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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 180
What's Going
On In The
* World
The Weeks’ Chief Events
Briefly Told
HARDING’S DEATH
COOLIDGE
PRESIDENTIAL OUTLOOK
By CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer.
What effect will Harding’s death
have on the presidential fight of
1924?
With the tragedy so recent, poli
ticians have discussed the question
little yet—aloud.
<x Hut naturally they
have it much in
mind.
1 H’ s generally
Jgßfcc x : z 1 agreed that Har-
J would have
Wfe W S been renomina
aa if he’d lived.
\ -Ma However, many
IB leading Republi-
Wl CailS felt that
Kaßk ReH Public sentiment
MMMjrtfc. called for a more
radical candidate
STEWART than he. For in
stance Magnus Johnson’s defeat of
Harding’s choice, Governor Preus,
in Minnesota, looked that way. A
so-called progressive nominee, these
Republicans believed, would get
votes Harding couldn’t get. But
NOT to renominate him, {hey also
believed, would cost the party the
support of numerous voters who
considered him entitled to another
term.
In short, it was feared changing
• candidates would lose more votes
than it would gain.
Now, however, the party leaders
are at liberty to use their best judg
ment. There’s no reason why they
shouldn’t make as radical a selec
tion as they deem desirable. There
fore, not only will there be a new
name at the ticket’s head, but the
policy the ticket represents mav he
quite different from the one Hard
ing’s views undoubtedly would have
held his party to.
YOU CAN’T
TELL.
It looks like a pretty good bet
that .Coolidge won’t be the nominee,
unless he performs miracles in less
than a year, for he’s classed gen
eraly as more conservative than
Harding was.
And yet it's impossible to be quite
sure. On a show-down, in the con
vention, the Republican conserva
tives may prove to be stronger than
the progressives, so-called, not so
strong as surface indications have
led people to suppose.
Seemingly the man whose chances
have been most strengthened is
Hiram Johnson.
WHOLE OUTLOOK
CHANGED.
The new outlook upsets Demo
cratic calculations, too. The Demo
cratic leaders thought they just
knew the type of man and sort of
platform they’ have to oppose. The
fact that they’re almost certain now
to have to face an altogether dif
ferent type of candidate, standing
for an altogether different line of
policies, may force them to change
whatever campaign plans they’ve
tentatively made.
third party
PROSPECT.
The third party movement may
, be affected, as well. Perhaps as
, the old line groups’ policies develop
there won’t seem to be much need
of a new one. For example, with
a man like Hiram Johnson in |hc
field as a regular party nominee—
this is just an illustration and no
prophecy at all—it wouldn’t appear
that there’d be any necessity for
the progressives to name a candi
date of their own.
IN THE
RUHR.
England’s made up her mind that
unrest in Europe ,kept alive ,as she
sees it, by France’s course in the
Ruhr, has got to stop.
I remier Baldwin said so in the
house of commons last week. He
offered France one last chance to
joint in a rehabilitation policy which
the British, he declared, intend
definitely to adopt. Otherwise, he
added, England will go ahead with
her plan anyway—alorie or with
such help as she can get.
In the house of lords, at the
same time, Foreign Minister Lord
Curzon gave warning that Europe
is on the verge of chaos unless
something’s done quickly’
There seems small chance that
France will yield.
MRS. M’CORMICK GIVES
CASH TO COLLEGES
CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Schools
and churches received more than
$1,000,000 of the $8,696,000 es
tate of Mrs. Nettie Fowler McCor
mick, widow of Cyrus H. McCor
mick, inventor of the reaper, the
executors announced in making
public a synopsis of Mrs. McCor
mick’s will.
CUNO HANDS RESIGNATION TO EBERT
Strike Situation Grows Tense at Hillsboro
EXPECT TUMBLE HI
ILEUS MT ANO
TWS OBOERED DOT
Plant of American Zinc Co. to
Re-Open Under Protection
of State Troops
HUNDRED MEN AT WORK
Col. Culberson, Commanding
Troops, Has Thrown Line
About Property
HILLSBORO, Ills., August 11.—
(By the Associated Press.) —Offi-
cials of the American Zinc compa
ny,’ whose plant has been closed
during several days past because of
labor troubles, placed about a hun
dred men at work this morning. The
men are engaged in firing furnaces
at the company’s plant, apparently ,
making read to re-open the industry ;
under protection of Illinois state
troops.
