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WEATHER FORECAST:
For Georgia—Rain tonight and
Sunday except fair in extreme north
portion tonight; not much change in
temperature.
FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO . 225.
RAIL UNIONS AUTHORIZE GREAT STRIKE
RULES OUT CITY’S
HUGE LIBEL SUIT
AGAINST PAPERS
Chicago Tribune and News
Victors In $10,000,000
Law Case
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—Judge Harry
Fisher today sustained the demurrer
of the Chicago Tribune to the $lO,-
000,000 libel suit brought by the City
of Chicago. He declared the city
had no cause for action and denied
it the right to amend its petition.
The city brought identical suits
against the Tribune and Daily News
claiming the papers had printed false
statements regarding the city’s fi
nancial position, thereby inujring the
city’s credit.
NAT LE MASTER ATTENDS
BURIAL OF DR. DUNBAR
Nat LeMaster has just returned to
Americus from Augusta, where he
acted as one of the honorary pall
bearers at the funeral of Dr. Stiles
Dunbar, who died in Athens Sunday
after a brief illness. The body was
taken to Augusta, the boyhod home
of Dr. Dunbar, and lay at the .home
of his father, Judge William M. Dun
bar, 459 Green street, from which
place the funeral took place.
The honorary pallbearers were
Rev. Father Clark, of Athens; D. E.
E. Murphy, W. Edward Platt, of Au
gusta; H. M. Patterson, of Atlanta;
11. Lester Marvel, of Waycross, and
Nat LeMaster, of Americus. Acting
pallbearers were George Sibley, Ar
thur Houston, Ed Stafford, James Ac
ton, Paul Otis, R. L. Olive, of Au
gusta; Harry Poole, of Atlanta, and
B. Donovan, of Athens.
The Masons of Augusta tok charge
of the body at the cemetery, and the
solemn ritual of that organization
was used at the concluding cere
• monies.
Dr. Dunbar was widely known and
prominently connected throughout
Georgia and other states, having been
secretary and treasurer of the Geor
gia State Board of Embalmeijs for
ihe past three years, with a unani
mous re-election at the meeting of
the beard in the early spring.
He Is survived by' several broth-!
ers, one of whom is Clem Dunbar, a|
prominent lawyer wit hoffices in New
York and Washington, D. C.
3 SISTERS GUESTSOF
MRS. THORNTON HERE ;
Mrs. Phil McKay, of Middlesboro,
Ky., and Mrs. T. J. Stovall and Lav
ender Bay, of Atlanta, sisters of Mrs.
W. J. Thornton, arrived Fr/day eve
ning for a brief visit with her at her
home on College street. They came i
by motor with Mr. and Mrs. Armond*
Carroll, and Armond, Jr., also, of At- !
lanta, who are guests of Miss Lula I
Hay on Church street. Mrs. Carrol,
is fondly remembered here as Miss!
Annie May Bell. Mr. and Mrs. Car-i
roll and son and Mrs. Stovall will j
return to Atlanta Sunday.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
FOR CORDELE AGAIN
CORDELE, Oct. 15.—Communitv
service will become widely useful
again in Cordele this winter, Miss
! lorence Dow, of Bellfontaine, 0.,
a directress of ability, having been
chosen to come here and begis her,
duties in a few days. Cordele got!
much out of this last winter and is I
expecting much more this season. Ai’
community fair will probably be Miss i
Dow’s first work.
BONDSMEN SURRENDER
LAWYER AS SWINDLER i
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CHATTANOOGA, Oct. 15. D. j
Henry Riddle, lawyer, of Talladega, |
Ala., convicted with six others last!
November at Anniston on a charge of !
conspiracy and fraudulent use of the I
mails, was surrendered late yesterday I
by his bondsmen and committee/ to I
Jail at Anniston. He is one of the i
defendants in the alleged cotton I
by which a number of North !
< aroiina concetps were fleeced of
nearly $1,000,000.
NEGRO SHOPLIFTERS GET
i FINE GOWN SHREWDLY
* CORDELE. Oct. 15.—Th ree negro|
men got away wit hone of the finest I
gowns .in the Louis Miller store at I
noon . Friday when two of them en-j
gaged the youn gladies while the I
third did the work after the manner!
"f the shrewdest shoplifter. While
the clerks sought the police, the ne
groes got away and now the clerks
•n the store are looking for some
hold-up scheme in another form.
