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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 169.
DOCTORS DECLARE PRESIDENT ‘SICK MAN’
May Postpone Action On Tax Reformation Laws
WING WANTS HEW
ra SMES PUT OFF
UNTIL NEXT SESSION
Representative From Hancock
and Fourteen Others Join in
Postponement Effort
WORKING TIME IS SHORT
Only Fourteen Days Remain In
Which To Dispose of All
Pending Legislation
ATLANTA, July 30.—Opposition
to any move in the assembly to
delay consideration of tax reform
measures until 1924 was expressed
' by Governor Walker today before
the house sub-committee of consti
tutional amendment commit/ee,
which wa sconsidering a resolution
requesting postponement of action
on constitutional amendment tax
measures until next year.
Resolutions of Representative
McMichael, of Marion, urged a de
lay to the consideration of tax re
form measures until next year, and
called a meeting |f all legislators
interested in the inveiXgation of
the Highway department and the
agricultural department tonight at
the capitol.
The house resolved itself into a
comittee of whole and took up the
considiVation the general appro
priations bill early thi afsternoon.
ATLANTA, July 30.—Asserting
that sufficient information cannot
be obtained at present and that only
fourteen working days of the pres
ent session of the assembly remain
a resolution by Representative
Fleming of Hancock and fourteen
others, asking that all tax reform
measures be postponed for consid
eroation until next year, was intro
duced today.
The resolution enumerates as rea
sons for the postponement request
the presence of various bills in the
senate and house, the general a
propriations bill, the general
act, and the pending investigation
into the affairs of the department
of agriculture, and other pressing
matters already having been refer
red to the rules committee. .Any
tern of the state is of too grave im
reformation of the entire tax sys
portance to be attempted without
complete and authoritive informa
tion. the resolution states.
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IST OCT MEV SYSTEM
SELMA, Ala., July 30.—The Dal
las county board of revenue have
intsituted some important 'changes
in the system of working th • coun
ty roads which, it is believed, will
result in greatly increasing the ef
liciency oi the work and place this
department of the public service on
a higher plane of usefulness to the
taxpayers. The changes in the sys
tem will require that daily reports
be kept and made to rhe county
commissioners, setting forth from
day to day the activities of the su
perintendents and overseers. These
, reports will call for the amount of
roadway covered, gravel put down,
roads dragged, number of mules
■worked, men worked, mules idle and
why; distance materials hauled, and
all the numeorus details involved ip
road construction.
These daily reports must be mail
ed at the end of every day by the
county superintendent of roads and
also by the beat overseers. These
overseers under law must put in ten
days in the year, but heretofore no
reports were ever made or kept of
their work, or at least, not kept in
any adequate way. It is believed
by the commissioners that the meth
od requiring these daily reports of
road work will not only enable them
to keep a more efficient watch on
what is being done but will lift this
important branch of public service
to a better and more gratifying
basis in every way. It will mean
the introduction of business system
into the county’s road activities.
JOINER BRINSS IN
TWIN WATERMELON
L. Y. Joyner, a farmer living out.
four miles from Ameticus, brought
a real curiosity to town today in
the shape of a twin watermelon
weighing in the neighborhood of
20 pounds. The melon was one of
a crop totalling more than three
cars and the only one produced on
ten acres devoted to the crop any
hting out of the normal. The
growth of the two melons is com
plete including the stems which,
though separately marked from the
vine itself, are grown firmly to
gether. The cause of the unusual
(growth is unknown.
THE TIMESJt RECORDER
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AMERICUS BILL’S PROVISIONS CRITICIZED
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low: William McClure.
A rich undertaker, William M.
McClure, of Kansas City, was found
dead on a slab in his own morgue.
His employe, Mrs. Euia Thomp
son, 35-year-old widow, was found
dead at the bottom of the estab
lishment’s elevator shaft.
Into MhClurc’s heart had been
plunged a sharp knife.
The theory first advanced was
that McClure, seeing Mrs. ’Thomp
son dying in the shaft, where? she
had' acicdentaily fallen, became
temporarily insane and killed him
self.
Folico and coroner split on the
possible solution. The former think
Mrs. Thompson could not have fall
en down the shaft accidentally and
suffered the injuries alleged to
have been found on her body.
These were said to be marks ap
parently made from a dull instru
ment.
