About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1925)
SEASON'S RECEIPTS Previously Reported ......5,414' Bales received Wednesday 35fl’ Total this year .5,772 WEATHER For Georgia—Fair tonight ami Friday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 201 REVENUE SHORTAGE MAY CAUSE EXTRA SESSION ASSEMBLY Cordeie Man Must Die for Criminal Attack on Girl irged. , -s’ATE TREASURY HILL BE EMPTY Mrs. C ■V FEW MONTHS rial i 3 morji; Refuses to Sign Appro nations Measures, Putting ighter es P on3 ’bility on House itL R r I,PT BILL ALSO MAY for . -ORCE SPECIAL SESSION rning . . ~ , Fla gislative Appropriation for use . Next Two Years Far In Ex cess Estimated Revenue ATLANTA, August 27. Governor; Walker has signed the Confederate pension script bill, passed by the recent session of the Georgia general assembly. He will immediately advertise for bids on the entire issue of lt ‘ b Approximately $4,500,000, it was announced at the executive r j offices today. In the event that a satisfactory j bid is not received within thirty e days, the governor has indicat- I r ,rd that he will cal! an extraordi- session of the general as h! sembly to provide specific means of retiring the script is li sue. j. Governor Walker today indicated \ that he will sign the bill repealing • the state inheritance tax, nut he has not yet intimated what his ac tion will be with regard to the «tate highway measure. With the signing of the repeal of the state inheritance tax repeal, the state will collect only one-fourth of the amount due the federal government for inheritance taxes. Therefore the state merely takes - one-fourth of the amount the fed eral government collects and docs not levy an inheritance tax of it self. The federal government does not tax estates of less than $50,- 000. Ihe position the governor takes in signing the bill, is that the state stands committed to the payment of the unpaid pensions amounting to about $4,000,000 by the act of the legislature in passing the bill, and to veto it would not be in good faith with that committal of the state to the pensioners. That the legisla ture did not draft and pass a meas ure so framed that it would be be yond question of constitutionality or legal doubt is not a matter which relieves the principle involved, and for that reason the one course left open is to approve the bill, seek to seal the script to recognized and legitimate financial agencies bank- - ing institutions at a proper and i reasonable rate of discount. ~ EXTRA SESSION 7 IS INEVITABLE > ATLANTA, Aug. 27.—An extra- I ordinary session of the eGneral As sembly is inevitable. It may not, come this year, says John Ham mond in Columbus Inquirer-Sun to day. It may not come until the mid dle or last of next year, but it will be necessary to meet the shortage in funds with which to pay the ap propriations bill passed at this ses sion. Save that one which was signed some time ago, after passage early in the session, to meet the building * situation at the women’s college in - Milledgeville, for $195,000, Gov ernor Walker will not sign any ap propriation measure. Had that bill (Continued on Page Two.) Flags Between White Way Posts Being Urged Legion Takes Initiative In New Decorative Scheme for City Two United States flags will be set between each of, the white way pofsts for decorative purposes if the efforts of the local camp of the American Legion are successful. Bell, commander of the John D. Mathis Post is interviewing th® merchants today, interesting th<®n in the purchase of the e flags, E'he flag, with about six ft, high, and permanent fixture it i Siiiewalk, will cost a total of ,5.00 and the legion believes that oviny merchant will purchase one for the front of his store. The sidewalk fixture would be THE TIMES {ugjLPUBLI’o HEP IN THE r QF DIXIE RENEWED HOPE OFAVERTING COAL STRIKE Operators and Mediators In Last Conference to Pre vent Walk Out PHILADELPHIA, Augu.t 27. John H. Uhl, “no-strike champion” of Wilkes-Barre, today overtook John L. Lewis, president of* the United Mine Workers of America, after a 12-mile pursuit in an auto mobile from Hazelton, Pa. Uhl arrived back in Philadelphia, after talking with Lewis, with fresh hopes that a suspension of mining in the anthracite region may yet be averted. Later in the day it was stated that the appeal made by citizens of Wilkesbarrc to the miners that they resume wage scale negotiations with the operators will have no ef fect, it is stated. The plans of the miners to go ahead with the sus pension in the anthracite field will not be influenced by the citizens ap peal, it is authoritative stated. GOVERNMENT OBSERVERS STILL SKEPTICAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—(A. P.)—Government observers of the anthracite situation see no hope of averting a suspension of work in the anthracite fields Sept . 