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Americus Spot Cotton Strict 'Middling 30c. N. Y. Futures Dec. Jan. Meh. Prev. Close . 30.58 30.00 30.01 °Ptn. 30.82 30.22 30.27, U am 30.91 30.32-80.36 Close 30.67 30.05 30.08 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 254 FORBES DENIES BRIBERY CHARGES Hum Fleet May Be Abolished Through Agreement Will ffiPTS II PHKIPLf PROPOSED son he ras British Ships in American Wa ters May Be Searched With in Twelve-Mile Limit CURZON DRAWS UP PLAN Secretary making Plans Now To Meet Essential Points In United States’ Request LONDON, Oct. 26.—The British government has accepted in prin ciple the proposal of the American government t’hat''vessels in Ameri can waters be searched for contra band liquor with in 12 miles of the j American shore. The .expor committee of imper ial conference which has been setudying the question under the chairmanship of Secretary Curzon h?s drawn up plans which are be lieved to meet the essential points of the American request. fkWwS MARBLE PLANT BE Schneider Concern and Adjoin ing Dwelling Burned With Loss of $15,000 Fire this afternoon completely destroyed the Schneider Marble Works plant here, the blaze having originated in the garage, where an automobile was stored. Harry Schneider, one of the proprietors, wnu. discovered the fire, tried to ■gefr-4i»e car from the garage be fore the flames reached it. All the contents of the office were saved, with the exception of a • *arg<j iron safe, which was too heavy to be removed. A quantity of marble was de stroyed by the intense heat, and large pieces damaged beyond use. A large drum of oil in the building, it was said by onlookers at the fire, exploded, crashing through the roofs and causing a volume of dense black smoke to proceed upward. The damage is estimated at about $12,000, with a probable insurance of $6,000, although this couid not be correctly estimated until after the .safe has been opened. A five-room house adjoining the marble works, belonging to Tom Cox, Seaboaord engineer, cajaght fire, the roof and side next to the marble yard being badly damaged. All' the furniture in this home w.v saved, with the house practically ruined from water .and fire. The damage to the dwelling is estimated at about $2,000. » f | XX ■» 5 -•< t r -.- nP, -X fflihtu LtAMlr LOST n OEB DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 26.-—Oscar W. Understood, United States Senator from Alabama, declared in an address at the Texas State fair here Thursday that America has surrendered leadership in world af fairs, losing herself in partisan politics, and the plain ditty that lies ahead is“rettirn to the princi ples guilding America in the great war to have and exercise a definite governmental policy in Europe.” Mr. Underwood opened his cam paign for the democratic presiden tial nomination'previously at Noc ona, Texas, when he declared ho was “going give the south a chance to select t. southern man to carry the banner of democracy.” The south must assert itself, he said, and expressed belief that the ‘■great democratic north will recog nise its right to carry the banner. • DEKALB RED CROSS DRIVE ATLANTA, Oct. 26.'—DeKalb red cross chapter is planning a drive for the relief of the poor to he launched in the near future. A meeting of citizens will be hold at the county couty house to devise plans and many prominent speak ers will offer suggestions, accord ing to Miss Claire Hancock the sec retary of the local chapter. There will be no subscriptions taken at the meeting which is to be a busi- • n ess meeting to formulate plans only. One of the principal sub jects to be considered will be the proposal that the DeK “lb chapter take a subscription of sustaining • menwerships for the advancement of the work in the county n the pear future. . P THETIRWgffioRDER the HEART;.oF;bixiClfeil FRANCE SUGGESTS CONFERENCE PLAN FRENCH GOVERNMENT WS REPARATIONS Desires International Conference Os Experts To Consider Question SEE EARLY” SETTLEMENT With Encouragement From This Country, France Sees For ward Movement France, Belgium and Italy have accepted the British invitation 1 for a reparations conference with the understanding that it shal take the form of a committee of experts un der authority of the present inter allied reparation commision. It is understood that Britisn . members will be the same as those ! who served last year on the bank er's committee and that Berlin be chosen as the seat of the confer ence. The selection of French, Belgium and Italian personnel accepted to be completed shortly. BARIS, Oct. 26.