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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 269
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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
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Gerald P. Nye
NEW SENATOR
AN EDITOR AND
GREAT FIGHTER
Started Newspaper at Twenty-
Four and Enters the United
States Senate at 33
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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;
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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
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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
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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.
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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.