WEATHER I
For Georgia—Generally fair to
night and Friday.
FORTY-SIXTH Yf AR—NO. 200
FATE OF LEOPOLD AND LOEB WITH CAVERLY
International! Jewel Robbery‘(Ring Uncovered
POLICE ARREST lU
INI) ilffl FOB BIG
MON GEM THEFT
Believed By New York Authori
ties To Be Ring-Leaders In
Criminal Organization
GOT MILLIONFROM VICTIM
Expected That Arrests Will
Clear Up Mystery Surround
ing Many Robberies
NEW YORK, August 28.—The .
two men and a Woman arrested
here early this mornin-; for the
robbery of th e diamond shop of
Alexander Feldenheimer on last
Friday of SIOO,OOO of diamonds,
have confessed to the robbery af
ter several hours’ grilling, police
authorities announce.
Mrs. Dorothy Burns, burlesque
actress and wife of James J.
Burns, one of the men held, and
Harry Chance are the names of
the prisoners held. Burns and
Chance are both, just twenty
years of age.
NEW YORK, August 28—In the
arrest early this morning of two men
and a woman charged with the rob
bery of a million dollars in uncut
diamonds from Alexander Felden
Heimer, police and private detec
tives representing Lloyds of London
believe that have taken the first step,
in the disorganization of a clever
band of gem thieves and the clear
ing up of robberies involving mil
lions.
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Householders There Warned
To Conserve Diminishing
Supply of City
PHENIX cTtY, ’ August 28—
Phenix City will be without drinking
water unless rain falls within the
next three days.
The -city has already issued warn
ing against lawn sprinkling.
DAWSON SCHOOLS TO
RE-OPEN SEPT. BTH
DAWSON, August 28. —Classes
for the fall term of the Dawson
public school will begin Monday
morning, September Bth, according
to W. E. Monts, superintendent, and
a very successful year is anticipat
ed. A special program will be ar
ranged for the opening date to
which the friends and patrons of
the school are invited.
The faculty for the coming year
, has been completed and will be on
hand to begin their duties on sahe
dule time. The teachers are: Super
intendent, W. E. Monts; principal,
mathematics and science, 0. 0. Tol
leson, of Sylvester; science, history
and athletics, J. W. Morgan, cf
Richland; Latin and history, Mis!
lu-ois Williams, of Macon; Enghsl
and French, Miss Helen Brannon
of Pavo; home econpmics, Mis'
Jewel Butler, of Camilla; music,
Mrs. A. J. Paschal, of Dawson; sev
enth grade, Miss Sarah English, of
Dawson; sixth grade, Miss Rora
Maffet, of Montezuma; fifth grade.
Miss Idalu Crittenden, of Shellman;
fourtn grade, Miss Zadie Cowart,
of Summit; third grade, Miss Alma
Harrell, of Quitman; second grade,
Miss Dollie Highsmith, of Dawson;
first grade, Miss Mildred Bohanon,
of Lithonia.
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DEMOCRATS R ALLYffORCES TO FIGHT KLAN
INSPECTORS SEEKING;
WIFE OF FAHY. HELD
ftS MASTER CRIMINAL
Deputy United States Marshal
Roberts Questioned Con
cerning Robbery
BIG SHAKE UP IS COMING
Clarahan Declines To State Ex
tent of Fahy’s Participation
In Roundout Hold-Up
CHICAGO, August 28.—While
postoffice inspectors sought the
wife of Wiinam F. Fahy, postoffice
inspector arrested and charged with
conspiracy in connection with the
$2,000,000 Rounaout, Ilk, mail rob
bery, Deputy United States Marshal
Roberts was questioned.
ri'eld as the “brains” of the $2,-
000,000 Roundout mail robbery, has
confessed to complicity in the crime,
Chief Postal Inspector C. H. Clara
han, of New York, stated Wednes
day.
“Fahy insists he had no bad in
tent in becoming mixed up in the
job,” Mr. Clarahan said. He refused
to go into details of the degree or
character of Fahy’s participation in!
the crime.
A shake-up that will rock the Post I
Office Department in the Middle'
West was in the making Wednes-’
day on the heels of the arrest of
Fahy.
