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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02
NEGRO HFGHWAYMAN
GETS SENTENCES OF
80 YEARS IN PRISON
"Riack Hawk" Admits
Guilt in Six Rob
berry Cases.

Sentences aggreSating 90 years had
piled w. against Walter /. Sayes.
alias ".,lack Hawk," when the Thirty
seventh District Court adjourned Mon
day night. Trial OF the negro on adj
iitionai indictments was scheduled 10
Jegn Tuesday morning.
Sayes was indicted on eleven counts.
charging burglary, robbery by assault
with firearms. lie was tried Monday
On pleas of guilty in six cases and
there are still five cases again him.
The state previously had waived the
capital punishment rights in these
cases.
Sayles was arrested by detectives
last spring after series of drug store
robberies which mystified the police
and terrorized residents in the outly-
ing districts. According TO police he
confessed to the robbcries after his az
rest. claiming that he wanted the
money TO finish a correspondence
course"
Sayles sat unmovel as the vcrdictS
org returned Monday.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02

box and read it carefully, and that Z
how l came to take the Vegetable
Compound myself. 1t has given me
quiet nerves so that / sleep all night,
and better appetite. ] have recon-
mended it already to all my friends
and relatives. Mrs. ENGLEMAlsfs,
2032 Palmetto St., Ridgewood, Brook
Ign. N. Y.
For the woman suffering from ner-
vous troubles causing sleeplessness,
headache, hysteria, "the blues"
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound will be found a splendid medi-
cine. For the woman of middle age
who is passing through the trials Of
that period, it can be depended upon
to relieve the troubles common at that
time.
You should give it a fair trial now.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02
LEGION AIDS DRIVE
Members Give Afternoon to Help Sc
cure Funds for Ad Campaign.

The attendance at the weekly lunch
con of the American Legion Monday
at the Gunter Hotel was light on ac-
count of many of the legion member
being connected with the advertising
drive. At the suggestion of Rev. Ar
thur j. Moore. the meeting was ad
journed following the luncheon, when
dozen or more members volunteered
to put in the rest Of the afternoon Sc
curing pledges.
Ray l.. Marshall was luncheon
chairman. Those making short talks
were: Maury Maverick. MAJ. Seth J.
Weld, Glenn ]. Smith and A. ]. Frie-
sen.
The club voted to purchase suitable
toys and gifts for Master Claude
Winston Scruggs, whose third birth
day occurs Wednesday. The little eei-
low, pet of the club members and
son of Capt. Charles Scruggs. 507
East Quincy street. former adjutaEt
of the post. was severely injured By
being run down by an automobile Ii
front Of his home several days ago
At first the boy was thought TO be
fatally injured, but is reported to be
recovering from the accident.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02
TO CUT DOWN SPEED
Commissioner Wright Plans to Pre-
vent. School Accidents.

Following warnings TO motorists
that speed limit of ten miles an
hour will be enforced in "school
zones" Commissioner of Fire and
Police Phil Wright stated Tuesday
that he has instructed his men to
have signs painted specifying the
speed at which automobiles may be
driven through such zones. The speed
limit, the commissioner said. prob.
ably will be printed on the school
zone" sign already up.
After these warnings are placed
Commissioner Wright said. arrests
will be made wherever the law is vio-
lated. Motorcycle officers will patro!
the school zones and anyone exceeding
the speed Limit will be hailed into
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02
PECANS ARE RIPE
Police Called or 20 Chase Boys Out
of Trees.

Pecans are ripe.
This was made evident Monda,
when first complaints of small boys
threshing the trees reached the pc
lice.
Officers were dispatched to several
places. where, owners of pecan tire IS
reported gangs of boys were hurting
sticks and stones into the trees to
knock down clusters Of ripened NUTS
In some instances boys were reported
climbing the trees.
Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery. not
a graveyard, beautiful. well kept
buria, park. Crockett ,5SS. -(.Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02

Threaten to Close News Centers.
Madrid, Oct. 2.-The military d.
rectorate has threatened to close all
ccnters from which unfavorable news
affecting quotations on the Bourse
emanates.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02

he was fleeced, the Hale county ranch
man says that two are now IN the
pcnitentiary, one was acquitted, one
committed suicide, one died OF an III
ness, and the sixth is now in prison
awaiting trial.
Mr.. Norfleet has considerable land
holdings III Hale county. on the south
plains of Texas. He has at various
times served as deputy sheriff in
that region.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02

The greatest sale sensation and m ost interesting
style show ever held in San Antonio and Which was
attended by thousands of women yesterday many who
exclamed-hs is the greatest exhibition OF fashions
ever Witnessed indeed it s-nothing heretofore
has equaed it-because in addition to the Style Fair
and special sales savings
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02
VETS TO SEE SHIPS
Kelly Field Will Give Aerial Show
Friday Afternoon.

