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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON I Middling 23c. WEATHER > For Georgia—Generally fair Id- > night and Friday. J FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 184” Voice From The Arctic Regions Is Heard In Illinois EXPLORER GIVES INTERVIEW OVER ICE BOUND RADIO Commander McDonald With Me Mdlan Party Answers Five Questions Asked By A.P. COMPLETED WITHIN HOUR AND A HALF Interview Is Over Space of 3,- 700 Miles From Illinois to Etah ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111.., Aug. 6.—The first Arctic radio in terview ever attempted was success fully completed at one a. m. east ern standard time today by the As sociated Press when Lieutenant Commander E. F. McDonald Jr. with the McMillan Arctic expedition, an swered five questions. The first question was sent and answered within eight minutes. This accounted for a rate of 16 words per minute, international code, over the 3,700 mile distance north from Chi cago to Etah, Greenland, where the expedition is anchored. The first question asked was: “What point and greatest dist ance you have heard or transmitted human voice by radio would be of interest to the Associated Press newspapers?” “I have heard code from New Zealand,” McDonald replied. “I have worke dcode England, France, Holland, Sweden and Catalina I <und. Heard voice Chicago and Schenectady in daylight. Transmit ted voice and have been reported heard in Seattle, New England and London. “Have missionaries begun using radio receivers and what do they say about it” was the second ques tion. “We only found one missionary using radio. Rev. Perritt, Hopedale, Laborador ,who has been to his home in London only three times in 32 years, gets mail and says radio is a great boom. I presented missionaries with sets when they most needed them. They could not buy radio as they have insufficient funds to by other necessities desired.” McDonald interrupted the ques tions to suggest that they be con fined to radio matters. The third question: “Is the Eskimo guide Itookashu with you?” (Itookashu was a guide with Peary and MacMillan on a previous expedition.) “Itookashu now with us” was the reply. “Will it be possible to reach your planes by radio?” the next question, referred to the t hree planes carried by the expedition in its attempt to reach the north pole. “Have difficulty in maintaining two-way communication with planes but expect to eradicate this” the an swer came. “Do Eskimos fully .appreciate ra dio concerts?” the la.st question brought the reply: “He just accept sit as another great work of the white man and to him it is not more wonderful than the phonograph.” The questioning from start 1 > finish, consumed an hour and a half, beginning at midnight, eastern standard time. REV. J. R. STRATON LIKELY HEAD FUNDAMENTALISTS ATLANTA, August 6—Georgians will look with greater interest upon the fundamentalist-modernist battle over evolution, not being battled out in the far-famed Scopes trial, if Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor of the Caverly Baptist church in New York, accept the role as lead er of the fundamentalists. Dr. Straton is widely known in this section and has made many visits to this city. He married a Geor gian, Miss Georgia Hillyer, a niece of Judge George Hillyer, and a sis ter to Mrs. Katherine Hillyer of this city. FIFTH OF METEORITES FALL IN KANSAS CTIY KANSAS CITY, Mo., August. 6. Kansas . soil is attractive to some thing else other than grasshopers and sunflower seed. Scientists have just determined that this center of the United States seems to have some sort of an af finity for heavenly wanderers, known as meteorites. A chart of recorded meteoric falls discloses that one-fifth of ‘-he significant finds in the world have been found in Kansas, thetimesßrecorder jgSU PUBLISHED IN THE OF DlXlE~~ffifrft? Air-Ambulance in Riffian l-Par ' zWI'- y French soldiers, wounded at the! front while fighting the Riffian j Tribesmen in Morocco are brought by airplane to base hospitals many miles from the actual scene of bat- Slaton Points Out the Pitfalls In Proposed lax Amendment ATLANTA, August 6. lf the present movement to amend the constitution of Georgia on the sub ject of taxes is successful, all the burden will fall on land. Furthermore, upnder a proposed classification scheme, money and intangibles will pay one-fifth the tax rate on land, and necessarily the constitutional amendment would collect this tax—and towns, coun ties and school district would be denied this source of revenue. These are the views of Former Governor John M. Slaton, who on the eve of a vacation trip to Con necticut, today called attention to some new and startling results of the so-called tax reform movement in Georgia. He said further that the income tax plan, if adopted, would result in exempting intangibles. “Suppose the federal exemptions were adopted,” continued the for mer governor, “a man with three children would be entitled to a tax exempt income of $3,700. If he were loaning $70,000, after busi ness expenses,’ such as office rent, stengorapher, stamps and other in cidentals, there would be left only 353,700 which would be exempt This would make up probably 90 per cent of the