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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 183
ABANDON HOPE
OF SAVING WIFE.
HUSBAND DIES
George Batten, 75, Passes Away
When Informed That His
Mate Cannot Live
MRS. BATTEN GORED
BY COW WEEK AGO
Ccople 'Who Died Within Half
Hew Each Other to Be Buried
in Common Grave
By KIRKLAND SUTLIVE
Unable to bear the thought of
being left alone in the world, and
his heart, which had beat within his
body for 75 years shattered, torn
and weak, George Batten, resident
of the 28th district, lay down by
the side of his beloved wife and
died Monday night, fifteen minutes
after he had been informed by
physicians that his mate, who had
been gored in the side by a cow
last Sunday, would not survive the
night. Half hour after the angel
of death had descended and touched
the brow of her husband, Mrs. Bat
ten surrendered after a week’s bat
tle with the Grim Reaper, and clos
ed her eyes in eternal sleep.
The aged couple, who had lived
happily together for 40 years, will
be buried this afternoon at 4 o’clock
in one grave in Pleasant Grove
cemetery, Rev. A. G. Brewton of
ficiating.
Sunday a week ago, Mrs. Batten,
while in the yard of her home, was
gored in the side by a cow. At first
it was thought the wound was rot
serious as the horns of the
animal did not penetrate very
deep, but on Saturday it became
evident that she had spent her fast
waning strength in combatting pos
sible infection and on Sunday the
doctors announced that the wound
was infected.
Mr. Batten, although hardly
able to get about, wa’ited on his
mate through Sunday, Sundu ynight
and Monday, ever hopeful that the
doctors would meet with success in
their attempt to check the poison
that was fast absorbing the re
maining live corpuscles in his be
loved’s blood.
Monday night, intuition told the
faithful husband that death was not
far distant. Summoning his cour
age, he asked the attending phy
sician if there was a possible chance
of his wife surviving.
“I want you to tell me the truth,
Doctor, is my wfie going to live?”
he asked. “If she isn’t, I want to
die with her.”
“I regret to say there is no hope,”
replied the kindly physician. “There
is, however, a possibility of her
warding off death for a few hours
longer, but she will not survive the
night.”
When the doctor had finished
speaking, the husband, with tear
stained eyes, crossed the room to
the side of the bed where his wife
had lain for a week, removed his
toh,t and’ down,', saying, “1
am ready and want to die.”
In fifteen minutes the brave
heart had ceased to beat. The an
gel of death had answered his plea.
Doctors pronounced his death due
to a broken heart and excitement.
Those who have known Mr. Bat
ten for a number of years, say that
he was alone in the world and s
far none of his relatives have been
located. He and his wife have re
sided in Sumter county for more
than 25 years.
Mrs. Batten is survived by one
sisters, Mrs. J. A. Mills, 17th dis
trict; four brothers, Warren Davis,
17th district; Abb and Pete Davis,
Terrell county, and Riley Davis,
Lee county.
GERMANY WILL WIN BACK
TRADE IN THIRTY YEARS
WILLIAMSTON, Mass., Aug. 5.
Through a determined and relent
less paying of her war debt in
demnity, Germany will recapture
her foreign markets and in 30 year,
will have gained much more than
she lost in the war, Professor Ed
ward A. Guy, of Harvard, said to
day in an address at the Institute
of Politics conference on the foreign
policy of the United States.
Bear Struck By Automobile
Revives and Fights Driver
YAKIMA, Wash.. Aug. 5. Big
game hunting by automobile is not
so good, L. D. Gaines, driver of an
oil truck, is convicted, after an en
counter he had with a black bear,
while on the Rimrock road, in the
Cascade Mountains, east of here, re
cently.
When first seen, the animal was
loping along the highway ahead of
him, Gaines related. Speeding dp
his machine, he forced the creature
toward the rocks at one edge of
the road. Suddenly turning, the
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Lincoln Ellsworth, who accompa
nied Amundsen on his polar expe
dition waves a greeting to New
York City on his return from Nor
way.
sum SHO ULD
GROW TOBACCO,
SAYS STAPLETON
LOCAL MAN SPENT WEEK
IN SOUTH GEORGIA VIS
ITING IMPORTANT TO
BACCO MARKETS
After spending a week in the to
bacco sections of South Georgia,
visiting more than a doozen ware
houses, Lawson Stapleton returned
Monday “absolutely sold on tobac
co” as a profitable crop for Sumter
and Webster counties.
