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THE WORLD
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 37.
JUDGE LANDIS IMPEACHED ON HOUSE FLOOR
Where Will Wilson and His
Official Family Be On March 4?
Mostly Out of a Job-and Happy
BY H. B .HUNT
WASHINTON, Feb. 14.—The real turnover in administrations will take
place March 5, hot March 4, when the new’ president is inaugurated, as is
generally supposed.
, President Wilson, Vice-President Marshall and Secretary to the Presi
dent Tumulty will yield their jobs March 4. But the cabinet changes will
not occur until March 5. The new cabinet nominations will go to special
session of the new senate on the afternoon of March 4 and will be con
firmed.
The secretaries’ commissions will be made out that night and be on the
desk of the new president for his signature when he shows up for work
March 5.' The actual swearing in of the new cabinet will take place in
each department between 10 o’clock and noon March 5.
“What do you expect to be doing March 5 and immediately thereafter,
and where are you going to be?”
This question, put to each of the administration heads, excepting the
president, elicited the following answers:
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Mrs. Sarah Glass, 50, is in jail at
Atlanta, serving out a fine of SSO
on a charge of moonshining, and the
prosecutor is investigating the death
of the man who tipped officials that
she was operating a still.
BENNING READY
FOR GEN. WOOD
Sham Battle With Real
Ammunition To Be
Staged
COLUMBUS, Feb. 14. Describ
ed by military officials as being
probably the greatest firing demon
stration in the history of the coun
try and one in which live ammunition
will play general havoc with the ter
ritory in the vicinity of where an
imaginery enemy is in hiding, of
ficials at Camp Benning, near here,
are making great plans to show next
Thursday, February 17, General
Leonard Wood what is being done to
round out the military education of
about 1 000 officers now at the In
fantry school.
The big demonstration will begin
promptly at 10:30 o’clock Thursday
morning and it is believed that hun
dreds of visitors from Georgia and
Alabama will be attracted to the
camp by the big event and to see
the distinguished military leader.
The attack will be by a battalion
of infantrymen, supported by artil
lery units, tanks, the chemical war
fare section, and aeroplanes, there
being a number of firing pieces in ac
tion at the same time and .this will
convey a good idea of what war is
really like on the battlefield.- Visitors
will see the doughboys advance by
they will see tracer bullets
'WFlash across a long stretch to mark
♦he spot where the enemy is supposed I
to be hiding, aeroplanes will scout t
over the enemy’s position and then
drop a message to headquarters. Oth-:
er planes will join in the firinig. A'
big observation balloon, requiring
the services of a large group of men
to handle will be in the air during
the entire demonstration. After the
infantrymen have advanced as far as;
possible without sunport from other
units the tanks will be brought into
I play and the way these “houses of
I fire” creep over the terrain, paying
I no heed to gullies and other obstacles
| is a show within itself. '
The camp may be reached by a
I shuttle train leaving Columbus at 8
I a. m., returning from Benning at
1 12:45 o’clock or by taxi cabs. Those
SECRETARY OF STATE COLBY:
“I hope to catch an afternoon train
to New York and begin to attend to
my private business.”
SECRETARY OF TREASURY
HOUSTON: “I’m absolutely withopt
plans either for the immediate or in
definite future. I recently bought a
new house here, and probably will be
enjoying myself at home.”
SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER:
“I have reservations on the 7 p. m.
train for Cleveland. I’ll probably
put in Sunday unpacking boxes and
hanging pictures in a new home and
Monday will start in practicing law.”
ATTY. GEN PALMER: “I’ll turn
this office over to my successor March
5 and for a few days will stay in
Washington getting ready for a two
or three-week vacation somewhere
in the South. Then I’ll return to
Washington and am seriously consid
ering remaining here in the genera!
practice of law.”
POSTMASTER GENERAL BUR
LESON : “As soon as my successor is
qualified, I shall leave for Texas to
tak»-eare my private interests and
get out of politics.”
SECRETARY OF INTERIOR
PAYNE: “Good taste requires that
I stay here until my successor qual
ifies. and I expect to spend the
greater part of March 5 here in the
office waiting to turn it over to him.
Then I’ll go back to private life.”