1, and have turned their attention a study of the effects upon the nation of a prolonged shutdown. Their prelhninary study of the situation has convinced these offi cials that anthracite stocks on hand will meet the demand until Decem ber, when, unless production has been resumed they fear there will be such a shortage as to make emer gency action of some kind neces sary. What form this emergency action might take the officials de cline to conjecture, but they ex pressed the belief that any attempt at outside intervention to bring the opposing sides together would only aggravate the preesnt situa tion. Secretary Davis of the Labor De partment returning to Washington, today from a six weeks trip abroad, immediately went into conference with Hugh L. Kervin. the depart ment’s director of conciliation to ac quaint himself with the present status of the anthracite controv ersy. A.set of rules to guide American householders who burn soft coal soon will be issued by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.' The rules are being prepared, said an announcement today by the Na tional Coal Association, as a result of the growth of interest in the do mestic use of bituminous coal.” 7 ribesmen Flee French Route Enemy With Tanks and Reoccupy Dahar FEZ MORROCCO. Aug. 27. French forces, operating against Branees tribesmen, north of Taza, today captured Princepla and re occupied their old position at Dahar. The enemy was routed and fled be fore a devastating advance fire from the French tanks. On returning from a fishing trip the fish are divided while their weight is multiplied. placed in the concrete as the white way cable is laid. The flags would remain in the hands of each mer chant and displayed whenever a public function or celebration takes place. Mr Bell says that frequently there is some kind of public aflair calling for store decorations. The purchase of the flags would make future decoration expenses unnec essary and in that way save the merchants much money in the long rum Many cities, large and small, are resorting to this form of decora tion, which is less expensive and de cidely more attractive, those who have seen them state. The Rotary club yesterday en dorsed the suggestion and gave Mr. Bell a committee of Rotarians to work with his committee. AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 27. 1825 Business Man a Bandit Fxi/JW pH "* apt w OB MS- f « - • J I More than $12,000 of the $21,000 which Fred C. Nickel, Dayton, ()., manufacturer, obtained by lobbing a bank there was discovered in a new garage in the rear of his $40.- 000 home. Part it was secreted in a window frame. A detective i: .shown with a box full of the re covered currency, CVANDERBILT BUYS BIG LAND TRACT IN STATE Millicnaire and Associates Pur chase 11,000 Acres Near Atlanta, Says Report TO ESTABLISH THIRD LARGEST FLYING BASE Flying Field to Be Opened At An Early Date, Flying From Atlanta to New Orleans and Florida Points ATLLANTA, Aug. 27.—The At lanta Journal today announces that Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and as sociates have purchased or have un der option eleven thousand acrees of land near Atlanta on which will be established the third largest com mercial air base in the country. “We had engineers in Atlanta about four months making surveys and drawing plans and hope to be in position to begin flying out of At lanta, to New Orleans and points in Florida by Christmas,” Vanderbilt stated, “and the plaines will carry freight express and mail but no passengers” Facilities for handling dirigibles as well as airplanes, would be pro vided it is announced. UNIDEN T ’P'FD NFGRO DROPS READ HERE A negro, whose name could not be learned, dropped dead this aft ernoon while working for the city in Prospect Park, Brooklyn Heights. The negro began work at noon, chopping underbrush. About 3 o’clock he was seen to stagger and fall. When Engineer Walker reached him he was dead, Mr. Wal ker stated. WOMAN IS KILLED IN MIAMI ELEVATOR MIAMI, Fla., Aug 27. (By A. P.)—A Wolnan believed to be Mrs. Clara Des Lauriers, wife of Dr. A. A. Lauriers of Duluth, Minn., we; killed in a Miami hotel tonight when pinioned between an elevator and a shaft while attempting to board the lift. Witnes.es told police that Mrs. Des Lauriers rushed to the eleva tor and attempted to push through the partially opened door as the ele vator moved. Missing her footing, Mrs. Des Lauriers fell between the shaft and elevator which stopped on pinioning her. Her collar bone wis broken. Identity was established by hotel records which showed that 'Mrs. Des Lauriers came to Miami five days ago. / z’***W //W BKfc«<<:. A-: ~ • jm? - * ' J bred C. Nickol, prominent Day- I ton, 0., business man, has confess ed that, disguised in a blue mask and robe, he robbed a bank there of $21,000 to recoup his business losses. His arrest resulted from the statement to the police of Miss Helen. Sammett, his niece, who worked in the bank. She said that th erobbers mask hid a gray mous the robber’s mask had a gray mo us- LUKEMAN’S NEW' DESIGN IS O.K. New Sculptor’fi Central Group for Stone Mountain Memo rial la Accepted ATLANTA, Aug. 27.—Augustus Lukcman’s design for the central group of the Stone Mountain Con federate memorial was given offi cial approval today by the board of directors of the association at a special meeting. The design was submitted in the form of a sketch which will imme diately be enlarged to the dimen sions of the master model. The Lukeman design for the cen tral group contains seven principal figures. Seven Killed Wh : te Man and Six Negroes Dead When Boiler Explodes UNIONTOWN, Ala., Aug 27. Seven persons were reported killed when a boiler exploded at a “min ; nery” at Dayton, near here. The j dead are C. J. Buchanan and six i negro men. The negroes have not | yet been identified. Four Drowned ROCHESTER, N. Y„ Aug. 27. ' Two men and two girls were drowned and one man swam to saf ety when the rowboat capsized in a heavy sea on Lake Ontaria near here today. DOROTHY ELLINGSON IS SENTENCED TO PRISON SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. ; 27.