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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON ' Middling, 22 1,2 c. WEATHER For Georgia—Partly cloudy to- ' night and Wednesday; a possibly I showers on the coast tonight.- ORTY SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 199 CITY COMPLETES PURCHASE OF ALL WHITE WAY MATERIAL ***-■*-« C * ♦ Y. » South Georgia Public Service Company Changes Hands ' PURCHASED BY COMBUSE. 4 P. COMPANY Georgia-Alabama Power Com pany Is Also Bought By the Columbus Company PURCHASE PRICE BEING WITHHELD Newly Acquired Properties to. Serve Americus and Eleven “Up Other Georgia Cities with M ~* I wot' Curry, local manager of fore '. -hi South Georgia Public Service do. company, when asked for a state thi.’ y. men { regarding the purchase of his With , «p company 'by the Columbus Elec gage *‘*‘ c at 'd Power company, said he shart knew nothing at all about the trans- AVOP] action and refused to Le Quoted re be a garding any new policies that might Well be adopted by the purchasing com all d. nany. And sc “Per Ga., August 25 as he ~lhe announcement in a Wall nenta'street dispatch of the sale to the You 1 Columbus Electric and Power Com feel pany of the South Georgia Public And, Service Company and the Georgia anyt. Alabama Power Company was con ever firmed at the offices of the former pear company here this morning. The don t amount involved is being withheld Wan by the officials in the absence of abo R. M. Harding, general manager of per the company. The properties of the Georgia do Alabama Power Company and the of South Georgia Public Service Com did pany have been purchased by the wh Columbus Electric and Power Com ed. pahy, Which is under the executive management of Stone and Webster, . In.c„_of Boston, Mass. A contract taking over the properties, was re cently signed by the local company. The newly acquired companies (serve twelve cities and towns in Southwest Georgia, including Al bany, Cordele, Americus, Tifton Pelham and Fort Gaines. The cap acity of the present plants which includes both steam and hydro-elec tric generation is approximately 14,750 horsepower. The total pop ulation of the territory served by the companies is about 50,000. The new properties, if the growth of business justifies, may eventu ally be tied in with the transmisison lines of the Columbus Electric and Power Company to receive energy • from its new development at Bait left’s Ferry on the Chattahoochee river, eighteen miles north of Co lumbus. The consideration involved in the purchase of the new properties was not learned, but it is understood that the deal was a large one. POSSIBILITY OF EXTRA SESSION Four Million Dollar Confederate Script Bill Causing Walker Much Concern ATLANTA, Aug. 25.—Faint pos sibility of an extra session of the Georgia general assembly, which closed its regular biennial session Saturday, made its appearance Monday in a general attack on the Confederate scrip bill which passed on the last day of the sesison. The bill provided no means of meeting the obligation of approxi mately $4,000,000 created by it and while Governor Clifford Walk er has veto power over the measure, he declined to state Saturday whe ther he will employ it in event it definitely develops that an extra session or a veto will be necessary to cure the situation. | When the peculiar legal tangle resulting from passage of the bill was drawn to Governor Walker’s attention Monday he was asked if he intended calling an extra ses sion. “I have net looked into the mnA ter thorougaly,” he replied, “but I do so as soon as I have time.’’ U. S. ACCEPTS CHINA’S CUSTOMS INVITATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The Washington government formally accepted today China’s invitation ;.o participate in the Customs Confer ence in Peking October 20. i ESll PUBLISHED IN THE OF DlXlE~lhm? TO PROSECUTE DEFACERS OF ROAD SIGNS Highway Department Offers $25 Reward for Arrest Per- ’ sons Guilty Damaging Road Markers Persons caught defacing stlyte highway route sighs are courting a heavy fine and possible jail son-" fence, according to B. A. Aiderman, Americus division engineer of the State Highway Department," who announced today that the state highway board has decided to of fer $25 regard for evidence suT fieent to convict anyone of (lam again or defacing the signs. ’ Mr. Aldiv-r.