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A Southern Newspaper for Southern People FORTY-FIRST YEAR —NO. 235 FAIR EXHIBITS POUR IN; FILL FIVE BUILDINGS J. S. Public Health Ser vice Sends Its Big Display. “Exhibits have been pouring in at the fair grounds today,” said Secre tary Perkins this afternoon, “and we have found that, instead of using only four buildings, as we had intended, we will be required to use all five of them. And they promise to be filled to overflowing.” Exhibits of all kinds were being brought to the fair grounds and were being received by O. C. Johnson, sup erintendent of grounds, and a number of assistants. Placing of the exhibits was also begun, under the supervision of Mr. Perkins, Mr. Johnson and the decorators who arrived this morning from Atlanta. A number of exhibits of various fends, mostly of the wo man's work department, were left at the Chamber of Commerce today, but it was raid no more were to be re ceived there, it being necessary from this time forward to take them direct to the fair grounds. It was announced today that the government has sent here its public health exhibit, a highly instructive, as well as intensely interesting affair, and this is being placed today by Lieut. W. D. Tiedemann, of the pub lic health department, who will be in charge of it through the fair. Souther Field, through Lieut. Col onel Rader, the commanding officer, is also making an excellent exhibit for the Air Service, placing an display a considerable number of relics from the g’eat war, among them several foreign planes, including captured German planes, etc. There will also be the latest type of American planes and motors and appliances from the Aviation General Supply depot, in connection with Souther Field. A feature of the live stock show at the fair will be the public auction of a number of thoroughbred animals on Friday. All of the animals to be sold will be from the exhibit pens and will include some of the choice pig club pigs. They will include Duroc Jerseys and Poland Chinas, with a few Hampshires. Speculation continued keen today on the identity of the bride and groom in Thursday's public wedding, but without the positive knowledge leaking out. The ceremony promises! to be one of the most interesting events of the three days, and will take place Thursday, “either just be fore dinner time or at 3 o’clock, ac cording to Rev. Silas Johnson, who will tie the knot. PREDICTS 55CT COTTON; WILD SCRAMBLE SEEN ATHENS, Oct. 13.—“1n thirty days there will be a wild scramble for and, in my judgment, 55-cent cotton is in sight,' declared Thomas J. Shackelford up his return from Ar kansas, wh'ere he has been busily en gaged for the last two weeks in or ganizing the American Cotton Asso ciation. Mr. Shackelford has been in every cotton state in the Union during the past six weks, and says he is in a position to know that the 1920 crop is exceedingly small. “People have have been selling very freely at the beginning of the season. They were afraid of the steel strike and also the big rail strike in England, but neith er of these any longer effect cotton,” in the opinion of Mr. Shackelford. “Wherever I have been Southern mills have been frightened about cot ton and have been holding out. Now they are buying fast. They realize ; now that there will not be enough cotton to meet the demand.” Cotton should be selling at 55 cents a pound today, according to Mr. Shackelford. He says the man ufacturers could pay the price and then realize a large profit. Cotton goods are going up every day, the mills can hardly supply the demand and the only reason that cotton is not selling at 50 cents now is be cause European buyers have been kept out of the market to an extent by the great difference in exchange and by the railroad strike in England. The peace treaty delay has also had its effect. All of the differences and difficulties, however, are only tempor ary. he thinks. Mr. Shackelford thinks there is nothing under the sun that can pre- j Curses! It Won’t Explode In America i > W#' WWp ARMENIA FINDS I son SPOT IN : I SIVAS, Asiatic Turkey, Sept 20. (By Courier to the Associated Press.)- —Mustpha Kemal Pasha, head of the nationalist Turkish govern ment recenty set up in A.sia Minor, has informed the Associated Press correspondent that the hew govern j ment has issued order? to respt rt the Armenians and deplores the earlier Armenians massacres All the Kurds are eager to have the United States assume the man date for Armenia. Parrish McCranie Killed By Williams At Pavo PAVO, Oct. 13.