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FORTY-SECOND YEAR—NUMBER 207
COX PROMISES HIGH PLACE TO DIRT FARMERS
R. T. MATHEWS
GETS LAUNDRY
IN $50,000 DEAL
Smithville Man to Be
come Manager of Busi- .
ness Next Monday
Announcement was made today of
the second deal within a few days in
volving the ownership of the Amer
icus Steam Laundry, by the latest
transaction it coming into the posses
sion of R. T. Mathews of near Smith
ville, who announces, that he intends
to operate it personally as a business
hoping to develop a patronage even
greater than it enjoys now.
In the deal T. B. and W. Glenn
Hooks traded the laundry and paid
a cash difference to Mr. Mathews for
the latter’s farm of 277 acres 2 1-2
miles east of Smithville, securing be
sides the farm all equipment on it, as
well as the craps and stock. It is un
derstood the farm was valued in the
transaction at $32,500. The laundry
taken at a valuation of 17,000 and a
cash balance of $15,500 paid to Mr.
Mathews, the total value of the prop-,
erty changing hands approximating |
$50,000.
The deal was made through Sills ■
and Purvis, who last week handled i
the transaction whereby R. L. and H.
E. McMath traded the laundry prop
erty, which has been operated by the
latter, to the Messrs. Hooks for one
■of their plantations west of the city.
Mr. McMath will give possession of ;
the laundry next Monday.
Not a Woman Here
Seeks to Register
Not a Sumter county woman has
offered to register for the coming
primary election, according to Tax
Collector I. B. Small, who is the
registration officer, indicating clear
ly to court house political dopesters
that the women here are not inter
ested in suffrage. Mr. Small has
been advised by County Attorney
Maynard to register the women on
their application.
Railroad Guarantee
Piles Up New Debt
WASHINGTON, . Sept. 2—The
federal guarantee of railroad earn-!
ings resulted in an increase of the I
public debt of $101,755,000 during
August, according to treasury fig
ures todav. The nation’s gross debt
is $24,324,672,000.
Regulars Lose To
Thompson by 10-2
The Americus Regulars’ baseball
team met defeat yesterday at the
hands of the strong Thompson team
by a score of 10 to 2. The batteries
were: For Americus, Pantone and
Dodson; Thompson, Ball and Gibson.
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling, 28 1-2 cents. Re
ceipts increasing.
NEW YORK FUTURES
PC Open 11 am 1 pm Close
Oct. 25.50 25.90 26.07 26.80 26.95
Dec. 24.17 24.40 24.70 25.05 25.25
Jan 23.58 23.73 23.93 24.35 24.50
Meh 23.28 23.40 23.70 24.05 24.30
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
PC Open 9 am 11 am Close
Oct. 24.21 24.46 24.85 24,85 25.40
Dec 23.20 23.60 23.90 23.77 24.25
Jan' 22.85 23.20 23.55 23.45 23.84
Meh 22.60 23.06 23.40 23.15 23.60
MONTGOMERY LIVE STOCK
UNION STOCK YARDS, Sept. 2.
—Eight hundred cattle were on sale
Wednesday. The pens were well
cleaned at steady prices. The hog
market was steady at unchanged
prices.
Choice But. Steers, 1000 lbs. up,
10 @ 11; 800 to 1000 lbs. 9 @ 10;
600 to 800 lbs., 7 @ 8 1-2; butcher
heifers, 6 @ 7 1-2; common light
yearlings, 4 @ o; choice but. cows,
6 1-2 © 7 1-2; medium fat cows,
4 1-2 @ 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 @ 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. 2—Hogs 165
lbs and up, 14 @ 14 1-2; 135 to
165 lbs, 13 @ 13 1-2; 110 to 135
lbs.. 12 © 12 1-2; HO lbs. down
10 @ 10 1-2.
Roughs and skips priced on basis
of quality. Piggy sows docked 40
pounds. Stags docked 70 pounds.
Prices f. o. b. Moultrie.
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These two men are the storm centers in the Irish situation today. Left—Terence Mac Sweeney, lord
mayor of Cork, who is hunger-striking in Brixton prison, London. If he dies, Sinn Feiners intimate they will
find Lloyd George and other British officials guilty of “murder” and will kill them. Riots and demonstra
tions there, in Liverpool and in Ireland have marked the effort to effect his realese. New York longshore
men went on strike, tying up British liners, crying “Release Mac Sweeney and let Archbishop Mannix go to
Ireland!” Mannix (right), a pro-Sinn Feiner from Autsralia, went to the British Isles despite British orders
that he would not be allowed to visit Ireland. He is still in England.
