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FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 199
WAR CLOUDS GATHERING
QUAKE DISASTER IN EAST GREASTEST KNOWN
JAPANESE ROYAL
COUPLE KILLED
Tremendous Losses Sustained, With List of Dead
Piling Up Rapidly—Flames Continue Eating
Heart Out of Great Japanese Cities
( By Associated Press)
Tcdcio and Yokohama continued to burn today, advices say.
Casualties reported have reached 100,000, one report giving that
figure for Yokohama alone.
Prince Yamashina and Princess Kaya are reported among the
dead.
An aviator from Osaka, who flew over the stricken district,
paid the imperial palace is only partially damaged, But Tbkio it
self is devastated except in a few sections, with nearly all the con
crete buildings having collapsed. Fukagara is flooded by a tidal
wave.
The aviator also reported that it is impossible to fly low
enough for observation purposes because of the intensity of the
flames. He saw soldiers destroying with bombs all standing build
ings in the path of the flames.
Relief agencies have moved to assist the stricken population,
and Great Britain and the Ignited States have ordered thejj war
ships to gp to the scene of the disaster.
The terrible disaster has spread over Yokosuka, Nagoya,
Sasake, Osaka, Ito, Hakone, Kamakura, Onispima, Ospima and
Udav- ara. AH these are included in the cities of the dead.
Tokio is under martial law. No- -
body is admitted into the city unless
they have their own provisions. Ni
honbashi ward is virtually annihi
lated.
The wards of Kokugikwan and
Honjo were destroyed. There was a
large amphitheater at Kokugikwan
where' wrestling matches were -held.
It is estimated 1,400 houses were de
stroyed in Yokohama.
Immediately after the earthquake
fire broke out in Tokio in about
twenty places simultaneously and
spread over the wards of Honjo ai
* oFukagowa, Asakusa, Nihonbashi,
Ushigome, Akasaka, Kojimachi and
Shiba. There is a safety zone in
z parts of the wards of Ushigome,
Koishikawa, Yotusuya, Azuba, Kon
go and north of there.
Reports indicate the marine corps
station at Yokosutka has been an
nihilated and ships there are strand
ed. Yokosutka is a town 'of 70,000
and had numerous government
buildings including a naval hospital,
naval arsenal, naval engineering col
lege, torpedo hea arters and a
ship yard. It is 12 mil.es south of
Yokohama.
Among the buildings burned in
Tokio are the army arsenal, the
military academy, the Ushigome,
Metropolitan police station, the Im
perial theater, the home office build
ing at the finance department build
ing, the government printing bu-
Hea.U and the Imperial university.
The prince regent Las taken ref
uge in the Imperial sanctuary. All
six bridges over the Sumida river,
which divides Tokio, were reported
collapsed. Knoshima, the picturesque
. island in Kamaskura district, 'was
submerged. The’ volcano on the is
land of Oshi ma is continuing to
send up smoke.
AMERICAN DESTROYERS
RUSHING TO SCENE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Ad
miral Andersun, /:omm ( anding the
American Asiatic fleet, reported to
the navy department today by wire
less that seven American destroy
ers had left Port Arthur for Jap
anese ports to assist in the relief
of the stricken population.
‘FOOTS’ JOHNSON TO
PLAY WITH DUVAL HIGH
“Foots” Johnson, Americus lad
who now resides at Jacksonville,
Fla., is visiting his parents here and
will be here several days. He was a
junior at Americus High School.
wh>ch institution he attended until
a year ago when he went to Jackson
ville to accept a position there. This
winter he will be a student at Du
val High school, he stated today, and
athletic authorities there have asked
him to try for the football squad.
He is a trained athletd and in good
’condition and this morning express
ed confidence that he would make
the team.
GEORGIA BANKERS TO
ASSIST PEANUT MEN
ALBANY, , Sept. 3—Georgia
bankers have promised to assist pea
nut planters of the state ns a result
of the meeting of the Georgia Pea
nut Growers! Association here re
cently, it has been announced, _
SUMTEffiCHDOLSSEtK
FAPT OFEUTEf!FUffI
Dr. Dillard Asked Appropriate
Portion of Founclat.on tn
Support Schools Here
Sunrfbr’s rural schools, recogniz
ed aS already among the best in
Georgia, are to be further improv
ed, if plans of the county school
board to this end are niatured.
