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EXCHANGE CLOSED ON AC
COUNT OF DEATH OF PRESI
DENT HARDING.
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 173
COOLIDGE IS PRESIDENT
NATION MOURNS DEATH OF HARDING
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Stalwart Conservative Republi
cans Expect Opposition in
' Naming Candidate
REAL CONTEST EXPECTED
Six Months Ago Renomination
of Harding Generally Con
ceded But Changed Now
WASHINGTON, August 3.—(By
the Associated Press.) —President
Harding’s death throws new com
plications into the political situation
which undoubtedly will have far
reaching reflection in the Repub
lican national convention next year.
The event probably will turn that
gathring from what many expected
to be merely a ratification meeting
into a real contest for the Repub
lican presidential nomination with
the stalwart conservative Republi
can forces aligned on one side and
the forces represented by such
leaders as Senator Johnson, Sena
tor Borah, Senator LaFollette and
others.
Six months ago the're-nomination
of President Harding without any
substantial contest seemed assured.
M CDNffIEGATIDH
HEARS PAMSEY JIIK
Sermon Based on Conversion of
Ethiopian Related in Eighth
Chapter of Acts
For nearly an hour last evening a
large audience listened eagerly to
the sermon by Evangelist Ramsey
on the conversation of the Ethio
pian eunich as recorded in the Bth
ch? pter of Acts.
It was pointed out that although
this treasurer under Queen Candace
had a religion and had been up to
Jerusalem to worship, yet God saxy
fit to change that one’s religion by'
an angel messenger and by the di
rection of the Holy Spirit directing
the preacher Philip to Ipave Samaria
and go out on the desert road to
ward Gaza from Jerusalem, where
he came up to the chariot and thus
the nt of God and the needy soul
were brought together which, said
the speaker, is the work and mission
of the Holy Spirit. •
The preacher and not the sinner
has the Spirit of God. The speaker
further urged that man today take
the Word of God rather than that of
the church for his direction and that
by being obedient he would have
the hope and fill the terms of sal
vation. Obedience and not opinion
is the working element of salvation,
he said. Many things of church prac
tice was shown to be unwarranted
by this case of conversion and much
of the fallacy of rejecting the plain
Bible statements for supposition and
assumption was called to the atten
tion of the audience, and many of
the audience pronounced this one
of the strongest sermons ever heard.
The subject for tonight will be
“Now.” Now is a good time to be
hearing these sermons at the First
Christian church if one wishes to
get much of the benefit of the se
ries being presented there. The
meetings continue on through next
week if all plans are carried out.
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What Thomas
County Men
Saw On Trip
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This interesting story of the ex
perience of Thomas county men in
search of agricultural and industrial
-opportunities will appear Satur
day. It is deleted today so as to
permit more complete details of the
death of President Haiding.
Today’s installment of “The Yel
low Seven” is likewise deleted. A
double installment will appear tc
morrow.
The New President
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CALVIN COOLIDGE
New President Is Man Long
In Public Life of Nation
Vt., Aug. 3 —(By Associated Press) —Vice
President Calvin Coolidge became president of the United States
at 2:47 o'clock this morning, eastern standard time, when he took
the oath of office in the living room of his father’s farm house in
this little mountain village where he was born. Three hours earlier
he had been notified of the death of President Harding, and in a
brief statement had exress.ed his grief at the passing of his chief
and his friend, and his purpose of carrying out the policies “which
he began for the service of the American people.’’
President Coolidge took the oath from his father, who is a
notary public, and in whose home he was a visitor when notified
of his elevation to the presidency. The text of the oath as pre
scribed by the constitution, was telephoned to Plymouth from
White House officials in Washington. He is the first president ever
to take the oath of office from his father.
SKETCH OF
NEW PRESIDENT
Calvin Coolidge twenty-ninth
man elected vice-president of the
United States and louxtn from tne
State of Massachusetts, was born
in tne tiny town of Plymouth, Vt.,
July 4, 1872.
hirst elected a member of the
city council of Northampton, Mass,
the city which had been his home
since he, became a voter,- he pro
gressed steadily upward through
the offices of city solicitor, mayor,
membership in the house of repre
sentatives and of the senate of
Massachusetts, serving as president
of the latter body, and tnen as a
lieutenant governor until elected
governor and in 1920 vice-president
of the United States.
