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GEORGIA Brief Items of News Events Throughout the State Con t densed for Busy Readers. LEADING SPORTSMEN VISIT DOVER HALL BRUNSWICK, Jan. 28—Dover Hall, purchased several years ago and made e, cltlb by a number of baseball magnates,- including big league owners, managers, directors, sport writers, etc., has been the rendezvous of many prominent men during the past few weeks and is now entertaining quite a large number who come down each winter to fish and hunt on the property* which includes many hundred acres. SERIES OF HOLD-UPS STAGED IN ATLANTA ATLANTA, Jan. 28.—One person is believed to be fatally Wounded, two others are badly cut and sever al others are suffering from minor injuries as a result of a series holdups late Saturday night. J. H. Pritchett, 465 Beecher street, is at Grady hospital not ex cted to recover as the result of -eing slugged late Saturday night by two unidentified negro bandits. FORESI RY CONGRESS STRTS AT AVANNAH SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 28—The main floor of the Municipal audi torium here has been converted into a veritably exposition of woods in every stage of evolution from liv ing logs to. finished product in pre paration for the opening of the southern forestry congress here to day. Samples of miss-cut, wrongly boxed and diseased timber; pine products,' from rosin to extracts from pine oil; turpentine stills and the latest cups for taking* rosin from pines, machinery and imple ments used in forestry work arc in cluded among the exhibits. RABUN LEGISLATOR DIES SUDDENLY CLAXTON, Ga., Jan. 28.—James E. Bleckley, Rabun C9unty repre sentative in the Georgia legisla ture, died suddenly at the residence here Sunday l morning at 4 o’clock. He is survived -by his widow; three sons, Thomas, Leon, and Frank Bleckley, and three daugh ters, May, Eula and Druella Bleckley. Funeral and interment will take place at the Baptist church Tues day. REPUBLICAN PRIMARY DATE APRIL 30TH ATLANTA, Jah. 28.—Members of the republican state central com mittee of Georgia, of which Louis Phillips is chairman, at a meeting Saturday fxed April 30 as a date for tre state conventon in Atlanta to select delegates to the republican national convention to be held at Cleveland, Ohio. Shortly after the meeting about fifty leading republicans of Fulton (Continueik on Page Two.) STATE GOWMTS HID HMVENOE Figures Indicate There Will Be No Shortage of Funds for State Uses WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Total revenues of the state governments in 1922 amounted to $1,159,445,130 or $10.17 per capita, according to a study of figures of that year made public tonight. Total expenditures amounted to $1,280,237,898, or an average of $11.82 for each person, consisting of expenses for mainten ance and operation of state govern ments, $920,884,820; interest on debt $41,308,039; and payments for permanent improveemnts, $318,045,- 039. Expenditures of the state gov ernments, therefore, exceeded rev enue by $120,792,708, or $1.12 per capita. The per capita of revenue receipts for all states was $4.66 in, 1915, increasing to $10.71 in 1922. The per capita of governmental costs of the states increased from $5.03 in 1915 to $11.82 in 1922. , The figures indicate, according to thg department of commerce’s state ment on the. subject, that revenues are sufficient to cover ordinary ex penses of the state governments, pay the* interest on the 'public (debt, and a part of the cost of perman ent improvements, the difference! being met by the issuance of bonds. The payments from the proceeds of the sale of these bonds are reported as costs of government the year stich payments are made; the taxes and other revenues collected to meet the principal and interest of such debt are recorded as a revenue the year collection is made. From the total cost of government in 1922 of the 48 states amount ing to $1,280,898, a total of $9lB, 187,367, or 71.7 per et it for main tenance and operation of general departments, consisting of $71,206,- 450 for general government; $52,- 738,711 for protetcion to person and property; $42,021,912 for de velopment and conservation of na tural resources; $21,995,742 for health and sanitation; $106,337,- 199 for highways; fjr charities, hospitals, and correction.