About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1925)
'■v ASON’S RECEIPTS ; K ■ -.a Thursday ... 120 > ;! Total receipts .....17,450 s < WEATHER ? < For Gtorgia—Fair tonight and? i probably Friday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 229 MAMMOTH CRANES FAIL TO RAISE SUBMARINE FROM DEPTHS * ***'#. * * * * * > X Lone Desperado Shot In Second Holdup In 24 Hours huge liters ORDERED FROM SCENE TODAY Two More Bodies Found in En gine Compartment By Div ers This Morning HOLD OUT LITTLE HOPE FINDING OTHERS ALIVE Divers Report Engine Room and Other Compartments Filled With Water NEW LONDONToct. 2—Rear Admiral H. H. Christy, in charge operations at the scene o the wreck of the submarine S-51 today recommended the release of -he .wo big floating cranes which made an unsuccessful attempt to! raise the Rome’s victim. TWO MORE BODIES FOUUND On board U. S. S.. Camden, Oct. j 2. The toll of known dead of the l submarine S-51 was raised to fourj today when divers recovered the bodies of two of the crew in the' engine room compartment of the' ship. The men were identified u | Walter F. Lawton, electrician mate lirst class, of Somerville, Mass., and E. D. Lindsay, engineman second! class, Pensacola, Fla. Discovery that the engine com partment was flooded was made Oy Harry Reinhartfen, a diver, who cut the hole in the hatch. He report ed that only a few buddles of air were emitted and that further in vestigation showed the section of the ship filled with water. It took seven minutes to cut the hole with the aid of an oxy-acety lene torch. The condition of the motor com partment’, adjoining the engine room is still uncertain and divers will repeat the process of drilling' an exploring hole there today if' weather condition permit. SHIP REFUSES TO BUDGE The S-51 refused today to budge from her bed of sand at the ocean’s bottom. She withstood the efforts' of two giant floating derricks that* strained at their cables in a des-j perate effort to bring her to the surface to determine if the spark' of life by any chance remained in! the bodies of any of the other 311 remaining men who went down with her when she was rammed by the steamer City of Boston, last Fri day night. D. S. NAVY BAND BE HEARD HERE _ I Will Give Two Performances at Rylander Theatre Monday, November 23 By special permission of the[ President, the citizens of Americus ' will be enabled to hear two con-| certs this fall by the famous navy;' band. Because of its official character ' and duties, the Navy Band cannot go on tour withoutu the express 1 consent of the Chief Executive. ' This was accomplished during the 1 summer and negotiations started to 1 bring the organization here. Due to the zeal of citizens this city was ■ placed on the itinerary. The band j will be heard here Monday Nov. J 3, | at the Rylander. I This a distinct triumph for the , 1 city, as so many requests for an-J pearance of the band were receiv-'' ed by W. L. Radcliffe, head of the, 1 Radcliffe enterprises, who is hand-|' ling the toar that scores perforce ji were refused. Had all requests J been comnlied with. Mr. Radcliffe J asserts, the noted musical organi- ( i zation would be kept on tour, throughout the winter, were such a thing possible. ERI cu s THE TIMESrRECORDER PUBLISHED IN RODGERS HURLS CHALI.ENGE AT COL. MIKHEIL Commander of PN-9 Defies Anyone to Make “Just Criti cism or raciric r light WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Taking | a uirecc issue with Col. William ( Mitcheu s charges, Uotnmanuur I John Rodgers, witness today before i the President’s air board, issued a | challenge’to any one to make a just criticism of arrangements [for the Hawaiian flight of the.sea ! plane PN-9 number one. Disciplinary action against Col. William A. Mitcheli, aircraft storm center, will be renewed by the war department as soon as Col. Mitchell completes his testimony-before ti e [ airboard, which is expected to be | within the next day or two. NEWTAKEN IN’ FOR 150 BUCKS I Smart Pair of Ethiopians Depart I With Jenkins’ Roll Left As Deposit On Car Police late Thursday afternoon and last night combed the negro section of the city in an effort to apprehend two negroes who Thurs day afternoon stole $lO5 from a negro farmer after accepting this amount as part payment on a Ford car, which was to have been deliv ered to the victim as soon as he proved to the satisfaction of the salesmen” that he could produce the balance due on the car within two weeks. The negro victim, Greeley Jer kins, according to J. F. Monahan, had just received $lO5 for a bale of cotton from a local warehouse when he was accosted by the j “slick” negroes and offered a Ford I car at the very reasonable price (of $l5O. Jerkins agreed to purchase the ear, but declared that he had only $lO5. The two negroes, after some deliberation, offered to turn the Ford over