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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 - 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 Good Middling IS 3-4 c. Deg. Jan. Meh. March. Piev. Close 19.16 15.92 15.77 15.42 Open .... 19.10 18.95 18.85’18.43 10 :15 am ...19.30 19.07 18.94 18.50 ! 10:30 19.39 19.15 19.00 18.62; 10:45 19.40 19.18 19.00 18.63 I H:00 19.36 19.12 18.95 18.60 11:15 19.32 19.10 18.96 18.60! 11:30 19.31 19.09 18.94 18.60 I 1 1:45 19.25 19.07 18.90 18.521 . 12:00 19.23 19.02 18.88 18.50 MAYBE HE’LL FORG ET THAT THEY’RE C O-STRRING j---. JgLwy / WAN? IPE WHOLE $ V; \ stage? / ' f V'i / Jlfc XA-Xmw -A if w / i WsVk s JplbYßif -sJ ,rALY Ftwce as. BW SB? * 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 THETIMES&:Wffi)RDER 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 ? / \ \ (\ V V • / W' / / / / - ilHr ' y*** Wr A 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.