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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
Railroads Interested.
Ale Equivalent Of -Four
Sheep for His Breakfast
Burdick Tells Congress How the Rails
er Is Squeezed in Market.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Agricul-
fmal interests OF. the country are IN
.SStlng that the unemployment con-
.gresS take up agrarian problems as
means OF lessening unemployment.
;. This demand was made today by
y; |. Burdick, of North Dakota, nam
ca by Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace to represent the 100000 farmers
81 the country. Mr.. Burdick was for
nneTly Lieutenant Governor of North
The immediate need of the farm
tTs Mr.. Burdick said, lis market
Jug one and congress cannot do bet
81 than work out system by which
94e spread between the consumer and
ne producer is lessened.
Wheat at Spokane sells for Is
IS bushel less than at Minneapo-
!: Every sheep west of the Mississip-
Z rlver is mortgaged for $500 more
man its market value. A sheep raiser
I I56a, the central west recently shipped
lI,uOO sheep to the Chicago market,
TTnere they netted him 81 cents each.
LsieT at a stockyards restaurant he
a dsd breakfast and found that in or
g%amg mutton chops he had eaten up
"e equivalent of four of his sheep"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
.HIGHWAYMEN ROB "A
STORE AND GAS TANK
THREE SOLDIERS, A CIVILIAN
AND SEVERAL WOMEN MADE
UP PARTY OF BANDITS.

LUMPKIN, GA load of men
and women, nine in all, in one car,
drove up to Brooklyn, in Stewart
county, late at night and went to sew
eral houses inquiring for place to
buy an inner tube. Not finding any
one willing to sell one on Sunday the
car went UP the road to Hollomon's
store and the occupants proceeded to
break in and help themselves to cas-
ings, tubes, candy, overalls, shirts, etc.
Shortly after this happened a Brook
lvn resident came along on his way
home. and seeing the store window
open told Mr.. Hollomon, the proprie-
tor, who investigated and discovered
the robbery.
Mr.. Hollomon Immediately follow
ed the car to Columbus, and found it
in a garage near the Union depot with
one of his castings on it, and another
one hanging on the rear of the car.
Inquiries showed the car belonged to
Sergeant Carl Freeman, of Camp Ben
ming.
This soldier was brought to Lump
kin next day by Sheriff Johnston and
lodged IN jail 10 await trldl dl tHS ~
tober court. In the meantime Mr.. Hol-
lomon got busy and found another
member of the robber gang, and he
was jailed in the silent hours OF the
night.
This last member, Doris Garden,
only nineteen and farmer boy, con
fessed, and the sergeant admitted his
guilt.
Nothing is left now but to catch the
women, which will. probably occur
shortly, and one more band OF rob
bers will be put out of business.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
MADE SANDWICHES
OF HUMAN FLESH
GERMAN KILLED. NEARLY &c
GIRLS AND SOLD THEIR
FLESH FOR FOOD.

Herman Grossman, of Berlin, Ger
many has confessed to Staying nearly
20 persons, mostly girls and young wo-
men, cutting up their bodies and sell
ing. their flesh in sandwiches. Admit
ting his cannibalistic tendencies, Gross
man said the sight of blood acted on
him the same as liquors and drugs act
on other men.
.Grossman's crimes extended over a
period of many years. He lived in a
filthy shanty, where he enticeda his
young victims, and, after various forms
of abuse and torture, he killed them
and prepared their flesh into sausage
or as filters for sandwiches, which he
peddled as veal about the railway
stations of Berlin.
Invited Friends to Feast.
Grossman was host at one time, re-
Gently, to a party of friends, serving
them meat which he said was veal. 1t
has now been definitely determined
that it was human flesh which the can
nibal served to his friends. Authori-
ties and physicians of Berlin stamp
Grossman the most degenerate and APP
tpalling criminal in the history OF Ger
many.
He told the police that he never long
meditated the killing of any victim but
that, looking upon some woman or
girl, he suddenly was overcome with
blood lust just as at times he had
been frantic with desire for liquors.
His father was an incurable alcoholic
and his mother was a victim of ma
Ilignant blood disease. One OF his
brothers is in Jail and another died in
an insane asylum. Grossman served "A
years in a penitentiary for an attack
on little girl.
Mrs. Itzig, who lived in the same
dreary tenement which housed the
cannibal, has been arrested, charged
with accepting money from Grossman
to conceal her knowledge of his muir
ders.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
DARWIN SEES NEED
OF RACE ELEVATION
EUGENIST URGES RGER
FAMILIES OF GOOD STOCK
AND FEWER OF INFERIOR.

