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SEASON’S RECEIPTS » Total receipts in Sumter ! county warehouses to date 23,277 WEATHER For Georgia—Mostly cloudy to- ; night and Wednesday. .. probably <, < showers in north and central por- -J ' tion; > FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO 233 JOHNSON WINS FOR WASH INGTON, 4 TOl — ! M M M JB ML w « i. a. TRAYNOR AND HARRIS EACH HIT HOME RUN Record Crowd Sees Washington and Pittsburg Battle In First Games of World Series By Radio through Crabb’s Radio Service Station, using Fada Neutrodyne. Received by R. R. Riner, News Editor Times-Recorder BATTING ORDER PITTSBURG, Oct. 7.—The prob able batting order for today’s open ing game: Washington Pittsburg Rice, cf. Moore, 2b. S. Karris, 2b. Carey, cf. Goslin, If. Cuyler, rs. Judge, lb. Barnhart, if. Bluege, 3b. Wright, ss. J. Harris, rs. Traynor, 3b. Peckinpaugh ss. Smith, c. Ruel, c. Grantham, lb. Johnson, p. Meadows, p. Umpires: At plate, Rigler (Na tional League); at first base, Moria rity (American League) ; at second base, McCormick (National); at third base, Owen, (American). Walter Johnson again proved himself a hero in the baseball world by defeating the Pittsburg Pirates in the first game of the 1925 classic for the world's championship. 4 io I at Pitts burg. from the first. Johnson had the Pirates at his mercy, allow ing them only five hits, four sin gles and. one home run, this the work of Trynor, thirdbagger for the National entry, scoring the lone tally for the Pirates. In adition to holding the Bucs down to five hits, Weaker, the old reliable, struck out ten of the heavy hitting line-up. Meadows pitched good ball, but just could not hold the Sena tors back. He allowed six hits and struck out five men- Mor rison, relieving Meadows in the ninth gave up two hits in rap id order before the world’s champions retired. Following is the score by in nings. r. h. e. Wash. 0 TO 0 2 0 0 0 I—4 8 1 P’burg 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 o—l 5 0 Summary: Runs, Traynor, Har ris, J.; (2) Goslin, Judge. Home runs, Harris, J. ; Traynor. Struck out by Johnson, 10; by Meadows 5; by Morrison, 1. Sacrifice hit, Judge. Stolen bases, Smith. Hit by pitched ball, Carey by Johnson. The game was featured by the hitting of Traylor for the Pirates, and Joe Harris for the Senator each getting a home run. Joe Har riis also scored two of the Senators’ four runs and hit for an average of .500 per cent in the game, getting two out of four. In the fifth inning Meadows gave up three singles in rapid order and with the bases loaded to the brim, struck the next two men out that faced him, only to have S'am Rice lay a clean single out of the lot to score Joe Harris and Bluege. A bright sun shone down from clear skies on the Pittsburg battle ground for the opening clash of the world series between Washington and Pittsburg, champions of the American and National Leagues. The weather gave every indica tion of being ideal, with a perfect setting for the opening of the hostil ities of the championship conflict that has stirred nation-wide inter est. A record crowd was at hand two i hours before the game started. Walter Johnson, dramatic pitch ing figure of the world’s champions, picked up for the Senators where he left off victoriously in the final mne of last season’s battle with the Giants. His opponent was Lee Meadows, veteran mainstay of the Pittsburg staff. Both have been through many a big league struggle, though Meadows has had no world’s serie-- experience. They are the central figures in the opening spectacle today at 1 Forbes Field, where a capacity crowd of 45,000 taxing everv avail , able bit of seating space, was cheer-|, ing like mad for their respective, battlers. i THE “PUBLI3 HEP IN THE HF AP T or D ;X| £~ ’{Jc * ♦ ♦ U* ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ * Judge Demands Investigation of Negro’s Lynching "Cat-Eyed LU” heibbi Jl T’J ’"®iiLgp^ s a . ..*-«*»* bpw / IPI % z z i ■ / ’ I '- t 1 k—... . ....d Lillian McDoweli, known to the police of a dozen cities as the “cat eyed” girl, has jseen arrested in Milwaukee. Many robberies are charged against her. Peculiarly shaped eyes caused her arrest. : MITCHELL SUMMONED f Bit NAVAL BOARD | WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7. 1 Colonel William Mitchell, former assistant chief of the arn.y air serv- 1 ice, has been summoned to appear tomorrow before the naval court : inquiring into the Shenandoan dis aster. i AGED FLORIDAN FOUND IN BAYOU CLEARWATER, Fla., Oct. 7 The body of H. H. Heaton, 60 1 years of agt, was found at noon today near a railroad trestle in the bayou with a bullet wound in his • cheek. PASTOR SAVES THREE FROM WATERY GRAVE PENSACOLA, Fla., Oct. 7.