About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1923)
N. Y. Futures—Oct. Dee. Jan. Previous Close .. '26.54'26.37 26.08 Open [26.90126.80126.45 11 a.m [26.87|26.69|26.34 Close [27.60:27.40|27.00 Americus Snot Cotton Strict Middling 27 l-2c FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 204 COTTON FUTURES VALUES RISING RAPIDLY Italy’s Original Demands Are Approved by Allies COUNCIL APPROVES DEMOS Os GIL! WITH ONE EXCEPTION Greeks to Be Required to Salute Flags of Three Allied Nations INDEMNITY IS LEFT OPEN Deposit of 50,000,000 Lire in Swiss Bank to Be Required as Pledge of Good Faith PARIS, Sept. B.—Proposals con tained in a note which the inter allied ambassadors has sent to Greece are virtually identical with those of the original ultimatum, has been dispatched to Athens by Premier Mussolini. All penalties the cuoncil would, impose are a conformity to the Italian demands, except that the Hellenic fleet shall salute the flags of 'the three allied nations instead of Italy’s ajorip, and that the highest’Greek military authority shall present his govern ment’s regrets of the Janina mur ders to the three allied diplomatic representatives at Athens. The amount of the indemnity which Greece must pay Italy is to be left to the international court of justice to decide, but the gov ernment of Greece is required to deposit immediately fi'Jty m/.lilion lire irt a Swiss bank to insure good faith upon its part. GREECE TO ACCEPT IF ITALY QUITS ISLANDS GENEVA, Sept. B.—ls Italy ac cepts the proposals framed in Paris by the inter-allied council of am bassadors, Greece will vire the dis pute with Italy as settled, Signor Politis, Greek sportsman before the League of Nations, said today. A-c by Greece, however, is continuel upon certain terms provid ing for the evacuation of Corfu and other Greek islands now ocpu-i pied by Italian forces. FIFTY TEACHERS AT * MEETING HERE IODAY Fifty teachers representing rural schools in all parts of Sumter coun ty, met in the office of County School Superintendent E. W. Dupree foi the first monthly institute, when the work for the school year, just begun, was discussed. Another matter ;of interest brought up by the teachers was the matter of co-operating with the Chamber of Commerce here in stag ingl the annual Sumter County Fair in Americus, Sept. 25-29 The fair was discussed by many of those pres ent, and it was unanimously agreed to have every school in the county represented, after R. C. Moran, rpefking for the Chamber of Com merce committee, had explained to those present the plan upon which it is pi oposcd to conduct the fair. At the .conclusion of their meet ing, which was one of the most en thusiastic ever held by the teachers, 411 of those present were guests at luncheon served at the Sign of the Pine Tea Room. CARROLLTON TO GET NEW KNITTING MILL CARROLLTON. Sept. B.—New nan capitalists have closed rt con tract with represntatives of the J. T. Bradley estate, for a five-year lease on the Bradley Warehouse here, a large -brick building, in which they purpose installing a knitting mill. Local contractors have been awarded the contract for remodel ing the building and work will be gin in the next few days. An ini tial order for 200 knitting ma chines has been placed, and the company expects to have the mill in operation by January 1. This new new enterprise will rep resent an investment of SIOO,OOO, giving employment to more than / 200 people. Malaria, and Dengue Mosquitoes in Americus Today—The Danger Great Malaria and Dengue Fevers are more easily contracted in September and October than any other months in the year. Dr. J. W. Chambliss, chair man of the Board of Health, warns all residents oi the danger now, and urges immediate and most vigorous efforts. The Malarial Mosquito and the Dengue Mosquito are being found in every section of the city. The mosquito is a hundred times more dangerous today than earlier in the season, jle has had 5 months in which to feed on malarial infected human bodies. He is filled with malaria or dengue. Ihe chances are ten to one that he will get you,” unless he is destroyed. "One single case of dengue in Americus today,” Dr. Chambliss says, could be the cause of another epidemic. Malaria has been reduced 75 per cent in the city ths iyear. So far as is known there is not a single case of dengue, but unless every effort is