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SPOOT COTTON MARKET Saturday’s receipts 1....93 bales Season’s receipts 10,055 bales Strict middling 24 1-4 cents WEATHgß— Probably ' showers tonight and Tuesday; fair in north portion Tuesday. ORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 226 Hundreds of Dead and Dying Line War Front After Chinese Battle OKLA. PREACHER CHARGED WITH MOOTING GIRL 14-Year-Old Girl Was Member of Church Choir Yates Arrested NOWATA, Okla., Sept 29. (By the Associated Press.) Rev. Joseph E. Yates, 40 years of age, Joday faces charges of abducting a 14-year-old Allu wee, Texas, girl. The missing girl was a member of the choir of church. Yates has been arrested at Ballinger, according to word received here today. mO HALTED AT GENEVA BY JAPAN'S STAND Disarmament and Immigration Questions Creating Interna tional Problem for Delegates GENEVA, Sept. 29.—(8y the Associated Press. Two mem bers of the Japanese delegation told members of the press today that if Japan did not obtain en tire satisfaction in her demands for an amendment to the propos ed protocol, much to their regret, she probably would be obliged to vote against the protocol when it is submitted. GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 29. (By The A. P.)— A great interna tional problem, it is Relieved, has been raised through the Japanese demand at the League of Nations discussions for disarmament to the proposed protocol of arbitration and security. So serious was the situation judg ed to be that France suggested that the Japanese amendment, which concerns the interpretation of state rights as related to arbitration and which everybody understands as referring to the immigration pro • gram, should be considered calmly by a sub-committee. A motion by the French to this end was accepted by the arbitration commission. Japan offered her amendment aft era day of fruitless private con ferences. Viscount Ishii consulted with M. Briand, M. Loucheur, Sir Cecil Hurst and other leaders, but no one was able to find a formula acceptable to the Japanese. At 9:30 last night, when the ar bitration committee virtually had completed its revision of the proto col text M. Adachi arose and formal ly moved the suppression of the clause in the protocol draft which proclaims an aggressor state any country refusing to abide by the de cision of the world court of justice. The clause in question refers to dis pute which one party declares to have arisen over a subject which ex clusively is within its domestic juris diction. If the world court accepts this view and rules that the matter is in fact domestic in nature, and the other, the opposing state, re fuses to accept the decision and goes' to war, it then becomes an ag gressor and will be punished as such by the other members of the league. x M. Adachi wanted this clause stricken out altogether, asserting that it involved great injustice to th'f plaintiff state and shut off all avenues of peaceful settlement. Reading his statement dramatically and slowly amidst tense, almost pain ful silence, the Japanese delegate accused the league of nations of r< t fulfilling its high mission, because it was proclaimed a state a criminal without offering any solution of tli-i difficulty. SANTO DOMINGO IS ADMITTED TO LEAGUE. GENEVA, Sept. 29. (By The A. P.) —Santo Domingo was admitted to membership in the League of Na tions today. The vote was unani mous, when taken just before the assembly adjourned, with the Jap anese question still unsolved. . They claim thg Prince of Wales sets the' styles for young Americans, and he stayed out all night. THE TIMES EESLpublished in the heWof dixie REPORTER EXPLORES TUNNEL UNDER WASHINGTON STREETS Mystery Oozes Out As Board- Man Oozed In Underground Washington Tunnel Larry oßardman, NEA Service writer, made a personal explora tion of the Washington, D. C., “mystery tunnels,” which Harri son G. Dyar. Smithsonian Insti tute entomologist, says he dug 15 years ago. His digging extend ed over a period of seven years, Dyar said, and was undertaken for exercise and relaxation from his desk where he studies bugs and butterflies. Boardman’s first hand story reveals the amazing nature of the labyrinth*. BY LARRY BOARDMAN NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—A1l sorts of fancies suggested them selves as I stood at the mouth of the tunnels which have been dis covered under Washington streets— spies, drug addicts, bootleggers, robbers. Mystery fairly oozed out as I oozed in. 4;-. A motor truck wheel had crashed through the earth and opened a gaping hole. I climbed down. The feeble flicker of a flashlight reveal ed walls of white enameled