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Newspaper Page TextNews of The Whole World By Associated Press FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO. 84. FRENCH TROOPS OCCUPY 2 GERMAN CITIES BORAH PUSHES FIGHT ON BIG SUISHFUNDS Would Limit Money Spent By Politicians Under Penalty BY GEO. B. WATERS, N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. WASHINGTON, April 6.—An nouncement was made from Senator Borah’s office today that he will re turn to Washington next week to start a fight in the senate for imme diate passage of his bill to limit ex penditures of presidential candidates. Borah is now speaking in Michi gan in the interest of Senator John son. The measure is now before the sen ate committee on privileges and elec tions. Committee Meet* Soon. Senator William P. Dillingham, chairman of committee, said since bill was referred March 28 there had not been enough members at capitol to get quorum of the com mittee, but that he expects a meet ing early next week to consider bill. Dillingham would not discuss the merits of the bill. Hiram Johnson and Wm. G. Mc- Adoo have approved the bill. Mc- Adoo wired Senator Ashurst: “The bill ought to pass.” “There is no reason why it should not be passed within the next 20 days,” said Senator Borah when ask ed if he thought it possible to make it law before the conventions meet. Senators Favor It. > A “I favor the Borah bill,” said Sen ator Sheppard. “It is in the inter est of good government and honest elections." # I Senator Pomerene said: “I think it would be doing a real service to the country if we could get some ftroper legislation regulating these large expenditures of money.” The bill provides: That expenditures be limited to SIO,OOO in each state. That money spent by others than the candidate shall be included in the SIO,OOO. That the candidate shall not be criminally responsible for the last named expenditures after he public ly protests against such expenditures. That all contributions in excess I of SIOO be reported within one day . to the attorney general. i That these reports be open to in spection at all times. Violation of this section carries a I $25,000 fine and three years in ? prison. That candidates file statement of money and things of value received 15 days before convention and with in 30 days after, giving names and addresses of donors. Penalty for violation is $20,000 fine and two years in prison. J. J. Brown To Open Elevator At Dublin ATLANTA, April 6.—J. J. Brown, commissioner of agriculture, has ac- , cepted an invitation to deliver an address at the formal opening of the : big grain elevator at Dublin on j Thursday. Another speaker will be L .M. Rhodes, of Jacksonville, Fla., com missioner of markets for Florida and . former chairman of the national ex- , ecutive committee of the Farmers . Union. Other prominent visitors will | be L. B. Jackson, director of the ] bureau of markets for Georgia; J. H. i Mills, president of the Georgia Farm- ; ers’ Union and A. J. Fleming, and R. L. Tillman, also officials of the Farm ers' Union. The Dublin elevator is one of the largest in the state. It is the only one operated under the co-operative system and will at once become a | market for corn, velvet beans and ] practically all small grains. It has a capacity of 30,000 bushels of stor age and was erected at a cost of ap- Sb proximately $26,000 exclusive of a C om flour and velvet bean mill and peanut sheller, which are to be add ed at once. Its loading capacity to . cars for shipment is about one cai ■ an hour. DEMONSTRATION A SUCCESS. An Old Dutch Cleanser and Gob lin Soap demonstration was held yes-| ttrday at the United Cash and Carry] Store on Lamar street. A group of i interested housewives wei*e present to ] witness achievements attributed to , this nationally used scouring powder i The demonstration was put on by Mr. | Carter, of the Cudahy Packing Co * y ! ft I Weatner. Forecast For Georgia.—Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; war mer tonight. _ E RIC US" THETWESrECORDER Eat PUBLISHED IN THE HEART_OF Your Pipe’s Going to Go Out For Keeps, Says Dr. Pease “CIGARETTES, COFFEE, TEA, COCOA DOOMED” ’ 'WK'' ■ \/an* ’ Js”'ilk DR CHARLES D. By HENRY BECKETT, N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, March 6.—Your cigaret is next! They are going to get it! And after that your coffee, your tea and your cocoa! This is on the word of Dr. Charles G. Pease, now heading the Non- Smokers’ Protective League of Am erica in New York City. In a few years, Dr. Pease says, it is going to be as hard for grown men to smoke in public as it was for them when CENSUS GIVES ALBANY 11,555 Neighboring City’s Pop ulation Lower Than Expected Here WASHINGTON, April 6.