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YOU AND I
have several new
reasons to champion
the cause of perpet- j
UAL PEACE. \
THE -majority of the newspaper
correspondents in Washington
are willing to lay odds that President
I Harding will soon send the Versailles
I treaty back to the senate with an urg-
I mt plea that it be ratified, thus
I avoiding the necessity of making a
eparate treaty of peace with Ger-
I many.
All efforts to smoke out the prcsi-
I den or the secretary of state as to
I their t nal peace plans have failed.
I But it is signifieAit that no Wash-
I ington official on the inside will deny
I that this will be done.
I Such irreconciliables senators as
I John on, Borah, Knox and others will
fight to the last ditch to preven',
ratification even though the league
covenant and other objectionable
features have been cut out.
But it may be taken for granted
that if and when the president asks
the senate to ratify the treaty, he
r.m have explored the ground tho
roughly enough to know that two
■ thirds of the senators will do as he
B asks.
Wi.l
RESPONSIBILITY
B Jurists in Georgia, hear ye!
Judge Barratt, of Philadelphia,
■ tells the grand jury there that the-
■ owner of an automobile who permits
■ hi., chauffeur to drive recklessly is
■ equally responsible if anyone is kill
fl ed.
Common sense backs that view of
■ the law. One can well applaud his
fl saying, “You cannot hire a man to
■ do your killing in this state and get
■ away with it.”
DANTE
All Italy is celebrating in honor
■of Dante, who died 600 years ago.
I Reading Dante's poems, one pic-
Bturei; him as a dreamer, above mun-
Bilane affairs, caring little, for life’s
fl vanities.
let Dante was so partisan in his
■ city politics that once he was sen
fltem rd to death.
' I The political creeds for which
■ Dante risked his life are long since
Bioigotten; his poetry will never be
flforgotten.
? Wonder whether Dante realized
■ the true proportions of the two.
GOOD NEWS
| We have just noticed two good
fl news items. One tells of meals being
fl reduced to 20 cents at Chanute, Kans.
■ In the other Secretary of War Weeks
I informs the nation that his depart-1
■ nient has given up 349 real estate!
flleases, saving taxpayers $31,531 a
flinoiith.
Seemingly there is not much con-!
■ nection between cheap meals at Chin-'
■ ute and economy at Washington, but!
fl the more money Washington saves’
fl! 111 • b' it will cost to live in
fll hanute and Americjjs.
ABSURDITY
■ liein this distance the trials of
fl German war criminals now being
■ conducted at Leipsic under the terms
slot the Versailles treaty seem to be
jßiarcical to the last degree.
H >lbeie have been a few convictions
übordmate officers, the penalties
; icted bemg merely nominal.
tn the few cases where officers of
J»ig*i rank have been brought to/trial,
ffl"'> |;|V( ' ’ een ac< |i''tted.
F? . ’ !)ok the Allies over two years I
h’tT- the Germans even to go
fllm ugii the motions of complying
MU' this section of the treaty. !
■ is ah urd to expect courts made |
H ' "imans to accept the view of
■3,,, "7, as to what constituted
Burin ° f German
■ just a. absurd as it would be to
of the Allies to accept
■7 ( ' (, r n imi view if the situation
Mtde reversed.
I r appreciation
' " u,l ° discovered relativi-1
B
WI. Vl; ' tln> - America. I
■f! |>U U< l!arcl| y wait until he got
Bn ” 2 e 1 A thc ’ "’odd in what
' he, ‘‘ Americans and al-
lSere is littio"? Americ «n- Says
fl.. "'Hbthted country, nothing’
■fEuXe! W ' th thc intellectual lif? ]
' i..?' tllis lle offers what ap-
||||ai't that m','st ■' b< ‘J*?. o ast °unding
fl| US failed utterly to
■ laXy, t "" ,e " d «us Significance of
'lm 'T 1 t 0 be more interested
B ;: |, t movi e:-, concerts and prize
.I, J"" 0 Professors who
■utwhat , " f human intelligence,
Mh , ~i , "I' two out of a hun-
BAH f million?
