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ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR— NO 161
Judge Indicted for Fraud Wednesday—Killed Today
CAR WHICH ROSS
WAS OPERATING
RUNS OFF BRIDGE
Prominent Tennessee Jurist; Un
der Bond of $25,000 at time
of Death
IMPLICATED IN FAILURE
PEOPLES SAVING BANK
Badly Mutilated Body Found
Pinned Beneath Car Short- f
ly After Tragedy
Jackson, Tenn, July 9.
Judge J. W. Ross, of the Western
Tennessee district of the Federal
court who, Wednesday was indict
ed in connection with the failure
of the Peoples Savings hank of
Jackson, today was killed In an
automobile accident, one of the
most horrible to occur in this state.
Judge Ross was killed when the
automobile in which he was riding
ran off a bridge about five miles
east of Jackson. It is believed that
the car turned over several times
in the air before it struck the creek,
pinning the jurist underneath.
1 he body was discovered shortly
after the tragedy by the attendants
on the ambulance which was sum
moned by persons who saw the car
leap from the road. It is presumed
that Ross was alone in the car as
no one was near the wreck when the
ambulance arrived.
Judge Ross was under a $35,000
bond on the charges of forgery,
fraudulent breach of trust and ac
cessory to embezzlement, which
were returned in a joint indictment
Wednesday by the Madison grand
jury, following an investigation in
to the failure of the bank.
The basis of Judge Ross’ indict
ment was in unpaid drafts bearing
his name. Several of them were is
sued on Memphis lawyers and found
in the resources of the bank.
When called upon by bank liqui
dating agents to pay the drafts,
Ross had refused, declaring he was
not indebted to the institution.
When the indictment was returned
Wednesday, implicating him with
three others associated with the
bank, Judge Ross said, “it should
be taken into consideration that a
grand jury inquiry is wholly an ex
parte proceeding.”
PRESIDENT OFF
STATE POLITICS
Shown By His Failure to Aid
Personal Friend in Secur
ing Congressional Seat
SWAMPSCOTT, July 9. —Presi
dent Coolidge does not intend to
play an active roll in congressional
elections.
This determination holds even in
his own congressional district in
Massachusetts, in which a vacancy
now exists as the result of the re
cent death of George Churchill.
Reports in circulation that Cool
idge is behind the movement to
have K'enry L. Bowles, Springfield,
seek this seat is known to be some
what vexing to the executive;. De
spite his close personal friendship
for Bowles, Coolidge believes it is
not his prerogative to participate in
these elections.
LATVIA DESIRES
TO PAY U. S. DEBT
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The
government of Latvia has informed
the treasury of its desire to fund
its debt to the United States. This
step on the part of Latvia runs the
total to four countries that have
expressed a desire to*pay the Uni
ted States.
. American Farmers Are Five
Billion Dollars Better Off 7 han
They Were One Year
Increased Prosperity Found in
Cotton, Tobacco and Wheat
Sections
CHICAGO, June 10.—When the
American farmer balances his
books June 30 to mark the close of
the 1924-1925 crop yield, he will
find himself $500,000,000 better
off than he was a year ago.
This advance finding issues au
thoritatively here from O. E. Brad
fute, president of the American
Farm Bureau Federation.
"When I say the farmer will find
himself $500,000,000 richer by the'
end of June than he was at the
came time last year. I speak na-
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SCOPES AT TRIAL
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Prof. Michael 1. Dupin', one of the
foremost scientsits of the day, and
a member of the Columbia Univer
sity faculty, will testify for John T.
Scopes in his trial at Dayton.
Melon Growers
Os Sumter To
Reap Harvest
Indications Arc That They Will
Receive From S3OO to S4OO
for Remaining Cars
With buyers offering from S3OO
tc $350 a car for Thurman Gray
and Watson watermelons averaging
30 pounds, indications are that Sum
ter county farmers, who had the
foresight to increase theii acreage
this year and who still have the
major portion of their crop in the
fields, will realize a large profits
off their melon crop before the sea
son ends.
