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WEATHER | !• or Georgia—Partly cloudy to- | night and Saturday. j FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR— no. 202 Identify > - N WHO KILLED SELF RECENTLY WAS H. BFLLAH ’ ft Stockbridge Years Ago After Fatally Wounding L. Garrett in Fight SON GF PROMINENT AND WEALTHY FAMILY Letters Indicatnig He Intended to Slay Himself Were Found in Room '"CAGO, August 28.—A man .j fn as John Dobson, 26, suppos ed to have committed suicide by poison two weeks ago, has been re vealed by investigating detectives as Homer Bellah, son of wealthy parents of Stockbridge, Ga. Letters indicating his intention to kill him self were found in his room. MAN DISAPPEARED FROM STOCKBRIDGE Homer Bellah, who is reported to have committed suicide in Chicago several weeks ago, was the son of John G. Bellah, of Stockbridge. Young Bellah fatally wounded Leon Garrett during a fight at Stock bridge several years ago discussed shortly afterward. BITUMINOUS ~ ' HEADS CATHER F j. al Operators Meet to Plans for Going Into Hard Coal Market PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28— Quick to take advantage of the com ing, of mining in the anthracite industry, bituminous op erators met here today to make plans for going into the hard coal marfket and furnishing soft coal wherever it can be sold. The soft coal men said that they were prepared to send into any territe-v i (1 emergency, prepared no “ 1 eir products which they '' ol “ id substitute for anthra t«r> COAL MINERS DIRECTED TO GO ON STRIKE MON. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.—Coal miners in the anthracite fields were directed to go on strike at midnight next Monday in orders issued Thurs • day night by John L. Lewis, presi dent of the United Mine Workers. About 158,000 miners are affected. Lewis announced al 7:30 that, the notice* ordering the strike would be sent the different districts later in the evening. In issuing the strike call, Lewis decided not to await the decisions of the anthracite conciliation board whiiih convened at. noon to decide whether the 10,000 maintenance men should remain at work in the even of a strike. Vicente Blasco Ibanez, In New Book, Calls Spain’s King Liar With a Crown Latest Novel Raps Sovereign So Hard That He Is Due to Be Called a Rebel PARIS, Aug. 38. —Vicente Blas io Ibanez, who has attacked vig orously and almost continuously during his prolonged warfare with Spanish monarchy, now finds him self upon the defensive. Heretofore the Spanish govern ment has contented itself with sup pressing his books and trying hard lo ignore him. King Alfonse XIII has replied to him, but only in mild terms, as in a speech at Cordova, where he said: “We ought to pardon him, hoping ’hat in the 'future, instead of pena aig novels, he will once more write romances that we can ail read and admire.” But Ibanez now has been sum moned to appear before the military court at Salamanica on a charge of publishing a booklet of revolution ary character. If he fails to appear, will be declared a rebel. What the novelist thinks of bis national administration can be gath ered on almost any page of his lat est work, just issued here in French and to be printed in Spanish for the benefit of South America. Its title “What the Spanish Republic Will Be Like.” lb- refers to the king as “Alfonsßo,” a contemptuous dim THgTIMESgRKORDER [ggjt PUBLISHED IN THE HE ART OF Chicago Poison Victim as Stockbridge, Ga. Man fn long War fn w ■ LJh ir’ § ’A • With the breaking out of Tong betwen the I. innings and the On Leongs in diferent cities of the United States, police have arrested Lee Wah, head of the Hip Sing.' in Washington, D. C. They believe that because of his influential posi tion he may be the key to a solu tion of the disturbance. START MUSCLE SHOALS TURBINE To G ive Increased Power tc » ~<eiing Industries In Southeastern States W A SHI X GTfITT Aug. 2 9. —A rmy engineers in charge of the Wilson dam hydro electric power plant un it will start at least one of‘the big turbines at work at once in an ef fort to give increased power to in dustries in the southeastern. At lantic states. Appeals from Sena tor George, Georgia, and other con gressional officials caused the war department to make inquiries as ('■ the immediate operation of the tur bine. FIVE