—(A. P.)—The case of Dorothy | Ellingson, 17 year old matricide, j was finally disposed of today when : the girl, convicted of manslaughter last week, was sentenced to one to ten years in Sanquentin prison. , Dorothy has stood trial twice on 1 a charge of murder. SOUTHER FIELD WILL NEVER BE REHABILITATED All Plumbing and Pipe Lincs Being Removed for Uke at Camp Benning The hope entertained by Ameri cus people that the United States government would use Souther Field again as a military base was shat tered Monday, when a contingent of troops arrived from Camp Benning, Columbus, Ga., and began imme diately removing all pipe lines and plumbing from the field for use in construction work now in progress at Camp Benning. The officer in charge of the ne gro company, which is stripping the flying field of its miles of under ground water lines and plumbing, said that the buildings would be the only things left to show that South er field was at one time used as a camp. It is doubtless, he said, if the Government will ever raze the huge hangars and other structures, as they are of very little value and could be used for no purpose other than fire wood. The ravages of time have rendered them unfit for anything else, he said. The company from Fort Benning came to Souther Field prepared to stay three or four months. The work of removing the heavy eight inch water lines from beneath the ground is tedious and difficult, the hundreds of joints have to be melt ed apart before the section of pipe can be removed from the earth and placed aboard trucks to be hauled to Benning. Because of the weight of the sections of pipe only a few can be transported at a time. The officer in charge expressed surprise that Americus people had not purchased the field to be used as a factory site. It was adequqatc ly equipped for almost any kind of mill or factory, he stated, but with the removal of all pipe lines it will be rendered practicaly useless as a location for an industrial center, he said. WIFE MURDERER HANGS HIMSELF Dentist vbark vb vbg vbfckqjjj During Trial For His Life LOS ANGELES, Calif., August 27—Dr. Thomas W. Young, a dentist on trial here for the murder of his wife, killed himself in the county jail iiere early today. Aft er having murdered his wife, it is alleged that Young buried her body in a cistern. Parzgraph county jail en.ploye discovered the body of the suicide hanging to the cell by a piece of wire. He had been dead for some time when the body was found. The dentist was on trial yester-, day and at the close of court the jury was ordered by the judge to visit the suburbs where the cistern is located. The jury expected to make this examination some time today. GOVERNOR AL SMITH OPENS DRIVE TONIGHT NEW YORK. Aug. 27.—(A.P.) —The actors in New York’s great political drama poured out a flood of oratory today, but one dominant figure, Governor Smith, was still off stage, ready in the wingj; for his first public appearance of the campaign tonight in Brooklyn. AMERICUS YOUTHS HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT Three Americus youths were in jured Wednesday afternoon when the autmobile in which they were returning to the city collided with another car in which were several negores. One negro woman ip the latter car was painfully injured. Daniel and Samuel Everett, sons of Mrs. Marvin Everett with young P. C, Allen were the young boys in jured. They were about the top of Scarborough hill, Allen driving when they collided with the negro’s i car. While not seriously injured, | I the two Everett Boys and Alien ! were painfully injured, • j MEXICO SOON TO PAY ? HER DEBT TO U S. <; ISAN ANTONIO, Augu.t 27. } Mexico will begin paying her J five hundred million dollar debt > > September first, Mexican Con- ) I sul-Gcneral Elias said here to- j' j day. The debt is owed chiefly { to the United States. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IS PREDICTED Following Merger of South Georgia Power Plants Un der Stone & Webster ALBANY, Ga. Aug 27—Acqquis tion of the Georgia-Alabama Power Company interests at Albany and other South Georgia points by the Columbus Electric and Power Com pany, a Stone and Webster subsid iary, is believed to fore-shadow a great industrial development in this section of the state. The Georgia-Alabama Power Company is already serving Albany, AmeMcus. Cordele, Tifton, Val dosta and numerous smaller towns in this part of the state. With the tie-in that will he possible with the Columbus plants, almost unlimited power facilities will be available for the territory. The Georgia-Alabama Power Company owns two hydro electric plants and a steam plant at Albany, one of the hydro plants being in Flint River and the other in Muck afoonee Creek, a large tributary of the Flint. There is another hydro plant in Pautauhi Creek near Fort Gaines, Which is a part of the <Continued on