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FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO. 220.
OFFER SIO,OOO REWARD IN BOMB OUTRAGE
CONSTITUTION OR
COVENANT: NOT
BOTH - HARDING
Two Irreconcilable, He
Declares In Front
Porch Speech
MARION, 0., Sept. 17. Pro
nouncing the League of Nations
covenant as irreconcilable with the
American constituiton, Senator Hard
ing declared in his Constitution Day
address here that the time has come
for the United States to decide
whether it will preserve or abandon
the charter under which it achieved
nationality.
“The constitution or the covenant.
That is the paramount issue,” he said 4
“The two are irreconcilable. We can
not be governed from both Geneva
and Washington. We cannot follow
our present magistrate without for
saking the father of our country.”
SAYS EUROPE MUST BE
FREED OF WAR FEAR.
WATERLOO, lowa, Sept. 17.
There will be no peace in Europe un
til the burden of armament is lift
ed and the fear of war destroyed,
Secretary Baker declared here today
in a speech devoted to the discussion
of the Treaty of Versailles and
League of Nations covenant.
fullbrighTcuts
HIS TAX DEMAND
Now Willing To Accept
10 Per Cent Further
Raise
State Commissioner Fullbright has
notified Sumter county officials that
he is willing to accept a settlement
in valuations in Sumter county on
a basis of 10 per cent increase over
the valuations reached this year by
the county board of equalization, in
stead of insisting upon 20 per cent
increase called for by him in a pre
vious letter. This decision is arriv
ed at, he says, in consideration of
the statement of George D. Wheat
ley, writing for the board, that val
uations had already been raised by
the board this year all that could
be increased in one year, and also
in order to effect a settlement at
once without further delay and the
necessary expense of resorting to ar
bitration. It was his contention
that, despite the increases made.
Sumter county valuations were still
20 per cent below the standard ar
rived at for the state.
Mr. Wheatley Jest for Atlanta
this afternoon for the purpose of
personally interviewing Mr. Full
bright and explaining to him the sit
uation in detail.
“I feel confident,” said he this
morning, “that I will be able to con
vince Mr. Fullbright that our val
uations for this year are as high as
he can expect and that he will ac
cept them as they are, depending on
next year’s board to bring Sumter
county up to thes tandard that has
been set if it is continued.”
7 Americus Girls
Attending Wesleyan
Following are the names of the
young ladies from Americus and
nearby towns who are attending Wes
leyan College this year, as shown by
the school roster published today:
Americus—Catherine Buchanan,
Mary Rose Brown, Mabel Ellis, Annie
Ellis, Erma Tooke, Christine Glenn,
Julia Glenn.
Leslie—Mary Wilson.
Ellaville —Thelma Collins, Mervin
Johnson, Maurine Munroe, Roxie
Stevens, Louise Walters.
Smithville —Julia Pryor.
Lumpkin.—Sarah Harrell.
Buena Vista Mahala Butt,
Marian Munro, Elizabeth McCrary.
Montezuma —Frances Felton, Eliz
abeth Forehand, Louise McKenzie,
lone McKenzie.
Richland—lda Park.
Dawson Sarah Jones, Lucile
Lewis.
Shellamn —Ruth Sears.
Unadilla —Pearl Woodruff.
Vienna—Mabel Woodward, Lillian
Cooper, Pauline Lennard, Rosebud
Jackson, Agnes Murray, Beulah Lew
is, Grace Woodward, Julia Lennard.
Guard Held For Death
Os Negress By Whipping
JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 17.—S
Blount, a sergeant at the Parchment
convict farm, in Sunflower county,
has been arrested at Indianola on an
indictment charging him with killing
Blanche England, a negress sentenc
ed to serve six years for grand lar
ceny. It is alleged the negress was
whipped to death. Blount denies the
charge.
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HIRAM JOHNSON
PRAISED BY COX
FOR FRANKNESS
SACRAMENTO, Calif., ept. 17
In an address today open
ing his California campaign, Gov
ernor Cox praised Senator Hiram
Johnson, Republican, as an ex
ponent of progressivism and again
flayed the “big business” Repub
lican leaders supporting Harding.
