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Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-14
SHOOTTO OKILL, ARE ORDERS GIVEN TO
 OREGON POSSES
NO TRACE FOUND OF ESCAPED CONNECTS WHO FACE DEATH
 WHEN CAUGHT

SALEM, Ore, Aug. IA (P)-Posses searching for the three convicts who escaped yesterday after killing three guards and mortally wounding the fourth. Any of the men caught will face first degree murder charges with out recommendation, which automati- cally means the gallOws.
 Rewards aggregating $3,OOO will be recommended to the 1927 legislature, for the capture dead or alive of the three convicts.
 B. Jones, brother to the dead convict, announced that his body will be sent to Grants Pass for interment. Thousands viewed the body today.
 The funeral for the three guards killed will be held Saturday.
 Searching for C. V. Ivitts
 Police announced today that they are searching for c. V. Ivitts, former attendant at the State hospital in con- nection with the escape of the prison CTS. Ivitts told prison officials We'd nesday night, shortly after the con- victs fled, that they kidnapped him when they commandeered the taxi at the hospital. He said they used him as protection against the rain of bull lets, and that Murray took $45O from him, returning $40 to him later.
 Police said Ivitts had ordered the taxi, the driver of which was for mer convict. Ivitts failed to report to the district attorney when ordered to yesterday.
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"smae With Mile" Saturday night. Oxford Claims Invention
 of Telescope As Its Own

OXFORD, Eng, Aug. IA (P)-Not satisfied that credit for the invention of the telescope had been properly placed, the subject has been gone into recently at Oxford with the result that claim is made that the instrument was invented at Oxford by an Englishman, and that the only question to be decided is Wheth- CT that Englishman was Roger Ba- con, or the Elizabethan philosopher, Leonard Digges.
 Supporters of the Oxford claim credit Calico with being the great est advertiser" of the telescope but insist that he did not invent it, nor did the Dutch spectacle makers, who are accorded credit as the first who made the telescope an article of commerce.
 Tn favor of the Oxford claim it is pointed out that in the thirteenth century Roger Bacon wrote: Glass es or diaphanous bodies may be so formed that the most remote objects may appear just at hand, and the contrary, so that we may read the smallest letters at an incredible dis tance, and may number things, tho ever so small, and may make the stars also appear as near as we please"
 However, it is admitted that at this time it is impossible to know whether Bacon actually invented a telescope or merely worked out the theory upon which all magnifying glasses are based.
 As to the possibility of Digges, an Oxford man, being the inventor, it is said that in the middle of the 18th century he found Bacon's ideas in a Bacon manuscript, now lost, and went to work to produce glasses in accordance with them. Digges died young with his work unfinished and it remained for his son, Thomas, tc assert the fathers claim as an in ventor. The son is quoted as saying his father often demonstrated his glasses by reading from distance the numbers and letters on coins thrown by friends on open fields.
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SHENANDOAH TO TOW
 BATTLESHIP TARGETS

LAKEHURsT, N. J., Aug. 14. (P- The dirigible Shenandoah left the naval air station today for Newport, R. l., where she will tow aerial tar gets for the battlsship Texas in anti- aircraft practice.
 During her stay at Newport the dirigible will operate in conjunction with the cruiser Potoka.
 Naval officers said the use of the dirigible in towing anti-aircraft tar gets was an innovation. By means of cables the targets will be suspend ed 1000 to 2,0OO feet below the air ship.
 The ship was in charge of Com mander Zachery Lansdowne and 38 men and officers were aboard.
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RUSSIA WORKS FOR IJPBUILDING OF
 COMMERCE
JEALOUSY OF GREAT POWERS ENABLES SOVIET GOVERN
 MENT TO SELL GOODS

BERLIN, Aug. IA (P-Russia is taking advantage of the jealousy and rivalry among Great Britain, France and Italy to make great headway through commercial intercourse with Turkey, and now wields a powerful influence with the Turkish govern ment, Senator King, an irreconcilia- ble opponent of the Turkish-American treaty for the re-establishment of dip- lomatic relations between the United States and Turkey declared. He has just completed tour of the Balkan States, Turkey, Syria, and Palentine, and reports Kemal looking to Moslem officials and Russia for its ideals.
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NUKA BAY CLAIM
 OWNER IN TOWN
 FOR A FEW DAYS