made by every home, a spread or an epidemic can occur. Make an immediate inspection of every nook and corner of your home and your place of business. Dengue mosquitoes are raised on your lot. They do not travel more than a block. Read Dr. Chambliss Warn ing on I his Page and Get Busy Immediately. ASSERTS WATERJDEPT. MADE CASH PROFIT O’OUINN IS OPTIMISTIC ill TALK BEFORE CLUB: Hffl IS TESTING THUE Plains Minister Declares “This No Time to Talk Hard Times” in Talk Before Kiwanis PAY PART IF NOT ALL Keynote of Talk Is to Do Our Dufy to Ourselves and Our Fellowrnan Rev. J. E. O’Quinn, of Plains, ad dressed the Kiwanis club Friday at luncheon, bringing to tl.Jcm a mes sage of optimism and good cheer, speaking he said, as a business man to business men. “This is no time to talk hard times,’’ l.’j said, and plead for safe and sane optimism and a helpful hand to the pessimist. “Every man should smile, look to his God and ' make an heroic effort to pay his bills,” said the 'preacher. “If you can’t pay all this year, you can and you must pay part, and as large a part as is humanly pos sible. That’s your plain duty,” he declared with entphasis. He spoke of the safe and the sane optimist. “Sensible, sane optimism is catching,” he declared. “And this is a time when we need sal!? and sane optimism, from individual, press and pulpit. If we believe a (Continued on Page 7.) j LIT 1 LTNAIWETTATD TO HARRY B. GRIMSHAW | MACON, Sept. B.—L. 11. Little, I formerly yardmaster of the Ma , con, Dublin & Savannah Railway at Macon, has been appointed chief clerk to S. T. Grimshaw, assistant general manager of the road, it Jias been announced by officials of the railway. He succeeds J. L. Shealy, who resigned. The ap pointment was made August 1. SEVENTH ARREST IN MACCJn FLOGGINGS MACON, Sept. B—J. F. Blood worth, a traveling salesman, was ar rested today' and afterward released on $5,000 bond in connection with the recent floggings. His was the seventh arrest in the roundup of al leged floggers. More arrests are promised by officials who claim the Klan’s connection is definitely es , tablished in the outrages here and | on the boys’ institution at Milledge- I ville. 1 AUGUST ARRESTS IN MACON SAME 2 YEARS MACON, Sept. B.—Ah unusual co-incidence in the police records is shown by the fact that there were the same number of arrests in Au gust of this year as in the same month last year, 383. Os the 383 arrests this august, all were tried and 257 convicted, practically all on minor offences. Fines for the month totaled $1,581.70. ATLANTA KIWANIANS TO MAKE TRIP IN AUTOS • ATLANTA, Sept. B.—Atlanta Kiwanians who attend the Georgia State District Kiwanis meeting in Columbus on October 25 and 26, plan to make the trip by automo bile. More than 100 local K»wan- I ians are expected to make the trip, 1 according to officials of the club, and will travel in sixty motor cars. They plan to complete the trip in s five hours. A number of the inter national officers, who are to attend the meeting will accompany the Atlanta delegation as guests of honor. THETdffisMfSORDER ' . PUBLISHED IN THE OR DIXIE TWO HUM OEM IH J!P FOREIGN COUM MISSIONARIES SAFE Admiral Anderson, of Asiatic Fleet Gives Definite Informa tion to Navy Department 130 REFUGEES AT HAKONE Others Arriving Daily From Kobe, Message Reporting Arrival of Flagship Says WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Two hundred foreigners were killed at Yokohama, according to the navy department’s first direct word from there received in two messages from Admiral Anderson, command er of the Asiatic fleet. One hun dred and thirty foreign refugees, most of them Amreicans and Eng lish, were at Hakone, with others arrriving daily from Kobe. One message dated Friday reported the arrival of his flagship, while the other was dated September 5. SOUTHERN METHODIST MISSIONARIES SAFE NASHVILLE, Sep|. 8 All Southern Methodist missionaries in Japan, numbering 75, are safe, ac cording to a cablegram to mission headquarters her from J. S. Ox ford, secretary of the Japanese mission church. "All the members of our mission and returning mis sionaries are safe. Notify their families,!’ the message said. / ANTLITALIAN DEMONSTRATION LONDON, Sept. B—A Central News dispatch from Rome, quoting a message from Corfu says: “It is reported there that an anti-Italian demonstration has occurred in Pa tras, Greece, in which the Italian consulate was burned by the Greeks.” Members of the Italian col ony retaliated, according to the message, and two Greeks are report ed to have been killed. «. BJIHIIED yiMIB CONSHL Americus Man Ordered to Pro ceed at Once to Stricken Japanese Metropolis WASHINGTON, Sept. B. Na thaniel B. Stewart, of Americus, chief, of the office of consular per sonnel of the State Department, has been appointed consul general to Yokohama to succeed the late Geo. H. Scidmore, and has been ordered to proceed at once to his new post and take charge of the consulates part in America’s relief efforts. ATLANTA BALL PARK DESTROYED ATLANTA, Sept. 8. —The Ponce de Leon baseball park here, home of the Atlanta club of the Southern League, was totally destroyed by 'fire early this morning. Grand stand, bleachers and club house were wiped out by the flames. The damage is estimated between $50,- 000 and SIOO,OOO. The ball park which is located in a closely populated center, for the ' time threatened to spread over a I wide area. Several houses in the • immediate vicinity caught fire. The I Ford assembly plant, across the I street from the park, was also i threatened for a time. Firemen ' are reported to have the flames I in check. AMERICUS. GA., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1923 EDSON WHITE. SON OF BIG PACKER, DIES OF ACCIDENTAL INJURIES Was Using Gun to Ward off At tack of Savage Bull When Weapon Exploded WAS ON FATHER’S ESTATE Enraged Animal Attempted to Gere Prostrate, Body, But Was Driven Off CHICAGO, Sept. 8 F. Edson White, aged 15, only son of Edson White president of Armour & Com pany, packers, died here last night of injuries sustained when a gun he was using as a club to ward off the attack of a savage bull was accidentally discharged. The en raged animal attacked young White upon his father's estate at Lake Forest, a suburb. The 15-year-old Armour boy, a! son of vice-president of company was with young White when he was attacked, shot the bull and succeed ed in driving it off when the animal tried to gore Edson’s boy. com?Wlocate POIHTWHEREELECTRIC LINE'S WEN BURNED Men Engaged in Replacing De fective Insulators Without Interrupting Service L. L. Ferree, general manager of ' the South Georgia Public Utilities Company, was a visitor in Americus Friday and while here was inter viewed by The Times-Recorder. Mr. Ferree’s company owns the transmis sion line which supplies Americus with electric current from the hy dro-electric plant at Albany, and he was asked concerning interruptions in the service here. The probable cause for the fre * , ' quent interruptions in electric ser- I vice here, he said, has now been ! narrowed down to one sub-division on the transmission lines, and the company has men out constantly try ing to locate the causq <>i these in terruptions. The company’s linemen have re cently located several points along the transmission line where the wires have been burned, said Mr. Ferree, and these points are being carefully watched to determine the exact cause. As soon as the cause for these burnings has been' defi nitely ascertained, the defect will be corrected, he said. Concerning the maintenance of service here independent of the transmission line and the Albany generating plant, Mr. f'erree said that should any interruption occur which might endanger the service for an hour or more, that his com pany 1 have a station operating crew available here for firing the boilers at the local plant, thereby furnish ing service through the steam tur bines here. The company has spent considera ble monej in the employment of ex tra labor, according to Mr. Ferree, and devising methods of operating their transmission lines in order to prevent interruptions. The com pany also.