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Terrific Earth Shocks Are Felt In East India
EXPLOSION DESTROYS BIG POWDER MILL
EBE KILLED WHEN
GELATIN PLANT IS
WRECKED BE BL®
All of Those Killed Were Em
ployes at Work Inside De
stroyed Building
CAUSE NOT DETERMINED
Only One Other Building Near
Destroyed Structure Is
Damaged Seriously
FAYVILLE, Ills., (May 29.
Five men were killed and three
were injured in an explosion at the
Hercules Powder company here to
day.
The explosion was in the gelatin
plant in which the five killed were
working.
The cause of the blast is un
determined.
the packing plant was destroyed
but only one other of the numerous
buildings of the plant was damaged.
WOODffIEN HERE TO
ATTEND DIST. MEET
Gathering at Bronwood Wed
nesday to Be Addressed by
Dr. Alien and W. T. Lane
Americus Woodmen, members of
Arneircus Camp No. 202, W'. 0.
W., will be well represented at a
district meeting to be held Wed
nesday at Bronwood, when Bron
wood Woodmen will entertain more
than a hundred visitors.
Dr. Henry B. Allen, past consul
commander of Georgia Woodmen,
and W. T. Lane, a prominent
Americus Woodmen, have been in
vited to address the assemblage and
they will make the principal talks
there.
Entertainment features prepared
for the visitors by Bronwood Wood
men include a large barbecue, at
which more than fifty carcasses will
be served, and a day of log-rolling
always enjoyable among the Wood
men.
FmLWPEO
L. DEAD AT TABLE
orking.
dermin ed.
Resident of 28th District Expires
Suddenly While Visiting
Home of Son Here
Zacharias B. Fussell, 66 years of
age, died at 7 o’clock this morning
at the home of his son, H.
Armistead Fussell, 914 Oglethorpe
avenue, death coming suddenly and
without warning .while the family
was gathered at the breakfast ta
ble ‘
Funeral services will be held
from the Fussell home on Ogle-,
thorpe avenue Wednesday after
noon at 3:30 o’clock, with Dr. Carl
W. Minor, pastor of the First Bap
tist church ,officiating at the ob
sequies. Interment will be in Oak
Grove cemetery.
Surviving are his widow, three
daughters, Mrs. A. M. Howell, of j
Americus; Mrs. 0. H. Howell, of
the 28th district; and Mrs. Amos
F. Johnson, of KuiUsboro, Ala.;
four sons, Armistead Fussell, of
Americus; Luther Fussell, Ernest
Fussell and Hugh Fussell, of Plains.
His aged mother, Mrs. Martha Fus
sell, of Enterprise, Ala., and five
sisters, Mrs. Mary Jones, of Pel
ham; Mrs. Rachel Daniel, Mrs. Nan
McGehee, Mrs. Mary Russ, of En
terprise, Ala., and Mrs. Patsie Har
den, of Pavo, also survive, besides
two brothers, James Fussell, of En
terprise, Ala., and Joe Fussed, of
Brockton, Ala.
Mr. Fussell, who was born and
reared in Sumter county in the 28th
district, was a well known and high
ly esteemed farmer of that section,
and his sudden death has caused
widespread sorrow in his communi
ty. He had come to Americus Mon
day to spend the night with his son
and his family on Oglethorpe ave
nue, and was apparently in his us
ual health during the night and ear
ly morning. It is thought that a
heart affection, unsuspected by
him, caused his death. •
He was a -member of Bethel Bap
tist church, and was prominent in'
affairs of his cominunity.
MEDIATE ECONOMIC
BUSINESS MEETING
TO SOLVE PROBLEMS
This Is Demand Voiced by New
York Senator in Cornmience
ment Address
NO PERMANENCY
Says America “Living in Fool’s
Paradise. ’ Disregarding
Warning of World
RALEIGH, May 29.—An immedi
ate busines and economic confer
ence to include all the nations and
from which Would be barred all po
litical differences and intrigue was.
advanced as one possible of solution
of the tangled world affairs by
United States Senator Royals Copy
land, of New York, in a\ address at
the annual commencement exercis.
es at the North Carolnia State col
lege.
