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ASSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. 28
Dawes Lambasts War Probers To Faces
BIG SHIP STILL
I BASIS OF NAVY,
BOARD REPLIES
No Thought Os World
Competitive Building
Daniels Is Told
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. The
major ship remains the basis of sea
power and those who argue that the
airplane and submarine have supple
mented it are asking the country to
“accept hopes for accomplishments,”
the navy general board says in a
report to Secretary Daniels made
pubilc today.
“The general board having kept
in touch with naval progress along
all lines,” says the report, “reiterates
its belief in battleships forming the
principal units of the fleet. Without
them the United States cannot hope
to compete with existing navies.”
Urging that the equality in power
be the continuing naval policy of the
United States, the board says there
is “no thought of instituting inter
national competitive building and
that no other nation can in reason
ta! e exception to such a position.”
ht cannot justly be construed as
1 a challenge,” the report continues.
’ “A policy of equal or substantiality
equal armaments may well tend to di
minish their growth and lessen the
danger of sudden war.*’
Asserting that the giuding policy
that had shaped the general board’s
construction recommendations since
1903 was that of eventually creating
a navy equal to the strongest in the
world, the board urged that “no rest
period or limitation of agreement”
be agreed to by the United States
that would modify the great naval
building program of 1916 now under
construction “in numbers, general
types, or dates of completion.”
The cessation of naval building
Great Britain was/attributed by
Wne general board to the great pre
a ponderance in her navy of all types
of ships and to th epresent economic
situation in that empire. The sus
pension of work on the United States
naval program for six months to al
low experts to determine, in the light
of the lessons of the war, what types
of ships and to the present economic
ed in the pending Boiah resolution,
“is neither necessary nor advisable,”
the board asserte.
Deese Back To Sumter
County After 20 Years
J. A. Deese, who for the past 20
years has been a resident of Ter
rell county, where he has been en
gaged in extensive farming opera
tions, has arrived in America® to
operate the farm recently owned by
George M. Owen.
Mr. Deese was a former resident
of Sumter county, where he was
reared, and he talks enthusiasticaaly
of the glowing prospects of his Sum
ter county farm the coming crop
year. He has already outlined his
plans, assigned what acreage he in
tends to devote to cotton, and says
that everything to be eaten will be
L raised at home, thereby killing all
t talk of hard times.
American Fleet
Returns Compliments
LIMA, Peru, Feb. 3.—This city
I and Callao, six miles westward, shar-
R ea today in the program of enter-
K tainment arranged for the officers
I and crews of the warships making up
■ the United States Atlantic fleet.
■ The feature of the day’s activities
I was a reception given by Admiral
■ Wilson aboard the flagship Pennsyl-
■ vania, as a return of courtesies shown
|, the higher officers of the fleet at
I the presidential banquet Tuesday
■ night. During the afternoon, the
■ Peruvian and United States sailors
K were to compete in sporting events.
| Jap Opposition Party
Over Armament
s| TOKIO, Feb. 3. Proposals that
■ Japan agree with other world pow-
■ er s to restrict armaments, which re-
Hcentiy were submitted to Kensei
■Kai, or the opposition party, by
■Ozaki, a prominent member of the
■organization, have been referred to
Ka special committee, it is declared
Kby newspapers here.
■ The proposals have threatened to
■split the party, as many members
■agree with Ozaki’s theory, but assert
■>t is practicable for Japan to curtail
■per military and naval program.
■E Os the 25,662 farms in the state
Bbf Utah, soven-eighths are operated
Spy owners.
NOTED WRITER
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WHO VISITS U. S.
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WARFARESIWr
RULE IN IRELAND
Lorry Is Blown Up By
Mine In Road; Others
Bombed
DUBLIN, Feb. 3. Four men are
dead as the result of the ambushing
of a squad of auxiliary police at
Ballinalee near here, yesterday, two
of the wounded having died during
the night.
Details of the attack have not
ben received, but it known one of
the motor lorries was blown up by
a mine set in the road, it being said
that this was the first time such
method of attack had been used
against the crown forces in Ireland.
Three lorries loaded with police
were attacked here last night and
several boJabs thrown at them. Offi
vers returned the fire, two civilians
being wounded.
A constsable in plain clothes who
was cycling along Trinity street was
shot dead during the evening.
Harding Due Back At
St. Augustine Today
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb.
3.—Delayed by channel obstructions,
President-elect Harding’s houseboat,
Victoria, pushed her way northward
in the Indian river today on the sec
ond leg of the cruise back to St.
Augustine. It was expected to reach
St. Augustine this aftrenoon, where
the president-elect will play a game
of golf.
