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WEATHER FORECAST
For Georgia—Unsettled, probably
local rains tonight and Saturday;
cooler in north and central portion
tonight and in south portion Satur
day.
FORTY-FOURTH YEAR.—NO. 101.
RAIL LABOR BOARD’S DECISIONS HELD LAW
FLOOD REFUGEE
CAMP GROWING;
WATERS SPREAD
AbouT'7oo Square Miles Os Lou
isiana Territory Now
Inundated
.NATCHEZ, Miss., April 28.—1 t is
estimated that approximately 700
square miles in Concordia parish,
Louisiana, and possibly an equal area
in Catahoula parish, have been cov
ered with the flood waters from the
three Weecama crevasses and back
water which had previously covered
a large area.
Officers in charge of the refugee
camp established at Natchez have
been informed of pressing need for
cots, blankets and other equipment
to take care of refugees pouring in
here from Louisiana.
VETS OF TWO WARS ARE
FEASTED AT RICHLAND
RICHLAND, April 28.—About fif
ty out of the seventy-one Confeder
ate vet: ram; of Stewart and Webster
counties and a large per centage of
Che 200 veterans of the World War
item the two counties were guests of
the Richland America# Legion Auxil
iary and the United Daughters of
the Confederacy Memorial day.
A committee met the veterans at
the trains and carried thfm to the
school ground where a basket dinner
.vas served at noon. Practically ev
ery family in Rfchland and com
munity and even from the most re
mote corners of the two counties was
present with every kind of good
ihings to eat. The two hundred and
fifty feet of table was loaded to ca
pacity and every one was bountiful
ly looked after.
Immediately after dinner a staff
photographer took a group picture of
all the Confederate veterans. Fol
lowing this the exercises of the day
took place in the school auditorium.
Mrs. R. T. Humber, Jr., president
of the U. D. C., welcomed the Con
federate veterans in a most cordial
manner, followed by Mrs. Harry M.
Dixon, president of the American
Legion Auxiliary, who in a few words
graciously welcomed the veterans of
the Worlfl War to this, the first of
*he joint Memorial days.
The speaker of the day was Dr.
Me A. Roy, paster of the First Pres
byterian church of Columbus. He
combined wit, humor and history in
a most delightful manner.
• The veterans were given an oppor
tunity after the close of Dr. MeA.
Roy’s address to talk about any sub
ject that they cared to. Several re
s ponded with anecdotes and stories
of the war and one of the oldest and
fnost beloved veterans gave an old
time dance. The program was con
cluded with a quartet from the
American Legion Auxiliary, who sang
a medley of old songs, concluding
with Dixie.
POPPIES ARE SOLD IN
PRESTON AND RICHLAND
RICHLAND, April 28. The
American Legion Auxiliary sold pop
pies on the streets of Richland Wed
nesday, in memory of the World War
boys. The proceeds, totalling S3O,
will be added to the fund for Stew
art and Webster counties’ World War
Memorial Library. The poppies
were made by the members of the
Auxiliary.
Poppies were also sold in Preston
for the benefit of the library and a
nice sum realized.
MARKETS’
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Good middling cotton, 17 cents.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.
LIVERPOOL, April 28.—Market
opened quiet 5-6 down. Fully 10.36.
Sales 8,000 bales.
Futures: June. Sept. Dec.
I’rev. Close . ... 10.21 10.16 10.11
First Cail 10.15 10.11 10.06
Close . 10.13 10.09 10.05
NEW YORK FUTURES.
May July Oct.
Prev. Close 17.99 17.60 17.65
Open 18.03 17.60 17.63
10:15 a.mlß. 00 17.59 17.61
10:30 17.99 17.61 17.66
10:45 18.00 17.62 17.68
1 1:00 18.09 17.G3 17.69
11:15 .'•... 18.08 17.03 17.73
11:30 18.10 17.64 17.73
11:45 18.08 17.64 17.72
12:00 18.11 17.65 17.73
12:15 p.m 18.13 17.67 17.73
12:30 18.16 17.72 17.78
12:45 18.14 17.71 17 SO
1.00 18.15 17.72 17.84
1:15 18.14 17.71 17..;/
1:30 18.1$ 17.73 17.82
1:45 18.17 17.71 17.82
2:00 18.17 17.70 17.79
2:15 18.19 17.75 17.84
2:30 18.19 17.73 17.82
2:45 18.20 17.77 17.83
Close 18.40 17.74 17.83
ALL CONGRESS
EITHER FOR OR
AGAINST LABOR
BOSTON, Mass., April 28.—Sena
tor Walsh, of Massachusetts, in a
telegram to Mayor Curley today de
clared that “nearly every member of
Congress, the Senate particularly, is
today either for or'against labor, and
the possibility of getting an impar
tial tribunal for a strike investigation
is unlikely.
