About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1925)
(AMERICUS COTTON RECEIPTS , Total bale • Sumter County ; Cotton 25,277 ) For Georgia—Fair tonight and S Tuesday; colder tonight and Tues- j day. Light to heavy frost in north i and probably light frost in south i portion tonight. . FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 242. .House Ways and Means Committee May Slash Tax Bill I FIRST STEP I TOWARD SLASH TAKENTODAY J Secretary Mellon Is Against Lift ing Tax On Incomes of SSOOO and Less r WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. The first step towards another slash in the nation’s tax bill was taken today with the assembling ||; of the House Ways and Means committee to consider (he down- I. 7 ward revision of the present lev ies. This makes the third time in six years the committee has set its hand to the welcome task of chopping off some of the tax bur ■ den. The gift to the tax payer this time will be in the form of a reduced bill for next year, which .' lished users. Extracts, Soaps, Food three hundred and five hundred I• , million. ’ | Strong opposition to the sugges tions of exempting tax payers with incomes of $5,000 or less, from all t! • Federal income levies was voiced Sunday night by Secretary Mellon. “The sole result of such a change,’ I the treasury head declared, “would ■"’l be an enormous loss of revenue to | the government without a single compensating advantage. As a mat ter of policy, it is advisable to have ) every citizen with a stake in his ; country.” ’ The statement addressel to Sena tor Edge Republican, New Jersey, in reply to such a suggestion by him, is taken as an answer to the proposal advanced recently by Representative t ; Garner, of Texas, ranking Democrat % A. the ways and means committee. r V •/J.e proposed to increase the ex emption for single persons from sl,- 000 to $3,500 and for married per i sons from $2,500 to $5,000. . k ithjo- shrdluetaoi etaoin etaoin ett Ik Such a scheme, which has the en v 1 dorsement of other Democratic mem bers of the committee, is estimated 1' to relieve 3,000,000 taxpayers from i all levies. Wether the treasury will favor ■ * , any increase in personal exemptions r | has not been made known. Its en- ; I tire tax policy, however, will be presented to the committee at the opening of hearings tomorrow after noon. Nevertheless reductions in the j normal tax rates applying the smaller incomes, increased in exemp tions, or perhaps both, are expected to result from the committee’s ef forts. Representative Bacharch, of ■ New Jersey, one of the ranking Re- ■ publican members of the committee, II yesterday proposed both, suggesting M increasing the exemptions for sin gle persons to $2,000 and for mar ried persons to $3,500. He also pro- si \ posed a cut in the normal rates on I , incomes of $4,000 and less from two I to one per cent; on incomes between $4,000 and SB,OOO from 4 to 2 per cent;, and on incomes between SB,OOO and $12,000 from 6 to 4 per cent. | The committee will not get down I to definite work on the measure un til after two weeks of public hear ings, during which all persons in fl tested in revision of the law will be ■ heard. The measure is expected to be H ready for presentation to the House ■ < when Congress meets in December. Passage of the bill by that body be fore the Christmas holidays is plan fl ned and final enactment of a meas- W are by March 1, fifteen days before ' 1 first payments of the new year are *l’ *' le > predicted. Society Matrons Death f Caused by Alcoholism < r-5S ANGELES, Oct. 19.—Post mortem examination of the body of Mrs. Laura Biddle, prominent Phil adelphia society matron and wife of Graig Biddle, wealthy sportsman, led County Autopsy Surgeon A. F. Wagner to announce late Sunday that death was probably due to al cohilism. He said he would not en ter that cause officially in records, however, until a chemical analysis of the stomach and vital organs had been completed. Mrs. Biddle was found dead in her apartment here Saturday. Bruises discovered on the body led police to open an investigation which was speeded up when detectives re ported they had difficulty gathering any information from occupants and THEtImESORECORDER *M.PUBLISHED IN THE HEART.QF D!XIE ° ‘ Wiz’ at 1 igures i • *** Jimmie Barrett, above, is 9, and in a University of Southern California test of his mathematical genius it too khim less than one second for each of his years to tell the cube root of 410,172,407. Jimmie lives in Los Angeles. WANTED RAIN, GOT TOO MUCH After Getting the Rain That They Prayed For, Arkansas Asks For Dry Weather KENSETT, Ark., October 19. Prayers for