About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1923)
N. Y. Future*— Oct. Dec. Jan. Previous Close .. |29.00|28.61|28.03 Open 129.19 28.75128.18 11 a.m 129.23128.85128.28 Close |29.90 29.64128.90 Americus Spot Cotton Strict Middling 29 l-2c forty-fiftA YEAR—NO. I 13 What’s Going On In The World The Weeks’ Chief Events Briefly Told PUGILISM PROHIBITION— FOREIGN— By CHARLES P. STEWART If every country had a national bird or animal, like the American eagle, the British lion and the Rus sian bear, the ox ought to be re served for Argentina. , . The ox is very, very strong—but slow, extremely slow. Bulk and strength are Argentine characteristics, but shiftiness dis tinctly isn’t. The University Club, Buenos Aires, is the home of Argentine box ing. I’ve seen dozens of the repub lic’s best men, including Firpo, in action there and they’re all more or less alike—plenty of power, but no speed. Let one of them land and down goes whatever he landed on. But he can’t follow up an advan tage. It isn’t lack of science. It’s in ability to thinlq and act quickly. Unless Firpo is different from nearly all his countrymen this is a thing he can never learn. WETS AND DRYS Attorney General Daugherty, re poj ting on three years of prohibi tion:'. calls it “one of the most tragic epoc*y in American history relative to law enforcement”—“a sordid story of assassination, bribery and corruption” involving “the very sanctums wherein the inviolability of the law was presumed to be sa cred.” However, the report concludes that the attorney general is “highly satisfied?’ It will be recalled Ithat some time before his death President Harding asked if the navy can be used in en forcing prohibition. Attorney Gen eral Daugherty now answers “no”— not without congressional authority. It’s announced from the White House that President Coolidge doesn’t intend to ask such authori zation. TROUBLE IN SPAIN The Catalan provinces, in the country’s northeast corner, are Spain’s great industrial region. Be ing the big producers, the Catalans pay a large share of the taxes. They say the government wastes them, mainly on a needlessly long-drawn out war in Morocco. Finally they’ve balked on keeping this up. In doing so, they invited other big taxpaying districts to join in their revolt. The Basque prov inces, in the central north, where the mining’s done, and Galicia, in the northeast, accepted. ■ It was so serious that Premier (Continued on Page 8.) LASIRoFcOHvicTS RESTORED IN MJMI Outbreak at Banner Mines Near Birmingham Responsible for > Resort to Whipping BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. 19. The whipping strap, abolished two years ago by Governor Thomas E. Kilby, has been reintroduced in at least one coal mine - camp in Ala bama where leased state convicts are worked. This became known as a result of inquiry into an outbreak at Ban ner mines last week. The leaders of the trouble were flogged with a strap, it was divulged in reports to the governor. White convicts are said to have been among the number. , L. A. Boyd, president of the state board of convict supervisors, in a report to the governor assum ed responsibility for the floggings at Banner. Mr. Boyd was appoint ed by Governor Brandon February 13 to head the board. Whether the strap will be re placed in all convict camps was not stated. HANCOCK FARMERS START CO-OPERATIVE SELLING SPARTA, Sept. 19—The first co operative hog sale in Sparta was a success, although a 'number of hogs promised were not in the sale and will come in at a sale to be held in November. The hogs were sold t > the Enterprise Sausage Company, of Macon, for a flat bid of 9 cents per pound. Bidders were here from Moultrie, Milledgeville and Atlanta and the bidding was lively. Ji FORMER GREEK PREMIER DIED TODAY AT ATHENS ATHENS, Sept. 19.—The death of Stephen Dragoumis, former pre mier of Greece, has been an nounced- COSGROVE IRISHIGOVERNMENTHEAD Effort to Extend Limit of\Search Falls Flat LITTLE SYMPATHY IS FOUND IN BRITISH REPLY TO PROPOSALS Government Plans, However, to Present Problem to Confer ence for Discussion TREATY WOULD BE USED Suggested Liquor Be Brought in Under Seal in Exchange for Searching Privilege WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.—The British reply to Secretary Hughes’ proposal for a reciprocal agree ment of the ship liquor and liquor smuggling has been received by the State Department today and ■ de scribed by officials as in general not sympathetic to the proposals. The British government, howev er plans to present the question to the British imperial conference which meets in London next month. Secretary Hughes has prosopsed to use the treaty in making power to allow foreign vessels to enter the United States ports with liquor un der seal in return for extension of a right to search and seizure to the 12-mile limit. GREm™ APOLOGY W.