The first of these troops arrived
here at the plant at 10 o’clock, and •
Col. Culberson, who is in cammand, i
immediately threw a military line'
about the property belonging to the 1
company. Up to early this after
noon no disturbances had occurred.|
billlouHTcreate
W BMU io i
Representative Hatcher of Burke
Author of Measure to
Help Veterans
ATLANTA, August 11.— (By the
Associated Press.) —A bill to create
a state bureau to assist former serv
ice men of the World Wap and
Spanish War veterans was passed
by the house today and ordered
transmitted to the senate for ac
tion.
Representative Hatcher, author
of the measure explained that the
law would create a bureau under
the direction of an official ap
pointed by the governor from
among three men to be recom
mended by the executive committee
of the Georgia American Legion
and that the director woudl assist
those war veterans living in coun
ties where the Legion is unable to
render aid.
TAX ON TRAVELING
TRADERS INCREASED
ATLANTA, August 11.—The tax.
on gypsies and traveling horse trad
ers was increased from $25 in each
county to $250, in the house here
today. The tax on motion picture
theaters operating in towns of less
than 5,000 population was decreas
icd from $4 to $2 a month. Instead
of a tax of $lO in each county in
which they operate, monument
dealers would be taxed $25 a year
for the state at large under the
provisions of the amendment adopt
ed.
‘JIM’ WOODWARD, ILL
IN HOSPITAL, MAY DIE
ATLANTA, August 11.—James
G. Woodward is reported seriously
ill in the Piedmont sanitoriuin al
though ribsting more comfortably
than he had been earlier, hospi
tal attendants said. Reports in
the afternoon were that he had
slight chance for recovery.
Mr. Woodward has been four
times mayor of Atlanta, and has
had one of the most spectacular
political careers in the history of
the city’s politics. His latest ven
ture was the race for mayor of
Atlanta in 1922, but he Was de
feated by the present mayor'
Walter A. Sims.
‘VIGILANTES’ WARN
ATLANTA MOTORISTS
ATLANTA, Aug. 11—More
than fifty Atlanta motorists have
received letters this week signed
by the Atlanta Safety council,
warning them that violations of
the traffic laws had been report
ed to the council and urging them
to be more careful in future. If
the same person becomes the sub
ject of several reports, from dif
ferent vigilantes, the case will be i
laid before the police department,
charges made, and witnesses pro
vided to appear before the re
corder’s court, b
THE TIMES
PUBLIS HEP IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
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NEW EXECUTIVE BACK IN CAPITAL
HOLLIS [OPT HEADS
| WER POULTRYM
to establish
Temporary Organization Formed
With Another Meeting Called
For Next Friday Morning
OTHER SECTIONS EXPAND
Poultry in Marshall County, Ala.,
Rapidly Becoming Import
ant Money Cron
At a meeting of Americus and
Sumter county poultry men Friday
in the offices of the Chamber of
Commerce, a temporary organiza-
■ lion was effected with Hollis Fort
I as president and John Wise, of Sum
ter precinct, vice president. George
0. Marshall, county farm demon
stration agent, acted as secretary
; at the meeting and will keep .he rec
: ords of the association. Present ai
I the meeting were poultry men from
I Leslie, Plains, Shiloh, Sumter and
i the vicinity of Americus, and the
j meeting next Friday morning will
j be held at 10:30 in the Chamber of
Commerce office-:.
President Fort, speaking of the
organization today told a Times-Re
corder man that one point he want
ed to impress upon poultrymen
throughout the county is that the
organization effected is temporary
only, and that at the meeting next
Friday steps will be taken to get as
many interested as possible.
It is planned, he said, to have as
many as will serve in various places
of responsibility in connection with
the organization, the effort being to
develop a commercial poultry indus
try here, and to establish Americus
as a market for poultry and poultry
, products, with ’ arrangements made
to enable poultry raisers to sell their
products here for cash at all times.
Another important point Mr. Fort
asked the Times-Recorder to im
press upon poultry raisers is that
there are no dues or fees of any
kind to be paid before affiliation
with: the association, and that no
added expense will be incurred
through membership therein.
“I have just returned from a trip
through the chicken country in
Tennessee and Alabama,” said Mr.
Fort, “and I wish that every farmer
and suburban resident of Sumter
■ coonty could have been with me and
I seen what the poultry industry has
; done, and, is doing, for the farmers
in these two states. Poultry can be
raised at a profit here —and at a
good profit, too —if farmers and su
burban residents would only inter
est themselves in the effort.
