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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”
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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.
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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
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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.
