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Thursday’s Receipts 276 Bales
Season’s Receipts ~ 12,116 Bales
Strict Middling 22 l-2c
WEATHER — Generally fair to
night and Sunday; little change in
temperature.
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR.—NO. 237
GIANT ZEPPELIN SAILS SUNDAY MORNING
Mrs. Humber Sentenced tolTen Years in Pen
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IFFECTED,GIVES
NOTICE OF mi
Verdict Reached Friday
Found Guilty cf Second
' Degree Murder
SEALE, Ala., October 11.—Mrs.
Leila C. Humber, tried the third
time for slaying her husband, Luc-'
ius F. Humber, was found guilty
of second degree murder in Russell
court Friday afternoon and sentenc
ed to serve 10 years in the peniten
tiary.
The verdict was returned at 5:30
o’clock, twenty-two hours after the
case was placed in the hands of the
Jury Thursday v night at 7:30
o’clock. It was the second time that
Mrs. Humber had been convicted
of second degree murder. In Oc
tober of 1922 she was found guilty
of the offense and sentenced to
serve eleven years in the peniten
tiary. The judgment of the trial
court was reversed by the supreme
court of Alabama and Mrs. Hum
ber was again placed on trial last
April. A mistrial declared at
that time after the jury had failed
to make a verdict after deliberating
25 hours.
The ten years sentence imposed
on Mrs. Humber .is the minimum |
in Alabama. A lifetaoi etaoishrni
in Alabama. A life term is the
maximum. There could have been
no capital punishment, due to the I
faet that a jury previously ac
quitted the defendant of first de
gree murder by finding her guilty
of second degree murder.
After- Judge J/S. Williams, pre
siding, had passed sentence on the
defendant, notice of appeal was
given by Frank M. deGraffenreid,
leading counsel for Mrs. Himber
and an appeal bond of S3,O.QQ
a.-sesse3T
Sheriff Pal M. Daniel, who was
in Girard at the time the verdict
was returned, was notified over
long distance telephone and he or
dered Chief Deputy Sheriff Monroe
Bush to keep the defendant in his
custody until the bond was signed.
When the verdict of tiie jury was
read, Mrs. Humber was deeply af
fected. She was surrounded by
relatives and friends at the time.
Her married daughter, Mrs. Marie
Patterson, and her husband have
been with Mrs. Humber throughout
the trial. Mrs. Humbers aged fa
ther has also been with her, as
has her young' children, Robert and
Mary Humber.
The trial started Wednesday af
ternoon at 3 :05 o’clock. The fatal
shooting of Lucius F. Humber oc
curred at- the Humber home, near
Girard, on the night of May 18,
1922.
The state relied, for the most
part on alleged dying declaraaions,
quoted by several witnesses. The
testimony was to the effect that Mr.
Humber shortly after the shooting
and only a few hours before his
death, stated that he was shot by his
wife. He was quoted as saying that
she shot him after accusing him of
stealing everything she had.
Five Bullet Wounds
He said,, according to the testi
mony, that she shot him in t
back. Six wounds were found on
his body, according tp a physician.
Five of them were pistol bullet
wounds, it was declared.
It was the contention of the de
fense that the bullets which killed
Mr. Humber were fired in a scuffle
over a pistol between the wife and
the husband after the latter had
threatened to kill Mrs. Ilumber and
himself. It was claimed that Mrs.
Humber had acted in self-defense as
much as if she had had the pistol
in her own hands and pulled the
trigger herself.
The defendant who took the stand
in her own defense, stated that she
engaged Mr. Humber in a tussle af
ter he had advanced on her with a
pistol and threatened to kill her
and then slay himself. She said
that both, had hold o£ the pistol
when it vVas fired. She said she
made an effort to empty the re
volver by discharging it in the scuf
fle.
CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT
NOT SERIOUSLY ILL
WASHINGTON, October 11
Chief Justice Williapi H. Taft, of
the United States Supreme court,
is ill at his home here. It is stated,
however, that his condition is not
serious, and unless complications set
in he will soon recover.
