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WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia.—Fair tonight and
probably Wednesday. No change in
temperature.
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR —NO. 80
AMERICUS HOST TO BASEBALL CELEBRITIES
STRIKE LEADERS
HAIL ‘BREAK’ IN
COAL OPERATORS
Policies Committee to Meet To
morrow To Act On Independ
ents’ Offer
PITTSBURG, April 4.—The first
- strike disorders in the Western Penn
sylvania coal district were reported
from Fayette and Washington coun
ties this morning, where the authori
ties stated, high tension electric wires
carrying current for the coal mines
had been cut. A detail of state police
crowds endeavoring to induce non
has been called out to disperse the
union miners to leave their work.
, NEW YORK, April 4.—Strike
leaders announced here today that
the anthracite miners’ general poli
cies committee would meet in New
York tomorrow to act on the report
ed offer of several independent pro
ducers to grant the strikers’ nineteen
demands it they return to their jobs.
Acceptance of the offers, which
are hailed by the union men as the,
"first break in the ranks cf the op
erators,” may result in the negotia
tion of separate contracts, accord
ing to union leaders.
The offer was first made by Wil
liam Peck, president of the Grove
Hill Mining company, of Pcckville,
Pa., who came to New York for the
purpose, according to William J.
Brennan, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, in district
No. 1.
It was followed, he said, by similar
offers from ‘‘other small independent
mine operators,” in the Scranton
area.
That this signified a breach in the
ranks of organized mine owners was
denied by members of the anthracite
operators’ association. They branded
owners who had made such offers as
“independent operators of wagon
mines whose production was a neg
ligible factor in the outcome of the
strike. ’ The Grove Hill company is
not even affiliated with the organi
zation of independent operators, they
said.
“Such offers , will not win the
strike, and will have no effect on the
stand for a reduction in wages, tak
en by the opeartors’ association,”
raid W. W. Inglis, president of the
Glen Alden Goal company of Scran
ton, and a member of the miners and
operators’ sub-committee on wage
contracts negotiation, in session here.
SEABOARD FLORIDA
LIMITED LEAVES TRACK
JACKSONVILLE, April 4.—The
Seaboard Air Line Florida Limited,
northbound, was derailed near Thal
man, Ga., shortly before noon today.
Reports to the office of the chief de
spatcher here said no one was injur
ed. Four cars left the rails.
ONE DEAD AS RESULT OF
MONTANA SNOWSLIDES
BUTTE, April 4. —Snow slides in
Montana today resulted in one death.
Railroad traffic is seriously delayed
at many points as 1 a result of the
slides.
CURB MARKET TOMORROW.
62,000 Kiwanians Seeking Closer
Relationsßetween U.S< and Canada
Better commercial and social re
lations between the United States
and the Dominion of Canada are the
goal for which 62,000 members of
the Kiwanis clubs of North America
are striving this week. The Amer
icus club will have a special Canadian
program at its regular weekly lunch
eon Friday at the Windsor.
The Kiwanis clubs of the two coun
tries dedicated the week of April 2
to 8 to the celebration of the century
cf friendship which has united the
two great English speaking nations
of the North American continent.
This period was selected because
it was in April, 1018, that nego
tiations between the United States
and Great Britain were finally com
pleted for restricted armament upon
the Great Lakes.
The practical disarmament accom
plished typifies the fine relations be
tween the two countries since.
Seven hundred and ten Kiwanis
clubs in celebrating the week are
receiving the co-operation of Cham
bers of Commerce, churches, schools
and Boy Scout organizations in a
week-long jubilee.
The purpose of' the gatherings is
to help Americans and Canadians to
understand one another’s ideals and
needs. Canadians will address Amer
ican clubs and American speakers
\yill address Canadian clubs.
This international celebration pro
moting intersectional comradeship
upon which must be predicated all
our hopes for future peace is one
of many blows struck by Kiwanis at
narrow partisanship.
