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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
MRS. GAMBLER NOT
TO RESIST DIVORCE
SIXTY THOUSAND PAID HER
BY ASA GAMBLER, SR,
SAYS REPORT.

ATLANTA, Ga.7Mrs. May Little
Ragin Gambler will not oppose the di-
yorce suit filed by her husband, Asa
G. Gambler, sr., Atlanta millionaire,
because of cash payment to her OF
100000, made prior to the filing of the
suit, it is said
Reports in court house circles were
to the effect that Mr.. Gambler had
settled 100000 on his wife, but it was
understood the actual figures were
100000 and that she had waived all
claims against him.
The divorce petition was filed one
year after the wedding and several
months following the arrest of Mrs.
Gambler, w. ]. Stoddard and G. w.
Keeling in a fashionable apartment
house here by the chief of police,
James L. Beavers, who charged that
he found them at a table upon which
was partly filled bottle of whisky.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
MINORITY ALMOST
SURE TO CONTROL
EVERY CONGRESSMAN MUST
FACE VERDICT OF VOTERS.
MANY TERMS EXPIRE.

Political dopesters are predicting
that the insurgents in congress will
continue to hold the balance of pow
err in this country for the next two
years, regardless of which party is vic
torious at the polls i'll November. By
the insurgents is meant that group of
eight republicans and two farmer-la-
borites in the senate and 10 republic
cans, farmer-laborite and socialist
in the house of representatives, all OF
whom acknowledged the leadership OF
Senator Robert M. LaFollette, OF
Wisconsin.
While the radical insurgents were
small in numbers they had the pow
er to veto any legislation to which
they were opposed for the simple rea-
son that the republicans and demo-
Gratis were so evenly divided in both
houses of the last congress.
Complexion of Congress.
The last senate was made up of 81
republicans, 43 democrats and 2 farm
er-laborites. Eight of the republicans,
however, were classed as radicals,
and voting with the two farmer-labor-
ties they were able to reduce the re-
publican number OF 43, exactly the
strength of the democrats. Since AZ
is a majority in the senate, the radi-
Gals held the upper hand throughout
the entire session.
The terms OF 81 senators expire on
March 4, 1925. Their successors are to
be elected this November. OF the
number whose terms expire II are re-
publicans, IA democrats and ! farmer
laborite. 1t is predicted that the next
senate will be about evenly divided
between conservative republicans
and democrats, with the edge slightly
in favor of the democrats The radi-
Gals will return with their former
strength, which was ten, and continue
to hold the balance of power.
The house of representatives was
divided as follows in the last session:
Conservative" republicans, 200; rad
/ ical" republicans, 10; democrats, 200;
! independent, l; socialist | and farmer
! laborite /. This majority in the house
is 218 and the republicans had 2O9
and the democrats zoo. The radicals
were therefore able to veto any leg
islation they did not like. They held
| the balance OF power.
The terms of every member OF the
house will expire next March. All the
members are facing the verdict OF the
voter this November. 1t is predicted
that the democrats and republicans
will again be about equally divided,
and that the radicals will again be
able to command sufficient number
of seats to give them the deciding
voice in matters OF legislation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
HEAD
FLAYS SHOOTINGS
KILLING OF BAZEMORES BY
OFFICERS AROUSES NATION
AL INDIGNATION.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-"That the
nation is greatly alarmed at the stead
ilv growing shootings of innocent
people by officers seeking to enforce
the prohibition law i'll the south IS
demonstrated by the scores OF letters
of indignation reaching the headquar-
tiers of the association against the pro-
hibition amendment, which resulted in
a statement from Captain w. H. Stay
ton. founder and executive head OF the
association. today. "Outrages have IN
creased and gained such proportions
in the southern section that the peo-
nile of the country have just cause tor
alarm" Captain Stayton declared.
Fright on the heels Of the shooting OF
two Georgia tourists by prohibition
agents on the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
highway comes a report and a storm
of protest from Congressman Up
shaw's state. which he repeatedly
claimed is bone dry. This report tells
of the killing of two brothers, Joe and
Herman Bazemore, prominent sore
ven county farmers, on the Mllieh
road, about four miles from Sylvanla,
Ca by County RolCelIdH J:
Ian, who stopped the automobile con
tanning the farmers and two OF then.
little children for the purpose OF
searching it for liquor.
"The association against the prom
bition amendment has attempted to
bring out the facts in all OF these
shooting cases, feeling that the best
classes Of people of the nation, wheth-
err wet or dry, will cry out against
such outrages, and aid us in our at
tempt to make human lives more val.
nabie than the seizure OF a pint OF
whisky. In many of the cases reported
to this office no prohibition law vio-
lations were discovered.
81 feel confident that right think
ing people in the southern section are
lust as indignant over the shootlngs5
as are the people in other sections and
that they will take steps necessary to
put stop to these outrages.
ut is indeed deplorable that such
things can happen and extremely I'M
fortunate for Mr.. Upshaw that 1t
took place in his state"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
CARELESSNESS OF SMOKERS
IS CAUSE OF MANY FIRES
In 1928 They Were Responsible for
862 in National Forests.

