About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1925)
| SEASON’S RECT’PT- > Received Wednesday .... . 107 ? < Total reciepts to date . .17,330 £ ? WEATHER 5 For Georgia—Fair tonight and s $ probably Friday. < FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 228 ~~ - ——————— - - ■ _ ■ ■■ United States Rejects French War Debt Proposal UTILE HOPE OF AN AGREEMENT BEING RE ACHED President Fails to Place Official O. K. On Proposal Submit ted Wednesday CONG. CRISP MEMBER OF WHITE HOUSE COMMITTEE France’s Offer Would Aggre gate Total Payment of $5,- . 620,0000,000 Over Long Period —WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. Ameri can debt funding negotiation* wer< concluded today with a temporary arrangement covering a period of five year*. The French commission prepared immediately to leave for their homes, carrying with them the American proposal, which wil en able them to continue discussions for a permanent settlement any time within that period. WASHINGTON, Oct.~— The French proposal for the settlement of her four billion dollar war debt to the United States has been found unacceptable. This conclusion was reached by President Coolidge at 10 o’clock this morning after the French pro posal had been submitted to him Secretary Mellon, the chairmai.'; Secretary Hoover, Senator Smooth of Utah, and Representative Crisp, of Georgia, members of the Amer ican debt commission. Some members of the American debt commission were of the opin ion that no possibility of an agree ment with the French was appar ent at this stage. France’s offer called >r a pay ment of forty miliicn dol'.ars annu ally for five years, sixty millions annually during the next seven years and annual payment of one hundred millions in tne succeeding fifty years. This would aggregate a total paythent of $5.<520.'’00,000 in principal and interest on the rec orded debt of $4,210 000,000. Cal culations show therefot that the interest rate, although not specific ally mentioned anywhere, would average about 2 1-2 per cent over the life of the proposed agreement. The offer, described as the best the French delegation felt their government could sunport, was worked out in a conference of sub committees of the two commissions. The French gave it almost unani mous support; members of the American subcommittee agreed only to report it back co their com mission which in turn is compelled to take it to the president. BANDTTHOLDS UP PASSENGERS OMAHA, Neb., Oct. I.—A mask ed bandit held up and robbed 25 day coach passengers on Missouri Pacific train number 107 as it was entering the railroad yards here ear ly last night and escaped with ap proximately SIOO. z The man, who is believed to have! boarded the train at a station near the city, exchanged several shots with a railroad detective who spied, him just as the bandit was descend ing from the train. The man encountered a negro porter in the vestibule of the coach and at the point of a gun forced him into the coach where the pas-’ sengers were commanded to stand in the aisle with their hands up while the porter was ordered to search them. “Don’t get the r tockets or jew els, just get their money” the man! told the porter. ANDREWS APPROVES DISMUKE APPOINTMENT WASHINGTON, Oct. I.—Assist ant Secretary of the Treasury An drews today announced approval of appointments of Fred D. Diamuke as deputy prohibition administra tion at Savannah and Percy M. Can dle and Hal Shaffer tor the same office at Greenville and Charleston respectively. PUBLISHED IN THE » New York Sewer Dweller Identified As Robber And Escaper from Jail WEDDING BELLS WILL SOON RING FOR THEM j|L i / /r \ -A z ' '• /ip C R Official announcement is que soon of the betrothal of Crown 1 Prince Olaf of Norway (below), to! nncess Astrid (above,), daughter 1 ot the Duke of Vestergoetland ' Sweden She is' 29 and he is -ft/i Her father is a brother of the king’ of Sweden. , LIVINC HEROES ARE HONORED Hungary Ignores Prevailing Custom of Honoring Dead World War Heroes BUDAPEST Oct l._ln contra-' distinction to the prevailing custom in the Allied countries to honor the memory of their dead war heroes' by nwnumets, the Hungarians make 1 « a point to honor those amon’’ their living veterans who performed some act of valor in the World war/ by making them knights of “The' Order of Heroes.’ Each knight is presented with a smal Iplot of land. Recently 200 officers, 300 non-commissioned of-i ficers and 1,300 privates were mghted by Admiral Horty, captain 1 general of the order. | Every candidate for knighthood, must show evidence of being an ir-’ reproachable Hungarian citizens. Among the newly knighted veterans there was also a small boy through whom the memory of his dead fath-, er was honored. The badge of the order represents the Hungarian; coat of arms. STUDENT SUES ATLANTA BALL CLUB FOR $25,000 ATLANTA, Oct. I. Hiner Thomas, dental student, today filed suit against the Atlanta baseball company for $25,000, alleging his eye sight was lost when he was struck by a batted ball. AIR SERVICE WILL ALWAYS BE AUXILIARY KANSAS CITY, Oct. I.—Reiter ation of his belief that the air serv ice is, and always will be, an aux ' iliary arm of the arnQ’ and navy, [characterized an address today pre pared by Major John L. Hines, chief of Staff of the army, and read by Brigadier Dennis E. Nolen at the convention of reserve officers of 'the United States. AMERICUS, GA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON.. OCTOBER I Albert Paycock, Removed From ! One Hole Sunday, Has Fallen ’ Into Another ’’Hole” ' Albert Paycock sewer-dweller, I ' who was routed from his subterran-1 ean home Sunday after seven days’’ residence there, has fallen into an-1 other "hole.” And he has not taken I I the advice of Bruce Bairnefather's' ,war time comedy, and found “A 1 ■ Better ’Ole,” this,time. I Paycock has, in short, admitted! that police records concerning one' I Albert Prynuk, arrested on Jan. 26 j when about to break into a freight ’car, apply to him.. He admits that' as Prnuk was held in the county ; jail in default of S2OO bail and j “walked away,” when placed on “trusty” duty outside the walls. j The discovery of the sewerdweli er’s identity was made by Chief of Police Zober of Passaic, quite oy accident in the routine checking up of records followed i nthe case of every arrest. j Chief Zobel has turned over Pry- ( nuk, or Paycock, to county author ities, with an expression of disgust I with human nature and sympathy-' , exciting sewer-dwellers in general ' With Paycock went the Chief’s next ,best suitfi which had donated when the man’s own clothing was ruined I in his strange abode. I Paycock was discovered living in it he sewer Sunday, a trunk lid his | bed and rats his bedfollows. He was I routed out only with the use of | tear-gas bombs, and after being de | dared san told- police he was living ( in those strange quarters to escape • the ridicule of a society, for which 'he had fought as a soldier in the American army, though at the time an alien. BOYS WALK 175 j MILES TO SHCOOL ; i • 'Florida Youths to Work Way to College, But Arrive Dead Broke N’’ | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. I. j Exemplifying the adage "Where I there’s a will there's away,” two I boys entered Howard College at th" opening of the school year after. Ihaving walked 175 miles. II These youths hail from the same jtown —Florala, on the southern' I boundary of Alabama—and have ' | long been neighbors. One of them,! j Samuel Hart, is preparing himself ’for the ministry, the other, Edwin I Doster, is pursuing a pre-medical | course, I j The boys started on foot from their homes six days before school opened with less money than is re 'quired to see a couple of good mov ies. They worked en route to Bir-, mingham, thereby securing suffi- • cient funds for food and lodging. • • They neither asked nor accepted I charity. They arrived at the col-, ■lege in fine fettle and entered upon their studies with .zeal. Both boys are graduates of Cov-' ( ington County High Schoool. In' ■ modest circumstances, they found ■it necessary to walk to Birming- 'eforts if they were to attend co!-; lege. ALUMINUM COMPANY i SUED FOR $15,000,000 | BOSTON, Mass., Oct. 1. —Suit | for $15,000,000 against the Alumi inum Company of America of which (Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is one of the principal owners and one of its directors, was filed in the federal court here today by George H. Haskell, of Springfield president' of the Bausch Machine Tool Com pany. He charges conspiracy. BRITISH WILL KEEP FORCES IN NEAR EAST LONDON, Oct. I.