About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (June 14, 1924)
WEATHER For Georgia Partly cloudy to night and Sunday; probably scat tered thundershowers. FORTY-SIX YEAR—NO. 140 22 DEAD IN TENNESSEE CLOUDBURST Solicitor Jule Felton Asks for Re-Election WIT BBS MCE WK IJP WITH Tffl m imcMs Stephen Pace, of Americus, and Jule Felten, of Montezuma, Formally Enters Race ACTIVE CANVASS ASSURED Believed Here Today That These Will Be Only Contest ants for Circuit Job Renewed interest was injected into the race for solicitor-general of the Southwestern circuit here Friday and today by the announce ments of Stephen Pace, of Ameri cus, and Jule Felton, of Montezu ■ ma, as candidates for the place. It is believed here this afternoon that these will be the only entries. Z. S’. Childers, who stated some time ago that he would enter the contest, has so far failed to defi nitely announce, and it is current ly reported he has withdrawn. Mr. Childers when called upon the telephone relative to this report, stated he would “tell you about it tomorrow,” and since that time he has not been seen by a reporter. Mr. Felton, who is being oppos-j re dby Senator Pace, is at present ' solicitor general, having served in that position approximately five years. He succeeded John Allen j / Fort as solicitor, and during his incumbency has made a record which his friends assert is most creditable, the Superior court of Sumter county under his adminis tration, being upon a self-sustaih gKz basis by reason of collection in the form of fines, for feitures, etc. Previously, i while practicing law at Montezuma with Judge R. L. Greer, Mr Felton serv ed during one term, of Superior court as solicitor pro tem during the illness of the late James K. Williams. Mr. Pace, whose announcement appeared in Friday’s Times-Re corder, as is well known, is at present state senator from this dis trict, representing Sumter, Schley and Macon counties in the upper house of the general assembly. Previously he served Sumter coun ty as its representative in the leg islature, and has been the author of a number of constructive legis lative measures. He is an experi enced attorney, having practiced at the bar is Americus durisg a num ber of years past, KlWilf CLUB UiES PEOPLE EAT PEACHES Organization Institutes Cam paign to Stimulate Industry Throughout This Section Tht Kiwanis club members have instituted a campaign to aid the | peach growers of this section by seeking to stimulate the erfting of mort peachts. This action was taken Friday at the club luncheon in the First Methodist church. “We have arranged’ with the, Southern Printers, on Windsor av enue, to make and sell to Ameri cus fer chants a rubber stafp,” said T. 0. Marshall, secretary. “These rubber stamps will be sold at 15 cents each and on them are these words: ‘Eat Delicious Georgia Peaches. Now on The Market.’ “We request every merchant to •urchase one of these stamps and lamp its imprint upon every let ter, bill or other stationery going out frof his office or store. Un doubtedly this will help our peach growers if generally used. Vice President Heys presided in the absence of Evan Mathis, who is en route as a delegate to the In ternational Kiwanis convention ar. Denver. FIRE DOES LITTLE RAMAGE A fire alarm called the depart ment to the home of C. T. Law on Forsyth street this morning. The damage, however* was smalll, be ing confined to a flu burning it self out. A falst alarm during Fri day night called the department to the Seaboard shops, but there was no-blaze there, thetimesßrecorder PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE frfrfr? HARRIS THROWS HIS HAT IN RING SENIOR SENATOR TODAY ANNOUNCES ENTRY IN PRIMARY ; Directs Attention *o Accomp lishment, Even With Re- I publican Administration ON MANY 7- COMMITTEES Position On Appropriations Body Has Been of Vast Bene fit, He Asserts Senator William J. Harris, in a signed statement, today announces his candidacy for the United States sepate to succeed himself, in the following statement: Six years ago you did me the honor of electing me to the Unit ed States senate. In announcing as a candidate for re-election to this high office .it seerr.s appro priate th'at I shouldi call atten tion briefly to some of the things I have been able to do in spite of the fact that the Republicans have had substantial majorities in both the senate and house. My candidacy is based solely on my record of accomplishments. Realizing