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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling. 23 l-2c. WEATHER For Georgia Local showers probably tonight and Tuesday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO- 163 Motion Made to Quash the Indictment Against Scop?®Hi DEFENSE CLAIMS CONSTITUTION OF STATE VIOLATED Neal Cites 14 Reasons Selected By the Defense On Which to Base the Motion DEFENSE ATTORNEY CITES LAW TO COURT McKenzie, in Opposing the Mo tion, Says Religion Nor Doctrine Could Be Taught DAYTON, July 13.—A motion to squash the indictment against Scopes, charged with violating the Tennessee law by teaching evolution theories in the public schools, was brought in the first clash of the trial. John R. Neal, submitting the motion, cited 14 reasons selected by the defense on which to base the motion. The contentions nearly all related to the constitutionality of the act, claiming that both the constitution of Tennessee and that of the Uni ted States were violated in the act of the Tennessee General Assembly. Neal called attention to th? court to what he termed a general lack of information as to the power of the court to rule on a constitutional question. He said, that many other wise well informed lawyers, did not know that the court had this au thority and was sworn to uphold it as an officer of the state. He call ed attention to the language of the Bible in telling the story of the crea tion and said that every one might have a different interpretaation of “a divine story of creation.” Former Attorney General Ben G. McKenzie made the first argument for the state defending the consti tutionality of the act in question. He said that religion could not be taught, neither could the doctrine. Sue K .Hicks, speaking for the state in opposition to the motion to quash, defended the schoolrooms and wisdom of law in attempting to protect them. Judge Raulston then ordered a noon recess. He said to the law yers: “Gentlemen the issues in this case are profound and the court does not wish to guess.” He added that he expects the briefs to be fil ed on motion to quaash. PICKWICK TRIAL WEDNESDAY Six Charged With Manslaughter in Connection With Theater Disaster BOSTON, July 13.—Seven men were arraigned before Superior Court Judge Lummus today on se cret indictments returned by the grand jury, which last week investi gated the collapse of the Pickwick club building, July 4, in which 44 persons lost their lives. Two of those indicted were employes of the city of Boston building department. Six of the indictments charged manslaughter. Symam JJloomer, lessee of the building, /arraigned Sat urday on a secret indictment charg ing manslaughter, appeared today to answer on another indictment charging that he maintained a com mon nuisance. AU of the defend ands entered pleas of not guilty and were released on bail of $2,000. The trial, is set for Wednesday. This Afternoon Is Scheduled For Children’s Day In The State Legislature WhenCommitteeMeet Committee Will Consider Eight Measures Comprising the Children’s Code (By The Associated Press) ATLANTA, July 13.—The Geor gia Children’s Code will come up for a conmittee hearing this after noon at 4 o’clock. A joint meeting of the house Committee on Training Schools and the senate Judiciary Nc. 1 dominate to consider the eight measures com prising the Children’s Code has been announced by Senator Perkins, and Mrs. Napier, of Bibb, the chair man of the two committees. The measures se to codify and revise the; Chi J'T.’s Law. now cn tie statute h; .its They deal with juvcndc courts'. nor( support and de sertion, legal ,illegitimacy, child' labor i,compul»or’y school at tendance. atd the' IWs-govcrnmg the Boys’wig Girls’ Training schools THE TiMESaRKORDth feftfIIPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE ANOTHER SUPER THRILL MURDER FIEND BEING SOUGHT IN NEW YORK Police of Nassau County, New $ York, believe they are confronted with a murder case almost paral- < . lei to that of the famous Loeb- . Leopold murder in Chicago. Louis > Panella, taxi driver, was found shot to death, his body, hidden ' under a concrete slab at Hemp. , stead, Long Island. Affer an in terval of several days his taxi- ' cpb was sold in New York city > by a man who posed as Panella < and signed his name. ( Concurrent with Panella’s { murder