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WEATHER FORECAST:
For Georgia Partly cloudy to
night and Friday; probably showers
in extreme south portion.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 211.
CELL DOOR FINALLY SWINGS OPEN FOR ‘FATTY’
LLOYD GEORGE
INVITES IRISH
TO NEW PARLEY
Sinn Feinn Given Final Word In
Note Os Reply To De
Valera
MUST COME ONLY AS
PART OF BRITISH EMPIRE
October 11 Set As Date For Con
ference In London—Holds
To Position
LONDON, Sept. 29.—(8y Associ
ated Press.) —Leaders of the Irish
Sinn Fein have been invited to take
part in a/ conference in this city
October 11 ’in a note dispatched to
Eamonn de Valera by Premier Lloyd
George early today and which is coii
; 'dered to be the British government's
final word in the ev<-h mge of mes
saket, between I.onoon and Dublin.
Lloyd George informed de Valera,
luwever, that the British government
could not alter its»fundamental po
sition, which was vital to the dm
prre’s existence. This position was
that Ireland could not be allowed to
separate from the British empire, but
must base her proposition ; upon self
government as a member of the sis
terhood of British dominions.
Llody George’s note carried a de
clination to meet the Sinn Fein ne
gotiations o na basis of the previous
correspondence, the prime minister
holding this to be a basis which might
involve Great Britain in recognition
of Irish sovereignty. He renewed
his offer of a conference “with a
view of ascertaining how the asso
ciation of Ireland with the community
of nations known as the British em
pire may best be (reconciled with
Irish national aspiration.”
a In view of recifit declaration *f
de Valera and Arthur Griffith, the
belief is held in some quarters that
the Sinn Fein can now accept the in
vitation without abandoning its own
standpoint.
REPLY REACHES
MANSION HOUSE.
DUBLIN, Sept. 29. (By Associ
ated Press.) —The reply of Lloyd
George to de Valera was received at
the Mansion House this afternoon and
was read by de Valera and Arthur
Griffith, the foreign minister, in the
Dail cabinet. A reply may be draft
ed today and. placed before the Dail
cabinet, which wil Imeet Sept. 30.
NEWBERRY BAD
SAY DEMOCRATS;
PURE, SAY G. O. P.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.
Opinions conflicting along party
lines were presented today by the
majority and minority reports of
the senate privileges and elections
committee on the Ford-Newberry
senatorial election contest from
Michigan. The majority cleared
Senator Newberry of corruption
and all other charges and recom
mended that he be seated. The
minority asserted that Newberry
was elected “by corrupt and ille
gal methods.” recommended his
seat be declared vacant.
NEV/ DONORS TO FUND
FOR SOLDIER MEMORIAL
The following additional donors to
the Sumter county soldiers memorial
are reported by Treasurer Humber:
Previously reported $2,001.08
W. W. Dykes 10.00 j
E. B. Watts 1.00
S. A. Rogers . 1.00 1
Roscoe Markette 1.00
Mr. «£• Mrs. J. A. Clements.. 2.001
W. T. McMath 1.001
Mrs. W. O. Martin LOO
Total $2,017.08
markets"
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling, 2D l-4c.
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LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 29.—Market
opened quiet, 2-7 down. Quotations,
-A Yuliys, 15.71. Sales, 14,000 bales.
Receipts, 24,537 bales, of which 10,-
351 are American.
Futures: Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb.
T’rev. Close 14.45 14.28 14.06 13.85
Open 14.51 14.34 13.90
Close 14.41 14.24 14.01 13.79
NE YORK FUTURES.
