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Middling: 22 F-2e; WEATHER For Georgia—Fair tonight and Tuesday except. lol' I thundershow- ; i ers along the coa I this afternoon j ! or tonight. ( FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 186~ Three Negro Shootings in County During Past 48 Hours ALEX WOODARD! DEAD AND TWO OTHERS DYING Caloway Slays Preacher In De fense cf Life, He Testifies at Committal Trial \ MEN WHO SHOT GLASS AND NEGRESS ESCAPE Mary Drvmmoiid Seriously Wounded By Load of Shot Intended fcr Husband As the result of three shootings in Sumter county during the past 48 hours Alex Woodard, colored, is dead; and Jim Glass and Mary Drum mond, both colored, are in a serious condition and not expected to live through today. Woodward’s slayer C. J, Caloway, colored, surrender ed himself to Deputy Sheriff Chap pell, Sunday morning and at a com mittal hearing this morning was hound over to the November grand jury under SI,OOO bond on a charge of manslaughter. Tom Hurley, ne gro, alleged to have shot Glass, and Jake Nixon, charged with the shoot ing of Mary Drummond are still at large . Alex Woodard was killed by ('. ■l. Caloway in the 28th district Sat urday afternoon about six o’clock, following Woodard's threat to “beat Caloway’s heart out” if he did not give him (Woodward) satisfaction. At a committal trial this morning in Judge Shy’s courtroom, Caloway testified that he killed Woodard aft er he had been threatened by Wood ard. Several negroes testified that Woodard had. a pistol and had re peatedly cursed and threatened Cal oway before the fatal shooting, which took place in a small shed ad joining a baseball diamond in the 28th district. Eye witnesses to the shooting testified that Caloway fir ed the shot that killed Woodard while Woodard held Caloway by the throat of his shirt with one hand and with the other made a move as to remove something from his back pocket. One witness declared that he saw Woodard’s sister and son take a gun from his (Woodard’s) clothing a few minutes before he was ’ed, and that the gun was given ba«.K to Woodward by his son. Caloway has been in the employ of J. R. McGlamery, operator of a sawmill in the 27th district, for nearly 15 years and during that time Mr. McGlamery stated that he had given no trouble at all. Woodard was a preacher. Jim Glass was killed by Tom Hur ley Sunday afternoon in the 17th district. According to information reaching the city Hurley shot Glass in the back as he was running from him, after he had gotten the best of Hurley’s brother in a fist fight. Hurley and his brother are thought to have made their way to Smithville Sunday night and board ed a passing freight train. Neither have been heard of since the shoot ing. it was said. Mary Drummond was shot, and seriously wounded with a shot gun in the hands of a negro named Nix on about ten o’clock this morning on the Howard place, located about (Continued on Page Three) food Higher In Atlanta and Memphis, Report WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—An increase in the retail cost of food, ranging from one to seven per cent, is reported for the month ending July 15 in 22 cities. The report, made public by the labor statistics Bureau of the Labor Department, covered 23 of the 50 cities included in the bureaus survey. In Salt Lake City, however, there was a two per cent decrease. In Atlanta and Mem phis there was a three per cent in crease. M’MILI AN UNABLE FIND INTERMEDIATE BASE WASHINGTON, Aug 10.—Com mander Donald B. McMillan, in a flight over Ellsmore Island on Sat urday night, was unable to find a suitable intermediate base for his Arctic expedition between Etah, Greenland, the main base, and Cape Thomas Hubbard, where it is plan ned to establish an advance flying base. McMillan’s flight was in direct line toward Cape Thomas Hubbard, but everywhere rugged country and ice were found. Another flight, further to the south, will be made to locate a base. M But F" f B 4*3* -irnr 4B THE TIME§femCORDER PUBLISHED IN THE LED FORCES AGAINST “TEDDY” ROOSEVELT ■ W •£ 1 When Rooseveit s Rough Riders stormed San Juan Hill, Major E. Carrion was one of the Spanish of ficers in charge of that fortress. Now he’s visiting America to make arrangements for a propo: ed trip to this country by King Alfonso of Spain. Old Crime Denies K-lling 25 Years Ago DAL ION, Aug. 10 Lodged in jail here under charges of having killed Town Marshall Ha-,nah hero twenty-six years ago, Robert M. McCollister, alias Bill Jones, de nied he was guilty of the