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Americus Spo( Cotton Strict Middling 32c, N. Y. Futures. Exchanged dose on account of election in New York. FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 263 KU KLUX EDITOR KILLS KLAN ATTORNEY Legislators Gather For Extraordinary Session THIRD HOUSE AGUR 111 SESSION MIIBILL LOOSE IT MB. Senators and Representatives From All Over Georgia Ar riving For Extra Session TAX DISCUSSIONS RIFE Expect Wednesday’s Session To Be Consumed in Introducing Tax Scheme Measures ATLANTA, November 6.—(Spec ial) —Senators and representatives from cverv county in Georgia have been gathering since Monday and the Kimball House lobby once more is the center of Georgia politics. Tax discussion and arguments are rife, there being as many views and opinions as there are legisla tors and others interested in the forthcoming extraordinarv session of the legislature which convenes Wednesday mornin-" •4t is expected that little will be accomplished Wednesday' morn ing other- than the introduction of bills coming within the limitations of the governor’s call, bearing on methods of taxation with the nec essary machinery to collect, and free text books. Governor Walker will deliver his special message to the lawmakers at a dinner Wednesday night in one ’of the local cases. No intimation has been given out regarding his recommendations other than he will back to the limit the report and rec ommendations to be presented, to the solons by his special tax com mission. Regarding the probable length of „he session, Governor Walker says “it isn’t a question with me of how 'long or how short the session will be, First, 1 am approaching it fro mthe angle of just how well the session is going to accomplish the purpose for which it was call ed.” ‘ An equitable classified tax sys tem, with an income tax of moder ate rate for this state, was urged by Representative Ellis, of Tift county, a mpmber of the sub-com mittee that has formulated the re port of the special tax commission. Mr. JSllis will be one of the prin cipal speakers at the dinner ten dered by the governor to the mem bers of the legislature tonight. WIMBERLY WANTS TAX REFORMS DUBLIN, Nov. 6.—(By Asso ciated Press) —Representative B. Wimberly, ol Laurens county, stated today he was in favor of tax reform in Georgia. He ts one of three representatives of this county who will attend the extraordinary session of the general assembly which convenes in Atlanta next week.' I -n sent t" ■: ■' ma- 1 ciuuui-j i.. vne is uuiiiciep - . in his qpinion, he said. “It seems’ that free text books are a necessity if the ‘free school’ is to be i. success,” hfc said when asked his opinion on free school books legislation which is t > be con sidered by the legislators. LIMITED NET I INCOME TAX. GREENSBORO, November C. (By the Associated Press.)—A lim ited net income tax and tax col lection machinery for Georgia ato favored by Representative F. E. Boswell, of Greene county, who will be present at the opening of the' extraordinary session of the general assembly in Atlanta tomor row. “I feel that our present tax laws should be amended in some in stances,” he said. * I think I shall favor a very limited net income tax, with smaller exemptions than | the federal government. “I lit ve been a member of the ways and means committee of she house for three years. During this time, I have been thoroughly con- j —vinced that wc need some kind of j machinery with teeth in it to force , everybody to pay the taxes we al- ■ ready have imposed. “The general tax act, which is | compiled by the ways and means , (Continued From Page Five) LU ANY AT CALVARY CHURCH The Litany will be said in Cal- ; vary church tomorrow morning it : 11 o’clock. Candidates Attention It was hoped the vote score could again appear in today's Tjmes-Recorder, but owing to the thousands of votes in coupons and subscriptions that were cast in the Times-Recorder’s cam paign Monday, it was impossible to get theny/all double checked in time for the regular count to appear in today’s paper. The count is being made and will positively appear in Wednesday’s Times-Recorder. j • I . " THEffMESriREcfiRDER | fefrJ PUBLISHED IN THfeZ ART 12 BODIES REMOVED FROM MINE'S SHAFT ROBBERS ENTER BANKI THEN FLEE WTH LOOT : Secure $15,000 aryl Speed Away In Automobiles After Cutting *’• All Wires * SPENCER. Ind., Nov. 6.—A band of robbers, variously estimated in number from 14 to 20, robbed two banks here early today of approxi mately 5,000 and wounded* two citizens. Traveling in foitr automobiles, the robbers first isolated the tow n by cutting all telephone and tele graph wires and then posted guards to prevent interruption while thej > opened the bank vaults. ST. PAUL BANK ROBBED OF $5,000 ST. PAUL, Minn., November 6. wo masked men entered the Grand Avenue State Bank ,here Monday, forced two employees and a cus tomer into a rear room, scooped up $5,000 in currency and silver and escaped in' an automobile. The bank, which is in the residential section, opened a month ago. rpeWpitoi OF JOSOH LBP. CO. Valdosta Fire Truck Called To Augment Meagr.i Apparatus Kept at Big Saw Mill VALDOSTA, Nov. 6.