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Ho Jhe thermometer runs up to 149
inea X wave
g T’ the people lhere
and .eave for goo,
NOt noes erup and rivers flood
V f C l but families living nearby
regular jvhan
ValUa return to
c ° n,t ’ f periodic trouble.
peculiar weakness explains
h th e same politicians bunk the
populace over and over.
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“EXSS— 2? 5
et's’to couples bound for the beaches
for a day’s or evening’s outmg. He
notices lots of young escorts Bu.
“it’s surprising how many girls
to go about with men old enough to
be their fathers.”
The seashore isn’t the only place.
The economic pinch is getting so
tight that young fellows haven’t the
money.
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discovered
A St. Louis mechanic, Janies ban
Cummings, claims he has discovered
the long-lost art of hardening and
tempering copper. Ancient Egjp
tians were masters at it. Cummings
says he has sold his discovery for
a million and a half cash.
He is 33 and confides that he hit
upon the process, sought by gray
beards for centuries, by sheer acc
dent. '
For that matter, the majority of
big discoveries are made by “acci
dent”—though usually during the
course of long search and patient
work.
Man blunders into a large part of
his progress. t
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INDIANS
Indians in the interior of Alaska
are beginning to use motorboats in
stead of canoes. They are enthused
about fox trots, ukuleles, pool and
cards.
Romance is passing swiftly. Civi
lization is stretching out its tenta
cles to the far corners ®f the oartlfe.
Soon there’ll be no escape from
standardization, alarm clocks, taxes
and monotony.
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SB9O
The average farmer netted only
SB9O cash last year. This is the situ
ation reported by Uncle Sam after
checking up over 16,000 farms oper
ated by their owners. Also, during
she year, they increased their in
ventories of machinery and so on an
average of $l3O. Which gives them
a total profit of SIO2O for their
year s work, in addition to not hav
ing to pay rent or for food and fuel
grown for themselves.
This SIO2O return was the yield
on an average investment of $17,-
WO of capital and the labor of the
farm head and his family.
City men will find it interesting
-to compare with their own financial
record for 1923.
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WEST
States west of the Mississippi
have more college and university
students for each 1000 population
•‘an any other part of the country,
je east later will be going to the
est lor its knowledge, the sanies
as it now lags behind in strength
'luick action, straight thinking and
Progressive politics.
lhe course of civilization through
1 centuries is westward.
lILINMfIBBENT
UH LfIiCHING BUCK
Three Hundred Men Seeking
Two Negro Slayers of White
Girl At Cairo Today
CAIRO, ILL? July 22—A mob
of approximately 300 men formed
in Pulaski county today apparently
bent on lynching two negroes tene
taively identified as the slayers of
Daisy Wilson, 18, a white girl, in
an attempted holdup of hpr father’s
store near Mounds shortly after
midnight.
The negroes were in the custody
of Sheriff Hudson, who was en
deavoring to take them to safety.
■ he mob formed after the negroes
had virtually been identified by the
lain girl's father and a neighbor,
Seymour U elch, 50 years of age,
and a neighbor of the Wilson’s died
of eeixtement,
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THETjSisgifc&RDER
SHED IN THE OF DIXIE
SEVERE FIGHTING FEATURES REVOLT
Arch Slayers May Attempt Escape Noose
SHERIFF GUARDS '
lEOPOLD AND PAL
IN CRIME CLOSELY
Boys Who May Pay With Lives
Not to Get Chance at Suicide,
Authorities Say
BOYS MAINTAIN NERVE
Hearing to Determine Sanity
Scheduled to Start Before
Judge Caverly Wednesday
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 22.
Preparations continue
here for the beginning
of the hearing before
Judge Caverlv Wednes
dav to determine the
sanitv of Nathan Leo
oold and Richard Loeb,
confesed murderers of
Robert Franks. A for
mal nlea of guilty has
already been entered by
attorneys for the de
fense, and the fate of
the slayers now rests
with Judge Caverly. No
jury will attend the
hearing to start Wednes
day, the sole issues to be
determined being ques
tions of law, and these
will be decided by the
court without the as
sistance of a jury.
Jacobs Franks, father of the 13
year old victim of Leopold, and
Loeb, will be the first witness for
the state when the presentation of
evidence begins tomorrow before
Chief Justice John R. Caverly in
a judicial hearing destined to fix
|the punishment of the youthful in
tellectuals.
