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Americus Spot Cotto n ’”'• Strict Middling 33 l-4c. NY Futs Opn Hi Low Close LvCls Jan 34.18 34.65 34.17 34.35 34.28 Mar 34.75 35.08 34.73 34.80 34.73 May 34.0Tt-35.26 34.90 34.90 34.90 Jul .34.10 34.47 34.10 34.20 34.12 Oct 28.4 Q 28.68 28.44 28.47 28.35 Dec 34.95 35,40 34.95 415.25 35.05 ■ FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 280 SIX TAMPER WITH O Ct Ci A n ~ W^U UUUUUUOU 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 FORD FOR COOLIDGE; DECLINES TO RACE FOR PRESIDENT 000000000 0.0000000000 T/ o MEXICAN FORCES IN BLOODY BATTLES MBIT OF AUTO Hffl CHS Mffl WRENCH IK POLITICS American People Believe Conu try Safe With President; Why Change, Says Ford COOLIDGE IS RIGHT MAN Ford Throws Full Support Be hind Administration in Gub ernatorial Campaign 'DETROIT, Dec. 19.—(8y the As sociated Press.) —Henry Ford de clared that the great majority of thq American people “feel that the country is safe with Coolidge” and that he himself would never con sider running against Mr. Coolidge on any ticket. The president has shown that he wants to do what is right and thb ' man who wants to usually does. Why change, said Ford. The announcement comiim, - as it does on the verge of the plrty se lections to make the race (or the presidency, will doubtless reflect its influence into the ranks of Ford supporters, and is expected to carry the large majority of them for the Coolidge candidacy. GREE K MG M Wffl FLEE ITHENS Roy al Family Decides To Permit • Assembly to Choose Gov ernment For Country LONDON, Dee. 19. — (By the As sociated Press.)— King George and Queen Elizabeth, of Greece, left Piraeus last night aboard a steamer, rays a dispatch from Athens. MONARCHS TO GO TO RUMANIA ATHENS, Dec. 19.—(8y the As sociated Press.) —King George and Queen Elizabeth left Athens for Ru mania, it is announced by the news papers here today. The government Monday night in formed King George in writing that it considered it advisable, for him to leave Greece until the national ; ' ’-:-d Irn tile regime best befitting the country. The king reserved his reply until Tuesday, s The official communique issued after the cabinet meeting said: “As the constituted assembly bas ed on the elections is about to meet to discuss the regime best suited to the country the heads of the revo lutionary government considered that with a view of assuring calm in the debate on this very impor tant question it was their duty to convey to his majesty, the king, the opinion that he should leave the country until such time as a final de cision has been reached regarding the regime. “This question has been com municated to the king. PIOI SOVIET TROOPS »y Three Stations Participate In Uprising Against Authority Os Government HARBIN, Dec. 19.—A mutiny of of soviet Russian troops commenc ing last Monday is reported from Vladivostok, Nikolosk and Khabar ovsk. The mutinous reds, reports say, are being assisted by partisans of the white or anti-soviet faction in Siberia. Ralph Dowling, of Dothan, Ain., is the guest of Roy Parker at his home on Lee street. ‘Take mother along” is Mary PH-ford’s advice to movie-mad We had no idea Mary was that old. THE TIMESgRfcORDER Sw PdßLi^HE^N' YhV' ME Legion Seeks Expulsion of former Klan Official f ST. LOUIS, December 19. Ihe executive committee of the St. Louis branch of the American Legion has adopted a resolu tion demanding the resignation from the Officers’ Reserve Corps of the Rev. Charles D. McGehee, ku klux klan lecturer, and for merly rector of a local Southern Episcopal church, it is announced here. The resolution declared the klan to be an un-American or ganization. 1 he Rev. Mr. McGehee was recently denied re-appo;ntment to the local pastorate because of his klan activities. cheistk pent Bl CHILO’S FATHER ENOS WOMAN'S LIFE Mrs. Beula Branton, 35, Meets Death When - Pistol Is Dis- < charged By Young Tot DEATH IS INSTANTANEOUS Accident Occurred at Party In Heme of Parents cf 8- Year- Old Bey ROME, Ga„ Dec. 19.