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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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
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