About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1923)
Americus Spot Cotton Strict middling 35 cents. N. Y. Futures- - Jan. Mar. May Previous Close ..35.50 35.70 35.90 !Open 35.83 36.00 36.10 11 am .36.00 36.21 36.33 Close 36.62 36.70 36.82 FORTY-FIFFTH YEAR.—NO. 264 WALL ST. PREDICTS PERIOD OF PROSPERITY FOR SOUTH IMPEACHMENT THREATS SENATE TABLES ADMINISTRATION BILL; INCOME TAX PASSES HOUSE WHNM INCREASE FOP SOUTH IS SHOW IH 3S OT COTTO!! Wail Street Optimistic Over i High Price Continuance As New Months Affected PROSPERITY IS PREDICTED] Premier Stanley Baldwin Ad-, vises English Spinners Grow Own Cotton Supply NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—Decern bt-r cotton crossed 36 4'ents a pound , Tuesday, establishing . a new hign | record for the year despite the , continued sensational gains in price since the upward movement began< August 1, wiu ii cotton was selling | r.L 21 cents. Wail street bankers now predict' that there is a long period of pros perity ahead of the South. A banker pointed out that v th I December'almost here and options I for that month now crossing the J 36-eent mark, a price of 29 cents: a pound was already being estab-1 lished for October of next year. | This proves conclusively that the I best-posted poeple in cotton except I the price to remain at a compara tively high level, or, until the South with the help of the government,! the bankers and everyone else : n-| terpsted, gets the best of the boll weevil pest, which is responsible! for the short cotton crops of red cent years rpd consequently the ] world-wide cotton shortage. That cotton will continue to sell i at a high price for as far ahead i as can now be seen is the belief! of the best-posted banker:' here who I iiaye spent time *nd money to get! d&the real facts if'/ the cotton situ-1 atron. That this view is also held | in .the cotton manufacturing centers ‘ abroad is plain from the auvree giv-i en by the British premier, Stanley! Baldwin, to the Manchester cotton; • mill owners to start planting cot-i ton in Egypt, South Africa and India to gain independence from the American market which would soon be consuming for its ow.ci use all of the American cotton raiseit. Wall street expects the next gov ernment cotton crop estimate which v. ill be issued crt December 12, to show only between ten million and 9,1:0.0,900 bales of this year’s crop, 6,000,000 bales already have been marketed. If'the clop is ten mil lion bales and the 36-cent price level is maintained the direct differ ence between this price and 21 cents will mean to the South an additional $6,600,000. However, indirectly, 36-cent cotton will mean a great deal more to the Southern railroads, and bankers, and business men and farmers through general i . As iar as tnis year's crop is con cerned the sensational increase in 'prices, Will street believes, will make up for the short crops result ing -from the ravages of the boll weevil. While a very large acre age is expected to be planted this coming year because of the high price now existing, the best posted bankers here are of the opinion that intensive farming of smaller acreage will in 'time be the rule until the boll weevil pest is stamped out. POSTPONE WALTON tpijl n MW Counsel Agree After Number Os Cases Been Docketed Ahead On Court Calendar OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 28. (By Associated Press) Arraign ment of J. C. Walton, deposed gov- 1 error of Oklahoma, i i six counts uharjUng distortion of public funds and dispersal of the meeting of the legislature continued today until Monday. Continuance was take.: i.y agreement of counsel after it was found that four jury trials had been docketed for today. SWEDISH SAIL LINES INSTALL ELECTRIC POWER STOCKHOLM, November 28. (By Associated hr, m) Sweden has bought her last steam locomo tive. She expects tq electrify all of her railway lines within ten years, * the operating power to be deveJ- | oped almost entirely from the many water falls of the country. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Richardson left this afternon for Birmingham, | Ala., to spend several days with | relatives. ‘What I’d Like Io Be J hankful For’ By WILL ROGERS of that fear, that timidity which’ is ! I suppose 1 ought to have a loti of things to be thankful for besides] turkey with the wife and kids, but’ 1 ain't satisfied. Os course I’m having a lot of! i fun making two-reel comedies, but I I I hanker to show my Art and get > fan letters from flappers like they i write to Valention and Lew Cody ! ! rnd those other handsome devils. . 1 ain’t got such a bad figger— j that’s how I got by in the Follies ( i —but I wish 1 had the sex appeal : ito get into DeMille's nightown i drummers. That's what I’d like to be thank- ■ ful for! By BABE RUTH | One more home run to beat out I 'Cy Williams Well that would' have been nice. .. Beat Harry Keilmann for bat-’ I ting honors? That would have! I been sweet. [ One more chance at the old pill : I m that world series eighth inning, j , with three men on base? Say, fd I have given my shirt for one more I I sock. | But if I only had somebody, un] I here cn this farm, to get out and i I chop all the wood that’s waiting I ■ Jor me—that’s what I would I Ito be thankful for. • ' By MARY PICKFORD i I'irst, 1 should like to be thank-1 iul lor having done | mortal, for having left ' I putably lasting impression; not in 1 i .. narrowly selfish or vajngloriotis’ , sense, but in the assurance that j some work of mine were accounted | i a worthy relic of our common hu- i man striving and an honor to my 1 j profession. • | Sect)rd, for having freed myself j IBSwan BEGIN CLUB TOIIPNfY Annual Meet For President’s I rophy Gets Under Way Today The tournament committee of the Americus.. Golf club has au thorized the, publication of an arti cle stating that' beginning Novem ber 28, the annual tournament for the president’s trophy will get uci-j de? way. This trophy is a beauli-l ful cup donated by President G. R. Ellis, and was won last year by .1a...:. Wheatley, who now holds it. It will be put up again as the win ner hold., it for the next twelve month.. In the event the, cup is Won .three consecutive times by any one participant, it becomes the property of the winner. T he play will be. a 36-hole handi cap match and it may be played* in a twosome, threesome, foursome or ifiy way desired. The only stipu lation is that one must sign ui) a» participating in the tournament at the time he leaves the club house so that his card may be properly credited op the set upon his re turn. In this tournament medal scor-l ing prevails-, and it will be necos- ' •' ary that every putt be holed out ] . with no concession made even ' though the ball lies Head. ■ rhe tournament terminates De cember 20, and as previously stat ed begins November 28. CONNECTICUT PHYSICIANS leave to escape probe OF AUTHORITIES, claim i ' HARTFORD. Conn.. Nov. 28. A number of physicians have left Coriiccticut since an extraordinary grand jury starred investigating the Missouri fake diploma bill which enable scores to obtain li censes to practice medicine in this | state without the usual qualifica- ! tions. Process servers reported to the i '-’•..ml jury today that they had ex- | rerienced difficulty i i loca' ror-’e physicians whom Hid jury de- I : ires ♦ . question. '.’cither State's Attorney Alcorn, who is in direct charg? «.f the in | I qtiiry, nor Govemor Templeton, i who ordered it, would discuss re- i ports today that their visit last Sat-] urday to President" Coolidge had to j : do with discovery that many doctors . | licensed to practice in Connecticut | had entered the government serv ice. THETIMESS-RECORDER •frgffppßL ISHElD IN THE~ HEART | the weed strangling humanity; ikeeping many of us ip old ruts, | reluctant to assert and do the valid I things for which we might be ! temporarily misunderstood. Until 1 have achieved them, I shall he thsi'ikful that 1 retain the ; active dissatisfaction which spurs one ou to desired accomplishment. BY GEORGE JEAN NATHAi? j Co-Editor with H. L. Menken of I |he American Mercury. f I’d he thankful if the taste of the American public, would improve | up to the point where it would be : po.