-.an said that the de partment had (jone to a great ex pense in erecting the signs for thp. benefit of the automobile public and did not intern! to sit idly by and see them da'niaged and torn down by irresponsible persons, “Many times tourists have report, ed routes unmarked to the high way department. Upon investiga tion by the department it was found that the routes had been properly marked with signs, but the signs had recently either' been torn or shot down after erection. “The people of Sumter county seem to be a bit more considerate of the highway department than in other counties, as I have-failed to find any of the Sumter route signs damaged,” said Mr. Aldreman. People finding any route signs damaged or torn down are asked to report the vandalism to Mr. AL Herman immediately, and if the par ties responsible are apprehended and convicted of damaging the signs they will receive the $25 reward and the thanks of the department. JURY INDICTS BRUNCE NAPIER Crisp Body Spends Several Jdcurs Investigating Seri ous Cordele Case Brunce Napief, young white man twenty-six years of age, held in Crisp county jail under capital of fense, was Monday indicted by the Crisp County grand jury after it was recalled to consider the case by Judge D. A. R. Crum, for al leged luring of a pretty twelve year old girl from the Union pas senger station one week ago Satur day. The crime charged is a capi tal offense and can carry death sentence. The indictment came in at noon Monday. The prisoner was in court, but will likely not plead to indictment till Wednesday morning. The accused man is seeking to ar4 range for counsel unless something unforseen occurs, the trial will be taken up Wednesday. Nothing out of the usual occurred this morn ing other than that the was photographed when court first convened. It went immediately in to consideration of the Napier case. CLOSE BATHING POOL SATURDAY Cool Weather of Past Few Days Has Kept Many Regular Swimmers Away The recent cool nights have cut down the number of visitors to the playground swimming pool, J. T. ■Warren, president of the Play ground Asociation, announced to day that the bathing basin would close for the summer Saturday night. The swimming pool has enjoyed an excellent season, but the high winds of the past few days have scared many of the regular bathers .••.way from the pool’s chilly waters and the official state that they hace been operating at a loss since Sat urday. Professor McKee, who has been in charge of the pool since its open ing, will leave Saturday for a three weeks vacation before resuming his duties as teacher in the high school. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1925 TINY NATION DEFIES FRANCE By MILTON BRONNER LONDON, Aug. 25.—-Raising a .battle.flag over his tiny nation, less Yjtirt;crous than the population of . Bridgeport, Duluth, Spokane or Tort XV orth, Sultan Pasha el Atrash has'dared to attack the mightiest military power on earth. He may cause serious trouble for •the present French government. He may produce the recall of a cele brated general. He air'adv has forced all kinds cf -modifications in French military plans. And he believes il at hi- succes sors, and possibly himsel.’ will rule the world. Such is the audacity cf the war lord of the Druses, a people ntun .befuig scar e.? nu-rc than 100,000 and inhabiting an undesirable vol canic mass in the iie-. rt of Syria 'the Sultan Pasha is the most re cent and at m ?snn- the most pic turesque man on horseback io ride over the world’- horizon into front page prominence. He is adept at firing a rifle and equally so at brew ing good strong native coffee. His religion teaches -the transr.iigration SAVANNAH WETS AGAIN RAIDED About 100 “Small Liquor Deal ers” Caught in Federal Authorities’ Net SAVANNAH, Aug. 25. - The net spread by dry officers to catch offenders against the Volstead act, reached into the country early to day, when Ed Hamilton was arrest ed near Millers station, 12 miles from Savannah. Other arrests are expected during, the morning. About 12 of the 40 or 50 persons arrested Monday failed to give bonds and were placed in jail. Federal prohibition authorities Monday threw out a net in all sec tions of Savannah. Georgia’s port city and drew into the toils of the United State s court about 100 “small” liquor dealers, who, of ficers say, haVe been operating hero for many months. This was the big gest drive ever -made against illegal .violators in this section. Heavy bonds were fixed by the government. All were charged with violating the prohibition laws. Among those arretsed were: Phil Homansky, $3,000; Mrs. Phil Ho mansky, $3,000; Morris Homansky, $3,000; Phil Homansky, second charge, $2,000; Anna. Fields, SI,OOO V. R. Anderson, $3,000; Rufus Oglesby, $3,000; N. C. Hamm. $5,- 000; Ivey Kassel], $5,000; Grace Chambers, $3,000; Charlie Fare, Chinaman, $2,000; Henry Crosby, $1,500; A. D. McCall, $3,000; Lula Lambrakas, $1,000; Mary Beach, $2,000; Peter Athas, $2,000; George A. Bandy, $1,000; J. P. Powers, a storekeeper, $3,000; A. H. Barrington, $500; John Mulhol land, $500; Mrs. W. P. Sheppard, $500; Jim Sheppard, $1,000; Nat Cosman. $1,000; C. J. Reddick, $2,- 000; Millie G. Tyre, $500; Ben Mehan, $5,000 an dFrank Sims! $5,000. BANDITS STEAL PAYROLL FROM BANK OFFICIALS DANVILE. Aug. 28. Floyd Reed, vice-president and Earl Bry ant, cashier, of the American State I Bank of St. Bernice, Indiana, were