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Americus Spot Cotton
Strict Middling 33c.
N. Y. Fuutres Dec. Jan. Meh.
' Prev. Close 33.95 33.65 33.82
Open 33.95 33.58 33.75
U am 33.64 33.28 33.48
Close 34.04 33.65 33.95
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 25 7
SIMMONS DARES EVANS TO TELL FACTS
Governor
WBLKERS COMMISSION
RECOMMENDS INCBE
TM IB LEGISLATURE
Go Special Tax Body
Would Give Added Taxing
Authority to State
CLASSIFICATION TAX. TOO
Creation of State Auditing Sys
tem and Budget Bureau Al
so Recommended
ATLANTA. "Nov." B.—(By the
Associ ted Press.) —Faced by what
he termed a clear majority with
in the senate, Gov
ernor Walker, in his message to the
legislators retired from his position
for immediate repeal of the tax
equalization law and urged that
fir.t consideration be given the. re
port of the special tax commission.
The report does not pretend to
present a perfect 'system, he said,
for taxation deals with humans and
therefore -cannot be made perfect.
He pointed out that the report was
not his report. In fact, he (would
have altered it in some respects,
he aded.
200 GUESTS AT
GOVERNOR”S DINNER.
ATLANTA, Nov. B.—(Special.)
Calling upon the state legislature,
which convened in special session at
10 o'clock Wednesday morning, to
enact laws providing for a state in
come tax, for classification of prop
erty and for a reduction of the ad
valorem tax r.ate on real property,
the report of the special commis
sion was presented to members of
the asembly at a dinner given in
their honor by Governor Walker on
Wednesday night.
The commission’s report, which
is given in full in this issue also
recommends the creation of a state
budget system, of a state auditing
department, and of a state commis
sioner of revenues. It urges that
means be found to reduce the bur
den of municipal and county tax
ation and recommends that the ad
valorem tax rate on real property,
for state purposes, be immediately
cut from five to four mills, with
the provision that, if sufficient
revenue can be derived from oth
er ‘sources, it be eliminated entire
ly at some future date.
The report was presented in
printed form to the two hundred
odd legislators wjio attended the
dinner and members of the com
(Continued on Page Two.)
IREEIIMIS
ITBEIHHIB
John Davey, Tree Special-
I. i Age ,of
73 Years
AKRON, Ohio , November B.
John Davey, 73 years old, known as
the father of tree surgery in the
United States, died early today at
his hoipe here
FINALREHEARSAL FOR
MINSTREL TONIGHT
The last dress rehearsal of the
American Legion’s minstrel, ‘‘The
Land of Flowers, Mirth and Mel
ody,” occurs at the high school
auditorium tonight at 7:30 o’clock.
Commander Robert C. Lane says
that all is now ready for the min
strel show, tommorow, Friday night.
The curtain will rise promptly at
8 o'clock. The complete program
will appear in Friday’s paper.
Among the features stressed by
Mr. Lane will be several songs by
Little Kendall Beavers and vocal
solos by Miss Dorothy Cass jahd
Freddie Saunders.
GERMAN MAGNATE TURNS
DOWN BIG CONCESSION
Nov. B.‘—-An Ex
change Telegraph dispatch from
Constantinople quotes the newspa
pers there as stating that Colonel
Clayton-Kennedy, representing tne
Ottoman American Development
company, offered the Chester con
cessions in Turkey to Hugo Stinn ■ \
the German magnate, but that the
negotations collapsed.
Herr Stines, it was said, prefer
red to deal directly with the Turk
ish government after the expiration
of the American option on Nov
ember 15.
SAVANNAH TAX RETURN
UP ABOUT $4,000
Savannah, Nov. B. The city of
Savannah will be nearly $4,000 bet
ter off in the amount of taxes re
ceived this year, the total proper
ty of the various public utilities re
turned this year being nearly $12,-
000,000.