There seems to be no reason why
a farmer, planting a few acres in
tobacco, phould not make a success
of it, provided he has the advice
and supervision of an experienced
tobacco man, Mr. Stapleton says.
“As an example, take Carl Wil
liams, an experienced farmer and a
good business man who lives at
Quitman,” says Mr. Stapleton. “He
told me that his maximum cost in
raising tobacco was 7 cents a pound,
counting everything from seed to
selling time. He believes that 800
pounds to the acre is a fair general
average, year in and year out. That
is $56 total per acre. All over $56, is
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TENNESSEE TO
BATTLE TO END
Peay Declares State Will Com
bat Every Question On Ap
peal of Scopes Case
BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Aug. 5,
—Governor Austin Peay, Tennessee,
in a statement here today announc
ed that the State of Tennessee will
employ counsel from this forward
and will combat every question that
can be raised on appeal of the
Scopes case.
The Governor said that there was
no federal question in the Scopes
case. Tennessee is a sovereign
state, and except as forbidden by
the federal constitution, has abso
lute authority to regulate its local
concerns and employ its polico-pow
ers without any federal interfer
ence, he said .
bear sprang onto the hood of the
truck, but skidded off, fell under
the wheels, and lay still.
To take home proof of his prow
ess, Gaines returned and grasped
the bear by an car. The truck mas
sage however, had not killed, only
dazed him, and the anima! sprang
up with an angry “Woof.”
At this point Gaines decided to
allow the bear his life and liberty,
and sped back to his machine with
out dignity and only a part of his
trousers. The bear disappeared up
a canyon,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
MURDER LAID TO
HENRY SCHWARZ
PLANT OFFICIAL
Chief Charged With Slaying of
Unidentified Man Found in
Ruins
CHARRED BODY NOT
THAT OF LABORER
Schwarz’s Life Was Insured for
$180,000; Wife Declares Re
mains Her Husband’s
MARTINEZ, Calif., Aug. 5.—A
warrant charging Charles Henry
Schwarz, vice president and general
manager of the Pacific Celluose
company, with the murder of an
unidentified man whose charred
body was found in the ruins of the
Celluose plant at Walnut Creek
last Thursday, was sworn out here
Tuesday. It was signed by Coun
ty Detective Clyde Laird.
Schwartz has been missing since
the explosion and fire Thursday
night and officials are convicted
that the charred body is not his.
Joe Rodeguez, Portuguese labor
er, who disappearance form Wal
nut Creek the night of the explo
sion led to the belief that he had
been slain, reported Tuesday alive
and well.
He returned to Walunt Creek
shortly after one o’clock and re
ported to the authorities, who had
been attempting to identify the
corpse found after an explosion last
Thursday night, as Rodeguciz in
stea dos Charles Henry Schwarz,
Berkeley chemist, first thought to
have been the victim.
Authohrities had accumulated
evidence which they believe mater
ially strengthened their theory that
a body found in the ruins was not
that of Schwartz, whosse life was
insured for SIBO,OOO.
Their theory was that it was the
body of another person who had
been slain and placed there to in
dicate that the chemist had met
death in an explosion. A recluse
has been missing from Walunt
Creek since the explosion.
Although identified by Mrs. Sch
wartz as the body of her husband.
District Attorney A. B. Tinning re
fused to allow the woman custody
of it until legal identification had
I been established. Schwarz was re
cently made defendant in a breach
of promise suit for $75,000 by Miss
Elizabeth Adams, of Oakland.
LEGION HOLDS
LIVELY MEET
Reorganization of A. L. I. Tak
en Up; Full Membership En
joys Fish Fry
At a meeting of John D. Mathis
Post of the American Legion, held
last night at post headquarters,
Major James A. Fort niadea report
on the prospects of re-organizing
the Americus Light Infantry here.
Ke read a letter from adjutant
general’s office in which it was
stated that the quota for Georgia
units was at present filled. How
ever Americus* application is now
on file in the adjutant’s office and
will be given first consideration
when allotment of equipment is
again made.
The post enjoyed one of the larg
est attendancts last sig'ht that it
has had since itsorganization. The
fish fry given by the post to the
members and ex-service men was
a very enjoyable affair. Commit
teeman Charles L. Brownell urged
every member to attend the state
convention at Rome August 19 to
21, as the Americus pose expects to
be on hand with a large contingent
at the convention.
