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SEASON’S RECEIPTS Bales received Thursday 365 Total number bales received for season 14,260 WEATHER For Georgia—Fair tonight and Saturday, (RTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 219 Health Board Frees Sumter Negroes of Typhoid Fever NO NEW CASES REPORTED THIS MONTH TO OFFICE Dr. Chambliss Says Dreaded Disease Is Now Under Con trol Among Negroes ONLY TWO CASES AMONG WHITE PEOPLE fHIS YEAR Ignorance Cause of High Fa tality Among Colored Dur ing Early Summer The slight typhoid epidemic among the negroes of the county is now under control.no new eases having been reported this month. So far as is known by the Sum .ter county health board, there have been only two or three white per sons in the county to contract ty phoid fever. Among the negroes there have been probably 25 or more, and, according to Dr. J. W. Chambliss, chairman of the board, one-half the negro cases have prov en to be fatal. This high fatality is caused by the fart that the negroes do not know how to treat the disease, often sick for sometime before medical aid is sought, and then they fail to follow proper diet, says Dr. Chambliss. Tn no case, however, where vac cination was taken in time has there been a case of typhoid. In those sections where the disease was pre valent and the board notified the disease has been stopped. Discussing the typhoid work to day, Dr. Chambliss said- “There has been no new eases of typhoid fever reported to the Health Department this month and possibly the most active campaign of vaccination has been carried out in order to prevent any further loss of time or life from this pre ventable disease. “The Health Department is vac cinating around 1000 per week, the majority of which is, typhoid vvac cinations; second, smallpox, and in almost equal number toxin-anti toxin, which immunizes a child for life against diptheria. '*Tn order to cover this situation as rapidly as possible, we have been vaccinating against typhoid fever whenever 25 or more people could be gotten together in the county, and, advantage taken by the people Is very noticeable. The vaccina tions have been on John Council’s Estate place near the River. New Pineville near I. B. Small’s farm, Brown’s Mill, A. F. Hodges farm near Andersonville, J. B. Griffin’s farm, John Methvin’s Store, 28th District, A. & M. School. Wells Mill and Thompson’s School. The follow ing schedule is arranged for next week to vaccinate at A. & M. School Monday at 2 p. m., John Methvin’s Store, Monday at 6 p. m. Thompson School Wednesday 1 p. m. Well’s Mill, Wednesday at 4 p. m., (■Continued on Page Eight) FIRE DESTROYS MR. WIMBISH’S HOME Mr. Wimbish’s home located nine miles on the Ellaville road, and its contents were completely destroyed by fire, starting from a defective flue, early this afternoon. The oc cupants of the house were eating dinner when the fire started. It is not known whether any insurance was carried. MINISTER’S SONS SOLD “BAY RUM” BALTIMORE, Sept. 18. Receipts from the illegal sale of alcohol by the Maryland Drug and Chemical Co. wore entered on the firm’s ledgers as sale of “bay rum,” Mrs. Eva H. Eng land, former bookkeeper of the concern, testified at the trial of officers of the company on a charge of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. Among the defendant# are Winfield Jones and Neufield Jones, sons of the Rev. Charles Jones, former superintendent of the Georgia Anti-Saloon League. The Jones brothers are accused of having used their father’s high standing to cause the with drawal of alcohol from ware houses for disposition through bootleg channels. THE TIMESBRECORDER “EftSl/PUBLISHED IN THE «~HE ART- OF DlXl£~'iM<7? MAH SAVES HER Special Delivery Stamp .on Let ter, in Which She Told of Her Plans to Commit Suicide Because of Blasted Romance, Saved the Life of 23-Year-old New York Woman. WOMAN PRETTY NURSE Letter Is Received By Sister a Day Before Frances Van Wort Was to Have Committed Suicide Police Are Notified and Reach Giri Before She Had Time to Put Threat Into Execution. NEW YORK, Sept. 18—A spec ial delivery stamp on a letter, in which she told of her plans to com mit suicidb because of a blasted ro mance, saved the life of Frances Van Wort, 23, Milburn, N. J., teach er and nurse, according to the New York police. She had planned the act, say po lice, for Monday night, at the apart ment of Mr. and Mrs. David P. Barnes, No. 33 sth Ave., where she was recently employed as a nurse. Sunday she wrote to a sister in Mil burn, telling of the intended art. Unwittingly, she mailed the letter in an envelope carrying the special delivery stamp , and the letter, in stead of reaching Milburn Tuesday as it would have