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ASSOCIATED
PRESS NEWS OF
THE WORLD
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. S7
FRANCE SEEKS HARDING’S BACKING
FOR MODIFIED LEAGUE OF NATIONS
POWER MEETING
TO DIVIDE TIME
WITH COMPANIES
But Will Make Owh
Rules, Says Greer, Re
calling Waycross
The water power convention for
the Third congressional district will
be held in the county courthouse in
this city next Wednesday, beginning
at 10:30 in the morning. The meet
ing will adjourn for dinner at 12:30
and resume at 2:00, closing at 4:00.
This convention will be held under
the auspices of the Municipal League
of Georgia, but the league is opening
the discussions to the power com
panies, as they have the other three
meetings held at Albany, Waycross
and Savannah. It will be open also
to the public in general, and all
shades of opinion on the development
of the water powers are invited.
War Cross Incident.
The league reserves the right to di
rect the convention and make rules
for its government.
“At Waycross,’’ said Secretary
John W. Greer, who arrived yester
day from Savannah to make final
arrangements for the convention
here, “the power companies tried to
take the convention away from us.
They nominated a chairman in op
position to the one we had slated for
the position. They had brought in
a large number of employes and sym
pathizers of the local power company,
with the idea of running the meet
ing, but of course, we had antici
pated all that and our chairman was
elected. In the end, they tried to
pass a set of resolutions condemning
the league and its policies. Since we
had invited the public with the dis
tinct understanding that nobody
would be committed to our policies
or any other policies, the chairman
ruled their resolutions out of order
and they were defeated again.
Will Make Rules.
“While we will give the power
companies a fair opportunity to pre
sent their views at the convention, as
we will every other person or class,
still, it is our convention and we
make the rules for it.
“One of the finest features of the
meetings have been the prominent
part taken by the women in this
question. At Albany we had Mrs.
J. E. Hays, of Montezuma, and Mrs.
Covington of Moultrie, and quite a
number of local women spoke. At
Waycross, several local women made
a strong fight for the league idea of
developing the waterpower, while in
Savannah, Mrs. Frank Mclntyre, na
tional committeewoman from the
state of Georgia, spoke for the wo
men of Savannah, and they are giv
ing the question careful study and in
time will wield a big influence on
the settlement of it. Mrs. Coving
ton, of Moultries, will be one of the
speakers here next Wednesday. She
is one of the most brilliant woman
speakers in the south. Indeed, she
is an even match for her distinguish
< d husband on the rostrum and those
who heai’ her will be delighted.”.
Colombian Treaty To
Vote In April Session
WASHINGTON, March 10.-
Agreement to defer action ,on the
Colombian treaty until the April ses
sion of congress and to vote on the
treaty on the eighth day after con
gress convenes was reached today by
the senate.
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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON •
Good Middling, 11 3-4 c.
NEW YORK FUTURES
Pc Open 11am Ipm Close
May 11.80 11.95 11.89. 11.83 11.81
July 12.3 Q 12.47 12.34 12.32 12.30
Oct. 12.86 13.00 12.91 12.90 12.83
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia—Fair to
night and Friday; colder in southeast
and light frost in north portion to
night; rising temperature Friday in
North and central portion.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Store.)
4pm 65 4am 53
6pm 65 6am .’5-0
8 pm .....65 8- am 50
10 pm 65 10 am ............55
Midnight 60 Noon 62
2am 55. 2pm 65
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SUMTER hogs in
BIG DEMAND FOR
CUBAN MARKET
Over $5,000 Worth
Bought Wednesday; 25
Cars In Two Weeks
Probably the most successful hog
co-operative sales yet held in Sumter
county was that Wednesday at the
Americus pens, when' four carload.-,
of swine, numbering 358 head and
weighing approximately 72,000
pounds, were sold to Harper Broth
ers of Albany, represented by C. D.
Mayfield, for a total of $5,545.44.
Eight other bidders attended the
sale, and bidding was lively through
out. George O. Marshall, county
farm demonstration agent, was in
charge of the sale and did the grad
ing in person.
