About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 14, 1923)
Americus Spot Cotton ' Strict Middling 32c. N. Y. 1- uts Open High Low Close Jan. «..34(.20 34.62 33.85 33.85 J^ rch 34-70 34.98 34.25 34.25 May 34.90 35.18 34.40 34.40 3. ul y 34.12 34.36 33.53 33.58 Oct. ........ 28.47 28.62 28.00 28.00 DcO 34.95 35 10 34 , 48 34 48 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 27* FIGHTING NEAR MEXIC CITY 3000000000000 0 00000000 CHINK BANDITS SEIZE AND MURDER MEN AND WOMEN ♦>6o 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 <3 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 00 STATE LAWYERS ATTACK FOX’S RECORD WIZARD - EK B FOX HAD FIGHT ffliffl MN. SUITE w Defense Continues Hereditary Insanity Evidence; State Attacks Character DREW GUN ON OFFICER Papers In Possession of Prose cution Mention Name of Victim of Shootins' ATLANTA, Dec. 14.—(8y the Associated Press.) —The defense continued building its insanity case on the trial of Philip E. Fox, charg ed with the murder of Captain W. S. Coburn. A former associate of Fox testified to his fits of despond ency, to other traits of brewing in sanity and to his general good char acter otherwise. Congressman Summers, of Tex as, testifying along these lines was asked by the prosecution if he did not know that Fox since coming to Atlanta had run around with dis reputable women, and once had been arrested for disorderly con duct and. had threatened the ar i esting officer with a pistol. He also asked if he did not know that Fox had been drunk for three days before the killing of Cobutn. Sum mers said that fee knew nothing of all this. Ano'ther Texas witness was asked if he did not know that Fox and Imperial Wizard Evans had a fight stiver a woman in St. Louis. He did know it. Definitely injecting the question of insanity into the legal battle-of Philip E. Fox for hid life, cotin&l for the slayer of Attorney William S. Coburn anonunced at 3:20 o’clock Thursday afternoon that.the defense will undertake to convince the jury that hereditary insanity runs in the Fox family and that since 1912 Fox has been in. fear of losing his mind. *• j This announcement of the de fense, made by Attorney Frank A. Hooper, was followed by evidence to the effect that Jack Fox, a broth er of Fox, died of violent insanity in Boston in 1906, and that his father, - Samuel H. Fox was "odd” and apparently ‘stunned.’ It was further shown by formei associates of Fox from Texas that ■while engaged in newspaper work there he was subpect to spells of brooding and extreme nevrousness, and that on one occasion he was ■discovered in an unconscious con dition in the city hall. A thorough inspection of certain documents found in Captain Co burn’s office failed to reveal that one paper contains the name of the defendant. This revelation was regarded as significant in view of the state ment of Fox following the killing that he had committed the act be cause Coburn had in his possession certain information which would “ruin” him. It was believed that the paper may prove important in the state’s rebuttal of an insanity plea. ‘We will turn our papers over to the defense if the defense w'll re turn their over to the state,” Mr. Boykin said, in commenting on his objection. kiwanis directors ELECT CLUB OFFICIALS At a meeting this week of the of ficers and directors of the Kiwanis club, T. O. Marshall was elected r secretary, succeeding Bradley Hogg, [ who for 3 years has handled this difficult iob for his club. The directors elected Lewis El l's as chairman of the board. Evan •'lathis is the newly elected presi dent, succeeding Dr. Carl W. Minor,' ’ served as president for two •fftrs. Sam Heys is vice president and T. O. Marshall treasurer of his club. The board of directors is com posed of Bradley Hogg. J. M. Cut ler, J. W. Lott, R. S- Oliver, G. M. Bragg, J. M. Bryan and Lewis Ellis. The new officials take office on January 1. The jubilee diamond, shown at the Paris exposition, weighed 2<>9 carats. Paper of good quality >■ made frqm the eucalyptus tree. Big windstorm did a lot of dam age in Houma, La. Oh, that re minds us, congress is in session. THE fIMESB-RECORDER IN THE OF DlXljfffiTv? WOMAN