HARDING TELLS
CUBS U. S. TEAM
FANNED AT PARIS
■
Can’t Win Ball Games
With One-Man Team,
He Says
MARION, 0., Sept. 2.—Putting
his political creed into the vernacular!
of baseball, Senator Harding the Re-!
publican nominee, made a front porch;
speech today to the players of the
Chicago Nationals, appealing for!
better team work by the American!
Nation “on tile home grounds and;
under the rules ”
He told the piryers, “you can’t win j
ball game wiLn a one-man team;” ardj
again, “it is rny observation that rhe;
National team now playing for the
United States ulayed loosely and:
muffed disappointedly in our domes-i
tic affairs, and then struck out at!
Paris. No one can dispute that the;
American team played badly when' it
got on the foreign field.”"
Identifies Body i
In Nick of Time
PORTLAND, Sept. 2—Just in time !
to save his brother’s body from the
energetic knives, saws and files of
the eager students of a medical col
lege here, Perry Piper is protesting
that the coroner’s office was lax in ,
giving the body to the college. “They |
should have been able to identify my J
i brother’s remains,” says Piper. L. B. ,
Piper, the dead man, committeed sui-;
| cide, and under the Oregon law un- j
identified bodies are held 24 hours 1
and then given to scientific institu-;
| tions.
! First Honor Graduate
Attends State Normal
Miss Lula Howard, who made a re
j markable record throughout the i
high school course, left Tuesday to
attend State Normal at Athens. Miss
Howard graduated brilliantly from
j the class of 1919-20 in June of this
; year, and her friends will follow her
j college career with intense interest.
Other young, ladies attending this
school from Americus are Miss Nao
’mi Wright and Miss Nellie Worthy.
I these two being in their senior year.
Children Get Small
Pay Stringing Beads
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y„ Sept. 2
In the heart of Westchester county,
playground of Manhattan’s wealthy.
I children have been working for $2
! a week, investigation here has dis
closed. The children were employed
stringing beads. Only the best could
earn $2 a week. State investiga
tion has put a stop to the work for
the time being at least.
WSHINGTON’S CENSUS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—The
population of Washington is 1.356.- ■
316, an increase of 18.8 per cent,'
the census bureau announced today, i
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PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
Turks for Armistice ,
To Wait on Wilson
CONSTANTITNOPLE, Sept. 2.
(Delayed) (By Associated( Press.)
—The Turkish Nationalists have pro- ,
r.sed an armistice with the Armeß
ians until President has defined Ar
menia’s boundaries, it was announc
ed today.
WATSON DRAWS
7,000 IN MACON
Gathering Largest Un
der One Roof in City’s
History
What is said to have been the big-!
gest crowd ever assembled under one 1
i oof heard Thomas E. Watson, candi
date for the Un ted States senate,
speak in Macon last night. Watson J
followers were present from all the
surrounding country.
Among those attending from here ■
were Messrs. Zach S. Childers, T. K. «
McCrary, Clyde Williams and Collins. .
They made the trip by auto and ar- 1
I rived at the auditorium 45 minutes'
I before the speaking to begin.thus se
i curing good seats. They returned this
' morning. It was stated that a number i
of autos from this section and on j
farther South turned back at Fort
Vaney and different points near Ma
con when they met cars coming lack !
and reporting that no seats were to
be bad. ■
The Macon Telegraph, in its news I
I report of the meeting, says in part
| today:
“Speaking to 7,000 people—fully
. 6,000 of them frankly curious—;
; Thomas E. Watson, candidate for the :
! United States senate last night con-!
; tinued his attacks on the American I
i Legion, Governor Dorse’y and the of
! ficers of the World War. The meet-!
! ing was markd by none o fthe vio-J
lence Watson said he expected to en
i counter in Macon and had come pre
pared to handle.
“Watson’s audience, the biggest;
1 ever assembled under one roof in the ;
memory of the oldest Maconite, left
not a foot of standing room in the !
city’s big new auditorium. Applause!
during his speech and upon its con-!
elusion, however, showed that he
hadn’t the sympathy of the great ma- j
jority of his hearers. He was fre- i
quently interrupted by his followers
who shouted “Pour it into ’em,” and
“Tell ’em, Tom’* and other such!
