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WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia Partly couldy to
night and Friday probably local show
ers.
FORTY-FOURUTH YEAR —NO. 82
100 IRISH FREE STATE RECRUITS CAPTURED
SLEUTHS ROUND
UP ARLINGTON
GANG, REPORT
One Os Bank Robber-Slayers Re
ported Caught, One Located
At Buena Vista
ALBANY, April G. —News received
here yesterday afternoon from Edison
declared that one of the men who at
tempted to rob the Bank of Arling
ton March 8 and fatally shot Police
man A. R., Wiggins when he came on
the scene had been captured ; that an
other was surrounded in a svVamp and
a third was located at Buena Vista.
No names were given out, but it was
hinted that disclosures would be sen
sational.
Detectives from the Burns agency
have been working on the case con
stantly Since the day following the
crime.; I:
S. A. I.EXPERT TO
TEST POOL WEIL
Services of W. C. Wheeler Offer
ed By Supt. E. C. Bagwell,
Os Savannah
The services of W. C. Wheeler,
well expert of the Seaboard railroad
system, who lives in Americus, have
been tendered to the Americus Play
ground association for testing the
well located at the swimming pool.
Instructions for him to turn himself
over the Playground for a few days
were contained in a telegram to him
from E. C. Bagwell, superintendent,
at Savannah, following a request
sent to Mr. Bagwell by J. Ralston
Cargill, of the Playground associa
tion.
Mr. Wheeler is equipped with
pumps and all apparatus necessary
for testing wells and he will proceed
to detei mine just what water supply
if any the swimming pool well has
and render a report with whatever
advice may be proper.
The well was drilled to a depth
of about 85 feet last fall,' going
through a stratum of solid rock and
penetrating what experienced well
men believed to be a strong flow
of water, although not of the artesian
variety. Whether this water, if it
really is there, will furnish the re
quired amount of 180,000 gallons a
day for the pool remains to be de
termined by Mr. Wheeler. If he
finds it to be sufficient this will'be
highly satisfactory to the Playground
management, but if unfavorable it
will be necessary to drill deeper. I
In the meantime Mr. Cargill and
others interested will go before the
city council tonight to ask the conn
ed how much water can be supplied
to the pool by the city temporarily
and on what terms. Some interesting
side facts promise to be developed
at that time, as it is understood some
of the city officials assert that the
city is now using the capacity of
its water supply and cannot spare
any amount, whereas the representa
tion has been made to the fire in
surance coffcerns that the supply is
inexhaustible. If there is such a
splendid supply in reality, the pool
1 riends say they feel no hesitancy
in asking temporary service at
a reasonable figure, considering that
it fcr a city institution, and others
point out that if the city’s supply is
now being constantly employed with
out there remaining a good margin
for safety the sooner this is discover
ed and remedied the better.
It is contended that the ' Play
ground well when completed will fur
nish a splendid auxiliary water sup
ply tor the city, available at all
times, which might come ih extreme
y handy in ease of a large fire at
Ihe Seaboard shops or elsewhere in
that) portion of the city.
Mr. Cargill announced this after
noon that he had been given com
mittees representing the three civic
club to appear before the council
tonight with him in behalf of temp
orary water service for the pool
these committees follow
Kiwanis Club—j. B. Ansley, Brad
ley Hogg, J. Lewis Ellis '
Rotary Club—W. W. Dykes, Love
lace Eve, J. E. Mathis.
';>ons Clul>_A. R. Royal, R. p
Ewing, Wallis Mott
. , M r. C T? in St . ate<i that he h »d ask
<• r rankliarrold, treasurer of the
pool fund, to send out calls at once
for payment of all money due from
i o SCr r rS ’ an<l that Elections
vvould be made at once so that work
‘ > - e re3Um ed immediately on
hous P es. tlOn ° f the P ° ol and bath '
CITY’S BIGGEST REVIVAL
J S R FANNED BY ALBANY
ALBANY Ga., April 6.—The hig
hest revival ever held in Albany is
the plan of the interchurch committee
m connection with the three weeks’
evangelistic campaign to begin Sun
day. Rev. Gipsy Smith, Jr., will do
the pleaching. The song services will
»e Jed by Charles F. Allen, of Phila
delphia, and Miss Lucile Abernathy
of Lenoir, N. C., will be pianist. Mr.
Aiken and Miss Abernathy have al
ready arrived and are training a
choir of 150 voices. Services will be
held under a tent, and will be spon
sored by members of the Presbyte
rian, Methodist, Episcopal, First Bap
tist and Byne Memorial Baptist
Churches.
