About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1925)
WEATHER For Georgia—Local thundershow- ) ers tonight and Thursday. J ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 160 LEGISLATIVE CHAOS IN N. Y. GOVERNMENT SEEMS IN EVITABLE Court Decision Invalidating the Home Rule Amendment Will 1 brow the Government of New York State and 41 of Ils Cities Into Greatest Legislative Chaos in History-- In cluded in the Amendments Are Those Deal ing With the $45,000,00Q Soldiers’ Bonus and $300,000,000 in Bond issues. NSW YORK, July 8. Legislative chaos in the government oi Kew York state and in 41 of its 60 cities is feared fey the home ru € commission if the court decision invalidating the home rule heTd"^" 1611 * tO Stdfe ccnst ’ tul,on an< l ‘ ts enabling act is up . Lr passcc * nndcr the constitutional amendments dating / 1 y A arß , to the adoption of the present constitution must be tound void, James J. Hoey, chairman of the commission says. Before, all amendments were submitted to the people by the iegis ‘he H a, " e manner Ts thc h °n>e rule amendment. included in the amendments are - , those dealing with the $45,000,000 soldiers bonus, working men’s com pensation and $300,1)00,000 in bond issues CHICAGO, July 8. —Clar ence Darrow, of Chicago, asso ciate counsel for John T. Scopes, received a telegram to day from Bainbridge Colby, former secretary of state, ad vising the attorney for the de fense in the famous Loeb. Leo pold case that he would not be present at the Dayton, Tenn., evolution trial. Colby said that the recent decision of the appellate divis ion of the New York Supreme court, invalidating the New York home rule statute, brought about the situation which pre vented his leaving the city for some time. He expressed his re grets and sent his best wishes for the success of the proceed ings. The leading attorneys of New York are preparing for a legal tilt which will outstrip any ever engaged in the state’s history if the court decision is upheld. ■ MILLION DOLLAR FIRE AT MACON Lumber Yard of the Case-Fowl er Co. Razed; Other Build ings Threatened MACON, July 8. Fire of un determined origin completely de stroyed teh big lumber yard of the Case-Fowler Lumber company, on the site of old Camp Harris Tues day afternoon. The planing mill, the saw mill and the dry kiln were saved. The loss will be above sl,- 000,000. A hard shower that began falling shortly before 10 o’clock last night helped to save property adjoining the Case-Fowb r Lumber company’s plant. Fireman at that hour stated that the fire was under control. It It had wiped out the lumber yard and carried with it the Case-Fowl er office building. The fire was discovered at 12:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. At *J o’clock last night it was burning the piles of lumber and at that hour was| threatening the Central of Georgia railway’s creosote plant, less than a hundred yards away, and also the plant of the Fowler-Wainwright Handle company, a short distance north. ACTOR IS SHOT I BY HIS WIFE Allen Davis, Understudy to Leading Man in “White Car go” Is Victim NEW YORK, July 8. —Allen Da vis, 25, understudy to the leading man in the play “White Cargo,” was shot in the shoulder and head Tues day night by his chorus girl wife, in an apartment where he was din . - ing with two friends. He was taken to the’ Polyclinic hospital in a seri ous condition. Mrs. Davis, known professionally as Edith Parker, entered the apart ment and her husband was dining with Melville Anderson and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, playwright. “I want to see my husband alone” she said. Anderson and Gribble inited her to dine with thim, but she again requested to see her husband alone. Passing through a kitchenette into a bedroom, she and Davis held a brief conversation. Three detective sin an automo bile saw her running and stopped her. THE TIMESRECORDER ESU PUBLISHED IN THE HEARfor AMERICUS WILL PROBABLY HAVE MILITARY UNIT Amer.can Legion Formulating Plans to Reorganize Ameri cus Light infantry If the plans of J. E. B. McLen don, treasurer of the local post of the American legion, and the Am erican Legion are carried out, the Americus Light Infantry will be re organized and this city will have a military unit. < ' The American Legion, realizing that Americus would be at a disad vantage in quelling a disturbance or riot or assisting in time of storms, fires or other disasters and disorders decided at its meeting Tuesday night to map out a reor ganization plan of the old A. L. 1., which if adopted at the next meet ing will assure the vity protection. Mr. McLendon spen+rrrrg 'to the largest meeting of the American Legion in several years on the re organization of the old military company, declared that there are a number of former members of the A. L. I. who would take an active part in the reorganization of the company. “Aside from this,” said Mr. Mc- Lendon,” there are in Americus and Sumter county a number of young men, too young to serve in the late war, who would be glad to get the military training and would wel come the reorganization of this fa mous old company.” “Not