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THIS ONE BEATS ANN’S AGE.
A is 12. If to his age he added five
eighths of the ages of A- and B the sum
will be B’s age. How old is B?
Answer to yesterday’s: 4 days.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR—NO. 114
Aged Uncle of Scarborough, Long Unheard From,Turns Up
PRANCE AGAIN
PRINCIPAL OF
a. & m. college
1 rustees Hold An 'al
Meeting and Receive
II is “port
J. M. Prance was re-elected prin
cipal of the Third District Agricul
tural and Mechanical college here for
another year, his second term, at the
annual meeting of the board of trus
tees held at the college Thursday,
. beginning at 10 o’clock. The meet
ing was attended by the trustees
from ten counties in the district,
and was presided over by President
Walter E. Steed, of Butler.
The board, besides electing Mr.
Prance for another year, received his
annual report, which was a compre
hensive, yet concise statement of the
exact conditio f the school finan
cially and oth,..,vise, and embraced
a complete inventory of school prop
erty, which was an inovation in re
ports.
The trustees present were:
' W. I. Van Horne, Chattahooche;
J. E. Dennard, Stewart; W. J. Ma-'
this, Terrell; Ben Turnipseed, Clay;
Dr. B. B. Brooks, Macon; T. Hoyt
Davis, Dooly; Walter E. Steed, Tay
lor; J. D. Clifton, Lee; Frank La
nier. Sumter; E. J. Hart, Schley.
Mr. Steed has been president of
the board of trustees ever since the
establishment of the school fifteen
years ago. He was in the Georgia
house and helned prepare and put
through the bill creating the school
under the administration of Gover
nor Terrel. The institution has
been very dear to him, even though
not located in his home county, and
he never misses a meeting of the
board or ignores from the
school. He is also a member of the
state board of education.
BYROMVILLE -
QUIET AGAIN
Two Negroes Dead, 20
Arrested After Race
Riot
BYROMVILLE, May 19—Two ne
groes are dead and one white man
named Davis, from New Jersey, is
at the point of death in a Cordele
hospital as a result of a rar: riot
near here yesterday. The town -is
quiet today.
Twenty negroes have been placed
under arrest and at least twenty
five guns of various sizes have been
taken from negroes by the officers
of Dooly county.
At the hospital at Cordele )the
wounded man’s name is given as L.
C. Davis, of Summerville, N. J. He is
a former sohjier, passing through
en route to Fort Valley to pack
peaches, when he was deputized bv
the sheriff. His condition is critical.
He was wounded eight times.
Os the twenty negroes placed un
der arrest and taken to Vienna for
safe keeping, it develops that four
have been wounded, one seriously.
The twenty negroes barricaded
themselves in Tate Chapman’s home
nn the Will Bvrom farm and de
fied the authorities, after Chief of
Police Cunningham had failed in an
efort to collect city taxes from Chap
man.
Sheriff Vinson, Deputy Sheriff C
T ewis and a posse especially deputiz
ed moved on the barricaded house
before midnight after there had been
intermittent firing.
As the posse approached they were
fired upon. Davis falling wounded,
receiving eight wounds.
The negroes continued to hold
their fort until the posse threatened
tn burn the house. Thon they left
the house and continued to fire on
the nos«o. Tn this affray one negro.
Jim Beddenfield. fell dead and four
others wore wounded the worst
wounded being Tom West.
One of the negroes, a son of Fate
Chapman, got away from the posse
and was traced to Lilly, Ga., where
he again put up a fight. He was!
shot dead.
Chief Cunningham says that when |
he went to Fate Chapman’s house
to serve fi. fas. the negro assaulted
him and wrenched a pistol from his!
hands. He recovered the pistol, but
the negro was shot. .
Later the armed negroes assem
bled and sent out word, it is al
leged, that they were going to shoot,
up the town. It was then that the:
-•sheriff mp* his deputies rushed to the I
scene, engaging in a battle of several t
hours. Byromville is quiet.