—Late Saturday afternon Iffarrish McCranie, whose home was near Berlin, was killed by W. W. Williams, of Pavo. The j killing occurred in the store of Coop- I er, DeVane and Co., of which firm j Mr. Williams is a member. It is said that a report had reach ed the ears of Mr. McCranie to the effect that Mr. Williams had used | profane language in addressing a young lady related by marriage to Mr. McCranie, and the latter called at the store to discuss the matter with Mr. Williams. The two men were in the private I office of Williams, with the doors closed, when several pistol shots were heard. Bullet pentrated the door, injuring two m’en in the store, James John son receiving one ball in the arm and Josh Harrell sustained a slight wound on the head. Williams went out to his plantation , after the killing and was not located ■ by the officers until late Sunday, [ when he was arrested and taken to | Thomasville, where he was placed in ; the county jail. Williams is one of the wealthiest and most prominent men /f this section. It is understood that he claim self defense, sayirg *hat Mc- Crani'e was advancing on h.m with an open knife. Evidence at the coron- | er's inquest, which was held Saturday i vent cotton from going to 50 cents j or higher before next spring. The treaty will be signed, the financiers and shippers are making satisfactory agreements about exchange and the embargo on shipments of cotton to England has been raised. As the director of organization Mr. Shackelford will leave within the next few days for Missouri for a statewide campaign, which begins at Tackson on October 21. E RIC y S THETIMESrRECORDER PUBLISHED IN~THE~ HEART OF DIXIE Wilson’s Physicians To Ignore AH Idle Rumors WASHINGTON, Oct. ‘l3.—(By Associated Press.) —After today’s bulletin had been issued by Dr. Grayson, he and the other physicians attending the president, announced they would continue to stand on the dilily bulletin issued, and would not deny fumors as the President’s condition. The announcement said the president's mind is perfectly clear and he is capable of forming instant judgment on any matter. It was also declared by the attending physicians that nothing will be kept from the public should the President’s condi tion suddenly become critical. SMITH’S LOG SHOWS HIM AS DERBY WINNER MINEOLA, N. Y„ Oct. 13.—(8y ; Associated Press.) —Capt. Lowell ! Smith, the third eastbound aviator to j complete the trans-continental flight, i arrived here at 10:50 o’clock this [morning. j According to the record contained . i« Capt. Smith’s log-book, he has beat jen Lieut. Maynard in the race by about thirty minutes. Columbus Boy Badly Hurt By Hand Grenade , COLUMBUS? Oct. 13.—Ben E. Gride, a 10-year-old boy, was serious ly injured late yesterday when he ex ploded a hand brenade which he had picked up at the Chattahoochee Val ley Fair last week. His entire left side was torn by the explosion. S3OO FIRE DAMAGE. While the whole neighborhood was uptown watching the circus parade this morning, including the family, the home of L. B. Hill, colored, at 515 Jefferson street, took fire in the roof and had a good start before j the fire department was i < tiffed A. 1 quick run saved part of the house. The damage was estimated at s3oo*. ' The Weather Forecast s I for Georgia—Cloudy tonight and , Tuesday; probably showers in north portion; cooler in southeast portion tonight. , night, it was reported, was to the effect that no weapon was found on the dead man’s body immediately after the shooting occurred and that a knife found in one of his pockets i had not been opened. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 13, 1919. —By Morris j U. S. TO ACT AS LAST RESORT IN MINERS THREAT j WASHINGTON, Oct. 1* (By As ' sociated Press.) —Some official ac • tion. 'either by the President or cab- I met officials to avert the threaten ; ed strike of soft coal miners Novem berl, is to be expected, it was stated ’ today at the White House. Officials regard the matter as requiring gov i elemental action if other efforts to j avert the tie up fail. i— .. Albany Dressed In Gala Attire For Fair Monday ALBANY, Oct. 13.—Next Monday the gates of the Daisy Dixie Fair will i be thrown open and the public invited [to inspect the wonders of what now is j assured will be the largest fair in i southern Georgia. The city of Albany will be decor rated as never before. Welcome arches grace the principal thorough fares, while every mercantile estab lishment in the city will be gay with 1 gorgeous colors. Many exhibits have already ar rived on the grounds and when all are placed visitors will be amazed at the magnitude and stupenilousness !of the exhibition. Five car loads 'of interesting exhibits from the U. S. I government are now being placed In i the Exposition building. The live stock barns will be crowd j ed with pure bred animals of the high [est type. The liberal premiums have i attracted many of the best herds to' : Albany. The amusement program will be by i [far the best ever offered in the state' of Georgia. Harness and running' I races are programmed daily, while on 1 i Saturday, October 25, ten world I famed speed demons will engage ini ■ furious auto races. Records are sure to be shattered that! day, as some of I the most daring drivers in the coun try are entered at Albany. Circus I acts galore will be presented free j [ day and night. Murphy’s Shows will afford amusement and entertainment for all. This tented aggregation is composed of twenty shows, the cream of the amusement world. Each and every night will be presented a mag nificent display of the famous i Thearle-Duffield fireworks. Band con certs will be presented day and night. I With the magnificent exhibits and elaborate amusement program a rare treat is in store for all who visit Albany week of October 20. The railroads will have cheap excursion rates during the entire week of the fair. In addition to the enormous crowds that will attend the fair it is expected WORLD COTTON PARLEYTACKLES BIG PROBLEMS Delegates From 32 Na tions At New Orleans Conference; WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—(By Associated Press.) —With more than five hundred delegates from thirty two nations in attendance, the world cotton conference, called for the pur pose of organizing internationally and solving cotton problems, opened here today with seperate meetings by eleven different classes. One of the important matters to be taken up is revision of foreign exchange. GEORGIA COTTON MEN AT WORLD CONFERENCE. ATLANTTA, Oct. 13.