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For Georgia—Fair in north; !o->
cal thundershowers in south portion >
tonight and Saturday.
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 161
First Shot Fired Today in Tennessee’s ‘Monkey War’
BODY OF WOMAN
AND MAN FOUND
IN AUTOMOBILE
Sergeant-Detective Walling and
Miss Mary A. Linzmayer
Shot Through Heart
NOT KNOWN WHETHER
SUICIDE OR MURDER
Pistol Found in Limousine Be
side Dead Pair Believed to
Have Been Officer’s
RUMSON, N. J., July 10. The
bodies of Sergeant-Detective Henry
Walling of Long Branch, and Miss
Mary A. Linzmayer, of Atlantic
Highlands, were found in a limouis
ine in Ward avenue early today.
Both had been shot through the
heart. The police said that wheth
er it was a case of murder or sui
cide depended largely upon wheth
er the revolver found in the ear was
tlie kind used by the Long Branch
officers.
A passerby noticing the lights
burning on the limouisine early this
morning walked over to investigate
and found the bodies lying in the
bottom of the car. He declared to
poliae that he did not see anyone
leave or approach the car. The
jewelry worn by Miss Linzmayer
was not molested, neither was the
money which Walling carried.
It is said that the opinion of of
ficials is that the pair met death at
the hands of someone who stopped
the car and fired the fatal shots or
that Miss Linzmayer and Walling
committed suicide, as indications
pointed to the car being halted
properly. It is a certainty that
they were not killed while the car
was in motion.
Walling was a popular member
of the Long Branch detective force
and the entire department is to ex
j ert every effort in apprehending the
person or persons responsible for
the crime, provided it is determined
that he or Miss Linzmayer did not
commit suicide.
BILL TO AMEND
constitution
Measure Would Prohibit Levy
ing of An Advalorem Tax for
Many Purposes
ATLANTA, July 10.—The con
stitution of Georgia would be amend
cd to prohibit levying of an ad
valorem tax for the purposes un
der the provisions in a bill intro
duced in the house today by Rep
resentative Bussey, of Crisp and ten
or 12 others. The measure provides
that for state purposes an income
tax may be levied by the legisla
ture.
| Another measure introduced to
| day would make it unlawful after
| January 1, next, the sale of pistol
? hnd revolvers not designed for use
I by the militia. It was introduced
I by Representative Dorris, of Doug
las.
BOYS EN ROUTE TO FLA.
ROB GASOLINE TANK&
RICHLAND, July 10.— (Special)
■ —Six white boys traveling out of
Birmingham for Florida in an au
tomobile stopped at Brooklyn, a
little town seven miles from Rich
land, Tuesday night and robbed the
tank of Hollonton and Son of lubri
cating oil.
The proprietor, was sleeping in
the store and was awakened by the
noise outside.
When he arose to investigate, the
intruders drove away, but he fol
ly,;ed them into Richland, whore he
bad them detained but allowed them
to pK. 'ed after they had paid the
to his oil tank.
' The next morning it was discover
ed that the same boys had
into the gas tank at Patterson and
Davis, at Renfroe. They were
traced and three of them were ar
rested at Moultrie, the other three
so far have escaped.
FURNITURE MAKERS
PAY LARGE FINES
CHICAGO, July 10. —Eighty-one
case goods furniture manufacturers,
indicted for violation of the Sher
man anti-trust law’, today entered
pleas of guilty and were given
fines aggregating $182,000. The
indictments were returned several
months ago, i
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July
10.—A mountain kidnaping that
nearly cost the lives of two men is
proving one of the toughest puz
zles to Tennessee mountaineers
that ever popped up here.
Dr. W. D. Mason, veterinarian
and Lawrence Bowman, assistant
prohibition ag mt, were found
elvined to a tree on Signal Moun
t:r,:, near here, After the,’ had be-, a
missing fu, ! days.
They said feudists had bound
them there.
But the mountaineers say:
“It’s maughty .strange. Never
heered of a feudist that didn’t kill.
Never heered of one that tied his
man. Those fellahs either kill or
nothin.’ It’s maughty strange.”
City Fathers
Meet Tonight
Council Will Confine Its Activi
ties to Routine Business, Is
Report
Unless something unexpected
turns up between now and 7:30 to
night, city council will confine its
efforts to threshing out routine
business at its regular meeting to
night, according to several council
men.
City Engineer Walker said that
he was desirous of submitting his
paving report tonight but will be
unable to do so until the following
meeting, due to the paving project
being delayed on account of a short
age of asphalt. In his report M”.
Walker will give an itemized ac
count of every dollar expended by
the city in paving the streets.
Jack Flies in Berlin
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Our Mr. Dempsey, who has beer.
