About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1925)
eipts J Cotton Receipts Sumter ’ County .....25,793 For Georgia—. Showers tonight and , I possibly Sunday morning; slightly warmer in south and extreme south portion and colder in northwest por tion tonight; cooler Sunday. FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 245 BULGARIA SENDS FORCES INTO WAR AREA * ¥ * M * # t ¥¥¥♦ *¥■ • ¥ Immediate Reduction In Inheritance Taxes Favored STATESSHE WILL MAKE STAND NOW Statement From Reliable Source Says That Bulgaria Will Send Small Forces in War Area SOFIA, Bulgaria, Oct. 24. Bulgaria is sending her troops in to the war area and has decided to make a stand as far as her lim ited military strength permits, in case the Greeks continue to in vade the territory granted her under treaty of Neuilly- This state ment was made in authoritative quarters here. 1 he artillery sent to the affect ed district was limited to two field guns, but it is asserted that if they are brought into action, they will fire upon the invaders until silenced by their superior long range guns. FORMER DISPATCH WAS ENCOURGAING NEW YORK, Oct 24.—Official quarters in Sofia recounting the in quiries of the two days, of fighting say that 25 Bulgarians have been killed, and 15,000 have been made homeless, with 240 square miles be ing occupied by the Greeks. Dispatches of the past few hours have been to the effect that the figging between the Greeks and Bl Irian forces, appear from all to be slackening, at least temporarily and on Monday the council of the league of nations, act ing on the appeal of Bulgaria will meet in extraordinary session in Paris to take up the dispute. WOMEN’S CLUB HAVE EXHIBITS Their Exhibits Will Be Judged By Members of State College of Agriculture By MISS BONNIE PARKMAN Home Demonitration Agent In the department will be displays >f cannde goods done exclusively by nembers of Home Demonstration Clubs. There are eight of these clubs in Sumter County and the members are instructed at regular intervals by the Home Demonstra tion Agent, throughout the garden season. , These women have prepared some attractive exhibits to show at the County Fair and these will be judged by some member from the staff at State College of Agriculture, and some very attractive premiums will be awarded, to the women for the various exhibits. Aside from the cash premiums mentioned in the premium list there will be given to the woman having the best display of conserved fruits and vegetables, a Steam Pressure Cooker, donated by the Selfseal Pres sure Cooker Company, Jamaica, N. Y., as first premium valued at 517.50, and A Dilver Fruit Press donated by the Dilver Company, Pittsburg, Penn., as second premium, valued at $6.50. Awarding of these premiums will be based on an Annual Record of the woman’s work as well as the products exhibited. Committees for the Home Demonstration Depart ment are as follows: . Women’s Home Demonstration ■J|hk, Mrs. Tom Finch, Chairman; MW? S. E. DeLoach, Mrs. Eugene Daniel. Girls work, Mrs. J. C. Wise, chair man, Mrs. Newton Bailey, Mrs. W. N. Houston. DIXIE CUBS DEFEAT HARROLD AVENUE In a hotly contested football game here yesterday, the Dixie Cubs de feated the aggregation representing Harrold AAvenue, by the score of 6 to 2. The game was featured by the Playing of Bynum of the Cubs and Goup for the Harrold Avenuue team. The touchdown for the Cubs was scored by Bynum. Frank Hart was referee. THE WIESfIWECORDER ‘l^dlj?. UßLl g HED IN THE HEART OF D!X7e~'{JlFs7 Goes to Moroco i 5 -r i-.. r> ® Ik 4 |K ;! WK TILTJMiI*" 1 M. Steeg, French minister of the interior, who has just resigned his position in the cabinet to assiftie his new duties as governor-general of Morocco. Steeg succeed Marshal Lyautey. SCHLEY COUNTY EXHIBITS READY County Will Send Record-Break ing Crowd On Thursday, Schleyl County Day ELLAVILLE, Oct. 24.—The com mittees who were appointed to put on an exhibit at the Sumter county fair nex week have every thing in readiness. All that remains to be done is to carry the articles to Amer icus and arrange the Schley county booth. The resources of the county will be shown off to good advantage and the Schley cornty display is expect ed to attract a great deal of atten ion. Ellaville will b« represented at the Fair with a good crowd every day. Thursday, Schley county day, it is expected that people from every section of the count, will be pres ent, thus giving to the Fair a record breaking attendance. LOCAL HIGH DEFEATSCORDELE In Game at Cordele Yesterday, the Local Aggregation Win ning By Score of 19-0 With Cordele showing much bet ter game than when they appeared in Americus, the local High School team handed them defeat yesterday by the score of 19 to 0. The first half of the game was marked by indifferent playing of both teams, neither of which scor ed in this period. In