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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 256 ’
Fox Senteced to Serve From One to Five Years in Prison
JURY RETURNS
THEIR VERDICT
AS GUILTY
Scarborough and Phillips Are
Freed of Charge By Lee
County Jury
A sentence of from one to five
years was given John B. Fox late
yesterday by the jury in the Super
ior court of Lee county.
Clyde Scarborough and Kenneth
Phillips charged jointly with Fox of
murdering Joe Romey Davis, negro,
were found not guilty.
The trial opened in Leesburg yes
terday and went to the jury at 4
o’clock. Their verdict was return
ed at 6 o’clock and found Fox guil
ty of voluntary manslaughter, fix
ing the penalty at from one to five
years.
Attorneys for Fox immediaely made
motion for new trial which will be
heard by Judge Z. A. Litlejohn on
November 28th. Fox was released
on bond of SISOO. The trial came
yesterday as a surprise to many, the
grand jury returning an indictment
on that day before the trial.
The alleged murder took place in
Smithville, the home of the defen
dant, last summer. Fox was given a
committment hearing at the time
and was exonerated. He admitted
killing the negro, but claimed that
Davis was advancing to hit him with
an iron bar.
Fox is well known in this section.
He is a young married man and
makes his hom e in Smithville. The
other young men charged jointly l
w'Lh him also reside at Smithville.
‘GEORGIA PEACH’
VS. GEORGE COOK
SATURDAY NIGHT
Cook Is Expected to Give Strib
ling Greatest Fight He Has
Ever Had
The “Georgia Peach,” Young
Stribling, will meet George Cook the
Australian heavyweight in Columbus
tomorrow night in Columbus.
The bout will begin promptly at
8 o’clock and promises to be one of
the best that has been held in the
Scuth for sometime.
Strib has been sending his oppon
ents out by the Kayo route during
the last six months and states that
he is in the best condition he has
been in for some time.
The Australian has defeated every
heavyweight champion but Dempsey
and promises to furnish the Georgia
Peach with the greatest battle he l as
had during his career.
The following is the statement of
Major Paul Jones, the fairest and
s arest sportsmen of the South
“It is the very best bout we have
e-er put on. From Cook’s reputa
n. :t looks like Stribling will have
his hands full. The Australian has
beaten every heayweight champion
in the world but Jack Dempsey. You
may rest assured that any bout I
have anything to do with is on the ■
square and that as far as we can '
learn, vfrhen we make the match, |
either man has a chance to win.
Sport writers who have seen Cook |
in action state that he is one of the
best to appear in the American ring.
With this information it is expected
that Stribling will have some one
that will make him do his dead level
best.
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L PROBE CRASH
of Assets and Trant ter
of Funds Charged to St
Louis Firm
■fT. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 6.—An im-
grand j r ? investigation of
WB $4,000,000 crash of the Fergu-
Manufacturing Com
’’ one of the largest wholesale
of the Southwest was prom
today by circuit attorney Side-
padding of assets and
H®sfer of fqnd-> bet ween Cai - °ton
Goods Company - d l-’erguFcn
Company f-r er?!'/ pur
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Tex! knows a trick worth two of the
old stunt of giving keys to the city
to fair visitors. Instead he kisses
them. It started when a movie ac
tress kissed him and now he figures
he’s kissed at least 100 woman visi
tors.
MISS BESS COMBS
WILL ADDRESS
YOUNG LADIES
Missionary From China Will Have
Special Message for Young
People
Featuring a special message to the
young people by Miss Bess Combs, a
missionary to China, the Woman’s
Missionary Society of the South
Georgia conference will hold a dis
trict rally Tuesday afternoon Novem
ber 10.
Miss Julia Johnstone, superinten
dent of the young peoples depart
ment of the society announces that
the meeting will be of special inter
est to the young people but that the,
older people are also urged to be
present.
The meeting will be held at the
Dawson Methodist Church and will
begin at 4:30 P. M. Supper will be
served at the Church and the meet
ing will adjourn in time for the visi
tors to return to their homes that
night.
Mrs. N. A. Ray, secretary of the
Americus district urges a large at
tendance from all over the district
Miss Combs who is home on a fur
lough from China states that she a
special message fior the young peo
ple.
EARNED INCOME
LLMIT RAISED
* House Ways and Means Commit
tee Rejects Other
Proposals
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The
limit on which twenty-five per cent
deduction for earned income may be
made by tax payers was raised today
by the House Ways and Means com
mittee from incomes of SIO,OOO to
incomes of $20,000. The committee
which is framing the new tax bill re
jected proposals to repeal the capital
stock tax and modify corporation
' levy of twelve and one half per cent.
