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SPOT COTTON
American Middling 24 1-2
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 185
EXPECT FLYING FIELD HERE TO BE SOLD SOON
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Woman and Daughter Dashed to Horrible Death in New York
60YEAR0LD WIDOW
LEAPS SIX STORIES TO
DEATH IN IO YORK
Woman and Young Daughter
Plunge Together From Win
dow of Apartment
BOTH INSTANTLY KILLED
Mother Had Been Acting
Strangely and Suicide Pact
Suspected by Police
NEW YORK, August 17.—Mrs.
A. M. Stearns, a sixty-year-old
widow, and her daughter, aged 35,
jumped from the window of their
sixth floor apartment; here today,
and both were instantly killed.
The wojnan and her daughter
had long been • inseparable com
panions, and the mother had been
acting strangely during recent
months. The police believe that a
suicide pact existed between the
two women and that they took the
fatal plunge together.
EOURifflU®
ORGANIZUOR FAIR
Thalean, Thompson, Anderson
ville and Plains All Name
Strong Committees
Four additional communities
were organized Thursday and today
to assist in putting on a greater
and better fair here this fall than
ever before.
At Thalean a party consisting of
George ,0. Marshall, James A. For;
and Secretary Everett of the Cham
ber of Commerce, presented tho
fair to a good sized crowd and
Henry Jennings was named general
chairman, with numerous others
present pledged to aid in any way
' he may ask in the preparation of
the community exhibit.
At Thompson this same party
was cordially received, with W. A.
Chappell named as community
chairman, and there was unanimous
sentiment expressed favorable to
the fair, with every prospect of
this community having a splendid
exhibit at the Chamber of Com
merce show Sept. 25-29. Thomp
son was the only community in the
county which failed to have a.com
munity exhibit at the fair last fall,
and the residents there this year,
apparently are determined to make
the best showing possible.
At Andersonville Thursday after
noon ’R. C. Moran replaced Secre
tary Everett aomng the fair boost
ers, and presented the fair proposi
tion to the people gathered in the
school house there. Following a
.“brief meeting it was determined to
name a committee of three to rep
resent Andersonville in the prep
aration of the fair. This commit
tee is headed by Mrs. J. M.. Lanier,
who was given full authority to
add as many as necessary to the
committee together with Lester
Dykes and Alex Slappey, who will
be her chief aids. Andersonville
community has a wide range of
products and last year the exhibit
from this progressive community
was one of the best shown at the
fair.
At Plains this morning a com
mittee composed of Maj. Fort, Geo.
0. Marshall, Secretary Everptt and
Mr. Moran met with about twenty
five representative citizens in the
school house there, when it was de
termined'by Plains people to be well
represented at the fair here. R.
C. Bell, vocational agriculture in
structor in the Plains school, was
named chairman of the Plains com'-
mittee, and he will be assisted in
the* work by Mrs. Mary Campbell
and M. M. (Bill) Jennings. There
was great interest shown in the fair
by the people at Plains. Mayor Al
ton Carter was present at the meet
ing this morning and pledged hear
ty support to the fair, as did also
W. L. Thomas, cashier of the Bank
of Plains; Dr. Thad B. Wise, and
other prominent business mon.
LARGE RATTLESNAKES
KILLED ON OCHLOCHNEE
THOMASVILLE, Aug. 17.—Two
of. the Iragest rattlesnakes seen
here in some time were killed near
here recntly by 1,. L. Hinson and
members of his fishing party on the
Ochlocknee river. Both of the
rattlers measured about five and
a half feet fti length. One had fif
teen rattles and a button and the
.other thirteen rattles and a button.
GEORGIA MOB EXECUTES ALLEGED RAPIST
DFFICIPS TELL M
BOOTLEG 'FUSE' AT
SMH TXPDSED
Greatest Conspiracy Against Dry
Laws Yet Uncovered De-
. dared Broken Up
“BIG FOUR” UNDER ARREST
Leader Accused of Covering Up
Million-Dollar Income From
Traffic
SAVANNAH', August 17.—Fed
eral officers here today disclosed
methods used in breaking up what
is declared to be the greatest con
spiracy against enforcement of
dfy laws yet uncovered, resulting
in numerous arrests here during
the past three days.
It was two years ago that in
formation came to the Department
of Justice that Savananh was the
port for the receipt and distribution
of much o fthe ilquor reaching the
Southern and Eastern markets. Mrs.