- ; $329,863,282 for schools; $2,002,■ 778 for libraries; $1,869,609 for re- , (Continue)! On Page Three) T HEf IMESHRECO RDER PUBLISHED IN HE ART"pF DIXIE" FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 24 NEW INTEREST IS SHOWN* IN COUNTY POLITICS TWO FAMILIES WIPED’OUT BY BLAST MANY GREEKS REPORTED DYING FROM EXPOSURE Is Candidate Meet a man figuring promi nently now in the turmoil of Mexican politics. He is conceios, minister of public in struction of Mexico. He may be proposed as a compromise candi date for the presidency, and in this way De la Huerta may con sent to withdraw his candidacy upon th e condition that General Calles, President Obregon’s can didate?, give his EICIUKE EKUDULEKS SUED FOR HUGE SUMS NEW YORK, January 28. Sidney K. Samuelson, proprietor of a theater at Newton, N. J., today filed suit for $450,000 under the Sherman act, naming | Will H. Hays and a number of ; the largest motion picture pro- i ducer and distributors in the | United States as defendant, scirml] DEW 111 SfVEPI COLD WHTHER in mm Hundred and Fifty-Six Civilians Die of Exposure Near Sa- Icniki, News Dispatch Says THREE SOLDIERRS FREEZE Hapless Victims Compelled to Live Under Canvass Shelters Succumb to Exposure ATHENS, Jan. 28. Scores of persons have been frozen to death in the exceptional coliHwave ■ pre vailing throughout Groce. • A message from Saloniki says three soldiers and 156 civilians liv ing under canvas shelter died of ex posure, , PHILADELPHIA CALLED •WETTEST GF CITIES’ MOULTRIE, Jan. 28.—The Moul trie churches, through their pastors and church leaders, have worked evangelistic .campaign, it is an nounced. Special meetings will be gin at the threj leading local church es on April 20, which is Easter Sun day. The meetings will run through a period of two weeks. The suggestion for a simultaneous evangelistic campaign* was first made some time ago and from the first the idra was well received. The final details were agreed upon at a joint meeting of representatives of the churches interested. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 28, 1924 W EXPLOSION FATAL TO ELEVEN PERSONS ST PAWTUCKET, K I. Woman Lighted Lamp to In vestigate Source of Gas Odor, and Terrific Blaze Followed WHOLE FAMILY PERISHED Michael Conway Among Tht>se Killed When Explosion De stroyed 2 Houses PAWTUCKET, R. 1., Jam 28— Eleven persons were killed by a gas explosion in a two-family house at Manville early today. Mrs. Mi,- chael Conway was awakened by her daughter who complained of odor of gas, who lit a lamp anef the explosion followed. , All of the Conway family except Michael Conway escaped. In tie adjoining house, which was destroyed, it is believed a family of 10 perished. FIVE BURNED TO DEATH AT FARRELL FARRELL, Pa., Jan. 28. Five persons were burned to death and four others seriously injured in a fire which destroyed four houses here early Sunday. • The dead are: Wade Poling, Mr. and Mrs. John Cioco, Dovid Orz, and Mrs. James McAuley. „ A series of explosions preceded the fire and the police expressed the belief that they were caused by a broken gas main which served the houses destroyed. Firemen were seriously hampered by explosions af ter they reached the scene and it was not until five hours had passed that they‘were able to recover tho charred bodies. Poling was a star athlete of the Farrell high school.- HEM COLLISION NEAP PALESTINE. TEX. Passenger and Freight Meet on Main Line, Resulting in Injury of Several Persons PALESTINE, Tex., January 28. —Several persons are''reported in jured in a head-on collision today between a southbound passenger and freight engine on the Interna tional Great Northern near Over ton. A relief train with doctors and nurses left here for the scene of the wreck. ftfirtsilLL WOPKHMINEWOUTH Little Hope Being Held Out That Any cf Those Entombed Will Survive SHANKTOWN, Pa., Jan. 28. Hindered by water and gas, the res cue crews which have been working ceaselessly since Saturday night, early today were battling to reach a small group of miners entombed in the Lancashire mine of the Barnes & Fucker Coal Co. Little hope is held that they sur vive. The bodies of 31 who died as the; result of explosion of gas in the mine late Saturday were re moved yesterday and last night. The bodies of five others have been located. Forty men lost their lives in the explosion which late Saturday wrecked the Lancashie mine. QUARTERLY MEETING AT RYLANDER ON TUESDAY It is announced that the quarter ly meeting which was to have been reld at Rylander church on the Plains Methodist circuit last Thurs day, was rained out that day and will be held next Tuesday, the 29th, at I o'clock in the afternoon. There will be no dinner on the ground but the usaul order of worship will be observed with preaching by Dr. W. C Lovett, the presiding elder. COMPARING MACHINES z ~ —r- - —.' \ //J \ p ‘‘■f ■ '..v ■ ? ; h— - J — -1 \ \ J ■ - r 3 -----.p’ " a I - M ...Jl- . '" ' > '“>■ V !?