About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 14, 1925)
1 SEASON’S RECEIPTS | Bales received Saturday 678 ; Total bales received 13,079 I WEATHER For Georgia— Fair tonight and j Tuesday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. '215. Sunday Electrical Storms in East Claim Toil of 8 Lives HALF MILLION DAMAGE DONE TO PROPERTY Two Women and Two Children Drowned in Susquehana River at Clyde, Pa. LIGHTNING DESTROYS SCORE OF BUILDINGS Two Men Killed By Bolts and Two Are Drownded When Squall Upsets Boat NEW YORK, Sept. 14. Eight persons are known to be dead as a result of Sunday electrical storms in the east which broke ths record breaking September heat wave. The property damage is estimated at $500,000. Western New York and parts of New England, Pennsylvania and Maryland were the hardest hit. Houses were demolished, huge trees were uprooted, telephone and tele graph lines were snapped aid crops were damaged m all of these states. Two women and two children were drowned in the Susjuehana river, at Clyde, Pa., last nigat when their row boat capsized in a storm. Two men were killed by Ightning and two others were drowned when a squall upset their boat in the East river. Lightning, the most vivid and de structive seen in many yea’s, de stroyed a score of buildings and tore down wires for miles Around. Traffic was held up in the city for several hours while linemen vere at work. HEAVY RAINFALL CAUSE OF DEATH OF TWO LORAIN, Ohio, Sept. 14.—Rain, which fell almost incessantly for twenty-four hours Sunday :aused the death of two persons aid the suspension of street car servile be tween Lorain and Elyria. Much property damage was caused by flooded cellars in north Drain, where sewers failed to carry o!f the water. Richard Stewart, 26, and Clara Trumbull, 30, were drowned, when after their automobile stalled in east 28th street, South Lorain, they attempted to circle the flcoded street. They stepped into a iitch more than eight feet deep. Anrther couple with them clung to slrub bery and later waded to safety BROTHER Gl VES SISTER IODIHE Youth Brings Little Girl Pouon Instead of Coffee, Parent Declare at Hospital NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Samny Deroon, 3, No. 35, Honroe St., who is deaf and dumb, made a mistake on his part Friday which neady cost the life of his sister Mary, 14 According to the parents, Samny and his sister were having break fast when Mary asked her brothel to pour her some coffee. The child went to the cupboard, the parents said, and got a bottle. It looked!, like coffee. She took one gulp |>f] the liquid. Seeing the mistake, her parents ran to the street screaming for help. Patrolman Lynch of the Oak St. Station summoned an ambulance and took the girl to Gouveneur Ho|- pital where it is said she will recov er. Police doubt the truth of th|j parent’s story and have booked ths girls on a charge of attempted sui cide. COLQUITT JO GET 20,000 BALES COTTON, FORECAST MOULTRIE, Sept. 14.—Colquitt county’s 1925 cototn crop estimated at the beginning of the picking sea son at 15,000 bales will total at least 20,000 bales in the opinion of vet eran warehousemen in Moultrie. They state that every ginnery in the county has already ginned more cotton than it did in 1924 when the cdunjty prodded domething over 12,000 bales. In this connection it is pointed out that the fields in all sections of the moultrie territory are still white, although all of the staple has been open for several weeks. thetimes|?recorder PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE YEAR ON ICEBERG Kay Jorgensen, Intrepid Dan ish Explorer, and a Little Band of Followers Live for Twelve Months On Floating Iceberg With Arctic Animals As Their Only Food. COIN TOSS SAVED LIVES Nomads of the Wandering Iceberg Were Sent Out By Danish Gov i ernment to Explore the Ice-Fang ed Coast of Northern Greenland for Colonization and Mineral Purposes. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14.