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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
Strict middling, 25 3-4 cents.
N. Y. Futures .. May Juiv Oct.
Previous Close 26.60 25.*28 23.23
Opening 26.35 25.10 23.01
“ am 26.44 25.29 23.08
'I Uose *26.79 25.27 22.97
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. I 14
SEVENTY-ONE DIE IN S. C. SCHOOL HOLOCAUST
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Von Bohlen Is Taken To. French Penitentiary
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RESCUERS ARE DRAGGING FOR {BODY OF BOY
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DOLPH SHELTON, 5.
IS OCOKE MIER
Two Brothers With Him in Cap
sized Boat Rescued Near Dam
of Manufacturing Company
DRAGGING FOR BODY
Searching Parties Are Combing
Waters Near Scene of Acci
dent Trying Recover Body
ATHENS, May 18. Searching
parties are dragging the Oconee
river for the body of Ralph Shel
ton, 9 years old, who was drowned
at the plant of the Athens Manu
facturing company yesterday when
his boat cap-,'zed. His two broth
ers, Will and Charley Shelton, who
were with him in the boat were res
cued.
mmsFTre
GUESTS OF KUGG
Outing at McMaih’s Mill Featur
ed by Building of Hut for
Scouts
There may be ‘'just as good fish
in tilt pond, as ever were caught
out of it,’’ but there aren’t nearly
so many.
For George Bragg threw in I the
big net and the little one, caught
them full over and over again and
into the pot their contents went to
feed a hungry gang of Kiwanians
and Boy Scouts Thursday afternoon
out at McMath’s mill.
The occasion—or the excuse for
the occasion—was the construction
of a hut for the Kiwanis troop, Boy
Scouts. And a better hut will be
hat'd to find.
Builded of pine logs, from 35 to
40 feet long, the hut with its gen
erous width of 25 feet or more,
gives a home that will delight the
heart of every Scout. Clad in over
alls, Kiwanins, with hammer and
saw and ax, cut and put together
the hut in a few hours.
After their labors were complete,
running races between Kiwanians
came next. The losers of the saces
were Lee Hudson, Frank Turpin and
Edgar Shipp. Lee chose to run a
gauntlet of the Scouts,'lined up with
belt straps ready. Lee ran as he
never ran before as each Scout
made a slash with their belts.
Frank Turpin and Edgar Shipp,
jfter seeing Lee’s woeful face, decid
ed for a ducking. Into the pond
tiley (went —compelled by the co
ordinated efforts of half dozen husky
Kiwanians. A change of clothing
for each had been provided by the
entertainment committee. The
clothe/, were scanty, but sufficient
(confidentially, they were procured
at a recent sale by a prominent dry
good house, which read “Gingham
Dresses, 96c each.”) But even the
96c garment was more to be chosen
than wet overalls, especially as the
sun had already set in the West .
At a signal from Generous “Ham
bone” Bragg, a blessing by “Rex
all” Murray in which he asked that
all might eat wisely and well, the
pots-of hot fish and coffee, pans
of cornbread and pickles and cakes
and deviled eggs and everything else
that should be there, was spread on
two long tables. (
The tired Scouts, Kiwanians and
their wives and sweethearts, jump
ed in and stayed until all were well
fed. having eaten well and wisely
of the generous dinner provided (by
Kiwanian Bragg.
The occasion was one that will be I
remembered long by the Kiwanians j
and their guests.
STRIBLING GETS
TWO KNOCKOUTS
ATLANTA, Mav 18 —Young Strib
ling Macon middleweight, knocked,
out Al Nelson, Atlanta middleweight. ■
twice in five rounds of fighting here ;
last night. Nelson was first mlored in -
the third round of a scheduled ten
round bout, while the fighters were
in a clinch. Nelson was holding, and,'
iii breaking away was shoved by the :
Macon fighter, Nelson falling to the j
floor where he lav until coutned out I
bv Referee Kaliska. Stribling was |
awarded a belt on the basis of the ;
first, knockout. _ j
Th' crowd protested the decision'
and it was agreed that Stribling I
would give Nelson another chance. In '
th:' second clash Nelson went down in ;
the second found under a series of I
rights and lefts to the jaw.
