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FURNITURE-N. KRISTEN. 800 Sth st. NV.
All kinds of furniture wanted. Phone Frank
lin 6GS0
Evening star., 1923-09-13

USED CARS.
Gardner 1929 touring. $3.50
Haynes 1921 touring .$625
bort 1921 touring. $3.50
Ford 1923 Coupe. .... .$425
F. B. Chevrolet, 1920 rdstr. .$I75
All are in good condition.
Terms, with no finance charges.
WAYNE SMITH & CO.,
West 5oo7. 22oI M NV.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Representative Crisp
Is on Trip to Alaska
Transport Grant Sailed Friday With
Senate and House Members.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The con-
gressional party going on the Alaska
Hawaiian trip planned by the war de
partment includes members of both
the senate and house who hold mem
bership on the military affairs COM
mittees and territories committees OF
congress. The transport Grant, which
sailed from New York on Friday, will
convey them to San Francisco, where
some OF the party will transfer to the
transport Cambria for the cruise to
Alaska. The Grant will proceed to-
Honolulu.
Representative c. R. Crisp and wife
of Georgia are included in the Alas
kan party.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01

from beneath the caps tumbled long
braids of hair, reaching in some cases
to the boys waists.
How long it will take to get the
testimony of the twenty-eight colony
witnesses is problematical. Judge
Dingeman said no more subpoenas
will be issued until the present group
is exhausted.
The purpose in calling the young
brides and grooms is to find who sug-
gested their sudden weddings, which
were celebrated on two successive
nights last week after licenses had
been obtained outside the regular
court hour. The marriages did not
become public until forty-eight hours
later.
1t has been charged in recent court
hearings that the colony when threat
ened with state or federal investiga-
ton has always married off groups OF
girls who might be able to tell some
thing about the alleged immortality in
king Benjamin's" home. Therefore,
Judge Dingeman said he would go to
the bottom of the present marriage
wave and find whether the fourteen
couples voluntarily decided they want
ed to wed at this time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Does Your Back Ache?

It's usually sign OF sick kidneys,
especially if the kidney action is dis
ordered, passages scanty or too ire
ouent. Don't wait for more serious
troubles. Begin using Doan's Kidney
Pills. Read this Dawson mans testi-
mony:
7. M. Norton, retired policeman, SIS
E. 9th ave-, Dawson, says: When
| was on the police beat | was out in
all sorts of weather and l must have
caught cold in my kidneys. My back
was lame and l suffered with dull
heavy ache in the small of it that prov
ed very annoying. The kidney secre-
tions passed very regularly and were
scanty. I had severe pains in the top
of my head and spots came before my
eyes. l read about Doan's Kidney
Pills and purchased box at Lees
drug store. They soon helped me and
several boxes dispelled the pain from
my back and head, and also rid me
of other ailments"
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pil1s-the same that
Mr.. Norton had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.-adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
McAdoo Pulls Bone"
No Applause by Women

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Williami
G. McAdoo, former secretary OF
the treasury, former governor gen.
eral of the railroads, son-in-law OF
ex-President Wilson and politician
de luxe, addressed the women OF
the Friday Morning club, though 1t
didn't happen to be Friday morn
ing. He talked about the motor
buses he and others are promot-
ing for Los Angeles. He told them
how pleased he was to see such a
"large and intelligent audience OF
working women" and went on to
explain the beauty of the bus sys-
TEN, and how the BUSES would
drive all the private limousines OFT
the principal street.
This audience didn't applaud. 1t
was explained to Mr.. McAdoo later
that he had put on the wrong rec
ord.
Morning club are the wealthlest
and most socially prominent Wo-
men of the city. And each and ey-
cry one of them has her own pri-
vate limousine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
CONVICTION OPPOSES
CONVICT ROAD WORK
ALSO WANTS YEARLY LEGIS-
LATIVE SESSIONS, AND TWO
YEAR COUNTY TERMS.

