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Strict middling 34 1-2 cents.
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nr oe’er 35,48 34.63 35.43 34.47
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VOLUM E FORTY-FIVE-—$U- 281.
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CROWDED NEW YORK UNDERGROUND TRAIN IS DERAILED
MAINE«EXHUMES
BODV If HUEBER
TO BIIM REMAINS
Cottage in Which Crime Was
Committed Made Funeral
z. \ r e of John Snow
CORPSE REFUSED BURIAL
Authorities Not Notified Until
Hours After Work of Mob
Is Completed
JEFEERSON, Maine, Dec, 26.
The body of John Snow was exhum
ed early Tuesday from the solitary
grave where it was buried yester- r
day and placed in the cottage where
he killed his wife and two other wo
men on Saturday. The house was
then set on fire. The charred body
was found in the ruins later in the
day. County Attorney Weston M.
Hilton has begun an investigation
in an effort to determine who was
responsible.
The countryside was stirred when
it was learned that Snow, -after
killing the wife.and son of Deputy!
Sheriff Frank C. Jewett at their
home in Whitefield, nad come to
Jefferson where his wife, her, aunt
and her grandmother had
shot the three wodfell-/%A#*vnded
his own life. Although the medical
examiner characterized the murders
as "the work of a madman/'
threats that Snow’s body would be
burned were said to have been
made the next day.
Funeral services were held Mon
day for the three women killed here
and burial was in a cemetery in
Jefferson. Authorities refused per
mission for the burial of Snow’s
body in the cemetery and it was in
terred without ceremony in a grave
on the farm where his wife had
lived.
County authorities were not no
tified of the exhumation and burn
’ ing until several hours after the
cottage had been destroyed. •
INSLEGME
HORSE It HOLLIDAY
p ■- 7-J R?-oned
to Have Been Nearly a
Thousand Dollars
Mr. Chas. L. Ansley, Americus
horse fancier and lover has just
sold to Mr. Glenn I. ot
Orlanda, Fla., his magnihcent sad
die horse. Billy •Saunders,” for
what is understood to be a price
near the four figures.
Mr. Holliday had heard of Mr.
Ansley’s horses and sent an agent
here on Thursday last to eee them
and see if he would sell. Thq agent
come, was delighted with the horse
and wired Mr. Holliday that “he had
found the horse he wanted if he
would pay the price.” Mr. Holliday
wired that he would come on fjrst
train and see him. He came Friday,
• went down to Mr. Ansley’s barn,
looked the horse o'er, saw Mr. Ans
ley and his agent ride him, then
rode him himself, asked the price
and immediately said he would take
him.
‘‘Billy Saunders is a sixteen hand
sorrel gelding, one of the attrac
tive, biggest style thiee gaited sad
dle horse ever seen in these parts.
He goes with high and powerful ac
tion, carries a high head, beauti
ful tail and is altogether the gam
est looking individual ever seen on
these streets. He is gentle- and
fearless of everything, safe for nu:n
or woman to ride and his new own
er, Mr. An.-ley says in him a
horse he will doubtless take untold
pleasure in.
It almost broke Mr. Ansley’s
heart he says to sell him but he is
now and has been so very .busy that
he hadn’t even ridden him for more
than six months and he deemed it
just a matter of business to sell
him and buy atfa" l whenever he
feels he has time to devote to his
horse pleasures • i 1
THETWSiWerORDER
, • PUBLISHED IN
FIRE BOYS HAVE
ANNUAL XMAS TREE
The Christmas tree staged each
year in the city* hall, building for
the members Os the Americus firg
department, was observed Tuesday I
night, with a number of friends of I
the department, fhesent and a num
ber of others contributing gifts. !
These consisted principally of ties,
handkerchiefs, socks, fruit, etc and
were gratefully received by the
firemen, who today asked the
Times-Recorder to thank their
friends for the rememberance. R.
B. Kent who atted as Santa Claus,
to the firemen, was jovial in dis-1
tributing the gifts from/ the tree
and the affair was altogether en
joyable throghout.
TRADTHGIiTSOUTHERH
COTTON OIL STOPPED
Exchange Officials Take Steps to
Make Investigation Dues to i
Fluctuation, Thorough
NEW YORK, Dec. 26. . The'
board of governors of the New York]
curl market today issued an order
for v Suspension of trading in stock
of the Southern States Oil Corpora-!
tion and are holding an investiga-,
tion of recent relatively violent
fluctuations of the stock.
cm
SffIISTMCOmE
Atlanta Man Says Government I
Figures Have Long. Been
Unreliable and Damaging
ATLANTA, Dec. 26. Georgia |
agriculturists have commended the |
efforts which has been launched in I
congress by U. S. Senator Wm. J.