-Jias a trained line crew, Mr. Ferree said, which replaces de fective insulators on the line with- I out interrupting the service. This dork is being dore, h<| said, by us- I ing specially constructed tools for 1 handling the 44,000-volt current j without endangering either the line • men or the service. DR. CHAMBLISS TELLS LOCmS MOSOUITO HATCHERIES IN CITY Breeding Places Found in Every Block, Except One, in Popu lous Sections of Americus NEED MORE CO-OPERATION Householders Should Inspect Own Premises, City Physician Declares in Interview Dr. J. W. Chambliss, city phy sician, who is directing the mos quito elimination work in Americus, today asserted that “mosquitoes are worse today than at any pe riod this year.” The statement was made in connection with the discovery of many mosqito hatch eries in various parts of Americus during last week’s inspection here, when Officer J. C. Arrington put in the entire week carrying on the work. Instant attention is neces sary if the city is to be rid of mos quitoes, Dr. Chambliss says. "People are usually busy Satur day with domestic and business af fairs,” said Dr. Chambliss today, “and mosquitoes are worse today than at any period this year. This demands instant attention. Sudden service, if it be Sunday while you are at home from the week’s busi ness, I say attend to it Sunday as it is urgent. Now will you tollow me with a few facts, them •all up and take a dose of them and pour the balance back in the jug. “Beginning at the courthouse at the big clock,, and on the east side of Lee street, going south, on this week’s inspection, we have found a mosquito hatchery in every block, except one and in two blocks two places were found. These hatcheries were incubating, hatching and in ev ery way flourishing apparently with (Continued on Page Seven.) REV. BERNARD TALLENT ACCEPTS MACON CALL MACON, Sept. B.—Rev J. Bern ard Tallent, at present the pastor of the Baptist church in Rossville, Ga., will assume the pastorate of the East Macon Baptist church i .October 1, it has been announced. He will succeed Rev. A. J. Johnson, who recently accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist church in Jefferson, Ga. Reverend Tallent is a graduate of Carson- Newman College, of Jefferson City, Tenn. • FLOYD’S FIRST BAIE SOLD FOR 41c AT ROME ROME, Sept. 8. —Floyd county’s first bale of cotton for the season was raised by G. A. Gray, Jr., It weighed 510 pounds and sold for 41 cents a pound at auction. W. S. Crites, secretary of the Rome Chamber of Commerce,’ acted as auctioneer. Mr. Gray reported that he had used calcium arsenate successfully in, his fight against the boll weevil and that his cotton will average fully three-quarters of a bale to the aere. NEW WAGE CONTRACT • ' OVER HALF WRITTEN. HARRISBURG, Pa , Sept. 8. The wage contract, the completion and ratTTication of which was to in sure resumption of anthracite min ing at an early date was more than half written today at noon, when . operators and miners temporarily I adjourned negotiations to complete an agreement which will reach practically all issues. IMIMIS BSD KHfflmra DEPT, FOR MOS Dollar Profits, Not “Paper Prof its” Made Under His Direc tion, He Say# QUOTES REPORT FIGURES Takes Mayor to Task for Re marks During Council’s Dis cussion of Proposed Raise John B. Ansley, former superin tendent of the Americus water de partment, this morning directed at tention of the Times-Recorder to certain remarks credited to Mayor J. E. Pooole in a recent article headed “Council to Boost Water Rents,” in which the mayor was quoted as saying certain past prof its of the water department were “paper” profits. Mr. Ansley, who is now county engineer in charge of Sumter s road building activities talked con cerning the proposed boost in water rates with a representative of this paper, dismissing the proposition in general terms, and stating specifi caly. “If you quote Mayor Poole cor rectly in your article “Council to Booste Water Rents’ Sept. 6th., he accuses himself along with me, of fooling the public the earn ’ffigs’*citywrrfks, be cause he was a member of the city council most of the time and chair man of the water works commit tee some of the time, I was super intendent. “I do not know, nor did I ever wish to know how to juggle figures; I cannot make a seven look like a nine. I submit that a report of any department should show every service rendered by that depart ment with the cost thereof, there fore my annual reports, one for every year of my incumbency as superintendent of water works and city engineer on file in the clerk’s office, show and charge various services rendered to other city de partments in furnishing lights, water, etc., but this cost is not in cluded in the net earnings. “Whether or not Mr. Poole knew what was going on all of these years, nevertheless the profits shown are DOLLAR profits, real money, and not ’PAPER PROFITS’ as he now says. “I have copies of several of these annual reports before me whic\ show money as fol lows: July 1, 1912 to June 30, 1913, $5828.70. July 1, 1914 to June 30, 1915, $5069.50. July 1, 1916 ta June 30, 1917, $5943.84. July 1, 1918 to June 30, 1919, $5,176.82. “These along with all the others can be found in the clerk’s office. I They speak for themselves.” MISSING MINISTER LECTURER LOCATED AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. B.