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ATLANTA, Ga., June 4. —At a
meeting Wednesday morning of the
state historical commission, Dr. Lu
cian Lamar Knoght, state historian
arid director of the department of ar
chives and history, tendered his res
ignation, to go into affect Jan. l f|
1925, and recommended that
first assistant, Miss Ruth Blair, be
appointed to succeed him. The com
mittee accepted the resignation with
expressions of “sincerest regret,”
but did not act on a successor.
Dr. Knight has held the position
since the department was created,
nearly twelve years ago. In his let
ter of resignation he reviews the
work of the department and declares
that it is now securely entrenched in
the affections of the public and its,
work recognized a’l over the country, i
He stated that he had held tbe posi-j
tion at a financial sacrefice to him- 1
self, because of his ambition to pre- ]
serve the state’s history. He added |
that he has gathered nearly 350,000
separate documents and manuscripts.
ATLANTA, Ga., June 4. —W. M.
Jackson, 37, of this city, shot and
perhaps fatally wounded his wife
early tonight and then sent a bullet
crashing through his head that in
stantly kil'ed him. The tragedy oc
curred in a garage on the outskirts
of the city and was witnessed by Cliff
Morgan, a fellow worker of Jackson’s
Domestic trouble is understood to be
the cause of the shooting.
The couple has seven children,
two small sons and five daughters.
Morgan, the only eyewitness of
the shooting, fled when Jackson shot
his wife and the prostrate forms of
the two peop’e were later found by
Greer Martin, another employe of
the garage. Morgan later declared
to police that Jackson opened fire
without warning.
The woman was rushed to a local
hospital, physicians states that she
has only a slight chance to recover.
Loss of blood en route to the hospital
contributes to the danger of her
dying, physicians state.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 4.
The Muscle Shoa's issue, which has
been the center of a bitter fight dur
ing the entire session of Congress,
will not be settled until next Decem
ber. Supporters of Henry Ford’s bid
faced with overwhelming odds, to
day withdrew from their stand of de
manding a vote at this session of
Congress and submitted to an agree
ment to allow the question to go over
to the next session.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 4.
Senator Robert M. La Follette will
not be formal y placed in nomination
as a presidential candidate at the
Republician convention at Cleveland,
it was declared definitely today by
his supporters.
Under present plans it is under
stood he will receive with nomination
the vote of the Wisconsin delegates
with one exception, and that the del
egates supporting him will bring in
his platform to be offered as a sub
stitute for that presented by sup
porters of President Coolidge.
When the La Follette platform is
voted down, his supporters wi 1 re
main in the convention, but will re
fuse to make the nomination of
President Collidge unan : mous.
Having sat out tho C'eveiand con
vention, the supporters of the Wis
consin senator are expected actively
to begin to promote his campaign as
an independent candidate for the
presidency.
Y’IDALIA, Ga., June 4.—The first
car of dewberries of this season’s
crop was shipped from this place,
the car having been loaded to max
imum for the best refrigeration by
the local growers.
The berries were of the Lucretia
variety and were in the best condition
to make the long trip to New York,
having been matured in ideal weath
er, without too much rain and having
been all of local growth and loaded
within a few hours after being pick
ed.
The market this season is consider
ed good by the Dewberry Grower's
Association, express shipments hav
ing been yielding about $8 per crate
of 32 quarts in near markets. It is
thought that the big shipment of last
night to the East should bring colse
to sl2 as quotations received have
been 40 to 50 cents per basket.
It is thought that with continued
good weather, a car can be loaded
fcere every other day throughout tin
season and another car has been or
dered for loading tomorrow.
STILLMORE, Ga., June 4.—Gov.
Cliffod Waker, accompained by Hon
J. Leonard Rountree, one of Eman
-1 uel’s representatives, spent a short
while in Stillmore shaking hands with
1 friends. Gov. Walker made the lit
-1 erary address at the graduating ex
-1 exercises of the Metter High School
where an unsually large crowd was
'present to hear him. Tonight Gov.'
I Walker delivered the literary address
>at the graduating exercises of the
Emanuel County Institute, at Gray
mont-Summit. Gov. Walker has a
large number of friends in this coun
ty, having carried the county easily
in the last race for Governor.
DUBLIN, Ga., June 5.—C. E. i
Thomas died here today from wounds
made on his head when a Umber
“dog” slipped out on a log he was
I “snaking.” He was at work near the
mill of O. J. Bender, seven miles from
Irwinton, in Wilkinson County, and
after getting medical aid in Irwinton
he was rushed to a hospital in Dublin
in hope that his life could be saved.
He reached Dublin too late, however, I
to be benefited and died within an j
hour after getting to the hospital.
