About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1925)
SEASON’S RECEIPT* J Bales received Saturday 472 ; Total received to date 16,787 WEATHER ! For Georgia—Fair tonight and Tuesday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 226 Engineer Takes Blame for Wreck in Dying Statement FORGOT ORDER CALLING FOR NEWARK STOP Four Persons Killed ana 35 In jured When A. C. I— Passen ger Trains Meet BOTH ENGINES ARE MASS OF WRECKAGE Tender of One Locomotive Pushed Into Baggage Car of One of the Trains THOMASVILLE, Sept. 28. The Thomasville Enterprise today says, that Engineer K. H. McGee of the eastbound Atlantic Coast Line tiain, which Sunday crashed into another passenger train near here, stated just before he died that he was at fault Officials of the road gave out a statement in which they said orders had been given the eastbound crew to stop at Newark. The Enterprise says that McGee said he completely overlooked the order. Four per sons were killed apd 35 injured in the wreck. The trains met on a double curve and neither engineer saw the other until the locomotives were upon each other. Both engines were de molished. The tender of one locomotive was pushed into the baggage car of one of the trains and the steel mail car was driven practically thru the negro passenger coach. Engineer H. A. McGee, of the eastbound train Was fatally injured, dying a short time after he arrived at the hospital here. A. L. Dedge of Waycross, Ga., baggagemaster on the eastbound train was almdst instantly killed. Dan Williams, ne gre porter, and an unknown negro on the westbound train were dead when found. The rear passenger coach of the westbound train remained on the track as did the two passenger Pull man coaches of the other train. The engines were a tangled mass of wreckage on both sides of a ten foot embankment and the baggage and mail cars were practically de stroyed by the impact. Youth Begins Fight Against Electric Chair Argument for a new Trial for Slayer of Grandmother Will Be Heard Tuesday POTTSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 28— The fight to save William Cavalier, 15, local youth under sentence of death for the slaying of his aged grandmother, will be resumed in the Supreme court of Pennsylvania to morrow, when argument will be heard for a new trial. The youth shot his grandmother a year ago as she was dressing to go shoppiig. He fired five bullets from a rifle into her body and then locked the door of her bed room and informed his grandfather she had gone to Florida. The lad was found guilty of mur der in the first degree in January and has been sentenced to die in the electric chair. When applica tions for a new trial failed his at torneys attempted to have him da judged insance, but Judge Koch, torneys attempted to have him ad point a lunacy commission and an appeal was taken Supreme court on this issue. The local judge was sustained. Pomeranian Plays Part Shield for Dope Peddling Mistress in N. Y. NEW YORK, September 28. A dog, no than a man, can,' in his time, “play many parts ” j This one, a Pomeranian, played that o fa shield for the shoplift ing activities of hi? mistress. When Evelyn Lorrains, said to be an actress, of the Hotel Markwell, W. 59th St., yesterday appeared be fore the Court of Special Sessions, charged with the theft of articles from a Fifth avenue store, detec- THE TIMEsgjffECORDER ■fefl PUBLISHED IN THE * HE .^T French Debt Commission Outlines Its First Proposal Ll ji^ Ai 1 c 1 lb fl iIE” „ lbs■>•- - This shows the first meeting of the French debt commission with at Washington, when the French NEGRO FIGHTER ' CUT WRONG MAN Innocent Bystander Gets Knife in Shoulder While Watching Black Battle A poor innocent bystander. John | Hiley. colored, got it in the neck Saturday afternoon when Wooten Dowdle, colored, brought a knife into play while engaged la a fight; with his,cousin. John, who declared at police sta tion that he wasn't doing Ttuffin but lookin’ on,” stopped at the cor ner of Jaenson and Forsyth streets to watch the two black gladiators do battle. He unintentionally, as he said, got within arms length ofj Wooten and received the knife blade! in his shoulder which really was in-1 tended for the cousin. After hearing John’s story and examining his lacerated shoulder Chief Bragg turned him loose with the advise that he seek a doctor, which John did pronto. Wooten and his cousin were takern into custody. MULE STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE Parts of Animal's Anatomy Strewn Over One Section of County Sunday Various parts of the anatomy of a unsuspecting, hard working mule were scattered over one section of the county early Sunday night when the animal was struck amidship two miles from the city on the Ellaville road by a lightless Ford car driven by Steve Foster, negro, who plainly demonstrated that he knew more about cotton cultivation, providing he knew anything at all, than he did about operating a gasoline buggy.” The negro who was slightly injured made his escape. The negro driver of the buggy told Sheriff McArthur, who investi gated the affair, that he was jog ging along at a moderate rate of speed, keeping to his side of the road, when his mule was struck. “I didn’t see no lights and I don’t be lieve the mule did either,” the negro told the officer. Sheriff McArthur stated this morning that if the negro is appre hended he was going to exert every effort to prosecute him. In all probability, said the officer the grand jury will handle the case. tive said the woman used her ‘Pom’ as a shield to cover her alleged dep redations. Miss Lorraine confessed the theft, and admitted also that she was a user of narcotics. She asked the court to suspend sentence until she could arrange for the care of her pet, with a matron of the Jefferson Market Prison. She was sent to the workhouse for 1 four months for treatment. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER 28. 1925 I submitted a tentative proposal I Secretary Mellon and his colleagues . Mellon can be seen at the back, in] RAIN FAILS TO IT’S CALLES OR COOL POPULACE CHAOS IN MEXICO ' Although Precipitation was .61 Inches, the Thermometer Failed to Drop Below 70 I Americus was doubly blessed Sunday, receiving .61 inches of rain fall and a drop in the temperature of approximately 14 degrees. Al though the little red lines in the thermome, at the home of J. Car rot I*oole, local- weather man, did not top 92 degrees at any time dur ing the day, it never descended be low 70, and as a consequence the ma jority of Americus people spent a very uncomfortable Sunda ynight. The rain, the third gift from Jupiter Pluvius in as many weeks, brought the total precipitation for this month to over three inches. Al though falling in torrents, it is nob thought that the rain damaged the small quantity of open cotton re maining in the fields. Mr. Poole is of the opinion that the back bone of the depressive heat wave has at last been broken, but J does not look for very cool weather j until we have a few more rains and the steam and heat is driven from the long suffering earth. : MAN NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH Pole Crashes to Earth Few Sec onds After Lineman Phillips Descends If it had not been for the rapid fire thinking of 0. C. Johnson, Mr. I Phillips, lineman for the South (Georgia Public Service Company, who was busily engaged in cutting wires atop of a pole on Lamar street this morning when the pole snapped ,at the base, would probably met instant death. Mr. Johnson, maintenance engi neer for the Postal Telegraph com pany here, and who knows more 'about removing poles than the ma* jority of men working at the trade, was watching Mr. Phillips at work. 1 He was about to return to his office [ , when he sa wthe post quiwer and I lean -in his direction. Realizing' that the pole was about to fall and i Mr. Phillips probably dashed to his death, Mr. Johnson grabbed one of the long spiked used by ; , linemen and drove ... into the post on the falling side. The tall of the pole was checked, 'and Mr. Phillips descended to the .ground. He had no sooner put his ; foot on mother earth when the huge , [ piece of timber crashed to the ground, bringing with it the Windsor | pharmacy’s large electric sign and i several awnings on the Jackson street side of the drug store', “That’s just about thpWosest J call I ever had” said Mr. Phillips i after he had regained his compos- I ure. STEAMER PEARY REACHES CURLING CURLING, New Foundland, Sept. 28—Thg steamer Peary of the Mc- Millan arctic expedition was in port here today. She arrived during the night. I which Mellon found Unacceptable the left center, and Joseph Caillaux With “The Latin Lincoln” Rests The Peon's Only Hope of Emancipation MEXICO CITY, Sept. 28.—The j building of a modern nation on the i foundation of those simple human ■ rights of life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness—tltta-is the mean ing of the recent turbulent events jin “America’s Ireland,” the repub [ lie of Mexico. f | After iS years of civil war; af ter 30 years of Diaz “peace”; after 400 years of looting slavery, pestil ence and flood, the Mexican people j today are raising their heads for the first time to demand the right of I self-determination and recognition from the world as free citizens. To back up these demands avig orous house cleaning is on. The new program of President Plutarco Elias Calles’ government means more than simple reconstruc tion. This government proposes to fulfill as nearly as possible the let |ter of the 1917 Queretaro constitu tion, a document as sacred to Mex ico’s millions of peons as our own constitution is to our people, and one writing into Mexican law the social achievements of the more lib | eral states of the United States, I such as Wisconsin and California. The government may fall like i Madero’s but Fit is not likely that it will betray the people as did Huerta ■and his white guards or Carranza land his army carpet-baggers, i But it is a task as staggering as i any in the world today. The Calles government is popular lat home and in the United States, I but its enemies are crafty and pow- I erful. It must steer a course be-, ■ tween menacing crags. The