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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON ) Middling, 23 cents. > WEATHER For Georgia— Bair tonight and j Saturday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 185 BARBER SLAYS FORMER MAYOR OF N. C. TOWN Sa;ii Bryscn Shct io Death By Bonnie Bracks On Streets Hcndersonv'lle BARBER S SON TAKES PART IN GUN BATTLE 1 rouble Arises From Alleged Attentto to Wife Causes Fatal Shooting HENDERSONVILLE, N. C„ Aug. 7.—ln a gun battle on the streets of this city Thursday afternoon be tween Bonnie L. Brooks, a local barber, his twelve-year-old son, Mur ray, and Sam Bryson, former may or, the latter was shot to death, his body having been pierced >y four pistol bullets. Brooks, according to authorities, resiste darrest but was taken into custody by Patrolman ( larence Ed ney, ami is held in Henderson coun ty jail, charged with the slaying. His son, upon request of himself and his father is permitted to be in the cell with Brooks. The shooting was tl.c result of previous trouble betw —an Brooks and Bryson which was occasioned, officers said, Avhi-n Brooks went to Ids home on the evening of Decem ber 26 last, and found Bryson there. Brooks', authorities were then ad vised, had previously warned Bry son to cease his attentioors to Mrs. Brooks. Upon discovering Bryson in his home at that time Brooks op ened fire but the former escaped. Earthquake 2,400 Miles From Washington WASHINGTON, Au?. 7.—Pro nounced earthquake shocks were registered today on the seismograph at Georgetown University, begin ning at 2:54 a. m. and lasting until 4 o’clock. The maxium violence was attained at 3:09 a. m. The lo cation is placed by Director Tend orf as 2,400 miles from Washing ton. The direction could not he de termined. Airplanes Ford to Become Flying “King” DETROIT, Aug. 7.—Henry Ford, millionaire manufacturer of auto mobiles, today became an independ ent manufacturer of all metal air planes, for the purpose of accelerat ing airplane development. The of ficial announcement was made last night at the Ford office that the Ford Motor company had purchas-r cd the Stout Metal Airplane com pany of Detroit. Five Dead Car Crashes Through Fence LOWELL, Mass., Aug 7.—Three persons were instantly killed, three were critically hurt and three oth ers seriously injured early today when their automobile crashed through a fence on a bridge over the Boston and Maine railroad tracks and dropped 40 feet to the road bed. Two of the critically hurt died at a local hospital at noon. DAWSON PENNED NEEL AFFIDAVIT Chief Engineer Says Charges Against Holder Not Volun tarily Made ATLANTA, August 7.—The af fidavit of W. R. Neel( state high way engineer, used by Governor Walker as a basis for his removal of John N. Holder, chairman of th? highway commission, did not con tain everything that Neel had said, the engineer disclosde Thursday oft the witness stand before the senate investigating committee. Mr. Neel said that C. R.'Dawson, head of the auditing firm employed by the governor to audit the high way books, came to the department with a lawyer and a stenographer. He said they called him into a room and propounded a series of cross examination questions to him. Later, he said, Dawson came back and presented an affidavit he tie sired Neel to sign. Neel said he declined the affidavit inasmuch as it did not show that it was based on questions propounded to him and made it seem as if he had voluntari ly made the affidavit. H'- said Dawson went away and came back later with one containing the ques tions and the answers. " ni mir n\-^WC^ MERIC fegpyßustiep IN This Jury Found Russell Scott, Murderer, Insane m|| w -''im, ;,<■ ■,)*, I M' ■»i i .......w ■ > ——•> iV— —-WT— «—<CWN. —i. / r-~>w—-i ~ ; ; t '.■<*» —sr-Y w. .1 I V Urdb. '-WK. * I s fr M ■ v\n \ T.-J-£ -• • \v A z v -. >'Av. ♦ * S EgßaT '■ ‘' ~ .-♦...„' <. k .. 3M|M||K Hat . v,i aWy . <&> W' HI. iy'.- ’. . y-y■ • -;, ; ,-ja«M..^i^r.e— <....»,»,. ~'.■’s ; .'.c.'