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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Strict Middling 28 1-8. N. Y. Futures—July Oct. Dec. Previous Close .. 27.23 24.80 24.26 Opening 27.38 24.87 24.35 11 a.m............... 27.47 25.00'24.46 Close 27.65 25.13 24.62 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 142 LIQUOR LINER REACHES NEW YORK ******* ************ *********** * * * * * Death lakes Prominent Georgia Political Leader HEW CLAY DIS SUDDENLY 111 ATLANTA HBTEL EARLY !■ President of Georgia State Sen ate Expires During Night With Acute Attack DUE TO NATURAL CAUSES Coroner’s Jury Finds That Mari etta Lawyer Succumbed to Disease ATLANTA, June 22.—A verdict of death due to natural causes was retruned by the coroner’s jury in the case of Herbert Clay, presi dent of the Georgia senate and' a prominent lawyer of Marietta who died suddenly early today at a downtown hotel. Mr. Clay beqgne ill about 1 o’clock this mormng and succumb ed (before medical aiq coujd be summoned. Mr. Clay has been active for sev eral years past in state polities. He was elected p’resident of the Georgia senate in 1921 and was re electeu to that position at the 1922 session. • Retiring from the senate he then was returned by Cobb county as a member of the house of represen tatives, which will convene here next week. Mr. Clay was a son of the late U. S. Senator Clay and is survived by his wife, his mother and sev eral brothers. M.BBLTOMBIK IIPEIIG HEBS Revivalist at Central Baptist Church Proving Himself a Strong Preacher Great interest was shown in the service? Thursday night at 'Central Baptist church. The sermons of Dr. Bolton are making deen impressions upon his hearers, it is said, and he i. proving himself :.n Unusually strong preacher. Those in the city and ac[ joining communities who have heard him before are taking advantage of •heir opportunity to hear him dur ing this meeting. Quite a number of out-of-town visitors are attending the services nightly. “The Supreme Mission of the Church” was the theme at Thursday night’s service. The speaker cited the example, of Andrew, who brought his brother, Simon Peter, to Jesus, and beginning with that as a typical case showed that the su preme interest of every true Chris tian as well as of the church, ought, to be the winning of the unsaved to the knowledge of Christ as a per sonal Saviour. There was a genera! and enthusiastic rally of the Chris t ■ •••> p s "1? present tr'.on -v"?? ■• tion that, the value of the lives that arc at stake and the urgency of the call that opportunity gives ought to prompt to immediate and per sistent effort to carry the gospel in vitation to every one who has not heard and responded thereto. The Friday mornin" study was a continuation of Tin rsday’s theme — “Why Some of Our Prayers Are N >t Answered.” Many who had be n troubled somewhat, on this line gained great encouragement as the speaker clearly showed that the dif ficulties in prayer are not in God’s unwillingness but in the suppliant's failure, to know or apply or improve the conditions of true nrayer. Tomorrow, Saturday, only the merning service will be held. The 10 o’clock sermon will be addressed more especially to the young peo ple- At the close of the service this, Friday evening, it is announced th? fiist opportunity for church mem bership will be given. Quite, a num ber, it is understood, have indicated a readiness to'offer themselves for church membership. The song services are proving greatly enjoyable and inspiring. RANDOLPH TAX RETURNS SHOW BIG FALLING OFF . CUTHBERT, June 22. The hoard of tax equalizers of Ran dolph county have completed their work, of revising the tax returns, making very few changes that were ■protested. Tax receiver Page has finished footing returns of the various dis tricts and reports that the total shows the assessed values for 1923 are a little more than one hundred thousand dollars'less than those of 1922. The figures are as follows; Returns for 1922 $3,671,745; re turns for 1923 $3,568,615. De crease $103,130. Mr. Page says the loss is prin cipalis due to a falling off in cor poration values