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SEASON’S RECEIPTS < Bales received Friday 293 ' Total bales received 12,381 I WEATHER For Georgia^—Probably showers ; tonight and Sunday; slightly cooler 5 in north portion tonight.. ’ FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 214 CITY PROBABLY BUYENGINEFOR LIGHTINGWAY No Agreement Yet Reached With Power Company On Price of Current i COUNCIL FAVORS CITY LIGHTING WHITE WAY Oil Engine Would Save Munici pality Thousands of Dollars Yearly, Says Walker It is almost a cretainty that the city of Americus wlil purchase an oil engine and generate the current, to be used in lighting the white wa,y' unless some agreement is reached with the local lighting company with in the next two weeks. This be came known Friday night at the regular meeting of the city coun cil, when dissatisfaction was regist ered by every member of council at the lighting company's failure to come to an agreement on the price to be charged fa lighting the white way. Several months ago, according to City Engineer Walker, the South Georgia Public Service company agreed to furnish current for the white way at 3.7 per kilowatt hour. This figure was considered entire ly too high by the city engineer, and since then the lighting compa ny has failed to discuss the rate with the members of the light com mittee, said Mr. Walker. Specifications of one make 'of oil engine were read by Aiderman Murray, who has held conferences with representatives of several large oil engine manufacturing concerns. In estimating the power cost for the city, the specifications show that current can be produced at $.OlOl per kilowatt hour, which would mean a saving of $10,886.40 per year to the city. Aside from generating current for lighting the white way, the en gine would be used to pump water from the artesian wells to the sur face. This is now benig done by antiquated air compressor at an enormous expense to the city. City Engineer Walker stated that if the oil engine was put into use at the waterworks, the city’s coal bill, which amounts to thousands of dol lars a year, would be cut to one fourth. “We would only use one car of coal where we are now us ing four,” he said. Action on the purchase of an oil engine was deferred until next meeting, when the light committee will have specifications and price lists of several other makes of en-. gines. The following is the estimated power cost for the city of Amer icus with a 67-hoursepower Tips oil engine: Engine figured being a 67-horse power Tips, two-cylinder, vertical, oil engine, producing at full load approximately 47 killowatts per hour. Fuel figured at 6 l-2c per gallon. Lubricating oil figured at 50c (Continued On Pace Fivai INOW HIS WHEREABOUTS PUZZLES PEN BOSSES <• J' OfoX • I 1 On money he obtained from sell ing original crossword puzzles to newspapers, Harvey Stigler is tak ing a “vacation” from the Okla homa penitentiary. His ability in devising the puzzles so won the con fidence of Governor Trapp that he granted him a 30-day parole. Stig ler hasn’t been seen since. [SWPUBLISHED UN THE HEART OF DIXIE FOUND GUILTY R. G. Curington, Talbot County Man, Convicted in Talbot County Superior Court of Shooting Brother to Death Near Junction City , Sunday, April 15th, This Year. CHAIR SENTENCE TODAY Understood That October 16 Will Be Designated By Judge C. Frank McLaughlin As the Execution Date—Defendant Claims he Shot His Brother in Self-Defense. COLUMBUS, Ga., Sept. 12. R. G. Currington, of Junction City, Ga., was last night in Talbot su perior court found guilty of the murder of his brother, H. H. Cur ington, and this morning will be sentenced to die in the electric chair according to reports received by the Enquirer-Sun from Talbotton. It is understood that October 16 will be designated by Judge C. Frank Mc- Laughlin as the execution date. The verdict of guilty was return ed at 9:30 o’clock last night, five hours and a half after the case had gone to the jury. The defendant showed little emotion; but his wife who sat behind him, was overcome. Defense counsel immediately filed a motion for a new trial. The defendant was placed on trial in Talbotton Thursday after noon, the case going to the jury yesterday afternoon at four o’clock. Curling was indicted on a murder charge, it being alleged that he shot and killed his brother, near Junc tion City, Sunday, April 15, 1925, Curington, a farmer, is well known in Junction City and throughout Talbo.t county. The defendant made a statement yesterday, claiming that he shot his brother in self defense. He