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
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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
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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
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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.
