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NEW YORK COTTON Washington Day. Excvhance closed. FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 233 GERM AN.MINERS AGREE TO RETURN TO WORK Klans Advocates May Win Impeachment Fight in Oklahoma STRONG POLITIC! 1 MACHINERY IB IffllOST GOV. ILTOi Impeachment of Oklahoma Ex ecutive Foliowing His De nunciation of Klau MANY SOLONS HOSTILE Oklahoma Executive Is Being Gradually Isolated Through Efforts of Klan OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 12.-- Impeachment machinery of the Oklahoma house of Representatives has been set in motion with the announcement by Speaker Mcßeo of a committee of 21 house mem bers to conduct investigations upon which impeachment charges wou 1 (1 be based. The size of the committee Is larger than had been expected, and (it is believed its purpose will be to divide into subcommittees and con duct several investigations simul taneously. Meanwhile the senate adjourned, foregoing considera tion of Klan legislation pending further moves in the house. JUOGlilfiS POST AT LEESBURG Resignation Will Become Effec tive January I.—Judge Long May Succeed to Place it is announced here today that Judge Ware G. Martin of the City ■Court of Leesbury has resigned, his resignation to become effec tive Jan. Ist, 1924. Judge Mar tin has been Judge of the City Court of Leesburg for about seven years, and is considered one of the best Judges in Georgia, and his resignation, is deplored by his many friends in Lee County. Judge Martin it is stated comtem platcs leaving Leesburg, but has not yet decided where he will lo cate per manently. This office at this time is ap pointive as the Judges term \Vould about one year from this date. Judge H. L. Lang it is stated will be a candidate fc(" the un expired term, Judge, Lang is one of of the best and most favorably known attorneys of this section, and was the first Judge of the city Court when it was chartedcl about seventeen years ago. No. ot'hrt. - candidates have yet announced. GEORGIA WRITES SEES WORK OF SCULPTOR ATHENS, Oct 12,—Miss Mildred Rutherford and a party of United Daug||p*rs of the Confederacy from A- „ Leo Mountain Thursday night to see the pictures and hear from Gutzon Boi-glum his plans for carrying on the work. Mr. Borglum showed them by drawings how the stone is being re moved around the painted outline of General Lee’s figure on the mountain, and how the carving will be done. General Lee’s head will be fin ished by January 19,, the anniver sary of Lee’s birth, Mr. Borglum told them, and in order to keep the work going through the months ol' November and December, when the temperature on the side of the mountain friil become very cold, he is preparing to house the area covered by the head, and will heat it with kcrosinc old stoves. WHISTLES BLOW FOR INCOMING VESSEL SAVANNAH, Oct. 12.—Web coined by the largest gathering of officials and citizens that, has even seen a regularly scheduled coast wise liner come in here, the new City of Chattanooga, of the Savan nah Line, Ocean Steamship com pany, docked Thursday night at 7:30 on her maiden trip from New York to Savannah. Captain M. A. Hammond, vice admiral of the O. S. S. company’s fleet was a com mand. An extra large passenger list was recorded. Whistles from every craft in the river and from all the places along shore which had steam engines, greeted the new vessel, one of several just added to the line. TOURNAMENT BEGINS ATHENS, Oct. \2.—The an nual fall tournament for the Governors’ golf cun at the Clover hurst Country club begins next week. More than titty players are expected to enter. The prize is the dub trophy, to be won three times to be retained permanently. It is 3ield now by .C. E. -Martin. THEtiHSgiI^RDER feat) PUBLISHED IN THE~ HEART OF DIXIETIfeIT CABINET HEARS HENRY FORD’S CHARGES WHA T’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD BY CHARLES P. STEWART Chancellor Stresemann is making frantic efforts to keep Germany from breaking into a number ci separate states, such as existed be fore Bismarch united them, about publican goy- I ernment’s surrend er to France in the Ruhr, natur naturally a ter rible blow to the people’s faith in [ today’s r e gime, half a century age into the empire the kaiser ruled. Defeat in the W olr Id Wa»' shook this union badly. Hmf If:;*! The present re threatens to drive some, at least, of the states into deciding 1 to "go it alone” again. * * * Wllat France Wants. Indications are that this is what France wants, since she would have little to fear from a group of weak, separate states, compared with a united Germany. However, undoubtedly it would mean inde finitely prolonged confusion in Central Europe, which wouldn’t suit the rest of the world. England especially would be displeased, for both business-and political Reasons. In the end it might not be