® DEMANDED Ry ALLIES Three Allied Flags Are Saluted by Greek Squadron in Har bor of Phaleron MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD Bodies of Murdered Italian Com missioners Embarked With Full Honors ATHENS, Sept. 19.—Greece to day discharged her measures of apology prescribed by the Allies for the Janina mutders. The in cident, which for tile time threat ened the peace of the Balkans, is regarded as closed. An Allied squadion, l?d by an Italian warship steamed into Phaleron harbor where waiting Greek ships rendered a salute of 21 guns to each flag. At the same time memorial serv ices were celebrated in the cathed ral in the presence of the Greek cabinet and Allied diplomats while at Preveza. The bodies of the murdered Ital ians embarked for Italy with mili tary and civil honors. J247IELD OF FIVE • PEAR TREES IN 17TII , ‘ w Tom Goldsmith, Negro Living on Anthony Jones Place, Mar kets Pears Profitably Five pear trees kept on the An thony Jones place located in the 17th district, this year yielded their owner s2l, according to Tom Gold smith, a negro, who was here selling pears Tuesday afternoon. The fruit was sold readily, Goldsmith states, at $1 per bushel, being in good de mand for preserving and canning purposes. ■ Little attention was given any of the trees, Goldsmith said, they hav ing been part of an experimental or chard set out several years ago, and which paid small returns as a com mercial proposition due to the prev alence of blight. A few tree|, howev er, were retained, and these are now ' paying their owner handsome re- ' turns for the cost and care they on- I tail. The pears were marketed by Goldsmith for Mr. Jones, owner of the farm where they were produced, he said. STEIN ENTERS SUIT FOR $50,0C0 DAMAGES MILLTOWN. Sept. 19—H. Stein of Milltown, has entered suit against B. Lazarus, of Quitman, and Sam Lazarus, qf Valdosta, for $50,000 for damages the defendants are al leged to have done to Stein’s reputa, tion as a result of letters alleged to have been written to his creditors. R. A. Hendricks, of Nashville, is rep resenting the plaintiff in this suit. THE fIMESBRECORDER ' PUBLISHER IN THE HEART OF DIXIE SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST DEPT. ■jMWLBIII PPOTEFI AGAINST ICT SCHOOL AUTHORITIES Assert That Children Living in Certain Zones Attend School Located in Another I DISCRIMINATION CLAIMED Say Board Chairman Declares “Everything Left Up to Superintendent’ John A. Wagnon and R. P. Moore, residents of Taylor street, who object to school assignments given their children, today declared members of the board of education ignorant concerning the establish ed zone system here, ,and com plaint that the system is not be ing justly administered by the school authorities. Some children living in East Americus school zone, Messrs. Wagnon and Mopre assert, are not required to attend the school there, while others living outside the zone are required to go there. This, they assert, constitutes discrimina tion, against whjich they have lodged vigorous complaint with members of the board of education, but without receiving satisfaction of any kind. Their position is set forth ac curately in the following com munication brought to the Times- Recorder today, and which is pub lished by request: “Editor Times-Recorder: “Although only two members of the board of education had ever heard of such a thing, we under stand the City of Americus has been divided (supposedly b ythe board, but evidently not) into i zones, in order to fix what school a child should attend, and the center of Horne street is the di viding line; all children living west of the center- of Horne street should go to the Furlow Grammar school and all those living east of the center of Horne street, attend ing the first five grades, should go to the East Americus school. All right, we have no objection to that plant but we do say that such a rule should be applied to all children alike, and in as much as this has not been done we feel our children have been discriminated against. There are several chil dren, some on the. east side of Horne street, now going to the Furlow school and attending the first five grades. “Upon complaint made to W. W. Dykes, chairman of the board, we were informed that ‘the board of education left everything up to the superintendent of the schools, that the - board had nothing to do with •the running of the schools and that the board did rtot try to please the public but looked after the chil dren.’ Other members of the board said they thought an injust ice was being done, although some of them frankly admitted they never attended a board meeting, knew nothing about the running of the schools, and that they themselves thought they ought to resign. One said the only meeting he attend ed was when they had something to eat. After we had made complaint the superintendent changed,three or four children, one of the un- I dersigned’s, putting them in Fur i low*. We have investigated and I are informed that on yesterday j they were teaching five less chib dren in the fifth grade of Furlow school than last year, and sixteen I less in the two first grades. “What we want to know is, wherein is the justice of admitting some children living east of the center of Horne street in the Fur low school, but requiring others to go to East Americus? A rule is a rule and should be enforced the same as to all. We don’t object to sending our children to . East ■ Americus, but we do object to send ing them there unless all children in the same zone are sent there, too. “JOHN A. WAGNON, “R, P. MOORE. /‘Sept. 19, 1923.” ; AMERICUS, GA.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1923 POMRE CORERS WITH BALDWIN OVER REPARATIONS Following Conference British Prime Minister Calls on Pres ident Millerand ITALY IS TO GET FIUME Jugo-Slavs Claim Diplomatic Victory in Negotiations With Larger Power PARIS, Sept. 19.—Premier Poincare and Prime Minister Bald win, of Great Britain, conferred here today presumably regarding the reparations questions. Follow ing their conference Minister Bald win 'frent to see President Miller and. Following the conference a com municue was issued which said that while no definite solution to any question was expected from the brief meeting, itFhad happily been discovered that there is no diverg ence of principle or difference of purpose? DIPLOMATIC VICTORY IS CLAIMED BY JUGO SLAVS BELGRAED, Sept. 19.—While Jugo-Slavia was celebrating the fifth anniversary of the capture of Monastir and the piercing of the Saloniki front, news was spread to the effect that Jugo-Slavia had scored a diplomatic victory over Italy—that as the matter was rep resented here, the octogenarian Premier Pachitch, builder of Jugo slavia, had beaten the young and aggressive Mussolini on points in the duel over Fiume. Italy will have Fiume, public opinion agrees, but she will pay for it by concession on the Italian littoral, which the Jugo-Slavians consider an adequate equivalent, hnd it is confidently predicted by the Jugo-Slavs that the port to be developed in the vicinity of Fiume will “make the grass grow on Fiume’s quay” within" two years. oestlwemd RAMMED BY BATTLE SHIP IN MANEUVERS Crippled Vessel Is Able to Reach Port Under Own Steam, With Bow Crumpled COLLIDED NEAR CAPE COD Four Warships Engaged in Exe cuting Maneuvers When Ac cident Happened SANDWICH, Mass., Sept. 19. The United States destroyer Mc- Farland was rammed in the bow by the battleship Arkansas in maneuvers near the entrance of Cape Cod canal. The maneuvers were participated in by 12 other destroyers and the battleships Flo rida, Arkansas, and training ship. The McFarland steamed into port under her own power. FIRST HOG SALE OF SEASON SEPT. 27TH DUBLIN, Sept. 19—Laurens county’s first hog sale of the new season will be held on Sept. 27, one week from next Thursday. County Agent J. F. Hart is asking that every farmer list the hogs he intends to sell then with him in or der that as complete information as possible on the number to be expect ed will be in hand. This is very ini portant in ordering cars from the railroad, and also in getting buyers here, as the bigger the lumber the better the bidding will be. OFFICERS WILL CONFER ALBANY, Sept. 19.—Officers of the Georgia Forestry association will visit Albany September 27 for the purpose of laying plans for a state-yvide membership campaign October, according to the Albany Chamber of Commerce. An effort is being made to seture a strong organization in Georgia in order to combat the forest fire originator and to promote the rehabilitation of the forests of the state. * * POSTPONE TEST OF AUTHORITY ST TULSA TILL NEXT THURSDAY Habeas Corpus Proceedings Brought in Behalf of Floggers Are Continued MEN .HELD BY MILITARY Assistant Attorney General King Appears Before Judge Hunt in Preliminary Proceedings TULSA, Okla., Sept. 19.