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FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 133
240 PASSENGERS ON VESSEL SUNK BY MINE
GERMANSMAKE
ECONOMIC WAR
ONENEMYGOODS
Bronner Adds A New
Chapter To Story Os
H unland Today
If you believe that fixing of rep
arations terminated the Glsrman
problem, you are wrong—as Mil
ton Bronner, European correspond
ent for the Times-Recorder, has
found out by a first-hand study of
Germany ant( the German people
today. Thi s is another of Bron
ner’s dispatches.
BY MILTON BRONNER
LEIPSIC, June 10.—“Kauft keine
’eindbundwaren”—“buy no enemy
goods!”
That sign I saw for the first time
in a big Hamburg shop. I thought
at first it was probably a leftover
from the early days of the war.
“Feindbund” literally translated
means “‘alliance of enemies*’ Hence
it might be translated ‘allied.”
I scon learned that the placard was
not a relic of the old war, it was
the sign of a new war.
German business men are appeal
ing to German people to stand by
them in a trade war which they say
has been forced upon them by the
Allies action in putting up customs
barriers on the Rhine and fixing a
big tax on all German exports.
Hamburg at once started a count
er-war. Figures showed that Ger
mans were buying large quantities
of French wines, perfumes and toilet
articles and various English products
especially cigarets.
Patriotic Boycott.
So Hamburg conceived the idea of
a patriotic boycott. The Chamber of
Commerce, the hotel men’s associa
tion and other organizations took up
zGie matter. They advertised the idea
in the newspapers. They scattered
handbills. They got np littte stick
ers. Thep put placards on all drayt
and delivery wagons. They stuck
cards in the show windows.
The result?
I went to a number of restaurants
and hotels and asked for French
wines The waiter pointed to the j
wine list on which in red ink there
was printed: “We sell no
goods.” '
The women took up the fight. One
of them wrote a newspaper that in
1920 Germans consumed 88 millions
marks’ worth of imported preserves.
40 million o of perfumes and soaps
and 390 millions of liquors and wines.
She appealed to the German wom
en. asking who would buy French
and English goods when she must say
to herself that through this deed a
German workman was without bread;
through this she is helping the father
land to further downfall? She wound
up with an appeal which has been ;
echoed in manv quarters: |
“German work and German indus-'
try must be helped by German buy
er° Therefore German men, Ger
man women, buy only German wares:,
Hamburg business men declare
the movement has already had a big
effect in France and England. Thev
°av that leading French and British
dealers having been urging their re
spective governments to be more
lenient with Germany.
J eipsic Follows Hamburg.
In this city I attended a meeting
nt the hotel Sachsenhof. where the
leading business men, newspaper pro
prietors and editors and the promi
nent members of all the political pa -
tie" discussed whether Leipsic should
imitate Hamburg’s boycott movement
It was unanimously decided to do
■'Tne million stickers were ordered
printed. Thev are to be pasted on
nil letters and envelopes sent out bv
T.einsic firms. Cards are to be hung
in °hon windows and street cars.
A resolution was una "’™ ous l'
adopted. It said England and France
were waging against German busmess
Hw loog-threatened economic bovcott
The German government cou’d not
business men. w**
chained bv the Versadie* trm at y. Self
h<'lSelf’-heltn "meant that for all cHL
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goods and consume only things made
in Germany.
Which content them
-in English, “kitchen, children and
church.”
Odd Fellows To Hold
First Picmc Flag Day
Sumter LodgTTo. 2G4, Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows, has been
on the “boom” for the past year. It
has almost doubled its membership
ami will hold its first annual picnic
at Myrtle Springs, June 14.
The district meeting of tin r. K.
o S will be held in Americus on
July 4. This is the highest degree
of Odd Fellowship and several sur
rounding lodges will meet here and
confer the degrees on about fifty
candidates The Columbus lodge of
I> K O. S. will bring its own band
and a big parade will be held on
th Sumte e r’lodge missed thc f J' 22 ' 2
meeting of the grand lodge ot Geor
gia by just seven votes at the recent
Athens convention.
