About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1924)
C_l J* V/ IX XJ k< I Brief Items of News Events I Throughout the State Con- I densed for Busy Readers. I ANDERSON TO SPEAK -< AT GRAY SATURDAY GRAY, Ga., Jan. 24. Citizeits of Johes uounty in mass meeting, here Saturday morning at 11 o’clock will hear discussions of the highway situation in the county, W. T. Anderson,- editor of the Ma con Telegraph; T. Rad Turner, president 0$ the Bibb National Bank, Macon, and the district high way engineer from Dublin will be among the speakers. The meeting is being held in con nection*-with efforts to better the Jones county roads. REVIVAL SERVICES AT ANDREW COLLEGE CUTHBERT, Ga., Jan. 24. President F. G. Branch, of Andrew College, announces that Rev. J. A. Smith, of Macon, will be in Cuth bert this week for the purpose of conducting a series of revival serv ices in tha college chapel. It is the custom of the college authorities to have a revival season in the college chapel especially for the student; body each year. Some noted mini ster is invited to deliver the mes sages and these meetings mean much to the students and faculty. MAY MOVE UP PRIMARY DATE IN COLQUITT. MOULTRIE, Ga., Jan. 24.—The date of the Colquitt county primary set for -’Feb. 27 probably will be moved .fopward to. March 19, the day of! the state Presidential pre ferential primary, it was stated to day by'James L. Dowling, chairman of the Ideal Democratic executive comnikle. He said that members of the committee would be called to gether Saturday for the purpose of discussing the proposed change. COMMISSIONERS ORDER REFUNDS MADE ATLANTA, Jan. 24.—The Geor gia Public Serviee Commission has just handed down an order direct ing the ’Atlantic Coast Line Rail road to refund to the Blackshear Manufacturing Company, the Brant ley concern, all overcharge made upon that company in excess of 90 cents per ton on kainit moving for the company between Savannah and Blackshear i nApril 1923, amount ing to a refund of approximately ?l‘,ooo. * TESTING NEW GOLF BALLS AT JEKYL ISLE BRUNSWICK, Ga, Jan. 24. Jekyl Isldtkl, the home of multi millionaires, located six miles from this city, and which is one of thw most exclusive resorts in the coun try, is at present the testing ground for golf. Upon the result of the tests now being made by some of the best known golfers in the coun try, may depend the future ball to be used in all big golf matches; in fact, the game, in away, may bq revolutionized by the experiments being made on seclusive Jekyl. HAZLEHURST PRIMARY ELECTION WEDNESDAY HAZLEHURST, Ga, Jan. 24.—1 n the county primary here Wednes day Robert Harrison was re-elected ordinary, defeating P. A. Carter, former commissioner of roads and revenues, and John T. Mims, D.' L. Evans Was re-elected sheriff, de feating R. H. Hand by eight votes. J. D. Frier was elected tax re ceiver, defeating A .B. Williams, present receiver. B. B. McDonald and C. W. White, W. L.Reagin is leading J. M. Odum for tax collec tor by one vote, with one precinct out. George N. Yarbrough was re elected county school superintend ent, defeating J. A. Walker by more than three to one. R. J. Roddenbery was re-elected clerk Superior Court without oposition. MACON COMMERCE CHAMBER TO ELECT MACON, Jam 24.—The election of officers, an address on city and county governments and the presen tation of a financial plan for the erection of a municipal stadium will be the features of the fifty fourth annual meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce which will be held tonight at 7 o’clock at the Hotel Dempsey. Ladies have been invited and more than 1,000 invitations have been sent out to members of the organization and members of the Stadium Commisison. SEEK TO PUT RANKIN FIRM IN BANKRUPTCY MACON, Jan. 24.—Three credi tors filed Ai involuntary petition in bankrur-ty yesterday z against the G.’P. Rankin copany of Ma con, in the United States District Court. A receiver was applied for Claims of creditors were the Dan nenberg company, $844,05; Quality Skirt Company, of Savannah, $141.- 75, and Cluett-Pcabody & Co, Inc, ofi New York, $35 43. Brock Sparks and Russell and Jones. Park and Johnson wer the legal representa tives for the creditors, a hearing on the petition will be held Feb ruary 2. The Temper ance, Union has a national member ship of 500,000 , THE TIMESBMCoI PUBLISHED IN THE OF DlXlffll : FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—No. 4 ENGLISH ROADS STILIT GERMAN WEAVERS UNION TO STffl IS. HER DREAM REALIZED ’""S Hr x z 3t"?PE C' ■ * JlfeA A :Jk FW fl I • iW • I IwLjtif kRw * II B i write ••4 ? FImB . « i .IBllgllil When Ivirs. Helen r>ane (abc.ve) 95, unveiled the sculp tured portrait of General Robert E. Lee’s head (insert) on Stone mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., a dream of many years was real- MASS MEETING NOMINATES ANDERSON FOR COMMISSION A telephone message from Leslie at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon an nounced that at a meeting of forty representative men of that end of the county, W. T. Anderson Was selected to run in the March 19 pri mary as a candidpt for county comnfissioner. L. Wilson, of Leslie, presided during the meeting, arid information given Times-Recorder is to the effect that DeSoto, Cobb, Flintside and ether communities were well represented in the'gathering. The decision to announce Mr. An derson as a candidate for commissioner