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WEATHER For Georgia Unsettled weath er with probably showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday; cooler Friday, fresh southerly winds with probably squalls. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 126 SEC’Y. MELLON ACCUSED OF LIQUOR GRAFT O O 0-0 O O O 0 00000'0000 000000000 New Relief Measure May Supplant McNary-Haughan Bill O 000000000 O O O 0 o o o 000000000 CIVIC CLUB MEDAL CONTEST BE HELD TONIGHT SUSPENDED SENTENCE GIVEN MISS ABY ROCKEFELLER, GUILTY OF SPEEDING, ROUSES STRONG PROTEST IN NEW YORK Granddaughter of Oil Magnate Iwice Arrested As Speeder Released Each Time FAVORITISM IS CHARGED Claim Made ‘There’s One Law For Rich and Another For Poor’ In Metropolis By ALEXANDER HERMAN NEW YORK, May 29.—Can a Rockefeller ‘get away” with an of fense that often brings a SIOO fine —if not a jail sentence? About this cloud of doubt is gath ering a storm that threatens a wash out of New York’s traffic court procedure. For Miss Abby Rockefeller, 21- year-old daughter of John D. Jr., arrested twice for speeding has been released quietly on suspended sen tences, imposed by the same judge in each instance. He is Magistrate Norman J. Marsh, and it is about his head that the storm will, break just as soon as he returns to the bench from a vacation. Thousands of protests have come into the offices of public officials and newspapers. All stress the same charges of favoritism. • All want to know if: There is one law for the rich and another for the poor? A rich man’s child is entitled to as.\* more lemincy than a pocr man’s? As a result of this public pro test, Mayor Hylan has ordered his commissioner of accounts tp make a detailed investigation of the Traf fic Court’s disposition of Miss Rockefeller’s case. Before the inquiry began, it had been said that the recent case was the first in which the mililonair’s daughter had been convicted. But it was soon discovered that she had been summoned to court last Janu ary for driving down Riverside Drive at the rate of 35 miles an hour. Further investigation showed that she had pleaded guilty and had received a suspended sentence. When hailed to court the second time, charged with speeding at 29 miles an hour, Miss Rockefeller got a hearing late in the afternoon after the routine business had been dis posed of, and most persons thought the court had closed for the day. And again she escaped public at tention. Yet usually a person summoned for a traffic violation has to hang around the courtroom all day wait ing for his case to be called. The procedure is in open court with everybody listening in. In an attempt to cut down the increasing toll of automobile acci dents and deaths, magistrates of the traffic court have been doling out th heaviest sentences possible to those brought before them. They have been particularly hard on sec ond asd third offenders. It is from persons thus convicted and fined that most of the protests against the disposition of the Rocke feller case have come. They point out that the girl is a second offend er—yet releaed without fine! “But then,” they grumble, “she’s a Rockefeller. And we’re just poor dubs.” SWIMMING POOLS OPEN IN ATLANTA SATURDAY ATLANTA, Fay 29.—Youngster and adults who have been impatient ly waiting for the municipal swim ming pools to open are getting ready for the big opening splash next Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock when the pools at all the parks will be thrown open for the summer. L. L. Wallis, general manager of parks, said today plans were being completed rapidly to make the open ing a gala occasion. The same regulations regarding bathing suits that were in effect last year will prevail this year. The committee named Mr. Wallis sola censor of bathing costumes that will be permitted at the pools. The wild oat crop never fails to raise a little gain, ___ THE TIMEsHrECORDER ESI-PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DlXlE~ffi>4 fli 1 wHSSfe ■ $ | Iff it ABBY ROCKEFELLER GENERAL STRIKE AT CANTOS THREATENED Chinese Workers May Stage Radical Protest Against Heavy Taxes Levied CANTON, Chin, May 29.—A gen eral strike of ail workers in Can ton is threatened because of exces sive taxation. Merchants handling general provisions are already on strike, and further strikes are ex pected unless the government agrees to abolish extra taxes. HUG SMI POMEO UNTIL NEU W Strike in Key West Eliminates Cuban Market Bidders and Causes Delay in Sale Date George 0. Marshall, county farm demonstration agent, announced today that the hog sale scheduled for Friday has been postponed un next week. The postponement, Marshall states, was decided upon after he had learned that Cuban buyers could not participate as bidders, due to a dock strike at Key West which has paralyzed export shipping facilities there. “With these buyers unable to # participate,” said Marshall this morning, “I am fearful be§t prices could not be secured for farmers offering their hogs, and this caus