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THE T!MES’\RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART
Walker Changes Position on lax Equalization Law
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GEORGIA GINS 490,142 BALES TO NOVEMBER 1
fOTTBN GINNINGS IB
Mil. I GIVEN IS Bffl
SEIEHUILLIM BILES
Total to End of Period. 7,554,-
587 Bales, Compared to 8,-
139,215 To Date Last Year
IS MILLION BALES SHORT
Georgia Ginnings Placed At
490,142 Bales in Report Is
sued by Census Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. B—Cotton
of this year’s crop ginned prior to
November 1. aggregated 7,544,587
running bales which compares with
8, 139,215 bales ginned to that
date last year, and 6,464,354 bales
to the same date in, 1921, the cen
sus bureau announced today.
The ginnings in Georgia were
490,142.
DMMMH
KENTUCKY ELECTION
Pendulum Swings Back After
G. O. P. Vivtory There
In 1920
WASHINGTON, Nov. B.—Demo
crats were elected yesterday in all
three states where there were
gubernatorial election —Kentucky,
Maryland and Mississippi.
Vermont, where the only secra
torial contest was held, returned^J*
Republican, Porter H. Dale, who
defeated Park E. Pollard, cousin of
President Coolidge.
In the nine contests for the
house the Democrats won four and
the Republicans three, one of the
Republican victories being an up
set in which Former Representative
Fairchild defeated his Democratic
opponent for the place made va
cant by the death of J. Vincent
Ganly in the 24th New York dis
trict. Party alignment was un
changed in the other congressional
elections.
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SHIED OFF ®T
Cargoes, Consisting of 31 Bar
rels and 261 Cases I iquor
Removed Bv Guards
SALISBURY, N. C., Nov. B.
Two ' ips with liquor cargoes,
stranded off the North Carolina
coast, were ordered seized today
by State Prohibition Director A. B.
Coltrane, with offices in this city.
County and city officials of Bugue
inlet and Beaufort, where the ves
sels were stranded, were authoriz
ed to seize the ships by Mr. Col
trane when they notified him of the
attempt at smuggling.
B. C. Sharpe, field agent, Fed
eral Agent Houser, Captain Towiir
send and a federal inspector were
rushed from Salisbury to thcSe
points in eastern North Carolina
early yesterday to take charge of
the ships and confiscation of their
cargoes. *‘
One rum running ship, a motor
vessels which was stranded off
Bogue inlet, Onslow county, close
to Swainsboro, was reported as be
ing completely wrecked. Its cargo,
consisting of 31 barrels arid 261
cases of liquor, was removed by
the coast guards and five men, in
cluding the captain, wore arrested,
according to reports received by
Mr. Coltrane.
The other vessel, a yacht with a
large quantity of liquor aboard, aft
er being stranded, started unload
ing jts illicit cargo to citizens of
Beamlort, reports stated'. Mayor
Thomas, of that city, wired Prohi
bition director Coltrane for orders
to stop the procedure. In response
Mr. Coltrane wired the mayor to
place a police guard over the ship
and its cargo and arrest all on the
ship as well to stop all sale or dis
position of the liquor aboard.
AMERICAN BEAUTY MAY
SCON BE WIFE OF PRINCE
COPENHAGEN. Nov. B.—lt ,s
believed the engagement will soon
be announced of Prince Viggo,
cousin of the king of Denmark, and
nephew of Dowager Queen
: dra of England, to Miss Eleanor
: Margaret Green, of New York,
1 Who recently spent several months
iin Copenhagen as the guest of the
1 American minister'-and his wife.
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY'AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 8, 1923 '
Men'of Sumter, How Much
By Lovelace Eve
>• ■
Longer Will You Tolerate This
Sumter county must produce in I9® 4 the largest cotton
crop it is possible to raise.
The disastrous returns from the fields this year have
left many of Sumter’s farmers facing rtiin. To pull them
selves out of their financial difficulties, e effort will be
made to secure a bumper crop next seaso 1.
This statement is neither news nor advice. It is a state
ment of fact. Already most farmers are making plans for
just that and nothing more.
