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WEATHER
For Georgia—Fair tonight Fri
day local thundershowers.
YEAR—NO- '/J
Apple
millionaire
Did you ever hear of William h.
Moore? He died iver & year age.
It’s revealed in a New York court
that he left an estate of more than
28 million dollars. And yet the pub
* f‘ the most part was ignorant
L his existence. Big business ler.d
bankers and attorneys knew
S’. He was a top-notch corpora
liO GeUing ’to be quite a common
event, to read of the passing oi a
comparatively obscure man worth
millions. The multimillionaire is
becoming such a common institu
tion that he attracts little atten
tion. Wealth is being gradually
cornered.
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THEN#
It’S just 25 years since news
papers devoted considerable space
to the first successful collection of
mail by auto in the United States.
Buffalo was the place. The date,
July 2, 1899.
That’s not so long ago. Today we
have transcontinental air mail. Tre
mendous progress for a quarter of
a tentury. It makes you wonder
what the next 25 years will bring
forth. One thing’s sure—ways of
living will be turned upside down
and most of our present scientific
marvels will become old-fashioned.
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BETTER
Railroads continue reporting
steady gain in amount of freight
they’re hauling. Traffic has been on
the upgrade sinc e the first of June.
Nearly a tenth less than a year ago,
but away ahead of 1922 and 1921
at this season.
The important thing is the steady
recovery. It means that good times
are ahead, for freight movement is
one of the four most accurate bar
ometers of future business condi
tions.
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MOUSETRAP
Greatest American philosopher,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, wroti that
the world will beat a new path to
your door if you have something
better for it, even an improved
mousetrap.
Path-beating is too slow for our
generation. Take the Mayo broth
ers, famous surgeons. They didn’t
go to a big city to practice, but
stayed in Rochester, Minn., a town
of 15,000. So many people are
beating a path to the Mayos that
the railroad has just added an all
steel Pullman train to haul Mayo
customers from Minneapolis into
Rochester.
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CRAZY
One out of every 25 people in
Massachusetts is crazy, says Dr.
Willfcm A. Bryan, head of the
Worcester State Hospital. He says
a twenty-fifth of the population of
that state “spends some portion of
his life in a hospital for mental
disease, and 20 cents of every dol
iai appropriated by Massachusetts
goes to hospitals for mental dis
ease.”
It’s a rare state that can show a
better record.
And at times we’re inclined to be
heve that, the craziest ones are out
side the walls of institutions.
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hair
Shaving doesn’t make hair grow
aster. Dr. Builliard, the French
man proves this by long experi
ments, he claims.
he used oniy one
man m his tests. He’d hav e to trv
u 1 ?° t 0 learn the by
t law of averages.
grow\a?s ng f that really Wkes hair
teriou, t f,n ffernails) is the mvs
a ’""Stance manu-
th e neck y A the h thyr ° id g ’ and in
e eck. a shave soothes th,.
f°et thaTii haS r C ‘‘ rtain psychic ef '
the thyroid?' mulate the w °rk of
magee pardoned
AGAIN BY HINKLE
SANTA FE, N. M., July 24.
Governor J. F. Hinkle has again
issued a pardon to Carl C. Magee,
editor of The Albuquerque Stale
Tribune, who earlier today had
been found guilty of contempt of
court by District Judge A. L. La
hay, at Las Vegas, N. M., and sen -
tenced to three months in jail.
More than a year ago Magee was
tried for contempt by Judge Lehay
and found guilty on four counts.
He was sentenced to jail for 9»
days on each one of four counts
land in addition he and his paper
fined more than $40,000. At that
time the editor furnished appeal
and appearance bonds amounting
to $14,000 and did not go to jail,
pending the appeal. Two days
mfter being sentenced he was pard
oned by Governor Hinkle.
THE TIMES jSRECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
ROMAN,’AND WIFE HELD FOR MURDER
Allies At London Unable To End Impasse
CONFLICT IS«
OS GUARANTEES IS
in
French Delegates at London Un
able to Agree With British
and American Financiers
SAFEGUARDS DISCUSSED
Formal and Informal Meetings
of Delegates Fail to Produce
Way Out of Impasse
By Associated Press
LONDON, July 24.
The conflict in the views
between the French
delegates to the inter
allied conference and
American and British
financiers r e g a rding
safeguards for the pro
tection of investors in
the German loan pro
posed under the Dawes
plan, remained unrecon
ciled today, according
to well informed per
sons.