-sihl'? to produce Rostand’s “The ] Last. Night of Don Juan.” I’d be ] th. iikful if a traveling man ever I came to New York and asked to see something besides a girlie show. I’‘i lie thankful if Americans go! over the passion lor expression ev-| . ery.thing in figures—s7 varieties, i ’ 99 44-100 per cent pure, 100 per i cent American, etc. By SEN. MANGUS JOHNSON i First I would like to have the op- j j portunity to be thankful for the j ■ complete absence of poverty, mis-: .'J y, hatred, heartache and worry I ■ throughout the entire world. j Second, I should like to bej ; thankful for the existence of pros-! : parity and happiness among the : I farmers and business people of • I America. 'The knowledge that ev-1 : ery person in the world was enjoy ing the full fruits of his efforts ! would make me very thankful in j deed. And while the realization I I of these desires seems far away, i yet 1 find it within me today io | i aise my voice in thanks that We • i m e making progress toward tho ( I consummaiiot of these ideals. CORDELE BOY BATTLES GRIFFIN IN DRAW FIGHT MANCHESTER, Ga., Nov. 27. Ktmsey, of Cordele, fought Hank Griffin, of Walker Miller’s stable, Athiita, to a ten round draw, main 1 bout, here last week. SOiimHT caw was • Grand Jury Suspends Until Next; Tuesday; Criminal Cases Begin Monday The fall term of the Sumter ‘ County Superior court adjourned about noon . today until next Mon- ! day when sessions of the tribunal will take up the criminal calendar i of the docket. The recess was de-1 clared in order that court officials' and others could observe Thanks- j giving day. Grand jury recess will continue] until Tuesday morning, at which] time committees will continue in-, ve'tigalions and will hear present ments. Civil cases were to have been j completed by noon, officials stat ing that it was not expected that' any civil cases would be taken up ' I until next week. Judge Littlejohn | will sit throughout the criminal i I trials, and Jule Felton will prose- ! : ‘-ute in the interest of the state. ’ | I JAP GENERAL DEAD; WAS NOTED STATESMAN ] TOKIO, Nov. 28. (By the As-| soci.ated Press.) —General Kikuz j Otani, counsellor of the Japanese j government since 1917 and former; commander of the Japanese forces | in Siberia, died here today. He ! was 67 years old. EUROPEAN GIRLS WORKING TO COLLEGE EDUCATION Girls who now attend college in Europe and who do not have to) work for their tuition, are a rarity, i 1 The average girl spends six hours 1 ■ a day in the class room and about I eight hours scrubbing floors, waff- i | hu; on tables or working in the I factor',■. TOURIST TRAVEL IS HEAVY THROUGH FITZGERALD I ITZGERALD, November 28.- i (Special.) -T-Travel to Florida by : the wav of the Central Dixie high i way i-- exceeding any previous ; season, according to information I compiled by the local tourist bu reau, which is maintaining a regis . ter of al] tourists stopping at the free tourist camp ground here. AMERICUS, GA.. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 28. 192 3 THPEEPEfI'IfNSHLIHT: $1,51)W0 BffilGE IH KBIT MB Overheated Stove in Watch man’s Shanty Causes Large Loss Tuesday Morinng BUILDINGS ARE RAZED Wharves Are Swept as Flame* Are Uncontrolled; Total Loss Undetermined DETROIT, Nov. 28.—(8y Asso ciated Press.) —Three persons were injured, one probably fatally in a fire in which damage estimated at $1,500 was clone a Detroit early this morning. The fire was start ed from an overheated stove in a watchman's shanty.' Because of the high winds and headway which had been gained when firemen arrived, the lire spread from th« Detroit arid Wind sor Ferry company deck housing, which was totally destroyed, to th.’ six-story Munger building, which was burned to the ground, arm then razed a four-story warehouse ami several small buildings. Firemen rushed to the- scene, but for several hours fought a losing oattle aga'iist the winds and dry inflammable matsft'ials of which some of thl buildings were con structed. An official estimate if the total damage could not be de termined at noon today, but a .statement was made that when the fire under control the damage had been estimate dat sl,- 500,000. BPITM TO DMBLE PH FSEUT SffIGTH Plan Proposes To Greatly In crease Air Force