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ASSOCIATED
. PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 25.
NEW RAIL RULES ARE ASKED BY ATTERBURY
MARSHAL DENIES
RICHLAND STORY
ON ‘ROBBERY’
Arrington Uses ‘Short,
Ugly Word To De
nounce 2 Swains
J. C, Arrington, night marshal at
Plains, who recently reported an al
leged attempt to rob the Plains bank,
was a visitor in Amerieus today, and
denounced emphatically the story
sent out from Richland that the “bur
glars” seen by him were a trio of
Richland swains, calling on young
iadies at Plains and Amerieus, and
meeting by appointment near mid
night in the business section of
Plains. “The boys who told that
story lied,” said Mr. Arrington to
day, “and they lied maliciously.”
Previous to the appearance of the
would-be yeggs, who wore masks
and ordered him to “throw up your
hands,” Arrington says, he met up
with Gorman Pickett, French Snell
v.g and a Mr. Bryant, a] Residents of
Richland, who were in Plains calling
in young ladies that night, and that
de and Chief Marshal J. E. Barker
questioned all of the youths, who ex
plained their-presence there satis
factorily, and asked to be permitted
to come inside the bank to get
warm, a request which Arrington de
nied, it being under a rule imposed
on the police by bank officials when
permission was given them to make
•heir headquarters in the ban*'
building.
Supporting bis statement, Arring
ton asserts, Mr. Bryant, one of the
party of Richland visitors, has since
corroborated his version of the af
rair. telling a number of Plains peo
ple that he and the young men with
'um met and conversed with* the two
Haiiis policemen, and that they left
Flairs and went direct to Richland
before the alarm had been given by
Arrington. It was some time after
he and Marshal Barker had talked
with the Richland visitors before the
masked men appeared at Hie bank
window, according to Arrington, and
be is convinced that it ;s impossible
that the figures he saw were in real
ity the three Richland boys. He is
very positive that the men be saw
wore masks, and that only his, alert
ac .-. in falling backward in his chair
prevented the bant: being robbed, as
- ; cb of the Ru n held a revolver lev
| ; -l ban. The men were evident
ly amateurs, in the opinion of Ar
rington, as they would have waited
"or him to come out of the bank to
cratch him unawares, had they been
professionals.
Furthi r supporting his version of
ihe incident, Arrington states chat
Conductor Bowers of the Seaboard
has since told him a special agent of
the railroad trailed three suspicious
men from the vicinity of Sasser
where a bank robbery recently oc
curred to Columbus, where they pur
chased tickets for Birmingham, Ala.,
ami the trail was lost. These men',
Arrington says, went from near Sas
;ei to one of the South Georgia
counties following the Sasser bank
robbery, and thence to Savannah.
One of them wa sin Plains Friday be
fore the incident at the bank ther
the following Sunday night, and
three strangers went from Plains to
Columbus about that time, according
to the information of the Plains
night marshal..
2 Coaches Overturned;
15 Passengers Injured
PITTSBURG, Pa., Jan. Hl,—Two
passenger coaches were overturned
and twelve or fifteen passengers in
jured when a southbound train of the
Pennsylvania railroad was derailed
near New Comei-stowri, Ohio, (his
morning.
To Reduce; Enlisted
Personnel Os Navy
WASHINGTON, Jan. Jl.—Reduc
tion of the navy’s enlisted personnel
to a maximum of 100,000 men as
compared with 13.000, the present
possbile maximum, is provided for in j
the naval appropriation bill to be re
ported. in the house tomorrow.
Eastman Company
Withdraws Anpca?
WASHINGTON, ' Jan. ,71.—'Flic
Eastman Kodak Comp-ny today,
withdrew its appeal to the Supreme
court from the lower 1 court’s decis
ion in the government’s anti-trust
• suit against it. • •
Baled cotton may now be treated
with a chemical compound to ren
der it fireproof.
The “stovepipe hat” style for men
began in 1815 in France.
WHICH BONNET WIL SHE CHOOSE?