—Rev. John T. Renfro, misisng Baptist minister and lecturer of the Ku Klux Klan, has been located! by state rangers. His whereabouts has not been made known. The minister, whose home is in Hinton, Texas, has been missing since Aug ust 22. An appeal had been made to the authorities to have search ; made for him. I His wherabouts will be kept se cret to prevent development of dif ficulties or interference in his re l turn home. For Georgia Fair tonight and Sunday; cooler tonight. PRICE FIVE CENTS mfliciimm LEIP $4.001 BILE 111 TRADING 91HCHANGI Advance of More Than sl3 a Bale Scored Over Price Reg istered Last Tuesday NEW HIGH RECORDS SET All Deliveries Scar With October Which Sold Up to $27.90 During Morning NEW YORK, Sept. B—Cotton fu tures jumped $4 a bale in the New York contract market here this morning, October selling up to 27.90. This registered an advance of more than sl3 a bale from the low price reached by the staple on its reaction last Tuesday. Prices for all deliveries made new high records for the season during the morning session. Last Friday’s “Bureau” condition report of 54.1 proved to be a keg of TNT to the bears. While the government reported an acreage of over 38,000,000 acres—the largest in all history—the y’uld per acra has now been cut from 143.9 to 134.8 pounds. The condition of 54.1 is the lowest of record with the tin gle exception of 49. 3 pel cent in 1921. The report proves conclusive ly that American cotton is now in a very strong teehrncal position -.n deed. The indicated yield this season of only 10,788,000 bales .compared with last year’s short crop of 9,- 761,000, and with the record break ing crop of 16,135,000 bales in 1914. Early in July this season’s crop was estimated at 12,500,000. Right) now deterioration is going on fast, par ticularly in the Eastern belt. The boll weevil, army and leaf worm are all doing their full part. The world’s visible supply of American cotton carried over on Aug. 1 from last season’s crop was only 2,578,000 bales. World’s spinners takings of American cotton last year were 12,- 400,000 bales. If they take as much a5'12,000,000 bales this year on a less than eleven million bale crop, there will be an indicated visible supply left at the end of the pres ent statistical year on July 31, 1914, of only 1,578,000 bales. SMITH MAKES RECORD FOR KILLING RATTLERS TIFTON, Sept. B.—A. B. Smith of Tifton, has killed twenty-one rattle snakes in the past two weeks and says he is “still going strong.” Recently he killed a huge rattler carrying fifteen rattles and a but ton. The next day he returned to the place where he found the big one and killed eleven young rattlers each about eighteen inches long. Then he killed six more the next day. He has killed several more since then and says it looks like there' is no end to the supply of the reptiles. JUDGE LUKE NOW GIVING MUCH TIME IN MEETINGS Sept. Judgp Roscoe Luke, of the state court of appeals, who has been giving much of his time to religious meetings, has been heard here. The jurist, prominent in political life of the state, delivered a sermon at the First Baptist church Sunday morn ing and then went to Camilla, where he spoke in the evening. Large crowds heard him at both places. WYLE W. LEE SUICIDES AT HOME IN HAHIRA VALDOSTA, Sept. B.—A report was received here last night of the suicide of Mr. Wyle W. Lee, who resided a short distance west of Hahira on the Douglas Hodge place. It was in the presence of his wife but no cause could be assigned for the rash act. ARLINGTON FARMERS TO GIVE CHURCH PRODUCTS ARLINGTON, Sept. B.—Seven farmers, residing near this town, have staked off seven acres of land the proceeds from which are to be given to the Bluffton Baptist church, according to the pastor, Rev. H. M, M e ltou. HAWKINSVILLE SCHOOLS OPEN FOR FALL SESSION fall term of Hawkinsville’s gram mar schools has opened with a large attendance in the grades. Several faculty changes have been made, . _ ; , j
