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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling 23c. WEATHER For Georgia—Cloudy tonight and Tuesday with occasional shower.-. FORI Y-SEVENTI! YEAR—NO. 181 BIGRELIGIOUS FIGHT IS DUE TO BREAKSOON Political Leaders Fear Struggle Will Open With Convening of Congress BATTLE TO BE BITTER, NOT* OVER NARROW ISSUE Will Be to Determine Whether Religion Is Dominant in the U. S. Government BY CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—This country is on the point of a show down. It will mean one of two things. Either: 1. We’ll settle down to funda mentalist rule, with no more yowl ing about it, Or, . 2. We’ll be liberalized aplenty— over-liberalized, the fundamental ists say. This is the opinion of politicians —fundamental and liberal alike-- who drift in and out of Washing ton, swapping reports concerning the conditions they observe in their various bailiwicks. Politically the fundamentalists control the country—not effective ly, everywhere, but more or less, generally, nationally speaking. How they gained control nobody quite knows. It’s a situation which just “kinda growed.” Before anybody realized it, here it was. The liberals don’t like it. That’s to be seen on every hand. Nor do the fundamentalists like the way the liberals thrash around, kicking against the pricks. Who really is in a majority it’s impossible to tell. There never’s been a conclusive test of stsrength. The liberals have given ground, bit by bit, without actually putting up much of a fight. This is done with —they’re about to make a stand—more, to put every ounce into a desperate effort to drive th? fundamentalists back. So fundamentalist and liberal politicians agree in reading tiie signs. They agree, too. that the fundamentalists won’t be satisfied with a 'mere defense—they’ll do their utmost to finish liberalism off for good. The struggle won’t center about any single narrow issue—pro-hibi tion, evolution, some one detail of public morals, some particular so called blue law. The campaign will open has opened, in fact—with a little de (Continued on Page Six) LEGION FISH FRY TUESDAY. NIGHT Ex-service men of Sumter coun ty will be the guests of the Amer ican Legion at a fihs fry Tuesday night at 7:30 at the American Le gion hall. As this is the last reg ular meeting before the state meet at Athens, a reiord attendance is expected. The following delegates have been elected to the state con vention : W. L. Bell, T. W. Thom as' and James A. Fort. Alternates are C. W. Walters, M. M. Morris and Elmore Oliver. GREEK REGIMENTS TO GREEK-BULGAR BORDER PARIS, August 3.—-An Athens dispatch says that Greece has sent two regiments to the Greek-Bulga rian frontier and is drafting an ul timatum to the Bulgarian govern ment with the expectation of send ing troops into Bulgaria if the ulti matum is rejected. Vast Amount i of Paper Used j in Scopes Trial > > The amount of paper used in ) S the Scopes evolution trial held j < recently in Dayton, Tenn., if J < made into school books, would j > supply the whole State of Ten- < > ncssee with text books and < s there would be plenty left, ac- S \ cording to an Atlanta paper < < manufacturer. , This is based on the vast ? > amount of paper that wai used ' in taking notes, preparing legal j S documents and newspaper pub- $ 1 licity. It was estimated that 1,000 < ' newspapers carried an average ; S of one page each day from the ) s time the trial began July 6 un- t ( til it was ended. This did not ( ? take into consideration the > enormous amount of paper that 5 was used when Scopes was first ' t charged with a violation of the J 1 Tennessee evolution law and s j the wide publicity that the case ’ > won through the newspaper be- < j fore Scopes had come into the S limelight. THE TWSWECO'RDER jggILPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE Will Her Rejection Save Mate < IPresWV' W*- JMF I >< ><> * EjjE.