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FOFRTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 4.
ALLEGED MUDIE MURDERER IS ON TRIAL AT SAVANNAH
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SMOULDERING RUINS COVER CORPSES
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WESTERN HIGHWAYMEN ROBS COUPLE, THEN KILLS MAN
LEGION POST STARTS
DRIVE FOR MEMBERS
Commander Lane Says Ameri
cus Legionnaires Need Clos
er Association
R. C. Lane, commander of John
D. Mathis Post, No. 2, American
Legion, today announced the begin
ning of a drive for new members to
continue during several weeks. Dis
cussing this drive Commander Lane
said this morning:
“Five years ago every member of
the American Legion was a mem
ber, and a part of the greatest or
ganization in the World, the United
States Army. Today those who were
memlbers of this great host jjf sol
diers, who functioned each in his
own place at the proper time, dur
ing the Great War, are eligible for
membership in the greatest Army of
Peace and Rightousness of its
kind in the World, The American
Legion, at this time, each member
of the Legion ought to find/his place
in it.
“Men of Americus and Sumter
county, John 1). Mathis Post No. 2,
American Legion calls you at this
time. Your post needs you, it don’t
need your dues, as bad as it needs
you, and your individual co-opera
tion. The American Legion is a
permanent organization, it is here to
stay, and to live by the high and
holy ideals and principals that it
fosters. Fifty years from today
soldier's ofl the world war will clam
or for the privileges afforded them
by membership in an American Le
gion post; it will be a distinct hon
or, and a most unique pleasure to
bear evidence of the service you
BRITAIN ASKS RELEASE
OF RUM RUNNING CREW
British and Canadian Members
of Crew Tomaka Subject of
Diplomatic Exchanges
LONDON, Jan. 4.—Great Brit'
ain has asked the United States for
EXCAVATORS IN VALLEY
OF KINGS REACH COFFIN
Sarcophagus of Tutankhamen
Found to Be Constructed of
Red and White Granite
LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 4.—The
sarcophagus of Pharoah Tutankha
men has been found in that mon-
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A. If.’ S. GIRLS' QUINT
, PLAY ALBANY TONIGHT
Pretty Young Athletes to Go
I here for Cage Game With
Albany High Girls
A party of pretty* Americus
girl students at Americus High
school, will go'this afternoon to
Albany for a basket ball game with
the Albany High school cake quintet
* tonight, and the game is expected
to be most interesting. Intense
rivalry exists between Americus and!
AMERICUS RECTOR TO BE
. MOULTRIE CHURCH VICAR
Kev. James B. Lawrence Ex
changes Blakely Mission for
Work in Colquitt County
« ——... ■ - ■—
Announcement was authorized
here today of the resignation of
Kev. James B. Lawrence as vicar
of Blakely Episcopal church, amt
his acceptance of the work as viJar
at St. j'bhA’s church in Moultrie.
The change in mission work will not J
affect his connection with Calvary]
Episcopal church, of which he has;
been rector during a number ,of i
years past, and he will continue to i
make his residence in Americus.
In connection with announcement ]
■if Mr. Lawrence’s resignation at [
Blakely, it is stated he will be su > i
ceeded as vicar there by the Rev. I
THE T®BHRfcORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE
(rendered your country in the years
[gone by. Lin'e up with the Legion
at this time, and help its forward
movement. The Georgia Deipart
ment has held the McNider Member
ship Cup for the last two years, and
must work to retain it for 1924.
“Our post needs active member
ship, and a better association, and
understanding between members,
and our position as legion mem
lbers. A drive for members for- the
i year 1924 will be launched, and of
ficially begin, at the regular meet
iing to 'be held in the Courthouse at
(seven thirty o’clock Monday night.
(Very important discussion with ref
;erence to the Compensation Bill
now before Congress will be indulg
ed in, and your position as an ex
soldier demands that you know
I something concerning the greatest
(problem before our country's wel
lfare today. Membership in what is
(known as the “play-ground” of the
i legion. ‘The forty-and eight,” will al
iso be discussed at this meeting,
i Several other matters of local in
terest to our Post as a Permanent
Home and certain propositions to
be sponsored by our post will come
to the attention of those present.
“As commander of John I).
Mathis Pest. I wish to earnestly sol
iie it, and plead for the co-operation
(of every ex-service man, whether he
(is a man of affairs or a man among
men; a resident of the city or of
(Sumter county; and to extend to
each of you through the kindness
(of the Times-Recorder a cordial and
.urgent invitation to foe present Mon
'day night at our regular meeting.”
the release from bail of British
and Canadian members of the crew
of the British schooner Tomaka, al
leged rum runner, seized last No
vember beyond the three mile limit
off New York.
arch’s tomb in the valley of kings,
it was announced today.
