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' ' WEATHER ' For Georgia—Partly cloudy to night and Sunday; little change in temperature. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 128 DAUGHERTY COMMITTEE HAS LIVELY SESSION Low Pressure Spot Slips And Wreaks Havoc With Weather Experts Say Normal Seasons to Return Again, But Impossible to Predict When CAUSE OF HEAVY FLOODS Tiny Spot Off Coast of Green land Is Blamed For Re cent Disturbances By LARRY BOARDMAN WASHINGTON, May 31. Off the coat of Greenland, in a spot that isn’t good for much else any how, the weather for most of the United States is made. When thi spot remain off the tip of that country in t the springtime, we have normal weather. But it has slipper south and west That’s what has caused rain or the Atlantic seaboard, floods an tornadoes in the the central states and now as far away as the Da kotas, says Major Edward H. Bowie, upervising forecaster of the U. S. Weather Bureau. Thi slipping spot is known as the normal low pressure area. How does a low pressure area gov en the weather? When the air in a given region is warmed it becomes lighter, fornfng a low pressure area. Heavier, cold er air rushes in. The warm air with its quantity of moisture is forced higher. There it is cooled and condensed its capacity for holding moisture is Jess and the moiture forced out in the form or rain and snow. But the cold air rushing toward a lew pressure area does not go in a straight line. Due to the otation of the earth it veres to the right. So the colder current headed to ward the Greenland low pressure area instead of sweeping by the United States as they usually do are aweaping o-vei* -the-eonn-Hy on their way from the pole to the low pres sure area. | These currents have chilled the country and forced the ’moisture out of the air, giving Us our present weather. West of the Rockies the condi tion has been the reverse. The Pacific low pressure area has moved from the tip of Alaska to ward the Japanese coast. The colder air currents in their race to this place have mised the. 1 Pacific coast. The ai there re mains warm, holding its moisture and causing the drought. “It is impossible to predict weather conditions months ahead,” Bowie says, “but I will say it is almost certain that the weather w : ll return to normal. Weather condi to abnormal, then back into normal tions are like a pendulum, swinging again—and just in the course of natural events this pendulum is due to reach the normal point in iis swing.” FRANK DEVANE LEARNS WHAT COP’S JOB PAYS ALBANY, May 31.—Policing in the town of Rhine, Ga., is said to be task of unusual hazards' so much so, in fact, that the town is offering added inducements to secure peace officers. It is said that the town council has been forced to elect a new town marshal three times this year because of vacancies caused by officers being killed. Frank Devane, well known Al banian, is alleged to have heard that the position was one that paid well and to have made application for it. Upon writing for particulars as to working conditions and the salary paid, so the story goes, he received the following telegram: “Job pays one hundred fifty per month and burial expenses.” Mr. Devane lost interest in the place when this telegram came, ac cording to the story his friends are telling. THE LAND OF FORGOTTEN MEN Great serial story of love and adventure in the great open spaces where men are men; the greatest novel ever printed in any daily ntfespaper, will begin in The TIMES-RECORDER Next Monday. Begin with the opening chapter, and don’t miss a single chapter-of this thrilling fiction story. Remember, the first chapter of this great novel will appear. MONDAY, JUNE 2 THE TIMESB RECORDER IN HEARfOF JVoemaj. 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The Times-Recordcr has arrang ed to have the result of this fight, together with a brief resume of the fighting telegraphed to Americus, and this will be bulletined at this office as soon a received. Patrons and friends of the paper a well as the public generally are invited to call and read these after 3'30 o’clock this afternoon. The certainty of ideal weather has added greatly to the congestion among fans here to attend the mill, and before noon the town’s facili ties ®ere taxed to the utmost to pro vide even meager accomodations, SPECIAL GAS PERMITS ISSUED FOR TOURISTS ALBANY, May 31.