MOULTRIE, Cav. A. Coving-
ton, one of Colquitt county's repre-
sentatives, announces that he is oppos-
ed to working conviCts on the roads
of the state, and asserts that he is
opposed to the repeal of the tax equal
ization law until other tax machinery
is provided.
The management of persons con-
victed OF violations of our criminal
laws has always been delicate and
perplexing problem, Mr.. Covington
declared. "Of course, it is wrong to
turn these unfortunates over to the
tender mercies of lot of brutes, like
Hollingsworth in Florida. In fact we
beat a negro to death in our county
gang last year." The grand jury in
vestigated the report, but found no
evidence to substantiate it.
Wants a Central Penitentiary.
Il am in favor of working our
roads with free labor, as it is much
more economical. The convicts ought
to be placed in a penitentiary similar
to the Louisiana state penitentiary, "
he said.
Judge Covington said that he is OPP
posed to biennial sessions OF the leg
islature and believes that county Of
hcers should be chosen every two
years as they once were, instead OF
every four years.
The representatives of the people
should meet every year." he said
Il am opposed to four-year terms
for state house officers. We made a
mistake when we changed the terms
of our county officers from two years
to four. Two years is long enough for
a good man to hold Office, and four
years is too long for bad man to
hold office"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Swapping Mates Is a
Favorite Sport When Love
Cools in an Eskimo Igloo
New Wives for Old Is the Rule in
Parkway Baffin Land, Asserts
Macmillan, Peary Explorer.

Swapping wives IS the faVorite "out-
door sport" of the Eskimos, accord
ing to Donald Macmillan, Arctic ex-
plorer, recently returned from the land
of the midnight SUM- Each man, who
has one wife by Encouragement with
her parents, exchanges her for his
friends spouse for night, week or
a year. Baffin Land is a white clean
stretch, free from illness and fever OF
any sort" the explorer asserts. Mac
MILAN was member of the last
Peary expedition to the pole.
Sealskins are the one standard ma
terial for clothes, and all their cloth
ing, "undies included" is made OF
the finest grade seal. In summer they
construct sealskin tents worth kings
ransom
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
PROBING WEDL0CK
WAVE OF CHILDREN
FIRST WITNESS AT ST. JOSEPH
13-YEAR-OLD BRIDE. FOUR
TEEN COUPLES MARRY.

ST. JOSEPH, Observation-Disclosures
grand jury investigation Of charges OF
Benjamin Purnel's Israelite colony OF
the House of David opened today
with fourteen young brides and four
teen bridegrooms on hand to explain
their sudden decision to be married
in two group weddings last week.
The first witness-a girl bride-was
on the witness stand before Judge
Harry Dingeman, of Detroit, the one
man grand jury, for more than three
hours undergoing examination by at
torneys for the state and county.
The girl, whose age was given in
the marriage license as II, is actually
only Is years old, according to coun-
ty records, it was reported.
The spectacle outside the city hall,
where the investigation is being held,
was an unusual one. In a dimly light
ed corridor three long rows of seatas
held the twenty-eight young married
people and half dozen older mem
bers of the cult, who guarded their
charges closely from inquistive re-
porters and photographers.
The brides, well dressed, with faces
powdered and hair neatly arranged in
the latest mode, appeared no different
than any young group of young girls
of high school age.
In marked contrast to the girls,
however, was the group of bride
grooms, each sitting beside his wife.
They ranged from boy who appear
ed not more than 10 to one man who
probably is % or 80.
All wore caps, the almost universal
head dress of the men of the colony,
but as the afternoon dragged on. they
DOTTED them one by one and then a
more startling difference appeared, for
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
SOFT DRINK BILL IN u. S.
HAS DOUBLED SINCE 1914
Figures for 1921 Show That $115,577,-
900 Was Spent in That Year.

If there are industries that have
suffered since 1914 from the country's
attack OF prohibition there is at least
one that has doubled since that year.
Consumers of mineral and soda water
boosted the value of products in that
field from $58, 100000 in 1914 to Sis
$4,000 in 1921, according to figures
compiled by the census bureau, an in
crease of 90 per cent during the pc
rioid. The year 1910, however, was
the banner period for soft drink man
ufacturers, for the trade during that
year was valued at more than $685.
$4,000.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
Don Spring "Undies" When the
Thermometer Is IS Below.

While the average man in the Unit
ed States is dreading the late March
billiards the Eskimo 'flapper" ex-
claims:
Spring is here; time to put on the
deerskin 'undies'; the thermometer
going up to IS below"
Fresh air hends often curl up in the
snow outside their igioo and go to
sleep with the temperature at 90 be-
low zero, the explorer asserted. He
added that the styles in homes, food,
clothes and mode OF living haven't
changed since the Eskimos were first
known.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
IS FINDING A HARVEST
IN CHICKENS AND EGGS

Pavo (Ga.) is still shipping produce
of all sorts and kinds and during the
first two weeks in April sent off 1,170
dozen eggs. During the same period
2,250 chickens were also reported to
have been shipped from Pavo.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE
IN TEXAS BY FLOOD
Two Rivers Spread Destruction il
Southeastern Section of State.

