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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—VOL. NO. i4B
GEORGIA GOVERNOR INAUGURATED TODAY
Walker Pledges lo Aid
In Betterment of Living
Con&tlfflis&frif v '*Qeorgia
Fair and Stabilized Tax System First Problem
Confronting Georgia, He Says, Urging
Co-Operation of People in Solving
State’s Economic Problems
ATLANTA, June 30.—Clifford
M. Walker, of Monroe, in assum
ing the office of chief executive
of Georgia today, pledged his ad
ministration “to the Ibetterment of
living conditions, physical and
moral; to the cordial co-operation
with any commission or other or
ganization in thei serious study of
these problems’’ and “in finding
the solution therefor.”
In his inaugural address, Gover
nor Walker declared that he rec
ognized that the enactment of a
fair and stabilized tax system was
tlie first problem confronted- by his
administration, and urged tile co
operation of the people in solving
tne economic problems of the state.
On the question of law enforce
ment, he uttered a plea that tjhe
people of the state respect the laws
and bring their grievances before
the legislature through their repre
sentatives for correction.
Repeal Equalization.
Governor Walker declared that
a majority of the people have ex
pressed opopsition to the tax equal
ization law and that the first duty
of the legislature is to repeal (he
measure. “The legislature will, of
course, then promptly turn its at
tention to the enactment of a more
satisfactory substitute before it
completes the labors of the year,”
he said.
Georgia is Lagging behind other
states in constructive progress, he
raid, declaring the first duty is the
enactment of a fair and stabilized
tax system and pointing out that
“however unselifsh, however'patri
otic your approahe, however just
your legislation, you’ll he criticsed
by those whom you tax; good
friends may be estranged if forced
to pay a.fair share of the expense
of the state; your service probably
will be discredited ibut this is a
time for sacrifice; your state to
day sounds a call as cigar and as
vital as the cv'-ll 4a.
battlefield.”
Ho termed the generar propeWy
tax a failure because of its failure
to reach intangible personal prop
erty—notes, accounts, mortgages,
bonds and other credits.
Will Bring Needed Revenue.
The enactment of such tax laws
as wili bring the proper revenue
into the coffers of the state will
result in a consolidated, high-grade,
nine months school in every coun
try district in the state, highways
upon which the boys and gipls can
bo transported to and from these
schools, normal schools which will
furnish trained leaders for these
institutions, technical Colleges to
T>Tepare the youths of the state for
the proper utilization of Georgia’s
resources and agriculture colleges
which would lead the youth back
to the farms o' the state. Agri
cultural and industrial develop
ment woukl go hand in hand in
each cohnty, he said.
(lonve'ia bap be*-*- too irifavcr
(Continued on Page Two.)
SHY’S RACING HOmF
FAST TIME RETURNING
Three racing homer pigeons liber,
ated by Julius T. Shy, at Ellaville,
a day or two ago, reached their
loft at the home of Mr. Shy in
Americas just 23 minutes after be
ing liberated. The birds used are
young ones, being only 8 weeks
old, and their perfomrance is re
garded among local experts as un
usual. Mr. Shy has ben breeding
racing homers only a short time,
but is greatly interested in his
birds and plans to develop pigeon
racing as a sport here as his birds
grow older, and his flock larger.
CROPS SOUTHWEST OF
AMEKICUS ALL GOOD
Crops, both cotton and corn, west
of Americus are in fine shape,
according to Americus people who
went over to Dawson Friday to see ;
the (ball game there. In Terrell
county, tlie appears, a little i
advanced as compared with those j
of Sumter, with fields all clean and I
plants growing rapidly. Large j
quantities of weevil poison of ev- j
cry sort are being used in
as well as Sumter, i f f 1
Dawson people attenilYA,. LV. V.i 1 -r
game, with whom the Times-Kt
corder’s informant talked.
COYS’ ENDEAVOR SOCIETY
POSTPONES ITS MEETING
The meeting of the Senior Boj's’
Chrstian Endeavor Society called
for Thursday nigh’ was postponed
because of the rain, and will 'be
held instead on Sunday night in
the Presbyterian church Sunday
school rooms. The business to be
discussed concern the welfare of
the entire society, and every pres
ent ryid former member of the so
ciety is requested by those in
charge to be present.