1 I’retty lough on us
1 out to give
mun a good time.
fIU i t . DtPLOMACY
B .■u'ihted i ' ! i 10matiC circles arej
B e! Switzerland
■r..-! <-to i>oE. to rei ™
R1 Die union of]
t V <>f thi'A- 1 Pl ° mats and all that
i*
B' :< I ;' Pl ’ear how good an!
B •'•’■m e.'i.. i minister has 1
B has been a mighty!
p t, han h ave the
Europe to drift
: "'.< ,|' var all d what has
| ’ her evi-
■ ’kruptcy.
'The Times-Recorder's
The police arc a( ter m<! _ • COLORED COMIC
They’ve never caught me yet— SUPPLEMENT
They won’t catch me this time— TOMORROW
_ BUT YOU GAN GET ME in —Slim Jim
THE TIMESAfRECORDER
IN THE HEART OF
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 163
Big Negro Insurance Fraud Is Uncovered Here
SERIOUS FIGHT
IN G. 0. P. RANKS
IN SENATE NEAR
Inter-Par tv Split As Se
rious As F ormer
Looming
BY H. B. HUNT.
WASHINGTON, July 15. An
inter-party fight’ as bitter as that
which split tht G. O. P. in 1912, is
developing, in Republican ranks in
the United’' States senate.
To date, its quarrels have in the
main been kept under the surface.
But to insiders it seems certain that
an open break is not only inevitable
but near.
Despite thc heavy Republican ma
jority, developments may seriously
impede the administration’s program
with respect to early enactment of
tariff and revenue bills.
Insurgent members of the senate
contend that too much attention is
being paid to big hanking and indus
trial groups and not enough to the
gjeat mass of primary producers
and ultimate consumers.
The ability of these dissenting Re
publicans to make trouble was
demonstrated when, by a combination
with Southern Democrats, they de
feated their leaders’ plans for a two
months summer recess.
This recess was proposed primari
ly to head off Consideration of legis
lation which the administration de
sires to defeat by indirect rather than
direct methods.
The biggest group among Repub
licans finding themselves out of line
with administration views and the
senate leaders’ program includes the
majority of senators from the mid
west farming states.
The next test of the ability of the
insurgents to upset the administra
tion apple cart will come in connec
tion with the Norris bill to establish
a government corporation to assist
in exporting farm products.
That bill, it has been decided, is to
be pushed real gauge of the ad
ministration’s willingness to assist
producers. It is to be kept to the
fore throughout the whole session, or
until passed.
PLAN TO HANDLE
MUCH COTTON
WASHINGTON, July 15. —Eu-
gene Meyer, Jr., managing director
of the War Finance Corporation, an
nounced today the receipts of a tele
gram from the Federal International
wh ihsetated that the company would
Banking company, of New Orleans,
workout a plan for dealing with con
siderable quantities of cotton under
the corporation’s new policy for fin
ancing' exports on either prompt or
deferred payments.
Greeks Advancing On
Both Ends Os Line
WASHINGTON, July vbgkqjetao
ATHENS, July 15. The Greek
forces engaged in the offensive
against the Turkish Nationalists in
Asia Minor are making progress at
each end of the battle line and arc
not encountering sharp resistance,
says an official statement issued
here covering the operations at the
front on July 13. The town of Agiun-
Karahissar, on the southern branch
of the Bagdad railway, was occupied
without resistance.
WEATHER.
Forecast for Georgia—Local thun
dershowers tonight or Saturday.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Pharmacy.)
2pm . ... .<.82 2am -78
4pm 79 4am -77
6pm -82 6am 77
8 pm 78 8 am ,<■'■>
10 pm —7B 10 am 89
Midnight 77 Noon 84
MARKETS
NEW YORK FUTURES
Futures Oct. Dec. Jan.
Prev. ('lose .... 12.8 u 13.28 1,.29
Open 12.90 13.30 13.30
10:15 am 12.82 13.25 13.25
11 -oo 12.92 13.35 13.31
11:15 12.92 13.37 13.37
11:45 12.98 13.41 13.41
12:00 12.96 13.39 13.43
12 J 5 pm .. 12.9 G 13.38 13.43
12:30 ..12.93 13.42 13.38
12:15 ... ... 12.95 13.38 13.42
' 1 :00 .... 12.99 13.42 13.42
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
i Good Middling, 11 l-4c.