Mabel Walker Willebrandt, an as
sistant to the attorney general, who
is charged with the enforcement of
the prohibition law, ordered prohi
bition enforcement agents to that
city in an effort to break up the
illicit trade.
Operations of the ring are said
to have extended along the east
(Continued on Page 6.)
SUITER BOYSTO
YISIULBIIY
Members of Stock Judging Club
Will Go There Monday With
Marshall to View Herds
George O. Marshall, county farm
demonstration agent, will go to Al
bany Monday with a party of Sum
ter county boys who go there to
view a number of Dougherty coun
ty herds. In the party are the
members of the Sumter County
Stock Judging club, and they will
return to Americus Monday night.
In the party besides Marshall are
Eshton Hall, of . Plains; Francis
Webb, of Thalean; Dennis Hall, of
Thalean; James Harvey, of Con
cord, and James Nicholson, of
Thalean. 4
Bl LIMITATION
TW EFFECTIVE
Exchange of Ratifications Form
ally Completed in Wash
ington Today
WASHINGTON, August 17—The
naval limitation treaty and four
power pact negotiated at Washing
ton arms conference finally be
came effective today when repre
sentatives of all signatory powers
gathered in the state department
formally to exchange ratifications.
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MMEffiES
Attorney General Napier Hold
ing Series of Conferences
With Dealers
ATLANTA, August 17.—Investi
gation into the price of gasoline in
Georgia has been started by At
torney Gene’al Napier, who is hold
ing conferences with jobbers, re
tail dealers and other interested
persons.
REV. JOHN M. OUTLER
ON ANNUAL VACATION
Rev. John M. Outler will leave
Monday upon his annual vacation,
and will be gone from Americus
during several weeks. He will go
direct from Americus to Young
Harris, where he plans to join Mrs.
Outler and their son, Albert, who
have been spending some time in
the mountains of North Georgia.
Ko expects to enjoy a number of
mountain trips through North Geor
gia and South Carolina during his
vacation, and will bring his family
back here when he returns,
THE TIIffisHRECORDER
fcIJLPUBLiSHED IN THE ~HEART OF DIX
ATTITUDE OF U. S,
TOWARD REPARATIONS
NOT TO EXCHANGED
Secretary Hughes Informs British
Foreign Office No Change Is
Contemplated
NATION’S POSITION CLEAR
No Foundation For Hope That
More Active Interest in Eu
rope s Problems Likely
LONDON, August 17.—Acting
upon cable advices from Secretary
Hughes, American embassy offi
cials in London have made it clear
to the British foreign of fire that
the United States contemplates no
, departure from its attitude toward
J reparations as taken beforS the
] death of President Harding.
; This disposes definitely of any
i hopes on this side of the world
’ that the accession of Pre-idcr.: Cool
j idge to power as chief executive
might result in moye active interest
’ being taken by the United States
,in Europe’s problems.
COMMUNISTS FORCES
STORM CITY HALL
BERLIN, August 1 7.—Com
j munists late Thursday stormed the
i city hall at Dattein, 19 miles north-
I east of Essen, disarmed the police;
and took posession of the town,
says the Central News Militia,
which was summoned from a neigh
boring town, also was disarmed.
Many casualties occured on both
sides.
•HEAVY FINE
PUT ON DUISBERG.
DUESSELDORF, August 17.
The Belgian authorities, it was an
nounced, have imposed a fine of
three billion marks on the City of
Duisberg as a penalty for the bomb,
explosion on a train near that city
late in June. Ten Belgian soldiers
wei'e killed and two score others
injured in the outrage.
I The mine owners’ association in
the Ruhr, according to the Ger
man press, has issued an ultimatum
saying that if the miners do not
cease by today their practice of re
porting for duty -without doing
any work, they will all be locked
' out.
Simultaneously the communists
organizations are beginning a cam
paign to extend this form’ of sa
botage to all classes of labor.
SITUATION IS TILL
PRECARIOUS
BERLIN, August 17.—Although
the communist strikes in Berlin
have ended, the situation elsewhere
is precarious, according to reports
reaching the capital.
The communists are said to con
trol- the town of Helmstedt, having
disarmed the police. Many persons
are reported to have been injured
I in a clash between nationalists and
j communists at Arnstadt. Leipsiz is
: without gas or electricity in con
i sequence of a strike of the munci-
I pal workers.