Particular stress was laid on
world conditions as they affect the
American farmer. “We are living
in fools paradise” Copeland declar
ed. “In certain lines in America
we have prosperity, but idleness
in the rest of the world should warn
us that our prosperity is likely to
be transient.”
DENVER TO GET HEIT
IMIS CONVENTION
Portland, Seattle and St. Paul
Are Making Bids for G'ath
» ering in 1925
I,
ATLANTA, May 29 —Reports of
standing committees featured the
general session this afternoon of
the Kiwanis Clubs International
now holding their seventh annual
convention here.
With. Denver virtually decided
upon for the next convention, in
terest turned to the contest for the
1925 convention city, and Portland
and Seattle, in the northwest, were
joined*by St. Paul, Minn., in mak
ing bids for the meeting.
Candidates for the next interna
tional presidency were'also discuss
ed, with the name of Elwood Tur
ner, of Chester, Pa., prominently
mentioned.
BIG CLK It ■
HIGH GET HUBS
Largest Senior Class at Big Con
solidated School Are
Graduated
I|ESLIE, May 29. - At Union
Highschool auditorium Monday eve
ning the largest class in the history
of the school receive I diplomas.
First on the program of the eve
ning was Class Song. Duet, Misses
Nettie Mae Bass and Sara Pool;
Salutatory, Bessie Lou Pass; Vale
dictory, Daisy Sims.
Rev. C. M. Ledbetter, of Vienna,
gave the Literary address of the
evening and delivered the diplomas
to the following: Edwin Hines,
John Bailey, Helen Dell, Bessie Lou
Bass, Nettie Mae Bass, Louise
Bradley, Geraldine Bradley, Carri
bel Ferguson, Eunice Ford, Marita
Glaze, Antoinette Green, Viola Hol
man, Loucile Kinard Bessie Law,
Sara Pool, Daisy Sims, Ella Young,
Roy Bradley, Charlie Cheek, Doug
las Cox, Rubin Hines, Robert
Hines, Douglas Jones, Ray Jones
William B. Perry and Arlis Stewart.
Melba Harvey was the little mas
cot. x
The stage was beautifully deco
rated for the occasion in the class
colors of pink and green.
TO DECORATE GRAVES
A number of federal army vet
erans will gather in Andersonville
to decorate the graves of soldiers
buried in the cemetery there, and
an appropriate program will be ob
served. Most of those who will
participate in the ceremonies will
come from Fitzgerald, the Grand
army post there being charged with
the care of the graves at Anderson
ville, more than thirteen thousand
soldiers being buried there.
Attaches of the cemetery staff
were busy today getting the
grounds in readiness for the visi
tors, and a tiny United States flag
will be placed at the headstone of
each grave. Andersonville people
as well as a number from Ameri
cus are expected to attend the ob
servance tomorrow.
THE TIMES- RECORDER
REVIVALS IN PROGRESS
AT WAYCROSS, NOT HERE
The omission of a single line
sometimes gives such a difference
of meaning that in Monday’s edi
tion the Times-Recorder printed an
item to the effect that revival were
in progress at both the First Bap
tist and First Mtehodist churches.
The item sent the Times-Recorder
by its Waycross correspondent,
should have been dated Waycross.
Attention is called to thei error,
so that none here may obtain a
wrong impression therefrom.
fORMEnS
MN DIED MONDAY
Body of Tim Allen to Be
Brought Here For Burial
Wednesday
Americus friends of Tim Allen
wore shocked this morning by the
announcement of his death last
night in Gfeenville, S. C.
He is survived by one brother
and four sisters, John D. Allen, of
Texas; Mrs. John T. Taylor, of
Americus; Mrs. J. G. Parks, of
Dawson; Mi’s. A. E. Chappell and
Miss Nettie Allen, of Macon, as well
as other relatives of Macon, Amer
icus and Daw'son.
His young manhood was spent
in Americus and every one who
knew him loved him fdr his many
traits,of character and bright
happy dwdsition.
