About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1924)
WEATHER For Georgia Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—N.O. 182 PROPOSE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION PROBE Franks’! Slayer Is'Called Mental Disease Victim IBM!!® Ilf LEOPOLDS SEISE OF IMGUFIT FBllffl Dr. Healy Says This Defect of Killer Concerns Especially Relationship to Life LOEB AN EPILEPTIC Indicated Today That ‘Surprise’ Evidence of Denfense Consists of Ailment CHICAGO, August 4.—Dr. Wil liam Healy, of Boston, testifying at the Franks hearing today, testified that in his judgment there was some steady impairment of Leopold’s own judgment concerning his own self, particularly his relationship to life. Previously Dr. White testified that Loeb’s personality was undergoing a process of disi’ltergration. CLAIM LOEB SUFFERS FROM EPILEPSY CHICAGO, August 4. —A new feature, epilepsy, may be introduc ed byway of showing “mitigating circumstances” for Richard H. Loeb’s part in the slaying of Bobby Franks,' The Herald and Examiner. The newspaper quoted “one of the physicians connected with the defense” as saying: “Loeb’s child hood phantasies -were the beginning of epilepsy.” “The ailment, however, did not become evident until he was 14 or 15 ,when mild epileptic attacks eventually occurred. The malady remained incipient during his child hood.” It was implied, The Herald and Examiner said, “that the defense has been hoarding this evidence to be made public from the witness stand during the closing hours of the hearing.” sEifisr IT CPffIGH !fi Business and Public Utilities All Paralyzed While Negotiations Continue VERA CRUZ, Mexico. August 4. A general strike is in effect in the city of Crizaba, paralyzing all busi ness and public Service. No street cars are running. Bakeries are closed, hotels without help. Nego tiations between employers and strikers have begun at Jalapa through the mediation of the gover nor. B J BY CHICK HEN ■ WILL ORGANIZE Meeting Will Be Held At Macon Thursday, August 14, With Many Poultrymen Present Hatchery operators, railroad ag ricultural agents, extension work ers arql others interested in the production and marketing of baby chicks will gather in Macon on August 14 to organize the Georgia Baby Chick association, according to announcement by J. H. Wood, professor of poultjj* husbandry at the State Agriculture and a member of t!ic?*committee ap pointed to draw up the constitution for the organization. This meeting is an outgrowth of a conference held in Atlanta recent ly af'Tvfrich those in attendance were of the unanimous opinion that hatchery operators should organize an association. The object of tho new organi zation will be to promote good fel lowship and co-operation between hatcheries, to standardize and im prove the quality of hatching eggs purchased and to publish instruc tions for beginners purchasing baby chicks. Briefly, it is for the pur pose of helping the person or or ganization that is hatching and sell ing baby chicks, and protecting buyers from unfair and disreputa ble hatcheries. Entertainment, dinner, - motion pictures and an educational pro gram will constitute the main part of the program at the Macon meet ing it is, stated, and operators of hatcheries are urged to be in attend ance ami assist in the organization <of the association. O>fIj]_gUBLISHED IN THE zCSiwF. HEART OF DIXIE WALKER SAYS PUT TAXES ON SECURITIES GBVERNOR WOULD PUT ffl BiIPDEH ffl St- CHUEOmiSIOLES Commenting on Withdrawal of Elders, Executive Calls on. People to Act TO STUDY TAX QUESTION Remainder of His Term As Gov ernor to Be Devoted to Se curing Tax Distribution ATLANTA, August 4.—The peo ple of the state of Georgia should this year elect to the legislature men patriotic and progressive enough to place some of the tax burdens on the owners of “invisible” property, Governor Walker declar ed in a statement commenting on the withdrawal of Representative Elders, his only gubernatorial op ponent. The remainder of his service shall be devoted to a more equit able distribution «of tax imposition, the governor promises. ELDERS QUITS FOR GOVERNORSHIP ATLANTA, August 4. —With the withdrawal of Herschel H. Elders, of Reidsville, as a candidate far governor only five candidates for statehouse officers now have oppo sition. These are as follows: Former Governor Thomas W Hardwick is opposing U. S. Senator William J. Harris in. his race for re-election to the United States Senate. F. E. Land, of Macon, is oppos ing Dr. N. H. Ballard for reeleetion as state superintendent of schools. George F. Hunnicut, of Hapeville, (Continued on Page Two.) MIS SLi BY DNIDENTIEIEDIEB Atlanta Man Advised of Death of Brother at Leesburg, Fla., Early Today ATLANTA, August 4.