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Newspaper Page TextWELL, WHERE DO THEY GET IT? There is twice as much drunkenness among cho- ) lus girls in New York as there was before prohibi- > tion. Morenz Ziegfeld, musical comedy producer. ; FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 118. COUNTY FEE SYSTEM BECOMES ISSUE HERE AMERICUS WILL HAVE ITS OWN • RADIUM SUPPLY Dr. Walter 1 o Special ize In Skin Ills And Cancer Recognizing a need for a special ist is skin diseases and cancer in this community, Dr. George Walter, pathologist, who recently established laboratories here, announces that he ■will devote a part of his time from this time forward to diagnosis and treatment of this class of ailments, having ordered a supply of radium for use in cancer treatments. The tiny vial of radium will cost $3,500 Few except the largest cities have radium facilities at hand. Althongh Dr. Walter is a young man of unusual attainments, it has not been known before that he was skilled in this line of work. However he is a graduate of the New York Skin and Cancer hospital, and was chief resident physician in this hos pital for one year following his in terneship. In addition to this he is a graduate of mechanical engineering at Cornell, and holds M. D. and Ph. D. degrees from Johns Hopkins, at Baltimore. For a number of years he has been specializing in pathological laboratory work, diagnosing for oth er physidians. His previous activi ties have been wholly devoted to large cities, but he has located in Am ericus for family reasons. In addition to his laboritory work here, he has been appointed Pathol ogist at the Phoebe Putney Memorial hospital at Albany, which city he visits twice a week regularly. Dr. Walter has an army record possessed by few Americans. He was in Germany visiting laboratories when the war broke out and went to England where he enlisted, serv ing four years. He emerged with the British rank of brevet major. He was wounded and spent a brief period in an enemy -prisoni in the Mediter ranean- —but that is another story which he has promised to tell some day. BOBBY JONES • WINS 2D ROUND Other Americans Come I hrough Well, 1 00, At Hovlake HOYLAKE, May 24.—(8y Asso ciated Press.). —Cyril Tolley, British amateur champion, won his match with Jesse P. Guilford, of Boston, in the second round of the amateur golf championship tournament today, defeating Guilford two and one. Bobby Jones, of Atlanta, defeated E. A. Hamlet, of Wrexham, one up. Chick Evans, of Chicago, defeated H. Matthews six and five. P. Hunt, of Texas, defeated J. L. Holmes, six; and four. Frances Ouimet, of Boston, defeat ed by C. Hodgson, of Baildon, by one hole. In the third refund this afternoon Bobby Jones defeated Robert Har ris, Scottish internationalist, six and five. Gold assaying s9l a ton has been discovered in the Gatineau district, Quebec, 50 miles north of Ottawa. Whisky War Rages on 1500-mi. Fronton Rio Grande-Mexican Line EL PASO, May 24.—War, grim war that costs human life, is being fought along the 1500-mile front of the Rio Grande. The cause is whisky. Whisky, phalanxed by men armed to kill in its defense, is brought into the Unit ed States from Mexico. Most of the smugglers are Mexi cans, but the men who direct their activities, who give orders for the killing of United States officers, are citizens of the United States. Here is the casualty list for the past few months: Dead. E W. Walker, prohibition officer. S. -E. Beckett, prohibition officer. Arch W'ood, prohibition officer. Leonard Lopez, smuggler. .lose Avila, smuggler. : Ramon Mena, auto driver. Wounded. Joe Davenport,.customs officer. < Joseph F. Thomas, immigration of ficer. Corporal Kurns. ‘ Private Keller. 1 Gertrude Montalva, smuggler. Many engagements between fed- ’ eral forces „and smugglers, in which : no one is wounded or no liquor con fiscated, are not reported. A number of smugglers have been wounded, hut < Were hidden and cared for by com rades. , , i ! Gertrude Montalva was wounded i s when, it is charged, she attempted ; to carry a case of whisky across the < river. ‘Smugglers attempted to pro- , tect her by laying down a barrage before her as she waded the river. ’ When officers fired at the place from i ROTARY’S GIFT. ‘ A r n President Harding holding the sta tuette, “Spirit of Rotary,” ipresent ed by R. C. Brown, for the Rotary Club of Hawaii. THURSDAY A FUN ANDBARGAINDAY Shopping Specials For F orenoon And Benefit Game In Afternoon Preparations were taking complete form today for the great diamond clash at the playground Thursday afternoon between baseball teams of the Lions club, challengers, and the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs, in