—The saw mill of the Jackson Lumber compa ny, 20 miles from here, valued at SIOO,OOO, w'as burning at noon. , The fire truck of th-j local de partment went to the aid of the meager fire-fighting facilities' at Ray City. EOIMHT BELIEF IB BE DELAYED Program of Relief Work For Geimany Must Await Con venisyj of Congress WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. - Any progrim for extension of govern , ment relief to the poplatiop of Germany must in the opinion of President Coolidge, await the con vening of congress. mtoblfimlls, SESPO NEAR MH Eavis, Resisting Arrest, Is Shot. By Special Deputy Near His Home i i MACON, Nov. 6. —Carson Davis, 1 negro, was shot and almost instant ly killed Monday afiernbci.i, whenj he resisted arrest at the hand of j Earl Mosely, county motorcycle of" ficef. The shooting took pk-c: near I Hardy’s ersasing and the negro died while bn the way to the Macon hos pital in an automobile. Mosely was at the sheriff’s of fice when he received a telephone call from M. E. Carswell, justioj of the peace in tr.e Liz'ella district, and a request that he come i > Hardy’s crossing and go with the justice to arrest the negro who had threatened him and had refused to move from a farmer’s place. The I motorcycle officer went alone and after meeting Mr. Carswell started towards the negro who was stand ing near a wagon. The negro seeing the officer, ran i to his wagon and drew out a shot j gun, witnesses said. He was at | tempting to shoot the officer when fhot him twice in the side, .ill' negro whirled and ran around | the. wagon and Mqseloy shot him i again. This time the negro leaped I a small ditch and fell, still clutching i the shot gun. He . was not dead i When the officers got to him. He I was brought tu Macon in Carswell’s i automobile. I AMERICUS, GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 6, 1923 KWPELL STARTS' 'MOVE TO PROBE TAXi IlWmi HERE Says City With Low Tax Rate Apt to Take • ‘-ead In March of Progress. AMERICUS NEEDS BOOST Suggests Auditors and Efficiency Experts Aid in Solving Tax j Problem for Municipality J Dan Chappell, well known Amer- Titris attorney, in an interesting talk j before the Lions club of Americus | today suggested the need of citi jzens getting behind Mayor Poole land the members of city council, in an effort to provide the highest type of efficient municipal govern ment* possible. to the end of reduc ing the tax burden, and giving Americus an equal chance in the march of progress now lead by other Georgia cities. t In this talk Mr. Chappell, who states he, is deeply interested in at taining a solution of the problems ; that now confront Americus, said I “The city which offers the lowest I tax rate with th.e most efficient i progressive city administration will ! take the leadership in the growth of > American cities. Believing this to I be a fundamental truth. I believe a ' conscientious effort should De made to give the citizens of Americus* the lowest tax rate possible and 'the idkst efficient government. Our mayor and city council are doing all within their power to give us a clean and efficient government, but I they need and must hav e the help j and assistance of the citizens of i this town. • I “Within the last few months around one hundred of our citizens | have left Americus and gone else where .to reside. This condition” came about because Americus could not offer opportunities as attractive ias other cities. Most of these men who- left were raised and educated here in Americus and had just reached the point in life where they ' should have been of service to this ' community. I believe the first thing Americus needs is a boosting spirit ! for Americus. We need a citizens’ i organization to try and prevent any ■ more of oar citizens leaving. | “It has for years been the custom of taxpayers, everywhere to com plain about their tax bills. They pay the bills and that ends their connection with the whole tax sys ) tern. We have in Americus a num ber of splesdid auditors and effic iency experts working for the dif ferent firrQs in the city. I believe if we would lay aside petty politics 1 and if the mayor and city council of Americus would request several of these experts to check over the departments of the city and sen if they could find anv leaks, that a great saving could be had by the | city. This identical plan was put in operation by Mayor Howard Jack , son, of Baltimore, and it gave won ' derful results. z I “Taxes, whether local, state or federal, have reached a point where