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SSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS
OF THE WORLD
(RTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 145
DUCKWORTH AND WILSON DECISIONS AFFIRMED
IRLD COTTON
MINE COMING
WISH WARNED
L Source of Supply
lust be Developed,
Says Expert
■SCHESTER, Eng., June 17—;
Associated Press) —Professor J. !
id, secretary of the Empire Cot
lowing Committee of the Board
ide, has just delivered to the
E Institution a warning of the
Ictive world scarcity of cotton j
■ near future and emphasized
led for developing new sources
Kply well as experimenting
[otton substituts.
Er dealing exhaustively with ].
Ei position in the United States j
■ growing areas, bad weather i
|vages by boll weevil as well j
[acreage position, the Proses- j
E “it is obvious that we were j
Eg to get 15,000,000 bales of I
■this year.” At home it seemed ;
| the consumers had not yet
■ full weight of the high cost
■aw material. Even in America
lot see much sign of the con-
I intention of doing without
fabrics.
■statistics for America’s do
lonsumption for the first three
■of this year were on a basis
Ertably near to 7,000,000
■year. British consumption be
lt war was nearly 4,000,000
lithe total American crop last ;
|s only 11,000,000. What was
■happen when the rest of the
■and particularly the contin
■untries —woke up and began
[ Ed more cotton?
■xt year, he said, the contin
■lls ‘probably would be more |
I lan now, and the demand in
land the Oriental demand
I ■ be much higher. So long
I Berbers and producer of the
I Bre making so much more
1 Ran they ever did before, he
lee how the demand for cot-
I I was even going to be sub-
B reduced. The world was not
I K sufficient cotton to meet
Ind and was not likely to do
I some way was devised, of j
Be of even the lowest grades.!
I lonly a question of time, he
■when the world *ould face
■ of cotton and it was high
Before, that something was
Ivelop new source of supply,
■when thev were found they
■ be able to afford substan
■ for five or ten years. He
lure that the time had not
■them to look around for an
■otton substitute, for the
■ full of textile fibres which j
■ been exploited.
■Who Was After
Idon Dies on Gang
Irley, a convict serving on \
| chaingang died yesterday, j
Bried today. The negro, who j
|ly applied for a pardon or
|s convicted here on a ]
■esisting an officer and on j
Ees involving violation of j
| laws. He was taken ill
Eork, and notwithstanding
Em given him by the camp
Ester he was removed to
|l tent, died several hours
pot Alligator
led at Wells’ Mill
■tor 7 1-2 feet in length |
Id been killed yesterday i
[Wells’ mill pond was ex
|ut the city yesterday af
|J. W. McDonald, who has
■e mill. It was shot in the
Buckshot while lying on a
stun out in the pond and
| from a boat. Its age was j
Jlfour years.
■?ator was killed there a
■>. and Mr. McDonald re
■d his son had some rare
fc the reptile out of the
__ ■ting up a game and hard
| Bouple of hours. The pond
* I■ of numerous alligators
I B7.es, one at
■ ng been in the
; 111 of 50 Bbl.
■city is Installed
ft B re l roller mill, in which
' || eat flour can be made,
Balled at Wells’ mill by
Bfld who has announced
ijthat he is ready to grind
IB trade on the toll basis.
llf eat ure of his milling
Bt each lot of grain re
-1 separately, each farm
|B r > of getting back the
B own grain.
I R d states that the mill,
-J RdP'PPed with the roller
Baking wheat flour, is
■nndnig corn meal also.
Japanese Leaders Disavow
Military Aims; Say Popular
Sentiment Checks Jingoists
Benedict Analyzes Ambitions of Japan as Pre
sented to Vanderlip Party at Inter
national Conclave
ARTICLE THREE.
Copyright, 1920, Newspaper Enter
prise Association.
BY HARRY E. BENEDICT
(Business Associate of Frank A.
Vanderlip, and Secretary of the
American Delegation to the "Un
official Conference on Japanese-
American Affairs” at Tokio.)
