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WEATHER For Georgia—Fair tonight; Fri day unsettled, probably local thun dershowers. ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO 156 14,339,000 BALES IS FORECAST FOR 1925 COTTON CROP * * * * » ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ » ¥ Three Columbus Women Drown When Dam Breaks CONDITION OF CROP PLACED AT 75.9 NORMAL 3,564,000 Acres Planted in the Fleecy Staple This Year in Georgia STATE CONDITION HIGHER THAN GENERAL AVERAGE Tennessee Has 219,000 Acres Cotton With a Condition of 85 Per Cent WASHINGTON, July 2. (By the Associated Press.) C otton production for the Unit ed States this year was forecast at 14,339,000 bales by the De partment of Agriculture in its first quantity report of the sea son, made public this afternoon. There were in cultivation 'on June 25th a total of 46,448,000 acres planted in cotton, as compared l with 42,641,000 one year ago. The condition of the crop June 25 was 75.9 per cent of normak The condition of'the 1925 crop on June 25 and the area under cul tviation follows; Georgia, 3,564,000 acres; condi tion 76 per cent of normal. Ten nessee, 1,219,000; condition 85 per cent of normal. MISTRIAL IN BRIBERY CASES --.1. . ■ . . . 1 jury Deadlocked for 24 Hours, Stood Eight For Acquittal, According to Report Al LANTA, July 2.—A mistrial was ordered today in the case of L. J. Fletcher and Rev. Thomas P. Hay den, former Deputy Warden and Chaplain, respectively, at the At lanta Federal prison, jointly charged with conspiracy to accept bribes from wealthy prisoners. Judge Ervin announced the mis trial a)' ter the jury had had the easel for more than twenty-four hours. A member of the jury said the vete was eight for acquittal and four for conviction. The government sought to prove by a long list of witnesses that Fletcher, and Hayden, agreed to take money from wealthy inmates of the penal institution, in return for which these prisoners should re ceive specia Iprivileges. Federal Judge Ervin '■barged the jury that the two defendants were, both guilty or both innocent on the conspiracy charge; one man cannot conspire with himself, the court held. COMMUNITY SING AT REHOBETH CHURCH The public is invited to attend the song 1 service at Rehobeth church Friday night, July 3, at about 7:30 The service will be in charge of Prof. T. A. Peavy, who has been conducting a vocal school at the church for the past few weeks. Re hobeth church is located about 3 miles from town on the Dawson road. Prof. Peavy thinks that young and old will be delighted with I the songs that will be rendered Fri-1 day night and urges every one to i come. Montana Town Once Noted As \Gold Camp to Join Ghost Cities <Mary&ville Be Wiped Off Map; Mines Produced More J/ Than $100,000,000 HELENA, Mont., July 2. Marysville, Mont., to be wiped off the railroad map within a few weeks as it has been erased from record in its other activities, once was the goal of a race between two great railway systems and in the thirty odd years of its existence was tQ source of metals valued at'not less than $ 100,0(10,000. The town inci dentally, produced a baseball team with a record of defeating all Pa cific coast league clubs of its day and of sending several players to . the major leagues. A quarter of la century ago Marysville had a (population of 7,500. I Petition of the Northern Pacific railroad to remove its racks from THE Tl k4e§B|reco rd e r IN THE HEART OF WORKMAN IMAGINED > HE KILLED HIS FAMILY / ' GENEVA, July 2.—A work- $ < man walked into the police sta- • J tion recently and said he had { $ murdered his wife and child r ? and had stolen S2CO. He was J arrested and a policeman start- S ed for his home. < S When h<« arrived there, he ( < found the family ir good health / \ and the wife waiting for her husband. > The man bad imagined the , S nnnderj. He was later declared t ’ insane. j ) ? SENATE AND HOUSE ADJOURN In Session Only 40 Minutes —- 329 Measures Already Drop ped In Legislative Hopper (By The Associated Press) ATLANTA, July 2. —The House of Representatives au dthe Senate, after being in session today fur ap proximately 40 minutes, adjourned until Monday. A total of 34 bills were introduced in the House to day, making 275 measures tha; haze bee nintroduced in the lower boise during the first eight -lays t f the session. In the Senate 13 bills were introduced today bringing the Sen ate’s total to 54 bills. ■Among the measures in reduced in the House today were bills known as “The Children’s Code,” which was sponsored by Mrs. Napier of Bibb, and endorsed by ma