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ASSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FROTY THIRD YEAR.—NO 31.
‘COUNTRY NOW ON SOUNDEST BASIS IN YEARS’
* HELD AS SLAYER
OF COLUMBUS
POLICE OFFICER
Negro Caught Here At
Home Os His
, Sister
Cleveland Edwards, a negro about
25 years of age, is being held in the
Sumter cour.ty jail on a charge of
suspicion of being the slayer of Ogi
cer W. G. Pate, young Columbus
plain clothes policeman, Saturday
night. He was arrested at the home
of his sister here Sunday night about
10 o’clock by Sheriff Harvey and
Police Lieut. Lee on orders from the
Columbus police department. Offi
' cers are understood to be on their
way here to take him back to Col
umbus.
The negro’s sister is Mamie Ross,
who lives at the corner of Jackson
street and Factory Row. The negro
was in bed when the officers arrived.
The front door was locked, but the
back door, near which he was lying,
was unlocked, it was said, presuma
bly so that he could easily escape.
The officer were upon him, however,
before he knew it, and no effort to
flee or to resist was made.
Edwards reached Americus on the
Seminole Sunday midnight from Col
umbus, he said. Columbus officers
reported that he had boarded that
train there. He said he had heard of
the killing of the policeman, but
vowed he knew nothing whatever of
it himself.
SLAYER UNSEEN; OFFICER
DIES IN HIS TRACKS.
2.LUMBUS, I-'eb. 7.—Officer W.
G. x -te, 27, operating in plain clothes,
was shot and instantly killed by an
ijK unknown assailant last night shortly
before 8 o’clock between Nineteenth
and Twentieth streets on Thirteenth
avenue.
Officer Pate was standing at the
west side of the alley running
through toward Springer’s woods be
tweenth Nineteenth and Twentieth
streets. He was shot by an unidenti
fied person standing on the east side
of Thirteenth avenue.
Shortly after Officer Pate was
shot, a bicycle was taken from a
small boy named Fulford, said tc
have been delivering packages for
the East Highlands Drug company.
The officer was shot just above the
heart. He died in his tracks without
regaining consciousness, except a
gasp or two.
Office) Lite was appoint -d to the
police force July 13, 1920. He was
one of the most conscientious and ef
ficient officers on the force. For the
past several weeks he had been de
railed on special duty and had been
operating in plain clothes, during
which time he arrested several alleg
ed burglars and made a number of
arrests.
Prior to his connection with the po
lice department he was a member of
No. 1 fire company. He also served
in the army during the war.
The officer fired two shots, accord
ing to persons who saw the flames
from the revolvers. His assailant is
aid to have fired thrice.
A reward of S2OO was offered by
Mayor J. L. Couch for any informa
tion leading to the arrest of the per
son. who killed the officer.
Turk Nationalists To
Join In Conference
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 7.
Indication that Murtapha Kemal
Pasha and other Turkish Nationalist
leaders had reconsidered their re
fusal not to participate in the Near
East conference in London, is given
in a dispatch received yesterday from
Angora? It was said the Turkish
Nationalist delegates will leave An
gora today for London.
>EGGED LABORITE
OF MISS. IS GIVEN
VERDICT FOR $10,750
SUMERALL, Miss, Feb. 7.
A verdict of $10,750 today was
awarded Charles H. Francke, for
mer vice-president of the Missis
sippi Federation of Labor, Because
he was showered with rotten eggs
and brickbats here last August.
The verdict is against three
spuerintendents of the J. J. New
man Lumber company. ,
Eidence in the trial showed
Francke was trying to form a la
bor union among the negro mill
operatives. The jury held the
company blameless.
THE TIMES'JRECORDER
IN THE HEART OF
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ANNIE ABBOTT. THE “MA GNET,” DEFYING LIFTERS.
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—She weighs |
only 115 pounds, but five men,
weighing anywhere from 150 to 200
pounds, could not budge her from j
the floor.
Her name is Miss Annie Abbott. I
She came from Strathem, Georgia,'
and is famous the world over as
“The Georgia Magnet.”
