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FORTY SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 256
Three Smithville Men Being Tried for Murder of Negro
CHARGED WITH
MURDER OF JOE
ROMEY DAVIS
Fox Admits Murdering Negro
But Claims He Advanced on
Him With Iron Bar
Facing a charge of murder, John
B. Fox, Kenneth Phillips and Clyde
Scarborough, three of the most
prominent young men of Lee county,
are being tried today in the Lee
County Superior court in session at
Leesburg.
The three young men were in
dicted by the grand jury yesterday
for the murder of Joe Romey Davis,
a negro, of Smithville.
The murder took place last summer
at Smithville where the three young
men make their home. At the time
of the murder, John Fox was given
a commitment hearing by Judge H.
L. Long, who exonerated Fox.
Fox admitted the murder but his
plea was that of self-defense, stating
that the negro was advancing and
hitting at him with an iron bar.
The trial got under way this morn
ing, with Solicitor General Jule Fel
ton, assisted by E. L. Forrester rep
resenting the state. Hollis Fort, of
Americus; R. Hale, of Smithville,
and Robert R. Forrester, of Leesburg,
are representing the defendants.
The defense opened the trial with
statements from the three defend
ant followed by the appearing of
the widow and daughter of the de
ceased on the stand for the state.
The state then introduced a negro,
liging in Smithville, and Dr. J. W.
Ragsdale, of Smithville, as witnesses.
Dr. Ragsdale, in appearing for the
state, furnished X-ray pictures, re
ported to have teen taken of the ne
gro’s wound.
After this evidence had been sub
mitted, C. R. Kale, attorney for the
defense, made his argument, follow
ed by Colonel Robert Forrester of
the defense.
The solicitor is scheduled to take
up his arguments for the state im
mediately after dinner. Following
him will be Colonel Hollis Fort, for
the defense. E. L. Forrester will
then make the concluding arguments
for the state.
Last minute reports from Leesburg
were to the effect th|at the case
would go to the jury about 4 o’clock.
The young men on trial are promi
nent young married men of Smith
ville and are known over the coun
ty as being upright gentlemen.
There was some surprise expressed
over the findings of the grand jury,
the people of the county being of
the impression that the case had
been closed.
LAWYERS SEPARATED
IN DIVORCE ACTION
MILWAUKEE ,Wis., Nov. 5.
The law separated two Milwaukee
attorneys in a divorce action decided
by Judge Henry Graass. The attor
neys, however, were Charles Peter
son and Antionette Jackowski Peter
son, plaintiff and defendant.
A divorce was granted Mr. Peter
son, who also received 810,000 in
cash from Mrs. Peterson, who was
alloted all property in her possession,
including the family home, law
books, notes, and mortgages. She
is a member of the city civil service
commission. Cruelty was charged.
“PESTS”
7 he Motion
Picture Hound
Behold the Jotionr Picture Hound,
Who never fail to rush around,
To see the latest feature.
But he is harmless, as we know,
Perhaps he really likes the show
And yet he’s some queer creature.
He marvels at the highty scene
That’s pictured there upon the
screen
And thinks it quite dramatic.
He thinks that Norma’s simply fine
And others up and down the line;
He’s very Democratic.
“So far, so good,” the proverb goes
And we too, like the picture shows,
But we ache in our ‘vitals’.
when this doggoned, disgusting fool,
Who thinks we never went to school
Will for us read sub-titles.
THE
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Senator Victory Henry Berenger,
noted French financial authority, who
was appointed as French ambassador
to the United States to succeed M.
Daeschner.
BUILDINGIN
ALBANY SHOWS
LARGE INCREASE
88 Building Permits Granted for
Month of October Beats 1924
Record
ALBANY, Ga., Nov. s.—With a
total of eighty-eight building permits
granted through October 31 for a to
tal of $137,575, Albany’s construc
tion activities for 1925 are climbing
to an unprecedented total. The
amount for the first ten months of
this year is $1,350,048, nearly $300,-
000 more than any year in the hi -
tory of Albany.
