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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO- 198
TALIANS TO ACCEPT LEAGUE’S DECISION
BIG BRITISH FLEET
MOBILIZED 111 EAST
SMB OF ISLAND
Felt That Controversy Between
Italy and Greece Problem for
League of Nations j
TAKE WISE PRECAUTIONS
Diplomatic Representatives at
Athens and Rome to Main
tain Neutral Attitude
GENEVA, Sept. I—Signor Silan
dri, Italian member of the League
of Nations, said that he could not
comment on Greece’s communica
tion until he had read it. He also
stated that it was his belief that
Italy woujd have no objection to
leaving the dispute to the League of
Nations, and insisted that Italy’s
move i. 4 not one of war, but drastic
action was demanded by the people
of Italy.
ATHENS, Sept. I—Greece will
abide by the decision of the League
of Nations in its dispte with Italy,
Premier GonaEas announced after
the cabinet meeting today. The pre
mier said that the forts at Corfu,
which the.Jtali.ans bombarded, have
been given to Americans for shelter
ing orphans. Several orphans were
killed, Premier Gonatas stated, al
though no American casualties were
reported. - - '
SIMONETTI APPOINTED
- GOVERNOR OF CORFU
LONDON, Sept. I—Vice1 —Vice Admiral
Simonetti has been appointed Ital
ian governor of the Island of Corfu.
SUBMARINE FIRES
ON GREEK STEAMER
ATHENS, Sept. I—An Italian
submarine stationed in Guld Com
munitza today fired on the Greek
steamer Georgios, slightly damaging
the latter.
ITALIANS DENY
OCCUPYING CRETE
ROME, Sept. I—Official an
nouncement says there is no truth in
the reports that the Italians have
occupied either the Islands of Samos
or Crete.
MEDITERRANEAN FLEET
NEAR ISLAND OF CORFU
LONDON, Sept.' I—Great Brit
ain will intervene actively in the
Greco-Italian embrogiio only if It
aly refuses to. accept arbitration by
the League of Nations.
It is announced that the govern
ment has not instructed its diplo
matic representatives either at Rome
or Athens to use its good offices to
wards a settlement, it being felt that
the controversy for the moment be
longs to the League.
Meanwhile the government is tak
ing all prudent precautions and
measures to prevent Italy from
making occupation of Corfu perma
nent, a measure which would violate
the existing neutrality agreement.
Various units of the powerful
British Mediterranean fleet is with
in easy access'of the island.
EXPERTS SEE DANGER
OF WAR SPREADING
LONDON, Sept. I—ltaly’s action
in bombarding and occupying the Is
laniTof Corfu in contravention of
the neutrality which the island is
guaranteed in perpetuity ,by the
treaty of 1864, in which Great Brit
ain ceded Corfu to Greece, is con
sidered in military and diplomatic
quarters at London as tantamount
to a declaration of war upon Greece
and a flagrant violation of interna-1
tional law.
Should Italy ignore the interven
tion of the League of Nations and
indejiendent efforts of the council
of ambassadors for an amicable so
lution, military experts see danger
of war spreading throughout south
eastern Europe.
GREECE APPEALS TO
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
GENEVA, Sept. I—A communi
cation from Greece submitting the
Greco-Italian crisis to the League
of Nations has been received, thus
bringing automatically the affair
before the League council which is
now in session.
ITALIAN RESERVISTS
HELD IN READINESS
LONDON, Sept. I—ltalian re
servists residing in London have
been notified to hold themselves in
readiness for an immediate call to
arms, ' ..
Anthracite Mining Suspended; May Resume Soon
DISASTER OVERWHELMS JAPANESE CITY
M ERICHS HHIHIS
MT PAY U? EFFORT
Til BOOST BUSINESS
Start Fall With Rush Is Slogan of
Chamber of Conrimerce Offi
cials Heading Movement
TO LIQUIDATE ALL DEBTS
Credits to Be Wiped Out and
Start New Business Year With
“Clean Slate” All Around
Americus merchants, under au
spices of the Chamber of Com
merce, will inaugurate a pay-up
campaign where within the next ten
days. The purpose of the campaign
ds to start off fall business with
a rush and instill “pep” into the
business fabric of the whole com
munity. v
Merchants, bankers, business and
professional men who have been ap
proached upon the subject by Sec
retary Henry Everett, have ex
pressed approval of the plan, and
many who have carried accounts
on the books of merchants here
during the entire summer have ex
pressed determination to co-operate
with the business houses in their
liquidation plans.
