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TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1921. GEORGIA LEADS IN STOLEN CARS Great Need For Strin gent Law To Stop 1 raffic ATLANTA, June 7,—Automobile stealing in Georgia is increasing in frequency and in boldness, until traf fic in stolen cars has become a busi ness of big volume and far-spreading influence, it is revealed by records of automobile thefts gathered by an or ganization (of dealers and owners. Georgia has the unenviable distinc tion oi leading the Southern states tn cars stolen, according to best avail able statistics—possibly because she • has more cars within her bound des, but also perhaps her laws do not make it more difficult for thieves to dis pose of their booty. • Records for the seventeen months ending last January show that in Georgia 1,043 automobile thefts were reported to one detective agency alone, and there midst have been thousands of others wnose loss was reported only to local officials. These reports do not include the many thou sands of “joy ride” thefts in which cars were driven away by irresponsi ble men or boys and abandoned in a ditch, damaged but recovered next day. Tennessee reported only 218 cars stolen in that period, and this was the state second to Georgia in the list of thefts. There is great need of a stringent law which will make it hard for a thief or his go-between to dispose of a stolen car. it is agreed by legal officials, police chiefs, dealers and owners alike. It is'pointed out that not only is the owner of a stolen car the sufferer, but in thousands of cases the innocent purchaser usually in the country or some small Geor gia town, is the victim who is hard est “stung.” This is because a man who buys a stolen car, knowingly or unknowing ly, loses the car whet it is traced to his possession. No matter how in nocent he may be, the car belongs to the original owner. One case in point is that of a South Georgia man who bought a car in bad condition from a stranger, paying a bargain price. He spent $450 in having it ov erhauled and painted, and the day he took it out of the shop an officer identified it. seized it, and the vic tim was out not only the cost of the car but $450 in improvements. Automobile dealers and owners in Georgia are therefore not the only persons interested in the passage of a bill at the approaching session of the legislature which will curb the activities of the automobile thieves. This bill was introducer! at the last session, was passed overwhelmingly by the senate, and failed to be taken up in the house of representatives when that body became involved in debate over appropriation measures, which resulted in the failure to nass of several excellent measures. Vir tually no opposition was shown to the auto theft bill. Briefly, this bill provides that ev ery car sold in Georgia must be ae companied by a written bill of sale. • giving the car number, engine num her and other details, and that such bills of sale be recorded with the sheriff in the counties where the sale is made. Provisions for transferring such bills of sale and the issuance of license numbers are made. This provides an official recor d of all au- When a Cow Needs a Friend ( ' /fa' t v "Flies, Flies, Flies! These ■\~" ' pesky hcasts are driving me .1 ~g. G crazy! I’m all jumpy and I hot and nervous. It’s harder J A#' f or me ma k c m nou) an U?<M ,n w^cr lWr4l I don’/ get nearly as good aaMH&w feed. ” X A TOULD your cows say this if ’ ’ they could speak? Or do you give them a properly balanced ration that lets them make milk without robbing their bodies? Purina W Cow Chow x digestible protein and mineral mat- ft D| IjJaM AY' ter that is absolutely necessary for pJIFw continued milk production. Your own records will prove that it pays to feed Cow Chow on pasture. JCBgTrgjJ Your cows need you for a friend — JtfjLJfeSKLjtßg now. See that they are fed prop- *ymW£UOW». erly. It will show up in the pail. £p w Sold only in Checkerboard Bags by JS»?CBi«SaSB«£i MIZE GROCERY CO. Corner Forsyth and Jackson 224 —Phones—3s4 Americus, Ga. QUICK LOANS® • «-■ On Improved Farm Lands at 6 1-2 Per Cent Interest. Reasonable