my eyes have
ever beheld. There is no narrow
denominationalism here; all arc
striving for one goal, even though
we pursue slightly different paths.”
On motion of John Shiver, the
100 laymen voted unanimously to
form a permanent organization of
all church officials and ministers,
meeting quarterly, and suggested
that details be worked out by the
committee responsible for the coin
ference last night.
J. E. Mathis suggested that all
church officials attend the various,
prayer meetings at stated inter
vals, in a body, visiting from
church to church during the quar
ter.
W. A. Joyner, Christian church,
said there were many on the out
skirts of the city, top far to walk,
who should be brought to church
PLAYEfI FUKERJL Him
M MJ II ONI
Services at 11:3O O’clock Here
With Interment in Rochelle
Cemetery
Funeral services for George A.
Player who died suddenly at his
home here Tuesday morning, were
held from the family residence on
Furlow- street this morning at 11:30
o’clock.
Rev. Luther A. Harrell, pastor of
the Lee Street Methodist church,
conducted the obsequies, and many
friends attended.
The remains were carried on the
noon Seaboard train to Rochelle,
where interment took place this
afternoon.
SOCIETY LEADERS ARE
EATING SAUER KRAUT
u
CHICAGO, Nov. 7. —Sauer kraut
.now is popular in dining halls of
society, James A, Anderson, of
Provo, Utah, presiding at a meeting
of the directors of the National
Cartners association, declared. Sales
of sauer kraut have increased more
than 100 per cent in ten years,
he said.
JUDGE HOWARD MAKES
FIRST CHARGE TO JURY
ATLANTA, Nov. 7.— Delivering
the first charge he has made to a
grand jury since assuming duties
as judge in the Fulton Superior
court. Judge G. H. Howard Monday
scored the whereby trial
juries fix the sentence in felony
cases. The present law fails to of
fer sufficient latitude in permitting
the general aspects of a convicted
defendant’s past conduct to have a
bearing on the immediate case.
LITTLE BOY MAY LOSE
EYESIGHT FROM BURNS
SAVANNAH, Nov. 7.—Jack, 5-
y ear-old son of Editor R. M. Rhod
en, of the Reidsville Journal and
Baxley Banner, is in a hospital here
being treated for severe powder
burns which may cost him his eye
sight.
The lad with others was trying
to set off the powder in a shell
from which the shot had been
picked, when the explosion badly
burned his face.
DR. G. N. HOWARD
DIES IN CUSSETA
I ATLANTA, Nov. 7.—Dr. G. N.
! Howard, of Cusseta, father of
1 Judge G. H .Howard, of Fulton
Superior court, die'd Monday after
noon. He was 78 years of age.
For many years he had been super
intendent of schools in Chattahoo
chee county.
Surviving him are three sons, Dr.
C. N. Howard, Jr., a member of the
legislature from Chattahoochee
county; H. B. Howard, ordinary of
that county, and Judge Howard, of
Atlanta; and three sisters, Mrs. J.
C. Butler, of Birmingham; Mrs. A.
B. Taylor, of Texas, and Mrs.
Dozier McElby, of Cusseta.
BEN HILL GRAND JURY
SCORES ELKS CLUB
FITZGERALD, Nov. 7. The
grand jury of Ben Hill county in a
I recent meeting made recommenda
i tions to the court to abate the
! premises of the Elks club as a nuis-
I ance. Judge Crum stated that the
action would delayed pending the
return of the attorney general from
Washington, on account of holding
membership in the fraternity, Soli
i citor Wall is disqualified front the
' action. Frequent intoxication and
I using the club rooms for the hold
i ing of liquor parties, wer ■ charged
I in the recommendations as reasons
| for the presentation. The grand
I jury claimed that the liquor parties
were frequent and that sometimes
they were boisterous.
by those having ears. “Do that
' and you'll fill the churches every
j Sunday,” he said.
Dr. John M. Outler, First Meth-
J odist church, spoke of the conteni
i plated union revival in the early
I part of 1924 and asked for an ex
j pression from those present. On
I motion the laymen declared they
would back the Ministerial asso-
I ciatipn in the move to hold a un-
I ion revival, bringing here for that
I purpose a revivalist.
The "women of the First Method
ist were thanked for serving the
supper and each mau present drop
ped 50 cents in the hat, which sum
will be placed in the building fund
of the First church.
PROSPECT BRIGHTER
FOR EK ICC« OH
REPARATION PLAN
Commission Decides To Com
ply at Once With German
Request
EXPERTS HOLD MEETING
With Unity Among Three Great
Nations Early Settlement Is
Now Expected
J
PARIS, Nov. 7.—Prospect for an
agreement between France and
Great Britain on the text of an
invitation to the United States to
join with the reparations question,
were regarded in diplomatic and
French official circles today as
brighter than yesterday.
TO COMPLY WITH
GERMAN REQUEST.
PARIS, Nov. 7—The reparations
commission has decided to comply
immediately with the German re
tions question as proposed in the
Berlin government’s note of Oct.
24, if the several governments, in
cluding the United States, are un
able to agree regarding the setting
up of an advisory inevsting- com
mitttee.
FLORIDA JUDGE SCORES
KU KLUX KLAN ORDER
PENSASOLA, Fla., Nov. 7.—ln
his charge to the grtund jury here
in the United States court, Judge
William B. Sheppard referred to
the Ku Klux Klan in the most se
vere language, characterizing the
organization he referred to without
calling its name, as one which was
bordering on anarchy, and was
anything but the one hundred per
cent American as claimed. The
court said that the tactics usually
employed by such organization
tended to produce a condition or
demoralization of law and make
life and property unsafe. His
charge was devoted almost entirely
to the klan.
