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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 152
PALMER DELEGATION TEMPORARILY SEATED
INVENTORY PUTS
COUNCIL ESTATE
NEAR $150,000
John M. and Harris
Council Made Mana
gers For Heirs
Heirs at law of the late M. B.
Council are preparing an inventory
of the estate, the estimated value of
which is variously placed at from
$140,000 to $150,000.
The estate represents landed es-1
tates, bank stock, mortgages, notes,;
and cash in bank, besides a large
sum invested in Liberty bonds, this
latter not being taxable, except as
to the federal estate tax.
The amount which the estate will
pay the state and federal govern
ments on estate and inheritance tax
cannot be stated in the inventory and
this will be determined after the in
ventory is approved. Approval of this
may be given by Capt. John A. Cobb,
as Ordinary, or he may appoint a
board of appraisers to pass upon and
■ fix the value of the various properties
and securities owned *by the deceased.
The federal estate tax is a graduated
levy, being 1 per cent upon the first
$50,000 of taxable estate and 2 per
cent upon taxable amounts beyond
that sum to $150,000 and larger per
centage up larger amounts while the
state inheritance tax is 1 per cent
upon the net taxable value of the es
tate inherited- ' T , ~ I
Heirs to the big estate are John M. ;
Council, Harris Council, Mrs. Lena ,
Argo, Mrs. Emma Parker, Mrs. Bet
tie McKee and Mrs. Nell Statham, all
children of the deceased who died in-.
testate. The estate owns valuable,
lands in Sumter, I ee and Dooly conn-,
ties as well as numerous se-'Uiities, .
and the whole of the capital stock
of the Council Bank of Ellaville. Ten
thousand dollars in Liberty bonds it,
Cis said, are included in the securities
owned, in addition to a considerable
sum in cash, deposited in' J® nks te £
Americus and elsewhere. The estate
owes no debts. .
A companion paper to the inve -
tory of the estate already executed
bv the several heirs recites that it is
the intention of these to hold the es
tate intact for an unstated time, and
that for such purpose John M Lon* 1 ’
cil and Harris Council are constituted
the sole agents of the estate.
This paper indicates that no admin
istrator is to be appointed, and that
whenever a division is determined
upon by the heirs this will be made
“in kind,” that is, the various prop
erties will be divided among the heirs
according to appraised., value and
without sale and subsequent division
of the proceeds. . {
In the agreement between the heirs I
there is no stipulation as to how long I
the estate will continue to be man-1
aged by the Council Brothers and |
they may continue as managers of the
various investments for an indefinite
period.
Express authority was given them
to vote the stock of the estate in the
•Section of officers of the Council
Bank of Ellaville, of which Senator
Council was president, and John M.
Council was chosen Thursday to suc
ceed him in that capacity.
Division of the profits of the es
tate are to be made by direction of
the managers, and the whole agree
ment indicates there exists a per
fect understanding between the vari
ous heirs as to their participation I
in these.
Miss Clare McKellar
Gets Chair in College
News has been received here that
Miss Clare McKellar, of Athens, has
just been elected a member of the
faculty of Southern College at Suth
erland, Fla. She will be professor
of history of education.
Miss McKellar is a daughter of
the late Dr. H. H. McKellar and a
sister of Prof. Idus McKellar, of
Wesleyan College, Macon. She was
horn and reared in Sumter county,
12 miles east of Americus on the old
Hand place, a part of which her
mother still owns. She graduated at
Wesleyan college, at Macon, several
years ago with an A. B. degree. Re
cently she has won A. M. and B. S.
degrees from the University of
Georgia.
» Miss McKellar is a young woman
of excellent educational accomplish
ments, as well as ability. She has
for six years been instructor in
mathematics in the' Athens High
school, and is now a member of the
University cf Georgia summer school
staff.
Harding Sneaks Away
For Undisturbed Rest
WASHINGTON, June 26.—Sena
tor Harding, the- Renublican presi
dential nominee, left Washinsrton to
day for an unannounced destination.
He plans to be away until Tuesday
and it was said at his office his desti
nation would not be disclosed, as the
senator wanted to get a much needed
rest. i
By J. W. RAPER.
Creator of “Josh Wise
(Copyright, 1920, N. E. A.)
SAN FRANCISCO. June 26—A
Pennsylvania delegate who is so wet
he won’t even have his
( 4 clothes dry-cleaned, in-
y forms me confidential
ly that Palmer’s name
made his nomination a
certairfty. “The stars
have decreed it in that
\ name,” he said. “Palm
s" er! Palm-er! He holds
the nomination in the hollow of his
hand!” (Quick, porter, the diagram.)
