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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 1 3
FRENCH EXTEND LINES
IMF IMS 111
COM. DELIMS MG
MADE FRANCE STOPPED
Troops In Occupied Territory
Have Been Reinforced
Heavily
ESSEN CROWD PROTESTS
Lithuanian Irregulars Reported In
Full Possession Os Baltic
Area
DUSSELDORF, Jan. 15.
France’s answer to the German
mine owners’ refusal to deliver
coal on any terms, was to ex
tend today the zone of occupa
tion originally intended to
cover only the Bochum region.
A new line just established
by General De Goutte's forces
20 kilometres further eastward,
coming to the edge of the great
German industrial city of Dort
mund.
GREAT STEEL
CENTER OCCUPIED
BOCHUM, Jan. 15. (By the
Associated Press.)- —This city, in the
heart of the great Stinnes steel
works, is occupied by the French
today.
Occupation of Gelsenkirichen has
been comlpetcd.
THE RING AROUND
ESSEN TIGHTENED.
ESSEN, Jan. 15.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.) —Because of a change
of front by coal magnates and the
repudiation of the agreement to re
sume coal deliveries, the French to
day reinforced its occupation move
ment. Troops with tanks were
moved up from the old zone and the
ring around Essen was tightened.
There was half an hour stoppage
of work in this big industrial center
today as a protest against the occu
pation by French. While in progress,
the crowd carried out an anti-
French demonstration outside of the
French headquarters with speeches
and songs.
GERMANY REFUSES
COAL TO FRANCE.
BERLIN, Jan. 15. (By the As
sociated Press.)—The German coal
commission has prohibited coal own
ers of Ruhr from supplying coal and
coke to France and Belgium, even
if payment is made for the fuel.
This stiffening attitude by the
German government was expected
here to precipitate drastic action by
the French government.
Great demonstrations of protest
against the French occupation of the
Ruhr took place today. There were
no untoward incidents.
There were striking displays of
patriotic fervor. Bright but frosty
weather prevailed.
The principal meeting called by
the non-socialist paties, was held on
the Koenigplatz, opposite the Reich
stag. This proved to be one of the
most imposing manifestations in
Berlin. Before noon an immense
crowd already had assembled about
great monument to victory, erected
after the Franco-Russian war. Flags
were half-staffed on government
buildings, and for the first time since
the republic was established the re
publican colors were prominently dis
played at many of the fashionable
hotels.
The crowd was compossed of mid
dle class people, dressed their Sun
day best. The speeches were ac
claimed with proletarian enthusiasm, i
Die Wacht Am Rhine and Deutsch
land Über Alles were repeatedly '
rung, amid cries of “down with
France.” Resolutions of protest i
against the French occupation were
carried by acclamation.
Chahcellor Cuno had been invited
to attend the Koenigsplatz demon
stration but he excused himself by
pleading pressure of business. The
gathering dispersed in orderly fash
ion singing patriotic songs.
HEAVY STREET
FIGHTING IN MEMEL
BERLIN, Jan. 15. (By the Asso
ciated! Press.)—Dispatches to the
Lokal Anzpiger report heavy street
fighting in Mernel and the Baltic
area recentyl invaded by Lithuanian
irregulars.
The Lithuanians, messages assert,
are almost in complete possession.
SMALL SUNDAY FIRE.
A Sunday morning fire slightly
damaged the home of Middy Wilson,
colored, near Crawford street. The
blaze was caused from a spark on
the roof.
RESERVE BANK BANDIT IS FOUND DEAD
DON’T BE DECEIVED!
EUROPE ON UPGRADE,
SAYS JULIUS BARNES
TT/ HAT’S going to come of the new turmoil in Europe?
w W Few men are so well qualified to analyze conditions as
is Julius Barnes, president of the United States Chamber
of Commerce. For years, in his business as a grain exporter,
Barnes has amassed information about economic and political
conditions abroad. 1 hen Siring the war he served as presi
dent of the United States : i Aci Administration Grain Corpora- •
tion and afterward'as of the United States Grain Cor
poration, rendering such distinctive services that he wsa decor
ated by the governments of Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Fin
land and Bulgaria. Now as president of the United States Cham
ber of Commerce arne.s is promoting the Chamber’s project for
American representation on the Reparations commission.'' He
has written the following size-up of the European situation es
pecially for NEA service and the Times-RccOrder:
BY JULIUS BARNES
President, Chamber of Conimcrec Os
United States
V/ASHINGTON, Jan. 14. -A sur
vey of old world conditions today i
presents to the sup-
erficial observer
many discouraging
aspects.