Much ready cash will be placed
in circulation with the payment of
outstanding accounts by farmers,
! salaried men and others, who have
neglected these during the fall sea
son, and with the marketing of the
cotton crop now coming in the vol
ume of community business should
easily more than double within a
brief time. All of which spiels
community prosperity.
Plans upon which the campaign
is to be based will be announced
within a few days, Secretary Ever
ett stated to a Times-Recorder man
this morning, and when these are
revealed, solid community support
will be put behind the movement,
he asserts. The plan as tentatively
agreed upon provides for a sub
stantial return being given the
debtor, who pays his past due ob
ligations in full, as well as to the
one who liquidates part of his ac
counts and the man who puts cur
rent accounts on the right side of
the business man’s ledger. Secre
tary Everett is at work on details
of the plan today, and further an
nouncement will be made as soon
as authorized.
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Beginning of Inquiry Postponed
One Day, According to An
nouncement by Lankford
ATLANTA, September 1. —Spe
cial legislative inquiry into k <the
department o' agriculture will be
gin September 18, one day later
than first planned, Senator Lank
ford announced in communications
received here.
ALEXANDER IS DENIED
BOND IN MACON
MACON, Sept. I—J. F. Alexan
der, Cotton avenue merchant, who
was arrested Friday afternoon when
identified by Ollie M. Perry as the
leader of the gang of {loggers who
took Perry from his place of busi
ness in Tindall Field on the night of
Aug. 9 and administered a severe
whipping to Perry, is being held at
the Bibb county tail without the
privilege of bond. Officers will in
terview Alexander during the day in
regard to his connection with the
flogging of Ferry.
JUDGE HOWARD IGNORES
ACTION ATLANTA BAR
ATLANTA, September I.—Judge
G. 11. Howard continued today as
judge of the Fulton Superior court
in the face of the action of the
Atlanta Bar association, which vot
ed yesterday to uphold' the action
of its grievance and executive com
mittees, condemning Judge Howard
for alleged unethical conduct on
charges preferred by Attorney Ed
gar Latham,
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SMALLEST CROP IN|
YEARS INDICATED IH
CO-OPERATIVE REPORT
Estimate Applies Both to Yield
Per Acre and Total Produc
tion in Entire Cotton Belt
WEEVIL GETS HEAVY TOLL
Pest Declared to Have Destroy
ed Half Cotton in South
Georgia in Past 30 Days
ATLANTA, Sept. I—One of the
smallest crops in many years is indi
cated by the Co-operative Crop Re
porting Service in the report re
leased today. This applies both to
the yield per acre and the total pro
duction. The yield per acre will be
below 100 pounds.
During the past thirty days the
boll weevil-has destroyed more than
half the cotton in South Georgia,
and is now taking heavy toil in the
upper section of the state. In North
Georgia the plant put on a wonder
ful amount of fruit' during August/
and a net improvement in condition
of three or four points was regis
tered in most of the territory north
of the line running from West Point
to Augusta. South of that line the
decline ran from a moderate figure
to 17 points in the south and south
west. One large area (the territory
from Wilcox to Berrien county) reg
istered a practical failure.
While most of the damage may
be attributed to the boll weevil, ex
cess moisture, the army worm, the
red spider and the boll worm were
responsible for a considerable pro
portion.
The present prospect is the re
verse of last year. This season upper
Georgia will make the cotton and
South Georgia very little.