FORTUNE IN NARCOTICS
LOCATED IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Aug. 5. —A fortune
in narcotics, found in a flat which
Jiad all the fixtures of an oriental
drug den, were seized by federal
agents last night. A man and a
woman were arrested and are charg
ed with carrying on a wholesale traf
sic in drugs. The value of the
drugs confiscated are variously es-‘
timated between $140,000 to $200,-
000, with an additional SIO,OOO
worth of pipes.
AFTERNOON SESSIONS
FOR THE UPPER HOUSE
ATLANTA, Aug s.—The rules
committee of the senate today de
cide don afternoon sessions for the
upper house for the first time this
session.
The House today sidetracked the
classification tax bill and adopted
the rules committee that put the
first tax reform measure in the
sixth place on the calendar for con
sideration, . ‘
‘AMERICA'S SWEETHEART’
SNAPPED IN NEW POSE
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Here is Mary Pickford as she
appeared on the witness stand dur
ing the trial of three Los Angeles
men who are accused of a plot to
kidnap her. The defendants are
Adrien Wood, Claude Holcomb and
C. Z. -Stevens.
PUSH CAR RUNS
OVER MINNICK
S. A. L. Employe Suffers Com
pound Fractures of the Leg
In Accident Today
J. It. Minnjck, Seaboard Air Line
railroad steel worker, suffered a
compound fracture of the right
thigh about 7:30 o’clock this morn
ing when the rear wheel of a push
car, heavily loaded with cross ties,
passed over his thigh when he slip
ped in an attempt to mount to the
top of the car while it was in mo
tion.
The accident occurred on the S.
A. L. Tracks between Lee and Jack
son streets and the injured man was
rushed to Dr. Anderson’s office by
City Engineer Walker and his as
sistant, Pantone, who were on their
way up town in Walker’s automo
bile.
Dr. Anderson stated at noon to
day that Mr. Minnie!? was doing as
well as could be expected and un
less complications set in he was in
no immediate danger. The heavy
flange on the wheel of the car cut
a deep gash in Mr. Minnick’s thigh
and the weight of the cross ties
caused the bones to break through
the skin.
Two negroes who were assisting
in the loading of the car, said that
Mr. Minnick attempted to leap
aboard the car as it was set in mo
tion but that he lost his footing on
the damp ground and before he
could reach the top of the tics with
his hands he had fallen beneath the
wheels of the car.
RED SPIDER
IN GEORGIA
Cotton Pest Found in Great
Quantities in Fields Around
Augusta; Doing Damage
AUGUSTA, August s.—The red
spider has put in its appearance
in some of the cotton fields around
Augusta, reports say. Several cot
ton growers found evidence of the
past week, and reported their dis
covery to Mr. McConnell, county
cotton agent who outlined the fol
lowing plan to do away wtih the in
sect :
“The first insect appears on the
upped leaves in small red spots and
was thought for a long time by
farmers to be a kind of rust. The
leaves turn yellow, wither and fall
off. With their falling goes the
bolls. The spider feeds on the cot
ton plants by means of a sharp,
slender lance-like mouth parts that
are thrust well into the leaves and
making it imposßiijJe to poison the
pest by poisoning the food. The
poisoning must be done by the use
of some chemical that will kill by
contact, and if the infected plants
cannot be 'pulled and burned, the
use of potassium sulphide (1 ounce
to 4 gallons of water) is recom
mended.”
Cotton growers are urged to be
on the lookout for the spider and
to destroy it before ie gains, much
headway, as it does great damage to
the crops.
AUGUST 5. >25
WIVES ARE MUCH
CRAZIER THAN
MATES, HICKSON
Famous Doctor Says Figure-
Shew Women to Be 20 Per
Cent Demented Than Men
HIS OWN EXPERIENCE
BEARS OUT FIGURUES
Cut of 17,000 Feeble Minded
Pcrscns Treated in Chicago,
60 Per Cent Women
CHICAGO, Aug. s.—ls mankind
is descended from the ape, then wo
men are descendants oi the cookoo
birdie.
Further, it was probably a squir
rel, instead of a snake, that chased
Eve out of the Garden of Eden.
