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U. S. WARSHIP IS ORDERED |TO HONDURANIAN WATERS
fflLltt CHIOS TO
COME UNLESS HALT IS
CALLED. SAYS SANER
Head of American Bar Associa
tion Says Form of Government
Being Gradually Changed
CHALLENGE IS ISSUED
Blazes of Bolshevism Must Be
Met With Renewed Allegiance
To Faith of Fathers, He Says
LINCOLN, Neb. Dec. 28.— (By
Associated Press.) —Through “con
stitutional amendments and feder
al encroarchment, the form of
United States government is being
changed from a republic into a po
litical and hysterical chaos, whose
final terms are expressed in the
unspeakable Russia of today,” R- b-
L. Saner of Dalias Tex., president
of the American Bar Association,
said in an address today
Nebraska Bar association. Mr.ban
er also is chairman of the national
committee on American citizenship.
“It was nos until this preset**
generation, descendants sturdy pio
neers, had learned to live in fatten
ed and complacent ease upon the
wealth and the secruity and the
safety bought for them by the
blood and sacrifice of their fore
fathers, that the idealists, the doc
trinaires and the demagogues be
came an established institution m
our national £ r.ew
thebry of
jean people,” ” asserted. The
age through which we are going
may well be termed the age of con
stitutional amendment and federal
encroachment, encroaching upen
the rights and powers of both the
states of this republic and its in
dividual citizens.
‘lt is time to call a halt and to
jget back to the beginning of things;
back to the real sources of our
strength; back to the republic, that
under the constitution the fathers
so wisely conceived and so success
fully instituted; badk to a govern
ment of the whole people, by the
whole people. Day by day, grad
ually and insidiously, through con
stitutional amendments and feder
al encroachment, the form of this
government of outs is being chang
ed from that republic into a politi
cal and hysterical chaos, whose fin
al terms are expressed in the un
speakable Russia of today.
“Today, incipient of bol
shevism and radicalism, fed by dis
respect of long-established Ameri
can institutions, are lighting the
fires of revolution. It is a chal
lenge to us to pledge renewed al
legiance to the faith of our fath
ers, that we may, in extinguishing
the fires that destroy, proclaim to
the world that our government is
the best government on earth, that
our ideals of national life are the
highest, and that we will as indiv
iduals strive in every way to main-*
tain our Constitution inviolate, and
prepctuate its traditions forever.”
■ML SCHOOL
■ILS IN REVOLT
DELAWARE. Ohio, Dec. 29
Disorders among inmates at a girl’s |
industrial a'AvoJ ®ear here which |
started with a concerted effort at
the dinner hour lasfl evening con- 1
tinned unabated todhy despite the
presence of Sheriff Harter and a
force of deputies. , 1
Bedlam continued in almost ev-!
erv cottage at school while the es-!
seinbly hall, where 90 insurgents I
were under guard, wk described as I
an inferno. The girbUcontinued to ‘
shout hyst ers< J a,, y tear their’
clothes. , I
Frank Wright, who Was a guest
of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
C .Wright, for the holidays, will re
turn soon to Georgia Tech to .crfh
tinue his course in that institution.
~ Janies Todd and young sons,
James and Billy, left this after
for Columbus to visit Miss
Mary E*' a Gnospellius.
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GUADALAJARA IS BEING
'BESIEGED BY TROOPS;
REBELS IN FULL ROUT
JUAREZ, Dec. 29. Federal
forces early today were hemming
in the revolutionary stronghold at
Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco,
while in the State of Coahuila sol
diers were pursuing the rebel band
that looted the town of Altende
about 50 miles south of Piedras
Negras, according to-border reports.
According to special from Ira
puato, supplemented by information
received by government sources in
Mexico City, General Lazaro Carde
nas, after outflanking the Estradis
tas (rebels) and routing a detach
ment at Tamazukt, has passed thru
Zapotland and begun an attack up
on Guadalajara from the west.
Meanwhile General Jose Gonzalo
Escobar, commanding the vanguard
of General Joaquin Amaro’s main
-federal army, has occupied Labarco
in an advance from the east.
The fall of Guadalajara is ex
pected momentarily. Federal troops,
after capturing the towns' of Za
coalco, Yuracuaro and Ciudad Guse-
IENIIELOS SUPS OUT
(if PARIS EH LiIITL
TO RETUPHO ATHENS
Former Premier Eludes* Newspa
per Men As He Begins Jour
ney From France Greece
CAUTION SURROUNDS TRIP
i
Friends Are Skeptical of Any
Political Action HI May Un
dertake in Homeland
PARIS, Dec. Prem
ier Venizelos of Greece left Paris
for Athens last evening. He evad
,r ed newspaper Tnen by announcing
that his departure had been po&-
iponed.
