About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1925)
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON I I Strict middling 23 l-4c. For Georgia—Gem-rally fair to- > night and Sunday. ) White Way For Americus Is Assured - Work Starts BEGIN LAYING CABLE FIRST PART OF WEEK Engineer Walker Authorized By Council to Start Work Immediately REMOVAL OF POSTS FROM AREA STARTED Citizens Committee Makes Re port to Council at Friday Night’s Meeting The cable to be used in the erection of Americus’ white way was hauled from the city's stor age warehouse today and placed along the streets where it is to be installed. City Engineer Walker, who was authorized by city council to begin laying the cable as soon as possible, an nounced that he would have everything in readiness for placing the current bearer un der ground the first part of next week. The erection of a white way in Americus was made a certainty Friday night when city council, at its regular meeting, after hearing the certified copy of the bill passed by the present legisla ture, giving the mayor and council men power to enforce the payment of assesments against property owners for the erection of a white way and other municipal improve ments and receiving from Steve Face contracts in excess of 75 per cent of the property owners, au thorized City Engineer Walker to begin immediately the laying of the cable, which was purchased several months a,go, and to complete ar rangements for the purchase and erection of posts, lights and power to be used in lighting the area. The following streets will be in cluded in the white way area: Cot ton avenue from Lamar to Forsyth street; Jackson street from Church to Forsyth street; Lamar street from Lee to Hampton street; Lee street from Forsyth to Lamar street; Windsor avenue, and For syth street from Cotton avenue to Lee street. Steve Pace and J. Lewis Ellis, representing the Kiwanis club and other organizations sponsoring the white way, appeared before city council and advised its member that everything was in readiness to be gin immediate erection of the white way. Mr. Pace declared that the time was ripe to begin the lay ing of the cable; make final ar rangements regarding current to be used in lighting the white way arid to see that South Georgia Pub lic Service company and the South ern Bell Telephone company carry out their contracts and remove their poles from the streets in the white way area. Mr. Pace let it be known em phatically that the property owners would be assessed for the amount covering the actual cost of the posts and lights and cable to be used in the erection of the white way and not for labor to be used in the installation of the posts, ca ble and other fixtures. When asked by Alderman Mitch ell what the cost of lighting the white way would be, Mr. Pace said that the new lights would not use in excess of .SIOO worth of current a month if the latest offer made by the lighting company of 3.75 (Continued On Page Five.) HIGHWAY BOARD SUPREME. NEEL Engineer Says All Authority Vested in Him Comes From Commission ATLANTA, Aug. 15.—“ The state highway board hires me and it can fire me, for any cause or for no cause. Whatever authority 1 pos sess is vested in me by the highway hoard, and, as it gave it. it can re move it. I have no wish for authori ty, and I think the highway board and the chairman should be abso lutely supreme in the depart..ient. This is the statement of W. R. Neel, state highway engineer. Friday night at the concluding hearing of the senate highway investigating committee. Mr. Neel’s statement was made in reply to the recommendation Fri day by Chairman John N. Holder n his concluding testimony before the committee. The chairman urged that the highway engineer be strip ped of his authority and supreme au thority be in the board. THE T IMEsBrECORDER EgU_PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DiXIE ’gWW"? Young Mother Was Evicted From This House to Bear Child in Open Wkt V W ’ Jr I ISr •• Evict; d irom a pigsty home, which officials say was not fit for animals to live in, Mrs. Anne Cooper, 19, of I’noenix Pari; near Chicago, gave birth to a baby under a tri e. The baby died. Mrs. Cooper, whose husband fled three months ago to evade robbery charges, has never paid rent cue to the dilapidate! Mate of the building. Convict Is Building Own Business in Jail WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Aug. 15. —A convict has become a business man. Though iron bars and ston - wall separate him from the outside world, Dennis Lewis, an inmate of the Ly coming count yjail, has established himself as a manufacturer of toys, decorated wastebaskets, handker chief boxes and similar articles. So thriving has been Lewis’ busi nes sthat it has become -ccessaty for him to hire other inmates of the jail to work for him. Terrified Residents Three years ago a burglar terri fied the residents of a section of Williamsport. For weeks the police tried to capture the burgla-, and then one day he was arrested. It was Dennis Lewis. Lewis was sentenced <,o the east ern Pennsylvania penitentiary, at Philadelphia for 12 years. During his idle moments in pris on he started to making curtain pull ers and glass beads. He was able to sell these and soon the demand for his products was so great that he could not keep up with his busi ness b yhis own efforts. So he hired other convicts to work for him, paying them well and thus enabling them to store up nest eggs to b eused when they' '.v -r ’ freed. Lewis did not have much time for his work in the prison, so, through the efforts of friends, he was trans ferred back to the Lycoming county jail. Here Lewis found himself able to devote virtual I ,' al! of his time to his work. Other inmates wore able to give him all their time. Making Money This enabled Lewis to extend the scope of his business until to lay lie is making enough money to support several relatives and to have a good sized bank account. His goods are being sold ir. e- ery part of Pennsylvania. “In prison I have I yarned two lessons,” says Lewis. “One that it pays to be honest, God-fearing and law-abiding— another that a nun may be doyn but he s never out. CHARGED WITH KIDNAPING Gulfport Grocer Accused Car rying 19-Year-Old Girl From Home Gulfport, Mss., August 15. Louis Mitchell, groceryman of this city, is being held on a warrant charging him yvith kidnaping Miss Ruby Holloway, pretty 19-year-old daughter of W. M. Holloway, of Hattiesburk, who disappeared from Gulfport early Sunday morning, August 2. The warrant yyas issued on in formation furnished by Jack Bour dine, taxicab driver, who stated that he was employed by Mitchell to take Miss Holloway from Gulfport to Biloxi in his car at 6 o’clock on the morning of August 2. E( t most of the June husbands have learm-d to wash the glassies be fore the other dishes by now. AMERICUS. GEORGIA, SATURDAYAFTERNOON, AUGUST 15, 1925 , —-X - X- Nickle In Note \Baffles Lady Rep resentative Coin Intended for Page Mistak en for Bribe by Mrs. Napier ATLANTA, Aug. 15.—“ Why the nickel?” The question was by Mrs. Na pier .representative from Bibb, the chairman of the sub-committee of the house appropriations commit tee, and her expression showed clear ly that she was puzzled. “What’s it for?” chimed in three or four. “Just putt it in your pocket and say nothing about it!” someone re marked, laughing. “The nickel in question had come Co the sub-committee along with a note from Representative West brook, of Dougherty, asking that he be heard in connection with a cer tain appropriation bill to be consid ered by the sub-committee. At this juncture .when the mys tery appeared deepest, Representa tive Westbrook p’assed along the [ corridor, and Chairman Napier call j ed him. Mrs. Napier reputed her former j question, but directing it this time Ito Mr. Westbrook: I “What’s the nickel for, Mr. Wcst ibrook?” I “The nickel!” camp the reply, and this time it was the Dougherty county representative who was puz zled. Then the explanation dawned on him. “Why I gave the nickel to the page to bring the note ir, here far ■ me.” “I had no intention as trying to I bribe the committee,” heontmued, half seriously—to judge from his * face—and the explanation brought lithe committee out of its mock em barassment. It brought, too, in ! cidentally. a hearty laugh. And Mr. Westbrook was returned his nickel. YOUNG HENRY SCOH DROWNS Five-Year-Old Sen of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Scott Meets Death In Tampa Bay The body of Henry Scott, five year-old-son of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. • I Scott, who drowned Friday'after- J noon in Tampa Bay, wiil arrive in Americus either today or tomorrow for interment in the local cemetery, . according