Without Adding Large Personnel LONDON, November 28. (By Associated Press) Civilians will form a large part of the personnel of the British Royal Air Force, which is being increased -to more than twice its present strength. Two-thirds of the merr in the re serve squadrons are to be civilians, and the auxiliary squadrons are to be organized on a basis similar to that of the Territorial Army, comparable to state militia in Amer ica. It is planned to have civil ian labor care for all the repair work, other than miner running re pairs, in most of trie regular squad rons, all the special reserve squad rons and all the auxiliary squad rons. By thus calling on the civilian labor reservoir, Great Britain would more 'than double her air power with an addition of only one-th’rd of the present personnel, according to Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for Aria. The; introduction < f this extensive non-regular aviation force will reduce expenditure by large sums andthave the advantage of getting citizens' directly inter ested in air development, he said. Highly trainee! regular squad rons will, of course, form the back bone of Britain’s air armada. These men will fly the fighting planes. The less difficult work of bonlbing will fall to the special reserve squadrons, made up of one-third eu listed men and two thirds civilian employes. The reserve personnel is to be obtained by having skilled artisans enter for short periods of training in the neighborhood of their homes. The third branch of the air force, the auxiliary squadrons, will be linked with the large industrial cen ters, and with the exception of a small nucleus for administrative and instructional work, is to be com posed entirely of civilians. CALIFORNIA CO-EDS WORK WAY THROUGH UNIVERSITY ; SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28. I Approximately one-third of the women enrolled at the Southern Branch of the University of Cali fornia are earning all. or part of their way through college. Many unusual positions are held by these girls; such as clerks in gas filling stations, selling fruit to automo bilists, working in dairies and mak ing beaded bags. | Preston Ros will be among those i front Americus attending the Tech- I Auburn game in Atlanta Thanksgiv ing. , \ J ones Makes Charge Tax Commissioner Neglects His Duty ATLANTA, Nov. 28. —(By the Associated Press. >—Charging that state Tax Commissioner Fullbrigght had not properly discharged the duties of his office. Representative Jones, of Floyd, introduced a reso lution in the house calling for an NOTICE! There will be no' issue of the Times-Recorder Thursday on ac j count of Thanksgiving. The pa per will resume publication Fri- SffllT IF DEAD WIFE HIED fff HUSBAND TS HINE ISM I Father of Murdered Daughter Seeks Solution of Mystery in Spirits; Police Hold Negro SAVANNAH, Nov. 28. That James Mudie has called upon the departed spirit of his wife, murder ed with her little daughter, Doris, in her home near here, to communi cate with Him and identify her slayer, was the report here. Mudie, ! who was thought to be an atheist. : is said to have delcared that he believes in- an Almighty Being, and I in communication with the shades of the dead. An attempt, which I he is reported to have made last night to speak to his wife, was un j sucessful. Mudie will continue his | efforts to have the dead woman i identify the slayer, it is declared. It was said that Mudie it not a ' spiritualist, but that he has studied and made some experiments in | spiritism, and that he has had j proofs of that theory. ! The Chatham county grand jury i will consider the case of the mur ' der of Mrs. Mudie and her infant ' daughter when it_convenes Moa- , i day. Meantime Caesar Huger, o' ' Caesar “Eugee” as the police rcc ] ords have his name,’ is being held. ; Police are firm in the belief that j they have the right man and say ] that much evidence has been col lected. The negro maintains his po sition of innonenee, telling various stories of hrs movements on the day of the killing. SUPPLY OFIftS'J BTOfWUn | Explosive For Farm Use Can Be Had at Cost to Government; Conveniently Put Up George