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GEORGIA
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Throughout the State Con
densed for Busy Readers.
CAMPAIGN GETS OFF
TO LIVELY START
MOULTRIE, Ga., Jan. 17.—The
campaign for county offices in Col
quitt has gotten off to alively start.
Although the primary date was only
announced a day or so ago three
have announced for sheriff. They
are T V. Beard, who is asking re-
T. Duncan and W. W.
Boyd, former sheriff.
MONTEZUMA BANK
ELECTS OFFICERS
'MONTEZUMA, Jan. 17.—The
Montezuma branch of the Georgia
State Bailk has elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year;
W. D. Manley, president; J. A.
Sasser, vice-president; L. R. Ad
ams, vice-president; G. M. Chastain,
vice-president; Richard Forrester,
cashier, and H. R. Graves, book
keeper. " '
FARMER LOSES HAND
IN PEA THRASHER
FITZPATRICK, Jan. 17. John
Cannon,.a prominent farmer living
in the eastern part of this coun
ty, while operating a pea thrash,
had the misfortune to have one of
his hands crushed, in the machin
ery. The'accident to Mr. Cannon
is all the more unfortunate since
his other hand had been impaired
permanently some years ago.
TAYLOR COUNTY SHERIFF
BURIED NEAR BUTLER
COLUMBUS, Gm, Jan. 17.—-Fun
eral services for J. R. Beeland vet
eran sheriff of Taylor county, who
died at his home near Butler late
Monday afternoon, were held from
the residence Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. Beeland, who was 60 years of
age at the time of his death, had
served as sheriff for the past eigh
teen years. He had been in declin
ing health for some years,
THRIFT WEEK BEING
OBSERVED AT MACON
MACON, Jan. 17. National
Thrift Week, which began today, is
being observed Jn Macon.
The movement is fostered by the
Y. M. C. A., and is endorsed by
the leading civic, industrial, educa
tional and religious organizations
of the country. •
Thrift Week always begins on the
birthday aniiversary of Benjamin
Franklin. Each day of the week is
devoted to some specific attribute to
thrift. -
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PALMER ELECTED
WAYNESBORO MAYOR
WAYNESBORO. Ga., Jan. 17.
The city election held Wednesday
resulted as follows: Mayor, F. S.
Palmer; Gray, first ward;
R. J. Ellison, second ward; H. G.
McEhnurray, third ward.
In the race for council from the
third ward there were three con
testants. H. G. McEhnurray was
elected with 114 votes and W. W.
Hargroves received 6«3, and B. J.
Hatcher, 44.
ARLINGTON WOODMAN
ELECT NEW OFFICERS
ARLINGTON, Jan. 17.—The of
ficers elected for the year 1924 of
the local camp No. 254 of the Wood
men of the World wore installed at
the regular meeting this week
were: R. C. Ward, consul copmian
der; B. A. Grantham, advisory lieu
tenant; W. C. Tindol, clerk; C, G.
Jordan, banker; Jesse Perry, escort;
J. L. Jordan, watchman; George
Kaleel, sentinel; W. W. Calhoun,
physician; J. E. Toole, C. L. Cook
and A. A. Calhoun auditors.
MCADOO SUPPORTERS
TO ORGANIZE FRIDAY
ATLANTA,'Jan. 1-7. Plans for
the formation of a state organiza
tion in support of the campaign of
William G. McAdoo for the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination are
to be considered at a meeting Fri
day here of McAdoo supporters
from all parts of the •State, it was
learned today. The meeting is to be
an informal gathering of friends of
the McAdoo Randolph, Atlanta at
torney, at whose offices the meet
ing will be held, starting at 11
o’clock Friday morning.
SKIPPER CLAIMS
HE’S INNOCENT
MACON, January 1 7.—Clarence
Skipper, 21-year-old white man, of
Hawkinsville, held in the Bibb coun
ty jail in connection with an at
tempted attack on a prominent
young married woman of the Hay
nesville community, inr Houston
county, late Tuesday afternoon em
phatically his innocence,
in. spit e of the fact that he was
positively identified as the guilty
man yesterday by the alleged in
tended victim and Charlie Jones,
an aged negro, who protected her.
