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Americus Spot Cotton
Strict middling, 34 1-2 cents.
Open Hi Low Cloite 'PvC
Jan 35.85 35.98 35.51 35.51 35.70.
Mar 36.30 36.41 35.93 35.93 36.05
May 36.50 36.60 36.08 36.08 36.25
Jul 35.70 35.75 35.18 35.18 35-43
Oct- 29.46 29.60 29.15 29.15 29.25
FORTY-FIFTH YEAR—NO. 282
AMERICUS SCHOOLBOY SLAIN BY OWN GUN EARLY TODAY
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EDMJ. Y. CLARK READY TO QUIT KU KLUX
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REPORTS TO COUNCIL SHOW TREASURY CONDITION GOOD
■BIS TIE, IS. IS 'I
IHSTMTLY KILLED IH
■TM HIMT
Young Lad, Together With Oth
ers, Was Hunting On Wallis
Farm. Near City
OWN GUN CAUSED DEATH
Was Student in Americus High
School, Where He Made Good
Record In Studies
Herbert Morris Tye, the 16 year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonidas
Tye, residing in Brooklyn Heights
was instantly killed this morning
about 10 o’clock in a stretch of
hunting woods back of the farm of
W. P. Wallis on the Ellaville road,
when the gun he had laid aside for
a moment was picked up by the
barrel the contents being discharg
ed into his body.
The lad, according to Douglas,
Julius and Thomas Tye. young rela
tives who were with him at the
time, had leaned down by a spring
of water to quench his thirst, and
on taking it up again preparatory
to continue search for game, the
gun was accidentally discharged,
killing him instantly. *
He had resided in Americus
about four years with his parents,
apd was well known and universal
ly esteemed among friends and ac
quaintances. He had been a stu
dent in Americus High school, pos
sessing a good
ness and deportment.
) Funeral services will be held
from the family residence gn La
Fayette street Friday afternoon at
3 o’clock, conducted by Dr. Carl
W. Minor, pastor of the “First Bap
tist church. Interment will be in
Pak Grove cemetery.
Surviving are his parents Mr. and
Mrs. Leonidas Tye, four brothers,
W. B. Tye, G. A. Tye, Roy Tye and
Frank Tye, all residents of Ameri
cus. Five sisters, Mrs. C. S. Her
rington, and Miss Minnie Tye, of
Winter Haven, Fla., Mrs. J. R.
Wood, of Columbia, Alabama and
Misses Janie Tye arid Gladys Tye.
bi Amaricus, also survive.
■E DIVIDEND PHD
BT LEHIGH COIL CO.
Checks Representing S4O for
Each SSO Share Are Sent
Stockholders
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Receipt
of the stockholders of the LeHigh
& Wilbesbarre Coal company of
checks representing amount equal
to S4O on each share of SSO par
value stock disclosed today taat the
company voted on December lo
last a dividend of 80 per cent.
MAN FOUND DEAD IS
BELIEVED A SUICIDE
ATLANTA, Dec. 27.—A coro
ner’s inquest will be held this morn
ing at 9 o’clock over the body of
D. L. Adclspcrger, of Springfield,
Ohio, who was dead Tuesday
morning a ’ uumill K house at 67
East Mitchell street. A- bullet
wound in his right temple and a .22
calibre Colt automatic pistol lying
near the body led police to believe
ILLINOIS INCOME TAX
COLLECTIONS ARE HUGE
CHICAGO, Dec. 27—Income
tax collections for the northern dis
trict of Illinois, which melpdes Chi
cago, increased more than $33,000,-
000 in 1923 over the ‘returns of
192)2 according to an announcement
made today by Mrs. Mabel G. Rei
necke, collector of internal revenue
for the district. Her announcement
also states that more than $2,000,-
000 in delinquent taxes of all sorts
have been collected during the year.
A 16 per cent increase in gross
receipts of the postoffice is slwwn
in the report.of Postmaster Arthur
Lueder, where $51,582,091 was tak
en in during 1923,^compared with
$11,470,301 i' l 19221
1 Z ERI
THE WKMfIKORpER
PUBLISHED
DON’T SELL ANY SOWS
MO CASH IN OH HOG
CROP, MARSHALL
County Agent Expects Good
Prices for Pork Next Season
-—Gives Reasons for This
MARKET IS. UNBALANCED
Discrepancy Between Corn and
Pork Sure to Bring Better
Prices for Hogs, He Says
“Don’t sell any ibrood sows tips
winter,” is th c message of George
0. Marshall, county farm demon
stration agent* to Sumter county
hog raisers. The hog market just
now is in a demoralized condition,
according to Marshall, due toXrthe
discrepancy between the price of
corn and hogs.