iy nent women’s organizations through out the state. Similar bills . ffe't ing the welfare of children were also introduced in the senate. SCHLEY WOMEN RAP BLIND TIGER ELLAVILLE, July 2—(Special) Miss Mary Hornady’s discussion on law enforcement in Schley county was a feature of the regular month ly meeting of the Ellaville W. C. T. U. held Monday afternoon at the Methodist church. After Miss Hornady’s talk, in which she criticised severly condi tions in Schley county, the entire meeting adopted a resolution de claring they would vote only for of ficers who would uphold the law and that they would do ail within their power to ferret out those who were so flagrantly violating the laws of the State and the United States. “Schley county at one time stood foremost in the temperance ranks,” said Miss Hornady, but lately con ditions hre have become alarming, and it i stime for our citizenry to wake up and destroy the “blind tigers” that seemingly are so plen tiful.” Several readings were rendered by the members. Mrs. C. R. Mc- Crory, president, read a poem from the “Torch Bearers,” and anaccount of the crusade that began in Hills boro, Ohio, on December 23, 1873. Mrs. George Dillard and Mrs. J. C. j Noulton contributed selections on i the life of Miss Jenny Cassidy, i founder of the flower mission of | the W. C. T. U. . Helena to Marysville relegates to ’ the backwoods what is left of the one-time famous town and again it is to become a stage coach town, 15 1-2 miles from Years ago the Great Northern, which lost the race for a terminus within the ; city, and ended its line just outside I the boundary, abandoned Marysville ■ and gradually, as the mines work : ed out, the surviving line limited its service until, during the past >: year, a train operated only when ; there was an accumulation of . freight for its haul. ! Truly a ghost city, with a hand . ful of shacks and tumbled founda ■, tions left of its once bustling busi i: ness district, scattered, weather ■' beaten houses outlining its residence ection ,possibly 50 or 60 families claiming it as home, Marysville in* ■ dicates its past glory only to the i imaginative. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 2, 1925 Victims Buried Under this Wreckage ii t-jKh ™ i 11 ■ MjKy ________________ Several persons sleeping in the Arlington Ho tel at Santa Barbara were killed when the earth quake tore a great gap in the structure and sen t rooms on the third floor crashing to the street below. The ruins of the hotel are strikingly sh own in the photograph above. The wreckage, under which the victims were buried, is piled in t he street. Griest Speaks Before Rotarians On 7he Great Need Os Practical Training In Modern Business Rotary Does Not Sanction Closing of Neg ro Schools COUNTY BOARD WILLBEASKEDTO RESCIND ACTION Club Requests That Negro Schools Have Same Ad vantages As Last Year MATHIS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RESOLUTION Cutting of Salaries and Closing of Some Schools Will Have Bad Effect, Says Professor The Sumter County Board of Education is requested, to rescind its action in cutting the salaries of the negro teachers ot the county land in closing some of the negro schools of the county, in a resolu tion that was unanimously passed Wednesday by the Americus Rotary dub. The subject was brought to the attention of the club by Prof. Math is, who said that it had come to his attention through a resolution which he accidentally ran onto while down in the lower pflrt of the county this week. “I want to bring to your serious attention, as business men, men of intelligence, a matter that may have far reaching results in this coun try,” Prof. Mathis'said. “We have already suffered from an exodus of negro labor in this county—in the whole state for that matter. Some folks are talking of bringing in Jap anese labor, but the best labor in the south is our negroes and we must keep them. “Let me read to you a resolu tion that Iran onto this week down in the southern part of the county. Remember, this was written by n, negro. It is smart, it is intelligent. Listen.” Here Prof. Mathis read the fol lowing which is a resolution drawn by some of the negroes of the coun ty and which will be presented to the County Board of Education. It follows in full: Whereas the County Board of Education of Sumter Coqnty has (Continued on Page Five} THEFT UNITES JAP FATHER AND SON ’ TOKYO, July 2. An old ( Japanese by the name of Seich- , J iro Ishikawa was desperately < hungry. ? He strolled into a little res- / > taurant and then tried to run { S away without paying