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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,
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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
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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.
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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 $
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; Dec 24.131 |24.22|24.20 ?
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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
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