toenforcetrafFiF
OBDimCEOHS’JHDAY
Officer to Be Stationed at Baptist
Church to Compel Observance
of Parking Rules
An officer will be stationed at
the corner of Lee and Taylor streets
next Sunday morning to compel mo
torists there to observe parking reg
ulations adopted by city council sev
eral months ago. Due to some con
fusion in placing markings upon the ;
pavement there the regulations have
been generally disregarded recently. |
This matter was called to atten- :
tion of city council Wednesday by I
Aiderman Mize, chairman of the i
streets and lights committee. At his
request it was resolved to have an
officer detailed to direct traffic
there next Sunday, and probably
succeeding Sundays as well, to pre
vent the usual congestion during the
hours of service in the First Bap
tist church. This congestion has
heretofore been complained of by
that congregation, and |he effort to
rigidly enforce* parking regulations'
there is to be undertaken with ap
proval of church authorities.
BLIMOOGS
IN SALE IT CHILLI
Lions Club and Sales Association
to Make June Sale There Big
gest in History
CAMILLA, May 18.—What is
proclaimed as the (biggest hog sale
ever held in the State of Georgia is
to be held here June 5 when it is
expected 2,000 hogs will be sold un
der the auspices of the Mitchell
County Live Stock Sales association.
A dinner to be given by the Lions
club of Camilla on the night of June
4 will be the entertainment feature
of the event and a number of promi
nent Georgians have been invited to
attend this affair.
One of the main reasons for stag
ing such an unusually large sale
during the summer months is to
awaken the people throughout the
state to the possibilities of the live
stock industry, M. H. Metcalf, presi
dent of the organization, states.
Prominent citizens who have been
invited to attend the banquet on the
night preceding the sale i’iclude
newspaper men, livestock men, bank
ers and others who are vitally inter
ested in the promotion of the live
stock industry in an effort to obtain
their influence in the promotion of
the industry, it is stated.
Officers of the Mitchell county
association, which holds regular sales
on the first Tuesday of each month,
include Mr. Metcalf, J. W. Butler,
vice-president; W. E. Hughes, sec
retary and treasurer. The directors
are: J. W. Butler, of Camilla; M.
I.'. Metcalf, Camilla; W. M. Fair
cloth, Camilla; J. J. Martin, Camilla;
W. B. Collins, Flint; T. J. Glausier,
Baconton.
COMMISSIONERS WILL
APPLY DOUBLE TAX LAW
DUBLIN, May 18.—Formal notice
has been given by the county com
misisoners that all parties who do
not make returns to June 1 will be
double taxed. This is to avoid the
extra expense that comes each year
from late returns.
It has (been the custom of late for
a great many taxpayers to wait
until the board of equalizers is in
session and then make return to
them. This practice has resulted in
heavy expense to the county from
the reason, the equalizers are paid
by the day. and each day they are
in session the more the cost mounts.
To avoid this expense, and to close
the tax receiver's books on time,
also, the commissioners have in-
I structed the tax to double
: tax all who do not make returns by
j June 1.
FITZGERALD WANTS
550,000 IN DAMAGES
SAVANNAH, May 18. —James
{Fitzgerald, through his attorneys,
; Ulmer & Bright, has filed a petition
i with the cl -rk .of city council ask
i ing 850,050 damages for being
j struck oy a fire truck at 7:15
j o’clock on the morning of December
6, 1921. p ., . .
i The petition recites, it is filed in
I an attempt to settle the claim with-,
I out the n'eccessity of going to court.
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EXTEND SEWERAGE SYSTEM
j TIFTON. May 18.- -Work is to be
• started immediately on the exten
i sion of Tifton’s sewerage system, |
! according to announcements by the j
i city commission. The total cost of
I the extension will be $..1,336, it is
1 stated.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
WEN TWIT
ILL CAPTIVES B!