-.y * Z . | MR. ANT.' MRS ZIEGLER AND TRENTON, N. J. August 3. Renunciation to the last bitter shred of her love is the role of .Mrs. Mary Ziegler. By giving up all claim to her hus band. the Rev. Roscoe Carl Zeig ler, hopes to save him from prose cution for alleged violation of the Mann act and to enable him to mar ry the pretty young typist, Mar garet Roberts. “And if Miss Rob, its can find happiness after wrecking my home, she is welcome to it,” say:-, the wife, herself only 22. “Al! I want now is my two children and freedom and forgetfulness.” Zeigler, a former preacher and organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, is alleged to have abandoned all his ties here a week after he met Miss Roberts and to have gone with her Measure 1 o Enact Stare Classification lax Due In House This Week ATLANTA, Aug. 3—The commit tee substitute bill providing for an amendment to the constitution to authorize the General Assembly to enact a classification tax law, which has been reported to the house, was expected to come before that body early this week for consideration. Speaker Neill announced last week that the bill would probably come up on Saturday, but when Saturday came the House was still busy with the general appropriations measure, which takes precedence over all other legislatioon. The committee substitute meas ure, which, a member of the com mittee has stated ,meets with the approval of Governor Walker, who has urged such legislation, would amend section two, article seven, of the constitution, by striking out the first paragraph of the section. In place of this paragraph, the bill would insert a new paragraph au thorizing the legislature to levy a classification tax. No property, the bill provides, could come under the provisions of a classification tax except “cash, stocks and bonds or foreign and domestic corporations, bills and ac counts receivable, mortgages or ofher evidences of indebtedness, leaseholds and all other choses in. action, and all other intangible prop erty, not including in such intangi ble property the value of the fran chise of corporations. The bills provide that, when the (Continued on Page Six) WALKER SUBMITS HIGHWAY FILES Would Come Before Investiga tion Body But Believer It Not Warth While ATLANTA, August 3.—Gover nor Clifford today transmitted to the senate committee investigating the Stale Highway denaitment his' file in reference to his approval of John Holder as chairman of the State Highway department. In his letter the Governor renewed his charges against Holder and also reiterated his willingness to appear on the stand, although he believed he could furnish no addi tional information by so doing. FIFTY GUNMEN ROUNDED UP BY CHICAGO POLICE CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Nearly 50 known gunmen and bootleggers were rounded up last night in .raids by detectives on robber hangouts and grog shops. The raids came as an aftermath to the robbery of the Drake hotel, resulting jn the death of three men, two of whom were hold up men. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUSTS 3, 1925 fa w* ,y ’ • r i ' Jk -' i lli! -wb - THE REV R. CARL ZIEGLER to El Paso, Tex., Trailed to their r< treat by' William 11. Chamberlin, former fiance of Miss Roberts, they faced prosecution in the federal courts. Then came a dramatic meeting in the railroad station at New Brunswick, N. ,1. Mrs. Ziegler, bravely suppressing emotional display, agreed to seek a divorce. H< r husband said he was eager to marry Miss Roberts as scon as he is free. He insisted also that his r. al conduct in the affair was nothing Io i>e a:homed of. Then they parted, Ziegler and Miss Rob erts going to the home of his pa rents, and Mary Ziegler going back home—alone. Unless the courts interefcre, her renunciation will have saved him. But, she says, her renunciation is final. lie need never return to plead her forgiveness. BLAMES FARMER FOR BAD YEARS Lloyd S. Tenny Declares Success of Agriculturalist Depends On Soif PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.—The success of 1,784,000 American farmers, representing products worth two billion five hundred mil lion dollars annually, depends in a large measure on the individual ag riculturists, Lloyd S. Tenney, As sistant Chief of the Bureau of Ag ricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture, told members of the American In stitute of Cooperation today. “The great pyramid of coopora tion is built with more than a mil lion and a half blocks, each one representing an American farmer. Anyone of these blocks is the key stone of pyramid and the fail ure of one block weakens the whole block,” he said. ARREST KING ON FRAUD CHARGE Deputy Sheriff Sellars, of Mont gomery, Ala., arrived in Americus Sunday afternoon to get R. B. King, former resident of Sumter county, who was arrested Saturday after noon by Sheriff McArthur and who is wanted in Montgomery on the charge of taking mortgaged prop erty out of the state with intent to defraud, according to Sheriff Mc- Arthur. The property referred to is a Buick automobile. About a