THE TIMES-RECORDER
iUUH) GETS GOOD
SUPPORT, WINS AT
DAWSON, JRIQAY 8-3
Goat Cochran, in Great Form,
Wins for Blakely Against
Arlington
ALBANY TAKES 2 GAMES
Bainljriclge Loses First -3;
Second, Seven Innings
2-0
DAWSON, June 30.—After win
ning a poor game of baseball from
Americus, in that city, on a slow
and wet diamond Thursday after
noon, score 14 to 0, Dawson went
onto the field here Friday, appar
ently over-confident, and lost to the
sapie Americus club, 8-3.
Laird, for the visitors, perform-,
ed well on the mound and was ac
corded excellent sopport by his
teammates. He gave up only six
while Minchew, for the locals,
was charged with nine safeties and
four passes. Lightfoot, . regular
initial saeker, was on the receiving
end of the Dawson battery until
he was relieved in the fourth by
Rawson, after the visitors had tal
lied five time. A total of seven
errors also were charged against
the locals.
Sullivand playing in centerfiel
for Dawson, hit safely twice in four
trips to the bat, and took every
Ab ;uii';-.offered him in </ie garden.
AMl£#*|.lt and Brown led the
AjjaKise for the Americus nine.
BOX SCORE
AMERICUS— ah. h. r. po. a. e.
Pinkston, 2b 5 1114 0
Brown, cf 5 0 2 5 0 0
Collier, lb 4 11 10 0 1
Dowis, 3b 4 10 12 0
Dumas, ss 5 113 2 0
Parson, rs 3 2 1 2 0 0
Cox, cf 4 1 0 4 0 0
Barnhart, c 5 0 3 1 0 1
Laird, p 2 10 0 1 0
Totals 37 8 9 27 9 2
DAWSON— ab. r. h. po. a. e
Lawrence, 2b. .4 0 0 0 2 0
Poore, if 3 0 0 3 0 0
Lightfoot, c 4 0 0 5 2 3
Daniels, l's 4 12 0 11
Sullivan, cf 4 1 2 3 0 0
Cosby, ss 4 0 1 3 3 1
Manion, 3b 4 1 13 12
Rawson, c 3 0 0 9 6 0
Minchew, p .... 3 0 0 1 2 0
„ Totals 33 3 6 27 11 7
Score by innings
Americus 041 000 300—8
Dawson 001 000 200—3
Blakely Defeats Arlington
BLAKELY, June 30.—Blakeiy
defeated Arlington on the local dia
mond iFrfiday afternoon ,by the
score of 5 to 2. Goat Cochran was
in his usual good form and jet
tne vistors down wth only four
safe blows. Two of these coupled
with two errors gave Arlington her
two tallies in thy ninth. Neither *
run was earned.
Albany Tak e s T v/o
ALoAN\, June 30 —Albany won
both games of a double-header here
irom Bainbridge Friday, the lrst
o to 3 and the second game went
only seven inning by agreement.
Both games were fast and marked
by good pitching and sensational
fielding.
MKEfIK TSffilf
ISEfFECMTOIBT
1 Provided in New Regulations
Issued Today
WASHINGTON, June 30 a 1
within the treasmw
department with the shifting
vZZ a];h °, m ° st WUm® bu
eauo of the department is provid
mllv V e?Ulatlons here
The new regulations be
’ome effective tonight at midnight.
Simultaneous with issuance of
the regulations, it became known
I hat Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Edward Clifford, whose
jurisdiction is to he materially
changed under the re organization
| plan, is to res : gn.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 30, 1923
Inundation Threatens Capital of Philippine Islands
EXPLOSION 01 BOARD
DESTROYER RESULTS
II DEATH OF FOUR
U. S. S. Williamson Reaches
Newport With Bodies of
Dead on Deck
CAUSE NOT MADE PUBLIC
Accident Occurred at Sea and
Investigation Has Not Yet
Been Finished
NEWPORT, R. L, June 30.
