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WEATHER "**' T
For Georgia.— Generally fair to
night and Wednesday: slightly
warmer Wednesday.
YEAR— no. H7 _
LEOPOLD AND LOEB UNMOVED BY DISCLOSURES
Huge Cash Fortune Is Forwarded By Air Mail
JVUTORS TRANSPORI
$530,000 IN BHfflfi
M INTO CHICAGO
First Air Mail Flight From Nash
ville, Tenn., There Took Only
3 Hours and a Half
FLIGHT AN EXPERIMENT
Postal Authorities Hope, How-]
ever, to Establish Regular
Air Mail Service Soon
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 29. The
first air mail service from Nash
ville, Tenn., arrived today aft
er a 400-mile flight in three
hours and 29 minutes. This
flight was experimental to estab
lish the feasibility of permanent
service, and postal authorities hope
to make it regular.
The aviators carried $530,000
worth of banking items, on which
much time was saved.
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Staple Brings 45 l-2t a Pound
in Atlanta, With Proceeds Do
nated to Charity
ATLANTA, July 29.—The first
bale of Georgia cotton which was
auctioned off in Atlanta today,
brought 45' 1-2 cents per pound,
and the proceeds'donated to the
Near East relief fund.
The cotton was grown in Colquitt
county and graded good middling,
the bale weighing 485 pounds.
LIMBMPT
IN MITO KCttNT
Howard Cox Sustains Concus
sion of Brain, While Compan
ions Are Also Injured
By ROBERT HINES
LESLIE, July 29. —An automo
bile wreck which occurred Sunday
night almost killed Howard Cox of
Leslie. The car was a Ford touring
driven by Hugo Bradley. Those in
the car were Hutjo Bradley, How
ard Cox and Grady Parker, all Les
lie boys. The accident occurred on
the paved Leslie-DeSoto read.
Gradley was driving at fast speed
toward DeSoto when the accident
occurred. Someone in a car had
previously driven into a mule and
buggy owned by F A. Wilson, Sr ,
which was being driven by a negro,
and the fright caused the mule to
break loose, and the mule was head
ed toward Leslie, running at full
speed.
Bradley stated that he was trying
to prevent a collision with the mule
and quickly snatched the steering
wheel which directed the vehicle
into the ditch and the force of the
car threw its rear cross-wise the
road, causing it turn completely
over. •
The top was broken in and the
windshield was only a mass of fine
broken glass which cut Cox severely
on the head, in his side besides sev
erjjjg an artery on his hand. Brad
h'ey esustained slight injuries on
his neck and knee, while Parker,
was only shaken up good.
Cox has concussion of the brain
and is in a serious condition His
injury may prove fatal, but it is
the hope of the people that it will
not.
The wrecked car belonged to
Sam Lett ,of A-’mericus.
tailors worry over
GOLF TOGS FOR MEN
CEDAR POINT, Ohio., July 29.
—Men’s apparel will be more plain
next year, delegates to the mer
chant tailors designers association
in session here, decide. A new golf
ing costume is causing much worry.
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MORE MILLIONS ARE GIVEN FOR EDUCATION
Are
Interested
In Poultry
Beginning today and continu
ing for six consecutive days there
will appear six separate au
thentic articles of particular in
terest to those engaged in poul
try. Whether you have only a
few chicks, or a large number,
these articles will be helpful.
Todays article is on “Combat
ing poultry Disease; Methods of
Prevention.”
Wednesday “Diseases of
Poultry; Their Symptoms and
Treatment.”
Thursday—“ Lice and Red
Mites; How to Exterminate
Them.”
Friday—“A Practical Poultry
Calendar What to Do and
When to Do It.”
Saturday—“ How to Market
Poultry Products for Greatest
Profit.”
Monday “Proper Fall and
Winter Poultry Management
Will Increase Profits.”
(These articles are furnished
our readers by the American
Poultry Bureau. —Editor.)
PMCMWEITO
. fill TO 'LIND OF SKI
Party Accompanied By Secre
tary is Seeking Location of
New National Park
HIGHLAND, N. C., July 29.
Members of the Appalachian Na
tional Park committee and secre
tary of the Interior Work left here
today for the “Land of the Sky” as
a possible location of a new nation
al park. It is planned they will
reach Asheville tonight, and be at
Knoxville Wednesday.