Veterans of the Southern Confeder-
acy who on Wednesday and Thursdaf
will doubtless spend most of their
time in reminding each other how it
used to be done. will be treated to a
sharp contrast Friday afternoon by
Kelly Field aviators who will demon
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02
llux Khan and the Fascist move

ment.
Applause greeted announcement OF
the councils attitude toward the XII
klux Khan.
At the opening of the afternoon
Sc ion, Mr.. Gompers conveyed u
message of good will from President
Calvin Coolidge and told of con-
ference in which the President show
ed interest in measures to check child
labor and in the immigration ques-
ton.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02

court. This action has been taken, the
police commissioner said. because o,
the numerous accidents lately near
public schools.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-02
WOMEN OF
MIDDLE AGE
Relieved Nervousness ind lheF
Distressing Ailments BY kydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Cc6upouud
Brooklyn, N. Y.-"I frst took
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetab1e Com

pound four years
ago, and am tax
ing it now for the
Change Of Life
and other lroo-
bles and ! receise
great beneft1o1p
it. l am wMir2t to
let you use my
letter as a testi-
monial because i
is the truth. IL
found your book
Iat in INV IoffaD
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
LEGAL AID NO. 90

Notice is hereby given that Bill of
which the following is the caption,
will be introduced at the approach
ing session of the General Assembly
of Georgia, at the request of the
Mayor and City Council of Ameri-
Gus:
AN ACT to be Entitled. can Act
to amend an Act to Revise and Con-
solidate the several Acts Granting
Corporate authority to the City of
Americas, approved November IL,
1889, so that after the passage of
this Act the Mayor and City Council
of Americas shall have the right and
authority to levy an ad valorem tax of
onc-half of one percentum in addition
to the tax already authorized, and
to provide that the amounts raised by
said levy be kept separate and dis
tinct from other funds of the citv.
and to be applied only to the pay
ment of the OUTSTANDING floating in
debtedness of the City of Americas,
and to supplement the present school
fund of the Board Of Public Educa-
ton for The City Of Americas, to
pay operating expenses, not to eX-
ceed two mills of such one-half of
one percentum; to authorize the
Mayor and City Council of Americas
to execute notes and sell the same
in anticipation of this tax levy and
N other purposes"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
SONS OF REVOLUTION
TO UNVEIL. MONUMENT

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May q. The
unwilling ceremonies Of an official
marker at The tomb of President
Andrew Jackson will mark one of
the solemnities Of the thirty-fourlh
annual National Congress- Of the
Sons of the Apericaq Revolution,
meets here today ana Tuesday.
The tribute will be paid the mem
DRY of the great Jackson at his ia
mo-. home, when is preserved Just
as The family lof5 it, near Nashville,
where he is buried
Major Washington !. L. Adams, of
Montolair, N. J., President-Goner9.
Of the Sons of The American Revo-
luton, and the incoming president
general, to be elected, assisted by the
Prcsident-Genaral # the Daughters
&c the American Revolution, will
have charge Of The eEecerise at the
tomb.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
FFIC Of ROADS
NOW At HIGH TIDE
Carrlers Are Trying to Meet In
dustrial Boom and Shove
1t Along

