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Reporter's Story td Close French Penal Colony, World's Worst Prison
DEVIL'S ISLAND
SETTLEMENT
WILL GO
PARlS—Devil's Island I* to be
worthy of Ita mm? no more.
St. Joseph * Isyand I* to cease to
be a hell on earth. *
The forest road from Cayenne In
THEM
Al. G. FIELD MINSTREL COMING TO THE
IMPERIAL TUESDAY, MATINEE AND NIGHT
Scat Sale OpOfis Saturday
Popularity goes hand In hand'
with an Al. G. field Minstrel show,
and such will bo the case when the
38th Annual Edition comes to the
Imperial matinee and night Tuoa
rtay. Field Minstrel* have never
presented a better minstrel show to
the American public than this
year's production, which Is two and
one-half hours of constant enter
tainment.
Some of the most popular songs
are: “Mother, O My Mother," by
.lack Rlchnrds: "The Htory of the
Hoeary," by Hilly Church; "There'e
■lust a Bit of Heaven In Your
Smile,” bv Price Jenkins; "West
of the Great Divide” by Loyd Otl
bart; "You Didn’t Care." by Dolf
Kastor; and "Roll On Silvery
Moon," by Ola Elwood. Jack Rich
ards and Billy Church have a med
ley that simply stops the show, and
testifies again to tha great popu
larity of these tenors. Bonl Mack,
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and Virility of Action
—Also—
"Wandering Wsstclins"
M#ek Sennett Comedy
IMPERIAL
MATINEE ANp NIQHT
TUESDAY
AL.6.FIELD
MINSTRELS
oldest
biggest
BEST
SEAT SALE SATURDAY
PRICES: Mat 50c. 75c,'*1. *1.50
Nits 50c to *2.00
Jimmie Hodge*’ Musical Ccmedy to present “AU Abcard ter Cuba’’ at Farewell en
gagement. at Modieska Todi*y, Matinee and Night
Crench Guiana Into tho Interior is
no longer to be the route of lost
souls and tortured bodies.
The French colonial penal settle
ment* In South America are to be
wiped out by Premier Herrlot and
his cabinet/
But this reform Is not due to the
speeches and campaigns of human
itarians and reformers. It Is not due
to statesmen. It Is the work of an
ordinary, hard-working French
newspaper reporter, Albert Londrcs.
VISITS PRISON
The French public had heard
about the penal settlements and
prisons In Guiana at the tlma of
the Dreyfus affair when the Frenoh
er my cap tain was brought back ffom
his cell on Devil's Island. But many
ae tho female Impersonator, hae
several clever acts, and Leslie Ber
ry makes a hit as the Interlocutor.
Billy Doran, the terpslchoroan
master, with his brother Leo, mnjre
the dancing a real delight. They
have several eccentric and unusual
numbers, and aleo a tulip dance
that Is a marvel for grace and
rhythm. Nick llufTord, premier
black face comedian, make* tho
comedy an Important part of the
show, and hi* copartners arn Harry
Harry Frankel, Jack Ken
nedy and Johnny Hoaly.
Tha costumes and wardrobe arc
more colorful and gay thnn ever
bofof*. There are over fifty In the
oast end a sixteen piece oroheatra.
and at the finale as at the opening,
the entire company le on the stag*.
Mall orders should be eent in ad
vance In order to avoid waiting in
line and possible disappointment.
Seat* go on enlg Saturday.
Farewell
Performance
TO-DAY
Mat. • P.M. Nile 1:30 P.M.
Jimmy
Hodges
(Himself)
—In—
“All Aboard
For Cuba"
Thla la poaltivety the last
two performance*
SEATS NOW SEI.UNU
IMPERIAL
LAST
DAY
Bebe
Daniels
and
Richard
Dix
- lu—
■“SINNERS
- In—
HEAVEN”
people thought much of thle was
exaggerated, the exaggeration to bo
expected In any campaign* And then
Guiana was forgotten again by all
except those French families whose
aons were deported there.
Londrea gave himself the assign
ment to go to Guiana and aee things
for himself. What he saw and heard
exceeded In terror and horror the
picture Dante drew of Hades.
In 60 years nearly 60,000 prison
ers have been sent to Guiana. Thou-
Hands have died there.
"LIBERTY" 13 NOT
LIBERTY
The ordinary French Juror doesn't
know what he Is doing when he de
crees for a convicted man Imprison
ment of from five to seven years,
Such a sentence mean* Guiana. And
when the man has finished his
punishment, It begins nil over again
because he Is compelled to remain
in Guiana for a period equal to his
prison term.
If his sentence has been for over
seven year* the prisoner Is com
pelled to remain there forever.
Theoretically the liberated prison
er le to become a colonist. Actually
he Is a hopeless outcast.
