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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling 23c. WEATHER For Georgia—Showers tonight and Wednesday; little change in temperature. ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 182 Bloodhounds Seek Slayer Os Three In Picnic Party KILLED WHEN THEY REFUSE BANBIT MONEY Highwayman Jumps On Run ning Beard of Car and Forces Occupants to Secluded Lane ‘WE NEVER HAD A CHANCE’ SAYS LONE SURVIVOR Slayer Believed to Be “Petting Party Bandit” Who Recent ly Wounded Couple DENVER, Col., Aug. 4—Blood hounds last night were on the trail of a coatless, collarless hold-up man, who Sunday night shot and killed three members of a picnic party of four when they responded to a de mand for money with the announce ment that they were “broke Following a slender clew, center ing about an unidentified motorist and a patch o ftweed cloth, police were unsuccessful in their efforts to find the man who slew Miss Marie McCormick, Mrs. Julia Sterns, her sister and Fred Funkner, and wound ed Carl Perry, a fourth member of the party. Details of the slaying were piec ed out by officers from the inco herent tale of Perry, who said the bandit leaped on the running board of their automobile as they drove on an outlying boulevard and forc ed them at the point of a pistol to drive to a secluded lane. There, lie demanded the money and was told by the members of the party that they were broke. He then opened fire with two revolvers, shooting the girls and Funkner through the head and wounding Perry in the arm. When he realized that the other occupants of the machine were dead, Perry ran for help, he said. During his flight from the car, he told officers he saw the slayer, and then ran in the opposite direction until he came to a house where he summoned aid. “We never had a chance,” he sobbed. Police declared the slayer un doubtedly was the “petting party bandit,” who has made a speciality of holding up motorists parked in the outskirts of Denver, and who recently wounded another couple near the scene of the last tragedy. Michael Keller, employer of the two dead women, has posted a re ward of SSOO for apprehension of the slayer. GAS TAX IN WASHINGTON BUILDS EXCELLENT ROADS TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 4.—The highways of Washington have re ceived $6,175,300 from the state gasoline tax since Aug. 31, 1921. The tax now is two ecgits a gallon, having been raised from the origin al one cent levy. At present the yield from the tax is close to $250,- 000 monthly, a sume sufficient to pave 10 miles of highway that al ready has been graded. All money from the gassoline tax is used to build roads. This fund and the license fees from automo bile drivers have been largely re sponsible for the improved high way system in the state. ANDREWS TO STOP CANADA SMUGGLINNG WASHINGTON, August 4—lm mediate organization of a force sufficient to patrol 100 miles from the lower Detroit river to Port Hudson to prevent smuggling of liquor, aliens and contraband from Canada has been authorized by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Scientists Os the World Seek Chemists of Eurooe and U. S. Fcrsee a Dav When Our Natural Supply of Gas Will Give Out and Are Working On Substitute To Make Artificial Gasoline ». BY DAVID DIETZ The chemists of France, Germany and England are all working to find synthetic methods of making gasoline. The pioneers on the frontier of science are always looking ahead. Consequently, they forsee a day when our natural supply of gaso line will give out. Artifical gassoline will be need ed then to keep the motors of air planes, autos and speed boats hum ming. The foreign chemists are all try ing to make gasoline from coal at the present time. In Germany, the so-called Bergi us process has been developed. Pow dered coal is treated with hydrogen under high pressure and at a high temperature. The result is a fairly good pe- THE TSMESBRECORDER l&afcpußLiSHEP IN DIXIE "|W? COOLIDGE TO MAP OUT FARM AID PROGRAM Recalls His Agricultural Confer ence to Draw Plans for Help ing the Farmer SWAMPSCOTT, Aug. 4—Presi dent Coolidge will recall his agricul tural conference to map out a legi slative program for farm aid. The conference was appointed a year ago and presented at the last session of Congress, in which the principal recommendation called for the government to aid in coopera tive marketing. Coming before Con gress during