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
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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
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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? '
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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
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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?*
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