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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 196
ATLANTA WOMAN IS HELD FOR MURDER
Herschel Elders is First Candidate for Governor
TJTTNAL LEGISLATOR
CASTS HIT IK BING
FOB NOBINJTIGN
Criticizes Governor Walker for
Action in Failing to Approve
Local Bills
MAKES HOWARD ISSCE
Says Executive Should Not Have
Named Him on Fulton Su
perior Court Bench
REIDSVILLE, August 30.
Representative Herschel Elders, of
Tattnall, today issue a statement
that he probably will be a candi
date for governor against ths in
cumbent, Clifford Walter, next
year.
“I do not approve of some
things our governor rias done dur
ing the past ‘ten days,” said Mr.
Elder's. “He should'not have ve
ined the local bills from Savannah
nor the one from Baldwin coun
ty. I think he made a bad mis
take when he appointed Judge
Howard to be Superior court judge
in Fulton county.
“I want to make it plain to
every friend I have in Georgia and
to all those who desire opposition
to Governor Walker that the out
look is now that I will be a candi
date next year.”
The bills referred to by the rep
resentative wer two relating to
the city government of Savannnah
and another providing for the elec
tion of the solicitor of the county
court of Baldwin. Governor
Walker announced that he had ve
toed the Savananh bills after sev
eral delegations from the city had
requested seuh action, while the
Baldwin county measure was not
approved, he said, because the at
torney general advised him he could
not sign it as legal requirements
had not been compil'd with in in
troducing the measure.
“T have been written or tele
phoned by many friends from dif
ferent sections of Georgia,” said
Mr. Elders, “since 1 came home
concerning the interview I gave out
about the middle of last session of
the legislature about my candidacy
for governor next year.
‘T am informed that some of
my friends and some of my politi
cal enemies are stating that 1
would not be a candidate next year
against Governor Walker. I never
said anything of the kind. I stat
ed that if Governor Walker
good as governor, he would be. en
titled to a second term and that
no one fught to run against him
next year.
*‘l stated I was his personal and
political friend and would help
him make his ad/.lnistration a
success. J have done my best to
help him. I am going to fight at
the extra session in November to
pass just and fair tax reform legis
lation. Our new tax laws must be
just and fair to the farmer
ADMIRAL KNOX DIES
ANNAPOLIS, August 30. T —Rear
Admiral Harry G. Knox, retired,
died suddenly yesterday aboard a
train en route from St. Louis to
Greenville, Ohio, according to re
ports received here. Death was
said to be due to heart failure
JESS SIZES 'EM UP
Dempsey or Firpo?
* 11 Who’s going to win ?
Right now lhat’s the big
question in the sport world.
W nobody’s any more in-
* teresled in the probable out-
WiL* come of the little party at the
>**BB? j Polo Grounds, Sept. 24, than
t Jess Willard.
A t I
r I j css h as fought both men.
’ll JF i And if anyone knows any-
!. thing about their ring man-
WIL x \ ners, it’s certainly Jess.
Wife 1 Willard is going to let the
w reat^er * '°f The f imes-Re-
M aS. ccrder in on his big secret.
JS| f He has written a series of ar
tides sizing up the champion
and the Argentine chal
lengcr.
K ......... His first story appears in
JESS WILLARD- today’s issue on page 5.
The Times-Rccorder has arranged for details of the
fight for Americus fans. The Associated Press will furnish
this to us over a fast wire.
DISTINGUISHED IN AMERICUS
CHIM POLICEMAN
FATALLY WOUNDED 01
SON DURING EIGHT
Family Quarrel Started Over
Son Staying Out Late at Night
Against Father’s Orders
SLAYER IS HELD IN JAIL
Boy Who Fired Fatal Shots Start
ed in Role of Peacemaker
Between Relatives
CHICAGO, Aug. 30—Theodore
Groak, aged 46, and a policeman, is
in a local hospital fatally wounded,
with his 16-year-old son, Martin, in
custody, as a result of a shooting
which occurred in their home last
night after the latter failed in the
role of peacemaker in a quarrel be
tween the father and an older
brother.
Martin, who called the police, said
his father objected to his older
brother staying out late at night,
and was administering a paternal
beating when the shooting occurred.
chins binditsm
BRITISH MISSIONARIES
Rev. W. A. Whitesid and Rev. F.
G Watt Both Killed by
Szechwan Bandits
SHANGHAI, August 30. —Rev.