NEW YORK.-Practical measures
by some students to improve races,
such as the sterilization of criminals by
the X-ray the promotion of larger
families among those of good stock
and limitation among others, were dis
cussed at Saturdays session of the in
ternational congress of eugenics in the
American Museum OF National His
tory.
Maj. Leonard Darwin, son OF the
author of The Descent of Man"
urged the experimental use Of the
X-ray, with the consent of the sub
ject, to prevent descendants from the
feeble minded and habitual criminals
He suggested segregation for the
wastrel, the habitual drunkard and
the work shy" to prevent the trans
mission of their traits to future gen.
etations.
Urge Larger Families.
Major Darwin also urged that the
sound and fit and superior people
should, by campaign of patriotism,
be induced to raise larger families.
Racial deterioration seems evident
among all highly civilized peoples, he
said, because of the thinning out OF
the descendants of highly endowed
stocks and the multiplication of those
of inferior endowment.
History taught he said, that races
in the past had fallen from high estate
because of the progressive elimination
OF their best types.
Il can find no facts" he continued
(which refute the theoretical concu
sion that the Unborn qualities of civ
ilized communities are deteriorating
and the process will inevitably lead in
time to an all round downward move
ment."
Appeal to Patriotism.
The only efficient corrective which
! Mai. Darwin could think of, he said,
was an appeal to patriotism.
What is necessary is to make it
deeply and widely felt that it is both
immoral and unpatriotc for couples
sound in mind and body to unduly
limit the size OF their families" he
added
Mai. Darwin read this sentence
slowly, and at the request OF two or
three in the audience, read it over
again. He said that he believed that
such a campaign would succeed, when
persons of character and good endow-
ment were awakened to the danger
threatening their race.
/ The nation that wins i'll this moral
campaign" he said, will have gone
half way toward gaining a great racial
victory"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
EATS THIRTY-SlX
EGGS AT ONE MEAL
FEAT PERFORMED BY DODGE
MAN. DRINKS HALF GAL
LON SYRUP IN 3 MINUTES.

EASTMAN, Ga.-Dodge county
boasts of having the champion eater
of wiregrass Georgia in the person OF
G.. A. Pottwood, of near Eastman, who
on Saturday night last ate, on a wager
that he could not do SO, thirty-s1x tried
eggs and one pound of beef steak, ac-
companied by at least halt loaf OF
bread.
1t took him from 8 o'clock p. M
until l 80 to consume the food. Quite a
crowd of citizens gathered at the res
taurant of ]. F. Wright on Third ave-
nue. to witness this feat. Those who
had never seen Pottwood eat did not
believe it humanity possible for him to
do this stunt, but those who had seen
him were ready to back his proposition
and quite little bit of change changed
hands.
Mr.. Pottwood drank four bottles OF
coca-cola, and three glasses of water
with the meal, and seemed to expert
ence little inconvenience. However, he
apparently did not seem TO relish his
meal towards the last as much as when
he began. He was able to chew his
food during the entire meal, but at the
last swallowing seemed a little dittl-
cult
Immediately after the meal was fin
ished he wagered FIVE dollars that hi:
could then drink one-half, gallon OF
syrup. His wager was accepted, and
he drank the one-haf gallon OF syrup
in three minutes. A veterinary surgeon
and an undertaken were present to give
aid if needed, but it is understood that
Mr.. Pottwood has suffered no i'll Ell
fects. Mr.. Pottwood is a laborerr, and
lust man of average size. weighing
only one hundred and forty-eight
mounds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
$4,000, 900 WILL BE
ADVANCED ON COTTON
APPLICATION APPROVED BY
WAR FINANCE CORPORATION
TO SPEED CROP MOVEMENT.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Applica-
ton for advances, totalling $4,l5OOOO,
to assist in financing exports of cotton
and tobacco were approved Friday by
the war finance corporation.
The advances consisted of $1,000
600 to an exporter to assist in fnanc-
inc the expectation of cotton; 81 ,OOO,-
600 to southern bank for the purpose
of assisting in carrying cotton IN do
mestic warehouses until it can be ex-
ported in an orderly manner; 81 ,O00,-
600 TO a southern bank to assist in the
expectation OF cotton and $l5Q,OOO to
an exporter for the purpose OF assist
inc IN the expectation of tobacco.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
BANK REOPENED
The Institution at Morgan, Closed
Since Last January, Has Been
Recognized. $40, 900 Capital.

