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ATLANTA, Ga., May 27. —Forty-
one persons are known to have been
killed, more than half a hundred in
jured, some perhaps fatally, scores
rendered homdless and property
damage estimated at more than sl,-
000,000 caused by violent wind
storms which swept portions of Ala
bama and Mississippi last night and
early today for the second time in
less than a month.
Probabi'ity that the death toll will
be increased as lines of comunication
confirmed reports of persons killed
gradually are restored is seen in un
and missing which continue to trickle
in over crippled wires.
In one or two cases whole com
munities were wiped out while in ev
ery section touched by the distur
bance, a path of rain and desolation
was left, marked by razed dwel’ings
and farm buildings, damaged high
ways and disrupted telephone and
telegraph facilties. Railroad traffic
wa s ip certain a reap,
MACMay ifff-i-judge
James B. Park this morning senten
ced Hade Johnson and Jarrett Ben
ford, Milledgeville men, to hang on
June 27 for criminal'y assaulting an
82-year-old woman of Jones county
on the night of May 18.
They weret ried and found guilty
without recommendation at a spe
cial session of the Jones county Su
perior Court held yesterday at Gray,
Ga. The verdict was reached last
night t> ut not made pub’ic until court
opened this morning.
Attorneys for the condemed men
immediateld filed a motion for a
new trial.
PEORJA, ll’., May 27.—Norma
Anderson, 18 years old, who, with a
baby in her arms, held up the Steen
burg Bank at Farmington this aft
ernoon, was arrested tonight at
Hanna City, after she forced a taxi
cab driver at the point of a gun, to
hurry her aw r ay. More than one
thousand dollars in cash which she
grabbed from a toller’s window was
recovered.
The girl after her arrest declared
sbe held up the bank because it owed
her some money.
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Georgia cucumber market, pioneered
by Coffee county, opened in full
b’ast today under the management
of J;£n M. Hall, Jr., of Chamberlain
& Haii, state managers, with ten car
loads moving from the Douglas mar
ket. There were three from the
Douglas warehouse, t wo from Brox
ton, two from Huffer, two from Ax
son and one from Willachoochee,
with also ten cars moving today from
the Valdosta warehouses under the
supervision of J. W. Chamberlain.
The initial car was shipped from
Doug'as Saturday, all the Georgia
crop of cucumbers this year being
shipped direct to the Canadian mar
ket under special arrangements with
the marketing system of cucumbers
and vegetables.
MACON, Ga., May 27.—The first
refrigerator car for handling the
Georgia peach crop will be placed at
Fort Valley tomorrow and may be
loaded during the day, it was learn
ed from the Central of Georgia rail
way officials tonight.
WETUMKA, Okla., May 28.
Sweeping a path six blocks long and
one block wide throught the best
residential section of this little oil
town, a tornado late today left in its
wake a toll of six known dead.
Twenty-five or thirty persons were
seriously injured and a score or
more received slight hurts.
Several of the injured are expect
ed to die.
The tornado swept from west to (
east through the south section of
town. Not a residence was left
standing.
Damage was estimated tonight at
approximately $1,000,000.
ATLANTA, May 28.—The frist
training school for daily vacation ,
Bible school teachers in Georgia, to
be sponsored by Georgia Baptist con
vention, will begin at the Sirst Bap
tist Church here on June 2,continu
ing throughout t,he week.
James W. Merritt, superintendent
of daily vacation Bible work for the
state, wi’l direct the school and has
secured the services of Dr. Albert'
H. Gage, of Chicago, as sepcial lec- j
turer for the entire week. The
school will be in session daily from
Monday, June 2, through Friday
June 6.
Friday, the closing evening, will be
given over to presenting a model
| daily vacation Bib’e school in session
1 open conferences and exhibit of hand
work.
WASHINGTON, May 29. Slot
machines or similar gambling de
, vice 3 may not be shipped in inter
state commerce and pistols or re-
I volvers may not be sent through the
mails unless tagged and described
I under provisions of a bill favorably
, reported Thursday by the House
judiciary committee.
I The penalties for vio'ation of the
law are fixed at SI,OOO fine, impris
onment for one year, or both.
GREENSBORO, Ga., May 29.
In recent co-operative chicken sales
in towns of nearby territory, Coving
ton, Harlem, Madison, Thomson and
1 Washington—netted $5,000. Many
i Green County farmers have gone in
( for poultry raising, and are
ing the assistance of County Agent
Wade H. West. The Georgia Rail
road has been running a poultry car
about every three months, the car f
Stopping at each one of the large
towns on the road and receiving the!
chickens of that section.
