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FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO 91
ALLEGED COUN IT.RITITER ARRESTED AT WAYCROSS TODAY
PROCTER TO TESTIFY BEFORE OIL COMMITTEE
DIVORCED WIFE ACCUSED OF MIDNIGHT#ASSAULT IN VIRGINIA
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IKE WESS TODAY:
WHEELER GOES IEST
Senator Excused to Attend Trial
of Indictment Against Him
In Montana
CAMPBELL “iS EXAMINED
Geologist Tells of Having Em
ployed Wheeler to Represent
Him During 1920
WASHINGTON, April 17.—The
senate Daugherty committe stood at
recess today to permit Senator
Wheeler committee prosecutor, to
attend the opening hearing of the
senate’s investigation of his indict
ment in Montana.
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Gat
ing immediately into the heart of
the whole controversy, the senate
committee investigating the Mon
tana charges against Senator Wheel
er opened hearings today, the testi
mony bearing directly on the extent
of his activities at Washington in
connection with the cases involving
certain Montana cliffs was elected
from Gordon Campbell, geologist,
who said that he had employed Sen
ator Wheeler in 1922, to represent
him in the state courts.
The committee received copies of
telegrams passed between Camp
bell and Senator Wheeler, One' of
then purported to show that Wheele
had “been advised the govern
ment courts could not intervene in,
Campbell’s behalf during land pro
ceedings against him and the other
indicated the senator had arranged
to have Campbell confer with Soli
citor Booth, of the Interior Depart
ment, regarding the “Lincoln per
mit” in which Campbell was inter
ested with Wheeler. The witness'
insisted that this did not constitute
Wheeler’s ‘appearance” before the
Department of the Interior in be
half of his client, as charged in the
indictment recently returned by a
Montana district court.
ROTilirfi
NEGRO QUARTETTE
Members of the Americus Ro
tary club were entertained Wednes
day at their regular lundheon by
a number of the negro students
from the’ Americus Institute, of
which W. M. Redick is principal.
There were half a dozen of the
boys and probably a dozen of the
girls, together with their vocal
teacher who sang a number- of the
old-time negro spirituals, such as
“De Backsliding Brudder,” by a
number of male voices; “The Hus
kin’ Bee” was another offering by
the boys *
“Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and
other spirituals were sung by the
entire institute chorus, answering a
number of encores. A srlo. from
.one of the girls was another fea<
ture.
Professor Reddick stated that
those composing the chorus were
just the students, “taken in the,
rough, right from their homes in
the towns and off the farms,” none
of whom had other instruction than
that they were receiving at the
Americus institute.
At the conclusion of the 20 min
ute program Walter Rylander, act
ing president, thanked the mem
bers of the chorus and congratulat
ed them, their teachers and Prof.
Reddick “for the very fine work
you are doing in the Americus In
stitute, a work that is known and
appreciated by the white people of
this county.”
A number of Rotarians request
ed a return of the chorus at a later
date.
Tim Furlow was re-elected to
membership in the club. Mr. Fur
low was one of the charter mem
bers of Rotary, but was forced to
resign some time ago because of
continued absences from the city,
making regular attendance impossi
ble.
. Mr. W. C. Wright and -L. C.
THE ™S»R®RDER
HEART
Mother Faces Death Penalty As Price
Por Her Daughter’s Rosy Cheeks
WIERD TALE TOLD BY]
WOiN IN REPORTING
AFFAIR TO POLICE
Body of Blair Buried By Slayer
Whose Conscience Forced
Confession
ATTACK “IS - " ALLEGED
Body Hacked To Pieces After
Man Had Been Shot To
Death During Fight
By MAXWELL HYDE
MIDDLETON, Conn., April 17.
The rosy cheeks of Lillian Tell, 14
will bear mute, yet eloquent witness
for her mother, Mrs. Johanna Tell,
32 when the latter is called to bar
to answer for one of the most
ghastly murders on record in Nev.-
England.