The average condition for the
entire state is placed in this report
at .42 with the condition in Sum
ter couhty placed at .35, and the
southwest Georgia district condition
by counties, as follows:
Baker 28
Calhoun 23
Clay 37
Decatur 24
Dougherty 20
Early 30
Grady , 23
Lee 23
Miller 25
Mitchell 26
Quitman 40
Randolph 43
Seminole 25
Stewart 35
Sumter , 35
Terrell 35
Thomas 25
Webster 25
District Average 30
District Average 1922 52
BIIIMEOD
ffillTS 111 BATTLE
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Approximately a Hundred Shots
Fired by Federal Agents,
—6 Prisoners Arrested
NEW YORK, September I.
Two alleged rum runners and six
prisoners were captured by fed
eral agents in battles off Sheep
head bay and off Coney Island.
Approximately 100 shots were
fired before quiet was restored.
FIRE AT BRAGG’S
MARKET LAST NIGHT
A small fire in the market of
G. M. Bragg on Forsyth street
called the department there last
night, considerable damage being
done to refrigerating machinery in
stalled there. The blaze was ex
tinguished by the use of chemical
apparatus of the department,’ and
the damage was confined to about
?250. The cause was not definite
ly ascertained,' thotfgh it is said
to have been due to irregular cur
rent supply to an autorqatic mo
tor connected with the damaged re
frigerating apparatus.
AMERICUS, GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON SEPTEMBER I. 1923
WNANOBDYFATALLYi
HURT IF ffILMINGTON
DURING Ml RIOTING
Scores of Others Injured During
Fighting Lasting Throughout
Last Night
MOBS ATTACK FIELD MEET
Polled and Firemen All Engaged
in Effort to Restore Order
Following Attack
WILMINGTON, Del., September
I.—One man and a boy are in the
hospital here probably fatally in
jured, while scores of others main
tained less serious hurts in fighting
last night near Newcastle between
a mob and Klansmen.
The mob attacked a meeting of
the Klansmen in a field, and the
fighting continued several hours be
fore the police and firemen were
able to restore order.
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Receipts for Week Total 741
Bales up to Friday Night,
With Many More Tod ly
Cotton is now coming into Amer
icus from all parts of the county and
warehouses here arc filling up with
the staple, for which buyers display
an eager desire, and sales are reg
ularly recorded.
Spot prices are holding up well,
having been strong since the begin
ning of the selling season and a sub
stantial advance recorded. Total,re
ceipts up to Friday afternoon when
the warehouses closed were 741
bales, while to this number there
was added today a considerable
quantity of the staple.
Farmers have been retarded in
their work during the week by un
seasonable weather', but the crop is
now being picked and brought in to
the warehouses here as rapidly as
these conditions will permit.
GOODWIN BROTHERS
HELD IT VALDOSTA
Two Garage Men Are Accused
of Changing Numbers on
Automobiles
VALDOSTA, September 1. —On
state warrants charging felony W.
H. Goodwin and J. E. Goodwin, op
erating the Palace garage on East
Hill avenue, were arrested Friday
and placed in jail.
The warrants were sworn out in
connection with the widespread il
licit automobile business alleged
to be in operation through this
section and for connection, with
which Lyman Sherley is being held
in Tampa. It is specifically stated
by officers making the affidavits
for the four warrants, that stolen
automobiles have been brought to
Valdosta and the motor numbers
changed in the Palace garage aft
er which the automobiles were sold
in various sections. Some ot the
automobile transactions, for which
J. G. Crowley is being held, are
alleged by the officers to have been
brought here and tlje numbers
changed and the cars afterward
sold. “»
Some of these cars were stolen*
in Madison, Fla., Moultrie, Albany,
Americus and various other places.
The two men came to Valdosta
some time ago from Tampa where
they had been engaged in the auto
mobile business, and they secured
the Palace garage where they have ,
directed a general automobile busi-1
ness.
For a long time stolen automo- 1
biles everywhere were more or less I
safe, as the number on the motors
could be changed in such way that 1
it was seldom identification could |
be made through the means of the I
motor numbers. However, tiuto- j
mobile insurance companies being;
put *to their wits ends for relief I
finally discovered a method where- ■
by an old number can be restored.
WINS AND LOSES
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Dolly Barbour’s boss told her she
could attend the bathing* beauty
contest, but she would have to be
back at 4 p.m. The event didn’t
run to schedule. Dolly didn’t return
on time. She lost her job. But she
won the contest against 368 other
girls of Richmond, Va.