Harris, of Georgia and others to
bring about an improvement in the
government method of arriving at!
and making estimates of cotton
crops. It is a timjely movement, it
> is shown here.
“For- years the governent esti
mates and forecasts on cotton crops
have been considered as unreliable
and their influence on the markets
is often unjustly damaging to the
cotton growers and manufactures,”
said an Atlanta cotton "hum. ‘‘The
situation has been unsatisfactory
for a long time, but the grossly
misleading official statements is-,
sued by government departments in
regard to cotton this year are the I
straws that broke tHe camel’s backl
I do not see how Ais movement
for an injprovement in a faulty sys
tem could meet with any honest op
position.”-
FARM SiITcTDES
AFTER SHOOTING
MACON, Dec. 26.—After shoot
ing and killing- a negro youth em
ployed on his place, Roy M. Ault
inan, middle aged farmer and peach
grower, living* in Houston, county ;
near Byron, Ga.. yesterday after
noon placed a ;a»volver at his right
temple and fatally slot himself, dy-|
ing about a half hour later be
tween 2:15 and 2:45 o’clock, while
on the way 'to the Macon Hospi
tal. -
Eye witnesses to the double trag
edy could advance no theory for
the shooting. Negroes employed on
the, place, who were riding by the I
Aultman home in a truck with .the
youth who wps killed by Aultman
say that Aultman was sitting on the
front steps of his home when they
were passing and that he fired in
the direction of the vehicle appar
ently intending to scai'e the negroes.
One of the two shots from the re
volver struck the boy and he keel
ed over dying almost instantly.
It is__beneved that upon seeing
that one of his bullets had killed or
'wounded the unoffending negro
Aultman was seiz/1 with remorse
and determined upon immediate
suicide, as he placed_the revolver
i to his temple and fired, dying with
in a short time.
AMERICUS.
WOOD'S M ADMITS
HE KOF Slffllß 81
HIS SPECULATIDRS
Governor General of Philippines
Hears Boy Unfold Story of
* His Operations
MARE MONEY IN AMERICA
No Philippines Investments
Among Those Involved in
1 ransactiojns, He Asserts
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Lieuten
ant Osborne CCttler Wood, 26-year
old son of General Leonard A.
Wood, governor general of the
Philippines, has admitted he made
between $700,000 s and SBOO,OOo by
speculation in Wail Street securi
ties, conducted by cable from Ma
nila, where he is stationed as an.
aide to his father, says a copyright
ed dispatch to the New Y ork Time?,
published here touay.
This copyrighted story, written
by Ricnara V. Oulahan, says that
he approached General Uood regard
i ing reports' that his bon, Lieut.
Wood had made money speculating
and that General Wood called his
son in and askgd him about it in
the correspondent’s presence.
Lieutenant Wood readily admitt
ed that he had made investments,
but stated that all of his transac
tions were in Anerican securities
arjd tljat no Philippines investments
were Involved in the speculations.
war Department
probe operations
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—The re
cent financial operations of Lieut.
Osborne C. Wood, son of Maj.
General Leonard A. Wood were
made the subject of a war depart
ment investigation, the New York
Times says in its issue of today. It
has been learned also on the best
authority. Tim Times says, that the
war department found nothing in
army traditions warranting the cen
sure of the young officer. It is as
serted, however, that the depart
ment did strongly advise him to
cease speculating and that Lieut.
Wood, acting on .this, advice stopped
his trading on the, Exchange.
DEMAND IS BRISK FOR
COPED TIJDFKf HERE
George O. Marshall Has Orders
Now for Ten Cars at $1.25
Bushel F. 0.8. Afnericus
“1 have orders now for ten cars
of No. 1 cured Porto Rico sweet
potatoes at $1.25 a bushel, F. 0.8.
Americus,” stated George O. Mar
shall, county farm demonstration
agent, this afternoon, “and the
prospects are that the* brisk
demand wilN increase as the
season advances. These orders
have been submitted tcT A&nager
Roy Black of the Anwricus potato
curing * house, but I /lave no idea
he’ will be able to secure enough to
fill the entire order, whch really is
a big one,-fcansi<fering the condition
of the potato industry here.
, “This season,” continued Mr.