■ pping about Europe on his honey
ipon, is shown leaving a German
spsenger plane in which he made
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JULY IQ. 1925
BRYAN’S FARRIVAUHNj CHAMBER
IS MARKED IBYitLOUD CHEERING
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Trial Held Up As the Case of
Jchn T. Scopes, Charged With
Violation of the Tennesee
Law Against Teaching Evolu
tion, Played in the Hands ot
Grand Jury for Second Time;
Doubt As to the Legality of
cf the Indictment Against
Teacher-
DAYTON, Tenn., July 10. - A
new indictment, based upon the
evidence responsible for the old
document, was returned against
Scores by the grand jury.
Son after the second indictment
was returned to replace the tech
nically imperfect first document,
Darrow, attorney for the defense,
stated to the court that he and his
associates regarded the scientific
testimony, that the theory of evo
lution does not contract the divine
story of the creation, as competent.
Darrow’s statement was met by
a statement from the state that the
prosecution would contest the intro
duction of extraneous evidence and
would insist that such scientific
evidence in this case would be in
competent.
Judge John Raulston indicated
that he favored the selection of a
jury first, before the matter was
argued and adjourned the court
with instructions to have 100 extra
jurymen present at 1:30.
DAYTON, Tenn., July 10.
The case of John T. Scopes, charged
with violating the Tennessee law
against teaching evolution in the
public sclic.:!s ; v/as placed in the
hands of th a Rhea county grand
jury for the second time here to
day, when tlie court convened for
the trial of the 24-year-old school
teacher. Attorney General A. T.
7 ennessee has
Most Unique
School in US.
Baxter Caters to Aged and Poor;
57-(Year-Old f/.an Works
for H. S. Diploma
BAXTER, Tenn., July I-).--Bax
ter Seminary, located in Putnam
county on the Cumberland plateau
in the mountains of Tennessee, is
unique in the age and poverty of
Its students. Os the 14 students
who were graduated this year, three
were between 35 and 40 years of
age. The average age of the 110
students in attendance throughout
the year was between 25 and 30.
“Our students are poor ami needy,
live in little log cabins, have ooor
land, and are older than the aver
age,” said Rev. Harry L. Upper
man, president. “Three students be
tween 30 and 35 years of age are
in the first, second and third years
of high school respectively and
some who are between 20 and 30
are in the first and second years of
high school. One man is now 57
and has been trying all hi? life to
finish so that he could have the
honor of graduating from high
school work before he died."
Practically all the student?; work
their way through the seminary, do
ing sweeping, farming, waiting on
tables, etc., and most of them pay
their tuition in cornmc.il, flour,
meat and beans.
“We have never turned :. student
away because of poverty.” sa'd Pres
ident Upperman.
. a flight. Quite a crowd of curi
ous ones indicated that Jack is not
entirely unknown to the German
boys.
I Stewart asked that the grand jury
i be summoned.
As <oon as the grand jurymen
j entered the court room they were
• informed by Judge Raulston that
some question had arisen as to the
legality of the indictment returned
against Scope* and declared that
j the case would have to be given
I grand jury consideration again.
The point at issue was the con
! tention that 30 days had not elapsed
! after the call for a special session
of grand jury and the meeting of
that body.
During the first two hours of to
; day's court session only one great
I outburst of cheering came from the
' hundreds of spectator who crowded
- into the small court room. it
‘j marked the arrival of William Jen
:, nings Bryan, to begin his work in
1 connection with the prosecution.
(By The Associated Press)
1 NEW YORK, July 10.—The age
’ old effort to define truth will be
revived when Professor John T.
Scopes, Tennessee evolutionist, has
,his .day in court.
His indictment for teaching tne
Darwinian theory in public schools
contrary to the statute has pre ind
ents which reach back for centuries.
In America they date virtually from
Plymouth Rock; in the world at
large, from the dawn of the Chris
, tian era.
I The now nationally know “Scopes
case” is recognizably akin to pre
vailing differences between Mod
ernists and F uuadmentalists which
have increased with the rise of Dr.
Harry Emerson Fosdick,
The last actual trial occurred in
Cleveland, 0., in May, 1924, when
William Montgomery Brown, form
er Protestant Epi.".opal Bishop of
Arkansas, was prone meed guilty by
WOULD ABOLISH
A. & M. SCHOOLS
Measure Asks That Property Be
Turned Over to County
Beards of Education
ATLANTA, July .19— A bill
which seeks to abolish the 12 Agri
cultural and Mechanical Art schools,
located in tne respective Congres
sional districts of the state, as
branches of the University of Geor
gia, has been introduced in the
house.
The measure, which bears the
names of Representaties Wimberly,
of Toombs, Wilhoit, of Warren,
and others, would turn the property
of these schools over the County
Boards of Education in the various
counties in which the schools are
located.