—■* s
FRANK HARROLD, JR., SEES
REAL SPANISH BULL FIGHT
And Calls It Cruel Sport With, Almost No Sport
In It —Takes A Look At North Africa On
His Trip
Frank-Harrold, Amerieus’ Rhodes
Scholar, at Oxford, England, in hir
last letter home, describes a bull
fight witnessed at Seville, Spain, and
also tells of a little trip to Africa
when he saw the Sultan of Morocco.
His letter follows:
Narbonne, France, Jan. C, 1921.
Dear Father: I have tried for four
or five days to write you and will
srart this new before the train leaves
Marseilles and Nice which are the
next stops on our journey back to
Oxford. Will write on the train.
I think the last letter I wrote you
was on Sunday, Dec. 26, from Se
ville, Spain, just before going to see
a bull fight there.
It is my first, last and only bull j
fight. It is the kind of thing you
would never want to see again, but j
wouldn’t take anything for seeing id
once. I think the old Moorish blood j
must still flow in those people if
(hey get real enjoyment out of it as!
they seem to do. They must be the [
most cruel people in the world and T'
am glad we ran them out of Cuba. 1
There is one thing very noticeable
about Spain and that it that nothing
you hear can be depended on, no
matter who you hear from. We bad
heard for a week that this bull fight
was to take place and then we heard
that it wasn’t. No one seemed to
know. The same is true about
trains. The train officals can never
tel you anything definite about them.
You sure have to shift for yourself.
But back to the bull fight as 1 be
lieve all of you will be interested
in hearing about it. We were real
ly very lucky to see it as it was the
onljr one in Spain from November
till May, and it just happened for
some benefit.
Opens With Procession.
I think I described the ring in a
former letter. The fight began with
a procession of all the fighters, the
officials, the horses and the mule
team that drags the dead bull off the
field. After the procession the ring
ivas cleared, the bugles blew and in
rushed the bull. The performance
divided into three parts The first
of the first part is the only real sport
in the thing and that is sure enough
sport. The bull rushes in and looks
around the ring. They are beautiful
black animals raised from fighting
stock just for the purpose. He ba
gins to paw the ground and suddenly
sees one of the red rags or cloaks
held by the picadors, as |he men of
the first part are called. The way
he does tear after-that red cloak,
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THE f Im^B#KORDER
fe&jf'.PUBLISHED IN THE HEART Or~Diyig-frftsl
never charging the man at all. Those
j fellows are some elevtr side steppers
j and you can just see the horns miss
then* by inches. They never turn
loose their cloaks. About six of
them furnish targets for about ten
minutes. 'When hard pressed, they
jump a wall fence about neck high
with the bull charging into it at full
lilt.
The'picadors still in possession of
the ring, they bring on the horses
which is absolutely the most cruel
thing I ever expect to see. The hors
es are blindfolded and led in front
of the bull who just kills them as
he pleases. A bull can pitch a horse j
and his rider clear off the ground, j
The attendants then pick the horse ]
up and make him stand as long as
he can. It is aw-ful. All this time
the bull is simply wearying himself
down.
Spears of Torture.
The bugles blow and the banderill
eros take the ring. They have
sharp little spears which can only
penetrate a few inches and which
have a fish hook effect on the end,
so that they stick in the bull. The
bull goes at the banderilleros full
tilt, then the man steps aside and
stick the banderilleros into the bull
as he passes. It is just to torture
the poor animal and although the bull
is practically worn out, he fights like
a tiger at the red cloaks about him.
They stick probably eight banderill
eros in him. They are about thrCl
inches long and worry him to death.
The bugles blow again and the
last act commences. Espada, the
man who kills the bull comes out with
a red cloak and a sword fully three
feet long. He dedicates the death
of the bull to anyone he pleases, a
girl, an official, the king or some
body else. He goes and bows to
them. He then goes out and teases
the bull a few minutes with his cloak.
The bull by this time is all tired oul
but still fighting. Awaiting his op
portunity, he lets the bull rush and!
plunges the sword in his neck to hi-,
heart, probably two and a half to
three feet deep. Only this after
rtoon did the first attempt succeed.
It usually takes throe or four ef
forts. . The best bull fighters take
one plunge. The bull falls over
dead. He fights till he dies.
