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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
STATE HIGHWAY
ENGINEER Being
SOUGHT TODAY
Numerous kilograms Urging
Him to Return tc Atlanta
Today Are Sent Out
HOLDER ASKS THAT NEAL
BE SFIORN OF ALL POWER
Unexpected Charges Prevent
Sine Die Adjournment In
vcstigation CT Committee

ATLANTA, August ID. Hints
at sensational charges involving w.
X. Neel state highway engineer,
prevented sine die adjournment
OF the senate highway investigating
committee this morning as had ure-
Viousiy been determined upon. Neel
as out of the city, but telephone and
telegraph calls have been put out
FOR him, calling for his appearance
before the committee today.
Chairman John N. Holder, of
the State Highway department, in
corcluding his testimony today
recommended that Neel be shorn of
power in the department and his
power to be vested in the State
Highway board. Holder declared
hiatt if this is done the board, con-
stItuted as it is, will function har-
moniously and efficiently.
Resuming the stand at Thursdays
session Holder said: The total
amount he paid to all the men for
publicity was between $500 and
$500. He never rendered any bill
for these services to the govern
ment, regarding it as legitimate *
rense Of the board, but prior to his
succession to the board there had
been criticism of such expense and
he decided to pay it himself and not
ask the board to pay it it. He said
he had turned down an offer of
contribution for this purpose from
equipment people. He explained
the workings Of the Georgia High
ways, the official magazine of the
department published monthly, and
OF its contents. He said he had
statement from Spain in 1928 show
ing the magazine to be self-sup-
porting and having surplus to its
credit of $1,000. This was gained
by advertising. He declared he
borrowed about $1,000 from the
magazine fund to pay for publicity
and then later repaid it himself. He
said the money was paid back about
three weeks after he borrowed it.
He denied this money was used dur
ing the General Assembly of 1924.
These checks We're said to have
been drawn Aug. Is and 16. Hold
or said the Legislature adjourned
Aug. II. He said Spahr and Franks
advanced $400 or $500 for this pur-
pose, telling him that it was their
own money and afterward he found
they had charged it to him on the
books. He denied he had ever Civ
en- any Of this money to a member
of the Legislature. He said the
way the campaign with the Legisla-
ture was worked was by sending
some friends of good roads into the
county on his own time, the depart
ment paying his expenses. This
friend would take up the matter
with the people of the county, who
in turn would convey their wishes
to the Representative or Senator.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
GALLONS Bill.
RECEIVES BLOW
Ricket8cn's Measure to Abolish
Chair in Favor Of Rope
Adversely Reported

ATLANTA, Aug. Ex-senator
Ricketson's bill to abolish electrocu-
ton as means of capital punishment
and return to the gallows, was adj
versely reported this morning by
the penitentiary committee.
The general appropriation was
placed on the calendar of he Sen.
ate fer tomorrow at the first SGT
urday session of the present Senate.
The Senate defeated the measure
designed to increase the term Of Of
flee for the Governor from two to
four years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
SMALL BLAZE AT MCNEIL
LUMBER YARD THURSDAY

The fire department was called
Thursday afternoon to extinguish
small blaze in a sawdust pile at Me
Neils lumber yard on Wheeler
street. Hand extinguishers were
used and no damage was reported
by Chief Query.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
CONFERENCE OF
STATE FARMERS
Georgia AgricuIturalists TO Gath
er State College of Agri-
Culture

ATHENS, Aug. ID. Orderly
marketing Of farm products will be
the subject at the Georgia State
College Of Agriculture, August "a
to 28, in conjunction with the an
nual meeting Of the state agricul-
tural and horticultural societies.
Methods whereby farmers NAV
gain a fair price for their products
VIII be considered by prominent
agricultural authorities who will at
tend the meeting. Among them are
DR.. Andrew M. Souie, and Profos-
sor Phil Campbell, of the State Col
lege of Agriculture; Hon. Arthur
K. Rule, general manager of the
Federated Fruit and Vegetable
Growers of New York; Hon. L. F.
Mckay Of the American Cotton
Growers; Hon. C. S. Barrett, presi-
dent Of the NATIONAL Farmers Union
and others.
Cotton, peach, peanut, watermel-
on and other Cooperatives Of Geor-
gia will be represented at the CON
ference.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
Hints At Sensational Charges Involving W. R. Neal
Jewish Lad and Irish
Miss, Fifteen, EEOpe|
When Parents Interfere
An "Abie's Irish Rose" Affair
in Real Life Takes Place in
Chicago

