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GEORGIA Brief Items of News Events Throughout the- State Con densed for Busy Readers. U. D. C. CHAPTERS ON ‘FOUNDERS ROLL .ATLANTA, Feb. 11.—Two. more Founders’ Roll” subscriptions of ?1,000 each by U. D. C. chapters' are announced by the Stone Moun tain Confederate Memorial head quarters. They are made by U. D. C. Chap ter A.,'of Augusta, of which Mrs. Leßoy Hankinson is president, and the Cedartown U. D. C., Chapter, of which Mrs. M. A. Reed is presi dent. j ' ) _ OGLETHORPE TRUSTEES WILL MEET IN ATLANTA ATLANTA, Feb. 11.—The month-j ly meeting of the board of trustee-1 founders'of Oglethorpe University will be held this evening,, at 0 o’clock in the banquet hall of the tlanta Woman’s Club. This an nouncement was made Saturday by Edgar Watkins, president, and Dr. J. Ceston King, secretary of the board. 1 * WURTH ATTEMPT K 4 “RINGS MISTRIAL .FAIRBURN, Ga., Feb. 11.—The fourt trial of- the suit, which grew out of the death of Frank Patter son and his father in a well on the farm of late W. A. Smith in August x 1920, resulted Saturday in a mis trial, when it was tried X before; . Judge J. Wilson Parker, of the City I Court of Fairburn, who presided ini place of Judge John B. Hutcheson. . The first trial resulted in aver- j diet for the plaintiff. Mrs. Laura Patterson, but a new trial was 1 granted, and the other two trials have been mistrials. , WALKER LEE ATLANTA PURCHASING AGENT ATLANTA, February 11 .-TAn nounepment is made that Walker T. Lee, former secretary to Mayor James L. Key, has been, named by the County Commission as acting County Purchasing Agent and ‘a-- master to serve in the place of C. M. I (Mose) Holland, who has been granted a leave of absence.to enter actively into the county political campaign as chief deputy on the ■ ticket of George Mathieson for County Tax Collector in the primary of March 19. , IMPETUS GIVEN NEW COLLEGE AT VALDOSTA VALDOSTA, Ga., Feb. 11—The project of establishing in Valdosta ap educational institution to be known as the Woodrow Wilson Col lege, as a memorial to the former j President has been given a marked development with nqws that die | first contribution from persons. living outgide Georgia had been re ceived, the donors being Milford Crane and Corbett Fisler, prominent business men of New Jersey, the state which Mr. Wilson served as Governor before his accession to the; presidency. ACCIDENT MAKES " * HUMAN TORCH OF JONES ATLANTA, Feb. 11.—Converted into a human torch,, when his cloth ing, saturated with gasoline from a leak in his automobil/tank, was ig nitedjby a match he had lighted for his cigareete, C. 0. Jones, 26, of 150 Grove Street, was burned, prob ably fatally, juset before midnight Saturday. In a frantic effort to save him, his brother, J. K. Jones, was Se verely burned about the hands and face, raid in a desperate condition, was taken with the other fb Grady Hospital. BN MDEB WARRANT BN WMMIT Is Charged With Complicity in Death of Caesar Cagle, ‘Dry* Raid Leader HERRIN 111., February 11.—Fct mer Mayor, A. T. Pace, was arested today on a warrant charging him with murder after he had been sworn in as foreman of the coron ers’ jury to investigate the killing Friday night of Constable Caesar Cagle, ‘‘dry” raid leader. Pace is charged with complicity, with Caglge’s death. GEORGIA COUNTIES REACH AGREEMENT ! VALDOSTA, February 11. Brooks and Lowndes counties have reached an agreement with regard to the Folson and Miller bridges. At the Folson bridge sites a highwater bridge will be constructed, tljis pro ject to be carried on by Lowndes county. At the Miller bridge new approaches will be constructed and Brooks will look after this work. The combined expense of both pro jects will be shared equally by the two counties.