Mrs. Tell has confessed to the
Slaying of Charles Blair on his des
solate farm at Killingsworth, neat
here.
Four years ago she lived, a de
serted wife, in a congested district
of New York with her daughter.
The girl was anemic colorless, dispir
ited. The position as housekeeper
on Blair’s farm offered fresh air,
fresh eggs and fresh milk. The
mother, thinking only of her daugh
ter, took it.
Summers and winters passed and
the adolescent girl flourished like
all other, things that grew under i
God’s sun. Yet while the mother re
joiced in her daughters’ new-found
health, she worried about the rela
tionship that had sprung up between
hqrself and her employer.
Then one day Mrs. Tell packed
up and took her daughter back to
New York. But Conscience rode
along. Conscience mocked her at
every turn. It would not let her
eat. Nor sleep. It drove her to tell
her relatives a strange, strange story
Then the pale, tried woman drag
ged herself into the Bronx police
station in New York. She retold the
story. It was that Blair, her em
ployer, had tried to force his! at
tentions on her, that when she haa
spurned him he menaced with ax
and that she had shot .and hacked
him with the ax.
“I didn’t want my girl to know',’
the police say she confessed. “So
I dragged the body into the cellar
before she came from school. I
washed the ax clean. I couldn’t
sleep that night. I buried the body
next morning, but the sight of the
grave drove me nearly mad.”
She drew a diagram of the
ave ’s location. The police found
the body there.
William Thomas, attorney for
Mrs. Tell, has hired detectives. He
says they will reveal a story of sen
sational brutalities. And little Lil
‘77' 11 'l° on the stand to cor
roborate their story.
Everything my mother says is
true, the girl declares. “I will tell
everything when the time comes ”
briX hel ’ ° Wn r ° Sy cheeks - her
fps Th 68 ’ t6ll n ’ Ore than her
. They will tell of the fearful
Pnce her mother paid for them.'
FLORIDA REPUBLICANS
TO SUPPORT COOLIDGE
PALATKA, April 17.—Ten vote
m the national republican conven
tion were today pledged President
Coohdge by the Florida state re»
publican convention here. The
delegates go to Cleveland instruct
e ? practically' every county
represented.
Inauguration of the primary sys
tem and the elimination of the ne
gro from the party in Florida were
the outstanding features of the con
vention.
Summerford were guests of Frank
Sheffield, Jr., Miss Constance Ellis
one of the directors of “Kathleen,”
accompanied by Robert Lane and
12 of the girls taking part in the
performance, were guests of the
club. Miss Elizabeth Pless, of Cor
dele and Lewis Ellis and Herbert
Kincey were other guests.
AMERICUS; GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 17, 1924
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Mrs. Johanna lell, snapped
with her daughter Lillian, leav
ing court after being arraigned
on a charge of murdering Chas.
Biair on his lonely Connecticut
farm, where she had been em
ployed as housekeeper.
FLYERS READY TO
FLY TO DUTCH HARBOR
SEATLE, April 17.—A wire
less message from C’hignik,
Alaska, reported the world
cruisers two, three and four
were prepared to leave Chignik
this for Dutch Harbor,
the weather permitting.
SHOALS CONTROVERSY
BEFORE AGRICULTURE
SENATE COniTEE
Elon Hooker,. One of Bidders
For Famous Power Project
Tells of His Offer
MILLIONS FOR RESEARCH
Claims His Company Could
Save Government Huge Sum
In Operating Plants
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Elon
Hooker, one of the bidders behind
the Hooker, White & Atterbury pro
posal for the operation of Muscle
Shoals, resumed testimony today be
fore the senate agriculture com
mittee which is considering all bids
offered for the property. .
Chairman Norris drew from the
witness' that the Hooker bid pro
vides $10,000,000 for research work.
Hooker said that he is not con-!
tending that his company cou’d
give the government any patents on
process it could not get itself, but
that it could save the government
large sums of money through oper
ation on 'a business basis.
