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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON I Middling 23 l-2c. WEATHER For Georgia Partly cloudy to night; Wednesday, local thunder- ' showers. ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 164 Evolution Court Room Thrown Into Excitement When ■KrTZT"* - Darrow Objects to Judge Opening Day jWitht Prayer SAYS PRACTICE HAS TENDENCY INFLUENCE JURY Deciares It Is Not Necessary to Turn Court Into Meeting House JUDGE OVERRULES MOTION AND RECESSES That He Might Complete Prep aration of His Opinion On the Motion to Quash OAYION, July 14. Objection of Clarence L*-arrow, counsel for the defense, to the daily custom of pray er of the court, created intense ex citement for a few minutes at the short session of the Scopes trial here this morning. Judge John T. Raulston, presiding overruled the Objection and then ordered the court to recess until one o clock, that he might complete the preparation of his opinion on the motion of the defense to quash the indictment which was argued Mon day. Soon after the judge mounted the bench, Mr. Darrow said, “I want to protest, your honor, at the pray er being offered here daily in the presence of the jury in this case. The defense lawyer continued, “I do not object to anyone praying in private, but I do objiect to this court being turned into a meeting house.” Dudley Malone arose just behind his colleague with the inquiry if it has always been the custom to have prayer in the court every day. “As a member of counsel for the de fense Who »s no, an agnotistic, 1 desire to add my objection to the daily prayer, when it has not been an exacting, unbroken custom in the past.” Judge Raulston broke in “I have Instructed the ministers whom I in vite to my rostrum to open court with prayer to make no reference to the issues involved in this case. 1 see nothing that might influence the court or the jury as to the is sue. I believe in prayer myself and constantly invoke Divine guid ance when on the bench and off the bench, so I do not see why I should not continue to do this.” PROMINENT BAXLEY FARMER IS KILLED BAXLEY, July 14.—Following an argument Monday on the main street of Graham, Irving Johnson, 18 years, fatally hsot Milton Hall. Police stated there had been ill feeling between the two parties for a brief period. Johnson was brought to Baxley and lodged in jail here after a cor oner’s inquest and passed on the case,' COTTON CONSUMPTION IN JUNE LESS THAN MAY WASHINGTON, July 14.—Cot ton consumed during June totalled 493,765 bales of lint, 60,577 linters as compared with 531,471 bales of lint and 61,187 of linters of May of this year, and 350,021 bales of lint and 40,016 linters of June of last year, the census bureau an nounced today. Negroes In North Fail To Find Famous Black Doctor, Attempting to Establish Residence in Ex clusive White District, Driven From Newly Purchased Home Loving Care They Expected Negroes who have left Georgia ’and other southern states for the east, north o" ’.vest with the hone of bettering their condition haye not found the welcome and treat ment they expected, according tq reports received in Atlanta. While wages in some instances are higher in northern sections of the country, the blacks, it is stated, have found employment irregular and living conditions quite different from what they were at home. Even members of their own race in the north and east show little, if any, inclination to associate with the Southern dar key, it is shown. The so-calle deducated blacks of other sections of the country—in whose circles some of the southern blacks hope to move—are not given social equality with the whites, as some the negroes are led to believe, in fact recent development in De troit, Michigan, as shown by infor mation received here, are quite the reverse. BBL-PUBLISHED IN THE HEART-.OF Bryan Popular with the Kids J" 1 J " : 777^. | ' -4 /... "i : iMMH It W : ’ lir ' » -'•••Ml- I -ll ./- Among the hosts of Payton resi-1 dents who crowded around William Jennings Bryan before and during I the evolution trial was the ever-pres-1 BILL TO PREVENT PISTOL TOTING Representative Rainpley Would Destroy Every “Gat” Il legally Carried ATLANTA, July 14.—A bill to declare contraband all pistols unlaw fully carried or used in Georgia, and to provide for the destruction of the same, is being drafted for introduction in the house by Repre sentative John J. Rampley, of Hab ersham county. Under terms of the measure it would be the duty of arresting of ficers of this state when finding pistols or revolvers illegally carried by persons whom they 'have placed under arrest, to seize the pistols and revolvers, and within thirty days from the date when the neces sity ceases for holding said pistols or revolvers as evidence against the persons by whom carried, the of ficers must completely destroy the pistols by breaking them, > unless within such period the owner of the revolver shall furnish the arrest ing officer a certificate