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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NUMBER 204
HAYS, ON SENATE GRILL, DENIES COX CHARGES
LESLIE, DESOTO,
PLAINS, TO SEE
SENATORS 111 I TH
Trip to Sumter Towns
Planned For Tues
day Morning
Practically of the merchants of the
city signed an agreement today to
close their places of business Tues
day afternoon from 2:45 o’clock un
til the conclusion of Senator Hoke
Smith’s speech, which will be deliver
ed at 3 o’clock, in order that they
and they employes might have an
opportunity to hear his address.
In connection with the announce
ment that the stores would be clos
ed, the Sumter Hoke Smith club of
ficials announced that the senator
would visit DeSoto, Leslie and Plains
while here, and would be pleased to
meet as many citizens at these places
as possible. He will reach Americus
from Atlanta tomorrow morning on
the 5:20 Central of Georgia train,
and go direct to the Windsor hotel
where he will have breakfast. At 8
o’clock a number of automobiles
will form a party at the Windsor
and escort the senator to De Soto,
where he is scheduled to arrive at
9 o’clock. After a stop there the
party will return to Leslie, spend a
short time there, and then proceed to
Plains where they expect to arrive at
11 o’clock. After a short time ini
Plains, the party will return to Am-j
ericus for luncheon, after which the
senator will probably rest until time
for his address at 3 o’clock. He will
make no speeches at any of these
stops outside of Americus.
It was announced today that there
would be room 'in the cars leaving
Americus for a number of Senator
Smith’s friends, and any who desire
to make the trip may find places by
being at the Windsor at 8 a. m.
Senator Smith will probably speak
about an hour. Immediately after
conclusion of his address he will pre
pare to catch the 5 o’clock Seaboard
train for Mcßae, where he will speak
Wednesday.
Following is the closing agreement
signed by the merchants of the city,
together with the signatures:
“We, the undersigned merchants
of Americus, hereby agree to close
our places of business at 2:45 p. m.,
Tuesday, the 31, instant, in order
that we and our employees may have
the opportunity of hearing the speech
to be delivered by Senator Hoke
Smith at 3 o’clock p. m., and we agree
to remain closed until the speaking
has concluded:
Sheffield Co., Carswell Drug Co.,
Allison Furniture Co., W. J. Josey,
The Bee Hive, Goepp & Mcßrayer,
Churchweel Brothers, Thomas L. Bell,
W. D. Bailey Co., Americus Drug
Co., J. W. Harris Ruben Hoffman,
The United Grocery Co., Cash and
Carry Story, C. E. Underwood, Saliba
Grocery Co., J. Macey, M. Bukantz,
Ferris George, Standard Dry Goods
Co., Chas. L. Ansley, U. S. Woolen
Mills Co., W. P. Gunnels, J. A. Rouse,
Aaron Cohen, A. J. Harris, Rylander
Shoe Co., S. H. Kress & Co., Singer
Sewing Machine Co., Gyles-Andrews
Furniture Co., Tillman & Brown,
Pinkston Co., D. A. Saliba, Manry
Bros., Williams - Niles Co., Windsor
Barber Shop, Turner Electric Co.,
J H. Poole & Sons, Mike Thomas,
Mitchel Attyah, M. Joseph Nassar
& Attyah, George Bros. Co., The Fair
Store, Gatewood-Cogdqll Hardware >
Co., Mize Gro. Co., W. H. C. Dud
ley L. L Lester, Jim Nassar, R. Wal
lis,’e. J. Schroeder, E. A. Saliba, Ed-,
ward Gro. Co., Pearlmans, Sparks I
Gro. Co., W. W. McNeill.
John Margentz.
PUPILS SWAMP
PLAINS SCHOOL
Emergency Quarters will
Have to Be Used For
Present
PLAINS, August 30.—The Plains
%public schools opened the new year
this morning with an overflow at
tendance, 191 being enrolled and,
there being accommodations for only
•about 175. Until the new School
building is erected, for which bonds
have been voted, temporary emerg
ency quarters for the extra pupils
will have to be used.