—The French government is willing that an in ternational conference of experts, to be named by the reparations commission, be called to consider the question of reparations in con formity with the treaty of Ver sailles. The French government it was said in official circles this morn ing, would be more happy if the government of the United States would name the experts who are to participate in such a conference. ®M®lB MFfT AUGUSTA 1924 Official Announcement Today Names Georgia City As Next Meeting Place AUGUSTA, Oct. 26.—Official announcement was made today that that Augusta has been selected for the 1924 annual meeting of the executive council of The American Bankers Association, the meeting to be held there April 29 to May 1. BMMES H MEH HO© Brush Manufacturer Says He Was Introduced To Mrs. Siokes by Gen. Miles NEW YORK, October 26 Thomas W. Brander, a brush manu facturer, testified late Thursday at the trial of W. E. D. Stokes’ divorce suit, that although he had been in troduced to Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes by General Nelson A. Miles," Mrs. Stokes nevfer had been jn the Brander homes in this city and Be thel, Conn. The photograph of a woman which hung in the Bethel home, and which was declared by Janette Car ter, negress witness for Stokes, to have been that of Mrs. Stokes, was the photograph of another woman long since dead, Brander declared. He testified that the .Stokes witness, a domestic in his household, had been discharged for theft.. General Miles introduced him to Mis. Stokes at the Waldorf-Asto ria hotel years ago, said Brander. He could not recall just when. Since then he had met Mrs. Stokes only once, he said. He denied ever hav ing seen her at the apartment which he and Edgar T. Wallace, co-respon dent, formerly shared in this city. Refuq F. Stillman, former gard ner at Brander’s Bethel home, who had originally been subpeonaed as a witness forth,, plaintiff, was called to the stand by Mrs. Stokes’ coun sel. He said th;it after waiting around the courtroom for several days he was told by “Stokes’ agent” that he not nwded any more and tl at h v should go away or he would get into trouble. Stillman testified that Stokes and Daniel F. Nugent, of Stokes coun sel, called on him several times, showed him photographs and asked him if he could identify Mrs. Stokes from the pictures as a woman who visited Bethel while he was working there. He said he told them he would be unable to do so unless he saw Mrs. Stokes personally. AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 26, 1923 . -111-. ~a. ■ . - ... ■ . ■■ ■ , ■ ---•■■aw ■■?■■■ TT - -,,,, - u ' Wizard Dies ci •> * / I ** I \ Mffi STEIBTZ. EEEWWLWM, DEM IIIt. HOME Death Followed Recent Trip To Pacific Coast on Research Work HAD REMARKABLE CAREER Bom in Germany, He Came To America At An Early Age, Earning Wide Renown NEW YORK, October 26. —Dr. Chares P. Steinmetz, A. M., Ph. D., chief, consulting engineer of the -General Electric Works, Schnecta dy, N.Y’ ~ died today at his home in that city, death following a physical breakdown attributed to a trip to the Pacific coast from which he re cently returned. The American career of Dr. Steinmetz had its beginning in New York in 1889 where, penniless and able to speak but very little En glish, he arrived from Zurich, Swit zerland. He was accompanied by a young American who had been his fellow student at the Zurich Poly technicium. One side of Steinmetz's face was badly swollen as the result of a trifling illness aboard ship and the immigration authorities at Ellis Is land refused at first to allow him to enter the country. He was sent to the ‘ detention pen,” and was only released by the eloquence and persuasion of his American com } panion. A few years later he be- Jcame at naturalized citizen. T At the time of his death Dr. - Steinmetz .vas regarded not only as one of the foremost authorities on electrical engineering, but one ;of the greatest mathematicians in I . ' Vol 'i4. Strangely enough, one of his great difficulties as a child t'lbl 11 t!le multiplication | Born in the city of Breslau, Ger w Continued on Page Five.) ■ BOY SCOUTS IN COLUMBUS. COLUMBUS, Oct. 26 The large ; numbers of Columbus boy scouts ! that ate now attending the leading i colleges over the country