a bene fit appearance to swell the Chinese relief fund. It is planned to make the event a super-entertainment, and to fill the playground to its capacity, if pos sible, to boost the relief fund. David Jennings has been named captain of the Lions team, and he was working out'the final details of his team this afternoon. Bradley Hogg is chief of the Kiwanis Lion tamers. The Rotarians’ manager has not been an nounced. The line-ups will appear in Wednesday afternoon’s paper. The merchants of the city have grabbed the spirit of the occasion and today in a page advertisement a number of them are offering spe cial Thursday morning bargains for the benefit of country people who may come to the city in the forenoon and remain for the afternoon fun at the playground after the closing hour for the half holiday at 1 o’clock. Hardwick’s Campaign Manager Visitor Here Judgd G. H. Howard, of Atlanta, formerly judge of the Chattahoochee circuit with residence at Columbus, is in Americus today on business with litigation in the Sumter Su perior court in connection with the estate of the late W. A. Ayash. Judge Howard was camnaign man ager for Thomas W. Hardwick in his gubernatorial campaign last year. A new city,/not yet named, is be ing formed in the Proince of Sas katchewan of Lake Maskakee. which the barrage was sent they were fired upon from three, directions. Davenport was wounded when he and two other officers routed a band of smugglers and captured 384 quarts of whisky. Six armed men rode in the van of four pack horses and seven burros. Lopez was killed in a pitched bat tle between revenue meil and 20 smugglers. E. W. Walker was killed in a bat tle with 20 smugglers fortified in trenches and adobe house. Avila was killed in a fight that ensued when he and four others re fused to halt at the command Os the, officers. Thomas and the three soldiers were wounded in a battle that started at 10 p. m. and lasted till daybreak. Three wounded smugglers escaped. A street car subsidized to carry sol diers from Camp Bierne to the bat tle was fired upon. Mena was killed when he jumped from his auto and ran after being told to halt. Beckett and Wood were killed when they went to a hog ranch with a search warrant to hunt for liquor. They fired only one shot before they were shot down by men hidden in outhouses. In a ' previojM engagement the auto in which Beckett was pursuing smugglers wa . riddled with bullets. Ke confiscated 138 quarts of liquor and five gallons of alcohol. Wood in his first three weeks at Fl ‘ Pa n captured 1000 Quarts ofi whisky, 10,900 grains of narcotics and confiscated five autos. THE: TIMfESBR® RDER Rpf] PUBLISHED IN THE "foTW HE AR T TRIBUTE IS PAID HENRY W. GRADY, GREAT GEORGIAN Notables at Simple Cere monv In Atlanta On His Birthday ATLANTA, May 24.—Memorial services here this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in honor of Henry W. Grady, whose speeches and writings during reconstruction days had much to do with clearing away the misunder standings of the war ‘between the states, will be attended by prominent men from many states. Grady was born May 24, 71 years ago. J. T. Atwood, of Kansas City, wil.’ be orator of the day; Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor of the Boston Herald, will represent the commonwealth of Massachusetts; Melville E. Stone, counsellor of the Associated Press, and others of note are here to at tend. The monument here to Grady, who died December 23, 1889, will be un veiled, Bettie Black, a granddaugh ter of the editor, having been select ed to draw aside the hangings. Dr. David Marx, of Atlanta, will pro nounce the invocation. After the unveiling wreaths will be placed at the monument’s base and military honors will be rendered. Con federate and union veterans, veterans of the World War, Boy Scouts, repre sentatives of civic and state organi zations and punils from the city schools and colleges, both white and negro, will take part in the exer cises, The Grady monument was erected by public subscription short- Iv after his death, and standi in Ma rietta street, near the corner of For- j syth in the business section. Many persons are here for the oc casion from New England—from Massachusetts, where Mr. Gra dy’s most famous reconciliation sneech was delivered—-has come W. H. LorjJ and Robert L. O’Brien, of Boston, the latter editor of the Bos ton Herald, and delegated by Gover nor Channing Qox, of Massachusetts, as his personal representative to place the wreath from that state upon the statue of Georgia’s distinguished son. Others among the guests include the representative of Governor Neff, of Texas; Governor Russell, of Missis sippi; Governor Morrow, of Ken tucky; Governor