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WEATHER FORECAST
S For Georgia.—Fair to’iight and [
< Thursday; warmer in northwest por- >
? tioji tonight and in the interior Thur
( day; probably frost to the coast to- [
| night. ‘ ;
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR —NO. 69
SENATE FLOODED WITH TREATY SPEECHES
600,000 MINERS CALLED OUT FOR APRIL 1
BITUMNOUS STATES AND MINERS AFFECTED IN BIG STRIKE
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The figures in the various; main bituminous coal producing states show the approximate number of >P’ l,erß
who would be affected by a general bituminous coal strike. Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas are covered joimiy
by 10,000.
GERMANSGIVEN
I TERMS OF DELAY
Conditions Os Morilorium An
nounced By Allied Repara
tions Commission
PARIS, March 22 (By A sjciatyd
Press) Conditions under which the
I Allied reparation. commission will
gran* Germany a partial mnratorium
were announced today. They include
perfect autonomy for the Reiehsbank
and i ew legislation to prevent eva
sion of German capital, the legisla
tion to be ready for application on a
fixed date.
ARMY PAY NOTE
f HANDED ALLIES
PARIS, March 22 (By Associated
Press). —The American note regard
ing the payment, of the costs of the
American army df occupation in Ger
many addressed to the European al
lies,' reached the American embassy
here yesterday and will be presented
to the Allies this afternoon. The
note sets forth the American attitude
in clear and forceful terms.
51WARRANTS0UT
IN BANK FAILURE
OKMULGEE, Okla., March 22. -
Fifty-one warrants were issued today
for the arrest of persons named in 23
indictments returned by the grand
i jury here after an inesvtigation of the
failure of the Bank of Commerce
here.
This is the bank case which result
ed in a judge resigning a few weeks
ago under public pressure for dismiss
ing a previous grand jury just as it
was ready to hand down indictments
and out of which grew the attack on
the governor recently by a man with
whom he went to shake hands on a
visit to Ocmulgee.
STATECOLLEGE
PLANS U.S. RADIO
ATHENS, March 22.—A govern-,
ment radio station at the state col
lege of agriculture here is planned,
according to announcement today by
President Andrew Soule.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling 17 l-4e.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, March 22.—Market
opened steady; 3-4 up. Fully.-, 1 1.03.
Sales, 10,000 bales.
Futures: May July Oct.
I Previous Close .10.38 10.26 9.92
Open ... 10.42 10.29 9.96
Close 10.35 10.24 9.92
NEW YORK FUTURES
May July Oct.
Prev. Close .. 17.97 17.36 16-9.>
Open .... . 18.00 17.40 16.99
10:15 am 17.93 17.33 16.94
10:30 . ~17.95 17.36 16.95
10:45 17.93 17.35.16.96
11 :00 17.95 17.35 16.96
11:15 17.90 17.35 16.96
11:30 17.89 17.29 16.90
11:45 17.90 17.31 16.90
12:00 .....17.90 17.30 16.91
12:15 pm 17.86 17,25 16.85
12:30 17.81 17.23 16.84
12:45 ,17.83 17.24 16.85
1:00 17.82 17.23 16.85
1:15 17.82 17.23 16.87
1 :30 17.80 17.26 16.85
1:45 . 17.80 17.28 16.88
2:00 17.78 17.31 16.90
2:15 17.84 17.30 16.93
2:30 17.85 17.32 16.94
2:45 .17.85 17.33 16.94
Close 17.88 17.35 16.97
Bituminous And Anthracite Workers I o Quit
Work At Once For First Time In
History
INDEVNAFOLIS. March 22. -Sus
pension of work by all union coal
miners at midnight March 31 was or
dered late Tuesday by officers cf the
United Mine Workers of America, the
call being the first ever issued for
both bituminous and anthracite work
ers to walk out simultaneously. Six ;
hundred ihuu-and men will be di
rectly affected by the order, H fas
estimated officially. The suspension,
the order provides, will continue un j
til stopped by union officials.
The. order, which was; sent to the
3,000 local unions, directed the nlin
ers to give the opeiuttors their fullest
co-operation in the protection of all
mine property and counseled against
violence and violations of the law. ■
In addition to affecting all union min- -
ers.in the United States, the order
also" directed approximately 6,650
union men in Western Canada to
join in the walkout, but did not apply
to 14,000 miners in Nova Scotig.
Never before in the history ot the
coal industry has a suspension or a
strike order called for cessation of
work by all union miners in the UmL :
ed States. In the past, wage con- '
tracts in the bituminous and anthra- '
cite fields have not expired at the '
same time. The issuance of the call .
came with the recent strike vote of ■
soft coal miners not completely tab- j
ulated, but it was said, officially, that
the work of the union’s board of tel
lers had progressed tt> such a point as !
to show every field voting overwhelm- i
ingly in favor of a suspension. Indi- 1
cations were that nine-tenths of the
miners favored the walkout.