Formal and informal meetings
of the delegates this morning pro
duced no indication of away out of
the impasse. ,
DELEGATES OCCUPIED
WITH LOAN GUARANTEES
LONDON, July 24 —Efforts to
surmount the impasse in the inter
allied conference regarding the
sufficiency of guarantees for the
proposed 40 million pound sterling
loan to Germany today, occupied
the attention of delegates, with the
belief uppermost that a solution
will be found before many hours.
CONSOLIDATION
BILL Mfflffll
House Committee Recommends
Passage of Measure to Con
solidate Tax Offices
ATLALNTA, July 24.—0 n Tues
day afternoon the committee of the
house of representatives on amend
ments to the constitution favorably
recommended, by a unanimous vote,
the passage of the bill of Senator
Stephen Pace, of the 13th district,
authorizing the consolidation of the
offices of tax collector and tax re
ceiver in the several counties of
the state. The bill passed the sen
ate last summer and will now go
on the house calendar for final ac
tion by that body with every indi
cation that it wifi be adopted.
Senator Pace, the author, appear
ed before the house committee in
behalf of the bill; in the course of
his argument he stated that while
it was now costing between six and
eight thousand dollars each year in
his home county of Sumter, byway
of fees, to pay these two officers,
it would be possible to save sev
eral thousand dollars of this ex
pense by consolidating the two of
fices and placing the officer who
would hold the consolidated office
on a reasonable salary, sufficient
to command a capable and effi
cient man; he showed that there is
no necessity for two separate of
fices, inasmuch as the tax receiv
er does his work in three or four
months in the spring of the year,
land then, w’hen the returns are in
his work is completed and the books
are turned over to the tax collector,
who is busy until next spring when
the tax receiver’s duties begin
again; it was also shown that it is
left entirely optional with, each
county as to whether or not the
two offices shall be consolidated
and the amount to be paid in each
county as salary.
The bill is in the nature of an
amendment to the constitution of |
the state, and will have to be rati-1
fied by the people at the general
election in November.
Who hasn’t paid to hear a lecture
and then gone away convinced we,
should have free speech?
The Latest Pictures of Robert Franks Slayers
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These are the latest and best
pictures of Nathan F. Leopold,
Jr. (left) and Richard Loeb, con
fessed slayers of Robert Franks,
Big Canning Concern
Offers $2.40 to $2.50
Bu. For Ga. Elbertas
J. Ralston Cargill, traffic manager of the Columbus Cham
ber of Commerce, today telephoned the Times-Recorder that
he is in receipt of a telegram from A. G. Zulfer & Co., Chi
cago canners, offering to take five cars daily of Georgia El
bertas at $2.40 to $2.50 EZ pack bushel, or $2.25 standard
bushel baskets.
On July 15, Mr. Cargill wired a number of can manufac
turing concerns in the effort to find a market for Georgia’s
peach crop, then going o waste, and selling at ruinous prices.
This resulted in a canvass of the canneries of the nation, and to
day Zulfer & Co., wired the American Can Co., at Chicago,
as follows:
“Referring to yours July 15. Fancy Elbertas EZ pack
bushel selling here $2.40 to $2.50; standard bushel baskets,
$2.25. We can distribute five cars daily at these prices, fancy
ring faced pack. Advise what quantity available.
Immediately on receipt of this telegram, Mr. Cargill ad
vised the Times-Recorder in order to get the information to
peach crop, then going to waste and selling at ruinous prices,
community progress and assist the growers, he will as traffic
manager of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, act as in
termediary for interested growers and vvithout cost will place
these in touch with canners able to handle peaches at this sea
son.
Mercury Touches
100 Wednesday
Wednesday was the hottest day
Americus has yet experienced with
a maximum temperature of 100 de
grees recorded by the official ther
mometer, Observer Bryan stated
today. Last night the minimum
was recorded as, 75, the hottest
night of the month. ,
This week’s temperature, beginn
ing with Sunday have been‘unusu
ally with a maximum of 100
and a minimum of 71 degrees re
corded during the past four days.
Maximum and minimum tempera
tures as recorded on the official in
struments for these days were as
follows:
Max. Min.
Sunday 97 71
Monday 95 74
Tuesday 98 73
Wednesday 100 75
Thursday (2 p. m. ) 99
Today’s temperatures, of course
cannot be determined positively
until tile official instruments are
examined tomorrow morning, but
it was not believed the mercury
would crawl above 100, if it reach
ed that point this afternoon.
