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ASSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. 40.
Double Probe Os Negro Burning Begun At Athens
JAPS TO
GO TO MAT IN
RACE DISPUTE
Protest Os Land Law
Made, Says Simms In
2d Article
• BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.
SAN FRANCISCO ,Feb. 17.
Japan, I am definitely informed, is
prepared to go to the mat with the
United States over the question of
the status of her subjects residing
in this country, and as an opening
gun has already registered a very
sharp protest at Washington against
California’s anti-Japanese land meas
ure.
The island empire is waiting only
for the fourth of March and the in
stallation of the new administration
to press the matter, according to my
informant, who is in close touch with
the national capital. It was not
deemed proper to divulge the precise
nature of the protest) at this time as
the United States government is
about to change hands and both sides
are represented as feeling it would
be best to wait until the new regime
can take seat.
Chafe* At Delay
Japan, however, apparently deem
ed it unwise to allow too long a time
to elapse before protesting against
the initiative measure adopted by
California on Nov. 2, and which in
hibits land-owning or leasing by Jap
anese or otherwise controlling it.
According to Gov. William D.
Stephens, of California, the Japan
ese operate 458,956 acres of the best
lands in the state, producing a cron
worth $67,145,730.
Between 80 and 90 per cent of
California’s vegetable and berry
products, according to the same au
thority, are grown on Japanese
farms.
The Japanese population of Cali
fornia, according to official returns
of the fourteenth census, was 70,707
The state census put the figures at
83,000.
Drastic Terms
The initiated measure complained
of made very much more drastic the
law of 1913 which prohibited the
ownership of land by Japanese sub
jects, or a lease for longer than three
years. The new law re-affirms the
ownership clause and forbids leas
ing for any term whatever. It fur
ther declares that a Japanese can not
acquire or hold stock in any corpor
ation owning farm land, nor may he
act as guardian for his American
born children where the control of
land is involved.
This measure was voted on the day
of the national election and adopted
by 668,483 to 222,086.
Japan, lam reliably informed,
stands ready for the diplomatic fight
■of her career as a modern wol'ld
power.
No important developments are
expected before the new adminis
tration goes in, as both sides antici
pate long-drawn-out negotiations be
fore an agreement satisfactory to
both sides can be reached; and Presi
dent Wilson and Secretary of State
Colby, America’s chief diplomatists,
have only a few more days in office.
Both Japanese here and Californ
ians are of the opinion that time will
actually be gained by waiting until
the Harding regime assumes control
of the' government for two main
reasons*
One is negotiations could proceed
no more than half way at best before
the change in administrations, and
the whole work would necessarily
have to be retraced for the benefit
of the new president and his secre
tary of state, who, incidentally,
might have an entirely different idea
of the kind of policy the United
States should pursue.
Closer Harmony
The second is closer harmony be*
tween California and Washington
is expected to result from both be
ing Republican, instead of the one
being Republican and the other Dem
ocratic.
The Japanese feel they have every
thing to gain and nothing to lose bj
waiting for the Republican president
Not that they believe President
Harding will be more friendly than
was President Wilson, but that if the
Republican administration counsels
moderation Republican California
will be more inclined to listen than
it would were a Democratic national
government doing the talking.
Having made known their dissatis
faction, therefore, the Japanese di
plomats are expected to bide their
time until Secretary of State Hughes
reaches office.
From that time forward the diplo
matic battle will be on.
GEORGIAWOM AN
WHOM HARDING
CALLED TO FLA.
W
V. '< ; v jflß
Mrs. W. H. Felton, of Cartersville,
a leader in Georgia women’s political
affairs, visited President-elect Hard
ing by invitation in St. Augustine,
Fla., to advance the views of Geor
gia. She’s 80 years old and is the
widow of Dr. W. H. Felton, once a
members of congress.
DUDLEY IS WIRED
U. S. BANK OFFER
Asked To Take Okla
homa Bank Receiver-
Ship
A merited and appreciated honor
has come to N. M. Dudley, of Am
erieus, ia the form of a telegram
from T. P. Kane, assistant comptroll
er of the currency, at Washington,
asking r.im if he would accept the
place cl receiver for the Picher Na
tional Bank, of Picher, Okla., at a
salary of $4,500. Mr. Dudley has
neither accepted nor declined, but
expected to make a decision during
tfhe day.