Dorsey, of Georgia: Mayor Peters, of Boston; Mayor Al dredge, of Dallas, Tex.: Mayor Stew art. of Savannah, and Mayor Key, of Atlanta; Melville Stone, generol man ager of the Associated Press; Edward Lowry, of the Saturday Evening Post; Congressman W. D. Upshaw, Major General Morrison, commander of the Fourths corps area, and John H. Atwood, of Kansas City, orator for the occasion. Grady, who was managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution when he died, was born near Athens, Ga.. and after graduation at the University of Georgia and a post-graduate course ' at the University of Georgia, took up newspaper work at Rome. Ga., later coming to Atlanta. He devoted his speeches and writings largely to re- ■ uniting the sections and many of his . famous speeches on “The New South” were delivered in Boston, New York and other northern cities. The prison population of the mid- ■ die and southwestern United Sstates ■ decreased 12.4 percent in the last six years. Other officers seized booze valued at $200,000 the day after Walker was killed. The extent of liquor smuggling is shown by the dockets of federal coset here. In one day 41 men ap peared before Judge W. R. Smith on liquor charges. Mixed Liquors. Six hundred gallons of contraband liquor are stored in the basement of the old federal building. ‘Uncle Sam’s, cellar.” It is of American, Mexican, Canadian, Scottish, Cuban and Chinese manufacture. El Paso had ten prohibition offi cers until three were killed and Sup ervisor James H. Shevlin resigned. Immigration men have quit be cause of the danger and there are only ten of these left. C. C. Chase, son-in-law of Secre tary of the Interior Fall, has been named collector of customs here. Soldiers, police and men in the three branches of government serv ice unite in the fights against armed smugglers, but even then are outnum bered. C. A. P-rkins, head of the immi gration force, estimated that he. needs 50 men to patrol 'EI Paso county and 150 men for the remain der of his territory. He has recommended that a guard on the order of the northwestern pol ice be formed. He would have men ride the border in shifts and haw strong searchlights at crossing places. He would equip the guards with hjgh-speed cars. They Would work in conjunction with all departments of the government. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 24, 1921. THE OPEN SEASON FOR POLITICAL ECONOMISTS —2'v Ff B I VoURt ALL VJROKG, X 1 ! H . - J P-o-s-i-T-i-v-E-L-y v-Xl ®L/ \ -wy ORR WE RtHEGOLD \k MORE- IMPORTS, /RESERVE- \ XY-R! W AHt> A ■ most Be V—r > werY HIGHEP, INCREASED / b II yk tariff l ,- we have\ V. / rT\ jfWP wb "Mn -IS?, / // &■ < // X ' •“ ••«= 10 TO 15 PCT. CUT IN RAIL WAGES Board Agrees On Tenta tive Scale, It is Learned CHICAGO, May 24.—Rates of pay and classifications established by the Railroad Lal or Board’s wage awaid last July will be used as the basis of reductions when the boards hands down its new wage decision June 1, it was learned today. The board has arrived at tentative percentages whi-.-'i will cat present wages ten to fifteen per cent, ac cording to the class of the employes affected. TO NAIICHOOL FACULTYTONIGHT The city board of education will meet in annual session at the super intendent’s office in the city hall for the purpose of electing its own offi cers and naming teachers for the next term. The election of superin tendent takes place earlier in the year, Supt. Mathis being re-elected in April for another year. It is understood there will be com paratively few changes in the teach ing personnel this year, most of the present teachers having applied for re-election. Johnson Would Probe Mingo District War WASHINGTON, May 24—Investi gation of the disturbances in Mingo County, West Virginia, mining dis trict is-proposed in a resolution by Senator Warren Johnson, of Cali fornia, offered today in the senate. MARKETS LIBERTY BONDS SLUMP. NEW YORK, May 24.—Heaviness in the- stock market today extended to bonds, and Liberty 3 l-2c, tax ex empt, sold at 87.70, the lowest price yet rec6r(ied. AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Good Midnling 11 l-2c NEW YORK FUTURES July Oct Dec. Jan Prev. Close 12.36 13.08 13.45 13.55 Open ... .12.30 13.08 13.48. 13.57 10:15 am .12.37 13.09 13.45 13.59 10:30 12.38 13.12 13.49 13.62 10:45 .... 12.40 13.13 13.53 13.65 11 ;00 12.43 13.17 13-58 13.70 11:15 12.44 13.18 13.55 13.67 11:30 12.39 13.14 13.55 13.65 11:45 12.42 13.15 13.55 13.65 12:00 12.37 13.10 13.52 13.63 12:15 prii 12.36 13.11 13.52 12:30 . 