Philip Knox Knapp, 23, / an aviator stationed at Mitchell "> Field, near the scene of the mur- > der, was posted as a deserter. ' He is the scion of a very wealthy ( / and prominent family of Syra cuse, N. Y. A 45-calibre pistol > was reported missing from the army barracks where he lived. Panella was shot with a 45-cali bre weapon. ) Notes were found in Knapp’s ’ effects at the barracks. These ’ were addressed to his father and to his commanding officer. In ) them Knapp referred to himself , as the third person and spoke of trouble he had had with a wom <J an, analyzed his own philosophy, admitted that he had an abnor- < mal outlook on life, accounted y for by relating that his skull • had been fractured years ago and announced that what he was about to do would be done in ? complete secrecy and that hence- > forth he would cease to exist as 2 Philip Knapp. i A country-wide search is on 'J for Knapp. All divisions of the , military service are joining in the k bunt, as army officials believe ? that odium may be cast on the ; army through Knapp’s acts. Oth er searchers believe they may * find Knapp dead, a suicide. Would Repeal Marriage Law Because They Have to Give Five Days’ Notice; Couples Leave State, Says Steed ATLANTA, July 13.—A house bill to repeal Georgia’s new marriage law is expected to come before the Committeee on General Judiciary Number One tomorrow. The measure, introduced by Rep resentative Steed, of Taylor coun ty, would aamend an Act passed at the last session of the general as sembly requiring, filing of applica tion for marriage licenses five davs ahead of issuance ©f license, and the porting of she application by Ordi /■.arie^'curing that period. JrZ'Steed stated that a number e 1 yledinaries throughout the State advocated the repeal of this act. He further pointed out that in view of this law couples journey into ad joining states to seek the perform ance of matrimonial ceremonies. The new Marriage Law has hearty support in both branches of the leg islature. TWO MEET DEATH IN AIRPLANE CRASH MITCHEL FIELD, N. Y., July 13. —Two reserve officers" were killed while flying over Mitchell Field to day when the plane caught fire and crashed to earth. There are eight times as many murders in the United States ac cording to population as there are in England. The Code will go to the comnjit t tee hearing with the indorsement of prominent women’s and other or ganizations. It is indorsed by' the Georgia Federation of Labor, the Federation of Women’s Clubs, the . Georgia Educational Association, > the Georgia Branch of the Nation al P. T. A., Georgia League of Wo man Voters, and the Georgia W. C. T. U. I Among those who are expected • to speak before the joint hearing ! ■fare Judge R. Eve, a member of the i Georgia Children’s Code Commis sion, which drew the bills; Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, state president of the W. C. T. U.; J. L. R. Boyd, general counsel of the legal aid so ciety, Judge Raiford Falligant, of ■ the Savannah Juvenile court; Je- ■ rome Jones, of Atlanta, editor the , Journal of Labor; Miss Beulft Mar- • tin, Columbus probation officer, and ■ : Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, of Atlan-| i ta,,.chainnanjfcf the commission. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 13, 1925 1 HE FRANKENSTEIN ’ X X'AXX--. ' / i’LlBeT \ \ x &&>'! \ J ABtElo Live I jOw 'MX —x f ' «Eu.,i<3on-A N V< z / Publicity sTunT <Z \ P£AN " T X /?r\ ■ IB </«f' x / X tKf I®^' x x v ,v~-- rr ? sXF MORE THAN 2,500 TO ATTEND Given By the Atlanta Trust Com pany in Celebration of the Opening of 3,500 Additional Acres in This Section for the Cultivation of Bright Tobacco; W. J. T. Eatca Farm to Be Scene Activities BIG TOBACCO JUBILEE HERE ’Plans arc under way for the en tertainment of approximately 2,500 citizens of scutn veorgia towns, who are expected to gather here some day between July 15 and 30 to attend an old-fashbnc 1 “Dixie” barbecue, sponsored by the Atlanta Trust company, in celebration of the opening of 3,500 more acres of Georgia land in the cultivation of bright tobacco. The tobacco jubilee will be held on the W. T. J. Eaton farm near Americus, the date of whicn will be set Tuesday, when R. 0. Crockett, manager of the firm sales depart ment of the Atlanta trust company , meets with other representatives of the