fighting Yaquis of Sonora, the “reds" of Vera Cruz and Tamp ico, the direct-actionist agrarians of Morelos and the unabsorbed Mayan I —these must be conciliated as well ias foreign gold-seekers. The army, always predatory and venal, is another source of danger. It is said that Calles’ recent econ omy slashes in the personnel of gen erals has made him less popular with the army than with the civilian pop- ' ulation. How wisely Calles and his young erous course is known to the body of Mexicans and the Mexican press if not to Washington diplomatic cir cles. • Even. - the American colony, with the exception of the jingoes who would like to see the Stars and Stripes carried across the border an ddown to the isthmus, wishes I Calles well. They know it is Calles or ehaos, and that in the face of big cdds he is doing his best. In spite of endless report' that a counter revolution lurks on every hand. Mexico is peaceful, insolvent and growingstable. Calles, the first duly elected pres ident of Mexico in 40 years is ' known as “The Latin Lincoln.” I Whatever else he has in common i with the Great Emancipator he is : like Lincoln in being both ardently ■ loved and ardently hated.. i As a boy in Guymas, Sonora, he j peddled water through the streets He never wore shoes until he was w." j French finance minister, is seated , I on the extreme right. WORLD TO HEAR - OF STATE SOON ■ John Wagnon Says Georgia Ad vertising Association Will Be Functioning Shortly Within a few weeks the state of Georgia will be selling itself to | the entire world,” said John Wag i non, member ofi the rules commit |tee of the Georgia Advertising Pub licity Association, upon his return Sunday from a meeting tn Savan nah of the ruses committee. The by laws, as drawn up by the committee, were accepted, said Mr. Wagnon and plans were made to build a permanent organization. A meeting of temporary delegates to elect a permanent executive com mittee will be held in Dublin one day this week, said Mr. Wagnon. One committeeman will be from north Georgia, one from Middle Georgia and one from South Geor gia. The organization will advertise the entire state, said Mr. Wagnon, and will show partiality to no sec tion. Mayor Hull of Savannah’ was present at the meeting which was' held in the Board of Trade rooms, I but took no active part in the pro-1 cedure. DERRICK ON WAY TO SUNKEN SUB Naval Authorities Hope to Raise S-51 With Gigantic Machinery NEW LONDON, Se pt. 28.—Aft er being sheltered from the heavy sea in a lee of Block Island during the early hours of this morning, the monarch derrick, in which the naval authorities pin their hopes to raise the S-51, was started toward the scene of the disaster, a message to the submarine base here report ed. DIVERS REACH SUNKEN SKIP Divers have found one of the in terior bulkheads of the sunken sub marine S-51 bent, but not pierced, a radio dispatch received from the wreck today said. TO FILE RECORD OF APPEAL IN OIL SUIT (JHEYENEE, Sept. 281—Clyde M. Watts, deputy United States district attorney for Wyoming, is to arrive at St. Louis today with a record of appeal in the Tea Pot Dome naval reserve oil lease an nulment suit. The appeal will be filed in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. MAYOR POOLE IS MUCH BETTER TODAY Mayor J. E. Poole’s condition had greatly improved Sunday, and in all probability he will be able to re turn to his office within a few days, j the attending physician announced I ■ this morning. Mayor Poole wasi .taken sudde'nly ill Thursday morn | ing after making a survey of one of ’ his farms during the heat of the day. BULLETIN Atlanta, Sept. 28 (3:30 p.m. Governor Walker will confer with members of the Legisla ture, bankers, newspaper edi tor.- and others interested in the welfare of the state with intha next few days in regard to the advisability of calling an extra* session of the Gen eral Assembly, he announced here this afternoon. The announcement was wade shortly after the Governor re turned to his office from a to day trip with the Old Guard of Atlanta to Cuba. Members of the Legislature have suggested that if an extra session becomes necessary it will be called to start in November. Dispatches received late this afternoon did not state why the Governor thought an extra session was necessary nor for what purpose he contemplated calling it, JAMESTDANIEL IS DROWNED IN FLORIDA WATERS Local Youth Meets Death at Del Ray; Body Has Not Yet Been Recovered; Details Meagre .Searchers continued their efforts this forning to recover the body of James McDaniel, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B McDaniel, of this city, who was drowned Sunday morning at 10 o’clock, while in swimming at Del Ray, Fla., Details of the drowning are meagre, and Mr. Mc- Daniel has not learned in what body of water his son was swim ming when he met his death. How ever it is supposed that he was in the ocean. The young man had been in Flor ida but four weeks, and was employ ed by the Del Ray Baking company. He was making his home with his grandfather, Dan Ward, who ad vised the youth’s parents of the tragedy. Young