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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Strict middling, 22 5-8 cents. WEATHER— MostIy cloudy to night and Sundaywarmer tonight. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 28 EYEWITNESS FOUND TO EDWARDS KILLING Underwood Shoals Plan Awaits Experts Reports MI EXPERTS PEPDPT BUY OH THE fflWf Coolidge, It Is Understood, Ex pects to Be Guided Largely By Department’s Opinion (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. The Muscle Shoals Issue stands at a lull today pending the re port from military experts in the War Department on the Un derwod bill. The senate is not in session, having adjourned until Monday, being assured the report on the Alabama senator’s shoals bill would be ready by then. Secretary Weeks has confer red wfth administration leaders and promised to submit the re port of the military experts on the measure Monday. Realizing that l little headway could be made toward settlement of the Muscle Shoals question until the report was received, the senate adjourned until Monday. The fate of the Underwood bill, in the opinion of senate leaders, hinges on the War De partment. President Coolidge referred the Underwood bill to the military experts and it is understood he expects ,to be guided in a measure on their re port If the Underwood bill is disapproved by the military men, it is believed that the whole question will be referred to a joint committee of the sen ate and house to act as a com mission to recommend a solu tion of the problem. EIGHTYMILiJONS FOR FEDERAL ROADS Appropriations Totaling $365,- 000,000 Put Under Way for , Roads, Buildings, Bonus (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dee. 6.—Eighty millions of dollars for road con struction is carried in the annual Federal agricultural bill, as report ed to the House of Representatives today. This amount is $61,0C0,000 more than was carriedl in last years ap propriation bill. A bill to authorize the expendi ture of $150,000,000 for the con struction of new Federal buildings was introduced today by T.eprestn tative Elliott, Republican, of Indi ana. President Coolidge t'day signed a deficiency bill which provides $126,000,000 for the administration and the initial payments under the soldiers bonus act. The House today adopted a sec tion of the Interior Department bill carrying $8,943,000 for the depart ment’s reclamation work for the next fiscal year. The section pass ed without amendment. Mr. and Jim Chambliss and daughter, of Dawson, wore among the out-of-town shoppers in Ameri cus Friday. LITTLE JOE J r \STC>RA6E. Eees~*-/=nr. • ~vTUE WH/TE anP <l°~> * Ji' 'j ..... — ——• THE TIMESBRECORDER PUBLISHED IN THE HEAR T OF PARIS POLICE RAID SOVIET HEADQUARTERS Mitt MOB IS ■ OH STREET LITE FRIDM EVENING Cerebral Hemorrhage Produces Paralysis On Right Side of J. Elmore Poole At 2 o’clock this afternon, doctors attending Mayor Poole, report that he is resting comfort a,L.ly and is gradually showing improvement. He is slowly re gaining his power of speech and is able to raise his arm and leg on his paralyzed side. Mayor J. Elmore Poole, while in the |>ost office Friday even ing, about 6 o’clock, was strick en with a cerebral, hemorrhage which produced paralysis on his right side. Mr. Poole left his place of business for the day and had just entered the post office when he felt the first effects of the hemorrhage. In a weaken ed condition he walked from the post office to a bench out side the fire department, where he remained until his brother, who was immediately summon ed, removed him to his home in an automobile. Up until a late hour last night Mr. Poole was in a semi-conscious condition and had entirely lost his speech, although apparently suf fering no pains. Towards morning he gradually regained consciousness and doctors are of the c pinion, un less complications set in, that he will recover sufficiently to be up in the next few days. Mr. Poole Seemed in the best of spirits Friday .morning and after noon and took a leading part in the singing at the Kiwanis luncheon at noon. News of bis being stricken with paralysis came as a shock to his many friends. Mayor Poole was re-elected to succeed himself is head of the city government in November, being again named without opposition. For the past few weeks he has been preparing his budget for 1925 and arranging his aldermanie commit tees for next year. VICTIMS 111 ELEVATOR, ROBBED $20,000 In Jewelry Taken By Hold-Up Men Who Follow Couple From Cabaret (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—lmprison ing their victims in an elevator, holdup men strip them of $20,000 worth of jewelry and made good their escape. Throe robbers followed' Mr. and Mrs. Jacques P. Rosenberg from a cabaret to the elevator of their apartment. There, together with two attendants, the man and woman were forced to deliver their jewelry and money. Rosenberg evidently resisted the stick-up men, for he was slugged over the head with a pistol butt, before the robbers es caped. MRS. ANNA BUZZI IS ACQUITTED OF MURDER NEW YORK, Dec. 6 - Mrs. Anna Buzzi, twice placed on trial for the murder in 192? of Frederick Schneider, wealthy Bronx contrac tor, whose common law wife she had been, was acquitted by a jury in Bronx supreme court. SUNDAY BALL SOUGHT THROUGH BRIBERY NEW YORK, Dec 6. Emil Fuchs, part owner of the Boston National league baseball team, confirmed a report that he had been solicited for a slush fund with which to bribe Massachusetts legislators to pass a bill permitting Sunday baseball in that state, . *_ jX ff ’ Will You Be Santa to Her ? A I A ' Jal® ; \ HtfcWMwWMM \ 1 wyS \ / * jMOu- .’ w ' V I rm W wi-i KIWANIS NOME OFFWFORI92S Committee of 10 Name Shipp for President, Outler for Vice-Presdient The most important business to come up before the week?y meeting of the Kiwanis Club at the Windsor hotel, Friday noon, was the report of the corhmittee, nominating offi cers for 1925. The ten men com posing the committee presented to the dub as’their selections for of ficers as "follows: Edgar Shipp, for oresident, John Outler, vice president, and T. 0. Marshall, treasurer. Those nominated to serve as di rectors are, Henry Mashburn, Em met Murray, W. M. Humber, R. L. McMath, Jr., J. Lewis. Ellis, John Bowen and G. C, Webb. Election of officers will bo held next Friday. The club had: as it’s guests three distinguished visitors, Dr. J. G. Dean of Dawson, Judge M. C. Ed wards, of the city court of Dawson, and Judge Robert L. Greer, of the city court of Oglethorpe, who is ■presiding over the superior court here, during the illness of Judge Littlejohn. Dr. Dean called attention mjpthe fact that Mayor Poole and Stephen Pace, two. progressive Klwanian ■citi zens were products of Dawson. Dr. Dean told how Terrell county, at one time the greatest coitcn produc ing county in the cou'rt'y. was ad vocating a diversification of crops and that neixt year over 200 acres (of tobacco Would be planted as ar. experiment." We have already mads f. success of asparagus raising and there is no reason why the fertile soil of both Sumter and Terrel counties shouldn’t produ :e a boun tiful supply" of tobacco or any c:op planted” said Dr. Dean Judge Edwards laid stress on the fact that, material things were not everything and tho Kiwanis AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 6, 1924 The Empty Stocking Fund Must Be Large This Year Christmas is the season when we think less of SELF an d MORE of others. It is the season of GIVING—not RECEIV ING. It is the most appropriate time in all the year to teach the beauty of help for others. There is greater need for the spirit of giving this year than in mary, we are informed by the Associated Charities. There are more families dependent on others for food and clothing, both white and black than has been the case in many years. “We are out of money,” Mrs. Sherlock, head of the As sociated Charities, said Friday. There are so many calls and so little to help with. We had many contributions a few years ago, but they have forgotten and our funds are low. Right now there are several families we are trying to feed. It isn’t a case of just sending nice things—we are face to face with actually furnishing food for women and children. As is usual, The imes-Recorder will beginning today, open its Christmas Stocking Fund in an effort to help pro vide funds for food for hungry children, food for tired moth ers, and a few little things Christmas mornin gto cheer the heart of those children who otherwise will be entirely for gotten by Santa Claus. Times, you say are hard! And maybe they are with many* but most of us have had three meals every day; we have a roof over our heads; the doctor comes at our call; medicine can be gotten for the sick. But there are some in our midst white and black—who cannot secure any or all these. The Christmas Stocking Fund this year fnust be larger and more generous than in many years before. Where We gave a dime last year, it is necessary to make it a quarter and quarters should grow into dollars. Let it not be said that there are those who are hungry and sick in our midst. Saint Nick must visit every hearth this year. And he will if each of us do our part. Send in your contribution to the Empty Stocking Fund at once. The names of each contributor will be published daily.. Club was founded to increase good fellowship and companionship among men. Judge Edwards brought his talk to a dose with: “Within Dawson haVe ‘Pooled’ our men and sent them off at a fast “Pace” arid they landed in Ameri cus,’ Nearly eighteen thousand li censes, state and county, for fishing were issued by the State Game and Fish Department dur ing 1923. The 1924 total will far eclipse that figure, it is said. FBl NCE EXPELLING COMMUNISTS: FIFTY ■IEOIOBBEB Herriot Pledges Fight On Agi tation Before Stormy Session of Chamber (By The Associated Press) PARIS, Dec. 6. Premier Herriot pledged his government to fight all Communistic viol ence in Fiance, in a declaration before the Chamber of Deputies today. The Paris police opened their campaign against the Commun ists this afternoon by surround ing and raiding what is called the “Soviet Agency. ’’ the head quarters of the agitators, near Bobigny, in the eastern suburbs of Paris. The police were in search for important documents that it is thought would shed light on the Communistic plans. The premier’s statement came during a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies that brought out in sharp relief the open intent of communistic in fluences to accomplish a revo