The Destroyer Williamson, after an
explosion in her engine room at
sea this morning, has returned here
with four dead and four injured.
The destroyer has taken a posi
tion off the naval hospital.
EiPEfiS 111 SHACK
1 Illill'S LIQUOR
KID IS I®
Head of American Federation
of Labor Assails President in
Address at Washington
DOESN’T TRUST WORDS
Says Labor Requires More Than
Words to Balance What Has
Gone Before
WASHINGTON, June 30.
Statements made by President:
Harding in his labor speech were as
sailed today by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federa
tion of Labor in an address here.
Mr. Gompers in his address de
clared that “Labor requires more
than speech to balance against acts
that have gone before.”
DIE! WOULD SELL
SIDES PULE PLAN
New York Man Circularizes
Southern Mills Concerning
Unique Plan
NEW YORK, June 30.—A dry
goods commission business controll
ed solely by the principle of the
Golden Rule, in whic'4 profit-mak
ing will not be the primary con
sideration, has been launched by
Fisher C. B. Bailey, it was learned
today.
Bailey has sent circular letters
to Southern cotton mills expressing
the conviction that such an enter
prise, conducted along altruistic
lines, is quite possible.
Fill 11l
If! DEFEND KLAN
Representative Wood Will Re
ply to Hardwick’s Attack in
House Monday
ATLANTA, June. 30.—During
Friday’s afternoon session the larg
er branch of the general assembly
furnished several spells of fire
works during its session, not the
least of which was the personal
privilege by Representative J. O.
Wood of the ’ niton delegation
following the governor’s message,
in which Mr. Wood declared himself
a member of the Ku Klux Klan,
declared he had therefore, been at
tacked, personally, by the governor
in delivery of his message and put
ting the house on notice that the
Fulton member will, on Monday,
under personal privilege respond to
to the governor’s challenge to ‘in
visible govermriet” and tell the
reasons for the creation in Georgia
of the Klan.
Mr. Wood said “the only invisible
government in this* state, I have
over known of, is that one at the
Kimball House, and it is my pur
pose when this man is no longer
chief executive of the state to re
ply to him. and to tell why I have
not replied in the past two years
•to what he has said, to tel! why
the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
is in existence.”
It wns quite noticeable that Gov
ernor Hardwick’s reference to “in
visible government” and his decla
ration that' no God-fearing and
God-respecting man had any reason
“to hide., his face behind “a mask”
was leeieved with considerable ap
plause, while Mr. Wood’s notice of
intention to reply was—received as
information.
FiOUS BLACK AUNTY
m WEIGHED ONLY
jl POUND, 11 OUNCES
(Strap Used by Higginbotham
Described by Former Lumber
Company Employ
DUFFIL SAW IT WEIGHED
Two Witnesses For Defense Tes
tify They Wouldn’t Believe
Tison On Oath
LAKE CITY, June 30. The
black auntie strap used by Thomas
W. Higginbotham in whipping Mar
tin Tabert, weighed only one pouna
and eleven ounces, said B. W. Duf
fil, a former employee of the Put
nam Lumber company, who testi
fied in the Higginbotham trial to
day. Duffil said he didn’t know
where the strap came from before
it was weighed.
J. T. Hendry and Samuel Living
si on testified they wouldn’t believe
J. M. Tison, State Witness on oath.
mmiiiL
AFTER fM I FAILS
Georgia Legislators Not to Take
Extended Week-End Recess
Because of Holiday
ATLANTA, June 30.—A plan to
adjourn the legislature over the
Fourth of July today failed when
the house agreed to adjourn to
11:30 o’clock Monday morning
when committees will be
announced in both the house and
the senate.
Among the bills introduced to
day was a measure for the abolish
ment of the Ports and Harbors
commission, which was in charge of
preliminary plans for a state own
ed port, and favored the construc
tion of such a port at Savannah.
miff BAPTIST
ENCAMPMENT IS BBT
Rev. J. E. O’Quinn, of Plains,
Tell Details of Meeting
Plans
Rev. J. E. O’Quinn, pastor of
Plains Baptist church, who is chair
man of activities at Friendship as
sociation encamtpment, \vhich be
gins Monday at Myrtle Springs, was
a visitor here today. He is now
engaged in completing final details
of the ocacsion for which prepara
tions have been niade during sev
eral weeks past and today announc
ed i'inal details of the (encamp
ment plans. Telling, of these, Mr.
