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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 (Contlnued on Page Eight) 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. j ' | m ....... —• ~ v —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. »############### >######»##»########< 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. NUMBER 142