“In Mitchell county Alabama, the
poultry industry, I was told while
there recently, has raised the mort
gage off half the farms there, and
more farmers in that section have a
bank account now than ever before
in the history of the section, due
almost entirely to profits made by
raising poultry and selling poultry
products. Over there they are sell
ing poultry in carlots and the indus
try has assumed such proportions
until the railroads are operating
special poultry cars, in which an un
usually large quantity of poultry
may be transported.
"The demand for poultry and
poultry products, I was told, is very
active, and a few weeks ago prices
were at a peak not attained even
during the period of high prices in
cident to the recent war. As a re
sult the industry there is expanding
rapidly, with farmers —some of
them—preparing to raise poultry as
their chief money crop, and cotton
to be produced as a side line.
“There are some essentials to the
' poultry industry however that farm
ers must learn before they can raise
and sell these products to the best
advantage. If we are going to go
into the poutry business, we should
move intelligently along proven
lines, profiting by the experience
of others who have made a success
in similar ventures, and if this be
done I am fully persuaded Sumter
county farmers and Americus rural
residents can easily double their
present farm incomes through rais
ing a few thousand birds and mar
keting poultry products here.
“The establishment of a creamery
| here this fall should form an import
ant link in the creation of a sub
stantial poultry industry at Ameri
cus, as buttermilk is considered the
jest poultry feed on the market, and
AMERICUS. GA. SATURDAY AFTERNOO, AUGUST 11. 1923
KELLY SIMMONS
Tells how money is made in
trucking and low to get the I
cash for Georgia products.
DID YOU KNOW
That California ships black-eyed
peas into Georgia every year
. and that Georgians eat black
eyed peas every day.
LEARN THE FACTS
Denmark buys Georgia cotton
seed products, feeds these to
their cattle and ship dairy prod
ucts hereiat a profit. All this
will be printed in The
TIMES RECORDER
Monday. Sumter county farm
ers can profit by the experience
of other communities.
SiATI'PROBE Iffl
reported floggings
DPS Hill fflffl
Governor Walker Takes Steps to
Stop Terrorization of Resi
dents by Night Mobs
ANNOUNCED AT ATLANTA
Attempt to Enter Milledgeville
Reformatory Now Being
Investigated
ATLANTA,*Xug- 11—)By Asso
ciated Press) —A state investigation
into the reported flogging Thursday
night of four men by a> band <>f
masked men at Macon has been or
dered by Governor Walker. This
announcement was authorized at the
capital here this afternoon.
It was also stated that the gov
ernor is expecting definite develop
ments in the inquiry being made at
Milledgeville into similar occur
rences there. At Milledgeville bands
of men have recently twice visited
the Georgia Training School for
Boys (State Reformatory), at night
with the expressed intention of
whipping two negro attendants em
ployed there.
KU IB
PUN SUW HN®
Party Will Leave Here Promptly
at 7 o’Clcck to Attend Exhi.
bition ame in Montgomery
H. C. White, agent for the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad here, an
nounced this afternoon the comple
tion of final arrangements lor op
erating the “Baseball Special” be
tween Americus and Montgomery
Sunday morning. As previously
stated, the train will leave here
promptly at 7 o’clock Sunday morn
ing and returning will leave Mont
gomery at the same hour. The trip
will be made on fast time with stops
scheduled only at Smithville, Daw
son, Cuthbert, Union Springs and
Eufaula, and it expected that a
large number of fans will go from
here to see Americus and Blakely
in their exhibition playing in the
Alabama capital. Special tickets
will be required for passage on this
train, but these may be purchased
at the Central depot here as late
as Sunday morning at $50.1 for the
round trip.
Miss Leila Ranew, of Leslie, was
shopping in Americus today.
there should be an excess! supply of
this to be had at a very low price.
Cold storage is another important
feature to be considered in the es
tablishment of a poultry industry,
and above everything there must be
a cash market for these products.
“In the cities of Georgia and
other states there is an unceasing
demand for poultry and poultry
products and it is only a question
of producing these under approved
sanitary and scientific methods. As
soon as Americus is able to say to
the world, ‘We have the poultry and
poultry products the cities need,’
then the buyers will come here, and
a cash market necessary to the firm
establishment of the industry will
be provided.” „
(FIRST BALE COTTON
'WEIGHED H COW
WAREHOUSE TO OH
Staple Raised by C. C. Griffin in
12th District Was Ginned by
Americus Oil Co.
SOLD TO TURPIN AT 32c
Bale Graded American Middling
and Came in Two Weeks Late
Compared With Last Year
Americus received its first bale of
cotton of the 1923-24 season today,
the staple being received at the
warehouse of L. G. Council. It was
grown by C. C. Griffin, who re
sides in the Twenty-eighth district,
several miles out of Americus, and
weighed 341 pounds. The bale was
ginned at the gin of the Americus.
