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The Washington times., 1924-08-21
THREE CARS TURN OVER
At RAILROAD WASHoUT

DANVILLE, ILL.,, Aug. 81. -. The
mail and baggage express cars and
two coaches Of the Peoria bound
night.passer.Ser train, OF the Peoria
and Eastern railroad, ran into a
washout west Of Mahamet yestAr-
day. All three cars turned over.
Three mail clerks were bruised.
The engine leaped the gap and was
standing on the rails on the far
side Of the washout when the train
stopped.
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Of their families; how, the next
day they went coolly about their
studies at the university.
Could anything, Savage cried,
dramatically, be more cold-blooded,
more deliberate than this?
81 WONDER your honor" he said
caustically. whether they slept
well that night. wonder whether
the bloody little face Of. Bobby
Franks did not confront them in
their dreams"
From the. night Of the murder
Savage described In minute detail
the actions Of the two boys. He
recounted the steps they took to
get the 10000 from Jacob Franks.
the ingenuity of their planning, the
slillfulness. of their plotting. and
grew sarcastic over the precious
care they took OF their. own hides"
Fathers Do Not Speak.
Jacob Franks listened with Bowed
head as Savage retoId the familiar
story. He. was back lin his old
0eat today. just behind the two
Glayers Of his son. He had sat yes
The Washington times., 1924-08-21
Official News Received.

An official report on the hop-off
Of the American round-the.world
fliers from Reykjavik. Iceland, for
Greenland reached the War Depart.
ncnt today from the cruiser Nil.
waukee.
The dispatch said Lieutenants
Smith and Nelson, accompanied by
the Italian flier, Locatelli, left Reyk.
javik at S:l6, Greenwich time, SIS
American eastern standard time. \
The Washington times., 1924-08-21
HERR|OTT GIVEN
SUPPORT Of
CABINET
Premier Will Address Senate
and Chamber, Requesting
Vote Of Confidence

PARIS, Aug. 21.-Premier Her.
riots declarations explaining and
defending HIS course in the London
Preparations conference were unani.
mouAly approved by the cabinet at
noon today. President Doumergue
presided.
Premier Herriot had given notice
he would address both the senate
and chamber Of deputies late In the
day, answering any questions rela-
tive to his course at London. He
Will request q vote Of confidence
ana indications are IL VIII be given.
palm Of the other. ''For not sven
Jacob Franks knew what was 60
ing to happen. Had he gone to
that drug store, he would have
barely time to get his call and
catch the designated. train. There
would have been no time TO notify
the police" - ,.
It was entirely q "coId.bIoedsd
proposition" Savage said. Nothing,
he contended, has been introduced
by the defense to show that It was
anything else except the greed for
the $4,000 that prompted .'Dicky''
and Babe" to conceive and execute
the crime.
Only q few nights after the muir.
der, he continued, this intellectual
giant. Leopold, went over and calm.
" took his entrance examinations
for Harvard University.
Meeting one Of his law instructors,
he discussed this Franks crime with
him, ana argued that ut was only
granddaughter, and not murder"
Hits Defense q Blow.
tie had sufficient intellect to
pass that examination" cried Saw.
age, delivering q direct thrust at
the defense contention Of mental
disease"
Savage Embossed the batteries Of
his sarcasm and denunciation again
when he came TO Leopold's attempt
to divert suspicion Of the Franks
crime upon two instructors at Bob.
BY FRANKIE school, who were then
In the custody Of the police and
being grilled.
When Professor Puttkamnher, his
law instructor, said he could not be.
ueve that those instructors could
be capable Of committing such a
crime, Leopold said he was not so
sure Of that, that he had seen him
q night or 50 before and talked to
him about the crime, and that the
instructor was nervous and I'll at
ease"
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terday where he could look them
sQuarely In the face, but his emo
tons got the better Of him in that
position, 50 he shifted back today.
Not four feet away from him. sat
another old man with bowed head
the father Of Nathan r. Leopold.
He sat with .his forehead resting
on his upstanding cane, the picture
Of detection, bewilderment and sor.
row. The fathers did not look ct
each ~other.
Savage spent some time over the
careful instructions Loeb and Leo.
pold had given Jacob Franks for
producing the $4,000 ransom
money
Franks was to have gone to a
drug store and wait for q telephone
call in public booth. He would
have received orders there to get
aboard a train for Michigan City,
with $4,000 in old bills, stand on
the rear platform ana at a desig.
mated point hurl the package. Of
bills from the train.
"Cold BlOoded Proposition"
cit would not have bean possible
to apprehend them. In q hundred
thousand years" declared the States
attorney, pounding one fist iutn the
The Washington times., 1924-08-21
BANDITS loot
ALEXANDRIA
!. HOUSE
Parents Must Punish Four
Boys, Aged S to 9, Judge
DuVaIl Rules