and money re turned. r- ***** * ********** ******** * * * * CONVENTION HEARS INTERNATIONAL HEAD BRITISH BiTII. S. HAS RIGHT TO BREAK SEALS I PORTS HEBE If American Government Confis [ cates Liquor Stores of Beren garia Officers Will Submit NO CHALLENGE TC U. S. Declared in Well Informed Quar ters That No Challenge Is Intended LONDON, June 22—(By the As sociated Press.) —In connection I with the arrival of the liner Beren garia at New Yorx, it is declared in well informed quarters here that the British government 'in no way challenges the authority of Ameri can officials to break the British consular seals and confiscate liquor. It is recogni/id that the juris diction. of the British government in case of liquor or any other \oods, sealed at a British port, ceases once the three-mile limit is passed. »Wr to io w Sunday Famous Singers Will Be at Courthouse Durin" Sing Start ing at 3 c’Clock Announcement was made by W. N. Stephens that the famous Vaughan Quartette will be in Amer icus Sunday afternoons and ‘ that they will sing at the courthouse in the afternoon beginning at 3 o'clock. The public is invited to attend the singing, which, is free to all. This famous quartet has just re ; turned to Georgia after a si ay of i seme time in Indiana where they I made a number of records for talk ing machines, and doing broadcast radio work. Their songs were recent ly broadcasted by radio station I WO AN at Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and i they are in great demand wherever I they are known, according to Mr. Stephens. A gospel song program will be rendered at the meeting in the courthouse Sunday and it-is planned to have a great crowd pres ent to hear the singers. imOM WBECBUOITEO Scab-’ard and Central to Be Op erated as One System Under Federal Plan A very interesting report origi [ Hating in' Savananh and concerning the two railroads serving Americus i shippers reached here today. Ac- I cording to the report plans are now I being perfected by the Interstate ’ Commerce commission to provide , for consolidation of Illinois Cen i tral, the Seaboard Air Line, the ! Tennessee Central, and the Gulf I and Ship Island railroads, all into one organization to be operatej as ■ the Illinois Central system. This j will take away from the Central of ! Georgia its identity, and if the plan is ever carried into effect wid mean j the removal of the head offices of the Central of Georgia to Chi . eago, where the main offices of 'the Illinois Central a\e now locat ed. i Whati effect such a consolida tion of rail lines would have upon Americus is interesting to contem j palte, but nobody here today was -in position to confirm the report, ' which may or may not have a basis lin truth. F. B. TRENT, 70, DIES AT • HIS HOME IN WAYCROSS I WAYCROSS, June 22.—F. B. Trent, 70 years of age, a close i friend of the late V. L. Stanton, i died Thursday after an illness of ■<-ng duration. Mr. Trent was , born in Brooklyn, N. Y., and moved : to Waycross at the ago of twenty ; secen. For a. number of years he ran sawmill supply store here. - At the time of his last illness, Mr. 'Trent represented a 'Jacksonville firm. I S. S. CONVENTION TO MEET WARWICK, June 22—The Hpus [ ton Baptist Sunday School Associa ' tion which is to b° held next week , will convene June 28th, at the War- I wick Banth r. ehuren. \n interesting and instructive program has been arranged. THE TIMES- RECORDER IHJUNCTIOHSIGHEOBY W HUMPHRIES in |KU KLUX KUN M i Order Restrains Emperor Wil liam J. Simmons from “Giv ing .Away Secret Rituals” i EVANS FACTION IN COURT i Court Sets Temporary Order For Hearing Saturday Morn ing at Atlanta ATLANTA, June 22.