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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 1 76
TRAIN AND AUTO CRASH AT HUNTINGTON
Funeral Train Has Not Yet Reached Washington
HARDING’S BODY NUT
REICH WASHINGTON
bme midnight
Out of Deference to Wishes of
Mrs. Harding Funeral
Train Runs Slowly
PLANS YET INCOMPLETE
Receiving Vault to Hold Re
mains Until Mausoleum at
Marion Is Completed
BALTIMORE, August 7. (By
the. Associated Press.) —The Hard
ing funeral train will not reach
Washington much before midnight
at the present rate of progress, in
the opinion of operating officials
of the Baltimore & Ohio, at the
road’s executive offices here this
afternoon.. The belief is based up
on the assumption that in defer
ence to the wishes of Mrs. Hard
ing the tra : n will continue to run
slowly through all communities de
siring to pay their tribute io the
memory of the dead president.
RECEIVING VAULT
TO HOLD BODY.
MARION, 0., August 7. (By
Jhe Associated Press.) —President
Hardings body will not be buried
beside that of his mother and sister
in Marion cemetery here. The
body, after its.arrival Friday will
be held in the receiving vault at
the cemetery pending the erection
of a mausoleum to receive it. Even
the plans already approved by
Mrs. Harding are contingent upon,
the condition of- the body upon its
arrival from Washington. The cof
fin, it was said today, had not been
opened during its long trip across
the continent nor would this be
done until.thfi-funeral-train reach
es Washington.
FUNERAL TRAIN
AT YOUNGSTOWN
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Aujjust 7.
The funeral trail bearing the body
of President Harding arrived at
Youngstown at 9:25. this morning,
and without stopping left Hard
ing home state, crossing »he line
into Pennsylvania. The train was
about eight hours late leaving
Youngstown.
WASHINGTON NOW
CITY OF MOURUNING.
WASHINGTON, August 7.—The
capital today is a city of mourning
as it awaited today to pay supreme
tribute at the bier of President be
fore the body is taken to lie for
ever in Ohio soil among the 1 ins
folk and neighbors he loved and
who loved him, not so-much for
the greatness of his place in life,
hut fcr the generous heart so sud
denly stilled in death.
Hours before the long special
train with its fright of sadness was
due, all people of Washigton, of
high and low degree, began to
gather along the way to the White
House.
FlfflfflPlfLLK
IN BUTTLE H UF
Three Members of Constabulary
Forces Wounded During
Fierce Fighting
MANILA, August 7.—Fifty Mo
ros were killed, a number wound
ed and three members of the con
stabulary were wounded in a bat
tle near Lake Lanao on the Island
of Mindanao yesterday, it was re- j
ported to the office of the gover- I
nor general today. No details of I
the battle were given. Additional I
troops are being rushed to the I
scene of the disturbance from the
Manila garrison.
APPLICATION FOR
CHARTER IS FILED
MACON, August 7.—An appli-1
cation for charter was filed yes-;
terday with the clerk of Bibb Su- I
perior court by R. B. Small, James
K. Small and Mrs. Annie Kim- I
brough Small for the organizing I
of the . Georgia Pecan company.
The company will deal in frtfits,
nuts, and will establish, lease and
operate canning plants and orch
ards. The capital of the company
was placed ,at SIOO,OOO -with the
privilege of increasing it to $500,-
000. , _ _
3 BANDITS ATTACK LONE AUTOMOBILIST
Woman Predicted Death
of President Harding
Woman Who Caused Late President Not to With'
draw Name From Convention Read in Stars
“He Will Die Sudden if Not Violent Death”
BY HARRY B. HUNT
(Copyright, 1923, N.E.A. Service, Inc.)
WASHINGTON, Aug 7.—Fate
ran true to prophecy in the life
and death of Warren G. Harding.
Probably no more striking in
stance of the influence of the
stars on human affairs, as preach
ed by occultists and astrologists,
ever was known than that in
which, months before his nomina
tion, Harding was picked as the
next president by a Washington
astrologist, Madam Marcia, who at
the time predicted that he would
live out only a little more than
half his term.
“The end,” she said in making
this prediction in February, 1920
“when it comes will be sudden,
after an illness of short duration.”
