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FORTY-FIFTH YEAJR—NO. 285
FEDERAL PRISON ESCAPES ARE STILL ELUDING OFFICERS
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INTENSE cold wave speeds southward
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MERj JANTS TO END BIG CAMPAIGN IN ‘BLAZE OF GLORY'
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Snow Predicted Over East and
Part of Southeast During
Next 48 Hours
COLD WAVE WARNING
Georgia and Other Southern
States to Be Shivering With
■ Advent of New Year
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.—-A
great cold blast from Alaska today
had overspread the Rocky moun
tain and northen plateau regions,
the plains states of the Missouri
Valley and the interior of the west
gulf states, with zero temperatures
as far south as the Texas panhandle.
It was 20 degrees below zero at
many points in the northwest and
Yellowstone Park, and in Wyoming
34 degrees below was registered
Snow is predicted during t.ie next
48 hours for nearly all of the east
and a part of the southwest. Grid
wave warnings have been iss red for
western Fennylvania, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi.
South Carolina, northwest Florida,
western South Carolina and ivestern
Virginia. Z
OFFICIJLS SILENT OH
SILL y
Naval Treaty Prohibits Sale of
War Vessels to Obregon, It is
Pointed Out
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31j—The
exact quantity of war materials to
be sol dto Mexico has hot been re
vealed by either the state or the
war department officials, but it will
apparently beconfined to rifles, am
munition and air planes.
The Washington naval treaty pro
hibits the sale of war vessels, to ! the
Obregon government, it was point
ed out in connection with a report
that these crafts are what Obregon
wanted.
POLICE HMD F 3 R
MANBELIEVED CRT
Blood Stains in Baptist Church
Cellar Indicate Unknown
Person Badly Hurt
Chief Min T. Bragg and other
police authorities are searching to
day for an unkno'wn white man who
attacked A. L. Williams, a ■switch
man empolyed by the Seaboard Air
Lin, and who is believed to have
been seriously stabbed in the result
ing affray. The attack on Williams
was staged on Taylor street late Sat- .
urday night, and bloodstains found
in the cellar of First Baptist church -
Sunday forning by Charles Lingo
and others indicate that Williams
staggered in there. How ho managed
to get out of the cellar remains a
mystery.
According to Williams who was'
taken to the office of Dr. J. Wg.
Chambliss for treatment, he
walking along Taylor s£reet'in the
direction of .his homo on Elm aven
ue when' accosted by a white man
whom he did not recognize, but
thought to be .- >me friend.\k(ithifci
a few minutes, /he <
yoked words anil Viciously arched *•
him, according lo- Williams story '
Saturday night. Realizing he must
defend himsell Wißiari «<!* out h‘ : ><
pocket knife %jid hjnged I
stranger in the darkness,
on his assailant ran off. Williams?
who had been beaten about th •
head and otherwiy injured, canie
on into the business section thenand
went to the office of Dr.’ J. W.
Chambliss, where nit injuries were
dressed. H.e describe 1 his assailant
as a man apparently “about the '
build of Ghief Bragg” but was un
able to give any better description
of the stranger.
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THE TIMES” f?ECORDEf?
{feypußLi s hedTn Yhe~ hear t .or bTxi£”(fev?
Many Congressmen Are Planning For New Year
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The New Year always is the
signal for people to make good
resolutions. Senators and con
gressmen in Washington mak»
’em, too. Here are a few illus
trated strikingly. Top shows
Mangus Johnson of Minnesota.
He takes a resolution to give the
soldiers a bonus. Lower right
shows Congressman Nick Long
worth of Ohio, ‘cutting’ taxos in
two. That s his resolution. Low
er right shows Representative
William Upshaw of Georgia with
the help of a trick photography,
holding an umbrella over the
capitol. He wants congress bone
dry.
BANDITKILLS'
JEWEL DEALER!
Bernard Brown Shot to Death
When He Refused to Open
Safe at Command
NEW YORK, Dec, 31 -Bernard
'Brd'wri, a Bronx jeweler, today was
shot and killed by a bandit when he
refused to open his safe.
MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 31. An
armed bandit hyld up and robbed
the crew oi the dining car attached
to th e northbound Louisville and
Nashville rainlroad’. New York-New
Orleans Limited,
KIWANIS DIRECTORS
FOR 1924 CLUB YEAR !
Directors of the Kiwanis club who
will serve during- the club year 4924
and who were formally inducted
hdp office together with President
and fficci
ladies tiij'ht
as follows: K. Olivet. I.
