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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 115.
REWARDS OFFERED FOR LACKEY BROTHERS
ALLIES ANSWER
PEREMPTORILY
HUN RHINE AND
SARRE WAILS
Italian Controversy to be Negotiated
Directly Between Italy and
Jugo-Slavia.
PARIS, May 16.—(8y Associated
Press.) —A peremptory answer to the
German note registering objections to
the treaty arrangement for the left
bank of the Rhine and the Sarre valley
has been drafted by the special Al
lied commission on territorial affairs,
it was reported this morning.
The German peace treaty, it devel
oped today, contains a clause which
had not yet bee n made public, provid
ing that ratification by Germany and
the principal associated powers will
bring the treaty into force between the
ratifying powers, enabling the im
mediate resumption of trade.
It is quite probable the Turkish
and Bulgarian treaties will be nego
tiated and signed in
Saloniki or some other iiient city
to the Near East, according to Reu
ter's Paris office.
Negotiations pending for the ad
justment of the Adriatic controversy
contemplete a direct settlement be
tween Italy and Jugo-Slavia through
American mediation. By this plan
the Austrian treaty would not specify
he disposition to be made of Dalma
tia, Istria and Fiume, beyond detach
ing them from Austria.
GERMANN WARNED AGAINST
HOSTILITY TO FOREIGNERS.
BBERLIN, May 15.—(Thursday.)—
(By Associated Press.) —The police
authorities of Berlin today issued a
proclamation warning the public
against demonstrations hostile to for
eifn residents of the city.
TERMS NOT UNJUST, SAYS
FORMER SPANISH PREMIER.
MADRID, May 16.—(8y Associated
Press.) —Approval of the peace terms
presented to Germany is voiced by
the Diario Universal, the organ of
former Premier Romanones, the Span
ish Liberal leader. The paper says it
would be unjust to accuse the Entente
Powers of imperialism after the rav
ages suffered by France and Italy
Negro Assailant
Riddled by Mob
DUBLIN, May 16.—Jim Waters, a
negro who assaulted a young white
girl at Scott about two weeks ago, was
lynched in Johnson county, near
KA'rightsville Thursday by a mob who
fibok the negro from Deputy Sheriff
L, Smith, who was on his way to
Dublin with him to place him in the
Laurens county jail.
Officers stated Waters admitted he
was the negro who committed the as-
Deputy Smith and Sheriff
Rowland started Waters to Dublin
early in an effoit to escape a mob
thought to be forming.
At the Macon bridge over the Ohoo
pee they found a big touring car stop
ped crossways to block the road. *
“Not a man was in sight,” said
Smith, “but we stopped and before we
could alight at least 150 guns had cov
ered me. Not a word was said, except,
'Everyone sit steady.’
“Two men took Waters out of the
car, ordered us to turn around and go
back the way we came.
“We went.
“That was the last I saw of Waters.’'
Later parties coming to Dublin from
Wrightsville, told of seeing Waters’
body tied to a tree, in plain view of the
road .at a point two miles down the
river from where he was taken by the
mob. Instead of hanging the negro to
a limb, he was tied to a tree in plain
view of the road, then his body was
literally shot into pieces, some of the
ropes being cut by the hail of lead.
Waters worked on the farm of the
girl’s parents for 10 years and was a
trusted farm hand. Identification was
positive from the first.
,->,ooo CONDUCTORS MEET.
ST. LOUIS, May 16.—(8y Associated
Press.) —Five thousand delegates had
been registered today with the recep
tion committee of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, in the triennial con
vention here.
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COLLUM AGAIN
NAMED HEAD OF
AGGIES’ SCHOOL
The state legislature at its com
ing session is to be asked to appro
priate $20,000 to the Third District
agricultural school for general pur
poses. the same to be made available
upon certificate from the president of
the board of trustees of the school
that an equal amount of additional
funds has been made available from
other sources.
This was decided at the meeting of
the board of trustees of the school
yesterday afternoon, the first meeting
of the board since the redistricting
took place, and took the form of a
resolution of instructions to the legis
lative committee of the board.
It is proposed to first ask the leg
islature for the contingent appropria
tion, and, if this is acted upon favor
ably, to conduct a campaign for rais
ing the $20,000 by popular subscrip
tion. This campaign will be underta
ken by the local chamber of commerce
the co-operation of that body being
assured by Secretary Perkins and the
following other officials and mem
bers of the chamber: Messrs. W. W.