Marshall, “Summer planters grew on
ly/Ti nominal acreage in potatoes,
an<j this fact has created a demand
that is unusual. Last year %here
was an unusually large acreage
planted to tubers, which resulted
in a depressed market, which con
dition was .accentuated by the in
adequate operation of the potato
house here. Next year, I believe, it
will pay Sumter planters to put in
a good acreage to potatoes, plan
nirfg to sell all the merchantable po
tatoes, with the largest and small
ones either used at home or fed to
hogs. Too extensive planting, how
ever, should be'avoided, this being
true of all crops grown here, in
cluding th/ famous Georgia yam,
which seems assured of soon
leaching arr,enviabie position among
the commercial products of this sec
tion, with a steadily increasing de
mand coming bi for these from
Northern and Western communi
ties/’ ,
> «• -- ••
.EORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DEC. 26, 1923
B*G MACON INCUBATOR
HATCHES OUT HUNDREDS
MACON, Dec. 26.—Hundreds of
chickens poked their heads through
the shells in a big incubator at the
old Union station yesterday. Th»
huge incubator was filled with
mo<e than 3,000 eggs, with a view
of latching the chicks at Christmas
time. And the hatch appeared to
boa big success yesterday. .
HEHICUSIHMNTS
® ■ BUSINESS
Christmas Rush During Last Few
Days Brought in Thousands of
Dollars, Says Everett
‘‘Americus merchants, especially
those who are members of the
Chamber of Commerce and engaged
in the Merchants’ Pay-Up and Trade
Campaign, did an excellent business I
during th£> Christmas trading sea- 1
son,” Henry P. Everett, secrO'- j
tary of the Chamber of Commerce, j
this morning. ,
“Inquiries mi(3e by me and re- '
ports to this office by merchants I
here and throughout the county de
velop that the volume of business j
transacted during the holidays will
compare favorably with that done
during past years. Early in the j
season trading was reported as rath- 1
er slack; >but with the inauguration
of adequate advertising efforts and
the drying of the roads, there was
a noticeable increase in the number
of visitors shopping here, with
stores in all parts of the retail dis
trict crowded until the last hour
before closing for the great holiday
we Tiave just enjoyed.
“This' condition is very gratifying '
to me, and I feel that Americus 1
merchants generally are welle satis-1
fled vflth thfiir receipts and the man
ner in which goods moved. With
the coming of the new year I ex
pect trading to be brisk in all lines,
and as soon as stocks have /been
straightened and advertising prep
arations made it is reasonable to
expect that the buying public will
respond to Jhe usual inducements
that undoubtedly will be offered
by Americus merchants;”
K CARRIE WALTERS
SUCCUMBS AT PLAINS
Death Ends Sufferings of Young
Woman After Extended Illness
Funeral This Afternoon
PLAINS,, Dec. 26. —Miss Carrie
Walters died at the family , orr ] e
here Tuesday night at 10 o clock,
following an illness of long dura
tion. , .
Funeral services were held from
the Baptist church this afternoon at
2 o’clock, conducted by Rev. A. C. ’
-Wellons, pastor of the church and
a close friend of the family. He was |
assisted .by Rev O. L. Evan, pas
tor the Methodist church. Inter
ment was in Lebanon cemetery.
The pallbearers were L. J. Cran
ford, T. M. Jones, Lenwood Jenn
ings, Cecil Walters, of Americus;
Clay Forrester, of Leesburg, John!
Rufus tooke, Broadus Wellons, and j
Frank Timmerman. I
Miss Walters is survived by het'i
mother, Mrs. Maria Davenport]
Walters, and a large and promin-,
ent family connection.
Miss Walters, who was one of the
fa ost- universally beloved women of
his Jommunity and surrounding
territory, was a member of the Bap
tist chuch since,early childhood, and
lived the tenets of her faith in her
daily life and wielded a influence
among those about her. Her beau
tiful Christian faith sustained ‘ her
during he, long and painful illness,
and through it all she . radiated
cheerfulness and hope. Her pass
ing has east a pall\of sadness over
the entire community, and the hand
some floral offerings contributed by
hundreds of friends attested to the
love in which she Was held here.
Mrs. T. A. Cole and Louise Cole,
accompanied by C. R. Cole left to
i day on the Seaboard for Jackson
| ville, Fla., where they will visit
several days in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. C. R. Cole.
KIIWIDEIS
LOCra IN BISKRA
OFFICIALS BELIEVE
Many Messages Report Presence
of Big Dirigible in Many Parts
of North America
48 PERSONS ARE ON BOARD
tTwelve Officers and Thirty-ix
Men Compose Crew; Marine
Ministry Announces
PARIS, Dec. 26.—Officials at the
French Ministry of Marine, here
said today that although they had
received messages reporting
the presence of the missing dirig
ible Dixmude over various parts of
Tunis and the North African sea
coast, they considered that the lat
est trustworthy news contained in
official dispatches from Biskra an
nouncing the arrival of the Dixmude
there.
