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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling 23 l-2c. For Georgia— Partly cloudy to fißiht and Friday; probably local thundershowers; not so warm Fri day. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—N DAYTON PEOPLE LAUNCH MOVE b FOR UNIVERSITY Bryan Memorial Association Formed to Raise Fund of $6,500,0C0 for Building RAULSTON DENIES DARROW S CHARGE Stewart Calls Chicago Lawyer “Chief Menace to Present Day Civilization” I DAYTON, Tenn., Aug. 13. The Bryan memorial association was or ganized here last night with its an nounced purpose the creation of a aund to establish a fundamentalist .sdhool in memory of William Jen nings Bryan at or near Dayton, scene of the commoner’s last great ♦ight. The association determined to set as goals the raising of one and a half million dollars for buildings rtfid five millions for endowment of \ the proposed fundamentalist educa tional institution, whose establish ment the former secretary of state endorsed in his last days and pro vided a financial fund for in his .will. Clarence Darrow, counsel for the defense in the Scopes case, was de nounced before the meeting as an “enemy of the youth of the land” and as “the.chief menace to present day civilization,” by A. T. Stewart, who - was in charge of the prosecu tion in the trial of the school teach- '' John T. Raulston, presiding judge in the evolution trial, replying to .charge smade by Mr. Darrow yes terday, denied that he had ever used his fundamentalist beliefs to fur ther his political interests and de clared that he never would seek ad vantage because of his connection ' with the case. ) Officers of the permanent organ ization elected last night were: F. • E. Robinson, chairman of the Rhea county school board, president; F. R. Rogers, Dayton pharmacist in k whose home Mr. Bryan died, vice 1/ president; Hi H. Fraza, secretary and B. L. Morgan, treasurer. - , Judge Raulston is replying to Mr. Darrow’s comment said: “I have read Mr. Darrow’s criti cism in which he says that I am to use fundamentalism a* a means to secure my re-election. ■This statement is without justifi ■_■ cation. If I seek re-election it will be wholly upon my record as judge . ' and I don’t believe Mr. Darrow’s • sarcasm can prejudice the minds of the people against me. “During the trial, as I recall, he referred to the people of Tennessee “as ignorant and bigots. In my speech at Chicago I said in sub stance that he was not warranted referring to the good people of ■ Tennessee in this manner; that ” Tennessee had won for herself the ' ‘title of the “volunteer” state by be . ing loyal to truth and justice; that . we had contributed to the national service such men as Jackson, Polk . -*hnd Johnson and Judges Sanford \ preme bench. X “My Chicago speech seems to ' have irritated Mr. Darrow and he now refers to me as being ignor ant and intimates that I am un worthy of the office which I now held. I prefer that the latter >. question be referred to my people in my district rather than to him.’ STATE TROOPERS QUELL KLAN K , READING, Mass., August 13. V After racing over roads from four different barracks, a strong force of state troopers mobilized here to day and stamped out a Ku Klux Klan disorder which threatened t<> erid in bloodshed. Before the arrival of the troop / ers several tear bombs had been hurled. A score of klansmen and anti-klansmen had been injured by stones and clubs, a shot had been ' fired and two alleged klansmen had been arrested. The trouble began early last night with a meeting of klansmen near here. Rats in Coal Mines Warn Men Os Approaching Danger WILKESBARRE, Fa., August 13 —Rats in the anthracite coal mines on many occasions have demon strated that they are friends of the miners in giving them warning of approaching danger. A recent in stance occurred in the Empire Col liery. Anthony Kopnski and his son while eating lunch were attracted by the peculiar actions of two rats which continually annoyed theni. Five times they drove the rats away by throwing pieces of coal at them, but each time the rodents returned. 