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|i AMERICUS COTTON RECEIPTS ( < Total bale. Sumter County Cotton .25,277 > WEATHER > For Georgia—Fair tonight and > Wednesday; probably frost tonight; < slowly rising temperature Wednes- t day. * FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 242 'Mellon Aavises Three Hundred Million Dollar Tax Cut OFFERS TAX CUT PLAN FOR NATION Slash in Surtax is Recommended to Members of House Ways and Means Committee WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—A tax revision program contemplating a reduction of the maximum sur tax income rate by one-halt and of the normal income levies by approxi mately one-fourth was proposed to Congress Monday by Secretary Mel lon. These with other changes which I were suggested at the opening of < hearings on new revenue legislation by the House Ways and Means Com mittee, bringing ab.’i. a jermanent reduction of about $21i0,0u0,000 m the nation’s tax bill. The Treasury Secretary warned that it would not be ad\ isable to go beyond $200,000,000 in making re ductions on the present outlook for the next two years. Other proposals were: Repeal of the estate tax, reducing the revenue by $100,000,000 annu ally. Repeal of the gift and a number miscellaneous taxes such as those on works of art from abroad. Repeal of the publicity section of the income tax law. The new maximum sur tax rate proposed was 20 per cent which would apply on incomes in excess of $150,000. T his compares with the present rate of 40 per cent efective at $200,000. The new normal rate would be 1 . 1-2 per cent on incomes up to $4,000 ■! 'T *d SB,OOO and five in place of six w’Jor cent on incomes above SB,OOO. Secretary Mellon personally pre sented his suggestions to the com mittee. He was questioned at some length and agreed with several members that the capital stock tax of 1 1-2 per cent on corporations could be re pealed and the corporation income tax of 12 1-2 per cent increased by this figure without working any hardships. Secretary Mellon’s recommenda tions, based on the conclusions of treasury officials that a surplus of $290,000,000 is in prospect this year in Federal revenues, was submitted to the House Ways and Means Com mittee at the opening of its hearings on tax reform. Mr. Mellon told the committee that neither the tax on admissions nor the bulk of automobile taxes con (Continued on Page Five ■ STRIBLING WILL FIGHT COOK Ten-Round Bout Scheduled for Nov. 7 in Columbus. Same Day Ga.-Auburn Classic By R. H. RINER News Editor, Titnes-Recorder Americus folks will be interestd in , the fact that Young Stribling will fight in Columbus in the near fu i ture. The dates set for the match is November 7th, the day of the an nual Georgia-Auburn football classic. George Cook, an Australian star, has been matched for the ten round, decision bout with “Strib.” Cook is ■ said to be quite a performer, re cently defeating Jack Sharkey and Jimmy Malone of Boston. Stribling has been kept rather busy during the past year, his most recent fight being with Sailor Huff man of California, He defeated m J 'yfman before a crowd of 39,000 p s. Huffman had been promised , a oout with Berlanbach under the direction of Tex Rickard if he de feating Stribling. However at the end of the bout, Stribling was de- I dared an easy winner. j Robert Edgren one of the coun- I try’s greatest sport writers says that ] Stribling is a fast coming champion and does not believe in being idle. . Speaking of his ability to fight, j Edgren says, “H e knows as much about every style of boxing as any man in the ring. He can be as clev er or as rough as any man he meets, and fit his fighting style to any op d ponent.” Columbus is now getting ready to take care of the large crowds that I will flock there for the Georgia-Au burn game and the Stribling-Cook bout. THETIMESWRECORDER ‘fe^k-PUBLINKED IN THE HEART OF QIX Navy's Schneider Cup Pilots » „ " Z* X WhaT • z r f fc,.o BMpWit • V . WWW W;: jW » H Lieutenants Ralph A. Ofstie, left, challengers in the Schneider Cup and George i. Cuddihy will fly the rac e at Bayshore Park, Baltimore, U. b. navy Curtiss racers on which Oct. 24. for victory over foreign HAWKINS LOSES PRIZE ROAR Orion Sensation, Winner of Many Prizes and Valued at SISOO, Dies in Atlanta Orion Sensation, one of the finest herd boar hogs in the country and toe property of C. C. Hawkins and Sons, Sumter County hog breeders was lost by death during the recent Southeastern Fair in Atlanta. This hog with seventeen others was being shippea from Americus to Atlanta, and while on the siding at Macon became overheated n some manner. After reaching At lanta it was noticed that some of the hogs were sick, and in a short time, Orion Sensation and four others were dead. Mr. Hawkins stated last night that he scoured the country in search of just such a hog as the one he lost, that he finally found Orion Sensa tion in Nebraska. He paid $350 for him as a pig, at that time considered a very high price for even a thor oughbred pig. In 1920 such a hog would have brought between $15,000 and $20,000. At the time it died, the value was placed at SISOO. A pig sired by Orion Sensation was awarded prize as Grand