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FORTY-FIRST YEAR —NO. 236.
U. S. BOMB PLOTS ATLAST CLEAREDUP
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Thieves Loot Americus Homes Circus Day
J. W. MOSTELLER
LOSES VALUABLE
PAPERSANDCASH
Mrs. W. S. Ivey Frightens
Negro Intruder From
Room
Thieves, evidently working under
cover of the circus, which exhibited
here yesterday, ransacked several
Americus homes last evening, in one
of them, that of J. W. Mosteller,
on East Church street, obtaining
more than SI,OOO worth of Liberty
bonds and money, besides notes,
deeds and othey papers of no value
to the robbers but representing a val
ue believed to be between $12,000
and $15,000 to their owner.
“I have no way to estimate care
fuly just what the value of the miss
ing papers is,” said Mr. Mosteller to
day.
Other places entered were the
home of Mrs. J. W. Stallings on W.
Church street, the home of H. M.
Sellers, across the street from the
Stallings home, and the home of W.
S. Ivey, on South Lee street. Other
depredations were also reported to
the police.
In the IVey home Mrs. Ivey en
countered a negro, who ran from the
house. In the Sellers home the in
truder was frightened away. In the
Stall.ngs home four silk valued
at S4O, belonging to Roney Stallings,
sen of Mrs. Stallings, were stolen,
along with some articles of jewelry.
The jewelry, said to have been of
antique design, was found this morn
ing near the Mosteller residence, be
side the tin box which had contained
Mr. Mosteller’s missing papers, which
had been cut open. Two knives, one
with a broken blade, were also found
nearby. The j'ewelry was Enclosed
in a Sunday school envelope bearing
the scriptural quotation. ‘'The Lord
Loveth a Cheerful Giver.’
White Man Seen.
Neighbors of Mrs. Stallings report
ed having seen a white man about
the back yard of her place about
5 o'clock la . vening. which leads
to the conclusion that the robbery
of her k ~e and that of the Mos
teller h . was not done by a negro.
Tod. Mr. Most’ellef gave out the
follov. i. g list of his losse for pub
licatic ~ which, he said, was not da
taller ...id not complete:
“C i? lot oi valuable papers con
sistii of deeds, notes, life insurance
polk ~ etc.
“ Five hundred dollars in Liberty
bond. id War Savings Stamps, prop
erty i. the children.
“One let of rare old coins.
“On -mall pearl and diamond cen
ter ' ooch, one lavalier.
“Two twenty dollar bills, other i
currency and some silver money.”
“I had been feeling bad yesterday,”
said Mr. J. W. Mosteller today. “Last
evening, shortly after 7 o’clock, I
asked my wife and the other members •
of my family to ride down town with
me to get the mail. We returned
home about 8 o’clock, and as soon as .
we entered the house we saw that it I
had been ransacked. The burglar
had entered through a rear bed room,'
from which he had torn the blind. He
had taken my pistol from the bed in
this room, then thoroughly searched
every room, going systematically,
through the house.
Neighbor Say Lights Turned On.
“V. H. Gaines, who lives across the
street, was sitting on his porch, and
reported afterwards having seen the
lights turned onXand off in all the *
rooms, one after another. Unfortu- |
nately. there was money in almost
every room, where it had been left
by various members of the family, and
it was all where it could be easily |
found.
“I do not care so much about the
loss of the bonds and money, but I
would pay very liberally for the re
turn of the other papers. The only |
reason I kept them at home was be
cause I did not have a safe. Some
time ago I ordered one, and sent my
check, but the firm finally sold it to
someone else -for a little more than
the price made to me, so I have just
delayed putting them in a place of
safety.
“I believe I came near losing.an ,
rnfcmcbile. too, as I found that a
barrier which I had placed in front of )
my ear had been carefully removed '
EMBARGO GOES
ON FREIGHT FOR
NEW ORLEANS
ATLANTA. Oct. 14. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —An embargo on all
export freight through the port of
. New Orleans, except that bound for
| Havanna. was announced today at
the southern regional headquarters
of the railroad administration.
It was explained the order was is
sued to prevent a tieup of freight
cars at New Orleans, where approxi
mately five thousand longshoremen
are out on strike.
and everything was in readiness for
starting it and speeding away.”
“I was sitting on my porch with
my daughter, Annie, last evening’”
said Mrs. Ivey in telling of the in
truder in her home." It had not been
more than five minutes since Annie
had come out of the house. I Was
| sewing, and started into the house to
do some stitching on the sewing ma
chine. As I reached a point in the
hallway close to the door of my bed
room a negro suddenly darted out
and ran toward the back door, which
was standing open.