dry weather were said in local churches Sunday morning. A few weeks ago, people in this region prayed for rain. After weeks of steady rain, the streams overflowed into the lowlands, cot ton picking was suspended because of muddy fileds, and hundreds of acres of cotton were under water. This morning the prayers were re versed. This afternoon was bright, clear and dry, with prospects that further dry weather would cause the floods to recede and enable the cotton pick ers to get back to work. Cotton planters say they could stand any amount of dry weather althouugh Kensett would like to have a whitei Christmas. MAYOR POOLE HOLDS REGULAR POLICE COURT The regular Monday morning po lice court, with Mayor J. E. Poole sitting as recorder, issued out jus tice to the offenders with fines or street work. The docket consisted mostly of fights- isi drunkenness, with only two cases, of traffic violations. Fines and bonds in the amount of $75 was assessed against the law viola tors. Reports from the county law of ficers were to the effect that every-1 thing was quiet, no arrests of any; consequence being made. attaches of the apartment house. In line with the post mortem find ings, Deputy District Attorney Har . old L. Davis announced that he was told by Dr. Joseps S'. Cipes, Mrs. Biddle’s private physician, that she had partaken largely of intoxicants in the last few years, and the find ings paralleled*the patient’s history ■ as he knew it. Dr. Cipes, who examined the body as it was found late Sunday by I Sadie and Mary Davis, maids told I the police at the time he believed | heart trouble from which Mrs. Bid- I die had suffered, was the cause of I I death. i; Police detectives declared they • i found bottles containing what they ; believed to be liquor in Mrs. Bid- II die’s apartmert. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 19. 1925 LAST RITES FOR BARTLETT AT PLAINS Services to Be Held at Lebanon Church, With Rev. E. T. Moore Officiating Funeral services of John Bartlett, who early Saturday morning com mitted suicide, wil be held at 10:30 o’clock, Tuesday morning at Leban on Chureh, Plains with Rev. E. T. Moore officiating. Young Bartlett as was reported in the news column of Saturday’s Times-Recorder, took a shot gun, placed it to his right temple, pulled , trigger and blew the entire top of his head off. The only reason as signed for his act was his statement to his father and mother that, “I am broke and am going to end it all now,” Mr. Bartlett was well known in Sumter county, having many friends scattered over the county. He had l the reputation of being a quiet, 1 gentlemanly young man, one who I worked hard and easily made I friends. I He is survived by his father and i mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bart- ' I lett, two brothers, Joseph and I Thomas Bartlett, who live in Florida; three sisters, Mrs. Paul Stevens and i Mrs. C. Turner of Sumter County, * and another residing in Atlanta, i Funeral arrangements are in charge of Ross Dean, undertaker of i Plains. TYPHOID LESS I FOR THIS YEAR Only Two Cases Reported for Months of September and Oc tober; Seven Last Year There have been only two cases of typhoid in Sumter County during September and October, this as the result of the campaign of the health! Department. Dr. J. W. Chambliss, in charge of the Sumter County Health De partment, in a statement to the Times-Recorder said, “as a result of the department going into the rural districts vaccinating and administer ing the toxin and anti-toxin serum, the number of cases of typhoid has been reduced from 7 in 1924 to 2 jn 1925, this for the month of Sep tember and October.” “Os the two cases reported, one is a negro, living fourteen miles from Americus, the other a white girl liv ing ten miles from Americus. Both these cases occurred off the high way.” Asked about) the vaccination of the exposed, Dr. Chambliss replied that there were thirty-two exposed in the negro case, and all were vaccinated. The case of the white girl was that those exposed refused to be vac cinated. When questioned concerning the general health of Sumter county the health officer replied. “The gen eral health of the county is very good. We have four neighboring towns whose population is from one fifth to one tenth less than that of Americus, who have not taken ad vantage of toxin and anti-toxin se rum treatment. As a result of this these towns have five times as many cases of diptheria as has Americus.” WOMAN WRITER IS ROBBED BY BANDITS . . WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 19.