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N. Y. Oct. Dec. Jan. Previous Close ..'25.05j25.02|24.75 Open [24.38124.28|23.95 U am |24.44j24.37|24.01 Close —|25.05)25.02 24.75 Spot Cotton Strict middling 25 1-8. 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. wSmPT. ffIICIILTUIKPT.H 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, thetimesßrecorder [gdrPUßLfsHfebjN dr DI><IE j 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 T 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. lottlHm n mrmew 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 i jfciM I,BBSS I Bw I . ' il JI <■- M Ogi 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.