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Newspaper Page TextN. Y. Futures: Oct. Dec. Jan. Previous Closes [25.51|25.48|25.23 Open ...... 125.75125.74125.45 11 am |'25.73|25.66|25.38 Close |26.10|26.08125.78 Spot Cotton Strict middling, 26 cents. FORTY-FIFIU YEAR—NO. 2oF 30,000 ARE DEAD OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED ffl IN IM OF MIK OF IM IS ALL SIM WITHOUT LOSS Yokohama Declared Center of Earthquake Devastated Area, Including 33 Counties NUMBER OF DEAD IS 30,000 Japanese JHome Office Announc es 100,000 Injured and 350,- 000 Homeless OSAKA, Sept. 6.—A1l money in the Bank of Japan vaults was saved front destruction in the fire w%ich followed the earthquake and tidal wave. A recapitulation of the earthquake and tidal wave. A re capitulation of the earthquake and fire area today showed Yokohama as the center, extending north and south .about 100 miles and 140 miles east and west from the city. This area included 33 counties, five large cities inhabited by 7,000,000 people. It ps also estimated that 70 per cent of the cities and towns within the stricken area were de stroped. Yokohama, according to reports here, is totally destroyed, an only about one-fourth of To kio remains. LONDON, Sept. 6. (By Asso ciated Press.) —The first official announcement of the Japanese earthquake came in the shape of a dispatch whidh the Japanese em bassy received from the governor of the perfecture of Osaka which says that the offices of the min istries of the interior, finance, edu cation and railways, the metropoli tan police headquarters and the ar senal in Tokio were burned down. The Takaiftiwa palace, the Impe rial theater and the Yuraka theater were amon gthe other buildings de stroyed in the fire. It is estimat ed that 200,000 houses were burn ed and there were 150,00 casual ties in Tokio. In Yokohama the conflagration was followed by a tidal wave and almost the entire city was devas tated. The causualties there were estimated to exceed 100,000. Ther is dire need for food and water in both cities. The message confirms the esttblihsment of mar tial law and other rigid precautions taken to maintain order. OFFICIAL STATEMENT GIVES CASUALTIES. IWAKI, Sept. 6.—The Japanese home office took the first steps to ward attempting to clear up the confusion of speculation regarding the actual number of dead and in jured in the earthquake and fire at Tokio, when it is announced that 30,000 are dead, injured 100,000, and 350,000 homeless. Colonel Samuel Reber, of New York, and Major William C. Crane, Jr., language officer at the Ameri can c...bassy, and Mrs. Crane, all previously reported as missing, are reported safe in Tokio. RIGHTING IN TOKIO STRRETS MOSCOW, Sept. 6.—Dispatches today from Harbin and Peking say Korean revolutionary elements in Japan are taking advantage of the catastrophe and have started an a£med uprising in Tokio where there is fighting in the streets. Although he announced that martial law be maintained until looting and plundering shall have been stopped, General Fukuda, in command of Tokio, denied last night that there were any acts of violence of Koreans, and that he greatly depreciated such reports of a revolution by them. tokio described • AS ‘CHARNEL HOUSE’ TOKIO, Sept. 6.—(By the Asso ciated Press.) —Yokohama is a Charnel house, the canal and water (Continued Jon Page 5.) BARRETT CREDITORS ADJOURN HEARING AUGUSTA, Sept.’ 6. Because of the illness of Frank H. Barrett, president of Barrett and company, defunct cotton factors of-this city, the meeting of creditors, held here.: Tuesday afternoon was adjourned for an indefinite period. Judge Joseph Banhal, referge in * bank ruptcy, will call the to gether for the purpose of examin ing the bankrupt as soon as Mr. , Barrett’s physical condition per-1 mits, according to his statement at the meeting. Roy Elliston/ receiver for the company, was appointed trustees, and it was agreed that his bond should remain at iJri Italian Troops Continue to Occupy Greek Islands NEW MINIMUM RATE FOR AMERICUS WATER LIGHTING SERVICE IS PANNED BE EORE CITY COUNCIL IN MEETING Service Declared by Manufac turers to Be Unsatisfactory, With Added Cost Entailed KINCEY TALKS TO BODY Explanation of Interruptions as Furnished by Company Dis counted by Official The lighting *and power t being furnished Americus over the hydro-electric line from Albany came in for a complete panning be fore city council 'faere last night, and this morning a number of man ufacturers and other large users of current added their protest against the service being rendered. The matter was brought to the at tention of council by Herbert Kin cey, manager of the Rylander Thea ter, who told council the service be ing rendered was so unsatisfactory and causes so much monetary loss he believed council should provide some relief. The statement caused an immediate discussion of the pow er interruption which tied up prac