—Lines of motor vehicles standing in front of gasoline filling stations following the notice that all stations would be closed between the hours of 10 to 2 o’clock ond Sunday, gave evidence that many tourists would be in convenienced by the order. In order to relieve this discomfort and yet prevent local autoists who were un mindful of the notice from obtain ing gasoline and oil, gasoline men have decided that tourists must ob tain permits from the city hall certi fying "They are tourists and permit ting them to purchase oil and gaso line. This arrangement has been found to be successful. ALBANY LIONS HAVE ‘EATLESS LUNCHEON’ ALBANY, May 51. Albany Lions yesterday helped to swell the fund to send the local Cbnfeder ate veterans to the Memphis re union by gathering at an “eatle/s luncheon” at the New Albany hotel where their regular weekly luncheon ■meetings are held. Several weeks ago a request was made of the Lions Club that it allow the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy to serve one week’s luncheon, the profits to go to the veterans’ fund. As the club already had planned to have a ladies night entertainment at the Camp Fire Girls hut that week, it was decided, instead of having the U. D C. serve a luncheon, to do without luncheon one week and give the money thus saved to the fund. At a later meeting the secretary of the Lions was instructed to keep the date of the ‘catless luncheon” a secret from the member, and it was “sprung” on them yesterday as a surprise. The hotel manage ment joined in the spirit, and the regular club musicians, Mias Helen Rixey and Walter Sheets, also vol unteered to do without their lunch eons sor 1 the same cause. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 31, 1924 pressure regions in North has af fected weather in the United States. FIGHT RETURNS NOT COMING IN AT 4=15 At 4:15 o’clock this afternoon the first of the returns from the Gibbons-Carpentier fight at Michigan City had not reached Americus. The preliminaries had begun at that hour, but the main bout had not been reach ed. Bulletins of the main fight will be received at the Times- Recorder and these will be fur nished all who inquire therefor free of cost. PfflTlE™ RE-ELECTED By BOARD Only Miss Rustin Failed to Ap ly to Be Succeeded By Miss Kissa Philippi The Board of Education of Amer icus has just re-eiected all of the present teachers in the chools here to their respective positions, with the exception of Misses Eunice Rustin, who failed to apply. M'ss Risa Philippi, of Quitman, was nam ed by the board to succeed Miss Rustin. All of the present teachers have been assigned by the board to their present poition, except that Mrs. Etta Stallings will be assigned dur ing next year to the Department of English at the high school with Miss Philippi. Heretofore Mrs. Stallings has taught the firstt year classes at the High chool, and in her stead the board has elected Mrs. Roy Robin son. Mrs. Robinson is an added teacher upon the staff. In the negro schools there was only one change being made, Mary Lewis not being re-elected, Anna Campbell being given a place' in the faculty of McKay Hill school in stead. PHARMACISTS WILL GATHER AT ALBANY ALBANY, 31. —The xorty ninth annual convention of the Georgia I’liarmaceutical Association will con vene here June 17 and 18, with from 200 to 300 men and 50 to 75 women present. The Association includes many of the leading druggists of the state and the convention is expect' d to be an important one. C. D. Robinson, local druggist and vice president of the association is in charge of arrangements here. Mr. Robinson said that although the at tendance at Augusta last year num bcred only about 175, preparations were being made to accomodate ap proximately 350 this year. WAVING AT GIRLS COSTS YOUTHS $25.00 SAVANNAH, May 31.—Waving at girls with whom one is not nc quainted is ar. expensive pleasure at Thunderbolt, or at least was in the case of two young men recently, who we’'e fined s2b dollars each b’, Mayor E. O. Bryan. Private Owens, of Fort Scriven and another man named O’Connell were d'.ving past Thunderbolt when they began wav ing and rpeaking to a girl, repeated ly driving by her in an effort to attract her attention. The girl paM r.o attention to the young men bu: the marshall did and they were ushered into court. The civil au thorities were requested to turn Owens over to the military authori ties when they finished the ease. MIN BMW THUNDERS ‘LIE’ AT WITNESS IN HEARING Fink Shouts His Charge That Vanderlip Attempted to Bribe Him With SI,OOO ACCUSER BRANDED CROOK Senator Ashurst Would Have ‘Put Him Out’ With Per mission of Chairman WASHINGTON, May 31.