Carelessness with cigars, cigarettes,
pipe ashes and matches was the cause
of 862 forest fires within the bounda-
ries Of national forests during 1928, ac-
cording to figures recently compiled
by the forest service OF the United
States Department of Agriculture.
The damage caused by these smok-
ers' fires is estimated at $4,000, ex-
elusive of the indirect and intangible
damage to young growth, watershed
protection, wild life and recreational
facilities.
One OF the objects of forest pro-
lection week, which President Cool
idge set aside last April by proclama
ton, was to emphasize the need OF
care with fire while in wooded areas.
The number of smokers fires elo-
quently tell of the need for public ed
ucation, forestry officials assert, if the
fire hazard in Americas woodlands is
to be stamped out.
Equipping automobiles with ash re-
ceptacles is one of the things advo-
Gated for overcoming the tendency to
flip burning tobacco ashes over the
side of the car into leaves, brush and
other highly inhammable material us
ually lying along highways bordered
by trees.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
DECIDED SLUMP IN
COTTON PROSPECTS
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-
TURE REPORTS HUNDRED
MILLION POUNDS LOSS.

WASHINGTON, D. CA slump
in the prospective production of cot
ton this year, due principally TO ex-
cessive rains in the Carolinas during
the period between June Is and July
10, is shown in the semi-monthly cot
ton report of the department of agri-
culture. A forecast Of 1l.934000 equiv
alent 500 pound bales, as compared
with a crop of 10,128,478 bales last
year, was made by the crop reporting
board. That is approximately 100000
900 pounds less than forecast on July
2 and represents a hypothetical loss
of probably $255,000,O0O or more to
southern cotton growers.
North Carolina was hardest hit the
loss in prospective production there
to about 50,000,000 pounds
In South Carolina and Louisiana the
crop also suffered considerably. Wash
ing rains and hail storms greatly
damaged the plants in North Carolina
and some abandonment took place
there. Excessive rainfall harmed the
South Carolina crop also. In Louisiana
protracted drouth in the northern and
northwestern parts of the state was
the cause of deterioration.
The late planted crop in Texas is
in the balance and unless rain comes
soon it will not amount to much. The
cotton flea is doing more damage in
the southern part of the state than
the ho11 weevil and transformers are
still damaging the crop, as they are
in Oklahoma
Georgias cotton prospects are bet
ter than they have been for several
wears.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
u. S. GETS MILLIONS
FROM PANAMA CANAL
GREAT CANAL IN TEN YEARS
HAS PROVED REMARKABLE.
TRADE INCREASES FAST.

