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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling 24c. WEATHER For Georgia—Partly cloudy to night; Friday local showers. ORT/-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 178 Citizens of Nation Start Crusade Against Criminals MEN FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE GATHER IN N.Y. Decide On Formation of a Na trona! Crime Commission at Wednesday Meet ELBERT H. GARY TAKES ACTIVE PART IN WAR Life and Property More Unsafe In U. S. Than Elsewhere, Say Organizers NEW YORK, July 30.—Promi nent citizens throughout the coun try are starting a crusade against criminals who, in view of some of the organizers, have made life and property in the United States more unsafe than in any other civilized country. The formation of a national crime commission was decided upon Wed nesday at a netting of jurists, legi slators, police officials, merchants and others, called by Elbert 11. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, presiding at the meeting. Gary urged that President Cool idge be acquainted with the cru sade and perhaps asked to partici pate. Even while the meeting was in session four masked robbers mad? a raid on the Drake Hotel. Chicago's fashionable and exclusive Lak? Shore drive hostelry, which result ed in the killing of a hotel clerk and two of the bandits. The raid is said to have been one of th? bold est and most daring ever attempt ed in the city’s history. DETAILS OF DRAKE HOTEL ROBBERY CHICAGO, July 30.—Four mask ed robbers, who attempted to hold up the Drake hotel, exclusive Lake Shore drive hostelry, during the aft ernoon tea hour Wednesday, precip itated a battle between the robbers, hotel detectives and policemen that resulted in the death of two of the robbers and the hotel cashier. Another of the holdup men was captured after a terrific battle in the hotel kitchen, and a fourth es caped in an automobile with $lO,- 000 of the hotel’s money snatched from the safe and till, while bullets whizzed about his head. The robbery, one of the most dar ing of nianv years, was perpetrated by men under the influence of nar cotics, the police said after examin ing hotel employees. The latter de scribed the holdup men as “either drunk or dopey.’’ One of the robbers was shot sev eral miles from the hotel after he had commandeered a taxicab, forced a woman from the car and com manded the driver at the point of a pistol to speed away with him. The taxi driver wrecked his machine deliberately to aid pursuing police men to overtake him. The man captured gave his name as Jack Holmes and said he recent ly came here from New York. The robber killed in the taixcab chase is said to be Eric Nelson, a former employee of the hotel, and the man shot in front of the hostelry was Tex Corts, of Texas. The hotel cashier and head clerk, Frank Rod key, was shot in the abdomen and died later. CHICAGO, July 30.—1 n less than 24 hours after a daring raid on one of Chicago’s most pretentious hos telries, surviving members of tho bandit quintette who Wednesday carried their plainsman’s gun play to the soft velvety carpets of the Drake hotel, were in the toils of tho law facing true bills for murder and robbery. EARTH TREMORS FELT IN KANSAS Others Western States Feel Shock Early This Morning; No Damage Reported KANSAS CITY, July 30.—Earth tremors of moderate intensity wore felt in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico ami Texas today, but no property damage is reported. Th? quakes occurred between 6 and 0:1.. o’clock this morning. Reports from Kansas stated that shocks were felt in five cities of the state. Leaven worth experienced two distinct shock, occurring 15 minutes apart. The census bureau found more than 52,000 drug stores in the Uni ted States. THE publi shepTn ar t ~sf~dTxie -gorF? National Religious J igh t 1 h reatens In Congressional Halls L. H. Winner’s Law Suit May Bring It Out On Floor At Coming Session WASHINGTON, July 30.—A na tional religious fight—in Congress —threatens new. It vas v.ith a view to starting one that 1.. 