a good thing for France, but she seems to think so now. * •> if New German Cabinet. Stresemann resigned as chan chellor, or premier, hut immediate ly accepted a reappointment and be gan forming a new cabinet. His appeal’s to have been, not to quit hut to make a fresh start, with a group of ministers he was more in harmony with. Probably he really wanted to make himself dictator, so as to fight the separation move ment more vigorously but this plan was abandoned temporarily. It may be tried later. * * * No Decision Yet. Rival forces are still struggling in Oklahoma. Governor Walton declared mar tial law as an anti-Ku Klu’x mea sure. On (he ground that hesd violated the constitution, a majori ty of the members of the House of Representatives tried to meet to impeach him, Walton said he had n’t called a special sesion, so, at his order, state troops scattered them. Then an election was held! to change the law so that a session cou’d be held even without the governor’s call. Tne proposition won. by a large majority. But Wal ton denies the election’s legality, He has a court injunction to back him. However, he himself has called a special session now, “for the'pur pose,” he says, “of the enactment of a law to protect the people from masked and lawless marauders”— no especial organization mentioned His idea appear to be to get his own complaint before the house ahead of impeachment proceedings. * * * Wet* and Dry* Bishop Sehrembs, addressing tho National Council of Cuthlic Women's Convention in Washing ton, referred to prohibition as “a law the people admit can’t be en* j forced.” Figures compiled by the United | Press account for 2000 known i deaths from prison liquqor thus lY in 1923. Federal prohibition headquarters statistics show 480,000 Americans drinking whisky daily on doctors' prescriptions, as medicine. » The Federal Council of Churches has been called into conference in Washington, Oet. 14— on the sub ject of prohibition the summons saying violations are increasing and that “mob rule threatens the country. MUCH PROPERTY IS AVOIDING TAXATION Comptroller-General William A. Wright is of the opinion between $2,000,000 and $5,000,00 in “re venue is being lost by the state government each year through pro perty escaping taxation. To remedy this situation, the l compk oiler general suggested t > the special tax commission that a budgeting and auditing depart ment. with full authority, inelud the laws, and the present ad val-’ I oreni system of taxation be amend -1 ed so as to establish improvements. AMERICUS, G Y. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. OCTOBER 12, 1923 HOST NUDE 800! OF NEW YORK 118 IS FOUND II 8001 Fellow Roomer With Dead Girl Sees Handkerchief About Neck of Victim HANDBAG LYING ON FLOOR Rifled Dresser Indicates That Robbery Was Motive of Crime NEV. voRK. Oct. 12.—The al most nude body of Miss Estelle Phillips, department store saleswo man, was found in her furnished room on West 79th street. On the floor was her handbag opened and further discovery disclosed that the dresser drawers were ■ open. A knotted handkerchief was drawn around hex- throat, The body was discovered by a fcl low- roomer when she went to cad Miss Phillips. SUMTER EXHIBITORS! WIN PT SOUTHHSTERN W. G. Turpin, John Wi.-.e and A. B. Turpin Take Prir.es —Hawkins’ Hogs Winners Sumter county exhibitors in the poultry and hog departments of the Southeastern Fair, Atlanta, have been awarded prizes that are a credit to both exhibitor and the county. W. G' Turpin entered five in the barred rock classes in the poultry show, winning first and second cock; first, third and fourth cock erel. in the same class John Wise, of SuinteN' City, won second cock erel and first pullet,. Mr. Turpin won on every bird he entered. In the hog show, C. C. Hawkins and Sons won on their Duroc Jerseys first senior gilt, second; junior girl; second; aged boars, also winning on herds, as well as in ev ery other class in which they®wete contenders. Hawkins & Sons had SO entries in this year, fourteen gilts and sows and six hoars. “The poultry show ir. Atlanta this year is the strongest I have ever seen,” Mr. Tumin said tl is morn ing: “There wei‘e more b.rds and better birds.” Virtually the same was said by Mr. Hawkins regarding the ho i; show-. “There are no better stock shows in the world than was to be secn’at the Southeastern this year.’ Mr. Hawkins said. “I know that if wo win there, we can win anywhere in the country. In both the hog an 1 poultry show the exhibits were tli equal of any I have seen any where.” WAYCROSS HOLDS CLEAN UP CAMPAIGN WAYCROSS, Ga., Oct. 12—One of the principal features in tho ob servance of First Prevention Week in Waycross this week wall be a clean up program. AH property ownerts wall be requested to con duct a thorough cleaning of their premises during the week. The ob servance of the week and clean up program is fostered jpy the press, fire insurance agencies and the! local Eire department. I Elaborate Stage Demontration For Fashion Show Event Costumes in From The East. —Seats For Show Go On Sale At Rylander Wednesday Morning Contracts were closed by Walter Page, managing the Americus style show, Friday for the decoration of the stage for the event on Friday. October 19. Mr. Page says that the stage dee oration will be much more elabor ate than ever before and in order to secure this end has employed tv. > professional!! to look after all details. In -the town outside the city j much interest is exhibited in the nominations of the voung women who ar *o represent each of the towns in this trading territory. The list will he closed Monday night. Coupons will appear in the Tiine u - Recovder today and Saturdav. These must he mailed in so as to reach the committee Monday night or early Tuesday morning. __ s. o. s. “S o. s.” That is a call for help. It is a call to help yourself. The Times-Reeorderis ‘Everybody Wins’ campaign is on. To be frank about it comparatively few candidates have entered s O far that, of course is the Times-Recorder’s funera'. You ai-e not interested. But you ought- to be. Especially if you have considei-ed Icing a candidate. It ought to dawn on you that, with a x-ond.tion like this, your chances arc better. If you use your think tank you'll see the light. Now the lean or woman with a ‘ go-get'evi” spirit is in better shape than if eontestans were elxm orinp to, yet m. Just the why of this that is the qudiion.Perhaps the great arrany if prizes has scared some of you. W«e the prizes of much less value,ym would fall all over your selves Iget in. But because SB,- QOO is nut up you think you will have to have too many votes. Goodness alivdi It doesn’t make any difference how many votes are cast. The high man gets the choice of cars and others get prize:? in proportion. {JEALOUS SWEETHEART SLAYS YOUNG 111 Paying His College Tuition Girl Resents His Paying Atten tion to Pretty Rival PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 12.—Mar ry Kanberningale, a student at the chiropractic school here who lasi night vjtp shot on the streets by n young woman said by the police to ■ be Miss Catherine Miller, died 1 early today. Miss Miller, police said, will be charged with murder. The young woman’s sister, who was interviewed following the -shoot ing, said that Miss Miller had been ! paying Kanbernigale’s way through t college, and had just learned that 1 he intended to marry another girl 61*11 HARES DELEGATES ATLANTA, Oct. 12.—Governor I Walker has appointed approximate jly 100 delegates to attend the I American Cotton Association con vention in Columbia 16. These j include B. F. Moun, of Brunswick; i C. H. Kittrell, of Dublin; W. F. I Ingrhm, of Griffin, S. J. Starr, of STifton; J. D, Price, T. J. Shackle ■ ford and It. E. Kodson, of Athens, I and R. S. Roddenbam, of Moultrie. | : JACK BELL HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT -Jack Bell, son Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Bell, was painfully , hurt late I Thursday afternoon, as he was re | turning to the home of his sister, j Mrs. C. C. Williams, on South Lea j street, having been struck by a car. Young Bell wtis struck a severe j lick on the head, cutting a gash j thereon, besides skinning his knees j ad oter parts of his body. Although-the injury received i? I not regarded as serious, it is co/i- J fining hint to his home for several I days. Reserved seats go on sale Wed nesday at the Rylander theater. Out-of-town mail orders will be re ccived and will he filled in the .or der in which they are received. A'! seats reserved will be 50 cents each with 5 cents additional for war ta v . Last year the crowds were . s.) i that there was some confli | siori, and for that reason the ve i served seats were secured this year. Specially ordered costumes f»v i the dozens and dozens of mode’s are coming in this week. Every ri<- tail is practically settled and the night’s entertainment will lie one of the most deliehtful of the entir<* season. A complete list of the models will appear in the next day or two, , probably with a complete descrip tion of each costume. | It is all in your head. It’s a j condition. Get your thinking ap paratus to functioning and you’ll ! see it all in a light that will make [you wonder why you haven’t, seen •it before. • Subscriptions receiv'd now!, you jgtnow, count more than afterwards. The early bird catches the worm j —that’s the cream, the easy pic k ! ings. And the easy pickings with ; the greater votes credit may be the j deciding factor in the election. Now get it. Let’s go. I Remember, there is only one | way to make nominations. Cand ; - dates must either nominate them selves or be the choice of some friend who will do it for them. Tile