—A story printed here tells of the res cue of three persons from drown ing by the Rev. Dr. V. J. Rosseau, pastor of the First Baptist church, Dr. Rosseau was on the gulf beach yesterday evening when he heard cries for help and he succeeded in rescuing a man named Keith, a stranger from Tampa, who was fast being carried to sea. Just short while later Dr. Rosseau was attracted by cries for help from Mr. and Mrs. John Ocler, automo bile travelers from Kansas City, who were passing through Florida Mrs. Ocler was rescued at the risk of the minister’s own life as her hus band was completely exhausted and had given up struggling. JAMES B. DUKE ‘CONSIDERABLY BETTER’ NEW YORK. Oct. 7.—The condi tio not James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, is considerably improved today, according to statements from physician. Mr. Duke has been ill for several weeks. 17 LAWYERS TO SPEAK BEFORE COLE JURY RICHMONND QOURTHOUSE, I ROCKINGHAM, Oct. 7.—Argu ment of counsel and the charge of the court today stands between the jury's consideration of the murder, charge against William B. Cole. Seventeen attorneys are sched uled to speak before the twelve men who will decide upon the fate . of the manufacturer. Indications today are that the | Judge will not be able to make hi« ■ charge until Friday. Cole is charged with having shot iW. W Ormotrd last August. AMERICUS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 7. 1925 Valdostan Kills Niece And Commits Suicide I i Joseph Johnson, Valdosta, Dead —Girl’s Recovery Doubtful. Uncle Resented Her Callers VALDOSTA, Ga„ Oct. 7. Joseph W. Johnson, well known live | stock dealer ot this city Tuesday i night shot his niece, Mary Rose, i ‘ with a revolver and then turned the I , weapon upon himself, inflicting a j fatal wound in the head. The young i woman was rushed to the hospital where it was stated she probably, will recover. Members of the family said John-' son who resided at the Rose home,' had objected to the young woman having men friends. Last night one of her friends telephoned her. A quarrel followed between Miss Rose and Johnson, when the latter is said' to have pulled out the revolver and shot the young woman in the back The bullet lodged near her heart. Then Johnson walked out into the rear yard and shot himself, dying j almost instatnly. Miss Rose associated with Miss] Klein Staten in the insurance busi ness here and is well-known in lo cal business circles. Acording to members of the family, Johnson had acted as father toward the young woman who resented his interfer ence in her affairs. i ;SUMTER COTTON RECEIPTS CAIN »I All Available Reports Show r . Year's Receipts t Sumter County cotton crop will, . without a doubt, exceed last year's crop in spite of the long drouth the past season. Reports from over the county lead cotton men to believe that the crop this season will exceed last season’s by _ at least five thousand bales. Reports up to noon today from , seven warehouses show a total of , 23,277 bales received. This num . ber is divided as follows: The Americus warehouses, 18,684 bales; Jones Warehouse Co., Leslie. 665 bales; Dr. Lee’s Warehouse. Leslie, 1500 bales; Timmerman-Wise Warehouse Co., Plains, 1460 bales; and Montgomery Warehouse of Plains. 968 bales. This makes a grand total of 23,277 to date. It is estimated that here will be furher receipts to make the toal near 30,000. Reports from The Commercial Warehouse of Aifieri cus, are to the effect that they ex pect to receive btween 750 and 1,- 000 bales further. Council’s Ware house of Americus is expecting fur ther receipts to run between 3,000 and 4,000. With the other ware houses in the county expecting further receipts it is predicted that Sumter warehouses will easily beat last year’s receipts. The receipts by county ware houses is not all Sumter county cotton but from surrounding coun ties also. TWO SUMTER COUNTY NEGROES APPREHENDED County officers today appre hended Calvin Williams, charged with larceny and Sam Pickett, want ed on a misdemeanor charge. Wil liams is specifically charged with the theft of an automobile tire, rim and tube, Picket being held for re ceiving stolen goods. SHENANDOAH SHOULD RE REPLACED—MOFFETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—The ill-fated Shenandoah should be re- , placed with a rigid airship built in ithe United States, according to Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the naval bureau of aeron autics. Admiral Moffet told presi dent Coolidge’s air board today that the Shenandoah’s successor should l be built with the capacity of at.least six million cubic feet. , The Shenandoah’s capacity was 2,115,000 cubic feet. 4 COMMITTEE OF FIVE TO STEER REALTY BOARD Minimum Stock Subscribed; 10 Per Cent of Capital Paid in; i More Than TOO Members Re f ported Last Night- With but few exceptions, all of I the more than 100 subscribers to the stock of the Americus realty board were present at a meeting in the courthouse last night. Luther Hawkins, acting as agent for the corporation, pending the re ceipt ot its charter reported three fourths of the subscribers as hav ing paid cash and given notes for J their subscriptions, more than 10 I per cent of the .