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| AMERICUS SPOT COTTON [Strict middling, 23c. For Georgia—Generally fair to n’o'ht; Thursday partly cloudy, probably thundcrshcwers in north portion. •ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO Thirty - Two Killed In Excursion Boat Explosion OTHERS DYING FROM DISASTER NEAR NEWPORT Boiler Explodes On Steamer En Route to Pawtucket With 677 Pasengers INHALING LIVE STEAM CAUSE OF FATALITIES Departure of Beat Delayed While Repairs Were Being Made to Boiler NEWPORT, R. 1., August 19. The death, of three more vcitims of the Mackinac, excursion steamer boiler explosion brought the total list of dead to 32 at noon today with several additional deaths mo mentarily expected. Ihe boiler of the vessel, which was en route to Pawtucket from Newport, with 677 passengers aboard, burst about six o’clock yesterday afternoon when the ship was opposite the naval training station in Narragansett Sound. Il is said that a patch placed on the boiler “the night” before had blown off. Most of the deaths came in the dark hours just before dawn from the effects of inhaling live fsteam. Up to midnight only four were dead. An hour later the death list had jumped to 17 and six more died before 2:30 o’clock. It was hours before many of the victims realized what happened. One minute they were sitting on the decks of the steamer enjoying the twilight sail up the bay toward their homes. Then in an instant the whole ship was enveloped in live steam, which hissed through the superstructures, fatally scalding many. Few escaped at least a touch of the pain of the steam when the boilers blew up. Captain George McVey, of Paw tucket, in change of the excursion steamer, made the following state ment: “I was in the pilot house with Captain Benjamine Thomas of Prov idence, the pilot, and Herbert Sprenard, quartermaster and wire less operator, when we heard a con cussion aft. “The boat was moving four knots an hour, its full speed. The con cussion was followed by the hiss ing of escaping steam and immedi ately the steamer became envelop ed in a midst which cloaked the view from all sides. A minute aft er the engines stopped, I swung the rudder on the boat and its own momentum beached it a few min utes later. The wireless operator immediately sounded the distress call and ships from the squadron of naval vessels stationed near the training station rushed to our re cue.” Physicians_and nurses still were working over the injured through the early hours of the morning, while the less seriously injured awaited their turn. A number of children separated from their parents in the panic that followed the explosion, were at va rious hospitals. The fact that the employes of a Pawtucket concern were on the ex cursion is believed to account for the number of dead and injured from that city. Most of the injured were suffer ing extreme pain from scalds from steam which poured upward thru the vessel from the shattered boil ers. The Mackinac left Pawtucket early Tuesday morning bound for Newport with a capacity crowd aboard. Passengers said her de parture was held up more than an hour while final repairs co the patch on the boiler was made. Many Jugs in McCallie’s Office Perplex His Numerous Visitors ATLANTA, Aug. 19.—One might think Dr. S. W. McCallie, state ge ologist, is awfully thirsty to see ail the jugs of water sent to him every week from all parts of the state. Monday morning of this week, a visitor strolled into Dr. McCallie’s office and started to stroll out again, thinking he had gotten into the wrong place, there were so many jugs filled to the. top sitting around. Somebody suggested it | might be a repository for corn “lik ker” but McCallie soon explained the jugs. “Just water, and the chances are ' that it is just the ordinary every- ’ day garden variety of wet water, ■ without minerals attached,” he said, “You would be surprised at the, amount of water shipped to us fdr ~ ~ IN THE /hfWix HEART OF DIX Loses 35 Lbs. On Water Diet lo Aid Health Wljßh ALEXANDER VARGO CLEVELAND, August If). Fasting is- the one sure road to health, says Alexander Vargo, 36, who is on his second great fast in I two years. Vargo intends to fast until he has a ravenous desire to eat, which he refers to as “the sign.” “It may take sixty days of fast ing/’ says Vargo, “but I am going to stick to it.” Vargo started his fast June 28. He undertook the “treatment” for his health to remove body ailments and pains after years