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What’s Going
On In The
World
By CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer
Progressive bloc members landefl
a real wallop ■on the Republicans
wltpn they joined the Democrats in
electing one of the latter, Smith of
South Carolina,
chairman of the
SenatS Interstate
Commerce commit
tee.
This committee
is very important
because it shapes
1 railroad legislation
I It’s the committee
I amm’ins of low.-, a
I Republican, want-
I ?.d to keep the
I chairmanship of,
n
JI
STEWART as well as the
presidency of the senate.
Right, after Spiith’s election, Sen
ator LaFollette of the progressive
bloc introduced a bill to lower rail
road rates. It may not pass, how
ever. Perhaps the Democrats won’t
go with the progressive bloc that
far.
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THE COUNTRY’S
TAXES
Republicans in the House of
Representatives held a caucus and
decided to sidetrack everything in
favor of the tax reduction. The
Ways and Means committee was or
dered to get a bill ready on the sub
ject, for the house to act on.
One of the things tax» reduction
gets the right of way over is the
soldiers’ bonus. After the former
subject’s been disposed of, the cau
cus told the Ways and Means Coni*
mittee to take up the matter of ‘ad
justed compensation,” but there w;.s
no instruction to the committee to
bring in a bill about it. •
All this doesn’t ncessarily mean
that Secretary Mellon’s tax reduc
tion plan will go through unchang
ed. Probably it will be modified.
Nor does it mean that the soldiers’
bonus is lost. That remains to be ,
seen.
BOK PEACE
PLAN
Judging from press comment, the
winning idea submitted in answer
to Edward Bok’s offer of a prize
for a scheme of American co-opera
tion in the effort to keep peace has
fallen father flat.
The awar- 4 jury, headed by Elihu
Root, found in favor of what’s call
ed Plan 1469. The author’s name's
a secret yet. For winning, he gers
$50,000. Now there’s to be a popu
lar vote. If he wins that, too, he
gets another $50,000.
The proposition’s for America -to
en?er the international justice Ootirt
■President Harming indorsed not‘to
. the League of, Nations but to
co-operate with it upon certain con
ditio ; for the league to be opened
to all nations, and for continued
development of international law. I
'•= * *
NOT
VERY NEW •
Friends of the league appear to
find no fault'with the plan further
than that they don’t see much new
in it!. As Senator Caraway, a pro
leaguer, expressed it: “I’m for the
league anyway.” It’s for ’l469’s
similarity to the original idea that
anti-leaguers don’t like it. Senator
Moses of the "isolationists” pus it
thus: “The mountain labored and
bre it forth the same mouse we
trapped in 1920.
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REFORMERS
ARE BUSY
Several strenuous reform cru
sades are on. In’New York crooks
are so numerous that new “dead-1
lines” have been fixed to keep them I
outside the district where the plun
der’s richest. General Butler of the I
United States marine corps, bor
rowed by Philadelphia to be police
chief for a year, is fighting what
he calls ‘invisible vice.” Cleveland’s
municipal government has stamped
out the slot machines which, :t‘s
charged, encourage • gambling in
peppermint lozenges. Because 17
residents met violent deaths in one
day, Brooklyn’s started a clean
up campaign. A throng of dry
agents have descended on Chicago
and the bottleggers have hired an I
army of detectives to see that they
find no .liquor.
SUMTER BAPTISTS TO
BE WELL REPRESENTED
Americus and Sumter county
Baptists are represented this week
■in Atlanta at the organized Class
conference of the Georgia Baptist
Sunday schools, which is in session I
this week, by Mr. and Mrs. T. F.
Gatewood, ’Sr., Mrs. James W.
Lott, of Americus, and Floyd Hines,
of Leslie.
Mr. Gatewood goes as a represen
tative of the superintendents of the
First Baptist church of Americus;
Mrs. Lott goes as officer from the
Philathea class, while Mr. Hints,
represents the Baptist Sunday
schools of Leslie.
The delegates will return to
Americus late Saturday, and prob
ably will give an outline of the work
of the convention at their respective
Sunday schools Sunday, or Infor in
the tveek.
THE TIMESBRECORDER
I?7"THE~~ HEART OF
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 14.