Dec. Jan. Meh. May
Prev. Close 21.05 20.78 20.35 19.99
Open 21.00 20.60 20.08 19.80
10:15 am .. 20.98 20.70 20.29 19.80
10:30 21.00 20.75 20.35 19.83
10:45 20.97 20.74 20.31 19.79
11:00 20.75 20.35 20.12 19.62
11:15 *....20.85 20.61 20.22 19.63
1 I :30 20.80 20.56 20.-18 19.56
11:45 20.78 20.59 20.17 19.68
12:00 20.80 20.58 20.20 19.65
12:15 pm . 20.79 20.58 20.16 19.65
12:30 : .20.85 20.60 20.20 19.72
’2:45 .. 20.94 20.71 20:27 18.77
1 :00 20.94 24.65 20.25 19.70
1:15 10.82 20.68 20.28 19.69
1:30 20 85 20.59 20.22 19.65
145 .20.76 20.51 20.10 19.53
2:00 20.77 20.55 20:10 19.57
2:15 20.84 20.57 20.20 19.67
What Do Doomed Men Think?
3 Dixie Slayers’ Conduct Tells
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Top to Bottom: C. O. Fox, Jesse
Gappins and S. J. Kirby, who are ta
be electrocuted on the same day fox
the murder of a taxicab driver.
YOU AND I
j HAVE IT FROM CHINA
\ THAT RED IS LUCKY, j
’ GREEN UNLUCKY
do we wear black for mourn
ing.? Because it is somber, you
probably think. But Mohammedans
use purple when they go into mourn
ing. Chinese, to advertise grief, wear
white and blue.
Papers of pins wouldn’t seil read
ily in our country if the paper were
black. Neither did pins from Eng
land, in blue paper, sell in China.
Along came the Germans, flooded the
Chinese market with pins stuck in
red paper—and walked off with all
the business, for red is the lucky col
or of China, green the unlucky.
That a simple thing like color cau
regulate foreign trade, brings home
that any important venture is apt
to be wrecked by a seeming minor
detail.
Psychology of color is valuable
knowledge for you. What is your
frtvoiiite color? It ‘*gfvfs your
number.”
MOTHERS
Mrs. Pencak, Chicago widow and
mother of eight dependent children
Under 1 2 years of age, gets the larg
est‘mother’s pension ever granted—
sl3o a month. She will have to be a
good manager and pare her potato
skins thin, to make ends meet on
that.
But it’s a step forwarrd. Some day
every mother will be eligible for a
pension, with bonuses for big fam
ilies. A good investment. Babies
ai’e the nation’s real wealth.
HOME
A hermit named Romberg, at
Dubuque, lowa, had a lot of caged
bird«. State law against caging song
birds freed his pets. One, a Kentucky
cardinal, refuses to leave its cage.
That cage is.home and nothing looks
quite so good to the- cardinal.
The home instinct is as powerful I
among animal life, all through na-1
ture. as among animals. Every I
form of animal life reached by ’
highest point of its expression by es-1
tablishing a home, with ma looking
after the kids and the housework, and
pa bringing home the bacon.
Don’t worry, home is one institu
tion nothing can destroy.
ADVANTAGE
Farmers may be getling low prices I
but now they have one big advan :
tage over the rest of us.
The city chap pays 38 per cent of
his income for food and has to pay
income tax on the dollars that buy
the food.
Jlut the farmer gets his food, rent
and often other living expenses be- j
fore he beings reckoning his taxale ■
income.
Is that fight? Ethically, no. For
practical purposes, yes. Too many
are concentrating in cities. They
must be gotten back to the land. For
that purpose, almost any form of
bonus is
(Continued on page Two.)
ERIC
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PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, ’921.
Fox, Gappins And Kirby To Die
Same Day At Columbia,
S. C.
COLUMIBA, S. C., Sept. 29.
What does a condemned man think
about?
In the death house of Nie South
Carolina state penitentiary are three
murderers who will die on the same
day, within the month, in the first
triple execution in this state.
NO. I
The youngest of the trio, Jesse
Gappins, 22, has turned to his Bible
in his last days. He talks continually
on the eternity ahead of him, and
hopes most for God’s forgiveness.
