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
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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..
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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.
