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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling cotton 24c. WEATHER For Georgia—Probably showers in south portion; slightly cooler to night and in south portion Satur day; fresh southwest and west winds. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 179 Chicago Bar Association to Prosecute Hotel Robbers ALL BUT ONE OF THRILL BANDITS ' UNDER ARREST Man Who Escaped With $3,030 Loot .Being Hunted in Mid- West Cities PROSECUTOR SAYS HE HAS HANGING CASE “We Were All Drunk As Fools,” Declared Wilson, Under In dictment for Murder CHICAGO, July 31. The spec tacular daylight hold-up of the fashionable Drake hotel in which two robbeys and the hotel cashier were killed netted less than $3,000 to the fifth robber, who is still at large, but the indictment of the three living robbers for murder and the launching of a concerted drive against the criminals by the Chi cago Bar Association were almost immediate results. The attorneys’ organization ap pointed a group of 400 of its mem bers, the best legal talent in Chi cago, to aid the state in the prose cution. The two bandits under arrest are Joseph Holmes, captured just aft er the raid, and'Jack Wilson, alias James Woods, taken Thursday when he went to a hospital for treatment of wounds. Both entered formal pleas of not guilty, when indicted, although Wilson had given a detailed con fession, and Holmes freely admit ted his part in the raid. State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe declares he has a “hanging case” against the men, and promises speedy justice. Meanwhile, police in mid-west cit ies are searching for William Mul lenback. He is described as being about fiv • feet, 10 inches in height, Weighing' about 150 pounds, with fair complexion, light brown hair and blu • eyes, W1 n last seen he * wore a dark suit and a cap. ' Wilson’s confession told how the gang met last Monday and began plotting a raid. One of the men, who had been an employee at the Drake, declared that' there would be between $20,000 and $30,000 in the job. While the plans werp be ing completed Tuesday morning, the men consumed a gallon of wine be tween them. “We were all drunk as fools,” Wilson said. INHERITANCE f BILL PASSED Senate O.K.’s Measure Asking Reduction in Tax to 25 Per cent of Federal Tax ATLANTA, July 31.—The house ways and means committee of the Georgia legislature acted wisely in reporting favorably the bill to re duce the Georgia inheritance tax to 25 per cent of the federal inherit ance tax, business men and manu facturers pointed out here today. It was passed by the Senate Thursday Its enactment will mean, it was asserted, that the inheritance tax in Georgia will not increase such a tax that an estate will have to pay anyway and at the same time it \<il) not lose to Georgia the $300,000 oi more annually that this tax has here tofore brought to the state. It must be understood, it is claim ed here, that this is an inmprove ment over the Florida law that re pealed its state inheritance tax in toto. In a nutshell it merely pro vides that 25, per cent of the federal levy shall be paid to the state and 75 per cent to the government—pro vided the state collects what the fed eral laws grant. Otherwise the en tire 100 per cent federal levy goes to. the government. * A provision of this kind, tax ex perts here point out, will greatly stimulate outside investments in Georgia, without losing anything to the treasury, or legislating as has been erroneously said “in favor of the rich.” - BRITISH-FRENCH WAR DEBT NEGOTIATIONS LONDON, July 31—A wide di vergence in the views between the. British and French government fianeial experts regarding settlement France’' war debt to Great Brtiain, resulted in at least a temporary break down in preliminary nego tiations which began here last week. The French commission returns to Paris today. IN THE HEART OF DIXIE TAX LEGISLATION IN DANCER OF BEING BLOCKED - Resolution Asks for Study of I Conditions In State Before Action ATLANTA, July 31A-A move! I wh ; ch may result in blocking all tax j ■ legislation at this session was legi- ; ! slated today when a resolution was! introduced by Senators De Laper- | riere, 33rd district and Boykins, 1 37th district, providing for the ap- i pointment of a joint committee | , from the Senate and House to study • I tax conditions in Georgia and to draw up a recommended bill to he I reported at the next session of the I General Assembly. ENGLISH COAL STRIKE AVERTED! Provisional A«rree;nent Reached Few Hours Before Country— Wide Walkout Scheduled LONDON, July 31.