COUNTY CANDIDATES ARE ACTIVE
NEWARK BASEBALL TEAM MAY TRAIN IN AMERICUS
EWRETT’S fflBT E
FEN BEFORE BOARD
OF DIRECTORS MET
Document Shows All Activities
Undertaken by Americus
Trade Organization
PRAISES HELP GIVEN
Officers and Members All Re
sponded With Activity to Ev
ery Call Made, He Says
The annual report of Henry I’.
Everett, secretary of the Americus
and Sumter County Chamber of
Commerce, which was read before
the meeting of the directors of that
institution here Tuesday, is one of
the most interesting documents
compiled here in many years, it con
tains a fujl resume of .every activi
ty undertaken by the organization
and gives full credit to those who
assisted the officers and directors
of the chamber on their efforts to
advance the community interests.
The report in full is as follows:
Introduction.
Tie fiscal year of the Chamber
Commerce of Americus and Sum
ter'County ends
[and -for the benefit of its members
and for the last meeting of the
Board of Directors, the Secretary
is submitting a brief report of
some of the activities' du' : ng the
year.
While some of the work will only
be referred to in a few words, yet
this work took many days or weeks
to accomplish the results obtained..
In passing we want to express
our appreciation for the interest
shown by officers, directors, and
many members of the Chamber, and
extend to them full appreciation
for their co-operation. •
Meeting—During the yedr many
meetings were held in the Chamber
(Continued on Page Two.)
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PREHHM6 HEWWFER
Supplemental Proposal to Be
Made Public Within Next 4
or 5 Days, It is Said
WASHINGTON, Jan.
ern power companies who recently
submitted an offer to develop tre
power projects at Muscle Shoals,
Alabama, are preparing a new
proposal by which they will agree
to undertake the manufacture of ni
trates and fertilizers.
The suplemental proposal, it was!
learped today, will be submitted
within the next four or five days.
S.S. CBM RET
THURSDAY IT LEE ST.
I
Methodist Workers from Over
South Georgia" Conference
Hear Miss Kennedy
The Sunday school (Conference of [
the South Georgia conference will I
assemble‘next Thursday afternoon:
in Lee Street Methodist church ■
here, with the members of that cor:-,
gregatioii and other Americus Meth- 1
odists as hosts of the occasion. The ‘
session will be called to order at |
3:30 Thursday afternoon, and fifty !
or more delegates and visitors are j
expected to attend.
Miss Minnie Kennedy, elementary
superintendent for the . Southern i
Methodist church, will be here from I
Nashville to attend the conference, i
and she will be among the distin
guished speakers on the program, it
was announced this morning by
Rev. John M. Outlet, pastor of
‘First Methodist church, who is con
ference Sunday school superintend
ent. The public is cordially invite !
to hear Miss Kennedy at 7:30 to
morrow night. A number of others
besides Miss Kennedy will also de
liver adresses before the delegates.
Final arrangements were complet
ed this morning to provide homes
and entertainment for all delegates
expected, and these will be guests
of Americus Methodists during the
sessions of the conference.
FLYING BULLETS AND BURSTING SHELLS
TEEL STORY OF BATTLE ON RUM ROW
fflOL VESSEL FIRES
MANY SHOTS BEFORE
FLEET MOTOR STOPS
Gunners on Seneca Send 4-Inch
i Shells Over Bow Illiqt Crqft
and Compel Surrender
10 SHIPS IN RUM FLEET
■ Drab Official Reports Convey
j Little of the Excitement of
Chasing Rum Smugglers
X
By 808 DORMAN.
NEA Service Staff Writer
(Copynight, 1924, NEA Service.)
ON BOARD U. S. S. SENECA,
10 MILES SOUTH OF LONG
BEACH, N. Y., January 16.—" B
egin Fire!”
The calm, even voice of Captain
P. F. Roach rose above the crackle
of rifle fire, tl was the command j
that opening of anoth-j
er thrilling chapter in the Battle of ;
Rum Row, a battle in‘which Cap-I
tain Rogeh of the coast guard has I
been the nemesis of rum runners.
“Wham-” -
The loud roar of the 4-inch can- [
non jarred the bridge upon which I
I stood beside the cAptain.
“Cease Fire!”
The same calm, even voice rang,
out at my side.
