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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 159
J. Calvin Carter, Sr. and Eugene Duckworth Killed by
Central of Georgia Passenger Train This Morning
Locomotive Crashes
Into Truck At Rail
Crossing Near City
Horribly Mangled Bodies of Iwo Men Brought
to Americus On Central Pasengcr Train;
Truck Completely Demolished; Youth Rid
ing On Rear of Truck Leaps to Ground When
He Sees Train Approaching and Escapes
Injury.
J. Calvin Carter, Sr., 71 years of age, and Eugene Duck
worth, both of Sumter county, were instantly killed this morning
about 10 o clock when the Ford truck >n which they were riding
was hit and completely demolished byCentral passenger train No.
22, at a crossing on the road to Arles, about two miles east of
Americus.
Mr. Carter and Mr. Duckworth and Eugene Duckrth, Jr.,
I 5-year-old so nos Eugene Duckworth, were driving a Ford
truck on their way home from Americus when it was crashed
into by the passenger train as it dashed out of the deep cut at
the point where the accident oc-
curred. Evidently neither of the
three heard or saw the on-com
ing train. Mr. Carter and Mr
Duckworth were on the front
seat, while Eugene was sitting
in the rear, with his feet hang
ing over the end of the truck.
Eugene jumped, thus saving his life,
but Mr. Carter and Mr. Duckworth
were hurled with the truck, to in
stant death.
The train was in charge of Con
ductor Hardey. 'Engineer Aiken
was at the throttle. The train came
to a stop as quickly as possible,
picked up the two bodies and
brought them to Americus. Eugene
is thought to have gone straight
home.
Mr. Carter, accompanied by Mr.
Puckworth, who is overseer on the
Carter farm, accompanied by Eu
gene, had been to Americus and
are thought to have been on their
way home when the accident oc
curred.
Death was instantaneous. Mr.
Carter’s legs and one arme were
broken, deep gashes were cut about
his head and neck. Mr. Duckworth’s
jaws were crushed and he, too, had
deep cuts about the head and body.
A coroner’s inquest, called just
after noon, found that both men
came to their death from being
run over by a Central train. The
coroner’s jury could not reach any
member of the train crew and there
fore could learn nothing from any
eye witnesses. No one seems to
have been anywhere near the acci
dent who could testify as to how
it happened except the man who
was on the ..rear of the truck and
he could not be located today.
The train came to a stop im
mediately after striking the truck.
The bodies of the two men were
picked up and brought to the Cen
tral station 'at Ameficur, where
they were turned over to the
Americus Undertaking company.
The accident occurred at the
tame place where L. G. Council,
president of the Planters Bank,
came near meeting with an accident
one day last week, when he drove
his car into the bank to prevent
collision with the same train. Mr.
Mr. Council’s car suffered only
slight damage.
J. Calvin Carter, Sr., 71 years
of age, had been one of Sumter
county’s most prominent and useful
citizens. For many years he was a
member of the Sumter county
board of education and had, during
all of his useful life taken an ac
tive interest in civic and religious
affairs. Mr. Carter had for many
years been a member of the Salem
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BgjLPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
TWO INJURED IN
SUNDAYCRASH
Misses Martha and Lurline Wall
Receive Cuts About the
Face and Head
Miss Martha Wall and Miss Lur
line Wall, both of Americus were
badly cut about the face and head
Sunday about 2 o’clock when the
Ford coupe in which they were rid
ing, collided with a car driven by
B. W. Warren, colored, on Forsyth
street. Miss Monetta Cook, driver
of the Ford car was unhurt.
Miss Martha Wall received a deep
gash across her forehad, and it was
thought for a while that she was
seriously injured. Miss Lurline
Wall received several minor bruises
cuts about the face and head.
Detail of the accident could not
be learned, but witnesses have
' been subpoenaed to appear in po
lice court Friday morning, when an
effort will be made to ascertain who
was responsible for the accident
Officer Bass made the case.
NEGRO’S BACK BROKEN
WHEN HIT BY AUTO
, Shump Dugan, aged negro, was
. seriously injured Saturday aftcr
, noon whe nhe was run ovre by a
, car driven by Mrs. Tucker, onF'or-
I syth street, a short distance below
the Sumter county stockade. The
. negro failed to look in either direc
tion in crossing the street, accord-
. ing t othe police.
Little hope is held out for the re
covery of the negro, hs itis feared
. his back was broken.
