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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NUMBER 206
MOORE TO TAKE COX’S EVIDENCE TO PROBERS
"tangle grows
AS TENN. HOUSE
REVERSES SELF
Quorum Back, Ratifica
tion Record is Ordered
Expunged
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1—
Conflicting views were held today by
leaders in the Tennessee legislature
on the probable effect of the house’s
action yesterday afternon in expung
ing from its journal all record of the
ratification of the federal suffrage
amendment and then vo:ing not to
cercur'with the senate in ratification.
Anti-suffragists refused to say .
Whether an attempt would be made
to have the senate also reconsider
it? ratification vote.
The Tennessee house, yesterday
by a viva voce vote, adopted a mo- :
tion to reconsider the action of the '
house on the suffrage ratification re
solution, and then by a vote of 47
to 24, with 20 members not voting,
adopted a motion to non-concur in
the action of the senate.
The action followed directly upon ,
the assembling of thoefirst quorum I,
in the house since Friday, August;
20.
It was August 21, the day follow- |j
ing the exodus to Alabama of the
antis, that the motion of Representa- i
tive Riddick, of Shelby county, was
made that the house reconsider its } 1
action on the ratification resolution,
which motion Speaker Walker over
ruled because there was no quorum
present. Mr. Riddick appealed from '
the ruling of the chair and was sus
tained by a vote of 49 to, 8. The
motion to reconsider was then dis- i
posed of by a vote of 50 to 0, despite ,
the objections of Speaker Walker i
that no quorum was present.
Following the motion yesterday as-,
ternoon to expunge the proceedings i <
• from the journal a motion- prevailed
that the joint resolutions be copied
on the journal of the house.
Then a motion was made that the
house take from the journal the mo-)’
tion to reconsider.
Mr. Riddick made the point of !.
order that the -resolution had pass-I
ed from the hands of the house, but|,
was overruled.
Following the action of the house
Miss Josephine A. Person, president | ;
of the Tennessee division of the
Southern Woman’s League for the
Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment, sent the following wire '
to President Wilson:
“Your sponsorship is not sufficient |
to carry suffrage in Tennessee.”
CAN’T REVERSE NOW
IS CAPITAL OPINION
WASHINGTON, Sept. I—State
Department officials, in the absence
of Secretary Colby, hesitated to ex-)
press an opinion as to the effect on
suffrage ratification of the action of i
the Tennessee house in reconsidering ]
its vote on the ratification resolu- i
tion and then voting not to concur,,
in the senate’s ratification.
The situation presented by the ac
tion of the Tennessee house it was
said, however, was one with which
the state department was not at pre
sent concerned. The action of Sec
retary Colby in proclaiming the suf
frage amendment a part of the fed
eral constitution as based on certi
fication by the governor of Tenes
see, as required by law, accordingly,
it was said, unless the certification
should be declared invalid by the
courts, the state department had no
interest in the matter.
Sus rage leaders in Washington did
no* - regard the Tenessee situation
as serious, declaring that the best
legaL advisors had informed them
that once ratification was voted by
a state legislature, the vote could
not be. reversed except in case con
gress presented to the states a reac
tion to repeal the amendment.
Some suffrage leaders admitted,
and many anti-suffragists claimed,
that the legal tangle in which Ten
nessee’s ratification has become in
i volved would undoubtedly be made
more complex by the action of the
Tennessee house.
& Here’s “Flivver” Story
That is Hard to Beat
ATLANTA, September I.—Some;
folks say Henry Ford pays a humorist
to hatch out all these shrdl shrdl |
his car, byway of shrewdly advertis-l
ing the same, but here’s a Ford story
that nobody got any pay for, and it’s
a true story. •
A “flivver” was standing in front
of a fashionable hotel on Peachtree
street. It caught fire and six com
panies came and put it out and went
back to their respective station hous
es. The "flivver” caught fire again
and the fire companies came a sec
ond time and put it out and return
ed to their stations.
Then the owner of the “flivver”
came out of the hotel and cranked
up and got in and rode away.
THE
teaITPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
SUB-COMMITTEE
CALLED TO FIX
SUFFRAGE RULES
Chairman Barret Sum
mons Members When
Flynt Refuses to Act
TOCCOA, September I.—Declar
ing that J. J. Flynt, chairman of the
state Democratic executive commit
te, has publicly stated that he will
not call a meeting of the committee
in order to pass upon the qualifica
tions of women to vote in the primary
of September 8, following the rati
fication of the Nineteenth amend
ment to the constitution, and that
some step is necessary in order to
prevent “horrible confusion,” Fer
mer Barrett, by virtue of his posi
tion, as chairman of the sub-commit
tee, has called a meeting of that body
for Atlanta, September 3, to be held
in the Kimball house at 8 o'clock at
night.