Last year the city’s building per
mits went to $1,055,000, which was
a record, but 1925 started off with
a bang and $448,000 worth of per
mits during the first month the
amount has steadily grown until
now all records are smashed and
there are still two month s, of this
year to go.
It is estimated that the permits
for the year will go well above a
million and ahas dollars. To reach
this total a total of only $75,000 is
needed for each of the two remain
ing months in the year, and there has
been no month in 1925 when the to
tal came under this amount. There
fore it is pointed out, it is reason
able to expect that the toal will go
that high.
DRYOFFICIALS
IN SESSION NOW
AT CHICAGO
Congressmen, Prohibition En
forcement Officials and Others
of Prominence Attend
CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 5.—A re
view’ of the achievements of prohibi
tion and the development of new
strategy to support the efforts of
public officials is th aim of ‘enforce
ment crisis” convention of the Anti-
Saloon League opening a five day
session here.
The actual present condition of
affairs —gains and loss, benefits and
weaknesses to be corrected are topic
of scores of speakers, including Con
gressmen, Prohibition Enforcement
officials, prominent business men
and leaders in unoficial Dry Army
League and the W. C. T. U.
SOUTHERN RAILROADS
ARE PROSPEROUS
ATLANTA, Nov. 5. Southern
railroads are more prosperous as a
whole just now than those of any
other section, and far greater expan
sion of Southern roads is underway
than in any other part of the coun
try, it was pointed out here today
by railway executives.
Steamship lines between the North
Atlantic and the South Atlantic
ports are also increasing their facili
ties at a rapid rate., it was stated.
New lines are being established and
old lines doubled
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 5. 1925
HALF MILLION i
MILES SURFACED
ROADS IN U. S.
Georgia Shows 19,188 Miles of
Surfaced County and State 4
Roads
Th e mileage of surfaced roads in
the United States is nearing the
500,000 mark according to the Bu
reau of Public Roads of the United
States Department of ’Agriculture.
Some weeks ago the State reports’
indicated that there were 128,347
miles of surfaced road on the State
systems at the end of 1924 and a
similar subsequent reports from the
States indicated the mileage of sur
faced county roads was 339,558 mak
ing a total of 467,905 miles.
Since 31,541 miles of road was
surfaced in 1924 by the States and
counties and it is known that pro
gress has been equally as good in
1925, it is probable that the con
struction season now drawing to a
ciose will increase the surfaced mil
eage to mor e than 495,000.
In addition to surfaced roads a
considerable mileage has been graded
and drained acording to engineering
standards. There were 236,294
miles of such road at the end of 1924
and of this 13,689 miles had been
constructed during that year. These
figures indicate that the improved
road mileage of all classes is not far
from 740,000.
Georgia shows a total rural mile
age 98,364 miles, with 2,326 miles of
Surfaced state roads and 16,862
miles of surfaced county roads
REALESTATE
IN BRUNSWICK
ENJOYS BOOM
C. W. Lane, of Mt. Airy, N. C.»
Purchases in Georgia Coast
City Today
ATLANTA, Nov. s.—Proof that
Florida doesn’t have a a monopoly on
the opportunities to make money
trading in real estate is evidenced in
a report received here from Bruns
wick, Ga.
The transaction, which is said to
be the largest reported in sometime
in Brunswick, involved four brick
store buildings on Gloucester street
between Reynolds and Richmond
streets. It was owned by Abe Roth
child, Newcastle, jeweler, and was
sold to C. W. Lane, of Mt Airy, the
deal being handled by L. S. Robb, real
estate agent.
The purchase price of the property
was $35,000 and in this connection it
is interesting to note that it was
bought by Mr. Rotchchiid a little
over a year ago for $12,000. Since
that time he has expended $3,000 in
improvements, hence the transaction
netted him $20,00 plus the rentals on
three stores, which have been at the
rate of $325 a month.
