About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 23, 1925)
SEASON’S RECEIPTS Bales received Tuesday 288 Total bales received 15,650 WEATHER For Georgia—Partly cloudy to night and Thursday; probably show ers near the coast. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 222 GIGANTIC DOPE DRUGS VALUED AT ONE MILLION DOLLARS SEIZED Tampa Headquarters Raided • Eighteen Are Arrested, In cluding the “King” OPERATIONS OF RING COVER ENTIRE SOUTH Children From Six Years Old Up Involved; Charged They Peddled ‘Dope on Streets TAMPA, Fla., Sept 23. Tear ing into the heart of what is believ ed to be the headquarters for a gi gantic “dope” ring involving vir tually all Southern states, federal narcotic agents early Tu<esdsay morning had seized stores of nar cotics valued in excess of $1,000,- 000 at the “street” price, had ar rested eighteen persons, including the alleged “king” and his aides and uncovered the gruesome peddling force of the circle. \ i Children whose ages range from six years up, are involved, and their apprehension is expected mo mentarily as officeres continue their strenuous campaign through out the early morning. These chil dren, narcotic agents claim, have been peddling "dope” on the streets and in homes in Tampa. Source of the narcotic supply has been uncovered in the discovery that large shipments are being re ceived from foreign ports, hauled directly into the city by motor boats These motor boats, agents say, meet incoming vessels at a 12-mile point off shore and transfer the cargo under cover of darkness. Many additional arrests are ex pected, and agents say only a com paratively small portion of narcot ics have been seized as they expect to seize shortly. Those under arrest are alleged to be the "higher ups’ in the ring. Federal operatives picked from the best of the southern forces, have been shadowing leaders of the ring since last spring. Working under latin aliases and posing as international smugglers, the agents established acquaintanceship with the inner workings of the drug clearing houses. Through their disguised activities! officers claim they have uncovered 1 virtually every angle of narcotic 1 dispensing in this division which includes Florda, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolna and other states. Operation sos the agents during the last two days in which the ac- 1 tual “round up” has been under-; way, have been under the direction' of Joe M. Bransky, representative i from Washington headquarters of! the federal norcotic department. j RICHLAND HAS DISASTROUS FIRE RICHLAND, Ga„ Sept. 23 The Richland Chero-Cola Bottling Company was completely destroyed by fire last night. The Richland Co-operative Hatchery and the Richland Feed and Supply Company were also damaged by. water and smoke. While cranking a gasoline engine at the bottling plant the engine backfired, setting the gasoline around the engine ablaze and start ed a quick flame which reached oil - er inflammables that caused the en tire building to become enveloped | in flames before an alarm could be given. Prompt work of the very es-1 ficient corp of firemen, soon on the j job, held the fire within the walls of the Chero-Cola Plant. Bicycle Traffic Scout Is Added Mounted Officer’s Duty Is to Ride Before Coolidge and Protect Him As He Strolls About the Capital; Began Services Tuesday To The President's Bodyguard WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—As a result of nearly being run down by an automobile recently, President < Coolidge has secured services of a 1 traffic “scout” to protect him on < his strolls about the capital. The scout is a bicycle policeman. > He began his services Tuesday. His < tactics are to ride ahead of the < president and to halt traffic at each corner when Coolidge arrives there.l 1 He meets the president at the 1 gate of the white house and follows ] him in his walk, leaving his charge again at the entrance of the execu- i tive mansion. ' < THETIMESBRECORDER ■EgIL-PUBLISHED IN THE -JNTW.', HEART OF D!XlE~g?rt? PRETTY WAR WIDOW, OFFICER IN TRAGEDY I ■ - t Mrs. Madeline Montgomery, 23, pretty war widow, who was serious ly wounded by Policeman Anthony