assert ed that he was being advanced up on with an axe when he fired the shot. The defendant introduced several witnesses who testified that bad feeling on the part of H. H. Curington, the dead man, had exist ed, and that he had threat ened about two years ago to kill his brother. Alleged trouble over money mat ters was testified to by several wit nesses. The state’s main witnesses were two small boys. One of them, Hen ry Curington, is the son of the de ceased. He is nine years old. The other was an eleven-year-old boy, Grady Hesters. The boys, testified as eye witness es, told the jury that R. G. Curing ton called to his brother and that when the latter turned around the former fired the fatal shot. They said that they did not see an axe in IjL H. Curington’s hands. The state offered several other witnesses, but the testimony of the two youngsters was what was relied on chiefly by Solicitor General WaJker R. Flournoy, who conduct ed the prosecution. The verdict of guilty carried no recommendation to the merey of the court. It carries with it a death sentence. The verdict was signed by S. B. Parker, the foreman of the jury. FORD WILL NOT BUY PAN AMERICAN SHIPS WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—Hen ry Ford has decided not to bid for the Pan-American ships now op erated by the Munson company from New York, to South American ports. The Detroit manufacturer’s decision was communicated to Chairman O’Conner of the Shipping Board and to President Palmer of the Emergency Fleet corporation today by William B. Mayo, chief engineer of the Ford company. GERMANY INVITED TO ATTEND PACT MEET GENEVA, Sept. 12.—Allied powers today forwarded to their am< assadors in Berlin an invitation for Germany to participate in a conference to consider a- proposed security pact. The invitation, which is brief, suggests thp desirability of a meet ing of allied and German foreign ministers early next month. No site for the conference is specified. CALIFORNIA GIRL IS CROWNED ‘MISS AMERICA’ ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 12. The crown of “Miss America” rests today on the blond, unbobbed head of Miss Fay Lanphier, of Oakland, Calif., runner-up in last yea?s beauty pageant when Miss Pgffa Malcolmson, of Philadelphia, wou\ the title. Miss Lanphier was a go ed the title by a 13-2 decision * AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 12. 1925 Commander John Rodgers Jells Experiences Os Lost Aviators And Praises His Crew and Plane By JOHN RODGERS, U. S. N. HONOLULU, Sept. 12.—For the benefit of the interested public, I desire to mate at this time a def inite statement of facts in regard to the voyage of the PN-9 number 1 from San Francisco to Nawailwili. Other statements heretofore pub liaiked by the press are unauthorized by me. , The PN-9 number 1 and number 3 left San Francisco approximately at the same time on August 31, number 3 leading by about twenty minutes. The PN-9 number 3 was not sighted by number 1 after de parture, Plane PN-9 number 1 pro ceeded as per instructions, sailing on a straight 'course to Kahulus. About noon we decided that our gasoline supply would carry us about midway between the Aroos took and the Tanager, respectively, the next to the last and the last sta tion ship. It was here we decided to land at the Aroostook which is a fully equipped airplane tender. We still had plenty of gasoline to land, refuel and take off again for Honolulu, this was in accordance with the pre-arranged plans to meet situation with which we were forc ed on approaching the Aroostook. EFFORT TO FIRE NOEL’S DOCTOR Dr- Thompson Asked for Resig nation Because of Boy’s Es cape From Asylum NEWARK, Sept. 12.—With four indictments returned aganist Har rison W. Noel, lawyer's son, con fessed murderer and kidnaper of six-year-old Mary Daly, the resig nation of Dr. John W. Thompson, senior physician of the Overbrook Asylum for Defectives, from which Noel escaped, is sought. The demand is made by the Essex County Board of Freeholders, which declares Dr. Thompson granted a virtual parole to Noel without the knowledge or consent of his superiors. PROF. M’NEIL TO PLAY AT IST METHODIST CHURCH Professor E. H. McNeil, former organist of the First Methodist church and now of Macon, will play the organ at the morning and eve ning services at th e First Method ist church Sunday and will render a special recital at vesper services, which will be held at 5:30 in the aftetnoon. The public is invited to all three services. SEVERE WIND STORM SWEEPS ILLINOIS CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Wire com panies received reports late Friday of a severe wind storm at Creent City, Ills. Communications was entirely disrupted. Meagre reports from surrounding towns mentioned no casualties. • SIN IS BLAMED FOR DRY SPELL ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 12.