About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1925)
AMERICUS'SPOT COTTON Middling 24 l-2c. WEATHER For Georgia—Partly cooler to night; Thursday, fair, moderate north winds. FORTY-SEVENTII YEAR—NO. 177 Bryan’s Body Begins Long Journey to Nation’s PLACED ABOARD SPECIAL COACH THIS MORNINC Bcnzc Casket and Rear of Car Banked High With Hundreds cf Flcral Designs TO REACH WASHINGTON THURSDAY MORNING Mrs. Bryan Travels in Car Along With Body of Distinguished Husband DAYTON, Tenn., July 29. —The body of William Jennings Bryan he. gan its long journey to the nation al capital early today, when the bronze casket, in which the com moner lay, was removed from Rich ard Rogers’ residence at 7:40. His widow followed as the remains of her distinguished husband were placed aboard a special Pullman on the siding near the place of Bry an’s death. The metal casket containing the body of the commoner was careful ly placed in a special car, after tho removal of a rear section of glass in the observation end. The plat form of the car was banked high with flora! designs. Kelso Rice, Chattanooga officer, stood at attention a* the head of the casket until the casket reached Chattanooga. Mrs. Bryan was tenderly assisted into the car from an automobile' - by her chauffeur, William H. McCart ney, W. E. Thompson, Mr. Bryan’s secretary, and Wallace Haggard. The specia Pullman, attached to the regular Southern railway train, drew out of Dayton at 9:03 o’clock. FUNERAL party AT CHATTANOOGA CHATTANOOGA, July 29.—The funeral party arrived here at 10:15 where the public was admitted to the special Pullman to view the re mains of the dead statesman. The car, with its sorrowing passengers, was transferred here to a fast South ern train which is scheduled to reach Washington early Thursday. COLLIER WOULD LEVY A TAX ON GROSS SALES Bill Calls for Payment of a Tax of One-Half Percent of One Percent ATLANTA, July 29. - Accom panying his resolution to provide for an amendment to the constitu tution to authorize the legislature to levy a gross sales tax, Senator Col lier, 22nd, introduced a bill Io car ry out the provisions of the pro posed amendment.. The bill calls for payment of a tax of one-half of one per cent on all gross sales, and for the registra tion of all persons engaged in soil ing or trading, either wholesale or retail, “in real estate, goods, wares, merchandise, or other thing of value in this state.” The law would be come effective January 1, 1927. It of course would not become effec tive unless the constitutional amend ment proposed were adopted. The proposed tax would be in lieu of all ad valorem taxes now impos ed by the state. Senator Collier believes the proposed tax on sales should he imposed, rather than an income tax. The sales tax would apply not only to those engaged in the busi ness of selling merchandise, etc., but also to persons “selling their professional service, and rents cbarg ed and collected for the use of realty o rpersonalty.” All persons or eoporations com ing under the provisions of the pro posed law would be required to reg ister each year, on or before the 1 4 dpy of January, with the Commis sioner of Revenue, giving the name and location of the business, the na ture of the business, and the names of members of the firm. To such persons or firms, the Commissioner of Revenue would then issue a cer tificate. There would be a registra tion fee of 25 cents Those coming under the provis ions of the bill would be reouir.-• to keep an accurate account of daily sales, cash sales to be kept separate from credit sales. Collections on credit sales would also be recorded. These records would be required to be open to the Commissioner of R. venue at all times. Returns on sales would be requir (Conti.Dti<'d on Page Five) THE TIMESy? RECdRDER eBLEUBUjgHED_IN_THE HE ART Dr. Howard \Being Held for Ransom PEKING, July 29 —Consular ad vices say that r’.rsen: in money and cartridges ha 3 been demanded by the brigands who captured Dr. Harvey L. Howard, of the ler hospital in Fokin*, more than a week ago, while he was visiting at the Manchurian ranch of Morgan Palmer, a native of New York. The amount of the ransom is not speci fied and the whecrabouts of the physician is not revealed. Dr. Howard was taken captive by lhe Chinese bandits after they had shoi and K’lled