About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1924)
GEORGIA Brief Items of News Events Throughout the State Con densed for Busy Readers. WORK ON CEMENT ROAD PROGGRESSING SPARTA, Jan. 26,-r-Work on the nj!w cement and steel bridge over ‘'Town Creek,” the boundary line between Hancock and Baldwin coun ties, is progressing despite unfav orable weather conditions. This is the last link to be completed of the Hancock section of the Macon-Au gusta highway. When completed this structure will be a permanent one and a griat improvement over the old wooden and steel framq bridge. WAYCROSS CHAMBER DIRECTORS NAMED WAYCROSS, Ga., Jan. 26. Seven new members have been elect ed to fill vacancies on the members council of the chamber of com merce. Those elected include E. K. Ben nett, D. T. Bibb, Rev. W. E. Mott, C. M. William and George W. Pope well. TATTNALL PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS REIDSVILLE, Ga., Jan . 26. Tattnall county nominated the fol lowing in the primary Thursday: Ordinary, E. E. Purvis; sheriff, J. 11. Kennedy; clerk, R. N. Odum; tax collector, B. H. Bpasley; tax re ceiver, B. 1). Kicklighter; superin tendent of schools,, J. O. Bacon; roads and revenues committee, C. W. Rogers, 11. C. Beasley, Ralph Holland, W. A. Dubberly and J. T. Strickland; egroner, E. R. Collins. The closest contest was between the candidates for sheriff. J. H. Kenn edy defeating'E. H. Bacon, Jr., by three votes. FORESTRY CONGRESS STARTS ONDAY SAVANNAH,. Jan. 26. R. D. Forbes, secretary of the southern forestry congress, which will being a three days’ series of conferences here Monday, arrived in Savannar today to complete final preyaratory work for the meeting. President Bonnell H. Stone, of Blairsville, Ga., is expected to ar rive early Sunday. He said by phone today that the congress will measure up to all expectations. /AMES WRIGHT LAID TO REST AT FORSYTH FORSYTH, Ga., Jan. 26.—Fun eral services for James W. Wright, 60, prominent Monroe county farm er, who died suddenly at - his coun try home about seven miles fror? Forsyth Wednesday were held at the First Baptist church here Fri day with Rev. R. L. Bivins, assisted by Rev. Ci C. Heard, of Locust Grove, and Rev. L. B. Harvey, of Forsyth, conducting. Mr. Wright moved here from Butts county. H; also lived several years in South Georgia. pwlOHra FBP LEBIOBWOBET Comander Lane Says Every Ex- Service Man in County Should Be Present As Post’s Guest R. C. Lane, commander of John D. Mathis Post, No. 2, American Le gion, this morning announced the program to be carried out at; the Legion banquet to be held Tuesday night in the former A. L. I, armory here. In announcing this program, Commander Lane asserted that it is the desire of the post to have every white ex-service man in the county, as well as many Smithville, Lees burg and nearby towns present at the banquet. *'l want every white ex-service man in Sutmer county to be pres ent,” said he, ‘‘at the American Le gion barbecue Tuesday evening at 7 o’clock in the former A. L. 1.., armory. We want it distintcly un derstood that you need not he a member of the Legion in order to be welcomed to this occasion. If you arc a member of the Legion, be sure and come; if you have been a member of the legion, but have not paid your dues for 1924 be sure and some because we want you to get the benefit of the speeches to be made, and also want all to erfjoy the musical program to be rendered. It is hoped that ex-service men from all the small towns in Sumter county will come together.” The program arranged is as fol lows : Selection by Community Orches tra. Welcome Remarks, R. C. Lane, commander. ’ | ‘The Forty and Eight” by J. F ' Cheney, Columbus, Ga., Selection by Orchestra. Address by Mr. John Sheffield. | Quartette, Messrs. Davenport. Beavers, Smith Stackhouse. Barbecue served. Orchestra Selection. Address by Major James A. Fort, Quartette selection. In addition to the above program Major Wilder, of Albany, and Earl Cocke, former vice-national com mander, and R. L. Crawford Dis trict committeeman, will make a I few brief remarks, i ’ THETIMESBRKORDER • SwPUBLISHED IN HEART Or FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 23 HEADS OF SLAIN VICTIMS SEALED IN CONCRETE 3 „ O O o O 0-0 O O O O O o o o o o o o JESTER FAMOUS CONVICT ESCAPES o o o o o o oo oo o o o oo o o o o COOLIDGE ORDERS JUSTICEfDEPARTMENT TO BEGIN PROBE Doughboy •fl I if » HL Jlt' ' ' ■ ' I ‘ w ... Who is the snappy looking general w e see pictured above. Why, that, Mr. Bones, is a buck private wearing one of Uncle Sarri’s new service uniforms. You