I yells.
“Dorsey’s platform of military ed-1
! ucation he paid considerable atten-
I tion to, likening it to a man who has
handled a pistol, played with it and
practiced with it, until he wants to
see what he can do with it and fi
nally shoots some one or is shot. He
said the same spirit would be put
into the American youth if the plank
were carried out.
“He attacked the American Legion
which he called an organization of
officers. He cited what he said was
; cruelty after cruelty in the war,
especially at Camp Wheeler. He!
dealt at length with the local camp,
: saying the officers made men sleep,
in tents in Winter with no bankets/
i made them drill with no overcoats, I
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPT. 2, 1920
GERMAN ADMITS
HE WEIGHED PLAN
TO JOIN SOVIETS
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Foreign Minister Says'
Rejected Treaty-Break
ing Proposal
BERLIN, Sept. 2.-—(Delated)
(By Associated Press.) —Dr. Walter
Simons, German foreign minister,
told the reichstag foreign affairs ;
committee today he had been urged'
to. collaborate with the Russian bol-j
sheviki against the western powers!
as a means of breaking the bonds
imposed by the Treaty of Versailles,'
but that after mature reflection he
had rejected this course.
2,000 White and Negro
Longshoremen Battle
NEW YOFK, Sept. 2—More than
"two thousand white and negro long
[ shoremen engaged in a pitched battle ,
I today at pier 30, North River, which .
required large police reserves to
quell. The fight started when a
work and found five hundred negroes !
thousand) Kvhite men reported for ;
unloading a vessel.
1,000,000 Anthracite
Insurgent Miners Quit
WILKESBARRE, Pa., Sept. 2—|
The anthracite industry was seriously
! crippled today by a strike of insur
[ gents in the United Mine Workers. It
! is estimated 100.000 of 175,000 work- ;
| ers failed to report today.
and made them stand naked in the
! cold for medical examination. He
; said Governor Dorsey came to Ma
j con to investigate, was dined by of
ficers and pronounced the camp in
! good condition. Governor Catts, of
Florida, he said, came here, was not.
! dined, but demanded immediate at-j
; tention of men in the qamp and, Mr.
Watson said, “within twenty-four;
i hours blankets were on their way.”
“Watson was interrupted during
his speech by C. B. Wooten, of Ma
con, who also has interrupted Hoke
Smith the week before Mr. Watson
was pronounced by Mr. Wooten to
be the grandest Watson on earth.
Mr. Wooten asked Watson about the >
payment of Civil War cotton claims.
Watson shouted: If Igo to the sen
|ate, I’ 11 try to get thp metaey for
j vou.”
“Mr. Wooten undertook to consume
so much time that the audience fi )
nally yelled him down and Watson
proceeded, saying: “I do not wish to.
be discourteous to you, sir, but I
must continue.”
Watson showed reporters a picture;
of what he said was the gallows at
Girves, France, where white soldiers;
were hanged. There was nothing on
the picture to indicate it was a gal
lows. It looked like a well, a cross
bar overhead. There was no rope
suspended, no tray, .as far as the re->
porter’s could see. A bunch of ne-l
groes were sitting on what Mr. Wat
: son said was the trap, but which
Hooked like the edge of awell.” i
FAMOUS BATTLE
IN FIREWORKS TO |
BE SEEN AT FAIR
Contract Closed For
Grand Display on
Two Nights
i A feature of the Sumter county
I fair, to be held for one whole week
■ in November, will be a maginifleent
; fireworks display, to be staked two
i nights, Wednesday and Thursday of
i *fair week. Announcement to this
! effect was made by the fair managc-
I ment today. The display will be put
on by the same concern which will
funrnish the fire works for the state
fair* at Macon the previous week,
and a contract has lust been closed
for the attraction.
