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SPOT COTTON MARKET Friday’s receipts 211 bales Season’s receipts 9265 bales Strict middling 21 cents WEATHER Probably showers tonight and Sunday; warmer. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 220 TWO BENNETTS INDICTED FOR MURDER United States Intervention Not Contemplated M'WEST IH CHINS GROWING INTENSE Press Alleging American Inter ests Are Sunporting W:i Pei Fu, Military Head SHANGHAI SURRENDERED Invading Forces of Kiangsu Pushed Back and Chekiang Positions Strengthened TOKIO, Sept. 20.—(8y the Associated Press.) —Because of the reported breakdown in Che kiang’s defense of Shanghai, and the possible resultant defeat of General Lu Yung Hsiang, who is said to be. the tivorite of the Japanese government by reason of his association with the old Anfu party, Japanese Jnterest is today growing intense. The vernacular press is giving prominence to the reports from correspondents tin S h anghai, which .are alleging that American interests were supporting Wu Pei Fu, military head of the Pek ing government. ENGAGEMENT STARTS AT DAYBREAK SHANGHAI, Sept; 20.—(8y the Associated Press.) —In an engage ment which started at daybreak, the reinforced Chekiang troops, on a front extending from the Shang hai-Nanking railway lines to Rail ing, succeeded in pushing back the invading forces of Kiangsu. This action is said to have strengthened their lines. also gained po- sitions near Hwangtu, about 15 miles west of Shanghai. SURRENDER OF SHANGHAI TO KIANGSU ADMITTED SHANGHAI, Sept. 20—(3:30 a. m.) —Surrender of Shanghai to the Kiangsu armies seeking to capture it was admitted this morning at the headquarters of the defenders at Lungwha, to be a possibility. It was asserted, however, that, contrary to common reports, the de fending Chekiang soldiers were not in retreat. U. S. INTERVENTION NOT CONTEMPLATED WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 —This government contemplates no inter vention in the Chinese fighting around Shanghai, having already taken all necessary steps to safe guard American lives and property in the vicinity,.the White House an nounces. President Coolidge went over the whole situation during a conference with Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, minister to China, this week, and concluded that .there is little cause for uneasiness. Few casualties have been reported in the fighting, was stated, and practically no se rious property 4ftmage. HFPGWNTDBE TRIED FEMMER MOUNT VERNON, Ills., Sept. 2b (By the Associated Press —“Impor- tant additional information” has come to light within the past few hours in the case of the Rev. LaW rence M. Hight, a clergyman, now in jail charged with the murder of his wife. F. G. Thompson, state’s attorney, issued this announcement today. “We have evidence* now to go to trial on a murder charge,” Thomp son said. However - , the state’s at torney refused to disclose any part of the nature of the evidence he now has in hand. S. SCHOOL DELEGATES BEGIN SESSIONS MONDAY Many delegates -from the Ameri cus-Cordele districts will be guests in the city next week to attend the standard training school at the First Methodist church, which begins its session Monday evening at C o’clock, 'held under the direction of the gen eral and conference Sunday schools. Lunch will be served each even ing of tire session in the church be tween the two lessons periods. Rev. Outler, pastor of the church emphasises that the Sunday School workers of the churches, regardless of denomination, will be welcomed. THE TIMESgRTCORDER SHED IN THE HEART OF DlXlE~fh>i>7 i LITTLE JOE | IF CUSSIHG TUE " Weather made US FAT WE'D ALL BE "Three Hundred . a?ounders? aB! IEILLII a h. ME FIGHTS KU KLM Kansas Editor Independent Can didate for Governor, An nounces Klan Issue as Slogan TOPEKA. Kans., Sept. 20. (By Associated Press.) —Declaring in ringing tones that his slogan will be “Free Kansas from the Ku Klux Klan, William Allen White, famous Emporia journalist, opens his cam paign as an independent, got the governorship of Kansas. In a statement issued today Mr. White says he is in the race tc stay, and to win. mum EDGING IB STATE Blamed Judge for Not Sending Him to Chaingang for Moonshining HAZELHURST, Sept. 20.—The last legal hanging in Georgia was that of Warren Waters, here yes terday. Waters was hanged for the murder of City Marshall T. A. Kersey, here last December. Walking straight to the barn, which sheltered a rude scaffold where he was to die, Waters was joined by his wife at the door. Not a tear did he shed while bidding his wife goodbye. The woman, rath er frail and pallid from her long hours of mental strain, completely broke down and wept bitterly. He tried to comfort her. Accompanied by officers, he crossed the threshold of the barn, shutting out his view of more than 1,000 persons, who crowded around the square in morbid interest. Before mounting (the scaffold Waters told officers he had a state ment to make. The group of authorities, who were to bring death to the man sen tenced to hang, gathered around him silently awaiting for him to be gin. “I blame Judge Highsmith wiVi i my plight,” he began. “Had he sent me to the chaingang, when I was convicted of making moonshine whisky, I never would have been in this trouble. “I am sorry I shot Officer Kersey. God knows I’m sorry. But I know that doesn’t bring his life back—and I’m ready to pay with mine. “If there are friends enough of mine in Hazelhurst to bury me. I want them to do it. I want to be buried in the Oak Grove church cemetery near here. If the county has to bury me. it can do it any time. If my friends are going to bury me, please keep my body un til tomorrow.” BODY BURIED TODAY IN OAK CITY CEMETERY. HAZELHURST. Ga., Sept. 20. (Bv A. P.)