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w* K | AMERICUS ") S Strict middling I For Georgia-—Partly civ \ i night and Saturday probab’y t°" 1 f ,' tered thundershowers in south ’jfc’ i !•' tino; slightly cooler tonight in 1 / north and central portion. j FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 190 Hints At Sensational Charges Involving W. R. Neal STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER BEING SOUGHT TODAY Numerous Telegrams Urging Him to Return tc Atlanta ’1 oday Are Sent Out HOLDER ASKS THAT NEAL BE SHORN OF ALL POWER Unexpected Charges Prevent Sine Die Adjournment In vestigation cf Committee ATLANTA, August 14. —Hints at sensational charges involving W. R. Neel , state highv/av engineer, prevented a sine die adjournment of the senate highway investigating committee this morning as had pre viously been determined upon. Neel Is out of the city, but telephone and telegraph calls have been put out for him, calling for his appearance before the committee today. Chairman John N. Holder, of the State Highway department, in concluding hi:. testimony today recommended that Neel be shorn of power in the department and his power to be vested in the State Highway board. Holder declared htat if this is done the board, con stituted as it is, will function har moniously and efficiently. Resuming the stand at Thursday’s session Holder said: The total amoupt he paid to all the men for publicity was between S7OO and SBOO. He never rendered any bill for these services to the govern ment, regarding it as a legitimate ?x pense of the board, but prior to his succession to the board there had been criticism of such expense and he decided to pay it himself and not ask the board to pay it it. He said he had turned down an offer of contribution for this purpose from equipment people. He explained the workings of the Georgia High ways, the official magazine of the department published monthly, and of its contents. He said he had a statement from Spahr in 1923 show ing the magazine to be self-sup porting and having a surplus to its credit of SI,OOO. This was gained by advertising. He declared he borrowed about $1,200 from the magazine fund to pay for publicity and then later repaid it himself. He said the money was paid back about three weeks after he borrowed it. He denied this money was used dur ing the General Assembly of 1924. These cheeks were said to have been drawn Aug. 15 and 16. Hold < r said the Legislature adjourned Aug. 11. He said Spahr and Franks advanced S4OO or SSOO for this pur pose, telling him that it was their own money and afterward he found they had charged it to him on the books. He denied he had ever giv en any of this money to a member of the Legislature. He said the way the campaign with the Legisla ture was worked was by sending some friends of good roads into the county on his own time, the depart ment paying his expenses. This friend would take up the matter with the people of the county, who in turn would convey their wishes to the Representative or Senator. 483,898 BALES COTTON CONSUMMED IN JULY WASHINGTON, August 14. Cotton consumed during July to taled 483,898 bales of lin tand 62,- 513 bales of linters. This is com pared with 493,765 bales of lint and 60,577 of linters in June of this year and 347,999 of lint and 41,732 of linters in July of last year, according to the report of the Census Bureau issued today. Darien Wants State To Treat Famous Old Tree Under Which Oglethorpe and Band Camped This is a story about the shade of Genera! James Oglethorpe. It is not be a ghost story, far from it, as it concerns life rather than death. At the same time, it is one about the shade of the foun der of Georgia. Sounds paradoxi cal, doesn’t it? Down in Darien, where a lot of old-time Georgia lore is to be found, there is a giant oak tree un der wheih General Oglethorpe and his band camped during the days they were surveying the newly found Georgia country. They first reached the spot where Darien now is four years after Savannah was founded. Darien, therefore, dates from 173 G, and this oak was then of such proportions as to accommo date a good-sized camp under its spreading branches. THE TIMESBRECdRDER IN THE HEART OF Dejected Over Adoption < w f 1 ’" f-R ■J. ’ I * IHi v wife ■** ’JB % v' '''' « Sorely dejected at the outcome« advertisement seeking a little com of his adoption of Mu' Spas. Ed-; panion for his first waif. Disap ward We t Browning sit- in his i> al printed at mankind in general, the estate office and tears up the adop-' wealthy real estate operator says tion papers and the thousands of | never again as far as any public letters be received in answer to hi-: philanthropies are concerned. MARCO ISLAND SCENE OF WAR Two Factions Fight Over Pos session of Strip cf Florida Land FORT MYERS, Fla., Aug. 14. Marco Island is today divided into two hostile camps, which are report -ed ready to- itw.baUle over the nwiu. ership over a strip of land more than a mile wide across th..