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AMERICUS C0 T ’>3': Cotton received by 6um«;r County Warehouses ... .27,113 > i WEATHER < For Georgia—Fair tonight and > Wednesday; rising temperature. <■ FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 269 ' .. Young Americus Woman Seriously Burned This Morning EIGHT-YEAR-OLD SON POSSIBLY SAVES HER LIFE Open Grate Fire Flames Ignite Clothing of Mrs. W.C. Sulli van This Morning Mrs. Sullivan was reported as resting comfortably at 3 o'clock this afternoon. However, she will be removed to the City hos pital by her physician during the afternoon. Open grate fires took another toll this morning when Mrs. W. C. Sulli van, Jr., was seriously burned and her condition is pronounced critical conditions Mrs. Sullivan who resided with Mrs. L. L. Lester at 312 South Jack son street was standing in front of an open grate fire, with her back to the fire when her skirt became ablaze, burning the clothing from her back and inflicting serious burns over her back and left side. William Connor Sullivan, Jr., her 8 year old son worked heroically to put the blaze out and attracted at tention of Mrs. Lester who was down stairs. Young Sullivan with his mothers help finaly suceeded in smothering the flames only after very serious burns had been inflicted Her attending physician was im mediately called and administered treatment to the burns. Reports were to the effect that she suffered terribly until the arrival of the phy sician arrived. A a late hour today her physician .issued the following statement: ■‘Mrs. Sullivan was r&ther seriously burned, and her condition is serious (Continued on Page Eight.) PETRIFIED PECAN IS FOUND HERE Unusual Specimen is Found in the Garden of Walker Home On Lee Street A petrified pecan was the find of Mrs, H. S. Walker of 814 South Lee street when she went into her garden recently. The pecan is from a tree that has been bearing for only ten years and is thought to have been from the first years bearing. The specimen was plowed up from around the tree and found by Mrs. Walker. It is an unusual specimen being well petrified and stiil holds its original shape. The tree from which it fell is only fifteen years old, having been five years old when transplanted in the Walker garden. STRAUS HAS WINNING HORSE VIENNA, Nov. 24.—Rosenkav alier is a winning horse for Rich ard Strauss, the composer. Attending one of the Sunday races In Kriau, Strauss was so greatly amused in learning one of the entries was named after his opera that he placed ten shillings on him. “You are simply throwing your money away,” his friends remon started. “He’s a rank outsider.” But Rosenkavalier won the race at 50 to 1 and Strauss pocketed 500 shillings. Kidnaps Child as Mother Visits With Chief of Police P FORT PIERCE, Fla., Nov. 24. For the honor of the Kissimmee po liceman, a 100-mile road race was run of Sunday without incident ex cept for the arrest of two alleged kidnapers and the recovery of a kid naped boy. The alleged kidnapers are W. H. Jacobs and Charles Goh, of Miami. Fla. The kidnaped boy was Goh’s 13-year-old *on. And what put the Kissimee police on their trail so soon was the fact that Goh seized the boy from in front of the Kissimee police station. Young Goh and his mother were guests in the home of the Kissimmee i chief of police. Mrs. Goh is said to I be separated from the boy’s father. [ Jacobs and Goh arrived in a road- Ister and are alleged to have lifted [the lad into it. The Kissimee po ll ice commaneered a car and the 200- fatnile chase through the heavy south- ERIC US THEfIMESgRECORDER PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF D!XIE New Senator HP* 11 * Mm i , --A [ L Gerald P. Nye NEW SENATOR AN EDITOR AND GREAT FIGHTER Started Newspaper at Twenty- Four and Enters the United States Senate at 33 ■ ■ ■ ■■■ COOPERSTOWN, N. D„ Nov. 24. —Gerald P. Nye, stands appointed to the United States Senate at the age of 33 because as a country edi -I;sr he never temporized his views of right and wrong. When he was 24 he started a weekly paper in Billings county on a shoestring capital. In the following six years the Non- Partisan movement enveloped the entire state. The league published its own newspaper and excluded ad vertising from its columns so that editorial opinion would be influenced by commercial influences. Then the Non-Partisan League’s popularity lost prestige. Nye took over the failing paper and though it faced certain failure he continued to expound the Non-Partisan theory with undiminished fervor. His sinc erity won the respect of his bitterest political enemies. Then when Senator Ladd died Governor S'orlie announced that he would call a special election to fill the vacancy. He also announced he would make no appointment. Nye attacked the governor’s stand He was so vigorous about it that he attracted attention to himself and the governor was forced by party opin ' ion to appoint him. Now Nye becomes center of a tight in the United States Senate, many senators claiming that the governor has