$12,500 stock being j his lianda. A recapitulation showed that more than 100 separate persons had agreed to join the board and sub ribed for the minimum number of shares. From the floor a steering com mittee was elected to handle the affairs of the These were M. H. Fletcher, Luther Haw kins, W. L. English, G. L. White and M. H. Wheeler. A motion passed, declared that all funds of the corporation were to be kept in tact until the charter had actuully been received. No moneys for any expense can be usd by the agent or others. The steering committee was in structed to seek a suitable location for the board’s office, to make dil igent inquiry for a real estate man (Continued on Page Eight) SHIPPING BOARD LOSES V. P. CONE Genera! Manager Resigns As Protest Because of Palmer’s Removal - -- -_ • • WASHINGTON, Oct. 7—Hutch : inson I. Cone, vice-president and . general manager of the Emergency i Fleet Corporation today submitted his resignation to the shipping • board. Con’s resignation was a pro” test against the removal of Leigh ■ O. Palmer, president of the board, whose resignation was asked by the • president Monday. The breach between the shipping board and the White House was greatly widened when the board re moved President Palmer, who was elected to the office in January 1924, at the instance of President Coolidge, and had been given his consistent support. At the same time, the board elect ed Elmer E. Crowley of Boston, op erating manager for the American export line in New York, to succeed Palmer and effected a number of other changes in the executive per sonnel of the corporation. The changes were made effective as of today and Mr. Crowley is expected here tomorrow prepared to take over his duties. < The board elected Mr. Palmer a [vice president in charge of Euro peans affairs of the corporation, a position for which he had been se lected when Mr. Coolidge caused 1 him to be made president. This offer one commissioner later , explained, was only a mark of 1 i “courtesy" to Palmer, and the !at- : [ ter declined it. When he put on his 1 I hat late yesterday he walked out! of his office for the last time as, president. The step taken by the board was i one further advanced along the line j of exercising full and complete con-1 trol of Fleet Corporation affairs, a! program it had recently notified Mr. Coolidge it intended to carry ( out by rescinding the board powers it had vested in the board. S- * i Queen of British Rum Runners ’ - T’ fc' ' ' ' '*** - ; - ■ .x ■' x J W # > A> -. -• » ' J ' ~ v ■ ' " >, a. ' r -•> , * / i : 11 r' i 1 j i\ i ’ .i •- i | M /''.l f I 1 ■ 'J i I a . 'I • jj. ...... Mme. Gloria de Casares, wealthy Briton, owns the ship General Ser rat (below), lying in the Thames at London waiting to sail for America with SIOO,OOO worth of whisky. The crew, claiming their J WALTER JOHNSON’S GRANDFATHER DIES AT SANTAMONICA i SANTAMONICA, Calif., Oct. \ I 7.—John L. Perry, 82 years of ' ; age, grandfather of Walter ■ ■ Johnson, the famous Washing- ' ' ton pitcher, died here today. [ GIRL STUDENT TAKES OWN LIFE Body {* Found Hanging By Scarf in Clothes Press. Insanity Blamed POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. Oct. 7. —The body of Miss Anna Frances Bailey, 21, senior at Vassar college, was found suspended by a scarf from a hook in the clothes press of her room at main building Tues day. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Bailey, of Cleveland, Ohio. College authorities believed that Miss Bailey hanged herself in a moment of temporary insanity. Her parents were expected to arrive here today to claim the body. SCOPES CASE COMES UP SATURDAY KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 7. Answers to the plaintiff in error In • the case of John P. Scopes, versus I the state of Tennessee to the mo tion of the states counsel will be made to the Supreme court in ses sion here Saturday morning. An effort is being made to I strike the bill of exceptions from, the record in the case. BOMBS ON FRENCH WARSHIP EXPLODE BORDEAUX, France, Oct. 7.—A ship with bombs, exploded in the Bordeaux harbor today wounding many. The ship was destined for Morocco, carrying munitions to the French force there. RAINS IN MANY GEORGIA COUNTIES j WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. In many of the counties of Georgia re ! cent rains have increased the wa ter supply and put the soil in good condition for fall planting, accord ing to the Federal department of Agricultures report. wages were overdue, refused to sail and would not even let her board ( her ship. Now customs officers are investigating, and Mme. de Cas ares, to add to her troubles, faces a charge of seeking to defraud a London store. s' S' . S' s | WALKER DELAYS EXTRA SESSION Governor Defers Conference With State Leaden Until Later in Week ATLANTA. Oct. 7.