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ORTY-TIFTH YEAR.—NO. 55
LIVESTOCK DESTROYED BY TORNADO IN LEE
BOND PETITION TO BE
PRESENTED COUNCIL
Dr. Minor Confident New Issue
For Schools Will Be Voted
By Americus People
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Dr. Carl W. Minor, chairman of
the school bond issue campaign, is
busy today preparing a petition to
present to the mayor and city coun
cil this evening. The petition will
recommend the issuance of bonds
amounting to $150,000 for furnishing
money with which to enlarge school
buildings here and in building a high
school.
In talking of the petition today
Dr. Minor said that he had implicit
faith in the people of Americus to
put over the campaign for the bene
fit of the school buildings, and that
he anticipated no further trouble
than in getting up the petition. He
expects to see city council unani
ously endorse the proposition and
have the name of* every resident
in the city appended thereto. Rep
resentatives from civic clubs and all
organizations which were present at
the get-together meeting at the Com
munity club house last week when
the proposition was formulated will
be present tonight to lend their aid
to tiiv petition.
DOUBLE STATETM 01
fflS IS ADVOCATED
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Head of Highway Department In
Speech Urges Levy of Two
Cents On Each Gallon
MACON, March 7.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —A state tax of two
cents a gallon on gasoline and oil
to raise sufficient funds to meet the
federal aid in good road building in
Georgia was advocated here today
by John M. Holder, chairman of the
state highway commission, in an ad
dress before the Macon Kiwanis club.
Already one cent a gallon is now
being paid on gasoline, declared Mr.
Holder. This brought in a revenue
last year of SBOO,OOO. Two cents on
gas and oil will produce about sl,-
300,000, he said. The head of the
good roads department also added
that by an increase levy on gasoline
and oil “the tourists, who do con
siderable damage to our roads will
pay something toward their repair.”
The state aid system of public
highways in Georgia consists of 5,-
500 miles, Mr. Holder explained.
Every county seat in Georgia has at
least two state roads. Os the 5,5u0
miles, 1,738 have either been built
or are under construction. About
400 miles will be put under construc
tion this year, Mr. Holder said.
The total amount of federal funds
allotted to Georgia to June 30, 1923,
is $10,736,536, every dollar of which,
said Mr. Holder, has been matched
by the state either vYith county or
state funds. He declared no federal
aid road funds are available to any
state unless an amount is provided
with which to match the federal
funds on a fifty-fifty basis o r dollar
for dollar.
“Georgia’s share of federal funds
this year was $1,331,000, while next
year her quota will be $1,755,000,
the following year $1,997,000, and,
according to the program outlined by
congress, her quota will be $2,700,-
000 each year thereafter,” said the
speaker.
The question may be askes said
Mr. Holder, what becomes of the
motor vehicle tax? Why not use that
for getting federal aid for Georgia ?
"The total amount,” declared Mr.
Holder, “collected last year was sl,-
830 000. The expense of collecting
was $64,291.99, leaving $1,765,-
708.01 to be used in road improve
ment. Presuming the income this
year will be as much as in 1922, a
budget has been made for the year
1923.”
“Os the moto r vehicle tax, $250,-
000 will be spent on new- construc
tion SIOO,OOO old construction and
$4,800 will be spent on research work
and testing material especially for
surfacing roads. A total of $l6O
is used to defray the expense of the
general office, $240,000 will be spent
for engineering, supervision on nine
millions of construction being carried
on in Georgia, $50,000 is allowed by
law for emergencies.
“In the next place $50,000 is set
aside to do special work in maintain
ing federal aid projects provided the
regular quota is not sufficient to
keep them in such repair as will satis
fy the federal government. A total
(Continued on Page Two.)
HARDWICK DECIDES TO
ACCEPT JEDERAL JOB
Georgia Governor To Become
Assistant U. S. Att«-ney Gen
eral At Expiration of Term
ATLANTA', March 7.—Governor
Hardwick announced today he would
accept the appointment as special •
United States attorney general at
the expiration of his term as gov
ernor June 30. In a statement an
nouncing the acceptance of the ap
pointment, the. governor said the
“position in question is special as
sistant to the attorney general on
the advisory board of war transac
tions section of the department of
jutsice for the investigation and
prosecution of fraud cases growing
out of the war.