O Quinn said: :
“Preparations have been com
pleted tor a large delegation at the
Baptist summer encampment at
Myrtle Springs. Organiztion will
be speedily completed and the way
cleared tor a grea tweek of train
ing and recreation. I want to urge
every worker interested in better
religious training to be on time
and stay to the finish. Instructors
and speakers will be on time and
we should lose no time. The pub
lic is cordially invited to the ali
ernoon and evening session.
“Rev. T. W. Tippett will fire
the first gun Monday afternoon at
4 o’clock. He will speak again at
8. Mrs. J. J. Heard will give a
demonstration just before the 8
o’clock address on Monday evening
by the Vienna Juniors, said to be
the best trained Sunday school
group in Georgia.
“Dr. Rufus W. Weaver will
speak Tuesday afternoon and eve
ning and Rev. S. F. Lowe, of Daw
son, will speak Wednesday evening.
“Dr! A. Chamblee of Bessie Tift
college wili speak Thursday after
noon and evening.
“Rev. W’alter Binns, pastor First
church, Moultrie, will speak Fri
day afternoon and evening.
“There will be demonstrations
preceding the evening addresses
each day by our best trained work
ers from the various churches. The
public and especially our Baptist
people are cordially invited to all
the afternoon and evening pro
grams. These are great days. Let
us make the most of them. The
details have been arduous and tedi
ous, but delightful, and it is our
fondest wish that there shall go out
from this school the largest num
ber of graduates ever graduated
from any training school. If this
results we shall be amply repaid
for every mile traveled, every letter
written and every waking anxiety.”
Those having Sunday school, B.
Y. P. U. or W. M. S. Manuals are
asked by Mr. O’Quinn to bring
these with them to the encamp
ment.
! Believe It Or I
Not I
An Oklahoma editor just about
| to go to press “pied” a couple of
articles, one concerning a ‘ public
; sale, and the other a write-up of
j a wedding. He asked the office
] devil to get the two articles togeth
er-—and he did—but here is how
hd put the two together, and the
mixture was not known to the edi
tor until an angry preacher and
| the mother of the bride appeared
| on the scene:
“William Smith and Miss Lucy
j Anderson were disposed of at pub-
I lie auction at my barn one mile
eaA of a beautiful cluster of roses
on her breast and two white calves
before a background of farm im
plements too numerous to mention
in the presence of about twenty
guests including two milk cows, six
mules, and one bob sled. Rev.
Jackson, tied the nuptial kont with
two hundred feet of hay rope and
the bridal couple left on oue John
Deere gang plow for an extended
trip with terms to suit purchasers.
They will be at home to their
friends with one good buggy and a
few kitchen utensils after ten
months from date of sale to re
sponsible parties anil some 50 chick
ens.”—Upshaw (Tex.) Echo.
MELLON IN ENGLAND
SAYS U S NOT TO
RELAX DRY RULING
American Secretary of Treasury
Tel! Reporters Law Well Be
Enforced
TO CONFISCATE LIQUOR
Sees No Solution of Problem
Until Congress Meets And
Takes Action
LONDON, June 30.—(8y the As
soic-ated Press.) —Andrew W. Mel
lon, American secretary of the
treasury, who arrived in England
last evening on the Majestic, told
newspapermen here today that the
United States government had no
intention of relaxing its attitude re
garding the confiscation‘of liquor
on board of incoming liners and
that he saw n solution of the prob
lem until congress met, he said.
IIKIHS TIIEETI
TUESDAY El MNI
l
Club Officers Advance Dale oi
Luncheon to Observe July
4th In Homes
Americus Rotary club will hold
its usual luncheon Tuesday at 1
o’clock in the private dining roon
at the Windsor hotel, this being the
first meeting to be held there. The
meeting date has been advanced
from Wednesday, President John
Sheffield said this morning, in or
der to permit Rotarians to observe
the Glorious Fourth in their homes
with their families, as there will be
a general suspension of business in
Americus on that day.
