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’RTY-SECOND YEAR—NO. 17S
RUSSIAN REDS ORDER ARMISTICE WITH POLAND
IUVALSREAREDIN
lAP OF LUXURY,
BOLDERCHARGES
’•Neither Can Sympathize
With Great Masses,
He Declares
I SWAINSBORO, July 24.—1 n the
Second speech of his campaign for
governor of Georgia, delivered here
Boday, Speaker John N. Holder in
flected a bit more spirit into his ut
terances than marked his opening
Speech last Saturday at Cordele. Af
fler reviewing his own fitness for the
office, Mr. Holder launched into an
explanation of why his two oppon
ents, Clifford Walker and Thomas
W Hardwick, should not have the
declaring neither of
them ever had to work for a living.
Following is the text of his address
Bn that portion, in which he referred
Ho his occupatins:
I “I. have two opponents who are
'Splendid gentlemen, against neither
of whom I have one word to utter
de'gratory to his name and character.
But let me say this thing: neither one
of these gentlemen can sympathize
With the great mass of the people
Its I do. They have never had to
work. Both of them were raised in
[luxury. They were raised with silver
■pogns in their mouths. Neither one
is interested in agricuture. Neither
one, so far as I know, has worked
a day in the field. Both have held
good positions. Hon. Cliford Walker
has held office almost continuously
Since he arrived at his majority. Re
cently he resigned from one of the
’pest offices in the state. While in
he gave it very little attention.
According to his own statement, from
the middle of last August until he
Resigned he had visited every coun
ty in the State of Georgia south of
'flacon. You know good and well
/that he could not stay in his office
*nd give it the attention that it de
served, and yet be campaigning all
Kie time. The speakership is in line
■or the governorship. Mr. Walker
«nas never had any legislative experi
ence. He is young and has plenty of
time. Why should not he wait a lit
tle later and not be in such a hurry
to be governor? He has no platform
F®f principles, nor does he set forth
any record of public service.
“Too Much Bitterness.”
I “As to Mr. Hardwick, I entertain
for him no ill-will whatever, but I
fdo not believe that he ever be gov
ernor of Georgia. It will be her de-,
Btermination not to put a man in the
office of chief executive who has such,
a feeling of bitternees as Mr. Hard
wick entertains towards many citizens
[of this state. He is a candidate on]
[national issues, and yet he knows,
feood and well that the governor has;
to do with these great fed
feral questions. Mr. Hardwick should
?be a candidate for the United States]
ffeenate or congress, so that he could
[go to Washington and help put ins
[views into law. He has held office
tfor twenty years. He has held two
of the best offices in the gift of the
] people—congressman for twelve
years, and United States senator for
four. His position while a member
of congress did not denote that he
is the great friends of the struggling
masses that he claims to be. I do
not question his sincerity at all, but
I will mention some matters to show
that he does not understand the needs
of the people. „
“He opposed the establishment ot
the parcel post, declaring that the peo
ple would get their mail by freight
and freight by mail. V-e see how
badly mistaken he was about tnis.
One of the greatest blessings that ev
er came to the farmers by the en
actment of any law in confess was
by the establishment of the parcel
post. It is true that the express com
panies violently opposed the passage
of this law, but what man in Georgia,
or any other state, would vote to
abolish the parcels post? Some
thing that has been of incalculable
benefit to the people m the country
who had something to sell, and the
people in the cities who had something
tO “M*Z Hardwick speaks of the Dem
s'ocratic president of the United States
‘as ‘King Woodrow, the Last, and,
yet Mr. Hardwick was one of those
most active for him when he was al
candidate for president for the first
[time. Mr. Hardwick, himself, was
[elected to the United States senate
■because he was a strong Wilson man.
pile is now saying that he rejoices
[that the time has come when the in-
Ifluence of the president can not put
(men in office in Georgia as it did;
[in 1918, and yet that same influence,
[placed him in the senate in
“Failed in First Chance.
“I am not here to discuss tne
grievances that Mr. Hardwick has
against the president, or the ?r'ev
ances the president has against Mr.