trust company, according to T. J. Day, Jr., of tne farm sales de partment. A program of prominent speakers will also bo arranged. I’er sons desiring add-L mal information concerning the meeting are inviced MANY ATTEND BUSINESS MEET Mr. Stockdale Delivers First Ad dress Before Merchants’ Institute Today A large and enthusiastic audience was on hand at the Carnegie Li brary promptly at 8:30 this morn ing to hear Frank Stockdale, busi ness expert, deliver his opening ad dress before the Americus mer chants’ institute. Mr. Stockdale spoke on “Approaching the Cus tomer,” and emphasized the use of tact in business. Tact and good business go hand in hand, said Mr. Stockdale, but he warned his audience of representa tive business men, against being over tactful. “The practice of Be ing over tactful has caused and oth erwise industrious clerk to lose many customers and has caused many business houses to shut their doors,” said Mr. Stockdale. The most of the morning’s ses sion was spent in formulating plans and drawing up a schedule for the balance of the week. WOULD INCREASE SPEED LIMIT ON HIGHWAYS ATLANTA, July 13. A bill has been introduced in the house of representatvies by Representative Wimberly, of Toombs, extending the speed limit on public highway of Georgia from 30 to 45 miles per hour. The measure further provides that “no person shall operate a motor vehicle or motorcycle upon any public street or highway at a speed to exceed 45 miles per hour, having due regard for the width, grade, character, to correspond with Mr. Crockett, manager farm sales department, At lanta Trust Company, Atlanta, Ga. This celebration of the opening of 3,500 additional acres for the cultivation of bright tobacco in Georgia is part of the big farm im provement program as outlined and directed by Eugene Black, presi dent of the Atlanta Trust company and one of the South’s outstanding financial figures. Field representatives of the trust company predict that the Americus celebration will prove to be one of the most strikingly constructive steps yet taken in Georgia’s diver sification program. Crops in Georgia are in a better condition than they have been at this season for several years, accord ing to officials of the Atlanta Trust company. The bank operates ap proximately 15,000 acres of Geor gia farm lands and assists growers CHINESE DEFY U. S.; CONTINUE OUTRAGES Three Missicna/es Assaulted; U. S. Insistance That Foreign ers Be Protected Ignored NEW YORK, July 13—Secretary of State Kellogg’S, annourtcement that the United States would insist upon protection of foreigners in China was given pertinence by re cent dispatches telling of a new out rage in the province of Kwang Tung ,when Cantonese soldiers in-’ vaded the English Presbyterian mis sion at Wuking Fu and assaulted three missionaries, beating and cut ting them with knives. Two of the missionaries were women. The Chi nese also ordered all foreigners to leave the town for Swattow, where the injured missionaries arrived in an exhausted condition. The British Counsel, upon hear ing the story, demanded an apology from the Chinese authorities, pun ishment of the guilty persons and compensation of the injured mis sionaries. HOLDER TO ATTEND OFFICIAL MEETING ATLANTA, July 13.—Chairman John N. Holder, of the State High way department, has announced Mis intention of attending a meeting at Columbia, S. C., July 14 for the discussion of ways and means of purchasing the Alford toll bridge over the Savannah river. It is plan ned to purchase and operate the privately owned bridge by Georgia and South Carolina, Mr. Holder said. in marketing thousands of dollars worth of crops. It is not the plan of the bank, of ficials said, to acquire new farm lands ,but to educate and organize Georgia growers so that they may realize fair profits in the annual harvests. Preliminary plans for the tobacco jubilee were outlined last week at a meeting of the field representatives of the Atlanta Trust company, as sembled on the Ambrose farm, one of the model farms operated under the direction of the trust company on its acreage near Douglas, where tobacco buyers are already arriving and new warehouses are being built, in expectation of Georgia’s greatest tobacco cash auction sales, which will open July 28. It has been es timated unofficially that the cash auction sales