tically every industry here during nearly all of Wednesday afternoon as well as a part of the morning hgurs. Aiderman Allison thought some thing ought to be done to secure im proved service, but had no sugges tion to make as to how this should be done, which caused Mayor Poole to remark that he thought the mat ter should be taken up with the parties with whom the city has a contract. Clarence Jeter, who is employed by the city in the street department volunteered the information that he had gone to the steam plant of the lighting company here during Wed nesday afternoon and that he found when he arrived there a fireman was at work Atting up steam, and that it was just an hour and twenty minutes later when 145 pounds of steam was registered in the boilers, but thst something then prevented starting the plant. A lineman for the electric company, Jeter said, told him that the trouble was not on the (Continued on Page Six) Believe It Or Not CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. s—The body of a baby with the appearance of the fabled mermaid from the hips_ down is in a local undertaking es tablishment where physicians and medical experts have viewed it with great curiosity. / Large sums of money have been offered by professors of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and the University of Pennsylvania Med ical school who wish to acquire the little nymph-like infant for study and anatomical purposes. The head of the child is normal and perfectly proportioned and so are the hands and aims. Outwardly the upper body is not untakual, but X-ray photographs taken at the Cooper hospital revealed the infant had no spine and no ribs or hip bone. * Physicians who examined the body said there was no evidence of sex. Like the mermaid there is only one lower extremity, taperin;*- as does the tail of a fish, but without scales, to an end that has the ap pearance either of ii hand or foot. A web there connects what experts variously describe as apparently toes or little fingers. Mrs. George W. Kephart, Broad way and Roydeq street, in whose un dertaking parlor the body is, will not divulge the name o' the pa rents. The mother is seventeen and the father also is young. The child died only a minute or two after being born, Coroner Pratt, lof Camden ciunty, was summer ed by the undertaker and he asked per mission to remove the body to Cooper hospital where X-ray photo graphs were made. t The baby was the mother’s first child. , THEfHBSwKORDER IN THE Jr<C>ix HEARr OF DIXiE~j ROMS TO OPPOSE LEASE OE COAL LINE BY COAST LINE HWY, Resolution Presented by W. W. Dykes Unanimously Adopted by Club at Luncheon MIGHT HURT STATE ROAD Tennessee, Kentucky and Ala bama Coal Fields Now Throt tled by Roads, Claimed A resolution requesting the In terstate Commerce Commission at Washington to withhold its approv al of a lease to the Atlantic Coast Line Railway company of the prop erty of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway for 999 years was presented to the Rotary club at its luncheon Wednesday by Ro tarion W. W. Dykes and unani mously passed. In discussing the reason for the resolution, Mr. Dykes said: ‘‘The Atlanta Coast Line Rail way company has acquired the con trolling interest of the Louisville & Nashville Railway company and, it sems, has owned same for some time. The L. & N. Ry. Co., owns and controls the N. C. & St. L. Ry. company. _“A11 of the coal fields of Ten nessee, Kentucky and Alabama are served directely by the L. & N. Ry Co., and the N. C. & St. L. Ry. C 0.,; an.d it is the coal from all of these fields that is distributed throughout the Southeast and espe cially through Southern Georgia. The coal fields of West Virginia, located principally in the southern part of the state, are divided froth the coal fields of Eastern Ken tucky only by a range of moun tains, through which no has as yet traversed. “The coal fields of West Vir ginia, so far as any benefit in sures to the South and Southeast is concerned, are served by the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Rail road company, which runs north from Spartanburg, S. C., on up to Elkton,, W. Va. At Spartanburg it connects with, the C. & W. C. to and there connects with th® Seaboard Air Line Ry Co. making pot only a direct route to the Southeastern states and South Georgia, but at present creates strong competition with the roads above named in the handling of this coal. ‘’The Atlantic Coast Line Rail way company has succeeded in reaching an agreement with the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Rail road company for a 999 years lease of this road, which of course would be equivalent to a purchase of the property. This lease before be coming effective has to be approv ed by the Interstate Commerce Comniission. If approved, the A. C. L. Ry. company will have .con trol; and with the other lines stat (Continued on Page Two.) TERRELL