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WEATHER FORECAST:
$ For Georgia Partly cloudy to
s 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 as conference in this city
October 11 in a note dispatched to
Eamonn de Valera by’Premier Lloyd
George early today and-which is con
sidered to be the British government's
final word in the eY-'h.ng.- of ines
sake» between London ind D tbiin.
Lloyd George informed de Valera,
bcwever, that the British government
could not alter its fundamental po
sition, which was vital to the etn
' ire’s existence. This position was
that Ireland could not be a'lowcd to
separate from the British empire, but
must base he. propomtiiar- upon self
government as a member of the sis
terhood of British dominions.
Lloyd George’s note carried a de
clination to meet the Sinn Fein ne
gotiations on a 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 he I reconciled with
Irish national aspiration.”
In view of recent ’’declaration of
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
stftndßPMlt.
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 will meet Sept. 30.1
NEWBERRY BAD
SAY DEMOCRATS:
. PURE. SAY G. O. P.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. I
Opinions conflicting along party >
lines were presented today by the ,
majority and minority ieports of !
the senate privileges and elections ■
committee on the Ford-Newberry j
senatorial election contest from j
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.
NEW DONORS TO FUND
FOR SOLDIER MEMORIAL
The foilowing additional donors to
the Sumter county soldiers memorial
are reported by Treasurer Humber:,
Previously reported $2,001.08
W. W. Dykes 1 0.00
H. D. Watts 1.00 I
S. A. Rogers . . I.oo]
Roscoe Markette 1.00
Mr. & Mrs. J, A. Clements 2.001
W. T McMath 1.00!
Mrs. W. O. Martin 100]
Total $2,017.08'
MARKETS |
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling, 20 l-4c.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 29. -Market!
opened quiet, 2-7 down. Quotations, -
fullys, 15.71. Sales, 14,000 hales.
Receipts, 24,537 bales, of which 10,- ;
”s'l are American.
Futures: Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. j
Prev. 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 i
NE YORK FUTURES.
Dec. Jan. Meh. May i
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 1
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 2(1.85 20.61 20:22 19.63]
11:30 .2(1.80 20.56 20.-18 19.56
11:45 20.78 20.59 20.17 19.68
’2:00 20.80 20,58 20.20 19.65
12:15 pm . 20.79 20.58 20.16 19.65
1?:30 .20.85 20.60 20.20 19.72
1 ' 15 20.94 20.71 20.27 18.77 I
1:00 20.94 20 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!
1 45’ 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
2:30 . 20.82 20.60 2tyl7 19.63
2:45 20.89 20.65 20.25 19.65
Close' 20,87 20.56 g 0.22 19.60
What Do Doomed Men Think?
3 Dixie Slayers’ Conduct Tells
L J
*• I / ’W W*
"I
Top to Bottom: C. O. Fox, Jesse
Gappins aqd S. J. Kirby, who are ta
be electrocuted on the sanw day fol
the murder of a taxicab driver.
YOU AND I
j HAVE IT FROM CHINA j
I THAT RED IS LUCKY, )
} GREEN UNLUCKY
yDHY 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 sell 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-1
or of China, green the unlucky.
That a simple thing like color can!
regulate foreign trade, brings home;
that, any important venture is apt i
to be wrecked by a seeming minor 1
detail.
Psychology of color is valuable j
knowledge for you. What, is your;
fdvodite color? It ‘'givfs your
number.”
MOTHERS
Mrs. Pencak. Chicago widow and
mother of eight dependent children
under 12 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. z
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
are the nation’s real wealth.
HOME
A hermit named Romberg, at
Dubuque. lowa, had a lot of caged
birds. State law against caging song
birds freed his pets. One. a Kentucky
cardinal, refuses to leave its cage.
That cage is homo and nothing looks
quite so'good to the cardinal.
The home instinct is as powerful
among animal life, all through na
ture, as among' animals. Every
form of animal life reached by
highest, point of its expression by es
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 getting low prices
but now they have one.big advan
tage over the rest of us.
The city chap<tavs 38 per cent of
his income for food and has to pay
income tax on the. dollars that buy
the food.
But. the-farmer gets his food, rent
and often other living expenses be
fore he beings reckoning his taxale
income.
Is that right? 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 advisable.
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ffcjfPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29, ’92 I.
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 the South
; Carolina state penitentiary are three
| murderers who will die on the same
I day, within the month, in the first
| triple execution in this state.
NO. 1
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
jof Christ on the cross and his for
| giveness of the thief who was dying
: nearby,” says Gappins. ‘‘l believe
I any man would be forgiven who had
I not committed the unpardonable sin
| —who had not rejected God to the
, limit.
“As long as any man can get down
; on his knees and cry over what, he
! has done, and ask forgiveness, I be-
I lieve God will listen.”