the closing days of the session, the report failed to get a vote of approval. The opinion expressed by the President here today is for a volun tary consolidation of railroads which would pave away to a solution of the transportation problem. Birmingham Residents Alarmed Over Recent Series Earth Sinkings Big Hen Egg Is Di sp lay ed by F. E. Bowen The biggest hen egg in captivity is the boast of F. E. Bowen, resi dent of the 16th district, who ap peared at the Times-Rccorder of fice this morning with a “hen fruit” weighing a couple of onuces, meas uring 7 and a quarter inches in length and two inches in diam eter . The egg, a perfect speci men, was laid b ya Rhode Island Red and is said, by many farmers who saw it, to be the second larg est produced in -Sumter county. The egg is of such proportions that Mr. Bowen is of the opinion it will only require seven to make a dozen. STATE EXPORTS SHOW BIG GAIN Foreign Money Flows Into Geor gia As Shipments to Distant Lands Increase ATLANTA, Aug. 4.—Foreign money is coming into Georgia more rapidly than the average man real izes, it was pointed out here today by business men. Attention was called to the fact that out of a list prepared by the national department of commerce of twenty-four states standing at the top ,the south has an even dozen while New England has but one, the Central group three and the Middle West four. Georgia is twelfth on the list, it is true, but, as shown, there are forty-eight states in the Union, and among the twelve southern states, Texas, which stands first ,is an im perial domain territory. Cotton has much to do with Geor gia’s showing, of course, but there are many other things that help out. Georgia's foreign sales of rosin, for instance ,for three months ( amounted to $1,155,564. Georgia jumped up from fifteenth to twelf th place as compared with the same quarter of 1924. I troleum. The French method begins with ' the making of coke from the coal ! in coke ovens just as coke is made at the present time. The gases given off during the process are then mixed with hydro gen and passed through an electrical furnace where chemical changes take place in them. The process is completed by pass ing the gases through tubes which contain a number of powdered me tallic compounds called catalysts. The nature of these catalysts is kept secret at the present. But the French engineers claim that they turn the gases into a mixture of oils of which about 75 per cent is gaso line. The British chemists are experi menting with a process of distilling the coal at a low temperature. AMERICUS. GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 4, 1925 ■ldentify Men Who Held Up Hotel NBOWfip KK■ '■•’ .r ' ►'UBgfl Employes of the exclusive Drake hotel, Chicago, were quick to recog nize and identify the two men who I are held as part of the bandit gang BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 4.—Resi dents of portions of the South side district of this city are experiencing no little alarm as a result of a re currence of a series of ground “sinkings” in that section. These “sinkings” have occurred for several years, first in one part of the dis trict and then in others.' However, the sinkings have been confined to a very limited area of the city. The latest “sink” reported hap pened last week when a ten foot area in the front yard of .1. W. Brannum started downward and kept going until a hole of 40 feet deep was left. Mr. Bannum moved his family and household • goods from the home following the sink-in, fearing that the house might go un der the surface of the ground any time. Since then, reports have been coming in to the effect that other portions of the yard are sinking and that the steps of the house have dropped to a lower level than the sidewalk. Police found it necessary to stop traffic along Twenty Fourth street, new which Brannum’s home is lo cated, for fear that another sink might occur with fatal results. The hole in the Brannum front yard was fenced off to prevent curious sightseers from falling in as they peered into the depths to determine just how deep it was. Since the oc currence of the last cave-in, the re stricted are around the yard has been widened. Thd first cave-in noted in the district happened several years ago, when it is told, a piece of road ma (Continued on Page Six) NEEDEDRAIN COMES AT LAST Precipitation County Wide Great Relief to Leng Suf fering Cotton Crop The long drought was