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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 149
DEMOCRATS TO TAKE DRY ISSUE TO FLOOR
EUROPE BIDDING
PRICES OF COAL
TO SKY; GET IT
Supply Flows to Tidewa
ter While Famine
Threatens Here
(The Times-Recorder’s coal inves
tigators already have revealed the
prospective $3,000,000,000 profiteer
ing in coal, and the famine threaten
ing, particularly for the northwest.
The next report will touch another
vital spot, the car congestion caus
ing it all.)
HAMPTON ROADS, June 23.
(Special)—Practically the entire out
put of Pocahontas, West Virginia
Splint and Kentucky Block coals is
flowing east for export through
Hampton Roads and other Atlantic
ports.
The movement is so great that
these three, the highest grades of
American domestic coals, have virtu
ally disappeared from the domestic
market and cannot be bought by
Americans at a price within reason.
No matter how big the American
retailer bids, the exporter goes him a
dollar better —and gets the coal.
The export drain is particularly
strong on the output of Pocahontas
mines and the mines around Fair
mont and New River, W. Va. To
get this cream of American coal, ex
porters are paying as high as $11.50
a net ton, with correspondingly high
er prices for Pennsylvania anthra
cite.
Coal jobbers say that if this price
were cut in half, the operators would
■ till be getting a fair price.
The heavy export demand sets the
price pace for the American who
buys in the domestic market.
Americans either pay the export
prififi « r don’t get their orders filled
a«► ,e mines, for the demand for
Coai at Tidewater is now unlimited.
Exporters are taking every ton they
can get.
No matter how scare coal is, nr
matter how scarce coal cars are, the
exporter’s order is filled first.
These export shipments, as they
flow east, have clogged the railroads
so that New England mills have run
up an S. O. S. signal. . They want
some of this coal diverted from
Hampton Roads and other ports and
hauled into New England.
Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts,
is demanding embargo of some form
on coal exports. He points to Eng
land, which has recently clamped on
the lid by limiting coal exports to 10
per cent of her total production,
though in 1913-1914 England export
ed 34 out of every 100 tons of coal
from her mines. . , .
England, according to Walsh, is
keeping her coal at home, then buy
ing American coal and using it as a
medium of exchange for acquiring
Cuban sugar, Argentine beef and raw
materials from Mediterranean coun
tries. „ ,
Walsh has compiled figures show
ing that about 2,000,000 tons of coal
were shipped out of the United States
Americus is Facing Shortage,
But Yards Have Coal on Hand
Americus, along with the rest of
the country faces a very serious coal
situation, although Thomas Harrold,
• a leading coal dealer here, stated to
day no occasion for alarm exists be
cause of the scarcity of fuel.
“It is too early for people here to
get alarmed,” said Mr. Harrold; “al
though we are having unusual diffi
culty in getting deliveries."’ Prices
this fall may be expected to be high,
according to Mr. Harrold who says
his firm has on hand only about 50 to
60 tons, whereas at this season usual
ly there is a full season’s supply, with
deliveries being made for winter use.
The coal they have on hand is from
the Jellico region, and sells for $12.50
per ton, although Mr. Harrold says,
if it were sold on it s replacement
value instead of its cost price, the
ouatation would be at least $13.25
>n. Coal ordered long ago, and
whnrJi should already have been de
livered, Mr. Harrold says, has not
yet been loaded at the mines. Many
coal cars, he believes, are being used
in export trade, which probably has
added to the acuteness of the situa
tion, but other causes may also af
fect the situation. Only minimum
prices are set by mipe-owners, Mr.
Harrold says, and all orders are ac
cepted only at prices ruling on the
day of shipment.
J. E. Johnson, manager of the Am
ericus Lighting Co. showed a telegram
today stating that only run-of-mine
coal is now being loaded and quoting
this at a price which means practi
cally sl2 a ton delivered in Americus,
with about $7 per car to be added for
unloading cost.
