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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Strict middling, 22 5-Bc, WEATHER Cooler tonight except probably rain on the coast; Saturday fair. * FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO- 282 U. S. VICE-CONSUL AT BELGRADE IS SHOT ■ Biran, j GEORGIAN. WIM Bl YOUNG MBS Who Immediately Opens Her Veins and Dies; Dayton Born in Atlanta (By The A»»ociated Press) BELGRADE, Jugo-Slavia, Dec. s.—Henry Dayton, the American vice-consul, was shot and seriously wounded yester day at his home by a young woman who afterwards commit ted suicide. Mr. Dayton is a native of Georgia and was appointed to vice consul at Belgrade on July 21, this year. After shooting Dayton, the woman opened the veins in her arms, soon bleeding to death. Harry A. Dayton was born in Atlanta in 1897 and graduat ed from Auburn, N. Y., high school and from Hamilton Col lege in 1917. He served in the army during the World War. DAYTON’S WOUND NOT SERIOUS. (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. The state department was informed to day by Consul Patton, at Belgrade, that the condition of vice consul, Daytona, who was wounded yester day was not serious. mliSTm IS STIEUWSTEW Clues Uncovered, Investigated , Today Divulge Nothing to k Birmingham Police (By The Associated Press) BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 5. —What appeared last night as promising clues in unraveling the mystery of the death last Tuesday of Mrs. Annie Lou Edwards, wife of a Fairfiel ddoctor, today were about to go into the discard. Dr. Edwards, is reported as “rest ing well” in the Bessemer jail, where he was removed yesterday, a£ter refusing to allow identifica tion experts to make finger prints St the hospital where he was con fined. However, Dr. Edwards per mitted! the taking of his finger prints after he was lodged in jail. 7 KILLED, 40 INJURED IN TRAIN COLLISION OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 5. —Seven persons were killed and approxi mately 40 injured! here yesterday on the Key Route system, when a train from Sacramento crashed into the rear of a crowded electric train bound from Oakland to San Fran cisco with early morning commut- The cause of thb accident has not been determined. 10,000-BARREL GUSHER STRUCK IN LOUISIANA LAKE CHARLES, La., Dec. 5. The Texas Oil company yesterday morning brought in a “wild cat” wel Inear the Vinton Gtd field, west of Lake Charles, making 10,- 000 barrels by heads m an open pipe. It is stated that the wel! will make 20,000 barrels when it is washe dtout. The producer extends the field three quarters of a mile west. RIVER SEVERN TIDES TO SUPPLY LLLLIKILUY (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 8.-4 $150,000,- 000 project to use the tidal rise in ihe River Severn for the pro duction of electrical power will be Wfdertaken by the British govern ment in the spring A committee of electrical experts appointed to investigate the possibilities of harn essing the Severn to furnish power for the surrounding d’-lrict has completed a report in which they recommend that the Work be under taken. Mexico General Calles, who succeeds Gen. Obregon as president of Mex ico this week, evident 1/ will start his term' with a rebellion on hand. He denies he’s a “red,” as his ene mies assert, but he’s too radical to suit conservative Mexicarr anyway. General Flores and Adolfo de la Huerta, both experienced revolu tionists, are stirring up n leVpk against him. THETIMES'tRECORDER S>£?y~PUBL-l SHED IN TH£ HEART OF DIXIE TIFTON MANI MURDER Koretz’s Beard Was a Failure • ’ Wk W* ■ ' -- * Leo Koretz ( charged by Chicago officials with engineering a two million dollar swindle, grew a thick beard when he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia. But it didn’t protect him from detectives who found him there. Tffl SfflEK OF IMP M'LEARY OIL King and Harrell Electrocuted at Dawn for Killing Army Officer in July (By The Associated Press) COLUMBIA, S. C„ Dee. 5. ortimer N. King, of Canton, N. C., and Frank Harrell, of Unnion coun ty, this state, were electrocuted early this morning. Shortly after tire clock had struck six the two murderers of Major H. McLeary paid the extreme penalty for their crime. The major was kill ed on thehighway * Julj 2, of this year. Strenuous efforts were made to save the lives of the convicted men. Petitions for pardons were sent to the governor, but he refused to in terfere. GHMEW Tags From Other States Unlaw ful Non-Residents May Use Tags 30 Days (By The Associated Press) ATLANTA, Dec. 4.