About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1923)
j' Americus Spot Cotton Strictly middling 34.75. , Jan. 34.85 35.00 34.80 34.82 34.55 ’ Mar 35.20 35.37 35.15 35.23 34.87 May 35.30 35.48 35.28 35.33 35.05 Jul 34.52 34.64 34.45 34.45 37.27 Oct 28 58 28.69 28.45 28.45 28.35 Dec 36.30 36.30 36.00 36.10 35.50 FORTY-FIFThVeAR— NO. 282 FOX FATE IN HANDS OF FULTON JURY ELKS OFMM SENDS FUND PKT 5150110 SUCCESS IS ASSURED Half a Hundred Dollars Hand ed Empty Stocking Managers By Lodge Here WILL GO OVER S2OO EASY Only Little More Effort And Every Kiddie Here Will En joy ‘Glorious Christmas’ ' Bam ’ The lid is off! Today’s donation from Americus Lodge No. 752, B. P. O. E., sent the Empty Stocking fund ‘over the top, with a bank. Less than half a hundred more and the goal set by the managers of the kiddies fund will have been attained. And this should be easy. There are other organizations in Americus that have not yet given the fund their donations—and all of these, doubtless, will “come in.” The fifty dollars contribution -sent in by Americus Elks today prac tically assures the success of the fund—if others who haven’t donat ed will only come in. There exists need for every cent that can pos sibly be raised. Only two days remain in which the money can be expended in the purchases of glad some toys and needful things to be distributed on Christmas by the la dies of the Associated Charities. Let the cash flow in freely today and to morrow and the fund will easily mount past S2OO before Christmas dawns. Big contributions are need ed now to swell the fund quickly— and it is time every agency made its donation, if they have planned to do anything for the needy'kiddies here. Contributions today: Miss Julia Hines $ 1.00 Elizabeth Andrews 25 Laura Andrews 25 Edward Andrews 25 Selma Payne 15 Talmadge Crabb, Jr 25 Martha Marshall 1.00 Tom Marshall, Jr 1.00 Dan Marshall 1.00 W. S. Morgan 2.00 Wilmer Morgan 1.00 Ruth Morgan 1.00 8.P.0.E. ..4.50.00 Dorothy Daniel 10 Joseph Daniel 05 lebWHm OH NEW ■ H Queen of Seas Sends Call For Tugs To Aid in Lifting Her NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—(8y the Associated Press.) —The Leviathan, the queen ship of the American Merchant Marine, inbound from Ci.. grounded today on Kob- ins reef in New York harbor. A call was sent for all avainlable tugs. I. i rm » EMIL) (IBM HERE Americus relatives today receiv ed telegrams announcing the death in Jackson, Ga„ of T. M. Furlow early this morning, following an ill ness of several years. Funeral services will be, held in Jackson Saturday morning, with in terment in the family cemetery there. Mr. Furlow, who was about 70 years of age, was the last surviv ing member of the James Furlow ' family, prominent pioneer citizens ■of Americus, and spent his early life in this community, living in the beautiful old Furlow home, mem orable throughout this section and the entire state for its hospitality. He attended the public school here, and was prominent in the as fairs of the community. After leav ing Americus he married Miss Susie Ethridge, and she with several children and grandchildren survive. Mr. Furlow was a half brother of Walter Furlow, for half a cen tury connected with the fimes-Re corder and who died in Americus about seven years ago. He had been in declining health for a num ber of years, and while his death was not unexpected it came as a shock to friends and acquaintances among whom he was greatly esteem ed. He was a cousin of T. M. Fur low of Americus and other members pf the Furlow family here. thetWsSrecorder PUBLISHED IN THE~ HE AR • c - ittore SHOPPING DAYS feS I/ A B " j- kTm raws roOTETHEIRFIGUT iii Atlanta th. Preston Reynold, Dallas Man, Charges Conspiracy to Dis credit Testimony Offered FILES SUIT FOR $100,000.00 Dallas City Officials, Dr. Evans And Pau! S. Ethridge Nam ed in Complaint * ATLANTA, Dec. 21.—Charging that he is the victim of conspiracy. Preston P. Reynolds, of Dallas, Tex as, who as a witness for the state i Wednesday in the Philip E. Fox murder trial was the target for a furious attack from the defense, re -1 suiting in such scatching words 1 from the witness as to cause his ci tation on charges of contempt of court; filed suit in Fulton Superior 1 court Thursday for SIOO,OOO dam ages against high city officials in ' Dallas. Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans, ' imperial wizard of the Ku Klux ■ Klan, and Paul S .Ethridge, imperial ' klonsel, or klan attorney. 1 The suit for damages is entitled 1 “Preston P. Reynolds vs. Louis 1 Blaylock et al.” Included in the • list of defendants are Louis Blay- • lock, mayor of Dallas; Louis Tur -1 ley, police commisisoner of Dallas; P. D. Crawford, police judge of 1 Dallas; George C. Purl, state legis , lator from Dallas; George K. Butch- er, kilgrapp, of Dallas, Klan No. 66; Robert A. Allen and Jake E. Newberry, Dallas attorneys, who have aided in the Fox defense; Hi ram Wesley Evans, imperial wizard of the klan, and Paul S; Ethridge, imperial klonsel. Evans and Eth ridge are the only defendants in the suit who are residents of At lanta. Reynolds sets forth in his petition for damages, which he filed as his own attorney, that the defendants initiated a conspiracy in Dallas to 1 discredit him, and that the con-* spiracy continued in Atlanta since 'the Fox trial opened here. He states that he was subpoenaed 1 by the solicitor general in Atlanta to testify as a witness in the case of the state against Philip E. Fox, klan publicity director on trial for murder, and that each of the de fendants have by insinuation and ' sluring remarks caused some who are unfamiliar with (he purpose and designs of the defendants to believe their suggestions against , the plaintiff. 1 Setting forth that the original . hostile campaign launched against . him was instituted in Dallas, Reyn old declares in his petition that Blaylock, the first named defendant, is actuated in his attacks by inci dents that grew out of a recent election in Dallas, the principal ones 1 of which, he states, were efforts Reynolds made to have the mayor carry out pre-election pledges made to fellow klansmen of-Dallas klan. ' No. 66. Butcher’s hostility toward him, the defendant states, is caused by a suit filed against this defendant by the plaintiff in the Texas courts as a result of a previous alleged slan derous attack made upon the same plaintiff. Other defendants to the present suit are taken up in turn as to their alleged motives in attempting to de fame the character of the plaintiff. AMERICUS BANKS TO OBSERVE HOLIDAYS Americus banks will close all daj Christmas day and at noon every day until New Year’s day Kvhe>| I they will be closed all day again, I according to anonuncements Friday !by officials of the institutions. . I Among those who will observe the ; closing dates are Planters, Bank of Commerce and the Empire bank, AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 21, 1923 MERCER MAN TO LEAD PLAINS SERVICE SUNDAY Dr. McGinty, of Mercer Univer sity, will preach Sunday morning at 11 o’clock and at tb-i evening service at 7:30 o’clock at Plains Baptist\church. Special music has been arranged. REACHING CAPITAL; SMUGGLING CHARGED American Citizens Implicated In Arms and Munitions Smug gling, Official Says REBELS CLAIM VICTORIES Conflicting Reports State Each Side Winner In String of Recent Engagements SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 21.—(8y the Associated Press.) Reports from Mexico City, received by San Antonio last night, indicate that a battle for possesison of Puebla, the Rebels stronghold, is in prog ress. General Villareal, command ing 6,000 soldiers, is holding the city and defending it against attack by two armies, one under command of President Obregon and the oth er eomamnded by General Mazela. SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 21—(By the Associated Press.) —J he first cars of -wounded soldiers from the battlefields of San 'Marcos Pueblo have reached the City of Mexico and have been placed in military hospitals for treatment, according to advices received here. The wounded men include both Federals find Rebels, who were abandoned on the battlefields by their com rades when the Rebels withdrew after a brisk action. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 21.