L. G. Council said that at this sea
son he usually has twenty-five cars
unloaded at his yards here, but this
COOLIDGE POSES
FOR HIS PICTURE
BOSTON—When notified of his
selection as G. O. P. candidate for
vice president Governor Calvin
wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. And
here he is.
Coolidge posed "for photographers
during April. His information from
coal men is that by mid-winter the
export shipments may be as high as
4,000,000 tons a months.
This would be at a yearly rate of
48,000,000 tons. In other words,
out of every 11 tons of coal mined in
the United States, one would be ex
ported.
Americans who want this coal, but
can’t bid against the export price
point out that as the coal shortage
get# more acute every ton taken from
the domestic market and shipped
abroad is an increasingly greater
drain.
Canada is a big factor in our coal
export market. Her mines supply
only 41 per cent of her coal needs,
and in 1920 she will probably buy
about 22,000,000 tons of American
coal.
Canada has thousands of Ameri
can coal cars, which she is holding as
hostages until American railroads lo
cate and send home other cars that
belong in Canada but haven’t been
returned to her.
Attempts to get these gondola and
hopper coal cars back to the United
States will apparently be ineffectual
until our railroad congestion is un
raveled and an exchange can be
made. >
year he has on hand less than a hun
dred tons, with a prospect that deliv
eries hereafter will be few and uncer
tain. “We are selling coal in 1-ton
lots to our customers only” Mr. Coun
cil said this afternoon. Mr. Council’s
coal is quoted today at $13.50 for
best grade Jellico lump, but he stated
he was having trouble securing ship
ments of steam coal at $7.50 a ton,
with $3.00 freight charges from the
mine to Americus and $7.00 a car un
loading charges. Steam coal is very
scarce, Mr. Council said, and it is only
with greatest difficulty that a supply
sufficient for our need- has been se
cured. Several weeks ago he said he
remitted a large sum to a coal mining
company with which he does business,
askinv immediate shipment of a quan
tity of coal, only to learn that the
, cash would have no effect whatever
upon the time of delivery. The trou
ble, Mr. Council thinks, lies principal
ly with labor, although the railroads
and the scarcity of coal cars may also
affect deliveries in a degree.
Train Strikes Cow,
Fireman is Killed
GREENVILLE, Ala.,* June 23.
i Sam Malone, negro fireman, was kill
! ed and Engineer Comer Wilson bad
| ly scalded when Louisville and Nash
ville passenger train No. 5 was wreck
ed at Chapman, A!a., this morning
as the result of striking a cow.
Weather
Forecast for Georgia—Generally
fair tonight and Thursday.
TOEfHWftftRDER
tfratTPUBLISHED IN THE HEART Qr DTxiETtfeft?
POUSH INVASION
EVEN IS BETTER
THAN THIS HELL’
That’s the Cry in Russia
As Heard by U. S.
Writer
(This is the third cablegram from
J. Herbert Duckworth. American
newspaperman, who recently slipped
into soviet Russia and spent three
weeks there before being ejected,
finding out the truth of conditions.)
By J. HERBERT DUCKWORTH,
N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.
(Copvright, 1920, by The Newspa
per Enterprise Association.)
REVAL, Esthomia, June 23.
(Special Cable.) —I asked many Rus
sians:
“Are you afraid of Polish invas
ion?’’
“We welcome no invader, yet any
thing is better than this hell!” they
told me.
Marketing by Russias women is
a complicated, tiring and hazardous
chore.
Theoretically, all trade in Russia
is abolished.
The stores of Pskov, one a thriv
ing town of 46,000 people, now are
closed and boarded up. Grass grows
tAI on Sergfeyevaskaja, the main
street of Pskov.
But the illegal market flourishes.
In an alleged communist republic,
individualism still exists! Century
old habits die hard.
Russian people still buy, sell and
barter.
The shrewdest and strongest and
piost cunning get sufficient and the
old, the weak and the ignorant starve
and die.
I went marketing with the women
at Pskov.
The wife of the superintendent of
the soviet flax factory acted as my
guide.