crime. Immediately after Marshall Han nah was killed, his son, Charles Han nah, began a search for the slayer which resulted in the arrest of Mc- Collister recently in Gainesville, Texas. The prisoner was ordered held in communicado after his arrival here, but yesterday superior court Judge Tarve rlifted the ban. While deny ing he is the Bill Jones who killed Hannah, McCollister admitted he re sided here at the time of the killing. He denied claims of the prosecution that he had confessed. “Dot” Ellingson, Slayer Os Mother, Hopes to Be Freed At Coming Trial Declares She Is “Tired of Jazz’’ and Wants to Go Home to Get Taste of Living SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10.— Once the “front parlor” was too tame for Dorothy Ellingson, and to escape it in favor of the dance hails she killed her own mother. Now the 17-year-old girl i:, living on with a hope that she may be giv. en a chance to go back to the “front parlor.” “I want a home, I want a family,” admits the girl. “From jail I have learned that home with its sewing, its meals, its housekeeping must give the greatest joy in life. ... I never had a real chance to live that sort of life and I want it now.” Dorothy’s disposition is not one that pleads; it demands. And with the same wilful spirit, the same utter self-reliance and disregard for consequences that made Dorothy murder her own moth er for the sake of a party, she has opposed her attorneys, ignored cir cumstances—and, so far, has won. Now Dorothy is having her third trial—her third chance. She wants freedom, nothing less. She doesn’t want to compromise—either all or nothing. “We’re not asking for any in be tween verdict,” declares her present attorney, Walter McGovern. “We Continued on Page Three. Massacre Riffians Slay 106 Frenchman PARIS, Aug. 10.—-Premier Pain leve, in a semi-official statement, has ad/nitted that 106 French troops were massacred in one of last week’s engagements with the rebellious tribesmen in the Jebel Drus district of Syria. He declared that “events in Syria are not so grave as certain narties sought to represent them.” The Suediah post, which dispatches from British and Arab sources stat ed had fallen, is still occupied by French troops, he said, AMERICI S, GEORGIA, MONDAY Al I I.RNOON. AUGUST 10, 1925 LESSENING OF LOBBYING IN STATE SENATE Hutcheson’s Verbal Onslaughts Responsible for Checking ot Obnoxious Practice EMPLOYES CF THE STATE NOW STICK TO OFFICES Only 10 Lobbysists Have Paid Fee; 100 Have Failed to Comply With Law ATLANTA, August 10, —There has been a great 1 .isening of lob bying in the Georgia state senate since the verbal onsl nights against them by Senator J. R. Hutcheson, 39th. Senator H.-tcheson began h'.s .fight against the lobbyists quite l early in tne session with a resolu tion directed mainly to department head- and clerks of the capitol. He declared these had become so numerous asking for salary in creases that it war- impossible al most for a senator to get to his desk. He declared they crowded about the doors of the senate t> such an xetent that it was hard to get in and out. His resolution requested those in the employ of the state to quit 'heir lobbying and g.-t back to work for which they were being paid. The resolution was adopted unani-j mously. Subsequent to this, he was both ered by other lobybists for this, that ayd the other thing. So one day he took himself to the office of the secretary of the state and ob tained a list of those lobbyists who had registered with that official and paid their SIOO fee each as requir ed by the state law. He read this list, containing ten names, to the senate, declaring that none of these had ever approached him in an obnoxious man ner and that all his troubles wc re caused by those who had not regis tered. He urged that the law gov rening lobbyists be enforced to the letter and that there were ten times the number of lobbyists in the the state’ capitol as' had paid the tax. GOVERNOR WE FIGHTS FOR CODE Mrs. Walker, Although Not a Lobbyist, Is Working for Children’s Bill ATLANTA, August 10 A ring ing appeal to the members of the general assembly to enact int olaw the children’s code commission bills now before the assembly, Mrs. Clif ford Walker, wife of the governor of Georgia, has issued ti statement pointing out the need, for the pos terity of the state for the passage of the bills. - Mrs. Walker, while tremendously i interested in the passage of these I bills, has not become lobbyist for | them in the corridors of the capital, i and a recent address