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Americus Spot Cotton
Strict Middling 20 l-2c.
N. Y. Futures Jan. Oct. Dee.
Prev. Close 29.80 30.35 30.17
°Pen 29.70 30.35 30.12
am 29.52 30.00 30.00
Close -.29.60 30.50 30.10
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 252
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CASTLE ffl CONFERS
WITH FORMER KAISER
Reported I nat Princess Her
mine Returned With News
"of Nationalist Party
VISIT IS SIGNIFICANT ONE
May Mean Return of Hohen
zollerns To Their Former
'•* • Power in Germany
bOURN, Oct. 24.—The visit
which Former Crown Prince Fred
erick Wilhelm of Prussia is now
making the Doorn castle is rcgard
ed .as having considerable signifi
toce.
Recording to information from
several reliable sources and from
persons close to the former Kais
er, the visit is connected with the
return of Princess Hermine from
. Reich, whence she brought very im
portant news concerning activities
of nationalists military party and
changes of the return of the Hoh
emzoilerns.
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OHM FORBES
OT OF GRAFT
Charged That Veterans Bureau
Official Accepted Loan From
Interested Corporation
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.
Principals of the Thompson Black
Company loaned $5,000 to Charles
R. Forbes while he was, director of
the. Veterans Bureau at a time
when the company was seeking a
{contract for the construction of
the government hospital, Elias 11.
Mortihier, of Philadelphia, former
agent of the company testified to
day at the senate committee .in
vestigation of the Veteran’s Bu
reau..
TROOPS IN CHINIi.
Highwaymen Attempt To Hold
Up Passenger Train on
Peking-Hankow Railway
PEKING, Oct. 24.—Troops rout
ed several hundred bandits who at
tempted to capture a passenger
train on the Peking Hanknow Rail
way as it was passing through the
northern part of Nonan province.
The train backed out of danger
i. . . ... tmijgws ,
hurt.
MANY ATTEND
Heid From Family Residence At
3 O’clock, Conducted By
Rev. John M. Outler
Hundreds of friends attended i
the funeral this afternoon at|
3 o’clock of George B. Turpin atj
the family residence on Lee street. I
Rev. J. M. Outler, pastor, of the I
First Methodist church, conducted!,
the obsequies, and interment was
in Oak Grove cemetery. The flor
al offerings, which were and beau- <
tiiul, attested to the high esteem
in which he was held in this com-|
munity and throughout this see-j
tien.
The pallbearers were George H. j i
.Tanney, H. E. Allen, C. H. Burke,!-
R. L. Edwards, J. W. Harris, Jr., I
t.nd J. W.’Hightower.
Mr. Turpin, who was 48 years!
of age, was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. G. A. Turpin, and had spent!
nearly his entire life in the com-!
munity in which he was born. Ke j
was a member of the First Meth-;
odist church, and was not only a i
regular attendant at the services,
but wi.s prominent in other depart-1
ments of the church.
He was engaged in he cotton
business at the time of his death,
and was associated with other busi
ness interests in Americus. He was
widely known and greatly esteem
ed for his many splendid qualities,;
and the entirs community mourns'
with the bereaved parents and
family r.t the passing of this splen- ■
did citizen, f
A tta ched to Frederick Wilhelm ’s Visit to War Lord
SEPARATISTS TAKE ADDITIONAL VILLAGES
EFFORT IS MADE T«
FILE ORDERS SITU
SECRETART OF STATE
Assistant Secretary Refuses To
Accept Paper In View Os
Resolution Adopted
MAY BRING COURT ACTION
Believed That Incident Will Be
Made Basis of Judicial Ac
tion in Walton Case
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 24.
An effort to fill two executive or
ders with the secretary of the
state was made by a clerk from the
office of Governor Walton.
1 Miss Unajauna Roberts, assistant
secretary of state, refused to ac-
, cept the papers in view of a reso
lution adopted by the state sen
ate suspending Governor Walton
from office. ’
Observers believe the incident
may be made the basis for court
action to test the legality of the
executive’s position.