ALBANY, Ga., May 29.—Judge
Roscoe Luke, of the State Court of
Appeals; Rev. Paul W. Ellis, of the
Thomasvi'le Methodist Church, and
the three Wisdom Sisters, of Macon,
Mo., have been drawing capacity con
gregations all last week and so far
this week to the Methodist revival I
services being held there. Every night
the church is filled to overflowing
with people anxious tt hear Judge ;
Luke or Rev. Mr. Elli s speak and the
Wisdom Sisters sing, and religious
interest has been stirred to an en- 1
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thusiastic pitch. Many additions to
this and other churches of the city ]
have been made. Rev. Mr. El’is
preaches at the majority of the serv- j
ices, but Judge Luke has spoken sev- ]
eral times and will be heard again ]
before the services come to an end ,
next Sunday night, it is announced. ]
WASHINGTON, Ga., May 29. !'
Fire which threatened one of the
principal business blocks of Wash- !
ington yesterday morning at 2:30
o’clock gutted the brick building
owned by Messrs Faver and Vining,
on Main Street, entailing a loss to !
four business firms to the extent of 1
SB,OOO. Prompt and skillful work :
of Washington’s fire department con- 1
fined the flames to this one-story.
brick building occupied by the Wash
ington Job Office, McClearen’s Shoe
Shop, the Bicycle Emporium and
Wallace’s Pressing Club.
The stocks of all tenants of the
building were a tota 1 loss with the
exception of the McClearen’s Shoe
Shop, where the heavy machines were
only sligthly damaged. Insurance
coverage on the property represent- ,
ed about half the fire loss.
SOPERTON, Ga., May 29. '
While Horace M. Flanders, editor of
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the Soperton News, suffering with a
bullet wound in his chest, is grow
ing sligth’y better, deptuies are
searching for A’derman Crosby Wil- 1
liams, a Soperton merchant, who
Tuesday night shot Flanders on the
streets of this city.
Early tonight the officers had not
located Williams.
The shooting followed an argument
between the men. which had its in
ception in editorials in Flander’s pa
per. The editorials were directed
against the whiskey traffic in this
county. Williams is said to have re-,
sented the articles, making the point
that such an editorial policy would
hurt the town.
Tuesday night while a crowd was
on the street the quarrel was started
and Flanders was shot. WiPiams
fled.
The editor is 35 years old and has
a wife and three children.
LUDOWICI, Ga., May 29.—Be
fore probably the largest audience
ever seen at the Ludowici High
School auditorium, Governor Clifford
Walker delivered the commencement
address at the graduation exercises
of the school here this evening. In '
his address to the graduates Gover
nor Wa’ker in forceful words set
forth the aims and ideals which the
young men and women at commence
ment of life should strive toward. 1
Following the address the diplomas
were delivered by Judge Price, of '
Ludowici.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30.
Further limitation of armaments and
American adherence with reserva- j
tions to the world court created un
der the league 0 f nations were set
up by President Collidge today as
hi 8 goa's in the field of foreign af
fairs.
Speaking at the Memorial Day
exercises at Arlington, the Presi
dent renewed his advocacy of the
| Harding-Hughes plan for American
| membership in the permanent court
of international justice and declared
the ideal of mutual covenants by the
nations limiting their military es
tablishments “shou’d be made prac
tical a fact as possible.”
MACON, Ga., May 30.—London
Owens was convicted of the charge
of murder with recommendation for
mercy by a jury in Superior Court
this afternoon in connection with
: the shooting of A. Lee Aligood,
; street car motorman, more than three
years ago. It was the third trial of
the case, he having been sentenced
to-hang fpllowing two other convic
tions. Judge Malcolm D. Jones
sentenced him to serve the remaining
days of his life on the state farm.
I Jack Smiley, an al'eged accom
plice in the murder, was sentenced
to forty years in the penitentiary on
two charges of burglary. The mur
der charged against him was dis
missed.
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| LANDERS, Wyo., May 30.—More
j than twenty inches of snow fell here
during the last 24 hours, a weather
bureau statement tonight said, and 1
about eight inches of snow still re
mained on the grounds. Precipita
tion for the week, official figures is
sued tonight pointed out, was 5.77
inches.
BRUNSWICK, Ga., May 30.
William Hardwick, a white man,
charged with the murder of Mart
Bunk'ey, near this city, on Christ
mas Eve, was acquitted by a jury in
the Glynn Superior Court today. The
twelve men deliberated less than an
hour before reaching a verdict.
The case in which Hardwick was
implicated was an unusual one and
has attracted great deal attention.
Mr. Bunkley left a farm where he
was working to spend Christmas with
his family several miles away. He
was not seen from that time until his
body was found in a secluded spot
two weeks later.
GASTONIA, N. C., May 30.—Jim
Willson, 22, arrested here this after
noon as a suspect in the killing of J.
H. Fletcher near here last Monday,
confessed tonight to the killing. He
asserted, according to officers, that
he shot Fletcher after they had
quarrel ed and after Fletcher had
threatened and shot at him with a
pistol.