Even as he spoke he watched the
flight of the huge projectile.
A wall of water hid the fleeing
motor Ijoat. Close upon the sight
of that towering veil of water hurl- :
ed into the air by the eclosion of
the shell, canfe its dull reverbera-l
tion.
Th c boat went on.
“Resume Firing!”
The measured voice of Captain
Roach again sounded. The crack
of rifles still split the air with whip
like reports.
“Wham!”
Again the big gun spoke. ,
Fair in the path of the speeding
motor boat ros e a geyser of water.
Again the dull reverberation.
“Cease Fife!”
The alert g'un crew,, rapidly
loading for another shot, stood at
ready.
A Strange quiet seemed to de
scend. Only the sound of the
Seneca’s engines turning over with
forced draft, broke the stillness.
The rifles had ceased their rack
et. The fleeing boat hnd got be
yond their range.
The sturdy figure of the short, j
stocky commander watched through I
his field glasses the course of events '
on the motor boat.
She dodged and ducked. She i
sped from side to side. She was i
keeping such vessels of the rum ,
fleet as she encountered between [
her and her grim jiursuer. She'
took the course that (ed into the
path of thc setting sun in order
(Continued On I-age Three)
PUSSYFOOT SPIRANT'
LEADS II LJNISffII
Bouanclraud, Who Openly:
Denounced Klan, Second in
Race With 37,172, Votes
] NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 16.—With!
(nearly one half of the precincts ini
[the state counted, Henry L. Fuqua
i continued to lead for governor'
with 48,703 votes. f ‘ I
Bouanchaud had 37,172, and;
Long 27,447.
WILSON RECEIVES
NATIONAL COMMIITTEE
I WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Mem-
I
hers of the- Democratic National
Committee were received informal
ly at the home of Former President
Wilson today.
Their visit to his home followed
adoption of a resolution extending
the committee’s grteting to the par
ty’s former leader.
AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 16, 1924
■nimiit ■ii[inniinr"-. t W-
9Kk IHMI
Picture story of the pursuit at
sea. Upper left— Lieut. L. W.
Perkins of the Seneca, coast
guard cutter, firing on men in
fleeing motor boat along Rum
Row. Center—the K-13091
alongside the Seneca at the end
of the, chase. Not e the armed
crew of the revenue craft guard
over the captured boat. Upper
right—the fourftnch cannon of
the Seneca which showered two
men in the K-13C91 with shrap
nel.
WEATHER
Jor Georgia —Rains this aft
ernoon; fair and colder tonight;
Thursday fair and mjich colder;
strong south shifting to wgst
winds.
RIMERS TO
MME 25 ILLIOH
PESOS TOJEDERALS
Three Big Financial Institutions
t oParticipate in Loan to Mex
ico City Authorities
NEGOTIATIONS NOW ON
Private Funds of Rebel Leader
Handed His Wife Who is Now
En Route to States
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 16. Re
ports are current here that represen
tatives of three banking establish
ments. of the United States are on
their' way to Mexico City to negoti-.
tate a loan of 25 million pesos to
the Obregon government.
Private funds of the rebel leader,
De La Huerta, which was held by
the monetary commission, have been
given to Mrs. D La Huerta, who is en
route to the United States under
guarantee of protection given by
President. Obregon. ,
mm mib
MT SEW. FALL
Former Cabinet Officer Accused
By Senator of Having Milead
Senate Committee
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Form
er Secretary Albert .B. Fall
was chargefl today by Senator
Walsh, democrat, Montana, with
having misled the Senate and pub
lic lands committee when it was in
quiring during the teapot dome in
vestigation into the source from
which he obtained funds for the en
largement and restocking of his
New Mexico ranch.
TO BOOST GAS PRICE
ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 16.—Gasc
line will advance two cents a gallon
in the Southeast tomorrow, it was
janounced here today by the Stand
[ ard Oil Company of Kentucky.
Other companies have indicated
■ they will follow in the advance.