Japan has been called the Prussia
of the East. Just prior to the out-
break of the Great
War, stories of
Japan’s designs on
the Philippines, on
Hawaii, and in
Mexico were cur
rent; and after;
America’s mobil
ization of a huge
army it was said
that Japan had had
a startling object
lesson in the will
and ability of
America to fight a
war in which she
engaged.
Probably a good
deal of this feeling
&
s ■
1 <
I
wxui reierence to
Japan’s militaristic aspiration grew
out of the historical events of the
last three decades of Japan’s nation
life.
Hat Earned Position.
She fought a successful war with
China, and, among the spoils, got
Formosa. Then came the war with
Russia which placed Japan definitely
among the Great Powers. This war
enabled her to annex Korea, a buffer
between her islands and Russia..
Japan has, therefore, earned her
rank among the western nations
through her military rather than her
commercial and economic prowess. J
Not unnaturally, too, a military am- j
bition for aggression is ascribed to;
nearly every move she has taken in |
Asia.
Little analysis has been made by I
the public of western nations as to
her economic necessities, or to thej
spirit that was shaping Japan’s na-i
tional aims and policies in the Far;
East. It was assumed that by a!
wary, military penetration she pro
posed to dominate neighboring areas!
on the mainland which would give!
her economic advantage and an out
let for her congested population.
Liberalism Increasing Rapidly.
What are the real ambitions and
aspirations of Japan in the Far East?!
Are democratic and liberal tenden-;
cies in the ascendancy, or is a de-;
signing military party shaping her
national policies? !
Before the unofficial conference ox j
the Vanderlip party with the Japan
ese members, appeared many of the;
most distinguished Japanese leaders.;
knotably Viscount Kaneko, former
minister of justice, Baron Megata
fhember of the house of peers, and
former financial adviser to Ko-ea,
Baron Sakatani, ex-minister of fi
nance, the Japanese representative to
the financial conference of the Allied
Powers in Paris in 1916. Baron bh>-
ibusawa, Mr. Inouye, governor of the
Bank of Japan, Mr. Kajlvaia, presi
dent of the Yokohama Specie Bank,
Dr. Coyeda, president the
Government Railways 1 9 U-Dj,
Mr. Zumoto, editor of the Herald of
Asia Others whosi views the Amer
Scan members received werej^
A.F OFL-FORI'.S.
RY. OWNERSHIP
Plan With Democratic
Operation Endorsed
Overwhelmingly
MONTREAL, June 17—Govern
ment ownership with the democratic
operation of American railroads, was
endorsed today by the Amenca.Fed
eration of Labor convention after
bitter fight. Roll call flowed gov
ernment ownership endorsed by
vote of 29,059 to 8,349.
College Honors Go To
Woman With Baby
CHICAGO, June ,, l7 'T™ h peX*s
6St a ho rTtoX n from Northwestern
ShTtUk : her baby'
Tracy was mniduated with a ga^ g ghe
of bachelor of ai »• , raas t e r’s
planned to return f°r born four
I months after the mother entered the
folleere in the fall of 1917.
TH E TIMES SSRECORDER
BMpuBLISHEP IN THE OF DIXIE: 0
Yamagata, Marq)uis Matsukata, the
j two remaining elder statesmen, and
i Premier Hara, Foreign Minister
| Uchida and Marquis Okuma.
Unanimous were this whole group
in declaring that the libei'al move
ment in the nation was a steadily in
creasing force; that its intellectual
leaders were utterly opposed to a
policy of military aggression; that
they looked forward to a constantly
growing democracy.
Fear Japanese Militaristic.
The elections held while we were
in Japan returned the Liberal party
victorious, and with the reduction of
the tax qualifications from 10 to 3
yen, the franchise had been greatly
broadened. This, the Japanese re
marked, was concrete evidence of i
the soundness of their assertions.
Mr. Vanderlip and others of his
group put squarely to this group of
statesmen the misgivings of a section
of American opinion, and of other
western nations, that Japanese na
tional ambitions and actions were in
the control of a military clique
wlhich purposed to attain military
domination of the Far East.