It is on the' basis
of these depressing
surface obs< rvations
that we find the
ha-is of gloomy pro
phesies.
But there is pos
sibly. a sounder
more searching an
alysis,- from which
can be drawn a
more wholesome
n
fl
BARNES
expectation for the future of Eu
rope.
Pessimistic View
A pessimist would make this re
sume of Europe:
The Turk, traditional barbarian, is
back in Europe, arrogant and defi
ant, claiming the right to close by
fortifications the open seaway of the
Dardanelles.
Greece, stripped of its newly ac
quired expansion, visits its wrath
with middle-age savagery upon its
luckless public officials.
The Balkan states, ancient cradle _
of world wars, fluctuate between un-I
sound social experiments and ' tem
pests of popular passion against min
istries.
Rusia makes boasts of armed
force with its mythical armies, whele
its millions of people prepare for a
new famine.
Austria, content as the intel na
tional mendicant, awaits the out
come of financial and economic ad
ministrations by more competent peo
ples.
Germany, a formerly great and
competent people brought almost to
a state of national beggary.
Italy, boasting since Garibaldi a
constitution under which the League
of Italian States has grown into a
great nation, sees today the seizure
of power by the Fascist! without con
stitutional warrant.
France, blind to the economic les
son of history that no victor can col
lect 50 per cent and more of the en
tire wealth of a vanquished people,
refuses to face the realities and con- j
tinues to spend vast sums in excess i
of current resources.
Great Britain, dependent for its I
prosperity on the full employment of
its people, facing today almost the
largest problem of unemployment in
its history.
Optimistic View
But there is a more real and hope-1
ful aspect.
The Turk will be held at the Dar
■ danelles by the reunited Christian
I nations of Europe until there are as
! surances given civiization that bar
barous atrocities shall not be re
enacted.
Greece will resume its normal and
j proper place in the cosiety of ■ na
tions.
The Balkan states have learned
the need of economic unity. Mutual
agreements facilitating the flow of
transportation and the commodities
of transport are reducing traditional
antagonisms.
Russia is able now to partake a lit
tle of the diet of national and indi
vidual respect for pledges and for
private property, which more ad-,
vanced peoples learned centuries
ago.
Germany has so discredited the ex
periment and tenets of socialism
that, today,, the Socialistic party re
fuses the responsibilities of the pres
ent government. A settlement of
j the reparations question within the
' practical limits of the honest attempt
, of the German people to perform,
| would make effective the needed
i financial aid to France and Belgium,
THE TIMES- RECORDER
and would start the processes of in
dustry in central Europe.
Italy has demonstrated that at
least its new rulers have honesty of
purpose in public services, and a te
nacity of will that promises sound
national progress.
If France seems today to tend
toward drcams of militarism, we
may be sure that the day will come
soon with its old true perspective of
its proper place and mission Some
just and fairway will be devised to
secure from Germany the restitution
to which France is entitled, and
within the limits of Germany’s ef
forts in good faith to pay. Relieved
.es its traditional fear of unprovoked
attack, and with the unrivaled will
ingness of its people at home to
work and save, France will vindicate
in national progress, our confidence
and trust.
Great 1 Britain, taxing its people at
a rate which can be laid indeed on
few peoples without rebellion, is
working its way slowly back’ to its
former dominant position in world
trade and finance. A measure of its
recovery is the steady march to gold
parity of the pound sterling.
Fever of War Gone
Summarizing Europe as a whole,
the feve? of war is out of the
blood of its peoples.
There is clear indication of the al
most universal desire to work and
to produce.
Those countries that have devel
oped sound financial policies and
honest practices, like any thrifty in
dividual, are working their way back
to normal and healthy life.
Their progress is shown by the!
gold parity of their currencies,
spelling ability to trade overseas, to
exchange commodities, to supply the
wants of their people and to sell the
products of their own industries.
