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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 259
MORE THAN $250,000 IN REAL ESTATE DEALS HANDLED HERE
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Guiding Minds of World War Forces Placed ‘On Shelf’
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Armistice Day-White Way Celebration Here Goes Over Big
LOWRY FARM AND
LEE COUNTY LAND
BRING BIG PRICE
Sales Are Made Through Local
Office of the Atlanta
Trust Company
More than a quarter of a mil
lion dollars worth of Southwest
Georgia lands have been sold
during few weeks through
the local offices q£ .the Atlanta
Trust company, it became known
today with the reported sale of
the old T. M. Lowry place for
around $50,000, another place in
Lee county for $75,000, and oth
er smaller transfers.
More than a quarter of a million
dollars worth of Southwest Georgia
lands have been sold during the past
few weeks through the local offices
of the Atlanta Trust company it be
came known today with the reported
sale of the old T. M. Lowry place
for around $50,000, another place
in Lee county for $75,000 and other
smaller transfers.
From a reliable source it is learn
ed that Rhyne Bros., of Benton, Ala.,
yesterday closed a deal with the At
lanta Trust whereby they come into
possession of the old T. M. Lowry
place, comprising 667 acres of land,
the price paid being between $45,000
and $50,000. When seen today, F.
L. Allison, representing the Atlanta
Trust Co., declined to either confirm
or deny the sale, however, from oth
er sources the details of the trade j
were learned.
Claude L. Benton and Benton C.
Rhyne breeders of Cook’s wilt-resist
ant cotton have purchased the Lowry
place and one of the brothers will I
move to the farm, where cotton ex
clusively will be produced.
The Lowry place comprises 667
acres, with two good residences on
it, five or six of the largest barns
in this section and about a dozen
negro houses.
The Rhyne brothers are expert
cotton farmers, having produced last
year, it is said, 108 bales of cotton
on 129 acres on one of their Ala
bama farms, near Benton, Ala.
Both of the purchasers spent some
time in and around Plains before
closing the trade. They made many
tests of the land on the old Lowry
place and satisfied themselves of its
adapabilityt for cotton production.
Either Claude Rhyne and his fam
ily or Brady C. Rhyne and his family
will move to the Lowry place in the
near future, taking charge of it and
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What the U, S. Government
By CONGRESSMAN CHARLES R. CRISP
Has Done for the Ex-Soldier
The following is a requested statement from Representative
Charles R. Crisp, addresed to the local chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, in which Cong. Crisp gives a clear and con
cise retcital of what the government has done for the soldiers of the
World War:
In accordance with your request,
I take pleasure in giving you some
facts relative to the Government’s
generosity to the veterans of the
World War.
Os course I feel that the heroic
sacrifices made by these splendid
«men entitled them to loving and gen
erous treatment by the Government
they served in its hour of need, and,
as a congressman, I have always vot
ed for remedial legislation and bene
fits to these heroes.
In private conversation, I have
said that no government since the
dawn of creation had ever been as
generous to its military ex-service
men as the United States had been
to its veterans of the late war. While
there moy have been, doubtless, iso
lated occasions in which justice has
been done to certain individuals, just
as there are also instances where
fraud is perpetrated upon the Gov
ernment, yet Congress is in no wise
responsible for this. All Congress
can do is to make approciations,
and the expenditure and management
of these appropriations rest with the,
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Mrs. Frank Harrold of this city,
j president-general of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, will
preside at the 32nd annual conven
tion of the order at Hot Springs,
Ark., Nov. 16 to 22. She is a sister
of Governor Walker of Georgia. Mrs.
Harrold will leave Americus Friday
for Hot Springs.
REALTY BOARD
Will MEET TO
ELECT OFFICERS
Meeting Scheduled for Seven-
Thirty Thursday at the
Courthouse
The Americus Realty Board will
formerly organize, elect its officers,
and get under way immediately, fol
lowing a meeting to be held for this
purpose at the courthouse Thursday
(tomorrow) evening at 7:30, Chair
man Hollis Fort stated today.
Up to this time the trustee or
agent of the board, Luther Hawkins,
has been in charge of the finances
of the board. It' is expected to elect
permanent officers tomorrow night
and says Mr. Fort, it is essential that
every stockholder be present prompt
ly at 7:30.
The board, could not formerly be
organized until its charter had been
advertised for four weeks.
The necessary legal requirements
have now been complied with and
permanent officials may be selected
by the stockholders.
President, his cabinet officers
and such other officials as the Pres
ident may appoint and charge with
the administrative duties of the Gov
ernment.
Corroborating my statement that
our Government’s generosity to its
soldiery of the late war has been
unparalleled in historq, I quote you
figures of expenditures made by the
Government, these figures prepared
by government officials—as follows
For family allowances to soldiers
and sailors, $298,615,000; for com
pensation paid to disabled soldiers
and sailors, $885,600,000; for hospit
ilization of soldiers and sailors,
$350,223,000; for construction of
hospitals for ex-service men $50,-
945,000; for vocational training of
soldiers and sailors to give them a
new occupation and equip them to
make a living, $708,701,000; paid
jout for insurance under the Govern
ment Insurance Act, $918,024,000;
I paid to each soldier or sailor upon
i discharge a cash bonus of S6O to
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AMERICUS, GA.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11. 1925
ARMISTICE RAY
BRINGS LEADERS
BEFORE PUBLIC
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of the Former Leaders Are
Active in World Affairs
Today
BY HILTON BRONNER
Nea Service Writer
David Lloyd George—on the shelf
I Georges Clemenceau—on the shelf.