—Nina Wilcox Putnam, writer, who has a Winter home at Delray, 17 miles South of this citp, was the victim of a hold up Sunday on the ocean boulevard, several miles from Delray in which she and her com panion, R. W. Gauger, of that city, lost jewels, papers and cash aggre gating $6,000. Five unmasked bandits are said to have staged the hold up. According to the story told the police, Mrs. Putnam and her companion were in volved in a minor accident and while attempting to adjust the trouble they were accosted by the hold up men in an open car, under the guise of first offering assistance. FOUR ROBBERS MAKE BIG HAUL; CHICAGO, Oct. 17. —Four rob-! bers held up the plant of the Inter national Harvester company on far South Side today and escaped. Po lice estimated their loot at at least 1 fifty thousand dollars. GREAT FUTURE FOR THE SOUTH I - Atlanta Capitalist Predicts Unus- I ual Development For South During Fall and Winter ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 19.—Coupl ed with Georgia’s industrial and commercial program, the big cotton crop this year gives assurance that the state will move forward more than ever in every material way, ac cording to Hon. C. W. McClure, At lanta capitalist and the head of a string of ten-cent stores over the state. Mr. McClure, who is a close stu dent of business conditions, said to- I day that there was every reason to ; believe that not only Georgia, but . the entire South, would this winter show unusual development. Mr. McClure has real estate holdings both in Georgia and Florida and he says that Florida’s growth means Georgia’s advancement also as Flor ida has so well advertised the South 'as a whole that every state will be benefitted. “There is evidence on every hand : that the South is advancing rapidly, if not actually booming,” said Mr. i McClure. “It begins to look like the people of distant states are begin j ning to find what a really rich sec tion we have in Dixie. I have met I a number of people visiting the South for the first time who express ed amaizement at what they found, and they were loud in their praises of our enterprise and business stride We may expect many new and de sirable citizens in the South this winter, and some of them have con siderable money to invest. I was kept busy on one of my recent trips to the east answering questions about the opportunities to be found in the South.” REPORTS SHOW GREAT SINGING I Visitors Came in Rain From Many Surrounding Towns; Singing Reported As a Success Americus was host on yesterday to one of the largest singings ever held here. Beginning at 10:30 in the morning and lasting until about 3:45 P. M., with each minute filled . with old time sacrfed song singing, the singers coming from far and near out did themselves. Reports from a number who at tended are to the effect that it was ■ one of the greatest they had ever . attended, that every one present felt like singing and did sing an’ sing ( and sing. The people of Americus were good ] hosts and many of the visitors were taken to Americus homes for din- , ner, while some brought their own > dinner and spread it on the lawn be- , tween the courthouse and the fire j department. Visitors were reported to have ( come from Cordele, Plains, Leslie, s Ellaville Smithville, Buena Vista and ’ many other nearby towns. j 1 VOLSTEAD ACT i IS AGAIN UPHELD WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—The j constitutionality of the Volstead Act was again upheld, its provisions dis- j cussed in detail here today by the Supreme Court. Formal opinion in Druggan case I from Chicago, in which an appeal by , defendant recently was dismissed, , was made the occasion for the j courts redefinition of its support of ] the validity of the dry law. < j SAYS COOLIDGE MODEL AS CHURCH GOER , NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Tribute to 1 President Coolidge’s constancy as a church attendant and as being the sort of “living apostle of Christ the 1 country needs in every community,” was paid by the Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor the First Congrega tional Church, Washington, D. C|, of which the President is a mem ber, in a sermon at the First 4ve- 1 nue Presbyterian Church Sunday. “The quiet influence of his con stancy is far-reaching Our coun try needs just such apostles known 1 and read of men in every common- 1 ity,” Dr. Pierce said. Dr. Pierce was speaking here in 1 behalf of the $1,250,001) fund for building a new First Congregational church in Washington. BRANCH MAKES STRONG APPEAL FOR TITHING I A Feature of Evening Service at First Baptist Church Was the Church Orchestra By R. H. RINER News Editor, Times-Recorder Making an appeal to the members of his church to do their duty