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FORTY-FIRST YEAR —NO. 295?
CHIEF JAILED, 3,000 MINERS STRIKE
Sheriff Opens New War On ‘Blind Tigers’
LAW OFFICERS
OF 3 NATIONS
INDICjJAISER
French, Belgian and Eng
lish Chiefs Confer
On Exile
LONDON, Dec. 23.—Law officers
of the frown held a conference with
French and Belgian law officers to
day with regard to the former Ger
man emperor.
It is reported the conferees made
cut a case against the former Ger
man ruler and framed an indictment.
City Told New Current
Rate Will Start Jan. 1
Notice was served on the city
council last night by the Americus
Lighting Comnanv. no reply having
been received to its letter calling for
an increase in power rate to the city
for the coming year, that begining
January 1 the new rate would be
charged, with the 2 per cent penalty
added for failure to pay bills by the
15th of th'e month. The light and
water committee of council, through
Chairman H. B. Mashburn, which
was instructed to handle the matter
several weeks ago, asked for further
time to formulate its report.
Votes In City Election
Cost 50 Cents Apiece
Votes in the city 'election cost the
people of the community about 50
cents each. A total of thirty-nine
▼otes was cast, and last night coun
cil authorized the payment c/ the
officials at the rate of $3 each for
their day’s time besides settling with
the restaurant that sent in their din
ners. The amount allowed the offi
cials has been customary for the last
year or two.
Duel Over Christmas
Wedding Fatal To 1
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 23.
—Grim Hopkins, a farmer living near
Anniston, Ala., is dead, and Jake
Carter desperately wounded as the
result of a pistol duel at Carter’s |
home last night. The trouble grew
cut of Carter’s objections to Hopkin’s
marriage to his sister, set for Christ-,
mas.
B. Y. P. U. Tree T o Hold
Coin Gifts For Missions
The Missionary Christmas tree
to he given next Friday night by the
Junior B. Y. P. U. in the Central
Baptist church at 7:30 o’clock, will
have no gifts on it but cash offerings
for missionary purposes. Those who
have made a pledge for the 75 Mil
lion Campaign, will please mark their
names clearly for their gifts will be
credited on their pledge.
H. L. Mize Is Elected
To Police Commission
Hugh L. Mize is today a member
of the Am'ericus city police commis
sion having been elected to that posi
tion last night by the city council to
fill the unexpired term of R. L. Alli
son, who resigned to qualify for the
city council, to which he was recen
ly elected.
Hines Ignorant As To
Wilson’s Rail Plans
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. —Direc-
tor General Hines was called before
the regular meeting today of the cab
inet. He said he had no information
as to what the president intended to
do in regard to turning back e
railroads.
CHRISTMAS SERVICES
AT CATHOLIC CHURCH
On Christmas Day there will be
three celebrations of the Mass in the
Catholic church, on Lee street, e
first of these beginning at 8 a. m. At
8 :30 th«re will be another Mass said
and at 9 o’clock, the last Mass of the
morning ■will begin. Rev. a er
Mitchell, of Macon, will be the cele
brant. and confessions will be heard)
in the church, beginning at <.l a - y'
Elks Add $25
To Xmas Fund
For Poor Tots
The Times-Recorder’s Empty
I Stocking Fund went almost to S4OO
’ today when the Americus Lodge of
! Elks sent in $25, one-fourth of a
fund of SIOO, which they have col
lected for various Christmas charities,
i The total up to date is $396.74,
nearly all of which has already been
i turned over to Mrs. Sherlock, of the
i Associated Charities, who is now
| busy preparing the baskets for distri
bution. Following are the contribu
tions up to date:
Mrs. Eugene Cato 1.00
C. 0. Niles 5.00
Americus Elks 25.00
Cash 2.00
Mary McDowell 50
$33.50
Previously acknowledged .363.75
TOTAL $396.24
perlnggiven
! BIG GREETING IN
OLD HOME TOWN
Laclede, Mo., Turns Out
En Masse —State Gives
Him A Medal
LACLEDE, Mo., Dec. 23.—General
Pershing returned to his boyhood
home today.
Aside from the presence of the gov
ernor and a brass band at the railway
station, the greeting to “Johnny”
Pershing was spontaneous. The town
was in gala attire. Bunting formed
a canopy over the single street of the
town down which General Pershing,
with his sister, Miss May Pershing,
his son, Warren, Governor Gardiner,
Mayor Allen and a group of friends
of his boyhood days drove to the old
Pershing home for dinner. Thous
ands of visitors came from the sur
rounding country.
