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FORTY-FFIFTH YEAR.—NO. 256
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MANILLA-REPORTED UNDERjWATER; ALLCOMMUNICATION SUSPENDED
WIFIC TYPHOOH
. HITS VlSAffi ISLANDS
AND LUZON PROVINCE
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Manila Partly Submerged As Re
sult of Downpour, Follow
ing Catastrophe
ALL TRAFFIC SUSPENDED
Considerable Damage Done
/ Crops and Livestock Over
' Wide Area By Storm
MANILLA, Nov. 19.—A typhoon
from the Pacific has swept over
Luzon and Visayas Islands, and
-■ rail telegraph communication have
been entriely suspended.
Manila js partly under water as
a result or the terrible downpour,
boats replacing motor cars in sev
eral of the streets.
The storm also caused consider
able damage to crops.
wIM
PUT OFF ON MOTION
Former Klan Promotion Man Is
Granted Continuance On
Motion of Defense
tfOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 19.—The
case of Young Clarke, of
Atlanta, former 'Head of the propa
gation department of the Ku Ktux
Klan in whicn ne was chargew with
violating the Mann act, was post
poned in Federal court today until
December 17. The continuance
was granted on a motion of the de
fense. U
FIFTY NATIONS AWAIT
DECISION ON OPIUM
GENEVA, Nov. 19.—(8y Asso
ciated Press.) —Fifty nations are
awaiting the ratification of the
opium by Switzerland, and they will
have to wait many months, perhaps
years, before a decision is taken.
The .question is not a federal but
a cf.itonal one, and at present 22
Swiss cantons, not including three
bali'-catons, are “considering” the
> matter.
Basel is described by those en
sdeavoring to suppress the opium
traffic as having become the larg
est poison den in the world. Basil
has great chemical factories em
ploying many thousands of work
men, and the Swiss government,
which is .already responsible for
more than one hundred thousand
u: ’.is .... - - nsiVu vi ;ip- '
proving the treat which would in
crease their number.
WOMEN WOULD CHANGE
THANKSGIVING DATE
ATLANTA, November 19.—Fed
erated club women will be asked to
back a movement to make Armis
tice Day the Nitibnal Thanksgiv
ing date, if the Georgia Federation
of Women’s clubs agrees to a reso
lution framed by Mrs. J. H. Dozier,
of Athens, end passed by the Atlan
ta Federation of Women’s Clubs at
the annual fall meeting on Novem
ber 14.
The rcsoultion declares that the
last Thursday of November has no
particular historic association, ho
especial significence- or sentiment,
and is of necessity a varying date
and that Armistice Day, November
11, marks one of the most impor
tant events in history ty most na
tions of the earth, and should be
perpetuated, recognized and appro
• priately observed each year.
> This recognition could not ta-tye
better form than as a % day of
Thanksgiving, it is stated, and the
resolution embodies a request that
(he state and General. Federation
join in'making this a recM-fX ,#da
tTc.’i to* the National Congi, [g,
HUNTERS WILL TAKE
FIELDS ON TUESDAY
i ■
The main event of the hunting
season in Georgia comes on tomor
row Tdesday whciwsportiii. n i
will go in search of the swift-flying
partridge and the timid dove.-
At this time bird dogs of all de
scriptions thta have been carefully
nursed through the long summer
months will have an opportunity to
limber their stiff le«s and sniff
among the hed and thicket toi
the wary quail.
It was feared by ’some hunters
that incessant rains of summer had
destroyed the young partridges, but
farmers report that the low. querul
ous whistle of ‘Bob White cn be
heard on ( all sides.
THETIMESBRECORDER
fcIfLPUBLISHED IN HeKr t”6f
X w .1. ,I—H«r«. '■•r I w-i -I. IJI— A
A DEMOCRAT
F w, *
Introducing another congress
man-elect. He is Edgar Howard,
a Democrat from Nebraska, who
will succeed a Republican, Rob
ert E. Evans.