TRIES DEATH; SETS LUNCH CHECK AND LEAPS FROM 6TH FLOOR NEW' YORK, Dec. 14. Anita Southwick, a young woman living in • the Hotel Brevoort, Fifth avenue and Eighth street. Thursday jump ed from a sixth story window and crashed through the roof of a sedan parked below. She probably will survive. A waiter iiad just handed Miss Southwick the check for a luncheon party of 27 girls. She excused'her self left the room, and then leaped. When the manager sought an ex planation from her 26 companions, he found they had all disappeared. MIL URGES TH BESE 10 SENATE: MILES IS BILKING Governor and Senate President In Indirect Dispute Over Pro posal of Comunication TAX BILLS WILL ALL PASS Deadlock Believed Averted As Two Houses Show Willing ness to Compromise ATLANTA, Dec. 14.—(8y the Associated Press.) —President Cars well of the Georgia senate today stated that if Governor Walker would send a message to the senate urging that body ,to accept toe Lankford income tax bill as it came back front - the hpuse, he would take the floor - atid 1 Support it. Gover nor Walket- said that, if the senate desired to 66. so it could pass the measure without any word from him. The double indication that the legislative deadlock on tax reform legislation, which has existed for a week past in the general assembly, is nearing the breaking point came on Thursday when the house adopt ed a resolution signifying its will ingness to compromise on the Lank fordford income tax bill, ami the senate passed the Ennis revenue enforcement measure in practical ly the same form in which it was adopted by the house. The house voted late Thursday night, 140 to 22, to adopt a reso lution instruction its seventh con ference committ? on the Lankford bill that it could accept a compro mise on the lines laid c.own in the message from Governor Walker de livered to the assembly Wednesday. The resolution does not mention the governor’s recommendations, but it is identical with the plan he suggested. STEP-MOTHtR IS CRUEL; GIRL, 12, LEAVES HOME ATLANTA, Dec. 14.—Declaring that she had left home Tuesday af ternoon because of cruelty of her stepmother and had intended walk ing to Jaspef, Ga., where she has rflative's, a 12-year-old girl, giving her name as Sallie May Keagle, daughter of Marion Keagle, of 10 •> Quillyrn avenue, was held at the matron’s ward of the police sta tion Wednesday morning following the finding of the child by a watch man in the Southern yards near Marietta street and North avenue early Wednesday morning. The little gill became lonely in the feark yard and came to the watchman’s office and tapped on the door. She said she had slept in the yards during the early part of the night. WOMAN GETS 6 MONTHS ON CUTTING CHARGE DECATUR, Dec. 14.—Mrs. Helen Schuyler was sentenced to six months imprison or to pay a fine of S3OO, in DeKalb county Superior court this afternoon, following her conviction on a charge of assault with intent to murder in connec tion wit ha knife battle she is said to have had with Mrs, Bessie Jack son. The Jury was out one hour. Attorneys for the defense immed iately entered a plea for a nev, trial. Judge John B. Hutchinson set December 29 as the date for a hearing on the motion. In the fight which the women arc alleged to have staged, Mrs. Jack son was seriously cut about the face and neck, and Mrs. Schuyler sustained several wounds. Each woman claimed that the other at tacked her without provocation. AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFFTERNOON, DECEMBER 14. 1923 0 wore SUOPPING DAY£ BEFORk 11 Mil 1 HELD PENDING PROBE IB ALLEGED BID SWINDLE Pilot and Passenger of Airplane Held in Fitzgerald Pending Arrest of Kortez BOTH DENY CONNECTION Man Charged With Postal Fraud Involving More Than Five Million Dollars CHICAGO, Dec. 14.