—Although it is unlawful to do so, there are hun dreds of Georgians who been and are at the present operating au tomobiles in this state bearing the license tag of another State, ac cording to Secretary of State S. G. McLendon. This is a condition that should .not be practiced, according to Secretary McLendon ,for. ail motorists should be thoroughly fa miliar with the provisi >”.s ot the law in regard to the operation of auto It is likewise pointed out that it is unlawful for a non-resident of another commons* eajth to operate a motor vehicle in Georgia under a license issued by their native Stare or some other State for a period longer than thirty .days This part of the law, it is stated by Mr. Mc- Lendon, is not being li’ ed up to. , I b Bl? io Ol J'! ' ' CBOLIDM GIVES HIS SOLUTION FOR FffINIIR PROBLERS Must Work Out Salvation Largely By Own Efforts, He Tells Stockmen CHICAGO, Dec. s.—President Coolidge is today speeding back to Washington carrying witn him 4 new picture of the possibilities in the agricultural states, after his short visit to the middle west. Thursday he delivered two ad dresses, one to thh business men of Chicago at a noonday luncheon, the other before the delegates attend ing the International Livestock As-' sociation in convention here. Wiser production, more efficient marketing and more intelligent utili zation of meat products were laid as a foundation on Watch the iive stoc kindustry might be raised from depression by President Coolidge in an address last night at the Interna tional Livestock exposition. In advancing these suggestions after he had detailed what the gov ernment had done and proposed to dj for the livestock men ana the armers of the country. Mr. Coo lidge declared he desired from the forum provided by the livestock ex position to make a pledge and to issue an appeal to the farmers of the nation. Pledge Made to Farmers. “My pledge is that your govern ment will do everything possible and proper for a government to do to encourage and direct vour striv ings toward the goal or prosperity, stability and security,” he said. “My appeal is that farmers everywhere shall find ways in which to organize and associate themselves together in the determination to employ ef fectively every means of improve ment that has been placed at their disposal.” With such a pledge carried, out and such an appeal heeded, the pres ident foresaw the dawn of a bright er day in the agricultura l world. MUNROE CITIZEN Tl! BE BURIED SUNDAY Father of Mrs. Frank Harrold* Who Died Suddenly, to Be Interred At Monroe The funeral services over the body of Billington Sanders Walker, father of Mrs. Frank Harrold and Governor Walker, who died sud denly Thursday morning, following an attack of apoplexy, will be held Sunday morning at 11 o’clock at the First Baptist church, Monroe. Mrs. Harrold is on J.er way to' the home of her father from Texa?, where she was attending a meeting of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is thought that she will reach Monroe Saturday. Mr. Harrold left Americus Thurs day for the home of hi; father-in law. Mr. Walker had been in his usual good health tip to the time he Was strickened. He had visifed his son in Atlanta Wednesday. Thursday morning, stepping out into the street he was suddenly taken ill and was immediately removed to his home where he died 15 minutes later. Mr. Walker was conscious to the last and did not think that he was seriously ill. CO-OPERATIVE HOG SALE HELD HERE YESTERDAY A cooperative hog conducted at the Sumter county cooperative pens Thursday, netted the farmers, who participated in the sale over $llOO County agent) Young, from Mitchell county, conducted the sale I George Marshall, who is out of the city. The number of hogs, totaling 82, offered for sale fell fa.