in the ordinary course of the mails, was delivered Monday night. The sister immediately called New York police, who rushed to the Barnes apartment, expecting to find the girl either dead or in the act of taking her life. They found Miss Van Wort very much alive. ‘She was rushed to Bel levue, where it was said last night that she is suffering from hysteria but should be able to go to her home within a day or so. She had made no attempt on her life, it was said. The art is said to have been planned by- the girl when, after waiting at the trysting place—the Barnes apartment—for nearly half a day, the girl’s sweetheart had fail ed to keep an appointment he had made for a chance to plead to the girl to forgive him in some quarrel that had separated the couple re cently. French Plan To Keep News from Riffians Fails Abd-El-Krim, leader. Uses Ra dio to Intercept Dispatches Not Intended for Him LONDON, Sept. 18.—Abd-El- Krim, Riff leader, makes valuable use of radio and wireless in the war against France and Spain in Mo rocco. France and Spain’s attempt to blockade Morrocan ports and cut Abd-El-Krim off from the news of the world, especially of French and Spanish movements, have failed completely due to the Riffian radio apparatus. Thirty sending and receiving sets of latest German make have been set up in the Riff country. Abd-El-Krim carries a radio set with him and has a staff of Riffs who have been trained to send and receive messages. They work in relays, night and day, so that they will get everything on the ether. Abd-El-Krim knows everything that is sent out by radio about him. He knows the effect his success had upon the citizens of Paris and Mad rid. He listened in and heard the speech the king of Spain made in Madrid to excite the patriotism of the people of his country. Another time he learned that the party of American aviators, serving the French army had left France for the Moroccan front. Another part of Abd-El-Krim’s wireless activities to information ser vice which he receives by secret code from hidden wireless posts in neutral countries. A story is told by a Frenchman who had a talk with Abd-El-Krim in one of his mountain retreats that after the discussion the Riff chief tain eaid. “Enough of this serious business. Let’s hear some music.” Abd-El-Krim adjusted the radio set, and in that faraway mountain icamp the astonished European heard the strains of a jazz band playing in the ballroom of a big London hotel. AMERICUS. GEORGIA FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 18.1925 STUDENTS MAY KNOW LESSONS, ‘MA’ FERGUSON CALLED PRESIDENT MEX ICO BY SOME AND RUTH BY OTHRES BUT SHOW IGNORANCE OF NEWS NEW YORK, Sept. 18. ‘Ma' Ferguson, governor of Texas, is identified in the minds of some American school students as presi dent of Mexico and also as Babe Ruth. Teapot Dome is thought by other students to be a building in Washington. And still others con fuse Mussilini with “Battling” Siki Al Jolson and “Billy” Sunday. These were among the surprising answers giving by American high school, college and unuiversity stu dents in the annual tests on current history conducted by the Review of Reviews, the results of which were recently made public. The survey was based on the examination pa pers of 1,650 students scattxured DR, 1 A. THOMAS HERE TONIGHT Pastor of Wesley Memorial to Deliver Sermon at First Methodist Church Dr. J. A. Thomas, pastor of the Wesley Memorial church, Savaibj nah, will deliver the sermon this evening at the First Methodist church, Rev. Outler announced. Dr. [Thomas, who is a former pastor of the -First Methodist Church is a very forceful speaker, and it is ex pected one of the largest congre gations of “Home Coming Week” will hear him Last night Rev. 0. B. Chester, presiding elder of the Thomasville district, addressed a large audience. Musical numbers by Mrs. O. B. Cul pepper and Mrs. Gault, of Albany were well received. A cordial invitation to the gener al public is extended by the church members and officials to attend all services. WORD’S BIGGEST DIRIGIBLE HERE German Predicts America Will Construct Shin of Larger Size Than Shenandoah BERLIN, Sept. 18.—Undaunted by the Shenandoah disaster, Amer ica, in all probability, will embark soon on the construction of a larger dirigible. That was the opinion of dirigible builders of the United States and Germany in conference in Amster dam and expressed by Dr Hugo Eckener in an exclusive prediction on bis return. Eckener was shocked and indig nant over the statement attributed to him that the Shenandoah disaster would not have happened had the airship been manned by a German crew or under the direction of a German pilot. “This is an utter falsehood,” the famous Zeppelin designer and builder declared. “I have never said a single word to that effect. It is the fabrication of a stupid and misguided nationalist. I never talk that way. “Even if I were so arrogant as to hold such an opinion, I would not be so foolish as to express it, certainly not so tactless as to do so at a moment when America mourns the loss of gallant officers and men and a fine ship.” FIRE DESTROYS TOKYO BUILDING TOKYO, Sept. Ifk.