TUSCALOOSA DEPUTY
CHARGED WITH MURDER
TUSCALOOSA, Ala., July 29
At a preliminary hearing here Dep
uty Sheriff Sam Seilers of Tusca
loosa county was held without bond
on a murder charge resulting from
the fatal shooting several weeks ago
of Herman Logan, a young man
was shot when he failed to stop hig
automobile and submit to search for
liquor. Justice J. P- Shelton in
holding Sellers said the evidence
showed no extenuating circum
stances.
470 IMMERSED AS
JAZZ BAND PLAYS
COLUMBUS, 0., July 29.—While
a band played “Oh Happy Day” at
the water’s edge and a jazz orches
tra kept dancers on the move in
thb swimming pool of an Indianola,
amusement park by complete im
mersion.
A cool breeze sweeping across
the freshly filled pool reduced tho
number of candidates during the
morning. Plans had been made to
baptize 700.
Seventeen pastors were at wora
in the water immersing candidates.
POLICE BRAND YOUNG
GIRL ‘HARD BOILED’
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29.
Women may be dubbed the weaker
sex, but that does not always hold
true. The San Francisco police and
State prison authorities right now
have two parallel cases which prove
that though dainty, pulchri-tudinous
and seemingly weakly feminine as
they may be, beautiful women some
times can he more “hard boiled.”
than some outstanding male crimi
nals.
After 10 days’ fruitless interro
gation, San Francisco police have
just released Eva Taylor, an 18-
year-old girl of the delicately beau
tiful, clinging-vine type. In doing
so they have unanimously voted her
an unsolvable combination of guile
less youth and “nine-minute egg.”
Believed Linked to De»perate Gang.
Miss Taylor, the police believe
is the associate and friend if not
the compatriot of one of the most
desperate gangs of bank and jewel
ry bandits on the Pacific Coast.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 29, 1924 ’
■ITTFE’S REPORT
INTERESTS MBS
OF HOUSE AT ATLMITA
Only Twenty-one Out of Seven
ty-five Bills Recommended for
Passage in Report
$556,000 APPROPRIATED
Besides Three Millions Are Giv
en Various Institutions and
State Activities
By Associated Press
ALTNTA, July 29.—Mem
bers of the general assembly to
day are interested in the action
of the appropriations commit
tee of the house in voting to re
port 21 bills appropriating
$556,000 out of the 75 bills and
appropriating three million dol
lars to various institutions and
activities.
HOUSE DEFEATS
JANUARY SESSIONS
ATLANTA, July 29-r-By an over
whelming vote, the house today de
feated the bill to fix the meeting
time of the legislature for the first
Wednesday in January instead of
in June as heretofore. The meas
ure lost when members voted to dis
agree from a favorable committee
report
KNIFE THRUST DEEP
INTO APPROPRIATION
ATLANTA, July 29.—The sub
committee of the house committee
on appropriations, is practicing
rigid economy in its recoriimenda
ttions, and deep cuts have been
made in appropriations proposed
for all state institutions.
The subcommittee recommends
favorably 21 of the special appro
priations asked, and adversely re
ports the remainder.- Those ad
versed totalled 32, there being 63
measures-in all referred to the
committee.
The 21 papers favored call for
appropriations of less than $350,
000, and the 42 turned down passed
the $2,000,000 mark.
A special appropriation of $250,-
000 would be given the common
schools of state by the sub-commit
tee instead of the usual half of all
the state’s revenue overe $8,500,-
000. It is the accepted belief that
granting such an appropriation
would leave a balance of half a
million dollars in the treasury, after
the payment of all 1923 appropria
tions. Special grants recommended
by the sub-committee in its report
late Monday would consume prac
tically the whole of this.
Os the appropriations granted by
the sub-committee some of the
most drastic reduced were the
State Sanitarium at Milledgeville,
cut from $223,500 to $666,160.61;
funds to match federal funds under
the Shepard-Town act, cut from
$24,530.55 to $5,000, and the
Georgia School for Mental Defec
tives, cut from $25,000 to $1,911.-
54. Other requested appropriations
were cut in similar manner.
The University of Georgia, out of
a total asked under all bills con
sidered of $66,000, is grasted $40,-
000 Georgia Tech, which askekd,
all told $83,944.23 received $4,-
3944.23. The State College of Agri
culture, asking $125,000 gets noth
ing, while the Georgia State Col
lege for Women at Milledgeville ask
ing $185,000 also gets nothing. The
state Normal school, at Athens in
all for $200,000 is given $25,000
Twenty-one appropriations are
recommended by the committee in
its report while 42 others or exactly
double that number, are either re
duced or reported unfavorably.
