About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1923)
PAGE EIGHT MIKIDICTEI IS UN ACCESSORY IS SPYING OF COM Mr*. Margaret Weaver, Nurse, Charged With Knowledge of Fox’s Intention 1 o Kill OTHER BILLS TO BE ASKED Preliminaries Ended; Klan Slay ing Case Expected To Be Entered Into ATLANTA, Dec. 12.—(8y Asso ciated Press.)—Mrs Margret Wea ver, trained nurse, has been indi cated as accessory before the fact in the slaying of Captain W S. Co-, burn, klansman, by Philip E. I'ox klan publicity director, it was an nounced by Solicitor General John Boykin just before the opening of the Fox trial here today. Evidence has been obtained to warrant several other similar in dictments he said. Mrs. M eaver, who is not under arrest and whose whereabouts is not pubL.ally known, is alleged to have known of Vox’s intention to kill Coburn and to have been with him shortly be fore he started on his death mis sion. During the morning, prelimi naries of the trial had been _ dis posed of and the selection of jury men from 217 veniremen was be gan. Solicitor John A. Boykin and his assistants conferred frequently thioughout the day Tuesday. No efforts were made to conceal the fact that new evidence had enter ed the case, but its exact nature was guarded with every caution. A conference was also held all day between Attorney Hugh M. Dorsey and Frank Hooper, Sr, rep resenting the uetense. No state ment concerning their client’s prob able line of defense was issued by these attorneys. Attorney William Schley How- Wanted the Ladies to Know 1 have the latest Improved PERMANENT WAVE MACHINE, and am equipped to give the best ser vice to be gotten anywhere. Also have nice line of NOVELTIES for Xmas trade. DOLL WIGS, all sizes and colors. Garner’s Beauty Parlor - ■ —————l I ■■ ■ ■ - Christmas I Bargains ii All White Ivory in Toilet Sets and Indivi dual Pieces Prices Ranging From 25c to $12.50 In the assortment you will find Combs, Brushes, Powder Boxes, Mirrors, Hair Receivers, Clocks, etc. All fine for Gifts, at — HALF-PRICE Buy Stationery Box Paper of the highest quality; colors in Pink, Blue and Tan, going at half price— sl.oo Boxes for $ .50 $1.50 Boxes for $ .75 $2.00 Boxes for SI.OO $2.25 Boxes for $1.13 $2.50 Boxes for ...... ...$1,25 $4.00 Boxes for $2.00 $6.00 Boxes for $3.00 All at Half-Price HIGHTOWER’S ” BOOK STORE » > • I. f M I w’ X L ard employed to aid Solicitor Boy- j ,kin in the prosecution held a con- | ference with the solicitor late Tiles- j day night, and it was made known that full discussion or tha -newly revealed evidence in the case would be held. Scores of witnesses have been ’ subpoenaed from various sections I of the country. Trains arriving from the southwest Tuesday brought many witnesses and inter ested friends of the slayer from Texas. * , The first witness introduced by , the defense is expected to indicate lie trend of the defense testimon; Should any word be introduced tending to establish a plea of in sanity, the prosecution will immed iately call for time in which to have a lunacy commission examine the prisoner, it has been officially stated. A preliminary examination of Fox by alienists appointed by the statu was refused by defense coun sel Saturday. Fox shot William S. Coburn, at torney for the Simmons faction ot the Ku Klux Klan, while the attor ney was seated in his office in the Atlanta Trust Company building on the afternoon of December 5. He was indicted 18 hours later on a charge of murder by the Fulton county grand jury. The only’ statement credited to the slayer since his arrest follow ing the shooting was to the effect that he shot to prevent Coburn from ‘ruining his life.” The klan issue was not injected into the questioning of talesmen. Five jurors had been accepted when recess was taken for luncheon. CINEMA FIRM ENJOINED FROM SALE OF STOCK NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—The Ris ing Sun Productions, Inc., which en gaged Ilidor, “th t . mad monk oi Russia,” to appear as the star of it motion pictures, was tempora rily enjoined from further sale of its stock by Supreme Court Justice Platzek upon the representation of Deputy Attorney General Dwyei that the firm had fraudulenuy re ceived between $50,000 and $60,00C from persons seeking careers as mo vie stars. IS LOCATED HERE Says He Will Return To Wife And Children; Blames Dope For Condition MACON, Dec. 12. —Fear that her , husband has been the victim of foul play or is in the clutches o, drugs led Mrs. L. H. Mason, of 820 First street, to tell the Telegraph last night of his mysterious disap pearance on the morning of Nov. 20. Tears were in her eyes, and her two small daughters, 7 and 1 I years of age, clutched at their mother’s dress as she told the story. They didn’t seem to understand it all "We didn’t have any domestic troubles,” she said, "and he was.al ways a devoted husband and father. I have never known him io drink, but recently he took some kind of narcotic. I am afraid he may have taken an overdose, and now he may be in some out f the wa place, dad,” Soft sobs choked in her throat, and then she wiped the tears away. Mr. Mason, she said, left home on the morning of his disappear ance to go to his work in a depart ment storr. He left no money, and Mrs. Mason been having a struggle to keep the children in school and provide food. Efforts to get some kind of work have been unavailing, she said. Mason is described as 39 years of