SECRETARY OF NAVY DAN
IELS : “I’ll leave for Raleigh. N. C.,'
the evening of March 5 and arrive
there Sunday morning. I’ll go home
and wash up, then to the Methodist
church and ask forgiveness for my
sins and greet old friends. Monday
morning, I’ll go down to the News
and Observer office, take off my coat,
roll up my sleeves and become an
editor again.”
SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
MEREDITH: “Inauguration Day is
Friday. On Saturday I’ll turn this
office over to my successor. I’ll com
press a vacation into Sunday and
on Monday leave for Des Moines. I
have greatly enjoyed my experience
here, but I’ll be mighty glad to get
back to my lowa friends and the
publishing business.”
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
ALEXANDER: “On the sth I’ll be
arranging to take my family back to
Gallatin, Mo., where I will re-open
the old law office that has been clos
ed for 14 years, dust off the books
and wait for clients.”
SECRETARY OF LABOR WIL
SON : “I’m not certain just what I’ll
be doing, but I’ll probably go to my
farm in Blossburg, Pa., as soon as re
lieved of official duties.” •
As for President Wilson, Sec
tary Tumulty said: “Mr. Wilson will
go directly from the inauguration
ceremonies to his new home at 2340
S street, Washington, to take up his
life as a private citizen.”
Vice-President Marshall thought a
moment. “March 5?” he said.
“Hm-m-m—Well. I think I’ll sleep
late, pack my trunks and get out of
here. First a spell on the Chautau
qua circuit to get some money, then
a trin to Europe with Mrs. Mar
shall.”
As for Tumulty himself, “I’ll be
practicing law here in Washington—
and be happy.”
(Copyright 1921 by Times-Recorder)
coming in autos can reach the camp
within 30 minutes time after leaving
Columbus.
Denmark has nearly 10,000 motor
vehicles.
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TOWHEELTOBE
HARDING’S PLEA
President Elect Is Well
Along! On Inaugural
Address
ST. AUGUSTINE, Feb. 14. A
plea that the nation forgot its ani
mosities and partisanship of the aft
er-war period and put its shoulder
unstinted to the wheel of recon
struction is expected to form the key
note of President-Elect Harding’s
message at his inauguration.
It was learned today that consid
erable work has been done on the
message and that the subjects it is
to cover virtually have been select
ed. It is expected to be brief.
COOLIDGE RETURNS To
MASSACHUSETTS HOME.
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Feb. 14.
Vice-President-elect Coolidge, who
has been resting here for the last two
weeks, will leave this afternoon for
his home at Northampton, Mass.,
where he wil remain until inaugura
tion day.
Cuban Sugar Rises, And
Price May Go Up Here
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Arise in
sugar prices will become effective
throughout the United States shortly
if plans of Cuban cane planters to
pool their entire output of raw su
gar and force higher prices are suc
cessful.
A committee of Cuban sugar men
is reported to have obtained pledges
of support from a controlling portion
of the planters and is refusing to sell
raw sugar to eastern United States
refiners unless higher prices are of
fered.
As a result the sugar market has
strengtheneSvisibly. A 50-point ad
vance was registered in Cuban raws
( within 24 hours following the report
’of the Cuban committee’s plans. The
price for 96 centrifugal Cuban rows
rose from 4.52 to 5.02 cents a pound,
with the Cubans declining to sell on
the advance.
Leading Cuban sugar men have
appealed to Maj.-Gen. Enoch Crow
der in Hava ria to fix a price of 7.5
cents a pound for raw sugar in Cu
ba as the only means of relieving the
tense financial and political situation
on the island.
If the Cubans are successful in
forcing such a price it would mean
at least 10-cent retail sugar through
out the United States, and probably
more, depending on the amount of
tariff the new Republican Congress
will put on sugar after March 4.
Tumulty Replies To
Demand Os Kilby
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Secre
tary Tumulty, replying today to the
request of Governor Kilby, of Ala
bama, that Commissioner of Concili
ation Liller be withdrawn from Ala
bama, where he has been investigat
ing the coal strike situation, stated
that Secretary Wilson had the mat
ter under advisement.
BOY. PAGE DIOGENES !
. CINCINNATI, O„ Feb. 14.—This
note was in the mail of Stephen W.
McGrath, U. S. revenue collector:
“Enclosed find $2,000 in currency
which I am of the opinion is due the
government as income tax.”
PREFERS JAIL TO JOB.
FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 14.—Will
Smith, a paroled negro, returned to
the penitentiary because he didn’t
like his work.
MARKETS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Cotton
consumed during January amounted
to 366,270 bales of lint and 23,549
blase of linters, the Census Bureau
announced today.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good Middling 13 l-2c.
NEW YORK FUTURES
Pc Open 11am Ipm Close
Meh 13.56 13.33 13.48 13.46 13.45
May 13,97 13.80 13.88 13.89 13.89
July 14.35 14.17 14.27 14.22 14.25
Oct. 14.84 14.68 14.79 14.73 14.62
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1921.
ANOTHER APPLICANT FOR ADMISSION.
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Sumter Fugitive, Drafted While
Gone, Lost 2 Fingers in France
Declaring that he was never satis
fied during the whole of the four
years he enjoyed freedom following
his escape from the Sumter county
chaingang. Ivah Kaylor, who return
ed home and surrendered himself a
few days ago, told a newspaper man
today that he started back to Georgia
to finish serving his sentence as soon
as he learned from a letter from his
wife that they “had a good man in
charge of the prisoners here.”
While away Kaylor had many re
markable experiences, his travels car
rying him from Georgia to North
Carolina, where he went immediately
following his escape, and remained
some time at the home of his father.
From North Carolina he went to
Tennessee, and from there he went
to Sharon Springs, Kansas. He work
ed in the railroad shops there for a
time, and later traveled through Kan
sas, Wyoming and Oregon. At Ba
ker. Oregon, he found a number of
relatives with whom he lived.
1 ST M. E. REVIVAL
CROWD GROWS
Sunday Services Throng
ed, Despite Dr. Ellis’
Absence
Great services marked the revival |
at the First Methodist church yester-i
day, Notwithstanding the absence of
Dr .Ellis from the pulpit, the congre
gations increased instead of falling
off. A full house heard the Rev.
Guyton Fisher, pastor, in the morning
on the text, “Come with us and we
wi’ do thee good,” and at night not
only the auditorium was packed,
chairs in the aisles and every avail
able place occupied, but seventy-five
or more were in the galleries. Mr.
Fisher’s evening text was, “Awake
thou that sleepest and arise from
the dead, and Christ shall give thee
light.” He said his subject was ‘Wake
up, get up and light up."
The Wisdom sisters sang in the
morning and doubled up in the eve
ning, singing three songs of extra
ordinary beauty.
The Sunday school orchestra play
ed at the night service and will be
on hand every evening til the close
of the meeting.
Dr. Ellis returned today in time for
the 3 o’clock service this afternoon,
and will preach the remainder of the
week.
i Early in the war, he volunteered
for army service at Salt Lake City,
but was rejected for a physical dis
ability. Later he was drafted at
I Ottumwa. lowa, anduseqt to France,
where he saw four months of active
I service, in the heavy fighting when
I Pershing annihilated the St. Mihiel
I salient, Kaylor had two fingers shot
off his right hand, this disability re-
i suiting in his being discharged.
; The fact that he served under an
; assumed name has prevented his se
i curing any compensation for his in
\ jury, and it is uncertain whether or
i not his claims will ever be recognized
by the federal authorities.
His wife and, two children, who re
j side near Americus, vsiit him fre
quently. and have expressed much
satisfaction because of his decision
j to surrender and serve out his sen
tence, he having done so, he says, on
her advice and that of his parents in
i North Carolina.
2 OF WHITE SOX
DENY CONFESSING
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Williams And Jackson
Repudiate Alleged
Jury Statements
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Formal re
i pudiations of their alleged grand
jury confession of crooked baseball
playing were filed in criminal court
here today in behalf of Claude Wil
liams and Joe Jackson, of the Chi
cago Americans, who were indicted
on charges of conspiracy to throw
the 1919 World Series games. Pe
titions filed" in behalf of Williams,
Jackson and “Buck” Weaver, declar
ed thdt none of the three ever made
the admissions charged against the
first two. Weaver never was before
the grand jury.
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia—Fair tonight
and Tuesday; not much change in
temperature.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Store.)
4pm 65 4am 49
6 pm 61 6 am 46
8 pm 56 8 am 49
10 pm 55 10 am >..53
Midnight 53 Noon 168
2 am 51 2 pm 70
SEEKS DIVORCE
REPLY ON BIBLE
Attacked By Scripture,
Wife Hunts For
Defense
NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—Hour in
and hour out, day and night, Mrs.