PATTEN PREDICTS
HIGH GRAIN PRICES
CHICAGO, July 29.—Wheat at
$2, corn at $1.25, oats at 60 to 65
cents a bushel, is an early likeli
hood, predicts James A. Patten,,
grain operator, who explains that
Europe will want every bushel of
wheat available.
Holds Fate Os Slayers In Hands
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The fates of Richard Loeb and
Natnari Loepold rest with the
man above. K'e is Chief Justice
John R. Caverly of the Cook
County Criminal courts, who is
to decide whether the slayers of
young Robert Franks are to die
W. R. TAYLOR LIVED 72
YEARS WITHOUT BARBER
MAYSFIELD, Mo., July 29.—W.
R. Taylor, who lives on •>. farm be
tween this city and Cameron, de
clares that he has liveed 72 years
and has never been shaved by a
barber. *
Taylor revealed this fact when
he read in a local newspaper that
a man has reported that he was 51
years old and had never teen shav
ed by a barber. As a result of his
claim, Taylor distances the other
man by 21 years.
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on the gallows, be confined in
the penitentiary for life or serve
not less than 14 years for their
crimes to which they have plead
ed guilty and thrown themselves
upon Caverly’s mercy. Below,
inset, Attorney Clarence S. Dar
row, chief counsel for the defense
of Richard Loeb and Nathan
Leopold, fighting for their lives
before Chief Justice John R.
Caverly in Chicago at a hearing
to determine the moral responsi
bility of the two slayers of Rob
ert Franks. Darrow is the vet
eran of many a famous legal bat
tie. He surprised the country by
entering a plea of guilty for his
clients and throwing ther fate
upon the mercy of the court.
BENNETTS ARRESTED
FOWFiWRII
Warrants Served On Couple As
They Left Hotel at Chatta
nooga Early Today
CHATTANOOGA, Juiy 29.
Warrants charging W. H. Bennett
and wife with the murder of Miss
Augusta Hoffman, who disappeared
mysteriously from the Bennett
home here in 1915, were served to
day as the couple left the hotel
where they stayed under surveil
lance since brought here from Geor
gia a week ago.
PILE UP EVIDENCE
AGAINST BENNETTS’
CHATTANOOGA, July 29.—Evi
dence is daily accumulating tend
ing to prove that the skeleton found
under the floor of a building in a
prominent residential section of
this city last week is the remains
of Miss Augusta Hoffman, modiste,
who disappeared while boarding at
the house in 1915, and in connec
tion with which William R. Ben
nett and wife, of Rome, Ga., are
under detention of local police.
Bennett, district freight agent of
the Georgia city, bears an excellent
reputation, but his wife was in the
limelight several years ago by rea
son of her indictment by a federal
grand jury on the charge of count
erfeiting.
What police consider suspicious
circumstances are the failure of
the Bennetts to include the name
of Miss Hoffman in the list of sur
vivors when her sister, Mrs. Nanc,
Bennett, died a year after her dis
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WGIE TIMES
IDD EIGHT ILIOHS
TOFWE™
Huge Sum Is Given Pittsburg
Institution for Advancement
of Its Education Work
LARGEST GIFT YET MADE
Total of Thirty-Eight Millions
Have Now Been Given Insti
tute From Big Estate
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 29.—The
Carnegie Corporation of New
York, custodian of the bulk of
the fortune left by Andrew Car
negie, today paid the Carnegie
Institute of Pittsburg $8,000,-
000 additional endowment for
education work in the institute.
This is the largest gift ever made
at one time, for Pittsburg- educa
tion, and one of the largest in the
world’s history.
Thirty-eight million dollars is the
total amount given the institute
from Carnegie money.
2ND PLACE l« Tffi
Woman May Oppose Klan Can
didate in Run-Over Race for
Governor’s Office
DALLAS, July 29.—Mrs. Miriam
Ferguson, democratic candidate for
the nomination of governor, is
maintaining her lead for second
place, which will make her eligible
to enter second in the primaries two
weeks hence. She is the first wo
man candidate for the governor of
Texas, and seeks the office to
avenge her husband, Former Gov
ernor Jim Ferguson, who was im
peached.
Lynch Davidson, an avowed Kv.
Klux Klan candidate, who kd in cite
first race will be her opponent in
the event a second race is neces
sary to determine the nomination.’