broken in Sumter county Monday night when |J. Pluvius, mythological god of rain, opened up his heart and pour ed forth on a long suffering com munity. The slow, steady drizzle is county wide and present indica tions point to it continuing through today and part of the night. The welcome rain has caused a drop of about 20 degrees in the temperature and has afforded mois ture and relief to long suffering scorched crops. The cotton crop, the mainstay of Sumter county, fac ing death from the sun’s hot rays and lack of moisture, has taken on new life. Although Sumter has been with out a real honest to goodness rain since April, other sections of the state, especially south Georgia, and border states have been drenched on numerous occasions. Counties along the Atlantic seaboard have received heavy rains, many resembl ing cloud bursts, and Anniston, Ala. had a precipitation of nearly 9 inches during the month of July. 1 New Mexico, although several thousand miles away, had not ex- 1 perienced one drop of rain in a year and a half up until a few weeks ’ ago. Political' machines differ from radios. A radio works fine at times] and is very entertaining. ’ 1 that shot up the place during a ■ holdup. Eliva Lovegren and Irene < Bergendahl, hotel secretaries, are ; at the extreme left; seated are the TAXPAYER ASKS INJUNCTION IN CASE Petition to Be Filed Today On Grounds Children Deprived From Being Taught Truth 14TH AMENDMENT IS BASIS OF PETITION I Basis of Appeal Will Be Limited to Constitutionality of Ten nessee Law CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., August 4.—The second attempt to remove the Scopes evolutiTm case to the Federal courts was launched hero today when Dr. John R. Neal, chief counsel for the defense of the young teacher, filed a petition with the clerk of the Circuit court seek ing to restrain the state authorities from further prosecution of the case. The petition of Robert Wilson, tax payer, seeking to restrain the state authorities from enforcement of the anti-evolution law was not filed, pending completion of the amendments to be made to the plea. CHATTANOOGA, Aug. 4,—John Randolph Neal, of counsel for John T. Scopes, recently convicted of vio lating Tennessee’s anti-evolution law, in a statement given the Chat tanooga Times last night, declared that he will file in United States district court here today a taxpay er s petition to enjoin enforcement of the state law. Dr. Neal said that, after filing the petition, he will leave for New York to confer with Dudley Field Malone, Arthur Garfield Hays and other attorneys interested in the case. Dr. Neal said that in presenting his client’s petition, he and his asso ciate attorney relied chiefly on the fourteenth amendment to the con stitution of the United States. In their appeal in the Scopes case, Dr. Neal added, Scopes attorney will limit their arguments before the state supreme court to an attack on the constitutionality of the act and will not stress other features of the trial at' Dayton which, according to Dr. Neal, would entitle Scopes to a new trial, even if the anti-evolution law should be valid. HOUSE FIGHT ON APPROPRIATION Director of B. of M. Restored to Bill; Effort Being Made to Put Back $30,000 ATLANTA, Aug. 4.—The entire morning session in the house was I occupied in a fight to restore t’ salaries of the director of Bureau of Markets and State Oil Inspector to the general appropriation bill and < to put back into the measure the $50,000 that had been cut off from the Bureau of Markets by a commit- • tee of the house. The $3,000 salary o fthe Direc tor of the Bureau of Markets was the first item to reach a vote and it was restored to the appropriation bill. A great lover is one who can tell whether a .girl is pensive or sleepy. prisoners, Joe Holmes (left), and Jack Wilson, alias Woods. Assistant ' State’s Attorney John Sbarbaro, in ■ a gray suit, stands behind them. Many Deep-Sea Wonders Displayed On Return Os Scientific Vessel ( NEW YORK, August 4. The Sargasso Sea, fabled ocean mead ows off the Azores, still flaunts its floating fronds as challenge to man. Its mysteries remain unrevealed I o even so perfectly equipped an expedition as manned the super. I scientific ship Arcturus, now back in port with its cargo of deep-sea woi;ders. But next sumer, when the storms have quieted, another I effort will be made to find and xe , plore this ocean El Dorado—if it exists. Meanwhile, piece by