Dykes. E. J'. Mathis. J. R. Cargill and
Frank Lanier. The $40,000 thus to be
raised is to be used to complete the
new main building on the campus, up
on which work was stopped some
time ago for lack of further funds,
and to equip it and pay off part of the
debts against the school.
The following members of the
board were present at the meeting:
Lester C. Slade, Muscogee; W. I.
Van Horn. Chattahoochee; B. Turnip
seed. Clay; G. P. Monroe, Marion; J.
E. Dennard. Webster; W. J. Mathis,
Terrell; Walter E. Steed. Taylor;
E. J. Hart, Schley; Dr. B. B. Brooks.
Macon; J. P. Hughes. Crisp; J. D.
Clifton. Lee, and Crawford Wheatley,
Sumter. The following members were
absent: J. J. Gordy, Stewart; H. M.
Kaigler, Quitman; N. M. Weaver, Ran
dolph; T. Hoyt Davis, Dooly.
The board organized with the fol
lowing officers; Walter E. Steed. Co
lumbus, president; Geo. P. Monroe,
Buena Vista, vice-president; Craw
ford Wheatley, Americus, treasurer:
The principal is secretary ex-officio.
The following commifttees of the
board were appointed for the ensuing
year:
Farm and shop work: B. Turnip
seed. W. J. Mathis, .1. D. Clifton. W. I
Van Horn. J. E. Dennard.
Teachers and salaries: Geo. P. Mun
ro, L. C. Slade. J. 1’ Hughes, B. Tur
nipseed.
I’ancia'; Crawfor Wheatlez L. c.
Slade, Judge E. J. Hart. J. E. Den
tin rd
I »-gislative and Press: I C Slide,
G I Munro, B. Tutnipsol, Crawford
) Wheatley, Dr. E. B Brooks.
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At a meeting of the teachers com
mittee last evening following the trus
tees meeting J. M. Collum was re-
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THE TIMES RECORDER
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TrT PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
No Raven Feeding
Foi This Elijah!
HeJFeeds a City
Elijah Phillips, who has a small
tract of just five acres, in Brook
lyn Heights, isn’t the largest far
mer in the county, but he certain
ly ranks among the best.
Read what he has accomplished
o n his little tract:
He produced a hard-headed
cabbage weighing 14 pounds and
measuring 12 inches across.
He has already sold this season
$43.00 worth of English peas,
gathered from ten rows, and in ad
dition he saved a bushel and a
half of these succulent vegeta
bles for seed next year.
He has sold this season $175
worth of early cabbage, and now
has $500.00 worth standing in the
field waiting to be gathered and
sold to eager purchasers in Amer
icus.
And that isn't all.
He set out a while back 1,000
: tomato plants which are now 18
i inches high, and have tomatoes on
them as large as "taw” marbles.
The value of these tomatoes is not
estimated.
But, just think it over. $7lB
worth of vegetables produced on
live acres during a single season
and with probably as much more
to be realized from the fruit of
those 1,000 tomato plants—isn’t
so bad after all. Maybe Sumter
county land is worth all people
pay for it nowadays—and a little
besides.
30,000 on General
Strike in Winnipeg
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WINNIPEG. Man.. May 16. (By As
sociated Press).—Perfect ordeY- and
lack of demonstrations so far have
marked the general strike which today
' involved nearly 30,000 workers in al
| most every branch of the city's aettv
i ity.
The general walk-out began yester
: day, and included even the clerks in
the city hall and many postoffice em
: ployes.
The telephone operators In all the
local exchanges joined the strike to
) day. stopping all telephone communi-
I cation.
Allied Warships
Gather at Smyrna
PARIS. May 16.—(8y Associated
j Press'.) —An extensive Allied naval
concentration has been begun at Smyr
na in connection with the mandate to
Greece to administer that city.
elected principal for the ensuing year,
| but action on the selection of the sac-
I ulty was deferred until later.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 16, 1919
GEORGIA’S TAX
COMMISSIONER
COMING HERE
H. J. Fullbright, state tax commis
sioner. will be in Americus either
Thursday or Friday night of next
week for the purpose of discussing
with Interested citizens the proposed
new state tax law.