—The Imperial Diet building was destroyed by fire today. The blaze spread to sur rounding buildings, but lack of wind held it in check. Several persons were injured, and the loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Many valuable documents were de stroyed when the government lib rary was burned. The fire threat ened the district surrounding the government buildings, which were occupi* 1 A lighted cigarette is thought to be the cause of the conflagration. Average age of marriage in Ger many is 28 for the men and 25 for the women. throughout the country. i It was found that no particular ’ section of the country stood out . markedly above the average in the , knowledge of the children. Ten per cent of the students jailed to rec ognize the photograph of President 1 CooHdge. Only 42 per cept knew • the name of the inventer of wire i less telegraphy. Only one of four could identify a reaper and a trac- ; tor—even when given a setting of i a grain field. Some of the students placed Mus- I cle Shoals in Italy, others placed it !in the Pacific ocean. One youth > was convinced that the United i States had purchased Japan “The question may well be rais- I ed„ the report said, “whether we are Calls Court Weddings failures Judge Quits Tying Knot Because of So Many “Dog License Merriges’’ CHICAGO, Sept 00, —Marriages are very properly a religious func tion and law courts have no busi ness butting in on this well-regu lated trade by trying imitation knots that fail to bind. This is tthe paraphrased opinion of Judge John J. Lupe of Chicago’s busy court of domestic relations who has just announced in judicial decree that henceforth couples de sirous of matrimony must look elsewhere than to him for uniting them except in emergencies. “Marriage should be served with all the triatongs," says Judge Lupe in explaining his reason for the revolutionary move. “11l not have folks coming to me to marry them with the same atti tude they assme in applying for a dog license. “Marriage is a sacred sacra ment. It can best be performed by a clergyman with all the solemn, serious atmosphere that makes a marriage under such circumstances, a picture never to be forgotten. “My experience on the bench has convinced me that hasty wed dings in court lead more often to hasty efforts at divorce in other courts. “There is something about a re ligious ceremony and ritual that stamps itself indelibly on a human being and makes it less easy for him to forget or look with light re gard upon the thing, custom or in stitution which the ceremony com memorates. “Court weddings performed by magistrates, justices of the peace and other legal representatives have merely legal sanction and imply to many only a legal and not a moral or spiritual sense of obli gation. “For this reason, in my court from now on, except in cases of dire emergency and for the public good, we will dispense justice and not marriages. “Seekers after wedded bliss I shall drect to churches where the proper spiritual atmosphere obtains. “To judges the power is given legally to dissolve marriage. “But the clergymen and the churches power is vested to make marriage stick. “And the only way marriage can be made to stick is to serve it with all the trimmings so that it leaves an indellible mark that can not be erased or forgotten without serious damage to the conscience. Judge Lupe, it should be re marked, is married —married in a church and regards the job done many years ago by a clergyman far better than anything of similar nature that he could do for others. despite formal truce TONG WAR CONTINUES NEW YORK, Sept. 18. The possibility of a resumpiton of the recent Tong war, less than four days after the signing of a formal truce, was seen by the local police today in the killing todpy of Young Sue Gunn, tong member of New York’s Chinatown. supplementing the headline reading, the picture newspaper, the picture supplement and movie news with serious study in the class room to an adequate degree. .