Because of this condition, Mar
shall asserts, . many hog raisers
throughout the West are selling
their brood sows, jjid there is ev
ery reason to expect a substantial
shortage In meat hogs next fail.
This means that higher prices will
prevail, and the Sumter county
farmer who has hogs to sell then is
sure to cash in good, according to
the calculations of the county
agent. Sumter hog raisers who
have been sellinlg thdtr St
ruinously low prices during ' the
past season are discouraged, he
says, and in some instance? they are
getting out of the hogiraising
business. This, he thinks, is a mis
take, as it is certain that no industry
can long continue after prevailing
prices have reached a level that
make the industry unprofitable.
Because of this fact, he is certain
that prices will '.OGr. reach a higher
level, especially with the produc
tion of hogs being rapidly reduced
in the great western hog-raising
country.
“After all,” said Marshall today,
“ a balanced farming program is the
onfe certain basis of prosperity for
Sumter’s farmers. Let’s gbt this
point settled, and then stick to it.
This thing of getting into a crop,
the dropping out and getting in
again later on is too much like
playing the market to be uniformly
profitable, and it is my advice to
farmers here to keep their hogs,
every one of them. The present de
pression in the hog market is a
passing problem that will settle it
self, and the man who has the hogs
to sell when prices right themselves
again, is sure’to make money.”
BOOTLEGGERS HIDE
' UP OUTLAW GUNG
Missouri Authorities Say Liquor
Dealers Methodist
Church Christmas Night *
HANCOCK, Mo., Dec. 27—Boot
leggers and moonshiners today de
clared Ify authorities to have com
posed of a band of ten men khat
stormed the Methodist church at
Blackroad about six miles from
here Christmas night damaging- the
edifice Ind beating up four mem
bers of the congregation, including
two women.
The invaders entered after break
ing the windows. OYTce inside they
began to break up the church fix
tures. ,
NAVY NEEDS MANY
YOUNG PHYSICIANS
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27—Grad
uates of medical, dental and phar
maceutical colleges and of nurses*
training schools are finding the op
portunities of civil life so attrac
tive that the medical ejepartment of
the navy is having increased diffi
culty in getting work.*
Surgeon General E. R. Stitt, in his
annual report just made 'public de
clares that, despite an intensive
campaign during the year, including
the sending of 12,000 personal let
ters to young doctors^>it 'was not:
possible to keep the medical corps I
up to its authorized strength.
AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBEMBER 27, 192
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GIRL WIFE OF NEW
YORK CHINIC KILLED
American Girl Who Married
Oriental, Found Murdered in
Ovzn Apartment
WOMAN’S THROAT |S CUT
Bathrobe Drawn laut About
Back of Corpse When Body
Is Found , '
NEW YORK. Dec. 27—Helen
Chun, 20 year old American wife
of Harry Chun, Chinese restaurant
eur, was found murdered last night
in their Washington Heights apart
ment.
Her throat was cut and a bath
robe cord drawn taut about hci
back.
The murderers left ho clew
which the authorities had been lo
identify Up to noon today.
ATLANTA REALTOR TO
BE BURIED FRIDAY
ATLANTA, Dec. 27—Hugh G.
Keeney, 60, widely known Atlanta
real estate man, died at 3 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon at a private
sanitarium. He lived at 192 High
land avenue, and had been a resi
dent of Atlanta for many years.
Funeral services will be held at
9:30 o’clock Friday morning at the
Sacred Heart church, of which he
was a member, and burial will be
in Oakland cemetery, under direc
tion of Barclay & Brandon.
Surviving Mr. Keeney are his
widow.; two sons, Charles and
Philip Keeney; two daughters, Miss
Pauline Keeney and'Miss Cecil Cul
len ; two brothers, Philip G. Keeney
and Joseph Keeney; two sisters,
Mrs. Rose Byers and Mrs. Bridget
Gallagher.
WM. J. HERCY. FAMOUS
GLASSMAKER. IS DEAD
STAMFORD Conn., Dec. 27.
William J. Hercy, aged 70, a famous
glsas died at his
home here today. He “was connect
ed with the Pittsburg Fiate 'Glass
company, besides being a director
in corpfirations owning the Central
Leather company and the publishing
firm of D. Appleton and company.
PHILIP EDWARDS IS
BADLY BURNED EARLY
TODAY IN ME HERE
Young Boy Victim of Accidental
Blaze Caused By Open Grate
Fire
DOTH HANDS ARE COOKED
Child May Die As Result of Ter
rible Burns Sustained, At
tending Physicians Fear
Phillip Edwards, young son <>f
Mr. apd Mrs. T. W. Edwards, was
terrible burned early today during
a small fire in the Edwards home
on Dudley street. Thc fire ori
ginted, it -is believed fron; an open
grate, about which the little boy
was playing at some chile ish amuse
ment, being alone at the time.