BANK DECLARES DIVIDEND
PEMBROKE, Ga.. Jan. 16,|- The
National Bank of Pembroke has
just declared a dividend of 100 per
cent payable in Liberty Bonds. The
bank has a capital of $25,000 and
a surplus of $15,000,
POLITICS BEGIN BOILING
WITH COMMITTEE CALL
Politics in Sumter county began
boiling in earnest Tuesday after
noon, with announcement /that
Chairman Davenport has issued a
call for the county Democratic
committee to meet next Monday in
the office of Oapt. John A. Cobb,
as the courthouse.
Candidates are already actively ■
at work among their friends al
though <no formal announcements
have been printed. Dr| E. T. Math- j
is, who will contest with Capt. Cobb [
for the office of ordinary is active
ly canvassing among the voters, and I
in cqnnectioif with race the name of |
P. B. Wilfifdrd is also being-fre-i
quently mentioned. Mr. Williford,'
however, has not yet actively en
tered the lists, being engaged in a
study of the law and nis qualifica
tions before responding to tftc sug-
DOWNS ELECTED TO
SUCCEED WINBURN
SAVANNAH, January 16—L.
A. Downs, vice-president, was
elected president of th e Central
of Georgia Railway at a special
meeting of the board of directors
today. He succeeds W. A. Win
burn, deceased.
H. D. Pollard, general super
intendent, was ijamed general
manager and the superintend
ency was abolished.
C. T. Airey, vice-president*
and freight traffic manager;
was appointed to the board of di
rectors.
HWI GIFT IDE
ffi DY JUDGE CRISP
The Crisp Library as these books,
will be called, has already been re-
Iceived by the library at that school'
< All of the volumes are full leather
| bound, and are so indexed as to
make their use as an encyclopedia
of Confederate history exceeding
I practicable.
I Judge Charles R. Crisp has just |
presented the library of the. Third
District Agricultural and Mechani
cal school here with 128 volumes of
confederate history, the gift being
bj' far the most handsome yet re
ceived aryl plaited on the shelves of
the school library, where the vol
umes are available for use by boys
and girls attending that institution.
They contain, in addition to a com
plete and impartial history of the
(Confederacy as compiled by South
ern historians, with great attention
given to accuracy of facts and de-
1 tail in the narration of these, a
• full accoiupt of all court martinis
held by both Union and Confederate
armies and rank of those acquitted.
Recently a number of other hand
[ some gifts have been made the
i Aggie schol here, these including a
| completely equipped Fordson tra—
| tor, presented the school farm by
|tfae Ford Motor company. This gift
! was secured through the efforts of
EEvan Mathis, manager of the farm
machinery and tractor department
of the Americus Automobile cojn
pany and is among the most sub Stan
tial yet received by the farm
gestions of friends that he become a
candidate. Capt. Cobb, it is Mated
authoritatively, will be a candidate
to succeed himself, and his friends
are getting busy in his behalf.
Jack Britton is busy consulting
friends regarding his entry into the
race against George D. Jones lor
I tax receiver and Mr. Jones, it is
I known, is also busy completing
i preliminary plans in his race for the
I office. In the tax collector's race,
' ( it is reported that G. C. Thomas, of
■'Cobb, will be a candidatee, but this
j has not been authoritatively an
[ uounced and 1. B. Small, the pres-
Jent incumbent is confidently expect
ed to'be a candidate to suc
ceed himself. This situation indl
i cates there will be rather an inter-
*
' ( Continued on'Page 4.)
COUNTYWIDE SERIES
OF INDICTMENTS TO
INVOLVE BOND BROKER
Million and a Half Dollar Union
Depot Robbery at Chicago
Declared Solved at Last
FIVE ARRESTS ARE MADE
Secret Service Men Working on
Case Allege Nationally Known
Business Men Are Involved
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—The sl,-
500,000 union depot mail robbery
here January 17, 1921, has been
solved, and a countrywide series
jf secret indictments will involve
brokers and other business men' na
i tionally known, according to the
Herald and Examiner, which quotes
j federal authorities.
I Five men were arrested yesterday
in connection with the investigiu
tions.'
COLBIBII BUNKER IS
' KTIII IF APOPLEXY
I COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 16.
George L. "Baker, Columbia banker
! and business man .reputed to have
I been one* of the wealthiest men in
| the state, died today folowing a I
■ stroke of apoplexy.
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OUTLER AND HARRELL
BACK FROM SHELLMAN
Rev John M. duller, pastor (>♦
; First Methodist church, And Rpv.