before clubs The statement she has just issued in the city her main form of ac tivity. She is rarely seen at capital and then only in her hus band’s office. Her statement points out the fu ture that is facing the children of Georgia through the lack of any uniform system of caring for de linquents and comparing it with what it will be in the event the bills now before the assembly be come law. WHOLESALE MILLINERY LIKELY OPEN HERE F. L. Leidy, representing a Ma con capitalist, will open a whole sale millinery establishment in one of the stores owned by C. M. Coun cil on Cotton avenue, according to Miss Ruth Clark, acting secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, who ■ gave out the announcement this I moring. Mr. Council-said that Mr. Leidy i had not yet rented the store, but J had looked at the place and declared it to be suitable for his purpose. , and that he would return to Amer- ■ ieus Wednesday to complete the i 1 ransaction. ACCLAIMED AS HERO BY FELLOW CITIZENS i gp ' H fSjS \ M / / Edda Mussolini, 1 4-year-old daughter of the famous premier of Italy is acclaimed as a hero by her fellow citizens. A . girl companion, in swimming, was to drown when Miss Mussolini jumped into the water and saved her. $418.56 TO KEEP VET FOR A YEAR One Hundred and Four “Wear ers of the Gray Eat $17,896 Worth Food Yearly A ILAN IA, Aug 10.——One hun dred and four confederate veterans in the soldiers home here were main tained at a cost of $418.5(1 per in mate in 1924, the annual report of the state auditor, recently made public, shows. This is a decrease of one cent an inmate a day over the 1923 figures for maintenance. Fhe institution had an income of $51,100.79 for 1924 and the balance on hand at the end of the year was $3,163.06 which was $472.02 less than the balance on hand at the close of the previous year. The largest itcip jn the disburse ment column was $17,896 for pro visions, while the second was for salaries, $9,071.42 ENNIS AFTER WALKER’S TOGA Announces Positively He Will Make Race—Says Not Align ed With Brown Machine MACON,- Aug. 10.—The Macon Telegraph in a story that —o-faL Telegraph said in a story today that Howard Ennis, of Milledgevil]-’, president of the state senate, will be a candidate for governor next yeai;. The story carries with it an in terview with Mr. Ennis. “All that remains before the for mal announcement is made is a con ference between his friends and supporters over the state, to be held in Atlanta during the middle of next week,” says the story. The Telegraph quotes Mr. Ennis a making the announcement and adds: “Mr. Ennis stated emphatical ly that the race would be made on his own merits, using his past rec ord in serving the state and that he was not aligned with the ‘Brown machine,’ or any other political fac tion, Ku Klux Klan or any other secret order.” “I will run on the platform that the state needs a sound* conserva tive business administration and hope that the people will see Tit to place me in the governor’s chair. 11 will take the stump and appeal to | ho business man, farmers and lab ! oring people on this ground,” Mr. | Enins is quoted further. ; Tn his statement denving that he i was, in league with the so-called i‘Brown machine,’ Mr. Ennis cited Ihis record while a member of the | hoouse of representatives. BULLETIN I i ATLANTA, Aug. 10.—Opponents lof the five hundred twenty five (thousand dollars appropriation bill I for the agricultural and educational . institutions, defeated the measure toda yin House by adopting and substituting in committee of whole House and then voting make un favorable report of substitute. Senator Carlisle, seventh district introduced his bill in Senate which provided for the holding a constitu tional convention in Jnauary, MOVEMENT IS ON TO INCREASE GUY M’LENDON’S PAY Legislators Are of Opinion That Sectetary of Slate Is Under Paid PRESENT SALARY $3,800 PER ANNUM His Department Only One in State That Docs Not Spend Full Appropriation ATLANTA, August in. A mover..ent has been started to de vise some means whereby the re muneration of Secretary of State S. Guyton McLendon may be in creased. This may take the form of a bill before the present session of the assembly needs. As secretary of stale, Mr. Mc- Lendon receives a salary of $2,000 per annum and as motor vehicle commissioner he draws a salary of SI,BOO per annum, giving him a to tal remuneration of $3,800 per an num. One argument that is beinj;' brought forth in iiis favor is that his is the omy department of the state which does not spend