Palmer. The Amer ican was slair in defense of his , property, and Secretary of State ' Kellogg has demanded and investi gation and explanation on the part of the Chinese government. Amer- | lean representatives ir China are j also investigating the killing. JEALOUS YOUTH SLAYS THREE Woman and Two Men Dead As Result of Richmond fh’ocing RICHMOND, Va., July 29. ' Jealousy Tuesday caused the death I of a woman and two men and th? i serious wounding of a third man, i Rudolph Disse, 18, told police last) night. The shooting flared forth in a! residential street as the youth en-i countered the woman, Mrs. Vivian j Tomlin Peers, to whom he was en-: gaged, and two men, after Mrs. j Peer. - ’ arraignment in police court i on charges preferred by Disse. Willis Britt, driver of the auto- ] mobile in which the first shooting occurred, was seriously wounded by i Disse in the volley which swept the I automobile. The woman was killed I and Detective Sergeant J. Harvey I Burke, fatally wounded. Disse, piloting Britt’s automobile then made his way to the restau rant of H. G. Carter, whom he con sidered a rival for the woman’s af fection. He shot Carter without a word. The man died almost instant ly. In the confusion, the slayer es caped. He was arrested later by a traffic policeman who leveled a pistol at Disse and climbed aboard the moving automobile. TWENTY INJURED WHEN BUS UPSETS TARRYTOWN, N. Y., July 29. Twenty persons were injured sc seriously as to necessitate hospital confinement when a large bus car rying forty-seven men, women and children, members of the Compan ions of the Forest of Brooklyn up set last, night. TWENTY-ONE BILLS INTRODUCED TODAY ATLANTA, July 29 -Twenty-on ■ bills were introduced in the Housj today. Among the bills was one by Rep resentative Lewis, of Colquitt, and others, which provides for further regulation of dealers in cigars and igarettes. The measure would pro vide for a license fee ranging from $25 to $75, according to the amount of business done. This is in addi tion to the tax on cigars and cigar ettes. BLACKSHEAR TOBACCO MEN’S CLUB IS OPENED BLACKSHEAR, July 29. The Blackshear Tobacco Men’s club re cently opened their new club house with an elaborate chicken dinner served to sixty guests. The tobac co club, a unique organization, Wild West ”of the East Pony Roundup Begins 1 aday CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND, Va , July 29.—Chincoteague islanders will gather tomorrow in festive garb for the annual wild pony round-up. Chincoteague is the “Wild West” of the East. Its round-up antedate., the American cowboy and its wild ponies roamed the salt marshes long before the first mustang was lasso ed. Two hundred and fifty years ag >, the first English settlers were amaz ed to find the island inhabited by wild horses and Indian cattle. How the first horses reached this little island five miles off th<* Eastern Shore of Virginia is not known. If AMERICUS. "GEORGIA. ’WEDNESDAY Al IL RNOON. JULY 29, 1925 Where Death Pound the Great Commoner Hi Winn ini I !■> I WWI' !■ WWI— ■ * ; ' .■••sWW ’■■■’ TA „„ “Jr® I i - ’ SWIM Home where Bryan died. Cross it right indicates room where he Red Russia’s Red Russia’s Two Business Men TROTSKY, WAR LORD AND DZERJINSKI, HEAD OF BLOODY CHEKA, RULE NATION I*:i . Wi- LEON TROTSKY HEAVY RAINS IN SOUTH GEORGIA 5 Ccastal Counties Drenched, While Northern and West ern Counties Suffer I I The southern sections of the state now omplain o' too much rain, while -he northern and west ern parts are still in the clutches of a prolonged drought. In the southern part of the state, particu larly the sections near the coast, there has been plenty, if not too much rain, :.ndw ith Hie cot,ton be giliiui’.g to ■ ' 11. the boll weevil, | long suppressed by the dry spell, I has gone on a rampage. The rain : came too late to do any noticeable j good. I In the northern sections there is > a general shortage of rain and the ‘corn, with the fodder unpulled, is I burning up. The tobacco crop, in i the south, is being cured under fa- I vorabic conditions and the outlook for the pecan, peanuts, rice and sugarcane crops is bright. Shipments of peaches from Fort Valley is about ended. Tlii- cu p suffered much from the drought and did not come up to par. I probably the only one of its kind in the world, is composed of the business men of the town and has the authority, through a charter, to I operate a restaurant and hotel fa -1 cilities if desirable. | the story told by (he Indians is .o| be belived, they swam ashore fro.