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TO FINISH WILSON
DAM ATSWALS
Senate Committee May Add $7,-
300,000 To Army Bill For
Resumption Os Work There
i WASHINGTON, April 4.—The
senate agriculture committee decid
ed today to vote tomorrow on the
motion to amend the army supply
bill by adding $7,300,000 for the im
mediate resumption of work on the
Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals. Tho
committee will begin public hearings
next Monday on all private proposals
for the Muscle Shoals projects.
Senator Norris told the committee
that the legislative situation preclud
ed action at this session on private of
fers for the properties, but that the
appropriation proposed would allow
for construction work during tho
year and that meanwhile the com
mittee could study the offers.
2-YEAR-OLD CHILD FALLS
HEADLONG IN BOILING POT
TIFTON, April 4. —The two-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland
Rogers, at Chula, was horribly scald
ed yesterday afternoon when it fell
head-first into a pot of boiling wa
ter. The little fellow is one of twin
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and was |
playing in the yard where his mother j
was washing. The skin peeled off;
from his waist up and it is feared the
injuries will prove fatal.
CURB MARKET TOMORROW.
CANADA
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The United States-Canadian border, one of the longest international
lines in the world, unprotected by armament or fortifications.
The first work of p Kiwanis club
is to promote the best interests of
the community in which it exists,
but it must also promote good feeling
between cities, states, provinces and
countries so that in the end interna
tional amity shall be accomplished.
SEDD OF NEW TRATIES
SOWN LONG AGO.
WASHINGTON. April 4.—Diplo
mats here recall that the seed of
the Four-Power treaty, just ratified
by the senate, and other arms con
ference treaties, was sown more than
a century ago in an international
agreement between the United States
and Great Britain.
This agreement, proclaimed by the
president of the United States in
April, 1818, provided for limitation
of armament on the United States-
Canadian border.
It made the United States and
Great Britain pioneers in the inter
national policy of defending borders
by agreements instead of armaments
—a policy the recent disarmament
conference tried to further.
The lOfth anniversary of this
treaty will be observed April 2-8 dur
ing Canadian week, an observance
fostered by the Kiwanis clubs of
the Timesßrecorder
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
THOMAS SHERIFF SURE
HE HAS TAXI SLAYER
THOMASVILLE. April 4.—Five
white men are held in the Thomas
county jail in connection with the
murder of a negro hackman two
weeks ago. The hackman and a
friend drove a rent car to the river
where the car was stopped and the
negro driver killed and his compan
ion shot by two white men, who had
hired the car. The ear was later
found near Sale City with lights
burning and still running at 10
o’clock the next day. Five white
men were suspected of being involv
ed in the plot and they are Charles
Lawrence, Dave Cone, Primus Deas
of Grady county and Frank Heisler
and Tom Cone of Thomas county.
A ll have made written statements to
the sheriff, who will not give out
the text thereof but states that he
i: positive from the statements that
all are implicated to a certain ex
tent in the affair and that the man
who did the shooting is in the crowd.
The matter will come up at the ses
sion of the grand jury this month.
PRESTON COURT MOTTO
PUZZLER FOR LAWYERS
Americus attorneys who visited
Superior court at Preston this week
report that when court opened Mon
day morning the following motto was
found tacked to the wall in a con
spicuous place:
“Be it ever so homely, there is no
face like your own.”
A guessing contest resulted as to
whom it was meant for, the entrants
being Judge Littlejohn, Solicitor Gen
eral Felton, and Court Reporter Me
bane.
CURB MARKET TOMORROW.
North America to celebrate good re
lations between the United States
and Canada.
Almost every international boun
dary bristles with fortifications and
is protected by hordes of troops.
But you see no forts along the
"00-mile border between the United
States and Canada.
You never see squadrons of war
ships maneuvering on the Great
Lakes.
That’s ail because of this old agree
ment.
The original agreement was affect
ed after the close of the War of 1812
during the presidential term of John
Quincy Adams.
