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I“'AMERICUS SPOT COTTON 1 I Middling 22 3-4 c. For Georgia—Generally fair to- I night and probably Wednesday. r FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 187 Five Men Shot in Riot Following Meeting of Ku Klux SIXTY OF THE 75 ARRESTED ARE RELEASED Fifteen Others to Answer to Charges of Assault and Carry ing Weapons AMMUNITION AND GUNS FOUND ON KLAN GROUND Facts of the Riot Cculd Not Be Learned By Overworked Framingham Police FRAMINGHAM, Mass., August 11.—Sixty of the 75 men taken in to custody Monday night after a Ku Klux Klan meeting had broken up Hi a shooting affray, in which five men were wounded, were re leased today. The other 15 were held in S2OO bail for appearance August 19 on the charges of assault and carrying dangerous weapons. At least five men shot, two seri ously ,here late last night in a riot which followed a large Ku Klux Kian meeting. The victims, are Alonze Foley, Thomas Sliney, Francis Maguire, all of Saxonville, and William Brad ley and Edward Purcell of Fram ingham. Foley, who was shot through the left temple, is in a dangerous condi tion at the Framirtgton hospital. The wounded men told Dr. C. J. Carr, who lives near the klan’s meeting place that they were shot from ambush while standing in the road. Foley was carried into his office by other wounded. After render ing medical aid Dr. Carr summoned Rev. John A. McCauley of St. St. George’s church and the priest gave Foley the last rites of the Rom an Catholic church as he lay on a couch in the physician’s office. The physician after notifying the state and F'raming ham police, rushed Foley and Sliney to the hospital. The latter was shot twice in the cheek. The other wounded went to their homes after Dr. Carr treated them. The physician learned but few facts of the shooting from his pa tients. The klan, he said, meets every week in the vicinity of his home and the meeting attracts hun dreds of spectators. There was no disorders before the shooting, he said: , When the first police arrived on the scene, calls were sent out for reinforcements. Members of the state constabulary from stations as far. as Boston were called upon to quell the disorders. The vicinity about the meeting place was choked with automobiles when the police arrived. Machines filled with klansmen and spectators collided often as frantic drivers tried to speed away. The meeting, according to Dr. Carr, was the largest ever held in the vicinity. When the attackers surrounded the house, Libby, police said, tele phoned for help. The police dispers ed the beseigers after a struggle. The first police report said that about fifty klansmen were returning home when they were upon by about a hundred of the anti-klan factiop. The klansmen broke thru the attacking crowd and made their way into the home of P. W. Libby, nearby. Seventy-five men , said to be klansmen, were arrested in a field, in the rear of the Libby farm. They were charged with being suspicions persons and being present where a felony had been committed. All were herded in commandeered au tomobiles, taken to Framington and locked up. Police, it was said, found two rifles, a shot gun and two belts of ammunition on the klan meeting ground. vbgg SPAS ADOPTION NOW ANNULLED F _________ • Modern “Cinderella” Must Leave Browning and Go Back to Parents NEW YORK, Aug. 11—The.adop tion of Mary Louise Spas by Edward W. Browning, millionaire real es tate operator, was annuled tod ly by Surrogate Noble, of Queens coun ty, on the grounds that the girl had , misrepresented her age. Browning ; and Mary were both present when i the decision was announced. The age issua was the only one I presented by District Attorney New- ’ combe, who entered the motion fur j revocation of the adoption. i THE PUBLISHED IN THE >jCrK~HEART ~Or7siXiE~iJgO? 7 his Picture Saved His Life v -Stfl * <Il “-W ' I fl i -■ j&f ■ This picture helped .save the life of Arnuflo Valles, who killed a po liceman in El Paso, Tex. Lt lay on the desk of Gov. Miriam Fergu son. She looked at the snapshot Mexican And American Smuggle Aliens Into U. S. for S6OO A Head LAREDO, Tex., Aug. 11.