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FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO. 3
THOUSANDS TAKEN IN U. S. RAIDS ON REDS
WILSON TO TELL
PARTY HE WON’T
TAKE A 30 TERM
Jackson Day Dinner Jan.
8, Set For Announce
ment Is Word
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Presi
dent Wilson will formally announce
in a message to the guests at the
Jackson Day dinner to be held here
on Jan. 8, that he will not be a can
didate for a third term in the White
House.
This statement was printed here
this week by the Washington Post
and investigation tends to support it.
The President will write a letter to
the guests announcing his intention
•lot to continue in political life after
March 4, 1921.'
The Jackson dinner s a great
Democratic event and will be the oc
casion for the airing of many candi
dacies. If Wilson does as Democrat
ic leaders say he is going to do, the
way will be open for a number of
the personal friends of the President
to make definite announcement of
their aspirations which they nave
withheld up to this time because of
the possibility that Mr. Wilson might
run again, in which event they would
have packed up their little booms and
remain in political obscurity.
Bryan to Be There.
William Jennings Bryan will be
one of the chief speakers at the ban
quet and he is expected to let it be
known in the course of his address
whether the candidates he will sup
port for the Democratic nomination
will be Josephus Daniels or William
Jennings Bryan. Hope springs eter
nal in the Bryan breast, and it would
not surprise many if the Nebraskan
offered himself again to the country.
This possibility, however, is scouted
by the party leaders, who say that
Bryan feels he can do more in be
half of another’s candidacy than for
his own.
Once a definite statement comes
from the President that he will not
in any circumstances be a contes
tant in the election race a dozen or
more candidates will spring into full
bloom. Among those now furthest
along are the following:
William G. McAdoo, former Sec
retary of the Treasury and former
Director General of Railroads.
A. Mitchell Palmer, Attorney Gen
eral.
William Jennings Bryan, former
Secretary of State.
Atlee Pomerene, Senator from
Ohio.
Oscar Underwood, Senator from
Alabama.
Champ Clark, Representative from
Missouri, former Speaker, and a lead
ing candidate in the convention of
1912 in Baltimore.
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the
Navy.
Many to Become Active.
Newton D. Baker, Secretary of
War.
James W. Gerard, Ambassador to
Germany at the entry of the United
States into the war.
Gilbert Hitchcock, of Nebraska.
Democratic minority leader and lead
er of the treaty fight in the senate
for the President.
Some, of the foregoing at present
are on' Potential candidates, but
they will become active ones once the
lid is taken off by the President's an
nouncement. Gerard has been so
as to announce that he is ac
tively in the rac- but that he will
withdraw if Mr. ilson runs. Mc-
Adoo, on the other hand, has been
more seriously embarrassed and has
refused to say anything at all, wait- [
ing for some statement from the j
Wh to House as to the intentions of j
Mr. Wilson. Others with aspirations
are similarly playing a waiting game. (
McAdoo has declined an invitation 1
to speaK at the Jackson Day dinner,
saying that a professional engage
ment f r r that day will keep him away
from Washington. Since the dinner
will be the occasion for important
party conferences, Democratic lead
ers express genuine regret that the
former Secretary of the Treasury
will not be here.
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Georgia—Fair Sunday; slight
ly rising temperature.
Low temperatures and unsettled
wea'her, with probable rains by the
middle of the week, are predicted for
the Southeastern states for the com
ing week.
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I Norman Hapgood, resigned United
I States minister to Denmark, who has
returned to this country to contradict
statements by Colonel George Har
( vey in Harvey's Weekly. Colonel
Harvey wrote: “He is coming back
to explain, if he can do so, his own
; activities as a plenipotentiary of
Messrs. Lenine and Trotzky and to
! tell to what extent and by what au
! thority he has misused the American
Legation at Copenhagen as a trading
I post for the Soviet government.”
big arles tract
PURCHASED HERE
Geo. O. Marshall and Dr.
S. F. Howell Get
i 587 Acres
Five hundred and eighty-seven
acres of fine farm land, forming a
' part of the Arles plantation, were
purchased Friday by George 0. Mar
• shall, county farm agent, and Dr.