Forty farmers participated in the
offerings. The largest sellers were
C. C. Hawkins, with 83 head; J. K
Myers with 40 and Sam R. Heys with
about the same number.
Hogs Grade High.
Os the hogs sold, 220 weighing an
aggregate of 43,805 pounds, classed
No. 1, worth $4,012.53; 82, weigh
ing 11,885 pounds, classed No. 2,
worth $969.81; 54 weighing 9,085
pounds, classed No. 3, worth $650.48,
and 2, weighing 205 pounds, classed
No. 4, worth $12.62.
Harper Brothers purchased the
hogs for export, they being shipped
direct from Americus to Havana via
the Central of Georgia Railway. They
will be sold there to Cuban butchers.
The four cars bought at this sale by
Harper Brothers make a total of nine
cars of hogs shipped by that concern
this week from Americus territory,
besides 16 cars shipped last week
from this section, all of them being
consigned to Havana.
Bring Big Price.
Tops brought $9.16 per cwt., al
Wednesday’s sale, this being account
ed for, according to Harper Brother’s
buyer, by the advantage secured
through buying in large lots at co
operative sales, together with the ex
cellent condition of the hogs offered
and facilities available for their quick
transportation to the Cuban market,
where hogs are now in steady demand
at good prices.
On Tuesday an additional carload
of hogs were sold at the Americus
pen to H. L. Watfcrs, for shipment to
White Pine, Tenn., for further feed-
These hogs were selected to fill
this particular demand, and would
have gone into the Wednesday sale
had they not found the earlier mar
ket.
Wife not thief
FOR SQUANDERING
HUBBY’S MONEY
SAVANNAH, March 10.—“ If
every woman who squanders her
husband’s money were guilty of
larceny, the penitentiary would not
be large enough.”
This was one of the several wit
'ty remarks passed by Judge Peter
W. Meldrim in the superior court
as he sat in judgment upon the
case of Mrs. Minnie Cohen against
her husband, H. Cohen. Mrs. Co
hen was seeking to have the court
order her husband to pay her ali
mony. She was unsuccessful in
the attempt.
• Mr. Cohen conducts a second
hand shoe store. Mrs. Cohen con
tended she left her husband because
he called her a “thief.” Mr. Cohen
subsequently field suit for divroce,
alleging cruel treatment, insofar
as he says Mrs. Cohen abused him
in his store and threw' shoes at
him. When Judge Meldrini heard
the testimony about the shoe
throwing he said:
“You should feel complimented
that anyone should throw shoes at
you at their present, high prices!”
A little further on the testimony
developed Mr. Cohen made about
$25 a week in his business. The
judge expressed considerable sur
prise that anyone handling shoes
should make such a small profit
' per week.
When Mr. Cohen was on the
stand, Col. Robert L. Colding, at
torney of Mrs. Cohen, flashed Mr,
Cohen’s divorce petition and at
tepmted to construe from the alle
gation therein that Mrs. Cohen
took her husband’s money, and
squandered it that she had been
dubbed a thief. Then Judge Mel
drim gave his momentous decison
which leads this story.
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Russia is reported in an uprising against the BolsheviJj rulers. Petrograd is the storm center and Lenin
and Trotzky (right) are rushing forces from Moscow (arrow) to put down the Petrograd rebels. Soldiers and
sailors from the island fortress of Kronstadt are said to have captured Oranianbaum and some reports say they
hold Petrograd. The rebels demand the execution of General Avaroff (left), Russia’s advocate general, who has
sentenced thousands to death, and M. Zinovieff, chief propagandist (below Avarotf). Some reports say Zinovieff
has been captured and taken to Kronstadt. - i 'H&W $
WOMAN GOES TO
TRIAL AS SLAYER
OF JAKE HAMON
Both Sides Say They
Will Not Attempt
‘Grand-Standing
ARDMORE, Okla., March 10)
(By The Associated Press). —All the
principal figures in the trial of Clara
Smith Hamon, charged with the mur
der of Jake L. Hamon, oil and rail
road millionaire, and Republican na
tional committeeman from Oklahoma,
were in readiness for the opening of
the trial today.
