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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 57
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Constable Was One Os Men
Indicted For Murder Os
Non Unionists
KILLED AT MIDNIGHT
Victim Lived Only Short Time
After Fate! Shot Was
Fired
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., March
9.—Constable John Kelley, of Zeig
ler, nea r here, and one of the men
under indictment in connection with
the Herrin Mine killings, was shot
and killed shortly before last mid
night by Dan Davis, a coal miner.
The men are said to have quarrel
ed over an alleged $5 debt Davis
is said to have owed the constable
and over politics.
Kelley had three notches on his
gun and each nocth is alleged to have
represented a man he had killed in
ednnection with the Dutjch as a
peace officer.
At present he was being tried in
the Circuit court at Benton on a
murder charge.
The constable was shot once, dy
ing almost instantly. Kelly vj[as
among those indicted in connection
with the murder of John Shoemaker,
a civil engineer, and Assistant Super
intendent Lester of the Strip mine
where the Herrin rioting occurred
last June.
FOBS SETTEES Ml
LINCOLNJB DEBTS
fhcug'i Not Required Os Him
Under Terms Os Purchase At
Bankrupt Sale
DETROIT, March 9—All creditors
of the Lincoln Moto r Car Co., which
was purchased last year by Henry
Ford at a receiver’s sale, have been
reimbursed in full by Ford it has
been officially announced.
Ford took this step it was an
nounced, despite the fact he was not
required to do so under the terms
of his purchase.
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HEARINGS POSTPONED
Two Foreigners Convicted Os
Murdering Paymaster And
Guard At Dedham
DEDHAM. Mass., March 9.—The
hearing of motions for a new trial
in the case of Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, convicted of
killing a postmaster and guard three
years ago, was postponed today un
til next Friday, at the request of
counsel for the defense.
CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING
IS DISCUSSED AT CORDELE
CORDELE, March 9.—The farm
ers of Crisp county and the business
men of Cordele marked their first
co-operative effort for a still larger
dairying interest in this section at a
dinne r at the Suwanee hotel. The
program was a string of live address
es touching sensible development of
dairying, hog raising and poultry de
velopment. o-operative marketing
was a lively topic.
The active campaigning is under
charge of the board of trade of
which J. M. Hunt, president of the
Citizens Bank and the Cordele
Creamery and Cold Storage company,
is head; The meeting developed the
fact that five creamery centers in
South Georgia are now making an
annual output of a million dollars’
worth of butter. It also developed
a dairyman, Henry Fenn, of Dooly
county, with a record of twenty dol
lars per cow in the month of Janu
ary this year in cream alone. His
herd is a home development through
the process of inbreeding.
Men from all sections of the coun
tv were present and had part in the
meeting. It was a most promising
start of the intensive campaign for
the cow, hog and hen in !!)-•>.
SENATOR GEORGE TO
SPEAK AT SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, March 9. United
States Senator Walter F. George has
accepted an invitation to speak at
the Savannah Board of Trade met
ing March 16.
Salt water will set all shades of
pink. A strong salt solution will set
dark blue, gray or black.
FOREIGN MOTS
USING WEEVIL PEST IN
FIGHT FOR MARKETS
Business Men Must Act Quickly
To Remove Crop Menace,
Dr. Soule Declares
DELAY MAY PROVE FATAL
British Out To Switch Cotton
Center From South Through
Propaganda, Educator Says
NEW YORK, March 9.—America’s
cotton crop not only is being ruined
by the boll weevil but the pest is be
ing used by foreign competitors‘as
a weapon against the country’s su
premacy in the industry, Dr. Andrew
Soule, president of the Georgia State
College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts, declared in a statement last
night. He warned that unless the
business men of the nation took ac
tion to remove the menace of crop
destruction, it would be too late to
relieve the threatening situation.
Dr. Soule, one of the leading agri
cultural experts of the South, as
serted that Georgia, which ranks next
to Texas in cotton production, has a
potential yearly output of $300,000,-
000 worth of cotton, but the last
three years this has been reduced
to $150,000,000 a year. Failure to
control the ravages of the boll wee
vil, he said, was responsible.
“To us it has been a mystery why
big business men, who must see that
this is a national problem, have made
rather apathetic efforts in the face
of such .big losses,” Dr. Soule said.