—A tem porary injunctnon restraining Em peror Simmons of the Ku Klux Klan and others from “giving away” the secret rituals of the Klan to the newly organized “Knight of Kamelia,” was signed late yesterday by Judge Humphries it became known today. The order was issued in response to a petition filed by representa tives of the Klan faction headed by W. H. Evans, Imperial Wizard. The court order has set a hear! ing for Saturday. The defendants named in the pe tition are William Simmons, emper or, former Imperial Chaplain Rev. Caleb Ridley, J. O. Wood, editor of Searchlight, Henry Norton, W. H. Lathrop, Jr., William Thompson, E. J. Jones, Thomas Knight, C. W. Be som, N. H. Moore and the Knights of Kamelia. KLAN WILL DEFY NEW YORK’S MAYOR NEW YORK, June 22—The Ku Klux Klan will parade in New York with complete regalia in defiance of Mayor Hylan’s threat to break up any such demonstration with the police, King Kleagle Johnson, of New York State, announced today. “We have complied with the pro visions of the membership corpcg ation law and other laws and have a right there,” he asserted. More than 1,000 candidates are reported to have been initiated at the klan meeting at East Islip on Long Island, last night, at which 25,- 000 members are estimated to have been present. MOULTRIESTILL HOPES FOR PLACE IN CIRCUIT MOULTRIE, June 22.—Moultrie failed to find a. berth in the South Georgia semi-pro league. Americus didn’t drop out as it had been re ported it would, and the other clubs declined to take Colquitt in on ac count of that town being too small and since' the admission of Moul trie would have made an odd city and Upset the schedule. It was learned here Thursday, however, that Quitman probably would put a team in the field and if this should be done Moultrie and Quitman both could be taken in, increasing the number of clubs in the circuit from six to eight. Moul trif is ready to go. The money that will be needed has/been pledg ed and all that is standing in the way of baseball for this city is a place in the league. Quitman fans stated they would ' know before the end of the week whether it would be possible to put out a team. COMMISSION WILL HEAR CARRIERS AND SHIPPERS ATLANTA, June 22.—Criticisms lof the rate schedules of various commodities, prepared by the Geor 'gia Public Service commission and submitted to both carriers and ship- I per.-, will be hemd at a hearing to I granted Tuesday, July 24, accord ling to an announcement here to day. The rates included by the coiu misison in these commidity sched ules cover some of the most impor tant articles moving between points in Georgia, the commissioners de clare, affecting cotton, sugar, cot ton, ties, canned good* and manu factured iron articles, in addition to various other commodities. TIFTON LIONS TAKE FREE SHOW TO OMEGA TIFTON, June 22—The Tifton Lion club took its free show to Omega today to give a perform ance in the Omega school audi toriun; beginning at 8:30 o’clock tonight. The program will consist of selections by the Tifton Lions i band, vocal solos, instrumental sc-1 lection, songs by the Lions and : a few comedy skits, he show has I Aieen put on at. Ty Ty, Brookfield and Chula and was attended by a j large crowd at each place. It is I expected that Omega will turn out, in full force for the performance.' AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE. 22, 1923 What's Going On In The World The Weeks’ Chief Events Briefly Told DRY DIFFICULTIES BULGARIA CHINESE TROUBLES By CHARLES P. STEWART Every day it becomes plainer that, to the average voter, prohi bition wi llbe the main issue of the 1924 politieial campaign. The politicians would like to straddle, but President Hard ing has put the Republicans on record as drys. and there’s small chance that any ,J| j body can get the I ■ Democratic! presi- si dentljal nomina j tion who isn’t ‘ W somewhat sym pathetic, at least, toward the wets. The Eighteenth ' - h Tn ‘^ ni l mes 't’s re- > ea j won’t be BTTTWATTT asked. The de bt EWART and win , be for what the wets call reasonable in terpretation of: What’s an intoxicant drink? * * * PROHIBITION AT SEA. The administration admits it’s “in the air” over the question of letting foreign ships bring liquor into American waters for ■ their own use—under seal while here. Our laws says they mustn’t. Sev eral countries have laws compelling their ships to serve wine to their crews. They must break THEIR laws to obey OURS. The adminis tration says they must obey OURS any way. This causes such a snarl that they’re told, on the “q. t.” they won’t be bothered if they’re VERY CAREFFUL. The