GM WASTER TO BE
mWETOW
Grand Master Bcwclen and
Grand Secretary Baker Both
To Be Here
J. W .Bowden, grand master of
Georgia Masons, and Grand Seers
tary Frank Baker will be guests of
Americus Masons tonight when they
will witness an exemplification of
the Council] degree by Well Chap
ter. No. 42, R. A. M. The work will,
begin promptly at 8 o’clock, Sam
H. Edge, high priest of the chapter
here, stated this afternoon.
The grand lodge oftEcials are
en route to Vienna where they go
to attend the annual convention oi
the Third District Masonic conven
tion, which meets there Tuesday for
la session of two days. Both Grand
i Master Bowden and Grand Secre
| tary, Baker are Masons of high
I standing with an unusual knowledge
I of the work, and it is expected there
will be a large attendance of Amer
icus Masons to hear them tonight
at the chapter meeting.
AMERICAN DIPLOMAT
COMMITS SUICIDE
ALPINE, Tex., July 30.—The
only rubber producing plant known
to grow uncultivated in North
America is found in the Big Bend
of both Texas and Mexico, along the
border, and the only! factory in the
United Slates equipped to make
rubber from the raw latax is in
Brewster county, Texas. A factory
was established at Marathon about
1 5 years ago, but for the past sev
eral years has been idle.
The plant from which rubber may
i be made is the Guayule, and grows
I abundantly in this section of the
| country. Large quantities have
I been destroyed by praire fires and
I neglect, but much continues to
grow without attention. Apparently
it will thrive in rocky barren soil
where nothing else will sprout.
AMSfcICUS, GEORGIA, MONQAY AFTERNOON, JULY 30, 1923
JUDGE CRISP TELLS
OF OSffl TRIP
BEFOPE «iS
Agricultural Possibilities of Ter
ritory Very Limited, Con
gressman Believes
10 OF GEORGIA
Rich W jninerals, Furs and Fish
eries, Has Decreas
ing Population of 50,000
Congressman Crisp was a guest of
■ Kiwanis club at its last meeting and
( delivered an address on Alaska that
' held the close attention of the club
I for 30 minutes or more.
| He had just returned from an
extended trip through Aalska, ac-
: companied by Mrs. Crisp.
I “We purchased Alaska in 1868
| for $7,200,000,” said the speaker,
i “and already we have taken out
of Alaska more than $300,000,(100
in gold, besides furs and other val
uable products.”
Alaska is ten times the size of
Georgia, having a population of
about 23,000 whites and 27,000 na
tives, the congressman said, the na
tives being Indians and Esllinos.
He says that the population has de
creased, until some of the towns
look like “Goldsmith’s Deserted
Village.” It is a country of rocky
hills, mountains and valleys, with
large deposits of copper and coal.
Thi highest mountain is Mount Mc"-
Kinley, 20,300 feet in altitude.
“In my judgment agricultural
i possibilities are extremely limited
, because of summer sea
| son,” Judge Crisp said. “The news
papers have quoted the federal sec
retary of agriculture with saying
that it has possibilities. I can not
agree with him.” Radish, strawber
ries, onions and a few other sum
mer vegetables that mature quick
ly, he says, can be produced. Wheat,
hay and such cannot matujx, he
said, the wheat being ver ysoft.
Judge Crisp said the most inter
esting experience was watching the
sun set, then rise again ten mlm
utes later, for this is the tune of the
year when Alaska has perpetual
daylight.
He said the Alaskan railway
would never be a paying proposi
tion, in his opinion, that the gov
ernment already has lost several
millions of dollars in its operation.
I He spoke at some length on the
j salmon industry, the glaciers, na
i tives and their death and birth
rates.
I “Our party was entertained by
i the Kiwanis club of Panama, by
I the Kiwanis club of Seattle, but
| the most pleasing feature of my
trip is coming back home to you
and being again with the Americus
■ Kiwanians,” Congressman Crisp said
j in conclusion.
A new member was welcomed in-
■ to the club in the person of Dr. S.
r. Stapleton, whose classification is
veterinarian. He was given the Ki
wanis name of “Vet.”
NEW COTTON STANDARDS
EFFECTIVE AUGUST IST
ATLANTA, July 30.—The regu
lations for the enforcement of the
United States Cotton Standard Act,
which goes into effect August 1,
have been announced by the United
States Department of Agriculture.