“If $150,000,000 were lost in one
year by any other industry-in one
state there would be a tendency to
rush to the rescue of the producers
hit so hard. Dr. Soule recently re
turned from Brazil where he attend
ed the World Cotton conference and
had had ample opportunity, he as
serted ‘‘to note the British method of
winning the planters there.
“They are out to switch the cotton
center of the world from America,
he declared. “A fair example of this
propaganda was found in an address
by the secretary- of the British Spin
ners association, who said in effect.
“The bankers, business men and
farmers of America are now endeav
oring to get the country to restrict
the output of cotton and raise the
price to a prohibitive degree. Brazil
I certainly should undertake to culti
: vate cotton because the boll weevil
has had the effect of removing the
United States as a future factor in
i the world cotton trade.”
Brazil has a million square- miles
of tillable soil now ready for cotton
raising and an abundant labor supply
that could be quickly trained, Di.
Soule said.
“And,” he concluded, “there is a
signal warning in this experience of
mine. The boll weevil not only is
eating up ou r crops but is being used
outside the country as a weapon
against us. Our only salvation is to
the boll weevil.
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HHK POLICM
Two Officers Had Halted Un
identified Man For Ques
tioning Him
MEMPHIS, March 9—W. L. Craw
ford and E. W. Strickland, police
men, were shot and seriously wound
ed here tins morning by an unidenti
fied man who opened fire on the
two officers when they halted him
for questioning. The shooting oc
curred in a South Side residence and
industrial district.
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Prchi Officers Rccna Up Twice
As Many Men As Women
In Raid
RICHMOND, .Va., March 9.—A
city-wide round-up of bootleggers by
federal prohibition enforcement of
ficers resulted in the -arrest of more
than 20 persons at noon today, and
variants for as many more were in
the hands of agents.
One-third of those arrested are
women.
RICHLAND YOUTH DIES
RICHLAND, March 9. James
Coffin, 7, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. C.
Coffin, passed away at their home
Wednesday night at 8:45 o'clock. The
child had suffered a severe attack of
dengue fever last fall, and since that
time his heart has been badly af
fected
THE TIMES- RECORDER
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FROM im HOG SALES
County Agent Marshall Conducts
Sales At Leslie And Ameri
cus This Week
County Agent George O. Marshall,
with the assistance of D. F. Whelc’nel,
field agent in marketing of the State
Bureau of Markets, conducted two
important hog sales in the county
Wednesday and Thursday.
At Leslie Wednesday two carloads
of hogs were disposed of at 7.26 for
tops and graded as follows:
81 Ist grade, 15,781 pounds.
2 2nd grades, 7,405 pounds.
61 3rd grades, 7,440 pounds.
14 roughs, 3,550 pounds.
The total of the hogs sold at Les
lie was around 35,000 pounds. Thirty
five farmers participated and were
beneficiaries in the sale.
The second sale was conducted at
Americus Thursday when two car
loads of hogs were sold and shipped
to the markets. These brought 7.20
for tops and graded as follows:
78 Ist grades, 17,085 pounds.
60 2nd grades, 8,915 pounds.
16 3rd grades, 1,865 pounds. J
12 roughs, 2,200 pounds. '
The total of hogs sold at the Amer-'
icus pens was around 30,000 pounds.
Twenty-five farmers were the bene
ficiaries of this sale. Total sales at
Leslie and Americus netted partici- •
pating farmers around $5,000.
RECORD SALE IN MITCHELL
CAMILLA, March 9.—One of the
largest sales of livestock in this sec
tion has just been held by W. W.
Webb, field agent of the bureau of
markets of the state department of
agriculture, acting in conjunction
with W. E. Hughes, secretary of the
local marketing association. About 6
carloads of hogs were disposed of at
good prices. The hogs were brought
in by the farmers of the surround
ing country.
SALES IN EMANUEL
ADRIAN, March 9.—Farmers from
the surrounding country were here
today for the community sale of
hogs, conducted by W. W. Webb, of
the state bureau of markets and M.
E. Crow, county agent. About three j
carloads were disposed of. The farm
ers were enthusiastic over the aid j
given them by the state’s agents.