“I have read and re-read the story
of Christ on the cross and his for
giveness of the thief who was dying
nearby,” says Gappins. *‘l believe
any man would be forgiven who had
not committed the unpardonable sin
—who had not rejected God to the
limit.
“As longj as any man can get down
on his knees and cry over what he
has done, and ask forgiveness, I be
lieve God will listen.”
NG. 2
Another of the murderers, S. J.
Kirby, has one wish he wants grant
ed before he pays the penalty. He
has requested the prison photogra
pher to take his picture when he is
clean shaven, and has a collar on, so
that he may send the picture to his
12-year-old daughter.
He merely says: “I wish it were
all over!”
NO. 3
The third, C. O. Fox, glares
through the cell bars—and says little.
His jaw sags low on his throat and
his eyes cower in frown. But now
and then, his lips quiver, and he mut
ters:
“I don’t know why—l don’t know
why I did it.”
Their Crime
,And the crime for which they must
pay?
William Brazell, a Columbia taxi
driver, was lured to a lonely spot
and brutally murdered. Gappins.
Kirby and Fox wanted to steal his car,
and sell it.
Hiding the body in a field, the trio
drove toward Georgfn. but tlfey were
captured and confessed.
A jury found them guiltv and a
judge sentenced them to death. Es
caping a mob at Augusta, they were I
secretly taken to Savannah, then to I
Columbia, where, in the state pen, ;
they are counting their days till Oct. |
21—the for the triple execu- j
tion.
PRICES TO STAY UP 60
PER CENT, SAYS EXPERT
Gillette Declares Subsquent
Events Bears Out Forecast
Os Last March
BY ALBERT APPLE.
CHICAGO, Sept. 29—“ When busi
ness settles down to normal again,
the new average level of prices and
kages will be 60 per cent higher than
in 1913.
“I made that prediction last March.
Recent business developments are
proving its accuracy,” says Halbert
P. Gillette, economist and editor of
Engineering and Contracting.
Gillette calls attention to the price
fOCUTCOnON
CROP NEXT YEAR
I
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That Is Purpose Os Conference
Os Southern Farmers Meeting
At Memphis
MEMPHIS, Sept. 29.—A confer
ence of all Southern farmers, bank
ers and merchants will be held here
on Oct. 17.
The conference has been called by
J. P. Norfleet, chairman of the Cot
ton Acreage Reduotion Committee, of
the South.
It is being held fur the purpose of
following up the campaign started
last winter for crop diversification
and reduction of cotton acreage.
At that time a conference was
held here of farmers, bankers and
merchants of the cotton growing
states. They agreed at that time
to unite their efforts for a smaller
cotton acreage and more feed and,
food crops.
Judging from the small cotton
crop and the largest feed crop in
history they lived up to their agree
ment.
High prices for cotton, caused by
the short crop this year, it is feared,
will cause many farmers to plant a
heavy acreage of that staple next
year, unless the committee follows
up the advantage it has gained by
waging a systematic campaign' for
diversification this winter and next
spring.
Every cotton growing state will be
represented at the conference by
large delegations of bankers, mer
chants and farmers,.
PLOT TO SEIZE
THRONE LAID TO
KING’S COUSIN
Great Sensation In Rome Over
Charges Against Duke
d’Aosta
LONDON, Sept. 29.—Violent at
tacks on the Duke d’Aosta, cousin
of King Victor Emanuel of Italy,
have created a great sensation in that
city, says a Rome dispatch to the
London Times. A newspaper charges
the duke with inspiring and protect
ing the facisto, or extreme nation
alists, striving to gaining the throne,
with the support of certain generals
and other officers.
NO GEORGIA LAW TO
STOP FIGHT BETTING
ATLANTA, Sept. 29.—Betting on
a priz« fight is not against the law
in Georgia, according to a decision
by Judge Andy Calhoun, in city
criminal court, who ruled in favor of
M. Gold and C. H. Argue, who had
been arrested Monday night at the
Lawler-Ferns fight by City Detective
Caldwell.