lution in France by force, if necessary. The necessity for Premier Herriot and his government’s decision to suppress all Com munist agitation in France was strikingly evidenced by the demonstration that followed the arrival in Paris of the Soviet ambassador. A large number of foreign agitators are to be expelled, it is said. I here is a group of about fifty persons on the bor der today who were carried there for &q)ulsion from French soil. liiiletkSl SFTASIOEBYJGRY After Six-Hour Deliberation —- One Hundred Thousand Dollars Involved A jury on the Littleton will case, in the Sumter county superior tout, after deliberating six hours has rendered a verdict, setting aside the original will and all its codiciles. The case went to the jury at 3:45 Friday and it was after 10 o'clock before an agreement was reached. The verdict rendered is the same reached by Judge Cobb, who Set aside the will in the Ordinary’s court when it came up for proba tion. William Littleton objected to the probatin gos the will on the ground .that his father, Ed. Littleton was not mentally capable of making a will prior to his death. Judge Cobb, sustained his objections and set aside the will. During the trial in the Superior court it was brought out from festi-’ monies by nurses and attendants of Ed Littleton, whe nhe was confined in a hospital wher<* he spent the last years of his life, that he wag a victim <f senile dementia in y pro gressive stage. Dr. Dean, through his attorneys, has appealed the case to the higher courts and a hearing has been set (Continued on Page Two.) INDICTED SHERIFF OF MOBILE COUNTY RESIGNS MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 6. Sheriff Paul Casalas, of Mobile county, indicted before the supreme court of Alabama for corruption in office and incompetency, tendered his resignation to Governor W. W. Brandon here Friday. Impeachment ■proceedings against the Mobile .sheriff were scheduled to begin in the supreme court here Monday. NEW YORK FUTURES Fe Open Harr. Close Jan .. .22.93 22.88 22.92i22.91 Mgr. 2j1.32j23.27F23.29 28.30 May . July 23.80123.78|23.75123.78 Dec 22.80j24.80 :?2..80‘|22.83 PRICE FIVE CENTS SOLICITOR SILENT AFTER STATING < HIS DISCOVER? Man Seen Leaving Vicinity the Edwards Home After Slay ing Occurred, Proves Alibi (By The A.<i»ocia!e<! Press) BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Dec. 6.—After the authorities today had applied an elimination pro-, cess to their inquiry in connec tion with the death of Mrs. An nie Loy Edwards, who was kill ed in her Fairfield suburban home last Tuesday, Solicitor Perry said that the state had made some progress in its in vestigation to solve the mystery. Reports, he said, lead to the be lief that there was an eye-wit ness to the killing. He indicat ed that a neighbor of the mur dered woman saw light burning, in the house just before the .hooting began. These lights, it was said, were turned out aft er a report from a pistol was heard. Then following the fir ing of the pistol, (he lights werei turned on again. The identity of the reported eye-witness is being jealously guarded and to those outside official circles is shrouded in mystery —as much so as other bits of evidence thought to be in the hands of the officers. Chief A. A. Anthony, of the Fair field police department, announced that a man without a coat fteen leaving the vicinity of the Edwards home after the slaying with nil ap parently injured shoulder, had no connection with the crime. His identity has been established, it is said ,and proof submitted that ha had been elsewhere. While statements were being made that an eye witness had been, found and a motive established evi dence was being gathered both fcr and against Dr. Edwa.ds, who is held in the Bessmer jail. His story of the case was that he was sliot in the arm while trying to n'pel an intruder into his home v.’ho had al ready crushed the skull ,f his wife after giving her a sleep producing drug. He claims that he fired three times at the murderer as he fled. Finger prints of Dr. Edwards were compared with Laote on a bot tle of the anaesthetic found in the roo mand found to tally exactly, ac cording to Dr. J. L. Sprinkle, coun ty finger print expert, and Chief Anthony of the Fairfield police force. Sprinkle announced that they were similar but would make no positive announcement until an examinatio nwas made in the sun light. Officials point out, l.owever, that the tally of the finger prints can not have too m icn bearing on the case, as Dr. Edwar I.- picked up the bottle after he ha J •ummoned he'p as did other per:,.ns who reaettd the scene early. LA FOLLETTE CAMPAIGN EXPENSES $221,000 (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Doe. 6.—The campaign expenses of the La Fol lette-Wheeler party totalled ap proximately $221,000, a committed reported today to the clerk of the House of Representatives. YOUNG BANKER TO FACE EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE (By The Associated Press) MEMPHIS, Dec. 6. —Isadora Lucchesi, a youthful hanker from Des Moines, was ready today to re turn too the lowa City to faca charges of embezzlement of tha funds of the United States bank. Lucehesi, who is only 27 years old, was vice president of the bank. fl®R® L. 11 «W#O 51 .I*l : WW « t<mßss«L "fir-i ff i lO*