—The scheduled court test of authority between military and civil officers of Tulsa county has been .postpon ed until Thursday. Assistant At torney- General King obtained a contiituance of the habeas corpus proceedings before District Judge Hunt, involving® the 1 three convicted floggers held by the military. PREPARING FOR CLASH AT CAPTAL OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 19. Members of the house were being asked by telephone and telegraph last night to come to Oklahoma City. Upon arrival they will be requested to sign the petition pro viding for the call for an extra session of the legislature. The legislators directing the spe cial session fight would not permit use of thjeir names. When 'the movement reaches the proper stage they said they would be glad to make their names public. Meeting in a downtown hotel, they werte very careful not to allow more than three persons to be present in their room at the same time. This precaution was taken in fear that the room might be raided by the military authorities on the ground that the activities consti tuted some form of a riot. Under the statute three or more persons constitute a mob. “This is not a fight for or against any organization,” said the spokesman. It is a right to deter mine whether the governor is a dic tator or whether this is a state of executive, judicial and legislative government. • “We intended to investigate charges made against law violators bath in private and public. It is not the purpose or intention of the legislator and no member has in mind protection of crime in any manner.” biggßltm DEAD Os PARALYSIS Paul J. Rainey, Noted Explorer, Dies on Board Ship En Route to Cape Town NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Paul J. Rainey, noted explorer and big game hunter, died of a 'stroke of paralysis aboard the Steamer Sax on en route from Southampton to Capetown, according to a radio message received by his sister here. SYSTEM OF ARBITRATION SETTLES MANY DISPUTES CHICAGO, Sept. 18 —Satisfac- tory settlements were reached in a large majority of the cases of griev ances and controversial questions arising under the employe represent ation plan of the Pennsylvania rail road system for the first half of 1923. This was accomplished at con ferences between the local officers and representatives of the employes without recourse to any higher au thority, according to a report made by the northwestern head quarters of the state. MACON AFTER AIR STATION MACON, Sept. 19—According to officials of the chamber of com merce, Macon may yet become a sta tion on the two proposed air* routes from New York to New Orleans and from Chicago to Florida. Agents representing those promoting the air routes have visited Macon and are said to be favorably impressed with the landing fields inside the mile track at Central City Park. The first national aeronautical congress in America was held in Macon in May, 1919, . MH'S URGES ALL BASED- ON LETTER IN WATSON’S NEWER Atlanta Man Swears Excessive Expenditures Made by De i partinent But; Within Law CONSIDERS BROWN HONEST Jackson, Director of Bureau of Markets, Called “Thorough Gentleman” by Witness ATLANTA, Sept. 19.—Gaz Va son, first witness before the legis lative investigating committee in quiring into the affairs of the de partment of agriculture, testified that the records of the department would show excessive expenditures which, however, were within the law. Replying to questions asked by Sam Olive, counsel for the de partment, the witness who resides here, said that he considered Com missioner Brown and honest man, and L. B. Jackson, director of the Bureau of Markets, a thorough gentleman. Vason admitted that most of his information was based on letters published in the former Watson publication. Walter Vance, warrant clerk un der Former Governor Hardwick, testified that the department of agriculture had presented to the executive a voucher carrying a bill in which the figures had been rais ed. This voucher called for slight ly more than $6,000, he testified, and when first presented was not accompanied by an itemized state ment. When this statement was finally produced it developed, he said, that its figures had been rais ed. The bill was presented by a local concern, Vance said, but of ficials of that concern had tojd him later that they did not raise the figures. J. I. Hicks, formerly assistant commissioner of agriculture, testi fied that Vason once had made him an offer that each oil inspector in Georgia be assessed $1 for Va son for his influence in having Hicks named to the office. The Tuesday session was featur ed bv the appearance of Commis-, sioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown, and his demand that all persons who have made charger against the department be subpoenaed as wit nesses. Among the first eleven witnesses called were Former Governor Thor. W. Hardwick, Walter Vance, war rant clerk during the Hardwick ad ministration ; Grover Edmundson, formerly connected with the Co lumbia