This caution is explained by
friends as due to bitter animosi
ties in Greece qgainst him that have
! not been appeased. He feels that
there is formidable minority, if not
'actual majority, against him in
.Greece at the present moment.
I His friends are skeptical of any
I political action he may undertake
'in Athens.
INDICTED IN
KLANCASE KTS BAIL
Mrs. Margaret Weaver, Accused
of Complicity in Coburn Kill
ing, Freed At Atlanta
ATLANTA, Dec. 29.—Mrs. May
. gauet Weaver, under indictment as
{accessory before the fact in the
killing of W. S. Coburn, Ku Klux
Klan attorney, was released on bond
of $ 1,000 last night.
WILL DEMONSTRATE
‘STATIC ELIMINATOR’
ATLANTA, Dec. 29 Demon
stration of a ‘Static eliminator,”'
by the inventor, Horace. A. Beale,
' Jr., milionaire radio experimenter,
Parksburg, Pa., is to be one of num
erous highlights marking the South
east’s first radio convention in At
lanta, Detember 27-28-29.
FORESTRY MEET PLANS
ARE MATURING RAPIDLY
i NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.
! for the sixth Southern Forestry
' Congress in Savannah January 2b i
to 30, are being matured rapidly ac
cording to announcements from the
office of the secretary here.
Some o£ the oustanding figure.!
in forest' conservation and in the
business life of the South are ex
, pected to address the sessions. The
• first day’s program will be devot
i ed to consideration of the perpetua
tion of the naval .stores industry.
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THEjKH»MK»RDER
fegfj PUBLISHED
man, are closing in on all three
sides. \
The situation on the Vera Cruz
and Oaxaca fronts likewise is en
couraging, according to official ad
vices, with federal columns advanc
ing upon Tehuacan, Esperanza and
Jiri a pa. ‘
Nothing notable is reported from
Tamazuia and Zapotland except
that the.Sanchistas (rebels) are re
tiring beyond Oriental and NEsper
anza without resistance. Ityis an
ticipated they will make a final
stand at Jalapa and Vera Cruz.
SUPPORTERS OF REBELS
SUGGEST COMPROMISE
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 29.—-Pro
posing Jose Concella, minister of
public instruction, as a compromise
presidential candidate, De la*Hu
erta congressmen are reported to
have secured their former candi
date’s consent for the withdrawal
of' his candidacy upon the condi
tion that assent in the ■proposal be
given,by General Calles, also a can
didate, and President Obregpn.
CABINET RESIGNATION
RETURNED 8T RECENT
Prince Hirohito Refused to Per
mit Cabinet Members to Sur
render Porfolios
TOKIO, Dec. 29. —Prince Re
gent Hirohito this morning re
turned the resignations of the mem
bers of the cabinet presented Thurs
day, refusing to accept them.
Premier Yamamoto tendered his
resignation again Ithis afternoon,
’’however, which indicates that the
cabjnet members to not desire to
remain in office.
WIT SOUTH' KILL
BRING PROSPERITY
Atlanta Manufacturer Urges
Southern People to Use Prod
ucts Made in South
ATLANTA, Dec. 29. —If south
ern people would give preference
always to “Made in South” goods
n wonderful impetus would be give
en to manufacturing in Dixie, ac
cording to Atlanta manufacturers.
Also there would be greater and
more general prosperity- in the
South than thq southern states have
ever known, business would be good
in all lines and everyone in the
South would derive a benefit from
the loyalty of the people to the
South’s own industries.
Manufacturers here in urging
people to demand ‘Made in the
South” goods whenever passible tell
of the many advantages that would
result in the section and the peo
ple.
Increased production means in
creased work,, increased payrolls,
increased surplus, increased profits
to wage earners,, increased produc
tion increased business, as one At
lanta manufacturer put it.
Every dollar spent for good?
made in z the South means a greater
sale of Southern raw material giv
ing! employment) to producers of
raw material; means employment to
these producing finished products,
cans keeping the entire dollar in the
South to do business with; means
increased production to supply in
creased demand for gooods from
farms, furnaces, forests and fac
tories.
h Jobbers, wholesalers, retailers,
consumers, should each and every
one buy and sell and use products
made in the South as self protec
tion to uieir own business -success
as Well as business patriotism and
sectional pride, it is pointed out
men here.