—Strong rit ish naval forces are to maintain-1 ed in Near East waters for the next few weeks, unde* orders issued by | the admirality to the Mediterran- ■ ! ean fleet. A report fro n Constantinople jthat the Turks are calling further Htroops to the c t or-, was exp aine! •Jin official quarters as merely a : coincidence and having no signific-, ance. CITYTAXRATE ! REMAINS SAME d ! AS LAST YEAR • i I ’ Council Agrees That Twenty Mill Levy Will Carry Muni- | cipality Coming Year , SCHOOL LEVY CUT FROM 8 TO 7 MILLS ' Bonds Given Additional Mill l and SIO,OOO From Recent Surplus I ' , The city tax rate for the coining year was fixed at 20 mills, the same as last year, by city council at a special meeting Wednesday afteer noon, and $10,300 of the surplus from the recent S6OIOOO street pav ing bon dissue was given to the bond commission to be used in rec tiring $15,000 bonds, maturing Sept. 27, 1927. The tax was apportioned as fol lows: j Seven (7) mills for schools. Five (5) mills floating debt. ’ Five (5) mills general govern-1 ment. Three (3) mills retiring bondsf. I Last year the schools were grant ed 8 mills, but in the view of the fact that they completed the 1924- 25 school term with a surplus of some $4,000 in the bank, city coun cil voted to reduce this to 7 and to increase the bond levy from two to three mills. The floating debt and the general government received the same levy as in 1924. Steve Pace, member of the city bond commission, read a statemedt to council in which he pointed out the necessity of levying four mills for bonds at the present time, this being two mills for the regular in test charges, one mill\by reason df ; rhe $60,000 bond issue and one mill jfor the $15,000 bonds September 15 1927. I Council failed to agree on the four mills asked, but compromised turning over SIO,OOO of the surplus from the $60,000 bond issue to the bond commission and increasing the bond leavy to 3 mills. i In requesting council to increase 'the bond levy Mr. Pace said: “The law requires, and proper regard foi the credit of this city demand that there be levied each year a tax suf ficient to pay annual interest charg es and create a sinking fund suf ficient to retire the principal at ma turity, knowing that you shall seek ito comply with the law, I, a sa mem ber of the bond commission, advise that a levy for the present ye«r of ( four mills is necessary for these ' Aiderman Allison presided in th absence of Mayor Poole, who is not sufficiently recovered from his re cent illness to leave his home. I BRUNSWICK YOUTH NOT GUILTY SLAYING GREEK BRUNSWICK, Ga„ Oct. 1 —Af ,ter deliberating for approximately jfive hours the jury at 9 o’clock last night returned a verdict of not guil ty in the case against Baker Mallon, .16, charged with murder in connec tion with the slaying of Nick Portul- • ous, Greek merchant, who died at a ■ local hospital following an attack ' made upon him at his place of busi ness shortly after midnight on Sun day, August 25. i WETS IN CONGRESS GAIN NEW MEMBER SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. I. The election of Henry L. Bowles, republican of this city, over his J emocratic opponent, Roland D. [ Sawyer of Ware, from President Coolidge’s home district, adds to the: ranks of the wets in the national house of representatives. i Bowles election came after asser tion by him that he believed the 18th amendment had no place in the constitution, and assurance ■that he would work for any change in the existing machinery for pro ihibtion enforcement which would 'add to “temperance contetment | and respect for law." ■ i CONTINUE SEARCH FOR SUB VICTIMS NEW LONDON. Oct. I.