in tith ing, and a more forceful appeal to those who had not accepted Christ to do so, Rev. Joe M. Branch pas tor of the First Baptist Church preached to a large congregation last night. Rev. Branch used as his scripture the third chapter of Malachai, the last book of the old testament. His subject was “Our Tomorrow.” Taking up as the first part of his sermon, the theme t>f tithing, Rev. Branch called attention to the fact that on next Sunday all the mem bers would be visited by a commit tee This committee would have the church member to signify just how much of the expenses of the church he or she would be able to bear dur ing the coming year. He impressed upon his members the fact that the Bible teaches that a tent hos what a man earnes belongs to God, also that all people of all nations had given tithes. He showed that the Jews; brought to the temples certain sac-; rifices, how that it was still the duty of Christian people to bring to the house of God their tithes. In his remarks Fev. Branch brought out the fact that people of today were money and pleasure mad, that they wanted more money for automobiles, clothes and good times, that they did not have time to sing songs of Zion or to take the boy or girl on their knees and teach them of Christ. He also mentioned there was an increase of the desec ration of the Sabbath and increasing number of divorces, and crime. “We are not interested in the Church unless there is something AOAtJ bo ponur;uo3) MACON COUNTY PLANS FAIR Will Be Held at Montezuma No vember 4-5-6 Under Auspice* of Kiwanis Club MONTEZUMA, Ga., Oct. 19 The Macon caunty fair will be held 1 at Montezuma Wednesday, Thurs-’ day and Friday, November 4, 5 and* 6. Communities in the county have been hard at work getting together material for their exhibits, which I will be a special feature of the fair. | The Boy’s Pig Club will have a fine exhibit of Duroc-Jersey pigs. The members of the Girl’s Canning club! under the supervision of Miss Kath-' erine McDonald, will have a large* selection of canned products and specimens of the work in home eco nomics. Entertainment for the fair will be; furnished by the Barkoot shows, who I recently played at the Dublin a ,G,.' recently played at the Dublin, Ga.,l fair. I The Music Lovers’ club of Monte-' zuma will funish programs each eve- 1 ning of the fair, free. The fair is' sponsored by the Kiwanis club of Montezuma and the following heads of the different departments are members of the club: F. L. Perry, live stock department;; ;G;. F. Bunn’ buildings and lights; John B. Guerry, entertainment; A. C. Rich ardson agricultural exhibit, R. K. Clements, finance. MRS. MAYNARD HAS AN UNUSUAL VINE “The Flame” common name for the “Bougainvillea,” a vine of crim son hue, a native of Florida and one that has attracted much attention can be seen at the home of Mrs. W. T. Maynard on the River road. Mrs. Maynard states that she brought the vine from Florida over a year ago and transplanted it in her yard, near the driveway. It is the only one of its kind in this part of the country and is especially beautifu lat this, time of the year. There has been so many comments on the vine that Mrs. Maynard in vites those interets in botany visit her home and see the “Bougain villea.” Uplthe Ladder j F ■Or * ' •'<<• Ik , y .Cz : ■ ... John K'. Castle in 1920 was a Ford plant employe at Highlnad Park, Mich. Then he made $1250 in a realty deal. Now, at 32, he has be come one of the 250 persons in the United States who carry $1,000,000 life insurance. Castle is a Detroit | business partner of John Ford, ! brother of Henry. TWODEADIN REAR END CRASH Engineer and Brakeman Are Kill ed in Freight Wreck at Clinch field; Another May Die MACON, Oct. 19.—1 n the rear- 1 lend crash of two doubled-header] freight trains on the Georgia South-' ern and Florida division of the Southern Railway Sunday morning two Macon men were killed, another probably fatallj injured and a fourth severelp bruised. The accident happened at 7:30 o clock Sunday on a hill at a curve in the main line of the road at the Clinchfield Cement plant, about 301 miles South of Macon. Each train was being pulled by i two locomotives. They were South-' bound and both were acuvily load-1 ed with Florida cargoes. According to the report* from rail' ( road officials, the first tram broke; in two, the rear end autenatically! ( coming to an adbrupt stop. Before a flagman could get out, the second train, plunging along with its heavy load, plowed into the rear of the first train. The dead: I Joseph Crowell, 28, engineer, of 1127 Walnut street; body badly mul tilated. Charles D. Fowler, 21, brakeman, ; 216 