“Too frequently the question: ‘Do you enjoy reading the newspapers and magazines?” was answered frankly ‘yes, the funny part’.” Rural urban and metropolitan communities were discovered by the report. The general average of the 1,650 test papers was 43 per cent, although many schools which made 'ow percentages did not forward their papers. One senior high school students returned papers only 14 per cent correct, „ DAVIS WILL BE FIRST WITNESS Acting Secretary of War to Tes tify Before President’s Spe cial Air Board WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—Act ing Secretary of War Davis pro bably will be the first witness be fore the president’s special air board. Although the request that offi cers of the department appear be fore the committee made no refer ence to Colonel Mitchell, leading figure in controversy, it was made clear by the board members that he would be called, if he was not in cluded in the representatives ap pearing for the army. The board today decided to call Mr. Davis inasmuch as it was he who first proposed the inquiry. ‘INSIDE’STORY OF JONES CASE Deputy Desribes Murder of Offi cers As Reconstructed From Bits of Evidence GRAY, Ga., Sept. 18.—“ The in side story of the killing” of Floyd Malone and Frank Tucker, Jones county officers slain on August 28, leaked out yesterday through offi cers working on the case. It’s the story, it is stated, that will be re vealed before Judge J. C. Barron at Gray on next Monday when *Grover Ethridge and his brother, Atkinson Etheridge, are given a commitment ment hearing. “I found that Tucker and Malone had been seen alive at 12 o’clock on the day of the shooting. Later I was able to place the actual hour of the killing between the hours of 12 and 2 o’clock,” said Luther Stev ens yesterday in talking of the work that Bibb county men had done in solving the mystery. “We have circumstantial evi dence,” continued Mr. Stevens, “that Malone and Tucker were on Commissioner creek, destroying the still alleged to have been owned by Grover and Atkinson Etheridge, some time between 12 and 2 o’clock. “We expect to show that a negro gave the alarm. About that time the two Etheridges, according to our evidence, got into an automo bile and drove to a point near the old mill race. The men who did the shooting were hidden in the trenchlike mill race. They waited ■until the raiding officers made their appearance. One of the men was getting into the car when the shots were fired, the slayers being secret ed at different angles. WIFE AT FUNERAL, MAN HANGS SELF NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—A sad homecoming awaits Mrs. Lottie Bernstein, No. 565 W. 189th St., when she returns from Syracuse, where she attended the funeral of her mother Monday. Her husband, Isaac, 50, hung himself with a strap in their bed room early Tuesday. Police believe that despondency over the failure of a patent, on which Bernstein had ■ worked all his life caused him to 1 kiU himself. Malimais Yermia, 33, ’ suicide by hanging himself in his | ’ furnished room at No. 131 Ludlow, St., He was unmarried. 1 SHIELDS MOTHER Daughter Gives Two and One- Half Years of Her Life to Prevent World Knowing of Mother’s Insanitv, But Effort Is in Vain and She Is Report ed in Serious Condition. NEVER LEFT ROOM ONCE Only Hotel Attendants Who Enter ed the Room in the Course of Their Duties Saw the Hidden Suffern; Girl Terrified >at Thought of Her Mother Going to An Institution. CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Broken in heart and spirit over separation from her mother. Miss Eula Harding was under the care of a physician recently, following an amaizing two an done-half years of self-inflicted imprisonment in a single rom at a loop hotel as sole guard and cus todian of her mother, who had gone insane. Realization that all of her ef forts and care, all of her months of voluntary sacrifice had been in vain, proved too much for the girl who had speht two apd one-half years to keep from the world the secret of her mother’s condition She was reported in a critical condi tion. The mother, Mrs. Raleigh D. Harding, 45, wife of the head of a provision firm at Wilmington, Del., is at the psycopathic Hospital under the care of physicians. Mrs. Harding’s jnind gave way suddenly at Wilmington. The daugh ter, Eula, terrified at the thought of having her mother committed to an institution, invented an excuse for coming to Chicago, where she took a room at the hotel. Since then neither she nor her mother ever left the room, acording to hotel attaches. Only hotel attendants who en tered the room in the course of their duties saw them, and these were sworn to secrecy. Mitchell Seems Certain In Air Dispute Fiery Colonel Will Be Vindicat ed Or Made a Martyr Either One He Wins By CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON- Sept. 18.