Cham pion over Duroc breed and grand champion of all hogs shown in At lanta. The Hawkins farm entries won $220 in prizes after losing five of their entries. ONE KILLED IN TRUCK CRASH MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 20. —One man was killed and eleven were hurt when a truck loaded with workmen crashed into a light truck in Coral Gables Monday. The dead man is C. J. Lawrence, a carpenter, who died just after be ing taken to Riverview hospital in an ambulance. Mr. Lawrence’s son is in River view hospital in a critical condition, according to ambualnce attendants. Another man is being treated for a broken nose. Two negroes, Arthur Stark and Johnnie McNeil, of Coconut Grove, were taken to Jackson Memorial hospital. They were bruised and badly shaken. Eforts to locate other persons in jured in the wreck have been fruit less and it is supposed that the men only slightly injured left withoout going to hospitals. Three ambu lances answered the call. MARKETING COTTON BY USING MOTOR TRUCKS TALULLAH, La., Oct. 19.—The mule and wagon as a means of trans porting cotton to the gins seems like ly to be supplanted by the motor truck. With improved roads, the farmer who relies on the mule and wagon will labor under disadvantages. One . grower in Madison parish made six trips to a gin one day by motor truck where using a mule und wagon he would have made but one AMERICUS,’ GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26’ 1925 TELEGRAPH MEN ARE ON STRIKE , Atlantic Coast Line Operators Walk Out Yesterday. More Than 400 Effected in Ga. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 20. — she telegraph operators, approxi mately 250, of the third (Florida) Atlantic Coast Line railroad divi sion, struck r. 4 p, m. Monday in compliance with union instructions. The walkout, according to O. H. Page, superintendent, will not se riously affect the service. He said that he had received no advices from his district chiefs as to the exact number of striking men. Reports from Albany, and Quit man, Georgia, Florence, S'. C., and Wilmington, N. C., are to the effect that the operators have walked out there. At Richmond, Va., the oper ators refused to walk out. Quitman reports that there are other operators on the way there to take over the keys. In the Waycross division reports are to the effect that more than four hundred men walked out. There was no demon stration. KELLY TESTIFIES BEFORE NAVY BOARD BOSTON, Oct. 20.—Captain John H. Diehl waited almost two hours before he filed a radio that the City of Rome had rammed and sunk the submarine S-51, Harold H. Kelley, radio operator on board the steamer, testified here Monday before the Navy inquiry board, investigating the disaster which resulted in the loss of 33 lives off Block Island on September 25. Kelley also said that a few seconds before the collision, just after the steamer had sounded a short series of warning whistle blasts, he looked out of the door of his radio room and saw the lights of the submarine about 175 feel off the City Rome’s starboard bow. The submarine was so illuminated by the steamer’s lights that he could distniguish a man standing on the forward deck of the submarine, he said. PARACHUTE JUMPER KILLED IN JUMP NILES. Mich., Oct. 20.—Mrs. Cag- 1 mar Stedman, 21 years old of Cop enhagen, Denmark, died at a hospital here from injuries suffered when she dropped 200 feet from an airplane into Barron Lake, four miles east of ' here. The young woman had been in [ Niles about t;wo months making para-1 chute drops from an airplane It is' believed, her belt slipped and she' was unable to reach the rope to openj the parachute. William Kayser, piloting the plane, flew to the lake and was attempting to get down where it would be safe for the wo man to drop into the water. She ap- ! parently became confused and cut the rope while about 200 feet in the air. She was unconscious when tak-' , en from the water and died in a hos -1 pital from internal injuries. Authorities are seeking relatives of the woman said to live in Chica go. PAL’ CLUB WILL HAVE LADIES NIGHT Big Entertainment Program Plan ned By Palladiums, With Plenty of Good Eats Tonight will be gala night for the [ Palladium Club of Americus. It is Ladies night with the club, with a especially prepared entertain ment and something good to eat. The president of the club, B. E. Turner, has mailed to the members of the Club a letter reminding them to come and bring their wife, daugh ter, or sweetheart. His letter states, “There will be an especially pre pared program for > your entertain ment as well as something good to eat. The board of directors and the president are especially anxious that every member be on hand promptly at eight o’clock, and have a good time, as well as putting our club right in the front ranks, as. a factor in building Americus and leaking it a better place to live in. There are some vital things connected with the future of our town in whieh The Palladium Club is a very important factor, that right now needs the loyal support of every member of our club.” ARMY FLIERS MEET DEATH IN PLANE CRASH Ship Was Enroute From Mitchell Field to Langley Field When Accident Happened CAPE