Both the defense and state counsel
said they would be content with hand
ling of the case on its merits as a
murder case without “resorting to
grand standing.”
Judge Thomqs W. Champion pre
sided at the trial and called the case
promptly at 9 o’clock. The defend
ant entered accompanied by her
mother and sister.
Mrs. Jake L. Hamon, the widow,
wasn’t in the courtroom.
A new oil gusher brought in west
of Ardmore caused a diversion of in
terest just before the trial opened.
Jake L. Hamon died November 25,
last, five days after he was shot. The
shot that caused Mr. Hamon’s death
was consistently declared by Frank
L. Ketch, his business manager, to
have been “self-inflicted” through
the “accidental discharge” of a 22-
calibree automatic pistol which Mr.
Hamon was cleaning.
Charged With Killing.
Clara Smith Hamon was charged
with assault with intent to kill in in
formation filed by County Attorney
Russell B. Brown the day following
the shooting, which later was changed
to a charge of murder. A separate
-information was filed’jointly charg
ing Clara Smith Hamon and Jake
Hamon with a statutory offense.
Warrant on. this charge was never
served.
Clara Smith Hamon was graduated
from the common schools of Lawton,
Okla, afterwards attended business
eoUege at Fort Worth, Tex., and
Oklahoma City, Okla., and later as
sumed-a position as cashier and book
keeper in several stores at Lawton.
Mrs. Clara Hamon entered the em
ploy of Jake Hamon in the summer
of 1912 in the capacity of a private
secretary, which position was main
tained until a short time before. Mr.
Hamon met his death. It had not
been established at the time of her
trial whether Mrs. Hamon was in Mr.
Hamon’s employ at the time of his
death.
Disappeared After Shooting.
Mrs. Clara Hamon disappeared the
day following the wounding of Jake
Hamon and despite a search which
gained nation-wide scope, was not dis-
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THRUSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 10, 1921
PARENTS ASK $40,000 FOR
SWITCHMAN GOEN’S DEATH
Mystery Surrounding Manner of Accident Cleared,
Suit In City Court
Indicates
Suit for $40,000 for the death of
their son, John Clifford Goens, young
switchman who was killed in the
Central of Georgia yards here while
on duty on the night of October 6,
last, has been brought in the city
court of Americus by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Goens, of Fort Gaines.
The suit was filed by Attorney Ben
Turnipseed, of Fort Gaines and Shipp
and Sheppard, of Americus. The
case will be docketed for the March
term of the city court, which will con
vene Monday, March 20.
The circumstances surrounding the
exact manner of the death of Goens
were a mystery at the time of the ac
cident, but the details apparently
have been cleared up, according to
covered until she voluntarily gave
herself up at Juarez, Mexico, shortly
before Christmas. Ardmore county
officials and attorneys from Fort
Worth, Tex., who had been retained
by Mrs. Hamon’s uncle, Benjamin
Harrison, of lowa, as counsel shortly
before she surrendered, accompanied
her back to Ardmore.
Clare Hamon arrived in Ardmore
on Christmas Day and was granted
her freedom under bond of $12,000
only a. few moments aftei entering
the sheriff’s office, which served as
a court room for her preliminary
hearing and serving of bail. She
pleaded not guilty. Following her
release Mrs. Hamon spent the greater
part of her time with her relatives
at Wilson and Ringling, Okla., west
of Ardmore, and in consultation with
her attorneys at Fort Wortn.
It was many days after the search
for Mrs. Hammon began before it
was learned that Clara Smith at one
time bore the name of Hamon, which
she later asserted was the name to
which she responded. This informa
tion was brought out through tne al
legations of Ruth Walker Hamon of
San Francisco, who declared she was
the wife of Frank Louis Hamon, for
mer husband of Clara Smith and
nephew of Jake Hamon.
Divorced in 1917.
