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
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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 -- ■