Hardwick, except to make this state
• ment: the first chance that Mr. Hard
[ wick had to stand up to the president
las senator from Georgia, he fauea
to do so. He refused to support
■ What was known as the ‘ship purchase
i bill,’ which would have been of great
[benefit to the people of the United
[States at that time. It would have
t broken down the great ship monoply
[that then existed, and would have
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Drives Americus Horse
To Grand Circuit Victory
—rgMpßT'" i WWi! * J?v p £ ? ■m
Chas. L. Ansley’s “Lec
co” Wins Race at
Kalamazoo
The proudest man in Americus to
day is Charles L. Ansley, dry goods
merchant and farmer—and also the
city’s greatest lover of fine horses,]
particularly of the racing variety.
The occasion of his pride was the
receipt Friday evening of a telegram
from “Pop” Geers, America’s most
noted trainer and driver of trotter
and pacing horses, that he had won
first money in straight heats
with Lecco Grattan, Mr. Ansley’s
young pacer, that afternoon
in a SI,OOO purse race in the grand
circuit meet at Kalamazoo, Mich.,
finishing in 2:09 1-4.
This was by no means the limit to
which Lecco could have stepped, it is
said, but Mr. Geers only desired
him to go just fast enough to win,
as he did not wish his mark to be
lowered any more than was necessary
to beat the large field of horses that
engaged in the race. The news was
gratifying to Mr. Ansley, but he had
felt sure for months when the racing
season came on that in this horse
he had one that had every indication
of .being pre-eminently the best rac
ing product in the south and among
the best in the country anywheee .f
he stayed sound.
Few persons knew that Mr. Ansley
owned a grand circuit stepper. Lecco
was brought by him a number of
months ago and turned over to “Pop”
Geers, the veteran ,at his Memphis
stables last February, after Mr. !
Geers had carefully examined his
pedigree and prospects. The aged;
turfman set about at once to train;
him for the big harness circuit, which
he entered this year for the first time. I
Lecco Grattan is a deep chestnut
or sorrel stallion, 5 years old, sired
by Lecco Wilkes, 2:11 1-4; dam, May ;
Grattan. He is regarded by expert]
horsemen who know him as one of
the best headed individuals that ever
looked through a bridle. He is game
to the core and it matters not how
big a field of horses are in the race,
he has never been rattled yet, his]
friends say. He goes the route from’
wire to wire; he is a well made, close-•
ly built, smooth and round horse that
promises for his owner great achieve
ments in the grand circuit in which
he is staked and being raced by “Pop”
Geers.
On last Wednesday Mr. Ansley re-;
ceived a letter from Mr. Geers in;
which Geers stated that “Lecco is]
O. K. and one of the nicest young
horses I have ever handled. After I’
get two or three races in him he is
going to be a winner.” For Mr. j
Geers this was saying a great deal,
for he talks very little, but what he;
says is regarded as authoritative
throughout the horse world.
Lecco is really being given only
his early lessons and his career will
be watched by his friends here and
elsewhere. He started in Cleveland
I the week of July 5 where the grand
! circuit raced for the week and where
he was in the money. From Cleve
land the racers went to Toledo the
week of July 12, where Lecco again
was in the money. He was in Kala-;
mazoo last week and won first mon
ey. They now go to Columbus, Ohio,
then back to Toledo August 2; again
to Cleveland August 9; Philadelphia,
August 16; Poughkeepsie, August
23; Boston, August 30, and Syra
cus, N. Y., September 6 back to
Columbus, Ohio, September 13 for
two weeks, thence to Lexington for
two weeks starting September 27, and
Atlanta, Ga., October 17, which con
cludes the racing of this circuit for
1920.
Lecco Grattan is prized very high-
ERIC
THE TIMESBRECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE ART OF DIXTT~M#?
FATHER HANGED
FOR HIS CRIME|
Young Farmer Says He
Murdered Mother 7
Years Ago
TORONTO, Ont., July 24—A self- •
confessed murderer of his mother-- ]
a crime for which his father was
hanged seven years ago—Arnell Love
aged 22, a Ceylon Ontario farmer, 1
is in jail here today.
