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N. Y. Futures Oct. Dec. Jan.
Previous Close .... 24.11'24.05 23.70
Open 24.00 23.94 23.60
11 am
Close 24.54*24.40 24.14
Spot Cotton
American middling 24 3-8 cents.
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 193
FIRING?FEATURES DAIL ELECTIONS IN IRELAND
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May Re-Organize Sum ter £ Health Department at Early Date
BOND’S RESIGNATION
ACCEPTED By BOARD
II MONTHLY MEETING
Position of County Health Com
missioner Here Now Vacant,
With Plans Uncertain
NEW BUDGET IS WANTED
Will Ask County Commissioners
For $5,550 to Carry on
Health Work
The Sumter County Board of
Health at its monthly meeting held
Saturday at the courthouse here,
formally accepted the resignation of
Dr. B. F. Bond as county health
commissioner. Dr. Bond has been lo
cated at Savannah (hiring several
weeks past, having accepted a posi
. tion in the surgical department of
the United States Marine Hospital
there. The position, he stated Sun
day, is a splendid one, providing
more lucrative remuneration than
the place he held here, in addition
to providing added facilities for.
surgical (xpericnce and. study of
diseases.
The members of the count board
of health are Dr. J. W. Chambliss,
chairman; Neil A. Kay, chairman of
the board of county commissioners,
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BALL SEASON TO END
AT PLAYGPOONDTODAY
Americus Expects to Win, With
Team Going to Fitzgerald
For 2 Games Tuesday
The ball season in the South
Georgia circuit will end' here this
afternoon. That’s the dope, with
Americus doped to win the game j
and series, that was passed around |
this morning Only Jupiter Pluvius !
will prevent this being the outcome, 1
according to insiders.
According to these dopesters,
Jackson and his men are determined
to win this afternoon and “wind
it up” so that they may go for a
brad! exhibition tour. The first
games outside the circuit arc sched
uled Tuesday and Wednesday at
Fitzgerald, and after these the out
fit will go back to Bastrop where
they will play fifteen games with
Monroe as their chief opponents,
this means that the team wilt be
back on their old stamping ground
by Saturday afternoon when the
first game of the series is sched
uled to start at Bastrop.
With several of the players re
leased Saturday night, Americus
will go into action this afternoon
with fewer men on the roster than
since the series began. After play
in'" wPh the team at Bastrop and
Monroe, it is currently reported,
Jackson plans to return to Aftrericjjs
■where be will engage in business
during the winter months. Daven
port, it was also stated, plans to
remain in Americus during the win
ter, being engaged as a mechanic
in a garage.
NEGRO BRINGS IN FIRST
SAVANNAH COTTON BALE
SAVANNAH', August 27.—Chat
ham county’s first blae of cotton
was grown by a colored farmer.
The bale, which weighed 471
pounds, was bought by the Ander
son-Clayton Cotton company for
24 1-2 cents a pound. It was class
ed as good middling.
DOINGS OF
THE DUFFS
This popular comic strip which
so many Times-Recorder readers
'have missed recently has been
temporarily discontinued, due to
the illness of Artist Allman. In
its stead there will be printed
daily hereafter
ADAM AND
EVA
Thesb new comic characters are
introduced to Times-Recorder
readers today on the comic page.
They are heralded as real comics
and are given our readers in place
of “The Duffs.” This change will
come as a disappointment to many
who have followed “The Duffs”
daily during many years, and it is
not without regret upon the part
of The Times-Recorder that they
are taken from this paper’s comic
family. _
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CHICAGO MOBS THREATENS CYRUS if ADLER
FRENCH REPARATIONS
NOTE CAUSE OF BIG
SHRINKAGE II VALUES
Stocks Carried Back to Last
Year’s Low Figures in Face
of Heavy Loadings
GERMANY SITUATION KEY
Belief Growing That France Sees
Futility of Adventure in
Ruhr Region
NEW YORK, August 27?—The
unfavorable response of the French
government in reply to the British
note on reparations constitutes the i
outstanding development in finance
and business on the large scale, as
well as in politics, for some time
past. Coupled with the fact that
negotiations designed to avoid an
anthracite strike arc still in prog
ress with no definite success assur
ed, the effect upon local conditions ‘
during the past week has naturally j
been discouraging, yet prices and
general prospects have maintained
'themselves unexpectedly well, |
Awaiting further development, how- j
ever, the trend of affairs is nec- j
essarily indeterminate and may
easily be affected by day to day
conditions as they alter.