How does she overcome natural I
laws? A dozen different theories!
have been advanced by medical;
men, physicists, philosophers and i
believers in the occult, ranging all I
the way from jiu-jitsu to something
approaching witchcraft. Miss Abbott'
says she doesn’t know.
One other person in the world re-I
cently has become famous for per-I
forming a similar feat, and that is;
Johnny Coulon, the American ban!
tamweight boxer who has oeen un-j
dergoing scientific investigation of!
his lift-resistance powers in Paris. I
“The difference between my work;
and Mr. Coulon’s,” said Miss Abbott,!
“is that I do not touch the person!
or persons trying to move me, while ■
Mr. Coulon does.”
The secret of such contacts would !
seem, Miss Abbott explains, to be,
for the purpose of throwing the per-1
son trying to do the lifting off his |
balance.
REPLACEMENT OF
WHITE FORESEEN
Call For Democratic Re-
Organization Stirs
Capital
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The re
quest made by 49 members of the
Democratic National committee that
Chairman White call a meeting for
March 1 of the entire committee
membership to re-organize the par
ty’s machinery, was the chief topic
of discussion in Washington political
circles today. One portion of the re
quest of the 49 was the statement
that they wished Chairman White
“many years of happiness and added
usefulness upon his retirement which
he announced shortly after Novem
ber 2 his private interests would
make it necessary for him to seek.”
Texas Lawyer Is Given
Tar And Feather Cpat
HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 7.—The po
lice said today they had little hope
of capturing the five men who Sat
urday night took B. L. Hobbs, a
lawyer, from his home and gave his
body a coating of tar and feathers.
Hobbs, who told the officers he
could not identify the men, is re
ported to be at Alvin, Texas, today.
He said the men warned him to leave
Houston in three days.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 7, 1921.
“The man does not live.” Miss Ab
bott asserted, “who can lift me,
move or even sway me off my feet
when I focus my mind against it.”
This strange power has been hers
since childhood.
“I didn’t understand it when it
came to me, or rather when I dis
covered it,” Miss Abbott said. “I was
only eight years old.
“My stepmother had a son,
Charley, about my age, and we used
to squabble as children will.
“My own mother taught me to
read the Bible, and the story of
Lot’s wife, who was turned into a
pillar of salt, made a deep impres
sion on me.
“It seemed to me if I could turn
Charley into a pillar of salt I would
be avenged. Sol used to point my
finger at him and scream: ‘Charley,
I am going to turn you into a pillar
of salt!’ ,
“And finally I got to thinking if
I willed it I could turn myself into
a pillar of salt. I used to tell my
old black mammy that I was a pil
lar of salt and she could not lift me.
Sure enough, she couldn’t.
“Finally it came to me that I
possessed a certain power. It was un
natural, and it freightened me. I have
never known what the spiritual or
scientific explanation is.”
Mexico City Police
Hunt Bomb Hurlers
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 7. Police
and government weie engag
ed today in collecting evidence which
might lead to the arrest of the men
who bombed the residence of Arch
bishop of Mexico and the building oc
cupied by the Juergens company, in
this city yesterday morning.
Four mep are under arrest but it
is known several others are implicat
ed in the two crimes. ,
Radical activity has been increas
ing in Mexico City recently and
newspapers here say two communist
congresses will be held this month,
one in Mexico City and the other
in Tampico.
TO SAVE STARVING CHILDREN
OF EUROPE
I( 100 Cents of Every Dollar Donated is Used For This Purpose.)
I AGREE TO DONATE:
Cash $; Wheat, sacked, bushels ~ Corn,
sacked, bushels, ; Peas, sacked, bushels, ;
Peanuts, sacked, bushels, ; Potatoes, sacked, bush
els ; Syrup, gallons ; Hams ;
Shoulders....; Sides
Will deliver to J. E. Hightower in Americus, or to
School house on day of Feb.
1921.
(Sign Here.)