Among those present at opening
of schools were Dr. Thad Wise, W.
L. Thomas, R. S. Oliver, C. B. Par
tin and County Superintendent Mc-
Math, all of whom made brief talks.
The new principal,Thomas Morgan,
also spoke briefly.
The school opens most auspiciously,
with the partons all intersted and
the children looking forward to the
new modern building which is to be
erected shortly for the consolidated
di-trict.
Thunderstorms are more frequent
in Java than anywhere else in the
world.
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NEW ‘DADEDEVIL’ TO TAKE PLACE
OF LOCKLEAR IN ‘STUNT’ WORLD ;
CHICAGO,—Harry McLaughlin,
the “Man Without Nerves,” is ar
„ ranging to take over the unfinished
KgSSggg contract of Lieut. Ormer Locklear,
tke of the movies, who
st his life in an airplane
accident. Picture shows McLaughlin
y iPBSI standing on his hands on a chair at
|® Lhe edge of the roof of the Congress
hotel. some two hundred feet above
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PALMER AGENT
MUST EXPLAIN
IN SUGAR QUIZ
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Bottom Drops Out of
Market—Prices on
Down Grade
BY GEORGE B. WATERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—“ The
Department of Justice will do noth
ing to keep the price of sugar up.
It would be a violation of the Sher
man Act and the Lever Law for it
to d. so. Furthermore, H. N. B.
Floyd, who stated in New York that
the government would help the
wholesalers and refiners to prevent a
further tumble in prices, will be call
ed upon the carpet. He was unau-1
thorized to make such an assertion.” ;
This statement was made by Rob
ert T. Scott, private secretary to
Attorney General Palmer. It was in
regard to a statement of Floyd, a.
special agent of the department’s
New Y’ork “flying squadron,” which
is supposed to be running down prof
iteers. After attending a meeting of
refiners and wholesalers in New
York, Floyd stated that the govern
ment would assist the sugar dealers
in preventing a further drop in price.
Bottom Drops Out
The bottom has fallen out of sug
ar prices and a further decline seems
certain.
A few days ago sugar was selling 1
wholesale at 24 cents a pound, and i
one eastern refiner, who has ceased
to operate on account of high prices, I
got an unexpected supply from Cuba
and immediately dropped the price to
20 1-2 cents. Three western refiners
followed suit and now sugar is retail
ing in many cities for 15 cents a s
pound. Speculators and profiteers I
got bumped, as did also many inno
cent wholesalers who bought at high
refinery prices.
The sudden drop caused a panic
among the big sugar dealers and they s
hurriedly called a meeting. Floyd’s■
statement followed.
“It’s this department’s business to
lower prices, not help increase them”
stated Scott.
The sharp decline in sugar prices i
is caused, principally, by large ship
ments of sugar received from Argen
tina, Czecho-Slovakia and otheF coun
tries.
High prices in America caused
sugar to flow here.
Also, up to July 15 the people had
absorbed sugar at the rate of 100.02
pounds per day, as against previous
high record, for 1919 of 80.43
pounds.
J._ G. Weatherly, Department of
Justice sugar expert, said this indi
cated the people had sugar stocks —
about 35 pounds per family for the
nation.
People Quit Buying
The people quit buying and now
the supply is much greater than the
AMERICUS, GA., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 30, 1920
1
demand. Hoarders of sugar may lose I
millions as a result of the decline, i
Many wholesalers and retailers arel
unloading sugar below cost in ani- !
ipation of a further decline. !
“It has been called to the depart- I
ment’s attention,” sayl Scott, “that
some refiners are holding customers
to contracts made at high nrices. If it!
is found that this is a violation of the i
Lever Law they will be prosecuted.” I
Another thing that broke the price !
| was the fact that many canners and !
; housewives refused to make preserves !
; and jams at high prices.
FLYNT t REFUSES
SUFFRAGE PLEA
Declines to Call Sub
committee to Alter
Primary Rules
ATLANTA, August 30.—A. J.
Flynt, chairman of the Democratic
I executive committee refused to call
a meeting of the sub-committee to ,
so amend the Georgia primary rules
so as to permit women to register
for the September primary.