The body will reach Americus
on ths 2:ls.train Wednesday after,
noon and funeral services will be
conducted from the home of John
T. Taylor, on South Lee street, at
4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.
Nephews of deceased will act as
pallbearers.
GAINES DENIES KASTE
IN SCHOOL f D ND S
Atlanta Board Member Asserts
Every Cent Expended Ac
cording to Law
ATLANTA, May 29—When Dr.
W. W. Gaines, president of the
board of educhtion, was asked to
express an opinion on the charges
of Mayor Walter A. Sims to the ef
fect that the school board had been
guilty of extravagance in the mat
ter of expending school bond funds
he stated that not a cent had been
wasted and not a dollar had been
spent without the authority of the
mayor himself.
Dr. Gaines had not heard of the
mayor’s declaration on Saturday,
when he said that he had received
numerous complaints from taxpay
ers in regard to the expenditure of
$4,000,000 allotted to the board of
education from the last bond issue.
“I can not answer the mayor
quite fully now, but I want to say
emphatically that not a cent has
been wasted and not a dollar ex
pended without the sanction of the
mayor and with the full consent of
the. whole board of education,” he
said.
EVANGELIST TO TALK
ON “FOOLISH QUESTIONS’’
Foolish and inopportune ques
tions of a religious nature will re
ceive the attention of Evangelist
A. B. Lipscomb in his sermon un
der the big tent on Jackson street
tonight. The evangelist has an
nounced that he will present a
frank and scriptural discussion of
such questions as follow:
“What will become of the good
man who dies out of the church?”
“How about the millions of heath
en people who never hear the gos
pel and have no opportunity to
obey it?”
“What will be the fate of the
eleventh houi - man who shows on
ly death-bed repentence?”
Much interest has already been
manifested in the discussion of
these questions and a large crowd
is expected.
Song service will begin at 8 p.
m. It was regrettable to many
that the downpour of rain inter
fered with the service on Monday
evening.
TO HONOR OVERSEAS
GRAVES ON MAY 30TH
INDIANAPOLIS, May 29—Sol
emn ceremony for final consecra
tion of the 32 10(1 graves of Ameri
cans in foreign soil will be con
ducted in Europe by the American
Legion and the Overseas Memorial
Day association on May 30. These
services have been arranged to pay
tribute to the resting places of the
American dead in France, Belgium
and Great Britain.
AMERICUS. GA.. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 29. 1923
DAUGHERTY DENIES HE
: KILL fcIGN: KNOWS
lOTMKI OF DEPORTS
Cabinet Returned to Duties at
, WashiigLon After Several
Weeks’ Rest in Ohio
BACK QN JOB ACTIVELY
Says He’sjj Better and Feels Bet
ter Since Taken 111
Eafiy Last Winter
WASHINGTON, May 29—Attor
ney General Daugherty, returning
• to Washington after a period of
rest in Ohio, today attended the
nrst cabinet meeting in several
weeks and denfied reports which
had been circulating that he would
resign.
“I have heard nothing and know’
nothing of the reports published in
Ohio that I am to resign,” Daugh
erty said, “I feel better and I am
better than since I was taken ill
last winter, and am now ready to
get back on the job actively.”
KILL SPEND MILLIBN
FDR GEORGIA YAMS
Company Headed by John A
Manget, of Atlanta, to Go
Into Potato Industry Big
i. A i fI T A^ TA ’ May 29 ’ Fift y million
bushels of yams from Georgia grow
ers amounting, at.present prices, to
fifty million dollars are wanted this
season by the recently organized
, Georgia Yam Curing Company, ac
cording to an announcement today
of John A. Manget, prominent'At
, lanta capitalist and president of t’he
tiew company.
, The Georgia Yam Curing Com
pany has been recently formed and
will be incorporated for one million
dollars to develop the sweet potato
industry of Georgia, to cure the
yams by a new forced air process
and to ship them to the markets of
the world. Mr. Manget heads the
company and D. H. Bee*, former
ly of Texas and the inventor of the
new curing system is the manager
The company has opened offices at
59 Cone street, Atlanta.
Tins company plans to interest
civic leaders m every Georgia com
munity in the new curing process
and to co-operate with them in
building curing plants in their
communities, it will keep in touch
with the distant markets and adivse
the local plants when and where to
ship their yams. In this way the en
tire Georgia crop can be handled.