The statement of Mr. Barrett fol
lows:
“The state Democratic executive
committee should meet on Friday
night at the Kimball house, Atlanta,
Ga., and promulgate rules to govern
the primary of September 8 so that
horrible confusion may be avoided.
“Uniformity throughout the state
is an absolute necessity. The party
authorities of the state have the
right to settle the question at issue
“Since it is stated in the public
press that, the chairman of the state
Democratic executive committee re
fuses to call together the commit
tee to provide new rules and regu
lations for the qualification of elec
tors for the primary Os September
8 in ’ accordance with the ratifica
tion of the Nineteenth amendment
to the federal constitution, I, as
chairman of the sub-committee, here
by call the sub-committee of the state
Democratic executive committee to
meet at the Kimball house on the
date named.
“The committee is composed as
follows: J. J. Flynt, exofficion
Griffin, Ga.; Hiram L. Gardner, ex
officio, Eastman, Ga.; Fermor Bar
rett, Toccoa, Ga.; Miller S. Bell,
Milledgeville, Ga.: H. H. Elders,
Reidsville, Ga.; J. H. Miller, East
man, Ga. I hope a majority.of the
state committee may. take jurisdic
tion. I am wiring each member of
the sub-committee of the state Demo
cratic executive committee to meet
at the Kimball house, Atlanta, Ga.,
at 8 . m., Friday, September 3,
1920.”
Who Has Oldest Cat?
Search Now Started
ATLANTA, Sept. I.—Herewith be
gins the search for the oldest cat in
Georgia and the mouthers states.
Where is the oldest cat you knowl
Let everyone understand that cat
is used to denote the ordinary four
footed anima! of the feline species
that catches rats, and not a sharp
tongued dame you may dislike. A.
G. Brewster, a Georgia farmer,
claims to have a house cat 27 years
old, and asserts in spite of her ad
vanced age old Tabby still lands an
occasional rat.
Cordele Baptists To
Pay Pastor $4,000
CORDELE, Sept. I—At a special
conference Sunday, members of the
Cordele Baptist church voted to raise
the pastor’s salary to $4,000 per y ear -
While the congregation understood
that Dublin Baptists were seeking to
secure their pastor, RevV Wallace
Wear, they expressed a desire that
the salary raise be announced.
Rev. Mr. Wear returned Monday
from Dublin where he spent Sunday
with the .congregation.
No Agreement Yet
On Jap Immigration
WASHINGTON Sept. I—Press
reports from Tokio, via Honolulu,
that an agreement had been reached
here on the Japanese immigration
question, apparently are premature.
Officials of the, 'state department
said i. day discussions have not pass
ed the stage of informal conversa
tions for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on principle.
FREIGHT AGENT BOOSTED
CORDELE, Sept. I—P. M. Brown
ing, for five years chief clerk at
the freight agency here of the Sea
board Air Line, became traveling
freight agent of his line with head
quarters in Cordele. The order is ef
fective today.
Forecast for Georgia—Fair tonight
and Thursday; slightly cooler to
night.
AMERICUS, QA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 1, 1920
G. O. P. GOLD MAP AND TWO CHIEF MONEY RAISERS AS REVEALED BY GOV. COX. j
|k, AM
Fred W. Upham, of Chicago, is
boss money raiser for the Harding
campaign fund. His job is treasurer
of the Republican National Commit
tee.
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James G/Blaine, Jr., grandson of
the Republican candidate in 1884, is
organizing the finances in the east
for the Harding campaign. Blaine is
vice president of the Liberty Nation
al Bank of New York.
12,783,000 BALE
• CROP FORECAST
LJ. S. Report Says Aug
ust Showed Big In
crease
WASHINGTON. Sept. I—Cotton
production this year was forecast to
day at 12,783,000 bales by the de
partment of agriculture based on a
condition of August 25, announced
at 67.5 per cent. The condition by
states included, Georgia, 58; Ala
bama, 58 and Florida, 57.
Remarkable growth took place in
August, the official forecast stated,
amounting to an increase -of more
than a quarter<■ million bales in the
month.
The official condition report com
pared with 74.1 per cent on July 25,
which indicated a crop of 13,519,000
bales, against a condition of 61.4
per cent on August 25, 1919, indi
caitng a crop of 11,230,000 bales.