, The people cheer the bull fighter.
Only the last man is a real hero. All
the people throw him their hats which
ho 1 returns. The mule Lettm comes
out and drags the dead bull off, the
(Continued on Page Two.)
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31, 1921.
ALA. GUARDSMEN
PLACED ON TRIAL
FOR LYNCHING
Sergeant Lancaster First
Oi Nine Indicted I o
Face A lury
HAMILTON, Jan. 31. The trial
of Sergeant Robert L. Lancaster, one
off-thc nine members of Company M,
! State Militia, indicted in connection
I with the lynching of Willia rnßaird,
I miner, is set to begin here late to-
I day. The men will be given separate
j trials, the state’s attorney having de
} cidcd against a group trial.
COMMONS
ARE PROHIBITED
Old Custom in Shinning
Trade Declared To
Be Unfair
WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—The is
suance of orders requiring that thir
ty-five snip chandlery and repair com
panies of the South Atlantic and Gulf
ports refrain from giving “cash com
msisions and other gratuities to in
duce trade.” was announced today by
the Federal Trade commission.
The orders were issued as "con
sent ordeis,” The announcement
said, each company having agreed to
accept the order without opposition,
after expressing willingness to dis
continue tiie practices.
The ports affects include Port Ar
thur, Tex., Galveston, Texas City,
Tex., Gulfport, Miss.-, •'Mobile, Nor
folk, Savannah, Charleston and Jack
sonville.
Lewis Banking Co.
Starts Liquidation
MONTEZUMA, Jan. 31. All de
positors in the Lewis Banking com
pany, which was closed after a'
meeting of the directors, -are asked
in a notice just published to present
their pass book's to W. D. Lloyd, ex
aminer in charge, to be balanced and
compared with the bank’s records.
All claimants are also called upon
to present their claims, properly at
tested, within 90 days. The notice
is signed by T. R. Bennett, state sit
p rintendent of banks.
The decision to liquidate came aft
er a conference between the direc
tors and state bank- examiner, and
will be received with much interest.
FEDERAL TROOPS
AT WILLIAMSON
| MAINTAIN ORDER
j Rifle Firing In Mountains
Cause Os Anxiety
During Trial
WILLIAMSON, Wa. Va„ Jan 31.
—Federal forces and a heavy force
of deputy sheriffs wore hurried into
the mountains surrounding William
son early today at the sound of rifle
firing.
A careful search failed to reveal
the presence of the riflemen, and in
tense excitement prevailed far a
time, but the presence of Colonel
Hall and a company of federal troops
served to calm the fears of those who
professed to believe an attempt
would be made to rescue the twenty
one. men new on trial here for the
Maiteawan shooting.
The excitement irad died down
when Judge Bailey opened the fourth
•lay of the trial, with 200 additional
veniremen ready for examination.
Eighteen tentative jurymen were in
the box at noon, two others' having
Lien excused on pleas of relationship
t> r cr, interest :-d in the trial of the
car<.
INDEMNITY SUM
JS CALLED FOLLY
Manchester Guardian Is
Thankful ‘Never Can
Be Executed’
LONDON, Jan. 31. Allied rep
aration terms decided upon by the
Supreme council in Paris last week
described “as folly” by the Manchest
er Guardian today. The paper said
“We may be thankful ihat the thers
never dan be executed.” in the
opinion of this paper Germany will be
able to pay the indemities asked only
by exported “goods. If she ex
ported every year an additional
300,000,000 pounds worth of goods
to France, England and Belgium, the
I outcry raised by competing manufac
turers of those countries would he
heart-rending. j
“It is already audible.”
Exchange Rates Tie
Up Much Merchandise
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 31.—Ad
vancing exchange rates and decreas
ing prices during the past few months
have resulted in a dispute over the
payment of between $40,000,000 and
$45,000,000 for American mer
chandise, which is now either tied up
in the Argentine customs house, or
on its way to this port, according to
a statement by Poaratoon Varela, a
prominent Argentine lawyer, in an
address last night at the United
States Chamber of Commerce ban
quet. He declared that the only So
lution of the problem is to be found
in private agreements.