This woman’s problem is to pro
vide food for a family of five. Her
husband draws the insufficient work
ers’ ration and his wages are 3,400
rubles a month. Bread sells for 500
rubles a pound.
The market square was filled with j
Red soldiers and townpeople. Even;
the commissar’s employes were there, j
for I recognized some of them as be
ing of the Extraordinary Commis-j
sion for the Suppression of the Coun
ter Revolution and from communist
headquarters!
“We Muit Live,” Official'* Excuse.
“What are you doing here?” I
heard one commissar ask another.
“You are sabotaging the revolution."
“We cannot accomplish everything
in a day,’ was the reply of his com-|
panion. “We must live.”
The second commissar took salt
from us as well as money in exchange
for his goods.
The Russian peasant farmers do
not want Soviet money, but they do
want salt for use in preserving meat.
Jews of Sskov have “cornered” salt
and now the townspeople are ex
changing Soviet money for czar
money and then buying salt with
czar rubles and exchanging the salt
for produce.
The market stalls that are closed
belonged to the petty bourgeoise.
I bought 10 eggs for a ound and
a half of salt.
One fish cost a ’mund of salt and
a pound of cheese cost four pounds
of salt.
Six small carrots cost a pound of
salt, while two -ounds of beef might
be bartered for two pounds of salt.
There is a prison penalty for buy
ing or selling, yet 5,000 people
thronged the market place.
I myself bought “the makings.”
A pound of Siberian tobacco cost 5,-
000 rubles (a ruble was 51 cents be
fore the war), while the paper to
make cigaretts from—a sheet torn
from a used office letter book—cost
me 25 rubles (about $12.50 at the
pre-war rate!)
I wanted some small souvenirs and
was taken to the back door of the
stall. An employe told me that the
proprietress would fetch things she
had hidden at home to the market in
the afternoon. This she did.
What Money-Dealing Means.
It is a strange thing, if the Bol
shevist revolution was really success
ful, that the Jews, with proverbial
instintt of bargaining, should now be
buying czar money.
It is also significant and amusing
that on my second day in Pskov, a
commissar (Bolshevist official) visit
ed me at my hotel and offered as a
“personal favor” to exchange my
czar and Kerensky money for Soviet
rubles. t
“You must keep it a secret ” he
said. “You are liable to be shot.”
There are no lights in Pskov. Un
der a daylight-saving scheme, the
clocks are running three hours fast
and, as a result, the people wander
j the streets at 1 o’clock in the morn
ing and do not rise until 9 o’clock.
The only amusement in the city
is the open-air moving picture show.
The program includes quotations
from the speeches of Lenin and
Trotzky and bulletins from the front.
AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 23, 1920
WILSON URGES
RAILROAD WAGE
BOARDDECISION
Telegram Calls For Body
To Make Its
Award
WASHINGTON, June 23.—Presi
dent Wilson sent a message today to
the railroad labor board at Chicago
urging it to make its award in • the
wage crontroversy. The text of the
message was not made public at the
White House.
Announcement of the action was
made after W. N. Doak, vice-presi
dent of the Trainmen’s brotherhood,
had called at the White House and
held a conference with Secretary Tu
multy. Tumulty said he would have
a statement to make later in the day.
BIG FQUR HEADS
DENY STRIKE PLAN.
CLEVELAND, June 23.—Rumor?
that the railroad unions would call
a strike this week affecting all the j
unions were denied today by the ex-'
ecutive heads of the four big trans-j
portation brotherhoods.
“Simply strikers' propaganda,’”
said W. G. Lee, president of the Or-;
der of Railway Trainmen.
Playground Program
To Start at 5 Thursday
An error was made in the an
nouncement yesterday of the pro
gram of story plays and dances to be
given at the Playground Thursday.
The program will begin at 5 o’clock
Thursday afternoon, immediately af
ter the Rotary-Kiwanis baseball
game, instead of at night, according |
to announcement today by Miss Win
ans, director.
The program will open with two
story plays by the younger children,
under the direction of Miss Verdier,
who has been assisting Miss Winans, j
and these will be followed by singing j
dance by the morning class and games
and folk dances by the afternoon j
class.