- middle of the island amounting to about 3,000 acres, which has never been included in the government survey. One faction consists of Baron G. Collier interests, supported by the Sheriff, W. S. Maynard and a crew of army deputies, and the other is made of old settlers and some of the new homestead claimants. GALLOWS BILL RECEIVES BLOW Ricketscn’s Measure to Abolish Chair in Favor of Rope Adversely Reported ATLANTA, Aug. 14.—Senator Rieketson’s bill to abolish electrocu tion as means of capital punishment and return to the gallows, was ad versely reported this morning by the penitentiary committee. The general appropriation was placed on the calendar of the Sen ate far tomorrow at the first Sat urday session of the present Senate. The Senate defeated the measure designed to increase the term of of fice for the Governor from two to four years. SENATOR SAPP TO SING SWAN SONG LAST NIGHT ATLANTA, Aug. 14.—Senator W. M. Sapp poet laureate of the state senate, has written his swan song—that is of this senate. He will sing it on the last nigut. But old age attacks trees just as! it does humans and othyr things. ■ It has been hundreds of years since the little acorn from which this old oak sprouted, fell to the earth. De cay is beginning to eat into it and shortly it, will be dead, unless some thing is to be done to prolong its life. Representative VV. S. Tyson, of Dafien, has a proposal for -he state of Georgia to appropriate SSOO for the employment of a tree surgeon to treat the old tree and rave it, as one of the landmarks in Geor gia’s early history. The item would, be inserted in the ,general appro-' priation bill now before the state senate. As was said at the beginning, this is a story about Ger i al Ogle- > thorpe’s cfaade. I AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FR.DAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 14. 1925 MANY DESIRE TO HELP RE-WRITE CONSTITUTION Senator Carlisle and Others Will Ask Voters to Send Them to Convention ATLANT AlLJk.ugusL 14. lf Senator Carlisle’s bill calling for a constitutional convention next Jan uary is adopted, many members of the general assembly will go be fore the people and ask that they be allowed to help write the basic law of the state as well the statu tory law. Several already have announced their intention to do so, although the bill has not yet been reported to the floor of the house for consideration. Senator himself an nounced his intention when he gave out the text of the bill for pub | lication. Senator J. R. Hutcheson, i 39th, said he will ask that his peo ple send him to the convention. Senator I*. T. Knight, 6th, will do the same. Some of the senators, however, will be candidates for state offices’and probably will not enter the race. Representative Fermor Barrett, of Stephens, said he undoubtedly will be a candidate for delegate in the event the bill becomes law. Many other aspiring representa tives in the house have evidenced the same intention. President J. Howard Ennis, of the senate, joknigly told Senator Carlisle one day that an eminent Georgia lawyer had opined that the bill as drawn was unconstitution, al. This ruffled the senator from the Seventh immediately, and he rose to hi spride of authorship. “Shucks,” he said, “f’m a good lawyer, too, and I’ll n'nke my bet on that bill standing up under any constitutional onslaught.” He then pointed out that the bone of con tention was the naming of ex-offi cio members, but these, he said, i would not have the power to vote. GAS REDUCTION • IN SOME STATES Standard Oil of Louisiana An nounces 3 Cents Cut in Three States NEW YORK, August 14. The Standard Oil company, of Louis iana, today reduced the price of gasoline three cents a gallon in Louisiana, Arkaii as and Tennessee. Another reduction of one cent per gallon in tank wagon deliveries throughout its territory was an nounced by the Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey. The territory