Governor Gardiner this afternoon
presented to General Pershing, in
the name of the state of Missouri, a
medal of twenty-two carats gold.
The medal is two aud one-half inches
in diameter and weighs fixe troy
ounces. The medal is inscribed ap
propriately 3he governor’s presen
tation speech was written on parch
ment and presented with the r. e dal.
National Guard Plan
Proposed By Legion
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—A pro
posal by the American Legion that
membership in the National Guard be
permitted as an alternative to univer
sal military training is receiving se
rious consideration in both branches
of congress.
Much opposition to compulsory mil
itary training would be removed if
young men were given a chance to
take their training in night drills as
members of the National Guard, ac
cording to Legion officials. This plan
cording to its backers, would mean
night military schools for those . who
cannot afford to attend training
camps.
Ex-Doughboy Killed
By Shell Souvenir
MANKATO, Kas., Dec. 23.—Lester
I Kettenring, a Jewell county boy,
brought a 3-inch shell with him when
I he returned from France. Recently
he was visiting his sister at Grand
: island, Neb., and tooK the shell with
him. Standing by the stove, Ketten-
I ring attempted to take the shell apart.
1 It exploded, killing him. but. alt ioueh
the stove was blown to pieces and
I the room wrecked, tne u t. r. sitting
near Kettenring, was uninjured.
Found $16,950 Liberty
Bonds In His Satchel
ST LOUIS, Dec. 23.—One hun
-1 dred and twenty Liberty bonds with
a total value of $16,950 are being
held bv the police here, following t
apprehension of a man giving the
name of John S. Burt, of New York,
claims t’ ey are not his. and that h
j does not know how they came to be
| in his satchel. |
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THE TIMESrI RECORDER
feajT PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DiXlETlfefrj
THOUSAND BAGS
FIUjD READY FOR
COMMUNITY TREE
Every Child, Rich Or
Poor, Wanted At
Celebration
A score of representatives of the
various women’s clubs of the city
were occupied all morning at the
ccurt house filling 1,000 vari-colored
muslin bags with candies, nuts and
fruits which will be distributed to
every white child of the community
attending the Community Christmas
tree and singing »arols in front of
the court house Christmas night. The
bags of red, purple, blue, light green,
pink, ted orange and other pretty
hues, made a gay appearance. They
were not small bags, either, and they
were well filled, each having a large
handful of nuts, an orange or an ap
ple, and a stick of candy and well as
other mixed candies.
“Ard the fine thing of it all is,”
said Miss Ella Polk, who has been the
leader of this community Christmas
idea, and who couldn’t keep out of
this end of the work, although she is
responsible only for the music, “that
it is for EVERY white child—not
for the poor only. Please impress
upon the people that this is a truly
community affair, for the rich and
poor alike. We want every child to
|be there—as well as the grown-ups—
and there will be something for every
one of them.”
6 P. M. Christmas Day.
The affair is planned for 6 o’clock
sharp on Christmas night— not
Christmas Eve—in front of the court
house. The big oak tree at the cor
ner is to be turned into a tree of
glory, with colored electric lights and
great masses of tinsel and colored
decorations. And the bags of goodies
will be piled on tables beneath the
tree. The carolers will sing from a
great platform to be erected over the
court house front steps. It is not be
lieved the entire celebration will con
sume more than one hour. Five well
known carols—which appear in rjJ-
■ most every hymn book —will be sung.
These will be printed in Wednesday’s
Times-Recorder, from which they
may be cut and preserved for use
at the Christmas tree celebration.
Miss Polk announced today that
| the community rehearsal of carols
■ would be held at 7 o’clock this evc
! ning at the East Americus Methodist
i church. All in that community who
will take part are asked to attend.
Chairman Gordon Howell, of the
1 supplies committee, today made pub
lic the list of donations from which
i the 1,000 bags were filled as follows:
Previously asknowledged
Ten pounds of nuts, Mrs. Chas. M.
| Council.
Ten pounds of nuts, Mrs. C. A.
Ames.
Rotary Club, 6 -1-2 pounds.
T. T. Gatewood, 5 pounds nuts.
New Donations.
GloVer Grocery Co., 1,000 sticks
of candy.
C. O. Niles, 50 cents.
Acme Sanitary Market, 16 pounds
assorted fruit and candy.
N. Joseph and Barker and Com
pany, 16 pounds of assorted fruit
and candy..