S. F. Howell, for a consideration of j
' $60,900. C. B. Lewis & Co., of Ma
con, owners of the Arles property,
sold the tract to Messrs. Marshall and
Howell, who will operate it as a di
versified farm.
The tract lies along the right side
of the Bagley road between Ameri
cus and Arles, and runs from the line j
of the aviation reservation to the!
John Council plantation. All of it, !
with the exception of about fifty |
acres, is cleared, stumped, and in cul- ■
tivation.
Atlanta Tabernacle To
Burn Mortgage Today
ATLANTA, Jan. 3.—After twelve j
months of anxiety and gruelling cam
paign effort by the pastor and mem
bers of the congregation of the Bap
tist Tabernacle of this city founded
by the famous Dr. Len G. Broughton
and left by him under heavy debt at
last sees financial daylight.
In the hands of the pastor. Dr. J.
W. Ham, is $lOl,lOO to pay a mort
gage of $96,000, held by the execu
tors of the estate of James M. Smith,
the late millionaire planter of Ogle
thorpe county. The fund went over
I the top New Year’s night at a great
! rejoicing rally. Dr. Ham has gone
to Athens to pay the mortgage and
■ bring it back to Atlanta.
It will be burned Sunday witli im
pressive ceremonies, attended by
Governor Dorsey, Mayor Key, Dr.
M. L. Brittain and ether notables.
Anti-Red Rebellion
Replaces Denekine
LONDON, Jan. 3.—General Dene
kine’s government in Southern Rus- i
sia has been overthrown and General
Romanevsky has been chosen to re
place Denekine as the anti-Bolshevik
I chief, according to a wireless dispatch
from Moscow, quoting advices from
Taganrog.
Mrs. Albert Simpson, of Albany,
vis.tirg Mrs. Fred Arthur.
THETJM®&fi£6bRDER
foofl PUBLISHED IN THE 'JrJiWfe-! HEART OF DIXIE
COTTON WORTH
100,000 SELLS
HERESATURDAY
Five Hundred Bales Go
At 40c; Several Lots
Closed Out
One hundred thousand dollars’
worth of cotton was sold from ware
houses in Americus yesterday, the
second day that the spot price of 40
cents was offered. The day’s sales
totalled approximately 500 bales, and
each bale that weighed 500 pounds
was worth S2OO, at that price.
The market was stronger yester
day than Friday, the first time 40
cents had been reached here, and as
a result a number of lots which had
been held for months for the coming
of the 40 cent price were closed out.
The upward trend of the cotton
market at this time is reported to be
due to favorable outlook for ratifica
tion of the peace treaty, the ending
of the holiday season and decrease
i in the call money rate in New York
to 6 per cent.
LOCAL SPOT COTTON.
Good middling 40 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Prev.
Close Open 11 am Close
Jan 39.34 38.25 38.45 38.30
Meh 36.50 36.40 36.80 36.75
May 34.98 34.90 35.29 35.16
July 33.08 33.10 33.35 33.29
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Close Open 10 am Close
Jan 39.80 39.75 39.79 39.80
Meh 37.67 37.70 37.88 37.77
May 35.70 36.00 35.96
July 33.74 33.70 34.06 -84.06
Foster Denounced
By Labor Journal
DETROIT, Mich., Jan. 3.—The Na
tional Labor Journal, official organ of
union labor in the Pittsburg district,
says editorially in part as follows:
“Somewhere on the Atlantic ocean
is the United States transport Buford
bearing a cargo of 249 anarchists.
Chief among the mare Alexander
Berkman and Emma Goldman. The
ship has been designated as the "ark
of the soviet.”
“William Z. Foster is not a passen
ger on the ship, but he ought to be, if
, the job of ridding the countrj of dan
gerous reds is to be properly begun.
“Foster was the directing agency
of the steel strike and brought it to a
sorry pass. He was not much con
cerned about winning the steel strike,
his aim was to seize control of the
labor movement, wreck the American
Federation of Labor, and use the re
! suiting chaos as a lever to achieve a
nefarious and political purpose.