Mr. Dudley, who is liquidating
agent of the Commercial City ban,
received the offe ra day or two ago,
and immediately advised T. R. Ben
nett, the state superintendent of
banks, of the offer, asking whether
he could secure his release from the
Americus institution in case he wish
ed to accept the Oklahoma offer. Mr.
Bennett advised him that the offer
was worthy of serious consideration,
and informed him it would be per
missible for him to acecpt if he so
chose.
If Mr. Dudley accepts he will be
required to go to the Oklahoma town
almost immediately.
New Baraca Class
Aids Fellowship
Things are humming in the new
Baraca class at the First Methodist
church. Fifty-five members were
present at the meeting last Sunday,
several new members having been
added to the roll. The officers and
members are working to increase
this and expect to have a larger num
ber present next Sunday.
At a recent meeting of the class
a resolution was unanimously passed
that the word “Mister” should not
be used in addressing a member of
he class, thus promoting more inti
mate fellowship; The members are
all called by their given names or
nicknames.
All young men of Americus. as
well as visitors, are invited to meet;
with the class on Sunday at 9:30
a. m. '
Unadilla Girls To
Play Here Friday
The Americus High girls’ basket
ball team will play the Unadilla High
girls at the Salvation Army gym here
Friday night. The Americus girls
have one of the fastest girls’ basket
ball teams in South Georgia, having
defeated the Albany girls and the
Columbus High girls here besides
others. For Friday they promise an
excellent game and urge that a large
crowd come out.
The line-up will be Misses Marie
Bel! and Georgia Lumpkin, forwards;
Frances and Elizabeth Sheffield,
centers; Julia and Minerva Allison,
guards.
MONTGOMERY LIVE STOCK
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 17.
Hog market: Tops, 7.75; lights,
7.00; pigs. 6.75; light pigs. 6;
roughs, 5.75.
Cattle, steady.
Mrs. A. J. Evans, of Fort VaHey,
>s spending a few days with her sis
ter, Mrs. S. R. Heys.
THE f^^S^®RDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DlXiE~fr&a?
HARDING’S O.K.
ON NEW TARIFF
BILL IS SOUGHT
Fordney Goes To St.
Augustine With New
Proposal
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Chair
man Fordney, of the house ways andj
means committee, left today for St. I
Augustine, Fla., to seek the approval
of President Harding to the plan to
put through at the extra session of
the new congress emergency tariff
act to provide protection for all pro
ducts of American industry.
The measure Fordney has in mind
would be designed as a stop-gap un
til a scientific tariff law could be
framed in the light of after-war con-,
ditions in various countries.
DAUGHERTY CONFERS
WITH HARDING.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Feb. 17—'
Problems of various kinds that must
be solved before inauguration day!
were talked over today by President-
Elect Harding with Harry M. Daugh-j
erty, who managed his campaign for
the nomination and who is expected!
to sit in his cabinet as attorney
general.
Daugherty laid before his chief a
budget of information gathered dur
ing two weeks’ trip to New York,
Washington and other eastern cities.
Attend Funeral Os
Relative At Albany
Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Arthur and
Miss Anna McLaughlin, of Ameri
cus attended the funeral in Albany
Wednesday of S. A. Saxon, who died
there Tuesday following a stroke of
paralysis last September. Mrs. Saxon
is a sister of Mrs. Arthur, and Misses
Annie and Claude McLaughlin, of
Americus. Mrs. Arthur remained
there with her sister, while Mr. Ar
thur returned here last evening.
Mr. Saxon was 45 years of age.
He was a great sufferer being almost
constantly in pain from the time
of his stroke, and requiring constant
attention.
He is survived by his wife and one
son, Albert, 12 years old; his father
and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Saxon, of Richland, and by two sis
ters, Mrs. Edward Cook, of Richland,
and Mrs. Edward Pinkston, of Par
rott.
Two Lard Can Stills
Found By Sheriff
Sheriff Harvey and Deputy Sum
mers Wednesday visited the farm of
Wes Clark, colored, in the 28th dis
trict, found a lard can still out in a
patch of woods, a bottle of moon
shine liquor, and 140 gallons of beer.
They poured out the beer, smashed
the still and brought Wes and the
liquor to the city, putting the liquor
in storage as evidence for use later
and placing Wes in jail. Later he
made bond of SSOO, assessed by Jus
tice Griffin.
