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YEAR—NO. 121
OHIO ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS UNDER ARREST
German Ruhr Obstructionist Faces Firing Squad
SCHUBETER IS SHOT
FOR SABOTAGE: TEN
SHOTS FIRED 11 BOW
German Convicted of Interfering
With Operation' of Ruhr Rail
roads Faces Firing Squad
HIS IS FIRST EXECUTION
Execution Staged in Stone Quarry
Near Cemetery, Where Body
Was Quickly Buried
DUSSELLDORE,, May 26.—(8y
Associated Press) —Albert Schlage
ter was executed by French troops
today for sabotage on railroads in
the occpuied regions, and other of
fenses. He was shot in a stone quar
ry near the cemetery, and his body
was delievered forthwith to the ceme
tery authorities.
this is the first execution in the
occupied zone.
Schlageter was escorted to the
quarry by two priests and went
unfalteringly to his death.
Ten shots were fired at him.
COMMUNISTS LOOT
WAREHOUSES
•ESSEN, May 26—(By the Associ
ated Press) —Bands of communists
last night attacked and looted the
warehouses here and ■ overran the
market plaqp. Most of the stores
throughout the city have been closed.
The strike in the Ruhr inaugurat
ed by the communists is gaining in
numbers and now includes thousands
of iron and steel wbrkers, in addition
to the miners previously out.
The latest to join were 20,000
employes of the steel works ,at
Remscseid, near Elberfeld, whose de
mands for a fifty per cent increase
in pay was refused. It is estimated
that *50,000 miners are striking in
the Gelsenkirchen district. The com
munist commission of control last
night was still holding the police
headquarters at Gelsenkirchen which
it seized early yesterday.
Negotiations are continuing amor
the-burgomasters and the French
authorities for the establishment of a
workers’ police force.
cilHsTw io
BE OBSERVED SUNMY
Presbyterian Sunday School Will
Dedicate Sunday Session to
Foreign Missions Effort
Children’s Day for foreign mis
sions will be observed at the Presby
. terian Sunday school Sunday morn
ing at 9 : 45 o’clock.
The program is the first of a series
of twelve lessons on mission wbrk in
Brazil, that being the field which the
Southern Presbyterian Sunday school
will study during the coming year.
The subject to be presented Sun
' day morning is “Lighting the Dark
ness,” and consists of the following
interesting numbers:
Song, “Onward Christian Sol
diers.”
Doxology.
Introductory talk by Mrs. H. C.
Elam.
Sentence prayers by Lionel Stukes,
V. P. Young, Jack Fain.
Song, “Open My Eyes That I May
See.”
Scripture, Jeremiah, 1:49; Matt.
28:l&20; Romans, 10:18-15; Isaiah
6:8, Cbrdelia Feagin, Kathryn Harris.
Exercises, “Lighting the Dark
ness: Brazil, Miss Marie Walker;
Song, “Rescue the Perishing;” “Mes
sage of Light,” Marion Young; Solo,
“The Old Rugged Cross,” Mrs. Olin
Dixon; Liberty, Parmalee Davis;
Song, “Wash Me and I Shall Bo
Whiter Than Snow;” “By Their
Fruits,” Charles Davis; “Nothing
But Leaves,” Carolyn Crockett; “The
Golden Crown,” Rev. Richard Simp
son.
Offering taken by Brown Small,
Jr., and Tom Harris.
Benediction.
COMMENCEMEN TSERMON
AT ASHBURN SUNDAY
ASHBURN, May 26—The closing
of the Ashburn public schools started
here Friday afternoon with the recit
al of expression and music classes.
A successful year with one of the
Highest average attendances ever
had by the school is reported by
Suptt George S. Roach.
The commencement sermon will be
preached Sunday by Dr. W. I. Cutts,
president of the Mary P. Willingham
school at Blulle Ridge.
MANY VALDOSTA KIWANIS
MEMBERS TO ATTEND MEET
VALDOSTA, May 26.—As many
members of the Kiwanis club as pos
sible are being lined up for the trip
to Atlanta next week to pttend the
International convention here on
Monday and continuing through
three Ays,
RUSSO-BRITISH WAR NOW UNLIKELY
FIRST HVORO ELECTRIC
■miLLßEffl
HERE IB SUNDM TESTS
Workmen Expect to Be Busy Ail
Day Testing Out Lines Prepar
atory to Regular Service
EVERYTHING READY HERE
Cutting in of New Current Source
Will Cause Only Temporary
Interruption of Service
The first hydro-electric current
ever used in Americus will be con
sumed during Sunday.
