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Americus Spot Cotton Strict Middling 33 l-2c. NY Futs Open Hi Low Close PvCls Jan 35.25 35.35 34.60 34.60 34.90 Mar 35.55 35.65 35.-00 35.00 35.10 May 36.00 36.35 '35.20 35.20 35.50 Jul 34.80 35.00 34.45 34.45 34.30'' Oct 29.15 29.15 18.57 28.75 29.20 Dg c 35-10 36.10 35.10 35.10 35.85 FORTY.FIFTH YEAR.—NO. 275 “I HAD IT TO DO” SAID FOX . °°OOOOO .OOOOOOOOOOOOO" NO TAX ON NEW INDUSTRIES FOR 5 YEARS WOMAN BITS LIFE in mmss court FOP 'UfflG DF MSN 1 rial of Mrs. Nora Duren Devel ops Sensation When Woman . Makes Her Statement KILLED TO SAVE HONOR Fatal Shot Fired While She Was Being Held. Defendant Tells Court in Screaming Voice WAYCROSS, Dec. 13.—The. jury in the ease of Mrs. Nora Duren, charged with the murder of Ira James on August 14, after deliberat ing one hour and thirty minutes last night returned a verdict of guilty with recommendation of mer cy. The verdict automatically car ries a sentence of life imprison ment with it. Mrs. Duren appear ed stupified as the verdict was read, and as her relatives anil friends crowded around her. The case was given to the jury last night at 7 o’clock. The climax in the interest of the case was reached shortly after noon Wednesday, when Mrs. Duren went to the witness stand to make her statement. Her long' silence, which has extended from the date of the shooting to the time she took her seat in the witness chair, was brok en, and pounding the arm of the chair the defendant declared that James and come to her store, unbid den, and had made an improper proposal to her, which was follow ed by an assault upon her person. She said she escaped from James and ran behind the counter, where she seized a pistol and fired the fatal shot. Seated around her and in her lap were her four small children, and her attention apeared to be more directed to them than to the des perate legal battle, that was going on for her conviction or acquittal.- Even while tl»e solicitor was deliv ering a dramatic attack upon her statement, and denouncing her as a cold-blooded murderer, Mrs. Du ren remained, as far as outward appearances revealed, perfectly calm. While the jury was delib erating over her fate, she convers ed with friends and relatives free ly who had gathered around her. ered around her. Solicitor Spence in his address to the jury did not ask for the death penalty, but requested a verdict of life imprisonment. SOMTER GINNINGS SHOW HUGE DECLINE / Tc—i L ilcduccJ Almost By- Half Is Report by Census Bureau Sumter county ginning to De cember 1 amounted to 12,103 bale;-: of cotton including the round as half bales against 21,758 bales gin ned during the same time in 1922, according to the reports received by W. P. Person from the Bureau of Census at Washington. COMPLETE CROP ESTIMATE IS MADE WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. This yeans cotton cropi was estimated at 10,081,000 bales today by the de partment of agriculture. WOMAN, DESERTED, TRIES TO DRINK POISON CUP ATLANTA, Dec. 13.—A bottle of acid dashed from her lips by a friend, Mrs. Bettie Ingram, 18 and pretty, was in a ward at Grady hospital Tuesday night suffering from severe burns, but with her ef forts at suicide rendered 1 utile and her life apparently spared. Mis. Ingram attempted to swal- K low the fatal acid draught Tuesday afternoon at her home, 26 West Alexander street, as the result, she stated, of despondency over the ab sence of her husband. G. E. McCollum, the friend who was with her at the time, was pain fully burned about the hand when he snatched the bottle from her lips before she could swallow its con tents. Mrs. Ingram said that her hus band left Atlanta for Decatur, 111., about a week ago, and that not heard from him since his de parture. Mrs. Eunice Cocke, Mrs. C. A. Wade and Mrs. H. Lee, of Cobb, and Mrs. 11. W. Kirven, of Colum bus, were visitors in Americus Wed nesday who had luncheon at the Tea Room, , i ...... . ■ .. . .- ■ r ~ CUS W»gL _ THE TIMESBSffi&RDER PUBLISHED IN A Favorite IB k Hr Mimi Derba’s name is magical with Mexican theatre-goers. She’s one of the most popular actresses on tde other side of the Rio Grande. Ard pretty, too, don’t you think? mos HUG SHE PUNNED BBIUFSW County Demonstrator To En deavor To Get Good Prices; Requests Many Animals There will be a hog sale at , the Americus pens next Tuesday, Dec. 18, and another in Leslie Wednes day, Dec. 19, it was announced Thursday by George O. Marshal 1 , Sumer eour.ty farm demonstration agent. “Hogs have through out the county for 6:30 to 6:6) cents, but we are hoping that the present crop will bring more than that,” Mr. Marshall stated. “Efforts will be made to secure the highest possible price for the commodities placed on the markets in the coun ty. We are