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WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia Partly couldy to
night and Friday probably local show
ers.
FORTY-FOURUTH YEAR.—NO. 82
HOUSE IN GREAT DISORDER OVER BLANTON
SLEUTHS ROUND
UP ARLINGTON
GANG. REPORT
One Os Bank Robber-Slayers Re
ported Caught, One Located
At Buena Vista
ALBANY, April 6.—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. x Wiggins when he came on
the scene had been captured; that an
other was surrounded in a swamp and
a third was located at Buena Vista.
Jo 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. t- ' (
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
iiere have raised $4,000 in cash to
put into the Grifin team, should they
be' successful tin organizing the
league.
The local promoters have written
to Macon, Columbus, Americus,
Jacksonville, and several other cities
;n 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 citiee
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 not accomplish 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.”
I
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
<d, the report points out.
“markets
———
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Good middling, 17 cents.
LIVERPOOL COTTON
LIVERPOOL, April 6. Market)
onened steady 8-11 down. Fullys
10.60.
Futures: April June Sept.
Prev. Close 10.32 10.22 10.00
First call 10.24 10.16 9.94
Close 10.28 10.22 10.14
NEW YORK FUTURES
May July Oct.
Prev. Close 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 :0O 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
1:00 17.91 17.32 17.13
1:15 17.87 17.30 17.10
1:30 17.84 17.26 17.06
1:45 17.82 17.26 17.06
2:00 17.82 17.28 17.09
2:15 17.83 17.27 17.08
2:30 17.79 17.30 17.11
2:45 17.75 17.23 17.06
Close 17.81 17.31 17.10
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.”
Sprague 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.”
S. A.LEXPERTTO
TEST POOL WELL
Services of W. C, Wheeler Offer
ed By Supt. E. C. Bagwell,
Os Savannah
The services of W. C. Wheeler,
wel- 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
tio...
Mr. Wheeler is equipped with
pumps and all apparatus necessary
for testing wells and he will proceed
to determine 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
I 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.
In the meantime Mr. Cargill and
others interested will go before the
i city council tonight to ask the coun-
■ cil how much water can be supplied
j to the pool by the city temporarily
i and on what terms. Some interesting
' ride 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 concerns that the supply is
inexhaustible. If there is such a
splendid supply in reality, the pool
friends ray they feel no hesitancy
in asking temporary service at
a reasonable figure, considering that
it for 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 for the city, available at all
times, which might come in extreme
ly hantfy in case of a large fire at
the beaboard 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.
Lions Club—A. R. Royal, R. p.
Ewing, Wallis Mott.
Mr. Cargill stated that he had ask
ed Frankßarrold, treasurer of the
pool fund, to send out calls at once
tor payment of all money due from
bond subscribers, and that collections
would he made at once so that work
could be resumed immediately on
completion of the pool and bath
houses.
CITY’S BIGGEST REVIVAL
IS PLANNED BY ALBANY
! ALBANY, Ga., April 6.—The big
gest revival ever held in Albany is
the plan of the interchurch committee
in connection with the three weeks’
evangelistic campaign to begin Sun
day. Rev. Gipsy Smith, Jr., will do
the preaching. The song services will
be led by Charles F. Allen, of Phila
delphia, and Miss Lucile Abernathy,
of Lenoir, N. C., will be pianist. Mr.
Aiken and Miss Abernathv have al
ready arrived and are training a
choir of 150 voices. Services will be
I held under a tent, and will be spon-
■ sored by members of the Presbyte-
; rian, Methodist, Episcopal, First Bap
i tist and Byne Memorial Baptist
I churches. ,
THE TIMESjSRECORDER
(OgU PUBLISHED IN THE HEART~'or
MINERS PUSHING
UNIONIZING PLAN
TO BACK STRIKE
Seek To Organize Non-Union
West Virginia Fields—An
thracite Parleys Progress
PITTSBURG, Kans., April 6.
The Southwest Inter-state Coal Op
erators’ association has invited the
Kansas union miners to meet its rep
resentatives in a conference at Kan
sas City to consider negotiations for
a new contract.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 6.—Plans
for pressing the work of organizing
the non-union West Virginia miners
to support the nation-wide coal strike
ordered by the United Mine Workers
of America, were considered today
at 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 board.
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,
and the operators expect by that time
to be ready to support their de
mand for a decrease in the miners’
wages.
EX-U. S. ATTORNEY HELD
IN LIQUOR BRIBE CASE
ATLANTA, April 6.—ln an alleg
cd 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.