The message was in reply to one
from the mayor urging congressional
inquiry of the New England textile
strike.
ALLIES’DEMAND
ON RUSS DRAFTED
Moscow Sends Orders To Make
No Concessions Interfering
With Workers’ Freedom
GENOA, April 28. - (By Asso
ciated Press.)— Vice-Premier Bar
thou, head of the French delegation
i here, held a long telephone conver
j sation with Premie r Poincare last
I night and as a result it was stated
i this afternoon that the official view
j point of France with regard to the
i reply to Russia had been harmonized.
i GENOA, April 28 (By Associated
. Press). —The conference sub-com-
I mission on Russian affairs today had
I under consideration the draft
' document of the Allied powers’ fin
. ancial proposals to Soviet Russia, as
framed at yesterday’s notable con
ference in Lloyd George’s villa.
The sub-commission was expected
to approve the document, which ex
! plains exactly what the powers are
j prepared to give and what they must
j have in exchange.
i MOSCOW ORDERS
|NO CONCESSIONS.
MOSCOW, April 28 (By Associat-
■ ed Press). —The Soviet Government
has sent a wireless message to For-
i eign Minister Tchitcherin in Genoa
i embodying a resolution of approval
of the Russian delegates’ policy at
■ the economic conference and giving
instructions that no concessions be
granted the Allies which would in-
I terfere with the rights or the poli
i ical freedom of the Russian workers.
SAYSTECDGLEE
CLUB IS TREAT
I
Mis. W. O. Kinney Phones From
Macon That Program There
Was Splendid
I Mrs. W. O. Kinney, of Macon, a
[ daughter of Mrs. DuPont Guerry, in
i a telephone message to The Times
‘ Recorder today asked that the word
j be spread to the people of Americus
; that the Georgia Tech glee and man
i dolin club, which will appear here on
j Saturday night at the Ryiander thea-
I ter, is a splendid organization and
I has a delightful program.
The Tech boys appeared in Macon
I Wednesday night, and, according to
■ Mrs. Kinney, put on a wonderful cn
; tertainment, one which she said any
one would delight to hear.
Mrs. Kinney, who is related here
to the Davenports and others, took a
lending part in sponsoring the ap
pearance of the Tech lads in Macon,
and is interested in seeing that their
entire trip this week is an unqualified
success. Seats are on sale at the
Windsor pharmacy.
LIONS CLUB HOST TG
OTHER CLUBS TONIGHT
Members of the Rotary and Ki
wanis clubs will be guests of the
Lions club at a joint dinner at the
Tea Room at 7:30 o’clock tonight.
Melvin E. Jones, of Chicago, secre
tary of the Lions club International,
will be a guest of honor of the occas
ion. H. E. Allen, president of the
club and district president for Geor
gia, will preside.
JONES DELIVERS
CORDELE CHARTER.
CORDELE, April 28. —Interna-
tional Secretary Melvin E. Jones, of
the Lions delivered the charter to
the new Cordele club in person last
night and with it delivered a very
impressive address for the attending
club members, their ladies and their
guests. There was also an address by
District Governor H .E. Allen, of
Americus. Delegations from Americus
and Macon helped to make the eve
ning one of pleasure for the Cordele
club. Rev. R/ L. Benn is president.
The club is now a month old,
THE ™HHftfc&RDER
PUBLISHED IN THE ZMmZ HEART OF DlXiE~g^5 a
STORE’SPECIAL
ALUMINUM SALE
DRAWS $lO FINE
Recorder Assesses Nominal Pen
cil y On Church well’s Manager
As Odinance Violator
On a charge of violating the city
special license ordinance in selling
aluminum without having taken out
a special license for the sale of hard
ware, A. R. Royal, local manager for
Churchwell Brothers store, was fined
$lO in Recorder’s Court today by Re
corder Hollis Fort. The recorder in
formed Mr. Royal that the fine was
merely nominal and not intended to
compel him to take out a license, as
is the governing idea in most license
violation cases, he said, and he sug
gested that if there was any objec
tion to his decision or disagreement
with it he would be glad to permit
Mr. Royal to make bond and appeal
the case.
