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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1925
Page
5
Senator Ricketson proposes a bill to abolish electrocution in Georgia and return to hanging by counties. Governor Walker urges new revenue legislation while the House reconsiders the income tax amendment. Senate highway probe will end with testimony tomorrow.
Oshkosh Wis Aug 13 Senator Lenroot appealed to Wisconsin Republicans to unite behind a clear pro Coolidge candidate for the U S Senate seat left by the death of La Follette. He urged party leaders to avoid nominating anyone hostile to the president.
George H. Curtis, his wife Mary, and daughter Marjorie are dead from bullet wounds in the head at Boston’s City Hospital. A second child is believed dying. Dorothy Curtis, the lone survivor, told police the mother shot the others during a low mood before taking her own life.
Federal authorities investigate William E. Rutledge former minister and publisher over oil well promo schemes. Rutledge organized Economy Co's Company at Kirkwood Missouri and advertised in The Preachers' Magazine. About two thousand residents in six states invested around 400000 dollars with ministers making most stock holders. He is free on 3000 dollar bond charged with using the mails to defraud.
The Newark based revivalist William A Brady urged Rev. John Roach Stratton to preach the gospel among actors and actresses instead of abusing them. He also criticized Wisconsin's Progressive administration, denouncing it as a dictatorship and labeling its governance radical.
On a Florida highway near Bayard eight miles south of St. Augustine two Greenwood, South Carolina men were assaulted and robbed. David Morgan is hospitalized in serious condition after an alleged attack and hold up. Edgar Case, also of Greenwood, sustains minor head injuries. They were robbed of $29 and dumped from the car by two white men who had picked them up.
Sedalia Missouri reports rapid developments in the Clawson murder case as Everett Adams, a 17 year old Wilmington high school student, is charged with first degree murder. Adams and his father arrive to face a Friday preliminary hearing while a coroner's jury convenes in La Monte.
Everett Adams, 17, drove 30 miles with the dead body of A R Clawson of Lodi New York propped beside him and dumped it in a ditch near a culvert southwest of Lamonte Missouri. Clawson, a school teacher, was shot while driving near Otterville and Adams later waived extradition to Sedalia Missouri.
Washington August 13 two destroyers were ordered to station for a nonstop flight to Hawaii aboard naval planes heading from San Francisco late this month.
Partly cloudy conditions continue tonight in Georgia with a chance of locally scattered thundershowers. Friday looks unsettled and a bit cooler with the likelihood of thunderstorms and cooler daytime temperatures across the region.
A six hundred pound fish, one of the largest of its kind, was captured yesterday afternoon near Lake North Inlet after a several hour battle. The monster was shot three times and landed with a shark tackle on a baitless hook.
Constantinople August 13 The Turkish president Mustapha Kemal Pasha has divorced his wife Latife Hanoum. A decree pronouncing the divorce is dated August fifth and a dowry of one million Turkish liras was brought by Latife at their 1923 marriage. Officials gave no reasons officialy but rumors say it stems from her supposed masterfulness and meddling in affairs beyond her role.
In Washington on August 13 negotiations between the American and Belgium debt commissions paused to await Belgium’s instructions on a new offer. A reply was expected overnight and the two groups planned to reconvene tomorrow.
Washington reports the American and Belgian debt commissions remain far apart after rejecting initial offers. A moratorium is agreed in principle, but key issues like interest, annual payments, and total retirement years still block an accord. Both sides meet again with smaller groups to pursue a breakthrough.
In a plain oak box the bones of Saint Christine, the Virgin Mary of the third century, rested on American soil in New York today before being sent to the Roman Catholic cathedral at Cleveland. The gift from Pope Pius XI honors Bishop Joseph Schremb for the Cleveland diocese's $200000 contribution to Rome's House of Catacombs.
Brunswick, Ga. Aug. 13 Charles Jones charged with recruiting black workers to leave for Florida by a Miami construction firm He is in jail on a $1000 bond and is said to have recruited about three carloads of Brunswick men Jones refuses to name the firm he is connected with.
Reading Massachusetts August 13 state troopers raced from four barracks and dispersed a Ku Klux Klan meeting that threatened bloodshed. Tear bombs were used injuring klansmen and anti klansmen while a shot was fired and two alleged klansmen were arrested.
Paris reports Premier Painleve will convene the cabinet to hear Foreign Minister Briand’s account of talks with Foreign Secretary Chamberlain on the proposed security pact with Germany. Disagreement persists over Belgium’s payment capacity as France and its commissions differ on the pact’s basis.
The British schooner Aesop, of Nassau, bound for Belize, carrying about seven hundred cases of whiskey, was captured near Southwest Pass, La., by coast guard cutter No. 251. The vessel and its six crewmen were to be taken to Gulf fort and held, pending government investigation.
Intelligence from French headquarters in Fer es tablished that combined Spanish and French action in northwest Morocco has yielded early success. Tribesmen under Abdel Krim show reluctance to continue fighting and indicate they will not engage outside their own territory.
Oregon National Guard ordered to search for three convicts who fled the state penitentiary. In a riot at the Oregon state prison Bert Jones, a notorious escapee, was killed after fatally shooting two guards. The escapees named are Tom Murray Elsworth Kelly and James Willows.
The British Empire Cotton Growing Corporation will set up a central cotton research station in Trinidad to study all growth phases and identify factors shaping final yields. The project aims to link growers with manufacturers through scientific guidance.
Morris Sweetwood a convicted New York bootlegger was granted a United States commissioner hearing and freed from prison by signing the pauper oath. District Attorney C W Hager argued he was not a pauper though Sweetwood had $615 951 in a New York bank and claimed large deposits were made to withdraw shortly after. He said he borrowed $200 to ensure his return to New York.
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