11. Wittn r, Washington government employe, launched his suit to tie up tne pay of Dis trict of Columbia educators who teach the sciences. Ail of them, he says, are disrespect’ u’ of the Bilile—if one accepts it literally. Wittner submits ttyt: The Bible says the world was made in six days. Geology says not. The Bible sr.vs man was specinl .y created. Biology ‘-ays be was evolvetl from a lower form of life. The Bible e :iys the tongues were confused to stop the building of the Tower of Babel. Philology teils a different story. The Bible sacs the Creator set a rainbow in the sky. Physics ac counts otherwise for rainbows. The Bible says Joshua made the sun stand still. Astronomy denies it. The Bible says water was turned into wino. Chemistry says it can’t be done. Now Congees-, in making its las': appropriation for the District of Columbia public schools, forbade the use of any of the money to pav instructors who teach “disrespect of he Holy Bible.” Wittner asserts that’s just what All the scientific ones are doing. As a taxpayer, he. wants their salaries stopped. Neither a fundamentalist nor a scientist, he explains that his suit’s purpose is to force the is (Continued on Pago Six) FRUIT GROWERS TO HEAR SOULE Agriculture College Head to Ap pear On Program August 10 In Gainesville (By The Associated Press) ATLANTA, July 30.—Dr. An drew M. Soule, president of th<. State College of Agriculture will be one of the principal speakers at Farmer’s Fruit Growers’ week at Gainesville, Fla., August 10-15, an announcement made by Dr. Wilson Newell, director of extension, says. Dr. Soule is one of the outstand ing agricultural leaders of the south and is an able speaker. The col lege of agriculture of the Univer sity of Georgia has made rapid progress under his leadership and his ability as an agricultural leader is widely recognized. Dr. Soule will appear on the pro gram Tuesday August 10. A number of other prominent ag ricultural leaders and good speak ers will also apepar on the pro gram during the week. The program will last the entire week of August 10-15 and attend ance of over 1,000 is expected. AGRICULTURE AUDIT ASKED Senator Hutcheson Requests That Brown’s Department Be Extensively Checked ATLANTA, July 30.—The de partment of agriculture was the ob ject of an attack in the senate to day when Senator J. R. Hutcheson, 39th, introduced a resolution re questing the state auditor when he makes the audit of the state agri cultural department to go extensive ly into the cost of various inspec tions services of the department. He also requests the auditor to ob tain the same figures on the same services in the surrounding states and to have them available at the next session of the legislature. REPRESENTATIVE LINDER OUT FOR BROWN’S OFFICE ATLANTA, July 30.—Represen tative Linder, Jeff Davis county, announced on the floor of the hou. > this morning that he would be a andidate for Commissioney of Ag riculture in the next primary ele ■- Jon. AMERICUS. GCORW THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 30, 1295 ATTORNEYS CLAIM HE IS CELL-CRAZY WOO • A 4 ■-* 1| ilm T J JsH . itifi RI’SELI. SCOTT Ik.isss.il Scofet,' who has twice been saved from the gallows aft -r all hope had been given up. He is now await mg the outcome of a trial as to his sanity. EARTH LAGS WHILE INHABITANTS speed WASHINGTON, July 30. The earth is slowing down, says ; a recent publication of the J Smithsonian Institution. Put there is little danger of ace--- sat ion cf its rotary motion,' for I ? the rate of slowing down is only ) one-thousandth of a second per ’ century. This means a loss of a min- r' ute in six million years. Scien tists estimate that ages and ages ago the earth revtilved so fas! that a day was three or four LADYM’KENZIE SUES FOR 50000 Action Comes As Result of Be ing Jailed On Charge of Is suing Bad Check TAMPA, July 30.—Incensed at the ignominy to which she was sub jected in being jailed four days on a charge of issuing a bad check when, she said ,it was really a draft, Lady Esme Grace MacKenzie was instituted suit for $50,000 damages against G. E. Bray, local realty dealer who endorsed the draft, and is sai dto be contemplating action for criminal libel. Though Lady Grace could not be -bund last night, her attorney, Il Blaine Peacock, said that the addi tional action would probably be tak n in the near future. Lady Grace has been in seclusion since her release from the county Jail Monday was affected when a heavily veiled woman posted suffi cient cash to have the case dismiss ed. NO AGREEMENT IN WOODS’CASE Jury Trying Woman Charged With Shooting Husband Fail to Reach Verdict MACON, July 30. Judge IL A. Mathews’Wednesday ’afternoon declared a mistrial in the case of Mrs. Ethel Wood, wife of