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Job Hunters Os West
Demand 44-Hr Week
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3. Employing
commercial and job printers of the
Middle West met here today to dis
cuss methods of combatting the de
mand of union printers for a 44 in
stead of 48 hour working week. The
printers have threatened to strike
May 1 unless the demand is met, the
employers explained.
New Orleans Negroes
Total Near 100,000
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. The !
negro population of New Orleans is
100,918 an increase of 13.1 per cent,
the census bureau announced today.
That of Newark, N. J., is 17,010, an
increase of 79.5 per cent.
FALLS 16 STORIES
YESTERDAY; BACK
ON THE 108 TODAY
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. Nathan
Cohen, a structural iron worker
who plunged from the top of a
new sixteen-story building in
Broadway yesterday, reported for
work today.
His fall through space was brok
en by a heavy canvas debris re
ceptacle stretched from the fifth
tier.
His little finger was sprained.
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THE TIMES&RECORDER
Rfljj PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
GIBBS BRINGS
NEW MESSAGE
FROM EUROPE
Masses Demand Security
Os Common People,
He Says
Sir Philip Gibbs, famous war
correspondent, student of interna
tional affairs, and editor of the
English Review of Reviews, bos
arrived in New York. Gibbs comes
to America after a tour of Europe
during which he made a close study
of the reconstruction problems
and feelings of its various nations.
He will tell Americans about these
cn a lectur l tour. The London
correspondent of the Newspaper
Enterprise Association, Milton
Bronner, inteview.’d Gibbs just
before he sailed. This interview
anticipates what Gibbs will tell
Americans when he meets them
face to face.
By MILTON BRONNER.
LONDON, Feb.';!. “The se
curity of .the somm.-n people, the
plain people.”
“A closer felowship among all the
civilized nations.”
“A resistance in the old men who
largely made the war, made the
peace and still wish to govern the
world.”
“The utter and complete destruc
tion of militarism.”
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These are the things that Sir
Philip Gibbs says are, in his opinion,
the overmastering d’Mire of most of
the common folks of Europe.
Gibbs was one of the most dis
tinguished of British war corres
pondents. His booK, “The Realities
of War,” is the most passionate pro
test against militarist cliques and
the most truthful picture of the hor
rors of battlefields and trenches
that has been written.
It rings from the heart of an
Englishman who saw the stricken
fields of France and Flanders.
Since ths war Gibbs has been
spending a great deal of time travel
ing in Europe and studying the na
tions to see how they were react
ing after the armistice. He has re
cently been appointed editor of the
British magazine “Review of Re
views.”
“Europe today,” said he, “is stag
gering under an avalanche of debts,
which it is doubtful it can ever pay.
Ranks Os Young Depleted.
“The people are confronted by
endless and burdensome taxation.
“The ranks of the young, and the
strong, who would ordinarily be the
producers, have been terribly de
pleted by the war. Hence, under
production.
“Things seem black to the ordinary
man, whether he be a citizen of the
victor or the vanquished nations. It is
only the profiteers and the inheritors
of great fortunes whom one sees
callously spending great sums of
money in the big cities of Europe.
“Right around the corner from
where these people are guzzling and
gobbling, one goes into mean streets
of little houses where hunger stalks
“This condition is bad enough but
people see little reward for the
enormous sacrifices they made dur
ing the war. There is no assurance
of safety from future menace. There
is no release from the burden of
armaments. There is even apparent
a swing to the , reactionary out of
fear of the Bolshevik.”
Reminded that the first editor of
the Review of Reviews was W. T.
Stead, who was a passionate pacifist,
Gibbs was asked with what expec
tation he had taken up the editorial
pen.
“I am not a pacifist,” said he. “But
I shall fight with all the strength of
my being against the enormous and
criminal stupidity of modern war.
Lose Though Winning.
“Look at it! You lose when you
win!
“France won, but her fair fields
are ravaged, her coal mines destroy
ed, her factories looted, her debts
enormous, her taxes increasing, her
manhood sadly depleted.
“It is so more or less with all the
victor nations. It is so more or less
with the vanquished nations.
“It is a mistake to say that wars
are made entirely by a few old men.
(Continued on Page Eight.)
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 3, 1921
KAYLOR, CONVICT
MISSING 5 YEARS,
GIVES SELF UP
Surrenders To Finish
Serving 4-Year Sen
tence On Gang
Nearly five years ago, Ivah Kaylor,
a white man, whose home was near
DeSoto, made his third escape from
the Sumter county chain gang, where
he was serving a sentence of 4 years
for manslaughter for killing a negro.
Nothing was heard of him thereafter
until Wednesday. Today he is back
on the chaingang to complete his sen
tence.
Kaylor came home, he said, to give
himself up, so that he might complete
his sentence and return to his family,
which has continued to live with Mrs.