onl ywould the company be beneficial in this effect but. it would be an efficient supplement to the arm of the constituted authorities in the enforcement of law, and its members would be of great service to the community in times of riot ing, disastrous fires and other ca lamities which would tend to throw the people into a panic,” said Mr. McLendon. LT. TURNER REPUDIATES USE OF NAME The Following Letter From L. T. Turner, Local Electrical Contractor, Speaks For'Tt self. Mr. Turner Requests Its Publication. Mr. Lovelace Eve, Editor Times- Reeorder. Dear Sir: The use of n.y name in a circular printed over the signature of the “Tax Payers’ League of Americus” was unauthorized and was used without my knowledge and consent. So far as the white way is con cerned, I am for it. There isn’t anything I know of that wo need mere or that will mean more to Americus.' I hope our legislators will use their best efforts in se curing the passage <f this amend ment to the city charter and I pledge my personal efforts, in so far as I can, to aid the Kiwanis club and all other organizations in putting over the white way. 1 wish to take this opportunity to repudiate the use of my name in the c rcmar. I have neither the time nor ii.e inclination to cast one of these ballots or to count them if others see fit to vote. Yours truly, L. T. TURNER. The lowest speed at which an air plane can fly id’ about 31 miles an hour. AMERICAS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY' AFTERNOON. JULY 8, 1925 Bringing Mangled Victims from Club Ruins Ur ” 4 •• > S !SLJ Approximately forty people were killed 'when the Pickwick club, in Boston, collapsed while a dance was was in progress. The picture above shows firemen and police carrying bodies from the ruins. ' New Budget Adopted By County Board Education Budget Pased at the June Meet- Ingj Based On Attendance, Rescinded By County Board ' of Education at All Day Meet ing Tuesday in Favor of Su perintendent Moore’s Budget; Negro School Question Sub ject of Numerous Discussions —C. H. Hogg Raps City Ora tors for * Interfering With County Affairs; Negro Speak er Discuss School Problem With Board. The county school budget passed ’by tire Sumter County BolH-d of Ed ucation at its June meeting was re scinded yesterday at the monthly meeting and a new budget adopted. The board instructed the superin tendent to make a complete survey of the negro schools in the county and report back to the board the distance necessary for negro pupils to walk in order to reach the vari ous schools in the county, when this is done the board will again open the question as to the advisability of discontinuing any of the negroi County's Pauper List Increases Each Month Rather Than Work On the Poor Farm Negroes Accept $2.00 Month Hark! Hark!’’ The dogs do bark, the niggers are coming to town.” On the first Monday of every month, the day on which the Coun ty Commissioners meet, the above sentence, the first line of that fam ous old nursery ryhme, comes to the front in Capt. H. 1). Watt’s memory, as thc paupers march in his office for their monthly allow ance or to appear before the com missioners to request that they be placed on the paupers list. , “Each month the pauper list lengthens,” remarked Capt Watts, j county treasurer, as four ragged 1 JUDGE INDICTED AMENDMENT IN BANK FAILURE SEEN IN TRIAL Tennessee Jurist, Cashier and Two Others Named in Joint Indictment JACKSON, Tenn., July B.'—The Madison county grand jury investi gating tne failure of the Peoples Saving Bank of Jackson, today re turned indictments against Judge J. W. Ross, of the Federal district court of We-tcrn Tennessee; Thus. B. CRrro’l, former cashier of the bank: his n, John Carroll and W. L. Cawthon. The four men were named in a joint indictment containing 22 counts. GERMANY AGREES TO LIMITING HER ARMS GENEVA, July B.—Representa tives of the German government to day signed the protocol at the con vention to limit the traffic in arms formulated by the recent arms con-1 ferenee here. Germany had previ- ■ ously signed protocl against the use i of poison gas in warfare. i schools in the county. Superintend- Jent- Moore said that he and the , board would not discontinue any ; school, in his opinion, where anoth . |er school was not within easy walk . ing distance. He said that the only ; schools they considered discontinu- ■ | ing were where there was another i • school near enough for the pupils ■ ■ to attend. i 'She budget passed at the June ■ meeting was based on attendance, i The one adopted yesterday was made out by the superintendent, using, he says, attendance, the need I of the school trucks used and other - considerations in arriving at his ■ conclusions. Those voting for the new budget . I were Mr. Jordon, Mr. Andrews and ■ j Mr. Methvin. Voting against were Chairman • Shipp and Mr. Thomas. Under the • | new budget the schools will receive the following amounts: Andersonville 200.00 ; Anthony 75.00 Concord 200.00 I Huntington 150.00 4 New Era 240.00 I and starved looking negroes hob •! bled their way into the county j treasurer’s office Monday, for their ! monthly allowance.” i The county gives to its paupers | two dollars each month. “This is 1 : not much,” said Capt. Watts, but it ; enables the unfortunates to buy snuff or smokes and an occasional j piece of clothing. They are usual ly taken care of by relatives who feed and lodge them.” “Some of the helpless paupers we give four dollars a month, and the only time they ever register any ac tivity is when they hobble over to my desk to sign a receipt by touch ing the open.” The county’s poor farm, where those without means qre sent, holds I no attraction for the average pau -1 per, and rather than go to the farm Scopes Counsel Believes This to Be Bryan’s Aim in • Prosecuting DAYTON, Tenn., July B.