BEAUMONT, Tex.-Sixty homes
inundated here, part OF the village OF
Fletcher, twenty miles north of here,
washed into the Neuches river and
nearly all roads impossible marked
the flood situation today over south
eastern Texas, caused by the highest
stages of the Neuches and Sabine riv-
ers in several years
The Neuches, which is causing the
greatest damage, threatens to pass its
record stage of fifteen feet in 1915.
Damage of 100000 already has been
done. The. Orange oil field, near Or
ange, Tex, is completely under water
and all operations have ceased.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
EVILS OF CONSTIPATION.

Perhaps the most serious OF the dis
eases caused by constipation is APP
pendicitis. If you would avoid this
dangerous disease, keep your bowels
regular. For this purpose Chamber
lain's Tablets are excellent, easy to
take and mild and gentle in effect
adv.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
GRIFFIN BANKER KILLS
HIMSELF AT WIFE'S GRAVE

Roosevelt H. Drake, president OF
the City National bank of Griffin, kill
ed himself on Memorial day at the
grave of his first wife. The bank is
in first class shape, and doesn't owe
ANYTHING.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-05-01
WHOOPING COUGH.

This is very dangerous disease,
particularly to children under five
years of age, but when no paregoric,
codiene or other opiate is given is
easily cured by giving Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. Most people believe
that it must run its course, not know
ing that the time is very much short
cned, and that there is little danger
from the disease when this remedy is
given 1t has been used in many cpl
denies OF whooping cough, with pro-
nouncd success. 1t is safe and pleas
ant to take.-adY.s.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
FEDERAL RESERvI[:
RATES ARE ~,
At PRESEp7 <z,1EL
Bank Council Pleased With
Present Business Con-
ditions Of Nation

WASHINGTON, May 22.-Federal
reserve rediscount rates will be main
tanned at the uniform level of Az
per cent for the present because of
satisfactory business conditions
nounced today at the conclusion Of
the meeting of the boards advisory
council.
Members of the council as we'll as
the reserve board maintained strict
secrecy regarding the councils dis
cussion and, aside from the an
rates. nothing official was forth
coming.
All Phases Discussed
1t was known. however. the two
days discussion had included every
phase of the economic conditions OBJ
tanning throughout the country to-
gether with the question of extend
ing federal reserve banking activities
into foreign lands and the proposition
of abolishing the present list of
services performed free by the re-
serve banks.
There was nothing to confirm re-
recommendation to the board relative
to the granting of the right to any
reserve bank to establish an agency
in Havana, Cuba Applications for
that privilege. filed by the Boston
and Atlanta banks. are pending be-
fore the board. and it was stated of
ficially that the policy involved had
BEEN gone into deeply.
o o o
Further Hearings Probable
silence gave rise to belief in
some quarters thdt hitch had &C.
Cured and that the board would
have to hold further hearings on the
Cuban agency proposal Governor
Crissinger's only comment was that
the question was still pending.
In its discussion of the rediscount
rates. the council had before it data
from every section of the country
which the official statement said in
Dictated that business is progressing
conservatively and on a sound basis"
The commercial banking houses ap-
pear able, 1t was said, to meet the
calls upon them and there has been.
therefore, nc tendency toward an I'M
usual draft on the reserve bank for
rediScOunt accommodations
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
LINCOLN'S CAREER is
LAUDED BY JUSSERAND
French Ambassador Speaks At Ded-
ication OF Monument

