About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1924)
GEORGIA Brief Items of News Events Throughout the State Con densed for Busy Readers. POTATOES BRING GOOD PRICES IN BROOKS QUITMAN, January 19.—Coun ty Agent Stratford announces the sale of a solid carload of sweet po tatoes, which were bailked. The po tatoes brought $1.50 per 100 pounds. Mr. Stratford has sold another car of cured potatoes for $1.75 per bushel. There are about 10,000 bushels of cured potatoes now in curing plants in the county. POLITICAL BALL STARTE DROLLING COLUMBUS, January 19.—Aft er a series of false starts, the Mus <h>gee county political ball was ac tually started rolling Friday with the announcement by Judge John H. Lewis, of the Columbus Munici pal court, that he would make the. race for judge of the Superior courts of the Chattahooche circuit. CO-OP. ASSOCIATION PAYS OVER $7,000,000. ATLANTA, January 19. Up wards of $7,000,000 already has been advanced to Georgia cotton producers of the 1924 crop, by the Georgia Cotton Growers’ Co-opera tive association, • according to a statement authorzied by J. E. Con well, president of the association. DUNLAP NAMED ON LEGION COMMITTEE GAINESVILLE, January 19. John R. Quinn, national command er of the American Legion, has ap pointed Edgar B. Dunlap, state commander, Georgia department, on the national legislative commit tee, headed by Aaron Sapiro, of California. Mr. Dunlap leaves for Washington Sunday, January 20, to assist in the fight for adjusted compensation for th e veterans of the World War. BRANTLEY MEN JAILED ON LIQUOR CHARGES WAYCROSS, January 19.—D. B. Johns, Isaac Thrift and R. H. Lee, all of Brantley county, are in the War e county jail charged with vio lation of the federal prohibition law, as a result of a raid conducted by Federal Prohibition Agent C. II Parks and Sheriff W. H. Howard, of Brantley county. MULE IS DROWNED; MAN ESCAPES DEATH BOWDEN, January 19. With creeks and rivers here over bridges and lowlands J. E. Lee, a justice of the peace, of Kansas district, near here, tried to cross the creek at Lovvorn’s mill and came near being drowned. Small boys on the banks swam to. his rescue and saved him. The mule Mr. Lee was driv ing was drowned. SILOAM BANK NAMES OFFICERS GREENSBORO, January 19. Stockholders of the Bank of Siloam at their annual meeting declared at 12 per cent dividend and elected the following officers: John F. Holden, president; J. B. Dolvin vice-president; W. M. Reynolds, cashier; Miss Grace Johnson, book keeper. The directors. are John F. Hol den, J. B. Dolvin, W. M. Reynolds, S. B. Freeman, J. A. Reynolds,, W. H. Lewis and C. B. O’Neal. CENTRAL EMPLOYES TO RAISE WINBURN FUND MACON, January 19.—Local em ployes of the Central of Georgia railroad have begun raisining funds with w’hich a testimonial to the late W. A. Winburn, former president of the system, will be erected at on e of the central points of the road. Macon, Savannah and Co lumbus all stand a good chance to get the monument. Local officials of the road be lieve that M:/wn wjll have the monument placed in the front of the Terminal Station. FAUST IS PRESIDENT GREENSBORO NATIONAL GREENSBORO, January 19. The stockholders of th e Greensboro National Bank have just elected the following officers: President, J. G. Faust; vice-president, 11. D. Goodwin; second vice-president, H. H. Chapman cashier;, F. A. Ship ley; assistant cashier, E. A. Kim brough, and directors, J. G. Faust, G. W. Miles, H. D. Goodwin, 11. H. Chapman, E. G. Pennington, E. G. Adams and R. L. Caldwell were re-elected. NEW COUNTY AGENT TAKES UP DUTIES SUMMERVILLE, January 19. B. M. Drake, of Newnan, who has been farm demonstration agent for Coweta county for the past seven years, has accepted a similar posi tion with Chattooga county and has assumed his new duties. Mr. Drake is a native of Mis sissippi, a graduate of Centenary college, Louisiana, and Vanderbilt university, Tennessee. He has taught at Centenary college, Emory 'and Henry college, Vanderbilt uni versity and other schools. He has been farming in Georgia since 1905. He will have offices in the county court house. ( Continued on Page Four.) THE TIMES RECORDER IN THE HEART OF FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO 17 COUNCIL IS URGED FOR GOVERNOR □ O O O o 0.0 O O O O O.