—Tur bulent scenes which haa to be quiet ed by the police featured today’s session of the senate Daugherty committee, when A. L. Fink, of Ro chester, N. Y., associated in previom testimony with Roxie .Stinon, who voluntteered as witness today, shout ed that he was. the man “Frank Vanderlip tried to give SI,OOO for perjured testimony against Cool idge’” and that he wanted tq tell how Senator Wheeler, committee prosecutor, “got booze for Roxie Stinson.” “We don’t want your lies,” Chair man Brookhart thundered back at him. Senator Ashurst told Fink he was a crook, and promised to “put him out/if the chairman will al low.” ( Roxje Stinson is the divorcede, wife of Jess Smith, a friend of the former attorney general. BIlWffiTS MESE PROTEST Ambassador At Washington Hands Secretary Hughes Views of Tokio-Govt. WASHINGTON, May 311.—Am bassador Hanihara, acting on the in structions of the Tokio government, today delivered to Secretary Hughes a formal protest by Japan against the Japanese exclusion provision of The immigration act. At the state department it was stated no comment would be forth coming upon the note until its text has been studied thoroughly by of ficials there. DELEGATES HW TO REPRESENT LEGION McLendon, Fort, Oliver and Furlow Go As Delegates, With 4 Alternates The Sixth Annual convention of the . American Legion will convene jn Savannah, on June sth. J. E. 3. McLendon, James A. Fort, Edmund Oliver, and Stewart Furlow have been appointed as delegates from John D. Mathis Post No. 2. Grisby Thomas, Grover C. Crapps, H. B. William, David C. Burkhalter, Rob ert C. Lane have been appointed as alternates.. These delegates and alternates will leave Americus Wednesday night, arriving in Sa vannah in time for morning session on Thursday. All members of the American le gion American Legion Auxiliary de partments of Georgia, and vete of the 31st and 82nd divisions are entitled to the reduced rates to and from Savannah, on account of convention. Any member of the above organizations desiring to make the trip to Savannah, may obtain identification certificates from Robert C. Lane at any time be fore boarding the train for depar ture. The annual state promenade of the Forty and Eight Society will also be held at this time. It has been announced in connection with this event, that the annual under takers covention will also be held in Savannah on the same dates; and this will insure the safe return of all delegates. The undertakers will give particular attention to the members of La Societte des 4«0 hommes et 8 Ghevaux.J The regular meeting of John D. Mathis Post No, 2 will be held next Tuesday night in Superior Court room, at 7:30 o’clock. The Consti tution of the post was amended ab last regular meeting changing the dates of regular meetings to the first and third Tuesday nights in [each month. All members are urged to be present next Tuesday, Millionaire Youths Confess Diabolical Kidnaping Crime Spectacles Lost By Loeb Boy Leads to Unraveling of Mur der of Robert Franks CHISEL USED IN MURDER Both Boys Under Arrest Arc Members of Wealthy Fam ilies in Chicago CHICAGO, May Sl.Robert E. Crowe, state’s attorney for Cook county, announced today Nathan E. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, youthful members of wealthy Chica go families, both post-graduates of tile University of Chicago, have c >n fesed they kidnaped and murdered Robert Franks, Jr., the 14-ycar-old son of a retired millionaire manu factuer, was killed by the Leopold and Loeb boys, according to Crowe, in an automobile. Both accuse the other of striking the l>Jow that end ed young Franks’ life. The weapon used was a chisel, and the motive, the boys told the state’s attorney wa to obtain a ranom from the Franks boy’s father. Leopold was entirely calm as he made hi confesion, Crowe aid, and after making his statement to thn staate’s attorney posed to newspaper photoprapher. A minute later he calmly lighted a cigfiarette which he smoked contentedly. Young Loeb, who is a son of the vice preident of Sears-Roebuck Co., appeared most affected, but he did not seem crushed by the dis covery of his connection with die crime. . , Crowe announced that the Franks boy was, struck with a chisel as the three youths youths sat together in a rented automobile and a gag was khen thrust into his mouth by his captors and he was later strangled. The Leopold and Loeb bovs were prrested last night and held for questioning lifter records of an op!i cal company revealed that the glass es, regarded a one of the principal clues in the case, are similar to those sold to Leopold. He told question ers he had purchased a pair