LYNCHING JURY
FAILSTOAGREE;
IS DISCHARGED
Second Guardsman To
Go On Trial Feb. 21
For Murder
HAMILTON, Ala., Feb. 7. A
mistrial was declared at 10 o’clock
this morning in the case of Sergeant
Robert L. Lancaster, national guards
man indicted in connection with the
lynching of William Baird, a miner,
near Jasper January 13. The jury had
been out 48 hours. The foreman
reported to the court that further
deliberations were useless, where
upon the jury was discharged.
Members of the jury said the final i
vote stood five for acquittal and five !
for second degree murder with life
imprisonment, one for a lesser sen
tence and one undecided.
No date for Lancaster’s second
trial was announced. The trial of
Sergeant Glenn Stephens was set for
February 21. ,
The nine defendants will remain
in jail here, it was stated.
utjPmws
FLASHES
WASHINGTON. Feb , 7.—The
Winslow bill, authorizing partial
payments to railroads ujider the
guaranty section of the transporta
tion act, failed of passage in the
house today.
! WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The sen
j ate bill creating a government cor
i poration to take over and operate
! the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals,
Ala., has “no earthly chance” of
getting through the house at this
session because of the press of other
matter, Chairman Campbell, of the
rules committee, predicted today.
The bill is now before the house
military committee.
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 7.—Robbers
early today attacked the Bank of
Sussex at Wakefield, Va., and after
blowing off the doors of the vault
escaped with Liberty bonds and war
saw’ngs stamps valued at $30,000,
b’i fined to onen the -as- in the
vault containing a larger sum in
cash.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The
house unanimously passed the bill
today authorizing the construction of
five hospitals for disabled war vet
erans at an estimated cost o' $12,-
500,000.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. A
resolution proposing congressional
investigation of the West Virginia
coal strike situtaion, including arm
ed violence in the mining camps, Was
introduced today by Senator John
son. It was referred to the senate
labor committee without discussion.
Harding’s House Boat
Far Behind Schedule
ORMOND, Fla., Feb. 7.—Already
far behind her schedule, President
elect Harding’s houseboat Victoria
was put on a leisurely schedule again
today and probably will not complete
her trip up to the coast to St. Augus
tine until noon tomorrow. The Vic
toria spent last night at anchor
20 miles from Ormond.
Gounaris Remains
In Greek Cabinet
LONDON, Feb. 7.—M. Gounaris,
whose break with Former Premier
Rhallis led to the Greek ministerial
crisis last week, remains as minister
of war in the new cabinet, which took
the oath of office yesteraay, says
an Athens dispatch.
Teeth of Little Children Fall
Out From Hunger-Made Disease
Osteomalacia, a disease dueentire-!
ly to malnutrition has broken out m
Vienna and the hospitals are full of
little children whose teeth are drop
ping out and for whom every move
ment is agony. Hundreds of cases
are being treated in the dispensary
at Mariahilf, according to Francis P.
O. Bridgeman, correspondent of the
London Daily Herald, and the dis
ease is not confined to children bjit
afflicts adults also.
“Cod Liver Oil is a partial cure
for this illness,” says Mr. Bridge
man, “but of course supplies of that
are limited and often it is not, avail
able. What the children really need
is nourishing food and with the in
flated price of food today in Austria
it is almost impossible for the chil
dren of the poorer classes to be prop
erly fed. The visit to the children’s
hospital at Meidlung was the most
pathetic sight I could imagine. To
see those tragic little dwarf figures
with bones all twisted and stunted
and their teeth decaying and drop
ping out is heart rending. One feels
in away personally responsible for
a great deal of this suffering] In
one ward I was shown a girl suf
fering from osteomalacia (morbid
bone suffering) which is a kind of
late rickets, and formerly unknown
in Austria. The suffering and
shortage of last winter produced lit
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U.S. FLEETS TO
MEET IN BATHE
Atlantic And Pacific
Squadrons Ready For
Sham Fray
ON BOARD THE BATTLESHIP
PENNSYLVANIA, Feb. 7. (By
Wireless to the Associated Press.)