This being true, how great is the necessity—how vital
to the welfare of every man, woman ajyd child in the. county
—that the men and women on the farms be physically fit.
Raising cotton is a long, hazardous job. It requires
brain, brawn, money and months and months of time, and
yet—
After buying fertilizer; after purchasing the best of
seed; after preparing every seed-bed as carefully as skill and
knowledge permits; after starting in the winter and Working
through spring and summer; after all these, what fools we
men of the county would be to allow alt this placed in jeo
pardy for the sake of a miserly few thousand dollars.
1 here were farms in the county this year on which ev
ery laborer was suffering from malaria. There were days
when few if any of tl;e hands were able to work. Those that
did drag themselves into the fields were only half men or
less.
Malaria saps the strength; it removes the fighting abil
ity; it reduces efficiency almost to zero. How under heaven
can you expect a Man to fight the 801 l Weevil and Malaria
at the sametime? The Lord knows, one is bad enough,
but both operating at one and the same moment, make prog
ress well nigh impossible.
"The mosquito and its scourge can be
driven from Sumter county for the price of
40 bales of cotton at today’s market.
The decision is up to you. What are you going to do
about it? If you would eliminate malaria in Sumter county
fell your county commissioners to appropriate the
money necessary. They are in office to do your will. Make
it known and you can bet those five able and loyal officials
will act and that with wisdom and speed.
BAVARIANS TO SEND
REGULARS TO BERLIN
•
South German State Will Use
Armed Force Against Strese
man’s Government
LONDON, Nov. B.—The Berlin
correspondent of the Exchange
Telegraph forwards a telegram
from Munich which says that Ba
varian regulais have decided to
march on Berlin tomorrow.
i TODIW.LMDGF
Defense Serves Notice of Appeal
To Supreme Court Follow
ing Court’s Ruling
BASTROP. La.. Nov. B.—Judge
I Odom overruled motion of the de-
I sense in Morehouse misdemeanor
trials that he disqualify him
self. The defense immediately
gave notice that it would apply to
the Supreme court for a writ of
I prohibition end certiorari.
The defense had charged that
j the court was biased and prejudic
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EPISCOPAL COUNCIL
MEETS IN SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Nov. 8. The
I executive council of the Episcopal
i diocese of Georgia held a confer
ence here yesterday at Christ
I church, making plans for the ac-
I tivity of the church for the ensu-
I ing few months. Departmental
conferences were held last night.
! The Right Rev. F. F. Reese, D. D.,
< bishop of Georgia, the president;
J. Moultrie Lee, treasurer; Rev.
John Moore Walker, Albany, secre-
Itary; Rev. E. W. Hallecl?, Waj
j cross; Rev. J. J. Cornish, Valdosta;
1 Rev. 1). Watson Winn, St. Simon
j Island; lay member:. J. R. Ander
j son, O. T. Mclptosh and W. W.
I Williams, Savannah; F. D. Aiken,
j Brunswick; B. C. Balfour, Thom
lasville; Dr. N. A. Teague, Augusta.
I attended the conference.
“Where do liars go?” asks a
1 preacher. Perhaps where i.hey tre
often told to ,
lENCINEERS STRIKE OB
■BUN BIILMy
Walkout Inaugurated in Protest ■
Against Recent Discharge |
of Enginemen
ROANOKE, Va., Nov. B.—Engi-f
neers and firemen on the Virginian
railway walked out this marning in
protest against the discharge of
several of their number about a
month ago.
General Manager Birchfield as
serted he had sufficient men to
move all trains.
GENERAL WELLS
AT FT. BENNING
COLUMBUS. Nov. 8. Com
mand of Fort Benning and the
United States Infantry school, the
greatest institution of its kind in
the world, passed into new hands
today when Brigadier Graeral
Briant H. Wells assumed charge,
succeeding General Walter H.
Gorden, who for the past three
years has been commandant of the
post.
