About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1924)
Americus Spot Cotton Strict middling 33 38 cents. Pc. Open Hi Low Close Jan. 34.34 33.90.34.30 33.90 34.30 Mar. 34.80 34.40 34.60 34.35 34.C0 May 34.35 34.60 34.88 34.57 34.88 July 33.98 33.65 33.77 33.60 33.77 Oct. 28.40 28.15 28.36 28.10 28.36 ORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 5 OBREGON TROOPS PREPARE TO POLICE MEXICAN OIL FIELDS 00000 000000000 0 0 00-0 000 SENATOR BORAH FLAYS HIGH TAX BURDEN 30000000000000 30000000 SENSATIONAL HOLD-UP STAGED IN RAILROAD STATION ENDS FATALLY COLD WAVE TO EXTEND)! FAR SOUTH AS FLORIDA Thousands of Poor in Heatless biomes Alieady Being Cared for By Charitable Organizations In Chicago Where It Is 15 Below Zero WASHINGTON, January ,5.— Government weather fore casters brought into pay some of the most supertax.v terms in their scientific lexicon today to describe what will happen in the country in the next 24 hours as a result of the cold blast that has come down on he Northwest. A severe cold wave was forecast for most of the East as far South as the Virginia and North Carolina line, while a cold wave with temperature below freezing was said to be in store for all of the Eastern forecast district except Southern Florida. THOUSANDS m'HINLY CLAD HUDDLE IN HEATLESS HOMES WASHINGTON, January 5. —Cold weather records of the past decade were broken in Chicago today and temperatures are ex- [ peeted to reach 15 degrees below zero before the promised end ’ of the cold wave tomorrow. Beginning at 10 o'clock last nifiht, which rcsigstered at zero, the mercurv dropped steadily throughout the night and morning. Measures to relieve intense suffering of thousands of thin! 5 I < elad poor living in heatless home* and thousands of jobless are , being’ taken by municipal authorities and welfare organizations. j HL m BUTI OFWmiS FOILED pms wfkoi Engagement at Hacienda, El Cer-1 ro Ends Disastrously for Hu erta Forces, Report Says FEDERAL MASSING TROOPS General Cordoba to Lead Col umn Against Rebels New Oc cupying Northern Oil Frieds BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Jan. s—j Reports received at Matamoras, across the liver, this morning, by courier, stated that an attempt by I rebel forces under Governor Lopez De la Vera, governor of the state, of Tamaulipas, to make attack on Tampico, has Lieen defeated. Fed-' oral troops engaged the rebels at, Hacienda el Cerro and completely i defeated them. The ieports stated that the re bels had be.en completely dispersed 1 and are fleeing northward toward the border* I 5000 FEDERALS ARE MISSED AT TAMPICA TAMPICO, Mexico, Janfl s.—[ Five thousasd government troop.-1 under the command of Genetai Es pinoza Cordoba,, arrived here today 1 from Monterey and other points t<>! march against the rebels in the oil regions. The column will leave tomorrow, ’ beginnisg immediate attack upon I the rebtls and initiating an advance toward Tuxpam, 90 milys south of I Tampico. SMBS IIEGPO IS GOILTY: GETS LIFE Caesar Eugee Convicted of Kill ing Mrs. Mudie and Children in Diabolical Manner SAVANNAH, January s.—The [ jury in th e case of Caesar Eugee: on trial for the diabolcal murder of Mrs. Agnes, .lie and her two c hll dren severe /Weeks ago, returned a verdict of guilty late Friday. 'I he verdict was accompanied with a rec ommendation to the mercy of the court, which makes the sen!once life imprisonment. The hearing was marked by’-in tense interest, the case involving i no of the most diobolical murders in the history of Savannah crntinal courts, and only circumstantial ox i dence connected Eugee with the crime. He stoutly denies any con nection with the killing Several women spectators who fainted during the hearing revived quickly on being takep into the fresh air. THE TlitO®fi!&RDEß ;sHEP IN, THE .HEARf OF. it « HOLD UP H NSW IMIS. TH. Blf First Entered Telephone Ex change and Cut All Wires Leading From Town ( 1 EMPLOYEES HELD AT BAY Ten Thousand Dollars in Cash Said to Have Been Secured By Bandits During Raid j HOUSTON, Jan. s.—The State, 'Bank & Trust Compan y of San' Marcos, Texas, was robbed this [morning at 4 o’clock by four uni dentified bandits after they had es itered the telephone exchange and <-ut all local connections and held j employes at bay with pistols. * I As unconfirmed report says tha | SIO,OOO was taken from the bank. i W TOM IS bvhidii I Tommy McCarthy, the young; son 'of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mc< aithy, ■ is in a serious condition at the home lof his parents, on Dodson stree , las a result of severe sustain ed when he overturned a pot of b< 1- ing- cotfee, receiving the con tents 'about his shoulders, head ana race. I The little lad was just recover ing from a broken shoulder sustain ed about two weeks ago m a t<u , and grave feags are entertained tor | for him-in his weakened condition. ROADS FIGHTING EFFORT TO LOWER GRAIN RATES ATLANTA, Jan. 5. —Soiitheast- iern railroads continued theii oppo . I sition here today to the pioposu I lower rates on grain at the heaua.