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FEAR TOBACCO PLANTS
RUINED BY FREEZE
VALDOSTA, January 22—The
second freeze-up within two weeks
blew out of the Northern skies Sun
day night and much damage is re
ported to plants and vegetation that
had been lately planted. There is
much f<?ar for the tobacco plants,
.though th e free?d. was not as se
vere as it was two weeks ago.
MAN UNDER ARREST
PENIES HE’S BUNTIN.'
MOULTRIE, January 22. A
man positively identified by local
officers as Coy Buntin, wanted in
this county on a charge of burg
lary and jail breaking, arrested at
Tifton, is now in the Colquitt coun
ty jail, having been brought here
yesterday. The suspect declares
that it is a case or- mistaken idem
ity. He aserts that he has never
even been in Moultrit in his life.
MRS. DILLARD AND
MR. FRYER MARRY.
ALBANY, January 22.—A wed
ding of pleasing interest to the en
tire community, and one which
came as a surprise to many friends
of the bride and groom, occurred
Saturday evening at£ o’clock ,when
Mrs. Maude Dillard Morris and Mr.
Herman O. Fryer were united in
weijlcok at the home of the bride
on South Jeffreson street. Rev. J.
B. Turner, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, performed the cere
mony.
LOWNDES TO USE GAS
TAX FOR HARD ROADS
VALDOSTA, January 22. —-
Lowndes county is now officially
committed to the plan of using its
mpney due from th e state gasoline
tar for hard'surfacing its graded
roads. The adoption of a reso
lution to this effect was an out
standing feature of the meeting of
the county commissioners Monday
morning. Th e resolution also con
tained an official request to the
state highway commission to join
the county with such funds as it
may have for increasing this fund.
ALBANY POSTOFFICE
RECEIPTS INCREASE
ALBANY, January 22.—1 f postal
receipts are a barometer of a com
munity’s growth in business and,
prosperity, and it is generally ac
cepted that they are, Albany did
more business and _.*vas more pros
perous in 1923 a
ccording to figures furnished the
Chamber of Commerce by Post
master J. L. Jlann. The figures
show that receipts at the Albany
postoffie e in 1923 were $97,114.05,
compared with $88,111.50 in 1922,
representing an increase of $9,-
002.45, or more than 10 per cent.
CORDELE CHAMBER.
FEED TONIGHT
CORDELE, January 22.—The
indications for a large gathering at
the Board of Trade dinner this eve-,
ning at the Suwanee hotel ar e very
promising. /
Up to noon yesterday very few
of those were invited and who are
members of th e fiv e organizations
that are expected to attend, had
sent in notice that they would hot
attend. Those who received invi
tations were urged to give notice
at the Board of Trade if they could
not attend, otherwise plates
be provided for them.
MANY INDICTMENTS
RETURNED AT ROME
ROME, January 22.—A total of
thirty-five indictments have already
been returned against Irfw violators
in 'this county by the grand jury
now in session The majority
the cases are prohibition law vio
lators. No let up in the matter is
shown and the jury expects' to be
busjA the remainder of the week
with the returning of indictments.
The week following the grand jury
meeting was to be devoted to crim
inal cases but at th e present time
it is thought that the court can
not finish with cases on the
criminal docket in that time and
that sessions will have to b e pro
longed.
REPORT DISCLOSES ■
WE DM GUES
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Manufacturers Get Almost Haifi
of Ultimata Value of Cotton |
Grown By Planters
TX —
WASHINGTON, January 22.
Manufacturers receive almost one
half, retailers about * one-third,
and the growers of cotton less than
one-fifth of each dolar spent for
cotton cloth, it was revealed in a
preliminary report df the depart
ment of an analysis it has made.
UNION SERVICES TO
BE HELD AT LESLIE
LESLIE, January«22.—it was de
cided on in conference Sunday at
the Baptist church to have a union
prayer meeting at the Methodist
and Baptist churches, services to be
held on Wednesday evening. The
first service will be held at the Bap
tist church.
THETIMES’tRECORDER
PUBLISHED - Tn THE; HEART OF.
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 19
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Here are bgures and facts con
nected with the plan to weld the
power resources of the United
States and Canada into on e colos
sal sUper-power project under
public ownership. Sir Adam
Beck, chairman, (above) and (be
low Carl D. Thompson, secretary
of the Public Ownership League
of America. The may is a chart
•showing the proposed mobiliza
tion of power resources.
WEATHER
For Georgia Fair and warm
er tonight and Wednesday.