NEW YORK, May 22,-The United
States after the Civil war was ready
for a more brilliant destiny than it
had ever known BEFORE" because it
was strengthened and united, and un-
derstood better from the example OF
Abraham Lincoln "as the great war
showed in our days, the value of dis
interested courage and generosity"
Jules Jusserand, amba ssador OF
France. declared in an address today
at the unVeiling of bust of the
martyrd president in the New York
University Hall of Fame.
The ambassador referred to the
humble origin of the great presiden
Of Washington and make it indescrut-
ible. saying he was fitted for a ca
reer unique in the history of the
world" by the forest, the swamp, the
river. by necessity, by the great heart
God had given him, in which courage
age. tenderness, humor, an aptitude to
merriment, an aptitude to melancholy,
joined together. all kept within
bounds by common sense.
Concerning the union, his senti-
ment never changed Concerning
slavery, friend of liberty though he
was, 1t took him a long time to be-
come an abolitionist; he would have
preferred gradual abolition with COM
pensation to the slave owners; in
which again his ideas We're very SINH
lar to those of Washington.
wv hen, however, he found that
there was no means of preserving the
Union. save to solve at all risks the
old standing problem once for all. his
decision became immovabla"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
BIRTHDAY PARTY
ENDS IN TRAGEDY
FOR YOUNG CHILD

Toney Marc, years old Tues
lay, of 1905 Sixth avenue, was
struck down and instantly killed
as he attempted to cross Seven
teenth street at Sixth avenue in
front of Pratt Ensley car No 44S
at $40 O'Clock Tuesday evening.
Barely an hour had elapsed since
the toddling guests of Toney' s
party had departed. At the time
of the child's death, his mother.
Mrs. Ida Marc, was busy clearing
away remnants of the party.
Barely an hour and childish sobs
echoed in the house where childish
hearts had made merry.
Little could be learned of the
accident. The car was in. charge
of Motorman ]. H. Corn and Con-
ductor l.. l.. Floyd, who gave po-
lice no details. No other witnesses
were found, although a large
crowd was attracted by the trag-
edy
Ridout took charge of the body
saying funeral arrangements
would be announced later.
Coroner J. d. Russum made an
informal investigation into the
affair Tuesday night, and said that
death seemed to have occurred
when the child stepped in front
of the street car. a formal in
vestigation is to be held at 8
o'clock Wednesday afternoon
when a coroner's inquest will take
place, Mr.. Russum said.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
TWO OFFICERSDIE,
ANOTHER INJURED.
IN PISTOL BATTLE
Escaped Convict And Woman
Companion Fire Fatal
Shots

JERSEY CITY. May 22.-Two
policemen are dead and another is
In hospital wounded after pistol
battle with an escaped convict and
his woman companion here Tuesday.
The desperate, Frank j. Sage. and
his equally desperate woman COM
panion were captured after they had
been subdued by tear bombs.
The policemen had gone to the
apartment occupied by the pair to
arrest Gage on a charge of being the
leader of the holdup band which
stole $4,000 from a messenger of the
public service corporation, after beat
ing him and his guard.
The woman, frequenter of dance
halls. known as Mary Miller. says
she is the wife of Gage.
Between them the couple had a
small arsenal in their rooms, con-
sisting of a heavy army automatic
.3S, .32 and 2 calibre pistols and a
stick of dynamite.
Within an hour both man and
woman were arraigned Sage charged
with the murder of Detective Sergt.
Black and with felonious assault on
two other policemen. The woman
was charged with the murder of the
other dead policeman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
MODERN |SMS NOT
GOOD FOR YOUNG
MEN CLASS TOLD
Vanderbilt Leader Principal
Speaker To Large Class
At University

UNIVERSITY, Ala, May 22.=(Spe-
cial.)-Climax of their college careers
came Tuesday to 234 graduates of the
University of Alabama when they
were presented their degrees by
President George H. Denny with ap-
propriate exercises in Morgan hall.
The commencement address was de-
livered by DIR. Gus w. Dyer of Van
derbilt university, who advised the
graduates to fight shy of the modern
isms and stick close to conservative
principles.
Whereas the previous day was
alumni day, Tuesday was given over
to the seniors. Congratulations were
theirs. Their parents came from over
the state to see them graduate. Be-
decked in the traditional caps and
gowns they marched into Morgan hall
headed by the faculty and occupied
the front tier of seats.
DIR. Dyer, who is professor of eco
Monies at Vanderbilt. declared that
economic problems would settle them
selves and that the law of supply and
demand would function for the good
of all If the public would only let it
alone and not try to artifically fix
prices and labor. He said that when
the great industrial laws are learned
there will be no such thing as d
panic or a financial crisis.
Inc speaker pTeulCteQ Inat amer
lea would lose her world trade II
labor and prices are put so high that
competitor with European nations Is
impossible. He cricized socialistic
principles and declared that a man
should be paid what he is worth and
not what he needs. He added that
business could not be successfully
run on philanthropic principles.
Says Farmer liz Victim.
He pointed out the farmer as the
worst victim of unionistic methods.
DR.. Dyer predicted that the farmer
would one day rise up and demand
that he not be forced to pay a sub
sidy to the preferred classes of the
cities. He branded the minimum wage
as an artificial way Of fixing a mans
pay and contrary to the early Amer
lean principle of every man to him
self.
America is looking to the south for
leadership in the future years, DR..
Dyer said, and he appealed to mem
bers of the graduating class to be
conservative, independent and unwill-
ing to demand a subsidy off the
other fellow.
In his opening remarks DIR. Dyer
said he thought the university was
greedy in education in that it reached
out to Washington and Lee in Vir-
ginia and took. DR.. Denny. leading
southern educator. and then recently
took DR.. p. p. Claxton, former United
States commissioner of education.
DIR. Denny in his preliminary re-
fCnrttu-nI No. D--~ rx-oN
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
MURDERESS STILL HAS
HOPES OF. ESCAPING
Clara Phillips, Though Low In Spir-
its, Grasps At Straws