For Dr. William J. Hickson, di
rector of the Chicago Psychopathic
laboratory, has just made public
this conclusion:
Women are 20 per cent crazier
than men'
And as he disappeare ddown the
entrance of his bombproof cyclop *
cellar. Dr. Hickson added defiant
ly:
“Figures prove it!”
Dr. Hickson explains that this
conclusion is the*result of 30 years'
work with mental defecties, and is
based, not on any personal bias or
prejudice, but on cold figures.
Figures, he adds, never lie.
“If figures proved that I was a
tramp,” he said, “my wife would be
justified in thinking that she was
the wife of a tramp. And if fig
ures prove that her sex is 20 per
cent crazier than mine, then she
should be satisfied to know that
she has a bright husband.”
Os the 17,000 feeble minded
persons who have been treated by
Dr. Hickson’s department in the
laast 12 years, 60 per cent have
been women.
“Many girls of medium intelli
gence become insane or feeble mind
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DR.PRIMROSE
MAKES CHANGE
X-Ray Expert Announces Con
nection With Drs. Smith and
Anderson
Dr. A. C. Primrose announces a
connection with Dr. Herschel Smith
and Dr. E. B. Anderson, effective
August 4th.
Dr. primrose has moved to the
second floor of the Rylander thea
ter building where Drs. Smith and
Anderson maintain a suit of offi
ces. Dr. Primrose will continue
his general practice, as well as the
radium and X-ray work, being gen
erally associated with Drs. Smith
and Anderson in the general prac
tice of their office. Additional X
ray equipment already has been or
dered, supplementing that already
installed.
Dr. Primrose moved to Americus
in June last year, coming here from
Baltimore where he had been ac
tively associated with Dr. Howard
A. Kelley in the Kelly hospital of
Baltimore.
Dr. Herschel Smith is now in Ro
chester, Minn., attending the clinics
in the Mayo hospital where he will
remain for a couple of weeks.
GEORGIA HIDES
PROVE BE BEST
Since Eradication of Tick They
Are Being Used •for Patent
Leather
WAYCROSS, August s.—Geor
gia hides that were once used for
a low grade of leather are now
making the finest grade of patent
leather shoes, since the eradication
of the tick. The enforcement of
the Georgia cattle dipping law has
done much to improve the hides
throughout the states A marked
improvement is found in the sales
of Georgia hides and there seems
to be a demand for them through
out the east. M. M. Munroe, of
the Georgia Fur and Hide company
states that his company has han
dled over 10,000 hides that have
been used in the manufacture of
high grade patent leather shoes for
ladies. He further demonstrated
the grade of the hide by present
ing a lady with a pair of high grade
ladies shoes, made of Georgia hide,
by a Massachusetts tanner.
FAILS SWIM CHANNEL
BY SCANT HALF MILE
DEAL, England, Aug. s.—Lieu
tenant Colonel Bernard C. Frey
berg, war veteran and holder of the
Victoria Cross, fell short today by
a scant half mile in an attempt to
swim the English channel.
PREPARES TO DON A
U. S. ARMY UNIFORM
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John Coolidge, son of the presi
dent, arrives at Camp Devens,
Mas., where he will spend the rest
of the month as a private in the
Citizens’ Military Training camp.
He was promoted to rank of corp
oral on arrival at camp.
COUNTY BOARD
EDUCATION HAS
ALL DAY MEET
REQUESTS TO REOPEN BUD
GET AND RESTORE AN
THONY TO FORMER
STATUS DENIED
Requests made by representatives
from Shiloh, Thalcan and Plain
schools to reopen the county school
budget were denied by the County
Board of Education at its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday.
Another request from citizens ri •
siding in the Anthony school district
to restore this district to its former
status, with an addition from the
Huntington district also was de
nied. Those appearing mid asking
for the reopening of the budget
were R. E. Pilcher for Shiloh, 8. A.
Rogers and J. T. Leslie for Thalean,
W. L. Thomas for Plains. Their
plea was to go hack to the original
budget adopted about 60 days ago,
but later reconsidered for what is
known as the Moore budget. C. A.
Slappey, of Andersonville, spoke in
favor of retaining the Moore midg
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SOUTH FREIGHT
RATES REVISED
Peanut Shipments Fiom Souht
east to North Affected by I.
C. C. Decisions
WASHINGTON, Aug 5.—A re
vision of all rate son classified
shipments in territories constituting
the southeastern quarter of the
United States was ordered today by
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
Scale rates to govern classified
freight shipments into and out of
the South were also created and
rates on peanuts moving from south
eastern territory to Chicago, Mil
waukee, Cleveland and other north
ern cities were held to be unreason
ably high.
