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AMERICUS COTTON RECEIPTS < Total cotton receipts Sumter < County 25,603 ? WEATHER j For Georgia—Fair, colder tonight in north portion; probably light rain > tonight in north portion; Friday in- ; creasing cloudiness FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR VOLUME NO. 224 Secretary Mellon Submits Entirely New Tax Proposal NEW SCHEDULE NORMAL INCOME RATES OFFERED Presents His New Schedule to the House Ways and Means Committee Today WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. A new schedule of normal income rates was presented to the House Ways and Means committee today by Sec retary Mellon. The proposal suggests a rate of one percent on first three thousand of taxable income, two percent on next one thousand, three percent on next four thousand and five percent there after. This arrangement the secertary said in his letter to Chairman Green, probably would be “more . satisfac tory” than the recently submitted treasury schedule suggesting one per cent on the first three thousand of taxable income, three percent on the next four thousand and five percent thereafter. CAPTAIN OF LINER IS KILLED ON SHIP First Officer of Melita Slays Cap tain and Shoots Two Others, Victim Asserts' LONDON, Oct. 22.—Captain A. Clew, commander of the liner 'ita, belonging to the Canadian pic Steamships, Ltd., was shot J killed aboard his ship at Ant p Wednesday night, a message to , company today reported. One the ship’s officers >s alleged to be i slayer. Two of the Melita’s o fleers were •unded, David Kennedy Gilmour, of Jasgow, assistant chief engineer, id John Holliday, of Bootle, Eng fnd, junior second engineer. The Melita, which arrived at An frerp October 18 from Montreal, fas scheduled to sail again for Can- Sa via Southampton and other ports >day. Thomas Towers, first officer of Ije Melita, is accused of having kill g Captain Clew while the latter of ficers tried to overpower him. Tow ers it is alleged, shot two of them. He was arrested. DALLASRKIDE.fr ON VISIT HERE J. H. Fulford, Former Resident of Americus, On Visit to Wifes’ Relatives Here A former resident of Americus, but now located in Dallas Texas, J. H. Fulford, with wife, is visiting rel atives here. Mr. Fulford left here in 1909, go ing at that time to Fort Gaines, Ga., and later to Dallas, where he now makes his home. He is in the ma chinery business there He reports that he made the trip from Dallas here by automobile and found the roads to be in good shape. While here Mr. and Mrs. Fulford will be the guest of Mrs. Fulford’s sister, Mrs. A. J. Easom and her neices, Mty. Clyde J. Williams and Mrs. Cecil McGill. They expect to be in Georgia for about four weeks. Heater Fumes Near Fatal 7o College Park Family COLLEGE PARK, Ga., Oct. 22. ] Six persons narrowly escaped death ‘ here Wednesday when they were 4 rendered unconscious by fumes from ’ an instanteous heater in the home of J. W. Stephenson, hardware mer j chant. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. I Stephenson, their 13 months old son, I 5 two neighbors, Mrs. Edwin Ransom , pnd Mrs. J. B. Allen, and a servant 0 in the Stephenson home. l s Mr. Stephenson lighted the heater B e in the kitchen and shortly afterward if 4 - Mrs. Stephenson became ill. A phy sician was summoned. In the mean , time the Stephenson child lost con- THE TiMESmtCORDER SHEP IN THE J* at Because the Queen of Siam, above has been found “incapable of carry ing out her high duties,” her- demo tion has been announced by King Rama. The king’s order directed that in the future the queen “be known by some other title.” The Siamese royal couple were married in 1922. They have no children. FIVE KILLED IN NEW WAR Greek Artillery Penetrates Bulga rian Line, Killing Five Sentinels SOFIA, Bulgaria, Oct. 22.—The Bulgaria telegraphic agency de clares that Greek artillery has pene trated Bulgarian territory. In firing stulls against the village of Petrich, five sentinels were kill ed. Sofia advices say that Bulgarian government as counter move to Greek ultimatum has forwarded pro test note to League of Nations, the protest being based on article 10 of the league covenant. ITALIAN COMMISSION ON WAY TO WASHINGTON ROME, Oct. 22. The members of the Italian War Debt commission departed today for Washington where they will attempt to negotiate a settlement of Italy’s obligations to the United States. Members of the Italian government bade the mission farewell. DENIED ENTRY TO TO UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Count ess Karolyi, wife of Count Michael Karolyi, a former president of the Hungarian Republic has been denied permission to visit the United States on a lecture tour. FINCH FUNERAL THIS AFTERNOON The Patriotic Sons of America will have charge of the funeral of T. M. A. Finch this afternoon at Reho both Church near here. Mr. Finch died suddenly yesterday morning with heart trouble. Rev. E. T. Moore is to deliver the funeral sermon. sciousness. Mrs, Ransom and Mrs. Allen, who called at the house to find out what was the trouble were also overcome. Soon after he arriv ed at the Stephenson home the phy sician was nearly overcome by the fumes. He entered the kitchen to find the servant, who had been pre paring a meal, unconscious on the floor. Mr. Stephenson thenlost conscious ness. The physician shut off the windows in the house. The victims windowws in the house. The victims were removed to an adjoining home where they were revived. Late to day no one seemed much the worse for their experience. AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 22. 