CARTOONETTE
GRAFTING
FIGHT TO KEEP
HIGHWAY DEPT.
35 Counties Fell Com
mittee Work Is
O. K.
ATLANTA, July 15.—-Declaring
that the state highway commission is
doing the greatest} woork for the
good of the slate of Georgia that has
ever been done for her and urging
that the commission be left alone to
continue in its good work, represen
tatives of the county commissions of
35 Georgia counties appeared before
a joint session of the house commit
tees on highways and agriculture
Thursday afternoon to oppose the
bills that are now pending in the
house that propose to distribute the
automobile tax money among the
counties according to postroad mile
age.
Five bills were before the commit
tees. All propose to take the money
del vide from the sale of automobile
tags out of the hands of the state
highway commission and-distribute it
between the counties according to
post road mileage for the counties to
use on their roads as they see fit.
All of the county commissioners
appearing declared that any move
to prevent the highway commission
from having the right to superintend
the spending of money on the roads
of the state would absolutely ruin
the pdogram for a great system of
state highways that the commission
has mapped out.
35 Counties Heard.
Representatives of the following
thirty-five counties stated that their
counties were absolutely satisfied i
with the work of the commission ami |
urged that the bills be killed —,
Brooks, Elbert, Bartow, Worth, Cow
eta, Fannin, Bibb, Pulaski, Baldwin,
Pickens, Early, Wilcox, Stephens,
Spaulding ,Wayne, Walton, Lumpkin,
Floyd Bullock, Jeff Davis, Upson,
Thomas, Mitchell, Laurens, Lowndes,
Cherokee, Mclntosh, Milton, Troup,
Clayton, Glynn, Liberty, Richmond,
Forsyth and Randolph.
Judge Hinds, of Milledgeville,
strongly opposed the attempt to take
the highway money out of the hands
of the commission. He declared,
“We are told that the highway com
mission has a large overhead expendi
ture but I am glad to hear that it
is large for only by payirjj good sal
aries can we get good .Tnen to do
our road work. If the overhead were
small we would of necessity have to
have poorly paid men on our road
ork and this would of course result
in poor roads.
Attacking the system of permit
ting the county commissioners to
expend the automible tax money
upon their roads he declared, “Pet
ty politics is prevalent among coun
ty commissioners. They cijfinol get
results. They have not accomplished
results in the past and so why should
wc now throw them millions of dol
lars of state money for them to in
effictiently spend.”
One Big State.
Going on he said, “We are all one 1
I big state. We have a highway com- i
: mission to improve the roads through- •
out the state. We arc- not a number i
i of counties and should not consider I
| ourselves a ssuch and have internal <
’ dissention.”
i Representative Davis, of Ogle- i
! thorpe, urged that the tax money
| be distributed among the counties by <
I passing the bills. He stated that the I
i motor vehicle bill was only passed i
i in 1919 with the distinct understand
! ing that the tax would be distributed <
among the counties according tp post
road milcage and that this under- i
standing had not been lived up to. “I [ '
| demand that we be given our due | !
j promises now and that, the counties ;
I of the state be given the money that;
is due them,” he said.
He stated that about $3,000,030; ;
has gone into the hands of the state,
i highway commission since January 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERRNOON, JULY 15, 1921.
GEORGIA CHURCH
OUSTS PASTOR AS
CONVICT-CROOK
[Forger: Embezzler And
Deserter Os Fcimilv
Are Accusations
ACWORTH, July 15.—Pending his
reply to charges against him, Rev.
Lon Davis, pastor of Acworth Baptist
church here, at a meeting of the
church members last Wednesday
night was debarred from his pulpit.
Among the chntges against the min
ister are that he was some years ago
convicted in. Texas for forgery and
embezzlement, >nd that he deserted
his wife and three children in Texas
to run away with a redheaded wo
man. Mr. Davis, who has left town,
said before his departure! that he
was going to Texas to bring back
proof that will
meanwhile, his property is beijig
levied upon for debts.