The annual production of sweet
potatoes of fifty million bushels a
year desired by the new company
is about four times the usual pro
duction in the state. Last year only
13,500,000 bushels were raised in
Georgia and of this crop only about
three per cent reached distant mar
kets because previously no prqceSs
has been devised by which yams
could be properly cured in commer
cial quantities for long distance
! shipping.
However, the method which will
be exploited by Mr. Manget has
proven by actual trial that yams
cured by it are in good condition
the year after they"are grown. Dur
ing the experimental work, by the ,
process potatoes grown in Texas one ■
summer were sent to France, and ;
eaten the following summer. They ■
were in transit seventy-four days
and arrived in perfect condition, i
Plans are under way to establish
these curing plants in every part of :
the state, according to Mr. Manget. <
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FIRST CAR OF GEORGIA
PEACHES IS SHIPPED 1
MACON, May 29.--The first car <
of peaches shipped from Georgia i
this year was handled Monday by i
the Central of Georgia railway from <
Bradley, Ga., the peaches being of i
the Mayflower variety and the des. i
tfnatioh New York Ci.v. 1
JOHN VEREEN DIES I
MOULTRIE, Ga., May 29—John .
Vereen, 25, youngest son of W. C. t
Vereen, wealthy Moultrie’ banker f
and manufacturer and naval stores t
factor, and a brother of W. J. Ve- i
reen, former chairman of the state j
democratic executive committee, j
died suddenly Sunday night. Fun- j
era! services were held Monday as- c
ternoon. c
PACE DfCLARES HE
KILL REDEffI PRE
ELECTION PLEDGES
Senator-Elect From Thirtieth
District Getting Ready to
Abolish Useless Offices
j WANTS NEW TAX LAWS
Invisible Property Now Escaping
Just Proportion of Public
Burden, Must Pay
An article in the Atlanta papers I
of Sunday morning contained the'
statement that Senator-elect Ste
phen Pace, of Americus, had writ
ten Governor Hardwick pledging
his aid in the governor’s campaign
against useless offices and employ
ees, and asking the governor for
copies of investigations ma<e of
various state departments by the
experts Governor Hardwick em
ployed last year. When seen today
by a reported from the Times-Re
eorder and asked concerning his ac
tivities along this line Senator
Pace said:
Just a few days before the pri
mary in which I was nominated, I
mailed to the voters of the county
a statement of my position on cer
tain public questions; among other
things, this statement contained
the following:
“ ’There are hundreds of thous
ands of dollars beings thrown away
by useless office-holders, inspectors,
supervisors, etc., the system seems
to be to give men jobs rather than
give the people service; the ma
jority of these offices can be
abolished without loss to anyone
i except the job-holder. To this
work I plegde my constant and best
efforts.’
My election converted this prom
ise into a most sacred obligation,
and it ,i,s my desire, as well as my
duty, to carry it out faithfully and
explicity. In order to do so in an
intelligent and efficient manner I
intend to exhaust every possible
source of information and dig into
every available record so as to as
certain as nearly as possible the
exact duties of every state em
ployee and of what service he is
to the people. It is in the course
of this investigation that I wrote j
Governor Hardwick for copies of |
certain records in his office. (
“My pre-election statement also
contained the followign declara-1
tion:
“‘I do not believe that it is
right for only those of us who have |
visible property to pay all the !
taxes. l |
“In other words, I believe the
present tax equalization law is a
failure. While it has, in a limited
way, equalized the respective tax
able values of farm land and oth
er real estate, by constantly rais
ing them, it has not, in the slight
est, placed on the books the
great wealth of this state
in the form of invisible property.