Shouted At Negro.
“I shouted, ‘What are you doing
there?’ but he kept on running. I
called to my daughter to get some
one to come and help and see if we
couldn’t catch him. She saw a negro
man sitting on the coping of Mr.
Hooks’ yard, and called to him. He
came and went around the back way,
then soon afterward came back and
reported that the negro had disap
peared down through the Hooks’ back
yard. This man soon disappeared.
We now believe he was an accomplice
of the one who was in the house* for
later we learned from the Hooks’
butler ,who had been in the yard for
20 minutes or more, that the fleeing
negro had not come that way at all.
“We didn’t Miss a single thing, ex
cept a fountain pen, and I am not
sure it was stolen. I am sure the
negro was not in the house long
enough to get well started before he
was interrupted.
“In the yard we found the ax,
which was standing near the house,
lying down in the alley, where he
evidently carried it until sure he was
not being pursued.”
The intruder was frightened from
the home of H. M. Sellars about the
same hour. Mr. Sellars’ son, who |
was up stairs in the house at the )
time, happened to turn on an electric ■
light, which caused the negro to flee .
before he had taken anything.
Among the other depredations re- ■
ported for the day was the theft of i
two bicycles belonging to delivery
boys from the Americus Drug com
pany and one from a boy working for
the Rylander Shoe company.
Arbitration Demand
Os Labor Presented
WASHINGTON. Oct. 14.—(8y
Associated Press.), —Labor’s, demand
that the nation-wide steel strike be
arbitrated was reported to the na
tional industrial conference today by
the steering committee without rec
ommendation, but the suggestion that
if arbitration was undertaken the
proposed committee of six be chosen
by the groups in the conference from
members or non-members of the con
ference.
Chairman announced
that two groups in the committee
opposed arbitration, but a majority
of all the members of the committee
favored it. There was no immediate
action on the report.
Dr. Lansing Burrows
Confined At Hospi‘al
Dr. Lansing Burrows is at the city
hospital, where he was taken yester
day by order Dr. W. S. Prather,
his physician, suffering from bron
chial pnumonia in a rather mild form.
His condition is said not to be alarm
ing, but sufficiently serious to require
careful handling.
' He has been ailing for sometime
from what he considered a “cold,”
but which his physician has diagnosed
as a form of pneumonia of the bron
chial tubes.
The Weather Forecast I
For Georgia.—Showers probably
tonight and Wednesday; warmer in
interior.
ER IC U S-2-
PUBLISHED IN THE HEA R f OF DIXIE~fIWfr(
COTTON JUMPS |!
T0341-2CENTS, I
UP $5 A BALE
Big Advance In Liverpool
Is Cause—Little Sell
ing Here.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —The cotton market
was very active and excited today,
owing to a big advance in Liverpool
over the holiday and bullish leather
and crop advices from the South. Oc
tober sold at 34.80 on call, or $8 a
bale above the closing of last Sat
urday.
COTTON HERE BRINGS
PRICE OF 34)4 CENTS.
Cottont ouched a nrw high figure
since last spring today when 34 1-2
cents was offered here for good mid
dling spot. This was an increase of
$5 per bale or 1 cent per pound. It
was one of the best days the market
has seen in a long time, although
it did not result in much selling.
Although strong most of the entire
session, the market closed at the hign
est point of the day. As a result,
what cotton was sold went at a frac
tion under the highest mark for the
day.
Local cotton men are now expect
ing 35 cent cotton very shortly—•
possibly at once. Warehouse men
say there is some old crop cotton
on which they have standing orders
to sell at 35 cents. This is cotton
which has been held ever since early
last spring when the farmers agreed
among themselves to reduce their I
acreage one-third and not sell their
cotton for less than 35 cents. Some I
of them reduced their acreage, and
some held their cotton. It is now
believed that the faithful are about
to get the figure set as their minimum
at that time.
LOCAL SPOT. i
Good Middling 34 3-8 —34 l-2c.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Prev .
Close Open High Low Close
Dec. 33.30 34.10 34.30 33.93 34.30
Jan. 33.30 34.00 34.20 33.80 34.20
Meh. 33.20 33.80 34.05 33.75 34.05
May 33.25 > 33.98 33.98
GETS $17,000 FROM LOST KIN
Brother, Missing for Years, Leaves
War Insurance to Indiana
Woman.
Vincennes, Ind. —Answering a knock
at her door at night, Mrs. Mary Pritch
ett, mother of a large family In hum
ble circumstances, admitted a Canadi
an army officer, who gave her $17,000,
representing insurance and back pay
of a brother. Bert Lawrence, who had
been killed while serving in France
with the Canadian army.