1 This aroused the sus- . THE ESLeublisheo in the of Dixi£~iW? Prison Record Is Only Entrance Requirement Io Stangest College FAILS IN ATTEMPT TO SWIM CHANNEL all- ' il W J r id F» ; i " JR Miss Lillian Harrison, Argentine swimmer, whose fourth attempt to swim the English channel almost ended in her death in the icy water. BOY CONFESSES SSOO FORGERY While Youth Talks to Police Sixteen Year-Old Wife Bears Child NEW ORLEANS, La., August 13 —While Bernard Klotz ( 19, was confessing the forgery of five checks totalling SSOO at police headquarters here last nite, his 1(1 year old wife was being; rushed to the n'.aternity ward of charity hos pital. The news that he was a father was conveyed to the youthful pris oner just after he hao admitted forging the name of Crawford H. Ellis, vice president of the United Fruit company, to five checks, each for SIOO. Klotz had been employed as a file clerk in the fruit company’s of fice, and blames his failure to earn more than sl3 a week for his pre dicament. A. B. PHILLIPS TO TEACH AT RICHLAND L’rof. A. B. Phillips, chairman of the county school teachers’ associa tion and a teacher in the county schools for a number of years, has recently been- elected principal of the Richland high school and has accepted. Mr. Phillips has made an excellent teacher while at the head of the Thalean academy and the members of the Board of Edu cation re,gret bis leaving. OREGON GUARD SEARCH FOR ESCAPED CONVICTS SALEM, Oregon, August 13. The Oregon national guard was today ordered to mobilize to search for three convicts who escaped from the state penitentiary last night. Bert Jones, notorious pris on breaker and highwayman, was fatally shot after he had killed two prison gards in his sensational dash for liberty. Throe convicts escap ed while the shooting was going on. picions of the elder Koknsiki, who, directing his to follow him, went out of the pit. They had proceeded only about 20 feet when the roof crashed in, bringing down such a mass of coal and rock that would require three weeks to remove it. The ability of the rats to warn the miners of approaching danger has resulted in many of the men making pets of them. The aver age miner hesitates to kill a rat, especially if he is working in a chamber where caves are likely to occur or where there is bad air or gas.' AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON? College for Ex-Convicts is Start ed by An Ex-Convict in Washington ’ BY LARRY BOARDMAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—A col lege for ex-convicts, started by an ex-convict, is being founded here. It is Letha Watts Memorial Uni versity—possibly the strangest edu cational institution in the world. Its only entrance requirements is a prison record. Its founder and president is Dr. Earl E. Dudding, who served time in the West Virginia State Peniten tiary. ' * F ourteen years ago Dudding was a prosperous merchant in Hunting ton, W. Va. Then he became in volved with his uncle in a contro versy over some property. They quarreled— and Dudding shot bis uncle to death. He pleaded self-defense, but was sentenced to five years in Mounds ville. After serving four years he was released—-only to find his earning power gone, his wife ill, his two daughters ostracized by their friends and his life apparently wrecked. Then it occurred to him that thou sands of other ex-convicts must b» in the same plight. Decided to Help Convicts In the penitentiary he had care fully studied his fellow prisoners. He had become convinced‘that the majority of them would respond to humane treatment and fair play. And he decided to help them make good. With a borrowed sl4 his entire capital, he started in. Miss Letha Watts, one of his few remaining friends, offered to help. Dudding and Miss Watts started the Prisoners’ Relief Society, and wrote letters to 10,000 businessmen, asking if they would take one ore more convicts into their employ. They received but one favorable reply—from Daniel Willard, presi dent of the B. and O. Railroad. Some time later Miss Watts died, but the Prisoners’ Relief gradually became a success. It persuaded more and more em ployers to put men and women with (Continued on Page Six) RECONSIDER TAX AMENDMENT House Votes 92-48 in Favor of Reconsidering Action Income RECONSIDER The Georgia House today voted, 92 to 48, to reconsider its action Wednesday in failing to pass the tax income constitutional amendment. The bill takes its place at the foot of the calender, but may be brought up for early consideration by the rules committee. There will be no opportunity for arguments by counsel for either side in the Senate investigation of the Highway Department. This was. made clear this morning by a can vass of members of the committee. The hearing will conclude Friday its soon as all testimony is in. ATLANTA, Aug. 13.—A propos ed amendment to the constitution of the state to authorize the levying of an income tax was defeated in the house Wednesday. The vote was 106 to 73. A constitutional amendment measure requires a vote of 138 for passage, and the bill therefore, fail ed of passage by a margin of 32 votes. CONSPIRACY IS HOLDERCHARGE Walker, Andreson, Neel and Dawson Conspired to Re mrve Him, Says Chairman ATLANTA, Aug, 13.