“At an early date I shall go to
Washington for a consultation with (
my colleagues and hope to be able to
begin my service there July 1,” said
the governor in conclusion.
It was reported last night on what
appears to be excellent authority that j
such a strong proposal has beenmade [
to Governo r Hardwick which would
call him to Washington and New
York at a very early date there is
every likelihood he will accept it,
which is taken rather- to tend to .n
indication that the governor possibly
will not continue in office until the I
end of his term, but may resign.
While Governor Hardwick could
not be reached last night for some
statement in connection with the re
port, it is understood the tender ; s
in connection with prosecution of the
cases of alleged war graft in whicli
he is to be given a special assign
ment to represent the federal gov- .
ernment. I
It was said the governor has not
indicated whether he will accept the
proposition or not, but a number of
close friends appear to believe the
chances are he will. The desire, it
is said, would be that the engage
ment not* call him to’Washington un
til after the third week in June, but
whether that desire can be met is I
not known and, if it can be so arrang
ed, it is said there is the strongest
probability the governor will assume' fj
the assignment whenever it becomes a
necessary. I p
Assuming the reports to be as well | I
founded as they appear to be, Gov- o
ernor-elect Walker could not assume v
the office until the date on which the h
term for which he was elected be- 0
gins, which means if there should be
a resignation the president of the j
senate will fill the ofifce for not 0
more than 90 days. ti
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RATIEI TREATIES, ISIS:
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-Admiral Guepratte Enquires Into v
Status Os Pacts Signed At p
Arms Conference
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PARIS, March 7.—(By the Asso- '
ciated Press.) —The French govern- I
ment will ask the chamber of depu
ties to vote for ratification of the I
treaties at the Washington arma
ments conference, Minister of Ma
rine Raiberti told the chamber this [
morning when Vice Admiral Gue- i
pratte asked the status of the ash- j
ington pacts.
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OKLAHOMA CITY, March 7.—Dr. n
B. Cheston Goldberg, who last night j c
was abducted by four unmasked ; n
men at his home here, walked into I (.
police headquarters today and told I
the authorities that he regained con- [ d
sciousness while lying in a pool of I
mud about 13 miles from the city p
after having been beaten and rob
bed and his face disfigured by a livid
slash from his eye to his throat.
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TWO FLYERS NARROWLY p
ESCAPE SERIOUS INJURY c
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 7. e
Lieutenant Grey Kirksey and E. T.
Selzer, manning plane No. 9 of the j
squadron of six army De Haviland (
planes which arrived at Pablo Beach, j
near here, late yesterday, narrowly s
escaped injury when thei r machine
took a nose-dive into the ocean at ,
Neptune Beach.and stuck in the sand j
about ten feet from shore. Neither a
flier was hurt. 1
THE TIMES- RECORDER
DIG LUMBER PUT
DESTROYED BI EIRE
Massee-Felion Planing Mill And
Lumber Wiped Out —Loss
Aboue $50,000
MACON, March 7.—Fire believed
to have started from a spark from
a railroad engine, destroyed the
planing mill of the Massee-Felton
Lumber company last night about 8
o’clock. Officials of the company
were on the scene and estimated the
loss at between $50,000 and $75,-
000, partially covered by insurance.
The mill had closed down for the
day and the night watchman was the
only employee on the ground at the
time. A small blaze was noticed in
the planing mill and a fire alarm was
turned in over the Tennessee Dis
trict Telephone company at 7:55
o’clock.
Fire apparatus from all sections “f
the city responded to the alarm and
the fire, whipped by a steady wind,
gained considerable headway before
lines of hose were laid from distant
water plugs. Auxiliary pumps were
pressed into service and white and
black employes of the company as
sisted the firemen.
