About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1924)
, WEATHER For Georgia Rain tonight and Tuesday; little change ‘in temperature. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 48 THREE DIE IN GRADE CROSSING CRASH NEAR ST. LOUIS TODAY O O O O O O 000000000 o*_oo oo 0000000 TEAPOT DOME COMMITTEE HEARS SLEMP 00000 0000 o" OO 'O Q O O O O o o o o o c CLAIM YOUTH CONFESSED DOUBLE SLAYING’LAST SUMMER SETS ESTATE OF WODPOK WILSON m WILL'S PHBUIM Daughter To Receive Annual In- Come Os $2,500 While She Remains Unmarried DOCUMENT IS BRIEF Document Is Filed At Washing ton Today For Forma! Pro bate In District Court WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. —I'fae •will of Woodrow Wilson, former president of the United; States, who died here a few weeks ago, was filed for formal probate in the dis trict Court today. , The document leaves to hiS widow Mrs. Edith Bolling Wilson, his en tire estate, with the exception of a provision which directs that the (former president’s daughter, Miss Margaret Wilson, shall reecive an annual income of $2,5000 a year as long as she shall remain (unmar ried. The document is brief, io m olaws BOOKFO BYPBST Legion Post Will Meet At Court House Tonight To Re view Memberhsip Drive *. At a meeting of John D. Mathis Post, No. 2, American Legion to be held tonight, at the courthouse at 7:3 0 o’clock plans will be con summated for the trip to Columbus where a number of members of the. tpost will go for initiation into the Societe Nationale des 40 Hvmmes et 8 Chevaux, of ‘‘Forty and Eight Society.” Those whose applications for membership in the Society have been approved are Jas. A. Fort, Robert C. Lane, J. G. Holst, H. B. Williams, H. S. Kelley, R P Ewing, J L. Suttles, W. G. Crapps, R L. Crawford, Cecil W. Walters T. Lacey Martin, Robert L. Mc- Math, Jr., Edmund Oliver, Dan Chappell, G. H. Taylor, Walter Lee Bell, Joe Afticey. At this meeting reports will be received that will demonstrate progress made in the membership drive now being carried on by the post and plans will be made for ending this effort upon a satisfac tory basis. The production of a home talent play is also being con sidered by the post. With April 18 set as the date for this showing and plans for staging the play will also be considered and acted upon at tonight’s meeting. * , HARRIS MEASURE IS FAVORABLY REPORTED , ATLANTA, Feb. 25.—Another step in the fight to assure aid for the Southern farmer if legislation is passed byXCongress to help the Northwestern farmer, has developed by a favorable report on the resolu tion, of U. S. Senator W. J. Harris of Georgia to provide a $lO,- 000",000 revolving fund from which to sell the farmers nitrate of soda and calcium arsenate at cost, until June 30, 1925. The senate agriculture commit tee has given favorable considera tion to the resolution, and Sena tor Harris expects to offer the measurt on the floor of the senate as an amendment to the Norbeck.- Burtness bill to help the North western farmers. In his message to Congress ad vocating relief for the farmers, President Coolidge stressed the. sit uation in the northwest and failed to mention the Southern farmer.;, which was pointed 1 out 'in a state ment by Senator Harris. FORBES PREDICTS - ATLANTA’S FUTURE ATLANTA. Feb. 25.—Express ing surprise at conditions in At lanta, B C Forbes, nationally known financial expert stated that Atlan ta was destined to take a place among the greatest in the world in the near future _ • 7_ • ' '’ ‘ I PUBLISHED | NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS ■ Phone 99 until 6 P. M. when you don’t receive your paper. After C P. M. phone Western Union Telegraph Co. and paper will be delivered by messenger • boy at our xepense. M SURPRISES Kit MB IS 81L PROBE ITW.SHIKTSBTfMiy Record Shows McLean Had On ly SIO,OOO in Bttnks He Gave Fail Check On I EASCOMB SLEMP ON STAND President’s Secretary Says He Advised Secretary Fftl! To Tell Whole Truth WASHINGTON, February 25. The senate oil committee opend an other bag of surprise today 'When hearings were resumed after a ten day recess. Taking up the trail of the SIOO,- 000 loan made to Secretary of tne Interior Albert B. Fall by publish er McLean of the Washington Post, i the committee members were toll [by officials of two Washington | banks that McLean's checking bal ance in neither of them was at any time more than SIO,OOO during 1921. The publisher had previous ly informed, the committee r ‘ that -fluring that year he gave checks ag gregating SIOO,OOO to Secretary Fall drawn bn these banks, but the these had, been returned to him un cashed. « C. Bascomb Slemp, secretary to President Coolidge, was questioned by the comhutee concerning a visit he <nade to Palm Beach while Sec retary Fall was there’ during last December and January. Slemp de clared that during these visits he talked with Secretary Fall several times and that he had him [ for the truth about the oil charges and had advised Fall to tell every thing concerning these. [.B.EWEn HE® ' MNEKE CWM Lovelace Eve Given Three Months Leave Os Absence By Directors At Meeting E. B. Everett, vice