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SEASON’S RECEIPTS " ' Bales received Wednesday 252 : Total receipt- ' . 11,844 WEATiIER ■ • For Georgia—Partly cloudy to- ! night and Friday; local I showers in ( ■ ' a! .;i. . . orth por- j tion Friday. ( FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 21 3 American Organizersjif Klan in Berlin are Arrested FATHER AND SON BEHIND RECENT SECRET ORDER “Knights of the Fiery Cross” Was to Have Been Name of the Organization ALONG THE LINES OF THE KU KLUX KLAN Purocse of Organization Was to “Wage War On Jews and Other Undesirables’’ BERLIN, Sept. 10. Two Americans, father and son, alleged to be behind the recent organization here of “Knights of the Fiery Cross”—patterned after the Ku Klux Klan—have been arrested by the German police in Silesia. They are Otto Strohschein, 54, and Golthard Strohschein, 30, both German born, but now American citizens and recently residents of Chicago. A third American, Don Burton Gray, is said to have left Germany three weeks ago. Three Americans, two of them described by the police as German- Americans, ami the third as a 100 per center, are the leaders in a movement uncovered here to estab lish in Germany an order to be known as the “Knights of the Fiery Cross,” along lines of the Ku ’Klux Klan in the United States. Thirty or forty arrests in connec tion with the discovery of the organ ization have been made and the police say more are to follow. One thousand Germans are participating with the American leaders, whose names the police refuse to disclose. The purpose of the organization is to unite, irrespective of parties, all men determined “to fight for' the liberation of the fatherland.” and “by waging war on Jews, to free the country of undesirables.” The ceremonies of the Ku Klux Klan are said to have been copied. The insignia of the German organ ization is a bloody cross, the anti Semitic swastika and the black, red and white flag of imperial Germany. Learning of the existence of the order, which is forbidden under the law covering conspiracy, the police searched a number of “houses of per sons implicated and found large quantities of material pertaining to the organizations. The members are said to have been created large ly from the “front bann,” and the “Wilkingbund,” which are notor ious fascist groups ip Germay. The police say the members of the new order must swear implicit obe dience and declare their readiness to accept .death by torture in case they prove traitors to the society. At the American ambassy today it was stated that the matter had not been brought officially to the attention of the American diploma ic representatives in Germany. REDUCTIONS F.XPFCTFD IN RECOMMENDATIONS WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The treasury’s tax recommendations to Congress are now expected to in clude a reduction in sur tax rates to a maximum of 20 per cent, the repeal of the income tax publicity section and the lowering, if not the entire elimination of tax on estates. SECOND M’MILLAN SHIP JOINS PEARY WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—After battling an eighty mile gale and res cuing the crews of two small boats from the island of Taulk, the Dan ish naval vessel the steamer Bow doin, of the McMillan arctic expe dition, has joined the Peary at God thabb, Greenland. x ATLANTA, Sept. 10—" We’ll be sleeping under blankets by Sunday,’* was comforting assur ance given today by C. F. Von Herrmann, weather man here. Old Mariners Blink As Derelicts Roams Sea 9 WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.'—Men who go down to the sea in ships are speculating about the early appear ance in West Indian waters of, one of the most noted derelicts of mod ern times. • While the Navy Department's hydrographic office considers it un usual in these days of rapid radio communication and special coast guard patrol for a derelict to re main afloat longer than a week, the four-masted British lumber-laden /schooner Goygrnor Parr has been ‘ ~ THE TWsgRECORDER BgJLPyBLISHED IN THF><WCHEART Or Names of Nominations In Gift Distribution Announced Tomorrow Times-Recorder’s Mammoth Business and Circulation Campaign About to Geet Under Way; Opportunity Now Provided / to Participate in Big Offer CANDIDATES START TO ENHANCE \ INCOME MOMENT OF ACCEPTANCE No Experience Needed, No Investment Necessary to Earn Extra Dollars in Pleasant Way During Next Few Week* of Times-Recorder’s Offer Tomorrow in this newspaper, will Re published the first list of those who have accepted The Times-Recorder’s SIO,OOO Gift Distribution offer which is just starting. The number of credits