—(8y the Associated Press.) Mrs. Buelah Branton, 35, country school teacher, was shot and ’ instantly killed by Rufus Nichols, eight-years-old, with a pistol his father had given Mrs. Branton for a Christmas present. The shooting occurred while Mrs. Branton was attending a party at the Nichols home. The father had just explained the use of the gun, and laid it aside. The boy picked it up later in the evening and fired. Firing- of the shot by the - boy was accidental, reports showed. A coronerss jury was expected to re turn a verdict. TOOOANNOUNCES FOR PRESIDENT'S JOB Gerard Accepts Place As Vice President on Ticket of For mer Railroad Chief LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 19. William Gibbs McAdoo, war-time director of the Americus railroads, Monday night formally announced his candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination in a tele gram to W. W. Howes, democratic state chairman. Pierre, S. D. GERALD ACCEPTS PLACE ON TICKET. Pierre, S. D. Dec. 19.—James Gerard, New York, who was endors ed for the democratic nomination ijpr vice president at the state pro posal convention here. December 4, declared in an acceptance filed with the secretary of state Mon day, that if nominated and elected, he would “qualify and adhere to the declaration of principles set forth in the proposal convention and obey the party recall invoked against hiny” Roy Parker has arrived from Mi ami, Fla., to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy- Parker, at their home on Lee street. 4. Mote SWOPPING DAVS > BEFOGE >4B AMERICUS. GAWEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 19, 1923 CLAIM AHT PFBf LET MIL ERAMCATOP Mississippi Farmer Presents “Proof” of How Plan Works 4 ATLANTA, Dee. 19. —A success ful way to overcome the boll wee vil has been found, it is claimed. I If this be true it will be w’orth bil j lioris of dollars to the South. The "Argentine ant” will do the i work. , Mance Dees, a cotton planter of Crystal Springs, Miss., says so, in a , report received at the state capitol. Mr. Dees says he planted two patch es of cotton last spring, one in l ordinary soil and one in soil in fested with Argentine ants. In the latter patch, he says, he found that the weevils made no headway, be cause the ants destroyed them as rapidly as they appeared, In proof of his claim he submits two typical stalks from each cotton patch, one shriveled and undeveloped, the oth er containing 149 fully matured bolls. CALLS SPECIAL BET i1 o Consider Paying Sumter Teachers’ December Sti pends Before Christmas Consideration of the problem' of raising funds to pay Sumter county j school teachers’ salaries Jiefore ! Christmas will be the chief topic un | der discussion at a call meeting of 1 the board of education at the court j house at 10 o’clock Thursday morn pt was announced Wednesday morn j ing by J. E. D. Shipp, chairman. “Tax money has come into the ' treasurer so slowly that we have ; a real problem to face in paying | our teachers before the holidays,” • Mr. Shipp stated. “The meeting will seek to devise away to finance the proposal that all money due be paid before Christmas. The meet ing is called at the special request of E. W. Dupree, superintendent of Sumter schools.” Members of the board are J. C. Carter, J. E. Ranew, W. C. Jordan, , Walter Chappell, and J. E. D. Shipp , I chairman ' liquor plot laid TO MOBILE OFFICERS MOBILE, Dec. 19.—Sheriff Paul Casealias, former sheriff of Mobile county; W. H. Holcomb, Jr„ a mem ber df the Alabama legislature and now a deputy sheriff, together with four other deputy sheriffs and Frank W. Boykin, a well known Mo bile man, were arrested today by United States marshals on indict ments returned recently by the fed eral grand jury here. The grand jury investigated alleged wholesale violation of liauor laws here, and the arrest of those named is one of the esults of this investigation, it is declared. billard is nominated HEAD OF COAST GUARD WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—Fred erick C. Billard, of Maryland, who is now serving with the rank of commander as an aide to the com mandant of the coast guard, was I nominated today by President Cool jidge to be commandant of that ser- 1 ‘vice with the rank of rear admiral. BMS THREATENED TO f GUNS ON MEN; EXTRA WHO MED ‘Double Life’ of Defendent To Be Exposed, State Attorney Asserts EXPOSURE feared, claim Charge Slayer Said ,‘Of Course They Will Hang Me. But He’ll Never Tell ATLANTA, Dee. 19.