—Efforts I w a re r-n-wed todiX' to determine I whether any of the men trapped in the submarine S-51 when she was | sent to the bottom last Friday by .';e City of Rome are still ,al v.e- Woman Meets Death at Hands Os Former New Jersey Insane Patient Cox Takes Own Life .After Shooting to Death Mrs. Frances Tilden NEW YORK, Oct.. I—A farmer New Jersey insane patient, freed by the efforts of his family, who took over the responsibility for him —as Harrison Noel, the Montclair kidnaper and double murderer, was delivered to the responsibility of his parents—carried out a ten-year-old threat by shooting to death his mother-in-law and then taking his own life. George Cox, 39, the slayer and suicide, was a patient 8 years ago at Christ Hospital, Jersey City, where he escaped by leaping front a second-story window while in a straight-jacket. He later attempt ed his own life with a razor and was sent to the City Hospital. Since that time he has fathered two children, while living a shift less existence, characterized large ly by a jealous supervision of his wife and his threat that some day he would kill her mother and him self. That threat was carried out with four shots, two piercing the neck of Mrs. Frances Arabelle Tilden, 66, one missing fire, an dthe fourth blowing out the brains of the de mented murderer as he thrust the muzzle of his pistol to his temple and pulled the trigger. ,Cox was a son of former Police captain William Cox of the Mercer St., Station, Jersey City. The slaying and sucide occurred in the kitchen of the Tilden home, as Mrs. Cox and her four children waited in a front room for a talk with the husband and father. • The Coxes had been separated for 5 weeks. Sunday night, Cox came to the Tilden home to attempt a recon ciliation and found a man there. He charged Mrs. Tilden with en couraging her daughter in outside friendships. She replied that th" caller was a guuest of Mrs. Cox’s sister, Alice Tilden. Cox left the house i n a rage when ordered out by his mother-in-law. Returning. Tuesday, he went im mediately to the kitchen, where the shooting quickly followed LOST GIRL IS | RELIEVED SLAIN Teresa Servello, 14, Jersey City Schoo! Girl, Has Been Miss ing Five Days NEW YORK, Oct. I.—Dead at the hands of some fiend, or held I prisoner under the spell of the man I who lured her from home either! may be the fate of Teresa Servello, 14/Jersey City school girl, her mother told police after five sleep less night and tortuous days. “My girl, my little girl,” she sobbed again and again as neigh bors tried to comfort her. A strange man, much older than Teresa, who is believed to’ have’ held some mysterious power over' the child is believed to have spirit ed her away. Friends told Mrs. Ser-! vello they had seen Teresa with him at Bergen Point, Bayonne, where there is a group of amusements-! They said they had seen her meet him near her home. “I began to notice a change in! the girl,” Mrs. Servello sobbed,! “and when I would ask her where j she was going when she left the house at night she would mock me and talk to me flippantly. It wasn’t like my little girl. She had changed almost overnight. Then suddenly she was gone, to what fate I can only imagine.” CORONER FAILS TO NAME ANY ONE IN CASE VINTON, la., Oct. I.—The coro ner’s jury was unable to name any- O!U' responsbile for the death of Mrs. Myrtle Cook, temperance worker, slain at her home, but rec ommended that an investigation as to her husband, Clifford Cook, be continued. 1 | FATHER KILLS HIS DAUGHTER’S SUITOR I I I Bi f ■ i pMr <| f L \ I \ ' A' / Obj-cting to the attentions paid I to his daughter Elizabeth, 24, W. • B. Cole, millionaire Carolina tex-' tile manufacturer, shot and killedj William W. Ormond, 30, war vet eran, on the streets of Rockingham, ! N. C., and is now on trial there for; msfrd'r. His only comment since tne shooting ha- been that he did it I i to save his daughter. ■TWO KILLED AT GRADECROSSING' I A., B. and A. Switch Engine Strikes Tourists Automobile at Cordele. CORDELE, Oct. I. George M. Leigh, 55, and Florence, 19, father and daugter, are dead, and his wid ow, a daughter Edith, 22, and his ■ son, George, Jr., 8, are in a local I hospital with chances of recovery, ’ I as the result of a grade crossing accid nt here late Wednesday when the automobile in which they were occupants was struck by an Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railway switch engine. The party was on its way from Williamsburg, Ky., their home, to Florida. The automobile was a j complete loss, and for approximate '[ ly thirty minutes a hundred labor-1 ers were engaged '.n extricating all ( of the five victims from under an empty