CHICAGO, Aug. 14.-Life at Is
Is momentous episode!
Parents can't understand. They
dub the bloom of romance as pup
ply love- and threaten the rod and
bed without supper.
Thus reasoned Hazel Mitchell, Is,
little Scotch-Irish girl when a week
ago her mother and the boys moth
er sought to separate her from her
15-year-old sweetheart of Jewish
faith.
Today the Scotch-Irish and Jew
ish mothers look resentfully at each
other across the back porch. For
Hazel and Joe Medyeke, the jew
ish boy, have eloped an Abie's
Irish Rose affair in real life.
Affair Starts Early
The Mitchells have lived in the
house where Mrs. J. Sack, the boys
mother, is landlady for three weeks.
1t wa seither a case Of puppy love"
or love at first sight for the young
sters, say both mothers.
Or then again they may have
known each other before the Mitch
ellis moved to the apartment.
In any event Joe was vamped
good and securely. The second dav
Of Haze's residence there the af-
fair was on.
Joe would whistle up the stair
way and Hazel would come tiptoe-
ing down. She would tell her moth
er she was going down to sit an
hour with Mrs. Sack.
And while Mrs. Sack drank in
the affairs of Cupid on the silver
sheet at a nearby picture show, her
son and the little Scotch girl held
hands and promised eternal love in
the seclusion of the Sack apartment.
eve thought we had it stopped, -
Mrs. Sack said. "For a whole week
it was peaceful. My son went his
way and the Mitchell girl went hers.
Then / found my son writing a let
ter to Hazel. | stopped it straight
off and hid the letter he had start
ed Then | found note which
Hazel left on the sewing machine
for Joey. | called Hazel out on the
porch and told her if she didn't stop
this nonsense she and her mother
would have to move"
And Then 1t Happened
But that didn't end things. An
open window showed the route the
clippers had taken. A letter from
Hazel to her mother bid farewell.
While Hazels mother is in tears,
Joe's moth er is optimistic She
thinks they are in the neighbour
hhood, because someone has been
raiding the icebox.
"Joe has run away before, and
he usually slips back to get some
thing to eat" says Mrs. Sack.
Hazeps Farewell Note
Here is Hazel's farewell note TO
her mother:
My Mother: | have run away.
Forgive me. / am nearly out of my
head. Don't worry, because the good
Lord will take care of me. The
hypocrite downstairs (Mrs. Sack)
has the note | wrote to Joe about
the farm. Please don't worry. l
can hardly write. l haven't a
cent, but l will try to get work as
soon as I can, and l will send you
money for my care and keeping Ill
these years. Oh, mamma, don't
want to go, but you would never
forgive me. Don't send anyone to
look for me. / may go crazy. Yor:
have been so good to me, but | have
taken advantage of you. When !
get tired of it all, | may give my
self up to home. Such people as
the landlady is what makes the
younger generation what it is. Your
daughter. HAZEL.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
MINISTER IS
ATTACKED BY
NIGHT RIDERS
Baptist Preacher of T'allapoosa,
Goes to Sheriff for
Protection
SERMONS DIRECTED
AGAINST CRIME
Reverend Henry Holmes Says
He Was Severely Beaten
BY Attackers

TALLAPOOSA, Ga. Aug. Ia
The second depreciation by night.
riders and an event closely parall-
cling the attack on Rev. Robert
Stewart at Draketown last Novcm-
Der and which resulted in the death
Of the minister's wife, was report
ed to Sheriff Richards Thursday
morning by Rev. Henry Holmes, a
Baptist minister who says he was
called from the house at which he
was stopping Wednesday night and
roughly used by eight or ten men.
Rev. Holmes had been engaged
in revival meeting at the ITALIA
poosa East church, about four miles
from Buchanan this week and dur
ing his sermons he has made Wig
orous attacks against bootleggers,
whisky runners, home wreckers and
distillers.
Wednesday night he says he was
called from the home of Asberry
Cook, who lives in the Flatwoods
section. When he went to the road
where two cars had stopped he was
attacked by a party of men and
severely beaten by them, the men
trying to force him into one of the
two cars which had stopped in front
of the house.
After a desperate resistance the
minister succeeded in escaping from
the party of men and hurried to
Buchanan and placed himself I'M
der the protection of Sheriff B. B.
Richards. He was suffering severe
ly Thursday from his hurts received
at the hands of his assailants.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
49,, 1898 BALES COTTON
CONSUMED IN JULY