—Prime Mini ster Baldwin informed the house to day that a provisional agreement had been reached in the coal indus try and mine owners have withdrawn notices for two weeks, thus avert ing the country wide strike which was called for midnight tonight. RAILROAD WORKERS TO BACK MINERS Six million British trade unionists had been lined up behind the mine workers in preparation for stoppage of work in the mines Friday at mid night. The six million have not threaten ed a sympathetic stirke, but rail way men Thursday were ordered by their national union to cease handl ing coal at midnight Friday, if the strike occurred, shunting all ears in transit to WrtVenient sidings, ami the executives of the trades union congress agreed to aid the miners financially by a levy in every trade union district in Great Britain. Bryan’s Death to Have Big Effect on Politics Os Democratic Party BY CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, Julp 31.—The effect of Bryan’s death on Demo cratic Politics is the source of much conjecture in Washington. Coming just at a time when the questions in which he was supreme ly interested were uppermost in the national mind ,the first guess is that the elimination of such an in fluential personality will count ma terially. The commons's passing was so unexpected that political judgment as to its significance is not imme diately very accurately measur able, but that it alters the Demo cratic outlook decidedly is the con sensus of Washington opinion. Never able to obtain much for himself beyond numerous partv in dorsements, his influence has been potent in deciding others’ fate. HOTEL IN WHICH GOVERNORS MET LINCOLN TO PLEDGE THEIR SUPPORT TO UNION IS TO BE RAZED , (By The Associated Press) ALTOONA, Pa., July 31.—Ef forts’ are being made by local and other historical societies to mark appropriately the spot of the his toric old Logan House, which will be razed to make way for a new railroad station. It was in a room in the Lo'ran House that the Union war governors, in September, 18G2. met with President Lincoln and pledged to him their faith and sup port. The meeting was informal and private, no written record of any kind was kept, and newspaper re porters were not present. It was 1 called to take measures for friore active support of the government and resulted in the pleo'ge to Lin coln and the Union. The pledge was signed by 13 governors and en dorsed by a number of others not at the conference. . Among the signers were A. G. iCurtin, Pennsylvania; John A. An I drew. Massachusetts: Richard Yates, J Illinois; Israel Washburn, Jr. Maine; Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa; I William Sprague, Rhode Island; F. ill. Pierpont. Virginia; David Todd. Ohio; N. S. Berry New Hampshire, and Austin Blair, Michigan. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 31. 1925 Named in Suit 'Wh • Sir i ' ■ W . . ... i ft • ; i X' W v gl Or A x T kO W‘ 1 - >s MF H ~ y * ■—- MRS. NELLIE M’QUILLAN (LEFT), Miso ourwilEL (RIGHT) and (INSET) M QUILLAN ‘BIG MONEY’RUINED HUGH M’QUILLAN, SAYS WIFE BY GENE COHN ELMHURST, N. Y„ July 31. I Big money! Everywhere men strive I for it and wives dream of O —ye* secretly fear its domestic conse quences. And here, in a modest suburban i dwelling ,is one whose luster-lost I eyes and nervous body tell the story of pain that can ride in the wake of too sudden affluence. In a very tired voice she asks: “How many men can stand the n"id test ox big money, quick fame and. sudden success? How many can rise Witn its removal how will these others’ futures shape themselves? This query is one politicians are putting to themselves and one an other with an intensity of interest which speaks for the respect they felt for the veteran’s power. Fundamentalism was not men tioned under that name at the last Democratic convention ,but it per meated the whole affair in reality and at the next convention would have been still more seriously to be reckoned with. Indeed it still probably will be, but its foremost spokesman is gone. Had he lived it would have been the important political issue —perhaps a predominant one. Can his place be taken? At first thoughts political Washington seems to doubt it. The Democratic element which (Continued on Page Eight) THOMAS B. FELDER FILES AN APPEAL NEW. YORK, July 31.