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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
CROKER TELLS
OF PROSPERITY
Representative of Atlanta Trust
Co. Declares Marketing Con-
ditions Excellent

with marketing conditions and
crops better than they have been in
many years, farmers in this section
of the state, especially Sumter
county, are just down right lazy il
they don't make money this year, {"
said r. o. CroeKer, manager of the
farm sales department of the At
lanta Trust company, who has re-
Gently made a survey of south and
southwest Georgia farms and who
spent part of Monday in Americas,
making final arrangements for the
thousands expected to attend the
big tobacco jubilee to be staged
within the next 10 days on the w.
7. j. Eaton farm.
"If farmers of Georgia could
raise hundred bales of cotton to
the acre, and marketing condi-
tions are not right they win be un-
able to create an outlet for their
crop, and will find themselves in the
same boat with the man who has
raised no cotton at ALL" said Mr..
Croker. Il have recently inyestigat-
ed marketing conditions for the At
lanta Trust company and am thor
oughly convinced that the tobacco,
cotton and corn crops of Georgia
will be sold at a profit and the farm
err will not have to resort to STRAIT
egg in locating buyers"
Although no date will be set for
the tobacco jubilee until the latter
part of the week according to Mr..
Croker, all plans have been made
for the big barbecue and entertain
ment program, which includes a
number Of prominent speakers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
Atlanta Dive S
Be Cleaned Up,
Says BOykin
Poker Chips and Dice viii Be
Rendered Useless When So
licitor Concludes Drive

ATLANTA, July ID. - Continu-
ing his war against all forms of
gambling in Atlanta, Solicitor Gen
eral John A. Boykin today announc-
ed that more than 100 witnesses
would be called this week to testi-
fly before the grand Jury regarding
alleged gambling dives" operating
in the city
The solicitor said it was his in
tention to "clean up the city Of all
forms Of gambling" and that his
crusade against members of the fra
ternity would not be stopped until
the city was free of all forms of
betting, whether cold playing, or the
placing of bets on sporting events.
Mr.. Boykin began his crusade
against gamblers Sunday morning a
week ago al which, time a raid was
made on t'a palatial home Of L. E
("Peachtree") Williams, $50 Wav-
erly Way, which resulted in the ar
rest of a dozen or more alleged
poker players. This was followed
by action of the grand jury in in
dieting sixteen men for either main
tanning gambling house of gaming
Later the crusade took an unex-
pected turn. When the bills were
returned by the grand jury it found
eleven men had been indicted for
maintaining gaming places to bet
on horse races.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
SENTENCE OF DEATH
FOR SLAYER OF EIGHT

LIMBURG, Germany, July ia
Sentence of death was passed Mon
day on the factory director, Anger
stein for the murder of eight per-
sons, members of his household last
December. Angerstein received
the sentence cody, asserting his
deeds were expiable only with death
The wholesale murderer had been
on trial for a week.
On the stand he described calm
" and unconcernedly, how he killed
his wife and other victims. He new
er betrayed a sign of emotion,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14

HAO IENDEMY
INFLUENCE JURY
Declares 1t Is Not Necessary to
Turn Court Into Meeting
House
JUDGE OVERRULES
MOTION AND RECESSES
That He Might Complete Prep
aration of His Opinion On
the Motion to Quash

DAYTON, July Ia. - Objection
OF Clarence Barrow, counsel for the
defense, to the daily custom of pray
err of the court, created intense ex-
element for few minutes at the
short session of the Scores trial
here this morning.
Judge John T. Raulston, presiding
overruled the objection and then
ordered the court to recess until one
o'clock, that he might complete the
preparation of his opinion on the
motion of the defense to quash the
indictment which was argued Mon
day.
Soon after the Judge mounted
the bench, Mr.. barrow said, 81 want
to protest, your honor, at the pray
er being offered here daily in the
presence of the jury IN this case.
The defense lawyer continued, 81
do not object to anyone praying in
private. but | do object to this
court being turned into a meeting
house."
Dudley Malone arose just behind
his colleague with the inquiry if it
has always been the custom to have
prayer in the court every day. "As
member of counsel for the de-
Tense who is no an agnotistic,
desire to add my objection to the
daily prayer, when it has not been
an exacting, unbroken custom in the
past"
Judge Raulston broke in 81 have
instructed the ministers whom l in
vite to my rostrum to open court
with prayer to make no reference
to the issues involved in this case.
see nothing that might influence
the court or the jury as to the is
sue. believe in prayer myself
and constantly invoke Divine guild
ance when on the bench and off
the bench, SO do not see why
should not continue to do this"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
HALTER CLAIMS
TO HAVE SEEN
CANCER VIRUS
DR.. J. E. Barnard Photographs
Infective Agent of Sore
Through Microscope
AUTHORITIES DOUBT IF
DISCOVERY MEANS CURE
Member of British Institute of
Medical Research Aided
Storekeeper