Commission. Middleton McDonald Exclusive Correspondent for the Atlanta Trust Company 33 Planters Bank. Americus Phone 89 ••- ■ ' - Koi Advbhture-s IE~ 1 OF THt TWINS ■EkJsS OiixM Rotxjfcj Bartcrt MRS MUSKRAT’S SONG ; Hu Z 3 A ■ KM- - - r i Mr. Muskrat was always hu trying in with news. Mrs. Muskrat was crooning to her self softly. She was very happy. Not only had her husband finished a nice ne.. home fp.r her and t bnb'.es but the babies themselves were growing finely, fat and fuzzy ;<nd frisky as any mother could wish. It would scon be time for their father to give them their first lesson in swimming and diving, and holding their breath under water', and catching frogs and tadpoles and little fish for their din ner. Indeed, if Mr. Sprinkle-Blow, the weatherman, sent many more trice warm days she could trust the babies in the water a day or two. But, of course, ice water isn’t good for bab ies, not even muskrat babies, and ' she creek still had a thin crust of ice over the deep still places, to say noth ing of the melted snow trickling down from the hills. Mr. Muskrat had hurried in at noon to say that if Mr. Sun wasn't just a bit more care ful there might be a flood. But then Mr 1 . Muskrat was always hurrying in tomobile sales, of both rrew and used , ears, in the state, and perirots a I check upon all transactions. The hili ] provides penalties for altering or re | moving numbers from moters, bodies lor other parts of the car, or any ef fort to disguise a car Or forge a I bill of sale. The bill is designed to call for as little red tape as is possible to make the law effective. The fye fixed for registration, to be paid to the sheriff, is only one dollar, to be paid by the j seller of the car. It is expected to I protect the present owner, as thieves I will not be anxious to steal a car they I cannot sell,‘and the prospective pur lchaser, as he may purchase a used car with certainty that it is the prop erty of the seller. The bill has the endorsement of every organization which is in any way interested in the sale or use of automobiles and of the secretary of state, who bandies motor licenses. It is hoped to firing it up for early pas I sage at the next .'■ cssion of the legis I lature. to guard against its once more I being ‘‘lost in the shuffle.” — TRY THIS SOME TIME HURLEY, Wis.. June 7.—“1’1l bet I you SIOOO you can’t carry 1000 silver I dollars from here to' Bessemer. ■ Mich.t” a saloonkeeper said to Wil- I liam Jalo. Bessemer was seven miles away. ; Jalo had to carry the silver treasure i in a sack in his outstretched hands j But he won. with news and it couldn't always be good news, when he brought so much of it ’n’ all. Mrs. Muskrat went on with her crooning, rocking back and forth with one of the babies on her lap, and stroking it gently downward so that the new fur coat which was coming in fast, should be fine and soft like her own. She sang a little verse like this: “Oh, l-.tt- h darlin’ bye, baby, bye, Mr. Sprinkle-Blow* in up in the sky, He can turn off the sun, He can turn off the moon, He can. shoo away clouds if it sprin kies too soon, He rides here and there on his magic umbrella ’ And bosses the breezes, this wonder ful fellow. Oh, we’ll never fear when kind Sprin kle-Blow’s nigh, For he keeps all bad weather up in the sky.” (To Be Continued.) Prospectors To Seek Lost River Os Gold EDMONTON, Alta., June 7. Search for a lost river—a river oi gold—will be undertaken this year by several prospectors, " including old-timers from the Yukon and Alas ka, who are now nere outfitting for the long journey into the north coun try. This lost river bed, where the Peace river once flowed, is some where in the big bend of Peace, bi sected by a line drawn from Fort St. John to the mouth of the Battle riv er. Some years ago an Indian brought into Ft. St. John a fair sized nugget of gold, which, according to the tale told by old-timers of the north, he discovered in a stream in the coun try to th<| northeast of the post. Soon after this an old trapper, a white man, who made Fort St. John his beadquatres, came into the fort with a quantity of coarse gold which he. had wash'd from some stream in a