Here are a few facts involved in ;
TIME FOR CO-OPERATION!
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THE
PUBLISHED IN THE yjyy 'Ms.\ HEART OF~ DIXiEL
the Cool mining industry that will be
of interest at this time:
Only 24 percent of the coal pro
duced by American mines is mined
by hand. Fifty-six per eer.l is ma
chine-mined and the res; shot oil
solid.
Nu;i-u<iion miiu’F, working' nL top
: i:°(’d, (nn furnisii lhe country with
0.0U0.000 tons of bituminous
< oal a week. T nis is the estimate by
J. D. A. Morrow, of the National
Coal Association. As the strike
starts, the country is consuming
about 9,500,000 tons of bituminous
coal a week. This leave;: a shortage
of 3,500,000 tons a week.
The bituminous coal miner, on the
average, works 8 1-2 hours a day
when he is working, according to
geological survey figures. In 1903,
only 56 per cent of the miners had
the 8-hour day; 17 per cent were in
9-hour mines and the rest irt 10-
hour mines. In 1919, latest year
cheeked up by the survey, 96 1-2 per
cent of bituminous miners were in 8-
hour mines.
Out of each 100 tons of coal from
American mines, 36 tons are used
within the state where it is mined;
27 tons are shipped outside the state
where the mine is located; about 4
tons are exported; 5 tons are shipped
up the Great Lakes as cargo.
Industrial plants normally have the
lead as a consumer of bituminous
coal, using 32 out of each 100 tons
mined. Railroads ues 28 tons, public
utilities 7 tons, households 10 tons,
coke makers 15 tons. Homes burn
55 per"cent of the anthracite output,
and 20 per cent goes to industries,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 22, 1922
w. iy , - —— ... ’
I TO REDUCE NAVY
110,000 BELOW
TREATY f LEET
• House Committee Recommends
I 80,000 Enlisted Men, Too
Few To Man Ships
-4
j WASHINGTON, March 22. The
1 House naval committee agreed to
i day to report the bill fixing the max
imum authorized enlisted strength of
the navy at 80,000, plus 6,000 ap
prentices,, or 10,000 less than the
; number Secretary Denby declared
I were needed to operate the treaty
I fleet.
• The bill also provides that not
I more than 200 members in each gra
-1 dilating class at the naval academy
; be commissioned this year and for
; the next two years. There are 541
! members in this year’s first class to
• be graduated.
COLUMBUSHAS
I FERTILIZER FIRE
!
Damage Os $90,000 Done To
! Bradley Plant—Firebug Sus
pected By Watchman
! COLUMBUS. March 22. The
I plant of the Bradley Fertilizer Co.,
was damaged $90,000 by lire early
I today. A watchman at the plant
I stated that he believed the blaze was
| of incendiary origin.
TROLLEYS COLLIDE; 12 HURT.
CLEVELAND, March 2?.- Twelve
persons were hurt, some seriously,
this morning, when a heavily laden
trolley crashed into the rear of ;f
, Cleveland - Southeastern interurban
[car in the downtown section.
power plants and for heating large
buildings. Only about 5 per cent of
anthracite is exported.
In the It) years, 1900-1918, the av
erage coal miner worked only 209
days a year. Allowing for Sundays
and holidays, the miner lost 100 days
a year when he might have been
working if the mines were not shut
down by lack of orders. The min
ers argue that their daily wage
should be adjusted on a basis of what
they make in a whole year, to tide
them over lime lost by shut-downs.
An average of 2573 miners are
I killed in American coal mines each
I year. Normally there are 775,000
employed in coal mines, including
both union and open-shop mines. The
death rate is about one in each 300
I miners a year. The death rate has
(been reduced a third since 1907, by
I safety appliances, inventions and
j protective laws. Four miners now are
killed for each 1,000,000 tons of coal
produced.
MRS. PONZI STAYS LOYAL TO 'WIZARD'
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MRS. CHARLES PONZI.
BOSTON, March 22.—1 f you were ,
the wife of a multimillionaire finance :
wizard—
And he lost his last penny—
And was thrown into i iison —
Would you stay loyal to I ini and
defend him while the >vaole world ;
condemned him?
Would you leave h’s m.>r,-son and !
live in a five-room Ila*, with his i
mother, awaiting hi.- rclea : ■?
Would you get bne-v your old job i
as a stenographer to earn bread for
yourself and his mother?