LEGION STILL IS
NOT SATISFIED BY
DISABLED SERVICE
CHICAGO, April 6.—Declaring
the American Legion was not satis
fied with the facilities for hospitali
zation of disabled war veterans and
that the “success of the whole sys
tem of vocational training still was
in the balance,” A. A. Sprague,
chairman of the Legion’s rehabilita
tion committee today asserted that
the recent statement by the United
States Veterans Bureau of the work
it was doing “conveys impressions
that might be misinterpreted or mis
used.”
Srague said the bureau’s, state
ment was true, but he did not want
the impression given that the bureau
or the government was a “benefac
tor to sick and disabled ex-service
men.”
GRIFFIN WANTS AMERICUS
IN CLASS C BALL LEAGUE
GRIFFIN, April 6.—Local baseball
enthusiasts are endeavoring to or
ganize a Class C League for the
present season. Those interested
here have raised $4,000 in cash to
put into the Grifin team, should they
be: successful lin organizing the
league.
The local promoters have written
to Macon, Columbus, Americus,
Jacksonville, and several other cities
in their efforts to organize a league
to be known as the Georgia-Florida
League. It is also proposed to have
the league a Class C or better league,
B if possible.
The Griffin men have the neces
sary cash to put over a team here
and they are waiting to hear from
the other cities. If the other cities
are successful in raising the neces
sary amount to insure going through
the season, the league will be or
ganized at once, a schedule adopted,
and play started by May 1.
Diamonds and grandstands are
available in all of the cities in which
it is proposed to have a team, so
that play would not be delayed in
getting the field or park into shape.
STYMIE RESTORED BY
U. S. GOLF ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK, April 6.—Restora
, tion of the stymie, banning of the
steel shaft clubs from tournament
play and decision to charge admis
sions to all championship tourna
ments are among decisions announc
ed by the executive committee of the
United States Golf association.
In restoring the stymie, the com
mittee makes the American game in
this respect, uniform with the royal
and ancient play of Great Britain.
The stymie was abolished in Jan
uary, 1921.
Explaining its decision the com
mittee says the stymie “belongs in
golf” because “it represents the most
scientific phase of the game.” The
game was not improved by its aboli
tion, in the committee’s opinion, nor
did it accomlpish the purpose in
tended. One year supplied a “fair
test” to determine the point.
The new stymie rule that* will pre
vail reads:
“A player is laid a stymie if on
the putting green the opponent’s ball
lies in the line of his putt to the
hole, provided the ball be not with
in six inches of each other.”
300 OF BIBLE CLASS
GO TO CONVENTION
CORDELE, April 6. When the
special train carrying the men’s Bible
class of the local Baptist church left
the union station this morning, it
carried more than three hundred peo
ple on the day’s, visit to Macon where
they will attend the state Sunday
school convention. The men’s Bible
class teacher, W. L. Robuck, is presi
dent of the state convention. His
Cordele Bible class went to honor
him and to help install interest in
men’s classes all over the state. Ma
con plans provided for many features
of interest for the local crowd.
D. A. DIXON DIES.
THOMASVILLE, April 6.—Many
friends in South Georgia will learn
with sorrow of the death of D. A.
Dixon at his home in Thomasville
this week. Mr. Dixon had been a res
ident of this county for seventy-one
years and is known throughout South
Georgia. He is survived by his wife,
twelve children, thirty grandchildren
and great grandchildren.
MARKETS
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling, 17 cents.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, April 6. Market
opened steady 8-11 down. Fullyi
10.60.
Futures: April June Sept.
Piev. Close 10.32 10.22 10.00
First call 10.24 10.1 G 9.94
Close 10.28 10.22 10.14
NEW YORK FUTURES
Mav July Oct.
Prev. £lose 17.91 17.26 17.01
Open 17.88 17.25 17.04
10:15 am 17.93 17.30 17.10
10:30 17.96 17.34 17.12
10:45 17.98 17.34 17.15
11:00 ...18.01 17.38 17.17
11:15 18.01 17.34 17.15
11:30 17.98 17.35 17.14
11:45 17.96 17.34 17.14
12:00 noon 17.98 17.36 17.14
12:15 pm 17.93 17.33 17.10
12:30 17.91 17.34 17.12
( 12:45 17.92 17.32 17.12
I 1:00 .....17.91 17.32 17.13
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MINERS PUSHING
UNIONIZING PLAN
TO BACK STRIKE
I Seek To Organize Non-Union
West Virginia Fields—An
thracite Parleys Progress
INDIANAPOLIS, April 6.—-Plans
for pressing the work of organizing
the non-union West Virginia miners
I to support the nation-wide coal strike
| ordered by the United Mine Workers
|of America, were considered today
lat a conference here of William
Green, secretary and treasurer of the
union, and Lawrence Dwyer, of
Beckley, W. Va., a member of the un
ion’s executive boaid.
