About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 19, 1923)
America. Spot Cotton « Strict Middling 33 l-4c. Jan. Meh. May Prev. Close 33.68 33.95 34.00 Open . 33.Q0 33.75 33.85 11 am ; 34.06 34.32 34.45 Close 34.25 34.45 34.55 FORTY-FFIFTH YEAR.—NO. 256 WOMAN GRABBED THRU KITCHEN WINDOW BY 2 NEGROES o O o o o o o x O O 0,0-0 O. O o' O o o o bo' ALLIED SITUATION SAVEDTOR MOMENT 0 0 0 ° °.. .S> ° ° ° o o o o o o o o d MANILLA-REPORTED UNDERjWATER; ALLCOMMUNICATION SUSPENDED WIFIC TYPHOOH . HITS VlSAffi ISLANDS AND LUZON PROVINCE » 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. iHffi' - 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. * * V 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? * ♦ • 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) / • ■. .-a*-* / . 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.