opposite each name is 5,000, being the number credited in each case upon acceptance. The first credits score will be published in Monday's issfie of the Tinies-Recorder, Die I imes-Recorder’s mammoth business and circulation building campaign, providing a gift list of more than SIO,OOO in cash., valuable gifts and automobiles is just beginning to take shape. It is not under way yet. Opportunity is provided for many, many more residents of Americus and the territory for which this city and the Times-Recorder are the hub to participate m this unusual distribution of valuable gifts. (.onerous pay for results is offer ed you whether yon sell us only an occasional hour or eight hours aday. You start to enhance your income and pave the way for valuable gifts the minute you signify youu desire to participate in the more than SIO,OOO gift list provided. You need no experience—just the will ingness to try. The first step is to come in or mail in your acceptance. Suppose you want extra money for any purpose whatever; suppose you are now paying on an automo bile—if you need money for “up keep” of your old car—if you’d like to have some extra spending mon ey—or if it’s just a case of want ing more money to meet your ex penses, here’s your answer. You Need No Experience Without previous experience without investing a cent and in whatever time you can spare from your regular work, you can earn Continued on Page Three CLUE IS FOUND IN SEARCH FOR MISSING PLANE Coats Believed to Haye Been Worn By Missing Men Locat ed On Island HONOLULU, Sept. 10.—What may be first jlefinite clue in the search for the missing naval sea plane PN-9 No. 1. was heard Wed nesday when authorities received a report that a Hawiian found two aviators’ coats on Keaukahakeaa Beach, Island of Hawaii yesterday. Fearing trouble the man let the coats lay undisturbed. The report is being investigated. The beach is approximately seven miles from Hilo, principal city of the island. HONOLULU, Sept. 10.—A dis patch to the Aclvertiscr, from its Hilo correspondent says “two Kapok lined life preserving jackets marked “U. S. Navy were found last night on the beach at Leleiwi Point ten miles south of Hilo.” The dispatch said Pearl Harbor authorities had instructed that the jackets be de livered to battle ships today for pos sible identification. SAN ANTONIO LEGION TO BACK MITCHELL SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 10.—Th? American Legion of Texas will energetically interest itself to pre vent Colonel Mitchell frombeing court martialed behind closed doors i£_he is tried in Texas on charges growing out of his criticism of the war department. i roving the high seas for nearly two I y ears. The last definite report received ■ of the Governor Parr’s whereabouts I was in October of last year, when I she floated crewless down along the coast of Africa, but the .British i steamer Tortugero late in Jt/y sight ! ed a derelict 300 miles’ noil/ieast of I the Virgin Islands. / If this proyes to be tIZ Governor Parr, which seems likelrf it will be j the first derelict on record in the (Continued on Page Seven) AMERICUS. GA , THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10. 1925 Professional Lover Mauled By Mr. Husband LONDON, Sept. 10.—A story of disappointed love and its retribution is being told here. A banker’s daughter, beautiful and talented, became infatuated with a man whom her parents did not wish her to marry. So they sought out a professional love-maker and for a stipulated sum hired him to pay his attentions to the daughter for the purpose of breaking up her case with the other man. It was aA easy task, In a fort night the objectionable lover was driven out of the field. But the girl, not knowing the trick of her parents, had fallen des perately in love with the new man. When he quit coming to see her she became very ill. Her parents fear she will not recover. The professional got his, how ever. Soon afterward a married woman, wishing to make her hus band more attentive, hired him to pay her attention. The husband met them on the street and so mauled up the pro fessional that he was taken to a hos pital for repairs. KIDNAP AND MURDER BILLS AGAINST NOEL NEWARK, N. J., Sept 10— Har rison Noel, confessed murderer of six-year-old Mary Daly, and of Raymond Pierce, negro chauffeur, was indicted late Wednesday for the murder of Pierce and for the kidnaping of the child. Both crimes occurred in that county. An indict ment charging Noel with the mur der of the child will be sought in Passaic county where she was kill ed. Police refused to permit Noel to be interviewed by James D. Car penter, Jersey City attorney, whom