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-xz* ZW~- AMERICUS SPOT COTTON . Middling 22 3.4 c. WEATHER For Georgia—Generally fair to night and Saturday preceded by local thundershowers this after noon or tonight in south portion; cooler tonight. j E°_ RTY ' SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 196 EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE APPEARS INEVITABLE * * * * * ' 1;? ‘ * * • * • Million Dollar Fire Sweeps North Carolina Forest GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN IS MASS OF FLAME Conflagration On Eastern Side Os Mountain is Checked Early Today PICTURESQUE SCENERY DESTROYED BY BLAZE Preparations Were Being Made to Make Charred Region Part of National Park BLOWING ROCK, N. C., August 21. Sweping its way through vir gin limber on the lower half of the elope of Grandfather Mountain in the Blue Ridge range, a forest fire, said to be one of the greatest in the history of the state, which caus ed damage estimated at approxi mately $1,000,000 early today is slowly burning itself out. With the aid of a light rain, state foresters and mountaineers had checked the conflagration, on the eastern side of the mountain. BLOWING ROCK, N. C., Aug. 21. Grandfather Mountain, near here, is a raging mass of flames, which are being driven to other sections of this mountain country by a strong wind. Efforts to check the fire so far have proven futile, owing to the exceedingly dry conditions of the undergrowth due to the fact that there has been virtually no rain in this section all summer. Those who have been endeavoring to fight the flames last night saw little hope of success unless rain eonies soon .and there are no indi cations of this. It is estimated that already mil lions of dollars worth /if .timber Las been destroyed. Charring of Grandfather Mountain which is gov ernment property, wil destroy some of the most picturesque mountain scenery in eastern United States. Tonight numerous smaller fires were observed in other forests in the Linville-Blowing Rock section. Grandfather Mountain is a part of the Blue Ridge range and lies in Watauga county between Blow ing Rock and Linvile, both popular summer resorts where thousands of visitors are attracted each year. Although there are large resort ho tels here and at Linville, none are located on Grandfather Mountain, which was acquired by the federal government a few years ago. Sev eral months ago the mountain was proposed as part of the site for a national park. No accurate estimate could be made last night as to the number of persons fighting the flames. The fire has bee nraging all day and all efforts to check its progress have failed. SAYS ATLANTA PAPERS CRAZY Griffin’s Weather Man Declares Temperature Figures Pub lished Are Wrong Atlanta and Macon newspapers incurred the wrath of Professor Snider, Griffin’s famous long dist ance weather prognosticator re cently when they published a weath er story, giving Griffin’s tempera ture at 105.5 degrees and Atlanta s temperature at 98 degrees. Snider accuses the Atlanta weather dopester of hiding his ther mometer from the sun’s rays and denies the report that Griffin ther mometers registered 105.5 degrees Wednesday. “They must be crazy,” he said in talking about the stories. “Why they had the nerve to say the mercury here Wednesday hit the 105.5 mark.' That’s wrong. It was hot but my thermometer did not ■>o over 99 all day long. And 1 have one of the best in thy state. “In Atlanta they have their weather instruments on the top ot the Atlanta Trust company building where it is carefully guarded against an 1 direct rays of tic sun. That always makes it a few degrees cool er than it would be down on the ground in the open. So you can al ways add a few degrees to the weather report from there if you want the correct figure.” . thetimes|?recorder PUBLISHED IN THE or DIXIE ’ " !H ■ I I . ... ) Girl Is Jailed for Speeding ImSsl ***** I gaSM **** wj .ESHmI .Ji | , J z.. x.. I. i ■ J'A-‘ —£ Thirty days in jail was the son-1 fence given Rene Larondeau, Holly wood artist model when she speed-1 Ex-Judge Attacks Naval Rule of Virgin Islands; 7 yranny Among Charges BY ROY J. GIBBONS CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—“1f condi tions in the Virgin Islands were bad when the United States bought ■them from Denmark in 1917, they are ten times worse today.” This is the statement of Lucius J. M. Malmin, for six years federal judge in the islands, who in an ex clusive interview with NEA Service and Times-Recorder excoriates the Navy Department’s government of these possessions and holds Con gress responsible for what he terms “the tyrannical rule of naval gov ernors.” The judge charges that: . In five years the islands will be depopulated because of misrule and bad economic conditions. 