—(8y As sociated Press)) —Bailiffs is charge of the jury sitting in the case of Tliilip E. Fox on trial for his life for the alleged slaying of Captain W. S. Cobum, ku klux klan official, had to threaten to draw their pis- tols on six men who attempted to in terfere with the jurors as they were taking th eh- outdoor exercise early today, the bailiffs reported to the court. Extra gtjards were assigned to the jury, aid the state opened its attack upon Fox’s alleged habits. Witnesses during the morning testi fied to the defendant having fre quented houses of ill-repute and being drunk. Sensational testimony to the ef fect that Fox led a “double life” previous to the killing was giv en late Tuesday by witnesses intro duced by the prosecution in rebuttal to Fox’s general plea of insanity. Taxicab drivers and maids testi - f»ed that the* defendant visited al leged disorderly houses, and told of automobile rides with women. As late as the morning before Coburn was killed on the after noon of Monday, Nov. 5, Fox took a ride with a woman from 9.5 West Peachtree street and out Marietta street into the country, it was tes tified by C. L. Wilkie, a taxicab driver. Solicitor Boykin announced that he expects to show that Fox’s rea son for slaying Coburn was his fear that Coburn would expose his con duct. In this connection a signifi cant development of Tuesday’s af ternoon session was the statement of George W. Allen, one of Fox’s captors, who was recalled to the stand, that Fox declared to him af ter the shooting: “Os course, I know they will hang me, but he will never tell.” Solicitor Boykin regarded that evidence as important in his theory.. The testimony of rebuttal wit nesses was marked by frequent in terruptions by tilts between coun sel. Objections to testimony re flecting on Fox’s character was raised by Attorney Hugh Dorsey and Robert Allen, their contention being that while they had merely olaced Fox’s general reputation in issue the state, through evidence as to association with women and automobile rides, was injecting into the case specific instances of al leged improper conduct. Solicitor Boykin declared that b expected to show z -that Fox had led a life of vice and feared exposure at the hands of Coburn, and that fear of exposure was the motive for the slayin". Judge G. H. Howard ruled that the testimony could re main in the record, provided the stat v showed later that Coburn was cognizant of Fox’s alleged miscon duct, and that Fox was aware of Coburn’s knowledge of it. ‘CONFIDENCE GAME’ LAID TO KORETZ IN CHARGES CHICAGO, Dec. 19.—Leo Koretz, misisng promoter of an alleged pan- American “oil bubble,” was indicted here Tuesday on a charge of ope rating a confidence game. The true bill was returned several days ago after the jury had heard testimony of Samuel L. Nichman, who claimed he was swindled out of $32,000 by Koretz. The committee which Koretz sent away from New York on Thanks giving day to “inspect” the “oil properties” in the Bayano river dis trict of Panama returned home Tuesday crest-fallen and perplexed, for they found no trace of the Bay ano River Trust company or any indication that Koretz had been known there or ever had visited Panahia. At least three members of the committee had resigned high salaried position to take “lucrative” places with the Koretz organiza tion. FORMER KLAN KLEAGLE I HEADS CHURCH SOCIETY SALEM, Ore., Dec. 19. Lu ther I. Powell, of Portland, former king kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan for the northwest, heads an organi- | zation known as Allied Protestants of America, articles of incorpora- i tion for which are on file today. The other incorporators are Cap-; tain J. H. Piltz and Harry W. Gid dings. Fill DENOMATIONS ENWEO IN QUIBBLE IW CHRIST’S BIRTH New York Is Chosen Battle ground For Ecclesiastical War of Christian Chiefs HOT DEBATE SCHEDULED Bishops of Opposing Factions Remain Silent; Clergy Clear Ground For Big Fight NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—(8y the Associated Press.)