After one of the stormiest ses
sions it has had, the lower House
of the legislature adopted a reso
lution introduced by Representa
tive CfflMpan, supporter of Gover
nor Walton, asking for an investi
gation of who financed the at
tempted meeting of the house mem
bers when they were dispersel by
the military.
In the heated exchange of de
bate, Callahan Said that he would
prove the attempted meeting was
financed by Ku Klux Klan.
The text of the resolution sus
pending Governor Walton fronv-of
fice, follows:
“Whereas, The House of Repre
sentatives of the Ninth Legislature,
pursuant to the provisions of the
constitution has filed with the Sen
ate articles of impeachment.
“Whereas, J. C. Walton, governor
of Oklahoma, is charged with of
fenses made grounds of impeach
ment by the constitution, and
“Whereas, the filing of the arti
cles with the Senate automatically
suspends J. C. Walton as governor,
and the office with its duties and
compensation evolves upon the lieu
tenant governor;
“Now, therefore, be it resolved
by the Senate that the governor and
liutenant governor be advised as to
their duties in this event and that
the secretary of the Senate notify
the governor and lieutenant gover
nor of the proceedings thus ha' and
to present to each of them a copy
of this resolution.”
Governor Walton was among the
Last to leave the darkened state
house last night. With a small
group of friends he walk'd slowly
down the stairway to the main
floor.
Only a few lights cast isolated
i; through the long hall as the
party moved toward the door. The
governor halted briefly to read a
copy of the Senate resolution sus
pending him from office which a
press representative handed to him.
“The vote was 6to 1 for the
resolution,” the governor was told.
“Who voted for inc?”- he inquired
in a. low voice.
“Senator BarkegjSt
The deposed.igtaaUii e inquired
about three otnfer all of
which had been caUMlgainst him,
and then announced he would have
no statement to make before morn
ing.
MRS. OUTLER’S SISTER
DIED IN MACON TODAY
Mrs. Louis McCormick, of Jack
sonville, Fla., died this morning at
2 o'clock at the Macon hospital in
Macon, death following an illness
of some time.
Funeral services will be held in
Macon Thursday at 11 o'clock, with
interment in the family cemetery
there.
Surviving Mrs. McCormick are
two sisters, Mrs. John M. Outler, of
Americus; Mrs. John W. Ramsey
of Macon; and one brother, John
M. Dewberry, of Louisville, Ky.,
who were a,t her bedside when she
died.
SERVICES AT REHOBOTH
CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY
Rev. E. T. Moore, who was prin
cipal of Thalean school last year,
has accepted an invUgtion to
preach at Rehoboth chtjMih next
Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
ine Sunday afternoon services j
in Rehoboth church are always I
well attended, and Rev. Moore has i
a strong message for the members
and friends of the congregatio.: !
Sunday. >
A cordial invitation is extended i
to the public to be present, |
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IN THE he ART OF DIXIE“ff?V?
SEPARATIST!
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Photo shows Dr. Dorten, leader
of German’s separatist movement
in th<? Rhineland provinces. He is
rumored to have formulated thb
p'ians for the declaration of a
“Rhineland Republic,” just pro
claimed.
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President of College Not Among
Those Hurt in Auto
Crash
MACON, October 24.—Four
young women, three students and
one a teacher at Bessie Tift Col
lege, were taken to the Macon hos
pital at 1 o’clock this morning, the
result of an automobil- accident at
Broadway and Giles street. Dr.
Aquila Chamlee, President of Bessie
Tift and owner of the car, was not
injured.
At the hospital, it was found that
only one of the young women, Miss
Taly Mae Fulghum, was injured. She
was cut by broken glass and sustain
ed injuries to Iler knees. She re
sides on Rogers avenue, this city.