—Conforming to the wishes expressed before he stepped on the gallows vesterdav afternoon, the body of Warren Waters, 56 years of age, will be buried in Oak City cemetery todav. Waters was hanged for the murder of Citp Mar shall Kersey. Putting your best foot forward is all rig4it, but you only move along by dragging up the other one. AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1224 Public Opinion Demanding Mercy For Bernard Grant Brings Reprieve GOV. SMALL GIVES BERNARD GRANT 90 Dm REPRIEVE Chicago Youth, Awaiting Death, Was Poorly Educated—Was 20 When Committed Crime RESPITE TO JANUARY 16 Condemned Bov Believed Some Good Would Come From Mother’s Plea SPRINGFIELD?IIIs., Sept. 20 (By the Associated Press.) —• Governor Len Small today granted ninety days’ reprieve to Bernard Grant, the Chicago youth awaiting death sentence penalty. The reprieve is dated January 16. CLEMENCY DEMANDED FOR TWO YOUTHS BY GEORGE BRITT CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, their lives saved, in Joilet Penitentiary; Bernard Grant and Walter Krauser, under sentence of death on the gal lows, awaiting their fate. This is the spectacle in Cook coun ity today which has caused not only a cynical noding of heads but a state-wide investigation of the judi cial scales and a rumbling, increas ing’ appeal for clemency. In his plea for mercy for Leopold and Loeb before Judge Cavefty. Attorney Clarence Darrow made the assertion: “If we fail in \this defense, it will not be for lack of money. Money has been the most serious handicap we have met. There are times when poverty is fortunate, and this is one of the times.” Consider now the parallel stories of Darrow’s young clients, whose parents are estimated to possess an aggregate of $15,000,000 or more, and of Grant, son of a carpen ter whd lost both legs in a railroad accident, and Krauser, son oi a street car crossing flagman. Ou Dec. 21, 1921, Policeman Ralph Souder was killed while trying to prevent the robbery of a small grocery, Krauser and Grant were arrested, Krauser admitting participation in the crime and Gran - ; denying it. They fought the case on a plea of “not guilty.” Leopold and Loeb kidnaped and slew little “Bobby” Franks last may. were detected, pleaded guilty and fought the death penalty in a hear ing before Judge Caverly, council asking mitigation on the grouiras that they were affected with “sick” minds. Leopold and Loeb were each 19 when sentenced. Grant was 20 and Krauser 19 when they were senten ced. The motive of the robbery, ac cording to Krauser, was to get so ne money for Christmas. The motive for the murder of “Bobby” Franks was a desire for a thrill and for the SIO,OOO the two plotters hoped to extort from the boy’s millionaire father. Grant and Krauser each had less than the eight grades of common school education, while I eopold and Loeb were university graduates. Grant and Krauter lived in rented frames houses “back o’ the yards”; Leopold and Loeb, in fashionable Hyde Park mansions. Krauser was represented at the trial by a lawyer serving without pay by appointment of the court. Grant had a lawyer retained at a cost of $1,700, all the family could scrape together. Leopold and Loeb had Clarence Darrow and the Bach rach brothers. Krauser’s family testified he was “queer,” following a blow on his head from a brick when he was 8 years old, but the evidence carried little weight. Expert alienists at $250 a day built up for Leopold and Loeb their elaborate Psychiatrical mitigation theory of “emotional de ficiency.” And today Leopold and Loeb are safe in Joilet Penitentiary. Grant is under sentence to be hanged on Oct. 17, and Krauser is awaiting the action of the Supreme Court upon his verdict which imposed like wise a death sentence. Such are facts, if one cares to . ...» a Type Os House Where Boy Lived : f - " ! * IB B I 1 Jfc /, I' ?? fa ■ - HME Jk elme tw ‘ » A w i MBfr*. F ■ > Jr * It V; arrange them .side'by side. “My mother is going down to see the governor,” says young Grant, Contemplating a future which at present ' promises less than one month of life. “I am ready for anything, bu: I hope some good may come of her visit.” SENATOR GEORGE i ADDRESSES MANIS Club Observes Constitution Week a.nd Applauds Junior Senator Senator Walter F. George, of Vie,:na, by Invitation, addressed Hie Ann ricus Kiwanis club and a large nui ber of guests on the subject