I have never been able to under
stand why money, notes, accounts,
and other forms of invisible prop
erty should not bear a just pro
portion of the tax burden; they
have exactly the same protection
from the laws as visible property,
their value is maintained by the
authority and stability of the gov
ernment, for the support of which
all taxes are levied. Just let a
man refuse to pay his note and
see how quick the holder will re
port to the courts, maintained by
the money, to enforce payment,
and wet that note hasn’t paid one
penny of tax to maintain the court.
Believing this so-called ‘Equaliza
tion’ law has been a failure, I shall
vote for its repeal at the ensuing
session. I know there are many
who say the repeal of this law will
wreck the state; that we cannot
raise sufficient revenue without it.
I listened to this argument for the
four years I was in the house, and
each year vigorously opposed the
repeal of this law, but I have now
come td the conclusion that it
would be better to entirely discon
tinue some of the state agencies for
a while, give some of the job-hold
ers a vacation than to longer con
tinue the present system of mak
ing one class of property carry all
of the budren all of the time. Be
sides, I have the personal assur
ance of Governor-elect Walker
that, in the event the general as
sembly fails to enact a just and
adequate tax law during the regu
lar session, he will call an extra
session confined to the tax ques
tion. Frankly, I believe an extra
session will be necessary; there are
too many other matters demanding
attention during the regular session
for the members to come to an
agreement on a tax bill; it required
an extra session to rid the state
of the convict lease system; it re
quired an extra session to get a
THOUSAND ARE KILLED
IN INDIAN EADTMAKE
AT THROATIEEAIDARI
Advices From Teheran Give
Few Details of Great Disas
ter There
SEVERAL SHOCKS FELT
Many Villages Said to Have
Been Devastated as Result of
Tremors
ALLAHARD, British India, May
■29.—-(By the Associated Press.
Persia advices to the newspaper,
j Pioneer, from Theran state that
one thousand persons have been
| killed by an earthquake at Turbat
[ Haidari.
The earth shocks covered a period
of several hours.
Many villages are said to have
been devastated.
B(JSINESS"IS"fiOOD.
SAYS DANK RERDRT
Review of Sixth Federal Reserve
District Shows Improvement
in Ail Lines of Trade
A T LANTA, May 29.—Business
conditions in the Sixth Federal Re
serve district have continued fav
orable through April ami early May
according to the monthly business,
review of the Federal Reserve bank
made public today. There is, how
ever, considerably more caution
and conservatism in evidence now,
•the review says, that there wan
a month or six weeks ago, and it
is evident that the lessons learned
in 1920 are still fresh in the mem
ory of business men, as well as the
general buying public. The recent
efforts to bring down the price
of sugar have shown conclusively
that the buying population of the
country has not forgotten what
happened three years ago, and it
appears to be quite certain that
dealers in various commodities are
averse to price advances.
Weather Conditions during April 1
and the first part of May had some
adverse effect on trade, but on 1
the whole the volume of business ■
by retail and wholesale firms con
tinues to show favorable compari
sons with last year. Crop condi
tions at the present are not go
favorable as they were a month or
two ago, because of the almost con
stant wet weather which has con
siderably delayed planting and cul
tivations of the crop".
IPEANDT GROWERS TO
MEH IN ALBANI SOON
Permanent Organization Meet
ing to Be Held Friday With
f Acreage Goal in Sight
ALBANY, May 29.—With the
minimum requirements almost se
cured the Georgia Peanut Growers’
Co-operative association has called
a meeting in Albany Friday of all
members of the county organiza-
I tion committees to perfect a per
' manent organization, district thp
territory for directors, apply for a
charter of incorporation and issue
a call for an election of officers.
The tentative agreement under
which the Peanut association is
operating provided that 50 per cent
of the 1922 acreage in the terri
tory comprising the association
should be signed by July 1 or ear
lier to make the contracts binding
and to permit permanent organi
zation. It is believed that this
minimum will be secured by Friday,
or exactly one month in advance
of the tinal limit.
