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IP 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 V X £ft Aft »Y* * X .V. X X X X At X Aft Aft X X X X X X X - - • - v *r n* i’ v i* •> **• •j* »x* <• <• Aft -r -ft . _ 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 | ______ GIRL TELLS STORY OF HER ILLICIT LOVE . RS 1’ | I e M - ! ro&flHnSaWfiß /Ir u Mfc - / *. I ISM w / </ 1 r M<W > W tiMCri 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. lAlißs ’ 11 'mEW -r-, M 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 !- • - 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 A ? a ■ i / - ! o U_- I 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. *■ 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'