SIX DIE IN HOTEL
FIRE AT RANGER, TEXAS
RANGER, Tex., JJy 24. —Six
persons are known to be dead, 13
in the hospital, and one boy miss
ing as a result of a fire which early
today destroyed the entire McCles
ky hotel block in the center of the
business district, with property loss
estimated at piore than one million
dollars.
\MERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 24, 1924
Chicago schoolboy. They were
taken by an NEA Service photog
rapher in Cook county jail, Chi
cago, through the courtesy of
EFFORT TO END
HANGING DEFEATED
Senator Stone Moves to Recon
sider Vote on Langley Four-
Year Term Measure
A i LANTA, July 24—The senate
of the general assembly by vote of
31 to 9 today defeated the measure
by Senator Stovall, which provided
for abolishing capital punishment in
Georgia. Those voting in favor of
the passage of the measure were
Senator Davis, Garrison, Greene.
Hodges, Johnson, Mason, Phillips
and Smith of the 23rd and Senator
Stovall.
’ LITTLE JOE] ’
NEVER EXPECT TO FIND
A GROOM LIKE THE e (
COLLAR ADS OR A *’
BRIDE LIKE THE CORSET
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CAUSE OF ACCIDEIIT
IN WHICH TEN DIED
Grade Crossing Horror at Oak
Harbor, Ohio, Brought Death
and Injury to Score
OAK HARBOR, Ohio., July 24.
I Investigation into the cause of a
• grade crossing accident here ,late
I yesterday which took a death toll
• of 10'and 10 others injured, was
under way here today.
The 10 persons were killed in
stantly when a New York Central
passenger train crashed into an
automobile truck loaded with chil
dren returning from a picnic. The
tragedy occurred shortly. before 7
o’clock last night.
LITTLECHARGr
IN MIS NOTED
Weevils Becoming Fairly Nu
merous in South Georgia,
With Fair Crop Indicated
ATLANTA, July 24.—Very little
change* in the condition of Geor
gia’s cotton crop during the period
from June 25th to July 16th was
indicated by the correspondents of
the Georgia Cooperative Crop Re
porting Service in a report released
today by that agency. The condi
tion of 76 per cent of normal in
dicates a yield per acre of about
136 pounds and a Cotai production
of a little over one million bales,
judging from the relation of con
dition on June 25th and July 25th
to final yields in former years.
However, the final outturn of t>»3
crop may be larger or smaller, as
developments during the remainder
of the season prove more or less
favorable to the crop than usual.
With th e exception of northwest
ern Georgia, rains were to frequent
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coiifpmi
NEW YORK SOARING
Rise of More Than $lO a Bale
I Recorded in Futures Market t
During Past Two Days
I NEW YORK, July 24—Cotton
prices on the local market jumped
form 51 to 58 points over nighi,
t lifting July contracts to 35.30 to
day, and December to 29.53. This
represented a rise of more than $lO
a bale in two days.
Clarence Darrow, chief counsel
jus tbefore the youthful “intel
lectuals” went into court to
plead guilty to the crime.
JAPS MAY SOON
RECOGNIZE SOVIET
TOKIO, July 24.—A policy to
ward Russia on which it is be
lieved the Japanese government
would be willing to grant recog
nition to the Soviet government
was adopted by the Japanese
cabinet at an extraordinary ses
sion today.
INTFRESTII LOEB
LEOPOLD CASE AT
CBIMMKLESS
Rain and Prospect of Few Dra
matic Developments Dampens
Enthusiasm of Court Fans
MAID IS PUT ON STAND
Elizabeth Sattler Identifies Por
table Typewriter and Blood-
Stained Robe
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 24.
Rain and the prospect
of less dramatic devel
opments in a hearing
which is to determine
the degree of punish
ment of Nathan Leo
pold, Jr., and Richard
Loeb, for the kidnaping
and murder of Robert
Franks, combined today
to dampen the enthusi
asm of “court fans.”
Elizabeth Sattler, maid in the
home of Leopold, Sr., on the wit
ness stand identified a portable
typewriter which she said “resembl
ed” the machine she had seen in
the room of her employer’s son. A
robe said by the state to have been
remanants of the bloodstained robe
which the defendants attempted to
destroy by soaking in gasoline and
burning on the lake shore, was
offered in the evidence. The wit
ness said she had seen a similar
robe in the Leopold home.
PROSECUTOR DEMANDS
DEATH BY HANGING
CHICAGO, July 24—“ Death by
hanging for the most atrocious
crime in the history of American
jurisprudence’ this was the demand
of State’s Attorney Robert Crowe.