they are in some eases slowly I strangling business, and if Amerj | cus is to compete with other Geor gia cities for development, it must Ido all within its power to lower the tax rate and keep the city effic ient.” NAVY DEPARTBENT GIVES CHRISTMAS MAIL ORDERS WASHINGTON, November 6. Directions for sending Christmas mail and express packages for na val vessels in European waters, the West Indian and the Pacific were ‘ issued Mondy by the Navy De partment. Mail for vessels in -Fu- ■ | ropean waters must be at the naval operating base at Hampton Roads, ■ Va., not later than Nov. 28. Mail -for Pearl Harbor, Guam and Cavite • must reach San Francisco bv Nov. i 28. I TWO WHITE MEN HELD [ ON BURGLARY CHARGE, ! MACON, November 6.—William I K ing and Tony Murphy, wanted in ■ Chattanooga, Tenn., for burglary i of a clothing stork, and arrested on Poplar street by city detectives Fri day, hav,, been turned over to City Dr .e<t : \' Frank Burns. ,;f Cmilt-i --nooga. I .According to Detective Burrs, the me" secured clothing valued at close to S4OO, all of which was re covered by Macon officers. After the theft,"the loot was shipped by express to Tony Murphy here and the officers seized th" shipment when it was turned over to the eon -signee. The Tenr.i .-see officer left with his prisoners late Monday aftr-r- • ‘ noon. .. BANDIT JESSE HER | GRANDDAD few a / & IS emT « i 4 WWW Lx •» Remember Jesse James£ the robber? Well, just a moment-x hH granddaughter, Jose phine Frances James. She’s a i private secretary in Kenosha, ' Wis. Her father, Jesse James, Jr., is a retired lawyer. wlSm" BY MISSION Germany Liable For American Claims Resulting From War Damages J WASHINGTON, November 6.- Four decisions determining German liability for American claims result ing from the war, including those growing out of the Lusitania s tor- were announced late Mon day by the mixed commission. While upholding, broadly, the Lusitania claims numbering 278 and aggregating approximately $22,800,000 - the commission dis missed 3,190 claims totaling $345,- 000,000 for the recovery of insur ance premiums paid l y Americans for protection againsx war hazards General principles governing the assessment of the American claims were laid down by .he commission. Three of the decisions, ir.?lnß:r ( g that on the Lusitania -.-laims, were vnanimous, but in th.’ other inter preting treaty obligations, Edwin B. Parker, umpire, concurred with Shandies F. Anderson, the American commissioner, over the dissent M the German commissioner, Dr. Wil liam Kiesselbach. An important feature of tlje Lusi tania decision was the refusal of the commission, to assess exemplary or punitive damages. It held that such damages wpre penal in their na ture, not compensation, and there fore, unauthorized "by the treaty of Berlin. " POLICE LIEUTENANT STARTS SCANDAL ATLANTA, November , 6.—The Atlanta police department is again in the midst of a scandal, or nggr scandal. A year and a half ago the talk of .he city was the accusation of protection to bootleggers and the appropriation to their own use of captured liquor by certain members of the department. Now comes the charge by Lieut. T. D. Shaw that the proposition was made to him by Ljeut. W. A. Chewn ing to jointly rob gambling deyiees which are being held by the de partment as evidence. EARTH SHOCKS FELT IN PART OF CALIFORNIA CALEXICO, Cal., Nov. 6.—The most pronounced earthquake shock felt jn recent years in the Imperial Valley \vas recorded Monday. The Virginia Hotel here was shifted sev er? 1 inches cn its foundations and damage was done to other build ings. The earthquake’struck the Im perial Valley shortly after 2 o’clock in the afternoon and left a trail of dislodged building founda tions,* twisted concrete pillars and broken glass.- The first tremor, the stiffest of the three recorded here, lasted five second*. A portion of the ceiling in the United States, immigration station fell, but no one was reported as injured. j PPDSPEPITYDFNM!O*I mwcuM r Thanksgiving Proclamation Is sued Today, Calls Attention To Many Blessings WASHINGTON, Nov. (5.—-Presi dent Coolidge's 1 nanksgiving day proclamation issued today calls to mind that the year of 1923 has brought to American people two tragic experiences, the death os’ President Harding and the Japanese earthquake disaster. The president says that such ex periences serve to test and refine men and -nation.s During the year, the president adds, the .nation has been blessed with much IM'osperity. pivot Seed by VERY DISASTROUS FIRE Hardware Store, Theatre and Offrces All Damaged Before Flames Are Subdued MOULTRIE, Nov. 6.— J. A. Ken nedy's,hardware store, moving pic ture theater and offices of two physicians, all located in the same building, were destroyed by firg, at Pavo last night. The loss is estimated at approxi mately $40,000. POBBINGIOW CONTINUE IN BEM Food and Clothing As Well As Many Automobiles Stolen In Residential Districts BERLIN, Nov. 6’.