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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 1 32
DIFFICULT JOB FACES U. S. DRY FORCES
Americus Banker Urges Economy Upon Officals
LG. COUNCIL SOUNDS
WARNING THAT TH
BURDEN IST LESSEN
Declares Farmers Must Have Re
lief—l 922 Taxes Yet
Unpaid
SAYS END USELESS JOBS
People Must Have Roads; Mala
ria Must Go, But Time to Call
a Halt on Higher Taxes
“We’ve got to call a halt. It’s
time someone was sounding a warn
ing. A balance-sheet must event
ually be struck, and I think the
sooner we realize this, the better
for all concerned,” L. G. Council
said to a reporter of the Times-
Recorder Saturday morning.
“Taxes and more taxes; it almost
is a daily occurrence for sqme ad
ditional tax to be asked for or sug
gested, and I am speaking for the
farmers principally. They are al
ready up to their necks and simp
ly Cannot add to their burden.
‘There are lots of things we
think we need and would like to
have, but right now we must cut
the garment to fit the cloth. Our
people simply cannot pay the tax
es already placed on them.
“Here’s a list of five prominent
Sumter county farmers; every one
a good business man and a hard
yvorker, but conditions have been
against them and they cannot pay
their 1922 state and county taxes,
Mr .Small tells me, and their lands
will be advertised unless some one
comes to their rescue: $1,176.00
for ohe of them; another owes
$460.41; three more owe $476.19,
$626.75 and $208.60, respectively.'
These mentioned are only a few
of the many Sumter county farm
'ers whom I could name, all in just
as deplorable condition as the five
instances given you.
“The legislature meets in a few
days and I hope our three rep
resentatives, three of ar, able men
as there will be found in the state
law-making body, will go to Atlanta
with their minds made up to ap
propriate just as little money as
they possibly can. I hope they
will search diligently every depart
ment of the state government seek
ing to eliminate useless or semi
useless jobs, cutting appropriations
to the bone,” said Mr. Council.
“The same is true of our coun
ty. We must call a halt. There
are some things that must be done
and I do not want to be misunder
stood by cur people. We must keep
rip our roads; we msut, by all
means, get rid cf mosquito breed
ing places. Fever is and will con
tinue to interefere with our labor
and this labor question is the most
acute, problem before us today.
But our county officials must help
keep taxes down all they can.
“The city school board is asking
for 8 mills fdt our schools.- Lam
not-in position to say whether they
can get along on less than 8 mills,
Lut if it is possible to operate our
s 'bools next year on 7 mills, I be-,
fteve we should. But as T said
before, that is a question for the
board to [decide.
■' “However, I am opposed to
any bill that may be presented to
the legislature that will continue
this extra levy for an indefinite
pcripd. The period should be limit
ed. If we will trim at every cor
ner, even though it be for only a
small amount, the total at the end
of the year may mean the saving
of the financial life of some our
people.
“Al) eminent financial authori
ty, a man who knows what he js
talking about, said the other day
that while manufacturing interests
of the nation were 100 per cent
active/ and prosperous, the farm
ers of the nation were only 60
per'cent in like condition. Tak
ing the State of Georgia as a whole,
I believe the percentage is nearer
30 or 40, than 60 per cent.
‘Here in Sumter county we are
so much better off than our neigh
bors in North and Central Geor
gia, that we have much to be
thankful for, and yet as I said
before, we have a large number
of our farmers who cannot now
pay their taxes. What are these
fellows to do, if additional tax
burdens are laid on them?
“If we cannot travel under the
burden in Sumter, what must be
the condition of those fellow’s in
the upper part of the state? I tell
you, they are up against the hard
est fight any community ever
faced.
“There are many ways to re
duce this tax burden, if our rep
resentatives will only roll up their
sleeves and go to it. There are de
partments in the state that are
wasting hundreds of thousands of
dollars; there are officials on fee
that should be placed on
salary and this in my opinion, will
(Continued on Page 5.)
AMERICANS TAKE INTERNATIONAL OPTION
KLAN RECEIVERSHIP
EFFORT MT PASSED
0# Bl COURT TODAY
Case Set for Hearing but Not
Reached on Docket Before
Adjournment
ACTION IS POSTPONED
Petition Brought by David Rit
tenhouse Charges Gross
Irregularities
ATLANTA, June 9—No action
Wks taken today on the petition for
receivershir for the Ku Klux Klan
filed by David Rittenhouse, of Phil
adelphia, and others alleging gross
mismanagement of the klan fund'
by Imperial Wizard Evans and his
associates.