that our farmers, la borers, manufacturers and mer chants wer e in need of substantial assistance I have spent my time laboring for them in a construc tive way, rather than making par- pojitiqal speeches. It is well known that nearly all legislation is framed in commit tees, and I am fortunate in be ing next to the ranking Democrat on the committee on appropria tions, th c most important of all committees. • I have supported woman 4uf fra,ge and prohibition and have at all times been on the moral side of every public question. No senator- has taken deeper interest in the matter of immigra tion. During my first year in the senate I introduced a bill prohibit ing all immigration for at least five years, and consistently urged th e passage of such a measure. After the war came reconstruc tion with the terrible financial crisis to the farmers, f am a member of the farm bloc and am confi dent the Record wjfll show that no senator has worked harder or accomplished more for the farmer than I have during the last five years. Among the measures for the benefiit of the farmer that I orig inated or actively supported, and (Continued On Page Fourl ATLANTA COUNCIL GETS AUTHORITY OVER COPS ATLANTA, June 14. —Atlanta City council was invested with sole authority to elect thc chief of po lice when Mayor Walter Sims signed the ordinance adopted by council last Monday to shear the police com mittee of that authority, which it had held since January, 1923, when it became the legal successor to the old police commission. The mayor’s approval of the ordi nance, which had been introduced by avowed supportters of A. La mar Poole for chief, “supset the dope” at city hall on the police situ ation. Opponents of the former police administration in council had mustered enough votes through a compromse with friends of Acting Chief E. L. Jett, to sustain the may or in the event he had vetoed the ordinance, as was expected. MAC LEAN DENIES CHARGES OF WIFE torneys for Kenseth Ross MacLarer. have entered a general denial of the sensational divorce complaint filed by Mrs. Mac Lean on June 7, in which she accused the young hus band of smothering their year-old daughter to death in a Brunswick, Me., hotel last February. The an swer is on file here in the superior courtt of Pierce county. Mac Lean states that the infant met leath accilentally wrile in the custody of her mother, and aft r Mac Lean had left the hotel for the night. He ask-. ’iat the case be dis missed. 50 Alienists 7o Aid Leopold And Loeb In Fight For Lives Murderers of Franks to Be Placed On Trial in Chi cago August 4 CHICAGO, June 14—Every pos sible mental disorder which might be urged in their defense, is to be sought by probably fifty alien ists who will examine Nathan Leo pold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, mil lionaire youths and confessed kid napers anl slayers cf Robert Franks, 13-year-oid scohol boy, at torneys for the defense rave indi cated. Dr. Karl M. Bowman, of the Boston Psychopathic hospital, and Dr. H. S’. Hurlburt, of Oak Park, Ills., already have visited the youths now in jail. The examinations of these two alienists are to be the basis of de fense at the trial which is set for August 4th, counsel for the two deftndants announce. CHICAGO, June 13.—Before an impetuous crowd that broke a court room door from its hinges in an ef fort to see the confessed kidnapers and slayers of 13-year-old Robert Franks, Nathan Leopold, Jr., and iJi h ird Loeb pleaded not guilty io charges"’ of 'kidnaping for” 'ransom and murder and heard August 4 fixed as the date of their trial The youths apparently were un abashed by the curious hundreds, mostly women, who pushed and scrambled to catch a glimpse of the neatly pressed university students who have declared they kidnaped and killed the son of a neighbor to provide excitement. Chief Justice John R. Caverly, of the criminal court, who will preside at the trial, set July 21 as the time for arguing preliminary motions. (State’s Attorney Crowe, had asked that the date of trial be set for July 15, the earliest pos sible date under the law. HENDERSON FINDS SELF IN HOOPESTON HOOPESTON, 111. June 14. Eamuel E. Henderson, claiming to be wealthy and the owner of a large department store at Greenville, S. C., was picked up near here in a dazed condition. Henderson declar ed he was thrown from an automo bile by a party of bandits who robbed his store at Greenville about June 1, and kidnaped him. He says he was kept plied with drugs to prevent him from escap ing or giving an alarm and has no knowledge of his travels with the band, but believed they visited points in Florida, New Orleans and St. Louis, commiting robberies en route. Henderson has a wife and nine children in Greenville and has wired for assistance. ♦ MERIWETHER COUNTY POLICE CHIEF BURIED GREENVILLE, June 14.