- below the expectations of tYie c Hinty agent, but it is thought, due to a drop in prices that the farmers who have hogs are holding them for a higher market. Plans fur another sale within the next ten days were made yesterday, and it is thought V)' that time the market will lie considerably strengthened, t? "• ——-—— —•— —— - ~ AMERICUS, GA.. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 5. 1924 FEDERAL DRY LAW ENFOramiLL TROBBLTCtINpRESS Digging Deeper Into Taxpay ers’ Bank Book Necessary To Make Law Effective BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, D-q. I.—The cnly- way .to mike prohibition pro hibit, cWigross will be tpld when it meets to consider appropriation® for the next fiscal year, will be to dig a lot deeper into the national pock etbook. Even here in the capital it must be admitted intoxicants are more readily obtainable than two or three years ago, and the quality is- much more dependable. Producers of “moonshine” are no longer amateurs. The product they turn out today, in large pari, lacks only proper aging to make it compare favorably with many of the cheaper brand.,' of pre prohibition liquor. A large distilling layout, 10-ated directly across tre street from the House office building, where ct-n --gressmen have their offices, was raided a few days after election. It was equipped tn turn out a product which even congressional palates might have pronounced good, had not its presence been disclosed by sheer accident. ♦ ♦ * In addition to adder! appropria tions to finance the ferreting out. of internally manufactured illicit beverages, a more extensive' and ex pensive guard will nave to be main tained against smuggled liquors be fore prohibition will nrohibit. Just what the coast guard and revenue cutter services arc up against in trying tc outwit the well-financed, carefully -organi-.ted Smuggling rings will be told House and Senate appropriations com mittees by Rear Admnal- Fred C. Billard and his said, I ieut, Com. Stephen Yeandle, In order to get his facts straight, Yeandle recently went abroad in the guise of a man °ager to learn the rum-running business, to buy a boat and get in on the “easy spoils.” He visited lonely points along the coast where bootleggers have set up warehouses and established underground transportation and Communication systems more weird and than anything ever thought of in the old days of slavery’s "underground railroad.” He will have some real thrillers to recount that may stir Congress to recognition of thefeet that the men it employs to enforce prohibi tion are pitted against a band of buccaneers as determined and re sourceful as any of the band that sailed with Captain Kidd in the old days when piract War the ea£" road to adventure and easy money. * * * Peppery “Cole” Blease of South Carolina, elected to the United States Senate, has served notice on tiis bonstituents that, as a senator he is to be known henceforth Coleman Livingston Blease, no less. Down in Carolina, where “Cole" las been a hot coal in politics for the past decade, they l ave of late given him the diminutive title of “Cotie.” Os course it has been meant as a term of endearment. But as a senator, Coleman doesn’t want endearments. He wants dig nity. “Cole” was bad enough, but “Colie”—that couldn’t possibly be endured. It gave him a pain. Too much like “colic,’ perhaps. Anyway, hereafter, remember, it is not “Cole” Blease, nor “Colie” Blease, but the Honorable Coleman Livingston Blease, United States senator! ♦ » * Quietly, but inexorably, General John J. Pershing, retired command er-in-chief of the A E. F. and gen eral of all the American armies, id being fitted into a niche as the of ficial representor of tne United States at all formal celebrations by other nations. Pershing sailed the other day as '‘special ambassador” of the United States, to atteni Peru’s celebration of the battle of Ava cucho, from which the South American i«publicii<| R * ; * B her inde pendence. aw ->i<i There if? a vegetable octopus in ] South America, PLOT TO ASSASSINATE BRITISH MINISTERS Allenby Warns London and Cabinet Members Are Placed Under Guard (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Dee. 5, — British Cabi net