was unanimous, and a strong committee was named to fdhnulate plans for conducting his campaign. . Mr. Anderson is cashier of the Bank of Leslie, and on e of the strong est young busines men .in the southeastern part of Sumter county He has been engaged in banking at Leslie during several years past and during that period has-.been active in advancing the civic interests of nis home county as, co-operating with enthusiasm in every worthy movement started within the county. So far as known here Mr. Anderson has never before been a candidate for public office. Hi: formal announcement, it is stated, will b e authorized for publication ii Fridayjs Times-Recorder. » GATEWOOD AND PARKER OPPOSE ALLEN AND HEYS 1 New interest was injected into the county primary today by the an nouncement of T. Furlow Gatewood, Sr., and Elton C. Darker as candi-. date for clerk of court in the capac ity of clerk and deputy as ils the custom among aspirants for chia place. Mr. (fatewood is running for the office, and his annoui cement appearing in The Times-Recorder today for the, first time, stares he will appoint Mr. Parker his dep uty in the event of election. Previous to the announcement of this ticket, it had been reported Henry P. Everett would enter th? race, with Clyde J. Williams ar [deputy,, but up to late this after noon this report had failed to devel op an authorized announcement. There were no other entries auth orized up to noon in any of the races to be decided at this primary, SECOND TRIAL RESULTS IN SECON CONVICTION I CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis., Jan. j ft.— John A. McCormick, former Ladysmith, Wis., grocer Wednesday was found guilty for the second time on a charge of murder of his wife, and cill be returned « • the state prison at Waupun to speni the! remainder of his life. The jury in 4 I eluded five women. j The retrial of McCormick was! granted after he had serve 1 seven | years of his life sentence. His ap'-1 peal for a new trial, based on ! contention that certain evidence I 1-as accepted at the first triai in ?rror, was granted by the Wiscon sin Supreme" court in August, 1923. if He was returned , tq. his cell in lhe state prison today. ( rtized. It was Mrs. Plane, wid owed in the Civil War, who | conceived the idea of a memorial Gutz.m Borglum designed the work, of which the head of I Lee is a part. 0 though reports consist persistently that \\. R. Drane will be a candi- ’ date for county surveyor, and that. 11 Robert T. Hawkins will enter the ■race for solicitor of the City Court of Americus. I Both the new candidate for clerk and his deputy are prominent res- ■ idents of Americus, with influen ‘; tial connections and friends through out the county. Mr. Gatewood was, a number of years ago, deputy clerk of the court, serving with the late I C. A. Chambliss in that position dur- ■ iug approximately three years, and r therefore entirely familiar with the duties of the office. Since retir- ■ ing from office he has been engag ed in business here, while his run ning mate, Mr. Parker, formerly an Americus warehouseman here, 13 now engaged in farming. ■ MACON KIWANIANS OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY - ■" ' MACON, January 24.—The 9th anniversary of . Kiwariis Interna tional was observed in the lunch eon program of the Macon Kiwanis club yesterday at the Hotel Demp sey, with Dr. George Stanley Fra- I zier making the principal address, ; on the ideals and spiritual power j of organization. Mrs. Randolph Jaques, Jr., of the I Macon Better Committee, land Joseph Seligman, former club secretary, now a resident of New ' ark, N. J., were guests, making short talks. The coal Consumption of the United States annually approxi mates 600,000,000 tons. "AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WIMILWMS TO CONTINUE STfIIKEj CONFEfIENCE IS OFT, Proposed Mediation Effort Has j Fallen Through, Authoritative I Announcement Says 2fPT TO DISCUSS ISSUES h ’ g J-Cretary of Strikers’ Union Says He ‘Regrets Strike ’ Must Continue’ LONDON, Jan. 24.—'The pro posed conferenuce between railway managers and enginemen for a dis cussion of issues involved in, the present strike had fallen\through, and J. Bromley, secretary and as sociate editor of locomotive neers and firemen, announjed afternoon "he regretted" the strike ' music continue, EON IS PLAN FOR DISTRICT IET trank Oliphant, Chairman of Program Committee, Says Plans Are Maturing MACON, Jan. 241—PIdns for the entertainment of the conference >f Rotary clubs in the. thirty-ninth dis trict, to be held in Macon March 17 , and 18, werw discussed at the Week- • ly luncheon of the r Macon Rotary " Club yesterday. » I The program committee, heade-i by Frank Oliphant, reported that . plans -for the convention are pro f grossing rapidly. Hotel and con vention rooms accommodations have been practically assured, it was an ’ nounced. More than 1,000 dele- 1 gates are expected to attend the 2 conference. Cliff Mortoji, in charge of the 4 committee to arrange for hotel ac commodations, reported that the - Hotel Lanier had been designated • headquarters for the conference and s hat provisions had been made for ( more than 800 delegates. y The Grand has been re served for a convention hall for the two days the conference will be in Session, and the band from the in fantry school at Fort Benning prob ably will be engaged to funish music for the convention. District Governor