This Act requires in interstate
and foreign commerce none but
the official Cotton Standards of
the United States shall be used.
None of the regulations relates to
the mandatory provisions of the
Act.
The regulations provide for the
administration of the Act by the
Chief of the Bureau of Agricultur
j al Economics in the Department of
Agricultural and specifies how the
Act shall be administered with re
spect to its optional features.
Among the most important provi
sions of the regulations are those
relating to Section 4 of the Act
which give the owner or custodian
of cotton the privilege of submit
ting, samples to the Department of
Agriculture for classification and
I makes the department final cer
; tificates of such classification pri
lma facie evidence in United
‘ States court. The regulations nro
i vide in detail how such samples are
i to be submitted for classification.
j EXCHANGE PLANS
TO CELEBRATE
t SAVANNAH, July 30.—The Sa
| vannah Cotton Exchange plans to
'celebrate the 51st birthday August
|l. The exchange was established
i Aug. 1, 1872. It has been quarter-l
Jed since September 1887 in its pres
entbuilding overlooking the Savan
nah river.
BRIDGES DESIGNS US
CLERK AFTER HOUSE
DEFEATS RESOLUTION
Man Accused of Counting Out
Amendment Leaves Position
Voluntarily
RESOLUTION IS DEFEATED
Effort To Bar All Former Em
ployees of State Depart
ments Ineffectual
ATLANTA, July 30.—The resig
nation of Fred Bridges, reading
clerk of house of representatives
of the general assembly, was ac
cepted today by Bismarch Moore,
chief clerk. Bridges was attacked
in a resolution charging a miscount
of the vote on an amendment relat
ing to the department of agricul
ture last week. The resolution di
rected at Bridges was defeated in
the house after several hours de
bate, the amendment which it was
alleged he had counted being the
one removing all apropriations from
the bureau of markets, The reso
lution provided that no one who had
held any office in any state de
partment within the past -ix months
could hold any position in the house.
Bridges was forner’y Connected
with the department of agriculture.
EXPECTREPOPTIIU
mom SWH
Representative McCrory, of
Schley, Wants Tto Provide
Free Text Books to Schools
ATLANTA, July 30.—A report
on his measure to design to provide
free school books for all children
in the first grades-of Georgia com
mon schools is expected early this
week from the appropriations com
mittee by McCrory, of Schley.
Twenty-nine other representatives
have signed the bill.
The measure is as follows:
“Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia •
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IRENE CASTLE OEHIK
‘I Have not a Divc'rce and Have
Not Instituted proceedings,’
Dancer Declares
NEW YORK, July 30—Irene Cas
tle, the dancer, today added an
other touch of mystery to her ma
trimonial affairs \\|hen, returning on
the LaFayette, she announced that
contrary to cabled advices, she had
not obtained a Paris divorce from
Robert E. Tremain, a manufacturer
of Ithaca, N. YL to whom she was
married shortly after the death of
her first husband, Vernon Castle.
“I have no divorce and I have
not instituted proceedings for one,’
declared the dancer who added that
she would meet Mr. Tremain when
she returned td New York next week
on the Majestic.
She was fiAn in her denial de
spite dispatches received last week
ouoting court; records to show that
she had been granted a decree. The
matrimonial affairs of Mrs. Tre
main recently have been beclouded
several times.
Shaking her large fur-trimmed
Parisan hat, Mrs. Tremain, after
making the ilanial said:
“I don’t see why the public should
be interested jn my affairs. They
should be discouraged rather tha.t
encouraged about following my mat
rimonial matters. I dont give a
darn what the people think. They I
can keep on quibbling for a month ,
if they like as to whether or not ■
I am divorced.”
$15,247 EXPENDED ON
WARE ROADS IN JUNE;
WAYCROSS, July 30.—Expendi
tures of $15,247 were made on the
eight road projects in this district I
during the month' of June, accord
ing to figures made public by tne
highway departn-.ent. More than
half of this amount was spent in
Ware and Glynn counties.' Work on
the Jacksonville-Savannah highway
in Glynn countyis being rushed,
$5,200 beirg appropriated for this
project in June. '
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The bethrothal of Miss Grace
Vanueroflt, daughter of General
Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Lord Ivor
Charles Spencer-Churchill, her third
cousin and son of the Duke of
Marlborough, is reported in Lon
don.