WEEK END SESSIONS
IN ANTHRACITE PARLEY
NEW YORK, April 6. —Week-end
sessions of the anthracite miners and
operators sub-committees on 'wage
contract negotiations were agreed up
on by both parties today in an en
deavor to settle the hard coal strike.
The miners predicted they would com
plete their case by tomorrow night,
land the ouerators expect by that time
td be ready to support heir de
mand for a decrease in he miners'
wages.
EX-U. S. ATTORNEY HELD
IN LIQUUOR BRIDE CASE
ATLANTA, April 6.—ln an alleg
ed conspiracy to defeat a whisky case
made by the government against Her
bert R. Grayson, well known Atlanta
man, Attorney W. Paul Carpenter,
former assistant United States dis
trict attorney, and Harry Saphire,
former federal prohibition agent,
were jointly indicted Wednesday by
the federal grand jury.
Saphirg, who was the officer who
arrested Grayson last August and
charged him with possessing six
quarts of whisky, is charged with
acc pting cash bribes in consideration
of which he agreed to testify that he
did not know for a fact that the bot
tle.- contained whisky.
At'oorney Carpenter is charged
with conspiring with Saphire to vio
late section 135 of the criminal code,
which makes it a crime to obstruct
or impede justice. The attorney is
alleged to have been a party to the
bribery agreement.
The true bills were returned Wed
nesday following an investigation ex
tending over four months by local
federal authorities. The probe into
the alleged bribe conspiracy was be
gun early in December when Herbert
Grayson, defendant in the case in
volved told the district attorney’s of
fice of overtures made to him by Sa
phire, he says.
INDUSTRIAL SITUATION
IN BRITAIN GLOOMY
LONDON! April 6.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—A gloomy picture of
the British, industrial situation is pre
sented in the American Chamber of
Commerce summary of business and
economic conditions for March. Aft
er some months of peace severe in
dustiral strife again is being experi
enced and more than a million will
be without jobs unless settlement of
the engineer strike is speedily reach
ed, the report points out.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6. 1922
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FUNERAL OF GEORGIA HERO HONORS LAST AMERICAN DEAD
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Muffled dfrum. Half step. Heads uncovered. Admiral. And General. And thousands of all walks of life.
Thus the last dublic funeral of an American boy who died in the World War was held in Brooklyn. The body
of Charles W.jGraves, Rome, Ga., represented all of the 1065 bodies in the last shipment of American dead from
Flanders’ popw fields. /
SOVIETAGENTS
ARRIVE IN ITALY
Allied Delegates Called For Pre
liminary Meeting In Genoa
GENOA, A»1 6. (By Associat
ed Press) — Minister Shanzer
has urged thewiief delegates of the
Allied powers ■> be here Sunday for
a meeting to the eco
nomic and financial conference which
opens Monday.
Schanzer acted on the suggestion
of Premier Lloyd George.
The Russian Soviet delegation has
arrived in Italy.
DEATH FOR BETRAYER
OF NURSE EDITH CAVELL
MONS. Belgium, April G—An echo
of one of the World War’s most
poignant tragedies was the sentence
of death passed here Tuesday against
the traitor( Jeannes, who betrayed
Edith Cavill into the hands of the
Germans. A public execution of the
condemned man ,against whom the
entire community has declared undy
ing hate, will take place here im
mediately. Jeannes, whose betrayal
of the English nurse to the enemy
resulted in her execution as a spy,
is being closely guarded against at
tempts at lynching.
CRISP COTTON GROWERS
GETTING EARLY START
CORDELE, April 6.—Cotton grow
ers in Crisp county have an early
start this year and-apparently the
same acreage they undertook last
year. Their hope is being placed in
early crops, fast cultivation and small
acreage. They ran short on acreage
last year and will likely have no in
crease in 1922. Plenty of boll wee
vils are out and stirring in the warm
days already, and cotton growers
realize that they have -a hard fight.
PRESIDENT AND CABINET
PAY TRIBUTE TO PEARY
WASHINGTON, April 6.—Presi
dent and Mrs. Harding, members of
the cabinet and other high officials
joined in tribute to the memory of
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary to
day when a memorial was placed at
his grave in Arlington by the Na
tional Geographic Society.