WASHINGTON, August IA. =
Cotton consumed during July to-
tailed 483,898 bales of lin tand 62,-
513 bales of linters. This is COM
pared with 493,765 bales of lint
and 6O,577 of linters in June of
this year and $4,000 of lint and
41,732 of linters in July of last
year, according to the report of the
Census Bureau issued today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
BULLETIN

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Mrs.
John Pierpont Morgan died at noon
today at her home at Glen Cove. L.
!. Death was the result of cardiac
collapse" physicians said, which
came after two months illness from
sleeping sickness.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
GAS REDUCTION
IN SOME STATES
Standard Oil of Louisiana An
nounces 5 Cents Cut in Three
States

NEW YORK, August IA. - The
Standard Oil company, of Louis
lana, today reduced the price of
gasoline three cents q gallon in
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee.
Another reduction Of one cent
per gallon in tank wagon deliveries
throughout its territory was an
ncunced by the Standard oil COM
pany of New Jersey. The territory
includes the District of Columbia,
Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina and
South Carolina.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14
SENATOR SAPP TO SING
SWAN SONG LAST NIGHT

ATLANTA, Aug Ex-senator
w. M. Sapp poet laureate of the
state senate, has written his swan
song-that is of this senate. He
will sing it on the last nient.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14

Good news from Russia. Crops
are some better now. So they won't
have to eat the wolf at their door.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14

The smaller the town the more it
needs big men.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14

For Georgia-Partly cio
night and Saturday probably TO .
tered thundershowers in south + :
tino; slightly cooler tonight my
north and central portion.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-08-14

AMERICAS

Strict middling -
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
HE,ADWATERS OF WHITINE
 GOAL OF PROSPE(TORS

Seattle, July + lP)-- A spec ial despatch 10 the P-I from Cot ter al Telegraph Creek said that a party of prospectors, headed by Robert Martin of Hyder left Sun- day for the headwaters of the Whitine river, where a quartz strike is reported
 Ed Asp. guide. asserted that he had discovered pass into the re- rion that has heretofore been con- sidered inaccessible.
 The party comprises beside Mar lin and Asp. Pat Mcbride, miner. two Indian packers and Cotter.
 Cotter said that he is convinced that Dease Greek and Gold Pan will both prove to be producers.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
MOUNT LOGAN CLIMBER
 FREEZES HIS FEET

Cordova. July Ii, tP)- Forced by frozen feet ie descend after climbing to the elevation of 1900 feet. Robert NJ Morgan, of Mil waukee. member of the Mount Logan expedition returned to cordova sunday, Henry Hall Jr., of Boston, accompanying him as far as Chitina, from which point he went to Fairbanks,
 Morgan said that when he left the rest of the party on June 2l the climbers were in good con dilion and no accidents had been experienced < sform was rag ing and one could not see one hundred feet, he=s says. The tem- peratures were low and the weath- consistently during the whole trip. Tie pair tramped one hundred fifty miles alone over fifty miles being slacier and the remaining portion heinz throngh a region of sweden streams to chtina valley despite their sore feet. They nevsr travelled less than Ten hoursa day. Coming down they wafe@l many streams np to their waists and found many streams out of 'heir bounds. caus- ina= them fl, d.taur IL took 20 days To 4e- hack 10 civilization seven days of the time being spent at the base camp. hoping that the rest ef the party would return. Morgan sNp'ained that the freez- ing of lis feet was due te the heat af -la lay time and the % degrees below zero temperature al night He sailed on the Al aska -5aav far@ Seattle.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
SCIENCE WILL CUT NO ICE
 IN THE SCOPES CASE

Dayton. July II, (P,- The court adjourned until Monday after com pleting the jury Friday afternoon
 All but one juryman belongs to eVangelistic denominations. and this one. Darrow said. is a fun damentalist, One man who be- longed to no church was rejected.
 Attorney General A. T. Stewart said for the Associated Press "1t is my understanding that Prof. Scopes will not deny that he taught the students of the high schools in Rhea County that man descended from lower order of animals If this is true, he is guilty, and all the evidence of scientists within reach cannot help him. Scientists might claim that man descended from lower animals by Gods cre- alton but this cannot make diff erence The law says that such a subject cannot be taught. If such evidence is used, both sides
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
TUESDAY ,1ElEGRAPHIc)
YOUNG MEN DROWNED
 WHILE FIANCEES WAIT