Mr. Lane is quoted as saying that
Brunsiwck today offers unustal ad
vantages for real estate investments.
Within the past two weeks he has la
vested SIO,OOO in Glynn county acre
age, $30,000 in a building on New
castle street, $6,000 in a buliding on
Gloucester and Albany streets, 2.-
500 on an East Beach lot and with
his recent purchase has made a total
investment of $83,500.
FIFTY ARE INJURED
STORM AT SEA
CHERBOUG, France, Nov. 5.
Thrown to the deck by the plunges
of the steamer Berengia in to a gi
gantic wave last Saturday a large
number of the passengers and crew
of the liner were injured. .
The Berengia, enroute from New
York to Cherbourg and Southamp
ton met with a succession of storms
throughout the voyage, culminating
on Saturday in a tempest which the
commander declared was the worst
he had encounteder in his thirty-two
years of seafaring.
When the the Berengia came into
port here last night to discharge her
passengers, some fifty of them had
their arms in splints and their heads
bandaged and were suffering from
sprains and bruises.
It has been a custom in Dazig to
indicate ones wealth in land by pil
lars on the front porch. Each pillar
stands for 20 acres.
Royal Ornithologist
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once most powerful of Balkan mon
archs now ranks as a leading auth
ority on birds and bird-lore
STATE KIWANIS
HONORS FORMER
AMERICUS MAN
E. T. Murray, of Fort Valley and
Former Americus Resident,
Given Office
A former resident of Americus,
E. T. Murray was yesterday named
District Lieutenant Governor of the
central district at the close of the
State Kiwanis Convention in Albany.
Judge Harry D. Reed of Waycross
was named district governor for the
coming year. The next convention
will meet with the Kiwanis Club of
Augusta.
Mr. Murray the newly named dis
trict lieutenant governor of th e cen
tral district is well known in Amer
icus having lived here prior to the
World War. His father, Dr. E. L.
Murray is still a resident of Ameri
cus, being in the drug business here.
Basil Cole, of Waycross, was nam
ed secretary; Miller S. Bell, of Mil
ledgeville, was re-elected treasurer,
and the following lieutenant gover
nors for the Georgia district were
named: Arthur Brooks, Atlanta,
northern district; G. L. Williams,
Metter, eastern; George W. Jones,
Albany, western; Ernest Deckle,
Valdosta, southern; E. T. Murray,
Fort Valley, central.
The Kiwanis adopted resolutions
commending the stand taken by va
rious speakers on good roads and
urging paved roads for the state and
I the issuance of state bonds to pay
I for them.
| Augusta won the next state con
vention only after a stiff battle with
Brunswick. It was the fourth year
the Augusta club had sought the
convention and the delegates from
that city waged a gallant battle to
convince the Kiwanians that they de
served the next meet.
Depicting the history of the pe
can in allegorical form, the festival
and pageant Tuesday was a scene of
unlimited beauty and magnificence.
Preceding it was staged the parade
of the princesses, in which 20 Ki
wanis clubs of the state had entered
floats. .
Theß runswick float, decorated in |
lotus flowers was awarded first
prize. Miss Julia Sherman was the
charming princess. Second prizes
went to the Dawson float decorated
in poppies, of which Miss Evelyn
Martin was princess.
HIS LEG GONE,
FINDS HE CAN’T VOTE
SPRINGFIELD, 111., November 5.
—A voter marked “dead” on the
registration books, discovered today
that when his amputated leg was
buried last February, a burial per
mit was issued and his name scratch
ed from the voting list. The elec
tion clerk declined to make public
the voter’s name.
COMMITTEE SETS
TENTATIVE LIMIT
ON REDUCTION
Tax Reductions of $300,000,-
000 Approved By House Ways
and Means Committee
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—A ten
ative limit of $300,000,000 as the
total amount of the forthcoming tax
reduction was determined upon to
day by the House Ways and Mean,
Committee.
