About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1924)
PAGE SIX _ F “ THE WICKEDES7 CITYIW7 HE WHOLE WORLD” CHICAGO PICTURED WORSE THAN PARIS j AND HER APACHES < , ■ Judges Aroused Over Criminal Dockets Crowded to Impos sible Capacity BY ROY J. GIBBONS service Writer CHICAGO, Dec. 2C._ Chicago i.- the wickedest city in the? world. Even Paris is better. Apaches are gentle compared *o the gunmen cf Chicago’s underworld. With unfailing regularity, gang sters here are chalking vp a murder a day. Assassins’ bullets ~are mowing down men. Somewhere in Chicago a mar or woman will be slain tonight. To morrow night another v. iil meet the same fate. Women, elderly as we-1 as young, fear to venture out at night. Band of morons are attacking them. Cops Get No Da’’U Off In one sections, a hairy, de mented man, described by several victims as a “human ape.” is spread ing terrorism throughout the n -igh borhood. An unprecedented epidemic o'.' holdups, burglaries and second-story visitations is sweeping Hie city from end to end. All of which may seem but tne prattle of reformers or the ground less fears of over-wrought citizen;. But it isn’t. Every bit of it is borne out in police and court rec-mds and th-.; daily crime accounts in the news- x jdce, seemingly powerless to cope with the situation, have been put on"an “emergency” basis. This ■ —tails for nine hours’ patrol duty each day with no days off. Judges, too awarkm-ed to the enormity of the job before them, have been handing out stiff sen tences to the comparatively few cu ! - prits convicted by juries. Criminal dockets, however, are crowded to almost impossible ca pacity. I Judges There, '1 co From all sides come rumors ol >1 —rtifWiißiff le I Do You Know the Comfort of a ; HOT WATER BOTTLE o I “KANTLEAK” and All-Metal, at a: h I MURRAY’S PHARMACY ' B Phone 87 The Rexall Store Americus, Ga. p Wliwn imm i ■ Mother's Task Made Easy 1’ “nEelm * vv Z\ x\ x <O The use of chewing gum comes KT to mother’s aid wonderfully in Cp J\ getting children to keep their teeth " * clean. 'TVHjI WRIGLEY’S not only removes I food particles from between the I teeth, but it massages the gums l*» j and aids tooth nutrition. When father brings home WRIGLEY’S he benefits the teeth, appetite, digestion and nerves of ' the whole family. It will clear his breath and •oothe his throat after smoking. L a ■ 11 Xa\ c \ A c I BMmSr . > i ?" 4 I . J K JI THE TOWN burnham k /v \ 1 • ks pals and SORDID AND \ FATTENS OH THE MORAL ISSUE— JWtflHb, PENALTY. /y c/cpqo TEE- V ~ —--A' ' GAMBLING dO/HK Alt eon w/ld and t *A/A ' frequently the v BEER RUNNERS SHOOT OF KORONS A HAIRY DEMEN FED MAH SPREAD UP THE PLACE AND ATTACK WOMEN AND TERRORISM THROUGHOUT ONE ALSO THEMSELVES. SLUG THE IE ESCORTS NEIGHBORHOOD. “fixing” in the courts. A multi-. - I tudv of drives* are being made! ( f| against laiv-enforcenient offiihr.-.' I suspected of “wlnkino” at the cases •'.Of powerful underworld leaders. •( Chief of Police Marrin Collins . was quoted as blaming it on e< r ! tain "rubber stamp judges” whom he accused of issuing writs of! ej habeas corpus without cause to known bad men his nmn picked up * Later he denied it. oj But the report aroused the ire i the courts. They retaliated with! s the coihebaek that the police d?-j 1 partimnt is inefficient. They aid Collins was “passing'-tho buck” to e “cover up” for his department. 1 s i All this serves as a brief back -* ground to the crime wave, that - reached its climax her? with th< I slaying of Dion O’Bannion, no ; e| tcrious beer runner and reputed .multimillionaire underworld king. Several judges were reen :;t the funeral services. This brought sharp f censure from the public and a cut- ting reprimand from Chief J'.istiel Olsen of municipal court. Suburbs Also Ratlc ' But Chicago is not alone in al! its rottenness. Many of its suburbs] art; haven of refuge for men the law! isrounding. Chief of these are the towns cf Cicero and Burnham. The former, authorities say, is the principal re dezvous for beer runmis and “hi jackers.” There the gunmen elite gather/in i evening dress and silk toppers to. I run wild in the many gambling I joints. They frequent! shoot up , these places and themselves, toe. Burnham is more sordid. It fat tens on the moral issj°. It is fla grantly a wide-open place. Beer t sells there like water, I Beer Easy to Gat j But for that matter, it can be | bought in 1000 or moi _■ saloons in Chicago, reformers charge. Perhaps one of the most signifi cant features of the present crime wave is the increase i i major felo nies since the Loeb-Leopold dccis- I ion. Because of there youth Loeb and Leopold got life instead of death for killing little Bobbie Franks, During the next month, Chicago had the biggest murder orgy in its history. Thirty-six were slain, po lice blotters reveal. With one man being killed a day, or 365 a year, but one man has been given the extreme penalty in a year. A judge sentenced Russell Scott of Cleveland and Det ■ it to death for murder committ ?d during a cigar store holdup a ye ’.r ago. But contracted with Scott’s case was the acquittal of Anthony Vida ni;., Anna Valanis, Lucille Marshall and William D. Lydot , youthful shieks and shebas, chary <1 .with kill ing Mrs. Bessie Gaeme'.ch. The jury said they wvr-> too young to hang. It let them ge because of the precedent Judge Caverly estab lished in the Loeb.