inembers and many other Lon don officials are going about their duties today with bodyguards ac companying them as a precaution against violence by Eg;,ptian sym pathizers. The discovery in Cairo of a plot, which is said to have planned out rages against British ministers was communicated to London yesterday and the information was at that time laid before the Cabinet. This precaution has been taken because of information received frqm the headquarters of Viscount Allenby, British high commissioner in Egypt that a plot, has been dis covered to assassinate prominent tnembers of the British government. koretWenceo ■ TO SHORT TERM Master Swindler, Now Penni less, Eligible to Parole Aft- USA3I3 CHICAGO, Dec. s.—Chief Jus tice Hopkins, who yesterday set? tenced Leo Koretz, master swindler to serve from one to ten years in the penitentiary with the provision that Koretz by good behavior could retain his freedom after eleven (months, today announced that he would recommend the prisoner to serve maximum sentence CHICAGO, Dec. s.—Leo Ko etz, ill, unkept and penniless, a gray shadow of the master swindler who induced friends and relatives to in vest $2,000,000 in a phantom Pana ma oil project, was sentenced to prison for from one to ten years by Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins. Koretz, who pleaded to four in iJictments charging four variations of swindling, received three iden tical sentences for three separate of fehses but the judge ruled that the sentences might run concurrently. . Under the ruling Koretz wiil be eligible for parole aft; r serving eleven months in the penitentiary. A flaw was discovered nt the last minute in a fourth indictment .to which Koretz had nleaded guilty and Koretz was permitted to with draw his plea. , The man who for 18 years vic tlttPSecS his friends and rfelatives so cleverly that they quite often begged him to accept their money for investment in his Bayano river project which was not only devoid of oil but which he did not even own, took the sentence imposed upon him calmly. ARTILLERY COLONEL COMMITS SUICIDE LEAVENWORTH. Kansas, De?. s.—Lieiitenatnt Colonel Emety T. Smith, field artillery, a student of ficer at the command and general staff schools, Fort Leavenworth, who came here last August from Boston, committed suicide by hang ing Thursday morning. The body was found by the jani tor of Smith’s apartment dangling from a rope that was thrown across a steam pipe near the ceiling of the bathroom. HIDDEN FIRE PLACE CAUSES SMALL BLAZE Carelessness on the part of car' penters in boarding up a old fire •place in the office of Dr. J. W. Chambliss, on Lamar street, caused a small blaze which fi.emen said might have resulted in a destruc tive fire if the flames had not been immediately discovered. Smoke was discovered in tl.e rooms occupied by'Dr. Chambliss, and firemen who responded to the alarm, found an old fireplace hid den in the. wall and covered with plastering . Cutting'into this fire was discd4v ■> i; in, ttv wood-, work and-in-a f mliitites was ex tinguished. No < IT,iaf|e wks" dbne to I the office, \ - Ousted My.. . 1 Dr. J. Frank Norris, pastor of the great First Baptist church of Fort Worth, Tex., charged that the general conference of Texas Bap tists indorsed the teaching of the evolution theory. As a result the convention refused to seat the eight delegates from Norris church and the pastor’s charge was denounc ed as “an insult to this confer ence.” COMRMS FURNACE TOW Formal Report Says Mrs. Sheatsley Choked On Soot in Attempt At Suicide COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec'. si—Mrs. Addie Sheatsley, Lutheran pastoi’s wife whose charred remains were found in the parsonage furnace, did not burn to death. Neither was .he murdered. Mrs. Sheatsley’s death resulted from chocking on i fragment of soot, although she was trying to commit suicide at the tine. This is the official solviion of the weird furnace mystery which has kept authorities scurrying vainly in pursuit of new clews for more than two weeks. It was develope din tl.e formal re port of Coroner Joseph Murphy, who removed the parti/ cremated remains of the pastor’s wife from the parsonage furnace two weeks ago last Monday night and who, from the first, ha.; held to the theory that it “was a plain case of suicide.” FRENCH AUTHORITIES FIGHT MOROCCO REBELS MADRID, Dec. s.