NO. 2
I 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
I that he may. send the picture to his
| 12-year-old daughter.
He merely says: “I wish it were
i 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 “1 don't know why—l don’t know
. why I did it.”
Their Crime
I And the crime for which they must
I 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 '
ffnTTsell it.
Hiding the body in a field, the trio ]
drove toward Georgia, hut they were
II captured and confessed.
| A jury found them guilty and a
11 judge sentenced them to death. Es
! raping a mob at. Augusta, they were
] secretly taken to Savannah, then to '
! Columbia, where, in the state pen,
they are counting their days till Oct. |
21—the date set for the triple execu- ■
tion.
PRICES TO STAY UP 60
PER CENT, SAYS EXPERT
Gillette Declares Subsequent
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.
‘‘l 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
TO CUT COTTON
CROP NEXT YEAR
i
— ,
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 Reduction Committee, of
the South.
It, is being held for 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.
Viigh 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 cottqn growing state will be
/represented at the conference by
1 large delegations of bankers, mer
chants and farmers.
RAIL STRIKE UP
TOCOMMITTEES,
DESPITEVOTE
President f.ee Sends 57 General
Chairman Home To Get
Reports At Once
CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—Fifty-seven
general chairmen of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen will leave Chi- ■
(ago tonight carrying instructions
from President Lee to call their
jfrjevance cjhnmittees immediately,
cbtain their Sanction or disapproval
of the strike vote of the organization
and report hack to the president here
next week.
The brotherhood, 186,000 strong,
voted overwhelmingly to strike be
cause of wage reductions, it was of
ficially announced.
However, the organization has no
intention of calling a general strike
of its members and the tying up of
any railroad system anywhere in I%>e
country will be up to the general
grievance committee of the brother
hood on that particular road.
While there may be walkouts on
sqme lines, it. was learned, it will be
only in cases where the grievance
committees on those lines have sanc
tioned it, and it is understood that
President Lee instructed the general
chairmen of each railroad represent
ing his organization, that sane judg
ment must he used in sanctioning
strikes.
President Lee faced a difficult, sit
uation when he took charge here yes
terday. He gave the men permission
to strike if the vote was in favor of a
‘‘walkout. Now they have voted ‘‘over
whelmingly’’ for a walkout.
Lee, who broke with the three
other powerful railroad brofthei
hoods and the Switchmen's Union of
North America when he gave per
mission to the men to strike, wilt
make every effort to get the griev
ance committees representing his
I organization on each railroad to re
fuse to sanction a walkout, it is
learned.
AMERICUS TEMPERATURES
(Furnished by Rexall Pharmacy.)
4pm 88 4am . . .73
6pm 82 6am 75
Bpm 79 Bam 80
10 pm . 76 10 am 84
Midnight .74 \’oon 88
2am . . 74 2pm 90
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 z... 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 price index
in the past 15 months."
Gillette bases his price-and-wage
level prediction on a complicated
mathematical formula, which he has
tested back <•’.' r 80 vea”s. jjnd found
that it fitted each year’s prices and
wage ssc-uratt y.
Rise and Fall
According to this formula, average
wholesale prices will continue rising
until they 60 per cent above 1912
level. They may go higher, but prob
ably would fall back, in that event. '
and settle at the 60 per cent figure, i
Further indications that business
decline has baited and is rising out I
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 J thfy have yemainejl j
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.”
Money Denyer.
“Most economists hold that wage
and price levels change with changes
in the volume of money and check
ing deposits— the two combined be
ing the measure of total buying pow
! er." says Gillette.
"I have shown that, had this been
the case, wage levels would be al
most twice as high as they are, for
bank deposits I increased twice as
much- as money during the last 30
year.?.
“It has not been realized by
economists that hank credits repre
sent frozen purchasing power be
cause it is necessary constantly to ac
cumulate funds with which to meet
maturing loans. When a business
i 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 onerate exactly like free
mqrfey. were it not that they are
handcuffed to maturing obligations.”
BOSTON HS OWN MOVIE SCANDAL
/II
'■rß
-
Yvette Gulibert Le Vome, who undertook to get the evidence in Boston
movie scandal.
BOSTON, Sept. 29. Another I
movie scandal!
Columns have been printed about!
the Arbuckle case, but Boston has its
own scandal. It reads it, sympa
thizes, condemns and 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 first woman is Mrs. Anna
Francis, who alleges she was mis
treated by Cornell WUc'* 'posing for
a vampire role in his new picture,
“A Thousand Faces.”
The second woman is 'Yvette Guil
bert LeVome, a New York film qc
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. Galvin, founder and
former head of the Emergency hos-
NINE DIE IN TWO
POWER BUSTS
Parlin, N. J., and Kansas City I
Scene of Two Accidents At
Plants
PARLIN, -N. J., Sept. 29.—Five
men were killed and three injured
today when explosives being loaded
on a truck at the Dupon de Nuemors;
plant blew up.