STATE TOBACCO
IS UPHELD
ATLANTA, Jan. 17.—A consum
ers’ tax on cigarettes and cigars i#
this state, enacted by the legislature
last summer, was held constitution
al by Judge Bell in Fulton County
Superior court here Wednesday.
Judge Bell denied th ( . petition of
local dealers for an injunction to
restrain collection of the tax and
dissolved a temporary order that
had been in effect.
The court’s decision automatical
ly I Continued on Page. ,
PUBLISHED IN DIXI
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 15
AIRSHIP ADRIFT 6 HOURS RETURNS
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NAPIER ADVISES IN MUDDLED SCHOOL SITUATION
THERE’S TWO OF MOST EVERYTHING IN
DOUBLE-UP TOWNS OF| TWAIN ISTATES
STATE LINE BUNS ffl
BIS STREET CENTER
fi TMffl, IIBK
Half of Town in Texas, and
Balance in Arkansas, But No
Fiction Exists
HAS TWO SETS OFFFICERS
Curious Condition Faced by
Ccrut Engaged in Trying Clerk
Accused of Theft
I’ve traveled a sight in this land of
our’n,
From Florida clean to Montana:
And what struck me as the queer
est town
Was the city of Texarkana.
—Ballads of a Wanderer.
TEXARKANA, Ark.-Tex., Jan.
nary 17. — (By NEA. Service.)
In this city a man -can slip on a
banana peel in Texas and pick him
self up in Arkansas.
Snowballs hurtle through the ah’
from Arkansas and find their marks
in breezy Lone Star Staters, living
in their own Texas. s
For half of Texarkana is in the
one state and half in the other.
Right through the center of the
(town runs State Line avenue. On
one side the city is governed by the
laws of Arkansas; on the other by
he laws of Texas.
Besides the two state govern
ments, "’there are two full sets of
county officers, two public school
systems, two complete municipali
ties with two mayors, two city coun
cils, two police departments, two U.
S. courts —two of nearly every
thing. At one time two U. S. sena
tors had their residence in Texark
ana—Sheppard of TeSas, and Kirby
of Arkansas.
The federal building and the un
ion station are the only - buMd’.ngs
that stand in both states. Besides
the postoffice and station Jhe only
other things of a public nature that
serve both cities are the fire de
partments, individually owned by
each city but operated as one, and
a joint sewage disposal plant.
Recently a postal clerk pilfered
a letter and the case was taken into
the U. S: court for the western dis
trict of Arkansas. During the trial
the question of jurisdiction was
raised and it was necessary to de
termine whether the offending
clerk's work table was located in
Arkansas or Texas.
Newspaper reporters have a
tough life, for when their work of
newsgathering is complete in one
state, they hustle over the line and
do it all over in the other.
The close individual and official
friendship of the twin cities was
demonstrated in the recent golden
jubilee celebration here, when the
governors or Arkansas and Texas
and the mayors of Texarkana, Tex.,
and Texarkana, Ark., marched up
State Line avenue and clasped
hands across th e line.
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
CONCERT HERE SUNDAY
The program for the Symphony
Orchestra concert to be given in the
Rylander th'eater Sunday, afternoon
at 3 o’clock has been completed, and
will be printed in Friday’s issue of
the Times-Recorder, according to an
authorized statement from Alfred
A. Gane,» director of the orchestra
By special stage setting, under
the direction of Os C. Johnson, an
added attraction, yvill be afforded
which is promised will greatly please
the public.
»The public is cordially invited to
attend, and no collections ‘ will be
; taken or admission charges asked.
I As promised m the beginning, the
i concerts are for the purpose if
i fording Americus people the byne
| lit. of good music on Sunday after
noons and to encourage the devel
)opmenteuf musical talents in the
< community.
The piano to be used foi'the con
cert is offered by the McMath
Music Co., of which E. J. MeMath
is owner. _
AMERICUS,"GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1924
....
Dotted line shows how Arkan
sas and Texas divide the town of
Texarkana along the principal
thoroughfare of State ~Line ave
/ nue. Below at right: Governor
Neff of Texas (elft) shaking
hands with his contemporary,
Governor Mcßae of Arkansas, on
the occasion of the town’s golden
jubilee celebration.
WEATHER
—-For Georgia Fair tonight
and Friday; somewhat colder to
night.