700 BALES INTO
POOL IN SCHLEY
Organizer Reports 276,000 Bales
Checked In For State
Monday
That seven hundred bales of cot
ton have been signed for marketing
through the Georgia growers pool in
Schley county, was the report
brought back to' Americus Wednes
day by Noel McConnell, organizer
for this and adjoining counties. He
will spend two or three days in Sum
ter county.
“When I left Atlanta Monday,”
said he, “1 was informed at head
quarters that reports showed that
270,600 bales had been signed up in
Georgia, or 76,000 more than the
minimum goal of 200(000 set at the
beginning of the campaign. And
more were coming in daily. F>ye
organizers were left in the field to
‘mop up.’ In Sumter county several
large farmers told me that they
would sign up their crop if the pool
went over. Well, it has gone over
in great shape, and is now a reality
instead of a prospect, and I am giving
them a chance to make good on what
they told me.”
TIFTON TRADE BOARD
TO HAVE PUBLIC RADIO
TIFTON, April 6.—The Tifton
Board of Trade has contracted for
the installation of a radio outfit in
the secretary’s office where visitors
can enjoy concerts, grand opera and
sermons as well as hear the wireless
market reports.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MATHIS AGAIN
SCHOOL HEAD
Re-Elected By Board Os Educa
tion—- Seveial Changes In
Teachers’ Ranks Coming
At the regular meeting of the city
board of education this week Super
intendent J. E. Mathis was re-elect
ed for the ensuing year. The elec
tion of the teachers for the various
schools will come up al the meet
ing on the fourth Tuesday in May.
It is understood there will be a
number of vacancies in the city
schools, but applications are already
coming in, indicating that there will
be less difficulty than in previous
recent years in securing competent
instructors. Among those who will
leave will be Miss Myrtle Rushin and
Miss Lillie Brooks, of the high school
faculty, who will go to Columbia
university to study for degrees.
PRESBYTERY TO MEET
IN MOULTRIE APRIL 18
MOULTRIE, April 6.—lhe open
ing session of the spring meeting of
the Southwest Georgia Presbytery
will be held at the First Presbyterian
church chere on Tuesday night, April
18. Representatives will be present
from all of the churches in the Pres
bytery. Rev. C. M. Campbell, of
Donalsonville, will preach the open
ing sermon. Among the leaders of
the Presbyterian church in South
west Georgia expected to attend the
deliberations of the body are: Rev.
E. P. Mikel, Rev. J. E. Ward, Rev.
C. A. Campbell Rev. L. G. Hender
son, Rev. F. C. Symonds, Messrs.
W. A. Watt, M. H. Westberry, J.
M. Patterson and Joseph Curijy. The
Presbytery sessions will have reports
of unusual excellence, as the year
has been marked by remarkable prog
ress on the part of the churches in
the Presbytery, according to the re
ports received in Moultrie.
Home mission work will receive
large attention at the meetings of the
Presbytery. W. A. Watt, of Thom
asville, is the chairman of the com
mission in charge of this phase of
the churches’ activities. It is prob
able that a new evangelist will be
chosen to succeed the Rev. F. D.
Hurt, who resigned several weeks
ago t > accept a call extended to him
by i church in North Carolina.
The Presbytery of Southwest
Geirgia i- the youngest of the Pres
byterian family anwyhere in the
South and its record of attendance
since its organization about ,three
years ago, has been unprecedentedly
large..
TEACHER-BRIDEGROOM
JAILED AFTER WEDDING
TIFTON, April 6.—Only one day
of wedded bliss was permitted R. S.
Starns and bride, before the hard
hearted law intervened and the bars
of I he jail separated them.
Mr. Starns, who had been t,eaehing
school in Cook county near Lenox
came to Tifton with Miss Eula
Blount, daughter of Mr. George N.
Blount, of that place, and they were
married here. Next day the groom
was arrested by Deputy Sheriff J.
N. Baker of Cook county, and taken
t<, jail in Adel. Starns has been
teaching school in Cook county for
about two years, and is said to have
been divorced from a wife in Ten
nessee. On tb.e day he came to Tif
ton to be married the sheriff of Cook
received a warrant from Tennessee
chaiging Starns with desertion of his
minor children. It is stated that the
warrant was the result of a grand
jury indictment. The arrest follow
ed. Starns is. said to be of middle
age while his bride is about seven
teen.
HOG SALES FOR LESLIE
AND AMERICUS DATED
George O. Marshall, aounty agent,
announced today two farmers co-op
erative hog sales for Sumter county
at early The first sale will
be held-at Americus April-19 and
the second at Leslie April 26. Good
supplies, of hugs are expected to be
ready for both sales.
lITME4
MARCHING FORCE
MADE PRISONER
BY REPUBLICANS
Cne Reported Wounded And All
Are Placed In Duttevant
Barracks
DUBLIN, April 6. (By Associat
ed Press.) —A hundred young num
from Tralee, proceeding to Dublin
to join the Irish Free State army,
were intercepted today at Mallow,
County Cork, by a strong party of
Republicans and one of the Free
State recruits was reported wound
ed in the clash.
