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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 188
Fear Wholesale Killing of Chinamen as Result Raids
EXTRA CHICAGO
POLICE ORDERED
TO CHINATOWN
Arrest of Beach and Score ot
Raids Made Will Likely Start
National Tong War
ARRESTED CHIEF HAS
MAMMOTH DRUG CACHE
Veteran Agent Refuses to Re
veal Hiding Place of $250,-
000 Worth of Drugs
CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—Fear of a
national tong war, which would
bring about the death of hundreds
of Chinese in all sections of the Uni
ted States, as the result of narcotic
investigations which resulted in the
arrest of Col. Will Gray Beach,
veteran chief narcotic inspector, of
Chicago, and a score of raids >n
Chinatown, occupied the attention
of federal and police ofifcials here
today.
In an effort to keep down any
disorders in Chicago’s Chinatown,
sesveral additional, reserve, squad
rons are now on duty in this area.
Clews have been uncovered, indi
cating that the illicit drug industry
with headquarters in this city did a
national business.
Reports that Colonel Will Gray
Beach, veteran chief of narcotic
agents here, who was arrested Tues
day with three of his agents, had re
vealed a secret cache where $250,-
000 worth of narcotics, were stored
were denied last night by federal
officials.
Patrick Roche, of the intelligence
unit of the internal revenue bureau,
who directed the arrest of Beach
and his operatives on charges of
trading narcotics to peddlers for
stolen merchandise said that Colonel
Beach had “made damaging admis
sions,” but had not told of a nar
cotic cache or made any written
confession.
The 53-year old deposed chief, a
native of Tennessee, and for thirty
years in the government service,
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FORESTRY BILL
BECOMES LAW
Forestry Administrative Act
Passed By Senate Today
Awaits Walker’s Signature
ATLANTA, August 12. When
Govenor Walker signs the forestry
administrative act, passed by the
senate today, Georgia will have a
board of forestry, consisting of the
Governor, Secretary of State, State
Geologist, Director of Expansion at
the State Collqg'e of Agriculture
and five citizens’ of the state. The
board is to be appointed by the
Governor and named with reference
to their geographical location.
Members'of the sub-committee of
tlie house appropriation committee
are in an all day session today in
an endeavor to dispose of about
100 special appropriation bills
which total about $12,500,000.
Huge Snake
MOULTRIE, August 12 —Rattle-
snakes, which contribute heavily to
the more than one deaths a year
in the United State from snake
bites, lost one of their number re
cently in’ the death of the largest
one seen here in several years. A
rattler, seven feet long, 15 inches
in circumference, with eighteen rat
tles was shot a few days ago while
crossing thhe road by a driver of
the Tifton-Moultrie bus about three
miles north of Norman Park.
Germans Fight For France In
Morocco, Say Rhinelanders
BERLIN, Aug. 12.—One-half of
the foreign legionaires fighting on
the side of France against Abd cl
Krim in Morocco are Germans, in
the opinion of Berlin military ex
perts. Not only is it untrue that
Germans have come to the aid of
the Moroccan chieftain, they say,
but no the contrary France is being
supported by about 12,000 to 15,-
000 German subjects enrolled in
the foreign legion.
This rather startling fact is ex
plained in the following manner: In
article 179 of the Treaty of Ver
sailles, Germany undertakes not to
permit any of its subjects to enter
the service of another power, ex
cept that it is specifically provided
THE TIMESff RECORDER
qKHI PUBLI SHED IN THE HEART OF DIX IE
Evicted from
Home, Gives
Birth to Babe
On Roadside
Nineteen Year-Old Mother Sub
jected to Inhuman Treatment
At Hands of Parents
CHICAGO, August 12.—jPesert
ed by her husband and father and
evicted by a constable from her on
ly hon e, Mrs. Anno Cooper, 19,
gave birth to a child yesterday as
she lay on the roadside in the vil
lage of Phoenix, sotithwe.-’ of Chi
cago.