—They were smugglers. Human beings made up their contraband cargoes, and they brought them across the international fine with their lips sealed by the threa.t of instant death. But the officials of the United States immigration service are sharp-eyed. Ami so these two trad ers in human beings have reached the end o ftheir rope at last, and are being hel din the Laredo jail. The smugglers are John Galea bert, a native-born citizen, and Jose B. Fernandez-Valdez, a Mexi can who was naturalized some years ago. Their method of operation was both clever and simple. As American citizens, each could get passports easily. Further, each had three children, all born in the United States. So, armed witth the birth certifi cates that had been issued for these children, they would go to Havana, Cuba, where scores of Europeans are always waiting for a chance to slip across the gulf into this coun try. In Havana each would get three would-be immigrants, whose ages would correspond with the ages given the children on the birth cer tificates. Then, when each “client” had paid a fee ranging from S4OO to S6OO, the two would bring them to America. Immigration inspectors would be shown the passports and birth cer tificates, and the whole group would be admitted. Then Gelabert and Fernandez-Valdez would go back to Havana for another group. But when they tackeld Laredo, coming overland through Mexico, the inspectors got -suspicious. The two “fathers” and their six “chil dren” were put on the grill through out a long summer day. And at eve ning the immigrants broke down and confessed. Five of the “children” said they came from Russia. The sixth was a Spaniard. All had met Gelabert and Fernandez-Valdez in Havana. And each one begged to be nut in cells separated from those of Gel abert and his accomplice, saying that they had been threatened with death if they “peached.” Then Fernandez-Valdez asked to be separated from Gelabert, saying that he, too, had been threatened with death. The two admitted making nine trips from Havana in the last five months, federal officials say, bring ing six persons each time. They are held for trial this fall. THEATRE PARTY FOR GEORGIA LEGISLATURE, ATLANTA, Aug. 11— Senator J. j C. Collier, 22nd, chairman of tlje i senate finance committee, will give i a theatre party either tonight or ( tomorrow night. The guests wijl be ■ members of the general assembly and newspaper men covering the as-' sembly, the whole shooting-matc’i, being invited. Senator Collier is i generally credited with being the ! wealthiest man in the assembly. He is a manufacturer of Barnesville, AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 11. 1925 ‘I of Valles and his little sisters and, at the lest moment, decided Valles . j should not hang. Has sentence was t 1 commuted to life imprisonment. ;C!TY POSSE HUNTS BLACK I* !Frremen and Others Search for ; Negro Who Tried to Enter Peel Home Armed with high-powered rifles, members of the local fire depart ment and a score of other citizens from every walk in life, rushed to the Peel residence on the Lee street road Monday night about 10 o’clock in the hopes of apprehending the negyo who was seen trying to force an entrance into the Peel home. The negro had been tracked to a small patch of woods near the Peel home by a bull dog, but es caped and fled into the swamps a few minutes before the posss from the city arrived. A thorough search ■of the woods and swamps in the vicinity of the house failed to re veal any trace of the would-be in truder. Three negro houses on the Lee street road were entered by a ne gro last week and it is generally believed that the man who attempt ed to burglarize the Peel residence is the same one who entered the negroes homes. Some of the ne groes are of the opinion that the marauder is an escaped convict and leaves the swamps at night in search of food. SENATE-HOUSE BUSY TODAY Rep. Miller Would Create Water Power Cc<mmiss : on to Make State Survey I ATLANTA, Aug. 11.—Among I the 16 bills introduced in the House today was one by Representative Miller, of Muscogee, which would authorize the appointment by the Governor of a water power commis sion of 25 members, who would serve without pav. The duty of the commission would be to make a com plete survey of the water power of this state. By a vote of 105 to 92 the House today refused to reconsider its qction of Monday in killing the measure which sought to appropri ate funds collected from oil inspec tion fees for educational purposes. The Senate today voted down the proposal of Senator Albert Foster. 