NINE BELGTANS - DIE
WHEN 11EMDES;
Infernal Machine Placed in Ruhr j
Railway Car Kills Many Men
On Leave
DUESSELDORFF, June 30. j
(By the Associated l’ress.) —Nine
Belgian soldiers were killed today
by an explosion of time bombs in
a passenger car of a train carrying
soldiers on a leave back home from
the Ruhr.
ROCHELLE FARMERS’
FINE COTTON CROPS
CORDELE, June 30. J. W.
Wright, progressive Wilcox county
farmqr,- living throe miles northeast
of Rochelle, exhibited in Cordele
yesterday samples from what prom
ises a real cotton yield. One stalk
something like-fourteen inches high
and sixty-four bolls; blooms and
squares. Another ten inches high
had thirty-four and three was no
trace of the work of the weevil on
either stalk. Mr. Wright says his
prospect is wholly due to constant
working. No weevil remedy has
been applied up to the present
time. He found wonderful advan
tages in the dry days of last week.
Miss Elizabeth Terrell, of Doug
las, is the guest of Miss Dorothy
Holmes at her home on Lee street.
LADY ASTOR PLEADING
FOB DRY BILL SENDS
COHNS IN UPROAR
Former American Woman Pulls
at Coat Tails of Filibuster
Speaker
FAILS TO GET~ CLOTURE
Government Promises to Permit
Its Passage Eventually After
Fight Ends
LONDON, June 30.—8 y the As
sociated Press.) —Lady Astor, tug
ging at the coat tails of Sir Fred
erick Banbury in a vain effort to
induce him to stop speaking so that
she and her liquor bill might have
the right of way, sent the House
of Commons into peals of laughter
last evening in which the grave
speaker was obliged to join.
As the time approached for the
consideration of her measure, Lady
Astor took a seat on the steps at
Danbury’s feet, but he paid no at
tenton to the pleadings which she
addressed to him, the members,
meanwhile, laughing heartily.
As Banbruy stopped, only five
minutes was left for consideration
.of the l'quor bill.
Her ladyship made desperate ef
forts to move clothure, but failed.
The (bill was not lost, as the gov
ernment promised to grant facili
ties for its eventual passage.
netTodisTk
MEETING IS CALLED
Members of Congregation of
First Church Asked to Meet
With Pastor Sunday P. M.
A mass meeting in the nterest of
the new church building has been
called by Pastor John Outler, of
the First Methodist church, Sunday
afternoon in the house at 3 o’clock.
It is the hope that every member
of the church and every friend of
tho church will be present. Many
important details are to be discuss
ed, Mr. Outler announces.
“The officers of the church, the
Sunday school and all other depart
ments of the church should make
every effort to he with us, ,Dr.
I Outler says. “The building is pro
| gressing, hut there are details
I which the friends and members
| should help us decide.”
Dr. Outler declined to go into
| details. “There will be some sur-
I prises for those .present and I want
j the pleasure of presenting some iii-
J teresting questions without previ.
I ously announcing them,” lie said
’.is morning.
R S OLIVER, JR. GETS
HD PLACE 111 B, 1.
R. S. Oliver, Jr., will leave Mon
day for Schnectady, N. Y., where
he goes to accept a splendid posi
tion with the General Electric com
pany in their big establishment
there.
Mr. Oliver is a son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. S. Oliver, of Plains,
and recently was awarded a degree
jin electrical engineering at Geor
| gia Tech, which institution he had
j attended since his graduation sev
eral years ago at Marion, Ala.,
I Military Institute, where /he took
; special work after finishing the
I course at Plains High school, hav
| ing originally planned ito attend
West Point Military Academy, to
| which he had been appointed by
I Charles R. Crisp. ile abandoned
| his purpose to become arjl army of
ficer when upon examina/tion it de-
I veloped that certain defects of vis
ion would preclude his adopting
the army as a professioin.