Seattle. July 13. LP, While their fancees waited for their re- turn. Theodore Fink and Harry Loren Meyers were drowned in the Stillaguamish river below Granite Falls forty-rve mile northeast of here yesterday while attempting to take pictures of the plungins waters
 Meyers was Senior in the tn- iversity of Washington and sac rificed his life when he plunged into the roaring waters in an ef- ort to save his companion who slipped of a rock. and both were sucked below the surface in an instant.
 Meyers was engaged to Miss Mabel Fink. sister of Theodore, and they were to have been mar ried soon after his graduation Fink and Miss Irene McGrath had planned marriage as soon as their home, now under construction, was | completed.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18

Dayton. July II, R)- On the Scopes jury are nine farmers, one teacher. one fruit grower and one shipping clerk. The question Of
 the admission of scientific test imony regarding evolution will De fought in the court Monday when reconyeIed. Saturday is being taken up with conferences Of the attorneys. The only issue in the case seems to be whether Scopes actually taught that man IS de- scended from lower animals. At torney General Stewart empha- sized that the truth Of evolution is not involved in the states po- sition.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
SENATOR BINGHAM BACK
 FROM ALASKA TRIP

Seattle, July 12, R)-After a flying trip to Alaska. Senator Bing
 ham of Connecticut arrived in Se- attle He said "I did not go there to form any conclusions for either branch of my committee iE- terests but I am mighty glad iNat intelligent conclusions. vi,'.nd the army post at Haines and must cay that the men there are tip a inc lot of men garriscning it." Bingham is a member of the ter ritclies and army post committees.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
SCOPES DEFENSE ASKS
 INDICTMENT QUASHED

Dayton, July 13, R)- The evo- lution trial resumed. The court opened following motion of the defense to quash the indictments. Darrow. defense counsul cited II reasons for quashing the indict- ment, largely alleging that t is an unconstitutional law against evolution and that there are CT TOTS in the indictment. The at torneys referred lengthily to the section of the Constitution re- specting religious freedom.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
TURN OVER 3O.OOO SHARES
 GOLD CENTER STGT I

New York. July II, tP}-Go!l- en Center Mine stock showed n enormous turnover Friday oo We market and stoood firm at the close. The total transactions @X- ceeded thirty thousand shares
 Daily Copper duplicated its yaars night mark. Engineer Mine took an eight point drop 10 eighty. aad then rallying, advanced to eishfy- five.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
STRIKE RICH PLACER
 ON BABINE RIVER

Hazelton. July 12, (P,- Chas. Ek and M F. Burke of Hazelton returned Wednesday bringing a bottle of gold reporting that they had struck rich placer field sev- eD miles above Totem Pole. Kis- kiias Indian village on the Babine river They declared that there was one easy trail to the spot and that they would not give the exaxct location until they have re- corded their claims. They will return to the workings as soon as tneys get their supplies.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
PRINCE OF WALES
 HERO AT FIRE

kafue, Rhohsi, July II. {Py- The Prince of Wales played her oic freman's part in assisting the settlers extineuish fire in a children's house made of native wood and grass at the Kafue Az ricultural show All the chil- dren were saved. The blazeS started while q luncheon was in progress in the Princes honor.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
REVOKES LEASES FOR
 ELK HILLS NAVAL OIL

Los Angeles. July II, R - Judge Mccormick signed the final decree. revoking the leases of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves of Doheny, and ordered the Pan-Am- erican Petrolium Corporation to pay the government three hundred fifty-eight thousand dollars net after accounting the damage and dues from both sides It is said that the court costs on Doheny are estimated at half million dollars.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
WEDNESDAY,
 tTELEG EGRApHic> -
WILL NOT ALLOW SCOPES
 INDIt TNlENTS HISHED

Dayton, Tenn. July 15, GPl --
 Iohn T, Scopes must stand trial for the alleged violation of the Tenn essee anri-evulution law, Judge J. T. Raulst0n ruled in his decision on the motion of the defense that he indictment he hushed ,lHdse Raulston held that the law was constitutional and that the capt ion and body of the act sufficiently clear. saying that it violated no constitutional rights respecting re- lieious Freedom and that the pub lie school was not maintained as a place of worship but for the purpose of mental and moral de velopment and description. The judge also said that he failed To see how the teachers right is vi olatd as no law in the state com pells anyone to seek employment in the public scho Is.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
MONDAY
 TElEGRApHiCl
NEW MONTANA QUAKE
 TAKES TOLL OF LIVES