UNIFICATION VOTES BE CAST TODAY CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—Five con ference votes will be east today on the unification of the Methodist- Episcopal church South and the Mctb.odisi-Episcopal church North The question to be voted on at the 39th annual conference of the Northern church is scheduled for August and September. According to Dr. ft. J. Wade, Chicago, secretary of I lie Geneva qonferencc, the vote in th" North ern church stands 5,815 for and 382 against. inUtive, and calls him: “Liar with a crown.” “Comedian changing his uniform six times a day.” “Mannequin king.” “Alfonso,” says Ibanez, sur rounds himself with generals who pre rounders and humbugs and whose intellectual level is more or less his own.” Ibanez was tremendously im pressed with the United States when he traveled and lectured there. lie is convinced that salvation lor Spain is to be attained only by driving out King Alfonso and setting up a re public on the American model. The'Spanish republic, he think, should include such features as: An army modeled along Ameri can lines. Freedom of religion tor all etilts, as in America. Federated states, each having autonomy within its borders, but all making up one great nation, ju.it as the United States. He also savs a republic would give the workers and the taxpayers a squarer deal than they now get and that every endeavor would be made to put the land-hungry peasants upon farms of their own. instead of keeping them virtually peons. Enemies of Ibanez have charged that he attacks the king for the sake of money. In reply, he <b ernres he Continued <"> I'age llirec. AMERICUS, ( GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 28, 1925 ' —1 OLD SOL POPS CORN GROWING ON STALK IN AIKEN, S. C., GARDEN : ! The fish story fell kerflop in to second place this week when W. E. Barton, of Oraniteville, S. C-, entered a newspaper of fice and displayed an ear of pop-corn which had been pop- ; ped by the sun before the ear was removed from the stalk on j > which it grew. “This car of corn was pulled in rny daughter’s garden,” Mr. < Barotn said, “and the kernels were popped open. That's how ' hot it has been in Aiken coun- j ty, S. C. Five or six were '» found in the same conation. ■’ I’ve seen hot weather before, /1 but I never knew weather could , ? be so hot as to pop corn.” z <^ e >ther had the Aiken coun- • ty weather prophet. ! ' Not only was Mr. Barton’s hot weather story better than any fisherman’s story heard in Aiken county lately, but Mr. I Barton also had proof of his narrative, which fishermen scl- I ' dom have. x TWO AVIATORS I SHOT TO DEATH . - - 1 Chicago Men Riddled With Bul lets; Believed to Have Been Bcclleggers CHICAGO, Aug 28.—Two . men, one believed to have been Irving Schlieg, known as the aviator boot legger, were found shot to death near the Ashburn aviation field to day, 'in what police interpreted as renewal of war among bootleggeers. Both victims had been riddled with bullets. Each had been shot ’hrough the back of the head and bore other wounds. 75MACONITES TO VISIT CITY ! Will Spend Thirty Minutes Here September Fifteenth On Good Will Tour Seventy-five dr a hundred Ma con citizens and business men will spend a few minutes in Americus on September 15th, according to pres ent plans for the second Good Will T our to be staged under auspices of the Macon Chamber of Com merce, September 15th and Ifitlu Traveling in automobiles the party from Macon will visit twenty-one towns during the progress of the first tour, which will be run Sep tember Bth and 9th. On all trips I the Macon men will be found spend ing a short time in each place to shake hands with local citizens. A thirty piece band will accompany tlje party and will give a concert : immediately upon arriving in a . town. i “We wish to emphasize that the i tours to be taken during September are ‘Good Will’ jaunts in every 1 sense of the word,” said Malcolm i D. Ainsworth, manager of the Cham her of Commerce, in discussing the trips. “We are not going out to . advetrise Macon. Every speaker 1 will advise people to make their purchases from their own merchants whenever possible; that is what makes a good community.” ROLLINGCOIN AIDS SLEUTHS Money Dropped From Detec tives Hand Rolls Into Nest of New York Thieves NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—(AP.) A