ed the sale to be postponed. lam now busy lining up a number of other buying agencies which will insure proper competitive bidding, and next week the sale will be staged without incident.” C. T. HARDEN HURT IN ACCIDENTAL FALL C. T. Harden, of Montezuma, while in Americus on a business mission Wednesday fell into a trap door at the Americus Steam Vulcan izing plant and wag painfully hurt. The accident was due, it is said, to Mr. Harden’s defective vision, and is deeply regretted by all concern ed. His injuries are not serious. Mr. and Mrs. ■T. E. Brooks are visiting relatives in Jacksonville and Tampa, where they will remain during some time. < AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 29, 1924’ WOMAN SHOOTS SELF IN TAXI WITH MAN CHICAGO, May 29.—Lauret ta Thompson Alberts, wife of Albert Alberts of New York, was seriously wounded while riding in a taxicab with Victor Masterlik, a bank official. At the hospital Mrs. Alberts said she shot herself because of nervousness, and de spondency caused by overwork. WORK WS ON NEW PELIFF BILL TO MY Flffl BLOC Plan Embodied in Substitute Measure to Be Much Simpler Than in Present Bill TO GO BEFORE SENATE Plan Is to Have Preparations Complete to Substitute New Bill If Necessary WASHINGTON, May 29.—Work on the new farm, relief plan simpler than that embodied in the McNary- Haughen bill, was pressed today oy members of the state senate house farm bloc with the intention of hav ing it ready for introduction as a substitute for the pending measure, if it is found that such action is waranted. MfiMT PUREB WILK OWE Dr. Payne Explains Part Moth ers Should Play in Protection of Babies’ Milk Americus and Sumter county health authorities have started a drive to secure purer milk for babies here. Not that especial com plaint is to be found in existing milk supplies. That isn’t the issue. It’s a question of weather. This is the season, says Dr. W. J. Payne, county health commissioner, when milk requires exceptional care. “A special effort of being made,” said Dr. Payne today, “by the city, and county, to see that the milk supply departments of Americus is as sanitary, pure and wholesome as is possible to produce. For the pro tection of the babies and young more rigidly enforce some of the ordinances regulating the produc tion and delivery of milk. “The responsibility for the kind, and grade of milk the child g’ts does not cease when the dairymen delivers your milk to your door but this is the beginning of the re sponsibility of the mother. “As soon as your milk is deliver ed, do not allow it to stay there in the sun , but take it in immiedi ately and place in the ice box right up against the ice where it will not absorb tastes and odors from other articles of food that may be in the refrigerator. “Milk that is allowed to stay in |lhe sun for as long as thirty min utes at this seaon of the year m unsafe to be used for food for babies. “When the milk is to be used, re move the cap with some sharp in strument after the bottle has been wiped off with a clean cloth which removes all dust and dirt collec ed during transportation. “After emptying the milk the bot tle should be thoroughly washed and rinsed. “Never allow milk to be used by (other members of the family that had even been in the sick room as it is one of the most common carriers of disease,” concluded Dr. Payne. FORMER FRENCH DIPLOMAT DEAD PARIS, May 29.—Pierre Paul Cambon, former French ambassador to London, died here last night. GASTON BNS TELLS COBTTEE HE PAIG Sffl IS PROTECTISN Former Department of Justice Investigator Unfolds Addi tional Details HUGE AMOUNT INVOLVED All Payments Were Made to Dead Companion of For mer Attorney General WASHINGTON, May 29. Gaston B. Means told the senate Daugherty committee that he received from Jess Smith in 1922 certain documents purport ing to show that Secretary Mel lon of the treasury department had agreed to issue a batch of whisky permits in return for money which was to go toward the payment of the deficit of the Republican National Committee. The alleged arrangement, the witness said, was made with a man named Rex Sheldon, who to receive the and pay over th e money, WASHINGTON, May 29.—Gas ton B. Means, former government investigator, took-the witness stand today again before the senate Daugherty committee, afid gave ad ditional details of that he carried “protection” money in huge amounts to Jess Smith, the dead companion of the former at torney general. EXPLODE NEW FALSE REPORT IHIDNAPING Louisville, Ky., May 29.