of study of physical culture and dieting. On the 47th day of his fast he weighed hut 94 pounds, having lost 35 pounds; his waist Lad shrunk seven inches. Vargo adheres to a strict sched ule. On rising each morning he exercises with 1 1-2 pound dumb bells for 30 minutes. Later each morning he takes a walk. Every half hour he takes a drink of water. “Soon I' will be at the skeleton stage,” Vargo says. “When 1 re sume eating practically every part of my body except my bones will have to start rebuilding. I expect to be completely cured “For a few days I was weak and had to r( main in bed. Now I get five or six hours sleep each day.” McMillan Abandons His Plans Ice and Fcg Force Explorer to Suspend Activities Indefinitely WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The McMillan arctie expedition has aban doned hope of carrying out its full exploration program over the polar sea this year. Curtailment of the expeditions activities was forced by adverse weather, which has locked the northlahd in ice and fog, well ahead of the usual winter season. McMillan and his explorers wiil proceed, however, to carry out the othe robjects of the expedition, in cluding scientific investigations from their present base at Etah, Greenland. The change in plans was announc ed today by the National Geographic society after it had been advised by McMillan that it was not feasible to carry out his plans on account of the unusual weather conditions. analysis. Seems like every time any , body runs across a spring, or digs ’ a well, he gets the idea that it is j mineral water. However, we are glad to get these samples for some day we are going to run across, out ■ of them, some of the finest mineral . water ever found. Then, all this ‘ trouble would be worth while. “And, too, in our analyses, we may find some time something very i .harmful in one of the samples, and i would be able thereby t'o save the ' ! healtlt, and perhaps the lives, of the people of the neighborhood froni ; which it came. “Water, lots of times, will denote , ■ the presence of other matter. That ( t is, some of the chemical content of i the. water might reveal a deposit if; a commercially valuable mineral.’ 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, \VE&NESDZSY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1925 MANY BILLS NOT RECONSIDERED AT THIS SESSION Those Which Have Not Passed House or Senate Are Con sidered Doomed ONLY THREE DAYS OF 1925 SESSION RFMAIN Governor and Neill Request Ad journment Not Later Than 6 O’clock ATLANTA. Aug. 19—Bills which haunt passed either ihe senate or the house at the er.-! of today, were considered doomed. No matter what their importance—or unimportance —they will have to wait: two years —except in the event of an extra session to make their debut as laws of Georgia. For tomorrow morning the house will take up consideration of bills passed by the senate. The senate, just across the capitol, will begin its consideration of house bills. And (his program is expected to be ad herred to exclusively during th" three remaining days of the 1925 session, which comes to a close on Saturday. The question of just when the ses sion will close on Saturday is one that, of course, cannot be answered until the final stroke of the gavels of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the house. Every effort is being made in both houses, however, to avoid an all night session. The Governor urged members to adjourn sine die not later than six o’clock on the aft ernoon of the last day of the ses sion, and the rules committee of the lower branch has twice express ed it as being the sense of that com mittee that adjournment should be taken not later than that hour. Speaker Neill has gone even fur ther, and declared that he would consider it a reflection on the legi slature’ for the session to go over into Sunday morning—no matter what hour is indicated by the clock. A session lasting after midnight, Mr. Neill suggests, would be held on Sunday, no matter how many hours the clock that is opposite the rostrum might be turned back. 4,500 BALES COTTON GINNED Approximately 3,500 Bales Re ceived By Americus Ware houses, Report With approximately 4,500 bales of cotton already ginned in Sumter county, indications point to the total number of bales ginned reaching 6,000 by the end of the week, ac cording to local warehousemen and ginners throughout the county. Os the 4,500 bales ginned in the county, Americus warehousemen have received