The Bank of Morgan, which was
closed in January OF this year on ac-
count of depressed conditions, reopen
ed on the 22nd with capital OF $10,-
900 and surplus of $1,000.
The following gentlemen have been
chosen as directors of the reorganized
bank: S. /. Monroe, T. e. Cheney,
N. B. Johnson, C. w. Cheney and J..
M. Lazenby.
The Calhoun Courier says that I'M
der the efficient management of these
splendid business men the success OF
the institution is assured
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
$4,000 Fowls Burned
In Big St. Louis Fire
$4,000 Dozen Eggs and Firms Refrig-
orator Plant Also Consumed.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Loss estimated
at approximately 500, 900 was incurred
when fire, believed to have been caus-
ed by short circuit in the electric
wires. DESTROYED the fve-story build
inc At 818 North Third street, which
housed the Never Brothers Comnlis-
Son Company. Damage to live and
dressed , poultry, $4,000 dozen eggs and
complete refrigerating plant on ING
top. floor was estimated at more tnall
$50 600. The building was total ioss,
About $4,000 chickens. which were
kept IN cages in the building were oe-
stroyed by the fire.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
$4,000 WORKMEN WERE
KILLED DURING LAST YEAR
Three Million Industrial Employees
We're Injured, Figures Show.

Twenty-four thousand American
workmen were killed by industrial ac-
cidents last year and 100000 were in
jured OF those injured 5000 were so
severely hurt that they never were able
to go back to work.
This means that 80 men were killed
every working day last year or ten ev-
cry hour in an eight-hour day. Ten
thousand were hurt every day, ten OF
them permanently incapacitated
These figures are estimates of the
bureau of labor statistics, United States
department of labor Actual figures
cannot be had, for seven states do not
report accidents or fatalities and others
are slow in reporting.
There were 63.400 cases of perma-
nent partial disability reported, Five
thousand lost one eye, and 1000 lost
one hand Of arm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
INTEREST IN GEORGIA
As CORN PRODUCER
,n STATE THIS YEAR HAS S.
Ih NJ, NM ACRES IN CORN. TO
0O "J,SpKET SURPLUS GRAIN.

,r1ANTA, Ga.-There is a big
p ior the farming interests in Geor-
IVY and thereby for the business and
90 mercjal interests as well, thr :,
'0D' orobable much more profitable
tbe surplus from the grain crop
n,n this year, particularly as per-
t,ns to corn.
D Georgia has planted this year s.
u 0oo acres in corn, which gives for
D :. state a IS per cent increase more
~, last and on Sept. / the govern
,sot reports showed that there would
t ni', n,rrodrced 81 per cent of full crop,
Us 'hcb is clearly better than the ten
w Sa.r average of condition on that date.
Surplus in States.
This means that this year Geor-
10 will have a considerable surplus
e. 4 corn and a surplus to spare after
" tbe mules, horses, hogs and cattle
AVE a. been fed, and in addition all hui
mans consuming meal should have no
.as;ous trouble in obtaining larger
sn9ntities than ever before.
In 1917 Georgia brought into the
.+9te $4,000 bushels of corn and in
ioiS $40, 900 bushels, and in addition
- this in 1918 large quantities of
mixed feeds and hay were shipped into
H. state which have largely. been re-
i Il. this year, and will be more con-
sojcuous ior the non shipment OF these
goods during the coming year.
Georgia this year has a carry-over
.: about twenty per cent Of last years
rroD which is on hand at this time due
N the holding movement which was
Instituted with corn as we'll as other
rops, and due to the present weevii
eaten condition of this corn the larger
rart OF it will be fed through hogs dur
Inc the coming fall season, leaving the
surplus OF the new crop 70 BIZ market
I'D which every indica. ion points to
earlv movements of the crop this year.
. The following will Indicate the true
status OF Georgia this year as conpar-
ed with other states as a corn produc-
ing state:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
Declined Gift of Land
Now Worth $I0O,0OO,OO0
Regents of University of Michigan
Could Have Had 1t Fifty Years Ago.

ANN HARBOR, Mich.-Fifty years
ago the regents of the University OF
Michigan were offered all the land be-
tween the present college campus and
the river, a tract of about 40 acres.
They said the college would never
need it. Now the regents wish they
had it, for they are in need OF at least
100000 to push the building pro-
gram of the state college.
Today, on the spot offered TO the
college a half century ago, stands the
main business houses of the city, and
the property could not be bought Tor
$1O0,000,000
1t is estimated that the college now
has more than 5000 students, and this
years enrolment promises to exceed
that figure by 1000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
FIRST NEGRO AVIATRIX
TO ENGAGE IN FLYING
"snicurist of Ten Months Ago Re-
turns From Europe as Pilot.