♦ • ♦
One sad feature of this con
vention is the scarcity of the old
time plug hat. But it has been a
long, long trip for most of the del
egates. And you can hardly expect
a man to sleep four or five nights
in succession in a plug hat.
* • •
The ouija board is not going to be
used much during this convention.
Too many of the boys can’t spell
enough to work one.
• • •
Nobody is going to hang up bis
stockings when he goes to bed. All
the boys believe in a political Santa
Claus but they know he isn’t com
ing around this year’s convention.
• * •
Every time a street car passenger
in San Francisco pays his fare with
a coin bigger than a dime the conduc
tors bounce it two or three times
on the fare-box and listen carefully
to the ring before they give any
change. Thev act a s though Demo
cratic conventions were held here
once a week.
• • •
All the ( patriots are declaring in
favor of free speech. You have to
give them credit: They are practic
ing what they preach.
• * •
Tammany men are making a great
impression. When anybody asks,
“Who’s your choice?” they answer,
“Smith.” And then everybody says
“What Smith?”
• * •
Most of the visitors never knew
till they came here that San Francis
co has a climate for the S. F. press
agents seldom mention that fact. Still
the democrats have Burleson, but
they never brag about it.
• • •
Speaking of Burleson, and Dem
ocrats never do when they can get
out of it, not even his poor rela
tions have mentioned him as a pos
sible candidate.
• * *
It is as good as settled that the
candidate must be a man who has a
front porch—on his house, of course
—(-to meet the Harding strength. No
man who lives in a flat has a chance.
HUNS SEEK CUT
IN REPARATIONS
Want Credit For Work
on French Roads by
Prisoners
PARIS, June 26.—Germany hasj
filed with the allied reparations com-i
mission a claim that 215,000,000:
marks should be deducted from the
seven billion gold marks due France
as her share of the indemnity fixed
by the Versailles treaty, says The
Petit Parisien. This sum, it is as
serted, is the value of improvements
made on French roads by German
prisoners of war.
TURKEY READY WITH
REPLY TO ALLIES.
PARIS, June 26.—Turkey’s peace
delegation was ready this morning to
submit that countries reply to the
trt-ms of the treaty presented by the
allied nations. This reply was trans
mitted June 11, but an extension of
time was granted.
GREEKS ADVANCING
IN ASIA MINOR.
SMYRNA, June 26.—Greek forces
engaged in the offensive against the
Turkish nationalists in Asia Minor
are advancing in four directions and
have taken a number of towns, ac
cording to an official communique
from Greek headquarters, under
Thursday’s date.
Forecast—For Georgia: Fair on
Sunday.
THE TIMESBRECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE OF
OWEN BOOSTED i
BY PARTY’S NEED
OF PROGRESSIVE
Situation Brings his Can
didacy to Front, Says
Gardner
i
By GILSON GARDNER
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.
The need for a progressive Demo
cratic candidate to run against Har
ding has given a reality to the for
merly rather shadowy candidacy of
Robert L. Owen, of Oklahoma.
As it happens, Owen is one of the
few who can qualify under this'
head. Owen has, for ten years, been;
the head of the popular government,
league, an organization which pushes
the initiative, referendum and recall
and similar measures. He has spent
a small fortune financing this move
ment.
He made the historic fight against
Taft for a progressive constitution
for Arizona when that State was ad
mitted into the Union.
He fathered the federal reserve'
act, passed in the first year of Pres
ident Wilson’s administration, and
has made a continuous fight ever,
since to keep the reserve board free'
from Wall street control. He is the I
author of a book on the federal re
serve act.
Whenever there has been a group
of progressives in the senate Owen
has voted with this group regardless
of party lines. He has always been
for woman’s suffrage, prohibition,
popular election of senators, the
eight-hour day, collective bargaining,
minimum wage, workmen’s compen
sation and the conservation of public
resources.
He has urged a “gateway amend
ment” to the United States Consti
tution and has declared for imme
diate amnesty for political prisoners.
Probably no other candidate whose
name is before the Democratic dele
gates can show so consistently pro
gressive a record.
Owen will have Bryan's support.
In this respect he has an advantage
over Governor James Mt Cox, ofj
Ohio, who is a rival progressive can-;
didate, but, opposed by Bryan be
cause he is “wet.”
The Owen candidacy has opened
headquarters at the St. Francis and
Owen is on the ground. Incidental
ly he is the only candidate in charge
of his own campaign.
What might be called an insurgent
progressive fight is already on.