I went to see this astrologist
with ■ft’hose former prediction I
was familiar, on Tuesday, July
31, when President Harding lay ill
Mitchell Farmers See
Crisp-Turner Creameries
4
Diversified Farrl .xg in Iwo Georgia Counties
Opens Eyes of Agriculturists of Another on
Tour After Knowledge
Wednesday was a great day for nearly one hundred Mitchell
county fanners who made a tour of Tift and Turner counties vis_
iting the Coastal Plain Experiment Station at Tifton and. the Agri
cultural college near the experiment farm and in the afternoon sev
eral line farms and dairies in Turner county and winding up with
the creamery at Ashburn. The fifteen or twenty cars of people
from various parts of the county gathered at Turner’s school house
on the Moultrie road early in the morning and after a few moments
of greetings and pleasantries they went their way.
The cotton fields along the road early in the morning were fresh
and many ol them full of blooms. The finest field of cotton seen
during the day, perhaps, was that of Paul Branch near Pebble
City. Mr. Branch was present at the gathering and he was ques
tioned concerning his cotton and stated that he. had about 250 or
300 acres :n all but that he had between fifty and sixty acres that
l '-p 3 s , UIe make at least two bales to three acres- He has
the 1 oole variety of cotton. The field observed by the party was
evenly topped and Mr. Branch stated that he had treated it with
lour applications of his home-made mixture of poison and had
followed that with dry applications of calcium arsenate. The
cotton stalks appeared to be quite full of well developed bolls.
lhe condition of the highway be- -
tween Camilla and Moultrie is far
from ideal and it was worse be
tween Moultrie and Tifton. It I
seems that this road has been some-j
what neglected.
Some quite large pepper fields!
near Tifton were interesting to the I
Mitchell county delegation. The I
pepper plants were vigorous and |
well fruited and ft was learned 1
that they were grown by the wagon i
load and sold at Moultrie for can-I
ning purposes.
Ther was a good deal of favor
able comment on the creamery and
packing plant at Moultrie and the
farmers expressed themselves as be
ing pleased that these two indus
tries so close to Camilla afford I
splendid ready markets for their ,
live stock and cream. It was with
regret that they had to be passed
without a bit of inspection.
The big party hurried rm to Tif
ton and stopped a few moments in
that thriving little city and then
-Fifty Mo
HEAVY MASSES OF
IVY DESTROYED
ATHENS, August 7.—Sad faces,
expressions of regret and general
depression was evident at the Uni
versity of Georgia this week when
heavy masses of ivy which for
years—centuries—-have been accu
mulating on the academic building
of the University, were torn down
in order that the painters might
retouch the structure.
Both the interior and the ex
terior of the academic building, the
largest recitation hall on the
campus, are being painted, the col
ors being blue and slate.
Largest pyramid—that of Cheops
of the Gizeh group—contains 89,-
000,000 cubic feet of masonry, and
the total weight of the stone has
been estimated at over 6,000,000
tons,
THETIMESy-RECORDER
PUBLISHED in the HEART or DIXIE
> in San Francisco. The bulletins
from the bedside, at the time I
called, announced the patient im
proving. He was on the highway
to recovery, the attending physi
cians agreed.
But Madam Marcia, who spent
1 the morning poring over the horo
scope of the ill man, shook her
head.
Predicts Harding's Death.
“It is the end,” she said. He
will never recover. The crisis will
come Thursday night. Ke will be
dead by Friday.”
In the face of the doctor’s bul-
1 letins, I smiled at her. But she
was immovable, steadfast in her
I tragic forecast. “He can not re-
I cover,” she persisted. “He will be
I dead by frjday.”
’ I Believers in fhte will find in
1 (Continued on Page Two.)
went on to the Coastal Plain Ex
periment station. On arriving
I there the party was met by the ofl
l ficials and warmly greeted and wel
l corned. The officials of the experi
j ment ’station are fine men and did
I everything possible for the enter-
I tainment and instruction of tht.
i party. S. H. Starr, the director;
I W. J. Davis, the agronomist; Otis
> Wooward, the horticulturist; J. C.
i Hart, the tobacco expert, Fred
| Bell, the farm superintendent,
placed themselves at the disposal of
the visitors.