TWELVE GIRLS GET
DIPLOMAS AT ANDREW
CUTHBERT, May 29—The grad
uating exercises of Andrew College
took place Monday. Twelve young
ladies went from old Andrew to
battle with life’s problems. Judge
W. H. Covington, of Moultrie, de
livered the literary address to the
graduating class. Judge Covington
is a strong man, a substantial citi
zen, and mayor of his town, and
a member of the General Assembly
from Colquitt county. His address
was timely, forceful and logical,
couched in rhetorical language and
listened to with rapt attention by
not only the graduating class, but
by all who hear him.
prohibition law, and I now ‘fear it
Will require an extra sesison to
effect a. solution of the greatest of
all question, that is, a fair and
adequate tax system.
WEATHER
For Georgia Partly cloudy to
night and Wednesday; probably
thunder showers.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
lUFffl LIKELY IB BE
(ACCEPTED. LASKER
i SAYS. If BONA EIDE
Company Would Pay Govern
ment Huge Sum in Annual
Installments
SLACK PRESENTS OFFER
Propose to Buy AU Ships, ‘Act
ive and Inactive,’ Belonging
to Shipping Board
, WASHINGTON, May 29,-The
Shipping Board will investigate
thoroughly the offer of more than
? 1,000,000,000 received yesterday
t ‘ ntlre merc ’hant marina
tluet, ( hairmarf Lasker said today,
and if the bidders will back their
Proposal “there can be do doubt
that the board will make the award
to them.”
T . The ° ffer was presents.! by
John Slack, president of the Co
lumbia Postal Supply company of
Sliver Creek, N. Y.
It is proposed to pay $1,051,000,-
000 "for all the ships active and
inactive and ail other property of
the Shipping Board, real, personal
and mixed.”
An initial payment of $51,000,-
000 would be made October first
this year and $50,000,000 yearly
until the entire sum is paid.
COITDN KN DISCUSS
D. S. STANDARDS ACT
Public Hearing Discloses Wide
spread Approval of Provis
ions of New Measure
WASHINGTON, May 29.—1 nan
efideavor to find a satisfactory bas
is for the regulations co cany out
the new Cotton Standards act which
becomes effective August 1, Secre
tary Wallace, of the Department of
Agriculture, conferred with a group
of cotton men Monday.
Public hearings conducted luring
the last month in the South have
developed widespread approval of
the new act, it was reported, but
opposition has developed in some
cotton exporting centers to the pro
vision in the law requiring that
United States official cotton stan
dards be used in foreign trading.
Department of AgrUuH.ire offi
cials hold it would be illegal under
the new law for an American mer
chant to accept a foreign offer for
sale of cotton based on grades oth
er than the United States official
standards.
SYSTEM IS NEEDED
Indifference. Carelessnes and In
efficiency Alyeged in Many
Atlanta City Departments
ATLANTA, May 29—Deploring
the present system of operation in
various departments of the city
government which they describe as
“impossible owing to existence of
indifference, carelessness and inef
ficiency,’’ the firm of Dawson &
Edison, city auditors, in a report
filed with Mayor Sims Monday, rec
ommends a number of reforms in
the system and suggests that a
centralized auditing department be
established to check wastes that are
row being borne.
T.ie suggestion of a centralized
auditing department wh ch would
abolish all auditing branches in va
rious departments, is in line with
the sentiments of Mayor' Sims, who
has persistently advocated such a
system since his inauguration, as
mayor on the first of this year. The
mayor stated he would consider the
report carefully and forward it to
council with a request that “:some
thing be done” immediately.
FORMER GOVERNOR
FOLK DIED MONDAY
WASHINGTON, May 29—Joseph
W. Folk, 53, former governor of
Missouri and once a leading figure
in democratic party politics, died
Monday in New York.
Information of his death was re
ceived at the law office he has
maintained here for the past sev
eral years. He passed away at the
home of his sister, Mrs. James A
Webb, after having been in ill
health for some months.
MAN DANGEROUSLY HURT
IS BROUGHT TO GRADY
ATLANTA, May 29—Probably
fatally hurt, A. J. Maderson, 23,
of 323 Whitehall street, was
brought to Grady hospital by two
men, with a serious wound on his
head. The men would not give
their names nor tell how Maderson
received the wound. Police are
conducting an investigation and ar
rests will probably be made today,
it is indicated. . _