2. In eight years the islands have had six naval officers as governors, five of whom have been recalled be cause of gross mismanagement of affairs. 3. A naval governor ordered him to render a certain decision from the bench without hearing the evi dence, and ejected hi mfrorn his court when he refused to do it. 4. Congress has broken faith with the natives by failin gto pro vide a civil government instead of naval rule, inaugurated as a tempo rary measure. 5. A native editor was jailed for criticizing the naval rule. “I was a judge without a court,” BLACKS FILLED WITH BIRD SHOT Innocent Bystander Gets Worst of Due! Between Two 15th* District Negroes As a result of a shooting scrape between Tom Glover and John Wes ley, negroes, at Glover’s home in! the 15th district Thursday night, I Tom received a number of bird shot in his right arm and Charles Jones, innocent bystander, is busy picking bird shot from his chest and knee this morning, according to Deputy Sheriff Chappell, who was called to investigate the afafir. No arrests have be.-n made. Tom, so the story goes, was enjoy ing the tranquility of his home Thursday night, when Wesley came to remove some clothing which ho had left at Tom’s home several weeks ago. After receiving the garments, Wesley, who ha 1 been squabbling with Tom for the past week, declared that now was the physological time to settle their lit tle affair. Tom agreed and the shooting began. What happened is told in the opening paragraph of this story. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON? AUGUST 21. 1925 Icd her ear through Los Angeles. Rene says her father is a banker, somewhere in France. says Malmin. “In 1921, Admiral Oman, then naval governor of the islands, ordered mo to render a de cision against the Bethlehem Sugar Co., without hearing the evidence. “Oman’s theory was that since a judge was a government employe he should take orders from the head of the government. “When I refused to obey the governor’s orders he ejected me from my court.” The case was taken to the third appellate court at Philadelphia. Malmin won an dwas reappointed by President Harding, after having been named originally for the of fice by President Wilson. “Returning to the islands, I found no improvement in conditions,” the judge continues. “Admiral Oman or his subordi nates attempted to dictate the de cisio nin ever ycriminal case. “The islands are regarded as oc cupied territory by the naval ad ministrators. They conduct them selves as conquerors, not as guardi ans. > “The natives have no country. They gave up their Danish citizen ship and have been given no other. They cannot get passports to leave their native soil for foreign coun tries, and, if they go to New York or Porto Rico, as 10,00 of them have done, they have no rights of citizen ship.” LIGHTNING KILLS THREE NEGROES ■ Two Others Knocked Insensible By Bolt in Lee County Thursday Afternoon * A bolt of lightning instantly k.Wd a negro woman and two negro girls late Thursday aftenroon on the J. S. Mathis plantation in Loe county and rendered two other negro women insensible, when they gathered under a large tree on the plantation to seek shelter from the rain, according to the Times-Re corder’s special correspondent in Leesburg. The dead are: Buelah Moye, 25; Willie Mae Haines, 11 and Leola Moye, 10| Gu-sie Mac Moye and; an unknown negro woman were i knocked to the .ground by the bolt! and are in a serious condition to-; day. The negroes were picking cotton on the Mathis plantation when a sudden shower caused them to seek shelter beneath the oak. They had juit gathered beneath the tree when the bolt of lightning struck them. DAYTON TRIAL HAS ITS EFFECT INKENTUCKY Anti-Evolution Bill Has Been Drawn for Presentation to Legislature NUNS