This doesn’t mean that the new
energy is now ready for commercial
distribution, as the Sunday current
will be used only in testing out the
lines between Americus and Albany.
Manager R. P. Ewing, who au
thorized announcement of the cutt
ing of the current, explained today
that a number of workmen will be
busy at the plant here and at sev
eral points on the transmission line
during Sunday. They will be testing
out the lines and transformers,
which will make the current availa
ble for commercial distribution here.
Some interruption of service will re
sult during these tests, it wa sex
plained.
Fill FOREIGN NATIONS
STATE PffllOll OH
I). I HODOR RULING
Spanish Government Hands Writ
ten Statement Covering Situa
tion to Secretary Hughes
RESENT INCONVENIENCE
Freedom of International Com
mercial Intercourse Threaten
ed, Other Nations Assert
WASHINGTON, May 26.—Five
foreign governments have aireddy
made known to the State Depart
ment, their position in regard to the
recent Supreme Court ruling against
the presence of liquor on foreign
ships inside of the three mile limit.
1 Besides the communication re
ceived yesterday from the British
Embassy, the Department received
the views of the Spanish govern
ment in writing and the attitude of
the French, Italian and Dutch gov
ernments have been presented oral
ly to Secretary Hughes.
In substance it was said at the
department that five countries take
the same position in calling atten
tion to “inconveniences” resulting
from the decision and also point out
that freedom of International
commercial intercourse is threatened
if the hereafter recognized prac
tice of comity between the nations
in this regard are abandoned.
BRUNSWICK-WAYCROSS
ROAD MAY BE IMPROVED
WAYCROSS, May 26—Speaking
of the movement to bitild a causeway
to St. Simon’s island from the main
land, which was started some time
ago, but which was celebrated at a
recent mass meeting in Brunswick,
Mayor Dan T. Cowart himself an im
portant participant in the events of
the day declared that “Ware county
must take steps to improve the Way
cross-Brunswick road.”
“It will mean a great deal to this
section,” said he, referring to the
causeway, “and we must co-operate
with Brunswick by improving our end
of the road. Thousands of tourists
will coil through Waycross on the
way to St. Simons Island and we must
have things ready for them.”
BARNEY NEWSOME, AGED
VETERAN, DIED FRIDAY
VALDOSTA , May 26.—Barney
Newsome, one of the oldest and best
known citizens of the Clyattville
district, died Friday morning about
7 o’clock at his home near Clyatt
ville.
He had been in ill health for sev
eral months, suffering from a
complication of troubles, aggravated
by advancing years.
LASH ABOLISHED IN FLORIDA.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.. May 25.
Final pasasge of the bill to abloish
the county convict lease system. waj
effected Thursday when both houses
agreed to the report of a confer
ence committee. The practice
which has existed if leasing state
convicts, will be outlawed after
January 1 next,
THE TIMES- RECORDER
Convention Aftermath
A handsome stickpin was presented
Friday to Judge A. B. Moore, retiring I
president of the County Commission- j
ers association. The center stone was
jasper. Judge Moore was deeply im
pressed, thanking the individual mem
bers in a short talk that came right
from his heart.
♦ * ♦
Chairman Neal Ray, the Chamber
of Commerce and the Kiwanis club
wired the publisher of the Atlanta
Georgian, Mr. Baskerville, to send
W. S. Kirkpatrick to Americus to
cover the sessions for the Georgian.
Mr. Baskerville very graciously con
sented and gave Mr. Kirkpatrick the
opportunity of coming but because
of special committee work in which
he is engaged in preparing for the
international convention of
meeting in Atlanta next week, Kirk
was compelled to decline the oppor
tunity to visit his many friends here.
* * *
The Boys Band, under CoTtductor
Ross, was on hand at the barbecue
at the A. &M. school Friday. The
work of the boys was most gratifying
to all. And the nicest part about it
was that they did not wait to be
drafted by the committee. Their pres
ence was voluntary and music ren
dered while the barbecue was being
consumed was splendid. For the time
which they have been in training,
the 'boys arc showin" excellent prog
ress. They played like veterans yes
terday.