Jjeorge M. Bragg, f’.tsd-.
Joe M. Bryan, J. la-wis
Rev. J. M.’Ou ier. The
these itad-'
omitted from the li--'.
The Io .-tder
Hear.
jd|HK't.ary.
RAILROADS TO OBSERVE
NEW YEARS OCCASION]
• The two railroads of Xmlrrieus i
will observe tomorrow, (Tuesday) i
as a full .holiday M acording io a jointl
announcement authorized today,
with depots closed- against the re
ceipt of delivery of freight excent
in carlots. Carload shipment will
he received and placed/ :>s usual
Aftwnt White of the Central,'stated
thiii. morning. . 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 31. 192 3
ROTARIANS TO TEST
FAMOUS TRUTH SERUM
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Madame Curie, Famous French
Chemist, to Be Guest of Club
On New Year’s Occasion ,
A four or five-act vaudeville show
in which the actors all are mem- |
bers of the local Rotary club, will )
be staged tonight between 9:30
o'clock and midnight at the Coun
try club at a New Year’s party ar
ranged by the Rptarians. A num
ber of invited guests, together with
the wives and sweethearts of the
Rotarians, will join in the celebra
tion. A buffet luncheon will be
served dining the evening.
Madam Curie, the famous
rench chemist, who in collaboration
with her famous husband, dico
ered radium, will b v the honor gue.=‘
of the occasion, end; officials an
nounced this morning.
Madame Curie is a guest, of he:
riend and fellow countrywoman,
Mrs. Boyd Stackhouse, who with
Mr. Stackhouse, will be guests of
the club. Madame Curie will ad
dress the club, her reifiarks being
interpreted by Mrs.
Madame Curie will be requested
to explain the mysterious effect of
the new serum, scolapamin, which is
said to compel the one receiving an
I injection, to speak only the truth.
President John Sheffield will de- j
I liver a New Year’s address. Mrs. |
Hamilton Holt will be a guest and
;wik sing. Mrs. K. C. White will
I render several selections on her
Italian harp. Mrs. Boyd StaekEbtise
will dance.
; Cobb Milner, chairman of the
! program committee, refused to give
j out the names of the vaudeville
: performers, but stated that the pro-
I grant embodied the club’s finest tai
i ent.
The Rotarians will gather at the
j club at 9:30 and will celebrate until
• the big .gong, connected with West
) ern Union time clocks, announces
| the birth of the New Year.
Confeiti, whistles, horns, and
other noise-making devices have
been provided by the club for the
celebration.
B A. BRADLEY LOSES
FINGER IN ACCCIDENT
LESLIE, Dec. 31.8. A. Bradley
iwho resides neiy Leslie hud a very
'painful accident Saturday morning
I while shooting birds. His gun
barrel burst tearing up his left
hand badly, his thumb being shot:,
off and one finger badly hurt. * !i
PtTPOCRADREPORTED
TLOOOED Bl WATERS
HISTIMf Hl Pffl
Industrial Section of Former
Czar’s Capital Entirely Sub
merged Despite Weather
RIVER LEAVES ITS BANKS
Many Factories and Industries
Inundated According to Press
Reports From Russia
MOSCOW, Dec. 31. Reports
from Petrograd say that a part of
the city is submerged under water
from the river Neva which has
flooded its banks despite the se
vere winter weather which has pre
vliled here during several months
past.. '■
Many factories and other indus
tries have been
FREE FERTILIZER FOR CLUBS
I SPARTA, Ugc. 31. County
I agent Truitt of this county has an
nounced thi.t he has been successful
in obtaining frorfi the Iccal fertili
zer dealers supplies of fertilizer to
be donated to the boys corn and
cotton clubs next year. The furn
ishing of free fertilizer will add to
the interest in the clubs and it is
expected that other amounts will
be contributed, in the near future.
This county has clubs for both boys
and girls, the girls having canning
and chicken clubs.
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XMAS SEAL SALE GOOD
ROME, Dec. 31—With the sale
of Christmas seals already well over
i the SI 800 mark and enough more
(expected to bring the count up to I
S2OOO, the sale this year has sur-j
pns/ed by S3OOO the amount spent
for public heal|h work last year..