—Thomas 1 B. Felder, convicted almost a year ' ago for conspiring with Gaston B. ( Means to obstruct justice in the I Crager Glass Casket company case, 1 has filed appeal. Felder formerly an attorney, practicing in New York i and Atlanta, was disbarred after ' his conviction. The jury recom-! mended leniency and the judge fin-{ ed him SIO,OOO. ’ SENATE AGAIN RAPS LOBBYIST ATLANTA, July 31.—Senator Hutcheson rose to a point of per sonal privilege in ♦be Senate Thurs day to renew his attack on lobbying, which he started several days ago. He called attention to the resolution the Senate adopted a week or more ago requesting lobbyists to desist I from their activities on the floor oi ' the Senate and to cease crowding i around the doors where, he sa'd. they made passage to and from the I Senate chamber almost impossible. to these things without falling? And how many can be the same thereafter to the wives who helped ! them struggle for it?” I The questions are asked by Mrs. Nellie McQuillan, wife of Hugh Mc- Quillan, famed as a pitcher for the New York Giants, whose recent suit i for separation has sent across the ! nation sensational stories of night | life, drinking parties and amatory ' adventures and equally quick de- I nials. ] ■ Just eight years ago a pretty rb ! mance of the baseball diamond was staged in the little city of Wpr- WALKER NOT TO FACE PROBERS Governor Asked to Explain Rea sons for Break With John Holder ATLANTA, July 31. —Governor Clifford Walker will appear before t e special senate committee which is investigating the State Highway Department, if, after examination, of the fries he will submit to the committee, the committee dtesires his presence, the Governor announc ed this morning ATLANTA, July 31.—Governor Clifford Walker will be requested to explain to the special senate high way probe committee the reasons for his break with John N. Holder, chairman of the state highway com mission, and his subsequent removal of Holder from office, Senator J. R Hutcheson, chairman of the commit tee, announced Thursday following a meeting of the investigation body. There is no power to compel at tendance by the governor and no means will be employed to induce him to appear against his will, but he simply will be asked to attend, Senator Hutcheson said. By at tending, he would be subject to i cross-examination by members of I the accused department, it was stat | ATLANTA P. M. BRANDS FLORDIA RUMOR FALSE ; ATLANTA, July 31.—Less than 3.300 Atlantans have moved to ■ Florida in the past two years, ac- I cording to records revealed by Ed i win K. Large, postmaster. Mr. , Large said he issued these figures i because he has been quoted as hav ing sai dthat from 10,000 to 45,000 | have left within the past year, and Ito support an editorial appearing I recently in The Constitution. NF.GRO FALLS 25 FEET WITHOUT BEING INJURED ROME, July 31.—“ Nigger luck,” may be all that saved a negro from being injured when he fell 25 feet to the ground from a silo, here. Henry Smith, white, a plumber, Who I was going down the scaffold with the negro when it collapsed was in jured severely, suffering several bruises and cuts. However the ne- I gro landed upon the ground un scratched. cester, Mass. There Hugh McQuil ■ lan was a rising star on the Wor l eester Eastern League team. And, in the grandstand, game upon game, . sat a pretty, slender, blonde-haired, - blue-eyed f/.'l who shouted for her ! “pitcher-hero” and “knew that he i had the stuff in him.” She would > tlel hi mso as they walked home t from the game and he would say / that it was just that sort of encour- - agement he needed to “put it over.” She married her hero and “put it - over” he did, and it seemed as s though the happy ending was nt - Continued on Page Three Twelve Men Offer To Die in Chair in Tight to Abolish Electrocution WASHINGTON, July 31—Twelve old men of