At the time IVy. Davis was offered
the pastorate of the Acworth Bap
tist church, in the summer of 1920,
he was doing traveling evangelitsic
work, lie was'fwperly pastor of a
church in AdairsWte-, and before
that preached at Lavonia.
Mr. Davis became unpopular
with some of the people here when
he started a newspaper, the Acworth
I I rogress, and through its editorial
I columns began attacks on another
[ church. Rumors regarding his past
| then began to circulate until the
i church officials decided «that an in
i vestigation should Ke made.
Ku Klux Klan Enters.
The affairs neared a crisis two
weeks ago, when a meeting of the
|Ku Klux Klan was held on the steps
of the church, and word reached
the deacons that Mr. Davis was
present and sanctioned the meet
ing. The pastor shortly afterward
received a visit from Deacon H. M.
Williams, who suggested that Mr. Da
vis resign until rumors concerning
his past could be investigated, Mr.
i Williamsreply the pastor
| handed him a letter relative to thc
| incident.
| several letters about Mr. Davis,
1 which had come into the hands of the
church officials, were in the pres
ence of Mr. Davis laid before a meet
ing of deacons July 7. Resolutions
were passed debarring Mr. Davis un
til he could make his defense. Mr.
Davis served notice on the board that
he would make his defense before
the congregation.
Wednesday night when the congre
gation was called to meet, it was stat
i cd that Mr. Davis had left on the
| night train Tuesday, accompanied
| by Mrs. Davis and their five-year
, old daughter. He is said to have de
clared to people at the station that
be is coming back in September, and
that he was going to Texas to get
proof of the falsity of the charges
against him. On the books of the
church it was officially recorded that
“the church is not in peace and fel
lowship.”
The evidence, consisting princi
pally of two letters, was placed be
fore the congregation. The first let
ter purported to come from T. D.
Grawford, of Lavonia, and said that
some time ago, while Mr. Davis was
conducting services in Lavonia, a
woman from Texas recognized him
as a man sought by the authorities
of her state on charges of forgery
and embezzlement. The letter stat
ed that Mr. Davis was carried back to
Texas, convicted of the charges and
given a suspended sentence.
The second letter, purporting to
come from J. M. Dowdy, of Bayshear,
Texas, stated that the writer was a
brother-in-law of Mr. Davis, and that
the pastor had deserted his wife and
three children to run away with a
red-headed woman. The second let
ter confirmed the first, and gave De
catur, Wise County, Texas, as the
town where Mr. Davis was said to
have been convicted.
The Ku Klux letter, handed Dea-
from the state and national govern
ment and that at present only $73,-
000 is in the state treasury. “Where/
is the rest of it?” he asked. “W here
has it been spent? Why has my
county not received any of it?”
Representatives of the cotinty com
missions stated that the state high
way commission was teaching the
counties how to build roads and how
to effciently spend monijy upon
roads. They pointed out the fact that
they had never before known the
correct way in which to construct
roads and were delighted to have the
chance to learn. Many instances
were cited where counties had lost
large sums of money on account of
not having the correct knowledge of
road building. They also pointed to
a number of cases where a large
amount of money had been saved
for them by thc highway commission
through expert advice.
Wants to Tell Everything,
Mrs. Kaber Sobs In Court
BH
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■ A /
Mrs. Daniel Kaber, on trial at [
Cleveland, and her late husband, Dan- i
iel Kaber, wealthy publisher, whom [
she is accused of having; had slain i
two years ago.
CLEVELAND, July 15.—Mrs. Eva .
Kaber was carried mto the court- I
room by two bailiffs this morning :
when her trial on the charge of mur- |
dering her husband, Daniel Kaber, j
was resumed. ’
KELLOY HANGED;
LEAVES GOODBYE
No Confession Made As
Slaver Goes To
Gallows
GRIFFIN, July 15.—Jack Kelloy
was hanged here at 10:40 o’clock this I
morning for the murder of Leroy ■
Trexler, Atlanta taxicab driver.
Kelloy never confessed the crime,
but left a written note bidding good
bye to his friends and also his ene
mies, “whom I forgive from my
heart.”