KIiiSIETS
LIT f FOR PART IN IDS
HUM'S HOM®
Was Accused of Conspiring to
Plant Dynamite Under House
Blown to Pieces
CRIME DONE LAST APRIL
Mrs. Henrietta Wagner, Alleg
ed Principal in Murder, Also
Under Life Sentence
PADUCAH, Ky., Jan. Mrs.
Emma Skillian was sentenced to
life imprisonment here today on a
charge of being an \ccessory Is l
murder growing out of the killing
of Mrs. Rosetta Warren and her
unborn child here last April.
The State charged that she con
spired with Mrs. Henrietta Wagner
who was recently convicted and
sentenced to life imprisonment, to
plant 10 sticks of dynamite under
Mrs. Warren’s bed.
BARKER LECTURES HERE
FOR DELIVERY NOW
Copies of Dr. Barker's lectures
which were ordered by the’ Ameri
cus Rotary club for distribution
among Americus residents have ar
rivedvand'are now ready for dis
tribution, President John Sheffield
announced today. The lectures, as
stated during the Barker meetings,
are to be distributed through the
Hightower Book store, here, and are
sold at 5 cents a copy, with no prof
it made one connected with
their distribution, this being the
price charged by Rotary Interna
tional, and being barely enough to
corer the actual cost of printing.
LEE ST.CONGREGATION
GIVES PASTOR SHOWER
Rev. and Mrs. Luther Harrell
were honor guests at a pantry show
er last night when the congrega
tion of Lee Street Methodist church
gave them a delightful surprise at
the parsonage on Lee street. The
pastor and%very member of his fan*-
ily had been kept in complete ig
norance of the plans of the eongre
gation and the surprise element was
carried out in full detrill. Many
members ol the congregation as well
as friends participated in the gener
ous shower given the pastor, who
during a brief social period spent
at the parsonage expressed gra«pf’d
apreciation for the well stocked
pantry which was left after the
guests_had jleiKuled...
IJBBKKL- '\
SCHOOL HEAD’S JOB
JUMPS INTO LIMELIGHT
One of the most interesting situ-
created by recent activity in
political circles here centers about
the office of county school super
intendent, now held by E. W. Du
pree, and for which it is stated;
there will be more than one appii-;
cant in the approaching primary.
This officer it will be recalled, was
vbted for only by residents of the
county during the last rimary at
which Supt. Dupree was elected.
BELOW FREEZING
EXPECTED FRIDAY
ATLANTA, January 17—Below
freezing weather is expected ,to
jrjp this section tomorrow, accord
ing to government weather bureau
announcement.
IMLIBS AGREETO
ffl TOBIKI! IM
ATLANTA, Jan; 17.—Collection
of 10 per cent state tax on cigars
and cigarettes will be continued
pending decision by the Supreme
court on litigation brought by lo
cal dealers, it was agreed at a meet
ing® between Attorney General
N«er and attorneys for the deal
ers today.
The actibn of Judge Bell*’in the
Fulton county Superior court yes
terday in denying permanent in
junction to dealers is to be made
the basis of appeal.
COLD WAVE SPREADING
1 OVER UPPER MISSISSIPPI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17--
A cold wave of marked severity ht.s
overspread the upper Mississippi
Valley and, the Northern plains
states and cold weather continues
over the Western Canadian province
the United States Weather Bureau
announced.
Temperatures of far below zero
were reported in Northwestern Wis
consin. Minnesota, Western lowa,
Kansas, the Dakotas and Eastern
Montana, while a marked rise has
been noted i the temperature east
of, the Mississippi RivAr,’ which will
result in rain 'ami snow in these
states.
SPARTA COURT CONVENES
SPARTA, Jan. 17.—-The January
term of the' City Court of Sparta
is in session with Judge R. H. Lewis)
presiding and -Solicitor Thomas M.'
Hunt, attending to the state’s inters,
estr. Most of the docket will be i
This was due to a provision con
tained in section j 47? of the Geor
gia School Code, which provides in
I effect that residents t>f any inde-
I pendent school district, such as
{Americus constitutes, may not vote
I for county school superintendent.
(Following the election at which Supt.
Dupree was ele.cted, Governor.