arotvid 3,500 bales with the balance going to Plains. Leslie, Cobb and other towns in the county which have warehouses. Cotton is pouring into the city from every section of the county and warehousemen are kept busy handling the staple. The transfer companies in the city are working all day and part of the night, aiding the warehouse trucks in bringmg In the cotton. Farmers have experienced very little difficulty in getting cotton pickers, and providing heavy rains do not fall between now and Sep tember 1, the entire cotton crop should be out of the fields and gin ned, in the opinion of growers. CAN EXPECT PERTINENT REMARKS FROM BROWN ATLANTA, August 19. Com missioner of Agriculture J. J. Biown has intimated that he might have some pertinent remarks to make following adjournment of the general assembly. He would not intimate the nature of them but said he would have a statement within a few days following 'ad journment. HIGHWAY SPEED BILL PASSES LOWER HOUSE ATLANTA, August 19. The house today passed a hill increasing the speed limit on the public high ways from 30 to 45 miles an hour. The vote was 107 to 52. The bill, introduced by Representative Wim berly of Toombs, originally carried 1 a provision to make the speed limit’ 15 loTes an hour, but the house adopted an amendment to make it 40 miles per hour. . j Bulgarian Officials Attacked Students Beat Members of Chamber of Deputies On Visit to Paris PARIS, Aug. 19.—Forty Bul garian communists last night way laid and beat up Theodore Kouleff and Boris Vasoff, respectively pres ident and vice president of the Bul garian Chamber of Deputies. The attack was made as the Bul gar representatives emerged from a decorative arts exhibition, which they had been attending with a number of their Paris friends. Just as the Bulgarian visitors reached the bottom of the steps leading from the building, a dozen mon rushed from around a corner of the building and hurled them to the ground, stamping and beating them. Police rushed to the scene and scattered the communist, arresting two of the most violent, who re luctantly released their holds on Kouleff and Vasoff. The two men, students at a Paris university, when brought to a place of confinement, declared they did not mean to injure Kouleff ami Vasoff, but merely desired to give vent to their protests against the ac tivities of the Bulgarian govern ment against Communists, follow ing the explosion of a bomb in the Cathedral at Sofia, which killed a large number of persons. It is understood that both tudents will be expelled from France. WILL TURN OUT MONEY BILL AT LAST MINUTE, This Is the Opinion of Sam Ol ive, Former President of the Senate ATLANTA, Aug. 18.—Efforts to speed up consideration and passage of the general appropriations bill is causing Sam L. Olive, former president of the Georgia State sen ate, several chuckles. “It’s the old army game,” Mr. Olive said. “I can tell you now just what is going to happen. Just watch my words and see if I am not right. “This bill will rock along in the senate, playing battipdore and shut tlecock between the senate and the house until about 6 o’clock Sunday morning on the last day of the ses sion. “The senate will get through with the bill sometime toward the latter part of the week, and send it back to the house for conference. The House will amend some of the sen ate amendments and insist that cer tain things it passed, changed by the senate, stand as they were. “Then on Saturday night, the president of the senate and th" speaker of the house will appoint a conference committee to see if it can’t iron out the differences. It can’t. It never has—not the first committee. This committee will re port back that there is no chance oi agreement. Then- another commit tee will be appointed, with the same result. Then another, and still no agreement. “By this time, getting tired of proceedings, the president and the speaker will name their conserva tives, men who know the bill has got to pass, just two or three from each side and the president and speaker will join them and then they will turn out the bill, at the last minute. “It’s the old army game. Been done this way for years.” STORES REMAIN OPEN THURSDAY Evidence that the merchants and storekeepers are looking forward io an early pick up in business, eame in the form of an announcement to day that all business houses in the city would not observe Thursday as a half holiday, closing at 1 o’clock, but would remain open all day. It ahs been the custom for mer chants to close their establishments half-day on Thursdays from May 15 to September 1, but with the early cotton season all are of the opinion that the trading season will get un derway at least two weeks earlier this year than ever before. Already a number of the mer ! chants report an increase in sales, | and with the large stocks they have brought in during the past month, tit is evident that they expect a busy fall and winter. Oh, See the Pretty Depot /f OWT" h i H L WrW ? Oi I < If» > I 1 ItWh * S 1 f l I VW 1 i • 1 •MR. .