Recent falling off in orders has
shown that the country was rather !
too sanguine regarding the trade
situation, partcularly with those
branches dealing in steel and iron
land in oil. It also is true that too
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STRIBIJNG SIGNS FOR
BOUT WITH M’TIGUE
COLUMBUS, August 27.—“ Pa”
; Stribling, manager of Young Strib
| ling, after a conference with Major
iJ. Paul Jones, chairman of the lo
| dal legion athletic committee, has
closed a contract with the legion
| assuring his hoy’s appearance here
on October 4 in a world lightweight
championship bout with Mike Me-
I Tigue.
The same point in the contract
pertaining to Columbus is that
| Young Stribling will appear in Co
jumhus ring within the next twelve
month= should be gain the world’s
championship. ,
Stribling’s purse of the bout will
be rather small considering the box
er he is meeting btu his father
doesn’t worry over this as he is
looking forward to the future for
I his own son.
Stribling is receiving a guarantee
of $750. If the gate receipts reach
$12,000 Stribling will get SI2OO
purse and if the receipts go over
$15,000 be will receive 33 1-3 per
cer* of the-gate receipts.
As soon as the SIO,OOO guarantee
is raised for the world’s champion,
a contract will be sent him, it was
stated, and then both ends will be
settled and the fans of Columbus
can feel safe that thev will witness
a world’s championship struggle.
TWO KILLED IN
RUNNING STRt'jT FIGHT
Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 27— Two
men are dead, another man is .suf
fering with a bullet wound in the
knee and about fifty persons are
under arrest as the result of a gun
battle last night which began be
tween two factions in a Wylie ave
nue club and developed into a run
! ning battle in the streets between
! gunmen and police,
j A letter found on one of the dead
men was addressed to John Giarua
roglia. No identification has been
made of the other dead man. The
wounded man s Harry Swisher, of
Altoona, who was a bpstanderx
Thomas Rious, the proprietor of the
club, and Petro Marino, an alleged
gunman, are among those arrested.
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LAGRANGE TRYING TO
ORGANIZE CREDIT ASSN.
La GRANGE, Arjgust 27. A
LaGrangc Merchants’ Retail Credit
association may be organized Mon
day night at o’clock, when
the retail merchants of this city
will meet at the court house to con
sider such an organization. H.
Dixon, a j well known young ac
countant, has interviewed a large
j number of retail merchants upon
the matter and reports that they
are .very much interested in
I forming a credit association.
THE TH^PRESqRDER'
QfefTPUBUSI-iEP IN THE ~ HE AR f~QF DIXIE (
CAPTAIN LOWELL HI
LIEUT, RICHTER 0!
ENDURANCE FLIGHT
Army Officers at San Diego Start
Effort to Break Existing
Records
EXPECT TO BE UP 50 HOURS
Plan Includes Taking Water,
Food and Fuel From Other v
Planes in Mid-Air
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 27. j
A continuous flight of at least 45
hours, probably 50, is the objective
of Captain Lowell 11. Smith and
Lieut. John P. Richter, army avi
ators, who planned to make a new
endurance distance and speed rec- j
ords when they took the air at 5
o’clock this morning. The two of
ficers planned to take fuel, water
and food from other planes in mid
| air before finishing their flight
PROMINENT FARMER
CALLED BY DEATH
! FITZGERALD, Aug. 27—Funer
i
al services were held here Sunday
over the remains of Albert L. No
| bles, one of Irwin county’s promi
nent and prosperous farmers, who
j died at his home following a linger
ing illness of Bright’s disease. Fun
! era lservices will be held tomorrow,
afternoon at Satifla church where
interment will take place.