—G. L. Adams, of Atlanta, received a tele gram today that his brother, C. M. Adams, had been slain at Leesburg, Fla., by three unidentified men. Adams said his brother was a mer chant in the Florida city, and the advice indicated he had been killed by robbers. Adams, who wwas 45 years of ago, is survived by a son irf Colum bus, Ga., three , brothers, J. 1.. Adams, of Savannah, and two resid ing in Atlanta, Mrs. H. A. Simpson and Mrs. H. H. McAllister, of Mt. Vernon, Ga., and Mrs. J A. Powell, of Savannah, are sisters who sur vive.. wlSlhw DIES IN WMI Was 76 Years of Age and Had Been Secretary of Prison Commission 25 Years ATLANTA, August 4.--Captain Goodloe Harper Yancey, Sr., secre tary of the state prison commission for the past 25 years, died at a local sanitarium here after an ill ness of several weeks. He was 76 years of age. His son, Judge Yancey, was prominent in the Southern Confed eracy. He is survived by his wid ow, two brothers, and five sons. JOHNSON MUST HAVE OPERATION Ottie Prather Johnson, of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Johnson, who was hurt i.i a motorcycle wreck three weeks ago, underwent an X-ray examination last week in the office of Dr. W. S. Prather, who has been attending him since the accident. The X-ray revealed that the leg is out of place and will have to be operated on again, the operation to be done Wednesday. He is at his parents’ home on Jacksorr street, awaiting the second - operation. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4. 1924 Caverly Sends Five Io Gallows In Three Years w ■ ? ■' f BERk * " at.. * CtFtj Fa 4'- , r" if ■ -J* , ——— ——T” I• 11 MH ■■■!■ Bl 11“ JUDGE CAVERLY HEAVY CROP YIELDS FOOT W 111 MANY G1 COUNTIES Indications Point to Harvest Sections Being Large and Profitable One in AH Sections PROSPERITY IN LAURENS Cotton Opening in Toombs and Gwinnett, With Jefferson Planters Ready to Gin ATLANTA, August 4. Crop reports gathered by correspondents in all parts of Georgia indicate a record yield of practicaly every commercial crop in Georgia this fall. In Laurens county unusual prosperity is anticipated with excel lent prospects for a crop of 20,000 bales of cotton, an average of 16 bushels of corn per acre to 100,- 000 acres; with the most success- 1 fill watermelon and produce crop in six years, amt u splendid improve ment over rece". years in practical ly every other crop, the fall of 1024 promises to place this section in the forefront of prosperous counties. In Thomas county a cessation of rain and a bright warm sunshine are factors that are making glad the heart of the farmer in this section of South Georgia and carrying gloom to 'the boll weevil. Up to a- week er two ago the rains were coming daily and it was feared they would continue as wm the case last season, but they have held up now for some time, and chances for the crop ire looking gc od. » With good prices for his water melons, a splendid corn crop selling at a high mark, a big peanut crop and the prospect of line prices for (Continued on Page Five) ALBANY KLUXERS USE NEGRO HALL ALBANY, August 4.—Refused permission by. the city commission to use the municipal auditorium for second degree work scheduled for August 7, the local lodge, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, applied to the officials of the Supreme Court of Benevolence, negro fraternal organ ization, for the use of its assembly ball at its nationa 1 headquarters building here. The permission was readily granted, according to offi cers of the negro organization. HIGHTOWER TALKS NEW PROSPERITY Leaving for New York to Buy Stocks, Merchants Says He Expects Heavy Fall Buying “I'm going to New York tonight to buy goods for the fine fall busi ness we expect to open up within the next two weeks,” sa d J. E- Hightower, of the Fashion Shop Saturday night, speaking of the prospects for fall business with a Times-Recorder man. “The outlook for prosperous trading is better in Americus than during any fail sea son within the past five years; “We have been buying cautiously for months past and our customers hav been living dose, too, but this time is past now. With the open ing >f the cotton season here, busi nes. is going to improve People who have been denying themselves afcse ute necessaries in many in stai -es need the goods, and I see the duty of Americus merchants to provide. Cotton money furnishes the hies source of commercial pros per y in this section. Diversified crops have enabled the farming clas es to ‘carry on’ during the duU (Continued on Page 3.) Great Britain imports about 50G,- 000 gold fish every year, not count ing the American tourists, j LITTLE JOE | r A BOSS IS A MAN WHO CAN TAKE IT OUT ON T'rlE HIRED HANDS VIHEH HE CETS MAD AT HIS Ta lASa A X w / a This is “Friendly Judge” Drawn by