empha sizes the fact that the Boy Scout movement is one that creates ambi tion in the youth of the epuntry. she local scouts through various means arc brought into contact with the business men of the commun ity and they are given an oppor tunity to see just the necessary qualities required to serve well as a public spirited man to a commun ity. TEACHERS ORGANIZE DUBLIN, Oct. 26—The teach ers ot Laurens have organized a teachers club which is to meet once a month and is composed! of all the teachers in the county schools. The organization is known as the Lau rens County Teachers Association and it is thought that it will be beneficial to the educational system of the county. A very helpful meeting wt.s recently held at the home of Mrs. Edith Ward, the county home demonstration agent. CONGRESSMAN WISE ILL ATLANTA, Oct. 26.—Telephonic information received by relatives from Fayetteville this afternoon is that Songressman J. Walter Wise has suffered a stroke of apo plexy and is quite ill at his home. DEATH IN STREETS UTi DEATH IN STEETS U.T ' PULASKI'S CAPITAL Man Attacked by Pool Room Manager Dies From Wounds Inflicted SLAYER USED SHOTGUN ' Second Man Said To Have Fired From Behind Building Col umn With Big Revolver HAWKINSVILLE, . Oct. 26 Aaron Manneheim who was shot last night by Hollis M. Pollock, pool room proprietor, diqd this morning. Pollock has not been arrested. FRANKLE RESTING EASY TODAY. i MACON, Oct. 26.—1 Frankie, a i salesman from Brooklyn, N. Y. an innocent bystander of, the shooting 1 last night, was resting easy in a ; Macon hospital today. His condi- I tion is serious, but his recovery is expected. Five men were wounded during the shooting, which occurred here last night in front of a nool room, and started whep Hollis M. Pollock opened fire on Aaron Mannheim, us ing a shotgun loaded with buck shot. The shooting, which was led up to by a previous quarrel between Pollock and Mannheim, resulted in the serious injury of a salesman named Frankie, traveling for a New York house, who chanced to be near the scene of shooting. He is now at a hospital in Macon, where he was carried 4a«t. n-ghtt. Isadore Mirskey, of Hawkins ville, a bystander, was shot in the foot by a stray bullet; Joe Coley of this place, and Julian Berg, of Eastman, two other bystanders each received flesh wounds during the shooting. Police are investigating an angle of the case that promises to de velop a feature that may lead to an arrest. Pollock, who shot twice, disappeared immediately following the shooting, while bystanders as serted that some unknown person, hiding behind a column of the Hawkinsville Band and Trust build ing fired four shots from a large calibre revolver into the crowd. At least two bullets from this revolver found victims, it is declared. The difficulty that led up to the shooting is said to have had its be ginning when George Grinstead, went into the poolroom during Thursday afternoon, beginning to swear. He was cautioned, it is al leged, by Pollock who is interested in operating the establishment. He went from the poolroom to a vul i eanizing shop operated by Mann heim, where he told his story of .the quarrel. Pollock, it is said, armed himself with a shotgun following his quar rel wjth Grinstead, and when he saw Mannheim and Grinstead ap proaching his place together, he commanded them to stop. Reports at this point differ, but Pollock is said by some to have commenced firing. Mannheim was struck' near the heart, while Grin stead was not wounded. Mannheim is prominently con nected here, being a brother of Is rael Mannheim, clerk of the Supe rior court of Pulaski county. ALLEGED ROBBERS FACE BUNCH OF CHARGES SAVANNAH, Oct. 26.—Robbery charges against a sextette of Sa vannah men by D. W. Howell, a roofing expert of Atlanta, bred a multiplicity of charges and invoked several courts here Thursday. Howell complained to the police that in a store on West Broad street he was knocked down and robbed of a considerable sum. M. Wilkinsan, John Riehbourg, !J. L. Dixon, Raymond Lovett, Tom Murphy and Joe Simms were bound over to to the superior court on rotAbery charges, their bonds being fixed at $2,000. The men denied the charges. lom Murphy, whom Howell de clared had wihskey in his place, also denied that charge, but pro hibition ofrants for Murphy, Dixon and Simms, charging violation of the prohibition laws. They wll ap peal- before the U. S. commission er. . Howell charged that men robbed seven bottles of Iquor *which he de him when he declined to pay for ckres he did receive. Jacksonville, Fla., hall clock weights fell. Couldn’t be a Florida girl looked at it, UNKNOWN Ml KILLED INSTANTLY II AUTO CWII ■WON High-Powered Machine Crashed Into Telephone Pole, Kill ing Driver instantly j BODY IS TOSSED 60 FEET Com Liquor Found Trickling Down Road in Wake of Car By Sheriff AUGUSTA, Oct. 26.