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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 IT’S THE OPEN SEAS ON FOR PLESIOSAURI IgSgHg APRIL ft VJK WSri*J iU I / wueße'sTHf '' ' / BLOOMIN' FUNERAL OF GEORGIA HERO HONORS LAST AMERICAN DEAD ■ ■ yw* ihsii - Bl lIC- ■ hrtg I p-lIL 'f kaSSEy r kS ITV nm'ilF zJI • ML » Muffled drupi. Half step. Heads uncovered. Admiral. And General. And thousands of all walks of life. 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. ■iinii 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.