About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1923)
'*■" Americus Spot Cotton »Strict middling, 27 3-4 cents. N. Y. Futures Oct. Dec. Jan. Previous Close _.|28.88(28.48128.69 Open - |28.88(28.50|28.0i» 11 am .... ...'28.80(28.35|27.90 Close ...... t .|28.33(27.90(27.45 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 218 DENTIFY ANONYMOUS L ETTER TO BARNETT Will Resume Trial of Millionaire For Murder On Monday MORTON TO DISMISS M RNHCIJTIM IS DENIED BJ WOER Effor of Defense Counsel to Avoid Presenting Evidence Foiled by Action of Court ADJOURN UNTIL MONDAY Defense Will Start Presentation of Its Case When Court Re- Assembles Next Week WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. Sept. 25. Supreme Court Justice Wagner de nied a motion made by counsel for Walter S. Ward, son o x a wealthy baker, for ‘dismissal of indictment charging him with murder of Clar ence Peters. The counsel made the motion after the state had ab ruptly closed its case. The deci sion to close its case came sudden ly after attorneys conferred .with Ralph Ward, brother of the ac cused man. Ralph had been slated to take the witness stand today, and when he appeared the partici pating counsel decided instead to Confer with him in Justice Wagn ers’ chambers. The trial adjourned until Mon day when the defense will start preesntation of its case. EWERS WH BMDEBB S. I. C. ‘Tot McCullough and Others Cannot Play With College Teams ATLANTA, Sept. 25.—College athlletes whose schools are affil iated with the Southern Intercol legiate conference that played base ball in the South Georgia league this summer, were ruled ineligible to again, take part in ’varsity athletics aSturday at a meeting of the executive committee held at the Piedmont hotel. The complete list of players af fected by this ruling has not yet been made out,,Dr. S. V. Sanford, president of the S. I. C., said this detail being set aside for consider ation later, but prominent among the grid stars who will be missing is “Tot” McCullough, Vanderbilt celebrity, who played first base for the Albany club. That many other football play-' ers who are being counted upon to be big factors in the grid success of their colleges will fail by the wayside, was conceded by Dr. Sanford, as most of the teams in the South Georgia circuit were made up of college diamond her oes, who had also' won names for thcr'selvcs in the fall pastime. That the conference will hold its own basketball tournament • next year, probably undec the auspices of the Atlanta Athletic club, was also decided at Saturday’s session. The tournament will be held in February, but no starting date was announced. Dr. Sanford asserting this would be decided at the Decem ber meeting of the conference dele gates. Heretofore the cons rence has held its tournament in conjunc tion with the Southern Intercolle giate Athletia association. The December meeting of the delegates will be held this year at Washington. The executive committee expressed the opinion l that considerable benefit would bel derived from holding this conven-' tion in the northern section of the j teritory embraced in the confer- i ence zone, and accepted the invita tion issued by officials at Washing ton. The previous meetings of the : conference have been held in At-’j lanta. Dr. Sanford presided yesterday, other members of the executive committee on hand being Dr. J. B. Crenshaw, faculty director of ath letics at Georgia Tech and vice president of the conference; Dr. N. W. Daugherty, University of Tennessee; Professor C. L. Hare, j of Auburn, and Professor D. H. I Henry, of Clemson. Visitors who were present at the deliberations were Dr. G. O. Fer guson, University of Virginia; Dr. Wilbur Smith, Tulane university; Professor Edmundson, University of South Carolina j Professor Dem mitt, of Auburn, and Dan McGugin, Vanberbilt coach. GLASGOW, Sept. 25.—Seventy I lives are believed to have been lost when a deep pit in the James Nimmo Company’s colliery near Falkirk was flooded. ANNUAL FAIR BEGINS HERE THIS EVENING FH[|«DOLLM« WHJmtfHTS sraioiipm More Than 600,000 American Farmers Will Be Forced Off Farms of Nation, He Says MANY ARE NOW BANKRUPT Believes Dries From Fields Will Continue Till Conditoins Are Improved on Farms WASHINGTON, Sept. 25—More than 600,000 American \ farmers will be compelled to abandon agri culture as a means of livelihood and seek employment in the cities during 1923, says Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, a member of the Republican president’s offi cial family, is authority for the statement that more than 1,000,000 persons were obliged to quit farms in 1922. Certain Republican propagan dists are attempting t ogle an op timistic interpretation of these conditions. They contend that this exodus from the land will reduce production and stimulate prices of agricultural products. They care fully avoid reference to the losses and distress experienced by the 1,- 