HMM
Bandits Hand ‘Final Ultimatum’
to Frenchman Released to
Bring Communication
TROOPS MUST BE RECALLED
; American and British Prisoners
j Among Those to Die on Date
Set in Ultimatum
SHANGHAI, May 18.—(By the
! Associated Press.) —American and
British captives of the Shantung
bapdits will be shot next Wednes
day if Chinese troops are not with
drawn, according to the “final ulti
matum” of th’e bandits as brought
from the mountain stronghold today
by Marcel Oliver Derube, a French
man, and one of the prisoners who
was released tor that purpose.
U. S. DEMANDS
PRISONERS’ RELEASE.
TSAO CHWANG, May 18.— (By
the Associated Press.) —Get the for
eign captives out of the grip of the
Suchow bandits and talk terms after
wards, otherwise there will be “dras
tic action” was the ultimatum laid
down to Chinese government officials
here late yesterday by Dr. Jacob
C. Schurman, American minister to
China.
The American diplomat, who
stopped off here on his way from
Shanghai to Peking, told Chinese of
ficials here to negotiate with the
bandits that unless the foreign pris
oners were released immediately se
rious international i complications
would result. Dr. Schurman said:
“End these delays and confusion
between various departments of the
government. Get "the captives out
and talk terms afterwards, other
wise there will be drastic action
taken.”
Relaitaons between the Chinese
government and the representatives
of foreign countries is described on
all hands as “strained,” as a result
of the situation.
18 OHS® H
WEEVIL IM BEK
Seaboard Air Line to Co-operate
With Three Sumter Farmers
in Testing Florida Plan
To assist the cotton farmers along
its line in combating the boll wee
vil, the development department of
the Seaboard Air Line has just is
sued a circular on an “Improved
Method” of boll weevil.
No claim is made that the ‘Flor
ida Plan” is a perfect boll weevil
remedy. It had been found prac
ticable and economical in Florida
by both scientific men ami farmers
on their farms. In order to test out
and demonstrate this method, the
Seaboard development department is
carrying on a large number of dem
onstrations on growing cotton, using
the Florida plan to control the wee
vil. The e demonstrations have
been located with farmers along the
Seaboard in Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina and SoutLi Carolina.
The following demonstrations will
be carried on this year in Georgia:
John T. Dennis, Jr., Elberton; Har
old Hume, Athens; J. F. Howell,
Bogart; 11. C. Paul, Comer; M. R.
Maynard, Winder; G. W. Giles, Ash
burn; J. F. McH'affy, Lawrenceville;
W. I’’. Byrd; Dallas; B. J. Edmond
son, Cedartown; ('. M. Brannan, Co
lumbus; E. W. (Jhilds, Omaha; Fred
Ward, Lumpkin; R. J .Dixon, Rieh
and; Clint Bruce, Brooklyn; E. L.
Kimbrough, Kimbrough; C. 11. Ped
dy, Dawson; Dr. Bowman Wise,
Plains; N. A. Ray, Americus; A. E.
Hines, Leslie; I. G. Williams, Cor
dele; W. F. Cross, Rochelle; T. E.
Minhinnett, Albany; E. T. Dunn, :
Fitzgerald; W. F. Whatley, Helena;)
W. T. McArthur, Jr., Ailey; J. B. I
Brewton, Vidalia; S. & W. East’roff, )'
Lyons; R. F. Garner, Dublin; S. E. :
Jones, Jeffersonville; W .G. Middle-L:
brooks, Macon; W. A. Jones, Dor
chester; C. B. Jones, Riceboro; B. I
F. Rincon; S. T. Metzgar,
Clyo; W. F. Freeman, Claxton; Dr. ,
G. W. Elarbee, Daisy; Wm. C. Cod
man, Jr., Telfair Farms, Savannah;
J. L. Tucker, Ways Station; F. C.
Parker, Statesboro.
This work will be supervised by
! the development agent of the Sea-
I board, and will be available for the
i benefit of every cotton farmer ifi
I each locality. Local announcements .
will be made, giving the date on
which the squares wil be removed
land poison applied. The agricultural
) colleges in several states above men-
I tion have approved, of this work !