Although they differ fundamen
tally on the League of Nations,
Governor Cox said he admired
Senator Johnson for his frank
ness and lack of ambiguity or hy
pocrisy.
“I am unable to see by what
process of reasoning a political
party which has given Boss
Barnes the distinct status of
leadership can expect the progres
sive friends of Roosevelt and
Johnson to give it support,” Cox
said.
CREDIT PLENTY,
SAYSHOUSTON
Clamor Coming From
Those Seeking Higher
Prices, He Says
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Ex
tension of credit by the government
does not seem wanted by present
conditions, Secretary Houston stat
ed today, attributing much of the
popular clamor for more credit to
persons desiring to hold goods for
higher prices.
The government could harly aid
in withholding commodities from the
markets by the extension of credits,
the secretary declared, without be
ing a party to conspiracy in restraint
of trade, making more secure the
high price levels. Credit expansion
has been ample, he said, to provide
the movement of crops and the situ
action is clearing.
State Convention Set
For Macon Sept. 25
ATLANTA, Sept. 17.—The sub
committee of the Democratic state
executive committee meeting at the
Kimball house Thursday voted to
hold a state convention at Macon on
October 25. Secretary Hiram Gard
ner was named to make all arrange
ments.
Weafer
For Georgia Generally fair to
night and Saturday; slightly cooler
tonight.
THE TIMESBRECORDER
published in the heart or dixie
ITALIANS TRY TO
LOWER U.S.FLAG
OVER CONSULATE
Workmen Rush Offices
But Are Stopped
By Consul
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. An
attempted violation of the American
consulate at Genoa, Italy, by work
men displaying red flags who sought
to force the lowering of the Ameri
can flag during the funeral of work
men, was reported today to the state
department.
As the procession was passing the
consulate a number of workmen
rushed into the biulding and tried
to enter the consul’s office to lower
the flag to half mast in respect to
the dead. Vice Consul Murphy
stopped the crowd and oreder them
out of the building.
Italian authorities expressed re
gret at the incident.
Bose Warren, Servant
To Gen. Warren, Dies
Bose Warren, coloerd, aged 71
years, and father of W. B. Warren,
one of the leading negroes of this
section, died here this morning from
the infirmities of old age. He came
to Americus from Houston county
in 1871, and had thus been a resi
dent of Americus for practically fifty
years.
Bose Warren, before the war, was
a slave owned by General Eli War
ren, of Perry, and as a
boy went into the war Between the
States as General Warren’s body
servant. He served through the war.
leaving the service with his master
at Savannah. H e leaves a wife and
three children, two sons and a daugh
ter. ,
The funeral will be held at Bethes
da Baptist church Sunday at 3 p. m.
Amundsen’s Polar
Ship Caught In Ice
NOME. Alaska, Sept. 17.—Cap
tain Raold Amundsen’s expedition
ship, the Maud, in which he left here
two month ago bound for the North
Pole, has been caught in the ice
about twenty miles off Cape Serge,
on the Siberian coast, according to
information brought here by the cap
tain of a fishing boat, which also was
bound near the Maud. The captain
said Amundsen hoped to free the
Maud soon and continue his journey,
in preserving order.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 17, 1920.
OREGON WOMAN
FASTS 40 DAYS;
BEATS M’SWEENEY
Roseburg, Oregon, Sept. 17—
Mrs. J. M. Lane yesterday
completed her forty-day fast, dur
ing which time she partook of no
nourishment except a little orange
and lemon juice and water.
She had been suffering from
chronic stomach trouble for many
years and was advised to fast. She
lost twenty-five pounds, but never
was confined to her bed.
ALABAMA GUARD
ON STRIKE DUTY
Six Companies Ordered
Out Following Am
bush Shooting
MONTGOMERY, Sept 17.—The
commission appointed to assist in
averting the coal strike in Alabama,
in its report today, held both the
miners and operators at fault and
presented a bill to create a state
commission with absolute control
of the coal industry, its decision to
have the same weight as a verdict
of the circuit court.
BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 17.—Quiet
prevailed in the coal strike district
this morning following a number cf
disturbances yesterday and last night.
Reports that Governor Kilby had or-
M derdd six companies <>i national
guard to Jefferson and Walker
counties did not lessen the feeling
which has existed between the mine
guards and strikers since last Sun
day.
The culmination of a series of col
lisions of guards and strikers occur
red at the mines at the Corona Coal
Co., yesterday when Superintendent
Adler was shot to death and Deputy
Sheriffs Sullivan and Coker wound
ed.
The coal operators and miners are\
awaiting word of the action the'
governor will take on the report of'
the commission appointed to investi-'
gate the strike.
Three companies of national
guardsmen left here this morning for
Walker county. They will make,
their headquarters at Jasper, the cen-|
ter of the strike district.
Three negroes were wounded in
a gun fight at Majestic today, ac
cording to report.
MINE MANAGER IS
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
JASPER, ALA., Sept. 17.—L. M
Adler, general manager of the Cor-!
ona Coal company, was shot from;
ambush and killed at 3 o’clock yes- (
terday afternoon while riding in an'
automobile between Patton and Pat-
U.S. HOARD BARES
PACKER SCHEME
TO EVADE LAW
Says Stock Yard Plan
Would Result In
Greater Violations
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. The
plan proposed by the “Big Five”
packers to dispose of theirstock yard
interests to F. H. Price & Co., of
Boston, will not result In the separa
tion of the stockyards from the pack
ers’ interests the Federal Trade
Commission declared today in a re
port to Attorney General Palmer.
• The commission gave two reasons
for its' conclusion, stating that the
“long time stockyard relations of F.
H. Price with the packers had been
such that the plan would not result
in a divorcement of the stockyards
from the packer interest and that the
plan outlined would resit in an infac
tion of the monoply law greater and
more serious than existing infrac
tions.
The commission recommended the
proposed sale be not approved by the
attorney general.
VETSTRIPFUND
COMING SLOWLY
Only $159 Contributed
Os S6OO Total
Needed
The list of contributors to the
fund to send Sumter county’s vet
erans to the Confederate reunion at
Houston, shortly is growing very
slowly, a total of less than $l6O of
the S6OO needed having been sub
scribed. Americus has not yet be
gun to subscribe, only three contri
butions from here having been re
corded. Yesterday a list was circu
lated at DeSoto and Leslie and $69
contributed. Other substantial sub
scriptions are earnestly solicited and
may be hand either to John Shiver,
commander, or Gordon Howell, ad
jutant, of the local camp Sons of
Veterans, or to the Times-Recorder.
Following are the subscriptions to
date:
Firm*.
L. G. Council $ 30.00
John Shiver 30.00
Times-Recorder 30.00
Total $ 90.00
Individuals.
W. F. Ferguson, DeSoto $ 5.00
Dr. W. J. Smith, DeSoto 5.00
S. O. Murphy, DeSoto 5.00
IH. L. Speer, Leslie 5.00
IJ. M. Bowen, Leslie 5.00,
:E. B. Wallace, Leslie 5.00
!J. T. Bolton, Leslie 5.00
E. P. Anderson, Leslie 5.00
J. J. Wilson, Leslie 5.00;
F. A. Wilson, Leslie 5.00 <
J. W. Clopton, Leslie 5.001
J. H. Harvey, Leslie 5.00;
Lasco Harvey and E. A.
Bowen, Leslie 5.00
F. W. Hines, Sr., Leslie 2.00
Leon C. Griffin, Leslie 2.00
Grand total $159.00
Hey, Lads! Whadya
Mean, Ball Game? ‘
The Lee street boys’ ball team de-:
seated the Rees Park team yester-!
day by a score of 22 to 21. The
batteries for the teams were: Lee
street, T. Gatewood and Howard;
Reese Park, Sutton and Mauk. Home
runs were secured by Macon Dudley
for Reese Park and Buck Dixon for
Lee street. The box score:
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Lee Street '. ...... . ... .....22 28 14 !