He then matriculated at Georgia
Tech, where he pursued' his studies
until the recent commencement
when he received his degree. With
in a few' days he wax offered a
number of excellent places, and
after consideration decided to go
with the General Eld’cteic company
at Schenectady, for which city he
leaves next week, goinAr prepared
to assume ijis new duties July 16,
which date he has bei >n asked to
report for duty. His older broth
er, Clifford R. Olivei ■, also w'ell
known in Americus, hs s been con
nected with the Constrilction Power
company, of which he U now vice
president, during sevleral years
.having headquarters ;it Worches
ter, Mass. f
WOMAN’S MISSIONARY SO
CIETY TO MEET MONDAY
The regular business meeting of
the Woman's Misionar.y Society of
the First Methodist chinch will be
held Monday afternoon '.ut the Car
negia Library, at 4 o'clock. Every
member is requested to bs present,!
WEATHER
For Georgia Fair tonight and
Sunday.
*
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MANILA IS GRIPPED
IBY RAGING TYPHOON
STREETS ARE FLOODED
Portions of City Under Water
and Extent of Damage Not
Yet Known
STOR d BEGAN LAST NIGHT
Storm Continuing Today, With
Fears Expressed That Many
Li\es Are Lost
MANILA, June 30.—Manila
is gripped by a typhoon which be
gan raging last night, and was
flooded today.
Many of the streets are under
water. *
No estimate of the property
damage sustained can yet be made,
because of the meagerness of infor
mation obtainable. The storm early
today was continuing and it is fear
ed that many lives may be lost.
HARDIN TAKES ? DAYS
REST IN YELLOWSTONE
Chief Executive Abandon Speech
Making in Western Towns
to Recuperate
ON PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL
TRAIN, June 30. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) —President Ha)rdng
today turned from the crowds of
the Western towns and from spech
niaking to two days of rest and the
enjoyment of nature’s wonders in
Yellowstone National Park.
JONES TEIL TiNIS
PRINCIPLE IS INVOLVED
Declares People Should Have
Vote on Any Amendment to
Charter Before Adoption
W. M. Jones, prominent whole
saler here, was one of the speak
ers Ibefore the Kiwanis dub ban
quet at the Windsor hotel Friday.
He spoke to the dub regarding the
proposed amendment of the city
charter, without submitting the
amendment to the people.
“Before any change is made in
our city charter, the proposed
change should go to the people for
. referendum,” Mr. Jones
am not addressing you on the ques
tion of whether the proposed
change is wise or unwise, but on
a principle—the principle of first
submitting any change in a city
charter to the people before it be
comes a law.
“The charter is all that stands
between the people and corruption.
I have the utmost faith in our of
ficials, but we cannot tell what may
come to pass in the future.
“I want you to think over what
I have, said, for it is my opinion
that no change at any time should
be made in the Americus charter
without submitting that change to
the people fir ratification,” con
cluded Mr. Jones.
Mrs. Lottie Livingston, who has
been acting as assistant secretary
of the Kiwanis club, resigned Fri
day and was given a rising vote of
thanks by the Kiwanians at their
luncheon in the Windsor.
Little Miss Wilson, of Columbus,
played a violin sojo for the dub,
accompanied by Miss Melva Clark.
Miss Clark sang a new Kiwanis
(song for the club, “Kiwanis Wins.”
j Mrs. D. T. Wilson read an origi
nal poem of school days to the
1 lumbers and was given a hearty
i encore, to which she did not re
spond.
MONTHLY SINGING AT
AGGIE COLLEGE SUNDAY
. Chief John T. Bragg announced
this morning that the usual month
ly singing will be held at the Ag
ricultural college here Sunday aft
' ernoon. The singing will hegin at
! 2:30 o’clock, and it is expected
there will be a large gathering of
singers. Invitations . have ' been
sent to a number of out-of-town
singers to attend and everybody in
Americus is invited to he present.
NO CIGAR FOR THEODORE
Theodore Roberts without his
ever-present cigar! We find him
thus in William deMille’s latest
production, “Grumpy.”, There is
deep mystery and mirthful comedy
in the picture and Theodore Rob
erts fits the title role to perfec
tion. May MaeaVoy and Conrad
Nagel are featured players, while
the heavy role is in the hands of
Casson Ferguson. . . t H