ATLANTA, May 21.-Tbe most
phase of the present mild but grow
ing industrial boom is the rallying
OF the railways too mcer and heiD
ShoVe 1t along, according tc business
men and manufacturers here. u has
Deeh coming for months, il is stated
mere. The roads saw it coming as
early as January 1922, when they
began authorizing expenditures the
sum total OF which hsa now reached
the amazind figure of $1,54O.OOU,-
900, as statictics given out here
show Of this $440,00O,0OO has
been actually spent.
Here the figures given out by At
ianta ralroad men covering the rail-
ways OF the country as a whole. In
The last fifteen months 223,616 new
engines have been put into service.
by October 1928, when seasonal
traffic reaches its peak, it is pointed
out here, at least 100000 more cars
and 1920 additional locomotives
VIII be available.
In its own interest Georgia and
the rest Of the South is invited to
help, say Aatlanta railroad men.
Shippers are asked to load, swiftly,
safely and heavily, and to unload
with exceeding great promtness. The
roads, it is stated, are pledged to get
their own storage coal into the clear
by September 1 and to whip freight
cars over the road at thirty miles a
day. They viii reduce cars waiting
repair to per cent and engines to
is per cent on October l. Steel
gang and bridge gangs, track work
ers and construction parties are to
be pushed on the lines as early as
possible this spring.
Since 1920, Atlanta railway men
say, the roads have been half hoping
and half dreading this time. 1t was
bound to come, and when it did come
meant great expenditures. The roads
had little money in sight and their
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
DUBLIN GUARDSMEN
PREPARE FOR CAMP


DUBLIN, Way lI.-FT9Darati0ns
are under way in Dublin among
the national guard troops for the an
nual encampment Of the Georgia ma
tional guard at St, Simons Island,
where the eneampments have been
held for the past several years.
This year it will begin July 18th
and last through July 30th The
men are expecting a great many i'm
proyolncuts in the camp this year, in
Guiding electric lights, something
they have not had before and bet
ter quarters, There are some other
things on the program that are also
expected to make for a greater
time this year.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21

credit has been none too good. They
have, as usual, been under fire Ship
pers wanted low rates, labor higher
wages and theorists wanted Gocern-
ment ownership.
The roads took chance that the
transportation Act of 1920 would
stand and went out and got the
money. They are trying, Atlanta
railroaders declare, to clear the line
and set the signals for the Prosp-
Gritty Special now picking up speed.
May it run in sections, split no
switches, find no soft track and keep
sharpe eye on the semaphores,"
is the way one industrial leader
here puts it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
MOTHER


Your Cross Ieethlns baty
Our mothers can now get Pitts
"Carminative" for only few cents
from our local drug stores. Mothers,
while your baby is teeohng, has pain
full stools, painful bowes, yomits, has
indigestion, is falling off in flesh and
strength, has collie or wind-hurry,
mother and give your little one a few
doses Of Pitts COMMUNICATIVE most
wonderful baby medicine ever made
absolutely harmless, pleasant tast-
ing-for it quickly relieves all pains
of teothing, steps vomiting, builds ap
your sick, rundown child, making
your cross, fretful baby playful and
strong, so they cut their teeth easily
and naturally pitts Carminatiye'
never gripes, but moves out the diar-
rhea mess from baby's little bowels
as nothing else can do (adv.1 p
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21

UBlNSIElN
every two or three weeks is none
too often, while others declare that
once in two or three months is fire.
quent enough.
Naturally the hair should be
washed often enough to keep it clean
bu brushing it thoroughly each
night and using a tonic which is rub
bed carefully into the scalp often
keep it clean without occasioning q
shampoo oftener than every month
or six weeks.
Ii you have tendency to badness
or a decided loss of hair, shampooing
should occur only when cleanliness
absolutely requires it, for you are
depriving it of the natpal oil when
you wash it.
An excellent shampoo is made by
beating an egg into an ounce of
water and rubbing it thoroughly into
the scalp. The yolk contains iron and
sulphur, both excellent for the hair
The white is very cleansing.
If you prefer to use soap, nothinn
is better than to melt a cake of
WuIIe CdSIle SUdp IN q quart Oh Gpu'
ing water, Wet the hair first with
warm water, then with a couple Of
tablespoons of the soap jelly and rub
thoroughly into the scalp, Gather the
long ends up on the crown so that
thew, too may be well lathered.
Before rinsing, massage the scalp
with firm, rotary movements. Rinse
the hair through several waters, the
last of which should be cold Be
sure that every particle Of soap has
been removed.
Brushes and combs should be Sc
lected with care and cleansed fire.
ouently. For exaggerated cases Of
dandrufr or hair ailments it is best
to consult a specialist who will pre-
scribe q remedy for your particular
case. Sun baths are excellent. It is
also advisable to let long hair hang
down the back while in the doudoir
that it may have air and freedom.
Dyeing or bleaching the hair
seems to me most unwise and al
ways advise patrons against such
remedies.
>(Copyright, 1923, NEA Service,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
CROSS WITH
FRANCE.