3 CARLOADS AT BROOKER
BROOKER, March 9.—One of the .
largest sales of livestock in this sec
tion was conducted here Thursday
when three carloads of cattle and
five cars of hogs were disposed of at
good prices. The sale was conducted
for the farmers by W. W. Webb,
agent for the state bureau of mar
kets, and J. W. .White, secretary of
the local marketing association.
GETS TWO YEARS FOR
POSTOFFICE BREAKING
MACON, March 9.—Andrew Jones
pleaded guilty this morning to a
charge of breaking into the post
office at Pickert. and. was sentenced
by Judge Barrett to serve two years
in the federal penitentiary,
AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNNOON, MARCH 9, 192.3
Dave Onßraley
We read with some sobriety
The columns on society,
And from them we don’t learn a
single thing;
We read about the parlor tricks
Used in all forms of politics
By politiicans that are out for
gain.
We read of some celebrity
Who sings with ease in every key,
And still to us this doesn’t mean a
rip
They write of things, around the
• world,
Our brain is surely bound to whirl,
We fear it isn’t equal to the trip.
The sporting news is various,
The comics multifarious
And as for us we do not like the
trash
But, we scan the papers daily
For.the poems by Berton Braley.
And all the other news can go to
smash.
—D. C. BURKHALTER.
Americus, Ga.
mmH debt
comm com
1 Not Known When Document Will
Be Submitted For British
Signatures
WASHINGTON, March 9. The
American debt funding commission
has completed its formal draft of
debenture which embodies the terms
of debt funding settlement recently
negotiated with Great Britain.
No announcement was made, how
ever, when the contract would be
submitted to British representatives
for signature of their government.
COL G. R. ELLIS REPORTED
SOME BETTER TODAY
His friends will be delighted to
know that reports from his bedside
at noon today give the condtion of
Col. G. R. Ellis as being much bet
ter. He has been confined to his bed
for nearly a week, was taken at his
breakfast table last Saturday morn
ing, and while his improvement has
been slow, yet it is gratifying he is
some better.
It is believed that with the com
ing of spring he will rapidly im
prove, so much as to be back at his
desk before a great while.
ARMOUR-MORRIS MERGER
COMES WITHIN A WEEK
CHICAGO, March 9.—The merger
of Armour & Company and Morris
& Company will be consummated
within a week, it was learned from
an authoritative source. The valu
ation of Armour & Company's stock
which is to be exchanged as part of
purchase price, will be fixed by ar
bitration, it was made known.
Stiffen your fine muslins, organ
dies or dainty laces by dipping them
'in skimmed milk.
INVEST YOUR MONEY
ffl HOI CONCERNS
Bankers Deplore “Easy Marks”
Among Georgians Many Are
“Stung” Annually
ATLANTA, March 9.—Current
Georgia diseussion of investments in
domestic and foreign stocks reminds
an Atlanta banker that more than a
few Georgia Cracker investors over
look valuable purchases in the se
curities to be found at home. Not
only does money in millions go out
side the state for good stocks and
bonds, but the wildcat oil and min
ing companies find Georgia one of
the ristest states in the union for
their field of operation. Rich in
manufactures and farm wealth, Geor
gia also produces every year a
bumper crop of suckers greedy for
fake bait.
The explanation is, of course,
bankers here declare, the mania to
get rich quick. Instead of asking
their bankers to recommend sound
investments that yield a reasonable
return, hundreds of men and women
cheerfully and expectantly mail th
hard-earned savings to men they nev
er heard of before. They receive in
return certificates w'orth less than
German marks.
There is another class that neith
er succumbs to the invitation to buy
worthless oil stocks bn the install
ment plan no r is willing to go into
debt for sound holdings in corpora
tions whose managers are their neigh
bors, those whose ability and integ
rity they can testify. This group of
Georgians spends all of a fairly good
income in necessities and luxuries
without thought of accumlating any
thing for the non-productive days.
Some are too fearful of debt even
when the obligation means an in
centive for saving and valuable of
property when the last payment is
made.
HARDWICK TO SUGGEST
SOME DRASTIC CHANGES
ATLANTA, March 9. —Governor
Hardwick says he excepts to go
Governor-elect Clifford Walker one
better on the proposition to amend
the constitution that the legislature
shall meet, organize and inaugurate
the state officers in January instead
of June, nearly a year after the elec
tion..