I Enough has been received in the
form of donations to carry on the I
work for next year even if no more I
contributing are received, .-.aid Dr. |
iJohn H. Woods, who conducted then
I sale. , I
MILLION DOLLAR lib
BANDIT MG W
WHO TUNNEL BOOT
MaU Who Participated in Sensa
sational Hold-Up in New York
Leads Pals to Liberty
LONG TERM CONVICTS
Used Tubercular Tenfs As Cover
to Hide Plans for Leaving
Atlanta Prison
ATLANTA, Dec. 31 Officials
todav had made no tangible pro, ll ,
ress toward the trecapture of the
four convicts. who, led by George
Anderson, the million dollar mail
bandit, tunneled their' way from
the federal penitentiary yesterday
to freedom.
The fugitives are George An
derson, serving a 25-year sentence
for participation in the New Yo;k
City mail truck holdup for which
Chapman was convicted; Hiram Lep
per, serving 15 years for'a fedei4il
offense committed in Maryland and
who decently figured in a sensa
tional escape only to be recaptured
ional escape only to be recaptured
in Minneapolis; Ludwig Schmidt,
sentenced at Buffalo, N. Y , to serve
ten years, and Frank Laynes, sen
tenced at Knoxville, Tenn., for
counterfeiting. Haynes would have
completed his term in February, but
was to'be held for Tennessee au
thorities on a state charge.
• The tunnel, barely large enough
to admit a human body, was found
to lead from one of the prison tu
bercular tents to a point fifty feet
beyond the stone -walls surround
ing the prison.
Haynes and Lepper, tubercular
patients, had occupied the tent 3or
some time and Anderson and
Schmidt, prison officials, said, had
no opportunity to assist in the ex
cavation. It was estimated by of
ficials that three weeks would be
required fq|- completion of the pas
sage.
BELIEVE MEN WENT
ON FLYER TO MACON
MACON, Dec. 31. —City motor
cycle men and railroad detectives
were pressed jnto service early this
morning in an effort to apprehend
three white men who jumped from
the tender of the Royal Palm train
last night at 12:20 o’clock. Infor
mation had come from Atlanta that
prisoners who escaped from the
Federal penitentiary yesterday af
ternoon were reported to have
boarded the Royal Palm.
The train was being watched, and
when it stopped dn the Walnut
stieet trestle, 300 yards north of the
Terminal station, the 'three men
jumped off. There the chase began
leading up Walnut to Bridge Row,
Bridge Row to Mulberry, Mulberry
to Broadway, Broadway to Wall
street Alley, and then across Cherry
between x Third and . Broadway,
where the trail was Jost.
One of the men was wearing a
dark colored sweater; the other two
were clad in dark colored clothes,
and all of them wore caps.
fWi'iiSGE
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BRONSVILIX Tex., Dec. 31.
Telephone reports today from Amer '
ican officers at Fort ' Ringgold ;
brought reports of fighting between J
Mexican federal and rebel troops at I
Camargo on the Rio Grande, 600
miles above Matamors.
Reports said the fighting was!
heavy. J
GIRL RETURNS HOME,
ELUDING SEARCHERS
i COLUMBIA, S. C. Dec. 31.—Miss
' Virginia Boozer, 17 year old stu
'dent at the University of South Cur
olina; for whom a nation-wide
Isearch has been continued for two
I months returned to her home today,
j She had been working in a de
partment store in Jacksonville, she
. said, and 'eft home to see if she
i could make her own living.
MORE PROFITS GIVEN
IN EXTENDING TRADE
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Senator Howell from Nebraska
; is looked upon as a likely candi
date to the, post of chairman of
the Intarstat'e Commerce Com
mittee should the deadlock over
the election in the senate con
tinue:
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IN-BAD WRECK
New York - Cincinnati Limited
Derailed Near Zaiiski. Ohio—
Passengers Escape Unhuft
1 CINCINNATI, 0., Dec. 31.—Ac
cording to a report to local Balti
. morefand Ohio offices, the fast ex
• press train from New York to Cin
cinnati wa* derailed near Zaiiski,
0., today.
The passengers were shaken up,
but no one was seriously injured,
. reports received here stated.
Ifflm SUBJECTS
HEPEJREANN3HNCEO
Lectures Be Delivered By
Noted Speaker Under Rotary
Auspices Free to All
Dr. Chas. E. Barker, of Grand)
. Rapids, Mich., former health advis- j
er to Hon. William H. Taft, Frank
A. Vanderlip and other persons of
national prominence, have been se
cured by the Americus Rotary club
to deliver a Series of lectures here
on Tuesday, January
At 11 A. M. Dr. Barker will speak ;
to the High school pupils on “Low '
to Make the Most Out of ife.” At I
3 I'. M. he trill speak to ladies only
jat th efirst Baptist church ‘‘ A |
•Mother’s Responsibility to Her)
Daughter. At 7:30 he will deliver
an address to men only at the Ry
lander theater on ’A lathers Re
sponsibility to His Son.