Ruth Hamon in her statements de
clared that Clara Smith and Frank
Hamon were divorced at Weather
ford, Tex., May 2.3, 1917. This state
ment was later corroborated by rec
ords on file in.the court clerk’s of-,
free at Weatherford.
Ruth Hamon further* stated that
Frank Hamon was paid SIOO a month
by Jake Hamon as compensation for
marrying Clara Smith. Raymond
Hamon, Frank’s brother and also
nephew of Jake Kamon, declared his
the petition of the suit. This al
leges that while at work in the dark
Goens stumbled and fell over a “large
arch-brick of cement left by the
track” and also over a pile of cind
ers, falling under the wheels of a
freight car and being ground to death
and horribly mangled. It sets forth
also that as he worked at night, he
had no way of becoming familiar
with the obstructions along the track.
He had been in the employe of the
Central only a day or two when
killed.
The position sets out that he was
only 22 years of age, had an expect
ancy of 41 years, was earning $225
per month and therefore that his
parents, his next of kin, are entitled
tp recover $40,000 damages.
IRISH ‘CURFEW’
FOR MILITARY
Death Threatened To
All On Street After 10
O’clock
DUBLIN, March 10.—Notices es
tablishing a “curfew for Crown
forces” were posted in a number of
places throughout Dublin last night.
They were signed by the “Irish Re
publican Army,” and gave warning
that any soldiers or policemen seen
on the streets after 10 o’clock at
night were liable to be shot. *
FOUR FOUND SLAIN,
SINN FEIN VICTIMS
BELFAST, March 10.—Four men
who had incurred the displeasure of
Sinn Feiners were killed near here
Tuesday night. A label on the body
of James ’Maher, former soldier, bore
the word “Spy.” Two others were la
belled, “Tried, convicted and execut
ed by, the Irish Republican Army.”
uncle paid Frank SIOO monthly be
cause of the latter’s ill-he’alth.
Interviews purporting- to have been
given newspapermen and others dur
ing her travel to Mexico and before
she surrendered were denied by Mrs.
Hamon in sighed 'statements, made
after she started back to Ardmore.
Mrs. Jake L. Htimo'n, of. Chicago,
widow, stated when in Ardmore ami
Oklahoma City that she did not at
that time desire to apprehend Clara
Smith nor was it her wish to have hei
prosecuted. She declared then that
Mr. Hamon’s death-bed statement
that he died from accidental wounds
was her belief.
Injection of Clara Hamon’s claim
to a share of Jake Hamon's estate
threw another angle into the- case,
upon which, defense counsel declared,
would be brought to bear the disclo
sures that would follow. Defense
counsel maintained strict secrecy
surrounding all of Clara Hamon’s tes
timony that would be introduced at
the trial.
Secretary Hughes Is
Silent On Report Os
Paris Foreign Office
French Position Conciliatory And Believed so
Relate To Expressions Os Present
Officials
PARIS, March 10.— (B4Associated Press.) —It was stated at the for
eign office today that negotiations were under way between the French
Embassy and the State Department at Washington in an effort to induce
President Harding to favor the acceptanceof a modified League of Na
tions.
The French position was conciliatory and is believed to relate to ex
pressions by officials connected with the present government at Wash
ington, made during the peace conference.
WASHINGTON, March 10.—(By Associated Press.)—Administration
officials withheld comment today on the statement made at the French For
eign Office that negotiations were under way between the French Em
bassy here and the State Department with regard to the acceptance by the
United States of a modified League of Rations. The impression was
given, however, that the initiative in any such development rested entirely
with the French government, and that in any event the matter had not
reached the stage of negotiations.
Secertary Hughes refused to discuss the situation.
LUMPKIN BANK
LOOT IS FOUND
Missing Deeds And Poli
cies Picked Up Near
Poulan
LUMPKIN, March 10.—Customers
of the Baijk of Lumpkin, a bank until
recently in business in this town,
were much gratified on receiving the
news this week of the finding of
their deeds, fire and' insurance poli
cies, and other papers of to
themselves, which were sto en by
yegginc n last October.