MAY COURTHOUSE, Oct. 20. —Captain R. A. Kinloch, Lieuten ant Abbott C. Martin and Staff Ser geant Joseph Colson, army aviators winging their way from Mitchell field, L. L, to Langley Field, Va., were killed late Monday when the Martin bomber in which they were flying crashed into a grove of trees near here. » The fliers were returning to the Southern field after spending the summer in anti-aircraft practice with the coast artillery. Kinloch was bound for a furlough in his home at Asheville, N. C., when he met his death. All three men were dead when per sons living near the scene of the accident arrived. The bodies of the fliers were crushed and tangled in the wreckage. On the back of each was strapped a parachute, but so rapid had been their descent that none had been able to jump from the plane. Those who witnessed the accident said that it was apparent that one of the motors of the big biplane went dead. The bomber started to descend. When within about 400 feet of the ground it suddenly bank ed steeply toward the earth and fell. Those who viewed the wreck age were unable to determine who was piloting the craft. COPELANDHITS MELLON’S PLAN ALBANY, Ga., Oct. 20.—Efforts of Secretary Mellon, "In trying to pay off America’s national debts in two or three years” was blamed by Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, here today, for a large portion of America’s tax woes. “The payment of national debt should be extended over period of sixty years so as to relieve people of the heavy burden they are now bearing” he said. | MUTT AND JEFF 5 TURN MATCHMAKER > NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—The lat ' est role for Mutt and Jeff is that < of Matchmakers. Their creator, But Fisher, is getting married nex .]' week. Fisher says that Mutt and Jeff J are partly responsible. The future • ' Mrs. Harry Fisher is Countess Aedita De Beaumount, a wealthy > winner of the Paris beauty prize !of 1922. The prospective bride ? says that the romance through her son’s fondness for Mutt and Jeff cartoons. Back Irom Polar Regions VC7 BP t ~ I M ' / > \ \■ > Ji ! IB® Hr 1 i r 4wi- a ™ pH I Commander Donald MacMillian'.at Wiscasset, Me., wnence he and of the U. S. Navy, at the helm of I his expedition started last summer his ship ‘'Bowdoin” arriving back|to explore the frozen north. AUTOCRASHIS FATAL TO WO Two School Children Killed and Two Seriously Injured in Auto Crash in Macon MACON, Oct. 20—Two School children were killed and two serious ly injured her-.* this morning when an automobile, in which they were riding to Vineville School, crashed into an outbound Vineville street car. The dead are, Leon Tjfsey, age 9 and Melvin Wallace, age 10, both of Crumps Park. The injured, D. I. Walton, driver of the car, and a young school boy, whose na.ne could not be learned. extrashipT FOR RUM WAR Coast Guard Prepares to War Rum Runner On Georgia and Florida Coast WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The coast guard is preparing to nip in the bud a reported attempt to estab lish a “rum row” along the Georgia and Florida coasts. Three cutters have been dispatch ed to the South Atlantic where they will be on th e lookout for at tempts to land liquor cargoes. At the same time, the coast guard will maintain its force of rum-chas ers along the north Atlantic rum row, fearing that the report of a movement to the south may have been a bit of strategy to influence the dry navy to relax its vigilance in the north. Foreign rum vessels have been un able to land their cargoes along the northern coasts, according to coast guard headquarters here, and the report of a change of base was founded on the failure in that area. The three cutters which have gone to the south, the Modoc, Yamacraw and Pamlico, wilt be aided by nearly 100 launches, and will' operate from Savannah, Ga., Wilmington, N. C.. and Pamlico Bay. CHAPPELL RETURNS WITH PRISONER Deputy Sheriff Chappell returned late yesterday from a trip to Brox ton and Fitzgerald where- he had gone to return two negroes to Sumter county. A. E. Dunnaway formerly of Sum ter county took a negro to Broxton to work on a farm there, the mother the negro had the youth returned here. At Fitzgerald, Lovey Mackey was arrested on a Sumter county war rant, charged with stealing a pistol. The arrest was made by Fitzgerald officers who returned the prisoner over to the deputy for return here. I i ■ A cheater cheats himself more 1 than anyone else. SNOWSTORM HITS NORTH Worst Storm in Years Sweeping Michigan; South Feels Effect of the Cold Wave PETOSKY, Michigan, Oct. 20. One of the worst fall storms in years is sweeping northern Michigan today. The gale is being accompan ied by snow flurries and low temp eratures. The lake craft is crowding harb ors for shelter fearing face blows. A large government pier sheltering Pe tosky Harbor is not expected to sur vive storm, the breakwater crumb ling under force of waves. COLD WAVE HITS SOUTH Reports from all over Georgia to day are to the effect that the state is experiencing a genuine cold wave.' In most parts of the state there was frost. In Columbus the thermoine-1 ter dropped to 45 degrees, while 1 people of Atlanta had a temperature; of 38. Weather forecasts are to the effect that the temperature will rise ' slightly Wednesdap. | - ■- ■ I GRAMMAR CLASSES RESUME STUDIES 1 Announcement was made today I by Prof. J. E. Mathis, that the class-1 es of the Furlow Grammar School would be resumed Thursday morn ing. The school has been closed for more than a week on account of bad ceilings and falling plaster, Mr. Mathis fearing the safety of the children until the necessary repairs could be made. J. W. Shiver, who has had charge of the repairs states that it is safe now-and classes could be resumed. CANADIAN EXPORTS INCREASE 100 PERCENT OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 20.