About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1924)
GEORGIA Brief Items of News Events Throughout the State Con densed for Busy Readers. 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 I 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 PLAN DEVELOPMENT OF TUXES Electricity Too H l Dream of ‘Super-Power’ Leaders / 1 ,&■—— 1 S? S dOK / 5 I tTI *. I a/ < jLt’yi \ |wV bJL / ! I I\\ @ / J / fV v'wx % \ 2s Ah ( \ F 351 ( J / J X. ~A \ hA I y, \ \ \ J~~2_ i o.W nW — tcpK ) 0 7 — —I > L I si F|S\ / * /C£TY \ I l \ \T Ajl—\ Plants /a statc 1 \ \ \ Vz'O< z *•''' Resources ••Smot-D >\ \ \ . I ra \ PpQPCPT/QN » <? A k \ / X Xv&Futi- Rcaounses- j X. \ X. \ . co-l.* 0... Y XX APkmkd Super. |'\ ( - I lb ''wF I Wi|. ■ or 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, | . » 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 x 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 (Continued on Page 6) 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. ■ ~ x "“I NiCOLAi LENINE woown - 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 I o 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 \ 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 a* 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 (Continued On Page Four) 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 -- New York Future* r FC. "*Open High Low Close Jan. .. Mar. . 32.72i32.88|32.2032.88|33.07 Mav ..32.9213a.22133b.41133.2i1133.28 July ..31.88i32.20|32.30132.18132.20 Oct. ~27.75|27.98i28.04|27.82|27.82 Stricty middling 32 cents. PRICE FIVE CENTS HU. «N DECLK FO? DEED! Os BUNUS JW LOWER TWTM \ 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- (Continued on Page Two.) 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 .