I’his is the figure set by the Secre
tary Mellon. It was agreed to by
the committee after it had gone over
th<> estimates of Governments ex
penses for the next fiscal year with
Director Lord of the budget.
$72,000 PAID
FOR FARM UNO
IN LEE COUNTY
Indiana Capitalist Buys Part of
Yow Plantation. Will Make
Improvements
LEESBURG, Ga., Nov. s.—Much
activity is being manifested in Lee
County in the land market, and
many land deals are being consu
mated. ,
One of the deals going through
today was the sale of the Yow
Plantation, 1200 acres, two miles
southwest of Leesburg. The price
per acre was S6O, involving the
amount of $72,000. This is only
a part of the large Yow plantatiton.
This place is considered a choice
one, owing to its flowing artesian
well and excellent location.
The purchaser was afn (Indiana
capitalist, who states that he will
expend more money in improvements
of the place.
The deal was made through the
Atlanta Trust Company.
COLUMBIKTEAM
HERE TOMORROW
Plays Local A. & M School Team
At Aggie Field Friday
3:00 P. M.
Columbus Industrial High invades
Americus tomorrow for their an
nual clash with the local A. & M.
eleven.
. Reports from the Electric City
are to the effect that the boys have
a wonderful team and are determ
ined to take the local boys in camp.
The Columbus aggregation will bring
a large body of rooteds and Coach
Wooster urges the local fans to turn
cut for the game which will be play
ed on Aggie Field at 3:00 P. M.
The folowing line, up will start the
game:
Columbus A & M.
Carmack le. Shepherd
Fulford It. McKay
Funderburke Ig Aultman
Hays c. Hog£
Good man rg Sykes
Kelly rt Peed
Lassiter re. Stapleton
Blythe qb. Jacobs Cap.
Starns rhb Chappell
Dunbar Ihb. Stubbs
Gates, Captain fb Morrison
CHILE ACCEPTS
PERSHING MOTION
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. s.—Of
ficial communication issued at the
Foreign Minister’s Office says that
Chile has accepted motion made by I
General John J. Pershing regard
ing the guarantees for holding of
Plebscite on President Colidge’s
Tanco Arica award. The object of
guarantees is to insure fair Plebscite.
NEGRO MUST PAY
DEATH PENALTY
9BBEVILLE, N. C., Nov. s.—|
Alvin Mansell, seventeen year old
negro youth was found guilty on the
charge of criminal attack on a
white woman by a jury in Superior
court here today.
He was immediately sentenced to
be electrocuted at the state prison
next January 13th.
Indicted For Fraud
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Thomas W. Miller, formerly Alien
Property Custodian, who was indict
ed by a federal grand jury in New
York charged with defrauding the U. I
S. Government of $7,000,000. Miller |
is accused of reselling confiscated
stocks to their original German own
ers after the World War ended.
DUTCH ANDERSON
SONOFANOBLE
DANISH FAMILY
Real Identity Revealed By a
Rochester Attorney Thru
Newspaper Story Today
ROCHESTER, N. Y. Nov. s.—The
veil of mystery that shrouded the
real identity o' “Dutch” Anderson,
slayer, bank robber and desperado
whose career was ended by a bullet
from his own yun in Muskegon,
Michigan last Saturday was pierced.
In a copyrighted story the Roches
ter Journal prints the life history of
the bandit as given by William Bak
er, an attorney of this city, whose
name appears in records at the At
lantic Federal Penitentiary gave as
person to notify in case of death.
The Rochester attorney identified
the Internationally known bandit as
Ivan Dahl Von Teller, of Denmark,
the son of a Noble Danish family.
FREIGHT RATES
NOT IMPORTANT
COTTON FACTOR
Railways Officials Say That Rates
Are Not An Important Factor
in Cotton Rates
ATLANTA, Nov. 5. Freight
rates are not an important factor in
establishing preies paid cotton
growers, according to a statement
made public here today by railway
executives. Quality and grade of
cotton together with other general
elements of supply and demand ( and
not freight rates, ’govern prices, it
is claimed.