—J. J. Brown, commissioner of agriculture for Georgia, will be the principal speaker at two big mass meetings which are to be held this week in the interest of the membership cam paign of the American Cotton Asso ciation. He will speak Wednesday at Carrollton and on Friday at Sum merville. Meetings were held every day last week in various counties of the state at which great interest and en thusiasm was shown. “Cotton Day’’ Saturday at the North Georgia fair in Rome, at which Commissioner Brown and Sam L. Olive, president of the Georgia Senate, spoke in the interest of the cotton association, proved a big uecess. A delega of Georgia cotton men, including several officials of the state cotton organization, are in New Orleans today attending the World Cotton Congress. The delegates do not represent any' particular organi zation, but were named by Commis sioner J. J. Brown, of the state agri cultural department, to represent the farmers of this section of the South. The delegates are C. R. Fitzpatrick, I of Winder; C. H. Kittrell, of Dub lin; D. F. McClatchey and L. B. Jack son, of Atlanta; Judge H. A. Boykin, * of Sylvania; J. A. Davis, of Sardis; T. J. Shackelford, of Athens; J. F. . Johnson, of Jefferson and W. L. Bry ant. of Lawrenceville. A large number of Georgia ginners are also attending the New Orleans meeting, having been named as dele gates by Mell M. Stephenson, secre tary-treasurer of the Georgia Ginners 1 Association, and editor and general manager of the Ginners Report, the official magazine of the Georgia ginners. The magazine will be dis tributed among the thousands of delegates at the congress, represent ing more than thirty nations. It is devoted to the cotton interests of Georgia and the South, and accord ing to the ginners, will be a great I booster for this section of the coun -1 try. 1 State Officials Probing Fairburn Bank’s Affairs 3 ATLANTA, Oct. 13.—Investiga " tion of the affairs of the Fairburn 1 Banking Company, at Fairburn, near here, were being made today by W. J. " I Speer, state bank examiner, who took (chairge of the affairs of the bank Sat- Murday after the arrest of Wm. B. 'lGreen, vice president and cashier, on ’ a charge of embezzlement. The ar ■ rest of Green followed the taking into 1 custody here Saturday night of a couple giving their names as Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bradstreet. Their chauffeur, Robert Ellison, a negro, ' | also was held. Blanket charges of '.suspicion were docketed against all 'three. Bradstreet is said to have been | a sergeant at Camp Gordon before I his discharge. The woman, who is I twenty-two years old, confessed, ac cording to the police, that Green had given her large sums of money, ap proximately $50,000. She denied this later. Green, the police say, declar ed he had loaned her money, but it was from his own money and not the bank’s funds. | Last Thursday night the bank building was set on fire and Green said two masked men had surprised I him working on the books, robbed the I bank of a sum of money and set it afire, leaving him bound and gagged ! on the floor. He wriggled loose and i escaped, he said. ’that no less than twenty-five thous and Choppers will attend the conven- J tion of the Southern Georgia Log- Rollers’ Association. This meeting [ 'will be featured with a spectacular; parade October 21, while on Wednes-! day, October 22, will occur the prize i drill. Six camps have entered teams j in the drill. Woodmen are antici pat-; ing a royal good time in Albany. Sergt. McLean, Marines, Who Inherits The Job Os Sultan And Forty Wives js khu* im * Rl H * ■ ■■MPw* > BR9 j L SO’ jk / I Serjeant Robert A. McLean. Sergeant Robert A. McLean, of the New York Marine recruiting station, has applied for leave to go to the island of Llang-Llang off the coast of Borneo. He wants to find out wheth er he wants to be Sultan of Llang- Llang and assume responsibility for the late Sultan’s, forty wives. While McLean was stationed in the Phillip pines he got into the good graces of the Sultan who adopted him. The Sergeant has been notified that his foster father is dead and the job of Sultan awaits him. HINES SCORES UNRECOGNIZED RAIL STRIKE I WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 —(By As sociated Press.) —-Strikes of railroad employes, such as that at ’.he Al toona, Pa., yards of the Pennsyl vania road, were declared today by Director General Hines as “creating a basis for argument that is nonsense as it heals solely with labor or ganizations because th'ey will not obey their own rules, and therefore makes the orderly handling of bus- ' iness impossible.’’ The statement was made in a let ter to Ben Jewell, acting president I of the American Federation of La [ jf the railway employes’ department of the American Federation of La -1 bor. The railroad administration was ( notified today that the striking shop men at Altoona would return to work [ this afternoon. The strike was lo cal. and not authorized by thfe union. Many Arrested As Steel Mills Re-Open YOUNGSTOWN, Oct. 13.—(8y Associated Press.) Considerable I turbulence was reported throughout the valley this morning as the steel mills resuming operations in greater volume after being closed by the . strike. Many arrests were made. 1 Another Good Night Passed By President WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—(8y • Associated Press.) —After another e-ood night’s rest, President Wilson showed further signs of improvement I today, White House officials said. Threaten To Tie Up New Orleans Port NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 13—(By Associated Press.)—Shipping at the port of New Orleans is threatened with complete tieup by next Thurs day, unless the demands for ihcreased i wages of nearly five thousand long shoremen now on strike are granted i according to statements of union lead- I ers today. ' The Cotton Market ! No market; exchanges closed for Columbus Day. i. HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS. FRANCE BACK ONi ..PEACUBASIS AS TREATYISSIGNED State Os Siege, Censor ship And Army Rule Ended PARIS, Oct. 13. (By Associated Press.) —Decrees published in the Journal officially this morning place the internal affairs of France on a peace basis, ending a state of seige, lifting the. censorship, and transfer ring jurisdiction over police affair* from the army to the prefectures. The French senate Saturday rati fied the peace treaty and also the Franco-American and Franco-Brit ish defense treaties. Th'e vote on the peace treaty with Germany was 217 for ratification, none against, and one absentation— that of Senator Delahaye. The vote for the adoption of the ratifieaXiM of the two defense treaties uanimous, all of the 218 votes being cast in its favor. Only th'e formal act of the French executive was required today to bring into effect the second ratificatis® of the three required ratifications by prinicipal allied and asociated pow ers, Great Britain having alreadjy completed its ratification. Crawleys To Hang For Shooting U. S. Marsha! BLAIRSVILLE, Oct. 13. The trial of the Crawley gang, charged with the murder of Marshal Ben Dixon in January, in fleeing arrest as draft law evaders, ended with the following veridets: George and Decatur Crawley, , giulty of murder. Rose Crawley and Blane Stewart; giulty of murder, with recommendn ’ tion to the mercy of the court. Felix Crawley, not guilty. Upon the freeing of Felix Craw ley he was rearrested on the charge of sheltering a deserter from the army. George and Decatur Crawley were sentenced to hang December 5. and Rose and Blaine Stewart were giv en life imprisonment by Judge J. B. , Jones when court reconvened tbs morning. Four Cantonments To Be Sold By U. S. i WASHINGTON. Oct. 13—(By ciated Press.) —Camp Shelby, Miss., and Camp Mills, Minola, N. Y.; tbe cantonments at Chicamauga and Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and the government improvements at New Port News. Va., are to be sold by the War De partment. Bids will be opened No vember 6 and 11. 11,000 Teamsters And Chauffeurs Ort Strike NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—(8y Asso ciated Press.) —New York’s latest j strike, that of 11,000 members of the International Teamsters, Chauffer* and Helpers brotherhood, tied up the ; principal railroad terminals today. The strikers demand a flat $25 per month raise, an eight hour day and one week vacation yearly. Sheriff Drops In In Midst Os Liquor Run Wesley and George Clark and Char ley Wilson, negroes, living on one of M. B. Council’s farms about 12 miles from Americus on the River road, , were in the midst of a “run” with a i lard '■;-n still Saturday evening when Sheriff Harvey and Deputy Summers, , who had started for Ashburn, “hap pened” in for a drink of water. The officers poured out a quantity 1 of beer from two barrels, smashed the still, and brought the negroes and the I captured liquor back to Americus where the men were placed in jail to await the action of the grand jury, RAINEY SWORN IN. WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. (By Associated Press.) —L. B. Rainey, recently elected representative for the Seventh Alabama distsict, was sworn in today as a member of the house. Representative Dent, of Ala bama presented Congressman Rai ney’s credentials. HOSPITAL ASSO. TO MEET. The officers of the Americus and i Sumter County Hospital association announce the regular monthly meet ing of the members Tnesdav after noon at 4 o’clock at the home of the nresident. Mrs. C. C. Hawkins, or College street AH members are urg ed to be present at this meeting.