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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 245
BULGARIA SENDS FORCES INTO WAR AREA
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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