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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. ♦ » • 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. ♦ * » 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. * » » 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. * ♦ * 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. ♦ » » 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 - y| HP . 3H HIHRf 0 |Hk. -V?. v Al 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 iQ I ‘W- ■ ■■■■ I ifWB i | -TFvyR ■ | SWT PfIOBE im 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 (Continued on Page Five) 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 (Continued on Page Five) - 1 11 1 " " " ' < 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 Jj 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.,