' W. A. Whiteside and Rev. F. G.
Watt, British missionaries of the
! Church Missionary society, were
shot and killed by bandits while
traveling through the Szechwan
I province August 14, according to a
letter received here.
TUESDAY NIGHT’S
RAIN DAMAGED ROADS
DAWSON, August 30.—While
for some two or three months past
Terrell county has had too much
rain, reports from all sections of
the county last night are to effect
that the hardest general rain ever
to have fallen in quite a while fell
Tuesday afternoon, beginning be
tween 4 and 5 o’clock and lasting
for about an hour.
Reports from the eastern and
western portion of the county are
to the fefect that quite ai heavy
washing rain fell in those sections
causing untold damage to the crops,
especially true of cotton much of
which now stands open in the fields
but due to the enormous excessive
rains the farmers have not been
permitted to pick same. From all
sections of the county last night
came reports that the rain great
ly damaged the roads and in many
places water is said to be standing
across the public highways for
quite » distance. Cotton fields are
ponded over and all the streams
have risen considerably.
THEfiiOHi®RDER
fci-ajrpIJBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
ITOKSORO WIN IS
HELD FOR SHOOTING
KINCMi M MN
Conflicting Statements Made by
Parties to Affair in Which
Man Was Slightly Injured
SHOOTING ACCIDENTAL
Kincaid Says Pair Quarreled
Over Debt, While Woman
Asserts Character Attacked
MACON, Aug. 30 —A warrant
charging shooting at another was
issued against Mrs. Ruby Jones, of
Toomsboro, following a quarrel lasc
night in which Finley Kincaid sus
tained a slight wound, when a pistol
in the woman’; hand was said\ to
have been accidentally discharged.
The quarrel is said to have grown
out of a debt, Kincaid says, while
< the woman says it was the result of !
| remarks concerning her character I
made by Kincaid.
According to Mrs. Jones, she left I
her home in Toomsboro Wednes- /
day afternoon and came to Macon
to investigate certain remarks that
Kincaid is alleged to have made
concerning her hcaracter. She
went by a sawmill operated by’
j her uncle, procured a pistol for
I her self-protection, as she made
i the trip alone, and came on to
. Macon where she sought an inter
view with Kincaid, because of non
payment of the debt of SBS incur
red when the young child of Mrs.
Jones’ underwent an operation at
a local hospital.
Mrs. Jones denied that she owed
the money to Kincaid, and says
I that she can prove by reputable
| physicians of Macon that she paid i
I the expense of tile operation and
hospital treatment with her own i
money.
In a discussion of the matter in i
front of the home of Kincaid on ,
I the Forsyth road, Kincaid is said I
to have released the safety catch I
on the army pistol which Mrs. I
Jones had in her possession, and
in .subsequent handling of the gun,
it was discharged. The bullet
grazed the hand, of Kincaid, inflict
ing only minor injuries.
THREE IB IS
fflfflOßllT CRASH
Pleasure Car and School Truck
Collide With Fatal
Results
WALLINGFORD, Vt., August 30
Three men were killed today as a
result of a collision of the auto
mobile in which they wire driving
and a motor “r ick near here. They
were George Cong lon, a brother,
John T. Congdon, and James Mer
rick.
HOWARD MAY SOON FACE
DISBARMENT CHARGES
ATLANTA, Aug. 30—The Atlan
ta Bar Association will meet Friday
morning at the Fulton county court
house to consider the report of its
executive committee, declaring that
Judge G. H. Howard should not con
tinue to serve on the Fulton super
ior bench to which he recently was
appointed by Governor Walker.
Friends of Attorney Edgar Lal,h-
I am, whose charges of unethical con
| duct against Judge Howard result
ed in the report of the executive
committee, assert that if the bar as
! sociation adopts the committee re-
I port Friday, that a movement to dis
j bar Judge Howard from the practice
j of law in Atlanta will be launched.
COMPLAINTS REACH
POLICE DEPARTMENT
Recently a number of complaints
I of young boys playing baseball in
j the streets here have reached po
. lice headquarters. . As a result of
■ these, Chief Bragg today request-
I ed that parents assist in breaking
up the practice, it being desired
to avoid penalties such as yvill be
incurred if cases are made against
the young offenders. A number
of window have been broken
.and other damage sustained as a
I result of these street ball games,
, | Chief Bragg said today.