* *' * ♦
•Tim Glawson, John Prance, Ott
Johnson, John Ansley and their able
corps of men, and women assistants
deserve unstinted praise for the
manner in which the barbecue was
handled. Rained in and with only an
hour to change from out of doors to
inside a building, they “pulled off”
a quick change that was a credit to
them and a source of gratification
to the commissioners. There was suf
ficient barbecue for 1,000. Every
one had all he could consume and the
serving was rapid and smooth,
• » »
Carl Williams and his orchestra,
known as the Americus “Tut-Ankh-
Amen Orchestra,’ furnished music at
the luncheon in the Windsor Hotel
Thursday. Their work was A-l, pleas
ing all.
* * *
Many of the delegates were loud in
their praise of the manner in which
they were received and the handling
of the great crowd by Manager Stu
art Prather, of the Windsor Hotel.
Thursday Manager Prather took per
sonal charge of the dining room,
serving 365 dinners in four separate
rooms. After the guests were all
for, he saw that plates were
served the boys of the orchestra and
the men of Americus who acted as
ushers and assisted in seating and
handling the crowd of delegates.
As usual Miss Melva Clark and
Miss Susan Stallings created a storm
of applause as they went from dining
room +" dinin- room, singing and
reading for the delegates.
♦ * ♦
Rain interfered with serving the
barbecue in the Aggie grove, but the
elements did not prevent a number
of pretty Aggie seniors lending their
presence to the occasion. And the
manner in *Mfiah< they gracefully
served the hundreds of guests reflects
great credit both upon them and the
institution they attend.
CUT-OFF
O. T. Summers, of Pennington,
visited relatives here Sunday.
Prof. D. E. Pennington, of Amer
icus, spent a few days here last week
with hfs mother, Mrs. A. J. Pen
nington.
George Stubbs motored to Sylvest
er Sunday for the day.
Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Pennington
and daughter, Miss Lillian and Mrs.
John Cheney, of Spaulding, visited
Mrs. A. F. Pennington.
Miss Mary Alice Stubbs, of Al
bany, spent last week at home with
heij parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
Stubbs.
Miss Beulah Pennington and
Charlie Smith, of Albany, visited the
former’s grandmother, Mrs. A. J.
Pennington, Friday. She is quite ill.
Mrs. Addie Wicker and Rev. E.
M. Clapp and children, of Walden,
spent Sunday here with relatives.
J. W. Clapp, of Atlanta, is on an
extended visit with his daughter,
Mis. George Wicker.
Miss Laura Stubbs, who has been
teaching at Gerard the past school
year, is at home for the summer va
cation.
Drury Norris, of Omaha, spent the
week-end here with his family.
Rogers Clanp, of Columbus, spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs.
George Wicker.
Cut Off community was well re
resented at the community barbecue
at Andersonville school building
Friday and recorded a grand time.
Misses Galdys Chambliss, EuUi
and Jess Kitchens visited the latter’s
brother, Gus Kitchens at the Amer
icas hospital Sunday afternoon.
AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 26, 1923
Chairman Neal Ray, Commission
ers Oliver, Poole, Statham and Haw
kins were the first on the ground
Wednesday night and the last to
leave Friday night. While acting as
official hosts they did not neglect
to share their part of the arduous
work necessary to care for so large
a number of delegates and visitors.
* * ♦
Manager Herbert Kincey, lessee of
the Rylander Theater, spared neither
effort nor expense in seeing that
Americus’ beautiiul playhouse was
cool and comfortable for each ses
sion of the convention, donating the
use of the building to the commis
sioners without a cent of charge for
anything. But for the splendid thea
ter building, the modern Windsor
Hotel and the efforts of the men
and women of Americus and the
county, the convention \could not
have created so large a measure of
praise from the visitors.
“You are getting more for your
road dollar than any other county in
the state, in my humble opinion,”
Warren Neal aaid to the writer. “Af
ter going over all three of your com
pleted projects, I can point every
county in the state to Sumter, as an
example of what can be done in a
short time.” Mr. Neal was loud in his
praise of the work of supervision and
management of John Ansley.
• » *. ♦
One man remarked late Friday af
ternoon; “I have only one complaint
to.make. I just want to find the fel
low who carried off my hat Thurs
day. He IS A HOG for he not o*iily
swiped my new straw hat, but he
carried his old lid with him, too. .It
would have been all right if he had
waited until Friday But the rascal
took it Thursday, AFTER all your
stores were closed.”
* * *
A purse fat with bills was found in
the Rylander Thursday. To the finder
, it looked like a million dollars. On ex
amination it was found to contain
nothing but lowly one-dollar bills, to
the number of nine. The owner was
located later thq same day.