his bill. J > The restaurant keeper started ( ( after him and a scuffle ensued. ? J He then dragged the old man ; ? to the police station, where he J ! found that the hungry man was his father, whom he had not ( seen for 20 years. SWIMMING POOL ATTRACTS MANY Placid Water Never So Inviting As This Year; Season Tick ets On Sale The water in the swimming pool, out on the playground was never so clear and inviting as it has been this year, several have remarked during the past few days. The attendance is not so good, it is understood, as in years past, due probably to the fact that no drive has been made to sell season tick ets. However, the pool is open and I a great many are enjoying the cool waters during the early morning and the afternoon and evenings. Those having bonds may ex change them for season tickets, Frank Harrold, treasurer of the Playground association, said today. For cash a family ticket for the season costs $10.00; for a Single individual only $5.00. ITALY BELIEVES U. S. WILL NOT PUSH DEBT ROME, July 2.—The general cAn viction here regarding the question of Italy’s war debt to the United States, is that American fairness of mind will recognize Italy’s sitlua tion and see the uselessness of ask ing what the country cannot possi bly fulfill, and therefore the neces sity of reaching a compromise. Head of Chicago Retail Mer chants’ Institute Delivers Third Address Here “Without vision the people per ish.” “If you want to live in the kind of a town you like, stay where you are and get busy.” "Money becomes a secondary consideration when we consider the wellbeing of all the people.” “We cannot solve our individ ual problems without a conscious appreciation of the relation of our problems have to others.” “Any book on business that's one year old should be discard ed.” The baove are a few of the cryptic sentences that fell from the lips of J. W. Griest, of the Chicago Retail Merchants’ Institute, in his address yesterday before the Amer icus Rotary club when he spoke on “The Need of Practical Training in Business.” Mr. Griest spoke beford the Kiwanis club last week and address ed a body of merchants the same day. When it was found that he would pass through Americus Wed nesday on route to West Point from Cordele, he was invited to ad dress the Rotary club, by President J. T. Warren. “The spread between the pro ducer and the consumer is so great, that it will never be possible to eliminate the middle man the re tailer,” Mr. Griest said ‘ For many years, in every state in the Union I have been observing the need of practical training in business be cause of the repadily changing con. ditions in the retail trade, in finance and in commerce. A book written on business a year ago is too old for practical use and should be discarded, Roger Babson said not long ago and he is eeminently cor rect. “Three sources of wealth, rough ly classified, come from the farm, the factory and the sea. What good are any of these articles or sub stances, if they cannot be placed in the hands of the consumer? The retailor will never be eliminated so long as the buying public demand the service that they are demand ing which the retailer must give if he stays in business. The serv ice of the modern retailer is highly specialized. Thirty years ago On the shelves of the druggist we found less than 2,600 articles. To day there are 46,000 from 40 or (Continued on Page Six) BELGIUM PREMIER IS GIVEN CONFIDENCE VOTE BRUSSELS, July 2.—The Cham ber of Deputies today voted confi dehce in the new cabinet headed by Premier Puulet. 7 riple 7 raged y As Dam Breaks Al Fishing Club Three Members of One of Columbus’’ Leading Families Lose Lives in Catastrope Eighteen Miles From City W. E. Page and J. W. Kline Narrowly Escape Dealh in Heroic At tempt to Save Victims. COLUMBUS, July 2. Mrs. W. Rainey, 40, wife W. of the vice-president and genetai manager of the National Show W n o npany ' l ““' daughter, Miss Delia Rainey, 16, and Mrs. W. B. Rainey, 21, her daughter in-law, were drowned late Wed nesday afternoon when the dam of the lake at the Idle Hour Fish tng t Ini) eighteen miles from Columbus on the Box Springs road, , bioke and swept them down BIG SURPLUS IN TREASURY END OF FISCAL YEAR To Be Used in Lowering the Public Debt; Not Avalable For Tax Reduction WASHINGTOS, July 2. The close of the iiscal jear 1925 on Tuesday, found a surplus of $250,- 605,528.33 in the treasury after the expenditures of $3,529,643,- 446.09 of ordinary veceints which totals! $3,780,148,682.42. 