-g®..,.;. Tss pxcvarc wr-s taken in th." delib. rating nearly 4 hours and tak ncr of tlio box one juryman appears who sc facial expression reflects Cbicaßo courtroom a short while before the Jury, fUtu.cd above, re tired to discuss the evidence and testimony given i: the Russell Scott insane hearing. The jury, after OLD SETTLERS DISCUSS LAST RE Meet Again At Council Grove; Cente n n i a 1 Story Going Round Again of Hew Charles Curtis, 8-Year-* Old Boy, Who Was to Be come Republican Floor Lead-! er of die U. S. Senate, Es-, caped From Indian Camp and Walked 60 Ivi'les to Topeka. | j COUNCIL GROVE, Kans., Aug. I 7 —The story of the escape of Chas, i Curtis from the Cheyennes in the raid of ’GB is being told again as I the old settlers gathered to honor the orsa. hundredth birthday of Council Grove. Many a vetei»n of the frontier, recalls a quickening of the pulse | when the alarm came, ur that June! day nearly 60 years a,go, ~f a band] of Cheyennes on the warpath. Many j a pioneer remembers how the eigut! year old boy, who was to become i one day the Republican floor lead-* er in the Unib d States senate, fled j from the Kaw Indian camp and walked 60 miles to Topeka. | Browning Accused Os Giving Parents Money to Sign Adoption Paper “Meet Immoral Transaction That Has Ever Come to My Notice,” Distr'ct Attorney NEW YORK, Au?usl 7.-—Mrs. Anna St. John, Rye, New York, foster mother of Dorothy Sunshine Browning, adopted six years a«o by Edward W. Browring, wealthy real estate operator, today took steps to the cancellation of adop tion. NEW 7 YORK, August 7.—-Inves tigation by the district : Horney of Queens county into the adoption of Mary Louise Spas, young daughter of immigrant parents, by Edward W. Browning, wealthy divorced realtor, was sought Ti.ur day by Commissioner of Public Welfare: Coler. The commissioner said the investi gation was promptted by charges that Browning had given money to Mary’s parents in return for their signing the adoption papers. He HUGHES COUNTY BILL DEFEATED IN SENATE ATLANTA, August 7 —The sen ate today failed to accord a con stituttion'U majority, squired by law, in favor of a bill creatin? Hughes county. The vote was 27 to 15 in favor of the bill, but the law requires a two-third majority. Senator Hughes, author of the bill, gave, notice that at the proper time he would move for a recon sideration, which means that, a mo tion will be made Monday. AMERICUS, GEORFu/'.. FRiD?\'i AFTERNOON AUGUST 7, 1925 | iiiff cc-ven ballute, cl-*c'arcj Scott insane. It is interesting- to note th'? apparant lack of interest sl.-own !.y the jury, hi the righthand cor- I Charles Curti.-, in whose veins j flows the blood <>f the Kaw Indians, | v.ns then a school boy at the mis | sion on the Kaw reservation, near I here. Hearing the alarm, the lad j stocked his pockets with buffalo meat and quietly left the camp to I visit his white relatives at the state ' capital. Council Grove suffered little i from the Cheyenne raid. The war ! riors were bent on extending their , foes, the Kaws. Three hundred : strong, they dashed through the i streets of the town toward the Big i John Indian Agency, only to find (the Raws, led by Major Stover, pre- * pared for them. After the “battle” I there was but one Kaw wounded ! and a single Cheyenne killed. As the invaders marched homeward through Ceunci! Grove, they loot ed farms and ranches and emptied I featherbeds over the prairies until I they simulated a June snowstorm. It was the last Indian raid. Today the old stories are going (the rounds again as the old tim- * err who made the history of those i Jays return for Council Grove’s centennial week, August 8 to 15, in j celebration of the Sante Fe trail i treaty., signed hire with the Usages | August 11825. j added, however, that it was a vio lation of long-established precedent for tr divorced man to be p rmit ted to adopt a child in this city. “It is the most unmoral transac- • t’on that has ever come to my no , lice,” Mr. Coler said. “Somewhr re , ‘ in the laws of this country there j must be a statute that a parent ’ ( cannot .sell a child. If there is not ' ; such a law, we will make one.” < : The adoption did not pass thru .! his office, ilw commissioner e:,'- i plained, since Mary Louise was ; not a dependent child.” .I “We do not allow the adoption] j, i of children by foster-parents of a ! different faith,” he added, “and | we never allow divorced persons to '■ I adopt children who are under our 1! surveillance.” 