will notice the longer blouse, the fuller breeches and the belt. On the right you se e another buck dressed in the regular issue out fit that the stony-heated quar termaster sergeants passed out during the late muss. Liicm scimiific 4ILLEB DHMSFS WEHE BE HS HEffi i Days of Contradicting State ments End When Aurora Law yer Makes Revelation FOUND IN RUBBISH HEAP Revelation Places Long Sought Evidence in Hands of Au thorities Handling Case AURORA, Ills., January 26. Sealed in a concrete block on the city’s dumping grounds, police to day found the heads of Mrs. Lena Lincoln and her brother, Byron Shoup, missing for nearly a year, and for whose murder the wo man's husband, Warren J. Lincoln. | I . eccentric lawyer and horticulturist, is in jail. ' A new confession by Lincoln that he killed both, althcngn he pre viously had said he killed his wife in self-defense after she shot and killed her brother, led the way to clearing up much of the long mys tery. After days of contradictory statements only to end in Lincoln’s returning to his original confes sion that he killed h;s wife when he saw her kill her brother and ex pected her to attack him, the wrenched mind of the man tore out i the history of the double murder i and disclosed what he had done I with the bodies. Just as he finish- I ed telling of dismembering the bod ies and sealing up the heads in the ' concrete block, police rushed to the I dumping ground and found the \ block, a chunk of concrete about 24 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 12 inches thick. When the police chipped off the hardened plaster, the heads of the two victims were bared. In finding the heads authorities at last had evidence of the killings j | which they had sought for months* ito find. ... . AMERICUS. GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 26, 1924 WEATHER For Georgia—Fair tonight and Sunday; colder tonight with freezing temperature. ’HALF MILLION DOLLAR SWEEPS INDANA | VILLAGE MY W I ’ ’ Blaze Started in Green Drug Co. and Was Still Raging at 9 O’Clcok This A. M. CALL SENT FOR HELP First National Bank Block Ap parently Doomed, With Cin cinnati Asked to Aid CONNORSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 26. Fire starting early today in the store of the Green Drug Company spread at the First National Bank j block, and at 9 o’clock, six after it was discovered, was still unchecked. Early estimates of the dam age -were as high as $500,000. The. aid of the Cincinnati and Richmond, Ind., fire department were requested JDMTiTYWWR COSTS LIVES 81 38 Eight of Those Rescued Not Ex pected to Survive Their In juries Early Today JOHNSON, CITY, 111., Jan. 26 The check-up today definitely placed the number of the dead in yesterday’s mine explosion at 30. Two more are reported missing, eight aie in the hospital, with two, not expected to recover. The explosion occurred late Fri day in the McClinton Mine and en tombed thirty men in two rooms off the main entry. The dead man was so badly burned identification was impossible. These entries have been , * 4 battened off from the main section and rescue teams are working in j shifts to combat a raging fire and j reach the entombed men. f At the time of the explosion 450 ( miners were in the mine but most 1 of them were on the 250-foot level j and were not affected. The mine s s owned by the Crerary Cinch Coal 3 Company of Johnson City. c IDISCRIMINATION ALLEGED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. The refusal of the recently organized Emergency Fleet Corporation to ac cord southern ports the same rates as north Atlantic ports on export shipments originating in the middle west has occasioned vgorous pro test by Senator Walter F. George to the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the Shipping Board. It is pointed out that this action by the Emergency Fleet Corporation will nullify export rail rates to southern ports on' large movements of Euro pean traffic from central western points. Senator George today also pro tested to the Interstate Commerce Commerce Commission against fav orable consideration of the petition filel by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and allied Associations of Boston and Massachusetts to inter vene in the complaint of tre south Atlantic ports. The southern ports are seeking to have import rail rates established from those to the mid dle west not in excess of those main tained from Baltimore and Norfolk. It is believed that great inroads would necessarily be made into the volume of commerce passing through south Atlantic and Georgia ports, if