The Japanese leaders met this
question with equal directness.
“Superficial observers,” said Dr.
Soyeda, “are apt to take us as being
militaristic and aggressive. But our
popular sentiment is against such
policies.”
Ask Help for Democracy.
They admitted there was a group
in Japan that might, were it left to
its own devices, seek further power
through military force. With im
pressive earnestness they assured us,
however, that this group, that this
sentiment, did not reflect the moral
and spiritual ideals or the national
aspirations of the Japan of today.
Instead of being treated with sus
picion and as a dangerous foe about
to strike, their plea is for the same
respect accorded other great nations,
for a willingness to meet in fair dis
cussion of international problems, for
a sympathetic understanding of na
tional difficulties.
“Please note,” said Dr. Soyeda,
“that we have been growing more:
democratic all the while. Look at
our labor problems and suffrage!
questions. The militaristic tenden-;
cies are the things of the past. We
have no desire for aggressions. We
need your help to progress. We are
not where we were ten years ago;
the times are changing and we want
to continue to attain democratic
progess, economically. We have
signed and become a member of the
League of Nations, and cannot act
toward any other weaker nation in
violation of the covenant of the
league.
To Profit From Germany.
“Assume,” said a Japanese gentle
man pre-eminent in the official cir
cles of his nation, “that the practical
ly unanimous sentiments you have
heard voiced by our leading men in
regard to Japan’s national aspira
tions are insincere, that there is a
concealed cunning and deceit back
of all of these statements, do you
believe that Japan would deliberate
ly follow a military policy of aggres
sion that would be almost certain to
lead her into a war, in the light of
the greatest failure the world has
ever known, the failure of Germany
in the World War?'
ADDS 100 ACRES
TO PEACH TRACI
G. W. Riley to Plant
Trees on Part of New
Farm
One hundred acres will be added
this fall to Sumter county’s growing
peach orchards as a result of a real
estate deal just announced whereby
G W. Riley acquires from L. W.
Cochran his 300-acre farm four miles
out from Americus on the Dawson
road. The farm, which is regarded
as a good one, brought $15,000. The
I deal was made through Sills and Pur
! vis. Mr. Riley already owns a peach
| orchard of about 150 acres adjoining
| the Cochran tract, and the new plant
j injr will give him 250 acres of orchard
|j n one location. Possession will be
■ ■ given this fall.
; in connection with this transaction
t it was announced that Mr. Cochran
. I had purchased from Mr. Riley the
,! house and lot on West Lamar street,
-! adjoining the Riley home, for $6,-
- 500.
> The first Japanese woman to edil
: a woman’s page in her country, Mike
3 Kohashi, has been studying journal
r ism at Columbia University in pre
; paration for teaching journalism ir
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 17, 1920
DEPORTPLOTTER
DESPITE PROTEST
OF U.S. OFFICIALS
Post Rules That’s Only
Course, Although
Cheating Law
WASHINGTON, June 17—Robert
Elia, one of the aliens held in con
nection with the bomb plots of June 2
last year, was ordered deported today
by Assistant Secretary Post, after
representations to the Department of
Justice that deporation “was not the
proper remedy.”
Elia was arrested with Andrea Ssl
sedo, who killed himself some weeks
ago by leaping from a window of
the Department of Jutsice office in
New York.
“To deport him would be to frus
j trate the operation of the criminal
] law,” said Post, “yet the department
j has no authority than to deport. I
cannot lawfully hold any alien in pris
on indefinitely.”
DEPORTATION OF SOVIET
AGENT UP AGAIN
WASHINGTON, June 17—Hear
ings in the deportation proceedings
against Ijudwig Martens, Soviet
agent in the United States, were re
sumed today at the Department of
Labor. Counsel for both sides ex
pected to complete testimony today.
The case will then be referred to As
sistant Secretary Post.
Labor department officials said
the final decision would rest with
President Wilson.