no power to appoint a senator because the state legisla ture has not given such right. Whatever the outcome, Nye says he will run in the election next June and be elected—and the Senate may do what it pleases about that. KISSING NO CRIME COLOGNE—Courts here do not regard kissing as a crime. One court awarded a girl damages for wrong ful dismissal by a case proprietor. The girl was dismissed because a guest told the proprietor she had been kissing a waiter. bound traffic was on. The roadster drew away until the cnase led into the Dixie highway, where the traffic was heavier. The pursuers entered Melbourne, Fla., as the roadster was leaving, and a mes sage was sent ahead to Fort Pierce to stop the car. Fort pierce police blocked the highway and soon had cars lined up for five miles when a whirl of dust leaping along the line of stalled cars warned of tne approach of the pur sued. A net of rope was strung across the road. The roadster halt ed and the chase was over, although the pursuing Kissimmee policemen did not know it until they drove up a few minutes later. Goh was taken back to Kissimmee, Jacobs was put in jail on a charge of reckless driving. Young Goh 'seemed pleased with the interlude in 'a dull Sunday of playing before the Kissimee police station. • AMERICUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 24. 1925 AVIATORS FLY IN FLAMING COFFINS, SAYS MITCHELL Former Air Chief Insists There Has Been No Increase in Safety For Flying Men WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Col onel William Mitchell reiterated be for his court-martial today his charge that American aviators were flying in flaming coffins. Resuming the witness stand for conclusion of his cross-examination at the hands of Major Allen Gullion, assistant trial judge-advocate, the air officer insisted there had been no increase in safety for the flying men. Major Gullion developed by ques tioning the witness that the number of flying hours per fatality for the fiscal year, 1921, was nine hundred and thirty-four, while for the fiscal year, 1925, the number was five thousand tw’o hundred and sixty-five, that the safety of flying has that that the safty of flying has increased 500 per cent in that period. MAN IS DEAD IN MYSTERY BOAT BLAZE William Young Is Dead and Cruiser a Mass of Charred Ruins | WEST PALM BEACH, Ela., Nov. 24. —William Young, 35, of Atlantic City is dead here and “Black Jack” the hundred foot private cruiser be longing tc a New York hotel owner lies a mass of charred ruins in Lake Worth following a mystery fire which broke out in boat today. | Officials are searching the hull of hundreds of thousand craft in an at tempt to establish the cause of the 'blaze. I BLAKELY HERE ii TURKEY DAY; I Americus High Will Meet Blakely j High Team Here Thursday Afternoon BY H. G. McKee j‘ I The Americus High School Foot- | ball team is planning for what they ‘ | hope will be one of the best games of the season to be played on the lo- . ( cal gridiron Thanksgiving afternoon when they meet the team represent in Blakely Hifih, j It is reported that Blakeley has ]’ an unusually strong team this year, they having recently held the flashy * Eufaula, Ala., high to a 7 to 7 tie in Eufaula, and they are expected to ' give the local boys a hard fight. I The local boys are working this week with pre-season enthusiasm and most of the injuries have sufficiently recovered to enable the home team to give the visitors a run for their money. | Those responsible for athletics in the high school are very anxious to have a large crowd attend this game especially as it is the last game of the .season and at this time eight seniors will be seen in action for the last time on the local field. These men 'are Tye, Thayer, Bell, Ansley, Ty son, Rushin, Swain and Gammage. ; Some of these men are very sure to “star” on some college teams ! within the next few years and no body would like to say that they nev er saw them play on the home team. Indications are that the game will be one of the prettiest ever seen in Americus. | The locals have had a most suc cessful season, having lost only one game in their association and that by forfeit. And they have scored 86 points to their opponents 13. SUNDAY SCHOOLS SHOW LARGE GAIN NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 24. The enrollment in Southern Bap tist Sunday schools in the last ten years has increased from 1,606,871 to 2,536,953, Dr. I. J. Van Ness, secretary of Baptist Sunday school board said today in announcing the* fifth annual Southwide organized Bible Conference at Birmingham, > .Ala., for January 12 to 14. SUMTER COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT INSESSION HERE Mrs. Sarah Croy Was Granted First Divorce Verdict Against W. E. Croy Sumter County Superior Court was still hearing evidence in the Council plantation vs. South Geor gia Public Service Company case at a late hour this afternoon. The afternoon of yesterday was consumed with the hearing of divorce petitions and minor civil cases. In the case of Mrs. Sarah