All the Free State men then were
arrested and taken to the barracks
at Duttevant.
OVER 2,000 EXPECTED
AT BOUT AT ALBANY
ALBANY, April 6—Plans are com
plete for the Stribling-Nelson bout
at the municipal auditorium here to
night, the match bringing Young
Stribling, the Macon phenomenon, to
South Georgia for the first time for a
professional engagement. In tackl
ing Terry Nelson, the hard-hitting
Chattanooga welterweight, Stribling
is going up against one of his hard
est assignments. Nelson recently
fought Jake Abell, southern welter
weight champion, and lost by a nar
row margin. Tickets have been sold
all over South Georgia, and it is ex
pected that more than 2,000 persons
will witness the bout. A good list of
preliminaries also has been arranged,
including a 10-round semi-final bout
between Rabbit Palmer, of Atlanta,
and Eddie Cook, of Savannah; a 6-
round bout by Bob Miller, of Bain
bridge, and Bill MeGowin, of Dub
lin, heavyweights, and a four-round
bout by “Baby” Stribling, younger
brother of the headliner, and some
Macon youth, who will also be a, fly
weight.
MISS STONE’S FATE IN
HANDS OF GOTHAM JURY
NEW YORK, April 6.—The case
of Miss Olivia V. P. Stone, charged
with the murder of Ellis Guy Kin
kaid, of Cincinnati, was given to the
jury at 11:28 o'clock this morning.
Miss Stone just before court opened
expressed the hope that she would
be restored to her mother before the
end of the day.
HAICUTS IN MOUTH.
LONDON, April 6.—A wounded
soldier at the Seamen’s hospital,
Greenwich, had to have frequent
haircuts inside his mouth until Dr.
Percival Cole discovered the cause.
Skin had been grafted from his
scalp to replace lost membrane in
his mouth.
OVERTURN IN NEW FORD.
THOMASVILLE, April 6. A
Thomasville fireman driving his new
Ford car turned over on a small
bridge near Boston and the car went
into three feet of mud and water,
turning upside down. Mr. Fleetwood
and his two friends in the car were
not scratched although they were
slightly wet.
LESLIE.
LESLIE, April s.—Misses Essie
Clark, of Norman Park, and Carmen
Boykin, of Crossland, are spending
the week in Leslie, the guests of Prof,
and Mrs. F. G. Clark.
Mrs. J. D. Cocke and Mr. F. W.
Hines left Monday for Macon, where
they will attend the Baptist state
Sunday school convention.
Miss Addie Laramore is spending
the week in Leslie with relatves.
Rev. G. W. Hutchnson left Sun
day for Asheville, N. C., where he
went to conduct reviva Iservices for
a friend.
Robert Bracken, who spent several
days last week in Leslie, left Friday
for Columbus.
W. R. Bolton left Tuesday for a
visit to his daughter, Mts. Spillers,
who resides near Doles, Ga.
Miss Ruby Parker, who has been
teaching in Washington county, is at
home for the summer vacation.
Iris Stewart, who has been very
ill for the past week with pneumonia,
is doing nicely at the present.
Mrs. F. A. Wilson, Sr., went to the
Wise sanitarium at Plains Tuesday
for treatment.
Misses Annie Alice Heys and Clar
ice Herring, Drew Arnold and Mr.
Cannon, of Parrott, spent Sunday in
Leslie with friends.
Easter Sunday afternoon there will
be a sipg at the school auditorium,
beginning at 2 o’clock. All are car
dially invited to attend.
R. W. Smith has charge of the
turpentine still which his brother, I).
V. Smith, recently sold his interest
in, and has moved his family here.
MISS KATHRYN HARRIS
WINS HIGH SCHOOL PRIZE.
Miss Kathryn Harris was the suc
cessful contestant in the reading con
test held this morning at the high
school when she gave “The Death
Disk,” by Mark Twain, and she ha.-,
been invited by the Woman’s Lit
erary society to give the satne read
ing this afternoon at their regular
meeting as a number on the program.
Miss Harris has had few lessons
in expression, but is considered un
usually adept. She has been care
fully coached and taught by her sis
ter, Miss Elizabeth Harris, who wort
. distinction in expression classes at
college, where she graduated with
' honors, and who has had a wide ex
l perience in teaching in various col- x
leges since leaving school.