BOTH BOYS HOLD
NERVE AFTER PLEA
CHICAGO, July 22—Sheriff
Hoffman announced today that he
is taking special percautions to
secure the safety of Nathan Leo
pold and Richard Loeb, who plead
guilty Monday to the murder of
Robert Franks, Jr. The two youths
are being guarded to prevent pos
sible suicide. >
“I do not know that they will
make any attempt,” said the sher
iff, ‘but with their plea of guilty in
and the possibility that they may be
sentenced to death staring them iq
the face they may try it. Extra
guards will be stationed at the cells
night and day to watch them and a
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COL. SHIPP INVITED
TO DELIVER ADDRESS
Col. J. E. D. Shipp, chairman of
the Board of Education of Sumter
county, has been invited to address
a gathering of educators at Wash
ington, Ga., August 14, and is now
considering the request. The in
vitation was extended Col. Shipp by
S. B. Savage and M. O. McCord,
a committee of the Board of Edu
cation of Wilkes county, on be
half of the board, and the address
is to be a parfr-of the program of
“Education Week” to be observed
there during the week beginning
August 14. Besides Col. Shipp, a
a number of other prominent Geor
gia educators are to be on the pro
gram as outlined by the committee.
Col. Shipp’s subject will bo “School
Consolidation and Transportation |
in Sumter County,” the thorough ;
consolidation and organization of i
this country’s rural schools having j
attracted unusual attention |
throughout Georgia, , t «...
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY .AFTERNOON, JULY 22, 1924
HOUSE DEBATESiCATTLE PROBLEM
PASSENGER LIB
‘BOSTON’ MED
WITH MY ABOARD
Fate of Between 600 and 900
Passengers on Big Liner Still
Uncertain
LIFE BOATS ARE MISSING
Rescued Traveler Tells of See
ing Bodies Caught in Wreck
age Following Crash
Between 800 and 9OO 1 passen
gers of the coastwise Boston,
rammed by the tanker Swift Ar
row off Point Judith, Rhode Is
land, last midnight, were on the
way to Vera Cruz ports at noon
today aboard several steamers
which responded to calls for help
and picked up the lifeboats in a
heavy fog.
Three persons were killed, with
one injured in the crash, accord
ing to reports received by own
ers of the Boston. Details of
the collision are fragmentary.
Other reports put the death list
as high as 5. The steamers ‘Pris
cilla’ and ‘Providence,’ with some
of the ‘Boston’s’ passengers
aboard are steaming to New
York. The Plymouth brought
several of the survivors to Fall
River.
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NEWPORT, R. 1.., July 22
Struggling back after a collision in
a fog with the oil tanker Swift
Arrow; the coastwise passenger
liner ‘Boston’ was being towed here
today a stricken ship, while home
of her 600 to 900 passengers were
lost in the murk in life boats it was
reported but not confirmed that
four passengers were killed in the
crash. Most of the passengers are
aboard the Fall river liner ‘Priscilla
bound for New York.
SEVERAL CROWDED
LIFE BOATS MISSING
NEW YORK, July 22—The
Steamship Boston, bound from
Boston to New York, which was
rammed in a heavy fog last night
off Point Judith, sent out wireless
messages at 5:15 o’clock this
morning stating that several life
botts crowded with passengers were
missing.
INJURED PASSENGERS
LANDED AT NEWPORT
NEWPORT, Juiy 22.—The first
injured passengers brought ashore
from the Steamer Boston was C,
Copeland of Brookline, Mass., He
was alnded bj’ the coast guard cut
ter 'Acushnet,” and taken to a
hospital, suffering from a fractur
ed left leg, a fractured shoulder
aud internal injuries.
Officers of the Acushnet said
they had seen th e bodies of tw’o
passengers on the Boston which it
had been impossible to extricate
from the wreckage, and had heard
reports that one man had jumped
overboard and was drowned after
his wife had been killed in a col
lision with the “Swift Arrow.”
■ LITTLE JOE j
pTFUEjBOVS OOHT
r. ISP
■ I —
Jack Dempsey
Hurt in Wreck
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-Heavyweight Champion and
Pretty Young Woman Severe
ly Injured Near San Diego
LOS ANGELES, July 22—Jack
Dempsey, world’s heavyweight box
ing champion and three other per
sons were severely injured when
Dempsey’s automobile, driven by his
chauffeur, skidded from the road
two miles north of San Juan Cap
istrano, near San Diego, and turned
over, it was learned Monday.
Other injured beside Dempsey in
the accident, which occurred while
the champion and a company of mo
tion picture actors were en route
to Pine Hills for location on a new
production in which the heavyweight
king is to be the star, were:
Teddy Hayes, Dempsey’s trainer.
Mrs. Teddy Hayes, actress, known
on tho’screen as Florence Lee, Dem
psey’s leading woman. Jack Dean,
chauffeur.
SCHEDULE SERVICES
IT FIRST METHODIST
Rev. W. H. Budd and Rev.
