Newspaper Page Text
trailing
the news
OF THE DAY
“Labor unrest” would be cured if
the general working was extended
to ten hours in the opinion of the
Illinois Agricultural association,
meeting in Chicago.
The association is on record as
denouncing strikes; condemning
.shorter hours of work, “which re
duce production and increase the
cost of living,” and predicting “na
tional calamity” if the spirit of
pioneering is persisted in.
* • •
With rings on her fingers and
diamonds on her ankles, Mrs. Peter
Hewitt, wife of the New York phil
anthropist, stepped down the gang
plank of the liner Mauretania this
week.
She made excitement wherever
she went.
First it was the customs official,
who was fussed when he made an
emergency appraisal to decide
whether a diamond bracelet on an
ankle was wearing apparel or not.
A friend asked Mrs. Hewett
where she “took up the fad.”
“Took it up.” She defied, “why,
I make it up.”
The left ankle is the member on
which to wear a diamond anklet
properly, according to the decree of
the inventor of the new fad.
* • «
A strike to begin this week has
been voted by representatives of
New York’s 4,500 drug clerks.
The clerks demand an 8-hour
day, a closed shop and an increase
in wages of 35 per cent. Soda
clerks, cashiers and other employes
in drug stores are included in the
union membership.
* • •
Maj. Gen. Robert L. Bullard, who
commanded the 2d Army in France,
has been assigned to command the
quarters at New York, Secretary
Baker announces. He will succeed
Maj Gen. Thomas H. Barry, re
tired.
• • •
The Hartford, Conn., city council
has unanimously passed an ordi
nance providing for daylight sav
ing in that city next year, begin
ning with the first Sunday in April
and ending with the last Sunday in
September.
• • •
A “love” jury, composed entire
of women, was selected the other
day in Cleveland, 0., to try Mrs.
Goldie Drossos, who asserted that
“only a woman can understand
some tilings in love.” She was ar
rested for leaving her husband in
Columbus and going to Cleveland
with John C. Buttery, 26 years
old, a window trimmer of Albany,
Ala.
When arraigned before Judge Sa
wicki and asked to give the reason
for her alleged desertion and new
alliance she asked for a jury of wo
men.
“A man couldn’t understand,” she
said.
“Very well,” said the court, “I’ll
give you a jury of women.”
• » •
National Guard units are to be
equipped with Browning automatic
rifle”, the war department an
nounces, the reserve supply of these
weapons having reached a point
to permit issuance ,o the guard as
well as to the regular army. The
department also has ruled that the
limit of 200 men for each senatorial
or congressional district fixed in
the national defense act as the
strength of the guard shall be ig
nored for the present fiscal year,
organization being on the basis of
axailable pay appropriations in
stead.
« • •
Though none of his friends had
yet credited U. S. \Senator Spen
cer, of Missouri, doing for
saccharine what Franklin did for
electricity, they are interested to
discover that the senator’s resolu
tion, suggesting the use of saccha
rine to break the sugar shortage,
is being used in an advertising cam
paign.
Senator Spencer’s name is ap
pearing in a chemical concern’s
advertisements in the Northern
press urging saccharine pills as
substitutes for lumps of sugar.
So the Department of Agricul
ture issued a warning against the
use of saccharine as a substitute
for sugar. “The department re
gal ds food to which saccharine has
been addea as adulterated, since a
substitute has been added which
niay render it deleterious to
health,” say the bulletin.
Senator Spencer’s resolution on
ly requested the comittee on agri
culture to investigate the feasibili
ty of wider use of saccharine.
• • •
Peter Meehan, “past middle
age,” is the first man to win a
verdict granting heart balm, it is
declared.
Judge Luther Campbell, of Ho
boken, decided that Peter’s heart
was broken to the extent of $250
when Miss Bridget Hangley, who is
described as “a comely lassie of
42,” jilted him.
* * *
The result of a provisional cen
sus taken October 8, shows Ber
lin’s population to be 1,897,000,
which is a decrease of 178,000, as
compared with December, 1910.
FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 251.
U. S. ENJOINS STRIKE
‘Enslavement Move’,lsßetort
COTTON REPORT
PUTS CONDITION
OCT. 25 AT 511
Figure Slightly Higher
Than Had Been Expect
ed By Trade.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—(8y
Asociated Press.)—The condition of
the cotton crop on October 25 was!
| 51.1, according to the supplemental
report issued today by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
i . .
i The condition report was something
■ of a disappointment to the trade, a
i condition of 50 per cent of normal
I having been confidently expected. The
; last previous report was 54.4.
As a result of the disapopintment
at the report, there was little change
in the market today. Trading in
Americus was almost at a standstill.
Elsewhere, while the market held
strong, there was not the radical in
crease in price as a result of a rush
to buy that had been expected.
Because of there being no previous
estimate of this date, the government
bureau had not figures for compari
son on which to base an estimate of
the total crop.
LOCAL SPOTS.
Good Middling 37 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Prev.
