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FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. 62
Hurled Chair Fired Pistol, Says Hamon Girl
EVAN MATHIS TO
HEAD DRIVE HERE
FOR GREAT TECH
Million-A-Year For Five
Years Sought—Fifth
Pledged Outside
Evan T. Mathis, Jr., of this city,
has been offered, and has accepted,
the chairmanship of the Greater
Georgia Tech committee for Sumter
county, and will have charge of this
important branch of the campaign
designed to raise $1,000,000 a year
lor 5 years for the Georgia School
ct Technology. Mr. Mathis is a
young Tech alumni. He is a broth
er ot the late Lieut. John D. Mathis,
for whom the local American Legion
Pest was named, and himself served
in the war as- a lieutenant overseas.
He is now doing' engineering con
struction work with the Rylander in
terests.
The Greater Georgia Tech cam
paign will begin April 20, under pe
culiarly favorable conditions, its
objective is $5,000,000, to expand
the Georgia School of Technology
(into a technical training institution
capable of an enrollment of at least
5,000 students, and of training them
as well as any school in the world
into producers; men who will develop
the enormous natural resources of
the state, now for the most part
either untouched or sent out in crude
form to be made into valuable coni
mercail products in other states,
which thus reap practically ail the
benefit and profit.
Georgia begins work on this fund
with a challenge from Georgians in
New York City, headed by Ivy L.
Lee, that they will raise in New York
and the East $1,000,000, if Georgia
will raise the remainder. On top of
Uns comes the approval of the
Georgia Cotton Manufacturers’ As
sociation cl a resolution tia; its
members shall contribute sso'l,oo'l
to tin. fund.
The appointment of a chairman in
this county is a step in a great gen
eral organization, beginning with the
acceptance of Victor Allen of Bu-‘
ford -as chairman of the state exec
utive committee. The state is di
vided into five regions, with a ehair
man for each, having approximately
thirty counties under his general su
pervision. The county unit organ
ization, however, is probably the
most important factor of the entire
plan, and the general committee is
exercising the greatest care in choos
ing men to whom the appointments
will be offered.
The Greater Georgia Tech made
possible by the fund will include in
its scope a research laboratory—the
only one south of the Mason and
Dixon line; of vast importance to
all the state’s industries; an exten
sion service, by which Georgia in
dustries will be supplied experts at
any time, to go to their plants and
assist in working out their prob
lems; an industrial development de
partment, for the bringing together
of capital—from outside states as
well as in Georgia—and Georgia op
portunities; and the technical train
ing of Georgia’s greatest asset, her
young men, to take charge of her
industrial affairs and send her io
the front rank of the industrial
states of the Union.
U.SRICHERBY
HALF BILLION
WASHINGTON, March 15.—The
American people today had their an
nual day of reckoning. Their labor
iously reckoned incomes and business
profits for 1920 were presented in the
form of business and excess profit
tax returns to collectors of internal
revenue throughout the country. The
government expected to Lie richer to
night by more than half a billion dol
lars, according to treasury estimates.
School Girls Hear U. S.
Woman Health Expert
Dr. Elibabeth Bass Reed, who is
an experienced physician and lec
turer of note, is in Americus for
two days under the «auspices of the
U. S. Public Health Service to do
educational work among the women
and girls.
Tuesday morning, in company
with Dr. B. F. Bond, county commis
sioner of health, Dr. Reed visited
the Americus High Schtfol, tile Third
District Agricultural College and
the Americus Institute, colored,
where she talked to the girls, num
bering a total of"about 300. She.is
specializing in the fight on veneral
diseases, and her talks were on. sex
hygiene. She had hoped to be able
to address a meeting of the women
of the citv. also, but indicated that
she would not be able to do so on
this trip.
Dy. Reed practiced medicine in St.
Louis for several years and has had
an extensive experience with the
U. S. expeditionary forces’ overseas.
Her last service abroad was with
the women and children of Palestine.