“Foster is amonjj the most danger
ous of radicals in this country. He
■is a syndicalist and an anarchist. He
lis very crafty. He does not, like oth
| ers of his stripe, cry out his purpose.
I for that would attract attention to
him and land him on Ellis Island
I where seditionists to be deported are!
! corralled.”
Laborite Defeats A
Noble For Commons
LONDON, Jan. 3.—Sir |John Si
mon, former secretary for pome af
fairs. who was a Liberal candidate
for Commons in the Spen Vjalley by
election, was defeated by Toil
Myers, the Labor candidate.
Still Possible To See
Peace In Effect Jan. 6
PARIS, Jan. 3.—Exchange of rat-|
ifications of the peace treaty on
January 6 still is possible in the opin
ion of the Matin, which says! the Ger
man will have time before that date (
to forward the explanations demand
ed by the peace conference.
BETHEL CHURCH SERVICE.
The Bethel Baptist church, in the;'
28th district, announces preaching on
Sunday afternoon, Jan. 11, at 2:30
o’clock by Rev. J. A. Nelson, of Lilly.
This will be a snecial service, as the
church is without a regular pastor. It
was said that the church is nlanning
to call a pastor to surmlv the pulnit
once a month, and that Rev. Mr. Nel
son may be asked to fid the place.
B. F. Hudgins returned Saturday
from Atlanta, wh«*re he spent the
holidays with relatives.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1920.
TESTING 14-INCH COAST GUN THAT HURLS SHELL 30 MILES |
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This photograph was taken at the moment when the first shot was fired from a new 14-inch coast de
fense gun, which hurls a projectile thirty miles. The first tests, to determine the stability of concrete em
placements, were made at Fort Story, Norfolk, Va. Only three shells were fired but that the range of the
guns is easily thirty miles was demonstrated. In later tests tjie guns will be aimed at targets thirty miles
away. The guns are mobile and can be transferred from their concrete emplacements to railway mounts
for transportation.
CALL OF LEAGUE
BY WILSON STILL
PLAN OF ALLIES
Clemenceau To Make In
formal Call To Pre
pare Delegates
PARIS, Jan. 2.—An informal call
for the first meeting of the League of
Nations council shall be issued by
Premier Clemenceau, the Supreme
council decided today. The call will
be regarded as a simple notification
to enable the delegates to reach the
appointed place in Paris in time for a
meeting, formal notice of which it is
still intended to have President Wil
son issue, according to the present
program.
Central Church Yovng
Folks Choose Officers
Last Tuesday evening thirty-seven )
boys and girls met with Miss Hern-;
don in the annex of the Central Bap
tist church and re-organized the,
Junior B. Y. P. U. The following
officers were unanimously elected for
the next term of six months:
William Dykes, president; Miss
Flora Buries, sccietary; Fred Brown,
treasurer; Sam Comer, Chorister;
Joe Hall, assistant secretary; Miss !
Louise Thayer, captain of Group I;
William Car..ved, captain of Group
IT; '.liss Vi<”-. Cannon, captain of
f -~3up IK; Alton '. -,ole, captain of
Group IV.
The vice-president and librarian
will be elected Sunday evening at
their regular service. The captains
chose the members for their groups
and Green I was appointed to give
the first i n -ram.
A social ho'T was then enjoyei
by playing a most amusing game of
“Muoical Neighbors.” Much talent
was displayed as every one took part
heartily.
Candy made ly th? girls and fruit
bought by the boys was served boun
tifully at the close.
Historic Dixie Poplar
In Tree Hall of Fame ■
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—A pop-,
lar tree at Spartanburg, S. C., the i
top of which was,shot off during the!