This was announced last night to
the city council by Stephen Pace, rep
resentative from Sumter county, who
had just returned from Atlanta, where
he arranged with Mr. Fullbright to
make the trip. The pace suggested to
Mayor ’Sheppard that he also attend
the meeting and at the same time ex
plain to the people the special tax of
5 mills which the city is to ask the
legislature to authorize for the pay
ment of the city’s floating indebted
ness.
Mr. Fullbright will make the trip to
Americus alone because the special
tax committee, authorized by the leg
islature to hold hearings in six sec
tions of the state, has already held al
of these hearings and cannot, extend
them. Mr. Fullbright was informed
that a number of Americus citizens,
including bankers and a number o.
merchants who are interested in the
proposed new law, desired enlighten
ment and failed to attend the Albany
hearing because of a change in the
date, of which they were uninformed.
Mr. Pace stated today that he would
advise with a number of interests
men and notify Mr. Fullbright which
of the two named dates would be more
desirable for him to be here.
Mr. Fullbright is an old and dost
friend of Mayor Sheppard, they hav
ing been closely associated in the leg
islature.
Still Found Handy
to Leslie Topers
That liquor is being made in a loca
tion very handy to Leslie topers was
the discovery last night of Sheriff Har
vey and Deputy Summers when they
raided the home of Cicero Vance, a
negro. living within a quarter of a
mile of Leslie on the Wardlaw Nunn
place. Cicero had just run off a batch
of white lightning and was enjoying
a peaceful nap when the officers broke
in. The tin can still had not yet cool
ed off from its recent operation.
Cicero is said to have admitted to
the officers that lie was making liquor.
He was brought to Americus and palc
ed in the county jail to await action
bj- the coming grand jury.
NEGRO B,MUSING SUNDAY.
Eighteen or twenty converts of the
Mt. Olive Baptist church, colored, will
be baptised in Muckalee creek next
Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock near
the Spring street bridge, according to
announcement of the pastor, Rev- J-
H. Ponder. Services are being held,
every night at the church.
WAR DECLARED
ON'RIDICULDUS’
VALUATIONS BY
COUNTY BOARD
Equalizers to Start Monday to Fuf
Property Values ‘Where They
Should Be."
War On low valuations and unequiv
ocal taxation in Sumter county was
declared today by the board of county
commissioners at a special meeting
for the purpose of formally appointing
George D. Wheatley , o the board of
equalizers to fill a vacancy. At the
same time it was announced that the
equalizers will hold their first meeting
next Monday in conjunction with the
commissioners, at which the equaliz
ers will be given the board's instruc
tions and a program will be worked
out for equalizing assessments.
“It is a shame,” said Chairman Neill
Ray, "that the total assessments in
Sumter county amount to only nine
and a half millions of dollars. We go
around here bragging how fine a coun
ty we have and how our land is the
best in the South—which it is—and
how it is worth SIOO to $l5O per acre
and even more, and then turn it in for
taxation at $lO to sls an acre. It is
a disgrace. I believe we turn in
property for taxation at a lower rate
than any other county in Georgia. We
should have a valuation of at least
$20,000,000 returned. If that were
done we could lower the tax rate —and
that would look a whole lot better to
the outsider seeking a place for in
vestment than the present rate.
“What we intend to do is to put tax
ation values in Sumter county where
they ought to be. The commission
ers are going to stand behind the
equalizers, too. The equalizers ate
going over the entire list as given in
and when a piece of property is noted
on which the valuation is too low they
are going to raise it to what it ought
to be. And please let the people
know what we are going to do, and
that we mean business.”
“Another thihg we are going to try
to do.” said R. S. Oliver, member of
the board from Plains,, “is to bring
out a vast amount of untaxed and un
returned property in the county. For
instance, last year there were return
ed in Sumter county 587 automobiles.
I believe there are close to 2.000 cars
in the county and nearly 537 in Amer
icus alone. Besides, there are lots j
of money, mortgages and notes now j
untaxed that we want to collect taxes I
on. It is only right and only fair to j
those who are paying a just share of
taxes. The total tax return in this
rich county is ridiculous. . Laurens I
county, which is not as good a county ,
as Sumter, although slightly larger, |
has a taxable valuation >f -SIS O<>').')oo.l
Ours should be at least $20.am).000.;
and on that basis we could reduce our j
present assessment of sl2 <m the I
$1,000.”