Through further pursuit of in-
wMeh. led to- Fahy’S ar
rest, postal officials hope to connect
a jseries of big postal robberies over
a period of several years—at Toledo,
Pullman, Ill.; Omaha and the Dear
born and Union Stations here with
the Roundout raid.
Fahy was held in def ant of SSO,- '■
000 bond.
PBOLBBEKEPT
OPEN EBB KIDDIES
Rotary Committee Will Appeal
To Council To Aid By Fur
nishing Free Water
A committee to be appointed b.'
President Walter Rylander, from
the membership committee of the
Rotary club, will request the mayor
and city council to provide water
io the playground for the nevt two
weeks, or until the heat spel) is
broken, so that the pool may be
kept open for the benefit of the
children and adults after Saturday.
J. T. Warren, president of the I
Swimming Pool association stated I
today that the pool could not be
kept open longer than Saturday
night because of the expense.
“We are loosing money now, not
taking in enough to meet running!
.expenses. The loss the last two'
weeks will be something like SISQ.”
said Mr. Warren. “We can not run;
into debt and therefore we are
compelled to close.”
After bis statement to th<f'
club, several members expressed tho
belief that the city might furnish
the water free until after this heat
spell, if they were requested. Mr.
Warren and Mr. Harrell stated'
that if the city would furnish the'
water, the pool would be continued
by them that the swimming pool:
association would meet the other’
expenses.
Several visitors were present at*
the luncheon yesterday, among'
them Miss Gertude Smith, who
talked to the club regarding the'
many duties that rest on the shoul-,
ders of a congressman. She gave
the club a most interesting mental
picture of many of the congressmen
as she saw them from day to day.
Luncheon next week is to be
served at the Country club, when
the Rotarians will have as their
guest District Governor Bill Lanier,
of West Point. This will be the
governor’s first official visit to Am
ericus.
NEIGHBORS BID CAL GOODBYE
PLYMOUTH, Vt., August 28—
Friends and neighbors have been
calling in large numbers throughout
the day to say goodbye to the presi
dent, who leaves for Washington to
night.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 28, 1924
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chatting with little Sophie Rokus and the two correspond.
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Atlanta Present Proposition
Informal Meeting of Busi
ness Men Wednesday
LOTT ACTS AS CHAIRMAN
Representative of Atlanta Trust
Company Also Here In In
terest of Project
. At an informal meeting of a
group of officials of the Americus
Chamber of Commerce Wednesday
afternoon, held in the Chamber
headquarters in the court house, a
proposal that Sumter county oe
placed on the membership roll of
the Georgia Association was pre
sented by R. E. White, up Atlanta
newspaper man, and Charles Tem
ple, a director of the Association
and connected with the Land Sales
Department of the Atlanta Trust
Company, and was given expressed
approval.
Since those present at the meet
ing did not constitute a quorum of
the board of directors of the Chem
ber of Commerce, no official action
was taken; but after the matter had
been presented and explained in de
tail by Messrs. White and Temple,
each man present gave the proposal
his endorsement individually as a
citizen and business man of Ameri
cus, but not as an official if the
Chamber.
After the purposes of the meet
ing had been stated by Secretary
H. P. Everett, James Lott was chos
en chairman of the meeting. Others
present were C. L. Clark, G. C.
Webb, C. A. Ames and W. Fred
Smith, directors of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Mr. White, for several years chief
editorial writer on the s’aff of the
Atlanta Constitution now staff cor
respondent for the Atlanta Sunday
American and field representative
of the Georgia Association, explain
ed that among the immediate bene
fits S'umter county would derive
from joining the Association would
be a full-page “write-up” in an
early edition of the newspaper he
represents. Each of the 30-odd
member counties of the organiza
tion has. received that service, and,
(Continued on Page Five)
JUDGE YEOMANS IS
AGAIN A CANDIDATE
DAWSON, August 28— Judge
M. J. 'Yeomans has announced bis
candidacy for re-election.
He was appointed to succeed the
late Judge Wm. G. Worrill, and per
haps no judge who has occupied the
bench of the Pataula circuit has
made a record that has met with
more general‘approval. He has ac
quitted himself in such manner
that not only is he unonposed, but
there has been no suggestion of op
position.
Judge Yeomans will be voted for
in the primary of September IQth.