28th district, to divide the state into a series of highway districts for the purpose of rebuilding roads in these sections. The Senate unanimously passed for the second time the railroad crossing stop bill todav. This bill requires all motor vehicles to come to a dead stop upon reaching a dangerous crossing. The bill now goes to the Governor for his signa ture. " ' - ' Next to the water cooler and the | soda fountain the bath tub is our! most popular summer resort. Business And" Otherwise In the Georgia Legislature ATLANTA, Aug. 11.—Represen tative Bussey, of Crisp county, is. becoming known in the lower hpuse of the Georgia legislature tor his amendments. He frequently has amendments ready before a meas ure has been read, but this does not mean, members agree, that his amendments pre not valuable many of them are adopted. Recent ly, however, he had house members guessing. He introduced an amend ment to a bill increasing th • state road mileage, so as to provide that a part of the increase should be used in a road between Albany and .Cordele. Representative Westbrook, of Dougherty, joined him in the amendment, and then Mr. Busfley made a speach in favor of the amend ment. Just before the vote on it, when members were wondering whether or not the Criso county representative were serious, he laughed and withdrew his amend ment, and the house indulged in a general laugh—largely at its own failure to see the amendment pure ly as a jest. Speaker Pro-tem Russell Stumped During a parlimentary wrangle which many members termed “noth ing but a filibuster,” Representative Milner, of Dodge, . stumped the Speaker Pro-tem, who was in the chair at the time, with ore of his frequent parlimentary injuiries. “I would like to have the Speak er’s ruling,” he queried, “as to whe ther or not he would hold this, to be a filibuster.” Speaker Pro-tem Russel’, how ever, declined to attempt to rule on such “a question of opinion.” Legislators Stick To House Saturday For perhaps the first time this season, members of the house were under no circumstances permitted to leave the hall during a part of Saturday’s session. Members intent on getting a vote on the oil inspec tion fee surplus appropriation biU— which they believed they could de feat, if they could get a vote —weie attempting to hold aquerum in the hall, at all costs ,and frequent re quests to be excused, “for business,’ “to answer the telephone,” to “go over in the senate for a few min utes,” etc., met with instant objec tion. Members supporting the bill who wished its consideration post poned, succeeded in securing ad journment, on a roll call vote. Neill Using Soft Pedal The strain on the voice of the Speaker of the house is generally considered to be pretty strenuous — and especially with the defective ac coustics of the hall of the house— and Speaker Neill, who, during the early days of the session was in the chair practically every minute, : s beginning to save his voice, it is ob served, for the even more strenuous days ahead during this and next' ly be long, but perhaps stormy. More and more he is calling upon Speaker Pro-tem Russell to take the chair, or, frequently, upon some member of the house. It is observ that he speaks of late di rectly into the amplifying instru ment, speaking distinctly, but no louder than necessary to be under stood. Ennis* Voice Under Strain The Speaker’s voice Is constantly under a strain—the same is true of the president of the senate, but to no such marked degree—from the convening of the house to its final adjournment for the day. He must "put” every question, an nounce every vote, state his rul ing on every debated question, so that all may hear, answer all parli mentary and other inquiries—not to speak of a thousand other uses his voice is put to. Executed Dies in Chair for Murder LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 11.—Walt er B. Simmons, former Montana cowboy and deputy sheriff, was electroocuted at the state prison here today for slaying Frank Phal, Spencer, Nebraska, garage man, three years ago. A bitter legal fight was carried on to the last to obtain commutation or a reprieve for Sim-, I mons 'More than a score of tempo rary reprieves were granted the murderer during the three years. Where the Earth Opened " ' .. lAfci.X'PlKO SOO© Sr T’y* ■" >.... Jarci * ilk" A number of mysterious cave-ins of land in Birmingham, Ala., have got the citizens all on < dge. Here is a picture of one, where the ground opened and let a double ga rage, a coal shed and a large tree Reapportionment Fight Looms yls Convening Os Congress Sears RUFUS HICKS FOUND GUILTY Negro Convict Who Slew Guard to Die in Chair at Milledge ville August 18th COLUMBUS, Aug. 11.