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FORTY.FIFTH YEAR—NO 191
NEW GA. INDUSTRIES MAY GO TAX FREE
Arrests Made in Mysterious Thomasville Killing
5 HELD FOR PIWfS
OF SHIOKJS. GREEK.
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Thomas County Officers Refuse
to Divulge Names of Those
Held
SAID HE KNEW TOO MUCH
Dead Man Said to Have Dis
closed Arson Plot to State
Fire Marshal
THOMASVILLE, August 24.
It is currently reported here Uiai
there have been five arrests in W.c
George Shiokas murder case and
that several more arrests will fol
low in a short; time. Besides the
five men in jail there are four oth
ers under surveilance.
Shiokas was murdered on Bar
low street just a half block from
Flethcer on the night of August
3 by being struck on the head with
a blunt instrument and across the
face with a sharp blade. He died
the next night at the City hospital,
never having regained conscious
ness. The Greek colony in the city
raised five hundred dollars to pay
for the apprehension of his slayer.
When questioned regarding ar
rests in the case; the sheriff was
reticent and preferred not to di
vulge the names of the men under
detention until further develop
ments. These men were taken to
the jail for the purpose of being
questioned regarding the murder.
A detective has been working on
the case for several days and along
with him are other investigators
from the Fire Underwriters. Their
presence is . said -caused by
the belief that the Greek Shiokas
was murdered because of what he
knew regarding a fire that happen
ed in this part of the state and on
which he is said to Jiave made an
affidavit to the state fire marshal.
His information came from over
bearing a statement it is believed,
between two men, said to be con
cerned in the burning of a store
at Boston.
BP OH FME
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Italian Government Has Sent Ul
timatum to Belgrade
y Authorities
ROME, August 24.—The Italian
government has sent its ultimatum
to Jugo-Slovakia asking that a defi
nite decision be reached concerning
the status of Fiumo. It is alleged
here that the Belgrade government
is delaying a settlement of the
situation.
SHOULD NOT BE
CALLED ULTIMATUM.
ROME, August 24.—Later semi
official Communique said the com
munication should not be .described
as an ultimatum, Premier Mussolini
merely requesting a reply to his ad
dressed communication by Septem
ber 1.
FiFimilo
IDDIIIIttRM
Derailed Train Crashed Into
• Dam Which Burst, Releasing
Tens of Water
MOSCOW, Aug. 24—-More than
50 persons were killed and approxi
mately 100 injured when a train
proceeding from Vilna to Warsaw
was derailed, crashing into the dam
yesterday. The impact burst the
dam and the rushing waters aug
mented the casualty list.
OWENS EXECUTED AT
LITTLE ROCK TODAY
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Angus’ 24.
•Sohn W. Owens died today in the
electric chair ir. the state peni
tentiary for the murder of Hugh
Throckmorton, druggist, last De
cember.
According to witnesses, Owens
met death calrfily.
Owens, who was 52 years of age,
clubbed Thorckmorton to death and
threw his body into the river. He
tried to escape recently.
JEWEL ROBBERY STAGED IN CALIFORNIA
last gram
FLIGHT WITH ill
BEGAN M W
Result Will Determine Feasibility
of Establishing 30-Hour
Schedule
FIRST TRIP MADE ON TIME
Flyer From ’Frisco Reached
New York Four Minutes
Ahead of Schedule
CHICAGO, August 24. The
last continental air flight to de
termine the feasibility of a perma
nent schedule of 28 and 30 hours
from New York to San Francisco
began this morning, with aviators
starting from both coasts.
The eastbound flyer yesterday
arrived in New York four minutes
ahead of time. Officials in charge
of the tests said they had demon
strated conclusively that a schedule
can be maintained and there is no
doubt that it will be inaugurated.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 24—Among Re
publicans uNational importance to
whom the Fordney-McCumber prof
iteers’ tariff has begun to loom as a
rock in the path of their party’s’
ship is George M. Reynolds, Chicago
banker, who declined appointment
as Secretary of the Treasury in
L’resident Taft’s cabinet. Following
his return from a visit of inquiry
in Europe, Mr. Reynolds has made a
public statement in which he points
out some weaknesses of the national
administration’s present policies,
both foreign and domestic.
Commenting on the impairment of
this country’s market abroad Mr.
Reynolds said the people of Europe
have no credit and no way of buy
ing what they need.
“Europe formerly took most of
our surplus farm products, but can
do so no longer,” Mr. Reynolds de
clared. “We sell Europe only what
she can pay for, try to develop new
markets elsewhere and hope to re
gain some sort of price equilibrium.’
Legislation will not provide an
adequate remedy for the evils that
are now besetting American agri
culture, Mr. Reynolds contended.