In this more than 20 years he
gave to these duties his time was
almost exclusively devoted to the
problems of public affairs. Onlj
incidentally did, he turn to the law,
although !.»• always maintained an
office with an associate at North
ampton.
He was born in the village of
' Plymouth, Vt., on July 4, 1872 of
| Puritan ancestors who come to this
: country and settled in Watertown,
■ Mass., in 1630.
Running in his veins by direct
I lineage is the blood of the May
| flower pilgrims. From them he in
, herited a predominant Puritan re
spect for law and order such as
characterized his conduct as gov
ernor of Massachusetts, in refusing
to temporize with leaders of the
Boston police strike.
Ke left the farm in 1891 for
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Mrs. Frank Barkalow and daugh
er, Dora Nell, of Canton, are
guests of Mrs. Everett Schneider
for several days.
THE TIMESH RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF~ DIXIE
BRADLEY TO ERECT
NEW BANK BUILDING
COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 3—A
permit for the erection of a bank
building has been issued to W. C.
Bradley, president of the Third Na
tional and Columbus Savings Bank.
Tne institution is to be located in
North Highlands, a suburb, but
whether it wiil be a branch of his
present holdings or a new concern,
Mr. Bradley was not prepared to
state.
AMERICUS OIL COMPANY
GIN IS OVERHAULED
Workmen who have been busy
there during several days have fin
ished the task of re-building and
repairing the gins at the plant of
the Americus Oil Co., here, and
these are in condition to do ginning
at brief notice. In addition to a
thorough overhauling, the gins con
stituting a battery of eight latest
pattern Consolidated gins, have
been electrically equipped for op
eration during the approaching sea
son. R. A. Slappey, who has been in
charge of the gins during the past
fifteen years, will again be in
charge there this season, it is an
nounced.
DR. LOVETT HELD
SUMTER CONFERENCE
Dr. Lovett, presiding elder of the
Americus district, held quarterly
conference Thursday in Sumter
church for the Smithville work. Re
ports shows the work there well
organized, and a good attendance
greeted the presiding elder. Dr.
Lovett preached at 11 o’clock and
at the conclusion of the service a
basket dinner was served on the
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AMERICUS, GA , FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3. 1923
DUBOSE PREDICTS
EHDII SESSIOI OF|
GML MET
Member of House Rules and Ap
propriations Committees Says ’
Tax Reform Doomed
APPROPRIATIONS ARE CUT
House Agriculture Committee
Votes to Eliminate Money
for Harbor Commission
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ATLANTA, August 3.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The prediction
that the general assembly would
not enact any tax reform measures
during the present session and that
an extraordinary session would be
called by aprovernor Walker, was
made here today by Representa
tive DußoSe, of Clark. Represen
tative DußdSe is a veteran legis
lator and a member of both the ap
propriations and rules committees
of the house.
The house agriculture committee
today favorably reported the sen
ate bill eliminating all appropria
tions for the state port and har
bor commission.
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(REE BRIEf ILLE
Funeral Services Held This Af
ternoon at 3:30 From First
Methodist Parsonage
Mrs. Ruby Lenoard Smith died .last
night at 8:30 o’colck at the Ameri
cus and Sumter County hospital,
death following an illness of five
days.’
She is survived by her husband,
J. W. Smith and his family who re
side at Leslie; infant daughter,
Harriet Windsor, one sister, Mrs.
Wallace Rish, of Coleman; two
brothers, T ,C. Fillingame, of Cole
man, and C. F. Fillingame, of At
lanta.
Mrs. Smith is greatly beloved in
this community and throughout
Sumter county, having been for a
number of years a member of the
Leslie High school faculty, where
she was esteemed by teachers and
student body alike.
She was 23 years of age and
had resided in Americus only since
her marriage last summer, having
previously resided at Coleman.
During her stay here she had made
many warm friends who loved her
for her sweet disposition and Chris
tian character, and were shocked by
announcement of her death.