During evangelistic services in his
home town, Love went forward and I
declared to the evangelist that he j
had clubbed his mother to death be
cause she had reprimanded him for 1
“keeping bad company.”
Young Love was one of the prin
cipal witnesses against his father,
Henry Love, who was convicted by a
jury and hanged at Owen Sound,
Ont., for the crime seven years ago.
DeSoto Man First
With Opened Cotton
The honor for Sumter county’s
first open cotton boll of the season
not prematurely ripened through in
jury or other abnormal condition, ap
parently goes to H. N. West, of De-
Soto, who has forwarded a specimen
from his field to the'Times-Recorder,
the first one shown here to far as re
ported. The boll was of moderate size
with another half matured on the
same stem.
“Most of my four-horse farm was
planted early and of a good variety,”
said Mr. West “and a good deal of it
will be opening soon.”
Mr. Wests’ bill was received by the
Times-Recorder Friday.
Non-Combatants Sent
From Adrianople
ATHENS, July 23 (Friday) (Byj
Associated Press) —Colonel Jafer,
Tayar, Turkish national commander
of Adrianople, has evacuated the non
combatants from that city, according
to a dispatch from Thrace today. The;
Greeks are crossing the Mantza river]
under hearv fire.
Savannah Boosted by
New Census Total
WASHINGTON, July 24. The
census bureau today announced the
population of Savannah, Ga. (revised
figures), as 83,252, an increase of
28 per cent. The figures were pre
viously announced as 82,667.
ly by Mr. Ansley, valued up in the
thousands of dollars, which he would
readily bring were he for sale. But
as race horses are Mr. Ansley’s mvStl
enjoyable pastime it would take a
“bunch of the coin” to separate him
from his horse, he says. Mr. Ansley
says he hopes to see his horse in ac
tion some time during the racing sea
son when he goes to New York, asi
Lecco will be running in the east at
that time.
The horse is a Georgia raised pro
duct, being bred by Will Virgin, of
Macon, and passed to Mark Vickers,
|of Eastman, and thence to Mr.
I Ansley. . &
AMERICUS, GA., SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 25, 1920
C 0 X COMPLETES
CONFERENCES; TO
TACKLESPEECH
Governor at Dayton to;
Prepare Acceptance
Address
DAYTON, O_, July 24—Here to
write his acceptance speech, Govern
or Cox hoped today to end all politi
cal conferences until his speech is!
sent to the printer. Considerable !
first-hand information for the pro
nouncements of his address were ex-;
pected by Governor Cox from his 1
callers on the engagement list to
day. These included the former ship
ping board chairman, Edward Hur
ley and C. E. Bradfute, former indus
trial commissioner and federal farm
bureau member.
HARDING BUSY
ANSWERING MESSAGES
MARION, 0., July 24—Corre
spondence occupied Senator Hard
ing’s attention today. Many of the ]
communications accumulated were
messages of congratulation on his ac
ceptance speech. Many others kept j
coming in during the day.
Three Negroes Held
On Distilling Charge
Three Sumter county negroes were
in the Sumter county jail yesterday
attempting to make S6OO bond each,
assessed by Justice Griffin on a
charge of making whiskey. They were
Wes Bryant, John Patterson and Will
Jackson, all arrested by Sheriff Har
vey and Deputy Tom Summers Fri-I
day evening.
The offense charged to Patterson ;
and Jackson was said to have been I
committed a month ago, but the in- I
formation reached the officers only |
Friday. It was said a young white i
man and a negro lad happened to go I
to Patterson’s cabin on Mrs. Callie I
Cobb’s plantation near Parker’s cross-!
ing and found him, assisted by Jack-j
son in the act of making a run of ;
liquor in his smoke house.
