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N. Y. Futures—Oct. Dec. Jan. Previous Close .. 24.39 24.30 24.01 Open |24.59f24.45|24.11 11 a.m. ..... ..... ... 24.44 24.36 24.05 Close |24.35 24.26,23.92 Scot Cotton Strict Middling 24 l-2c 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.