the second pe riod Americus came back strong and launched an attack which Cordele was unable to stop. Several spectacular end runs by Swain and Ansley and cross bucks by Thayer put the ball within the sha dow of the Cordele goal. A short pass, Ansley to Easterlin netted the touchdown, Ansley failing to kick goal. The second touchdown came a few minutes later after Americus by a series of brilliant plays had carried the ball seventy yards in about three minutes. Bell scored the second touchdown the third one being made by East erlin only a few minutes before the game was ended. Coach McKee in a statement this morning said, “The Cordele team has shown great improvement since they played in Americus and the Cordele loach is to be congratulated for the work that he has done with the al most entirely inexperienced team. It must be said that Quaurter back Ansley showed far bet ter generalship than in any previous game. The outstanding stars for Americus were Swain, Easterlin, Bell Thayer, and Tye.” AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24, 1925 ‘MA’FERGUSON i IN ROAD FIGHT I Orders Payment Stopped in Tex as Highway Construction; Excessive Profit Charged AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 24. Sus pension of payments to contractors for highway topping work was or dered by Governor Miriam A. Fergu son in a letter to Frank V. Lan ham, chairman of the Texas Highway commission. The governor said the attorney general had openly stated that he intends to bring suits to can cel certain highway contracts and in structed the chairman to make every defense possible under law to protect the interests of the state. GILBERTJONES DIES TODAY Was One of the Youngest Bankers I in Wall Street, Considered Expert On Railroad Financing NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Gilbert E. Jones, vice-president of the Guaran ty Company of New York and presi dent of the Bond Club, died here ear | ly today following an operation for Mr. Jones, who was one of the youngest bankers in Wall street, represented the Guaranty company in bond flotations for the Swerin gen’s Nickel Plate railroad. He was considered an expert on railroad fi nancing. BIGDEOADE IN VALDOSTA Two Hundred Thousand Acres Sold For Two Million Dollars to Large Corporation VALDOSTA, Ga., Oct. 24.—The sale of two hundred thousand acres of Echols and Clinch County lands by two Valdosta citizens to repre sentatives of a large Chemical and Paint Manufacturing corporation for $2,000,000 was announced here to day. It is said that buyers intend to establish large paper pulp manu facturing plant on the property. COUNCIL HOLDS REGULAR MEET With a report from the water committee, the regular semi-month ly. meeting of the City Council was held last night. Mayor Poole was present and pre sided. After reading of minutes, the committee made its report, stating that water rents for the quarter end ing Oc. 1, was in excess of $7,000. These receipts are larger than any quarter for sometime, the increase being due to the unusual drouth con ditions during the quarter. Man Gets Death Senlece for Attack on Young Lady SWAINSBORO, Ga., Oct. 23 Sentence of guilty without a mercy recommendation and a sentence of death, by electrocution was vhe re sult tonight of the trial of C. A. Wheeler, charged with criminally at tacking a young New York woman in this county last week. W. A. Nasworthy, who was Wheel er’s companion when the girl was so badly mistreated Thursday night of last week, was convicted yesterday and given a sentence of 20 years. The two men admitted their relations with the girl, who was making her way from New York to Florida. The young woman, described as pretty and intelligent, repeated the story she told at the rial of Nas worthy. Eforts to shake her tesi mony failed, according to court of ficials. In her testimony, she told the jury that Wheeler was the first to attack her. The girl repeaed the story of Macon County Launches Campaign For Passage of SIOO,OOO Bond Issue John Holder, State Highway Commissioner and Other 1 Prominent Men Speak in Favor Bond Issue Macon county has formally launch ed a campaign for the passage of a] SIOO,OOO bond issue, the proceeds to be used in paving the Dixie Highway from the Peach county line to Sum ter county. The courthouse at Oglethorpe was comfortably filled Friday night when a number of Macon county speakers and others spoke on the ad visability of the issue and what the paving of this stretch of road on the highway system would mean to the people of Macon County. Dr. Greer, of Oglethorpe, was selected chairman of the meeting and intro duced Chairman John Holder, of the Highway board; Col. W. W. Dykes and Lovelace Eve, of Americus, who were followed by Judge Greer of Oglethorpe; John Guerry, W’m. H. McKenzie, J. C. Witt, Pat Nelson, Frank Murly, G. L. Dwight and oth ers, all