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fVEATHER FORECAST
I c r Georgia —Fair and cooler to«
M in <' Tuesday. For the South
lentic and East Gulf States: Gen
j . a’Jv fair weather will prevail, with
. .i-nial
n^Y-FOL’RTHJ^^- —NO 224
TURKS REFUSE BRITISH PEACE TERMS
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ATLANTA FIRMS WILL REBUILD Z>A
GATE CITY HIT
BY FIRE LOSS
OF 1J MILLIONS
! ire Broke Ou’ Early Sunday !
Morning in Kress Jtoic
And Spread
ATI ANTA, Sept. 25. — Sun
day .nd today crowds of curious
, , vc d about the scene of the mil- j
iion and a half dollar hre, which)
u ] y Sunday morning broke out
a„d completely gutted a portion (
„l the business section of this city, ,
l vin ~ along Whitehall street and
flmkcd by the railroad track,
Alabain « and Broad streets.
Tll . j.,,,,.-- ■ ha been varmUsly
ilom one to two millions
■ th th. water and smoke dam
r, t<>' of the almost total de
■ eral Busines s houses
; U1 „ tolal loS g of the mammoth
Kress store; the loss
Inns' into that this fire as
q)W of the largest in Atlanta s
history. , . .
Not . inc- the great conflagration
of VH7, which swept over more than
square mile of Atlanta’s most se
lect • idential section, causing prop
loss of several million dollars,
. fire department en
.Aur'-'-.vd such a stubborn blaze, or
bus the damage exceeded that oi the
lire Saturday night, according to 1' iie
Chief W. B. t'odjr.
$150,000 Building Loss.
John W. Grant, widely known At
lanta capitalist, who owned several
I of the buildings, declared the esti
mated total damage to Iris structures
alone wopbi undoubtedly aggregate
$150,000. Mr. Grant’s property
fronts 112 feet on Whitehall street
and runs back to Broad street, where
has a similar frontage. This prop
erty included buildings occupied by
the Krc.-s company, which was a vir
tual total.. To-: the L. F. M. com
pany, partially destroyed; the Childs'
hotel on Rroad street, and the store '
<m Whitehall street occupied by j
Eh eman’: department store.
Morri;- 1). Eiseman, proprietor of ‘
Eiseman department store, which I
wa badly damaged by smol-te and j
"ater, stated the total value of his i
and fixtures would reach
$175,000.
SEEK TO LEARN CAUSE
OF ATL ANTA FIRE.
• ■C.txiA. Sept. 25.-—City tire-!
'id were on duty today guard- !
‘ag the smouldering flames of a fire
”t the heart of M | anLa . s |, UKines ..
( ' l ’ii which <’aus.cd damage vari
t< d at ‘5700,000 to si.
~ " Hcc an d ’ lre department
investigating cause of
... A 1 '• ' be J tated apparent Ij
, i r , 1 ' !l ''" cxplot ion on Ihe
, the Kress building.
!<,, " "A" 1 ' rc.ident manager of
tlu. !1 '"' was no Thing on I
1,, .'' ', ,or " f lb '’ building to )
■m explosion. •
m-u ’ IIE VAR ’OGS
affected.
the o |d ‘b •" Pt.. 25.—The loss to I
blown , L ISIn » l , n buil d‘ng, better ]
’F, M c < lure building, lb- t
t,-... al,d IT Whitehall
, ■ '"Ucont to the store occu
'lV I U M ’ coi,| pany was
Piaeed at SIO,OOO.
■ od ■ of the Kress i
51. Tim va;!l «l. at approximately I
total loss. I
to the Childs Hotel.
t , "■ <,f the Childs ho-
-J-ted about the lit-!
"cm , J, Sunday ‘‘bet-noon. Some
• ' * . »"'y
.1 T LUs they were.
>'v made " i '" er ’ le «ee of the hostel
. ,1. . -_ - 1 ‘”*nute inspection of what
Tl,. ’ ;i| ‘ ‘ bls P'ace of business.