12.39 13.13 13.52 13.62 12:45 12.41 13.14 13.52 13.52 1:00 12.44 13,19 13.52 13.62 1:15 42.43 13.18 13.60 1:30 12.41 13.16 13.60 13.70 1:45 12.45 13.2®- 13.58 13.70 2:00’ 12.5.1 13.25 13.64 13.70 2:30 12.50 13.25 13.61 '2:4 5 12.58 13.30 13.69 13.74 Close 12.62 13.8$ 13.79 13.85 LIVERPOOL COTTON July Sept. Dec. Jan. Prev. Close 8.17 8.34 8.63 8.67 Open . 8.38 8.39 Close -8.14 8.47 8.59 8.63 WILD SNAKE YARN A CHAMPION, BUT IT LACKED TRUTH A wild-sounding morsel of gossip which has been going the rounds hereabout, strikes a snag right here. It is a snake story—some snake' story—and has to do with the report ed finding by x-ray of a rattle snake of two rattles in the stomach of a woman patient at the Plains Hos pital. The Times-Recorder today communicated with the Drs. Wise, of the Plains Hospital, and was assured that the report, which has also been current in another form there, was without any basis whatever. According to the story, a woman patient from South Georgia was ad mitted to the hospital suffering from stomach troulje. She related that two years ago while swimming she had swallowed what she thought was a straw, and had contined to grow more distressed constantly. An ex amination was made by, x-ray, accord ing to tile story, anil a live snake discovered. Further, the yarn wqnt, the doctors were in a quandary on observing that / was a rattier, fear ing that on operating either they or the patient would be bitten by the poisonous reptile when it was dis turbed. It was a wild yarn, and it has been traveling fast. The only thing wrong about it was everything. FOOD GIVEN ALA. MINERS’FAMILIES BIRMINGHAM, May 24. More than 24,000 pounds of corn meal and 6,200 pounds of white meat were tributed to 1,220 families of miners by the Alabama Federation of Labor, it was announced. Governor Invites Harding and Cabinet to Be Guests at Fight BY E. M. THIERRY. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Muy 23. Reformers are wasting their time trying to make Governor Edwards stop the Dempsey-Carpentier fig'll! July 2. “They might as well sdve their breath,” Governor Edwards told me when 1 asked him what he was go ing to do about protests by church- ! men and other - organizations. The governor sat in his office in! the Jersey City First. National Bank! and smilingly made’ it very plain I that the fight is going to take place I no (matter how many protests he! receives; that he himself is going to attend it; and that he has invited' President Harding and members of thy cabinet to be Ijis guests at the ■fight. “1 didn’t read those protests against the, Dempsey - match,” said the governor.’ “Lifels too short.” He referred to official protests sent him by the’ Reformed Church Synod -of New Brunswick, the Clergymen’s Community Club of | Jersey City, and the Camden Minis terial Union. The governor said he read with amusement the diatribe against thei bout pronounced by Bihsop Edwin S. I Lines at the 47th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of “It’s a fupny thing.the way.sptae; ministers jump’ i bh bpxirig with feoth | feet,” said the governor. “And yet ANOTHER CLAIMS KIN TO RECLUSE Macon Woman Writes Her Mother Was Cousin Another claimant to a share of the W. Ji'. Scarborough estate, as an heir at law, has turned up. She- is a Mrs. Wyman, of iMacon, who has written through her attorney, R. D. Feagin of that city, for information concerning the estate. According to information she claims that her moth er was a first cousin oi in.; sin,, man, holding the same relation: hip as the two Mesdames Stevens, who until an uncle made his existence known, were supposed to be the omy heirs. Persons here are inclined to dispute the authenticity of her claim, although little is said to be known about Mrs. V*yman or her ancestry’. Th»re were 'no developments today in the Scarborough mystery. The Lumter grand jury, it was under stood, was still occupied with minor matters and had not reached con sideration of the case. PRESBYTERIIANS TO GO EAST. ST. LOUIS. May 24.—Charleston, W. Va., was chosen for the next gen eral assembly of the Southern Pres byterian church at the sixtjr-first geenral assembly here Monday. Ses sions will be held in the First Pres byterian church there. GERMAN CRIME WAVE BERLIN, May 24. —Crime has in creased 2000 percent in Germany since the war. So say 50 insurance companies whose experts have been compiling statistics. 