The bulk of the South Georgia
melon crop has already been mark
eted and buyers are moving from
that section to Macon, where they
will be in a position to purchase’
the crop of Southwest Georgia,
which is at its peak, according to
H. A. Cliett, county agent.
Twenty-five cars of melons have
already beeh shipped from Sumter
county, but did not bring a big price
as the melons average less than 30
pounds, due to the dry weather
which had a tendency to ripen the
first of the crop before the melons
were fully matured. However the
recent rains have been beneficial
to the new melons and they will
weigh from 30 to 40 pounds be
fore they ripen, is the opinion of
growers.
The Southwest Georgia shipping
season, in which Sumter county is
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LIGHTNING DESTROYS
BARN AND CONTENTS
Lightning ignited H. L. Speer’s
barn at Leslie Tuesday afternoon
and the structure and contents,
valued at SSOO, were destroyed by
the fire. The barn was partially
insured. All of the live stock was
saved.
COMMUNITY SING
AT SHILOH CHURCH
A community sing will be held at
the Shiloh church Sunday afternoon
at 3 o’clock, when the famous Les
lie quartet and singers from every
town in this section of the state will
be heard. The community sings
held during the past two mon’Jis
have been very successful and indi
cations are that this one will estab
lish an attendance record.
Everybody is invited to attend.
tionally, of course,” Bradfute ex
plains.
“However, this increaser prosper
ity is by no means evenly distribut
ed. It is principally found in wheat
! cotton and tobacco sections, some
i of which had every unsatisfactory
' yield the year before and in some
I cases for two or three years past.
“Should you draw a line from Chi
cago to Savannah, generally speak-
■ ir.g, all north and east of that line,
■ including also Wisconsin, show an
i actually reduced income over the
previous year. This same condition
I prevails in all of that section of the
■ i United States west and south of the
■Hine drawn from Spokane to New
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 9. 1925
Merchants Institute AW ill
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Open j Morriing
First Session of Intensive Business Training
Course Will Be Held At Carnegie Library Un
der Supervision of Frank Stockdale, Business
Expert—Eighteen Merchants Underwrite In
stitute and Will Take Advantage of Profes
sional Instructions.
Frank Stockdale comes to Americus Sunday, ready to open
|he first session of the Americus
.morning at 8 o’clock at the Carnegie Library. Mr. Stockdale is
in Columbus this week, where the institute is meeting daily with
large crowds.
1 he institute, which is nothing more nor less than an intensive
business institute for merchants,
their clerks, professional men
and others, was made possible
when more than 20 firms under
wrote the cost for the services of
Mr. Stockdale.
Some of the subjects that will be
taken up during the week by the
institute are these although no set
program has yet been arranged:
“Today’s competition and how Jo
meet it.”
“Fussy customers and snippy
clerks.”
“Turnovers and profits.”
“Suggestive salesmanship.”
“How to know those lines from
which a profit may be made.”
“How team work in the office or
store builds business.”
What is this Retail Merchants
Institute ?
Perhaps it might better be termed
a Business Congress. It is design
ed on the same plan as Teachers’
Institutes and Farmers’ Institutes
in that a recognized authority on
retail and sellin gproblems delivers
lectures and conducts the meetings
with a view to promulgating new
ideas and developing those best suit
ed to the community, and its specif
ic objects are:
1. To meet outside competition
more effectively and get more of
the trade that belongs to Americus.
2. To help employees render bet
ter service to customers.
3. To help the citizens in general
appreciate the value of co-operative
effort.
Institutes are being held in Cor
dele, Columbus, Augusta, Atlanta,
Valdosta, West Point, Newnan and
many other cities, large and small,
(Continued on Page Six)
LEEBTATETO
BE DIVIDED SOON
Partition of Famous General’s
Son’s Estate to Be Made
Through County Court
(By The Associated Press)
RICHMOND, Va„ July 9—The
partition of personal property and
real estate bequeathed and devised
by General W. H. F. (Rooney) Lee,
son of General Robert E. Lee, will
soon be made through the Circuit
Court of Fairfax county. It will
involve real estate in the counties
of Fairfax and New Kent and in
the City of Richmond.
Partition will be made in Fairfax
due to a recent decision of the
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
which decided in favor of the juris
diction of the Fairfax court in a
case appealed by Mrs. Robert E.