OFFICERS SEARCH FOR
ESCAPED PRISONERS
MIAMI Fla., Nov 6. —Posses of
deputies and police today were
searching for thirteen prisoners who
escaped from the Dade County jail
aitef milnight after smashing hole
in ceilinq of the roofless section of
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 6, 1925
MRS. HARROLD
LEAVES SOON
FORUM. MEET
Will Retire This Year As Presi
dent General of United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy
Stating that she expects the big
gest convention in the history of the
organization, Mrs. Frank P. Harold
of this city, president general of the
United Daughters of the Confeder
acy is preparing to leave for the an
nual convention to be held in Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
In a statement issued today, Mrs.
Harrold said that the most important
feature of this years convenion will
be the submitting of proposed amend
ments to the constitution of the or
ganization.
In commenting on the convention
she said that there would be appro
ximately 1000 delegates in atten
dance, Hot Springs being so conven
iently located.
Her annual report as president
general of the organization has just
been completed and is now in the
hands of local printers. This report
shows that remarkable progress has
been made by Mrs. Harrold during
her term as head of the organiza
tion.
The report shows that there are
more than 100.000 members of the
organization scattered over 59
states. There is one branch in Paris
and one is being organized in Porto
Rico. Georgia has something over
17,000 members.
Mrs. Harrold will not be eligible to
hold the office of president general
another vear, the constitution allow
ing one person to hold the office
for not more than two years this year
cmpleting her second year.
She stated today that she intend
ed leaving Americus Friday, Novem
ber 13 in order to arrive for a pre
convention conference with officials
of the organization.
SHIPSLUMBER
BY STEAMER
Some of the Lumber From Local
Mills Make Up the
Shipment
Realizing the possibilities of mar
keting their products and supplying
an evident demand, E. S'. McSwain
accompanied by one of his assistants,
W. H. Dean, have just completed an
extensive motor trip through Flor
ida, investigating first hand th e need
for lumber in that section, with a de
termination to relieve that condition,
ion.
Facing impossibilities of doing so
on acount of continued embargoes on
railroads, he has chartered and
placed into the service a steamer to
carry lumber to Miami and other dis
tressed sections of Florida, where it
will be distributed through their own'
yards. By this means. First sail
ing of this vessel will be made dur
ing next week, with a cargo of lum
ber valued at about $75,000, which
will be followed by regular trips at
the rate of about two per month.
A portion of this lumber to be
shipped to Florida points will come
from Americus and Sumter County,
according to a statement made by
Mr. McSwain. He states that more
lumber will be secured from the
mills in this section.
INVADES WHITE
GIRL’S BEDROOM
Negro Is Sentenced to 18 Years
in Prison When Tried in
Dublin
DUBLIN Ga., Nov. 6—. Roose
velt Kitchens, the negro who was
found in the room of a young white
woman several weeks ago, near Mint
er, one night pleaded guilty before
Judge R. Earl Camp in superior
court here this morning, and was
sentenced to 18 years in the peniten
tiary. He is a young negro about 20
years of age, and had just completed
a sentence for theft of bicycles the
day before he got into trouble again.
Kitchens had been kept in Macon
jail for safe keeping until Sunday
after noon, when Deputy Sheriff
Marvin Watson brought him here
for trial this week.
TUMMY LEE.
SHOOTS HIS
ENTIRE WAD
Disabled Soldier Donates All His;
Savings to Buy Radio, for Fel
low Patients
TOLEDO, 0., Nov 6.—Tommy
Lee, disabled veteran confined to
his bed in a soldier’s hospitial and a
member of South Side Pbst of The
American Legion, Toledo, had saved
a Ijttle money. He being totally
peralyzed didn’t have mtich chance
to the money, hence the roll
One day recently a comrade in Lee’s
ward died who had owned the only
source of pleasure in the ward, a.
radio set, and the family of the dead
vetran removed the radio set. There
was gloom in the soldier’s ward when
the instrument that had coaxed hap
piness from the air was taken from
then.
Tommy turned painfully in his bed
and calling an attendant said:
“Reach under my pillow and get the
roll. Shoot the whole wad for a radio
outfit, set her up in the middle of
the ward where all the boys can
hear, and let’er squawk. I’m deaf, I
can’t hear it.”
ENGINEER IS
KILLED IN WRECK
Was Engineer On Atlantic Coast
Line Freight Train. No
One Injured
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 6.