More than $20,000,000 will be the
governments income from the Pana-
ma canal this year. August 18th is
the tenth anniversary of the opening
of the big ditch" Traffic through
the canal is increasing so fast that
engineers already are talking of the
necessity of enlarging the great wa
ter-way or of building a new canal
across the isthmus.
Canal Worked Miracle.
The canal has worked the miracle
OF an ocean going ship sailing from
Grays Harbor, Wash, to Chicago. 1t
has shortened important water routes
by more than 5000 miles 1t has reor-
ganized one-fourth of the worlds
shipping With the development of
the Far East and the growth Of pop
ulation on the west coast of the Unit
ed States, it is becoming nationally
and internationally more important.
The canal has opened many new
traffic lanes 1t handles commercial
traffic between the two coasts of the
United States and between the United
States, Canada, Europe, South Amer
lea, Australia, Mexico and the Far
East
Business Increasing.
During 1923 the canal handled 1907
ships, which paid $17 500, 100 in tolls.
During May of this year Az vessels
passed through the canal, paying tolls
of nearly 100000. By 1870 engi-
neers estimate, the canal will handle
1,430 ships a month.
This estimate, approved by COM
mercial experts, has given rise to the
question whether the Panama canal
will not be too small within the next
two or three decades. Already the
question of new canal has received
attention at Washington, and likely
will be brought before President Cool
idge soon.
Site Already Sought
Already the United States has paid
$3,000,000 and acquired the right to
build canal along route roughly
indicated by the Juan river Lake
Nicaragua and the Gulf of Fonseca, in
Nicaragua. Such a canal might cost
billion dollars, or considerably more
than twice the cost of the Panama
canal, yet the plan is being vigorously
pushed by few business and public
men.
Another plan is advanced by Lieut..
Philippe Varilla, French engineer.
He advocates the building of a sea
level canal in Panama, the work to
cost about billion dollars and to re-
ouire about 20 years. His plan calls
| for canal still larger than the Pana-
ma canal.
Success Demonstrated.
In the meantime the success Of the
present canal, despite frequent slides,
to prevent which dredges are now
kept constantly at work, has been
demonstrated. The Canal Zone, al
though not formally American terri
tory, is the home Of peaceful army
of 1900 men, OF whom one-fifth are
engaged in the handling of ships and
| the canal apparatus. Yellow fever, the
old time scourge of the zone, has been
entirely exterminated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
ROPE REMAINS FOR
GEORGIA MURDERERS
SENATE DEFEATS BILL TO
ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISH
MENT. KING SPEAKS.

Bv an overwhelming vote the senate
defeated bill to abolish hanging in
Georgia.
Tbirtv-one senators voted down the
measure of Senator Stovall, which
would have abolished the death pen
altv. against six supporting votes, foi-
lowing an address OF the author OF
tbe proposed law, setting forth what
he contended was the failure OF capt.
tal punishment to deter crime.
Opposing the proposed law Senator
King of the Eleventh district, spoke
hr;efv calling attention of the soions
70 the rarity of hangings in Georgia at
present and declaring there ought TO
he more" The death penalty, ne SAID
was the only way of dealing justice
to murderers. The
senats then dafeated the bill OF Sena-
tor phillips. Which would provide the
substitution of the electric cfals IoI
the galIows, This bill had passed inc
Senator Phillips, author OF the Dill,
annea1ed for its passage as a ueeeL.
and orderly manner OF executing tne
death sentence. Senator Duke, OF the
18th district, opposed the bill, claim,
INC that medical authorities. declared
thst death is more human by hang-
;no He said that electrical apparatus
he never been perfected Tor the pur-
nose al taking human life and tnat
abol;t;on Of hanging would do away
~ -. a. effect II a deterrent Tor the
crimina1ly inclined.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
U. S. WOMEN SCHEME
TO SEE THE PRINCE
WEALTHY SNOBS IMPERSON-
ATE MANICURISTS IN ORDER
TO MEET WALES.

PARIS.-Two wealthy American
women. both here obtaining divorces,
evolved a successful scheme to see the
prince of Wales this morning.
Living in the Hotel Maurice, the
same hotel at which the prince has
been staying since his official visit
ended and he quit the British embas-
sy. the women daily visited the colt
fure. manicure and barber shop in the
hotel, becoming on good terms with
the various employees. When the prince
is staying at the Maurice every morn
ing barber, manicure girl and as
sistant and a Chinese pedicure visit
the princes suite to fix him up for
the day.
One of the American women, who
was a Chicago manicurist before mar
rying the millionaire she is now di-
vorcing, figured out plan to see the
prince personally by inducing the bar
Der shop to permit her to substitute
for the regular manicurist and to
fetch her divorcing lady friend along
as her assistant.
This morning the two society wo-
men. with borrowed aprons, and car
rying bowls, files, buffers, scissors and
the mysterious little bottles all mani
curists use, proceeded to the prince
apartment with the barber and Chi
nese foot carpenter and proceeded to
do the royal nails.
The heir to the British throne wore
an imperial yellow Japanese kimono
during the manicure, and commented
on the costly diamond and emerald
rings and ropes of pearls on the hum
bic finger of the nail artists, and tipp-
ed each OF them so francs $3.50.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
CHURCH REBUKES
LOW NECK FR0CKS
DISPLEASING TO THE POPE.
WOMEN REFUSED COMMUN-
ION YIN CHURCH IN ROME.