MARKETS
AMERICUS. SPOT COTTON
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11:30 19.31 19.09 18.94 18.60 I
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COLOR, FUN AND TALENT
IN ‘KATCHA-KOO’SPLENDID
A crowded house saw
talent production of the musical
| comedy ‘‘Katcha-Koo” at the Ry-
■ lander theater Friday night. Full of
expectation as the curtain rose on
the first aet, the audience filed out
after the final curtain charmed and
■ delighted. It was a thoroughly
pleasing—splendid presentation.
■ Many said it was the best home talent
I production ever staged here.
Aside from the fact that the entire
company was made up of Americus
young people, with one exception, the
staging of the affair was of a high
standard. There was special scen
; ery, and every character was in spec
ial costume. The costume and scen
ery were brilliant in colors, and the
whole made a pleasing spectacle.
It will be impossible to mention
any but a few who did good work,
for everyone was excellent. Some,
however, who had more prominent
parts, may be mentioned. Otis Phy
sioc, as the bearded oriental mahara
jah was an excellent Romeo. Ned
Warren, high school instructor, who
assumed the comedy role of “Katcha-
Koo,” proved a splendid actor and a
producer of much merriment. Car
roll Clark and James Davenport, as
two adventuring young Americans in
India, were also excellent comedians
and furnished much of the life and
mirth of the production. Miss Melva
Clark and Miss Vera Henry, of Sel
ma. Ala., as the daughters of the
globe-trotting American widow, were
excellent, and carried off most of the
song honors, both being possessed of
extraordinary stage voices. Miss
Maude Sherlock was diverting as the
garrulous widow. Miss Marie Wal
ker and Miss Naomi Wright pleased
in the parts of Hindu women attach
ed to the maharajah’s court, and
Misses Elizabeth Harris, Gertrude
Davenport and Mary Merritt and
Mrs'. M. H. Wheeler were winsome
wives of the maharajah.
Scores of others appeared in di
verting groups in dances choruses
and drills. In an oriental divertise
ment Mrs. Boyd Stackhouse appeared
as the principal dancer and won new
favor by her grace and skill. A polo
dance and a school chorus in special
costume were other pleasing novel
ties.
The finale was perhaps the most
pleasing feature of the production,
with scores of tots ranging down to
three'years of age marching onto the
stage as the escort to Uncle Sam,
portrayed bv little Charles Hudson,
and all waving their tiny American
flags as the scene ended in a patriotic
tableaux with Mrs. Dan O'Connell as
Liberty.
Special mention should also be
made of Mrs. Mamie Bragg Walters,
the accompanist, who presided at the
piano throughout the whole produc
tion. and who is given credit by the
whole company for an important
part in making the event a success,
having given unsparingly of her i ; nie
and talent for several weeks.
The whole production was staged,
with all the splendor of a profes
sional company, with skill surpassing
(Tie usual home tnler.t production,
and with the abundant credit to all
having any part in it. The following
gives the program of songs, together
with the personnel of the company:
SCENES
Act I. —The Maharajah’s Private
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EgILPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 15, 1921
■ii(l*|i|i|>liji TlMJli.
Act 11. Mrs. Chattie Gaddin’s Es
tate, Riverside Drive, New York.
Time—The Present.
MUSICAL NUMBERS.
1. Opening Ensemble.
2. Entrance of the Maharajah,
Oriental Ladies, Attendants. Priests,
Slaves, etc. .
3. I’m Waiting Yet, Maharajah
and Chorus.
4. Invocation of Katcha-Koo, En
semble.
5. It’s the Clothes That Make 1 the
Man, Katcha-Koo and Chorus.
5. Tell Me Why You Love Me,
i Dolly and Dick.
7. Divertisement Oriental.
8. That’s What He Taught Me to
Do, Prudence and Harry.
9. Finale —We’re Off to Cal! on
Uncle Sam, Ensemble!
Act 11.
1. Polo Dance (Introducing Sus
cjuehanpa Sue), Poio Dancers.
2. If Things Were Only Differ
ent, Dick. Harry, Solejah, Urbanah.
3. Girls Will Be Girls, Katcha-
Koo and Vvives.
4. When I went to School With
You, Dolly, Dick and Auld Lang
Syne Group.
‘5, Grand Finale Liberty
Alfame.
Introducing Yankee-Dixie Chorus-
England (Laddie Boys), Italy France,
Belgium, China and Holland.
PRINCIPALS.
(I nprder of their appearance)
Solejah, the widow of a wizard,
Marie Walker.
Urbanah, a Priestess of the Temple,
Naomia Wright.
Dick Horton, a collector of an
tiques, James Davenport.
Harry Bradstone, a collector of ad
ventuie, Carroll Clark.