last fall because of headaches, but had discarded them later. Officers who searched for the glases, he aid, were at hi home, found only the case and Leopold was unable to ac count for their disappearance. Previous to their confesion Leopold and Loeb told substantially the same story of their activities on May 21, the day the Franks boy vanished. They said they drove to the business district in Leopold’ ear for luncheon, later going to the park Jo study the birds. After dinner, according to Leopold, they took an automobile ride with two girls known to them as Edna and May. An attempt was being made to find these girls tonight. Leopold was shown the ransom letter and asked if he could have written such a missive. He said ne could have written a better ore, pointing out that kidnaping was spelled with two “p’s”. Among his papers the police found a note ad dresed to “Dick” in which it was asserted that “even though we have differences, we must appear friend ly to preserve appearance.” No explanation of the fetter was made public. Young Leopold is the son of Na than Leopold, paper box manufac turer, and Albert H. Loeb, vice pres ident of a Chicago mail order house, is the other boy’s father. The families of the youth’s rallied to their support today and while in sisting that the boys were not con cerned in any way in the slaying, offered the police every aid in the investigation. NEW POULTRY PICK-UP ROUTS INAUGURATED ALBANY, May 31.—J. Irwin Da vis, county agent of Dougherty coun ty, announced this morning that there would be another poultry “pick-up” car in Albany, June 17. The car will arrive here on the tracks of the Seaboard Air Lino Railway that day about 1 o’clock, and will remain until the following ‘morning. From here it will proceed to Dawson and Richland. At Rich land it will be consolidated with a car which will have started from Bainbridge, and which will be on the tracks of the G. F. & A. rail-* way. The consolidated car will pro ceed on the Seaboard Air Line tracks to Americus, until enough poultry has been bought to fill it. • By that lime farmers are expected to have many broilers for sale, and since it will also give growers a chance to sell their cull hens, it is expected that there will be an abun 1 ance of poultry on hand during the trip. The prices will be paid for the poultry have, not been announce BANDITS ROB CASHIER OF $20,000 IN BILLS KANSAS CITY, Kas., May 31.—Three bandits today held up and robbed the cashier and paying teller in the Argentine State Bank here of $20,000. The money was all in $lO and S2O bills. The men escaped fol lowing the robbery. hlglmo ffl SEORGW EARNERS Will Enable Buyers to Assemble Eggs For Carload Shipping During Heavy Laying Season ATLANTA, May 31—To encour age the development of the poultry industry in the South, the Southern Railway System has authorized the storage in transit of carload ship ments of eggs at Atlanta, Birming ham, Chattanooga, Louisville and Jacksonville, through its ‘ Egg Trans it Tarfii No. 1” which has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Com mission and is now in effect. Under this tariff, eggs can be placed on storage in the citing named at which there are ample refrigera tion facilities, and later reconsigned to a wide range of destinations at the through rate from point of ori gin, plus a transit charge of five cents per hundred pounds. Eggs placed on storage under this ar rangement can also be exported through South Atlantic and Gulf ports to Cuba and South American countries in which there is a large market for egg's fron’i the Unitea States. In explaining the advantages of this arrangement to poultrymen of the South, General Agricultural Agent Roland Turner, of the South ern, said: “This arrangement has been put in effect to encourage dealers and organizations of farmers at local points to buy eggs during the heavy laying season, assemble them in car load lots, and ship them to the stor age points where they can be held until market conditions justify re shipping them for sale. In this way, farmers will be provided a year round market for their eggs at favor able prices instead of having io take whatever may be offered for eggs during the sprihg months wltrn the local markets are glutted.’