Chairman J. E. D. Shipp is now en
deavoring to secure xrn apportion
ment of. the ‘‘Slater fund’’ to the
support or rather enlargement of
the rural schools here, and to this
end has just addressed a letter to
Dr. James H. Dillard, of Charlottes
ville, Va.; who is in charge of ad
ministering the fund, representing
a permanent one from which schools
throughout the South are assitsed
in sufh work as may be approved
by the adnfinistrator.
In his letter to Dr. Dillard, Chair
man Shipp calls attention to the
fact that the schools here are main
tained at the very highest stand
ard, with consolidation the rule
rather than an exception, thus
providing a high school education
for every child in_the county, and
transportation from farm homes to
the consolidated schools established
in the several communities. Ex
plaining to Dr. Dillard the prog
ress already attained by Sumter’s
schools, Chairman Shipp after seU
ting forth the needs of the schools,
extends Dr. Dillard an invitation to
personally visit the schools here,
and pleads that the here be
allowed to share in the funds which
he has to administer.
Chairman Shipp today declared
the schools here to be the equal
of any in Georgia, and asserted
that only because of the large sums
expended in the construction of i
new and modern school houses is i
the burden of their maintenanfce I
and expansion to be complained of.
Six qualification are necessary be
fore any teacher cart secure a place
in Sumter’s schools, said Chairman
Shipp, these being:
(1) Every teacher must be a
Normal college graduate. (2) All
schools hold seven hours each day.
(3) The superintendent of each
school must teach all of his teach
ers under Trim every week, at least
40 minutes* (4) Quarterly exami
nations are given by the county
school superintendent to all
of the county schools, in order to
maintain a co-ordination and uni
i form grading for all the schools
J here. (5) A prize of five hundred
dollars is given every year to the
-best school, in the county making
the highest average on all points.
(6) Every school in the county
must challenge some other school
,for a spelling.bee and a debate.
“On account of the fact that
we have built so many school
houses and have changed all the
schools from seven months to nine
months in the year cause the coun
ty to be very hard up and taxed
very heavily. Perhaps ao county in
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THE TIMESftRECORDER
PUBLIC HEP IN THE /OjmC hEART OF DlXiE“~frfrft? |
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BETTER OFF THAN W
OJMWBLOffIra
Employers and Workers Both
Moving Steadily Forward,
Secretary Davis Says
WAGES GENERALLY HIGH 1
Abroad Unemployment Is Rule
With Many Workers Earning.
Only Subsistence Wage
‘BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 3.-Z
Both workman and employer are j
better off in America than any- (
where in the world today and while .
everywhere else there is political
and economic chaos, it is only in
this banner of industrial peace and
prosperity, James J. Davis, secre
tary of labor, declared today in a (
Labor* Day Address here.
Abroad unemployment is ‘the ‘
rule, he said, and wagg,s are low, <
many workers being paid a mere
subssisterice wage, while in Amer-1
ica wages generally are as high as (
they have ever been and every;
workman who is willing arxL able
to work has the opportunity to fill
a job. The secretary, who recent- |
ly returned from a trip to Europe, I
asserted he is niore and more con
vinced “of the wisdom of the con-,
viciion of our late President, War- .
ren G. Harding, in his belief that
the hope of the world lies in this
country.” \
“Both through the envelope
and through various Systems of
profit sharing,” Mr. Davis said,
“Many industries are reaching that ,
condition of an equitable division
of the proceeds of production be- .
tween the*men who manage labor
and the men whose labor makes in
dustry possible. On this basis alone ,
can we insure permanent progress
and growing prosperity.”
This Labor Day, the secretary
said, finds the working men and
woi-'icn' of America at the close ol
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MARKET CONDITIONS
VERY SATISFACTORY
NEW YORK, Sent. —Henry
Clews & Co., in their review of mar
kets and financial conditions issued
today, say there has been a very
satisfactory condition of underlying
strength in the market throughout
the past week. During the last few
days of the vacation season no very
great increase in activity was to be
expected, yet the volume of busi
ness has been substantial. The pub
lic has remained relatively apathet
ic; yet, considering the various fac
tors which have operated to restrict
trading, the general list has contin-.
ued to give a good account of itself.
The turn for the better has no doubt
arrived in the business situation,
and the market is in process of dis
counting it. T» be sure, some stocks
have enjoyed a substantial rally
from the June lows; nevertheless, it
i>; becoming daily’ mpre apparent
that the floating supply of most
Stocks is not large and it is easier tc
sell them than to buy.
SECTION ABOUT DOERUN
MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
DOERUN, Sept. 3X—Tfce section
of Georgia immediately surround
ing Doerun is making rapid prog
ress in the development of the dairy
business, according to local offi
cials. Six cars of fine milch cows
have been sold to farmers here re
cently and two more are scheduled
to be received, this week.