—Rufus (Mule) Hicks, negro, was late last night in superior court found guil ty of murder in connection with the slaying of H. J. Walker, convict guard, June 10, and he was sent enced to die in the electric chair September 18. Immediately after sentence was imposed, counsel for the defendant filed a motion for new trial and hearing was set by Judge C. Frank McLaughlin for ten o’clock the morn ’*.ig of August 29, in Columbus. Last night was the first time an electric chair sentence has ever been imposed in Muscogee county. Court officials were unable to recall an other case in which the extreme pen alty was exacted in trials where the state relied solely on circumstantia evidence. Hicks was found guilty of hitting Mr. Walker in the head with an axe the morning of June 10 on the Buena Vista road, and making his escape along with four others, Archie Jamerson, Benton Copeland, John Edge and Willie Jones, ne groes. Four of the escapes were captured, one o fthem, Jamerson, being killed, in a hunt in five coun ties. Hicks was caught after four teen days. *• Sure Death Carbon Monoxide Kills Rats ATLANTA, Aug. 11.—The right amount of carbon monoxide will take care of rat nests, the Atlantai Journal said in a story recently. P. C. Bouck, Atlanta fireman, backed his automobile up to one of several rat holes in his coal bin, con nected the garden hose with the ex haust pipe and after plugging up all the holes but two inserted the hose into one and started the engine. Soon afterward six rats staggered forth for fresh air, but they wer • too late and all of them succumbed to the deadly poison. Bouck is now concerned with the question of whether' he used too much poison and if some of the rats were overcome before scampering from their hole. BARACA CLASS TO GIVE CUE AND FRY Final preparations have been made for the big fish fry, chicken fry and barbecue to be given by the Baraca class of the First Baptist church at McMath mill Thursday night at 7 o’clock. This is the last of the “outdoor” entertain ments to be given by the Baraca class and all members are asked co ■bring their wives or sweethearts. > sink downin to a hole. Scientists ’ believe there are subterranean cavi ties under the city, and say the . drainage of water from these cavi ties causes the settling. BY CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.— The various states* ratio of representa tion in Congress needs overhauling, to put it on an up-to-date popula tion basis. Representatives from states a readjustment would benefit intend to attempt in next winter. Tims ■ from states which would lose by it will fight it, tooth and nail. It’s the same conflict between urban and rural communities that has provoked the revolt of the cities—Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and doubtless more to be heard from soon. A congressional reapportionment will be harder to stave off, however, than the demands of the cities are likely to be. The cities can win fuller repre sentation in their respective state legislatures, or else secede, as inde pendent states, only by decidedly revolutionary means, which they may find exceedingly difficult to put across. The states’ congres sional representation is supposed to be readjusted after every census— once in ton years—in tne iegulai way of business—nothing revolu tionary about it. The only irregular part of the present congressional situation is that reapportionment has been eg lected so long. The last census was in 1920, five years back. And there hasn’t been a reapportionment yet. Never but once before there so long a delay, and that was dur ing the Civil War and reconstruc tion period, when neither a census nor a reapportionment was possible The nation’s congressional repre sentation now is on the basis of the 1910 census. The country has grown greatly since then, but not evenly, everywhere. The cities have grown most, which means that population has increased much faster in states which have large urban centers than in those which are predominantly rural. Consequently, on a redistribu tion of congressional seats, the in dustrial states would gain a good many representatives, while the far mstates would lose correspond ingly. Naturally the rural congressmen prefer to have representation stav as it is now. To obviate the difficul ty one suggestion advanced is to increase the House of Representa tives membership from 435 to 460. This might save some pf the con gressmen from farm states from be ing reapportioned out of office, but it isn’t satisfactory solution of the problem in other respects. LEGISLATURE BEHIND ON IMPORTANT MATTERS ATLANTA, Aug. 11.