These addresses will be open to
the public and there will positively
be no admission charge or collec
tion, Dr. Barker’s expenses being >
boi ne by the Rotary club. I he
evening meeting at the Rylander ,
theater will l>e preceded by a short
'concert by the Americus Symphony I
| orchestra.
Dr. BarliiT’s addresses are
) straightforward messages to moth-,
I ers and fathers and voting men and ;
1 young women. In the summer of,
1919 he electrified the convention
!of the International Association of
j Rotary clubs, and by reason of the
1 impression made upon the minds!
' and hearts of the delegates he has .
bebn since then in constant demand .
for engagements.
STEALS YELLOW CAB
ATLANTA, Dec. 31—After vaiv-)
ly attempting to start an automo
bile here the other night, a man un-l
known climbed into a yellow cab I
and drove off while the drive.' of ,
the cab was in a resturant eating!
supper. The man who stole the j
cab had just left the resturant and I
the theft was immediately discover-j
ed. The cab was soon recovered.
WEATHER .
For Georgia sain tonighf)
colder in west and north portion
Tuesday; rAin and probably snow
in north and central portion; cold
wave Tuesday; freezing temepra
turc to the coast Wednesday
imbrning. • z ‘
PRICE FIVE CENTS
®ETW EVERETT
'INNOUKCK PLAR EDIT
ENDING .BIG WIN
More Money to Be Distributed
Among Visitors From Trade
i- Territory Next Saturday
CAMPAIGN REAL SUCCESS
Cash Business and Collections
) Reported Good By Practically
All Participating Merchants
“The Merchant's ' Pay Up and
Trade which has been :n
progress her<* during savcral weeks
past, ends next Saturday, January
sth,” stated Henry P. Everett, sec
rettery of the Chamber of Com
merce, which is managing the cam
paign, this morning, ‘and plans are
now in making to fittingly celebrate
the occasion with the greatest trade
promotion effort ever staged in thu
recent mercantile history of Amer
icus.
“It is pecuJii.rly fitting that the
campaign which has been such a
tremendous success is to close just
as So many merchants are about to
begin their annual inventories,
which fact will lend material assis
tance in staging a really merchan
dising day in connecton with thsx.
ending of this last trade promotion'
.effort to be staged here during at
least sever;.! months to come.
‘Merchants who have participat
ed in this uast trade and pay-tip
campaign all reports not only good
cash sales during continuance or
the campaign but collections have
been uniformly good, according to
reports reaching my office. As a re
sult of this many merchants agsert
their outstanding accounts all? all in
excellent condition with in a mini
mum of bad debts, most of which
will either be charged off with the
beginning of the new year or placed
with attorneys for collection.
“It is desired, however, to bring
thi,s last campaign to a close in a
'blabe of glory’ so to speak for this
reason pratically all of the partici
pating mei\hants arc planning spe
cial sales for next Satdrday,. when
an unusually large number of Visi
tors are expected to be in Ameri
| cus. These sales will compare in
j every way with those staged here
land elsewhere during past ygars un
der the Golden Rule slogan, with ex
treme values offered and profits
disregarded in the effort to expand
and enlarge Ameficus’ trade terri
tory and business volume. This is
I to be in addition to the expenditure
land effort already made in connec
tion with the pay up and trade
| campaign, and means in effect that
j Americus merchants are preparing
to distribute large added sums
I among shoppers who come hdtfe next
.Saturday, either in connection with/
: the ending of the pay up and trade
campaign or to buy needed articles.”
concluded Mr. Everett.
COTTKNJGAIN HOLDS
FIRST EXPOPT.PLACE
I WASHINGTON. Dec. 31— Un
manufactured cotton again occupied
) first plaee in value of United States
! xports' at the end of the th : rd
quarter of 1923, heavy shipments be
ling made'in September to England,
• Germany, France, Italy and Japan,
according to a trade analysis just
I issued by the Chamber of Com
i meice of the United States.
: FIRE CRACKER KILLS CHILD
' VALDOSTA, Dec. 31—Follow
ing the swallowing of some of the
powder from a Christinas fire
| cracker, little Catherine Brown.
• aged five, of this city died within
’an hour. She had immediate medi
. cal .attention which was unable to
I save -her life, dying quickly even
j though she swallowed only a small
1 portion oJf the powder,