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The Americus Times-Recorder
(THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR.
INJURY TO
COTTON 15
JT GREAT
ACCORDING TO FARMERS HERE
Sun Will Soon Repair Hie
Damage
“Sumter's cotton crop s promising,
despite the appearance of frost on the
twelfth of June and the generally un
favorable weather recently,’’ said for
mer Commissioner of Agriculture T.
G. Hudson yesterday. “One week of
sunshine, such as this today, will pul:
the crop out of the kinks, while the
farmers will whip the grass fight now
being waged in the cotton fields.”
Mr. Hudson has just returned from
a trip to Atlanta, and North Georgia,
and declares that crop conditions in
this section are far better than further
up the state, where recent heavy rains
wrought great injury to the cotton and
corn, and to the lands.
“As for the cold weather, it will do
little injury, and already the effect of
it is disappearing,” continued Mr. Hud
son. “I recall very well another cold
spell in June, twelve years ago, when
it was cold enough for overcoats to oe
worn June 22nd. We thought then
that the cotton crop would be ruined,
hut it was not, and Sumter made plen
ty of cotton.”
It was the opinion of other farmers
here yesterday that a week of sun
shine would put the crop in good
growing condition. Mr. Edward Tim
merman stated that in the vicinity of
Plains the crops were looking very
well, considering the unpropitious
weather of the past few days. Sunshine
is the great tonic that is needed now.
The rains this week have greatly
benefitted the corn fields here and
put the crop in a condition for rapid
maturity. While probably not as
large as in other years, the corn crop
this year will be sufficient for all de
mands upon it if conditions remain
favorable.
EHRLICH ATTACKS
THE TIPPINGS BILL
Savannahian Reports on Hotel Condi
tions to T P. A.
Richmond, Va„ June 13. The tipping
evil, designated as that “hydro-headed,
cobra-hooded monster” by Chairman
Albert Ehrlich of Savannah, Ga., was
given a thorough gruelling in his
hotel committee report, read before
the convention of the Travelers’ Pro
tective Association today. Mr. Ehrlich
said legislation will never stop it. As
a possible solution of the problem, he
recommended that the traveling men
pledge themselves to ‘‘desist from
their share of the practice.”
Disastrous and startling increase in
the fire perils of the country, despite
the building of “fireproof” structures,
was also an interesting point present
ed.
That a hotel fire occurred every
thirty-three hours during 1912 was
the startling statement made in the
report. This condition Chairman Ehr
lich attributed to either lack of proper
legislation or to failure to enforce the
existing laws. Inspectors, adequate
exists and escapes and other essen
tials to safety from hotel fires are
needed in many places, he said.
The Nebraska state law governing
hotels was cited as the model in this
class of legislation, and the hotel com
mittee chairman recommended that
the national board secure the laws of
that state in this regard and furnish
every division with a copy.
The report was referred to the prop
er committee.
WAITING FOR
SETTLEMENT
JF TARIFF
EAST WANTS IT SETTLED
According to Reports Drought
From That Section
“New York is waiting for the tariff
matter to be settled,” was the opinio l
yesterday of Mr. G. R. Ellis, who has
just returned from a ten-day trip to
the metropolis and a brief stay in the
national capital. “There is an ele
ment of uncertainty in the business
world in New York, caused by the sus
pense relative to tariff discussion,
which only definite action on the ta
riff can end.”
“There is no panic, no crisis in bus
iness affairs and finance, but there is
that uneasiness which the discussion
of the tariff has never failed to bring
in American business The fact that
action on the pending bill is being
delayed serves to accentuate this-feel
ing, which is, of course, inimical t>
business Jand prevents elements of
stability in the business and financial
world, which do so much towards pro
moting general prosperity
“In anticipation of the re-adjust
ment of the tariff and the unsettled
state of affairs accompanying any
change in the tariff and presidential
administrations, the financial centers
have increased their cash holdings s >
that no difficulty in the way of a panic
is feared. A solid financial condition
will be maintained, making sure a
period of greater prosperity as soon as
the tariff is settled and the crops be
gin to be harvested.”
