About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1923)
AmCrlcuj spot Cotton Stnrtly Middling, 33 3-4 cents . n' v • Futures—* Jan. July May J- am .34.75 35.75 35.27 1 -34.80 35.20 35.29 VOLUME FORTY-FIVE—NO. 280. |ALL danger of clash in far east is now fast fading 1° O 0 o o o o o * o o o o o o o'" O O O o O O O DEJLA HUERTA’S ARMY NOW ADVANCING p O 000 'OD 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 000000 EMPTY STOCKINGS TO BE FILLED BY AMERICUS LADIES MINI IK FUND GOES lE# TOF-M 12011 SUBSCRIBED Times-Recorder and Associated # Charities to Play Santa Claus To Luckless Kids PEOPLE RESPONDED WELL Saturday and ‘Last Minute’ Con tributions Swell Amount Available For Work The Tinies-Recorder’s annual Empty Stocking Fund went over the top this morning with a smash. The cash available, every ‘a penny/ contributed, for there are no ex penses in connection with the fund, was turned over to the ladies of the Associated Charities this morning and Tuesday Santa will stalk , among the cheerless homes ox Americus. * The total available for the work this year is exactly $201.00 or within a small sum of the largest .Contribution ever recorded by this fund, which in recent years has grown to be a pet charity among Americus people. It’s administra tion is wholly in the hands of the Associated Charities, and its bene fits are distributed among all classes, without distinction as to •creed or race, the idea being to bring happiness and cheer into ev ery cheerless home in the com munity at this gladsome season. Any person ,.«>f * such a home is requested to communicate at once with Mrs. C. J. Sherlock so that such home may be visited by the ladies and . a basket left there. Toys will be provided for luckless kiddies, which more sub stantial things will be left at the homes where poverty is found to exist. IS MILL? ILL Minister, Formerly An Americus Resident, in Serious Condition At Dalton Home Telegrams received in Americus today announce the critical illness of Rev. A. J. Hutchinson at the 1- . , . v,. JtiUx.cc ms on, in Dalton. Mr. Hutchinson lived for half a century in Americus and,this vicinity, and had hundreds of ■•friends here who will learn of his illness with deep regret. Jle was in failing health before leaving Americus i nthe eariy summer, and the high climate of North Georgia greatly improved ’ him for a time. He suffered an at tack of illness two weeks ago, and grave fears are now entertained for his recovery. FfflMi AT LfEIKFESm Six Children Made Orphans By Mysterious Bullet in New York Holiday Tragedy NKJA i'ORK. Dee. 24.—Six chil dren gathered around a Christmas tree were made fatherless today by a mysterious bullet, the origin of which is-unknown. / . John L- Depman was the victim and John I- Coleman is being held in connection with the tragedy. Coleman states that he fired to aid Degman, who was driving an auto mobile and being followed by an-j other automobile from which several shots were fired-. Coleman, who is a policeman and war o■ f duty, shot Degnan’?-broth-. er-irr-Dw several months ago. al thouen according to Mrs. Degnan, K „ good friend of her hus band, and she says she catnoi ua dew.and a«V ***>» '* would have for shooting tte dead man. THEfiKpSc&RDER IN THE~ HEAR T» First Photo of Mexican Revolution . * -'Si* Ap—inmil inii, i - ~ - Photo shows uu,oi;ur - utru Carillo, of Yucatan, leading his adherents in a ‘‘red” parade in support of the central Obregon government" near Merida. Wires glow carry stories that a few hours after this photo was taken Gen eral Carrillo led his adherents with equal aplomb in support of the de la .Huerta revolution. Ar row- indicates Carrillo. AIM ROTES SITE lIDOTfpiTIES Unique Method Adopted to Pro vide Christmas Offering in Dougherty City ALBANY, Dec. 24. —No business of any character was transacted at the Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon at the New Albany hotel, the meet ing being given over entirely to en tertainment features. H. A. Tar ver, chairman of the entertainment committee, presided and had charge of the meeting. Mr. Tarver opened the meeting with a short talk on the spirit of Christmas, in which he expressed a hope that each member would enjoy the Christmas season to the fullest A Christmas offering of SIOO was made to the Associated Charities in a novel way.’ R. E. McCormack, of the entertainment committee, dis tributed cards to the members, each of whom drew the card he wanted, each card bearing a number would win a prize, Rotarian' McCormack announced, that the number of each card represented the number of cents the holder would be expected to contribute to the Christmas fund. The numbers ran from 112 to 300, making the smallest amount paid by any member $1.12 and the larg est $3. A few members were ab sent, leaving the expected amount about $6 short, but this was raised by voluntary subscriptions. MAh’s THUMB BITTEN OFF BY VICIOUS HORSE CLAXTON, Dec-. 24.—The loss of a- thumb was the outcome of ex ercising two of the horses on his Xarjn T*> J. C. Miller here recently, Mr. Miller was driving a or£l ui% leading two others and when they pulled hack on the reins his tfrumb was torn off. He immediately re tunred to town and had the injured thumb dressed. The injury was very painful, but not serious, accord ipg to the doctors and Mr. Miller will soon recover. WEATHER FORECAST WASHINGTON, I). C. Dec. 24. The weather outlook for the period December 24 to 29, inclusive fol lowS: For South Atlantic am| East Gulf states, generally fair weather ixjndicated until near i'uf end of the weeFj When unsettled weather is robable. It will be colder the first of the week, with tempera tures normal or above thereafter. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON,-DECEMBER 24," 1923 , COIDULAEEB rape® Use cf Airplanes to Dust Cotton Practicable, Tests Demonstrate TALLULAH, La., Dec. 24.—8. H. Coad of the bureau of entomo logy, in charge of the cotton insect investigations at the government station at Tallulah, La., during the last few years, has made extensive tests of poisons and ways of ap plying them. It hi|j been shown that clusting with esSpunV arsenate will make possible ft profitable in crease in yield of seed cotton ex cept where the land is of low pro ductivity. Fields dusted with cal cium arsenate by airplane this year showed an increase of 750 pounds per acre of seed cotton over those on adjacent plantations that were not poisoned. Although the cost of dusting with airplanes, which were supplied ®ancf manned by the ■air service of the army, is not def initely known, it is estimated to be about $5 per acre. At present prices of cotton t/.e gain frum dust ing was over $75 an acre.. It is thought the cost of dusting by air plane is less than with ground ma chines. WET WEATHER DAMAGES ROADS NEAR LOUISVILLE LOUISVILLE, Ga., Dec. 24. The roads in this section of the state are becoming rapidly impas sable due to the Continued rains of the past few weeks. Tourists pass ing over the roads claim to be hav ing a'nard time of it and have ex pressed themselves as surprised that State does not seriously con- j sider the matter of better wet; weather roads. The proper amount of sand and clay with good drain-1 age will remedy this it has been : pointed out. In the present condi- 1 tion of the roads near .here it will I require several days 'of good weath- j er together with a great amount ofl work to put the roads in good condi-! Tion. WOMAN LOSES IN RACE FOR PLACE AS MAYOR THOMASVILLE, :Dec. 2+.— ln j the race for mayor over in Monti- j cello, Fla., between Mrs. Jack Tay-! lor, a prominent society woman of j that town and Dr. George B. Glover one of the leading physicians, Dr. Glover won out by a forty-four ma jority, which is considered quite a close vote,, especially .since it was j | the first time a woman has ever run I rtor office in That town and some ofl the general public were not- alto-1 gether reconciled to the idea of hav ing a woman to rule in the impor tant office of mayor. NO PAPER TO BE ISSUED TUESDAY Tori*opow' (Tuesday) being Chrisl'ftras and one of the three annual holidays observed by the Times-Reeorder, there will be no paper issued on that day. The en tire force will, instead take full holiday, recuperating for the task of producing a bigger and better newspaper. To one and all the Tiines-Re corder wishes a Merry Christmas season and for tke new year a period filled with ail of the hap piness and prosperity that can come to a community already abundantly blesed in material and spiritual ways. C« PEffl ORCHSRO BRISK HO PRICE Plantation Company Sells Valu able Property Known as Van Duzee Place CAIRO, Ga., Dec. 24.