—A man whose coat bore the name of S. L. Suggs, of Columbia, S. C. was in stantly killed this morning, when .a new high-jowered automobile driv en by him collided with a telegraph pole just outside the city. His body 1 was thrown 60 feet. . Sheriff Plunkett said that corn liquor trickled odnw the roadway irorn the wreckage for a distance of 9,00 feet. WEIcBSS; KILLEDHISBfIOTHER Wanted Brother’s Wife, Accord ing To Confession Made To Sheriff i ' DOUGLAS, Oct. 26—John Al ton Rogers, held in the Coffee county jail o n charges of murder in connection with the death Nov. 28, 1922, of his brother, Love S. | Rogers, has confessed to Sheriff fanngr that he killed his brother because he wanted his. brother’s wife, according to announcement at the county jail Thursday night. Rogers is said to have signed a previous confession that he killed , Love in self-defense, and the wo man corroborated the story. ' Mrs. Love Rogers and John John Alton Rogers were arrested - in Avon Park, Fla., several days ago and charged with the murder of the other Rogers, whose skele- ■ ton was dug’Up in a cornfield. Rog ers is charged with shooting the ! brother to death, burying him un clothed in the cornfield and rais | ing a crop over the remains. About a month ago he and Mrs. Rogers went to Florida. AUTOWRECKED 7- 10EAI15 INJURED Wilkes County Car Turns Tur tle and Dewey Jones Is Killed ELBERTON, Oct. 26.—Dewey Jones, of Norman, Ga., was killed outright, W. H. Gunter and Jeff Brake, were seriously injured and three other young men from Wilkes County were slightly injur ed Thursday near here on the Wash ington-Elberton State highway, when the large Studebaker touring car in which they were riding turn ed turtle. The car belonged to Gunter, who is said to have been driving at a high rate of speed just above Fort sonia station. It is said the car overtook a wagon in the road and as an attempt was made to go around the vehicle, the car skidded , of the graded road, and turned over, i The car was a complete (wreck. I -Jones, who was killed, was a son of W Hey Jones, a prominent farmer of Norman. Gunter received num erous flesh wounds and had one eye badly injured, which will very likely have to be taken out, and had one finger mashed off. Jeff Drake who is an engineer on the Washington Lincolnton Railroad was practically scalped and it is feared that -he re-! ceived internal injuries also. There were three other occupants of the car who were slightly injured but were picked up by a passing car and carried to Washingtoif before their names could be ascertained Dr. George Ward, of Fortsonia j was the first to reach the scene. ! Soon afterwards he was joined by ! Drs. Matthews, Bailey, Thompson and Johnson, of Elberton, and Dr. Ellis <?f Washington, Sec. Denby Out j jgjjir- a 'I I Secretary of Navy Deqby, his friends are glad to know, is again out of the hospital. He suffered with a torn tendon in one heel, and still must use the crutch, as the photo shows. Snapped as he came from the Orthopedic Hospital, at New York. mljOiTsl VOTES 1 ADDITIONAL CHARGES DURING W Charge That Klan Official Is Boss of Assembly Creates Uproar in Chamber GOVERNOR LOSES IN FIGHT Lieut.-Governor Declared By Court To Be Acting Execu tive In Oklahoma OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 26 The Lower House of the Oklfl ioma legislature voted two more charges ag: inst Governor Walton in its im -I'cachment proceedings. OKLAHOMA SOLONS EJECT ONE MEMBER. , OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 26 I A dozen or more members forcibly i attacked Representative Callahan of Latimer, smashed a chair and threw Callahan out of the room when he declared in a bitter ar raignment of the Ku Klux Klan I hursday that N. C. Jewett, grand dragon of the Oklahoma realm of the klan was dictating the kind of legislation to be enacted in Okla homa. Callahan’s words hardly fell in the house qhamber before one member shouted ‘‘that’s a black lie.” One member sprang at Cal lahan’s throat and both fell on the floor in a scuffle. Twelve or fif teen other members rushed toward Callahan, most of them endeavor ing to place their hands on him. I Sergeant at arms and virtually j all other members of the house rushed 1 , to the corner where the scuttle was taking place. Clench (Continued on Page 8.) THIVES GETTING THOMAS PECANS; PATROLS USED THOMASVILLE, Oct.' 26.