Extremes in women's dress which
NAV pass unnoticed in this country
come under condemnation OF the
church in Rome, according to a spe-
cial wireless to the New York World
An article in the World which has
attracted comment reads as follows:
THE Papel crusade against wo-
mems indecent clothing reappeared to-
day when Mgr Abbott refused holy
communion in St Praxed's church to
two women whose low-neck, transpar-
ent dresses aroused his indignation.
"The prelate, who is also acting as
postulant in the case for canonizing
the late Pope Piux X, was distribut-
ing the eucharist when two ultra
fashionably clad women arrived and
knelt at the altar With an expression
OF the most profound Indignation he
passed both of them, giving the holy
water to the next communicate who
happened to be a man.
"The women, blushed and arose
from the altar, retiring to the back
of the church, where Mgr. Abbott
later summoned them to the cenfes-
sional and administered severe re-
buke
"The women, weeping, promised to
disregard their fashionable frocks in
the future and return to communion
properly clad. This is the first case
against immodest clothing since a
wear ago, when Swiss guards at the
entrance of the Vatican forbade a
group of American women wearing
iow-neck dresses from entering for a
Papal audience.
"The Pontiff recently repeated his
injunctions to the clergy to tighten
existing rules against extreme dress
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
GIVES WIFE FREEDOM
AND FIVE MILLIONS
NOT STATED WHETHER DE-
SPOILER OF YEAST KINGS
HOME GOT VOTE THANKS.

NEW YORK, N. Y.-Charity be-
gins at home!
Five million dollars and freedomI
That is the pretty piece of philan-
thropy displayed by Julius Fleisch-
mann, multi-millionaire yeast king.
This gift to his wife, Laura, is ex-
pected to clear the complexion of the
Fleischmann domestic dilemma, which
has suffered from fever blotches since
the advent of Jay O'Brien into Mrs.
Fleischmann' life.
Mr.. O'Brien is a polo player, indie
scribable dancer and head walters de-
light. He has been the husband of
Mae Murray and Irene Fenwick re-
spectively, but is now free to marry
the recently divorced Laura Fleisch-
mann if he will
Whether or not the yeast king will
give rising vote of thanks to the
dancing despoiler Of his home he
would not say.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29

Experts learn that the detection,
prosecution, punishment and proven
ton of crime cost taxpayers from So
0OO. GOO. 900 to $4,000, 100000 "a year.
This sum includes the expense of
maintaining police systems, courts,
tails. prisons, penitentiaries and other
institutions for the care Of detectives
and delinquents.
The toll which criminals take from
society in one form or another IS es-
tin1ated at another $500, OO0,0O0. The
most productive form is dishonest en-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29

Criminals and crime cost the peo-
ME of the United States at least SlO,-
600 100000 a year. This sum IS equal
TO about 10 per cent of the total ma
t;onal income. Since experts say that
one of every 100 persons is a criminal
every criminal costs society an aver
sge of $4,000 annually. 1t IS estImat-
ed that 100000 men and women are ar,
waeing war against society. win
about one-quarter that number IN JAMS
or prisons all the time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
THIRD EMERGENCE OF WEEVILS DUE;
SoxAa 1o|nW IS CRITICAL TIME WITH COTTON

August 1st. This constitutes an
acute danger period, and poison
should be used now wherever wee
wills are found. Poisoning should
be renewed at intervals of FIVE
days where weevils exist, with
especial care being given to spots
where the infestation is clearly
evident.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
Criminals and Crime Cost Ten Billion Dollars Year

terprise-sale of fraudulent stocks and
bonds, bucket shop operations, land
swindles and other confidence games.
Burglary losses each year total
S525. 100000: embezzlements, $l25,-
900 900; forgeries and worthless
checks. 100000, 900; bad debts, $780,
600 900; dishonest business failures,
$500 100000 and political graft, includ-
ing land thefts and exploitation OF
public resources, 100000, 600. There
are other things, too, which figure IN
the crime cost.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29

ATLANTA, CASA G. Can
dler, jr., and Walter t Gambler
are made defendants in a $4,000
suit, filed by attorneys for Clyde
K. Byfeld, in Decatur, near here,
it was learned today. The suit
asks damages for alleged humilia
ton and damage suffered when it
is claimed the Gamblers made an
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
ROUND OF COURT FIGHT
WITH GAMBLERS STARRING AGAIN

attempt to forcibly take note for
$20,500 from Byfield.
The suit grew out OF an Incl
dent which is alleged to have hap
pened aboard the steamship Be-
rengaria when the wife of the
prosecutor was alleged TO have
been attacked in her state-room
by Walter T. Gambler
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
COB PIPE BUSINESS HAS
GROWN TO HUGE INDUSTRY