coin, rolling out of a detective’s hand, today led three sleuths, in its fickle course directly to a cache in the Williamsburg section of Brook lyn. where $75,000 worth of stolen crude rubber was hidden and result ed in the arrest of two men on a charge of grand larceny. The elusive coin rolled under neath the doorway of a garage. The dectective opened the door to re trieve it and was ordered brusquely from the premises by the two occup ants. Suspicious, the detectives forced their way in and upon searching the garage found a quantity of rub beer, later identified as having been stolen Monday from a Pennslyvania lighter in Brooklyn. A quantity of . women's apparel valued at several Uiousaud dollars also was found. A Cordele Miss, Know Her? ' «► I V •• * wajErak; •*. * y**v- * ■ ■ ' <- j| " Miss Elizabeth? Gannon of Cer-j dele, Ga., with an armful of newly I ginned cotton, part of this year’s] Possibility Os A Paved Highway from the Peach County Line to Sumter First Steps Toward This Proj ject Taken Last Night At Montezuma By Citizens '1 he first steps toward paving the Dixie Highway from the Peach county line to the Sumter line were taken last night ’at’ Montezuma, when citizens of Montezuma held a mass meetlhg to whichNvere invited representatives from Marshallville and Americus. The meeting cuminated in the passage of a. resolution requesting the Macon county board of coun ty commissioners to immediately call a road bonds election for tho assurance of $250,000 in bonds which passed with only one dissent ing vote. Those preseht representing Amer icus were J. F. Ferguson, 0. C. Johnson, Charles Wheatley and Mr. Flint, of the highway department, all of whom spoke on one or more phases of road building, advertis ing this section of the state and the steps that are necessary to divert tourist travel through these par ticular counties. President McKenzie of the Montezuma Kiwanis club presided, the meeting being held under the auspices of his club. There were representatives present from every section of Macon county. Among those speaking were Mr. McKen zie, Mrs. J. E. Hays, John Guerry, Jules Felton and Dr. Greer of Mon tezuma, Colonel Frederick of Mar shallville, Thd mileage to be betTvehn the t’calh And Sumtct (*dunty lirfes was estipia|ed at vO.Q hoilpfr, at an fUontinuefl on Page’"Seven ) 1 COWS GRAZE ON I RIVER BOTTOM Bovines Seen Grazing In Chatta hoochee Bed By Representa tive Bonnell Stone ATLANTA, Aug. 28.—Bonnell Stone, the member of the House of Representatives who lias devoted himself to forestry legislation more perhaps than any other onee man in the upper part of the state, tells a dry-weather story which ought to draw the prize—and he says he knows it’s true because he saw it. Coming to Atlanta this morning Mr. Stone says, he was attracted by a number of cows grazing in the bed of the Chattahoochee river. “It’s a fact,” said Mr. Stone, ‘for 1 saw it with m.v own eyes, and I didn’t blame the cows, for the river bed is the prettiest piece of grazing land I have seen in a long time.” Yesterday Mayor Sims announced that he had made a request of every local preacher in Atlanta to include in his Sunday Services a special prayer for rain. From several locations in the state information comes of trouble be cause of the shortage of water. At- West Point, it is said, they are get ting their water by railroad tank cars, the local supply having run out. I bumper crop grown in the state famous for its pecahes. INDICT NEGRO PORT COLLECTOR Sheriff and 32 Others Are In volved in Big New Orleans Liquor Expose NEW ORLEANS, Augu.t 28 Ail of the 34 persons indicted by a special Federal grand jury here Thursday on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition act, fur nished bond of $5,000 today. Wal ter L. Cohen, negro comptroller of I the New Orleans customs district and well known in Republican cir cles, was one of the first to give bail. NEW ORLEANS, August. 