Geo. Nassar, bag of fruit.
Salem Nassar, two dozen oranges.
Mrs. Azah, bag of fruit.
Mize Grocery Co., two dozen
oranges.
Am'ericus Confectionary Co., bag
of fruits and candies.
Bragg Meat Market, 5 pounds of
nuts.
Joshua Co., dozen apples.
Terris George, bag of fruit, candy
and nuts.
Edwards Grocery Co., peck apples.
City Fruit Co., dozen apples, dozen
oranges.
A. J. Harris, 2 dozen oranges.
Buchanan’s Grocery, 2 dozen
orantres.
United Grocery Co., 1 box
Sparks Grocery Co., 1-2 box
oranges.
Central Baptist Sunday School S2O.
First Baptist Sunday School, S3O
First Methodist Sunday School S3O
Lee Street Methodist Sunday
School $lO.
Presbyterian Sunday School $5.
Calvary Episcopal Sunday School
$5.00.
NO TIMES-RECORDER XMAS.
In nc<’r>rjan'’n with previous cus
tom Th a Times-Recorder will issue no
Ijaper Christmas Day.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 23, 1919
THIS BUSINESS
MUST STOP, HE
GIVESJWARNING
Asks Co-operation Os
Public In Running
Down Offenders
With an open invitation to citizens
to give him information regarding any
illicit liquor operatoins going on in
Sumter county, which will aid in en
forcement of the prohibition laws and
ending the traffic here, which infor
mation he will hold in strict confi
dence, Sheriff Harvey today declared
renewed warfare on blind tigers. He
issued a signed statement to the pub
lic, which is reproduced herewith.
“This business has got to stop,”
said the sheriff in discussing his ac
tion, and he wasn’t talking for publi
cation either. “Not that lam a hide
bound prohibitionist or anything of
the kind. The people .’who have
known me a long time know there are
no wings sprouting on me, and in the
past I have had no quarrel with a man
who took a drink and behaved him
self, as I always considered that his
business and not mine. But this bus
iness has come to such a state that
law abiding people cannot put up with
it any longer. lam sworn to do my
duty, and I consider It my duty to put
a stop to it if I can. And I can go
a long way toward it with the help
of the public.
A Record of Crime.
“When we look at that record of
crime through which we passed in
the three weeks of criminal court just
ended, ninety per cent of which, ac
cording to my estimate, is traceable
directly to bad liquor, I don’t know
how any man can stand up and de
fend it. Sunday a week ago we were
down at the river, following the trag
edy in which a man and a little girl
lost their lives as a result of liquor.
After I had worked hard nearly all
night trying to find the bodies in the
flood, someone spoke up and told me
he didn’t know I worked so hard at
my job. I told him—and there were
a number standing around—that any
thing that was worth doing at all was
■worth doing well. ‘And furthermore,
I might say, for the benefit of those
who had criticized «ne for trying to
break up this whisky business,’ I
told him, ‘and in the face of a tragedy
of this kind, hereafter when a man
dares to stand up and tell me it is
none of my business I am going to
take a buggy trace and get him be- I
fore a crowd and larrup the stuffing
out of him.’
Not Looking Ahead.
“That’s the way I feel about it. I
don’t care a bit about what people
think of it or me for it. Some have
said that next year is election year,
and that the liquor forces would ‘get’
me if I kept it up. Well, I want to
say that if that kind of people are in
the majority here, I don’t want the
office again, for you may be sure 1'
don’t want their support.
“However, I don’t believe this kind
of people are in the majority. I be
lieve the recent demonstration of
crime that we have had has brought
about a marked change of sentiment
against this business. The substan
tial people of th’e county see that it
must stop—that it cannot go on fur
ther. That was evident by the man
ner in which juries convicted liquor
cases at the last term of court, com
pared with previous terms when it
was often very difficult to convict
unless the evidence was such that
there was no other way out for the
jury. And so lam hopeful that the
people will help and that we will put
an end to this business. But, what
ever people think, I am going to do j
my duty, as I see it.”
Sheriff Harvey and his deputies in- J
terrupted the operations of a band!
of surreptitious liquor makers on the I
farm of John Sheffield several miles
south of Americus yesterday by
smashing their still and pouring out
a barrel of beer. No arrests were
made, however, and no clues as to the
identity of the operators were found.