COLUMBUS KiWANIANS
TO HEAR ANDERSON
COLUMBUS, Jan. 22. ad
dress by P. T. Anderson, district Ki
wanis governor, of Macon, will fea
ture the gala meeting of the local
Civjc Club to be held Thursday
nigh( to celebrate the anniversary
week of Kiwanis International. Th?
meeting will be held in din
ing room of the Ralston Hotel and
Will be combined with ladies’ night
As special invited guests will be
representatives of the other civic
clubs, th? Chamber of Commerce,
the American Legion, and repre
sentatives of the city and , county
governments, | .
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22, 1924
CLOSE IB
NICOLAI LENINE, SOVIET
CHIEF DEAD ATMOSCOW
»YLYITCH
ULI/W REAL NOE
OF ROS
Hanging of Elder Brother by
Czar in 1886 Influenced Len
in to Become Revolutionist
3ORN A PETTY NOBLEMAN
He Had Long Been a Revolu
tionary Socialist Before Over
throw of Czarist Regime
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MOSCOW, Jan. 22.—(8y Asso
ciated Press) —Nicolia Lenine, Bol
shevik premier of Russia, is dead,
she end came at 5:50 o’clock Mon
lay afternoon, but announcement of
.is death was' withheld until several
.ours afterwards.
So long as he was alive, although
lot actively participating in the gov
ernment, he at least was its titular
lead, and death now opens position
.o other leaders.
Nikolia Lenin was born on Apyl
10, 1870, in the province of Sim
brisk. His father was a petty noble
man of peasant stock. Like many
other revolutionists Lenin was com
pelled in life to adopt the pscudon
ynq by which he is generally known
in order to avoid the atention of
he Czar’s police. His real name was
Vladimir Ylyitch Ulianov.
In 1886, when Lenin was but 16
years, old, an elder brothej was
hanged by the Czar' for participa
tion in a revolutionary movement,
lan event which undoubtedly in-
1 fluenced the subsequent direction.
lof Lenin’k life. He embraced the
II evolutionary cause at an
■’ and devoted his entire energy to
it. As .a student he was expelled
from the University of Kazan for
preaching Socialism. Subsequently
he was admitted to the Russian bar,
bpt pleaded only one case.
In 1891 the Czar’s police al
ready looked upon him as a danger
ous person. He was then studying
law and economics at the University
lof St. Petersburg, and had pub
j lishcd a treatise upon Marxism,
wfiich established him as; an author
ity on that subject.
. His interests in the theory of re
volution was accompanied by active
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CANDLER LOVE BREACH
CASE SET FOR JAN. 30TH
ATLANTA, January 22.—Asa‘G.
Candler, Sr., who defendant in
a breach jf promise fuK brought
in Federal court for the Northern
District of Georgia by Mrs. Onezima
de. Bouchelle, of New Orleans, has
just been drawn by the federal jujy
comission to serve during the week
'when his case comes up for trial.
i According to the calendar of
Judge Samuel. E'., Sibley’s the
suit has been set down for .trial
.on January 30. Mr. Candler is to
|be called to courtf Monday.
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LYNDiNVILLE. YT,
One Woman Killed and Several
Persons Injured When Busi
ness Section "is Wiped Out
LYNDONVILLE, Vt„ January 22
—One woman was killed and a
number of persons injured in a fire
which virtually wiped out the busi
ness section of this town today.
Tho loss is estimated at $500,-
000. ''
PHYSICIAN IN HOSPITAL,
EDITOR IS JAILED
WAYCROSS, January 22. Dr.
Henry Corbett, well known physi
cian, is in a critical condition at a
local hospital here, and Walter Hay,
editor of the Willacoochee Times, in
jail at Willacoochee , following a
affair which occurred • there Satur
day, the details of which became
known today.
THOUSAND ATTENDING
FARMERS CONFERENCE
ATHENS,
dresses by Governor Walker, Presi
dent Andrew M. Soule, of the state
ollege of agriculture; Dr. L. G.
Hardman, chairman of the execu
tive committee of the spmc institu
tion, and J. E. Conwell, president,
of the Georgia Cotton Growers Co
operative association, all of which
he owed the progress of agricul
tural education in the last seven
teen years and appealed to Geor
gians to arou|e a sentiment in,the
state for even greater educational
progress, the seventeenth annual
farmer’s conference began at the
state college of agriculture here
Monday afternoon. More than 1,-
000 peopule from all over thg state
are in attendance. .
NEW
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U NGER PONT
POWER DEVELOPMENT
TO REDUCE RILL OF
EVERY U.JSJNOUSTRY
Would Eliminate Cost of Haul
ing Coal by Generating Pow
er at Mine Mouth
IS SCHEME PRACTICABLE?
Calk for Combination of Steam
and Hydro-Electric Generat
ing Plants Widely Separated
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—(8y NEA
Service) —Light your home, cook
your meals, wash and iron your
clothes, run your sewing machine
and clean your house—
All by electricity, for less than
a dollar a month!