In the fourth casket lay vast quan
tities of long sought treasures of
antiquity. The sarcophagus is
formed of red and white granite.
| Albany in ail athletic sports, and
'this spirit iras been carried into the
ranks of the girl's five, of which
Miss Harriet ‘Rylander is business
inan;ig»r, with Miss Dorothy Ca.- ■,
coach. Other officers of the quintet
are: .Miss Cloe Davenport, captaii l ;
(Miss Elizabeth Joiner, secretary :i;rd
(treasurer, and under the direction
lof these officers the team has
already scheduled a number of
(games, with others now being nego
! tiated.
| H. Scott-Smith, vicar of Bainbridge
' Episcopal chur ch, and who has al
ready entered upon his duties there.
Mr. Lawrence will conduct his first
service at St. John’s church at an
early date, his engagements there
requiring his presence in Moultrie
once during each month for Holding
services.
Mr. Lawrence, since his comic •
I tion with the work in Blakely has
(been instrumental in the erection ot
(a handsome mission church there,
(this 'being already completed and
paid for and in recognition of hi.
services his congregation there I r ■-
sented Mr. Lawrence on the eve
of his departure with a handsome
traveling bug, which he greatly
prizes.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 4. 1924
MN RESENTS fflllK
TH FIUNCE JND IS SHUT
mis 81CIL BSNDIT
Williams Jackson, 2S, Dies
Denefnding Miss Ethel Todd
On Pasadena Street
i
COUPLE HELD UP; ROBBED
Man Not Satisfied With ,
Haul, Makes Ugly Advances (
to Pretty Young Woman
PASADENA, Cal., Jan. 4.--
(William Jacobson, 28, was shot and
| killed by a bandit early today,
(when he tried to protect his fiance,
'Miss Ethel Todd. 18 and pretty from
the man's advances after the latter
had held them up and' robbed them.
MHTW FREE
ItfTER 88ESTISNM
CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 4. —Louis E.
Griffith, Jr., Canton manufacturer,
( was released from custody this
’ morning after (being questioned
practically all night regarding the
death <rf Miss Ruth Hunter, age I
18 years, whose body was fgjjnd
1 yesterday on a road little d near
■ here.
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Ftmi) 8f JBBHB
CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Senator Hir
am Johnson, of California, launch
ed his campaign for the Republican
presidential nomination here last
nU'ht in an address bitterly criticiz
ing the party leaders. In this ad
dress Senator Johnson attacked the
Coolidge administration’s foreign
policy, and cautioned the people to
look carefully into the proposed Mel
lon taxation bill which has the un
qui.ified support of the president.
“A foreign policy,” said the seu
(ator, “that says the league of na
tions is a closed incident and then
(attempts to take us into a part ot
i that league constitutes a record
of foreign policy which needs the
I obscuring screen of a tax redue-
I tion scheme.”
The senator then went into -he
i taxation problem. There can be
Ino political issue on reduction of
(taxes,” he said. “Everybody would
reduce the expenditures of govern
ment to the least possible sum and
collect from the people only that
'sum. No one believes in high taxa
tion."
' He then said that there was a
■ surplus of 8350,000,000 on hand
(and that we should reduce just as
much as possible.
“We have never in this country
had anything like the propaganda
we now have in behalf of the so
(called Mellon plan," said the sena
tor. It was propaganda most care
( fully prepared and stimulated. Un
der the Mellon plan the man who
( pay $250,000 will save $49,000 a
| year he who pays on $300,000 will
I save $63,000; those who have in
(comes of $500,000 will save $117,-
000; the fortunate one who has an
i income of a million will save $252,-
000, and the few who pay on 85,-
000,000 will save $1,330,000.
"Who is it that is indulging in
this propaganda? Do you imagine
(it is the man who by a reduction
will save $lO or S3O or SSO or
i slo'o or do you think it the individ-
■ ual who will save in the thousands?
, T would not have you misunder
' stand me at all. I would reduce
the taxes of the people whenever it
is possible to do so, and keep faith
at the same itme. I would be
( scrupulously just to men of large
I incomes and of big business, but I
(recognize that men of great riches
and big 'business have a happy fac
ulty looking out for themselves.
Those of small incomes and small
( business must rely upon their; rep
iresentatives.” i
KELS GOES TO DEATH
FOR MURDER SMILING
FOLSOM,, Calif., January 4.
Alex A. Kels, confessed slayer
of an aged wandering worker
near Lodi, California, Septem
ber 12, last, was hanged al the
state prison here this, morning.