Berry W’illiams, mother of Mrs. Kay
lor, near DeSoto, during the fugi
tive’s absence, and he surrendered
himself voluntarily to County Engi
neer John B. Ansley, who is also
county convict warden. He would
not have had the opportunity of sur
rendering, however, had he waited a
bit longer before starting for town.
It was Tuesday evening that Kay
lor alighted from a train at DeSoto
and started to walk into the country
to the Williams home, where he wife
and several children were living. He
was changed in appearance, but was
recognized, unknown to him, by a
man who knew that he was an escap
ed convict. Kaylor was permitted to
spend the night with his family, but
early Wednesday morning the
sheriff’s office was notified and Sheriff
Harvey and Deputies Summers and
Cox later went to the Williams home
to the Williams home, where his wife
1 however, they found that Kaylor had
started for Americus, and by the time
they returned to the courth©use he
had already surrendered to Mr.
Ansley.
Kaylor did not say where he had
been during his five years of absence,
but indicated he wanted to get the
sentence served and have his freedom
again. He had to identify himself to
Mr. Ansley in surrendering, that of
ficial not having had any connection
with prisoners at the time of his es
cape.
Kaylor was originally sentenced on
December 11, 1914, in Sumter Su
perior court, for killing an old negro
named Harris near DeSoto. He serv
ed a total of a year and eight months,
escaping and being captured twice.
His third and last escape took place
in April, 1916.
Had Kaylor not attempted to es
cape, and he have been a good pris
oner, his term would have been com
pleted by the middle of 1918, or two
and a half years ago.
DISARMAMENT
CALL ADVANCED
Feb. 3. The
resolution authorizing the president
to invite the nations cf the world to
a conference to provide for world
disarmament was favorably reported
today by the house foreign affairs
committee.
Under the resolution the proposed
conference would be held in Wash
ington, but the calling of it would
be left to the discretion of the presi
dent.
This is the first definite action tak
en by any congressional committee
looking to a conference for general
disarmament.
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Unemployed Danes
March On Palace
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 3. (By
Associated Press.) —A procession of
unemployed, estimated to number
48,000 left City Hall square this aft
ernoon, marching toward the parlia
ment building and the king’s palace
demanding work.
GASOLINE 1-2 C WHOLESALE
NEW 3. The
Standard Oil of New Jersey
today announced an additional reduc
tion of ene cent a gallon in the price
of gasoline in New Jersey, making
the wholesale price 26 1-2 cents.
TALKS FROM SHOULDER ON WAR PROBE
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Pessimist Worse Than Huns
Asserts Methodist Bishop
MEMPHIS, Feb. 3.—A “pessimist is worse than a Hun,” Bishop
James Atkins, of Nashville, told the members of the Educa
tional Commission of the Southern Methodist church attending the
conference here to map out plans for a drive for $33,000,000 to
promote educational work.
“Hard times is the cry of a coward," he also declared.
A meeting of the College of Bishops will be held tomorrow.
SHINE SLAYERS
ARE SENTENCED
One Gets Life, Another
20 Years, Third’s
Case To Jury
TUSCUMBIA, Ala., Feb. 3.—The
case of Jake Smith, alleged member
of the Colbert county moonshiners’
ring, who was placed on trial yester
day charged with murder in connec
tion with the slaying of Dan Steph
enson. pohibition officer, will go to
the jury by noon today, the state’s
attorney predicted.
Hampton Kirby has been convicted
and given a life sentence, and Sid
ney Kirby, his father, convicted and
sentenced to twenty years.
Schwab Passenger
On Liner For Europe
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. Charles
M. Schwab, head of the Bethlehem
Steel corporation, was listed as a pas
senger aboard the steamship Aqui
tania leaving here today for South
Hampton. At Scarab’s office it was
said he would visit England, France
and Italy, but that his trip had no
business significance.
Boy Loses Eye From
Cartridge In Fire
BRONWOOD, Feb. 3.—Fred
Brookshire, a pupil in the second
grade, Friday noon, picked up a piece
of gun cartridge adn put it in the fire
on the school ground, where some
trash was burning; the cap blew out,
striking him in the eye, which result
ed in his having to undergo an oper
ation in which the eye ball was re
moved. The operation was perform
ed by Drs. Gardner and Bowman.
Week of May 29 Set
For Methodist Effort
MEMPHIS, Feb. 3A The wee* of
May 29 was set today for the cam
paign of the Southern Methodist
church for $33,000,000 for unbuild
ing educational institutions.
$30,000 BANK
ROBBERYINFLA.
Largo Visited By Bandits
Who Cut Wires And
Escape
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Feb. 3.