—A “delib erate conspiracy,” between Govern or Clifford Walker. W. T. Anderson, former member of the state high way board; W. R. Neel, chief engi neer of highway department, and C. R. Dawson, private auditor, em ployed to audit the department’s books, to remove him from his posi tion on the board, was charged Wed nesday afternoon by John N. Hold er, chairman of the highway board, on the witness stand in the investi gation of the department being con ducted by a special committee of the state senate. Chairman Holder also testified that animosity against him on the part of Anderson dated from the refusal of the board to accept three proposals involving expenditures of at least $1,200,000 of state money, which were recommended to the board by Mr. Anderson. KING IN MOVIES TO FORGET PAST jF’-w Y ■l\ / 1 ' W u ® ■ y Ex-King George of Greece, who is living in exile in London, is at tempting to remove the pangs of regret caused by his removal from his throne by entering the movies. “GEORGIA CRACKER” BACKS HUTCHESON IN HIGHWAY PROBE ATLANTA, August 13. J ; There is one “Georgia Cracker,” ( as he si"ns himself in an anony- ( mous letter, who want the high- \ way department investigated, t > above and beiow, fore and aft. ? He writes from Macon and the ? letter was direct to “Coroner” ? J. R. Hutcheson, of the highway ? “inquest*’ committee of the state senate. } . “I hope you get to the bottom iof this road mess,’’ he wrote. ) “Down in my part of hte state, ? the highway department could have gotten the same effect if , < they had taken telegraph or tele- ? ? phone poles and put them in the / r road eighteen inches apart. < ‘‘While drivnig to Macon in my tin lizzie, had to remove my ■ false teeth from my mouth and ' put them in my hip pocket where / / they bit me, it was so rough.” J Senator Hutcheson is very j> sympathetic with “ A Georgia ; < Cracker” and says at the next ' session of the General Assembly, $ ? he will introduce a bill making it ? S unlawful for false teeth to bite l Georgia Crackers in their hip ) pockets, no matter what the ag- J gravation. BLACKS FIGHT IN COUNTY JAIL Jerry Tv.ner Breaks Fruit Jar Over the Head of a Fellow Prisoner Jerry Turner, colored, with head quarters in the Sumter county jail, Wednesday afternoon demonstrated the fact that he can’t stand kidding when he socked Bryant Nixon, fel low prisoner, over the nut with j fruit jar, following Nixon’s per sistance in joking him about his love affair with one of the Ethiopi an damsels in jail. i When the fruit jar. used by the inmates of the county jail as a drinking glass, bounced off Nixon’s cranium it left a deep gash in his scalp from which blood flowed free ly. Nixon, upon seeing the crimson stream trickle down his cheek, put up such a howl that he attracted a passerby on the Forsyth street side of the jail, who informed Deputy Chappell “that something sure was going wrong in jail.” ’ The injured negro was attended by the county physician, Who de clared, after an examination of the wound, that nothing serious had oc curred other than the breaking of the inmates drinking cup. Nixon is in tip top shape today. Jerry, who has been accued mor" than once of being “unbalanced,” is where he is because of his failure to comply with the law regarding the ‘toting” of concealed weapons, and Nixon has been Jerry’s neigh bor for the pas few days (and will likely be for quite a few more) for his carelessness in pouring a load of shot into the side of one Main.' Drummond. AUGUST 13, 192 Latest Highway Bill Would Shoot Present Department lo Pieces Thompson Bill Contemplates Complete Re-Organization Under Name of Highway Commission A 1 LANTA, Aug. 13.—Highway legislation, like bills providing for taxes and appropriations, draws a variety of opinions in the Georgia general assembly. Almost everyone has his own idea as to how the state road department ought to be run. Several read bills have been in troduced in both the house and the senate, and one, known as the Granger bill, providing for a sys tem of trunk lines over the state, has already been done to death by committee. Another, known as the Thompson bill, is ready for actionW»y the sen ate as soon as it is placed on the calendar by the rules committee. It. contemplates a complete reorgan ization of the highway department under the name of the State High way Commission, to be composed of three commissioners. It pro vides that the three members of the present highway board shall re main in office until their terms ex pire. One of thy main provisions