I. B. Small, tax collector, was pres-;
ent during the discussion. “I am
sure.” said he. "that a returned valna-l
tion of less than 50 per cent, of the >
actual market value of proptrey in |
Sumter county would produce a total 1
taxable valuation of $20,0O n .O )0,” said j
he.
Returned Soldiers
Exempt Street Tax
All soldiers who have Returned to I
Americus since January 1 are exempt
from street tax, according to a vote
of the city council last night, upon a
luestion brought up by City Attorney
Lane at the request of Marshal Poun
cey. Mr. Lane stated that no legal ex
emption could be claimed without ac
tion of the council, but. he said, it ap
peared hardly fair that a man taken
away from his business should be met
on his return home with a demand for !
street tax. The mayor and council I
agreed with him and promptly voted
the exemption. Mr. Pouncey stated
that he had alreadv collected street j
tax from several returned soldiers,
but no instructions were given him
concerning refund of these.
! PHECOTTON MARKET ? '
LOCAL SPOT,
Good Middling 28 1-2 cents.
i
NEW YORK FUTURES
PreV.
Close Open High l-ow Close
May .28.95 29.00 29.30 29.00 29.30,
July .27.58 27.75 27.98 27.70 27.98
Oct. .25.97 26.20 26.45 26.25 26.40
Dec. .25.52 25.65 26.02 25.77 26.02
Daughters of
Confederacy
Deplore Act
The following resolutions were
adopted this afternoon at an executive
meeting of the local chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy:
A RESOLUTION.
Whereas, The Georgia Division of
the United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, through great effort and sacri
fice, provided and erected at Ander
sonville, Georgia, a monument to the
memory of Captain Wirz, an officer in
the Confederate army and commander
of Andersonville prison during the
War between the States; and,
Whereas, While said monument is
the property of said Georgia Division,
the Americus chapter of the U. D. C.
feels obligated by reason of its terri
torial proximity, to exercise a protec
tive right in said monument; and,
Whereas, Said monument, together
with many others within the National
Cemetery nearby, which were erected
by other organizations in commemo
ration of the memory of the soldiers
of the Union army, has remained for
years unmolested, respected and
guarded only by the mutual consider
ation of the respective sentiments
which prompted their erection; and. ;
Whereas, Said monument, so erect
ed to the memory of Captain Wirz,
was on the night of May 13th, 1919,
maliciously defaced, desecrated and
defiled, by painting portions of the
same in red. black and yellow colors;
wherefore,
Be it Resolved, That we, the Amer-;
icus chapter of the U. D. C., indignant
ly condemn such malicious act and
resent such a deliberate violation of
the sacred memory of a true soldier
of the South. We thank the constitut-1
ed authorities, both, military and civil. |
for their diligent and prompt efforts
to apprehend and properly punish the
persons guilty of such indignities;
Be it Further Resolved. That while
we righteously resent and condemn
the acts of such persons, we are con
fident it was only prompted by the
personal malice or lack of apprecia
tion of those few who committed them,
and was not the expression of any sec
tional sentiment nor the spirit of any
true American. We commit them to
the dishonor with which their own
act has stamped them.
This, May 16th, 1919. ,
AMERICUS CHAPTER, U. D. C„ by
MRS. E. L. CARSWELL, MRS. F.
P. HARROLD, MRS. JAMES DAV
ENPORT, MRS. W. C. GRAY,
MRS. GEO. DUNCAN. Executive
Committee.
FIRST SUMTER
PEACHES SELL
AT $5 CRATE
Tile first Sumter county peaches of
L 919 season to be marketed were ship
ped from Maddox Station last evening
Jy J. E. Poole. Six crates were sent
by express to Jacksonville, for which
a price of $5 ver crate was offered.
The peaches were of the Mayflower
variety.
Sumter county peaches are expect
ed to be moving in heavy volume next
week. Mr. Poole stated that he woul.
have only 400 or 500 crates of this
early variety fro mbis LOOo 3-year-old
trees.