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SHUN n BE DECIDED
Title Twosomes Arranged For
Next Thursday Afternoon at
Links of Golf Club
The main event of the season at
the Americus Golf club is the play
to decide the Club Champion which
contest begins next Thursday, July
31, and ends about August 15th.
All players are requested to
qualify by Monday Aug. 4lh, by
playing eighteen holes, medal score,
with the players assigneed them Th e
pairing off has been done accord
ing to handicaps.
After everyone has completed his
eighteen holes, medal play, to deter
mine his position in one of the
flights, match play will then prevail,
three pr four days being given to
complete each match.
Each flight will consist of sixteen
players, there will be six prizes given
to each flight and a prize for the
low score in the qualifying round.
All playing to be in twosomes.
Below is the pairing for qualify
ing:
Chas. Lanier-McCleskey, Caye-A.
Rylander, Jr., McDonald-Walter
Ry lander, Wheeler-Carr Glover, Sr.
Lumpkin-Elam Thiers-Westbro ok,
Jno. Sheffield-Ansley, Andrews-
Moreland, Lewis Ellis-J. Hill, Ew
ing-Warren, Page-Easterlin, Jones-
Ferguson, Pinkston-Erwin, Loving
Luther Harrell, Frank- Lanier-
Frank Harrold, Luther Hawkii.s-
Gyles, Burke-Frank Sheffield, W«
W. Dykes-Ton Harrold, Dr. Grubbs
-11. O. Jones, Carr Glover, Jr.,-Sam
Coney, Chas Wheatley-Jno. Council,
G. C. Webb-W. G. Turpin, Dr.
Primrose-Stewart Prather
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Leopold Described as ‘Socially
Dangerous’ By Noted Boston
Alienist at Trial
KILLER IS ‘PARfONIAC’
Belongs to Peculiar Type ‘That
Has Produced So Many
"x Criminals,’ Healy Says
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, July 29.—Nath
an Leopold, Jr., and Richard
Loeb, who pleaded guilty to the
kidnaping and murder of Robert
Frpnks, today heard read in
open court their first denials and
then their confessions of crime.
Leopold is socially dangejgus.
and suffering from
according to the Dr.
William Healy, noted Boston
alienist, who prepared a presenta
tion of his condition for considera
tion of the court.
Leopold is thoroughly unbal
anced on meptal life and is really
mentally diseased, being of the
paranoiac or monomaniac type,
“which has produced so many
criminals,” Dr. Healy further re
ports.
NERVES OF SLAYERS
SHAKEN BY EVIDENCE
CHIC'AGGO, July 29.—Ignoring
arid somewhat contemptuour of the
preliminary report of the defense
alienists, finding Nathan Leopold,
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10 DUPED DUTTON
Kidnapers Represented Them
selves As Officers Beforo
Handcuffing Their Victim
ATLANTA, July 29 Fulton
county police today is seeking clues
to two men said to have handcuffed
and kidnaped Oscar E. Dutton, 37,
at Eaton Park, an Atlanta suburb.
They represented themselves as
officers with a warrant, according
to G. W. Knowles, at whose home
Dutton and his seven-year-old
daughter boarded. Dutton is sep
arated from his wife.
CHENH OPEiEi
TODAT IS SUCCESS
Hundreds Visit New Plant and
Sample Product, Served Vis
itors By Pretty Girls
The formal opening staged by tho
Americus lee Cream and Creamery
Company here today was a success
in every way. Hundreds *of resi
dents of Americus, Sumter, Web
ster, Lee, Schley and Marion coun
ties visited the plant where each
was served with delicious ice cream
and butter sandwiches. A number
of pretty young girl" assisted
Manager I. E. Wilson and President
Clyde Wilson in entertaining those
who called within the reception
hours.* Th*»- plant was prettily ar
(Continued on Page Five)
NEGRO KILLER CAUGHT .
BY NEGRO; CONFESSES
CAIRO Illinois, July 29.—A
signed confession purported to con
tain admissions that he fired the
shot which resulted in the death of
Daisy Wilson, 18 years old, of
Villa Ridge 111., was made by Hess
Connors,. a negro, to state’s At
torney Loren Boyd, it was announc
ed by police toniskt.
Fearing violence at the hands of
a mob, authorities immediately
took Connors from the Pulaski
county jail here to Mound City,
where he was turned over to
deputies who took him to an un >
named destination for safe keep
ing.
An unusual feature of the case
was that Connors was arrested
by a negro deputy. He was identi
fied by two negroes and his con
fession was made to a negrq
deputy. „