Sheridan, of Newark, N. J., whom she had spurned. Seridan ended his own life. CHILD’S CHARGE BREAKS HIM DOW Man Confesses to Murdering Woman After Child Points Accusing Finger at Him NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Frank Malone, alias “Hank” Malone, ar .raigned before Magistrate Walsh in I the Adams St. Court, in Brooklyn, ion a charge of homicide, was held (Without bail for examination in the Homicide Court in Flatbush. Malone is 36. He is accused of having stabbed to death Mrs. Anna jtWinkelson, 35, in her home, Brook lyn, Saturday while under the in ,fluence of liquor. Police say Ma- I lone, who had known Mrs. Winkel- Bon for 19 years, confessed the mur 'der, saying: “I did it for her own good.” There was a dramatic moment in' the detectives’ room in Police 'Headquarters on Poplar street Sat urday night when Malone was con fronted by Tommy, one of Mrs. ’ Winkelson’s two children. “You killed my mama ” the lit tle boy said to Malone. I It was this that broke Malone, the police say. NURMI, CHAMPION RUNNER, IS A KNIGHT HELSINGFORS, Sept. 23.—Pa avo Nurmi, the champion distance runner, is now a Finnish knight and the possessor of the White Rose. |These honors were conferred upno the athlete by President Relander upon Nurpii’s return from Amer |tca and were in recognition of his advancement of Finnish interest through his athletic prowess. The new system worked very ef fectively Tuesday, when the presi dent took a stroll through the down town section, attired in a new fall costume from head to foot. He wore a light grey fall suit, a light tan hat with a band of the same color but darker, and a new pair of tan shoes. “Look," the president's got a !new hat,” was the comment of many who recognized him as he passed. The president wore his summer straw after the scheduled time for discarding it, September 15. AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23. 1925 SYNDICATE SHATTERED IN FLORIDA Sumter Realty Board is Organized Hollis Fort Elected Temporary Chairman; Capital Stock $12,000 Organization Meeting Held Last Nieht at Court House, With 22 Members Answering Roll Call.—Expert Real Estate and Ad vertising Man Will Be Employed to Aid in Selling Sumter’s Land. Attention to Be Shown to Towists and Settlers. A temporary organization of the Sumter Realty Board, Inc., wa» formed last night at the court house, when a plan of organization was adopted. Hollis Fort was elect ed temporary chairman, with T. Harvey Mathis as temporary sec retary. The paid in capital of the board will not be less than $12,500, di vided into shares of $25 denomina tion, each member of the board sub scl”b*ng to not l ess than five shares. Twenty-two of the charter mem bers were present at the meeting last night, and decided to wind-up the sale of the first 500 shares by Friday afternoon, w'.<?n the sub scribers will meet in the Times- Recorder office at five o’clock to report and issue a call for the or ganization meeting early next week. A list of those who had subscrib ed to not less than five shares of the stock up to noon today were: J. C. Denham, Geo. M. Bragg. J. F. Monohan. Hollis Fort. Herbert Hawkins, Luther Hawkins. , *>. Marshall. Gatewood Bros. C. H. Burke. M. H. Fletcher. C. J. Williams. H. H. Shirley. T. Harvey Mathis. Ixivelace Eve. A. S. Tillman. C. B. Marshall. Dr. J. W. Chambliss. F. C. Wingard. H. B. Williams J Lewis Ellis. John B. Dorsey. W. P. Wallis. A. J. Hamrick. Reese Horton. W. T. Collins. Nathan Murray. The organization of a central .realty board in Americus was first suggested a couple of weeks ago ,by M. H. Fletcher, of Americus, ,who saw the need of a centra! or ganization to list and show Sumter county lands to tourists and others Who come to the county looking for a place to settle. Mr. Fletcher, Mr. Fort, the president of the cham ber of commrce and others have | been working for two weeks per jfecting the plan and investigating similar plans being used in Florida. The result of their investigation is stated in the following plan organ ization, adopted by the subscribers last night. “We propose to organize the Sumter Realty Beard. The Cap ital stock is to be at least $12,- 