of “Oi r Constitution,” the juinor semw tor being introduced by W. M. Hum ber. Senator George devoted his time largely to a plea to preserve the Constitution as it was handed to us by its framers and in condon ing those who would limit the pow er of the supreme court, giving the right to Congress to make laws and then interpret them. He described the long process through representative government ha come down to the people from the ages past and declared that “the Federal Constitution is the Am eri an system of government.” He wa emphatic in saying that it was specifically frame dto protect “the mi ority from the assaults of the majority.” '•’he (English, historian and ex am >assador, James Bryce, in his works on the American form of government, said: “There' never wac a wiser set of mon ever gather ed in one hall, than those who frarn (Continued on Pag e Six) SAVANNAH ISSUES VISITORS’ GUIDE SAVANNAH* Sept. 20.—“ Se eing Savannah,” a new tourist leaf let showing 37 principal points of interest about Savannah, has been .placed on distribution by the board of trade. Besides the brief' de scj iptions of the various points, di rections for reaching them are giv en. The leaflet is .illustrated with a dozen typical views of Savannah >and a road map oi the county. ♦ Bernard Grant and his home “back o’ the yards.” The Grants occupy the upstairs of this two family house. Krauser’s home is the same type. mfwSS - BROUGHT HONE TH INVESTIGATE CRAFT To Form Special Board to Go Into Importnace of Air, Sub marine and Surface Ships ARRIVED "HOME FRIDAY Speaking Tour in West Ended When President Recalls Wil bur to Washington WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—(8y the Associated Fress.) —Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, whose western speaking tour was cut short when he’was asked to return to Washing ton by President Coolidge, today visited the White House and at the termination of the interview with the president announced that a spe cial board would soon bb apointed to investigate the relative impor tance of the air, submarine and surface craft of the navy. The tall, aUjletically-built cabi net officer came back to the city with a smile, apparently ignorant of the reason for his recall. There was not a trace of worry on his boyish face, His hurried trans continental trip,] which bcglan at San Diego, Calif., Monday with an airplane jump, ended Friday after noon at 4:30, when he stepped from the train here, and looked about casually. He drove from the station to the Navy Department and went into conference with Assistant Secfe tany of the Navy Roosevelt and Admiral Eberle, chief of naval op eration. He notified the president over the telephone of his arrival. Smiling and genial, Wilbur talk ed amiably after his arrival, appear ing very much unconcerned over the furore that, his sudden recall has created. He looked down for a moment when asked why he had been summoned to return, with his trip not completed, and said inno cently enough that he supposed it was to discuss navy matters. NAME~AUGUSTA ELK AS DISTRICT DEPUTY AUGUSTA, Sept. 20.—E. F. Brigham, exalted ruler of the local B. P. O. E. lodge, has been appoint ed district deputy grand exalted ruler for the North district of Geor gia, it is announced. Mr. Brigham will be personal rep resentative i# Georgia of the high est official of (he B. P. O. E. and will have supervision of a larg3 mem(>ership of the order, it is seat ed. ISIS SESSIONS 8f MERICM LEGION TO BE HELD IT OH Delegates Pledged Renewed Ef forts in Rehabilitation and Child Welfare Work TRENTON WOMAN NAMED Newly Elected Commander Was Captain in Spanish- Amorscan War ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 20. (By' A. P.) —Pledging their increased efforts in rehabilitation of wounded soldiers of the world war and in child welfare work, the hundreds of delegates today en route to their homes fro mthe sixth annual con vention of the American legion, which ended yesterday. Yesterday’s session ended with the election of James A. Drain, of Washington, D. C., who announced after his election that he would move his home to Indianapolis. Commander Drain is an attorney by profession. * The vote on national commander, before the convention made it unanimous, was: Drain, 715; Mc- Quigg, 142; Spafford, 96; absent 21. Mrs. O. D. Ollipharft, of Trenton,, N. J., was elected national presi dent of the American Legion auxiliary. She succeeds Mrs. Frank lin Bishop, of Boston, and was chosen on the third ballet from a a field of six candidates. The following were unanimously elected vice commanders without opposition: Eugene Armstrong, of Connecti cut; Frank McFarland, of Kansas; A. L. Perry, of Panama; William Stern, of North Dakota, and Pey ton H. Hoge, of Kentucky. Commander Drain in his address declared that the legion would have no entanglements in politics. “We shall stand for God and country,” Commander Drain declar ed, “without partisanship in poli tics, without intolerance in religion, making ,as we always have, care of our disabled buddies our first concern, and