—Fun eral services for W. E. Hooks, chief of the Meriwether county police force, who died Wednesday after noon as he stepped from his auto mobile after chasing a suspected rum-running machine were held Thursday with Rev. H. O. Fowler, officiating. Interment was in thc city cemetery. Chief Hooks who was 53 years old, had contained of illness as he was pursuing the alleged liquor ear, but it was not thought that his illness was serious. He is survived by his widow; a daughter, Miss Blanche Hooks, and his mother, Mrl Martha Hooks of ‘ Columbus. COTTON PROSPECTCS IN EARLY REDUCED BLAKELY, June 14. Cotton prospects in Early County have been materialy reduced in the last thre 0 weeks, due to daily rainfall in this section that has prevented cultivation and has allowed the grass to gain a considerable foot | hold, according to farmers" of this CoUnt y* X .... A. u .... AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 14, 1924 M BOARD ISSUES W RULE GOVERNING TEACHERS’ LICENSES County Superintendents to Re ceive Questionnaires Previous to August 1 PAPERS TO BE REVIEWED Class A Certificates to Be Sent to Atlanta for Examination By State Board The State Board of Education has jusj issued revised instructions to county school superintendents covering the issuance of element ary teachers’ licenses. A copy of these instructions has been receiv ed by Supt. E. W. Dupree, of Americus, and for the information of teachers he has authorized pub lications of same. The instructions provide that— Instead of First, Second • arid Third Grade Elementary certifi cates, theyy will be termed Class A, B and C in which Class A is the new form, Class B is the old first grade certificate and Class C is the 'old primary. Relative to Class A certificates and the payment of a SI.OO fee re cently charged in connection with inauguration of the new Ballard certification system, Supt. Depree is instructed as follows. “The examination questions will be sent, as usual to the county sup erintendents previous to August first. Full and complete instruc tions will accopany the questions as to the holding of the examina tions. Only papers of applicants who are applying for lass A cer tificates need be sent to Atlanta. Classes B and C may be retained and certificates, as heretofore, is sued by the County School Super intendent. However, if a teacher requests her B or C papers to be eeeeel23 789 7890789 7E89 7890 sent to this department, you may comply with her request and only in that case must the SI.OO fee accompany the application. For all B and C papers, graded by the county superintendent, no fee need be sent to the state department. “The only advantage of a teach er’s transmitting her papers here would be that, when graded by the Board of Examiners, and having satisfactorily passed, thc teacher would receive full credit for this <md at no future time would be called upon to stand examination upon the elementary subjects, but would simply have to prepare her self to show that she has the equiv alent of a high school education— either by certifications or examina tion. Then her Class B certificate would automatically be converted into Class A certificate. “The examination for Class B certificate will be identical with that heretofore given for the gen eral elementary—the same sub jects, with the Manual for Georgia Teachers. You will observe, there fore, that this is so identical with that which has heretofore been given that you could tell all appli cants there is practically no change and the safe conditions under which certificates have heretofore been issued will continue, except as to (those teachers who wish a Georgia (state certificate, either general ele- I inentary, high school or college. “No state certificate can be pre dicated upon Class B or C. Only Class A certificates may be pro fessionalized and life certificate i granted after ten years of service.’’ MERCURY REACHES PEAK AT SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, June 14.