—More than most fictional tales of adven ture is tho Arctic experience of Kay 1 Jorgensen, intrepid Danish explor er, an da little band of followers. For more than a year Jorgensen and the crew of his ship Teddy which sailed from Copenhagen in June, 1922, to explore the ice-fang ed coast of northern Greenland for ’ colonization and minmeral purposes, lived on a floating iceberg. ' For nearly two years their only food consisted of Arctic animals ’ which they were able to catch, shoot or trap. L And a toss of a coin finally saved their lives. . Soon after reaching the Arctic re ’ gions on his hazardous undertaking , Jorgensen’s little ship was caught in an ice drift and crushed t» pieces. The explorer and his companions [ managed to salvage the cabin of , the vessel and a few month’s supply . of food. They moved the cabin to ; the center of a big iceberg and hoped it would drift 400 miles to southern Greenland and civilization. Instead of their mountain of ice drifting it became marooned in the , ocean of melting bergs. : Each day their island home be | came smaller. i One morning they awoke to find • that their iceberg had broken in i two, leaving a portion of their shack ’in which they slept, hanging out , over a steep precipice of ice. ’ Thunderous groans from the crack ing ice warned the veteran explor i ers that a still bigger break in the i floating island was near at hand. 1 Then it was that the stranded ' wanderers gambled with Fate by I flipping a coin. 1 “Heads or tails. . . ” “Tails" meant that they would • move to the opposite end of the ice. “Heads". . . they would stav; where they were. It came “heads.” A few minutes later the other half of the frozen flow broke of from the main body and was obliter ated under surging torrent of ice and snow. For a year the explorers were forced nomads of the wandering Ice berg, drifting aimlessly with every wind. Eskimo fishermen were first to sight them. Word was sent to Den mark and a rescue steamer sailed to their assistance. Jorgensen is visiting relatives here. His expedition was commis sioned by the Danish government. DIRIGIBLE PROBE BOARD IS NAMED Colonel William Mitchell, Chief Figure in Controversy, It to Be Expert Witness WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. A court of inquiry to investigate the ,Shenandoah disaster,’ with Rear I Admiral Hilary P. Jones, Chief of (the navy’s general board, as its pres ■ ident, was appointed today by Sec jretary Wilbur. !i At the time that Wilbur was an nouncing the personnel of the Shen li andoah board, the war department I made plans to have Colonel William ■! Mitchell, chief figure in the whole t controversy, available as an expert - witness for the President’s commis -sion when that body begins its in -5 quiry. ! i A report from Major General 5 Ernest Hinds, commander of the ' eighth corps area, transmitting the t formal answer made by Colonel 1 Mitchell accepting the responsibility ? for his San Antonio statement, ’ reached the war department today 1 ind was started through routine Channels. .AMERICUS. GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 14. 1925 President Coolidge Returns to Capital ■ * rMHE /"ar -& a (. Mjn I- - rjLflk 3 ' H'is eleven weeks of vacation, over, President Coolidge is back! at his desk in Washington. This! picture, taken as members of his] 7,286 Bales Are Ginned Here To Septembei Ist. This Compares With 4,369 Bales Ginned During Same Period of 1924 Season There were 7,286 bales of cotton ginned in Sumter county from the opening of the 1925 season up to September 1, according to the re port issued tedey by W. P. Persons, special agent of the United States Census Bureau. This compares with 4,369 bales ginned in the coun ty during the same period of the 1924 season. It is the opinion of cotton ware housemen and gin operators that ap proximately 13,000 bales will have been ginned by September 15, which is estimated at being a little more than half of this year’s production. It is reported a number of far mers are having a hard time secur ing labor to pick their cotton, but ’in spite of this handicap it is pre dicted that the bulk of the crop will be out of the fields before Novem ber first, providing fair weather prevails. Several cotton farmers have made efforts to bring labor from the ■ drouth stricken areas of the state into this section, but have met with little or no success. VISITING YOUTH STRUCK BY CAR Glen Kimmel, Grandson of Prof, and Mrs. Mathis, Is Pain fully Injured Failure of the driver of an ap proaching automobile to dim his lights caused Mrs. Ceci! Walters to knocked down and painfully injure little Glenn Kinmel, grandson of Prof, and Mrs. J. E. Mathis,-on Lee street, near the