administration realizes this position’s dangers so keenly that Congress is to be asked to change the law. The trouble is, Congress surely won’t. Most drys won’t vote for a change. Neither will the wets—for one like this. They want wine and beer IN THE UNITED STATES. They don’t care about foreign ships. They’re glad the ad ministration’s in trouble. They fig ure trouble will hasten a change— a big change, not the little one the administration wants. * * * DRINK SMUGGLING I PROBLEM. Onfe administration plan is to allow foreign ships to bring liquors under seal into American ports if : their countries will let America ex [ tend her anti.-djink-smuggli.ng raids from three to 12 miles out at sea. British newspapers call atten tion to the fact that England al most went to war with Russia a few weeks ago rather than permit the latter to stretch her territor ial waters’ limit from three to 12 miles. The French and Italian press takes the view that the United States is trying to “dry up” for eign ships so that they’ll no longer have a big advantage in getting passengers away "from America’s own dry merchant vessels. # * * MEETING IS POSTPONED. The president was going to meet the governors of the states to talk over with them plans for making prohibition work. He’s postponed this meeting, he doesn’t say for how long. Os course, the wets say he founs out that some governors meant to tell him they don’t think the law ever can be made to work. The administration answers that when the president called the meeting, he really intended to have one—”in good faith.” MORE CHINESE CONFUSION. With Li Yuan Hung’s resigna- 1 tion as president of China, the | powers are talking more than ever [ of “intervening” there to protect , their resident citizens and inter-; ests. They might grab a few cities, i The Chinese haven’t an army or 1 arms worth mentioning and don’t j stick together well. A small, well-! armed force could hold a given ) spot or cut a path across the coun- I try quite easily. Cruisers and gun- I boats can control the coast and" big ' rivers. But to police all China is/ dif ferent. It would take millions of I soldiers a generation or two, and | thev might fail then. However, foreign meddling can keep the Chinese squabbling' (Continued on Page Two.) ffiESIOEHT HIfIOIHG IBD PARTY REACHER KANSAS CITY TODAY En Route to Pacific Coast Party Will Spend Day at Missouri Packing House Center WILL MAKE ONE ADDRESS Trip From St. Louis, Following Talk on World Court, With out Incident of Interest KANSAS CITY, June 22—Presi dent and Mrs. Harding and mehi bers of their party en route to the Pacific coast and Alaska, arrived here at 10 o’clock this morning for a 12-hour visit which will conclude with an address by the president to. night on the transportation prob lem. The trip from St. Louis, where the chief executive made his first prepared address last night, speak ing on the World Court, was with out incident. COASTGUARDCUTTER GOES TO SIBERIA TO PROBE SOVIET SEIZURE American Vessels Reported Held By Russian Authorities on Alleged Illegal Charge TACOMA VESSEL IS HELD Secretary Hughes Informs Own ers of Vessel That Investiga tion Is Started TACOMA, Wash., June 22—-The coast guard cutter, Bear, has left Nome for East Cape Siberia whera four American schooners including the Tskum, of Tacoma, were recently seized by Soviet authorities osten sibly charged with, violating trading regulations. This information reached Gen. J. M. Ashton, one of the owners of the Iskum in a telegram from Sec retary of State Charles E. Hughes. TULIBPIGHTfAIKSOF GEORGIA T« SYSTEM: State Tax Commissioners De clares Ad Valorem Plan Wholly Inadequate ATLANNTA, June 22. The present ad valorem system of tax ation employed 1 by the Sta’t|.T of Georgia, to raise its revenue does not conform with the fundamental principles of taxat/ion, keen stu dents of th<» -state tax system and the problems of the state, declared here today, and the hope is ex pressed that the irjioming legisla ture will remedy the present de fects. "The contribution by the qi#i zen to the government should be in accordance with the resulting benefits