—-Popu lation statistics announced today in cluded Albany, Ga., 11,555, an in crease of 3,365 or 41.4 per cent. The announced population of the neighboring city of Albany, in which Americus is much interested in a friendly way, was consderably smaller than had been expected here. Many persons, following the publica tion of figures of Americus, 9,010, were freely predicting that the cen sus would show Albany having possi bly as many as 14,000 people. It is assumed that Albany, while a younger city than Americus, has suffered in a population way in the same manner as Americus, by losing a large pro portion of its negro citizenship by migration northward. 25 Years Minimum For Montesano Slayers MONTESANO, Wash., April 6.-- The seven men convicted here March 13 of second degree murder for the slaying of Warren O. Grimm, Centra lia Armistice day parade victim, were sentenced to not less than twenty five years nor more than forty years each in the state penitentiary by Judge John M. Wilson, after he had denied a motion for a new trial. Ten Drown As Ferry Capsizes At Elberton ELBERTON, April 6.—Ten per sons were drowned at Harper’s Fer ry, near here on the Savannah river, Sunday about sundown when the flat on which they were crossing the river broke loose from the cable and cap sized. Hamp Bradshaw, the only member of the party who was saved, swam back to the South Carolina shore when the ferry overturned, but ow ing to the high and swift water was unable to assist any of the others. Industrial Court Is Defied By Alex Howat PITTSBURGH, April 6.—Alexan der Howat, head of the Kansas coal miners, definitely refused today to go into the industrial relations court and participate in the investigation of the mining industry now being made here. “We do not recognize industrial court,” Howat said. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1920. they were boys and had to hide be hind the barn. To support his forecast he de clares the W. C. T. U. is on the anti-smokers warpath, the Presby terian church plans “cigaret aboli tion’ and the Anti-Cigaret League, headquarters Chicago, the No-Tobac co Army and Massachusetts Anti- Cigaret League, are grimly on the job. “If tobacco doesn’t go, the human race is doomed,” Dr. Pease asserts. TWO OVERCOME IN BATH ROOM Mrs. C. M. Hale and Ba by, Near Death, Are Saved A narrow escape from death through suffocation from fumes from a gas heater was experienced by Mrs. C. M. Hale, wife of the principal of the high school, and their baby, at their home on West Church street this morning when the two were bath ing. After Mrs. Hale and the baby had been in the bath room for some time the nurse sent Mrs. Hale’s young son to ask her a question. He found his mother lying unconscious on the floor, with the baby beside her also unconscious. Help was summoned and Dr. Prather called quickly. Af ter two hour., of work both were re suscitated, although for a time it was feared the baby could not live. Mrs. Hale is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. L. Ansley. Miss Taft Denies Her Reported Engagement LOS ANGELES, April 6,—A re port reaching here that friends of Miss Helen Harron Taft had an nounced her engagement to marry Professor Frederick J. Manning, of Yale, was denied by Miss Taft, who is visiting her aunt, Mrs. William Ed wards. of Los Angeles. “There is absolutely no truth in the report,” said Miss Taft. LOCAL SPOT COTTON. Good middling 42 cents. NEW YORK FUTURES. Prev. Close Onen Ham Ipm Close May 40.24 40.23 40.05 39.95 40.30 Julv 37.70 37.62 37.58 37.45 38.07 Oct. 34.73 34.78 34.60 34.46 35.08 NEW ORLEANS FUTURES. Open Ham 1 pm Close May . 39.30 39.25 39.62 39.68 Julv .... .37.18 37.15 37.58 37.94 Oct. 34.40 34.17 34.74 33.52 MOULTRIE LIVESTOCK MARKET MOULTRIE. April 6. Hogs 165 lbs and up 14 1-4014 3-4 c; 135 to 165 lbs, 13 1-4013 3-4 c; 110 to 135 lbs., 12 1-4012 3-4 c; 110 to 135 lbs., 12 1-4012 3-4 c; 110 lbs and down 10 1-4010 3-4 c. Roughs and skips are priced on a basis of quality. Piggy sows docked 40 lbs. Stags docked 70 lbs. Prices f.o.b. Moultrie. COUNCIL HEADS SMITH CLUB OF SUMTERCOUNTY Organization To Work For Senior Senator Here Formed It was announced this afternoon by Chairman L. G. Council that Sen ator Hoke Smith would arrive by auto from Macon about 10 o’clock Wed nesday morning. The senator was advised to make the trip in this man ner in order to obtain a good night’s rest, which he would not be able to do were he to arrive on the early ' morning train. He will speak at 11 o’clock. Twenty-five representative busi ness men and farmers of Americ|us | and