- Through this com bination of bride work it,is believed that the greatest number of people in both counties will be satisfactori ly served. rz “ -- - THETIMESBRECORDER X, ■ -jooQ PUBLISHED IN THE .HEAPT~or ' FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 36 REV. LUTHER HARRELL TALKS ON LAWLESSNESS 3 o o # o o o o o o o o o o-oo o c o o ATLANTA WOMAN HELD AFTER RAID o o o o o o o oooooooooooooooi 4 NEW TAX MEASURES! REACH FLOOR OF HOUSE IS MARRIAGE A TRAGEDY OR JOKE? CLASSMATES IN TRIANGLE WONDER PRETTY GIRL BRIDE PLEADS SHE WAS II EARHESTIH MARRIAGE Boy Bridegroom Says ‘Marriage | Was Entered Into As a Jest' | 'and He Was Never Serious I ANNULMENT IS DENIED | j / | Now Parents of Boy Will Carry Case to Higher Court in Ef fort to Break Bonds MORGANTOWN, ,W. Va., Feb. 11. —Is marriage a joke or a trag edy? X Two young students here —one a pretty girl of humble homo, the Other a dashing- boy of wealth and i influence are wondering. For | their futures depend on their find ing out. . They have appealed to the courts rfqr judgment. And now their case is before the Supreme Court of the s’Tate—or. which sits the father of the befy. "* The actors in this drama of real life are: Ann Victoria Shakespeare, the daughter of a .former mill worker, who now runs a little confectionery store in this small college town. Jamison Meredith, the son of Judge James A. Meredith bf. Charl eston, member of the Supreme I Court of Appeals of the state. The | family, is prominent and wealthy. ! The boy and girl met. They be came close friends. On Aug. 14, 1922, they went our for an automobile ride. According ' to the story told in court, there was • a proposal of marriage* and an ac eeptance. Then they droye on and got marriage license, declaring that .they were 21 years old, although they were only 19. A, visit to a church, a consulta tion with a pastor, a ceremony— , and a promise not to tell a soul. The pledge of secrecy continued for two days and then the story leaked out. The elder Merediths got busy. They started court action for an^annuhnent.' "The marriage- was entered into as a jest, and we never intended to fulfill the marriage vows,” the boy is reported as saying. But the girl has aifother view. “We werd serious and I still am serious,” she says. “I was and am ready and willing to take my place at Jamison’s side and appear before the world.” Continuing the attractive little girl declares that the- ceremony was "not entered into in the exuberance of youth and as a college boy and I girl prank” as is alleged in the I court action. I - All this has caused me untold em | barrassment and now they want to have the marriage annulled for his sake, she went on. witn-tgarsi in her eyes, “But what'about me?” When the cag> came up in the Circuit Court of Monogalia county the judge refused to annul the mar riage. Now the case is being carried-to the higher courts—and the boy’s father is one of its members! While it is making up its mind, both the young principals are con tinuing their studies at the univer jsity; both art taking a prominent | part ini the activties dt the campus. They sit in the same class rooms, have the same friends—yet they are as strangers to each other. _ For the boy sees the situation as a joke. i But the girl sees it as a tragedy. WEATHER FORECAST FOR THIS XtyEEK WASHINGTTON, February 11 Weather Outlook for period Febraury 11 to February 16, 1924, inclusive is as follows: For the South Atlantic And East Gulf States: Considerable cloudless and occasional rains are. indicated. Warmer weather is. indicated Mon day and temperatures near normal thereafter for several days. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 11. 1924 I OK vz. i -j I i • Sir : * j•> Z i _Q J - SHAKESFEAkE AinD — . CANDLER’S BRIDE MUST V FACE ATLANTA RECORDER ATLANTA, February 11.— (By the Associated Press.) —Mrs. Asa G. Gaudier, wife of the millionaire capitalist, must appear in police court Tuesday morning- to answer charges growing- out of a raid Saturday in which she was arrested in an apartment in company with two promi nent Atlanta business men Recorder George E. Johnson ruled today, when other principals offered to waive her appearance’. (Note: —The story of the raid referred to in the above Associated Press dispatch, was carried in the Sunday editions of both Macon daily paners, but so far as The Times-Recordcr has been abl e to learn, noth ing xjas carried in any of the editions of the three Atlanta papers Sun day or this morning.) SEHffIRHHHCEFffi 1 BONUS ffIHSITM Saya to Grant Bonus Would “Dishonor Our Military Tra- i ditions of Our Country.’ WASHINGTON, Februaigv 11.— ; “I am opposed to the Soldiers' Bo- I nus because I believe it dishonors our military -traditions,” says Sena tor William Cabell Bruce, of Mary land ii» a letter to Knowlton Dur-1 ham, President of the Ex-Service Men’s Anti-Bonus League. “I agree exactly with the prin ciples stated by the Ex-Service Men’s Anti-Bonus League,” con tinues Senator Bruce. “A .bonus would not only dishonor our nfilitary traditions, but it would be subver sive of the sound principles upon which the military obligation lias al ways rested.” Senator Bruce points out that the bonus would, in his belief, if it became a permanent part of the public policy of the United Stati-s, depress and impair the military ef ficiency of the American people. “It is the duty,” Senator Bruce says, “of every individual capable of faring arms bravely to face all the hardships and perils of war when required by his country to do <so; and even cheerfully to die if her necessities should call for that ■ supreme measure of devotion. Th(s | obligation is not the creature of I contract; no element {>f barter or' sale enters into it; it springs merely I from the paramount allegiance that) every citizen owes to the land that I "has bred and nourished, or shell-' ered and adopted, him. It is the I correlative of the. duty., of the State I to protect him against domestic and foreign enemies and to assure him I (Continued on Page T*o.) 'GLYNN WEN NOT TH PSY POLL IM Attorney General Napier Rules Females Need Not Pay Before Voting at Brunswick BRUNSWICK, Feb. 11.—Women who register for the first time' to vote in approaching Democratic primary in Glynn county can do so without paying any past poll tax. Thjs ruling was made by Attorney General Napier in an opinion sent to Tax Coleetor W. L. Harwell. In .1922 the legislature levied a poll tax on women, and no women in the state owes poll, tax for any >•'.-ii, exesot 1922 and 1923. and only these who have registered in the owe for those years. As is the case with men, failing to pay 1922 poll tax or other tax will not serve as a disqualification for voting in the approaching primary, for the tax must be more than six months past due. So a woman who regis tered in 1922 is qaulified to vote in the March 19 primary if she has paid her 1922 poll’tax or will pay i* before; Frebruary 18, when the reg istration books close. Those who have never before rgistered for a county election—which means regis tration at the courthouse can reg ister and vote without paying any pint poll tax, and will not have to pay for this year until December 20. Boys who reach their'Tist birth day or or before the date of gen eral election oflhis year, which will ibe held November 4, can register land vpte in the primary- without the [payment of any poll tax whatever. [The same is true of young women. I No voter has to pay poll tax for the [year in which she or he becomes 21 ! > (Continued- on Page Two.) LEE ST. PASTOR FLAYS LAWLESSNESS IN TO. BEFORE AUDIENCE Rev. Luther Harrell Says Ten dency Is Grewing to Inflict Summary Punishment REFERS TO RIVER AFFAIR ‘Mob Law Must Be Condemned,’ He Says and Guilty Men ‘Must Be Brought to Justice A well filled auditorium at Lee Street Methoclist church last night heard Rev. Luther Harrell, the pas tor, discuss “Some Dangerous Tendencies of Modern Times ” in which he flayed unmercifully the perpetrators of the outrage against Oscar Clark, a negro, ,on the Bagley farm recently, and in which Ed Bar ber, a white man, was killed by the negro. In concluding his remarks anent this affair, the speaker as serted that “mob law must be condemned, and those guijty of this crime must .be brought to justice, or we shall suffer the fearful con sequences that most certainly will follow.” His address, in part fol lows : • “In every a,g e it has been neces sary to combat evil influences, which would, if left alone, destroy that which was counted dear and of most