—Modernists and fundamentalists Tuesday pressed their ecclesiastical warfare, jvith New York the chief battleground. In all five denominations to date have been drawn into doctrinal de bate concerning chiefly the virgin birth of Jesus Christ and physical resurrection. While debate has progressed further in the Protest ant Episepal cnurch, where charges of heresy have been made, it be came known that Presbyterian mod ernists, defeated in the general as assembly last May, were planning vigorously to oppose adoption of five tenets held by fundamentalists. Tn a greater or less degree, clergymen associated with the Bap tist, Methodist and Unitarian sects have taken sides in the question of modernism versus fundamentalism. Thursday evening, for example, the Rev. Dr. John Roach Stratou, pastor of Calvary Baptist churcn j and fundamentalist leader, is to de bate the question with the Rev< Dr. Charles F. Potter, pastor of the West Side Unitarian church. But with these rumblings in the' other Protestant faiths distinctly audible, the chief engagement in progress today was between the Episcopalian factions. While Bishop William T. Man ning, of New Yoik, fundamentalist, and Bishop William Lawrence, of Massachusetts, modernist, here to attend a meeting of the church pen sion fund, maintained strict silence, certain clergymen aligned with fundamentalist faction issued state ments designed to heal the breach which opened when charges of here sy were brought against the Rev. Lee M. Heaton, of Fort Worth, Tex., and 500 Episcopalian clergymen rose to his defense. LW. Leighton Parks, aged rector of St. Bartholomew’s church on Park avenue, who brought the situ ation to a crisis locally last Sunday by appearing in his pulpit in acad emic gown and challenging tne house of bishops to try him instead of Mr. Heaton, add»d not a word to his sermon. But from Rev. Dr. dirtiest M. Stires, rector of St. Thomas’ chruch on Fifth avenue, came a formal statement that plans had been made to avoid a trial of Mr. Heaton by transferring him to another diocese. Both Mr. Heaton and the bishop coadjutor of Dallas were agreable to this plan, he said, uring ‘‘a little quiet and patfence.” This statement, said by those close to Dr. Stires to have been made without consultation with Bishop Manning, was followed by denial in Ldxington, Ky., from Mr. Heaton that he knew of any plan to avoid bringing him to trial and that though he would prefer trans fer to trial, he did not see how he could help facing charges unless Bishop Moore, of Dallas, retracted. Marion Cook, who has been visit ing Roy Parker for ten days, left Tuesday for Augusta to spend the holidays with relatives. FOX JURY | FEDERAL LEADER e.i Wife > Wife. w i General Plutarco E. Calles (above) is President Obregon’s choice as his successor to the pres idency in Mexico. Calles is aiding governmental forces. CHPISTIAS FUND ffl !180 NH Johnson, Sheffield and “Cash” All Toss $5 Bills Into Pot For Kiddies’ Christmas Today the records show that the Empty Stocking Fund has barely reached approximately slss, and there remain only a few days be fore Christmas. A number of $5 contributions have come within the last few days, biit even with this amount the fund is not adequate for the de mands mande on it through the As sociated Charities. Not only toys must be bought for the kiddies, but wood, food, clothing and other nec essities must be included in * the budget for not only are there needy children, but poor old people whose Christmas will b e cheerless, indeed, if happiness is not dispensed to them through the Empty Stocking Fund. Last year the fund went well up to the S3OO mark. Is it to b e said that Americus people are less gen erous this year than last, or are they forgetting in their own happiness the misfortunes of others? ’ i t the fund in the few re imaining days in which all may give and let this be the happiest Christ mas the city has ever known.. Contributions today are as fol- lows: William Bradford Johnson .. .10 Otto Colon Johnson .10 Katherine Smith .25 Wayne Smith 25 Baby Carolyn Smith 25 Margaret Greene .10 Lee Johnson Brooks i... .10 Sam Ivey ..?. . .10 Carlton Ivey 10 W. B. Johnson • 5.00 Frank Sheffield 5.00 Ira Louis Brown ..... 