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Aug. 21.-
Four children led by five-year-old
Melvin Beck, Of lis South Henry
street, 1t is charged, entered a house
at lit South Henry street and car.
ried away q clock. part Of q radio
set, horn, violin and two boxes
OF stale shredded wheat.
Louis Mason, eight, 100 South
Henry street, and Clarence Jones,
nine, HOG Prince street, appeared
before Judge Frederick G. Duvall
today. Their alleged leader and an.
other boy, Eddie Sumption, eight, Of
1l07 Prince street, failed to appear
and VIII be brought to court tomor-
row morning. The two boys broke
down this morning and confessed 10
having followed the Beck boy into
the house through q window which
he had opened.
The mother Of the Jones boy APP
peared with her son and told the
judge that she had questioned her
son but did not know whether she
would punish him or not. Judge
Duvan then instructed Captain Of
Police Durrer. to summons the boys
father into court as soon as he re.
turned from work this evening in
order that the boy should be prop.
erly punished.
The father Of the Mason boy also
appeared in court and stated that
his boy told him last night that the
four accused were innocent, but
changed his story this morning and
said that three Of them entered the
House. The father seemed surprised
when tho boy confessed his part in
the robbery, and told the Judge that
he would take his son home and
punish him.
Judge Dnvall. declared, following
the trial, that It was his intention
to see the boys properly punished by
their parents.
The. fall trade exhibit of the
Greater Alexandra Trade Associa.
ton will be held October 6 to 16,
1t was decided at q meeting Of the
executive committee in the audi
forum Of the chamber OF commerce
yesterday.
The mercantile section Of the ex.
hibit will be held October to 8,
under the supervision Of r. c..
knight, and the automobile section
will be held October IA to is, under
the supervision Of J., e. Ross.
The Kiwanis Club held it's regular
weekly luncheon today in the audi.
forum Of the Chamber Of Com
merce.
Nearly 200 members Of the Ku
Klux Khan held a celebration last
night which ended with an initiation
of forty candidates.
The Klansmen, attired in their 70
| gala. drove through the MAR
streets Of the city IN automobiles DO
fore lseEtng for. the mseting place
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LONGER DANCING HOUR
FOR CHESAPEAKE BEACH

Weekend and summer vacation
crowds at Chesapeake Beach have
grown so large. that the manage
Tnent has extended its Saturday
night dancing hours to. acconamo-
date those who spend the night at
the resort and crave amusement.
Heretofore dancing has halted at
$3.50 to enable excursionistA to catch
the 10 o'clock train, last one in
the evening. In the future Satur-
day night dancing win run until
IL p. m, starting at z. 90
The Washington times., 1924-08-21
Failed To Get Money
For Which They
Slew
By International News Service.

BAYONNE, N. j., Aug. 2l.-
Three bandits yesterday shot and
killed Waclaw Zebrowski, fifty,
treasurer of the. White Eagle
Building and Loan Association.
They became so frightened at
what they had done they fled
without taking the $4,000 their
victim carried in his pockets.
Three suspects have con-.
fessed, police announced.
The Washington times., 1924-08-21

The Kiwanis Club held it's regular
weekly luncheon today in the audi.
forum OF the Chamber Of Com
merce.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
GAS PRICE AT ROME
IS SLASHED 2 CENTS

ROME, Ga, June 25-Gasoline pri-
ces aFe on the decline in Rome, due
to the near war between the oil COM
panies. One of the retail dealers,
Browns Transfer Company. was the
first to reduce. They sell gasoline at
% cents and issue no coupon books.
Other companies are selling it at "a
cents and issuing coupon books which
make the most 81 IL cents.
The reduction began three weeks ago
when Wyatt Foster, secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce, made an in
vestigation finding that Rome was be-
ing Disseminated against when he com
pared local prices with Others
Retail dealers have no control over
the price of gasoline bought from
the big distributors, the price being
fixed by the big oil companies and
profit of only Q cents being allowed
When the price was 26 cents in
Rome, it was 10 to II cents in Chat
tanooga, Notwithstanding the fact
that much of the gas shipped to Chat
tanooga passes through Rome enroute
from Savannah port.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
PROHI LAW VIOLATIONS
ON DECREASE IN 1924

