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PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FORTY-SECOND YEAR.—NO. 32-
ALABAMA RAIL
, BOARDAPPEALS
FOR AW A. RY.
Urges Federal Board To
Take Action To Let
It Live.
MONTGOMERY, Feb. B—The Fed
eral Railroad Labor board today
was requested in a telegram sent
by the Alabama Public Service com
mission to take such action as will
permit the Atlanta, Birmingham &
Atlantic road to continue its opera
tion.
It was stated in the message that
the road is being operated at a
“ruinous loss” at present.
Road Chief Lauded
Rural Paving Here
That the newly completed paving
project east of Americus on the Dixie
Highway is the most perfect example
of the penetration method of ma
cadam paving he had ever seen, was
the statement made here on his re :
cent visit by Capt P. St. J. Wilson,
of Washington, chief engineer of the
bureau of public roads, it developed
today. The account of the trip of
Capt. Wilson, State Highway Engi
neer* W. R. Neel and other highway
men over the Dixie Highway was pub
lished in this paper Sunday. Capt.
Wilson paid a high compliment to the
Sumter county forces and the dis
trict engineer’s office, both of whom
had to do with the construction of
this piece of highway.
Plains School Bonds
To Be Sold Feb. 18
Announcement is made that the
Plains consolidated school bonds re
cently voted and validated, and total
ing $50,000, will be sold in the office
of Shipp & Sheppard at 10 o’clock
a. m. on February 18. At least, seal-
* ed bils will be opened at that time,
9 and the best one accepted if it is con
sidered good enough. The bonds
bear 5 per cent interest, payable an
nually on January 1.
It is estimated that the value of
property in this district exceeds $2,-
• 000,000, while the population is
nearly 5,000.
Installs Great Magnet To
Remove Steel In Eye
An interesting piece of mechanics,
from the standpoint of the layman,
as well as the professional, is a pow
erful magnet recently installed by Dr.
L. F. Grubbs for the removai of
pieces of steel from the eye ball.
The magnet, which operates with
electricity, comes to a small point
which has a lifting power of 500
pounds. This point is placed as near
the eye containing the piece of steel I
as is desirable, and maneuvered so
that the metal is removed by the pull
with the slightest possible pain or in
jury to the eye.
So powerful is the magnet that the
operator and all persons coming near
it first remove their watches, it mag
netizing any steel coming close to it
and destroying a watch’s time-keep
ing properties.
Orders
Negro Released
Cleveland Edwards, the Columbus
negro arrested here Sunday night
on orders from that city as a sus
pect in connection with the murder
there Saturday night of Policeman
Pate, was released by Sheriff Har
vey Tuesday morning. Information
from Columbus was that it had been
'stablished he was not connected with
.he killing.
Two negroes were held there in
connection with the murder, it was
reported, but with no conclusive evi
dence against either of them.
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Bell Ringers Heard
In Pleasing Matinee
The Swiss Bell Ringers gave r
'jjfcleasing program at the matinee per-
in the High school audi
torium this afternoon to a capacity
house.
Tonight the program will com
mence promptly at 8 o’clock, when a
series of pleasing numbers will be
rendered.
Shipping Board Probe
Is Nearly Complete
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The
congressional investigation of the
Shipping Board activities probably
will be completed this week, Chair
man Walsh, of the special house
committee, announced today. The
committee must report its finding be
fore the adjournment of congress
March 3.
CHAMPION TELLS HOW TO GROW CORN
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DON’T KEEP THIS SECRET!
If you’re a farmer, you are ambitions to double your crops. If you
have a farmer friend, he is ambitious to multiply the yield from hi,
acres. Everett Reynolds, the corn king of Kentucky, has the secret.
“Knowledge.” And he tells where to get it. If you’re( a farmer, it
will mean dollars to you to read what Everett has to say; then pass it
along to your neighbor. If you have a farmer friend, clip and mail
this story to him; it will be the richest gift you could make him.
MT. VERNON, Ky., Feb. 7.