Seven hundred dollars has been
alotted for the fireworks, which will
in a large measure duplicate the dis
play to be seen at the state fair and
will embrace the big features being
offered by the contractors this sea
son including a reproduction of the
battle of Chateau-Thierry, tank and
gun battle, the American Legion em
blem in fire, and others. The pro
igram will last from one to one and,
a half hours each night.
tellsoflaps’
ATTITUDE IN EAST
Official of Far East Re-s
public Recites Parley
Difficulties
NOTE: The following statement
of .he relations between the japa )
ne.-e and the Far Eastern Republic
of !’ib< i a was obta'.ud bv an As
sociated Press correspondent in the
course of a journey from Vladbos
tock across Siberia and Russia to,
Moscow and Finland. •
VERKHNE-UDINSK, Siberia,
Sept. 2-—Representatives of the Far
Eastern Republic recently establish
ed here have been frustrated in their
efforts to make peace with the Jap
anese military command in Siberia
by refusal of the latter to treat with ;
them except as concerns territory
west of Chita, according to a state
ment by A. M. Krasnotchekoff,
Foreign Minister of the new repub-1
(lie, to The Associated Press corre- i
spondent. Parleys were broken off
when the Russians insisted that the
1 scope of negotiations should embrace
I the entire Far Eastern situation,
should assume an international as
pect instead of parleys between mil
; itary commands, and that military
; operations should be completely sus
pended while negotiations were in
! progress.
Efforts of the Far Eastern Repub
lic to establish friendly gelations
with the Japanese even at the ex
pense of surrender temporarily of
sovereign rights to a wide belt of
territory, were described by Kras
notchekoff, as follows:
“Parleys between the Japanese
military mission and a mission of the
Far Eastern Republic were begun on
May 24 at the station Gongota, be
' tween the JapanoSe-Bemenoff and
! Russian fronts, about 70 miles west
of Chita. The Japanese mission, |
i headed by Colonel Rurosawa pre
i sented three demands, namely that
■ the Soviet army must return west of
Lake Baikal; that a neutral zone be
established west of Chita 170 miles
in extent and containing no armed
forces; that free transportation and
communications be established and
that the Japanese have representa
tion in the railway management.
“The Russians replied that the So
i viet army had not progressed be
' yond the left bank of the Selenga
river (southwest of Lake Baikal)
! and that the question of their return
| west of Lake Baikal must be taken
up by Japan with Soviet Russia.
“The Far Eastern Republic mission
! proposed that the railway in the Chi
! ta and Stretensk districts be consid
i ered within the sphere of influ-
I ence of the Japanese military com
mand in Siberia temporarily, until
lan agreement regarding Japanese
! evacuation could, be reached; and
j that through transportation and com
! munication be established eastward.
“The Russians insisted upon par
! leying regarding the Far Eastern sit
; nation as a whole, that fighting cease
on all fronts, and that negotiations
, assume the aspect of an internation
al conference instead of parley be
; tween two military commands.
“On May 25 the parleys were in
terrupted because the Japanese wish
ed to discuss the situation west of
i Chita only, stating that they were
j not authorized to do more.
“On June 2 Krasnotchekoff sent
' a memorandum to General Oi ex
i pressing surprise that the Japanese
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WAUKESHA, Wis.—Mrs. Chas.
Jorgensen of Racine, Wis., who sud
denly awakened from a two-year
sleep is steadily recovering. During
the two years she was fed by at
tendants like a baby.
“Though I couldn’t open my eyes,
utter a word or move a muscle, I
knew each day’s events and heard
every word spoken to me,” Says Mrs.
Jorgenson.
NOTED LEADER’S
BOLSHEVIK ARMY
IS ANNIHILATED
7
i Complete Victory For
Poles in Four-Day
Battle
WARSAW, Sept. 2. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —The Bolsheviki army!
of General Budenny, noted cavalry!
i leader, was annihiliated during the;
operation in the Lemberg sector
fwhich began August 29 and ended’
September 1, says a Polish official;
I statement today.
COSTS MORE TO j
TRAVEL BY RAIL
Here Are New Rates to
Some of More Import
ant Georgia Points
Yes, the new passenger rates are
in force in Georgia. They went into
effect September 1, and as a result
it costs more now by 20 per cent to
go anywhere by train, and if yofa
travel in a Pullman 50 per cent of!
the old Pullman fare is also added.!
i Here are the new and old rates to ’
i some of the more important Georgia
I points to which Americus citizens!
travel daily:
Atlanta, without P’m’n. ,$6.18 $5.14;
I Atlanta, upper berth, .... 2.92 , 1.94
Atlanta, lower berth, 3.65.. 2.431
Macon 2.75 . 2.29
Athens 6.86.. 5.71
Rome 9.01.. 7.51 I
Savannah 10.17 8.48
Columbus 2.49.. 2.07
Albany 1.40 . 1.17 ;
Thomasville 3.67.. 3.06
Home Brew is O- K.