—(8y the Associated Press.) —United States District Attorney Burns to day announced that he intended to effect the arrest of a group of Antericans and Mexicans who have been attempting to smuggle arms and ammunition to revoltuionists in Mexico. He declined to go into de tails, neither would he intimate the identity of those concerned. NOGALES, Ariz., Dec. 21—Revo lutionary forces under ' General Guadalupe Sanchez have captured Apizaco and four other towns in their march toward Mexico City and are now within 60 kilometres of the capital, it was announced here last night by representatives of the De la Huerta faction. The towns of Puerto, Mexico, Acapulco, Puebla and Cuautia are now in the hands of the Rebel forces, according to advices. The Rebel army is 60 kilometres from Mexico City and the Obregon forces are preparing to evacuate the na tional capital , the announcement which was given out by Jose S. - Healy, a De la Huerta representa -1 tive, said. HENRY FORD LOSES DEMOCRATS SUPPDRT Michigan Man Says ‘Off Ford Candidacy For Life’; Way Is Cleared For Action ADRIAN, Mich., Dec. 21. I James W. Helme, who recently filed I petitions at Lansing, placing the I name of Henry Ford in the demo- I cratic column of the ballot in the '/residential primary next sprini’ I said he ‘is off the Ford candidacy I for life,” in commenting Thursday upon Mr. Ford’s statement of Wed nesday in which the automobile manufacturer declared he would not oppose President Coolidge for election. “The object of filing Ford peti tions at so early a date,” Mr. Helme said, ‘was to force a statement and find out where we were. The spec tre of a possible Ford * candidacy has demoralized both old parties and thpir leaders and brought dissension to third party organization. All this is now removed and we can settle down to the fact that there will be no Ford in the race.” The swiftest winds are encount ered in temperate latitudes at an altitude of from five to seven mileu, while above that the speed of the wind decreases, IfflHl IS OFFEREU HEM OF PEffIRATIONS MISSION BODY Begin Probe Into German Food Situation With View to Aid ing Hungry GERMANY SEEKING GOLD Offers To Pledge Resources For Gold Loan From Ameri can Bankers PARIS, Dec. 21.—(8y the Asso ciated Press.) —The reperation com mission this morning decided to of fer to Charles G. Dawes, of the United States, the presidency of 1 the committee which is to examine Germany’s finances. Germany’s application for au thorization to pledge the resources of the country as a guarantee for a gold loan from the United States was referred by the reparation com mission today to the home.of gov ernments of the various delegates. At the same time it was decided that the commission’s committee of 1 guarantees should make a thorough I investigation as to the food situa tion in Germany. BSmIfMIM IS WELL PRESERVED Lifelike Appearance Retained j By Corpse Buried Almost Half a Century Ago John W. Shiver had the unusual privilege of viewing his father, Cap tain Willis Shiver, who died’ 54 years ago, for the first time in his memory when his mother, Mrs. Anna F. Wilson, aged Americus school teacher, was interred in the same grave with her first husband Wed nesday afternoon. It was the request of Mrs. Wil son that she be buried with Mr. Shiver, and 'when the grave was opened, it was possible to see the features of the dead; man. It was reported that he was in a perfect state of preservation. Captain Shiver was a distinguish ed Confederate veteran, having been a member of the Fourth Georgia regiment. He enlisted at the be ginning of the war, was elected to the place of corporal and when he returned was acting colonel. “-All the promotions of-my father came because of citations for brav ery,” Mr; Shiver stated. “He was one of the first in the battles in the War Between the States, and his personality won for him the ad miration and respect of his men.” NEIVTRIALSOUGHT FBPCONVICTEDBm Sentenced to Death For Un derwood’s Murder Youths To Fight For Lives BUTLER, Dec. 21.—Two Taylor county youths, one still in his teens, Thursday were incarcerated in the local jail with a l.ne chance for li.ving longer than a month. One of them just recently announced that he had “made peace with God” and joined the church, while the other asked his prison mates to pray for them just before they came here Tuesday morning for trial. Willie Jones, 18, and Gervis Bloodworth, 20, were convicted Wednesday night of the murder of H. F. Underwood, medicine sales man, near Reynolds, in this coun ty December 3. The jury compos ed for the greater part of farmers did not recommend the mercy of the court os requested by defense attorneys, hut gave them the ex treme pen i' y—hanging The exe cution da’e v»s set by Judge Mun