-l I being conducted before Commi-- sioner J. B. Campbell, of the Intel - [state Commerce commission. Ravages of the boll weevil on t -e [south’s cotton crop and the subse quent necessity for diversified fain'-1 j ing were urged by the roads as .. I [basis of opposition to the grantins i iof lower rates on grain, giain pro ’.-- | ucts and hay from the west. 1 Belief that a reduction in grain lates from the west would be detri mental to the southern farm «r was j expressed at the afternoon session ; by B. L. Bugg, receiver for the At lanta, Birmingham and Atlanta rail way. His testimony followed simi lar testimony by former Governor Richard 1 Manning, of South Caro lina; Hugh Mcßae, farmer and for I mer public utility man of Wilming ton, N. and W. R. Cole, Nasr : ville, Tenn., president of the Nash ' ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis i railway. ' ERICHS. GEORGIA, SATURDAY’ AFTERNOON. JANUARY T 1924 CAN'T FIB BOTH TAXREDUraO.ND Idaho Man Says Effort Will De feat Any Party That Would Undertake It.’ “SEARCHING TRAGEDY”) “Men in Mortal Dread of Com ing Tax Collector With Ever Increasing Call” NEW YORK, ban. 5. (By As sociated Press.) -Declaring himself in favor of tax reduction and oppos ed to the soldier bonus, Senator Wil liam E. Borah of Idaho, in an ad dress today before National Repub lican Club of New York, said this issue could not be avoided or side stepped. “One is either for tax reduction or he is against it,” he said. ‘One has a right to be for the bonus or he. has a right to be for tax reduc tion. But he cannot be for both. “You cannot take off a tempo)- arv burden of 8140,000,00. or ; 1? 1*50,000,000 and lay on a perman ent burden of obligation of 8-1 > 000,000 to $5,000,000,000 and call it tax reduction. It would be a dangerous political experiment. It would defeat any party that [would undertake it. Senator Borah quoted figures in- , dieating the rate of increase of t taxes in the last eight or ton years, declaring they 'represented the most searching tragedy of American life.” In eastern Indus- < Dial centers the situation was seri- j ous enough he asserted, but in Ui< j agricultural regions of the West "they ar.- losing faith in the. gov- ' eminent” because of unbearacle taxes and the mad saturnalia of < spending, in which the speaker de- i clared the iovernment continued to indulge. . j ‘■Out in the great agricultural ! areas,” he said, “where, in the last analysis, must be found the source j' of natural wealth ana content inert. • the place from which we are fed— there is going on a patjent, dogged struggle for the preservation of homes :nd farms such as no man can appreciate who has not witness ed it. Men and women who have tamed the desert, suffered, and sac rificed, denied themselves, and un der the most adverse circAnstanees opened up farms, now with 50 years of struggle behind them, stand in mortal dread of the com-1 ing tax collector with his ever-in creasing) call. They have seen their tax burden mount three hundred arid five hundred per cent in the brief space of a few years, and. while reflecting over what has hap pened, they are even more anxious about what may happen. "What do such tax burdens mean? They mean imperilled and forfeit ed homes, they mean dissatisfied and discontented domestic life, they mean less education:.! advantages for the coming citizen, they mean separated and demoralized familie they mean energy thwarted and en terprise sterilized, and last of all. riiey mean thriftlessness and im- [ providence and moral breakdown of i a great and proud citizenship. | we the courage to do our I Senator Borah asked, I to understand; is not- alone a question of I the taxes. It is also this: I Can we throw off this national dis-; ease of extravagance and waste? I j Congress is the center of fire in! the tax cut controversy, the-speaker I said, but not Congress alone is di | vided on the issue. “It seems to me that the admin istration is not presenting a united front,” the Senator continued. “At ; a time when conomy is the crying i need and when the morale of the . forces fighting for economic relief - is of the utmost moment, the de . mand which are coming in for a greater at my and .'or heavy addi- - tional expenditures for military . purposes should net be presented. ’ Mrs. Hubert Blalock will return - to her home in Albany Sunday, as s a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Wel ter Cranberry, on Lee street. KANSAS CITY WONDERS AT NEW HOME ----- - - - - . . „ - - -in - --in i Z ~I ■ ' 1 1111 - - -——— ' w w KiWANIS |TO iHEAR DR. '-v sr i BARKER-LECTURE #ERE| Piesident Mathis Names Steve! Pace Song Leader