His skull was crushed so badly noth
ing could be done for him. Accord
ing to the men who brought Thomas
here, he was working by himse’f and
no one saw him get hurt. He was
found in about fifteen minutes, it is
estimated, after the blow was struck,
and he was never able to talk enough
to say what happened to him. He
was about 30 years of age and leaves |
a wife and four children.
CHICAGO., 111., June s.—The |
grand jury hearing evidence against
Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard |
Loeb. millionairess’ sons and confes
sed kidnapers and slayers of Robert
Franks, schoolboy son of another
Chicago mi’lionaire, was reported to
have voted true bills tonight against
each youth, charging murder and
kidnaping for ransom, each crime
punishable by death.
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LONDON, June s.—An experimen
tal crop of cotton grown in the Doug
las district of South Africa has pro
duced 120 pounds per acre, maturing
in five month as compared with the
seven months required in America, I
according to the Daily Mail’s corres
pondent in Capetown, South r \^ r ’ ca >
he adds, now has hopes of soon be
coming one of the world’s cotton pro
ducing countries.
GRAY, Ga., June 6.—Funeral ser-,
vices were held here Thursday after
noon for the aged victim of Jarrett
Benford and Wade Johnson, Milledge
vi’le youths held in the Bibb County
Jail awaiting execution for the crime.
They were convicted of criminal as- j
sauit.
The assault occurred the night of
May 17, and the elderly woman, who
wa s F 2 years old at the time, has
been critically ill since that time, 1
gradually growing worse dai’y.
Judge J. B. Park, of the Ocmulgee
circuit, has fixed June 16 to hear a
motion for a new trial. He will sit
in a special term that day at Eaton
ton.
THOMASVILLE, Ga., June 6.
An election for ‘fence or no fence’
for Thomas County has been called
for July 2. This election will prob
ably be a hard fought one, as the ori
ginal petition for the election was
attacked by a counter one, causing
the petitioners to get busy and get a
number more to sign it.
There are many who feel that a
“no fence” law will be the best so
lution of the tick problem that has
caused and is still causing, so much
trouble to cattle owners. That there
are farmers who oppose it and will
work against it is shown by the num
ger of names signed to the counter
petition, but the advocates of it are
preparing to put up a hard fight to
carry it.
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 6.—Savan-
I nah citizens, many of them not mena
j bers of the T. P. A., but friends of
Albert Ehrlich, began preparations
today to accord him a great demon
strative welcome when he returns in
a few days from Grand Rapids, where
Ihe wa s elected president of the na
tional traveling men’s organization,
, receiving the votes of twenty-four of
the twenty-eight states represented
j solidly.
ROCHELLE, Ga., June 6.—Mrs.
, Edwin C. Sett’e, of Rochelle, was
probably fatally injured and several
other persons seriously hurt at 3:50
o’clock this afternoon when a west
bound Seaboard extra freight train
ran into a Hudson speedster at the
crossing just East of the Rochelle de
THE LYONS PROGRESS, LYONS, GEORGIA.
pot. All the injured were carried to
Plain in a private parlor car.
The injured:
Mrs. Roy Mil'igan, of Thomson,
Ga.; Mrs. S. J. Brown, of Rhine; two
of Mrs. Brown’s children, both small
and a child of Mrs. Milligan.
Mrs. Milligan’s baby was badly cut
about the head, and Mrs. Brown and
her children were cut and bruised.
Mrs. Milligan was driving the car.
I Mrs. Brown arid Mrs. Milligan are
visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
' Edwin Settles.
SYLVESTER, Ga., June 6.—The
.radius road breaking, the Ford tour
, ing car driven by G. C. Wollard turn
,ed turtle at a curve in front of the
home of C. H. Strangward, two miles
north of Sylvester, about 4 o’clock
this afternoon and all of the occu
pants of the car were pined beneath
it where they remained for about ten
j minutes unitl assistance reached
them.
Woolard escaped with slight bruises
while his wife suffered a broken co!-
I lar bone. Mrs. Gilbert M. Pinson
i has a broken ankle and her daughter,
| Miss Agnes Pinson, is suffering se
i verly with her back.
| Mrs. Pinson and her daughter have
I been rushed to the hospital in Al
bany.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., June 6.
Late reports from the Loomis Col
liery of the Glen Alden Coal Com
pany are effect that nineteen
meen lost their lives in the explosion
' there today. Forty-two miners were
j in this section of the mine where the
disaster occurred and some of them
j are said to be entombed.
Glen Alden officials refuse to give
1 any information.
Ten men are known to be dead
' and five seriously injured as a re
sult of the explosion. The dead and
injured have been removed from the
mine. Rescue parties are still
searching in the workings.
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CHICAGO, June 6.—lndictments
i in the second federal grand jury in-
I vestigation of the administration of
the United States Veterans’ Bureau,
under Co 1 . Charles R. Forbes, its for
mer director, are reported to have
been returned yesterday and sup
pressed.