War-time routing was being observ
ed today on board the battleships
and destroyers of the United States
Atlantic fleet. The warships, which
left Callao late Saturday, were
steaming southward along the Pe
ruvian coast to meet the United
States Pacific fleet which left Val
paraiso headed north. The two
squadrons expected to meet any time
in a sham battle, which would closely
approximate conditions encountered
in wartime on the high seas.
VESSELS IN
BATTLE FORMATION.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 7. Admiral
Rodman, commander-in-chief of the.
United States Pacific fleet, which
left Valparaiso Saturday, had his
vessels in battle formation today in
preparation for the sham engagement
with the United States Atlantic;
squadron. The fleets expected to
meet somewhere off the northern
coast of Chile.
Legion Exoected To
Accept K. of C. Offer
.... WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. The
national executive committee of the
American Legion, meeting here to
day in the first of a three days ses
sion, is expected to take final ac
tion on the offer of the Knights of
Columbus of a gift of $5,000,000 to
be used for the erection in Wash
ington of a war memorial building.
Acceptance of the offer already has;
been-recommended by a sub-commit
tee and it was expected the full
committee would follow the recom
mendation.
Mexicon Congress
In Special Session
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 7. The
members of the Mexican congress
met in extra session here today, ex
pecting to dispose of many items in
President Obregon’s reconstuction
program before adjourning.
Constable Killed Bv
Thrown Irish Bomb
BELFAST, Feb. 7.—One constable
was killed and two others wounded
by the explosion of a bomb thrown
at them while on duty at Warren
point, near Dunkalk last night.
M~A~RIKETS .
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling 13 l-4c.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Pc Open 11am Ipm Close
Meh ’3.75 13.95 1".75 13.40 13.34
Mav 14.14 14.20 14 11 13.80 13.”5
July 14.50 14.65 14.43 14 19 14.15
Oct. 14.80 14.95 11.75 14.45 14 23
PROUD OF IT.
American boys would refuse to
wear a girl’s muff—the “other fel
lahs” might call him “sissy.” But
Charles, an Austrian ward of the
American Red Cross in Vienna, is
proud of it. Clothes are scarce, in
Vienna.
DR. ELLIS HERE
FOR MEETINGS
.Overflowing Congrega
gations Hear Unique
Wisdom Sisters.
Dr. T.iD. Ellis, pastor of Mulberry
Street Methodist church, Maion, ar
rived in Americus Monday at noon
and preached a stirring senr.cn in
the auditorium of the First Metho
dist church in the afternoon to a
well filled house. Dr. Ellis will be
the guest of his brother, Col. George
R. Ellis, during his two weeks’ stay
in Americus.
Assisting Dr. Ellis in the revival
services are the Wisdom sisters, the
famous trio of singers, who have
toured the United States in the soul
winning campaign they instituted
several years ago. They will have
charge of the musical features of the
services, and under their direction a
large ■chorus choir will be inaugurat
ed at once. Members of the choirs
from other churches have been in
vited to participate in the song serv
ices, and it is urged that every one
who can sing will join this chorus
work. /
The methods of the WisSom sisters
are unique. The old-fashioned spir
itual hymns are sung without instru
ment, their voices supplementing the
musical tones of the instrument they
wish to represent. They sang Sun
day at both services, and overflow
ing congregations heard them. They
will sing at each service afternoon
and evening during the two weeks
continuance of the revival services.
This church is the first in the
South Georgia conference to secure
the services of the Wisdom sisters,
who came from Birmingham, Ala.
From here they will go to Macon to
assist Dr. Ellis in a revival which
will be held in Mulberry Street
church for two weeks. Later they
will go to Columbus to assist Dr. J.
A. Thomas in a revival in St. Luke’s
church.
A. A. A. Five Defeats
High School Team
The Amdricus Athletic Association
defeated the Americus High school
basketball five at the Y. M. C. A.
Saturday night in a fast and hard
fought game by a score of 36 to 12.