—One of the largest land deals that has beer, i consummated , here in a number of [months was that several days ago by iwhich Messrs. J. B. and J. S. Wight acquired from .the Minnesota Co operative Plantation Company the 150-acre orchard of bearing pecan trees, situated across the road from what is generally known as the Van Duzee place, three miles of Cairo. Though the consideration was not given out, it was reported that the price paid was in the neighborhood of $135 an acre. This is a choice orchard, and in a few years it will be considerably more valuable than it is at present The Minnesota concern, which has headquarters at Minneapolis, has owned the land for several years. SAVANNAH MERCHANTS OPEN LATE NIGHTS SAVANNAH, Dec. 24. —1 nof dvr to facilitate trade during the holi day shopping members of the retail merchants association of this city are remaining open at night. Ten o’clock is the time set by the Mer chants for closing at night during the festive season. WILL TRY COP FOR ILLEGAL SEARCHING SAVANNAM, Dec. 24. —Police-; qian W. \V. % Morris, charged with making an illegal search of the au tomobile of Mrs. M. E. Barbours of Savannah, has had his trial postpon- j ed in view of the fact that the pro securing witness is confined to her: home on account of illness. As soon as she recovers the trial will pro ceed. Mayor Seabrook presiding with recorder Schwartz. Ini m found IDEM II HOTEL 101 Registered As Travis, But Car ried License Issued to W. B. Speck, of .Dalton ATLANTA, Dec. 24.—A neatly | dressed young white man, about ;25 years of age, was found dead ! Sunday night in a room at the Princeton hotel. There \uere no marks of violence on the body and from appearances of the room he had died after a nemorhage of Uu: lungs. Hotel clerks stated that the young man registered about 6 o’clock Saturday night as “J. L. Tarvis, Chattanooga, Tenn.,” and went immediately to his room. Early in the night he asked a bell boy to bring him a sandwii-n which he ate, and appeared at that time, according to the boy, to be in excellent spirits. So far as known he did not leave his room after wards. t A hunting license bearing the name of “W. B. Speck, Dalton, Ga. was wound in his pocket. Scribbled on a piece of paper which - was found in his pocket was a Main telephone number. : DRUGCONCERN TO 8E ; SUED FIR POISONING i Charges Made By Columbus i Physicians To Be Cause for Court Action in Case i COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 24.—Suit for damages against a manufactur ing drug company charging mis labeling poison, which administered by two Columbus physicians for an i other non-poisonous drug caused the death of two women and serious ■ illness to a local physician, was re ported tonight to be contemplated by the husband of one of the vic -1 rims. The two women, Mrs. Minnie (Davis, of Crflumbus, and Mrs. Nellie • | Paul of C'refeville, died within a \ week of each other last September after having been treated with the | drug according to their attending | physicians. Dr. Jonathan Forman land Dr. J. E. Gordon, who made . public the cause of the women's (deaths last nighs after a protract |ed investigation by the two physi -Icians, aided by -a'majority of the : local medical profession. Both wo (men died soon after a solution of , the poison -had been administered to them, the physicians said. The drug according to the physi cian:-, had been purchased of a lo cal wholesale drug dealer. AUGUSTA FILLING i STATION IS ROBBED AUGUSTA, Dec. 24.—The office of the Standard Oil Company of ttys city was robbed recently by yeggs who rolled the safe out of the building and forced it open with chisels. The inside vault could not be forced open and as a result the ; yeggs could only obtain twelve dob ' lars for their efforts. CPITICAL HOI 10 SOUTH CIA Ilf BELIEVED TO BE PAST Crisis Created By Demands of Dr. Sun Yat Sen Expected to Be Settled Amicably CUSTOMS REVENUES SAFE Negotiations Progressing Satis factorily, According to Report Received From Canton CANTON, China, Dec. 24—The critical situation which has prevail ed her e during nearly two weeks, is believed today to he nearing a so lution. crisis was precipitated by the demand of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, South China’s dictator, that all sor Pi - ' revenues coliecce.-l by/ the au thorities be turned over to repre sentatives of his government. These demands, uniformly oppos ed by foreign governments, who sent additional naval forces here si’U-'e the demands wer,./ffiTile, re sulted in threats of armed clashes, feared would be precipitated at once. Negotiations between the opposing forces, however, have been under way since the demands were first made, and these ,it was an nounced today, are “progressing satisfactorily.” WOMAN I FOX CASE FACE GEORGIA JURY Prosecuting Officer and Defense Attorneys Reach Secret Agree ment Regarding Case ATLANTA, learned here today that Mrs. Margaret Weaver, indicted in neetion with the kjan murder case in which Philip E. Fox, was con victed last week, will be brought here this afternoon from Binning- 1 ham and that the date of her trial in Fulton Superior court will be fixed at an early date. Deciding