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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1925
Page
5
The Georgia Department of Agriculture reports 2,946,884 pounds sold in the first week at an average price of 15.85 per pound, with producers paid 467190.37 dollars. Forty-two warehouses participated in the sale.
The promised cross-examination of W. T. Anderson, former state highway board member, by counsel Sam L. Olive failed to occur as Anderson was recalled to Macon due to his father's critical condition.
In an official recount limited to 29 counties completed, Steck Democrat leads Brookhart Republican by 164 votes with 2124 ballots pending review. Brookhart 116,983. Steck 117,147.
Ludwig Schmidt, alleged accomplice of Gerald Chapman, will be deported to Germany after serving his sentence in the Atlanta federal prison, officials of the local immigration office announced.
In Chattanooga on August 4 Dr. John R. Neal filed a petition in the circuit court seeking to restrain state authorities from further prosecution of the Scopes evolution case. A separate petition by Robert Wilson to halt enforcement of the anti evolution law was not filed pending amendments. Neal planned to confer with Judge Ben Hicks and then travel to New York for further discussions with other attorneys.
Judge John T. Raulston of Dayton Tennessee will be principal speaker at a memorial service for William Jennings Bryan. The service is set for Sunday at the North Shore Congregational church in Chicago Illinois.
In Arica Chile Aug 4 the Tacna Arica plebiscite commission announced at a casual briefing that the first official meeting will be held Wednesday morning. General John J Pershing heads the commission to supervise the Tacna Arica plebiscite with cordial relations reported after the latest gathering.
Immediate organization of a force to patrol a hundred miles from the lower Detroit river to Port Hudson to stop liquor, alien, and contraband smuggling from Canada has been authorized. Prohibition enforcement authority shifts from Commissioner Haynes to twenty four prohibition administrators under a Treasury reorganization effective next month.
Washington Aug 4 Secretary Jardine entered Walter Reed army hospital for treatment of a stomach disorder. His condition is not described as serious and the ailment has troubled him for years. The recent long western tour aggravated it, forcing him to Wisconsin for a long rest.
Rear Admiral W. W. Phelps of the naval board in Washington declared at the Institute of Politics in Williamstown Massachusetts that the Washington conference on armament limitation has absolutely settled the peace of the Pacific. He added the four power pact has insured the integrity of possessions.
Dr. J W Turrentine of the United States Department of Agriculture told the American Chemical Society today that about half the girls in the belt from New York to the Rocky Mountains have incipient goiter and the numbers rise with population growth.
Edward Rickenbacker, former racer and now auto executive, spoke before Kansas City's Advertising Club outlining future air travel. He forecast 3000 foot airships riding trade winds at 50,000 feet and 500 mph, dirigibles with daily New York to Paris service, and airplanes carrying freight and passengers across the United States in a day.
Atlantic City reports a predicted break in anthracite coal wage negotiations upon resumption this afternoon barring new developments. Samuel Warriner and miners leaders clash over committee authority while Warriner defends the operators subcommittee and urges arbitration when the current contract ends August 31.
The Georgia House spent the morning fighting to restore salaries for the director of the bureau of markets and a state inspector and to reinstate 50,000 cut from the bureau. The 3,000 director salary for the bureau was restored while the committee of the whole’s reduction from 100,000 to 50,000 for maintenance was sustained.
In Atlanta on August 4 the House adjourned amid a renewed dispute over $3,000 yearly pay for the bureau of markets chef in the general appropriations bill. The item had been eliminated in committee but revived on the floor as the session began.
Mrs. Anna Lawrence, who recently swallowed poison in a local hotel, died at a New Orleans charity hospital. Her father, traveling from Dublin, Georgia after receiving a letter describing his daughter's distress, was with her at death. Weather for Georgia calls for showers tonight and Wednesday with little change in temperature.
The letter asserts mine owners retain the right to designate who represents the operators and states the committee personnel cannot be changed. It rejects claims that operators seek no agreement and that a cessation of opinion will occur by September 1. Continued discussion appears on the next page.
Paris reports Greek forces moving toward the Greco Bulgarian frontier after the assassination of Greek citizen Nicholaides at Stenomaki Bulgaria. Athens warns of possible seizure of border towns in retaliation if adequate reparations are not made.
Chicago Aug 4 The life of concert singer and teacher Charles W. Clark and his wife ended in tragedy two hours apart after he was felled by a fatal stroke in a motion picture theatre. Mrs Clark collapsed and died reportedly from apoplexy, as the double tragedy shocked the city.
Arlington Heights Illinois reports a historic first as the Mac Millan Arctic Expedition at Etah Greenland confirms two way radio messages with Chicago area station 9XN. Messages were sent last night and the reply arrived within about 15 minutes despite Arctic conditions.
The August weather Chronicle notes hailstones up to eggsize in several midwest cities, along with snow floods and violent thunderstorms. Cool temperatures replace the usual record highs across the region.
Swampscott Mass Aug 4 President Coolidge will recall the agricultural conference to map a legislative program for farm aid. The conference set last year presented a plan for government aid in cooperative marketing but Congress failed to approve it at the session’s end. The President expressed this view here today.
Georgia legislators vote favorably on a bill requiring the county sheriff where a convict is condemned to press the electric chair switch. The proposal shifts execution duties from the state prison warden to county sheriffs, part of a judiciary committee report.
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