and An- j neunces Standing Committee Accepting the invitation of Ro-j tary club members the Americus Ki-, wanis Friday pledged themselves to, assist Rotarians in promoting the three lectures to be delivered here[ Tuesday by Dr. Charles Barkei. ■ Rotarian Lovelace Eve appeared before the club and was assured that every member would be present and; also would invite every man and a<>| man with whom they came, in con-, tact. Dr. Barker speaks to boys and, girls in the High school at It): o’clock on Tuesday. At noon lie I speaks to women only in the First i Baptist churth. At tais lecture. girls 14 and older are invited. Tues-' day night at 7:30 the lecturer ad-1 dresses men and boys over 14 in the Rylander theater. Boys from 10 to 14, if accompanied by their fathers, are invited. Rev. John Cutler moved the 'ceptance by the Kiwanis of the :n --viaiion and stated thfit in his opin on, every one should take advan tage of the opportunity of hearing Dr. Barker. He complimented th > Rotary club in doing a thing which he said was so splendidly worthwhile and meant so much to the boys and girls and their parents. A tiny little miss, not much larg er than a doll and equally as heau- BOLDEST THIEF STEALS CLOTHES FROM SOLICITOR Dan Chappell Loses Suit and Overcoat to Nocturnal Visitor Dan Chappell, solicitor of the City Court of zXmericus, is loser to the ■ extent of a fine suit of clothes and ; an overcoat this morning, the ro ' suit of a visit paid the Chappell home on Brannen avenue last night i by some unidentified person. The , loss is a substantial one, Chappell • stated today, the suit stolen being . his “best” while the overcoat was [a comparatively new garment, hav 'ling been purchased only a tew I weeks ago for winter wear. ' BONUS TO LOSE UNLESS PASSED OVER NEW VETO - - Piesident Not to Permit Interfer-i ' ence With Administration Tax Plans by Congress —S WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. -D.-mo-j i I t Cratic leaders of the House are pre > paring to launch a fight against i a [ number of important provisicns of ' , the Mellon tax bill, among them a 'lproposal to reduct surtax rates to a 1 minimum of 25 per cent on mt ' incomes exceding SIOO,OOO. 'i WASHINGTON, Janna v 5. [ Any bonus bill passed by congr ■ s n i will be vetoed by Preside!,'. C ol k'r.e. I- This became known hero today in connection with an annou.xement, BIG FREEZE TONIGHT; CUT WATER OFF With the hardest freeze of the entire year predicted for tonight, Americus water department of ficials this afternoon issue a warning to all residents and i users of water to drain their pipes early. It is forecast that temperatures will be consider ably below- freezing all night and many pfipes probab will burst i unless properly drained and the water shut off entirely.. It is I also suggested that tanks inside bathrooms and similar recep tacles b c drained before they ' feeze eve, damaging the plumb ing. Bring in your flowers, if I you have any, and want to pre- ‘ ; vent their being frozen. ; , - ™—— ! tiful, delighted the hearts of Ki wanians: Friday with two readings, which she “put across” like a vet eran. The little lady was Ruth P, Eldridge, who was introduced by ' Kiwanian Mashburn. I Lewis Ellis and Rev. John Out- I ler each spoke for two minutes on the subject, “What Kiwanis ' Meant to Me the Past Year.” Joe Bryan, chairman of the entertain ' I ment committee for the day, read la number of resolutions which he .-aid were written by fellow Kiwan- ■ I ians. The clothing was taken from a t rack in the hallway, having been re cently pressed and left there by a servant. The suit and overcoat wer e ; taken some time during the early 'night hours, and they were missed this morning, when Solicitor Chap pell prepared to dress preparatory to attending court where the criminal calendar was set by Judge Harper today. Police authorities have been no'.i fied, but as yet have been us,able to find any trace of the missing, I clothes. « 1 i rr.at il administration will oppose [ ny attemp* by congres, to alter the essential provisions of th" ;ul- ; ministration’s tax bill. The house wax s and mean- t I, „_n . ir - »-i , —rr-- ■■ —-■■■'■»i ■—mitT-'wi— mittee is continuing consideration of the general tax act while repub lican leaders are using their full in fluence to prevent any pction on the soldiers' bonus measure until after something definite has been accom plished in the way of taz. revision. Terse comment on the situation the white house ’ate h i iday ,v.w ito the effect that any a‘,-.cmpt iy congress to compromise th* princi ples embodied it lhe ' )lan oatH'i 1 >v Secretary Mellon xvould m< et with the president'- .w iv.- apposi tion. I M I ’A i&f I t I l&SggW* < JO ! ||F > 1 i -ja v,: Skt Right: U. S. Epperson. Above: The haif-million-dollar home he f has just built, to the town’s mystification. , mwfw by m mum Cost $500,000 and Contains 40 Rooms Suitable for Institu tional Purposes KANSAS CITY Mo., Jan. s.