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The Washington times., 1925-04-10
SHEPHERDMUST
REMAIN IN
mil
Hope for Release on Bail Is
Destroyed by New Evidence
of Poison Plot
BY international News Service.

CHICAGO, April 10.-William
D. Shepherd and his counsel today
refused to comment on the new
cry of murder hurled into the
McClintock death probe by the
formal report of coroner's chem
lists that Mrs. Mary McClintock,
mother of William Nelson Nc
Clintock, for whose death Shep-
herd stands indicted for murder,
had been killed by repeatedly Tad-
ministered potions of mercuric
poison.
The defense stand on the mat
ter, Attorney William S. Stewart,
Shepherds attorney declared,
would not be voiced until the
formal inquest, next week, after
the chemists report on the
analysis of the vital org1,ls of
Doctor Oscar Olson, also has been
made. This, it is expected will
be made tomorrow or Monday.
Tests Not Completed.
1t is already known that mercury
has been found in the exhumed
body, but the cumulative tests
have not been completed and until
they are it will be impossible to say
what significance the reported find
of the poison will have.
The chemist and investigating
officers were certain, however,
about Mrs. McClintoci's death. The
quantity of the poison found, they
declared, unquestionably wiped out
any possibility of suicide or that
the mercury had been administered
as medicine. In addition. to this
the State claims to have an affidavit
from Mrs. McClintock's attending
physician that he had prescribed no
medicines containing any mercury
compound.
To Ask New Indictments.
Pending the resumed inquest.
which will probe the deaths of
Olson, McClintock, and Mrs. Nc
Clintock, the State will take no
action, States Attorney Robert e.
Grove said today. At that time,
however, Grove said he would de.
mand new murder indictments.
Grove also declared that he be-
lieved the new development in the
case would definitely spike the
fourth effort of Shepherd to obtain
his freedom on bonds pending trial
by petition to the State supreme
Court at Springfield, ILL.,, for the
right to apply for writ of habeas
corpus.
The petition now is before the
court and q decision Is expected
today or tomorrow.
First Real Evidence.
The finding of the mercury in
Mrs. McClintock's body is the first
The Washington times., 1925-04-10
Rrideeroom Nav Die

PENNSGROyE, N. T., April To-
What Is said to have been quarrel
with his bride OF few months
was followed by the attempted
suicide of Russell Hackett, twenty
four, at his home here Hackett
is in the Salem Hospital uncon.
scious from bullet wound in mis-
left breast, near the heart, and his
recovery is in doubt.
The Washington times., 1925-04-10
PHILADELPHIA LAWYER
POSTS FRAUD BOND