—’Looting of food and clothing shops continued throughout the night in the north ■ern district of Berlin, whi|e in the fashionable west end of the city nu - merous automobiles were held up, the occupantts of the cars being robbed of their personal belongings. DDLGJPSSTERNHOTE Demands Apology hor Attack On Military AttacKe At Bel grade Last Friday BELGRADE, Nov. 6. Jugo Slavia, in a note presented at Sofia gave Bulgaria forty-eight hours in which to fulfil\ three demands for reparation in consequence of the attack on the Jugo Slav military attache in Sofia last Friday. The conditions are: First, the Blugarian government must present” its excuse and regrets to the Jugo Slav representative in Sofia; sec ond, the Bulgarian minister of w>- must express his personal regrets and third, a deiachment of 250 Bulgarian soldiers with a flag must render honors before the Jugo Slav legation. Two additional demands are for an energetic • invetsigation to find to the. Jugo Slav military attache and punish those guilty of the at tack, and for indemnity, to be de termined by the international court at The Hague. The nite states that the attack is regarded as a political crime. TWO DEAD AND\TWO OTHERS FATALLY INJURED NEW, ORLEANS, Nov. 6.—Two men are dead and two probably fa tally injured as the result of an automobile accident on the New Basin shell road near here, when two machines collided h<>ad-on. The dead: Eaul 'Carroll, 20, chauf feur; Richard Mormon, 21, Glazier Those fatally injured: Frank Mayeur, 35; Charles Werner, a 19- year-old bell boy. NEGROES ARRESTED ON.DISORDERLY CHARGE MACON,'November 6. —Four ne gro men and two negro women were arrested by Patrolmen Peavy, Bow den and McGee, of the motorcycle squad, and Patrolman Arnold when they raided a poolroom on Broad wajY yesteiflav. They ga.’e their names as Willie Singleton, Joe Wal ton, Ed King, Lewis Nealy, Gussie Bostwick and Bessie Nealy. They i were charged with loitering, except .iKing, against whom a charge of be ing drunk was made. _ EWSION ENTOMBS HALF HUNDRED IN IN GLEN ROGERS MINE ' - Details of Accident Lacking, But 1 Believed 75 Workers In Shaft MANY ESCAPE UNINJURED Near Victoms Are Brought Out Before Gas Fumes Spread CHARLESTON, W. Va., Nov. 6. Twelve bodies bebn take i from the shaft of ilie mine of the Raleigh-Wyoming Coal company, of Wyoming county, in which an ex plosion occurred this morning, and little hope is entertained fit the 3Q men stjll within the walkings, the Department of Mines reported at noon. Sixty-fiye men were in- .he mine at the time of the explosion and 23 .were brought out uninju>-a I. i BECKLEY, W. Va.. Nov. 6. Between 35 and 50 miners were reported to be Cintuiniied in Glen Rogers mine of the Kaieigk-Wyom ing Coal coinpany at Glen Rogers by an explosion this morpipg. The first reports were lacking in details, but it was said at the time of the explosion between fill and 75 men wore in tne m .;ie and that 2ii had ben brought out unitijlired. imimT OPUIffIACCEPTS R. Ci Lane, commander of John D.. Mathis Post, No. American Legion, announced todav that Rev. Walter Pope Binns, of Moultrie, had accepted the invitation ten4ered him by the post to deliver a mem rial address here in connection with I the observance of Armistice Day in Amerjcus this year. While here he will be a guest of the-dnembers qf the post, and it is expected that’ hundreds of citizens, ex-service men I and those who served their country in other than military? capacities during the World War, will be here to hear him. Dr. Binns, who Js an orator of note, and man of deep learnino- who especially familiar with the his tory of the recent war, formerly re sided in Louisville, Ky., and also at Atlanta, being widely known throughout this entire section both for his eloquence and learning. He recently accepted a pastorate at Moultrie, of which city he has been a resident only a short time. Other features of the Armistice Day celebration are to be announc ed later, it is stated today. MACON NEGRO HELD UNDER NARCOTIC ACT MACON, November 6.—Harrojd Greer, negro charged with violating the Harrison narcotic act, was bound over to United Spates district court yesterday by United States I Commissioner W. E. Martin, who I placed the negro’s bond at SSOO. The bond was not made. I The ease against the negro lyas handled by Charles Moseley, Unit ed States marshal, who testified that the negro who was formerly employed by Mitchell, Williams and Mack, was suspected of taking a number of tablets of morphine from the store. Approximately 1,500 quarter grain tablets of the drug arg missing from the store, it was said. MINISTER ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF KIDNAPING FORT SMITH, Ark., Nov. 5.