That prohibition law violations in
Georgia have decreased at least so per
cent this year from violations during
the year 1923 is indicated in a monthly
report by Fred D. Dismuke, federal
prohibition agent, on the activities of
his department.
"The whiskey situation in Georgia
has been so remarkably improved"
commented Agent Dismuke, shat our
force OF agents has been decreased
from the number required last year.
We find fewer stills in operation and
there is little fragrant violation of the
law, The stills that we do find are
small affairs and are rugged up for
very short runs"
During the month of May there
were l54 illicit stills and distillers
seived and destroyed; l,l43 gallons of
whiskey, $4,000 gallons of beer fit for
distillation, 1,4S4 fermenters, $751;
S23,3S in property value seized, 12s
persons reported and recommended
for rest, 20 arrested for violations
and 80 convictions in courts.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
KEEPING WHITE WAY
WHITE IS MAMMOTH
AND EXPENSIVE JOB
More Than Million Glowing Bulbs
Light Broadway From Time of
First Shadow to the Last

If there is broken heart for every
light on Broadway, as the poets have
it, Broadway is haven for the sor-
rowing. The Edison company has re-
ported that there are 1,095,841 lamps
there.
Keeping the White Way white is n
great task 1t requires more than 200,-
900 workers and costs millions of dol
lars each year Fifty men roam the
thoroughfare nightly looking for dead
lamps. Astounding genius is shown in
the display.
There are kittens entwined in balls
of cord, women with umbrellas walk
ing in electrical rain, motor cars whiz-
zing by, syphons filling glasses, men
putting pipes, six youngsters who
dance, a covered wagon fording a
river-all etched against the night sky
In fire.
The electrical signs represent an
enormous expense A theatrical pro-
Queer pays $1,000 week to herald his
revue. The block-long signs advertis-
ing movie" cost $4,000 week. The
smallest kind of sign atop build
ing costs $500 week.
Broadway's first electrical sign was
placed atop the Normande hotel. To.
day it can scarcely be noticed amid
the array around il.
Broadway's cry is more light ;
Tie lights used to come on at deer
dusk. Now the lights begin glowing
at O'clock in the afternoon. If there
is dark morning or afternoon all the
lights are shining.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
DICKSON TOBACCO
CROP IS DOING WELL

SPARTA, Ga, June rs Reports
come to Sparta that the tobacco crop
being cultivated on the David Dickson
Farm near Sparta is doing we'll and the
prospects now point to a good yield.
The crop is somewhat later than the
tobacco in South Georgia but the
expert from North Carolina who is in
charge of the culture, is we'll pleased
with the outlook. He states that he
sees no reason why every farmer in
Hancock County should not plant a
few acres next year in tobacco. The
soil, he says, is we'll adapted to the
crop and will bring the farmer in more
money than cotton on less acreage.
The results of the above crop are
awaited with interest, not only by the
owners of the farm, but by individuals
which, if successful, will be an incen-
tive for others to plant next year.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
FIVE ARE SEIZED
IN MAIL ROBBERY
Two Hundred and Forty-six $40 Bills
Found Upon Suspects Arrested
in Tulsa Raid

Tulsa, Okla, June 25-Two women
and three men, arrested in raid ON
house here today, are being held
by county authorities for investiga-
ton in connection with the recent
$2,000,000 mail robbery near Chicago.
Two hundred and forty-six $40 bills
were seized in the raid
Issue Attachment for Officers
Chicago, June 25-Superior JUDGE
William Lindsay today issued attach
mcnts for eight federal officers who
had failed to respond to summonses
to appear before him in the inquiry
into the action of state officials in
turning over to federal authorities
seven men and women held in con-
nection with the $2,000,000 mail rob-
berry ON June IL.
Federal Judge Wilkerson, however,
issued a temporary injunction re-
straining Sheriff Hoffman and his
deputies from arresting the federal
deputy marshals and assistant dis
trict attorneys named.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
AMERICAN WALNUT CULTURE
is URGED BY GOVERNMENT
United States Spends Million Dollars
Week for Its Supply of Nuts