-■ - OIL SCANDAL MAY FORCE DENBY OUT MASKED MEN GET $35,000 BUTTE, Montana, Jan. 28.—Two masked robbers held up the Mist Houla postoffice today and got away with between $30,000 and $35,000 in currency. FEDERALSIoNTINUE DRIVE TOW VERI CRUZE REPORTS SAY Occupation of Esperanza Mo mentarily Expected. Mexican War Secretary Announces EARLY REPORTS IN ERROR These Had Credited Federal Forces With Being Already in Command There MEXICO CITY, Jan. 28.—Occu pation of Esperanza is expected mo mentarily, according to latest offi cial reports on federal offensive against Vera Cruz. Secretary of War Serrano states that previous reports that Esperanza had been captured were erroneous. GOMPERS BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON,' Jan. 28.—Pres ident Gompers, of the American Federation, appeared today before the senate sub-committee consider ing Russian recognition, but be fore liis testimony got under way the hearing was adjourned indefin itely. EXPECT BRITISH RAIL STRIKE TO END SOON LONDON, Jan. 28. -The. public i is hoping for an early end to; the 1 railway strike as the result of yes terday's negotiations in which the committee of the trades union con gress, the railway managers and the associated society of locomotive en gineers and fireman all took part. Navy Dept. Head May Be Asked to Qut As Result of Disclosures WASHINGTON, January 28. Disclosures in the oil lease scandal, which has apparently shaken the en tire Coolidge administration to its very foundation already, may soon result in the resignation of Secre tary Denby of the navy department. Asistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ia also men tioned in this connection, both he and Denby having approved the leases over the protests of naval officers. This week promises further sen sations in the Fall oil scandal, .in volving new figures of prominence. It is expected that special coun sel to handle the Fall oil scandal will be appointed Iby President Coolidge before night. Coolidge spent several hours con sidering names of available law yers who doukl undertake the work, and inspecting testimony and spe cial reports bearing on the oil cases. There is a persistent rumor among democratic senators that when Fall takes the stand, he will bring iu the name of a prominent Republican senator through whose hands sums of a few thousand dol lars at a time are said to have pass ed to the former secretary of in terior. Senator Smoot, of Utah, also may be asked to take the stand to exlpain an unsigned memorandum purporting to explain how Fall re ceived the SIOO,OOO loan which Do heny now claims to have advanced. Incidentally, this story is different from any of the others. This memorandum is suspected by some senators, of having been perpared and furnished to a senator of the investigating eommitttee to be handed to a witness who was to have testified in behalf of Fall. But between the time the memoran dum was written and the date when the witness was to hav e appeared Fall issued his statement about having received the loan from E. B. McLean, Washington publisher, and the was never called for. Senator Walsh stumbled onto it in going over the files of the committee. Suggestions that Secretary of the Navy Denby should b e asked to re sign are growing more pointed as the full import of the oil lease is grasped. iff WEATHER For Georgia Partly eloudy and warmer tonight and Tues day. DAWES NOW IN PARIS READY TO PROCEED TO MEETING IT BERLIN American Expert Who Will Sit With Reparations Sub-Body Prepares for Task PROBE GERMAN FINANCES Full Committee to Continue Consultations on Trial at Tomorow’s Session PARIS JAN. 28. Chairman Charles C. Dawes, head of the re parations experts committee last session, is in Paris today before proceeding to Berlin tonight (for further grappling with the prob lem of Germany’s finances. Committee men will continue con sultations tomorrow on the trial. TWOImfINGE CHILDREN'S QUARREL NEW