—Move for a new constitutional amendment is seen today by defense counsel as the outstanding inference to be drawn for the address made last night by William Jennings Bryan be fore the Dayton Progressive club. A statement issued today by Dr. John R. Neal, chief defense coun sel, in which he summed up the in ference drawn from the address, declares.” He forecast he. would move rapidly from the lower court to the supreme court of Tennessee then to the Supreme court of the United States, and having lost the fight on account of the existing con sttutional guarantee of religious and educational liberties, he intends to immediately wipe out these im munities by a new constitutional amendment.” Plains i 5.20.00 Pleasant Grove 250.00 Shiloh 240.00 Thalean 305.00 Thompson 300.00 Union .. . . 685.00 In explaining their reasons for ■ voting for the new budget, Mr. Jor : dan and Mr. Methvin said there wore some of the schools which . would be unable to run next year under the budget passed in June, , that they must have additional , funds or their doors could not be opened. Betwpfpi Hjktftnd 40> patrons qnjl , school trustees, together with. 50 or 60 negroes were in the assembly room of the board when Col. Shipp called the board to order. Present were Members Jordon, Andrews, Thomas and Methvin. A number of speakers were heard on the question effecting their vari ous schools. Charles S. Hogg, speaking for New Era, Pleasant Grove, Concord and Andersonville, introduced a resolution passed by these schools J (Continued on Page Six) and receive his food, clothing and lodging free, the pauper prefers the two dollars a month and live on his relatives or anybody who will put up with him. “The little bit of work they have to do frightens them away from the poor farm,” said Capt. Watts in ex plaining why they did not wish to go to the county’s institution for the poor, and they will starve them selves to death in steering clear of manual labor.” “Many of the so called paupers are merely beggars, but the court' cannot refuse them two dollars a month if they take an oath that they are without worldly posses sions,” said Capt. Watts. Nearly all of the paupers on the county’s list are negroes. 28 BILLS REACH HOPPER TODAY Senate in Session Only 40 Min utes; Bill Asks Increase in Gas Tax ATLANTA. July B.—The intro duction of 28 measures, the second reading of several bills reported favorably by committees and the passage of a number of local bills marked today’s session in the house. Among the measures introduced today was one to increase the gaso line tax a half cent on each gallon* tne proceeds to be used for edu cational purposes. The senate s< .-Jon today lasted only 4C minutes, during which only three bills were introduced, two of which : elated to the same subject, that of i equiring motor vehicles to stop upon approaching railway crossings. In the hope of recouping the pearl industry in the Philippine Islands, the goveernment has ordered the pearl banks around the Sula archi pelago closed for three years. BARONESS KILLED IN PLUNGE FROM HIGH WINDOW OF HOTEL Guests of Ritz-Carlton, New York’s Fashionable Hotel, See Body of Helen Zur Muehlen As It Passed Their Windows in Its Downward Flight From the Seventh Floor to the Hotel’s Roof Garden—Police Are of Opinion Baron ess Fainted As She Leaned Forward to Open Window. F I I rF'y L Y i? RK .’ J-" ly 8 - Baroness Helen Zur Muehlen, of Java, Dutch East Indies was killed today b v a fall from the sev ro ! e f°2 T‘.T ° f l J he R, ‘ z ‘ Carl ‘ On «“>**•«- She struck on the floor fht h ° te * Rardcns ’ wh!ch is on a lcvd wi ‘h ‘he second Janies M. Thompson, one time close fr’ ’of Miss Millicent Bogers, now Baroness Vonsall Hoogstraten. was visiting the arcn *ss wnh other friends when the accident eccured. He said udd± dT.V p ° pCn a W,n< ’° w for fre ’ h a - W! So so FF? dd k he Bar °ne«» ‘epple through the window that el- P’X* ,n VaiM - Sheu “ ered — d - ’“e BELL ELECTED COMMANDER OF LEGION POST Lee Ray Named Adjutant; Membership Drive and State Convention Planned At a meeting of the local post of the American Legion Tuesday nighl, which registered one of the largest in attendance that has ever been held, Walter L. Bell, was elected commander. The other officers elected were: C. E. Guerrv, Vice Commander, Lee Ray, Adjutant, J. L- B. McLendon, treasurer, T. Lacy Martin, Chaplain; Ernest Pantone, Sergeant at Arms; Grover T. Crapps Historian. Mr Bell has beep