28. Walter L. Cohen, negro comptroller of the customs for the New Orleans districts; Dr. L. A. Mereaux, sher iff of St. Bernard parish; Captain Joseph Johnson, of the New Or leans police department, now under Suspension, and 31 others were in dicted by the federal grand jury here late Thursday charged with consipracy to violate the national prohibition, act . The indictments also name Alon zo Patterson and Arthur Battistella, alleged heads of a gigantic rym ring, both of whom were arrested and charged as bootleggers during th/* recent campaign conducted on the gulf coast by mor? t|ian 200 dry raiders, wllq were directed by I>. C. Vellowley, chief of general prohi bition agents and Assistant Attor-. hey eGneral, A, N. Sager. BROWN HITS AT ■ HIS OPPONENTS Says Fight On Him Predicted On “Blighted Hopes for Speakership” Al LANTA, Aug 28.—Declaring that the fight on him and his ad ministration in the recent general assembly was predicated on ‘blight ed hopes for speakership of the house.” J. ,1. Brown, commissioner of agriculture of the state, Thurs day issued his first formal state ment since the fight started. Mr. Brown denied being the build- I er of a “powerful political machine’ in the state, saying that he had or ganize? those connected with hi; department to render the best ser vice to the state of Georgia. He said that at all times he has appoint ed his friends to’offices at his dis posal and will continue to do so. Regarding his candidacy for suc cession to himself, he said that “when that time comes he will con sult his friends and not his enemies as to his course.” Some girls are so unlucky. Chica l i go man was run over by an auto the 1 1 dav before his wedding. » > MAN SENDS NOTE , TO NEWSPAPERS, i THEN SUICIDES Elcentro, Calif., August 28. ? X. Yale Zomara, 45, press agent* ; > t.d his own death here when he ( notified local papers and the ' sheriff’s office he was going to \ ? take his own life. > He wrote a glowing descrip i tion of himself, then concluded t with a statement that he was in < ill health and friendless and • ? wanted to die. He gave a mes- ) sengcr boy S2O to deliver the 1 { note to the sheriff, and tripli t cate carbon copies to the local < newspapers. ? Officers hurried to the hotel ? where Zamora was rfaying and 1 > broke down the door just as he < ) died from taking cyanide. J LAND OWNER KILLS SHERIFF j Slayer in Turn Shot, to Death By Deputy—Officers Had Come On Business SELMA, Ala., Aug. 28.—Sheriff Percy Dawson of Dallas county was slain late Thursday by Deans Weaver, wealthy land owner w,m was was in turn shot to death by deputy Sheriff Hugh L. Sinclair. The shooting arose over hostility of Weaver to the construction of a transmission line across his properly by the Alabama Power Company. Weaver is alleged to have cut down 'posts of the power company on his land and made threats against the workmen. This led the sheriff to go out to Weaver’s place (which is about two miles from Selma. He was accompanied by Deputies Sin clair, J. E. Gaddy and F. B. Lindsay. According to deputies, Weaver came out of his house with-a .‘>2 cal ibre rifle in his hand and opened fire. A shot struck the sheriff in the heart and he fell dead. Deputy Sheriff Sinclair then fir ed and struck Weaver in, the fore head. He was also killed instantly. According to information here the power company acquired a right of way across Weaver’s place sever al months ago and writ was granted by the local court restraining Wear er from any way interfering with employes of the power company. 822 SEEK PAROLE FROM ATLANTA PENj ATLANTA, Ga., Aug 28—(AP) —A total of 822 applications for parole, 730 of which are now case:,! will be up for consideration at the regular monthly meeting of the pa role board of the Atlanta federal penitentiary .whie his scheduled to lie held today, and attended by Luther C. White, Washington superintend of prisons of the United States. | John W. Snook, warden of prison and Dr. Charles T. Nellans, recently named as prison physicians are memberes of the board. This Tobacco Raising Business Isn't What It’s Cracked Up lo Be Writer Finds Worry, Work and Expenses Go Hand in Hand in the Cultivation cf the Golden Weed By K. S. A farmer certainly has to know his “stuff”, as a Ring Lardnier would'say, when he takes up the cul tivation of tobacco as a commer cial crop, according to the view points and statement of a number of Tift county farmers with whom we talked at the Tifton tobacco warehouse Tuesday. The money making weed, which has been grown with a marked degree of success in numerous south Georgia counti<--, is said to be that most difficult crop to produce yet introduced in Geor gia and requires the full time an 1 attention of an intelligent farm- r and just as intelligent hands, and durftig the first two years ex perienced demonstrators must be lo cated in the community.. The golden crop, depicted by the papeers of the state as bringing gobs of happiness, money and care free days to the farmers in the to bacco sections, keeps the farmer worrieed from the time he puts the 1 seed in the ground until he receives his money for his crop, if the state ments made by several representa tive farmers of Tift county are true, nd we have no reasons to doubt NEW YORK FUTURES 1 I c. Open 1 lam Close j > O' f. . 