The first news Mrs. Pritchett had
had of her brother for many years
was the official notification of his
death two rears ago. She knew noth
ing at the time regarding the insur
unee, which ’md been allotted tt’ her.
C] Many a man is serv
ing in a miss-fit position
because he hesitates to
start on a canvass for a
new one.
A want ad will find
the place you want and
should have.
(J It is needless to re
mind you that when
the position hunts the
man a better salary is
inevitable.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14, 1919.
I Slightly Disfigured But Still In The Ring
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CASHIER MAKES
BOND;WOMANIS
SIIll IN CELL
ATLANTA, Oct. 14.—. Although
William B. Green, vice president of
I the Fairburn Banking company, ac-
I cused of embezzlement, has been re
leased from the Fulton county jail
on $15,000 bond, Mrs. Clarence Brad
street, “the woman in the case,” is
still held the bars on sus
picion.
Her husband, Clarence Bradstreet,
an ex-sergeant of the army, is also
held at the police headquarters, as
well as the colored chauffeur of the
couple.
j Mrs. Bradstreet is the woman on
j whom the Fairburn banker is sup-
■ posed to have spent the money, and
i who has confessed to receiving many
gifts, both of money, valuable jewelry
’ and clothing from him.
The bank, which has been ordered
| temporarily closed pending a thor
ough audit of its books by State Bank
| Examiner W. J. Speer, has retained
Reuben Arnold, well known criminal
i lawyer, to represent them in the pros-
I ecution of Green.
I Green is now mayor-elect of Fair-
I burn, superintendent of a Sunday
(school and has served in the past as
aiderman, city clerk and other public
i posts of trust. Immediately after his
I release from jail, Green returned to
his home in Fairburn. He is married)
and has one child, a daughter about
eight years old.
“I deny absolutely any connection
with the robbing or the burning of
the Fairßurn bank,” said Green. “It is
an absurd story and nothing but a
frame-up. I am sure that the truth
will soon come out.
“I have loaned Mrs. Bradstreet
money on a number of occasions. I
have called her ‘Kitty’ and she has
called me ‘Bill,’ and I have kissed her
1 several times, but there have been
no improper relations of any kind be
tween us and the money that I have
loaned her has always been paid
back.”
Mrs. Bradstreet insists that she
know nothing of the bank robbery or
that the funds she received from
Bourgeois Is Frayice’s
League Representative
PARIS, Oct. 14.-—(By Asosciated
Press) —Leon Bourgeois former Pre
mier and Minister of Foreign Rela
tions. has been appointed representa
tive of France on the League of Na
oitns.
Green were obtained illegally. Green
denies any shortage at the bank, but
says that two robbers, who he al
leges bound and gagged him Thurs
day night while he was working on
the books of the bank, made off with
$32,000 worth of Liberty bonds be
fore firing the bank building. His
wife declares she will stick to him
through the trial, insisting that her
husband is innocent.
The police declare that Green gave
Mrs. Bradstreet costly jewels, clothes
and automobiles to the amount of
$35,000 or $40,000.
A legal battle over the thousands
of dollars worth of diamonds, jewel
ry, automobiles and clothing of Mrs.
Bradstreet has been started.
The fight over the possession of
the jewelry of the “diamo’hd wom
an”, as Mrs. Bradstreet has been
called, promises to reveal many of
th'e inside facts concerning her fi
nanical deals. For instance, it was
said by her lawyer that the SI,OOO
diamond and pearl pin worn by her
husband, which was a gift from his
wife, was obtained purely on credit.
| Not a cent had been paid on it, and
i it will be surrendered.
A diamond brooch, valued at $3,-
! 000, had been obtained on a S7OO
) payment. Only an equity in this
i bauble will be claimed. It was the
) same with the motor cars.
; The appointment has been an-
I nounced of J. H. Logino, former
) president of the Fairburn Banking
j company, as receiver for the bank.
Moths in Closets.
Get a with -moulhed bottle, three
■ounce will do, and fill it with oil of
I mirbane. Leave the cork out of the
bottle and place it in the trunk or
I closet in such position that it will not
tip over. The fumes are very poison- ,
I ous to insects. For a very large closet
) tise a larger bottle anti larger amount
of oil. Renew the oil whi n needed. ,
Sprinkle heavy blankets, quilts, etc., ■
with the oil of mirbane before pack- )
ing away.
