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SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 17, 1925 FANS MAY BUY JOHNSON CLUB Movement Started in Oklahoma to Have Fans Donate SI.OO Each for Purchase of Club MUSCOGEE. Okla.. Oct. 17. A] though Walter Johnson lost the ■world’s Series to Pittsburg, there is a movement on foot to raise a fund among t-he baseball fans of Am erica for the purchase of a baseball club for him. The move was launched here, being originated by Claude Willi ford, president of the Eastern Oklahoma Playgrounds Association, aided by local business men. “A million fans five a million dollars for a baseball team for Wal ter/’ is the slogan of Williford’s campaign. In less than an nour last night fifty-five local men and ■women gave one dollar each to the fund. Williford, who is acting as trustee for the fund, recalled that after the 1924 world’s series, John son expressed a desire to retire from active play and attempted to I buy a minor league club. MORE GROWN ERDLY BOOST CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 16 Hardly had a dispatch from Musc gee, Okla., announced the initiation of adrive for “a million dallars from a million mans” to buy a base ball club for Walter Johnson than a "set of newspaper hounds” here made claim to being the “first to follow.” Eight minutes after word of the fund had been received, six saps had contributed their “pro-rata” and the club had started. SEVENSCHOOL CHILDREN HURT Auto Driven By Wisconsin Man Collides With School Truck; Both Cars Badly Wrecked ABBEVILLE, Ga., Oct. 17—Sev en children were injured, one of them seriously, when a school truck carrying pupils from the Abbeville Consolidated School, collided here late Friday with an automobie driv en by F. E. Waites, Ishkosh, Wis. The list of injured are as fol lows: Winifred Farray, internal inju ries. Outcome doubtful. Tom Dyers, badly lacerated body and sprained arm. badly cut and bruis **_—■***" lacerated body. Clitiord Meadows, lacerations. Miss May Cuthbert, cut about the face and head. Waites was taken in charge by Sheriff C. L. Smith immediately af ter the accident and is being held pending an investigation tomorrow, edig a inn.tkF shrdluetaoietao ttt pending an investigation today. Witnesses stated that the school truck driven by A. C. Fisher, was on the left side of the road of a sharpe curve where the accident hap pened. Fisher was unhurt in the crash. The truck turned over. Young Farrer, who was serious ly hurt was caught in the wreckage of the two cars and it took rescueu workers somethime to extricate him. Although an investigation will be held today and Waites is being held for this, it is said that no blame can be attached to him as he was on his side of the road. ALLIES AND GERMAN— N trcm Page On") be at the verge of breaking down under the weight of joy and emo tion which checked his words and made them almost unintelligible. He dwelt upon what Locarno meant to world harmony and to the hopes of all peoples, and paid moving trib ute to the spirit of accommodation of all the delegates. M. andervelde, Belgium’s’ social ist foreign minister, pledged that the socialtists with heart and soul ever tfßtfld back up the results achieved at Locarno. At the closing session the Rhine pact and the collateral arbitration treaties with which the pact is inter locked, were all initiated and the lit final act, or protocol, was signed. • s ' The Rhine pact is signed by France Germany and Belgium, with Great _ Britain and Italy as guarantors and by ifT provision the signature under e’ take to refrain from attacking or invading the territory of the others. 1 Great Britain and Italy pledge their resources 'ftTTiuse against a signer lE ~ who violates the terms of the pact. 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We will sell less or more than $1 .worth of any article advertised, but ' reserve the right to limit quanti fies. ! THE STANDARD DRYGOODS COMPANY; I Fortytb Street, Next Door to Beelr lof Commeree AMERICUS. GA. Invention Cooks With a Bulb i i / x*>ws«Sr ''l j Ti Bi > r MBNBaiwLWT L«&■ h aw&L. z f HF f.. I > Tourists along part of the Yel- so that it picked up all nails and Jowstone Highway may be assured other metafile objects. It picked against punctures, because of aup 603 pounds of such substances cleaning the road got recently. Alin seven miles. A battery of stor fiuge magnet, suspended from a | age cells in the truck actuated the truck, was carried along the ground, magnet. New Invention Cooks With a Light Bulb J a *WMMWWra iillf Mh, i! £f jB Ik o -K Here is a new invention that me ix> w iurx Ldtson Co., cut the fuel bill but register more 1 watching dough become bread with j on the electric meter, making it pos-j °nly a bulb to guide it. This new I ... , . , , -x, .v v x device will be shown at the Elec- ‘ sible to cook and bake with the heat trica , and Industrial Expoßition iq of an ordinary electric light bulb. I >j ew y O -k beginning October 14 to ] The photograph shows Arthur Wil- ; 24. * AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER Caravan Toiling After Ovis Poli In iibet >■' 1 — r ~ r rrTr-TTnmnnrm ■ I * 4 k* •? MWWk *W- _ | Hk. ! iflltebL?' TtMr"~~> Mik i i’>- x. ZSSMfeac • « k»~ - w ' ■-: L *"”■ •* f,t ‘’• ->*t ■’ ' r .. -«• rwMBljM MQOra '. :..m:hß tSi'.'J* MZ.'- mI RfiniW few#- p®®^* B, '*«b*’ ( ' • -»'. R i “ "TJ ' Latest and exclusive pictures of the Roosevelt-Field Museum expe- string of mules caryine the Roose- fording a mountain at Lad dition taken in the snow-covered y e ]j hairtrage across an avalanche on ak on the backs of native atten- Himalayas in Tibet be, °r? *£e ex- aacent o f t he Zcgi Pass. Bot- dants, the primitive method of pedition turned to t hl 1„„2 tom, left members of the party transportation used in emergencies on. Top photo shows the “> n g climbing up t 0 Le h on the z O gi Pass. ‘ by the sons of the Rough Rider. PAGE FIVE
