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FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 270
GRAND JURY INDICTS FULLBRIGHT ON MURDER CHARGE
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Chapman, In Death Cell, Refuses Pardon from President
KILLED NEURO
SOLDIER HERE
INSEPTEMBER
Was Exonervated Two Hoars Aft
er Shooting By Justice of
Peace J. M. Shy
The Superior Court Grand Jury
yesterday returned a true bill of
murder against E. J. Full bright, who
September 1, killed a negro uukUer
on the streets of Americus,
Fullbright was arrested last night
by Sheriff McArthur and placed in
a cell at the county jail to await
trial next week. He has secured
Wallis and Fort as his attorneys.
On the night of September 1, Full
bright with his wife and daughter
were walking on West Church street
when they came to a group of ne
groes who were blocking the street.
When Fullbright attempted to
push the negro soldier out of the
way so that he and his wife and
daughter could pass the negro i cach
ed into his inside coat pocket. Full
bright thinking he was reaching for
a weapon pulled his revolver and
shot the negro, Phillip Smith in the
head, killing him instantly.
He immediately turned himself
over to Officer Glawson of the city
police force, who in turn surrender
ed him to Sheriff McArthur. Two
hours after the murder his commit
ment trial was held before Justice
of Peace J. M. Shy.
After hearing statements from the
daughter of Fullbright and other wit
nesses a verdict of justifiable homi
cide was returned and Fullbright
freed.
Immediately following the shoot
ing officers from Fort Benning in
vestigated the killing but would not
disclose to newspapers their findings.
Mr. Fullbright was employed by
the John W. Shiver Lumber Com
pany and the shooting took place
near the ‘lumber yard.
He is well known and highly re
spected by the people of Americus
and Sumter County.
It is expected that this case will
be called for trial early next week.
JEFFERSON VOTES
PAVING BONDS
WADLEY, Ga., Nov. 25.—Jeffer
son County voters have authorized
the issuance of $250,000 in road
bonds, thus assuring 40 miles of
paved highway through the heart of
the county connecting Wadley, Louis
ville and Wrens with a paved stretch
to Augusta.
The official count had not been
completed late Tuesday night, bgf
enough votes were polled for the
project to assure its passage, poll
managers stated. The 83rd district
which includes Wadley, polled 362
for and two against.
Y outh Smiles as Physician
ASKS NURSE TO KEEP NEWS FROM MOTHER. THEN FAINTS
Amputates Mangled Arm
NEW YORK, Nov. 25. One
more thought than any other was
precious to 15-year-old Joseph Mac
aluso.
It made things easier for him in
the crowded sweat of the steerage
a short time ago when they told him
he was coming to a land of oppor
tunity. It choked back the tears
when the enforced end of his school
days began to shove the land of op
portunity into the land of disillu
sionments. Always it kept the smile
on his lips in the printing shop in
which he worker as a “feeder” for
the presses.
And it did not fail him Monday
night.
His right arm caught in the press
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E RIC U S
THETIMESORECORDER
• IN THE < HEART OF D!XIE
SOUTH GEORGIA
METHODISTS IN
CONFERENCE
S. R. Heys of Americus, to Be
Nominated As Member of
Board of Missions
MACON, Nov. 25—-The South
. Georgia Methodist conference in
session here, today voted down
unification bv a vote of ninety
four for and two hundred and
seventeen against.
MACON, Nov. 25—More than
500 ministers and hundreds of visi
tors were present in Mullberry street
church Tuesday night whe.’i prelim
inary exercises of the annual ses
sion of the South Gecrgia confer
ence were held. The services were
short. The conference will open
formally today with Bishop W. N.
Ainsworth presiding.
There were addresses of welcome
by O. A. Parks, Mayor Wallace Mil
ler and Dr. Charles Lane, the re
sponse being by Dr. J. A. Thomas
pastor of Wesley Monumental church
' Savannah.
I Meetings of boards and commit
j tees were held during the dayand
j continued Tuesday night.
( The following young ministers
were examined for admission to the
| conference;
William S. Sawyer, Savannah;
James E. Buchanan, Tifton; C. R
McKibben, Sasser; Aubra F. Han
cock, Albany; Forest J. Gilbert.
Kite; Roy McTier; Scott; William F.
McTier, Tifton; Walker W. Whaley,
Dudley; Joseph S. Mansfield, Tifton,
. and R. L. Harris, Juniper.
I Dr. Bascom Anthony presided over
I the session of the board of missions,
i The names of S. R. Hey, Americus,
and J. L. Baxter, Moultrie, were re
ferred to the committee on nomina
tions for membership on the board
I to fill vacancies caused by the death
jof U.S'. Pryor and Judge James
Humphries.
| Rev. Anthony Hearn was placed
, on the board of missions to fill the
'vacancy caused by the resignation
of Rev. O. F. Cook.