Bryant is a tenant on Oscar Ber
ry’s place in the same locality. The
officers report that they found a lard
can still, with pipe and trough and a
keg of beer in the house. No liquor
was found, but several bottles which
they say he evidently intended to fill
for market purposes, were found|
RY. UNION CHIEFS
URGE NO STRIKE
Strong Plea Sent Out
With Order For Ref
erendum
CHICAGO, July 24—An order for
a nationwide referendum by railway
employes of the country on the wage
award was completed today, together
with a strong plea against any strike
at a meeting of the executives of the
railroad brotherhoods before they de
parted for their homes.
No-Hit Pantone May
Pitch Here This Week
A no-hit, no-run, no-man-to-first
game was pitched by Clifford Pan
tone, of Americus, at Waynesboro,
last Tuesday against Shawmut. It
was the first no-hit game of the sea
son at Waynesboro, where Pantone
has been playing this season and
proved a great sensation.
The Waynesboro team will play in
Albany and other towns in this sec
tion this week and Mr. Pantone will
spend a day or two in Americus. It
was said he would offer his services
to hurl a game for the Americus team
while here.
State Cox-Roosevelt
Club Being Planned
ATLANTA, July 24—A movement
is under way in Atlanta to form a
state-wide Cox-Roosevelt club in
Georgia, following a meeting held a
day or two ago for the formation of
such an organization for this county
and the adjoining counties of DeKalb
and Cobb.
It is stated that a definite call will
■ be issued Monday for a meetting of
Democrats to bring about the en
largement of the club so as to cover
every county in the state.
BROWN TO SEEK REELECTION
ATLANTA, July 24—After con
sideration of the request of a num
ber of voters in Elbert county that
he run for United States senato/, J.
J. Brown, State commissioner of ag
i riculture, has declined but will run
] for re-election to his present office,
: which he has held for four years. A
formal announcement will be made
soon.
Matches containing white phosphor
us are prohibited in Belgium.
New Cox Manager a
Former Dry Leader
White A Princeton Man
Who Looks and Acts
Like Son of Toil
BY C. C. LYON
MARIETTA, 0., July 24—Down
here in Marietta, where folks gen
erally like to take life easy, George
White the new Democratic national
chairman, is known as a fast worker.
The day after he moved to Mariet
ta from Titusville, Pa., back in 1902,
] White thought he’d like to represent
i Washington county in the Ohio leg
islature.
He was a total stranger in the town
so he Started in to electioneering the
hotel clerk.
It is the testimony of the old res
idents that within a month White had
introduced himself to every voter in
town and was ready to begin in the
] outlying districts.
The people just naturally couldn’t
I resist the affable and clever stranger.
; He didn’t get the Democratic nomi
] nation for the legislature in 1902 but
he landed it two years later.
His First Victory
The county was “safely Republi-
I can” but he was elected.
Here's how he did it: ‘
The wet and dry issue in 1904 was
forging Co the front. The big majority
of politicians in both parties were
wet but White was bone dry.
He sent word out that he’d vote -
dry on every proposition if elected. i
His Republican opponent wouldn’t
promise. j
In the legislature he kept his prom
ise. He became dry leader in the
House.
The Anti-Saloon League in their
; conferences and prayer meetings
I would generally end up with “Let
] George do it.” i
In 1908 after two terms in the leg- '
j islature White had become so dry
| that the arid counties along the Ohio I
] river, constituting his congressional I
I district turned in and sent him to
1 Washington.
I He was there two terms with Con-
I gressman Jim Cox of Dayton, and
! they became fast friends and pals.
The secret of White’s success in
politics is that he ( ’s a “cultured rough
neck.” He’s got everything any high
brow has. He’s a graduate of Prince- '
ton and there he was a student under
Professor Woodrow Wilson.
But White came up in the school of
hard knocks.
Hates to Shave
The mere fact that White, from be- I
I ing a well-driller has made more than ;
I a million dollars in Ohio and West
I Virginia oil, hasn’t put any drawing-
I room polish on him. He still wears
II ill-fitting clothes and his wife has to
keep everlastingly at him to shave
1 every other day.