PREVENTED FROM TEACHING Measure Confines Itself Strictly to the Mechanics of Schoo! Operations FRANKFORT, Ky„ Aug. 21—An anti-evolution bill has been drawn for presentation to the 1926 Ken tucky leislature. The bill does not emanate from the state department of education. The sense of the departmental of ficials rests with a legislative code, approved by the Kentucky Educa tional Association. The code will be compiled in one lengthy bill be ing prepared by J. Virgil Chapman, and will confine itself strictly to the mechanic of school operation. Nothing radical or sensational, an effort to make workable the school law if the department’s 1926 legislative sense. The anti-evolution bill, however, has been drawn, ready for the open in of the bill hopper. The measure is sponsored by some of those who secured passage of the 1924 act re quiring teaching of the Bible in the Kentucky schools daily. State Senator James R. Rash, of Hopkins county, lost the August democratic nomination for senator from his district to John L. Thur mond, of Christian county. At the 1922 general assembly, Senator Rash introduced in the upper house an anti-evolution bill which went down to defeat. The second reliable advice is that a bill will be introduced prohibiting nuns from teaching in public schools while wearing their prescribed garbs. Attorney General Daugherty in an opinion to John L. Graham, sup erintendent of the Daviees county schools, declared that public schools should not be taught in a building under the control or dominion of a parochial or sectarian school. “The public school,” Colonel Daugherty sail, “should be kept ab solutely free from the influence or control, direct or indirect, of any denomination or sect, and the pub lic school should not only be kept free from any sectarian influences, but the county board should, avoid any arrangement that would give them ground for a suspicion of influence.” NEGRESS AND HOBO GUILTY Train Rider and Woman Who Ransacked C. H. Burke’s Home Get Heavy Fines A white hobo, giving his name as L. G. Patterson, of Chicago, charg ed with stealing a ride on a train, was given S4O or 4 months on the chain gang and a negro ' woman, charged with stealing a watch and other articles from the home of C. H. Burke, was taxed S3O or three months on the chain gang, at a special session of city court Thurs day afternoon, presided over by Judge Rainey, of the city court of Ellaville, substituting for Judge W. M. Harper, who is on his vacation. Patterson, who is nearing his 60th mile stone, has notified relatives of his plight and is expected to pro duce the long green some time to day. The negro woman will L? turned over to Warden Wheatley to day. According to Mr. Burke, the ne gro woman had been in his employe but one day when she ransacked his home and departed with a wrist watch, articles of clothing and the ingredients used in making ice cream. When arrested she was tick ling her pallet with ice cream, made with the articles stolen from Mr. Burke’s ice box and pantry. Patterson was removed from a Central of Georgia train on Tuesday by the citv police and turned over to the sheriff. Just as the bovs are planning for! college a New York professor re signs to become a carpenter. Business And Otherwise In she Georgia Legislature extra session PROBABLE ATLANTA, August 21.—An ex tra session of the Georgia legisla ture loomed as a strong probability Thursday night when the house and senate faced practical certainty of a deadlock over itoms in the gen eral appropriations bill. With bot hhour.es apparently de termined to stand firm, the clash which began Thursday seems like ly to continue to the hour of sine die adjournment Saturday night, if the session should end with the general appropriations bill unpass ed, it would be necessary for the governor io call a special session before January 1, 126, in order that the state government might func tion for the next two years. THIS SENATOR WASN’T THINKING ATLANTA, August 21.