*x O’O'O o o o o WOULD MELLON PROFIT THROUGH OWN TAX PLAN? THE SEA—IT EITHER M/1 —IT M/ PER HOW SPELL OF SEI’ WOVE ITSELF INTO « HLW Woman Skipper Has Equipped Cabin of ‘Jennie Crocker’ With Every Home Comfort 6 WEEKS ASHORE PLENTY Couple Tried ‘Land-Lubbers’ Life But Faile After Relief Period in Rea! Home By JOSEPHINE VAN de GRIFB NEA Service Staff Writer PERTH AMBOY, N. -i ■ 19.—The spell of the - ea—it wove itself into the hearts of a boy and a girl and set them looking out over the horizon with namele-'-' lengin" . It took possession of the Eves of a man and a woman and called them awAy from hearth and kin dred. It sent them adventuring into strange ports to bargain with strange men. It broke them, it hurt them, ~it tossed them, r : still it calls them. They’re the slaves, it the master until th t > 1- sail shall have been hauled in. And that’s doubtless why the cabin of the “Jennie so much like home. It’s the only home that Captain Nelson Crock er and Captain Jennie Crocker know. Once they tried fixing up a home in Cliftondale, Mass. It w.t a seven-room house and there was a place to raise chickens and a lit tle bed for pansies. They tried it six weeks and gave up. Back to Sea. The sea called them back. A for rent sign appeared on the seven room house. Now there are carpets on the floor of the cabin of the “Jen nie Crocker” and draperies at the doors, a phonograph is in th e cor ner and on the table, screwed to the floor to keep it from sliding, is a grass basket with a bit of em broidery. For Captain Nelson Crocker and Captain Crocker have given up. They’re not going to leave the sea any more. That’s why Captain Je'i-ii er took out th e paper, th day that made ol^v wo- man captain on the seven sen-. Now Captain Jennie Ui ■ .er i getting ready to command h ■ f: -t expedition, xlt’s a little j;> nt k and around to St. Joe. : ; . lumber. Nelson Crock; ' goin:' along as chief mate. But whether either of them ■ along as captain or as chi f i neither of them is going t-> 1c . e th e sea any moj-e. SFLECMr ORDERED BT M Sub-Committee Named. io 1 x Date and Suggest Methods for Financing Election ATLANTA, Jah. 19.—A deeisi n to hold the democratic pr ' leniiit" preference primary in Georgia wir reached shortly after the opening >.•' ■the meeting here today, of the stat ■ democratic executive committee. A sub-committee was named to fix the date for the primary and i.> suggegst measures for financing ii. BANK WITH MILLIONS IN DEPOSITS FAILED TODAY GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Jan. 19. The Grand Island Natio.ial Bai:.., the oldest banking institution in the city, failed to open its doors th::’ morning. it’s capita stock was SIOO,OOO, with a surplus of $125,000 and th" bank’s statement of December 1 gave deposits as $1,167,01 1. Miss Louise Bragg and Miss Verna Bragg, who have been the guests of relatives in Macon for some tifne past, return to their home her e Friday. wlv L ■ i'V WTvS •' ! S..T X f.. f I . ' ' ;■ I \i\ I J ill s i , V '1 - ■ ■ i ' .• ■ ; ■ ■ •• • ■■ • • • \ z ) 1 ■ . . . J." > - I ■ ' - ' ' ■ Above, masts and rigging of the Jennie Crocker, the schooner ; over which th© first woman, skip- | per will henceforth have com- : mend. Below, Captain Jennie Crocker “sighting” and at the vZicch Inset, Captain Nelson Crocker. For tonij ht ar . - ; c< Ider in niny nj'PHrn ipnfWO r.RrV R a H< M M \\ Ibrui i.bvHLu i jd-JLC muv oTiTrodinpiiro MuIIiIkWHw HOSPITIt i PHil A to ’ %to» %<■ i * to if k >—» Eii 2 w Ek! *JW»'S K 9 ijr. Jackrcn Engaged in Pjepara lions tc Remove Tack from L™„ o f Infant ' CHURCH! GIVES FUNDS iV-s Lcie A. "’’a ■ .