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SEASON’S RECEIPT-' Bales receive dMonday 240 Total bales rechived i 7,027 WEATHER. For Georgia—Partly cloudy; probably showers in south portion tonight and Wednesday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 227 2 Bodies Removed from Compartment of Sunken Sub BOTH FOUND LN BATTERY ROOM ROME’S VICTIM Airplanes Brought Into Use in Search for Remaining Thir ty-three Bodies CRANES FORCED TO LEAVE THE SCENE Strong Tides Prevent Sea Work ers From Continuing Efforts Last Night NEW LONDON Conn., Sept. 29. —The second body, that of William Charles Teschemacher, of Fango, Penn., was taken from the sub marine this afternoon, a radio dis patch to the navy hospital here stated. FIRST BODY IS REMOVED NEW LONDON, Sept. 29.—1 n the air and under the sea men worked today in search for the bodies of victims of the S-51, which went down last Friday night ’when she was rammed by the Ocean Steam ship company steammer City of Rome, 14 miles off Block Island, Rhode Island. The first body recovered was that of .John L. Gibson, engineman sec ond class, and was found in the battery room of the ship by deep sea divers, who resumed operations this morning after being forced by strong tides last night to stop their work. *** MAMMOTH CRANES DEPART SCENE NEW LONDON, Conn., Sept. 29. Rough seas have necessitated sending of the Monarch and Cent ury cranes, which were at work at the scene of the submerged S-51 to Newport. Diving operations have been resumed. EFFORTS TO RAISE SUB ARE RESUMED WASHINGTON. Sept. 29.—The navy department reported today that efforts to raise the submarine S-51 were suspended at 2 o’clock this morning until day light, be cause of strong tides. God Made Man But Man Made lhe Accidents So Says Speaker Before Nation al Safety Council in Stress ing Human Safety CLEVELAND, Sept. 29. Hu rtian safety is a mental attitude while mechanical safety is simply a physical reality, in the opinion of j Captain A. A. Nicholson of the Tex-, as company, as xe pressed in an ad dress yesterday before the Nation al Safety Council. “More logical safety thinking on the part of the humans behind the machines is our great need,” he de clared, and added that while God made men, man made the accidents. Captain Nicholson does not be lieve that accidents are the price of modernism, industrialism, or exces sive ambition. The speaker urged the executives to become better caquainted with their safety engineers; to desertj their swivel chairs and visit the men in hteir mills “where human flesh' is straining under the desire to s»uit the requirements for production.” ; RADIO FANS WILL HEAR NEW VOICE IN THE AIR Monday night, October 5, begin ning at 7 o’clock (central standard time) and continuing till 2 a. m. or longer, radio fans throughout the country will hear a new voice in the air, that of radio Station WSM, the New Super Power Western Electric plant of The National Life & Acci dent Insurance Company, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, of which A. S. Tillman is local representative and R. A. Brown superintendent. WSM will operate on a wave length of 282.8 meters, and its transmitter will be of the latest im proved type known to present day science. It is an exact duplicate of the successful outfits operated by The Atlanta Journal, Station WSB, Atlanta, Ga., and station WWJ, The Detroit News, Detroit, Michigan. THETIMESKRECORDER PUBLISHED IN iHE HEAP t OF D! X Mitchell Resumes Onslaught Against Air Policies WANTED TO 808 HAIR, COLUMBUS MAN KILLS WIFE Mrs. R. L. Shepherd Slain By Irate Husband Following Three-Day Quarrel THROAT SLASHED WITH SMALL KNIFE “This is Awfulest Thing You Ever Saw,’’ Says Alleger When Officers Arrive , COLUMBUS, Sept. 29.—Because she “threatened” for two years to bob her hair and paint her cheeks, Mrs. R. L. Shepheard was killed by her husband, the latter told officials today. He cut her throat last night in the backyard of their home and she bled to death after being assisted to the h|use My nekf-bors. The fatal wound had beer, inflict ed while the woman’s head was pin ned against a woodpile near the back steps in the back yard, eye witnesses told police. Mrs. Shep herd, a moment before was stand ing o nthe rear porch with her ten months infant in her arms when the infuriated husband hurled the moth er and child to the ground, accord ing to witnesses. The killing oc curred at six o’clock. Motorcycle Officer John New berry closely followed by Officers Copeland and Willis, was the first to reach the Shepherd home in an swer to a call sent into headquar ters. Officer Newberry walked into the yard and found Shepherd sitting on the front steps. Shepherd cooly eyed the policeman and said: “Come in, this is the awfulest thing you ever saw.” Asked by the officer why he had ended his wife's life, Shepherd was i alleged to have said: l “She had been