Eighty arrests were made at
Halle following a fight between na
itonalists and communist factions,
and on Tuesday the police at
I Herne were obliged to withdraw
before the riotous mob. The forces
of occupation restored order.
7 he situation in the province of
Saxony is reported as threatening.
GOODE GREENE PRAISES
GA. SOLDIERS’ HOME
Goode M. Greene, a former resi
dent of Americus for many years,
is today a visitor to his .son, G.
M. Greene, at the Sumter hotel,
where he will remain for this week.
Next week Mr. Greene will go to
Columbus for a visit to his daugh
ter, Mrs. Victor C. Autry, returning
here for a'visit to relatives through- i
out the county before going back j
to Atlanta to the Old Soldiers'
Home.
Mr .Greene shows evidences of
splendid health, and maintains that
the Old Soldiers’ Home is the finest
place in the world, and that the
‘boys’ are the happiest on the face
of the earth. “It is a great pleas
ure to visit my friends in Ameri
cus,” said Mr. Greene today, “but
it is also very comforting to know
that I have a happy home in At- j
Inntn.”
Mrs. Sami Clegg has gone to
Ashville, N. C., to spend the re-j
mainder of the summer jnpntbs t
AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST I 7, 1923
A Bunch of Poor Sports !
BY LOVELACE EVE
After 1 1 a.m. today, Manager Torn Bell ’phoned Bainbridge
to know why its baseball team was not in Americus. Mr- Bell was
informed that the team disbanded LAST NIGHT, he informs The
Times-Recorder.
The Americus team played a double-header in Bainbridge yes
terday. A good crowd is reported and the double bill helped to pull
Bainbridge “out of the hole,” financially.
Common every-day courtesy should have caused the Bain
bridge management to notify Americus last night that Bainbridge
could not—or would not —come to Americus. If Bainbridge could
not finance its team for another day and had notified Americus of
this fact, Americus could have furnished the necessary finances or
made arrangements for another team to come in and play today
and Saturday.
A quitter is a fellow who fails to go through with his con
tract. The Americus management has literally sweated blood at
times, in its efforts to fulfill its contracts, but it has never quit. The
management and the team has demonstrated that to a man they are
true sports.
Manager Bell stated at noon that the Fort Benning team or
some other team would be secured to this afternoon and again
on Saturday. t
DEMO ItIWS
ML CRIMINALS, OiS
W IN WEW
Immigrants Themselves Respon
sible for Conditions on Ellis
Island, ’ He Says
NO DELAY IN ADMITTANCE
Facts Perfectly Apparent From
Report of Ambassador
Geddes; Secretary Says
WASHINGTON, August 17—Re
plying to the latest British attack
on conditons existing at Ellis Is
land immigration station, Secretary
of Labor Davis declared in a state
ment today that the immigrants
themselves are responsible for most
of the conditions complained of.
This fact is perfectly apparent
from the report recently submitted
by Ambassador Geddes, he said.
Continuing, Secretary Davis assert
ed that it must be borne in mind
that all immigrants who are detain
ed at Ellis Island .are law violators,
and that those who are entitled to
admission into this country are
rushed through rapidly.
RECOMMEND THAT
REQUISITIONS ISSUE
South Carolina Authorities Want
Barrett Firm Members on
Criminal Charges
COLUMBIA, S. C., August 17.
The attorney general today recom
mends to Governor McLeod that
requisitions be issued fbr Frank K'.
Barrett, Julian Barrett, Thomas
Barrett, Jr., and Thomas Getzen of
the defunct Barrett cotton firm on
charges of obtaining money under
false pretenses. The charges were
brought, by a Wagener planter.
TEXTILE ASSOCIATION
TO MEET OCTOBER 12-13
AUGUST, Aug. 17.—The south
ern Textile Association composed
of mill superintendents and over
seers in Georgia, Alabama, and the
two Carolinas, will hold their an
nual convention here October 12
and 13, G. A. Franklin, superin
tendent of the Sibley mill, has an
nounced. The convention of mill
officials is said to be one of the
most important of its kind and fully
300 delegates are expected to at
tend. / $
CLAY TO PRACTICE
LAW IN NEW YORK
Henry Clay, who graduated last
fall from’ the University of Vir
ginia, and who has since been en
joying a vacation with his relatives
here, will practice law in New York,
and left Thursday for that city. He
was accompanied as far as Atlan
ta’by his mother, Mrs. Mary Clay,
Mrs. E. L. Pilsbury, Miss Bryce
Pilsbury and Miss Mary Clay, of
Atlanta, who has been visiting her
grandmother here. After a visit in
Atlanta the last named mcmlSers
of tho party will return to Ameri
cus, while Mr. Clay will hereafter
reside in New York,
DENVER flood water
SUBSIDING: NO LISS
OF LIFE IS BEP9RTFD
Roads Impassable and Base
ments Flooded, But Streams
Back in Course Again
DEBRIS IS EVERYWHERE
High Water Caused by Cloud
burst With Unprecedented
Precipitation
DENVER, August 17. Flood
waters which last night forced hun
dreds of Denver surburban resi
dents to flee their homes had sub
sided at noon today.