all the money appropriated for its use by the assembly. In a majority of the cases, the law appropriated a flat sum, or “so much of it as may he necessary” which always means, it is pointed out, the entire amount. Th" motor vehicle law authorizes Mr. McLendon to expend in the en forcement of the law, 15 percent of the receipt:, of the motor vehicle department, His costs last year figured 3.3 percent of the receipts and an average for the past years of 3.4 percent. The remainder of this percentage goes into the treas ury of the state as increased reve nue. It is from this remainder of the 15. percent that his friends would award him an increase in remuneration. The annual collection:, of the mo tor vehicle department will run about a half million dollars annual ly. 'May it Please the Court* and ‘Your Honor’ Heard Frequently In the Senate Preachers and Lawyers in Upper! House Can’t Forget Habit c<f a Lifetime ATLANTA, August 16. Just because a man has been elected a senator in the State of Georgia, it does not mean that he can forget the habits of a lifetime, nor the limbo of his calling. There are a number of lawyers in the Georgia senate and in mo ments of heated debate, they arc won’t to address the president as “Your Honor,” “May it please the court” and to address the body of the senate as “Gentlemen of the Jury.” Senator J. M. Dixon, 17th, was guilty of this a few days ago while speaking on the railroad stop law, and immediately was given the “ha ha.” One senator, who evidently back home is a pillar of the church and frequently addresses church gather ings, startled the chamber one day last week by addressing the chair reverently as “Brother Moderator.” Still another, who is a lawyer and also a pillar of the church arose one day with his mind filled with matters weighty to himself and the State of Georgia and bega* his ad dress by saying: “Your honor, and my good breth ren 1” Senator P. T. Knight, in refut ing the arguments of Senator E. E.! Andrews, the “baby” senator, against the railroad stop bill, refer red to his arguments as “childish.” The junior senator came back with I Ihis: “1 may be a gosling with my I pin feathers not yet ip. full bloom, I hut thank be, J am not a full ' grown goose.” Senator Knight joined in the laugh at his expense. RICHLAND FARMERS SELLING CARS OF CORN RICHLAND, August 10. So large was the corn crop of last year that farmers in and around Rich land still have thousands of bush els on hand and are shipping it at a big profit. The largest individ ual sale was made by Dr. N- C. Als ton, pecan king of Stewart county, who recently shipped from his barn 1 IS CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING $800,643 J J® " w Sffi w"*' 5R j John A Bell, president of the de funct Carnegie Trust Co., of C:.r negie, Pa., ami for year a power in Republican politics in P: nnsylvanin, is under arrest chart'd with em bezzling $800,643 of the bank s funds. The charge was filed after a special investigation by stat" of ficials. Kills Police Negro Slays Richmond Officer RICHMOND, Aug. 10,—Detec tive Sergeant Louis Bertucci was shot to death here last night when he answered an emergency call in the negro district, Polly France. negro, and Ruth Glenn, negro: were seriously wounded. Detective: said they have established that Francis .alter shooting the woman, shoot and killed the detective -r: ii drove up in an automobile tn re sponse I'i a call to police In .idqiiar tors. Bertucci was the second dote five .sergeant to be slain h-re in lev than two weeks, J. Harvey Burke falling victim to the bullets of Ito dolph Dissc on July 28th. when : > latter killed Burke, Mrs. Vivian Tomlin Peers, b’s sweetheart, and W. G. Carter, his rival. NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN FORM Indian Edition of the Gocdsueed New Testament to Be Used in Orient CHICAGO, Aug. 9.--An old re ligion in modern form will b" ‘ml. to an old land from a modern country when an Indian edition of the Goodspeed New Testament, which recently attracted widespread attention because of its factual translation, is published by the Christian Literautre Society of Madras, through the co-operation of the University of Chicago Press. The project, made public today is the result of continual requests from the Orient for a translation of the New Testament in ihodern Eng lish that can be used by native students, who in trying to puzzle out the language, find the style of the older versions awkward and cuinberson. Plates have been furnished by the University of Chi cago Press, and the actual rinting will be done in India, perha;* in some little shop off in the moun tains. Being Held In Connection With Murder of 2 AUSTIN, Aug. 10.