According to information obtain
able at police headquarters and at
the hospital, a sedan car driven by
Dr. Chamlee’s chauffeur, a negro,
and coming toward Macon, collided
head-on with a Ford touring car
that turned into Broadway from
Giles street. The Ford is said to
have been driven by Robert Puckett,
a clerk in Lee’s Department Store.
The fonder of the touring car was
torn off, but otherwise the car was
not damaged.
The Studebaker was considerably
damaged, nearly all of the glass
windows being broken.
Dr. Chamlee remained at the
scene of the accident after the
young women were taken to the his
hospital. He was excited and the
police could get little tangible in
formation from him as to just what
happened.
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AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24 1923
UP STAGED IN NEW
aMm®
OF PUBLICITY BLIRHIJ
CONCERHING BOOSE
J—T-
At Recent Meeting of Council
Statement Made That Klan
Discussion Caused Act
START INVESTIGATION
Commander Wants To Get At
Fountain Head of Mis
statement, He Says
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—-John
H. Cowles, grad'd commander of the
Supreme Council of Scottish Rite
Masons for tm southern jiurisdic
tion, the statement dis
seminated byjthe council’s public
ity department that a recent meet
ing of the council here the resig-i
nation of George M. Moore as in
spector general in Alabama follow
ed a heated discussion on the floor
over the Ku Klux Klan.
I An investigation is being con
| ducted, he said, to learn how the
•J statement came to be given out,
■ ENDORSED N. C. TAX.
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i ATLANTA, October 24. —dovrr-
I nor Walker, on his return Tuesday,
i stated that he had not endorsed the
! North Carolina tax system as appli
' cable or desirable fir this state, as
has been quoted. In fact, the gov
| ernor said today his mind is yet
i open on what system Georgia ought
Jto adopt. He said, as a matter of
; fact, Fie made some compimentary
I remarks to the officials in North
I Carolina, where he stopped on his
j way back from West Baden and
| Washington, “but I certainly ex-
I pressed no such positive views as
I have been attributed to me on the
I subject. I nfact, I must certainly
j could not have given my endorse
fent to any general plan in the face
| that our special commission is still
holding meetings for the purpose
jof gathering information for mak
; ing a study of taxation. That is
1 a commissiion of my own selection,
I have been with them the entire
I time, we have traveled ‘■ogether, and
! I am standing squarely behind the
I commission.
“I think North Carolina has an
excellent plan of taxation—for
North Carolina—but its applica
tion to Georgia is entirely another
question. I am not pre
pared to say it is what we need at
all. I probably erpressed the wish
that we had such an admirable sys
tem of taxation in this state, and
it is possible that my expression of
admiration of their plan and the
expressed wish that we had one
which worked as well may have been
1 construed as an endorsemnt of
SECOND «L IN
FLOGGING TRIALS NOW
ftPPEOS LIKELY
Third Jury in Case of Macon
Dentist Has Not Yet Reach
ed Verdict in Case
OTHER CASES POSTPONED
Jury Box Exhaustion and Dis
qualification of Judge Cause
Cases To Go Over
MACON. Oct. 24.—The iuiy ni
the ease of Dr. C. A. Yarbrough,
charged with rioting in eonnection
with the whipping of W. O. Barnett,
a Macon harness manufacturer, had
not reported a verdict early this
afiernoon and a second mistrial in
the case now seems probable.
The ease went to the iury Tues
day afternoon at 6:20 o’clock, fol
lowing arguments from counsel on
both sides and the charge of Judge
Will Gunn, of City court.
The two days in City court were
taken up in the re-trial of the case
which resulted in September in a
mis-trial. It was the third time the
dentist has been the defendant in
City court on similar charges. There
are five additional charges against
him.