1] i MARY LEARNING TO “PLAY LADY” NEW YORK, August 7,—Now ' that the ashes of her tenement yerf- ■ terdays are well brushed from her I skirt hem, “Cinderella’ Spas is ’ I learning that delightful game of ■ ! (Continued on Page Four.) |TO ABANDON GEORGIA ; WATERWAYS PROJECTS SAY ANNAII, Aug. 7.—Accord- 1 ing to notice, given by Major Wil-( liam F. Tompkins, United States; ' ; District Engineer ,the government i is. contemplating abandonment of ' ; waterway projects at Augusta arid ■ above Augusta in the Savannah riv- • ‘ er, in Sapelo harbor and on the St. ' Mary’s river. Those interested in ■ keeping up these projects are asked - to submit their arguments to the district engineer within 30 days. -o b efast acleep and three have ' adopted the indifferent pose sea ; tured by Scott throughout the I trlaj. The only man in the picture Call On All Legislative Plumbers to Plug Leak In Weed lax Pipe Line Quarter Million Dollars Going l to Retailers That Should Go ' to the State I ATLANTA, Aug. 7.—Attention of legislative plumbers to a leak in the pipe lines that feed revenue to the state will be called to a leak in those lines leading from the to bacco tax. If it is plugged, it is estimated that it will save to the state a quarter of a million dollars ; annually that no wis going into the pockets of the dealers, but is being paid by consumers as tax. The present law reads that a ten percent straight tax shall belevied j on sales of tobacco products. This means that on sales of five cents ’ and odd multiples of five cents there is an odd half cent tax. For. instance ,one buys a five cent cigar. ( The state tax on it is one half cent. The purchaser pays one cent, since ' it is obviously impossible to split a * cent. By the same token, on pur-1 chases of fifteen cents, twenty five ’ cents, thirty five cent sand so on, , there always is a half cent. The purchaser is taxed the next high esst cent .the extra half cent going into the tills of the dealers whereas it is intended by the customer for the state of Georgia. It has been estimated that in sales of cigarettes, fully 75 per cent of them are of filteen-cent packages, on which the tax is a epnt and a half. The customer pays two cents, and the state gets only its cent and a half, the dealer tak ing the extra half cent. The proposal by which this may be remedied is to amend the tax act so that it cvill be a levy of one cent for each te.i-cent purchase or frac tional part thereof. Therefore, un der this amendment, the tax on a five cent cigar would be one cent and the same fVr a ten cent cigar. On a fifteen-ceiU package of cig arettes, the tax would be the two cents now paid by \he customer but for which only a c'vnt and a half stamp is affixed. TRIES TO STOP KLAN PARADE, Hand Bills Opposing Washing ton Ku Klux Klan Celebration WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Thom - as L. Avaunt, who has been the; head of an organization here known as the Protestant Knights of Ameri ca and which has been fighting the 1 Ku Klux Klan, was taken into cus tody by the police as the result of 1 the distribution of hand-bills about the city opposing the holding of the : Klan parade here tomorrow. Handbills had been distributed i urging Washingtonians to “stop this farce in a legal way” and declar ing the capital should "bow its head in shame” because of the Klan ' gathering. I < ' interest is Dr. Whitney Hall, famous * I alienist, retained by the defense, » sitting just in front of Scott. In- ? sort shows a close-up of Scott. SKIN RAID SAPPFAILSTO AMEND LAW OF GARNISHMENTS I , Bill, Defeated Last Friday, I Would Have Reduced the Exemption Allowed Garnishees i ATLANTA, Aug. 7—After a stiff parliamentary fight, Senator i W. M. Sapp, 43rd, failed in his ef forts to amend the present law of garnishments in the state, which * would have had the effect of reduc , ing the exemptioon allowed garni ■ shees. , The present law allows a man '.51.25 per diem exemption and fif ty percent of the remainder of his salary additional exemption. Sen ator Sapp’s bill would have allowed a flat $2.50 per diem. For instance, a man drawing $5 per diem could exempt, when garnished, $1.25 plus half of $3.75, the remainder of $5 when $1.25 had been deducted, or a total exemption of $2.1. Sena tor Sapp’s