John Gillespie, stalker of the Chee- caako mine at Nuka Bay, arrived in Seward at noon today on board the power boat Rolph II, captain John Smith. Mr. Gillespie vii, remain in town for few days purchasing SUD- plies. It has been five months since the well known oldtimer has been in town, he stales. Work on the property is progressing in a satis- factory manner, in fact. according to recent visitors to the ground, tun- neling has star.?l On the hillside at about a 300 ioot elevation. Assays taken from tne paysreak on this ground reveal it to bc onA of the richest quartz propositions in tie entire Nuka Bay region. MT. Gill lespie returns U the bay on the same boat.
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FOUR MORE FURNITURE
 MAKERS PLEAD GUILTY

CHICAGO, Aug. A. P-Four ad- ditional defendants among a group of more than 250 furniture manu- facturers indicted recently for viola ton of the Sherman antitrust law entered pleas of guilty and were fn- ed a total of $9,O0O. Fines ranged from s1,OOO to $5,Oo0.
 All were members of the National Association of Chair Manufacturers, ffty-ive of whose officers and members were indicted. Forty-nine defendants in the chair group plead ed on June IS and accepted fines to- taling s166,0OO.
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President Coolidge and
 Wife Return Plymouth

FITCHBURG, Mass, Aug. IA (P- Enroute to Plymouth, with the auto travelling from Swampscott through a heavy rainstorm, MT. and Mrs. Coolidge stopped at Aver to exchange greetings with their son, Corporal John, who is attending a training cardp at Aver Both left the limou- sine, and kissed and talked to the lad for several minutes, afterwards proceeding at 3O-mile-an-hour rate to Fitchburg, where they arrived at noon in heavy storm.
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TRAIN HITS AUTO;
 DRIVER IS INJURED

YAKIMA, Aug. IA. (R-Though in agony with broken hip and other injuries, received in a grade cross ing smashup, Reuben V. Porter. g, requested officials yesterday to say in notifying his mother that his injuries were not serious. "she isn't well," he said. Better tell my sister first, and let her tell mother"
 Porter and Lester Lundberg were in an automobile on their way to work, when his car was demolish. ed by an O.lW R. & N. passenger train at Mead avenue. They were carried nearly 400 feet by the train They said they did not know the train was near until it struck them A. W. Godfrey was conductor and c. W. Hill, engineer of the train.
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Rolph No. 2, Arrives
 In From Nuka Bay

Captain John Smith, skippsr of the good ship Rolph II, pulled into port at noon today from Nuka Bay, crarying parts of mine machinery to be overhauled, and three passengers for this port. Captain Smith states this is the best time of the season to make the trip to the big quartz camp as the water trip is ideal. He plans returning to the bay tomorrow or on Sunday.
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FORMER ALASKAN CAUGHT
 BY PROHIBITION OFFICERS

NEW YORK, Aug. IA (R-Judge A. Fink, prominent Chicago attorney, and his bride, formerly Miss Lucille Roades, were placed under arrest this week by coast guards, charged with having liquor on their yacht, "Strol- Ter" The newly weds had been out but two days when apprehended.
 Judge Fink was in Nome in the ear ly days where he practiced his pro- fession.
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CHICAGO POLICEMAN LIKES
 ALASKA VERY MUCH

Charles M. Gregg, chief of staff of the Chicago police force, who has been in Alaska for some time, will ar rive in Seward tomorrow night on his way to the States, after making the trip over the Golden Belt. MT. Gregg is stopping at Lawing where he has spent several days fishing on Kenai Lake and the creeks. He is much en- unused over Alaska.
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Seattle Instrument
 Records Light Shock