Cob pipes, for years known as the
Missouri Meerschaum" because more
were made in that state than any
other. are now being made on a large
scale in other states, principally Ar
kansas. One factory IN Arkansas iast
year made and sold 9O.OOO In Mis-
souri, the cob pipe industry totals
about $100,0O0,000 year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29

The Sec af boil wee
wills have comps emergence,
and the best authorities on this
pest should now watch their fields
closely. Wherever weevil infesta-
ton is found farmers can be GER
tain that a third crop will mate
rialize between July 18th and
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
ST FIRES KILL 81;
BIG PROPERTY DAMAGE.
Timber Regions Along Entire
racine Coast of America.


racine Coast of America.
\ TWO persons are unaccounted
y Oeleved to have persisted in
HIeS which swept all sections
racine coast forest regions.
SS aS were surrounded by
IA iuerai and state governments
ana tourists were pressed in
we as fire fighters. Timber
:, hundreds of thousands of dol
y destroyed.
asad are believed to be: w. O.
s auJ family of six, with six log
@asnt by fire on Trapper creek,
En- party OF IS persons, includ-
kdo..C:Inl children, trapped by a fire
n"r .ellle county, Wash, and four
, ,.sn caught by a fire in the
L, alley IN British Columbia.
co nres ragged along the entire
k,;s sIaS = from southern California
H. a Columbia, and hundreds of
n "a, al work fighting them. The
II. T I declared the most seri-
history of the western coast.
i 5.,.. one-half billion barrels Of
! s,, D. 9een used in this country
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
TOMATOES YIELD PROFIT
TO GROWERS IN SUMTER
Been as High as So Crate. Several
Cars Have Been Shipped.

While peaches are either rotting in
the fields or are being fed to hogs
and dumped into creeks Sumter coun-
ty tomato growers, who went into
this industry in a cautious manner for
the first time this summer, are recelv-
ing good returns. Several solid cars
of tomatoes have been shipped from
Americas, some bringing SIS crate
net +. 0. b. for the best grades. This
price represents a substantial profit to
the producers, and indications now are
that this crop will be largely increas-
ed next year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29
WILD HOG SLAIN AFTER
A DESTRUCTIVE CAREER
Had Done Great Damage in Berrien
During Last Seven Years.

A 7-year old hog that has been do
ing considerable damage to crops in
Berrien county and wrought havoc
among more than one flock of hens
has at last been shot 1t is said that
the hog, pure bred Hampshire, had
been roaming at large for more than
five years and that no fence was high
enough or strong enough to hold him.
Time after time dogs were set on the
wild hogs trail, but he managed to
keep them off.
One day last week Ed Ashley. ne
gro, got close enough to kill the ami
nal with a load of buckshot.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-07-29

bsr. oine-half billion barrels of
h,, e Do geen used in this country
Evening star., 1924-09-23
POLICE HOLD WOMEN
AND MEN FOR INQUIRY
Woman Carrying Baby Among
Five Arrested in Takoma
: Park.

Three men and two women, one of
The latter carrying a baby, are being
held BY the police for Investigation,
following their arrest early yesterday
at TakoIna Park u. G.. while two of
the men are alleged to have been at
tempting to enter the Watkins apart
ment house. The outcome of the in
vestigation of the prisoners past is
expected to determine what formal
charges. if any. will be placed against
them.
The men. who are being held at the
tenth precinct station house, gave
their names as Walter +. Bush,
Charles II. Clinton and Frank w.
Gardner all from kentucky, and the
women said they were Laverne Helen
Rurch and Ardra Mae Clinton. The
women are at the house of detention.
Policemen V +. Kew and Howard
Cheney of the 10th precinct. who
made the arrests, say the men con-
fessed that prior to going to the
apartment house they had robbed a
Piggy WigglY store at 6932 Fourth
street of groceries, The officers say
they found on the men three re-
Nolvers. two black jacks and a guam
tity of burglar tools, while a revolver
was taken from one of the women.
Headquarters detectives believe the
prisoners may be wanted by authori-
ties in other cities. Police have a
large automobile in which the men
and women say they came TO Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1924-09-23

New modes of attractive checked ging-
hams, in slender line effects. Each in
dividually styled with demure collars and
cuffs of pique and organdy Hand en-
broidery and pipings add piquancy. Sizes
So to 46