TYPHUSIS FATAL
AT ELIIS ISLAND
I
NEW YORK. May 19.—Ellis Is
land, through which the bulk of the
country’s immigration passeTHoday
was placed tinder strict quarantine
because of the death yesterday from
typhus’of Andreas Steinback, a Ju
goslav.
Seventeen hundred immigrants
were removed to the detention station
on Hoffman’s Island.
SPORT SPOILERS
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COMESTOMAKE
BUSINESS PEACE
Edmund Rum pier Ger
many’s First Trade
Envoy
BY E. M. THIERRY.
NEW YORK, May 19—Germany
first big commercial envoy is in the
United States.
He is Edmund Rumpier, electrical
and mechaneial wizard, pioneer auto
mobile and airplane builder.
He won’t talk politics. He doesn’t
want to “interest American capital.’’
And he isn’t talking about “establish
ing big credits!’’
“I have come to America as a pio
neer in the restoration of business
relations between America and Ger
many,’’ he said at the Waldorf. “I’rfl
here as a private individual—a man
ufacturer—trying to set the wheels
running again.”
Rumpier, who is 49 and small and
chunky, struggled with his English
to make a violent denial of a report
that he was here to spend $100,000,-
000 for machinery.
“No, no!” he exclaimed, “I am
not going to spend $100,000,000 for
machinery. We haven’t got great
sums like that to spend.
“Germany will have goods to sell
if she can really get to work. The
masses in Germany have a desire to
work.
“We want to restore our industry.
For only 50 percent of our industry
is operating now.
“The only way to restore our in
dustry is to make new trade pacts
with America. Germany needs
America’s commercial friendship.
World problems can be settled only
by that.
“A world crisis continues because
there has been too much politics, not
enough business. The masses in
Germany are tired of politics, sick
of the haggling, discouraged because
such things keep them idle.
“We hope to fulfill all our obliga
tions. But while we are making a
politician’s peace, we must make a
business man’s peace.
“Business ought not be tied up
with politics. For politics is the curse
of industry—particularly in Ger- j
manv’s case now.”
What did Herr Rumpier think of
the reparations negotiations?
Not much —certainly little that
was flattering—to judge by his snort
of disgust.
“Our people are tired of all the
talk about reparations,” be said.
“There must be and will be repara
tions. But the payment of them is
being held back as lone; as politics
continue to cripple our industry.
“We hope for a ouick settlement.
We hope for the best. Otherwise
there will be an end to commercial
Germany.
“Mv mission here in America is
to find a market for German goods.
And to arrange for a German mar
get for so many things America has
that Germany needs.
“We are not seeking the invest
ment of American dollars. We seek
no great credits here. We seek only
a market —resumption of commer
cial relations.
“America is the master workshop
of the world. We need your finished
products, especially high-grade' steel
and tools and agricultural imple
ments, and special parts and ma
chinery used in the motor industry.”
Rumpier will visit American in
dustrial centers and talk with man
ufacturers in all lines. But he is es
pecially interested in automobiles,
airplanes and wireless telephone and
telogranh equipment.
. He is accompanied by Hermann
Aumer. director of the Rumpier
Works, where 6.009 men formerly
were employed in the designing and
building of airplane motors. He
started in this field ;’n 1908 and de
signed the famous Rumpier Paube
nlanc, the most popular of hi« inven
tions, hut in his opinion not his best.
He holds records of first u’ace in all
the important air races before the
war.
Credit is given TUumpler for de
signing Germany’s first two-evlinder
automobile as far back as 1897. He
now has an experimental station for
the perfection of airplane motors,
m'tar cars and refrigeration machin
ery.
With du» modesty. Rumpier de
ni ec he is the “scout for any army
of Germany’s big business men plan
ning a commercial invasion of Amer
ica.