—C. F. Heath, a Chicago druggist, was found unconscious in a rooming house here today and was taken to the hospital, where he is in a critical condition. The police announced the man was suspected of implica tion in kidnaping and slaying Rob ert Franks, of Chicago, basing the statement on. information from the hospital that Heath had confessed. Inquiry at the hospital revealed that Heath'had made no statement con cerning the case. DIVERSIFICATION IN BULLOCH IS POPULAR STATESBORO, May 28. —That Bulloch county is practicing diversi fication in her farming is evidenced by the heavy express and freight shipments of beans and Irish pota toes how moving from all points in | the county. According to Alfred Dorman, wholesale produce dealer of this city, who is responsible for the heavy acreage in potatoes and beans, both crops are showing a fine profit to the growers. Over 400 acres arc planted in potatoes and about the same acreage in early snap beans in this immediate vi cinity. The potatoes are averaging 65 barrels to the acre and are sell ing for $3.50 to $5.50 per barrel ac ceding to grade, on the tracks here. Mr. Dorman is paying spot cash and grading them. The beans are also averaging high, running about 60 hampers to the acre and bringing the producers from $3.50 to $4.25 o f beans and potatoes the same land per hamper. Following the harvest will be planted to sweet potatoes, making two profitable crops on the same land. Sweet potatoes are in great demand to $2.50 per bushel in any quantity and with pven an aver age crop one can readily harvest 200 bushels per acre, some exceptional yields having made as high as 500 bushels in years past. The limit to the crop next year will be labor situation as both crops require a good deal of labor, which is rather scarce right now. 3 TRAINMEN KILLED IN SOUTHERN WRECK CHATTANOOGA, May 29 Three trainmen, all Chatta nooga, were killed early today when a Southern freight train was de railed near Rockwood, Tenn. Manual And Domestic Arts Exhibits 1 o Precede Program Scheduled 1 o Begin at 8 OAlock, Mathis 7 o Preside HARRY HOFFMAN GUILTY MUST SERVE LONG TERM New York Motion Picture Operator Convicted of Second Degree Murder For Killing ol Mrs. Maude Bauer—Firearms Expert Aid in Identifying Convicted Man—Slayer is Married and Has Two Children. NEW YORK, May 29. —Harry L. Hoffman, motion picture opera tor, charged with slaying Mrs. Maude Bauer on a lonfely Staten Island road, was guilty today of second degree murder, and sentenced to 20 years to lift improsnment in Sing Sing. Hoffman is married and has two children. At the trial Hoffman was identified as the man who had offered Mrs. Bauer a ride after her car had stalled in the mud and firearms ex perts declared that bullets from Hoffman’s pistol caused the death of the woman. POISONING EFFECTIVE PLANTATION TEST BN SUBITFR FARM SHOWS. Healthy Live Weevils Succumb Within Six Hours I After Placed On Dusted Cotton CHAMBLISS PLACE SCENE Both Dry and Liquid Calcium Arsenate Effective in Control of Pest There Calcium arsenate poisoning is ef fective in the control of the b'c'-11, weevil. This has just been again demonstrated on tho Chambliss plantation northwest of Americus Eight live, healthy boll weevils, found in a large field these were, used in a test experiment, and none of these survived longer than six hours. Botn ary calcium arsenate and a liquid mixture of the same material were used in the test .Both were entirely effective in causing death to the weevils placed on the treated stalks. Four of the weevils used in this test were placed upon cotton stalks treated with dry calcium arsenate, and two were placed upon stalks (Continued On Page Four) JAPANESE PROTEST REACHES BHINGTBN Experts Now Engaged in Decod ing Message Before Present ing It to State Department WASHINGTON, May 29.—Jap anese protest again the new im migration law reached the Japanese embassy here today. Because of its great length, some time will be required to decide and study it be fore it is formally presented to the state department. PENDING PROSECUTIONS WILL BE ‘SPEEDED UP’ WASHINGTON, May 29.—Many pending prosecutions growing out of war time transactions are to be pressed to quick conclusion as pos sible under a revised department of justice policy announced today by Senator Stone. GLYNN SHIPPING MANY TOMATO PLANTS NORTH - BRUNSWICK, Fay 29.—One of the busiest places in Glynn county is the R. V. Crine farm near Park wood, and to appreciate the magni tude of operations there one would have to visit this model place. Mr. Crine is an up to the minute agriculturist and stock raider and his operations have reached jvhat may be called huge proportions. Among other things this weell known place is shipping something over two million tomato plants to New Jersey the purpose ot picking, counting and packing them many colored women are employed and, as stated, the scene is a busy 1 0116, * .Abator FATAL AUTO CRASH NEAR EUFAULA TODAY EUFAULA, Ala., May 29. One person was kiled and three injured four miles from here to day when their automobile went through a bridge into the creek. All victims were residents of Eu faula. H’DBNM Bl ORDER GENERAL ELECTIONS British Premier Indicates Course In Government Is Defeated In Test Vote LONDON, May 29.—Prime Mini ster MacDonald, in a speech in tho House of Commons today, indicated that if the government should be defeated tonight on a test vote, he would go before the country in a general election. D’OISY IS AT PEKIN EN ROUTE TO TOKIO PEKIN, May 29. Captain Georges Pelletier D’Oisy reached here late today, completing thu long distance stage of his flight from Paris to Tokio. VAUGHN HELD FOR VIOLATING DRY LAW WAYCROSS, May 29.