In connection with the statement
that the Dixmude is reported at
Biskra today, the ministry of marine
announced that it is considered im
probable that the big dirigible could
have landed ther without incident.
A reversed statement of the number
of persons on the Dixmude says that
there are altogether 48 on board
the dirigible, constituting a crew of
12 officers and 36 men.
FMCH FMSMH
NEW LB« OH CHANGE'
i
For First Time in History of Na
tion Exchange Rate Falls Be
low Nickel in New York
NEW YORK, De 2.c6. French
francs continued to decline on to
day’s foreign exchange fall
ing to 4:49 1-2 cents, this being the
first time in the history of the ex
change that the franc has ever re
ceded so low. This recession in the
value of the franc was attributed
to an increased demand for dbllx
exchange in Paris at this time when
commercial requirements for
francs in America remain compara
tively small.
TEHKFFCWffI
FIGHTING 818
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 26-
Where the drainage of ponds 1$ ntt
feasible in the eradication of mala
rial-bearing mosquitoes, science has
found away of combating the pests
| which spread the disease by /stocking
small bodies of water with gam
busisaffinis, a small minnow which
destroys the mosquito’s progress by
devouring the insect in larvae {orm
Thiss. method of malajiial control
is now being demonstrated by
I health officials at Memphis amt
in Shelby county, Tenn./ where the
.work of stocking the ponds is sup-
I ervised by a county inspectoi.
The minnow culture is now going
on in more than two hundred small
bodies of in .various com
munities of the county, small ponds
which the farmers must keep on
their premises for stock watering
purposes and whicji it is necessary
to protect the mosquito menace, in
the flat country where malaria is so
prevalent.
There is a county-wide anti-ma
larial campaign on in 'Shelby and
the rural residents are well on to
the idea, health officials assert, the
ponds already stocked with minnows
serving as demonstrations in each
community for surrounding sec
tion.
In addition a lecture program is
being carried out in schools all over
the county and the Boy Scouts con
tribute their services to the cam
paign. z ,
The program against this disease
is being , carried out Shelby with a
combined state and county appro
priation of $9,000 annually.
I
CELEBRATE DISCOVERY
OF RADIUM AT SARBONNE
PARIS, Dec. 26.—Mme Marie
Cijrie, working with hes husband,
Pierre Curie, in their modest lab
oratory, made her momentous dis
covery of radium 25 years ago.
At four o’clock this afternoon,
the hour that saw her experiments
crowned with success, President Mil.
lerand accompanied the member of
cabinet, diplomatic corps and sev
eral prominent scientists, will meet
at Sjorotonne to celebrate the anni
versary.
CHMBKETS
DISTRIBUTED HEBE
—— \
Ladies of Associated Charities
Carry Christmas Cheer Into
55 Cheerless Homes Here
Fifty-five baskets, filled through
the medium of the Times-Recorder
and Associated Charities annual
Empty Stocking fund were dis
tributed in Americus Tuesday,
bringing Cheer irfv that number of
homes that might otherwise have
been cheerless during the entire
holiday season. Mjs. C. J. Sherlock,
executive secretary of the Associat
ed Charities, conveying informa
tion to the Times-Recoraer as to the
number of baskets distributed, to
day expressed earnest thanks to
each contributor to the fund.
“There was enougm-to fill every
basket,” said Mrs. Shorlock, “thanks
to tile generous response during the
last few days the fund was kept
open, and so far as the Associated
Charities knows ther e was not a
family that was without some re
membrance to bring a touch of add
ed happiness during the holiday
season. The $201.00 contributed
to the fund was all expended in
substantial and needed Christmas
remembrances and did much to re
lieve whatever exists in the com
munity bordering on poverty,” con
cluded Mrs. Sherlock.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR
FUND ACKNOWLEDGED
The following contributions to
the Times-Recorder and Associated
Charities annual Empty Stocking
. mid, being the last to be received,
are today gratefully acknowledged:
E. E. Roach, $1; Frank Coman,
Jr., 25c; Junior Wilder, 50c; Thel
ma McArthur, 10c; Jack McArthur,
Jr., 10c; Herbert Hawkins, $5;
Josephine and Katherine Griffin,
25c; Mason, $4; Cash, $1; G.~W.