of the ordi nary of the county of his residence showing that, at the time of the seizure of such revolver or pistol, he was legally entitled to carry same in this state. FOREIGN TRADE SHOWS FAVORABLE BALANCE WASHINGTON, July 14. A favorable balance of $142,681,000 resulted from the foreign trade of the United States for the fiscal year which ended June 30. Here’s what happened in Detroit, according to the industrial secre tary of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce who is making a tour of eastern and western cities. Five thousand men, women and children, living in the exclusive Grand River avenue residential dis trict participated in a hooting, stone and brick-throwing demon stration in front of the expensive brick dwelling at 1755 Spokane ave nue, which ultimately drove from the house it sowner of but a few hours, Dr. Alex Turner, a negro. Two platoons of patrolmen and a squad of mounted police were help less before the crowd, which chock ed the street for a block and held up traffic for nearly two hours. As the negro' left the house with jiis family under a strong police es cort, a vole yo fbricks and small stones smashed the windows of his costy chauffer-driven sedan. He was wounded over the right eye. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 14. 1925 ent small boy, who found his way directly to the side of the great commoner. FIRST OPEN COTTON > BOLLS RECEIVED BY THE TIMES-RECORDER ( $ 7 > < Along with the announcement / I that the first bale of 1925-26 S ( cotton had reached Savannah, < > there was received at the Times- < > Recorder office two open bolls ? ll' of cotton, the first in Sumter $ county, grown by Freeling Scar. S borough on his DeSoto farm < and is of excellent quality. E. < J- Fergusofi, DeSoto merchant, who brought the bolls to the of- ? fice, said the crop is in “fine shajse” in his section of the coun- S ty. Who is going to gin the < first bale of cotton in the coun ty? SUMTER TO HAVE BALE IN 8 DAYS Is Belief of Farmers and Ware housemen If Weather Con ditions Permit With many fully developed bolls already in the cotton fields of Sum ter county .indications are that the firts bale of cotton will be ginned within the next eight days, accord ing to representative farmers and warehousemen, who declare that another week of dry weather will assure this section of a bumper crop. The hopes of local farmers were raised this morning and all fear that the price of cotton would “hit the bottom” this fall was dismissed when word was received that the first bale of cotton to reach the Sa vannah exchange was sold for 33 cents a pound. Practically all of the bolls in the cotton fields of the county are turn ing brown and on several farms open bolls are appearing. Freeling Scarborough, operator of a farm near De Sota, the first farmer to bring an open boll into the city, is of the opinio nthat he will pick a bale of cotton from his fields by Saturday, providing weather condi tions permit. THREE ARE WOUNDED IN SHOOTING AFFRAY NASHVILLE, July 14.—Three farmers were wounded, one perhaps fatally, in a shooting affray at Good lettsville, Tenn., about 12 miles from Nashville Monday afternoon following a quarrel about some hay. Howard Walker, 55, wounded with a shot gun which was fired at him five times, was reported in a criti cal condition in a local hospital last night. George Pane and Dumont Rettick who suffered slight gun shot wounds inflicted by Walker, later made $2,500 bond each on charges of assault with intent to kill. HATTER CLAIMS TO HAVE SEEN CANCER VIRUS Dr. J. E. Barnard Photographs Infective Agent of Sore Through Microscope AUTHORITIES DOUBT IF DISCOVERY MEANS CURE Member of British Institute of Medical Research Aided Storekeeper NEW YORK, July 14. A Lon don hatter by day, with an ail-ab sorbing hobby for miscroscopes by night, has ma.de possible the per ception of the infective agent of cancer, although New York authori ties are inclined to doubt that any great step toward the cure of the disease has been taken. Dr. J. E. Barnard, of Kings Col lege, London, has divided his time between his hat shop and the collec tion of microscopes. He went to aid Dr. William E. Gye, member of the British Institute of Medical Re search, who was engaged in the study of the cancer. Through the powerful lens of one of Barnard’s specially mici'ospea they saw and photographed the can cer virus. MASS MEETING AT LEESBURG Lee Citizens to Discuss Many Questions; All Are Urged to “Speak Their Minds” LEESBURG, July 14. — (Special) —A mass meeting will be held at the court house in Leesburg, Wed nesday, July 22, at which time the financial affairs of the county will be discussed. Several important matters are to come up at the meet ing and all citizens and tax payers have been urged to attend. The matter of abolishing the city court and the chain gang; the hir ing of free labor to do the work in the county; the raising or lowering of the tax rate in the county and numerous other questions are to be discussed. The Lee County Journal, in urg ing the people to “buckle up their belts” and attend the meeting pre pared to express their views on the different question, said: “If you are a citizen and tax payer of Lee county, it is to your interest to at tend the mass nieeting. Come pre pared to talk and don’t be back ward in your views in regard to the matters to be discussed. Get politics out of your mind, for get them and make this meeting a business meeting. There are en tirely too many people in Lee coun ty without backbone —don’t be classed as one of these, say what (you think, and don’t be influenced by some friend who is in politics.’’ It is evident from the tone of the local paper and the opinions express ed by representative citizens that the people are tiring of certain con ditions in the county and are desir ous of correcting them. HOUSE IN FIGHT ON VIADUCT BILL Senate Passe. Bill Ammending Law Prohibiting Person Be queathing More Than Third of Property to Charity ATLANTA, July 14.—After in troducing 26 new bills, the house today plunged into a fight over the Atlanta viaduct resolution. Six amendments have been offered to the measure, but at noon no pro gress had been made toward dispos ing either amendments or resolu tion itself. The senate passes unanimously a bill by Senator Morgan, of thelst district ,and Dixon of the 25th dis trict, to amend the existing law which prohibits persons from re questing more than one third of his property to charity. Only seven per cent of the peo ple pay income taxes, according to the latest treasury reports. (rreat Commoner Battles Heat \ - I* iO’ O twWH -ISi HF j W W ' » i ...JMt B Iw w | -J LX 1 1 " 1■ I William Jennings Bryan finds Dayton, Tenn., has plenty of warm weather, but when he doffs his SAVANNAH’S FIRST COTTON BALE BRINGS 33 CENTS AT AUCTION i SAVANNAH, July 14—The < first bale of the 1925-26 cotton ' to be received in Savannah / brought 33 cents at auction at the Savannah cotton exchange ( at noon Monday, being bought 1 by Cooper and Griffin, Inc., of this city. The bale was receiv- led shortly after midnight Sun- / day from J. C. Getzen, Webster, ' Fla., who shipped the first bale <J here last year. This is the < 1 earliest a bale of cotton has / been received at Savannah in 25 5 years. W&l J Atlanta Dives Be Cleaned Up, Says Boykin Poker Chips and Dice Will Be Rendered Useless When So licitor Concludes Drive ATLANTA, July 14. —■ Continu ing his war against al] forms of gambling in Atlanta, Solicitor Gen eral John A. Boykin today announc ed that more than 100 witnesses would be calLvi this .*.cek to testi fy before th? grand jury regarding alleged gambling “dives,” operating in the citv The solicitor said it was his in tention to “clean up the city of all forms of gambling” and that his crusade against members of the fra ternity would not be stopped until the city was free of all forms of betting, whether caul playing, or the placing of bets on sporting events. Mr. Boykin began his ciusade against gamblers Sunday morning a week ago at whcdi time a raid was made on t’>/: palatial home of L. E (“Peachtree”) Williams, 150 Wav erly Way, which resulted in the ar rest of a dozen or more alleged poker players. This was followed by action of the grand jury in in dicting sixteen men for either main taining a gambling house of gaming. Later the crusade took an unex pected turn. When the bills were returned by the grand jury it found eleven men had been indicted for maintaining gaming places to bet on horse races. SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR SLAYER OF EIGHT LIMBURG, Germany, July 14. Sentence of death was passed Mon day on the factory director, Anger stein for the murder of eight per sons, members of his household last December. Angerstein received the sentence cooly, asserting his deeds were expiable only with death The wholesale murderer had been on trial for a week. On the stand he described calm ly and unconcernedly, how he killed ’ his wife and other victims. He nev er betrayed a sign of emotion, Coat, finds an easy chair nnd picks up his fan he doesn’t mind it so much. CROCKER TELLS OFPROSPERITY Representative of Atlanta Trust Co. Declares Marketing Con ditions Excellent “With marketing conditions and crops better than they have been in many years, farmers in this section of the state, especially Sumter county, are just ‘down right lazy’ if they dont make money this year,” said R. O. Crocxer, manager of the farm sales department of the At lanta Trust company, who has re centy made a survey of south and southwest Georgia farms and who spent part of Monday in Americus, making final arrangements for the thousands expected to attend the big tobacco jubilee to be staged within the next 10 days on the W. T. J. Eaton farm. “If farmers of Georgia could raise a hundred bales of cotton to the acre, and marketing condi tions are not right they will be un able to create an outlet for their crop, and will find themselves in the same