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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO- F7B
AMERICUS WILL HONOR DEAD PRESIDENT
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Norman Roberts Shoots Wife Dead in Crowd
MURDER lU COORT
B YORK IS CUE
OE WILD EXCITEMENT
Man Summoned- to Court by
Wife Shoots His Spouse
Dead in Corridor
PATROLMAN ALSO SHOT
Murderer,. After Firing on Offi
cer, Starts to Escape and
Is Killed
NEW YORK, August 9.—Wash
ington Heights court was thrown
into ah uproad today when Norman
Roberts, who had been summoned
to court on complaint of his wife,
shot her dead in a corridor of the
court house and then fired upon
a patrolman who attempted his ar
rest. The patrolman returned Rob
erts’ fire, the murderer being in
stantly killed in an effort to es
cape.
Roberts and his wife had been
having domestic difficulties during
some time past, and the woman
summonded him to court where he
was to be arraigned on a charge
of failure to provide,
as SSF now
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Judge Thomas Presents Alarm
ing Statistics Upon Which
Conclusions Are Based
WINONA LAKE, Ind., Aug. 9
(By Associated Press) —Divorces
are granted in Anierica at the rare
of one gvery itftff* tKrbut’h"
out the year, and are more numer
ous here annually in proportion to
total population than in any other
country which records marriage
statistics. The annual total of de
crees for tpe 48 states is in the
neighborhood of 100,000 and is in
creasing three times as fast as the
population. Such are the conclu
sions of Judge W. H. Thomas of
Santa Ana, California, former asso
ciate justice of the California Dis
trict court of appeals, drawn from a
world survey of marriage and di
vorce figures in preparation for an
American campaign for a national
code governing marital relations.
Judge Thomas’ survey included 54
countries, ami the summary of his
study, mode public here, reaches
back into the domestic relations of
ancient' Rome, Greece and Babylon.
In his conclusions is the suggestion
that our national life is seriously
threatened by the present status of
our family relationships. Much of
o >r trouble, he believes, is charge
able to the chaotic state of our'mar
riage laws, and hid recommendation
is a uniform law, applicable to all
American territory, based on wis
dom and experience.
N [GM HIS W HE
KILLED TRUEBLOOD
Terrible Murder Over Owner
ship of Illicit Still Is
Disclosed
to SPRINGFIELD, Ga., August 9.
f ■ ohn Williams, a negro, related in
*\he magistrate's court here today
the manei*Tn which he killed G. U.
Trueblood, 58 yea/s of age, a re
cluse residing at Abercorn near
her today.
Williams said that he killed
Trueblood because he wanted to
operate for himself the moonshine
still owned by Trueblood. Williams,
in his testimony, implicated an
other negro named Allen in the
killing. Police authorities are now
seeking Allen with the view of ar
resting him for complicity in the
murder.
A P. L STUDENTS HEAR
ROBY NOT TO BE COACH
AUBURN, Ala., August 9. An
nouncement that Douglas Roby, all
western halfback and University of
Michigan footbaH star, would not
coach the Auburn backfield this
fall came as a complete surprise
here. Roby, who was signed sev
eral months ago, was largely de
pended on to assist the new staff
in rounding out a team that would
be up to the standard of the Dono
hue teams of the past.
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Revivalist at First Christian J
Church Heard by Large Au
dience Wednesday Night
In a most convincing way “Th? i
Greatset Sin” was declared to be j
the sin against the greatest love, at I
the F'irst Christian church last even
ing. The large audience listened
attentively.
The sneaker forcefully outlined
many sins of man against himself
and claimed that anything less than
the best in the physical, mental or
spiritual development possible ta
man was a sin.
Failure to have the right kind of
high ambition and goal in life was
considered sinful.
Passing note was made of the so
called unpardonable sin, but the j
congregation wa.4 assured that their ■
presence was indictative of the fact i
that none of them’ were guilty of
that sin.