intangibles in Geor gia-” The former governor puts groat faith in the state constitution and is strongly opposed to amending its provisions. GEORGIA ‘WEED’ CROP PRAISED U. S. Department of Agriculture Official Makes Impressive Report WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—The production cf tobacco in Georgia is increasing rapidly and has al ready assumed an important place as a cash crop in the southern half of the state, Charles E. Gage, de partment of agriculture official, de clared upon his return from a trip through the state. The acreage this year is estimat ed at 71,400 acres, compared with 39,000 acres last year and only 9,- 000 in 1922. Further heavy ,'n creases are expected next year. Warehouses in the state increased this year to 43 against 19 of last year. APPROPRIATION BILL DISCUSSED SATURDAY | ATLANTA, Aug. 6.—Senator 11. P. Delaftcrriere, 33rd district and chairman of the Senate appropria tion committee, this morning an nounced that the appropriation committee woul dhold an all day ses sion on Saturday for consideration of the appropriation bill, which Is expected to be sent to the Sanat" from the House today. A public hearing all day Saturday on the bill so that the bill can be reported back to the Senate on Monday, is the i Senator’s plan, 1 tie. This shows a wounded soldier I being carried from one of the air ■ j an.balances at an army Red Cross | base at Fez, 30 miles from the bat ! tie front. COTTON SEASON IN FULL SWING BYNEXTMONDAY One Hundred and Fifty-One Bales Already Received in Americus With 151 bales already received by the three America .warehouses and picking in progress on prac tically every farm in Sumter coun ty, indications are Sumter’s cotton season will be in full swing by the first part of next week. The cot ton, although not grading as hgih as the cotton received in Americus during the first few weeks of the season last year, is of exceptional quality considering the premature opening of the bolls. Hundreds of cotton pickers can be seen at work in the fields border ing the Leslie road between Leslie and Americus, from which hundreds of bales have been removed await ing ginning and delivery to the lo cal warehouses. The general belief among cotton buyers and growers is that Sumter’s entire crop will be picked and ginned by the middle of September, unless sufficient rain falls between now and that time to keep the bolls from opening pre maturely. Several gin owners in Sumter county are preparing to run their gin.: night and day in an effort to bale the cotton as it is brought from the fields, and cotton warehouse men are perplexed as to what to do to occupy their time between the closing of the cotton season and the opening of the planting season if the cotton is harvested and ginned as early as expected. WOULD RE WRITE CONSTITUTION Bill Introduced By Senator Dun can Provides for Convention In January ATLANTA, Aug. 6.—A bill pro viding for a convention to rewrite the constitution of the State of Georgia, to be held on the second Tuesday in January 1926, was in troduced in the house today by Rep resentative Duncan of Houston coun ty. Should the bill pass the legisla ture and election to ratify the action of the general assembly would be held the second Tuesday in No vember, 1925. The bill was re ferred to the committee on consti tutional amendments. TO INSTALL MACHINE GUNS ON SHENANDOAH WASHINGTON. Aug. 6.—The dirigible Shenandoah has been ord ered equipped with mach'ne guns, the first armament of any kind planned for her. The work of in stalling the batteries will begin, nt this week, followed by training crews. » THURSDAY AFTERNOON, A UGUST 6. 1925 ROCKAWAY SAND TURNS TO COLD OVER WEEK-END Modest Beach Resort Outstrips Florida As Mecca For Real Eestate Speculators WORKING CLASS COMES IN FOR ITS SHARE Nine Miles of Sand Dunes Has Been Sold From Three to Five Times BY GENE COHN ROCKAWAY' BEACH, N. Y., Aug. 6.—The “golden sands” is right! This modest beach resort which for years was refuge for those seek ing the solitude of nine miles of unspoiled dunes and sandy waste has overnight become the scene of the most feverish land boom of a de cade. . It is a get rich-quick comedy in which the heroes are hot-dog mer chants, peanut vendors and nice lady shopkeepers—with a hard-boil ed real estate man thrown in here and there for good measure. While the real estate kings were fooling around with Florida acre age the good townfolk of this gold sanded belt, ranking from the pet handball player to the schoolmaster, went riding into the near-million aire class. Every foot of the nine miles, along which a new $16,000,000 boardwalk will wander, has been sold from three to five times- and every hour is marked by resales. Crowds jam curb markets, shouting and waving checkbooks in the air. Offices resemble the opening night of a widely advertised Broadway girl show. One can see a collarless man run out of an office on one side of the street happily waving a pur chase contract and rush into an of fice on the opposite side to make a resale profit of SISOO or more. Mrs. A. H. Balmuth, who two weeks ago was content with her lit tle dry goods store, is credited with $600,000 in profits. Louis Magnolia, the butcher; Bill Wigmore, the handball expert; Jim Dolan, the