Scouts Reach Asheville
On Lake Junalaska Trip
“Arrived here at 10. Boys all}
well. Great trip,” was the text of a j
telegram received by the Times-Re-j
corder at 11 o’clock this morning!
from Asheville, N. C., signed Scout!
Master Silas Johnson.
Rev, Mr. Johnson left here Mon
day morning with a company of local
Boy Scouts by auto truck for Lake
Junaluska, about 20, miles beyond
Asheville, where they are to spend
two weeks in a scout camp. They
had expected to reach their destina
tion Tuesday evening, but evident- \
ly found the traveling slower than|
had been anticipated.
No Admission Fee For
Rotary-Kiwanis Game
“Tell the folks there will be no ad
mission charged at the Rotary-Kiwan
is baseball game at the playground :
Thursday afternoon,” said Jack
Holst today. Rotarians and Kiwan
ians who will attend the game will di
vide into “camps,” and the Kiwanians
are requested by Mr. Holst to meet'
at the playground, Thursday after
noon at 4 o’clock to prepare for the
game which will begin at 4:15.
Groceries and Markets |
To Take Half Holiday
The groceries and markets of!
Americus, with only one or two ex- j
ceptions, will observe a half holiday!
Thursday afternoon of this week, be-!
ginning at 1 o’clock, in company with ;
stores in other lines of business, and |
they ask housekeepers to bear this in j
mind in making their orders. Theyj
will continue the closing practice}
throughout the summer.
Disarmament Note
Handed to Germans
PARIS, June 23. —A note to Ger
many regarding disarmament, prepar
ed by the council of ambassadors
and approved by the allied premiers
at the Bologne conference, was hand
ed to the German peace delegation
here this morning.
j ,
Rioting Is Renewed
At Londonderry
LONDONDERRY, June 23—(By
Associated Press) —Londonderry
was again the scene of rioting today.
! At 9:30 oclock this morning fighting
: was in progress between the IJnion
! ists and Nationalists. Looting occur-
I red in the city during the night.
HOPE FOR SETTLING IT
IN COMMITTEE FADES
Bryan, on Way Westward, Says No Wet Candi
date Should be Nominated
By Convention
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23—Rumblings of Democratic discord over the
prohibition issue became hourly more omnious today as delegates and party
chiefs arrived in increasing numbers for the national convention, which
opens Monday. The hope that the gathering storm might spend itself be
hind the closed doors of the platform committee were virtually abandoned by
the leaders and they prepared to face an outbreak of tempestuous debate
on the floor of the convention itself.
After many conferences in’an effort to lay the basis for harmony Nation
al Chairman Cumnfings said today it was fair bet the question would go to
the convention itself for settlement.
Chairman Cummings said today it was still an open question whether
the adoption of the platform or the choice of the nominee would come first,
on the convention program. The prospect of a prolonged fight in commiittee
over prohibition and some other subjects has led to a movement to go ahead
with the balloting while the committee sits.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., June 23 —Speaking before several hundred peo
ple here last night William J. Bryan declared no candidate who stood against
the. policy of prohibition should be nominated hy the Democrats at San
Francisco.
LINCOLN, Neb., June 23—Discussing presidential candidates in his
paper, The Commoner, today, W. J. Bryan declares W. G. McAdoo is hand
icapped by his “close relationship with the president,” while Wilson himself,
he says “need not be considred.” Hoover is eliminated he says while Senator
Owen and Secretary Meredith are described as being “among the few avail
able men thus far mentioned!’
As to Palmer, Bryan says he entered the campaign in a position to “deal
sternly with the profiteer, and an expectant public stood ready to applaud,
but the profiteer seems to have things His own way and the attorney general
is suffering from the reaction.”
KANSAS CITY, June 23—In a telegram sent from Pueblo, Colo., today
from the train bearing the Missouri delegates to San Francisco, Burris A.
Jenkins, Kansas City clergyman and publisher, announced he had definitely
decided to place the name of McAdoo before the democratic convention.
