About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1924)
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Strict middlign 24 cents. WEATHER For Georgia - Rain tonight and and Tuesday; somewhat wanner to night. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 302 MILLIONS LOST, HUNDREDS DIE IN FIRES 1925 MAY BE GREATESTYEAR IN UNITED STATES HIGH HOPES HELD fitoSIKIESOf HOT « 1925 Forecasts From Executives Ex press Certainty for Substantial Prosperity During 1925 By The Associated Press) YORK, Dec. 29. High Yor- 1925, in some cases ng to conviction that it may * he greatest year in the his- • O 'American business, are held y leaders in basic industrial iicial activities here. asts for the new year ex by these executives agree d seeming certainty of a sub 'P ros P erit y- They appear ’to agree for the most part , •. g -J" outcome of the last presi- Election and the favorable , out the Dawes plan *rove major contributing J They also bank heavily te fortunate coincidence of Mrs. C. irchasing and great produc timony i ter at home and upon the (Kid M Jof a wholesome recovery ,his tria ansion in marketing over- I’csa M’ I! fit H. Bary, chairman of the 0f directors of the United I Steel Corporation, expresses .lows his confidence in the ■-<£ 1-2 months: * the policies of the present i .listration shall continue in ' | .?* and Practice, and the Amer f i congress is reasonably dispos ■■ tto co-operate with the president, aid the business interests of this cuntry will likewise be disposed , 5 support the administration in I s efforts to assist the business of lie country, the year 1925 should how the highest and most satisfac •rv prosperity in the whole history c tne United States. » “The New Year will probably ‘tnmence with all of the manufac jring plants operating at full ca city. Also selling prices have ad need to a considerable extent and ould afford reasonable profits ffieient to continue the wage les at the present standard. These re . not reduced during the de ission, notwithstanding they re not jutsified by the results of business.” American railroads enter upon i new year with a hope that the nsporatiton act will be so admin red as to accomplish what it was igned to do, i.e., by efficient agement already attained to > the statutory income, which never yet been done. ilius Kruttschnitt, chairman of executive committee of the hern Pacific Company, thus med up the condition upon ’h the carriers depended to con- S their accomplishment of 1924; Jiowign which in itself was a sax to what they had done since . 20. No new laws should defer a reas onably permanent adjustment of the interests of the public, the railroad owners and labor, according to Mr. Kruttschnitt. Public control over labor controversies should not be relaxed but rather should be tight ened until all railroad servants realized that “any disloyal act any where, or at any time, will be met with such condemnation as will make its success mpossble.” . “We are nearer the high road of returning prosperity,” said Walter C. Teagle, president of the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey, “than we are frankly inclined to admit. ” However, he expressed so liciture in the light of 1924 ex perience! in what he said was a dis tinct overproduction in the oil in dustry. He called the disposition . of 530,000,000 barrles of crude oil ■’nd its products now ih storage in the Unitedi States a pressing prob ■ ,p m. This overproduction, Mr. Teagle =.aid, was in part due to these vast ’.ores of oil themselves which had Un accumulated at higher than esent prices, and, in being under sold by current production, had >.iled to stabilize the market. In jrt it was due also to the fact at gasoline was producing more per gallon through improved i tion science. Then, after a table portion of the requife af gasoline were being sdp '*v sources other than - gasoline, suclj as cas on Page Two.) gS|j PUBLISHED IN THE HEART'CT OraUjM? Four of the Principals in McClintock’s Death Investigation I ;V JUDGE HENRY OLSON Shortest Docket In Years Paces Recorder ! Only Three Christinas Drunks to Receive Fort’s Christmas Gift of $5 or Thirty Days “Never before” said Judge Fort, this morning upon the convening. <Jf* Monday morning Recorder’s Coul't. ‘have I seen such a small docket to come before me for disbursement! on court day following hie holidays. “Only three drunks are to answer j for imbibing too heavily and usually the numbore of “SeoffJuwii” are so numerous there is hardly room for ether offenders in the court.” The recorder finished this morn ing’s session within half an hour, but before he closed the big bool, for the day, he collected a $25 cash bon’d from