In Seattle, Decided
SEATTLE, September 2. —This
city’s going to be home for hhme
’ brew. National, state and county
officials have agreed home brew is
O. K. and will not raid private homes,
unless sales are specifically charged.
It’s the first “easing up” of the dry
law in four years.
mission was not empowered to treat
with the Russian mission and re
peating the offer that the pre-Bai
kal railways be considered tempora
rily within the Japanese sphere of
I influence, thus practically renounc-
I ing soyereign rights in this territory
■ for the sake of peace.”
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Forecast for Georgia—Generally
: fair tonight and Friday. Not quite
• so warm in north and central por
i tions tonight.
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OPHELIA ‘
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ROOSEVELT HAS
PREPARED WEST
FOR COX TOUR
Two-Fold Purpose of
Trip Just Completed
Is Accomplished
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 2—Gover
nor Cox was working at top speed
today to clear up an accumulation of
state 'business before starting his
swing around tht west this evening.
He will cover twoney-two states and
is scheduled to make 62 extended
speeches, in addition to rear platform
and other minor speeches.
Governor Cox today declared in
addressing representatives of nation
al farmers’ organizations that if
elected he would appoint “dirt farm
ers” to responsible government po
sitions—-secretary of agriculture,
members of federal reserve, regional
reserve boards and tariff and inter
state commerce commissions.
BY LORRY A. JACOBS
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 2—The
real purpose of Franklin D. Roose
velt in making his flying trip across
the continent has been accomplished.
That object was NOT primarily to
acquaint the west with Roosevelt
and his views, not to discredit the
Republican party.
It WAS for a two-fold purpose.
To impress the west with the fact
that the Democratic party is with
the League of Nations t<f stay and—
To implant a wedge that Govern-,
or Cox can drive home when he
makes his trip through the same ter
ritory.
As to the first objective—that of
making the League of Nations a
political issue, Roosevelt hammered
away at the issue until, about a week
after the trip had started, he beghn
to find crowds more friendly and
more ready to listen to his arguments
on thqt question.
Enthusiasm Grew
That en|husisam grew—even
through California—and it was am
azing to find thousands and thous
ands of men and women eager to
learn the arguments for the league
they had not yet heard. And, finally
on his return from the western coast
he found audiences that were not
only eager to listen but were thor
oughly convinced in favor of it. '
The real object of Roosevelt, how
ever, was to prepare the way for
Governor Cox’s September campaign
in the west.
It was apparent from the very first
that as far as the west was concerned
the Democratic party was in a queer
quandary—that of having a candi
date for vice president the people
knew better than it did its candidate
for president.
But with the aid of Judge J. M.
Marx, of Cincinnati, a warm person
al friend of Governor Cox and wound
ed veteran of the war, Roosevelt told
of the qualifications of the Ohio chief
executive for the support of the west
in an extremely effective manner.
Th west is now ready for Gov
ernor Cox and whether or not he
goes over depends entirely on himself
I and his political advisers. The west
! is alert and eager to know Govern
, or Cox.
Roo«evelt Pleased
Said Roosevelt to me before re-
: porting to Governor Cox:
“I am ready to tell my chief that
the things I was sent to accomplish
are done to my best ability. I have
found the west generously hospita
j ble, receptive but thinking,
j “I can ask no more—for it is my
candid opinion that if the people of
I the west—and the entire country as -
well—think enough about this cam
’ paign a Democratic victory will re
-1 suit at the polls in November.
“I am especially pleased with re
i suits as far as the League of Na
• tions is concerned, and I think that
the arguments presented by myself
and members of my party for it have
gone a long wav in straightening out
misapprehensions concerning it.”
!
Confer on Strike
All Alabama Mines
BIRMINGHAM. Sept. 2.—Presi
i dent Kennamer, of the Alabama divis-
I ion of the United Mine Workers,
conferred here to today with other
; union officials on plans for parrying
out the genral strike in the local coal
[fields as ordered yesterday by the
national organization. Hundreds of
miners have already quit work and
several mines have been shut down
more than a month.
LIMA, September 2.—Harry Wal
ters, secretary of the Moose lodge
here, lost his watch, via the burglar
route. He wanted another. He at
tended an outing*and saw a clock
that he liked offered as a prize for
> the homliest man. He entered and
won. Now he’s satisfied, despite
the negative compliment.