■•_!.•. Accompa nied f Babe on Fast Trip From St. Louis PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19.—( I ■ su Moore, 8 month, old, who was rushed to th:.' city from St. Louis for :.n operation to remove a tack from hi. tun. -, arived here early this morr,ing. The baby was placed in a crib at the University Hospital, where Dr. Chavelli r Jackson made prepara tions to o’» ite later in the day. The infant was w'atched with greatest care on the trip east by Mrs. Lota ?x. Parrish, assistant sup erintendent of nurses, at the city hospital St. Louis. The trip here was made possible, by a church or ganization which furnished the , money. I MOTHER OF MRS. STOVALL DIED TODAY IN SAVANNAH SAVANNAH, Jan. 19.—Mrs. Har i riot H. Ganahl, of Augusta, mother ! of Mrs. Pleasant A. Stovall, died I this morning at the home of her I daughter. She was 85 years old and had been ill only a, week. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 19, 1924 SHEFFIELD FLAYS SOUS BEFORE CLUB * / ■w' - i . 1 Declaring tnkt officers o£ the 1 American Legion are misleading j their members irv the fight they are ■ making for a bonus; that if the bo-i : nus bill ill passed cost in ad-1 i vancc taxc ; re W!’ year than I-pittance” they will receive in the I I so-called adju ted Compensation;! that ifi would be the proudest day' of liis life if the local legion post 'I would go on record as opposing the I ll.ejius, Joint . .. ffield, -. ..• i .at oil ■ k.e Rotary club, spoke to the Ki-1 . i ; • ib ship Frirl yon ;h. ■subjic: of t .-ttcroclness of the bal-i Fred Smith, chairman of rhe! ram ct remittee introduced Mr. I < a" 'is filling I'.is p: ice in hi. community, I .meeting every demand and obliga-l lion of his citizenship a: few men 'have ever done.” i Mr. Sheffield’s remarks, wjiich ! i were receiv.-.l with the greatest en-l i thusiasm and compliments by ih. ■ : members are a.; follow.: : I ‘ Sometimes I stand still and I ■ wor.dec what it’s all coming to; t!:i. i marvelous growth of these great] jcivic orgi.rDations, and how, with j'out, subscribing to an oath or a 1 promise, th? members are becom-i ! ing bound together with unbreak ;abi< bonds of friendship, and in spired with feelings of esteem a id love, not only for each., other, but .for all mankind . ! “l want to speak to your for a fev. minutes foday on a subject ■ which would seem to be peculiarly I | —— ■ poo THREE RffiMß Fire on Farm Near Emporium, Pa., Fata! to Three—Hus ‘ band May Also Die [; EMPORIUM, Penn., JaJn. 19. .'Mrs. Jacob Smith and her three chil •|dren were burned to death today I,when fire destroyed the family home • I on her farm near here. I [ H®r husband Hin a critical con- I dipion. much as this is an election year when men arc to be selected for nearly every office, from Justice lof the Pea. e, to President of the I United States. “politics is taboo by Kiwanis and -lit has been the been the bugahoo of ' no.n-political organizations for all (time and for Kiwanis club as a : club, to advocate or endorse the (candidacy for office of any man, is Ito plant a germ colony that will I soon . or later mean club disolu- I tion, but for men of the type and ’character of which real Kiwaniansl I: i . made, to regard lightly their i right of tanchi.m, failing to use it, lor for men or measures with- i ut first being BUXO of their worthrj Iness, i : to plant a gem colony of thei I most malignant type and one that: I v.iil finally mean national di<-o-| ‘ lution. I I "Only recently we witnessed the: . .