White is a bulldog when it comes
|to gaining his point. As a boy in
Princeton h ? was in love with a girl i
' in his home town of Titusville. He ]
i spoke to her father soon after his;
i graduation.
The “old man” was rich and he
i liked George.
“I’ll tell you what I’ll do, George,” ;
j said the father. “I’ll give my consent |
| as soon as you have earned SIOO,OOO I
; for yourself and if you can do;
j that I’ll give Charlotte another SIOO,- |
I 000 the day you are married.”
For several years Titusville saw
nothing of young White. Stories drif- |
ted back from the Klondike gold I
fields that he was there and making j
good.
Then, one day, Old Man McKelvey,l
of Titusville, got a telegram from j
George at San Francisco, and it .said :|
“I’m coming for Charlotte. Get’your;
hundred thousand readv.”
George married the girl and now I
they have an interesting family of ]
five children.
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Boys and Girls to Learn
To Play Basket Ball
. | All boys interested in playing bas-j
ket ball, learning the game, and be-j
longing to a team are asked to meet
at the playground Monday morning
between 9 and 10 o’clock for instruc-
I tion and practice. All girls interest
ed are asked to come between 4 and
5 in the afternoon for the same
' purpose.
Three good coaches have volun-
1 teered their services, and some inter
: esting games may now be expected.
I Pleasing Musical
Program Arranged
Mrs. J. E. Johnson, temporary!
■ director of music at First Methodist ]
church, has arranged a pleasing mu- ;
sical program for the morning and |
j evening services today. The choir is
■ i composed of Miss Melva Clark, so
•iprano; Miss Gertrude Smith, alto;
; Bob Berry tenor, and K. C. Beavers,
baritone, and their voices blend to-
- • gether in perfect harmony. At the
II morning service the anthem “O Lamb
, i of God,” will be presented, while in
, j the evening the choir will sing “Light
! at Evening Time.”
Miss Clark will sing as a solo* I
I heard the Voice of Jesus Say,” and
-j Mrs. Johnson will play several organ
selections.
■
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GEORGE WHITE
FORMER FLYING
TEACHER FALLS
Lt. Tom Potts Crashes
Near Plains—Not
Badly Hurt
Reserve Lieutenant Tom Potts,
former flying instructor at Souther
Field, was painfully injured late Fri
day afternoon when a plane in which
he was flying with Sergeant Pat Jan
ney, of Souther Field, fell a distance
of 250 feet a mile from Plains, near
the old landing field there. Sergeant !
Janney, who was seated in the sec- I
ond seat of the machine, escaped ]
without injury while Lieutenant)
Potts had a severe gash cut in his I
lower lip and one of his ribs broken,
in addition to numerous scratches and
bruises sustained. Nine stitches were
required to close the gash in his lip,
this being perhaps, the must serious
of his injuries.
Lieut. Potts left Americus in
January. 1919, being transferred to
the reserve flving corps at his own
request, and since that time had had
little practice in flying. Recently he
camq to Americus on business con
nected with the engineering depart
ment of the Southeastern Underwri-;
ters association and Friday decided j
to take a practice spin.
He left the field and flew leisurely |
to the Plains landing field, where !
he alighted, examined his machine, i
and soon afterward decided to return |
to Americus. His plane had reached 1
a height of 250 feet, and he had it
in a steep “bank” when the motor i
went dead, and he immediately be
gan maneuvering to make a landing.
This he was unable to successfully
do and in landing the plane was badly
damaged.
A number of persons witnessed the
crash and Potts was carried to Plains
where his injuries were dressed. Af
terward he returned to Americus, and
is now at the Windsor hotel.
He was regarded as an expert fly
er while an instructor at the field,
and has many friends in Americus
who will learn with regret of his ac
cident, which he said yesterday was
an unavoidable one.
Floyd McTier, Noted
‘Y’ Official Back Home
PLAINS, July 24—Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd McTier, of New York are vis
iting Mr. McTier’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Uriah McTyier. Mr. McTyier ]
was reared in this community and
his many friends are giving him a
cordial welcome home again. For
eighteen years he has been in the
service of the Y. M. C. A. and each
year he has risen to a higher position
until now he is a member of the In
ternational committee with headquar
ters in New York.