*T=4 Mike Hastings of Pendleton, l Ore., could hardly see the ceiling | of the new Union Ei'ation at Chi-j cago when he and Mrs. Eastings ar rived to compete in the world’s championship rodeo. Mrs. Hastings ‘Police Dummy’, Famous i\egro Character, Dead Southwest Georgia lost its one outstanding negro character Tues day when Bill Proctor, better known as “Dumb Bill” and “Police Dum my,” passed over the great river to eternal rest. Death came to the unusual negro at Montezuma, ac cording to a telephone message re ceived at Leesburg, the darky’s head quarters. The old negro’s remains arrived in Leesburg Tuesday night and will be interred in the Jordan plantation cemetery Wednesday. Bill was both deaf and dum, but in spite of these inflictions, he tra versed the entire length of the state at least 25 times during his life times, and always managed to make himself understood to his thousand of friends. The old negro was never known to ride on a train, yet he traversed the entire length of the state from the Tennessee to the Florida line each year in remarkable fast time. "Dummy” seemed to know every body and very few people passed him without saluting and ealilng him by name. “Dummy,” when a youth, evident ly fostered one ambition, to become a policeman, for from the time he was able to make his way over the state he always wore a policeman’s uniform and sported a shining badge and a lengthy night stick. It was because of his attire that he was dubbed “Police Dummy.” It was always a mystery to the people of the state how “Dummy” kept himself in police uniforms. However, it is generally believed he begged pieces of the uniforms from ( the members of the fire departments in the various cities through which Jie passed in his wanderings. “Dumb Bill” was about 70 years old, and first saw the light of day! on the Jordan plantation in Lee county. His mother, said to be over 100 years of age, is still living on the Jordan plantation, and is re markably well preserved in spite of her years. When talked to by a Representa tive of the Times-Recorder, the aged negress, with tear filled eves, told a pathetic story of how “Dummy,” her only living child, left her to wonder over the state. “But he al ways came back to me,” she said, “and told me of his experiences and of how good his white friends were to him.” HOI DFR TO MAKF A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS ATLANTA, August 19 Now that the highway investigation is over. John N. Holder, chairman of the state highway board, says he is ready to go ahead with some sub stantia! developments of the high way’s. He said some important an- : nouncements might be expected soon. . HISI iis on crutches, having broken her I leg recently while riding a sky j fishing bronc. Hastings hlods a rec- I ord of having thrown a steer in seven seconds flat. ENNIS’DERBY IN THE ARENA Senate President Announces for Governorship; Rountree Wants Brcwn’s Toga ATLANTA, Aug. 19.—J. Leon ard Rountree, prominent farmer of Summit and representative in the legislature from Emmanuel county, will be a candidate for commissioner of agriculture, opposing J. J. Brown, incumbent, in the election of November, 1926. This announce ment was made by friends and sup porters cf Representative Rountree in the house Tuesday night. A I LANTA, Aug. 19.—President J. Howard Ennis, of the Georgia state senate, Tuesday night formal ly entered the ra#e for gvernor of Georgia. His platform will be an nounced following a meeting of his supporters to be held some time next week, it is understood. This meeting had been set for Thursday night but owing to the sen ate going into night sessions for the remainder of the week he has de ferred it and will announce the new date later. it had been the intention of Mr. Ennis to announce his platform along with his formal announce ment, but owing to the way circum stances shaped themselves, he felt he’had to defer announcing the plat ' form until after the meeting with I his supporters, he said. will be most popular this 'coming winter among those wild ani * mals / hich haven’t been trapped yet. , i Local Measures Cause Much Laughter in Senate Chamber i ATLANTA, August 19. Read i ing and passage of local bills in the Georgia legislature. 