Nunn, $2; Thomas Argo, 25c; Her
schel Argo, 10c; Breeden Argo,
25c; Wylie Claire Lee, 50c; Ida
Mae Tyson, 50o; Charles Tyson,
50c; Cash, $1; Charles M. Hale, Jr.,
25c; Laura May Hale, 10c; Charles
Walker, 25c; Fiances Walker, 25c;
Cash, 10c; Bob Jobes, 10c; Ed
Jones, 10c; Mary .Frances. Ricker,
10c; Janet Jones, 10c; Mrs. John
Hudson, $1 Julian S. Suggs, 10c;
Irving Cohen, 25c.
BASS BABY TO BE
BURIED IN AMERICUS
Ernest D. Bass Jr., aged 5 years
died-in Atlanta at the home of his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Bass,
Tuesday night, death following an
illness of four days.
The remains reached Americus
this afternoon at 1:18 and were
carried to the home of his grand
father, B. E. Turner, on Jackson
street, from which place the funer
al occurred at 4 o’clock. ,Dr. Carl
W. Minor, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, assisted by Rev. James
B. Lawrence, rector of Calvary
church, conducted the services,
which were largely attended by
friends and acquaintances of ths
cemetery.
The pallbearers were T. F. Gate
wood, Sr., D. R. Andrews, L. E.
.Woods. M. H. Fletcher and T. E.
Bolton..
Surviving are his aprents, Mrfl an
Mrs. Ernest D. Bass, of Atlanta; a
small brother, Wayne Bass, grand
father, B. E. Turner, of Americus,
and paternal grandparents residing
at Ashburn.
His mother before her marriage
was Miss Lorene Turner, , and the
bereaved family is receiving the !
sympathy of many friends.
WEATHER
■ For Georgia—Fair and slightly
warmer tonight; Thursday cloudy
and warmer; probably rain in -
northern portion.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HUNDREDS FORCED TO
GROPE WAY-THROUGH
DANCE» ■ W
Passengers In Dense Darkness
Managed to Escape Perils With
No Fatalities Reported
DEADLY THIRD RAIL NEAR
Trains Placed New Yorkers in
Dangerous Position, But All
Escape Unhurt
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Several
hundred passengers on the subway
train were forced to grope their way
under ground for several blocks be
tween tracks skirted with a deadly
third rail when two cars of the lajge
train were derailed near the Atlan
tic Avenue station in Brooklyn ear
ly today. No one was injured. >
EM IHSUDmiIF
DOES DWFOF.
Water Pouring Trough a Busrt
Hose Into Interior Responsi
ble for Most Loss
Firq in the home of Mrs. R. B.
Godwin Tuesday morning did dam
ages estimated 'by Chief ,McAr
thur this morning at $50l). Tho
fire which was confined to tije roof
and rafters, was caused, Chief Mc-
Arthur believes from a spark ‘that
lodged upon the shingle roof late?
was fanned into a blaze.
With the fire, apparently, mak
ing good headway when fire trucks
arrived, a line of hose was laid and
run into the interior’ of the resi
dence to more readily reach tho
fire. Shortly after this was laid a
defective section burst. precipitaU
ing a stream of water into the loft
and flooding the second floor, do
ing much damage to furnishings
and interior decorations, including
plastering, etc. Chief McArthur
stated today that the bbth
upon the roof, put by him at less
than SIOO and upon the household
goods' and interior at around S4OO,
was covered by insurance.
COUNCIL TO MEET AT
7:30 O’CLOCK TONIGHT
Last Meeting of Old Board to
Be Occasion for Swearing in
New Members
The last meeting of the present
city council of Americus will be
held at the city hall tonight begin
ning at 7:30 o’clock, according to
an announcement authorized this
morning by' J. Elmore Poole. The
occasion will be punctuated by the
swearing in of the new members
of council, these being J. W. High
tower and Nathan Murray, while
R. E. Allison will take the oath of
office as the successor of E. J. Witt,
to serve out his unexpired term of
ont year. J. W. Harris, who was
re-elected to succeed himself wiQ
be sworn in for the full two
year term. Those whose terms will,
expire are R. E. Allison, H. L.
Mize, and J. W. Harris. Alderman
Witt having resigned. Mr. Mize,
who declined to be a candidate in
the recent primary, wiH sever his
connection with the city govern
ment at tonight’s session. Beyond
the announcement of standing com
mittees for the year and routine
work, little business other than
above outlined, is expected to fea
ture the session.
CAUGHT IN TRAFFIC’
JAM; LEG IS BROKEN
COLUMBUS, Dec. 26.—Thrown
violently from a bicycle he was rid
ing when he became wedged be
tween two automobiles near the
' corner of Broad and Eleventh
[streets yesterday morning about 11
.o'clock, Herman Osborne, 3603
■ First avenue, suffered a left....
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