GERMAN INDUSTRY IS BOOMING
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A. B & A. FAILS TO
MEET PAYROLL
Funds For Purpose Be
ing Sought, Says
Receiver
ATLANTA, March I s.—The At
lanta, Birmingham & Atlantic road
today failed to meet its semi- month
ly payroll of approximately SIOO,-
000, according to an announcement
posted on the bulletin boards
along the line. Receiver Bugg
stated that efforts were being made
to provide funds for this propose.
MEN REFUSE CUT ON
NEW YORK CENTRAL.
NEW YORK. March 15.—Repre
sentatives of common labor employ
ed by the. New York Central today
promptly rejected the wage cuts
nroposed by the road, and declined
to join in a joint request to the Rail
road Labor Board’ to adjust the mat
ter. Thereupon the officials noti
fied the men the reductions would
become effective April 1 in any
event.
SOVIETTROOPS
LEAVING CHIEFS
STOCKHOLM, March 15.—Rus
sian Bolshevik authroities seem to
be losing control of the Soviet
troops, it is said in dispatches re
ceived here from Finland and Etho
nia. These messages for the most
part were confused, and unreadable,
were pouring into the city yesterday
and last night.
5 Burn To Death As
Pullman l akes Fire
PUEBLO, Colo., March 15—Five
persons were burned to death when
the rear Pullman car on a Denver
and Rio Grande train caught fire ear
ly today between Pueblo and Wal
senburg. The origin of the fire is
undetermined.
Grand Sword Bearer
To Inspect Templars
John B. Russell, of Fitzgerald,
grand sword bearre, Knights Temp
lar, will be in Americus for the reg
ular annual inspection of DeMoley
Commandery Wednesday of this
week, and the inspection will be held
at 5 o’clock in the afternoon, Fred
C. ’ Smith, eminent commander, an
nounces.
Benson And Harding
In Long Conference
WASHINGTON, March 15.—Rear
Admiral Benson, chairman of the
U. S. Shipping‘board, had a long con
ference with President Harding to
day. ,
PERSONALS.
Miss Annie Ivey has gone to Bir
mingham where she will visit her
brothers, Dc-uglas and William Ivey.
While there she will attend a dance
at the Tutwiler Hotel.
Mrs. E. W. Strange and Misses
Sarah Strange were visitors hero
Tuesday from Ellavillei
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weather.
Forecast for Georgia-Showers
late tonight or Wednesdays not
much change in temperature.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Store.)
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6 pm 72 6 am ..60
8 pm 70 8- am 62
10 pm 68 10 am : 70
Midnight 66 Noon 76
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THETIMESgREjCORDER
Sa?' PUBLISHED IN THE HEART Or~DIX
THE PLAY IS THE THE THING—WITH GERMANY
On Way To Wonderful
Prosperity, Says
Bronner
BY MILTON BRONNER.
LONDON, March 15.—The boom
ing of German industry instead of
the booming German cannon echoes
in the ears of the allied troops tak
ing positions on the Rhine to enforce
reparations demands.
German industries are on the way
to wondeful prosperity while the
German government insists, “We
are broke and cannot pay."
The government is broke, but Ger
man industry—which must support
the government—is far from finan
cially strained.
Great private companies and
trusts are making huge profits in
German markets, but the govern
ment shows balances all on the
wrong side of the budget.
French critics say this is because
the state machine maintains on, th.e
payroll an army of needless func
tionaries, and that pay for employes
of the railway, posts and telegraph
has been recklessly raise*.
Public Treausry.
At the end of ia.t October Ger
many’s floating and funded debt
was 288,000,000,000 marks, of
which only 91,000,000,000 marks
was funded. The total debt was es
timated for January 1 as 318,000,-
000,000 marks.
These sums are exclusive of what
Germany will have to pay Germans
for deliveries of ships, agricultural
machinery, horses and war material
to the allies, estimated at 131,000,-
000,000 marks; also of reparations.
The government is faced with a
deficit of 70,000,000.000 marks for
the present financial year on cur
rent obligations in paying for the
allied armies of occupation, com
missions and requisition, on run
ning her own postal and railway ad
ministration, and on the govern
mental budget.