month ago Sheriff Mc- Arthur received a warrant from the Montgomery authorities for King, as it was expected he would visit his old home near Americus on the Friendship road. It was in this lo cality that he was apprehended. King readily consented to being taken to Alabama without requisi tion papers and denied any inten tion of fraud. He said he had spent several weeks in Charlotte, N. C., prior to his coming to Sumter coun y. PEOPLE ASKED TO LIST ROOMS WITH MISS CLARK People having rooms and apart ments to reht are requested to list them with Miss Ruth Clark, acting secretary of the Chamber of Com merce. Miss Clark is called on oft en to give information to room and home seekers and as she has no list of vacant rooms and apartments she is put to a great deal of unnecessary trouble. The listing of the rooms and apartements will not only help Miss Clark but it will enatl; own ers to find tenants. MOB BREAKS UP KIAN MEETING INJURING FIVE Westwood, Mass., Police Fail to Give K. K. K. Gathering Protection and Riot Results STONE THROWN AT KLAN SPEAKER STARTS FIGHT Hooded Members Seek Refuge in Farm House and House Batered to Pieces WESTWOOD, Mass. Aug. 3. Five persons, including two women and a boy, were cut and bruised, three men were aroused and the farmhouse of Stephen Illsley, in the Islington district here was wrecked Sunday, when a meeting of some three score Ku Klux Klansmen was broken up by a mob of 500 per sons. The meeting was the first attempted since the state police an nounced tiiat the department no longer would afford police protec tion to klan gatherings. A stone thrown at the speaker’s stand started the rioting, and in stantly the air wis filled with mis sies. The three local constables were unable to preserve order. Many of the klansmen reached their automobiles and escaped, but about ■i score tobk refuge in the Illsley house, which immediately was sur rounded and stoned. Every window in the house was shattered and much of the furniture was ruined by a hail of stones and sticks. A score of police from four towns aided by four state troopers finally dispersed the crowd and es corted the klansmen to safety. In the automobile of two of the men arrested, P. W. Libby and Roy Hall, was found a rifle and two re volvers. They were charged with' having concealed weapons. Wiliam G. Moore, of Westwood, was arested on the same charge. Officers said he was carrying a lead filled brass pipe. ASK FEDERAL AND STATE AID FOR ROUTE 3 County Commissioners Would Pave Entire Length of Road; Begin About April 1 Federal and state aid were re quested by resolution Monday by the Board of County Commission ers for the completion of Route three from where the present hard surfaced paving now ends at the county line. A resolution was adopt ed guaranteeing the financing for the survey and turned over to Dis trict Engineer Aiderman, repre senting the highway department. 'l'lle steps taken this morning are preliminary to the beginning of the paving some time next year, prob ably about April 1. It is expected that the Plains road paving will be Completed around November Ist or before. Immediately the entire road gang and machinery will be thrown into the county to repair and regrade all of the county roads. The com missioners stated that no new pav ing would be started until after all of the county roads were put into good shape. “There has been sqme complaint,” Chairman Ray said, “and it is justifiable, but we have been compelled to neglect our sand clay roads while doing this paving. However, as soon as the Plains road is completed, we shall begin going over the county roads and put them in fine shape again.” The commissioners again agreed to supplement the salary of Miss (Continued on Page Three) That Shadow ! On The Pane One wet and windy night, Dick Gregory was locking up his bouse on his way upstairs to bed. , It was then he noticed there ' was a shadow on the glass of the front door. There was a light tapping on the pane— That’s from the first install- ; ment of May Seymour (Foot loose), the sequel of the Flap- < per Wife. This new story about Ameri cus folks starts on page 6 to- , day. Turn there now and read < about the return to Americus < *of May Seymour—Gloria’s baby > —May’s determined intention > to find love, love from a man ( > with plenty of money. Jealous Boy and One of Victims nK ram i ® I I IM • * J MFI >®W§KE■< '<, H ft Agricultural Outlook Continues lavorable In Georgia Counties SCHWARTZ NOT DEAD, IS SOUGHT Charred Body Thought to Be That