A few days ago the same officers
arrested Jerry Gerson, a colored ten
ant on Mrs. Mary Clay’s farm below
DeSoto, confiscating a lard can still
near his house and securing a jug
of liquor. He also made bond.
Ellaville Bombarded Byj
Salvation Army Here
ELLAVILLE, Feb. 17.—The Sal-i
vation Army of Americus bombarded •
Ellaville Tuesday evening and fired
some hot shot in the court house
bhat hit the mark and pleased the
vast audience assembled there. Cap- j
tain Louella Knox acted as com
mander-in-chief and delivered one of
the best lectures ever heard here.
The Salvation Army often visits this
city, and their official paper, the War
Cry, is eagerly sought after. They
always receive a hearty welcome
from the citizens who are heartily in
sympathy with the splendid work they
are accomplishing.
U. S. Conciliator Not
Returning: To Alabama
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Ef
forts of the department of labor to
arbitrate the dispute between miners
and operators in the Alabama coal
field will be abandoned for the pres
ent with the withdrawal of Commis
sioner of Conciliation W; C. Liller,
from Alabama, it was stated today
by Rugh Kerwin, director of concil
iation. Liller will not be returned to
Alabama.
More than 1.230,000 tons of pota
| toes were grown in Scotland last
■ year, the greatest return since 1885.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 17, 1921.
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia—Cloudy and
cooler tonight and Friday; probably
rain in extreme south portion.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Store.)
4 am 52 4 pm 72
6 am 49 6 pm 67
8 am 51 8 pm 62
10 am 62 10 wr. 5.)
Noon 69 Midnight 8 n
2 pm 70 la:: 54
JACKSONVILLE
BANDITS KILL 2
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 17.
Two men believed by the police to
be the same who appeared masked in
the parlor of a family hotel near the
police station last night, and shot
to death' George Goodrich, Atlanta
contractor, and Walter Burden, a re
tired business man of Patchogue, 111.,
were arrested early today in a room
ing house.
SENATE VOTES
COTTON PROBE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The
Senate today adopted the resolution
of Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
providing for investigation by the
Senate agricultural committee of the
amounts of cotton and wheat now on |
hand in this country.
Senator Smith contended in offer
ing the resolution that conflicting
ana uncertain market reports had
been made.
6,OOOBAHS
BURN IN MAS
ENNIS, Texas, Feb. 17—Six thou
sand bales of cotton in three ware
houses were destroyed by fire today
with an estimated loss of $400,000.
Incendiarism is suspected.
Moultrie City Plant
To Cut Pov/?r Rate
MOULTRIE, Feb. 17.—'There is
to be a downward revision in the
commercial -power rate's from the
city plant to users in Moultrie. An
ordinance authorizing the l eduction
was put on its first reading at the
meeting of city council Tuesday
night. It is felt certain that it will
go through without a hitch.
The new rate will be a sliding one.
It will be 6 cents for the first 500
kilow»atts, 5 cents for the next 500
and 4 cents for all power in excess
of that.
Several industries that are large
users of current that have heretofore
been denied the privilege of the com
mercial rates, will be permitted to
participate in the reduction.
Railway Motor Car
Costs Aged Man Leg
CORDELE, Feb. 17.—Joseph Ran
kin, 65 years of age, of Keystone,
Pa., had his left leg severely crush
ed near the ankle when a railway mo
tor car driven by his son, J. W. Ran
kin, plant maintainer for the West
ern Union Telegraph company, Cor
dele division, left the tracks on the
Seaboard railway' near Coney Tues
day.
M.r Rankin went out to do some
repair work between Coney and
Daphne and permitted his father to
go with him on the motor car at the?
old gentleman’s suggestion.
Mail Robbery May
Reach Half Million
TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 17. —Sheriff
posses today surrounded a number of
places at Point Place, six miles north
of here, in search of five armed ban
dits who early today held up three
clerks of the main postoffice and
escaped with six sacks of registered
mail valued at several thousand
dollars.
The police recovered a stolen auto
used by the bandits, but no clue to
the identity of the robbers was ob
tained. Postal employees admitted
the loss may total nearly half a mil
lion of dollars.
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CARUSO STILL
INUNFAVORABLE
CRITICAL STATE
Has Fair Chance If He
Passes Crises During
Today
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—The con
dition of Enrico Caruso, famous
tenor, remains “unsatisfactory and
critical,” according to a statement
issued at 9:30 o’clock today by Dr.