value. The age in which we live is no exception. I am not a pessimist, nor an alarmist, for I believe in the ultimate triumph of the Kingdom of God; but there are certain tendencies existing today, that if they go for a few years un checked, wiH bring destruction to those ideals and institutions which have meant so hutch in our civili zation. “The first teffdency that comes to our attention is a disregard for law. In order to insure the peace and happiness of our people, there must be lawn and these laws must b e enforced. That individual who does not have a proper respect for the rights of others must be forced to recognize these rights and priv ileges. “While she officers of the lav/ and the courts ate charged primari ly with the enforcement of our laws they are well nigh helpless, unless the citizens stand by them. Public sentiment plays a large part in law enforcement. Th e indi vidual citizen has a responsibility in this matter. When public senti ment becomes strong enough to condemn law breakers, then we shall see a change. “Organized labor has a term which, is applied to the strike break er that has a sting in it. No man desires to be called a ‘scab.’ Dur ing the war the term ‘slacker’ was applied to that man who did not •his duty. No real man would per mit this term to <be applied to him. Recently there has been coined a new word, which is applied to the law-breaker—‘Scoff-law.’ I hope the day will come when ‘scoff-law’ will carry all the sting and eVen more the Words just mentioned. When the day comes that the citi zenship of our country will thus severely condemn violations of our law, then men will refrain from such acts. “When a citizen of this country gives away the secrets of his coun try in times of war, we call him a ‘traitor,’ but what of the man that raises his hand to strike deep at the very heart of his government? He is no less a traitor, because he sets in motion a tendency that will most certainly destroy our govern ment, if it is not checked. There should be no less condemnation for the law breaker than for the trai (Continuod on Page Two.) , ,4' TICK INSPECTION WORK SATISFACTORY VALDOSTA, Fob. 11. After remaining- <h the South Georgia ter ; ritory for a few days looking after I the tick eradication work. Dr. S. J. i Horn has returned to his office in Valdosta. Following his inspection I on behalf of the federal bureau of -animal industry, Dr. Horn made the jobservation that the tick eradication work in Lowndes and adjacent com - 'ties in- South Georgia was in a more satisfactory condition than it WEATHER For Georgia Rain late to night and Tuesday; warmer to night and in south portion Tues day. ' REJDS HIS MM SISTHENI BEIORI OIL PROBERS LOOM Declares That His Name Should Never Have Beert*Brought In td Inquiry ACTED IN GOOD FAITH Says Accepting Retainer’s Fee From Doheny Was Purely Bubinesa Transaction WASHINGTON, February 11. - Amid an atmosphere surcharged with political tension, William G. McAdoo faced the senate oil com mittee today and explained his con nection with the Doheny interests. At the very outset was read a prepared statement charging that had he not been “prominently men tioned in conection with the- high office,” his name would never have been brought into the inquiry. McAdoo declared that he acted in good faith in accepting a re tainer's fee as cotThscl for Doheny, and after he left the cabinet and in a long- cross examination, reas serted forcibly the assertion that the attack had been made on him for purely political reasons. He said that the master was irrelaevnt t<J the inquiry. Mr. McAdoo said that he severed his professional relations with Doh eny the day after he. came before the oil committee, stating that he had only advised Doheny in eonn< e tion with his Mexican affairs. IB CMPOIHIIE ILL FHBGIIBEBMG Conference of treading Citizens Is Called for February 1 At Atlanta ATLANTA, February 11.