Ike Ross, negro, who got gay Wednesday, and backed h's car through a window of Hightowers Book store. Marshall C. B. Pouncey placed 50 names of citizens who hat e not paid their street tax before the Recorder, and after being assured that each delinquent had been personally serv ed with a summond H: appear be fore him this morning, Judge Fort ordered the Marshall to re-summons each one of the street tax dodgers, and that if none of then' wanted to appear in police court they ct n.'d pay the marshall the $3.50 street tax along with an additional $3.50 for good measure. Judge Fort upon convening stat ed that he had come to court pre pared to deal out a number of the usual cutrate fine sos $5 for Christ mas drunks-; and was surprised to note that only three offenders were ,on hand to take advantage of his “Christmas gifts.” worloTlyPswill RECEIVE MOTIONS Secretary of War Agreee to Plan I As Reward to Round World : Airmen (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Sec retary Weeks today approved the plan to reward the army ’round the world fjiers by advancing them in the files on the promotion lists. The approval of this plan ad vances fcapt. Lowell H. Smith a 1000 files on the promotion lists and Lieutenants Wada, Nelson and Arnold 500 files on the promotion lists. Secretary Weeks explained that the advancement proposed would be' the greatest ever given in peace time and that they would be com- • parable to the promotion given Gen- | eral Pershing in time of war. It was further stated that Ser- | geants I Ogden i and Harding, Lieu-! tenants in the reserve eorp> would be appointed officers in the regular army in reserve grades. . Friends of Mrs. G. A. Johnson will regret to learn that she is criti cally ill at the Home of her daugh ter, M<s. L. S. Matthews, on Ogle thorpe avenue. ■ ’ wi MRS. W. D. SHEPHERD M min . RESULTS ID 1924 BOXIHO HISTORY Only One World Title Change Took Rtaqe in the Squared Ring This Year (By The Associated Preset NEW YORK, De?. 29.—Despite a record-breakihg amount of ac tivity, marked by no little color, the 1924 boxing campaign passes into history with few dominant de velopments or sensational results. Lacking any high spot, compara ble with the meir.oramle Dempsey- Firpo battle of 1923, the season was noteworthy chiefly for a final and unsuccessful invasion of America by Georges Carpentier, the down fall of Louis Angel Firpo from the ranks of heavyweight title contend ers, and the passing of two veteran champions. Another important de velopment was approval of a new law permitting 12-round bouts in California in 1925 and forecasting a big ring rveival on the coast. Only one worlds’ title change took place in the ring and that oc curred when Abe Attel Goldstein dethroned Joe Lynch as bantam weight titleholder in a colorless 15- round bout at Madison Square Gar den that set a colorless champion upon the 118-pound throne. The other break in the ranks of champions came when Johnny Dun de, durable little Italian warrior, forfeited without a struggle the featherweight title he had won the year before from Eugene Criqui, gallant French fighter. Dundee re linquished the tittle, which he had not once defended, because of his inability further to make the 126- pound limit. Dundee was shorn completely of title when he lost to KJd Sullivan, the junior or 130-lb. championship, a division, however, which is not recognized. Starting out with prospects of an on Page Two) YOUNG STRIBLING NOW 20 YEARS OF AGE ■ATLANTA, Dec. 29-—Young (W. L.) Stribling, famous Georgia fight er in the squared arena, and as pirant for the light-heavyweight boxing championship, was twenty years of age Friday. It was on December 26, 1961. that this youngster first saw the light of day in the little town of Bainbridge, Georgia, the first born of Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence Stribling, of this city. Stribling is now completing his fourth year in" taring, tn din that length of time, K-s faced many a swatter A ■- rel the country. He has! a and been J _>>•*••>> in the grea'J *jJ r y*- , bf -the others II a i ti e ring as a prof bor.Vwd in Atlanta in .