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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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