In reply to a letter from a dele
gation of Georgia Womans’ Suffrage
Association, Chairman Flynt said
that while Congress had a right to
grant women the franchise, it was
up to the several states to provide
I laws for their registration which the
! legislature would have to do.
Governor Hugh M. Dorsey has rc
■ ferred the matter to the attorney gen
eral of the state and an opinion is
expected sometime today.
Big Ship Lines Held
For Trust Violations
NEW YORK, Aug. 30. —Forty-two
steamship companies and freight
brokers, including virtually all the
big trans-Atlantic lines, were indict- 1
jed by the federal grand jury today
' on charges of conspiracy and re-!
straint of trade In violation of the!
Sherman law.
S. Carolina Melons
Go to Feed Swine
YORK, S. C., Aug. 30—Farmers
in this vicinitv are giving away wa
termelons and feeding them to hogs, !
Three weeks ago watermelons were
reported selling at prices ranging"
from 50 cents to $1.25 each. Now i
the crop has swamped the market.
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a FLORIDA FIGURES.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 30.—Census
figures today include:
Tarpon Springs, Fla., 2105; a de
crease of 4.8 per cent; Orlando, Fla.,!
revised, 9282; previously announced
9257; Winter Garden, Fla., 102;
Winter Park, Fla., 1078.
FURTHER COUNTY
RAISE DEMANDED
BY FULLBRIGHT
State Tax Commissioner
to Meet Refusal Here,
However
Despite the fact that the Sumter
county board of tax equalizers, un
der orders, increased valuations in
this county for taxation purposes
nearly $2,000,000 this year, or from
a total of $9,572,939 in 1919 to sll,-
369,672, the state tax commissioner,
H. J. Fullbright has informed Tax
Receiver Jones, in approving the
check of the digest sent to him from
this county, that a further increase of
20 per cent will be neqessary to bring
Sumter county up to a level with
the other counties of the state.
This letter of information has been
referreed to the Sumter county
equalizers at his request for certain
recommendations, and the members
of the board now have it under ad
visement. and expect to make a reply
this week. It is said by members of
the board that they are absolutely
opposed to any further increases in
values whatsoever, as respects visible
or tangibl; property. They admit,
however, that they believe moneys,
notes, mortgages, etc., are not prop
erly returned or adequately valued in
this county, and probably will so
state in their reply. Mr. Fullbright
indicated that if moneys were assess
ed here this year on the same valua
tion as last year, an increase of only
15 per cent for the county might be
sufficient to bring the valuations up
to the proper level.
Indications today were that the
county board .would stand pat on the
valuations levied, which means prob
able arbitration. The tax commission
er has the power to increase the
county returns as he sees fit, just as I
the county board may increase the
individual’s returns, but the county,
similarly to the individual, has the I
right to arbitrate, and this course •
is expected to be pursued in this !
county. It is understood the Terrell
county dispute is being handled by |
arbitration.
Some of the details of the valua-1
tion reached by the tax equalizers ■
were given out today by Tax Receiv- '
er Jones when he made public the tax
digest, it having just been checked !
and approved so far as he is concern- !
ed. by the state commissioner. Here
are some totals gathered from the
digest.
Total By Districts
Total property owned by whites in
Sumter county bv districts:
1920 1919
15th 1,091,906 943,117'
Old 16th 314,962 276,495
New 16th 330.553 352,049
17th . 400,689 351,316 |
Old 26th 1,109,306 844,537 1
New 26th 256,909 219,041
28th 424,419 344,372 '
29th 284.143 283,924'
27th .6,187,071 5,087,096
Total White .10,400,038 8,701,947
Colored 969,634 870,992 ■
Grand Total .11,369,672 9,572,939 i
Colored Totals
Total property owned by colored I
citizens by districts: I
1920 1919!
15th 92,910 95,790
Old 16th 44,963 50,4731
New 16th 57,510 53,681!
17th 42,787 31,158!
Old 26th 56,429 58,3201
New 26th 10,710 8,683
28th 111,811 102,122
29th 29,729 27,953
27th 522.785 442,812!