ICE ANQC EXPERIENCES
VIOLENT EARTH TREMOR
L' INDOIf, August 28.-—A violent
earth trenwr of ten seconds’ dura
tion was ®t in Iceland Tuesday
evening, afcordtng to o. dispatch
froi Copeimagen.
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PfflTS HOP-OFF OF
FLYERHO LABRADOR
Storm is Sweeping Auanuv sea
board, Striking Northern
Harbors Today
RESUME FLIGHT ON FRIDAY
Favorable Weather Indicated
With Hop-Off Expected
Certain Tomorrow
U. S'. RICHMOND, At Ice Tickle
Labrador, August 28—The fringe
of violent storm sweeping the At
lantic, struck Labrador coast neces
sitating the further postponement of
jthe world flight. W’ith clearer
weather indicated, however, the avi
ator may make the hop tomorrow.
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Vice Presidential Candidate Re
fers Again To ‘Militaristic’
Plans of Department
L.hTCOLN, Neb,, Aug. 28. Despite
President Coolidge’s interpretation
jo plans for the observance of “de
fense day as a purely voluntary prop
ositiqn," Governor Bryan, demo
cratic vice-presidential candidate, de
dared today that the war depart
jnent is proceeding with its “mili
taristic program” for the day.
COLQUITT ESCAPES
REMAIN AT LARGE
MOULTRIE, August 28— Posey
Abernathy, slayer of Will Jackson
at i country dance near Moultrie
thr e years ago, who with three
oth r white prisoners escaped from
the Ellenton camp of the Colquitt
county chaingang Monday were still
at large last night. The four pris
on* s were followed several pules
by track dogs but the trail was lost
men had a good start.
It was not made clear just hoi*
the quartette managed to get away,
and intimated at the office of the
board of county commissioners thi't
a rigid investigation would be made.
Ab rnathy was convicted of volun
tary manslaughter and was given a
10- dir sentence. The three man,
wh< escaped with him were long
term men also.
COOLIDGE UP EARLY TO
GLIMPSE BOYHOOD SCENES
PLYMOUTH, Vt., August 28—
President Coolidge was up early to
day taking a last glimpse of his boy
hood haunts before preparing for his
return to Washington tonight.
FRENCHCABiNETWILL
CUT EXPENSES DEEP
TO BALANCE BUDGET
Governmental Expenses To
Rec.eive ‘General Overhoul
ing’ As Result
START TASK ON SEPT 8
Herriot and Clementel Assigned
Duty of Pruning Unneces
sary Expenses Down
PARIS, August 28.—The French
cabinet today decided upon a radical
overhauling of governmental expen
ses with the view toward balancing a
budget. It was agreed that Pre
mier Herriot and Finance Minister
Clementel should begin September
8 the task of eliminating all un
necessary expenses from the budget
OUTLOOK GLOOMY
IN BERLIN.
PARIS, August 28.—The outlook
for German ratification of the
Dawes plan agreement has become
worse, according to a dispatch from
Berlin.
FlMfflG 9K
BILLS IS POSTP 81E 0
BERLIN, August 28.—Final bal
loting in the Reichstag on bills neces
sary to carry out Germany’s part of
the Dawes reparation program has
been postponed until tomorrow be
cause of prolonged interruptions
from communists.
KLESffIFUSIL
TOOHIHTim
Was Prominent Citizen and Re
lated to McCleskey and Shef
field Families of Americus
ATLANTA, August 28.—Funer
al services for Major Lucius La
mar McCleskey, prominent Atlanta
railroad official, who died Tues
day night at the residence, 302 Myr
tle street, were held at 4 o’clock
this afternoon from St. Luke’s Epis
copal church, with C. W. Wilcox,
the rector, officiating. Interment
was in West View, with 11. M. Pat
terson & Son in charge.
Maj. McCleskey, who was 78
years old, was born in Monroe, Ga.,
but had resided in Atlanta for
many years. He was a civil war
veteran and fought in the battle of
Atlanta. Before the war he was
educated at Athens and at the Geor
gia Military Academy, and following
the close of hostilities he attended
the University of Georgfia for two
years, being a charter member of
the Georgia Beta chapter pf Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
He was one of the most promin
ent railroad officials of the south,
and when ill health forced his re
tirement several months ago, was
assistant general freight agent of
the Southern railroad, having serv
ed in that capacity kince 1911. He
had been connected with the South
ern since 1881, and had been in
railroad service since 1874.