Seaboard viaduct. Saturday evening. The little fellow was bruised about the body and re- J ceived a blow on the head. He is resting well today and is considered out of danger. , Glenn was walking with his moth er when the accident occurred. When Mrs. Kinmel stopped to speak to a neighbor he left her side and darted across the street. He had nearly reached the opposite side when the car struck him. Mrs. Walters, who was exonorat ed of all blame, stated that she was unable to see the little fellow be cause she was temporary blinded by the bright lights on an approaching automobile. Glenn and hi smother, who reside in Sarasota, Fla., have been visiting Prof, and Mrs. Mathis for several days. MAX BAM. NOTED N. Y. LAWYER, DIED TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Max Pam, 62, noted lawyer and organ izer, with Vice President Dawes, of the Central Trust Company of Ill inois. and founder of the University of Notre Dame School of Journal ism, died today at his home here from a heart attack. j cabinet greeted him on the arrival lof his train, shows, left to right, Secretary of Commerce Herbert | Hoover, President Coolidge, Mrs. CROWDS ATTEND FIRST SERVICES IN AUDITORIUM Rev. Outler Praises Congrega tion First Methodist Church; Resolution Adopted A crowd estimated at between 1,- 000 and 1,500 people greeted Rev. John M. Outler, pastor ox the First Methodist church at the 11 o’clock service Sunday morning, the first to be held in the completed auditor ium. A like number were also pres ent at the Vesper services in the afternoon, when Prof. McNeil gave an organ Yecital, and at the evening services, Rev. T. E. Davenport, of Baxley and former pastor of this church filling the pulpit. At the morning .services Rev Out ler complimented the members of his congregation on the beautiful edi fice they had erected and declared that the chruch could not have been built had it not been for the liberal donations of its members and co operation of the people of Ameri cus. Tonight at 7:30 o’clock Dr. Chas. A. Sheldon, Jr., city organist of At lanta, will render an organ recital. He has arranged a very attractive program, which will be featured by several of his best compositions. The following resolution was adopted by the congregation at the Sunday morning services: As We Worship today for the first time in the auditorium of our new Church building, our hearts are filled with Gratitude and Thanks giving to Almighty God for His many blessings upon us. We have also a deep and an abid ing appreciation of the Sympathy, Co-operation and Assistance which has been so generously given us by our Fellow-citizens, both individuals and Officials: Be It Therefore Resolved, by the membership of this church today: First: That with grateful hearts we here and now consecrate this building and all the activities of the Church centered therein to the Good of Man-Kind, the Glory of Almighty God and the advancement of His Kingdom on Earth. Second: That we assure our Bretheren of the other Churches, the Citizens of Americus, the Times- Recorder, the Board of Education, the Mayor and City Council and the County Commissioners and their employees of our very great and lasting gratitude and appreciate for' the assistance and encouragement, which they, each and all, have so generously and continuously given us in the housing of the congrega tion after the burning of the Old Church building and in the erection of this building, and we do extend to them a most cordial welcome to this Church at all times and that they may at all times feel that they have had a most vital part in the erection of this building. Third: That a copy of these Resolutions be furnished the Tunes- Recorder with the request that they be published at an early date. Everett Sanders, wife of the presi dent's secretary, Mrs. Coolidge, Senator William M. Butler and Sec retary of State Frank B. Kellogg. Father Warned Not To Defend Youth At Trial Letter Signed “K.K.K.” Says Mary Daly’s Slayer Will Not Stand Chance of Rabbit NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—A new angle in the double murder story is given by friends of Dix W. Noel, father of the murderer, who Friday at the Fraternity Clubs, 38th St. and Madison Avenue, intercepted 1 warning letter addressed to the stricken parent and bearing on the envelope the letters “K.K.K.” Reporters were told that the let ter, which they were not allowed to see, read thus: . “If you value your life you will keep the Hudson River between you and Montclair, N. J., and you will make no attempt to defend that brute son of yours. If you have any desire to re habilitate the name of Noel in the State of New Jersey you will at least pay the funeral expenses of your son’s two victims, Raymond Pierce and Mary Daly. “In a statement yow issued on Thursday, you made reference to your son’s compassion on shooting his first rabbit.. He will not have the chance of that rabbit if he es capes the legal punishment due him.’’ The letter was signed “.K.K.K." and postmarked Montclair, N. J., at 10 p.m., Sept. 10. U.S. SENATOR IS ARRESTED Robert B. S. Stanfield Charged With Being Drunk and Dis orderly; Taken at Case BAKER, Oregon, Sept. 14. Robert N. Stanfield, Jr., United States Senator from Oregon, was arrested on a charge of being drunk and disorderly at a case here last night. He was released on bail, but no time for the hearing was fixed. The arrest, which friends of the Senator characterized as an “out rage” in a formal statement tele graphed to the Oregonia, at Port land, came when a policeman wat said to have remonstrated witn svantieid for his conduct. Stan field deniel that he was either drunk or disorderly and said that the ar rest was unprovoked. The Senator’s arrest caused quite a sensation in Baker and other cities when it became known. PAVING REVIVAL IN SOUTH GEORGIA There is a paving revival in South Georgia, both in road paving and street paving! Valdosta is paving all her streets, practically, and Lowndes county is paving her high ways. Ih Mitchell , county the Dixie Highway has been paved from one side of the county to the other, and Pelham is paving on one of the largest projects that has been seen in that section. Sixty-nine city blocks are topaved mak ing a total length of about six miles. Even this will probably be 1 increased before the job is finished. SEVERE DROUTH Washington Carres pondent Writes of Dry Spell Which Is Causing Texas Ranchmen to Shoot Their Cattle to Prevent I Them Dying Slowly From Lack of Food and Water. WEEVILS HIT HARD BLOW Georgia Farmers Feeding Ragweed to Their Swine and Cutting Small Bushes for Other Stock. Several Towns Are Bringing in Their Water Supplies in Tank Cars. ATLANTA, Sept. 14.—John S. Holder, chairman of the State High way Commission, today issued an appeal to county authorities in the drouth-stricken area to co-operate with the state and federal govern ment in providing employment for all men and stock during the fall and winter months. Holder's statement was issued on his return from Washington. By CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. ,B u t for the fact that transportation fac ilities are ample in the United States a considerable part of the South would be on the eve of as genuine a famine as everr gripped China, according to arrivals in Washington from the drought belt, described as extending roughly from the southern Virginia and North and South Carolina coasts through most of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and into Texas. That it has been a dry season in this region is no news, but if re liable eye witnesses’ stories are to be believed the situation’s real seri ousness is only just beginning to be revealed. Not only have crops suffered heavily, but in some sections it is declared that good trees are dying, to such a depth is the earthly com pletely dried out. Small lakes and numerous fairly large streams have disappeared so completely that their beds are deep in dust and buzzards are eating dead fish from them. References are made to Texas ranchmen who are shooting their livestock, too emaciated to sell and doomed otherwise to a slower death from lack of food and water. Manv Georgia farmers are feed ing ragweed to their swine and cut iting sm-’ll bushes for their other 'stock. Towne are mentioned which i are bringing in their water sup plier in tank enrss. The situation has one recompense The boll weevil can’t stand such dry weather much better than the cot ton can. The boll weevil distinctly is a wet. Without moisturue he dies. That’s what he’s been doing late ly, at a-prodigious rate. Indica tions are that next year he’ll be scarce. Later on he may increase and multiply