He went to his death smiling
on the assumption that he was
dead himself.
MANY BODIES REMAIN
UNDER EMBERS OF
BIG WH WORKS
Believed at Least Twenty-nine
Corpses Are Still Burned in
Smouldering Ruins
SEVENTY-TWO TRAPPED
Many Employes of Starch House
Were Absent When Fata!
Blast Occurred
PEKIN. 111.. Jan. 4. —The bodies
of 29 workmen still believed bur
ied in the wreckage of the Corn
Products Plant may never be iden
tified even if they are recovered,
according to prevailing opinion
here.
Only two bodies had been re
moved at noon today.
Although ordinarily 250 men were
employed in the starch housses, ac
cording to Frank Veldo, manager,
only 72 men were in the starch pow.
der house, where the explosion , oc
curred, according to the best infor
mation he had.
BOH MILS ill
COHTRCL t Flf LOS
GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 4.—A1l
of the Mexican oil fields are now
in possession of the rebels, accord- :
ing to official dispatch received to
day by Adolfo Jiminez, from de la'
Huerta headquarters at Vera Cruz.
MINERS AND MINE
OWNERS TO MEET
CLEVELAND, Ohio., Jan. 4.—Bi
tuminous miners and operators of
■Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Western
Pennsylvania, will be called to meet
at Jacksonville, Fla., February 11
for the purpose of negotiating a new
wage agreement to become effective
April 1, it was decided at a meeting
of operators and miners today.
CONGRESS ADJOURNS
OVER WEEK-END PERIOD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4,-r-Con-'
gress returned Thursday from its
holiday recess, listened . overal hours
of pentup oratory, transacted a few
routine details, and then adjourii
jed until Monday. Next week, with
commitees at work, both the Sen
[ate and House are scheduled to get
finally into a stride which will carry
them up to adjournment, planned
for before the national political
convention next Summer.
| Work on the administrative fea
tures of the Mellon tax reduction
bill was resumed by the House ways
and means committee, which hopes
bring forth legislation in ten days
ipr two weeks. The first appropria
: tion bill of the session, that for
, the interior Department, is to be
presented to the House next Tues
[ day and be followed by the Army
and Navy budgets.
: The Senate made another inef
fectual effort to elect a chairman
of the Interstate Commerce Com
mittee.
BOBCAT KILLED
ATLANTA, January 4.—W. T.
Flowers, og Oakland City, has put
on exhibit in Atlanta a bobcat that
he claims he killed while hunting
rabbits in Lakewood Heights, a sub
urb of this city. The bobcat meas
ures three feet in length and
weighs 35 pounds.
At Last She 9 s Found'One 9 Man
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Mae Burns, famous mannequin
and toast of artists the country
over, has dropped the last phrase
from her title “the girl with
ten million admirers and not one
sweetheart.” According to her
mother who lives in Oak Park,
111., Mae has found the “one”
and is soon to be married in
New York. Ray for Mae!
•TEXAS PBffl HEAD
Qrawm
BE MOB
——
New Law Placing Duty of Exe- 1
cuting All Criminals on One
Man Prompts Action
EVADES RESPONSIBILITY
Job Made Distasteful By Grue
some Dut. Attached to Plac- j
ing of Electric Chair
I HUNTSVILLE, Texas. Jan. 4. — '
'Captain W. F. Coleman, warden of
the state prison here, has offered
his resignation in preference to re
maining at his- post where it will be
1 necessary under the new state law
for him to become state execution
ler. The position, Warden Coleman
]says is too distasteful with the
[placing of the electric chair for the
!execution of all condemned crimin-
Jals at the state penitentiary.
EXPECT HUGE CROWD
TO BE HERE SATURDAY
■| • Expect a huge crowd of visitors
■jin Americus Saturday to attend thy
I closing the Merchants’ pay-up and
Trade Campaign,” said Henry I’.
, Everett, Chamber of Commerce sec
retary, today. ‘ This campaign ha
been a great success and when the
'wind-up' comes Saturday afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock the crowd attend
' ing will be the greatest in the mer
chandising history of this commun
ity. 1 want every person who paid
a single dollar into this campaign to
i be here for the closing event, and 1
[believe now that only a few of the .
[will fail to attend,’’ conc’uded Mr.
| Everett.
EX - IE R
VENIZELOS IN
ATHENS AGAIN
ATHENS, Jan. 4.—Former Pre
mier Venizelos arrived in Athens
early today.
ULRICH DIED TODAY:
FIFTH WRECK WHIN
Charleston Conductor Crushed
1 in Southern Smash-up, Expires
At Orangeburg
ORGANBURG, S. C., Jan. 4.