to J. W. Walie-, Mrs . j Scotts brother-in-law. who was ad vised of the tragedy by wire today. , Arrangements for funeral serv- I ices will be made upon the arrival Jin Americus of the youth’s parents 1 Mr. Waller stated that he had ! heard nothing of the details of the j tragedy other than the youth drown- I ad in Tampa Bay Friday afternoon • and his body was reeovere 1 Friday night. ADMITS PART IN MAIL ROBBERY Truck Driver Confesses Plan ning Holdups and Implicates Two Others CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Joseph Jackson, driver of the truck from which was stolen a mail pouch con taining mail Thursday at Kewanee, yesterday broke down under the grilling of four postal inspectors, and made a confession of complici ty, implicating two others, Grant Miller, chief inspector here, report ed. Jackson said he ni l agreed to point out the registered mail to Hai ry Johnson and Philip Robinson and that the two men had taken the pouch as planned. He denies any knowledge of their whereabout., and did not say when the loot would be divided. Jackson, who was employed by the private contractor in Kewanee to transport the mail from ti'.e rail road station to the postcffico, has served a term in the Wyoming peni tentiary, it was explained in advices from Kewanee. He met the two ac complices there, he said. KIWANIS HEAR COLONEL SHIPP Able Speaker Delivers Address “Education-Diversification, Glorification” Colonel J. E. D. Shipp, chairman of the county board of education spoke by invitation at the Kiwanis club on the subject of “Education, Diversification and Glorification,” Friday noon. “The most injportant word in ovr language is education,” said the speaker. “Education produces di versification, and diversification produces glorification. The school room is the matrix of punlic opin ion. We Georgians are a one-crop people because of a lack of educa tion. If you want a people to di versify you must educate them. “Michigan has grown 20 times as fast as Georgia and Michigan spends for education s2l to Georgia’s sl. Massachusetts spends $22 to our sl. Compare the bank deposits o” these two states with those in Georgia; compare their per capita savings departments and you see what edu cation means in a material sense. “We still are huers of wood and drawers of water. Just in propor tion as education advances, so goes material wealth. “America is what she is today—a commanding power among nations —because she has from the first fostered education. Education is the kevnote of success; there is no exception to that rule; wherever a people are educated they diversify their energies and glorification fol lows with all that’s really worth while. “Georgia needs 2,400 trained teachers every year and yet all of our institutions can produce but 800. Wo must go outside the ststo for 1,600 trained teachers, or use incompetent young men and wom en. “There are only 27 counties, out of the 161, which require a college education of their count yteachers. and I am proud to tell you that Sumter is one of the 27. with he ten rural consolidated schools that are the pride of this citizenship and are recognized as among the great est system of rural school, in t,ie entire Southland. “To you Kiwanians I say that our schools are the biggest bust less in our city and county. Study them,] foster them —our county schools, our city schools and our agricultur al schools.” Twenty dollars in cash is soon to be offered by the Americus Ki wanis club for a slogan for Ameri cus and Sumter county, the details to be announced later, th? board of directors reported to the club Fri day. After discussion >y ‘ounry Agent Cliett. George Marshall, Sam Heys, Nathan Murray, James Ferguson and others, the Kiwanians voted in favor of holding a county fair here this year. ASKS GOVERNOR TO INTERVENE IN FIGHT FORT MYERS, Fla.. Aug. 15. Governor Martin will be asked by Marco Island homesteaders to in tervene in the fight for 3,00 acres of lost land. Armed with "petitions signed by 153 persons, said to be almost all of the voters in Collier county not in the employ of Barron G. Col lier ,a delegation of homesteaders will go to Tallahassee as soon as an apopintment can bp made to seo the Governor, Boys Cause Criminals Arrest •WVAAV wH H® 1 i A I® w< v ? * 'Win p®f ' * liw 11 0811 ' lillliK liSPt • wW Wa i * i 8110 ■sJs'Ow -.111" M s @ j While playing in the street near the jail Tommy Ford, 12, 1.