The judge piled that the two men
had not violated any law when the
point, was made by Attorney Ernest
Buchanan that there was no law ou
the statute books of Georgia covering
the case.
COTTON ASSOCIATION TO
MEET IN BIRMINGHAM
ATLANTA, Sept. 29.—The Ameri
can Cotte,n Association will meet in
Birmingham Octobtr 26-29 in its an
nual convention for 1921, according
to announcement made here by Har
vie Jordan, secretary. The opening
day of the convention will be held
in joint session with the Birmingham
semi-centennial celebration to hear
the address of President Harding.
On the following day the business
sessions of the cotton association will
begin from all sections of the cotton
belt, 'and several thousand delegates
are expected
NEW ALTITUDE RECORD.
DAYTON, 0.. Sept. 29.—Lieuten
ant John A. Mcßeady, test pilot at
McCook field yesterday shattered the
world’s altitude record, attaining a
height of 40,800 feet in the same
La Pere biplane used by Rudolph C.
Sehroedr, who set a record of 38,-
180 feet on February 28, 1920.
index compiled by the government's
Bureau of Labor Statistics. This
index shows that, on the average
the wholesale price of a given amount
of commodities has been as follows:
1913 average - . .......SI.OO
May, 1920 ............ .............. .... 2.72
March, 1921 1.62
May, 1921 1.51
June, 1921 1.48
July, 1921 1.48
August, 1921 1.52
“The August figures,” says Gill
ette, “registers, I believe, the turn of
the industrial tide. It is the first in
crease in the wholesale priqe index
in the past 15 months.”
Gillette bases his price-and-wage
level prediction on a complicated
mathematical formula, which he has
tested bad; <>v z r 80 yea's and found
that it fitted each year’s prices and
wage spc«-ura*t y.
Rise and Fall.
According to this formula, average
wholesale prices will continue rising
until they 60 per cent above 1913
level. They may go higher, but prob
ably would fall back, in that event,
and settle at the 60 per cent figure.
Further indications that business
decline has halted and is rising out
of the depths, getting ready to stabil
ize, are pointed out by Gillette, as
follows:
“ONE: Between June, 1920, and
April. 1921, bank clearings declined
about 25 per cent. But, for the past
four months*' they have remained
almost stationary.
“TWO: A similar constancy in
the number of freight cars loaded
weekly has occurred during the
same four months, while the tons
carried one mile (ton-miles) have
increased slightly.”
Monev Dancer.
“Most economists hold that wave
and price levels change with changes
in the volume of money and cheek
ing deposits—the two combined be
ing the measure of total buying pow
er ” savs Gillette.
“I have shown that, had this been
the case, wage levels would be al
most twice ns high as they are, for
bank deposits increased twice as
much as money during the last 30
years.
“It has not been realized by
economists that hank credits repre
sent frozen purchasing power be
cause it is necessarv constantly to ac
cumulate funds with which to meet
maturing loans. When a business
man is building up his deposits to*
meet his obligations, he cannot at the
same time be using them for the pur
chase of more goods. Checking de
posits would operate exactly like free
money were it not that thev are
handcuffed to maturing obligations.”
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Yvette Gulibeit Le Vome, who undertook to get the evidence in Boston
movie scandal.
BOSTON, Sept. 29. Another
movie scandal!
Columns have been printed about
the Arbuckle case, Jmt Boston has its
own scandal. It #eads it, sympa
thizes, moralizes.
There are three principal charac
ters in Boston’s drama—a man and
two women.
The man is Bert Cornell of Brigh
ton, moving picture producer.
The firstjjjfoman is Mrs. Anna
Francis, alleges she was mis
treated by'Tornell while posing for
a vampire role in his new picture,
“A Thousand Fact’S." '
The second woman is Yvette Guil
bert LeVome, a New York film ac
tress, who played the detective
against Cornell and has been sum
moned as one of the principal wit
nesses againt him.