THE
[Soil PUBLISHED IN THE Z HEART Ok DIXIE
OFFER JOHNSON
FLORIDA TRIP
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct.
11.—By winning Fridays game
and the world’s championship in
baseball for Washington, Walter
Johnson, the Senator’s twirling
ace, hurled himself into a free
trip to this city with all ex
penses paid.
While all the inhabitants of
the city were listening to the re
turns of the game yesterday the
proposal was made to raise a
fund to bring Johnson and his
family here for the winter.
HEMDMIGEBY
RUNS IN FLORIDA
Train Service Interrupted, Busi
ness At a Standstill. Bridges
Downs, Streets Flooded
DAYTONA, Fla., October 11.
—With flood waters in Daytona
and vicinity still at the highest
level reached, rains continued
this afternoon. Low'er tides af
fording better drainage gave cre
dence early today to the hope
that the worst has passed and
that the flood waters will soon
recede.
It is imprdcable that there
will’ be any resumption of train
service in this section during sev
eral days.
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 11. (By
The Associated Press.) —Train ser
vice has been curtailed throughout
upper Florida by the recent heavy
i ains.
Business is virtually at a stand
still at Daytona, many of the busi
ness streets being from six inches
to two feet under water, while in the
been forced to leave their homes in
search of higher ground. Mer
chandise damage alone will mount
into the thousands, it is said.
Bridges on al lhighw« v s leading
cut of this city are washed out and
Daytona is practically isolated.
Scores of autoists are reported ma
rooned on the Deland-Daytona high
way, efforts being made to reach
them through use of small boats.
The concrete bridge crossing a
canal on the Dixie Highway, three
miles south of Daytona, which was
undermined last night damming the
water® of the canal, causing a dan
gerous situaution was dynamited
this afternoon.
At New Smyrna, twelve miles
south of here, business is practically
suspended. Canal street being flood
ed. A man by the name of Garrett
was reported drowned there when
he is said to have fallen from his
bed into water that covered the
floor. Inhabitants of the western
section of New Smyrna were forced,
it is reported, to abandon the'r
homes early today, some swimming
away while others used boats.
The Florida East Coast Ral'way
tracks are several inches under wa
ter here with washouts being report
ed north and south of here.
BINBITS KILL R. R.
CM IND GUARDS
Escape With $35,000 Pay Roll
—Two of Bandits Are
Americans
SAMALAYL’CA, Mexico, Oct 11.
(By The Associated Press.) —B.
F. Parker, of El Paso, and the train
crew of eight, were killed by five
bandits. The Mexican guard on the
train was also said to have been
killed.
The train was carrying a $35,000
pay roll, which the bandits secured
and escaped into the hills.
The hold up occurred one mile
north of Candelario early yesterday,
word having just reached here.
It is thought two of the bandits
are Americans, the other three Mex
icans.
ATTORNEY GENERAL TO
DECIDE ON AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, October 11—
Attorney General Stone will be
asked to review the situation rela
tive to application of the eigh
teenth amendment to the Philippine
Islands, it became known here to
day. He niust render a final de
cision as to the status of the is
lands under the constitution.
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I that most -touching and pathetic scene, whop the great discoverer of S
( America stood on the deck of his shatter ed bark, theshades of night (
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S an unknown ocean, yet the stronger the billows of alternate hope and 5
i despair tossing his own thoughts; extending forward his harrassed <
> frame, straining westward his anxious and eager eyes, till Heaven at ?
s last granted him a n oment of raptui and ecstacy, i» blessing his 5
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Miss Raoul Speaks
Here Wed Morning
Meeting of Men and Women at Court
House—Congressman Crisp To
Introduce Visitors
Miss Ellinor Raoul, of Atlanta, [
prominent woman speaker . and;
philanthropist, will speak to men and
women of Americus and Sumter
county in the court house Wednes
day morning, October 15, at 10:30
o’clock.
Miss Raoul, chairman of the or
ganization work of the State League
of Women Voters, is heading “thp
flying squadron from state head
quarters now touring the state. A
number of prominent women are
accompanying Miss Raoul.