AMERICUS. GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 30. 1923
CETOL TRAIN Rffl
TT. VALLEY ROCKED
81VICIIJISJANDALS
C. C- Martiny Bridge Foreman,
Severely H«rt When Struck
By FKng Missile
HIS SCALP fe BADLY TORN
-
Special Agenta Sent From Macon
to Scene to Conduct Investi
gation It#o Occurrence
MACONT. Ats 30—C. C. Martin,
bridge foremajf-for the Central of
Georgia railrdft, suffered a scalp
wound early tßs morning when he
was hit with a tone thrown into the
passenger trairwwindow as the train
was nearing Fart Vallqy.
Martin was ’a passenger from
Montgomery, Ala., and special
agents have hurried to the scene for
an investigation.
FWN CFNWIP
Wl OFF TODAY
Observation of Political Mes
sages, However, Will Con
tinue to Be Maintained
NEW YORK, August 30. Ca
blegrams passing through Cuban
offices of the Commercial Cable
company will not be subjected to
censorship by the Cuban govern
ment, acc ' -ding to messages re
received by the comajv.y, but ob
: servation of political messages will
be maintained. It is authoritative
ly announced that commercial mes
sages will not be interfered with.
MINEiIuSECT
MINING PROPERTIES
Even If Walkout Comes Pump
Men, Engineers and Mainten
ance Corps Remain on Job
HARRISBURG, Penna., Aug. 30.
An agreement has been reached be
tween the miners’ representatives
and operators by which pump men,
engineers and maintenance men will
be allowed to remain at work in the
anthracite mines even if the suspen
sion of mining takes place Septem
ber 1.
EARL GAMMAGE BRINGS
REMARKABLE FISH TALE
Earl Gammage, son of Ernest
Gammage of this city, returned
Wednesday from Quay and other
Florida points, bringing with him
marvelous fish tales.
The young »man, who is an
ardent exponent of the sport, re
lates the beauties of Florida as a
state, and particularly of the fish
in places which he regularly
haunted.
“I caught a shark, said Earl, “and
it looked like the«biggest fish in
the world to me. I was out with
a light line, and’ feeling a nibble,
judged there was a mullet or oth
ier small fish at the end. Pulling
in and out, I discovered it was a
larger bite, and, going to a neatby
store for stronger tackle, I iput
this into the water and drew up a
shark about foijr feet long. Big
fish in Florida, to be sure,,” he
said.
HOPE ENTERTAINED FOR
RECOVERY OF YOUNG LAD
Reports from Elza Sheppard, the
young son of Mrs. J. E. Sheppard,
who is desperately ill with tetanus
at his home on College street, are
that although still in a serious con
dition, a restful night was passed,
with a slight improvement in him
today.
Anti-toxin was administered
throughout Wednesday, to which
the little hoy" is responding nobly,
and hundreds of friends of the
family her are hoping that thql
crisis has beer, successfully pass
i ed and that he may soon recover.
GREECE BALKS OVER
TERMS OF ITALIAN
NOTE
j
Humiliating Conditions Attached
to Communication Arouses
Resentment
MAY GO BEFORE LEAGUE
Rome Government Harsh in
Demanding Satisfaction for
Death Commission Members
LONDON, Aug. 30—A dispatch
to the Evening News from Milan
says the Italian fleet at Otranto
Harbor has received orders to be
prepared to sail in the eventuality
of a movement against Greece.
ATHENS, August 30. lt is
understood here that Greece is not
disposed to accept the humiliating
conditions imposed by the Italian
government in a note demanding
satisfaction for the killing of five
Italian members of the Greco-Al
banian frontier delimination mis
sion.
Even if a deadlock is reached in
the affair, Greece, it is understood,
will propose to submit the question
to the League of Nations for con
sideration.
The Greek government is disposed
to express its profound sorrow over
the massacre and to indemnify the
families of the Italian officials who
were murdered on Greek territory.
The Italian government's note to
Greece demanded that the Greeks
pay indemnity of fifty million lire,
salute the Italian fleet and punish
the Greeks responsible for the assas
sinations. An answer was required
within 24 hours.