FIVE ARE HILLED IN
WRECK ON NEW HAVEN
Engineer of Second Section
Ran Post Danger Signals
Stamford, Conn., June 13.—Five per
sons were killed and many injured,
some seriously, as the result of a rear
end collision on the main line of th-:
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad, opposite the local passenger
station at 4:46 o’clock yesterday after
noon when the second section of the
Springfield express, westbound, ran
into the first section, which was leav
ing the station. The dead:
Mrs. Edward J. Kelly, Winthrop,
Mass.; Everett Halsey Woodruff,
Flushing, N. Y.; Dr. Harmon G. Howe.
Hartford, Conn.; Frank K. Confield,
Springfield, Mass.; unidentified woman
at morgue.
The engine of the second section
ploughed half way through the Put’.-
man car Skylark, the last car on the
first section. In this car there were
. passengers and practically all of
heme ■were injured.
According to an official statement by
the railroad, the indications are that
the engineer of the second section ran
past danger signals.
DEATH OF PETER GJttFFIN
AT HOME IN COUNTRY
Aged and Respected Negro Farmer
Passes Away.
Peter Griffin, an industrious colored
farmer residing near Smithville and
as well known in Americus as there
died Friday at an advanced age. The
deceased had resided for a long period
of years on the Sumter-Lee line, and
was well thought of among all. Among
his sons and daughters Is the wife of
Oliver Russell, of Americus. The fun
eral will take place Sunday at the
colored cemetery in Smithville.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE 14, 1913
TO CELEBRATE
FLAG DAY HERE
THIS MORNING
D. A. R. THE OBSERVERS
Meeting to Be Held With Re
gent, Mrs. Fricker
Flag Day will be celebrated locally
today by the members of the Council o»
Safety chapter of the Daughters of th?
American Revolution at the residence
ot Mrs. C. A. Fricker at 10 o’clock.
Special importance will attach to
the meeting this morning for the fact
that it will be the last meeting to be
held before the meetings of the order
are suspended for the summer season.
As it is also Flag Day that event will
be celebrated by the members of the
local chapter in lieu of the regular
meeting.
The regent of the chapter will ap
preciate very much the\largest possi
ble attendance at the meeting to he
held this morning. The fact that it is
the last meeting to be held before the
summer season puts an end to the
meetings of the chapter is in itself a
matter that should command special
attention of the members of the chap
ter.
LOS ANGELES CHIEF.
FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Witt Meet Next Year at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Washington, D. C., June 13.—Woman
suffrage as a means of lessening crime
was advocated here yesterday by C. E.
Sebastian, chief of police of Los An
geles, Cal., in an address before the
closing session of the annual conven
tion of the International Association
of Police Chiefs. Chief de
clared that “through suffrage, recog
nition of police-women in Los , ngeles
had been obtained and crime had been
materially reduced.” Suffrage, he add
ed, had helped to break down the
false modesty which had prevented
public discussion of sex problems.
The chiefs chose Grand Rapids,
Mich,, as their next meeting place and
re-elected Major Richard Sylvester,
superintendent of police of Washing
ton, as president.
Secret telephonic devices as means
of helping in the detection of crime,
were approved in a resolution adopted
during the final session.
John Vucetich, chief of the Buenos
Ayres, Argentina, bureau of dactylos
copic identification, explained to the
convention his system of finger print
registration and a committee was
named to study and report on his com
pared with other system.
WILL OPERATE PLANT
MAKING STOCK FEED
New Plant Will Open Very
Soon
Another industrial enterprise to be
located in Americus, and upon which
work will begin within a few days, is
‘hr plant for the manufacture of stock
le< d, for which product there is cn
aver-iucreanng demand. The enter
prise v ill i,u established by Mr. J. -3.
Dedman, for several years past a resi
dent of Northern Alabama. The en
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THE WEATHER: Fair and Warmer.
MERCER
WILL GET
! $120,000
THE OPINION OF ORDINARY
Validity of Mrs. Dodd’s Will
Is Sustained
Atlanta, Ga., June 13.—The validity
of the will of the late Mrs. Barbara
Dodd, Who left the bulk of her esta‘e
valued at $120,000, to Mercer uni
versity, was sustained by Judge Wil
kinson in ordinary’s court Friday.