this city are seeking death by electrocution. They have asked permission to lie in the electric chair as a protest against capital punishment. If the plans of the Prisoners’ Re lief Society here go through, their wishes will be fulfilled. The society is planning to stage a “capital punishment exhibition” at which, the twelve will be victims. Most prominent, of the volunteers is Dr Walter C. Murphy, practicing physician in Washington for 55 years. “The state has the right to take a man’s life,” he said, “but it has no right to torture him before he dies. “As a doctor, I know that the electric chair is the most horrible torture conceivable. “Imagine a dentist’s drill run GERMANY WOULD BE SLAVE IN PAN-EUROPE, SAYS EDITOR IN COMMENTING ON PROPAGANDA FOR U. S. CATCH BARRON IN VALDOSTA Demented Man Who Carried Off Three Children, to Face Lunacy Hearing MACON, July 31.—J. T. Barron, who dissapeared with three of his children Wednesday after threaten ing to kill one of them, today was arrested in Valddsta and will face a lunacy hearing when brought ba ,- K to this city Saturday. Mrs. T. J. Barron of 132 Flan ders street, East Macon, waited in terror Thursday night for word of the fate of her only child, Henry, four, who is missing with the fath er, declared by Mrs. Barron to be demented. Barron works at th.? Bibb Brick Plant. Wednesday morning, Barron dis appeared with his three children, Henry, and Elijah and Elisha, li, twins by a former r.-.arriage. Yes terady morning Mrs. Barron receiv ed a letter from ) ' n stating that her child had been killed in an au tomobile accident. BRYAN GOES TO FINAL SLEEP AMONG HEROES Commuter's Favorite Hymns Sung at Church Services at Request of Widow WASHINGTON, July 31.—High above the little red church, where the mourning relatives and friends] gathered today to say their last farewell to William Jennnigs Bry an, flags fluttered at half staff from the great government buildings to mark the nation’s formal tribute t oth>‘ Commoner. The drooping colors spoke his service given as a soldier, statesman and legislator and the solenTn religious ceremonies in the church and at the grave key 'd to recount hsi valorous cham pionship in publie and private life of the gospel of peace on earth and good will toward men. It. was Mrs. Bryan’s wish that the oriel' Presbyterian funeral services arranged by Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo be expanded to include the Bible pas sage the dead man prized above others. It was also her request that Bryan’s favorite hymns, “Lead Kindly Light” and “One Sweetly Solemn Thought,” be sung'. BENNING SOLDIER KILLED BY GUARD COLUMBUS, July 31.—Private Walter H. Parker, a member of Company "A”, 15th Tank Battalion, a prisoner in the Post stockade at Fort Benning, was shot and killed at the fort in an attempted escape at 8:45 o'clock Thursday morning, and Private Joseph Summers, an tin assigned recruit, also a prisoner, was shot and seriously wounded while trying to make his getaway at the same time. Both men wore shot by Private Harvey Lane, a military policeman in whose charge the men ha dbeen sent out to work. New vessels launched last year number 924 with a total tonnage of 2,247,751. Os the later amount the share of Great Britian amounted to 1,439,885 tons. into all the nerves of your teeth at once, then imagine that pain all through your body instead of only in your mouth, and you will have some idea of how its victims suffer. “1 feel that if the people could dnly see the terrible agonies of a man being electrocuted they would soon abolish the practice. . “That is why I am willing—oven anxious—-to sacrifice myself as an example.” The movement was started by G.. P.. McGraws, aged philanthro pist, who made known his desires to Dr. ,E. E. Dudding, Prisoners’ Re lief presidyit. In explaining the reason for his strange request he told how he had been convicted of murder and sent enced to death in Ohio more than 30 years ago. “I appealed the case, won a new ( Continued on Page Four.) I BERLIN, July 31.