—Russell Vaughn, white, was turned over to city court under a S3OO bond by Judge E. 0. Blalock on a charge of violation of the national prohibi tion law. Police found nearly 4 gal lons of whiskey in his car while he was at the home of his father m Deenwood. It is alleged tnat Vaughn stole 3 sacks of sugar, weighing 10(! pounds each, from the Coca Cola Bottling Works and it was this that the officers were looking for when the whiskey was found. It is be lieved by police that Vaughn took the sugar and traded it for the whiskey. TRIAL JUDGE SETS ASIDE JACKSON AWARD FILWAUKItE, Fay 29.—John J. Gregory, trial judge in tthhe case of Joe Jackson against tho Chicago club of the American League, in which the jury awarded Jackson $16,000 damages today set aside the verdict and dismissed the case on the ground that Jackson and Oscar “Happy” Felsch, a 'witjneds, Tm'd committed perjury during the trial. Jackson sued for alleged breach of contract. HENRY STANFIELD HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Henry Stasfield is at his home on Elm avenue, suffering with a brok en collarbone and other injuries, the result of an accident in which he was iinvolved several days ago The accident occurred while Mr. Stanfield and his family were en route to North Carolina to attend the funeral of a relative there, their car turning over completely. Mr. Stanfield’s injuries are qu’te painful, but he expects to be able to resume his usual duties within a few days. New York Future* FC. Open High Low Close Jan. ._25.54|25.52|25.69)25.52)25.56 May ..26.60|25.59|25.75|25.59|25,66. July ..29.55)29.50)29.74)29.4829.65 Oct. ..26.43126.35|26.61 |26.35|2fi.45 Dec. .25.72|25.70|25.87)25.65|25.73 Americus- strict middling 29 l-2c PRICE FIVE CENTS Awards Offered By Rotarians, Kiwanians and Lions to Be Jointly Contested For clubs nameccmmittees Supt. J. E. Mathis Will Preside During Debates, With Public Invited to Attend Tonight at 8 o’clock at the High school the annual civic club medal debates recitation and declama tion contests will be held, with a number of students participating, and it is expected that a large at tendance of friends of the school will b e present. Preceding the debates, there will be an exhibition of domestic and manual art will be. shown in tho High school building. This ex hibit will embrace specimens of sewing, drawing (mechanical) and wood work, all of which is describ ed as really creditable alike to students and institution. This dis play is being placed today in the main corridor of the High school building, and all who attend the debates tonight are asked to in spect the same carefully. The opening number on the pro gram of the civic club contests is the Kiwanis medal debate, with ‘‘Eesolved, That Tariffs Levied by the United States Government Should Be For Revenue Only,” as the subject. Teams which will par ticipate in this contest are con (Continued on Page Tour.) GRAND JURY TAKES RECESS TONEXT WEEK J. N. Carter Is Re-elected ‘Jay Pea Andrews and Thomas ti Go On Board The grand jury of Sumter Super ior court, having practically con cluded its investigations into crim inal cases presented, has until next Wedneday. One that date it is expected that special com mittees named to inspect the books accounts and offices of various county officials will make their re ports, and that special bodies nam ed to inquire into the condition of ,the jail, courthouse county farm, and stockade will return their conclusions. As soon as these reports have been received and consolidated into the usual general presentments, the grand jury probably will adjourn. It wa learned unofficially today that among other things, the grand jury re-elected J. N. Cater to Suc ceed himself as notary public and ex-officio justice of the peace for the ensuing term, and also named R. S, Andrews, of Plains and G. C. Thomas of Cobb as member of the , board of education. No informa ■ tion has been given out regarding any true bills found, this being in accordance with the usual custom to await arrests bef6re these arq made public. FIRST GEORGIA PEACHES WIN PRIZES FOR GROWER ATLANTA, Fay 29.—Heralds of Georgia’s most bdunteous season, three little crates of peacfies, pio neers in the harvest, rode trium phantly into Atlanta Monday morn ing, announcing the summer, and winning prizes for their enterpris ing growers who have worked to obtain the early maturing.' The three crates that so many thousand will follow were delivered to Bell Brothers Company at No. 1 Produce Way went prizes to J. G. Matthews, of Cuthbert, Ga. and ,to Alton Lissey, at Reynolds, Ga. METHODISTS VOTE DOWN NEW DIVORCE PROPOSAL SPRINGFIELD, Mass., May 29. —A proposal for drastic change in the divorce law of the Northern Methodist Episcopal church was de ! seated by 10 votes at the closing I session of the general conference here today. ,