Trexler was killed in September,
1920, and his body was found in
the woods in Spalding county after
he had been employed by Kelloy to
drive the latter from Atlanta to
Savannah. A plea of insanity was.
made by Kelloy's attorneys.
con Williams by Mr. Davis, was read
as follows:
“To whom it may concern:
“It having been rumored that the
Baptist church of Acworth was used
for the purpose of organizing a Ku
Klux Klan, it is my purpose to slate
emphatically that it is not true and
-there was never any effort made in
Acworth to this end. We asked for
a place to explain the efforts of our
enenr.es to destroy the Christian re?
ligion and free public schools in
America. We asked at that time for
no one to join us. And said nothing
aWout memberships. Any person who
insists on lying about our intentions
and purpose? will be visited sooner
or later. Baptist churches have been
used all over the United States for
speakers of the order and never be
fore have we heard any complaint
against , turning the light on
Crookedness. The United States
officials from Washington, D. (■ , ex
amined the principle and purpose of
the order and o. k.’d the charter, say
ing that 1,000,000 mdn like that
would save America.
“If anyone is sore at the pastor,
then talk to him, don’t sneak around
some other way. Tire speaker on
the occasion is a deacon in a Baptist
church, and knows the rules and
states positively that there is no
grounds for such rumors. The desti
ny of America is in the balances, and
every thinking inan knows' it. Any
Baptist that kicks on saving his
church should be dealt with—The
Speaker.”
JWhen the dav after tomorrow is yesterday, today will
be as far from Sunday as today was from Sunday when
the day before yesterday wa s tomorrow. What day of
the week is it?
Answer to yesterday’s: 7 2 and 36 years.
WWi ■ *
When seated she clutched the arm
I of the attending bailiff seated by her
| side and amid sobs, pleaded that he
j not leave her. Her attorney, William
I Corrigan, tried to quiet her.
“I want to tell them, I want to
| tell them everything, but Mr. Corri
[ gan won’t let me,” she sobbed to the
I bailiff.
SUMTER DOCTOR
I SENT TO PRISON
Dr. J. C Bagley Gets 9
Months Under Nar
cotic Act
MACON, July 15.—Dr. J. C. Bag-
I ley, of Sumter county, pleaded guilty
! before Judge Beverly D. Evans in the
I United States court Wednesday as-
I ternoon to violating the Harrison nar
' colic act and was sentenced to nine
months in the federal penitentiary at
Allanta, Thursday.
In sentencing Dr. Bagley, Judge
Evans told him he understood he was
an old offender. The physician was
represented by Attorney A. O. Park.
Mr. Park told the court he did not
! know much about the cafce l>ut that
; the physician had good reconimenda-
J tions from prominent people of
j ter county. The case was made
| against. Dr. Bagley by Dr. Q. E. MHI
- er, of the government.
Mri Park said that he understood
■ that two government men went to Dr.
■ Bagley’s office and obtained orders
j for ’morphine after representing
I theihsetves as drug addicts. 'Mr.
: Park said he knew very little of the
i ease, but that he had letters of rec
' ommondation from prominent men of
. Sumter county on behalf of the de
. i fendant.
i Dr. Miller said that he had sent
r a d<;ug Addict into Dr. Bagley’s of-
Jfice to j?et an order, but that he
I later went,' in himself and obtained
three orders at $■ id or SSO. Dr. Mill-'
. er ibid the court that, he did iflTt tell
' Dr Bagley he was a drug addict, and
the only thing he said was in remon-
J stealing about the high price the
.1 defendant charged.
i Dr. Bagley is a well known physi-
I cian residing in the. 28th district, east
of Americus. He was arrested last
fall andztaken to Albany, where he
! made bond. \
Propose To I ake Hides
Off Duty Free List
WASHINGTON, July 15.—Taking
up the Fordney tariff bill for coin
! inittee amendments, the house consid
ered first today the proposal by the
ways and means committee to remove
' hides from the free list and impose
an ad valorem duty of fifteen per
! cent. The amendment includes hides
and skins of all kinds, raw, green,
1 dried, pickled, prepared and pre
served.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
LUMPKIN NEGRO H
DOCTOR MISSING;
WARRANTTAKEN
Sick Benefit Claims
Forged And Collect
ed, Is Charge
A warrant charging the making of
false sick insurance benefit claims
and collecting money thereon was
taken out Thursday in Lumpkin by
Attorney Hollis Fort, of Americus,
representing the Georgia Mutual In
surance company, of Augusta, a ne
gro concern, against Dr. A. O. Lock
hart, a negro physician of Lumpkin,
and turned over to Sheriff Johnson.