BERLIN DISTURBMCE
IS NIPPED IH BUD
Fifteen Germans Are Arrested At
Munich As Plotters, Say
Authorities
BERLIN, March 7 —A coupe detat,
planned to occur about the middle of
this month, has been nipped in the
bud by the arrest of fifteen persons
at Munich, according to authorities.
The ringleaders are said to havs
been Prof. Fuch, a well known dra
matic critic, and Herr Machaus, musi
cal conductor, and Dr. Kuehles, for
merly a legal adviser to the Munich
town council. Kuehles, who was
temporarily released for lack of evi
dence, shot himself.
MENTAL HYGGENE MEET
-OR GEORGIA TOMORROW
ATLANTA, March 7.—Plans for
the adoption of a mental hygiene
program for Georgia will be consid
ered at a meeting to be held here
tomorrow at the call of former Gov
ernor Hugh Dorsey.
The conference will discuss a cam
paign to obtain pasage of legisla
tion fo r the betterment of condi
tions among the unfortunates of the
state.
. A bright red jacket, closely belted
is worn with a skirt of black crepe,
accordion pleated, and a black cape
lined with biege.
AMERICUS. GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7, 1922
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SECURIT ES OVERSEERS
TO QUIZ BOND DEALERS
Firms Operating With Blackboards
Not To Be Licenses By Geor
gia Commission
ATLANTA, Ga., March 7.—Deal
ers in real estate bonds are being in
vited to atend a meeting of the State
Securities commission Thursday at
the capitol, at which time a general
discussion will ibe held of the rules
and reguglations governing the oper
ation of such businesses, according
to an announcement at the office of
the secretary of state.
The commission will not grant
licenses to firms operating with
black-boards, or firms that conduct
a cotton future business-in the same
office, it is stated.
Three forms of licenses are being
issued dealers in real estate bonds,
officials state. The first applies to
such firms as conduct a general bond
business; the second to dealers in
bonds exclusively, and the third to
dealers with limited licenses.
DR. AND IBS. !>■ IB
mifICJKM
Were Returning To Americus
From Buena Vista —Reached
Home Before Big Rain
Dr. Carl W. Minor, who with Mrs.
Minor has been visiting their daugh
ter, Mrs. Allen Burkhalter in Roan
oke, Ala., returned Tuesday by auto
mobile to their home here accompa
nied by Mrs. Burkhalter and baby.
Dr. Minor stated today that the
party .encountered a terrific sand
storm just out of Buena Vista late
yesterday afternoon during which
Mrs. Burkhatier, who was driving the
car, was compelled to stop the auto
mobile in the road and wait for the
passage of the sand before she could
see the stretch of roadway.
Luckily, said Dr. Minor, they
reached the Sam McGarrah be
fore the deluge of rain descended
i upon them, and came on to Ameri
cus, reaching here just a few min
utes before the torrential rain which
fell about 7 o’clock.
SCHWAB ABANDONS RUHR
TRIP AND COMES HOME
PARIS, March 7. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) —Charles M. Schwab
has been compelled by the state of
j his health to abandon his trip to
I RuhY and unoccupied Germany, and
will sail for his home on the Aqui
tania from Cherbourg Saturday.
100,000 GOVEHNENT
JOBSDECLAREDMT
Tabulation Made At Request Os
Handing—This In Last Two
Years
WASHINGTON, March 7—During
the two years of the Harding ad
ministration almost 100,000 employes
have been separated from the gov
ernment© service, according to a tab
ulation made at the direction of
President Harding, given out at the
White House.
BAPTIST MBIEK HUE
TO MEET IT PLAINS
A quarterly meeting of the exe
cutive committee of the Workers’
Council of the Friendship Baptist as
sociation will be held at Plains next
Tuesday, March 13.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all representative workers from Sun
day schools, B. Y. P. U.’s and W.
M. societies of all churches within
the bounds of the association to at
tend this meeting, this invitation is
made on behalf of the council by
Rev. J. E. O’Quinn, pastor of Plains,
who is also secretary of the execu
tive committee. Entertainment will
[be provided for by the local church.