The court overruled the caveat of the
relatives, which set up that Mrs. Dodd
had made the will while under the
hallucination that her relatives had
wronged her.
In the original caveat, filed by Mr,.
Barbara Dibble, Mrs. Fannie A. Aker
inan, Oscar C. Thomas, M. George
Maicom and Henry E. Dibble, it was
asserted that Mrs. Dodd became pos
sessed of the mania immediately af
ter she had divorced her second hus
band, J. H. Garner.
While temporarily unbalanced from
her unfortunate marriage experience,
the caveat maintained, Mrs. Dodd
sought her relatives and tried to in
duce them to kill Garner. Because
she was refused, it is asserted, she
became indignant and made the will,
leaving them practically nothing.
A greater part" of these charges
were stricken by the contestants in an
amended caveat filed before the case
was called for hearing this morning.
Few witnesses were put up for
eithar side, and the decision means
that the case will be fought out be
fore a jury in the superior court, un
less a compromise is affected.
Mrs. Dodd, who died suddenly at
the Aragon hotel two months ago,
was the widow' or the late Phillip
one time a prominent Atlanta
merchant. Her will left Mercer uni
versity close to SIOO,OOO and numer
ous bequests were made to Atlanta
charitable institutions.
Henry E. Dibble, a brother, now
blind, who has joined in the contest
of the syill, was left $50,000
FIRST WATERMELONS ON
DISPLAY IN AMERICUS
But They Came From Farther
South
\
Americus was offered abundant
proof yesterday of the pleasing fact
that winter had passed in the display
here of sundry real watermelons--
positively the first—and numerous
baskets of peaches from orchards >n
the Americus territory. The melons
were grown further down the state
and, while small and of rather infer
ior quality, they nevertheless caught
the eye and the dime of the blae-c
brother whose weakness for watermel
ons is proverbial.
These early habingers of the melon
patch will be followed in due time by
the really excellent ones produced on
Sumter farms —the acme of perfection
in watermelons. It was a remarkable
coincidence, however, that the first
melons came on the day following the
June frost, as melons and front are
widely divergent things.
The peaches now being brought to
market are not of the very best qual
ity, being of the early and less choice
varieties. However, there will be
geed peaches a few day-8 hence—and
g-rod watermelons, too.
WHEN A FELLER NEEDS A FRIEND.
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—Briggs in New York Evening Sun.
GALLINGER BRINGS IN
NAME OF THE PRESIDENT
Washington, D. C., June 13.—Presi
dent Wilson’s name in connection with
“White House influence” forth.?
tariff bill was brought before the
senate lobby Investigating committee
again today by Senator Galiingor,
who declared the president had come
“perilously near lobbying” in some
of the things he had done in connec
tion with the tariff bill. Democratic
senators subjected him to a long
cross examination on the subject of
White House influence.
Senator Gal finger’s statement
came as a profound sensation. He
w'as about to leave the stand when
Senator Reed asked a final ques
tion.
“When a says that he would
“hang some one as high as Haman” il
that person didn’t do certain things,”
said Senator Gallinger, “and that an
industry which proposed reduction of
wages and did so, would be investi
gated,” I think that is about the very
REPORTER FATALLY HURT;
SENDS STORY TO PAPER
New York June 13.—Gregory T.
Humes, of this city, who died today
in the hospital at Stamford, Conn.,
retained above all else his sense of
news when terribly crushed yester
day in the wreck which caused the
death of six persons and the injury
of about twenty more on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road, near the Stamford station.
Humes, a reporter on The World,
was returning from a visit to his
mother at Pine Orchard, Conn
He was a passenger in the Pullman
which was telescoped by the electric
engine of the train behind. When
Humes was carried out of the wreck,
suffering from a crushed pelvis anl
compound fractures of both ankl's
as well as painful internal Injuries,
he said to those who were carrying
him:
"Call pu my paper right away and
tell them there is a wreck here—a big
story. Tell them I am sorry I won t
be able to work because I am smashed
up. Call up my mother, too.”
Having done his duty, he collapsed
and remained unconscious until h'.s
death early this morning.
worst kind of Influence I can imagin '.