BOBBIE JONES CHANGES
HIS PUTTING STANCE
ATLANTA, Sept. 3—Bobbie
Jones, national open golf champion,
now preparing to enter the tourna
ment at Chicago in quest of the am
ateur title, has made a distinct
change in his putting stance and
stroke and an improvement has been
noted, according to a golf writer in
The Atlanta'Journal.
LAURENS EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE TO MEET
DUBLIN, Sent. 3—A meeting of
the Laurens county democratic ex
executive committee has been called
fa- September 4 to fix a (late for the
j * gular primary.
AMERICUS, GA.. MONDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 3, 1923
SCION OFJEAUI
FAMILY-DROWNED ft!
GREENWICH TODAY
Angier B. Duke, Son of Famous
Tobacco Manufacturer, Goes
Down in Surf
PLEASURE BOAT CAPSIZED
Was Member of a Pleasure Party
-i—Details of Accident Not
Yet Ascertained
GREENWICH, Conn., 3.—-
Angier B. Duke, son of Benjamin
Duke, tobacco manufacturer, was
drowned today when a small- boat
in which he was taking a pleasure
row uset.
Mr. Duke was a member of a
pleasure party which left Green
wich early today and had gone out
to enjoy a few hours’ boating, the
surf being very calm. Details of
the pcicdent have not yit reached
Greenwich, iipr has the faddy been
recovered,
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OFIMMBIM
Both Students at Jyhns-Hopkins
Medical School and Plan
to Finish Course There
BALTIMORE, Sept. 3. Dr.
Worth Bagley Daniels, son of the
formef Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Daniels, and Miss Jose
phine January, daughter of Mrs.
•Harry Churchill January, of St.
LoUis, were married this afternoon.
The couple were students of
Johns Hopkins medical school, and
members of the same class, ‘and
they plan to finish their courses
before quitting school.
ATHLETICS AT BENNING
BE MANAGED DIFFERENT
FORT BENNING, Sept. 3.—Ath
letics at the fort will be managed
differently this year and Captain
John (Jake) Zellars is to be reliev
ed of his duties with the military
police to assume the position of
manager of the football and base
ball and basketball teams, accord
ing to announcement. Other ath
letic instructors are to retain their
i places and determined drive will
be started to send 'out' winning
teams. /
OCCASIONAL SHOWERS
INDICATED FOR WEEK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3
The weather outlook fori the period
September 3 to September 87 1923,
inclusive for the South Atlantic and
East Gulf States is: Normal temper
atures, considerable cloudiness and
occasional showers are indicated tor
the week.
DISTRICT COURT AT'
' MACON STARTS SOON
MACON, Sept. 3—Fedefal dis
trict court will begin its regular
term the first week, in October and
continue three weeks, F/ G. Boat
wright, district attorney, has an
nounced. If’ necessary to complete
the criminal docket, a fourth week
will it was stated. The third
week will be devoted to civil cases.
COLUMBUS HIGH STARTS
GRIDIRON PREPARATIONS
COLUMBUS, Sept. 3—Prepara
tions for the 1923 *gridiron season
already have been started by the
Columbus High School eleven.
Coach Clyde Chestnutt’s first trum
pet call was answered Friday night,
when candidates for the team met
to discuss plans for the season. A
two weeks’ camp will be held nt
Warm Springs and at the end of this
period work will begin in earnest.
CIVITANS OFFER TO AID
SHERIFF AT MACON
MACON, Sept. 3—Members of
the Civitan Club have offered their
support to the sheriff of Bibb coun
ty co check mob outbreaks in the
city. A series of floggings caused
the sheriff to appeal to civic organ
ization for co-operation!
1300 PASSENGERS ARE
TAKEN OFF STRANDED
STEAMER£BATH JE.
City of Rockland Stranded on
Reef There With Two Jagged
Holes in Hull
REFUGEES AT DIX ISLAND
Given Temporary Shelter in Cot
tages They Will Resume
Journey by Rail
BATH, Me., Sept. 3. Three
hundred passengers were taken in
boats from the stranded steamer
City of Rockland early today to
Dix Island and given shelter on
the island in cottages while await
ing the arrival of another steamer
to take them back to Bath, whence
they planned to resume their jour
ney to Boston by train.