NEW YORK, July Ia. - A Lon
don halter by day, with an allah
sorbing hobby for microscopes by
night, has made possible the per-
ception of the infective agent of
cancer, although New York authori-
ties are inclined to doubt that any
great step toward the cure of the
disease has been taken.
DR.. j. E. Barnard, of Kings Col
lege, London, has divided his time
between his hat shop and the collec-
ton of microscopes. He went to
aid DIR. William E. Gye, member of
the British Institute of Medical Re-
search, who was engaged in the
study of the cancer. Through the
powerful lens of one of Barnard's
specially constructed MICROSCOPES
they saw and photographed the can
GER virus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
THREE ARE WOUNDED
IN SHOOTING ARRAY

NASHVILLE, July 14.-Three
farmers were wounded, one perhaps
fatally, in a shooting affray at Good
lettsyille, Tenn, about IL miles
from Nashville Monday afternoon
following a quarrel about some hay.
Howard Walker, 55, wounded with a
shot gun which was fired at him
five times, was reported in a criti-
cal condition in a local hospital last
night. George Pane and Dumont
Rettick who suffered slight gun
shot wounds inflicted by Walker,
later made $4,000 bond each on
charges of assault with Intent to
kill.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
SAVANNAH'S FIRST
COTTON BALE BRINGS
33 CENTS AT AUCTION

SAVANNAH, July 14.-The.
first bale of the 1925-26 cotton
to be received in Savannah
brought 80 cents at auction at
the Savannah cotton exchange
at noon Monday, being bought
by Cooper and Griffin, Inc, of
this city. The bale was receiv-
ed shortly after midnight Sum
day from J. c. Getzen, Webster,
Fla, who shipped the first bale
here last year. This is the
earliest a bale of cotton has
been received at Savannah in rs
years. asA sgSSE
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
PROMINENT BAILEY
FARMER IS KILLED

BAILEY, July 14.-Following an
argument Monday on the main
street of Graham, Irving Johnson,
10 years, fatally hsot Milton Hall.
Police stated there had been i'll
feeling between the two parties for
a brief period.
Johnson was brought to Bailey
and lodged in Jail here after cor
oner's inquest and passed on the
case
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
FIRST OPEN COTTON
BOLLS RECEIVED BY
THE TTMES-RECORDER

Along with the announcement
that the first bale of 1925-26
cotton had reached Savannah,
there was received at the Times
Recorder office two open bolls
of cotton, the first in Sumter
county, grown by freezing Scar
borough on his DeSoto farm
and is of excellent quality. E.
J. Ferguson, DeSoto merchant,
who brought the bolls to the Of
flee, said the crop is in fine
shape" in his section of the coun-
ty. Who is going to gin the
first bale of cotton in the coun-
ty?
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
HOUSE IN FIGHT
ON VIADUCT BILL
Senate Passes Bill Ammending
Law Prohibiting Person Be
queathing MIore Than
Third of Property to
Charity

ATLANTA, July 14.-After in
Producing 26 new bills, the house
today plunged into a fight over the
Atlanta viaduct resolution. Six
amendments have been offered to
the measure, but at noon no pro
gress had been made toward dispos-
ing either amendments or resolu-
ton itself.
The senate passes unanimously a
bill by Senator Morgan, of the1st
district and Dixon of the 25th dis
trict, to amend the existing law
which prohibits persons from re-
questing more than one third of
his property to charity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
VERY LITTLE TAX
RELIEF CAN Be
PROMISED NOW
Stewart Says There VIII Be a
Lot of Reduction Talk But
No Action
FEDERAL TAXES ARE
SURE TO COME DOWN
But Twice AS Many Percent Will
Be Added Onto the Citizens
Local Burden
BY cHARLEs P. sTEwARr