M NEW YORK, N. Y.-Ten months
S so Bessie Coleman, a twenty-four-
c rsa Old negress, left her home in Chr
sso' Where she had been employed
H. manicurist, for Europe. Today
Ssd returned to this country as full
II dyed aviatrix, said to be the first
srs ne5 race. The young woman who
osn .ued an aviation school in France,
h y; 10 engage in exhibition flying
this country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Uncle Sam
has paid out $88 ,0O4.866 in the last
three months to veterans OF the world
war for insurance, compensation and
training allowances.
Major Leon Frazer, acting director
of the war veterans bureau, tonight
gave these figures Of the benefits un-
der present laws passed for the vet
Grams:
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
HAS PAID $88O04,866
TO THE u. S. WORLD WAR SOLDIERS

S28. 341.O41 in insurance 1929, 667
in compensation. $26,381,157 in train
ing allowances.
Major Frazer said it was important
TO note that the largest sum was paid
out by the government in compensa-
ton.
Every disabled man who has a
compensate disability receives COM
pensation," said Major Frazer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
GOVERNOR WILL
DISCUSS TAXATION
TO TOUR STATE FROM OCTO-
Der a TO NOVEMBER 10. CAM
PAIGN OF EDUCATION.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Beginning Tues
day, Oct. 4, Governor Thomas w.
Hardwick has booked series OF
speaking engagements which will keep
him engaged practically continuously
until Nov. 10, constituting one Of the
most ambitious tours of governor
on state matters outside of campaign
periods Georgia has had in many
years. 1t. is the purpose OF the COVER
nor on this tour to discuss intimately
the fiscal affairs of the state and the
subject of taxation.
While Gov. Hardwick has not yet
given an advance outline OF the talk
he is to make, it is we'll understood
that it is his purpose to carry on a
period of education in the state on the
subject of taxation generally, with es-
pecial attention to the question OF the
income tax, which will be the prime
subject before the next session with
certain recommendations by the gov
ernor, action having been postponed
for the purpose of a special study be-
ing given the subject by commission
which is to report before hte next ses-
sion.
Engagements Announced.
an the meantime the governor will
give the people of the state the benefit
of his opinion and such information as
he has gathered on that subject, pre-
paratory, IN way, for the direct ap-
plication of legislative authority to the
matter
His engagement book shows the fol-
lowing dates for speeches at county
and district fairs, at each OF which he
will discuss taxation:
Winder, Oct. 4; GAINESVILLE, 8; So
perton, 7; Wrightsville, s; Rome, 10;
Dublin, II; Columbus, 10; Hoboken,
IS; Atlanta Governors day., IA;
Sparta, 10; Albany, 20; Savannah, 20;
Swainsboro, u; Macon Governor 5
day. %; Augusta, Nov. /; Bailey, 2.
He will return to Atlanta from Rome,
in order to deliver the address OF well
come to the convention of National
Railroad Commissioners here on the
18th of October.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04
Production in Southern States.

The Florida crop is small and no
figures are available from government
records on their production this year.
Georgia will harvest 90,000,000 bush
els this year, and will consume prac-
tically 100000 bushels, which leaves
surplus of nearly 20,000,000 bushels,
to say nothing of the part OF the crop
] that has been carried over.
The bureau of markets OF the state
department. of agriculture, realizing the
gravity of the situation, has added to
their force man who has had years
Of PRACTICAL experience in the handling
/ Of corn both from the farm and
through elevators and for feeding and
milling purposes. They are now max
Eng a general survey of the conditions
in the state to determine where the
larger part of the surplus is contain
cd, and where the greatest demand
will be. and will lend every aid possi--
bic through their department and
through their special grain man, and
will perform the service. OF directing
the surplus from that part OF the state
to the other where the demand will be
the greatest and the need the strong
/ est
Railroads Interested.
The railroads have shown every
Willingness to help the farmers receive
the best possible price for their corn
BY giving the milling in transit and
deaning in transit rates, and the rail
road commission, through the efforts
Of Commissioner j. A. Perry, has IS
sued an order requiring the railroads
to submit tariffs giving these rates.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04

American women have the most
beautiful eyes in the world, says a
London photographer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-10-04

Adam was the first and only man
to fall for the only girl in the world
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-07
TWO BRIDES KIDNAPPED.
Are Stolen By Woman as Husbands
Watch.