The baby died a few hours later
at Phoenix where it. and the mother
were taken in a hearse, because um
ambulance was available.
Chicago physicians, who attend
ed the mother and baby, attributed
death to exposure and premature
birth, induced by the sight of a pis
tol in the hands of the constable.
The mother is in a serious condi
tion and is not expected live thru
the day.
An investigation by the coroner
will be asked and an inquest held.
Bill To Limit
Ad Valorern Tax
Rate of Counties
Object is to Make Valuation of
Property More Nearly What
Property is Worth
ATLANTA, Aug. 12. —The pres
ent session of the legislature has
had brought before it a great many
proposals to amend the constitution
of the state, and one of the more
recent ones introduced would limit
the ad valorem tax rate of counties
to seventeen mills.
The measure, which is by Repre
sentative Miller, of Muscogee, is
termed by him as an “automatic
equalization bill.” Its object, Mr.
Miller says, is to make the valuation
of property more nearly what the
property is really worth. By so do
ing, Mr. Miller suggests, it will in
crease the amount of taxes collect
ed by the state and for the common
schools of the state. With the tax
ing power of the state limited to
five mills, Mr. Miller says, the on
ly way the state can secure more
revenue from its ad valorem tax is
by raising the valuation of proper
ty.
In some counties, Mr. Miller ex
plains. the county ad valorem tax
rate is as high as 33 or 34 mills,
while the property is listed for tax
ation at only about 20 to 25 per
cent of its real worth.
By limiting the tax rate of coun
ties, the county authorities will be
forced, he says, to raise the valua
tion, which will thus raise the reve
nue for the state. Another argu
ment in favor of such a measure,
its author points out. is that it will
be good advertising. While the coun
ties would collect just as much tax
under the proposed bill, the tax rate
would be lower; and that has a psy
chological effect on home-seekers,
Mr. Miller thinks.
Boy Lost
Youth Missing Since Nov. 7th
DOUGLAS, Aug. 12.—Assistance
from the press in the search for
Cleo Roberts Brown, thirteen year
old boy, who disappeared from the
Douglas public schools on November
7, last year, is asked by the youth’s
mother, Mrs. Major Brown. Cleo
was described as having a fair com
plexion, large for his age, light hair,
bluish gray eyes, with a scar over
the left eye and a large scar in the
edge of hair over his right eye.
that this article shall not be appli
cable to the French foreign legion.
During 1922 and 1923, many Ger
man young men found themselves
out of jobs. Others found the daily
grist of Germany’s reconstruction
task too dull and unadvetnurous.
They readily listened, it is said, to
the arguments of French recruiting
officers, who told them of comfort
able wages, exciting service, and s>
carefree life in the French foreign
legion.
In this way at least 15,000 young
men enlisted in service for France,
little thinking that they would soon
be called upon to shed their blood
on the battlefields of Morocco for
a nation against which they fought
only a decade and less previously.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12, 1925
First Picture Ever Taken of an Actual Lynching
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Taking the law ii its hands, a mob of nearly 500 men took Miller Mitchell, negro, from the jail at Excelsior Springs, Mo., and
hanged him to a tree in a nearby field. Miller, accused of having attacked a white girl, told his executioners that if he had time
he could prove his innocence. This photo, taken during the actual lynching, is said to be the first of such a scene in the
Farmer Back On Feet Again
Prosperity
Smiles On
Agriculture,
Jardine Says
Secretary of Agriculture Finds
East and Southeast As Only
Dark Spots in Country
BY LARRY BOARDMAN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The
American farmer is getting back on
his feet—slowly but surely recov
ering from his long postwar slump.
This is the opinion of Dr. Wil
liam M. Jardine, secretary of agri
culture.
He based it upon personal ob
servations made during his recent
eight weeks’ tour through the farm
ing sections of the country.
"What I saw and heard on that
trip,” he said, “not only convinces
me that this will be a fairly good
season in itself, but that agriculture
is at last actually out of danger.