Sxith Avenue, South Macon scalded and crushed and badly muti lated. Probably fatally injujred. William Rudolph, negro fireman, 112 Elm Street. Taken to Macon hospital suffering from head injury and bruises and scalds. I Injured: Hopson Brooks, Macon, white fire man on second train, brought in on relief train and attended by doctors. Ashes of Great Actress Unclaimed in Gotham NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—A hand ful of star-dust, the ashes of a girl who once glinted on the a Broadway stage, was brought into the tender loin police station and recorded as lost property until the police were able to look up someone who would receive this grim reminder that fame is fleeting and oblivion very deep. Jessie Hiatt’s name shone in the early clusters of electric lights on Broadway back in the nights when the late Oscar Gude wa s renting housetops along the street on which to erect the signs that made the white way gay. She was at the top of her career 25 years ago. When she died she was cremated, and Broadway, with its facility for forgetting, more of Jes sie Hiatt. Today an interesting lit tle story broke in the tenderloin sta tion as Patrolman John Purdue walked in with an unde-*"ker’s urn NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open Ham Close J Dee. -2153|21.72;21.52|21.60 ; J-»n- 2084 21.02120.82|20.97 ; AMERICUS SPOT COTTON i Middling, 20c. PRICE FIVE CENTS CLYDE LINER i NOW REPORTS ONE MISSING Only One Person Missing From Liner Which Burned Off Coast of Florida JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 19 hollowing a check against the sail ing list of the Comanche, Clyde Line steamer which burned Saturday night six and a half miles off May port, officials of the line last night announced that the only person un accounted for was William J. Law ler, of 129 Cliff Avenue, Winthrop, Mass. ; 7he Comanche carried a crew of ninety-four. No authentic check has been made, as the ship’s papers were destroyed in the fire and the only official list is in New York, where the crew signed on for the voyage. ; Captain E. E. Curry, of the Coman che, however, said he was positive I that every member of the crew was i saved. i LIST OF INJURED. Ihe Clyde Line tonight furnished the following list of injured: j Captaon E. E. Curry injured leg. An I X-ray showed no bones were broken , and he was removed to the Cherokee, another Clyde Liner in port Alfonso Bangert, Hamburg, Ger many seaman passenger, miner der fractured. Adolph Fracklan, Hamburg, Ger ; many, seasman pasesnger, miner fracture of the skull. Joseph Jacobs, 614 Elm Street, j Arlington, N. J., fractured left, hip. I John M. Bush, Poughkeepsie, N. IY., fractured left shoulder. Mrs. A. F. Ford, 54 Spruce Street Burlington, Vt„ slight contusion of the head. ‘ B, Frese, 446 Riverside Avenue, fiindhurst, N. J., crushed chest. Mis. Phil S. Howes, Montpellier, |Vt., injuries to lower limbs. Joseph Wilder, negro Charleston, 'steerage passenger, minor injuries. Edward A. Smith, negro, address unknown. LEMASTER GETS SIGNAL HONOR Re-appointed to State Board of Embalmers; Commission Ex pires December, 1930 Governor Clifford Walker has notified Nat LeMaster, prominent citizen of Americus, of his appoint ment to succeed himself as member of the State Board of Embalmers, A wire from Atlanta this morning was to the effect that Mr. LeMaster would be the senior member of the board, and that his appointment would run to December 31, 1930 His present term would haxe expired on December 31 of this year. Mr. LeMaster has been a resident of Americus for fourteen years, coming here with the Americus un dertaking company in 1911. His many friends are congratulating him upon the honor conferred on him by the Georgia executive. A New York shop, where the barber prohibited from talking to customers while saving them has been forced out of business by lack of trade. of ashes with the name Jessie Hiatt on the label. Then some of the eld ers along Broadway remembered that Jessie had a brother, a tailor, in the tenderloin region. ; Purdue had picked up the ashes in the excavation for a new build ing. He went to Jessie’s brother and told him about it. The brother was much surprised. He had kept the ashes around his home for a while after Jessie died, he said, but the home of the living was no place for the dust of the dead. So he, being a busy man, gave a man 50 cents to take them to the river and throw them on the tide. The laborer was not worth his hire. The East river was a long walk or a 10-cent ear ride. He shirk ed the job, cast Jessie’s ashes into a corner of a basement and cheat ed the trusting brother of 50 cents.