/LIQUOR VENDERS' FUED
CLAIMS THIRD VICTIM
CHICAGO,fNov. B.—As Michael
| Izzo, 45, pool room owner and
former political leader, bent over
the wheel of his automobile to
change a tire last night, a man ap
proached from the rear, fired two
shots, killing him inst; i.ly and es
I eaped. Police attributed the
! shooting to a liqtlor Vendor's
i feud, which has already claimed
1 three victims within the past few
' weeks.
TO UNVEIL GALBRAITH
MEMORIAL NOVEMBER 10
CINCINNATI. Nov. B.—(Ry As
: sociated Press)—Hight officials of
I the government representatives of
I allied governments and hundreds
|of Legionnaires from till parts of
1 the country will be present at the
I dedication of the Galbraith Memor
i ial here on Saturday, November 10,
I the memorial committee has an-
I nounced.
Colonel Fred W. Galbraith, It.,
I the second national commander of
I the American Legion* , lost his life
I in an automobile accident. The
j memorial to be unveiled in his mom
| ory is in the form of a monument
i Located in Eden Park, on a site
j which commands a view of the
Ohio river and the Kentucky
Hills,
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.BANKER DECLARES
Mil CONTROL IS
OF FIRST IMPORTANCE
Eleminate The Disease Says Shef
field, Regardless of What
Cost May Be
I L
NO PROGRESS OTHERWISE
Mathis and Anderson Speak On
Necessity For Immediate
Action
Frank Sheffield, president of the
Bank of Commerce, speaking be
fore the Rotary club Wednesday,
made the emphatic statement that
malaria must be eliminated in the
county, regardless of cost.
‘‘Whether the cost of $6,000 op
sixty thousand dollars, Sumter must
be freed of this scourge,” the bank
er said. ‘‘lt is the mast important
question before our people; it is
more important than roads. It is
the biggest thing the local newspa
per has undertaken; it is the big
gest thing this club of men can
‘foster. Malaria must be complete
ly and absolutely eliminated before
we can hope to progress i,n any
sense.”
Prof. J. E. Mathis, speaking of
malaria in Panama, during the time
the French were attempting to dig
the Panama Canal, said; “There
is a human body under every cross
tie on the Panama railroad. Ma
laria killed workers -faster than
they could be brought in.”
Dr. Emmett Anderson had just
spoken of the work of Surgeon
General Gorgas, who in a compara
tively short time eliminated ma
laria from Panama anl made the
digging of the canal by the United
States possible. “If malaria can be
controlled and eliminated in Pana
ma, the job here is easy and com
paratively small in cost.”
Dr. Anderson was addressing the
club on preventive diseases, men
tioning hookworm, small pox and
venereal diseases. He had said that
small pox was on the increase in
the world. “In Sumter county few
if of any of our people, outside the
city, have been vaccinated. Had
we an adequate health department
in the county, every child in the
county would have been vaccinat
ed. Should small pox break out in
| Sumter, it would sweep the rural
| sections. That is just one other
I reason why our county should have
a well financed health department,
I with the proper personnel,” s-.i'.l
I the physician.
i He sounded the necessity of fr< -
I quent examination of school chil
-1 dren. “We have hookworm in the
county. It is preventable. We
need a health nurse and a physi
cian to look after the children.
Now we can save them. Later
they are lost—stunted mentally
and physically, for life. Can you
place a cost in dollars and cents
on such necessary work.” In one
school alone, there arc only 14 out
of 280 pupils who have been vacci
nated.
Dr. Anderson spoke of the social
or venereal diseases. “These are
curable, they are preventable.
There’s a large need for work here
on this line.” .
HOLUND BEQUESTFR
TO RESTEWK PRINCE
Dutch Government Asked To
Refuse Frederick’s Petition
To Return to Germany
FARIS, Nov. B.—Allied council
of ambassadors today requested the
Dutch government not to allow the
Former Crown Prince Frederick
William to leave Dutch territory
where he has been in exile since |
.1 the war.