WASHINGTON, July 14.-What
may this country expect in the way
of tax changes in the next few
years?
1t can feel perfectly sure of a
lot OF talk about reduction, and al
most equally sure of higher taxes.
Federal taxes are coming down.
There's no bluff about that. State.
county and city taxes are increas-
ing steadily.
The former are not being cut
and cannot be cut and nobody has
right to ask that they be cut as
fast as the latter are rising.
What does it profit the tax
payer to have a few per cent
Topped off his federal burden if
twice that many per cent are add
ed onto his local burden?
m#
Income taxes almost certainly
will be trimmed by another 25 per
cent next winter. This doesn't
necessarily mean, however. that the
man of moderate income will be re-
lieved another 25 per cent, on top
of his last years relief.
Secretary of the Treasury Mel
Ion is determined to give a large
share Of the benefit this time 20
sur-taxpayers-a little of it to the
smaller fry, but most of it to the
big fish.
How this will come out nobody
knows yet. There'll be per
capita decrease, but some millions
of people may not come in on the
per capita. Next December will
tell, most likely.
There'll be further decreases aft
err next winter, scattered along over
several years, but they'll be more
gradual, except in certain contin-
gencies.
Luxury taxes-as on automobiles
and auto supplies, jewelry and
theater tickets-will dwindle, bit by
bit, to nothing. Income tax exemp-
tions will be increased, slowly.
It's rather a wild guess-which
is the best anybody can make
but perhaps the federal load will be
lightened, in the absence of any of
the contingencies referred to, by
80 per cent all round, in the course
of six or seven years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
FOREIGN TRADE SHOWS
FAVORABLE BALANCE

WASHINGTON, July H. A
favorable balance of $142,681 900
resulted from the foreign trade of
the United States for the fiscal year
which ended June 80.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
COTTON CONSUMPTION
IN JUNE LESS THAN MAY

WASHINGTON, July 14.-Cot-
ton consumed during June totalled
493,765 bales of lint, 60,577 linters
as compared with 531, All bales of
lint and 61,187 of linters of May
of this year, and 950,021 bales of
lint and 40,O16 linters of June of
last year, the census bureau an
nounced today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14

Only seven per cent of the peo-
pie pay income taxes, according to
the latest treasury reports.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
TWO YOUNG WOMEN
DROWN WHILE WADING

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, July
14.-Miss Eddie Deane, 20, and her
first cousin, Miss Airline Giannini,
Is, of Rockfish, were drowned while
wading in the Rockfish river Mon
day when they got out beyond their
depths and were swept away by the
current. An eleven year old boy
companion summoned help and both
bodies were recovered.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14

The coinage of gold has been re-
sumed in Russia by the soviet mint.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-07-14
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Middling % lie.
WEATHER

For Georgia = Partly cloudy to-
night; Wednesday, local thunder
showers.
Evening star., 1925-01-04

satin. crepe. linen, etc, assume before
they have been dyed. Undyed straw
will be and Is favored in the MILL
merry shops. As for pastel tones, they
are clearer and perhaps little
brighter than the tones we used to
call pastel" and therefore more ap.
propriate for the bright sunlight that
cae fnds--or hopes to find--at South
ern resorts.
Another observer says; Sun
shine and jewel blends for the South
land" Just what a sunshine blend
really is tits difflcult to tell. How.
ever. the clear. bright tones of the
emerald, the ruby, the sapphire and
the topaz are seen in most Of the
resort collections.
What are known as "straw bodies"
or body straws" to the makers OF
hats are pretty sure to come In for
great favor among well-dressed
women at Southern resorts this
Winter. This means hats of panama,
bangkok, ieghorn and peanut" And
these straws will be almost always
used in their natural" tone. But
the resultant effect will be anything
but drab. for almost without eIcep-
tion these has arc made up with
some sort of brightly colored faille
or other silk.
Sometimes the entire crown Is of
the silk, sometimes there is banding
OF the silk and again the brim IL
faced in color-rose or blue or mauve.
Many of the leghorn shapes are
of round crown with dropping poke
like brin, very wide at the sides. On
a leghorn OF this sort are silk bands
about the crown, one strip of rose
and one Of pastel blue, while q large
rose of the silk is posed on the brim
at the right, slightly to the back.
Some comment has been made
anent the fact that shades OF dark
green have come int rather unex-
pected favor among tain women
'of the very smart minority, and in
some of the millinery shops that are
classed as exclusive" there has been
a considerable number OF hats OF
shades OF dark green. Bottle and
hunters green, I believe they call
them.
The reason given for this pref
erence in color Is said to be the fact
that dark greens appear at such dis
tinct advantage with sable and mink
coats. OF course not very large
number OF women would be obliged
20 wear dark green for this reason.
Having worn dark green during
a few weeks of the Winter. soms
Of these women seemingly have made
up their minds to wear somewhat
brighter. clearer shades Of green
when they go South for the re-
mainder OF the Winter-and though
greens are not especially stressed
among the popular colors for resort
wear, they must not be overlooked.
Copyright 1924
Evening star., 1925-01-04