—Sev eral senators are chuckling over the unconscious behavior of one of their member a few days ago. He walked up to the water-cool er in the rear of the senate cham ber, filled a paper cup with wat er and was in the act of raising it to his lips. “Watch out, senator,” cried one. “That’s water!" “Great Scott!” was his horri fied rejoinder as he quickly cast the offending cup and its con tents into a bucket. Then, seeing what he had done, he grinned sheepishly and returned to his seat. Said he wasn’t thirsty {anyway. MORE WIT FROM REPRESENTATIVE FICKLEN ATLANTA, August 21. Rep !resentative Ficklen, of Wilkes coun ty, who has come to be known as one of the wits of the Georgia house, is .great on paraphrasing. When asked by the speaker recent ly to take the chair for a brief time, the Wilkes representative de- THIS MAN IS FED UP ON FLORIDA Yankee Says He May Go to Hell, But Never Back There; Was Visitor Here MACON, August 21. A tour ist who had been to Florida and who was working his way back to some point—he didn’t know where —passed through Macon Thursday morning. On the rear of the automobile was a big placard, on wnich was this lettering: “I may go to hell, but I won’t go to Florida again.” The man left here with his fam ily over the road to Atlanta. His home was in New England. HERE LAST SATURDAY The same disgruntled tourist passed through Americus last Sat urday. On the rear of his dilapi dated car was the very same pla card. While here he also stated he was bound for some point, but didn’t seem to know just exactly his destination, it is a certainty that he will be old and .gray when he reaches his destination, if he does not make better time between Macon and his “unknown point" than he made between Americus and Macon. ‘missionaries held BY CHINESE WELL AND HOPEFUL OF RELEASE NEW YORK, Aug. 21—Although well and hopeful that they will soon be released from captivity, eight British missionaries, taken by band its more than two weeks ago at a summer resort in the province of Chwan, Southern China, are still be ing detained. The u nfortuantes are. Bishop Howard Kinvinston Mowll, former dean of Wycliffe College, Toronto, Mrs. Mowll, Rev. V. R. Bonnis thorne and wife, N. F. W. Wiles and the Misses A. Amfield, A. Settle and G. Ariton. Why the bandits took the mis sionaries is not know whether in an endeavor to obtain a ransom or be cause of religious fanaticism. i clined. With the twinkle in his eye that members have come to know, he paraphrased; “Mr. Speaker: I had rather be a door keeper in this house of dogs than sit in the scat of the wicked.” The reply brought the usual aughtt r created by Mr. Ficklen’s com merits. WONDER WHAT THE MINER WANTS ATLANTA, August 21. President J. Howard Ennis, of the Georgia state senate, is proudly exhibiting some nuggets of Georgia gold. Last Sunday, with a party of senators he made trip into North Georgia, visiting a gold mine in that section. He re turned with nuggets which had been presented him by the own er of the operation, sufficient, if marketed, to more than pay his expenses on the trip. Incidentally, President Ennis is one of the warmest believers m the state’s mineral resources. “CORNER' HUTCHESON IS GIVEN THE RAZZ ATLANTA, Aug. 21 ‘‘lf vou can read this you are too d—close.” Lobbyists sashaying around the senate chamber one dav this week were startled to see a tag with these words embossed on it stuck on the desk of “Chief Justice” J. R. Hu tcheson, 39th “coroner” of the high way inquest committee. Chief Justice” Hutcheson has been the tormentor of lobbyists this session, having lambasted the tar out of them verbally several times during the session. Some wag found this tag which is designed to go on the rear end of an automobile and liad placed it. <>n the desk of the “coroner” who was serenely un aware of the situation forced, upon him. Somebody gave the tag to Presi - (Continued <>n Page Three) DEVELOP BAI D COTTON SEED Needs No Haircut, But Comes From the Gin As Smooth As a Field Pea WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-A cot ton seed which needs no haircut and which comes from the gin as smooth as the seed from a freestone peach has been developed. It is the recent achievement of plant breeders of the United States Department of Agriculture in their work with American-Egyptian cot ton which is conducted at the Saca ton station in Arizona. It was de veloped from the celebrated Pima variety of cotton. The present commercial stock of the Pima variety has rather fuzzy seeds, which make ginning on the roller gins somewhat difficult and expensive. There