It would be impracticable if not im
psosibie, he appeared to believe, to
fix the price of wheat by law. The
only legislative action he seemed to
favor was a reduction of the tariff.
“The present high tariff is a bis
mistake,” he said. “Manufacturers
who do business with me will take
me to task, for saying that. But they
know and I know and ail of us
know that *we can”t do busines:
with the rest of the world so long as
they must pay for our goods in gold.
“If they can’t pay in goods which
tariff rates prohibit or make tho
expensive, the export market will
be.killed. Remove the tariff barriers
and one step will have been taken
in the right direction.”
Mr. Reynolds was advisor to the
American Monetary Commission on
its tour of investigation in Europe
in 1908; is a director in several
big financial and industrial corpor
ations and _for a long time was en
gaged in the business of lending
money to the farmers of lowa anu
Nebraska.
Although an active Republican—
he has been for many years a
member of the Hamilton Club of
Chicago—Mr. Reynolds docs not let
partisanship blind him to the seri
ous conditions which menace agri
cultural and general prosperity in
He perceives that the
j Republican tariff has been a hin
jch ance rather than a help to the
I American farmer, and the Republi
t can foreign policy is adding to the
j difficulties of finding and apply
ing a cure.
NOTED AUTHORESS DIED
TODAY AT HARROW, ENG.
HARROW, England. August 24.
Fate Douglas Wiggin, noted Amer
l jean authoress, died here last night.
THE TIMESTIRECORDER
[S§K_PUBLISHED IN THE JujrQ.. HEART OF DIXIE
BERGDOLL AND HIS BODYGUARD HEROES IN GERMANY
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This picture, just received in the United Stites, shows Grover Cleveland Bergdoll (left), noted
slacker and escaped prisoner, as ho is today. This pi cture was taken at Eberbach, Germany where a re
cent attempt to k’dnap him proved unsuccessful when he killed one of his attackers. The man shown with
him is Eugene (Ike) Stecher, chauffeur and bodyguard who drove the machine in which Bergdoll es
caped in Pudadelphia and wno has been his constant < ■ th,. two _, r , h si i] ed aft heroes in
Germany where it is believed that the United States persecuted the men.
JURISDICTION OF CID
COMMITTEE DENIEO BY
HOWARD'S ATTORNEYS
Accused Superior Court Ap
pointee Says Trial of Judge
by Lawyers Unprecedented
LATHAM MADE CHARGES
Twelve Attorneys Who File
Statement Decline to Partic
pate in Probe
ATLANTA, August 24. The
grievance committee of the Atlan
ta Bar association today began the
hearing of Attorney Edgar La
tham’s charges that Judge G. H.
Howard, who was recently appoint
ed judge of the I’ulton County Su- j
perior court, made him improper
proposals before the judgeship ap
pointment was made by Governor
Walker.
Twelve attorneys, headed by Jas.
K. Jordan and Frank A. Hooper,
Jr., filed a statement challenging
the committee’s jurisdiction and de
clining to participate in the in
vestigation. The trial of a judge
by lawyers is something unheard
of, the statement reads, and tends
to undermine the dignity and au
thority of the courts.
10 DOLL LEM
OFflfK WHT
Officers recently elected by John
D. Mathis Post No. 2, American
Legion, will be formally installed
in their respective stations tonight,
with Cdmmander R. L. Crawford in
charge. The installation ceremonies
will take place in the auditorium of
the city hall building on the top
floor, and will begin promptly at
8 o’clock. Officers to be installed
are R. C. Lane, commander; R. L.
McMath, vice comamnder: IL Rus
sell Branch, adjutant; David C.
Burkhalter, chaplain; Edmund Oli
ver, historian; Luther C. Hewitt,
sergeant-at-arms; post Service offi
cer to be named by new com
mander.
Old- ofifeers Who will retire to
night are R. L. Crawford, com
mander; Bertram Cox, vice-com
mander; John W. Westbrook, ad
jutant; Cecil W. Walters, treasur
er;, H. Gordon Howell, chaplain;
R. C. Lane, historian; H. S. Kelley,
sergeant-at-arms, and J. E. B. Mc-
Lendon, post service officer.
It is expected there will be plenty
to smoke at the meeting, and that
all who attend will have a good
time. Every ex-service man,
whether he is affiliated with the
post or not is invited to attend to
night and become acquainted with
the members of John D. Mathis
post and the. new officers of that
organization,
AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 24. 1923
What’s Going
On In The
World
The Weeks’ Chief Events
Briefly Told
FRANCE—
DEBTS—
GERMANY— •
By CHARLES P. STEWART
England has said to France, in
substance:
“We think you have no right in
the Ruhr.
