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Cotton receipts in Sumter warehouses 26,487 : < WEATHER For Georgia—Partly cloudy to night; Saturday increasing cloudiness > followed by rain, 1 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. «R.4NDJURYTO 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 . is charged E RIC U thetimesßrecorder PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OR D!XIE Kisses ’Em HO 4 i L pH ■A jWSSS V ■■ ■EB ■ ■ - j ' 1 RSawft xml «***•■'- « \ towY<' - j ■ tSJj-ER.T’ ■ 1 V.a-.a ■ . - v • x (1/ >?'■*£■! > / 'UvIYY Mayor Louis Blaylock of Dallas, 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 ti e jhil buildi , a - 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. In His Father’s Footsteps ■*■. |sF IB s i ili I ’ Y 1 . Al* RII ' r ' 2_ls 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 , < Det. 20.48 20.55 20.G3 20.52 i , Dec. 19.83 19.75 20.04j19.88 | S Middling, 18 l-2c. f 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. ' • *