again, but his absence even for a single season will be a bless ing. It will mean, given an ade quate rainfall, a good 1925 cotton crop, at any rate. TUG’SCREWOFIO SAVED FROM SEA Boat Runs On Sand Bar Off Sandy Hook While Towing Barges; Total Loss ASHBURY PARK, Sept. 14. Ten men were rescued from a chop py sea, while a large tugboat, thef Helen Beck, of New York, was left to the mercy of the waves recently on Roamer Shoal, four mils north of Sandy Hook, according to informa tion rceived by Capt. M. W. Ras mussen, in charge of the Fifth Coast Guard District here. Meagre reports said that the tug boat was towing two mud barges and ran on the sand bar in a fog shortly after 7 a. m. The waves battered the craft in five feet of water, and the heavy barges had to be cut loose. These were rescued by tugs sent out from New York after Coast Guardsmen had saved the captain and nine men of the Helen Beck. The tug is expected to be a total loss. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Oct 2<3.95|24.13|24.20(24.46 > Dec . .24.36(24.50(24.56(24.85 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON j Middling. 23 l-2c. ; PRICE FIVE CENTS 8188 COOD -WILL TOURISTS HERE TUESDAY NOON ! . 5 Americus Automobiles Will Meet Motorcade Before It En ters the City LUNCHEON WILL BE SERVED AT WINDSOR Steve Pace to Deliver Welcome* Address; Band Concert in Front of Windsor A number of Americus automo bile* will go out the Dixie Highway Tue.day to meet the Macon Good-. Will Tourist* who will come direct from Oglethorpe here for luncheon., There will be around 100 men in tb« Macon motorcade, who have ar ranged to lunch at noon at thw Windsor hotel. The Macon cars will come into the city, circle the Windsor hotel block, and park in front of the ho tel, where a band concert and speeches will be made. The chief of police has agreed to requuest all local cars to park out side the Lamar street block, be tween Windsor avenue and Jackson street, reserving this space for the. Macon ears, the band and a gather ing place for local citizens. A number of local business men will have lunch with the Macon tourists after the concert. Lincoln McConnell, secretary of the Macon Chamber of Commerce today telephoned Lovelace Eve, president of the local chamber, that the Macon business men would be glad to have a few local men join them at lunch and that two or three short talks from local men would ba appreciated. “I am sure you appreciate the fact that this is largely a get-ac quainted trip and not with the idea of advertising Macon merchants or in trying to influence the people of your city to trade with out of town merchants, except where they can not purchase locally, Mr. Mc- Connell said. “Macon buys a thrge quantity of farm products and we believe the tour, operated as we ex pect to have it, will do much to pro mate a feeling of good will among we fellow Georgians." ‘‘The merchants and business men are urged to gather around the ho tel for a few minutes and extend a hand of welcome to the Macon busi ness men,” Mr. Eve, president of the Chamber of Commerce, stated Monday morning. “These fellow* are just out to stir up a closer feel ing between South Georgians, and here’s a chance for we of Ameri cus, ‘the Garden Spot of Dixie,” t<> show them we can meet them half way. Hon. Steven Pace has been requested to deliver the welcoming address at the j*int luncheon Tues day. Other impromptu speakers will also be heard who will tell our neighbors from Macon about our great section <Jf tha state. ,s ( DEATHISNEARER FOR DICKIE LOEB Franks Slayer Failing As Prison Year Ends; “Won’t Live Fve Years,” Warden JOLIET, 111., Sept. 14. The shadow of death was visibly closer to “Dickie” Loeb*Friday—the first anniversary of the day the big steel doors of the state penitnetiary closed behind him. Loeb, joint kidnaper and slayer with Nathan Leopold of Bobbie Franks, has been failing rapidly. Last June he had a violent attack of nerves, and his ravings resounded through the grim stone corridors of the prison. His condition improved somewhat, but the deterioration in his health and mentality predicted by physicians has been progressing steadily. When the brass gong which daily rouses the prisoners sounded, the effects of his decline were more steadily visible than ever. “Loeb will not live five years,’’ declared Warden Whitman.