includes the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The smaller ttje town the more it needs big men. Jewish Lad and Irish Miss, Fifteen, Elope When Parents Interfere An “Abie’s Irish Rose” Affair in Real Life Takes Place in Chicago CHICAGO, Aug. 14—Life at 15 is a momentous episode! Parents can’t understand. They dub the bloom of romance as “pup py love” and threaten the rod and bed without supper. Thus reasoned Hazel Mitchell, 15, little Scotch-Irish girl when a week ago her mother and the boy’s moth er sought to separate her from her 15-year-old sweetheart of Jewish faith. Today the Scotdh Irish and Jew ish mothers look resentfully nt each other across the back porch. For Hazel and Joe Medyeke, the Jew ish boy, have eloped —an Abie’s Irish Rose affair in real life. Affair Starts Early The Mitchells have lived in the house where Mrs. J. Sack, the boy’s mother, is landlady for three weeks. It wa seither a case of “puppy love” or love at first sight for the young sters, say both mothers. Or then again they may have known each other before the Mitch ells moved to the apartment. In any event Joe was vamped good and securely. The second day of Hazel’s residence there the af fair was on. Joe would whistle up the stair way and Hazel would come tiptoe ing down. She would tell her moth er she was going down to sit an hour with Mrs. Sack. And while Mrs. Sack drank in the affairs of Cupid on the silver sheet at a nearby picture show, her son and the little Scotch girl held Jiands and promised eternal love in the seclusion of the Sack apartment. “We thought we had it stopped,” Mrs. Sack said. “For a whole week it was peaceful. My son went his way and the Mitchell girl went hers. Then I found son writing a let ter to Hazel. I stopped it straight off and hid the letter he had start ed. Then I found a note which Hazel left on the sewing machine for Joey. 1 called Hazel out on the porch and told her if she didn’t stop this nonsense she and her mother would have to move.” And Then It Happened But that didn’t end things. An open window showed the route the elopers had taken. A letter from Hazel to her mother bid farewell. While Ha.zel’s mother is in tears, Joe’s moth er is optimistic. She thinks they are in the neighboor hhood, because someone has been raiding the icebox. “Joe has run away before, and he usually slips back to get some thing to eat,” says Mrs. Sack. Hazel’s Farewell Note Here is Hazel’s farewell note to her mother: My Mother: 1 have run away. Forgive me. lam nearly out °f mv head. Don’t worry, because the good Lord will take care of me. The hypocrite downstairs (Mrs. Sack) has the note I wrote to Joe about the farm. Please don’t worry. 1 can hardly write. I haven’t a cent, but I will try to get work as soon as I can, and I will send you money for my care and keeping ill these years. Oh, mamma, T don’t want to go, but you would never forgive me. Don’t send anyone to look for me. I may go crazy. Yo>: have been so good to me, but I have taken advantage of you. When T get tired of it all, I may give my self up to a home. Such people as the landlady is what makes the younger generation what it is. Your daughter. HAZEL. WAREHOUSE FOR LOCAL FARMERS Parker Warehouse to Be Used As Storage Place for All • Kinds Farm Produce The old Parker warehouse, re cently purchased by the Planters Seed and Drug company, has been remodeled and improved and will be opened within a few days as a storage house for farm produce, ac cording to George Marshall, former county agent, who is now connected with the Planters company. The structure, covering approxi mately half an acre of ground, will be converted into a number of bins measuring 16 by 48 feet in which peas, corn, oats, rye, wheat and oth er grains may be stored by the farmer until the market will per mit disposing of them at a profit. The warehouse will be known as the Planters Seed & Drug company warehouse. MINISTER IS ATTACKED BY NIGHT RIDERS Baptist Preacher of Tallapoosa, Goes to Sheriff fcr Protection SERMONS DIRECTED AGAINST CRIME Reverend Henry Holmes Says He Was Severely Beaten By Attackers TALLAPOOSA, Ga.. Aug. 14— The second depredation by night riders and an event closely parall eling the attack on Rev. Robert Stewart al Draketown last Novem ber and which resulted in the death of the minister’s wife, was report ed to Sheriff Richards Thursday morning by Rev. Henry Holmes, a Baptist minister who says he was called from the house at which he was