ro, presiding, January 18. The Iqne chance for the boys to escape the death penalty lies in the granting of a new trial January A motion was immediately filed by attorneys for the defense when the verdict was returned and the date set for the hearing to be held in Columbus. If the boys are hanged, it will take place in the county jail here, where they will remain until their fate is finally known. HOLD EVENING PRAYER AT CALVARY CHURCH Evening prayer will be said in Calvary church tonight at 7:30 °^ ock ’ A JL Liberal and Orthodox Church Clash May Cause ProtestantßeligiousSplit MT ISSUES 111 HERESY CONTROVERSY THAT RACKS CHURCH Fight Forced By Obscure Pastor Cause Split Among Amer ican Episcopalians WAS ONCE CAPITAL CRIME Denial of ‘Virgjn Birth’ of Christ Is Brand That Sets Modern Smithfield Fires NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The pres ent stir in the ranks of the Prot estant Episcopal Chuich marking an insurrectionist move on the part of liberal or “modernist” elements against orthodox fundamentalists is but an echo from the history of the Reformation movement under Martin Luther at the beginning of the sixteenth century Modernist-liberals have repeated ly hurled defiance at the orthodox fundamentalists, the latter declar ing for strict translation and in fallibility of the Bible. Obscure Pastor Forces Figght Today, centering about ’he forth coming trial of Rev Lee W. Heaton, young and obscure Ft. Worth, Tex. rector on a heresy charge, the mod ernists are bringing up their entire forces in defense. A which in the opinion of leading memcers may result in a division of the Protes tant Episcopal church. • The present so-called “overt act’ on the part of the modernists is denying the virgin birth of Christ. Denial of this and other literal (Continued on Page Two.) SANTICLAUrTOVISIT FIPST METHODISTS Youngsters To Receive Christ mas Packages at Exercises At Sunday School Santa Claus and his agents will present to each child in the Cradle Roll, Primary and Junior depart ments of the First Methodist Sun day school a Christmas package at the exercises which will be observ ed at that place Sunday morning, it was announced Friday by H. E. Al len, superintendent of the Primary department of the Sunday school. Children of the departments will present the program, which will con sist of recitations and songs. Class singing will be a feature of the en tertainment. “An urgent invitation to all moth lers to have their children attend I Sunday school has been issued, and 'we hope that every- member of the departments will be present,” Mr. Allen stated. “If mothers are un able to accompany their youngsters, nurses can bring them. We want every member to i>e present to get his own package.” GET SALARY CHECKS Education Board Negotiates $5,000 Loan To Meet Obli gations to Staff E. W. Dupree, superintendent of Sumter county schools, Friday morning was mailing out checks to cover payment of county teachers’ salaries to date, according to in forniation received at the offices of J. E. D. Shipp, chairman of the Sumter county board of education. It is reported that all teachers of the county will receive checks cov ering the entire amount due, since the superintendent has arranged the $5,000 short loan voted by the board of education at the call meeting Thursday. “School teachers were leaving the city during the morning for the Christmas holidays,” Mr. Shipp -tated. “The schools have adjourn ed for one week and after that ivill resume regular session.” IN CHURCH WAR ; z #’***’- * • r Dr. Leighton Parks fc V -* wE _ JIIUIU Bishop Lawrenae Bishcp Wm. T. Manning Dr. Leighton Parks, of New York City startled his Batholo mew Episcopal, church congre gation by doubting the story of the virgin birth of Christ, saying he wffuld welcome .1 trial for heresy. Bishop Lawrence, of Massachusetts, is a leader in the ‘liberal’ forces of the Episcopal church, while Bishop Manning stands at the head of the conser vatives. . SPARTA TOBACCO RAISERS • PLAN EDUCATION MEET SPARTA, Dec. 21. A tobacco meeting will be held here on Jan uary 3 which will he of interest to all tobacco growers and prospective raisers of the plant on a commer cial scale at which several speakers of note will deliver addresses. Chief among those on the program is the name of C. W. Westbrook of the State College of Agriculture who is said to be the first to introduce the growing of tobacco in the state of Georgia on the present scale. Much local interest is centered in the meeting due to the fact that several farmers have-contracted with Nortn Carolina growers to raise a specific acreage next year. Miss Mary Glover has returned from the University of Georgia, in Athens, to spend the Chrismas holi days with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. H. H. Glover„at (their home on Han cock avenue, 1 ■ WEATHER For Georgia Local rain to night and .Saturday; little change in temperature.