president of the Americus—and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, has been designated as active head of that organization during the n£xt three months, according to an announce ment authorized todjiy. This action was taken by the directors ht their annual meeting when Lovelace Eve was re-elected president ana form al plans made for carrying into ef fect the wishes of the membership as expressed at the annual dinner. Mr. Eve immediately following his re-election as president requested an indefinite leave of absence, the directors agreeing to permit him a rest of three months beginning im mediately. E. B. Everett, first vice president of the chamber, was then drafted to perform the duties of the president during the first quarter of this year, and he’ is already ac tively at work in that capacity. Ail correspondence addressed to the president of the Chamber of Gom- I merce during* tl\e quarter will be re ferred to Mr. Everett for reply, at d he will preside during all meetings of-both directors and members dur ing the time he is acting as presi dent, it being the purpose of the head of the organization to take a complete rest during that time. 2CO DELEGATES ARE ATTENDING MEETING Fdb. 25. —Approxi- mately two-hundred delegates are attending the annual convention of the Georgia Association of Indepen dent Telephone Companies which is tseing held here today and tomor row. e it is announced. The delegates represent about forty different independent tele- COMMITTEE IS ASKED RULE ANEW ON CO. SCHOOL SUPT.’S JOB A. B. Phillips Heads Move To Exclude Voters Os Americus Voting In Primary PETITION IS PRESENTED Claim Advanced That Country i People ‘Capable Os Selecting Own Superintendent’ A. B. Phillips, candidate for county school superintendent, today presented a petition to Chairman J. A. Davenport, of the County Eve cutive committee, asking that the committee reconsider its action! per mitting Americus residents to vote in the primary upon office of coun ty school superintendent. The pe tition is signed by Phillips, and alsj by Dr. W. H. Houston, W. W* Web|, E L Spann and W. C. Jor dan, all prominent residents of the county, and the latter a member of the county school board The pe tition, in full, is as/ follows: To the County Executive Com mittee of Said County We the undersigned have to some | extent investigated the rules oj law governing the selection of coun ty superintendents of schools, witn a view of ascertaining not only what the law is, but the purpose of so enacting the law. We find that Section 147 of the Code of School laws, which is the State law as enacted by the Geor gia Legislature in 1919, that: “If there is in this county one or more independent school systems not un der the supervision of the count?' superintendent, the voters of such independent system or systems •shall not vote in the election for county superintendent.” We -are convinced from our in vestigation that this provision as well as all the other well defined provsions of this school Code, look to the complete separation of tho independent school systems, such as exist ifi Americus, Georgia, and the public school system such as exists Within that pjart of the county oir side of the territory of Americus, and that neither system should have any choice in the selection of teachers or officers for the other system. We believe that all the people of the county who are willing to con sider this matter from a strictly I impartial viewpoint can be led to no other conclusion. Therefore, believing that we are fully capable of selecting our own superintendent, and believing that We', should have the unmolested right to do 1 so, as quoted above, we provision of law suoted above, we respectfully petition your Honor able Body to reconvene your com mittee for the purpose of recon sidering your action in promulgat ing the rule which authorizes the people living within the city of Americus to vote for county super intendent of schools; and after so reconsidering, then to promulgate your rule to confirm to the law, which we believe is just and right and should be adhered to without any varation. This February 25, 1934. Chairman Davenport discussing thepetitionwith anewspaperman this afternoon declared he wished to consult with other members of the committee before deciding upon a course of action. Secretary Fort was ill at his home and had no ex-i pression to make regarding the pe tition. Al of the committeemen will I be furnished a copy of the petition, Mr. Phillips stated this afternoon. ADDING ADDITIONAL ' OFFICES TO CAPITOL ATLANTA, Feb. 25.