Aside fronr debris that, is littered
everywhere along ‘■he banks of the
streams, and in some instances
flooded basements, practicaly every
evidence of the flood has passed as
quickly as it came.
Roads are impassable near Den
ver, and there are other evidences
of recent inundation, but no loss of
life has yet been reported, nor is
any expected to be. The flood was
caused by a cloudburst, which caus
ed an unprecedented precipitation
during a few hours yesterday and
last night.
COURT RULES ONSI
DEMY IN SME
International Court of Justice
Says Republic Must Pay Com
pensation to Great Britain
THE HAGUE, August 17. The
permanent court of international
justice today handed down a de
cision against Germany in a case
involving the use of the Keil canal
by foreign vessels.
In this decision the court decid
ed that the Germans were not justi
fied in preventing the British
steamer Wimbledon from entering
the canal in 1921 during hostilities
between Poland and Russia, and
that Germany should make compen
sation for so doing.
RYLANDER WINNER
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Due to an error in heading the
articles 'with reference to the win
ner in the tournament which has
just been completed at the Ameri
cus Golf club, an erroneous idea
has reached some of the members
that Walter Rylander was winner
of the tournament rather than Mid
dleton McDonald, and this oppor
tunity is taken to correct this.
Middleton McDonald is the club
champion, while Walter Rylander
is medalist. These_facts were stat
ed in the body of the article on
yesterday, but the heading was mis
leading.
55 COUNTIES ORGANIZED
THOMASVILLE, August 17.
Organization of the Thomas County
Peanut association here recently,
now gives the Co-operative Peasut
Association organizations in fifty
five counties in the state. A plan
to erect a warehouse is to be
placed before the members of the
new organization at an early date.
LEE GREEN. NEGRO.
LYNCHED IN HOUSTON
FORATTACKINGWOMAN
Was ‘in Charge of Officers En
Route From Macon to Perry
When Taken by Mob
ATTACK A MONTH AGO
Put to Death in Front Yard of
Alleged Victim at Wellston
Early Friday
MACON, August 17—Lee Green,
a negro, accused of attacking a
prominent white woman near Wells
ton, in Houston county, was taken
from officers near the scene of his
alleged crime today and lynched.
The execution occiyred in the front
yard of Green’s alleged victim.
The negro was taken from a par
ty of officers who were transfer
ring him from Macon to the jail
at Perry, and Green is said to have
confessed hiX guilt. The body aft
er being swung up, was riddled with
bullets and left hanging. He was
arrested here last night after a
seareh of more than a month, by
city detectives.
LIST EFFORT’iINDER
m TO MO STAKE
Joint Conference of Operators
and Miners to Submit An.
swers to Series Questions
NEW YORK ,August 17.—1 n a
final effort to maintain peace in
the anthracite coal fields, the Unit
ed States Coal commission today
called before it S. D. Warriner,
leader. ,of the operators, and John
L. Lewis, president of the miners’
union, for a face-to-face confer
ence.
After this conference the opera
tors and miners agreed to meet in
joint conference and report to the
coal commission tonight their an
swers to a series of questions ad
dressed to them by the commission.
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IN LUKE TM)Y
Raft on Which Pageant Was
Being Staged Overturned
With Fatal Results
ATLANTA, August 17. Two
drdwnings resulted from last night’s
tragedy at East Lake, when the raft
on which a number of young girls
were staging a pageant for the en
tertainment of the delegates to the
convention of the National Associa
tion for the Deaf, was overturned.
The body of J. W. Vandergrif,
who was rowing the raft, was re
covered today. The body of Miss
Elsie Maurer was recovered late
last night.