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- OKEHS LANGLEY BILL
Amendments, However Would
Take Out Stated Exemptions
In Senate Measure
ATLANTA, Nov. 19—Both hous
es of the Georgia general. assembly
reconvened today with the fate of
the tax reform program almost
ready -for decision.
The constitutional amendments
committee of the house still had
the Lankford income tax measure,
already pased by the senate, before
for the purpose of recommending
amendments, while the senate i;ad
as its principal business for the ear
ly part of the week, the general
tax act, passed Igst week by the
house. The bill to repeal the tax
equalization act, passed by the
hoilse, also was in the hands of the
senators.
Members of the house consti
tuticinal amendments ' ommittee
planned to place the Lankford bill
on passage Tuesday. As the meas
ure now reads, it provides an in
come tax, limited to five per cent,
with the same exemptions provid
ed in the federal law and a clause
allowing crediting of ad valorem
tax payments in income tax assess
ments, and vice versa. •
Efforts will be" made, it was stat
ed, to amend the bill so as to carry
out the provisions recommended by
the special tax commission—that is
a*limited income tax, with small ex
emptions end no credit clause.
A heated fight to ameftd the bill
so as to provide that no ad valorem
tax-'s for state purposes may be col
lected, thereby removing the nec
essity, of the tax equalization law
for state purposes and giving ttye
state a straight income tax meas
ure, limited to five per cent, "with
small exemptions, has been perdict
ed by a number of legislators.
Several leaders of both the house
and senate have stated that in their
opinion the later plan will resault
in the income tax bill passing the
house and the changes being ac
cepted by the senate.
HOUSE COMMITTEE
5N AMENDED FORM
ATLANTA, Nov. 9. The house
committee today reported favorably
in amended form the Lankford in
come tax measure already passed
by the senate. The principal
changes in the senate measure com
mended by the house committee are
the removal provisions for credit
ing ad valorem lax payments
against income tax assessment and
vice versa 1 , and removing fixed ex
emptions both to be left to the sue
ceeding legislature to determine.
Another would eliminate the pro
vision that tax should bt levied on
net income as prescribed by the leg
islature.
The committee also reported
favorably on th- Bussey measure
for segregation of property
POUND HALL IS
DESTROYED BY FIRE
BARNESVILLE; Nov. 19, —|
Pound hall ,onc of the three dormi- I
tories at Gordon institute, was to- |
tally destroyed by lire ai 5 o’clock i
Sunday afternoon, 100 students of
the 'institution aiding fireman in
saving othei buildings at Gordon.
The loss is SIO,OOO with $7,000 in
surance. •
The fire was discovered on the
second floor, where 15 boys had I
their rooms. The lower floor was a
dining hall.
Defective wiring believ«d to
have caused the fire. No one was
injured. . '
The dormitory will be rebuilt on
the same site, it announced lasfrj
night by officials of the institution.
AMERICUS. GA.. MONDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 19.
'2 NEGROES Os T
MIT UPON WHITE
WOMAN ft! GUHON
I Woman Grabbed Through Kit
chen Window as Husband
Sits at Breakfast
BOTH ARE UNDER ARREST
i One Subject Seized at Bloomen
dael Where He Fled After
Attempted Assault
GUYTON. Ga., Nov. 19, —Two
negroes are under arrest as sus
pects in connection with an( at
tempted attack, on the wife of a
well known citizen here early today.
The negro graboed the woman
through the kitchen kindow while
hr husband was seated at the break
fast 'table.
One suspect was arrested at
Bloomindale and is being brought
here, while the other was arrested
here.
THREE I® MIST
!H LOVING BUMY
White Men Held For Breaking
And Entering Wholesale Oil
Station Near Shops
The Loving - Oil depot on College
street was- broken into Saturday
night between the hours of 10 and
12 midnight, when two 10-gallon
cans of oil, two 5-gall6n empty cans,
one funnel and about. 25 gallons of
gasoline were taken from" the ser
vice room, according to Lucas
Thiers, <7 es the proprietors of
the Loving - > Company, who gave
an interview to a Times-Recordei
reporter today. . ,
According to Mr. Thiers, the
Yale lock on the back door of the
depot Hhd been broken into wth
the rear axle of a Ford car, the
looters entering by this means.