—Boot leg activities, radio, bobbed hair and sin in general are held as the cause for the lengthy drought, which has for thrnpast several weeks prevailed in Georgia, accord ing to scores of letter' 1 which have reached the desk of Governor Walk er during the past few days. During the spell which has caused many churches to offer special prayers for rain, the governor has received •communications offering al Iman ner of means in bringing to an end to the drought. BIG COTTON FIRE IN ALBANY FRIDAY ALBANY, Ga., Sept. 12.—Part of the huge plant ot the southeast ern warehouse and compress com pany, nearly one hundred bales of cotton and a negro dwelling were destroyed in a fire here Friday which caused damage cf $30,000. Locala uthorities believe the blaze was started by sparks from a pass ing locomotive. Valuable property in the vicin ity of the fire was menaced for a while but efforts of firemen and a shift in the wind confined the Lblazze ’to .its origin at the ware- We received radio bearings from her, indicating that we were south of her and on reaching a point where it thought she would be vis ible and not being to gee her, we changed our course to approach on these bearings.- It became evident that she would not be found on this course. I started to write a mes sage which would give her some due to our whereabout but just then the gasoline gave out. Both engines stopped simultane ously and we were forced to glide about 800 feet. We cut the fabric from the low er wing and rigged a fore sail. Weather conditions were moderate, although during the afternoon the seas were high. The plane ■at all time behaved very well. After the first day we felt sure that unless the weather changed very much sot the worse we could make Oahu, or failing that, we could certainly be able to make Kauai, our only con cern a question of water supply We knew we could get along with out food, of which we had small emergency rations. We were depending on a small water still for water. This supplied wdter, but the plane still required gasoline, aS fuel. ASSIGN CITY COURT CASES September Term to Open Sep tember 21; Very Light Dock et Is In Prospect Members of the Americus Bar Association met with Judge W. M. Harper in the city court room to assign cases for the September term of city court, which opens Mon day, September 21, Indications point to both the civil and criminal calendar being very light, and there is no case of outstanding importance to come up said Solicitor T. O. Mar shall. One of the most interesting cases and the first of its kind in Sumter county, will come up for disposition during the week set aside for crim inal business. This is the Ed Brooks, colored, charged with blocking the public highway. The negro was arrested on the Dawson road several months ago after he had stretched a long wire across the road in an effort to hold up trav elers. At the time of his arrest, Ed was armed with an antiquated army rifle and a pistol of large calibre. He has been in the county jail since his arrest. ’ FEDERAL LANDS IN FLORIDA ABSORBED WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 —The rush to Florida has absorbed all the valuable federal public lands there open to homesteaders. Public domain in Florida amount ed to 80,000 acres july 1, 1924. Last July it had dwindled to 20,- 000 acres and today the Interior Department announced that none remained, except tracts of little value. Heads G. A. iC. W -rm. 'MI w < •> " \ John B. Inman of Springfield, 111. is the new commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. elected at the national encampment at Grand Rapids, Mich. We managed to get the still go ing on the sixth day by burning wood from the railing edges of the lower wings. On the seventh day we made a canteen and a half of water in about five hours. The water in the radiators of the engi ines was undrinkable due to Being impregnated with a patent solution to prevent leaks. We managed to make our small supply of water, about two canteens a man, stretch over seven days. On the eighth day a heavy rain squall passed over us and we caught about two gallons in the fabric which had been cut from the lower wings. This enabled us to survive and consequuently we were in very good condition when we arrived off Nawailiwili. Crossing the steamer lane from Honolulu to the coast a steamer crossed our bow about five miles ahead in the early morning. Due probably to the fact that the sun was low and directly in the eyes of the observevrs we were not seen. On the seventh, Lieutenant Con nell devised lee boards which enab led us to crab off the wind about 15 degrees and were of great assis tance to us in getting across Kauai channel. Without them we would not have made Kauai. JEWEL MOUND WILL BE CLOSED Cool Weather Causes Archael ogists to Halt Evacuation Until Spring CHILLICOTHE, Sept. 12.