Judge Gunn at the elose of court
! Tuesdav announced that the trial
I of Dr. Yarbrough will be the last of
I the flogging cases to be tried at the
special term called for that pur
pose. The failure to continue the
trials against J. F. Alexander, mer
! chant, and J. F. Durkee, Ku Klux
'Klan organizer, both charged with
I similar offenses, was due to the- dis
j qualification of Judge Gunn on
■ distant relation to Alexander, and
! the exhaustion of the jury panel
for the week.
! Dr. Yarbrough late Tuesday af
ternoon went on the stand and made
j a brief statement similar to those
I made during his former trial. One
I feature of his statement was the
' omission of an acknowledgement
that he is a member of the Ku
I Klux Klan.
! The interest which caused the
Ismail courtroom to be crowded with
| men and women at the former trials
I was lacking both Monday and yes
terday, and at the close of the case
i there were a few spectators who
remained to hear the arguments
jand the charge to the jury. Os the
■ number of spectators, a large per
,‘centage’were women, who showed
i more interest in the case than the
I men.
! their plan. I did learn a great deal
I about taxation in North Carolina,
las I did in the Governors' confer
' ence, and I hope and believe' that
I information is going to he helps 1
| to us.’’
A press dispatch from Raleigh
I had quoted the governor as saying
Ihe intended to recommend to the
I legislature in this state next month
the adoption oof the North Caro
lina plna for Georgia: hence the
foregoing comment from him.
HEPUBLICAR EFFORT
SPENDS FIRST F®
BEWSFDWMI
i
Meager Messages Received Over
Cropped Wires All State
Situation is Quiet
MORE TOWNS ARE TAKEN
Villages and Towns Captured
Yesterday With Reaction
Apparent Today
DUSSELDORF, Oct. 24.—The
Rhineland Republican movement
has spent its first force, accord
ing to meager reports received
over crippled wire systems, but the
situation is still confused.
The Republicans took a few ad
ditional villages and towns yester
day, and last night cleared out of
Coblenz, their “capital,” and May-,
ence, and reaction is apparent In a
number; of towns they still hold.
TO INVESTIGATE GERMANS’
CAPACITY TO PAY.
FARIS, October 24.—A German
note delivered to the reparations
commission today asks ‘he commis
sion to begin examination into Ger
many’s capacity for payment and
to allow representatives of the Ber
lin government personally to ex
plain the situation and measures
taken by Germnay for reforming
her budget and stabiliing her cur
rency.
K OLLIE JITOF
GOES 01 TRIAL
Charged With Murder of Her
Lover, DeWitt Turner, At
Atlanta
ATLANTA, October 21—With
indications that the defendant will
enter a plea of insanity, Mrs. Ollie
Combs Justice, pretty young slayer
of DeWitt Turner, went on trial
for her life in Fulton Superior court
today. The case was called by
Judge Howard, presiding in the
criminal division.
It was learned Tuesday that At
torney Murphy M. Holloway, rep
resenting Mrs. Justice, has summon
ed about 30 witnesses to testify in
behalf of the defendant.
DeWitt Turner was shot to death
by Mrs. Justice as they were riding
in an automobile on South Pryor
street. Later she declared she had
shot him “because she loved him.”
AMERICA IS URGED
TO SAVE EUROP E
Lloyd George Asks Help In
Present Crisis That Shakes
European Continent
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 24.
Declaring that Great Britain seeks
nothing in Europe except a cessa
tion of strife and that “there you
can help us,” David Lloyd Gearge
the war-time premier of Great
Britain, at a chamber of commerce
luncheon here Tuesday, renewed
his plea for “effective co-opera
tion” between the two great Eng
lish-speakings commonwealths.
“At this hour,” the former pre
mier asserted, “there is a deadly,
grim, ghastly struggle going on tn
Europe, not for the moment with
cannon and machine guns but none
the less it is a deadly struggle and
I ask you don’t turn your backs al
together on Europe. You saved it
once. Don’t give it up. It has
been a great continent. There
have been great men thrown up
through the ages in it to whom
you, as well as ourselves,
owe much.