500.00, divided into shares of $25.00 each. Every member must subscribe to at least five shares of stock. $25.00 is to be paid when subscription of 100 members is obtained. No pay ments are to be made until the minimum number of 100 is ob tained. The balance of SIOO.OO is to be payable SIO.OO per month for ten months by those who subscribe to the stock. This will give to the organization $12,500.00 to be used the first year. It is our intention to em ploy an expert real estate and advertising man. To rent and maintain suitable offices for the transaction of the Company’s business. We intend to list and sell real .estate and each mem ber of the organization is to have the right to sell real estate through the Company, in which event he receives a commission or bonus. On every transaction handled through the Board it also receives a commission. In this wav w hove to make the organ ization self-sustaining and profit able “We believe in Sumter Coun tv and her land. Tn this wav we hone to activelv enlist at least 100 men in selling and talking her land. Now is the time in the (Continued On Page Five.) LANSDOWN TRIED TO DEFER TRIP OF SHENANDOAH Dirigible Was Sent On Fatal Flight Despite Recommenda tions of Commander COMMANDANT LAKEHURST STATION TESTIFI ES ———— ♦ Court of Inquiry Hears Astound ing Documents Read Into Records Today LAKEHURST, Sept 23.—The Shenandoah was ordered on her fatal flight to the west on Septem ber 2 despite the recommendations of Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdown that the trip be deferred until the second week in Septem ber. This is shown by official docu pierts which were read into th» record today of the naval court of inquiry by Captain George W. Steele, Jr., commandant of the Lakehurst air station. Navy department officials said today that a misapprehension evi dently developed in tile testimony before the naval court of inquiry into the Shenandoah ’disaster at Lakehurst op the position of Lieut. Commander Lansdown in reference to the time of making the flight. These officials declared the di rigible’s commander, in suggesting the date for the flight, had been actuated by the belief that it would be impossible for the Shenandoah during the first week ofSeptember to take in all the state fairs it had been asked to visit in the middle west. YOUTH’S FIRST HOLDUP FAILS “Couldn’t Pull the Trigger,” Boy Confesses, When Chain Store Man Laughs Into Gun NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—We11! Well! So you’re a hold-up-man!” That was all David Kennedy, man ager of the A. & P. grocery store at No. 134 Lexington Ave., could ejaculate when a mild mannered youth, with rosy cheeks and all the ear marks of the "amateur” entered hie store early Monday as he was counting the day’s receipts and in a quavering voice ordered him to hold up his hands. Instead of complying, Kennedy smilingly surveyed he trembling muzzle of the meek-faced youth’s revolver and broke into a loud guffaw. That was too much for the “bandit” and he fled into the arms of Detectives Pyke and Fogarty, of the Homicide Squad, who happen ed along. They took the hoM-up man to headquarters. There the youth said he was Jo , seph Stein. 19, No. 660 Broadway, (Brooklyn. He said it was his first effort and his fingers couldn’t have pulled the trigger of the weapon if ' he’d tried. One experience as a bandit was enough for him, he said, and all he was concerned about was [ that “mother shouldn’t know any thing about it.” He told police that 10 years ago his father, Samuel Stein, then living lin Sullivan County, N. J., had been [shot and killed by a bandit. That 'memory alone he said was suffic jient to deter him from using a re volver for anything but pointing. .He said he was out<of Work and penniless and thought that “just lonce”Ionce” would put him on his feet, j He will be charged in Tombs Court with attempted robbery. CROP REPORTS SHOW INCREASE 191,000 BALES Market Declines Eighty-Two Points As Result of Estimat ed Increase MIDDLING BACK TO 22 AND A HALF CENTS • . Georgia’s Crop Condition Was S 3 Per Cent Normal Septem ber 16th Cotton production this year, fore cast from the condition of the crop on