The local charter of the league is
sponsoring the morning meeting and
have requested Congress! lan Charles
R. Crisp to introduce Miss Raoul.
W. W. Dykes, member of the state
Democratic executive committee,
will also speak. Miss Raoul and
her party will go to Albany from
K. K. K. SUED FOR
ATTEMPTED ARSON
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 11,—Suit
for $125,000 was filed in federal
court today by D. C. Stephenson,
former grand dragon of the Ru
Klux Klan in Indiana, against Dr.
Hiram W. Evans, of Atlanta, Ga.,
imperial wizard of the Ku Klux
Klan, and Walter Bossert, grand
dragon of the order in Indiana. Tlie
suit charges a conspiracy “to burn”
the Stephenson yacht Heomar II in
the lagoon at the Toledo Yacht club
last June.
Bossert was registered at a local
hotel, but could not be located after
the suit was filed.
AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 11, 1924,
An ficus.
‘ In the past, presidential elec
tions have been treated with a great
dei of apathy, much indifference
being displayed by those who should
vote,” one of the local league said
to the Times-Recorder today. “Th'. 1
i ri cipal object of our meeting on
Wednesday and the reason Miss
Raoul comes to Americus, is to
arc use more interest in the men and
women of the community. To get
wb it they want, they must vote.
iss Raoul’s address will be a
pic to get out the voters in No
ve ber. The league is non-partisan.
We are nut endeavoring to aid ant
party or candidate. We know if
ou ■ men and women vote, the nation
is ife. Every man and woman is
rot only invited to attend this .'.ass
meeting, but we urge them. It is
a c.vic and moral duty in carrying
this message to our people.”
TROOPS GUARD JUDGE
FROM BOMB PLOT
PRINCETON, Ky„ Oct. 11.—Ten
national guardsmen arrived here
last night at the request of County
Judge Smith to guard the home of
S. B. Hodge, county attorney from
threatened violence.
An anonymous letter received by
Mrs. Hodge last Saturday declared
that her husband had been warned
to resign as county attorney. Pen
alt for failure to do so, the Letter
stated, would be death. Mrs. Hodge
an< their children were directed to
Lea.e the home to escape being
blown up.
SHENANDOAH W
CROSS PACIFIC II)
Mil NISLINDS
Arrived Safely At San Diego
And Will Proceed Up
<•' '"tßscific Coast
SAjN DIEGO, Cal’.* Oct. 11 (By
The Associated Press.) —The big
smashed her
rear cabin, tearing a hole six feet
long, as she was being moored to
her mast. Because o fthe accident
the ship will not leave here today. 1
The damage to the cabin is pro-'
mounced as of a “minor nature,”
Tut that work on the ship’s motors
is expected to keep her here today.
The Shenandoah arrived here
early this morning, and except for
the overhauling of her motors, was
in splendid shape until her cabin
was crushed In.
As soon as repairs are completed
she will again put her nose to the
north for her flight up the pacific
coast to Camp Lewis, Washington.
It is understood here today that
the big aircraft may undertake 1 a
trip across the Pacific to Hawaii,
following her winter maneuvers on
the Pacific coast. Admiral Moffett,
commander, expresses the belief
that the trip to the Iliwaiian Islands
would be easier than the trans-con
tinental jaunt now completed, c;' ;i:g
the difficulties which the Shenan
doah encountered and conquered as
■she crossed the Rocky mountains.
A heavy gale was blowing across
San Diego from the sea Friday apd
workmen anticipated some trouble
-in making the Shenandoah safe to
her mooring mast.
The dirigible crossed the state line
info California at 1:05 p. m., Pa
cific; tim4, and later was sighted
over GlJhis a* 2:27 o’clock. The
strong winds seem to be holSlpg
down the ship’s speed, reports from
Yuma and Glamis stated. Her pres
ence over Glamis, 20 miles north of
the Mexican border, indicated the
big dirigible was following the rail
way line to the Salton sea.
BIG craft lost
OVER ARIZONA.
TUSCON, Ariz., Oct. 11.—A hur
ry call was sent to the radio station
of the University of Arizona Fri
day morning at 5:20 by the U. S.