is, however, some variation from plant to plant in the amount of short hairs or fuzz on the seeds. The plant breeders took advan tage of this fact and in 1920 select ed several individual plants which had seeds almost devoid of hirsute adornment. From these a strain was developed which has proved to be uniformly smooth-seeded and ap pears to be in all other respects typica IPima, producing fiber of good quality, M’MILLAN SUGGESTS USE OF LIGHTER-THAN-AIR MACHINES IN ARCTIC WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. Light er than air machines, like the diri gibles Shenandoah and 1 os Ange-1 les, are in the opinion of Command er B. McMillan the type of craft > best suited to overcome the ice haz ards the far north presents. Tis message received by the Na tional Georgraphic Society, made no mention of how long the explorers expected to remain in the Arctic regions, now that they have defi nately decide dto abandon efforts I to fly over the unchartered polar regions. Every now and then a man tries 1 to repeal the laws of nature and the . laws of nature repeal him. \ NEW YORK FUTURES I’c. Open Ham Close ' > Oct. . 23.28'23.30'23.32'23.52 ? > Doc. ; -23.53(23.50'23.58)23.62 I PRICE FIVE CENTS HOUSE FAILS TO AGREE ON MONEY BILL Lower Body Unable to Reach Accord On a Single One of 26 Senate Amendments BARRETT LEADS FIGHT ON ADDITIONS Senate Adopts Majority Report of the Highway Department Probe Commitee ATLANTA, Auguit 21. The possibility of an extraordinary icj. Sion of the Georgia legislature ap peared to fe rapidly approaching « stirng probability when the housi today refused Io agree to a single ore of the 26 senate amendments to the general appropriations bill. The appropriations bill, as it came back from the Senate, car ried increases of approximately SBOO,OOO for each of the next two years, and would create a deficit of approximately $1,000,000 next year and 2 million in ’27, Chairman. Barrett told the house. He asked that every senate amendment be voted down. "The ser ate today adopted, by a vote of 29 to 15, the majority re port of the highway department in vettigating committee, which ex onerates Holder of all charges of irregularity in his management of he department. C.OFG.BAGGAGE MASTER INJURED Brown Run Over at Adams Sta tion in Attmept to Board SouthlandTraln Baggage Master Brown on Cen tral of Georgia train No. 22, south bound, known as the Southland, tourist tram, was run over and seri ously injured early this morning at ■V.ams Station when h? fell be neath the baggage car j ;1 an attempt to f card the train after aiding the switchman in throwing a switch t> let the two Central Northbound '.rains i <iss. Tne Southland stopped at Adams Station to wait for the Dixie Flyer and the Seminole, northbound trains, to pass. In order to lose is little time as possible, Brown left his car to throw the switch, the switchman being at the rear of the train flagging. it was while at tempting to board the baggage car, after throwing the switch that Brown fell beneath the wheels of the train, according to information reaching Americus. FOUR OFFICERS FOUND GUILTY Fined and Reduced for Bring ing Ship Into Norfolk With Lioucr Aboard WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—A loss in standing sand fines were impos ed upon four oficers of the naval transport Beaufort today by Secre tary Wilbur as the result of a court 1 martial, growing out of the arrival o fthe transport at Norfolk last Feb ruary from the West Indies with ; liquor aboard. Verdict sos not guilty, returned by a court martial, last June, against Miss Ruth Anderson and Miss charged with the violation of the Volstead act in bringing liquor from the West Indies, were disap proved by the Secretary. . t Catherine Clancey, navy nurses, AIR MAIL PETITION RECEIVED BY NEW tion for the extension of the air mail service between New York and Mi ami, with stops at a dozen cities in and between, was received today by Postmaster General New. The petition signed by the post masters in the cities concerned, es timated the amount of air mail that would be available each day. It proposed that stops be made at Phil adelphia, Baltimore, Washintgon, Richmond, Norfolk, Wilmington. Charleston, Savannah, Brunswick, Jacksonville, Daytona and Weslj Palm Beach. , i