—Governor Clifford Walker annunoced late yesterday that he would defer tak ing action on the plan for an ex tra legislative session until later in the week. In declaring that no bids for dis counting the $3,000,0')9 in Consid erate scrip had been received, the time limit having expired at ten o’clock Tuesday morning, Governor Walker announced that he had I delegated the task of issuance to ' Pension Commission John W. Clark. Commisisoner Clark said he had not been notified officially of this% action, but that in anticipation he s had been listing the nine thousand ! pensioners, both veterans and wid-'< ows, to whom the scrip will be giv-'< en. He estimated that between $2,-1 000,000 and $3,000,000 will be paid i to these pensioners. 1 ; —■■ ■ 1 RAILROADS ENTER OBJECTION TO RATES WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—The railroads of the South appearing to day before the Inter-Mate Cora- I merce Commission .entered a vigor ous objection to the organization of class freight rates schedules in the southern quarter of the United I States, which commission laid down i as reasonable last August. CHAPMAN’S APPEAL TO BE HEARD TODAY HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 7.—The supreme court of errors of the state of Connecticut asigned for Wednes day the appeal of Gerald Chapman, super-bandit, under sentence of i death, in Wethersfield prison. Chief Justice George W. Wheeler, placed the case second on the list. Chapman, whose execution was i set originally for June, bet later! was extended until December, will | not be in court. No decision on the appeal is expected from the supreme court for several weeks. Chapman was sentenced to be | hanged for the murder-of a New Britain policeman-who had caught him in the act of blowing a safe in a department store there. i NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close 5 ’ Oct 22.90,22 96|22.96|22.94 < ) Dee. J AMERICUS SPOT COTTON > ? Strict middling 21 7-Bc. | PRICE FIVE CENTS r GRAND JURORS TOLD OF DUTY TO MAKE PROBE Judge Jas. B. Parks Takes Of ficial Cognizance of Case in Charging Wilkinson Body IRWINGTOnTgx, Oct. 7.—As serting that it was their direct duty to make an investigation of the lynching cf he insane negro, Wil lie Dixon on September 20, inmate of state asylum because the act was committeed in Wilkinson county Judge James B. Parks, of Ocmul gee circuit, took official cogizance of the case in charging the Wilkin son county grand jury late Tues day. I cannot conceive how’any person who claims to be a good citizen in this or any other state of this great country, can deliberately join a mob to take the life of anyone. I know there is no element of bravery in ioing so and there is no vindication of the law. As sure as there ’s a great and just judge that only con trols this universe, but all earthly affairs, the members of the mob that violated the laws of the fund will be held accountable by Him and ought to be held accountable under our own laws,” Judge Parks said. On the night of September 20, a body of unmasked men entered the ■state sanitarium as Milledgeville, seized the negro, carried him to a point in Wilkinson county and is said to have beaten him to death. He was found dead the next morn ing chained to a tree and every evi dence that a pick handle had been used by members of the party. Although no definite announce ment has been made by court offi cials it Is believed that the guards and others connected with the state sanitarium, would be called in to give evidence. STEWARTGOES TO TURKEY Consul General Stewart I* Trans ferred From Tokyo to Constantinople Consul General Nathaniel B. Stewart, now located at Tokyo has been ordered to Constantinople, it was learned here today. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart will leave ‘Japan in the next few days for the states. Mrs. Stewart, daughter of i Captain and Mrs. John A. Cobb will some directly to Americus after the ,consul reports at Washington. Mrs. Stewart hopes to be able to reach home by October 20, which is 'the 87th birthday of her father i However, the family doesn’t believe Mr. and Mrs. Stewart can reach here earlier than November. I Mr. Stewart was assigned the Yo kohama post about two years ago at the time of the disastrous Jap anese earhquake, going there direct (lv from Washington. After remain ing in Yokohama for several weeks the consulate was moved to Tokio, i where he and Mrs. Stewart have re [ mained until the recent orders were ■ received to go to Constantinople. Friends of Mr and Mrs. Stewart [state that the change is a decided promotion for the consul general, who has many friends and relatives in and near Americus. LARGE STILL FOUND BY COUNTY OFFICERS One of the largest stills ever un covered in Sumter county was lo cated by County officer- 'ate ves terday afternoon. Equipped with steam boiler and with a daliv ca pacity of forty gallons, officers state that this is one of the best equipped leen. The still was lo cated on Ty Ty creek in the north west part of the county. Although the still had been closely watched, the operators made their escape be fore the arrival of officers. Tpr-v - ■ r~ -•»•-■■. r K