“Going down to the depot Sun
day morning about 9:30 o’clock,
said Mr. Thiers, “the door was
found to be open and investigation
showed that a car, carrying one
Firestone tread and three Goodyear
cord tires, had circled the station.
“About noon,” continued Mi*
Thiers, “H. R. Johnson, riding out
towards Muckalee creek, saw the
cans floating on the water of the
creek, and going to these he picked
them up in his car and brought
them back to the station, reporting
it to G. O. Loving, propnetqr..of the
station. Mr. Loving, taking Clay
Bell, an employe of the station with
him, rode out to the creek, where
it wa> found that the same treads
showed on the road near the creek,
evidently having turned back to
wards town at this point.
“Seeing that something might be
worked up on this nucleus of evi
dence Mr. Loving came back to the
city and began looking about for
the car which carried the tires like
the tracks discovered at the sta
tlO“On the street it was discovered
that a car belonging to Hugh Thack
er had the same tires as the sought-
Tbr automobile, and we patched this
car as it wound about on the
streets about 6 o’clock in the aft-
ennoqn. \
“This search led to the arrest of
Robert Roberts at the Central de
pot last night, and later Hugo
Thacker and Jackson Baldwin, all
young Americus men, were arrested
in front of the court hduse by Of
ficers Bass and Arrington.
“Upon investigation Baldwin ad
mitted to being one of the looters,
; stating that it was he who had
i prized off the lock, aiftl thaT the
robbery was made through a desire
I to make a trip to Columbus for
| which he had no money.
1 “When Thacker was interviewed
1 later, he also admitted his part v.i
the theft, and told the same story
I as that previously related by Bald
win.
“Roberts at first- denied ail eom
-1 plicity, but finding other
J two had not implicated him, he also
made a statement which corroborat
ed the rflponts of the other yourtg
men.
“Baldwin was released on a SSOO
bail, but Roberts and Yhasker r,--
I main confined awaiting the under
! writing of their bond whehi is fix'-d
at $500,” said Mr.' Thiers.
j Mrs. M. E. Taylor will arrive to
1 night from Huntington, led., to
■ I spend a month with her mother,
'I Mrs. C. P. Payne, on Leee street.
MILLION DOLLAR LOSS
IN FIRE NASHVILLE
Hermitage Elevator Bums With
500,000 Bushels Corn, Oats
.And .Wheat
NASHVILLLE, Nov. 19.—Loss
estimated at #1,000,006, covered
by insurance, resulted when the
Hermitage efevatot, owned a»nd op
erated by Charles D. Joti<js & Co.,
burned here with 5Q0,000 bushels
of edrh, oats and wheat last night.
YEGGMEN BLOW SAFE;
SECURE ONLY $740
ATLANTA, Nov. 19. Smoth
ering the sound of exploring nytro
glyeerjne' with valuable overcoats
found on the scene of the epera
tions; cracksmen blew the asfe of
the Liberty Tailoring company, 7
West Mitchell street, broke the
offices of W. C. McCoy, located
on the floor above the tailor shop,
and ecaped early Sunday with cash
totaling* $740, and a quantity of
costly wearing apparel .according
to a report made to police head
quailer.s several hours later when
the crime was discovered.
FIVE U. S. PLANES
TO ENCIRCLE GLOBE
November 19.
Flans for an aroundithe^world
flight next March by four or fvie
big air machines have beeii mapped
out for army air pilots.
Secretary Weeks has approved
the project as submitted by Major
General Mason M. Patrick, chief of
the army ajr service, and the state
department has asked the consent
of foreign, governments for passage
of American aircraft acyoss their
homelands and territorial posses
sions. The route, as outlined by
Uenerai Patrick-, requires only the
formal approval of the governments
concerned' to make its selection fi
nal.