similar direction to that from which the Indian hailed. » He never visited his trap lines af ter this, living on the fat of the land in carefree idleness at the post. He often disappeared, when ever his sup plies of ran low, and would be away for a few days, al ways returning with a fresh supply of gold. This aged trapper lived lin this manner for a number of .tars. He died, as many trappers and north country men have, on the trail. His body was feund frozen. With him went hig secret, he never having told to anyone the location of his find. The books of the Hudson's Bay com pany still contain a large credit ac count in the name of the old trap per. Northmerf, who tell the story of the mystic El Dorado north of the Peace, declare that the gold was only avail able after a ■'heavy fall of snow*, with which the old fellow’ apparently washed his mineral. From an analy sis of the circumstances generally, it is thought that the place from which the gold was taken was some old river bed where 1 the Peace 1 once flowed, but whether the 1 story is cor rect or not remains to be proved. Prospectors, however, are putting up good money to test the* truth of the theory that the precious metal does exist somewhere to the north of Clear Hills in large quantities. Engraved Cards. Bell, the Jew- eler. x ■ Z X J Nfx- ; -s 1, *’~A 7 1W U > ? " K Ml The very elements essential to hair health and abundant growth arc supplied by BHS® For oily* scalp—Marinello Oily Tonic. For dry scalp Marincfilo Dry Tonic. For cleansing scalp—Follicle Lotion. MRS. GARNER’S HAIR DRESSING PARLORS. Americus, Ga. SWIM CAPS Dainty Designs. Beautiful Colors. The Newest Tn Mermaid Millinery 35c to SI.OO MURRAYS U PHARMACY The Kexall Store THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER. DAIRY PAYS, SAY SELMA DEALERS Notice Big Improvement In Condition Os ♦ People MOULTRIE, June 7.—A number: of days ago C. B. Caldwell, secre tary of the Moultrie Chamber of' Commerce wrote a letter to several of the leading merchants of Selma, Ala., asking them what they thought of the dairy industry and replies to these communications have been re ceived. Without exception the let ters declare that the industry has meant more to Selma and to ballas county than anything else ever start ed there. This letter from N. B. Kagedon, manager of the biggest stole in Sei-1 ma, is typical of a ll the others re-j ceiyed. “Our business operations arc! largely with farmers, many of them | having been customers for many I years. Since the advent of the crOam ,ery in Selma we have observed' among many a very much morel healthful financial state and our; creameries are responsible for it, they disbursing probably three quar ters of a million dollars per year to the farmers for dairy products. “To concretely illustrate I am go-.’ ing to give you a conversation with Mrs. West, one of our good custom ers: Within a year’s time she pur chased SI3OO worth of dairy cattle, which were paid for by dairy prod ucts sold to the Selma Creamery and { in addition to SI3OO earned, the same I cattle paid the entile expense of the home, the upkeep and maintenance. “We believe that this illustration shows just what possibilities there would be even on a larger scale. We believe also that the creameries in Selma have been responsible to a large extent, for the development of Dallas, Wilcox and adjoining counties as a cattle raising section.’ Chinese To Issue Air Postage Stamps PEKIN. June 7.—The Chinese postoffice has prepared an issue of special aeroplane service stamps of denominations 15, 30 and 45 cents -in anticipation of the air transmis sion planned for the near future be tween Pekin. AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Good Middling 111-4 c I NEW YORK FUTURES July Oct. Dec. Jan. Prev. Cluse L 2.44 13.15 13..>8 13.