Fort In Recorder’s Court
‘Cider Drunks’ Before
Cleve Harvey, negro arrested Sat
urday by Chief Bragg, was fined $5
or five days in recorder’s court this
morning on a charge of being drunk.
Cleve declared that he wasn’t drunk,
“•JC3 had a swimming in the haid,
yer honor.” ,
“Drunkenness.usually causes that,”
said the Recorder.
“Five dollars or five days.”
Three negroes were summoned for j
being drunk. They stated they on
ly drank a little cider purchased on
Cotton avenue.
Eagle And Phoenix
Mills Resume Operation j
COLUMBUS, .Tali. 31.—Two of the j
largest cotton mills in this cetion, j
the Eagle ami Phoenix and the Swift j
Manufacturing Company, resumed J.
operation on full time today, after j
running on half time for the past |
tvm months. An announcement said
there would be no wage reductions:
at present, but that all bonuses are
to be discontinued.
Wilson To Act On
Closing Hour Bills
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Presi
dent Wilson is represented today as
having decided to go to the executive
room at the capitol building on the
morning of March 4 to sign bills
passed in the closing hours during
tihs session, and whiph could not be- !
came l a ws unless approved before
the adjournment of this congress.
CAREFUL ItODY
BEING GIVEN TO ■
B. S. 01LNGTE
Mexican Officials Re
lieve Demands Will
Re Abandoned
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 31. A
careful study is being given the lat
est states’ government note regard
ing. oil properties in Mexico, and the
Mexican government will probably
answer it during the present week.
Washington demanded, according to
Excelsior, a revision of permits to
drill oil wells which was granted by
Former Secretary of Industry Com
merce Trevino, and was included with
the note, to list oil companies whoso
interests will be seriously affected
if the permits are allowed to stand.
It is the opinion among government
officials in the United States not
lo insist on its demands, but will
await development of President Ob
regon’s petroleum policy. *
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 31. Wil
liam G. MeAdoo is not coming to
Mexico on a mission of political
character, a high official of the for
eign relations department said last
night.
He said further that MeAdoo as
a representative of an American
stockholder in the National Railway
company, he would take part in the
negotiations with the Mexican gov
ernment regarding the return of the
National lines to their owners.
$129,000 HAI
: BY BANK BANDITS
j Banks Held Up At Reed
ville, Va., and Detroit-
During Day
Jan. 31. The
Commonwealth National Bank at
ReidsUille, Va., a village 100 hundred
miles from here, was robbed of cash
and securities totalling $119,000, and
then set on fire, according to reports
received here today by Washington
police.
SIO,OOO BOOTY TAKEN
AT DETROIT.
DETROIT, Jan. 31. Three de
tectives were shot and seriously
wounded by three bandits who this
morning held up and robbed the
Morton Bond company’s offices in a
public square down town. At the
hospital it was said that two of tho
detectives may probably die. The
bandits escaped with SIO,OOO in Lib
erty bonds, according to police re :
ports.
$15,000 JEWEL ROBBERY
AT JACKSONVILLE.
JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 3L—Dia
monds valued at $15,000' were tak -
en from a ring on the finger of Mrs.!
Helen Beals, a wealthy woman of
Mount Vernon, N. Y., as she slept
here last night, according to a re
port to the police here today.
WOMAN KILLED;
1 SSOO JEWELRY GONE.
CLEVELAND, Miss., Jan., 31.
Miss Gretchen Brandt.,37 years nr
age, was found beaten and stabbed
to death in her rpom at the home of
•her brother-in-law, Dr. Lester Sie
j men, with whelm she lived, today.
| Her head was crushed by blows
J fro nia bunt instrument and there
! were numerous knife wounds on the
j body. Robbery, was evidently the
.motive, as SSOO worth of jewelry is
j missing.
Two Sunday Runs
For Fire Departm j
The fire department was called to
the home of Dr. E. L. Thurman Sun
day in answer to a call there. They
found the' house filled, with smoke
oaused from, a defect, in the chimney,
causing the. occupants to think there
was a fire. No. damage wa3 dofle.