Great Falls, Mont, July II, (P) An earthquake yesterday adding to the many tremors since June 27, was the cause of the breaking of the dam at the Silver bike Min ing company's works at Neihart' sixty-four miles southeast rom here, burying two children under tons of mud and destroying three houses. with damage of about fifteen thousand dollars.
 Merrill Kicker is the father Of the two lost children. Ills whe and another child climbed over the debris while the water and mud piled higher. Many dwellings. a store and pumping station are wrecked.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
LOUIS LANE ARRIVES AT
 SEWARD WITH INHALER

seward. July II, LFa- cap-ain Louis Lane. noted Arctic navigat- or arrived here baine out thirty three days from San F ancisco. in a forty-foot whaler, 'lc Gunnar Copper. Using Kod as the base for his opera;i H.. he will soon be supplying wha,e meat to the fox ranchers for teed. Next year Captain Lane expects to put his product oa tie market in bar rels.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
LITTLE HOPE FOR
 JUNEAU PIONEER

Juneau, July II. LP)- Emery Valentine. for many years asso- ciated with the political lie of Juneau and Pioneer of Alaska is at Saint Anns hospital with ap- oplexy and his condition is crit ical He has been in -tate of comatose since Thursday. After a conference last night physicians could give little hope for his r"- covery
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
CREATE OUTRAGE TO
 INFLUENCE ELECTION

London. July 14, R- Athens and Constantinople despatches re- port an outrage committed on Met ropolita Germanos of Sardis whose hair and beard was cut of after he was roughly handled. The outrage was said to have been for the purpose of influencing the el- ection of the new Greek Church patriarch.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
kOTZERUE ENJOYING OPEN
 ANNEXATION: BOAT REPORTS

Kotzebue. Julv 12, Special to the Nua24tl@The Trader. Cap rain Th mpson in command, left July II, The schooner Holmes, Captain John Baekland arrived from the outside and is discharg- ing lot of freight here Captain Backland reports good tip up
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18

W. Field and George w. Morse, eXheads of two Brokerage firms which failed for three million two hundred thousand dollars in 1922 were sentenced in the Federal court to a year and day each at
 Atlanta prison. They pleaded
 guilty of bucking customs orders.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
W. P. L0PP Is MADE
 DOCTOR OF LAW S

Seattle. July 12, lP,- Word has been received from HanoY-r College in Indiana that they had conferred the degree of Doctor If Laws upon W. T. Lopp who i- going to Baftin Land to organize the reindeer industry for the Hn4- son Bay Company.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
IS OVERRULED
FIELD MARSHAL HAIG
 IN VANCOUVER; VICTORIA

Vancouver. B. C. July 13, LP- Field Marshal Earl Haie, Com mander-in-chief of the British forces during the World War went to Victoria today and will return to Vancouver for two days wis it Tuesday.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
RISSItN STEAMER WITH
 AMI NITtoN FOR CANTON

Canton July 13. DP, cor respondent for Japanese semi official news agency says that il S reliably reported that tuss- ian steamer heariug one million five hundred thousand rounds of ammunition sailed from Nladivosrok to Canton
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
GOV.GEN, OF CANADA
 WILL TAKE TRIP NORTH

Edmonton. July 1i4. Rl-Lord Ewing. Governor General of Can ada left for the Arctic regions, going to Aklavik on the Arctic Ocean He expects to be gone a month on the trip. his visit be- ing entirely informal.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18

Jerusalem. July 12, p D- rector Cart and the British School of Archaeology confirmed the scien- ttic value of the discovery of q primitive skull tabloid near Iii berias of supraorhital prominence. \ depressed forehead character ized the skull which is not unlike the European Neander'h hal.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
EIGHT HOUR DAY FOR
 OIL FIELD MEN

New York. July II The Standard OIl Company of New Jersey announced an eight hour day for employees in the midcon- tinent fields effective tomorrow. A twelve hour day has been eff fective since 1859 The ruling makes it necessary 10 put on three shifts in the fields.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
HINDU ARRESTED FOR
 STARBING COCNTRYNIAE

Vancouver, B. C. July 13. P)- Gajor Singh. Hindu was arrested yesterday charged with fatally stabbing Taka Singh, fellow countryman in the neck, breast and abdomen while Taka was rid ing on truck Saturday. Takas assailant fled after his victim had fell to the ground.
The Nome nugget., 1925-07-18
FRENCH BUDGET PASSES
 IN STORMY SESSION

Paris, July 13. LPt-- The French budget for 1925 was voted after q stormy all-nieht session in the Chamber of Deputies. Prime Minister Caillaux remained until the end. speaking before each of the houses each tme the hill came up. He estimated the receipts at thirty-three billion. one hund- red fifty francs and the eXpendi- ture of thirty-three billion, one hundred thirty-seven millions.