About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1923)
Arpericut Spot Coy on Mots 34 cents. il WvC. I Open High llow Close jAfeh f. 34.95 34.85)35. 35.20 Mar ..35.36 35.28135.66 .‘lp-08135.60 May ..35.50;35.40 3fi.80155.23j35.80 July 34.60|34.55|34.8Ti314.28|34.73 ‘ Oct. FORTY-FIFTH YEAJR—NO. 285 FEDERAL PRISON ESCAPES ARE STILL ELUDING OFFICERS 0 O O 0.0 OO O O O O 0.0 3.0 o o o o oo INTENSE cold wave speeds southward O O * O O O O O O O O O O O o O O 0 0 o o MERj JANTS TO END BIG CAMPAIGN IN ‘BLAZE OF GLORY' 34 DfflffS DELOpT lELLffIME PARK: MMWip 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. ' . ' '— THE TIMES” f?ECORDEf? {feypußLi s hedTn Yhe~ hear t .or bTxi£”(fev? Many Congressmen Are Planning For New Year W ' ''Jw'' ■" 1 ** • / I -y- ■ l||fe |3® , .._WW "W 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 I 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. • - 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 IT CJ M BARER BERBER 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 I. a d Head ' I 5 • ' w •fl ‘ 438 k HHBI 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: BT & O. FLYER 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,