A lesser penalty ’because jt
would add only another crime if
these two young men were to hang
by the neck” was the plea of
Clarence Darrow, chief of defense
counsel.
While their attorneys argued
concerning the fate that is to be
'meted out to them by Judge Caver
ly during Wednesday’s afternoon
session the two youths, Nathan
eopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb sat
like unconcerned spectators-super
men outwardly, even into the shad
pw of the gallows.
The addresses of the opposing
(Continued on Page Two.)
BRMfiSI
THREATENS AMERICA
Over Half of World’s Visible,'
Coffee Supply Now Controll- '
ed by Rebel Forces
NEW YORK, July 24.—Ameri
ca’s breakfast cup is directly men
aced by the present military rebel
lion in Siio Paulo, Brazil.
With the rebels controlling over
one-half the world’s visible supply
of coffee, and prices in New York
already increasing, there seems a
grave possibility that North Ameri
ca and, for that matter, the remain
der of the world, may face a serious
coffee shortage if peace is not soon
established between the warring
Brazilian factions.
Coffee movements from Santos,
the port of Sao Paulo, practically
have stopped, and a number es
shipping lines have stopped making
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New York Futures I
Pe. Open High Low Close
Jan. ~28.00|28.101'28.43|27.43 27.50 I
Mar. ..28.15i28.30128.68127.50 27.75
July ..34.79'35.10;35>35|34.27 34.25
Oct. ..28.95j29.20j29.50128.50 28.40
Dec. -28.00128.25128.46127.50 27.44
New York middling spots 30 cents.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SOOTH RAILWAY
OFFICIAL IS HILO
ON GPUESOm CRIME
W. H. Bennett and Wife Taken
to Chattanooga Jail, Accused
of Woman’s Murder
FIND SKELETON AT HOME
■ Remains Believed to Be Those
of Miss Augusta Hoffman,
Missing Aunt of Bennett
By Associated Press
CHATTAN O O G A,
July 24.—W. H. Ben
nett, district freight
agent of the Southern
Railway at Rome, Ga.,
and his wife were de
tained today in the
Georgia town and
brought to Chattanooga
in connection with the
finding here about a
week ago of a woman’s
skeleton in a shallow
grave beneath the house
undergoing repairs.
Detention of the couple follow
ed an investigation by local author
ities of reports that Miss Augusta
Hoffman, an aged aunt of Bennett,
had occupied the house in 1915.
and about that time had myster
iously disappeared.
M'CLESKEY HEADS
ROTARY COMMITTEE
Club Acts to Co-Operate With
Kiwanians in Seeking Solution
of Peach Problem
L. L. McCleskey was named chair
man of a committee from the Rot
ary club to co-operate with a simi
lar committee from the Kiwanis
club and the Chamber of Commerce
(to study the problem now facing
Sumter county peach growers and
try to arrive at a solution. Acting
with McCleskey, other Rotarians
named are Lee Hansford John
Prance and Walter Rylander, all
men familiar with the subject with
which they must deal.
“Something must be done and
that now,” President Rylander said
to the Rotarians yesterday. “With
out having made an investigation, 1
estimate the loss this year from
peaches alone to Sumter county al
U half million dollarg.
“They are not getting enough
out of peaches shippqd to pay for
the crates. I have shipped 25 cars.
From those I have heard, my re
turns will be about 25 cents per
crate. It casts 25 cents for the
crates and pads; it cosis 35 cents
per crate for picking and crates
hnd we are getting 25 cents. In
terest on investment, cost of pro
duction, freight and many other
items are still to come. The loss
is heart-sickening.”
Visitors present included Thomas
Lowry, of Macon; O. E. Hopkins
and Eugene Bagwell, of Savannah; /
Robert Kennedy and Rev. J. 11. /
House, of Cuthbert, and lohn Shiv- A
er, of Americus. //I
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BIBLE SCHOOL TO iv >
CLOSE ON f RIuA/
The daily vacation Bible schL
which has been in progress in t>
First Baptist church for the pas.
several weeks under the leadership
of Mrs. Furlow Gatewood, will hold
its closing session at 10 o’clock Fri
day morning, according to Mrs..
Gatewood.
Each class will give a demon
tration of the work accomplished
during the sessions, and the public
is most cordially invited to be pre- .
sent and witness the exercises.
Two hundred, juniors, intermed
iates and adults have availed them
selves of the season of instruction,
and much good has been accom—
I plished in Bible study during the
period.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Easterlin
has returned from a delightful
visit to friends, in Troy, Dotha.i
and Eufuala, Ala.,