10 Elizabeth Moore ...., .10 Oriska Easterlin .25 Cash 5.00 Florence Clements .10 Edward Smith 25 Morgan Smith .25 Willard Crew Smith 25 Sarah Deriso .10 Fred Dorsey 10 Junior Dorsey .10 Oscar Beil . .10 Grace Patterson 40 YEGGMEN ROB THEATRE BORING THROUGH FLOOR NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Three Yeggmen early Tuesday bored through a safe dodr in the offices of the Rivoli theater, one of Broadway’s largest motion picture houses, bound and gagged a watch man and escaped with the Sunday receipts, believed to be more than $6,000 and other valuables. The watchman surprised the rob bers at work on the safe and joint ing a pistol at them ordered them to put their hands up, but a hammer thrown at his legs upset him. BLINDED WAR VET MAKES PHI B£TA KAPPA PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19—Lieu tenant Schoble, Jr., of Wynoote, a blind veteran of the World war and a senior at the University of Penn sylvania, has been elected to Phi Bpta Kappa, the highest scholastic honor 'a student can receive. 4 WEATHER For Georgia Rain tonight and Thursday; slightly wanner tonight. PR,CE , FIVE CENTS MERDIA JOINS BEBEL FORCES OF HUERTA AGAINST WEBNKNT ' Garrison of Large City Declares For Revolutionary Faction; May Take Port BLOODY FIGHTS REPORTED Federals Winners in Battle For VVilla; Expect End of War At Early Date / NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.—(8y the Associated Press.) The city of Merdia, the capital of Yactan, with a population of 100,000 was taken over by the rebels Tuesday when General Lariga and the gar rison declared for Huerta, it was announced today by the Mexican consul general here. Indications were that Port Progress would fall into rebel hands, it was added. REBELS LOSE IN FIGHT MEXICO CITY, Dec. 19.—(8y the Associated Press.) —Press dis patches from Villa Hermosa, capital of the State of Tabasco, slate that rebel forces, comamnded by General ■ Carlos Green, former governor of Tabasco, and which have been at tacking Villa Hermosa, have suffer ed heavy losses in the bloodiest fighting of the present revolution. ROUT OF REBELS EXPECTED SOON > JUAREZ, Dec. 19. Complete rout of the reactionary forces in Vera Cruz is expected momentarily, said a message received here early Tuesday by Colonel Roman Lopee, garrison commander, from General Quijano, commander of the north ern zone with headquarters at Chi huahua City. A big drive against the revolutionists at San Marcos, Puebla, 160 miles from Mexico City, was contemplated, according to an other telegram from General Fran cisco Serrano, secretary of war and marine. , Ten men were killed in engage ments in the vicinity of Guadalupe Sunday in a clash with fiscal gen darmes, officers here were advised unofficially. At San Ignacio, whence a party of the insurrectionists fled, eight men, in eluding fiscal guards and soldiers, were killed, the re ports added. HARRIS TO RE-OPEN ANNUL M E N T SUIT Will Immediately Begin Again Fight to Void Marriage With Estranged Wife NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Beverly D. Harris, former vice-president of the National City bank, through his attorney, Rayford W. Alley, an nounced Monday night he would seek without delay to re-open his suit for annulment of his marriage which he lost by default. Mr. Alley explained that his law partner, Carruthers King, who had handled Mr. Harris’ case was in Tcnnesse obtaining depositions Tuesday and was unable to be in court when the case was called. Mr. Alley said he was sufficiently con versant with the details to look after the bankers’ interests. When the case was called for trial Tuesday morning George Gor don Battle, counsel fo> Mrs. Har ris briefly examined his client and then moved that the court direct , the jury to answer questions sub mitted to them in her favor. Ths jury obeyed. BONUS BILL TABLED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The house ways and means committee decided today to defer action pn the soldiers’ bonus until after it had considered the administrative fea ture of the Mellon tax program.