—A tem iperature record for June was i established- June 9 when the offi • cial government automatic record showed 104 degrees at 2 o’clock. Other thermometers showed from 108 to 110 degrees. , .. REX RAY ESCAPES FROM BANDIT BAND PEKING, June 14.—Rex Ray, American, captured by river pi rates in Kwangs! province late last month, has escaped from the mountain stronghold where he was taken, according to ad vices received today from the commander of the American gunboat ‘Pampanga,’ sent to Wuchow in connection with the capture of Ray and others. THREE ARRESTS BI (IF SUSPECTS IN BIG BBBBFBI ST CHICAGO Man With Five Bullet Wounds in Body Identified As J. H. Wayne, Is In Hospital SAYS WOMAN SHOT HIM SISOO in Bills and Blood-Stain ed Cushion Found Near Point Where Wayne Was Found CHICAGO, June 14.—A man with five bullet wounds in his body was taken to thc county hospital today, and the police soon made three arrests and held their pris oners for questioning in connection with thc mail train robbedy Thurs day night. At thc hospital the man gave his name as J. H. Wayne, who said he had been shot by a woman near Hammond, Ind. He said her name was Margarett Ray. Tre finding of $1,500 in new bills and a blood-stained autofobile cushion in the neighborhood where the man was found, added to police suspicion theory. Four other arrests, including the woman, [were made at a west side house in front of the one in 'which Wayne was found. DERAILMENT IN YARDS OF CENTRAL RY. HERE A derailment which occurred in the Central yards here Friday blocked the tracks there' during 3 hours, but there was no delay in the movement of traffic. The de railment was caused by two cars in train No. 53, a manifest freight from Macon to Albany leaving the tracks when they were sideswiped b ya night shifting engine. CHILDS TO SUCCEED STATISTICIAN PEI lEI ATLANTA, June 14.—Announce me nt has been made, by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the promotion of Mr. V. C. Childs to the position of Agricultural Statis tician for Georgia, succeeding Mr. Z. R. Pettct, now Regional Statis tician for the cotton states. Mr. Pettet’s headquarters will remain in Atlanta. , Mr. Childs was born in Jones county, Georgia. He is* an honor graduate of the State College of Agriculture, University of Geor gia, and a member of the Alpha Zeta honorary agricultural fra ternity. For the past two years he has been an assistant in the At lanta office. Announcement has also been made that the new semi-monthly cotton rtports put in operation throughout thc United States by I the Harris bill, will follow closely tthe system used for the past two years by the Georgia Cooperative Crop Reporting Service, and that the former statistician will ass'st in establishing similar reports in the other cotton states. The co operation with the State Depart ment and the State College, it is declared, will be continued in force as formerly. HAIRBREADTH HARRY’ JOINS HOLE-IN-ONE ATLANTA, June 14.—Another Atlantan added his name to the long list of those who have scored an ace with some form of golf club when “J;lairbreath H|rry” Cohen, playing on the links of the West , End golf club dropped a 125 yard imashie shot on the sixth green and |holed out in one. /wo towns Wiped Out Near Johnson City 1 enn. Roads Washed Out—Telephone and Telegraph Wires Down—Relief Workers En Route to Scene of Disaster ' JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., Jund 14.—At least 22 persons are dead, probably many more, in a terrific cloudburst that early today wiped out the towns of Carters Bluff and Hunter near here. Incomplete telephone reports from nearby points said the two towns had been devastated. Roads have been washed out, and it is impossible to approach the vicinity. First calls were for aid, and within an hour efforts were being made to reach the scene by relief workers. Several bodies have been recov ered. The known dead, according to telephone re ports here, state that I 2 are dead at Carters Bluff and at least 10 at Hunter. The country struck by the cloudburst and floods is very rough and is difficult to penetrate even in good weather. Every newspaperma nin Johnson City has been sent to the affected territory, trying to as certain the extent of the disaster. HERRIOT INVITED TO FORM MINISTRY PARIS June 14—Edourd Her riot, leader of the radical party and head of the left bloc, which was victorious in the recent par liamentary elections, today ac cepted an invitation of President Doumerge to form the new min istry. MFI