Get electrically the equivalent of
120 hired men on your farm, for
60 cents a day!
With electricity so' cheap that it
will not pay to install meters and
keep accounts!
Coupling a moderate play of imag
ination with engineering facts, Curl
D. Thompson presents this as the
outcome of the “super-power pro
ject.”
Thompson is secretary of the Pub
lic Ownership League of America.
One of its goals is mobilization if
all available electric power in the
United States and Canada into one
public owned, system.
“Is it practical?” Thompson count
ers that question. '‘lt is demon
strated reality already. The rates
of the Hydro-Electric Power Com
mission of‘Ontario, Canada, is proof
More than a million customers of
this system use current at an aver
age cost of 2 1-2 cents per kilowatt
nour. In American cities, we average
three times that mu{h.
“Sir Adam Beck, chairman of the
Ontario system, fought until this be
came a reality. He is active now
as p»esident of the Public Owner
ship League, in making a unit of
power production in the two coun
tries.”
Super-Power means simply more
and cheapet electricity supplied
from a unified system which gen
erates by both horsepower and
steam plants.
• Nearly 20,000,000. horsepower
now running away down our stream
beds would be harnessed into the
system. Coal, instead of being h au F
ed in bulk, would turn dynamos at
the mine mouth and send out its
energy by wire.
A federal super-power commis
sion to direct and control the de
velopment is the first step to real
ize the dream, says Thompson. It
would not only develop generating
plants but lay out main trunk lines
for distribution of current. The
2318 municipally t owned electric
plants, some of them in every Amer
ican state, would be the starting
points to be linked into the new sys
tem.
For hydro-electric production, at
tention would center upon the Colo
radio. Columbia and Mississippi Riv
er systems, and Niagara Falls and
the St. Lawrence River. Muscle
Shoals would be kept under public
control, completed and placed i>4
service.
Next would be the Boulder Can
yon dam on the Colorado River, for
which a bill already has been in
troduced in Congress. That dam
would be 600 feet high, cost $40,-
000,00 .furnish 750 continuous
horsepower and irrigate 1,000,000
acres.
REED, OF MISSOURI, TO
ENTER GA. PRIMARY
ATLANTA, Jan. 22. United
States Senator James A. Reed, of
Missouri, will enter the presidential
preference primary in Geogia as a
candidate for the Democatic nom
ination so President, and petitions
asking that his name be placed on
the ticket will be circulated in all
parts of Georgia at once, it was
learned definitely in Atlanta Monda
A conference of prominent friends
of the Missouri senator was held
Monday and were outlined for
an aggressive whirlwind campaign in
his behalf. ,
INDUSTRIES HERE
LEW OMK
COfIMITTEE TELL Os
NEEDS OF ffIICUS
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Principal Hale of Americufs
High School Gives Ideas Con
cerning Community Assets
FACTORIES ARE NEEDED
Says Cotton Cannot Be Aban
doned, But Acreage Should
Be Reduced on Farms
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Many lettes are reaching the
Chamber of Comjnerce Committee
named recently by President Love
lace Eva to 1 sound members of the ■
chamber as to the best methorifor
increasing business activity in Amer
icus and expanding cojnmunity pros
perity. This committee is composed
of E. B. (Everett, George 0. Mar
shall and J. Ralston Cargill, and
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l» 1H MOBIES
ENTER PBfflM LISTS
Indications Now Are That the
Race Will Be Lively, With In
terest High
With the ball started rolling
Monday afternoon, Sumter county
politics took on lively interest today,
a number of new candidates an
nouncing for various offices to be
contested for in .the primary of
March 19. An interesting develop
ment during this afternoon is found
in persistent reports that an Amer
cus woman will seek election as
county school superintendent. Such
an entry would mark woman’s first
active participation in politics as an
office seeker here, and consider
able discussion is expected *to cen
ter about this development, as the
campaign grows older. Diligent efort
this morning failed to bring forth
any authorized statement from the
lay in question, though it
may be stated she is an experienced
educator, and that issue 'of becom
ing a candidate is being seriously
considered by her, at the insistance
of a number of friends.
Another development that is be
ing discussed quite generally is the
mis-apprehension certain individuals
seem to be laboring to the effect
that the office of solicitor general
is to be decided in thjs primary. In
this connection is explained that the
solicitor generalship, now held by
Jule Felton, of Montezuma, is a
judicial circuit office, and is in no
wise affected by the county con
test now being ■waged. The office
of solicitor to be filled at. the
March' 19 primary is that of splici
tor of the City Coprt of Americus,
now held by Dan Chappell, this be
ing a county office, the incumbent
to be selected by voters of the
county. This explanation is offe
red in justice to certain candidates
who will make this race, butjiave nc
present ambition to be solicitor gen
eral.