Ferdinand Foch—on the shelf.
Seven years ago this day these
three men, together with the late
President Woodrow Wilson, were
on the top of the world. They were
the masters of national and world
destines. Their word was law. Not
only did the conquered Germans look
to them for sentence, but all the lit
tle nations looked to them for life.
Today Woodrow Wilson lies bur
red in Washington Cathedral Lloyd
George, once the most powerful
prime minister Great Britan ever
had, leads a tiny minority party in
the House of Clemenceau completely
retired from politics, lives mainly
in his humble cottage down in the
Vendee, and Foch sees younger men
directing the armed forces of France.
They used to say republics were
ungrateful. Change it to “Democra
cies are ungrateful” and you get the
story of the fate of Lloyd George.
Clemenceau, and Foch.
In Great Britan where others fail
ed; Lloyd George succeeded. The
man, who was once looked upon al
most as a revolutionary, formed a
cabinet of democrats and aristocrats
and gave to Britan some of his own
indomitable will to win and to nock
the Germans into a cocked hat. He
conducted the British empire to vict
ory in the greatest war of all time
and for some years he led it in the
trouble peace that follo’wed. Then
one day his leadership and his cab-
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HINKLE AND
RUSHIN FACE
GRAVE CHARGE
Indicted By Bibb County Grand
Jury for Performance of An
Illegal Operation
MACON, Nov. 11.—Dr. A. B.
Hinkle and Dr. W. P. R'ushin, wide
ly known Macon physicians, yester
day wer eindicted by the Bibb coun-j
ty grand jury, which returned a true (
bill charging the performance of an
illegal operation, following an in
vestigation of one of the strangest!
cases ever brought to the attention of
local authorities.
The true bill directly charges that
Dr. Rushin illegally performed the'
operation upon a 14-year-old girl of
Gainesboro, the paternity of whose
child was traced through the girl’s
statements to J. G. Davis, who is 61
years old.
Both Dr. Hinkle and Dr. Rushin
declined to comment on their indict
ment. Neither would issue a direct
denial of the grand jury’s charges,
nor would respond to telephone calls.
Dr. Hinkle Monday was ordered
by a jury in Judge Malcom D. Jones’
division of the Bibb County Superior
court to return to Judge James
A. Hixon, of Americus, SIO,OOO in
Liberty bonds, which the jury found
the physican had obtained fraudulent
ly in the sale of stock in the Mobile
Tractor company, one of his enter
prises.
GREECE WELCOMES
SECURITY PACT
GENOA, Nov. 11.—Greece has of
ficially informed the League of Na
tions that she would welcome a Bal
kan security and compulsory arbitra
tion along lines of pact for western
Europe negotiated at Locarno.
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row Wilson and Marshal Foch
WOULD RESTORE
FORT PULASKI
Congress to Be Asked to Restore
History Landmark At An
Early Date
SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 11.—
Restoration of Fort Pulaski near Sa
vannah, Ga.f on the Savannah river
and its turning over to the city of
Savannah for perpetuation as a na
tional shrine were urged today by
Ignatius K. Werwinski, United
States commissioner of deeds for In
diana.
Werwiski announced the drafting
of a bill for presentation at the next
session of congress providing for the
step as a recognition of services of
Count Casmir Pulaski, Hungarian
nobleman, who aided the United
States and became a brigadier gen
eral in the revolutionary war, giving
his life in one of the battles for the
liberation of the colonies.
Under the plan, the fort would be
availoble for military uses in a na
tional emergency. It is one of the
oldest, landmarks of the “Empire
State" and much sentiment is attach
ed to it.t
MRS. FRANK HARROLD
VISITS MONTEZUMA
MONTEZUMA, Nov. 11.—In ob
servance of Armistice Day today all
business houses closed at noon for
a half-holiday and a joint program
commemorating the day will be pre
sented at the Woman’s club house
by the Phil Cook chapter, U. D. C.
and the Archibald Bullock chapter,
D. A. R. Mrs. Frank Harrold, of
Americus, president-general of the
U. D. C. and Mrs. Oscar McKenzie,
president of the Georgia division, U.
D.C.', will be guests of honor.
Coolidge Lays Wreath On
lotnb of Unknown Soldier
Armistice Day in Washington
Will Include Eulogizing War
President
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The
custom of’previous years was large
ly followed in the progress of offi
cial observance today of the seventh
anniversary of the World War Arm
istice. Leading the nation in tribute
to those who fell in the struggle.
President Coolidge has arranged to
make a pilgrimage to Arlington
cemetery to lay a wreath on Un
known Soldiers tomb following a cus
tom inaugurated by President Hard
ing.
