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i SEASON S RECEIPTS ' Bales received Tuesday 190 < [ -utal bales received 17,223 ( [ WEATHER j For Georgia—Partly cloudy to- > [ night; showers on the coast Thurs- $ ! day; partly cloudy, slightly warm-'j 1 er in interior. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 227 Wealthy N. C. Cotton Manufacturer On Trial For Life COLE CHARGED WITH MURDER W. W. ORMOND Alleged He Shot and Killed His Daughter’s Suitor Last Au gust Fifteenth I COLE HAS BEEN IN JAIL SINCEi I Letters in Which Ormond Is Said to Have Threatened Cole’s Life Be Introduced Richmond County Court House, Rockingham, N. C., The trial of W. 8. Cole, wealthy cotton manufac turer, charged with the murder of W. W. Ormond, whose marriage to his daughter, Elzabeth be releases was formally opened today. Cole was indicted Monday by a 1 special grand jury whose foreman,' W. N. Everett, Jr., son of North 1 Carolina’s secretary of state, re- 1 ported after deliberation of less' than an hour. j The prominence of Cole, who is the president of the Hannah Pickett Mills, one of the largest in this sec tion was given yesterday by F. Don Phillips, solicitor general and lead ing prosecution attorney, as for his reason for a special venire. The de fense, comprising some of the state’s leading lawyers, did not con test the motion. W. W. Ormond was shot and killed last August 15 near an auto mobile he had parked within sixty feet of the manufacturer’s building, in which Cole maintained offices. Cole has been in Jail since. Relations between the dead man and Miss Elizabeth Cole, 24 years old daughter of the defendant, are believed to have brought about the situation of which the shooting was a climax. Ormond, formerly a friend of the family, had been re quested to cease paying his atten tions to Miss Cole. This correspon dence, on which the trial is expect ed to focus, is said to have contain ed letters from Ormond threatening Cole’s ilfe. SUSPEND SUB RESCUE WORK Unfavorable Weather Condi tions Prevent Divers from Descending to Vessel United States Sumbarine base, New London, Con., Sept. 30. —Al! rescue operations on the submarine S-51 have been suspended because of unfavorable weather conditions, Rear Admiral H. H. Christy said in a message to the submarine base. here. I The message was the first word from the rescue fleet since late last I night, with the exception of a brief' weather report by the submarine; mother ship Camden. The report ! said it was indicated that diving op eration at least could be resumed early today. Dramatic scenes were enacted when the bodies of John L. Gibsonj and William C. Teschemacher, thej first to be recovered, were taken, aboard the other ship and deliver-' ed into the care of Lieutenant P.' T. Crosby, ship’s physician, who performed the first embalming steps before the bodies were taken to the naval hospital at Newport, R. I. by the destroyer Mahan. New York Youth is Accused of Starting Fires For Excitement New York, Sept. 30.—“1 did it! I did it! I’m sorry, I don’t know why I did it, but I guess it’s because I like excitement, ad I was just lonesome.” Sobbing his repentance, John Vit tele, 17, clerk in a Wall St. financial office, confessed to Assistant Fire Marshal Walsh of Brooklyn that he ■ had deliberately set tire to two partment buildings threatening the lives of eleven families. The first fire the boy confessd he started in the vestibule of a three story brown stone building in Brook lyn, shortly after 1 a. m. After set ting fire to the hall mat, he ran THETiMESoRECORDER IN THE ” HEART Q R D! XIE COLLEGEROW President of the College of In-, dusfcrial Arts, University of Texas, Horrifies Faculty When He Smoked in His Of fice and Danced Occasional ly With Some of the Pretty Co-Eds. I IS A REGULAR HE MAN i iln a Petition to the Board of j Regents Requesting Dr. Lind- l sey Blaney’s Dismissal, the Faculty Pointed Out That in the 25 Years of the School’s History No Professor Had Danced With Girls. DENTON. Tex., Sept. 30.