AMERICUS BOY, IN FLOOD
CITY OF PUEBLO, WRITES
EYE-STORY OF DISASTER
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A freakish example of the activity of the waters that flooded Pueblo,
Col. By all the rules this undermined house ought to fall—but it doesn’t.
? Photographs of the Pueblo flood will ba found on page 3of this 7
? edition. >
Writing by candle light, with deso
lation all about. Brooks Williams,
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Williams,
of Americus, who has been employed
in Pueblo, Colo., for some time, has
written a letter home telling of the
great disaster that hit that city last
week. The letter arrived Friday
morning from the town, which was
cut off fvom railroad communication
with the outside world for several
days.
Mr. Williams, who is a graduate of
Georgia Tech- in electrical engineer
ing, is employed in Pueblo by the IL
L. Doherty interests, owners and op
erators of the gas and electric plants
there. He is a graduate of the Do
herty School of Eelectrieal Engineer
ing, was sent to Pueblo some time
ago from Denver. His letter tells
intimately of the flood and the com
pleteness of the disaster.
Enclosed with his letter, written
last Sunday evening, was a copy of
the 4 o’clock extra edition of that
day of the Pueblo Chieftain, an im
portant daily paper of the west. The
paper is a single sheet of 44, columns,
about 12 inches deep, and printed on
one side only on a job press. It is
devoted to general orders of the mili
tary, the city being under martial
law, and to brief bulletins having to
do with flood information.
Following is his letter in full:
“Pueblo, Colo., Sunday night,
Dear Folks. I suppose you have
read in the newspapers something of
the flood disaster that has struck
Pueblo. Hope you have not worried |
any on my account for I can assure
you that it . would have to be some
flood to bring enough water for mak
ing me uneasy. Os course I do not
mean to say that this has not been
some flood, for believe me it could
hardly have been worse or more de
structive of life and property. No
estimates of the life loss can be made
yet but guesses run all the way from
a couple of hundred to a thousand.
Not only has Pueblo suffered a sick
ening toll but the smaller towns and
isolated fanners along the flood riv
ers are heavy sufferers.
“Materially speaking, Pueblo is a
ruined town over practically the en
tire business section and all the low
er and poorer part. Every public
utility, street cars, gas, water and
electric lights, are suspended indefi
nitely. Water stood twelve
at the gas works and so far as We can
tell now, has ruined the gas making
retorts. Mud of the stickiest Kind
covers the whole plant inside and out,
upstairs and down to a depth of at
least ohe foot. Business houses are
in the same fix with basements full
of mud and in most cases even the
second stories together with the mer
chandise in perfect tangle of mud and
debris. .
“The city is under strict military
control and no one is allowed on the
streets after 7 p. m. All railroads
and bridges are destroyed, so that no
railway service is to be had. This,
together with the fact that most of
the food houses were in the destroy
ed district has made food a precious
I article and none can be bought with
! out permit. Lack of water even to
drink is a very serious problem. A
fire once started now would com
plete the disaster for it could not be
controlled without water. But so far
and even during the flood the only
thing that held down the numerous
fires has been rain. Even the large
areas have been burned and the night
of the main flood fires of large size
were raging in different parts of the
city.
“The floods were due to cloud
bursts and continued excessive rains
on the streams flowing through the
town. Dikes and embankments were
supposed to be adequate, but they
only served to delay the flood a short
while and allow warning to be given
to the low districts. And even then
the people—or a great many of them
MERIC
THE TIMEsISSeEORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
—refused to move. They are the
more ignorant classes and never hav
ing seen that section flooded they did
not believe it would be until too late.
And when it started women and
children could not get out.
“Not a house is left in.that par
ticular part and hundreds of houses
even on higher ground were taken en
tirely otf their foundations and pos
sibly deposited blocks away or were
turned over.