C. C. Cameron, of High Springs,
engineer, was killed Thursday in a
collision between the first engine of
a double headed Atlantic Coast Line
railroad freight train and the train
near Rochelle.
Cameron was the engineer of the
first engine, which collided with the
second engine and the train which
vas backing to be recoupled. It had
previously been cut loose and had
proceeded up the track a short dis
tance presumably to take on water,
according to advises reaching the of
fice here of O. H. Page, superinten
dent.
No one else was injured and neith
er engines or cars of the train were
derailed.
HARRiSWOULD
PROBE KILLING
Asks State. Department to Probe
the Killing of Georgian in
Mexico
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. The
state department was requested by
Senator Harris, democrat, Georgia,
to investigate the killing Wednes
day of T. M. N. George, of Atlanta,
by thugs in Tia Juana Mexico. The
department telegraphed the Ameri
can consul at Tia Juana for details
of the killing with the view of mak
ing repreesntations to the Mexican
governmen if the information justi
fied.
George was assistant manager of
the Cotton Insurance Association,
and had been in Dallas, Texas, at
tending a convention before going to
Tia Juana.
CITYOFROME
SPRINGS LEAK
Wireless Report Says Steamer
Bound From Savannah to
Boston Has Sprung Leak
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—A tug has
been ordered to the assistance of the
passenger steamer City of Rome, re
ported by wireless to have sprung a
leak while off Delaware breakwat
ter.
The report said that the leak was
slow. The steamer bound from Sa
vannah to Boston had on board
Cabin passengers.
WIFE IS HELD
IN HAMMER SLAYING
ELIZABETH. N. 3., Nov. 6.—The
bail for Mrs. Priscilla Kent Clark
brought to the Union county jail last
night as a material witness in the
■h mmer slaying of her husband in
! his garage at Hillside Tuesday was
1 fixed at $2,000.
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First and exclusive photograph of
Robert La Follette, Jr., seated at his
desk in the Senate Chambers at
Washington, D. C. Young La Fol
lette was elected to succeed his illus
trious father upon his death as Sen
ator from Wisconsin and is occupy
ing the same office that his father
used.
THIRD DISTRICT i
FEDERATED CLUB
AT MONTEZUMA
Meeting Is Announced for No
vember 17th. Prominent
Speakers Expected
MONTEZUMA, Nov. 6. The
Third District meeting of Federated
clubs will be held in Montezuma
November 17th at the Women’s club
house. The club members in our
city are making plans to entertain
more than a hundred club women
from over the district.
Mrs. Brantley, of Blackshear, state
president, and Miss Katchum, of Vi
enna, district president, and Mrs.
J. E. Hays, of the city will be among
the prominent speakers at this meet
ing.
Invitations have been sent to the
different clubs and a full attendance
of delegates from different clubs is
expected.
CANDLER ENTERS
THE HOSPITAL
Doctors Move Atlanta Capitaist
From His Home to Wesley
Memorial
ATLANTA, Nov. 6.—A aG. Can
dler, Sr., was removed from his home
t othe hospital today.
Physicians who announced the re
moval said it was decided that his
condition was such that he should be
taken to a hospital.
Candler had a relapse Monday
from gastric disorder from which he
hed been suffering for several weeks.
SIX PERSONS ARE
BURNED TO DEATH
BALLASTON, N. Y., November 6.
Six members of one family were
burned to death here in a fire that
destroyed a bungalow early today.
The sole orphaned survivor is in a
critical condition.
BANKER ROBBED BY
BY LONE BANDIT
DAYTON, Ohio, Nov. 6.—P. J.
Kloos, manager of the Xenia Avenue
branch of th e City Trust and Savings '
Company was robbed of SIO,OOO by I
single armed bandit today after be- 1
ing abducted and carried in robbers!
car for several blocks.
TWO THOUSAND
GEORGIA DEATHS
IN SEPTEMBER
969 White and 1,044 Ne
groes Died in State During
September
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 6.—-Death
took a September tool in Georgia of
2,013 persons, according to the re
port of the bureau of vital statistics,
state board of health. This number
included 969 whites and 1,044 ne
groes. Several counties of the state
make no statement of vital statistics
and the report covers only approxi
mately sixty per cent of the popula
tion.
Brights’ disease was responsible
for the largest number of deaths
reported, with 182. Automobiles fa
talities numbered 25, while tubercul
osis took its toll of 127 persons.