—The incoming autumn season with its uncertain weather conditions called a halt today to the evacuation in the great Seip mound, near Bain bridge. just as archaeologists an nounced that they had made one of the greatest finds in the history of their exploration into the works of American mound builders. Until next spring the three fourths of the mound which have not yet been opened, will retain the secrets they have held for cen turies, AVIATORSARE WELL AND HAPPY Are Still At Pearl Harbor Re covering From Their Stren uous Cruise HONOLULU, Sept. 12. Rested, happy and aslepe, America’s five he roes of aerial navigation were at Pearl Harbor today recovering from their strenuous cruise in which they were cast about by the vagrant winds in ir.id-Pacific for nine days on the seaplane PN-9, No. 1. The men were ordered to bed at the hospital after their arrival from Lihue aboard a steamer. They were received with open arms by the island popuulace, headed by Governor Wallace Farrington. COTTON SEED BRINGING $52 TON AT SMITHVILLE SMITHVILLE, Sept. 12— (Spe cial >—Smithville today is probably the highest cotton seed mac tec n th > state. Seed marketed nnre are bringing $52 a ton. This s $8 to $lO more than they .are receiving in other places. The seed have been brining around S4O a ton since the season opened, but Friday the | market was raised to $52. The farmers offering seed are receiving cash for them. Apology > The damage done to our com- ' posing room by the severe light- ? • ning storm of Wednesday, ; ( coupled with break* in machin < ery, over which we had no con / >trol, ar)fe responsible for the delay in delivery of paper* to out-of-town subscriber*. We ( rgeret that we were unable to S deliver the paper* on schedule time, but assure our subscriber* that from Monday on the paper* will be delivered on time. LOVELACE EVE, Publisher. ) NAME SNELLING Dean of the University of Geor gia Elected Acting Chancellor Until June, After Three Long and Hectic Executive Sessions By the Trustees in the Su preme Court Room HARRIS REFUSES POST Macon Man Tell* Trustee* Over Long Distance Phone That He Would Not Accept—L. G. Cour oil Supported Hon. L. W. Branch, Quitman, One of Five Nominee* for Important Po*t. (By Lovelace Eve.) ATLANTA, Sept. 12. (By Tele phone.)—Dean Charles M. Snelling, of the UnUiversity of Georgia late Friday night was elected acting chancellor until June after three long and hectic executive sessions of the university trustees in the Supreme courtroom, after General Walter A. Harris, of Macon, had de clined over long distance telephone to accept the nomination. It is general concensus of opin ion, as far as can be ascertained 1 from outside sources, that the elec tion of Dean Snelling to the office of acting chancellor does nqt abso lutely insure his election to the Im portant post one year hence. It is understood by many that Snell ing’s election is only temporary, and \yas brought about as a means of expediting matters. Tn every one of five ballots tak en Friday afternoon General Har ris led all other candidates by a .large number of votes, though not securing the necessary 19 for elec tion. There was some uncertainty as to whether or not he would accept if elected, and so after the fifth ballot, the board adjournel until 8 o’clock at night. During the recess General Har ris was reached by long distance telephone and stated positively that he could not accept the chancellor ship. Upon reconvening at 8 o’clock the board immediately decided to elect an acting chancellor until June, 1926 and then elected Dean Snelling to the office. Dean Snellings will receive the same compensation that the chan cell or would he paid. He has been connected with the university for the past 25 years and has been dean for a number of years. He came to Georgia from Virginia, where he graduated from Virginia Military institute. In the meantime the committee elected last June to investigate the chancellorship is to be continued un til June. Members of the commit tee are Judge