A fire alarm sent in by a neigh
bor who noticed‘the flames inside
the Edwards apartment resulted in
the fire being quickly extinguished,
but npt until the young chjld ha 1
been so terribly btirne 1 as to make
uncertain, whether dr not he Will
survive.
Both of the child’s hand.; were so
terrible cooked until the flesh all
practically fell off from the bones,
and this afternoon, he was in an
extremely critical condition.
The child was also terribly burn
ed about the body and head, the
flesh being badly seared over prac
itically the entire trunk from the
I knees up.
He was alone at»+he time of tpe
accient, and the definite cause is
unknown. When found by his
mother, who was attracted by his
cries, the child was totally enve
loped in flames, according 'to in
formation furnished the Times-
Recorder this afternoon.
CENSUS GINNING
FIGURES ANNOUNCED
W. P. Persons, agent for the cen
sus bureau in Sumter county, today
announced ginning figures -for the
county to December 13, as follows:
There were 12,259 bales of cotton,
counting round as half bales ginned
in Sumter county from the crop
of 1923 prior to December 13, 1923,
as compared with 21,921 bales gin
ned to December 13, 1922.
JAPANESE REGENT IS
TARGET fOR BULLET
FIRED BY JAP YOUTH
Police Who Arrested Would-Be
Assassin Believe That Man
Is Insane
FEELING RUNNING HIGH
Ycvth Dressed As Laborer, Has
Made No Explanaton of Rea
son Behind Attempt
TOKIO, Dec. 27—A youth dress
ed as a laborer was arrested by
police today shortly after he had
fired at Prince Regent Hirohito in
attempted assassination. The
youth is said to be ebout 20 years
ohl, and police believe he is in
sane.
The shooting has aroused intensr
excitement asd feeling is running
high throughout , the city.
The arrested yduth has disclosed
no reason for his attempt upon
Prince Hirohito’s life, although
continually questioned by the au
thorities.
INCIDENT CAUSES
MINISTER TO QUIT.
TOKIO, Dec. 27—Home Mini
ster Coto has resigned, assuming
full responsibility as home minister
for the attempted assassination ■ of
Prince Regent Hirohito by the 20
year old youth under arrest, it is
understood here.
Baron Cotos home and all social
ist centers are being closely guard
ed owing to fear of anti-socialist
outbreak.
FIFTEEN PATIENTS DIE
WHEN ASYLUM BURNS
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. —Fifteen pa
tients of the Chicago State hospital
for the insane at Dunning are
known to have been burned to
death or suffocated in a fire which
dstroyed a frame structure used as
a dormitory for tubercular patients
last night.
At least three others are believed
to have perished.
One of the bodies removed from
the ruins of the building was that
of a woman. It was at first thought
all the patients had been removed.
About 600 patients were tn the
building when the fire started.
TO iN TO ENO
MIS OF KLM
UNLESS EVILS CEASE
Man Who ‘Put Over’ Organiza
tion Wants President Coolidge
to Co-operate in Effort
ADMITS HARM BEING DONE
Says He’ll Call ‘Better Element’
To Either Rule Or Dis
band Organization
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—E. Y.
Clarke, formerly high' in the coun
cils of the Ku Wlux Klan,wrote
President Coolidge tod% offering
ot cooperate with that executive in
ending the activities of “an ele
ment” which is converting the klan
into an organization vastly differ
ent from that, planned s by its
founders.
He also announced ?his inten
tion of issuing a proclamation to
the klansmen “calling the better
element ’either to take hold and
remedy the existing evils” or dis
band the organization.
LYNCHINGS DECREASE
50 PCT. DURING YEAR
Figures Furnished By Tuskegee
Institute Show Only 4 Such
Executions in Georgia
TUSKEE, Ala., Dec. 27.—Con
cerning lynchings for the past, year
aS compiled by Tuskegee Institute
in the Department t>f Records ami
Research, Monroe N. Work in
charge there were 28 persons lynch
ed in 1922. This is 39 less than the
numbei- 57 for the year 1922.
Thirteen of the persons lynched
were*were taken from the hands of
the law, 7 from jails 6 from offi
cers of the law outside of jails.
It is also found that there were
46 instances in which officers of
the law prevented lynching. Four
women, 3 white and 1 colored, w.re
among those thus saved. Six o.
these preventions of lynching were
in Northern Statbs and 40 in South
ern States. 87 of the cases the pris
oners were removed or the guards
augmented or other precautions
taken. In the 9 other instances,
armed spree was used to repel the
would be lynchers. ln«8 instances
during thc year persons charged
with being connected with lynch
ing mobs were brought to trial. Os
the 52 persons thus before the
courts only 2 were sent to the peni
. tentiary.