A second call carried the department
to the home of' A. ,f. Easor.i on E..
Lamar street where there was a Small
blaze, caused,by the flue burning our, .
The damage was small.
1 ''A -
i n \v\?v®^Hv
PRICF. I-iVF CENTS
ROADS PROPOSE
ABROGATION OF I
AGREEMENTS
Solvency of Roads De
pends On Reducing
Expenses Is Stated
CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—The immed
iate abrogation of existing national
agreenu 'its between the railroads
and their employes, was proposed lo
the Railroad Labor board today by
W. W. Atterbury, chairman of the
labor committee of the Associatiou
cf Railway Executives, and vice pres
ident of the Pennsylvania railroad.
The solvency of the railroads of tho
country must be assured by a reduc
tion in operating expenses, Atterbury
declared, and unices prompt action
affords relief to the roads, many of
the lines may be forced into solvency. - ,
“The Labor Beard,” Atterbury as- JS
serted, “can prevent this catastrophe
by declaring that all national agree
i ment: on rules and working cotidi* |
t ons coming over from the war pe
riod arc terminated at once, and that
the question of reasonable and eco
nomical i tiles and workhig conditions
shall be reminded to uo negotiated
between each carrier and its own cm
! plover and that. n<* a basis for such j
negotiationa the agreements on rules
and working conditions in effect tn
each railroad as of December 31,
1817, shall be re-established.
Refer. :ng to wage reductions, At
teibury raid that “if this board will
do,this, the labor committee of tho
Association of Railway Executives
j will urge upon every railroad com- .-i
j patty which is a party to Decision No. y
j 2, that no proposal for a reduction
i m wages shall be made within the
| next succeeding ninety days. This
will afford an opportunity to test out
what wage economies may be accom- ji
plished through more efficient rules
and working conditions.”
WILSON IPSES
JO PARDON DEBS
j " ;
j Recommendation Os De-.'
parhndnfc Os Justice
Flatly Denied
WASHINGTON, Jan 31.—Presi
dent Wilson today refuted to com
mute the 10-year sentence imposed
the espionage act. Debs is now con
tho espionage o ct. Debs is now con- .:
fined in the federal penitentiary at
Atlanta.
Commutation of the sentence of
Debs, effective February 12. was rec
ommended to the president by the
Department of Justicce several flays
ago, it war stated at the Whit° House
but no announcement of the iecoi%
mendalion was made until a'fter he
had refused Debs’ pardon.
Hotel Derith List
Nov/ Totals 30 ■
HOBOKEN, Jan. 31.—The death"
list resulting from a fire which de
stroyed the Hotel Colonial here to- i
day totalled thirty, with 7 women .
and 0 nyn dead, and two others in
a serious condition. The bodies
es five of the fire victims were un
identified at noon.
*IOO Answer Ad For
Five In Indianapolis
INDANAPOLIS, Jan, 31. A
crowd estimated at 300 men, at 8
o’clock this morning jammed the eq
trances of a local five and ten-ccnt
store in answer to a newspaper ad , I
verti cr.unt for five persons. ■
CHISHOLM PREACHES HERE i |
Dr. J. J. Chisholm, deposed pastor
of Big Bethel Baptist church, Wfl:
in Amerieus yesterday and deliver- : -J
ed two scii.t’.ons, at 'he .Union Bap. - -
ti t church. Dr. Chisholm is one J
of the best known negro priebchers , '
in both Alabama or Georgia. lie Will
preach here on the fourth Sunday -j
id »a eh month. He is -now pastor £
cf Bi • Bethel church at Ooelika
Ab - _ ■ ,
The city of Denver hir made pro- -f
virion for the construction of an
auto-bandit. chasm*. a powerful dr-.
mured tar with racing ability.
WEATHER?’
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
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4am . :.. .48 4pm .(13 .
C ar.r *46 -6 pm ..... .fiff
5 am .45 8 -pm ..57
10 am SO 10 pm’ 56
Noon , 54 Midnight .-. .08
2 pm ..68 2 am ......... ...52
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