on advice of her attor neys not to fight extradition, Mr,s. Weaver, arrested Saturday morn ing on an indictment charging her as an "accessory before the fact” in the slaying of William. S. Co burn klan attorney, left here for Atlanta this afternoon in custody of an agent of the office of Solici tor General John A. Boykin. On learning last night that an officer was coming with extradi tion papers for her return, Mr. . Weaver hurriedly employed attor neys and declared that she would fight extradition. She also denied any connection with the Fox case and maintained that she was gut of the State at the time Coburn was killed. Later however, she admit ted she knew Fox intimately, but still declared she was -in no way connected with the slaying of the klan attorney. Jim Esdale, one of her attorneys, I said that she consented to return Ito Atlanta after a preliminary ; agreement had been made with Soi i * c 'tor Boykin’s office, the nature | of which was not divulged. SMALL DAMAGE‘DONE BY SATURDAY FIRE Only nominal damage was done Saturday by a fire that called the department to the home of John B. Dofsey, <?n Spring street. The blaze was caused by a chimney burning out and the roof was on fire when the department arrived. The house is owned by Mr. Dorsey and the loss fully covered by in surance. according to Fire Chief W. p. McArthur. WEATHER -%p. Fbr Georgia—Fair tonight and Tuesday in south and central por tions probably light frost tonight on epast. PRICE FIVE CENTS in REBELS ME BEABEB; TB UHL DENY OBREGOI CUUMS De la Huerta Forces Reach Cu ernavaca, 60 Miles From Mex- City, Insurgehts Claim PUEBLA NOT LOST 1 Rebel Forces Advancing From Positions in State of Guerro Into Morelos VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Dec. 24. De la Huerta rebel forces have made their, nearest approach to the I Obregon Mexican capital so far [with the capture Supday of Cuerna vaca, 40 miles south of the capital, it is stated in a revolutionary com munique issued here this morning,. Rebel forces which occupied Gu eravaca, the communique states, advanced from their positions m the state of Guerro as far as Cuernavaca, which is # the capital of the state of Morelos. , The eommuniue also states that Puebla, claimed to have been oc cupied by Obregon forces, accord ing to a statement issued at Mexico i City Saturday, has not been eva luated by De La Huerta forces. ■HU* 11,642 BALES SHT Bureau of Census Report Sent in Today by W. P. Persons, Local Represntative Cotton gininngs in S.umter coun ty up to December 13, from" cot ton of the growth of 1923, .were 12,.i09 bales, as compared with 21,- 921 bales ginned to the same-date last year. These figures were an nounced today by W. P. Persons, Americus representative of the cen sus bureau, and in their compilation our i were counted as half bales. Analysis'qf the figures indicates that there exists a discrepancy of ginning as compared with the' pre ceding year of 11,642 bales. Prac ticaly all of the cotton here has al ready been gathered, and fields in all parts of the county arc already bare, with stalks plowed in over a large area. BASKLI BALL NOW MAJOR ' SPORT AT UNIVERSITY ATHENS, Dec. 24.—Basketball is the youngest of the three major sports at the University of Geor gia. Baseball and football date: hack to the time when Georgia’s oldest alumni are now well past the three score or more years, but play ers that introduced the cage game on the Georgia campus are compara tively young. In 1906 the Red and Black Haul ed its colors from a basketball goal and the team that year was dedel oped and trained at the city Y. M. C. A., and coached by the secre tary and athletic director. Haywood Dean, then of Griffin, was captain of the fjrst team and the outstanding victory (Jiat year was the defeat of the Atlanta Athle tic Club, in Atlanta, a fact that southern college fives are proud of at any time. J. B. Wier, Jr., then of Athens, but now living irr New Orleans, also was a member of the team with a player named Von Sprecken, of Au gusta; P. B. Holtzendorf and W. .W- Brown, of Athens; Eugene Ram son, of Atlanta'and Walton Grif fith, now of Atlanta. “Slick” Sullivan has arrived from Tampa, Florida, to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. ana Mrs. W. C. Sullivan at their home on Church street. Dr. George M. Niles of Atlanta, is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Hollis Fort, and his brother, Clar- ' once- Niles while a visitor in Ameri cus this week. Dan Patterson of White Springs, Fla., will spend the holidays with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W, P. Persons. ,