of the measure would be to provide a means for the removal of a mem ber, obviating the debacle of this spring whereby the removal of John N. Holder, as chairman of the board by Governor Walker, was set aside by the supreme court, the latter holding he lacked authority. Among the major provisions of the bill are the following. “The State Highway Commission without interruption would succeed the present Highway Department and have full power and control in the performance of the duties of the department. “The State Highway Commission shall consist of three members, ap pointed by the Governor of th'' State and confirmed by the senate. Members of the Commission shall be subject to discharge at any time, with or without cause upon recom mendation of the governor and with the consent of the senate. Each member would be required to exe (Contlnued on Page Six) UNABLE TO LIVE ONSI2,OOOYEAR Twelve-Year-Old Boy Petition* Court to Increase Allowance to $16,500 HONOLULU, August 13. —Mrs. Elizabeth Knight, of Loa Gatos, Calif., recently appeared with her 12-year-old grandson, Richard Par ker Smart, before Judge J.itlfl R. Desha, of the court of domestic re lations, and complained that it has been very difficult for young Rich ard to live within his annual allow ance of $12,000. The boy, the owner of the large Parker ranch on the island of Hawaii, is reputed to be a millionaire. The grandmother, as his guardian, petitioned the court to increase the allowance to $16,500, which was granted. Mrs. Knight told the court that the servants employed tn her home for the benefit of young Richard cost approximately S4OO a month. In addition to the increased annual allowance the court authorized an expenditure of $2,500 to cover the cost of the boy’s vacation in Ha waii and SI,BOO for distribution by the youngster among the employ es of his cattle ranch when he visits his property to be the guest of the staff and cowboys. MOTHER SLAYS FAMILY THEN TAKES OWN LIFE BOSTON, Aug, 13.—George H. Curtiss, of the West Rosburt dis trict, and his wife, Mary, and their daughter, Marjorie, are dead and another of their children belived dying at the city hospital of a bul let wound in the head. Dorothy, a daughter, the only member of the family who escaped injury, told po lice that her mother s hot the others early today in a fit of depression and then committed suicide. WISCONSIN ASKED NOT SEND ANOTHER RADICAL OSHKOSH, August 13.—Voters of Wisconsin heard appeals today by Senator Lenroot, of this state, to see that no man hostile to Presi dent Coolidge be sent to the Unit ed States senate. Senator Lenroto was addressing a conference of Republicans gath ered here to select a candidate for the seat made vacant by the death of Senator LaFollette. H'e assail ed leaders of the so-called progres sive administration, of Wisconsin, as radicals and denounced their ad ministration of Wisconsin affairs as a "dictatorship.” PLANS MONUMENT TO WILLIAIn J. BRYAN L J A nation-widemovement for the erection of a memorial to William Jennings Bryan has been instituted by Miss Pionessa Bryan Evans of Minneapolis, Minn., a god-daughter of the late commoner. She proposes that the memorial be bull in Clew iston, Fla., from funds supplied by children of the public, and Sunday schools of the country. ELUSIVE KNIGHT CAUGHTAT LAST Man Who Led Officers Merry Chase Is Apprehended Near Andersonville Iho long chase after Adolphus Knight,-resident of Sumter county, charged with selling mortgaged property, came to an eml Wednes day morning when Deputy Chappell apprehended “his man” in a house five miles from Andersonville, in Macon county. Knight was lodged in the county jail Wednesday aft ernoon, but wil Iprobably give bond today. About 10 o’clock Wednesday morning, Deputy Chappell was ad vised by a friend in Andersonville that Knight was at a house about three miles from Andersonville, but upon going to the house, Deputy Chappell was informed that Knight had not been seen. Believing the .man he wanted to be in the neighborhood of Ander sonville, Deputy Chappell rode to a house about five miles from And ersonville, where he inquired of Knight. The occupant, a man, an nounced that Knight had not been at his home, but while making his announcement, the man waved his arm toward the rear of his home, 'which Deputy Chappell took to be a j signal to someone to vamoose. Running to the read of the house, Deputy Chappell caught sight of Knight beating it toward the woods. Realizing he could not over take the fleet footed Knight, the of ficer pulled out the “difference” and commanded him to halt and Knight lost little time in applying the brakes, and said “well you got me at last.” Knight, charged with selling an automobile upon which the Americus Automobile company held a mort gage, led the county officers a mer ry chase for three weeks before his capture Wednesday. Parts Bear’s Anatomy Sought Aj Death Charms by Chinese OLYMPIA, Wash., August 13. Chinese faith in the curative qualities of selected portions of a bear’s anatomy has resulted in s< v era] unique assignments for gov ernment hunters operating in this state, declares Dr. Glenn R. Bach, field leader for the federal bureau of the biological survey in the Washington district. Recently a Chinese resident of Washington, I.'