Well, Mrs. Charles Ponzi is doing
just that?
Os course, you remember Ponzi. ;
He promised clients to make millions ;
in foreign exchange operations. Fed-1
SHOALS TRIPTO
START SATURDAY
Senator To Leave With House
Leaders, Despite Request
Os Leaders
WASHINGTON, March 22. The
members of the Senate agricultural
committee, after considering the re
quest of Senate leaders that Sena
tors not. absent themselves from the
sessions during consideration of the
arms conference treaties, decided to
day lo follow their previously made
plan lo lea .e Washington next Satur
day night for a visit in company with
House members to Muscle Shoals.
THREAT TO NEGRO
CATHOLICCHURCH
Notices Posted On Texas Edifice
Promising Dynamite And
Tar And Feathers
BEAUMONT. Texas, Mandi 22.
Notices were posted Monday night on
the doors of the Blessed Sacrament
Catholic church for negroes, threat
ening to dynamite the church and
tar and feather the pastor, A. A. La-
Plante, it became known today when
Sheriff Garner and Mayor Steinha
gen received a communication of pro
test signed by more than a dozen
citizens.
DOUGHERTY COURT
FACES LIGHT DOCKET
DOUGHERTY . DOU UGBOYH
ALBANY, NL»reh 22. Dougherty
county Superior Court for the spring
term, which convenes here Monday
for a two-week session, promises to
complete business before it in less
tlam the allotted time for the first
time since the world war. lhere are
no big murder eases or others in
volving capital offenses and the ses
sion promises to be an ineventful
VIENNA PLANS 3-DAY
HIGH SCHOOL MEET
CORDELE, March 22—Plans have
been completed for a three-day high
school meet for the third district at
Vienna on April 13-14-15. The pro
gram has been completed and ath
letic, musical, oratorical and essay
contests of all kinds are to be held
during the meet. Superintendent J.
M. Harvey, of the Vienna school sys
tem, is president of the association.
. . XV.-3 .. • •.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
era! agents investigaj,e_d and proved
Ihe was a financial faker. But—
“ Charlie was honest,” Mrs. Ponzi
I steadfastly maintains. “He meant
to do right by ail. Why, he could
have kept, some of the $8,000,000 he
gave back to investors if he hadn't
been square.
“He could have buried a million
and no one would have known the
difference. But he didn’t!
“I’ve had severaj offers to enter
i the movies, but I just can't capitalize
< 'lnn lie’s misery. It's all too tragic.
"Os course, it's lonely for us with
out Charlie—he was so kind and con
siderate. And—let me tell you this
--a man who’s kind to his mother
and wife can’t be bad at heart toward
the rest of the world.”
NO WAR TAX FOR
TY COBB GAME
Cargill Gets Ruling From Rev
enue Collector—Reserved
Seats Planned
That no war tax will be required
on admissions to the Ty Cobb Detroit-
Roche: ter basebail game to be played
lhere Tuesday, April 4, Golden Rule
Sale day, for the benefit of the
Americus Playground, is the ruling
obtained from the collector of in
ternal revenue at Atlanta, according
to a wire received from the capital
city. Mr. Cargill stopped over in At
lanta yesterday on his trip to Wash
ington and New York, purposely to
get a ruling, and he wired the fol
lowing:
Editor Times-Recorder, Americus,
Ga:—Delighted to report it will not
be necessary to pay war tax. Our
Playground having been bought for
educational purposes and maintained
as such without individual pecuniary
profit, will be exempt from taxation
on paid admissions.
"J. RALSTON CARGILL.”
The committee on seats for the
I game have planned 1,000 permanent
I permanent bleachers in choice loca
| tions and 1,000 or more temporary
I bench seats to seat the crowd expect
"d to attend the game. For the 1,000
I permanent seats, which will be ele
i vated in tiers seven rows deep, a re-
I servation charge of 25 cents will oe
i made. For the other seats no charge
, will be made other than the genera!
i admission price of SI.OO and 50 cents.
It is now planned to place reserved
seat coupons on sale up town a few
days before the game, so that those
' who wish to attend may make their
reservations in advance, avoiding the
rush and uncertainty which likely will
I prevail at. the time i f the game.
DEFINITE SPLIT
[ IN IRISH FORCES
Republican Army Convention,
Forbidden By Griffith, An
nounced Anyhow
DUBLIN. March 22 (By Associat
■ ed Press)—lt was officially announc
ed in the Republican organ today
I that the Irish Republican army con
vention, recently forbidden by Ar
thur Griffith, would be held in Duh-
I lin Sunday as arranged. The an
nouncement was taken to mean that
a definite split in the Republican
army has come. „ . _ .