SEATTLE, Aug. IA (P)-The seis- mograph at the University of Wash ington recorded an earthquake shock Tat 4:OS yesterday afternoon, with a maximum intensity of 30 seconds. The center of the shock was less than 200 miles from Seattle.
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Northwestern To Arrive
 Here 6 Tomorrow Night

The steamer Northwestern of the Alaska Steamship company, arrived at Cordova this morning at an early hour, according to the latest reports received from the vessel. Just be- fore going to press today the Gate way was informed that the ship would tie up to the dock at six O. clock tomorrow evening.
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A new siren that can be heard above all city noises for several miles has been installed at Philadelphia prison to give warning when convicts escape.
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"smiIe With Nile" Saturday night.

An improved working model show ing the relative size and movements of the sun, earth and moon has been made by British inventor, for use in schools and colleges.
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Republicans Nominate
 To Succeed LaFollette

OSHKOSH, Wis, Aug. 14 (P)-Roy F. Wilcox, of Eau Claire, was nomi- mated by the Republicans for the un- expired term of Robert LaFollette, on the fourth ballot, at the State con- vention today. It was made unani- nous by W. L. Pieplow, of Milwau
 kee, who threw 183 votes to Wilcox.
 "SmiIe With Nile" Saturday night.
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Preparations for the Shriners Ball to be given at Odd Fellows hall Sat- urday night are we'll under way. Sev- eral fine electrical effects have been made, and decorations will be the best Obtainable.
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Dr. Thorek of the American hos pital in Chicago has a new remedy for bone infections which it is said will greatly reduce the number of :amputations.
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The seaplane is doing good busi- ness many citizens taking advantage of the low price to take 15 minute flight above the mountains and the bay.
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Two Men Convicted of
 Plot Kidnap Our Mary

LOS ANGELES, Aug. IA (P)-C. z. Stephens and Claude Holcomb were convicted in the Superior Court today of conspiring to kidnap Mary Pick ford and hold her for s2OO,OO0 ran som. Adrian Wood was acquitted.
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Four Killed When Train
 On s. P. Road Hits Auto

EUGENE, Ore, Aug. IA (P-Four persons were killed by a Southern Pacific passenger train which hit an automobile near Harrisburg. Two children were also injured.
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The dance tomorrow night at Odd Fellows promises to be the hit of the summer season, The Shriners are putting it over, with the admis sion, "A Smile"
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Nathan Robert Ballentine, boy sculptor of Chicago, has received letter from President and Mrs. Cool idge congratulating him on his work.
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The latest time on the Northwest ern, given as 6 p. m. tomorrow should be gladdening news for Sewardites, and especially the Shriners who are sparing no pains in their plans to show their visiting Brothers the hos pitality of Seward lodge.
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Sensitivity of photographic plates has been increased many fold by new substance found in small quan- titles in gelatin.
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It is reported the Shriners, who are chuck full of initiativene8s on this trip will board Sundays train for Anchorage, where they will hold initiation before journeying on to Fairbanks.
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Successful tests of the new 5O0,- 100000 candle-power light for air mail landing fields were, conducted recently at Quantico, Va.
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Bells are being introduced to re- place horns on automobiles in Jerus- alem, as officials of the Holy Land object to harsh sounds.
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The cannery tender, Lady Jane af Seattle, of the San Juan Fishing and Packing company, arrived in port this morning from Sawmill Bay.
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Experiments have proved that hay may be cured by artificial heat as we'll as by sunlight, also much more rapidly.
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Richard Wakelin, commercial trav- eller, is a guest at the Van Glider.
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Prince of Wales
 Reaches Montevideo

MONTEVIDEO, Aug. IA (P-The Prince of Wales arrived in the har- bor last night aboard the warship Repulse.
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"smile with Nile" Saturday night.
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~smiIe With Nile" Saturday night.
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"smiIe With Nile" Saturday niqht.
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Gateway want-ads bring results.
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"SmiIe With Nile" Saturday night
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-02-26
Former Cordele
Attorney Is In Ware
County jail
]. T. Hill. One Time Prominent In
Political and Social Sphere, Now A
Derehct and Facing Changing