PHILADELPHIA, April TO-
John McClintock, jr., a prominent
attorney of this city, went from
Philadelphia to Staunton, Va, to
post a $4,000 bond to guarantee his
appearance for trial there in con-
nection with a 100000 stock fraud
concerning the American Fuel Com
pany.
AT hearings in this city in March
McClintock fought extradition 20
Virginia, but since. according to his
attorney, William T. Connors,
changed his mind and went to
Staunton voluntarily.
The Washington times., 1925-04-10
COLPOYS MOVES
IN STRIKE
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Of the registered bank letters, sent
out from union headquarters, still
unaccounted for.
The effort of Mr.. Colpoys to
bring peace out of the disagree.
n1ent, failed at a meeting of master
painters late yesterday.
Mr.. Colpoys suggested that the
employers name a committee &c
discuss the question with the union.
The bosses voted down the pro-
posal.
Both sides today claimed the ad-
vantage in the fight. The union
pointed to one more employing
painter to sign the new wage agree.
ment. He is John c. Cassidy, I7I7
Connecticut avenue.
E. L. Smith, secretary of the EN-
ploying Painters Association, de-
clared that more men were being
hired daily, and the supply Of labor
at 50 a day, 81 below the union
scale. is apparently plentiful.
The Washington times., 1925-04-10
GIRL WILL
ESCAPE
DEATH
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was an argument over his appear
ance there.
Only the fact that Meade was
intoxicated is advanced for his de-
Gliding to suddenly go to his sisters
house.
1t is said that this sister, who
he tried to kill, had been practical
ly a mother to him and on occa-
sions had gone to the Treasury De-
partment to get his money so that
he would not be able to squander
it on liquor.
Furiously confronting his eldest
sister, he shouted:
"I am going to end it all and you
are going with me-"
Despite the vigorous struggling
of Miss Meade her brother, who
was twenyt.nine years old. succeed
ed in subduing her and putting a
gas tube in her mouth. She col
lapsed. He concluded she was
dead.
Satisfied in the thought he had
killed his sister, Meade then put
the tube in his own mouth. He
was pronounced deal by Doctor
Charles ". Petteys, 1915 New
Hampshire avenue northwest. Cor
oner J. Ramsay hewitt issued
certificate OF suicide after viewing
the body.
Meanwhile. only partially over
come by the gas fumes the sister
had pulled herself to the telephone
and called another sister, Miss
F.sfeIla Meade who is said TO work
at the Veterans Bureau. The
sister rushed home.
Doctor Petteys said today that
Miss Alice is out of danger and
viii recover.
Planned the Tragedy
There is every indication that
Meade planned the tragedy which
30 nearly resulted in the loss Of
his sisters life.
Miss Estella Meade and the third
sister, Mrs. Viola Lilge, today
stolidly refused to divulge any more
information than they were COM
PEELED to give Coroner hewitt.
It was said at his office in the
Treasury Department today that
Meade had been there for five years
and that he was very popular.
Everybody" one Official said to-
day at the office, knew his one
big weakness, but we liked him
nevertheless"
Meade went in for athletics and
was member Of the Treasury De-
partment baseball team.
The sisters said today that fun
eraI services for their brother will
be held from his late home.
The Washington times., 1925-04-10
Works Hard for Dollar

CHESTER, Pa. April 10.--The
police learned that a burglar had
worked two hours to pry off the
bars of window. then ransacked
a house and obtained only 81 for
his hard efforts. The house was
that of Mrs. J. Johnson. 221l West
Third street.
The Washington times., 1925-04-10
NAVAL PIGEON
STOPS IN PA.
TOWN
Carries Message to Coolidge
From WiIbur-Tired Out,
It Lost Way
~ TnternatlonaI News Service.

BRISTOL, Pa. April TO-. Officials
Of the William H. Grundy mills
here today are awaiting word from
Washington, d. c.. as to what dis
position to make OF the carrier
pigeon that flew into one Of the
windows of the company's offices
here late yesterday.
According to the message attached
to the pigeon, the bird was the one
released Tuesday at the launching
of the u. S. S. Saratoga. the new
airplane carrier. at Camden N. j..
and was expected to fly directly to
Washington to take the news of the
launching to President Coolidge at
the White House.
The message was signed by Sec
rotary of the Navy Wilbur, accord
ing to employees who cared for the
pigeon.
The bird, it was said, was ex-
E1austed when it arrived here and
is believed to have lost its way.
The Washington times., 1925-04-10
Waited ~ Station.

If the naval pigeon reported held
at Bristol is released it viii find its
way back to the naval air station
at Anacostia, it was declared today
by the executive officer, who said
the bird was the only one Of twenty
released at the Saratoga launching
that had failed to return.
The Washington times., 1925-04-10

The finding of the mercury in
Mrs. McClintock's body is the first
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
WARRANT ESSENTIAL
TO SEARCH HOMES
SUPREME BENCH HOLDS BE-
LIEF OF GUILT NO BASIS
FOR ENTERING HOUSE.