brick, perfectly laid. The floor was of earth. On the ceiling were stuck newspapers of the war years 1917 and 1918. They were German papers and carried ac counts of Germany’s submarine ac tivities . Cryptic marks and symbols marked the pages, suggesting a code. Tunnel Wired Walking ahead with the tiny light marking a direct golden line I stum bled over a heap of glass—hundreds of bottles, smashed into bits of all sizes. From the top wall hung electric lights. I tried them. They were all dead. The passageway along which I found myself walking was large enough for two persons to walk abreast. Then it suddenly narrow (Continued On Page Six) in PICOTO CfIUPT All Minor Casese Disposed of— Loitering Negroes Must Get Jobs Or Move On A number of minor cases came before the Recorder’s court this morning, involving loitering, drunk enness and misdemeanors. Recorder Hollis Fort fined Albert Randall, colored, $lO or ten days for driving a car without the con sent of the owner. Jim Webb, a negro, was fined $lO or 10 days for drunkenness and dis order. John Bryant got off light with a $2 fine for disorderly conduct. Andrew Hawkins, a negro, was finedjs7.so for loitering and was told to go to work or move along. Ollie Edwards, another negro drew a like fine for the same of fense. Chief Bragg stated that he and his force, accompanied by the sheriff raided the home of Ophelia Daniels and another negro known locally.as ‘Jaybird,’ Saturday about noon. A gallon jug, containing about a quart of the liquid that stimulates, was found in the home of Ophelia and she is in jail—or was Monday morning. Nothing was found in the domicile of ‘Jaybird. Both negroes live down bejow the ice plant on the paved roads' to Plains. Ollie Edwards, a negro,- drew a fine of $7.50 because he was with out visible means of support. Ol lie must get a job or quit loitering about the city. FATE OF STEAMER REVEALED BY WRECKAGE CLEVELAND, Sept. 29.—At y doubt of the sinking of the whale back freighter Clifton, with her crew of 28 was dispelled with the finding in Lake Huron of hatch covers and the forward end of a pilot house. No bodies were found. AMERICUsTgA., MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, 1924 t i***? Hr £ |K> -». > t Jr Vt l I ■■■■ ? LZ W' j THE ENTRANCE TO THE W ASKINGTON TUNNELS (LEFT) AND AN INTERIOR VIEW. UIEMKET Hf HELPED SUH JOE HERMGTM Illicit Love Led to Poisoning of Herrington By Wife Who Now Is Mrs. Tate MARION, Ills., Sept. 29. —Joseph Herrington, a quiet, mild-mannered and hard-looking coal miner, stood in the way of the romance between his wife, Ruby, and Robert Tate, a fellow-miner, so the lovers poison ed him with arsenic, Tate declared in a confession made Sunday to Sheriff Galligan. “We had talked over putting Joey out of the way for a long time,” Tate said. “He was a friend of mine and I hated to do it, but I had to have her and she had to have me. I bought arsenic and after talking to. Ruby I decided I would put it in his lunch while we were working. I poisoned his lunch one day and he just ,got sick. “Ruby finished up the job. She put poison in his lunch later, when he didn’t die, I put poison in some fruit and told her to put it in but termilk. He was sick then and this dose finished him up.” Tates’ confession came after he had been grilled almost continuous ly Saturday, Saturday night and most of Sunday. Early Sunday he had shown indications of breaking down and had admitted that he knew in advance that Mrs. Her rington intended to poison her hus band so that she might marry him. But he insisted that he had no con nection with Herrington’s death oth er than this. “Now Tate, we know Herrington died from poison. His stomach shows it,” the sheriff said. “Why don’t you tell the truth? Maybe you and Ruby didn’t know what you were doing.” “It’s true, but I don’t know how you found it out. I started it and she finished the job. She wanted to J?e married and Herrington was in the way.” Stenogrpahic notes had been tak en of Tate’s statements and later a formal confession was prepared, which he read and signed. MA’ FERGUSON WINS FIRST COURT SKIRMISH AUSTIN, Sept. 29. (1 y A. P.) Mrs. Miriam A. Fergus' n won the first battle in the cour: fight to have her disqualified as the Demo cratic gubernatorial can- idate when the injunction to keep her name off the ballots was refused, today by Judge George C. Calhoun, in the 53 district court. L )cal Minister Replys to Church Discussion to Be Continued Next Sunday of Ar ticle Written By Novelist, Rupert Hughes, Why I Quit Going to Church.” Wide spread Interest in Discussion. Rev. Luther Harrell, pastor of the Lee Street Methodist chusch, in his sermon yesterday, replied only in part to a recent article appearing in one of the nation’s magazines, by Rupert Hughes Novelist, entitled “Why 1 Quit Going to Church.” The local minister will continue the discussion in his sermon next Sun day morning. Much interest has developed in the articles, not only locally, but ministers all over the country are replying to the article. Mr. Harrell merely laid the foundation for his discussion in his ser mon yesterday, dealing only in “general facts” as seen by him, when he said: “In discussing the article by Ru pert Hughes, I shall •deal with some general fdets which are essential to a t orcugh understanding of the que.