Notice Os Salary Increases
Received Thirty Years Late
EDMONTON, Alta., Aug. 5.-■
Notification that he had been grant
ed a substantial advance in salary
failed to arouse Sheriff Peter Gunn
of Edmonton to any unusual pilch
of enthusiasm. Not that ho did
not appreciate the liberality of his
employer but rather to the, fact
that he will never reap the fruit of
the* “increase.”
The notice of his salary raise
rame to the sheriff in a letter from
theh north country written nearly
30 years ago. By some trick of
fate the letter had gone astray. •
It was dated January 6. 1896,
and was written by Ewen Mac Do-
NEW YORK FUTURES
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
EFFECT OF COAL
STRIKE POINTED
OUT BY LEADER
Lewis, Union President, Gives
Views In Crisis Which Seems
Certain to End in Strike
UNITED STATES FACES
RISING CC'AL PRICES
Antliiacitc Walk-Out Wil! Di
rectly Affect Every Industry
in This Country
SWAMPSCOTT, Auru.t 5.
Concerned tut not alarmed over
the break between anthracite opera
tors and their miner- in their wags
scale negotiations, President Cool
idge kept close tab on the situation
today without indicating what ac- •
tion, if any, the government would
take if suspension of mining op
erations on September 1 became a
certainty. '1 h c president is still
hopeful that an agreement on wages
will be reached.
A comprehensive report of the
Atlantic City negotiations confer
ence, which terminated suddenly
Monday, was telegraphed Coolidge
by department labor observers.
BY' 808 DORMAN
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Aug. 5.
V\ ith tile ever-growing certainty
of an anthracite coal strike some
<IO,OOO communities in the United'
States face the prospect of a dwindi
ing heating supply and steadily ris
ing coal prices.
Industrial plants in many of these
same communities must either adapt
their power plants to •other means
<>! fueling or face the prospect of
an inevitable shutdown should the
strike be prolonged.
“And should there be a coal
strike, every industry in the coun
try will be affected directly in in
directly,” John L. Lewis, president
of the Unite ! Mine Workers, told
me.
“At present there are some 158,-
000 men employed in the anthracit •
mines. Conservatively, they and
their dependents will number at
least 500,000.
“With a shutdown, these men will
immediately be compelled to re
trench in their buying in prepara
tion for ;r prolonged struggle. Pur
chases will lie cut down to the barest
necessities of life. Food purveyors,
clothing dealers and manufacturers *
—in fact, all who sell to the family
will find a falling off in their busi
ness.
“And those will not !>■• alone in
their loss of trade. The norm'll
purchases of the mining industry- •
for example, rails, explosives t ool',
lumber —will be shut. off. All these
things must be ivlded to the cost, of
a coal strike.”
“The min'T- arc not asking the
impossible in their wage and other
demands. St.-'.ti-tics of the govern
ment, sl ow a steadily increasing
cost in foodstuffs and ether neces
sities. The mine workers must have
incre.a cd wages to cover the cost
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CHINESE 9 POWER
TREATIES EFFECTIVE
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—The
two, nine-power treaties relating to
the Chinese which were signed at
the time of the Washington arms con
(< renet , became effective today
when formal ratifications were ex
changed at the state department.
FAVORABLE REPORT
ON CHILDREN’S CODE
ATLANTA, Aug. 5.—A favorable
report on seven bills constituting
the children’s code was made this
morning by the Senate Judiciary
committee number one.
The bills, which cover expansion
of the juvenile courts, support of
children under certain circumstan
ces, legal and option, boys training
school, compulsory school attend
ance and enforced support of chil
dren by parents, was given a pub
lic hearing two weeks ago.
aid. at that time manager of the
Peace River district for the Hud
son’s Bay company. Gunn, then
comparatively young, was employed
at the company’s post at Lesser
Slave lake.
The hardy Scotchman, MacDon
ald, long since dead, informs Mr.
Gunn in the letter that his “services
have been highly satisfactory” and
that as a result, he has been award
ed a “magnificent” increase in En
glish pounds sterling. Just ho’V
much the “magnificent” inereas-i
amounted to Mr. Gunn declined t-j
divulge but it caused the sheriff nd
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