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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