3 hey are going to raise insurance rates. I know a number who will be at the ringside on July 2. Protests against the match are’ ridiculous. It’s simply a ‘holier than thou’ proposition. ‘The law provides for 12-round boxing exhibitions with no referee’s decision. If the law isn’t any good, let the reformers take it off the statute books. “Why do they keep picking on boxitig, I wonder? Boxing is an in stitution. The government recogniz ed it as a big asset during the war. They had boxipg instructors at every training ca»np. Boxing made the boys into better soldiers. It gave them- self-reliance, a better eye, a i knowledge of self-defense, and many J other worthy attributes. • “If boxing was good enough to; help us ' win the war, why isn’t it good enough for the people to see? “It’s absurd for reformers to say that the Dempsey-Carpentier bout will attract thugs and people of , the underworld. Do they remember that Miss Anne Morgan gave a boxing ex hibition at the Hotel Commodore last winter for the very worthy charity of the American Committee for De vastated France? “They talk about brutality! Why, there is less brutality in boxing than in football. And baseball is not without its injuries and even deaths. “I’ve heard the reformers are try ing to hit at me because my brothers, 1 . . * A ’ ' • » . • YOU TOWN FARMERS! TRY THIS. If you can pasture 10 cows 0r,15 horses on your land, but have only nine horses, how many cows is there room for? Answer to yesterday’s: $42. COUNTY BOARD AND SHERIFF IN HEATED CLASH Dispute Over Jail Meals Comes Out—Ray Be fore Grand Jury The abolition of the fee system for county officers has become an issue in Sumter county—as it has in many other counties of Georgia. Neill A. Ray, chairman of the board of county commissioners, and other members of the board, have expressed themselves favorable to placing all county officers in Sumter county on a salary basis, and it is not unlikely that legislation to enable this change to be made may be asked of the com ing session of the Georgia assembly. The sentiment as present appears to favor salaries being fixed by the leg islature instead of leaving them to local boards, so as to eliminate all chance of political trading and min imizing the possibilities of corrup tion under such a system. Chairman Ray was called before the grand jury shortly before noon Tuesday, and it is supposed hp was given an opportunity to express him self on the subject and to give the grand jury any information he and the county board possess bearing on the subject. The fee system topic came to a head G weeks ago, it has come out, in a clash between the county board and Sheriff Harvey over the rate al lowed him for the feeding of jail prisoners. At the April meeting of the board tile sheriff was called be for the board in private session, it is understood, and informed that the fee beginning May 1 for feeding prisoners in jail would be 50 cents per day instead of GO cents, which had been allowed. The settlement at trie Maj/ meeting was on this basis. Sheriff Frote*t«. The sheriff protested, it is un derstood. H<- declared he could not feed the prisoners properly on that allowance, and that, besides, he was forced to feed them on 40 cents per day two years ago when prices of food stuff was soaring, causing him to lose money heavily, and that to cut the allowance now was unfair to him, at least until he was able to recoup his losses. The board insisted, it is understood, that an allowance of 50 cents per day should permit him to make good his losses, since the stockade records showed that the county was feeding its prisoners there three good meals a day, sufficient to enable them to do heavy physical labor on the roads, and clothe them as well for sls per month or 50 cents per day, where as the jail prisoners are fed only two meals a day and do not work at ail. Sheriff Harvey is reported to have replied lo the board with some heat that it might cut the allowance for jail meals, but could not force him to keep the prisoners in jail, where upon shortly afterward a number of prisoners who were confined there found it convenient to make bond and secure their release, nearly emptying the jail. Topic of Discussion. Since then the fee system has been the topic of discussion on various occasions. It was discussed briefly before a meeting of the. directors of the Chamber of Commerce recently. Mr. Ray. who is a member of the board of directors, him self freely at the time in favor otThe abolition of the fee system in its en tirety. Tuesday morning Mr. Ray express ed himself again freely In the same direction to a Times-Recorder report er, and stated that he favored ac tion being taken to bring about the change. “In hard times the fee officers (Continued On Page Two.) C. E. and J. W. Edwards, have the contract for building the arena. What’s rhe harm in that? I suppose the church people forget, speaking of the arena, that the job of build ing it provides labor for a good many people out of work?” • SPORT SPOILERS This Ball Back !!) _ IT WAS KNOCkeP into my yard its me- . - ■ W 0j PRICE FIVE CENTS.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, May 24, 1921, Image 1