Shenandoah, to assist its crew in
locating themselves. They had just
passed Beason and had failed to re
cognize the place, believing they
were lost and off their scheduled
path.
Oliver Wright, radio operator at
the university station, got in touch
with the Western Union and South
ern Pacific, and the information was
relayed to them at once.
Direct radio-telephone connec
tions were established with the Shen
andoah when it reached the Ari
zona-New Mexico line.
PUNS COMPLETE
FOR EEDBN LOAN
Will Be Put On Financial Market
of Nine Countries Within
Few Days
—A.
LONDON, Oct. 11—(By The As
sociated .Press.) —The negotiations
for a loan of 800,000,000 gold
marks to the German government,
provided for by the Dawes reoara
tions plan, were successfully con
cluded Friday afternoon and the
loan will be put on the financial
markets of nine countries, includ
ing Germany, within a few days.
More than half of the entire loan—
sllo,ooo,ooo is to be released in the
United States.
The bonds will be dated October
15,, mature in 25 years and bear
seven per cent interest. They will
be offered to investors at 92, thus
yielding approximately 7 3-4 per
cent to maturity. The terms of the
various markets are virtually iden
tical.
Signature to the agreement to
loan money to the German govern
ment were fixed this afterne on in
the old bank of England building
Hjalmar Schacht, president of tbd
reichsbank, and Dr. Hans Luther,
the German finance minister, signed
for Germany; J. P. Morgan signed
for the American banking syndicate
headed by his own company; Mon
tague Norman for the Bank of Eng
land; Jean V. Parmentier for France
and the other financiers for their
continent.
SNOW ENDS “GAME’’
OF WORLD SERIES
RENO, Nev., Oct. 11—Snow
broke up the world's series base
ball game in the eighth inning as
far as Truckee, Cal,, was con
cerned yesterday. The storm,
reaching at times the proportion
of a blizzard, ended radio ac
counts of the game which the
town had been receiving.
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11l For Five Weeks—Burial
From Residence
Sunday
Henry Rogers Johnson, 47 years
old, died Saturday at noon at his
home, 309 College street, after an
illness of five weeks, caused from
a complication of diseases.
Mr. Johnson was the son of the
late Henry R. and Josephine Black
Johnson, pi-pminept citizens of
Americus during their lives.
Mr. Johnson was born and rear
ed in Americus where since man
hood he has avocation as
a planter, having large farming in
terests in this section. He was a
graduate of Mercer and a member
of A. T. O. fraternity. He was also
a member of Woodmen of the
World and other orders. For many
years he has been a member of the
First Baptist church.
Surviving Mr. Johnson are his
widow, Mrs. Eugenia Brahan John
son, and four daughters, Miss Mar
tha Johnson, Eugenia Johnson,
Anne Johnson and Catherine John
son; two sisters, Mrs. D. W. Bag
ley and Mrs. Norman C. Miller, of
Atlanta; one brother, Jac E. John
•sbhF-df LalterataJ,
Funeral services will be held Sun
day afternoon from the residence
on College street at three oclock.
Rev. James B. Lawience will offic
iate, and interment will be in Oak
Honorary pallbearers will be Jno.
T. Taylor, George Turpin, M- N.
Edwards, Thomas Harrold, Frank
Harrold, W. D. Moreland, J. W.
Shiver, W. J. Thornton, James A.
Davenport and John W. Sheffield.
Active pallbearers will be Harvey
Mathis, John Wagnon, James A.
Fort, Hollis Fort, I. B .Small, J.
E. Hightower, T. M. Furlow and
W. G. Turpin:
POSSES MB BILLS
FOB NEGRO BUPISI
College Girl* Assaulted As They
Hike Through
Woods
RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 11. >—
Posses are scouring the hills sur
rounding Richmond for an unknown
negro, who assaulted two West
Hampton college girls on a wooded
road near the college 'ate Friday.
The girls, one a junior and the
other a sophomore, are said to have
been walking along the road when
they were followed by a negro who
forced them into a thin strip of
woods near the college, There he is
said to have cut one of the girls
severely with an knife and then as
saulted the other.