fussing with me. I [just done it.” I DIRIGIBLE WRECKAGE BRINGS NAVY $5,300 LAKEHURST, N. J. Sept. 29. The navy got $5,500 for the wreck- age of the airship Shenandoah or only SSOO more than a single Ohio farmer received from admissions i charged to those who visited one i part of the wreckage on his farm. ) Commander Jacob H, Klein, pres (ident of the board, which investigat ed the wreck, told the naval court |of inquiry here today that 2",500 i nounds of aluminum alloy metal had I been recovered from the wreckage i and that the aluminum company of I America had paid twenty cents a l pound for it. The company reniov fbd the metal from the scene. HYLAN WILL NOT RUN, SAY N. Y. NEWSPAPERS NEW YORK, Sept. 29—The New York Sun says that Mayor Hylan has told dose friends that he positively will not enter the mayor ality race on an independent ticket. The mayor’s declaration, the Sun | says, was made at the close of a j conference today between him and I several of his closest advisors. An official announcement is not ex- I pected for several days. RICHLAND ORGANIZES REALTY CORPORATION RICHLAND, Sept. 29. —(Spe- jcial).—The Richland Realty Com ■ pany recently incorporated by the ['State of Georgia is to commence with a ten thousand dollar capit ’’ It is to be headed by Mr. T. F. Car ter, one of Richland’s most prom inent citizens and a man with a vision. The Corporation will soon i begin active work in listing, renting {and selling real estate in .the eoun l ties of Stewart and Webster. I Messrs. P. C. Brown and D. Loyd will be in charge of the listing de partment and Mr. Carter and his as sociates of the company will have charge of the selling end. The Charleston was invented by some timed soul jumping from a snake and landing! on a porcupine. /AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29. 1925 Their Comrades Are at Bottom of the Sea aww A' ‘l. -aww. l —»*SSr ■’ -1 '' j ■ v l ' 1/iW PV I \ w'~ * ft 1 <1 W JLlai WW IWW V .daw 1 W®» \ *» 4wn . r -V a zjtx- > jR> jRSRff MWMy «x 00880 ' jflWv w<*' ■-'xw. • w S z" z< 7 ! 1 w» < aEfW > 1 ■ ■ V ! I i * ' w 1 z ■ Jr \ ' P t WOi " * M ? I iHi Jllli w t ; j -•••'■•;'*■ ;4 24| W • mF m I Jwti,.t s;; - ,\NEA "%.■ ’ .hmf - - " ■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ Draped in blankets and clad un derneath only in their underwear or pajamas, the three sailors who were rescued from the submarine! S-51 when it sank after being ram med by the steamer City of Rome l DISCARD PRISON HONOR SYSTEM j Practice Abolished in Texas Be cause of Too Many Escapes During Year __ HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 29. The honor prison system was dis carded Monday in Texas, after a year’s trial. The state prison c.im mission decided to assign guards and | reestablish rigid discipline at the Pat Neff honor farm, near here, be- I cause too many prisoners had escap ed. The farm was started under the administration of Governor Pat M. Neff, Governor Miriam A, Fergu. son’s predecessor. It was modeled on the honor sys tem in Florida. The men were per mitted to roam at leisure when tine farm labor had been complet ed. Sixty men, with goor prison rec ords, were transferred from the prison at Huntsville to the new “freedom” farm. A few weeks passed with all prisoners answering the roll call. Then the Sundays began to drag. Some failed to came back from “walks.” Some re turned voluntarily; others were re captured. Prisoners have been ab sent without leave the last three I Sundays. Now guards will be stationed at | the farm and the men will be de nied liberties. PRESIDENT WANTS A WILSON STAMP ISSUED WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—The desire of President Coolidge that a stamp bearing the likeness of Wo >d-; row Wilson be issued as soon as pos- ; sible has been communicated to the 1 postoffice department. MRS. LANSDOWNE WILL APPEAR BEFORE. BOARD LAKEHURST. Sept. 29—Mrs. 1 Margaret Ross Landsdowne widow 'of Commander Zachary Lansdowne, | commander of the Shenandoah, ac cepted an invitation of the naval court of inquiry to appear and mak > I a statement. Watch dad when he gets bill for ' wife's fall hat. He wil do a (Charleston step. were landed at Boston and taken at once to the Chelsea naval hos pit .1, little the worse for their ex-' per -nces but sadly in n3ed of new •luti'.t-. Left to right, they are D. MANY GET GANG SENTENCES ON FIRSTDAYOFC.C. “Shorty” Ed Brooks, colored charged with carrying pistols and obstructing the public highway, who reverted to the role of the bold, bad highwayman several months ago when he attempted to obstruct the public road with the aid of a long piece ,of wire, a couple of wicked I looking automatics and an antiquat ed musket, was the honor guest at Judge W. M. Harper’s criminal ses- I sion Monday. “Shorty” drew a [straight 10 month’s chain gang sen tence on the charge of obstructing ! public highway and a