CORDELF. KIWANIS PUT
ON “MOCK SESSION”
CORDELE, Aug. 27.—The local
Kiwanis Club, at a recent meeting,
laid aside dignity and made merry
by conducting a mock .session of
state legislature. Famous states
men who operated around the state
I capitol were impersonated and at
least five candidates for governor
announced themselves. Several
| “important” laws and amendments
j were passed or referred to commit
tees. One of the kills present
forbade marriages in an effort to
cut down divorces.
SAVANNAH RED CROSS
1 AIDED MANY VETERANS
SAVANNAH, Aug. 27.—The re
port of the Savannah chapter, Amer
ican Red Cross, for the month of
July which has just been made
public, shows that 203 war veter
ans were aided during the month.
Os charge papers, locating men or
relatives, arrears of pay, funeral
claims, headstones, victory medals,
insurance, vocational training and
vocational training dependency
claims were among teh matters
handled son, the cx-service men.
MERCER TO BE TRAINING
SCHOOL FOR BOY SCOUTS
s-
MACON, Aug. 27.—Mercer Uni
versity has been selected to become
i the permanent training school for
| scout executives for the south,
southeast and southwest, according
to an announcement made follow
| ing- a recent meeting of the Nation
al Boy Scout Council in New York
City. The training school course
will be lengthened to six weeks.
The three week’s course held at
Mercer this summer was under the
direction of Dr. Lolin W. Barclay.
FITZGERALD
SEABOARD TO PUT ON
NEW PULLMAN FLYER
SAVANNAH, Aug. 27.—C. B.
j Ryan, passenger traffic manager of
i the Seaboard Air Line railway, has
' announced to local ofifeialS that the
| first limited all-Pullman train ever
j operated between Boston and New
j York and the Florida coast will be
| put in at the opening of the win-
I ter tourist season. This train will
| be known as the Seaboard Florida
I West Coast Limited and will be es
i tablished December 3, the an
| nouncement states.'
COLUMBUS CLAIMS
65,175 POPULATION
COLUMBUS,, August'27. Ac
| cording to the new city directory,
| advance copies of which are now
| being delivered to subscribers, the
' population of Columbus, exclusive
of Fort Benning, is 65,175.
AMERICUS. G.A.. MONDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 27, 1923
training
iRETTiLW
AFTER COURT PULES 1
OUT DEFENSE MOTION
Court Refuses to Sustain Chal
lenge Directed Against Ve
nire as a Whole
STATE’S POSITION UPHELD
Unable to Secure Fair Trial in
I County, Other Jurors Are
Summoned
CUMBERLAND COURTHOUSE,
Va., August 27.—The selection of
a jury in the trial of R. O. Gar
rett, jointly charged with his broth
er for the murder of Rev. E. S.
i Pierce, a Baptist minister, started
| today when the court overruled a
motion by the defense challenging
the.entire venire.
The venire was selected from
another county, the court uphold
ing the State’s contention that a
fair jury could not be selected
here.
ALLEGED DOPE PEDDLERS
JAILED AT JACKSONVILLE
JACKSONVILLE, August 27. j
Four men, claiming Tampa as their j
residence; were arrested last night j
by detectives and today an investi- j
gation will be made, the detectives
1 alleging the were implicated in a
I plot to dispose of some narcotics
in this city.
They are L. Puglisi, 27, mechanic,
Joe Vizzie, 25, cigar maker, G. P.
Roberts, 32, mechanic, and Basil
Pugilisi, 25, mechanic, brother of
L. Puglisi. Basil Puglisi had a pis
tol on his person when arrested, the
detectives said.