DERAILMENT OF TRAIN
INJURES SEVERAL PEOPLE
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo., Nov.
7—Several passengers were report
ed slightly injured when several
coaches of St. Louis-SanFrancisco
] par- -iger train No. 802 wene de
luded at Brooks Junction, 25 miles
I south of here. The train was en
; route from Memphis to St. Louis
and was the same one that collided
with a freight train at Swift, M
sevral days ago, but none was in
jured even slightly in this accident.
SOIL BACTERIA SALES
EXCEEDING LAST YEAR
ATLANTA, Nov. 7.—Sales of
bacteria for soil inoculation by the
state department of agriculture
were greater during October this
year than for the entire season of
1922, it was stated by Assistant
Commisisoner Fred Bridges on
Tuesday. Sufficient of this bac
teria was sold to the farmers in
October to properly inoculate 2,-
500 acres of soil, he stated.
While urging all farmers to in
oculate their soils for the large in
crease in crop yield which will re
sult the department has arranged
to sell the bacteria to Georgia far
mers at cost. The department’s
price is 30 cents per acre, in com
parison to approximately $1.50 per
acre, said to be the average , om-
price.
OCTOPUS - CORMORANT
IN BATTLE TO DEATH
BRISTOL, England, Nov. 7.—An
octopus and a cormorant were
kept together in a huge glass tank
at the local aquarium. They became
firm enemies, and spent most of
their time fighting. The cormorant
using his bill and the octopus its
tentacles.
Finally, the octopus, overcoming
tremendous water pressure, pulled
out the plug from the bottom of
the tank and let out six feet of the
eight feet of—water in it. Then he
let the plug slip back into place.
Next morning the cormorant
swooped down for its morning dip.
The usual battle began, and when
things'became too hot the cormor
ant, also r.s usual, made for the
floating platform moored to the
side of the tank. It was hanging:
six feet above the water-line; and'
before the bird could leave, the wa
ter it was dragged under and
killed.
- ■■ - I I IT- irWHUM
WEATHER.
For Georgia Fair tonight and
Thursday; light to heavy frost to
night.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SENATOR PACE S BILL
CREATINGAUDSTING
BM INTRODUCED
Measure Establishes Budget Sys
tem and Gives Greater
Power to Probing Bodies
GOVERNOR ENTERTAINS
Carswell and Neal Hopeful Os
Expeditious Legislation In
Extra Session
ATLANTA, Nov. 7.-—(Special.)
Scores of measures relating to the
tax problems of Georgia were in
troduced this morning when the
extra session of the legislature
opened.
All bills were referred to their
proper committees without debate.
In rthe upper house. Senator
Stephen Pace, of Sumter county,
introduced the bill to create an
auditing and accounting depart
ment and also to establish a state
budget and investigating commis
sion with greater authority than
has the one now existing.
The session which opened this
morning can consider only those
measures which relate to taxation
a,nd methods of collecting and the
free school book measures urged by
the governor.
Tonight at 6 o’clock members of
both houses will be entertained as
the guests of the governor at a lo
cal case, at which time the report
of the special tax commission which
has been studying financial needs
of the state will be made.
On Thursday the governor will
deliver his formal message to the
legislature in joint session, after
which debate on the tax problems
will be given.
Both President George Carswell
of the senate, and Speaker Neal of
the house, voiced the hope that the
assembly will expedite its work
and enact Whatever legislation it is
going to with as little waste of
time as possible.
EFFORT TO ADJOURN
VOTED DOWN
ATLANTA, Nov. 7.—An effort
toadjourn the legislature sin'e die
within two hours after it convened
was defeated when the house voted
it down overwhelmingly.
The resolution was introduced by
Wimberly of Laurens county, and
Representative G. W. Riley of Sum
ter.
ENNIS WOULD CHANGE
METHOD OF ELECTION
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 5.—-(By the
Assocated Press.) —Instead of cre
ating a department of revenue,
Representative Roy V. Harris, Jef
ferson county, favors passage of the
Ennis bill, amended so as to place
the proposed additional tax collec
tion machinery under the present
tax commissioner, Henry J. Full
bright.
Opposition to the repeal of the
tax equalization law and passage
of free school book legislation was
expressed by Mr. Harris.
“I favor an income tax to either
supplement the present revenue of
the state or as a substitute for the
state’s present ad valorem system,"
Mr. Harris said. “I am opposed to
all other systems which have been
proposed to date. I prefer an in
come tax, levied upon net incomes,
with a rate not to exceed five per
cent, provided that the tax may
be credited with the arrou.-it of ad
valorem tax paid to the state on
property from which such income is
derived. I shall introduce a bill to
this effect. ,
“Unless we abolish the present
ad valorem system, the passage of
an income tax would not be lair
unless we embodied provision far
crediting one against the other, be
cause then we would have double
! taxation.
“I am opposed to the .state fur
; nishing free text books m the cam-
I mon schools. The legislature al
; ready has made so many raids upon
the treasury that we are not in
financial condition to furnish free
i text books at this time. I da not
believe that it duty of the state
to furnish free text books, and I
think that it is a dangerous move
i ment because it is carrying pater-
I nalism to the extreme.”
Mr. Karis has served several
I (Continued on Page Eight)
NEGRO USES OIL
CAN AS WEAPON
ROME, Nov. 7.—Following a
quarrel ocer an antiquated flivver,
I Louis Summers hit George Spriggs,
both negroes, over, the head with an
oil can with such force that a sur
geon required the better part of
an hour to complete the operation
of sewing up the gaping Wound
made in the back of his head. Sum
mers was held in jail on a charge
of assault with intent to murder.
The use of the oil can in this ca
pacity wa s a nqw use for them in
this section.