It provided that neither govern
ment should maintain:
More than one vessel oh Lake On
tario of 100 tons burden and carry
ing one 18-pound gun.
More than two such vessels on the
upper lakes.
All other vessels then in service
on the Great Lakes had to be
scrapped.
The United States and Great Bri
tain since have had many disputes
relative to the Canadian boundary
but all have beets*settled satisfactori
ly without serious troublg.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 4, 1922.
JAPSCLASH WITH
CHITA SOLDIERS
Eighty Killed and Fighting Still
In Progress Along Ussuri Rail
way, Tokio Reports State
TOKIO, April 4.—-(By Associated
Press.) —Special news dispatches
from. Vladivostok today report a
serious clash between Japanese troops
and forces of thv Chita government,
when 800 of the latter attacked a
number of Japanese near Spassk, fol
lowing a demand by the Japanese that
they disarm. Eighty Chita soldiers
were reported as killed. Fighting is
continuing along the line of the Us
suri railway, the reports said.
RECEIVER NAMED FOR
GEORGIA MOTOR CO.
The Georgia Motor Co., a local
corporation, of which John W. Oliver
is president, was today placed in the
hands of a receiver by order of I
Judge Littlejohn, of the Superior,
court, at the instance of several credi
tors. Stephen Pace was named as
receiver.
This action was brought about by
the inability of the concern to make ■
collections of large amounts due it.'
A repoit from the company shows
assets of about $25,000 and liabili
ties of about $12,000, but “frozen ■
credits” have made it impossible for
it to meet its obligations promptly,
and it is expected through receiver
ship proceedings that it will be able
to pay all claims in full. I
The petitioning creditors are repre
sented by Attorneys J. Lewis Ellis I
and Messrs. Ellis, Webb and Ellis. '
Under order of the court, the business
will be continued for a limited time
on a cash basis by the receiver.
MILLIONS OF ROSES IN
ELOOM AT THOMASVILLE
THOMASVILLE, April 4.—Thotn- (
asville roses were never more beau
tiful than on last Sunday when mil-i
lions of blooms were in evidence
throughout the city. The Thomas- j
ville nurseries, where there are sev
eral thousand bushes were open to
the public and many went out to
visit them. The new varieties and
the profusion of blooms amazed even
the citizens of Thomasville, who are
accustomed to the most and the best
roses in the South.
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling, 17 l-4c.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, April 4.—Market
opened steady 2-5 up. Fullys, 10.16.
Sales, 8,000 bales. Receipts 7,716
bales. St
Futures: April June Sept.
Prev. Close 10.21 10.09 9.83
First Call 10.23 10.12 9.86
0105i110.23 10.12 9.86
NEW YORK FUTURES.
May July Oct.
Prev. Close ,17.85 17.20 16.94
Open 17.87 17.24 16.95
10:15 am 17.96 17.28 17.03
10:30 17.99 17.30 17.04
10:45 18.00 17.35 17.10
11:00 18.00 17.35 17.12
11:15 17.99 17.34 17.13
11:30 18.01 17.37 17.16
11:45 17.99 17.33 17.10
12:00 18.00 17.30 17.14
12.15 pm 18.00 17.36 17.16
12:30 18.01 17.37 17.13
12:45 18.02 17.38 17.15
1:00 -18.05 17.40 17.21
1:15 18.07 17.43 17.24
1:30 18.06 17.44 17.26
1:45 18.05 17.44 17.25
2:00 18.04 17.41 17.25
2:15 ...18.07 17.44 17.30
2:30 17.44 17.31
2:45 ...18.06 17.44 17,30
LLOYD GEORGEIS
LEFT STRONG BY
GREAT VICTORY
Premier Throws Down Gauntlet
And Wins Bv Overwhelming
Vote
LONDON, April 4 —(By Asso
ciated Press.) —The overwhelming
victory of Premier Lloyd George in
the house of commons yesterday,
when he was given the confidence
of the house by a vote of 372 to 94.
had the effect of a quick and violent
thunderstorm in clearing the poli
tical atmosphere. Apparently net
tled by intimations that he was dodg
ing a direct vote of confidence, the
premier threw down the gauntlet
early in the debate and declared tne
cabinet would stand or fall on the
result of the division. The result
left no doubt as to the strength of
the government.