The case had been set for today
before Superior Court Judge Hum
phries, but was not reached on the
docket.
RESIDENCE DISTRICT
FOUND 91 PCT. CLEAN
White Homes Cleanest of AU;
Negro Section 95 Pct. Clean;
Business District Dirty
Sanitary Inspe/cor J. C. Arring
ton has just completed his latest
rounds in connection with the
clean-up campaign and made his
report today to Dr. J. Wade Cham
bliss, city health officer. This re
port divides the city into three sec
tions, the white residence district
being found 98 per cent clean; the
negro residence part of town 95
per cent clean, and the business
district comparatively dirty, the
percentage there being on|y 84.
“The comparative dirty condi
tion of the business section is due,”
said Dr. Chambliss this morning,
“in part to the larger number of
garbage cans maintained there as
well as to the gerater quantity of
refyse to be disposed of in that
part of Americus. There remains
room, however, for much improve
ment and business men a}re re
quested to co-operate more closely
with the health authorities in tjaeir
efforts to eliminate sources of dis
ease and contagion- here.”
CUYIiTwEEDS
ON VACANT LOTS CUT
These Constitute Source of Mos
quito Propagation and Must
Be Removed
High Weeds growing luxuriantly
in Americus constitute a source of
mosquito propagation that must be
removed, say health authoritie
here.
Officer J. C. Arrington haS been
assigned the special duty this week
,of having these weeds c ut, and
householders are being notified to
look after lawns and other places
where weds have grown up dur
ing the recent wet spell.
The elimination of weeds is one
of the most important activities in
the malaria elimination campaign,
and Dr. J. W'. Chambliss, city
health officer, today said the whole
resources of his department are to
be directed toward having weeds
cut during the next week.
Owners of vacant lots in isolated
sections of Americus are especially
requested to have these removed,
the hay crop there, in many cases,
! being sufficient to make the cut
ting profitable from a financial as
well as a community health stand
point. *
■CORDELE LIONS SUPPORT
FIVE-YEAR PROGRAM
CORDELE, June 9.—The local!
Lions club at their last luncheon I
heard the plans, in part, of the I
proposed five year program for|
Cordele and Crisp County discussed;
by President Monroe Hunt of the;
Crisp County Board of Trade. The,
mefnbers present were very favor-1
ably impressed with what was out-!
lined by Mr. Hunt in the brief,
time he had for going into the sub-!
ject and voted unanimously to join ,
other organizations in putting the (
program over in case it was finally;
decided upon. . 1
THE TIMES-RECORDER
Fellows, Let Go! Come
Across For Baseball
Approximately SI,OOO of a fund of $1,500 has been secured
by the baseball campaign committee and the solicitations were
still under way Saturday.
“Five of the six clubs already have raised their funds,” Julian
Reynolds, of zXlbany, said this morning. “Americus must come
in with us. I will guarantee that the first game will be played in
Americus against the Albany team," said Mr. Reynolds.
Mr. Reynolds and Sid Stern, of Albany, spenPthe day with
the local committee. Albany is most anxious that Americus be
one of the six towns in the Inter-City league. Mr. Reynolds sub
scribed SSO to the Americus fund.
“Americus is a good baseball town and with a team com
posed of good, clean college fellows, 1 believe the team will
be self-supporting,” Reynolds declares. “Baseball meant a great
deal to Albany last year and this season we had no trouble in
getting our guarantee.”
Let’s have baseball in Americus this summer. The fellow who
plays hard is the fellow whp, as a rule, works the hardest. An
afternoon on the bleachers will get tlqe kinks out of your brain.
You’ll feel better on the
The Times-Recorder does not say that no town is a progres
sive tpwn until it has a baseball team, but it does say that most
progressive towns have baseball.
Fellows, let’s go. Call Bob Lane or Theron Jennings and tell
them to put you down for $25 or whatever sum yoU can spare.
Invest that much in your town, if you agree with us.
U. S. JUDGE HOLDS
FOUR PROUI AGENTS
FOR KILLING JETTS
Habeas Corpus Proceedings Be
fore Judge Sibley at Athens
Ended This Afternoon
TWO MEN ARE RELEASED
Chief Darby, of White Plains,
and Union Point Marshal
Are Given Freedom
ATLANTA, June 9.—Four of the
six federal and county officers
held in connection with the killing
of Jett Smith and J. D. Smith, of
Athens, June 1, were held under
bonds of SSOO each for their ap
pearance in Greene county courts
today by Federal Judge Sibley in
United States court here.