“The farmers are all greatly en
couraged—and so am I.
“Up until last spring they were
weighed down by a great surplus of
products that was a ‘hand-me-down’
from the war.
“It was hard to work off this
surplus. It meant drastic retrench
ment during a four-year period of
acute distress.
“But now they have accomplished
“As a result, they arc facing the
prospect of fairly good incomes this
.year, and are moderately optimistic
regarding the future.
“They are paying off long-stand
ing debts and getting out of the
shadow of bankruptcy. Their farms
are no longer hard to sell. The pur
chasing power of farm products is
90 per cent of what it was before
the war—the highest it has be. an
since 1920.
“These are some of the evidences
that agriculture, as a whole, is get
ting out of its rut.
“As to specific conditions—
“ln the Corn Belt, which suffer
ed during the post-war depression,
indications point to the return of at
least some degree of prosperity.
Continued on Patrc Three
Fine. Body
Burn Young Girl in Hay Stack
CARLISLE, lowa, Aug. 12.—Rel
atives of missing girls were appeal
ed to by authorities to view the
body of a young woman found Mon
day in the ashes of a straw stack
that was burned on the night of
July 24. So far the officers have
only one material clue as to her iden
tity. Beside the body was found a
glass brooch. 2 1-2 inches
long, bearing a butterfly inscription.
Investigators have found evi
dence, they believe, that indicates
the woman was kiled and her body
brought to the hay «tack in an au
tomobile. Death was due to skull
fractures.
WEEKS LIKELY
RESIGN POST
Pg Being Made in
'Capital to Lay Qualifications
of Potential Candidates
Before Coolidge
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Re
newed indications that Secretary
Weeks will retire as head of the
War Department followed today by
preparations in several quarters here
to lay before the President the qual
ifications of various potential can
didates for the vacancy. Among
the names mentioned as possible suc
cessors of Weeks are Work, secre
tary of the departmen of interior,
and New, postmaster general.
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Aug. 12.
—An intimation was given here by
Secretary Weeks after a conference
with President Coolidge that he
might not return to his post in the
fall.
Leaving his residence alone for
the first time since he was stricken
seriously ill in Washington early
in the spring, the war secretary mo
tored to .White Court late yesterday
and conferred for a half hour with
the president. He described the
visit as social.
‘4oo' INVITED TO
BRIDGE OPENING
Coolidge and Numerous Gover
nors Among Those Receiving
Invitation
SAVANNAH, August 12.—Presi
dent Coolidge, governors of Flor
ida, Georgia, South Carolina and |
North Carolina and the secretary of;
war have been invited to attend the
formal opening of the Savannah
river highway bridge here October
7, Thousands of persons along the
route of the new Atlantic coastal
hgihway, of which the bridge is a
connecting link are expected to visit
Savannah for the opening ceremo
nies.
An active committee.of one hun
dred are working on the plans for
the celebration, which will probably
include a monster barbecue, mimic
, warfare by land and sea and air
forces or army and navy, a gover
nor’s ball and a grand parade.
The bridge, wheih makes possible
quick transportation between the
coastal regions of South Carolina
ind Georgia and means much to
those sections, was opened to traffic
luly 23.
PROHIBITION OFFICERS
REMAIN IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Aug. 12.—Officers
i to direct the work of enforcing the
1 federa 1 prohibition law in North
| Georgia will be. retained here de
i spite the fact that headquarters for
I the district which includes Georgia
I under the reorganization of the
j government prohibition forces has
’ been moved to Charlotte,
Sunday Dance
Law Fails To
Stop Tybeeites
Solicitor General to Open In
vestigation When Notified
That Bill Was Signed
SAVANNAH, Aug. 12.—The re
cent dancing law passed by the
Georgia General assembly failed to
stop the light toes when the band
struck up the inticing times at the
Durden and Powers pavilion last
Sunday.