The steamer struck a reef and
sustained two jagged holes, in the
ship’s hull. Despite a heavy fog,
the passengers were removed safe
ly. |
ROSH HASHANAH TB BE
OBSERVED BY GA. JEWS
Jewish New Year Next Monday,
Sept. 10, Marks Beginning of
Religious Year Only
The Jewish New Year or Rosh
Hashanah will be celebrated in all
Jewish places of worship on Mon
day evening, September 10, and op
Tuesday morning, September 11.
Among the mora ritualistic New
Year is two days. Rosh Ha
shanah marks the beginning of a
new year in a religious sense only.
It must therefore not be confound
ed with the secular New Year since
it is a day not to mark time but to
register anew high resolves of duty
toward God and man.
Legend makes this the 56884th
year since the creation of the world.
Os greater importance * than this
myth is the quaint interpretation of
the New Year day by the rabbis who
utilized the conception of the crea
tion of the world to remind m?n
and women thft this New Year
marked the anniversary of the cre
ation of the human being and was
therefore the birthday of all man
kind.
SMITH TELLS HOW TO
KILL RATTLESNAKES
TIFTON, Sept. 3.—A. B. Smith,
of the Waterloo section ,of Tift
county, says that the way to kill
rattlesnakes is to return to a place
where you have killed one on suc
ceeding days, as you will be apt
to find others there if there are
any mote in that section. One day
recently killed' a big rattler and
the next day in the same place he
killed eleven young rattlers. On
the following days he; went back
again and killed six more. He
thinks this plan will soon extermi
nate all of the rattlers.
TWO KILLED DURING
ROOMING HOUSE FIGHT
MADISON, Sept. 3.—-Two men
were killed and two wounded in a
fight in a rooming house here. Ong
man takpn/from the house has not
been identified, while another was
found se feral nlil<s away only,
partly identified'.
PREPARATIONS FOR PROBE
ARE NEARING COMPLETION
‘ ATLANTA, Sept. 3.—-Prepara
tions for the investigation of the
state agricultural department by a
special legislative committee are be
ing completed by officials. The
inquiry is scheduled to start Sep
tember 17. ■'
MACON GREEKS RELIEVE
ITALY IS UNREASONABLE
MACON, Sept. 3—Macon Greeks,
commenting on the crisis between
their country and Italy, are of the
opinion the Italian demands have
been unreasonable and that Greece
lias shown itself willing to settle
the matter in a proper manner,
IBRITIAN WILL GO
LIMIT IN LEAGUE
Action of Italy in Refusing to Accept Arbitratoin
of League of Nations Spurs Empire Authori-
• ties to Assume a Vigorous Attitude
( By Associated Press)
GENEVA, Sept. 3.—Dr. Comes de la Torriehto Peraza,
of Cuba, was today elected president of the assembly ,of the.
League of Nations.
LONDON, 3—Great Britain will go to the limit in sup
porting the covenant with the League of Nations in the Greco-ltal
lan imbroglio, it was stated here today in authoritative circles. Dis
cussion here of the situation in the meanwhile is withheld. It is con
tended that should the League of Nations fail in its pacificatory
measures, then it will be time for Great Britain to act.
A grave aspect of the situation is the Italian determination,
expressed beforehand, to to recognize the status of the
League of Nations in the affair or respect its decisions.
The English leading writers have found consolation, in com
menting on the dispute, in the consideration that in 19 I 4 no inter
national tribunal, such as the League of Nations or council of am
bassadors existed to which the Austro-Serbian dispute might have
been submitted with some hope of avoiding war. This hope will,
they say, be shattered if Italy refuses to recognize the league.
Both Greek and Italian governments are energetically occu
pying themselves in placing their respective cases before the world.
The Italian press does not hesitate to impute criminal motives to
Greece. The Greek government* on its side, is eagerly offering to
si|bmit the question of responsibility for the Janina murders to an
international tribunal and abide by any decision and pay the com
pensation such tribunal decrees.
VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS
STAGED AT ATHENS
ATHENS, Sept. 3—-Violent demonstrations against Italy took
place after solemn funeral services had been held at the Catholic
Cathedral over the victims of the Corftk bombtydment. The crowd
burned the Italian flag and attacked the Italian legation.;
Quiet prevailed over the remainder of the Hellenic kingdom,
including the Island of Corfu. *
The Italian government has denied that it is occupying the
Island of Samos, Jjjiit neither confirmed nor denied reports of its
holding the lonian islands of Paxon, Antipaxon and Cephaionia.