bill would have allowed him $2.50. However on salaries of more than $5 a day, the present law would be more beneficial. The Sapp bill was lost Friday of last week, the last day of the week’s session. Senator Sapp gave notico he would on Monday move for re consideration. Came Monday, but' Sapp came not. His train was late and when, in the order of business, reconsideration motions were called for, he was not there and it was passed. He came in shortly after ward. Tuesday he made his mo tion, but objection by Senator Knight, 6th, prevented the motion from being considered. Then started a fight in which about a dozen different rule sos the senate were brought into play, but Senator Sapp lost, all down the line. REVIVAL SERVICES AT HEBRON CHURCH Revival services will begin at He bron Baptist church Monday night. August 10, under the direction of Rev. W. T. Smith, Opelika. Ala. Rev. Smith has done considerable revival work and is well known in this section of Georgia. Rev. J. E. Hall, pastor of the church, will have charge of the singing and Miss Bertha Israel wil Ibeat the pi ano, accompanied by H. L. Jones, '.ilplinist. An invitation is extend ed' to members of all congregations and arrangements have been com pleted to take care of large crowds. Tlje morning services will begin at i 10:30 and the evennig service.: at, 17 ;IJO. e WOULD GIVE ONE MAN PURCHASE POV.-R IN STATE Bill Provides fcr State Auditor Doing All Buying At Esti mated Saving of $5,000,- OCC Annually A I LANTA, Aug. 7.—Creation of a central purchasing agency, or a chief coordinator for the state of Georga, modelled after that of a federal government, as proposed by Senator Shirley C. Boykin, 37th and Senator E. E. Andrews, 31st, will gave the state in the neighborhood cl half a million dollars a year, it is estimated bv the two senators. They will attempt to tuck an am endment on the general appropria tions hill in the senate to this ef fect, they announced recently. This proposal has been up in al most every legislature for many .tears, it H said by th.ose who keep track of such things, hut this is th< first time that an attempt has been made- to make* it part of the appro priations bill. Previous efforts have been in the shape of separate h v. and have met with defeat. The senators say, however, that th y have received epeouragement from many quflrters, not only in then own branch, hut front the- Hone t ide as well. They would have the state audi tor take charge of all purchases and would transfer to his jurisdiction the state printing department, giv ing him the forces now employe! in (he latter department for the en forcement of the- proposed new agency. The economy ideas of State Au ditor Sam Slate have struck a re sponsive chord in the breasts of legislators and they have been quick to take advantage of this streak in his make-up. Senators Boykin and Andrews, who are among the young est members of the senate, believe that he is eminently qualified to ad minister with creed to the state th? proposed agency. COLLIER DENIES BUCKINGWALKER Sales Tax Senator Says He Had No Intentions Blocking - Governor’s Plan ATLANTA, August 7. —Senator J. C. Collier, of the 22nd district, has distributed to all senators and representatives a circular relative to his proposed sales tax, in which he denies that he ever had any in tention of blocking any tax plan proposed by Governor Walker. Senator Collier goes into detail with his proposed sales tax plan and explains the workings of it and how he believes it would be of bene fit to the State of Georgia in pref erence to any other method. He explains that the bill he has introduced was intended to do away with all ad valorem taxes in the state, which, in agreeing with Gov ernor Walker on this point, he be lieves is antiquated and not at all in line with the m eds of the state of Georgia. ‘FLOS’ ANNOYED OTHERS, JAILED Demented Negress Was Per forming Work for Lord When Taken Into Custody Flossie Collins, colored, one of' the “big sisters” in the Tri-Stone church during the palmy days when the house of worship was free of mortgages and the property of the congregation, annoyed the neigh bors in the vicinity of the church Thursday afternon when she made an effort to execute a command giv