Total 969,634 870,992 '
Property Classified
Classification of property in coun
ty for 1920:
Colored White I
Acres of land 12,667 294,646 j
Value of lands and
buildings $190,244 $4,268,399
Town property . 395,516 2,887,144
Money, notes, etc 19,300 846,782 '
Autos, bicycles,
etc 25,595 849,625 '
Stocks goods, mer-
chandise, etc. .11,530 316,991 !
Manufacturing
property 2,145 100,274
Capital in iron or
machine works .1.635 67.740'
Household goods 106,002 316,594 !
Jewelry, watches 845 23,282
Horses, mules .175,955 601’072'
Dogs 276 974
Carriages, wagons,
etck 37,678 116,355
Cotton, corn, oth-
er products 44 108 !
Mineral and tim-
ber lands 2.621 10,013
All other property ... 248 485 i
Total .969,634 10,400,038
The Grand Canyon of Colorado
jis 217 miles long and from 9 to 13'
miles wide.
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Forecast for Georgia. Generally
[fair tonight and Tuesday.
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Prince Francis J. Otto, eldest son of ex-Emperor Charles of Austria-
Hungary, is being urged by monarch- ist propaganda for rdler of a new na
tion’ composed of Bavaria, Hungary and Austria. He is 8 years old and
wears curls. If the “triple” nation idea fails Hungarians may attempt
to install him on the throne of that nation alone.
PLACES CHURCH
BACK OF LABOR
•
Leader Declares for Pub
lic Safeguards and
Restraints, However
NEW YORK, Aug. 30—The church :
and the pulpit were called upon to |
intervene in strikes and try to com-|
pose the differences between capital i
and labor in a “Labor Sunday Mes- I
sage” issued today by the Rev. Worth |
M. Tippy, executive secretary of the I
Social Service Commission of the
Federal Council of the Churches of j
Christ in America.
He declared that the church must
stand for the right of labor to or- i
ganize and take collective action un- i
der proper restraints and safeguards
for public welfare and that the
church should not be prevented from i
taking this step either by reactionary
employers or by “evils in the labor
movement.”
The Rev. Mr. Tippy pointed out
that the nation had suffered a tre
mendous economic ioss because of
the strikes last year and that deeper
perils lie in threatened destruction i
of th(* spirit of co-operation and good
will between capital and labor. “The
church watches the deepening con
flict with profound concern,” he
continued. “It cannot stand aloof, I
At whatever risk of becoming in
volved in the controversy it must go
into the midst of the contending
forces, if possible between them. It;
must bring to bear every ounce of
influence which it posses to bring
these contending groups together,
and to induce them to work out per
manent and effective means of co
operation."
He pointed out that there was
need to devise a method by which
employers and workers can get to
gether and keep together, so as to
put heart and power into production
and give just returns to both groups.
“If no form of labor organization is
permitted and if not only strikes
but labor organization itself is fought
to a finish, there appears no way
out of our troubles, but rather a
deepening of them. We shall have an
autocratic management of industry
on the one side and either a kind of
serfdem on the other or a militant,
bitter, and class-copscious organiza
tion of labor growing yearly more
revolutionary. That is just the dan
ger of the present hour.
“The church cannot be hesitant
here. When, as may often happen, the
inclusiveness of its fellowship pre
cludes a co-operative judgment on
COX TO START ON
WESTERN SWING
Off Thursday Night Af
ter 2 Speches in Co
lumbus
ENROUTE WITH COX, August
130.—Governor Cox traveled home to
! day to prepare for his “swing around
! the circle” in the west next month,
i His next address will be delivered at!
1 the state fair, at Columbus tomor-!
! row. He will make another speech i
Thursday at Columbus to a gathering
jo’f national agricultural organizations’
| and leave that night on his western
trip. At least a month will be j
| spent in the middle west and south
i east. ’
President Approves
Increase for Miners
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Presi
dent Wilson today approved the ma
jority report op the anthracite coal
(commission increasing wage contracts
I of miners 20 per cent over the pres-
I ent rates.