John W. H. Crum, assistant attor
j ney, general, who conducted both in
, to divulge how
, many indictments or what number of
persons had been named.
There were reports that one or
more persons not named in the
I previous indictments were involved
in the latest grand jury report, but
this could not be confirmed. A wo
| man’s testimony in the case was said
to have been given particular atten
tion hy the present grand jurors, who
, began their investigation Monday.
j WASHINGTON, June 6.—A treaty
, designed to suppress smuggling of
liquor and narcotics across the Cana
! d an boundary was signed here today
|by representatives of the American
i and Candian governments. The agree
ment, which has been under negotia
tion for several months, was signed
for the Unitel States by Secretary
Hughes, and for Canada by Ernest
LaPointe, the Candian minister of
Justice.
The ground work for the treaty
' was worked out at the Ottawa con
ference, participated in by represen
■ j tatives of the Treasury and State De
s partments and by officials of the
> Candain departments concerned with
1 : enforcement of the liquor and nar-
I cotic laws. Officials here expect it
1 , to result in a marked improvement
■ | in conditions along the border where
5 . many cases of smugging have been
* j reported.
! j The convention is to take effect
1 ten days after the exchange of rati
* fications and to remain in force for
r one year with termination thereafter
- on thirty days notice.
JESUP. Ga., June 7.—The work
on the Jesup Methodist Church edi
-(fice is progressing rapidly and when
-(Completed will be thoroughly modern
f in all its appointments.
* This being the first brick church
- to be erected in Jesup, the enterprise
i is one of unusual interest.
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-! WASHINGTON, D. C., June 7.
, Last night the Senate passed the bill
f of Representative Larsen, which
I had been passed by the House earlier
jin the day, to authorize the state
| highway commission of Georgia to
construct a bridge across the Oconee
! river, near where the Johnson and
I Washington county lines touch that
1 stream. The measure is now in
the hands of the President for his
signature. This bridge is an impor
tant link in the “Bee Line” highway
between Savannah and Macon. ]
AMERICUS, Ga., June 7. —In-
j formed by officials of the state tax
' department that there exist in Sum
ter county 12,500 acres that do not
appear up on the county tax digest,
the board of tax assessors here is
j searching closely to discover these
properties and restore every acre to
the digest, at a reasonable valuation.
Already it has been found that
something like 3,000 acres of the
missing land are embraced within the
limits of incorporated towns in the
county, and have been properly re
turned as city property. However,
there remains nearly 10,000 acres on
■ which it is said no taxes have been
paid during many years. Every tax
payer in the county who has not al
ready done so will be required to re
turn his lands for taxation by land
' lot and district numbers, and before
the assessors conclude their labors,
returns from each district will be
checked against the actual number
j acres lying therein, and proper as
sessments required.
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BRUNSWICK, Ga., June 7.—Ac
cording to information from Senator
Harris to Mayor McKinnon, the
United States navy will be represent
ed at Brunswick on July 11 at the
! opening of the St. Simons Island
j highway. Efforts are being made
j to procure the attendance of airships
1 and planes of different styles, and
! Con; ressman Lankford and Senator
i Harris are doing a‘l they can to aid
! the ! cals to accomplish this.
| A -bore dinner and pageant de
' pic' t, the history of Glynn county
1 foi : voral centuries are planned.
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TOKIO, June 7.—Ruffians broke
up t’ c Saturday night dance at the
j Impi I hotel tonight, which was at
tended by many members of the
| foreign community, with a demon
stration opposition to the exclus
ion clause of the new American im
migration law.
Entering when the dance was at
its he : ght, a band of 30 ronin, which
translated means “politica 1 ruffians”
! took possession of the dance floor
and made a number of bitter and
profane anti-American speeches,
which they punctuated by dances
With naked swords drawn. Two
American women fainted.
The police made no move to end
’ the demonstration. According to re
liable information they had known of
the plans for it since 3 o’clock this
afternoon. It is learned from au
thoritative Japanese sources friendly
to America that tonight’s demonstra
tion is only part of a larger affair
: which had been planned with the in
! tention of evicting al’l Americans
from the country.
LaGRANGE, Ga., June 7.—Four
LaGrange boys were injured Friday
i night when their automobile, said to
have been traveling at high speed,
1 ran into, a pole and was wrecked.
One of the sufferers crawled several
hundreds yards to summan assist
ance.
J. W. Dorsey’s leg was broken,
Will McCleton suffered internal in
; juries, Pat Bonowitch’s leg was bro
ken in three places, and Leon Daniel,
who was driving the machine, was
bruised severe’ y.
WASHINGTON, June 7.—Senator
William J. Harris, of Georgia, today
, indirectly announced his candidacy
for re-elction by sending the requir
ed entry fee of $250 to the Demo
cratic state executive committee, in
Atlanta.