“No,” he smiled, “I am here—
THE TIMESrWcbRDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART’OF
9 CARLOADS OF
SUMTER PEACHES
OUT IN TWO DAYS
T. B. Hooks, With 4
Cars, Largest Sin
gle Shipper
Nine carloads of peaches moved
out’of Sumter county Wednesday and
i Thursday over the Seaboard and the
Central of Georgia. The largest sin
gle shipper was T. B. Hooks, who
dispatched two ears yesterday and
two today from Gatewood Station, on
the Seaboard east of Americus. They
were shipped to Montgomery, going
northward from there via the L. &
N. to Cincinnati and Chicago.
The Central of Georgia handled
five cars yesterday and today from
Sumter county. Yesterday’s ship
pers were: J. H. Poole & Sons, one
! car from Maddox Station; Lee Hans-
I ford, one car from Americus; Easter
| lin Brothers, one car from Arles
i Station. Today’s shipments via the
I Central wene: Easterlin Brothers,
1 one car from Arles Station; J. H.
| Poole & Sons, one car from Maddox
Station.
I The Central of Georgia handled
one carload of peaches yesterday
from Smithville and 14 cars on the
Eufaula branch from the vicinity of
Cuthbert and Shellman. It is under
stood it handled 85 cars yesterday
between Smithville and Macon.
On Tuesday the Central inaugu
rated its annual peach special run
ning between Smithville and At
lanta as freight train No. 48. It
leaves Smithville daily at 2:20 p. m..
arriving at Americus at 3 p. m. and
connecting at Macon and Atlanta
with fruit trains of all other lines.
From Atlanta the cars are dispatch
ed in various directions, most of
them to Potomas Yards, Md., for re
billing by the Georgia Fruit Ex
change. A special runs on the Eu
faula branch to connect with it at
Smithville whenever there is any
business.
WEATHER.
forecast for Georgia—Fair to
night and Friday except cloudy on
the coast.
DIXIE HIGHWAY MEETING
CHATTANOOGA, May 19.—More
than two hundred delegates are here
attending the annual meeting of the
Dixie Highway association. Several
changes in the routing of the high
way through Kentucky are to be ad
vocated.
how do you say it?—on my own
hook-—yes! I have heard Hugo Ger
man business men who come here,
and the more American business
men who visit Germany—the quick
er world business will reach that
happy state of normalcy!”
"How about the huge trusts
springing up in Germany?” Rumpier
was asked. “The story is that Stin
nes will soon own all German indus
tries.”
“No! Stinnes is a mighty man in
his own lines, but German trusts are i
not as big as yours in America,” I
Rumpier replied. He added, grinning;
broadly: “You know there are no I
kings in Germany now—not even I
commercial kings.”
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19, 1921.
I Lane’s'Ashes tcfße
• A
Strewn to Wind on
Old El Capitan Peak
CHICAGO, May 19.—The body
of Franklin K. Lane, former secre
tary of the interior, who died yes
terday, was cremated here today.
His ashes will be taken to the top
of El Capitan Peak, in Yosemite
Valley, California, and scattered
to the winds ,in compliance with a
v request made by Mr. Lane.
Relatives explained the unusual
request by saying that he had
spent much of his life in Yosemite
and had grown to love it so much
that he wanted his ashes taken
there when he died.
There was no funeral services,
another request of Lane’s.
MESSAGE IS READ
AT WINONA LAKE
Northern Presbyterian
Assembly Cheers
Harding
WINONA LAKE, Ind., May 19.
(By Associated Press.)—President
Harding was cheered and the com
missioners from Presbyterian
churches all over the country rose to
their feet in homage to his office
when a message of greeting and in
spiration from him was read by the
retiring moderator, Dr. Samuel S
Palmer, of Columbus, 0., at the
opening session of the General as
sembly of the Presbyterian church
in the U. S. A.
President Harding in his message
said:
“I am very glad, indeed, to ex
press my interest in every such good i
work. Surely there is no intellec-1
tual and moral body in the country i
to which we may more confidently I
turn for wise assistance and sage !
guidance than to the Christian peo-!
pie who make up the body of our '
churches.