stopping Wednesday night and I rouirhly used by eight or ten men. Rev. Holmes iiad been engaged in a revival meeting at the Talla poosa East church, about four miles from Buchaann this week and dur ing his sermons he has made vig orous attacks against bootleggers, whisky runners, home wreckers and distillers. e Wednesday night he says he was called from the home of Asberry Cook, who lives in the Flatwoods section. When he went to the road where two cars had stopped he was attacked by a party of men and severely beaten by them, the men trying to force him into one of .the two cars which had stopped in front of the house. After a desperate resistance the minister succeeded in escaping from the party of men and hurried to Buchanan and placed himself un der the protection of .Sheriff B. B. Richards. He was suffering severe ly Thursday from his hurts received at the hands of his assailants. NEGRO WHO SHOT HURLEY GIVES UP All Negroes Wanted in Con nection With Week-End Shooting Apprehended With the surrender of the three Glass brothers, colored, charged with the shooting Sunday of a ne gro, Tom Hurley, all of the blacks wanted in connection with the three shootings occurring in the county over the past week end, are now safe behind the bars or enjoying their freedom under substantial bonds. The Glass brothers will be given a committment trial before Justice of the Peace Shy, Saturday. Aug. 22nd, on the charge of assault with intent to murder, providing their victim doe snot die before that time. It is reported that he is prac tically out of danger. C. J. Caloway, slayer of Alex Woodard, was arraigned before Judge Shy at a committment trial Monday and was bound over to the November grand jury on a charge of manslaughter under bond of sl,- 000. Nixon, charged with the shooting of Mary Drummond, is in the coun ty jail and indications point to hh remaining there until the November term of Superior court when he will face Judge Littlejohn on an assault with intent to murder charge. Nix on’s victim is also reported recov ering. SMALL BLAZE AT MCNEILL LUMBER YARD THURSDAY The fire department was called Thursday afternoon to extinguish a small blaze in a sawdust pile at Mc- Neil’s lumber yard on Wheeler street. Hand extinguishers were used and no damage was reported by Chief Guerry. BULLETIN NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—Mrs. John Pierpont Morgan died at noon today at her home at Glen Cove. L. I. Death was the result of “cardiac collapse,” physicans said, which came after two months illness from I sleeping sickness. * SEEKS PARENTS FROM WHOM SHE WAS STOLEN ~ "11 B® I i 3 ■ .40 Vj! 1 Mr.:. Belle Cullison, 48, of Okla homa City, has just learned that she was kidnaped from her parents in Sprnigfield, Mo., in 1879 and has started a search to learn what became of her family after that time. She was two years old when kidnaped and until recently behov ed she was the daughter of the per sons who had reared her. Would Fence In Spot Where Jeff Davis Captured Senator Clements, Irwin Coun ty, Asks $7,5C0 Appropria tion fcr Purpose ATLANTA, August 14. A hit of the history of the spot at which Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern Confederacy, was cap tured after the surrender .if Gen eral Lee was given a sub-committee of the house committee on appro priation here, when the committee was asked to approve an appropria tion of $7,500 with which to fence and improve the spot. The caputre occurred in Irwin county more than a half century ago. The lend was then owned by the father of Senator J. B. Clem ents, of the 45th district, a mem ber of the present state senate. Be fore he died, Senator Clements told the committee, his father secqred from the younger tnan a promise that the historic spot should never con.e into the possession of “any Yankee.” And that, Senator Clements stated, was one of the reasons which prompted his donation to the state a few years ago of a four-acre tract, including the spot on which the Southern Presidi nt was cap tured. Thus, ho said, he assured himself that his promise to his fa ther would be fulfilled. The land now, tin- senator stated, is wild—nothing but woods—just as it was when the head of the Southern Confederacy surrendered himself. In addition to Senator Clements, those asking for the appropriation included former Governor Harris and Chairman Barrett of the ap propriations committee. The sub committee, however, failed to rec ommend the appropriation. They