A PLENTY DOING
FOR DELEGATES
Republican Women En
tertaining Delegates
At Frisco •
BY MABEL ABBOTT
* N. E. A. Staff Correspondent.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23—The
guests are trickling in for the big
Democratic party, and San Francisco
while scrambling
to put the finish
ing touches to the
preparations for
their entertain
ment, is holding
out the glad hand.
Whatever else the
Democratc may do j
at their national
convention this
year, they are go
ing to have a good
time. Everything
from the city ad
ministration to the
weather is on the
job to see that they
do. It is cool here.
MABEL ABBOTT
It meets every arrival with assur
ance that there will be no sweltering
sessions, such as nearly wore out the
endurance of the Republicans in the
Chicago Coliseum. The crossing po
licemen are on the lookout for con
vention waifs and strays. One of
them held up the traffic on Market
street this morning while he told me
how to find the Palace Hotel, and
then threw in the information that a
“lot of convention folks is going to be
at the St. Francis. You take the Geary
street car to get there.”
Headquarters of the women s di
vision of the national executive com
mittee are full of flowers. Every San
Francisco woman who drops in to
welcome the visitors brings an arm
load of roses or a bundle of blue
delphiniums, half as tall as herself,
or a small haystack of sweet peas,
When the vases gave out the women
j put them in water pitchers, and when
there were no more pitchers they pil
ed them on the piano.
Big signs that no one can fail to
see, on Market street inform visitors
who have no reservations waiting for
them that everybody is guaranteed a
I room. Private homes have listed
I rooms with the local committee to be
! used in case the hotel accommoda
tions give out. .
Entertainments of all kinds are be
ing given already and larger ones
are ahead. Luncheons and teas for
visiting women are especially numer
ous and the welcome is not by Dem
ocrats only. A Republican woman will
preside at a luncheon at Oakland to
G. O. P. women next Saturday and
nearly all the East Bay women, re
gardless of politics, will be hostesses.
PALMER LEADS,
RICKEY’S VIEW
Believes Bryan’s Backing
Will Go to Attorney
General
BY H. N. RICKEY.
(N. E. A. Staff Correspondent)
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.
Heretofore I have suggested that the
withdrawal of Mc-
Adoo from the con
test for the presi
dential nomination
greatly strengthen
ed the position of i
Cox. This was be-,
cause the Ohio I
governor is recog
nized generally by
the leaders as the
man most likely to
be elected.
Certain facts
and complications
have been broughi
to my attention
during the last
twenty-four hours
that raise a ques
p* ' v? i
-■
tion in my mind as to whether or not,
in common with most others, am not
underestimating Palmer outside of
the Palmer camp.
There has been a disposition on
the part of political writers and po-j
liticians not to take Palmer’s candi-j
dacy seriously. Until very recently ■
most of the other candidates and their!
managers have not considered Palm
er’s nomination as within the possi
bilities much less the probabilities
They are not so sure of that today;
in fact, there is some fear that a situ
ation may be in the making that will
force a coalition of the Wilson and
Bryan forces behind Palmer and nom
inate him early in the balloting rather
than take the chances on a deadlock
with Cox as the possible nominee. I
have just learned that those members
of the national committee who be
gan months ago to groom Palmer as
the candidate have renewed their ef
forts with increased vigor. Since Mc-
Adoo’s withdrawal their purposes is
to line up the greatest possible num
ber of delegates for Palmer who will
agree to support him on the first two
or three ballots and as long thereaf
ter as his votes continues to increase
then as soon as Bryan gets here he
will be shown the only way to insure
the defeat of Cox will be for him to
throw his influence to Palmer jus*
as he did for Wilson at Baltimore,
while there are lots of men Bryan
would rather see nominated than
Palmer, he is not in the commoner’s
black book as is Cox.
Bryan has branded Cox as the can
didate of the wets and as he consid
ers rigid enforcement of the pro
hibition amendment the most impor-
WEVTwARt* v\ sW/W
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GONE 25 YEARS
COMES BACK TO
FAITHFUL WIFE
J. W. Clarke Walk* Into
Old Home Here Un
announced
Unexpected and unannounced, J.