of San Francisco Capi talist Is Laborer’s SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3. Henry Schwartz, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Cel lulose company, who was supposed to have met death in his own lab oratory at Walunt Creek last Thurs day by explosion, is being sought to day by Sheriff R. R. Veale. Dr. A. J. Nelson, dental expert, who worked on Schwartz’s teeth, declared, after an examination of the charred body found in Schwartz’s labaratory, that it was not that of Schwartz. Schwartz carried SIBO,OOO life insurance. Joe Rodrigues, laborer, has been missing since the explosion and ex perts have advanced the theory that the body found is that of Rodrigues. PORTERJLIAS CLINE ESCAPES Man Claiming to Be Bradstreet Representative Eludes Local Police Saturday J. J. Cline, alias J. T. Porter, pos ing as a representative of Brail street, narrowly escaped being ap | prehended here Saturday night, ac- | cording to police authorities who l had been advised by the Chief of f Police of Eufaula, Ala., to be on the lookout for the impostor. Cline alias Porter, or whatever his name might be, blew into Ameri cus Saturday morning from Dawson, but he could not be located until a few minutes before the 10:40 Cen-, tral train left for Macon that night, j When it was ascertained by the po- j lice that a man answering to the i description sent out by the Eufaula police was stopping at the Wjndsor Hotel, efforts were made to locate j him but he was already safely aboard the Central train bound for Macon, according to the ticket agent who said he sold the man a ticket to Macon. Whatever the man’s game was it is a certainty that he did not work it here as he was not seen on »the streets by any of the police who kept a sharp, lookout for a tall man wearing a heavy black mustache and weighing about 175 pounds. Macon police have been advised and in all probability the man will be apprehended there and held for investigation. Local authorities were not advised of the nature of the mans offense they were told to apprehend. • I « Two can live steeper than one. Some men have gotten along (well in business they have to wear, their coats all day. ‘ IM Br” ■ "ißr I -J Rudolph E. Disso, 18, is in the Richmond (Va.) Jail charged with the murder there of three persons. Disso, said to be disappointed in love, is alleged to have first killed Mrs. Vivian Tomlin Peers, a model, who rejected hi:, suit in favor of H. G. Carter. Then, police say, Disso killed Garter ami also Detec tive Sergeant J. Harvey Burke who tried to stop him. Mrs. Peers (right) and (above) Rudolph Disso. Willis Britt, driver of the automo bile in which the shooting first oc curred, was seriously wounded by Disso in the volley which swept the automobile. , Hogs This Season Are Probably Approaching the Peak of a Price Cycle The 1925 agricultural picture is painted in bright colors by the Fed eral Department of Agriculture in a report to the Georgia State Col lege of Agriculture this week. As business conditions also continue good, the combination presents an optimistic outlook, the department says. Promise of recovery in all branch es of the livestock industry is: indi cated. Heavy steers have been bringing higher prices than last year, hogs are nearly double the price of a year ago, and lambs have been higher priced. •Hogs this fall are probably ap proaching the peak of a price cycle, the department believes. It points out for the guidance of producers that some far-sighted hog raisers are already considering probable heavy pig production in 1926, and lower price levels thereafter. “Truck crops are coming in for a share of price recovery this season,” the report says. “Early estimates suggest a potato production of only about 3.1 bushels per capita, which would be on a par with those well remembered shortage years, 1911 and 1919. Onions, cabbage, mel ons and peaches have been selling at two or three times last year’s prices and seemingly have a brisk fall market ahead. “Rains last month added to hay and late oats. Corn is making ears now and looks good as a whole. Cot ton has lost ground in the western belt by reason of drought, but indi cations still point to a good sized total crop. Potatoes are a decided ly smaller acreage than last year and promise a smaller yield but nevertheless may make more money for producers.” The department’s general index of purchasing power of farm pro ducts in terms of non-agricultural commdoities remains at a level of 90, compared with a five-year