—« No prosecution ever went into a case with less enthusiasm than the War Department goes after Col. “Billy” Mitchell, for the roast he gave the army’s and the navy’s management of their respective aviation services. And no wonder, for here’s a sit uation in which the prosecution is on the defensive, with the accused quite indifferent as to his own fate, hot after a verdict of guilty against his accusers. The worst of it, from the War Department’s standpoint, is that CoL “Billy* can’t lose, no matter how the case ends. The War—and Navy—Departments can hardly do anything else. Suppose the colonel's vindicated. That means he wins, and he can win only on the grounds that what he said about aviation was justified —a frightful pair of black eyes for the War and. Navy Departmenlts alike. On the other hand, suppose he’s found guilty of insubordination and even deprived of his commission. In that event he’s a martyr, a mighty popular one, too. and those who made him one are corespond ingly unpopular for doing so. The War Department will try to [disregard what Col. “Billy"’ said land concentrate on the proportion that the way he asid it was what made it insubordinate. The colonel will admit that he was insubordinate perhaps, but in- . 'sist insubordination v.a a patriotic necessity, because the countrj s ’welfare depended on the broadeast- I ing of the truths he han to tell. WASHINGTON, Sept- 18. The report on the social consequences lof prohibition in the U. S., with •ome portions of which Dr. Clarence ■ rme Wilson has taken issue, was I prepared by the research and edu cation department of the federal j council of churches of Christ of i I America and was distributed for i■ publication through the regular I' publicity channels of the council. | *«, ♦ *• NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Oct 24.40|24.30|24.33j24.20 Dec. .. 24.75|24.63|24.35|24.58 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling 23 3-Bc. PRICE FIVE CENTS RUSSIAN DOCTOR 'CHARGES PLOT TO STEM, WIFE Sues Two Newspapers for s2,v 000,000 and Wife’s Parents For $1,000,000 MATE STOLEN FROM HIM IN CHICAGO Met Wife in Poland, But Trou-t bles Did Not Start Until They Came to America CHICAGO, Sept. IS.—From Rus [sia, the land of strife, revolution, frozen tundra and quaint people comes this unusual story of cool and amazing intrigue. It has crossed the seas from the land of the Bolshevists to be reveal led in the smoky, yawning canyons 'of Chicago by three lawsuits total ing three million dollars. It rivals some of the best dreams of fiction. Two years ago amid the drama tic setting of Europe’s post-war turmoil,. Dr. Joseph S. Kamienny won and .wooed the bright-eyed Rose Brezinsky. The husband and his bride were members of a super-intellectual so ciety. The doctor was the master of eight language's, a skilled physician and possessed degrees from several universities. But his sympathies were anti- Bolshevist and because of his vievA a skein of fantastic adventure and i international intrigue was woven into his story. The doctor sobs as he tells his story. “In April, 1922, as secretary of ai> .anti-Bolshevist organization I waM exiled to Siberia. “There I met Necama Landysky. We became friends and eventually had permission to leave Russia to gether. We went to Poland togeth er, where we met the Brezinsky fam ily. “With the Brezinsky family was Rose Brezinsky. “The Brezinsky family and my self then went to Darozig. When we arrived in Danzig, Rose insisted that we get married. “I demurred because I though the difference in our ages too great I was 36 and she was only 16. “At this point I received a letter from a friend in Moscow informing" me that Necama was a Bolshevist spy, employed to watch my move ments.. The letter stated that she had been delegated to kill me. ■q fled to Berlin, where for a. while I posed as soviet agent. Ne (Continued on Page Eight) NEGRO CONFESSES MURDER OF GIRL CINCINNATI, 0., Sept. 18.—Jim Henry Lewis, 28, negro, last night confessed to county prosecutor Charles S. Bell, that be killed Edna Boswell, 14 years old daughter of an Addison fanner. In the presence of several coun ty officials, the negro, who was shot In the hip when he attempted jto escape following arrest, told how he waylaid the girl, robbed and! at ' tacked her and finally, how he beat i her so severely that she died sev • eral hours later. An angry crowd having f? around the Addison fail when th news of the arrest spread causer the negro to he brought to t county jail here for safe keeping > if mGE PAYS TAXICa j FARE FOR DEFEND NEW YORK, Septemb “I’ll pay your taxica' said Magistrate Simpson fendant in West Side, cently, handing two ' Joseph Bergman, cla <r the Yellow j Bergman had H» ! of Grantwood, N. wr himself as a “phy J gineer,” arrested driving him about ter offered to p with a check. ed he had no rA J<l - “Thanks, ve he said grab > you the mon < it.”