boat with the man who has raised no cotton at all,” said Mr. Crocker. “I have recently investigat ed marketing conditions for the At lanta Trust company and am thor oughly convinced that the tobacco, cotton and corn crops of Georgia will be sold at a profit and the farm er will not have to resort to strat egy in locating buyers.” , Although no date will be set for the tobacco jubilee until the latter part of the week .according to Mr. Crocker, all plans have been made for the big barbecue and entertain ment program, which includes a number of prominent speakers. Inmates of Russian Prisons Only in the Cases of the Most Dangerous Criminals Are Found Stone Cells, Iron Bars and Solitary Confinement in Russia Have More Humane Privileges MOSCOW, July 14.—-Prison life in Russia has greatly improved since the grim days of the Bolshevik revolution. A much more humane regime has replaced the terroristic methods which accompanied the change from a monarchical to a democratic regime. From the hard ened murderer down to the innof fensive looking youth accused of theft, prisoners eat, sleep, mingle together and share the same daily condition of prison life- Criticism is chiefly directed at the slender quantity of food and lack of out door exercise. Only in the cases of the most dan gerous criminal prisoners are found such things as stone cells, iron bars and solitary confinement. All oth ers, even political prisoners, are given large, well-lighted, tidy rooms with iron cots, and a single blanket for a covering. In most cases these* TQoms are not even barred, and the NEW YORK FUTURES I Pc. Open 11am Close > Mar. 23.981 |23.94124.30 5 ' July |23.88|23.78|24.14 $ J Oct. 24.14 24.10 24.16,23.48 < PRICE FIVE CENTS VERY LITTLE TAX RELIEF CAN BE PROMISED NOW Stewart Says There Will Be a Lot of Reduction Talk But No Action FEDERAL TAXES ARE SURE TO COME DOWN But Twice As Many Percent Will Be Added Onto the Citizen’s Local Burden BY CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, July 14.—What may this country expect in the way of tax changes in the next few years? It can feel perfectly sure of a lot oi talk about reduction, and al most equally sure of higher taxes. Federal taxes are coming down. There’s no bluff about that. State, county and city taxes are increas ing steadily. The former are not being cut and cannot be cut and nobody has a right to ask that they be cut as fast, as the latter are rising. What does it profit the tax payer to have a few per cent lopped off his federal burden if twice that many per cent are add ed onto his local burden? >K ♦ * Income taxes almost certainly will.be trimmed by another 25 per cent next winter. This doesn’t necessarily mean, however, that the man of moderate income will be re lieved another 25 per cent, on top of his last year's relief. Secretary of the Treasury Mel lon is determined to-give a largo share of l4>e benefit this time to sur-taxpayers—a little of it to the smaller fry, but most of it to th« big fish. How this will come out nobody knows yet. There’ll be a per capita decrease, but some millions of people may not come in on th-- per capita. Next December will tell, most likely. * » ♦ There’ll be further decreases aft er next winter, scattered along over several years, but they’ll be more gradual, except in certain contin gencies. Luxury taxes—as on automobiles and auto supplies, jewelry and theater tickets—will dwindle, bit by bit, to nothing. Income tax exemp tions will be increased, slowly. It’s rather a wild guess—which is the best anybody can make— but perhaps the federal load will be lightened, in the absence of any of the contingencies referred to, by 30 per cent ,all ’round, in the course of six or seven years. TWO YOUNG WOMEN DROWN WHILE WADING CHARLOTTEVILLE, Va„ July 14. —Miss Eddie Deane, 20, and her first cousin, Miss Arline Giannini, 15, of Rockfish, were drowned while wading in the Rockfish river Mon day when they got out beyond their depths and were swept away by the current. An eleven year old boy companion summoned help and both bodies were recovered. The coinage of gold has been re sumed in Russia by the soviet mint. . inmates are free to mingle among I themselves. Very little work is provided, and the prisoners, there fore, are free to indulge their hob bies, to smoke, play cards, read and 'have the freest use of musical in struments (their own) and other forms of entertainment. Paradoxical as it may seem, it is this lack of work, according to the prisoners themselves, which makes prison life so difficult to bear. Judged by American standards, pri ized. In the larger jails there ara son labor in Russia is poorly organ carpenter shops, book -binding plants, printers, basket-making de partments and machine shops, but the work is sufficient only to keep about a third of the inmates occu pied. This is especially true of the juvenile jails, where the boys and girls are allowed to pass their sent-, ences in idleness. This soon breaks /Continued on Page Twol ..j