• * *
W. W. Dykes, who acted as toast
master at the Windsor luncheon han
dled the situation there in able style.
Every portio nos the program was
carried out, with each speaker hav
ing ample time to handle the subject
assigned. The ability of the toastmas
ter not only added to the pleasure of
the guests, but many of those pres
ent commented favorably upon the
ease and grace with which he pre
sided.
** * *
George Marshall, as general chair
man of the entertainment committee
was everywhere, morning, noon and
night. Constantly in touch with his
various committees, co-ordinating ev
ery effort the hundreds of men
and women who assisted him, he suc
ceeded in making of every detail a
signal success. To him, possibly
more than any one else.. should go
the major part of the credit due.
« * *
J. E. Hightower, Allen Chappell,
Furlow Gatewood and the other as
sistants of Mr. Hightower handled
the automobile ride and the entire
transportation to the satisfaction of
all. There was a car waiting for every
delegate every hour of the day, it
1 seemed.
PLEASANT GROVE
Most of the farmers of this sec
tion are through chopping cotton
and crops are looking fin*
Little Miss Julia Rouzie Houston
was the dinner guest of Louis Bras
well Sunday. . ,
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Dowdy and
little son, James, spent bnnday very
pleasantly with Mt. and Mi’s. Joe C.
Willis.
Annie Ruth Barton is spending
sometime with Mrs. 11. A. Fussell.
Zeak Dowdy was the spend-rhe
day guest of Ford Barton Saturday
night.
Miss Elizabeth Houston is visiting
in Sylvester.
Mrs. J. B. Barton spent four days
of last week- with her daughter, Mrs.
K. A. Fussell, in Americus.
Miss Annie Coogle spent part of
this week with her brother, Jesse
Coogle.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McGlarury and
son, J. R. Jr., visited Mrs. J. L.
Presley Sunday afternoon.
Miss Bonnie Parkman filled her
regular apointment at Pleasant
Grove last week. They now have a
large enrollment.
MANY AUTOMOBILES NOW
USE IMPROVED HIGHWAY
VALDOSTA. May 26.—The num
ber of automobiles from Florida go
ing northward, passing through
Valdosta, increases every day.
Heretofore then/ have been some
unpaved sections in the road around
Lake City, but this having been re
medied, is bringing them.
ALLIES TO NEGOTIATE
SEPARATE TREATIES TO
COVETOKIMIONS
Political Committee of Near East
Conference Has Reached
Agreement
YEAR TO NEGOTIATE IN
Long Standing Dispute Settled by
Agreement to Let Each Nation
Handle Own Problems
LAUSANNE, May 26.—(8y Asse
nted Press)—The negotiation of
separate treaties between Turkey
and other nations to determine pri
vileges or foreigners in Turkey, was
agreed upon today by tlm poltical
committee of the Near East con
ference as a solution of the long
standing dispute over this question.
The treaties must be negotiated
within a year, Turkey in the mean
while maintaining status quo.
BRITAIN WILL AVOID
BREAK WITH RUSSIANS
DESPITE LAST NOTE
Attitude of Moscow Authorities
Not Satisactory, But Way
Open For Negotiations
FEW POINTS IN DISPUTE
London Diplomats Believe Situa
tion Now Susceptible to Sat
isfactory Settlement
LONDON, May 26.—(8y Asso
ciated Press) —Great Britain has de.
cided that there shall be no break
with Russia. It is held in diplomatic
circles that while the last note from
Moscow in some respect is not whol
ly satisfactory, the remaining points
in dispute with the Soviet govern
ment are suseptible of solution by
negotiation.
wWdwe
IS REPORTED SITUS
Danger of Renewal of Hostilities
Now Past, Newspaper Dis
patch from Lausanne Says
LONDON, May 26.—(8y Asso
ciated Press) —The Turco-Greek
controversy which was feared might
result in hostilities has been settled
says an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Lausanne this evening.
The details, the message adds,
will be arranged later.
A message to Reuter’s from Lau
sanne was •confirmatory of other ad
vices telling of the settlement of
the Turco-Greek dispute.
ALLIES DETERMINED
NOT TO INTERFERE.
PARIS, May 26.—(8y Associated
Press)—The French government
has asked Great Britain and Italy
through their ambassadors in Paris
to join it in making urgent represen
tations to Athens to the effect that
the allies are determined not to be
come involved in a possible Turco-
Greek conflict and would neither
prevent the Turkish army from
crossing to Thrace nor allow the
Greek fleet to enter the Darda
nelles.
