About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1923)
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 sensational hold ******* Significance ' PfIISCE WSITS OOSffl 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. « i _________ 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, | ' THETIMESKRECORDER IN THE he ART OF DIXIE“ff?V? SEPARATIST! ’ j M ! i 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. fill IMO 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. 'UP. ANCHOR!!!!’ ■ ■ - Wil < -X- ■ ' Wr W ' ’’ '■ • 'V ■ Y'-Ws‘ r ■■■ ■ - ■ . *WSI3I '' . v, ~.AX ... .7-. ■./■•- < AX. - Jp \<XXAA' -<■ isau=<-- —•■■ _ ■< ~ y-'. . ’ *• •" JT*T '~~' ' —~~ "‘ T ‘"•'"y r'-.y'»T}>»?T*T Sv '- y»_ - - '--" —' ■— »—Y* ... —*nS6- J •' -^■i.-'- J..'— —-.:-.Y ■ 1— '-~y r '"-_‘« "’^<7^7-J ■/;.J7. *7: - --jt-t -z'.rxZZZZr ■ ■■■ ~" ■- ■ ■'"X? ' “xSSErsrr.- 7 •¥!«» ' • &~:x = -.-■ -~ ■■•-•''-A^".--’- - - Si-—-4-?^aaßA-^tibPCTg^ — —r—-W I AX' ,; ■ w! F .. A - -M-lfl / r I<A Fl K . o s c ._J ' ■ ■ . : ’ ; . ■ . A . ■ 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. • ’• f * / 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
