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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Strict middling, 30 cents.
N. Y. Futures May July Oct.
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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 59
EIGHT GERMANS KILLED IN FRENCH CLASH
PREVENTED YIELD O
VALUED AT BILLIONS
IN IMPORTANT CROPS
Corn Crop Is Chief Sufferer;
Next Is Cotton; Then Foil
lows Wheat
A POTENTIAL PRODUCTION
What Is Most Needed—Prices
Would Have Been
Smashed
WASHINGTON, March 12.—Pre
vented production aggregated a totali
average valine of $4,230,000,000 I
yearly in elevent of the country’s |
important crops during the ten j
years, 1909 to 1921, the Department
of Agriculture estimates. Weather, |
plant diseases, defective seed and in- '
sect and animal pests account for |
this prevented production.
The corn crop is the chief suffer- I
er,its annual average prevented pro- I
duction being 1,568,879,000 bushels j
which at the average December 1 |
farm prices makes its value $1,256,- i
282,00.
Next in order is the cotton crop
whose prevented production averaged
8,418 bales valued at $882,585,-
000 including seed.
Wheat follows with an annual av
erage damage of 448,762,000 bushels
valued at $599,372,000.
The average prevented production
and value of other crops are estimat
ed as fallows:
Oats, 596,493,000 bushels and val
ue $280,277,000; barley, 108.063,000
bushels valued at $81,318,000; flax
seed 11,777,000 bushels valued at
$26,494,000; rice 11,267,000 bushels
valued at potatoes 210,-
921,000 bushels valued at $201,849,-
000; apples 163,456,000 bushels val
ued at $186,946,000; hay 34,025,000 [
tons, valued at $576,401,000, and to
bacco 455,729,000 pounds valued at
$80,774,000.
The absolute quantities of crop
production prevented by the many
uncertain causes do not indicate the
relative severity of the damage to
the potential crop. From thip point
of view the one of these 11 crops
that suffers the greatest relative dam
age is the apple crop, with a yearly
damage that averages 47.4 pe r cent
of a potential crop. That is to say
only about one-half of the of the po
tential crop of apples on the average,
is actually produced.
The potential flaxseed crop is dam
aged, on the average extent of 45
per cent, or nearly as much as the ■
apple crop, and the potential cotton ;
crop 40.6 per cent, although in 1921*, ;
'the damage was as high.as 57.4 per j
cent . In relative damage as well I
as actual the rice crop is at the bot- |
tom of the list with 2(5.8 per cent, or I
only one-quarter of the potential pro
duction.
Flaxseed leads all these crops in
future uncertainty ot production,
with a range between high and low
damage to the potential crop as great
as 51.8 per cent of that crop. Follow
ing in orde r of uncertainty come ap
ples with a range of 35.7_ per cent,
cotton with a range of 30.5 per cent,
barley with 30.1 per cent, hay with
22.8 per cent, oats with 21.1 per cent,
corn with 21 per cent, potatoes with
19.2 per cent wheat and rice each
with 17.3 per cent, and tobacco far
below with 9.8 pe r cent. As meas
ures of the uncertainty of the future
crop, a range of damage equaling
41.8 per cent with the flaxseed crop
at the highest extreme, and 9.8
per cent of the tobacco at
at the lowest. These are ranges for
United States averages. Ranges are
greater in State averages and in in
dividual farm experience.
“If the farmers could harvest a
potential production,” says the de
partment of agriculture, - they could
greatly reduce the acreage now de
voted to these 11 crops. The great
est reduction would be one-half xor
flaxseed, apples, and cotton, taking
the average of the last two years for
cotton. The reduction would be one
third for corn, wheat oats, barley,
'potatoes, and tobacco, and for two
’crops—rice and hay—the reduction
would be one-quarter.
“Had the potential production been
realized on the actual acreage of
crons, prices would have oeen smash
ed. However, it wul not do to say
that the farmer has lost :..i income
equivalent to the value of the pic
vented production based on the pine
of the harvest production fhc lac.
is that the cost of the effmts to pro
duce that portion of the P o^
crop which failed is a part of th
cost of producing that portion :) ‘ the
cron which succeeded and the econo
mic P necessity is that thei farmer shal
receive the equivalent of this abor
five cost in the price of the crop ac
tually produced.”
ROCHELLE HOG SALE
POCHELLE, Mach 12.—Two cars
of hogs -were sold here through the
Wilcox County Co-operative Sales
association last week. They were
bought by Pless & Miller, of Cordele.
The price average was < .22 cents.
This is a total of six cars shipped
from this poit this season the four
other cars being shipped by a local
stock dealer. The next co-operative
gale will be May 2.