'or any other i legislature for that matter, usually , is a dull and uninteresting affair. , Both houses leave up to the dele-1 gations from a county whether leg- i islation affecting that county shall j or shall not pass. But in the senate, many chuckles are caused through the reading by j Secretary Devereauz F McClatchey, who injects a bit of humor into it. practically all local bills are targets . for his darts of wit. ; A few days ago, in his monotone, ' he droned out “Bille entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act .'to create a new charter for the city! NEW YORK FUTURES ’ > Pc. Open 11am Close < Oc t- 23.33|23.33|23.37|23.33 $ Dec. 23.60 23.58|23.64!23.50 5 PRICE FIVE CENTS COOLIDGE NOW " LAYING PLANS FOR NEXT TERM President Says Nothing, But Hopes Renomination Will Be Forced On Him G. O. P. COMMITTEEMEN believe he can win Everything Now Indicates That Lucky Cal” Wiil Repeat in 1928 Campaign BY CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, Aug. 19,—Presi -1,1 nt Coolidge continues saying not one single word about a renomina tion in 1928. He's too Slick. His cue j s j,, keep <iuiet and have a renomina tion forced on him. This is being attended to al) right by political fixers like Dave Mul vane ami Congressman J. W. Tay loi, Republican national committee men from Kansas and Tennessee re spectively. They’ve been heard from already to the strongest candidate to succeed himself and intimating that he owes it t> his party to make the run because it surely can win with him and there’d be doubts about anybody else. More politicians whom the presi dent can depend on may be looked for confidently to express similar sentiments as time progresses, until there’s a whole chorus of them. If the president didn’t like this kind of thing, he could stop it by saying so. Lhe Coolidge boosters undoubt edly would be correct in their esti mate of his strength, if it were 1928 right now. But plenty of things can happen in three years. There isn’t much inspiration in President Coolidge. His political shop is popular, not because the voters are particularly thrilled by its proprietor, but because, up to date, they’ve liked his goods. However, the public taste in poli tical goods changes. And seeming ly Mr. Coolidge stocks only one kind—the ultra-consei\ative kind Ultra-conservatism’s in style at present. It has been for thtj last eight (g< ing on nine) years. That’: a long time for one political style to last. « ♦ * Yes, President Coolidge’s 1928 prospect looks all right now, but whether it stays that way is largely a matter of pure luck—heads, ultra conservatism lasts another three years; tails, some new whim comes Luck! Coolidge has had a won derful run of it (“Lucky Cal”) but “the only sure thing about luck is that it’s bound to change.” That’s the thought that other politicians, who’d like a look-in themselves in 1928, arc encourag ing themselves with. In his lifetime William Jennings Bryan’s political honesty was ques tioned by his opponents over and over again. Now he’s dead, politi cians generally agree that never was there an honester public man— often mistaken, many say, but al ways sincere. That, they add. explains the con sistency with which he maintained his outstanding position and in fluence for more than 30 years. He was beaten but never in ecHpse. And why so regularly beaten?— not in his own party counsels, for there he seldom was, but personally, as a candidate, at the polls? Again, his honesty. He wouldn’t com promise. That’s his eulogy in political Washington. -1 of Milledgeville” adding sotto voce ' “so as to raise the salary of the ■ mayor.” The mayor of Milledge ' ville is the president of the senate, J. Howard Ennis. j Senator Shirley C. Boykin, 37th, i had a bill for something or other j tor. Carrollton, his home town. Sec i retary McClatchey read: “Bill en ' titled an act to amend the charter jof Carrollton and to whitewash the town well.” Many of the senators who sit in the back of the chamber make their way to the front so they can hear all the side remarks, and in this way pass an otherwise usually tedious hour, and, incidentally maintain a I quorum in the .senate. _ j