AMERICAN DELEGATES
TO ATTEND ROME MEET
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Nine
teen American delegates to the In
ternational Institute of Agriculture
which will be held at Rome
2-10, have been appointed by the
department of state on recommen
dation of Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace, it is announced.
The American delegation will be
composed of agricultural experts
and business men front all sections
of the country, it was stated.
The chief proposal to be made to
the institute by the American dele
gates is that the institute encour
age the governments to conduct
comparable national surveys con
cerning agricultural conclusion
throughout their respective areas t
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MIE IIIISTER
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M CHILD ffILH
Former Wife of Cooper Alleg-
To Have Lead Four Uniden
tified Assailants
WOMAN LIVE SIN ATLANTA
Party of Five Motorists Held At
Bedford, Va, In Connec
tion With Affair
ROANOKE, Va., April 17. —The
four year old daughter of Rev. J.
R. Cooper, a Methodist minister,
was kidnaped last night by four un
identified assailants after they hail
attacked and severely beaten the
minister at his home here.
The police said that they had
been informed the kidnapers were
accompanied by Mrs. Jack Lane, of
Atlanta, the former wife of the
preacher.
A few hours after the adbuctors
left, a telephone message from
Bedford, near here, reported the de
tention of a party of five motorists
and a child, answering the gener
al description of the kidnapers.
The authorities left immediately
and are expected to return l?te to
’day with the prisoners.
in Americus during 1865, and who
served the congregation as senior
warden until his death in 1908,
when he was succeeded in that of
fice by Capt. Cobb.
The cross presented Calvary
church by Capt. Cobb will be used
first on Sunday morning at 11
o’clock in a benediction of the cross
service, wherein Robert Physioc
will act as crucifer, with the serv
ice read by the rector, Rev. James
B. aLwrence. A special invitation
to attend this service is extended
to the public i ngeneral, Easter ser
vices at Calvary church always be
ing of an interesting nature.
THE ATTRACTION
“Don’t deny it. I saw you kissing
the cook.”
“Ah, but it wasn’t the woman in
her I kissed; it was the culinary
expert.”—Klods-Hans (Copenhag
en.)
Do'you use sheets in your house?
They are dangerous. In Boston, a
burglar used the sheets to tie a
man.
One real nice thing about phono
graphs and player pianos is you
never have to sit around and beg
them to'play. > ’
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The auto race is nojt as danger;
ous as the human race.
BESSIE TIFT GIRL IS
PARTIALLY PMD
BT DIVE INTO WATER
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Miss Johnson, Stricken While
Swimming At Forsyth, Re
portekl Improved Today
CASE PUZZLES DOCTORS
Injured Girl Hyrried To Macon
Hospital, Following Unusual
Accident
MACON, April 17.—Physician<4
reported today the condition of Miss
Myrtice Johnson, a student at Bes
sie Tift College, suffering from
paralysis as a result of diving in
shallow water, as slightly improv
ed.
The young woman is in the hospi
tal and her father, J. W. Johnson,
of Green Cove Springs, is in atten
dance at her bedsire. The dive was
made in a shallow pool-at the col
lege in Forsyth. p ,
Miss Johnson stated that she
struck on her head in diving into
the flbol. The pool was being
cleaned and refilled and the stud
ent/ had been warned that the wa
ter /Was not deep enough for diving.
Mi?s Johnson either thought she
could safely take the plunge or lost
her balance and went headlong into
the shallow water, striking the ce
ment bottom.
Other students noticed that Misr
Johnson was injured and they res
cued her and summoned aid.
CASE PUZZZLES
MACON PHYSICIANS
MACON, April 17.—Miss Myr
tice Johnson, a Sophomore at Bessie
Tift College, is at the Oglethprpd
Private Infimary, paralyzed from
her shoulders down, the result of
a, plunge into a shallow pool of wa
ter at the college at Forsyth, Ga,
Tuesday. She was brought to the
local private hospital early yester
day morning.
While no bones were broken in
Miss Johnson’s body, doctors are
baffled over the strange injury to
the young woman. She is conscious
yet is completely paralyzed from
her shoulders down.