The ten-year average for August 25
is 68.2 per cent.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling 27 1-2 cents.
NEW YORK YUTURES
PC Open 11 am 1 pm Close
Oct. 27.15 27.18 26.83 26.92 25.50
Dec. 25.48 25.50 25.15 25.40 24.17
Jan 24.95 24.85 24.58 24.75 23.58
Meh 24.25 24.38 23.28
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
PC Open 9 am 11 am Close
Oct. 25.82 25.69 25.42 25.55 24.21
Dec. 24.58 24.45 24.13 24.40 23.20
Jan 24.24 24.18 23.76 24.05 22.85
Meh 23.87 23.81 23.40 23.45 22.10
Sniping Continues in
Coal Strike Country
WILLIAMSON, West Va„ Sept. 1.
—Firing on the village of Chattercy,
in the coal strike country, and Mine
No. 2 of the Thacker Coal Co., con
i tinued during the night. Reinforce
jments of federal soldiers were sent
Ito both points.
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Here are 51 Republican campaign fund quotas, as announced by Governor Cox. They total $8,145,000.
But several cities and states, Cox declared, have oversubscribed their quotas. He said Boston, with a $300,-
000, will reach the $750,000 mark. Other places the governor named as going over their quota were Columbus,
O.; Chattanooga, Tenn., and the state of Maine. Cox charges the Republican fund “to buy an underhold on
the government” easily will total $15,000,000. Towns and states not included in the list of 51 will more
than make up the difference between $8,145,000 and $15,000,000, he charges.
OUTDOORTHRONG
HEARS SENATOR,
Unimpassioned Appeal
of 2 Hours Duration
Heard Attentively
After a whole day spent in Am
ericus and Sumter county, Senator
Hoke Smith left at midnight on the;
Seminole for Jesup, where he is
speaking today in his campaign for
re-election to the senate.
The senator addressed an audience
estimated at from 1,200 to 1,500 peo
ple in the open air on Windsor ave
nue at 3 o’clock yesterday after
noon, talking for two hours to an
interested assemblage that heard
him respectively and attentively. The
street was roped off and improvised
seats placed on the pavement. A
stage was erected against the side
of the Windsor hotel, from which
the senator spoke. Although there
were seats for a thousand persons
there were many who stood or oc
cupied places upon the terrace of the
postoffice grounds on the east side
of the street. The shade of’ the ho
tel building covered the area occupied
by the crowd, and the entire arrange
ment was as comfortable as could
possible have been considering the
temperature. The Clark orchestra
furnished music before the speaking I
began.
Senator Smith was escorted to the
platform through the hotel by a com
mittee of prominent citizens from
Sumter and nearby counties, who oc
cupied seats on the platform during
the speaking. He was introduced
by Mayor J. E. Sheppard, president
of the Sumter county Hoke Smith'
club, in a very few appropriate
words.
The senator, who stated during the j
speech that he would be 65 years i
of <go today, locked rather feeble j
and worn from his campaigning. But I
he was in good voice after he had |
spoken a few words, and made him-1
self c early understood to the fringes )
of his audience. Ho spoke calmly and ;
<1( literately. with no attempt at fiery ‘
orai-'o-y, apparent!/ seeking to make |
his rrpeal by 7 reason rather than rhet- ■
orical flights. Several timer during
his talk he stopped and urged friends ,
and foes alike to ask him any ques
tions whatsoever about his record
or anything else, to permit him to
answer any charge that is being made
Following his speech the senator
against him. But never was there a
word in reply to these appeals,
numbers of his admirers insisting
was the center of a reception, large
upon shaking his hand.
His address was the topic of con
versation today about the streets, I
with opinion, according to previous,
political preferences, as a rule di- j
vided. The senator’s friends were al- ■
most a unit in expressing their sat- 1
isfaction that his unimpassioned ap
peal had convinced many a shaky vo
ter, while his opponents, not charg
ing that his apearance had lost him,
ground, declined to admit it had won
him any advantage, something they
said they had feared before his com
ing.
A summing up of the senator’s ad
dress will be found on pages 2 and
3.
Canada’s reparation claim against
Germany foots up to $1,871,000,000.
By means of the hydrophone, sig
nals may now be sent under water
for a distance of 40 miles.
Welfare work of the United States
Steel Corporation has cost $71,000,-
000 since 1912.
Mail Plane Falls; 2
Men Burn To Death
MORRISTOWN, N. J., Sept. 1—
Two men were burned to death in a
government all-metal mail airplane
which fell here this morning. Farm
ers who saw the accident, said the
plane, flying low, took a sudden dive
and burst into flames. When it hit
tl e ground an explosion occurred,
throwing mail bags hundreds of feet
in all directions.