to Jerkins, providing he left theslos with them until they ' could be assured that he could raise ■the addition $45 by October 10. )\ After reaching this 4 Jerkins left the two negroes the 'slos and the car and hurried (around to Mr. Monahan’s where hej obtained SIOO, evidence that he could meet the balance due within j the specified period. Upon his return to Hampton i street, the place where the negroes i were to have met him with the car, Jerkins discovered the negroes had departed with the car and his $lO5. Jerkins said he placed a great deal of confidence in his black brothers, they being well educated snappily dressed and extremely courteous. ANDREWS GETS CITY UNIFORMS CONTRACT I I D. R. Andrews was awarded the 1 contract for outfitting the city s po [lice force and fire department with winter uniforms. The contract ■•• alls I for 11 uniforms for the fire fight ers and eight for the police depart ment. The city marshal's uniform •is also inciudea, a s arc overcoats f<?r each member of the two depart ments. The cloth will be the same color and texture as last year. $50,000 MAIL LOOT FOUND IN ATLANTA ATLANTA, Oct. 2.—Approxi mately $50,000 in loot, alleged to have been stolen from the United states mans in loieao, unio, was recovered by postal inspectors Thursday, and Mary I. Elsberry, ne gress, was placed under arrest and her preliminary hearing set for Oc tober 9. The amount involved In [ the mail robbery was not disclosed but it was learned that the amount recovered represents only a frac tion of the loss. ; GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTpRr OBER2, 1925 Preparing lo lake lhe Dead Ashore !r > ' IB i -. ’WK. M j > .. f JU ’ w F i’iA™ j 4. 7 ’[J I 55 NwKk-U '* Rear Admiral H, H. Christy and Commander Newton of theU. S. S. ■ Camden stood by with bared head j as the bodies of William C. Tesciie- 1 lax Dodging Is Easy lor Rich, But Impossible For lhe Poor WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.—Duck ing cne income tax is easy it you have the money! tor the poor, the salaried man, [ or the man in the moderate circum- [ stances, it is virtually impossible —at least, legally. But for the rich man there are [ at least three methods, all sane-, tioned by law, by which he can cut down his tax. The first—and by far the most common—is by investment in tax-' exempt securities. Tax-exempt securities mean very, little to the man who has very lit-1 tie to invest. Suppose he saves up' SIO,OOO and puts into taxable bonds at 7 per cent bringing a return of[ S7OO. On thia he pays a tax of 2 per cent or sl4, if his total taxable' income is less than S4OOO, so he still I has left $586. He couldn’t make as much by buying tax-exempt securities at the I unheard of rate of 6.75 per cent as these would net him only $675. But if an investor whose other in come totals $500,000 over his de- I ductions, invests in taxable securi ! ties he must pay a normal tax of 6 per cent and a surtax of 40 per cent—a total of 46—on the re turns. 1 If he buys SIO,OOO worth of 7 SHENANDOAH CREW WARNED OF SYSTEM LAKEHURST, Oct. 2.—ln ap-' proving the gas valve system change in the air ship Shenandoah, the I Bureau of Aeronautics at Washing- 1 ton warned those on the ship that. the system was not as “foolproof” I as the original installation and that; extreme care should be taken in the' operation of the ship. WITNESSES TESTIFY TO MISS COLE’S REPUTATION Richmond County Court House/ Rockingham, N. C., Oct. 2.—Ten i witnesses for the defense testified' to “the splendid reputation” of Miss Elizabeth Cole today in the progress' of the trial of her father for the | murder of W. W. Ormond, one time, sweetheart of the young woman. HOLSTON CONFERENCE AGAINST UNIFICATION CHATTANOOGA. Oct. 2 The proposed plan of unification of i Methodism failed to receive a con-! stitutional majority in the Holstr.n annual conference of the M°th o ’- ist-Episconal church of here in a vote taken todav vote stood 163 for unification and 152 against, with 244 necessary for adoption. • macher , of Bangor, Pa., and ,> hn |L. Gibson, of Portland, Ore., were (brought up from the sunken wreck |of the submarine S-51 and laid on per cent bonds, his S7OO return is * cut down to $378. He can better this with tax-ex i ernpt securities bearing only 4 per [cent, which will bring him a clear S4OO. ; An outstanding example is Sen- i i ator Couzens of Michigan. About the time the income tax law went into effect he sold out his ; interest in the Ford Motor Com- 1 ipany for approximately $33,000,000' ' and invested the bulk of his fortune ! in tax-exempt municipal, state and * i government bonds. I Now, although one of the coun [ try’s multi-millionaires, he pays ar ' income tax of only SI2OO. And Couzens is only one of many I According to Secretary of the' ’ Treasury Mellon, tax-exempt secur iities now total $13,284,000,000 