—A minister named Corey and his son were arrested late yesterday by Sheriff Alien, of Scott county, in a warrant charging them with the kidnaping of little Pearl Turner, 3- year-old daughter of Lem Turner, mountaineer, who has been missing for more than two weeks. The warrants were sworn out by Chalmers Ferguson, mountaineer hermit, who claims to have seen the child in the custody, <»f the minister and his son. The minister and his son w'ere carried to Waldron Sunday, accord ing to Sheriff Allen. Plans for the most rigid search of the mountains yet made, for to ; day were practially abandoned I when it became known that the | roads and by-ways to the White Oak Mountains from Waldron were prac l tically impassable. • WEATHER. For Georgia Generally fair to night and Wednesday; no change in temperature.. PRICfi FIVE CENTS 101REFUSIS TH ISO TO EIPST STATEREIT ON SLAYING COBURN Claims False Affidavits Were Made Against His Character ASK murderlndictment Solicitor Boykin Draws True Bill Charging Capital Crime To Present Grand Jury ATLANTA, Nov. 6.—Philip E. Fox, editor of “The Nighthawk,” of ficial organ of the Ku Klux Klan, refused to add to his statement that he killed Captain W. S. Coburn, klansman and attorney for the Sfm inons faction, last night because Coburn had false affidavits attack ing his character and 'planned to publish them In the meantime Solicitor Ger eral Boykin asked the grand jury for a murder m'd’ct.ncnt against Fox. At the prisoner’s iin.ne his wife was reported prostrated and unable to see newspaper men. A small boy Fox’s appeared at door in an swer to a summons. FOX SHOOTS FOUR TIMES ATLANTA. Nov. o.—William S. Cobunn, attorney for the Simmons faction of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and prominent figure in a series of sensational events in volving that organization, was shot four times acid almost instantly killed while he sat in his office im the Atlanta Trust company build ing at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon by ‘Philip E. Fox, publicity repre sentative for the imperial palace and editor of “The Nighthawk,” of ficial Organ of the Evans faction. After hurling his revolver to the floor of Hie attorney’s office, Fox ran to the floor below, where he was caught by Attorney George C. Spence and held until Officer C. O. Coehnaji arrived frayi. his seat on the street below to take him un custody. Accordj-ig to Officer Cochran, Fox declared that he was glad Co burn was dead. "I may hang for this, but he was planning to- ruin me, and I had just as soon be hanged as for him to have ruined me.” Fox was held at police station on a charge of murder. x ifirs. M. A. Holbrook, of 2,25 Stewart avenue, stenographer for Coburn, and Mrs. Oscar Heyman a client, were eye-witnesses to th-j shooting. They were closely ques tion by the police. Fox came to Coburn’s office shortly before 4 o’clock, and find ing Caburn engaged in converse Cion w;ith W. T, Rogers, said tx be an attache of the office 'of Henry J. Norton, head of Atlanta Klan No. 1, stated that he would return in about an hour, “when we can talk business in private,” accord ing to Mrs. Holbrook’s statement. ‘‘ He had just about time to reach the hall and turn around wheif he re-entered the office, and without a word, began firing at Mr. Coburn, who sat at his desk,” Airs. Holbrook said. > 1 “I was so excited I didn’t look around until the firing eeased. There were four or five shots fire !. Mr. Coburn screamed after each shot. After the last shot Was fired [ Fox left the office, throwing his I gun to the floor as he passed I through the door. “When I looked at Mr. Cobpr:i lie was lying on the floor, scream ing, and blood was spurting from a wound in his face. Mrs. Hey man and myself ran down the hall to the office of the Fulton Finance company.” W. T. Rogers, who was in Co burn's office when Fox first enter ed, told the police that Fox had asked to speak to Coburn, saying: “I am through with it all, and I am going home tonight.” j Rogers said that Coburn was busy c,n the telephone, so he wrote him a note, saying, “Talk to him,” indicating Fox. On the same scrap of paper, Rogers said, Coburn wrote this reply: “I will. _You wait outside.** Rogers said he went into the ad joining office,' occupied by A. E. Wilson, Coburn’s laW partner, and shortly five pistol shots racig out. Opening the door, he said, he saw Fox leaving Coburn’s office -by the door to the hall and throw a pis tol back into the office. Fox rail down the steps to the next floor, i Ragers following. As Fox reached the floor beneath i police were told by Attorneys Geo. C. and Nat Spence, Fox told them that “a man has been shot,” ip a casual way, in an apparent effort :to divert suspicion frof himself) I the lawyers said. Attorney Spence, supecting Fox, icommanded him to halt and Fox' surrendered. Officer Cochran, pa- (Continued on Page