Rees Park 21 22 101
The .2ees Park lads turned the ta
bles on the Lee street boys this!
morning, winning by a score of 18
to 5. Home runs were hit by Tur
pin and “Chink” Howard; three bag
gers by Mauk and Dudley. The bat
teries today: Mauk and Sullivan,
Howard and Gatewood.
Health Film To Be
Seen At Opera House
It was announced today by Am
i ericus physicians that the govern
ment health educational film, ‘“Hie
End of the Road,” endorsed by the
Georgia board of health, would, be
i shown Saturday afternoon and night
l in addition to the regular program
at the Opera House and without ad
ditional charge.
ton Junction. Deputy Sheriff Earl
Edgel, who was in the car with him,
was fatally wounded by the shots and
Deputy Sheriff Brown was badly in
ijured.
Sheriff Clark Gutherie of Kalker
county made an urgent appeal to
I Governor Kilby for troops to assist
in presedving order.
POSITIVE EVIDENCE OF
INFERNAL MACHINE IS
ANNOUNCED BY FLYNN
Clockwork Found In Wall Street Wreckage And
150 Pounds of Weight Metal Picked Up-
Wagon Driver Sought—36 Dead
WASHINGTON, Sept 17.—Reports from Chief Flynn of the Bureau
of Investigation, received today point conclusively to the fact that the ex
plosion in New York was caused by an anarchist bomb, the Department of
Justice announced today.
NEW YORK, Sept. 16.—William J. Flynn, chief of the U. S. Bureau
of Investigation, declared this afternoon he was positive a bomb caused the
explosion in Wall street yesterday which took a toll of thirty-six lives,
injured about two hundred and caused a property damage of million*.
“There is absolutely no doubt it was a bomb,” said Flynn. “Import
ant developments in the last two hours have convinced us.”
Flynn made his announcement shortly after Fire Commissioner Bran
non had reported his belief that a bomb was responsible. Certain of the
cause, federal agents and city police increased their search for the driver
of a wagon which was blown to pieces. The theory of the investigators is
that a time bomb was placed on the wagon and the driver hurried from the
scene after arranging it for the explosion to occur at noon.
The board of estimate this morning appropriated SIO,OOO for informa
tion leading to the arrest and conviction of persons implicated in the
explosion.
More than 150 pounds of broken
sash weights and other metal frag
ments have been collected by the fire
department at the scene of the disas
ter and turned over to police, Com
missioner Brannon said today.
Edward P. Fisher, former em
ployee of the French high commis
sion, who has been detained by the
police at Hamilton, Ontario, after
he is alleged to have sent two post
cards to friends here from Toronto
warning them not be in Wall street
after 3 o’clock Wednesday, Septem
ber 15, will be brought to New York
to testify before the September
grand jury. This body today was
ordered to inquire into the disaster
The finanical centers of America’s
big cities from coast to coast were
armed camps today, with police and
private sentries posted on guard
against a repetition of the mysterious
explosion which rocked Wall street
yesterday. From Washington, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit,
Baltimore and as far south as the
Gulf of Mexico and west to the Gold
en Gate, authorities announced,
heavy patrols guarded the big busi
ness districts as federal agents work
ed with state and city officials to
run down reports of widespread ex
tremist plots.
The discovery of parts of a clock
work in the wreckage and the an
nouncement by experts that high ex
plosives were used in the bomb, sent
detectives and department of justice
KIWANIANSFOR
BOOSTING STATE
Firley Baum, advance representa
tive of Governor Dorsey, who comes
next Monday to speak in the inter
est of the Advertise Georgia Enter
prise, spoke on the movement before
the Kiwanis club at its luncheon, to
day, followinw hich the Kiwanians
went on record as endorsing the en
terprise and voted to attend the
speaking in a body, meeting at the
Windsor hotel lobby just before 2
p. m. The same talk was made by
Baum yesterday before the Rotary
club.