Now he almost starves. In prison,
at least, he got some food
Now he 1* almost naked. Tn prison
he, at least, got some rags with
which to cloth* himself.
Now he sleeps on the sidewalks.
In prison, be at least ha’d n cell.
Londrea saw convict after convict
who had tattooed on hie body sent
ences expressing utter despaltY One
had across hie chest:
“The I’ast betrayed me.
"The Present torments me.
"The Future frighten* me."
He visited the heart of the forest
where presumably the convicts are
building a road through the jungle
i and swamps where It rain* almost
all the year round. This road was
; started 60 years ago. Fifteen miles
I have been built.
The convict* come back from
| work on the road shaking and
; shivering with chills and fever, eat
en by swarms of mosquitoes and
other swamp Insecta. Quinine Is a
| treat for which they beg. Londres
j nummed up tho verdict of decent
men thus:
“THE DRY GUILLOTINE’’
“Forced from criminals? Tea.
"But forced dlaeaae for them?
No! I”
Then he telle about, the three
emull rooky Islands off the const
of Guiana, mockingly named ‘Tiles
du Halut.” These Islands are Ht.
.Toeeph’e Royal and Devil's. The con.
vlcts call them the “dry guillotine.”
They are the ultimate pulehmtnt
for the lncorrlglbles. Here men are
caged like wild beasts, without the
comforts given even to wild beasts.
They spend 20 days In utter dark
ness, then 10 duys in sgznl-darkness;
then 20 darkness, and so on.
Th« prisoners rnn't stnnd full
light. It would blind them They are
alone with a plank to sleep on, fet
tered at night -and 3llencc.
Thire are men who have had as
high as 2.000 days of this.
All h'R experiences were gathered
up In a book “Au Bagnc”, which
has sold by thousands.
Harriot read it nnd was shocked.
Ho has decreed the end of It. Rut
even now there arty politicians who
say rarliament must act first nnd
who favor tho rotontlon of this
prlsorf’Kystem.
Rut Herrlot Is confident he has
the power to do nwny with this
disgraceful settlement. No more
prisoners will bo sent to tlulnna.
They will he kept In prisons at
home.
The only problem Is what to do
with the men already at Guiana.
There ore 4.500 convicts In prison
there and 2,500 "liberated” ones, but
still In exile. To bring them hack
to Franco would cost a big sum of
money. The most favored propqgal
Is to mitigate the sufferings of those
now there, hut to keep them there.
By nnd by, when they die out, the
ttrlson settlement will itself die out,
never to ho renewed
ZR‘3 Is Expected
to Leave For U. S.
on Bth of October
FIUKDRICHS HAVEN. —(By the
Associated Frees.) —Dr. Hugo Eck
oner, director of the Zeppelin Com
pany. Wednesday announced that he
expected that the giant dirigible
Zll-3 would leave here on her
trans-Atlantic flight to I.nkehurst,
N. J.. early on the morning of Oc
obor *.
lie eaM he believed the airship
would arrive at her destination the
night of October 10 <>r early tho fol
lowing day, depending on wind and
weather conditions
The Zeppelin director explained
that the date of the departure had
boon changed from Or ober 6, the
one originally announced, because of
the necessity of making slight al
terations In the motors.
MANY AUGUSTANS
At a meeting of the J'resident's
Club held at the rooms of the Board
of Commerce Wednesday morning It
was derided to rail to the attention of
the Civic bodlep to the tnvltattnn from
the Wilkes Bounty Fair Association
to Augwtnna to attend the fair at
Washington on October sth. the day
to l>e known as Augusta-Athens Day.
The club agreed to sec that Au
gusta Is represented on this day. and
cars leaving here for Washington im
that day will assemble at Jackson nnd
itreene streets. Wednesday, October
Sth at 9 o'clock a m,
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
STATE RESTS IN !
MURDER CASE !
AT CONWAY, S. C.
Continued from Page 1
lon on the will 1* announced.
Two state's wltm ssc* Tuesday !
swore that Edmund It. Big ham hat 1 . ‘
In hla possession the pearl-han
dled pistol, which was found In
timlloy Bigham's right hand on the
day following the tragedy, during
the night after Mrs. lilgham, Mr*.
Black and the two children had
been found shot to death and sev
eral hours before Hmllf y’« body was
located In a clump of trees about
a half-mile from the Bighorn home.
They were Macro Cox, of Rock Hill
and John W. McCracken, who Halil
he was "supposed to be the father"
of the slain children. Both testified
they spent the night of tho tragedy
at hie BJgham homo near Pompllco,
In Florence county, with the de
fendant, members of his family and
several neighbors who came to sit
up with tho dead.
BAYB FOOTPRINTS
LED TO SCENE.