The sheriff ..till has the warrant, the
negro physician having disappeared,
and no trace of his present where
about having been discovered, ac-,
cording to information.
The fraud is said by N. Duckett,
negro inspector for the company, who
was here, to have exceeded SI,OOO
and to involve more than 10 alleged
forged and fraudulent claims. That
the amount involved will be consid
erably .n excess of tiic amount named
is the belief of those investigating
the case.
Involved with Dr. Lockhart is T.
J. Coleman, an Americus negro, who
bar; been district agent for till' in
surance company, and who, it is said,
has turned state’s evidence and giv
en much information concerning the
transactions. According to the in
formation, he and Dr. Lockhart .di-
the money obtained by the al
leged fraud.
The method of operation, it is said,
was for Dr. Lockhart to forge sick
benefit claims, turn them over to
Coleman, who properly endorsed
them and forwarded them to the
office, deducting the amounts shown
on the claims in remitting money
collected by him in premiums for the
company as its district agent. Such
claims when properly approved are
accepted,by the home office as vouch
ers, it being the custom to permit
thc agents to settle sick claims upon
presentation of a physician's certifi
cate.
Sick claims were said to have been
frequent from Richland, Lumpkin,
and Plains, particularly the Stewart
county towns. Finally they began to
pour in from Richland at a rate that
aroused the suspicion of the home
office, with a wide variety diseases
and ailments named which were not
generally prevalent. An inspector
was sent, to Stewart county to make
an investigation. He called on a
number of negroes whose names were
signed to tick benefit icert'ficates
and to whom the claims were sup
posed to have been paid. In no in
stance, according to Inspector Duck
ett, was one found who had made
a sick claim or who had been visited
by Dr. Lockhart, who had signe I the
claims on which payments were
made.
Dr. Lockhart was called to Amer
icus for a conference. He denied any
irregularity. But later, when the in
vestigation drew to a close and the
evidence began to pile up, it is said,
Coleman decided to turn .nformer
on an agreement of immunity, which
agreement is said to have been made,
J and the prosecution then centered on
; the physician.
Reports had reacher her? in ad
vance of the trip to Lumpkin Ihurs
: day that Dr. Lockhart woull not be
at' home when the officers called,
and it is doubted now that he will
be quickly located, despite the faei
that the penalty for the' offens'? with
which he is charged is only a misde
meanor, with a maximum penalty of
a year on the chain gang, six months
| in jail and SI,OOO fine.
I ‘‘We wil laccept no settlement
from Dr. Lockhart,” said Duckett,
“for we intend to make an example
of him for th<- benefit of others who
may have it in mind now or at some
future time to work a similar fraud
on an insurance company.”
LLOYD GEORGE
SEES ULSTERITE
LONDON, July 15.—(8y Asso
ciated Press.)—Another meeting be
tween Eamonn De Valera, the Irish
Republican leader, and Premier
Lloyd George took place today, this
discussion of preliminaries of the
hoped-for Irish peace "Settlement last
ing about an hour and a half. At the
conclusion it was announced the con
versation would be resumed later,
probably next Monday.
With his interviews with De Valera
concluded for the time being Premier
Lloyd George this afternoon received
Sir James Craig, (.lister premier, -who
arrived from Belfast this morning.
Plane Falls; Pilot And,
Three Passengers Die
OAKLAND, Calif/, July 14.—An
airplane from Jacuzzi Brothers air
plane factory in Berkley fell it Mo
desto kiling the pilo s and three pas .
sengers today, according to a report
to the Oakland Tribune.
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