Caroline Friezner pores over the Old
Testament.
Jacb Friezner, hey husband,
found in the Old Testament grounds
for a divorce action against her.
So she seeks now to answer the
Bible with the Bible.
Friezner bases his plea for divorce
on the following verses which he
found in the 25th chapter of Deuter
onomy :
“If brethren shall dwell together
and one of them die and have ho
child, the wife of the dead shall not
marry without, unto a stranger; her
husband’s brother shall » ♦ ♦ ♦ take
her to him to wife and perform the
duty of an husband's brother unto
her.
‘And if the man like not to take
his brother’s wife * * * * then shall
his brother’s wife come unto him and
loose his shoe frqm off his foot and
spit in his face.”
Friezner was a widower, his wife
was a widow when they married. He
now invokes the ancient Mosiac law,
saying Mrs. Friezner did not offer
herself in marriage to her husband’s
brother,.
“Never before has a man in this
country , tried to get rid of his wife
on a religious scruple,” says Mrs.
Friezner. “Religion should be used
to keep people together, hot to sep
arate them.
“In these days what woman would
offer herself in mariage to any man,
brother-in-law or not?
“Never mind, there are many vers
es in t|je Bible, and one of them is
bound to fit my side of this case.
‘That law I shall find, if my eyes
hold out.” t
More clothing is worn by the wo
men in Turkey than in any other
being eaten.
TO SAVE STARVING CHILDREN
OF EUROPE
(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.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ACCEPTANCE OF
BASEBALI. JOB
CALLED ‘CRIME’
Senator Dial Also To Ac
cuse Him Before De
partment Os lustice
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Fed
eral Judge Kennesaw Mountain Lan
dis, of Chicago, was impeached in
the house today by Representative
Welty, of Ohio, who charged him
with “high crimes and misdemeanors”
in connection with his acceptance of
the position of supreme arbiter of
baseball at a salary of $42,500
yearly.
Representative Welty did not in
produce a resolution propoisng im
peachment, as is the usual procedure
in such matters. Instead he arose to
a question of “high personal privil
ege” and announced that he “im
peached” Judge Landis.
Without debate Representative
Welty’s charges, on his motion, were
referred to the judiciary committee
for investigation and report. There
were some scattering noes in the vote
to refer it.
Senator Dial, of South Carolina,
announced today that besides seek
ing to have impeachment proceedings
brought against Judge Landis in the
house, he would prefer charges
against him with the department of
justice in connection with Judge
Landis’ statement in the case of the
Ottawa bank clerk cherged with em
bezzling $96,000, in which! the judge
is alleged to have said that the bank
officials were responsible because
they paid the clerk only S9O a month
salary.
Returns License
To Wed Putnam Girl
BALTIMORE, Feb. 14 Miss
Susanne B. Collum, of Putnam, Ga
evidently doesn’t like Maryland. And
because she doesn’t Paul E. Wright
of Brocklandville, is still a bachelor.
Mr. Wright recently obtained a mar
riage license at Towson, Baltimore
county, to wed Miss Collum. Satur
day he returned the license with the
following:
I am returning to you the license
to make void, as the lady in ques
tion refused to live in Maryland. We
are as yet single.”
Engineers To Seek To
End Waste Os Nation
SYRACUSE, The ap
pointment of a committed of noted
engineers and technologists to elim
inate the nation’s waste in industry
was incuded in the opening business
here today of the convention of the
American Engineering Council. Her
bert Hoover, president of the coun
cil, said the committee would be di
rected to make a national essay ot
waste.
Rumanians Accent
Reval As Peace Seat
j VIENNA, Feb. 14.—The Ruman-
I ian government, according to Buchar
est dispatches, has accepted Reval,
the capital of Esthonia, as the seat
i of the peace negotiations between
, Rumania and Soviet Russia.
U. S. POPULATION
CENTER SHIFTS
ONLY 9.8 MILES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. The
center of population -of the U. S.
as disclosed by the 1920 census, js
located in the extreme southeast
corner of Owen County, Indiana,
8.3 miles southeast of the town of
Spencer, the Census Bureau an
nounced today. This is 9.8 miles
westward from the point fixed by
the 1910 census.