the petition filed by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and Allied Associations of Boston and Maassachusetts is granted. THE OVERSHADOWING ISSUES T-- . x—uS’ " ' ’ z y.. o- P ■ A'-'q r SAWS WAY OUT OF STEEL CAGE AND DISAPPEARS DURING NIGHT Dick Jester, famous Fulton county convict, escaped from th e Sum ter county chaingang here Thursday night, it became known in Amer icus today, and is still at liberty. Paul Ryan, white Sumter county convict, who escaped with Jester, walked ten miles through a blind ing ram to the stockade in Americus, where he reported Jester’s escape to John B. Ansley, county warden. The escape was effected by saw ing away several bars of an iron cage in which Jester and Ryan were confined, with saws secured Iby the Fulton county man in some un known manner. The work of sawing away to freedom had been go ing on during rainy weather for several days, the convicts selecting rainy days in which to carry on their operations. No trac c of Jester had been found up ot this afternoon. Confined in the same cage with Jester and Ryan were King Avery, Bibb county, serving 2 to 4 years for auto stealing; F. H. Daniels, Cherokee county, serving life for murder; Milton, Hinson, Cook coun ty serving life for murder, and James Moran, Spaulding county serving 6 years for highway robbery These men were all prevented from escaping only because of their size, the hole through which Lester and Ryan crawled to freedom being only about ten inches square, ac cording to prison officials. All of the men named are hardened crim inals, and most of them had escaped previously either from the Sumter county gang or from some other county where they had served por tions of their sentences before be ing sept to Sumter. Ryan, is a youth sent up a. short time ago for a year after conviction for stealing an au tomobile belonging to Edwin Tim merman, of Plains, and he had been confined with 'under the gun men” because of his previous association (Continued on Page Four.) NOW CLAIM WEEVIL HIBERNATE IN SEED ATLANTA, Jan. 26.—Discovery that the boll weevil is hibernating inside the kernel of warehouse’stor •ed cotton seed was made in Conyers Thursday by Eugene Crutchfield, Rockdale county farmer. If the kernel of cotton seed is a natural winter sleeping ground of the weevil, his partial elimination may be efected by special treatment of the infected seed. As soon as the discovery is investigated by the state entomologist a report will be released which will give more light on the subject. Reports from Conyers indicate that weevils have been found in great numbers inside of kernels of many bushels of Seed stored in warehouse there. Seed infected by the weevil have taken on a black colof, having shed all lint xv-hicH i usually adheres to tre ginned seed I 1 W ROYALTY WED UNDER OLD CUSTOM TOKIO, January 26.—1 n ac cordance with an ancient custom the wedding of Prince Regent Hirohito and Princess Nagako, eldest daughter of Prince Ku nia, was celebrated at the im perial palace this morning with Shinto rites. DIBIT! BRINGS PLPT TB LIGHT !B GEMI PFTTY PJRLISMfNT Finance Committee at Wurtem burg Unearths Alleged Com munist Activities REVOLUTION IS PLANNED Large Quantities of Explosives Said to Have Been Seized Fol lowing Disclosures BERLIN, Jan. 26. An alleged communists plot for the overthrow of the government was brought to light today in a debate of the . fi nance committee of the Wurteni burg parliament, according to ad vices from Stuttgart. Large quan tities of explosives are said to have been seized. HENRY FORD TO BE ASKED TO TESTIFY WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—-Henry Ford will 'be requested to appear early next week before the housei military committee to discuss his of -1 fer for Mucle Shoals, BLUSTERING GALE AT N. Y. USHERS IN 3D OF COLD WAVES NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—A blus tering gale from the northwest that attained at times 72 miles an hour today ushered in New York’s third cold wave within a fortnight, the mercury tumbling 14 degrees be tween midnight and 9 o’clock to 14 degrees above zero. CONTOOIN COLLAPSES IN CEIL Mrs. Hughes Hysterical Follow ing Knowledge That She Must Die On Gallows ; ATLANTA, Jan. 26.