The Kiwanians also heard a report
today from Kiwanian Sam Heys,
president of the Sumter county fair
association, following which a vote
of endorsement of the fair was pass
ed.
The club had as entertainers today
Mrs. F. A. Fitch and two daughters,
of the Opera House family orchestra.
It was decided to make the next
meeting of the club a ladies’ night
affair, the date being next Friday.
City Tax Rate Left At
20 Mills By Council
The city council, at its regular
meeting last night, fixed the city
tax rate for the coming year at 20
mills, the same rate as last year, this
being 15 mills regular levy and 5
mills emergency levy. Os the total
the schools will receive 7 mills.
The tax digest has not yet been
completed bv City Clerk and Treas
urer Eldridge, so an accurate esti
mate of the probable revenue for
school and other purposes cannot yet
be made.
Results Still Close
In Illinois Primary
CHICAGO, Sept 17.—Efforts
were continued today to complete
the unofficial count in Wednesday’s
primary. The ballot was closely
contested in the Republican guber-
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
men today on thirty “leads” point
ing to a bomb plot and radical ac
tivities.
The scene of yesterday’s blast was
roped off while the stock exchange
and allied organizations prepared to
resume business this morning.
Among the dead is Colonel Charles
A. Neville, U. S. A., Savannah.
After checking up today reports
of lost securities as the result of the
explosion, officials of the stock ex
change said several packages, valued
at between three and four hundred
thousand dollars were missing. A
large proportion of these, the offic
ials said, were non-negotiable.
Otto Bailer, a Memphis jeweler
turned over to the police two thous
and dollars in bonds picked up im
mediately after the explosion.
FISCHER HELD INSANE;
HAD PREMONITION.
HAMILTON, Ontario, Sept. 17.
Edwin Fischer, detained here in con
nection with warnings alleged to have
been seen sent by him predicting the
Wall street explosion was adjudged
a “fit subject for the asylum” by
the lunacy commission today and will
be taken there this afternoon.
Rbert Pope, Fischer’s brother-in
law, speaking to newspaper men this
afternoon, said Fischer told him
three week ago he had a premo
nition that Wall street would be
blown up, but he paid no attention
to it.
LEGION PLANS
DRIVE ON H.C.L
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—The Am
erican Legion has announced the for
mation of plans to mobilize its for
ces throughout the country for war
against the high cost of living. In
every community where there is «
post the legion contemplates organiz
ing retail dealers into an association,
prospective members of which it is
said already have pledged discounts
aproximating five per cent from the
current prices of all commodities to
the two million members of the le
gion and their ftgnilies.
If sanctioned by the national ex
ecutive committee, the plans will be
submitted to the national convention
of the league at Cleveland.
natorial nominations and the Demo
cratic senatorial race. Len Small,
supported by Mayor Thompson, ap
peared to be the victor over Lieuten
ant Governor Oglesby by a plurality
of 10,000. Congressman McKinley,
the Lowden candidate for senator,
appeared to have defeated Frank L.
Smith by a somewhat smaller plu-
The official canvass probably will
be necessary to determine the Demo
cratic senatorial race.
COTTON.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good Middling 30 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Pc Open I lam Ipm C’ose
Oct 27.97 28.40 28.55 286.3 28.70
Dec 25.44 25.55 25.81 25.83 25.87
Jan. 24.18 24.40 24.58 24.48 24.67
Meh. 23.27 23.50 23.58 23.57 23.64
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES
Pc Open 9am 10:45a Close
Oct 26.13 26.30 26.68 26.65 26.76
Dec. 24.18 24.50 24.75 24.64 24.76
Jan. 23.30 23.63 23.88 23.75 23.88
Meh. 22.56 23.03 23.13 23.03 23.14
O. L. Passmore left today for
Buena Vista, where his wife has beea
for some time visiting friends.