600,000 men and women who thus have been forced into failure and bankruptcy. “I believe the drift of people from the open fields will be con tinued until the purchasing power of the farmer is restored,” said Senator Capper, commenting on this migration from the farms. Elsewhere in his statement Senator Capper declared: “The farmer’s dollar today will buy only 69 cents worth of other men’s goods or labor. He must pay them 81.31 for every dollar’s worth he needs and sells them $1.31 for every 100 cents they give him. “With the farmer’s dollar sta tionary in buying power at 69 cents he is this year facing high er farm wages, higher costal of ma terials, and greatly increased cost of production.” Secretary Wallace points out that nearly everything the farmer has to buy. including labor and transportation, has increased in price while his products, particular ly wheat, are bringing insufficient returns. The Republicans, on coming into power in 1921, promised to make the American farmer prosperous. Two tariffs—-one of them specially designed to “protect” agriculture —have been passed since May, 1921. These measures put a duty on every kind of agricultural prod uct, and were heralded as infalli ble cures for the evils of which American farmers had been com plaining. The result has been that | the condition of American agrieul- I ture as a whole is worse today than ( it was when the “farmer’s tariff” i of 1921 was enacted. While the Republicans were pre- I tending to “protect” agriculture I they were careful to put a heavy I tax on everything the farmer hail I to buy—clothing, furniture, tools, I implements, paints, drugs and I medicines, building materials, etc. j The farmer has not been able to add the tariff to the price of his wheat, but the wool trust, the steel trust, the sugar trust, and all the other trusts and combines favored by the Republicans are “getting' theirs”—and a large percentage of it from the farmers. ELLAVILLE W. C. T. U. ELECTS NEW OFFICERS ELLAVILLE. Sept 25. Th? Womans Christian Tc-mperaribe Union met at the Baptist church' Monday afternoon, Mrs. C. R. Mc- Crory presiding. Instead of the regular ' program, reports for the year were heard. This union has forty members en rolled besides ;• largo number of honorary inembers. A splendid h nancir.l report was made. Officers for the ensuing year were *lected as follows: President, Mrs. C. R. McCrory; vice-president, J. S. Lightner; secretary, Mrs. H. J. Williams; treasurer, Mrs. E. E. Collins. IT PAYS TO SING BRISTOL, Eng. Sept. 25. Joseph Loapold Roeckel, professor of music, composer of many songs, who died in France recently, left an estate valued at about $45,000, ’ ; THE TIMES’YRECORDER ' JbLI SHED IN THE HE DIXIE FORD ELIMINATED AS POSSIBLE BUYER OF blew™ Action of Government in Dispos ing, of Gorgas Steam Plant Given As Cause POSITION ALREADY PLAIN Stated At Offices That Gorgas Plant Forms Vital Unit in Operating Scheme DETROIT, Sept. 25.—The sale of the Gorgas steam power plant to the Alabama Power Company probably means that Henry Ford will make no further' bid for re maining Muscle Shoals properties, it is learned here. Mr. Ford him self was not at his Dearborn of fices today and could not be reach ed, but at this offices it was point ed out that he had already made it plain that the Gorgas plant is considered vital to economical op eration of the Muscle Shoals prop erty. cunWLWJ INDIA IS FAILURE Big English Firm Estimates Trade Will Require 12,000,060 Bales This Year MANCHESTER, Eng., Sept. 25. Messrs. Reiss Brothers, well know’n raw cotton merchants of Liverpool, in a special report to the trades state that they anticipate muph higher prices in the long rim for American raw cotton. The report i.-. of great interest, especially .as:it follows on the fourth condition re ‘ port of the United States Govern ment, which gives an indicated crop of American cotton of 10,788,000 bales. Messrs. Reiss Brothers state that a crop of 11,000,000 bales will not be sufficient. Then they continue: “We admit trade is i.ot good, but contend that, even making allow ance for the abnormal the world needs now at least 12,- 000,000 bales. This is all the more true because as everybody knows, i the visible and invisible supply is ( now so small that it cannot be drawn upon much further without severely endangering the future markets. Therefore, the.re will not be any other alternative but to re duce consumption by a further ad vance in prices. * During the last three years America has produced | only 32,000,000 bales including 1,- | 500,000 bales of linters, against an | actual consumption of 36,000,000 ; which explains the extremely small July visible and invisible sup- I ply, that is 2,573,0000 bales. The I position is certainly stronger than I it was last year, and consequently 1 there is no reason why the ' high i prices of roughly 30 cents a pound 1 or more should not be reached at I some time or other during