About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1924)
su« ®Z S g SPOT COTTON 23c WEATHER— Local rains tonight .and Wednesday in Georgia; war mer tonight. FORTY-SIXTHYEAR.— Nq/ 292 DUDLEY’S OPERA HOUSE DAMAGED BY FIRE OUICK WORK SWES > OLD M HOOSE FROM DfflfflH Several Merchants Sustain Loss From Volvmes of Water Poured Into Building The play is ended; the curtain drops." This almost proved true of the Dudley Opera House last night when flames were discov ered by a passer-by pouring from the upper windows of Americus' 42 : year-old play house. Quick action on the part of the firemen probably saved the entire building from being razed by the flames. W. H. C. Dudley, owner of the building, stated today that his loss, estimated at SSOO, was without insurance. The other occupants of the building, Mit chell Attyah, John Monohan, Jr., and the P. and T. Market, who operate stores underneath the theatre, suffered damages from the floods of water that poured down on their stores through the floor of the opera house. None of these merch ants have been able to estimate their loss, but it is thought that the entire loss to the three will com ewithin $ I 000. Mitchell Attyah suffered the greatest damage, a large stock of dry goods and notions being dam aged by water. Mrj Monahan reports that his loss is insured to the extent of? 590 end Mr. Attayh carries S2OOO in surancc. The P and T .‘tore is with out insurance. At the time of the fire the thea tre was vacant, and there has been no performance he’d since Satur- J’day, Mr. Dudley is perplexed to know how the fire started. He stated that he left tbe building at 5:30 Monday afternoon and at that time everything was presumabl v in good order. A thorough investigation of rhe conduit wired lighting system by W. C. Jeter, city electrician, reveal ed nothing to show that defective wiring caused ’the fire. When the fire was under control the lights in the building continued to burn and Mr. Jeter said he was unable to find even as much a a burned out fuse. The fire originated in the' rear of the balcony of the theatre, just back of the moving picture booth and it was in this part of the house that the greatest danrnge was sus tained. Flames leaping high on each side of the projection room failed to damage the moving picture machine. When firemen arrived on the scene the flames had worked down into the rafters and ceiling between the balcony and the rpof and it was necessary to chop several holes m the ceiling and flood this section with water in order to get to the flames. Practically all of the ceil ing o*j>r the balcony was washed away by the streams of water. . When the fire was discovered it looked as though the ent re buildmg was doomed. The interior of the building was a roaring furnace. Mr. Dudley stated this morning that he would begin immediately to repair the damaged parts of tbe play house and that by Christmas day he hoped to reopen the theatre. The Opera house is one of the old land marks of Americus, and was for 35 years the only “show house” in the city. During its long reign as the leading theatre it has featured practically all of the. old time stage celebrities and has only been recently converted into a moving picture house. *A w*. 'A ■■ v^KJb l *]? z~ r' THE TIMESBRECORDER EgU PUBLISHED LN THE ,jr<lw.\ HEART OF DIXIE STONE FIRES ATLANTA FEDERAL PRISON WARDEN JOB-SISTER DISTORT CHILD D BOP FIETS. SDNLFYGHAPGFS Commissioner Accuses Writer Os Magnifying and Misrepre senting Georgia Conditions (By The Associated Press) ATLANTA, Dec. If-.—Commis sioner of Commerce and Labor, Hal M. Stanley has refused to furnish any further data regarding Geor gia’s child labor laws and regula tions to the National Child Labor Committee of New York City., as well as to Miss Jean Mac Alpine Heer, said to be an appointee of that Committee. In a statement prepared for The Associated Press by Commissioner Stanley this week, Mr. Stanley as serts that Miss Heer recently com municated with him regarding Georgia provisions of the Child Labor Law, but that prior to writ ing him, that she had a signed article in the New York Herald- Tribune, in which she severely criti cised Georgia’s child L’.bcr laws. In the statement of Commission er Stanley, he replied to the request of Miss Heer for int’cimation as follows: Under date of December 5, 1921, The New York Herald-Tribune pub lished a communication from you, dated December 2, 1921. Inn this communication you made a number of mis-statements concerning Geor gia. As it is your evident purpose to obtain information which you can distort into an argument in favor of the National Child Labor Law, I decline to furnish th:.- to you now, or at any other time.” In his statesemnt Commissioner Stanley asserts that there are a great number of “professional sob sisters in this country who exist upon subscriptions furnished by a sympathetic public.” II.