Leon P. Smith to Preach
There During Fortnight
With Rev. John M. Outler, pas
tor of the congregation, away cn
his annual vacation, the Board of
Stewards of F'rst Methodist church
have worked out an interesting
schedule of services at that edifico
during the next fortnight. These
services include services to be con
ducted by Rev. W. H. Budd, of
Macon and Prof. Leon P. Smith,
also of Macon, on the two Sundays
during which the pastor will be
absent from Americus.
The first services to be held in
the absence of Mr.Outler will be
the prayer meeting Wednesday
night at the usual hour, which will
be in charge of the Board of Ste
wards. Other services upon the
schedule as announced today are
as follows.:.
July 23rd—Prayer meeting—
Board of Stewards in charge.
July ,27—Preaching services—
Rev. W. H. Budd of Macon.
July 30th—Prayer meeting—Joe
M. Bryan’s Class in charge.
Aug. 3rd—Preaching services
Prof. Leon. P. Smith. Macon Ga.
Aug. 6th—Prayer meeting—Hor
tense Missionary Society.
Aug 10th—Epworth League for
morning hour.
Aug. 13th—Prayer meeting—
Mrs. Annie Walker’s Class.
When a fisherman begins telling
about his trip remember this: The
largest bass ever caught weighed j
only 18 pounds, _ A I
LIGHTNING BOLT
TIES UP SERVICE
ALBANY, N. Y., July 22—Street
car service was completely tied up
in Albany, Troy, Watervliet, Co
hoes and Rensselaer for more than
three hours early this morning when
a bolt of lightning partly' wrecked
the United Traction Company’s
transformer station at Watervliet.
Thousand of persons in the five
cities were mbre than an hour lata
for 'work. The tieup came just as
the morning rush hour service was
getting under way.
safe’gOardstTloan
OCCUPY ALLIES HI
LONDON CONFERENCE
British and American Bankers
Relied On to Subscribe Bulk
of $200,000,000 Advance
DISCUSSIONS CONTINUED
Findings of Committee on De
faults and Penalties Made
Public at Session
LONDON, July 22—Guarantees
provided, for safe-guarding the Ger
man loan with which it is proposed
to launch the Dawes reparation
plan were the chief topics of dis
cussion among the delegates of the
inter-allied conference today.
Discussions between financial
delegates and British and Ameri
can bankers who are being relied
upon to. take up the bulk of the
proposed two hundred million loan
which began with the publication of
the findings of the committee on
defaults and penalties were con
tinued.
FIRPO AND GIRL ftRE
HELD ATELLIS ISLE
Famous Fighter and ‘Secretary*
Denied Admission Pending
Further Investigation
NEW YORK, July 22.—Louis An
gel Firpo, ‘Wild Bull of the Pam
pas,” and a dark-eyed Spanish
beauty, Senora Birance Lurdes, of
ficially known as his stenographer,
were held at Ellis Island Monday by
immigration officials on a technical
charge of insufficient vises. ,
Firpo arrived here Monday to
train for his fight with Harry Wills,
negro heavyweight, in Jersey City,
in September. •
Senora Lurdes —a woman of mys
tery—Firpo, and other of the Firpo
menage, were taken off lhe Pan-
American liner “American Legion”
and held at the Island.
Both the stalwart Firpo and hw
chic, fetching black-haired compam
ion were dismayed when detained.
Firpo protested yi his poor English,
to no avail.
The pair were held on information
received by immigration officials
from Buenos Aires and also from
the crew of the American Legion.
Some passengers said Senora Lur
des didn’t do a bit of stenographic
work on the way to New York.
Senora Lurdes’ black eyes snapped
and she was very flustered through
the three hours of questioning. Sue
said she was employed as secretary
to the man who almost knocked out
Jack Dempsey, for the trip up and
was going back to the land of palm
trees as soon as her services were no
longer needed.
With Firpo and Senora Lurdes
were held Miquel Ferrara, sparring
partner, and Eduado Carbone, man
ager of the powerful South Ameri
can fighter, who not long ago almost
won the championship of the world.
Firpo earliqjr told newspaper men
he would defeat Harry Wills. “I am
confident.” the “Bull” said “But I
never saw Wills in the ring and I
don’t want to boast.”
“How about another go with Dem
psey?” .■ „
,“Wc won’t talk about a fight with
Dempsey until the Wills matter is
oVer ” .
TICK ERADICATION
BILL BEFORE HOUSE
TO GIVE STATE AID
Would Distribute Burden of
‘Border Counties’ Throughout
Entire State
COUNTIES DO WORK NOW
Measure Important One As It
Affects Growing Cattle In
dustry in Georgia
By Associated Press
ATLANTA, July 21.