I and are co-operating in it. j
AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 18. 1923-
wiwraiw?
ORDIMNCE ADOFTEO
. .
Measure Prepared by Direction of ;
Health Board Formally Pased
By City Council
. City council Wednesday night
passed an approved sanitary ordi
nance prepared under direction of
the city health authorities and which
is designed tl aid in the campaign
to eliminate mosquitoes.
The new measure makes it a mis
demeanor to allow water containing
vessels to remain upon any premises
within the city of Americus, where
in mosquitoes may breed. The pro
vision is also made in the ordinance
for adequate inspection of all prem
ises by city authorities, and when
notified to remove objectionable
containers or remedy insanitary con
ditions, residents upon such permises
are made subject to fine and impris
onment unless they comply with
such notice within the time speci
fied therein. Present at the meet
ing and voting on this ordinance
were Mayor J. E. Poole, presiding;
Aidermen Witt, Harris, Allison,
Carswell and Mize.
SEVENTH! we
■DIPS' IT W
Commencement Exercises There
Begin Sunday Morning With
Sermon by Dr. Robinson
VIENNA, May 18.-=-Commenee
nient exercises at Vienna High school
will begin Sunday morning when the
baccalaureate esrmo nwill be deliv
ered by Dr. A. H. .Robinson, of Cairo,
foremrly pastor of the -\Methodist
church of this city,- at the school au
ditorium.
Monday evening the senior class
will present “All on Account of Pol
ly.” The graduating exercises are
scheduled for Tuesday evening at
which time the literary address will
be delivered by W. T.' Anderson, edi
to rof the Macon Telegraph. The
presentation of diplomas, medals and |
prizes wil follow. Teh class num- j
bers 17 with the membership as fol
lows:
Joe Forbes, Eugene Jordan, Eu
gene Joiner, S. L. Taylor, Loys
Gammage, Mabie Perry,'Josephine
Smith, Laura Morgan, Josephine
Lytle, Alive Newby, Carol Ketchum,
Alberta Howell, Ruby Register, Al
ene Dorough, Alene Barry, Inez
Ransom, Mattie Sue Beavers, Audry
Ward.
BUTLER GRADUATES
CLASS TUESDAY
BUTLER, May 18.—Butler High
school commencement exercises be
gin next Sunday morning when the
baccalaureaute sermon will be deliv
ered at the n,ew school auditorium
by Rev. B. A. Paffbrd. . Tuesday
evening Mrs. Edwards’ music pupils
will give a recital. On Wednesday
evening graduating exercises wil be
held at the auditorium at which time
Rev. H. O. Hughes will give an ad
dress. .
The graduating class, which is the
largest in the history of the school
is as follows: Miriam Riley, Vir
ginia Foy, Maesal Cox, Thelma Cox,
Mary Suggs, Lois Heath, Margaret i
Benns, Annie Windham, Jack Suggs,
Mack Turner, Bussey Childs, Ernest
Foy, Fred Rustin and Frank Fain.
The commencement will conclude
Tuesday evening with the delivery of
diplomas to members of the graduat
ing class.
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STREET TAX AT ALBANY
BECOMES $5.00 JUNE 1
ALBANY, May 18.—Have you
paid your 1923 street tax? Anoth
er unpleasant duty confronts you
if you have not. And it must be
done between now' and May 31,
which is the last day for paying
street tax.
Chief of Police R. S. Wallis and |
his department have charge of the |
.business of extracting $3 per head |
.from the male citizenry between the
ages of 18 and 50 years prior to
the first day of June each year.
Street tax payments on and after
June 1 will be at higher rate —$5
for each person, instead of? 3.