“And although I come to this
land with no mission if you ask
me, I have got one word to say.
And since you press me to speak,
I ask you, the people of this migh
ty land, this prosperousu land, this
peaceable land, this land of lib
erty, once more to turn the eyes,
toward Europe that once saved it
and will yet do so.”
Miss Sarah Wheeler has arrived
from Clayton, having been callfed
by the death of he rnephew George
B. Turpin. _ __ , r
WEATHE
For Georgia.—Fair- tonight and
Thursday; continued cool, probably
light fi-ost in eyposed places in
west and north portion tonight.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
YORK
AJUIIEDMNDITSSHMT
liiowlimiie
WILLIAM KELLI FDffl
•
Messenger For Large Trust
Trust Company Refused To
Give Up $20,000
■BOLD DAYLIGHT HOLD-UP
■ Four Men Stepped Kelly As He
Left Office For East
Side
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—William
Kelley, messenger for the Manu
tacturer’s Trust company was shot
and seriously wounded by four
aimed bandits who accosted him
I as he was delivering $20,000 to a
concern on the upper east side,
and who forced the mo'riey from
his lhands when he refused to sur
render it.
GEO. I® FOUND
GUILH 81 JURY
Gets Five Years in Prison For
Connection With Counter
feit Certificates
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24.—George V.
H-illiway was found guilty of
third degree forgeiy in connection
with the counterfeit of $1,500,-
000 interin certificates for French
government bonds, and his punish*
ment fixed at five years imprison
ment.
MMSiEWn
MEET IT COLUMBUS
Convention of Georgia Clubs
Opens Thursday—Number
Going From Americus
•Thirty-five Kiwanians will go
wanis meet at Columbus tor a two
day session. The local club is ex*
pecting to carry a number of Amer
icus Kiwanians to Columbus
Thursday morning. The party go
by automobiles, leaving? from tho
Windsar Hotel at 8 a. m.
The local club has taken several
prizes for attendance and prog
rams given at inter-city meets in
the past and Secretary Bradley
Hogg is expecting a representative
number to attend this year.
Lewis Ellis, of the America l *
club, is one of the district offt
•cials.
President Arras of International
Wiwanis will be on the program,
and Jules, Brazil, international
entertainer, will also be present.
Mrs. Hamilton Holt and Miss
Susan Stallings will participate in
the program to be given by Ameri
cus Kiwanians, »nd Mis. L, W.
Brown, Mrs. S. F. Stapleton, Mrs.
Sam He.k will attend.
Among the features of enter
tainment prepared for the Kiwan
ians will be a military demonstra
tion of actual warfare at Fort
Benning at 4 o’clock in the after
noon, golf tournament, a visit to
the hydro-electrice plant, automo
bile rides about the city and a
splendid luncheon.
Automobiles of Kiwanians will
leave here about 8 o’clock tomor
row, arriving two hours later far
the festivities.
SCARCITY OF fcOOZE
CUTS NUMBER FELONIES
FITZGERALD, October 24—Beu
Hill Superior court is in session this
week with Judge D. A. R. Crum
presiding. The grand jury organiz
ed with D. L. Martin, foreman and
R. J. Spell, clerk. Considerable
civil business is docketed, but very
fer criminal cases are to come be
fore the grand jury. No felony
cases in the county have been re
ported. Prohibition is gradually
emptying the jail and depleting thu
chaingang in this county. . .
SENT POISONED CANDY
GETS FIFTEEN YEARS
MEMPHIS. Oct. 24.—Calvin
Harris, former railroad switch ma a
charged with attempt to murder irt
connection with the sending of a
box of poisoned candy to Mrs. H.
G. Anderson on August 17, enter
ed a plea of guilty in the second
ernmnal court here today and was
sentenced to 15 years in the state
penitentiary.
Mis. Anderson and a small boy,
whose parents roomed at hey borne
became violently ill after eathitf
the wandy, but Subsequently re-}
covered, U