Priest Halts Wedding;
Bride’s Dress Too Scant
NEW ORLEANS, June 17.—A
wedding ceremony in St. Louis ca
thedral was postponed several hours
yesterday because the officiating
priest, Father Antoine, of the Order
of Oblate Fathers of Mary Immacu
late, declared the bride was immod
estly attired and violated a recent
order of Archbishop Shaw, of the
diocese of New Orleans, relative to j
! wearing apparel.
The priest declared the bride ap-i
; peared to him “so shocking that he
j had the sexton put out the lights so
that she might retire and properly
clothe herself.” Although he de
clined to divulge the name of the
bride he declared she “wanted to fly
in society style at her wedding much
to her disgrace.”
Everything had been prepared for
the wedding and the bridegroom
was in the edifice. The altars
were ablaze with candles and the
electric lights in every part of the
ancient cathedral were lighted. The
bride started up the main aisle but
had not gone far before the priest
viewed the gown, ordered the lights'
out and sent her home to assume
other garments. The marriage cer
emony then was performed.
Row Over Pitchers
Cancels Atlanta Game
ATLANTA, June 17—President
Charley Frank, of the Atlanta Base
ball club, announced no game today
between Atlanta and Little Rock fol
lowing the refusal of the Little Rock j
officials to agree to the terms of
an ulimatnm served upon them today |
demanding that Little Rock relinquish
Pitcher Casey Smith, released by the j
San Francisco club. The Chattanooga !
and Mobile clubs also took the same
stand today.
Threshing Outfit is
Damaged by Blaze
Late yesterday fire destroyed a
quantity of straw and damaged the
threshing outfit of Ned Johnson at
the poor farm, near Americus. The
outfit was being used to bale straw j
and a back fire from the engine |
started the blaze. All of the grain |
had been threshed and placed in barns j
before the fire and none of this was
damaged. About 500 pounds of straw |
was burned.
Seaplanes Crash in Air
at Pensacola; 1 Killed
PENSACOLA, Fla., June 17—Two ;
seaplanes crashed in midair over the j
harbor today resulting in the death
of William B. Livingston, Chief elec- j
trician in the navy and Pilot of an H. j
S.-2 type plane. Lieut. John Farns-1
worth, pilot of the other machine,
! was not fatally hurt, according to a
; report at the naval station.
Huerta Orders Railway
Returned to Its Owner
■ ■■— LI
MEXICO CITP, June 17.—Orders
that the Mexican Railway be turned
over to its owner, a London corpora
tion, tomorrow were issued today by
Provisional President De La Huerta.
ELOPING SEEMS TO BE GOULD HABIT
mm sbb
'''''Vc _ hC U^NuSI^HT
NEW YORK—The love of romance seems so deeply implanted in the
Gould family that they elope whether there is need for elopement or not.
George Jay Gould, the father and two sons, Kingdon and George Jay, Jr.,
eloped, and now the daughter—Miss Edith C. Gould, 18—recently eloped
with C. L. Wainwright, 21, rich art student. When other members of the
family learned of the elopement they said “they always did like young Wani
wngbt.”
Harding’s Record Shows Him
Foe Os League At Every Turn
WASHINGTON, June 17.—Sena- 1
tor Warren G. Harding, Republican (
nominee for president of the United
States, had been a consistent op- 1
ponent of President Wilson’s plan for
a League of Nations. At times he j
sided with the “bitter-enders on some i
of the questions involved in the dis- 1
cussions of the treaty by the sen- 1 i
ate. He voted for the Lodge reserva- j 1
tions both times the treaty was de-! ;
bated, with the exception of certain; 1
amendments proposed by the worst; 1
foes of the treaty.
The first record of Senator Hard- <
ing’s opposition is contained in the <
round robin submitted to the senate
March 4, 1919, by Senator Lodge. He 1
was one of the thirty-seven Senators |
who signed it, thereby notifying the ‘
world that they disapproved the way 1
the President was linking the League '•
of Nations with the peace treaty. 1
On “Packed” Committee.