—-Co ordination of the work of all agen cies now engaged in advertising Georgia and the formation of a comprehensive- fplan whereby .the unquestioned natural advantage of the state can be placed before the world in the proper way, wijE be iis cussed at a conference of leading citizens called by Governor Walker to meet in Atlanta at 10 o’clock Feb ruary 19, it is announced at the Governor’s office. The conference will be held to take the first steps toward amalga mating or uniting all present agen cies and the organization of a gen eral commisison which will work out plans for a permanent body whicr will engage directly in the work of advertising Georgia to the world. SENATE TO VOTE ON DENBY BESOLHTIOH Agreement Reached to End Bit ter Debate Before Adjourn ment This Afiernon WASHINGTON, February lI.V- With growing bitterness the sena:<: debate on resolutions asking for the resignation of Secretary Denby en tered today upon its final stage. There was agreement to vote be fore. adjournment today, and spon sors for the move appeared condi dent that in one form oy anther the resolution would be adopted. tn the meantime, nothing on the • zdkated thnt Yuch aai - f'iew"York Future* PC Open High Low Close Mar. 33.50j33.55;33.63|33.09|33.08 May ..33.72[33.82j33.82!33.24:83.24 July ..32.33'32.42132.44;31.88131.88 0ct—28.05128.20 28.20127.90127.90 Dee. x 27.6 4 3 27.80i27.80127.50i27.53 Americus strict middling 32c. PRICE FIVE CENTS ILL IJIFFEB WIDELY OH QUESTION OF ME « »TIX HITES I Expect Month’s Debate On Floor 1 Will Ensue Before Any Bill Is Adopted REPUBLICANS ARE UNITED Chairman Green Declares Com mittee Measure Will Save Taxpayers $341,440,000 i WASHINGTON, February 11.— I Four reports on the revenue bill, differing widely on the question of the income and surtax rates, were imported to the House today by members of the ways and means committee. The measure, which occupied more than two months of the com mittee's time, is expected to provide* at lease a month’s debate in the house where a change of rules will permit amendment from the floor. Chairman Green, supporting the comimttee, which was adopted strictly by party vote, although 3 republicans, including Chairman Green, known as favoring the aendment declared that the income tax reduction provided in tne bill as submitted, will bring an annual sav ing to taxpayers estimated at |34L -440,000, after it is in full operation, as compared with the 1923 .estimat ed returns,'- together with an esti mated reduction of $232,750,000 in 19*23 personal income tax payabl this year. PITTSBURG PEN IS SCENE OF BAD RIOT William Pfeiffer, Warden and J. A. Coax, Overseer, Both Killed by Convicts. PITTSBUIte, February 11.—Two prison officers were shot to death and a number of convicts wounded, some seriously, todaj* in a riot' in the Western penitentiary. I After hours of fighting in which guns, tear gas bombs, clubs and bricks were used, the guards, assist ed by county detectives and the Pittsburg police, succeeded in quiet ing th disturbance, which started when convicts used explosives in an effort to dynamite their way to freedom. The dead are William Pieffer, as sistant deputy warden, and J. A. Coax, overseer. 9TSHIi«ES FUME FREEZE CLAXTON, Ga., February 11.— Dr. B. E. Daniel, who is a large believer in and planter of pecans and satsuma oranges has received a letter from W. T. .White, develop ment agent of ( the S. A. L. in re*- ' gra-d to the carnage cone satsuma i oranges during the recent cold spell ! in which White says: "I have recently returned _ from a Southern Alabama, where I made a careful study of the Satsuma or ange situation. It will no doubt in : tcrest you to know that Satsuma 1 • orange trees in that section were not permanently damaged by the cold wave of January 6th and 7th, despite the fact that this was the j coldest weather experienced since 1899. Os course, the trees were defoliated and some of the young tender growth was killed back, but i further than this no material dani- I age resulted. “According to the United States Weather Bureau, the following w*we the minimum temperatures re porta. I on January 6th at the places indi cated as follows: “Pensacola, Fla., 14 degrees; Cot tage Hill, Fla,, 13 dgrees; Foley, A!i>., 12. degrees;. Silver Hill, Ala-, ‘l3 degrees; Mobile Ala., 14 d<->