Lee, Jr., who had sought to have
the partition made in the Chancery
Court of the City of Richmond. Dr.
George Bolling Lee had instituted
proceedings as administrator in
Fairfax.
General Lee by his will gave all
his property, real and personal, to
his wife, Mary Tabb Lee, during her
lifetime and directed that at her
death it should be divided between
his two sons, Colonel Robert E>
Leo. anc | D r . George Bollintr Lee
If either son died before his mother
and without children, he had the
right to dispose of his share of the
estate by will.
Mrs. Robert E. Lee lost a case in
the District of Columbia courts in
which she sought to compel George
Bolling Lee and a District finan
cial institution to divide heirlooms
and relics which belonged to the
Lee family.
Colonel Robert E. Lee died prior
to his mother, but he exercised the
right given him by his father’s will
and devised and bequeathed to his
widow his one half interest in the
entire estate, making the provision
that at her re-marriage, or at her
death, her interest, will in either
event,: revert ,ta Dr. George Bolling
Lee of New York,
WILL BE IN CHARGE OF
BUSINESS INSTITUTE
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FRANK STOCKDALE
SENATE KEPT
BUSY TODAY
Eighteen Bills Introduced; Res
olution in House Asks Lower
Telephone Rates
ATLANTA, July 9. Eighteen
bills, several of them of prime im-
I ortance, were introduced in the
senate this morning, the first read
ing of which constituted the main
business of the upper body up un
til noon today. Among the bills
was one by Senator Hayes, of the
Eighth district, providing for the
expansion of the state board of
health so as to reduce preventable
disease.
The public service commission
would be requested to investigate
the telephone‘rates with a view to
a downward reduction to pre-war
rates, under the provision of a reso
-1 ition introduced in the house to
day, carrying the names of Repre
sentatives Daniel, of Troup; Beck,
of Carroll; Stanford, of Lowndes,
and others.
SALE OF GOVERNMENT
SHIPS BEING PUSHED
WASHINGTON, July 9. Fur
ther negotiations for the sale of
200 vessels for scrapping was or
dered today by the" shipj ing board,
which rejected the recommendation
of President Palmer of the Emerg
ency Fleet corporation that the
bid of the Boston Iron and Metal
company of Baltimore, of $1,370,-
000 for the 2000 be accepted.
BRYAN CONDEMNS
SCOPES’ ACTION
DAYTON, Tenn., July 9. —Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan believes John
T. Scopes, defendant fn the Tennes
see evolution trial, “is doing more
harm to the teachers of the country
than to any other class.” This harm,
he declared today, would be “in
definitely increased if Scopes’ views
as to the independence of teachers
were established.
ARTIST’S SKETCHES
TRAP HIS SLAYERS
> PARIS, July 9.—Two robbers ,
? beat up a French painter so <
> badly that he lost his power [
of speech. <
> Unable to give a verbal de- <
’ scription of his assailants, the <
? artist drew pictures of them J
> shortly before his death in a S
hospital.
By using these drawings, the ’
, police found and arrested the <
murderers. >
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GUNMAN LURED
TO HIS DEATH
IN CHICAGO WAR
Tony Genna Third of His Fam
ily to Die From Assassin’s
Bullets
CHICAGO, July 9. Chicago
gangland ran amuck again Wednes
day and Tony Genna, of the notori
ous gang of gunmen and beer run
ners, fell the victim of assassins’
bullets, the third member of his
family to be killed in the past six
weeks.
Tony’s death came in the midst of
a relentless police war being waged
against gangsters which started a
few weeks ago when Michael Genna,
Tony’s brother, was shot to death
after members of his gang had stag
ed a battle with policemen, killing
two officers and wounding a third.
A few weeks previous Angelo Gen
na, another brother, v;as murdered.
Tony, 28 years old ar d the wealth
iest of six brothers, apparently was
lured to his death. For half an
hour he paced nervously up and
down before the grocery store of a
friend in the heart of “Little Italy.”
Then, as a big closed car drew up
to the curb he advanced with hand
extended to greet the two occupants
who stepped from the car and walk
ed toward him.
As Tony clasped the hand of one,
the other fired five bullets into his
body and both fled, tossing the pis
tol away. Tony died a few hours
later in a hospital.