Do you know that the United States
spends on an average of $1,000,000
week for imported food nuts, while
millions of bushels of our native
American walnuts go to waste every
season.
So. if $l,000,000 a week is a Joke,
the joke is on us, because we spend
it and the other countries get it, and
many people say that our native Amer
lean walnut is the best nut to eat
that grows.
Candy manufacturers and bakers
need no longer hesitate to use native
American walnut meats because of an
uncertain supply. That is now thing
of the past.
The United States department of
agriculture states that there are 81
100000 acres of idle land, mostly in
the east and central west, fit only for
growing trees, and much of this now
idle land is suitable for hardy nut
trees, including the black walnut. Be-
sides, each of the corn belt states has
a million and half more acres of
very rich land, but subject to over
flow, and is now practically worthless,
Such lands are the natural home of
the black walnut
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
PECAN GROVES AFFECTED
BY CASE BEARER
Pest Is Followed by Parasite Which
Checks Its Ravages, Experts Say

Albany, June 25-Many pecan grow
ers in the Albany district, as we'll as
the districts central around Baconton
and Townsville, are apprehensive lest
production be greatly diminished this
year on account of the ravages of
the pecan case bearer, an insect enc
my which has damaged groves in the
past. Confidence is expressed, how
ever, by government experts and To-
cal entomologists that the pest will
be overcome, as have rosette, anthrac-
nose, kernel spot, husl1 worms and
other pecan enemies.
The case bearer is not new enc
my to the pecan, and scientists say
thot its depredations are checked by
parasite that follows it and feeds
on it. Ravages of the case bearer were
first seen in the district around Month
cello, Fla, and it travelled thru Grady
and Thomas counties, Georgia and
was at one time found around Bacon
ton ana Albany. Its march was fol-
lowed by the coming of the insect
enemy that feeds on it, and in a short
time it was partially checked, but this
year is appearing in new groves
Experts say that groves attacked
by the case bearer must wait one
year for the appearance of the para
site that devours it, for the parasite
waits until its enemy is gathered in
sufficient numbers to make feeding
good, and that pecan groves suffer
heavily while this assembling is TAX
ing place. 1t is said that some of
the largest groves around Albany
will suffer heavily this year, pend
ing the arrival of the parasite that
is expected to drive out the case
bearer
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
FARMERS SEEK RELIEF
FROM DEMOCRATS
Nine Demands Presented For Incor-
poration in Plank on Agriculture

NEW YORK, June IA new ag-
ricultural bill of rights was presented
to the resolutions committee of the
Democratic National Convention Tues
day by the Association for National
Relief of Agriculture.
Demands for more advantageous
marketing conditions were voiced in
the plank which was submitted by the
group, presented by B. F. Yoakum OF
New York.
According to the group, agriculture
insists upon nine separate points of
recognition:
/. Intelligent Interpretation of laws
dealing with cooperative marketing.
3 Opposition to paternalism and
to private or corporate exploitation of
farm products.
3. The right to conduct its business
in its own way, under approval of the
law, is demanded
L. That there shall be no discrim-
nation against the industry by various
government agencies, including the
Federal Reserve Board.
S. The right to create for itself a
national marketing organization to
bring producers and consumers in clos
er contact
6 A national cooperative market
ing system which will insure indepen-
dence and return to prosperous opera
ton.
J. Endorsement of principles of the
Curtis-Aswell bill, which makes it pos
sible to eliminate all unnecessary COM
missions, profits and wastes between
producers and purchasers.
8. Demands that only persons who
are known be entrusted with the admin
istration of laws affecting farmers.
9. Unconditional protests against
bureaucratic interference by govern
ment agencies in affairs of cooperative
farm organizations directly or indirect
ly.
Members of the group who are on
the scene of action and who signed
the demands laid before the resolu-
tons committee are:
Finis ]. Garrett of Tennessee, and
leader of the lower house OF
Congress; c. S. Barrett, Georgia pres
ident of the National Farmers Union,
Congressman J. B. Aswell Louisiana,
joint author Of the Curtis-Aswell farm
bill; Nathan Maraus. Jr., New York,
and Congressman Henry T. Rainey,
Illinois.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26