1925 DOUGLAS AND AMERICUS CLASH Game in the Best One On the Lo cal A. & M. Grid Schedule for the Season The Americus A. & M. will send its football eleven against the eleven representing the Dougas A. & M. here tomorrow afternoon. The game will start at 3:30 o’clock and will be played on Aggie Field. Reports from the local college are to the effect that this will be thebest game of the year. They ask the pubic to attend the game, PLAINSWILL HAVE SING Sunday Afternoon, at 2 O’clock; Prominent Singers Expected to Be in Attendance Singers of Americus and Sumter. will be interested in the announce ment that on next Sunday afternoon | at 2 o’clock, there will be a singing I held in the new High School Audi- | torium at Plains. Those in charge of the singing re port that visitors are expected from all over Sumter County as well as counties adjoining Sumter. They invite all that can to come. NEWSERIAL BEGINS FRIDAY “Too Much Efficiency,’’ the Latest Novel by E. J. Rath, Will Begin Tomorrow “Too Much Efficiency,” the new est novel by E. J. Rath writer of j “The Nervous Wreck,” is the next serial for Times-Recorder readers. This story is described as being funnier than “The Nervous Wreck,” a story that has been commented on all over the country. All lovers of fiction are advised to get ready for this new novel, the first serial appearing in the Times- Recorder tomorrow. The story deals with the work of a single young man, an efficiency expert of the Economy and Effi ciency Corporation. This young man, H. Hedge, is assigned to the home of John W. Brooke, widower' and hardware magnate, to place the home on a more economic basis. There he meets Constance and Alice, daughters of Brooke, who tell bim that economy is the bunk. But read the Times-Recorder to morrow for the first chapter of this great serial. It will be furnished the readers in thirty-six installments. TO CLOSE DEAL FOR GOVERNOR’S MANSION ATLANTA, Oct. 22.—Consum mation of a deal for the purchase of a gubernatorial mansion and adjoin ing property will be made at a meet ing of the state mansion purchase committeee early in November. Final closing of arrangements for the purchase of the Ed Ansley home in Ansley Park as th e chief execu tive’s residence was expected to have been made at a recent meeting. Due to the fact that certain papers for the purchase of a strip of adjoiningg woodland, three acres in size, had not been presented, the purchase was delayed. The old gubernatorial mansion, for many years occupying a site at the corner of Peachtree and Cain streets, was demolished to make way for a modern structure. Governor Clifford M. Walker on his elevation to the highest office of the state resided for a time on Peachtree Road, and later moved to the Ansley Home. FIRE FIGHTERS GO ON STRIKE MOULTRIE, Ga., Oct. 22.—When city council refused to grant them an increase in pay, every member of the Moultrie fire department with the exception of Chief George Hunt walked out on a strike Wednesday. The city officials said they would have a temporary crew on the job tonight. The firemen insisted that their pay was not “fair when It is considered that we are subject to call twenty-four hours a day.” Continents Exhibitions Are Wrong, Says D. W. Griffith NOTED FILM DIRECTOR SAYS TWO SHOWS Griffith Favors Only Two Shows Each Day; Says Present Sys tem All Wrong By JACK JUNGMEYER NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Oct. 22. —The pres ent system of continuous movie ex hibition is all wrong. That is the flat statement of Da vid Wark Griffith, famous film di rector. “High class film drama cannot cope with or survive t’ e Continuous performance showing,” the seasoned and sagacious D. W. told me during a leisure halfhour between sessions of cutting his latest product "That Royle Girl,” for Famous. *‘¥his method puts a premium on mediocrity, on hodge-podge, on the more personality of a glamorous star —in short upon the type of produc tion to which a spectator may en ter at any hour and be casually di verted without having to ibnther as to what the drama’s about. “If a stage producer were .