-ft, and Virgial Matthews, 15, sons of policemen, saw five men slug their jailer and escape from jail at Knoxville, Tenn. The boys raced with the convicts, two of whom were murderers, and stood guard over a house where the men took refuge- until officer, arrived. A reward is being collected for the boys. TOURIST CAMP FOR AMERICUS Prospect Park to Be Convertctl Into Most Modern Camp In South Prospect Park, long used as a Recreational center, wil Ibe convert ed into one of the most modern tourist camps in the south, accord ing to Cii,y Engineer Walker, who appeared before city council Friday night in behalf of a committej of citizens and the local post of the American Legion to procure the city’s permission lo use the pari: as a tourist camp. In granting Mr. Walker and his co-workers permission to use the park, Mayor Poole and Liu aider men expressed appreciation that the citizens and Legion members had displayed such public spirit in working for the tourist camp and assured the city engineer backing and aid in the project. Mr. Walker said chi’: the South Georgia Public Servi 'i company had agreed to give them lighting material and current without cost, ind that Julius Schroeder, local plumber, offered to install showers and other plumbing free of charge. The low places in the park will be filled immediately by the city, thus eliminating any chance of Hie tour ists bogging in rainy weather. It is the intention of th" citizen.; and Legion, said Mr. Walker, to make a number of improvements and additions in the park, but as yet plans have not been c nupletcd. FIND BODY IN FLINT RIVER Headless Corpse Discovered About Three Miles From Albany ALBANY. August 15. The headless body of a white man was found floating in the Flint river about three miles below Albany early today by J. J. Phillips. The body was Mother in a rough shirt and a pair of old worn out trousers. The identity of the body and how it reached the ponit where it was found is shrouded in mys tery. So badly decomposed is the body that Albany police and coun ty officials hold but little hope of identification. ELEVEN DIE WHEN STEAMER FOUNDERS BREST, August 5. The cargo steamer Saint Marie ran on a sharp rock in a dense fo ( g in the English Channel off OUessant last night i and foundered in a few minutes. : The captain and ten members of 'the crew perished. Thirteen oth i ers of the crew, clinging to the j bottom of the boat, managed to get to Ouessant last night in a pitiable] condition. . Women Not Be Stopped From Si ig ht Labor Bill to This Effect Probably W 11 Net ”Ste Li »ht of Day” This Session A I LANTA, Aug. 15. In all pro!) ability there wil be no Inw on the statute books of Georgia, b.' the act of this assembly, at lead, to pro hibit women working nt night. A hill to this effect was passed one day this week by the senate, but the next morning, sentiment among many of tfac senator.: having changed to a great extent, recoTi sidcration of the action of the body was moved and carried. This places the ,measure ju.-.f. where it was after it had been ri ported from committee and rend the second time. It. took its plac • at the foot, of the calendar and will come up in due course—if the ses sion lasts that long. If the session is over before the bill is reached again, as it is thought likely it will be, it will have the same effect as if the bill had come up and been voted down. There is just a week left of thi u session and the general appropria tion bill is to be completed by the senate as well as diver:; other mr.i ;- urcs of more or less important • Leaders in the senate do NOi' be lieve this bill will be reached be fore the final gave] taps out a fare well. A lobby has been maintainc 1 for this measure, backed by several cot ton mill executives and other in terests, and the provisions of the measure apply principally to them. Women working in telephone ex changes were specifically exemi ted from the application of th"’ propos- ALBANY LOSES TOBACCO MART Lack of Buyers and Limited To bacco Causes Warehdiue to Close After a conference by the buy ers, the warehouseman and the owner of the warehouse, it. was defi nitely decided Friday to close the Albany tobacco warehous • forth remainder of the seasi.i. It .vas an announcement that .'.