No shsdder of excuse to make
--solDin' as if yer heart would
break, sobbed CO yer woes in
her dear lap mighty contrite
little chap. That dirty face
against her breast, a thousand
vagrancies confessed. What
sooshin' power in that tone,-
There, there, dear heart-it's
all----all gonel"
She patted We with soft caress,
ard quieted yer child-distress,-
and. rocked ye back an forth the
while, and fed we with her
heavenly smile. o, how yer
little heart would turn an nestle
near that heart Of her'n! All
fratSn' ceased forgiveness
woil.-"There, there, dear child,
it's all-all gonel'
So, when, in after years ye
erred,-when unkind fate or
weakness led to dire disaster,-
hope transferred by dread
despair that racked yer head
then-then, sad heart, is when
you learn the solace of them
words of her'n,-you seemed to
hear 'em through the tears
though she's been gone these
many years!
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
TOURISTS REGISTER AT
BLUE AND GRAY PARK
Wednesday, June 18th

Wednesday, June 18th
Catherine Schoyer Atlanta to
Washington.
E c. Schoyer Atlanta to Washing
ton.
A. c. Chenault, Mrs A w Sears,
Mrs. A c Chenault, Fred Chenault,
Jacksonville to Louisville, KY.
Thursday, June IL
Messrs. w. E. Britt and Alex Boss,
Columbus, to Quitman, Ga.
Friday, June 18th
Messrs T. c. Pierce, H B Pierce and
A Pierce from Decatur, Ga, to Fla,
Saturday, June IA
Messrs o w Lawton, John Hopes,
S G Stacy, Fred Crock, James Crock,
Lewis G. Webb from Vincennes, Ind,
to Miami, Fla.
Mr. and Mrs w A Fountain and
family from Hialeah, Fla, to Pitts
field
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Pagden and three
children from Louisville, KY, to Stu
art, Fla.
Monday, June 10th
Messrs A. E. Baird, Fred Baird ant
Geo. L. Baird from Gary, Ind, to Fla
Tuesday, June 7th
Mr.. and Mrs. w J Mewery and sor
from Jacksonville, Fla, to New York
Mr.. and Mrs William C. Mills from
Florida to Elmira. N Y.
Wednesday, June 18th
Leroy Brandon and family from
Clearwater, Fla, to Waynesville, NC
Thursday, June 10th
Mrs. H. o. Camp and two sons ST
Petersburg, Fla, to Winder, Ga.
Saturday, June 81
James Thomson Miami to Evans
vile, Ind.
Sunday, June %
Mr.. and Mrs. L. Johnson, Titusvil1
Fla, to Bowling Green, KY.
Mr.. and Mrs Earl Smock an,
father from Titusville, Fla, to And
over, Ohio.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-06-26
TO PREVENT DISEASE
OF SWEET POTATOES
State Board of Entomology Gives
Important Information to
Growers

If you expect to grow sweet pota-
toes for sale next season now is the
time to begin preparations. The State
Board of Entomology, with the CO.
operation of growers, hopes to eradi-
cate stem-rot and reduce black-rot
and, other sweet potato diseases to a
minimum in Georgia next year, and
in order to accomplish this it will be
necessary to observe the following
precautions:
l. Grow your own seed potatoes
from vine cuttings. Plant the vines
on soil where sweet potatoes have not
grown during the past four years.
2. Have your field inspected for
stem-rot and other diseases before
digging time.
3, Before digging these seed pota-
toes disinfect tools and wagon with
bicholride of mercury solution.
4. Bank the potatoes in new
place where POTATOES have never been
banked before If you have curing
house, disinfect all crates used. Clean
out and spray the floor and walls of
the house thoroly.
S. Next spring have your potatoes
inspected before bedding. Gull them
close, throwing out all that show rot,
cuts or bruises.
E. Dip the potatoes 10 minutes in
bichloride of mercury solution Il OF.
to gallons of water) before bedding
Bed them on new soil where potatoes
have never been grown.
If these precautions are taken po-
tatoes will not rot in storage; you will
have clean sound seed next spring,
and can grow healthy plants free from
all diseases.
Next year no certificate tags will
be issued by the Board of Entomology
unless at least three inspections are
made, viz: field inspection, storage
inspection and plant bed inspection.
These inspections will be made free
of charge if the board is notified in
advance
The board asks cooperation in
stamping out the sweet potato diseas-
es, and requests that if your neighbor
is selling or giving away uninspected
plants please notify that office.