IN M IND BfflLll
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PARADE IT HOMIE
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With Permission Os Majority Os
Council, Klan Will Stage
Demonstration
COVINGTON OBJECTS
Ceremony in Open Air—Several
Candidates Are To Be
Initiated
MOULTRIE, March 12.—Despite
the opposition of Mayor W. A. Cov
ington, but yvith the permission of
a majority of the city council it
is announced that probably 1,000
member of the Ku Klux Klan will
parade in masks and other regalia
here tonight.
It is expected that the imperial of
ficer from Atlanta will be present
and members of the klan from a
wide territory surrounding Moultrie
will participate in the exercises which
will include an open air ceremonial
at which a large number of candi
dates will be initiated.
ffIDLEBMWS
HILF HILLIDN SUIT |
States He And Plaintiff Were
Engaged—Answers Questions
By Numbers Only
ATLANTA, March 12.—Asa G.
Candler filed in the United States
district court his answer to the half |
million dollar breach of promise suit I
recently brought against him here by j
Mrs. Onezima. de Bouchelle.
In his answer, Mr. Candler states
he became engaged to Mrs. de Bou
chelle in January last year; tha- im
mediately thereafter Mrs. De Bou
chelle that “they go at once
and be married.” This answer states
Mr. Candler declined to do.
Most of Mr. Candler’s answer con
fines itself to either an admission or
denial of specific paragraphs by num
ber only.
ILECMMLLS
SELF AT RICHLAND
Prominent Farmer-Financier Is
Victim Os Own Weapon—
Temporarily Insane
RICHLAND, March 12.—Alec
Ponder, a prominent farmer of Stew
art county, killed himself by shooting
at his home near Richland, early to
day. He had been in ill health during
some time past, and this condition is
believed to have precipitated the sui
cide. He lived only an hour after
firing the fatal shot and made no
statement.
Ponder, who was about 45 years
of age and had large interest, owning
I considerable bank stock in addition
to agricultural lands, and he is said
! to have worried recently because of .
disordered fifinances. Ke was a native
of Stewart county and a member of ,
one of the oldest and most prominent
families living at Richland.
Mrs. Ponder entered her husband’s
loom a few minutes after the shot |
was fired, and he told her that he I
didn’t know the pistol would “go I
off.” The bullet penetrated his he»'“. I
Physicians who examined the body
ascribed lender’s act to
insanitd.
Besides his wife, Ponder is sur
| vived by a son, and a daughter,!
I Miss Carrie Frances Ponder, of Rich
lland and a son, Ephie Ponder, 18. who
‘is working in Missisippi, both of
I whom have been notified of their
father’s death.
Funeral exercises over the body
I will be held Tuesday at Richland, and
interment will be in the cemetery at
that place.
‘ MONTEZUMA YOUTHS
SCARE THIEVES AWAY
MONTEZUMA,,Iferch 12.—Sur
prised in the act of getting out of
town with a Stolqp bale of cotton,
mule and wagon, an unidentified man
abandoned both cotton and wagon
and has not as yet been located.
Several young men returning from
a party about 12 o’clock Friday night
met the team and thinking it was un
usual for cotton to be leaving town
at that time of night, became sus
picious when the man driving the
wagon seemed to avoid the light of
the car. They drove down town ami
notified the police who at once went
in pursuit, but the man had taken
alarm and they found the wagon
abandoned, and the mule grazing by
the side of the road. The mule had
been taken from the sales stale of
H. A. Dove r and the cotton belonging
to Miss Nellie Whiteside I taken from
Dover’s Warehouse, and the wagon
taken from a blacksmith shop in Ogle
thorpe, „ _ L
THE TIMES- RECORDER
SOUTHERN BNFTISTS
SHOWING BIG GAINS
Statistical Report Os Secretary
Is Made, Showing Activities
Since 1919
NASHVILLE, Tenn.,. March 12.
Since the 75 million campaign was
launched in Atlanta in 1919, 2,723
new Baptist churches have been
built, the net gain in membership of
Baptist church has been 480,208;
3,536 new Sunday schools have been
organized and the Sunday school en
rollment has increased 485,626, a
report to be submitted at the South
ern Haptist convention in Kansis City
in May by Dr. E. P. Alldredge, sta
tistical secretary, is said to show.