“Your method of trying to collect
! from Germany,
besides failing,
is making it im
possible for other
claimants .like
us, to collect
anything, either.
Maybe we can’t
force you to quit
the Ruhr, but
i there’s one thing we
can insist on.
Since you don’t
care what we think
of. your German
' policy, we want
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you to pay what you owe us right
now.”
NOT VERY
HOPEFUL
Part of France’s answer has been
to grow severer still in the Ruhr.
As to her own debts, she says she
cant’ pay anything until she knows
what she can get out of Germany,
and she can’t tell how much she
must insist on having from Ger
many until she knows how much
Americans expect the French to
pay them.
France owes close to four billions
to the United States, but not many
Americans “expect” to get it, con
sidering the attitude of the French
toward their war .obligations.
SIXES AND
SEVENS.
Anglo-French relations are such
that the “entente” may fairly be
considered ended.
This 'doesn’t imply an immediate
clash, but it almost certainly does
mean continued European unrest,
jit’s upset the value of European
I moneys even worse than before, and
it threatens to mark the beginning
>of a period of Anglo-French un-
I friendliness! and rivalry, the logical
j tendency of which is toward «anoth-
I er war.
Os course, a bleated agreement
i may be reached but there’s small
i prospect of it now.
LONG FOR
“NORMALCY”
Italy sides more with England
than with France.
So do mos- of the war-time neu-
J trals, like Spain, Holland and the
I Scandinavian countries.
I Belgium is so overshadowed by
I France that she has to follow the
j latter’s lead, but there are sigils she
' (Continued on Page Two.)
SffIESFIM WOULD
PLEDGE GMffi
IWML PLANTS
German Chancellor Says Gov
ernment Stands by Cuno’s
Offer to Allies
ADDRESSES CLUB MEMBERS
Not Too Great a Sacrifice to In
sure Liberation of German
Soil, Fie Says
BERLIN, August 24. The
present German government stands
by the offer of the recent Cuno
government for meeting Germany’s
reparations obligatiops, Chancellor
Stresemann told the members of
the Industiral Commerce club here
today.
“For the liberation of German
soil, for the maintenance of our
sovereignty and for consolidation
of our situation,” the chancellor,
said, “it -would not be too great a
sacrifice to offer part of the Ger
man economic system as a produc
tive pledge for the carrying out of
German’s obligations.”
HODSONS' BOND POT
H SIO,OOO BY HICKS
Bibb County Sheriff Names Se
curity Men Must Produce to
Secure Freedom
MACON, August 24. Sheriff
Hicks today placed the three Hud
sofi brothers under bonds of $lO,-
000 each when he learned that their
attorneys were seeking the release
of the men.
The Hudsons are held in con
nection with recent midnight flog
gings in Macon find Bibb county,
and their attorneys have announc
ed their intention to secure a re
duction in the amount of 'bonds re
quired.
LEGION POST TO HAVE
RUMMAGE SALE SAT.
John D. Mathis Post legionnaires
are today issuing a call to all serv
ice men of the community and oth
ers interested in the work to send
all available articles of clothing and
unnecessary or unused articles of
apparel to the home of Mrs. Charles
.Hudson on South Lee street Sat
urday morning by 9 o’clock.
These articles are to be used in
a rummage sale to be conducted
all day Saturday by the post in the
vacant bank building on Cotton
avenue.
Mrs. Hudson, is president of the
Woman’s. Auxiliary of the Ameri
can Legion, will be assisted in the
sale by a score of pretty young
girlst * . _ . js
HUNDRED THOUSAND
indiamondstakenby
LOS ANGELES BANDITS
Two Safes Belonging to Manu
facturing Jeweler Blown
Open by Yeggs
WATCHMAN IS HELD UP
Other Valuable Gems Also Ta
ken by Daring Highwaymen
on West Coast
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24—One
hundred thousand dollars worth of
dianfonds and,other gems were ta
ken from two safes belonging to the
manufacturing jewelry company by
thieves who held up a band of night
watchmen and blew opn the safes.
THREE DROWNED IN
IRRIGATION FLUME
IN Ml TODAY
Mother Drowned Trying to Res
cue 7-Months-Old Baby
From Death in Water
EXHAUSTED, ALL 3 DIE
Mrs. Burton, Her Sister and Ron
ald Hubert Victims of Acci_
dent Near Riverside
RIVERSIDE, Calif., Aug. 24
Mrs. Robert Burton, 17 years of age,'
.her sister, aged 12, and Ronald Hu
bert, 12, were drowned in the lake
yesterday in an effort to rescue
Mrs. Burton’s seven-months-old son
from drowning. Mrs. Burton was
wading with the baby in her arms in
an irrigation flume. The -sudden
rush of the water swept the baby
from her arms into the lake and the
mother frantically attempted its res
cue. The sister also tried and failing,
Hubert jumped in and saved the
baby, then went back to Jhe rescue
ithe two young women.
| Being exhausted all three were
■’..o,vncd.