I robbed early today while enroute from Clinton, Indiana with the sll,- 000 pay roll of the Chicago-Milwau kee and St. F.’ul railroad. NEGRO SOLDIERS KILLED IN BLAST RROCKFORD, 111., Aug 25. Eight negro soldiers, including one officer, were killed at Camp Grant Monday by the explosion of a trench mortar on the field range. Six others suffered serious inju ries and perhaps a score received minor hurts. An inquiry has been started by Major General Milton J. Foreman, commander of the thirty-third di vision of which the eighth Illinois infantry, the nine regiment, is a unit. , Captain O. A. Browning, com- j manding the howitzer company j was the officer killed. The explosion occurred as Cap- i tain Browning and his men were gathered closely around the field ; piece for firing instructions. Army' oficers believe the mortar was over j loaded. . 2,000 FRENCH KILLED IN SYRIAN WARFARE LONDON, August 25. France has lost more than 2,000 I i soldiers, including 23 officers, i 1 during the desultory warfare with the Drv.se tribes in Syria, ‘ ' according to a dispatch from - j Damascus to the Daily Express. ) i The Druses have captured 11 J ; field guns-and 30 machine guns and have -shot down several air- < planes, < » Reinforcements are en route ' to Syria. A contingent of 5,000 > ' arrived Sunday and 7.000 ad- ; ditiqna! troops are expected s ' soon,. ol souls, and he has no scruples against killing—especially French men. ! Back of Sultan Pasha el Atrash ' Their* religion blends Jewish, Chris-1 tion and Mohammedan. They con-! mystery. Their blood is a mixture i of many elements with the Arab, j are 7,000 first class horsemen who I BROWN ASSAILS LEGISLATURE Denies Political Machine and Declares He Will Not Run for Re-election ATHENS, Ga., Aug. 25.—1 fhe hak a political “machine” it is the “poorest in the world,” J. J. Brown state commissioner of agriculture, asserted here Monday while address ing the annual -convention of the State Agriculture* society. He stal ed he does not expect to run for re election next year. Commissioner Brown declared h? has been charged with having a “machine,” an accusation which, he said, is not true. ‘Our strength comps from the work done in years gone by,” he said, adding that al though “politicians in the recent general assembly waged the bitter est fight against the agricultural agencies they have ever conducted, we won everything except the bill to divide the $500,000 surplus be tween the state* college, the district schools and one or two other agen cies, but not to the state depart ment. GIRL’S DEATH STUMPS POLICE Found Dyiog On a Ledge of a Bridge Pier in the Alle gheny River PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 25. Rosie Napierkonski, aged 15, found dying on a ledge of a bridge pier far out in the Allegheny river late Sunday night has given the police j a new mystery. She was removed 1 ! from her precarious position forty feet above the river and nearly fifty feet below the floor of the bridge, by four men who heard her i moaning. She died a short time later without revealing her identity and with the word “Joseph” on her lips. The body was cut and bruised and there were several discolora tions in her throat. Late today after hundreds had viewed the body at the morgue Rocco Napierkowski claimed it as his daughter. , Police, holding to both murder and suicide theories, have arested three young men and a girl for questioning. The latter, Stella . Koch, 14, who was released, told police that she was preesnt last, night when Rosie was attacked by two men and that later Rosie at tempted to end her life by leaping off the bridge. 30 SCOUTS TO ATTEND PALLADIUM BANQUET At 2 o'clock today 30 Boy Scouts had notified C. J. Williams, Secre tary and Treasurer of the Pallad ium Club that they would be on : hand promptly at 8 o’clock tonight . . for the big banquet to be given I them by the citv’s young, but active organization—The Palladium Club. The Paladium club is anxious to ; reorgaqize the Boy Scouts in Amer ' icus and if its plans are carried out I i ths city will have one of the strong est local organizations in Georgia.' know every cranny in the rocky upland they call home, arms are a few machine guns and a mis cellane.us collection of German, j Ttlrkisn, French and British rifles, j but. t.neir aim is deadly. I And he has in reserve a less high- Ily organized force-—imagine the I number of old men and high school j hoys and wives and spinsters of Des . Moines who can shoot and slash and stab with the desperate elan of un tamed fanatics. The present outbreak of the Druses is, the sixth disturbance France has faced since she took the, mandate for Syria as part of her war heritage. It was caused large ly by the sending back as acting governor of a French army captain who already had rubbed the popula tion the wrong wax.by harsh meth ods. * One effect of the Druses war