management is not going to place any names in the campaign and if you want to be sure that your name is among those from which the owner of the grand prize are to be chosen, the surest way is to send or bring in yov nomination ■ blank yquyself. Do this at once. Open Evenings. During the big, prize campaign ; the election headquarters at the (Continued on Back Page.) GEORGIA NEGROES [ STILL GOING NORTH 1,500 a Week Is Estimate, With No Inidcation of Early Decrease ATLANTA, Ga. Oct. 12—Geor gia negroes still are going to northern states at the rate of 1500 a week, with no indication of a decrease in migration, according :to announcement from the state I j department of commence and label j During the period July, 1922 to 1 July 1923, approximately 200,000 [ negroes left the state, it was said, j Agents of the department have i been continuing their check on i outgoing trains and it was stated | that the estimate of 1500 leaving | a week was “very conservative.” Lack of empolyment was given by the department as the chief reason for the migration. Higher wages are being offered in tho ! north, while in this state the boll | weevil has “seriously damaged” j the agricultural situation. | Recently, when the coal strike | i was threatened, hundreds of Geor- [ jgia negroes left for the mining sec i tions. Officials of the -department, today said they believed the opera- J tors were planning to supplant the j strikers, in case of a strike, with; as many negroes as possible. “I do not expect many of,the ! negroes to return in the near fu j ture,” one of the officials said “If i the supplyof white laborers, com- I posed of foreigners, increase in I the north, a large number of j negroes will be thrown out of em ployment. Geongia farmers now are i in a good position to handle then’ I crops.- The danger they will be! I during the next planting season, | when the migration might hinder > I preparation of the crop. “The ultimate result of the negrq j farm laborers leaving the state will j j be a decided improvement in the; [farming conditions and life of tha ! state. After the farmers have ad-1 j justed themselves to the absence) jof negro labor, the state will be 1 i much Letter off.” MEDICOS TREATING ' VERY RARE DISEASE | COLUMBIA, S. C. Oct. 12- | T\v<> cases ol' xeroderma pigmen ! tosa, a disease so rare that fewer han 100 cases ‘have been recorded according to physicians, are now i under treatment at a local hospital Both victims are from Marion county, one being a 1 6 ear-old | girl and the other a five year-old boy, Xeroderma pigmentosa, accord-1 ing to physicians treating the cases here, is an overgrowth, of pigmen.sj manifested n» freckle:, which grows or rises on the face i or hands and develops into cancer-] us sores. X-ray treatment is being used, it was said here. TAYLOR SINGERS CONVENE BUTLER, Ga. Oct. 12—The , first annual convention of the ] Taylor County Singing Associa : tio.li was held in Butler last Sat ] u.rday and Sunday. The session ai which officers were elected brought together large crowds of people, tlic Sunday session being attended by many visitors from other counties and a Orowd e j timated at close to three thousand was present. SEMTim MS T(! 60 BEFORE PEWIT WITH COMPtiIIT —— Resents Accusation of Ford That Politics Influenced Shoals Decision FORD REFUSES WITHDRAW Contends His Stand Toward The Project For Benefit Os Farmers WASHINGTON, Oct. I?.—Sec retary Weeks carried in today’s cabinet meeting the statement is sued last night by Henry Ford as sailing the vvar secretary for his action in the sale of the Gorgas Steam Power plant, part of the Muscle Shoals property, to the lamnba Homer Company. Mr. Weeks, prior to the cabinet meeting, refused all requests for comment on the statement in which Mr. Ford declared that poli tical influence, working through the secretary of war, ‘had prevent ed him from obtaining the prop erty. Officials close to the secretary indicated that he represented the statement, and considered it suT ficient take direct- to the presi dent. CHARGES POLITICAL INFLUENCE USED DETROIT, Oct. 12. Henry Ford’s offer for the purchase of the Muscle Shoals project in Ala bama is still before congress and will not be withdrawn, Henry Ford said today in a statement, his lint public assertion since the sale of the Gorgas plant to the Alaba ma Power company. Mr. Ford charged that political influences were brought to hear to keep him from obtaining the plant and these ‘‘same influences pre vented a vote in the house last spring,” on the sale of Muscle Shoals to the Ford Motor company. ACCUSED MAN FREED UNDER SSOO BOND CARTERSVILLE, Ga., Oct. 12 -—A. P. Stone, hold as an accessory before the fact in the kiHing of Mrs. Webb Pless last Sunday a* her home near Kingston, Wednes day was released from jail where ! he had been held for two days fol j lowing the dead woman, is