WAYCROSS, Feb. 21-J. T. Hill,
Cordele attorney, has not been releas-
ed from the Ware County jail, accord
ing to Sheriff Lie. Warren. Hill
was arrested last week on charge OF
beating his fare on a passenger train
coming into Waycross. He was later
identified as the alleged crook who
passed number of worthless checks
here several years ago.
It is understood that Hill will be re-
leased, under the action of the City
Court if he makes good all checks
given in this city and pays for the
railroad ticket that brought him to
Waycross.
Hill tells authorities ofthe court that
he will make the checks good, and he
is now waiting for money from Cor
dele. In the event he does not meet
this demand from the court he will be
forced to serve straight sentence i'm
posed by Judge J. L. Crawley.
Hill carried the Georgia banner at
the St. Louis convention and stamped
ed the Georgia delegation and with it
all the Southern states for William
Jennings Bryan in the COS. In the
famous libel suit, which was brought
against the editor of the Leader by To-
cal attorneys some years ago, Hill
represented the prosecution
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-02-26
Fitzgerald Party
Marking Central
Dixie Highway

Jacksonville, Fla. Times Union)
Isidor Gelders, editor of the Fitzger-
aid Leader Enterprise, accompanied
by w. N Smith, secretary of the Fitz-
gerald Chamber of Commerce motor
ed through Jacksonville Saturday do
ing Missionary work for the Central
Dixie Highway, which leads from Ma
con to Jacksonville by way of Fltz-
gerald, Waycross and Callahan and
south to Miami.
Their automobile is loaded with red,
white and blue c. D. H. road markers,
and the two men are working slowly
south marking the route carefully so
that no tourist may go astray. 1t is
the best stretch of road leading into
Florida from Georgia, Mr.. Gelders
said last night.
Claim Route Best
'7''e route from Jacksonville to
Ma.uIl is 2o4 miles without detour"
said Mr.. Gelders. There is 10 miles
Of perfectly paved highway, including
thirty-two miles in Florida. The rest
o the roadway is excellent and well
drained sand-clay. The road, despite
the recent reavy rains, is in splendid
condition and will be kept that way.
''We had $500 markers when we
left Fitzgerald and we will mark the
route carefully"a all of the way to Mi
ami"
Mr.. Gelders made a decided i'm
preston at a meeting of the Jackson
vile Motor Club when he was here
last October. At that time Judge II. b.
Phillips was here to talk for the state
highway department over the delay of
the contractors in completing state
road No. through Callahan to the
state line to join the Central Dixie
Highway.
Congratulates Florida
Everything we asked for then has
been given US" said the Georgia ed
itor. The road is fine and the bridges
are of the right type. We Georgians
thank the Florida state road depart
ment and congratulate Judge Phillips
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-02-26
Written Specially for The Leader
BY JOHN THOMAS WILSON
Through Autocaster Service