CONSTRUCTION IN~
GEORGIA DECREASED
ATLANTA. August 17. July
building contracts ’ in Georgia
amounted to $4,237,300. This was
a drop of 14 per cent from the
June figure.
Last month’s total included: sl,-
769,200, or 42 per cent, for resi
dential buildings; $998,600, or 24
per cent, for public works and
utilities; and $682,500, or 16 per
cent for business buildings. Con
struction started during the first 7
months of this year has amounted
to $51,301,800.
Atlanta’s total for July (includ
ed above) was $2,153,000, an in
crease of 16 per cent over June
figure. Atlanta’s total for the first
7 months of this year was $30,-
890,700. • ,
LEE COUNTY’S FIRST
BALE ARRIVED TODAY
LEESBURG, August 17. The
first bale of this year’s cotton crop,
gathered in Lee county, arrived here
this orning. It was raised by W.
M. Laramore and weighed 600
pounds. The bale was classed above
| middling. Several bales are ex
pected this week.
Miss Edna Shirley has returned
; from a delightful visit of two weeks
inTownville and Anderson, S. C.
WEATHER . ” ’
For Georgia Partly cloudy to
night; probably local thundershow
ers.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FIRST MOVE BOE IN
PLM 10 DISPOSE Os
SOUIHER FIELD HEBE
Board of Appraisers Named
Composed of Americus Real
Estate Men, Reports Say
| STATE ‘HAS FIRST OPTION
’ Law Covering Disposition of
Property Provides Manner in
Which Sale Is Conducted
Americus realty men have re
ceived appointment as appraisers
for the federal government for the
land and buildings on Souther field,
it was learned by the Times-Re
corder today from reliable sources.
The appraisers are Fred B. Ar
th, P. B. Williford and W. M. An
drews as named by W. H. McDon
ald, special representatives of the
War Department, who has been in
the city for several days.
The appraisement is ordered to
be made in two separate tracts, it
is said. The first parcel consti
tues 25 buildings, with 320 acres
of land. The second parcel is the
large warehouse with 87 acres of
land.
Under a recent act of congress
the entire property will be offer
ed the State of Georgia at the ap
praised figures, it is understood.
Should the state fail to exercise its
option, it will then be formally ten
dered the city nearest the prop
erty, which is Americus. ’
Should the city decline to pur
chase, then the two tracts will be
offered to individual purchasers.
The exact date of the sale could
not be learned today, fryut it is
understood it will take place “in
the very near future.”
It is also said that the entire
plant, with all lands and buildings
can be bid for if a single purchaser
so desires, or it may be offered in
two parcels as stated above.
The figures of appraisement can
not yet be ascertained, however, it
is known that the three apprais
ers, accompanying Mr. McDonald,
have spent two or three days at
the field.
pspiThTrFtßy
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I H- B. Rawls, County Agent, and
i Party of Club Boys Here to
See Sumter Herds
ll'. B. Rawls, county agent of
Turner county, and a party of
Turner county club boys are here
today to view Sumter’s herds and
while here visited to stock farm of
C. C. Hawkins & Son on the Ella
ville road, and the Hereford herd
of W. L. Easterlin in the 29th dis
trict.
Among the boys constituting the
party are those who will represent
Turner county in the state stock
judging contests at Athens and dur
ing the Southeastern fair in At
lanta this fall. There are five boys
in the party with Mr. Rawls, and
they are al] boys who are familiar
with the stock raising industry,
Turner county being among the
foremost Georgia counties in this
department of agriculture.
Sumter county was selected for
their visit, it is said, because of
the fact that herds on Sumter coun
ty farms were believed to be
among the best in the, state.
TIFT RURAL SCHOOLS TO
OPEN SESSION SEPT. 17
TIFTON, Aug 17.—Tift coun
ty’s twenty rural schools for white
children will open for the fall term
on September 17, according to an
announcement by the Board of
Education, which believes all tho
cotton will be picked by that date.
Opening the schools on this date
will give three and a half months
of school before Christmas. This
is believed to be the earliest date
on which the rural schools of the
county have ever been opened for
the fall term. The date of the
opening of the rural schools for
colored children is to be announced
later. 'j f &
GOVERNOR NAMES NEW
GRIFFIN CIRCUIT JUDGE
ATLANTA, August 17.—W. E.
IT. Searcy, of Spalding, and E. M.
Owen, of Pike, were appointed to
day by Governor Walker to "ye
Judge and solicitor general respec
tively in the new Griffin judicial
circuit. _ ,