hoping ’that a number of hog raisers will offer stock on the markets,” BROTHER OF BISHOP HELD FOR FORGERY NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 13. “1 am glad it is all over. I don’t care what they do. I am tired of it all. I wish they would hang me.” The foregoing statement was said by the police to have been made by William Hamilton Hawkins, alleged forger) and, according to his own story, member of a prominent fami ly of San Jose, Cal., and brother of a bishop, who was arrested here and is being held as a fugitive from justice. Hawkins is said by officials of a local detective agency, who effect ed his arrest at the Jefferson Park race track, to have forged checks amounting to approximately SIOO,- 000 in many cities throughout the country. PRICES RISE WHEN SYRUP CROP IS BEST IN YEARS THOMASVILLE, Dec. 13. Much of the new syrup made this season is on the market here now, and is proving to be very fine quality. The cane growers and syrup dealers are realizing good returns this year, and Ochlochnee reports sales last week at a dollar a gallon by the barrel. The cane grinding season is about over now, and the seed cane for planting next year has been banked for some time, though a few in some sections who delayed banking it report that some of its was injured by f,rosf. — NATIONAL. KiIWANIS COUNCIL ENDORSES MEMORIAL ATLANTA, Dec. 13.—At the r - cent meeting of the Kiwanis flubs international council held in Chi cago, a memorial to the late War ren G. Harding was endorsed and urged, according to reports reach ing here. All sections of the Unit ed States and Canada were repre sented at the meeting. Georgia rep resentatives who attended the meet ing of the county were Henry C. Heinz, of Atlanta, and Peyton C. Anderson, of Macon. AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY, AFTERNOON, DECTIMBErT,LI923 MEXICANS PREPARING FOR DECISIVE FIGHT ON VERA CRUZ FRONT Government Forces Concentrat ing For Battle With Rebels Marching on Capital REBEL STRENGTH GROWS Huerta Send Mexican Consul At New York Message To Re main In Charge There . MEXICO CITY, Dec. 13.—(8y the Associated Press.) —It is gen erally ielt here that a decisive bat tle between the Sanchez forces and troops loyal to President Obregon will be lougiit on the Vera Cruz front near where Carranza was de feated by Sanchez in 1919. The government continues to con centrate forces in that district to oppose the advance of rebel armies. Large bodies of armed men have been reported marching on Mexico City. Sanchez forces have been joined all along the route, private dispatches state. SANCHEZ TROOPS REACH FEROTE SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Dec. 13. The advance, troops of General Sanchez have reached Perote on the Intei-Oceanic, a station on the Puebla state line. General Sanchez is well equipped with machine guns which he kept after the defeat and death of Car ranza at Alihibes, where arms and ammunition were abandoned. Juehiteco Indians of Vera Cruz and the Isthmus, numbering thous and, have joined the De la Huerta troops, according to reports. Most of them are mounted and form a light cavalry regiment. The opening attack on the sub urbs of Mexico City is expected to be launched next Saturday, accord ing to information received here. The army at. present is estimated to number .25,060. well armed and equipped men. The revolt of General Hinojosa, who commands the state rurales in Nuevo Leon, has been confirmed bv dispatches to La Prenza. HUERTA WIRES NEW YORK CONSUL NEW YORK, Dee. 13.—Albert Mazacarenas, Mexican consul gen wa!i ‘ n >. York City ’ announced Wednesday that he had. received a telegiam purporting to come from Adolfo de la Huerta, rebel leader informing him that he had assumed command of the government. The consul said he disregarded the mes sage which directed him to lake orders from De la Huerta. TERRELL READS MANY CARNEGIE LIBRARY BOOKS DAWSON, Dec. 13.—1 n a report made by Miss Fannie Cheatham, of the Carnegie library, to the State Library Association of Georgia, the circulation of volumes from the local library is placed at 9,879, which with 790 card-holders, indi cates the appreciation with which the library here is viewed. The cir cluation of books includes the et - tire county of Terrell in addition to Dawson. According to the re port, children probably are receiv ing more benefit from the library than any others. BROOKS COUNTY AGENT TO BEGIN CROP WORK QUITMAN, Dec. 13. R. A. Stratford, the new county agent, will arrive this week and begin his new duties as marketing agent and crop supervisor of Brooks county. The coming of the new agent is expected to mark the return of Brooks into her place in the van of Georgia agricultural coun ties. A county-wide diversified crop program has been adopted, which includes the raising of tobac co, celery, lettuce, cabbage and other truck. Brook county is no*w shipping large amounts of truck in to Florida, and it is said that the tomatoes which are being shipped this week from Brooks county truck farms are the only fresh tomatoes being shipped from any point in the state. • CHATTOOGA TEACHERS WILL MEET SATURDAY SUMMERVILLE, Dec. 13.