-how his play backward, the last act first we’d consider him preposterous. And yet, that is precisely the vay we show motion pictures to practically half of every day’s audiences. “To obtain seats, under the con tinuous performance system, people must arrive at the movie theater just about the time the feature pic ture is in its climatic reel. Then, having been distracted by a session of divertissements, they view the film whose denouement they already know. How can suspense, illusion men£., be maintained under such conditions. “Pictures carefully built up on the dramatic unities, pictures designed to sustain mood, to develop character, building up to impressive peaks these cannot be effective unless seen from beginning to end without inter ruption. “Indeed, they make even less fa vorable impression than the ordi nary movie machine product with its loosely linked succession of episodes or gags appended to some start per (Continued on Page Eight) “PESTS” < < Editor's Note: This is the first of a series of poems on “PESTS” by David Bukhalter which will appear “every little while” in the Times Recorder. “Each of these poems v ill deal with some pest that is lorever causing trouble,” Mr. Burkhalter writes us. Th»s one i<*about the “ROADHOG,” that despicable creature who runs recklessly about with w thought of the other fellow. ‘The Road Hog 9 By David C. Burkhalter There’s a loathsome sort of creature That goes speeding thru’ the town With not one redeeming feature, He’s a reckless sort of clown. He is always in a hurry He’s a senseess kind lof “slink” And you’ll find he’ll seldom worry ’Bout what other people think. All we folks should go a gunning For this crazy, slothful “lout” That we often see a runinng, Here and there and ’round about. He’s a menace, he’s a terror In his maniacal ways And you’ll find that he doesn’t care A “whoop” about the fine he pays. We’ve been running ’round and “struttin’ We’ve been thinking just of graft— ’Stop it! Punish this speed glutton Who is giving us the laugh. Let us put these birds in cages Os our jails, give them a taste So that on the future’s pages Our redemption may be traced. ' W . > ■<•.. '..'.Awwwno. xi ■r -tw n HF ‘ JSf 1 I IF rS JJr Iftp/ M jig ( ,z.r An unusual photo of D. W. Griffith SENATOR GERRY COTTONAND MARRIES TODAY, CORN LEAD Mrs. Edith Vanderbftt, Widow George Washington Vander bilt, Becomes Solon’s Wife LONDON, Oct. 22.—The Evening Standard Wednesday stated that United States Senator Peter Goelet Gerry, of Rhode Island, will within a few days be married here to Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt, widow of George Washington Vanderbilt. Friends of Senator Gerry and Mrs. Vanderbilt this afternoon confirmed the report of their plans. The cere mony will be performed this morning in the Princess street register’s of fice. Only a few intimate friends have been invited. Senator Gerry is the son of Com modore Elbridge Gerry, a direct des cendant of Elbridge T. Gerry, one of signers of the Declaration of In dependence. Senator Gerry’s first wife, the former Mathilde S. Town send,of Washington, D. C. is now Mrs. Sumner Welles. Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt, before her marriage to the late George Wash ington Vanderbilt in 1898, was Miss Edith S. Dresser, of New York, a di rect descendant of Peter Stuyvesant Upon the death of Mr. Vanderbilt in Washington, D. C., in 1914, the bulk of his $50,000,000 estate went to their only child, Cornelia, now the wife of the Hon. John F| A. Cecil, ’former secretary of the British em bassy in Washington. Mrs. Vander bilt received $250,000 in cash and a life interets in a trust fund of sl,- 000,000 as well as the new Vander bilt home in Washington and Bar Harbor, Maine. BANKER AND GIRL HAVE MENAGERIE NEW YORK, Oct. 22. Charles W. Beall, an officer of the banking bouse of Harris, Forbes & Co., Wall Street, and his friend, Miss Maud I. Henry, who. lives in Forest Hills, have gone in for private wild ani mal training. Roars ( growls and snarls emanat ing from an old soap factory in Richmond Hill excited the curiosity of the neighbors. Then the facts came out. Mr. Beall and Miss Henry have a common interest in wild ani mals. So they established a menagerie, consisting of two royal Bengal tig ers, six leopards, three lions, a jagua, two Himalayan bears, three American sunbears and a monkey. If you have the entre, you ma'y enter the old-time soap factory and be entertained by a society ring mas ter in a real dress suit and a 'sdy assistant in an evening gown, put-: ting through their paces the beauti ful tigers down to the roly-poly sun bears. ‘ Next to White Fiber the Corn Crop of State Brings Farmer Most of Income ATLANTA, Ga., Oct 24.