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
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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
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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
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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.
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