Page Two> CRACK EXPRESS TRAIN WRECKS Engineer, Fireman and Passen gers Injured In Smash Near Pittsburg PITTSBURG. Penn., Aug. 27. The Buffalo Express, a crack Pennsylvania passenger train, north hound from Pittsburg, was wreck ed at Braeburn, twenty miles from Pittsburg today. The engineer ami fireman war • injured, the former seriously. A number of passengers were shaken up but none serious injured accor ding to reports. The locomotive express, mail and baggage cars were derailed and left the roadbed, it is reported. AMERICUS CITIZEN STRICKEN AT CORDELE J. N. Collier, of Americus, is ill in Cordele, as a result of a stroke of paralysis Saturday. Mr. Collier is a traveling man, with headquar ters in Americus, and has made this city his home for the past five years and has a host of friends here who will sincerely regret to learn of hi-- illness. Mrs. Collier and children have been at his bedside at the Cordele hospital Since he was stricken, and his condition this morning was re ported favorable. Abundant Harvest Is i Blessing This Section Speakers Compare With Other Section and Plead for ' Thanksgiving Rotarians agreed Wednesday to | I join with the Palladium and other clubs in the reorganization of the ! Boy Scout troops in the city. A committee of which Carr Clover is I acting chairman, was named for the : purpose by President Warren. During the luncheon W. W. Dykes reported for the Rotary white way committee which has acted with committees from other bodies in l putting over the white way. He said that while Rotary had don • what it could, the Lion's share of the credit should go to Steve Pace and Lewis Ellis of the Kiwanis club, “who did most of the work," said Mr. Dykes. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 1 lam CIoSS (Oct. 22.79 22.95;23.02(22.79 \ Dec. AMERICUS SPOT COTTON I > Middling, 22 cents. PRICE FIVE CENTS NAPIER IS GIVEN DEATH PENALTY BY CRISP JURY Convicted for Alleged Attack On 12 Year-Old Girl Several Days Ago JURY OUT FOR MOPE THAN THREE HOUR' Intimated That Defense Lawyers May Enter Insanity Plea (By Distance Phone.) Brunse Napier, baout 30 years of age, was convicted of rape at Cor dele Wednesday night and sentenc ed to be electrocuted at the state prison on October 5 by Judge Ci utß>i? The crime for which Napier intut pay with hi:; life was committed about August i 6th, when he attack ed a young girl about. 12 years of age, after having persuaded her to ride in his automobile. The case went to the jury Wed nesday afternoon at 5:30 and a ver dict was reached about 8:30 last night. The presiding judge sen tenced Napier to death immediate ly. Napier wa repii sented by Judge Mux Land and another lawyer from Fitzgerald, said io have been ap pointed by the court. The prose cution was in tie hands of Solicitor Gem ral Wall. The accused man will remain at <sb.'d( le until September 2‘’> when he. will bo transferred to Milledge ville, wlrel’r he '..i1l await death at the state prison October 5. The jury’ verdict found Napiiy guilty of rape on the person of a 12-year-ol<| child. A large crowd is said to have gathered about the court house, which was quiet, and orderly. Only meager. fact regarding the crime have leaked out, every effort having been made to prevent aH possible publicity. However, the facts a- nearly as can be secured were said to be as follows: The child was visiting in a South Georgia town. She went to Cordeie, where she was to change trains for her home. Mi., ing her train, Napier is said to have offer ed to carry her on hon.e in his au tomobile, accompanied by his sis bis or family. The child consented when told that, other women would be in the car. A few minutes later Napier returned to the depot, got the child, telling b°r they would pick up his family across town The next morning the child was found some distance from Cordele, on th’ road, ide, where she told her tory of the all-night attack. Sheriff Noble soon located Napier, whom the child identified. He was placed in jail at Cordele where he remained all last week. The grain 1 jury was summoned and Na pier was indicted Monday. The story of the trial Wednesday is as follows; Before a calm and composed jury and court, room full of spectators from which all youths under twenty one years of ago were excluded, Brunse Napier, white man unmar ried and about thirty years of age, went on trial for his life Wednesday morning and when the afternoon wa well gone all the evidence was in and the man’s fate rested with the jury. The twelve year old girl, victim (Continued on Page Six) | Frank Harrold after ' discussing ' with other sections of country this i year at Thanksgiving every man, ev j the crops of Sumter, as compared j cry woman should attend Divine ■ service and “thank God for the ! abundance of the crops now bless :ng this section, for our harvest is great.” Rev. John Outier, a guest of the club, told something of the extreme ly poor crops of the Carolinas and North Georgia, declaring that for 250 milees through that section the i crops were a complete failure, there being neither corn, cotton, hay or grass. “It is so different when we get within a few miles’of thd section,” the preacher said. “Wt have much to be thankful for, mor<V than we realize unless we ha’.J traveled to the north."