HOLO JOINT MEETING
HERE NEXT MONDAY
I
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs to
Have Session in Courthouse
With Public Invited
There will be a joint public ses
sion of Sumter Lodge No. 264, I. O.
O. F., and the Rebekah Lodge of
Americus Monday night in the su
perior courtroom at the courthouse
here. The session will start prompt
at 8 o’clock with District Deputy
Grand Master J. C. Pouncey presid
ing. Grand lodge officers here to
attend the district meeting will at
j tend the gathering and one or more
i of these will address the joint pub
| lie meeting.
The meeting will be the culmina-
I tion of the district convention which
meets here Merfday morning at 10
o’clock, and for which an attractive
program has been arranged. The
meeting will begin promptly at the
hour stated, with the program as
follows:
Meeting called to order at 10 a.m.
by District Deputy Grand Master
J. C. Pouncey.
Chairs filled*
Opening Ode and Frayer—Chap
lain.
Welcome Address—Pan Chappell,
of Americus.
Response—R. Howard Hendricks, I
of Columbus, Grand Conductor.
Roll call of delegates.
Appointment of Committees.
> Luncheon.
2 p.m.—Report of committees;
credentials; lodges not represented;
next place of meeting; state of or
| der; resolutions; good of the order.
Talk on the Orphans Home—A. B.
j Brown.
Talk on the Rebekah Degree—R.
| L. Mitchell, Columbus.
Talk on the Encampment—J. W.
| Shirah, Columbus.
Talks by Judge Summerall, of
j Waycross, and A. Dj Deas, Grand
) Master. Dinner.
8 p.m.—Joint meeting of the Re
bekahs and the Odd Fellows at the
county courthouse with the public
invited. Speeches from the officers
of the grand lodge and Rebekah as
sembly will be heard at this meeting.
EARTHQUAKE ROCKS
YOKOHAMA; ENTIRE
CITY NOW IN FLAMES
Numerous Casualties Have Oc
curred as Result of Quake
and Fire Following
AMERICANS~IN DANGER
Approximately Thousand Amer
icans Are Residents of City,
Many in Endangered Zone
SAN FRANCISCO, September
I.—Practically the entire city of
Yokohoma is afire, and numerous
casualties have occurred as a re
sult of the conflagration which
broke out after a severe earth
quake, according to radio messages
received here early today.
■ ANXIETY FELT AT
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, September I.
Unusual anxiety is felt here con
cerning reports of the earthquake
and fire in Yokohama, where it is
estimated that more than 1,000 citi
zens »of the United States have
residences. Yokohama, which is
only 30 miles from Tokio, is one
of the most important cities in Ja
pan.
JAP RADIO STATION
HEARS OF DISASTER
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1—•
Practically the entire city of Yoko
hama is afire and numerous casual
ties have occurred as a result of a
conflagration which broke out after
a severe earthquake shock, accord
ing to a message from the Japanese
radio station at Iwaki to the Radio
Corporation of America’s local sta
tion.
The message follows:
“Conflagration subsequent to se
vere earthquake at Yokohama at
noon today (Saturday-. Practically
the whole city ablaze. Numerous cas
ualties.
Yokohama is situated on the east
coast of Hondo on the Bay of To
kio, 17 miles southw’est of the Jap
anese capital with which it is con
nected by rail. It has a population
of about half million. The city is
the center of a vast silk industry
and is also an emporium for tea.
’acquired aVid bamboo wares, met
als and fish. It was selected as a
treaty port in 1918.
EVERE EARTH SHOCK LASTING
FIVE HOURS IS NOTED
WASHINGTON, Sept. I—An
earthquake described as severely se
rious and continuing nearly five
hours last night and early today was
recorded on the Georgetown Uni
versity seismograph. Beginning at
10:12 p.m., the disturbance reached
a maximum intensity between 10:40
and 11 o’clock adn lasted until 3
a.m.' Director Tondorf r of the ob
servatory, estimated the center of
the disturbance at 6,500 miles from
Washington.