piece, the jig saw puzzle of a world of incredible : creatures at the ocean’s floor is be- • ing arranged in the laboratories of > the New York Zoological Society. • Here the scientists have, unloaded > from jars and tanks and boxes that ! cluttered the Arcturus, creatures that baffle the wildest imaginings. “And it merely shows us how ’ very, very little we know,” remarks William Beebe, eminent scientist who headed the expedition. ‘ “Perhaps we can hope to get some sort of an incomplete picture of these amazing creatures, who ap parently left the sun and light be hind to pioneer thousands of feet below and who demonstrate the astounding manner in which living things can come to adapt themselves to strange circumstances. We can at least gain some itlea of changes in habits, characteristics and ap py arance and there are many, many things we cannot account for yet. “To present our problem more clearly, let us suppose that there (Continued on Page Three) SLATON FLAYS INCOME TAX Former Governor Points Out ! Many Examples Where State Levy Has Proved Failure ATLANTA, Aug. 4.—“ The whole thing is a Pandora’s box of evils” , so said former Governor John M. Slaton of Georgia today In discuss ing a proposed state income tax. “Twelve states have repudiated a state income tax,” said Mr. Slaton. Oregon tried it in 1923 and repealed i it after one year’s trial, its legisla |tive committee reporting it cost the .state 41 millions of dollars. With the federal government, the income > tax rose from one per cent in 1913 to 65 per cent, and President Wil son and President Harding, follow ed' by President Coolidge said it blasted industry and invited waste and inefficiency. “Teaching the people by income taxes to escape their share of the burden of government, and inoculat ing them with approval of class legislation in its most vicious form, will do more damage to the public charter than a thousand instsitutions of learining can remedy. Better to continue to grow’, as we have on tried foundations, than to experi ment with a fad, adopted by less than one-third of the states of the Union. Every dollar collected must be paid finally by the consumer, and the reason for the increased cost of living is concealed from him.” Our jrediction that this would be the hottest summer since back in *24 is coining true. 1 CONFLICT LOOMS BETWEEN GREECE AND BULGARIA Greek Troops Are Now On Way to Greco-Bulgarian Border to Seize Bulgar Towns PARIS, August 4. Greek troops were on their way to the Greco-Bulgarian frontier today, having been <|ispatched by the Greek government, following tht recent assassination of M. Nico laides, Greek citizen, at Stanimaki, Bulgaria. Allegations have been made by the Greeks of the terroristsic acts by Bulgarians along the border line, and word reached here from Athens that the Greek government pointed out the possibility of seiz ing Bulgarian frontier towns in re taliation for killing Nicolaides, un less reparation is speedily made. News of Mate's Death Proves Fatal lo Wife CHICAGO, August 4. The af fection which bound the lives of Charles Clark, well-known concert singer and teacher, and his wife, reached across tne void of death last night and two hours after Clark had been fatally stricken in a mo tion picture theater, Mrs. Clark col i lapsed and followed her husband in death. The double tragedy came while the famous baritone and.his wife were apparently in robust health and the best of spirits. Ap poplexy is assigned as the cause of Mrs. Clark’s death.. ASKACQUITTAL PICKFORD PLOT Arguments On Motion for In structed Verdict in Kidnap ing Case Heard LOS ANGELES, August 4.—De fense attorneys for all three men charged with plotting to kidnap Mary Pickford and hold her for $200,000 ransom, presented a mo tion to the trial court here late yes terday for an instructed verdict of acquittal on behalf of the trio. Arguments of the motion will be heard today. Immediately after the prosecu tion closed its case, the defense placed J. Y. Bedel, a hotel manager, on the stand. He testified that the room at his hotel wherein the plot was alleged to have been "’talked over,” by C. Z. Stephens, Claude Holcombe and Adrian Wood, the de fendants, was rented and reserved by Louis Geek, known at the trial as a police informant, who is said to have conferred with the trio while police listened. POISON FATAL TO GEORGIA WOMAN NEW ORLEANS, August 4. Mrs. Anna Lawrence, who recently took poison in a hotel here, died in Charity hospital today in the arms of her father who had come here from Dublin, Ga., on receipt of a letter saying that his daughter was in trouble and would rather be dead than face the world. News Reporter Makes Good on Naive Reporter for the Gary Post-Trrbune, Accepts All Assign ments and According to Fellow Workers Gets Plenty of News Beat Although Totally Blind GARY, Ind., Aug 4.