O. Marshall, Sumter ) i county demonstrator, this mor ling I announced that a supply sodtol, a high explosive used by the United ; | States government during the ( World war, was available to farm . ers of the county at $8.50 a 100 ] ■ cartridges which weigh seven : i pounds. Shipments will be made F. | O. B. Canton, Ga. Sodqtol is put up in partffine i ■ ounces each, and is especially ef fective in stump blowing or other clearing work. The shipment re-: ceived is equivaltnt to 40 per tent | dynamite. SHIPP TO D cr »iCATE NEGRO SCHOOL TODAY | J. E. D. •Shipp r.nd a party of | Americus educator’s will leave the < ] city at 1 o’clock tomorrow to dedi ! cate the new Rosenwald school for i , negroes. The school is one of the l best in South Georgia, educators ] state, and will add materially to ne- I qro educational advantages in the ■ county. j The dedictory address will be delivered by Col. Shipp. O'ber : speakers are expected to t.ppear or ' the program. M:>’'V interested ' Americus citizens will attend the exercises. — ———f-- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mallard of, Columbus will spend Thanksgiving: >wi(h friends in Americus. 1 investigation of the pommissiouer’s office. The probe will be conducted with a view of instituting impeachment proceedings against the officer if he is found guilty of negligence. The resolution was referred to the committee cn resolutions. ALLEGED FLUGGER OF WPIETTI 'M00« ANO EWE IS os mu Five Others Face Charges Os Lashing in Cobb Courts; Defense Says Wrong Men LOVE PLOT NOW CLAIMED Court Bars Effort of Solicitor Wood To Connect Floggings With Klan Members MARIETTA, Now 28—(Special) Trial of Parks Cook, first of six indicted Cobb county nu n charged with the abduction and lashing of Mrs. Bertha Holcomb, widow, and her companion, Stephen Morten, on the night of November 16, contin ued here throughout the morning. Judge. D W. Blair, of the Blue Ridge circuit, presided. The defense contented itself with efforts to show mistaken identity and to disprove the loca-i lion of scars of the beating, which the prosecutor said were located below the waist and the middle of her thighs. Others who were indicted with Morton were excluded from the trial. They are Kellar Hasty, pitch er of the Philadelphia American league baseball team; Frank ano Arthur Hasty, his brothers; Joe Bramlett, section foreman of the N. C. & St. L. railroad, and Trn,‘. Black, rn employee of the Atlanta Gas works. Cook’s case was expected to go to the jury during the afternoon. Other trials will follow. During the Tuesday,session Mrs. Holcomb declared that Cook sob bed violently while on the motor ride that took the party to a quiet spot in the Cobb cou.nty woods where the flogging is alleged to have been administered. "1 first recognized him,” she said, “when he raised his mask to wipe the tears from his eyes.” She also said that Cook momentarily in terceded for her at the scene of the lashing. / Th<> exact location of the scars was the next point for interroga tion. The witness insisted that all the licks were received between her waist and the middle of her thighs. She denied having said that she was stripped to the waist and lash ed on the bare flesh between her waist and shoulders. "Morton is a married man, is he not?” questioned the attorney. ‘ He told me he had been ma lied,” replied Mrs. Holcombe, “but said he was separated from his wife—getting a divorce.” “Are you the same Mrs. Bertha Holcombe who was in jail in Chat tanooga some time ago?" was the attorney’s surprising question. “I’ve never been in jail!” “In the city station, then?” ‘l’ve never been in jail or a po lice station,’ she repeated. That was the last question of the defendant’s attorney. Ke an nounced himself through with the witness. KLAN MEMBERSHIP HELD NOT MATERIAL MARIETTA/ Nov. 28. (By the Associated Press.) Prosecution here today failed to get into the records. mfeyenee to the Ku Klnx Klan hi the trial of Parks C. Cooks, charged with being a member of a L’liif alleged t<> have flogged Mrs. Bertha Holcomb, widow, and her_ escort, Stephen Morton. The court’ sustained tile defense objections to Sbllicitor General Woods’ question irtgs of Cook and Joe Bramlett, witness, as to whether they were mi’iwbers of the Ku Klux Klan. That defendant <>n stand later himself declared he had never be ll iigwl to any organization except church, hud never'"had q mask over his face and had never struck a lady. -* x. WEATHER. For Georgia Rain tonight and Thursday; no'change in tempera- ture. _ PRICE FIVE CENTS UMFomtora BILL TO HOUSE: GOES BP TO SEHATE Necessary Two-Thirds Majority Given Tax Measure in Roll Call Late Tuesday AMENDMENTS ARE MADE ——— Expect Little Difficulty in Pass ing Senate; Plan To Rush Bill To Governor ATLANTA, November 28.