this year will bring in $15,000,000. SUMTER SHOULD HAVE MORE HOGS • Large Feed Crop Will Enable Farmer to Make Money Rais ing Hogs, Says Cliett Hogs. County Agent Cliett knows about them. ii:> points out that South Georgia this year is pro ducing an abundant foc.d crop for hogs and at the present time there was nothing like a sufficient num ber of hogs to consume the crop. Mr. Cliett says that f arners with a surplus food crop could get more money by turning the surplus into 'mgs than could be obtained by selling the surplus on the open mar ket. 1 In some counties, Mr. vebb said, where these conditions exist, plans are already tinder way to provide a sufficient number of hogs to con st me the food—many them gathering the crop—and that the owners would realize a han jsome profit. In such counties, he show ed banks and other fi.i .ncial in terests were assisting the farmer to secure the hogs neJded to con sume the surplus. Sumter shet Id do likewise. NEGRO STABS ANOTHER WITH FAMILY ICE PICK Coot Daniel is in the hospital and Ed Huel is in the cooler, following a fight between U»e two gentle Eth iopians Sunday night, when Ed stuck the family icc pick into Coot’s shoul der and chest several times be cause, as Ed asid, Coot was “messin round his wife.” Ed is charged with fighting and disorderly conduct, but if Coot should happen to play a trick on him and di I ’, he will have to answer to the more serious charge of murder. UNCLAIMED ESTATES OF j MYSTERY MEN, WOMEN AMOUNT TO MILLIONS : CHICAGO, July 13. —Un- < claimed estates of mystery mon ? and women—persons who die ; without revealing enough of their past to indicate their heirs —total something like $10,000,000 ev ’ ery year in this country. ? W. C. Cox, probate genealo* < gist here, who has built up a sue- S cessful business in finding the \ legal heirs of the mysterious s ones, is responsible for the esti mate. He solves hundreds of 5 such cases annually. > The $10,000,000 in unclaim- > ed fortunes consists of money, > lai d and property that lawyers are unable to turn over to known ’ relatvies. The amount does not include contested wills, disputed S inheritances and the like. Illustrative of the mystery folk ’ is the case of ‘'Old Jim” Miclieal which Cox has in his files. “Michael, so we found,” cays Cox, “immigrated alone to the , United States from the Isle of ’ Man. In his youth he roamed through Rhode Island, lliinotc, ( North Carolina and Maryland. “Finally he settled down and \ amassed a fortune of about $75,- $ 000. One night, at the age of 103, he was murdered. ,» “Neighbors, friends and pub- ' lie officials knew nothing of his ) past. He seemed to have cut off ’ i all communication with his fam- / \ ' “The Ise of Man is now being > combed for possible relatives. S “But unless some are found, 1 the Michael fortune, now swell- ' ed by interest, will revert to the ’ state in which Michael died, since this is the procedure in such According to Cox, the •estates of women comprise much of the mystery in his files. State To Fight Cotton Flea Famous Entomologist Employed to Ascertain Damage Done By Pest in Georgia ATLANTA, July 13. —The Geor gia State Board of Entomology has secured the services of D. H. Mc- Eachern, entoir.olo.gist of the Unit ed State Horticultural Board, to make a complete survey of the dam age done throughout the state by the cotton flea which recently made its appearance rti Georgia, officials of the Board have announced. All asistancc possible and avail able for control of this insect will be given the cotton farmers thru out the state, it was said. Powder ed sulphur was recommended as giv ing the best results of the control of the pest. WOULD PLACE STAR ON PROHIBITION FORCES ATLANTA, July 13. A bill de signed to change the methods of prohibition enforcement officers en gaged in the interception of rum runners and bootleggers on the pub lic highways of Georgia has been drafted by Representative Rarcpley, of Habersham county, for introduc tion into the lower body of the general assembly. Congressman Upshaw Cains Will Heys Hand For Failure To Aid in Purifying The Movie Industry Declares Tennessee’s Evolution Law’ Encated to Protect Ris ing Generation (By The Associated Press) HOUSTON, Texas. lulv , ?