Fletcher’s body was found last
Tuesday afternoon at the one room
cabin six miles from here, where he
lived alone. Death had been caused
by a load from a shotgun fired into
the man’s back. In one hand grasp
ed a pistol with three shells exploded
According to the story told to of
ficers by Wilson, he had spent Mon
■ day night with Fletche at the cabin.
During the night, he asserted, they
quarreled and he decided to leave.
Fletcher threatened him with a pis
tol and he picked up the man’s shot
gun and ran from the house, Flether
! firing at him as he left. He asserted
that he went to the back door of the
cabin and shot at Fltcher through a
| hole, causing his death. In his frist
alleged statement made to the po'ice
j this afternoon he implicated another
man but later changed his story and
1 admitted that he alone killed the
man, according to police officials.
Wilson was captured this after
noon when he tried to sell as hotgun
, to a barber in the outskirt of town.
According to officers, Fletcher’s
shotgun had been stolen two or three
; days prior to last Monday. Tonight
they expressed disbelief in Wilson’s
story because, they said, the shotgun
which he claimed to have picked up
!in the cabin previously has been re
ported stolen.
LOUISVILLE, Ga., May 30.
Tragedy mocked the gayety of com
mencement exercises at the Moxley
School, six miles from Louisville,
Thursday night, in the vi’oent death
of 9-year-old Anne Laura McNeely,
one of the celebrators, as she drove j
with her brother toward her country j
home, snug in an old-fashioned bug
gy, pulled by a mule.
The buggy, driven by the two Mc-
Neely children was struck in the
darkness by unlighted Ford car
driven by Carl Denton, 15 years old,
who was arrested and inprisoned af
ter the accident. The b'ow to the
vehicle frightened the mule, and as
he ran, little Anne Laura, dressed in
her new spring party dress, was I
thrown from the buggy. One foot
caught in a wheel, and she was fatal
ly crushed before her older brother,
Edward, could stop the frantic ani
mal.
The little girl lived four hours,
and died without regaining con
sciousness. She suffered a frac
tured skull and a crushed leg. The
boy injured a shoulder in his effort
to quiet the mule.
FITZGERALD, Ga., May 30.
Georgia Yam Curing Company, of
Atlanta, purchased an 800-acre farm
west of this city, where they will
raise Porto Rico potatoes for the
Northern markets. Modern curing
houses are to be erected by this com
pany, which already owns and oper
ates curing houses in Dublin, Metter,
Eastman, Barnesvi le and other
! South Georgia towns.
CHICAGO, 111., May 31.—The'
i Franks kidnaping murder mystery j
I has been solved. Two young men, j
both heirs to millions, students, neith
er of whim has been denied a single
luxury all his life, have confessed
that they kidnaped and brutally mur
dered little 13-year-old Robert
Franks, himself the heir to a $4,000,-
000 estate.
These young men are Nathan E.
Leopold, Jr., son of a multi-million
aire paper box manufacturer, and
Richard Loeb, son Albert Loeb, i
Multi-millionaire, vice president of j
Sears,Roebuck & Company. Both i
i are 19.
Their confessions came as the
startling climax of 10 days of inten
sive investigation.
MACON, Ga., June 1. —Express- 1
ing his conviction that unification of
the Methodist Episcopal Church and
the Methodist Episcopal Church,'
South, under the present proposed
plan of unification will, instead of,
promoting unity, bring about more '
irritation and trouble than ever be- 1
fore, Bishop Warren Akin Candler, of
Atlanta, senior bishop of the South- 1
ern Methodist Church, yesterday aft- j
ernoon answered various arguments
of clergy and laity who favor the
plan. He made a brilliant plea for
a c’oser walk with God rather than
“ a big organization that forgets its
God.”
ZEBULON, Ga., June 1., —Five
persons were killed outright and a
sixth, a small chi'd, was probably
fatally injured when a light touring
car in which they were riding was j
struck by the Southern Railway pas- 1
senger train No. 22, at a crossing
here this morning.
The dead are: Sam Stuart, 40;
Mrs. Sam Stuart, 32; Glenn Stuart,
12; Mrs. Clyde W. Hi’liard, 25; and
her eight-months-old baby, Lucile,!
all of Hampton, Ga.
Ronelle, two and a half year old
daughter of Mrs. Hilliard, is in an
Atlanta hospita 1 , and little hope is
entertained for her recovery.
The fatal crash occured in view
of Stuart’s brother and youngest son
and three other occupants of an auto
moble which had crossed the track
only a few seconds before the ill
fated car was hit by the fast passen
ger. The occupants of the first
car, dazed by their own narrow
escape, sought to warn the second
car of the impending danger, but did
not have sufficient time before the
train crashed into the car.