The case wte made by City Marsh
al Pouncey and grew out of an alumi
num sale put on by the Churchwell
store on Thursday. The .store oper
ates under a license specifying the
right to sell dry goods, clothing, suits,
shoes, millinery, notions, etc. There
is no general or department store
license provision in the special ordi
nance, which would give such a store
the right to sell articles not generally
embraced within its regular lindk.
Mr. Royal explained to the recor
der that there had been no disposition
on the part of the store to violate
the city law; that the sale was a one
day affair at which aluminum uten-
were sold at cost or less as a trade
stimulator; that heretofore the store
hdd on various occasions sold soap,
brooms and sugar, although not em
braced in its lines, at cost or less as
leaders, and that the aluminum wear
was disposed of in the same manner,
purely as an advertisement.
Recorder Reviews Case.
Recorder Fort replied that if any
one were permitted to sell articles
for which they had no license for one
day in the year, why could they .not
do it for a week or any other num
ber of days.
“My mind is perfectly clear on the
matter,” said he; “if you violate the
law one day you are guilty as though
it were for a year. The question of
profits or motive docs not enter into
it. The stores that pay license, to han
dle hardware in this city are entitled
to the protection the ordinance gives
them; if you sell hardware, under the
ordinance you must come in on the
same footing, ft is not a matter of
discretion with me. The law is plain.
The ordinance make no provision for
the sale of aluminum alone.
“If you desire redress the city
council is the body to give it to you.
I would advise you, if you are not
satisfied, to go before the council
and ask them to make provision for
such a license. And they can refund ’
your fine if. they care to. It won’t
cause the slightest feeling on my par?
if they should do so, for I am merely
acting as I feel it is my duty to act
under the law.”
Mr. Royal, in the course of the
discussion, stated that in large cities
department stores all handle alumi
num utensils, it being part of their
regular stock of goods. He said he
would pay the fine rather than cany
the case up, but would appeal to the
city council to remedy the deficiency
in the special license ordinance so as
to make it possible for merchants to
put on these special sales as adver
tisements without violating the taw.
Cohen Case Dismissed.
During the hearing it was mention
ed that another similar case was tried
recently before Mayor Sheppard, who
had dismissed the case on the ground
that it was merely a technical viola
tion of the ordinance.
ibis was a case made a short time
ago against A. Cohen & Sons, follow
ing their similar aluminum sale. Re
corder Fort declared that this deci
sion had no bearing on his own, as
he was acting according to his own
interpretation of the law.
Mr. Royal stated that the Church
well store pays a special license of
SIOO a year in addition to city, coun
ty and state property tax and other
levies, which he believed should em
title it to sell any article it might
care to offer.
The city special license for hard
ware dealers is $75 per year, and sls
a year lor dealers in stoves, ranges
and kitchen utensils.
BUTLER GRANTED WRIT.
NEW YORK, April 28.—Counsel
for August Probst, Swiss butler who
claimed he was being railroaded from
the country because of a romance
with a society girl at the Rolling
Rock Country club near Pittsburg,
obtained a writ of habeas corpus to
day in an effort /j free Probst from
Ellis Island, where he is held for de
portation on May 6 t
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STATE PRIMARY
SET FOR SEPT. 13
Democratic Committee Holds
Meeting And Plans For Fall
UleCtioh
ATLATAN, April 28.—The Geor
gia state Democratic executive com
mittee, in session here Thursday,
unanimously rejected a. proposal of
the Georgia Federation of Labor and
the Atlanta Federation of Trades, for
a repeal of the existing primary rule
compelling candidates for Superior
court judgeships to announce against
a specific judge.
The state primary was fixed for
Wednesds y, September 13, and the
rules committee in executive session
tentatively re-adopted all present
rules of the party, subject to final
action at a meeting to be called by
State Chairman William J. Vereen
during the second or third week of
May.
The rules committee was requested
to call the state convention to meet
in Macon. The convention voted to
add a new rule to the governing code
of the party which will provide a
uniform system of selecting county
executive committees throughout the
state.
Mr. Vereen was host to the entire
committee at luncheon. A dozen
leading women attended the meeting.
2RECOVER;SD!E
IN S. A. L CRASH
Whiteoak Pastor And Four More
Killed When Train Hits
Auto
WHITE OAK, Ga., April 23.
Following an accident late yesterday
that cost five lives when-an automo
bile driven by Rev. B. C. Pritchett,
pastor of the First Methodist church
of this place, was struck by a Sea
noard Air. Line train, it was announc
ed that two of the surviving members
of the party, both injured, would re
cover.
The dead are Rev. B. C. Pritchett,
Margaret Sarmon, aged 14; Pauline
Sarmon, aged 4; Vera Chaney, aged
14, and Evelyn Pritchett, aged 10.