Close Open High Low Close
Dec. 36.49 36.75 36.75 36.30 36.65
Jan. 35.75 35.95 36.08 35.90 35.92
Meh 35.17 35.18 35.62 35.18 35.21
May 34.75 34.80 35.26 34.80 34.90
Bishop Reese To Be At
Calvary Church Sunday
Evening prayer will be said to
night, (Friday), at 7:30 o’clock. As
! ter the service there will be a meet-
■ ing of the choir to practice the music
for Sunday.
Tomorrow, November 1, being the
Feast of All Saints, there will be a
celebration of the Holy Communion
; at 11 a.m.
The usual services will be held on
Sunday. At the service Sunday
night the Rt. Rev. F. F. Reese, D.D.,
Bishop of Georgia, will speak on the
Nation-Wide Campaign. Every mem
ber is urged to be present and a cor
dial invitation is extended to all to
attend all the services.
Injunction Invoked
To Enforce Dry Act
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—United
States District Judge Hand today
granted a temporary injunction at the
request of the district attorney pro
hibiting the sale of all liquor contain
ing one-half of one per cent, or more
of alcohol. Under the injunrtion sa
loon-keepers who violate the prohibi-1
tion enforlement law can be summa
rily arrested and imprisoned for !
contempt of court.
Re-Opening Anti-Strike
Bill Hearing Is Denied
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. (By-
Associated Press.) —By unanimous i
vote the senate interstate commerce .
committee today refused to grant the j
request of representatives of the
railroad biotherhoods that hearings
be re-opened on the anti-strike pro
vision of the railroad bill which the
committee recently reported to the
senate.
Board For Big Sumter •
County Fair Next Year
A Sumter county fair next year
was determined upon at a meeting of
the directors of the fair association
yesterday, but it was decided to
leave the details to be fixed later by
the reorganized board, reorganiza
tion to be effected as soon as the de
tails of the recent fair are dispos
ed of.
ERIC
the;TimesWrecorder
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
CAPTAIN KNOX
TELLS WHAT S. A.
HAS DONE HERE
Some idea of the activities of the j
Salvation Army corps since its es- :
tablishment in Americus fifteen I
weeks ago may be had from figures
just compiled by Capt. Knox.
“I was going over the records of
what we had done the other eve
ning,” said Capt. Knox, “and was
surprised at the results, especially
when it is taken into consideration
that we have not been able t> work
outside of the city of Americus, hav
ing had no way of getting outside
the city.”
Here is what the records show the
Salvation Army corps has done in
the fifteen weeks:
293 hours visitation.
244 families visited.
60 indoor meeting held, with an
attendance of 4,123.
16 meetings with children held,
with an attendance of 824.
Several conversions reported at
these meetings, among them two men
and one woman past 70 years of age.
All of these meetings were held at i
the Brooklyn Heights chapel, which !
has been the center of the principal {
activities of the corps. The corps j
for some time has had a very flour
ishing Sunday school at the chapel, i
the attendance last Sunday being 84, '
and it being necessary for part of j
the classes to occupy seats on the
embankment at the roadside of the I
chapel. It was of the Brooklyn !
Heights chapel that Rev. Guyton |
Fisher not long ago stated in public
that the other churches of the city
had been unable to succeed very I
satisfactorily in th°’r effort’ to de- !
velop community interest in relig
ious work, but that the Salvation
Army had stepped in and met with
great success there.
“The meetings held as showfi in
There Should Be But Two Roads For Him.
~ ’ "‘"•''■'Ji,,,
- ~~ “A, ■afZ/, z 1N - k /
fit ’
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 31, 1919.
LABOR IS SCARCE, J
> YET—
? The Atlantic Ice and Coal Cor- )
? joration secured 30 carpenters (
[2 n a few days by the simple— ?
I > the obvious—means of resort- '
, ng to ADVERTISING.
:> The Times-Rec order carried ■
j; cheir advertisement for a day ,•
j) or so, and the report comes in: ;
.. )
> “Please discontinue < our ad. $
> We’ve 30 carpenters as a result >
)of your assistance.” • 5
IF WHAT YOU WANT IS IN S
AMERICUS IN SUMTER OR 5
NEAR-BY COUNTIES, AN
? ADVERTISEMENT IN THE
i HMES-RECORDER WILL
\ DELIVER.
S 5
PERSHING FOR
ARMY OF NOT
OVER 300,000
■ I
i WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—(8y
Associated Press.) —Disagreeing with
the war department recommendations,
General Pershing today told a joint
> meeting of the house and senate mili
tary committees he thought the per
■ manent army should be placed at the
, “outside figure of 275,000 to 300,-
: 000 men and possibly less.”
He said the army should be backed
by an army of “trained citizen re
j serves.”
this record do not include our ap
pearance at regular church meetings
in Americus, where we have led
prayer services o otherwise assisted,”
I Capt. Knox explained.
MAJ. CHURCHILL
TAKES CHARGE;
OF FLYING HELD
Lieut. Col. Ira A. Rader, who has
been commanding officer of Souther j
R ’ield for several months, will leave
tonight with Mrs. Rader for Dayton,
0., where he has been transferred
under orders from Washington, be
ing stationed at McCook Field.