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PARIS, June 7.—For the first time
: a valuable breeding horse was ship
' ped by airplane today. The animal
' was placed in crate to be flown to
' Amsterdam.
; NEW ORLEANS, June B.—With
• the issuance last Monday of the gov
' ernment’s frist condition report of
' the season showing an average of
65.6 per cent, the lowest May 25 con
dition, but one, on record, the ad
: vance in cotton prices which has been
• in progress for some time terminated
i Right after the government’s condi
i tion was made public October deliv
eries buldged to 26.70 but this ad
i vance brought out heavy relizing.
s; As a result of this liquidation and
in addition more or less short selling
by those who baTieved that the
•, weather had recently improved suf
-1 j ficiently to enable the crop to im
i prove to some extent, prices eased
I off from the peak of the recent ad
vance of more than a cent and a half
a pound.
LUDOWICI, Ga., June B.—When
j President Coi'idge delivers the diplo
ma.< the graduation exercises of
the 125th annual commencement of
Georgetown University, Washingotn,
' D. C., Monday evening, John L. Cbap-
J man Jr., of this place will receive his i
LL. D. degree. Young Chapman is
well known here and the announce
ment will be of interest to his many
friends. He is the eldest so of Mr.
and Mrs. John Chapman and is a
graduate of the Ludow'ici High
School. After being graduated from
this school he took up the study of
law at Mercer University, Macon,
!ater going to Washington, where he
entered Georgetown University.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June B.
Prewar interests rates appeared on
government securities today with the
announcement by the treasury of its
June fiscal program.
The operation includes an issue of
$150,000,000 in certificates of in
debtedness and indicates a cut in the
public debt of $350,000,000.
The new certificates will bear in
terest at 2 3-4 per cent., the lowest
rate this government has paid in any
of its War or post-war financing and
probably lower than that of any gov
ernment during the period since the
World War opened in 1914. The is- j
sue is dated June 15 and matures
next Dec. 15.
Next in importance to the low in
terest rate and the cut i* l the nation
al debt is the indication given by the
announcement of the treasury’s sat
isfactory condition. While the low
interest reffects the easy money mar
ket and means the smallest outlay in
interest that the government has
born on borrowings since the Pana
ma canal issue, the small amount for
which it asks isr egarded as proof of
the strengthened position the treas
ury occupies.
BLACKSHEAR, Ga., June B.
Work on the third warehouse is pro
gressing rapidly under the industry of
the contractor, Mr. Pope. A party
from North Carolina was here last
week looking for a site for a fourth
warehouse. The usually good crops
in Pierce and neighboring counties,
and the famed qua'ity of the leaf
produced on Peirce county soil is at
tracting a large number of inves
tors from the old tobacco belt.
CLEVELAND, June B.—Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-
Saloon League, came to town today
bringing a federal law enforcement
plank which he will seek to have pt’ac
ed in the Republician party platform.
Mr. Wheeler will appear before the
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resolution committee in support of
his plank and announced that he was
also ready to oppose any attempt
that might be made to have a wet
plank incorporated.
The American Protective Tariff
League, headed by Wilbur F. Wake
man came out tonight indorsing the
present tariff law and urged the
adoption of the following tariff res
olution by the platform makers:
“The emergency tariff of 1921 and
the general tariff of 1922 rescued
over five million Aemrican citizens
from unemployment caused by Dem
cratic legislation and administration.
We emphatically indorse the present
tariff laws.
“We be’ieve that prosperity fol
lows the pay roll; we believe in the
full dinner pail; we blieve in ade
quate wages; we believe in adequate
returns on capital whether in the
farm, factory, mine, forest, ships, or
any productive enterprise.
“Our policy is that the republic
shal 1 do its own work by and througr
a permanent and adquate protective
| tariff.”
Platform declarations in favor of
mainatining a full treaty strength
navy and against any further reduct
ions in strength of the regular army
are understood to be for proposal to
the resolution committee. The pro
posed plank would deal with nation
al defense and is understood to have
the approval of Assistant Secretary
I Rooseveft of the Navy Department,
i and Senator Wadsworth of New York
both of whom reached here today.
MOULTRIE, Ga., June 9.—The
first cotton bloom of the 1924 cotton
crop was brought to Moultrie Satur
day by A. G. May, who farms in the
Berlin section. Mr. May declared
that he had the finest cotton crop he
has ever seen this date in June and
that by following the DeLoach sys
tem of calcium arsenate poisoning he
was keeping the weevil under con
trol. “(As a matter of fact,” Mr.
May asserted, “the early infestation
has been lighter than it has been any
season since the weevil made its ap
pearance in Southwest Georgia.” He
attributes this fact to the long, cold
winter and to the activity of army
worms which destroyed the green
stalks early last Fall, leaving the
weevils nothing to feed on.