Sentinel, during its publi cation by the late U. S. Senator Thomas E. Watson; Charles E. Stewart, member of the general as sembly, from Atkinson county; Gus Vason, of Atlanta; C. H. Kit trell, of Dublin, former member of the house of representatives; Sam Askew, clerk in the state pen sion department; J. M. Hilburn, of Atlanta, former employee of the department; Mrs. Alice Louise Ly tle, editor of the Columbia Senti nel, and Parker S. New, of Dub lin, member of the house, from Laurens county, and Representa tive Bannister. The investigating committee completed its organization at the Tuesday session by electiong Sena tor George Lankford, of Toombs county, chairman; Carl N. Guess, of DeKalb county, vice chriiTnan, and E. R. Dykes, of Dooly county, secretary. HAY GROWERS TO ORGANIZE MOULTRIE, Sept. 19.—J. J. Parrish, of the Southwest Melon Growers ’association, is backing the movement for organizing the hay growers of the territory for the purpose of increasing hay pro duction and improving its curing and marketing methods. Most of the Melon Growers’ association’s 2,000 members plant peas in their melon fields after gathering their crop, it is pointed out, and feed experts declare peavine hay, when properly cured, measures up in quality with western hay which is shipped in and can be produced much cheaper. WEATHER For Georgia: Unsettled weather, probably showers tonight and Thurs day. PRICE FIVE CENTS FflH STATE LEADER CHOSEN Bl MIL IB HUB GOVERNMENT First Assembly Held Since Re cent Elections Works With Republicans Absent MICHAEL HAYES SPEAKER Group of Women Stage Demon stration in Behalf of Republi cans' Still Held Prisoners DUBLIN, Sept. 19—William T. Cosgrave was re-elected president of the Dail Eireann upon the con vening of that body today, in the first assembly since the recent elec tions. None of the Republicans elect ed to seats in the Dail had appeared when the proceedings began. Pro fessor Michael Hayes was re-elected speaker. A group of women staged a dem onstration nearby demanding the release of Republicans held prison ersby the Free State. POULTRYBRINGSSDOD PRICEATDAWSONSALE Fryers Sold for 23 Cents, Hens 18 Cents and Roosters 8 Cents. No Capons Offered DAWSON, Sept. 19.—The third co-operative chicken sale at Daw son, which was held Thursday, re sulted in another large shipment of poultry from Terrell county. While the number of fowls brought to the sale was not as large as the promoters anticipated, the sale nevertheless showed that co-opera tive marketing of chickens is on a firm basis. The prices paid for chickens Thursday were in line with those received at the other co-operative sales in this section, though the price for fryers was lower than was expected. Hens brought 18 cents a pound, fryers 23 cents and roosters 8 cents. The J. A. Kelley company, of Atlanta, were the suc cessful bidders, and to them th© car lot was shipped. There were no capons offered for sale. This sale makes a total of ap proximately 20,000 pounds of poul try shipped from Terrell couqty this year in car loads. As much or n.ore las been shipped in crates by expre’s. ffIOGIM ANNOUNCED' FOB COUNTY METING .Colquitt County Farmers Will Gather Thursday at Moultrie For Conference MOULTRIE, Sept. 19—The pro gram for the county-wide mass meeting which is to be held here Thursday, has been announced by Mr. W. C. Vereen, who is chairman of the program committee. The meeting will be held at the courthouse and the hour seTfor it to get under way is 10 o’clock a.m. Mr. Vereen will act as chairman and will call the meeting together as well as outlining the object. A number of ten minute talks will be made. Among these on the pro gram are Roy Barber, manager of the Moultrie Hatcheries, who will speak on poultrying in South Geor gia. Dr. C. B. Slocomb and W. M. Smith, of Doerun, will tqlk on dairy ing, ■ which has attained important proportions around Doerun at which place they live and have played im portant parts in the development of the industry. J. A. Williams, of the New Elm section, will speak on the importance of early destruction of cotton stalks as one of the methods of fighting the boll weevil. J. A. Coleman will talk on hog raising, a business in which he has been conspicuously suc cessful. C. M. Edge will talk on “Thrift and Economy.” PLAN TEACHERS SCHOOLS MACON, Sept. 19.—N. H. Bal lard, state superintendent of edu cation, nt a recent educational meeting ly?ld here declared that fifteen summer schools for teach ers who cannot attend those con ducted by the universities in Geor gia will be held in the state dur ing the coming summer. The towns in which the schools will be held not yet been named. They will continue for one month.