The total year’s expenses are es
timated at 114,000,000,000 'marks;
total returns from taxation, 43,000,
000,000 marks; total national in
come. 100,000,000,000 marks. So
the German people are taxed to ths
extent of 43 percent.
Coal Situation.
Herr Hue, the German miners’
leader, has claimed Germany was
far less able to satisfy its needs for
coal than either Gri'at Britain or
France.
But last August the output of coal
in Germany, excluding the Saar and
Palatinate, was 10,788,096 tons.
Added to this were increased pro
duction of lignite from German pits
and imports from Czecho-Slovakia.
In the same month Germany ex
ported 2,422,979 tons, of which 1,-
900,000 tons went to the allies. This
left 10,654,679 tons for Germany’s
use.
German requirements in August,
1913, were 13,000,000 tons, so tha;
last Aiigust Germany actually had
82 percent of her pre-war require
ments. t In September Germany left
for her own use 89 percent of her
pre-war requirements.
Iron and Steel.
Germany has been rapidly recov
ering from the blow struck by the
peace treaty, which took away from
it many of its iron ore mines.
German is working more inten
sievly the iron ore fields that still
remain, is importing greater quanti
ties of Swedish and Spanish ores,
and is negotiating for purchases
from French firms.
This has considerably changed the
character of Germany’s business.
From being an exporter of semi-fin
ished products like pig iron, blooms
and billets, she now imports these.
Germany will work this iron up to
the highest stages of manufacture
possible. Great trusts are being
formed for this purpose, one of
them, the Rhine Elbe Union, having
a capital of 500,000,000 marks and
employing 200,000 men.
The blast furnaces and stehl
works of Germany are probably al
ready producing 60 percent of ca
pacity.
The coal strike and high prices
in. England enabled German firms tc
get large orders for locomotives,
rolling mills and electrical plants.
Dividends for the year 1919-20 in
variably show an increase over 1913
Chemical Industry.
Few figures have been printed
anywhere on the status of the Ger
man dye industry.
As in other lines of business, the
tendency has been to form huge
combinations controlling far, ben
zol, ammonia, nitrogen and other
products. Over $40,000,000 worth
of dyes were sold to England alone
during 1920.
The great potash combine has
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 15, 1921.
CHANGES MADE
BY LEGION POST
New Commander And
Adjutant—Plans For
Future Laid
At a spirited meeting of John
D. Mathis Post, American Legion,
held Monday evening in the office
of Gordon Howell, two officers re
signed and their places were filled
and a start made in a rejuvenated
post, with a revivjd spirit and new
activity.
The resigning officers were Com
mander Dan Chappell and Adjutant
Ben Hogue. Rev. Frank P. Andet
son was chosen commander and
James P. Gartner adjutant. At the
conclusion of the meeting Com
rnander Anderson named Mr. Chap
pell and Jack Holst a committee t»
work out plans for future activities
and growth of the post.
Shortl yafter the covening of the
meeting Commander Chappell de
clared that he desired to present
his resignation for the good of the
post. He explained that since being
made commander he had taken pub
lic office and it would be well to
have another hold the place of com
mander. The resignation was ac
cepted.
At this point some spirited per
sonal remarks from among the mem
bership took place, which were fol
lowed by the resignation of Adj.
Ben Hogue, and its acceptance. The
election of new officers and steps
looking to new life in the post fol
lowed.
TALAAT PASHA
ASSASSINATED
BERLIN, March 15.—Talaai
Pasha, former grand vizier and min
ister of finance of Turkey, was as
sassinated in Charlottenburg, a
western suburb of Berlin, today by
an Armenian student. The assassin
was arrested.
Auto Wreck Victims
Continue To Improve
Word from the bedsides of all the
victims of Sunday evening’s auto
wreck east of Americus today was
that all were continuing to show im
provement. Little Helen Sheffield,
who sustained a fractured skull, ex
hibited normally good symptoms;
Robert Hawkins, who suffered three
broken ribs, was doing well, and S.
K. Baker, father of Mrs. W. A.
Hawkins, continued to show im
provement, increasing the hopeful
ness for his early complete recovery.