D. H. Williams, a farmer living
near the Blgham home, told of ob
serving footprints loading from the
scene of the tragic occurrence in
tho direction of the spot where
Hmllcy Bigham's body was located
early on the morning following the
killing, several hours before the
finding of the body In the grove of
trees. Cox and McCracken had
sworn that the defendant left his
house early that day and was gone
for approximately thirty minuted
without saying where he had been.
A tangled story of the Blgham
fumlly financial transaction* was
related on the stajid by R. A. Black,
widower of Mrs. Margie Black, and
J. Bogan Coin, of Florence, broth
ers-ln-law of the defendant. Cain,
whose wife, now dead, was Leatheu
Blgham, testified that when she
died In February. 1920, about eleven
month* before the tragedy , that
flvo-*lxth of the Blgham land, esti
mated to be one thousand acres,
valued at 876,000, was In her name
and the remaining one-sixth In the
name of Mr*. Black. Deed* to the
two women were mad* out, Black
tesltlfled, because Mr*. M. M. Blg
ham and Hmlley were on the bond
of Dr. Grover Cleveland Blgham,
another brother of the defendant
Dr. Blgham, according to the re
cords, was convicted of the murder
of hi* wife In Georgetown county
several years ago, but appealed and
was released on bond pending a
hearing. It was this bond that his
mother and Smiley were on. The
rercodH eliow that the physician,
jumped his bond and eo far ns Is
known, he has not been heard from
wince his disappearance. It was In
dicated In Black's testimony that
tho transfer of the Blgham property
was made In order to avoid pay
ment of the bond.
After Mrs. Cain’* death, her hus
band testified, Edmund came to him
and sought to buy hi* Interest In
the estate, saying he was acting for
his mother. The deal wa* not clos
ed. however, and luter Mrs. Blg
ham. Smiley and Mr*. Black en
gaged counsel to get the estate Bet
tied. It was developed that Attor
ney Arrowemlth was by
the Blgham* for this purpose. Cain
testified that It was understood that
Edmund 1). Blgham hod already re
ceived his share of the estate some
15 or 1* years ago.
Both Rlnrk anjj Cain testified that
they had been paid for their part
of the estate since tho l’ampllco\
tragedy on January 13. 1921. Cain
said that he understood thnt A. L
King, of the defense counsel In tho
present case, had acted for the e*
tate In making settlement.
BROOKHART ASKS
FOR RESIGNATION
OF CHAS. DAWES
Continued From Fag* Ons
favor adds color to the general
claim that his own advertised finan
cial ability pi only u bluff and that
ho acts as the agent of Interna
tional banking powers. The fur
ther defense that all bankers are
doing the same thing Is resented
even by the bankers themselves.
■Tnder the false pretense of
loyalty he has organized a disloyal
group to conduct an Illegal defense
of the constitution of the United
Htntes with the secret purpose of
destroying the constitutional rights
of union labor, while the Pure Oil
t’ompany In which ho Is Interested.
Is being sued by the government
for violation of the criminal few.
11c Is an Insult to the whole labor
ing Vorld, nnd his sinister designs
are so well known that he will cer
tainly lose the whole labor vote.
"In addition to all this his most
dangerous and offensive act In this
campaign Is his insult to the co
operative movement In agriculture.
He has braienly denounced as
demagogues and hypocrites all those
who favor and speak for the in
crease In the price of beef on the
hoof and the decrease of its price
on the tHble. This amazing state- 1
ment shows a profound ignorance,
of the whole co-operative idea.
“A Joint committee of congress
Investigating this subject found
that out of the dollar which the j
laboring man pays for the products
of the farm, the farmer only gets
ST cents. Even this report ts prnb- '
ably whitewashed, and If the exact
focts could be known the farmer
probably gets less than 15 cents, j
hut whatever the exact figures may
he every farm organizer In the
Vnlted States and e\cry co-opera
tive organizer in the United States
is teaching the doctrine that this
enormous expense of distribution
ts unjust and Is taken from both
the producer and the consumer In
excess profits. These enme organ- i
ltatlons teach that co-operation In
credit. In prcceeslng and In distri
bution of farm products will in
crease the share of the farmer In
this dollar to something like 50
cents and at the same time decrease
the cost to the labor ng man eome
thlng like 10 cents r IS cents in
each dollar. They hack up these
conclusions bv citing Instances all
-vr-r- ibe world whet# co-operation
has ncmivliv accomp' shed these re
sults In the face cf all this Dawes
Insults them and stamps himself as
the emphatic representative of the
profiteering class tint prsys upon
both fanner and labor.