was the unexpectedly rapid withdrawal t of French troops from the Ruhr. I France already' was taking mon i from German zones for African ser | vice. Marshal Petain had reported confidentially that the Riffs con (Continued Cn Page Five.) AUTO SIGNS TO ADVERTISE CITY Jimmie Lott Selling Attractive Plates At Cost; Car Owners Urged to Get One An attractive aluminum automo bile sign, with the words “AMERI CUS, GA., in large script, and un derneath the words in smaller type, “Third Richest Agricultural Coun ty,” have been purchased by James Lott, of the Americus Steam Vul canizing Company for distribution to automobile owners in Americus and Sumter county. These ornamental signs cost Mr. Lott sl.lO in large lots and he is selling them for that price. “We don’t want a profit on these signs,” Mr. Lott said today, “but we do want every automobile owner in the city and county to place one on his car. It is splendid advertis ing for our community and the signs themselves arc as attractive or more so than any I have seen anywhere. “Wherever an Americus citizen goes, he should herald his city and the auto sign is splendid advertis ing. Have you noticed how quickly every one looks for the sign on an auto? We used to look for the name of the car, but nowadays we want to know where every car conies from. “Our citizens are great travelers and we have a large number of cars ■going often for a distance. Let’s tell the world we are from Ameri cus—and are so proud of our com munity that wc want every body to know its our home,” said Mr. Lott. A number of the signs already have been purchased and more will Ibe bought. The sign can be trans fered from one car to another so that one sign will last for years TRAIN ROBBERS GET BIG LOOT Sante Fe Train Bearded By Bandits: Beat Metienger Into Unconsciousness SANTA ANA, Calif., Aug. 25. An undetermined amount of mail and express loot was taken by rob bers who boarded Sante Fe train 75 between San Diego and Santa Ana last night and shot and beat Elmer Campbell, express messenger, in charge of the combination mail and express car carried by the train. ,The robbery was not discovered until the train arrived here at 8:43 p. m., with Campbell lying uncons ious on the floor of the looted car. He probably will die. The express strong box had been pried open and its contents carried away. Mail pouches had been rip ped open, some were missing. Let ters and pouches lay strewn about There wore bullet marks on tho pigeon holes of the mail compart- J ments and the glass in the door of : the car had been shattered. Bruises on Campbell’s head lead! oficers to believe that he had been | shot first and then, when he at-1 tempted resistance despite the hul-i let wounds he had received, was; kicked and beaten unconscious. 1 JUDGE AND MRS. CRISP RETURN FROM FAR EAST Congiessman Glad to Get Back ' After Nearly 80 Days in Ch na, Japan and Philippines “I hail a thoroughly enjoyable trip; visited many strange and beau tiful places ana gathered informa tion that will be of g-i- . ;i ; value to mo when I get back to Washington, hut 1 an', (’.hid to be bad. in Sum ter county among my friends.” This statement was made by Con gressman Charles R. Crisp, -aim, with Mrs. Crisp, returned to Amer cus Monday from a three months’ tour of the Orient and the Philip pine Islands. Judge Crisp and Mrs. Crisp left San Francisco in May on the U. ;■>. S. Chaumont, troop ship, with 13 other representatives and officials ol the United States government to make a survey of conditions in the Philippines and other United States possessions and to report on the feasibility of erecting fortresses in the Hawaiian Islands. The congressional party visited Honolulu, points in Japan, Guam, Philippines, Shanghai and numer ous other Far East cities. While in Shanghai, Judge and Mrs. Crisp had the pleasure of meeting their son, Charles F. Crisp, who is a lieutenant in the marine corps and attached to the American embassy at Peking. Lieut. Crisp joined his parents at Shanghai and accompa nied them on a four weeks’ tour of the Chinese cities, returning overland to Peking. In commenting on conditions in China, Judge Crisp said that the lower class of the Yellow people semed happy and contented, but that the students of Shanghai mid other large cities were constantly causing the people unrest by their acts of violence in defiance of the Chinese war lords and mandates failure to work for a united and Happier China. “f would not be surprised,” said (Continued <m Pave Fivet INITIATION OF DEMOLAYORJER Thirty Young Men of Ameri cus Will “R’de the Goqt” at Masonic Hall Tonight Thirty young men of Americus will be initiated tonight at the in stallation of a chapter of Demolay a fraternal order for boys from 16 to. 21 which is being sponsored by the local orders of Masonry. The exercises wi! be held at the Ma sonic hall, and Sumter county Mas ons are invited