Pix W. Noel, of New York and Chi cago, the youth’s father, had re tained for the defense. REMUS BARRED FROM HOME BY WIFE’S SUIT CINCINNATI, 0., Sept. 10 George Remus, former Cincinnati bootlegger late Wednesday was made defendant in an injunction which prevents him from visiting his residence*. The injunction was ob tained by his wife, Mrs. Imogene Remus, when she filed suit for di vorce several days ago. is in jail unable to furn ish $25,000 bond pending removal proceedings to St... Louis on an in dictment charging conspiracy to vio late the national liquor law. This hearing is to come up Friday in United States district court. GENERAL MITCHELL TO KEEP QUIET AWHILE SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 10.—Un less there is some development at Washington in his case, he likely will have no more formal statements to issue until his interview with Col onel George Nugent of the coast artillery, assigned by the inspector general’s department to investigate charges made by him against air service administration, Colonel Wil liam Mitchell, eighth corps area air officer said. Colonel Nugent is ex pected to arrive here Friday or Sat urday. _ * * Spurns Millions :«Sm»WWI Margarctta Curry, this Oklahoma City girl of 11 years, spurned the millions of Edward Browning, New York millionaire, in order to stay with her mother. Browning offer ed to adopt her as a companion for his other adopted daughter, Dor othy Sunshine. Margarctta has gone to Los Angeles in the hope of becoming a vaudeville star. HONORED MEN HEAR GOSNELL Representative Furman Univer sity Addressed Civic Clubs On “World Court” More than 100 business men of Americus today at noon heard Cul len B. Gosnell, of Furman Univers ity, Greenville, S. C„ discuss the or ganization, and functions of the World Court and applauded his pre diction that the United States would enter the court when the next Con gress convene. Prot. Gosnell claims that the United States is out of the court, because of the fight of the Republi can irreconciliables who “like a certain Baptist deacon is agin anything and everything.” The speaker denied that the court was despotic, saying it opperates un der the law and not outside the law. lie slated that President Harding, President Coolidge and Ex-Secretary of the State Hughes and Root fa vored America entering the court. Both Root and Hays have had a large part in its inception and acted in an advisory capacity in its pres ent 'organization, not withstanding the fact that America has no place on the court, he said. Prof. Gosnell was introduced by W. W. Dykes. Prof. J. E. Mathis preceded Mr. Dykes in a short talk in which he said “if America doe* not eventually enter the World Court and the League of Nations, then there will be no peace on earth or good will among men.” Preceding his formal wddress, Mr. Gosnell said he had lived in Georgia Florida and the Carolinas, and as far as he was concerned he would rather cast his lot in one of these states rather than Florida. “Your community and your section have large opportunities,” he said. ’You have the community spirit here and that’s what it takes to build cities. ’ The noon luncheon was held-in the dining room of the Windsor Hotel under the auspices of the Kiwanis, Palladium and Rotary clubs. Fred Smith, president of Kiwanis presid ed. MISTRIAL IN CANDLER CASE Mrs. Byfield Fails to Receive Verdict in SIOO,OOO Damage Suit Hearing ATLANTA, Sept. 10. —A mistrial was declared today in the case of Mrs. Clyde K. Byfield who sued Walter T. Candler, Atlanta million aire, for SIOO,OOO damages. The jury, which received the case late Wednesday, reported this after noon that it. could not agree. In the first trial of the case Candler won the verdict, but a new hearing was won by the higher court. Mrs. By field alleged Candler con ducted himself improperly towaids her during an ocean vopage. Houses Demolished and T rees and Poles Snapped By Wednesday’s Gale High Winds and Fierce Electric al Storm Accompany Two Inch Rain Fall Greatest Damage Done in New Town Section Negro Dwelling Toppled Over and Huge Oaks 1 orn Up By Roots—No One Reported Injured. Negro bouses were toppled over; telephone and telegraph poles were broken off near their base, huge oaks were uprooted and numerous lighting wires were snapped by the 50 mile an hour gale which accom panied the two inch rainfall here Wednesday afternoon and evening, the heaviest precipitation felt in Sumter since the torrential rains of last December and January. So far as known no one was injured. The vivid lightning nccompaning downpour, destroyed numerous trees in the county and darted in and out of