“The city is divided into ktogg
parte by the' two- stre.afilf: V'tlitm con
verge here and some half dozen steel
bridges connected the three parts.
Only one of the bridges remain and
the third section of the city is prac
tically isolated. To replace these
bridges alone would just about bank
rupt the town and together with tne
other large sections destroyed. I do
not see how it will recover in years.
“I am writing by candle light, so
if there are rifts in the line of my
thoughts, just blame it on the poor
light. People can not seem to realize
the convenience and importance of
public utilities until a time like this,
when there is no light, no water, no
gas and no transportation. The mat
ter of sanitation may become serious
for not only is the sewage system out,
but the dead animals, such as cows
and horses, are becoming noticeable,
tn the ice plant alone, which is next
to, the gas plant, 48 horses were
drowned in one barn. The gas plant
lost three. A dead cow and a dead
calf were also washed on the plant s
property, so you can get some idea
of the number of dead animals lying
around.
“The water receded sufficiently
yesterday for us to begin getting the
plant in shape. By three o’clock to
day we were just getting enough of
the mud cleared out to get around in
one of the buildings where we could
make water gas. Fires were started
in the machines and the boilers. At
6 o’clock another cloudburst had
brought the river up again and ev
erything is under water. We are
hoping it does not rise any higher
than it did the first time, which bet
tered by nine feet the record high
mark made in 1894.
“Well, it’s a great life if one does
not weaken. I am writing without
i any idea that this letter will get out
for some days (until railway connec-
I tions are again made). But at any
1 rate, there is no use to worry. It is
! a great experience to have, once.
Will probably get a full news paper
account and mail you when they re
sume publishing. The enclosed is a
THREE GENERATIONS INDICTED FOR MURDER OF PUBLISHER
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Daughter, mother and grandmother indicted for murder—(left to right) Marian McArdle, Mfs. Eva Cath-
erine Kaber and Mrs. Mary Brickel.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 10, 1921.
TIRELESSCHASE
OF2YEARSFOR
SLAYERS WINS
Widow of Keber Admits
Crime—Father Her
Nemesis
CLEVELAND, June 10. Mrs.
Eva Katherine Kaber has confessed
i that her husband, Dan F. Kaber, was
murdered with her knowledge in their
I Lakewood home two years ago and
Marian McCardle, her daughter, has
confirmed much of her mother's story,
the Cleveland News announces this
morning on information by telephone
from New York by Chief of Police
Christensen of Lakewood to County
Prosecutor Stanton.
The "man with the cap,” now in
custody here, is the man who actually
i committed the murder, according to
the published story.
A woman whom Mrs. Kaber says
planned the murder was arrested
here early today. She refused to
make a statement.
Three generations of women stand
indicted o.n first degree counts for
the murder of Dan Kaber, publisher,
in his Lakewood home, July 18, 1919.
This circumstance is unique in the
annals of American criminology.
The women are Mrs. Eva Cath
erine Kaber, 50, widow of the mur
dered man; her daughter by a for
mer marriage, Marian McArdle, 19,
and her mother, Mrs. Mary Brickel,
69.
Kaber, an invalid, was stabbed 24
times in his bed at midnight. Enough
arsenic was found in his stomach to
have killed three men.
Mrs. Brickel, in a signed statement,
l declared that Mrs. Kaber had asked
her to visit the Kaber home and “do
some dirty work.” She declares that
Mrs. Kaber said, “I am going to have
Dan killed.
Mrs. McArdle then admitted that
she broke open a buffet drawer with
an ice pick to give the appearance
of a visit by burglars.
Both Mrs Brickel and Miss Mc-
Ardle deny they witnessed the stab
j bing of Kaber.
; The triple arrest follows two years
I of unrelenting pursuit by Moses Ka
i ber, aged father of the victim. He
! the resist his life to ap
-1 prehemlingnis sons murderers.
Every clew, no matter how slight,
I was followed by private detectives.
Each night these detectives reported
to Kaber and he pieced their evidence
together.