TAX COLLECTORS MUST
FORCE COLLECTIONS
ATLANTA. May 26 —Instructions
have been issued by Comptroller
General Wright to all county tax
i collectors to proceed at once to col
| lect the stat\occupation tax against
| hotels, restaurants, safes and lunch
i Counters.
The comptroller general has been
informally notified the hotel men of
the state have under advisement car
rying the case to the United States
Supreme court bua as no supersedeas
has been granted it is proper for the
county tax collectors to go ahead
with collection of the tax, and he has
told them to do so.
AGREE TO CURTAIL GAS
SELLING ON SUNDAYS
VALDOSTA, May 26.—Over in
Boston the mayor and council have
agreed to curtail the hours for sell
ing gas on Sunday. The new hours
are from 8:30 to y0:30 in the morn
ing and from 2 o’clock to 4 o’clock
What's Going
on in the
World
By CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer.
President Harding says, in his
opinion, if New York as a state can
cels its prohibition law, the result
will be “more or less conflict be-
tween state and
federal authori
ties.”
' After prohibition
became national,
New York, 1 j k e
many but no t a y
states, passed a ;
state law in general
conformity with '
the federal Regula
tion, the idea being
that there are not
enough federal of
ficials to make pro
hibition very effec
tive that the
STEWART
states must help.
The New T ork legislature recent
ly passed a bill repealing the state
dry law, but Governor Smith has 1
not signed the bill yet.
Smith ig an avowed wet. Never
theless many people believe he does
not enjoy being rorced to put him
seit on record in this particular
way.
He is much spoken of as the next
Democratic presidential candidate.
It he should get the nomination,
everybody will know’he regards pro
hibition unfavorably, yet presuma
bly he will not want to run purely
and simply as a wet, which is the
way many people are apt to look at
it if that issue is over-emphasized.
New Yo r k's ’Ge»ture.’
Leaving politics out, it isn’t
quite clear why the lack of a New
York dry law “conflict.”
there afre other states without dry
laws. In these states there may
have been lax prohibition enforce
ment, but not “conflict.” State offi
cials recognize the federal author
ities’ rights to enforce prohibition if
they can.
Federal officals fight the smug
gling of merchandise into the coun
try, without state qid. The same
thing is true of counterfeiting, the
enforcement of postal laws and most
other federal regulations.
If New York never had had a
state dry law, probably it wouldn’t
have attracted as much attention as
repeal. It is true that repeal is an
unmistakable “gesture,” as it has
been called, disapproving prohibi
tion. F
Still Held Captive.
The foreigners, including Amer- '
icans, who were kidnaped when Chi
nese bandits held up the Shanghai-
Pekin express, are still prisoners in
the Shantung wilds.
What’s more, the outlaws are
I threatening to kill them if the gov
| eminent doesn’t give the guarantees
I they demahd. They actually have
I ’! 1 a number of Chinese prison-
I ers to show they mean business.
To be sure, the government has
promised the brigands all they want
but the bandits are afraid the gov
ernment will break its word.
United States Minister Schurman
at Pekin has threatened “drastic
action” if the prisoners aren’t freed.
The trouble is, while the United
States can make things veiy un
pleasant for the government, it
won’t help the prisoners. In fact,
trouble for the government is just
what the outlaws enjoy most.
England and Italy.
King George of England has paid
a visit to Rome. French newspapers
speak of it as recalling the visits
his father, the late K ; ng Edward,
often paid to Paris when he was
framing the “entente” between Eng
land and France.
Only this time it’s Italy that’s
visited.
In view of increasing friction be
tween the English and French gov- I
ernments, some of the Paris papers
wonder if King George isnt’ trying
to arrange an Anglo-Italian “en
tente,” perhaps not in out-and-out
opposition to, but at least quite dis
tinct from the understanding which
links France and Belgium together,
especially Tn relation to their Ruhr
policy.
Another German Offer
Another thing worries the Paris
press.
Dispatches from Berlin say Chan
cellor Cuno of Germany is prepar
ing a fresh reparations offer.
The Paris papers say they’re
afraid this proposition may take
such a form as to satisfy England
and Italy without satisfying France
and Belgium.
Down in Mexico.
An attempt has been made to
blow up the United States consulate,
in Mexico City with a bomb.
Nobody was hurt, but a lot of
damage was done.