A few missions were discontinued
But a number of new ones were cre
ated, the new ones being Marion,
Warthen, Graham, Faceville, Berlin,
Lake Park, North Moultrie, Omega,
( Alama and Nahunta.
The committee on evangelism rec
ommended the appointment of the
following evangelists:
, C. B. McDonald, N. M. Lovein,
I Herbert Ethridge, G. M. Spivey, as
conference evangelists; Harry Allen
as general evangelist; H. C. Horton,
Waycross district evangelist, and H.
B. Stubbs, Thomasville district evan
gelist.
at which he was working. The ma
chinery held it there, crushed and
mangled. The fire department res
cue squad, police and fellow em
ployees labored unsuccessfully to ex
tricate him.
Joe kept on smiling even until aft
er a physician had amputated the
injured arm without an anaesthetic.
“Don’t tell my mother,” he finally
said, “always from her I must keep
hurt. She is so good to me.”
In the hospital where they took
him, the 15-year-old boy insisted that
the nurse keep the covers over his
arm so that his mother would not
know the extent of the injury.
They assured him they would—■
and he fainted.
AMERICUS, GA . WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 25. 1925
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E.L. MURRAY
IS APPOINTED
TO COMMITTEE
Is Named By President of Phar
macy Association As Commit
tee On Certificates
COLUMBUS, 0., Nov. 25.—M. N.
Ford, secretary of the Ohio State
Board of Pharmacy and president of
the National Association of Boards
of Pharmacy, today announced the
appointment of H. C. Christensen,
Chicago; E. L. Murray, Americus,
Ga., and W. C. Bender, St. Joseph,
Mo., as members of the association’s
committee on national certificates.
During the coming year the asso
ciation will seek to bring about the
standardization of courses of study
in colleges of pharmacy and uniform
qualifications, requirements and ex
aminations for those who would
practice pharmacy.
Pharmacy has recently been de
clared a profession not a trade by a
committee of authorities which has
made an extended investigation of
the service the pharmacists render
the public.
E. L. Murray is well known in
Americus and Sumter county, hav
ing been in the drug business for a
number of years. His appointment
to this committee is a signal honor
to both he and Americus.
LONDON A fashion parade,
which the queen of Greece was to
have attended, was delayed when the
models did not appear. It was
found they were stopped at Victoria
station by custom officials who held
them up on account of the new silk
tax sponsored by Winston Churchill.
THE COUNCIL
COMPANY WINS
DAMAGE SUIT
Superior Court Jury Gives Verdict
to Council Plantation Company
ip Suit
The Jury of the Sumter county
Superior Court in session now, late
yesterday awarded the Council plan
tation company $5,000 damages in
their suit against the South Georgia
Public Service Company.
The suit was brought by the
Council Plantation Company for
damages alleged to have been done
by the service company when they '
ran a power line through the land
owned by the plantation company.
Today was practically taken up
with the ejectment suit against E.
J. Tyson. Land boundaries on
land owned by Tyson and Anderson
are in dispute, Anderson claiming
that Tyson was occupying a certain
parcel of land that is his property.
The remainder of the week will be I
taken up with the settlement of civil
cases, the criminal docket coming up
Monday.
No Paper for
7 hursday
Tom orrow, Thanksgiving
Day, there will be no Times-
Recorder issued. Thanksgiving
Day being one of the three
days observed as a holiday by
the oaper.
We wish all our readers an
enjoyable day.—Editor.
ANNUAL FIELD
TRIAL TODAY
ANDTOMORROW
Thanksgiving Barbecue at Pryor
Farm Tomorow at Noon. Mem
bers Urged to Attend
The members of the Southwest
Georgia Field Trial Association are
having their annual field trial near
here today and tomorrow.
Present for this annual field trial
are 50 dogs and 100 men from all
over Southwest Georgia.
The judge for thia year are,
John E. Lucas, of Three Notch, Ala.,
and W. L. McElmurray of Waynes
boro, Georgia.
Tomorrow at noon the members of
the association and their wives are
to meet at the farm of Charles S.
Pryor, Whitset, Georgia, twelve
miles from Americus on the Lee
street road where they will be guests
at a Thanksgiving Barbecue.
The president of the association
urges all the members and their
wives to be on hand at the Pryor
farm at noon.
“THE STRANGLER” IS
AT WORK AGAIN
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 25.
Two negroes were under arrest here
today charged with attacking women
after the reappearance of “the
strangler," a crafty individual or in
, dividuals whose swift and sudden at
tacks on lone unescorted women dur
’ing last few weeks baa caused the
i death of three women and created
terror.