Some Solid Nations
Switzerland, Holland, Sweden and
Japan, together with Canada and the
United States, are islands of honest
administrative functionng which are
recordng their currency denomina
tions on the parity of gold.
Spain and Great Britain lack but a
small per cent of full recovery.
When Great Britain attains the
nominal gold parity, then there will
be resumed the'liquid flow of gold
in settlement of gold balances, the
breaking down of trade barriers and
the elimination of trade hazards.
Then the wheels of' world industry '
will revolve with new activity.
Those who forecast the economic |
collapse of Europe, ' even those who
doubt its steady progress toward cer
tain recovery, fail to grasp the fun
damentals on which human activi
ties are sustained.
Figures of coal output, of railroad
transport, of steel output, of textile
operations—all the indices which
measure the opportunities for
employment of peoples—today trend
in the right direction.
BASTROP SHERIFF DENIES
DEPUTIZING SKIPWORTH
BASTROP, Jah. 15.—Fred Car
penter, sheriff of the Mbrehouse
parish, denied that any commissions
had been issued, deputizing Captain
J. K. Skipwith, leader of the Klan
in Morehouse parish, or any other
man to arrest Alonzo Braddock,
farmer, who testified Saturday that
he was seized at his home by Skip
with.
Several other men were brought
to Bastrop and turned over to Car
penter. I
NO DECISION YET AS
TO CITY COURTS’ STATUS
A message to the Times-Recnrder
from Atlanta says th it the car' af
fecting liv. statu'-’ of city courts in
the state, did not cime up for con
sideration in the Supreme court to
day.
AMERICUS, GA., MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 15, 192 3
LUTHERALLISONHOMEI
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Burned At Early Hour Monday
Morning. Originating From
An Oil Stove
Fire, said to have originated from
an oil stove, destroyed the home of
Luther Allison situated two mues
from Americus out on the Smith
ville highway early this morning.
The bright light was plainly visi
ble in the city. The fire was first
discovered about 4 o'clock. Although
out of the city limits, Fire Chief
W. P. McArthur made a run out to
this home, thinking he might "be able
to save the barn and other outhouses.
When the chief arrived on the scene,
the roof was falling in, and noth- j
ing was saved from the burning |
residence.
It is said that the loss of the resi- i
donee and its contents will amount i
to about $3,000.
FMOTMLLIS
TfllPOfmELlffl
Senator Norris Insists That His ,
Far m Products Selling Measure
Be Given Right-of-Way
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. _ The
plan of the administration leaders
to begin consideration of the farm
credits program being worked out
by the banking committe was block
ed temporarily today by Senator
Norris, chairman of the agricultural
committee, who insisted that the sen
ate take up instead, his bill for the
creation of a government corpora- j
tion empowered to buy and sell farm 1
products.
. . I
SMALL ROOF FIRE AT
CAPT. COBB’S HOME
The fire department responded to I
an alarm from the home of Capt.
John A. Cobb on Lee street at 7:40
o’clock this morning. Only the roof
was slightly damaged, and the blaze
v.'as quickly extinguished.
MELLON ANNOUNCES
ISSUE OVERSUBSCRIPTION ,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The
recent treasury offering of $300,-
000,000 in four and a half per cent
treasury notes, maturing December ‘
15, 1927, has been oversubscribed
by about $200,000,000, according to
an announcement by Secretary Mel- I '
lon.
ABNER GETS W
AFTtR MM 1®
Massachusetts Rip Van Winkle
With Confederate Bond Gets
Rude Awakening
Abner Lee Squiggins, of Worthing
ton, Mass., is going to get his pay ; (
for that SSOO State of Georgia bond,
issued in 1862, as an obligation of i
the Confederate States of America I
and repudiated, along with all other i
financial obligations of the Confed
eracy, as a condition made by the I
federal government when the seced- \
ing states were readmitted to the j
union.
Mr. Squiggins, however, will re- |
ceive his payment for the bond in
Confederate money as specified on i
the bond as issued.
The bond was sent to Attorney |
General Napier’s office on Friday by |
the postmaster at Richmond, Va., i
after he had been unable to deliver
the letter, in Richmond. The letter ,
was addressed to “Jefferson Davis,
President, Richmond, Virginia.”