age, five teet and nine inches in neight,, and weighing about 150 pounds. He is a brunette, slight y bald, and wears shell-rimmed glasses. After reaching town, the morn ng he disappeared, Mason tele phoned his wife that he “might run rver to Gordon,” but said he’d be -ack before night. Last night he had not come ome, and Mrs. Mason and the two ittle daughters, Pearl and Alice, .vere still watching and wondering. MASON FOUND IN DOCTORS OFFICE L. 11. Mason, who Tuesday night was reported missing from home since November 20, was at the of fice of Dr. J. R. Statham about noon today in search of narcotics, it was said by Stathan. He is said to have become an adict. W hen told of the heart-aches his absence is causing his wife and small children, he agreed to return home. It is thought that he will carry out that intention. Chief of Police John T. Bragg Tuesday stated that he had no war rant for the arrest of the man, and that therefore he was unable to make an arrest. He stated that if the man was not working or that if he had violated any law, he could affect an arrest. Mason gave his home address as 820 First street Macon, Ga., and said that he in nded to return to his family. He said that he had been working on a farm near Americus for the past two weeks. The dope habit, which he is al leged, to have co tracted, he said the resell of a long and painful wkness. lie said that he was giv en the medicine to ease his pain. Society MR. AND MRS. JONES ENTERTAIN SET-BACK CLUB At their lovely country home near Americus, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Jones entertained delightfully at ’ set-back last evening, having as their guests the members of their club and a few additional friends to fill vacancies. i Quantities of brightly tinted au tumn foliage and tiny pine trees yere used effectively to decorate the spacious living room where the tables were arranged for the inter esting game, and a blazing log fire added to the attractiveness of the scene. Mrs. Charles Burke won the ladies’ high score prize, a bottle of perfume, and D. R. Andrews won the gentlemen,’s prize, a silver pencil. Before the game an elegant sup per was served at the card tables. The guest list included Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Fort, Mr. an.d Mrs. D. R. Andrews, Mi-, and Mrs. Lucius McCleskey, and guest, Mrs. W. W. Norman, of Griffin, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rylander, Mr. and Mrs. Carr Glover, and guests, Mrs. J. 11. , Williams, and Mrs. G. M. Flynn, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Wheeler, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Shipp, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lanier, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burke, Miss Georgia Lumpkin, and T. O. Marshall. JEWELRY A GIFT THAT LASTS Diamond Bar S2O 00 UP Ladies Wrist $20.00 UP Watches Sheaffer’s Giftie Sets For Ladies and Gentlemen in Pens and Pencils Americus Jewelry Company THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER JT hat’s Going On in the W orld (Continued From Page 1) lowed to reNeJect F. H. Gillet speaker. A similar sight’s yet to come in the Senate. * * * WETS AND DRYS The president, in his message said, “Prohibition should be made effective,” but 'didn’t "enthuse” over it. Secretary of the Treasury Mel lon wants 320 new boats of vari ous types, costing $19,650,000, plus enough more money to man them, to help fight liquor smug glers. Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt, as-! sistanl attorney general in charge of prohibitipnfi announcing 53,121 criminal ‘aJiri civil liquor cases in the federal -courts in the last fiscal year, speaks of this as "the most gigantic criminal problem the country ever faced.” » » » TROUBLE IN MEXICO Just as everybody thought Mexi co had settled down, after years of revolution on top of revolution, troubles’ started again. The term of President Obregon, a strong executive, expires soon. He has Deen backing Elias Calles to succeed him. Now a revolt’s been launched to put Obregon out, to keeps, Calles from getting out, to seemingly, to give the presidency to Adolfo de la Huerta. Calles’ slogan is ‘Mexico for Mexican.” De le Huerta is popu lar with the foreigners in Mexico. Maybe it’s only a coincidence that tne revolt begins in territory where foreign investments are largest . FREE TRADE WINS England, free trade for nearly it century, has vpted down protection again. Premier Stanley Baldwin, a Con servative, decided protection would relieve England’s post-war hard times. To try the voters out, a na tional election was held. A ballot count gives tne Conservatives more votes in Parliament than either tne Liberals or Labor group, but the Liberals and Laborites combined have more than the Conservatives. • » » CAN’T LAST LONG This means, though Baldwin got a plurality, that his main policy’s beaten. He may get a few Liberals to vote with the Conservatives on routine questions, so as to have enough of a majority to worry along with for a while as premier. More likely, he’ll resign. If so, one of two things will happen: r - u Liberals will get enough f-r.borites to give them a mapority or transacting ordinary business Davl .f i I Ls r '.vd George, Liberal leader, will be premier. . The Labontes will get a few Mm e riA S i°> h , e!p u them ’ a,l(i Ramsay MacDonald, Labor leader, will bo premier. lit-n •> pal taer: >hip administration, K: th “ e - WLKWW FUST IN ClfflET ? n^c ert And Secretary Have Different Opinions, Washing- WASHp"'T R^ n ? r Snys »»ASHL-.GTON. Dec. 12. A rift s growing- between President ( WMli a n nd S pe . ,etar y of Agriculture Wallace which may lead to th" J-.V --ters resignation unless recon iM tlolL,ls a PPhed promptly. .. . , e trouble arises from the fr’icr that Coolidge and Wallace view th" troubles of the farmer through dif ferent glasses. Coolidge, trained in «pLn| C °7 erVative New Englur.,l senool of economies, believes the farmer must help himself, and that tne government must not tinker with economic expedients. Wailace, reared on lowa soil where th e well-being of the farmer’ is regarded as a public, rather than a private matter, insists the govern ment should go to the rescue of the farmer, just as it helped the rail roads and the merchant marine. Last summer, when the question of farm relief was being agitated so actively, Coolidge, without con sulting Waliace, dispatched Eugene Meyer and former Congressman Frank W. Mondell, both of the war finance corporation, on a tour , through the west for the purpose of formulating an administrative pro gram on agriculture. Wallace wa*' not apprised of this enterprise un- * til it was publicly announced at the W hite House- I He was opposed to placing the | question of relief measures in the ; hands of the war finance corpora-| tion. Eugene Meyer, formerly a Wall Street banker, had been crit- | icized as unsympathetic by farm ; representatives, and Frank W. Mon- | dell, majority leader of the house last year, was not regarded as a friend of the farm bloc. Now another chapter has just been written. The president, in his message to congress adopted the recommendations of the Meyer- Mondell commission rather than those of Secretary Wallace. Cool idge spurned the idea of a govern ment export corporation to finance food shipments, although Wallace had strongly recommended that the I president endorse.it. Then, a few days lated, Wallace issued his an nual report to the president with an abstract in which his export corpor ation plan was prominently featur ed. Mrs. W. A. Abbott arrived .from Chamblee last night to attend her daughter, Mrs. C. C. Holliday, who is ill at the city hospital. Walter Abbott, a brother of Mrs. Holliday, came on the Seaboard this after noon from Columbia, S. C., to be at her bedside. Christmas story: Once some boys didn’t know where the presents Wg. I x 'ACT \ r I & - W / wmi X -' / Yeo / I m f I Corning With \ Loads of Fun \ ■ A■■ ■!;< VSrW ' 'lf Mik! \ For Boys and Girls \ \ ' S ’ YOU CAN FIND ME AT Williams-Niles Company Every Day From Now Until Christmas With Toys'for Boys and Toys'for Girls And Lots cf Nice Things For the Older Ones “ ' (Signed) SANTA CLAUS ■ a ’^4l Give Something For R the Car for Christmas M All the Family Can Enjoy It iSi We have no end of useful, appropriate, and good looking articles for the car. Americus Steam g Vulcanizing CoJ M J. W. Lott, Mgr. n “LOOK FOR THE RED POSTS” [a- MEM SMS ' BWE BffllS I Macon Editor Tells Os Advant ages To Be Derived Through Personal Hygiene and Diet ( Continued from Page 1) and considered if the individual is tural laws which must be observ'd : to always be at his best. K is i these laws that I invited tne au- . i dience before me and the people ot . I because persons living in Georgia | i need the pure foods ami dairy ; ‘ products grown, he stated. • . "Milk and raw vegetables suould i form the major part of the food ! taken into the system of every man ' in order that the 16 essential ele ments of the blood straam may have an abundant supply of narra tive material.” he said. I When asked privately ebneern ! in;., the rumored governor's race. I Mr. Anderson stated a Times-Ke- I corder representative that he would I not make the race, and that he did i not want the job. It is an honor not be lighfly con ; sidered, but I have duties which I command' my entire attention, and I which would suffer in the event { that I were elected. I do appre ; eiate the efforts of my friends, bur ■, I can not make the race," Mr. An- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1923 derson said. Mr. Anderson was accompanie I by his father, C. Cfl Anderson, also of Macon who was a guest at th? club meetin. , Songs and other feature s con cluded the program. "People ar negligent of the duty lof caring for themselves. They j know better, but they have other 1 things more important to demand their attention —at least that’s what the' thihlT Nothing is more.’ im portant than one’s healths "We run ourselves down, then rush frantically to a doctor and ex med him to perform a miracle by ! curing a chromic which our own I neglieenec has caused. This Tis jis wrong. Concentrated medicines wi.i relieve. They will not cure. We ourselves are our best doctors ! and we know better what we need l if we will only Lake the tim e to ex- I amine oWselves. "This psycho-alanysis should be turned by every individual to a phy .deal analysis many times during th; year, and persons would then be at ■their best. We need self-doctors I more. No, lam not against medi ! cines and the medicil profession, i but ai'Y good doctor will tell you ! that the real intimate best physician ; a man has is himself. ’ In calling on the citizens of Geor gia to give mor e time to their per sonal hygetiic living, Mr. Anderson : stated that the diet is the most im i portant item.