—French au thirities in Morocco are making r :tep arations, both military an deconoin ic, to meet any possible activities in the French zone by the rebel chief, Abdel-Krim, according to dispatch es from 4labat. The French, it is stated, are fol lowing the movements of Adbcl- Krim with much atte-it on, and a fight for influence is being waged at present between agents of the rebel leader an dnative chief’s who are friendly to France. Meanwhile the French troops arc fortifying the Franco-Spanish forn tier in Morocco. MELILLA, Morocco, Dec. 5. Renewed activit yby Moorish rebels along the Spanish front is reported here. Spanish positions at Buha fora and Benitez, where Spanish artillery was bombing rebel con centrations, have bee nuttacked. ASKS DEATH PENALTY FOR RICH DISTILLER ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dee. s.—The death penalty for Icm Motlow, wealthy Tennessee distiller, was de manded yesterday by C'rcuit At torney Sidfener in his opening state ment in Motlow’s trial >n a charge of murdering Clarence T. Pullis, Pullman conductor. Judge Hamil ton ruled against a in the trjal asked by the state in an effort to obtain as a witness C. F. Harry, of Grover, N. C., a passenger on the train when the shooting occur red. In dresses are bought by the pound and bread by the yard, and you’re one yourself because this really is true. , NEW YORK FUTURES Pc Open Hara Close Jan. 22.94|22.87|22.93|22.93 Mar. 23.35|23.25f23.30| 23,32 May ... 23.69123.62123.66'23.69 July . 23.8i|23.70|23.80|23.80 Dec. . 22.'82|22.84122.73|22.80 PRICE FIVE CENTS JIISFLHIK SENTENCE PEIDIK KN Tffll Wffl Bl HTMEY F. A. McClellan, 22 Years Old, Slew Contractor—Penalty Is 5 to 15 Years (By Associated Press.) ROCKVILLE, Md., Dec. 5. Frederick A. McClellan, the 22- year-old youth, from Tifton,' Ga., was found guilty or second degree murder late last night by a jury. McClellan was tried for tha slaying of Thomas A. Simms, a contractor, on November 8. Counsel for the defense, aft er receiving the verdict from the jury, immediately moved for a new trial and the sentencing of McClellan was supended pend ing this motion. The penalty in this state for second degre emurder is from 5 to 15 years. BUCK DIRECTOR 1 OFFEOEMM Native of Americus Elected As / Director of Reserve Institution Eugene R. Black, president of the Atlanta Trust Company has been''idected a director of the *\t- Talita Federal Reserve bank, accord ing to an announcement made in Atlanta, by tho chairman of the board. Mr. Black is prominent in civic and business affairs in Atlanta, hav ing been connected with the Atlanta Trust Company for several years. Mr. Black was born in Americus, he moved to Atlanta when a young boy; but there are st'll many of the old residents here who art* num bered among his friends and Who will be glad to hear of his appoint ment to this important post, WHITE COUNTY PAYS TRIBUTE TO ROY HEAD CLEVELAND, The citizens of White County today na : d fitting tribute to the memory of Georgia’s first killed, in the World War, and a monument that will ever stand ng a memorial to the bravery of Roy "Head, when a highway iridge span ning the Tennessee River, was dedi cated with impressive ceremonies. The exercises w.ere under the au spices of White County Post N<r, 12, of the American Legion. Prominent speakers and men known throughout th< date were hi " attendance at the dediiuit’on, in eluding many Legionaries. Gover nor Clifford Walker, who was to have made the principal address, could not attend due to the of his father on Thursda.v. DOERUN MAN KICKED BY MULE; MAY DIE MOULTRIE, Dec. 5.—W. C. Fincher, 50, prominent planter oct Doerun, was near death Thursday night as the result of an injury sus tained yesterday afternobn when he was kicked by a mule. The blow struck Fincher just above the left' temple and a piece of the skull was driven into the brain. He is one of the best-known mem in the northern part of the count). I LITTLE JOE I i ecMt'HtXT TO WOhAtN WUEN IT To TURUAH© M&N'S WtADS' — 1 •