to him,” declared Henry J. Fullbright, state tax commis sioner, “and the contribution} re i-quired of the citizen should be in accordance with his abality to pay-. In other words, every ctizen en joying the benefits and privileges resulting frorh a govern ment shoull make contri bution in accordance with bis ablity to do so. The uniform ad va lorem system does not conform with this principle, especially in the matter of state revenues.” TIFT FARMERS FIGHTING WEEVIL WITH POISON TIFTON, June 22 J. T. Ever ett, who was in Titton Thursday | from the Omega section, says the cotton growers in that territory are lighting’the weevil fcr this year's cotton crop.. Nearly all the | farmers are poisoning the weevils I many of them using poison who I never used it before. MANY TAKING SWIMMING LESSONS AT PLAYGROUND Many persons are now taking swimming lessons at the Playground I pool, according to Chairman Ralston I Cargill of the Playground commis- I sion. The pool is now open daily [from 5:30 a.m. to noon and from 3 I p.m. to 10 at night. Most of the learners are taking their swimming lessons during the morning hours. i BOYS ARE NATION'S I GREATEST ASSETS, ROTARIANS TOLD . Everett Hill, Chairman of Inter national Rotary Boys’ Work, is Speaker GUEST TALKS TO ROTES The Supreme Challenge of Each Generation Is the Next, Says Frank Slutz ST. LOUIS, June 22.—Conserv ing tlm nation’s greatest natural resource—the boy—to <he e|nd that he will grow up with the idea that “he profits most who serves best,” is the idea underlying the boys work of Rotary International as outlii id by Chairman Everett Hill of the International Boys Work Committee, during session of the Rotary International (conven tion • here Thursday. Rotarian Frank D. Slutz, of Day ton, Ohio, and Eddie (luest, the newspaperpoct of Detroit, also spoke., The supreme challenge of each generation is the next generation, Mr. Slutz told the convention. The supreme challenge of Rotary—an organization of men—is the boys, he said. “Boys are history and civiliza tion at the source,” Mr. Slutz con tinued. *A fraction of the time spent upon the influencing ,of adults—of men—if spent upon boys will establish boys, their loy alties and their ideals. Every con sideration of business effciency de mands that Rotary train boys in the new ideals. “Rotary can teach the boys of the world that service must, be above self, if the game of living is to be played in a man’s way. With service above self, public re sponsibility will be placed befora business smugness and satisfaction. Wealth will feje regarded as an op portunity for service. “The boysi can be taught that human personality is the most sa cred creation of the universe. Not property, but persons must be first in the eyes of the law. Tiuth must be honored above opinion. Let every mas have his [ omnion where the facts cannot be i obtained. Let every man be tol rt of every man’s opinion. Let ".very man label his opinion as an opinion and not as a truth. Men can understand one another in terms of truth. They fight each other over opinions. ‘‘The boys can be taught how to build a world of peace. Nobody out boys can ever do this. ‘How can we do these things’ By example! Every Rotarian must him«H a L' d practice thes <’ himself; by co-operation with the organization now existing ‘ for »oys; by arranging international conventions of boys and by a Ro tary school for leadership.” MANY FOREST FIRES OCCURRED IN GEORGIA ATLANTA, June 22. More than twice as many forrest fires occurred in Georgia as in any eth er state, the total number exceed ing twenty thousand in five years, according to a report prepared- by the state board of forestry which will be presented to the Legislature in connection with an appeal for (establishment of a state Fire Warden organization to check fires and save the state’s forest re source. According to the report, Georgia ranks first during the five, years period in the total number of fires, total area bur.ie 1 over, and fourth was third i.nong the states in the total damage done by the fires. Massachuseetts with 9,200 fires was second to Georgia with I 20,059. Louisiana was first in the I total area burned over with 8,000, 000 acres ravaged by the flames, Florida was second with 7,800,000 and Georgia was third with 5,051,- 000 acres. The total damage done by the fires in Georgia amounted to approximately five million dol lars wljich was exceeded only by the damage done in Minnesota, North Carolina and Florida. PEANUT-FED HOGS BEST MOULTRIE, June 22.