The first bill for consid
eration by the house of
representatives today
was that of Representa
tive Stewart, of Atkin
son. which would pro
vide that the expense in
curred by work of tick
eradication and preven
tion of the spread of
tick infestation now be
ing carried on mostlyLy
border counties of the
state, should be borne
bv the state as a whole
instead of the border
counties. ‘T
ATLANTA VIADUCT
BILL RE COMMITTED
ATLANTA, July 22. —After con
suming an hour debating passage
of amendments, the state senate to
day ordered recommitted the local
viaduct Ibill, and after passing three
minor bills, recessed until noon, at
which time it adjourned to the
house, where Senator George ad
dressed both bodies of the legisla
tU Among the new bills introduced
was that by Senator Ficklin, of the
50th district, which would amend
an act amending the charter of the
City of Athens so as to place mem
bers of the police and fire depart
ment under civil service commis
sion.
HOLDEN WITHDRAWS
LUXURY TAX BILL -•
ATLANTA, July 22— -Inaugura
tion of earlier opening hour for
daily sessions of the house of iep
resentatives and enforcement of a
rule to limit individual speeches by
house members to fifteen minutes
each, except that authors of bills
will be allowed to consume thirty
minutes per speech, today tended
toward enabling that body of the
Georgia general assembly to clear
up it’s cluttered calendar some.
The two measures adopted for
speed in disposition cf proposed
legislation were urged by the rules
committees and approved by lhe
house as a whole upon motion by
Representative Milner of Dodge
county vice chairman of the
(Continued on Page Five.)
STEAL ARRESTED
AS COMMON THIEF
CORNING, N. Y., July 22.—Carl
A. Steal, 28 years of age, who
claims to be from California, is
under arrest here on a charge of
vagrancy. Steal was arrested here
by Erie Officer Michael J. Cannon
after he had tried to sell the officer
about $2,000 worth of fine woolen
cloth which it is alleged was stolen
from an Erie freight car.
It is alleged that Steal tried to
sell the goods to a man who recom
mended him to Officer Cannon. He
is alleged to have approached lha
detective and after talking a while
took him to some bushes in the west
ern part of the city and showed him
where he had the cloth hidden. He
•was then arrested by Officer Can
non and a temporary charge of va
grancy placed against him.
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COMBATANTS INJURED
IN SAO PAULO FIGHT
State Department Advised That
No Americans Are Among
Casualties Reported
SITUATION IS UNCHANGED
Heaviest Fighting Since Revolt
Started Occurred During Mon
day Night, Message Says
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, July
22. Three thousand
civilians are reported to
have been killed and in
jured in fighting at Sao
Paulo between the Bra
zilian federal and revo
lutionary forces.
Renerts received today
by the state department
said, however no Amer
icans were included
among the casualties.
The heaviest fighting
of the revolt, the mes
sage said, took place
during the night of July
20, but the result did
materially change the
situation.
REVOLT BEING
'•STARVED OUT
WASHINGTON, July 22 —TH
Brizilian revolution is slowly being
crushed by starvation, according W
a communique issued by the Brizt
lian Embassy here.
A blockade, thrown around the
Rebel lines by Federal forces, has
cut off all revolutionary supplies,
including foodstuffs and ammuni
tion, the communique stated. The
Rebel situation became “critical” as
a result and hundreds of fleeing
Rebels were catured, the dispatch
added. Federal troops repulsed
two Rebel attacks during the night.
11 FOLLETTE IND
MUM IB SPEAK
Third Ticket Campaign to Be
Featured By Covering En
tire Country
CHICAGO, July 22—Senator Lal
Follette and Senator Wheeler will
open the third ticket campaign in
the eastern seaboard and New
England states, touring the West
and South over divergent routes to
every state, Representative Nelson,
national manager of the LaFollette
candidacy stated today.
BOY WHO STABBED
GIRL MAY ALSO DIE
WOODBURY', N. J., July 22.-
Charles Albertson, village boy, was
in Brewer Hospital today with a slim
chance of recovery following his
stabbing to death of his sweetheart,
20-year-old Florence Smith, and at
tempted suicide.
The young couple had a heated
argument in front of the Smit-h
home last night when Albertson
suddenly plunged a knife into hist
sweetheart’s breast, according to
witnesses, killing her instantly. He
then stabbed himself.
Police have not learned the mo
tive for the act.
ATHENS NEGROES
HELD IN VIRGINIA
ATHENS, Ga., July 22.—Gus
“Geechie” Whaley and “Cadillac”
Mobley, two Athens nergro auto
mechanics, or “sub” men around
local garages, are being held in
Virginia for the theft of a Ford
automobile from the H. L. Cofer.
Seed Company a few’ days ago.
Chief of Police Beusse has been
notified of the arrest of the two and
requisition papers have been re
quested from the Governor of Va,
H. D. Huff, bailiff, and Mr. Cofet
will leave Athens to bring the auto-<
mobile and the two men back as
soon as notice comes from the gov
ernor that the requisition has been
granted. -■