The Maharajah of Hunga, an East
India Romeo, Otis Physioc.
Booypah, a slave, personal, Ma-'
harajah, Wilbur Giddings.
POLO GROUP-=Kate Hamilton,!
Dorothy Cargill, Mary Walker, Mary j
Glover, Lois McMath, Margaret
Wheatley, Robert Lane, Jim Pickard,:
Frank Sheffield, Ferd Cohen, Pete]
Pavne, Arthur Rylander.
ORIENTAL LADIES—Mary Alice'
Lingo, Mrs. Dan O’Connell, Miss Eve- .
lyn Crew. Mrs. Robert Poole, Miss!
Pauline Bell, Miss Annie Joe Davis, I
Mrs. Walter Lindley, Mrs. W. E. Tay-1
lot - , Miss Marguerite Wheatley, Miss'
Kathrine Hamilton, Miss Dorothy:
Cargill.
PRIESTS —George Marshall, John
Ed Chapman, Jim Pickard, Ferd Coh-j
en.
FAN BEARERS—Frank Sheffield,!
Morgan Sellars.
America, Mrs. Dan O’Connell.
Uncle Sam, Charles Hudson, Jr.,
Ci’wo atendants.) ■ •
Sixty Sammies.
CHINESE GlßLS—Misses Claire!
Harris, Ira Gatewood. Cornelia Wal
lis, Louise Bragg.
FRENCH NOMANDY GIRLS —'
Alisse: Frame Eas'.erlin. Alary East
eijin, Harriette Rylander, Ruth Mc-
Math.
DUTCH GIRLS -Ruth Everette,
Martha Duncan, Mary Glover, Chris
tifie Brown.
BELGIUM GIRLS—ChIoe Daven
port, Martha Johnson, Bessie Ander
sen, Terresa Andrews.
YANKEE-DIXIE GR(JUP—Louise
Cargill, Elizabeth Pool, Florrie War-’
AGGIES WIN AT
! ASHBURN 6-0
Rocky, Sandy Field Handicaps
Americus Lads—To Play
Reynolds Next
A victory of 6-0 was socred over
the Ashburn High school football
; eleven by the Third District Aggies
!in Ashburn Friday. The Americus
, lads, who returned home Friday eve
ning, reported a good contest, hard
fought and clean, with themselves
U uving considerable advantage, de
i-:pite the closeness of the score. The
ball was in Ashburn’s territory most
I of the time, and only once was Ash
: I uni able to get as elose as the 20
! yard line to the Aggies’ goal. On the
i ~iher hand, the Aggies reached Ashr
burn’s five-yard line several times,
| only to fail for touchdown for vari
i ous reasons.
I The single touchdown came in the
second quarter when Johnstn got
! 1 way for a 20 yard run on a perfect
1 forward pass by S. P. Bond. John
| sen stalled in end runs and other
offensive tactics, while S. P. Bond
i.‘-nd Claud Bond were strong in de
’ fensive play. Simmons as fullback,
, proved a hard line plunger. A field
I covered with rock and sand slowed
, up the Aggies and afforded playing
conditions to which they were not
accstomed.
The Aggies will go to Reynolds
next Friday for a game with the high
school there.
The scheduled game here between
i the Fitzgerald and Americus High
school teams was not played, Fitz
berald having conceited after the sor
ry showing made by Americus against
Albany last week. Following the
cancellation, the Americus team dis
banded for the season.
fireWhistleTo
ROUSE CORDELE
HUBBIES SUNDAY
CORDELE. Oct. 15.—The novel
| method of blowing the fire whistle
! to call the husbands out of bed
> Sunday mornings to assist in the
wife’s household duties so that the
j said wife may attend Sunday school
I has been hit upon in Cordele.
! Mayor Jones has met the request
1 of the Sunday school workers and
promised to sound the alarm. To
morrow will be the first occasion
for employing this method of se
curing Sunday school attendance, j
COUNCIL RACE FAILS
TO INTEREST CORDELE
CORDELE, Oct. 15.—This city re-j
fuses to take an interest in munici-•
politics. Three members of coun-'
cil are to be chosen November 16. !
Three, just three and no more, are !
announced, and these happen to be !
the present councilmen who art- ask
ing to succeed themselves. No ex
citement or contest is promised in
this race.
ren, Charlotte Sparks, Sarah Shipp, i
AULD LANG SYNE GROUP |
Gjeorgia Lumpkin, Marie Bell, Bettie I
Castellow, Katherine Turtle, Neil |
Hamilton, Janie Murray, Martha Ivey,:
Maria Jarette.