Oil Co., and classed American mid-
; dling.
I George B. Turpin & Co., bought
I the bale at 32 cents a pound, paying
' a premium above the market quo-
I tation of a little more than 23 cents
I for strict middling .First bale, re
ceived here last year was brought
in by the same grower who brought
the bale to the Council warehouse
here on July 28th, or approximately
two weeks earlier than this season,
this indicating the crop in Sumter
county this year is more than ten
days late as compared with the pre
vious season. The first bale last
year sold for 25 cents a pound.
ILL SMK IT END
BE IIIE HOLES HE BUI
Exhibition Golf Match at Atlanta
Participated in by Fore
most Players
ATLANTA, August 11. Bobby
Jones, national open champion, and
Perry Adair, Southern amateur
champion, playing Jock Hutchinson,
Professional, and Frank Godchaux,
were all square at the end of the
nine holes of play in this morning':
round of 72 hole exhibiton match
here.
Jones shot the course in three
under par for 32; Adair took 38;
Godchaux 36, and Hutchinson, ,34.
A woman spectator was struck
on the nose with a golf ball driven
by Hutchinson at the second hole.
ffIWW
HARDING TRIBUTE
Members of Civic Club Rever
ently Stand Silent One Min
ute as Mark of Respect
Standing, with heads bowed in
prayer for one minute, the mem
bers of the Kiwanis club Friday
paid their last solemn respects to
the memory of Warren G. Harding,
deceased president of the United
States. Resolutions of sympathy
were passed and a copy mailed to
Mrs. Harding.
A numbe rof visitors were pres
ent at Kiwanis luncheon yesterday
in the Windsor. The program con
sisted of talks from several Ki
! wanians on the subject of program
' construction. George Bragg, Brad
■ ley K'ogg, Lewis Ellis, Dr. Emmett
Murray and T. O. Marshall lead the
discussion. Lewis Ellis presided in
the absence of President Minor.
PAINTING REFUSED AS
BOND; PAINTER MUST GO
ATLANTA, August 11.—Umber
to Vianelli, Italian inmate of the
federal penitentiary here, whose
unfinished oil paniting worked ill
his cell, attracted attention, has
served his sentence and has been
taken in charge by immigration of
ficials for deportation. When lib
erated from the penitentiary Vian
elli wanted to give his painting to
the immigration officials in lieu of
SSOO bail but they would not take
it at that value t
RESIDENT MUDGE
BICK IS KMGlllli
IT WILLARD HOTEL
Returning From Attending Hard
ing Funeral President Went
Direct to Executive Offices
MRS HARDING AT CAPITAL
Packing of Personal Belongings
Begins PPreparatory to Leav
ing White House
WASHINGTON, August 11.
President Coolidge returned to
Washington early today from Ma
rion, Ohio, where yesterday he at
tended the funeral ot Warren G.
Harding. He motored directly
from the Special train 'to the temp
orary executive offices at the Wil
lard hotel.
CHRISTIAN
RESIGNS
Aboard Presidential Train at
AKRON, 0., Aug. 11—An expres
sion of regret was forthcoming from
the car of President Coolidge,
speeding back last night to Wash
ington, when newspaper men sent
word in that George B. Christian,
Jr., had resigned as secretary to the
president after the entombing of
Warren Harding’s body at Marion
today.
Those close to Mr. Coolidge said
that he had not yet receiver! ’the
resignation, and that therefore com
ment was withheld.
EXTRA SESSION
PRESSURE RENEWED
WASHINGTON, August 11.
President Coolidge’s return to his
executives offices from Marion this
morning wa saccompanied by a re
neweal of pressure for an extra ses
sion of congress.
Several of those who want an ex
tra session already have placed their
views before the president and those
who oppose the idea also have been
heard. But to none, so far as can
be learned, has he indicated a decis
ion.
Advocates of "immediate action
have based their pleas on the nec
essity of quickly enacting legisla
! tion to help the farmers in the mar
, keting of ther crops and to settle
the coal question. Those adverse j
to the idea believe nothing can be I
gained from an extra session at this
time.
MRS. HARDING PREPARES
TO LEAVE WHITE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, August 11.
On the same train that bore her
husband’s body across the conti
nent from San Francisco to Marion,
Ohio, for burial yesterday, Mrs.
Harding returned to Washington to
day to pack her personal belongings
at the White House and to arrange
for her final departure from the
capital.