. C., requested the feet of a bear while some months ago another asked for a bear’s gall bladder. In the case of the gail bladder, the information was volun teered that it was wanted as a NEW YORK FUTURES 1| Pc. Open 11 am Close < Oct. 23.72,23.58 23.55'23.24 Dec. 23.97 23.81-23.79|23.50 ;| PRICE FIVE CENTS LEGISLATURE TO ADJOURN IN LESS THAN TEN DAYS Adjournment Sine Die Will Come On Saturday of Next Week, August 22 GOVERNOR ANXIOUS TO AVOID MIDNIGHT RUSH As No Bills of Importance Have Been Passed Talk cf Extra Session Continues ATLANTA. Aug. 13.-The Geor gia General Assembly Wednesday completed <i< ;i fiftieth day. If it were operating under the 511-dav re lion of the annual sessions, as fctmerly, the two houses would have adjourned today, sine die. Under the biennial plan, however, the sessions are fit) days, ami the hgislators have 10 more days in which to complete the work of the session. And indications are that the 10 flays ahead will be crowded ones. Legislators have not only been working with the knowledge that there is more time at this session than previously, but it much larger number of measures have been in troduced at this session, to he acted upon, than at any in the past. Adjournment sine die will coni', on Saturday of next week, August 22, and Governor Walker has aske I that there be no midnight legisla tive rush, but that the Assembly adjourn by six o’clock on Saturday. Whether or not the solons will be able to comply with the Governor’s request is a question, for there is tremendous mass of legislation still awaiting the action of the legisla ture. The rules co mmittee, which took charge of the calendar in the house on Monday, is being subjected to tremendous pressure. Every mem ber who has a pet measure—and those who haven’t, are few—is in sisting that his bill be put on the calendar. And with more bills, mem bers say, than can possibly be con sidered before adjournment await ing :.'tion, the committee on rules, acting as a steering committee, finds itself in what, to sav the least, members of that committe consider an uncomfortable position As the session approaches its close, with so much legislation of importance—at. least to those most interest in it—unacted upon the talk of necessity for an extra ses sion continues. BATHERS HELU UP BY EIGHT Hold-Uo Men Swccped Down On Starlight Pa»-k and Get Away With Big Haul NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Eight hold up men, four of whom emerged in bathing suits from the swimming pool at Starlight Bark in the Bronx to participate in the robbery, held up bathers and officials of the pool Wednesday and escaped with sev eral thousands of dollars in valua bles after slightly wounding Spe cial Officer Sidney Rohn. Four of the robbers covered Miss May White, who holds patrons’ val uables, .with pistols while the four others entered her booth from the rear and collected the loot. The four others lined patrons, mostly women and children, against the wall and searched the pockets of those in street clothes. As eight men ran to the streets, Rohn opened fire, which the hold up men returned. Rohn was slight ly wounded. FRENCH CABINET TO DISCUSS GERMAN PACT PARIS, August 13. Premier Painleve has called his cabinet council to n eet this evening To i'*- ceive from Foreign Minister Briapd a report on the result of his talk with Foreign Secretary Chamber lain on the proposed security pact with Germany. heajfh teharm.i Such a talisman when worn around the neck, it was averred, assured the wearer of 1,000 years of life. Althought the supposed curative qualities of bears’ feet were not disclosed, the hunters have been in structed to forward the fi#et set of bruin’s feet available to the Olympia office for reshipment to Washington. They also have been instructed to use salt unsparingly in the curing process. This essen tial was neglected in the case of the gall bladder, with the results that the warmer the weather the more powerful the charm would prove, . .