POULTRY MEN 'TO PUT IN HATCHERY DAWSON, Sept. 6—At a meeting of poultry raisers of Terrell county in the courthouse here plans were made for purchasing a community* hatchery, which would mean a for ward step in the poultry industry in this section. Mr. Taggert, of Cleveland, 0., representative of a firm that manu factures incubators, was present and explained in detail the process of in cubating baby chicks and the profits that can be realized from a modern incubator when operated co-operat ively by the same community. Dr } L. Lamar was elected tem porary president of the. local organi zation and presided over the meet ing. Mrs. W. H. Gurr, county home economics agent, explained differ ent phases of poultry raising in a falk that was very interesting and helpful to all present. Mr. Tracy Walker, of Shellman, who attends the state college of agriculture, .talked for a few minutes on the poultry industry aS taught in the college and the possibilities of a community hatchery fit the county. AMERICUS, GA.. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 6, 1923 fIOUSISORTHOTEL AT NARRAGANSETT IS DESTROYED BY EIRE Two Hundred Guests Escape From Burning Structure, All Scantily Clad LOSS ESTIMATED $500,000 Massasoit Hotel, Located Nearby Also Afire, But Structure Is Saved NARAGANSET, R. L, Sept. 6. The Imperial hotel was destroyed by fire early this morning, the 200 guests escaping from the building scantily clad. The loss is estimat ed at $500,000. The Massasoit hotel, a structure near the fire, also caught from fly ing debris, but was saved. POWER ll® ASSERT SERVIGf ME COSTLY Reduction in Rates Docs Not Ccmpt nsate For Losses In currec , Say Americus Men Americt s power users, including a number ol manufacturing plants lo cated her , today told The Times- Recorder now being fur nished by the South Georgia l üb lic Utilities Company is wholly un satisfactory and that the reduction in rates allowed with the installa tion of hydro-electric current does not compensate for losses since sus tained because of interruptions in power Service. L. L. McCleskey, of the Americus Oil Compqny, said this morning that the gins of that concern were stopped practically all afternoon Wednesday with forty or more farm ers in the company’s gin yards waiting for their cotton to be han dled. This necessitated, he said, the loss of almost an entire day to the farmers. Every effort was made, Mr. McCleskey said, to locate the trouble through officials of the lighting company, but this seemed impossible. He is of the opinion that existing rates here justify the com pany keeping boilers warm in order to provide adequate auxiliary service should this be ifecessary through a failure of hydro-electric service at any time, especially during the busy season. W. M. Riley, speaking for the Farmers Oil Mill, said they had ex perienced trouble Wednesday in the operation of their gin plant, but be lieved the trouble was now past and that there would be no further seri ous interruptions in the electric ser vice. Everett of the Schnei der Marble Co., said that there had been numerous interruptions in ser vice at his plant since the introduc tion of hydro-electric power here, but he was upnable to indicate where 'he thought the trouble lies. His plant, however, had been seri ously handicapped,, he said, with fi nancial loss entailed as the result of high priced labor standing idle while current was not supplied. He -said he had rather pay the old rates and get the same service as supplied by'the steam plant during the last few months it was used than have continued interruption in service at existing fates for hydro-electric ser vice. C. J. Clarke said his machines have been stopped frequently’since the introduction of hydro-electric power, and that the service now was not as good as when the steam plant was used here. “Labor standing idle while these current interruptions continue,’’ said Mr. Clarke, “have cost me a good deal of money.” Delayed delivery of.. The Times- Rucorder in Americus Wednesday afternoon and the fact that many out-of-town subscribers failed to re ceive their papers on time was due to continued interruptions in the service throughout the day, neces sitating the shutting down of lino types and other machines used in producing the paper. Herbert Kincey, manager of The Rylander Theater stated his enter prise sustains a considerable loss every time the current goes off as was the case Wednesday- afternoon. __ (Continued on Rage 5.) MAKING FINAL CHECK IN CAMPAIGN AGAINST MALARIA IN AMERICUS Forty Houses Being Inspected Daily With Full Record for Year Kept by Chambliss THIS DANGEROUS SEASON Malaria and Mosquitoes More Prevalent Now Than Earlier Summer Authorities Say Inspectors working under direc tion of the City Board of Health are making their final sanitation check of Americus premises this week, acc >rdir>g to Dr. J. W. Cham bliss. Since the beginning of the