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Alabama Man Will Touch on
Presidential Politics Tuesday
in Montgomery Address.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 30.
The eyes of an entire nation will
be on the Alabama capital Tuesday
when United States Senator Os
car W. Underwood is expected to
state his position concerning prob
able candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for President of the
United States in 1924.
Senator Underwood has ex
pressed Lis intention of touching on
his position in the 1924 race for
president in his address before the
Alabama legislature, as well as n
world affairs.
The Alabama.senior members of
the senate is said to be looked on
with favor by the Democrats of the
entire nation for the 1924 cam
paign. He was' a strong contender
for the nomination in 1921 at the
Baltimore convention at which time
President Woodrow Wilson was the
nominee.
Senator Underwood, who is at
home in Birmingham this week has
recently returned from an extend
ed tour of Europe and the eastern
hemisphere where he was a close
student of foreign affairs. «
No intimation of the stand the
stand the Alabamian will take bas
been made yet and just whether he
will toss his hat formally into the
ring while in the Alabama capital
is a matter of speculation.
Hotel facilities are said’to be al
most wholly taken at present with
reservations being wired rapidly.
Visitors from the entire section
will probably crowd the city to
welcome the senator.
Senator Underwood is expected
to spend several days in Montgom
ery.
I COLUMBUS TO VOTE ON
BIG BOND ISSUE |
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COLUMBUS , July 30.—Tenta
; tive date for the holding of a mu- |
I nicipal bond election here has been |
I set for October 10. The maunot I
I of the issue to be determined upon ,
; has not been decided but is be
, lieved that it will be held under I
; $900,000. Approximately $650,-|
000 for school purposes is expect-1
ed to be proposed as well as pro-1
posed indebtedness for plajv
grounds, park improvements, sew- *
era and additional fire stations, ; t
11l FORT GIVES HIS
VIEWS ON NE$ BILL
TO sum MS
Says Provision Should Be Made
For Automatic Expiration Os
Added Tax Provision
COMMISSION IDEA IS GOOD
Wants Debt Commission Given
Broader Powers In Passing
On Claims Discharged
Major James A. Fort tollay
transmitted to the Times-Recorder
his criticism of the proposed sub
stitute school-debt bill formulated
by the Sumter delegation in the
house and senate, taking up the va
rious section which, in his opinion,
may be improved setting forth the
changes that he believes necessary
to adapt the measure to the needs
of the situation. The communi
cation is an intelligent, construc
tive discussion of the bill and along
the long invited by the members
of the Sumter delegation, present
ing as it does the opinion and con
clusions of the writer regarding the
measure and the problems it is de
signed to solve.
Major Fort’s letter reads as fol
lows:
Editor, Times-Recorder: Acting
on the suggestion of the Sumter
delegation in the legislature, I sub
mit the following as my views on
the school-debt bill:
This bill makes the temporary
tax of 5 mills permanent. Provis
ion should be made in the bill for
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OK WITH WHITES
One Dead, Two Dying and Sev
eral Seriously Wounded Dur-
Fight That Followed
CHICAGO, July 30.—-One negro
is dead, two county highway po
licemen are believed dying and two
other men are seriously wounded
as the result of a fight at Worth,
111., between one hundred and fif
ty negro construction gang work
ers, citizens and policemen yester
day, according to the Chicago Her
ald-Examiner.
Fifty of the negroes who occupy
a camp just outside of Worth at
midnight invaded a dance hall in
Worth where a community dance of
white persons was in progress. The
negroes, armed with knives, razors
and revolvers chose as partners,
white women, taking wives from
the arms or their husbands, says'
the Herald-Examiner. Resistance
on the part of the whites was met
with oaths and threats of dpath,
says the newspaper.
The screams of the women were
heard by the otiicials of the village
When they entered the place the
negroes began firing. Additional
help was summoned apd when they
arrived they were reinforced by
100 other negroes, and the police
called for further aid. More than
200 shots were exchanged and there
was a hand-to-hand-fight before the
negroes were overcome.
SLIGHT UIfEERENCfS
BETWEEN TM NOTES
French and Belgian Replies to
British Message Agreed on
Main Points
PARTS, July 30.—(8y the As
sociated Press.) —The French and
Belgian, notes in answer to the
British reparation communication,
were both slightly retouched before
j being transmitted for their expect
ied delivery ih London this after
noon. This came as the result
of exchanges of views between
Paris and Brussels.