ORLEANS, January 28. When the children of Ben Lindsey and William Oliphant quarreled yesterday while at play at their home at Pinegrove, the fathers arm ed themselves with shot guns and faced each other. Wnen th e smoke cleared, Lindsey was found to be mortally-wounded, but as he fell he 1 pulled th e trigger seriously wound ing Oliphant. WEATHER FORECAST WASHIGTON, Jan. 28. The weather outlook for the period Jan uary 28 to February 2, inclusive, for the South Atlantic and East Gulf,States is as follows: Fair weather will probably prevail until Wednesday or Thursday, when there will be rains. The weather will be cold during the first part of the week, with rising temperatures dur ing the middle of the week , and colder again at the close of the week. —ork Futures i t PC. Open High Low Close * Mar. ..33.21133.20133.20j32.89133.12 May .33.47(33.42133.43133.15133.43 •July ..32.22.32.04’33.16132.89(32.16 Oct. ~27.85127.80128.00127.70127.95 Dec. . 27.50127.30(27.30i27.25 t 27.25 Americus strict middling, 32 l-2c. PRICE FIVE CENTS BSS HE® PUTS B. f. 9STEBLI! IN MIBIB PH Chairman Neil A. Ray’s Friends Announce Him to Succeed Himself HOGG’S NAM EMENTIONED R. T. Hawkins Gets Into Race for City Court Solicitor, Making Fourth Entry ANDERSONVILLE, Jan. 28—A mass» meeting of the voters here to day unanimously resolved to put B. F. Easterlin, Sr., into the race for county commissioner, as Anderson ville’s representative on that board. There was a representative num-, ber present at the mass meeting 1 when it was brought out that An-« dersonville district has been without -representation on the board of commissioners during a number of years past, A. F. Hodges been the last resident of this dis trict to hold such an ofjee. The meeting was h«ld in the absence of Mr. Easterlin, who is now in Florida on a business mission and the meet ing authorized his cafididacy with out first referring the matter to him. Funds sufficient to defray thy expense of announcement and payment of committee fees were contributed by those present at the mass meeting, and arrangements were perfected to conduct Mr. East erlin’s campaign on a high ' plane, with workers to be sent frito every precinct in the county in his inter est. NEILL A. RAY’S FRIENDS PRESENT HIS NAME Another entry into the commis sioner’s race today is that of Neill A. Ray, chairman of the present; board of county commissioners whose friends authorized announce ment that re will be n candidate to succeed himself. . Mr. Ray, wfco is one of the coun ty’s largest farmers, and who 1 has been a most useful member of the present board, it is known, had been solicited by many friends to auth orize the use of his name during several weeks agb, but up. to today he had given no indication of his purpose to make the race. Today’s announcement was handed The Times-Recordqr by one of the rep resentative business men of Ameri- Ray, and it is assured that fie will receive strong support for re-ele;- tion. During the day it was reported from more quarter that friends of Charles 8. Hogg were, urging hipr to become a candidate in this race, but this report up to , 2 o’clock this afternoon had not' ' beep confirmed. Mr. Hogg who is one of the county’s progressive far mers, lives a few miles out of Amer icus, and it is said among his friends that he is exceptionally well quali fied for a place on the board of! commssioners, being a successful business man, as well as a prosper ous farmer, and widely known throughout"the county. Another interesting development in the political situation today came in th form of the announcement of R. T. Hawkins as a candidate for solicitor of the City Court of Amer cus. Mi. Hawkins anticipated candi dacy had been talked upon 'the streets durink several days past, and today’s announcement came as no surprise to Jiis friends, who are pre paring to support him solidly. He is one of the younger members of" the bar, and well qualified, to make a constructive race for the position he seeks. In addition, he possesses a large an influential family con nection and this morning stated he expects to make a, very active cam paign for election. SUIT AGAINST SUGAR COFFEE EXCHANGE LOSES ' WASHINGTON, January 28. —. The government's suit against the New York Sugar and Coffee Ex- , change which was charged with op- I, erating in violation of the anti trust laws was dismissed tdoay by * the Supreme ourt. t