LORD MAYOR S
LIFE HANGS ON
Mac Sweeney Bright and
Cheerful After Change
For Worse
LONDON, Sept, I.—Terence Mac-
Sweeney, hunger striking lord mayor
of Cork, suffered a change for the
worse in Brixton jail last night. Late
morning editions of the London pa
pers said he was sinking fait.
This morning it was announced
that he had secured several snatches
of sleep. Although weiak, he was
bright and cheerful this morning.
POLES MAKE NO
PROMISE TO U.S. i
Say Strategic Conditions
Must Govern Armies’
Advance
WASHINGTON Sept. I—Poland
has answered, the admonition of the
United States that the Polish armies 1
halt at the ethnographic frontier of I
'Poland with the statement that I
strategic considerations must govern)
Poland’s course.
Capt. Drake is Made
Regular Army Officer
Capt. A. M. Drake, disbursing and
supply officer, and officer in charge
of all civilian personnel at Southed
Field, received word this morning
from Washington of his discharge)
from his emergency commisison andj
recommissioning in the regular ar-i
my with the rank of first lieutenant.
He is the first of the emergency of-1
ficers at Souther Field to be recom-[
missioned into the regular army serv-[
ice, and will remain in the Air Serv-I
ice and in his present post.
Capt. Drake, whose home is at
Dublin, has been at Souther Field
just a year. He spent 18 months in
France in the Air Service, being at
tached as adjutant to the largest fly-)
ing school in the world at Issoudun,'
and later being executive officer to|
the chief of Air Service at Tours.
Americsu ‘Tiger Cats’
Trims Leslie Bovs 2-0
The Americus “Tiger Cats,” a
team of youngsters ranging around
15 years of age, journeyed to Leslie
yesterday where they met and de
feated a team of similar aged boys
by a score of 2-0. They report that
the Leslie lads played good, ball un
til the fifth inning when their pitcher
ed one run. Another run was scor
ed one nin. Another run was ccor
ed in the sixth inning. The batteries
for Americus were Finley and Rob
erts; for Leslie, Cox and Sumerford.
ARBITRATORS OF
TERRELL NAMED
I
Quitman Man Chosen to
Represent State in
Dispute
DAWSON, Sept. I—State Tax
Commissioner Fullbright has appoint
ed C. T. Tillman, a prominent busi
ness man of Quitman, to represent I
his office in arbitrating the tax re-)
turns of Terrell county. The board of I
tax equalizers of the county had
previously named B. A. Wilkinson
to represent the tax payers of the
county on the board of arbitrati >.i,
and Messrs. Tillman and Wilkiason
will select the third mart. Mr. Till
m: n has already proposed a cit’zen
cf Thomasville, and Mr. Wilkinsm.it)
is understood, will offer Mr. T'llman, |
the names of a number of prominent
men of this section who are famil>.r)
with values in this immediate part ;
of tl e state, any one of whom will be J
acceptable to him.
Mr. Fullbright directed that the tax I
returns of Terrell county be increas
ed $2,000,000, about 40 per cent.
The I oard of equalizers believed
that was too great an increase of the
tax burden, and refused to raise val
ues as given by the returns, which
showed an increase of $200,000 over
last year. The result is that Terrell’s
tax returns will be arbitrated, as pro
vided by law when the state tax com
missioner is dissatisfied with the tax
returns of a county.
The matter, it is understood, may
find its way into the courts before it |
is finally settled.
Aggie Barbecue
A Popular Affair
Probably 500 friends of the Third
District Agricultural school were
guests of the school at a barbecue to-1
day in the grove just to the south of )
the campus. The serving was late, not |
taking place until 2 o’clock, but was
enjoyed all the more for that. A
large number of students and several
members of the faculty and board
of trustees were present. Many of
the guests took occasion before the
dinner was served to inspect the new
administration building which is just
being completed.
The school will begin the new term
tomorrow with an enrollment up to |
capacity, according to Prof. J. M.
Prance, principal.
Fractional Currency
x . Scandal in Tyrol
VIENNA, Sept. I—The Tyrol
government prohibited the further is
suance of communal fractional cur
rency, which has become a scandal in
the Austrian states It was found that
nene of the noes wet:- in circulation,
al' the issues having been sold to col
ie, tors at enormous profit Some is
sues of ten and twenty heller notes
have sold for as high as eighty to
100 crowns a piece.