Deceased was an uncle of Lucius
McCleskey, who with Mrs. McCles
key, attended th e funeral; Jeff Mc-
Cleskey, Mrs. John Sheffield, and
Robert and Willis Hawkins, of
Americus. He also had other rela
tives residing in this section.
GERMAN FIRM COLLECTS
ALL CLAIMS BY LOTTERY
PYLSNITE, Germany, Aug. 28.
Creditors of a local firm have been
advised that every Saturday night
all bills which are due will be put
into a revolving wheel, and the ones
which come out . first must be paid.
Olffi WINNING VOTES
Bl FM STAND UPON
M M ISSUE
Democrats Rally To Standard
Os Presidential Nominee Fol
ing His Pronouncement
PLAIhUKM IS ENDORSED
Anti-Klan Stand Being Made Ba
sis of Appeal to People In
Many States Now
NEW YORK, August 28.—As the
presidential campaign begins to
emerge from the usual depression of
August dog days, John W. Davis,
the democratic standard bearer, is
finding increasing evidence of the
failure of his effort to remove the
klan from the realm of politics.
On the contrary, he is learning
(that the klan is the one issue on
the tongues of the voters. And the
democratic politicians are making
full use of the issue wherever pos
sible, for they know that voters cast
their ballots on the issues they talk
about with their friends and neigh
bors.
Davis returned to New York Wed
nesday from Columbus, Ohio, where
he witnessed the signal failure of a
section of Ohio democracy to keep
the klan issue out of the state cam
paign.
IDAHO ENDORSES DAVIS
TWIN FALLS, Idaho, August 28.
—A plank condemning by name the
Ku Klux Klan and another endorsing
uie pronouncements of John W. Da
vis, democratic candidate for presi
dent, on the subject," were included
in the platform adopted today by
the Idaho state democratic conven
tion.
LITTLE ROCK APPLAUDS
LITTLE ROCK, August 28—Any
candidate for office in Pulaski coun
ty who his or her name in a
preferential primary “in a ledge,
klan or other secret organization”
will not be permitted, to have his or
her name placed on the official tick
et in a democratic primary in the
county, under a resolution adopted
by the county democratic conven
tion.
The resolution, offered by Donald
K. Hawthorne, a local attorney, re
ferred specifically to the Ku Klux
Klan.
The resolution appealed to citi
zens of Pulaski an dother counties
in Arkansas to unite in “casting the
Ku Klux Klan out of the democratic
party and forcing it to come out in
the open, under its own colors as a
Ku Klux Klan party, instead of
seeking to hide its identity withir
the folds of the democratic party.”
TEXAS STANDS FIRM
AUSTIN, Texas, August 28—
Resolutions were framed today for
presentation to the democratic plat
form convention here next Tuesday,
releasing all “loyal ’ delegates from
“all pledges to support James E.
Ferguson, directly or. indirectly, i*nd
Barry Miller beepuse of their poli
tical treachery.” \
The “treachery,” the resolution
recite, w’as due to alleged violation
from pledges in previous primaries
to support democratic nominees.
Mr. Miller is the democratic nomi
nee for lieutenant governor, whi'e
Mr. Ferguson as the husband of Mrs.
Miriam Ferguson, the party nominee
tor governor.
The resolutions were prepared by
11. P. Davis, of Austin, who, when
a member of the state legislature
from Van Zandt county, offered the
original resolution of impeachment
against Ferguson, who then was gov
ernor of Texas.
They will be offered, Mr. Davis
said today, if the resolution prepared
by Albert S. Burleson, of Austin,
former postmaster general in the
cabinet of President Wilson, is pre
sented to the convention.
The Burleson resolution would bar
klansmen from participating in dem
ocratic primaries in Texas on the
[ground that they qow have a party
standing and hence are not entitled
Ito have a voice in the democratic
I party.