* DECORATION DAY HT ■WILLE QUIET Decoration Day was observed Fr: day at Andersonville National ceme tery with delegations of former fed eral soldiers and many negroes at tending. The occasion waij one of the quietest recalled by Anderson ville residents, with fitting cere monies in memory of the 14,000 soldiers buried there in charge of G. A. R. veterans from Fitzgerald post. In former years Decoration Day has been the occasion for many dis orders at Andersonville, but dur ing several year past this feature ha entirely disappeared and a pr p i*- aid of solemnity now surrounds the annual observance. Fourteen thousand tiny American flags wer? placed in the cemetery by the visit ing veterans of the federal army, one at each grave, making a most attractive decoration. The only incident of the occasion in any way resembling observances during former years was the arrest of Thedfod Childs, an Andersonville negro, who was taken in custody on a charge of breaking into a box car on the Central railway there several months ago, and who had been a fugitive since the alleged crime was committed. MOTHER OF BOY SUES ROME MILL FOR $50,000 ROME, May 31.—Suit for $50,- 000 has been- entered in Floyd coun ty superior court against the Anchor Duck Mills by Mrs. Josie Owens, through her guardian W. J. Hopkins, alleging that her son George Owens, age 13, was working in violation of the child labor laws and without her knowledge when killed in an acci dent in the defendant company’s plant. This sum of money chc claims is necessary to recompense i her for tl)e financial loss sustained, NEW YORK COTTON Exchange closed. No quotations. NEW ORLEANS COTTON July contracts closed 13 points up. Steady. Americus middling 2ty3i-4c. PRICE FIVE CENTS HIM FBI IDE HER SMSLI MUM DI H. BERM BWS Dismissed Employe Wreaks Vengeance On Man Who Ac cused Him of Drunkenness RAWLS IS DUBLIN MAN Jailed, Clerk Asserts Poindex ter Struck Him Mown Be fore Shot Was Fired SAVANNAH, May 31—A Lama* Poindexter, proprietor of a hotel at Tybee, was shot and seriously wounded today by Bernard H. Rawls night clerk, after Poindexter noti fied the clerk he was dismissed, charging him with being in an in toxicated condition last night. While the wounds are serious, they are not thought to be fatal. The clerk, who is in jail at Tybe«, charges that the proprietor struck him, then knocked him to the floor, and thereupon he fired. Rawls is from Dublin. TfflTMTfonPl GEOH LEGISLTOt Meigs Representative Asserts t axation System of State ‘Patchwork House’ ATLANTA, May ( 31. —Taxation measures should occupy the prin cipal attention of the Georgia legi slature, which convenes next month « in the opinion of Representative r lho ias Davis, of Meigs. “We should in/my opinion, give this subject all the time of the session if necessary lo dispeso of it” Mr. Davis says. “As a rule, I believe legislatures waste too much time on comparative ly trivial measures. They ignore or overloon the big things or at least do not give them sufficient •on sideration.” Continuing, Representative Davis said: “Our system of taxation is like the house built by the, poor man in X Atlanta that Henry Grady wrote about. It is made of patches in many instances which are inequit able and injudicious. “Judicial procedure in Georgia should be reformed by a board of experts with the sole idea of admini stering justice speedily, honestly and cheaply. Our present system is worn-out, expensive, cumbersome and ha.- no stopping place. Our civil ization is equal to that of Canada or England. Is there any good (CContinued On Rage Three) RECK LESS DRIVER ■ I® 1 CHILDREN Family of Fred Scott Struck By Speeder Near Home of A. F. Hodges Last Night A wreckless automobile driver, believed to be a negro ran into the family of Fred Scott, a respectab'e 1 r.gro, living on ihe Fox Hodges place, near Andersonville, lass night severly injuring two if his children. Fred Scott, Jr., who was struck first by the speeding car had his leg broken and sustained a deep scalp wound, while Rebecca Scott, 2 years old, his sister, was struck by the car and carried some distance before falling or being pushed off. She sustained internal injuries which may cau;e death. The Scott negroes were well to the side of the road when struck, it is declared, and the identity of the driver of the car which struex them was not ascertained. Notwith standing the driver could hardly have b *en : ware of stciicog the little negroes in the road, it is de clared he hurried on without slack Ing pace and was soon lost in the darkness. The incident occurred shortly after 7 o’clock last night. ARBITRATION MEASURE FAVORED BY COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, May 31—The Howard-Barkley bill proposing the substitution of National arbitration boards for the present railroad la bor was reported favorably today by the Senate interstate commerce committe§.