VOTERS HEAR HOLLIS FORT IN TM Americus Attorney Tells Wom en of League About Their Political Privileges , Americus women voters members of the Georgia League of Wo men voters, and their friends, as sembled in the parlor of the Wind sor Hotel Friday when they were addressed by Hollis Fort. In his address, Mr. Fort told the ladies of many of their political privi leges and responsibilities and held thc attention of those present. There were a representative number of ladies attending the meeting and following Mr. Fort's address, it was decided to defer the election of officers to a later date, when formal and permanent organization of a chapter of the League of Women Voters will be effected in Americus. SOLD WATER FOR LIQUIOR; JAILED ATLANTA, June 14.—Thirst for intoxicating liquor, intensified by the natural indignation of purchas ers who were inveigled into buy ing colortd water under pretext that it was ‘red liquor,” played a leading role in tre trial of Charles Williams, negro hotel employee, who was fined $l5O, or twelve months. Williams, it was brought out, had approached three Buckhead youths with an offer to sell them three bottles of whiskey. The boys pool ed treir funds, totaling $7 and the the negro accepted tht amount. Upon delivery it was found that [the daintily labeled bottles contain ed only water, colored by using a small quuantity of ttea. The youths prosecuted tre negro on chorges of cheating and swindling. JUDGE CLEMENTS TO RUN FOR SENATOR FITZGERALD, June IL—Judge J. B. Clcmmcnts, of Irwinville, ha> officially entered the race for the I senate from the forty-fifth district, composed of Irwin, Ben Hill and | Telfair counties. The district corn-1 mittee, at g meeting held in Mcßru-1 Monday adopted the rule that can-I didates for the senate must submit; their candidacy to the voters of the | three counties at the primary to be | held September 10. Judge Clfem- 1 entts represented this district in the senate in 1919 and 1920, and has a large following in all three coun ties of the district. New York Future* Pc. Open High Low Close ! Jan. . 25.15|25.18|25.29 24.85|24.88 I Mar. ’25.32|25.18|25.20 24.96|25.04 ' July „29.07i28.85|29.01 28.75|28.87 Oct. ..26.13|26.00|26.08 25.90,25.85 Dec. ..25.38|25.30|25.36 25.13|25.00 PRICE FIVE CENTS WOTMHITH M BTH ,'SSFPH mrai. is, suicide Wife in Love With Another He Takes Poison So She Might Collect Insurance FINDS WIFEIN TEARS Novicki Takes Poison in Adjoin ing Room Then Calmly Surrenders Life DETROIT, June 14—Joseph Np vicki, 36, is dead of poison nvrich was self-administered, he said be fore he died, so his wife might col lect the insurance money and mar ry a boarder in their hoom. Mrs. Novicki, who is 27, admit ted, according to authorities, that she was in love with Tony Lausicki, the boarder, and intimated she in tends to marry him. Novicki came home yestterday and found his wife weeping. On inquiring the cause for her tears, she told him, police quoted her, that she was in love with Lausicki, but that he would not perfit her to leave Novicki because he was out of work. Novicki went into another room, returning in a few moments, an nouncing to his wife that he had taken poison. OFFICERS SEARCHING FOR BODY OF FOLDS MILLEDGE VILE, June 14. —Mil- ledgeville officials dragged the Oco nee river Thursday for the body cf a man seen early this morning by Ed Folds, night operator of the hy dro-electric power house, as it float ed over the dam near the power plant. Because of a high power light at that point Folds was able to see the body some distance above the dam, and watched it float past the dam. He was unable to tel* whether the body was that of a white man or negro. No report has been received here of anyone having been drowned at any point above Milledgeville, and it is thought tliat, the body may have been in the water for several months. TOMATO MOVEMENT IN GEORGIA BEGINS MOULTRIE, June 14.—The to mato movement from the Pavo sec tion will begin this week, accord ling to local railroad officials, who said they expected several cars would leave this week. It is ex pected that excess of 500 cars will be shipped from Pavo this season, WELCHEI? LEAVESFOR BOSTON TO MAKE HOME ATLANTA, June 14.—Homer WelcheJ, retiring Georgia Tech track team captain, and winner of the javelin throw in the recent Olympic trials in the southeast has departed for Bostonwwhe e h e will enter the national final trials. Mr. Welchel is from Ashburn, Ga.