Francis Murray, one of the singer’s
physicians.
Caruso held his own during the
night, his physicians announced early
today. They indicated that if he
passed the crisis today he had a fair
chance for recovery.
Telephone calls received at Caru
so’s hotel inquiring about his condi
tion are being received at the rate of
10 every minute. Two extra tele
phone operators have been put on to
handle them.
College Committee Not
Os ‘Disciples Os Christ’
President John A. Wood, of South
eastern College, Auburn, Ga., spent
the day in Americus in the interest
of -his school, which is a small insti
tution belonging to the Christian
church.
While here President Wood took
occasion to explain that there is no
connection between the Christian
church, or Discpiles of Christ, known
here, and the Chirstian church a
committee from which is expected to
visit Americus shortly to examine
an offered site for the erection of a
college of that denomination here.
According to President Wood, the
committee referred to is connected
with a denomination originated by
a former Methodist minister of North
Carolina named O’Kelley, who re
belled at the bishop plan of govern
ment in the Methodist church and
established his own, maintaining the
doctrinal features of Methodism, and
using only the name of Christians.
Its membership is said to be confin
ed largely to North Carolina and
Virginia.
Plains B. Y. P. U Gets
Ready For Convention
PLAINS, Feb. 17. On Tuesday,
February 22 the B. Y. P. U. conven
tion of Friendship association will
be organized" at Plains Baptist
church. Plains church has a live B.
Y. P. U. and the young people are
doing all they can to make the day
worth while to the visitors. There
will be an interesting program ren
dered by experts in this line of work,
as well as special music for the oc
casion. ‘ .
All young people and those inter
ested in B. Y. P. U. work are in
vited to attend this meeting
Dinner will be served at the church.
$6 Road Tax Fixed
For Citizens Os Floyd
ROME, Feb. 17.—At its regular;
bi-monthly meeting the county board!
of roads and revenue fixed the road
tax for the present year at six dol
lars, with the alternative of six days’
work on the public roads and March
15 was named as the date when pay
ments will be due.
Month’s Recess In Wage
Dispute Asked By Men
CHICAGO, Feb. 17.—Recess of
one month in the hearing before the
railroad labor board on the railroad’s
application for abrogation of nation
al wage agreements, was asked to
day by B. M. Jewell, president of
the Railway employees’ department
of the American Federation of Larj
bor. Jewell said the unions needed;
until March 14 to prepare rebuttal;
evidence.
EMIGRATION SUSPENDED.
TRIEST, Feb. 17.—(8y Associat
ed Press).— Emigration from Cen
tral Europe to the United States has
been suspended and the eastern;
frontiers of Italy have been closed;
pending the cleaning up of the sani
tary situation there, following the
outbreak of typhus at New York
among immigrants.
SFTH TANNER
A NEW ARRIVAL, WHO WILL
APPEAR DAILY AND SOON BE
COME GOOD FRIENDS WITH
YOU Y
We have t’ pay for ev’rything
we git—an’ some things we don’t
git. Speakin’ uv th’ low cost of
sugar and the. high price uv candy,
a coat of chocolate covers a lot
o’ cheap nuts.
MATHIS TO SEE
INAUGURATION
School Head To Attend
On Wav Home From
Convention
J. E. Mathis, superintendent of
city schools, will be one of a party
of Southern educators going to At
’ lantic City next week to attend the
i annual meeting of the National Edu
• cational Association, and, incidental
■ ly, on his return home he will stop
in Washington to be present at the
inauguration of Warren G. Harding
as president of the United States.
Prof. Mathis will join Supt. RolanJ
■ E. Brooks, of the Albany schools,
and Supt. Roland Daniel ,of the Co
lumbus schools, forming a small par
ty going to Atlanta to join the larg
er Georgia party which) will travel to
the convention city in a special car.
These three had planned to leave
next Wednesday, but they have been
advised that the Atlanta party wity
leave next Tuesday, and they are
now rearranging their plans.
The convention will be held from
February 27 to March 3. Leaving on
the final days of the convention,
Prof. Mathis plans to repch Washing
ton on the afternoon or evening of
that day and pay a visit to his daugh
ter, Miss Mary Mathis, who is an
examiner in the civil service bureau,
and view the inauguration on March
4.
