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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 /AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUPRIL 28, 1922. AND EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT— • * A J a rMM Igehoal j* /A rW\ W UwWt J A fie T’my, ',/j , // //&/ < N z BBSs. X s \/ \ "'Z" SJ. |\ [ ~ <- A 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. . .. 1 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. . Z.’ ■ .-’X