By Morris
CAR OF BURNING
COTTON RUSHED
HEREANDSAVED
With a carload of cotton worth
nearly SIO,OOO afire, a northbound
freight train on th’e Central of Geor
gia railroad last night raced into
Americus from the vicinity of Smith
. ville, arriving in time to permit the
Americus fire department to save al
most the entire carload, the damage
being estimated by Fire Chief Nay
lor at S9OO to SI,OOO.
The engineer pulled his train to
such a position that the burning car
was standing at the McGarrah street
crossing, and the department was im
mediately called. When the men ar
rived the flames and smoke were pour
ing from the window' in the front of
the car, and the interior was well
ablaze. The hose was thrust into
the window and the fire subdued, fol
lowing which the sealed doors were
pulled open and the smouldering
bales thrown from the car.. Os the
54 bales in the car, 15 were badly
singed, but the damage to the others
was declared to have been limited to
scorching on the top. One end of
car was also damaged considerably.
The fire is believed to have orig
inated from sparks from the engine
falling through th’e open end of the
car.
Army Doctors Foresee
No Flu Epidemic Ahead
ST.LOUIS. Oct. 14. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —There is no indica
tion of an epidemic of influenza this
winter, according to speakers at the
convention of the association of mili
tary surgeons of the United States,
in session here today.
Perhaps Carpenters Struck.
The Victoria tower of the houses of
parliament, at Westminster, took some
twenty years to build. From be-e to
summit the tower contain® 149 spa
cious rooms—each fireproof and pack
ed with state papers, the records of
centuries of English history.
HOME
I EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
CARY,IND., STEEL
STRIKE CITY, IS
TERRORIST NEST
Man Who Blew Up PaL
mer’s House Under
Arrest.
CHICAGO, Oct. 14. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —Federal authorities
at Gary Ind., wnere the military ar®
in control after the situation growing
out of the strike of the steel work
ers became too threatening for the
state authorities tc handle, have ar
rested the alleged maker of the bomb
exploded on the night of June 3 at
the residence of Attjrney Genera®
Palmer, in Washington, and have ob
tained evidence clearing up the ter
rorist bomb plots of May day anS
June 2, according to authoritative
information here.
Military authorities at Gary an
nounced they hoped to have the mak
er of the Gimbel and oth?r bombs
which startled the country during the
I pats year under arrest within the
| next few hours.
Secret service men announced they
‘ had uncovered a plot to assassinate
i the mayor of Gary, had discovered
great stores of dynamite near Gary
and traced the printisg of red cir
i culars to Indianapolis. They alse
i said they had arrested the man wh«
i blew up the entrance of the Chicage
postoffice a year ago
HAD FINGERS ON THEM ALL
TIME SAYS PALMER.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14.— (8y
Associated Press.) —“Fine,” said At
torney General Palmer loday when
informed that the man alleged to
have made the bomb which exploded
at his home in June had been arrest
ed at Gary, Ind.
“These fellows can’t escape..
We’ve had our fingers on any one
of them at all times,” he said. “The
peril from the Reds in America so
■ greatly exaggerated.”
1 >
Soviet Orders All
Russians
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Oct. 14.
(By Associated Press.) —The Soviet
Government of Russia has ordered
the entire population of that coun
try to train immediately for military
service, according to reports reach
ing here from Russian sources. AB
peasants, it is said, must devote their
time, which is not occupied with agri
cultural work to drilling.
BERLIN, October 14. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —Suggestion from en
tente that Germany join in
) a blockade of Soviet Russia
I have not yet been officially consider
) ed by the German cabinet, but hwe
i inspired a statement indicating 1 that
i the government’s answer will neith
■ ed be unconditional refusal nor indi
) cation of assent.
Making Improvement Sure.
We c an nil do good work, for all that
Is required is to follow directions laid
iown by other people who have done
?ood work before us. It may be that
' we can improve on what other people
i have done, and after awl Ale It may be
, .hat can strike out a line for our
j selves. Most of us will find that if we
:io the best we can, even in the most
I sledding way, we shall find ourselves
mproving and rising, step by step, in
( mr chosen tusk. —New York Evening
I’elegrnph.
■■■■■■ - ■"■■■l 'MIW
International Expositions.
The first international exposition tn
) this country was held in New York In
1853. The centennial exhibition took
flace In Philadelphia in 1876, the
World’s Columbian exposition in Chi
•ago in 1893, the Pan-American ex
position in Buffalo in 1901, Louisiana
Purchase exposition in St. Louis in
1904 and the Panama-Pacific exposition
n San Francisco in 1915. These were
he most important exhibitions having
m international character.
Optimistic Thought.
Titles may be purchased, but vlrhn
Is the only coin that makes the bargain
valid.