The ' greatest sin is committed
against the greatest love by neglect '
of salvation offered to man by j
God's love, and therefore the fail
ure to accept Christ and obey Him
is the greatest sin, because it re
sults in the greatest consequences,
namely, the eternal separaion of
man from God,” said Mr. Ramsey.
The subject for this evening will
be “Europe's First Convert. ’ In
announcing this theme Mr. Ramsey
.said that had all of Europe followed
the example of this first convert
there would never have been a
World War.
i FIRST BALE RECEIVED
AT CORDELE WEDNESDAY
1 CORDELE, August 9. —S. J. Cul
! pepper brought in the first bale of
I new cotton for Crisp county late
: Wednesday. It cams from his Hat
ley farm, was ginned in the Diffie
ginnery and soild to the Sheppard
& Wright warehouse at 34 cents
a pound. . The seed went to the
i Diffee Cotton company at $35 a
ton. The cotton graded as good
middling. This is the fourth
straight year in which the Shep
pard & Wright warehouse has se
cured the first bale of cotton
IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
1
| A eve, lilic.- urd n./.ms were trib-
L '‘ s to !:iP, President Harding
' t .a h:s crepe-hung pew at ‘he
: Calva. • Bantiat church' where he
■ woi .nipped while in Washington.
(Below) prt.-ident Coolidge sitting
at his desk at temporary headquar
. tors, wears a band oi black on his 1
■ aim in mourning for the late Pres
ident Harding.
Harding Memorial
Program
The program for Friday’s mc-
announced by the American Le
gion committee this afternoon,
will be as follows:
Invocation—Rev. Geo. H. Ramsey
Quartette, “Crossing the Bar”
(Barnby)—Mrs. Walter T.
Maynard. Mrs. J. W. Harris,
Jr., C. A. Ames, Fred Mor
gan.
Introduction of Speaker—Maj.
I James A Fort.
| Address—Hon. Charles R. Crisp.
I Closing Song, “Nearer My God
to Thee”—Assemblage.
I Benedictionßev. Milo H. Mas-
' scy.
| Mrs. Joe M. Bryan, Organist.
FtlfilHiW
,J( CMIOIH MINUTE
Respect Paid to Memory of Wil
liam McKinley by Presiden.
tial Funeral Party
ON BOARD HARDING FUN
ERAL TRAIN, Canton, 0., August,
9.—(By the Associated Press.)
The funeral train bearing the body
of President Harding to Marion,
Ohio, stopped one minute today at
Canton as a mark of respect to the
late William McKinley, who was
: assassinated by Leon Czolcoz sev
j era] years ago. It has often been
• stated that McKinley was a political
i mentor of Harding, the two men
. having in life been fast friends
TRAIN REACHES
MARION COUNTY LINE
I MARION, Ohio, August 9. —The
funeral train, bearing the body of
the late President Harding, cross
ed the Marion county line at
12:13 o’clock today. This point
was two miles from Blooming
.Grove, little Morrow county )vil- :
lage, near where the president was
born.
As the train reached Marion
county, the court house bell began'
tolling. The progress of the train '
through Marion county was slow
due to the large crowds which lined |
the right of way, many of the I
number having been boyhood neigh
bors of the late president.
The funeral services tomorrow
will be in direct contrast to offi-!
cial services held yesterday in the
Capitol at. Washington. The only
service Friday will be held at' the
cemetery, and will be extremely
brief and simple, in accordance I
with the wishes of Mrs. Havdin<l
The home town of the late presi-1
dent awoke today eagerly await
ing the arrival of the funeral
train bearing back to its native
soil for eternal rest the body of
Warren G. Harding.
