About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 5, 1925)
)( (ill nil i <>< ■ ipt in Ntimfci asiii liouhi s 26,487 < WEATHER . For G>'<>igi>i Fair tonight and S 1 Friday; wnrtnrr in central portion > > tonight; < older in north portion Fri- 5 ( > day. ’ 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 PUBLISHED IN HEART~~OF~DixjE~~fI?>O? France’s New Envoy IB / foMM 'Sw u -Ji fe r IBM jmmjfe. ■ 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 •a# ""'"s |. ; I I ■ ExKjng Ferdinand ?f Bulgaria, 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 1 fl IjJI 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. Pc. Open 11am Close? ‘ < k Dec 79.37:19.75 19.76(19.94 > < J; 18.36 19.20 19.14 19.35 j > Middling 18 3-Bc. r L i 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.