This is shown by a study just com
pleted by the bureau of railway eco
nomics, the executives state, as to
the production, distribution a>l con
sumption of cotton in the United
States, and the relationship between
prices paid to the cotton growers
and freight rates to representative
consuming centers.
Because less than half of the cot
ton produced in the United States is
consumed in this country, the study
find, Atlanta executives assert, the
price paid cotton producers here is
.greatly influenced by the demand in
I foreign countries where the larger ,
part of the American crop is market
ed. The average yearly production
from 1920 to 1924 of cotton in the
United States, according to the fig
ures given out here, amounted to
11,000,000 bales, of which approxi
mately 5,900,000 bales- were ex <
ported.
| DEPUTY HEANIBONI
ATTEMPTS AN ATTACK (
ROME, Italy, Nov. 5. lt was
semi-officially announced that the I
former Socialist Deputy Heaniboni is I
under arrest on the charge of pre
paring an attempt against the life ’
of Premier Mussolini.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
DEMOCRATS ARE
CONFIDENTOF
1928 VICTORY
Chairman Oldfield Says Pendu
lum Swinging From
Republicans
NEW YORK, Nvv. s.—Democratic
predictions of success in the next
national campaigns ami speculation
about the political future of Gover
nor Al Smith of New York figured
largely today in the aftermath of
Tuesday's various elections.
At Washington, Chairman Oldfield
of the Democratic National Commit
tee said that the victories of the
Democratic National Committee
said that the victories of the Demo
crats made it clear that the pendu
lum had begun to swing away from
the Republicans.
“The election of a Democratic
Congress in 1926 appears to be cer
tain, followed by the election of a
Democratic President in 1928,” he
said.
YOUNG LADY
THOUGHT VICTIM
SWAMPMYSTERY
Body Burned On Pyre of Wood
en Logs Was Not Negro
Woman
MATCHE'Z, Miss., Nov. s.—Ten
sas Swamp’s mystery murder, discov
ered October 12 when the charred
body of a woman pronounced that of
a negress, was found cremated on a
pyre of pine logs, was made the ob
ject of police investigation wh'en the
supposed victim was found serving
a jail sentence and a missing 17-
year-old girl now is believed to have
been the victim.
The body, burned almost to ashes,
was resting on a crude pyre and had
been fired with gasoline It was
identified as that of Cora McNight,
negro woman.
Today the McNight woman was
brought to Winnsboro, La., to serve
a jail sentence following conviction
in a liquor selling campaign in
Franklin Parish in which a portion of
Tensas Swamp is located
ASHBURN HIGH
HERE FRIDAY
Plays Americus High. Coach
McKee Expects Best Game of
The Year
Coach McKee of the Americus
High School announces that the local
team will meet the Ashburn High
football eleven tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o’clock at the Playgrounds.
Asiiburn has one of the best teams
in South Georgia and it is expected
that they will make the Americus
boys work harder than they have in
any previous game to win.
Coach McKee urges the local fans
to turn out for the game.
TATE ELECTROCUTED
FOR CONDRA MURDER
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 5.
Robert Tate, alleged murderer of
A. W. Condra, merchant of Condra
Switho, near here was electrocuted
at the State prison here today.
Protesting his innocence, Tate met
death with perfect composure. Con
|dra was robbed and shot to death by
i masked bandits.
HOLIDAY PROCLAIMED }
FOR ARMISTICE DAY ;
ATLANTA, Nov. s.—Gover- ;
nor Walker has issued a procla- ?
mation setting aside Wednesday, ;
November 11, as Armistice Day,
and calling upon the people of ;
Georgia to join in the observance. ;
The proclamation designated <
Armistice Day as a holiday /
throughout the state, and au- (
thorized the state banks to close.
In his proclamation Governor
j Walker paid tribute to the heroes
| of the World War and asked that
[ the people honor them for the
i part they played in the conflict.