Fruit men from the Fort Valley dis
trict have been in Americus this week
and a number of deal for the crop of;
large orchards are reported to have
been closed. The Southen Brokerage
company was said to have enteed into f
several contracts, paying an average j
of $2 per crate—sl.7s for the earlier
varieties and $2.25 for the Eibertas.
the price'.being F. O. B. Americus, i
Some offers for Eibertas of $2.50 have
been reported.
Planes Turn Back,
May Be Off Today
TREPASSY, N. F„ May 16.--(By As
sociated Press.)—The seaplanes NCI
and NC3, and probably the NC4 may
make another attempt this afternoon
to start for the Azores in their trans-
Atlantic flight.
Rough weather outside the harbor
and the arrival of the NC4 yesterday
evening caused the abandonment of
the plan to start, after the two planes
had got under way.
WEATHER FORECAST *
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For Georgia.—-Partly cloudy to
night; probably local showers Satur
day.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PVT. M’ANALLY
GETS 3 MONTHS
AT HARD LABOR
AND HALF PAY
Soldier to Serve at Ft. McPherson
for Part in Andersonville
Monument Affair.
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EFFORT MADE TO INTERCEPT
BROTHERS ON WESTERN TRIP
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Sentiment Approves Colonel Raider's
Action, But is Divided on Ade
quacy of Sentence.
Three months at hard labor in the
miltary prison at Fort McPherson,
and the loss of half pay, was the sen
tence of the court martial at Souther
Field meted out at a late hour last
nigh upon Private McAnally, who had
already been reduced from the rank
of sergeant, for participation with
former Lieut. Myron E. Lackey and'
his brother, Harold Lackey, in the
desecration of the Wirz monument at
Andersonville Tuesday night.
The court martial was reported to
have been in session until about mid
night, upon orders from Lieut. Colonel
Rader, the commanding officer, that
the case must be cleared up at the
sitting. Immediately after the finding
of the court, which was approved by
Colonel Rader, the latter wired to the
headquarters of the department of
the Southeast at Charleston for au
thorization for transporting the pris
oner to Fort McPherson. It was stat
ed at the camp this afternoon that this
auhorization had not yet been receiv
ed, but that it was expected during
the day and McAnally would be taken
to Atlanta on the first train thereaf
ter.
Following the finding of the inves
tigating committee at the post Thurs
day afternoon, as printed in The
Times-Recorder yesterday, fixing the
blame also on the brothers,
steps were taken by representatives
of A. S. Cutts camp, Sons of Confed
erate Veterans, and officials to appre
hend them wherever they are and have
them brought back here for trial. The
records at the camp show their per
manent addess is Roseville. Calif.,
near San Diego, and it is said they
left here for home.
Warrants To Be Taken.
Warrants for them were to be takien
today by John W. Shiver, representing
the Sons of Veterans, ai l telegrams
were sent early in the day by him to
police officials and sheriffs in various
Texas cities through which they would
pass on the way to California. Re
wards of SSO each were offered for
their apprehension, and it was said
this amount would be increased, if
necessary.
As an example of the popular feel
ing in the affair the following tele
gram received by The Times-Recorder
from Chas. R. Moore, of Anderson.
S. is published:
"If report is true that Wirz monu
ment at Andersonville was malicious
ly mutilated and money is needed to
find guilty party, 1 want to head ad
subscription list with one hundred
dollars to aid. 1 live in Asheville, N.
C„ but was raised in Southwest
Georgia.” | j | 1
Colonel Rader again today repudiat
ed the conduct of the former officer,
and his brother and Private McAnally,
denouncing the. act as one for which
just punishment should be meted out
to the offenders.
Asks Dorsey’s Aid.
Last night he dispatched a lengthy
letter to Governor Dorsey, at Atlanta,
setting forth the entire facts in the
case and imploring him to use his
best influence with the governors of
other states in whch these men might
he located to have them detained and
sent back to Sumter county for trial.
A complete report on the whole affair
was also sent to Washington yester
day.
The following telegram was sent
this afternoon by the Chamber of
Commerce, through) Secretary Per
kins, to the Director of Air Service,
Washington:
“People of Americus and vicinity
unanimus in hove that unfortunate
affair in connection with defacing of
Wirz monument at Andersonville wilt
have no bearing on status of Souther
Field. Prompt action by commanding
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