The High School was outplayed, but
did not give up, fighting until the last
whistle. The High ' School's star
forward, J. Wooten, is also a mem
ber of the Athletic Association team
and chose to play with the school
team.
The feature of the game was the
gameness of the High School lads,
they fighting every minute of the
game, though the association team
ran up enough points in the first
quartet to win the game if there
had been no scoring by them after
than.
The line-up for the game was: High
School—J. Wooten and Perkins, for
wards; R. Glover, center; Hammond
and Fetner, guards; subs, Dudley,
Johnson. Athletic Asso.—"Clarice
and D. Glover, forwards; P. Wooten,
center; Redd and Howe, guards;
Pearlman, sub.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
SITUATION UP
TO MIDDLEMAN,
SAYS WILLIAMS
Labor Must Make Decis
ion, Comptroller
Declares
WASHINGTON, Feb 7.—The
country is now in many respects on
a sounder basis economically than it
has been for years, Comptroller of
the Currency John Skelton Williams
informed congress today in what he
described as his "seventh and last
annual report.”
Deflation, obviously inevitable a
year ago, hns come, he said, and the
prices of many basic commodities
and raw materials have returned to
pre-war levels or below.
“It now remains for the middle
man,” he declared, "to adjust his
profits to the new prices before the
ultimate consumer will receive the
benefit of the reduced cost of liv
ing.”
Labor, Mr. Williams said, must
soon determine whether shutdown
and idleness is preferable to a lower
wage scale, which will take into con
sideration lower living charges. Mills
and factories cannot afford to oper
ate unless they can turn out com
modities at prices the public can af
ford to pay, he asserted, and said it
is better for manufacturers to oper
ate and produce goods at cost or
at a narrow margin of profit than to
close down entirely.
Participation by labor with capital
in profits he suggested as the only
principle to restore business.
Ptomaine Poisoning
Fatal To Baby Boy
' Hilton Carey Bell, aged 2 1-2
I years, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. H.
' Bell, of Brooklyn Heights, died at
! 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at
i their home at 1110 McGarrah street
' after an illness of a few hours from
I ptomaine poisoning.
The death of the little fellow was
■ unusually sad, he being seized with
! convulsions and suffering terrible
i agony in his last hours. The poison-
I ing is supposed to have resulted from
j some articles of food carelessly left
■ in an opened can about a grocery
store near the child’s home and
about which he frequently played.
The infected food was eaten Satur
day, but it was not until Sunday that
his condition became such as to
alarm his parents, and then medical
skill was helpless.
The child is survived by his pa
. rents and one small sister, Mildred,
I and a little brother, Elza. The fun
i oral, was held Monday morning at
;11 o clock from Concord church, near
Americus, conducted by Rev. G. R.
I Partin. Interment took place in
| Concord cemetery.
Central Baotist Pastor
Too 111 For Preaching
Rev. Henry T. Brookshire, pastor
of Central Baptist church, has been
ill for the past few days, ana was un
able to fill the pulpit at his church
Sunday morning or evening.
At the morning service A. C. Fell
man, a Christian Jewish speaker,
gave an interesting talk on the ways
and means of his conversion, and a
large congregation heard him with
attention.
The evening hour was spent in a
prayer and praise service led by W.
T. Lane, and spiritual songs were
rendered by the choir.
Mr. Brookshire is improving and
will be able to attend his pastoral
duties within the next several days.
Work-or-Jail Threat
Clears City Streets
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 7.
A “work or jail’ ’edict, which city
officials threatened a few days ago,
has served to reduce idleness and
begging here to a minimum, City
Manager L. C. Thom declared to
day. Unemployment has not reach
ed a stage where the city nas con
sidered it necessary to begin the sew
er and street improvement program
to give work to the idle.
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia Rain to
night and Tuesday; warmer tonight,
cooler Tuesday in northwest portion.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Store,)
4 pm 64 4 am ... 54
6 r»m 6? 6 am 52
8 pm ...59 . 8 am 53.
10 pm 57 10 am ...........60
Midnight sfr Noon 66
2 am- 55 2 pm 71