During revival services held in
the spring, she was received into
memberhsip of the First Methodist
church by letter, Mr. Smith join
ing with her by conversion. She
had been active in Sumiay school
work, here and elsewhere, and ex
emplified her faith in her daily life.
Funeral services were held this
afternon at 3 o’clock from the
First Methodist parsonage, conduct
ed by Rev. John M. Outler, pa«tor
of the congregation, at
tended by hundreds of sorrowing
friends. Interment was in Oak
Grove cemetery. The floral offer
iYigs were many and beautiful, at
testing to the esteem in which she
was held here.
The pallbearers were J. D. Bol
ton, of Leslie; K'. B. Williams, Dan
Chappell, Robert C. Lane, Lewis
Ellis, W. A. Dodson, Middleton Mc-
Donald, and Kellette Heys.
MASS MEETING TO
PROTEST. ASSESSMENTS
AUGUSTtA, Ga., Aug. 3—Pro
tests against tax assessments for
1923-24 in this, Richmond county,
were voiced at a mass meeting of
business men. Spokesmen declared
they were higher than In any other
county in the state.
ALL-DAY SINGING AT
TOOMSBORO POPULAR
TOOMSBORO, August 3.—-An
■ all day singing meeting recently
! held at the Macedonia Baptist
■ church, in this county, was highly
successful in bringing out the
voices of the community. $t is
planned to hold another one,
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WARREN G. HARDING
Deceased Executive Counsellor,
Slot Dictator, to Congress
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3—(By Associated Press)—The
nation today mourned the passing of its leader, while American
people from coast to coast, from the Lakes to the Gulf, and in
the territories beyond the seas, bowed their heads in grief, for
the President was dead.
In the early hours of Thursday evening, after a day which
had brought renewed hope of recovery, death came suddenly and
struck down Warren G. Harding with a stroke of cerebral apo
plexy.
The end came instantaneously, without even a second of
warning, at 7:30 o’clock. Th'- was no time to summon addi
tional hysicians, no time to call the members of his official family,
no time for medical skill to exercise its knowledge—it was all over
in the twinkling of an eye, and it left the nation and the world
shocked and in grief.
Mrs. Harding, constant compan
ies of her distinguished husband,
was faithful unto the end. She was
reading to him a few minutes before
7:30 when she noticed a shudder
run through the frame of the man
she had loved and encouraged in ad
versity and praised in success. Be
fore she could rise from her chair,
Mr. Harding collapsed in bed and
she rushed to the door, calling for
physicians to come quickly.
The death of the president was
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HINESVILLE TROOP WINS
SEAMAN’S DRILL TROPHY
HINESVILLE, August 3.—Troop
B, the Liberty county cavalry na
tional guard organization, com
manded by Captain J. B. Fraser,
has returned from Camp McClellan,
Ala., where it won the Seaman’s
trophy in competitive drills. The
award is made annually by Major
Seaman of Atlanta, commander of
Georgia’s squadron of cavalry.
Trop B won the tropyh last year.
PLASTERERS AT
SAVANNAH STRIKE
I SAVANNAH, Aug. 3—Local
I plasterers went on strike when they
jwere refused a wage increase of
I $2.50 per day. They were receiving
; $7.50 a day, some of them SB, and
| they sought a daily scale of $lO.
! LUCAS TO BECOME
PASTOR AT AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, Ga„ Aug. 3—-Rev.
Edgar C. Lucas, of Illinois, will as
sume the pastorate of the First
Christian church here, Sunday, Au
gust 5. He succeeds Rev. Allen Wil
son, who after vacationing with his
family in North Carolina, plans to
take charge of a church at Winches
ter, Ky., Sept. 1.
FEDERAL PEN INMATES
PLAY TENNIS TOURNEY
ATLANTA, August 3.—lnmates
of the federal penitentiary here are
to play winers of a recent city
tennis tournament for the purpose
of determining the championship
of the two, in a sories of matches
beginning August 11. Jack Moon
ey and Jack Regan, two city title
holders, are to lead the city en
trise. The penitentiary intends to
send forth its best.