work here the entire area of Amer icus has been thoroughly organized, Dr. Chambliss stated today, and the health authorities nyw have a complete record showing the name and address of every householder in the city who is co-operating with the boavd in the effort to elimi nate malaria. The names ■of those who have failed in this respect are also on file in the office of Dr. Chambliss and each detail in which any householder has proven delin quent during the campaigti is also known. In the compilation of the health department records entries were made of the location of every sur face closet in Americus, whether or not there is a bath tub or sink on inidcated premises not connected with sanitary sewerage system; whether weeds, trash, Unused rub bish, cans or vessels are allowed on indicated premises; whether or not indicated houses are screened adn where owners have co-operated or’ neglected their duty in inspect ing premises during the mosquito elimination campaign. Dr. Chambliss states that now is the most dangerous season of the year for malaria, with the disease more prevalent, perhaps, than dur ing any other season, and the clos est possible inspection of premises should be made at this time. “Where vessels are merely emptied without being allowed to become entirely dry, and where the interior of such vessels are not washed out by householders, ’ says Dr. Cham bliss,” there exists a danger that mosquitoes may be propagated.” This statement was made, he ex plained, to satisfy certain house holders who have reported the find ing of mosquito breeding places at periods less than a week apart.' Wherever this is discovered, Dr. Chambliss states, it is due to the failure of somebody «io properly clean all larvae out of the water when emptying vessels. This is par ticularly to be guarded against in the Ilße of horse troughs, where millions of mosquitoes may be bred unintentionally through failure to attend to this very important fea ture of the elimination. TEH KILLED. IS MT IN RAIL ACCIDENT Berlin-Amsterdam and Drtesden ‘ Amsterdam Trains Crash Near Idjanover BERLIN, Sept. 6.—Ten were killed and 15 injured in a collision between the Berlin-Am sterdam express train and the Dres den-Amsterdam train near Han over. Two coaches of the latter tr; tin were demolished. COMMISSIONERS FIX TAXES AT MAXIMUM DAWSON, Sept. 6—All the tax levies for 1923 have been fixed, and again all are at the maximum amount permitted by law. At their meeting here 1 the county commissioners fixed the rate for property owners in Terrell this year at S2O on the thousand. Os this sls is to pay the operating expenses of the county, and $5 for the sup port of the schools of the county. The taxable property of the coun ty is returned at $4,351,000 and at 20 mills approximately $83,500 will be paid by property owners for local purposes. _ . ; COUNCIL Id BOOST WJTffl RENTS 10 OF EFFECTIVE IT ONCE Expect to Add Approximately SIBOO to City’s Revenue An nually From This Source SMALL PROFIT IS SHOWN Alderman Mize Moves to Put Minimum at $3.00 and Council Agrees Water rates in Americus are to be boosted with the raise in price made effective with the next water bills sent out. This was decided last night when council heard > certain figures prepared by City Engineer Charles Wheatley and read by Ai derman Carswell of the water and lights committee. These figures showed that during the period from January to Sep tember the plant here ha dpumped a total of 160 million gallons of wa ter at a cost of $16,755.00, with re ceipts during the same period of $17,429.25, or at a profit of some acterized as insufficient to provide thing like S7OO. This sum was char needed amortization on the machin ery used in producing the water supply and it was also said that dur ing former years the water depart ment had shown an annual profit of from $5,000 to $6,000. Mayor Poole here stated that the profit said to have peen shown in past years was a ? ‘paper profit” rather than an actual earning and that this was shown throgh meth ods of bookkeeping employed by J. B. Ansley, when he was city engi neer. The profit was shown, he said through charging the city with the rental of fire hydrant* and city de partments with water used, as well as the furnishing of current for lighting the city hall and similar ser vice that is not now charged for by the water department under the present system of bookkeeping. Aiderman Carswell said in view of the close margin,between receipts and operating expenditures, it might be necessary to increase water rates and this, apparently, was the 1 signal for a general expression of senti ment favorable to boosting rates. Aiderman Allison said he thought it might be best to raise rates, but that a great many people would be affected by the boost and it might be best to wait until the people had time to express themselves thereon. He believed that the figures shown by the water department