PARALYTIC CONFESSES
WHOLESALE MURDER
BERLIN, July 7—Another whole-
1 sale murderer was placed on trial
. Monday in the small town of Lim
burg. He is Director Angerstein,
' of a cement factory, in whose home
eight members of the household
s were found dead last December.
■ The court room was packed as An-
I gerstein related in a calm manner
i how he murdered his wife and his
other victims. He went into the
: most horrible details without be
• traying the slightest emotion. He
: admitted that only his wife was
' killed outright. The other victims
i groaned for some time after he
struck them.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 7, 1925
ONE KILLED IN
CALIFORNIA HI
JACKER BATTLE
Posse Member Victim of Hijack
er’s Rifle; Two Officers
Are Wounded
CALVARYMEN AID IN
SEARCH FOR KILLERS
Cna«t Guard to Patrol Coast to
Prevent Hijackers From
Escaping
SALINAS, Calif., July 7. —Two
companies of calvarymen from
Monterey, Presido, today are pa
trolling the countryside in earch of
hijackers reported moving inland
from ahore after a clash with civil
authorities, in which one posse
member was killed and two officers
wounded.
A call is out for coast guard cut
ters to patrol the coast in order to
prevent the hijackers escaping in
small boats.
The posse was searching for the
men who fired on the officer when
they were stopped on the road and
after their identity had been made
known were greeted with the order
“shoot them,” and the hijackers
fired on them from all sides of the
road.
38 BILLS REACH
HOUSE HOPPER
Monday Is Busy Day for Solons;
Sumter Delegates Ask Ap
propriation for A. & M.
ATLANTA, July 7. Thirty
eight bills were introduced in the
house Monday, while an even doz
en measures were dropped in the
senate hopper. This brings the to
tal in the house up to 313, whilo in
the senate a total of 68 measures
have been introduced.
The Sumter delegation introduc
ed a bill asking for an appropria
tion of $15,429 to pay for the
Academic building at the local A.
& M. school.
Among the more important bills
introduced in the huose are:
Smith, of Grady—To prevent haz
ing in schools and colleges.
Smith, of Grady—To repeal the
Workmen’s Compensation Act of
1920.
Peterson, of Tift—To appropri
ate $70,000 to the South Georgia
A. & M. school.
Daniel and Martin, of Troup,
and others—To organize a state
highway commission of three mem
bers and define their duties and ob
ligations.
Bower, of Decatur —To provide
for the disqualification of judges
in cirminal cases upon the giving
of affidavits of prejudice.
Hall delegation—To provide for
an election to exempt new industries
from taxation in Hall county.
Westbrook, of Dougherty To
provide how mortgages on stocks of
goods shall be taken.
Hopkins, of Thomas, and others
—To appropriate $109,000 to build
a fence between Georgia and Flor
ida to prevent the spread of the
cattle tick.
Barrett, of Stephens—To aid in
establishing consolidated schools.
Wimberly, of Toomßbs —To abol
ish the Bowden State Normal and
Industrial Collgee.
Wilhott, of Warren—To abolish
the third, fourth fifth, sixth, sev
enth, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh
and twelfth district A.&M. scools.
Dorsey, of White—To auhtorize
the mayor and council of Helen to
call a special election to exempt cer
tain property from taxation.
Boswell, of Greene—- To provide
that judges render a decision within
60 days when defendant is in jail.
SOUTH GEORGIA COLLEGE
ASKS STATE FOR $251,000
TIFTON, July 7.—The present.
legislature will be asked for an ap
propriation of $251,000 for running
expenses of the South Georgia A.
and M. College for the next two
and a half years. Plains to this es-l
feet were approved and adopted at,
a special meeting of the board >f I
trustees recently. SIO,OOO of the I
fund will be asked for immediatelyl
to meet the inceased cost of operat-|
ing the school,
7he American Venus Suggests
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By Dorothy Knapp of the Ziegfled Follies
Cold water is my favorite beau
tifier. I start the day with a
cold shower, though if the weath
er is around zero 1 begin with
a tepid one and delay the icy
spray for a few seconds.
In the evening 1 always take
a warm bath, but I finish with a
quick cold spray. This, I believe, i
hardens the flesh and keeps it
firmly molded.