Fourth of July celebration in 1832,1,
has been entered in the Hall of Fam ?: (
for trees, which are being compiled I .
by the American Forestry Associa- \ '
tion. From Lisbon, 0., comes the | ‘
nomination of the tree under which! 1
the Indians and white settlers came to' 1
an agreement regarding iron ore to|]
be used in makintr kettles. Ralph G -
Smith, of Circleville. 0.. ente-s the 1
Logan E’m in that city. C. C. Royce
nominates the Sir Josenh Hooker oak 1
at Chicm, Cal. General Sherman es- 1
timat°d that 7.000 men could stand in
the shade of this tree. 1
A. D Dart nominates the “I srirest 1
live Oak” in the South at Brun’- 1
w?ck. Ga . known to be a veteran in
1763. It has a circumference of 1
26 feet. '
If You Know These
You Know Why Old
H. C. L. Is Here
A TLANTA, Jan. 2.—“ Do you
j know the young fellow who
| works for $25.00 a week and who
is wearing a new winter suit that
i cost $85.00?” asked Senator Ivan
E. Allen, state director of the War
Savings Organization, today.
“Do you know the wage earner
who loafs because he is afraid if
he does too much he’ll “work him
self out of a job? 1 ’
“Do you know the housewife
who is ashamed to be seen with
a market basket on her arm or to
carry 'home a brown paper bun
ble?
“Do you know the factory girl
working for $lB a week who is
buying and wearing a $350.0?)
fur coat?
“Do you know the man who lets
a fresh clerk sneer him into buy
ing a sls hat for fear he’ll seem
I ‘cheap’ when he can buy a satis
factory one for $7? t
“Do you know the investor who
has traded his Liberty Bonds for
a promise of a 100 per cent prof
! it in a stock company backed by
a di'-honest promoter?
“Do you know the shopper who
says, ‘Wrap it up,” instead of
‘How much?’
“Do you know the person who
1 lets the desire of the moment de- '
stroy the results of days and
weeks of thrift and saving?
“Do ycu know the man who |
hinks it is not necessary to save?
“Do you know the married cou
ple who do not think enough of
their children to buy War Saving 1
Stamps for them, and to teach |
them to save?
“Do you know the man who !
says that the government saving
securities—Liberty Bonds, War
Saving Stamps and Treasury Sav
ing Certificates—are too slow or
too small or too old-fashioned tor
his investments?
“If you do, you know pretty !
well what is the matter with the. i
United States and why the high ,
of living.”
2 Women Sink Well In
Pennsylvania Gas Boom
PITTSBURG, Pa., January 3
Women financiers have entered
the natural gas field, developed dur
ing the past few months in Snake
Hollow almost within the city fimits,
and are drilling their first well. The
pioneers were Miss Isabella Milmoe,
assistant to the city treasurer, pmd |
Miss Irma Atwater, assistant
city soFcitor. \
They heard so many stories of for
tunes being made in the new develop
ment that they found a bit of land
not under lea=e, contracted for ka
derrek, and organized a companr.!
Drilling is to be commended as soofi I
as the nlant is on the trround.
Development in the Snake Hollow,;
field is going on with every evidence j
of the old time “wildcat” oil and i
20,000 AMERICAN
DEAD IN FRANCE
TO BE RETURNED
All Will Be Bodies Bur
ied Outside Zone Os
Armies
PARIS, Jan. 3. —The French gov
ernment has granted permission for
the removal of bodies to the United
States of 20,000 Americans buried
in France. The bodies to be remov
ed are those buried in cemeteries out
side the zone of the armies and do
not include those gathered into big
American cemeteries in the army
zones.
Saturday Morning One
Degree Above Coldest
In spite of the fact that the nip
in the air Saturday morning caused
■ many persons to believe that Fri
day night was the coldest of the win
ter, the government thermometer
stated that such was not the case.
“The lowest reached Friday night and
up to 7 o'clock Saturday morning was
24 degrees,” said Joseph E. Bryan,
official observer, “which was one de
gree warmer than was reached on
; the night of December 26.” Thi;
i temperature last night apparently
was not quite so low.
The weather bureau Saturday indi
cated that cold weather might be ex
-1 pected still this week, wiih rain a
) probability about the middle of the
i week.
John Taylor To Open
Cordele Auto Store
CORDELE, Jan. 3.—John T. Tay
lor, Jr., of Americus, is here arrang
’ ing and opening at $60,000 stock of
' automobile accessories in the Harman
'Building. He will become manager!
of the store. He will also handle j
tractors and farm implements.
The maintenance of a large vul
canizing department is also contem
plated. The Moore Storage Battery!