freight car where the . wreckage was rolled and twisted. , It was necessary to raise the freight car on jacks. The father and ! daughter met death Instantly. .1 J TWO CAPITAL CHARGES AGAINST TEXAS MAN ; HOUSTON, Texas., Oct. 1— t Max Fink, former New Orleans and 1 Houston orchestra leader, was being 1 tried here late Wednesday on a sec ijOnd charge of criminal attack on a 14-yjfhr-old girl while the jury in ’ the case which was brought to a close late yesterday, was still de £ bating on a verdict. i This is believed to be a unique - situation in the annals of criminal -leases in Texas for a man to be f placed on trial in one capital case s while the jury deliberated his fate -Jon a similar count. A jury for the ’.second trial has been selected and ■ 'the introduction of testimony start ed. I NEW YORK FUTURES Pc Open 1 lam Close > Oct. 23.27|23.07|23.92f23.05 ( Dec. 23-35|23.19|23.08|23.15 • <. AMERICUS SPGi COTTON • j Middling 22 I-2c. PRICE FIVE CENTS DEATH OF AGED WOMAN REVEALS LARGE FORTUNE Miss Mary Croxton Leaves Es tate of Millions in Cash and Securities BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN WITHOUT FUNDS $1,999,554 in Cash in On® Bank Account and $2,024 in A.n ohter Is Revealed NEW YORK, Oct. I. An un ostentatious little woman, whose severely simple method of living at the Mansion House, Brooklyn, led many to suppose she was in strait ened circumstance;, vs disclosed, following her sudden death, to be worth $3,823,138. Miss Mary Croxton, owner of this estate, was 75 years old when she died. Her room at the Mansion House, one of the most conservative and well known residential hotels in Brooklyn, was well situated, but was far from being the best in the hostelry. Partly because of her age and partly because of her unassuming disposition, «he mingled little with th" other guests. The extent of her estate wai revealed with the filing of the in ventory with Surrogate Wingate in Brooklyn. Miss Croxton left sl,. 999,554 in cash in one bank ac count and $2,024 in another. Her securities included 12,800 shares of the common stock of the Fidelity and Casualty Co., of New York, valued at $1,369,600. it was later disclosed that a legal battle over her estate is now be ing waged in Manhattan by several nephews and nieces. COLE PLEADS I SELF DEFENSE I j Editor and Doctor to Be Called As Witnesses in N. C. Mur der Case Today ROCKINGHAM COURTHOUSE, j N. C., Oct. I.—Self defense and I transitory insanity was the plea of I W. B. Cole, wealthy cotton manu j facturer, who last August 15 shot j and killed W. W. Ormond, former 1 suitor for his daughter’s hand. The defense attorney announced ! his plans after the state had rested , its case at 11 o’clock. Four wit- I nesses had been called. Wednesday, Frank Steele, an eye witness, first cousin of Cole, testi fied for the state that Ormond had walked two steps toward his auto mobile when he (Steele) noticed Cole step from the m.anufacturer’a building less than sixty feet away. He did not see Ormond efiter the automobile, but noticed when the first shot was fired that the man was almost under the steering wheel. W. B. Hulon of Hamlet, Isaac S. London, editor of the local news paper, both eye witnesses, and Dr. C- O. Bristow, physician who attend ed Ormond after the shooting are scheduled to appear as witnesses for the ’Vtte today. Solicitor Don Phillips has indicated to Judge I Finley that the state’s evidence will be in within three hours. UNDERWOOD WANTS SOUTHERNER ON I. C. C ATLANTIC CITY. Oct. I. 1 A plea for representation of the South on the Interstate Commerce Commission was made by Senator Oscar Underwood in an address prepared for delivery today before the state bank division of the Amer ican Bankers association. HOTEL OF 56 STORIES LOOMS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, Oct. I—The New York Evening Post states that the tallest hotel building in the world, 56 stories high, will be erected on the site of the Cornelius Vander bilt chateau on the corner of 57tb street and Fifth Avenue. The chateau will be transport’d tc- tAe north ?hore of Long Island for use as a club. The proposed structure, which. will be a combination transient and apartment hotel, will cost approxi mately $25,000,000.