adjutant of the post lor the past two years and has made a splendid record in the up • budding • of’-WMfmombership. Mr. Ray is a former member < f the Charles S. Harrison Post of Co lumbus, Georgia, on • of the most active posts in the state, and hav inp rendered invaluable service to his post there, it is felt that as ad jutant of the post here ho will as sist in making it one of thc leading civic organizations of th ■ city. Commander Bell states that the Post is going after unp.ii I members and ex-service men win: have failed to affiliate themselves with the l-e' t | post. The Post intends going to the State Convention at Rome, Georgia, with a one hnudred per cent mem bership, Commander Bel! said. In this connection Mr. C 1.. Hr nvned, 3rd District Executive Committee man of the Legi in read a report showing what th? Post’s over the district are accompli thing. L H.DUCKWORTH BURIED TODAY Victim of Train-Truck Crash Laid to Rest in John Coun cil Cemetery Longene H. Duckworth, 42 years of age ,who was instantly killed Tuesday morning at 10'o’clock when the truck in which he was ilding was struck by a Central nassenger train at a crossin ga few miles from Am ericus, was interred this afternoon at 2 o’clock in the John Council Cemetery. Funeral services were held from the ileseaied's rcsideme. Rev. Brewton, pastor of the Salem church, officiated. Mr. Duckworth was the son of Jerry Duckworth, prominent Sum ter county farmer, and had recent- I ymoved to the Calvin Carter plant ation where he was employed as over seer. He was a member of the Salem Methodist church and had lived in Sumter county all of his life. Mr. Duckworth is survived by i.is wife, Mrs. L 11. Duckworth; five children, Robott, Willie. Bessie, Everett, Mattie Lou ar J Marv Liz zie; three brothers, S G Duck worth, A. C. Duckworth and E C Duckworth. AH of the survivors are residents of this county. $40,000,000 POSTAL DEFICIT SEEN BY NEW, WASHINGTON, July B.—A de fecit of approximately $40,000,000 for postal operations for the fiscal year 1925 is estimated today by Postmaster General New. The indi cated deficit is attributed by New to the increased pay given postal employes and the change in the postal rates. PRICE FIVE CENTS Ihe police after conducting an investigation of the death of the Baroness, said it is believed that she fainted and lost her balance ns she leaned forward to push open the swinging windows. No one was on the roof garden I when thc body of the Baroness was checked in its downward flight but occupants of rooms on the fourth and fifth floors of the hotel caught a glimpse of her as she passed their windows. I hose who reached tlie Baroness first after her fata! fall, declared that all signs of life had vanished and it is believed that she died in stantly. A huge crowd gathered in the vicinity of the hotel when the news spread that the prominent so ciety woman had met her death. TAX EXEMPTION BILLS IN LEAD Nearly 50 of the 341 Bills Ask Tax Exemption for New Industries ATLANTA, July B.—the Legi slature continu > sto legislate and £ continuous flo* of bills i.uve pour ed into the nopp-rs of both Iramn es. Leading the lo tl ; list of meas ures, which moui.tci to 341 Tues day when 28 int-educed, are bills asking that new industries be ex empt from taxiti.m. Representa tives of-near l ’ fifty counties in the late have inir ><iitc< 1 bills asking tout otic sand towns be permitted to hold special el.-.ions to exempt new industries fem taxation. Senators dropped 12 measures in to tin- senqte h< p i r Tuesday, bring ing the total in tl e upper house to The following are some of the most important bills introduced Tuesday. Wi.od, of Spal fi-ig; To so a .nt n<l the constitution to authorize a $70,000,000 bund issue, for good roads. Wilkin ol Miller: To amend .he Code to make desertion for one year grounds for divc-cee, instead of three years. Smith of Grady: To amend an act to prevent shipment of tick-in fested cattle. Levie of Clarke: To amend tfie act of 1910 providing for the aom mencement of suits before justices of the peace. New o fLaurens and others: To provide for a special election in Dahlia to exempt new industries from taxation. New of Laurens and others: To provide for a special election in Laurens county to exempt new in dustries from taxation. New and Peacock of Laurens: To abolish the office of sheriff of the city court of Dublin. Fulton delegation: To create a state depository in Fulton county. Neill of Muscogee: To amend the occupational tax on fuel dealers and for other purposes. The following are seme of the bills introduced in the senate Tues day. Hutcheson, 39th: To define the i erime of conspiracy and to provide I a penalty therefor. Boykin, 37th, and others: To create a highway- fund to be used in the construction of state high ways in connection with federal aid. Boykin, 37th, and others: An act to reconstitute the highway depart ment of Georgia, and to define its duties. Ricketson, and Clary, 29th: To abolish the 10 district A. and M. schools and dispose of the proper ty. Ricketson, 19th, and Clary, 29th! Tto abolish Bowden College ani dispose of its property. ~m.