SSte of orphan chil dren the second consideration, and we stand for a business-like admin istration of the American Legion. “We shall strive to make better citizens of Americans in and out of the legion wherever we can be ef fective; in short, to translate through the American Legion into peace-time life precisely the same spirit which moved us in war.” Father Joseph Lanergan, Durand, 111., a Catholic priest, was unani mously elected national chaplaio. Dates for the 1925 convention*?.' < Omaha will not be decided on un -611 the Jantxary meeting of the executive committee, it was learned today. Commander Drain, an attorney of Washington, began his military career in the national guard of Washington state, where he rose from a private to a brigadier gen eral. He was a captain in the Spanish- American war, and in the world war he was ordinance officer with the tank corps and a member of the Anglo-Amjyrican tank commis sion. For twenty months he served as commander of the department of the District of Columbia. He has been chairman of the fourth district rehabilitations committee, a member of the national executive commit tee any. of the board of directors of the American He was chairman of the execu tive committee of the National guard association and president of the National Rifle Association of America. Born in Warren county, Illinois, September 30, 1870 ( Mr. Drain has practiced law in Nebraska, Wash ington state and the national cap ital. MERCER TO OPEN FOR 92ND TERM MACON, Sept. 20.—The ninety second school term will open at Mercer university September 22, with an expected enrollment of 1,- 000 students, according to President Rufus W. Weaver. Dr. S. V. San ford, professor of English and journalism at the University of Georgia, is scheduled to deliver the convocation address. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open HigTp-d.ow Close Jan. ..22.13 22.23122.23]22.02)22.05 Mar. ..22.43 22.60:22.60122-28)22.28 May .22.68)22.82 22.82)22.46122.48 Oct. ..22.60|22.85122.85)22.58|22.55 Dec. ..22.08)22.25)22.25)21.96;21.95 PRICE FIVE CENTS ROME, Gl„ IN IND WIN INDICTED IT CHATTANOOGA Alleged They Murdered Aged Aunt Sixteen Years Ago, Burying Body INDICTED EARLY TODAY Suspicion Was Directed to Them When Bones Were Found in Basement Sometime Ago CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Sept. 20. (By the Asociated Press.) —Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bennett, of Rome, Ga., were in dicted by the Hamilton county grand jury here this morning for the murder of Miss Augusta Hoffman. Miss Hoffman was spinster aunt of the Bennetts, who dis appeared sixteen years ago. A skeleton, thought to be hers, was found under the former home of the Bennetts. This aroused suspicion, which led to an in vestigation and the indictments todaj'. CARLOirfiERS RECEIVED THIS WEEK W. R. O’Hearn Begins Produc ing Cream for Americus Creamery Company A carload of cows were received in the county this week by W. It. O’Hearn, who operate a farm out on the Friendship road. In the car were 19 pr 20 milkers, a bull and several heifers, all Jers eys. Mr. O’Hearn purchased the lot so as to supply cream to the Americus creamery. “We will take all of Mr. O’Hearn’s cream,” said Manager Wilson, of the Americus creamery today. “This is another new cus tomer for the creamery and we un derstand there are other soon to fol low. We can use all the cream that is offered. Our cream is coming not alone from Sumter county; in fact, more than half the cream no* coming in is from outside the eoun- " ty.” Any farmer interested in; pro ducing cream for the ereumerp should talk the matter over with Mr. Wilson, who will t give him much desirable information; he says. BPPINTS ESP 11 FOP WBH Was Accused of Receiving At tention From Married Men in Neighborhood FREDERICK, Md., Sept. 20. —- (By the Associated Press.) —War- rants were issued today for the ar rest of e’even persons indicted for complicity in the tarring and feath ering of Dorothy Grandon at My •ersville, Frederick county, last July. The woman was accused of hav ing received the attentions of mar ried men ip the neighlforhood, was waylaid and tarred fro mhead to feet. Hearing her screams, a man and his wife nearby intervened, dispers ed the mob, carried her to their home and gave her treatment there. Twenty ’persons were indicted, but nine are now at large on bonds of $2,000 each. BEE KEEPERS TO~ MEET OCT. 29-30 SAVANNAH, Sept. 20.—The an nual convention of the Georgia Beekeepers Association will be held here on October 29 and 30, it is announced. One of the principal topics for discussion at the meeting is a destructive disease knows as Amercan foul brood. WORLD FLYERS OFF FOR EL PASO, 645-MILE FLIGHT LOVE FIELD, ~Texas, Sept. 20. (By A. P.) —With Lieutenant Lo well Smith, flight commander lead ing, piloting the Chicago, the army world flyers took off for El Paso, 645 miles away at 9:40 Saturday morning. i • HAVE PASSED OVER ABILENE, TEXAS. ABLINE, Texas, Sept. 20.—The world flyers passed over Abilene an 12:03 this afternoon on their way to El Paso, w <’ - K