WHAT'S GOING ON
IN THE WORLD
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Collapse of the Hitler-Ludendorff
monarchist movement in
means a lot to Germany.
It doesn’t end unrest. It doesn't
mean that there mayn’t be 4 “'red”
up rising next thing. Yet the com
pletness ajjd speed of the royalist
fizzle makees it look as if the
strength of that “kind of sentiment
was much over estimated. Maybe
the same thing’s true' of “redi”
sentiment. z ' 1
On the other hand, the republic
can government seems to be more
firmly seated than people thought.
Nor is 'Germany, apparently, so
close to breaking into a lot of lit
tle states as \t appeared to be.
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PROBABLY
ENDS IT -
General Von Ludendorff un
doubtedly was reel organizer of
the monarchists. Adolph Hitler, a
would-be Mussolini, was his mouth
piece.
Hitler proclaimed a new regime
■’n Germany. As its “regent,” or
head, he named Dr. Von Kahr, who
was acting as dictator of the Ger
man state of Bavaria. He nominat
ed himself (Hitler;) as “chancel
lor," Ludendorff was to be mili
tary commander. Presumably the
idea was to make Crown Prince
Rupprecht of Bavaria emperor of
Germany.
Rupprecht repudiated the whole
thing. Khar not only repudiated it
but told loyal troops to put the
uprising- down. Hitler and Luden
dorff had to surrender. Hitler’s
said to, have escaped later, but Lu
dendorff remained a prisoner.
That probabb- ends it all, for the
present.
The ex-crown prince has return
ed from Holland to Gmnany, which
may or may not mean som’ething.
He's as much a cifizeef of the coun
try as any other Germany, so why
shouldn’t he live there?
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COUNT
AMERICA OUT
France has “spiked” ' the# at
tempt England made to get the
world's big countries irtto a dis
cussion of the French claims against
Germany, a discussion it was hopd.l
would lead toward an end of Eu
rope’s -troubles.
The Paris government pretended
to be willing so talk matters over,
but the <rily terms it would do so
A»n were such 'that it was clear no
agreement could be arrived at. tn
(act, few people believe Frnce ever
intended to permit any develop
ment which would keep her from
BETTER FOREIGN NEWS
BOOSTS CanONPRICE
DECEMBERHIS934.7S
New Price Level- Reached On
IrrJproved Political Situation
k ( , Abroad
MAY SOARS UP TO 34.70
New Price Level Reached On
Improved Foreign Exchange
Situation
YORK. November 19.
Cotton made high prices for
the season today on renewed
trade buying and re-buving of
recent sellers, who evidently
were inflenced by better Euro
pean political hews and, the. rally
in foreign exchanges.
December went to 34.75 and
May to 34.70 fcfetore the close
pp the exchange here today.
BffIWLK fUS
FBFFMWF
Asks President To Place White
Arsenic on Free List To Aid
Fight On Weevil
WASHINGTON, -Nov. 19.—Sena
tor Harris tbday Asked President
Coolidge to use his influence to ob
tain legislation to place on the tar
iff free list white arsbnic, the chief
ingredient of calcium rsenate, which
s iextensively used as a poison to
combat the boll weevji.
smashing Germany to bits.
So now the United States has an
nounced it would be a waste of
time U> hold the kind of meeting
Premier Poincare insists o<t limit
ing this one to; therefore, count
America out.
» * *
WANT
THEIR MONEY
It's expected the next thing will
be for the United States and Eng-
Irnd to tell France, since she
; won’t do anything else, that they
wish she’d pay the war debts she
owes them. Os course, she can’t,
and they know it. It’s a scheme (if
, that’s what they do) to “bring
pressure” on the French. How it
will work nobody cars say.
» » •
I FOX-COBURN
TRAGEDY
Phillip E. Fox, publicity man for
the Evans faction of the Ku Klux
Klan, shot and killed William S.
Coburn, attorney for the Simmons
faction of the same organization.