The clothes of both girls were
torn almost to shreds in the strug
gle. Hearing their cries, a guard at
the University of Richmond nearby,
rushed to the rescue. The negro
fled.
Both girls are now in a Richmond!
hospital where they are said to be
in a state of nervous collapse.
Posses composed of police, county
officers, university students, ard
persons in the neighbohood are comb
ing the countryside. Blood hounds
have been placed on the scent.
WOMAN WHO KILLED
HUBBY IS FREED
NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 11.—Mary
Bruno, 22, was acquitted Friday of
murdering her bigamous husband.
Judge Caffrey told the jury that
the verdict was a miscarriage cf
justic and an incentive to criminals.
Testimony revealed that Carmine
Bruno eloped with the defendant,
leaving a wife and three children.
The prosecution alleged that Bruno
had decided to leave Mary, whom
•he married several months age, to
return to his legal wife, Bruno was
shot from behind in his home.
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LOW LIFTING POWER >
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WOW RISE
Vessel and Crew Were Ready
When Commander Called
Off Flight
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
Oct. 11. — (By The Associated
Press.) —The Giant American-awn
♦’d, German-built ZR-3 will not start
her trans-Atlantic trip today. Be
cause of the “low lofting power of
the air,” says- Dr. Hugo Eclincr,
commander,’' a satisfactory assvne
could not be made this morning and
caused the postponement until Sun
day”
The vessel and her crew were
ready for the air voyage at 7 ;00
o’clock this morning when Dr. Buh
ner called off the flight for ths
day.
In connection with the proposed
flight to America of the ZR-3, Sun
day it Is rccAWed that the late Count
Zeppelin, inventor of the dirigible,
made his first balloon ascension in
the United States.
This was during the Civil War
when Count Zeppelin was an officer
in the Union army. The count never
became an American citizen and re
turned to his native land in 1886. It
was during the Franco-Prussian v-r
that he conceived the idea of th-s d»r
igible, inspired by the progress nadg
by the French in aeronautics.
JAp OFFICERS HAVE
WATCHED CONSTRUCTION.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Oct. 11—
(By The Associated Press.) Among
the interested spectators of all
flights of the ZR-3 in the region of
Friedrichshafen has been a commis
sion of Japanese naval officers who
have been overseeing the construc
tion by a German concern of 3sv
eral airplanes for the Japanese gov
ernment. The ajrplane factory is
on the edge of Lake Constance,
about a mile from the dirigible
hangars. The commission arrved
Imre five months ago, soon after tile
Germans began work on the Jap
anese contract.
IBTFBOBBIB CMS
CRASHJS HURT
Motormen Pinned in Wreckage
When Cars Meet In Head-
On Collision
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Oct. 11 --
(By The Associated Press.)- —Two
interurban cars were wrecked to
day in a head-on crash near Struth
ers, Ohio. A dense fog was the di
rect cause of the collision whic.i re
sulted in the injury of 35 persons,
of whom 10 are seriously hurt.
The collision wrecked the front
vestibules of both cars, pinning the
motorme nin the pleintered frame
work. Both motormen are in a crit
ical condition.
DR. PEACOCK FREED BY
HABEAS CORPUS WRIT
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 11
Dr. J. W. Peacock, for whom ex
tradition was sought by North Caro
lina insane asylum, was freed on a
writ of habeas corpus in superior
court Friday. He returned at onoe
to his ranch near here.
Judge Marsh held the insane
asylum from which Mr. Peacock es
caped in North Carolina is not a
part of the state prison, that there
fore, he did not escape from “a
prison or the superintendent of a
prison, as the North Carolina code
has it and that he was “not guilt;,’
of conspiring to escape.”
Dr. Peacoak’s five children were
i ncourt when the decision was an
nounced, and the oldes, a girl of
about 17 years, at once rushed to
Judge Marsh and with tears in her
eyes thanked hipi profusely.
\ LITTLE JOE
' A LITTLE ARSENIC
THE,COFFEE CUP AND
A MAN AND HIS WIFE
ARE SOON PARTED.'
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