This is to be a most important meet
ing, and it is urged that workers
from the various departments be
present, as at this time plans will
be perfected for the summer en
campment of the association.
ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITiES
HEAVY DURNG FEBRUARY
ATLANTA, March 7.—A heavy in
crease in the activities of the prohi
bition enforcement authorities m
Georgia during the month of h ebi u
arv was indicated in the report ot
Fred D. Dismuke, director, made
public -today.
The wiik for the month was sum
marized as follows;
Number distilleries
destroyed 261
Whiskey destroy
ed (gals) 2,395 998
Beer destroyed .
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Autos seized - J
Value property
seized-destroyed ..$68,280
No. Prosecutions.. 12» 1
No. Arrests .... , .f.
According to Mr. Dismuke, Ins
force numbered four less than in Feb
ruarv a year ago and, in addition,
a number of his deputies were com
rjellcd to spend considerable time m
the federal courts at Atlanta am
Savannahj
CHIIM inilE
NOW TH W 55
Budget For Year Adopted—
ssoo Added Income Secured
By New Officers
The finance committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, T. C. Till
j man, chairman and treasurer, C. J.
Clark and W. A. Joyner, were in
session with the president and secre
tary Tuesday afternoon for the pur
pose of fixing a budget for the op
eration of the Chamber of Commerce
l during the present year. This bud
get as adopted by the finance com
mittee was accepted by the president
and secretary, the president stating
that the financial affairs of the
chamber this yea r will be kept with
in the budget so that the Chamber
of Commerce at the end of its fiscal
year will emerge out of debt, jusf
as it was received by the new offi
cers.
The total income of the .Chamber
of Commerce at present was found
to be $4,355, and the total budget
as submitted for the year contem
plates an expenditure of $3,600, di
vided as follows:
Per Month
Salary of Secretary . ..$150.00
Salary Stenographer .... 60.00
Rent 45.00
Telephone & Telegraph 10.00
Printing ; 10.00.
Incidentals 25.00
Fixed Monthly Expense $300.00
The budget covers only the bear
est necessary expenses, all other
items being eleminated until the in
come of the chamber will warrant
additional expense, the president
stated.
“There are many men—some of
them among the leading merchants,
who have not yet joined the cham
ber this year,” Secretary Everett
stated. “These we hope to induce to
come in. We neAff their help,--per
sonal and financial.”
The secretary was instiructed to
prepare statistical and othe r infor
mation setting forth fact and fig*
ures regarding Americus and Sumter
county, both as to their possibilities
as an agricultural and potential in
dustrial section. This pamphlet will
be used in answering the many in
quiries coming into the Office of
the chamber.
The committee appointed and be
ing notified today to assemble this
information is Joe M. Bryan, chair
man; W. M. Andrews, A. C. Crock
ett, E. B. Everett, C. C. Hawkins,
Geo. O. Marshall, Cobb Milner, W.
V. B. Mulligan and G. C. Webb. •
“The president is appointing no
standing committees this year, the
ce.clary announced. "Each com
mittee appointed will be to per
form a specific task. When its work
is completed, the committee will be
dismissed.
“Preparations are now under way
for the first membership dinner of the
chamber, whihe will be held in the
Windsor hotel some , evening very
soon,” Mr. Everett said. “We are
planning to hold these membership
meetings every month or every two
months. At these meetings the en
tire membership will be expected and
the affairs and plans of the chamber
will be discussed and suggestions
made. This is to be a feature of
the 1923 work of the president and
directors.
“More than SSOO additional in
come has been received by the new
officers for this year, Mr. Everett
concluded, “and we are off with a
good start.
“We are auditing all freight bills
for members free this year, the
traffic bureau being a part Os our
work.”
BANDITS CAUGHT AND
MONEY IS RECOVERED
CARTERSVILLE, March 7.—Two !
of the three bandits who held up the
Bank of Fairmount, Ga., about noon |
yesterday and made off with $1,500 |
in cash were captured in a swamp
near Fairmount yesterday afternoon |
and the money recovered. The men
wore regulation army uniforms. A
third man with the automobile In
which the robbers escaped has not
been apprehended.