That the number of Southern Bap
tist ministers has increased 881, the
annual baptismal average has beer
118,609, and that there has been a
total of 770,568 baptisms are other
things the report is expected to show
The number of Baptist Young Peo
ple’s unions has increased 7,320 and
these organizations have also »egis
tered a corresponding gain of 222,-
709, it is reported. The number of
Baptist Women’s Missionary unions
annual offerings to missions and be
nevolences have grown $5,190,265,1
is said to have increased 5,694. |
The report also shows, it is stated, .
that the annual contributions to lo >
cal causes has grown $9,470,918, the
contributions each yhar for all pur
poses have increased $14,656,182,
and that the value of local church
property during the four year period
has increased to $45,868,421. Mem
bers of the Southern Baptist congre
gations contributed a total of $42,-
877,167 to missions and benevolen
ce? during the four year period, it
is stated.
During 1922 alone, it is reported
that $32,514,111.11 was contributed
by Southern Baptists to the various
benevolent causes. It is stated that
the report for 1922 will show: 232,-
422 baptisms, a membership gain of
147,253, an increase of 97,180 in
Sunday school enrollment, 84,448 in
Baptist Young People’s union mem
bership and $12,438,485 in the value
of local church property.
CLARKE TRIIL DEEN
POSTPSNED T 8 APRIL
HOUSTON, Tex., March 12.
When the case of E. Y. Clarke, At
lanta. former imperial wizard of the
Ku Klux. Klan, charged with violation
of the Mann act. was called today
Federal Court District Attorney
Holden announced he had received
word through the Atlanta district at
torney that Clarke would be ready
for trial the latter part of this
month or early in April.
Federal Judge Hiteheson will set
the date of trial late today.
TRAIN WON IN RACE
TO GET TO CROSSING
SAVANNAH. March 12.—J. T.
Williams was killed by a Central of
Georgia railway train from Macon
at Egypt this morning when he tried
to cross the track in an automobile.
His body was brought to Savan
nah.
AMERICUS, GA., MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 12. 1923
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POLICE COBfflN 15
ELECT H OFFICERS.
One Patrolman And a Lieutenant
To Be Named March 20. —
Jobs Pay Good Salaries
The police commission of Americus
will meet Tuesday, March 20, at
which time one patrolman and a
lieutenant of police will be elected.
The places to be vlled pay respec
tively 100 and sllO a month, and
all applicants must present certifi
cates of good character, or be per
sonally known to one of more mem
bers of the commission who will
vouch for their character standing.
No man addicted to even casual
drinking will be considered, and all
applicants are expected to be of
muscular build, and temperamentally
fitted to discharge the duties of the
position.*
The members of the commission
are Nathan Murray, Geo. Turpin, Dr.
“S. F. Howell, and S. L. Hammond,
with Mayor J. E. Poole, ex-officio
chairman. These gentlemen will con
sider all applications filed with either
of them, or applications may be left
with City Clerk Dudley Gatewood, 11.
| Patrolmen and officers of the police
i force are usually elected for and dur
i ing the term of their proper conduct
and may not be removed from office
for political reasons. All duties of
I patrolmen and police officers are
i fixed by the commission, while <?ity
I council fixes salaries from time to
time and they are paid in the same
manner as other city officials. In
addition to the salaries enumerated
above, each patrolman and officer of
force receive free uniforms.
OLD YET FUND FALL FIR
SHORT OF M NEEDED
Benefit Showing Nets $195 For
Veterans Fund, With More
Needed For Reunion
Josey Ivey, Times-Recorder car
rier boy, won first prize of $4 of
fered for the sale ofl the largest
number of tickets to the veterans’
benefit at the Rylander theater Fri
day' and Saturday, his sales netting
I $50.00.
Mrs. J. H. Qaurterman secured
second prize of $2 for disposing of
$41.25 worth of tickets, she havi
ing generously donated the amount
secured to the old vets’ fund.
William Merritt received third
prize, sl, for selling $38.75 worth of
tickets.
The sum of $195.55 was raised
from the benefit,' but this amount
falls short by SSO er more for send
ing all the old vets to the reunion
in New Orleans. Last year tfie
amount raised was s2so,which pro
vided funds for 15 veterans. This
year an equal number desire to go,
and it is hoped the amount raised
by the benefit will be augmented to
I a sufficient amount to let them all
(attend the reunion.
I Now is the time for all good
Americus citizens to get together and
send all the old vets to the reunion,
WONENTRVTOSAVE
ffIUTHS FRDNINOBSE
One Is Mere Boy, Other Mental
Defective, Friends Os Con
demned Murderers Say
ATLANTA, March 12.—Clemency
for Ralph and George Baker, who are
under sentence to be hanged March
16 in Walker county for the murder
of-70-year old Deputy Sheriff J. W.