Clifford Walker, then attorney gen-
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)Bira RAIL UNIS
W ALLBI imp
Locomotive Men Refuse to Ac
cept Pay Reduction Authoriz
ed By Railway Wages Board
LONDON, Jan. 17. —A strike >f
British locomotive men who have re
fused to accept a reduefoin in
wages authorized by the railway
wkges board will begin at midnight
I Sunday, according to announcement
made this noon.
ITALIAN ARISTOCRAT
JILTED BY DIXIE GIRL
STOVALL, Miss., Jan. 17 —Gor-
geous wedding gowns have gone to
storage, wedding invitations havp
-been recalled, Miss Louise Fowler
Stovall, of Stovall, Miss., has gone
into seclusion, and Major "Tastave
Bacci del Marchesi di Marieno has
gone back to Italy.
j There will be no wedding of
I Southern aristocracy to Italian no
'bility at St. George’s Episcopal
I church, at Clarksdale, Miss., Sat
urday, January 19, contrary to an
i nouncements that have been carried
lon society pages of virtually every
Inewspaper in the United States and
I especially the South and East.
The wedding has been indefinitely
i postponed, was the word sent out
|by the bride-elect’s mother, Mrs.
Mrs. John Willis Stovall, yesterday'
to offset the wedding invitations
that have been out several
120 C EPWORTH LEAGUERS
MEETIN IN MERIDIAN
MERIDIAN, Miss., Jan. 17.
Mope than 200 officers of the Ep
worth League, junior organization
of the Methodist church, assembled
' here for their annual convention.
At the opening meeting Bishop
H. M. Dubose, of Nashville, urged
I the erection-of a church memorial
iat Los Angeles in honor of the <>i ■
[ganization. It was in that city that
! the Epworth League was started, he
1 pointed out. Representatives from
i Fayetteville, Ark., Dalia-, and Sav
annah, GaTsare making strong bids I
Do Creameries Pay
in Georgia?
This is a question that is
occupying _ the minds of
many farmers. The answer
is to be found in the experi
ence of others w'no have
given creameries a test.
On page six of this issue
is some valuable informa
tion bearing upon the sub
ject of creameries. Ev
ery fanner and business
man should rend this ar
ticle carefully. It is one of
several, similar articles, to
\ be published from time to
tim e ki _
The
Times-Recorder
SHENANDOAH 1$ SAFE
AFTER NIGHT FLIGHT
ITREMENDOUS GALE
Great Dirigible Brought Back to
Hangar After ‘Runaway’ With
Every Man in Crew Safe
BIG GAS BAG COLLAPSED
Other Damage Also Sustained
By Air Giant During Mad
Chase to Staten Island
LAKEHURST, N. J., Jan. 17.
The ‘‘Shenandoah,” the largest di
rigible in the world, poked her nose
into her hangar shortly after 4
o’clock this morning, after having
been in a runaway flight all last
night. Not a man in* her crew of
22 was injured. x *
The giant dirigible broke away
from her mast during last night's
storm,wwith Captain Anton Heinan
and chew -aboard. She swept in a
mad Staten Island and
then Captain- Heinan succeeded in
turning her nose into the teeth of
the storm and maneuvered her
hornor-
The airship’s nose was battered
and/she was somewhat scratched up,
and the gas *bag collapsed. The
covering on her upper fin had been
tripped off and wrapped around
the rudder and the outer covering
was rent nearly up to her nose,
when the Shenandoah was finally
brought to safety in her hangar
here this morning.
The breaking away of the Shen
andoah, whiclf was moored to the
massive mast in a ten-day test of its
capabilities in such a position, cast
a shadow over the station. The test
was in preparation for a flight to
the North-Pole, and as the giant
craft slipped away in the rain and
wind before the very eyes of the
men jgho had helped build her and
had flown her, they saw their hopes
dashed.
Then came message by wireless
from Commander Picjrce, who with
Captain Heinen, helped
the the ship, was in command when
she tore away, assuring the officers
that ‘'everything is O. K.; we will
ride out the storm.”
The Shenandoah tore loose with a
crash. Alli day she had been swayed
to and fro by a strong wind ami
and there was considerable specula
tion as to whether the ship should
h< returned to her hangar. Those in
command, however, declared that
the test was to determine how
strong a wind the ship could stand !
ants ymy. were confident she would I
remain aloft.