—C< n gressman William D. Upvtnw. of Atlanta, Ga., in speeches here t<> day, declared that “mum as I I <-•- lieve in righteous legist ition, I b< •eve yet more in the fun i ent al doctrine that an old-fashioned fa > ly altar in every home who? the parents and children read the Bibb and kneel and pray, will < ■ry civic and moral problem beneath th American flag.” The Georgia congressman, speak-‘ ing before an audience in the Hous ton city auditorium, said that he spoke not as an ordained minister] but as “an observer of terrible ten-j dencies and as a patriotic citizen anxious to arrest these downward tendencies in their tragic effect upon our youth, who are the ‘tomor row of our republic’.” Mr. Upshaw criticized Will Hays, head of an independent croup of motion picture producers for bi “failure to purify the motion pic ture industry,” adding that “the 1 PRfeU P'DISOM PI W i yv X I Liv& iv IP! I MFYirAN nILL vUTMdL! ■uiliLy Detroiter Accused of Trying to Dispose cf Rival Wish So dium Cyanide DEATH DROPS PLACED IN PIECES OF CANDY I Poison Filled Chocolates ' ' Jealous Lever to ‘ .'» s--t in Hopes RL.'.d W« uld Eat Them DETROIT, July, I:;.-- A little pasteboard box, it .irly Kilt of pieces ,of chocolate candy, li< : on a tale in the criminal court here. Around it revolv. one oF tie .‘H ran< p, • on .“ayX X /, that h.. • over covin to Ir r«?. Miss Louj H.ivci , fhor ‘ clerk in a hotel h ye, girls to whom the candy w at, 'old the court hoa iLivrov..y T.e 1..:J es caped death. After opmil.’g il : he n dim'd s.oni n of the pieces looked i.; though they l.ad been tamperd with. So she called Charles Henderson, who had been a fi iencf of her family for more than a score of years. OrF her suggestion, she raid, Henderson took the candy to a chemist to have it analyzed. Then the chemist reported that in half a dozen of the pieces he had •? found sodium cyanide, one of the .■ deadliest poisons known. Detectives invest ted ar I pr< • ontly arrested tl •■nd.-rr.on as t?ie . sender of the candy. was at his ' trial th.' l Mis-: !i ver. told her story. Miss Freda Efrusy. 21, whose fr dlier conducts-a confectionery het to.-tifio-l Ib ndcr/.on .bad boMM box of candy fropi lier ahp/rtl' I fore' Mi- : If/ivers receiv'd her I oned sweets. . N. But police did not 1 • of ' ■ \iii s H s. Instead the yasLrted he Ums try ing to rtribo, through h r. at Ale ianelro V. Martinez. Me.-dcttu eonset here, and his vice curpirt’, Carlos Grimm. Both had b ->n friondly ■ i.h Mr/i Havers, and the police charged Hen derson, knowing that Mi < Havers seldom ate candy her / If. had taken it for granted she would offer il to them. Crimni, in fneL. he «•/•: offered some of the candy, but By ehnnec selected a i lore t! at had :mt been tampered with. Henderson wi . accus ■! < f sending the candy because of je’Toa >■. Miss Havers testified Henderson frequently objected to h'r men friends, telling her they were, not good enough for her. Henderson mot these chare./’ e with a steadfast denial, pointing out that it was he who took the candy to a chemist for examination. HARRISON ON WAR FINANCE BOARD SWAMPSCOTT, July l:i. Floyd Harrison was appointed today las a director in the war fitmnee i corporation, succeeding Frank W. Mondell ro.iened. II / . -m bad i been assistant to Eugene Myer, I managing director of the corpora tion. | guardianship of its clti’.'r- v.ill soon i force the government to do for the picture show business, something like it did for the >:r,l<>/,n, t -• differ ence being that, the saloon could nop be regulated for the good of society i and continue Io soli !i mid poison f I while motion pielur can be regfu - Uatcd at their source )f production -land preseni d clean and wholesome . bef< ’ th.” 1| “I am author of a bill in con .l gross to purify pictures at their >l.source. Not regulation after ex- I pen: ive production, but a bill of • | standards and ideal thnt, will not ■ I release any picture on the screen I that poisons youth and breeds irn ! morality.” Comm. .in;;/n the Ternossee law' ! against tl ; / dug of evolution ■i said-it wa-dri’.- same sane guardi anship of future citizens that caused Tonne ec to pass its anti evolution law.” “It ia not a question of religion per se, it is a question of Tenho ssee’s right not only to see that its children have a chance to be well 'horn, but tp see that after then? ■birth they shall not bo, poisoned bi ■ moral concept and dwarfed in mors i al development.” ,