Sumter county met last night in ■ the private dining room of the Wind-; sor Hotel and organized the Sumter County Hoke-Smith-For-President Club. Utmost enthusiasm marked the gathering. Stephen Pace, one of Sumter’s representatives in the leg islature, nominated W. T. Lane as temporary chairman of the meeting, and Mr. Lane made a stirring ad dress, referring to the valuable serv ices already given the state and na tion by Senator Smith. L. G. Coun cil was then nominated and unani mously chosen permanent chairman of the club, with Dan Chappell as secretary, and W. T. Lane, as treas urer. Funds for the conduct of an energetic campaign in behalf of Senator Smith were quickly sub scribed, and talks were made by W. T. Lane, Stephen Pace, » Crawford Wheatley, P. B. Williford, S. E. Statham, T. M. Furlow, John Wag non, J. E. D. Shipp, R. L. McMath, John T. Methvin, Alton Cogdell and George D. Wheatley. Mr. Methvin. who resides in the ■ Twenty-eighth voting precinct, pro duced a list of voters of his district who had pledged themselves during the afternoon to support the candi dacy of Senator Smith for president, the list containing more than twen ty names, or a little more than half the voting strength of the entire dis trict. The list was displayed at Methvin's store less than four hours, and was signed, he reported, by every visitor who came into the store during that time. A committee composed of Thos. I G. Hudson and George D. Wheatley ] was named to confer with represen- i tatives of Attorney General Palmer ! and arrange details of the primary to be held April 20, the expense of which will be Shared equally by sup porters of Senator Smith and his ] opponent. A resolution was passed to have a brass band here next Wednesday 1 when Senator Smith will visit Am-] ericus : id speak at the .courthouse I at 11 ./clock in the forenoon, and it was agreed to employ the famous Macon Drum and Bugle corps to as : Ist in his reception here. Committeemen in the various dis tricts who have pledged themselves. to work for the interests of Senator Smith in the preferential primary ] were named as follows: R. L. Me-1 Math, M. B. Council, Crawford Wheatley, Thos. G. Hudson, George ] D. Wheatley, Stephen Pace, J. E. D. Shipp, Fred B. Arthur, who is sec- . retary of the Sumter countv demo cratic executive committee, Carr S. Glover, Alton Cogdell, W. P. Wallis, J. J. Hanesley, T. M. Furlow, W. T. , Lane, Jim Cameron and P. B. Willi ford, 27 district; John Nicholson and ] George W. Israel, Jr., 17 district; G. C. Thomas, Floyd P. Jones, E. A. Luke and S. E. Statham, 15 dis trict; John W. Peel, 16 district; John T. Methvin, and W. L. Cham- < bliss, 28 district; Ross Dean and Dr. B. T. Wise, Plains district; A. F. , Hodges and W. O. Easterlin, 29 dis- >, trict; S. A. Rodgers and E. C. Webb, New 16 district; Sam McGarrah and 1 J. M. Buchanan, Friendship district. Senator Smith will be met on his arrival here by a committee of his friends consisting of L. G. Council, chairman of the local Hoke Smith , club, T. G. Hudson, J. E. D. Shipp, Crawford Wheatley and Stephen Pace. Word was received from the coun- ] try surrounding Americus today that ] a large number of people from those ; districts would hear Senator Smith’s ; speech here. Among those sending ] word of their expected coming were i : S. W. Adams, Weston; Col. J. R. 1 Stapleton, Preston; C. L. Davis, Dr. C. N. Alston and O. J. Colbert, Rich-1 ] land, and Jerry E. Carter, Lumpkin. \; ______ 2 Women Picketing Embassy Arrested J 1 WASHINGTON, April 6.—Disre-" garding the warnings of the federal > government, two women favorable ]; to the Irish republic resumed picket- ] ing of the British embassy today. ] When they failed to desist after be- , ing warned by the police they were ]< arrested. ; i PEACHES SAFE DESPITECOLD, SAY FRUIT MEN Temperature of 31 De grees Fails To Do Damage Despite the low t°mperature of Monday night, it was the general be lief of fruit men of this section to day that the peach crop had not been injured in the least. According to the government thermometer in the hands of J. M. Bryan, official obser ver, the minimum temperature Mon day night was 31 degrees, or one de gree below the freezing point. Heavy frost was noted on house tops and similar places, but little was report ed on the ground or on vegetation. Experts say that peaches in their present stage of development are able to survive a temperature of 23 de grees, which is considerably lower than that reached Monday night. A couple of weeks later, they say, freez ing temperature would probably be i disastrous. “I went to my orchard at Maddox station this morning,” said J. E. Poole, “and