en her by the Lord and as a re sult got herself “ju.’ged.” Flossie declared at police station that she was ordered by the Lord to go to the church, sweep it clean and remove the Bible and other books from the church. She was con.plying with the Master’s orders when Lieutenant Worthy arrested her. Neighbors said it would have been all right if Flossie had gone | about her work in a quiet, peaceful i manner, but she disturbed the peace i of the community with her loud singing and prayer. Flossie left a five dollar cash bond with the police and departed with her cousins for the country where ■she can shout and pray to her heart’s, , content without disturbing the i neighbors. Life is short enough without drink ing moonshine and then trying to at a watermelon. NEW YORK FUTURES Fc. Open 11 am Close \ Oct. ,21.01 24.0-3 24.0424 04 ■ Dec. 24.20 24.23 24.23)24.24 ICE FIVE CENTS MRS. FERGUSON NOT INTERFERE WITH HANGING Texan Governor Refuses Plea or Wife and Children of Ccn demned Man CLEM CRAY ASSERTS INNOCENCE TO LAST "Unless You Intervene I Realize Death Is Near,” Gray Writes Gc vernor AUSTIN, Tex., Aug 7.—Govern or Mn inm A. Ferguson has indicat ed that she will take no action in terfering With the execution of Clem Graj, scheduled at Huntsville short ly ;ilter midnight tonight, Mrs. f;| em Gray, wife of the doomed man, said here Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Gray, with her two children, left Austin hit,. Thursday for Dallas. ASSERTS INNOCENCE HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Aug 7—Clem Gray, comb mned to die ,n the elec tric chair last night made a final appeal to Governor Miriam A. Fer guson late Thursday. Early in the morning he addressed a message of consolation to his wife and boys who are at Austin pleading with the governor for commutation of the death penalty. Gray’s message to Governor Fer guson said: “Unless you intervene T realize death is near. This is my final appeal to you to save my life. Before God I am innocent and if I must die, I will meet my Maker an innocent man. You alone can stand between me and eternity.” Shooting Gunman Killed in Dice Game NEW YORK, Aug 7.—One gun man was killed and two others prob ably fatal! ywounded after they had raided r Harlem dice game wjrly Thursday. The three were shrSfite. police as they attempted to escflß trftcr-tiniTTg-seventy men against 'll wall and collecting several thousand! dollars in money and jewelry. Hole in One Made By Preacher-Golfer WHEELING, W. Va., Aug. 7. The Rev. E. C . Nesbet ,of St. Louis drove a 375 yard hole in one of the golf courses of the Belmont Hills country club, near St. Clairs ville, Ohio, Wednesday. The tee for the hole is on an. eminence and 200 yards down rhe fairway and a snoll from which there is a sharp descent, to the green. The minister’ drive carried over the knoll, the ball rolling down the green and drop ping into the cup. Arrested Stole Flowers From Grave LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 7. Alexander Collins, 40, was arrested here Thursday charge dwith having stole the flowers from the grave of his only child. The charge was pre ferred by his estranged wife, who says she placed a bouquet on the grave and then from a concealed po sition, watched her husband remove and destroy it. Murdered Minister Slain By Young Son PARKERSBURG, lowa, Aug. 7. -—Rev. R. H. Vandervoort, Metho dist pastor of this place, was shot to death here this morning by his young son and Mrs. Vandervoort was probably fatally wounded by a shot. The boy, one youngest and brightest students in his class, graduated from the Parkersburg high school this year. WASHINGTON READY FOR KLAN PARADE WASHINGTON, August 7 A parade of 50,000 robed mmebers of th<‘ Ku Klux Klan proving down Pennsylvania avenue from capital to the White House is promised for tomorrow afternoon, in the final plans made today by headquarters of the organization here. FARMERS TO STUDY AT DUBLIN COLLEGE DUBLIN, August 7.—T last week in August a short course for farm ers will be held at the State Col lege of Agriculture. Farmers wish ing to take the course will be sea the county agents for further infor mation. Lectures will be given on farm problems, production, harvest* ing, marketing, dairying, etc.