Prominent klan members say it was
a personal quarrel, unconnected
with any klan question, but the po
lice investigation at Atlanta, where
the tragedy occurred, centers
around the theory of a klan dispute
« « •
waste and
dishonesty
Investigation, by. a senatorial
committee, into CoTonel Forbe./
management of the Veteran’s Bu
reau, goes on.
As typical of the testimony, one
witness told of the purchase for
\rf-he bureau of sheets costing $1.03
Vach, which, as they were receiv
ed at dne door of a'bureau ware
house, were passed out through an
other door purchasers who had
bl ought them at 16 cents each.
General O’Bryan, attorney for
the" investigators, has announced
that, through the committee is pro
secuting nobody, yet "I think we
have ‘developed a picture of extr.i
--; ordinary waste and dishonesty.”
WEATHER FOR WEEK TO
BE FAIR AND COLDER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.
. i Weather outlook for the period No
ll vember 19 to 24, inclusive: For
■I the' South Atlantic- and East Gulf
•state —The weather will be general
ly fair, with temperature near or
-1 somewhat below normal.
Mrs. J. R. Stokes, Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Guy, and T. G. -Wilson, of
Buena Vista, were ameng tbe shop
pers in Arpericus today‘and wet'e
• guests at the Tea Rmjin.
ENTERS CONGRESS
' Flk ■ W
& , .>■ M
En - wl
George Wertz, of Johnstown,
will be a member-Of Pennsyl
vania’s delegation in the 68th
Congress. He steps into the
shots of Representative John M.
Rose.
BELGIUM WILL KM
miTiomM
Attitude of France Toward Oc
cupation Now Depends
Upon Belgian Policy
PARIS, Nov. 19.—France’s de
termination to continue (occupation
until the treaty of Versailles has
been executed and protection as
sured as expressed by Premier
Poincare, in his speech yesterday
at Neuilly, applies only to the
Rhineland and Brideheads, accord
ing to an official foreign office
statement issued through the Havas
egency.
The statement adds that decision
concerning the Ruhr would be de
pendent upon angreement with. Bel
gium. •
POINCARE HURLS r
DEFIANCE AT WORLD
PARIS, Nov. 19.—Premier Poin
care had the last word Sunday* aft
ernoon, the word that Fiance would
press new penalties against disobe
dient Germany and tighten its grip
upon the Rhineland, whether or not
Gieat Britain desires it.
In a speech inaugaurating a new
monument to war dead at Neuilly,
the French premier said: '
“We are forced to use penalties.
We will take them- If they do not
obtain satisfaction we furthermore
are resolved not to evacuate the oc
occupied territories before all claus
es of the Versailles treatey at(e
executed and we are solidly pro
tected against possibilities of new
aggression.”
If Poincare is forced to take
these new steps that he speaks pf—
end it is likely now that he will—t
it is understood he wil proceed first
With the seizure of Barmen and
Elberfeld, two adjoining textile
centers of the Rhineland. This
seizure would complete the French
grip on the Rhineland railway sys
tem and add the necessary touch to
permanent occupation of Germany.
Then the French political generalis
simo could, and probably will, pro
ceed to tighten his Sfrip on the
Ruhr, planning exploitations of its
great resources on a permanent
sc»ir> **
Poincare was prompted to his
new outburst by word from Central
European allies of France—Czecho
slovakia, Poland and Jugo-Slavia—
that they would support any puni
tive measures he takes against Ger
many. Poincare Pointed out to
them that they might hang by the
same which Germany is hold
ing unless they join with France to
break the rope. .
Poincare was bodly plain hi his'
statements.
“We will hold security in the!
amount of reparations due us,"
he told his hearers. “Already Ger
many has played with stipulations
destined to guarantee our security,
paralyzed the action of the commis
sion of control, tried to remake m
a shadow her armaments and re
constitute her military formation-’
forbidden by the treaty of Versail
les. Meanwhile she has authorizsd
the return I>f the crown prince, Who
is inscribed at the top,of the list
of war guilty.