Leopold and Loeb By GEORGE BRUT CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Out of 12 death verdicts returned and sen tences pronounced in the criminal court here in the last three years, five have neen betore Judge John R. Caverly. This record may or may not be significant as the world waits for Judge Caverly to give his verdict in the case of Richard A. Loeb and Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., confessed slayers of Robert Franks. But it 13 at least something* to think about. This is the sort of “friendly judge” the defense drew. Out of the half dozen judges in the criminal court, Judge Caverly has uttered the fatal formula of the extreme sentence more than twice as oftes as-m.y other Under the Illi nois law, the jury fixes the penalty in returning its verdict, but by coincidence or otherwise, juries in Judge Caverly’s court have tended toward hanging. In 1922 he pronounced the only death sentence imposed. In 1923 he sentenced two of the nine men oor.dcmned. Thhs yeai- he has al ready two, the only death' returned. Back'Tn his old days in municipal court Judge Caverly was known for ihs impartiality and severe sen- “Fifty dollars and costs” JKSjba tag phrase with him. The judge was Dorn m England in 1861. His was no pampered ( childhood. He worked for what he j received and was not graduated I from night aw school until he was i IJ6 years old. He has been in pub lic Office almost continuously since ( then, as assistant city attorney, city attorney, police magistrate and > judge. TULTON GRAND JURY JO PROBE SHOOTING OF POST. E. FARLOW , Officers Involved in Affair Sus pended by Acting Chief Jett Pending Probe CONDITION IS CRITICAL Shooting Alleged to Have Oc curred Outside Atlanta While Men Were Off Duty ATLANTA, August 4.—The grand jury will probably be asked to investigate the shooting Satur day of Robert E. Farlow by three Atlanta policemen who suspected Farow’s car contained liquor, it is earned today. The action is said to be based on the fact that the shooting occurred outside the city limits' where the city police are without authority, and also that three of the officers were off duty at the time of the shooting. Farlow’s condition is said to be critical at the hospital. The three men involved havo been suspended by Acting Chief Jett. 38-GA INFANTRY HOLDS REUNION CONSTITUTION, Ga„ Aug. 4 The confederate veterans of the 38 Georgia regiment recently held their forty first annual reunion here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Brown. Mr. Brown was celebrating his eighty second birthday, STATE COLLEGE OWNS FAMOUS HOLSTEIN COW ATHENS, August 4.—Famo Luc retia Sarcastic, Jr., the four-year old Holstein, compared her official record of 12,914 6-10 pounds of milk, and 440 8-10 pounds butter fat, in a year, making the highest producer of her class in the stale College of Agriculture owners an nounced today. COLUIW JEWELRY STORE GUTTED BY EIRE EARLY TODAY Loss Estimated at Many Thous ands Sustained By V. J. Pe kor at Columbus f STUDIO ALSO DAMAGED Damage Confined to Building Housing Jewelry Concern in Main Business Section COLUMBUS, August 4.—A fire, the origin of which has not been de termined, gutted the V. P. Fekor jewelry store at 1104 Broad street this morning at 2:30 o'clock. A loss of thousands of dollars to the stock and- fixtures was entailed. The stock and fixtures of the McCol lum studio, next to the jewelry ' store, was damaged by smoke and water. The blaze was discovered by F. L. Jenkins, as he left the Metropoli tan Case. An alarm brought trucks I from station No. 1, 5 and 6. The damage to the Pekor store was estimated by John B. McCol lum, the owner, at $15,000, $5,000 being the estimated damage to the stock of the McCollum studio. No damage was caused to the Chancellor building nor the building occupied by the Johnson-Cook shoe company. Mr. Pekor visited the fire, but was unable to remais as he was taken suddenly ill and had to bp carried to-his hmfie. ' Art- estiTmitF of the value of the jewelry stock could not be obtained. When the apparatus arrived, smoke was pouring from the front and top of the Pekor building. Three lines of hose were laid. The intensity of the heat cracked plate glass windows. At 315 o’clock this morning firemen had the blaze under control although for a time the flames threatened to destroy nearby prop erty. The Pekcf 1 jewelry establ.sh ment was destroyed by fire five years ago. Mr. McCollum said the building was about fifty per cent insured. GETS CK FOP GJ SOLIN E TH Sumter county’s treasury has just been enriched by the addition of $2,594.29, sent Treasurer Watts by the state treasurer. The sum rep resents Sumter’s share in the state gasoline tax of 3 cents a. gallon, paid during the second quarter of this year. The money, as provid ed by law, must be used solely for road purposes, and has already been paid into the county’s road fund. The check is the third to be re ceived by Sumter county from this tax, each averaging approximately the same amount. The money is payable to the several counties in the state quarterly, and is usually remitted as near the end of the quarter as is convenient for state authorities. O. G. M’CANTS, MISSING CASHIER, AT BUTLER BUTLER, August 4.