Cornell was arrested on Mrs. Fran
cis’ charges.
Dr. George W. Galkin, founder and
former head of the Emergency hos-
NEW GRAIN RATE
AID TO FARMERS
Transit Arrangements, Reducing
Transportation Charges, An
nounced By Railroads
In order to take proper care of
the great corn crop now maturing
railways operating jn this territory
have agreed to establish at once
transit arrangements covering the
shucking, shelling and milling in tran
sit of Southern grown corn. This
concession on the part of the trans
portation companies will enable the
grower and miller to handle the
great crop economically. Moreover,
it will enable the farmer to take ad
vantage of storage and milling fa
cilities at central points, without ad
ditional freight charges.
This action means that the farmer
can find a readier market for his corn
In large centers; of if he prefers that
he can avail himself of storage ware
houses secure from the weevil. The
smaller communities lack facilities
and even if investors were ready to
supply the necessary funds the grain
elevators could not be built in time
to handle this year’s crop.
The Central of Georgia Railway I
was one of the prime movers in this
matter, and its freight department
gives out the following statement: 1
“The agreement of the railroads
simply means that the farmer san
ship his corn to some central point, ,
have it shucked, shelled or converted J
into corn products at the mills there, <
and continue its shipment to destina- ,
'ion at the through rate that would ]
apply from the original shipping point <
to the final destination; instead of
having to pay the local rate to the '
milling center and then another local i
rate from the milling center to the ,
destination.
“For instance the rate on corn <
from Millen to Macon is 19, cents pet ;
hundredweight and the rate on corn <
products (such as meal, flour, grits, <
hominy, etc.) from Macon to New- >
nan is 17 1-2 cents, a total of 36 1-2 !
cents. Under the trahsit privileges )
which the roads will grant the far- (
mer can avail himself of the through ?
rate of 25 cents per hundred, a sav- j
ing of 11 1-2 cent per hundred.
“Formal notices of this actiop will <
be sent out within the next few days ;
and details may be obtained from <
any freight agent of the Central of
Georgia Railway.”
LOS ANGELES SHAKEN.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29. A ;
slight earthquake shock was felt in
the southwest section of this • city
early this morning. It lasted a fesv
seconds and no damage was reported,
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
pital in Bcston, had contracted with
Cornell to picturize his book, “A
Thousand .Faces.”
Mrs. Francis was among who
applied for parts.
She claims that she called at a
Back Bay apartment and posed for
Cornell. During her posing she was
given something to drink, she says;
which stupefied her. While in this
stupor, she says, she was mistreated.
Mrs. Francis wrote a letter to a
New York film conrern wi'ick ad
vertises that it produces only" cleat)
pictures” and told of her experiences
asking help to rid Boston of what
she said was a pitfail for young girls.
Miss LeVome was sent to Bosron
to procure evidence. She says that
she has obtained it while pcsing as a
candidate for a part in Cornell's pic
ture.
In addition to the summons for
Miss LeVome, summonses have been
issued for three other girls who are
said to have posed for Cornell.
C. C. HOUIDAY
ALBANY ELEVEN
COMINGOCT.7
Local Football Season To Open
On That Date At Playground
—Hi Spirit High
Interest in football at the Ameri
cus High school has started in high
gear. Thirty candidates for positions
on the team have turned out tor prac
tice, forming a squad containing a
good supply of promising material,
and Coach Sullivan announces that
a snappy team is in prospect if the
lads keep up the high spirits which
they have now.