It leaks out also that a similar at
tempt was made recently against
the United States embassy.
It seems certain the perpetrators
were trying to prevent; American
recognition of President Obregon’s
government.
Some people think, they were
“reds” who don’t want any govern
ment at all. Others believe they
were reactionaries who want to go
back to the old regime, such as pre
vailed under President Diaz, when
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WEATHER r
For Georgia: Showers tonight and
Sunday; little change in tempera
ture' . —.
-, < I
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EOffiß PROHI AGENT
ARRESTED ON SECRET
COUNT AT CLEVELAND
Two Brothers Charged With Con
spiraev to Violate Volstead
Act, DeFraud Government
SEIZE PROHI DIRECTOR TOO
Politician and Church Leader
Among Number Held Under
Similar Indictments in Ohio
CLEVELAND, May 26.—Fred'
Counts, federtdF prohibition agerl
for the Cleveland district and his
brother Frank Counts were arrested
today by the order of the United
States District Attorney Bernsteen
on secret indictments by the federal I
grand jury charging conspiracy to
violate the national prohibition act
and to defraud the government by 1
obstructing prohibition enforcement. ’
At almost the same time govern
ment operatives for Bernsteen seiz
ed Joseph Shearer former federal
prohibition director for Ohio, and
Samuel Hoskins a politician and
chmch worker of Southern Ohio, as ; j
they arrived from Columbus.
Shearer and Hoskins are charged
in the same secret indictments weth
participation in the same alleged
conspiracy to violate the Volstead H
Act and ’to furnish protection to J
others, according to Bernsteen.
SENAIBR HfflSH
IUONBAV Fill ADDRESS
Senator Harris Will Speak at
Courthouse, Giving Account
of His Stewardship
Senator William J. Harris, who is
making a tour of South Georgia, will
speak in Americus Monday and it is
expected a large crowd will be here to
hear him. He will speak at the court
house and Superior court will ad
journ after organizing the grand
jury in order to permit him to use
the courtroom. The theme of his talk
will be a resume of work accomplish
ed by him in the upper house of
congress. . » %. .
SLATON INTERESTED IN
GA. TAXATION PROBLEM
ATLANTA, May 26.—The posi
tion of Former Governor John M.
Slaton of Georgia, opposing an
abandonment of Georgia ideals and
constitutional pro’/isions, parUicu- t
larly as to taxation, has proved to
be a subject of absorbing interest
among business men and editors
throughout the state.
The pressing problem of taxation .
is challenging the best and mo
varied thought of Georgia. A>
pointed out here, it is a big ques
tion not to be solved by small minds |
And the distinctly hopeful thing in
the entire situation, says James E.
Nevin, well known Atlanta editor,
is that the problem, is challenging
the serious thought and candid ex
pression of Georgia’s leading men,
regardless of faction or political
alignment. . , .
APPROVE FLORIDA PLAN
FOR DUSTING WEEVILS
VALDOSTA, May 26.—Strong
approval and endorsement was giv
en A. J. Strickland’s boll weevil
dusting plan, a group of railroad ag
ricultural experts passing through
Valdosta enroute ' Madison. These
visitors are in Madison today to see
a demonstration of what is known as
the Florida Plan” for boll weevil
control.
DISK NOW TO CONTROL
FORT VALLEY, May 26.—The
first curculio pupation of the 1923
season was observed in the insec
tary on Saturday, May 19, accord
ing to laboratory experts here. Con
sequently the inactive stage in the
development of the insect is now
taking place in the soil under the
spread of peach trees, and growers
are advised to use the extension
disk close to the tree trunks as fre
quently as possible from now until
harvest. During the pupation per
iod the curcuilo is in a soil cell, in
a very delicate state. Frequent disk
ing breaks the soil cells and the deli,
cate insect is killed by the heat and
pressure of the soil.
The Early Rose and Carmen var
ieties should be sprayed for the last
time this week. Hileys will be ready
for the fourth application May 31.
great numbers of Mexicans virtually
were slaves.
1 Andrew Bonar Law has resigned
as premier of England.
His retirement had nothing to do
with politics, but was forced by ill
health. Consequently his successor
will be, like himself, of the Con
servative party.
The premiership already has been
given Stanley Baldwin.
Curzon unquestionably is an ab
solutely honest, high-minded man
but one of the most,ultra-conserva
tive statesmen in the world today.
His premiership would have consoli
dated all advanced English elements
against the Conservatives. . ,