Company has vacated its accessori’s
department and this store room will
be used for the large new store.
gas boom. Town lots on the edge
of the city which three mo iths a:ro
were next to worthless are nailing
for as much as SIO,OOO each, and
every time a new well comes in the
price goes up.
A number of important well, have
been brought in by co-ininies whiH*
business it is to search for and find
n-i f u ,- al gas. ’J it spectacular and
meturpsaue sn?cul' , ‘ion and financing
i are not lacking Stories of the suc
jee's of snm’ nersn”s who have h“-
! com * rich nv'r -'i'-h' v —-> -t;
un f 'l »he b 00... has cl. im -J ,
larifie attention.
News of The Whole
World By
Associated Press
PRIcE FIVE CENTS.
ORGANIZATION OF
NEGROES SHOWN
PART OF PLANS
Will Result In Trouble In
Some Communities
Say Officials
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—Arrests
in nation-wide radical raids last night
today had exceeded 4,500, i twas esti
mated by the department of justice.
Scores of parlor Bolshevists are
among those arrested in the raids,
officials said, and there, it was ad
mitted, may have to be dealt with
under state laws as they are citizens.
In a sweeping drive against radi
calism, agents of the department of
justice were completing the nation
wide raids against communists organ
izations in which several thousand
radicals were taken into custody with
a view to deportation.
Raids were m. de in 33 cities over
the country and the Department of
Justice estimated three thousand “un
desirables” would be taken in the
dragnet.
Government agents particularly
searched for incriminating documents,
some of which they claimed revealed
plans to establish soviets throughout
the country, to be later merged under
a soviet council similar to the Rus.
sian organization.
Attemps to organize negroes also
were disclosed. Officials said they
admitted the propaganda was of such
far-reaching effect that trouble may
be expected in some negro communi
ties.
SEEK EVIDENCE TO
DEPORT MARTENS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Department
of Justice agents, armed with three
hundred warrants, continued today to
search for radicals. At the same
time the transfer to Ellis Island of
several hundred held was begun.
More than four hundred arrested
here last night were released for lack
of evidence against them.
Federal officials are examining lit
erature seized to determine whether
Ludwin Martens, self-styled amtasso
.dor to the United States of the Rus
sian Soviet Republic, is connected
with the distribution of Communist
piopagai>4a in this country, with
view to his deportation.
One of the most important arrests
made was that Harry Minitski, Secre
’ tary of the Communist party in Amer
ima and an American citizen. He has
been at liberty under $5,000 bond
since his indictment for criminal an
archy last summer.
800 ARRESTS IN 3
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
BOSTON, Jan. 3.—Approximately
eight hundred persons were under ar-
Hampshire and Rhode Island as tho
result of last night’s raids on radi
cals.
5 HELD IN JACKSONVILLE,
MORE TO BE ARRESTED.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 3.
Five •'.lleged members of the Commun
ist Labor party have been arre ted
here, and other arrests were to fol- ;
low today, according to federal offi- r
cers. Along with them much liters-' /
ture of a radical nature were seized /
the charter of the local party and Z
books containing minutes of meetings
as far back as October, 1917.
Negro Fugitive Re?dy
Passenger To Sumter
Deputy Sheriff R. E. Price return
ed Friday night on the Seminole from
Michigan City, Ind., where he went
to bring back to Sumter county, Ar
thur Corley, a negro, wanted here as
a fugitive from justice. He brought
the negro with him and found him a
willing passenger back to old Geor
gia, despite what may be in st re for
him here. The negro was picked up
by the police at Michigan City a f.?w
weeks ago in an uncertain mental
condition, it was said at that time,
but Mr. Price found him about nor
mal, except that he was suffering from
frosted feet and other evidences of
experiences in an unfriendly north
land.
“I ran into the coldest country I
have ever seen,” said Mr. fr’ce.
“From Chicago, skirting Lake Michi
gan to Michigan City, everything was
frozen up solid, and they were cut .ing
ice on the lake. The ice crop, the
people there said, wm the finest th y
had experienced in years, being thick
and solid. It was too cold even to
spend an hou • or two looking at the
sights in Chicago.”