When Republicans organized the
new congress, which convened May ■
19, 1919, Senator Harding was one
of those chosen by Senator Lodge in 1
‘packing” the foreign relations
committee against the League of Na- !
tions. He had not been on that com
mittee while the Democrats controll
ed the senate, but had served on the
committee of commerce, naval af
fairs, territories and others.
Aug. 20, 1919, he was one of the
members of the foreign relations
committee at the White House dis
cussing the League of Nations with
President Wilson. He interrogates the
President on the “moral obligation”
feature of the treaty, raising the
question as to the value of the treaty j
because of this.
“I look upon a moral obligation,”
he said, “as that which the conscience
of the contracting party impels. The
i conscience of any nation in Europe
!for example, may be warped by its
j prejudices, racial geographical and
I otherwise. If that be true any nation
[may put aside or exercise its judge
ment as to the moral obligation in
i accepting any recommendation of the
| league, really what do we get out
iof this international compact in the
(enforcement of any decree?”
Definite World Opinion.
President Wilson said: “We get
! the centering upon it generally of
(the definte opinion of the world, ex-|
pressed through the authoritative or- i
(gan of the responsible governments.”
Senator Harding: “That is surren
j dering the suggestion of a moral ob
ligation for this republic to the pre
(judices or necessities of the nations
of the Old World, is it not?”
President Wilson: “I do not un
derstand that we make such a surren
der.”
| Later Senator Harding said: “One
(of the points lam getting at, if I
(can make it clear, is the necessity
I of a written conpact for this Repub
i lie to fulfill its moral obligations to
! civilization.”
President Wilson replied: “Sena
tor this republic, if I interpret it
(rightly, does not need a suggestion
from any quarter to fulfill its moral j
obligations.’’
Senator Harding: “I quite agree ;
with that.”
Record of Hi* Vote*.
The senator in November voted for
the Borah amendment to require four
nations instead of three to ratify the j
treaty before it should become es-l
fective. He voted for the Lodge res-1
ervations, one to fifteen, inclusive,]
and voted for cloture on the amend
ments. He voted for the Knox reser
vation (which was lost), ending the
war with Germany and giving this
country a right to participate in the
commissions.
He voted for the La Follette reser
vation which was dost), that the Unit
ed States withdraw from the league
in one year if European nations did
not discontinue the policy of raising
armies in peace times by conscrip
ting them.
He voted for the road reservation
(which was lost) that the United
States reserves the right to decide
what questions affect the honor or
vital interest ot the United States.
Senator Harding voted for ratifi
cation with the Lodge reservations
He did not vocs oil the reservations
(except No. 3) the second time t.he
treaty was befove the senate or on
the second ratification resolution, nav
:ng been pairrd with Senator J’en
rore
Senator Harding voted against res
ervations on the Irish question.
Colo**al Blunder.
In a speech on November 19, Sen
ator Harding told the senate he had
not liked the treaty. “I think, as
j originally negotiated,” he declared
“it is the colossal blunder of all time;
but, recognizing the aspirations of
our own people and the people of the
world to do something toward inter
national co-operation for the promo
tion and preservation of peace and a
more intimate and better understand
ing between nations, I have wished
to make it possible to accept this
covenant. I could however, no mord
vote to ratify-this treaty without res
ervations which make sure America’s
independence of action, which makes
sure the preservation of American
traditions, which make sure and cer
tain our freedom in choosing our!
course of action, than 1 could par- j
ticipate in a knowing betrayal of this;
I republic.
In concluding, Senator Harding j
said: “I welcome the moment when!
we can go to the people of the Uni-!
ed States on the issue as to who isj
responsible therefor” (referring to
the treaty).
“Lspeak for one who is old-sash-;
ioned enough to believe that the gov-;
ernment of the United States of j
America is good enough for me.”
Who Labor Fight* Him.
’ One reason why the American Fed
■ eration of Labor is so strongly op
i posed to Senator Harding, aside from
the straddle on labor evohed by the
■ Republican platform in Chicago, is
t found in the fact that Harding voted
i (Continued on Back Page.)