-;.ee: ..vie of a United States Sena-, tor going up and down the coun- Itici U our state, proclaiming him-; J self great because he had succeeded Jin getting the federal government Ito spend some money for our spe- I cial benefit. ’ “Not long ago, we stood idly by J and allowed the woman’s suffrage amendment to be written into our constitution, when few men wanted 111I 11 - -u .1 i A little over four jmars ago, j there our shores about I (Continued On Page Four) MMKIMT IS T« MEET Spanish War Veterans May Held National Convention in Havana, if Plans Go Thru HAVANA, Cuba., Jan. 19. Spanish War veterans of the United States have be<*n formally invited by President Zayas to hold their 1921 convention in. Havana in conjunc tion with Cuba’s veterans of than ’war, it became known today. FORMER NOBILITY RUSHES FOR JOBS NEW YORK, January 19. —An advertisement in local newspa pers for the services of several gentlemen possessing bona fide European titles today brought 20 applications to the manager of a new dancing pavilion who de cided he wanted noblemen*! or hostels and dancing instructors. Os the 20 who applied, 6 were Austrian counts, three claimed British titles, three Russian and one German who said he was a second cousin of the former Keiser. PHLITBI MPS MlßlGiFiOfiin git mm im m I Won’t Desert People of Sumtej, During Such Critical Season, He Asserts TALKS ON TAX PROBLEM Tax Situation Already Hurting Georgia, Says Mr. Council Taxes Must Be Paid ATLANTA, Jan. 19.—The poli tical gossips are busy again. Tv latest advices that during the com ing week a delegation of Atlanta business men will go to Moultrie and ask William C. Vereen to make the race for governor. • The effort io get, either the younger or older Ve reen into the race persists. Another name heard in connec tion with the governorship is that of Lee Council of Americus. .It seems to be on the slate that if Mr. Vereen does not run, a strong effort will be made to get Mr. Council to do so. The idea of those who have Mr. Vereen or Mr. Council in mind seems to be that Georgia’s greatest need at the momenW is a business man for fovernor. Mr. Council is one of the most successful business men in this section of the state. He would no doubt draw- to his support a very formidable array of business men if he should become a candi date. COtJNCIL discusses SITUATION IN STATE When asked today concerning thel foregoing news dispatch from At-1 lanta, Mr. Council talked most in terestingly concerning the problems that, confront Georgia, but stated emphatically hat he would not ba la candidate for governor. “I’d like to make the race,” said 'Mr. Council, “because I’d like to aid [in bringing Georgia out of the mire [into which the politicans have led iour state durng recent years. Noth i ing would please me better than to I give of my time and humble Ef forts to putting Georgia’s affairs upon a business basis,'and there is Ino sacrifice I’d refuse to make for the welfare of my state. But it isn’t possible for me to become candidate for Governor at this time. | “Only a consuming love for Sum ter county and Sumter’s people pre sents my giving the goverorshir; serious consideration. Never before have the people here needed heli# moi e than during this good year, and I am determined to place my every resource, every dollar I pos sess, at their disposal to the end that happiness SaaTl reign in every Sumter county home, and prosper ity shall mark every worthy busi ness venture here. All my varied interests are centered here in I Americus and Sumter county, and imy love for this people is too I great to permit me even to think of deserting them at such a period as this present. ‘The man Georgians are demand ing today is one who is big enough, ;and strong enough and brave enough [and bold enopgh to come right out I into the open and fight with every energy the forces that apparently are at work to destroy Georgia and her established institutions. This is no time for a man inexperienced in affairs of busness to put at the helm. Few such critical years ha. j ever been faced by Georgia as those lying imemdiately ahead of the state. “The policy of ‘let business pay the freight,’ that has become so popular atnonfc certain Georgia politicians is bringing anything but .