The still, a large tin can affair with
considerable capacity, was located far
in the woods in an obscure old shack,
the remnant of a saw mill which had
once occupied the site. Nearby was
a cool spring which assisted material- |
ly in the operations of the band. There '
were evidences that the still had been
operated regularly recently. It is
the belief of the sheriff that a party
of negroes of the neighborhood were
still, which was com-|
Sheriff’s Call On Public
For Aid In War On Liquor
'J’O AH Good Citizens:
This office is co-operating fully with United States offic
ials in enforcing the laws in regard to the making and selling of
whisky, and all persons are called upon to furnish such informa
tion as they may have as to violations of the law. Information is
desired especially as to location of stills and of persons making
or selling whisky. This information will be used for immediate
act : on and also as a record for my use and for the use of United
States officials.
The names of persons furnishing such information will be
considered in all respects strictly confidential.
This information may be given me in person, byf letter or
over the 'phone.
Office at the Court House. Hours from BA. M. to 4P. M.
Phone No. 48.
LUCIUS HARVEY,
Sheriff of Sumter County.
PEACE DELAYED I
TILL NEW YEAR
German Chief Must Re
turn To Berlin For
Consultation
PARIS, Dec. 23.—-Exchange of rat
ifications of the peace treaty before
the end of the year is considered in
French official circles as impossible.
This opinion was formed today when
the head of the German delegation
here announced he would be obliged
to return to Berlin to consult with his
government on the latest Allied com
munication.
State’s Still Stolen
With Recipe Book
JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. 23.—A
small “still” was stolen from the of
fice of State Beverage Inspector Mos
by at the capitol the other night. The
“still” was used for testing alcoholic
contents of beer in the chemical de
partment. At the same time the
“still” was stolen a book on “How to
Distill Whisky at Home” also was
stolen from the department The sup
position is that some bootlegger took
the property with a view to making
moonshine whisky.
Lodge To Be Boss
Os G. O. P. Convention
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Tenta
tive plans have been made to have
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Mas
sachusetts, as temporary and perma
nent chairman of the Republican na
tional convention. There has been
some talk among the leaders of fon
mer Senator Elihu Root for tempo
rary chairman, but it is understood
that the plan of having one man for
both places, first used in 1908, will
be continued in 1920.
‘Ship or Shoot’ Reds
Is Gen. Wood’s Cure
DENVER, Dec. 23.—“ My plan for
the Reds,” Gen. Leonard Wood said
in an address at Fort Collins, is “S.
O. S.—ship or shoot.”
“I believe that we should place
them on ships of stone with sails of
lead. We must advocate radical laws
to deal with radical people.”
General Wood attacked profiteers,
declaring good meals were provided
for men in the army at 50 cents a
day.
Soldiers Asked To Have
Part Jn Community Tree
It looks like the soldiers at Sott- j
ther Field are in for a none too lively
Christmas. It may cheer them up a I
bit to know that they are expected to
be in on the community Christmas
tree at the court ’house at 6 o’clock
Christmas evening. It is a commun
ity affair and ev°ry soldier wherher
officer or private, is hereby Invited by
th? committee in charge to attend
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Georgia—Fair tonight and
Wednesday. Temperature near freez
ing Aight.
naraSGfT pafe from detection be
causffiwAs location. A party of hunt
ers have come upon it.
CAPT-D’ANNUNZIO
LEAVESFIUME
Italian Insurgent Report
ed To Have Departed
On Steamer
ROME, Dec. 23. —Capt. D’Annunzio
i has left Fiume on the steamship Pan
nonia, according to newspaper re
ports.
This Man Believes
Doomsday Is Near
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23—He’ll
tell the world it’s coming to an end.
Leo D. Mullin, property clerk at
police headquarters, says he has
knowledge of an astounding fact, on
which he bas’es his belief in predic
tions of a doomsday. It is this:
There are more people ill these days
than ever he knew or heard tell of
before.
Many telephone calls a day ap
prise Mullin of this widespread ill
ness. Numerous friends stop him on
the street and inform Mullin of inva
lids in their hitherto healthy fami
lies ;of the need of distant relatives
for medical potions. And, strange to
say, all these bearers of bad tidings
invariably end by remarking that it
is in Mullin’s power to help them to
the panacea for all th'ese human ills.
And they mention the stock of
; whisky, confiscated in police raids,
which is stored in Mullin’s property
) room.
Mullin says he fears that continu
ed gloomy predictions of the end of
j the world may cause him to fall ill.