Saphire, who was the officer who
arrested Grayson last August and
charged him with possessing six
quarts of whisky, is charged with
accepting cash bribes in consideration
of which he agreed to testify that he
did not know for a fact that the bot
tles contained whisky.
Atoorney 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.
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 6f 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.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. APRIL 6. 1922
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Thus the last public funeral of an American boy who died in the World War was held in Brooklyn. The body
of Charles W. Graves, Rome, Ga., represented all of the 1065 bodies in the last shipment of American dead from
Flanders’ poppy fields.
SOVIET AGENTS
ARRIVE IN ITALY
Allied Delegates Called For Pre
liminary Meeting In Genoa
Sunday
GENOA, April 6. (By Associat
ed Press) —Foreign Minister Shanzer
has urged the chief delegates of the
Allied powers to be. here Sunday for
a meeting preliminary 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 6- An echo
of one of the W’orld 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 grovr
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. Hardiilg, 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.
700BALESINT0
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, “I was informed at head
quarters that reports showed that
276,000 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. Five
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 o\er. 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 conceits, 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— Several 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 at 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 g> t<y Columbia
university to study for degrees.
PRESBYTERY TO MEET
IN MOULTRIE APRIL 18
MOULTRIE, April 6.—The open
ing session of the spring meeting of
the Southwest Georgia Presbytery
will be hold at the First Presbyterian
church cherc 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 Curry. 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
port:: received in Moultrie.
Homt 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.
Hunt, whe resigned several ’ weeks
ago ti accdpt a cali extended to him
by a church ip Ninth Carolina.
The Presbytery of Southwest
Georgia is the youngest of the Pres
byterian family anwyhere in the
South and its record of attendance
since its organization about ,three
years ago, has beep 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 the jail separated them.
Mr. Starns, who had been teaching
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
to 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 the day he came to Tif
ton to be mtrried the sheriff of Cook
received a warrant from Tennessee
charging 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,’county agent,
announced today two farmers co-op
erative hog sales for Sumter county
at early dates. The first sale will
be held at Americus April 19 and
the second at Leslie April 26. Good
supplies of hogs are expected to be
ready for both sales.
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COLLEAGUE SAYS
TEXAN OUGHT TO
BE KICKED OUT
Declares On Floor He Speaks
Mind Cf Every Member, Ex
cept One
WASHINGTON, April 6.—Repre
sentative Garner, Democrat, of Tex
as, declared in the house today that
if permitted by the rules to speak
what is in the minds of 434 of its
435 members lie would say that Rep
resentative Blanton, of that state,
“is a disgrace to the house and should
be kicked out.”
The statement coming after Blan
ton had defended himself against a
newspaper article, threw, the house
into great disorder and brought front
the speaker a sharp and quick com
mand to the sergeant-at-arms to
prevent a clash after Blanton shout
ed he would hold Garner responsi
ble if called a liar by him.
Blanton was quoted in an article
a few days ago as saying that the
government furnished each member
of the house at their offices whisky
flasks covered with ostrict skin, and
also that the congressmen averaged
about $2,100 per year in mileage
collected I from the government
whereas they were entitled to only
about one-third of that.
Blanton was in trouble a few
months ago when impeachment pro
ceedings were instituted against him
in the house for inserting obscene
matter in the Congressional Record.
He was allowed to retain his seat aft
er a public reprimand by the speak
er, ordered by vote of the house.
IRISH RECRUITS
MADE PRISONERS
One Reported Wounded And All
Are Placed In Duttevant
Barracks
DUBLIN, April 6.—(By Associat
ed Press.) —A hundred young men
front 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 vzas reported wound
ed in the clash.
All the Free State men then wero
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
ail 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 Lout
between Rabbit Palmer, of Atlanta,
and Eddie Cook, of Savannah; a 6-
round bout by Bob Miller, of Bain
bridge, and Bill McGowin, 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
I 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
I expressed the hope that she would
i be restored to her mother before the
, end of the day.
HAIRCUTS IN MOUTH
LONDON, April 6.—A wounded
I soldier at. the Seamen’s hospital,
Greenwich, had to have frequent
haircuts inside his mouth until Dr.
■ Percival Cole discovered the cause.
: Skin had be.hu grafted from his
j 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.
I NEW OFFICERS OF ELKS
LODGE ARE INSTALLED
The Americus lodge of Elks enter
| ed its new year last night when the
, new officers, headed bj Chas. Mauk
■as exalted ruler, were inducted into
. office at a well attended meeting.
It was stated that the lodge starts
I the new regime with flattering pros
pects.