—Charles F. 1 Wells, counsel for Mrs. Ida Hughes, has filed a motion for new trial for his client in Fulton Superior court, hut no date for hearing the petition has been set by Judge Howard: Mrs. Hughes, who had maintained remarkable composure throughout her trial for the murder of her aged mother-in-law, Mrs. M. C. Hughes why hysterical in her cell all of last night, and today was in a highly nervous condition, it was said. Mrs. Hughes sentenced to hang Friday morning, almost 12 hours after the verdict was read Thurs day night. Standing upright and with head erect, Mrs. Hughes re ceived her sentence without out ward signs of emotion. It was not until Mrs. Hughes stood before Judge Howard that she knew her fate. Sre was spared the realization that she was to be hang ed until actual sentence was im-* posed. Almost immediately she became pale and tremblingly took her seat beside her husband, who was al ready plainly terrified by the verdict against his wife and his own pred cament, ho beng under indictment as an accessory before the fact in connection with the crime. The passing of the sentence Fri day brings to end the trial of the* fifth woman in the history of Geor gia to face the noose, and if th" sentence is executed, will be the third woman to be hanged in the his tory of this state-. ■ Il —— New York Futures I • FC Open High Low Close 1 May 33.13!33.37|33.41!83.14i33.2i | July .32.31132.53'32.53f32.20132.22 I Oct. ,28.03;28.10128.10{27.95|27.95 I Americus strict middling 32 1-2<J I PRICE FIVE CENTS CRIIMNALICTIOIIW fBM TEAPBT Offi OIL LEASE fXPOSURE Department of Justice to Prees Separate Investigation Into Circumstances of Leases MAY ANNUL ALL LEASES Former Cabinet Member Alleg ed to Have Received Huge Sums From Oil Barons WASHINGTON, January 26. While the Semite oil probe com mittee was seeking further light to day on the relations between for mer Secretary of the Interior Al bert E. Fall and Harry Sinclair, oil baron, who leased the famous Teapot Dome naval oil reservies from the government through Fall, President Coolidge asked the in terior department to submit to him expert advice as to the wisdom of ■the policy under which Sinclair and the Doheny oil interests secured many leases from Secretary Fall for oil reservs in Wyoming and California. President Cpolidge also asked the interior department to furnish him at the earliest possible moment a report on the question of wheth er th e leases in question properly protect the interests of the govern ment in th e oil reserves so leased. Furthermore, if the government js found to have suffered any of the leases, steps to annul them will Ibe instituted. Despite the de parture of Attorney General Daugh erty for Florida Friday, the de partment of justice, at the insist ent instruction of the White House, will press its own investi gation and prosecute if a grand jury indictment can be obtained. This development cam e just aft er another apparent falsehood had been hailed on ex-Secretary J*all by th e sworn statement of Colonel James W.Zecely, personal attorney for Harry F. Sinclair, that he ad vanced Fall $35,000 on behalf of Sinclair. Dooheny had Already testified under oath that h e ad vanced Fall SIOO,OOO. So that it appears Fall received large ad vances fro mthe two oil magnates who obtained the richest leases dur ing his incumbency. President Coolidge is strongly of the opinion that criminal action has been committed somewhere in con nection with the oil leases. Those Who are guilty of criminal acts must and will be punished, it was stated on behalf of the president at the White House. This emphatic statement was made after the president had read the amazing testimony of Edward L. Doheny who confessed to ad vancing SIOO,OOO to Fall while the latter was a member of the cabinet, and prior to receiving the Califor nia oil lease out of which a profit of $100,000,000 was anticipated. Thes c disclosures are all the more amazing in the light of Fall’s state ment to the senate committee—in writing—one month ago: ‘‘lt should be needless for me to say that in the purchase of the Harris ranch or in any other purchase or ex penditure I have never approached E. L. Doheny or any one connected with him or any of his corporations, nor have I ever received from eith er of said parties one cent on ac count of any oil lease or upon any other account whatsoever." Fall at first said he borrowed the SIOO,OOO from E. B. McLean. Washington publisher, who corrob orated statement until the senate committee put him under oath. Then when McLean changed his story and denied giving Fall the cash, Fall admitted the truth of this HOLLOWAY HIGH POINT MAN IN FAST GAME Andersonville High lefeated Vien na in a fast cage game Friday eve ning at Andersonville, 23 to 13. The game was said by spectator* to have been well played through out and thoroughly enjoyable. M. Holloway was high point man for Andersonville, scoring of the 28 points mad*,