“Whatever may stimulate them to
greater activity; and, I feel, to in
creasing recognition of the concern
of Christian citizenship with the ad
ministration of our public affairs,
must necessarily be of service to the
nation.
“WARRBN G. HARDING.”
In opening the general assembly
Dr. Palmer expressed satisfaction
with the mark of 1,721,000 attained
last year.
CUMBERLANDS MAY
DROP SEX WORDS.
GREENFIELD, Mo., May 19. —
An amendment to the constitution of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
proposing to eliminate all reference
to sex was one of the most important
issues before the general assembly
which opened here today.
IDENTIFY WALL
ST. TRUCK DRIVER
BAYONNE, N. J., May 19 - The
police announced today that three
persons had identified Guise Phi de
Filippo, a truck man arrested yester
day on suspicion, as a man they had
seen in Wall Street within a few
hours of the disastrous explosion last!
September. I
WASHINGTON IN
MOURNING FOR
CHIEF JUSTICE
Death 1 akes Veteran Ju
rist—Was Confeder-
ate Soldier
WASHINGTON, May 19. The
death here at 2 o’clock this morning
of Edward Douglas White, veteran
chief justice of the United States,
cast a shadow of sorrow today over
the national capital where, during
his long years of service on the Su
preme court bench, he has grown
in the admiration and esteem, not
only of his official associates, but
of the entire community.
The chief justice, who was aged
76, had enjoyed rugged health up
to the time he was forced to submit
to an operation recently for bladder
trouble.
According to ithe tentative fun
eral arrangements, interment will be
in jOakhill cemetery, following sim
ple services under the Catholic ritual
at St. Matthew’s church at 10 o’clock
Saturday morning.
The funeral service for the chief
justice will be private, if was an
nounced today. The justices of the
Supreme Court will act as honorary
pallbearers. Members of the cabinet
and other high government officials
will attend.
Here is a tabloid biography of
Chief Justice White as prepared by
himself and published in the Con
gressional directory:
“Edward Douglass White, chief
justice of the United States, was
born in the parish of Lafourche, La.,
in November, 1845; was educated at
Mount St. Mary’s near Emmitsburg,
Md., at the Jesuit College in New
Orleans, and at Georgetown (D. C.)
College; served in the Confederate
army; was licensed to practice law
by the Supreme court of Louisiana
in December, 1868; elected state
senator in 1874; was appointed asso
ciate justice of the Supreme court of
La., 1878; was elected to the United
States senate as a Democrat, to -suc
ceed James B. Eustis, and took his
seat March 4, 1891; while serving
his term as senator fr#m Louisiana
was appointed, February 19, 1894,
I an associate justice of the Supreme
court, and took his seat March 12,
1894. Appointed by President Taft
December 12, 1910, chief justice of
; the United States, and took the oath
of office December 19, 1910.”
TAFT AND HUGHES
DISCUSSED FOR PLACE
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The
choice of a successor to Chief Justice
White was widely discussed in offic
ial circles today. Although the spec
ulation centered about the name of
former President Taft, there were
many indications that President
Harding was far from a decision.
Another name linked with the place
is Secretary of State Hughes, who
was a member of the court until he
retired in 1916 to accept the Repub
lican nomination to the presidency
Otheis mentioned are Justices D
and Holmes of the Supreme court.
MARKETS
AMERICUS COTTON MARKET |
Good middling cotton, 111-2 cents I
New York Futures.
Pc Open 11am Ipm Close I
July 12.78 12.79 12.68 12.64 12.63
Oct. 13 45 13.45 13.38 13.37 13.34 (
Dec. 13.80 13.73 13.74 13.72 13.69
CHIEF IUSTICE
WHO IS DEAD AT
AGE OF 76 YEARS
MWi
a•.
