About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1924)
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14, 1924 PBE 8» HIINCIL CAUSES SEHSATIOH Athens Officials Started Some thing They Want to Stop, But Can’t ATHENS, Oct. 14.—(8y The Associated Press) —As the result <-f a tax probe started here in Apri' sf this year, by the City Council which has already amounted to more than $4 000,000 worth if property hid den from taxation being unearthed, quite a sensation has been started among many of the councilmen who now want the investigation stopped. Howell Cobb, local attorney, has been engaged in making the inves tigation. After the probe started by Mr. Cobb had developed about half way, it is said, several members of City Council were openly opposed to it being continued. An effort made here this week to have council “put an end to the investigation,” but it was a failure. It was pointed out that council had nothing to do with the probe now since an attorney was engaged by contract to conduct the investigation, and thereby place the “hidden property” on the tax books. The probe has attracted somewhat of state-wide significance due to the fact that every city in Georgia is alleged to have its “hidden proper ty” which is said to be witheld from taxation. Those councilmen who opposed the continuation of the in vestigation, assert that it will result in funds being withdrawn from local loans and put into extempt securities which they assert would paralize business. It is argued on the other hand, that if the lenders pay their taxes i nthe loans, they will make more than by taking a lower rate of interest on tax exempt securities. Opponents of the probe however, are NOT content with letting the investigation continue, and failing to block it this week, have consented to meet again on next Tuesday night to further discuss it being discon tinued. Supporters of the probe as sert vigurously that council can do nothing now except break a legal contract with the investigating at torney, and thereby place themselves subject to prosecution. It was further pointed out by sup porters that NOT a dissenting vote was heard in Council when that body ordered the ivestigation. Hunt Begun for Mail Bandit Chapman (Continued from Page One.) South America. Chapman is about 34 years old and first came into nefarious fame when he with two others, held up a Statement of EMPIRE BANK OF AMERICUS Americus, Ga. Showing condition as close of busi ness Oct. 10, 1924, as called for by the Superintendent of Banks. Presi dent, H. L. Mize; Vice-President, R. C. Ellis; Cashier, Joe M. Bryan. RESOURCES Time Loans and Pis- counts $110,545.80 Demand Loans 3,010.00 Furniture and Fixtures.. 544.58 Due from Other Approv- ed Reserve Agents and Cash in Vaults 46,426.75 Due from Other Banks.. 268.25 Checks for Clearing House 3,626.86 Total $164,422.24 I t . LIABILITIES i Capital stock paid in .... 50,000.00 I Undivided profits 821.40 Deposits subject to check 79,402.11 Time certificates of deposit „ 11,013.64 Savings deposits 13,083.61 Cashier’ 1 -hecks 101.48 Rills' p& e 10,000.00 Hio; Total $164,422.24 i— " ■ State of Georgia, Sumter County. Before me came Joe M. Bryan, Cashier Empire Bank of Americus, who being duly sworn, snys that the above foregoing statement is a true •condition of said Bank, as shown by 'the books of file in said Bank. JOE M. BRYAN, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 14th day of October, 1924. ELIZABETH STEVENS, N. P., Ga. State-at-Large. WINDSOR'S ntSuESTIQN BIRD ? MX \O V" Answer :- \ 'X "Because we W V\ taKe I \ "pleAse ! 2 *~ v\ WINDSOR PHARMACY Phone 175 SALESMAN SAM . The Plot Thickens ~~ By Swann Ave GOT IT"-I'LL. CHllup fI'VE SOO ~~> PiPfLM FOKtrl Job C-VHEtf FW txPEKIf.Nt.E- E¥; B r J SOO WILL \ - " WHEN I FiMO OUT WHO Ht 6, CLEKVX IN PiT 4E>|f> Tl r,|l77ip|A ) WM Ams&s /xy GM /YOU bEEhVto TOST TH MPiN I WfW'X IStX' \\ i eWA '-rsk #// rXGiI C 601 ' CP»NT ® ..//iff rwiVfr ®om/ ~ ,Tz BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES— Now That’s Settled! .* By Martin <DH .PROF. TUTT -IM WRITING A THEGOS A TWO GREAT DMSIONC, WH'.CH YOU - I'u. TORN} THE HEPE GEE - UMDEV? THE > ON TH CtAGGIFICATION OF TH’VEGETABLE Os COURGE ARE THE CRYP VOSAMG OR SPORE LIGHTS, OM - VtE, rwrrour- U( WER THE Y\RGT \ KINGDOM-CAM YOU TELL ME HOW MANY PRODUCING PLANTS AMD THE PHANEROGAMS " WE HAVE THE MYXO-THAUOPHYTES GROUPS THERE ARE IM TH' SECOND WHICH ARE SEED BEARING 'IN 300 B.C DARvXm Z WORK THALLOPHYTES BRYOPHYTES AMD THE - . DIVISION ? >r- WHEW THEOPHRASTUS THE GREER J W hXXe » WORK ! WHILE ■ JjM JO/.® kiJ-kj WXX *1 UJk ..... I B mail truck here and robbed it ofi $1,000,000 in cash and securities. ATLANTA CONVICT KILLED POLICEMAN. NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Oct. 14. —Yeggmen discovered attempting to blow open the safe of the David son and Leventhal cepartment store here shot and killed Policeman James Skelley and escaped. The police recognized one of the yeggmen as Gerald Chapman, who recently escaped from Atlanta pris on, where he was sent after a $2.