September 16, is indicated as 13,931,000 bales equivalent to 500 pound bales, the Department of Ag riculture announced today. A fort night ago 13,740,000 bales were forecast. Last year’s crop was 13,- 627,000 bales. As a result of the estimated in crease of 191,000 bales the cotton market lost 82 points on the close, making the price of middling at the local warehouses 22 l-2c pound. Local warehousemen are of the opinion that the price of middling cotton will, remain about 22 and a half cents a pound for the next two weeks, or until the next government report is issued. Veterans of the cotton game still contend that the price of cotton will reach 25 cents by Christmas. Although suffering from a short age of labor, Sumter county farm ers continue to j>ring in from 250 to 300 bales daily and are compell ing the gins in the county to work day and night. The general belief among buyers, warehousemen and farmers is that the county will pro duce between 24,500 and 26,000 bales, an increase of nearly 3,000 bales over last year’s yield. The condition of the crop in Georgia on September 16, as given out by the Department of Agricul ture, was 53 per cent normal, and the production was placed at 1- 019,000 bales. Ginnings prior to September 16 in Georgia were estimated at 601- 482 bales. NO BABIES BORN ON ISLAND IN 30 YEARS TOKYO, Sept. 23.—The popula tion of the Ryukyu Islands, which (lie between Japan and Formosa, is rapidly dying off, declared S. Sak lluria, a health officer of the Okin awa prefecture, who attended the (recent health conference in Tokyo. 'jMalaria is blamed principally for I the decrease. In eight villages of |the Yaeyama group, it was asid, not a single babay has been born for the last 30 years. I In Nozoko village, Mr. Sakurai | said, one sick old woman was the only inhabitant. In 1922 an appro priation of 10,000 yen was made by the government to combat ma laria in the islands. COURT AUDIENCE FREES PRISONER WILLIAMSPORT, Sept. 23. Mayor Hugh Gilmore, presiding in police court, recently adopted a ruled method to determine whether a person charged with intoxication should be fined. There were seven persons in the courtroom and the mayor referred the question to them for a vote. All the seven voted for the release of the prisoners. The case was dismissed. FREE STATE POLICE RAID ON MOONSHINERS BELFAST, Sept. 23.—Moonshin ers in the South of Ulster have lost the protection which formerly was Recorded them by the border line, across which they used to flit when | hard pressed on one side or the other. The Ulster constabulary under command of Inspector Robinson, and the Monagham Civic Guards, i under Chief Superintendent Mur phy, recently carreid out a joint (raid on an 18-mile front. It was the first time the rival police forces, have cooperated in such a manner. Together they carried on their ac tivities for eight hours and thor oughly routed the sills. SHE WANTED A BABY, SO SHE STOLE ONE Jr : I gaE& - "* Muriel Sirrine, 9, of San Fran cisco, wanted a baby sister for her birthday. When she failed to find one among her birthday presents, she went down on one of the main streets and wheeled home a baby sitting in a carriage on the side-' walk. Muriel’s parents notified the police, and her 'adopted sister,”! soon was restored to a frantic moth- 1 er. Above are Muriel and thj baby.j COUNTESS SUES FOR A DIVORCE Millicent Birch Says She Wants Rodney Birch, Earl of Dim bar to Go to Work I NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—Having 'lost faith in the protestations of i ßodney Birch, Earl of Dunbar, that j !he is "too ill to work,” and can’t, find a job anyway, Millicent Birch' his wife, announced she has in structed her lawyer to begin a suit, I for divorce. “I have now but two ambitions,” I she said at her home in Yonkers, “One is to get the divorce, and ' the other is to make Rodney go to work.” The Countess asserted that her titled husband not only had failed to keep up the small payments he had been ordered by the court to make toward her support but seem ed unconcerned over his being, she said, the father of blue-eyed, blond haired Beverly, bom 3 months ago. “He hasn’t even ever seen Bev erly,” indignantly declared the Countess, cuddling the infant “And most certainly he has not helped to support her.” The Countess said she had re ceived several offers from persons desiring to adopt Beverly. Aged Man lakes His First Auto Man Who Had Never Seen a Street Car; Never Wore a Collar But ton and Who Never Got a Sunburned Mouth, Drops Dead Ride In Hearse at the Age of 71 LLIBERTY, Mo., Sept. 23.