the pres- I ent season. j After referring to the fact that stocks of cloth in China and India are on a very low ebb, Messrs. Reiss Brothers conclude: “In short, we are of the opinion that the foun dation is laid for a general revival of trade demand, mainly on ac count of the unquestionably small stocks of all the world over, not only of the raw material, but also of the manufactured article which makes replacement inevitable.” BAPTISTS TRAINING SCHOOL IN SESSION The Baptist Sunday school work ers here have with them this week Mrs. O. M. Gerald, of Atlanta, state elementary superintendent. Mrs. Gerald is holding services at the Baptist church each evening and tracking th? Sunday School Man ual. Rev. H. J. Johnston, pastor of the church, is assisting afid will give a course of lectures on the Bible. RISE IN BANK RATE LONDON. Sept. 25.—The Bank of England has stimulated savings by allowing a raise in minimum rates 'of discount from 3 to 4 per cent. This permitted the clearing banks, to increase interest allowed on deposits from 1 to 2 per cent. AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1923 PROBERS ARE TOLD; 131 OIL INSPECTORS MAINTAINED BY DEPT. P. H. Mell, a Clerk in Dept. Tell , of Number of Inspectors and Fees Turned In FOUR KEPT IN EMMANUEL Only One Inspector In Fulton Where More Oil Is Marketed ATLANTA, Sept. 25.—P. H. Mell, clerk of the oil inspection di vision of the department of agri culture, testified before the legis lative committee investigation de partment that a total of $419,000 net from inspection fees were paid into the state treasury last year. Ke farther said that he knew no case in the state in which the in spector split his fees fifty-fifty with another person, he answered to a question put to him. There were 131 oil inspectors in the state .to one state inspector, he testified. The prosecution de veloped there were four inspectors in Emmanuel county in which the witness sajd 12 or 13 cars were ex amined monthly. This same num ber of inspectors were in Fulton county, where Mell said approxxi mately 280 cars were inspected for the same period. These inspectors of Emmanuel county were located in different towns, however, the witness said. bhiMßiib ON SlNfOffl FIELD Six Georgia Letter Men Have Been Working in Kansas Wheat Fields • ATHENS, Sept. 25. —Husky lads of the University of Georgia grid iron squad are assembling here for the opening of the football train ing season determined to send an eleven northward to defeat Yale this fall. The Georgia Bulldogs have kept themselves in good condition through the summer mqnths. When commencement came to an end in June, Coach George Woodruff, newly elected mentor of the grid game, instructed his material to “watch their legs” and remember trailing rules through the hot months. Six of the football players have been in the wheat fields of Kan sas, where they are reported to have enjoyed plenty of work, 25 miles from Pratt. Taylor, Car michael, Newton, Carroll, Smith and Greene composed the party. Randall, Georgia’s star, has been in Columbus, working and playing ball. Joe Bennet, captain of the team and one of the best kick blockers in the Scftith, has been at Camp Dixie, Ga., where, with George Pfann, leader' of Cor nell’s grid team, he was an ath lectic instructor. Butler and Gurr, the latter a basketball star, have been in Chicago in the employ of a business concern. The Yale game will be fought October 13. On October 29. Geor gia will clash with Mercer Univer sity and on October 6, Oglethorpe i University. Both of the games will ! be played in Athens, and are ex- I pected to be excellent early sea ( son contests to put Georgia in con- I dition for the battle with Yale. . Other games on the University’s schedule are Tennessee, in Knox ville, October 20; Auburn in Co lumbus, Ga., November 3; Univer sity of Virginia, in Athens, Novem ber 10; Vanderbilt, in Nashville, November 17; University of Ala bama, in Montgomery, November 24, and Centre, in Athens, Decem ber 2. ( A., PARIS, Sept. 25i—Premier Poin care’s move in view of Germany’s surrender will be asking the allied reparation commission to deal with the new situation, it was indicated today. As soon as the German government officially withdraws its resistance orders, directions will he sent General Degoutte to make the Ruhr occupation as nearly “invis ible” as possible, BULGAR GWERNMEKT FORCfD OUT; LIBERAL PAPTY IS ELIMINATE!! Former Premier Slavoff’s Party Given No Representation in Reconstituted Cabinet RECONSTITUTEGOVERNM’T All of Former Ministers Exc pt Minister of Justice Have Port folios in New Ministry PARIS, Sept. 25.