Youngstown, Ohio, March 29.-
Mrs. Agnes Hetzell, 1S, and Mrs.
Thelma Hetzell, 20, sisters, who re-
Gently married Henry and Jacob
Hetzell, brothers Of Atlanta, Michi-
gan, have mysteriously disappeared,
the bridegrooms reported to the
local police Monday. Search for the
brides in this city and surrounding
towns proved futile.
The newly married couples were
on an automobile honeymoon trip
to visit relatives Of the brides al
North Jackson near here, according
to the story told the police. Soon
afted passing Akron Sunday their
car was stopped by a woman standing
beside big touring car who appeal
ed to the men to change a tire tor
her, which she said had blown out.
AS the men worked, the women
chatted together. When the tire
was changed, the stranger requested
the brides to ride with her, saying
she was lonely. The big car sped
away from the unsuspecting hus-
bands whose fears we're first aroused
when they reached North Jackson
and found no one who had seen the
automobile containing the three
women.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-07
MURDER IN SPARTANBURG.
Body of Glenn Foster, Public Car
Driver, Found in Stream.

spartanburg, April 1.-The finding
Of the body of Glenn Foster early
today, half mile above the spot
where Guy Mcdowell was found shot.
to death on the previous day, reveal
ed a double murder, which must have
taken place some time last Tuesday
afternoon. The dead men were both
public car drivers, married, and
widely connected in this section OF
the state. The scene of the tragedy
is a small branch two miles west of
the city and bordering the Camp
Wadsworth reservation. Foster,
whose body was found this morning
by searchers, had been shot twice and
his body had fallen in the stream.
The coroner's jury Investigating
the case tonight found that he came
to his death at the hands of parties
unknown. but recommended that T.
E. Lanford, who is now in jail in con-
nection with the murder of Guy Nc
Dowell, be held in the Foster case,
pending further Investigation. Lam
ford was seen with the men and is
believed to have accompanied them to
the section of country where their
bodies were found. At the inquest
over McDowell's body, he refused to
testify. He is the son of the owner
of the land on which the bodies were
found and was until recently an en-
gineer On the Southern railway.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-07

in Columbia, S. c., when she first met
Earl. Further, she, it is alleged, told
the officers that she knew Earl had
never been insane and that he was
guilty of the charges he is accused
Of. She left the hospital before Earl
made his escape, she said.
Earl came to Tampa first, she is
claimed to have told the officers, and
to have then sent for her. She came
to this city and they were married
here, according to her statement.
After her attempt to take her life,
she was placed in cell and is being
held until information is received
from South Carolina authorities to
learn if she is implicated in any way
with the case in that state.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-07
SANDEL WINS IN
CASE VS.. STATE
ALLOWED $25,25O.OO FOR LOSS
OF CHILD.
Vaccine at Fault.
Stale Will Appeal Case to High Court.
Still Another Case on the
Court Roster.

Columbia, March 31.-The jury in
the case of J. O'Neal Sandel against
the state of South Carolina returned
verdict in favor of Mr.. Sandel,
awarding him s25,25o, because OF
the death Of his four year old daugh-
ter, Thelma, in July, 1915, her death
the plaintiff alleged in his pleading
being due to vaccination with i'm
pure or contaminated vaccine furnish,
ed by the state board of health.
The jury in the case returned
sealed verdict, this being opened IN
the court Thursday morning. The
jury reached it's decision "Wednesday
night. The state will appeal the
case to the supreme court.
There is still another Sandel case
on the court roster, this being fo1
similar amount, $4,000, for the
death of another of the Sandel chill
dren. The suit just tried, for $50,
900, was instituted in the name o.
Thelma Sandel only. The action wa:
brought by J. O'Neal Sandel, father
of Thelma Sandel, a resident of Lone
Star in Calhoun county.
The vaccination was performed
by DR.. A. w. Browning, of Elloree
Thelma dying, the plaintiff alleged
IS hours later.
There was a strong array of pro
fessional and lay witnesses on botl
sides Of the controversy. The state
contended that the vaccine was pre-
pared in the usual way and placed IL
little containers, with rubber stop
pers, and process being similar to thu
methods employed by recognized
manufacturers of such preparations
The defense maintained that th'
the deaths of the two children were
due to the reaction not to any con
tamination, as alleged by the opposite
side. The state board conducted al
investigation of vaccine which wa!
part of the lot from which tha
used on the Sandel children was tax
en-, and DR.. Asbury Coward, state
chemist, held that the germs found IL
the vaccine were pus germs which
would not produce death in such ;
short time as that which elapsed fol
lowing the vaccination of the chill
dren.