—Total blind ness has not interfered with the success of Allen Naive, 31, as a newspaperman. Naive, city hall reporter for The Gary Post-Tribune, accepts all as signments and, according to fellow workmen, gets more than his share of news. He turns out “clean copy* on a regulation typewriter. Naive was given a place on The Post-Tribune more than five years ■ago, upon completion of a course in a school for the blind. He show ed natural aptitude for using- a NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open Ham Close ■I Oct 24.14124.26(24.22123.86 Dec. 24.16 24.28.24.23(23.93 PRICE F.IVE CENTS ANDERSON SAYS IMBUED WALKER TO FIRE HOLDER Former Member of Highway Board Repeats Charges Against Dept. Head WALKER’S APPEARANCE LIKELY BE REQUESTED Editor of Macon Telegraph Call ed From Investigation On Account Father’s Illness ATLANTA, August 4 Promis ed cross-examination of W. T. An derson, forme.- member of the State Highway board, by Sam L. Olive, counsel for the board today at the senate committee hearing will not. materialize. Anderson today was recalled to Macon because of the dying condition of his father . Admitting that he inspired Gov < mor Clifford Walker to remove John Holder as chairman of the state highway board, W. T. Ander son, editor of The Macon Telegraph and former member of the board, Monday spent several hours on the witness stand before the special in vestigating highway department af fairs, explaining the reasons which prompted him in his course. His testimony virtually amounted to a repetition of his former charges against Chairman Holder, including alleged alteration of minutes, mis usse of public funds, secrecy in dealing, with padding of payrolls and other charges. Sam L. Olive, attorney for the highway board, injected a new ele ment into the probe when he in4L cated that he later will attempt tir* show that the private audit made by C. R. Dawson, Atlanta account ant, was extremely irregular. He announced that he would call em ployees of Mr. Dawson's office and question them as to whether they were subjected to duress in signing various affidavits in the audit con taining charges against the chaiir man. “I doubt if the men who made the affidavits actually wrote them," he stated. It is probable that the commit tee will request Governor Walker to appear in person to give his testi mony. This will be decided at a short meeting of the committee this morning. The committee will visit the East Point shons of the highway de partment Wednesday to make a per sonal inspection of the physical as pects of the department. Mr. Anderson told the committee Monady during the course of testi mony that he had been the man who inspired removal of John N. Holder, chairman of the state high way department, by Governor Walk er. $2,000 FOR ONIONS GROWN ON TWO ACRES Up in Macon county one farmer has been paid $2,000 for the onions he produced on two acres of land, according to a statement made this morning by J. B. Guerry, of Monte zuma, who says that J. B. Easter lih accomplished this feat this year. Mr. Gurry says that farmers in his section also made clean profits ship ping sweet corn to the cities. The sweet corn is pre-chilled by dipping in ice water before packing. Much asparagus also has been marketed, and the peach crop receipts were unusually profitable this year in Macon and nearby counties. “This section is in fine shape now and folks in town should turn our energies toward bringing the tourists thru this rich section,” he beliebes. “Up our way we are ready and willing to pull with you people in Sumter county.” typewriter and for writing, and made good from the start. He has never asked special con sideration because of his physical handicap, and has accepted every assignment given to him, including his share of night meetings. His cane is his only companion on his beat. One of his recent accomplish ments was the writing of a feature story on a circus which came to Gary. His story was as bright and colorful as though he had been able to see the gayety of which h< wrote.