H. W. Wood, proprietor of a local drug store, charged with flhooting her husband last spring. The cf.se went to the jury Tues day afternoop and when no verdict had been reached shortly before 1 o’clock, the mistrial was declared. Mrs. Wood, according to the testimony, fired at her husband four times: but only one bullet took ef fect. For ten da vs after the shooting Wood lin.2 i< d, bu l recovered It is '".id tb/’.t th. eou.:).' have settled their (liC’e.’enee • ... J 'hat W> od did not care to see his wife con victed. ’BRYANS CORPSE MET BY THRONG iAT IL S. CAPITAL i I Group of Government Officials I Greet Commoner’s Widow and Party i FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE HELD TOMORROW Military Escort to Accompany Funeral Cortege to Place of Burial WASHINGTON, July 30.—Wil liam Jennings Bryan fame bayk to Washington today to receive the la«t rites of the church before he begins his long rest in the Potomac hills amidst the great company of the nation’s illuslrous dead. The funeral train, which bore him from Dayton, Tenn., where he died last Sunday, reached th? Union station early, but its arrival found a reverent throng waiting. A small group of government of ficials greeted Mrs. Bryan at th” station and the widow and her party were take nto the Lafayette hotel near the White House, where they will remain until after the funeral services tomorrow. - A military escort will accompany the body of Bryan to the grave. He v, ill be buried with military cere mony, but without the firing of the customary farewell salute. Three batteries of field artillery, dis mounted, will meet the funeral cor tege at the gates of Arlington ceme tery and escort it to the place of burial. State Solons Engage in Bit Os Sarcasm Idiot and Evolution Bills Bring Forth Wise Cracks From Debaters ATLANTA, July 30,—Georgia legislator- evidently do not think much of themselves er each other, according to those \.te> heard pas sages of debate in both house of the general assembly Wednesday. The senate was discussing Sena tor Hutlic'nesbn’s bill to allow idiots to be sent to the insane asylum. Senator E. E. Andrews, of the 33d, and Senator Ira Carlisle, of the 7th were on the opposing sides. “Up in our country, senator,” said Senator Andrews, “we send our idiots to the legislature. What do you folks in South Georgia do?” “Well,” replied Senator Carlisle, “this is the first time 1 have ever been in the legislature and haven’t had much time to look around, but judging from the sample your folks sent to the senate, I wouldn’t be surprised but what you’re right.” About the same time over in the house they were discussing evolu tion. Representative Lindsay, of Jeff Davis, author of the anti-evo lution measure, was speaking. Rep resentative Lanier, Columbia, arose. “I wanted to ask the gentleman,” said Mr. Lanier, “if he is familiar with the Tennessee joke?“ “Yes,” replied Mr. Lindsey, “and if I were counsel for the evolution ists, I should use some of the antics of members of this house as ex hibit A.” Representative Barrett, of Stev en;, added to the humor of this lit- 1 tie quip by saying: “Pass it if you want to, but you , will make monkeys of yourselves of i you do.” In discussion of the “idio” bill , in the senate, Senator Hutcheson, [ of the 39th, pleading for the 6ill j earnestly, said: “Senators, this bill touches me very closely.” lie wondered why they laughed. , , DUEL STORY LETTERS BRANDED AS FALSE BROWLEY, Calif.. July 30. Officers uncovered evidence Tues day which branded as false the let ters purporting to have been left by John Truden telling the story of | a duel in which he killed Henry \ Kirk, Julv 18. TWELVE KILLED IN FRENCH TRAIN WRECK TOURS, France, July 30—Twelve persons were killed and a number injured when an express train ply ing between Lemans and Tours I jumped the tracks today near the station of Stantoine. The train was practically demolished. Plot to Ruin Currency GOLDIN GUILTY of Ihe World Charged MANSLAUGHTER, 7o_The Soviet Regime JURY’S VERDICT FIGHTING TO SECURE HUSBAND’S FREEDOM R3B -*:v MRS. CATHERINE SCOTT Mrs. Catherine Scott, whose hus band i under sentence of death and has twice been saved from the gallows at the last minute, has not given up her desperate fight to se cure his freedom. SMUGGLING OLD COINS MADE 200G YEARS AGO PARIS, July 30—An unusual ly large number of old coins appearing in Frarce and Amer ica recently are believed to come from a great chest of old coins, secreted in a little Per sian village. 