The local season will be opened
Friday, October 7, when the Albany
High school team comes for a game
that should be one of the best to be
staged this season .despite the* fact
that it comes early. It is announced
that the Americus team will be main
tained strictly a high school students’
team, with no ringers tolerated. Al
bany is expected to play the same
kind of a team here, and a good clean
game is anticipated. Albany will
have a bit the edge, as she hooks up
with Bainbridge this week, giving
the Albany players the advantage of
the experience of one fame. However,
HELP WRITE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION. :
) shall be the instruction to be placed on the tabletifor the Sumter ;
) county Memorial to our soldiers in the great war? The manument '
J committee wants suggestions to select from. If you have a good one,
) (ill in the following blank and bbribng or send it to the '“imes-Recorder
/ not later than Saturday night, as the committee will ‘ meet Monday
morning to pass on the matter and order the tablet. Inscriptions should
be limited to twenty words, and should be as much shorter as possible.
) They may be quotations or original. ’
> O suggest the following inscription':
| Signed :
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'x A A NN i RnM
ARBUCKLEGETS
HIS FREEDOM ON
BONDOFSS,OOQ
Murder Charge Against Film
Comedian Dismissed At
• Preliminary
TO FACE MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE FO RGIRL’S DEATH
Women In Court Room Clasp His
Hand When Court Allows"
Him To Go
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29.—Ros
coe (“Fatty”) Arbuckle was at lib
erty on $5,000 bond today after his
preliminary hearing on a charge of
murder. He will be tried on a charge
of manslaughter within a few day;s
if the district attorney’s plans ma
terialze. «
Police Judge Sylvian Lazarus in
the police court here late Wednesday
ruled that Arbuckle be held for man- 1
slaughter and that the murder charge
against him be dismissed.
The court's decision yesterday
came after attorneys had argued for
an hour regarding 1 various phases
of the case.
Arbuckle Was plainly pleased and
courtroom spectators seemed to be, •
too.
The California law provides a pen
alty of an indeterminate sentence of
from one to ten years in the state
prisoji for manslaughter.
"I see nothing in the evidence pre
sented here which would warrant
holding this defendant on a charge
of murder,” Judge Lazarus comment
ed in announcing his dtcision.
Arbuckle’s attorneys immediately
asked release of their client on bail.
Judge Lazarus set the bail at s<o,i
000 bonds or $5,000 cash and law
yers left the court rooqj; immediate
ly to arrange posting of the cash
and to order “Fatty’s” $26,000 car
brought to the hall of justice.
When the decisiiyt was announced
clubwomen from the audience
swarmed to the rail which stood be
tween Arbuckle and the audience
and began wringing his hand, pat
ting him on the back and congratu-<
lating him.
Arbuckle hardly changed expres
sion. He looked about as sober as
he has always looked since his ar
rest two weeks and a half ago.
Minta Durfee, his wife, broke into
tears and wept with joy on the big
comedian’s shoulder.
Arbuckle shook the hands of club
women with one hand and with the
other caressed his wife.
Mrs. Emma Philip Ina, one of the
clubwomen attending the trial, press
ed a book into Arbuckle’s hand. Its
title was. “How to Be Happy.”
Mrs. W. B. Hamilton, chairwoman
of the delegation of clubwomen
watching the case, bitterly attacked
the prosecution. .
“The only thing that the state
brought out in this case was the
fact that Miss Rappe was dead/’ she
said.
It was expected that an immediate
assignment of Arbuckle’s case to the ’
court of Superior Judge Ward would
be made.
Miss Belle McDaniel is spending
a few rays in Albany as the guest
of friends.
. AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Pharmacy.)
4, pm ... 88 4 am ...73
6 pm 82 6 am 75
8 pm 79 8 am ..- 80
10 pm ... 76 10 am 84
Midnight 74 Noon 88
2 am 74 1 pm 89
the Americus squad is working hard,
and taking on the Third District Ag
gie squad for scrimmage work sev
eral evenings each week. . 'a
An effort is to be made to have
uniforms for the Americus team by
the date of the Albany contest. Tha
game will he played at-the Play
ground, easily accessible to the pub
lic.