These schools, created as branches
of the University of Georgia, were
brought into being in compliance
.with an act of the legislature ap
proved August 18, 1906.
The object of the measure, Rep
rcsentaive, Wilhoit, one of its spon
sors. says, is to concentrate state ap
propriations for agricultural educa
tion at the Uniersity of Georgia it
self, rather than have such appropria
tions split between 13 schools. His
view, he says, is that in this way
Georgia would have one strong in
stitution, amply provided for, for
the whole state.
RICHLAND FARM
CHANGES HANDS
RICHLAND, July 10.—(Special)
—Fred T. Bridges, assistant com
missioner of agriculture under J. J.
Brown, bought the farm of Rep. R.
L. Gillen, about three miles east of
Richland.
This i sa valuable farm as Mr. Gil
len has considerable acreage already
set to pecans that will begin bearing
in the next three to four years. Mr.
Bridges believes there is a great fu
ture to the pecan industry and it
is understood that he will plant v
eral additional acres to pecans this
fall.
CHICKEN THIEF PROVES
TO BE TWO-FOOT OWL
SiVANNAH, July 10.--Young
Gel ,<■ T. White, 15, who lives near
th/ ’fiity set five steal traps recent
\yl capture the chicken thief that
han been killing his chickens. The
next morning he found a large two
foot owl sitting in one of the traps
staling vacantly about. The four
othe rtraps had been snapped before
the marauder was caught The owl
had been swooping down upon the
young chickens and snapping off
their heads, and leaving their
bodies.
The young trapper s*ate 1 the owl
would suffer the same fate as a
> sheep-killing dog.
a church court of holding beliefs at
odds with the accepted doctrine of
his denomination. He publicly
avowed communism and so-called
atheism.
In the ’9os, Professor Charles A
Briggs, a Presbyterian seminarian
of New York City, was charged with
having expressed himself at vari
ance with the Westminister Confes
sion. The New York Presbytery
cleared him, but the General As
sembly of the church reversed the
decision and pronounced a verdict
of suspension.
Dr. Richard Herbert Newton, a
Wew York Episcopalian, of the same
period, cut short charges against his
“broad churchmanship" by demand
ing a formal trial. His demand was
met but the plaintiffs failed to ap
pear.
David Swing of Chicago left the
Presbyterian faith to preach inde
pendently in the ’7os when those
citing him for alleged heresy refus
ed to abide by his acquittal at the
hands of the Chicago Presbytery
and threatened to appeal to the
Synod.
Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, Sunday
school worker, was haled before
the Presbyterian authoritie sin San
Francisco about 1870.
Theologians to survive heresy pro
| ceedings and gain what was re
ported as a firmer position were
Horace Bushnell Congregationalist
of Hartford, Conn., in 1849; Prof.
Philip Schaaf, whose acquittal in
the German Reformed Church in
1845 was echoed for thiry-five years
in the “Mercersburg controversy;”
Lyman Beecher, father of Henry
Ward Beecher, and Presbyterian
pastor in Cincinnati, in 1835; and
I Rev. Albert Barnes, Presbyterian
j (Continued on Page Eight)
Asphalt Due
to Arrive by
Express 7 oday
Five and a Half Tons of Mate
rial Necessary to Complete
Paving
One of the largest and most ex
pensive express shipments, as far as
charges are concerned, ever to be
consigned to Americus will arrive in
the city about noon today from
Charleston, S. C. The shipment
consists of 11,000 pounds of as
phalt, necessary to complete Th<-
street paving project.
With less than 100 yards of pav
ing to be laid, that will require
about 4 hours working time, Citv
Engineer Walker discovered that
he was out of asphalt. There had
been a slip up somewhere, and the
contractor was to blame for the
shortage.
Mr. Bowe, contractor, admitted
that, the error in calculating the
necessary amount of asphalt to b ■
used, rested on his shoulders and
suggested to Mr. Walker that they
order out by freight the necessary
asphalt to complete the project. The
city engnieer, being anxious to
complete the paving by Saturday
afternoon, suggested that the as
phalt be shipped by express. Mr.
Bowe, desirous of coorporating with
the city, readily consented.
By shipping the asphalt by ex
press the city will be able to com
plete the paving Saturday, where it
would be the first part or the
middle of next week before the
project would be completed if the
material was freighted.
Observing Judie’s Dogs
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The Angell Memorial Hospital in I the doctors shown here are tryi'M?
Boston gives animals the same effi- to diagnose it by X-ray. Miss Ba n;
cient X-ray service which a human i Gardner, a visitor from Peru, Ind.,
being can get. The young elephant /id as volunteer nurse.