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New York Future* f
Pc. Open High Low Close
Mar 24.30 24.34 24.75 24.33 24.30
May 24.30 34.46 24.90 24.46 24.36
Oct 24.30 24.45 24.81 24.38 24.40
Dec 23.95 24.00 24.43 24.00 23.95
Americus Middling Spots 24.38 c.
Receipts today, 260 Bales.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
mm ENDED IN
TRIAL OF YOUTHS WHO
KILLED BOBBY FRANKS
Last Statement By Attorneys In
Case Made at 11=30 This
Morning
ADMIT KIDNAPING, TOO
.
Formal Hearing Held To Permit
Millionaires’ Sons To Plead
Guilty On Second Charge
UHiCAtjG, August 28.—Af
ter portions of the closing argu
ment of States Attorney Crowe
had been stricken out by Judge
Caverly as a “cowardly attack
upon thig court and an attempt
to intimidate it, ’ the court took
under advisement the penalty to
be inflicted upon Nathan Leopl-jd
and Rich ivd Loeb and announced
that he wc’-ld give his decision at
9:30 on the mornin,; of Septem
ber 10, with only court official*
end newspaper men present.
CHICAGO, August 28. —Argu-
ments on the murder of Roberl ■
Franks by Nathan Leopold, Jr., and
Richard Loeb ended at 11:30 o’clock ,
this morning, after which the court
took up a brief formal hearing on j
the pleas of guilty to kidnaping for
ransom, also punishable with death.
The case has gone to the judge.
State did not complete Wednes
day its demand that Nathan F. |
Leopold, Jr., and Eichanl A. Loeb
pay the penalty on the gallows for
murdering Bobby Franks.
After hours of argument
in favor of the death penalty, State’s
Attorney Robert E. Crowe was un
able to finish late Wednesday after
noon, and the conclusion of the ,
famous trial went over until Thurs
day.
Chicago rioted two days ago fit
di«Mtt-«y»re>ice Darrow- mako his
eloquent plea for mercy. And Wed- '
nesday it stnftgled and fought to
hear Crowe empty new vials of ,»«
sarcasm upon the mercy plea, and
demand the death sentence. Judge • J
Caverly’s court room was a sar- .?«(
dine can, with its occupants packed
tightly and almost boiling in tha
heat qf a torrid day.
A hint of lynch law for the young S
slayers was thrown into the day’s
proceedings by the State’s Attorney.
“Clarence Darrow speaks about
not heeding ‘the voice of the mob’,”
said Crowe. “Well, they haven’t '
heard the cry of the mob yet be
cause they have been well pro
tected. But if they don’t get what W
they deserve in this trial I’m not sa
sure they won’t hear the cry ot
the mob.”
SUMINS EIGHT
BE NARRGWIMIB
NEW YORK, August 28. —-(By
the Associated Press). —W. L.
“Young” Stribling, Georgia light
heavyweight, and Paul Berlenbach,
slugging New- Yorker, fought to a
draw last night in*a slashing battle
between two of the ring’s youngest,
and latest fistic sensations.
A shade of ringside newspaper
opinion apparently favored Stribling
Tiuf there was a little outburst of
approval when the judges declared
the match a draw after six rounds
of speedy fighting before a crowd
of approximately 25,000 in the New
York Veldrome, Tex Richard’s Har
lem arena.
Stribling, younger but more ex
perienced, outboXed fcis rugged rival
from start to finish, bewildering Bor"
lenbach with dazzling speed and
scoring repeatedly with a lightning
like left jab, varied occasionally with
a crashing right cross.
Berlenbach, on the other hand,
carried the fight to Stribling in the
last three rounds and rocked the
Georgian with a series of rights and
lefts to the head in the fourth round
that kept a stream of blood flowing
irom the Southerner’s nose. Strib
ling was guilty of holding repeated
ly. He waA cautioned several times
by the and once was bossed
by the crowd for pounding Berlen
bach’s while the latter’s back was
turned.
Stribling had an effective defense
for Berlenbach’s famous knockout
I punch, a blow that has floored more
than two score of his opuonents for
the final count. Except in the fourth,
and fifth rounds when Berlenbach
was at his best, Stribling’s whirling
elusive style of battle had the New
Yorker baffled.
The Georgian easily piled up a,
lead in the first three rounds on hist
speed alone, while he stuck his long
left into Berenbach’s face.