The car was thrown into bits and the
occupants were hurled high into the
air. Little Ronelle Hi’liard, still
conscious when picked up, was placed
on the train and hurried to Atlanta.
The bodies of the five victims also
were carried to Atlanta.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June I.
Ashes of the Hope Development
School for Subnormal Children at
P ata Del Rea, eighteen miles from
here, on the beach, today yielded the
burned remains of twenty-three per
sons as the results of a tragic fire last
night. j
Eighteen others, inmates of the
school, are in a serious condition at
St. Catharine’s Hospital at Santa
Monica, a few miles away. They are
aged from 4 to 48.
The three-story structure, reclaim
ed from an abandoned building, the
deserted pleasure resort town of
many years ago, was declared by in
vestigators to have been an isolated
| unprotected' fire trap. All that re
mains of it is a brick chimney, twist
ed iron pipes and ashes.
Thirty-eight children were housed
within the private institution when
flames burst out. In addition there
were in theb uilding the matron, Mrs.i
J. C. Thomas and Wilfred Ringer, 14-
year-old adpoted son of the proprie- 1
tor, Mrs. Mary E. Jacobs. The ma-i
tron and the boy perished.
PARIS, June I.—Raymond Poin- 1
care, who has held the premiership
of France for two and a half years,
tendered his resignation and that of
) his ministry to President Mi lerand
, today.
SWAINS BORO, Ga., June I.
Gov. Clifford Walker spoke to thru
; men’s Bib e class at the Baptist
Church this morning.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.
The new revenue law scheduled down
federal taxes to the lowest level
1 since the start of the war.
Individual income tax payers are
.given the greater relief although!
most of the remaining special war
excise taxes either are wiped off the
statutes or reduced.
A the same time the law creates
two new taxes —on gifts and Mah
Jong sets —and increases the rate of
■ taxes on estates and playing cards.
I Likewise the administrative pro
j visions are reviewed to p’ug gaps in
j the old law for tax evasions and
considerable additional revenue is
expected as a result.
The net reduction which is esti
mated the bill will make in govern
ment revenue for the next fiscal
year, beginning July 1, is $361,000,-
000, but the full effect of the tax
relief afforded will not be shown in
government receipts until the fol
j lowing year when it is estimated the
: reduction will amount to more than
1 $400,000,000.
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WASHINGTON, D. C. June 2.—-
' Approval was given by the Senate
I tonight to a constitutional ameijj
| ment which would empower the fed-,
I eral government to limit, regulate
or prohibit the labor of children un
der 18 years of age. It previously
, had been approved by the House
and now goes to the states for rati
fication.
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i METTER, Ga., June 2. —M. H.
Williams, who was suspended from
i the office of County School Super
| intendent of Candler county, has been
reinstated to office, after being given
a hearing before the State Board of
Education in Atlanta.
Mr. Williams was suspended from
! the duties of the office on Feb. 18,
by State School Superintendent N.
H. Ballard by telegram. In his tele
gram Mr. Ballard did not state his
i reasons for the suspension but com
manded that it be made effective
immediately.
i WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.-#
Thi s year’s cotton crop began the
j season with the lowest condition with
the exception of 1920, since the
keeping of condition reords was be
gun fifty-three years ago.
j In its first report of the season to
; day the Department of Agriculture
placed the condition on May 25 as
65.6 per cent, of a normal. In 1920
it was 62.4 per cent, of a normal on
the same date. The condition this
year is 7.2 per cent, below the aver- I
age condition on that date in the last
ten years.
The condition of the cotton crop
May 25 was 65. 6 per ent. of normal,
compared with 71 a year ago, 69.9
in 1922, 66 in 1921 and 72.8, the av
erage of the last ten years ,jpn May
25, the Department of Agriulture
announced today in the first report
of the season.
Cleveland, 0., June 3.—One
week from the day the Republician
national convention assembles for
business, everything has practically
yeen settled with the exception of
finding a nominee for the vice pres
idency.
It is a situation without a paral
el since 1904 when the Republicians *
marched to Chicago and nominated
Theodore Roosevelt by acclamation.
Inasmuch as no arrangements have
been made to place Senator Hiram
Johnson of California in nomination
for the presidency, there is no doubt
I that President Coolidge cou’d be
chosen by acclamation were if not
for the presentation of the name of
Senator La Follete by the
delegation.
1 ATLANTA. Ga., June 3.—The cot
ton crop in Georgia on May 25, last,
was somewhat better than last year,
but still very much below the average
according to a report issued today
by the Georgia Co-operative Crop
Reporting Bureau, which placed the
j condition of the staple crop for the
state up to that date at 68 per cent,
of norma'.
1 On May 25, last year, the report
| stated, the condition in Georgia was
65 per cent.; in 1922 it was 71 per
i cent.; in 1921, 63 per cent., and the
i average for the last ten years 72 per
cent.
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