BARLOW ST JUNIORS
WIN ON COLLEGE LOT
In an exciting game of baseball
played Thursday on the College
street diamond, Barlow Street Jun
iors defeated the Junior League
team 25-24. Batteries for Barlow I
street, Liggin and Roberts; Junior I
League, Walker and Fort. Notwith. (
i standing the score, no home runs I
I were garnered off either pitcher. ,
i SILVER GOBLETS B
® CARR GLOVER
IRV iERICIJS 'ROTES:
I
Handsome Remembrance Given
Retiring President at Ladies’
Night Celebration
W. W. DYKES MAKES TALK
Eight Guests Attended, With New
Officers Formally Installed
in Positions
Americus Rotarians Thursday
night celebrated ladies’ night, the
occasion being featured by the pre
sentation of a handsome silver set,
embracing six engraved goblets, to
Carr S. Glover, retiring president.
The silver was given by the club
members in grateful recognition «f
the services of Mr. Glover as presi
dent of the organization during the
club year 1922-23.
The presentation talk was made by
W. W. Dykes, who referred briefly
to the services rendered by Mr. Glov
er and expressed briefly the appreci
ation of the club members for many
hours of happiness made possible
through Mr. Glover’s endeavors. Re
sponding, Mr. Glover expressed grat
itude for the help extended him by
Rotarians during the peoriod of hisr
club presidency and thanked those
present especially the club for their
assistance in the preparation of club
entertainments and the direction of
its affairs, as well as for the hand
some remembrance presented him on
the occasion of his retirement.
The occasion was staged in the
main dining room of the Windsor
Hotel with eight guests present, and
the committee in charge was assist
ed in entertaining by Miss Melva
Clarke, who sang, and Mrs. W. H. C.
Dudley,‘who played upon the piano.
New officers installed upon the re
tirement of Mr. Glover were John
Sheffield, president; Walter Ry
lander, vice president; Luther Har
rell. secretary-treasurer; W. C. Caye,
sergeant-at-arms; Charles Lanier,
assistant sergeant-at-arms; John
Sheffield, Walter George
Anderson, J. T- Warren, Cobb Mil
ner, Charles 11. Burke and Lucius
j McCleskey, directors.
ISSEMBiy laised
SSBMOI LIST ra
Presbyterians at Montreat Given
Figures for* Home Missions
Work by Atlanta Man
MONTREAT, N. C., May 18.
The general assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian church holding its
annual session here heard today the
annual report of the executive
committee of Home ‘Missions, which
was submitted by Rev. S. L. Morris,
D. D., of Atlanta, secretary. This
committee serves twelve nationali
ties in its work.
The report showed funds raised
for this cause during j the year
amounted to $523,401, a decrease
' of $20,030, resulting in the commit
tee for the first time in ten years
to report a debt amounting to $35,-
000. The committee, the report
stated, gave as the reason for the
indebtedness the necessity of larger
expenditures to save investments in
unfinished buildings and of meeting
providential crises in certain grow
ing institutions under its care.
KINCHAFOONEE CLUB
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
ALBANY, May 18.—The annual
election of officers for the Kinch
afoonee Country club has just been
held, with the following results:
President—John A. Davis to suc
ceed R. L. Jones.
Vice-President —C. T. Melvin.
Secretary-Treasurer —F. H. Bates,
re-elected.
I Board of Control for four-year '
terms to succeed J. D. Pope and E.
H. Kalmon, W. W. Pace and George
S. Whittlesey.
Annual reports showed the club to
be in excellent condition.
! SAFETY COMMITTEE
DISCUSSES REPORTS i
WAYCROSS, May 18.—Reports
on cases in connection with the op
eration of the .ra.ilroad in which dan
ger to the employees or the public
may arise were discussed at a meet
ing of the Waycross District Safety
committee of the Atlantic Coast Line
! railroad here. The meeting was at-
I tended by representatives of the
j Junior Chamber of Commerce who |
i will report back to a meeting of that I
organization. , '
KRUPP SENTENCES IK
CWMEO; EEKHS
■fflST KGH SERVING
Directors of Great Gun Foundry
Transferred to Prisons in
France Today
COUNSEL TO APPEAL CASE
Convicted of Instigating Opposi
tion to French at Krupp
Works, March 31
DUESSELDORF May 18—(Bv the
Associated Press) —The sentences
imposed by the recent court-martial
upqn Dr. Krupp Von Bohlen and
other Krupp directors who were tried
for instigating opposition to the
French at the Krupp works at the
time of the shooting, March 31, was
Confirmed today by the Court of
Revision.