sentence of 6 I months or $75 on the charge of car rying pistols. i | E: E. Bridges, Webster county j saw mill operator, who was convict ied at the last session of Superior I Court on a disorderly conduct I charge in connection with the al leged assault on Lloyd Hall In a [house in the 17th District, last I winter, was fined S6O, after plead ing guilty to the charge of carry ing a pistol without a license. , Bridges did not appear in court, a settlement being reached at the con ’sent of Solicitor Tom Marshall. Oscar King, Ellaville, charged with having liquor in his possession, paid a SIOO fine. The case was settled out of court. The case against 0. H. Stevens, Ellaville, charged with having whiskey, was nol prossed, Solicitor Marshall stat ing he did not have sufficient evi- ■ dence against Stevens to prosecute. i Floyd Mitchell and N. Gervin, colored, were found guilty on the ! charge of disturbing divine worship .and were each sentenced to 10. i months on the chain gang or pay a fine of SIOO. Doll Baby Mitchell' 1 and Aaron Jordan, colored, charged i with the same offense, were releas ed on recommendation of the Solici i tor. ' ' Adam Mitchell, colored paid a SBO fine for stabbing a fellow citizen. Judge Harper and Solicitor Mar [shall got down to work early this morping, and it is expected that they will have the criminal calends’ c'. aned up by Thursday night. G. Kile, Peoria, Miss., engineman first ciass; M. S. Lira, of St. Louis, 1 fireman first class, and Alfred Geier of New Bedford, Mass., electric ian’s mate second class. ATTEMPT MADE j TO KILL KUBECK ■ Principal State Witness Against Chapman is Fired Upon By Unknown Person ■4- - ■ Meriden, conn., Sept. 29. ] What was believed to be an attempt Ito shoot Louis A. Kubeck, one of 1 the principal state witnesses against [ Chapman, bandit, during his trial in Hartford last spring, was made here I last night. The shot injured a man ■ with whom Kubest was conversing. [ The assailant escaped and his | identity is not known. Jack Quinn, 1 proprietor of a bowling alley, who 1 with a second man, was talking with 1 Kubeck in the open doorway of Kubeck’s barn received the bullet which Kubeck is sure was meant for him. The bullet inflicted only a slight flesh wound. Kubeck is proprietor of the old, ! Colony Inn, where Chapman and Walter Shean, of Springfield, Mass., stayed the night before the killing of a policeman in Newbritain by one iof two men who were robbing a ’ store. Chapman was convicted of the murder and was sentenced to be hanged. He is now waiting a hear 1 ing on his appeal from the sentence Kubeck testified against Chap man at the trial. '■ ■ ■ ” ■ ” $ CHINESE TROOPS FIRE I ON AMERICAN VESSEL ( | ! SHANGHAI, Sept. 29. —An , American owned vessel, the Chic-! huen, was hit by 200 hundred shots , : fired by Chinese troops today from j, | a point on the Yangste river. The American gunboat, Palos was or-, dered to the scene as convoy to the { attacked vessel. NAME WISCONSIN SENATOR TODAY, MILWAUKEE, Sept. .29—Votes' j cast in the state wide election to day .will decide whether Robert M. . ILa Follette, Jr., is to succeed his j father as United States Senator. , or whether one of the other candi-, dates will b- elevated to this po sition. | H— j I 1 He who dances must pay the fid- j s dler, and he does the Charleston ' I ! must pay the shoe maker. i OUR DEFENSE IS FAST SLIPPING SAY SERVICE MEN Recent Investigations and Oharges Have Shattered Morale of Army-Navy AVIATION IS NOT THE ONLY KICK Country’s Whole Milita-v Estab lishment Is Running Down, Is Complaint By CHARLES P. STEWART WASHINGTON, Sept 29. Re- cent events in Washington probably have given a pretty widely-spread impression that all isn't quite right with American national defense. This impression is correct. The controversy over the merits of war versus surface forces isn’t the only trouble. Still worse, army and to some extent navy morale is badly shattered. Whether one considers Col. ‘Biily’ Mitchell right or wrong in his avia tion views nobody can hold that the opinions he expresses his superiors are those of a man in a frame of mind to work effectively toward the ends that they deem best. Now, Col. Mitchel! is not alone in an unfavorable opinion of these same superiors . He simply is the only one who says in public just what he thinks. A great part of the War Depart ment is fairly saturated with dis content. Any number of officers are ready to voice such sentiments in the strongest terms if assured they won’t be quoted and thus get into difficulties—which not many of them can afford to disregard as Col. Mitchell can. Still, they do talk with an occa sional outsider and of corse, far more freely among themselves. It isn’t aviation deficiencies soie ly that all the kicking is about. The complaint is that the country’s whole military establishment is run ning down. That it’s on a peace instead of