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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. IKllMMfill ffIIMMCTIMID 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. __ . .- ' ' 7* theTWsWeSorder GhMLPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OR DIXIE 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 lOW ?■ \ \ it asßMKjflSr .y *. , r U- an' o '*■ I lite \ I J, fe>,- ' I mww*yMlHlSb lip IK ** ' ' Is fl ’ fl 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. | LITTLE JOE | API ER BEIMT REPORTED MISSING FOR SOME TIME a eny maH • returned, aaihd A WE'O MAKE AN IDEAL- VIITNESS IN A CONGRESS! ONAI 11 INVESTIGATION J zO 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 (Continued On Page Five). 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.’ caIBHw 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 i 1 New York Future* | Pc. Open High Low Close Jan. ~28.35!28.10128.23|27.98|28.02 Mar. -28.60128.31128.55|28.20|2834 ’ May 28.68) |28.44|28.34128.40 Oct. . 29.40)29.10'29.28128.95|29.04 Dec. -28.50|28.14j28.42|28.08i28.18 r New York n;indling spots 29 l-2c. I PRICE FIVE CENTS CONEESSFONS MADE - ARE Min CBURT 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, (Continued Un Page Five.) policeleeFlh 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. „