indicated a loss in the operation of the water works. Aiderman Carswell said he had not presented the figures with any purpose to have the water rates raised, but to keep council informed, adding, however, that with the in stallation of a new 45 boiler and a small generator the city could easily furnish electric current to the citi zens. He thought this ought to be done, as then Americus would be abl> to compete with other cities having cheap power and until this is done, Americus could not hope to make real progress. Aiderman Mize said he didn’t see any reason for following along with the question and moved that the minimum rates for water hereafter be fixed at $3.00, instead of $2,115, as at present. Aiderman Mitchell said he didn’t think a raise neces sary just now, and it was said that the department is now giving away lots of v?ater, but tjjis point was not pressed. Mayor Poole objected to raising only the minimum, as this would af fect only the small water consum ers, while he thought the larger us ers of water should pay a just pro portion of the contemplated increase in rates. After some discussion it was agreed that the matter be re ferred to a committee with the agreement that the minimum be placed at $3.00 a quarter and Mhe larger .onsumers taxed in propor tion to the boosted price put upon the minimum consumers. The committee to which the Tnat ter was referred was instructed to notify the water committee of what percentage increase is to be put upon water consumers who use more than the minimum in time to have this appear on bills to be mailed out October 1, it being agreed that whatever action is taken by the committee be ratified by the coun cil at its next regular meeting. ■ WEATHER For Georgia: Fair tonight; Friday partly cluody with local thunder- I showers; no change in terrtperature. j ■ PRICE FIVE CENTS GREEK f LEET ORDERED TO mm CONTACT WITH ITALIAN SHIPS Two of Alleged Assassins of Ital ian Commissioners Arrested at Janina MORE ISLANDS OCCUPIED Malera, Fane and Mathraki, All Northwest of Corfu, Seized * By Italian Forces ATHENS, Sept. 6.—The Greek fleet has been ordered to retire to the Gulf of Volo to avoid con tact with the Italian fleet, it is learned on good authority today. ITALIANS CONTINUE TO OCCUPY ISLANDS LONDON, Sept. 6. Central news dispatch from Rome says that reports are current there that Ital ian forces have occupied the is lands of Merlera, Fane, and Math raki, situated northwest from Cor fu. MANY SUSPECTS PUT UNDER ARREST MILAN, Sept. 6. Peopolo Italia, the organ of Premier Musso lini, has received a dispatch from Trieste stating that telegrams from various, sources confirm the news that the Greek government is on the track of the assassins of the Italian mission. Many suspects have been arrest ed at- Janina, and also along the Greco-Albanian frontier, among whom are two of the assassins. Au thorities are hunting the others and express the hope that they wiM be (shortly arrested. nehSWlh ORDINANCE ADOPTED Lot Owners Klay Now Empty Their Own Urns by Written Permission of Keeper City council at its session last night formlaly adopted a new or- . dinance governing the emptying of urns used about graves in the ceme tery here. The ordinance, which was adopt ed at the suggestion of certain persons owning lots in the ceme tery, permits such lot owners to empty their Iwn urns, provided this be donei on Wednesday of each week, and provided further that be fore doing, this they shall secure written permission from the ceme tery keeper to care for their own urns.' ; Upon the‘failure of any lot own er to empjy his or her urn after being given permission to do so, or upon the finding of any mosquito larvae in any urn on such lots.then the cemetery keener is charged with the duty of making a case against such offender, and the re corder is authorized to impose a fine for such neglect. . In addition to permitting lot owners to empty their own urns, the ordinance as adopted, prescrib ed certain''restriction in the size and construction of urns, it being unlawful now to place any urn in the cemetery which cannot be easi ly emptied by one person except that such urn be equipped with copper or other metal container which must be removable to permit the emptying of such urns and the washing of the container therein to prevent incubation of mosqui toes there. oocWhlses FIGHT FOR PAROLE ATLLANTA, Sept. 6.—Paroles in six murder cases, one in the . Earson case, was today granted by Governor Walker, who at the same time denied seven other ap plications for clemency. Those pa roled included Bertha Terrell, of Chattooga county; Zack King, of Worth county; Emma Wimms, of Turner county.; John McKinley, of Meriwether—county; Sid Hearn, of Heard county; Walter Odum, of Thomas county; F. W. Alums, of Coweta county. Those denied included John Chaney, sentenced for murder, Crisp county, and Sam Duckworth, murder, Sumter county.