Mr. McDaniel was well known here and was very popular with the younger school set, having graduated from the Americus high [school this year. In the event the body is recovered it will be brought to Americus for interment, Mr. Daniel said. The youth is survived by his par ents; three brothers, Thad, Olin and Dan, of alt of who reside here a grandmother, Mrs. S. A. McDan iel, of Americus and several aunts and uncles, living in and around Americus. TO CONSIDER COLE INDICTMENT TODAY RICHMOND COUNTY COURT HOUSE, ROCKINGHAM, N. C., ( Sept. 28 —Judge T. B. Finley con vened a special term of court this morning to consider the indictment charging W. B. Cole, wealthy manu facturer of Rochkingham, with the murder of W. W. Ormond. Cole is charged with shooting Or mond while the latter was entering his automobile August 15, on the main street of Rockingham. ATLANTA FORT-WORTH ARE NOW FIFTY-FIFTY FORT WORTH', Sept. 28—The Dixie series is a fifty-fifty propo sition today as the result of Atlan ta’s 12-7 victory over Ft. Worth in the fourth game. The fifth game is scheduled here today. To night the teams will return to At lanta where the sixth game will be played Wednesday. New York Jury Insane Persons NEW YORK, Sept, 28- —Paroled inmates of insane asylums indulging; in homicidal manias were placed m; the undesirable class yesterday by, the Richmond county grand jury,! which indicted Stephen Kryovak fori the slaying of Adam Lukasky, 42, | Stapleton merchant, Sept. 8. Kryno-1 vak, 24, No. 116 Cedar street,' Stapleton, was paroled from Man hattan Insane Asylum, Ward’s Is land, August 29. Immediately aft- NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 1 lam Close 5 ) Oct. 23.63|23.50|23.43|23.40 ( J Dec. 23.85123.70|23.63|23.53 J AMERICUS SPOT COTTON J ■ Middling 22 l-2c. ( PRICE FIVE CENTb BELIEVE MURDER RESULT ‘SQUEAL’ IN LIQUOR RAID Police of Opinion Men ‘‘Higher Up” Wrought Vengeance on Man Found Dead in Taxi l SEQUEL TO RAIDS ON THE KNICKERBOCKER • David Biam, Murdered Man, , Wanted by Kansas City Au thorities for Dope Running | NEW YORK, Sept. 28.—The body .of a murdered man, found early Fri day in an automobile at 98th street and First Avenue, led police to be liece, from information received from private sources, that the ‘high er-up bootleg fraternity has wrought vengeance on the informer ,who brought about the raid by Fed eral revenue agents on the head i quarters of the gang in the Knicjjer ibocker and Lngacre Buildings I Wednesday. I About 6 a. m. Murray Goff, a , taxi driver was driving a fare along I First Avenue when the cab collided .with a limousine between 98th and ‘99th streets. Goff ami his fare alighted to complain to the driver .of the limousine, when two armed I men jumped from the machine and . menaced them with revolvers. | Retreating, Goff and Bonn ran I up First Avenue and returned with Patrolman but the men had fled. Opening the stalled car, Brennan found the body of David Biam, alias A. Harris, alias A. Phillips, slump ed forward beside the driver’s seat with a bullet hole through his head. In his pockets were found $1,530, a“mazzuzza,” or Jewish token, but no papers bearing a New York ad dress. On the floor of the blood spattered automobile were found two revolvers of 38 caliber. Detectives commenced an investi gation, which led later to the belief .that the murdered man was David 1 Biam, well-known whiskey and nar cotic smugglers, for whom Kansas City authorities have offered a re ward. Inquiries showed the slayers had cruised about First Avenue for some time before the collision, ap parently with the intention of throw ing the body in the East River. Examination of the 'Jicense plates carried by the limousine showed that they had been issued to Charles Webber, No. 607 W. 180th street.* Police are working on the the ory that the murder was the work of vengeance of the alleged “higher up” bootleg gang, to which it is sai'l Biam belonged, for squealing." ST. PETERSBURG HOST TO SPANISH VETS ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 28— The 27th annual national conven tion encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans formally opened here today, with Chauncey W. Herrick, Washington comman der in chief, presiding. More than 1,000 degelates were registered at the beginning of the session. DADE COUNTY JAIL QUIET AFTER BREAK MIAMI, Sept. 28.—Tranquility prevailed today in the Dade county jail here after officers yesterday foiled an attempted delivery, in which one man was killed and six injured. 16 PLANES TAKE AIR IN RELIABILITY TOUR DEARBORN, Sept. 28. Six teen planes took the air for the ini tial lap of the first commercial air plane reliability tour of 1,900 miles through the midwest. Hits Parole Os From Asylums er his release he went o na hunt for Lukasky, whom he accused of hav ing struck his mother, in an argu ment over a debt 7 years ago. After trailing his victim con stantly, awaiting opportunity to kill him, he finally cornered him at Bay and Clinton streets, Staple ton, and shot him to death. Lukas ky had a wife and four children. Krynovak will be arraigned in St George Monday.