"These are audicious defiances to
the allies, violations of the treaty
and insolent attempt-, against
“We do not wish to sacrifice our
dead and permit to ’’emain in vain
the blood which they poured out.
We will not leave, their work u*i
(Continued On Page Three)
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WEATHER.
For Georgia Fair tonight and
Tuesday. G Wj
PRICE FIVE CENTS'
BREAK T«EN TRANCE
HD EHEL'AHD IS
AVERTEB FOR PRESENT
I ——. ♦
Agreement in Principle Reached
By Council of Ambassadors
At Meeting Today
SITUATION STILL SERIOUS
Although Entente is Saved For
„?""ment. Out!?ok is Regarded
With Much Apprehension
PARIS, Nov. 19.—Agreement in
principle was reached by the coun
cil of ambassadors today and the
break between France and Great
Britain on the question of attitude
toward Germany war avoidgjl. The
agreement was subject to the ap
proval of French and Belgian cabi
nets at a meeting this afternoon.
The understanding was that the
agreement called for sending Ger
many a protest against lack of facil
ities she was furnishing for work
of military control commission, but I
without mention of what action the
allies might take in case Germany
failed to give the required assur
ances of protection.
The French is understood to have
made reservations of the question
of penalties so that if it should
prove pecessary they can take sep
arate action.
This impressio nin allied circles
is that the entente is saved for
the moment, but that the sit ration
is still serious.
GERMAN ARREST
ALLY OFFICERS x
BERLIN, Nov. 19.—An incident
which is likely to entail grave con
sequences is reported fropr French
sources at Leipzig. The reiclyswehr
a 1 rested two French and, Belgian of
ficers of tjie inter-alhecL control
commission who were mdtoring
from Dresden to Leipzig and held
them for several hours until orders
had been received from their su
perior officers to reelase them.
The liberated officers then went
to a hotel in Leipzig where at 2
o’clock four members of thd reichs
wehr invided their bed rooms and
declared they again were under ar
rest. The reichswehr took the of
ficers to the guarm s room, where
they were detained “until 9 o’clock
thi morning. It is alleged that
the officers were molested and in
sulted in a shameful manner before
orders were received from "Dresden
that they be set free.
General Mollet, head of the
French military mission, has left
for Paris to bring the matter to the
attention of his government.
WIVING Till
PLANNED BY CETOL
For the pleasure of Americus
people who desire to spend Thanks
giving day in Atlanta Thursday,
November 29, special sleeping car
arrangements are proposed by tho
Central of Georgia railroad, ac
cording to H. C. White, local agent.
“America people could • leave
here on Central train No. 12, at
10:39 P. M., Wednesday night, No
vember 28, arriving in Atlanta ear
ly Thursday morning, spending tho
I entire day with friends and rela-
I tives, leaving Atlanta at 11 o’clock
I Thursday night, arriving in Amer
i icus at 5:14 o’clock Friday inorn
> ing, with the privilege of passen
gers occupying the car until 8
o’clock,” stated Mr. White.
"An authorized fare of $5.72 for,
the round trip should be an in
ducement to many to spend a pleas
ant day with friends in Atlanta, tho
cost being little compared with the
pleasure to be derived. Lower
i berths are $3.38, with $2.70 for
I upper accommodations.”
Should there be interested per
j sons, these may communicate with
. W. L. Richardson, phone 137, or H’.
I C. White, agent, phone No. 1.
NEED INTERPRETER
TO TELL SENTENCES
SAVANNAH, November 19.--
The latest from court here was in
the esse of four sailors who were
charged with having whiskey in
j their possession and pleading guil
-Ity were fined ten dollars each by
j Judge Barrett. The sailors, who
I were members of the t»rew of two
; vessels loading in the harbor wore
I unable to understand the sentence
, imposed upon them by the court
! and it was necessary to get the serv
i ices of an interpreter in order to
* make known to them that they were
j fined ten dollars. The were Asaf
1 Knudsen, Sjur Gjerdi. Heakin Ht
: aralson, and Kenneth Hutchins.