The emerald has replaced the ruby
! as the most precious stone in exist
ence.
A hotel for cats and dogs was
I opened a short time ago in London.
| the part of the whole church, the pul
pit must nevertheless be true to its
i prophetic office. The case is hope
lessc if employers will not allow col-
■ lective action by their workers. The
‘ church must stand for the right of
organization and collective action,
under proper ethical restraints and
safeguards for public welfare.
I “The church cannot allow itself
■ to be estopped from this course ei
ther by pressure from reactionary
■ employers on the one hand or by
manifest evils in the labor move-
: ment on the other. It must e strong
enough to attack these evns and to
■ resists the pressure. It must urge em
ployers, especially Christian employ
ers. to work out democratic prin
ciples in their establishments, with
due time for investigation and ex
periment. The important matter is
I not just what plan is followed, but
i that the start is made, and that ev
-1 erything that is done be on the road
(to a definite goal—the development
of democratic factory organization
lin which all truly co-operate and
i which is for the benefit of each and
1 all.”
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SAYS CAMPAIGN
WILL COST G. 0. P.
FIVE MILLIONS
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Charges Liquor Interests
Seek Cox’s Elec
tion
CHICAGO, August 30.—The sen
ate investigation of Republican and
Democratic campaign expenditures
started here today. At the outset
Chairman Kenyon introduced news
paper accounts of Governor > Cox’s
speech at Pittsburg, the committee’s
telegram to Governor Cox and his
reply.
Republican Chairman Hays was
the first witness. He said he wel
corned the opportunity to set forth
the efforts of the Republican na
tional committee and then gave de
tails of the plans for raising money
by getting small contributions from
a great number of persons; that the
plan grew out of a real desire to
work a real reform and because the
experience in raising funds for was
purposes had made popular drives a
“familiar Activity.”
Senator Kenyon asked Chairman
Hays of the committee received any
contributions from corporations. The
latter replied no.
Replying to a question, he said he
estimated the campaign c<>st about
$5,000,000, including a million spent
in state campaigns.
Chairman Hays submitted a letter
from George T. Carroll, as “presi
dent of the New Jersey Association
of Liquor Interests” and read sen
tences soliciting funds to carry on
Cox propaganda with the ultimate ob
ject of obtaining an amendment to
the Volstead law. The letter refer
red to Cox as a “pronounced wet.’
Hays charged the Democratic or
ganization planned to raise “five to
ten millions” to finance its campaign.
He said the statement of a “fifteen
million dollar corruption fund," of
which Governor Cox speaks, is as
false as it is libelous.” He denied
he ever heard of the so-called quota
sheet.”
POLES REGROUP
TROOPS IN LULL
Italy Replies She is in
Accord with U. S.
Note
PARIS, Aug. 30—Military opera
tions in Poland, for the moment at
least, seem to be limited to local ac
tions and the Polish commanders are
utilizing the inactive period to re
group their forces.
Advices from Warsaw state that
a wireless mesasge from the Bolshe
vik commander in chief to Moscow
was intercepted and that in it he pro
tested against the sending of unarm
ed forces to the Polish front.
ITALY AND RUSSIA IN
ACCORD ON RUSSSIA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—Italy
has informed the United States Xhat
the two governments are practically
sia and Poland as outlined in the
in accord in sentiment regarding Rus
recent American note, Secretary Col
by announced today.
CORK MAYOR
BEYOND HOPES
LONDON, Aug. 30—Terence Mc-
Sweeney, imprisoned Lord Mayor of
Cork, is in such condition from his
hunger strike that even if he took
food now, it would do no good, ac
cording to prison, physicians
BELFAST, Aug. 30—Today’s riot
ing was said by the police to be the
worst Belfast has yet seen. Up to 1
o’clock this afternoon it was defi
f nitely known that four deaths had
i occurred as a result of the disorders.
| including that of Grace Orr, a young
woman who was shot when troops
opened fire to clear the streets it
the Unionist quarter. Numerous per
sons with bullet wounds were admit
1 ted to the hospitals.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
G-ood middling 29 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES
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