Two of the accused officers,
Chief of Police Darby, of White
Plains, and Chief of Police E. N.
Brooks, of Union Point, were re
leased from custody, being found
guiltless.
Jude Sibley rendered his decis
ion at the close of the habeas cor
pus proceedings in which the state
opposed the release of the officers
on the ground that their attempted
arrest of. the Smith aS alleged rum
runners was illegal in that they
had acted without any process au
thorizing either searc hor seizure.
\
55.000 DAMAGE DONE
INGINEIREATDESOTD
Property of J. H. Hunt Destroy
ed Late Friday Night—Or
igin of Blaze Unknown
Fire discovered about 10 o’clock
Friday night totally destroyed the
gi house of J. H. Hunt at DeSoto,
the loss being estimated at ap
proximately $5,0'00. So far as
could be learned here today there
was no insurance carried on the
burned building. The ginning out
fit was a comparatively new one,
having been instaleld last fall. Mr.
Hunt, who owns the property is a
resident of Gainesville, but has
important farming interests in this
section of Sumter county.
EDUCATION PATRONS AT
THOMASV’LIE ORGANIZE
THOMASVILLE, June 9.—Sev
enteen suscribers to the education
[fund for the purpose of sending
I young men away to college with
I sufficient funds to pay their way,
[ met Thursday night at the Tosco
■Hotel and formed an organization.
I The inc orporation will be known,
[as the Thomas County Educational i
I Foundation, Incorporated. This!
[fund Was started last year with,
'about thirty-five hundred dollars
[ and five hundred has since been
I aded to that,
AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 9, 1923
KANSAS fIIYERS ADE
NEAR FLOOD STAGE;
IM PAIN EXPECTED
Serious Floods Expected All
Over State as Result of Con
tinued Downpours
RAIN COVERS TWO STATES
Western Missouri Menaced by
Rise in Numerous Creeks and
Rivers Near Boundary
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 9
A heavy rain fell in Kansas and
western Missouri last ni/'Jht and
today has placed the rivers and
creeks in Kansas at flood stages,
and with a continuation of rain pre
dicted for today, serious floods are
expected, according to reports from
all over Kansas.
The rainfall in Kansas has
reached virtually all parts of the
state and is from one to seven
inches.
fßiimSmN
EMO OH TODAY
Aunt of British King Was Daugh
ter of Late Queen Victoria
and a Widow
LONDON, June 9—(By the As
sociated Press.) —Princess Chris
tian, an :funt of King George, of
England, died here this morning.
Princess Helen Augusta Victoria,
as she was more generally known
from the name of her husband,
was born May 25, 1846. She was
the third daughter of the late
Queen Victoria, and thus was a sis.
ter of King Edward VII, and an
aunt of the present British sove
reign. She was married July 5,
1866, to Prince Frederick Christian
of. Schleswig-Holstein, who died in
London, October 28, 1917.
EDWARDS TOASTMASTER
AT ANNUAL ALUMNI MEET
THOMASVILLE, June 9.—J. B.
Edwards, superintendent of the
Boston public schools during the
past year, and an honorary mem
ber of the Thomasville High school
Alumni Association has been chos
en as toastmaster for the banquet
and annual meeting of this new
ly-formed organization next Mon
day evening.
BAPTISTS PREPARE FOR
ENCAMPMENT IN DOOLY
CORDELE, June 9—The Baptist
encampment which rugs from June
11th to 15th at the Dooly camp
grounds is going to prove worthy>
<of a very large attendance, ac- I
cording to Rev. T. W. Tippett, pas- j
tor of the Vienna Baptist church i
and chairman of the program com
mittee. A very full and enthusi
astic le.tter has gone out to the as
sociation churches Regarding the
program.
SENTENCES IKED
IN SUPERIOR COURT
TOTAL 17 FULL YEARS
Felony and. Misdemeanor Sen
tences Mean Long Time to
Be Worked on Roads
FEW LONG TERMS GIVEN
Ed Roberson, Negro Murderer,
Gets 4 to 6 Years; Others
Get Off Lighter
The May term of Sumter Su
peiior ended resulted
in ten defendants being sentenced
to serve an aggregate of approxi
mately seventeenth years, with 8
of these to be served on the roads
of Sumter county. »
Os the defendants convicted six
were found gulity oft misdemean
or charges, though three of them
were found guilty of both misde
meanors and felonies. All misde
meanor sentences, under the law,
must be served on the roads in
the county where the crime Was
committed, and this means that a
total of eight years’ labor will ac
crue to Sumter county road forces
as a result of the court session.