Strange as it may sound this is
directed chiefly against McAdoo. The
Bryan-Cox-Owen people are all
agreed on one thing and that is that
McAdoo is still the leading candidate.
His statement, they say, has not tak
en him out of the running and was
not intended to do so.
As an avowed candidate, they say,
McAdoo would make no headway;
but as the reluctant but patriotic
citizen who expects to be “conscript
ed” into the service of his party and
country he is a looming rival.
As an avowed candidate, McAdoo
could net expect the administration
support. The “son-in-law” and the
“crown prince” stuff would soon put
him out of business. But as an un.
avowed and unwilling soldier of the
common good he might get by.
So say the insurgents.
And there is reason in what they
say, too.'
Much of the strength of rate ad
ministration is being held together,
around Mitchell Palmer’s candidacy.'
That is the purpose of the Palmer!
candidacy. With his record, Palmer!
would be eligible for manager of
Harding’s campaign but not for the
presidential office.
It is expected that when the con-!
vention has got itself into a hard;
knot and the bosses are looking for
a knife to cut the knot, the Palmer!
following will be swung to McAdoo;
—a following with the outside Me-!
Adoo support sufficient to put him!
over.
Such they say is the strategy of the
Democratic leaders.
Just what attitude Bryan will take
toward the McAdoo candidacy has
not yet been developed.
Bryan served with McAdoo in the;
cabinet and, so long as McAdoo is I
not an avowed candidate Bryan 1
would hesitate to attack him. He!
may, indeed, be for him; but this is
not probable.
The insurgent progressive program ■
then is in brief: first, see that Mc-
Adoo is in fact not a candidate, and
then boost for some progressive of
the Owen type.
Judge Hears Retrial
Motions in 2 Cases
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn, sitting in
chambers yesterday, heard arguments
on the motion for new trial filed in
the cases of Mrs. C. L. Grady and A.
H. McCoy, both of whom were con
victed at the recent term of Superior
court. Solicitor General Jule Felton
represented the state in both cases,
while John Allen Fort appeared for
Mrs. Grady, and H. A. Perry, of
Cuthbert, and Zach Childers, of Am
ericus, appeared for McCoy. Judg
ment was reserved in both cases.
AMERICUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1920
CONVENTION BEAUTIES
ZWF'.. - J
• will
1 S jfli K 1| If
When the orators at the Demo
cratic national convention at San
Francisco start spell-binding the wo
men delegates with honeyed words
about “the most beautiful ladies in
the world,” it won’t be flattery. It |
is a fact undisputed that never be-]
fore at any national convention has;
there been such an aggregation of
beautiful women as are nqw in San*
4 NEGROES SLAIN,
WHITE TRIO HELD
Officers Find Bodies At
Illicit Still Near
Columbus
COLUMBUS, June 26 —Three
white men are in the Muscogee coun
ty jail charged with the murder of !
the four negroes found lifeless at
a still 8 1-2 miles from Columbus
at a point some distance from Hamil
ton road where they evidently had
been left after being shot from am
bush some time Wednesday night.
The men are Claud Goins, Charles
Hubbard, and Bernard Wardman, the
latter surrendering to Deputy Sheriff
John Beahn at 10 o’clock last night
after learning the officers wanted him
on a charge of murder growing out of
the grewsome find earlier in the day.
The other two men were arrested at
4:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon by
Deputy Sheriffs Layfield and Beahn
they being taken into custody a short
distance from the scene of the crime.
The finding of the negroes and the
circumstantial evidence holding the
white men is said by the officers to be
the outgrowth of illicit liquor traffic.
The negroes, Noff Bryant, Willie
Williams, Jess Nelson and Ollis Odom
were found at a still owned by sev
eral, if not jointly by all, of the de
ceased. The negroes left their homes
Wednesday night for the purpose of
making a run of liquor according to a
statement of Bryant’s wife at the in
qUThe Bryant woman also stated that
one of the men accused later and ar
rested visited her house Wednesday
afternoon and made a search of the
premises, declaring that liquor had
been stolen from their still and they
wanted to ascertain if it was con
cealed there.
That the four negroes went to the
still and’we're fired upon by some
party or parties before they had time
to engage in their illicit traffic was
evident by the position of the bodies
and the fact that six barrels of poorly
made mash and an empty jug were
found near the bodies.
Sheriff Beard stated last night that
a still wa s destroyed at the same spot
last fall. , , . ~ .