pre war level taken as 100. U. S. HIGHWAYS TO BE REMARKED Tot ruts to Be Advised On Con ditions of Nation’s Reads Constantly WASHINGTON, Aug. 3—A joint board on interstate highways, ap-; J pointed by the Secretary of Agri-J culture to select arterial roads des-: ignated as United States highways l and tp make them with standardized , road markers, meets here today to: I make final decision on the routes, i i The purpose is to designate a few direct routes, extending both east and west and north and south on the condition of which tourists will be informed constantly. Road of ficials contend that a great variety of road signs and signals confuse tourists. ’ . NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close \ Oct. 24.10 24.00j23.94j24.14 'j Dec. .... .. 24.21124.13^24.07124.16 PRICE FIVE CENTS UNIQUE MURDER TRIAL OPENS IN JERSEY CITY. NJ. Hcwatd Mocre, 19, Charged With Murder in Connection With Death of Brother PARENTS BELIEVE YOUTH INNOCENT Thomas Howard Killed By Bullet Fired Through Win dow of His Home BRIDGETON, N. J., Aug. 3.-, .Howard Moore, 19, is facing trial m the Bridgeton, N. .1. Superior court on a charge of murder in connection with the death of his brother, Thom as, 23, who was instantly killed by a bullet tired through the window ;of his home about six months ago. Howard is being tried purely on cir cumstantial evidenc", it being al leged, and admitted l.y the defend ant, that he was in love with his I brother’s wife and that he entered It he house a few minutes after th<; latal shot and refused to summon n doctor. All the family forces arc united to save him. Howard Moore, 19, with wavy dark hair and boyish smile sits in the courtroom awaiting judgemen It still remains to he proved that he is the Cain of a modern Cain and Abel story. Al] the family forces are united to save him. For half a year the body of Thomas Moore, 23, has lain in the graveyard on a Millville hill side—tmd there has been time to forget. In this time circumstantial evidence has piled high upon farm side gossip and now this creeps into the courtroom, told by neighbors from the witness stand and elaborat 'ed in whispered conference. In a tragic line sit the most inter ested spectators. The aged mother'. Tom was at her bedside when a mysterious shot through a living [room window in the dark of the | night killed him. No, Howard could I not have done it! No circumstantial evidence could shake her. And then is—the father. There are those who say he foresaw trage dy and talked about its prospects with intimates. But now he waves this aside as gossip. Nothing was wrong between the brothers! There was no ill-will. And 'finally, most tragic figure r.f al! Hilda Moore, the widow. It was she that both brothers loved. They loved her in her school days and, while Howard denies the slav ing of his brother, he does not deny a love for the brother’s wife. Hilda married at 14. She had no vouth, no playtime. From her school books she was plunged into housewifery, and then into motherhood. She has (Continued on Page Four) ATLANTA CLEARINGS BREAK JULY RECORDS ATLANTA, Aug. 3.—Bank clear ing of Atlanta banks reached the high water mark last month, when the clearing s went higher than all previous July records. The clear ing lor July 1925, according to fig ures released by the Atlanta Clear ing house association, mounted $265,036,670.88. This showed an increase of $52,199,128.53 over July, a year ago, the figures then being $212,836,545.35. A marked increase in daily clearings was show nin every day last month over that of last year. Blind Negro’s Bugle Opens Pass For Him ATLANTA, August 3. ! Sounding hi* bugle warning of “I’m coming, I’m coming,” an aged blind negro of the “Old Black Joe” tpe crosses the busy ; streets of Atlanta without fear ; of danger. His long bugle warn* all drivers that he “is > coming” and he meanders through the maze of traffie un scathed. < The bugle carried by the re incarnation of the character immortalized by Stephen Fos ters’ song is nearly as long as its owner and was fashioned by hard from heavy tin. On the side in large letters is printed the legend: “I am blind.” In ad dition to its use as a klaxon, the owner of the unique instru ment is able to produce by it melodies loved throughout the South. The aged negro whose eye* are sightless has treveled ex tensively through the South, ever hearlding his approach to public places with hi* unwield ly trumpet. He doe* not ask alm*; he gains his livelihood by hi* mus|c atid by selling soap.