Director S. H. Starr got in the
front car and conducted the’party
to a plot of cotton that is being
j grown after the Florida method of
, boll-w’eevil control. He explained
that the cotton w'as planted about
the middle of March and that on
June 10 the squares had all been
removed apd the tops treated with
poison. The cotton was pretty full
(Continued on Page 3.)
GA. STUDENTS DISCUSS
DEATH OF PRESIDENT
ATHENS, August 7—Announce
ment of the death of President
Warren G. Harding was received
with interest and expressed grief
<by members of the student body
and faculty of the University of
Georgia. A nufnber of the students
and faculty members learned of
the death of the chief executive
Thursday night and this informa
tion lead to levely discussion on 1
political
REV. C. E BARRON
IS NOW AT MACON
MACON, August 7.—Rev. C. E.
Baron has assumed the pastorate
of the Mabel. White Baptist church
here. He comes from Boston, Ga.,
but was formerly pastor of a j
church in Marshallville. He is mar-'
ried and has four children.
AMERICUS, GA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 7, 1923
FREE SCHOOL BOOK
BILL IS FAVORABLY
REPORTED TO HOUSE
Representatives Camp and Rus
sell Win Fight in Effort For
School Children
BILL BY M’CRORY LOSES
Would Buy Books With Money
From Fines Imposed on Pro
hibition Law Violators
ATLANTA, August 7.—The free
text book bill by Representatives
Camp and Russell, providing funds
to supply books in the elementary
grades df Georgia’s schools from
revenue received from fines and
penalities imposed upon violators
of the state prohibition laws was
favorably reported today by the
house education committee.
The action in reporting the Camp
/nd Russell measure followed the
decision of the appropriations com
mittee reached last night to report
adversely the McCrory free book
bill, which carried with it appro
pirations totalling $60,000.
IB REFBMI EFFORT
IS ABANDONED WIL
inf
Rules Committee Assumes Con
trol of Legislation in Both
Houses on That Date
CONFERENCE IS HELD
Leaders Reach Decision to*Wait
After Talking Matter Over
With .Governor Walker
ATLANTA, August 7.—A1l ef
forts to bring tax reform measures
onto the floor of the house for con
sideration during the present ses
sion will be fought by Representa
tive Stewart, of Atkinson. This
announcement was made after the
Atkinson representative had been
defeated in his efforts to delay con-!
sideration of the general tax act
and take up immediately the con
sideration of tax reform measures.
Administration forces planned to
discontinue their fight until
Thursday when the rulqs commit
tee assumes control of the calen
dar for the Tinal seven days of
the. session, it was stated by one of
the leaders here today. The decis
ion to wait until Thursday before
attempting to force action on re
form measures was reached today
at a series of conferences between
Governor Walker and the members
of the rules committees of the two
houses of the general assembly.
The senate today resumed con
sideration of' the general appopria-
bill, and an amendment by
Senator Phillips to increase the ap
propriation of the State Medical
college at Augusta $20,000 was
passed. The appropriation for the
school now is $69,500. Another
amendment by Senator Hamby to
give the common schools of the
state a flat appropriation of $5,-
500,000 was defeated.
INSPECTORS FINDING
MORE MOSQUITO NESTS
MACON, August 7.—lnspectors
of the city health department re
ported yesterday that they had
found a number of breeding places
for mosqirtoes, including several
drainage gutters where stagnant
water had been allowed to stand.
Acording to the report, foui
houses in Arlington Place, that were
apparently well drained, were
found to have standing water and
larvae deposits in the drainage gut
ters. . ... Jt
START COMUNITY
MEETINGS FOR FAIR
AT LESLIE MONDAY
George O. Marshall, Secretary
Everett and Miss Parkman to
Have Help in Work
SPLENDID PRIZES OFFERED
Schedule of Meetings Arranged
Provides for Visit to Every
Community in County
Community meetings in the in
terest of the Sumter county fair
which will be held in Americus
September 25-29. will be held be
ginning next Monday. The first of
these meetings will be held Mon
day morning at 9 o’clock at Les
lie, at which time the aims and pur
poses of the fair wHI be explained
to Leslie residents, and an effort
to instill additional interest in the
preparation of a community exhib
it from that section.