—Au gustus D. Bishop, 71, eccentric par I excellence, took his first automobile I ride Tuesday in a hearse. Never having been sick a day in his life the aged eccentric dropped dead of a heart attack at his home there, the same house in which he was born. I' ’ The things he never did gained Bishop nation-wide attention a few years ago. Here are some of them He never saw an electrically operated street car. Once he was thrilled by the sight of a mule car. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open Hair. Close Oct. .. ... 24.16j24.35|24.37|23.34 ! Dec. 24.52|24.80|24.72|23.69 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling, 22 l-2c. ! PRICE FIVE CENTS CRISP OPPOSED CANCELLATION OF FRENCH DEBT Congressman Declares He Will Insist That France Pay Prin cipal and Interest IJEFT TUESDAY NIGHT FOR NATION’ CAPITAL Tax Papers of U. S. Are Bear ing France's Burden, Says Member of Debt Commission j FRENCH DEBT MISSION > s ARRIVES IN AMERICA C ( NEW YORK, Sept. 23. —Ex- < I pressing confidence that the C < French war debt to the United { , States can be settled "upon the > ’ ba,, »v<»f peace and righteous- > i ness,” Joseph Caillaux, French J Finance Minister, arrived on i it the steamship Pari, today a , ? *l*® French government ( mission, which will „pz„ nego tiation. with the American debt 5 comm.ssion in Washington to- C morrow. ) Congressman Charles R. Crisp ’ ranking Democratic on the Houuw iways and means committee . and member of the worid war founding commission on leaving Americus last night stated that he - ib unalterably opposed to the can- Ido hr'"? bf the f ° Ur hUndred bi,lio " I dollar debt owed the United States ; , inV ran < Ce and WaS pOin,? t 0 Wash .ington to strenuously fight in any ■ p CanCel ° r curtail thia debt. I*or the past three weeks Con- Crisp has been quietly [studying the French debt proposal ,m his home in Americus. [ Immediately on his return fromr lhim«l/ n ? F’ h ' ~iP Pi nes he threw task f j'”. '° n,r and ardous (task of determining whether France ; could pay, and if 80 , what terms were best for her and her creditor. I The results of this study will be given the debt funding commission by the Georgia Congressman when 1 he a X rive ? Thursrfa y fn Washington. When interviewed by The Times- Recorder just before leaving Ameri cus, Congressman Crisp expressed ; himself as "unalterably opposed to the cancellation of this $4,000,000- 000,000 debt.” He said that the talk of pooling or cancelling the world war debt was nothing more nor less than an effort “to saddle the indebtedness of the world war on taxpayers of the Uinted States.” "As a result of the war, Great Britain, France and Italy, and all of the Allied powers, except the United States, received colonies from Geramny, as well as vast sums of money consisting of gold reparation payments" Congress man Crisp says. "To this may also be added stocks, bonds and other personality. A great many people may not know it, but today ths national wealth of all these allied powers fe greater than it was before the war. “On the other hand the United I States did not ask, expect, or de . ceive one cent from the prizes of ; war. France received the rich pro vince of Alsace Lorraine and Ger ; many’s African colonies. Today (Continued on Page Eight) He never left Liberty but once in his life and that was to visit Kan sas City in 1871, where he got his first glimpse of a five-story build ing. He never saw a taller one. He never wore a collar button in all of his 71 years. His brother-in-law operates a ga rage here but Bishop refused to ride in au automobile. He operated a barber shop for nearly two score years, retired but 'kept the equipment intact and of [ ten would open the shop call frienda 'in and loiter for an hour or two.