Butchers’ Union Officer
Named For Conference
CHICAGO, March 15.—Dennis
Lane, secretary and treasurer of the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen’s Union and an
other labor representative not yet
named will represent the packing
house workers at a conference in
Washington on March 21 with repre
sentatives of the packers and the
secretaries- of labor, commerce and
agriculture, it was announced today.
shown improvement in IJ2O com
pared to the preceding year.
This syndicate has been actively
canvassing the American market
and expects to make huge sales in
the United . States.
The extile industries of Germany
have been troubled by the high cost
of taw materials.
The first three-quarters of 1920
were very bad, but the latter part
of the year and the first months of
1921 showed a decided improve
ment.
One great disappointment w’hs
that just when the price of raw cot
ton fell in America, the rate of ex
change dropped from 38 to 90 marks
to the dollar, thus depriving the
German factories of the chance to
get cheaper raw material.
The last report by the Gerami!
Forcgin Trade department said cot>
ton spinners and weavers were for
the most part supplied with orders
for the spring of 1921.
German, artificial silk has been
developed to such an extent that
the mills now ex’pect to be able to
fulfill all home demands.
AMERICUS TO BE
SHOWN ITS LOSS
ON LIGHT RAWS
Marion Jackson To Pre
sent Figures At Power
Meeting Wednesday
Tomorrow, Wednesday, is the day
for the waterpower convention and
10:30 o’clock at the county court
house is the time and place. Let
ters from over the district indicate
that there will be a good attend
ance.
The meeting will be called to or
der by the executive secretary, play
er will be offered by one of the lo
cal pastors, Mayor Sheppard will
welcome the convention to the citj
and response will be made frou
some ot the out-of-town delegates.
One of the local ladies will welcome
the ladies of the convention and this
will complete the preliminaries.
With the statement of the object
of the meeting, two pt three short
addresses will be made bearing di
rectly on certain phases of the wa
terpower development. Marion Jack
son, of Atlanta, attorney for the
league, will explain the waterpower
bills before the legislative and the
open forum will begin, in which
everybody in the convention W:1 be
allowed Io speak or ask questions.
Secretary Greer has sent a special
invitation to the local power com
pany, offer .ng them twenty minutes
in the beginning of the convention
to state their position or to refute
the arguments of the municipal and
state ownership of public utilities.
Mrs. W. A. Covington, of Moul
trie, wife of W. A. Covington, who
introduced the waterpower bills in
the last assembly, will address the
convention on the value waterpower
development will be to the women ot
the state. Mrs. Covington is one of
the most brilliant women in the
south and her oratory is equal to
that of her distinguished husband.
One feature of the convention
which will be of especial interest to
the local people will be the address
of Mayor J. Gordon Jones, of Cor
dele, on Municipal OWTraTshlp oi
Public Utilities. Mr. Jones has re
cently called an election in his city
to vote bonds for the municipal light
plant. The light plant of his city
is owned by the J. G. White Com
pany of New York. They have
raised the price of current several
times during the last few years and
Cordele is now paying 16 cents a
k.w. and $4,600 to get her streets
lighted and the company has been
applying for an additional raise. In
his letter to the league, Mr. Jones
said that quite a number of his
council would come with him to the
convention, as well as a good dele
gation of citiens.
In writing to the league concern
ing this convention, Judge Max
Land, of Cordele, said:
“1 am with the league most heart
ily in their efforts to do the largest
work that has ever been accomplish
ed in this state. The state is set
for the greatest contest ever known
in the state and I believe the right
will prevail.”
The people of Americus are es
pecially urged to attend the conven
tion as Mr. Jackson will show this
city how much it is losing in the
light rates. He will also have fig
ures on several towns in the district.
EXTRASENATE
SESSION ENDS
WASHINGTON, March 15.—The
extra session of the senate, which
began. March 4. ended shortly before
noon today. After confirming a few
additional nominations by President
Harding, the senate adjourned sine
die.
The special session of congress will
be called for April 11, Senator Lodge
announced late yesterday.