- 000,000 mail robbery in New York. Walter J. Shean, of Springfield, Mass., is under arrest charged with being an accomplice in the shooting of Skelley. The yeggmen were at work on the mezzanine floor and as the of peared at the head of the stairs and ficers were half-way up the stairs the man alleged to be Chapmar ap peared at the head of the stairs and warned the patrolmen to halt. The policeman did not stop and they had gone but one step upward when the man fired. Skelley fell back, a bullet in his abdomen. In the confusion the man escaped, Skelley died in a hospital. The man who was later identified as Shean was arrested after he was seen coming out of the rear do,.r of the building. He first gave his name as John B. Clark, of New York, but an inquiry to New York disclosed that both the name and the address were fictitious. It was not until Monday afternoon that the stranger was identified as Walter J. Shean, of Springfield, said to be the son of a prominent family in that citv. JAILED FOR $2,000,000 MAIL ROBBERY. ATLANTA, Oct. 14.—Chapman escaped from the prison here on the morning of March 27, 1923. in company with another prisoner nam ed Gray, who was recaptured shortly afterward, Chapman, with George Anderson, was serving a term for a $2,000,000 mail robbery in New York at the time of his escape. An derson escaped from the prison in December following Chapman’s escape in March and has not been recaptured. Deputy Warden Fletch er of the prison, Sunday night said Chapman and Anderson were suppos ed by officials to be operating to gether. At the time of his escape, Chap man made his way to Athen, Ga., where he was captured by police there and wounded so badly in a gunfight incident to his capture that he had to be taken to a hos pital from which, in his wounded condition, he escaped during the night by means of a rope ladder made from bedclothes. Deputy Warden Fletcher said dis patches from New London was the first news the prison has had of Chapman since his escape. DOOM HI DPFHS THURSOJ.Y Game Warden Discards State Law, Announcing October 16th As Opening Date Professor J. E. Mathis, game warden of Sumter county, has re ceived notice from the commis sioner’s office in Atlanta that the local dove season will open Thurs i day, October 16. The notice states prior to this year the dove season did not open until November 20th. This is a state law. The federal I law permits the shooting of doves from October 16 through the regu lar season. The conflicting laws have been very confusing to the hunters, so to remove all friction the state laws regarding dove shooting have been discarded and the hunters will be governed sole ly by the federal law. Mr. Mathis would like to have every hunter bear in mind that it is unlawful to kill or have quail in his possession before november 20th. “I feel,” says Mr. Mathis, “that I will receive the whole-hearted support and co-operation of every sportsman in Sumter county and that quail will not be shot while hunting doves until November 20th. Mr. Mathis states that sufficient licenses will be placed on con venient sale for public call. ELEVEN FIREMEN HURT IN LOUISVILLE BLAZE LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 14. (By The Associated Press.) —Three firemen were injured and eight others slightly burned here today in a fire in the Churchhill Downs sec tion. 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BROWN, TOO, WAS ALONG Following is the story as carried Tuesday morning in the Macon Telegraph: ATLANTA, Oct. 13.—Governor Clifford Walker, of Georgia, to night admitted that he was the ‘‘governor of a great state” refer red to in news dispatches, who ad dressed the Imperial Klonvocation of the Ku £lan at Kansas City, Sept. 23, a story which will be published in the Atlanta Constitu tion tomoi-row will say. The governor went to Kansas City in company with Commission er of Agriculture J. J. Brown and Peter S. Twitty, state fish and game commissioner, although the Consti tution’s story will say, they had given out that they were going to Philadelphia and Washington. “As a matter of fact, I did con template going to Philadelphia,” Temsmudil Miss Annie Brahan arrived last night from Detroit, Mich., to visit her sister, Mrs. H. R. Johnson, at her home on College street. She was accompanied by Miss Martha Johnson, who will spend several weeks with her mother, Mrs. John son. Miss Leila Mj.Dowell, Miss Loret ta Sparrow, Jule W. Felton Jr. and Rodney. Cheeves, of Montezuma, were visitors in Americus Monday, and were luncheon guests at the Tea Room. O. G. Lamb and Thomas W. Dav enport, of Atlanta, were business visitors in Americus Monday, R. C. Ellis, of the Empire Bank, has gone to Atlanta to spend sev eral days upon an important busi ness mission. Mrs. R. H. Hollis has retimed to her home in Philadelphia, Penn., after a visit of several days to her brother, Eugene Lockett, at his home near Americus. Mrs. J. N. Reynolds, of Greens boro, Ga., is the guest of her daugh ter, Mrs. L. F. Grubbs at her home on College street. More men have loafed themselves to death than worked themselves to death ~ ' ANTI-PHYMIN THE HEALING GAS Removes the cause of disease. Es pecially effective in treatins Asthma, Catarrh. Hay Fever, Stomach and Howel disorders. Liv er, Kidney and Bladder trouble,, and diseases caused by impure blood. 