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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 theTWsmß&rder PUBLISHED. IN THE HEART~OF DIXiE QW? 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 IT’S THE OPEN SEAS ON FOR PLESIOSAURI BwMl APF‘ L may / Bronte-- W /?; '< (WMhAt I' 1 / _/ I '■ WHeRt’STrtF / BLOOM'*' zi I Thing? FUNERAL OF GEORGIA HERO HONORS LAST AMERICAN DEAD . * flwOpl • 0 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.