Detectives C. M. Quattlebaum
and E. L. Acosta had information,
they said, that the quartet came to
Jacksonville to sell “dope.” A small
package of opium was found on
Basil Pugliis and it is being held
at headquarters as evidence.
DISTRICT K. OF P.
MEETS SEPTEMBER 3
BEUNA VISTA, Aug. 27.—The
District Convention of the Fourth
Pythian District will be held here
on Monday, September 3rd., at the
Pythian Catsle Hall.
Judge John C. Butt is president
of the convention and issued the
call for the meeting on invitation
of Marion Lodge. There are eight
lodges in the District as follows:
| Albany, Americus, Buena Vista,
| Columbus, Edison, Ellaville and
i Lumpkin, and each lodge will send
from three to five representatives.
The Grand Chancellor of the
siate, the Grand Prelate and per
haps other Grand Lodge officers
are expected to be present at the
Convention.
ICE TRUCK AT MACON
BURNS IN STREETS
MACON, Aug/ 27.—Add another
item to the list of unusual occur
j rences. When Macon citizens the
other morning beheld a loaded ice
1 truck in blazes, .-they first rubbed
their eyes in amazement—and then
laughed. In filling the ga>ze tank
at a filling station the gasoline
caught fire in some manner ajid
spread to the truck. Firemen soon
I extinguished the flames.
THREE-DAY POULTRY
SHOW IS SCHEDULED
TIFTON, Aug. 27.—Tifton will
hold a tlnee-day poultry and dairy
show sometime during November,
according to plans now being made
by the Tifton County Dairy and
Poultry associations. Committees
have been appointed to work out a
program- and list of exhibits and
Tifton business men are giving the
plan their whole-hearted support.
The date of the show will be an
nounced in the near future.
FIRST SUGAR CANE OF
SEASON BROUGHT IN
i WAYCROSS, August 27. The
I first sugarcane of the season was
j seen on the streets of Wayeross
| this morning. A stalk of the red
j variety, grown on the farm of D.
j W. Morgan, about five miles south
of the city, was brought to town
this morning by S. L. Leverett,
who grew it.
iS. WILSON LEMS 1
EX-PRESIDENT EOS
ENTIRE KEEK'S VISIT
First Time She Has Left Her
Husband Since He Became
11l on Famous Trip
! VISITS IN NEW ENGLAND
Action Taken to Indicate Former
President Is Now in Im
proved Health
WASHINGTON, August 27.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the
former president, left Washington
last night on a visit of a week with
friends in New England.
With the exception -of one 24-
hour trip to New York last spring
this is the first time Mrs. Wilson
has left her husband since he was
stricken ill.
Her trip at this time is taken I
as inidcating that the former presi
dent is now in an improved state
of health a’a compared with his
condition in recent months.
COUNTERFEIT BANK
NOTES CIRCULATING
| JACKSONVILLE, August 27.
| New counterfeit federal reserve
I notes are described in the Postal
Bulletin, issued daily by the post
office department and warnings
given to be on the lookout for
them.
Both are on the federal reserve
bank of Chicago one bearing check
letter D, face plate 208, back plate
583 with the name of D. F. Houston,
secretary of the treasury and John
Burke, treasurer. It also has the
portrait of the late president,
Grover Cleveland The portrait is
the most noticeable defect, having
a flat unlifelike appearance and
I should be readily detected. The
| back of the note is as good as the
I face, the fine lines of the lathe
I work being broken in many places
j and has an unfinished appearance.
The second counterfeit S2O bill
bears check letter D, face plate
207, hack plate 618. It has the
same signatures and portrait. This
counterfeit is poorly printed. Much
of the lathe work on the face ap
pears in solid color instead of fine
lines. The seal is poor. This coun
terfeit, it is said, should be easily
dctccto<r.
ARABI HIGH SCHOOL
WILL OPEN SEPT. 10TH
ARABI, Aug. 24—The Arabi
High School will open for the fall
term on Monday, Sept. 10th, 1923.