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BELL Jeweler and Optician the Constitution will quote Gover i nor Walker as saying. ‘'What I really was seeking was a rest and vacation and I had not fully de cided whether to go to Philadelphia or attend the Kansas City meeting.” The newspaper states that at the time of the speech the unnamed governor “made forceful arguments against the hierarchy of the Cath olic church and the threatened de struction of American and Ameri canism by encroachment of Jewish, Celtic and Mediterranean races.” The governor tonight, the Con stitution will say, gave an entirely different version of his speech, as serting that he pleaded with Klans men for religious tolerance and • had stated that he “would defend with the last drop of his blood any , little girl starting to attend a Cath olic church against all interference with her worship.” No Apologies to Make In answering questions regarding . the reports and accusations that have been made in reference to the j Kansas City trip, the newspaper’s story quotes the, governor as say ing that he had “no apologies to I make” for his action. Governor Walker said he did not know whether a picture had been taken of him with Imperial Wizard , Evans of the Ku Klux Klan. The story continues. “The speech I delivered at Kan sas City,’ Governor Walker is quot ed by the Constitution as saying, “contained nothing that I would not t say before any gathering. In fact, ; I have on numerous occasions ex t pressed the identical thought before meeting of the Odd Fellows, the a Knights of Pythias and other or -1 ganizations. “Have you ever delivered the same speech before a Catholic or ganization,” the Constitution says - its reporter asked him. 1 “No,” the governor is quoted as , replying, “but the reason I have , not is because I have never been > invited. If any Catholic organiza tion wishes, I will be glad of the opportunity to make the identical - speech before it at any time.” s “The governor said he went in his capacity as a private citizen,” the newspaper continues in its story, , and says that the governor stress- - ed his contention that he was tak- - ing a vacation from his official CARD OF THANKS > We wish to express our deep and > sincere appreciation to Americus f ( and Sumter county residents for s their many acts of kindness during the long illness of Nick Sakadelis; our especial thanks given the faith ful ministration of nurses at the City hospital; to physicians who battled so bravely for his life; and to those who contributed such beautiful floral offJiinfgs at his death. And, to little school children especially, who loved him for his many kindnesses in life and con tributed so many beautiful floral offerings at his death. (Signed:) TACH RIGA, BUSINESS PART NER OF NICK SAKADELIS AND THE MEMBERS OF THE GREEK COLONY IN AMERICUS AND SUMTER COUNTY. duties. Governor Walker is said by the Constitution to have admitted that he joined the klan in its early days, but had never taken any part in its councils and does not know at the present time whether his former membership still obtains. J. J. Brown Also There Commissioner Brown also con tended, the newspaper states, that he attended the meeting in his ca pacity as a private citizen and is said to have added: “When the day comes that a citizen loses his right of free assembly by being a public official, I’ll resign my office.” Mr. Brown admitted, the paper says, that he is a member of the klan. He named several other orders of which he is a member, the paper says. Commissioner Twitty compli mented the address made by the governor, saying, according to the Constitution, that he made “one of the finest speeches on true Ameri canism I ever heard.” In the same story, the Consti tution says Governor Walker told of a cnoference he had on the day before his inaugunration in June, 1923, with Nathan Bedford Forrest, grand dragon of the klan in Geor gia. At that time, the governor is quoted as saying, he informed Mr. Forrest that he proposed to stamp ' "Guard the child's teeth” Those tiny teeth are dk] U a priceless gift p A guard them well! WRIGLEY’S is a wonderful help to keep teeth clean and sound, for it clears out the crevices, makes the mouth sweet and removes acid con* ditions from which most people suffer. A prominent physician says: M lt is surprising how free from decay the teeth can be kept by using gum after each meal.” WRIGLEY S is good, not only for the teeth, but for the nerves and appetite and digestion, too. 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