On his trip to Arlington, the Pres
ident will be accompanied by Mrs.
Coolidge and by Secretary Davis, of
the War Department and Secretary
Wilbur, who will lay wreaths on the
tomb as the representatives of the
two branches of military service.
During the day, various Washing
ton posts of the American Legion
will visit the tomb to place floral
tributes upon it, and as usual on
Armistice Day, it is expected to be
the mecca of thousands of visitors.
At 3 p. m. services will be held there,
conducted by Rabbi Morris B. Lax
aren, of Baltimore, one of the four
army chaplains who conducted the
burial services for the unknown sol
dier.
In tribute to the memorv of Wood
row Wilson, a twilight service will be
conducted in Washington cathedral
his burial place. The War President
will be eulogized by the Right Rev.
James E. Freeman, Episcopal bishop
' of Washington and the Rev. James
H. Taylor, who was Mr. Wilson’s
pastor at conclusion of the service
la wreath will be placed on the late
I President’s tomb.
I FRANCE OBSERVES
ARMISTICE DAY
PARIS', Nov. 11.—All Paris stood
silent for one minute at eleven
o’clock today in commemoration of
Armistice and in remembrance of
those who fell in World War.
LONDON PROGRAM
GREATER THAN EVER
LONDON, Nov. 11.—Great Brit
ain observed Armistice Day today
with greater solemnity and on a
more extensive scale than at any
time since the cessation of hositilities
seven years ago.
LEGION COMMANDER
GIVES MESSAGE
DENVER, Col., Nov. 11, —Ameri-
ca should keep faith with its war
dead and bend its efforts to perpe
tuation of World peace was the
Armistice Day message of John R.
McQuigg, National Commander of
the American Legion.
FIVE LOSE LIVES
IN JERSEY FIRE
East Orange, N. J., Nov. 11.—
Joseph Distesano and his four chil
dren lost their lives in a fire which
destroyed a six family dwelling ear
ly today.
The mother escaped by jumping
from a third story window. Her
youngest child in her arms was kill
ed. The origin of the fire was not
known.
GOULI) MISMANAGED
HIS FATHER’S ESTATE
NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—James 0.
'A. German, referee in the Gould ac
counting case today handed down an i
• pinion holding that late George Jay
■ Gould had mismanaged the $82,000,-
000 estate of his father,. Jay Gould,
railroad builder and financier.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
BAND PLAYS.
PARADE MOVES,
SMITH SPEAKS
Big Crowd here to Witnss Day’s
Celebration. Program
For Tonight
With all flags flying between
the white way posts, the lights on
the white way ready to flash on
after several tests during the day,
the arrival of Hon. Hoke Srriith,
of Atlanta, the speaker of the day,
the band playing, the Legion
naires in active charge, Americus’
Armistice day got under way well
before noon Wednesday.
The ex-senator and ex-secretary
of the interior was met just out
of the city and escorted to the hotel,
where he was met by a reception
committee composed of L. G. Council,
Neal Ray, J.E. Poole, I’.B. Willoford
and others. Senator .Smith and a
dozej} of his more intimate friends
|vere guests of the Americus Rotary
club at luncheon.
Early in the afternoon the parade
was pulled off, immediately follow
ed by the address of Senator Smith (
from a stand in front of the Wind
sor hotel, the senator being intro
duced by W. T. Lane.
Following . the Armistice da y
speech by Senator Smith, another
band concert was enjoyed by the
large crowd which had been gather
ing in the city since noon.
At 7:30 tonight the lights in the
white way lamps will be flashed on
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BRANCH WILL
ADDRESS B.Y.P.
U. CORDELE MEET
Subject Will Be “You and Your
Sweetheart.” Thirty Delegates
From Americus
“You and Your Sweetheart” will
be the subject of the address of Rev.
Joe M. Branch, pastor of the First
Baptist Church here when he speaks
tefore the Regional Convention of
the Baptist Young Peoples Union
at Cordele next week.
Rev. Branch said that the local
delegation to the convention would
be about thirty with possibly a few
more than that number. He also
'stated that they expected one of he
| best conventions in years.
I Among the prominent speakers to
|be heard are. Dr. W. D. Furry, pres
ident of Shorter College; Dr. Claude
I W. Duke, pastor of the First Bap
|tist Church, at Tampa, Fla.; Harry
| Metcalf, president of the South
Western region; Mrs. W. H. Parker
of Irwinton, Ga. and Dr. Pope A
Duncan, pastor of the Cordele
Church.
The State convention of the B. Y.
U., will be invited to Americus in
1927 according to Rev. Branch.
MITCHEELL WINS
ANOTHER POINT
Thirty-Six Persons Are Issued
Subpoenas to Appear in
Court-Martial
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—After
a long wrangl e between counsel, the
courtmartial trying Colonel William
Mitchell today authorized defense to
proceed with its plan bringing into
evidence virtually all phases of air
controversy.
New subpoenas were issued for
thirty-six persons residing outside of
V'ashington, all summoned by Mitch
ell in an effort to prove accusations
against conduct of Government Air
Services which led to his trial.