1 lie chest was buried in 88 15. C., and wac found a few year* ago. The? discovery was kept secret by the peasants who feared the authorities would seize the chest. Smuggling of the coins out of Persion is now believed to be in progress. SIOO,OOO ASKED FOR LINE FENCE Wcirld Prevent Florida Cattle From Wandering Into Geor gia’s Border Counties (By The Associated Press) ATLANTA, July 30.—An appro priation ol SIOO,OO for the construc tion ol a fence along the Georgia- Florida line, to prevent reinfesta tion of cattle ticks from Florida cattle which warder over into this state, would he , >vided under the terms of a bill now awaiting action in the < orgia house of representa tives. The tick-fence measure points out that out of approximately 160 miles of fence required. 120 miles have been built. Dr. Peter F. Bahnsen, state veterinarian, in dis cussing who tvas responsible for the payment of this fence-building bill Stated that the counties on the border were legally responsible for the building, but that they hud built it on the belief that the stat would eventually reimburse them I for the expense. LESLIE CETS FIRST COTTON Bale Grown By L. C. Hines, Is Purchased By O. W. Loyd For 30 Cents Pound Leslie’s first bale of 1925 cotton was brought to the Sumter-Lee ( Warehouse this morning by L. C. Hines and was sold to O. W. Loyd, manager of the Sumter-Lee ware house, for 30 cents a pound. The bale weighed 505 pounds and grad ed strict middling. The cotton crop in the vicinity of Leslie is in excellent condition, and the rains of Tuesday assured the growers of a large yield. The hot weather has opened bolls on prac tically every farm and many grow ers are now picking. ■ - - , I Its warm enough to be a classic dance now. ■ Counterfeit, Manufactured By tre Carloads, Fools the Lead ing Experts of Europe I WASHINGTON. July 30.—is I Rus; ia s soviet regime trying to flood the world wi< such a delay |of bogus paper nr. ney—eountei feits too good for even an expert to tell from the real thing—that gov eminent bills am! hunk notes pres ently will cease to he worth ;lnv thing? It seems like a large order. Nevertheless, th” story comes from Europe that the soviet folk are attempting to fill it. The Rii’iian information biiri’sn in Washington which professes to be purely commercial, witlios: political interests, but is tne near est the soviet government lias to anything like diplomatic ropre.- n tation here -tai: -s enough noli.- of Hie report to say it i-n’i tni”. | However, the bureau might i. ■ expected to say that anyway, ii-m or otherwise. That’s part of it ; job. The European version is that th” game's been going on for some tim • first from Petrograd, then from Moscow and now from Kazan or Novgorod. It’s asserted the mon ey's mad" in imitation of th” co”-, reney of the country it’s intended j |to be circulated in .that it's u “1 , I for the double purpose of financing ’ the “Third Internationale’s” irniiw •! diate interests in capitalistic realms! and ultimately of diluting their gee- [ tiin” currencies into worthlessness. j This campaign, if it real’.v is !>■• * ing waged, may cause a lot of in- . convenience, to sax the least. Even ■ | counterfeits that wouldn’t fool a bank cahsier, if beyond detection (Cntinued on Page Six) CROWDS VISIT SWIMMING POOL Swimming Tickets W : ll Be Sold i For Ten and Fifteen Cents Each Friday Encouraged by the hundreds who took advantage of the cheap rat".' of last Friday at the Playground swimming pool, the Playground As sociation has decided to make the price of swimming tickets 10 an 15 certs on every Friday through the remainder of the season, accord ing to J. T. Warren, president of tin- association. The baseball games, the swim ming pool and other attractions have drawn hundreds to the play ground every day this week and the association is planning to cap th climax Friday with the largest crowd of the season. The pool Will be filled with fresh, pure water and everything is in readiness to handle the expected large crowd. The officers of the association announce that after Friday sea son swimming tickets will be sold for half price. People desiring these tickets are asked to communi i cate with either Mr. Harrold or , Mr. Warren. MARYPICKFORD ON THE STAND “America’s Sweetheart” Tells Ccurt What She Knows of Kidnap Plot LOS ANGELES, July 30.