Seat Os Pants Clue To
Negro Moonshiners
OXFORD, N. C., Feb. 17.—The
seat of an ordinary pair of jeans
trousers is the clue on which Gran
j ville pounty authorities are working
in the hope of arresting a negro
moonshiner who eluded prohibition
officers near Bethel church, five miles
from here.
Three officers found three negroes
at" a still. Surrounding them, one
of the officers commanded: “Hands
up!” to which one of the negroes
replied, “We’re g’wine away from
here.” And they did.
Deputy . Ed« Lyon pursued one of
the negroes. Entering a briar patch,
Lyon stunibled but grabbed the ne
gro by the seat of his pants. The
pants gave way, leaving the seat in
possesion of Lyon. With this clue
the authorities hope to capture the
negro, whose still was destroyed.
MARKETS .
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good Middling 13 l-4c.
NEW YORK FUTURES
Pc Open 11am Ipm Close
Mrh 13.62 13.60 13.67 13.64 13.32
May 14.12 14.15 14.16 14.14 13.82
July 14.45 14.50 14.51 14.49 14.22
; Oct. 14.86 14.90 14.87 14.88 14.58
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And some say Movie Admissions
i will increase.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BLACK SHRIEKS
HIS INNOCENCE
DESPITE FLAME
State and County Inquiry
Os Mob s Action
Opened
ATHENS, Ga„ Feb. 17.—State
and county authorities got under way
today an investigation into the lynch
ing last night of John Lee Eberhart,
a negro suspected of the murder of
Mrs. Walter E. Lee, a young white
woman, who was killed in the yard of
her home yesterday morning.
The negro was taken from the
Clarke county jail by a mefb estimat
ed at seven thousand, and burned at
a stake near the scene of the alleged
crime in Oconee county, 7 miles
away.
The negro shrieked protestations
of innocence to the last.
The method employed by the mob
in securing the negro from the jail,
which is Said to be the most modern
in the state, established a precedent
unheard of in this state and probably
the first in the history of the country.
A huge modern blow torch was em
ployed by the mob to allow its mem
bers to gain entrance after Sheriff
Jackson resisted the mob to the last.
It is said that members of the mob
climbed up the elevator shaft of the
Clarke county courthouse to the top
floor, where the jail is located. There
they put the torch in play on a lock,
which secured one of the rear en
trances to the prison. While other
members of the mob kept the county
officials in front, the torch melted the
big brass padlock and an entrance
was effected.
Seise Negro
The same men entered the prison,
went to the negro’s cell and over
powered him. They lowered him
down the elevator shaft and made
their escape into the mass of angry
men awaiting outside.
With a mighty shout the mob yell
ed: “Lynch him here, lynch him
here,” but the ring leaders placed the
negro in an automobile and started
off in the direction of the Oconee
county line. Hundreds of automo
biles fell in line in the rear of the
car containing the negro. Men by
the score ran along at the side of
these machines.
One hour later the mob arrived at
the scene of the crime. They formed
a circle around the ringleader’s auto
mobile. They waited a few minutes
until preliminary arrangements could
be made and then the negro was tak
en from .the machine and led to a
spot in a field directly across the
road from where Mrs. Lee was shot
down.
A stake was immediately driven in
to the ground. Small twigs and pine
wood were thrown around it and Eb
erhardt was placed in the center. He
was tied to the stake and the torch
applied. Twenty minutes later the
fire died out. The negro’s charred
body fell into its ashes.
Refuses To Confess
Prior to the torch being applied
the ringleader of the mob requested
the negro to make a confession. He
denied having any connection with
j murder. The mob 3houted for
i action. The ringleader threw a
! lighted match into the brush.
' Above the crackling of the burn
ing brush, the negro, pleaded that he
[ was not guilty and begged to be
j spared so that he.could furnish an
alibi. His plea went unheeded.
Four minutes later, the fire was
extinguished after the man had been
half roasted. He was called on again
ito make a confession. He denied it
again. The totch was again applied.
Eberhardt paid the penalty for one
of the most startling and foul mur
ders in the history of this section,
when at 8 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing he is alleged to have killed Mrs.
Lee. The slayer used a double-bar
rel shotgun, both loads entering the
head and the back.
Besides her husband, she leaves
one child, a boy of eighteen months
old.
RESEARCH ABANDONED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17;—Imme
diate abandonment of the .research
work of the council of National De
i sense was announced today.'
The lord of the manor at Adling
ton pays the king of England a
' yearly rent of a bowl of porridge
EKTRAHtE-