In this connection it is of interest
to note that every misdenfeanor
conviction was either' directly for
having or selling liquor, or carry
ing concealed weapons. These two
offenses constitute the majority/ of
cases tried, and of the felony con
victions secured three involved
making liquor, this being a felony.
Only one other felony conviction
was secured during the session, this
being in the case of Ed Robinson,
convicted of voluntak-y man
slaughter, and 'given from 4 to 6
years in the penitentiary.
The total number of years’ servi.
tude imposed following felony con
victions during the session aggre
gated 9 years minimum, with a
maximum of 13 years imposed upon
the same defendants. Defendants
convicted upon’ more than one
charge involving both felonies and
misdemeanors, will serve their mis
demeanor terms before being turn
ed over to the prison commission
for assignment as felony prisoners.
Clerk H. E. Alien touay finished
the record in the last of the cases
tried during the term, and most
of the prisoners began serving their
sentences today. The Sumter
county chaingang authorities are
now due several felony prisoners,
and it is expected those now held
I in jail awaiting assignment by the
state authorities will be turned over
to Supt. Ansley here early next
week.
TO IS® BOMS FOB
PLANT IHOHENTS
Valdostans Will Vote on Pro
posal to Borrow $105,000
For Water Extensions
VALDOSTA, June 9.—An elec
tion for one hundred and forty
five thousand dollars to provide a
new pumping station and equips
ment, extension of water mains
and sanitary sewers and the pur
chase of the fairgrounds will be
ordered by the council with Wed
nesday, July 11 as the date.
This was decided by the city
council, after facts as enumerated
above, were submitted by Engineer
W. G. Eager and concurred in by
Superintendent D. S. Quarterman.
In this connection it was point
ed out officially that the issuance
of the bonds in the amount named
would not cause any increase in
the present tax rate or the tax
valuations.
LINDALE ODD FELLOWS
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
ROME, June 9.—At the last
regular weekly meeting of the
Lindale lodge No. 46, I. O. O. F.,
the following officers were elected
for the last semi-annual term of
1923. V. E. Pinkston, Noble
Grand; H. F. Halcomb, Vice
Grand; and E. H. McEntire, Re
cording Secretary.
These officers together with the
subordinate officers who are ap
pointed will be installed the first
meeting night in July.
Carpets which are made on a pa
per mesh foundation are being
manufactured In Germany.
Sheffield, Eng., is still credited
with making the best steel in the
world.
CHESTER CONCESSION
CONTRACT IS SIGNED
AND ICT ACCEPTED
#
Representatives of Ottoman
Government and Concession
aires Agree on Option
BLACKALL TELLS OF DEAL
President and General Manager
of American Company Au
thorizes Announcement
NEW YORK, June 9—An agree
ment between the Turkish govern
ment and the Ottoman-Ame'r’scan
Development Company by which the
so-called Chester concessionp are
placed at the option of a group of
American capitalists by the Turkish
government was accepted and sign
ed by the company this week, Fred
. erick Blaekall, vice president and
general manager of the company
announced.
KIT IM S HEBE
NOW WORKING WELL
Details of Operation During First
Two Months’ Made Public
Today
Details of the operation of the
n.ew Americus: meat and milk in
spection law covering a period of
tWo months were made public today
by Dr. S. F. Stapleton, through Dr.
J. Wade Chambliss. Dr. Stapleton is
inspector in charge of the depart
ment, but works under direction of
the health department, of which Dr.
Chambliss is head.
During the two months a total of
240 hogs, 144 cows and 4 goats
were inspected and of these 5
hogs and one cow were condemned
as unfit for human consumption, in
addition parts of 50 hogs were re
jected. In practically every inspec
tion made Dr. Stapleton was either
present when the animal was slaugh
tered or had access to the entire
viscera before the carcass was fin
ally passed and permitted to be
sold.
At the beginning it was found
that a few farmers who brought
carcasses into .Americus neglected
i to bring the entire viscera along for
inspection, but this condition was
speedily corrected, and in all eases
where the viscera fails to accom
pany the carcass now, the sale of
the meat is being held up until this
is actually produced and examined.
In the milk inspection depart
ment the figures show that bacte
> rial count in some milk sold here
I runs a little high* but this is believed
Ito be due to' inability to cool the
milk quickly, thus preventing a rap
id increase of bacteria and that this
holds no menace to health so long
as it remains within the present
maximum, Dr. . Stapleton and Dr.