The convicted men will be trans
ferred to prisons in France while
their counsel prepare an appeal.
GRIM MENACE BACK
OF KRUPP TRIAL •
NEW YORK, May 18,—Behind the
trial of Baron Gustav Krupp von
Bohlen and eight of his directors, as
sistants and overseers who were tried
by the French on the charge of en
dangering the lives of French sol
diers, is another story, according to
Bob Dorman, N. E. A. Service staff
writer. It’s a story that was told me
by Germans, when I went through the
Krupp works at Essen, and also by
French soldiers during the months I
spent in the Ruhr.
The trial grew out of the killing of
13 workmen at the factory when they
engaged in a hostile demonstration
against the French who had entered
the plant in order to requisition autos
for military use. Krupp von Bohlen
and his associates are charged with
inciting their workmen to attack the
French.
Rut the story goes back farther
than that day when the workmen of
Krupp faced the muzzles of the
French guns. It had its beginning
in the French fear of Krupp—Krupp,
‘he world’s largest and nios't famous
manufacturer of war materials.
After the signing of the Treaty of
Versailles, the first stej) was to ren
der impotent, so far as possible, the
Krupp war factory. For a time all
went well, thousands of guns and big
shells were destroyed, machines for
the manufacture of war material
were dismantled and the great prov
ing ground for big guns at the Krupp
factory was wrecked.
Then a snag was struck.
The wreckers had come to the shop
known as “Kanonen Werkstatt No.
11,” the shop where the enormous
guns, the outstanding surprise of the
war had been made.
' Germans were polite but in
flexible. They refused to permit the
destruction of the big lathes which
had been used for the boring ofi the
big guns.
They claimed the right under the
Treaty of Versailles to manufacture
articles of commerce. Thev claimed
that the big gun shop was the only
shop they had suitable for the turn
ing out of such articles as big rolls
for heavy rolling mills, long and
i heavy shafts, etc. It was necessary
for the manufacture of the large and
heavy hollow-forged tubes essential
to the production of nitrates from
the nitrogen of the air, a process
vital to German agriculture.
The allies were divided. France in
sisted the big gun shop must go be
cause it was one of the chief factors
in the German plan for world domin
ation.
- But nothing was done. The big
shop stands today as it stod in 1914.
It is busily engaged in turning out
implements of peace, but it still re
tains its potentialities for war.
France is frankly afraid. She is
seeking an excuse to remove at least
one of her fears.
A rising of the Krupp workmen
would furnish such an excuse.
And the Krupp workmen have
threatened to rise should the Krupp
officials be convicted by the French.
TO VISIT CHATHAM FARMS
SAVANNAH, May 18—The vari
ous farms of Chatham county are |
to be visited by members of the i
Savannah Board of Trade in a ‘Back
Country Development’ movement
which has ibeen inaugurated here.
Ladies will accompany the members
on the trip and photographs will be
taken of the different farms visited.
The truck farms of the country are
no wat their higest stage of de
velopment, it is stated, and it is ex
pected the possibilities of the back
Country will be demonstrated.
UNADH-LA SCHOILS TO CLOSE
CNADILLA, May 18.—After one
of the most successful years in its
history, the Unadilla public schools
will come to a close Tuesday evening,
May 22. The work of Supt. J. W.
Smith and his efficient corps of
teachers has made a creditable show,
ing and has done much toward bring
ing the school up to the highest
1 standard.