—0. G. Me- Cants, missing cashier of the But ler Banking Company, has volun tarily returned from Birmingham, Ala., where to claims he have been since leaving here the first of the week, following which the bank was forced to suspend business, temporarily at least, due to a shor tage of the bank’s funds, which the cashier is alleged to have admitted he misappropriated. McCants is un der tjie care of physicians on ac count of nervous postration. It is reported that an incomplete audit of the books of the ban shows a shortage of $12,000. Th:s sum may be increased or diminish ed upon final audit. It is said that the relatives and friends of McCants will make the shortage, and as yet no proceed ings against him have been taken. J New York Futures Pc. Open High Low Close 27.15127.1312T.40127.05127.18 Mar. 27.40:27.25 27.68>27.20j27.44 May . 27.51 27.50 27.80 27.48 27.58 Oct. ..2J.92'27.86 28.17j27.80|27.91 Dec... 27.30127.25127.55|27.18|27.30 f New York mdidling spots 28 fonts. | PRICE FIVE CENTS ADOPT WIMBERLY RESOLUTION TO PROBE COMMISSION House Wants to Investigate Conduct of Affairs by Georgia Public Service Body FINAL VOTE IS 75 TO 61 r Resolution Sent to Committee for Concurrence Before Prob ers Begin Sessions ATLANTA, August 4.—By a vote of 75 to 61 the house today adopted a resolution of Represen tative Wimberly, of Toombs county, calling for an investigation of the publice service commission. The house then voted to send the res olution to,the senate for concur rence. ONLY NINE DAYS < OF SESSION REMAIN ATLANTA, Aug. 4.—With but nine days remaining of -the present session, the house of representatives of the Georgia general assembly convened today, encouraged at the legislative situation as left off Fri day for adjournment over the week end, and optimistic in the belief that a majority of the important bills to be disposed of would re ceive action by August 13, the day of final adjournment. Two expedient factors, invoked recently with a view to facilitating disposition of the remaining meas ures, are expected to make for prompttness in the consideration of pending legislation. One is th > rule kqiiting debate on bills to ten minutes for individual sponsors or opponents and twenty mnutes for authors; the other is the fixed cal endar, which calls for consideration of bills in the order in which they fire listed. in gdod shilpe, being on schedule with virtually every measure listed hnd no ‘“heavy,, legislation looming in the offing. FAST FLIES STRIKES lOTOMMHG Two Killed and Two Others Hurt When Twentieth Cen tury Limited Hite Auto DUNKIRK, N. Y., August 4. Two persons were killed and two injured when the third section of the New York Central’s Twentieth Century Limited struck an automo bile hero early today. The dead are Rm :oli Faust, aged five years, of Lakewood, Ohio, and Russell Qui bell, of Algonac, Mich. AIR CRUISER BOSTON ABANDONED ABOARD U. S. RICHMOND, August 4.—The “Boston,” the air plane piloted by Lieutenant Wade, in the American army world flight, was abandoned early today. The plane was taken in tow by the Richmond yesterday, after Wade and Mechanic Sergeant Ogden, were forced down at sea because of en gine trouble while negotiating the hop from Kirkwall in the Islands to Iceland. Two of the American army round the world fliers have negotiated the foggy course that lies between the northern coast of Scotland and Iceland. Lieut. Erie Nelson, who sailed for several hours through the “pea soup” fog and arri/ed at Hom afjord, Iceland, from Kirkwall, was joined Sunday by the commander of the expedition. Lieut. Lowell H. Smith, who with Lieut. Leigh Wade jumped off from Kirkwall on their second attempt to make the voyage, having on Saturady morning been forced to return to Houston Bay because of the density of the fog. Wade again had hard luck. He was forced down by engine trouble about midway between the Scot tish coast and his objective. WAYCROSS-BLACKWELL HIGHWAY IS IMPROVED WAYCROSS, Aug. 4.—The 1 high way from Waycross to Blackshear will soon be coated with gravel, ar rangements having already been made for the shipment and work will begin as soon as it arrives. This is the road on which the memorial bridge over the Satilla River is con structed. and is one of the most im portant highways in this section.