While up there had been
no entries for sheriff, and it was
said that efforts are continuing to
I get at least one candidate into this
race before Thursday.
Friends of W. T. McMath auth
! orized his announcement for the of
fice of ordinary shortly before noon
paying his fee at the office of The
Times-Recoder, and ordering his an
nouncement for that office formally
inserted in today’s paper.
Candidates who had announced up
to noon today and tlje office each
seeks -ae as follows: Ordinary, Dr.
E. T. Mathis, Capt. John A. Cobb
and W. T. McMath; Tax Receive”,
J. R. Britton and Geo. D. Jones;
Tax Collector, B. E. Thrasher, and
Claude Johnson, I. B. Small, Judge
J of City Court of Americus, Judf?a
Harper; Solicitor of City Court of
jw. M. Harper; Solicitor of City
i Court of Americus, Robert C. Lane,
Dan Chappell; county School Com
missioner, E. J. McMath, E. T.
Moore; County Treasurer, H. D.
Watts; Clerk of Court, H. E. Allan;
Coroner, Edd Jenkins.
Other announcements, it is known
will come in withiii the next few
days, and there is every indication
that the race for several offices to
be filled will be exceedingly interest
ing. 2 --
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Taxation Already Reaching
-Danger Point’ Presidential
Candidate Says in Address
RELIEF MUST COME SOON
Bonus ‘Unnecessary and Unfair
to Soldier,’ and Likely* to
Jeopardize Stable Business -
CLEVELAND, January 22.
United States Senator Underwood,
of Alabama, candidate for the
Democratic nonfination for presi
dent, in an address her e today, hurl
ed defiahce at the Ku Kiux Klan
and served notice that he will de
mand his party in the national con
vention next Jun e to write injo iU
declaration of principles the plank
of the of 18S6.
denouncing the know-nothing move
ment of that pt/riod. “That declara
tion, my Triends,” is as applicable
to th e Ku Klux Klan of today as it
was to the know-nothings of ’SC’,**
he said.
FAVORS REDUCTION /
IN TAXES
CLEVELAND, Jan. 22.—Reduc
tion’ of taxes “to the fullest extent
possible” and defeat of the soldiers’
boritis bill Were policies adwepted
by Senator Oscar Underwood, candi
date for the Democratic Presiden
tial nomination, in an
today opening his campaign in the ;
north. The sppech, delivered at a
Chamber of Commerce luncheon,
also stressed law observance.
Taxation of the people of Amer
ica, federal and state, is “approach
ing the danger poiht, ” Senator
Underwood declared, giving' figures
to show that about one-eighth of the
national income was paid to tax -col
lectors.
The soldiers’ bonus, he asserted,
was the the ‘one impediment” tc.
tax reduction and he declared he
could not follow the ‘mental gym
nastics.” of those who advocated the
bonus and tax redaction at the
same time.
“From every Standpoint,” sav
Senator Underwood, ‘I believe the*
it would be unfortunate to pass the
bonus bill and put this additional
burden on the taxpayers of Amer
ica- It js unnecessary and also uh
.fair to the soldier himself. A few
cJoUars in the pocket today are not
as /beneficial to the young men of
America as j?crmanent, stable and
successful business conditions
throughout the country, which un
doubtedly will be jeopardized if re
lief from governmental budens is
not'received in the near future.”
In his discussion of law obser
vance the Alabama senator sain
there wll.s “ontanized defiance
against some of the sacred guaran
ties of the Constitution, such as
trial by' jury, protection of prop
erty.”
“And these fundamental warran
ties of individual liberty, secured by
that great charter,” he 'Continued,
“must fail when passion and petty
prejudice are allowed to direct the
course of government, and wjysn an
.unrestained mob directs the affairs
of man instead of even-handed jus
tice proceeding from courts of law.
“The honest and effectual en
forcement of law and order by the
courts should and must-always be
the sentiment foremost in the hearts
of the people, if in the end, this re
public is to endure. It is the plain
and unmistakable duty of. every de-'
cent citizen of this land to throw 1
the weight of his disapproval against
flagrant violators of the Constitu
tion and the law, in whatever garb
they may be found.”
In speaking for tax reduction,
Senator Underwood said the people
jwera being “overbudened by, ex-
I travagant appropriations of public
• moneys, on one hand, and the reck
| less‘and oppressive levies of taxes
( on the other.”
"The drain upon the private re-
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Mrs. Eugene Bailey left Monday
i for Birmingham, Ala., to be the
! guest of her sister, Mrs. L. C.
! Steele, for some time.
Women teachers ii\ the United
I States outnumber the men t> to 1« M .