chine or. other thin silk. The smart
ness of these skirts to a great de-
gree depends on their shortness- In
France, you know, fifteen or even
sixteen inches are often measured
between the ground and the edge OF
the skirt. The pleated skirt that 10
nearer the ground than ten or eleven
inches is pretty sure to appear
dowdy; al least from the present
squint of fashion.
Insets OF fine pleats are found at
the sides OF many OF. the new sepa-
rate skirts, and these are usually
held in restraint until somewhat be-
low the hips. Often of course full
ness appears only below the knees.
Plaid and striped materials are often
made into skirts Of. this description,
Plain oolorca flannets and other
wooden materials are found in many
of the siRartest OF! separate sport
skirts.
While sweaters do not occupy so
important n position in the we'll
Evening star., 1925-01-04

dressed woman's wardrobe as they
did few years ago, they are of
considerable Importance nevertheless.
Sweaters Of the sort that the college
girls call cricketx--Iittle slip-on af-
airs with a fat v-neckiine, knitted
from lightweight yarn--are chosen
by many young women and are
usually worn over washable blouses
But the pendulum is swinging in
the direction OF the high necked
sweater of the turtle-nsck variety,
and these OF course require no under
blouse. Sometimes these are knitted
from delicately colored silk, and there
are charming two-piece knitted cos
tunes consisting OF straight, short
knitted skirt. worn with a turtle
neck slip-on. y
One observer remarks that mat
ural and pastel colors are tho
last word In chic" II may seem to
you that natural colors, so-cafled
are hardly colors at all, since they
are the tones that various fabrics,
Evening star., 1925-01-04

dat place like old BeeIzebub was
after me. ! amt goin' back there,
neither lessen / got double -barreled
shot gun loaded wild broken glass and
bird shot
Gun wouldn't do you any good"
remarked Simon Bluejay, gloomily
Z once knew a man.
But nobody paid any attention TO
old Simon's story. He was always
rambling along about things that
happened away back in the days OF
ephysistine, or tbereabouts.
"'Let's pint a COMMITTEES" SuS-
gested Judge Black Bear. So a com
mittee was appointed TO Investigate
the ghost; the committee composed
entirely of unmarried young jack rab-
bits with no families dependent upon
them. Along about IL O'Clock the
Evening star., 1925-01-04

there-just opposite 20 Blue Bot
ties resting place, and exactly as
Archimedes had described it-vthey
saw white robed specter dancing up
and down on the edge OF broken
tombstone. beside an old gnarled and
twisted tree.
Indeed! tIndoed.' gasped young
Beriwinkle Jack Rabbit. Don't never
axe me to go there again. l aint
never had such a start in my life be.
forem And then he went off into a kind
of wild gibbering about 'spooks, ana
graveyards, and things like. that, un-
til presently old Shelback water
Turtle made a remark that froze
everybody speechless.
II reckon I'll Just mosey down
that-a-way,' drawled Old Shelback,
and kind of have look around. my
self! said he. And, with that, he
walked out at the door of the stump
Root meeting house, as cool as a
picked herring, and went on down
the road toward the burying ground,
while folks at the meeting house
looked at one another in dismay!
THE night wore away without
sign of old Shellback, and in the
morning & little huddled group
from the Settlement started down
the road toward the Two Mills. On
the way they met Billy Possum, GO
ing to market with a barrow Of
milk. -
seen anything of Brother Shell
back Turtle they all enquired In
one breath.
'Why-yes.' replied Brother Billy.
as he set down his wheelbarrow and
lit his pipe. . I see him settin' along
beside the road, sound asleep. with
his back up against a stump root.
And-right across the road from him,
in the buryin' ground-was old
black COW, with a white face. rub
bing her nose UP and down against
old Blue Bottle Billy ,Bullfnch's
tombstone! Amt IL, queer what
strange places some folks picks out
t. go. asleep at? 80. -
downright. 1928. by Edward MeCandllshl
Evening star., 1925-01-04