I Luther Harrell? pastor of Lee Street
(’hutch, returned last night from
[ Shellman, where they attended <*
I conference of pastors and laymen
|of Americus district. Every church
' in the district was represented iby
j its pastor, Mi. Harrell stated this
| morning, but there were few lt,y
--[ men who attended the conference,
this being a disappointing feature.
It was the concensus of those at
tending. he said, that emphasis
i should be laid upon the Sunday
work and evangelism as a
special duty during thc remainder
of the conference year,
New Yo»k Future*
Open Hi iiew Close
Jan. 33.85'33.96'34.dD 33.88|33.88
Mar. 4.21'34.20 34.35:33.53'-33.53
May 34.41 34.3M4.50133.70133.70
July 33.35 33.30 33.51 32.60|32.60
Oct. ,28.60 28.60 28.75128.10L28.10
Spots Cotton 32 1-2 cents.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
HERTZOG HEFTIES MAY
CH HERE TO TRI
EOR LEAGUE SEASON
Effort Under Way Today to
Bring. Newark Baseball Club
to Americus for Preliminaries
FINE PLACE AVAIILABLE
Playground Facilities Offered
By Cargill and Other Citizens
Wire Invitations
An effort to bring the Newark
Baseball team to Americtis for o
their spring training period was in
augurated here last night upon re
ceipt of a telegram from Buck Her
zog: manager of the team, asking
what inducements Americus would
offer his team to spend three Weeks
training here.
This telegram, addressed to Love
l:.ce Eve, president, of the Cham
ber of'Commerce resulted this morn -
ing in a flood of telegrams pouring
in upon > Manager Herzog, offer
ing numerous inducements to have
the team train in Americus. Presi
dent Eve of the Chamber of Com
merce, in his telegram ottered ev
ery facility at the disposal of the or
ganization, while L. G. Council,
president, of the Planters Bank, Co:.
G. R. Ellis, president of. the Em
pire Bank and Ralston Cargill, chair
'man of the Americus Playground.
Col. Ellis, as president of the
Americus golf club, formally ten
dered the use of the grounds of that x
institution to the club members,
following a conference with the club
directors, while the. playground fac
ilities of the playground association
were offered the club for training
purpose*. Other inducements were
offered in Mr. Council’s telegram,
■i ;,i now sera
WNffSIFUIT WORK
Walkout Precipitated by Failure
of Negotiations and Promul
gation of Wage Cut
SYDNEY, Novia Scotia, Jan. 16.
Workers in district No.’ 26 of the
United Mine Workers of America,
comprising 12,000 men, walked out
today. Nine thousand of them quit
because of failure of wage negiota
tions last midnight followed by the
British Empire Steel Corporation’s
20 per cent cut in scale. The other
3,000 struck in sympathy.
LIE STREET CHURCH
IDOPTS CHURCH RITE’
” Y
Lee Street Methodist church has
formally adopted “Church Night” •
as part of its program during this
year, with all week-night activities
consolidated anti carried on that
night each week. This means that
the congregation of the Lee street
can hereafter lay aside every thing,
making no social or'business engage
ments for Wednesday nights, said ’
Rev. Luther Hhrrell today, t with
every other night in the W“ek avail
able for other activities.
The ndw plan, which was adopt
ed after much consideration, it is
believed will prove very profitable
to the congregation, with carefully
worked out program to be observed.
This progrm as announced today by
the pastor, is as follows:
Wednesdays after First Sunday,
[ Stewards meeting; Wednesday after
I second and fourth Sundays, Sunday
; school teachers and officers’ meet
ling; Wednesday after third Sunday
'Epworth League Council meets. The
(hour at which these Wednesday
1 night services will be held will also
' be uniform
CRUISER TACOMA AGROUND
GALESTON, Tex., Jan. 16.—The
i United States Cruise Tacoma is
. aground in distress bit the Bau
quillas reefs, 16 miles from Veta
' Cruz,, and is sending out S. O. S.
- calls, according to advice. received
'at the hydrographic office here to-
I day.
Light Cruiser Richmond, which
' was sent en route bom New Or
leans to Panama, has been instruct
ed by wireless to go to the assis
tance of the Tacoma,