Waiter C. Harhridge, solicitor
general of the Savannah district, in
a discussion of the new law pro
hibiting Sunday dancing in the State
of Georgia, said he had not been
officially notified by the authorities
in Atlanta and until /he is he will
make no effort to stop the Sunday
pastime. He said that upon notifi
cation he world however, attempt
to have those, he believed to be
guilty of violating the late statue,
indicted by the Grand Jury.
The Grand jury meets next Mon
day and it is expected that a num
ber of Sunday pleasure seekers who
insist on dancing as their recreation
will be indicted.
Last Sunday when tl*e band at
the Durden and Power dancing pa
vilion began to play those “Jazzy
Blues” many wishful glances were
cast at the shining floor and then
first one couple and another skipped
lightly to the sound of the whining
trombone until the crowd resembled
that of the pre-prohibition days of
dancing.
There were several spectators '
from Atlanta present and it was sun- ;
pected that Representative Peacock <
was in the few, but no one would <
admit it, however.
WAGE FIGHT FOR
M’CRAY PARDON;
Governors, Senator and Jurists
Intercede for Former Indiana
Governor
WASHINGTON, August 12.
One of the most imposing campaigns
ever undertaken to secure clemency
for a federal prisoner was launch
ed here today on behalf of War
ren T. McCray, former governor of
Indiana, who is serving a ten-ycar
sentence in the Atlanta federal .
penitentiary for using the mails
to defraud.
Co-incident with the presentation
to Attorney General Sergent of a |
a formal application for pardon, the |
Dpeartment of Justice was given ■
more than 200 letters supporting'
the request and bearing the signa
tures of 14 governors and former'
governors, seven of the jurymen
who found McCray guilty, 3Q bank-1
era who were invloved in the finan j
cial operations which resulted in
his conviction and a number of '
senators, representatives, business ;
men and ministers of the gospel. I<
FOSTER VOTED “NO” TO
J HUGHES COUNTY BILL
ATLANTA, August 12.—Sen
ator Walter Hendrix, 35th dis
/ trict, thinks he has a fine joke on
Senator Allert Foster, 2ftth.
' Senator Albert Foster, 28th,
does not think Senator Walter
Hendrix, .35th, has such a fine
joke on him. He fails to see
> anything excruiatingly funny
about it at all.
I However, Senator Hendrix and
several of their colleagues, have
been having a series of fine
- chuckles over it.
Last Friday, when the Hughes i
county bill came up, Senator j
' Foster decided to vote against it,
and to explain his vote in the <
> five-minute period during roil- ,
j> call allotted to each senator who ;
<so desires. Prior to roll-call, }
' a window and was seen to be (
/ emerge from the state library j
J with a huge volume on ornith- I
I ology. He read this intently at
his desk for a few minutes and
<] as the roll-call began, he went to J
? awind ow and was seen to be
/ staring out intently, according to J
i Senator Hendrix.
Several vehement gestures
1 were made to the great open
/ space he was facing, the Atlan- ;
? tan said, and Senator Foster
'l seemed to be in the throes of de- <
livering “the ercat oration.” He ?
J concluded those, i«»l as the sten
? torian voice of Secretary Me- ,>
/ Clatchey roared:
> ‘Foster!”
\ The senator from the- 28th ;
turned, lifted his hand, said:
> “Mister President”
And began a speech about $
'/ pretty little birds with the self
; same gestures, Senator Hendrix
, said, he had been making out of
c the window. He voted “No,” to
/ Hughes county.
MAN TELLS STORY OF
CRIME TO OFFICER
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 12.—Unaware
that a man sitting next to him in a
juvenile court was a police elcrk, a
man giving the name of Thomas B.
Hoyt, confided that he had stolen
$12,0C0 from the Piggly Wiggly
corporation at New Orleans five
years ago and fled. Fv,-t was ar
rested and held pending information
of his story.