held in ] jail charged with her slaying, j. Stone was freed under SSOO . bond for his appearance as a ma- I terial witness. Mrs. Pless was killed by the ! charge from a shotgun alleged to have been fired by her husband, when she visited her home Sun day afternoon to get belongings, after having become estranged from her husband. Sho died in a Rome hospital, and Pless surrend ered. STATE HEALTH BOARD IN SESSION AT SAVANNAH j SAVANNAH, Ga. Oct. 12—The ! Georgia State Board of Health will hold a special meeting in Savannah , ' in connection with the state-wide j health conferece to be held here. ; 'fhe health conference will be hel l ] under the auspices of the Georgia i Medical Association, Dr. J. W. ■ Daniel of this city being president ,of the association. Many are expect ] cd to attend including physicians, ! health oficers, mayors and many others among whom will be both federal and state officials. Post '.lgraduate clinics for physicians will I be held, about the -same date. Oct. | 20, in accordance with an action of .(■the State Medical Association ar ] its annual convention. Others ar-, j to follow in other cities of Geor gia. i SANITARY CAMPAIGN STARTED IN PHILIPPINES v | MANILA, Oct. 12. -The director j of health of the city of Manila has I supplied the health commission of I Canton, China, with copies of all j ordinances, rules and regulations I relating to sanitation, prevention | of disease, inspection of meats and j other measures. 11l doing this Manila s comply ! ing with the request of Mr. H. ] Pan, commssioner of public health ]in Canton who regards Manilas | regulations as best in the Orient. Mr. and Mrs. Will Green Turpin and Mrs Carr Glover have return ed from a motor trip to Atlanta where they spent several days. Mrs. Irene Oliver, who has been the guest of Mrs. R. B. Godwin, at (home on Church street, has return *ed to Jacksonville, Fla, WEATHE For Georgia—Generally fair to- I night and Saturday, little change I in temperature, j PRICE FIVE CENfS RUHR 101 OFFICERS HO FRENCH LIBOR HIRERS SIGN Mill Dorstfield Mine, One of Largest In District Involved In New Production Agreement BERGFIELD ALSO SIGNS UP AH Expelled Miners and Offic ials Are To Be Allowed To , Return DUESSELDORF. October 12. An agreement has been signed be tween the German miners union and French laboiites for the return to work of all miners and officials of the Dorstfield mine, one of the largest in the Ruhr district, which the French occupied some time ago to exploit it themselves. A similar agreement has been made for the Bergfield mine in the same district. Under the agreement ell expelled miners, officials gnd office employes of the mines affect ed are permitted to return. CitIFOIIItIi READY FOR E* SERVICE HER Hundred and Fifty Thousand expected to Attend Legion Meeting in San Francisco SANFRANCISCO, Oct. 12—Call nia’s biggest welcome is ready. When 150,000 visitors and delegates reach this city for the annual nat ional American Legion convention Oet. 15-19 cthey will find General Hunter Liggett and his 50 commit tees prepared with the most lavish entertainment in the history of the west. Two hundred hotels have pledged accomodations for state delegations at non-inereused prices; a huge open-air tourist camp, with special bake ovens and, sleeping equipment will handle caravans of motor dele gates; and Pullman space has been set aside in railroad yards in the event any will be unable to find lodging in the city. It will be a three-fold convention bringing to the state representa tive men and women from all parts of the country as well as distin guished generals and statesmen. The American Legion Auxiliary and the ‘‘Forty and Eight,” the, “playground” of the Legion, will hold their annual confabs in the city at the same time. Thousands of Californians; arriv ing in San Francisco two days ear- , Her to attend the reunion of tho famous 9let or Wild West division, will wear pony express hats and get in the reception line with a real western welcome. Many thousands of sightseeing ears will be at the disposal of the delegates, ready to make trips to military reservations, bay points and other scenes of interest free of charge. BOOSTERS ADVERTISE FAIR SPARTA, Ga. Oet. 12—At a meeting of the Hancock Boosters club recently, it was decided to be gin a whirlwind advertising cam paign for the Handcoek County fair which beings soon. The Boosters will travel over the country in automobiles visiting the schools and talking tp the pupils, their teachers and their parents. Thu first day of the fair will be child ren’s day and fifteen hundred children are expected to take part in a parade. MERCHANTS’ FASHION SHOW Rylander Theater October 19 This Coupon Good for 250 Miss U; as a candidate in the Merchants Fashion Show at Rylander the. ater. Americus, Friday evening, October 19, to represent Voting Closes Saturday Slight