It is asserted in well informed
quarters that Premier Poincares’ is
set squarely on the treaty of Ver
sailles and on the E'ra-<o-Belgian
outlined on January 11—that ne
gotiations with Germany are im
; possible until German passive re-
I sistance ceases and that the evacu
ation of the Ruhr is impossible un-
I til the payment of reparation is
' absolutely guaranteed.
I The Belgian note is in accord
I with the French on these two points,
i it is stated .although differing on
1 other features of the reparation
I question such as new conferences
to fix Germany capacity today,
WEATHER *T'
For Georgia Partly cloudy to
night and Tuesday; probably local
thundershowers.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
RUSHING HIPOIHG TO
MM FAST IS
HEALTH WILL PERMIT
President’s Illness Feared More
Serious Than Announced
At San Francisco
4 SPECIALISTS CONSULTED
Promised Bulletin As To Condi
tion of Executive Withheld
By General Sawyer
SAN FRANCISCO. July 30.
Two San Francisco physicians
who were called into consultation
by General Surgeon Sawyer last
night are again in conference
with Dr. Sawyer this morning.
Secretary lHerbert Work, pF
the Department of the Interior,
also again met with theW concult
ants today.
President Harding spent a fairly
comfortable night according to a
bulletin issued today at 11 o’clock
by General Sawyer.
The President’s condition is re
garded as acute, with temporary
overstrained caidaic vascular sys
tem caused by carrying on speaking
engagements while ill, the bulletin
continued.
It will be necessary for the Pres
ident to have complete rest during
the peeriod of acute symptoms.
It was stated by attending spec
ialists that President Harding’s
temperature at 9 o’clock registered
101 j pulse 118 and respiration 33.
TO RUSH PRESIDENT
TO WASHINGGTON SOON
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.
President Harding will be rushed
back to Washington by special train
as soon as he recovers from his
present illness sufficiently to travel,
and probably within the next weeks.
PRESIDENT IS CALLED
“A SICK MAN.”
SAN FRANCISCO, July 30.
President Harding is a sick man.
How serious his illness is, attending
physicians have not said, beyond the
statement last night saying that
new symptoms had arisen during
the day, “indicating complications
in the case of the president,” but
his indisposition was regarded as
sufficiently serious lust night to
cause cancellation of his entire
California program, and to bring
about a consultation into which
two leading California physicians
were called.
Four physicians participating in a
consultation concluded their meet
ing early today without issuing any
statement, although General Saw
yer, President Harding’s personal
physician, had previously announced
a bulletin would be made public.
None of the physiicans attending
the consultation would make any
personal statement bearing either
upon the illness of the president or
the conclusions reached during the
consultation.
FEARREVOLUTITIN
IS NEAR IN GREECE
Ronald Mac Neil Fells Commons
Government Hears of Effort
to Upset Monarchy There
LONDON, Juyl 30.—TBy Asso
ciated Press.) Reports have
reached the British government of
an attempt to set up a republic in
reecer in place of the monarchy,
Ronald Mac Neil, under secretary
for foreign affairs, told the house
of commons this morning.
GOAT FOUND WATCHING
QUANTITY MOONSHINE
SAVANNAH, July 30.—A goat
that stood watch over moonshine
whiskey caches is the latest story
from police headquarters. Two
detectives received a telephone call
to go to a certain place and were
told there they would find some of
the illicit beverage. It will be easy
to find, the informant said, for a
goat stands watch. Sure enough,
they found the goat and moonshine.
WOMAN GETS FINE
IMPOSED ON HUSBAND
SAVANNAH, July 30.—A fine
of $l5O imposed Judge John
Rourke on Leroy Gragg for wife
abandonment was turned over to
the wife after the sheriff and
court officials had waived tljieir
usual interest in it. The officials
are entitled to fees out of fines in
city court but they let the $l5O
remain intact for the woman.
POLA NEGRI-CHAPLIN
ENGAGEMENT IS ENDED
LOS ANGELES, July 30.—Fola
Negri, motion picture tragedienne,
made the smiling announcement
Saturday that five weeks ago she
had broken her engagement to
Charley Chaplin, the Los Angeles
Tinies says;