I nor to this the house by a vote of
379 to 84 rejected an amendment
proposed by John Robert Clynes,
laborite, which while approving an
international economic and financial
conference, declared that the govern
ment was not competent to represent
the country at such a conference and
did not have the confidence of the
country.
This result is regarded as exceed
ingly satisfactory for the prime min
ister, as the combined laborites and
independent liberals number about
100 and the “die ha ds” about 50, ail
of whom might have been expected
to oppose the premier’s resolution.
The prime minister’s speech invit
ing parliament to vote confidence m
the government’s Genoa policy was
noteworthy, inasmuch as it touched
only lightly upon the political crisis
at home and because it endorsed the
French policy toward Russia, al
though Mr. Llqyd George himself
displayed much sympathy for an en
tirely conciliatory attitude toward
Russia, and further, in that it sought
accommodation with the Soviet gov
ernment, lest by waiting it might
eventually be necessary to deal with
a still more irreconcilable or mili
taristic regime, which might dnfbroil
the whole of Europe.
While emphasising that nothing
could be gained by waiting for the
overthrow of the Soviet administra
tion, the prime minister accepted the
French standpoint, demanding guar
antees with respect to Russia’s debts
and obligations and stipulating a pe
riod of probation of six months or a
year, but less if Russia gave the nec
essary guarantees, before full recog
nition was accorded. The premier
indicated his belief in the insincerity
of the conversion of Nikolai Lenin
and the Soviet to a diluted form of
communism.
WAI TERSON FUNERAL
HELD IN LOUISVILLE
LOUISVILLE, April 4.—Honor to
Henry Watterson, dean of American
journalists, who died in Jacksonville,
December 22, was rendered at a fun
eral service here today. The body
arrived last night.
A vault in Cave Hill cemetery, de
signed to resist ebrrosion for a thous
and years, will receive the body.
Scrupulous Cleanliness Required
of Markets by State Regulations
The state sanitary regulations gov
erning mfat markets may be of gen
eral interest at this time in Americus.
Publication of paragraph 2 of the
regulations was asked of the Times-
Recorder by one of the local dealers,
but the whole section relating to
markets is here reproduced, in the
belief that all of it is important and
of public concern.
In commenting upon these regula
tions, R. T. Mathews, local market
man, who was one of those appealing
to the mayor and council in January
for rigid meat inspection here, said:
“Paragraph 2 prohibits meats
from being sold on the streets in the
dust and other contamination. It is
necessary to see that all the law is
enforced. I have stood for law en
forcement for all and favors for
none. It is unjust to the markets of
Americus to allow their business for
five or six months of the year to be
ruined by peddlers and then when it
takes ice to take care of the meats
to jump on us, when the farmers
have to depend on us during these
months and peddlers sell all kinds
of meats during cold weather and not
a word is said."
Following are the regulations of
the state department of agriculture,
as promulgated by the state veterina
rian, Dr. P. F. Bahnsen:
1— All inclosed or indoor shoes
in which meat or meat products
are stored and exposed xor saie
shall be kept scrupulously clean.
During the summer months .all
doors and wl.dows opening into
such shops shall be effectively pro
tected against the entrance of
flies by the use of . fly screens or
other effective mechanical devices.