Conductor J. C. Ulrich, of Charles
ton, died this morning in a local ho 4-(
( pital, making the fifth fatality inj
the Southern railway wreck near <
I here yesterday. , (
eliHfHo
! W TO ELECT
Friends of Alabama Senator
Elated Over Reports Receiv
ed At Washington
WASHINGTON, Jan. I. —Friends
of Senator Oscar Underwood who
have undertaken the work of sound
ing out sentiment in behalf of his
! Presidential candidacy are (elated
; over recent reports, from, mane
■ quarters and sources, showing an
i unm: taL.ble increase of strength j
for Underwood in the important,
;northern and eastern States. From I
■ the West also have come gratifying']
I reports.
J These favorable indications, the]
i feeling which has found expression]
■'among some of the political experts'
- to the effect that Underwood would
I be 'the hardest to nominate and the
i easieth to elect” of all the Demo
> cratic candidates has given way to
I the conviction that the Alabama
• ,d:i' :van now occupies a command
■. ing position with respect to the num
lination as well as the election.
WEATHER 1 1
For Georgia—Fair [R.
Saturday; colder tonight and on Lhtj Fj
coast Saturday. j
PRICE FIVE CEN7
NO VERDICT IN
OF C!!!1R [IK ON
TPIII ff WMB
Negro Is accused of Murder of
Mrs. Matjdie and Woman’s
Young Daughter
SIX WOMEN FAINT IN ROOM
Several Spectators Collapse
During Hearing, But All Re
vive in Fresh Air
SAVANNAH, Jan. 4.—Several
women fainted last night in the
crowded court room at the trial of
Caesar Eugee, negro, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Agnes Mudie
and her little girl several weeks
ago.
At one time six were laid out un
conscious in a room across
from the court room. All revived
when they reached the fresh air,
however.
The jury began deliberations on
the negro’s case this morning and
h.ud not reached a verdict
SBEffIELOWCES
BOVS ■ BUMF 8
President of Rotary Club Empha
sizes Invitation to Lads 10 a
Years and 4. |
Boys over 14 yems of age afi
expected :nd their presence desiftft
at the lecture Tuesday nTfeht, m
the Rvlander theaXpr wncn ui.
( harles Barker speaks to men and
bovs only. Not only are the boys
over 14 expected, but it m desir
ed that boys between the ages ot
10 vear- and 14 years be present,
provide d they are accompanied by
their fathers. .
John Sheffield, president of the
Rotary club, made the above an
nouncement this morning and de
sires that it be emphasised.
■We are bringing Dr. Barker
here to deliver three adresses each
|bf vrhich means much to parent and
child,” said Mr. Sheffield. At the
meeting in the First Baptist church
Tuesdaj afternoon, girls over 14
should be present if accompaniir.g
their mothers. At the night meet
ing boy over 14 will be welcom
ed. Not only will boys ami young
men enjoy and profit by this lee- .
Lure, but ; ounger boys—those from jr
io to 11 should accompany their'
fathers.
"A number of local Rotarians
have beard ail three of the lectures
' that Dr. B.ti-ker will deliver. We
I have brought this famous lecturer
Gier" as a contribution to the better
' ment of our town and, community.-”
Th. re will be a Rotariaft in each
(■■l the Chviehes in Americus Sun
(day to extend a personal invitatio.n
i it> men and women to attend the
'Barker lectures.
Carr Glover at file First Meth
'odist church.
Lee St rec. Methodist, John Shes
! field.
i ( hristian church, J. E. Hightow-
I I ''
First Baptist, S. F. Howell .
1 respytci iait church, A. C.
;((rockett. ''
, G'ini; : Baptist, W. W. Dykes.
Flan!. Harrold at the Episcojial
church.
8188 MILLS DECLARE
$2.00 SHARE DIVIDENr
M.M OX. Jan. 4.—Payments o
;$2 a rai dividend on both com
I mon ami preferred stock was au* ■
ithorized at the quarterly meeting
lof the board of directors of the
I Bibb Manufacturing company hertfS
today. It i* to be payable April I.J
, Those attending the meeting were
>E. T. Comer. Millhaven, chairman
lot the board; W. C. Bradley, Colum
’bus; R. C. Jordan, Columbus; Judge ’'"'l
,S. B. AdanV, Savannah; H. Weber S
Savammr; Dr. M'ax Jackson, Ma | 1
. con; It. J. Taylor, Macon; B. »
O’Neal Ma.on; W. D. Andersotj ,'i.
|Macon and James H. Porter, Maco
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