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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. " ' THE T!MES’\RECORDER PUBLISHED IN THE HEART Walker Changes Position on lax Equalization Law ’ ’ ' ’ ’ . - - . v % 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. imlißW 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 ed- -1.,.- 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, - , - - .<«■> .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. » * * 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. • » • 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, _ | 1