“I am going to make the recom
mendation to the legislature, said
the governor, “that the time of meet
ing of the legislature be changed to
January, the governor and other of
ficials be inaugurated at that time,
the full session of the legislature
be held in January. Furthermore,
I am going to recommend that the
legislature meet only onep every two
years. There is no sense in the
world in having them meet twice a
year in the year following elections,
nor is there ened that the meeting
.be held annually. I shall recommend
a change so that the meetings be
held bi-ennially in January. At that
time of year there are less agricul
tural operations going on in the
state, as a matter of fact, and busi
ness can better have the session at
that time.” _
HIDE USE OF RADIO
FDR CARRYING WE
NEWS TO FARM HONES
Greaest Interest Shown In Grain,
Live Stock And Produce
Reports
FURTHER DEVELOP SERVICE
Department Os Agriculture Prac
tically Covers Country With
Radio—Farmers Pleased
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Farm
ers are making use of the radio in ob
taining market reports. Nation-wide,
practical use of these reports sent
broadcast by the United States De
partment of Agriculture is indicated
in a survey just completed. Nearly
50 per cent of the hundreds of re
turns to an inquiry sent out by radio
were from farmers who had radio re
ceiving equipment. The remainder
of the returns were from grain deal
ers, mills, elevators, banks telephone
companies, cooperative organizations,
farm bureaus, and other agencies
which disseminate the reports among
large groups of farmers.
Greatest interest was shown in the
grain market reports, which inform
farmers of wheat, corn and oats
prices .at the leading grain markets.
Next in importance came the live
stock reports of prices and move
ments at the principal livestock mar
kets of the country. The weather
reports came next, followed by re
ports’ on poultry products, fruits and
vegetables, dairy products, hay, cot
ton, and other farm crops.
Radio had developed more rapidly
in the Midclle West in the corn, wheat
and livestock growing regions than in
other farm sections, the survey
shows. Missouri, Illinois, and lowa
lead in number of responses. Many
farmers in this territory own radio
equipment and praise the practical
value of the service. In other sec
tions farmers congregate at central
points to get the radio reports, but an
increasing disposition toward instal
lation of sets for private use is in
dicated.
This is the first survey made by the
department to determine how widely
its radio market reports are being
received and used By farmers and
affords much valuable information
for developing the service to the
maximum of efficiency. It has been
known in a general way that the ser
vice has been of value to producers
and other agricultural interests in the
marketing of crops and to consumers
through the regulating of market
supplies, but definite data were not
available until developed by the pres
ent survey.
The department practically covers
the country with its radio market
news and farmers everywhere are us
ing the service to aid them in con
ducting the business end of their in
dustry. In the replies numerous far
■...c:.' gave instances of specific sav
ings resulting from use of the infor
mation, one farmer declaring that he
regarded radio as a "direct gift from
God.” Numerous general stores and
banks in small towns say that estab
lishment of their places of business
as a central point for receiving the
reports and resulted in tremenddusly
increased business in many direc
tions. The service has had far-reach
ing results other than removing the
isolation which surrounds rural dwell
ers by reason of their location from
centers of activity, and the bringing
of vital market data to farmers with
almost immeasurable speed.
The survey shows there are now
few places in rural districts where
people congregate even in small
groups that are without the benefits
of r adio. Agricultural leaders see in
this the development of a true com
munity spirit which forms a large
part of the base of agricultural pros
perity. The Department of Agricul
ture is much gratified at the popular
ity and practical value of the radio
market news and is now making
plans fo r the further development
and utilization of the service.
GOVERNOR GIVES PAROLE
TO MACON EX-iKtASUREK
MACON, March 9. —An order was
signed yesterday by Governor Thos.
W. Hardwick paroling A. H. Stew-
I art, forme r treasurer of the City of
! Macon, now serving a term of two
to four years on the Decatur county
chaingang for embezzlement of $9,-
000 of the city’s funds.
Stewart has served more than a
year of the term, and -reports are
that h is health is failing. Mrs. Stew
art has been active in securing sig
natures to a petition for executive
eelemency.
The $9,000 shortage Stewart caus
ed the city has been repaid by the
bonding company.
Plans of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart
could not be learned yesterday. Mrs.
Stewart is said to be in Bainbridge
awaiting the release of he r husband.