—Out here in the great open spaces men may be men. But apparently college presidents aren’t supposed to be men. i Dr. Lindsey Blayney recently was (appointed president of the College jof Industrial Arts here. He was a I man and thought a man, even if he t were a college president, ought to be allowed to indulge once in a I while in the manly habit of smok i ing and dancing. | And so he smoked in his office ! and danced with some of the co-eds. | The 55 members of the faculty (were horrified and started a revolt .which has split this big state into I two factions. Even the Ku Klux I Klan and “Jim" Ferguson have (been brought into the controversy. The faculty sent a petition to the board of regents asking for Blar ney's dismissal and pointing out that in the 25. years of the college’s his tory no president had ever danced with a girl student. A storm of protest and commen dation came from all parts of the state.. The Board of regents was hurriedly called, and Blayney stood his ground, offering to resign. But the board apparently thinks that college presidents should be men out in the great open spaces, so it is almost unanimously in favor of retaining Blayney in office. The president is an overseas vet eran of the World War, having served as colonel and won six dec orations. Noel’s Father Gets Beating “Doing Street” New York, Sept., 30.—While his son in the Newark jail awaits tria' for the kidnapping and murder of I 6-year-old Mary Daly, Dix W. Noel [has been doing Broadway, according to a story appearing in a New York daily. Saturday night, after a visit to a West 51st St. case, Noel struck two women members of his party, it Is said, and had to be beaten into sub [ mission. One of the women, Mrs. Mae Bradley, the divorcee, with I whom Noel and his son resided in : Greenwich village. I Recording to reports , Noel ac- I companied by Mrs. Bradley, entered the case, and asked several persons to join his party. Noel later, it is said, invited a man and woman who had joined .him to visit his apartment at No 1245 W. 51st St. j As they reached the hallway, it is I said, Noel suddenly turned on his > companions, centering his attack on ' I the woman. Noel was knocked to the floor before he would cease beat-' ing the woman, it was stated. Mrs. Bradley, with a cut lip and swollen eye, following the fight, took Noel away. through the building rousing ten ants who were forced to descend the fire escapes to safety. Not content with the “excite ment” derived from this escapade the youth admitted going across to an apartment house at No. 660 Degraw St. and setting fire to a baby carriage in the hallway. As in the previvous case. Vittella ran through the house to warn residents and rushed to the street to turn in an alarm. Fire apparatus extinguished both conflagrations with little difficulty. The youth will be charged with ar son today. AMERICUS. GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 30, 1025 Inventor Perfects Safer Dirigible As a result of the Shenandoah he has perfected a model for * MMrevdisaster. ae.'o i lutifil experts 1>!1 lignter-than-air craft which will over the country ar; seeking to .-up. For to any yet built. T / gjM * ent a dirigible that will be able ou> cidir g feature of Slate's sh t 0 rLde OUt starms ’ Thoanas B ■ th- "radio propeller," which ||kS ate I. >- Angele# inventor, say- pi ■ i o : ■■■,-• of the ship. - mu ..j.i it i--ij.il. ,i j yi'ijTnrt — V .. AMERICUSHAS Colorful Career Os 26PASSENGER ‘Babe' Adams, Pirates TRAINS DAILY Seslf on r^e Mound Central Giving Excellent Serv ice Between West and North and Florida Points Twenty-six Central of Georgia passenger trains pass through Americus daily, 13 northbound and 13 southbound, giving the city the best train schedule of any city its size in the South, Freight Agent White declared this morning in an nouncing that the “Floridan and the “Dixie Limited,” de luxe tourist trains from the West, would be placed in line November 1. Three solid steel tourist trains were recently inaugaurated by the Central road to expedite service between Northern and Western cities and points in Florida. They are the “Flamingo,” “Dixie Ex press” and “Seminole Express.’’ Each train is equipped with dining, sleeping and reservation cars of the highest type, and with added refinements of travel commensu rate with the need of the thousands who will travel southward each week. In adding service to all of its usual through trains, and adding more than 50 per cent in additional trains, the Central has wisely pre pared to perform unusual service at an unusual time, and to perform it, according to the company’s slo gan, in “the right way,” said Mr. White. LA FOLLETTE ELECTED WISCONSIN SENATOR MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 30. Wisconsin again has placed her stamp of approval on the name ot La Follette. The thirty-year-old son of the late Senator was chosen at a special election yesterday to represent the badger state in the Senate. CHINESE REDS TAKE SWABUE, BAY CITY LONDON, Set. 30. Reuter dis patch from Swalow, China, said that it is reported the Reds have captured Swabue, which lies on Honghai Bay. DAUGHERTY’S SON SENT TO ASYLUM COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 30. Draper W. Daugherty, 38, the only son of Harry M. Daugherty, former attorney general of the United States, has been committed to the state hospital for criminal insane at Lima, Ohio, by Frankling coun ty Probate Judge Homer Bostwick. Daugherty was sentenced upon the medical recommendation • of two Columbus alienists, as the result of a number of recent incidents in which he is alleged to have : ssued drafts against relatives without au thority for purpose of obtaining ing funds desired during periods of dissipation. A psychopathic dispo sition. enhanced by a life of dissi pation, is given by the alienists as the reason of th? mental condition i of their subject. : Charles Gave Up Pitching Hay to Pitch the Horse-Hide Covered Sphere ■ • I PITTSBURG, Sept. 30.—Sixteen I years ago, on a cold October day, there came into»everlasting baseball ■fame a bulky Missouri ploughman, j for the moment one of the great [moundsmen of the day—Charles ■ (Babe) Adams. i Detroit had won the American 1 League pennant that year, 1909, (and Pittsburgh the National, but the Pirates’ pitching staff had crumpled at the last—with one ex iception. Adam, a first year man, had won two games and stood on the mound at Detroit in the final struggle, facing another famous I righthander of that day—the late [“Wild Bill” Donovan, killed in the .Twentieth Century Limited wreck Bandits Snatch Man Who Tried to Pick Up Gems in Diamonds Taken By’EFen Armed Robbers in TwaLCars—No Shots Fired A New Y>k. Sept. 30.—A squad of ten banditiipperating in two auto-, mobiles off shotguns, : robbed diamond ■ merchant, of gficns valued at over $12,000, kidnapped a member of the ( crowd that gathered and escaped, through the noonday jam of the ' busy street. Not a shot was fired. Gronofsky rents a store space from Romm and Mazo, Inc. cloth ing manufacturers. Abouut 1 o’- clock two high powered cars drew up before thes etablishment and ask ed to see some diamonds. Gronofsky took him into his booth. Another man entered and engaged Romm in conversation. Three other men en tered. . The sawed-off shotguns were produced, and Romm, Gron ofsky and four customers were lined up against the wall. Only Gronofskv was molested. Two packets of diamonds were tak en from him. With the diamonds safely stowed awav, the bandits backed out of the store. Jumping into their cars a wallet was dropped. A man in the crowd picked it up. Immediately he was seized and dragged into the auto. ADMIRAL ROBINSON CONCLUDES TERM WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Rear | Admiral J. K. Robinson, storm . center in the senate oil investiga ! tion, concluded his four year term as chief of the Navy Bureau of i Engineering today, and reverted to I his regular rank as captain. He had I requested to be retired before relin -1 quishing his bureau post but this refused by President Coolidge. . i Look closely next time you i bump a pedestrian with your auto, i'You may learn a new Charleston step. while on his way to attend the base ball league meetings in 1923. With Detroit was the great Ty rus Raymond Cobb of Georgia, still great after 20 years; the powerful , Sam Crawford and a string of other dangerous batsmen. But Adams | carried the series and the world’s 'championship to Pittsburgh by per mitting only six hits, materially aid ed by bow-legged, fighting Hans Wagner who seemed to be every where at once. Pittsburgh scored eight runs for a decisive conquest in this seventh and final game. Today Babe Adams, now 43 years old, stands ready to pitch his heart out for another Pittsburgh triumph in the world’s series combat and the sentiment of the Pirate fans very likely