"For these rearer s t desire to
renusst that the na nnnl Republi
can committee take -teps to secure
the resignation of Mr Danes as
Republican candidate for the v Ice
n*e»ldsncy. Tn hi* stead there
should he (selected a farm Woe
candidate not an ‘Tiltatlon farm
Wooer hut one of the fighting
tvpe Ilk" Senator Norris, of Ne
braska. In whom the farmers have
the utmost confidence."
FLAN LEAVES NO
LOOPHOLES, SAYS
GENERAL REPORT
(Continued from I'sge One.)
was received with npp'ause when
he announced that France adhered
fully to the protocol and wus ready
to sign It.
"When the man in the pmcc.
h-ars tonight” M. Brland continued
"tHft,t the nations have solemnly
promised to make war on war, there
will be a great moment! of relief
and satisfaction.”
M. Brland referred feelingly to
hsl war-time premiership and ask
ed how he could have imagined at
the time the battle of Verdun was
being waged that he would hs upen
the roKtrum of tho league a few
years later welcoming a svstem of
peace built up within the snort
space of a month.
He spurned the notion that
France was lnc’lncd toward mili
tarism and painted a word picture
of “the true France" which provok
ed an outburst of applause.
FrarTCe he said, had armed hjrsclf
to defend the principles of the
French t -volution In form >r days
and to % fend herself In the last
war” bu. she does not hesttaio to
col'aborate In the league's work for
peace and disarmament.”
Iteferlng again to the protocol.
M. Brland said:
"Whatever scoffers may say, tl <y
will find It a really serious obstacle
against war." He then stressed the
advantages of the checks delay*
contained In the tfrotoco!, Which
wou'il give time for dissipating that
mystic atmosphere in which wars
are begotten."
GAIN IN EARNINGS
BY GAS CONCERN
OF TEN PER CENT
The Gas Light Company of Augusta,
conducted by Sanderson &. Porter,
New York engineers operating fc># the
Southern Gas & Power Corporation
announce* that the earnings of the
parent concern shows an Increase In
earnings for this year of 10 per cent
over last year. This Is attributed to
the more progressive management
and the aystem Instituted by the ope
s ANNOUNCEMENT =■
Southern Stock Buyers Have Bought in Bulk The
Entire Stock of Men’s Suits and Hats
New Fall Styles
Store Rented—
ONLY
3 DAYS.
If You Can Wear Any of The Above Sizes—You Can
Save up to $2 5.00 on a Suit.
a, SOUTHERN STOCK OUTERS
rating engineers since the Boutliern
Gas & Power Corporation took it over
the ftr.,t of this year.
Nearly 1200,0«0 hae been spent by
the parent organization during 1924
i n Improvements in their properties,
and further extensions and Improve
ments are. said to be contemplated.
The Augusta property Is considered
1 among the company's moet valuable
holdings. Plants are operated, be
rides at Augusta. In the following
places: Concord. N C.; Oestonla. N.
C : Bluefkld, W. Va„ and Suffolk,
Va. -
The August* branch ts offering an
ksue of 7!4 per cent stock for sale to
local people, In an effort to arouse a
greater interest here in the develop
— ent and the conduct of the com
pany. \
Teh Ga* Light Company Of Au
gusta, according to Manager F. L.
Marshall. Is extending it* nest efforts
to give the highest possible claes of
service here. Great progress ha* also
All Red Arrow
Gasoline Stations
Announce a Reduction of
3c Per Gallon
Price Now 20c
Peoples Oil Company
H. C. BOARDMAN’S SONS, Owners.
AT
978 BROAD
At a Ridiculously Low Price.
We have until Saturday Night to
Dispose of Same—New Firm
Has Rented Store.
-We Offer
Any New Fall Suit
At The
One Price
beenn oted In the matter of en
couraging the use of modern gas ap
pliances In August*.
No Evidence of
“Corruption” In Pa.
Given, Says Stone
WASHINGTON. Official* of the
law enforcement league of Fhiladel-*
phla failed to present evidence of po
litical corruption among federal or-
Ureholders In Pennsylvania In their
conference Wednesday with Attorney
General Stone. It was announced at
the department of justice.
The attorney general said there
wes "not even a suggestion of such
evidence." The conference was ar
ranged after President Coolidge had
15-
ONLY 131 SUITS LEFT
SIZES AS FOLLOWS :
EIGHTEEN SUITS, SIZES 33.
THIRTEEN SUITS, SIZE 34.
NINETEEN SUITS, SIZES 35.
TWENTY EIGHT SUITS, SIZE 36.
SEVENTEEN SUITS, SIZE 38.
NINE SUITS, SIZE 40. "
THIRTEEN SUITS, SIZE 42.
EIGHT SUITS, SIZE 44.
SIX SUITS, SIZE 46.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER T
transmitted to Mr. Stone * complaint
filed by the league.
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