Federal agents operating under the
Harrison narcotic act have no right
to search residences without a search
warrant except where arrests are act
ually~ made, the U. S. supreme court
has just declared in the appeal OF
Thomas Angelic and others arrested
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The case, considered a precedent,
arose from the arrest OF Angelic and
four associates after they had com
pleted sale of heroin and from a
search of their residences and bar
Der shop in Brooklyn, where they had
been meeting
Belief No Basis for Search.
The lower federal courts held that
the search without warrant was legal,
The protection OF the fourth
amendment extends to all equally, to
those justly suspected or accused, as
we'll as to the innocent" the opinion
said. The search of private dwell
ing without a warrant is in itself I'M
reasonable and abhorrent to our laws.
Belief, however well founded, that
an article sought is concealed in a
dwelling house furnishes no jurisdic-
ton for a search of that place without
a warrant"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
BIG REALTY COMPANY
LOCATES IN ALBANY
GEORGIA Atty AUCTION
co. TO PROMOTE SALES IN
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA.

A great impetus has recently been
given real estate activities in south
west Georgia through recent an
nouncement of the Georgia Realty
Auction Company, OF Atlanta, one OF
the largest and most successful real
estate selling organizations in the
county, by establishing branch office
in Albany to serve the southwest
Georgia territory.
The Georgia Realty Auction Com
pany. OF which Ben Johnson is gen
erAl manager, makes a specially OF
sub dividing large farm acreage as
we'll as city b-divisions and selling
at auction for clients on strictly
commission basis. This company IS IN
close touch with prospective purchas3-
ers all over the country and through
the many auction sales they now have
scheduled in this territory VIII Dring
MANY new small farmers and investors
to southwest Georgia to assist IN the
rapid development OF this fertile sec
ton. whose phenomenal growth IS al,
tracing the attention OF people IN all
parts OF the. country.
The Georgia Realty Company nave
a 100 per cent successful sales record
throughout the country, and othcia!ls
Of + the E company are very enthusiastic
over the splendid prospects Tor the I'M
portant part they will play in assisting
more rapid development OF south
west Georgia. A number Of the sales,
contract and engineering forces ,,; are
now in the field preparatory to selling
the beautiful Lakeside sub division IN N
Albany on October 10th and the well veil
known LANCE farm OF $50 acres on
tbe Pretoria highway, 2 miles from
Albany, on October END.
Other sales already contracted 10 Tor
are business lots in Dawson on octo- :
Der Fist, John Holtsinger farm near
division at Smithville in addition 10
rs business lots at the same place.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
COTTON IS REPLACING
HERDS ON TEXAS PLAIN
STOCK RANCHES BEING CUT
UP INTO FARMS. BIG DIFFER
ENCE IN FEW YEARS.

The great stock ranches which
dominated the south plains area of
the Texas Panhandle for many years
are being cut up into cotton farms at
a rate which bids fair to effect COM
plete change in few years.
Although cotton was grown there
experimentally more than 80 years
ago. it is only within the last few
years that railway transportation has
made cotton farming and other crop
raising possible.
Farming Land for Sale.
Now cattle and sheep are fast dis
appearing and farms are springing up
everywhere. Virtually all the land
suitable for farming is for sale.
Acres that a generation ago sold for
from 50 cents to 81 are now selling at
from $50 to $40. Officials in the de-
partment of agriculture are studying
the south plains, with view to indi-
eating the advantages and disadvant-
ages for cotton farming.
These experts predict substantial
progress provided farms are not over
capitalized and good cultural methods
are practiced. Lubbock county is the
center of the new development.
Land values in the south plains area
are not unduly inflated and acreage is
available on easy payment plans This
is largely because the owners OF nom
improved grass lands are faced with
difficulties.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20

NEW YORK, n. Y--The modern
man is on his way back TO the affairs
OF worship, but the modern woman IS
daily going more astray, said Cardinal
HAYES Yesterday after he had blessed
the Father Shealey Memorial build
ing.
After the cardinal had praised the
men who made the retreat possible,
he said
I'VE are gravely and sometimes, l
might say, sadly disturbed and anx-
ious about our good women, especial
" our young women Within a short
time there has been radical and rev.
olutionary upset OF principles that has
eaten into the very home and that has
desecrated the freside. and is still
menacing the very foundations of our
society, civil, political, social and
moral. The church OF God is really
praying most earnestly that our good
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
BEN DAVIS NATIONAL
COP. COM MITTEEMAN
FORMER DAWSON NEGRO TO
HEAD REPUBLICAN PAR
TY IN GEORGIA.