W. Clarke, who left Americus 2f»
years ago and had not been back nor
seen by any of them since, walked
into the same house and same room
last night where he found Mrs. Clarke
who had been hopefully awaiting his
return all these years. Although the
couple had not seen each other in
the quarter of a century, recognition
lowed 1 * 1 * 01 * 1 and a joyful reunion fol-
The story is a most unusual one.
Mark, who is known to many old
residents here, is said to have left
Americus and hi s family because of
conditions in the home, they making
their home with the parents of Mrs.
Clarke. He had often communicated
with his wife since leaving here, urg
ing her to come to him, but she re
mained faithful to her parents until
their death, the departure of the
last one of which Mr. Clarke recently
heard of. A sad feature of the re
union was the recollection of the
death of both of the Clarke children
during his absence, of which he had
known. The Clarke home is near
the home of J. A. Hixon on South
Lee street.
Thirty-five years ago Clarke mar
ried Miss Mary Hill, daughter of the
late Frank Hill, of Americus, and the
couple lived together with her parents
for eight years. During that time
two children, a boy who died early
I'*®; an <l a daughter, Miss Celeste
Hill Clarke, who grew to young wo
manhood and passed away several
years ago, having contracted tub
erculosis, were born. Miss Hill, who
was in the employ of Judge Hixon
as a stenographer for several year«
and later worked for James Fricker
and brother, went west shortly before
her death, but the body was brought
here and buried.
The death of his children was
known to their father, who from time
to time communicated with Mrs Clark
When Clarke first left Americus he
went to Macon to reside, and for a
tame communicated regularly with
his wife, whom he urged to job, him
m his new home. Mr. and Mrs. Hill
with whom she then lived, were fep
ble and old, however, and she never
joined him, and finally Clarke decided
to go west and drifted to Oklahoma
where he settled in Carracco coun
ty anil staked a homestead on 160
acres of land, located near the pres
ent Oklahoma oil fields. This claim
is said to be of large value now, ow
ing to the rapid development of the
fields in which it is located.
A few years ago, Clarke, it is said
wrote his wife from Oklahoma, sug
gesting that she come there to live
with him, and proposing that in the
event she decline to do this that she
secure a divorce. This proposition
Mrs. Clark declined to consider, and
told friends here that she still cherish
ed her husband and would under no
circumstance consent toibeing divorc
ed fom him. Mr. Hill died several
years ago. Last year Mrs. Hill died,
and since her death Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Nicholson, formerly residents of
the Seventeenth district, have made
their home with Mrs. Clarke.
After living in the west a number
of years Clarke moved to Florida,
where he was when he heard of Mrs.
Hill’s death and determined to re
turn to Americus and his wife, who
during all the years that have passed
had remained faithful to him. Wheth
er or not Mr. and Mrs. Clarke will
continue to reside in Americus, the
Times-Recorder is not informed, but
their many friends here will all be
glad to learn of the reunion.
tant question before the country, he
most assuredly would join with the
Palmer forces to put Palmer over if
he can be shown that such a course
is necessary to stop Cox, in broad
outline the inside political game that
is being played here between the
Palmer people on the one side and all
of the other candidates on the other,
is much the same situation as exist
ed at Chicago strategically speak
ing. Palmer’s position is better
than Wood’s because the with
drawal of McAdoo gave him
a reservoir of votes to draw from
and if Bryan can be shown there are
from a hundred to a hundred and
fifty more delegates who are Bryan
men in the sense that they will vote
as he tells them, then from the stand
point of the opposition to Palmer is
the very great danger that should
Palmer get reasonably near the seven
hundred and twenty-eight votes in
the early balloting the magic words
“put Palmer over’’ will come from
Palmer’s great and good friend, Sec
retary Tumulty. The danger that
Palmer will be nominated is immi
nent enough to call for a protest
. from the neople back home directed
at the delegates who are represent
ing them here.