2 No meats of any description
shall be permitted to hang or stand
in the open air exposed to insects
or dust, or other contaminating in
fluences, hut must be under glass
or fly netting, and in summer prop
erly iced to prevent spoiling. Meats
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
GUARD CRANKING
FORD DROPS GUN,
NEGRO WOUNDED
ALBANY, April 4.—Sylvester
Wimberly, a negro, is at a local hos
pital suffering from a wound he re
ceived in a peculiar manner. Syl
vester was standing near the edge of
the sidewalk talking with a party of
other negroes, while John A. Flint, a
white man and convict guard, was at
tempting to crank a Ford a few feet
away. Flint’s exertions caused a pis
tol to work out of his pocket, strik
ing the pavement, discharging and
sending a bullet into the negro’s
spine. Wimberly will recover, it is
thought. No charge was preferred
against Flint.
REBEKAHS MEET
HERE WEDNESDAY
Program For Semi-Annual Con
vention Os Sixth Division
Announced
Following is the program for the
semi-annual Sixth division convention
of the Rebekahs’ meeting here on the
same day as the Fifth division of
Odd Fellows:
3:00 P. M. Opening Ceremonies.
Roll Call of Lodges in the Sixth
Division.
Roll Call of Representatives.
Reading and Approving of Minutes
of Last Session.
Report of the Representatives.
Unfinished business.
New Business.
Exemplification of the Unwritten
Work.
Question Box.
Good of the Order.
Closing Ceremonies.
For the afternoon session the Re
bekahs will meet at 3 p. m. in the
Cohen building on Lamar street. It
is desired that all members of the
Vashti Rebekah Lodge, No. 56, 1. O.
O. F., will be present at this meet
ing, as it is the last meeting of the
division before the session of the
Grand Lodge in May. Mrs. Gussie
Trippe, president of the State As
sembly, is hoping to be present; also
the secretary, Mrs. Strickland, and
the warden, Mrs. Eppie Wilson, be
sides many Rebekahs from the three
Rebekah lodges of Columbus.
At 7:30 p. m. the Odd Fellows and
the Rebekahs will have a joint meet
ing in Fraternal Hall, Windsor ave.,
to which all the friends of Odd Fel
lows and Rebekahs are cordially in
vited.
ARTHUR SALTER NOT
CITY COURT DEFENDANT
Arthur B. Salter, who works for
Physioc, the tailor, today requested
The Times-Recorder to state that he
is not the defendant mentioned in a
published list of City court criminal
cases to be tried this week. A. T. Sal
ter, a resident of the county, is the
defendant, Arthur Salter states, and
the similarity in names has caused
some annoyance to the Americus man.
CURB MARKET TOMORROW.
exposed in open markets shall be
so covered with netting as to be
effectively protected from flies.
3—Blocks or stands upon which
meats are cut shall be kept scrup
ulously cclan by frequent washing
and by scraping as often as in the
judgment of the inspector -seems
necessary.
4 Scales, knives and imple
ments of every description shall be
cleaned at the close of each day’s
business.
5 Ice boxes, racks and hooks
shall be kept thoroughly celan by
scrubbing and scraping, and ice
boxes shall be scoured throughout
once each week and as much often
er as necessary.
6 Floors must be thoroughly
scraped and scrubbed; all used saw
dust must be removed and fresh
sawdust sprinkled or laid (where
used) at least twice weekly.
7 Meat cutters or other at
tendants who handle meats shall be
cleanly dressed, and they shall be
free from contagious "and infec
tious diseases. Their hands and
outer garments shall be kept clean.
8— No refuse, scraps, bones,
rancid fat, or decaying flesh shall
be kept in the ice box with fresh
meats; nor shall an ice box be
used for keeping of meats be em
ployed for any other purpose.
9 The custom of wrapping
meats in old newspapers or in
wrapping paper that is soiled or
that has been used for any other
purpose is expressly prohibited.
Every piece of meat sold shall be
wrapped in fresh, clean wrapping
paper that has not been used for
any other urpose.