The craze of issuing curency had
spread to concerns and associations
of various kinds, among those print
ing their own money being the mon
astery of Gottweig and the Anti-
Semetic Association of Amstetten.
French engineers have discovered
phospate deposits in Moroapo that
run from 75 to 80 per cent in phos
phate content.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WHITE ADMITS
NO KNOWLEDGE
OF FUND CHARGE
But Says Governor Told
Him He Was Sure of
Ground
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Sept. I.
E. H. Moore, of Youngstown, pre
convention manager for Governor
Cox, will appear before the senate
committee at Chicago, according to
word received here. Friends say he
will appear as Governor Cox’s rep
resentative in regard to the latter's
charges that the Republicans pre rais
ing a fifteen million dollar campaign
fun.
WHITE HAS FAITH
IN COX’S PROMISE.
CHICAGO Sept. I—George White
chairman of the Democratic Nation
al committee, first witness today,
told the senate campaign fund inves
tigating committee he had no evi
dence to sustain any one of the char
ges brought by Governor Cox as to
Republican campaign funds, or quo
tas, or the alleged desire of contrib
utors “to have back of them in in
dustrial centers the bayonets of their
puppets in office.” He told the com
mittee he believed the charges to be
true because he had confidence in
Governor Cox. He said in a brief talk
with the nominee, Governor Cox said
he was sure of his ground, but details
were not discussed.
Chairman Kenyon asked if White
did not consider it “the duty of the
men who have this evidence, if it ex
ists to give it to us, whether they are
presidential candidates or not.” When
the witness did not reply the chair
man said he would not press it -out
of respect to White’s relations with
Governor Cox.
Jeff Dean Purchases
Farm of Mrs. Rogers
Jeff Dean, of near Sumter City,
today purchased the 155-acre farm of
Mrs. M. J. Rogers, for a considera
tion said to be not less than $14,000.
In the transaction Mr. Dean gets
al of the mules and feedstuff on the
farm.
The Rogers farm is said to be one
of the best pieces of land in Sumter
county, lies well and it has been well
cared for. The deal was handled
by Sills & Purvis, of Americus.
U. S. Spy Escapes
From Mexican Guard
JUAREZ, Mexico, Sept. I.—Dr.
Paul B. Altendorf, who claimed he
was a secret agent of the United
States in Mexico during the world
war, and who was recently arrested
and ordered deported as a “pericious
foreigner,” escaped from two Mexi
can officers guarding him last night,
it became known today.
Colver Doesn’t Want
Trade Commission Job
WASHINGTON, Sept. I—Chair
man W. B. Colver, of the Federal
Trade Commission, notified President
Wilson today he did not wish his
name considered for reappointment
to the commission at the expiration
of his term September 25. He de
sires to engage in private business
he said.
MARKETS
MONTGOMERY LIVE STOCK
UNION STOCK YARDS. Sept. 1.
—Choice but. St.s.. 1000 lbs. up, 10
@ 11; 800 to 1000 lbs., 9 © 10; 600
to SOO lbs., 7 @ 8 1-2; butcher ■ie:f
ers, (• © 7 1-2; common light year
k-gs. 4 <<z 5: choice but. cows, 0 12
© 7 1-2, ried’um fat cows. 4 !-2 &
5 1-2; cutters. 4 @ 4 1-2; canners,
3 @ 4; choice stock cattle, 6 1-2 @
7 1-2; common to medium, 4 1-2 'ib
I 5 1-2; choice veal calves, 8 @ 10;
common veal calves, 5 @ 7; bulls, 4
@ 7.
Hogs, 165 lbs. up, 14.15; 130 to
165 lbs., 13.75; 90 to 130 lbs., 11.50;
90 lbs. down, 10.50; roughs, 10.75.
MOULTRIE LIVESTOCK MARKET.
MOULTRIE, Sept. I.—Hogs 165
lbs. and up, 14 @ 14 l-2c; 135 to
165 lbs., 13 @ 13 1-2 c; 110 to 135
lbs., 12 (a) 12 l-2c; 110 lbs. down
10 @ 10 l-2c.
Roughs and skips are priced on
basis of quality. Piggy sows docked
40 pounds. Stags docked 70 pounds.
Prices f. o. b. Moultrie.
Our supply of “brown” coal, suit-
I able for lignite, si estimated at 3,-
553,637,100,000 tone.s enough at the
present rate of consumption for 7,-
000 years.
This year’s importation of cut and
uncut diamonds is expected to rise
to the unprecedented value of SIOO,-
000,000.