—One man > being held by the Travis county an- | thorities today in connection with 1 the killing of Mr. ami Mrs. S. F. E<i ' i gler and their adopted daughter, I ; Miss Emma Engler, at their farm ■ house near Moores crossing, 1 1 miles southeast of Austin, presumably Saturda ynight. Officers refused to reveal the man’s identity. Posses arc scouring the country side for clues of the slayers. a carload of fine corn, part of a surplus grown on h's farms in 1921.1 This years'* corn crop, although suf-| sering from lack of moisture, will 1 'he fair to good. \ new York futures v , ' I’c. Open Jtairi'Cfe < Oct. 23,88;24.17|23.70[23.35 ( I'"". 24.10f24.35|23.95.-23.55 | PRICE FIVE CENTS 1(0.1’. REGULARS ARE AFRAID OF FIERY FRAZIER Rcpubl'ccns Pray He Won’t Succeed LaFclletie As Lead- er of Radicals STRONGER PARTY HOPES TO SCARE FRAZIER OFF Read O rt of Republican Party But Is Held in High Esteem By Democrats WASHINGTON, August 10. Ask an old-line Republican, “Who'll be the next radical leader in the senate” —for you know Lie old liners are thinking a lot about tl’.L, and the chances are 1.c.’1l reply, right off the bat, “It won’t be Fra tier anyway.” I nen he'll take Lime to say raide d ism’s completely gone up, so it won': need any leader. The old-liner knows better than that. Tim combined radicals and Democrats outnumbered the Re publican “regulars” on several votes at the extra senate session lasi spring. La Follette and Ladd are gone now ,but I heir s-i.ts will be filled l.clni'e next .ession almost ■ei'lriinly by two more cadi- ids. Numerically the lineup will hi just what it was before but will Chi cad:. ;.i ii ~d<-isbip be what il w:i ? ni i ill" old-liner will re mind yon, "Irt ; lofitsed it already Uoii"i | 1 t.ty independent but h" wouldn't j;o that far. And of coin (■ i •.n'.icr’.i out of the ques tion.” Y> t when yon inquii"', “Why lot I'i.izi :■ ‘anyway’.' Why ‘of com <■’ mil.'”.' tdl lh" e:;p|auatio/i you get will l>e, “Oh, he woiddi l ' 1 . do.” After lie.'irilg. nil. .1 ,’l u til Ily tilil aine thing about two dozen time.; ln-gin Io ' the ir pi" ,j on the old lino liejx 11 ’ic: n : are a Hil le afraid of h razier think he’d mil ea prctly formidable radi cal leader, which wouldn’t suit their book n mite they want radicalism to disintegrate, for lack of lender : hip and are trying to pooh-pooh him out of consideration Maybe he wouldn’t make a good radical leader. But it seems pre mature to ay “of course” he wouldn’t. To a non parti, ".n by tnnder it seems as if he might make a fair tab at the job. lie isn’t spectacu lar, like '•ollelte, but he’ aide, well-infornc'd, experienced in poli te ~ has punch, know.; how to make a (i>•:■•.via [s ch ami lake care of himself in debate and ..hows a Won derful capacity for landing and binding no under . ome mighty hard knocks. 1,.' was el<" ted governor of North Dakota liiri e time . In the midst of hi third term 4ie was recalled by 4102 votes. If that wasn’t a jolt what i:;? In spite of it, the very next, year he w is elected to the eiialc by a majority of 8848. A comeback like that- and 1,0 quick— suggests a strong man. Frazier appears to ..Land toler ably well with the radicals, al least to hte senate, even if they had pre viously recalled him from the gov ernm..hip— and it’s the last vote that counts. The Democrats speak respectfully of h.m. To be sure, he’s none ot their business. He was read out to the senate, even if they had pre tainly he isn’t a Democrat. Still, this is just a decision of what poli ticians in general think. Bold Up Chicago Bandit Gets $12,000 CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Ah armed robber escaped with $12,000 from offices of the Statu, and Lake then I ter, in the heart of the city district Il> re Sunday night. He entered the 'theater office from a lobby en it'-.'wc, covered five persons ther ■- i in with a revolver, grabbed the cash land then wa. lost to the crowd. ’ Office employees of the theater aid th" money represented the re ceipi of Saturday and Sunday. William A. Singer, manager of the tiieater, said the bandit follow ed one of the five into the office and whipping out a revolt er, order ed the five to make no outcry. Summer will be gone before long now. Long may it stay gone. Experience is a groat teachei\ but the tuition is rather high. 1 There are tribes in South Africrf iso remote from civilization tbejfl