Croy against W. E. Croy, the jury return ed a verdist in favor of Mrs. Croy. ' The following other cases were handled and decisions rendered; W, A. Moore against Paul Law, an ap peal from the Justice Court with the verdict in favor of Mr. Moore; The Georgia Peach Growers Association Jagainst R. S. Williams, dismissed at plaintiff’s cost; L. O. Gammage against J. A. S. Perry, dismissed at the claimants cost and the Chicka mauga Trust Company against An nie Lou Knight, verdist and judge ment granted the plaintiff. Civil cases will be handled luring the remainder of the week with the criminal docket opening up Monday morning. It is expected that the Council plantation case will go to the jury at a late hour this evening. Judge Z. A. Littlejohn is presid ing for this term of the Court. CANDLERS TO SPEND LARGE SUM IN FLORIDA Investment of $100,000,000 By Georgia Capitalists In Florida Is Verified KISSIMMEE, Fla., Nov. 24 What he described as “the largest • sad most pretentious development in the history of Florida, representing an expenditure of $100,000,000” was announced here today by Dolph Walker, vice president and general manager of the Candler Lumber company and the Candler develop ment company after a visit to At lanta. ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 24.—An nouncement from Kissimmee, Fla., that the Candler interest would un dertake the of a large tract of land there was confirmed tonight by William Candler, of At lanta, who will serve as president of the corporation. The tract consists of 35,000 acres, located on the shores of the Inland water way from Kissimmee eastward to the Atlantic coast and from Kissimmee westward to the Gulf of Mexico, Mr. Candler said. BUY MOUNTAINS FORTHEIRPARKS| North Carolina. Tennessee and Virginia Would Buy Moun tains for Parks ASHEVILLE, N. C., Nov. 24. North Carolina, Tennesse and Vir nia are out to ouy mountains. The states want the first two great national parks to be established in the Southeast and now are engaged in the task of raising funds for the acquisi tion of a section of the Great Smoky Mountains, of Western North Caro lina and Eastern Tennessee and part of the Blue Ridge, in the Shenandoah region of Virginia. After the purchases have been made, the mountains will be present ed to the government, which, through Secretary of Interior Work and the Federal Park Commission, has sanc tioned the projecte. The state legis latures have passed measures to as sist the campaigns for funds. RAWLINGS REFUSED NFW TRIAL FOR MURDER DUBLIN, Ga., Nov. 24.—C. G. Rawlings, under sentence of life im prisonment for slaying of G. A. Tar button in Johnson Co., last February today was denied a new trial by Judge Earl Camp in Superior Court here. t An appeal from the ruling will ' be made to a higher courf. Slated to Succeed Mellon 'll! sA. ■F - ' •’' «i fit WNSNhY.- w & # ■ ® * Tr~ ; mm? JMr !■» Uy jOHik jHaaBKtM BURTON SLATED TO SUCCEED THE TREASURY HEAD Will Replace Mr. Mellon As Sec retary of the Treasury in the Early Spring WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Con gressman Theodore Burton of Ohio next spring will succeed Andrew W. Mellon as secretary of the treas ury. Mellon, according to unofficial but reliable information, has informed President Coolidge that he desires to retire after the new tax bill is pass ed by Congress. Burton is the president’s selection for the post. At present Burton is a member of the Debt Funding Com mission and has had long experience in solving financial problems of the government He formerly was a senator. WINE PERMITS ARE CANCELLED All Permits Are Ordered With drawn Effective Today By Prohimition Officials I WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. All prohibition permits allowing house 'holders to manufacture annually two hundred gallons of wine were order ed withdrawn today. This action which was forecast earlier in the week, sweeps aside one of the few remaining practices of pre-prohibition days. There are more than 200,000 of permits outstanding. WALL STREET BISHOP IS CRITICALLY ILL NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—The Rev. William Wilkinson, known as the “bishop of Wall street,” is critical ly ill at his home where he has been confined for three weeks. Mr. Wilkinson is 77 years old i nd came here a quarter of- * 'ago from Minneapolis, where he had ( done much preaching among the lum berjacks. DEATH PENALTY FOR YOUNG BOY PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 24 Pennsylvania supreme Court Mon day upheld the death sentence of [William Cavalier. 