-, 'a Spanish shipwreck. Hundreds of ponies were taken lin the round-up-- of former years i 'and they found their way into many . diffsr -iit sections of the eountr". : There are fewer of them now, but; i the Chincoteague people, setting aside July 20 a "pony penning" ‘ day, have made th-' event an annua’ ( custom. Buyer; and visitors cor. ■ • from the mainland and there i- a I varied and interesting program of; , contests and games following tho i “penning." The. Chincoteague pony is goner- ] ally khown to the American public' «xjut *a IM- r«w wraar>ilMr • J"'J • -- J 111 I was lying when the end came. Cross I at left indicates porch where Mrs. | , MOSCOW, July 29. —Trotsky and Dzerjinski, business men. This is the new picture events ; are painting in So' i?t Russia, and it j may seem a queer trick to play On ’ public opinion, lor these two men, 1 Trotsky, the Red v.-nr lord, and Dzerjinski, the head of the “Cheka, ’ i were long considered by anti-801-' . shexiks as the arch-devils of the I ‘ Red revolution. | j They have been brought into their j | new posts—Trotsky mads head of) the concessions committee, and j '■ Dizerjinski, as head of the Supreme I Economic Council, made dictator of all things economic and industrial in Soviet Russia, because they ar i .the best organizers the Bolshevik 'government has developed. |' In fact, they work and act like . business men. Trotsky, recalled from the exile in the Caucasus ; where his enemies within the Com -1 munist party sent him after Lenin’s death, even looks like a business man. As he sits at his desk in the I'concessions committee building, pushing buttons, he migbe be an ; American general of finance. He 1 built up the Red army out of a nu ' cleus that was virtually nothing but > skeletons, old rags and scrap iron, I and made it win battles and move ’ like a well-oiled machine. | Trotsky’s photographs make him appear Mephistophelian. In the , flesh, his dark scanty beard is hard (Cntinued on Page Six) Evolution I Amendment Is Defeated | ATLANTA, July 29. An I amendment designed to prohibit I teaching of evolution in the common i ochoo’s of the state today was vot- i ■’ cd dev/n overwhelmingly bv the hciv* of representatives. The amendment was offered t< l the genera! appropriation bill and 1 nrovided that any teacher or school j that taught or nermitted to he J taught any theory in contradiction I to the Bible account of the crea- ' tior of man would be cut off from, receiving state fundt>. The amend- I meni related only to the common i schools. Representative Lindsay, DeKalb county, author of the bill, stated after the amendment's crushing de -1 feat that he would not offer an : ■ ar ti-evolution bill. t through the similes of writers who often refer to something as having the color “of a Chincoteague pony.” Few persons know that these little horses come from a marshy, wooded island which is part of Accomac county, Virginia. The strain is not so pure now as it was in former ] years. The Shetland pony togeth-1 er with other breeds has been intro- ‘ duced anil the effect has wrought ! i ariety. The original Chincoteague pony was a distant, striking bre'-d. ' It had a long, flowing tail and mane and was highly prized during the era of and carts. The fleet ponies are rounded up by horsemon who drive them into [Bryan was seated when informed of her husband’s death. • : »■ I V it .. A FELIX DZERJINSKI HOUSE BREAKS YEAR’S RECORD: I Only Three B't<s Dropped Into j The Hopper Tuesday; Brings ! Total to 726 ATLANTA, July 29. -The house of the Georgia legislature yesterday | broke it:; own record for the pres ent session in the number of bills] introduced. The record was brok-l en, however, by the introduction of the smallest number, not the larg- I eat y day this session. Ho’.tv members dropped only three Lili, into the. hopper Tuesday. This brings the total of bills in the lower house during this session to 726. The following bills were intro duced in the house Tuesday: By Representative Wood, of Spalding—To permit citizens of a, part of a municipality, the major part of which lies in another coun-J