nTOuSn AulOCdSleT ScTVlCe
WASHINGTON, D. c. Feb. 20
ride EN- cowboy" will likely be the
battle cry in the Department of Ag-
riculture for the next four years. That
there is going to be some plain and
fancy riding is foregone conclusion,
to those acquainted with the life story
of DR.. William M. Jardine former COW
boy and ranchman who becomes Sec
rotary of Agriculture March 4th.
Cowboy to Cabinet
From the great west, comes Jardine
Born in Idaho 46 years ago, he spent
the first sixteen years of his life on
his fathers ranch. He punched" cat
tie, broke broncos at 25c each and
attended district school in the winter.
At II he felt the call to be out and
doing, so he left the home ranch and
went to Big Hole, Mont, where he
got a job on a cattle ranch, perform
ing the usual tasks of ranch hand.
He then became interested in dairy
ing. Realizing the need of education
he entered Utah Agricultural college
graduating in 1904. Those years at
school were active for young Jardine.
He was up and doing and active in
sports. He played four years on the
on the varsity football team captain
ing it the last year. During the sum-
mer he pitched hay and worked on
dairy farms. One summer he was out
with a surveying gang.
Farm to Washington
After graduating he taught for a
year, then sought and obtained the
Job as manager Of farming COM
pany which was tilling acres on the
wholesale plan in Utah. Then came his
first contact with government work.
He sought and secured a job as an
assistant in the cereal branch of the
department of agriculture. He worked
there three years from 1907 to 1910.
Then he returned to the rugged west
he knew so WE'LL little realizing or
with little ground for hope that tlt-
teen years later he would return to
| Washington to head the Department
of Agriculture and sit as cabinet
member.
When he returned to the west in
1910 he was offered a professorshlp
at Kansas Agricultural College. After
three years as professor of Agrono-
my he was made Dean of the Division
| of Agriculture and Director of the EX-
pertinent Department. in 1913 he. sue
ceeded DR.. H. ]. Waters as president
of the Kansas College. That is the
post he now leaves to become Sec
rotary of Agriculture.
DR.. Jardine is rugged westerner
who will bring to Washington first
hand knowledge of agriculture. He
has always ben an outspoken advocate
of the farmers interests. He is openly
opposed and foe to government price
fixing on farm commodities. He runs
counter to the views of many men
prominent in the Agricultural Depart
ment and the influences of the farm
| bloc IN congress.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-02-26
They Can't Keep
McNealy Very Long
Prisoner Caught in Fitzgerald Escapes
Florida Convict Camp Third Time

Tallahassee, Fla, Feb. 25-J ames L.
McNea1y, captured about 10 days ago
at Fitzgerald, Ga, following a sensa-
tional escape from e. train at River
Junction, Fla, is again at large. The
prison officers received notice today
that he had left road camp No. p near
Mariana and with him went Laney
Dixon, serving three years from Or
ange County for stealing an auto.
McNealy, under five year sentence
from Orange County for false pre-
tense, escaped from the state prison
farm several months ago and was re-
captured at Cape Girardeau, Mo. He
had been back in the state but a few
DAYS before making his second get-a--
wav as he was being transferred
from the state farm to the road camp.
Will Harrison of Detroit, Mich, who
is wanted in Alabama and South Car
DINA also got away. He is under SEN
tence from Bradford county for five
years for grand larceny.
McNea1y was caught in Fitzgerald
when he attempted to defraud Den
mark Drug Company through con-
fidence game about two weeks ago.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-02-26
DIXIE HIGHWAY
ROAD BOOSTERS
PLACARD C.D.H.
Fitzgerald Chamber Commerce Inau-
gurates Extensive Advertising Cam
paign Motorcade to Florida
Fine Move
(Waycross Journal Herald)

Isidor Gelders editor of the Fitzger-
aid Leader and w. N. Smith secretary
of the Fitzgerald Chamber of Com
mercc passed through Waycross to-
day enroute to Jacksonville. They will
place in all the principal cities along
the route attractive red, white and
blue markers, bearing the letters c. ID.
H. Central Dixie Highway and will
also distribute folders giving road in
formation regarding the Short Route
from Jacksonville to Atlanta, and in
viting all tourists to stop over in Fitz-
gerald and enjoy the privileges OF
their free tourists camp grounds and
their golf links.
Mr.. Gelders states that on this trip
only the cities and small towns will
be placarded,~ but they will follow this
up by placarding all the cross roads
and by ways, using thousands of Signs
for the work
When told of the plans of the adver-
Using committee of the local Chamber
of Commerce, Mr.. Gelders stated that
it was ali important step in the right
direction and suggests that motor
cade into Florida be arranged, stating
that Hawkinsville, Abbeville, Della,
Fitzgerald, Douglas, Nichols and Al
ma would all furnish cars as well as
many other small places along the
route.
Mr.. Gelders is one of the greatest
road boosters in the country and is
known as the Daddy of the Dixie
Highway"
Another enthusiastic road booster in
the party is F. B. Smith who is do
ing the driving. He reports the roads
between Fitzgerald and Waycross in
fine condition, except that they are a
little sticky.