The robbers entered the bank at a
time when Miss May Irwin, cashier,
was the only person in the building,
according to reports received here.
After obtaining the money the ban
dits entered their automobile and
dashed for the nearby hills. Officers
from Cartersville started in pursuit
as soon as Miss Irwin gave the alarm.
Fairmount is in Gordon county,
twenty miles from Cartersville,
WEATHER
For Georgia Fai r tonight and
Thursday; colder tonight; frost to
the coast.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
STM HITS BARNS 8G
CLEGG ME KILLING
SIS (IDLES ANB HORSE
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No Loss Os Human Life Report
ed in News Dispatches
Os Today
COMMUNICATIONS HELD UP
Storm Does Considerable Dam
age Around Maccn and in
Parts Os Alabama
ALBANY, March 7.—Repdfts of
the windstorm that did considerable
damage in Lee county has reached
here. The stockade on the Clegg
place in the eastern part of that
county, owned by the S. B. Brown
company of this city, was destroyed
and five mules and one horse killed
and two mules injured.
No uhman loss of life or injury is
reported.
DAMAGE TO WIRE
SERVICE REPORTED.
ATLANTA, March [J. — Telephone
and telegraph communication in At
lanta and from this city to nearby
points is reported nearly normal this
morning with repairs to scores of
wire breaks, resulting from the wind
storm which swept the vicinity dur
ing the night when trees and tele
phone polesj were scattered about
by the wind which reached a velocity
of 42 miles an hour, putting out of
commission 350 telephones.
LORANE DEPOT
BLOWN AWAY.
MACON, March 7—A severe wind
storm that hit Lorane, eight miles ‘
north of Macon late last evening, *
seriously damaged four buildings
and two automobiles, uprooted trees
and did other damage. No one was
■ reported injured.
' The Centwrt -rtf Georgia
i depot was taken from its founda
| tion and blown a distance of 100
1 yards. A tin roof on the store of
N. A. Powers’ was blown off and
a barn on the Callaway estate was
crushed. A garage was blown away
.without damaging an automobile
and a man who was seated in it.
Macon and most of Bibb county
experienced a high wind, limbs of
I trees being torn away and other
shrubbery uprooted. The wind was
[ followed by a heavy rainfall.
Along the Atlanta and West Point
l r ailroad near Opelika, Ala., there was
I further heavy damage from the
[storm, it was reported. Wires were
I down along the state line between
[ Georgia and Alabama and informa
tion was difficult to obtain.
At Summervillp, Ga., several small
buildings were demolished, according
to telephone information received by
the Associated Press. ’The damage
was estimated at several thousand
dollars. There wer no casulaties.
Summerville is in the extreme north
eastern section of the state.
Locally, the Western Union Tele
graph company reported its service
demoralized in all directions except
ito the north. The Postal Telegraph
I company suffered even worse and
■ reported that trees had fallen across
I its wires just out of Macon, com-
I pletely tying up the service. How-
: ever linemen were rushed out to lo
[ cate the trouble and repairs were
i expected to be made in a few hours,
The Southern Bell Telephone com
pany reported several circuits out of
order.
Railroad wires were in bad shape
for a time, but linemen sent out from
stations near the scenes of trouble
quickly made temporary repairs.
MBOHSHINERSCONFKS
KULIK ™DEPUTIES
Lead Officers To Swamp Where
Bodies Are Found, Covered
By Carcass of Cow
FRANKLIN, La., March 7.—The
[bodies of Wesleyan Crain and W’iley
Pierce, deputy sheriffs who were
slain Saturday by moonshiners, were
found early today buried in mud into
which they had been pressed and
covered with the carcass of a dead
cow.
The bodies were found about a
quarter of a mile from the destroy
ed moonshine still in the swamps
about 8 miles from here, the slayers
John Murphy and John Rester, moon
shiners, confessed and led the offi- ;
cers to the burial spot, it was an
nounced by District Judge Clark.
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