took the attitude that the state did not have the money, and that the gift was accepted with the under standing that the Daughters of the Confederacy would make improve ments. What Is A Fair Price lor The Depreciation of a Mule, Coweta Countian Asks Committee ATLANTA, August 14. What is a fair price for the depreciation of a mule? Answers to this query will please be sent to L. B. Mann, of Newnan, Coweta county, who brought up the question at one of the hearings of the senate committee investigating' the highway department. Mr. Mann thought Coweta coun ty had not been treated right in the matter of a road contract in which the state highway department fig ured. He had with him an audit of the work done by the contractor, together with the itemized charges by the contractor. Included in these was a charge of S3OO each for the use of each mule by the contractor, the con tractor furnishing the mule, in ad dition to which he said the contrac tor charged $75 for depreciation of i ’ NEW YORK FUTURES 1 f'c. Open Ham Close j Oct. 23.24 23.16 23.22j23.44 ! Dec. 23.50 23.48123.43 23.67 ;| PRICE FIVE CENTS BELGIAN WAR DEBT FUNDING NOW DISTANT American Debt Commission Rush to President Coolidge tor Advice VISITING COMMMISSION ASKS FOR REDUCTIONS Outcome of Negotiations Now Rest With President and Bel gian Cabinet WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Any agreem nt for funding the $480,- 000, Belgian war debt to the United States appears now to lie in the somewhat distant futuiy with th t fmal decision necessary to ob tai.i a signature resting with Presi dent Coolidge on one hand and the Belgian cabinet on th? other. While the commission from Bel gium marked time awaiting further instructions from its government Chairman Mellon and Senator Smoot, republican, of Utah, of the American Commission, prepared lor a week end visit to the President at Plymouth to ascertain his views on the latest developments.' The precise status of the negotia tions at this time has not been dis closed beyond the mere information that the Belgians have made one proffer and the Americans two. It has been made, however, that the Belgians have asked that the ac crued interest on the principal of the debt to date be computed at a rate lower than the 4 1-4 per cent at which interest on the British debt was computed for purposes of the Anglo-American agreement. Mem bers of the American commission have denied that this request had been granted. Since a reduced interest would mean a corresponding reduction in the amount of the total of the <V?bt that would be funded, this question becomes one of much importance to Belgium. There are indications, however, that this is not the most serious of the questions which con front the commissions. CONFERENCE OF STATE FARMERS Georgia Agriculturalists to Gath er State College of Agri- Culture ATHENS, Aug. 14. —Orderly marketing of farm products will bo the subject at the Georgia State College of Agriculture, August 24 to 28, in conjunction with the an nual meeting of the state agricul tural and horticultural societies. Methods whereby farmers may gain a fair price for their products will be considered by prominent agricultural authorities who will at tend the meeting. Among them are Dr. Andrew M. Soule, and Profes sor Phil Campbell, of the State Col lege of Agriculture; Hon. Arthur R. Rule, general manager of the Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers of New York; Hon. L. F. McKay of the American Cotton Growers; Hon. C. S. Barrett, presi dent of the National Farmers' Union and others. Cotton, peach, peanut, watermel on and other Cooperatives «f Geor gia will be represented at the con ference. Good news from Russia. Crops are some better now. So they won't have to eat the wolf at their door. 5 - ------ i each mule. Now Mr. Mann wants to know! He says he has been living close ,; to mules all his life, working them, ■ feedin < them, buying them and '' ;elling them, and intimated that this was the first time in all his born days that he had ever heard that a mule could depreciate to such an. extent in a few weeks, much less a year or such a matter. He said he could buy good mules for $125 to $l5O a head :hat would last for several years. Consequently Mr. Mann believed that S3OO just for the use of the mule for ayear or such a matter was somewhat exorbitant, but the part that realy hurt him was the charge for $75 depreciation. Hq simply doesn’t see how it can bq 1 d° ne ' i