80 the youngest of the Turtle
- dofnr damI!yff in f%has ,hs next are room4" y2%
Nothing" replied Little
Billy.
"Then-stop it immediately.
II was evening at the Clay Bank
and the talk at the supper table had
turned upon the subject of ghosts.
Pop Turtle told q hair raising tale
about a personal friend of his--a
rnuskrat-who woke up one night
and found a ghost standing at the
foot OF his bed. After speaking to the
ghost several times, and getting no
reply, Pops friend made a savage
kick at the ghost, and-his foot
passed right through the awful spec
ter. Whereupon Pops friend had
turned gray-haired overnight, and
had always been considered queer"
Atterward.
Brother Jack Rabbit followed this
story with one about a haunted house
where the ghost of a former inmate
walked, stallled and talked, dragging
his chains after him and shricking
horribly Brother Jack said he knew
the story was absolutely true because
he had got it from an aunt, who had
il from a friend who had passed
through the town where the thing
had happened.
"Speakin' OF ghosts" said Tommy
Turtle. II holds to d opinion dat
most OF desc mysterious happenin 5
can be traced to natural phenome-
noms," said he.
II calls TO mind d case Of ghost
what used to appear regularly over
al d Two Mills buryin' ground.
Archimodes Groundhog was d first
one what repo'ted ii, as ] recall d
matter. He came teariu into d
church meetin' one night, 1T about .
o'clock of a Summer evenir'. His
hair was standin' on end; his eyes
had a CLASSY look about EN- and his
fingers kept openin' and shutting like
one of desc here valves on a tube
engine
what on airth is .aiIin your
asked old 'Tubby' Groundhog-Ar
medes' daEdy.
&C ghostsr replied the trembling
grounding. Il came by q TWO Mills
buryin' ground about half an hour
ago. l kept whlstliu' rs came along,
TO kind of Keep my nina occupied.
lust as ] passed d spot whore old
Blue Bottle" Bulifinch was laid a way
what should l sea buL . white
skeleton, in a white robe. tancin'
up and down OH Eilly's tomhstOue,
Z rubbed my eyes TO make sho'
I wasn't dereivin' mystIf, 5ut--when
I looked again---sho' Qush--dar he
was, as Dig as life dancin Il Fishers
Iornpipe over old Blue Bottle Billys
rones.
Well gives You my world Just
let so all hollis. and l tore out of
Evening star., 1925-01-04

committee set out down the road,
while half of the Settlement sat up
and waited for the committee to re-
turn.
Along about II o'clock a sound of
galloping feet was heard coming from
the direction of the graveyard, and
a few minutes later the five Jack
rabbits burst into sight. running and
yeIping as no Jack rabbits ever ran
OF yelped before. 1t was fully half
ar hour before the Settlement folks
could get Il connected STORY about
what had occurred-the rabbits
were all SO out of breath. But after
q while. and between gasps, as it
We're. we managed to get a connected
story.
Just about midnight the Rabbits
had arrived at the Two Mills, and
Evening star., 1925-01-04
True al That.

II suppose she calls that old dress
she turned inside out an imported
one"
mo, she Just refers to 1t as being
from the other side"
Evening star., 1925-01-04
His Mistake.

Judge - You are charged with
breaking a ball bat over this mans
head
Defendant didn't mean to break
the bat.
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Even the Boatl

"Passenger-Doesn't this boat tip a
lot, steward?
Steward-Yes, she's setting good
example to the passengers.
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Made II All Right

But isn't your son rather young to
join the army?'
well, he is very young, but then
you see he is only going to join the
infantry
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Getting There.

How are you getting along with
'rithmetic, Samf
Well, ! done learned to add up
all the noughts. but Dc fggers still
bother me yet"
Evening star., 1925-01-04
His Turn
NiSifin

Visiting Spinster-what a charm
ing little chap! How old are you,
dear?
Charming Little Chap-Six in No
vemher. How old are your
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Ought to Remember.

Barber-Goed morning, sir. I
haven't seen your face for a long
time.
Customer-That's funny. | left
most of it on your razor the last time
l was here.
Evening star., 1925-01-04
When History Doesn't Repeat.

Funny IL never repeats itself to
me-" said the puzzled student over
his history examination.
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Fine System.

IT,"
Evening star., 1925-01-04
That's Why.

Dat sho' am famin tie 20 got
on, Rastus.''
"Yo' sho' am right, Sambo. All got
II at a fab sale
Evening star., 1925-01-04
No Wonder.

How didja hurt your eyeo?"
"Aw, a lid fell on It,"
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Correct.

Science Teacher - Name . LIQUID
that won't freeze.
StuGent--Hct water,
Evening star., 1925-01-04

I'm best" shouted the phonograph
II hold the geecrd"
Evening star., 1925-01-04
Written and Illustrated
BY Edward McCandlish.

~ LILY" called Ma Turtle to
As the youngest of the Turtle
family, What are you
doing in the next room?"
Nothing" replied Little