Prison Term Ends
Huge Motor Swindle
CHICAGO, Dec. 23—Federal
Judge Landis has sentenced Samuel
C. Pandolfo, organizer and head of
th’e Pan Motor Company, St. Cloud,
Minn., convicted of using the mails
to defraud, to serve 10 years in a fed
! eral penitentiary and fined him $4,-
I 000.
Attorneys for Pandolfo gave no
tice that his case will be appealed to
the United States circuit court of ap
peals at once.
The jury found Pandolfo guilty on
four counts on an indictment charg
ing the use of the United States mails
in a scheme to defraud in mailing let
ters to prospective stockholders mis
representing the company's progress
and development by stock salesmen. |
Along with Pandolfo, other officers ;
and directors of the Pan Company
were indicted, charged with conspira
cy to use the mails to defraud, but I
Pandolin alone was found guilty.
However, a charge of perjury,
growing out of the trial, still hangs:
over H. S. Wigle, one of the acquit-I
ted men in the case,
Letts To Ask Armistice
c o’net R”Mi'tM
HELSINGFORS, Dec. 23—The
Lettish government has decided to
op°n negotiations with the soviet gov
ernment of Russia for an armistice
according to Riga advices.
The Carnegie Library will close
Wednesday afternoon for ihe holi
days and will reopen Friday morning ■
at the usual hour.
A
News of The Whole
World By
Associated Press
PRIeE FIVE CENTS.
MEN IN SEVEN
KANSAS MINES
OUT IN f 'ITEST
Ho watt Sent To Cell
When Check For Bond
Is Refused
PITTSBURG, Kans., Dec. 23.
Seven coal mines in this state, em
ploying 3,000 miners, were idle this
morning the men went on strike in
protest against the action of Federal
Judge And'erson, at Indianapolis, yes
terday in sending Alexander Howat,
president of the Kansas district, to
jail.
CHECK BAIL REFUSED;
HOWAT GOES TO JAIL.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 23.—Alex
ander Howat, president of the Kan
sas district (No. 10), United Mine
Workers of America, w’ent to jail last
night awaiting hearing on a charge
of contempt of court for alleged vio
lation of the federal court injunction
against furtherance of the strike of
coal miners. Hearing has been set
for next Monday at 2 p.m.
Howat appeared in federal court
this morning at the order of United
States District Judge A. B. Ander
son. He was under a bond of $lO,-
000, provided in the form of a check
on a Kansas bank. Judge Anderson
disapproved of this form of bond and
immediately after the afternoon ses
sion of court began at 2 o’clock, re
manded the miners’ official to jail,
until he reached a d'ecision as to the
i amount and kind of bond which will
I be acceptable.
TEA ROOM NOTES.
Here are some recipes that have
been especially popular at the Tea
Room. The lady manager thought
some of the Tea Room patrons might
like to use them during the holidays.
In fact they have been requested:
Butter Scotch Pie.
To the yolks of five eggs add one
and one-half cupfuls of sugar. Scald
three cupfuls of sweet milk, stir in
yolks and sugar and put back on stove
until it boils. Add one-half cupful
of burnt sugar. At the last add three
tablespoonfuls cornstarch dissolved
in one cup of cold milk. Put on rich
pastry and top it with a meringue
made of the well-beaten whites, add
ing one tablespoonful of sugar for
each egg.
Thousand Island Salad Dressing.
We have never been able to de
termine whether this dressing origi
nated in the Thousand Isles, or is so
called because it has one of two toma
! toes, a little onion and green pepper
cut up in mayonnaise, to which a
goodly portion of tomato catsup, or
I ketchup, or however you may spell
it, is added and a tiny bit of tobasco.
Try this on lettuce or lettuce and to
matoes, or baked fish, and you will
smack your lips involuntarily.
Washington Irving in his “Old
Christmas Dinner,” uses this Was
sail Chanson, only we are substituting
teapot for bowl:
“The brown teapot,
The merry brown teapot
As it goes round-about-a
Fill
Still,
Let the world say what it will,
And drink your fill all-out-a.”
So many out-of-town shoppers dine
at the Tea Room these days that we
despair of chronicling their names.
The Tea Room will be closed
Christmas Day, but turkey dinners
will be served the two days preceding
Christmas.
Miss Jewell Bridges and Miss
Ethyl Wells lunched at the Tea Room
Monday and were so kind as to play
several brilliant duets which were
encored n <.*>♦. vigorously.
—C. B. S.
LOCAL SPOT COTTON
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