15-year-old, the youngest boy ever sentenced to t state to die in the electric chair. Cavalier was convicted of murder in ~ c a-t-ob fnr shooting his grandmother for the purpose pt rob bery when he was fourteen and a half years old. DISPLAY FLAGS HERETHURSDAY Commander Bell of the American Legion, Requests Merchants i to Display Their Flags Merchants of Americus arc asked by Walter Lee Bell, commander of the local post of the American Le gion to display their flags on Thurs day, November 26, Thanksgiving Day. The Legion Commander also wishes to urge those who bougnt flags for display to take great care of the flags, folding them properly i smoothly so that when they are dis played they will not look as though they have been rolled into a ball. “I also wish to ask that the mer chants who have the sockets in which they put the flags toalways replace the cap on the socket. This re- >, moves the danger of the socket being I filled with dirt, trash and water," said Mr. Bell. CHURCHES HOLD ART TREASURES UPSALA, Nov. 24. —• Swedish churches hold a national fortune of about $27,000,00 in art treasures. A general art inventory of church prop erty was taken as part of a move ment to preserve the nation’s cultural inheritances and the antiquities that are representative for each province. The average value of the contents of each church was estimated at $lO,- 800. Irish Peeress Sequested In Aged Chicago Mansion CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Few of the cosmopolitan residents of a certain brick block on the west side knew that the dignified, staid, gray-haired <ady from the old country who was : visiting in the old-fashioned family I nouse with the high front steps was | the mother of the lord mayor of j Cork. I For Mrs. Ella French held that gentility is marked by unobstruzive ness, and did not believe in herald ing one’s self with a trumpet. “I have always lived quietly,” she 'said today, “not mingling much with the world. I had not supposed my 'presence in this city was known to any but those of my own family. I have daughters in this country, but they might not wish me to name them without their permbsion. We are very quiet folk.” Mrs. French has been visiting a daughter -in- Coffeyville, Kan., Mrs. Pc. Open Ham Cose > Oec. 20.94 21.00 21.00 21.01 i Jan. ... 20.1C.20.26 20.28|20.33 > Midding, 19 l-2c. PRICE FIVE CENTS METHODISTS OF SOUTH GEORGIA ARRIVE IN MACON Large Crowd Already Arrived at Central Qty for South Georgia Conference MACON, Nov. 24.—Every pas senger train coming into Macon last night brought with it to the city leaders of Southern Methodism, where will begin today numerous board committee and conference meetings preliminary to the opening of the fifty-ninth annual session of the South Georgia Conference, which convenes here tomorrow in the Mul berry Street Methodist church. All ten of the presiding elders of the South Georgia Conference had arrived last night, and this morning will begin their week’s series of cab inet meetings with Bishop W. N Ainsworth, at which the appoint ments of pastors for the next four years will be made. The main body of the conference delegates, however is expected to arrive in Macon this afternoon and tonight, while the church officials will be here today for the business meeting. Dr. T. D. Ellis, secretary of the Board of Church Executives for the [Southern Methodist Church arrived yesterday with Mrs. Ellis, and will b e the guest through the Conference | week of Mr. and Mrs. Orville A. Park on College street Heads of all the boards and com mittees scheduled to begin deliber ations today were said to have ar rived last night. BRIAND WILL NOT SUCCEED MR. PAINLEVE Refuses to Form a Cabinet to Re place the Fallen Painleva Ministry PARIS, Nov. 24. —Senator Paul Doumer today accepted “In prin ciple,” President Doumergue’s Re quest that he form a cabinet saying that he would reply definitely in 24 hours. PARIS, Nov. 24.—Aristide Briand. seven times Premier of France today definitely declined to form a cabi net in succession to the fallen Pain leve Ministry in which he was For eign Minister. Shortly afterwards upon his rec ommendation, President Boumergue summoned Senator Paul Doumer, former Finance Minister to Elysee Palace. Briand had been urged to assume the Premiership for the eighth time as a patriotic duty in view of Frances political troubles but soliallsts re fused to co-operate with him. LIBRARY HAS _ . SEA 'S ON SALE Christmas cards, seals and tags are now at the Library and will be plac ed on sale beginning today. Mrs. Merritt, the librarian states that the money derived from the sale of the Christmas specials will be used toward the purchase of new fic tion for the library. John Ridgway. And while Mrs. French was keep ing he- presence a secret from the city she was cherishing another se cret from her own household. None but the daughter in Coffeyville knew that she was beginning to write her memoirs. She hesitated to tell the others, lest they “fancy their mother is going crazy in her latter years.” Impressed by the new things in America and not least by the high prices and relatively lavish scale of living, Mrs. French began first to write of them for her friends at home. It then occurred to her to tell of things she had seen earlier in lite. A desire to do something on her own account, to expand an Irish income to meet American demands, provid ed an incentive. But before aha goes further, she waits the verdict of her daughters who know America* [ways better than sbe.