In the letter, Mr. Squiggins asked ‘
Jefferson Davis to send him the bal
ance of the money due on the bond, j
saying he had been too busy 10 col- I
lect it before he left Georgia in
1872.
The letter from Mr. Napier, en- ’
closing the money to Mr. Squiggins, j
is as follows:
Mr. Abner Lee Squiggins North j
Hampton, Mass.—Dear Sir: This of
fice, is in receipt of a letter from
you, directed to Jefferson Davis of
the Confederate States of America,
(Continued on Page Five.),
Guarding the Rhine Bridgehead
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caused French officers to post heavy guards in every part of the occupied
area, > Here is a group of French soldiers at the bridgehead at Kehl.
SUHDAYSCHODLOVE
ATFIRST HHOOIST
New High Iteccrd Attendance At
tained—Men’s Bible Classes
Consolidated
Yesterday was a gala day in the
history of the Sunday school of the
First Methodist church. Since the
burning of the church building last
summer both the church and Sun
day school services are being, held
at the courthouse, anil heretofore the
attendance has been around; 235.
Yesterday a new high record wav at
tained, when it was announced that
the morning attendance for the
mornig was 417.
The two men's Bible classes were I
consolidated yesterday. These class
es have been known as the W. P.
Wallis class and the T. O. Marshall 1
class. Under the reorganization, G.
R. Ellis becomes president of the
new class. Other officers elected
were W. M. English, vice president";
R. L. McMath, secretary; J. T. Tay
lor, treasurer, and Boyd Stackhouse,
assistant secretary.
A name vzill be chosen for the
class next Sunday.
SEVENTEEN PERSONS HURT
ATLANTA AUTO ACCIDENTS
ATLANTA, Jan. 15.—Seventeen I
persons were hurt, four seirously, in I
two automobile accidents late Sun
day afternoon. Seven of those in
jured were children.
The seriously injured are Mr. and
Mrs. J. X. • McGinnis, of Mableton;
M. S. Ogle and Ernest Baker. These
were hurt in the collision between
the car of Ogle and one McGinnis
was driving in Mayson-Turner road
about 6 o’clock in the afternoon.
Both Mr. and Mrs. McGinnis re
ceived lacerations wound about the
head, and surgeons at Grady hospital
; fear Mrs. McGinnis was hurt in-,
ternally.
THIS WIFE WILLING TO
TRY ANYTHING ONCE
BUCYRUS, Ohio, Jan. 15—Claim-
I ing that his wife smoked a package
' of cigarettes daily, got drunk regu
! larly and was a regular visitor at
j the Crestline police station, John T.
I McGintis applied for a divorce. He
also accused her of unfaithfulness.
NOTED DRAFT DODGER ,
NOT ON STR HAMBURG
SAVANNAH, Jan. 15.—Federal
j officers last night searched the Nor
wegian steamer, Samnager, just in
from Hamburg, looking for Grover
Cleveland Bergdoll, the American
draft evader, but no trace of him
was found.
GEN. DEGOUETTE
I I
• -
Chief of the French Army of Occu
pation in Germany, who answered
1 the ultimatum of German mine own
| ers refusing to make further coal de
liveries by extending the French oc
cupied zone approximately thirty kil
ometers. His troops carry full war.
equipment, the Army of Occupation
embracing tanks and poison gas
squadrons, besides airplanes and ar
tillery units.
LE MASTER RETURNS FROM
GA. EMBLAMERS’ MEETING
Nat LeMaster, manager of the
Americus Undertaking company, has
just returned from Atlanta, where
on Thursday and Friday he attend
ed the Georgia State Board of Em
balmers held in that city.
After examining a large class of
applicants, officers were elected to
serve for the ensuing term, these
being W. Edw.ir 1 Platt, of Augusui,
president; J. Freeman Hart, of Ma
■ ; on, secretary and treasurer, and H.
I M. Patterson, of Atlanta; W. M.
: Bernstein, of Athens, and Nat Le
l Master, of Americus, members of
' the examining board.
I LeMaster states that the sessions
i were most interesting, and the ap
l plicants were young men of unusual
intelligence and enthusuasm.
FORMER AMERICUS MAN
PASSES AWAY IN TEXAS
Relative, in Americus have been
; apprised of the death of Will C.