ty, upon a vote of the majority of its citizens to unite or merge into | the major part of the municipality' and the county in which it lies for: the purpose of operating the schools] a sa county unit system; and for other purposes. Lawton, of Chatham, Doyle of i Floyd, Bussey, of Crisp, Westbrook, ; of Dougherty, and Mann of Glynn:] To create a state tax commission,] which shall also be a state budget commission; to repeal the equaliza tion act; and for other purposes. I large pens where they are caugh and haltered. It sometimes require | several hours to guide the drove ; into the pens. I The islander: gain their suste'.i ance largely from the sea. The; J ha' e built up an extensive fish am i oy-ter industry. It was necessary, how-ver, to til j small patches of ground for bread i and vegetables. The wild ponv ha-' jto be restricted. So he wa fence-1 I off from the settlements and th • - fields and allowed to continue his roaming at v ill in the lower etion ,of the island. There the ponies are ; to be found in much the same staje ‘ as when the first white r»en canie. Renew War On Liquor Runn e r s WASHINGTON, July 29 ln furtnvrance of th* plan to choke off tbc lienor supply at its source, Assistant Secretary Andrews oi the treasury, proposes to erect a line rs defense on the north and south borders that will dove-tail in with the in erior prohibition organi sation. Ihr assistant secretary began to- , lay consideration of a plant trt re- | inf orc e the customs service border pa*rol to take care of the new de fense areas. Ihe southern border problem has been largely ihaf of smuggling whir,., ky, narcotics and aliens. Long stretches on the American border i arc now unguarded. TOBACCO SALES BRING $341,000 Nearly 2,000,000 Pounds Sold] in Georgia Markets On First Day MACON, July 29.—With Al ban.y’s figures incomplete, repor: from the 23 tobacco markets of Georgia today show that 1,924,50! pounds of bright leaf were sold, the growers receiving $341,31)2.55. The average price was better than 18 cents a pound. As much as $1 per peiin.l wa paid for the best grades while thq lowest grades only brought 3 cents. It is believed that the best tobacco will bring anywhere from 40 cents per pound to $1 during the season. The number of pounds sold, total price paid, and the average price per pound for each market follow-: Alabama, 75,000; $1.3,500; 18 cents. Albany, 20,000. Bainbridge, 75,000; $12,000; 1-,i cents. Blackshear, 107,000; $19,090.95; 17.8 cents. Baxley, 125,000; $21,250; 17c. Camilla, .35,000; $7,700; 22 cents Cairo, 22,000; $3,784; 17.2 c. Douglas, 165,576; $25,492.17; 16.5. Dublin, 100,000; $20,600; 20.6. Fitzgerald, 30,000; $7,500; 25?. Hl'izelhurst, 8.3,638; $15,725.91; 18.8. Hahira, 43,276; $6,880.84; 15.9. Lyons. 60,000; $10,200; 17c. Metter. 150.000; $18,5001 13c. Moultrie, 100,000; $17,000; 17c. Nashville, 140,000; $25,200; 18.-. Pelham, 117,0(10; $24,550; 21c. Quitman. 103.000: $16,995; 1(1.5. Tifton. 67.800; $12,204; 18c. Thomasville, 75,000; $1 6.95(1 ;j 26.6. Waycross, 40,000; $6,400; I6r. Valdosta, 97,000; $20,661; 21.3. Vidalia, 93,21 1 ; $19,190.95; 20. s Totals; Number of pound sold. (1,924,504; price paid, I I average price p'-r pound, 18.1 nl FULTON TO SPEND $345,- OCO ON SCHOOLS IN 1926 I ATLANTA, July 29. The Ful ton county Board of Education, ! n a meeting held recer,’ly, r’rnf*<-«l a report show-no- figures of $345 - 000 for the 1925-1920 school yea-: l.uildii’g program. Plans were al.-'o discussed to provide bits.se- lo i ' ry tin- children who rc.«im in ‘ln ■ distant part of the county to ami from the high school, which is in the heart of the city. State ex-, amination for teachers who expect to teach in the coh.inc session of school will be held ii. the Fulton high school Fri.l-,-; ami Saturday, it is announced. Some seem to think the only way to be happy though married is to be single though married. Ilf the marsh grass and myrtle bu es on Chincoteague grow : parse at seasons, the ponies will swim the strait to Assateague, another island nearby. Water seems to hold no' dread for them. Neither the ponies nor the wild cattle require any attention or feed ing. When the islander wants beef: he kills a cow from the herd. They l are never rounded up. I “Broncho busting” is certain to i j be a feature of the “pony penning'’ | ; tomorrow. The majority of th-: islanders are good hor. e/.ien and ' delight in giving exhibitions of thi iv • riding skill. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close On. 25.02 24.95 25.0624.99 Dec. . 23.17 25.05 25.18'25.02 PRICE FIVE CENTS Capital LESLIE TO SELL 70.000 POUNDS Os BRIGHT WEED Cue Hundred Acres Planted In Tobacco Tbis Year Will Bring Aim.nd $25,000 ACREAGE BE GREATLY INCREASED NEXT YEAR Cnly Few Btrns Rem-in to Be Cured; Growers Want Ware hcuH n Americus BY KIRKLAND SU H IVF. >«■»<!* i >:i ' ' li ' n >. .• </ii. T! i : Illi -.! Ill); • and onlei p> • Hip 1(1 Ih‘ inlinici pa 11‘ y ih the mill hern end :>f Sumter county has il finger: - , in the big |ii,- tl 'i :■■■:■■' ii fii ,i knife thrust J'ue di\ v.dic,'i hue dreds of bu.', ’ i , I' ur :e,|i m>. I h hii'i’j rt tobacco i imji'uii'' in Lie World hogan bidding on Ge a 'i.i' "ixth tobacco crop, whi>'h when atn tinned will bring approximate:', $ 1 5,0110,0110 (o th" I'd, lei o c nt( i for distribut ion I Lrua r re;' 'ic our. trade eh-n.nels of I i ■ . ' :it e. i'incoarae.i'd b\ : "iith Georgia' phenomenal suc< ‘>: ill cultivatin ' product that ha- made North Cai'o lina one of the wealthiest states in the liiiioe, i.';e farmer and bu i ne >s men of I <'-.lie gm .heir hen. 1 together 1.-i.-.I winter and discus: erl the pc.- ibilitie: of turning idle : into a money-making proposition through the cultivi'.i.ion of brigie leaf tobacco. Their success thi. '■•ar in rah ing tohace.i. although not phenonii nal, opened their eye . and in xi year hundred:: ot acre . mnnx of them now in weed - will ’i ploughed under and ihe . ,nj.-le•• crop planted. I s i - . t) eir is not ph' nohienul. It is not, but it is re muikuble, i.un.iLd' ting |h". < xlreme!., unfavo:: b!(> weather conditions un ler which the plants were trans planted and cultivated From th- 100 acres cf bright, lent' tln re v. ere cured •approximately 70. 000 pounds, which when auctioned a ill brin;; the grower: omethin ' like $25,000. A neat reward for what was termed by the growers an exneriment. Practically ah of the tobacco has h.-en galheroil and cured. There r mains in the fields onlv a few barn , ind this will be gather ’d before the first part, of next week, according to I ucius Harvey, er h- riff of Sumter county, who nlanted fiv" acri:: from which he ha < gathered five barn-, or approximated’ !’,!>()<) pound:. Tobarf ah; - t.il.-n a frong hold an farm' is in the 1/ '|e "i-r'iot), :,' (I in L' :e| of I’.'ll'C, ng abo'it Ih" price of cotton and what effect the e!>■-'■ rnH'« •!’- • *>;» i - "P<»rt will h;i"<* on the in rl.it, their ■ hi'T concern i what price loba"co will bring. At lca:-l 20 men from L' die and the vn 'iiit ■ 101 l their farniuov.' r ipirlb l»e,'la.mg ..pcckled with ‘allow,’ In : I tr nd the opcuuig <’f Io b:ir<'o ■•■’a ri'li. m ' i tie t;i I and learn more abou' labaem cailiil'e I'lm "v ll' < r of I■' he havo n • vet 'b' ldral wtrn the" will market thi y"ar toba co crop, but it i nnd i . tood it w ill 1> ailcti med • i (leurpia ■! Hi- varcho'i- " where 1 ! " i: i " Js I :"h" '. It '. ' t'ded i arlii r i-i 11 ■ ■ on that the Le li- crim - ’'!m*d hi' ''lopped to Win ;.on Self m. N r. to b" old. Leslie farmer look with favo" uptm the idea of a tobacco wart' bouse in Aniorb’i" . They realirl - the t ime i not rii ' for :< ware | o!ts<’ thf ir 'iM h* Ini’ ate <b: sirous of one boin'4 lorahd in thi itnfnmlia'e vicinity. I* ls the gener ■al beli'd' iiinntl" th" growers tlial Americus will have :■ war'dimi ■ i within the ie xt two years il the"’ plans and the t >ba<".. 'ultivation nro2T:ih\ soon. Uh* .AlLi’i’a i Trust conmanv for Sutnl' i - counly | are carried out. ATI ANTA”’ FAMOUS SASSAFRAS TREE CUT VH.ANTA,- famous smwafra: tr . da si find by the National • ;,.<><.r;nih>ea! Snci-t- a.- the largest of its kind in the world, fell be neath the av to make way for prog ress. This giant tree, about 135 feet high, itnd 9 feet in circum r •>, • , ' ood ( n th lawn < f the First Methodist church for over RO fears. Signs of !■ ay wi re noticed over year -v ai 1 a tree surgeon wo called, but the tree died and hr been cut and piled up in log-s in front of the church. No plijnd have i -en made for the disposition of the le s, but it is thought thatt they will he made into furniture foi« the church dr be cut into •souveniiJtn