1 his surplus is nearly four times the amount forecast last October, is not available for tax r duction purposes this year, It having been tired to lower the public debt. FIRE DESTROYS LESLIE HOME Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Bass Lose Home and Contents —53500 Insurance LESLIE. July 2.—Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Duman Bass lost their home) Wednesday by fire. It burned as 1:30 p. m. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is possible that it caught from the ironing board, which was put in a closet in a bed room, where Mrs. Bass had been ironing. There was no one in the home when fire was discovered by some one residing near, Mrs - . Bass had gone to Americus. The home was practically new as it was built about 5 years ago, at a cost of S4IOO. Their furniture costing them about SISOO. Very little of the household goods were saved and the home was com pletely destroyed. Mr. Bass has $3500 insurance. Two of MacMillan Party Are Exempt Prom All Wheel Duty Cook and Engineer of the Bow* din Will Not Have to Steer Ship CHICAGO, July 2. The cook and engineer of the Bowdoin, which with the Peary, are carrying the MacMillan-Navy party of the Arc tic region for exploration, are alone of its compliment who will not have to take his turn at the wheel. The Bowdoin, of the auxiliary schooner type, has a passenger list of 10 men. Peary has a crew of 13 men and a personnel of 13 navy offi cers and men. All members of the crew and the complement are volunteers. The crew was selected principally from three viewpoints: personality, which was ranked first; physique and abil ity. It requires a good personality to withstand the jigors of Arctic islotaion as much as good physical condition. Commander MacMillan is in charge of the Bowdoin, -’Command- NEW YORK FUTURES ’ Pc. Open 11am Close ’price FIVE CENTS the stream. Mary Rainey, 9, whose mother and sister went to their death in the swirling waters, herself was nearly drowned. She was standing on the bridge of the dam when it collapsed and hurled her into the lake. W. E. luge and J. W. Kline, who were cheeking leaks on the spillway of the dam, narrowly escaped death in their desperate attempt to rescue the victims. Physicians who rushed to the scene as soon as news of the catas trophe reached the city, examined the bodies but last night they were unable to say whether or not the thiee victims met death from drown ing or from blows from floating timbers. Dr. J. M. Anderson, who examin ed the bodies more than an hour after the tragedy, expressed the be lief that battiers were first render ed unconscious by debris and then drowned. The bodies of all three were badly scratched and bruised. He did not make a minute examina tion, he said. Fifteen or twenty feet from what remained of the dam, the three bodies were extracted from the tim bers that rode the crest of the waves and carried into the club ihouse. Efforts at resuscitation were futile. The Raineys were th? only per sons in the lake, the water of which covered several acres about the Idle Hour clubhouse, at th) lime the banner broke. Party at Work on Dani. A party compose 1 of W E. Page, Wilson Camp, Meyer Goldstein, J. W. Kline and a negro laborer wdnt to the fishing club yesterday after noon about three o’clock for the purpose of reparing the spillway of the dam. When thev arrived Mrs. W. B. Rainey, Missel Delhi and (Continued on Page Two.) FRENCH PREPARE TO DISCUSS WAR DEBT PARIS, July 2.—The French gov ernment is preparing to make an announcement upon the American debt question within the next few days. It probably will be limited to more than scarcely naming the delegates to go to Washington. The French debt negotiations, it was announced, w)ll be kept strictly apart from those with Great Britain. er Eugene E. McDonald, Jr., in charge of the Peary, and Command er R. E. Byrd, U. S. N., in charge of the navy personnel and planes. McDonald also is chief of radio on the expedition. The planes are of the amphibian type and numbered NA-1, NA-2 and NA-3. They will have a maximum flying distance of 1,200 miles but will not be required to fly further than 500 miles from their Arctic bases at any time. They will also carry carrier pigeons and smoke bombs. Heretofore, Arctic explorers have figured out their compass variations by the relations of the North Polo to the magnetic pole. At the sug gestion of Secretary Wilbur, this expedition is armed with a new chart which makes the magnetic pole the chief factor and provides a set of variations of the compass with the North Pole playing second hand., This may simplify observa, tions, calculations and navigatfon*