MARJORIE RAMBEAU IS
AGAIN DIVORCE PLAINTIFF
SAN FRANCISCO, August 11.
Marjorie Rambeau, noted actress,
has filed suit for divorce against
her actor husband, Hugh Dillman.
In the complaint it is charged that
Dillman struck his wife on several
occasions; that he failed to con
tribute to her support for nearly
a year, although he earns approxi
mately SI,OOO per month, that
he deserted his wife in April, 1923
Dillman’s real name is Hugh Dill-1
man McGaughney. They were |
married in New York about three
years ago.
Prior to her marriage to Dill
man, Miss Rambeau was the wife
of Willard Mack, noted play
wright and dramatist from whom
she was divorced in 1917.
‘VIGILANTE COMMITTEE’ ■
DOING EFFECTIVE WORK
ATLANTA, August 11.—A vgil
ance committee that deals with in
fractions of traffic ordinances is
proving highly effective here, its
moving spirits say. The committee
wss named by the Atlanta Safety
council. Its members note traffic
violations and the offender receiv
es a letter from the council. If
the violations mount on any one
person his case is turned over to j
the police. ‘
For Georgia Fair tonight;
Sunday partly cloudy; probably lo
cal thundershowers. '
PRICE FIVE CENTS
4 COMMUNISTS OF
KILLED ftNO 40 HURT
IN RIOT IN SILESIA
Fatalities Follow Effort of Police
to Clear Streets During
Demonstration
EXCITEMENT AT RATABOR
Centra! News Dispatch From
Berlin Tells of Encounter
With Rioters
LONDON, Aug. 11—By Asso
ciated Press) —Chancellor Cuno
handed President Ebert his resig
nation today, says a Central News
dispatch from Berlin, but the
president refused to accept it.
LONDON, Aug. 11—(By Associ
ated Press) —Four communists were
killed and forty others injured,
many seriously during a riot at
Ratabor in Ppper Silesia. Quiet had
not been restored when the news
dispatch telling of the occurrence
was filed.
The disturbance occurred when
the police attempted to clear the
streets during a demonstration be
ing staged by the communists, ac
cording to a, Central News dispatch
from Berlin this morning, and both
police and communists used clubs
and pistols freely during the fight
ing.
Later advices from Ratabor to
Berlin said the communists were
demonstrating in force and plunder
ing a gunsmith’s shop when the
authorities interfered. The demon
strators opened fire first upon the
police and the latter retaliated caus
ing numerous casualties.
BBffl SiiflE
WfIEH G. HHIM
Described by Commoner as Man
Who Took Delight in Doing
Kindly Things
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 11.—-Warren
G. Harding was described as a man
who “took delight in doing kindly
things” and one whom “it painvd
to offend or even to be thought
indifferent to the wishes of anoth
er,” in a tribute paid by William
Jennings Bryan, addressing a mass
memorial service in Royal Palm
Park Friday. His friends, who
Vere many, loved him,” Mr. Bryan
continued. He learned early the
i wise man’s recipe: ‘A man that
hath friends must show himself
friendly,”
Mr. Bryan said the country had
never had in the White House a
man whose genial disposition was
more contagious or who made one
feel more'at home in his presence,’
adding: He was easy to get ac
quainted with and once acquainted
you could not help being attach
ed to him, however much your con
victions on matters of public pol
icy may have difered from his.”
“We mourn the death of War
ren G. Harding,” Mr. Bryan said,
“but the clouds do not entirely
conceal the sun. As we consign to
the tomb all that is mortal of our
beloved and lamented president,
we reioice that his mantle has fal
len upon a worthy successor.”
Mr' Harding took a position on
public questions as they arose,” as
serted Mr. Bryan, “and he did not
hesitate to make his position
known, welcoming any risk that
his utterance might invite.” His
speeches and messages showed
“growth in breadth and depth and
earnestness,” he said, and declared
that Mr. Harding’s oration at the
{ funeral of The Unknown Soldier
! will “stand among the masterpieces
of our orators, while the address
which he delivered in behalf of
our nation’s participation, in the
work of the World Court exhibit a
high purpose and determination
worthy of his great office.”
The Commoner declared the
humble circumstances from which
Mr. Harding rose to the presidency
and those attendant upon Mr.
Coolidge’s early life and the man
ner in which the oath of the great
office was administered by his
father, to be “a delightful com
mentary upon the simplicity of our
government.”
J. D. Bolton, who has been with
the Johnson-Bolton Co., at Leslie,
during several years, has accepted a
position with the Bank of Smith
ville and entered upon his new du
ties there today. ,