—— The senate today tabled the Phillios budget commiliion bill, a Walker administration measure, and passed the substitute offered bv Senator Stephen Pace, of the Thirteenth, 18 to ’2. Both houses of the general as sembly adjourned this morning until Monday. : ATLANTA, November 28. I (Special.)—By vote of 141 to 51; — : three more than the requisite con- I stitutional majority—the Georgia house, of representatives on Tuesday afternoon passed the Lankford bill providing for levying of an income tax for the support of the state of Georgia. As th e measure is a constitutional amendment, it was necessary that the affirmative vote be a two-thirds majority of the total membership of the house, or 1.38 votes, two thirds of the roll of 206 members. It will be necessary, before the pro visions of the bill are finally adopt ed into the constitution of the state, that the action of the legislaure be. ratified by the voters of the state at the polls at the next general elee ion, in November 1924. | As passed by the house, the Lank ; lord bill was changed in several I features from its form as passed by | the senate. A number of amend- Iments, recommended by the house committee on amendments to the constitution, being adopted before the bill came up for final passage. Ono of these amendments strikes the word “net” as descriptive of in comes under the act. Another amendment strikes from | the bill that clause which provided j that the taxpayer could offset his income tax payment by the amount of ad valorem taxes paid or vice .versa if the ad valorem was the . greater. | Still another eliminated entirely ■ the clause setting out the schedule 1 of exemptions and simply provided .in its plac e that future legislatures I would have the power of allowing . exemptions, leaving the amount of exemptions to be placed in the en- I abling act which will Wave to be passed after the bill is ratified by I the people, assuming that this will ibe done. The bill as passed will no have ito go before the senate for con currence in the house amendments i and if the senate does not concur, ■conference committees will be ap ! pointed for the purpose of reaching | a compromise on the points in dis : pute. It is the general belief that i there will not be undue difficulty . in reaching a compromise and that ] the bill will fre ready for the gov- I ernor’s approval before many days I are passed. ! The Lankford bill as passed Tuei i day provides for a state income tax • at a rate not to exceed five per cent, ; on a graduated scale, and also that I the state ad valorem rate shall be I reduced from five mills to three 1 mills s soon as the income tax has been approved by th e people. DR. TOLMAN, DEAN OF VANDERBILT IS BURIED NASHVILLE, November 28. i The funeral of Dr. H. C. Tolman, dean of the school of arts and . ! science at Vanderbilt and eminent I scholar, who died suddenly Satur- I lay was held at Christ Episcopal 1 church yesterday afternoon. Bishop •J. M. Maxon and H. J. Mikill, as- I sisted by members of the Nashville ! cleergy, officiating. I GOVERNMENT SAVES MONEY BY SCRAPPING WARSHIPS WASHINGTON, November 28. . Work already done at the New ' York and Philadelphia navy yards , tri the scrapping of four uncom pleted vessels on their ways under tin- treaty limiting naval armament I indicates that the assignment of j this task to these yards will yield ! the government about $30,000 more : than would have been received if ■ the ships had been sold for the , highest approved bids made for 1 them by civilian companies.