I also finish every massage that I
lax Payers League Wants
By LOVELACE EVE
Referendum On White Way
“Voter* of America*, Matter*
of More Than Passing Importance
to Every Tax Payer in Americu*
About to Happen. ’
The above, in big black type, is
the heading over a circular mailed
to the Times-Recorder and signed
“Tax Payers of Americus.” There
are no signatures on the circular to
denote who constitutes the league
<sr its officers.
The first few paragraphs of the
circular follow:
At the present session of the
Legislature your Representatives,
Messrs. Hinge, and Riley, will eith
er favor or oppose a proposed
amendment to the Charter of Am
ericus that if passed will tax all
property owners to maintain a
special and very expensive light
ing system for a few property
owners.
If this contemplated amend
ment is passed, the expense of
maintaining such expensive light
ing system will be continuous,
whether you like it or not.
There is also contemplated a
plan by which the City of Am
ericus is to discontinue the Demo
cratic plan of paying one-third
of the expense of paving the
city’s streets —after certain well
known streets here have been
paved under the one-third plan.
The present officials of the
City of Americus should have
given the people the right to ex
press themselves on these all-im
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JOHNSON TO HEAD
SOUTHERN NEWSPAPERS
ASHVILLE, July 7.—Walter C.
Johnson, .of the Chattanooga News,
was nominated president of the
Southern Newspaper Publishers As
sociation to serve during the ensu
ing year by a nominating commit
tee today. He has been secretary
pf the association for many years.
I give my neck, shoulders and
arms with a cold water rinse.
If I feel very tired and listless,
1 drink two glasses of cold water,
then make a cold compress and
hold it over my eyes for 10 or 15
minutes while I lie on the bed
perfectly relaxed. This always
brings back a sparkle, and I feel
as revived as flowers must afte
summer rain.
To all beauty seekers, I advise
the water wagon.
REDUCTION IN
INCOME TAXES
Is Feeling of Coolidge; Should
Be Cut All Along the Line,
He Says
SWAMPSCOTT, July 7.—Presi
dent Coolidge feels that the next
reduction in taxes should be made
in incomes all along the line. While
leaving the actual preparation of
the tax reduction bill in the hands
of the house ways and means com
mittee and treasury officials, the
president hopes that it will provide
for general relief and at the same
time make possible the greatest
amount of returns in revenue.
REVIEWS HISTORY
OF STATE TAXATION
Reviewing the history of taxation
in Georgia and the history of ef
forts at tax reform, the governor
enumerated what he conceived to
have been facts, demonstrated by
a careful study of the state by vari
ous commissions and proposed legis
lation that would combine classifi
cation and incomes taxes as the
only method of tax relief and the
only way the state could acquire the
additonal $3,000,000 revenue which
he said was required by the state.
BILL FOR $70,000,000
ROAD BOND ISSUE
000 road bond issue was proposed
in a bill introduced in the house to
day by Represtative Wood, of
Spaulding. The measure would
provide for an amendment to the
constitution to permit the bond is
sue,
EDUCATION AND i
TAX DISCUSSED
BY GOVERNOR
Urges Combination of Classifi
cation and Income Tax Be
fore Joint Session
Proposes $10,000,000 to $15,-
000,000 Educational Bond
Issue
ATLANTA, July 7. A cun.bi
nation of classification income tax
as a solution of tax revision in Geor
gia and a bond issue of $10,000,000
to $15,000,000 for educational pur
poses were proposed by Governor
Walker today in his address before
a joint session of the general as
sembly.
DAYTON READY
FOR APE TRIAL
Throngs Pour Into Tennessee
Town Where Scopes Is to
Be Tried
DAYTON, July 7. —In Dayton
everything date sfro mnext Frida...
Tourists are arriving and newspa
per correspondents are streaming
into the town on every incoming
train. Merchants, hotel keepers,
garage men, venders and plain citi
zens point forward to Friday as the
beginning of things.
With the removal last night of
every trace of fear that the Scopes
evolution trial might be removed
throug hthe intervention of the. fed
eral courts, the town settled down
in earnest wor kcomplcting prep
arations.
HOLIDAY DEATHS
REACH 250 MARK
Automobile Accidents and
Drownings Head List of
of Fatalities
CHICAGO, July 7.—The toll of
holiday fatalities throughout th ■
country mounted to the 250 inarx,
with automobile accidents an i
drownings at the head of the list,
without the Boston cabaret tragedy
in which 43 persons perished.
Although the Fourth of July pas
with remarkably few deaths from
fire works and explosions, the ab
normal traffic in suburban areas led
to an unusually long list of dead
and injured.