—The monthly meeting of the Chattooga County Teachers’ association will be held at the Summerville High school auditorium next Saturday, and all of the teachers of the coun ty have been invited to be present and participate in the program, 9 note SHOPPING DAYS - "“"'i X / Letters lo >ayta Claus Kiddies: My old heart warmed up today when a letter from our be loved congressmen, Charles R. Crisp;- was handed me to read. “In asmuch as ve did it to the least of these—' that is the part that caught my heartstrings, kiddies, foi there are so many of ‘’the least of these” clamoring for toys and dolls and things this year. What shall I do when the letters come in and the Empty Stocking fund is so low? Mr. Crisp has given generously of his means, and hi > $lO will make many a little tot happy this year. He was a little child himself once, and loves all children. Hence his substantial donation. Now, kiddies, the time is gtting very short. YoU don’t realize it because you are so busy getting your own plans under way. While you are doing this, don’t forget the nurailjers-rf>f- poor little boys and girls who will awake Christmas morning to an Empty Stocking unless you open up your generous little hearts and help me to make them happy. The fund now is only S2O. Where will that go? Not very far, indeed. Come on, kid dies, and let’s make the grown ups ashamed of themselves for hold ing back. And remember, no letters will be printed unless a dime or more is enclosed. Dear Santa Claus: I want you to bring me a pair of skates, a watch, a football, and some nuts and candy. I am enclosing dime for the Empty Stocking fund. Your little boy, Leonard Fletcher. Previously acknowledged $ 4.40 C. R. Crisp 10.00 A Friend i.oo Billy Mac Eve 1.50 Lovelace Eve 1.50 Lochlyn Eve 1.50 Cash .50 • Washington, Dec. 10, 1923. - Tinies-Recorder, Americus-, Ga. Gentlemen: I noted in today’s paper, with genuine pleasure, that you are again calling for contri butions to try to make Christmas happy for the little ones of our community. The Prince of Peace said, “Inas much as you done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you nave done it unto me,” so I hope our people who are financially able will respond to this worthy cause. It gives me sincere pleasure to enclose herein my check for $lO for the fund. With kindest regards, I am Your Friend, CHAS. R. CRISP. ATLANTA IS BOMBED WITH CIRCULARS IN AD SCHEME ATLANTA, Dec. 13.—The last word in advertising in this city oc ■ curred recently when the city was bombed .with circulars from an aeroplane which flew over the citv whieh 1 . le } tinff loosfe v h eh exploded with a loud report and emitting numerous circulars ine plane continued to circle foi more than an hour and Attracted Probably r ■ , , h ° the mind., of some of th-' inhabitants scenes whan • • °uenes when -something more than loud noises resulted tioni the explosion. GRAY BEAUTY WINNER TAKES D. A. R. CAKE GRAY, Dec. 13. Miss Tommie Green, of this city recently won the prize in a beauty contest staged here by the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo lution. The prize was a large cake presented by the D. A. R. chapter. The judging was .by the ballot, method with Miss'Green receiving! the high number of votes. Tax Exemptions Bill Passes Senate and House Committee ATLANTA Dec 13 The house today passed Its edusationel com mittees’s substitute for the Beau champ school box commission by a vote of 134 to 14. ATLANTA, Dec. 13.—(8y Asso ciated Press.)—The Stovall-Holden bill to give counties and municipali ties the right to exempt from tax ation for a period of five years al) new industrial enterprises including cheese factories and creameries, passed the senate yesterday after noon and was this morning given a favorable report by the house con stitutional amendments committee The bill has been favored because of the inducement it would offer to prospective enterprises which might locate in the state. It is thought that the bill will pass the house and that it will go to the governor for his' signature in the near future. With passage of the Milner bill to amend the cigar and cigarette tax act in order to provide lor the ex pense of eollectiort. the house on Wednesday night sent another tax ation measure to the senate for con currence. At the present there are 3 bids dealing with taxes awaiting agree ment between the two houses. Two of these are in conference commit tees, while a similar situation ’n regard to the thir l looms as prae . tie-ally inevitable. This legislative blockade exists despite a special message sent to both houses on Wednesday by Gov o ner Clifford Walker, in which he that th • legislators “re? cile promptly” their differences on leiorm me.i tres or, failing to do so " imm? . : adjourn.” PORTUGUESE CABINET RESIGNED REPORT Thought To Be Connected With Recent Rebellion Put Down Without Bloodshed LISBON, Dec. 13.