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WEATHER
For Georgia: Increasing cloudiness
today and Saturday; probably show,
ers.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SIL IMP SWTS
DISISTRDUS FIK
II CLEVELHD SCHOOL
Whole Families Wiped Out in
I Destruction of Rural Schqol
I Near Camden, S. C.
i MANY TRAMPED TO DEATH
Building Burned so Rapidly Noth
ing Could ®e Done Save
Collect Dead and Injured
, CAMDEN, S. C., May 18.—Seven-
• ty-one are known to be dead and the
condition of two others is ‘still
■ doubtful, was the toll of a Cleveland
school house fire last night, eight
miles from htis city, according to
local county officials.
t The collapse of a narrow wooden
, stairway leading from the second
I floor where an entertainment inci-
I dent to the closing of the school
i was in progress, caused many of the
deaths, a number of persons being
, crushed in the debris. Others were
. cut. off from escape and, in this way
■ burned to death, while still others
jumped from windows.
The fire was caused by the over
, turning of an oil lamp on the stage
during commencement exercises',
which were witnessed by the crowd
that jammed the zoom. A panic fol
lowed.
The school building was a two
story frame building and burned rap.
idly before outside aid could he
summoned, but nothing remained to
be done but to collect the dead and
for those still alive to render medical
care to the injured.
The death list reads like a roster
of the families of the community.
Family after fainily were virtually
wiped out. In almost every instance
where parents were listed as dead,
from one to four children also per
ished.
The audience was watching a little
• comedy being presented by the pu
pils, when the lamp, which was bus-
[ pended from the ceiling by a bracket
s fell to the stage.
i The place was insured and little
i effort apparently was made to fight
; the flames which were oiiickly com
municated to the dry timber of the
■ building.
Mothers with children in their arms
. were trampled under foot. Young.and
; old alike fought for exit.
, The stairway collapsed, many be
ing impaled on the jagged timbers.
Others were pinned down by th-2
weight of bodies above them.
WILL HOLD JOINT
FUNERAL FOR VICTIMS.
CAMDEN, May 18.— (By the As
sociated Press.) Funeral services for
seventy odd victims of the Clevenad
school house fire last night will Ire
held jointly at 6 o’clock this after
noon, near the ashes of the build
ing in which they met their deaths.
Announcement of the plan was
made by a committee apointed by
Mayor Garrison, of Camden, which
is in charge of the burial arrange
ments. The plan is to bury all of
the victims at one time and in the
same grave.
CHATHAiM ANNUAL BUDGET
NEARLY QUARTER MILLION
SAVANNAH, May 18.—Chatham
county’s annual budget is approach
ing the million-dollar mark.
The budget adopted for the forth
coming year provides for an expen
diture of $976,904. This is an in
crease of $71,447 as compared with
last year’s estimate. Improvements
contemplated in the new budget are
a camp for white women prisoners,
work on Tybee road, new heating
and plumbing system at the county
jail, etc.
NEW HIGHWAY SURVEY IS
FINISHED BY ENGINEERS
SAVANNAH, May 18.—A survey
has just been completed on an elev
en-mile stretch of state highway in
Montgomery county between Mt.
Vernon and Soperton. Application
for $33,000 of federal aid is to be
made by the county for construction
of the road, actual road work is ex
pected to start within three or four
months. This road will be a 26-
foot wide clay highway and will be
an important link in the state’s sys
tem of highways. _
ASSOCIATIONAL RALLY
AT CORDELE ON SUNDAY
CORDELE, May 18—The follow
ing program for the Associational B
Y. P. U. rally at Cordele First Bap
tist Church, Sunday afternoon, Maj
20, 3:30 o’clock: Our watchword—
Consecration; Devotional—By Mr
Bacon, president; B. Y. P. U. ir
Mercer —Mr. H. H. Shurley; Solo—
Chas. McArthur; Our Encampment-
Bro. T. W. Tippett; Business.
; THREE GEORGIANS GRADUATE
> SPARTANBURG, S. C., May 18.
; Three Georgians are included among
s the fifty-six young women who are
, to be graduated at Converse college
. May 28, according to announcements
’ here. The Georgia members of the
senior class are: Miss Willie Wilson
. Chappell, Dawson; Miss Teresa Car
t olina Geise, Dawson, and Miss Jesse
I Pearl Rice, Griffin.