X ~f the hotel was a total
ATTACK
MEXICAN PORT
A '\ D ' V o n Away Fsom Port Tux
harn B y Soldiers Os Loyal
Garrison
Tuxhan^" RLZ ' Sept ’ 25 ' Port
Fridav ■ l A‘ ttaCke,i by the Rebels
“.“‘all ’fede r L‘ ng to . a<i ‘ ices here. A.
at t*‘ kers to retreat S ° n the
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GIRL TELLS STORY OF HER ILLICIT LOVE .
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When Miss Margaret Pierce,
adopted daughter and heiress of
the late Henry M. Pierce, of Buf
falo, N» Y., told hetiStroy of illicit
I love. Mis; Pierce admitted taking
trips with Janies O. Howard,, her
adopted fal'her’s chauffeur, and of
being the mother of his child. The
hearing was held in Warsaw, N. Y.
The jury returned a verdict 1 f
■ 842,500 in favor of the plaintiff, I
Mrs. Marion Howard, of Castile, I
N. Y., wife of the chauffeur, who
was suing for alienation of her
husbands' affections. Above, scene ;
in Courtroom as Miss Pierce told
her story, Lower left, Miss Pierce;
and right, Mrs. Howard.
GARRISON SEES 7
THIRD PARTI
Former Secretary Os War Says'!
Two Major Political Parties
Are About Done
DENVER, Sgpt. 25.—That the two
great political parties of the halted-
States are having difficulty to find
an issue upon which they can differ
materially, and that the natural out
come .is lilDly to rtsult in the -scrap-1
ping of the Rcplibljean and Demo
cratic parties in favor of a new poll- j
tical lineup, is the opinion of Lind
ley M. Garrison, former secretary ‘
of war.
AWJOJSBOYS
IN AUTO WRECK
Despite injuries ih«y Coniinue
Journey To Cordele Io Keep
Engagement
i O. P. Johnson and J. C. West-
I brc.ok, 2 Americus young men, had .
I a narrow escape from serious ir.jtwy
j Saturday evening, about 8 o clock, ,
I when they were driving a Ford car
that was in collision with a Dodge
automobile, in a ditch, about six
*, miles from Cordele.
j Despite the fact that their car whs ■
"all torn up and they* were suffering
serious face abrasions, the young
men, who were en route to visit two
young ladies, continued to Cord.ele
and kept their engagements.
The driver of the Dodge car was
Mr-. Kimball, overseer of the Jesse
Slade farm. According to the story
told by the Americus boys, Kimball
deliberately drove into them, after ;
they had pulied their own car into
the ditch on the right ' hand side ,
of the road to avoid a collision. 1 hey I
stale that Mr. Kimball expressed his
willingness to pay for the damage
done to the ,car.
REMOVE FIRE HAZARD.
The fire department was finally
forced to request the removal of the
sawdust pile, at the Shiver mill, aft
er answering three alarm-4 to the :
place and being unable to thoroughly
quench the flames that kep the
center of the dust mass at a hot
temperature.
THE TIOIIWtCORDER
RfTWpublished in the heart
AMERICUS, GA.. MONDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 25. 1922.
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MW COUNTIES
SEND SINGERS
Sunday Program Enjoyed At
Third Aggie School
Grounds
Community singers representing
i Crisp, Dooly, Houston, Marion, Ma
con, Schley, Lee, Webster, Stewart
, and Sumter counties, gathered Sun
day at the Third District aggie .col
lege here. The occasion was the an
ntial convention of the Sumter Coun
ty Singing society, of which Chai lie
j Cheek is president.
A monster barbecue .served in the
* oa! grove on the college campus fed
1,500 person who participated in the
all-day ingin;,'. I-our hundred feet
of table room, arranged in the fornf
of a hollow square, provided space
’ for Ml. Within this . tpiare ten prgt
' ty giil , members of Ibe aggie st»-
; dent body and directed by Miss
' Nelle Warnock ami Miss Sarah Mor
ri;, faculty members, served the
I guests. W. Tom Lan'e, prominent
Americus lawyer, invoked the bless
ing, ami E. J. M Math, forme'- coun
ty . -hool superintendent, assisted in
caring* lor the guests at the tables.
Jim Glav..on, the. most famous bar
i becue artfst in Southwest Georgiit,
presided at the pits, where, thirty
. carcasses, done to a brown turn,
i were prepared.