Two minutes before he died Tony
broke the iron rule of silence that
has prevailed in Chicago gangland
where men live and die by the gun
to settle their feuds.
“You’re dying, Tony; you have
just a few minutes to live.” a po
lice officer told him. “Tel! us who
shot you.”
Tony shook his head.
“I’ll get them whe nl get better,”
he said.
Then realizing he was about to
die, he gasped “Cavallere,” and drop
ped back on his cot.
TO PHOTOGRAPH
SUMTER’S CROPS
Pictures Will Be Used in Telling
the World About Advantages
in This County
In order that Sumter county will
be able to tell the world what it is
doing in the agricultural line,
George IL Walker, photographer for
the Seaboard Air Line Railway, is
this week taking a series of farm
pictures which will be reproduced
in a pamphlet to be gotten up by
the county agent. The books when
printed will be sent to practically
every farmer in this section of the
country.
The report of the survey made of
Sumter county farm last winter is
soon to be released by the United
States Department of Agriculture
and as soon as it is received the in
formation will be used with the pic
ture sprocured by the Seaboard’s
photographer in telling the world’
of the great possibilities that awaits
the new comer to Sumter.
< Farmers who have exceptional
erpps are asked to communicate
wil'i the county agent so that the
photographer can take a picture of
thefii for the pamphlet. 1
AtUE BACON FARM
LAND DECREASED OVER
• / $1,000,000 IN 5 YEARS
ATLANTA, July 9.—The value
of farm lands and buildings in
Eact n county decreased more than
onc/million dollars in the five year
pemod 1920 to 1925, it is shown In
a rjeliminary announcement of the
resf'ts of the 1925 farm census of
Bac<\i county made by the federal
department of commerce. The
1925 figures are preliminary and
subject to correction, the report
The value of all farm land and
says.
buildings in the county on January
1, 1920, the announcment shows,
was $3,130,654, as contracted with
$2,016,952 on January 1, 1925. The
Comparative figures for the land
alone are $2,579,984 for 1920 and
for 1925. The value;
of the kuil.diiyjs in 1520 was $550,-1
670, and $4*7,15$ in 1925. I
LEADING WITNESS
AT DAYTON APE TRIAL
Henry Fairfield Osborn, director
of the American Museum of Nat
ural History, and an authority on
evolution, will be a witness for
John T. Scopes at the Dayton “Mon
key trial.”
Senators Take
Oath on Negro
Porter’s Bible
Clifford Johnson Renders Serv
ice to McClatchey, Secre
tary of the Senate
ATLANTA, July 9—The Georgia
state senate was sworn in this year
on a Bible belonging to one of the
negro porters, it was revealed to
day when the circumstances were
revealed by D. F. McClatchey, sec
retary of the senate.
On the day that senate convened,
Mr. McClatchey summoned Clifford
Johnson, the Htead porter of the
senate, and instructed him to go to
Chief Justice Richardson, of the
Supreme Court, and inform him of
the hour the Senate was to convene,
so that there might be no delay in
waiting for the chief justice.
“And, Clifford,” said Mr. Mc-
Clatchey, “I wish you would check
up and be sure taht there is a Bible
on the president’s desk too, so there
will not be any slip-up.”
Yassah, yassah” replied Clifford,
“I done seen to dat dis mawnin, and
I brung my own Bible. Heah hit.”
Then he produced his copy of the
Holy Writ, which Mr. McClatchey
described as being of excellent
binding and print and that it showed
unmistakable signs of having been
well used and well read.
When the senate is not in session,
Clifford is porter to the governor
and has occupied his dual position
with Mr. McClatchey and the gov
ernor for a quarter of a century.
He is a staunch member of one of
the local colored Methodist churches
MULE INJURED WHEN
STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE
A Macon physician, unable to
stop his car on a muddy stretch o(
the Ellaville road, Wednesday morn
ing, crashed into a team of mules,
the property of Sheriff McArthur,
and cut a deep gash in the fore leg
of one of the animals. The acci
dent was unavoidable, and as the
doctor agreed to pay all cost, no
case was made. Upon examination
it was found that no bones were
broken in the mule's leg. The wagon
was not damaged.