Then he submitted his findings to '
police of Lakewood and Cleveland i
and the indictments followed.
HIRED MEN ONLY TO
BEAT UP HUSBAND
HUDSON, N. Y., June 10.—Mrs.
Kaber, charged with murder in con
nection with the killing of her hus
band at Lakewood, Ohio, two years 1
ago, today confessed to getting a mid
wife she had consulted to hire two
men to beat up her husband in order
to change his harsh attitude toward
her. She denied she intended that
he be killed.
Chief of Police Christensen, of
Lakewood, made this statement today
to a representative of the As
sociated Press on a train carrying
him, Mrs. Kaber and her daughter
back to Cleveland. Christensen de
nied the report that the two men had
been ordered to pose as ghosts.
DR. GAMBRELL
DIES. AGED 79
DALLAS, Tex., June 10.—Dr. J.
B. Gambrell, retired president of the
Southern Baptist convention, died at
the home of his daughter here to
day after Several months’ illness,
aged 79 years.
A luminous paint has been pro- ,
duced by an Italian inventor.
small hand-set and printed sheet that
one of the papers have gotten out.
Lots of love. _
“BROOKS.”
SGT. ALVIN YORK, CAPTOR
OF OVER 100 BOCHES LONE
HANDED, COMING TUESDAY
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SERGEANT ALViN C. YORK
Sergeant Alvin C. York, the great
est individual hero of the World War
in any army, the Tennessee moun
taineer lad who, after having been
a conscientious objector until his
commander prayed with him and con
vinced him it was his duty to fight,
lone handed captured more than a
hundred Germans, will be in Ameri
cus next Tuesday, Flag Day, and will
deliver an address at the Rylander
theater at 8 o’clock on his war ex
periences.
This will be the first opportunity
the people of this section of the
South have had to see York, whose
name and exploit were on the tongue ■
of every citizen toward the close of
the war.
Since leaving the service, which he
entered as an uncouth mountain lad
TALK GARBLED,
SIMS REPLIES
LONDON, June 10—-(By Associat
ed Press.) —The reply of Rear Ad
miral Sims to the request of Secre
tary Denby for an explanation of
his speech here Tuesday expresses
the opinion of Sims that some parts
of his speech, to which objection
has been taken, has been garbled.
This was learned unofficially but
on good authority here today. In
answer Admiral Sims declares there
was nothing in the address which he
had not said before in speeches in
the United States and in his book.
Ohio Editor Named
Dry Commissioner
WASHINGTON, June 10’.—Formal
announcement of the appointment of
Roy Haynes, a Hillsboro, Ohio, edi
tor, as national prohibition commis
i sioner, was made today at the white
i house. Haynes succeeds John F.
Kramer.
caught in the draft, York has become
interested in a mountaineer school
and is trying to bring to his people
of the liills~some of the outside world
which he saw when he was taken
away into the service. His appear
ance here will be a highly interesting
event, well worth the money, but his
mountain school and the Boy Scouts
of Americus will divide the proceeds
after expenses are paid.
Sergeant York, clad in his serv
ice uniform, will be introduced by W.
W. Dykes, president of the Americus
Board of Education. The Americus
Scouts will put on a first aid demon
stration prior Ito the speaking (by
York, and Scout James Collins will
tell the audience something of York
in the service and the Scouths in
peace. Songs will be supplied by the
D. A. R.
NO TAX RETURNS
BY HALF OF CITY
City Clerk and Treasurer E. J.
Eldridge is worried, but he opines
that if the property owners of the
community do not get very busy be
tween now and July 1 it will be they
and not he who will do the worrying
from that date forward. A check-up
of the city tax returns today re
vealed that less than half the num
ber of tax payers who made returns
last year have done so this year, and
the time for making returns expires
July 1, after which date the legal
penalty is double taxation.
Last year, according to the city
records, 1,170 . whites made returns,
but so far only 486 have reported,
leaving 684 yet' to make returns. Os
840 negroes who made returns last
year only 440 have come forward
this year, leaving 400 unreported. ,
i “It was never like this before,”
i said Mr. Eldridge.