draw him into action in at least one of the games. His arm r •' -tinned on Page Four ’ Saturday Night Closing Hour is Set at 10 Sharp i Merchants Sign Petition to Close Doors Promptly at This Hour Beginning October 3 ' Late Saturday night shoppers, I who are accustomed to visit the . stores after 10 o’clock, will have i to fall in line with the majority from this coming Saturday night 1 on, for 31 of the merchants have ' tacked their signatures to a petition agreeing to “lock their doors” at I 10 o’clock sharp. i This action is taken by the mer chants so that the clerks will be assured of leaving the stores and arriving home, or wherever else they might’<jesirs to go before mid- ■ night. \ The following merchants* names i appear on the petition: L. W. Rogers Co., Nash Market, Sparks Grocery Co., A. & P. Tea Tea Co., Stover’s Market, P. & T. Market, Mike Thomas, Quality Mar ket, Piggly Wiggly, The United Gro cery Co., Barker’ Money Saving Store, Joseph and Barker, C. E. Underwood, Saliba Grocery Co., J.: F. Monohan, Ferris George, W. P. Gunnells, J. F. Monhan, Jr., Bragg’s Market, D. R. Andrews, Inc., K. S'. Walker & Co., Churchwells, J. E. Hightower, W. D. Bailey Co., W. A. Joyner Dept. Store, W. A. Joyner, Tillman & Brown, Pink ston Co., Josey-English-Dupree Co., Mrs. E. J. Walker, E. E. Tillman. BABY BOY IS BORN IN SPEEDING TAXICAB New York, Sept. 30.—At least one baby was born yesterday who should inherit a natural proclivity for au tomobiling. He is the son of Mrs. Sophie Konochuk, born in a taxi cab on the way to Bellevue Hospital. When the taxi arrived at the hos pital, a cordon was formed about the vehicle and Dr. McCellan tooK charge of the case. Both mother and child are progressing favorably LIVED IN SEWER i New Jersey Police Find World f War Veteran Residing in Un derground Tube .Which He Had Inhabited for Seven' Nights Because He Believed No Human Habitation Was 1 Open to Him. TAKES HOUR ROUTE HIM Water Failing, Tear Bombs Are Brought Into Use in Dislodg ing Albert Paycock, Who ■' Quit His Good Paying Job i M a F n f ° r J he Reaaon That Hu Fellow Employees Made I r un of Him. I New York, Sept. 30.—Out of the dark and evil influences of a street 1 «ewer. where he had lived more b ? p a " ge ’ y than any atreet of vans, the police ot Passaic raised a r wild figure of a man. The figure was that of a wold I war veteran who had fought in A- « mencan uniform for two years it though himself of alien birth For seven night, he had slept in's the noisome recesses of the conduit |« believing no human habitation « was open to him. When the police I first attempted to bring him inti I h-1« open, he crouched in his retreat I like a hunted animal. In a desperate effort to dislodge < him he was drenched with water J from a fire hose. He clung to his ' refuge, however, and crept swiftly 1 away into the darkness when the l< police chief of the town was low-r-’f ed into the sewer an dattempted toll capture him. Finally tear bombs were brought into use, and the tragic, shivering jWoe-begone outcast rose from its hiding place. The man who the police say is sane, is Albert Paycock, 32, form erly a prosperous wage earner in the Botany Worsted Mills at Passaic. He resigned his positon when draft ed for service in the war, and ac cording to his credentials, served bravely for two years in the 308th Regiment, Battery B. But with the end of fighting Pay cock’s former good luck seemed to forsake him. He returned to the [worsted mill but did not get along I with his new fellows, as he had with the old. He complained they made fun of him because he was a for eigner., and refused to accept him as an equal, notwithstanding his services in the war. He quit his job, and a curious sit midity about mingling with others assailed him. He worked flow and then at odd tasks, but kept slipping farther and farther into adversity His shoes and then his clothes gave out, but he could not bring himself to ask for charity. Then a year ago he quit regular work entirely. Finally ho decided to sleep nights in the sewer. It was damp down there, the seepage of water being generally about a foot deep, but he solved this problem by providing himself with the top of an old trunk which he placed on the pip ing and used as a bed. LJ . u I , FAIR PREMIUM LIST COMPLETED 1 K* A. Cliett, county agent, an- ' nounced this morning that the Sumter county fair premium list had been completed and any one desiring a copy could secure one at the Chamber of Corfimerce of fice-. 