(>7 Open 12.55 13.25 i:?.6fl 13.73 II am 12.52 13.27 13.72 '.1.7 1 1 pm 12.55 13.28 13.73 13.80 Close'', .12.58 13.34 13.78 13.87 Venice, Italy, is situated on 117 small islands. Specials IDEAL FRUIT JARS (M Quart Size, Per Dozen ... • IDEAL F RUIT JARS . (M it Pint Size, Per Dozen r JELLY GLASSES CA Per Dozen CAI JEORNIA DESSERT PEACHES 9A Large Can, Per Can CORNED BEEF 9C p I 2-Oz Size, Per Can POTTED HAM * C Per Can DEL. MONTE PIMENTO, 9C 20c~Per Can; 2 for «Wv ENGLISH PEAS Oflr PURE GEORGIA CANE SYRUP OA Per Gallon OvL PALM OLIVE SOAP QC 10c Each; 3 for ROSE GLYCERINE SOAP OCTAGON TOILET SOAP * |Q C Each--- United Grocery Co. Phone Orders Taken Phone 27 118 Cotton Ave. Goods Delivered ( THE INSIDE ; NEWS OF WASHINGTON BY H. B. HUNT. WASHINGTON, June 7. The problem ot getting a ehairnian for the Shipping Buaru becomes more difficult each day. In his desire to get a man as chair man who would bring to the job the maximum of experience and ability President Harding passed over a number of men who lacked the top notch qualifications he desired. Efforts were made to persuade Jame A. Farrell, president of the United States Steel Corporation, to accept the place. Farrell turned it down. Then Walter C. Teagle, presi dent of the Standard Oi! Co., of N. J., who asked time to think it over and then declined. What makes the situation particu larity difficult is the fact that any man who now accepts the post will be known to have been not better than tne president’s third choice. Expectation is that the third prof fer will be made to Charles Piez, formerly vice-president and general manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Persons with claims against Ger many for the loss of vessels or mer chandise sunk by submarines or for damages of other kinds may fls well write the items off their books and forget it, in the opinion of a high legal authority in the state depart ment. ‘As a lawyer, wouldn't want to undertake collection of these claims on a contingent fee basis,” this man declared. “The likelihood of any col lection is most remote.” ’e >Jt “Progressive improvement” in Eu ropean economic conditions is seep by administration experts watching the situation. This improvement is such as to promise greatly stimulat ed commerce if only adequate credit arrangements can be made. Among the factors contributing to this con dition are: 1. Removal of the last of the ra tioning regulations. 2. Restoration of adequate fuel {1 V J supplies. ;>. The beginning of improvement in clothing conditions. ! Up to now it has been impossible for persons even with money to pur- I chase food to their heart’s content ■ in Europe. With the regulations ' off. consumption in many staples will increase, requiring increased imports. With industries assured of ade quate fuel supplies, there will be in < reased demand for raw materials which the United States must sup ply. Europe’s clothing scarecely will provide a vast market for textiles and raw textile materials. Next to President Harding, Gene ; ral Persing is the best paid of Uncle Sam’s employes. While the cabinet members have to struggle along on $12,000 a year, and senators on $7,- 500. Pershing now pulls down, with ■ pay and allowances, about $21,000 annually. « * * , Brighter days are ahead for the ! wheat and cotton growers, govern j ment experts predict. In the south, cotton planters have succeeded in re- | during acreage to a point where the I slack of last year’s overproduction j seems certain to be taken up and I better prices secured. As a result the banks are easing up I their pressure for liquidation on cot ' ton on which loans have been made. 1 Despite statements in congress to I the contrary, commerce experts state I ; the flow of wheat from the farms i has been normal and that there will I be a minimum carry-over into the j new crop. »!: fk Holding high office isn’t all fun.. ■ As one cabinet member, who confess- ' les to liking an occasional drink, and ! to enjoying a friendly game of poker,' ' puts it: “It’s h ell to have a job where : you can’t be human without being ( criticized.” Eleven thousand new books were' published in Great Britain last year. FARM LOANS Loweit Interest. Quick Results DAN CHAPPELL Attorney-at-Law. 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If you have sourness, belching, indigestion, food repeating or any other stomach trouble, take Eatonic tablets after each meal and find relief. Big bos costs only a trifle with your drug gist's guarantee. GET IT AT CARSWELL DRUG CO. . Phone 98