TRANS-CONTIOTAL
FLIGHT RECORDS ME
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Air Mail Service Pilot Reaches
New York in 26 Hours
From ’Frisco
BEATS SCHEDULE 4 HOURS
Actual Flying Time Less Than
25 Hours, Eliminating Stops
For Changing
HEMPSTEAD, August 24—A1l
records for flight across the Amer
ican continent were broken today
when Pilot Wesley Smith of the
air mail service landed here at
11:14, having completed a relay
mail flight from San Francisco in
2(5 hours and 14 minutes.
Smith’s actual flying time was
about an hour less than tho time
recorded, due to time lost making
stops and changing machines and
pilots.
fwilderandwieTheld
mylmrges
Savannah Couple Arrested,
Charged With Operating Still
in Camden County
SAVANNAH .August 24. G.
Burney Wilder and his wife were
arrested by federal officers chraged
with violating the prohibition laws,
According to officers, the couple
were arrested while they-'were op
erating a still together in Camden
county. e &
- WEATHER
For Georgia Cloudy in north
portion; probably in south
portion tonight and Saturday,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ELOERMULDEXEMPT
IHDUSTPKLCONCffINS
FMTKIOM
Eight Tax Reform Measures to
Be Introduced in Coming Ex
tra Session of Legislature
ENCOURAGE INDUSTRY
Necessary to Amend State Con
stitution to Permit Proposed
Legislation
REIDSVILLE, Aug. 24.—(8y
Associated Press) —All new manu
facturing -industries in Georgia
would be exempt from taxation for
a period of ten years under the
provisions of one of eight tax re
form measures, Representative
Herschel 11. Elders, of Tattnall, is
scheduled to introduce at the ex
traordinary session of the state
general assembly.
This step is favored by the leg
islator in order that manufacturing
enterpjrises might be encouraged
to come to Georgia, he stated,
thereby improving both the com
mercial and financial conditions of
the state.
i A graduated income tax, corpor
ation franchise and license levies,
inheritence, privilege and occupa
(Continued from Page 5.)
assessors SUGGEST
CHANGE IN TO Li
Would Abolish Advalorem Levy
on Autos and Put on Operat
ing Tax Instead.
The-tMu d of tax assessors, com
posed of P. B. Williford, chairman;
Bradley Hsgg and Charles Lingo,
have completed their work of re-
WSion and the final returns are
novi being compiled by Dudley
G&ewood, city clerk and treasurer.
The total assessed valuations have
not yet been announced, as these
cannot be known until the final
tabulations have been finished.
In submitting their findings the
members of the board of assessors
took occasion to recommend cer
tain changes in existing tax laws
in Americus. One of these is that
where property owners fail to re
turn their property for taxation a
stated penalty be authorized to be
imposed without variation by the
tax'board, the amount of such pen
alty to be fixed by the board.
Another suggested change is that
(Continued on Page 6.)
GLENN TOOLE TO BE
CANDIDATE AT MACON
MACON, Aug. 24—G. Glenn
Toole, former mayor of Macon,
now engaged in the real estate and
insurance business, today an
nounced his candidacy for tax col
lector to succeed J. D. Crump re
signed. Mr. Toole stated Wednes
day that a number of his friends
had urged him to make the race
and that he had made up his mind
to run.
*He served as mayor for two
terms and is well known to the
voters of Macon and Bibb county
He states that he will make a
vigorous campaign from now until
date of the election.
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TAXES COMING DUE
SOON AT COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS, 24.—Only a
few more working days are lefz
for the tax payers of Columbus to
make their paymentts of their city
taxes at the office of. the city treas
urer. All taxes paid after Septem
ber 1, will be liable to additional
costs as provided in the city ordin
ance as a penalty for late payments
of taxes.
A large number of tax payers
have already paid their taxes dur
ing the month of August, accord
ing to an announcement made by
i .Milton Long, the city marshall. A
rush is expected during the last
few days as there are still many
who have not paid up.
SERVICES AT BETHEL
CHURCH SUNDAY MORNING
The members of Bethel Baptist
church in the 28th district and the
people throughout the entire com
munity are urged to attend the
services Sunday morning. The pas
tor, Rev. E. T, Moore, assures all
of a hearty welcome.