J. Kendrick , Guernsey, of Orlando, Fla., will nt | tend the Rotary luncheon next Wednesday, it was announced. ; sechtlry hughTs : ffl® CSBLIBGE k i Policy Toward Mexico Called I Great Contribution to Peace of Entire World 3, ■ k NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—The pol e icy of the Coolidge administration in dealing with the Mexican rev d olutionary movement was described e by Secretary Hughes in an address •- here tonight a$ "the greatest con ;■ tribution directly within our power i- and in accord with our established II traditions and manifest interest, to 3 the cause of world peace. i "This hemisphere should be the exemplar of peace,” Mr. Hughes said “and we look with confidence to f 'creation, of a unity of sentiment of the American republics against re sort to the brutal arbitrament of - force in political controversies. To this end the United States gladly g gives its co-operation.” Speaking under the title, Recent Questions and Negotiations, before l " a meeting of the Gouacil on For ;, eign Relations, Mr. Hughes also out r lined the purposes of the liquor i treaty with Great Britain, signed to- I day in and explained I why the Administration considered it necessary to give up extra terri b torial rights in negotiating the new . treaty with Turkey. g The secretary’s discussion of Mex ico was prefaced by a recital of the steps that led up to the signing of e the two claims conventions by which - the Obregon government was se conded diplomatic recognition. AY AFTERNOON' JANUARY. . WEATHER ■ For Georgia rain this after-M noon mid tonight* Friday partlyW| cloudy; no change in tempera- II tui'e. . v. 11 HOLLIDAY GIVES STORji OF FIGHT ft! HOI f l HEGRO, OO CIO Sawmill Superintendent Says H and Men With Him SouglM to Arrest MAN i U<l ,11 r ■ ’I f . : !\ Wounded I H t .lames I’aiti Woods, all white killing, .'wording to premeditated and not due ■■ Ku Klux activities, none of the killed or wounded being members that order, or masked at the) time. Holliday says that during Tues day, afternoon Oscar Clark, Jr., an employe of his lumber company, neglected his work and caused the breaking of a valuable piece of ma chinery. He resented being repri manded for this neglect, and when Holliday went to his home at the end of the day’s work he was ac-f ' costed by Oscar Clark, Sr., who threatened his life. Only the fart that he drovt away from the Clark home prevented his being killed,' Holliday said last night. Later in the night, he said, in company with a number of others, he went to Clark’s home with the intention of arresting the negro and bringing him to jail in Americus. As soon as the white men, riding in •two automobiles reached Clark’s house a negro woman left the place. This woman, Holliday says, was tak en by ohe of the white men and re quired to return to the house. Bar ber, Dr. Williams and Russell then went to the back of the house and entered the kitchen through a win dow and waited. A demand at the front door by Holliday that Oscar Clark come out resulted in the negro breaking through the front door with an axe, one of Holliday’s companions there narrowly escaping being struck by the blow. A few minutes after wards a negro girl inside the room where Clark was opened the door and the negro pushed his gun bar rel throug a narrow opening, firing five shots in Bapid succession. , These shots, wounding several of the white men resulted, in some dis order, and while the wounded were being put into ears, another shot /was head. This shot, Holliday be lieves, was the shot that ended Bar bers’ life, it being his belief that Barber was first shot down in the I house and later killed outright ■ when the negro left by the back I door. Barber was not missed from . among his com'panions until the last I shot was heard. J The body of Barber was found Wednesday lying prone upon the . floor of the deserted negro "cabirf" I at a point some distance from the , window where he had entered, with ■ almost the entire top of hu> head blown off. Oscar Clark ami his son • both disappeared following the shooting and had not been arrested up to early tonight, though posses of Crisp county officers are search ing the section where the tragedy occurred in an effort to locate the missing men. i STREET PAVING IS BEING RESUMED AGAIN THOMASVILLE, Jan. 24.—The work of laying the concerete on Madison street between Jackson and Jefferson started again inesdiy and was continued through • the 1 lay. It is expected that the en tire block will be laid by the even ing, half of the street being covered The machine has been out of cdfiM mission during the cold weather 1» is now functioning very Barber night a Em imuM 4 FaM fl W'' . • ~ HOUSE OF SILENT ON fl BENTON HARBOjfI 24.- Tilt- House ol'flH tv <1 today re;M|i of fay I'urnelMH !'•••' iaiiioi fugitive. M| colony. ■■ PREPARING Pr.NSW LISTS IN fl VALDOSTA, Ja*n. Zl.- Holeombe is making up I lists to be sent to thd Commissioner in Atlantal does not know when th’ money will b» paid. Thg sioner Major MeGregori that it is “utterly imposl when the money will B 'for the pensions.'^Mr. ffl send the lists right there will be no delay® All of the claimants, H “new,” will get SIOO eaW he says. ■ DR. ALLEN’S CAM FOUND NEAR fl John Mattox, a neglfl chanic, called Dr. 11. E® night and reported/that ■ the physician’s ear al® road a few miles belowß ■Wien that place and ■• H afternoon. ■ i tch along ■I ’ ■. fir-■. jfl