‘‘When you buy for sale, or use
southern made goods, you increase
your business and develop the
South’s resources,” said a promin
ent Atlanta manufacturer.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29, 192}
'FAST SCOUT CRUISER
ASSIGNED TO SPECIAL
SOUTH AMERICAN DUTY
Rochester Will Proceed to Port
of Amapala To Protect
Interests
TO REMAIN IN VICINITY
Present Disturbed Conditions Re
sponsible for Dispatch of
American Warship
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. The
armored cruiser Rochester, the
flagship of the United Staie sspecial
squadron in Central and South
American waters, has been sent to
the port of Amapqla, Honduras, and
will remain in that vicinity until
present disturbances in Honduras
and Southern Mexico have quieted.
HIGHWAYMEN Hold up
SUMMIT STATE BANK
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Between $15,000 and SIB,OOO
Secured By Bandits in Raid
On Illinois Bank '
CHICAGO, Dec.' 29.—1 n wild
western style four armed robbers
invaded the Summit State Bank of
Summit, lll. r -a-M*burb, today, fir
ing their revolvers as they enter
ed and carried away between $15,-
000 and SIB,OOO. which was Virtu
ally all of the currency in the bank,
according to information received
by the police.
Firing ahd flourishing' theii
weapons, a quartet of bands rushed
into the bank and lined up four
employees, one of them a woman,
against the wall and rifled cages
and money drawers. As they rush
ed from the bank, they fired their
guns in all directions.
Cffi ASSIGNED FDR
CITT COURT SESSION
Judge Wm. M. Harper Sounded
Docket Today, With
Actions* Pending Settlement
In the City Court of AmAicus
this morning the docket for tne
spring team which convenes the
first Monday in January, with in
dications now on continuing during
several Weeks. The jail cases, as
usual will be the first to be dis
posed of, after which the civil doc
ket will be taken up and the grind
upon these started.
Today ah examinatipn of the
docket revealed a fairly large num
ber of cases pending, with a num
ber] likely to be disposed of by rea
son of motions and other technical
ways before called for trial. Attor
neys interested in, these cases ap
peared in cqurt this morning and
after the usual conference all of
those were duly assigned places on
the docket.
BODY OF SOLDIER
/ FOUND ON TRACKS
ATLANTA, Dec. 29.—The body
of Private John H. Pickle, of conj,-
pany H 22nd infantry stationed at
Fort McPherson was found lying
beside the' tracks of the Atlanta &
West Potpt railroad near College
Park.
Hs was from Norcross, and had I
apparently either been run over by!
a train or had fallen from one.
I. C. C. BODY HEARS
LEASE ARGUMENTS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Ar
guments over the proposed lease of
the Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio
railroad to the Atlantic Coast Line
and Ixnjisville & Nashville railroad
was heard today by the interestate
commerce commission.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hooks and
Walter Tage will leave tomorrow
j morning by automobile for Atlanta
Ita spend several days with relatives.
MOTHER WHO SOLD UNBORN
BABE (BECOMES PENITENT
Principals in Contract Baby Sale
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gSw. MMI . >'*'
Mrs. Frances Maher (upper I
left,) "Baby Mike,’’ sleeping con
tentedly ip the arms of Mrs. John i
31 MOROS KILLED DURING
CLASH WITH U.S. SOLDIERS
Major Fletcher Reports On Fight
Between Constabulary and Na- t
tives in Midana Island
MANILA, December 29.--Thirty
one Moros were killed in a clash
wjth 60 soldiers of the Philippine
constabulary at Malaundo in Lanas
province, on Islnd of Mindasdo, on
December 16, according to a dis
patch received here from Major
Fletcher, commander of the Philip
pine scouts at Zapibpanga.
NW UHIIIN LABOR
BANK OPINED TMAY
Institution Is Ninth Invasion of
Banking Field By Locomotive
Engineers’ Organization
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Locomo
tive Engineers Cooperative Trust
Company opened today,- marking the
ninth invasion of railmen’s union
into banking fields throughout the
United, States and the fourth lab
or union bank in New York.
MANY AUTO OWNERS
HAVE SMALL INCOMES
ATLANTA, Dec. 29.—More than
six million people who report an
nual incomes of .SI,OOO and over
own automobiles, according to fig
ures received in Atlanta by tax in-
I come experts. Twelve million peo
i pie in the country own automobiles.
Therefore, as the experts here show,
six million automobile owners in
this country have incomes of less
than SI,OOO a year, and yet they
own automobiles. How do, they do
i it? Naturally the question arises.
Either many of those who own
automobiles forgot to report their
incomes to the income tax ma i or
i else they have a system for own
-1 ing cars that a lot of other* would
like to know about.
I Fleming, his foster-mother, and
| Judge Ward (lower right.)