—A delay mes sage from Safia to Havas agency dated Monday says that the Bulgar ian government after resigning has been reconstituted with same mem bers except the minister of justice. The national liberal party which former Premier Slavoff belonged to is no longer represented in the ministry. wmetlh MOUND GLOBE Portuguese Adventurers Ready To Duplicate Magellan’s Feat in Airship NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—A cou ple of Portuguese are preparing to become the Magellans of the air. Magellan, you will recall, was the first to circumnavigate the globe. Ke did it by sailboat more than 400 years ago. And now two of his country men are set on emulating his feat by airplane. They are Captain gacadura Cab ral and Admiral Gago Coutinho, who last year flew from Lisbon lo Rio Janerio, Brazil, the first to ac complish that difficult flight across the Atlantic. According to an announcement received here by R. B. C. Noorduyn American representative of Anth ony H. G. Fokker, famous Dutch aviator, the Portuguese fliers have purchased five Fokker seaplanes for their flight. The men do not expect to hop off until early next year. Their courses will be eastward from Lis bon through India to Japan, a dis tance of 9870 miles, across the Pacific to Vancouver, and then over Canada to Newfounduand, an other 7580 miles, and then down along the United States away, and over the Atlantic byway of the Azores. The course of the last part of the trip hasn’t been mapped out fully yet, its distance, cannot be calcu lated. But it is estimated! that there will be at least 4000 miles to the last lap, making a trip of about 22,000 miles around the world. “The flight,” says Noorduyn, ‘will be watched with interest by United States officials because the planes that Cabral and Coutinho will use are of somewhat similar design to the Fokker seaplanes purchased by the United States Navy. ■ «. “With the proposed' round-the world expedition to be attempted by the United States Air 'Service, the British effort and also that of the French, has developed an inter national air race of greater impor tance than any attempted hitherto.” The seaplanes to be used by the Portuguese have a wingspread of 65 feet and carry a useful load of 4100 pounds at a speed of 110 miles an hour. LEE COART MUST SERVE SENTENCE FOR MURDER ATLANTA, Sept. 25.—Major Lee H. Coart, retired army officer, sentenced to life imprisonment fol lowing conviction in Talbot county of the murder of A. B. McNiece,, county superintendent of schools, was denied a new trial in an opin ion handed down late Monday by the state supreme court. The shooting of McNiece occurred on October 11, 192 L the wounded man dying two weeks later in an Atlanta hospital. At the time of the trial of Maj or Coart the case attracted wide attention, both because of the prominence of the families of the accused man and of his victim, and by the sensational nature of the testimony. , v , TO DEPICT RAILRDAD COLLISION IN M IT SUMTER COUNTY FAIR Giant Spectacle Produced Only At Atlanta, Jacksonville sfod Columbus to Be Seen Here THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Here to Direct Newton Display Here to Direct Newtor Display Every Night This Week Henry P. Everett, secretary of the Fgir Association today an nounced that the giant railroad Col lison spectacle had been secured for showing at the Sumter County Fair here this week. The spectacle, which is one of the most costly and spectacular ever shown will be giv en Thursday! night as one of thq, big fre acts at the fair grounae. The spectacle, Vvhich will be pro duced by the Njewton Fireworks Company, will be shpwn at only two other points in Georgia—At lanta and Columbus, and Jackson ville, is the only other city in the entire South where the collision will be depicted. In order to show this giant spectacle, the services of a trained man are necessary, and George Newton came to Americus direct from Chicago to direct pre parations for the showing. Mr. Newton arrived last night, and to day he is busy at the fair grounds getting things in readiness for the , first fireworks display there to night. The big Y;ates will swing open promptly at 6 o’clock this evening, and at that hour the first of the free acts, accomplished by a grand opening concert led by Prof. Gre lla’s Royal Italian Band will begin. All the exhibits at the fair will be in place in time for the opening, and in many departments the last preparatory work was compdeted early this afternoon. BABY SHOW AT FAIR 4:30 SATURDAY AFTERNOON Mrs. Hamilton Holt and Mrs. George B. Turpin today accepted appointment as joint managers of the baby shoy which will be a fea ture of the Sumter County Fair which begins here today. This show will be staged at the fair grounds Saturday, September 29th at 4:30 P. M. and indications are that there will be a large number of infants. The fair management has offered splendid prizes in this department! with the babies divided into thre classes with competition open to all Sumter county babies. Class A. (Six to Twelve months No entrance charge will be made for babies, mothers or nurses ac companying the babies. Old) FIRST SECOND No. 1. prettiest girl $2.50 SI.OO No. 2. handsomest boy 2.50 1.0 (Ribbon Third Prize) Class B. One to Two Years Old) FIRST SECOND No. 3. prettiest girl ....