and I are increasing at the rate of one | billion dollars yearly. The other methods of avoiding' high income tax payments are a i trifle more complicated. One is the practice in vogue with many corporations of paying divi dends in shares of their own stock, i A stock dividend is not subject to any tax unless the holder sells it or the corporation redeemed it. I Os course, the holder will ever j tually realize on it. But he won’t FOUR TROOPERS MAKE BIG HAUL Capture 55 Rum Runners and $500,000 Cargo of Imported Liquors BURLINGTON, Oct. 2—F ir ■ state troopers, one of them holder of the* distinguished medal for brav ery in the world war, and another i winner of SI,OOO award for hero ism, with a private detective, today /captured 56 rum runners and $500,00 cargo of imported liquors, , six truckks, four automobiles and a barge. LEE STREET ELEVEN TRIMS HARROLD AVE. In a game replete with thrills, the Lee street eleven downed the Har rold avenue team in the first inter-' , stret football battle of the season by I the schore of 14-7 Thursday after- Inoon. The battle raged on the Playground grid. Billv Fort »nd Phillip Curtis made touchdowns for ; the victors, while Chas. Howard crossed the line for the losers, Walker and Wagnon,, backfields men, starred far the Lee street. the deck of the Camden. After ( ■ (sailors had arranged the Dodies of .(neatly in blankets the dead men I were taken to Newport, R. I. be taxed for it until he does, and I by that time he hopes taxes will be reduced. The third method of income avoidance is also a corporation at [ fair, commonly practiced when one ! man or a small group of men owns all the stock. The profits of the corporation are simply not distributed. In this ! way the corporation pays a much [ smaller tax than the stockholders I collectively would have to pay. I A student of the income tax sit uation in Wa(sh|hgton. cites the i Fords as an example. He says: “The tax paid by Henry and j,Edsel indicates an income of i around $6,000,000 each $12,000,- [ 000 in all. “They own 100 per cent of the [ Ford company, which indicated ' through its tax payment an income I in excess of $100,000,000. i “Therefore the ‘actual’ income for Henry and Edsel—using the same definition of income for them that applies to the salaried man— was at least $56,000,000 each—in other words, a total of $112,000,- 000 instead of $12,000,000. “But under our present law, it does not become taxable until dis tributed.” NOAH’S ARK ENDS CRIME Vessel Comes Into Port With Many Animals and Reptiles For New York Zoo NEW YORK, Oct. 2. —The Ark of the celebrated navigator Noah had very little on the American Trader of the American Transport line, which docked recently with 14 passengers and a large number of “extraordinary” one whose immedi ate destination was the Centraal Park, Bronx, and other local zoos. In addition to tropical birds of ■ every genus, the vessel carried four 1 emus, 15 zebras, eight antelopes and 12 storks, as well as a consign-; ment of snakes. ♦ Acording to the captain, Kub : bard S. Fish, one of the emus died the first day out from England, an infallible sign, according to the <>' salts on board, that bad weather was in the offing. Sur - enough, the captain said, the vessel struck a number of hur ricanes and experienced January weather for the whole crossing. A number of the feathered passengers died. FORGER ENDS HIS LIFE BY LEAP TO DEATH Cotnered By Police, J. D. Stokes Jumps Through Heavy Plate Glass Window RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 2.—Jos j *‘Ph Stokeks, 25, escaped the hands of the law late last night by I leaping twelve stories to his death | after he had been captured by a lo [ cal detective agency on charge of forgery and turned over to the po- I lice. Cornered in the detective’s ' office in the Mutual Building, ; Stokes jumped through the heavy plate glass window and was instant-i ly killed. Stoke« had been sought for three months by local police and was taid to have been wanted also in Nor-1 Folk. Estranged from his family here. '< was found in a hotel and taken io the offices of the detec-j |tive agenev in the mutual building [ where officers say he admitted a [ number of forgeries. After officers had been summon j |ed bv the detectives, Stokes asked l j and was permission to go I'nf-e nn adjoining room to use a telenhone. An instanb later the | erash of broken class told of his 1 lean fhroutrh the window and his, bo<l'- <av on the cement a b’*t' I floors below HEALTH DEICER TO VISIT FARMS Typhoid Serum Will Be Ad ministered Where 25 Persons [ Are Gathered Next week the county health board officials will be able to go, to the farms in the county where at least 25 persons are gathered [ and there administer typhoind se- ( rum, Dr. Chambliss said Friday, morning. . “For the past two weeks we have' had more than we could attend