Martin will be asked of Governor
Hardwick by a committee of Atlanta
church workers, Edgar Craighead, lo
cal attorney and member of the com
mittee, has announced here. The com
mittee is also seeking to build up a
sentiment throughout the state in fa
vor of the boys.
The appeal will be based on con
tention that by hanging Ralph Baker,
the state will have put a 15-year-old
boy to death, and by executing
George Baker the state will have ,
sent a man, said to be mentally de
fective to his death.
Mrs. Joel Hunter, Mrs. S. F. Boy
kin, Mrs. John A. Manget, Mrs. Eli
jah Brown, Rev. W. J. Deßardeleben
and Attorney Craighead are mem
bers of the committee of Atlanta
church workers which has undertak
en the work. The committee has al
ready appeared before the prison
commission. Later it will appear be
fore the governor.
The petition for commutation was
the second which has been heard by
the commission. Attorneys for the
boys first presented a formal plea for
clemency. The petition at that time
was fought vigorously by authorities
of Walker county who presented af
fidavits to prove Ralph Baker to be
nineteen years old and who contend
ed that the claim that George Ba-
I ker is mentally unsound is just a
'move to save him from the. gallows.
WOMEN JURORS HARD
ON THEIR OWN SEX
BERLIN, March 12.—German wo
men, recently accorded the right to
sit on juries in criminal cases, have
shown an inclination to’impose even
more severe punishment than men,
particularly in eases where the de
fendants themselves have been wo
men. _
“I always feel sorry for a wo
man defendant,” said a Berlin judge
commenting on womans entry into
the jury box, “when a majority ot
the J.7, is composed
sex Mv experience so fat h<*» Jteii
that the’women have les.i l J,?} 1
men, and hold out for verdicts accoid
in*Ever since Germany became a ic
publie and women gamed the .ight
to the ballot, the question of per
p g r e Xl y n an it
to SeXrtod I. listen to .or-
Yotnils of criminal cases. But
the women demurr^ e or
tentione, kept up tbt ‘ st^ .‘ near .
admission as their
ly four years have finally
joint.
21 KILLED IN“ STORM
SWEEPING 3 STATES;
MANY BEING INJURED
Fifty Houses Are Razed In West
Tennessee, In Section About
Jackson
TRAIN BLOWN OFF TRACKS
School Children Suffer When
Building Is Unroofed By Wind
In Kentucky
Tenn., March 12.
Twenty persons are reported killed
and 75 injured in the vicinity of
Pinson, 12 miles south of Jamison,
by a storm which swept thaz section
last night. A number of the dead
and injured are negroes.
About 50 dwellings around Pin
son are wrecked, according to re
ports.
A freight train was blown from
the tracks in that vicinity.
Relief parties are being sent from
Jackson and plans are being made
to bring the injured to the hospital
here.
RICHMOND, Ky., March 12.
Three people were killed and two
fatally hurt and a number seriously
injured by a storm which swept over
a small section of the Madison and
Fayette county border shortly before
midnight.
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio., March 12.
Dennis Boggs, aged 9, was instantly
killed and five other ehildreti injur
ed, two seriously this morning when
a high wind unroofed the high school
building in South Portsmouth, Ky.,
opposite here, and carried it over
into the school yard where the chil
dren were playing.
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HURT IN MITO HSU
W- D. Harvey, Eli Horne And
Owen Poole Sustain Cuts And
Bruises Sunday Afternoon
W. D. Harvey'had his Wd badly
cqt, Eli Horne sustained serious
bruises and a cut on the back of his
head, and Owen Poole was severely
bruised in an automobile accident on
the River road at the Rylander farm,
five miles out of Americus, Sunday
afternoon.
The three young men were travel
ing in Horne’s light car, going from
the Horne plantation to Leslie, and
the collision occurred at the point
where the two roads intersect. Sol.
Ledbetter, a negro, driving at high
speed in a heavy car, crashed into the
lighter car driven by Horne, anc
practically demolished it. Ledbct-
I tor’s car, following the collision,
swerved, left the road and ran into
the field. It was not seriously dam
aged.
Tift Pace, who was coming into
Americus from the direction of Cor
dele, brought the injured young men
here, where they were attended by a
physician.
The spot where the accident occur
red is a dangerous one, and has been
the scene of several previous mishaps
Eli Horne, driving his car, observed
the negro approaching, but thought
the lights on his automobile were
those in a negro cabin in the Ry
lander quarter on the roadside there.
Ledbetter disappeared following the
collision, njaking no effort to assist
the young men whose car he so badly
wrecked.
PROHI DIRECTOR IS
BELffIOEHISJOB
Follows Wire Instructions From
Washington—Details Os Sus
pension Not Known .