STATE D. 0. C. MEET
TO FINISH IN DH
Mrs, Walter Grace Completes
Plans for Expediting Busi
ness Before Coming Meet
MACON. Dec. 29.—Mrs. 'Wallet-
Grace, president of the Georgia Di
vision, United Daughters of the Con
federacy, today announced that
plans and arrangements for the
meeting of the executive board so/
the division will be so constructed
as to enable transaction of the en
tire business in one day, thus mak
ing it possible for many members to
arrive in Macon, where the session
will be held, on an early morning
train and return to their homes late
in the afternoon.
The Board will be entertained at
luncheon by Grace. Every
chapter in the state was urged by
Mrs. Grace to fuff ill at once pledges
to the Jefferson Davis Monument
fund, and to forward the contribu
tion ’to Mrs. H. M. Franklin, Ten-
nile. ,
Cards calling attention 'to Geor
gia’s obligation to this* U. D. C. un
dertaking have been sent direct to
all chapter presidents by Mrs.
I Franklin, who is Georgia chairman
!of the Monument Fund. The monu
! ment is at Fairview, Kentucky, the
| birthplace of Jefferson Davis. At
! the Washington convention, Geor
i gia pledged SIOOO to this fund,
| pledging it in memory of Alexan
der Stephens, ivice-president of the
; Confederacy, and one of Georgia’s
■ most distinguished men.
Miss Louise Herndon, after a
J visit to Mrs. John T. Bragg, re-
I turned to her home in Nashville,
jTenn., where she is connected with
Baptist young people’s work there.
WEATHER ’’’'■’lMßU
For Georgia—Cloudy tonight and
Sunday; probably local rain Sunday,
warmer in north and central portion
tonight; much colder Monday,
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MAN BRINGS IT
TO RECOVER CHILD
HELD BY ftNOTHER
‘Give Me My Baby, Judge’ Fran
tic Mother Cries in AppeaFto
Presiding Jurist
I GAVE HIM HIS LIFE’
i Paid for Him; FLovc Hirn and
Want Him,’ Is Reply of Child’s
Foster Mother .
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.
(By NEA Service.) —Cattle
are traded. Chattels are sold.
But cold words of the law are
not sufficient to contract sole
right to baby’s smile.
This from bitter experience
Mrs. Frances Maher here has just
learned. , . L.
Regretfully she needed her
brain and not her heart when
she let Mike slip from her arms
at birth into the yearning em
brace of childless Mrs. John
Fleming "for a price. ’
Even beftrre- brought
him, Mike with his dimples and pink
little tpes had been deeded to the
other woman by the mother, who
with three other Aabies to care for,
feared thei% wopkl not be enough
left to care' for Mike put of his
daddy’s S6B monthly sala’rjf-
Advertised Baby For Sale.
And so it happened in this strang
est of birth contract cases, that
Mike became the “prenatal bargain”
advertised for sale by Mrs. Mah
er, who now says she was distract
ed and unaware of what she whs
doing when tiling the world of ner
willingness to barter unborn Mike
away.
The ‘bargain” went through us
agreed, with Mrs. Fleming taking to
bed following pike’s arrival to sim
ulate the stork’s visit to her home.
In another part of the city, Mrs.
Maher, the real mother, lay with
aching heart and awakened con
science amt with he’- arms empty
arms that were beginning to feel
the urge for Mike’s departed caress.
Ifi beclouding mercy she hud con
sented to the parting, hoping Mike i
might be better cared for and spar
ed possible privation consequent
upon a fourth mouth to feed from
the father’s meager, salary a.-—an
army bandmaster at the Presidio.
But all this solemn calculation ?
dispersed like chaff when the surge
of mother love mounted to claim its J
own. ■ j j(l
For, like Rachael of old, the heart uyj
of Mrs. Maher sobbihg sos he;- baby yj
would not be comforted. .'■<
To court then she came. And ;* I
likewise did Mrs. Fleming.
Mike, now five months old, was ’A
the center of contention. The np-*yj|
pie of their eyes.
Other Woman Claims Him
“He is mine,” said Mrs. Fleming. A ‘j
‘Under rule of land and law.”
‘I contracted for him. Paid for
him. I love hipt and want him. Jigs
mother did not-.”
Judge Louis 11. Ward sitting as
Solomon heard the ploa. He listened ~/j
in silence.
But the silence was broker, by a
heartrending sob as with Mudon
nalike mein Mrs. Maher reached
forth her hands in supplication.
“Give me my baby, judge. It was
I who suffered for him. I who gave
him life. What right then has the
law with words to take him from
me?
“Contracts are nothing with love.
I parted with my baby, judge, be
cause 1 was not in my right mind
from agony of brain and body. Let
me have him. My arms ache to hold
him—for just a little while.”
Back as Love's Lesson.
To such entreaty the court wuiv
ied adjournment to take the matter
‘ ( Continued on Page Four.);