It will be remembered that yegg
men entered the vault of that bank I
and rifled all the safety deposit i
boxes. These various boxes con- I
tained many papers of value only to
the owners, besides a good many con- j
taini'ng Liberty Bonds, War Savings i
Stamps, a small amount of currency ;
and some jewelry, all of which with
their personal papers were stolen.
Some of the registered bonds were
found early in January near Yates
ville, buried in a fruit jar under a
country chtjrch. They were discov
ered by a workman, there who saw
the freshly dug earth under the
church and on investigation the reg
istered bonds that were stolen were
found and promptly returned to their
proper, owners.
Last week a rural carrier in going
on his rounds from Poulan, Ga., dis
covered near the road in a swampy
place about one mile ffrom Poulan a
pile of papers which he saw should
be investigated. They proved to be*
the remaining papers stolen from the
bank’s vault, with exception of bonds,
cash, stamps and jewelry, It is a
relief to the owners to secure even
this much of their lost property, as
it is considerable trouble and ex
pense to have duplicated some of the
very, necessary papers that were
stolen.
There is no clue as to by whom the
papers were placed in these widely
separated places.
Hand Bag Stolen On
Trip, Sues For $172.40
Charging negligence on the part
of the Central of Georgia Railway for
the loss from under his Pullman bertn
11,l l, while he was
asleep on a trip to Atlanta, Edgar
M. Butt, of Americus, through Shipp
& Sheppard, has brought suit in the
city court for recovery of $172.40,
the value of a hand bag and contents.
The contents listed were One suit of
clothes, 3 silk shirts,’ 2 suits of un
derwear, 6 silk collar.' 3 pairs of sox,
2 ties and one shaving outfit. .
Panama Ref uses To
Accept White Award
WASHINGTON, March 10.—Pan
ama refuses to accept the White
award as a basis of peace with Costa
Rica, it informs the American gov
ernment in a note made public by the
State Department today. (The
American note, to which it was a're
ply suggested such an acceptance by
both countries and Costa Rita has al
ready accepted.
CAMPAIGN STILL ON.
Because of a funeral interfering,
no report was made today by M. W.
Reddick, principal, in the campaign of
the Americus Institute, colored
school, for funds.
“Please tell the people that the
campaign is still going well and that
we will report tomorrow,” said he.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THREE BRIGADES
DESERT SOVIET
Petrograd Taken By
Rebels and Bolshevik
Leaders l ? lee
RIGA, March the Asso
ciated Press),—Three brigades of
Bolshevik soldiers in Moscow have
deserted and joined the revolution
ary' cause, it is said in advices re
ceived here.
Their action was prompted by the
acute food shortage in the capital,
it was said.
PETROGRAD TAKEN;
SOVIET CHIEFS FLEE.
LONDON, March 10.—A dispatch
to The London Times from Riga,
dated Wednesday, says that all the
Bolshevik leaders in Petrograd cs- ,
caped by motor car following the
capture by the revolutionaries this
,mornjng of the entire city, with the
exception of the Nicolai and Finland
Railroad stations. The Soviet troops
suffered heavy losses at Krasnoye
Selo, eighteen miles soutneast or
Petrograd, and at Gatchina, thirty
miles to the southwest.
The Krasnove Gorko and Oraien
baum Fortresses have surrendered.
The Red army had retreated twenty
versts.
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Ex-Americus Man Is
Badly Hurt In North
Americus friends of Carl Mcßath,
who formerly resided here, and was
engaged in electric wiring and fix
ture enterprises, will regret to learn
of his serious illness at a hospital in .
Michigan City, Ind. About twelve'’
days ago Mr. Mcßath was severely i
hurt in a wreck which occurred be
tween Chicago and Michigan City, as
he was returning to his work, after
a visit to his family, sustaining a
fractured hip which may. prevent his
ever walking apain.
During the residence of Mr. Mc-
Bath in Americus he made many
friends by the sincerity of his. dispo
sition and his generosity, and these
will :-yn.yathize with him in his in
jury. ’ . '
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1 hired man named Jonas?