—Plans for a number of additional rooms on the first floor of the state capitol arc being drawn and work will be gin as soon as they are completed, it is announced. Many state departments with of fices in the capitol are badly crowded and the new offices will be used by various departments, it was pointed ou|. phone systems AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON .FEBRUARY 25, 1924 WEATHER FORECAST FOR THIS WEEK WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—the Weather outlook for the period of 'February 25 to March 1, 1924, in elusive is as follows: For the South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Much cloudiness and- occasional rains are indicated for the week. Temperatures will be near or some what above the normal. ILLE® BLICIBIL GANG BEETS FDSILADE IN HOME OF WOMAN Rafile Tranzo And Mike Munro Are Dead Following Fight In Cleveland THIRD MAN ESCAPED Woman Used Three Revolvers Upon Men Who, She Says, Threatened Her , CLEVELAND, Ohio, February 25 —Two men are ‘dead and two other persons are beirtg questioned by th ex police today as a result of a jpietol battle late last night which :is sard to have been the culmination of a blackmail plot. The dead are Raffl e Tranzo and Mike Miirinetwvho with a third than are said to have gone to the home of Mrs. Nettie Anneilia, 21 years of age, to see demands they are alleged to have made Thursday would be carried out. The woman, armed with three re volvers, fired a fusilade of shots at the men, she said, after they had fired shots through the windows of her home. Police ar e searching for her hus jband who.. she says, left home after the threats were received. lERICUS COUPLE IN FIRE ftT VALDOSTA Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson Had Narrow Escape When Valdes Hotel Burned Mr. and Mrs. Joe Johnson, who were en route from their home in Lakeland, Fla., to visit Americus, were guests in the Hotel Valdes at Vadlosta lasti week when that hotel ry was destroyed by fire, and had a narrow escape from being burned to death there. When the fire was first discover er, Mr. Johnson said today messeng ers from the hotel office informed guests that “there is no danger; just a little smoke in the halls.’’’ Re lying upon the assurance of these messengers Mr. Johnson, after be ing aroused, returned to his bej, but within a short time the fire was spreading. He then sougnt to locate a fire escape across the hall from his room and found this impossible because of dense smoke that filled the corridors, and re turned again to the room where Mrs. Johnson was dressing. , Unable longer to conceal the danger from his wife, Mr. Johnson raised a window and called for a ladder down which he and Mrs. Johnson might escape from the burning structure. After what seemed an interminable time, he says, a ladder reaching to within ten or fifteen feet; of the window was placed upon the walls, and guests invited to “tie the bedclothes together and climb down to the ladder,” but there were none brave enough to try this plan. After a while through a suggestion of My. Johnson, the firemen secured an extension ladder and placed this at a window where a number of men guests were yelling lustily from a window. These were sooi safe on the ground 'the firemen ap peared satisfied, with Mrs. Johnson still in grave danger, unable to leave her room and Mr. Johnson pleading With those on the ground to move the ladder to a point where they could escape. Finally a woman on the ground succeeded in having the laddei placed so as to permit Mr. and Mrs. Johnson to escape, and they de scended the swaying ladder from their third story apartment, badly frightened, but fortunately unhurt, and without the loss of any valtv ables. * < Walsh, Miss Democracy's Fair, Haired Boy Just Now IgF . I WK 4 Wi ■■ w. wlif JI ' 'Mi Copyright. Harris & Ewing * > StOh, Walsh me around | again. Tommy, ' nw| Around! Around! 7 W Sift' Around! / rhe Teapot is boilin', 1 the GGP’s "oil in " Oh. don't let flic •y- -x ....... wMtegTfflA lull to the ' ground. ‘ Miss ncmoeracy's Jazz “‘-"’’-.Z'W * v ballads ot 1924. Senator Walsh, a year ago (upper and now. Typical of th echang e that seems to have come over the Montana senator with his leadership in the Tea pot Dome investigation, is his new manner of trimming his mustache, and in its placets the squared-off, carefully trimmed lip warmer. HIGH COURT RULES MSI AVERY IN GA. LIQUOR CASE Man Convicted Os Distilling De nied Appeal By Nation’s Highest Trbiunal LOWER COURT UPHELD Avery Had Contended Circuit Court |Of Appeals Should Review His Sase WASHINGTON, February 25. Supreme court today refused to pass upon the case in which Will Avery, convicted in the federal district courts ot Southern Georgia for the possession of illicit still sought to bring. Avery contended he should have been granted a review by the Cir cuit Court of Appeals. PEACH CROP MAY BRING 15 MILLIONS ATLANTA, Feb. 25.