- PRICE FIVE CENTS HUNDREDS W FB VERDICT: FBI TRIAL JOffl DEBATING K Deliberations of Jurors Began • Early This Morning; No Ver dict Reached at 2 O’clock KLAN EDITOR IS GUARDED Alleged Slayer Branded as ‘Red Handed Murderer’ by Pros ecuting Attorneys ATLANTA, Dee. 21.—(8y the Associated Press.) Hundreds of , persons were in the court room and corridors of the court building to day awaiting the verdict in the case of Philip E. Fox, form ;- klan edi tor, charged with the murder of Captain William S. Coburn, klan attorney. The jury took the case last night but did not begin deliberating un til today. Every precaution was taken to prevent disorder. Heavy guards that had been main(taned throughout the trial were increas ed. Fox is being kept in the outer room under heavy guard until the jury reports. Approximately 3000 persons were inside the courtroom and in the cor ridors of the building as Solicitor General John A. Boykin hegspi the closing argument for the state Thursday afternoon. , “The defense in this case is put ting up a sham,” Mr. Boykin said, “They are making that man, Fox, sit over there at the table blinking, twitching and looking otherwise like an idiot.” The defense closed its case at 5:50 o’clock when Attorney Hugh Dorsey concluded the final argu ment in behalf of Fox. In a fiery speech the former governor declar ed that the state had’ failed, to break down its proof of the defend ant’s insanity and urged Fox’s ac quittal on the ground that when he slew the lawyer he w-as not men tally responsible. Assistant Solicitor Ed A. Steph ens, who preceded Attorney Dorsey, declared that counsel for the de fense “is here to urge you to ftce a red-handed murderer,” “They say they will put him in a sanitarium,” he said. “I say ad vsedly that they not do it. If you ever set Fox free he will never see the inside of an asylum. His friends say he will be sent there, but will they see to it? “Did they put him in a safe place in 1918, when they say they first discovered he was insane? They did not do it then, and they would not do it now.” He expressed the belief that Fox had planned his defense of insanity from a study of the case of Presi dent Garfield’s assassinator. “The defense has been patterned as closely after the Garfield case as a newly-cut garment from the dressmaker’s pattern. That man (pointing to Fox) knew as much about paranoia and the Garfield case as did Dorsey and Hooper.” He said that in the Garfield case the slayer declared after, the kill ing that “the voice of the Al mighty” had directed the deed. He said that for the defendant to charge the Almighty with such an act as Fox hud committed was, in his opinion, the height cf irrev erence and sacrilege. “Fox’s insanity is not the type of insanity that begins with a killing and ends with acquittal,” he said. He charged that the “voice of God” was fabricated about a w-eek after Fox’s imprisonment. Attorney Hugh Dorsey began his « argument at 4 o’clock and spoke until 5:30 o’clock. Court was re cessed until 7:40 o’clock. Solicitor Boykin began the concluding argu ment when court was reconvened. Attorney Dorsey confined his argument principally to the legal as pect of the case. HOME-GROWN TOMATOES GEORGIA FARMERS' LATEST SPARTA, Dec. 21.—Home raised tomatoes in Middle Georgia in the heart of winter are somewhat of a curiosity and the truck load brought into this city by J. H. Red fern, a farmer living near here, at tracted a good deal of attention. The tomatoes were wrapped in pa per and placed in baskets the same as they are in Florida and according to Mr. Redfern, they were acked green and ripened in the house. Killing frosts in this part of the state would long ago have ruined them had they been left in the fields. The tomatoes sold quick ly and brought a good Trice to the owner, . H f