IfllNT IMMIGRANTS
■ TO BE DEPORTED
Rush of Ships First Brings Disas
ter to Over-Anxiow( Ones
Who Cross Line Early
NEW YORK, September I.
Immigration officials have been ad
vised by Washington that several
thousand immigrants who entered
this country just before midnight
last night must be considered as the
August qgota, which has already
been filled. This statement means
the deportation of the immigrants.
The immigrants technically cross
ed the line too earjy when com
peting ships made a dash for the
first entrance.
GMEB COPS TITLE
FROM VETERAN WILSON
POLO GROUNDS, N. Y., Sept. 1
The world’s middleweight boxing
championshin passed from Johnny
Wilson, of Boston, to Harry Greb.
of I'ittsburg, in a lop-sided 15-round
battle before a small crowd in the
Polo Grounds last night. Greb won
the judges’ decision,
F<jr Georgia Partly cloudy to
night and Sunday; probably show
ers in southeast portion.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
COAL CONFERENCES
OLE TILL MEM
MINES ITIIMDSTILL
s
Operators and Miners to Resume
Consideration of Pinchot
Plan on That Day
GOVERNOR~ENCOURAGED
Suspension of Mining to Be Con
tinued, However, Until After
Coming Conference
HARRISBURG, Penn., Septem
ber I.—Conferences between an
thracite operators and miners 1 rep
resentatives which reconvened
her today to resume consideration
of Governor Pinchot’s settlement
plans has adjourned until Wednes
day.
The governor expressed himself
greatly encouraged at the close of
the meeting.
Suspension of work continued
during the recess meeting, however,
and mining is at a standstill today
throughout the anthracite region.
OPTIMISTIC FEELING
IN MINE REGION
PHILADELPHIA, September 1.
There was an optimistic feeling
through the anthracite era Iregions
of Pennsylvania, that the suspen
sion of mining, which became ef
fective today, would not be long
continued.
For the second time in a year
and a half production of anthra
cite is suspended while the lead
ers of the union miners and the
representatives of the coal compa
nies struggle at Harrisburg to reach
an agreement o na new wage scale.
A year ago the miners returned
to work after five months t>f idle
ness under a contract which expir
ed last night. A year ago the min
ers wanted to contract to run to
next April but the operators insist
ed on August 31. Under the peace
proposal to end the present con
test the operators are asking for
a long term contract if they must
accede to the ten per cent wage
advance suggested by Governor
Pinchot.
Reports from the anthracite
fields indicate a total suspension,
every man and boy is Expected
to refrain from work until the dif
ferences are adjusted. So far no
company has announced its inten
tion to mi'ne coal while the union’s
suspension order is in effect.
About 155.0Q0 men and boys
are idle. The only men at w&rk
today were about four thousand
maintenance men.
FLZIIFSr DIED
SITUDDHymiMC
Boy Succumbs to Tetanus
After Desperate Illness of
5 Days—Funeral Sunday
Elza Sheppard, aged 9 years, died
this morning at li .o’clock at the
family residence, College,
street, death following at ■ illness
of five days of tetanus. •
Funeral services will be
from the home Sunday afternoAa
at 4 o’clock, and Rev. John MA
Outler, pastor of the First Meth-\
odst church, will conduct the ob- ■
sequies, with interment in Oak
Grove cemetery.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Mary Edgar Butt Sheppard, one
sister, Mrs. Mary Elza Holst, two
brothers, John Edgar Sheppard and
Fred' Shipp Sheppard.
Pallbearers will be John W
Shiver, T. M. Merritt, H. R. John
son, Edgar Shipp, J. w. Smith and
Wible Marshall.
Elza, who was a member of the
First Methodist church, was the
son of the late Mayor J. E. Shep
pard and Mrs. Mary Edgar Butt
Sheppard, who survives. He was
one .of the best known and most
universally beloved boys of the
community, earning hundreds of
tnends by his sunny disposition
and affable manner. Although
having attended school only a few
years, he was a favorite alike with
faculty and student body, and his
death has cast a deep sorrow over
the community. The bereaved
mother and family are receiving
the sympathy of affectionate
friends who are bestowing every
means of comfort in their dark
hour of sorrow.