NEIGHBORHOOD
NEWS TOLD BY
CORRESPONDENTS
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BOTH REASSERT
INNOCENCE OF
MURDERCHARGE
Maybe Time Will Show
Negro, Ware, Guilty,
Says Duckworth
Announcement was made today
that the Supreme Court of Georgia
had affirmed the decisions of Judge
Littlejohn, of the Sumter Superior
Court, overruling motions for new tri
als in the cases of Sam G. Duckworth
and Walter W. Wilson, both convicted
of murder at the last November term
of the court here. Duckworth was
convicted of murdering his wife, Mrs.
Pearl Duckworth, and Wilson was
found guilty of beating Joel Edge to
death.
“I am not guilty of this crime, but
1 m going to serve like a man,” were
the words of Duckworth when tdld
today that the Supreme court had af
£& n f d , , ? is cmwiction. Asked who
killed his wife, Duckworth said he
believed Sidney Ware, the negro who
lived near his home at the time was
guilty, and that he had borrowed his
knife for the purpose of killing her
He used my knife so that it would
put suspicion on me,” said Duckworth
to a newspaperman who accompanied
Dan Chappell, Duckworth’s counsel,
t » h,s cell. “I don’t know what made
Ware kiH her, but I believe he in
tended to do it when he borrowed my
knife and left me on the edge of
Americus. Maybe time will tell about
his part in the killing, and it will be
shown that he is the guilty man.” As
he said these words tears welled into
the eyes of Duckworth and sobs chok
ed his voice. “I’ve seen my little <ri r l
TT T ! Ve been in jail ’” h added
and I dont guess I‘ll ever see her
again till Tm set free.” He was sen
tenced to serve for life.
Walter Wilson, whose conviction
™I dp r of Edge was also af
firmed m the same batch of decis
ions with the Duckworth case, was
present while Duckworth made his
statement, and his comment was that
h F " ev !„ r aaw “that man.” meaning
+l, * e ’ bls *^ e ’ Wilson asserted
that although the Edge family mav
be convinced of his guilt they are
sending him to the gang for life “an
innocent man,” and that [here ap
,OT “■ ™ «■'»&
‘‘l have been told,” he said, “that a
few days after Edge was killed a let
ter was received by the proscution
•telhng all about the murder and eiv-
Mm * i. n ir e ° f the man who kil,ed
but *hcy n f v _ er Paid anv atten
tion to this, and I am to suffer be
cause the truth has never been
brought out. I never saw ‘that man’
woriJ+l! f f’T and • declare before the
world that I am innocent of his mur
der. I don t know what made those
women swear like they did to convict
me of this crime.”
Wilson appears to be well advanced
in years, but asserted that he will
serve faithfully, and that anything
will be better than confinement in the
jail here.
Wilson, Duckworth, C. L. Grady,
and one other prisoner are confined
in a big cage in the central section of
the second story of the jail, and their
quarters are most uncomfortable ow
ing to the fact that with all ventila
tion possible the heat is still almost
unendurable inside the cage. Owing
to the recent attempted escape by a
number of the prisoners, Sheriff Har
vey ha? restricted their liberty, none .
of them being permitted to remain in
the corridor until the bars, almost
sawed in two, in the bathroom here,
can be repaired.
Wilmot S. Littlejohn
Given Hospital Place
Wilmot S. Littlejohn, who has been
a medical student at the Atlanta Med
ical school for the past three years,
has just been appointed an intern in
Wesley Memorial hospital, and will
remain there during the summer. He
will spend two years in this position
in completion of his medical studies
hnd practice, but plans to visit his
parents, Judge and Mrs. Z. A. Little
' john, at their home here during Au
jgust.
Great Flour Mills On
Marne are Destroyed
MEAUX, France, June 17—The
| great flour mills on the Marne built
| at least a century ago took fire this
morning and all hope of saving them
i was abandoned. The mills were filled
i with wheat flour valued at several
; million francs.
Weather
i ——
: Forecast for Ga—Partly cloudy
i weather with local showers and thun
l derstorms probably tonight and Fri
day. Lower temperature Friday.