Os the 28 persons lynched in
1923, 26 were negroes- and 2 were
whites; two of the fanner were wo
men, 7 or one fourth of those put
to death were charged with rape
or attempted rape; one of the vic
tims was Mined to death; one was
put to death and then the body was
burned. The charge against the
one burned to death was murder.
The offenses charged against - the
I whites were participation in strike
depredations, 1; being taken as a
I negro, 1. The offenses charged
I against the negroes were murder,
13; murderous, assault, 2; rape, 6
; attempted rape, 1; killing officers
of the law, 2; wounding officers of
■ tha law, 2 no charge reported, 3;
' assisting man charged with rape to
l escape, t; resisting posse searching
[for man charged with rape. 1; cat-
IHe stealing, 1; trying to act like
I white man and not knowing his
I place, 1; insulting woman, 1; peep
ing in window, 1; striking man is
iltercation 1.
The -nine states in which lynch
ing occurred and the number in
each state are as follows; Arkansas,
2; Florida, 8; Georgia, 4; Loui
siana, 1; Mississippi, 8; .Missouri,
1; Oklahoma, I; Texas 2; Virginia,
1 1-
[CUSACK, WEST POINT
STUDENT, IS KILLED
( NEW YORK. Dec. 27—The
I body of a youth killed by a subway
I train yesterday was identified today
las that of Frederick Stanley Cusack,
I a West Point cadet, whose home
was in Washington, D. C.
WEATHER
For Georgia—Cloudy tonight
and Friday, Local Vain in north
and central portion, warmer to
night and in South portion Friday,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
LIST MEETING IT Oil)
COOm jELB LIST
NIGHT IT CITY BILL
Expenses Held Within Budget,
Figures Submitted By Mayor
Poole Indicate
AUDITOR TO POST BOOKS
Debt Commission , Hrii Paid
$16,465.36 On Back Ac
cocunts, Council Is Told
I
The 1922 Mayor and Alderman
of Americus held their last meet
ing Wednesday night in the audi
torium at the city hall and after
the transaction of necessary busi
ness adjourned sine die.
Immediately following the ncv.’
members of thc council were sworn
in by Judge Z. A. Littlejohn, en
tering at once upon the discharge
of their official duties. New mem
bers who were sworn iij are Nathan
Murray and J. W. Hightower, while
J./W,’Harris, Jr., and R. E. Alli
son, members of the oki council
also took the oath as members or
the new body, having been re-elect
ed to places therein.
Aiderman Hugh Mize, who was
not a candidate for rc-ole<Stion, was
the only member of the old. coun
cil not present at ne meeting last
night, and upon motion of Aider
man AllisUn resolution express
ing regret that Aiderman Mize had
failed to offer for re-election was
adopted by the body.
The annual report of City Attor
ney Lane, showing that practically
all litigation against thc city has
recently been either dismissed for
want of prosecution or settled by
agreement, leaving only one small
suit pending. This case, it was ex
plained, is that of a negro who is
claiming damages from the city for
alleged personal injuries sustained
when he claims to have driven into
an open ditch in the city limits, it
being asprted that the ditch had not
not been properly protected by a
display of red lights at night. This
claim, Attorney Lane informed
council is not expected to result in
any judgment being rendered
against the city.
One important recommendation
contained the report of Attorney
Lane is to the effect that thc city
put into effect January 1 all of
the provisions- of the Pace debt
(Continued on Page Two.)
WOMAN LOSES LEG IN
FIGHT ON CHRISTMAS
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27—Mrs.
Mary Walt, 44, with a leg amputat
ed, is in Charity hospital at the
point of death, while Mrs. Emilia
C lair, 30 is eating Christmas’ dinner
in jail, the aftermath of a Christ
mas fight between the two women,
the climax ol an argument about a
drink of whiskey.
The rough-and-tumble fight slatt
ed on the sidewalk ended when Mrs.
Walt was knocked into the street
and landed on the car tracks just
as a street ear was passing. The
ront wheels of the car passed over
the woman’s leg before thc car was
stopped.
MRS. PERDUE VICTIM
OWN SON’S RIFLE
, ATLANTA, Dec. 27—Mrs. J.
\ Perdue, of 7 Pine street, Inman
j Yards, was accidently shot by her
1 15-year-old son, Winston, late Tues
day afternoon while the two were
engaged in rifle practice near their
home. A bullet from a 22 calibre
rille fired at close range, entered*
her left side.
Mrs. Perdue was rush -d to Grady
hospital where physicians stated
that her wounds was not serious.
Mrs. Perdue and her son were
i having target .practice near their
I home when the mother decided to
I return to the house. Her path lay
I directly between the target and
I young Winston, who continued to
p'fe. As his mother crossed the
(target line, he fired, the ball en
tering her left side.