TEGUCLGALPA, Honduras. May %.
(By Associated Press.) CLARA Phil
lips. the California hammer murder
ess,' still has hopes of avoiding ex-
tradition to the United States, despite
the fact that officers from Los An
geles are here to identify her and
extradltlon papers presumably are on
the way. She spent this morning
playing cards with her sister Eta
May jackson, in their jail quarters
ana although she appeared in low
spirits, she expressed the hope to an
interviewer that some defect would
be found in the extradition docu-
ments in order that she might take
legal action to prevent her deporta-
ton. So far both sisters have re-
fused to make any statements to the
American sheriff or the American
diplomatic authorities here.
Mrs. Jackson said she was told on
Saturday by the Honduran authori-
ties that as there was no charge
against her she could be released
Later, however, the authorities re-
scinded this decision, on representa-
tion of the American minister, she
stated. in order to head off any pos
sible assistance she might give, if
free, in attempts to aid her sister to
escape.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
Convicts Locked In Sweat
Boxes Until They Drop Un-
conscious, Junior Chamber
Of Commerce Committee
Members Say After Visit
PRISONERS SAID TO LACK
PROPER MEDICAL CARE
Investigating Party From
Civic Bodies Made Trip To
Banner And Flat Top Mines
To Gather Information For
Fight Against Lease System

Making convict work the day
after one of his fingers had been
amputated, suspending others for
hours by their handcuffed wrists,
their toes barely touching the floor,
breaking stout stick over a con-
cup of coffee-and locking others In
sweat boxes for many hours at a
time until they dropped unconscious.
are some of the things members of
a committee representing the Jun
Tor Chamber of Commerce and the
League of Women Voters tell of hav-
ing seen last Sunday while on visit
where state convicts are under lease
as workers.
The Investigating party was COM
posed of Mrs. Scion Jacobs, Mrs.
Brenton Fiske. Mrs. r. F. Johnston
Capt. Donald Wood, Irwin Engle and
of the party say, three hours at each
mine talking to prisoners. guards
and officials.
Tell What They Saw.
Captain Wood and Mr.. Engle were
the members of the committee who
told of what they saw. Both are
thoroughly convinced that the con-
Wet lease system is thing abhorrent
and should be abolished Immediately.
Il saw one man suspended by his
wrists in coffin-like box" Mr..
Engle said, who was pleading to be
let down because his arms were
swelling. This was at the Banner
mine. 1t was not known at the mines
we saw what we did, we were told
the convicts receiving punishment
had been removed from the boxes
when it was said we were to visit the
place. We would not have known of
the men who were being stretched
had we not heard the cry of one of
them. Three others were found In
the dog houses being stretched by
means of pulleys and ropes, their
toes barely touching the ground.
warden Davis. at Flat Top, told
us the idea was adopted from the
army prisons used during the war.
We talked to three men who said
they had been taken out of the dog
houses before we came.
Il personally entered one of the
coffinlike boxes. There was not room
in them to move. They would be
crampng for a medium sized man.
They are entered from an aperture at
the bottom. If the victim squeezes in
with his hands-above his head they
remain that way until they are taken
out, If their arms are at their sides
when they enter the stay in that
(Continued On Pare Txy0l