England is annoyed with France
for rejecting Gegmany's Ruhr prop
osition without consulting her.
She says the offer was to her as
well as to France and she was en-
titled to a voice. At the same sine,
she'd told Germany the proposal
wasn't satisfactory anyway, bat ad-
vises her to try again.
France has found DR.. Gustav
Krupp Won Bohlen, head Of the
Krupp industries, guilty of anti
FFench activity in the Ruhr, fined
him 100 million marks, which is a
trifle to him, and sent him to prison
for 10 years, which is more serious,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
FIGHTING IN
BRAZIL.

South American cables tell Of
victories against the government by
rebels in southern Brazil, The
country is confederation, but
pretty loose and staUe rebcllions are
quite common. The matter is extra
serious now because North America
packing companies properties worth
10 million are endangered.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
THREE MILE
LIMIT
PRICE
Of cIJCAR

The federal court of appeals in
New York has refused the injunc-
ton asked by the government against
speculation in raw sugar futures.
This was in connection with the
suit by which the government hoped
to force sugar prices down, Its
lawyer said every / cent a pound
rise costs the people seven millions
year.
There will be an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21

ultra-tony Shanghai
Pekin express train
and are still held to
ransom il t h c
wllds of Sahntung.
Japan got posses
sion of Shantung
in the confusion of
the World War.
The war over the
powers, especially
the United States,
said the province
ought to be return
ed to the Chinese.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21

Japan replied The Chinsese govern
ment wouldn't get it, even if she did
this; that a lot of outlaws would
grab it instead.
The powers said she ought to do
it anyway and Japan complied.
Now the bandits have given them
an example of what they've got to
expect.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
" hairs Going
OnFinlfhe
World

Nobody but Japan is getting any
fun out of the kidnapping by Chinese
brigands of about two dozen foreign
ers who Wcre TRAVELLING north ON the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
BANDITS TERMS
un

MET.
The brigands' captivcs include
10 or IL Americans.
Among them was Miss Lucy Aid
rich, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.'s
sister-in-law, but she got away.
The. Pekin government is willing
to pay any ransome and agree to any
terms the bandits name, so presum-
ably the prisoners will be freed soon
but it's been proved Chinese travels
far from safe.
Most of the biggest countries, in
GLIDING this one have a few troops
handy, bat land the size of China,
as big as the United States and three
or four times as populous isn't easy
to police.
Neither is it likely soldiers could
get their prisoners away from the
bandits alive.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
SOVIET OFFICIALS
81 AIN

NJ. Vorosky, Russian representa-
tives in Italy, who was in Lausanne
to look after his country's interests
at the conference over Turkeys flt-
ture, has been assassinated by Maui
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
| SPIRIT PICTURES Of
DOYLE REPRODUCED
Claim Also Made That Eminent
English Psychic FAXED" Edi-
tor of Scientific American