1 People residing in the rural' sections of the county will be mail ed copies upon request, the county agent said. Ultra Modern Mother Offers Baby For Sale at 35,000 Cash New York, Sept., 30.—An ultra j modern mother in high-heeled slip pers, rustling silk and a tantalizing ' cloche hat, yesterday offered her 16-1 , months—old baby for sale for 15,000 ' cash in hand While sentences outlining the- ■ most altruistic motives in the world tumbled one over the other from her j entrancing Cupid's bow lips, she .twirled about one nervous finger the key to an apartment in the Bronx . where she is the housekeeper or a widower and the caretaker of his ; two children. The mother who would sell is Mrs J Yetta Rosen, 24-year-old-widow “My wish to find a home for little , Bepny is entirely for his own good.”! I NEW YORK FUTURES . Pc Open 1 lam Close Oct 23.25|23.32|23.35|28,08 Dec. -2 1-35123.45|23.43|23.15 ’ > AMERICUS SPOT COTTON ; J Middling 22 1•. ■. I PRICE FIVE CENTS WEALTHY MACON WOMAN JUDGED SANE BY JURY Mrs. Mary Dickson Is Given Her Freedom Following Today’s Lunacy Hearing MANY WITNESSES CALLED BY DEFENSE F amily Persecutions, Defense Says, Cause for Efforts to Have Her Adjudged Insane MACON, Sept. 30.—Mrs. Mary Dickson, wealthy Macon woman, was today given her freedom by a jury in the superior court, after a writ of lunacy hearing, began last Monday, was completed. The jury in the Bibb County Su perior Court began its deliberations to determine whether Mrs. Mary Dickson, wealthy Macon widow, is sane or insane Monday, were heard this morning. Mrs. Dickson not only declared she was of sound mind, but assert ed that the move to have her com mitted to the state instane sanitar ium at Milledgeville, has been .-tart ed by persons with designs to gain possession of her estate. Many witnesses were called by defense attorneys to prove Mrs. Dicksons sanity. Among them were Dr. W M. Little. Macon ex pert on mental diseases; T. J. Me- Coomon, Bibb County jailer; Mrs S. T. Coleman, Mrs. Felton Hatcher, Mrs. M. V. Murray, Mrs. Walter Bennett, Mrs. Taylor and other prominent Macon women. Dr. Little gave expert testimony while Mr. McCoomon declared that during the months Mrs. Dickson id been confined in his care, he had noted nothing abnormal in her behavior. Mrs. Dickson’s statement from the witness stand in her own behalf, was convincing, her counsel be lieves. She told of family persecu tion which she thinks is responsible for the efforts begun in January to have her adjudged insane. Her story was clear and she main tained her composure throughout. NAVY IS BLAMED FOR AIRTRAGEDY Colonel Mitchell Says Depart ment Responsible for Shen andoah Wreck WASHINGTON, Sept. 30—Re sponsibility for the Shenandoah dis aster and failure of the navy air plane PN-9 to reach Hawaii was i placed directly upon the heads of the navy department today by Col 'onel William Mitchell in his testi . mony before the President’s air craft board. After being on the stand for more than four hours Tuesday dur ■ ing which he read a majority of the eight “constructive’ ’articles he had I prepared, the board adjourned until today when the witness will con - elude his testimony with an oral “destructive” argument which he was unable to give today because of fatigue and a shortage of time. Doubting whether the board wanted to hear certain portion of his arguments, Colonel Mitchel! was assured that he could "put every thing in the record” that he desir ed. | the widow told questioners, ‘Since I jam deprived of him by circum stance anyway, I might as well pre pare for his future happiness by an ■ act such as this. • “I know—and it is the reason for my strange offer—that anyone wm . is able and willing to part with $5,- 000 to obtain my baby, is able and willing to give him all the things I desire for him. . "The $5,000 will be placed in a .trust fund to provide for my baby’s education when he gets older. “It is the love for my boy that prompts this offer. I have the cour ( age to do what is best for him even though I realize the pain and sor row that I will have to pay to gain I it. That is all.”