JAIL THREAT BY
LAWYERMYSTIC
Ncrris In Comeback, Warns
‘Bunco Set’ To Restore
Client’s Property
M. H. Norris. LaGrange lawyer
: and mystic, who has figured here this
I week in peace warrant proceedings ;
j brought by Mis. Mary J. Fowler, also
of LaGrange, and a subsequent con- j
! troversy, dropped in at the Tinies- I
' Recorder Saturday to make a brief !
: reply to statements made by Widow :
• Fowler in reply to him Friday. He j
I dictated the following:
“In answer to the bunco set, I have I
i nothing more to say about my unfor- |
| tunaae client. The bunco set, after I
I robbing my poor client out of SB,OOO
worth of property, bring their victim
to defend them and their great
i crime. All you bunco set, make back
! deed and restore all personal belong-
I ings to 300 Smith street, LaGrange,
I Ga. If not, you can have deeded to
you an interest in the state farm at
Milledgeville without any considera
tion on the part of the State of Geor
gia, and will not be mentioned ‘five
dollars and love and affection’ on the
part of the state. My character is
O. K. My business affairs has noth
ing to do with you bunco criminals.
>My power of attorney is in full
■ force and you will feel it later. All
attorneys connected with the bunco |
; case will receive a special check for ,
I their service at the state farm. My
magical belt has strange power over
criminal:' and evil spirits.”
DRAINAGE CONGRESS TO
TALK COLONIZATION
, ST. PAUL, Minn.', \ Col
( onization cf reclaimed lands will be
the principal subject of discussion at
: the tenth annual convention of the
I National Drainage Congress to be
I held here Sept. 22-24.
j The convention will be attended
jby landowners, farmers, drainage
; contractors, engineers and others in
! terested in the development of fer-
■ tile lowlands.
Reports of raliroad colonization
comm'<>n mrn’m,
' ods of colonization Tn eufover regions
I cf Wisconsin will precede discussion
' of colonization. Other subjects w.’.ich
i will be considered are rural credita.
I financing of drainage projects, state
| drainage legislation and the relative
i efficiency cf electricity, steam and
| oil in drainage pumping plants.
Secretary L. K. Shpmman of Chi
cago reports that the governors of
j South Carolina, Louisiana, lowa,
i Minnesota, Michigan and Missouri
I have named delegates.
Speakers will include Governor
! J. A. 0. Preus of Minnesota, Dr. F.
| H. Newell of Washington, I). C., for
mer head of the federal reclamation
service, H. B. Roe, a soil expert of -
I the University of Minnesoto, and F.
jW. DeWolf, chief of the Illinois
Geological Survey Division.
Movie Fans—Can You Identify
This Star ?
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will Confessions of a Movie Star’’ remind you of. Can
you—-from your knowledge of film stars-—identify the girl
who has written her experiences in movieland for the Tirnes-
Recorder.
Confessions of a Movie Star is’ an absorbing storv of the
persons who make photoplays, their problems and perils, their
manners and morals, their labors and loves. Read the first
installment in the
TIMES-RECORDER NEXT MONDAY.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
JUST LIKE MARY
AND HER LAMB
. I*'
EVERY time you see a Satter
field cat toon, you see “Sat’s”
little bear trademark in the cor
ner.
No doubt you know “Sat.” For
\eais Ije’s been picturing the
■’ladness and the sadness of the
world with his versatile pen.
You’ll find the daily comic strip
bj ’Sat’’ in the T>mes-R> eorder
brimming over with laughs and
reality. Look at the one today on
the comic page.
CORDELE WANTS
POWER HURRIED
One Large Industry Planning To
Lise Current —Officials 1 o
Go To Albany
CORDELE, OF . 15.—City officials
and others are becoming deeply in
terested in the plans for the hydro
electric power from the Albany plant
which has been contracted for this
city and next Tuesday mornig Mayor
Jones and Aidermen Lamb, Huie and
Fant, and W. G. Webb, superinten
dent of the local water works, will
go to Albany for a conference with
the' officials of the hydro-electric
plant looking to a definite plant for
.filing the power line into Cordele.
At 'least one large industry, that
of the Williamson-Harris Machine,
company, is making large plans to
use this power in the erection of an
electric steel foundry which will de
pend for its current on the power
from Albany. Others are beginning
to inquire and this has caused the
city officials to take this move. The
Albany concern had a year within
which to* complete it power line to
Cordele. This is over half gone.