Jqdie developed toot trouble, and 1
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OVER THIS LITTLE GIRI I
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They pretty nearly burned a town
over this girl. She a Chinese
“sing-song girl," living in the Chi
nese town of Shayang, in Hupeh
province. Ker admirers got in a
fight, upset a lamp and burned 100
houses. Now Peking and Shang
hai want her to come and dance
for them. The little girl has been
popular in Shayang and other Chi
nese towns for several years, and
it is said she has more admirers
than any other woman in the Shay
ang section. She was singing one
of China’s popular airs at the tin.e
of fight between her admirers. She
managed to live very comfortable
from the money given her by her
audience, but she now faces a life
of luxury if she accepts the Pek
ing or Shanghai offer.
All White Way
Cable Arrives
Will Be Held By City Until All
Lighted Area Plans ate Com
plete
White Way enthusiast sregistered
additional enthusiasm this morning
when it was announced by City En
gineer Walker that the cable to be
used in the lighted area had arrived
Thursday night, and would be stored
in the city’s warehouse until all
white way plans had been complet
ed.
The cable, approximately 1,000
feet in length, was purchased by the
city several weeks ago, following a
call meeting of city council, at
which Steve Pace, leading exponent
of the white way, had assured the
body that the cable would be paid
for by the Kiwanis club and prop
erty owners if the project did not
materialize.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
MAN WHO KNOWS
GEORGIA TELLS
OF PROSPERITY
Dennis Barrett, Friend of the
Farmer, Paints Rosy Pen
Picture of State’s Future
REPRESENTS WORLD’S
LARGEST CHEMICAL CO.
Declares Cotton Crop to Be
Better This Year Than at Any
Time in Last Ten
How the sale of calcium arsenate
this, season compares with last sea
son’s sales; what is the crop condi
tion in the countie scomprising the
cotton belt and what are the pros
pects for the farmers for the com
ing year are tcld in an interesting
interview with Dennis Barrett,, rep
resentative of one of the largest
chemical companies in the United
States, who has traveled, and soli
arsenate in the cotto nbelt, sinuc
the coming of the first weevils.
“The farmers, I am thoroughly
convinced, have determined to whip
the boll weevils,” said Mr. Barrett.
“In my trips tiiis year through the
counties comprising thecotton belt,
1 find 95 per cent of the fanners
using calcium arsenate and other
poisons in their fight against the
pest, and although there has been
sold only 75 per cent as much cal
cium arsenate this year as last, this
does not indicate that the poison is
not being used as much. A number
of the farmers purchased great
(inanities of poison last year, and
due to the exceptionally dry and
favorable season it was not neces
sary to use much poison and the
bulk of it was carried over until
this year."
Speaking of the crop condition
throughout the cotton belt, Mr. Den
nis said, “I have never seen at any
time during the past 10 years, con
ditions so encouraging as they are
at present. Every cotton growing
county in the state has been blessed
with ideal weather conditions and
the inhabitants have resorted to
hard work in an effort to bring pros
parity to this section of the coun
try. Everywhere Igo people are nt
work, and the singing in the fields
shows that the fanners are happy
and expecting better times.”
“Why shouldn’t the people of
Georgia enjoy an unprecented era
of prosperity this year,” said Mr.
Barrett, preparatory to discussing
this phase of the situation. “South
Georgia is about to terminate its
watermelon season, wit hthousands
of dollars in profits tucked away
in the “jeans” of the melon grow
ers; the orchardists in the peach
belt have been doubly fortunate in
selling their peaches at a big profit,
and finding a ready market for all
the good fruit they can ship. The
bulk of the peaches in this section
arc yet to be shipped, and indica
tions are that the market/ will
strengthen rather than decline be
fore the season ends.”
“The people in the tobacco sec
tion, the counties of south Georgia,
are, I beliee, going to feel the first
effects of prosperity and will prob
ably realize a greater pecuniary gain
than the other sections of the state.
Their fields of tobacco, which has
all been placed in curing barns,
were the best that I have ever seen.
Thousands of acres were planted in
this section and practically every
leaf has found its way to the curing
barn.”
“Although tobacco is the major
crop in several of the South Geor
gia counties, the farmers have not
devoted their entire time and acre
age to the weed, but have diversified
to perfection. Along with every
crop o ftobacco you will find a
number of acres planted in cotton,
soy beans and other crops. The
farmers have realized that they
must grow their feed crops to come
out ahead of the banker when the
final crop is harvested in the early
winter.”
Regardless of rainy weather, Mr.
Barrett believes that if the farmers
of Sumter county and the other cot
ton growing counties will fight the
boll weevil with all of their energy,
they v il 1 produce more cotton this
year than they have any year in
the past ten.
Farmers are continuing to pur
chase calcium arsenate in this sec
tion, Mr .Barrett said, but the end
of this week will find the market
very inactive, when he will go to
North Georgia where the farmerg
are in the midst of their battle with
the bell weevil. _., . w