Odom and Nelson lived in the vi
cinity of Fortson. Bryan and Wilson
worked on places near the Hamilton
road. When found yesterday after
noon by Deputies Layfffild and Beahn
the bodies of the former two indicat
ed that they had been shot within
some ten feet of the still, as they ap
proached from the Fortson neighbor
hood and Bryant from the Hamilton
road. Williams body was found some
fifty yards down the stream, a bul
let in his head. A heavy bunch of bri
ers had stopped the negro after he
had probably been wounded near the
others and fled. A piece of the brush
was found in his hand. This victim
was only 16 years of age. It was gen
erally believed that the two pahs
Francisco. If proof were needed the
above sextette supply it. Upper left!
is Mrs. Kellogg Fairbanks, a Chica
go suffragist, and strong for Mc-
Adoo; center is Mrs. Robert L.
> MILLS CUT FLOUR
PRICE ;ONIONS ARE
! DRUG ON MARKET |
’ WJIINNEAPOLIS, June 26 <!
< Flour dropped 30 to 50 cents II
> a barrel at the mills here today. $!
< The decline was due to the sharp
? brehk in the wheat market yester- ;
day. U
jHIZASHINGTON, June 26 ;!!
Onions have become a drug ;
) on the market for the first time !
> in years, the department of agri- '! 1
? tuture reported today in its week- L
> ly market review. California grow- M
'J ers are plowing their crops under
? because the onions are not worth F
j the cost of marketing. '!
TEXAS MARKETS
FIRST 1920 BALE
Brings $ 1,000 at Auc
tion At New
Orleans
NEW ORLEANS, June 26.—The
first bale of new cotton was received
here today. It came from Eden
burgh, Texas, and brought SI,OOO,
when auctioned at the Cotton Ex
change. The bale was about a week
earlier than the first bale last year,
met and hardly exchanged greetings j
when fire was upon them.
No weapons were found on the ne
groes, it wa s stated and no blank car
tridges came to light as a score of
men searched the vicinity of the still.
It is believed that the negroes came
to their still without firearms and
with no intimation of the fate await
ing them.
Following a request early yester
day morning from residents of the
Nankipooh section that several of
their hands had disappeared and that
it wag feared that they were victims
of foul play, Sheriff Heard sent the
twfcdeputies to the country and after
a JJarcKof the forenoon were about
tsrgive up further efforts when ,
Jack Kid, a young negro intimated I
that he mie'ht be able to show them
where a still was located and reported
the property of the missing negroes. ;
The deputies followed the boy and;
I soon found the bodies.
GERMANS PROFITEERING.
COBLENZ. June 26.—German
merchants in the area along the
Rhine occupied by the Americans
have held a meeting and decided to
reduce prices 20 per cent, this action
coming after the Americans had de
clared 2R stores in the district barred
to American soldiers because of
profiteering.
An army investigation recently
disclosed profits of 700 per cent be
ing made in some stores.
Owen, wife of the Senator from Ok
lahoma, and one of the leading pres
idential candidates. At the right is
Mrs. A. B. Pyke, delegate from
Cleveland. Lower left is Mrs. Geo.
Mara, of Bridgeport, Conn., wife of
Assistant National Committee Chair
man Mara; center is Mrs. John T
Barnett, of Denver, and right, Mrs.
Frank J. Graham, of Chicago.
LEE CLERK HELD
BY GRAND JURY
Mailing Obscene Matter
Is Charged to Berry
Wallace
ALBANY, June 26—An indictment
of unusual interest to the public re
turned at the last session of the Unit
ed States district court grand jury
here was announced Friijay. This
was against G. A. Wallace, sometimes
known as Berry Wallace, clerk of the
superior court of Lee county, and
charged him with sending an ob
scene message through the mails in
violation of Section 211 of the United i
States penal code.
The particular offense with which
the Lee county official is charged is
that he wrote to a young lady in Sa
vannah and made an indecent pro
posal to her. The letter he is alleged
to have written was turned over to
the office of the United States dis
trict attorney and the indictment was
returned by the grand jury of this
division. It is alleged that the lan
guage employed in the letter was noj
itself obscene, but that the sugges
tion made was entirely improper and
indecent.
Bond in the case has been assessed
at $2,000 which Wallace furnished.
Painter Falls While at
Work, Breaking Arm
Barney Abelle, a painter, While
at work on the Gatewood garage
building on Jackson street late Fri
day, fell and broke his arm. The in
jury was attended by Dr. F. A.
Thomas,- and the injured man re-1
moved to his boarding house.
Mr. Abelle came to Americus re-j
cently from Richland, where he has
relatives, and yesterday he returned!
to that place, where he will remain
until his injury has completely heal
ed.