$2.50 SI.OO No. 4. handsomest boy 2.50 1.00 (Ribbon Third Prize) Class C. Any Age.) FIRST SECOND No. 5. Ugliest Man.. $2.50 SI.OO We will endeavor to get a judge for this Show who is an absolute stranger in the city, and who never intends returning. SPIRITUALISM NEWCASTLE - On - TYNE, Eng. Sept. 25.—1 n his will Harry A. Kersey directs he be burled in a quiet and unosteentatious manner and in accordance with the method prevailing amonst those people called Spiritualists, who are fully acquainted with the facts of the possibility of communion between the spirit world and the material world. ' M Jl! LEAGUE VOTES NOT TO’ INTERPRET ARTICLE X GENEVA, Sept. 25.—The pro proposoed resolution for interpre tation of Article Ten, League oi covenant has been r’ jected by the League assembly in plenary session today. Persia alone voted against the resolution, but unani mous vote is necessary to obtain the assembly’s approval. The reso lution provided that constitutional authorities of each state alone should have the rifht to determine to what extent military resistance should be accorded other nations if their integrity were threatened, i || WEATHER For Georgia—Generally fair to to’ght and Wednesday, 4 -m* •'A» ».»«»• ll V PRICE FIVE CENTS INMIMTE ANONYMOUS LETTER TO m FLOGGED State Secures Damaging Admis sions During First Day of Dr. Yarbrough’s Trial WRITING IS IDENTIFIED Mrs. McMichael and A. H. De laney Strong Witnesses for State in Trial at Macon MACON, Sept. 25.—The State began today its effort to connect Dr. C. A. Yarbrough, with an annoy mous letter which Barnett re ceived following the whipping. Bar nett yesterday testified that he had investigated his whipping and rec ognized Dr. Yarborough as one of his four assailants. The State con tended that the anonymous letter was written on a typewriter in the dentists’s office. Mrs. Eva Mc- Michael, stenographer, indentfied the letter as one she had written on a typewriter in his office, and A. H. Delaney, typewriter expert testified that it was his belief that the anonymous letter was written on the same typewriter. During Monday’s hearing, Bar nett, who formerly resided at Americus, was the first witness called for the state after the jury had been completed. He told how a man had called him from his place of business the night of February 17, tellling him that one of his children had been stick by an automobile. He went with the man and got into an auto mobile in which were two other men, he said. Ke declared that Dr. Yarbrough was in this party. Tells of Handcuffing. Ttv» men grabbed him, Barnett said, and put handcuffs on him. They took himlo a point near the end of the Vineville Street car line y and after reading charges that he' had failed to provide for his fam ily and beaten his children had whipped him. Ils asserted that Dr. Yarbrough was the man who wielded *he lush “while two men heldtoim to the graund and a third held the handcuffs. Barnett today told his story by answers to a long series of ques tions instead of relating it in one narrative as in the trial of Dr. Yar brough on the charge of rioting in connection with the floggigng of R. F. Mills recently. Solicitor Moore brought out the story point by point and on cross examination the same method was followed by the defense. R. A. Hartley again told of his being lectured once and whipped once by the flogging band. Dr. Yarborough was a membet of the party that lectured him, he testified They, had planned to whip him, but decided he was to weak. He could not say whether the dentist was a member of the party that actual ly whipped him, he said. MSiwS WITR FORMALDEHYDE All seed wheat and oats to be planted this fall should be treated with formaldehyde before planting to prevent smut and other diseas es, County Agent George U. Mar shall stated today. It is necessary to not only treat the seed, but also the sacks used to handle it, and the grain drills that sow the grain. Unless these pre cautions are taken, the seed will be infected again after treatment, and the farmer will lose much. Mr. Marshall gave the procedure for treating the grain as follows: Mix one pint, of 4Q per cent for maldehyde in 40 gallons of water. Allow a half gallon of this mix ture to each bushel of seed to’ be treated. Stir the grain thoroughly when it is sprinkled with the solution and be sui*e that every grain is moistened with it. Thorough work is very important to get the results that are desired. Cover the grain with sacks for two hours after it has been treat ed. Be sure that all sacks used have been treated with this mixture, and be sure to treat the grain drill thoroughly, also to prevent reinfec tion of the seed. W,- This plan will give you both oats and wheat free from smut in the spring. The loss from this trouble in Sumter this year ran from 5 to 50 per cent, it was estimated when the crop was harvested. a —4