—With just a little more than a week left to the present general assembly, many important matters yet remain to be acted upon. Governor Walker’s tax program, the general appropriations bill, the children’s cpde bills and other measures of statewide imr portanee being on the calendar. *zxz vrxz nz xzsZ\/kz>< zxz va vx/vw>r\/xAA/VN/VWWII NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close ' < Oct. 23.35’23.40[23.43|23.53 ; ) Dec. . 23.55j23.62|23.67[23.79 PRICE FIVE CENTS TIME RIPE FOR ACTION IN W. A. ROAD DISPUTE Members of Committees Believe 20-Year-OIJ Controversy Should Be Settled SOON TENNESSEE WILL CONDEMN GA. PROPERTY State Must Make Trade Now Or Run Risk of Losing Great Deal of Money ATLANTA, August 11. After an hour’s hot debate, the senate Monday afternoon passed, 30 to 8, a joint resolution creating a commie sion of 15 men to treat with the City of Chattanooga and the N. C., & St. L. railroad in the matter of the Broad street extension through the properties of the State of Geor gia in that city. The resolution was adopted by substitute with several amendments. ATLANTA, August 11. —'Mem- bers of the house and senate West ern and Atlantic committees believe the time has come for action in the dispute of mere than 20 years stand ing between the City of Chatta nooga and the State of Georgia over the W. & A. properties in Chattanooga. 1 he property there is in the cen ter of the business district of the city and is one of the most val uable tracts in the city. Chatta nooga wants to extend Broad street, which heads into the N. C. and St. L. railroad station, on through the station and the W. & A. Terminal property to connect up with that portion of the city which has built up beyond the terminal properties. For two decades, the state has re sisted successfully the efforts of the city to do this. It will not be but two or three more sessions of the Tennessee leg islature, it is pointed out, before the city will be granted the authori ty to condemn the property, which it does not ijow possess, and go ahead, whether or no. Members of these committees now feel that if the state is to make an advantag eous trade, it must act now with decision or run the risk of Ipsihg a great deal of money. They be helieve they are faced with a crucial situation. This is the principal reason by the resolution now being put thru the assembly providing for the cre ation of a commission of 12 mem bers to treat with the city and ob tain the best possible deal for the state it can. Iht- commission would be compos 'd of the governor, Paul Trammel, C M. Candler, six member of the house apd three members of the senate. BRYANT NIXON GIVES SELF UP • Negro Charged With Shooting Mary Drummond Surrender ed Today to Chappell Bryant Nixon, colored, charged With the shooting of Mary Drum mond, colored, on the Howard plane Monday morning, surrendered him self to Deputy Sheriff Chappell this morning and was lodged in jail on a warrant charging assault with in tent to murder. The Drummond woman received a load of shot in her side and is not expected to live. Nixon said this morning that he was not shooting at the woman but she stepped in the way of a load of shot intended for Jake Drum rrfond, her husband, according to Deputy Sheriff Chappell. Jim Glass, negro, charged with shooting a negro named Hurley near the St. Paul church, colored, in the 17th district Sunday after noon, as Hurley was running from Glass after he (Hurley; had beaten Glass’ brother in a fist fight, is still at large, but is expected to suijrep der himself to the sheriff. f CLIETT ANXIOUS TO CONDUCT HOG SALE In view of the present high ipar ket on hogs County Agent Cliett is anxious to shi pa car within the next week and is desirous that farmers who have hogs for »a!e com municate with him before Saturday • so that a date for shipping can be set, providing at least Ono car can be raised. Mr. Cliett s sys he has been re quested by a number <?t farmerr to conduct a cooperative sale at Am ericus, bpt cannot do so unless hq is assured there will be enough hogq offered to fill out a car, . \