went all over the or chard with my fruit man. We found that no damage had been done. The wind of Monday had dried ail of the rain and moisture out of the buds, which kept the cold from doing the damage it might have done.” Other orchard owners made similar reports. It was said by farmers that the damage to small cotton, much of which had come up during the last few days, would be very slight. CONCORDSCHOOL TO BE ENLARGED Given SSOO For Music Room and Domestic Science At a meeting of the board of edu- ] cation held this morning in the court house, Miss Lila E. Echols, principal ] of Concord school, near Americus, j was an enthusiastic’attendant. Fori some time past Miss Echols has been using her influence to get an annex ; built to the school to be used as a music room and a department for home economics. She wished to make this a part of the accredited cour.e in the school curriculum for] next season, and for this purpose j came in today to put this matter be-! fore tne board of education. She gave a purposeful talk in which she ] made very clear the needs of the school in this district, portraying the I splendid fielu tnviv io .a the rural 10-i calities for these courses. This school has accomplished splendid results un der her direction this year, and she ] hopes to enlarge its scope of useful ness for the pupils enrolled. The board of education voted to I give this school SSOO for the purpose ] of building the music annex and the ] domestic science department, and j Mrs. Olin Williams, home economics agent, and Miss Echols were instruct ed to get an estimate of the cost. As- 1 ter thirty minutes engaged in secur-; ing the necessary estimate, they re-! turned with the report that SSOO • would cover this neeufed improve- ! ment. Last fall the girls of the can- ; ning club of Concord district won ] S2O in prizes at the Macon fair, and this will be used along with the SSOO donated by the board of education in ] equipping a domestic science kitchen, j Thompson School Play Proves Great Success ] “The Miller’s Daughter,” staged at Thompson school last Friday night, ] was unusually successful from every standpoint. Despite the inclemency ' of the weather, the school building I was packed with interested hearers, and standing room was at a premium. The play was given by the members ] of the faculty and the pupils of the I school, and no efforts were spared to make it the success is proved Forty five dollars was cleared from the door receipts and this will be ex pended in equipping a domestic science kitchen and in purchasing ar ticles needed in the school room. This play will be presented in Pleasant Hill school, in Terrel coun ty, very soon, and other requests may come in for its presentation else where. The play is unusually in teresting and its staging was remark able for an amaetur cast. In Bellochistan, when a physician gives a dose he is expected to partake of a similar dose himself, as a guar antee of his good faith. SURGEON WHO CUT CYST FROM BRAIN OF GENERAL WOOD WWW k fl . w .. y ?Ww* 1 I BOSTON.—“The growth was a perfectly bepign tumor,” says Dr. Harvey Cushing, of the Peter Bent Brighton Hospital, who removed a cyst from the right hemisphere of the brain of General Leonard Wood. Cushing said the operation was com plete and that there was no danger that he would suffer any mental as- | fliction, because of it. OifrofSPERTS WARN OF BOLL WORMJVLENACE Called Most Serious Sit uation Ever Confront ing Industry WASHINGTON, April 6.-—The re- j appearance of the pink boll worm in Texas and the discovery of the insect in Louisiana present the most serious situation which has ever confronted the cotton industry in the United States, according to experts of the Department of Agriculture. Unless preventive measures are im- ( mediately taken, a review of the sit- ] uation issued today says, the boll ] worm will become a permanent and serious limiting factor in the produc- j tion of cotton. GEORGIA BEER LEAGUE FORMED Open Fight On Present Prohibition Law Is Launched ATLANTA, April 6.—The Geor- Wine and Beer League perfected an organization here. The officers of this league are J. J. Reynolds, pres ident; F. G. Vandergriff, secretary; F. M. Sherman, treasurer. An announcement says the league will undertake to secure modification ] of the present prohibition law and ] urge its members to defeat its foes ] at the coming election. It proposes j to effect strong organizations in ■ Georgia. Local organizers will be- ] gin work at once. Persons endorsing this move and ] wishing to co-operate are asked to ] address J. J. Reynolds, president, 278 Hemphill avenue, Atlanta. LONDON SHUNS SKYSCRAPERS London.