One hundred and twenty-five bushels
of corn an acre is the goal this year
of Everett Reynolds, the corn king
of Kentucky. ' ,
Everett is 16 and he won his title
of the champion corn grower of the
state last year by raising 105 1-2;
bushels of corn on an acre.
Farmers had thought 40 to 50
bushels an acre was the most that
could be produced.
“Knowledge”— with that one
word Everett explains his success.
He performed his record feat on I
an acre of land on Renfroe Creek,;
in Rock Castle county, which, all the;
old- timers said was poor farmings
land. ,
Gets Expert Advice.
“I consulted the county agricul
tural agent,” he says, “and learned
from him something about the sci
ence of corn in raising. Then I went
ahead.
“The federal and state agricultural
departments have made some won
derful discoveries. If the farmers
would study them, they would be
I able to double or triple their crops.
“Most farmers work hard, but get
partial success. That’s because
they haven’t learned the new meth
ods.
“They should take advantage of
the millions of dollars’ worth of in
formation collected by the govern
ment. Study the government bulle
tins. Get the help of the county ag
ricultural agent.
Making Corn Grow.
“Now here’s my system or raising
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia—Unsettled
weather tonight and Wednesday;
probably rain and somewhat cooler
Wednesday.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Store.)
4 pm 73 4 am 64
6pm ...70 6am ........ ..64
8 pm 68 8 am 64
10 pm ...66 10 am 62
Midnight 64 Moon 69
2 am ...64 2 pm 72
MARKETS.
AMERICUS COTTON SEED.'
Wagon Seed, unchanged, $26 ton.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling, 13 3»4c.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Ps Open 11am Ipm Close
Meh 13.34 13.60 13.22 13.27 13.72
May 13.75 14.00 13.63 N 5.63 14.12
July 14.15 14.24 13.98 14.05 14.48
Oct. 14.23 14.32 14.23 14.35 14.75
RAISE INSPECTOR’S PAY.
The county board, at its regular
meeting Monday, which consumed a
large part of the day but at which
only routine matters were transact-j
ed, voted to raise the pay of S. H. 1
Edge, courfty cattle inspector, from!
$25 to S4O per month. Mr. Edge
drew SIOO per month last year, dur
ing the tick clean-up work, and was
cut to $25 at the January meeting.
ERIC US?
THE TIMESWRECORDER
gall PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
corn, as I learned it from Robert
i F. Spence, the Rock Castle county
' farm agent:
“Prepare the land in the usual way
by plowing and harrowing ft.
• “Spread 16 per cent acid phospate
' 1 when you plant the grain. I used
j about 200 pounds to one acre. It cost
me about $6.
“Plant the rows about 3 1-2 feet
apart. Allow space of abofit 18
j inches between each group of stalks
As the stalks break through the
i ground pull out the smaller ones,
leaving the strongest and best ones
i standing.
“Then plow between the furrows.
| Plow again when the corn is about
; knee high and once more when it is
■ about waist high.
The Last Plowing.
“Then let it grow until it is about
ready to mature; then give it the
last plowing. This is the most im
portant plowing of all. Just scratch
the ground. Don’t go more than three
inches deep; then you don’t break
the roots and stunt the yield.
“Most farmers plow deep the last
time, break the roots and then won
der why their yield is stunted. All
the plowing is supposed to do is to
bring the moisture to the surface.
Just ‘scratching’ the ground will do
this.
“Then all that remains is to sit
back and wait until harvest.”
Everett figures it cost him 60 cents
a bushel to grow his corn, including
a reasonable figure for his own la
bor and thot of a younger brother,
who helped him ploy it once.”
60,000 GREEKS TO
STRIKE AT TUSKS
Great Offensive Planned
In Asia Minor
War
ROME, Feb. 8. Sixty thousand
Greek troops are being organized
for a great offensive in Agfa Minor,
according to reports from Smyrna.
The Turkish Nationalists are prepar
ing to meet the offensive and claim
they will be able to offer stubborn
resistance.
[GREEK ASSEMBLY
I DECLARES ITS STANDING.