—(8y the Associated Press.) —Two men arc being held at Fitzgerald, Ga., ac cording to local police in connec tion with the alleged $5,000,000 swindle engineered by Leo Koretz. They left Chicago Tuesday in an airplane for Honduras, but were arrested at Fitzgerald on the pos sibility that their plane may be intended to facilitate Koretz in his flight to Central America. FITZGERALD, Ga., Dec. 14. (By the Associated Press.) —A pas senger and the pilot of an airplane which arrived here late yesterday are being held under guard on ad vice from Chicago authorities who say they want to question them con cerning the disappearance of Leo Koretz alleged $5,000,000 swindler. The men gave their names as Wil liam Aronson and W. W. Meyer and deny knowledge of the where abouts of Koretz. TAX-CUT FAVORED BY PARTY LEADER ATLANTA, Dec. 14—The cut of $300,000,000 in income tax asked by President Coolidge, in his recent budget message to congress, will strike a peculiar chord in the pub lic mind, according to C. W. Mc- Clure, Atlanta merchant and lead ing republican of the state. “The benefit from such a cut will not be to the rich especially, but rather to those of modest in comes and many homes expenses, who yet have been paying of their smaller earnings to swell the in come tax receipt l )” said Mr. Mc- Clure. As the head of one of At lanta’s ten-cent stores and con ducting similar estab'isniierits tn other parts of the state, Mr. Mc- Clure comes in contact with the ‘real folks,” or common people, as he refers to them and he has been intensely interested in the subject of national tax reduction. AUTOMOBILE KILLS GIRL; POLICE HOLDING DRIVER ATLANTA, Dec. 14. Claude Martin, 24, of Ben Hill, Ga., was being held at the Fulton county tower Thursday night on charge of involuntary manslaughter, fol lowing the death of Willie Lee Pritchard, 9-year-old girl, who was struck down and fatally injured by Martin’s automobile in front of the child’s home in Ben Hill, on the Can .bellton road, about 1 o’clock Thursday afternoon. He was no* allowed to 'make bond, it was said by tower officials. The accident occurred directly in front of the Pritchard home, while the girl’s two small brothers looked on. She died shortly after being carried into her home, where phy sicians worked desperately to save her life. The United States consumes two fifths of the world’s entire annual wood supply. Its share is about 22,- 500,000,000 cubic feet each year. CM BANOFS BUPN AND LOOT '• CAPTURED TOWN 1 I ■ —> City Officials And Mary Wo men Taken bv 3,000 Out laws As City Falls 100 CITIZENS ARE SEIZED U. S. Warships and Marines Al Canton and Hong Kong To Protect Americans SHANGHAI, Dec. 14.—tBy the Associated Press.)— Three thousand bandits under the leadership of the notorious cnieitain Chen Yc.i Top and Wung Han Yi Ying captured the town of Chaho Wednesday, burning and looting houses and car rying off the magistrate, educa tional commissioner and two other officials. More than 100 residents of the town including many women, ac cording to dispatches were also car ried off during the raid. British, French and American warships last week were rushed to Canton and the customs house there was seized by marines to prevent a threatened attack on it by bandits. Other destroyers of the American Pacific fleet which were stationed in the Philippines were Wished to ' Hong Kong during the week. It is thought that np foreigners were taken in the raid.’ Reports were not complete at noon Friday. The bandits have retruned to their retreat taking loot and booty with them. JHBMRD IND CEITBIL IN CM No One Hurt In Wreck At Grade Cressing in Columbus Today COLUMBUS, Dec. 14.—A Sea board Air Line engine struck a Cen tral of Georgia car standing upon th e grade crossing of these roads here today, but no on e was hurt in the crash, according to the state ment of railroad officials here, and 'he damage was said to have been slight. '1 he car struck by the Seaboari engine was part of the equipment of a Central of Georgia work train and •.vas unoccupied at the time. empty:stocking FUND Previously acknowledged $20.40 Leonard Fletcher 10 Orphie Lee Williams 4c Harry Bowers .... 2.6 C Miss Rosa McLendon .. .50 Cash 20 Leonard Hill 10 Maude Holliday .... .25 Mrs. J. E. Ferguson 1.00 Cash 25 Rufulyn Mathews .25 Sarah Woodlll0 1 Florence Wood .. .10 Joanne Wood 10 Total . $25.40 | SEEK NEW TRIAL I FOR WAYCROSS WOMAN I WAYCROSS, Dec. 14.