22.80 22.74122.77|22.55 ? Dec. 23.08 22.0'J:22.‘.»»|22.80 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON j f Meddling 22c. j PRICE FIVE CENTS AIR MAIL POUCH OF GREAT VALUE I OST OR STOLEN Pout Office Inspectors Question Hundreds in First Case of Kind Jn History of Service I ■ CONTAINED MAH FROM CHICAGO RANKS Clerk Who Accompanied Truck From Post Office to Air Field is Detained CHICAGO, Au g. 28.—(A.P.) . Post, office inspectors in every im portant city between Chicago and San I'rancisco last night started questioning hundreds of employes of the United States air mail service in an attempt to locate a consign ment. of registered and other mail which disappeared somewhere en route between the two cities. The mail left Chicago August 25, but failed to reach San Francisco. It was said to he the first time in the history of the air nqpl serv ice that a pouch of mail consigned directly between two citscs had been lost or stolen. The mail left here by air plane Tuesday, consigned to San Francis co. The first intimation that the pouch was missing came with a tele gram from San Francisco postal au thorities received here late today stating that the pouch, reported bo have contained valuable commercial mail sent lit Chicago hanks to San [ Friwicisco, had not arrived. Similar telegrams are reported to have been sent from the Pacific coast city to Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake City, and other points where the air mail plane.-, land. Postal inspectors here, questioned dozens of employes of..the post office and at the air mail field. One clerk whose lining was with held and who was reported to have accompanied the mail truck which carrieij the pouch from the poatef fice to the air mail field was de tained. While admitting that the pouch contained valuable mail, the. inspec tors here would not estimate its val ue, stating that it would probably take several days to check its con tents. They said it was possible that tile pouch was stolen here or that it may have been taken some where en route and may possibly been transferri d from a plane to a fast mail train at some point. DROWNS IN ATTEMPT TO SAVE HIS FAMILY ASHLAND, Ky„ Aug. 28. - (AP) - A vain attem[H to save the life of his son yesterday, cost Willjam Moore, 38, father of seven children, his own life. I Moore, with his Son, Hubert, 11 has been employing his spare time from his regular work in attempt ing to reach a natural spring at bis home near here. ' " •" them. , One farmer, who plants 40 aisre 1 in tobacco, declared that he would I quit the cultivation of the weed al | together, if he did not have so 1 much money invested in tobacco 1 barns, land and other things necs sary to the cultivation of the cfop. The thing cannot be done right in two or three or five years, he stat ed, it will take ten years before the growth of tobacco will be stabilized and placed on a money making basis in Tis county and the tobacco sections in the vicinity. “There i’ the labor situation t<* contend with, he said, “We haven't adequate and intelligent labor to cultivati- large acreages in tobacco. There isn’t one negro in a thousand you can place in charge of a field of tobacco and only about one white man in 99 is sufficiently intelligent, along farming lines, to act as oxer seer or manager of a tobacco farm.’ “After the tobacco has been set out and a <rood stand obtained, the cultivation is more or less simple un til the time arrives for the priming of the leaves. This is very difficult and oftinies the entire crop is ruin ed at this stage. Intelligent labor must be used in this process. FroiK priming time on the cr»p requires the attention of a young child. It' must be protected from weather and great care must be ex?* Continued on Page Threu fi/tf