Mr. McTyier is a very earnest, hard
! working young man and the town
] feels pride in his success. He conduct
i ed the prayer service at the Baptist
I church Thursday evening and was i
greeted by many of his friends there. I
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Forecast for Georgia—Fair Sun
day, except local showers in south
portion.
Forecast for week: South Atlantic
and Gulf states: Fair weather indi
cated, temperatu es averaging above
normal.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
PREPARE TO END
WAR WORRYINC
ALLIED NATIONS
Army Command Instruc
ted to Begin Negotia
tions at Once
LONDON, July. 24—A wireless
from Moscow today announces that
the Soviet government today noti
fied Poland that the Soviet army
commander had been ordered to be
gin immediate negotiations for an
armistice.
The following telegram was dis
patched by George Tchitcherin, Rus
sian Soviet foreign minister, to
Prince Sopieha, the Polish foreign
minister, at Warsaw, at 1:15 o’clock
this morning.
“The Russian Soviet government
has given orders to the supreme com
mand of the Red army to confer im
mediately with the Polish military
command for negotiations for con
cluding an armistice and preparing
for future peace between the two
countries.
“The Russian command will ad
vise the Polish command as to the
place and date for commencing ne
gotiations between the military com
mands of the two sides.”
Another message, signed by vas
sileff and Khvostchinsky, for the
chief headquarters staff and the rev
olutionary military council, was sent
to the higher military command in
Warsaw, marked “very urgent” and
saying:
“The supreme command of the
Red army has received the order of
the Soviet government to enter into
command on the questions of an
armistice and peace between Russia
and Poland. The supreme command
will send representatives furnished
with full powers to a place which will
be indicated to you by the command
er of the Russian front, who will in
form you of the place and date when
the Polish representative will be in
vited to attend.”
Russia’s reply to Poland’s applica
tion for armistice negotiations b rin g s
in sight a possible solution of one of
the most serious crises which Europe
as a whole and the Allies in partic
ular have had to face since the con
clusion of their armistice with the
j Germans in November, 1918.
HIGHSEAHAL’IS
FINAL CUP RACE
Shamrock and Resolute
To Try For Trophy
Monday
SANDY HOOK, N. J., July 24—A
| twenty-five knot southwester, under
(which both the yachts Shamrock Hf
| and Resolute staggered about the
I starting line with the shortest possi
ble sail, caused the calling off today
i of the fifth and deciding race for
America’s cup. The two yachts
i ploughed their way as usual to Am
brose Lightship where they found a
; terrific sea running and the skippers
' notified the regattta committee they
were willing to postpone the contest
The race was then called off and will
be sailed Monday.
Rotary and Kiwanis
To Banquet Arkansans
It was announced yesterday that
the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs of Am
ericus had taken upon themselves the
responsibility of entertaining at a
banquet here on the night of Monday,
August 2, the trainload of Arkansas
farmers and buisness men who will
be here that day, the first stop in
i their tour of inspection of half a
I dozen points in the southeast. Real
izing that an important opportunity
was presented for effectively adver
tising the advantages of Sumter coun
ty, these two organizations volunteer
ed to take charge of this function,
I the only social feature of the visit
here, which is purely a farm agricul
tural tou’- The party of visitors,
about 135 in number, will be headed
by Governor Brough, of Arkansas.
Legion Post to Name
Officers Tuesday Night
A meeting of John D. Mathis Post,
American Legion, will be held Tues
day night in the private dining room
of the Windsor Hotel for the election
lof post officers. This meeting was to
have been held Monday night, but
was postponed because of the ab
sence from the city of Gordon How
ell, commander, it was announced
Saturday. During the past two weeks
the members of the post here have
been actively canvassing for nerw
members and persuading former
members to re-instate themselves, as
a result of which about 50 names
have been added to the roster. All
of these, it is expected, will be pres
■ ent at the meeting to be held on
• Tuesday night.