Besides these three huge iron pots
tilled with pungent Brunswick stew
- furnished delicious trimming for the
' browned .meats. Hundreds of cakes,
pies, etc., together with 500 loaves
[ of bread, and a large keg of pickles,
' furnished the remainder of the re-
Ipa t. C. B. I’ouncey and Charlie
1 Check acted as masters qf ceremon
i is., and J. M. Prance, principal of
the. school, briefly welcomed the
guest., present. Chief of Police John
T. Br:: ; g acted a.- marshal of the
i day.
! DEMOCRATS SEE
TREND TO PARTY
Senator Walsh Starts On Cross-
Continanlal Speaking
Tour
i WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. - The
i fall political campaigns open “with
tlje i rend . unmistakably toward ihe
: Democratic party,’’ Senator David
Walsh, of Massachusetts, said Mon
day as he was leaving for a cross
continental trip devoted to speech
making.
DAUGHERTY WRIT
MADE BINDING
WITHOUT CHANGE
Judge Wilkerson Permanently
Forbids Striking Shopmen To
interfere With Operations
CHICAGO, Sept. 25. The dras
tic tempormy injunction asked by-
Attorney General Daugherty against
the shop crafts leaders was put into
force by Judgfc Wilkinson Monday
| without any of its. effectiveness
being modified.
FORDHITSCOAL
GOIICER3 HARD
They Sell Him Coal For $2 a Ton
Less Commodity
(Jost Them
DETROIT, Sept. 25.—Henry Ford
' returned from the coal regions along
1 the Ohio river Saturday with the
I scalps of coa| brokers hanging' to
) his belt.
j ‘We bought coal from the bro
kers, ’* he said,j“for ton less than
! they paid fun it, could have
' bought it for lets if we had cared
| to jam them.”
Ford blames the brokers, the
; Interstate Commerce Commission
I and Secretary Hoover for the coal
situation that caused him to shut
down.
j "There is no shortage of coal,”
Ford said. "Nor has there been. On
the contrary, there is enough coal
i above ground to last the country a
; year, with economy. Coal brokers
| simply engineered a squeeze in an
attempt to plunder the country.;
There was so much coal above
ground that in order to prevent
i competitors from battering down
prices, the conspirators obtained an
order from the Interstate Com
merce Commission that restricted
I the shipment of coal to automobile
j industries on the ground that such
| industries were ‘non-essential.’
‘‘As soon as we closed our plants,
public sentiment began to concen
i irate on the coal situation, with the
result that those who control the
Interstate Commerce Commission 1 i
caused the ban that had been placed j
I on coal shipments to be removed. ;
The moment the ban was removed.
' the price of coal came clattering
down. We bought coal at $3.50 a
ton and were offered all we wanted
at $2.50 if we would take a con
struct* for a year. But we make no i
contracts for coal. Coal will be less ;
than 82 at the mines within a year.” ‘
-—a-
try *o Kill police head.
DUBLIN,. Sept. 25.—(8y the As-j
sociatcd Press.) —An attempt was |
made last night to kill General Owen i
, O’Duffy, chief commander of the j
I Irish civil police, it is announced by I
the Free State-government
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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
j Strict Middling 20 l-2c. Market ■
I closed off 25 points. .
—•-;
LIVERPOOL COTTON
1 LIVERPOOL, Sept. 25. Market I
, opened steady, 25-30 up. Quotations I
■; 13.26. Sales, 6000 bales, Receipt?,
! 278 bales, of which 220 are Ameri- I
i can. -
, Futures Oct. Jan. March j
Prev Close./. 12.04 1 1.89 11.85
- Open 12.53 ’ j
[Close ..12.32 12.14 12.01
NEW YORK FUTURES
Oct. Jan. March
Prev Close .. ... 21.18 21.30 21.30
i Open 21.22 21.31 21.28 [
110:15 am ........ .21.20 21.30 21.30 I
I 10:30 21.30 2L32 [
' 10:45 .. 21.17 21.27 21.25
l 11:00 ... 121.12 21.20 21.25 1
'll :15 ... 20.99 21.08 21.12
.11 :30 21.04 21.13 21,15
i 11:45 21.10 21.10 21.16 ;
! 12:00 21.02 21.12 21.19 ■
. 12:15 pm 21.05 21.15 21.21
12:30 . 21.05 2.1.15 21.111 i
i 12:45 .. 21.05 21.13 21.15 I
[ 1 :00 ... 21.05 21.15 21.21
I 1:15 21.06
1:30 21.03 21.10 21.16
, [ 1:45 20.90 20.98 21.93
i | 2:00 20.92 21.00 21.08 I
, 2:15 ... 20.87 21.03 21.02
. ' 2:30 20.91 20.99 21.03
. 1 2:45 20.85 20.94 21.00
1 Close 30.93 21.00 21.08
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Halide Hanum, shown astride her horse, is the Turkish feminist leader,
in Mustapha Kemal Pasha’s cabinet.