a war basis is recognized as all right, but the malcontents, argument is that retrenchment!! as gone alto gether too far. Maybe the establishment’s size is adequate, they say, but its quality is being allowed to deteriorate. In short, the growing, in its last analysis, is directed against the administration’s economy policy. Dissatisfaction in the Navy De partment isn’t quite so acute. The .personnel, however, does feel the pinch of tight times. Limi jtations are bitterly resented, too. However, the navy men are not so seriously at odds among them selves. Probably this is due in part to the fact that they haven’t been snlit by the aviation dispute which has rent the army. Few if any navy airmen take (Continued on Pig's Eight) SHORT SKIRTS BLAMED FOR AUTO ACCIDENTS ATLANTA, Ga., Cept. 29—Long skirtsf—fashio n having decreed a short change in skirt lengths—mm be instrumental in reducing the number of automobile fatalities in city streets. This is the opinion of traffic of ficers in Atlanta who have been making a serious study of the prob lem of public safety. , Short. skirts, it seems, are to blame for many accidents. Automo ; I bile drivers just simply refuse to at- ; I tend to business when there is so , (much, to watch besides the street ( .ahead. < Fashion experts in Atlanta sav , that word has come from Paris that , (skirts wil! be made longer, but t'-«• , 1 denv that the prevailing styles ar • ■ [responsible for the increased num-, ber of auto accidents. “There may be some alternations ; in the length of skirts but it m • be put down for a fact that t’” short skirt is here to stay,” said the head of a fashionable woman’s shop in the Peachtree Arcade NEW YORK FUTURES < Pc. Open 11am Close s > Oct. 23 46|23.30|23.22|23 25 < .■ 23.51 [23. 40123,34)23.35 j. AMERICUS SPOT COTTON > < Middling 22 l-2e. I PRICE FIVE CENTS DESIRES READ 9 PAPERS BEFORE COOLIME BOARD Eight Are “Instructive” and One “Destructive,” Colonel Tells Members SIX PROMINENT AIR PILOTS BACK OFFICER Lout Colonel Foulois Blames General Start for Handicaps Placed On Service WASHINGTON, Sept 29.—Col onel. Will lam Mitchell today resum • ed his onslaught against the nation’s air policies before the President’s investigating board Colonel Mitchell had nine p a p er , tai to read, all .qXc tve except one which was destruc r‘ and whl, ' h h e said he would not read if the board objected. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29-The Policy forming body of the war de lartment—the general staff— wa-' ?Tmm? r th> * handica P« Placed on C010n,.? n VT" f ° day by Lieut FieM ? B Foulois ’ of Mitchell service P 10 "*" air Six army fliers, each a major in command of an important activity of the air service, lined up solidly " ‘y infavs- „f u , iiidriH-ti.j,.,,) a ' r c °rps m tn,. army) declaring it offered the best means of promot ing the nation’s areial defense and also of alleviating a condition of unrest now existing among the aviation personnel. Testifying before the president’s air board, the officer pilots declar ed a seeming lack of consideration by the war department for aviation matters was the underlying cause of existing dissatisfaction among junior officers, but emphatically de nied they were “muzzled” by the department from expressing their personal views. Their opinions favoring an inde pendent corps were given an added endorsement by these familiar with the medical needs of airmen. Dr. William H. Wilmer, eye specialist of Baltimore and Wash ington, who served as a flight surg eon with the’American expedition ary force vigorously expressed this view. REALTY BOARD MEETS TONICHT Hollis Fort Urges Presence of Every Stockholder in Chamber of Commerce Office Americus Realty Board subscrib ers and others interested in the farm development of Americus wil! meet this evening in the Chamber of Commerce offices at 7:30 to per . feet the organization. Members of I the board of governors will be nom i inated and elected by-laws arid papers of incorporation will be sub mitted for action of the stockhold ' ers. We expect to wind up the pre liminary organization tonight, Hol lis Fort, acting chairman said todav. and every stockholder or subscriber ;to stock should be present. While we have set $12,500 as our mini mum paid in capital, we hope to see it go to $15,000 and we will be glad to see present tonight any one in Americus who is interested and willing to help. The proposition has , appealed to many of our men, in fact those who have been seen have come in almost to a man. But its : man-power as well as dollars that | Sumter and Americus need and for that reason every one of us should !be in attendance and ready to do . his share, Mr. Fort said. The subscribers will be called to gether promptly at 7:30 in tbi chamber of commerce office. Don’t worry when the cook drops a plate. Take off your shoes and learn a Charleston step on the pieces...