—JLo -1 cal peepn growers are patrolling | their groves at night in this section following the action of thieves who are reported to have stolen large quantities of the nuts from some orchards. The loss of several hun dred pounds of pecans is no small one and the growers are determined to protect themselves. HOSPITALS APPROVED. SAVANNAH, Oct. 26.—Local hospitals are working hard to meet the requirements of the American College of Surgeons following their approval in a recent announcement. The requirements of the college it is said result in the most scientific care of patients and jt is quite an honor and distinction to be placed on the approval list. Several lo cal institutions are expecting to meet the requirements of the col lege in the immediate future, A WEATHER. Fair tonjght and Saturday. Veri little change in temperaur#y. PRICE FIVE CENTS DM OF VETERANS' EITEFIS BIFOAOCAST DENIAL OE CHARGES Breaks Silence at Insistence Os Friends That He Make Statement ‘CHARGE IS GROUNDLESS’ Any Accusation Against Per sonal or Official integrity, False, Says Forbes ; WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—From his place of seclusion here, Chatles R. Forbes, former director of th* Veterans Bureau, issued ai state ment denying astutely and absolute ly the false story of Elias H. Mor timer before the senate investiga ting committee of his alleged (brib ery and corruption in connection with contracts for veteran’s hos pitals. Forbes said that although he did not feel tljat he ought to make any statement in advance of “his full and complete testimony he will give under oath to the committee, tut at the insistent urging of his friends and inquiries .from the press, he could not refrain from saying that every charge brought by Mortimer involving his personal or official integrity is without the slightest foundation. BANKS AND BUSINESS MEN WAGE WEEVIL WAR JACKSON,, Oct. 26,—Banks and business men of this county are adding county agent Henry, G.- Wilky in his campaign against the the boll weevil. Mr. Wilky is ad vocating the early plowing u> of the _ cotton stalks as a means of getting rid of the pest. The last season witnessed the most system atic campaign that has been wag ed in this county and the results show great improvement over otiher years. The bulk of the cotton crop has been picked. GA. AD MEN PLAN WORLD CONVENTION ATLANTA, Oct, 28.-—PUns are now being made by the advertising clubs of Atlanta to attend the world convention to be held in London next summer. Blanks ar£ being mailed to advertising clubs' all “ver the South to be filled in saying whether they are planning to attend the convention as a spec ial train from Atlanta to New York is being considertd for the use of Southern advertising men who will attend. Plans for the world vention are rapidly taking sharpe and many Atlanta an dother South ern ad men are expected to attend. FRANK BATLLIJGG NAMED AMBASSADOR -r- Will Replace Col. Harvey, Who Resigned Recently At Court Os St. Janies Oct. 26. trank B. Kellogg, former United States senator from Minnesota, has been selected for the American ambassador to London. He will succeed Ambassador Har vey who has resigned. ■■ - . f HALF R. R. FARE FOR CONFEDERATE VETS ATLANTA, Oct. 26—Half fare on railroads in the State of Geor gia for confederate veterans may soon become a reality. The Geor gia Public Service Commission has recently authorized at in a circular giving permission to all comnson . earners to do it. While not manda tory it is thought that the roads will respond and make the reduction. The action of the public service commission was simular to a resolu tion adopted during the 1923 legis lature. CANADA TO MEXICO IN TWELVE HOURS SAN DIEGO, Cah, Oct. 26- Captain Lowell Smith and Lieuten ant John Richter, in their border to bordeder flight, passed Rockell Field here going south at 6:36 twelve hours flat, Thursday, from Sumas, Washington. They circled over Tijuana, across the Mexican line, and returned tq Rockwell Field, he flight official ly ended when they crossed th< Mexican line, R M ...