EDWARD D WHITE
GRADY OFF UNG
AND IS MISSING
Wife Phones Inquiry
From Montgomery,
Flis Destination
C. L. Grady, who was sentenced
to the chain gang here last year by
Judge Littlejohn following his esca
pades in seeking to obtain several au
tomobiles through bad checks, com
pleted his sentence last Friday and
was given a ticket to Montgomery,
Ala., by the county, that being his
home, he said. Yesterday, it is un
derstood, his wife, who figured in his
trial here and was herself tried for
attempting to aid her husband to es
cape jail, called a citizen of Ameri
cus by telephone from Montgomery
asking ifor information concerning
Grady, stating that he had not met
her, as had been arrangvU.
• The Times-Recorder has received
a letter signed by Grady attacking
a former member of the county con
vict forces, stating that this man had
beaten him nearly unconscious while
he was on the gang and had threat
ened to take his life. He also made
other charges.
Grady was regarded by all the men '
connected with the camp as the most 1
dangerous prisoner with whom they!
had to deal. He is said to have been
a constant agitator among the pris-!
oners and on at least one occasion I
induced a lad to run away which re-1
suited in the latter being caught and !
subjected to additional punishment |
because of Grady’s advice.
Grady was declared by the of
ficials to have be»ti unruly and to
have required severe measures to
keep him in subjection, eVen a'-x
his Baptism and alleged conversion.
On leaving the chain gung he is said
| to have, expressed the sentiment that 1
he was through with wrong doing
frem that time forward.
EX-GOV. CATTS IS
DOUBLY RJCITIVE
Indicted For Peonage At
Pensacola Bribe
Charge Pending
PENSACOLA, Fla., May 19.—As
a result of the indictment of Rev.
Sidney J. Catts, foi'mer governor of
Florida, by a federal grand jury here
yesterday on two counts (charging
that Catts held two negroes in peon
age, the former chief executive is
being sought by federal and
Bradford county 1 authorities.
Governor Catts was recently in
dicted by a Bradford county grand
jury for alleged acceptance of S7OO
from a life term convict for his in
fluence in obtaining a pardon for
the convict.
The federal indictment <\-il|-s
that Catts, after obtaining pardons
for two nygro convicts forced then,
to work on one of his farms in West
Florida.
Chinese Famine
Relief Fund Climbs
Nearly $25 in new contributions to!
the Chinese famine relief fund were
reported by the local treasurer, C.'
F. Giddings, today as follows:
Previously reported $405.84,
Mrs. B. F. Easterlin 5.001
Miss l izzie Worthy , .... 1.00 j
Miss Alice Worthy I.ooi
John Sheffield 5.001
Cash 5.00
Cash 2.50
Cash ....’ - 2.50
Mrs. W. H. St. John 2.00
Total— $429.84
MIAMI BANK CLOSES
MIAMI, May 19—The Miami Bank
and Trust company fafleil to open j
its doors this morning, having been
closed by order of the -state comp
troller.
CHALK UP ONE FOR GEORGE.
Artistic temperament is all bosh. Gro
cery clerks and opera stars are the same
under the skin.—George M. Spangler, bus
iness manager, Chicago Opera Cpmpany.y
UNLESS WILL IS J
FOUND ESTATE |
WILL GO TO HIM
- 1 , -'I
No Developments In
Solving Mystery Os
West Side
The only development of inteiest I
I since yesterday in connection with
the slaying of W. H. Scarborough
was the “turning up” of an unche of
the slain man, himself supposed to
have been dead many years. He is
Sidney E. Scarborough, brother of
W. 11. Scarborough’s father. In re
sponse to a note mailed him at An- I
niston, Ala., Tuesday by George E. ■'
Turpin, his boyhood friend, Mr.
Scarborough telegraphed that he was
the brother of the victim’s father
and had given the slain man life
"start.” He asked for particulars,
having evidently not heard of the
erime therefore. .
Unless a will is found, this de
velopment means that the estate, in
stead of going to the dead man’s
two cousins, Mesdames Morgan Stev
ens of Americus, and Hampton Stev- |
ens of Ellaville, as next of kin, will
go to the aged uncle.