—Greet by perhaps the largest crowd that has ever gathered at a trial in Los Angeles county, Mary Pickford, film star, took the witness stand late Wednesday to testify against three men charged with having plot ted to kidnap her. The defendants are Charles Ste phens, Claude Holcombe and Adrian J. Wood. The actress testified that she was advised of the alleged plot about the middle of May by her actor hus band Douglas Fairbanks and that she had never seen the three men i loitering about the studio as previ • ous testimony said they had done, j She did say, however, that she | had seen an automobile which she I was told the defendants had used 1 "in trailing her and Douglas as she j went from the studio to their home. | i As the star left the court room, | accompanied by her mother. Fair-1 , banks and her brother, she wa« | greeted by the multitude with a con ' stunt “Goodbye, Mary.” 1 NEW YORK FUTURES , Pc. Op?n 11am Close s Oct. 24.9 U 25.02 24.85,24.40 [ j Dec. 25.02 25.05 24.87 24.45 j PRICE FIVE CENTS Fcurteen-Ycar-Old Youth Must Serve From 5 to 10 Years for K’iling Father NO APPEAL TO BE MADE BY BOY’S ATTORNEYS I Hated to Kill My Father But It Just Had to Be Done,” Is Only Plea i BUCHANAN, July 3Q— Hoke j Goldin, 14, Haralson county youth, : today wu:- loan I guilty of voluntary I manslaughter for the fatal shooting of his father, (). (). Goldin, and was enteneed to serve from 5 to 10 | years by a jury which received his [ I'lise Wednesday, Attorneys for the boy said there would b ■ no appeal. :DETAILS OF TRIAL BUCHANAN, July 30—In a clear voice and strait’it forward manner, !> - Goldin, 14, r.oved members of th? audience to ar in superior court here Wednesday as ho related .o the jury why he shot and killed I I ”-. fath'T, Ollie Goldin, a month I :igo. as the latter was taking his I noon nap. : 'I he jurv in the ease was finished l it 1 :30 o'clock, and the state im i mediately began uA introduce wit ! nesses. Tom Helton testified that it!”' bov remarked in August, 1924, [that "he was going to kill old Ollie Goldin I,is father. This testimony was substantiated by other witness es. some of whom were bov friends of Hoke’s, who testified that they had heard the boy say he was going to ’kill his d;zld\.” The boy's statement consumed but a few minutes, but it was de livered to •> hushed courtroom, us the boyish figure, dressed in a jack et and knee bound trousers, began the recital of his life, detailing how his father had mistreated bis moth er and other mer ibers of his famiix at different times as far back as h remembered. It was when he was telling of the alleged mistreatment to Mrs. Goldin that sobs throughout the still courtroom were heard. "Gentlemen,” h? concluded. “I hated to kill mv father, but it had to be done and I made up my min i to do it.” The case was tried in Haralson superior court. Judge F. A. Irwin presiding, with Ed Griffith repre senting the state. W. W. Mundav. of C< dartown, and M. J. Head, of Tallapoosa, represented th? boy. NEILL AT HEAD OF STATE SLATE Columbus Man for Governor, Dykes for President of Sen ale, Harris for Speaker A I’LANTA, July 30—The legisla ture, in its political aspect, some times is peculiar. Wednesday it was gossiped about that the line-up slate for the next state campaign is W. Cecil Neill, of Columbus, for governor; Ed B. Dykes of Vienna, for president of the state senati, and Roy V. Harris, of Louisville, for speaker of the house, according to Jno. W. Hammond. Mr. Harris, by the way, besides being chairman of the house ways and means committee, is also the I member selected by Speaker Neill to preside over the house while in I the committee of the whole in coh ' sideration of the general appropria tions bill said Mr. Hammond. I Mr. Dykes, of Dooly, vice-chair | man of the all-powerful rules com- I mittee of the house, was not only I conspicuously identified with the I Walt-'r F. George U. S. senatorial j campaign, but was one of those who conceived the idea of having Judge George go to the senate. I HARMONY PRIMITIVE CHURCH HOLDS MEET RICHLAND, July 30.—The Har mony Primitive Baptist church of j Richland closed a six days series of i meeting Sunday. The pastor, R. H. Barwick of | Cordele was assisted by Rev. D. S. | Agan of LaGrange, formerly of ] Indianapolis, Ind., one of the fore j most Primitive preachers of thq state. Large crowds were present thru ! out the meeting, where splenditf ‘music was an added attraction.