to and some requests for our services had to be refused,” Dr. Chambliss stated today. “However, next week we can make two or three engage ments and will go out if requested. “The health of the community right now is fine—most satisfac tory to us and we base this state ment on reports coming into the office as well as personal obser vation. “So far as we are able to learn there is no malaria in the county. I know of one county school prin cipal who was asking the otehr day what had become of malaria, that in the past he had had pupils ill! with malaia at this season of the year, but this term he had none. “We know of only one case now suffering from a preventable dis-' ease in Americus and that is a case of diphtheria. “Typhoid is checked in every sec tion of the county. This is the first year when the light children's dis eases did not crop out at this sea son, but there is very little of that in the county. “In the past week or two we have vaccinated more people in the health office than in the enrtire 12 months prior to the past 14 days. “The county has had some ty phoid and diphtheria, but so has the rest of the country and reports from the Federal health department be ing our authority,” concluded the chairman of the health board. MRS. WOODROW WILSON REPORTED ENGAGED i PARIS, Oct. 2.—A possible ro mance. in which the names of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Dr. Sterling i Ruffin, of Washington, D. C., have been linked together has been the 1 subject of much speculation both in Geneva and Paris in the last few weeks. Mrs. Wilson now is being entertained by her friends here but Dr. Ruffin was a passenger on the steamer Majestic which sailed for New York Sept. 23. (NEW YORK FUTURES Pc Open Ham Close < Oct. 23.27|2 .17|23.07|23.93 < Dee o 35j23.!0|23.18|23.02 j AMERICUS SPC I COTTON > ■ Middling 22 l-2c. s PRICE FIVE CENTS ! ROBBED UNION PACIFIC TRAIN I ON WEDNESDAY Winged By Trainmen As He, Alighted From the Observa tion Car BANDIT MAKES HIS ESCAPE IN DARK Po, -‘er Collected Money While “Rad Man” Held Revolver to Head OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 2.- A one man tram robbery, the second with atal shoor’ iU the | tatal shooting 0 £ the bandit as abated from the obserm on c « ot aumon Pacific passenger tram the , :lty i After robbing pasengers of two .punmans ar, dthe observation ear and w« r £r ° m the P latfo "m and was fired upon a special agent He was shot through the head and [ leg, ami was rushed to a hospital In I a serious condition. Only a small amr.unt of money was taken from tne passengers. | He is bwieved to be the same des perado who robbed passengers on j a Missouri Pasific train here Wed- I nesday night and escaped As in the previous robbery, a I negro porter was pressed into serv , ice and while the bandit 1< • Hed . gun at his head he went d.. wn the I line of passengers and /collected their money. | After robbing the passengers in the observation car the man forced » j the porter to accompany him I through the two pullmans, where the passengers were robhed in the I same manner. | Tn the last pullman, the man en jeounteded a flagman, and ordered I the ported to one side while the flagman was robbed to search the tremaining passengers. As the train slowed down ■' " ■- flighted and was fired unon bv tb* ! officers who had been notified bv I’he robberv. MARJORIEDENIES STEALING LOVE Noted Emotional Actress Calls Charge of Actor’s Wife ‘ Absurd * and ‘Ridiculous’ NE WYORk7o« 2.r-Marjorio Rambeau, notel emotional actress spent most of Thursday in confer ence with her lawyers, after which she reiterated/ vigorously her denial ( of having “stolen” the love of Ke vitt Manton, English actor. In a highly colorful forecast of a suit said to be contemplated by | Mrs. Mabel Manton, the actress was > charged with having been found I with Manton in her hotel room, but .the papers necessary to instituting such action had not been filed up to 4 p. m. yesterday, the official closing time so rcourt matters. “ lam perfectly innocent of any wrong-doing,” said Miss Rambeau “and at the proper time I shall con v'nee even those who are now skep tical and smile at my denials. “The whole thing is absurb if lot a malicious fabrication.” Miss Ramheau’s mood was de cidedly indignant while making this statement, and not only she, but friends to whom she had given her confidence and kno wthe truth about her relations with Manton, gave the impression the star intend ed to take action against the per sons responsible for the stories of misconduct attribuuted to her. CLAIMS HE FIGURED 500 AUTO THEFTS 1 ATLANTA. Oct. 2.—Claims that he figured in the theft of more than 500 automobiles in different parts of the country were made this morning bv J H. Hunter, young man arrested by city detectives in connection, with the theft of an au tomobile in Macon.