UNION SERVICES
FOR THURSDAY AT
FIRST METHODIST
Rev. Shirley to Be Speaker. Miss
Norman Will Render Special
Music for Occasion
Thanksgiving will be observed in
Americus with a Union Thanksgiving
service at the First Methodist Church
at eleven o’clock.
The speaker for the occasion will
be Rev. Hoke H. Shirley, pastor of
the Central Baptist Church, with the
invocation delivered by the Rev.
Richard F. Simpson, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church.
Special music for the occasion
will be furnished by Miss Elizabeth
Norman, of Griffin, a neice of Mrs.
Lucius McCleskey. Miss Norman is a
very talented violinist, she having
for sometime filled the position of
concert violinist for the Metropoli
tan Theater of Atlanta.
As an added feature the combined
choirs of Americus will render spe
cial Thanskgiving Day numbers. Rev.
Shirley urges all the Churches to join
in the Union Service by their mem
berships attending.
COOLIDGE BUSY
I WITH MESSAGE
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Keeping Busy Preparing His Mes
sage tp Congress On Its
Opening Dec. 7th
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.—With
less than two weeks remaining be
fore congress convenes, President
Coolidge today began the actual prep
aration of his annual message to the
exclusion of all but pressing official
business,
A wide range of subjects will be
discussed in the message, among
them being development of inland
waterways, which the president has
emphasized on several occasions.
| ’ The message also will include
comprehensive recommendations on
I the merchant marine problem, al
though no indication has been given
as to how far he will go in his sug
gestions. For his guidance he has
the recommendations- of H. G. Dal
ton of Cleveland, who surveyed the
ituation at his request and recom
mended, among other things, divorce
s the shipping board and emergency
leet corporation.
Yom Men, Stand by \our Home
By LOVELACE EVE
Boys, Cheer Them To Victory
Remember when you were a boy, how you craved the plaudits,
the admiration of the men who knew? Can’t you recall with wna *
pride you exhibited that string of fish or how your heart swelled with
pride when you hit a ball over the fence while a bunch of men
stood near, watching and applauding the town baseball team?
The boy of today has the same feelings, the *ame longing for ,
praise of the boys of yesteryear.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, the Americus High >cbool foot
ball team, one of the best Americus has ever bad, will meet a strong j
team from Blakely. The admission is 50c for adults. Ihe boys
want to sell 500 tickets. The team is S4O or SSO “in a hole, they ,
tell me, and they need additional funds for track equipment when (
Americus lads expect to run away with everything in this section >
of the state.
This home team of ours deserves the support of every man
in the city. During this sea.o.. ■’hey havy scored 86 points, with
only 13 points scored against them. They have not been defeated
during the year, except the one game which they forfeited because
they belived the referee was unfair.
it’s a team any town should be proud of and a team that most '
towns would back to the limit.
After you have enjoyed a goodly portion of turkey tomorrow, '■
gather in the boys around the neighborhood and go out and see your
home lads battle for the glory of the school and their home tow*.
With you men standing near, the boys wul piay as iney Have never
played before.
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COOLIDGE FREES
BANDIT OF HIS
FEDERAL TERM
Twenty-Five-Year Sentence I*
Commuted in Order That Con
necticut May Hang Him
HARTFORD, Conn , Nov. 25.
Gerald Chapman has informed
J his counsel that he will not accept
the presidential commutation of
his robbery sentence.
HARTFORD, Conn,, Nov, 25,-.
The federal sentence of Gerald Chap
man has been commuted by Presi
dent Coolidge. The executive ->rder
i terminating the sentence of ?.> years
j imposed in Federal Courts at New
I York for robbery of a mail truck
was signed by the President Monday
and was made public today, when
document was delivered to Warden
Scott for service on Chapman.
The warden immediately served
the document, the action making an
other step in the efforts of the State
of Connecticut to execute Chapman
for the murder of Policeman Jafhes
Skelly of New Britain last year.
THREE KILLED
IN TRAIN CRASH
Two Men and One Woman Kill
ed, Second Woman May Die
As Result of Crash
TOLEDO, Ohio., Nov. 25—Two
men and a woman were killed and a
second woman probably fatally injur
ed when their automobile was struck
by a Michigan Central passenger
train near here today.
The men were identified as Fran
cis W. Willis and Richard Ward, of
Toledo. Neither of the woman have
been identified.
$600,000 VOTED
FOR BURKE ROADS
WAYNESBORO, Ga., Nov. 25.
Burke county went over the top hand
somely in the road bond issue, it ap
peared from returns up to 5 o’clock
Tuesday. There was a large vote
polled in favor of issuance of $600,-
000 for paving. The Waynesboro
school district also voted overwhelm
ingly a $75,000 issue for a new
school building.
Mrs. John R. Palmer was elected
school trustees for Waynesboro dis
trict. She is the first woman to be
elected to office in Burke county.