-Leopold decision. And so the lawlessness goes on. Candy may be gradur.’iy w’orn off the seat of Jhe trousers by putting sandpaper in the chairs. I SULPHUR IS BEST { t TO CLEAR UP UGLY, i I BROKEN OUT SKIN i f Any breaking out or skin irritation on face, neck' or body is overcome quickest by applying Mentho-Sulphur, says a noted skin specialist. Because of its germ destroying properties, noth ing has ever been found to take the place of this sulphur’ preparation that' instantly brings ease from the itching, burning and irritation. Mentho-Sulphur heals eczema right up, leaving the skin clear ajid smooth. It seldom fails to relieve *he torment or disfigurement. A little jar of Rowles Mentho-Sulphur may be ob tained it any drug store. It is used 'ike cold cream. ficFniW 808 .. ja - ’A, *■' THE AMERICUS FMFSMET IT STATE COLLEGE To Study Important Problems Facing Them in 1925—Many National Experts Present (By The Associated Press) ATHENS, Dec. 26, —The week of January 26 to 31st has been set aside as the annual Farmer’s Wees at the State College of Agriculture, according to announcement madi recently by authorities of the insti tution. A comprehensive program is being arranged, and an effort will be made to cover the _ important problems to be faced by Georgia farmers in 1925. With a number of nationally known agricultural authorities sche duled to address the meeting, it is expected that there will be an even greater attendance nt the confer ence than was true m 1923 when more than one thousand were pit s ent. All county and !’.Mie demon stration agents will be in attend- UNITED STATES TIKES AKE GOOD TIKES Trade b !■ g k jB) II Mark : . - J . w / i \ -.i USCO CORD I | The Good Low-Priced Cord Bl’ I -I I . 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A t lh Li 11 x\'.' »ua-y > / V OaMMEBE K 7 / i ance, ;>nd the annual . xtension con-: ferencc will be held in conjunction! with ther farm meeting. ■ The-feature of the week will be! the study of all phases cf agricul I , ture and home economic-,’the pre- 1 sentation in-class and lecture of thej t latent and best information on these, subjects by men and women who! have made them the ; r life study. ; 1 ESTIMATES ON COTTON C| WILL BE IMPROVED ATLANTA. Dec. 26.—1 T. S. Sen-! , I ator Harris ot Geor: 'a. author e-f'i e i the law requiring frequent crop re-j ■! ports, conferred recently with thej i department of agriculture at Wajh -1! ington in regard to the crop reports! t isstted by the department, according! i to reports received In ; ? today. Senator Harris urged the depart | yj ment that in making estimates efi of acres plant d in- cotton, si the acre-age planted e l abandoned n j be deducted from the estimates is ■-j sued July 1, each year, instead S n ; later in the season. •I Senator Harris was assured Lyl ; - the department th'at t’ii - would be I 1-! done in future. I SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER OLIN L. DIXON IS HONORED AT G.M.A. COLLEGE PARK, Dec. 26. : Special)—Olin L. Dixon, of Ameri i cue. as placed on the- Eagle: List, I a hich has just been compiled by the . fr.cultv of Georgia Military Aci’-.le i my f r om the grades of the final two weeks of the Fall session. To be j eligible for the list a cadet must be 1 practically perfect in deportment | and must have an ave r aso of at ■ least 85 per cent. MRS. H. D. WATTS IS i CRITICALLY ILL AT HOME Friends of Mrs. H. D. Watts will regret to learn that she remains ! critically ill at her home on East ! Church street, and little hope is j held for her recovery. Her chil dren, Mrsfl IL G. Aird, Mrs. W. D. Miller and Mrs. Laura McLeod, of Jacksonville; Harrison Watts, of; Waycross, and Bernard Watts, of Fitzgerald, have been ; uinmoned to her bedside. If summer were to visit us for the j holidays she certainly would b* a welcome guest. nimui - UNLONJIMBS (Continued from Page One.) would be force dto fight at such long range. The Japanese navy might make trouble for American merchant ships in the western Pacific, but at the same time, the An.ericar would be making correspoi, W' trouble for Japanese merchant in the eastern part cf the r-’Ji ocean. It would be war, but a wa- | which the LTmted Stat-;s would W at no disadvantage. She mi; ' | even be at some advantage, throu a possession of Hawaii a° a ba: J much nearer to Japan than any baa Japan could find for herself in t 1 direction of the American coast .f As a mon-inember, America h;|| of course, no means of getting I 1 white elephant off from her o ;5 and onto the League of Natio A hands, but if the admmistr / A could, there’s small ouestion it would, and as soon as F 1,150,000 SHARES SC itb ON STOCK EX( NEW YORK, Dec. high prices on fifty-thrq 1 >'^ u stocks, including per issue mark the close T~ mas week on the stock , j Sale breached a ner. i one million ,one hundred g thousand shares were s.; I*y total has been exceeded 6# J Saturday since the po. ys boo mstarted some time a SENATOR UNDERWC L OUT AFTER IL| WASHINGTON, Dee. 2 | ator Underwood ,of Alaba' 1 has been confined to 1 is » ■ an acute case of La Gripp i and about today. He wil. 1 hi scustomary seat in the Sen | Monday morning it is though “KID” M’COY JURY STILL IS DEADLOCK LOS ANGELES', Dee. 27.—\ \ jury in the case of Kid McCoy, wi. & is accused o skilling Mrs. Theresa \ Mors last August, returned to its A deliberations today after failing to 1 agree last night. One of the jury’s < nine women members was ill from a ; severe cold. Prior to oeing locked j up for the night, the jury reported j that it stood six and six. t — 'i