NEW YORK, May 21.-Rcv. C.
NJ. de Heredia, S. j., professo" of
Holy Cross College, Worcester,
Mass, and author of "Spigltism and
Common Sense" has reproduced for
j, Malcolm Bird, associate editor Of
the Scientific American" a spirit
photograph almost identical with one
that was taken by Willie Hope at
CreWe, England, which was exhibit
ed by Sir Conan Doyle in two lee
lures as proof of the existence Of
materialized spirits. -
The only difference between the
photograph taken by Hope and that
taken by Father Heredia is that in
Hopes picture the spirit is or
the right side of the photograph
while on Father de Heredil's mega
tive the face of a man, Admiral
Beatty, is clearly visible in the left
hand side. near the bottom. In both
pictures the spirit is reclining in 4
horizontal position.
While the FIR. Heredia photograph
was being taken Mr.. Bird was not
aware that any fraud had been per-
petrated, and after the result was
shown and he had learne the truth
Mr. Bird admitted that he might
have been imposed upon by the Eng
lish photographer. The Jesuit ex-
plaintd to Mr.. Biard how the photo
graph was made, and consented to
undergo other test if Mr.. Bird de-
sired, as there We're so many diff
ferent ways Of accomplishing the
result he felt confident he could
again outwit the investigators.
One Of the most important spirit
pictures exhibited by Sir Conan
I.Doyle in his lectures was that of
Int cast of spirit hand dipped in
paraffin at a seance held in Paris
the supervision of Prof. Charles
Riohoet. Sir Conan Doyle laid stress
on The Importance OF Che evidence,
saying that if his critics could eX-
plan the "paraffin glove" they could
explain everything; and il they
couldn't the case for spiritualism was
complete.
Father Heredia, who has studied
spirits" mediums, controls, raps and
| uDlc tIlting, and who practice all the
! .IIu.,s Of the medium-magician' S
lade, was asked his opinion OF this
photograph. Take a rubber glove"
le said, "Blow it up and plunge it
into the paraffin. Then debate it and
draw it out at the end through a
small aperture and you have a trick
that any child could do"
Father Heredia first became Q
master Of magic and nIystiIicauon is
student in his youth of Che Great
Hermann, an artist supreme OF the
arts Of the medium and clairvoyaut.
His deIving into the mystery oi the
shadowy world of the unseen is only
q hobby.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21
BUSINESS MEMS
VIEWS

The United States Chamber o.
Commerce, a national organization
of business men, has declared for:
American participation in a world
court.
An International. economic confer
ence.
The open shop.
Support of the United States Coal
Commission.
Government aid to disabled World
War veterans.
The chamber, however, did not
mention the soldiers bonus. It eN-
pressed its opposition to government
participation in commerce.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21

pass for beautiful
and luXuriant ones
Just because the
possessors q i've
them care.
Beautiful hair is
clean hair. There
Is considerable di-
yersity of opinion
among hair special
lists regarding the
Frequency W j tn
which the shampoo
should occur,
Some maintain that
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21

rice Conrad, former officer of the
Conrad shot him as. they sat at
dinner in a Lausanne hotel.
The Russians, very angry, say
the Swiss authorities didn't try hard
enough to protect Vorovsky.
THREE-MILE
LIMIT
Like the United States, Russia
wants to extend her limit Of au-
thority over the ocean from three to
twelve miles beyond her shores.
It isn't liquor smuggling she's try
ing to prevent but fishing rights she
wants to protect.
England insists on the three-mile
limit and has sent a warship to de-
fend her fishing craft from Russian
interference. She has sent an until
matum to Moscow, too, threatening,
not war but break in commercial
relations.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-05-21

AT graduation time your
friends expect your photograph.
Phone for your appointment. The
McKinstry Studio.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1923-10-18
TWIN FALLS STUDENTS
TO HELP HARVEST BEANS

Twin Falls high school students
have been called upon TO volunteer
their services TO help save the bean
crop. Rains the past week have
drenched the crop, and unless har-
vested at once will be total loss.
High school was dismissed for the
rest OF the week. Business men also
have been called upon TO volunteer
their services and 20 permit their
employees TO go TO the fields The
crop must either be threshed or
placed in stacks, before the later
rains set in.
The bean crop Of the county this
year has an estimated value Of APP
proximately $4,000 .000. About 20
per cent Of the crop. II is estimated.
already has been thrasbed. The
Of the senior high school will
release It's boys between IA and rs
years Of age. to work in the bean
fields
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1923-10-18
COMMISSIONERS OFFER R5o
REWARD FOR TRUCK DRIVER

The board OF county commission.
ers are offering a reward OF $50 for
the apprehension of the persons re-
sponsible for recent accident which
occurred on the state highway be-
tween the county hospital and Twin
Falls when four young women. en-
pioyes OF the county hospital were
struck by truck driven by an un-
known person. and seriously Injured
The accident took place on the
evening OF October 3, at about Z 80
O'Clock. the injured persons being
the Misses Anastasia Suchan. Faith
Guthridge, Ada Warrington and
Dora Heidenreich The latter sus-
tanned a fractured ankle. and Miss
Suchan was dragged fifty feet.