—Ex ports of butter from Canada to countries of the world increased 100 per cent in the twelve months end ing Aug. 1, said a report issued by the Dominion bureau of statistics. Shipment totaled 28,869,307 pounds with a value of $10,317,819 com ’ared to 14,474,341 pounds valued at $5,278,479 in the vear ending Aug. 1, 1924. BUCKNER AFTER BROADWAY CABARETS NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Broadway cabarets and Supper Clubs were objectives today to the most sweep ing prohibition drive yet waged along the famous thoroughfare. Thirty of the best known night re sorts were served with summons and I complaints by the members of Up states, District Attorney Buckners staff. This action was. the first step of Buckner’s announced plan of pad locking hundreds of the leading Manhattan resorts. < NEW YORK FUTURES A Pc. Open Ham Close ' Dec. 2153,21.72121.52|21.60 S Jan. 2084 21.02'20.82120 97 j AMERICUS SPOT COTTON i < Middling, 20c. PRICE FIVE CENTS FUTURE WARS MEET DEATH IN NEW PACT j Security Conference at Locarno i Practcially Abolishes Any Future War in Europe ' LONDON, Oct. 20. London awoke emblazoned on front pages of newspapers, texts of momentous con ditions reached at Locarno, which virtually makes further wars in Eu rope impossible. The Security Paet guarantees in voilability of the French, Belgian and Germany frontiers. There are also six treaties betwewen Germany anti France, Belgium, Poland, Czecho slovakia and between France and her eastern allies; Poland and Cze- Jico-Slovakia. Nowhere in today’s newspapers are treaties hailed as absolutely fu ture peace of Europe. They are de scribed as "promising attempt to re turn to old family party of Europe and to arrange quarrels on basis of reason.” The first practical result of the pact will be the withdrawal of Brit ish troops from the Cologne Bridge head, it was stated from official quarters and this should he accom plished within three months. MASONS HOLD BIG MEETING Biennial Session Wil] Last One Week in Washington— Big Attendance WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—With more than 200 Masons of the 32nd and 33rd degree in attendance and a total of 500 expected finally from 23 states South of the Mason and Dixon line and West of the Mississippi riv er, the supreme council, Scottish Rite Free Masonry, Southern jurisdiction, formally opened its biennial session of one week here yesterday. Sovereign Grand Commander John H'. Cowles, of Louisville, Ky., pre sented to the council his allocution or annual report of the Scottish Rite activities for the year throughout the territory under Southern jurisdiction. In the afternoon the council jour neyed to Arlington and Mt. Vernon to pay honor to the Unknown Soldier and George Washington. A recep tion was given last night for the heads of the grand chapter, grand council, and grand commander, Knights Templar. The election of Scottish Rite Masons t othe additional honors of Knight Commander of the court of honor, and the thirty-third degree probably will be held this afternoon. Last year supreme council ra'sed about 250 Masins to the 33rd degree and nearly twice that num ber to the honor of K. C- C. H., bdt indications are that the number will be much smaller this year. Masons are elevated from the 32nd degree, it was explained, to that of Knight Commander of the Court of Honor, which they mast hold for at least four years before becoming eli gible for the 33rd degree, the highest attainable in the Scottish Rite. This morning another session of the supreme council was held which called at the White House for a courtesy call upon President Cool .idge. K. C. C. H. investiture will take place Wednesday night and the 33rd degree will be conferred on the newly elected members ofi Fri day night. The council sessions will close Saturday. DANIEL EDGE ILL AT CITY HOSPITAL Taken seriously ill at an early hour last night. Daniel Edge, well known resident of Americus and an 1 employee of the Gulf Refining Co., 1 was taken to the City hospital where he was operated on for appendicitis. Reports from his bedside are to the effect that h e is resting nicely today. PROMINENT SUMTER FARMER STRICKEN S. F. Halstead, prominent farmer of Sumter county, was stricken with paralysis iate Monday afternoon Mr. Halstead is 69 years of age and has been a resident of Sumter county for more than 35 years. He resides eight miles from Americus, neat Myrtle Springs. At the time of going to press, re ports from his bedside were to the effect that he had not regained con sciouness.