• al'ege that further, in order for them to secure contributions “they must magnify conditions, and distort facts,” and endeavor to “wring the heart strings of sympathetic citi zens who will furnish money to cur ry on the propaganda.” NHJK HOOKS Oil TO ffISHIP Flys 2000 Feet, Then Frees Self—Double Feat Accom plished For First Time (By The Associated Press'; BELLVILLE. HL, Dee. 16- For the first time in the history of American aviation the double feat cf an airship successfully picking up an airplane, while in full fligl.L and then carrying it throught the air, 2,000 feet up in the air, and finally casting it off without ar. ac cident or mishap, was accomplished here at Scottsfield. The feat was accomplished joint ly by Lieutenant Frank McKee, in a dirigible TC-3 and Lieutenant Clyde Finter, of McCooks field, driving a Sperrt Messenger plane, of the smaller type. A metal hoo kattached to a frame over the motor of the' plane was used to catch on to a small trapeze, .swinging from cables slung under the bombing rails of the ship. The feat was accomplished at an eleva tion of 1,500 feet. The experiment was tried at Langley field, near Norfolk, several months ago, but the hook in the nose of the plane pu’led out and furthe rtests were abandoned. From a military standpoint much importance is attached to the ex periment, which may lead to the fitting of dirigibles of. the Shenan doah type with gear for carrying several planes. Thev w”l serve as mother “shins” to the planes, car rying them long distances and then releasing them when the scene of action is reached. COOLIDGE NOMINATES M’INTOSH AS COLLECTOR WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—Presi dent Coolidge today nominated, Jo seph W. Mclntosh, Illinois deputy collector of currency to ! e cont'cl! er, succeeding Henry W. Dawes who recently resigned ti c office. AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 16, 1924 Witnesses at Kid McKoy's Trial I • -'3 p IRS® ■> Up XiBSW ’ i n r i wy lll L jt J 1 ® L-or I wJ BL ...JI Br r * Mrs. Perlstein Mrs. Thomas Sam Stern Miss Antebus Above are spur witnesses at the murder trial of Norman Selby (Kid McCoy) in Los Angeles. _ In the Dont Forget the Poor and Needy ’Tls so easy to forget. That’s why We are rurlnjr.g a few lines each day to remind you of the neces I sity of contributing td the Empty I Stocking Fund. We ace not beg ' ging. We are merely appealing to i you, who are in more fortunate ' circumstances to help the poor and needy cf Sumter county. Contributions to the Fund are not coming in as they should. L’ss than a hundred dollars has been re ceived to date, and children have donated a large portion of this. As we said before, the burden of caus ing for the communities poor at Christmas time is too great to be thrown upon the shouldeA of the youngsters. This is aman’s job; and to assure each c’rild a happy Christmas every man hi Americus, who is ’able, will have to pu-: his shoulder to the wheel. Previously acknowledged .... $65.02 A Friend , 5.C0 Cash 1.00 Francis Holbrook 20 Mrs. A. J. Easom .50 Mildred Holbrook 20 Christine Holbrook .20 Sara Stephens .10 Tom Stephens 10 Theron McLendon 10 Jennie Bell Harpe .50 Wade Bradley 10 Mrs. E. J. Shehan 1.00 Gus Harris’ .50 First Baptist Philathea Class 5.00 Martha McArthur .. .15 Mrs. I. E. Wilson 1.00 I. E. Wilson ~.. LOO Firs Baptist Woman’s Mission- sionary Society 6.57 Ruth Graham 10 Lilfoy Wallace 1.00 Mrs. Elizabeth Persons, of Doyle , 1.00 A Savannah Friend 1 00 Total $91.34 OFNIPIL ELECTION HFPF WEDNESDAY Mayor, Aidermen and Police Commissioners Chosen In Primary To Be Voted On Tomorrow, December 17th the general election for the election of the municipal officers nominated In the October primary wilt take place in Americus. The candidates nomi-1 nate dfor office in the October pri-j mary to be voted on rme - Mayor J. I E. Poole, Aidermen, R. E. Allison, W. E. Mitchell, and E L. Carswell, and Police commissioners C O. Loving and J. F. Monohan. All of the nominees a v e offering for election to succeed themselves, except Monohan. It will be recalled that he received the nomination for police commissioner over S. L. Hammond, the incumbent when, he was defeated by the small margin of four votes. The polls will be ’oeated in the rear of the fire department an.l the hours of voting will be from 9 until 4 o’clock. A list of the' registered voter;, eligible to cast a ballot in the gen eral election appears in. this issue. top row are his sister, Mrs. Jennie Thomas and Mrs. Perlstein._ Lt the bottom row are Sam Sterna nd Paerl Antebus, the “kid’s” niece. wTWo' OVEPPIDF POSTIL MES VETS Arizona Senator Wants Immed mediate Consideration Os Returned Measure (By The Associated WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, to day moved to give immediate consideration of President Cool idge’s veto of the postal sala ries bill. An overruling objec tion was made bv Senator Sterl ing, of South