of whom, with one possible exception spoke in unqualified terms as desiring to see the bonds issued. Col. Dykes, the first speaker, ex plained to the audience the manner in which Sumter county sold her bonds, how they secured state and federal aid, the approximate cost of Sumter’s road construction and the effect of paved roads on the values of the property in the county. “We Sumter neighbors are as much in terested in Macon county’s paving project as you,” said Col. Dykes, “and I can pledge you our aid in your campaign. Now is the time to pave' this connecting link. Paving will en hance the value of every acre of land in your county, ft has done that for us and the same may be ex pected by you. This applies not only to the lands directly on the pav’ng, but also those remotely' removeu therefrom.” “We have the most desirable cli mate in the world. We have soil that will produce almost anything that "can be raised in the temperate zone. In short, we have a section that will appeal to farmers from any section, but we must pave our state roads and then advertise our advantages as others are doing.” The technical mechanics of carry ing bond campaigns were explained by Lovelace Eve who suggested ev ery person in the county—young and old—be enlisted in the campaign. “It is nothing more nor less than a campaign of education,” he said. “Go to your schools, to your women’s clubs, to your churches. Enlist ev ery one. Explain every detail and you will have succes. No county, so far as I recall, has failed to carry bonds for paved roads and I do not believe Macon county will be the ex ception. It is not a question of 1 whether you can afford to bond your selves, but rather that you cannot afford to do other wise. Every county around you is paving. If you fail to do so you isolate yourselves (■Continued on Page Eight) setting out afoot from New York and reaching Georgia in four days, hav ing been picked up by various auto ists and having tramped the road af ter nightfall. She told of meeting Wheeler and Nasworthy and their promise to take her on to Florida, only to find herself later in their bachelor apartments wwhere sh e was kept a prisoner all night. The next morning, she told the court, she was assaulted again then, in a semi-con scious condition, thrown out on the roadside, where she was later dis covered by Swainsboro citizens. The defense in the Wheeler trial pleaded consent, a similar defense entered by Nasworthy. The girl is being cared for at the home of the solicitor, Walter F. Gray, and also at the home of Joseph Ellis. A movement has been started in Swainsboro to provide for the girls protection and needs. They Will Try Army “Hell Cat” I ' * *a»i KING agSTO*®?: ?<'W» iHl O’* .1 iw SwiSl ? 'W ‘sW-d POORE 1 [ s®3 GRAVES MAJ. GEN. C. P. SUMME'RALL Seven members of the military court which is to try Colonel William Mitchell, army “hell cat,' ’are pictur ed here. General Sutrmerali, presi dent of the court, is commander of the army’s Second Corps Area with headquarters at Governor's Island, N. Y. The others: Maj. Gen. Robert L. Howze, commander Second Corps Area, Columbus, Ohio; Maj. Gen. Douglas McArthur, commander Third Corps Area, Baltimore; Maj. Gen. W. S. Graves, commander Third Corps Area, Chicago; Mag. Gen. Ben jamin A. Poore, commander Seventh Corps Area, Omaha; Brig. Gen. Ed ward L. King, commandant Army Service school, Fort Leavenworth, Kas.; Brig. General Frank R. Mc- Coy, commander Third Infantry Brigade, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. FIRST BAPTIST PLANS RALLY Arrangements Made for a Big Day With Large Sunday School in the Morning With a special effort to have an attendance of 600 at their Sun day School, and with other special features, the First Baptist Church is planning a great rally day tomor row, according to Rev. Joe M. Branch, pastor. In the afternoon at 2 o’clock Rev. Branch requests all those on tne can vassing committee to meet at the church. And between the hours of 2:15 and 4:15 he requests all the members of the Church to stay at their homes if possible. At night a rally service is plan ned, with possibly a report from the canvassing committee. A special musical program has been planned. DR. EMMET ANDERSON HMDS LOCAL RED CROSS Dr. Emmet Anderson has been se lected and has accepted the chair manship of the local chapter of the Red Cross, Mrs. Charlottee Heilman, field representative announced to day. Assisting Dr. Anderson on the central committee is Steven Pace, Mrs. H. L. McKee and John M. Prance. The committee is now perfecting its plans for the annual Red Cross roll call on November 11 to Thanks giving Day. One half of the funds derived fro mthe roll call remains in the hands of the local committee, the other going toward the national re lief work of the organization. Early matches were first dipped in sulphur. • ' (< WW$ • J&E& sb^’ : V f ** *®; jsa&&* , ’& B'7 l&y>--y ik?’ %1- * K 8! % C-4 * - >-•■> - : - ' .-F* GIRLS HAVE GOOD EXHIBITS Miss Parkman Announces That This Year’s Exhibits WiU Be the Best Seen m Years Years Miss Bonnie Parkman, County Home Demonstration Agent, Sum ter County gives out the information that Girls' Club Exhibits will be of excellent quality this year, regard less of the fact that the girls have experienced unusual difficulty in growing their vegetables due to the long drouth. However they have worked untiringly in their efforts and the complete Annual program of work has been put over during the year. There will be almost every variety of fruits and vegetables grown in Sumter County, shown in their con served state, packed in attractive form and displayed in specified ex hibits, conforming to the require ments of the standard set up by The State Dept, of Agriculure, and to the instructions given out by Miss Park man. During the School months these girls have carried on a program of sewing as well as cookery, and in their exhibits will be shown many articles of clothing and basketry of both native material and reed. Premiums are offered in each class and besides these cash premiums there will be offered to the girls mak ing best all year records several to summer school at State College of Agriculture at Ath ens, Ga. Trouble with being a rich man is when the phone rings you think your son has been jailed for speed ing. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Dec 21.28121.35521.40(21.24 Jan - .20.56 20.64(20.67(20.49 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Middling, 19 3-4 c. WITH REPEAL ATTHEENDOF SIX YEARS Chairman Green of House Ways and Means Committee Favors Immediate Reductions WASHINGTTON, Oct. 24.—Pro posals for immediate reductions in Federal inheritance taxes, with re peal at end of six years were en dorsed here todaj by Chairman Green of the House Ways and Means Committee. Such scheme was presented to committee yesterday by the Nation al Committee on Inheritance Taxa tion, composed of tax experts from every section of the country. in endorsing six year plan, Mr. Green said that this time would give opportunity for States to enact uni form inheritance tax laws prior to the withdrawal of the Federal Gov ernment. Chairman Green opposed immed iate repeal but sugested that in stead full credit might be allowed in settlement of Federal levies for amounts paid on SCtate inheritance taxes, < WALKER URGES TAX REPEAL WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Aban donment by the Federal govern ment to the states of revenue inher itance taxes was asked by a half doz en state governors Friday before the House ways and means committee. Imposition of the levy was describ ed as an invasion of state rights and a diversion into the Federal treasury of money needed by the states. General approval was given, how ever, to suggestions that the Feder al government continue the tax in full credit is given to states which impose similar levies, as a means of securing some uniformity. Declara tions, by committee members that the wealthy could escape has no state in heritance tax led to proposals for retention of the Federal tax as a check. The governors who appear at this morning’s session were Walker, Geor; Whitfield, of Mississippi; Trinkle, of Virginia; McLendon, of North Carolina; McLeod of South. Carolina and Peay, of Tennessee. (Continued On Page Eight) SLEUTH INDICTED IN GEMS RETURN NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Noel C. Scaffa, private detective who ne gotiated the return of the Donahue jewels, was indicted by the grand jury Friday charged with compound ing a crime. Scafia was detective for the com pany which issued insurance on the Donahue jewels. The detective in his story to the district attorney and police said he negotiated with a man known to him as “Sam Layton” for the return of the gems and paid a reward of $65,000 for their return. Mr. and Mrs. Donahue were the principal witnesses before the grand jury returning the indictment. WIFE SLAYER GOES TO CHAIR FITZGERALD, Ga., Oct, 24 Oscar Mars, Friday was sentenced by Judge D. A. R. Crum to be elec trocuted on Decembr 7 for the mur der of his wife on July 26. Motion for a new trial will be heard by Judge Crum on November 28. The case of Bail Mars, indict ed as an acessory before the fact with his brother, will be heard at the January term of the Ben Hill super ior court. , SMALL BLAZE HERE YESTERDAY With a damage of only about $250 the home of G. A. Boatright on Brown street caught fire yesterday The house was the property of I. B. Small, but was occupied by the Boatright family. The call cam e in just before noon yesterday, the lo cal fire fighters soon getting the blaze under control. 'W i t ’ mcarthur I w ml ®, i HOWZE <— Lwj 1 Jsrfl i-i——• * • McCOY PRICE FIVE CENTS