(Continued on Page Six.) » 1 New York Futures Strictly middling 321-4 cents. Pv.C Open Hi Low Close Jan. . 32.70|32.95|33.00|3,2.95|33.00 Mar. 32.96‘33.18|33.21j32.92|33.18 Mav .33.2a|33.50|33.50|33.10|33.43 July . 32.15132.3Q|32.40!32.06132.40 .ct. . 28.00,28.16128.20127.90128.01 PRICE FIVE CENTS TOW SlCBETffi tHIUM T 8 TELL M IE *L «FIT Michigan Senator Defies Mellon to Tell Nation in Detail What Securities He Owns TAX PLAN IS~CRITICIS]ED How Much Would Mellon Bene fit Through Reduction in Sur- • Taxes is Pertinent Question WASHINGTON, January 19. Secretary Mellon wqs challenged today by Senator CouSeens, repub lican of Michigan, to Inform the country how much he would bene fit personally from a reduction of income sur-taxeg which he propos ed in his tax revision plait. “So long as you have entered into a record of my securities,” the senator wrote, “will you tell us what you securities are, how much you own of each, and how much you will benefit by a reduction of sur-taxes as proposed by you?” HtNY ■ EPISCOPAL SOCIIL MS® Interesting Address on Social Needs Ddiivered at Parish House by Augusta Rector A number of Americus people rep resenting practically every religious denomination here heard Rev. H. Hobart Barber, of Augusta in an ' address on social needs in the par lish house of Calvary Episcopal I church here last night. The speak er asserted that in Georgia “there 150 jails, twice as many as in any other State in the south ex cept Texas, three times as many as in South Carolina. These 150 jails represent an investment of more than ten million dollars, dealing with more than 10,000 annually charged with crime, and costing yearly more than a million dollars for administra tion, and with but little interest shown on the part of our citiaens generally.” “Christian society should stimu latte interest among our leading citi zzen s in jail conditions, work for im provementand get the right kind of legislation,” Mr. Hobart declared, “convicted criminals, except for a six month or less sentence, are not committed to our county jail, and even for that srort period judges rarely jail the convicted, and know ing that close confineemnt is det rimental to health and morals, send them to the chaingang or State Farm.” 'Such problems,” continued the speaker, “as the fee system by which the county allows so much, 61 cents in Georgia, lor feeding each pris oner per day; the sheriff giving his ward, two or three meals, scant or full as he elects, saving for Jiimself what he may out of the allowance, a speedy trial for the accused, the problem of bonds for the poor who cannot furnish bond, and therefore must suffer imprisonment, proba tion and Social Service Coi/rts These problems require careful study.’ BURIES MAN ALIVE WAYCROSS, January 19. i Buried under a pile of dirt and debris when the arm of a derrick ;collapsed, J. B. Caldwell, a negro | laborer at the Atlantic Coast Line [shops was literally consigned to his grave alive. The boom of the ['derrick struck him and buried him so deep under the debris that it was thirty minutes before the fev erish work of his companions could reach his body. OPPOSE CARD PARTIES SAVANNAH, Jan. 19.—Claiming [that they could not give their ap -1 roval to a plan to raise funds for school that had in it the element of gambling, the ministerial Union of this city went on record at its recent meeting as opposed to the iplan v of the Parent-Teacher asso i ciation to raise money for schools |by card parties. The Parent-Teacher ! Association has voted to continue [the parties and it is expected that [a protest from the ministers will be presented to the school board and ;he Parent-Teacher associating, .