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 9. 1923
SENATE PASSES PACE
BILL il POT GEORGIA
OFFICERS onoy
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Measure Authorizing Consolida
tion of Tax Offices Already
Has Been Passed
AFFECTS SUMTER COUNTY
If Amendment Passes House It
Will Be Voted on by People
at Next General Election
ATLANTS, Aug. 9—The senate
today passed the bill offered by
Senator Stephen Pace, of the Thir
teenth authorizing the general as
sembly to place on salary all county
officers in counties having a popu
laticn of 25,000 or more. The billis
in the form of a proposed constitu
tional amendment, and if it is
passed by‘the house during the pres
ent session will be submitted to
Li.; people for ratification at the
next general election.
Several days ago the senat<
passed a similar measure offered
by Senator Pace authorizing the
consolidation of the offices of tax
collector and tax receiver in Geor
gia counties. Under the constitution
these offices cannot be consolidat
ed, nor can their occupants be
placed upon a salary basis.
PUOffl “METHERE
■TO BROMIH H
Important Meeting Called For
Friday Morning in New Cham
ber of Commerce Offices
Poultry men of Americus and
Sumter county have been called to
meet Friday morning in the office
of the Chamber of Commerce in the
basement of the courthouse at 10
o’clock. The purpose of the meeting
is to organize a poultry association
for Sumter county and to plan a
poultry exhibit for the Sumter
County Fair to be held here Sept.
25-29, inclusive.
Another and very important mat
ter to be discussed and acted upon is
the establishment of a cash poultry
market at Americus with facilities
available to farmers for disposing
of their fowls in coop lots and oth
erwise, according to the number of
fered. This market, it is believed,
| can be easily established after the
I poultrymen here have developed
! the industry to a point where it will
command the attention of buyers in
the commercial poultry centers, such
as Atlanta, Cincinnati, New York
and other cities where vast quan
tities of poultry and poultry prod
ucts are consumed regularly.
In order to impress upon these
buyers the extent and importance
of poultry as an industry in this
section, it will be necessary to have
a creditable exhibit at the fair here
this fall. Leaders in the movement
realize this and at the meeting Fri
day every phane of the exhibit to
be made here this fall will be con.
sidered and acted upon.
Asrapgements will be made to
have a number of poultry buyers and
•experts visit the fair here ant these
interested men will be shown the
possibilities of Americus ant Sum
ter county as a commercial poultry
market. That the establishment of
: a buyers’ agency here will follow
their comirig is looked upon as a cer
tain, with a creditable exhibit
made at the fair, it is estimated that
many thousand dollars worth of
i poultry and poultry products will be
| sold by Sumter county fanners dur
■ ing the year following.
RUSSIANS ENDEAVORING
TO RESTORE PETROGRAD
REV AL, Aug 9.—Soviet Rus
sia’s effort to restore Petrograd to
[ its former importance as the gate
way to North Russia is having a
detrimental effect on the portts of
Helsingfors, Reval and Riga. The
| Moscow government is diverting
I all possible business to Petrograd.
I and is making improvements in the
I harbor to enable large ships to en-
I ter with safety as they did in the
days before Bolshevism worked
I ruin to the port which has lain
idle for so long,
A Proclamation
WHEREAS, Warr, n G. Harding, President of the United
States, has lately departed this life, and it is fitting that his
memory be properly and solemnly observed among the peo
ple of this nation, and,
WHEREAS, There will be Memorial Services held in the
auditorium of the Rylander 1 heater in Americus, Ga., on Fri
day afternoon, August 16, 1923, between the hours of 2:45
and 3:15 P. M., and it is proper and right that these services
be attended by the whole community; now
FHEREFORE, I, ,}■ E. Poole, Mayor of the City of Amer
icus, under and by virtue of the power in me vested by reason
of said office, hereby issue this my Proclamation, calling
upon ah people here to attend said services and there conduct
themselves decorously as is fitting upon such solemn occasions;
wherefore,
IF IS ORDERED, That all of the offices in the City Hall
be closed during the hours herein designated and all city em
ployes be requested to attend said services, and by their pres
ence show the sorrow of the nation in the loss of its chief
executive- Merchants and business men generally are also
requested to join in said services and to permit as many of their
employes as may be consistent to participate personally therein,
and in this manner testify to the esteem in which this com
munity holds its national executive.