ATHENS, Feb. 8. The national
j assembly of Greece Monday voted
; by acclamation in favor of declaring
' itself a constituent assembly. The
step was made necessary by the pro
jected revision of the Greek con
stitution.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 8, 1921.
MANY ASSETS
OF BANK LISTED
AS WORTHLESS
First Statement Os Liqui
dating Institution
Filed
The first information to be made
public concerning the Commercial
City Bank, which was closed for li
quidation on January 3 following the
accidental death of its president,
Crawford Wheatley, was contained in
a statement of assets filed Tuesday
morning with H. E. Allen, clerk of
the Superior court, by N. M. Dudley,
liquidating agent, in accordance with
the law.
The statement bore the caption.
“Report of N. M. Dudley, liquidating
o* Commercial City Bank,
Americus, Ga., insolvent, made to
Hon. T. R, Bennett, superintendent
of banks, Atlanta, Ga., according to
Section 7, Article 12. Date of sus
pension January 3rd, 1921.” This
caption contained the first official
statement that the bank was insol
vent, although this had been gener
ally accepted as the situation.
No statement of liabilities was fil- ■
ed, and, these have not as yet been
made public.
The statement of assets reveals
total assets of $147,601.94, of which
a total of $9,837.20 are classified as
of doubtful value, and $36,705.86
worthless. This makes a total of
$46,543.06 doubtful or worthless,
leaving $101,058.88 out of $147,-
601.94 as good assets. This includes
$25,000 value on the tanking prop
erty and $18,308.69 in other real
estate. Following is a copy of the
schedule of assets as filed:
ASSETS.
Bills Receivable, sched
ule J
Good .. ..$48,412.39
, Doubtful 9,671.82
, Worth-
less 32,501.73—$ 90.585.94
r Assets other than bills
receivable, Sched
, ule K— _ .
j Good $1,792.22
t Doubtful .. 165.38—$ 1,957.60
Real Estate—
, 1 Banking
; house,
. carried at $25,000.00
, Other real
estate car-
• ried at 18,398.69—$ 43.398.69
Furniture and Fixtures—
Carried on books at 5,077.00
; Due from banks in
i this state 604.28
Due from banks in
other states 108.00
; Cash and cash
items—
Good $1,666.20
Worth- ♦
i less 4.204.13—$ 5,870.33
$147,601.94
Harding Two Days
Behind His Schedule
DAYTONA, Fla., Feb. B.—Presi
i dent-elect Harding spent today play
ing golf and renewing old acquaint
ances, while he waited for the house
boat Victoria to take him aboard
here for the last leg of his vacation
cruise along the Florida coast.
Harding is already two days over
due at St. Augustine, which will be
his headquarters during the remain
der of February.
Hun State. Premiers Are
For Rejection of Demand
MUNICH, Feb. 8. The premiers
of the various German states have
agreed to urge the Berlin govern
! ment to refuse compliance with the
■ Allied demands as formulated by the
j Supreme Council in Paris two weeks
ago, it became known today when
Bavarian Premier Von Kahr return
ed from Dublin.
South Africa Votes
In National Election
CAPETOWN, Feb. 8. General
elections were held today throughout
the union of South Africa, actual
balloting being the culmination of a
three-cornered political contest which
has been waged for the past two
months.
The South African party is led by
Premier Smuts, the Nationalists are
led by General Hertzog, and the La
borites are under Col. Creswell.
Leslie Man’s Heart Touched
By Joseph Schmidt’s Letter and
He Gives SIOO To Aid Starving
The people of Sumter county are becoming thoroughly aroused
over hungry children in Europe,
These are some of the comments received by the county chair
man enclosing cash donations:
“What are dollars worth when such letters as the European letter
revealing the true condition of helpless children is read to us?”
“To look my own children in the face at meal time and imagine
that they are hungry and crying for bread makes me feel unworthy
of the food I eat; I feel like apologizing for deferring this matter
longer and enclose check herewith.”
Here is a letter received Tuesday morning by Chairman, Dykes
from a comparatively poor man, who enclosed $100:
LESLIE, Ga.. Feb. 7th, 1921
“Col. W. W. Dykes, Americus, Ga.