The teachers for the coming year
at Arabi are as follows:
Mr. C. T. McArthur, of Cordele,
principal. **
Miss Vera Brown, of Rochelle, in
termediate grades.
Mrs. S. A. Hall, of Arabi, inter
! mediate grades.
| primary grades.
Miss Elizabeth Bryan, of Tifton,
Mr. McArthur and the Misses
Brown and Bryan were at Arabi last
year. They were unanimously re
elected for another year.
Mrs. Hall, the new teacher on the
list, is a high school and college
graduate. She holds a first grade
(license, has eleven years’ experience,
j the last four years in the Lyons,
Ga., high school.
PREMIUM LIST FOR
WAYCROSS FAIR OUT
WAYCROSS, August 27. —The
premium list for the Ware County
Fair, to be held October tT4, 25 and
has just been released from
the press for distribution among
the farmers and house wives of
Ware and surrounding counties.
Five thousand copies were printed
in order that everyone interested in
bringing any exhibits To the fair
might have free access to a list of
products for which premiums will
be given.
GOVERNMENT WILL NOT
APPEAL READING CASE
WASHINGTON, August 27.
Announcement is made by the De
partment of Justice that govern
ment will appeal from the Phila
delphia federal court degree last
June in the anti-trust case against
the Reading and assoicated railrod
coal companies.
MICE GUARD PLACED
ABOUT ME OF ill
HER HOUSE HEAD
I
! Cyrus Adler, Son of Sears, Roe
buck & Co. President, Ac
cused of Attacking Girl
CROWD IS THREATENING
Reinforcements Necessary to Pre
vent Home Being Rushed
and Adler Taken Out
CHICAGO, Acfgust 27. Police
today guarded the home of Max
Adler, vice-president of Sears, Roe
buck & Co., whose 24-year-old son,
Cyrus, narrowly escaped harsh
treatment by the relatives of a 15-
year-old girl, whom young Adler is
charged with attacking.
Reinforcements were called out
when a threatening crowd gather
ed. Young Adler was taken to the
police station,, following his hack
ing out of the girl’s home, with a
revolver pointed toward her rela
tives who chased him several blocks ■
Last Wednesday the girl’s aunt
charged young Adler and his com
panion with picking up the girl and
a friend, and taking the two girls
on an automobile ride. Statutory
charges were filed against Adler,
hut were dismissed when relatives
failed to appear.
FAIR CATALOG BEING
MAILED OUT HERE TODAY
The annual catalogue of the
Sumter county fair, which will be
held in Americus September 25-29
inclusive, is being mailed out here
today. The catalog, which was
printed by the Times-Recorder
Press, is a handsome edition, con
taining much valuable information
concerning the fair and the large
number of premiums offerted in va
rious departments. The advertise
ments of more than a hundred
merchants appear upon its pages,
and it will have a circulation of
12500 copies. The catalog is being
| mailed out by the Americus and
| Sumter County Chamber of Com-
Lmerce, with Secretary H’enrjA P.
j Everett directing the work, and
Miss Ruth Clark assisting in the big
jtask.
RAILROAD OFFICIALS TO
GATHER AT WA YCROSS
WAYCROSS, August 27. On
i September 8 about one hundred of
the traffic representatives of the
Atlatntie Coast Line railway will
be in Wayeross for a several hours
inspection of the A. C. T.. shops and
other property here and of the city.
The visitors will include the
general freight agents, the assistant
(freight agents, and the “off-line”
men or those who keep up the
contact with other railway systems.
PA VO TO VOTE ON
COW-OR-NO-COW
THOMASVILLE, August 27.
Pavo is going to hold a stock law
election on September 3 to decide
whether or not stock should be al
lowed to run at large in the streets
of the town. Many Thomasville
people can remember when the
question of cow or no cow on the
streets of the city was a burning
issue and even affected politics, but
fortunately-it has been settled for
once and all.