>> _o I jP ‘iJy'j’nst “Kid” AMERICUS. GEORGIA. MONDAY"AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 1924 ~ lUy' ’St # ,1, W. D. SHEPHERD County Jail Empty lor 7wo Long Days First Time in History of Office, Sheriff Says, Jail Devoid of Prisoners That the world ii( getting bettci was protrayed here Thursday am Friday, when Sheriff Lucius Harvey reporte dthat on thei -two days not a 'prisoner was confii -d in the Sum ter County jail. Sheriff Harvey st' 1 dthis morn ing that for the fir t. time in th< history, of his office naj he knowr the jail to be entirely devoid of oc cupants. During the November term oi Superior court, Judge Littlejohn cleaned the entire criminal calender, thereby releasing or sending to the chain gang prisoners, who had oc cupied cells in the count y jail prior to November term of court. Since the completing of all jury work in the superior court, Sheriff Harvey states that the people have been behaving themselves and that there have been no crimes commit ted in Sumter county to warrant ac tion by the higher courts. This means the sheriff stito sthat the county jail will be empty as long a soffenders confine their mischief within the scope of the police and justice’s courts. SLIGHTFIPELOSSAT ITHWICK HOE The rainy, disagreeable weather Americus has been exmr’cncinfc for the past week, has no doubt met with disfavor with the college set an hunters and others who desire to be out of doors dwring l.e holidays; but it has been the mears of keep ing down small roof fires, and there by affording the fire fighters a chance? to enjoy their Christmas un disturbed. Sunday morning was the first time that Chief McArthur’s noys ha vehad to leave their shelter since last Tuesday. The ear>y Sunday morning run was out to the resi dence of H. W. Smithwick in Brook lyn Hights, when flames from a de fective flue caused small damage tc the fireplace. S frill outa < LITTLE ' Jirs they WHAT THE N~*G:-.3c,r? CH®,. DO N T KNG.-. a WORTH YOUR cS TEDLIMGTH® (0. * MSI I I a i ;f '- 1 I ri 1,1 < '->H'i a J| fL • .wH fei CORQNOR OSCAR WOLFF STANDARD OF LIVING SERIOUSLY MENACED BY OVER POPULATION] If Present Birth Rate Keeps Up U. S Will Have 250,000,- GOO Population (By The Atcociaated Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—Persons living will see a population of 250.- 000,000 in the United States if the present rate of increase keeps up, according to Professor A. B. Wo'fe of Ohio State University speaking here today before the American Statistical Association But it will not keep up, in the professor's opinion. He -is fairly certain the women themselves, the potential mothers of the future, will take measures to prevent it. “Unless increase is quickly and greatly retarded, reaching the satu ration point is a matter of only al few generations at most, not thou sands of years as popularly sup posed,” Professor Wolfe said. ‘ In, the absence of an imnrobable revo lutionary improvement in agricul ture, we shall be pointedly con fronted w'th the choice of reducing either our birth rate or our stand ard of living. A very essential part of the population problem is to get the people to see that they are confronted with a cordhion, nut a theory. “Even if it could be demonstrated that this country could support 500,000,000 people by eliminating waste and giving up meat, the standard of living w’culd continue to fall and the problem of numbers continually get worse The qnly happy people would be the sw<>rl rattling generals. Many of us to day are victims of our unthinking American worship of size nid grow’th, without inquiry into the hu man values involved.” scores the op timists wb '*rtha- prog’C.s can work qbey rely ou' They seo Bk ■ r Ik MICE FLOES li Mississippi; TRAFFIC SUSPENDED River Craft Forced to Banks— River Frozen Over in Places —lce Blocks Niagara (Bv The Associated Press'* MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 29. All river traffic for as far south as Helena, Ark., is supended to day as a result of the great ice floes which are blocking the Mis sissippi. Dozens of packets and other river craft have beeen forced to the banks. Dispatches to steamboats op erating on the river report that the “Father of Waters" is vir tually frozen over between Cape Girajdeau and Hannibal, Mo. ICE JAM IN RIVER BELOW NIAGARA FALLS (By The Associated Press) NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Dec. 29.—-For the first time in years there is a nice jam in Ni agara river below the falls this early in the winter. The jam ex tends from Horseshoe Falls al most to Lake Ontario. It is estimated to be 16 feet thick. ■mm be SWTMEIffI Business Enemies Repsonible for Investigation Into McClin tock’s Death, Says Attorney CHICAGO, Dep. 29.—Attor neys for the state today are awaiting further reports from the doctors who have examined the exhumed body of William D. McClintock, the “millionaire or phan- ' fn the meantime, Wil liam D. Shepperd, foster father and chief heir of the youth’s fortune, plans for a complete le gal vindication and ultimate dis posal cf the McClintock fortune. Shepperd said today that he would seek indictments against those he terms his traducers. William Shepherd, whose wife was one of the co-gunrdians of Bil ly McClintock, was p rmitted Sat urday upo nhis return from Albu querque, N. M., to tell assistant state’s attorneys what he knew of the circumstances ’it+onding the death of young McClintock. He de clared that “so far as I am con cerned the state’s attorney’s case against me is dead.’ “I will wait, however,” he con tinued, “until the sta’e's attorneys office finishes its official investi gation and then I will start an in vestigation of my own I plan to un earth facts, not wild rumors.” Mr. Shepherd showed a sheaf of clippings from Chicago newspapers containing all that has been print ed here on the case. The collection was presented by Thomas A. New man, friend of the fan ily. Shepherd would offer no comment nor men tion names, but said that he believ ed the statements quot ; ng persons in the news articles are libelous. “This investigation was started by a business enemy of Mi. Shephero,” Robert H. Stoll, Shepherd’s at torney,asserts. “We are not pre pared to disclose his name now, but we know he would benefit if the McClintock will should be held in valid. It is not one of the seven cousins who planned to contest the will. “Chie Justice Harry A. Olson and Miss Pope (McClintock’s fiancee) are merely being used as dupes by dhe person who wishes to gain v *rough this investigation.” KILLED, one hurt < ual u IN AUTO ACCIDENT 'GEVILLE, Upx 29. k •'teon, 23; of Eaton- J V’OwMed, and Clayt bo i cclucpi h tv wa> b ai iA- ■k’ ‘-t., gjgtofejSK V’l' helX. Til.- . :ir hi NEW YORK FUTURES ’ ’ ? Pc Open 11am Closd > ; Jan. 24.32 ! 24.4« f ' March 24.72 24.93 24.90 24.82| > I May 25.06:25.40125.19 25.14 > PRICE FIVE CENTS $1,500,000 FIRE LOSS H MTU: NINE BMNOS IN TEI Texas Rebbers Loot Entire Block and Apply Torch—loß Persons Missing in Tckio (By The As*ociatod Pre«»j CORINTH. Miss., Dec. 29. Fifty stores and office buildings here are in ruins today as a re sult of yesterdays fire which swept an entire block. I'he losses are estimated at more than a rpillion and a half dollars, with about one-half cov ered by insurance. The block destroyed on the west side of the courthouse square. For a time the fire threatened the entire business district. However, after a fight of more than six hours in the bitterest cold weather, the fire departments succeeded in con fining the blaze to the single bloc’.', destroyed. NINE BUILDINGS BURNED BY ROBBERS DENNISON, Texas, Dec. 29. A conflagration believed to have been started by robbers, destroy ed nine business buildings with a .R estimated loss of more than SIOO,OOO at Pottsboro, near here early today. Overturned safes in some of the burned structures indicated .that they had been looted. The robberies and fire resemble the work of the men who recntly looted banks and business hous es at Valley View and Paradise, Texas. In each of the three cases, the business district was fired late at night, after the safes in the buildings had been blown open ind the loot removed. No evidence of the robbers has yet been secured. SIO,OOO FIRE LOSS AT TAMPA. - TAMPA, Fla., Dee. 29. Fire here this morning, destroyed a ware house wit han estimated loss oi more than $109,000. SIO,OOO FIRE LOSS BY DR. HARDING. WASHINGTON, Ohio, Dec. 29 Fire early today destroyed the of fice of Dr. George T. Harding, a younger brother of He late Presi dent, pt Dr. Harding’s farm near here. Fire is believed to have been caused by a defective flue, with an estimated loss at slo,o<io. DANCER IS HEROINE * IN ATLANTA FIRE. ATLANTA, Dec. 29.—Miss Lila Buchanan, seventeen year old At lanta dancer, Sunday proved a heroine in an apartment house tire here. When flames attache dan apart ment building owned by her father and also occupied by her family, Miss Buchanan dashe dto an upper floor, where she rescued the two year old baby of Mr. and Mrs. W T McKnight. ‘ ‘ Damage to the building was esti mated at $7,500. FOUR CHILDReIT'diE IN OKLAHOMA FIRE. CADIO, Okla., Dee. 29. Four children were burned to death while sleeping in one room cf a farm house near here which was destroy ed early Sunday morning. The children are; Aller; and Aline twins, three years old, Fred 10 and George Taylor, 14. The father, M B. Taylor, ill in a room on the third floor, tried to save the children from the flaming room which was on the second floor, but the fire had gained such headway he was driven back. THREE DIE In ASYLUM FIRE. ALTON, 111., Dec. 29.-r-Three aged patients of the State Insane hospital, three miles east of Alton, were burned to death, early Sun day when a frame farm house was destroyed by fire. 108 PERSONS MISSING IN TOKIO BLAZE. TOK.IO, Dec. 29.—A fire in private institution for the ’ hire Sunday is ’feared rq ’ ulted in a serious loss of of 343 reported inw-'