DONE AT IHE Cll Y HALL in Americus, this 9th day
of August, in the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and
Twenty-Three. J. E. POOLE, Mayor
Attest: A. D. GA 1 EWOOD, Jr., Clerk and Treasurer.
KRUPF VON BOHLEN.
INO OTHERS MUSE
■SERVE SENTENCES
Court of Cassation at Paris Turns
Down Appeals Made by
Counsel for Prisoners
CONTENTION OVERRULED
Men Who Encouraged Sabotage
in Ruhr Face Long Terms of
Imprisonment as Result
PARIS, August 9. (By the As
sociated Press.) —The court of
sassation today rejected the appeal
of Baron Krupp-Von Bohlen, head
of the Krupp plant of Essen, Ger
many, and other directors of the
Krupp company for sentences im
posed upon then by French court
martials at Werden sevral months
ago.,
The court overruled the conten
tion of counsel for the imprisoned
Germans that the offense charged
against them was not committed
in enemy territory. All the ac
cused are under sentences ranging
as high as 20 years imprisonment
on charges of sabotage committed
in occupied territory in the Ruhr
BOTARiFHOLD
BRIEF MEMORIAL
“Fess” Mathis, in Eulogy Praises
Dead President as Man of
High Ideals, and Character
The Rotary club at its luncheon
Wednesday at the Tea Room held
a brief memorial session out of re
spect to Rotarian President Warren
G. Harding. The services were sim
ple in the extreme, and the brief
eulogy was delivered by “Fetes”
Mathis who spoke feelingly of the
dead chief executive as a man of
high ideals and exalted Christian
character, and at the conclusion of
his remarks a period was passed
while each Rotarian present rev- ;
erently paid silent tribute to the
memory of the distinguished dead. I
In addition to the service of rev-1
erent eulogy, the club secretary, j
Luther Harrell was instructed to j
send a telegram of condolence to |
Mrs. Harding, the telegram read- j
ing as follows:
“Memorial service held by the
Americus Rotary club today for
our beloved deceased president. I
am instructed to convey to you the
love and esteem of the members |
of our club. May the love and
prayers of your people and the
grace of God sustain you until that
day when you shall be again at
the side of your most affectionate
deceased husband.
“LUTHER A. HARRELL, Sec’y.”
PULES CfflllllTEE IN
CUBE; Ell in IS
HELU IIP IN HOUSE
I Stewart, of Atkinson, Ceases Op
position and Revenue Meas
ures Are Taken Up
CIGARETTE TAX ACT IS UP
This and Ennis Revenue Depart
ment Bills Considered by House
in Committee of Whole
ATLANTA, August 9. (By the
Associated Press.) —In assuming
control of legislative procedure in
the house today, the rules commit
tee of that body sidetracked the
general tax act which had been un
der consideration two days and
placed on the calendar for consid
eration the Milner cigaret tax mgas
xie and the Ennis revenue depart
ment measure.
No opposition is expected to de
velop against the calendar as pre
sented today, according to Repre
sentative Stewart, of Atkinson, who
has been fighting the calendar as
proposed by the rules committee
during the past several days. Both
the Milner and Ennis measures re
late to raising additional revenue
and Representative Stewart said
today that since this was the case
he had no objection toa postpone
ment temporarily of consideration
of the tax act.
Befre resolving itself into a com
mittee of the whole to tafie up the
consideration of the cigaret tax,
the house defeated a bill by Rep
resentative Cummings, of .Rich
mond, designed to allow corpora
tions to absorb other similar con
cerns, provided such measures
would not conflict with the state
constitution. In’ urging support i
foi; his measure, to which he of- [
sered a substitute eliminating the
proposed cigar tax, Representative
Milner explained that while three
years ago there were over 300 c>gar
manufacturing concerns in Geor
gia, there are now not less than
2,000 within the state. Denial was
made to the contention that the
proposed tax would hurt South
| Georgia tobacco growers, Represen
tative Milner read a letter from
j a North Carolina tobacco manufac
• turering concernig asking dealers
; to fight the proposed measures.