“What do you think of a public offi
cial that gets up a scare about an
insidious lobby?” asked Senator Nel
son.
“That he intends to influence pub
lic opinion and the opinion of public
men,” returned Senator Galliger.
“Would you regard it as a species
of lobby?”
“From my own inability to define
the term to my own satisfaction, per
haps I would not like to say it was
a species of lobbying.”
“It was an intimation that men are
afraid to use their own judgment lest
the people suspect them of lobbying ”
persisted Senator Nelson.
“It so impressed me,” replied Sen
ator Gallinger.
“You think then that members of
congress can be intimidated?” asked
Chairman Overman.
“I have no disposition to criticise
you officials for cheap partisan pur
poses,” returned Senator Gallinger.
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PLANNED ESCAPE
HIGHJN THE AIR
Airmen Coolly DiscusseoPlans
of Escape
St. Louis, June 13.—Facing death
Aviators Anthony Jannus and Arthur
Isminger, coolly debated in midair to
day which of two plans for escape
chance would favor. They got into
trouble when one of the tail rods oil
the machine worked loose while mak
ing a flight. Isminger caught the
rod, intending to hold it until they
could land. In his struggle he tell
over the exhaust pipe and caught fir?.
Meanwhile Jannus had been fight
ing to keep the machine in the at.-.
While sparks flew from Isminger’s
c'othes they debated whether it v>..u; l
be better to drop the tail rod or de
sert the steering levers for a momen:.
They decided the latter sourse was
more prudent.
Jannus dropped the wheel, and
while Isminger held tightly to the rol
his burning coat was torn front his
back. They landed safely at Alton,
111. Isminger got a new coat and
they resumed their flight to Chicago.
PRIMAL ROW
my BE FULLY
INVESTICAIEB
Gum jrn n the uni
Police Board May Also Be
Probed
Atlanta, June IS.—With the police
commission itself in hot water as the
result of the indictment of one of its
members, Commissioner Fain, and
with everybody connected with th »
famous, or infamous, dictograph row
now accused of crookedness, it begin*
to look as if the grand jury w-ill hav»
to investigate the mess whether it
wants to or not.
It was at first suggested that the
police board was- the proper body to
investigate any charges brought
against, the police or detective de
partment, but then Mr. Fain’s name
was dragged into the mack.
There are still left In Atlanta a
few people who have not been mixed
up in some way with the dictograph
iow and the Phagan case, and wh.ts
they seem to be in the minority, they
are none the less anxious to find out,
if possible, who Is a liar and who isn't
a liar, and who is a crook and who
isn’t a crook.
It is admitted that the only hope of
, getting this interesting knowledge will
be through a grand jury Investigation.
ARE HEARING CASE
OF GEORGIA LIFE
Americus Stockholders Art
Interested
Macon, Ga., Jnue 13.—The petition
for an injunction against the Georgia
Life company by several minority
stockholders, to restrain the company
from changing its name or reducing
the capital stock and also the petition
for a receiver, are being heard in the
superior court here today. Practically
all of the morning was taken up in the
reading of the petition and answer.
i W. P. Wallis, of Americus, and
John R. L. Smith, of Macon, repre
sent the petitioning stockholders, an!
the company’is represented by Miller
4R- Jones.
MRS. MARY HARRIS ARMOUR
WILL DELIVER ADDRESS
Well Known Temperance
Speaker is Coming
Announcement was made here ye.>-
.terday that Mrs. Mary Harris Armou'-,
' the best known temperance lecturer
in Georgia, will speak here at the Pres
-1 byterian church next Thursday nigh;,
Mrs. Armour is too well known to
the people of Americus to need fur
i ther introduction, as she has been here
1 on numerous occasions hitherto, haviag
■ j been connected with every prohibition
. j campaign waged in Georgia the past
i few years. . .
I * *
j Mrs. Armour will have, as usual, a
I live message for those who hear he-.
I Mrs. Armour will arrive in the city
i next Thursday, June 19, and will dt
. Tver the lecture here that evening at
I the Presbyterian church. The public
I
is cordially invited to attend.
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