Ben ]. Davis, negro publisher and
editor of the Atlanta Independent, a
newspaper circulated among negroes,
was selected republican national COM
mitteeman for Georgia by the state
republican central committee in exec
utive session Thursday afternoon, He
was reared in Dawson, and rose to
his present prominence from humble
surroundings.
Davis will succeed Henry Lincoln
Johnson, who died suddenly several
weeks ago in Washington after serv-
ing as national committeeman of his
party for number of years.
Davis was elected on the first bal
lot, the vote being 43 to g. He re-
ceived practically the mass vote OF the
negro members Of the committee, it
was said.
w. R. Tucker, vice chairman Of the
committee and former chief deputy
marshal for the northern district Of
Georgia, was the choice of the white
members of the committee. DR., w.
H. Harris, negro physician, of Ath-
ems, also was placed in nomination for
the post.
Negro members of the committee
greatly outnumbered the whites,
there being only Is Of the latter.
Indicted on Libel Charge.
According to a statement given out
Friday at Swainsboro by w. F. Grey,
solicitor general of the Middle circuit
Davis has been indicted in both
Emanuel and Floyd counties for libel.
The complainant is Clark Grier, a
well-known white republican, who APP
peared before the grand jury and al
legged that Davis had libeled him in a
series of editorials in the Atlanta In
dependent.
Grier and Davis are understood to
be leaders OF rival political factions.
Solicitor Grey was unable TO give the
exact section Of the code under which
the Emanuel county Indictment was
found, but said the action was taken
under the general libel law of the
state.
Floyd county and Emanuel county
are remotely removed, but the Solici-
tor says an editor can be indicted in
any county where ii is shown the pa
per containing alleged ibelous state
ments.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
NEW FRENCH LOAN
HAS BEEN HALTED
BANKERS CLOSE DOORS OF U.
S. MONEY MARKET. RESULT
OF DEBT FARLEY.

France has found the door Of the
American money market closed to her
as result OF the failure of negotia-
tons to bring terms tor payment OF
Frances debt to the United States.
This fact has become known through
an announcement from Washington.
Details of Loan Planned.
The details of a S400000,000 loan
already had been arranged when Fl
nance Minister Caillaux and his aides
came to Washington from France Tor
debt negotiations The first instalment
was to have been $780, 100000. The
American bankers, however, refused to
make the loan when the debt confer
ence failed.
American bankers have taken this
stand in support OF their government.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20

NEW YORK, N. Y.-The Standard
Oil companies OF New Jersey and OF
Indiana. with the Texas company ana
fortv-eight other oil producing COM
nan;es are charged with combining. IN
r p@stlI OF trade, through a division
IF rfSi ro Sgai on patents for extracting
Proceedings which opened yesterd? !,
before Charles Martindale, master IL
q nef;tion for government interven-
ton was filed against the htty-o i
Corporations c,or mf in federal court for the he
northern MOI district of Illinois in June o.
last ,e wear. The defendant corporations
were accused of combining IN Iesei s a,d
81 commerce in gasoline. kerosene anu
other hydrocarbon products.
0'i lanes W. Allen, accountant: EN- EN-
oloved by the department OF justice 1i,ls,s'
;de1tifed numerous statements snow
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
THE FACTS ABOUT
RAILWAY EARNINGS
SAYS CENTRAL HAS SPENT IN
EIGHT YEARS S17,OOO,O0O
IN IMPROVEMENTS.