KANSAS CITY, Sept. 29. Four:
men were killed in an explosion-at j
the Excelsior Powder company plant
near here today. Houses wnthin a
wide radius were wrecked.
HUDSON AND HIS
WIFEINDICTED
Both Held At Albany For Mur
der Os Woman’s Two Little
Sons
ALBANY. Sept. 29.—Glenn Moore
Hodson and his wife were jointly i
indicted today for the murder of
Mrs. Hudson’s two sons, aged ten and
four, at their home two miles south
of here last July.
TO CLOSE LISTS
FOR GOLF CLUB
Col. Lili* Announces Remittances
On Stock Are Wanted From
A Few More Yet
Responses to the call of President
G. R. Ellis for the Grst installment
payments on stock in the Americus
Golf club have been qilenJid, Col.
Ellis stated today However, sente
few have not yet rlmitfetl, and the
charter membership is still being
held open for a day or two to en
able them to come in.
. “A. great, many have sent in .their
ch«cks*on the first'cal'l (Hi the stock,’
said Colonel Ellis, “but )not quite
! enough have accepted to enable us to
i close the list and formally organize.’
Closing up Os the - list with those
! who have-responded to the first cal!
I is expected to takte place immediately
! after which work will be authorized
I for converting the property now un
der option jof lease into a modert
golf course, .
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
pital in Boston, had contracted with
Cornell to picturize his book, “A
Thousand Faces.”
Mrs. Francis was among those 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. Wh'Je if* this
stupor, she says, she was mistreated.
Mrs. Francis wrote a letter to a
New York film conrern which ad
vertises that, it produces only" dean
pictures” and told of her experiences
asking help to rid Boston of what
she said was a pitfall for young girls.
Miss LeVome was sent to Boston
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 gibls who are
said to have posed for Cornell.
PLOT LAID TO
KING’S COUSIN
Great Sensation In Rome Over
Charges Against Duke
d’Aosta
TONDON, 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 gain the throne,
with the support of certain generals
and other officers.
ADOPTS “U. S. SYSTEM”
LONDON, Sept. 29.—Children
brought up at the new children’s
court at Lambeth Town Hall, Brix
ton, will have the American system
of punishment dealt out to them, ex
plained Magistrate Hay Halkett to
day. For stealing apples he fined
four boys 50 cents each.
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 f ew
seconds and no damage was reported.
HELP WRITE MEMORIAL INSCRIPTION.
J 11/HAT shall be the inscription to be placed on the tablet for the Sumter
£ ” county Memorial to our soldiers in the great war? The monument
; committee wants suggestions to select from. If you have a good onp,
$ fill in the following blank and bring or send it to the Times-Recorder
) lot later than Saturday night, as the ' committee will meet Monday
\ morning to pass on the matter and order the tablet. Inscriptions should
S be limited to twenty words, and should be as much shorter as-possible.
> They may be quotations or original.
!I suggest the following inscription:
S ; ■;
5 . • --.
.7 • _ • • ® • °
!> . ■ ■ ■J;
I : •
i■? .• - •. • ; ; •
) . Signed - . |
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ARBUCKLEGEIS
HISFREEDONON
BOND OF $5,000
Mufder Charge Against Film
Comedian Dismissed At
Preliminary
TO FACE MANSLAUGHTER
CHARGE FOR GIRL’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 o» a charge
of manslaughter within a few dAye
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
slaughter and that the murder charge
against him be dismissed.
The court's decision yesterday
came after attorneys had argued for
an hour regarding- various phases
of the case.
Arbuckle was plainly pleased and
courtroom spectators seemed to be,
I too.
The California law provides a pen
alty of an indeterminate sentence of
from one to ten years in thg state
prisoh for manslaughter.
“I see nothing in the evidence pre
sented here which would warrant
I holding this defendant on a charge
I of murder,” Judge Lazarus comment
ed in announcing his dtcision.
Arbuckle’s attorneys immediately
asked release of their client on bait
Judg>e Lazarus set the bail at $lO.-
000 bonds or $5,000 cash and law
yers left the court room immediate- ,
ly to arrange posting of the cash
and to order “Fatty’s” $26,000 ear
brought to the hall of justice.
When the decision 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 hack and congratu
lating him.
Arbuckle hardly changed expres
sion. He looked about as sober aS
ho 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 bf 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, sh->
said. . ;?3
It was expected that an immediate
assignment of Arbuckle’s case to ths
court of Superior Judge Ward would
be made.
FDRWCESSOF
ARMS MEETING
Senate Democrats Go On Record
As Hoping For Good
Results
WASHINGTON. Sept. 29. Tha
senate Democrats at a conference to
day adopted a resolution
the hope “that the fullest measure
of success may attend the disarma
ment conference called’ by President
Harding.”