10— Live poultry shall not be
kept nor killed in the same room
or compartment in which meats
are prepared, stored or exposed for
sale. Nor shall live poultry be
kept in any room adjoining such
room if conditions are such that
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COBB’S DETROIT
AND STALLINGS’
MEN MEET HERE
Vffiting Managarsi And Player*
Guests At Lions Club Lunch
eon At Nocn
Americus is today host to Ty Cobb
and George Stallings, Georgia’s
greatest baseball celebrities, and
their two baseball teams, the Detroit
Tygers and the Rochester Interna
tionals. The baseball party, in three
Pullman cars, reached Ameireus
early this morning, enjoyed a ride
about the city and country in cars
during the forenoon, were guests of
the Lions club at a luncheon at the
Tea Room at noon, and this after
noon played a game of baseball at
the Playground before a large crowd
of fans gathered from all over this
section of Georgia.
Managers and players expressed
themselves just before the game as
delighted with the hospitality of Am
ericus, and in a talk at the Lions
luncheon Cobb assured the Americus
people that the teams would give
them a good game of baseball. Mr.
Stallings also made a short talk at
the luncheon as part of a snappy pro
gram which delighted the visitors.
In the baseball party, besides the
men of the two teams, were sport
writers, several of whom attended
the luncheon, they were Bullion,
of the Detroit Press; Saizinger of
the Detroit News; Wade of the De
troit Journal; Walker ot the Detroit
Times; Whitcombe of the Rochester
Herald and Burns of the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle.
Cobb Talks on Georgia.
Because of the orders of the man
agers for the players t'j be at the
Playground early for a workout be
fore the game, the Lions luncheon
program was made short. Cobb wax
called upon for a talk within a couple
of minutes after his arrival and he
took occasion, as a native and resi
dent Georgian, to tell his hearers a
few things about co-operation.
“We have several serious questions
to consider down here in Georgia
right now,” he said. “Our baseball
teams come South each spring to
learn team work and how to work
together—to eo-operate. Georgia
today is beset with troubles and ills,
and what we need’ to pull ourselves
out of our troubles is co-operation.
We have never learned to pull to
gether in Georgia and the South. But
necessity is the mother of invention.
We have fertile soli and we haven’t
heretofore had to worry much about
making a living. But we have tho
boll weevil now and that has changed
things. Other states are not so tav
ored with good soil and climates,
and the people there have had to use
their brains and done scheming to
get along. The result is that they
have developed manufacturing and
other industries, and they now are
getting along better than we. We
nave the ports, the power, the cli
mate and everything suitable for in
dustrial development, and we can de
velop team work like our ball clubs
that train here,, we won’t long have
(Continued on Pagt? Two)
the room used for the storage of
the live poultry ventilates finto
the next shop so that the odors
from the fowls and their cages may
contaminate the meats.
CLEAN REPORT GIVEN
TO NASH MARKET
Editor Times-Recorder: —In just
ice to my employers and myself I am
taking this matter up with you. I
went to see Mr. Eve personally the
day following the statement in your
paper that all markets in this place
were unsanitary, showing him my
clear report, and that my place was
in good condition. I have served
the people of Americus for the past
eleven years and I have always giv
en them the best on the market and
have kept my place as clean as any
market could possibly be kept. I
have a very small refrigerator and
1 could not possibly carry over meats
longer than a day or so and for this
reason I could not have had any meat
that was not in perfect condition.
I will gladly have a copy of my clear
report published in your paper, but I
am taking this way so that you may
put it clearly before my patrons for
I assure you that it is my desire to
please the public at all times. Yours .
very truly,
A. J. EASOM,
Mgr. Nash Market.
Without any wish to raise a con
troversy, but to state the facts as
coming to the attention of the Times-
Recorder, it should be mentioned that
Dr. Walsh, the ispector, wehn here,
stated in reply to questions concern
ing individual markets that the N«.-h
market was among the best here, but
it was not satisfactory in cleanliness.
His report left with Mr. Easom show
ed a clean bill, with instructions to
read the regulations more carefully,
the, manager having agreed to com
ply-with his suggestions.