NEW ROUTE AGENT
i ' VISITS AT CORDELE
> CORDELE, August 9. —J. L.
Tucker, formerly agent at Moul
trie for the American Express, but
recently promoted to be route agent
, with headquarters at Vidalia, Was
here Wednesday in consultation
with local American Express offi
cials. He will have opportunity in
his new place to visit Cordele oft
en. Ke is a young man and splen
did, most enthisastic representative
of his company.
WEATHER
For Georgia: Local thundershow
ers probably tonight and Friday.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MEMORIAL SERVICES
TO BE HELD FRIDAY IN
RYLANDER THEATER
Judge Charles R- Crisp to Be
Chief Speaker, With Legion
in Charge of Occasion
ALL BUSINESS TO SUSPEND
City and County Offices to Close
While All Attend Memorial
Gathei ing
Memorial services will be held
Friday ?n th l Rylander theater in
honor of Warren G. Harding, presi
dent of the United States, with
John 1). Matins Post, No. 1, Ameri
can Legion, in charge. The hour
selected for the service is the pe
riod between 2:45 and 3:15 in the
afternoon, this including the fun
eral hour at Marion. Following
the conclusion of the memorial the
usual program of moving pictures
will be put on by Manager Kir.cey.
This was decided upon Wednes
day night, when Mayor J. Elinor*
Poole issued his proclamation call
ing upqn the merchants, business
houses and industries of Americus
to suspend all activities during the
presidential funeral hour as a mark
of respect to the nation’s dis
tinguished dead. In requesting a
general cessation of business
throughout the city. Mayor Poole
also ordered all offices in the city
hall closed during the period desig
nated, and requested that all em
ployees of the municipality refrain
from all frivolities throughout the
day and attend the memorial serv
ices at the theater.
Chairman Neil A. Ray, of the
board of county commissioners, to
day requested that all offices in the
court house be closed during the
hour to be devoted to the memorial
service, and ordered that all em
ployes of the county cease work
for a brief time at the funeral
hour as an added mark of respect
to the dead president.
Secretary Henry P. Everett, of
(Continued on Page 6.)
LOSS MB DfflGE
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Service Rendered by Central of
Georgia Has Reduced Claims
By $400,C00
A reduction of 66 per cent in
the amount paid out for loss and
damage to freight ha(s been
brought about by the Central of
Georgia railway in the past two
years, and this item of expense has
decreased $400,000. In a state
ment published today, President
Winburn discusses the importance
of good freight service to the pub
lic. He says that loss and dam
age claims are an unnecessary
drain upon railway revenue and
add to the nation’s transnortation
bill. ' - «.
He points out some of the dif
ficulties and hazards connected
with transportation, which are not
usually understood by the public.
He explains that a special depart
ment is maintained for the purpose
of seeing that freight is properly
handled, to its destination in the
same condition as it leaves its point
of origin. ‘This is part of the ser
vice to shippers that has resulted
not only in a reduction of mone
tary loss but in avoiding interrup
tions to business because of dam
age and delay in shipments.
Acknowledgment is made of the
co-operation of shippers by correct
marking on bills of lading and
packages; by careful packing, wire
strapping, and the use of proper
containers. Mr. Winburn points
out that insecure packing is an in
vitation to theft.
Few railways in the country
have a better record in handling
freight than the Central of Geor
gia, but its employes are pledged
this year to give even better ser
vice than in the past, and with the
co-operation of the road’s patrons,
new efficiency records are being
established.
BANKS TO CLOSE
ALL DAY FRIDAY
The banks of Americus will be
closed all day Friday as a mark of
respect to President Harding, it
was announced here today. The day
will be generally observed by
banks throughout the state, it was
also state,