—The old question oi whether or not London is to have sky scrapers is being revived because of the high price of property in the busi ness section and the lack of space in office buildings. Generally speaking. London does not like tall buildings Percy Tubbs, past president of the Society of Architects, declared that if the skyscraper was to come it would be necessary to widen the streets. “Space in London, however, is not so scarce as it is in New York, which la an island," he said. American architects who are here erecting n huge apartment store have repeatedly asked permission to extend the main building high enough to ac commodate not only the present busi ness of tiie concern, but to provide for the future, and have met with no en couragement. If each man, woman and child in Great Britian had to pay an equal share of their country’s war debt, the personal liability would be $786 each. United States commerce with Lat in-America passed the $2,000,000,- 000 figure in 1919. k?\ JZ ~~ puny 5 S°OH. Now ** *y~L_?^ r PRICE FIVE CENTS. SEIZE FRANKFORT AND DARMSTADT BY FOCH’S ORDER To Withdraw When Ger mans Evacuate Neu tral Zone MAIcENCE, April 6. (By Asso i dated Press) —French troops enter | ed Frankfort at 5 o’clock this morn- I ing, finding only a small German force left there to afford police pro tection for the people. The occupa tion was a mere military march, not attended by any fighting. Darmstadt was entered shortly afterwards by French forces. * i FRENCH TO WITHDRAW WHEN TEUTONS EVACUATE. PARIS, April 6.—French soldiers, under orders of Marshall Foch, to day occupy the German cities of Frankfort and Darmstadt, following efforts on the part of the French government yesterday to induce the German government to withdraw its forces from the neutral zone. The | chief interest is as to whether and to I what extent the Allies will support France. Premier Millerand today formally I notified German Charge Dr. Von ■ Mayer of the action of the French, , government and informed him that as soon as there was complete evacua tion of the neutral zone by the Ger man troops the French would evacu ate the cities they have been order ed to occupy. Marshall Foch had a conference with the premier today. Later the premier received American Amba; sador Wallace. ITALY GIVES FRENCH ONLY NORMAL SUPPORT. ROME, April 6.—The Popolo Ro mano says today that at a cabinet! meeting yesterday the government decided to extend to France Italy’s moral support in the French occu pation of Frankfort and other Ger man cities. The cabinet agreed, how ever, that under no circumstances would Italy be a party to any mili tary measures against German, the paper says. REPLIES OF ENGLAND AND ITALY AWAITED. PARIS, April 6.—Up, to noon to day the French government had not received replies from Great Britain and Italy to the notification of the j occupation of Frankfort and other German cities. REICHSWEHR FORCES MARCH INTO ESSEN. ESSEN, April 6.—(By Associated Press.) —Reischwehr forces marched ! into Essen from two sides of the ! town this morning. JAPANOCCUPIES I « TV TTT A n rPA V V LAUI V U 3 lUII City Taken By Troops After 8 Hours Os Fighting VLADIVOSTOK, April s.—(Mon i aIE —IITOOARJetao shr eta shr | day)—(By Associated Press.) —Jap- anese troops today occupied Vladi i vostok after eight hours of severe ! fighting in all parts of the city. Some ; officials of the revolutionary regime : have been arrested and deported. The Russians have been disarmed. WASHINGTON, April 6—(By As sociated Press)- —The Japanese ait tack on Vladivostok, which gave them control of the city resulted from “threatened and aggressive acts of a portion of the Russian army,’’ ac cording to an official dispatch to the Japanese military attache here. Two Held In Dispute Over Liquor Ownership Arthur Slappey was bound over to I the City Court under S2OO bond by , Justice Griffin this morning on a charge of having whisky in his pos session, on a warrant sworn out by C. E. Underwood, a Cotton avenue shop keeper, in whose place of busi ness a bottle of liquor, said to be long to Slappey, was found by Police Lieut. Kimsey yesterday afternoon. Underwood was first arrested and in • self protection he filed the charge against Slappey, who, he said, had brought the liquor to his place. Wit nesses testified that Slappey had told them after the finding of the li quor that the liquor was his. The defense denied ownership of the liquor and claimed that Under wood was attempting to make Slappey the “goat” to protect his own busi ness. Underwood waived hearing and gave S2OO bond in his own case.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, April 06, 1920, Image 1