-is ■< with universal regret in Alban- , bi t v.'iis one that many people >ad fear d; would be forthcoming since the opening day nearly two weeks ago. It followed the bigegst sale that had bee nmade on the lo'al market, nearly 25,000 pounds being offered | Friday, although some of the sales were rejected by the growers. Numerous considerations enter ed into the reasons that influenced the reluctant decisio nto close the local tobacco market. From the first, the market has been operates at a loss to the Albany Warehouse company and Ernest Lewis, tne warehouseman, who depended on a small percentage of the sales prices for their income, and the sales were light from the first. The small volume of tobacco was not suffici ent to attract buyers. j | NEW YORK FUTURES -* 1 - I'c. Open Ham Close ! ! - S >, Oc'. .23.2423. L6|23.22|23.44 ; Dec. . 23.50 23.48123.43j23.67 PRICE FIVE CENTS CHAPMAN’S PAL ’ GETS RFVFNGE Dutch” Andersen Kills Man and Wife Who Betrayed “Master Thief” in January MUNIQ3, Ir.d., August 15. —- Vengeance flailing those who ta-gi fi«d agonist Gerald Cbnmpnn, no torious bandit, condemned to die for the murder of a Connecticut po liceman, Struck down Ben Hance ai d bin wife near here late Friday. Ihe Hances were shot to deatht on the Anderson Rumen highway, and in a dying statement Hance blamed Georg eAnderson and Chas. Wolfe, of Munice. Anderson ard Chapman lived at the Hance home after their es cape from tin- Atlanta penitentiary. Wolfe, arrested today, denied any connection with the killing. MUNCJF, Ind, A-m. |., ahi Chapman’s pal last, nigh. wreak ed vengeance on the informer who caused |he arrest, la;! J:, wary o’ the notorious mail co >be-. Ben Hance, the inform- .-, and his Wife were -.hot u> d, ath by George (‘‘Dutch”) Ander;-.:m, who'was con victed with Chapmen ■ ! a $| iir.l,- 000 New York mail robbery, siiared i his prison sent.-ace and subsequent j (-sctipo from 1 A ' ii-.t,;. . While Chapo -.-I and \.:derson ■ were in hiding ,-f H im- ’ l-.opt last j winter I i-oir A‘‘i.-.i penile.it isrv I officials and New York detectives, | Hance informed police tin:.noritie:: land Cha| man was ari-ound'-d on I the streets of Muncie . n-1 captured. | And- rson, however, wa - not. trap | ped and had hept him <-lf ..ifelv hid den last night. : FIREMEN ASK f PAYINCREASE Pelii'cn Council for Salary Raise Fee tn S9O lo $3 00 Month —Nol Granted otre ring the facts that they were not i aid as much as (ire fight <rs in other cities in Georgia and that their present salary permitted them only the necessiti"i' of lift, nine members of the laenl fir, de partment petitioned i-'miTcil at. it:, regular meeting Friday night for ,an increase in salary from S9O to SIOO per month. Council failed to take any ac-aon on the petition, but Aiderman Alli son, chairman of the fire commit tee, agreed that the tir-- fighter should receive an inc -.-ime in pay and stated that he wo'ii l take the matter i;p with optimal at ,-. future meeting. MILNER SCORES NAPIER TACTICS Reprseentative Accuses Attorney Genc-'al of Ratifying Graft As Legal ATLANTA, Aug. 15.- By a margin of one vote, the House Fri day tabled a bill which sought to amend the workmen’s compensation act so as to pay the attorney gen eral $1,200 per year for his services as an ex-officio member of the com mission created by the act. ’ The motion to table was made by Representative Cooper, of Tclfaii, and was carried 58 to 57. It fol lowed a bitter attack upon the at tack upon the attorney general by Representative Milner, of Dodge. Representative Milner made tie point that the bill was uncon.-tit t tional, b cause he said the consstitu tion provides that the sa.ary of an official shall not be raLed during his term of office. In addition to this argument. Representative Milner expressed C e opinion that the attorney general was "not worth morff than his pres ent salary.” “Every liUl-A piece of i graft around this capital,” Mr. Mil ner e harged, “is taken -I >wi to the attorney g< neral’s office t'» b- rati fied as legal.” Mr. Mil io ’ charac terized the attorney general's opin ion as “political opinion to get his salary raised.” The bill was by Reoresentative Lindsey of DeKalb and several oth ers. Attorney General Napie? is a resident of DeKalb. FIVE THOUSAND REBEL TR'BESMEN SURRENDER TERTUAN, Spanish Morocco, August 15. -—Five thousand rebel tribesmen surrendered unconditial ly to French and Spanish forci-4 which capture the Sarsar position rtfcently. ■ nwpund