to attend. The initiation will be in charge of a team of 20 young men from Columbus, which will be assisted by a committee of local Masons and Masons from nearby towns. Beginning next week the order of meeting at the Masonic hall. Demolay will hold its first regular REV. OUTLER RETURNS HOME First Methodist Pastor Is Well and Happy; Will Take Charge Next Prayer Meeting Rev. John Outler and Mrs. Out ler, accompanied by their son. Al bert, arrived in the city Monday af ternoon, returning from the moun-l tains where Mr. Outler has been I resting for several weeks. | “I am so happy to be back and to j know that I am well agai.n” Mr. I Outler said this morning. “I will take charge of the prayer meeting I Wednesday evening and hope to ! meet all of my friends and the ' members of our church there. j “I’m feeling so good that I hope : all of the prayer meeting regulars | will be on hand, as well as those I who “used” to come—the usters, you know; and then ‘oughters’ and the ‘gonners.’ That’s covering i them all and if they come we will | certainly have n profitable evening 1 worship. ( ! NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open Ham Close ’ Oct. .23.24 23.25 23.02 22.97 ; I Dec. 23.50 28.49;23.27 1 23.2fi ; PRICE FIVE CENTS POST,LIGHTS, WIRES AMOUNT TO $9,540.59 iContracts Let Monday Night ! Are Sanctioned This Morning By City Council LAYING OF CABLE IS STARTED TODAY Citizens Committee Arranging Gigantic Celebration When Lights Are Turned On Contracts totaling $9,54C,59 covering the equipment for the city white way were let by a committee from city council this morning, fol lowing recommendations of the citizens committee and the city en gineer which opened, analyzed and made recommendations Monday night, w len a half dozen or more bids were opened. The committeemen and the city engineer believe they have secured exceptionally low bids, as prices for all of this type of supplies have ad vanced rapidly in the past tew weeks. 1 he 102 posts purchased arc what is known as the King post, one of which has been burning at the post office coiner. This post was pur chased at $51.50 each, the high bid on posts being $64.00 each. Another item, which gives an idea of the saving made by the conf mittce was in the purchase of sec ondary cable. The high bid for 2,- •3)0 feet was $200; the committee bought this for $122.59, An itemized list of the equipment purchased and the successful bid ders follows: The Western Electric Co., secur ed the bid for 102 cast iron posts, with globe, lights, etc., at $51.50 per unit. Pot heads for each post, .102 : >i number, were purchased from the Carter Electric Co., at $5.75 eac i. The pot head is an automatic elec trical affair which is in reality a safety device. Should a post be si ruck by a heavy truck and broken down, the pot, head automatically breaks the current, thus preventing danger to any one standing near by; at the same time it disconnects only the light hit, all of the other;-, continue to bum. It also servos other necessary purposes. Refractors for each post were purchased from the Carter Electric Co., at $3.00 each. The refractor is placed over the light to give an even distribution of its rays. The 2,600 feet of secondary cable was bought from Westinghouse Electric and Mfg. Co., for a tofel of $122.59. ’ Three transformers, with control boards and other necessary small equipment was bought from Carter ’ Electric Company for $1,450. \ The list tabulated is as folows: 102 Posts Units $5,253.00 \ Three transformers, etc. 1,450.00 102 refractors 306.03 -02 Pot heads 586.50 2600 secondary Cable 122.59 2600 main cable 1,822 50 Total Total $9,540.59 Representatives of the sucessful biders remained in the city today and already have wired in their or ders. The equipment is expected to arrive within thre weeks, and all is bought f. o. b. Americus. The committee of citizens acting i for the city and citizens wore Steven Pace, chairman; Lewis 1 Ellis, W, W. Dykes,. City Engineer Walker t and Manager Curry of the ■ local light company were present acting in an advisory capacity. Thomas Harold and two other members of the committee were un able to be present last night. City Engineer Walker is already at work laying the main cables. This work will be complete when ( the new equipment arrives, it is said, but no definite date for com pletion of the white way could be safe! yestimated today. However no Aery great length of time will elapse before it is completed. Plans are now maturing for a great celebration when the current is turned on the white way, mem bers of a local committe stated to day and it is their expectation *o make a more definite announce ment a little later. However, citi zens of the city desire to start the fall trading season with a gigantic celebration here, at which it is ex* pected thousands for many mil will come in for the afternoon evening. . . Jk