Declaring that it is important for
the public to understand the facts
about railway earnings, President L.
A. Downs of the Central of Georgia
railway, in an interesting statement
gives information concerning matters
of this nature. He states that owners
OF railway property are in a position
considerably less favorable than they
occupied prior to the world war as re-
CARDS current returns on investments.
Mr. Downs explains that the rail
way Improvements necessary for hand
ling the increasing business of the
country are financed by borrowings,
and that this means increased interest
charges. While railway earnings have
increased during recent months the
enlarged interest charges have cut off
the stockholders from a greater share
in those increased earnings.
The Central OF Georgia railway has
since 1916 invested $9,573,000 in i'm
provements to the road, and S7,6l4,000
for equipment. This is a total Of more
than $17 100000 for improving the ia
cilities for public service. Yet, in these
eight years the net railway operating
income of the Central OF Georgia has
increased but $475,000. The owners OF
the property would have received more
had they placed the money in the saw
ings bank at four per cent than they
did receive by using it in the public
service.
He declares that the investor in
railway property is showing his faith
in the future, and that this faith will
be justified by continued freedom from
such legislation or regulation as will
arrest the recent improvement in the
railroad situation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
POOR ROADS ARE
A TAX ON FARMS
THE HAULING COST DIFFER
ENCE IN HIGHWAYS SHOWN
BY INVESTIGATION.

II the farmers of the United States
made only one trip TO market every
year they would travel over 100000
miles. Applied to the wheat crop alone
at an average cost Of 80 cents per ton
Der mile haul they would spend more
than S44,000,000 to move the nations
bread crop from the farm granary to
the local elevator.
These figures are disclosed in the
September index OF farm conditions
issued by the Sears-Roebuck Agricul-
tural Foundation, recently made pub
lie. According to estimates made by
more than $500 field observers the
average farmer has TO haul his pro
duce 7.39 miles to a shipping point.
1t is readily apparent from these
figures says Samuel r. Guard, d.
rector Of the foundation, that haul
ING costs are a very important factor
in the marketing of American farm
produce"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
Fiftv>one Oil Companies Go ON Trial
AS Violators of the Anti Trust Law

ing division Of patent royalties,
which the government says are illegal,
among the defendants. The imposition
of these royalties, ranging from one
half cent to one cent and half gal
lon and which is passed on to the
consumer in the form of charges, is
said to be violation OF the Sherman
antitrust law.
Until the automobile created ire
mendous demand for it gasoline was
manufactured from crude oil by dis
tillation and condensation, according
to the governments bill Now the
cracking method" which IS covered
by the defendants patents, increases
gasoline production Sc to 50 per Gent.
This method Involves decomposition
or cracking Of molecules OF the heav.
Ter hydrocarbons in the course OF
their conversion into the molecules OF
the lighter hydrocarbons, which pro-
duces gasoline.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-10-20
28 GOVERNORS FAVOR
ESTATE TAX REPEAL
80 SENATORS ALSO READY TO
VOTE AGAINST CONTINUING
FEDERAL IMPOST.

Governors of twenty-seven states
opposing collection by the federal
government of inheritance or estate
taxes, have been invited by Gov. Cliff
ford Walker, OF Georgia, himself OPP
posed to appear with him October %
before the ways and means committee
OF the national house of representa-
tives and give their reasons for repeal
Of this tax.
are represented as being committed to
the doctrine that taxes on inheritances
should be imposed, if at all, by the
state governments and collected and
disbursed under their exclusive au-
thority.
80 Senators For Repeal.
Leaders in the movement to repeal
the federal estate tax have organized,
and for several weeks have had pub
lcity agent who has been furnishing
correspondents from senators largely
statements from senators and repre-
sentatives opposing the tax.
The publicity agent of the move
ment has announced that % governors
oppose continuance of the tax and that
81 of the 90 senators have publicly
announced they will vote for its repeal.
This list of senator's includes w. F.
George, of Georgia, and t. ]. Hefin,
OF Alabama
Repeal Favored by Mellon.
Repeal of the estate tax is part OF
the program of the administration
Secretary Mellon has recommended
that the federal government relinquish
this sourse of revenue to the states
He has pointed out that this is field
OF taxation which has been occupied
by the federal government four times
in its history, and each time until the
present was relinquished to the states
when the particular emergency for
which additional taxation was requir-
ed had passed.
Chairman Green of the house ways
and means committee, which is charg-
ed with framing the new revenue bill
is, however, opposed to repeal of the
estate tax and will endeavor TO have
it retained.