-tions raised by him. Next Sun day I shall continue the discussion 'and explain to you the parts left unmentioned today, “Mr. Hughes has made two very serious mistakes, which others be fore him have made. The first mis take that he has made is trying to find God through the physical and mental faculties. The second is a natural result of the first, which is to reject all spiritual truths be cau e he cannot understand them. This is what he has done in his article. ‘“The mind of man is finite. God is infinite. Does it stand to reason that a finite mind could grasp and thoroughly understand the workings of an infinite mind? There is fax greater difference between the mind of man and the mind of God than there is between that of an inf- nt and a great mathematician. Is it strange that the infant cannot gra p the problems propounded V;' the great mathematician? Why eer tai; ly not. Then why should we ex pec to thoroughly fathom the mys teries of God? Mr. Hughes and eth ers before him would eliminate the mystery of religion and make it a mere intellectual system 'of pnv losophy. “Because he cannot eliminate the mystery and thoroughly grasp every det til, he will reject the whole of Christianity. In fact the logical con elusion to be reached from his pro cess of reasoning, is to reject every thing that he does not understand. We o not think that he is si unreasonable, as to reject every thing in the material world that he does not understand. Then why should he assume this at titude only in matters of religion? ’ There' is a mystery connected with everything material object ab ut you. You are sitting today on news, made from lumber cut out of trees that grew in a forest sotne where. Do you understand all the (Continued On Page Five) BEM ffiMANEW HAHDEDTOHERRIOT Sets Forth Conditions of Appli cation for Membership in League of Nations PARIS, Sept. 29. (By The A. P.) ': —Leopold Von Hoesch, Germpn Ambassador to France, today called upon Premier Herriot, and handed him a memorandum setting forth the conditions under Which Ger many will make application for membership in the League of Na tions. . The text of the memorandum sub mitted by Von Hoesch will not be made public, it was stated. BRITISH FREIGHTER SINKS SOUTHEAST OF TYBEE SAVANNAH, Sept. 29. (By The Associated Press.) —The British freight steamer, Santa Theresa, bound for Cuba, to North Atlantic ports, sank last night ninety five miles southeast by south of Tybee Light . Information to this effect was received here by radio from the American tanker, I. O. White. The tanker removed the crew of the dis tressed steamer. “THE BIGGEST LITTLE OPTICAL HOUSE” GROWS MACON, Sept. 29. —The “Big gest Little Optical House South,” has grown to such proportions that it has been necessary that they move to larger quarters in order to main tain the same excellent service of the past. The new store, oparated by J. N. Kelish and F. H. Johnson, who oper ated the former concern, is one of the most modern optical shops in Dixie, and the people of Middle and South Georgia are fortunate in having the services of this optical house instead of having to go with out the state of Georgia for such service, UNIVERSITY HEADS BOLT REPUBLICANS FOR DAVIS WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 The Democratic national com mittee last night announced that Dr, John Grier Hibben, presi dent of Princeton university and Dr. William C. Thompson, presi dent of Ohio state university, had made it known that they would support John W. Davis for the presidency Both were de scribed as long time R’epublicSWis. 