—Peanut hogs here are bringing, better mar ket prices than Western hogs from Chicago for the first time in the nine years which the local packing house has been established. ] WEATHER For Georgia Partly cloudy to night and Saturday; local thunder showers. PRICE FIVE CENTS DOCK BALTIC m 6,181 BOULES OF LIOOOO ABOARD AT NW YBBI Officials Declare Customs Offi cials Have Instructions to Seize Such Cargoes DRY LAW IS DEFIED No Question, Authorities Say as to Course to Be Pursued in Premises ' NEW YORK, June 22.—While treasury officials concentrated ■ their attention on the Berengaria, the Steamer Baltic slipped, into quarantine (this morning with 6182 bottles of liquor under the British 5 government seal for her next east bound voyage in defiance of the , American dry regulations. The Baltic reached quarantine while the Berengaria was approach ing Sandy Hook and reached her pier shortly aftei* 11 o’clock. 1 OFFICALS STATE I AMERICAN POSITION. 1 WASHINGTON, June 22. 1 Treasury officials arriving at their 1 desks today to find the British > steamed Baltic had arrived unex- I pectedly at New York with a suppl) of liquor under seal, declared that ‘ the New York uutsojns officials ’ had instructions to seize all such ’ store’s atad that there should be . no question of their authority to proceed at once against the Bal tic. YEARLY HMMLL ffIfUBLOKHBBL Names of Pupils Who Attained Eight First Honors Are Made Public 1 Miss Sarah Cobb, principal of ■ Furlow Grammar school, today ’ made public the names of Children ■ attending that school who attain ed the yearly honoh roll during the past session. In order to attain this distinction pupils must attain the monthly honor roll eight times during the year, or receive eight first honors. Pupils who attained the honor roll nine times during | the session receive honor diplomas, and a list of these has already been published. 1 he names of those on the year ly honor roll this year are as fol lows : First Grade, Section I—Gladys Adkins, Alleen Murray, Mary Hogg, Beatrice Barker, Frances Parker. Section 2—Gus Harris, Katherine Dixon, Elizabeth Lang io?d, Ada Bell Se'ig, Ida Mae Tyson. Second Grade, Section 1. J®« Boswell, Wilma Castleberry, Annie Lucile I 1 ay, Wisnifred Jackson, Lucy Poole, Mae Rose Sanders, grade 2—Tom Heys, Clarence Ni black, Versa Dean Adkins, Amelia Jones. Third grade, Section 1 Oscar Bell, Bessie Bell, Margaret Har rell. Grade three, section 2—-Jack Bell, Frank Broadhurst, Louis Ross Elza Sheppard. Willis Shiver, Co l, neh ® Ann Kin, Estha Jarvis. fourth Grade, Sect’s L—Eliza- Haye?" j’‘'w R ™ y ?? rne ’ Miriam a ’ W ’ chal »bliss. Fourth Fo‘XT l '“ - Virgto Sixth Grade, section I.—Flor id 6^)lxon ’ Florrie Wiirren Dorothy Witt.. Sixth grade'’ sec! q°V~ Thelma Guy Edith Carney. Sixth grade, section 3.—Robert English, Mildred LeMaster. Seventh Grade, Section I—Annie Turpin, Warren C. Speer, Yoland, Pierce, Louisa' Cole, Charles Laney, Seventh grade section 2—Lois Adams, Rachel Carruthers, Norma Dunaway, Virginia Moreland, Charles Council. Seventh grad* section 2—Loraine Weed, Eugenia Johnson. Prospect Heights School Frst grade—Theron Toler. ? Second grade—Harvey Coving on, J. C. Logan, Frank Majors, Third grade—Christine Coving [ ton, Helen ’Lassiter. MURRAY RECAPTURED AFTER DARING ESCAPE WAYCROSS, June 22.—Lollis Murray, 52-year-old negro, who es caped from the court room during the June term of City court in 1921, after being convicted on a liquor charge, w«V apprehended Wednesday in Sanford, Ala., and brought back to the city Thursday by County Policeman O. M. Hiers and County Commissioner A. W. Woodward. Miss Emmie Glover returned Fri day from North Carolina, where she was an attendant at the marriage of her sister, Miss Minnie Glover.