$12,500 JEWELS STOLEN
LONDON, Oct. it.—Police of
searching for a daylight thief who
stole jewels valued at. $12,500 from
guests of Cecil H'armsworth, under
secretary of state for foreign affairs
The theft was discovered after a re
ception and house party at Henley.
mHIIJ
OCT. 30 SECRET
DATE SET, SAYS
CHICAGO REPORT
High Official Announces Day
Has Been Decided On, But
Withholds It
LEE SAYS HE’LL BET
THERE’LL BE WALKOUT
Men Meet To Consider Execu
tives’ Proposal For Second
Wage Cut
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.-r-Sixteen rail
road unions have taken a secret
and authorized their officers to order
a walkout if it is deemed advisable,
C. J. Manion, president of the Tele
graphen’ union, announced today. J
Although twelve of the sixteen aet
independently of the Big Four
brotherhoods, a joint meeting has
been called for 2 o’clock this after
noon at which the brotherhoods will
submit their plan of action.
On high union official announced
that a date for a strike had been set,
but declined to reveal it. October
30 has been reported as the day.
The same; official stated that the
brotherhoods also had selected ten
roads on which the' strike would be
effective on the first day. It is un
derstood strikes will be ordered on
additional united of ten roads every
48 hours until the roads either give
in or the walkout becomes nation
wide.
Leaders of the railroad brother
hoods had asembled to consider the
challenge of the railway executives
in proposing a further wage cut of
approximately 10 per cent in the face
of the strike vote just authorized by
railway men because of the 12 per
cent reduction of last July. Broth
erhood ■ chiefs indicated that an im
mediate walkout at least on some of
the roads was under consideration.
“If I were a betting man,” said
W. G. Lee, president of the train
men’s brotherhood, “I would bet
there would be a a strike.”
PRESIDENT CALLS IN
PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. Three
representatives of the public on tin*
railroad labor board were summoned
to the White House today by Presi
dent Harding, presumably to discuss
means of averting the threatened
strike of railroad employes. After
a brief conference, the president left
the White Home with Chairman Bar
ton, Ben Hooper and ’G. W. W.
Hanger, going to the intcrestate com
merce eomniisFdhn ofices where a con
ference with the full membership of
the commission started.
HEARING SET FOR TrTo
IN MUSSELWHITE WRECK
CORDELE, Oct. 15.—J. R. Thom-
I as, E. R. Bishop and Janies Russell,
I three former employees of the A., B.
■ ami A. railroad, are in Crisp county
jail under charge of connection with.
I the wrecking of a train at Mussel
white’s Crossing, five miles south of
town last summer by. the use of ex
-1 plosives. They will be given a pre
liminary hearing Oct,- ‘25 and may
be given trial at the present-session of
the Superior court, or at leant, indict*
ments may be found by the grand
jury which is still in session. The
im n were arrested in Fitzgerald fol
lowing the reported confession of O.
I CJ Fairfield. They were brought
I here by Sheriff C. O. Noble, of Crisp
i county. Seventy-five cattle were
killed in the Musselwhite wreck. j
ARRESTS FOLLOW
ALLEGED CONFESSION
FITZGERALD, Oct. IL--Preston "
Ware, W. C. Bussell and O. C. Fair
j field were indicted by the Coffee
j county grand jury at Douglas yester
day with being implicated in the plot
1 which successfully wrecked an At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
freight train wt Ambrose on t'.ie night
1 of July 2G, and three men, J. R,
Thomas, E. M. Bishop and James
Bussell, were arrested here and later
placed in iail at Cordele on warrants
'charging them with wrecking a train
m the same railroad on the morning
of August 26 at Mussellwhite, in
Crisp county.
The handing down of indictments
in Coffee county, and the arrest of
the trio here for the Crisp county
authorities are the latest develop
ments in the wrecking and murder
plot 4 investigation now being cop
.ducted by Ben Hill county officials.
The indictments at Douglas were
i secured w'r.en Fairfield, who is alleg
i ed to have confessed to the Ben Kill
county grand jury Wednesday, ap
peared before the Coffee grand jury
; yesterday and turned state’s evidence
The arrests of the men wanted for
the Musselwhite wreck followed
, t airfield’s confession at Fitzgerald.
I it is stated.
The wreck in Ambrose resulted in
jno fatalities, but a portion of the
long freight train hauling perishables
1 * om Florida points was blasted from
' the rail by dynamite. The wreck at
Wussehvhite. located five miles from
Cordele, was one of the worst dis
i asters to have occurred on the A., B.
& A. railroad since the beginning of
■the trouble following the walking out
i of its employes on March 16.