Samuel H. Sibley, Colonel W. E. Simmons, Judge Peter W. Meldrim and James B. Nevin. Hon. V W. Branch, Quitman, was nominated for the chancellor ship early in the afternoon by Judge W. E. Thomas, of Valdosta, and seconded by Judge J. R- Pottle of Albany. Branch was given between six and eight votes on each ballot, and was backed, it is said almost solidly by the south Georgia dele gation. L. G. Council, trustee from Americus, voted for the Quitman attorney on all ballots. The fact that Enelling’s nomina tion is considered temporary is indi cated by the fact that a motion was carried allowing the sub-committee an expense account to further inves tigate the chancellorship during the coming year. Members of the com mittee are: Judge Samuel H. Sibley, Col. W. E. Simmons, Judge Peter W. Meldrim and James E. Nevin. The morning session was delayed for several hours while the trustees awaited the arrival pf a number of trustees from South Georgia, who were delayed en route. MITCHFXI. SUGGESTS MEDALS FOR FLYERS SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 12.—-An overland flight from New York to Peking, China, by two army trans port airships, now being construct ed, and the awarding of distinguish ed service medal to Commander John Rodgers and his crew., were suggested today by Colonel William Mitchell, eighth corns area air of fleer, in a formal statement. 'GUNBOATS PROCEEDING TO NACARUGA CITIES WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. —The gunboats Tulsa and Denver ar e proceeding from Panama to the ports of Corinto and Bluefields, Nicarauga, respectively, as a pre cautionary measure, thought nec essary by the American legation in Nicarauga, due to disturbed politi cal situation. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Oct 23.67|23.62|23.75|23.95 Dec 23.98(23.95|24.10|24.36 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling, 22 3-4. PRICE FIVE CENTS HELL CAT OF THE ARMY NATURAL BORN SCRAPPER CoJ. Mitchell Was Taught to Be a Fighter, Not a “Swivel Chair Soldier” FIERY AIRMAN IS POOR SPECTATOR Feels It His Duty to Help Make The United States Supreme in the Air SAN ANTONKXTex., Sept 12 -All his life Col. Bjll y Mitchell has been a fighter. and\ 8 ? ther ’ 3 CiVi ‘ War Veteran and later a senator from Wisconsin to instill that spirit in him as soon as he was able to walk He always urged Billy to be a soldier— not a“a swivel chair” sol dier, but a fighting soldier. And this “hell cat of the army” has been fighting ever since-not with words alone, for Mitchell made a distinguished record at the front during the Spanish-American and World Wars. ‘He’s the poorest spectator I ever saw,” a friend says of him. Billy won’t watch anything from the ‘‘tho'ir b insisti ’ on being in the thick of the fight.’’ No doubt there were many of his opponents in the army who thought his demotion early this year from brigadier general and assistant chief of the air service would squelch him. Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio— far away f rom Washington— probably seemed to them an ideal place to “bury thia “hell cat.” But Mitchell waited his time find then when the opportunity came again struck telling blows in hia long fight to reorganize the military and. naval air services. Mitchell’s demeanor now is not that of a martyr or of one whose aim to create sensations so that his name may be broadcast, from coast to coast. During his life he has had more than his share of publicity. He feels that it is his duty to do everything possible to make Amer ica supreme in the air. Always a fighter, he does not hesitate now to fight for his convictions, even in the face of possible courtmartia and dismissal from the service. At the outbreak of the World War Mitchell went to Europe as an American .observer. He was the first American offi cer to fly over the allied lines. At St. Mihiel where the Americans made their greatest drive of the war, he was in comamnd of the air forces—the largest aero concentra tion in the history of the world. He actively participated in other big drives and never hesitated to do actual combat flying, despite his high command. Decorations from his own and foreign governments were numerous. In many respects Mitchel 1 re minds one of Roosevelt. SENT TO GET THE GOODS ON COLONEL MITCHELL fey*-I, wX? * Col. George A. Nungent of the army inspector general's office at Washington has been ordered to San Antonio to get a statement from Col. Billy Mitchell relative to hi? latest aviation charges. It is e> pected courtmartia! proceedings wt* be based on Nugent's repost.