World War On Jews
Declared In Vienna
VIENNA, March 15.—World wide
war on Judaism is contemplated in
adopted at the closing
session of the Austrian Anti-Semitic
congress yesterday. The World An
ti-Semitic congress was called to
meet at Budapest next autumn and
a central bureau was created to get
in touch with anti-Sernitic centers
throughout the world.
The resolutions call on the Aus
trian government to expel all alien
Jews by April 1, or accept the re
sponsibility for grave consequerices.
Robt. W. Bliss Named
To War Dept. Post
WASHINGTON, March 14.—Rob
ert Woods Bliss, of New York, now
chief of the state department division
of European affairs, was today nomi
nated by the president to be third
assistant secretary of state. The
nomination was confirmed by the
ment.
I. C. C. CHAIRMAN
WHO GIVES VIEWS -
ON R. R. PROBLEM
&&& i
vJipFS ..A
EDGAR E. CLARK
WAGECUTS NOR
RATE RAISES TO
SAVE RAILWAYS
Only Time Can Mend
Situation, Says I. C. C.
Chairman
BY H. B. R. BRIGGS.
WASHINGTON, March 15.
Neither sweeping wage reductions
nor increased rates will bring the
railroads out of then present gravs
financial situation, .according to Ed
gar E. Clark, chairman of the inter
state commerce commission.
Months at least, with most care
ful management, reduction of ail
operating costs and a general revival
of commerce, will be required to
save the transportation system 1 of
the country, he belle veil. ’
“In iny judgment there is no so
lution of the railroad problem under
which the roads will be able for a
considerable period in the future to
earn the 5 1-2 to 6 percent contem
plated in the transportation act,” he
says.
“It is utterly impossible to get
more revenue for the roads from in
creased rates. It is equally improb
able that operating expenses can be
speedily brought down to a basis that
will leave any substantial return
above fixed charges.
The Only Hope.
“The only hope for a solution is
a gradual process of improving
business, more traffic and readjust
ment of expenses, leading to a con
dition that will give reasonable fi
nancial return and stability of op
eration.
“This situation is a necessary
heritage of woe from the war and
it is going to take time to readjust
No business of magnitude has es
caped. None can shake off the ef
fects of such a disturbance except
by patient effort.
“The affairs of the world,-indus
trially, commercially and mentally,
have got to be gradually brought
back to normal. Not the normal of
pre-war standards, however; that u
impossible.
"Labor, for instance, can never
work in this country ai. pre-wat
wagps, and ought not to. But we
can roach, through readjustment,
conditions that will be stable, anil
fair, in the light of toiray.
Increases in Rates Impossible.
“I have no hesitancy in saying
that it is idle to talk about improv
ing the financial condition ot the
railroads by any further mcreases
in rates. Such increases would pro
duce less revenue, rather than
more.
“On the other hand, there can be
no general reduction in rates. Some
reductions have been made, as spe
cific cases, since the x general in
crease awarded last summer. Some
•other rediietions,. very important
reductions, affecting a large volume
of business, are about. to be made,
in view of hearings now in prog
ress.
. “Such readjustments arc made
when it appears that a reduction will j
still leav.e .a compensatory rate on
a commodity and tend to increase
transportation.
Board Lacks Power.
“I cannot comment .bn the wage
announcements of any particular !
roads nor discuss -the functions of j
the Rail Labor Board. It must act |
for itself and determine Its ow-n
powers and duties. It is worth
nothing, however, that the trans
portation act does not provide the
board with any method for enforc
ing its awards, either on the rail
roads or their employes.
“I expect to see the railroads
gradually reduce all their operating
costs. There should be a very con
siderable saving' on coal, for in
stance.
■ “The railroads consume, roundly,
one-third of the total bituminous
coal produced in the United States.
Last year they paid high prices.
(Continued on Page Two;)
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SLAYER OFRICH
G.O.F. LEADER
TFILSHER STORY
Court Adjourned Hour
For State’s Remark
About Her Mother
ARDMORE, Okla, March 15.