Following the death of W. H. Scar
borough old time residents began
discussing his relatives. It was re
called by them that his father was
dead and that he had three brothers
and a sister, all of whom were gen
erally conceded to be dead. The
father’s name was Nez Scarborough,
the oldest brother Hardy and the
youngest Sidney. Nez, the father,
| his sister and his oldest brother were
known to be dead. Several old citi
zens who knew them all well in fot
mar years stated that “Sid” Scar
borough. the youngest' brother, also
died tnirty or more years ago in Lee
J county.
Turpin Knew Different.
Mr. Turpin, one of those who was
| a boyhood chum of Sidney Scarbor-
I ough, however, knew different. He
I recalled that less than two years ago
he received 4 telephone call one eve
ning between six and seven o’clock,
recognizing the voice as that of Sid
ney Scarborough, although he had
I not seen him in more than thirty
years. Mr. Scarbarough told him he
was at, the Central of Georgia sta
tic n in Americus passing through
and had only five minutes till train
time but couldn’t miss calling his
! old friend. He said he was on his
wav to his home in Xnniston, Ala.
1 So -when the controversy over the
| existence on this earth of a closer
illative than the two’cousins of the
, slain man arose, Mr. Turnin dropped
-a brief letter to S. E. Scarborough’
1 at Anniston, Ala., telling him of the
I murder and recalling that he was the
brother of the victim’s father. Yes
teiday afternoon he received the fol- |
I lowing te’egram.
“Own brother. 1 gavte Will his
start. Write particulars. S. E. g
Scarborough. \
Mrs. Morgan Stevens of Americus,
the temporary administratrix of the
estate, and who’with her sister was
supposed to be the dead man’s near
est relative, said in discussing the
family the day Tollowing the murder |
that S. E. Scarborough, the uncle J
who has turned up. had left here I
many years ago and had not been
heard of for more than thirty years, ,
which led to the conclusion that he
was l<sng rin’e dead. B|
Sidney Scarborough is well re
membered here. He was married at
Starksville, Lee county, to a sister’ of
Miss Alice Porter, a well known and
prominent womarf of the community ,
at that time, since said to be in Eu
rope.
With dozens of subpoenas an<£ jury |
summons to serve this week in prep- ;
aration for the 'convening Monday
of the May term of the Superior 3
court and the Sumter county grand
jury in regular session, Sheriff Har
vey and Deputy Summers have had
little time to put in this week in
ferreting out the crime. They are
as busy on it, however, as their oth
er duties will permit, although lit
tle if any real progress has been
made in solving the mystery.
It is a matter of comment about
the streets that some means to em- a
ploy a trained investigator to assist J
the sheriff in getting to the bottom
of the crime, which was against the/ j
public as much as any individuals; a
particularly at such a time as this |
when the official duties compel hint |
to prepare'for court in the serving
of scores of papers, necessitating
travel all over the county and ac
tivity many hours a day.
So' far as is known no move has
been made by those representing the
Scarborough estate to employ a de
tective to assist the officers.
The coroner’s jury met in ad- I
journed session at 3 o’clock thas-af
ternpon at the court house. From all '
indications, it will render a verdict
of homicide at the hands of unknown
persons.
Numerous rumors and reports eon- ,
cernintr the Scarborough (case are
current about the community, most
of them untrue. However, some of
them may have some bearing on the
killinc. W. J. Josey and W. A. Me-
Donajd were riding west of town
Sunday and passed the Scarborough
store about 11 n. m. Having a mat
ter to discuss with Scarborough,, they
planned to stop, but seeing t v e door
shut, they passed on. Later in the
day the door was found ouen. this
leading to the finding of his body.
How and when s he door was opened |
is not explained, although a neich- .
bor is said tn have remarked that
he saw when the door bley. - open. « jS
PRICE FIVE CENTS.