Dear Sir: I have been reading appeals in the Times-Recorder
and other daily papers for some time for donations for the relief of
the Near East, and have failed to respond so far. But after reading
Joseph Schmidt’s letter to the American Relief Administration in Sun
day’s issue of The Times-Recorder, I can no longer restrain from a
small donation. I am a very poor man, but thank God I have a big «
and tender heart. God has blessed me with a very humble but com
fortable little home, and with plenty of very common but wholesome
food, and with a plenty of very comman but comfortable clothes.
Therefore, I feel that I am a very rich man, compared with those
poor and suffering women and children in Europe and other countries.
“I highly approve of your plan of raising subscriptions by accept-
I ing form produce, as the country is somewhat depressed at the pres
i ent. There are numbers of farmers whom lam confident will donate
liberally of this product, when if they were asked to donate money
alone it would be difficult for some of them.
“Enclosed you will find my check for one hundred dollars, which
with my prayers I trust will help some poor suffering child, or women
and children. I trust that everybody that can will donate liberally to
this very needy cause, and that Sumter county will stand head and
shoulders over any other county in Georgia or the United States.
Yours very truly, R. E. BROWN.”
This is only a starter. The coupon is printed herewith. Fill it
out today and forward it at once to W. W. Dykes, county chairman,
or The Times-Recorder.
TO SAVE STARVING CHILDREN \
OF EUROPE
j (100 Cents of Every Dollar Donated is Used For This Purpose.) >
p AGREE TO DONATE:
Cash $; Wheat, sacked, bushels , Corn, ?
? sacked, bushels, ; Peas, sacked, bushels, ; <
I < Peanuts, sacked, bushels, ; Potatoes, sacked, bush- I
H els ; Syrup, gallons ; Hams <
(Shoulders; Sides ■ S
Will deliver to J. E. Hightower in Americus, or to
i School house onday of Feb. >
? 1921. _ ) ■
(Sign Here.)
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CHINESE WOMEN
IN VOTES LEAGUE
Demand Equal Rights
And Privileges With
Men
SHANGHAI, China. Feb. 8. —Fol-
lowing hard on heels of the western
world, the East now has its Chinese
woman’s suffrage association. The
platform, adopted at the open meet
ing of the membership, composed of
women educated in school of China
and abroad, sayj that every woman
may have the right to vote; that men
and women have equal protection un
der the law; that girl slavery be pro
hibited; that women shall have the
right to possession of property, which
shall be registere by name; that they
shall have the right to marry whom
I they deisre with equal opportunity
for education; equal pay with men,
and says concubinage shall be pro
hibited and the single standard main
tained for men and women.
Alabama’s Whites
Far Exceed Negroes
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. The
white population of Alabama is 1,-
447,032 and the negro, 900,652, the
census bureau announced today. The
whites increased 17.8 per cent, while
the negroes decreased .8 per cent.
Males in the state total 1,173,105,
an increase of 9.2 per cent, and the
females 1,175,069, an increase of
10.5 per cent. The change in sex ra
tio for the total population, the an
nouncement said, was accounted for
almost entirely by the decreased ne
gro population, which occurred al
most “wholly among the males.”
A seed potato cutter has been in
vented which cuts two potatoes atj
a time in four pieces each.
HUNDREDMILLION
FOR FARM LOANS
Senate Committee Unan
imously Approves
Measure
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Unan
imous approval was given today by
the senate agricultural committee to
the measure by Senators Glass and
Swanson of Virginia, to authorize the
treasury to purchase $100,000,000
of farm loan .bonds so as to make
available funds for loans to farmers.
Such loans have been held up pend
ing decision by the Supreme court
in the suit to test the validity of the
Federal Farm Loan act and addition
al legislation to meet the temporary
emergency is regarded as essential
by some.
The Glass-Swanson measure will
b eincorporated into the annaul agri
cultural appropriation bill.
Price Os Gasoline
Down Another Cent
The price of gasoline in Ameri
j cus has been reduced one cent, ac
| cording to announceemnt of filling
■ stations here. The former price was
j 32 1-2 cents a gallon and the new
i price is 31 1-2 cents.