—Fields of waving corn, together with broad expanses of snowy cotton, cover the state in a gigantic design of green and white representing two of the leading agricultural resources of the state of Georgia. Next to the white fiber itself, the corn crop in Georgia brings to the farmers one of the largest portions of their aggregate incomes, when sold to th e mills on the ear or fed to livestock to be subsequently con verted into marketable meats. Modern methods of agriculture have demonstrated that corn may be grown in Georgia soil, so so that far mers may reasonably expect a boun tiful yield on the hills and plains of the state, as wel las in the lowlands, according to state department of agricuture officials here. While other grains such as wheat oats, rice and rye are grown to a certain extent in Georgia, corn holds an undisputed supremacy in the ranks of the grains and comes sec ond only to cotton as a money crop. Tobacco is probably the third most important Georgia crop. ATLANTA MERCHANT DIES EARLY TODAY ATLANTA, Oct. 22—Henry S. Johnson, Sr., one of the founders of Chamberlain-Johnson-Dubosn Com any died here today following brief illness. He was chairman of the board of directors of the company that bears his name. Father of Dead Boy Prays With Death Car Driver MACON, Oct. 22.—D. I. Walton, driver of the motor car in which two Macon schools boys rode to their death Tuesday morning announced his conversion Wednesday afternoon as Rev. M. L. Lifsey, father of one of the victims, knelt in prayer at his bedside. Rev. Mr. Lifsey, evangelist, said that Walton would become a member of the Ingleside Methodist church. A few hours previous to Walton’s removal to his home he and the evangelist were together in prayer and a heart-to-heart talk at a local hospital, each consoling the other, the one for the loss of an only son and the other for sorrow at the NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Dec 21.45|21.35|21.31|21,23 Jan 20.70120.55120.59|20 50 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling, 20c. PRICE FIVE CENTis FRENCH PREPARE NEW PROPOSAL FOP. V'.’ “ PEST Action Forced By Opposition to Former Agreement; To Sub mit It Next Week PARIS, Oct. 22. Finance Minis ter Callaux is preparing a counter proposal for the settlement of France’s debts to the United States. The substance of this new offer, which is expected to go forward to Washington next week, was discuss ed by Premier Painieve and M. Cal iaux at luncheon today, attended by other members of the French debt mission which visited Washington. This question was considered at the last meeting of the cabinet, which approved the suggestion of the finance minister that another effort be made at once to come to a com promise with the American debt funding commission before present-' ing to the chamber of deputies the provisional agreement reached at Washington. Under this settlement France was to pay $40,000,000 an nuall for five years as full current interest on the consolidated debt of approximately $4,200,000,000 which France owes to the United States. The key to M. Callaux’s plan to renovate French finances is the pro vision of a sinking fund for both do mestic and foreign debts. A settle ment with Washington, it is remark ed by officials here would be easier when the financial measures now in view have been accepted by paria ment, but the minister of finance is unwwilling to delay the renewal of negotiations with the American gov ernment until domestic problems are out of the way. YEAR’S WORK IN NEAR EAST Near East Relief Gives Idea of the Work of Their Organization CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 14. The annual report of the Near East Relief gives an idea of how far reaching has been the work of this organization, and the extent to which it has carried on orphanage and child welfare work during the twelve months. The organization reached 554,978 persons, and the to tal expeditures were just short of $4,000,000. The general interest of Ameri cans in the work is shown in that there were 467,925 official receipts issued to contributors. Many of these represented large groups. The appeal it made is therefore clear It is true that the num ber of dollars does not measure the good done by these contributions of Americans. The spirit in which the relief is undertaken counts for more than the sums given. The want and suffering might have been ignor ed, but America has never failed to offer help where help is needed. The-policy of the organization has : not been one of merely feeding the ■ hungry and clothing the naked. To assist to self-support has been the object in the case of the able-bodied, | though a large part of the effort , deals with women and chilldren. In ! the amount of good which such work ’ promotes,, there is abundant com i pensation for the expenditure of la -1 bor and money. tragedy for which he was a contrib uting factor. Mr. Lifsey assured Mr. Walton that he entertained no animosity for the driver of the death car; that for him he held a kindly feeling, believ ing that the accident was providen tial. He deplored the verdict of a coroner’s jury which held Walton on a charge of voluntary manslaughter. No warrant has been issued by the corOner due to the remonstrance of Lifsey. The funeral of Melvin Wallace, one of the victims, was held yester day at Hampton, Ga. The funeral of Otsi Leon Lifsey, the other victim, will be held from Ingleside Methodist church today.
