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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
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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
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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.” .
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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
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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
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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.
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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