Chambliss are agreed. Officials of
the department are working, how
ever, to reduce the bacteria content
of milk sold in Americus and in this
they are receiving hearty co-opera
tion among all concerned. A few
samples of milk analyzed show a
“trace” of visible dirt, which condi
tion was at once corrected.
Taken altogether, Dr. Chambliss
said today, the law is working out
very’ satisfactorily, with every place
of slaughter ‘in or near Americus
improved in sanitation methods as
regards the period before the law
became effective. «
Operation of the department cost
the city a total of s2l during the
two months’ period, the balance of
the cost being covered by inspection
fees collected by Dr. Stapleton.
MISS GERTRUDE HAGOOD
DIES AT HOME OF NIECE
VALDOSTA, June 9. Miss
Georgia Hagood passed peacefully
away at the home of her niece,
Miss Gertrude Oakman, on Web
ster street here.
street here. She. had been in declin
ing health for quite a long time
and had been confined to her bed
for several weeks. Her’ condition
w’as regarded as critical several
weeks ago, but she rallied and it
was thought that she might recov
er,. but the. improvement was only
for a short while.
First “doctor of medicine” was
Guglielmo Gordonio, who received
the honor from the College of Aes
ti, in Italy, in 1220.
THE WEATHER
For Georgia: Fair tonight and
Sunday; slightly cooler in cast and
central portions tonight.
■ ■
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NEW RUMILEft ADDS
10 DIFFICULTIES OF
ENFORCEMENT SQUAD
Handful of Federal Operatives
in New York Face Difficult
Situation in State
EIGHT VESSELS IN FLEET.
Brunt of Effort to Keep New
York Dry Now Being Borne
By Handful of Men
HIGHLANDS, N. J., June 9—A
handful of federal agents on whom
the brunt of the prohibition en
forcement in New York felF when
Governor Smith signed the state
prohibition enforcement act repeal
er, saw their difficulties augment
ed today when a rum fleet of eight
vessels bobbed up off the coast and
cast anchor in a line extending
from Jones Inlet to a point oppo
site Asbury Park.
ffiMi
OPEN NEGOTIATIONS
Relations Between Two Coun
tries Likely to Be Resumed
Soon
TOKIO, June 9.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.). —Japan and Russia
today agree to open negotiations
for a resumption of relations be
tween the two countries.
JAPS SEND WARSHIPS
ANSWER CHINESE NOTE
Official Statement Says Govern
ment Determined to Protect
Lives of Nationals
TOKIO, June 9.—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The Japanese reply
to the Chinese note demanding
apology for the shooting of Chi
nese rioters by Japanese marines
at Changsha June 2, was dispatch
ed today by the sending of four
destroyers to reinforce the Japa
nese patrol on the Yangtse river,
and an official statement that Ja
pan is detrmined to'defend the lives
and property of her nationals in
China.
ANOTHERM
FIRM CLOSES DOORS
M*S. Wolfe & Co’, With Offices
in New York and Chicago*
Failed Today
NEW YORK, June 9. New
York's list of stock brokerage fail
ures was augmented today by the
filling of an involuntary bank
ruptcy petition against M. S. Wolfe
& Co., one of the largest curb mar
ket firms operating here and with
a branch office in Chicago.
Like the firm of L. L. Winkle
man & Co., which failed Friday,
the Wolfe house had been a mem
ber of the Consolidated Stock Ex
change until about a year ago,
when it withdrew after having been
placed under investigation by ex
change authorities.
PORTER PIERPONT~TALKS
TO THOMASVILLE ‘ROTES’
THOMASVILLE, June 9—-The
meeting of the Rotary club today
was especially interesting. The
presence of Governor Peter Pier
pont, of Savannah, head of the 39th
district, added to the pleasure of
Thomasville Ratarians. The gover
nor was en route to Perry to insti
tute the new club there and went
along with the Thomasville delega
tion composed of about twenty
members of the club.
HERRING EXPECTS SOON
MARKET BIG MELON CROP
THOMASVILLE, June 9.—-The
best specimen of watermelon yet
seen in this city came from the
field of Jeff Herring near Boston,
who has twelve acres of ait
melons as one wants'to gee. The
specimen weighed over thirteen
pounds and Mr. Herring states
states that there are about a thou
sand melons of that size already
The yield will be sufficient, accord
ing to present indications to get
fully six cars from twelve acres.
BOLT STRIKES BOLTON
HOME; NOBODY HURT
LESLIE, June 9. Lightning
struck the home of J. T. Bolton
here Friday afternoon, but no one
was hurt and there was very little
damage done. The bolt struck dur
ing a severe electrical storm which
visited this section yesterday.