An Athens cablegram last night
said Premier Gonatas had informed
the correspondents that while
Greece did not find all* the Italian
demands acceptable, she would
agree to some of them and ask for
modification of others. The Athens
government signified its
of replying to the note within the
time limit. *
owsififdlriips
PRAISED Bl GUERNSEY
District Rotary Governor Says
Florida Truckers Have No
Marketing Problem
Ken Guernsey, district Rotary
governor, came to Americus from
Orlando, Fla., Wednesday night to
attend the inter-city meeting here
today, and this morning he discuss
ed business conditions with a news
paper man who called on him at his
hotel. “Florida, or at least the
part of the peninsula around Or
lando,” said Mr. Guernsey, “ is just
now enjoying prosperity that is
upon a realy substantial rather
than a speculative basis. The pros
perity there is not of the kind that
can be disturbed by any passing
business flurry, and promises to
continue over an indefinite period.
“A great building program is be-
I ing carried out in Florida, and this
is taking form in the erection of
many new business buildings, banks
ere enlarging their quarters, and
the building of new dwellings, ga
rages, etc., is keeping pace with the
! general progress. This building,
I while it reflects the prosperity of
! Florida, and adds greatly to the
value of property in my home state
is hardly to be compared to the
road building program which we
have under way there, and which
is bringing new residents in the
state almost daily, as well as at
tracting many tourists, during the
winter months.
“At Orlando just now we are en
gaged in the laying of .twelve
blocks of brick pavements, while in
I Orange county, of which Orlando is
I the commercial center, there are
I now under construction twelve
miles of brick and asphalt high-
I ways. This program is illustrative
of the general road building pro
gram going on in the state, and
which we Floridians believe has al
ready added immensely to the
I growth and importance of the state.
I ‘State Route No. 3,’ now being con
(Continued on Page 7.)
MANY ROTARIANS HERE
TO ATTEND INTER-CITY
MEET AND PROGRAM
District Governor Ken Guernsey
Here on First Official Visit
To Americus Club
PROGRAM AT GOLF CLUB
Pretty Girls Engage in Program
of Aquatic Sports at Play
ground This Afternoon
Many Rotarians gathered
toady to participate in the inter
city meet being, held here and to
welcome District Governor Ken
Guernsey, who is making his first
official visit to the Americus Ro
tary, club. Incidentally, this is
the first official visit the new dis
trict governor has made to any
club in the district since his elec
tion at the fit. Louis convention
last March.
Delegations were expected to ar
rive during the afternoon from Co
lumbus, Moultrie, Tifton, Thomas
ville, Quitman and Albany, and
many out-of-town Rotarians were
here early this afternoon to engage
in the festivities incident to the
inter-city meeting. This afternoon
there will be an exhibition game
played upon the golf links here,
with a number of visiting Rotari
ans participating and there will be
a special program rendered in the
club house there as well.
At the Wayground later there
will be a program of aquatic sports
conducted by Miss Jewel Lane,
swimming instructor there, assisted
by a number of pretty Americus
girls, and directed by Rotarians
Herbert Hawkins and Ralston Car
gill. The young ijirls who- will
participate in the swimming exhi
bitions at the playground have
been divided into groups as fol
lows:
Group I.—Mary Walker, Juanita
Rawlins, Nell Hamilton, Elizabeth
Sheffield, Hulet Humber, Ira Gate
vyood, Claire Harris, Mary Frances
Evans, Frances Easterlin, Eugenia
Crittenden, Irma Tooke, Sara Oli
ver, Ruth Everett.
Group 2.—Virginia Legg, Eliza
beth Stanfield, Julia Westbrok, Lu
cinda Gaines, Jane Broadhurst,
Elizabeth Broadhurst, Mary Char
lotte Tyson, Nancy Hook*, Eliza
beth Allen, Louisa Cole.
Group 3.—Son Walker, Sambo
Everett, Frank Broadhurst, Benn
Legg, George Tyson, Charles Ty
son, Max Ansley, Julian Gammage,
Charles Walker.
Special dicing stunts will be
executed by Frank Broadhurst,
Sam Everett and Son Walker.
HUNTINGTON SCHOOL TO
HAVE NEW PRINCIPAL
HUNTINGTON Aug. 30—Hunt
ington school will open for the fall
session here .iierft Monday, with
Mrs. Kate Wilcox Baker as princi
pal and Mrs. Childers and Miss
.Laura Johnson as assistants.. Mrs.