—(8y the As sociated Press.) —The Portuguese cabinet resigned today, according to advice. It was thought that the resignation of the cabinet might have some connection with the re bellion which had been recently pur down. HIGHWAYCONFERENCE RESULT HELD SECRET Final reports on the conference Wednesday afternoon of Warren Neal, state highway engineer, and a group of Americus citizens regard ing proposals that the district high way offices be moved from the city are expected to be ready for publi cation in-the next few days, it was announced Thursday morning. Mr. j Neal left the city this morning for Atlanta. The conference was held in the Chamber of Commerce offices and committee actions were veiled in se crecy while efforts are under way to prevent the removal of the offi- j es from Americus. Reports of the I decision are expected to be in the 1 hands of Henry Everett, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, for publication in the next few days. Stephen Pace, of Americus, who has been active in the interest of keeping the offices here, was unable to attend the meeting yesterday on account of important legislation in the Georgia senate, of which he is a member. KILLING DUCKS WITH AIRPLANE HELD ILLEGAL MEMPHIS, Dec. 13. Killing ducks with an airplane is the novel charge that has been placed W. M. McConnell, at Vicksburg, Miss., according to J. E. Perry, fed eral game warden here. Mr. Perry returned today from Vicksburg where McConnell was arrested Sun day on instructions from the de partment of agriculture at Wash ington. According to the game warden, McConnell piloted his airplane at great height until he located a flock of ducks. Then he swooped down among them, the propeller wreaking havoc among the birds. Mrs. A. G. Kendrick, of Plains, was among the out-of-town shoppers in Americus Wednesday. i lEOLDIERS’ BOHUS BILL ISffllBIN CONGRESS J Measure To Be Pushed In Spite I Os Opposition, Leaders ; Declare WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.—The 1 soldiers' bonus bill which was pass- I ed bv congress last year and which ■ I was vetoed by President Harding i! was ri -introduced in the house to- I day bv Representative McKenzie, i Republican, of Illinois. The meas ure was reintroduced, the author stated, at the request of Republican veteran members of the house. 1 The bill as re-introduced today ' carries only minor changes from the original measure vetoed by the late 1 president, and it is expected that it ’ will be among the first bills to be - passed by this congress. FULE OEMS" ■lffl HUME Los Sustained Estimated at Ap proximately $2,500 With No Insurance Fire of undetermined origin de stroyed at noon today a five-room frame dwelling belonging to Mrs. A. 1 T. Johnson, who resides near Leslie. J. W. Suggs, who had been liv ing in the house, was moving from the Johnson farm to that of Leon Griffin, in the same community, and his household effects were saved, al though the building was consumed. It is thought that sparks from la kitchen flue cause the fire, al though this could not be definitely, determined. The house was valued at $2,500, and it is stated that no insurance was carried. Mrs. Johnson sustained a similar loss by fire earlier this week when a barn on her farm was destroyed with feedstuffs and farm cattle. MONROE PRISONERS ESCAPE FROM JAIL FPRSYTH, Dec. 13.—Clyde Gar rett, Joyce Mullis and Jeff Hand, all convicted at the recent term of court for burglary, and sentenced to terms on the Monroe county chaingang, escaped Monday night about 7:30 o’clock. Officers trail ed and captured Mullis. The oth ers still are at large. Garrett and Mullis made a daring get-away while court was in session iby slid ing down a rope made of heavy canvas string, from the. second story of the courthouse, while waiting for their eases to be called. Both were captured a few minutes later. Garrett, while in jail here in a former trouble, sawed out of the ' county jail. The escape Monday night was effected by boring an opening through the floor with an augur. TWO GEORGIA MILLS AFFECTED BY MERGER BOSTON, Dec. 13.