I The German government was al-1
|so requested not to allow him to
| enter Germany as he is on the list
jof persons charged with war crimes
whose arrest is sought by allied gov
ernments.
heated bond fight
CLOSES IN WAYCROSS
WAYCROSS, Nov. B.—When the
polls dosed for the seeonl school i
bond and increase rmleage election
Wednesday, Waycross will have
passed through one. of tile 01641;
hectic bond campaigns in th? his
tory <>f the city. Both forces are j
making last-minute efforts to poll I
their full vote, and from the pres- I
ent indications one of the heaviest
votes in the history of city poli
tics will be ■polled. '
WHA 7 ’5
GOING ON
IN THE
WORLD
GERMANY-
TURKISH REPUBLIC
PROHIBITION
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Discouraged by French insistence
on conditions which would make it
a waste of time to discuss Ger
many’s ability* to pay war damages,
the Washington government is re
ported about to give up the idea
of taking part in such a talk.
David Lloyd George, who, more
than anybody, was responsible sot
getting the United States interest
ed in the r.’ibject again, admits it
would be ridiculous to hold a con
ference if France is going to stick
out for “a never-ending debt.”
The French don’t seem to care.
Their press says Premier Poincare
consented to confer “only to show
his good will.”
GERMAN RUIN
/SOUGHT
At the world’s capitals it is now
accepted as a definite fact that
France cares little for repara
tions in comparison with breaking
Germany into a group of Weak
states, partly for the sake of French
military security and partly with a
view to grabbing the old German
trade. However, this does not suit
the other nations, England has? al
ready told France she cannot
“with equanimity” see Germany
broken up.
CIVIL WAR
AHEAD?
Germany, rent by the conflicting
activities of republicans, monarch
ists, separationists and reds, only
holds together, seemingly mirac
ulously, from day to day.
The royalists now talk of putting
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria on the
throne, as ruler of fill Germany,
with Munich as capital instead of
Prussia as the most important state.
Berlin, and Bavaria instead ot
In opposition to this scheme, it’s
reported the Berlin republican
government plans to bring the ex
kaiser’s son, the crown prince,
back from Holland to serve as its
figure head.
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NEW REPUBLIC
LAUNCHED.
The national assembly at Angora
has voted to make Turkey a repub-
L , with Kemal Pasha as first pres
ident. His ambition is to consoli
date the whole Mohammedan world.
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wets and
DRYS.
Instead of settling matters by
agreeing to let American dry offi
cers go beyond the three-mile limit
in their warfare against liquor
smugglers, England has started a
fresh row.
The dry wanted to extend the
limit from three to 12 miles.
England says: “Extend it as far
as you like. But on this condition
“English ships mhy bring liquor
into American ports under seal.”
This means a new treaty which
the senate will be asked to ratify.
It will be fought by the Anti-Saloon
League, by sticklers for the consti
tution and by American shipown
ers.
Tlie league says sqch a system
would aid, not hamper, smugglers.
The constitutionalists say it would
violate the eighteenth amendment.
The shipowners say it would per
mit drinking on English liners both
ways across the ocean,.and then no
body would take American ships.
MEM TO KBE
ITS LADIES’ NIGHT
Women of the Club in Charge
of Program Thursday Even
ing, Nov. 15th
The Rotary club will celebrate
ladies night Thursday, November
15, \vhen dinner will be served in
the Windsor hotel at 7 p. m., John
Sheffield, president of the club,
announced Wednesday. The wom
en of the club—wives of the Ro
t^ians —are to have complete
emirge jf the program that eve
ning. The committee of women ; n
charge are Mrs. C. H. Burke, Mrs.
L. F. Grubbs, Mrs. Lovelace Eve,
Mrs. Waiter Rylander and Mrs. W.
G. Turpin.
There will he no midday lunch
eon on the 14th. The Rotarians
named Thursday instead of Wed
nesday night, in deference to the
; go-to-chureh campaign tnow under
! way in Americus, ~
—1 HmmiWUM*
WEATHER.