BRITISH MINERS
IN PEACE VOTE
LONDON, June 10 (By Associat
ed Press). —The conference of coal
miners held here today decided that
a ballot should be taken in all the
coal fields on the proposals of the
mine owners for settlement of the
strike.
This is generally considered a long
step toward peace in the coal indus.
try. where .a strike lias been on since
April 1.
Cecil Neill, Sneaker
Aspirant, Visitor Here
Cecil Neill, of Columbus, aspirant
for the office, of speaker of the house
in the coming session of the state
assembly, spent a few hours in Apier
icus today en route home, and was
the guest of Stephen Pace, retiring
member of the ■legislature from this
countv. at the Kiwanis club luncheon.
Mr. Neill istated that he had vis
ited 140 Georgia counties recently,
j and that ih ’ndnr r.f them dtd the
i roads excell those of Sumter coun
ty. _
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If, by giving a friend one dollar he would have ,
twice as much as you, and by his giving you one ;
dollar you would have c qual amounts, how much ,
would you each need to h ave to begin with?
Aniwer to yesterday’s: (One-half mile, the
length of the train, is lot t in each trip.)
TWO REPORTED
RESCUED;FACTS
STIEL LACKING
Aegean Sea Scene Os
Disaster, Aftermath
Os War
PARIS, June mail pack
et, Botiboulina, which has been sunk
in the by a mine, carried
240 passengers and a crew of 25,
says an Athens dispatch.
The Greek battleship Lemnos has
arrived at Piraeus with two passen
gers picked up.
Details of the disaster are lacking.
All-Dav Conference
Here Next Wednesday
Rev. J. A. Smith, of Albany, will
conduct the one-day evangelistic con
ference to be held in the Central
Baptist church here Wednesday, June
15, the service beginning at 10 a. m.
and continuing throughout the day.
The churches to be represented are
those in the Friendship Baptist As
sociation. Talks will be made by the
pastors of the churches represented,
as well as the laymen who will pre
sent the practical work being done
by the various departments of the
churches under the direction of the
pastors and the societies of the
churches.
Songs will be sung by the congre
gation, the key song being, “Win
One,” with the slogan of the meet
ing. “He that winneth souls is wise.”
A cordial invitation is extended
the friends of Central Baptist con
gregation to meet in this all-day ses
sion of prayer and praise.
Slayers Os Birds Are
Warned By Warden
Men and boys of this community
are killing non-game birds and rob
bing their nests, contrary to both
-tato and federal laws, according to
W. T. McMath, county game warden,
and unless they desist prosecutions
will be begun, he says. And cases
will be made in federal court instead
'•f the state courts, he announces.
“I am informed that boys are
breaking up the nests of birds and
I killirg the songsters with their small
*uns,” said the warden. “The boys
ire destroying the nesets of and kill
ing mocking birds and others not
I'sted as game birds. Men, I have
learned, have been shooting black
martins within the last few days,
merely for the sport of it. These vi
olations must stop, and if the offend
ers do not fear our state laws the
federal laws will be invoked. I very
much regret that it is necessary to
issue this warning, but our birds must
be protected.”
Bar Barbecue Here
Cancelled For Present
For a week or more the members
of the local bar and court house of
ficials have been planning on hold
ing their annual barbecue next Wed
nesday. But today it was announced
that too many other picnics and sim
ilar affairs were found to conflict
with the date, and it was decided to
call the affair off—at least until
after the approaching term of City
court.
MARKETS
Forecast for Georgia—Generally
fair tonight and Saturday. Little
change in temperature.
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good Middling H c
NEW YORK FUTURES
July Oct. Dec. Jan.
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: Open 12.53 13.35 13.84 13.91
I 11 am 12.52 13.32 13.83 13.91
1 pm .12.51 13.32 13.81 13.91
j Close 12.35 13.14 13.63 13.73
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