The injured are Mrs. Pritchett and
her daughter Elizabeth.
JULIAN REYNOLDS NEW
ALBANY ROTARY CHIEF
ALBANY, April 28.—Officers to
serve the Albany Rotary club during
the next twelve months were elected
at the regular meeting of the elub
at the New Albany hotel yesterday
afternoon. Julian Reynolds was elect
ed president to succeed Gordon Rey
nolds; S. R. dejarnette, vice-’presi
dent; Jerome Brown, secretary; J. P.
Champion, treasurer; Gordon Rey
nolds, H. E. McCollum and W. H.
Burt, directors. The new officers
will be installed next Thursday at the
Kinchafoonee Country club. '
‘CHRIST IS NEAR YOU’ |
INSCRIPTION ON EGG 1
ALBANY, April 28.—An egg is on
exhibition in a prominent show win
dow of Albany with the words ‘Christ
Is Near You’ perfectly embossed on
it. The egg is said to have been
laid by a hen at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Terry, four miles from
Albany, who are thoroughly reliable
people. The egg shell is white, but
the letters are light brown and
many people believe that they were
put there by some one who thought
to play a joke.
georgTanibls
OF GERMAN RISE
Low Value Os Mark And Pay In
Dollars Gives Manufacturers’
Double Profit
ATLANTA, April 28.—“ Industry
in Germany has tepidly recovered to
the same standard that was in evi
dence before the war,” declared 1
Lieut. T. M. Brinkley, who has spent
three years service in Germany, and
who passed through Atlanta on his
way to Warrenton, his home, for a
visit to relatives. During hifl three
years in Germany, Lieut. Brinkley ;
has had opportunity to observe the j
readjustment to former conditions of I
the German people. Said he:
. “The low value of the mark has
helped German manufacturers, who
pay their labor in marks and receive
I American dollars for their goods,
which gives a double profit. They
; are reaping a rich harvest and many
I new plants are being erected. The
I Germa ngovernment give encourage
ment and as railroads are operated
by the government, they are run for
the people’s benefit.
“As the people look upon waste as
one of the worst crimes, nothing is i
wasted. A use is found for every by- 1
product. Even the trees in their
forests are numbered and when one
is cut, it is accounted for.
“Germany is America’s greatest
rival in foreign commerce, and if we
will follow German methods of ef
ficiency we will eclipse Gerany in
every way, as our resources are not
to be compared.” •
GYPSY SMITH TO CLOSE
WITH HIS LIFE STORY '
ALBANY, April 28.—The Gypsy '
Smith evangelistic meeting, ti prog- j
ress since April 9, and admittedly :
the greatest series of meetings of its j
kind ever held in Albany, will come :
to a close Sunday. Hundreds of per- ’
sons have ’ pledged themselves to
Christian lives and others have re
consecrated themselves in flic serv
ice. In addition to the regular serv
ices Sunday night, the evangelist will
hold several special services, the fea
ture of which will be a special serv
ice Sunday afternoon, when he will
preach on “From a Gypsy Tent to
the Pulpit,” dealing with his own
life and said to be among his most
impressive sermons.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TOPROBE WORK
OF ‘TAX AGENT’
Colquitt Grand Jury Calls On
County Board To Look Into
Stranger’s Record
MOULTRIE, April 28.—The grand
jury has called upon the commission
ers of Colquitt county to get the
facts and present them to the next
grand jury in connection with the
work done here last year by “one
Buchannon” in the collection of back
taxes, or taxes on property not re
turned. It is alleged that the special
agent collected more than $2,600 and
left without “any accounting with the
proper authorities.”
Os the sum Buchannon is alleged
to have collected, more than SI,OOO
was from one wealthy property own
er of the county. He spent several
days in Moultrie investigating the
tax records and apparently was given
considerable authority. Prior to com
ing to Colquitt, the same investigator
is said to have operated in a number
of other counties.
The commissioners are expected to
formulate some kind of statement
concerning the taxes said to have
been, collected by Buchannon at their
next meeting, which will be held on
the first Tuesday in May. The grand
| jury making the recommendations
I raid the facts came to it too late
I for it to make an investigation.
BOMB INTO MINE
BUNKHOUSE; 3 DIE
Coal Company Quarters At
Apollo, Pa., Scene Os
Tragedy
A POLLA, Pa., April 28.—Three
miners were killed and one seriously
, injured when a bomb was thrown to
: day very early into a bunkhouse at
the Patterson mine of the Kiski Coal
Company, near here.