houses where windows had been left open. Several residents report- COLUMBUS MAN KILLED BY BOLT Lightning Strikes Saw Mill Shed —Knocks White Woman and Negro to Ground COLUMBUS, Ga.j Sept. 10 One was killed and two were in jured when lightning struck a small saw mill shanty twelve miles from Columbus on the Macon road last night at 6:30 o’clock. The bolt instantly killed John B. Downs, 40, saw mill operator and knocked down Mrs. Downs, and a negro, Emmett Lawson, unconscious The frail shack which offered the only protection to the three from the elements, was fired by the light ning. , . The negro regained his senses and carried the unconscious Mrs. Downs and the lifeless body of her husband out into the driving rain a few mo ments before the burning structure collapsed. An examination of Mr. Downs* body revealed one burn on his left breast. When heavy thunder warned them of an approaching rainstorm, Mr. and Mrs. Downs and the negro saw mille worker sought shelter Tn the little commissary. FOUR HELD BY CORONER”S JURY IN JONES AFFAIR GRAY, Ga., Sept. 10.—A cor oner's jury investigating the dou ble murder of Floyd Malonf, coun ty policeman, and Frank Tucker, deputy, on Friday, August 28, at 6 o’clock Wednesday, returned a verdict charging Atkinson Ethe ridge, Grover Cleveland Etheridge and one negro, Homer Green, with murder, and directing that Ernest Etheridge be held as an accessory. The verdict of the coroner’s jury in addition to naming the four per sons, read “and other parties to the jury unknown art guilty of the crime.” CHINESE TONG WAR BREAKS OUT ANEW NEW VORK, Sept. 10.—Chinese Tong warfare has broken out afresh here with fatalities, notwithstand ing the peace treaty; but this time the police are holding the tong lead ers responsible. Two Hip Sing tongmen are dead and three offi cials of the On Leong tong, includ ing the national president are in jail charged with conspiracy .o bring about the slayings. FIVE BANDITS ESCAPE WITH REGISTERED MAIL WINONA, Mich. Sept. 10.—Five bandits held up a Winona mail wag on about 4:30 a. m. today, bound and gagged the messenger and, aft er the selection of registered mail Hipiches out of 50 or 60 bags, head ed toward the twin cities in auto mobile. TWO NEW AIR MAIL ROUTES PROPOSED ( HICAGO, Sept. 10.—Two air mail routed in addition to the nine new ones already proposed, will be advertised for after the return of Irving Glover, second assistant post master general, to Washington Sat urday. They are Denver to Chey enne and Washington Jacksonville. ed lightning striking articles in homes, and Barlow Council escaped possible instant death by only a few inches, when a bolt tore up the flooring in a room in the home on tiie Council Plantation on the* Leslie Road where he had taken refuge from the rain. Verv little damage was done in the business section of the city, but in the residential section, especially in the neighborhood of Taylor street ami Reese Park, lightning tore down several large trees and x several cur rent lines of the South Georgia Public Service company. Residents on Taylor and Rees park were thrown into darkness a few minutes after the electrical storm started and at 12 o’clock today were with out lights. The Manager of the South Geor gia Public Service Company stated he was working his crews over time in au effort to get the lines in place and emeets to have them all rn (Continued on Page TM'i-e) People Should Take Advantage Typhoid Serum Anti-Fever Serum is Free and Is a Sure Preventive, Says Dr. Chambliss Anti-typhoid serum is an absolute preventive and is free to the people of Sumter County, if they will take advantage of this service provided for them by the County Health Board, Dr. J. W. Chambliss stated this morning. The board is now immunizing- about 100 persons a day, which, states Dr. Chambliss is not enough. “It would require two years to immunize the county at the rate of 100 a day,” he says.’ “I can’t understand why more people do not use us. Tvphoid serum is an absolute preventive and that just means that every death from ty phoid is an unnecessary death. “We had a fine rain in parts of the county yesterday, which has made it possible for the farmers to spot all wet weather ponds' Mos quitoes prefer wet weather ponds to others for the reason that they have in them no fish and the mosquito can breed there unmolested. “It would pay our farmers to go in now with their hands and cut drains from the wet-weather ponds. I do not believe tjjat the time thus consumed will be as great as the time lost because of illness that may come from these ponds,” said the chairman. SHIP TERMINAL FIRE IN TAMPA Reported Loss $500,000 at 11 O’clock Last Night —Fire Still Raging TAMPA, Fla., Sept. 10. Fire breaking' out along the ship termi nals of the Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering company, o’clock last night, was still raging two hours later, after causing damage estinmated by Ernest Kreher, one of the owners, at approximately $500,000. At 11 o’clock the fire had de stroyed the majorjty of the main buildings in the yards and was headed towards the Texas Oil com pany terminals. Four fire depart ments were attempting to stem the march toward the giant oil tanks of the Texas Company’s terminals For Real A Leap In By CHARLES P STEWART WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—“For Ijlind, sickening, unreasoning ter ror,” said an army aviator, “life hasn’t anything to offer equal to the sensations of a man’s first para chute jump. 1 mean letting go for the - drop. After the ‘chute opens it’s all right. Anticipation’s the killing part. “When the United States entered the war I was cast for an artillery observer. After a little preliminary NEW YORK FUTURES * Pc Open Ham Close Oct 23.20 23.48'23.50j23.52 Dec. . 23.0U23.80 23.84i23.82 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling, 22 l-2c. * I PRICE FIVE CENTS ONE KILLED AND ONE INJURED IN RIOT IN DETROIT Fight Starts when Whites Object to Blacks in White Residen tial Section SIX NEGROES TAKEN INTO CUSTODY Police Reserves Called in Effort to Force Blacks to Vacate House DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 10.— Leon Briener was hot and killed and Erie Iloughberg was shot and seriously- wounded in a riot in the residential cel ion here Into last ngiht. The trouble started when a negro family moved into a section previously inhabited only by white person-. The men shot were white. Police reserves were called to the house last night when missiles were thrown through the windows in sin effort to force the negroes to va cate. The m ; roes determined to hold their property and last night a crowd e t limited al several thou sand persons gathered sit the house. Witnes ex said the crowd last night made no attempt to injure the property, but the negroes see ing the persons gather, opened fire. Both of tiie men struck by bullets lived in the block in which the house is located. Koughberg told police he was walking past the house and appar ently unprovoked the attack. When police arrived they found the house packed with negroes. They were taken from the residence un der arrest. The house was occu pied by Dr. Ossian Sweet, an in terne at a negro hospital. Ten ne gro men and four negro women were taken into custody. They said they saw the crowd in front of the house, and fearing it would be attacked, opened fire to frighten away the mob. PRESIDENT ON WAY TO CAPITAL Coolidge and Party Left Swamp- Scott Late Wednesday Night On Special Train SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Sept; 10. Invigorated by his eleven weeks’ stay, President Coolidge pulled take last night at his summer re treat and turned toward Washing ton enthusiastic over the prospects of a successful winter in congress as outlined to him in numerous con ferences with administration lead ers. Before leaving the president re ceived a most optimistc report from Representative Longworth, Republi can of Ohio, who will be speaker of the next house. Mr. Long worth predicted that hte huose would approve a tax reduction bill, making substantial cuts in income rates before the first of the year. If successful, this prograr., will per mit final action by congress on a tax hill before March 15, when the lii 4. payments of the n< w year are due. RIDING ON . r • SPECIAL TRAIN SALEM, Mass., Sept. 10—The special train carrying President and Mrs. Coolidge to Washington, left here shortly before midnight Wed nesday. Mr. Coolidge will reach the Capi tol this afternoon, traveling over the same route by which he came to the north shore eleven weeks ago. • The President and Mrs. Coolidge boarded their car on a siding here about an hour before the depart ure of the train. They had retired before the special pulled out. Thrill Try A Parachute i training they strapped a parachuute I on my back, looking and feeling as little like anything that would let Ime down easy as any other little package from a dry goods store. j “They showed me how to pull the ring that opened it, and then they bundled me into the basket with the instructor. Up shot the balloon. I was scared to begin with. “The balloon’s motion upset mj| stomach, too. I felt deathly sick. “About a mile high, it seemed tq me, ‘Over you go,’ said the instrns* (Continued on Page Seven),