• More than 400 were injured in
the states which reported the heav
iest death tolls.
Illinois reported 57 dead and more
than 100 injured.
Other state tolls follow:
Massachusetts, 49; New York, 26;
Indiana, 13; Ohio, 29; Missouri, 2; (
Connecticut, 8; Rhode Island, 6;
New Jersey, 3; Pennsylvania, 6;
Vermont, 2; Minnesota, 8; lowa, 4;
California, 10 Colorado, 3; North
Dakota, 2.
COLLAPSE PROBE
NOW UNDER WAY
BOSTON, July. 7.—The Suffolk
county grand jury went into session
Monday in its investigation to de
termine the cause of the collapse of
the Pickwick building that the last
pile of debris has been removed with
out disclosing more victims leaving
the final list of dead at 43.
Daniel Cupid Continues to
Increase Ordinary’s Receipts
Little Match-Maker Has Busy;
Month During June; 207 Li- i
censes Issued This Year
Daniel Cupid, the distributor <<i
love darts, continues to increase the
revenue of the ordinary’s office, ac
cording to the big book in (.apt.
Cobb’s office, which shows that 31
love-struck couples were granted
marriage licenses, and started on i
the road to matrimony during the
month of June. Os these 24 were!
procured by colored swains and.
7 by white.
During the month of June, 1924 '
23 marriage licenses were issued, i
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COMMISSIONERS
GET BIG REFUND
FROM RAILROAD
11. P. Everett, Rate Expert Pre
sents Body With 744.78,
Freight Overcharge
CLAIMS AMOUNTING TO
$2,283.62 BE RECOVERED
Overcharge On Road Material;
Body for Consolidation of
Tax Offices
Claims amounting to $2,283.62
for freight overcharges will be paid
the County Commissioners in the
next 30 days. Monday, 11. P. Ev
erett, rate expert for the county,
handed the county a check for
$744.78 of this sum and slated that
the balance would be secured for
them during the month. These
claims are for freight over charges
on stone, slag and other materials
purchased by the commissioners.
While secretary of the chamber of
commerce, Mr. Everett secured
new ami lower freight classifica
tions for road materials and has
since collected several thousands of
dollars for the county from the
railroads in the form of over-
( charges.
1. B. Small and Jack Britain, tax
receiver and tax collector of the
county appeared before the comma •
sinners Monday with the request
that no change be made in those
two offices until the terms of Mr.
Small and Mr. Brittain expire,
something like four years hence.
It was stated that a bill will !>•>
introduced in this session of the Leg
islature to consolidate the two of
fices. Mr. Small said that he could
not see how there could be any
saving to the county, that ho need
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THREE PREPARE
TO PAY DEBTS
Czeclic-Slovakia Latest to An
nounce Readiness to Enter
Negotiations
WASHINGTON, July 7. With
the dates tentatively set for receiv
ing the French and Belgian missions,
and with negotiations already un
derway with Italy, the state depart
ment was notified today that
Czecho-lllovakia will formarlly an
nounc.e within a few days its readi
ng;.. to enter immediate conferences
for settlement of it. reconstruction
debt to the United States.
RICHLAND’S THEATRE
CHANGES HANDS
RICHLAND, July 7. —(Special)
The Grand Theatre which has
been operated for several years by
Ernest Elrod has been purchased
by E. A, Mayo, local proprietor of
the Chcro Cola Bottling company.
The Richland Orchestra will fur
nish special music, which will add
much pleasure to the motion picture
lovers.
REGULAR LEGION
MEETING TONIGHT
The regular meeting of the John
D. Mathis Post of the American Le
gion, will be held tonight at 7:30
in the American Legion hall. AU
members are urged to be present to
take part in the election of officers
for the coming year. Final arrange
ments will be made for the state
1 convention at Rome in August.
J 23 to negroes and 10 to whites.
I June seems to lead the other months
I :n marriage license receipts and ac
cording to Capt. Cobb, is really the
marrying month.
During the first six months of
this year 207 marriage licenses
have been issued against 164
through this period last year. Forty
five were issued to white couples
i this year, against 35 last.
If the increase in the sale of mar
! riage licenses is a fore runner of
■ prosperity, as many people see’4
j to think, then Sumter county is i»i
I for a good year, beginning this fa'l,
{according to the ordinary’s record*,,