Dakota. President pro tem of the Senate Cummins stated that the motion was in order and ordered a calling of the roll. This action blocked the ad ministration move by which it was hoped the veto vote would be held up until action to in crease postal rates would come before the senate. The vote taken on the Ash urst motion for consideration stood 5 I 30. Fourteen Repub licans voted to take up the bill and three Democrats opposed. ROMPERS' BOOY BREHS LOOSE No Damage Occurs—Train Pro ceeds Toward Washington Where Body Will Lie (By The Associated Press) PIEDMONT, w. Va., Dec. 16— The locomotve pulling the train which is bearing the body of Sam uel Gompers, deceased president of the American Federation of La bor, today broke loose from the train a few miles west of here on a seventeen mile grade. The coaches after breaking loose came to a stop under their own breaks with out damage and the train resumed its trip eastward. GOMPERS’ BODY AT CAPITAL TODAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 Ar- rangements were announced last night for receiving the body of Samuel Gompers here this after noon and for a funeral procession from the union station to the Amer ican Federation of Labor building where the casket bearing the late labor chief will lie in state for six hours before starting on the jour ney to its last resting place in Sleepy Hollow, New York. Arriving here at 2:45 p. m. the body will be taken through the presidents’ room at the station to the plaza where a funeral proces sion will form and escort the body to the federation building in North west Washington.’ The- public will be admitted to the building after Mrs. Gompers and immediate members of his family have visited the body. CONFEDERATE VETS BURNED TO DEATH IN HOME FIRE Second Tragedy To Visit Mis sissippi’s Institution This Month (By The Associated Press') BEAUVOIR, Miss., Dec. 16. —Two Confederate veterans were burned to death and two others badly injured when a fire destroyed a dormitory of the Jefferson Davis Soldiers Home here early today. All the vic tims are natives of Mississippi. Twenty of the old men were asleep in the frame building when the fire was discovered. Volunteers fought their way through smoke and flame and carried many of the old vets to a place of safety. The two vic tims of the blaze could not be reached by the volunteers be cause of the intenseness of the heat, and their charred bodies were found later. The fire is the second tragedy which has visited the home this month. A few days ago an epi demic of dvsentejy, caused from an infected milk, took the lives of six of the inmates and sent thirty-six more to the hospital. Kirsn MTIO DIVDRCE Sues On Grounds of Desertion In Paris—Marired Lynch In 190 S (By The Associated Press) PARIS, Dec. 16.—French courts, today recorded the granting of a divorce to Mrs. Flora Camilla Posey Lynch, of Atlanta, from Stephen Andrew' Lynch, whom she married in 1908 at Ashville, N. C. The de cree was granted on the grounds of desertion. ierTcusinW OF SUN ECLIPSE Scheduled For Early in Morn ing of January 24.—Visible ** In Many Sections A total eclipse of the sun will be visible in Americus ear’y the morn ing of January 24. Spots will be on the sun a little more than two hours, the middle of the eclipse occurring here about 7:48 o’clock, central time. A total eclipse of the sun will be visible in the eastern section of the United States if the weather is fa vorable, in a shadow path stretch ing from Minnesota, just each of the Red Lake, extending over Mich igan, part of Canada, New York, Pennsylvania, to New Jersey, Con necticut, Massachusetts and Rl.oue Island. Naval observatory scientist/; say it will be the first time tne east has been able to witness a total solar eclipse'for many years. The cen tral path of the eclipse will run very nearly through such centers of population as Buffalo, N. Y., and New Haven, Conn. The eclipse will terminate in the Atlantic Ocean north of the British Isl-'-s Commu-'i ties outside the shadow path will witness the eclipse as partial. In the Hudson river area the shadow path will be about 110 miles broad. The Naval obsc-vatory be lieves, while in Minnesota it will be about 85 miles. ALBANIAN REBELS MARCH ON CAPITAL LONDON, recember 16—Alban ian rebels are advancing on Tirana, the capital, of the country, fol lowing the capture of Kroja, a comparatively large town in cen tral Albania, according to Central News dispatches from Belgrade. Tirana is south of Kroja. Martial law has been proclaimed throughout southern Albania, fol lowing an alarming spread of in surrectionist activities in that re gion, acording to dispatches. Bandit Queen OKII .