Doctors at the infirmary stated
last night that probably by this
morning they could determine what,
if anything, could be done to relieve
Miss Johnson’s ailment.
Miss Johnson’s mother is dead,
,but her father, J. W. Johnson, of
Green Cove Springs, Fla., arrived
here yesterday to be with her. A,
brother Dan Johnson, of Millen, an 1
n sister, Mrs. Clarence G. Pittman,
of Ridge; Avenue, Ingleside, arc
also with her.
MOULTRIE’S BUSINESS
HOUSES ASKED TO CLOSE
MOULTRIE, April 17.—Promi
nent laymen of the Moultrie
churches who are interested in var
ious lines of business will lead
movement to get all business houses
and offices to close while the morn
ing services are being held at the
churches during the evangelistic
campaign which is to be carried on
by all the churches for a period of
two weeks beginning next Sunday.
The services will be held in the
morning from 10:30 to 11:30, but
the business houses will be asked
to close from 10:25 to 11:35, giv
ing five minutes to reach the
churches and five minutes after the
close to get back to the places of
business.
The movement is designed to get
the business men and office people
together with the sales people to at
tend the morning services.
ATTENTION KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
Election of officers, at Masonic
Hall, Good Friday, April 18th, 7 p.
m. Every member of De Mol&y
• Commandery urged to be present at
, 7 p. m. This election comes on reg
ular meeting of M. B. Council
Lodge No. 95, and we want to be
through by 8 o’clock, so as not to
interfere with them. J. E. Kiker
Recorder. Wible Marshall, E. C.
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Gaines and
children have returned from a stay
of seveaal months in California, and
will again make, their home in
Americus.
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THOMASVILLE STORES
TO CLOSE EARLY NOW |
THOMASVILLE, April 17.—The
regular t> o’clock closing starts next
Monday, it being the custom to be
gin on the first Monday after Eas
ter. The festive season was late this
year so many have already started
the early closing. The first Thurs
day half holiday will occur on the
first day of May, the regulap sum
mer schedule being started by agree
ment on the first of May each year.
manaplestedToday
AT WAYCROSS MAYBE
» 0F ‘QUEER’
Attempted * to Pass Alleged
■Counterfeit Bill On Owner of
Filling Station
CLAIMS DAYTONA IS HOME
Search of Car Occupied By Pris
oner Revealed Small Quan
tity of Liquor
WAYCROSS, April 17.—A man
giving his name as J. R. Williams,
of Daytona, Florida, is being held
in the city jail for federal authori
ties pending investigation on a
charge of passing a counterfeit SSO
bill yesterday. Williams bought a
tire at a filling station, and attempt
ed to make paymenbwith the alleged
counterfeit note. The owner of
the tire, suspecting the bill to be
bogus, communicated with the po
lice, who said that jt was counter
feit.
A search of the Williams ear re
vealed a pint of whiskey.
NEW DISCLBSURES IN
IIDIIM TO CIIME
Sensational Evidence Uncovered
In Notorious Mer Rouge
Murders In Louisiana
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Dr.
A. C. Busey, the “man of mystery,”
who claimed to have knowledge of
the inside story of the Mer Rougi
“hooded mob’ murders that shocked
the nation two years ago, and who
disappeared from the federal peni
tentiary in Atlanta several weeks
ago, has been arrested in Harling
en, Tex., by Department of Justice
agents, it was announced here late
Wednesday.
It was Busey who first revealed
that Thomas F. Richards, one of
the men supposed to have been
killed by the hooded mob of More
house Parish, La., is still alive!
Richards,, he declared, was Jfld-.
naped and has since been held a
prisoner by the killed Wat
Daniel. '
Busey disappeared from the pris
on farm at Atlanta several weeks
ago, following a number of visits
he had received from national offi
cers of the Ku-Klux Klan. At the
time, prison officials were uncer
tain as to whether he had simply
escaped of his own volition, or had
been kidnaped by those who feared
the exposures he was in a position
to make.