—Propaganda ■ tor a United States of Europe, start ' ed and headed by Count Couden j hove-Calerghi, lias aroused the ire lof the conservative newspaper, | Taegliche Rundschau, which says in such a union Germany would be I accorded the position of a slave. The ultimate object of four great world powers; Pan-Europe, Great 1 Britain, America and Asia, with i English as the universal language, I is regarded as a myth and the news paper adds, “Any Frenchman will merely smile disdainfully at the sug gestion that henceforth he is to carry on all negotiations in Eng lish.” i The Rundschau asks, “Where is - that authority in Europe today to fuse the nations together? We Ger mans, though powerless, absolutely , i refuse as the sons of. Bismark to be , I come part and parcel to a Gaulish i hegemony.” The idea that France would agree ■to a condition of equality with u i powerless opponent, is derided by ’ j the newspaper. I Look out for vacation love. The !_ opposition may think you are play ing for keeps. NEW YORK FUTURES ■ Pc. Open 11am Close ; Oct. 24.40; 24.37124.20124.36 ' ’ Dec. 24.45 24.40 24.2824.44 PRICE FIVE CENTS BLOWS AT BROWN MACHINE COME IN LOWER HOUSE Bitter Fight Over Agricultural Appropriations Headed By Representative Milner PAY GF MARKET CHIEF IS NOT PROVIDED FOR Brown Challenged to Appear Befoie Public and Justify Administration of Dept ATLANTA, July 31. —The house today voted to cut the appropria tion for the Bureau of Market de partmer'. of the Department of Ag riculture from SIOO,COO to $50,000 and wrote 'mo he bill tl. a t the bureau should receive no funds from any source in addition to the $50,000 voted i ATLANTA, July 31.—A bitter I fight on the floor of the House over , appropriations to the Department of I Agriculture culminated late Thurs I day afternoon i.> Representative Milner’s characterization of a rul ing of the attorney general with reference to appropriations to the Agricultural Department as a “sor did sacrifice on the unholy altar of a political god whose favor he was seeking.” 1 he sloo,C'io appropriation to the Bureau of Markets was the item call int forth most htr.tcd debate, and when adjournment came at 5:15 r.o disposition of this item in the gen eral appropriations hill had been made. Representative Davis, of DeKalb and fifty others, offered an amend ment, cutting the amount to $50,- 000. And Representative Milner, in an amendment sought to make the bill provide that no further sum than that fixed by the appropriation bills should be received by the bu reau. Declaring that he realized “this government is thoroughly superin tended, supervised and systematiz | ed, bv the department of agricul ture,” Mr. Milner inquired of the members whether nr not “the elas ticity of the opinions (of the at torney general) are exceeded by their density.” He contended that the law refer red to by those desiring to strike the item of the bill, because the appropriation, was automatic, was intended for the year in which it was enacted, and that year onlv. And as proof of his point, he de clared that, in 1923, the department of agriculture “appeared before the appropriations committee and de manded that this SIOO,OOO be writ ten into the appropriation bill. It was written in, he said, and killed by the House, The item appropriating $3,000 for (Continued on Page Four.) ONLY 6 BILLS IN ! LOWER HOUSE Tolal Now 758—Half Dozen Aho Cail Into Senate Hop per Thursday ATLANTA, July 31. Only a half dozen bills were introduced in the house Thursday bringing the' total to date in that body of 758. The senate introduced six bills also. Thursday being one of the few times during the session taat there have been as many bills introduced in the senate as in the lower house. The following bills were introduc ed in the house Thursday: By Representative Fletcher, of Monroe: To make it illegal to im personate an offk i r McElvey, of Mitchell: To regu late dogs in Mitchell county. Stone, of Union, and Harris of Jefferson: To levy gas tax against tank cars bought if ihe state for intrastate distribution. Smith, of Talbot: To amend the I charter of Talbotton. Smith, of Talbotton: To amend the act establishing the board of county commissioners for Talbot county. AUTHORIZE SHIPPING BOARD TO SELL SHIPS WASHINGTON, July 31.—The Shipping Board was advised today by Attorney General Sargent that it had the authority to sell 200 ves sels for scrapping to Henry Ford t a recommended by President Palmer; of the Emergency Fleet Corpora* tion. j -- ■