[TfiTJTi
PACT TO COME
TO VOTEFRIDAY;
WATSON BITTER
; Georgia Senator Flays Agreement,
Lodge, Root And Others,
In Opposing Speech
WASHINGTON. March 22. A
I flood of prepared speeches lor and
! against the Four Tower'Pacific trea
ty was loosed in the Senate today as
1 the period of unlimited dubatc carta
; to amend unde, the unaiiimo-us <mn-
I sent agreement, which will bring tha
I final vote on ratification Friday.
Senators La Follette and Wai h
were, headliners for the treaty oppo
nents, today, while on the. other side
i the right of way was given to Sena
i lor Pomerene, Democrat.
i Charging that the treaty was
I “viewed with suspicion from coast to
1 coast,” Senator T. E. Wai on, Geor
i gia, renewed an attack upon the pact
lin the Senate late Tuesday, Watson
| branded the treaty as an “instrument
I conceived in secret and matured in
silence.”
; “Why is this treaty so universally
1 viewed with suspicion?” Watson ask
; ed. "It is because of the secrecy
| which has veiled it at all times. Its
fabrication has been as silent as a
drcam. No one knew of it until it
suddenly burst forth al the Wash
ington conference. Then when the
authors did speak, they made so
many mistakes that the treaty be
came a thing of ridicule.”
Senator Lodge, Republican leader,
and Eiihu Root, members of the
American d< legations were both at
tacked by Watson for their part in
drafting the treaty.
"Lodge has been standing in a
boundless continuity of shade,” Wat
son declared. “In his relation to this
treaty, he has never stood in the
light.”
The Georgia Senator read several
newspaper articles attacking Root
and dealing with a bank transaction
in New York City.
‘“We find Root, who engineered
the whole treaty, is a man who broke
a law in doing so,” Watson added.
Touching on statements by several
Republican Seimtors that the treaty
was drafted to evade a war in tlw?
Pacific, Watson declared that if
England did make war on ips, “ he
would do it with our own money.”
START FIRST PEACH ~
SPRAYING, IS WARNING
“Peach growers in centarl Georgia
are advised that Hileys are now rea
dy for the first spray,” says a Port
Valley government bulletin out to
day. “Use four pounds of powdered
arsenate of lead with each 200 gal
lon tank of water, plus the milk of
lime from slaking 12 pounds of stone
or unslaked lime, if dust is used in
stead of the liquid, the 80-5-15 for
mula is recommended.
"Do not delay this first application
as it is a very important one against
the adult cure.ulios appearing from
hibernation. These adults are now
appearing in numbers, and growers
are warned to follow the recommen
dations closely in order to keep them
in check. Elbertas will be ready by
the latter part of the week, and they
should be sprayed with the above
matt-rials just as soon as the Miley
acreage ha . been completed. Then
follow Elbertas with Georgia Belles,
( armen, Early Rose, and the early
varieties. The development of ttm
‘fruit of each variety ; nould be close
ly watched, so that the. spraying >r
dusting can b? started imtnediai-d■/
when about three fourths of the j t
als or pink part of flower bgva
fallen.”
GOLF KILLS BASEBALL
FEVER IN MOULTRIE
MOULTRIE, Maren 22.--Basebay
fans in Multrie are blaming golf for
their inability to interest enough folk
to organize a league in Southwest
Georgia this .-< asrin. It is asserted
that the men who used to put up the
money for baseball are now nearly
nil more or less interested in golf and
for that reason they not so •'cai
for baseball as they once were.
It is pointed out that there are two
golf leagues in this section, one of
the leagues having six teams with
a game every two weeks, and thq
other with four teams with a similar
playing schedule and that the playcis
in most cases formerly were enthu-
I siastic ball fans and big contributors
when it came time to raise money.
Ihe cities in the golf league are
Moultrie, Thomasville, Tallahassee,
Quitman, Albany and Valdosta.
Country clubs recently have been
organized in Americus and Bain
midge and it is believed here tjiey
I may join the golf league next seasoif.
CUPID HAS SLUMP IN
,! WARE, FIGURES SHOW
WAYCROSS. March 22.—There
have been fewer marriages during
1922 in Ware eounty than in a num
-1 her of years. During the past ten
! days not a single marriage license
; has been issued.
ENGINEER HUDSON DIES.
ALBANY, March 22.- .1. R. I|ud
j son, 53 years old, a well known eii
l gineer on the Atlantic Coast Line
railroad, died at his home here yes
(terflay morning after an illness of
i one month. He was a highly respect
l ed citizen and a lemlei in his broth-,
ertiood, be ig chairman of the griev
ance commdi.ee for this divLsi m.