Baker, the new principal, comes
here with highest recommendations
from school authorities at Douglas
where she taught in Nicholls High
school (Coffee county), and from
the Georgia Normal College and
Busmess Institute at Douglas,
from which she graduated in the
class of T 9. Trustees here are grat
ified at their success in securing
Mrs. Baker to teach in Hunting
ton school, this being made possi
ble only became of the necessity
of her husband, a certified pub
lie accountaXl, traveling a great
deal.
ELLAVILLE SCHOOL TO
OPEN MONDAY, SEPT. 3
ELLAVILLE. Aug. 30—The fall
term of the Ellaville High School
will open here Monday, Sept. 3,
with Prof. H. H. Hargrove as su
perintendent. New teachers added
to the faculty are Miss Rosa Lou
Simmons, of Guyton, pome .eco
nomics and high school science;
Miss Ethel Stein, of Colquitt, sev
enth grade, and eighth grade
mathematics and Latin; Miss Helen
Lee, Mt.'Vernon, expression; Miss
Louise Walters, Ellaville, English
and literature.
For Georgia Generally fair to
night and Friday; little change in
temperature.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
IBS. HAZELTINE EMRS
ACCUSED HF KILLING
HUSBAND LAST NIGHT
Was Former Policewoman and
Dead Man Was Still a Mem
ber of Atlanta Force
CLAIM DEATH ACCIDENTAL
Woman Says Husband Wanted
to Commit Suicide and That
Gun Fired During Struggle
ATLANTA, Aug. 30—Mrs. Ha
zeltine Cobb Evans, a former police
woman here, is held in custody to
day following the death of her hus
baitd in their home last night.
11. W. Evans, the woman’s hus
band, who was shot twice, was a
member of the Atlanta police force,
and circumstances surrounding his
death are mysterious.
According to a statement made by
Mrs. Evens following her arrest,
Evans was killed during a struggle
for possession of a revolver, he hav
ing threatened to commit suicide,
and his wife endeavoring to pre
vent this.
■IS COMMITTEE
DIVIDES [HIRE CLDB
Four Groups of Ten Members
Members Each Formed to
Conduct Club Program
The program committee of the
Americus Kiwanis Club has devised
a plan dividing the forty members
of the club into four groups of ten
members each. Each group is to
have charge of the. whole program
one meeting every month until the
year is over, Secretary Bradley
Hogg announced today in a notice
to all members of the club.
“A prize that will be announced
later will be .awarded to the group
giving the best program and having
the best attendance of the whole
club on its days to entertain,” the
secretary says.
“Grotfp No. 1 will be composed
of Mashburn, Cutler, Marshall. (T.
O.) Sparks, McDonald, Turpin, Oli
ver, Dean, Ansley and Edgar Shipp,
and their first opportunity to show
what they will do will be Sept. 7th.
“Group No. 2 will be composed of
Mike Holloway, Joe Bryan, Brown,
Bragg, Humber, Hudson, Davis,
Shiver, Bailey, Mooney, and th#y
will perform September 14th.
“Group No. 3 will be composed of
Lott, Hightower, Heys, Wise, Webb,
Smith, (W. F.), IL L. McMath, Jr.,
Nathan Murray, Barefield, H. P.
Everett, adn they wil' perform Sep
tember 28th, inasmuch as the meet
ing of Sept. 21, Constitution Day,
h».- lien provgied for.
“Group No. 4 will be composed of
11. A. Smith,. Schneider, Ellis, Haw
kins, Cogdell, Jones, Stapleton,
J-'i ikston, Poole, Edwards. Their
first offense will be October sth.”
The regular weekly luncheon of
the club occurs Friday at the Wind
sor hotel, and an effort is being
made to secure the attendance of all
1 those absent at the last meeting,
him GOVERNOR
IS EMBARRASSED
Calls Creditors Together Follow
ing Resignation as President
of Big Bank
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 30—-Gov
ernor Warren T. McCray has called
a meeting of his tomor
row, his action confirming wide
spread reports recently that the ex
ecutive is financially embarrassed.
He resigned as president of the
Kentland Bank last night.
PLAYWRIGHT LEAVES
FORTUNE TO FRIEND
LOS ANGELES, August 30. —•
John Fleming Wilson, author and
playwright, who died in - Venice,
Calif., March, 1922, has bequeath
ed most of his estate to Mary Ashe
Miller ,a friend of lohg years stand
ing, it was revealed today.
The estate is valued at $90,000,
and in his will it is set forth that
his wife was purposely left out,
being adequately provided for in a
previous property settlement.