Just wiggling your toes in it Is
more fun than leaving footprints on
the sands of time.
Slayer of Jake Hamon, Multi-
Millionaire Oil Monarch, Says
She Will Approach Alter Again
“Queen of Tragedies” Clara Ha
mon, to Seek Happiness
in Marriage
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 9.
—"Yes, I know I shall marry again.
I don’t know who he will be but I
tim certain that I was destined to
find natural companionship and
love somewhere in the world.”
Five years ago the name of Clara
Smith Hamon was emblazoned on
the front pages of nearly every pa
per in the country. She had shot
to death Jake Hamon, multi-mil
lionaire oil king and political bosa
of Oklahoma.
She was a woman whose tragic
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MAN WHO TOOK
ATROPIN NOW
OUT OF DANGER
Dr. Judson B. West, Richland
Pharmacist, Took Overdose
Medicine Monday Night
OVER PROTESTS OF
AMERICUS DRUGGIST
Heart Stimulant Taken By
Young iVlan to Check Cold,
Is Report
Dr. Judson B. West, formerly ?f
Columbus, now pharmacist at Lit
tle’s Drug Store, Richkind, is recov
ering from the results of an over
dose of atropine, which he look
while in Americus Monday night,
according to information received
from Richland.
The atropine was purchased
from the Windsor pharmacy, and
was taken by Dr. West over the pro
tests of Dr. Drew, proprietor of the
Windsor Pharmacy, who said lie
would not have given Dr. West the
heart stimulant had he not been a
member of the pharmecutical pro
fession.
Dr. West, according to Dr. Drew,
asked for a half grain of atropine,
which is used as a remedy for colds.
“I asked Dr. West, said Dr. Drew,
“if he were in the habit rff taking
such a large dose and he replied
that he did not think "it would hurt
him.” However, before I gave him
the medicine I pinched a piece off
the tablet, reducing the dose to lit
tle more than a quarter of a grain.
Ordinarily I would not sell thait size
dose to a layman, but as Dr. Wed.
was a pharmacist I thought he knew
what he was doing and realized the
effect that an over dose of atropine
would have oft the person taking
it.”
Half hour afterwards Dr. West
returned to the Windsor Pharmacy
and asked Dr. Drew for something
that would counteract the atropine.
After administering first aid, Dr.
•West called a physician, who assur
ed Dr. West that he was in no im
mediate danger of becoming seri
ously ill, according to Dr. Drew.
Dr. Drew said that there were
numerous rumors in circulation
that Dr. West purchased the
atropine with suicidal intent. Such
is not the truth, Dr. West was suf
fering with a severe cold and took
the atropine, which is frecmently
used as a remedy so rcofils, said Dr.
West.
OIL BOOM TOWN
HAS $500,000 FIRE
EL DORADO, Ark., July R.
Cross Roads, the newest oil boom
town in the world, nine miles north
cas tof hero, in tn heart of the sec
ond and third land department area,
was ruined with fire Wednesday
night as a flaming tornado, rising
from the treating plant of the Im
perial Oil and Gas Products com
pany, swept four wells, six earthen
storage pits and other properties
for a loss of more than $500,000.
CHATHAM SOLONS TO
OPPOSE PEACOCK BILL
SAVANNAH, July 9.—The Chat
ham county delegation to the low
er house of the general assembly
is to cast its vote against the
Peacoch bill for the prohibition of
Sunday dancing in the state of Geor
gia, it was announced by Rener Den
mark, one of the representatives of
the delegation Mr. Denmark says he
speaks for the whole delegation and
they have decided that the tolera
tion of Sunday dancing is a local
problem and is not to be interfered
with the state authority. Savannah
is located in Chatham county.
story of love and murder intnigued
the interes| of a nation.
Now Clara has come out of her
retreat in the peaceful surroundings
of these California hills to again
step into the spotlight,
A divorce decree was granted her
from John Gorman, film director,
whom Clara married when she took
to the films to picture the story of
her life.
This alone was enough -"to carry
Clara back into the news-* columns.
But she added interest,-’when aho
announced that she would marry*
again.
For a life strewn with traged.'"
has now embittered Clara against;
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