WEATHER ?
For Georgia Fair and slightly
warmer tonight; Saturday increasing
cloudiness and warmer.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ALL OF POSSE BUT 3
DUE OP iffl HDHT |
WITHOUT SINGLE CLUE j
County Authorities Sending Out J
Descriptions Os Fugitive
Today
SHOOTS PROHI OFFICERS
Agent Monroe, Os Tifton, Who
Was Wounded. Believed
Will Recover
BLACKSHEAR, March 9.—Posse- I
men, who renewed their search for
S. I. Sharpe, alleged moorishiner,
wanted for slaying County Officer }
Ivy Brooks, at daylight had failed at |
noon to find a single clue to his
whereabouts and all but three of the
searchers had given up the hunt.
The county authorities this morn
ing began sending out descriptions of
the fugitive and a reward is offered,
for his capture. ,
POSSE ENDED SEARCH
AT MIDNIGHT.
BLACKSHEAR, March 9. The
posse searching the swamps of ’
Pierce county to pick up the trail of
S. I. Sharpe, who yesterday slew
Ivy C. Brooks, county policeman, and
escaped, gave up the hunt about
midnight last night and returned to
Blackshear. The search will be tak
en up again in the morning.
It was reported that track dogs
were useless in the swamps last
night, and that the chase was becom
ing blind.
Brooks was shot and killed by
Sharp, a farmer, at the home of the
latter midway between Bristol and
Offerman, ten miles from Blackshear. g
State Prohibition Officer J. A. Mon
roe, of Tifton, who accompanied
Brooks, was shot twice in the Ing;
Deputy Sheriff William T. Tuten,
of the party, was not wounded.
The officers, according to tficir
report, had gone to the locality of
Sharpe’s farm on a search for a still
he was alleged to have in operation.
The party divided as they approach
ed the place. Deputy Tuten going
in one direction and Brooks and
Monroe in another, toward Sharpe’s
residence.
As they came near the house, two
shots were fired from within the
building. Monroe said these were
shots of warning to two sons of
Sharpe, operating the still, to leave.
The agent said the boys iniemdiate
ly were seen hurrying from an old
house to the residence.
When the two officers came to
within fifty yards of Sharpe’s house,
the farmer appeared, calling to them,
asking if they had a warrant for his
arrest. They replied they did.
Sharpe then motioned to them to
come on to the house, saying “ev
erything is all right.” *
A young woman, Sharpe’s daugh
ter, called that her father would
not resist arrest. Monroe instruct
ed him to lay his rifle down. Instead
of so doing, Sharpe stapped behind
a smokehouse and fired. The first
shot hit the ground and split, one
portion striking Monroe in the calf
of the leg and the other entering
his thigh. The two officers return
ed the fire, and Sharpe , van into
his house. 4 *
Brooks then moved swiftly to close
from the rear, and Monroe moved
toward the front of the house. At
this juncture. Monroe said, the
daughte r called out, ‘‘Olin is coming
round the house.” Monroe said the
Woman thought Brooks was Sheriff
Olin P. Robinson. Thus apprised
Sharpe came to meet the officer,
barricaded himself behind a wagon,
and shot on sight. Brooks fell mor
tally wounded, the bullet passing
through his body.
Going to the assistance of his com
panion, Monroe examined the wound.
He said eh knew Brooks was dying.
Then he left the body and went in
search of Deputy Tuten, who was
coming toward the house after hear- '
ing the shots. The two remaining
officers started to Blackshear for
help. Deputy Tuten got in touch
with Ware county authorities, who
were quickly on their way to the
scene of the homicide. Monroe was
taken to a local physician for treat
ment of his wounds, which are not
dangerous. The body of Brooks was
late r prepared for burial.
PROHI VIOLATORS FOUND
GUILTY IN CRISP COURT
CORDELE. March 9.—-One week
of court resulted in the conviction of
two negroes and a white man for vio
lations of the prohibition laws. One
of these cases was that of an old
negro who argued that this was his
only medicine. He got away with |
payment of court costs.
Two stills of the lard can variety
were broken up on the plantation
of Russell McKinney this week by
Deputy Sheriffs Cofer and Kimsey.
All this is a record for sober young
Crisp county. . .. ,
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