Major Loren Churchill, the new
commander, arriced at the post this
afternoon, coming from Love Field,
Dallas, Tex.
Ellaville Man Hurt
As Auto Turns Over
In an unusual automobile accident
late last night Aubrey Stephens, of
Ellaville, was badly injured, and
Morris Hill, also of that place, was
badly shaken up, according to re
ports brought here by Americus citi
zens who passed the scene shortly
after the mishap, which occurred
about 3 miles Southeast of Ellaville
not far from the railroad crossing.
According to the information, the
men had been possum hunting and
were returning home about 11
o’clock. They were traveling at a
fair rate of speed as they reached
a sharp curve in the road at a point
where the highway has an embank
ment on the outside of the curve.
Instead of making the turn, the car
went over ” embankment and turn
ed completely over once. Stephens
I was said to have been rendered un
conscious by the injuies he received
but to have revived later.
> ___ 5
The Weather Forecast ?
For Georgia—Partly cloudy with
probably local showers tonight and
Saturday.
By Morris
ADMINISTRATION
GETS BACKING OF
HOUSE IN CRISIS
Maximum Coal Prices Fixed By President, Re-Efc
tablishing Fuel Control. —A. F. Os L. Officer*
Protest To Palmer Against Use Os Injunction—
Right To Strike Not Involved, Says He..
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 31. (By Associated Press.) —A ©ohs
porary injunction restraining all strike activities by the United. fMEhre-
Workers of America was issued in the Federal court here todfajr
the application of the United States government. Judge AuiJumma
signed the order on a showing by Assistant Attorney General <l. £L
Ames that a national disaster was impending. The hearing; cmdk. the
injunction was set for Nov. 8.
A conference that lasted until midnight was held at the FesSerel
building, but the result was not announced.
More than four hundred thousand soft coal miners were?, asafe®”
prepared to go on strike at midnight tonight.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. (By Associated Press.) —Art caaos
order fixing marimum prices for bituminous coal was signed today by:-
President Wilson. Prices of anthracite are not affected by the artlec-
The maximum prices fixed by state# and for prepared sizea ixrrase
from $4.60 net per ton at the mine mouth to $2.60.
The rules set up during the war governing the margin of psoafet®
of middlemen, wholesale and retail dealrs are re- .wadi
Administrator Garfield given full authority as he had during the-
V'ar.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 31. (By Associated Press. 1 As-
suming a defiant attitude toward the government’s injunction reuwv®,
Frank Farrington, chairman of the miners’.scale committee, declaanft
today that the ‘‘strike has developed into something more tfuiuct at
miners' strike.”
"It is an attempt to enslave the workingmen of the country,”
he said.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. (By Associated Press.) —By an ■
overwhelming vote the house today adopted the senate rreuihfr
tion pledging support to the "national administration and all’ od&ent
in authority' in their efforts to meet the "present industrial tiuerg
ency."
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (By Associated Press.) — Officers rtf
the American Federation of Labor protested to Attorney CierwaEsl
Palmer today against the action of the government in obtainimg an
. injunction in the coal strike. Samuel Gompers made an engagertueHSt
to see Palmer later in the day. Federation officials declared tfver in
junction violated the rights of union labor, while Palmer declared due
right to strike is not involved in the injunction proceedings.
BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 31. (By Associated Press.) L.oca®
Chairman Kennamer received instructions this afternoon from In
dianapolis to proceed with the walk-out. The telegram, signed by
Lewis, said: "Our position remains unchanged. Strike order effectiw®-
at midnight in all its provisions. We enter the great industrial cesct
test serene in the knowledge our cause is just and in conformity wdt&
the rights guaranteed by the constitution and laws of the LsssSesf
States." The message was filed at Indianapolis at 10:45 o’clock tlm
morning.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Oct. 31. (By Associated Press.) ft
is too late to recall the strike order in the opinion oi i ..
Keeney of District I 7 of Mine Workers.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 31. (By Associated Press.) —The ex«»-
tive committee of the coal operators of the Central Competitive- oawt.
fields adopted a resolution today welcoming an investigation of tKe
threatened strike by a tribunal to be named by President Wilson.
LITTLE HOPE FOR
RESCUE ALIVE OF
TRAPPEDJMINERS
AMSTERDOM, 0., Oct. 31—(By
Associated Press.) —After eing
’entombed forty-eight hours, little
hope is held that the 21 miners in the
Youghiogheny, Ohio, mine Number 2,
here are still alive. Rescue parties
have penetrated to within fifty feet of
where the men were entrapped, ac
tording to company officials.
HOME 1
EDITION I
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Fishing Party Back
From Two-Day Outing
A fishing party, consisting of Jtah®
Sheffield, Sam Heys, Frank Tucpzis,
J. L. Sparks and Will Howell re
turned last night from five m’iSen- ®r
low Leesburg, in Lee county, where
they spent two days camping- res iiae
banks of Muskalee cseek. They re
port a fine outing, with plenty
fish and squirrels.
Treaty Ratified By
Emperor Os Japan
TOKIO, Oct. 30.
(By Asociated Press.) —The caqaerer
today ratified the Versailles qpreatfr
treaty.