SUMTER COUNTY FAIR WILL
ATTRACT RECORD CROWDS
ON OPENING DAY TUESDAY
Veterans Are Io Be Guests Os Fair Association
Throughout The Week—Fine Exhibits Are
1 o Be Shown
All attendance records are ex
pected to be broken at the Sumter
Co,unty Fair which starts here to
morrow, with a big collection of
live stock and domestic exhibits as
well as an agricultural display that
will show every class and kind of
plant produced in this section of
the state.
The amusement features of the
fair will include a number of first
class shows that have come here
fresh from successful runs at the
big shore resorts of the East.
i The live stock and agricultural
| exhibits are said to be the biggest
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
CLASS A.
No. 1. For the Pest and most complete display of AGRI
CULTURAL PRODUCTS grown in and exhibited
from any one District.
First Prize - ..SIOO.OO
Second Price • 75.00
Third Prize ■ 25.00
All Districts exhibiting and not receiving a ribbon will be
given SIO.OO for their c-Q-bperatlon.
CLASS B. i
No. 2. Best, Largest and Most Attractive Display of Cotton
any variety or varieties, in bolls on stalk or lint.
First Prize - $5.00
Second Prize - 2.50
CLASS C.
N<>. 3. Bost Single Stalk of Cotion . .........SI.OO $ .30
No. 1. Best Six Stalks of Corn 1.90 .50
No. 5. Best Ten Ears of Corn 1.00 .50
No. 6. Best Six Stalks Yellow Sugar Cane . 1.00 .50
No. 7. Best Six Stalks of Red Sugar Cane ... 1.00 , .50
No. 8. Best and Largest Vine of Peanuts . 1.00 .50
No. 9. Best, Largest, Greatest Variety and
the most attractive!,? displayed In-
dividual Exhibit of Pecans . ... 5.00 2.00
SWINE DEPARTMENT
CLASS A. DUROC JERSEYS Ist 2nd 3rd
No. 1. Best Boar, 2 years and over. $7.50 $5.00 Rih.
No. 2. Best Boar, 1 year and under 2. . 7.50 5.0 f) Rib.
No. .3. Best Btfai-, over 6 months
~ and under 1 year . ... . ... 5.00 2.50 Rib.
No. 1. Best Sow, 2 years and over 7.50 5.00 Rib.
No. 5. Best Sow, 1 year and under 2 5.00 2.50 Rih.
- No. 6. Best Sow, over 6 months and
under 1 year 5.00 2.50 Lib.
No. 7. Under 6 Mos. Herd, six or more 1 5.00 2.50 Rib.
No. 8. Best Sow and litter of four or
more pigs 5.00 2.50 Rib
CLASS B. POLAND CHINAS.
No. 9. Best Boar, 2 years and over $7.50 $5.00 Rih
No. 10. Best Boar, 1 year and under 2 7.50 5.00 Rib.
No 11. Rest Boar, over 6 month- and
under 1 year . 5.00 2.50 Rib.
No. 12. Best Sow, 2 years and over 7.50 2..>0 Rib.
No. 13. Best Sow, 1 year and under 2 . 5.00 2.50 Rib.
No. 14. Best Sow, over 6 months and
1 year 5.00 2.50 Rib.
No. 15. Under fix months herd. Six or
more 5.00 2.50 Rib.
No. 16. Best Sow and litter of four or
more pigs . ....... - 5.00 2.50 Rib.
CLASS D. Ist 2nd 3rd
No. 25. Best Pen of 6 Grade' Hogs $5.00 $2.50 Rib.