FRENCH MAINTAIN *
DISCREET SILENCE
PARIS, Sept. 3.—French -offi
cials circles continues discreet si
lence regarding the Greco-Italian
dispute. Unofficial inclination,
however, appears to be that -France
would much rather have the ques
tion left to the council of ambas
sadors rather than to the League
of Nations.
This line of thought points out
Italy’s repeated disavowal that she
committed an act of war, therefore,
the question is manifestly not one
for the league. The responsibility
for the murders of the Italian com
missioners and Greece’s atonement
may be best handled by ambassa
dors, it is said|
ITALIANS NOT TO .
HEAR DISCUSSIONS
LONDON, Sept. 3.—Reuter says
it understands the Italian govern
ment has instructed its representa
tive at the League of Nations to ab
stain from further discussions in>
the Greco-Italian dispute.
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ITALY WON’T ACCEPT
DECISION OF LEAGUE
ATHENS, Sppt. 3.—Signor Mon
tagna, the Italian minister, on be
half of the Italian government this
afternoon informed Foreign Min-'
ister Alexandris that Italy will re- I
fuse to recognize the decision of,
the League of Nations in the pres-|
ent controversy between Italy and
Greece.
AMERICANS AT CORFU
REPORTED SAFE
NEW YORK, Sept. 3—Near East
Relief authorities were informed
today that American relief workers
at Corfu are all safe. The mes
sage bringing this information came
from Athens. Details were lack
ing, the message added, as all com
munications were severed immedi
ately after the bombardment.
\ Among the relief workers at Cor
fu, in addition to those previously
announced are Grape Blackwell, of
Mons-. Clair, N. J., and Leila Priets
of Detroit.
WARE COUNTY POLICE f
IS UNDER HEAVY BOND
Sept. 3. The
charges preferred against Gordon
Crowley, former chief of Lowndes
county police, for selling stolen to
bacco in the Pierce county mar
kets at Blackshear several days ago,
will stand after a preliminary trial
in Valdotsa Wednesday afternoon.
The outcome of the trial was that
Crowley’s bond was raised from
SI,OOO to $2,Q00. Other charges
of prohibition violations and impli
cation in an automobile plot stand
against th<; former police officer,
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WEATHER
Labor Day. No forecast sent out. ?
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’RICE FIVE CENTS
FWffIfELLOK
EIWIM MEETS
The district Odd Fellows conven
tion of this, the Third Georgia dis
trict, met here this morning 'and
will be in session again this after
noon and tonight.
There are about twenty-five dele
gates .Tiere to attend the meeting,
including A. Brown, of
Griffin. Others who are here for the
gathering are J. W. JSoode and P. L.
Goode, of Bronwood; J. W. Single
ton and J. L. Phillips, of Manches
ter, and O. F. Taylor, George Bon
ner, Homer Barnes, C. E. Mitchell,
W. C. Mitchell, J. B. Brown, J. D.
Faulkner, Cam'- Williams, Leroy
Lewis, T. W. Cumby, Warner How
ard, Curtis Burnham, R. C. Russell,
J. F. Casteel, J. w/Lampkin, J. L.
Brown, C. B. Sprouse and A. M. Ja
cobs. . »
The first session of the convention
was held this morning at' ten o’clock
in the hall of the city building, with
C. B. Pouncey, district deputy grand
master presiding, and a full attend
' ance of delegates who had arrived
: up to that hour. A number of grand
I lodge pfficers who are coming to at
, tend the convention had not reached
i Americus early this afternoon, due
to the condition of the roads.
Among the distinguished C|dd Fel
lows here for the meeting is “Bull”
Brown, who is Jooked upon as one of
the best known of Georgia Odd Fel
lows, as w p ll as the greatest talker
within the bounds of the order. i
HEAVY TRUCK CRUSHES
LIGHT ROAD BRIDGE
VALDOSTA, Sept. 3.—The big
lumber truck of Robert Barfield
cut the flooring of a bridge across
a branch a mile west of Hahira
a day or two ago. The truck did
not go through, but four men were
1 skinned up and bruised by falling
from it when one wheel went
through. Repairs are to be made
on the bridge at once. The trou
ble seemed to be that the bridge
* was not nffide for such heavy ve
hicles. ' .
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; COTTON CROP DECLARED
TOTAL LOSS AT WAYCROSS
WAYCROSS, Sept. 3.—Farmers’
, statements are to the effect that
I cotton is sprouting in the bolls and
. that the bolls are falling on the
t ground. It is an almost certainty,
i according to , statements, that the
s crop is a total loss and that the
- only money that will be realized
1 front cotton is that which has al
ready been made, _ w