SPARTA PEOPLE WANT
SCHEDULE CHANGE MADE
SPARTA, August 3.—Local resi
dents have petitioned the Georgia
Public Service commission not to
allow the change of Schedule
sought by the Georgia railroad in
the opreation of its train which now
reaches here at 7:45 in the morn
ing. The proposed change would
make the train arrive here some
two or two and a half hours later.
It would mean that the people here
would get their mail until about
non, it is pointed out.
SAVANNAH BOARD TRADE
ENDORSES APPLICATION
SAVANNAH. Aug. 3—The Sa-
Ivannah Board of Trade has endorsed
’the application to the Interstate
(Commerce Commission of the Atlan.
I tic Coast Line and Louisville and
Nashville Railroads to lease the
properties of the Carolina, Clinch
field and Ohio Railway for a period
of 999 years. It would mean a broad
expansion of this section’s trade
radius, the trade board declared.
Mrs. E. K. Sparks and E. K.
Jr., of Tampa, Fla., are guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schneider 1 at
their home on Brown Mreet.
WEATHER
For Georgia Partly cloudy to
night and Saturday; probably thun
dershowers near the coast.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
JUDGE CRISP DEEPLY
SHOCKED AND GRIEVED
AT HARDING'S DEATH
Americus Congressman Says
Dead President Was Most
Democratic in Manner
WAS HIS PERSONAL FRIEND
Coolidge Described as “Very
Different Type of Man
From Harding’
Judge Charles R. Crisp, who is
spending some time at his home
in Americus, and who was recent
ly a member of President Harding’s
party in Alaska, today expressed
his deep grief at announcement of
tfye president’s death. In speak
ing of Mr. Harding this morning
judge Crisp said to a Times-Re
corder man:
“I was profoundly shocked and
grieved last night to learn of the
death of President Harding. He
was truly a lovable man, one of
the most magnetic I ever knew. I’
believe he was the most democratic
in manner of any president I ever
knew. While, of course, I did not
agree with him politically, and
while our views of legislation were
dissimilar, I always accorded Presi
dent Harding honesty of purpose,
and whatever else may be said about
him, he was an American and loved
his country.
“He was my personal friend and
I sincerely deplore his death. I
do not know President Coolidge
intimately, f have met him once
or twice. But he is a very differ
ent type of man from President
Harding. He has impressed me as
being cold and rather austere, and
that is the general opinion of him
in Washington, among thosewhom I
have heard express themselves
about him. He very promi
nent in the national eye when he
fought labor organizations in Mas
sachusetts when he was governor.
His activity in this respect, in my
judgment, is what caused the Re
publican convention to nominate
him for vice-president. I consicfer
him a reactionary in politics, and
that he will be very friendly to the
so-called stand-pat Republicans of
his party. He is a man of ability
and courage, but I fear -highly
prejudiced. It is a source of great
satisfaction to me that every presi
dent our great country has had has
been a man of high character, men
who loved their country, and 1 am
sure President Coolidge will prove
no exception to the rule.”
HARRIS SHOCKED
AT ANNOUNCEMENT
ATLANTA, Aug. 3—(By Associ
ated Press)—“l am deeply shocked
to hear of the death of President
Harding,” Senator Willianj J. Har
ris said here today. “Harding was
most human, and every one who
knew him liked him. Tuesday I
wired Mrs. Harding that all Geor
gians were praying for the presi
dent’s recovery. Harding had met
many difficulties, but I believe ho
did his very 'best for his country.”
WHOLE SOUTH MOURNS
PASSING OF FRIEND
ATLANTA, Aug. 3—(By Associ
ated Press) —The entire south
mourned today the death of a true
friend in the passing of President
Harding. Many here recalled the
four visits which President Harding
made to this section of the country
after his election to the presidency,
pointing out that he was the man
who “broke the Solid South” in
1920 when Tennessee cast its elec
toral vote for him by a big popular
majority. President Harding also
spent several weeks in Florida be
tween the date of his election and
his induction into the office of pres
ident. ti.
FEDERAL AID SOUGHT FOR
ALTAMAHA DRAINAGE
BRUNSWICK, Aug. 3—Federal
aid in draining Altamaha river lands
is one of the chief aims of an organ
ization launched here and known as
the Altamaha River System Associ
ation. Local and Macon business
men are interested in the project, .