city marshal; Gus Baum, who cleans and presses suits and tailors a bit; John Connelly, a school master —these and a score more have couped fortunes ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 in the hectic drive. The “golden sands” is right! It all came about when, some months ago, the miles of sand, long used free gratis, for nothing by week-end campers, became market (Continued on Page Three) REV.OUTLER TO RETURN AUG. 27 Will Spend Two Weeks in Clay ton With Family After Leaving North Carolina Rev. John M. Outler, pastor of the First Mehtodist church, will re turn to Americus August 27 and will be beak in his pulpit Aug. 30, according to Mrs. Outler, who is leaving Friday with her son, Albert, for Cornelia, N. C., where they will meet Rev. Outler, who has been spending several weeks at Blowing Rock, N. C., on account of his health. Rev. Outler will not return direct to Americus from Cornelia but will spend two weeks in Clayton, Ga. to accustom himself to the climate of this section. Doctors stated that his coming direct from the high altitude of Blowing Rock to the lower alti tude of Americus would be in jurious to his health, which has greatly improved. As son as Rev. Outler returns to Americus final arrangements will be made for the first service in his completed church, which is expected to be held about the middle of September. BREAKS TWO TEETH WHILE EATING BREAD MACON, Aug. 6.—Milton Till man, of this city while eating a l ain sandwich, brought his teeth down on a small peeble, breaking two teeth. He has filed suit against the bakery making the bread asking SSOO damages for “pain and an guish” caused, and the loss of his two teeth. The petition says the bakery should be responsibly f<r its bread and it should be “sanitary and free from foreign substances.” Recovering Prom Illness Wk v SIB 1/ TwffjrffK&cfrk $ V.-NT-. >K F First photograph taken of Col. John Coolidge, father of the presi dent, since he was taken ill about a month ago. This shows the col Olive Disappointed He Did Not Get to Question W.l. Anderson IMPEACHMENT MOVE LAUNCHED AGAINST HOLDER Linder Resolution, Asking High way Probe By House, Con sidered Basis ATLANTA, Augus:: 6. Repre sentative Linder, ’cf Jeff Davis county, introduced Wednesday a resolution calling for a house in vestigation of the highway depart ment on.the basis of charges made by Governor Walker in a letter to the senate highway investiigating committee. Mr. Linder’s resolution would in struct a committee of fifteen from the house to conduct the investiga tion and to report to the house if, in its opinion, Chairman John N. Holder, of the highway department, was guilty of maisfeasance or mal practice in office. This was considered to be laying the basis for impeachment proceed ings to be brought by the house against Mr. Holder. The resolution was referred to the house highways committee. SMALL DAILIES ARE IMPORTANT> 1 Factor in Community Life; Edi- 1 tors Freer to Discuss Their Honest Convictions I ATLANTA, Aug. 6.—From an [ ethical standpoint it can fairly be | claimed that the small cit ydailie-, have a marked advantage ove- tl e big metropolitan newspapers, ac cording to an Atlanta newspaper correspondent. The smaller papers, he points cut, are conducted by their owners who are .personally known to the peep] ' and business men of the community and read in nearly every family. The owners, editors and publish ers are freer to express their hon est convictions than the highly com mercialized city press, it is claimed. The small daily that lives up to its opportunities, the correspond ent claims, represents the stand of . personal journalism in behalf of the! community. “As long as the small dailies rc-i main true to their best tradition ■, I with their editorials devoted to constructive policies and their new*,- columns are filled with readable ' matter, their influence in journal ism will increase.” the correspond- ( ent said. He deplored the tendency ' of some of the smaller papers in : getting in a “rut” which might be , avoided in using more general news ■ DEATH CLAIMS W. T. ANDERSON’S FATHER MACON, Aug. 6.—C. C. Ander-! son, 83, for more than half a cen tury prominently identified with, the development and industrial c::-> pansion of Macon and Bibb coun-1' ty, died here at 3:30 this morning, f * W. T. Anderson, former member; - iof the State Highway Commission j < (and Editor of the Macon Daily Tele-1 < graph, is bis son, , 1 onel with his nurse, Miss Johnso takir,' things easy on the porch ' his house at Plymouth Nbtch, VI ATLANTA, Aug. 6.—Sam L. Olive, former president of the Geor gia state senate and counsel for the state highway board in the present investigation of the board by the senate ,is laboring under what lie says is the keenest disappointment of his life. He did not get to cross-exarnin W. T. Anderson; id’ Macon, right after the former member of the board bad given bis direct testimony before the committee. There is nothing personal in his anxiety to “gel at” Mr. Anderson, Mr. Oliver insists, and from a pas sage between them after the com mittee hearing Monday afternoon, Mr. Anderson believes it is purely an inmpcrsonal matter. Mr. Olive was passing out of the Si\plfeme (Coiirt f'oom where the hearing had been held. “Hello, Sam!” cried Mr. Ander son. “Hello, Bill” was the response. “Sorry I didn’t get at you this aft ernoon.” “All right, Sam” said the Macon editor. “Yos’ll have your inning.'’ “Just want you to know, Bill,” said the former solon. “There will be nothing persona! in it. Just re member I am a lawyer, and while what I say may seem personal, it won’t be.” “Go to it, Sam” rejoined Mr. An derson. “I know that.” “And don’t forget that when I do light into you I am going to bore a hole through you from belly to backbone ami no joking!” They both laughed and Mr. Olive passed on out while Mr. Anderson continued a conversation with some newspaper men. DOUGLAS OLDEST TOBACCO MART Advanced From “Spot in Road to Thriving Town cf 5,000 Population in Few Years MACON, August 6. Seldom does one hear of a town that is fast becoming a city attribute its growth to the fact that it is a tobacco mar ket. But the thriving little town cf Douglas, Ga., which lays claim to being the first tobacco market in the state, says the golden leaves are responsible for its growth and pros perity. Ten years ago the town was merely a “wide sopt in the road” but now boasts of over five thous and inhabitants, and is growing rapidly and permanently. Douglas is the center of South Georgia's tobacco district i rapid ly coming to the front for it better I and earlier tobacco, which will en ' able it to challenge Virginia, North I and South Carolina and Kentucky] ; tobacco supremacy. Over two million dollars will be ! handled in the next thirty davs, ‘ estimates say, through the Douglas I tobacco market , the local banks ' distriubting the funds. - BELGIUM WAR DEBT COMMISSION ARRIVES WASHINGTON, Aug 6, —Nego- tiations for refudning Belgium’s 8500,000,000 war debt to the Uni ted States will be initiated next Monday between the American debt commission and a special Belgian commission, which arrived in Ne Y. night. | NEW YORK FUTURES J Ic. Open 1 lam Close $ I Oct. 23.99[23.92|24.06|24.01 | ; Dec 24.131 |24.22|24.20 ? I PRICE FIVE CENTS ’ DEMOCR ATS TO REVIVE ANCIENT TARIFF ISSUE Republicans Will Probably Counter With Talk and Argu ment of Tax Cut WEAKER PARTY HOPES TO SNATCH FARM VOTE Parties to Discuss Issue For Its Effect On 1926 Congression al Elections Ry CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, August 6.—■ Th" Democrats have doped out a program they believe will make the Republicans a heap of trouble at 'I Ik- next session of congress. The Repiibliv.-in have doped out a coun ter program to ward this truoble off. The I’emocratic schertie is to make an awful racket about tariff reduction. The Republican scheme i to make :<» much more racket al.out tax reduction that the tariff reduction racket will be drowned out. Both, parties will be doing their hollering with a view to its ef fect on th" 1926 congressional elections. “Tlw tariff,” aid the Democrats to themselves, “is an important is sue, but little understood, except my i Conor.i t , of whom there are prec ious few. W" must jazz, it up fbr common folk.-. Wouldn’t it be grand if w- could get the obd wo men’.; vote? “By gracious! Maybe we can. Look how the cost of housekeeping has been icing And women pays, the bids. They'll be in a m’ vhty favorable frame of mind *o listen when we tell ’em, ‘The high tariff’s what makes everything so expensive.’ ” The Republicans aie painfully conscious that this may be so. With tariff reduction as an issue, the Demeorats think they can get a lot of farm support, too. “The tariff” the farmers told congress last year, “makes what wo have to buy so much dearer than what we have to sell that we can’t stand it. Either it’s got to be re ducod or we’ve got to g> t some ol its benefits.” So they introduced the McNary- Haugen bill, which applied pro- ontinned on Face Two> NEW ENGINES TO HANDLE CROPS A. C. 1,. Has Mammoth ‘’Haul ers” Unders Construction for Use in Alabama and Ga. MONTGOMERY, Aug. 6. In view of the fact that indications point to the largest crop in many yean in Alabama and South Geor gia, the Atlantic Coast Line railroad is preparing to handle them in th ■ best manner possible by putting fif teen new engines on the Montgom ery-Thomasville division of the road. Superintendent J. IL Bowdoin ha:: announced. The engines are no v in the course of construction at the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Officials of the company expect the locomotives to be ready for serviae in about sixty day; and they are to be rushed into service as soon as possible in order to hamPe the crops as rapidly as the increas ed facilities of the road will permit. Superintendent Bowdoin said that , the new locomotives arc to be equip ped with every device necessary to modern transportation and that ■ they are being built to increase ton nage about twenty-five percent. Engines now in use on this divis ion will probably be shifted to branch lines or put into service on divisions where traffic conditions arc not so heavy. FRENCH ACTORS BALK AT BRISTLES ON NECK PARIS, August 6.—The Pari; stage favorite of a lung, I press of the lips on the nap» 1 woman’s neck, is about a the past—all because <?' hair and shaved neck Actors, who nevfl kissing a soft, <!• ■■■ VWS 1- u-ipleasant j ‘ \ against sha their o So it. - . will y ‘ •••. . - .