George O. Marshall, coutny farm
demonstration agent; Miss Bonnie
Parkman, county home economics
agents; Henry P. Everett, secretary
of the Americus and Smuter Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce; Lovelace
Evo, editor of the .Times-Recorder;
Neill A. Ray, chairman of the
county board of commissioners, and
a number of other representative
citjgens, are expected to address
these community meetings,
The schedule of meetings as an
nounced today is as follows: Les
lie, Monday, August 13, 9 o’clock;
Huntington, Monday,l August 13,
11 o’clock; Shiloh, Tuesday, Aug
ust 14, 9 o’clock; Concord, Tues
day, August 14, 100 o’clock; New
Era, Wednesday, August 15, 2
o’clock; Pleasant Grove, August
15, 4 o’clock; Thalean, Thursday,
August 16, 9 o’clock; Timpson,
Thursday, August 16, 11 o’clock;
Andersonville, Thursday, August
16, 2 o’clock, and Plains, Friday,
August 17, at 9 o’clock.
As a stimulus to the preparation I
of community exhibits, the Cham
ber of Commerce commitae, in
charge of the work, has consented
to offer a first prize of $l5O for [
the best community exhibit at the |
fair, and SIOO as the second best,
exhibit prize. Other prizes in pro- I
portion will be offered for worthy
community exhibits, all of the
prizes to be paid in cash at the con
clusion of the fair.
J. I). WILLED
IN INTO ACCIDENT
Rouse McGough, Who Was With
Him in Roadster, Probatbly
Fatally Hurt Near Cordele
CORDELE, August 7.—J. Q.
Spires, young man, hardly 20 years
of age, a garage employee, here,
was instantly killed, and his com
panion, Rouse McGough, was prob
ably fatally injured when the road
ster in which they were riding was
overturned at a bend in the Na
tional Highway three miles north
of Cordele at 10 o ! clock Monday
night. Witnesses to the accident
said their car must have been
speeding 50 miles an hour. Spires,
who was driving, was supposed to
have lost control.
Max Feldser, merchant of Vi
enna, whose car tHe two yonug men
had passed but a moment before
on the way from Cordele to Haw
kinsville, stopped and picked up the
injured man and retruned with him
to a local hospital. The dead young
young man is a son of a local
salesman and was reared in Cor
dele. 1 *« Lt
JUDGE HOPKINS LOSES
PRIVATE STOCK FISH
THOMASVILLE. August 7.
Judge H. W. Hopkins, of this city,
lost his private stock of fish re
cently when a heavy rain that re
sembles a cloudburst caused the
fish-stocked pond on his farm to
overflow and wash out the dam.
The pond ran dry. As a result of
the downpour, low areas became
small lakes and many small streams
went out of their banks.
GMDY ROYAL BEATEN
ANO LEFT FOR OEM
BI DESPERATE SEN
That One of Assailants Believed
Him Already Dead
Saved Him
ATTACKED ON HIGHWAY
Slowed Down Car in Response
to Signal and Was Quickly
Overpowered
Grady Royal, a former resident
of Ellaville and well known in
Americus, was attacked, slugged,
and left for dead by bandits in
Washington state a few days ago,
according to a letter received in
Americus today by W. L. English.
Mr. English, who is a relative
of Mr. Royal, said the youth’s ex
perience was very exciting, besides
being almost fatal. According to
information contained in the let
ter, Mr. Royal was en route from
Seattle to a nearby town, travel
ing a lonely road when attacked.
Preceding him on the road three or
four other motor parties had been
held up, hdaten and "robbed by
the same thugs. Mr. Royal, driv
ing at moderate speed, suddenly
discovered a man on the running
board of his car and a pistol un
in response to a signal waved by
one of the robbers, thinking he
might be of assistance to a disabled
motorist.
While one of the men held a pis
tol before Mr. Royal, the other
struck him sharply about the head
numerous blows, which quickly pro
duced insensibility. While he was
in an unconscious state, the ban
dits rifled hi spockets, securing S3O
in cash and a few valuables he car
ried with him. They carried him
some distance from the scene of
the attack in his car, where he was
taken out and laid alongside the
road. While being removed from
the car Mr. Royal partly regained
consciousness when he heard one
of the men say to another; “Let’s
kill him—dead men tell no tales.”
“It’s no use,” the other man said,
“he is dead already.”
Realizing the extreme precarious
position he occupied, Mr. Royal
lay perfectly still while the bandits'
debated concerning whether or not
additional blows should be rained
upon his already bruised and beat
en skull.