—The stock holders of the International Cotton Mills Tuesday ratified the plan re cently announced for merger of its mills at Lowell, Lisbon, Maine; Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Ham ilton, Ont., with mills acquired by Lockwood Green and company of this city, in Pelzer, S. C.; Tucapau, S. C.; Hogansville, Ga., and La- Grange, Ga. The combination will be called the New England Mills. The combined mills have 362,000 j spindles and produce a wide variety of cotton products. The only pub lic financing in connection hVith the merger will be an issue of $4,- 000,000 ten-year 7 per cent notes. ‘BEST AMERICAN SOLDIER’ WILL SOON BE RETIRED INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., December 13.—Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, the Indiana soldier named by General. J. J. Pershing as the “outstanding American soldier of the World war,” reported to Foi;t Benjamin Harrison Tuesday, where he is to be retired with the highest obtain able place by a non-commissioned officer. George T. Sewell, regi mental sergeant major, was select ed last Thursday to step aside temporarily to permit Sergeant Woodfill to be elevated to master sergeant and retired. s _J. For Georgia Rain tonight; I colder in west and north portion Friday; cloudy and much colder probably rain in south portion. PRICE FIVE CENTS HEARING OF« BEGUN BY STATE 111 KLAN SLAYING CASE Trial of Fox Officially Opened When Witnesses Declare Fox Bought Long Knife •SIMMONS IS SPECTATOR Woman Believed To Have Known Fox Alleged Plans Sought By Officers ATLANTA. Dec. 13.—(8y Asso ciated Press.) —Heai'p" of evidence was begun in the trial of Philip E. Fox, charged with the killing of Captain W. S. Coburn today. Clar ence Everett identified a knife sev en inches long which he said Fox had bought a few days before the shooting. Fox told him to oil the knife stat ing that he had been looking for a knife like that for a long time, the witness said. The knife which was under dis cussion was found in Fox’s possess ion when he was arrested. Emperor Simmons, founder of the klan, appeared and sat within the chancery railing. A persistent search for Mrs. Mar garet Weaver, indicted as an acces sory before the fact in connection with the Coburn killing, was being conducted Wednesday at the direc tion of Solicitor Boykin, it being understood tha she is wanted to fur nish some important testimony Fox. Until the motive for the Coburn slaying is revealed on the witness stand it is likely that it will remain unknown, Solicitor Boykin and his associates having given no intma tion A as to what will be their line of prosecution. Neither has coun sel for the defense indicated the nature of its defense. W. A. Jones, manager of the building in which Coburn’s offices were located, testified that he had apprehended Fox after th e shooting and that he asked Fov why he had done it. “I had to do it. I had to it to do,” he said Fox replied. CHiPiWEIGHS POUNDS DRESSED A hog weighing 625 pounds dres-- ed was purchased from J.B. Bryant, who lives three miles out on the Dawson road, according to T. B. Parks, a Sumter county citizen. The haslet weighed 16 pounds dressed. This is thought to be the cham pion hog of the county for the year at least, and a challenge has been issued by the former owner of the hog to produce a larger and finer specimen. “It is only in this way that Sum ter coutny can forge ahead in the raising of livestock and other farm ■commodities,” he said. ‘1 want Sumter to raise the largest hogs, the best melon and be the best county in the state.” EX-KAISER IS DUBBED ‘PRINCE OF PRUSSIA’ BERLIN, Dec. 13.—The postu late that “once a kaiser always a kaiser,” which William Hohenzol lern’s friends never tire of empha sizing, although he is a kaiser with out a country, has been finally dis posed of by a Prussian ministerial decree which gives Willie the desig nation of "Prince of Prussia,” on the ground that he was that when he was born. The title is the same for the ex-crown prince. The Zeitung Am Mittag fails to see why the title of “Prince” should be retained if the kaiser and tha crown prince are taboo, and why the mere family name o. Hohen zollern is not good enough, 't is pointed out that the ex-kaiser’s namesake, William 11, of Wuttpn l>erg, voluntarily divested himself of the ttile of king after the 1918 i evolution and adopted the desig nation Duke of Wuerttenberg. AUTHORITIES LAUNCH POSTAL FRAUD FIGHT CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Two postal inspectors here were assigned today t oco-operate with representatives of the state’s attorney for Cook county in investigating into the ex tent of an alleged swindle game said to have netted Attorney Leo Koretz several million dollars. Sensational disclusores were made yesterday when Koretz’s offices were raided by state authorities, and the attorney has been missing since a short time before the raid was staged. i