' Haynes, who died in Texas on Jan
’ uary 12. He was the son of the
late Captain W. D. Haynes, and was
reared in this city.
Among his surviving relatives are
| thee brothers, Barney Haynes, ?of
. Macon; Eugene Haynes, of Atlanta,
’ and E<l Haynes; two sisters, Miss
M.iry Haynes and Mrs. J. H. Erwin,
I of Durham, N. C.
! Mr. Haynes was a relative of Mr.
: and Mrs, Arthur Rylander and Tsr.
| and Ml’s, Evan Mathis, of Americus.
WEATHER ? •
For Georgia Fair tonight, and
Tuesday; colder tonight; frost in
south portion.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
BODV FODBDIS
DENffl BARAGE
AMONG FASHiMBLES
Another Man Arrested In Chicago
Suspected Os Complicity In
Raid On Bank
DENIES HE IS HOLLYWOOD
Detectives Raid Suspect’s Room
And Cover Him With Guns
When Arrest Is Made
DENVER, Jan. 15. A daring
bandit who stood on the running
board of an automobile as men,
robbed the Federal Reserve Bank
truck of $200,000 in front of the J
Denver mint on December 18 and
sped away amid the rain of bullets
from mint guards, has paid the pen
alty with his life.
Deserted by his pals, the body of
the dead robber, believed to have
been the leader of the band, was
found last night in a private ga
rage in a fashionable residence dis- ,
trict. A gaping wound near the
bandit’s heart told the story.
Another man answering the de- s
scription of Albert T. Hollywood,
said by police to have been the lea?- |
er of the band which robbed Fed
eral Reserve bank guards of £290.- •
bOO at the door of th.? Denver mint
December 18, was arrested in Chi
cago when detectives raidea his ■'’'i
room in a hotel.
He denied he is Hollywood and in
sisted he is Dan Culhane, a St. Louis
gambler.
Culhane was asleep when five de
tectives entered his room and cov
ered him with guns. The arrest' was
made on a tip from Kansas City
police, who listened in on a telephone
conversation said 'o have been con- I
ducted by Culhane from the hotel
ere with rnoi'.-r robbery suspect ut
Kansas Citv
ssmlweit I
ON FLINT MB'm i
ft
If Recommendation Os Rivers
And Harbors Body Pass
Congress
“The Budget Bureau of the Na- t
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress, , 9
has recommended $27,625,760 for 'fi
the maintenance and improvement
of livers and harbors in the fiscal ■
year ending June 30, 1924, with an I
additional $456,850 for surveys,
examinations and contingencies, a fl
total of $23,082,610. The annual B
report of the chief'of engineers gives S
the amount that can profitably be i |
expended for river and harbor work I
during the coming fiscal year as' , ■
$56,590,4’10, of which $13,412,280 'fl
is for maintenance and $43,178,130
for improvement. An additional I
$•500,000 is asked for surveys, etc., I
making a total of $57,090,410. ' I
“The amount recommended by the I
Budget Bureau last year was $27,- 'fl
855,260, or pract(caily identical with j
that submitted this year, but the fl
friends of waterways in the house .B
refused to accept this inadequate fl
sum and secured an increase to $2,- *fl
815,661 which was said by the en- .fl
gineers to be the least possible ,fl
amount that would do absolutely
necessary work—and the senate ap- fl
proved the action of the house.
The amount recommended for fl
Georgia rivers and harbors are: I
Savannah Harbor, $1,060,000; fl
Savannah river—above Augusta, fl
$1,000; at Augusta, $2,000; below Jb
Augusta, $22,000. ’J
Waterway, Beaufort, S. C., to St. 'fl
Johns River, Fla., $42,00. I
Satilla river, SI,BOO. 5]
St. Marys river, $12,500. I
Altamaha river, $15,000. -1
Oconee river, $12,500.
Ocmulgee river, $12,500. 1
Brunswick Harbor, $230,000. : H
Flint river, $55,000. 1
Chattahoochee river, $125,000.
TEXAS-OKLAHOMA fl
BOUNDARY ESTABLISHED fl
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The fl
south cut bank of the Red river has ffl
been made the boundary line be
tween Texas and Oklahoma by or- |b
der of the Supreme court; in the fl
' famous Red river case, , S
855,260