«■: I >1 I if jfflß ■■ Ml - -J ri V-H ! ■. Tin v v .n v By day Vivian McDonald smiled at patrons in a hotel cafeteria in Houston, Tex. By night she went out with her sweetheart, Ernie Shoquist and his gang and watch ed them rob motorists. Shoquist did it once too often. He was shot and killed while attempting to rob a party of autoists. His con federates were* rounded up and now Vivian, confessed and repent ant, is in jail. WLS.W Rescuers Find Them Among Rum Chasers After All Night Search (By Toe Associated Press) SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 16.- Fourteen girls on board the Cam araderie, formerly an ocean going ship, were carried adrift on the storm tossed waters of Union Like, here last night, and early t day numerous crafts were organized to rescue the girls. After a time the old vessel was located among nine government rum chasers, tossing about in the gale which was sweeping the waters of the lake. Police say it will be late in the day before the storm will permit the rescuing of the girls. S» PfMS KRBH 111 TENFMENT FIRE Others Seriously Burned In Flames Which Drove Scores Into Streets (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec 16—Six per sons are known to have perished in a fire which swept through a brick tenement here early this morning The bodies of the dead have been recovered. It is believed that at least three ether persons were seriously burn ed by the flames which drove scores cf families out into the streets. FATHER AND SON ARE HELD FOR MURDER FRANKLIN, Ga., Dec. ‘l6. George Knowles and bis son, Har rison, who are said to have f '.tally wounded O. J. Heard. 19, as he sat in a church seven miles north o' here Saturday night, were formally charged with hi;; murder here to night, following Heard’s death at a LaGrange hospital late Monday. POISON WHISKEY IS FATAL TO SIX IN GOTHAM NEW YORK, Dec. It’.—Six per sons one of them a woman, died and several other persons, uncon scious and ail said to be in a seri ous condition were taken to Be'le vue hospital recently ; s a result of what thb police and hospital sur geons report as a pre-hcliday epi demic of poisonous liquor cases. Pc Open 11am pilose Jan 123.50123.65123.84123.55 Mar 123.91 !24.08j24‘.25|23.96 May 24.27'24.46 24.59|24.32 July i24.38 i 24.53|24.67j24.47 Dec ~....|23.42|23.55|23.75|23.47 PRICE FIVE CENTS MIN RESIGNS u POST ON REQUEST ' ’ OF ftTH GENERAL Charged With Being Too Lieht With Bootlegger Inmates Os Prison (By Tbe A««ocialed Pre,*) WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. No comment has been made re garding the charge of A. E. Sap tain, deposed warden of the At lanta penitentiary, that he is a victim of "star chamber" pro ceedings. Extreme secrecy is surround ing the charge made by the war den, and an air of mystery is thrown /.round the whole situa tion by officials here. I he charge made by the war den has created a sensation. However, Attorney General Stone continues to withhold all information, except the criptic remark confirming Associated Press despatches from Atlanta, relative to the charge of the ex warden. _ j. HO'JSECLEANING LOOMS AS GRAND JURY MEETS ATLANTA, Dec. 16.—Charging that he is the victim of a “star chsnt her investigation” of alleged grant ing of special priviliges to convict d bootleggers serving sentences in tl e Atlanta federal prison, A. E. Sartain, deposed warden, says he l ad been discharged “solely for the purpose of paying off old scores of the part of certain individuals.” The former warden, who was pre paring to move from the official r- s ider.ee at the penitentiary, did not name the “Individuals” referred to in his reply to the announcement, taht his resignation had been au cepted by Attorney General in Washington, saying he preferred to remain silent on this at present. “My resignation was requested by the attorney general” he said, ‘‘on the ground that I was to lenient with the bootlegger inmates of the prison. For about t p n week’s past, several investigators of the depart ment of justice at Washington have been conducting a so-called' investi gaation at this institution. The men who conducted this investigation are not trained prison investigators but “unscrupulous bootlegger chasers, and they have not so much as inter viewed me.” When informed of reports from. Washington that a house clearing of officials of the United States pen itentiary is expected to get under way, District Attorney Clint, W. Hager stated he had no informa tion in regard to the matter in his office “at present” to present the jurors. The district attorney declined to either affirm or deny the reporst but stated he had not received an official report on the situation at the penitentiary. Announcements in regar dto the matter, he added, must come from Washington. “I can tell you this, howeve-,” he said. “The grand jury was sum moned several weeks ago to meet here Monday. The session was held and another will be held today- Nothing in regard to the federal .penitentiary was submitted to Khe jury and so far as I kn-ow nothing other than routine matters will be brought up. i LITFLE JOE [ IT'S APPARENT THE POPULARITY QF MAK 3OMQG HAS GONE TO THE WINDStt. » fy «