For Georgia Fair tonight and I
■Friday; continued cool; frost to- I
night.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DR JOHHSON OSES
EW KLAN FACTION
.PLOTTING TO ORDER
Claims Fox Visited Home of
Simmons For Puroose of
Slaying ‘Emperor’
EXPECT MORE SENSATIONS
Tip Given That Klansmen Plan
ed To Kill Simmons Ir> Bir
mingham, He Asserts
ATLANTA, Nov. 8—(By the As
sociated Press.)—Emperor Sim
mons of the u Klux Klan, return
ing from Birmingham today, issued
a statement challenging Imperial
Wizard Evans to come out in the
. open and give the public the facts
in connection with the shooting of
Captain William S. Coburn by Phil
E. Cox, klan publicity agent, Mon
day.
Dr. Fred B. Johnston, who swore
out peace warrants against Evans
and other klansmen and then left
for Birmingham, also returned. He
said he went there after he* had re
ceived a reliable tip that partise
' were leaving for that city on the
midnight train to kill Simmons.
Johnston detailed how Fox, he
claims, came to Simmons’ resi
dence here Sunday night for the
expressed purpose of killing him.
' ( He bad but one idea on his mind,
Johnston declared, that four people
• j were slated to go by the murder
route and one of these four he
: started on the road last Monday
1 afternoon.
1
NEW INDICTMENTS
ARE ASKED.
I BIRMINGHAM, Nov.
; peace warrants will be sworn out
■ against H'. K. Ramsey, imperial
Jkligraff; Brown Harwood, imperial
klazik, or head of the grand drag
ons, and T. J. McKinnon, head of
I the department of investigation of
; the Ku Klux Klan by Dr. Fred B.
Johnston, upon his retunn to At
lanta, he announced here yesterday.
Dr. Johnson, chief of staff of
Emperor W J Simmons , said he
■ hva s called to Birmnigham Tuesday
night to consult with Birmingham
I physicians regarding the condition
■j of Simmons’ aged mother, Mrs. L.
I E Simmons, of Vincent, Ala., who
has been in a local infirmary since
Friday, suffering from a fractur-
*ed arm. ♦
' Commenting on the action of
IJudge T. O. Hathcock! in dismiss
ing the peace warrants against the
men Wednesday, Dr. Johnston said:
“Obviously there was two cours
es for the judge to pursue in my
.absence; either throw the men into
[ jail or dismiss the actions. The
former would have been rather radi
cal under canditions, so he natural
ly turned to the other alternative.
“I understand the action against
Mr. Evans is still pending. I plan
to take up promptly upon my re
turn the swearing out of new war
, rants against the other three offi
cers.”
IFPFNCH GOVERNMENT
ISSUES IUSTBUCTI3K
I
Informs Berlin France Will Not
1' Tolerate Dictatorial Regime
• * In Germany
if
■I I’ARIS, November B.—The
• French government has instructed
its ambassador in Berlin to inform
1 the German government that France
. will not tolerate the establishment
| of a dictatorial government in Ger
many.
’ TENTOIR ENDS
LIFE AFTER TRAGEDY
' j Shoots Wife and Wounds Young
Boy, Then Turns Pistol On
Himself
> SMITHFIELD, N. C., November
B.—A. E. Flowers, tenant farmer,
living near here, yesterday shot and
killed his wife and slightly wound
ed Earl Stephenson, a youth, and
■ then ended his own life with a bul
-1 let News of the tragedy reached
1 the sheriff's office in a report ear-
> ly today.
Howers had been separated from
his wife during a long time.
TROUP I, BOY SCOUTS
1 There will be a reorganization
. of Troup 1 Friday night, 7 p.m.,
, at city hall.
BRADLEY HOGG,
Scout Master.
It jtis only natural that politics
makes strange bedfellows, Politics
makes strange fellowj.
Divorce is increasing in Germany
showing they still have money, _ |
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