CATTLE DEPARTMENT
Best Milk Cow, any breed, 2 years and over ....SIO.OO
Same, second best 5.00
(Continued on Page Two.)
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
I and best ever staged at a Sumter
I county fair. Hundreds of dollars in
premiums will be distributed during
the judging.
There will be five sh<>ws daily, aft
ernoon and night and there are acts,
to catch the fancy of young and old
with many thrillers that have never
been seen in this part of the country
before. Jhe work of preparing the
agricultural exhibits progressed rap
idly today and the live stock exhib
. its will be brought in Tuesday
; morning.
; Some of the premiums to be given
away during fair week are as
follows:
HOME]
EDITION
HAMID BEY SAYS
PRESENT TERMS
NOT ACCEPTABLE
American Destroyers Guarantee
Safety Os Smyrna
Refugees .
I CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 25
(By Associated Press.) —Ha-
mid Bey, repr4ontative of the An
gora government, today declared
that the Allied invitation, to a
peace conference could not be ac
cepted by the Turkish National
iste on ti e terms as at present
laid down.
GREEK CABINET I >
GAINING STRENGTH.
ATHENS, Sept- 25.—JRy the As-
• eociated Press.)—Spurred to great- ?
ier effort by the popular clamor for |
its resignation, Premier Triantafil
lako’s cabinet- is developing unex
pected eahesdon in strength and may
. oven live out the present national
I crisis. _ ' .'la
I It has added new members to the
j ministry chosen with a view to bring
I popular support. It has appointed <%
j governor general in Thrace and
j designated three popular generals to
I proceed to Thrace to push the work
! of reorganizing the army there. “
BRISTOL TELLS GREEKS
! HE WILL AID REFUGEES.
LONDON, Sept. 25. —A Rueter
I dispatch from Athens snys that Adi
! ntiral Bristol has infpfm.e.d the Greek
I goverhpient the United Statdis will
! undertake to protect with
I the removal of the remaining 150,-
,000 refugees at Smyrna, if Greece
' provides means' of transport.
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BRISTOL TOLD TO*
! AID AMERICANS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Rear
, Admiral Bristol’s activities in con
! nection with the Smyrna disaster are
i confined strictly to affording relief, !
' primarily to native and naturalized
American citizens destitute as a re
suit of the fire, and secondarily to
nationals of other -countries who can
not otherwise obtain aid. His in
structions from t’ne state department
set forth these limitations plainly.
GERMANS HOLD MASS
MEETING IN VIENNA.
VIENNA, Sept. 25.—A great inns';
! meeting of protest against tlte peace
1 treaties concluding the World War ;
were held yesterday under auspices j
ot the German associations. A choir j
of 7,000 voices sang German hymns i
between speeches which were gen- !
erally denunciatory of the treaties ]
as being responsible for the present j
plight of Central Europe.
SHOPMEN Will.
ATTACK ORDER
-
W.n Ask That Strike Writ Os I
Judge Wilkinson Be
Reviewed
U'lli AGO, Sept. 25. —
■ his ' tatement with the assertion tliat |
i a course of action lias not been defi- I
j nitely determined, Donald Richburgp, 1
! counsel of the railway shop crafts, !.
' indicated the next step in the shop- |!
men’s fight against the Daugherty p
injunction would be a petition to the I
United States Circuit Court of Ap- t
j peals for a review’ of Judge Wilkin- |
. son's order.
iDYNAMfIE ll® i
TO BLOW TRESTLE
MACON, Spot. 25.—A charge of- |
dynamite, big enough to wreck a I
downtown office building, was touch- i
cd off under the trestle of the Cen- t
tral of Georgia railroad at Forsyth |
| road, near Singer’s hill, at 1:45 ]
! o’clock Sunday morning. Due to the I
fact that the heavy charge apparent- |
ly was placed by amateur dynamit- U
• ers, the structure was not badly a
l damaged. A passenger train pasted 0
• over the trestle just before the ox- tl
plosion and several others passed jiv t t
I afterward. ■
LENINE SOON TO RETURN. |
, MOSCOW, Sept. 25. (By the As- |
i sociated Press.)—Premier Lenine t
I will soon return to active duty, I
newspapers announce. While reeup- M
) eratjng he hag interested himself :n H
i international questions and homa H
affair,. . .I'