11. S. WORLD FLYERS COMPLETE CIRCLE IN 551 hours Covering 27,534 Miles In Their Flight Around the Top of Globe SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (By The Associated Press.) —The United States Aviators, who completed yes terday their ’round-the-world flight, are today receiving the applause and welcome of a deeply apprecia tive citizenry. The elapsed time of the flight was 175 days; the total distance covered was 27,534- miles; and the actual flying time was 551 hours and 11 minutes. GIGANTIC WELCOME AWARDED SKY NAVIGATORS. SEATTLE Sept. 29. (By The As sociated Press.) —The American army around-the-world fliers com pleted the circuit of the globe Sun- I day afternoon, landing at Sand Point field at 1:36 p. m. Pacific time. Lieutenant Smith was the first tc land. He was followed by Lieuten ant Wade, then Lieutenant Nelson. (Continued on Page Five) WILLIS MURDERJHRY STILL DEADLOCKED COLUMBUS, Sept. 29.—Sunday’s deliberations failed to break he deadlock in the Will Willis murder page’s jury and at 10:30 o’clock last pight the veniremen retired, forty five and a half hours after the fate of the defendant was placed in their hands. As the result of yesterday’s all day vain efforts to reconcile their differences and reach an agreement it was indicated that a mistrial could not be avoided. It was be lieved by many that the jury would be discharged today, if It fails to make a verdict during the morning. It was reported that the division of eight to four for acquittal was maintained throughout Sunday. It was that vote that was on the last ballot Saturday night. kitimd im OFFICIALS CONFER Auditor Dodge, of Maecn, May or Poole, Chairman of the Finance Committee Carswell, Attorney Lane and Treasurer Gatewood were in session Monday, attempting to ar rive at what amount of bonds the city of Americus was now entitled : to issue. An exhaustive study of the Jan- ! uary 1, 1924, audit, the council's I 1924 budget sheet and other fac tor that enter into'' the question, was being made, and an opinion from the auditor and city attorney, Colonel Lane, will be.prepared and presented to the council Tuesday afternoon when the mayor and council are scheduled to meet in an adjourned sessions to fix the amount of bonds and the date for election which has been under discussion for several weeks. Stephen Pace, local attorney, and others interested in the sub ject, were' called in by the city of ficials. While no definite information could be secured, it is assured that when the adjourned session meets tomorrow, the city officials will be in position to finally disposed of the bond question. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11 am. Close Jan Mar24.75|24.75|25.14|25.10 May 24.95:25.10125.35125.40 0ct25.40 25.45125|80|25.80 Dee24.50(24.40124.88(24.90 PRICE FIVE CENTS COHTENOING FOHCES, OBENCHOPPONENTS WITH SHRAPNEL Dead Left Where They Fell Relief Stations Over-Crowd ed With Wounded Reports were being circulated today that Sunkiang, a city of 50,000 inhabitants, 28 miles south of Shanghai, was being looted. A number of Chekiang air planes flew over the western dis trict of Shanghai today, but no report of their activities have yet been recieved. SHANGHAUSegt. 29.—(8y the Associated Pr«ss.) Hun dreds of Chinese soldiers hava been killed and many others wounded this morning on the 6- mile front from Nansiang to-Ma in, when the armies of the rival military governors, fighting for the possession of Shanghai, con tinued their hostilities along the war front, with the greatest in tensity. According to witnesses who have returned this afternoon aft er traversing the sector from Nansiang to Main, west of Shanghai, both contending sides were drenching their opponents lines with shrapnel. All relief station behind the lines ar e filled with the wound ed. The dead have been left where they fell, resulting in a revolting condition over the whole battle area. ARGENTINE FLYER STILL HELD AT FUCHOW FUCHOW, China, Sept. 29—(By the A ssoc ' ate 4 Frees.) —Major Zan ni, the Argentine world flyer, was today compelled to postpone his flight to Shanghai because of bad weather. itlUeged iPBEPEP, GIVES DP Had Eluded Police for 60 Hours —Charged With Killing Two CINCINNATI, O , Sept. 29r By The A. P.) —Rain soaked and dis heveled, with his clothing bearing marks of more than sixty hours out of doors, Vinton Perin, fifty years of age, surrendered himself today to the police, to answer for the slay ing of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Frances D. Rawson, seventy seven years of age, and also the shooting of his sister-in-law, Miss Nina Raw son. SALOON LEAGUE WON’T ENDORSE EITHER NOMINEE NEW YORK, Sept. 29. (By'The A. P.) —Neither Theodore Roose velt nor Al Smith, Republican and Democratic nominees for governor of New York, will bear the endorse ment of the Anti-Saloon League, of ficials of that organization declared here today. NOTICE Regular meeting of the Council tonight at 8:30 o’clock in Masonic hall. Every member reouested to be present, Mr. Edge announces to. day. [ LITTLE VOEI I THE FAMOUS OLD HAM SANDWICH HAS GONE TO THE— ; [WATCF As A3