Jail Dress Not Correct Jor
Court, Berlin Convict Holds
BERLIN, Aug. 12.—Pride in his
personal attire so dominated Bern
ard Pulkowsky, a criminal serving
a term, that when a new charge was
discovered against him before the
expiration of his> sentence, he es
caped from prison to replenish his
wardrobe and then later voluntari
ly returned to court clad with sar
torial excellence and carrying him
self with jaunty pride.
Before the date fixed for his ap
pearance on the new charge Pulk
□wsky asked the warden for leave of
rbsenpe to purchase the proper
zlotbes saying “It is quite qut of the
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ENNIS' HAT IN
RING, OTHERS TO
FOLLOW SOON
W. C. Neil! Expected to An
nounce for Governor When
Legislature Adjcurns
RUMORED NAPIER ALSO
TO SEEK WALKER’S TOGA
Nothing Yet From J. J. Brown,
But Indications Point lo Him
Running
ATLANTA, Aug. I:’ With the
entry of .1 Howard Ennis, of Mill
edgi’.’(’ll', .state senator from the
meiil while acting as presiding of
tho Georgia senate, into the guber
natorial race, that contest is
brought sharply into the foreground
of state politics.
Hard on the heels of the informal
announcement of the Millcdg-vilc
man is , ,:pc< ted to follow that of
W. Cecil Neill, speaker of the House
of Representatives, of Columbus,
who Iris been listening to the buzz
ing of Ihe major Georgia bee for
some year:;. Mr. Neil said recently
that he did not think it behooved ■■■
man to make such an announce
ment while actin gas presiding of
fleer of a legislative body. For th-d
matter, so did Mr. Ennis, But, wit.!
the Ennis gauntlet flung, the gen
tieman from down on the Chatta
hoochee is not expected to delay
long.
Rumblings arc also heard from
the very capitol itself as Attorney
General George M. Napier, apparent
llv encouraged by the course of.
Governor Walker, will attempt b
step across the hail from the attorn
ey-general’s ofifeo into the mon
commodious quarters of the slate’,
chief executive.
With these throe already regard
cd as being full in the race, the poli
tical big-wigs of the state are apply
ing their ears closer and closer to
the ground awaiting rumblings fr<
farther down the hall in the office
of the commissioner of agricultur ■
,T. J. Brown. Mr. Brown, so far, hie.
declined to say what he will rur
for, if anything.
There is expected to be a showet
of announcements for statehouse <>i
flees at the close of the assemble,
as well as for Congress and other
offices, now that, the rare for gov
ernor is getting well defined.
Your Move
Checker Tournament in Atlanta
ATLANTA, Aug. 12. -Georgia
checker players will exercise their
strategy in the. annual tournament
to be held here at the railroad Y.
M. C. A. August. CI-14 15. Macon,
Columbus, Thomasville and other
litics have enlired twenty-five of
the best players in lb- state in an
effort, to lake th- championship
from Atlanta “sharks.”
Honored
Jones Receives Oxford Degree
ATLANTA, Aug. 12—Oxford
University in England has confer
red first honors upon Benjamin F.
Jones, Jr., and alumnus of the At
lanta Boys High school, a letter to
the school department received hero
recently says. Jones won a four
year scholarship at Harvard after
graduating from the Boys High here
in 1917, While in Harvard he won
several medals and iups and was
president of the Harvard debating
council in his junior year. Jones is
on his wav home after receiving his
degree from the Oxford school of
question for me to appear before
the high court in this squalid prison
dress. ” When hi s request was re
fused he simply made his get-away
leaving behind n courteous note to
the warden in which he wrote, “My
sense of decency simply won’t al
low me to appear before the court
in prison clothes. But don’t fear.
I shall not fail to be there at tha
proper time.’’ And he was.
The judge showed hp had a sense
of humor by his treatment of the
fastidious prisoner but as the latter
was convicted of having concealed:
stolen goods he was sentenced to(
ten mouths at hard labor, w