The capture ofßusey and the evi
dence which tbe Department; of Jus
tice has secured probably will re
sult in the reopening of the whole
case, it was learned Wednesday.
William J. Burns, chief of the Bu
reau of Investigation of the ; Depart
ment of Justice, whose men found
the fugitive, declared that the de
partment now has “complete evi
dence” against the perpetrators of
•the Mer Rouge killings, and that
this information has been turned
over to Governor John M. Parker
pf Louisiana, a foe of the Klan.
PRAYER MEETING TONIGHT
There will be a prayer meeting
at f irst Methodist Church tonight
Thursday, 7:30 p. m„ conducted by
officers and teachers of the Sun
day school. You are cordially in
vited to attend.
By light-years is meant the num
ber of years required for light to
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New York Future*
PS. Open High Low’ Close
Jan. . 24.38J24.14 24.25 24.14 24.38
May . 30.47;30.65 30.65 30.47-30.47
July . 28.89,29.09 29.09,28.73 28.89
Oct. 25.24125,30 25.30 25.01 25.24
Dec. , 24.59|24.60 24.60 24.45 24.59
Americus strict middling 30 l-4c.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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HE'S IN II TELL
COMMITTEE FEIS
Cincinnati Oil Refiner Will Re
spond to Subpoena Requir
ing His Presence
OSER TELLS OF HAMON
Says Oklahoman Asked Texas
Delegates to Vote For Low
den At Chicago
WASHINGTON, April 17.—Wil
liam Cooper Proctor, of Cicinnati,
notified Senator Walsh, of the sen
ate oil committee, today that he will
arrive in Washington tomorrow in
response to a subpoena served yes
terday. Proctor, who financed the
campaign of General Leonard Wood
in 1922, and will be questioned con
cerning campaign contributions and
happenings in the Chicago conven
tion.
Phil E. Baer, United States mar
shal of Texas, testified at today’4
hearing regarding his acquaintance
with Jake Hamon, who Baer said,
was a delegate to the Chicago
convention, and that Hamon sought
to get the Texas delegation to vote
for Lowden He added the deU
gation was split among Lowden,
Wood and Harding. The witness
’ said he had nev£r conserved with
Hamon about hj/ political ambitions.
He also denied conversation with
John Smith, following the Hamon
funeral, which, Smith told the coin
mittee Baer said Hamon intended
to make Baer rich if he became,
secretary of the inteion
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MILLIONS OF CARS
ATLANTA, April 17.—Statistics
made public here show that the rail
roads of the country, loaded and
hauled to destination, within
a period of eight and a half months,
an average of one million cars of
revenue freight each week.
A striking method of illustrating
how large this volume of traffic
is will be shown by assuming that
these cars could ail be made up
into one train and that a locomo
tive and a caboose would be added
to each 50 cars.
This movement would thus call,
it is pointed out here, for 20,000
locomotives and 20,000 cabooses.
If the 20,000 locomotives were
placed at the head of the train
with the forward locomotive at
Savannah, Ga., and the train fol
lowed the route through Jackson
ville, Fla., to River Junction, these
locomotives would extend continu
ously for 311 miles, or to within
35 miles of River junction.
If the one million cars were
placed behind these locomotives
they would extend through River
Junction to New Orleans; thence
through El Paso, Tex., Los Angeles
and San Francisco, Cal., to Port
land, Ore., thence to Seattle, to
Spokane, to St. Paul, to Chicago
on to New York, to Washington and
through Atlanta and Birmingham
to a point 96 miles west of the lat
ter point. ' ’
If the 20,000 cabooses were then
added to this train it would ex
tend 132 miles further or to a
point 10 miles north of Hattiesburg,
Miss. In other words, the total
length of the train would be- 8,587
miles. This represents the work
done every week for many Weeks
in 1923 by the railways.
PRECISION
From a small school girl’s essay
on “My Family”;
“In my family there are three
of us, my father, mother and me. I
am the youngest.”—London Daily
News.
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PUBLIC ECONOMY
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