The reduced price went into effect
Monday and applied to other cities
in as well as Americus.
Young Bergdoll Opens
Fight To Gain Freedom
KANSAS CITY. Feb. B.—A legal
battle to free Ervin E. Bergdoll,
wealthy Philadelphia draft evader,
and brother of Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, from Fort Leavenworth
prison on a writ of habeas corpus
began here today in federal court,
j Bergdoll is under sentence of five
I years.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
OIL MILLS HERE
AT FULL BLAST; ,
SHIP IN SEED
Both Plants Resume Op
erations Os 24 Hours
A Day
Both Americus cotton seed oil
mills are running full blast again.
The Farmers Cotton Oil Co. plant
resumed operations several days ago,
after a shutdown, and the Americus
Oil Co. plant began Monday of this
wpek. Each plant gives employment
to between 40 and 50 men, it was
said. The mills operate 24 hours
per day, continuous operation being
most economical because of the pro
cesses in separating the oil from the
seed.
Both mills are shipping in seed
from elsewhere, because of the
steady refusal of farmers of this lo
cality to sell.
“We have been shipping seed from
North Georgia,” said George W.
Riley, of the Farmers Cotton Oil
Co. “We find that they have always
been more ready to sell than the
farmers in this section, and right
, now they are turning their seed into
money.”
i “We are not getting many seed
around here,” said R. L. McMath,
i of the Americus Oil Co., “but are
j compelled to buy away from here,
going to North Georgia and else
where, wherever we can get them.
The oil and seed markets are off
I again today, but we are still quoting
i wagon seed the same, giving the
J farmer every benefit we are able to
i extend.”
! Big Machine Shown
In U. S. Court Case
I ATLANTA, Feb J. A large
? saw-filing machine, weighing nearly
) a ton, was used by council for the
{ defense as an exhibit in a court case
< in the United States court here to
? day. The machine was demonstrated
> in the court. ,
J A Texas woman and a machinery
> manufacturing company in that state
is suing a concern at East Point,
> Ga., for alleged infringment of pat
, ent rights.
' The saw-filing machine attracted
; great attention and gave the court
room the appearance of a machinery
exhibit at a county fair.
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I Hungary Questions U. S.
Deportation Methods
WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—Repre
; sentations have been made to the
| state department by the Hungarian
, government concerning the manner
II of the deportation of undesirable
i aliens from the United States.
The representations said that
? deported aliens had been at such lib
erty aboard vessels as to permit
■ them, to organize propaganda against
' the governments of Europe, which
had produced certain undesirable re
sults in Hungary
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’ All In Readiness For
Farmers Stock Sale
1 i
, i Everything was in readiness to
day, County Agent Marshall jeport
ed, for the farmers co-operative hog
and cattle sale, which will be held at
, | the Americus pens Wednesday. A
message from Milton P. Jarnigan, of
r i the State College of Agriculture, nt
I, nbon informed Mr. Marshall that he
would be unable to come and grade
I the stock, as requested, and this will
. probably be done by Mr. Marshall
himself in consequence.
Careless Workmen
Cost Eleven Lives
WASHINTON, Feb. 8. The
Federal investigation of the gasoline
. vapor explosion at Memphis January
s 24, which cost eleven lives and seri
r I ous injury to many more, shows that
it was “another horrible example" of
; the failure of workmen to heed pre
! scribed precautions in handling ex
plosive matter, according to a re
port made public today by the Bu
reau of Mines.
Dope And Still Taken
In New York Raid
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. ln a se
ries of raids conducted early today
in the Mulberry Ben district, skirt
ing Chinatown, police and federal
officers seized narcotics values at
$135,000, destroyed a moonshine still
they found in operation and arrested
seventeen men.
Armv Money Bill
Is Passed By House
WASHINTON, Feb. 8. The ar
my appropriation bill carrying ap
proximately $329,000,000 and pro
viding for a force of only $150,000
men in 1922 was passed today by
' the house and sent to the senate.