ENGINE GOES INTO
DITCH; ENGINEER DEAD
GARY, Ind., August 27. The
engineer was killed when a west
bound Baltimore and Ohio railroad
express train was derailed by a
washout near here early today. Tile
dead engineer was pinned under
neath the wreckage and died in
stantly.
NEGRO KILLED WHEN
WHITE RUNS AMUCK
SAVANNAH, August 27. One
negro was killed and another
wounded here last night when an
unidentified white man rode
through the streets of Savannah fir
ing his revolver at random. Police
authorities are of the opinion that
it was a case of a drunken man
“shooting up the town” and there
is no evidence of any race clush or
like disturbance.
For Georgia Unsettled weath
er with probably showers tonight
and Tuesday; moderate tempera
tures.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LIVELY RIFLE FI
ABOUT POLLS EARLY
TODAY IT DUBLIN
Elections for Dail Proceeding
Throughout Ireland Today
With Result Unknown
TROOPS ARE ON SCENE
♦
Free State Troops Patrolling
Streets in Dublin and Other
Important Centers
DUBLIN, August 27. (By the
Associated Press.) —A lively out
break of rifle fire occurred in Dub
lin early today.
Although the shooting was not
explained, balloting in the Dail
elections continued with Free State
troops patrolling the streets in
Dublin and other important Irish
centers.
The result of the elections early
today could not be forecast, though
it is believed here Free State
forces will retain control of the
government.
THREE ESCAPE FRBM
FULTi COUNTY JAIL
T’wo Negroes and One White
Man Held in Atlanta Bastile
Saw Way to Freedom
ATLANTA, August 27. Three
prisoners, two of them negroes, es
caped from the Fulton county jail
hospital last night by sawing the
bars of the window of the cell in
which they were confined on the
fifth floor. The escaped included
Will Rich, negro, life terms; Geo.
Poole, negro, serving 15 years for
robbery, arid W. H. Turner, await
ing trial for car breaking.
FIR DROWNED WHEN
CAR ROES IITO Blffl
Occupants of Closed Vehicle
Plunge Across Ferry Boat
Into Deep Water
KNOXILLE, August 27. Four
persons were drowned and one is
near death today as a result of the
closed automobile in which they
were riding plunging off u ferry
bout at Louisville, Term., Sunday.
Two others arc suffering from se
vere nervous shocks.
The dead are Mrs. Jefferson
Lonns, Mrs. Lucille Counts, Miss
Elizabeth Counts and Miss Ernes
tine Lonas. Jefferson Lonas is
thought to be dying of double
pneumonia contracted as a result
of the plunge.
GA. COTTON CONDITION
48.3, JAY’S ESTIMATE
NEW YORK, August 27.—The
private cotton condition estimate
issued today by J. W. Jay & Co.,
places the condition in Georgia at
48.3. Other states where the
condition is estimated are as fol
lows : v
Virginia 79.8 pet.
Nqifih Carolina 70.5 pete.
South Carolina 00.2 pet.
Georgia 48.3 pet.
Florida 46.3 pet.
Alabama 53.6 pet.
Mississippi 54.1 pet.
Louisiana 53.8 pet.
Texas 57.8 pet.
Tennessee 60.3 pet.
Oklahoma 53.7 pet.
Missouri 66.5 pet.
Ar izona and .all others ....84.2 pet.
START PROBE OF OIL
FRAUDS IN SOUTH TEXAS
HOUSTON, August 27. Judge
Hutcheson has instructed the grand
jury that it shall begin immediately
an investigation in the use of the
mail for fraudulent oil promotions.
This is said to be the first step
in a sweeping federal oil probe to
.be started in the southern district
of Texas.
ASLEEP ON TRACKS
TWO MEN ARE KILLED
FORT SMITH, August 27
James Bradshaw was killed and
| Frank Williams fatally injured
| when they were struck by a Mis
' souri Pacific freight train near
Gore, Okla., late lilst night.
According to a companion who
escaped injury, the two men were
hsleep on the tracks.