—(By NEA Service.) —When U. S. Epper son, wealthy resident ot Kansas City decided to spend several of his de lining years building a magnificent home, he took into consideration th? fact that he and jus wife, well along in years, could not expect to occupy the home very long. So Epperson arranged that the home be so constructed that it could be used for institutional pur poses after the death of himself and his wife. The home recently completed at a cost of nearly half a million dol lars, contains 40 rooms that can be lied for hospital wards or for other purposes. At present, the aged cou ple, who are childless, occupy the mansion w-ith a few servants. What charitable or medical oran ization is to get the house on the death of Epperson is not known pub licly. In fact, it is not known that any will get it. But the fact re mains that the home is so built that it an be converted easily into a hos pital or orphanage. The fact also remains that Epperson frankly stat ed when he began work on the home that he and his wife did not expect to occupy it many years. So Kansas City continues to wonder. SUMTFR IHCHS HOLD Ml H Rural Schools Al] Represented in Office of County School Superintendent The rural school teachers of Sum ter county held their regular mon .h --,ly meeting in the office of County i School Superintendent Dupree at the courtho.r o this i.i -rning, vi'h ■: i good attendance of faculty m< m . be. -, representing every consoli dated school in the county. These meetings were made a part iof the compulsory duties of teachers ■ with the beginning of the present ■chool year, when the county school I board adopted resolutions requiring ’ these to be held at stated periods. [Under the administratio nos Super intendent Dupree thes e meetings ' rave proved of great benefit to the i teachers attending, many problems involving the advancement of the I schools, as well as routine matters, being discussed among the teachers, : with the interchange of ideas prov iing mutually beneficial. WEATHER For Georgia Fair tonight anti Sunday; colder tonight and in south portion Sunday, cold wave; strong norhtwest winds. PRICE FIVE CENTS MlTHfflLßfflf W 818 FOLLOWIIG mm bj fbit® Broker Succumbs to Wounds Sustained When Attacked by Thugs in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. ATTACKED IN STATION Dclge Shot Down in Crowded Section As He was About to Enter Railroad Train NEW YORK, Jan. s.—Edward H. Dolge, wealthy real estate brok er of Mount Vernon, N. Y., died in the Lincoln hospital today from pis tol shot wounds suffered last night when he aws attacked by two thugs on the sts.irway of Huntsboro sta tion of the New York, West Ches ter and Boston railroads, as he was about to enter a tram. He was 5a years old. FitP TO SERVE WE W B Formed Vice-President: of R. L. Bollings Company Draws Stiff Sentence in Ohio , COLUMBUS, Ohio., Jah. 5. Dwight Harrison, former vice, presi dent of the R. L. Bolling Com pany of Ohio, was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary and fined 55,000 by Judge Dunean is the county criminal court. He was found guilty by a jury sev eral weeks ago of making false statements concerning the holdings of the Phoenix Borland Cement Company of Ohio, which stock was being sold by the Bolling Company OCILIJS«IS' 10 FOR DEBTS Savannah Bank is Purchaser for Creditors of Short Line South Georgia Railroad TIFTON, Jan. s.—Confirmation of the sale of the Ocilla Southern railroad to the Chatham Bank & Trust Company of Savannah for bondholders for the sum of $201),- 000 was ordered by Judge Eve in the superior court today. The court order directs the road to cease operating February 1. CRIMINAL WEEK BEGINS MONDAY, JANUARY 14TH At a conference held this niorn in.g between Judge Wm. Mfl Harper and interested attorneys criminal cases to be heara at the spring term of the City Court of Ameri cus were assigned for hearing. The criminal calendar will be taken up Monday morning, January 14, with Solicitor Dan Cnappell representing the state and only a small docket to be disposed of. CARRUTHERS BUYS HOME AT BARTOW Umericus friends and acquain tances of T. L. Carruthers will be in terested in the announcement of his removal this week to Bartow, Fla., when he has purchased a handsame home and splendid orange grove which he will occupy and operate. Mr. Carruther was formerly a res dent with his family of Americus, having been connected with the Southern Printers for a number of years. After severance of that con nection, he removed to Hawkinsviie for a short time, going from there Jto Florida. j, I A number of shipments o£ I oranges have already been made: from his grove this fall, with the ’ prospect of many more during thi season, it is stated.