Typhoid fever has shown a steady
decline during the past several
months. There were 482 ill with
this sickness in July, 333 in August,
261 in September “nd only 179 cases
reported during the first four weeks
of October. An increase was shown
however, in diseases of the respira
tory organs, along with certain chil
dren’s diseased.
Scarlet fever increased from 18
in July and 17 in August to 20 in
September and 52 during the first
four weeks of October. Diptheria
increased from 27 in Jun e to 41 in
July taking a rise to 50 in August,
88 in September and reaching a high
mark during the year of 93 cases tor
the first four weeks of the past
month.
HOTELINSURES
ITS PATRONS
Protects Them For 48 Hours
After They Leave the
Hotel
NEW YORK, November 6.—A
group insurance policy for one billion
dollars during the first year of its
life, to protect its guests for 48
hours after they leave the hotel, has
been taken out by the Book-Cadillac
hotel of Detroit through the Mis- '
souri Life Insurance Company of
St. Louis it was announced Thurs
day. The policy is expected to cov
er 500 guests through the average
48 hour period.
Under the plan, the hotel guests
automatically is covered against loss
of life, limb or disability caused by |
an accident when he checks out of
the hotel, the exact time of depar- i
tare being stamped on the policy I
when handed him.
The policy provides for the pay-[
ment of $5,00Q for ijss of Jife,.iiks ,
000 for loss of limb’and UWweriUy I
for wholly disabling injuries.
Pc. Open Ham Close ,
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, Dec. 19.83 19.75 20.04j19.88 |
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PRICE FIVE CENI
CHAPMAN MAY
NOT HANG. SAYS
HIS ATTORNEY
Effort Will Be Made to Have Him
Return to Atlanta Prison
to Complete Term
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Doubt that
Gerald Chapman would hang was ex
pressed today by Frederick Groehi
who was the bandits counsel at his
trial for killing of New Britain po
liceman.
Groehi said efforts would be made
in Federal court to have Chapman
returned to the Atlanta penitentiary
to his twenty-five yeai
sentence for the New York mail rob
bery.
He expressed belief that Chap
man could not be legally executed
before the completion of his federal
term.
Groehi added that appeal to the
United States Supreme Court was
likely if necessary. Chapman was
taken to Connecticut from Atlanta
by special arrangement. .
CHAPMAN EXECUTION
SET FOR DEC. 3
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov*. 6.
Gerald Chapman, notorious bandit,
lost his fight for his life Thursday
when the state supreme court, in a
decision handed down here, held that
there was no error in the decision
of the lower court convicting him of
the murder of policeman in New
Britain, October 12, 1924.
The date for Chapman’s execution
in the state prison at Wethersfield
has been set for December 3.
STEWARTCOUNTY
D.A.R. ORGANIZE
Organization Meeting Held at the
Home of Mrs. James F. Hum
ber, At Lumpkin
RICHLAND, Ga., Nov. 6.—At the
home of Mrs. Jas. F. Humber in
Lumpkin, the newly passed members
of Stewart County D. A. R. held an
organization meeting last Tuesday
morning. It’s enrollment consist
of eighteen charter members.
Mrs. Win. A. Fitzgerald, who re
ceived a national official appoint
ment last June, as organizing regent
delivered a message of greeting to
the fifteen new members. She ap
pointed the following officers to
whom she administered the oath of
office: Vice Regent, Mrs. Anniewill
Pierce French; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Ruth Chappell Davis; Treasur
er, Miss Gussie Morton; Historian,
Mrs. J. M. Deason; Registrar, Mrs.
Eunice Arnold Giles.
The name of Roanoke was given
to the Chapter, and the Regient’
read a very interesting historical
sketch of local history, about the ear
ly Roanoke settlement of Stewart
County that was destroyed by the In
dians.
The Chapter will hold its month
ly meetings the first Tuesday of
each month.
MILLER PLEADS
NOT GUILTY
I Is Held On SSOOO Bail. Charged
With Defrauding United
States Government
NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Thomas L.
Miller, former Alien Property cus
todian pleaded not guilty when ar
raigned today on an indictment
charging conspiracy to defraud the
government.
He was held in $5,000 bail.
NIGHT
FOR ROTARY CLUB
The Rotary Club will have Ladies
Night tonight at their meeting at the
Country Club.
John Sheffield, chairman of the
I program committee announces that
| a special entertainment program has
been arranged. One of the features
! will be a show put on by local tal
j ent. There will also be some sur
prise features.- The meeting will be
; gin at 7:30 o’clock.
I A man is known by the company
he keeps from yawning. ' • *