—Motion for a new trial in the; case of Mrs. Nota Duren was filed Thursday by attorneys for the defense in court here. A hearing will be had be fore Judge J. 1. Summeral at an early date. Mrs. Duren was found guilty of the murder of Ira James by a jury here yesterday with rec ommendation to mercy. She was sentenced to life imprisonment. Mrs. Duren was indited for shoot ing and killing James, a trackman for the Hebard Cypress Express company, in the store which s?ie op. erated at Hopkins cn August 11. Testifying in her own behalf, Mrs. Duren declared that she shot James in self-defense when he i grappled with her in her store. She I alleged, in her testimony, that he | had made improper advances. Witnesses testified that on three occasions Mrs. Duren sent for James to come to the store to settle : an account he was alleged to have I owed her. Mrs. Duren denied she sent for James. Mrs. Duren was alleged by the ! state to have sfiot James with a pis- I 1 tol concealed .behind a newspaper ! i covered showcase. Young, Pretty, Wealthy— < And She Wants a Hubby LAngSHranraß life W W l ' GLORIA i'OY , * DETROIT. Dee. 14.—(8y NEA. Service.) —Key, fellows! Wealth, happiness and a beautiful wife— borne young man will winn al! hree if he can convince Gloria Foy, 2-year-old heiress, that he wou’d nake her a desirable husband. And urthermore, keep her so convinced for 10 yeai's. Miss Foy, once an understudy of Jaiillyn Miller and now a star of 1 current musical attraction, has re vived $1,500,000 through the will f her uncle, Richard Foy, wealthy ■offee pl inter of Rio de Janerio. She gets one third of it immed ately. The next half million is lers only if she marries before she s 25. And th e third and last in itallment Comes ten years from her vedding day, if she and her hus band still are living together hap >ilv. And she says she hasn’t a pros >eet in th e world. MIMES ffllMLKlff Funeral services ovei the remains of Mrs. Emma Chalkiey, who died Wednesday night at the Wise sani tarium in Plains, were held Ihui'- day afternoon from the Union •hureh at Draneville at 3 o’clock, with Rev. J. W. i-am, pastor oi the Baptist congregation there, con ducting the obsequies. Interment was in Draneville cemetery. The pallbearers were Rufus Crawford, Jesse Dorman, J. J- Mc- Dowell, Bryant Deavours, Brick Wells and Henry Crawford. Surviving are four sons, Terrell T. Chalkiey, of Draneville; Frei H. Chalkiey, of Americus; Emory W. ChalkleV. of Spring, Texas, and John W. Chalkiey, 234 Bell street, Americus, with whom deceased ha I made her home. Two daugh ters, Mrs. R. A. Smith, of Chat tanooga, Tenn., and Miss Etta Mao Chaiklev, of Americus; one broth er, John Carpenter, of.Waco, Tex.: three sisters, Mrs. Anna Howell, of Oklahoma City., Okla.; Mrs. Mary Etta Kendrick, of Richland, and Mrs. George W. Cannon, of Amer icus, also survive, beside a wide family connection. Mrs. Chalkiey, who was a mem ber of the Central Baptist church, was a regular attendant at its serv ices, lending her aid and influence whenever called upon. She made her home with her son in Americus, and enjoyad a ftide acquaintance among whom she was greatly be loved. She had been ill three months, having recently returned from a visit to relatives in Texas. FPOST IS FORECAST MEKTIWI !U. S. Bureau Predicts That Blanket Will Be Laid To Northern Florida WAIIINGTON, Dec. 14.—'By ■Associated Press.) —The probability of frost onight as far south as Northern Florida was predicted to day by the weather bureau. Snow fell today in several parts of the South, according to reports received at the weather bureau here. Wa,:m weather is forecast for to morrow, except on the Florida pe ninsula. FATHER OF SIX ENDS TROUBLES BY SUICIDE SATESBORO, Dec. 14. Dan R. Groover, 38, father of six hildiren, killed himself late Wednesday night ly pulling the trigger of his snot gun with his toes, blowing his head off. Despondency over ill-health was assigned as the reason for the act. He had been ill at his home near Jimps for some time. His wife and children were awakened by the report of the gun, and rush ed into the room to find the head severed from the body. MRS. HARRIS SUSTAINS ACCIDENTAL INJURY Mrs. J. W. Harris sustained a painful injury Thursday at her home on Brooklyn Heights when she was spurred by an infuriated cock as she attempted to remove i hen from a nest in the barnyard. The hen, squawking at the top of her voice, aroused the attention of a rooster in the yard, who rush ed at Mrs. Harris, spurring her through the wrist. She was rushed to a physician, who stated that while the wound was not serious in its incipiency, later might in duce complications. I CHICAGO IS NAMED COOLIDGE HEADQUAP r *'“ l WASHINGTON, Dec. U.