WAX SHOW STAGED BY
CORDELE KIWANIANS
CORDELE, April 28.—The mem
bers of the local Kiwanis club are
still laughing at the comical finish of
a wax model show which they put
I on last night at the auditorium for
1 the purpose of making money to send
| their representative to Toronto in
’ June. They made the money, for
! they had a good house. Some fifty
j prominent persons had part in the
| show. It was everything from a
i Ziegfield Folly to a Rufus Rastus
■ Brown and the home talent shown
was specially good.
SHOALS ENGINEER HEARD.
WASHINGTON, April 28.—C01.
William J. Barden, army engineer in
charge of the Muscle Shoals district,
appeared before the House military
committee today when It resumed the
consideration of private proposals for
Muscle Shoals development with a
view to drafting a report for the
House,
HOME
EDITION
CAN BE ENFORCED
IN COURTS. HOLDS
MISS. DECISION
More Than Public Opinion Be
hind Wage Decrees, Ruling
Holds
CHICAGO, April 28.—The United
States railroad labor board’s decisions
are binding as law and can be en
forced in the courts, according to a
decision by the Supreme Court of
Mississippi, received by the labor
board today.
The Mississippi court’s decision is
opposed to the popular conception
that the board’s decrees can be en
forced only by public opinion.
HOWART BEGINS
SERVING TERM.
PITTSBURG, Kans., April 28.
Alexander llowart, deposed president
of the Kansas miners union, today
began serving a one-year sentence in
the Crawford county jail at Girard,
the sentence grew out of his calling
a strike in alleged contempt of court.
Five other former union officers have
been arrested and four incarcerated
for one year on the same charge.
EX-PRESIDENT ’
OF FRANCE DIES
Attack of Influenza Fatal To Paul
Deschanel, Long In Public
Life
PARIS, April 28. (By Associat
ed Press.) —Paul Deschanel, former
president of France, died this after
noon. He was taken ill with influ
enza a few days ago and complica
tions developed.
Paul Eugene Louis Deschanel,
tenth president of France, entered
upon a seven-year term in that office
on Eebjuaxy._J.il,, 1920. Statesman r
and author and one of the most bril
liant public speakers in France, M.
Deschanel’s political triumnh marked
the retirement from public life of
former Premier George Clemenceau.
On May 24, 1920, a few months
after taking up his residence at the
Elysee Palace as the successor of
Poincare, President Deschanel when
on his way at night from Faris to
Montbrison to dedicate a monument,
fell from a moving train while at
tempting to raise a window in his
sleeping compartment. He was sup
posed to have been only slightly in
jured. Thereafter, however, the
press of France expressed almost dai
ly solicitude for h;> health. After
passing weeks of convalescence ih
Normandy, he returned to Faris in
June to preside at the Council of
Ministers. Later it was announced
that he had suffened a complete
breakdown, and that his resignation
was inevitable. The following Sep
tember, the president sent a letter of
resignation to Premier Millerand, to
gether with a message to the senate
and chamber of deputies which were
soon followed by the election of his
successor.
M. Deschanel was born in 1857 in
Brussels, to which city has father
went after being exiled from France
in 1851 for having published a pam
phlet entitled “Catholicism and So
cialism.’ When he was two years
old, the boy returned to France with
his father, who was pardoned by an
act of amnesty, following a recanta
tion of his views.
TRACK TAMPERED WITH,
SAFETY BUREAU FINDS
ATLANTA,- April 28.—Malicious
tampering with the track caused de
railment of an A. B. & A. train near
Woodbury, Ga., March 22, in which
three employees were killed and one
injured, according to a report filed
by the Bureau of Safety, Interstate
Commerce Commission, says a Wash
ington dispatch just received. The
report stated that official investiga
tion revealed that spikes and angle
bar bolts had been removed and a
rail displaced, causing the engine and
cars to drop off the rails.
METHODISTS CONVENE.
RICHLAND, April 28.—About 125
Methodist delegates from the Colum
bus district arrived in Richland
Wednesday afternoon for a two-day
conference. Many noted speakers
and well known preachers were pres
ent from this district and other cit
ies. Dr. J. A. Thomas, of Colum
bus, delivered the sermon Wednesday
night at the opening meeting.
PAPER DEADLOCK HOLDS.
NEW YORK, April 28.—The dead
lock between the newsprint manufac
turers and union workers in the Unit
ed States and Canada, remained un
broken when the cinference called
to discuss a new wfce agreement
broke up at noon today.
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