—The pros pects are now good for a $15,000,- 000 crop 4>f Georgia peaches, ac cording to reports received here. About 8.000 cars constituted the Georgia crop last season, it was stated, but there are so many young trees coming into bearing this year that it is estimated it will take 18.000 cars to move the crop the coming season. The peach belt that used to term inate at Fort Valley has extended itself, until it has taken in Jones. Hancock, Sumter Webster, Schley. Marion and a number of Middle Georgia counties. These .Middle Georgia counties are claiming thai the fruit they produce is of a fin er flavor, firmer and is u better shipper. The extension of the peach acre age and the resulting of the mar keting facilities and increased area covered the Georgia peach, in the •pinion of experts here. MONTANA GOVERNOR MAY ENTER CABINET WASHINGTON, February 25. Joseph M. Dixon, governor of Montana, and at one time a lead er in the Roosevelt party move ment, is being seriously consid ered for secretary of the navy in President’ Coolidge's cabinet to succeed Edwin Deriby re signed. RICH GAMBLER ANU 2 WOMAN CBMPANIOMS DIE IN AUTO CRASH Car Struck By Freight Train Early Today At Point 3 Miles From St. Louis J. H. BURNS ALSO HURT Was Livestock Salesman and Fi ance of Miss Zeima Wander, One Os Women Killed ST LOUIS, February 25. —M. J. Conner, a wealthy gambler, and two women were killed today when an automobile in which they were rid-' ing collided with a freight train three miles, southwest of this city. One of the women killed was Miss Zeima Wander, aged 23. while her fiance, Joseph H. Burns, a live stock salesman, who was also rid ing in the car, was seriously in jured. The identity of the other woman who was killed in the acci dent has not been established. EXPECT EARLY RULING ON TOBACCO TAX LAW ATL/ANTA, Feb. 25.—The Su preme court of Georgia will proba bly rule on the state tobacco tax at its next term in March when It will hear arguments on a bill of excep tions, in the case o fE. K. Lloyd, tobacco dealers, vs. Richardson, Fulton County tax collector, in which collections of the tax was en joinuil, which has been filed here. . .At the instance of T. R. GressJ assistant attorney general of tne state, the Fulton County superior court has ordered that buyers of revenue stamps will have to give a surety bond for the stamps pur chased, Mr. Greed announced. Un der the provisions of the order per- Isonal bonds will n‘ot be accepted in the future, it was, stated. New York Futures PC Open High Low Close Mar ..29.75129.72130.00|29.L5!29.15. May -30.12 30.20|30.34129.50129.50 July Oct. ..26.52(26.57126.79j26.30j26.30 Dec. . 26.05,126.02(26.26(25.88[25.88 Americus strict middling 28 3-4 PRICE FIVE CENTS HE IS Bfly WHOM TONHELED BARRIER BEFORE OIL OCTOPUS t On Ineligible List As Presiden tial Candidate, But Good Cabinet Member HAS KEEN LEGAL MIND Is Hard Worker At Office And Fond Os Social Life During Recreation Hours BY HARRY B. HUNT NCA Service Writer WASHINGTON, February 25. Miss z Democracy has a new sweet heart. A dashing, debonaire blade he is from out the great Open Spaces of the Wind-Swept West. A lithe, graceful, eloquent gentle man. A cavalier of the sort that slays dragons and resources languisn ing maidens. Small wonder, then, that a new spirit o fhope and joy has quickened the lagging pulses of Miss Democ racy. Maybe—inabye—? Who knows? Oh, to be no longer a wall-flower'. Oh, to lead the dizzy dance again: So, with new words to the old dance- tune, the full -party harmony coming in Heavy on the syncopated time,she sings: “Oh, Walsh me around again, Tommy, Around! Around! Around!” For Walsh, Thomas J. Walsh of Helena, Montana, is the new Loch invar to whom Miss Democracy (owes her new lease on life—and hope. Walsh is the boy who almost un aided, tunneled through the barrier of words and evasions to the hidden lair of the GreatXOil Octopus. Shether by fault or foolishness, operations of the Octopus, he disclosed, had been made possible by high officials of the ruling ad ministration—men at the very top in the Republican part organization. What history will know as the Great Oil Shandal—the end' of which' is not yet—resulted. And right there is where Mies Democracy’s hopes come in. With the nation aroused over the disclo sures, she expects a popular revul sion against Republican rule which will make her—whether from choice or necessity she doesn’t care much which—the popular partner in the 1924 Presidential Cake Walk. And as the boy who nas made; this "possible, who stuck the cactus under the GOP howdah, twisted the elephant’s tail and started what may become a political stampede, Tom my Walsh from Montana is today Miss Democracy’s fair-haired pet, .her Candy Kitd! ' Now don’t misunderstand. Miss Democracy hasn’t any matrimonial designs on Thomas. She awfully found of him, but reasons of policy and such—Mon tana having only four electoral votes—put' him on the ineligible list so far as becoming ner presi dential candidate is concerned. But she’d keep hipi around, in case she gets back tb the White House nevt year. In the cabinet, you know. Probabty attorney gen eral. For even before he proved his ability in the present oil investiga tions, Walsh was recognized as one of the keenest legal minds in Wash- ington. He has often been dubbed an Enclopedia of Law, due to his ability to cite legal references and decisions from memory. In his office and at the Senate, Walsh is an indefatigable worker ( Away from the’ office and the capi tal, he likes recreation. He is fond of social life and is much in demand at dinners and par ties among the official and social set of the city. As an unattached male—he has been a widower several years—ho solves the problem of many a hos tess in making up her list. He is a (Continued On Page Three)