After they hack left the scene for
some time, he cautiously stirred
about, and several hours later suc
ceeded in reaching a telephone,
whence help was summoned. He
was unable to give any description
of his assailants, except that one
of them was a tall man, and the
other was rather short in stature.
Among thos attacked previous to
the assault upon Mr. Royal were a
number of ladies, one of whom was
shot twice by the thugs, a bullet
penetrating each of her lower
limbs.
CRISP PEOPLE TO
HEAR OF PROGRAM
John W. Greer Will Outline Five-
Year Plan at Cordele Bar
becue Wednesday
CORDELE, August 7. —Wednes-
day Cordele will be host to the
people of Crisp county at a barbe
cue to be spread on a local park
at which time the five-year pro
gram for this county will be pre
sented to those who attend. The
program will run from 10 till 1
o’clock and the stores of the com
munity will be closed for the oc
casion.
The program outlined by John
W. Greer and committees of the
county board of trade is for a pe
rio dos five years in agricultural
and industrial development at Cor
dele and throughout the entire
county. At the barbecue a num
ber of strong speakers will present
this outline for growth and de-,
velopment on the farm and in all
lines of business.
WEATHER
For Georgia Partly cloudy to
night and Wednesady; probably lo
cal thundershowers Wednesday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FIVE BEAD AND FOIIfI
INJURED IN DEADLY
' CRASH IT CROSSING
Freight Train and Party in Auto
i Meet on Grade Crossing
Near H.untington
| CROSSING DANGEROUS ONE
I Five Railroads Use Tracks at
I Point Where Crash Occurred
Early Today
HUNTINGTON, Ind., August 7.
I Five persons were killed and four
injured, two of whom may die,
when a freight train on the Elgin,
, Joliet & Eastern railroad crashed
into an automobile early this rnorn
, ing.
The automobile tried to cross the
track ahead of the train, and it ds
the expressed opinion of railrbad
I officials that the driver of the an
, tomobile did not know of the cross
ing at that point where- five rail
, roads pass.
CROWDS GROWING IT
RAMSEY REVIVAL HERE
Revivalist Declares Jesus Came
Into World to Bear Witness
to the Truth
An unusually largo crowd for
Monday night greeted the speaker
at the First Christian church last
, evening. The interest shown can be
accounted for only by the fact that
great truths of the gospel are be
ing presented nightly by Mr. Ram
sey in a simple and direct way,
say members of the congregation.
In speaking of truth and what
it is, last night, the evangelist
quoted John 18:37 to the effect
that the end of Jesus’ coming into
the world was to bear witness to
the truth. Truth then is the basic;
foundation of salvation, he said.
Men today, like Pilate of old, are
asking, “What Is Truth?” It' is
self-evident that incontrovertable
fact is truth, said the speaker and
he then proclaimed • the Bible;
miracle, Jesus Himself, conversion
and the resurrection to be such
facts. But truth like every ab
stract must be personified incar
nated in order to be effective.
This was done in God’s revelation
of Himself through Jesus Christ
who announced Himself to be “the
Truth,” said Mr. Ramsey. Truth
is fundamental in all things. When
the complete truth concerning mu
ture and science, is all in it will
not disagree with the revealed
truth. It is the function of faith
to receive facts and evidence as
far as they have been revealed to
us, the revivalist declared; and
then trust God to give more light
as we are prepared to receive it.
Those who hear God speaking
through revelation to their souls
are con' dent that they know the
truth.
The subject for this evening is
‘How the Worst . Sinner Was
Saved.”
E IN COTTON
WORTH 80WON
Farmers of South Will Realize
Huge Sum as Result of Re
cent Market Advance
NEW YORK, August 7.—Recent
increases in the price of cotton,
caused by prospects of a sharp re
duction in the Texas crop, will
mean a gain of approximately SBO,-
000,000 to farmers who have cot
ton to sell,William Mitchell, of
Gwathmey and company, cotton
brokers, estimated last night.
Houses and plunging customers
who traded in cotton were caught
short Monday as the price of that
commodity was advanced more than
$6 a bale on top of an advance of
$lO a bale in the last three trading
: days. The rush to cover was ac-
I celerated by further unfavorable
! crop reports from Texas, ,