ATLANTA, March 12—W. H.
Hahr, assistant federal prohibition
director of Georgia, was suspended
this morning telegraphic instruc
i tions from Washington.
No details of his suspension are
available here, Etit it is understood
it follows a recent disagreement be
tween Hahr and George Golding,
(federal special intelligence officer.
MISS MILDRED PINKSTON
WITH CHURCHWELLS
The ready-to-wear and millinery
I department of Chruchwell’s depart
ment store is in charge of Miss Mil
i dred Pinkston, of Albany. Miss
Pinkston arrived in Americus today,
and has already assumed charge.
Miss Pinkston comes highly recom
mended, having received her training
in ready-to-wear and millinery under
the direction of, Mrs. Reidy, who con
ducts a fashionable shop in Albany.
Miss Rouse Hamilton, who has been
in the ready-to-wear department at
Churchwell’s for seeyral years, will
assist Miss Pinkston.
WEATHER
For Georgia Mostly cloudy to
night and Tuesday; probably local
.rain in south and central portion to
night ; cooler Tuesday and in north
central portion tonight.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
FRENCH SOLDIER IND
3 GERMANS WOUNDED
IN RIOT UT DORTffIND
State Os Siege Declared In En
tire Recklinghausen District
Due To Disturbances
FRENCH LOOK FOR VICTORY
To Decide How Great Britain
Will Fare In Settlement If One
Be Effected
RECKLINGHAUSEN, March 12
(By the Associated Press.) —Eight
Germans are dead as a result of
clashes with French troops in vari
ous parts of the Recklinghausen dis
trict last night. One French soldier
and three Germans were woundci
in a riot at Dortmund.
A state of‘siege has been declared
in the entire Recklinghause district
as a consequence of these disturb
ances.
Os the Germans killed, two were
shot down while trying to escape the
gendarmes in the Buer disturbances.
Five others were killed and several
wounded an hour later when the
crowd attacked a French guard post.
The eighth German was killed at
Dortmund when the crowd attacked
the French detachment. Additional
troops were sent to. preserve order
at Buer where a French officer and
civilian were killed Saturday night.
Each body when found had five
bullet wounds in it. One of the vic
tims was Lieutenant Colton of the
Chasseurs, and the other M. Joye,
chief of the Buer railroad station.
Unrest and discontent among the
population of the Recklinghausen
district have been smoldering for
several days. Today feeling was
running high on both sides. The
slaying of the Frenchman is consider
ed the most serious affairs since the
occupation of the region began.
General Laingelot, commanding
the district, ordered the arrest of the
burgomaster of Buer, the assistant
burgowaster, the chief of police end
two other town officials. All of
them are being held by the French
as hostages.
BELIEVE GERMANY
WILL SURRENDER.
PARIS,. March 12.—(8y the Asso
ciated Press.)—Premier Poincaire,
accompanied by the Minister of Pub
lic Works Letrockuer and a staff of
experts, left today for Brussels to
attend the Franco-Belgian confer
ence on Ruhr.
The French believe the surrender
of Germany is merely a question ot
time, and that the hour is approach
ing when France and Belgium must
decide how they are going to use
the victory, and what pairt Great
Britain will play in the settlement
300 IRISH Si®
URL THEN IN MS
DUBLIN, March 12.—Nearly 300
prisoners taken in week-end raid.-> in
England and Scotland are understood
to have been landed here from a
British warship. Two hundred men
are from one balance, including
women from another.
All were conveyed under heavy
guard to jail.
GOLF WHiilS
SOOH TO BE RESUH
Number Os Interesting Events
Outlined For Season Opening
Thursday on Local Greens
With, the approach of spring, the
j regular tournaments will begin at the
> Golg club. . *
The Greens committee states that a
number of interesting events have
been outlined for the season and
(from the inquiries they have receiv
i'ed from the members, more enthus
iasm will be displayed, this year than
last. These affairs aroused much
competition among the players last
year and are being keenly anti
cipated.
Thursday afternoon, March 15, the
event will be a “swatfest” for the
men, while the ladies will participate
in a similar game on Tuesday, March
20. The details of this tournament
are posted at the club. Mr. Byles
states that this special competition
will start things off with a rush, as it
is a match that provokes more fun
and laughter than probably any
other that has been staged at the
Golf club.
All men members are requested to
be on hand Thursday afternoon
promptly at 3 o’clock, ready to tee
off.
DESTROYS STILL ON HIS FARM
MONTEZUMA, March 12.—J. J.
Coogle, a farmer, living near Ogle
thorps, found a still on his
plantation Saturday, but found no
proof as to who might be the owner t