—Thirty thousand dollars was taken
from the State bank at Largo, sixteen
miles north of here, this morning and
several hundred dollars from the At
lantic Coast Line railway station, by
bandits who escaped in an auto. The
robbers cut the telephone and tele
graph wires leading into the town.
Turks Ordered To Free
Captured Frenchmen
PARIS, Feb. 3.—Admiral Dumes
nil, commanding the French naval
forces in the Near East, has sent an
ultimatum to the Turkish Nationalist
government at Angora, demanding
the immediate release of French sold
iers captured in recent engagements,
says a Constantinople dispatch to the
Lamin. He has threatened to bom
bard localities occupied by the Na
tionalist forces if the demands are
not met.
Alabama's Road Bond
Amendment Is Upset
MONTOMERY, Ala., Feb. 3. — 1
The Supreme court today declared
unconstitutional the measure which i
was submitted to the voters of the!
state last February, it Being an 1
amendment to the constitution per
mitting the issuance ot $25,000,000
of good road bonds.
England May Be Given
Mesopotamia Mandate
LONDON, Feb. 3 Great Brit
ain's mandate for Mesopotamia will
be submitted to the council of the
League of Nations at the meeting at
Geneva this month, newspapers state.
MAR K E T S .
AMER'CUS COTTON SEED.
Wagon Seed, unchanged $26 ton.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling 13 l-4c.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Pc Open 11am Ipm Close
Mh. 13.54 13.50 13.53 13.73 13.78
May 14.17 13.89 13 90 14.13 13.52
July 14.50 14.20 14.22 14.38 13.95
Oct. 14.82 14.60 14.55 14.58 14.22
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RESENTS EFFORT
TO REFLECT ON
ENTIRE ARMY
Tells Committee It Could
Better Try To Save
Disgraceful Waste
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. Turn
ing sharply upon the house war in
vestigating committee as a whole,
Charles G. Dawes, former head of
the’ army supply procurement serv
ice in France, told one of them to
day that the value of their work
had been rendered useless through
the injection of Partisan politics.
“I bitterly resent this effort to
reflect upon the entire army because
some poor devil blundered in Switz
erland,” he said.
“You cannot put a blotch on the
army. What the hell d'd we go in
for? To steal money? It was not
a Republican or Democratic war; it
was an American war, and yet, as a
rule these commitees try to bring
in partisan politics. You could use
your time investigating to better ad
vantage right here trying to save the
disgraceful government wasie; you
could save more money for the peo
ple. But as to France, you haven't
got the evidence to make a case if
one existed and I don’t believe it
does.’’
I “The people are tired of war talk
j and fault-finding. There’s no news
in it. If I wasn’t heue strutting
around and swearing, there would be
no news in this.”
He then took up attempts to criti
cize Gen. Pershing and said:
“It will be 25 or 50 years before
I Pershing’s place in history is fixed.
’ He couldn’t have won the war had he
I sought popularity above duty.”
Dawes said the army again is “de
teriorating into a bureaucracy, which
is bound to prove inefficient,” and
shouted, “you members of congress
who listen to every whipper-snapping
bureau chief who comes running to
you with a tale of woe are largely re
sponsible.”
HOME BREWERS
SAFE AT PRESENT
Not To Be Sought Now,
Says Anti-Saloon
Leader
GREENSBORO, N. C., Feb. 3.
Congress will not be asked to amend
the Volstead act in order U make the
purchaser of “bootleg” whisky, as
well as the vendor amenable to the
law, Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun
sel for the Anti-Saloon League of
America, today told the North Caro
lina Anti-Saloon League Law En
forcement conference here, and home
brewers who make intoxicating bev
erages for their own consumption,
while technically violating the law,
will not be sought for the present,
under tightening-up activities of en
forcement officials.
New Plan Favored
For Packers’ Control
WASHINTON, Feb. 3. Favor
able report was ordered today by
the house agriculture committee on
the substitute plan for the senate
bill for Federal regulation of the
meat industry. Under the substitute
control of the packers would be vest
ed in the Department of Agriculture
and the stock yards would be placed
under the Inters'ate Commerce Com
mission Committee. It was voted
to ask a special rule to expedite
legislation in the house.
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia Fair to
night; warmer in west portion Fri
day; increasing cloudiness and warm
er, probably followed by fair m
west portion.
SPINSTER WILLS
HOME FOR AGED
MAIDEN LADIES
RAI.EIGH.~7c., Feb. 3.
If the city or some benevolent
person prov'des. for its mainten
ance, Raleigh will have a home
for destitute aged maiden ladies,
house and fittings having been be
queathed to that city for that pur
pose by Miss, Emma Green, whose
will was probated here, Jf the
city fails to provide for its upkeep,
the property is to be turned over
to the Methodist orphanage..