- I Associated Press.)—General cam ; paign headquarters for President I Coolidge will be established at Chi icago, December 27. • ' She was the widow of the late Geo. ’ 'O. Chalkiey, one of the pioneer j residents of Sumter, couiuj, who I died several yearfc ago. , The funeral was largely attend i ed by Americus and Sumter county I friends, and the Hora) offerings I were many and beautiful. weather For Georgia: Fair tonight; cold er in east and south portion; proba bly heavy frost tonight; Saturday, fair, with slowly rising tempera ture. PRICE FIVE CENTS FEDERAL W BLOCKS iRCH UPON CAPITAL: BATTLE BEING WO Report That Governmental and Huerta F~rces Have Clash ed In Arms CLAIM REBELLION STAYED Obregon Declares Federal Forces Control All Sections, Except Vera Cruz and Jalisco EL PASO, Dec. 14.—(8y the As sociated Press.) —A report of severe fighting between the out posts of advancing rebels and fed eral troops entrenched in the path of the march to Mexico City were received here today. DISPATCHES REPORT GOVERNMENT CONTROLS WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. The federal government, said a -state ment from Mexico City Thursday, “controls the whole of the republic except the small sections of Vera Cruz and Jalisco where the reac tionaries headed by De la Huertu rebelled. President Cbregon reviewed at Irapuato the forte-, tpac are moving against General Estrada. These troops have already come into con tact with the rebels, and it is ex pected that a definite battle will be fought within this week. “Vera Cruz reactionaries control only a small portion of the state and have been unable to make any headway,. The federal forces dis patched against them are being con centrated irr large numbers at Espe ranza, preparatory to the initiation of a vigorous and final attack against the rebels ‘Military officers of all ranks, with the exception of General ■ Sanchez and Estrada, are giving I their lull support to the govern ment.” NOVEMBER COTTON CONSUMPTION IS OFF WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—(8y the Associated Press) —Cotton con sumed during November amounted to 531,631 running bales of lint ana 48,069 bales of linters, com pared with 541,82 g of lint and 57,- 128 of linters in October this year and 579,190 of lint and 55,128 of linters in November last year, the census bureau announced today. milG DIPL BITTEN W VICIOUS FELINE Bessie Bell, Victim of Unusual * Attack; Examination Discloses Animal’s Brain Healthy Bessie Bell, the young daughter • 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Bell, resid ing on South Lee stret, sustained a painful injury Thursday when she was attacked and bitten by an in furiated cat at Loving’s filling sta tion at the corner of Lee ana Church streets. The little girl had gbne there, to I spend a short while with her father, employed at. the station, and as she played about near the building, a a cat rushed from the shrubbeiy, biting her severely in the fleshy part of the leg. Although painful, the injury is not regarded as seri ous, and she is attending school. The cat was killed, the head im immediately sent to Atlanta for ex amination, and the report received yesterday stated that the animal was not affected with rabies. MERCER TRUSTEES CHUM WITH BOYS OF COLLEGE MACON, Dec, 14.—Wednesday was ‘Trustee day” on the Mercer university campus, the university trustees being the guests of student body and faculty in connection with their presence here for the meeting of the Baptist convention. At the morning chapel hour the time was given over to the board of trustees who were introduced to those present and made short talks. Dr. W. H. Davis, president of the board, presided and intro duced each member who spoke briefly to the audience.