Combats Hog Cholera
Outbreak in Macon
Dr. H. Wise returned yesterday
from Macon county, where he went
. to investigate an outbreak of cholera
in hog herds near Montezuma. The
disease, he said, had attained only
slight prevalence before his arrival,
and inoculation of all hogs in the
vicinity was ordered as a precaution
ary measure. He believes the in
fection will not spread as a result of
the prompt action taken in reporting
the presence of the disease.
GREAT GROWTH FOR TOWN.
WASHING, June 26.—Census fig
ures announced today included Wich
ita Fall. Texas, 40,079, an increase
of 338.8 per cent.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SMITH-WATSON
DELEGATES LOSE
OPENING FIGHT
To Take Fight to Con
vention if Necessary,
Says Hardwick
SAN F-RANCISCO, June 26—(By
Associated Press)—The Democratic
National Committee, after hearing
of thirty minutes for each side, vot
ed to place the Palmer delegates
from Georgia on the temporary roll
call of the convention. The vote as
announced, wa s unanimous, with 49
votes for Palmer and four not re
corded.
Ex-Senator Hardwick who led the
anti-Palmer forces, was quoted early
in the day as Saying that if the na
tional committee should reject the
Smith-Watson delegates and seat the
rainier group, which is friendly to
Clark Howell, he proposed to carry
the fight to the credentials commit
tee and from there to the floor of the
convention.
Some of the members of the Smith-
Watson group also are said to have
expressed the opinion that if the Pal
mer delegates were seated it would
bring about a delicate situation in
Georgia this fall. Senator Hardwick
said if his delegates lost, the present
Palmer leaders in Georgia would have
difficulty in carrying the state for a
Democratic candidate against the re
publican nominee.
Howell Vs. Hardwick
The committee plunged directly in
to the Georgia contest when it met
today. Each faction was on the
ground early holding whispered con
ferences and making last minute
plans for the battle. Clark Howell,
leading the Palmer group and form
er Senator Hardwick heading the op
position forces, were conspicuous by
their activity.
Each side was given thirty min
utes to present its case, the commit
tee to vote in executive session.
H. H. Dean, of Gainesville, open
ed for the Palmer delegates. He ex
plained that there is no state law spe
cifically covering the presidential
preferential primary and in such cas
es the ruleg of the democratic state
committee should prevail. He said the
executive committee unanimously
had agreed that the national dele
gates should be chosen from among
the friends of the candidate who re
ceived the largest county unit vote;
that none of the presidentil candi
dates objected to the agreement be
fore the primary. Later, Mr. Dean
said, Thos. E. Watson claimed he
would not be bound by the executive
committee rules and combined with
the Hoke Smith forces in naming
anti- Palmer delegates.
H. H. Perry, of Gainesville, speak
er for the anti-Palmer group, argued
that the election of the Smith-Wat
son delegates was regular, that they
were chosen by the state convention
which he claimed was the parent
body. He said the credentials of the
anti-Palmer men were inaccurate in
stating that these delegates had been
elected in pursuance of the results of
the primary and pointed out that the
credentials of the Smith-Watson men
were certificated by the Chairman of
the state convention while those of
rhe Palmer delegates were certified
by the secretary of the executive
committee.
Hardwick Takes Floor
Former Senator Hardwick, also op
posing Palmer delegates, de
clared the state convention was su
preme and that the state executive
committee had no power to instruct
the state convention in what it should
or should not do. Hardwick said he al
ways abided by the results of the pri
mary.
“Why didn’t you in this pnthary?"
asked a Georgia delegate.
“Because we beat you in thi 8 pri
mary,” shouted back Hardwick. He
claimed Palmer received less than a
third of the popular vote in the state
though he most of the county unit
; votes. He argued it was against dem
ocratic principles for a man receiv
. ing less than a third of the total vote
to tie the hands of the other two
thirds.
Albert Howell, of Atlanta, closed
for the Palmerites. He said the exec
utive committee exercised the func
tions of the state committee between
conventions. He claimed the execu
tive committee was the creator of the
convention and its functions were
limited to those prescribed by the
body creating it. Howell was applaud
| ed when he humorously illustrated
the case by a poker game in which
( one set of players wanted to change
| the ru es of the game after the chips
I were on the table.
This closed the Georgia case and
i the committee ’ .’mediately proceeded
i :o hea r the Sona’or Reed case.
FIGHT OVER PLATFORM
CHAIRMANSHIP HINTED.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 26.—(8y
Associated Press.) —Political reports
'today included one of an impending
(fight on the chairmanship of the res
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