Clara Hamon today went on the wit
ness stand here to defend herself
against the charge of the murder of
Jake L. Hamon after a few other
witnesses had been heard. Her
counsel said her story to the jury
would be the summing of of the
case for the defense.
She spoke in a well-controlled
voice, but broke down aud sobbed
into her hankerch’ief when she tried
to tell what Hamon said when shot.
A demonstration of approval by
spectators when W. P. McLean, of
counsel for the defense, tooK excep
tion to a remark by S. S. Brown,
state counsel, in which Brown refer
“led to the mother of the defendant
as “an old woman,’’ caused Judge
Champion to older court adjourned
for an hour this morning. The de
fendant and her mother left the
court room in tears.
Clara Hamon told the jury she
shot and killed the oil multimillion
aire and Republican national com
mitteeman in self-defense. This is
a synopsis of her story:
“1 was 17—an unsophisticated
clerk in a store. Jake Hamon came
into the -store time and again, un
der the pretext of making purchases
at my counter.
“Finally he lured me to his of
fice, by promise of a better posi
tion.
“How I hated him aJLter that !
Dominated by Him.
“For 10-years- I was dominated
by him. But 1 came to. love him
And I did everything possible to
contribute to his success. It was I
who made many of the suggestions
that men attributed to his business
sagacity.
“But when he reached the apex
J-ls in. riches .•ind.-iroliinw, he
told me I must go. I agreed, I had
my railroad tickets, I was going far
away.
“On that last evening together
Hamon was drunk, He created a
scene on the hotel balcony about 6
o’clock. I left him and locked my
self in my room. Jhen I sent for
food. He pushed in behind tha
Waiter.
“He was enraged. He called me
a ‘terrible name.’ Then he grabbed
me by the throat with one hand and
by the fingers with the other. He
twisted my fingers to torture me.
Finally I broke loose.
“K'anion reached, for his knife and
made a threat to cut my throat. He
started to lunge toward me, with
his fingers clutching the air gro
tesquely. He grabbed a chjfir and
struck at me.
“At that moment I had my re
volver in my hand, pointing at him,
and I was calling to him to stop.
The chair struck the revolver and
discharged it. 1 did not pull the
triger, though the weapon was in
my hand.” Mrs. Jake Hamon, the
widow, took the stand as a witness
for prosecution yesterday. She told
how Jake Hamon d« -erted herself
and their two little children 10 years
ago, when he became infatuate!
with the girl clerk who domi
nated his life until—in tlie hour of
their final parting—she .shot him. •
Helped Him Rise.’
She told how she took Jake- Ham
on "for better or for worse”; how
she made no objection when he asked
.her to live in a tent, with him in the
oil fields; hqw she let him sleep
while she sat up nights with . the
sick children; how on the eve of his
great prosperity he deserted her.
“Taking, cai'e of children and liv
ing in a tenl and trying to assist my
husband made me old—and it wbulil
have made her old, too,”- was her
only reference to Clara Hamon.
“After 1 had grown old—old be
fore my time—she came along with
her beauty and insulted me by pa
rading with my. husband.
“I had' always been kin.d to Mr.
Hamon. I had never but once ask
ed him to get‘up at. night and care
for the children, and that was when
Olive was ill with diptheria.”
During the 'time Hamon and the
girl for whom he had given up his
family lived at the Rando.l Hotel
here,. Mrs. Hamon anil her son, Jake,
Jr; now 19, and her daughter, Olive
Belle, now 12, lived in Chicago.
Chamber of Commerce
Moves To New Theater
The Chamber of Commerce moved
its headquarters Monday evening
from the Cato building, on North
Jackson street, to the west store
room of the. Rylander theater build
ing. The office of Secretary Per
kins, Traffic Manager Everett,
Georre O. Marshal, county agent,
and Mrs. Olin Williams, county dem
onstrator. will all bt located ir. ths
now headmiarters, which is smaller
than the place vacated.
A quick.lunch, room will be opened
in the old Chamber headquarters bv
V. Poppes, well-known local Greek
restauranteur.