Captain McCray and Command-1
er Weyerbacher both had been.
aboard the Shenandoah a few mo
ments before she broke loose. They
had descended, however and were I
.t dinner when a sudden crash in
formed them something was wrong.
WIRE REPORT OF
- PERSONS CONFIRMED
W. F. Persons, resident agent of
the Census Bureau in Sumter coun
ty, has been advised by W. M. Steu
art, director, that telegraphic fig-i
ures of cotton gining in this coun-1
ty have been verified and' found.
orreet by the department jifficiuls.
This report shows there were 12,-
299 bales of cotton, counting round
aS half bales, ginned in Sumter
county from the crop of 1923 prior
to January- 1, 1924, as compared
with 22,059 bales ginned to Januaty
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New York Futures
PC Open High Low Close
Jan. ~33.70|33.40|33.40 33.25!
Mar. .33.53{33.60|33.60 32.89(3239
May '
• July ,32.60133.60’33.69132.02(32.02
Oct. . 28.10|28.07(28.40'27.90(27.90
Strict middling 324-2 cents.'
PRICE FIVE CENTS
EXPECT FORD TO KT
DEFINITE STATEIKNT
M SHOALS SOON
Chairman Kahn Informs House
Military Committee Flivver
King May Reconsider s
MAY GET NITRATE PLANT
No Information Given Commit
tee, However, Except Bare
Prediction Ford Will Act
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Pre
diction that Henry Ford within the
next few days will make a definite
statement as to whether he would
be willing to take over the govern
ment’s nitrate project at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., was made today by
chairman Kahn of the House mili
tary committee at a hearing on the
question. Mr." Kahn gave no details
to the committee.
HOPE TO TOW TACOMA
AGAIN 111 DEEP WATER
Three Compartments Flooded in
Disabled Cruiser, Wireless
Report States
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The
States Cruiser Tacoma aground on
Blanquillas reef off Vera Cruz, has
three compartments flooded, accord
ing to wireless reports from a ship
received today at the navy depart
ment. . •
Tugs were standing by and it was
hoped to draw the cruiser into deep
er water as soon as the heavy seas
subsided.
ROW Hl
HONOR VISITORS
Evan Mathis, of Kiwanis, and R.
P. Ewing, of Lions, Attend
Club Luncheon at Windsor
Evan Mathis, president of the
Kiwanis club, and R. P. Ewing,
president of the Americus Lions
club, were honor guests at the Wed
nesday Rotary luncheon in the
Windsor hotel, when Walter Rylan
der presided. The meeting was de
voted largely to a discussion of th-?
Dr. Barker meeting here, and to
a vote of appreciation given Amer
icus’ other, civic clubs, for their co
operation in making the meetings
so successful.
Personal appreciation of the aid
•given by the Kiwanis and Lions in
‘putting ,over” the Barker meetings
voiced by president Rylandet.
and the Rotarians also passed res
olutions thanking the Times-Reeor
fler for publicity given in connec
tion with these lectures. The Bar
ker lectures, it was unanimously
agreed,'' were one of the most help
ful ateps yet taken in tne promotion
of community health and morals
here, and it was decided to follow
up these talks with suitable ad
dresses at later periods, the idea
being to reap the greatest possible
benefit from the seed sown in
Americus and Sumter county by Dr.
Barker. Speakers to deliver these
addresses, of course, will be select
ed from time to time, and in all
probability will be chosen from
among outstanding moral and intel
lectual residents of other communi- ,
ties than Americus and Sumter
county. .
The matter of attending the'Vis
trict Rotary conference in Macon
March 17-P8 was brought to the at
tention of the membei*, and it wa-:
unanimously agreed that the clul
members would attend? this gather
ing a hundred per cent , strong, ev
ery Rotarian present signifying hi'
personal intention co be present in
Mason when the conference is call
ed to order there. >
POLITICAL EDITOR OF
NEW YORK SUN IS DEAD
NEV.
G. Riggs, for .many years political
editor of the New York Sun and
since his resignation in 1913 in
charge of the publicity department
for the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad, died today at his
home in Brooklyn. He was 68 years
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