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v . WEATHER For Georgia Fair tonight probably heavy frost to coast - ; Thursday mostly x cloudy and somewhat warmer, Jweßm ing unsettled in north, portion. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 38 BIG ALBANY BANK FAILED TO OPEN FOR BUSINESS TODAY p o'o ' © ,o o o o o o o o o o o o. c o o o - o o ofc o RELATIONS ARE SEVERED WITH HONDURAS OO'OOOOOOOO -000 0 00000 000 o o o _o o HEAVY FIGHTING AGAIN RAGING IN SOUTH°OF GERMANY GLENN YOUNG, HERRIN DICTATOR *g ONCE STALKED GEORGIA CRIMINALS TWO-GUN vr» HE IS W 18IDINS. BUT HE PUS PISTOL *1 Can Knock ’Em Over at 600 Yards With This Sweetheart,’ He Says of Automatics WHOLE WORKS’ IN TOWN Recently Young Killed Two Men in Qalconda, and Es caped* Arrest for Deed HERRIN, 111., Feb. 13.—Here’s a one.-niinute conversation with S. Glenn Young, whom the Ku Kltix Klan imported for a bootleg clean up of Herrin, center of troubles in ‘‘bloody Williamson” county. Q. Where’s the mayor? A. Locked up. Q. Where’s the sheriff? A. In jail charged" with murder. Q. Where’s the council? A. I haven’t •. seen them. They haven’t been bothering. x Q. And the constable is dead and the chief deputy sheriff seriously wpundcd? Pes. Q. Well, you are jusjt about tho whole works then? "You hear com plaints about dangerous sidewalks, gather evidence in criminal cases and enforce the law? A. That’s just about-it. Young was appointed chief of po lice by the assistant chief of pb-’ lice. He is-<irtual dictator here. Young’s cleanup began three months ago. More than 400 cases are awaitihg trial as result of his raids. “Don’t get it in your head that I am a fanatical prohibitionis,” He explains. “I believe in honest laW enforcement. Every raid I made was legally made. The best citi zeps ans 1 have been doing what the regulalry constituted authorities failed'to do. “Everything went along fine un til they brutally murdered Consta ble Cagle. If we were ndt decdnf, lawabiding citizens we wou|d*have real trouble here right now. Efut we preferred to let the law take its course.’’ Young is “the toughest man in the United States,” or ‘the bravest best loved law enforcer in the country,” depending upon who ;s talking. A few months before he Was (failed here, the sheriff at Gblcoridh sent for him. The sheriff feared to arrest a father and son \ who were considered “bad actors.” ‘ Young grew tired of waitingjn ambush. He walked into tJid house just as the “bad actors” open ed fire on him. Young killed them both, and he was not The townspeople presented Him with S6OO. They made quite a stii. over Young in Georgia a few years ago when alone he stalked three mur derers into the mountains, broke into a cabin, arrested and dis armed his men. ate breakfast with them and then marched them to jail. The Bill Hart pattern of a twd gun man" is not quite followed in Young’s case. He is not silent. ' Without being a braggart, he is a talker.. Whoever is with Young must listen. He is 5 feet 7 inches tall; of wiry athletic btiild; slightly bowßggid. His street corner manner is mild hut grim. His eyes are bluish gray, of mournful expression, his hair is getting thin, and from his right ear down the jaw runs a four-inch .scar which he Says he “didn’t get from shaving.” He is 40; was born in Phillips county, Kansas; studied medicine; ranched in Texas and adopted man hurtting as a profession. Young will pat one of the pearl handled, long-barreled, blue-steel automatics on his hip and say,’ “I can knock ’em over at 600 yards with this sweetheart.’’ . The guns he carried sak an inch THE TiWesBrScORDEF PUBLISHED IN T, * ■ftl i i j® 1 ■ J m#' I 4 >| I 1 iil lift V- ’A ' C y , ™ / j| -I Wil'-'*’ .or two b low his :• 1 ways> vis- ible, always'han And in Her .iCet today—: Klai '.stntn pre .earing stars, home-made r uii, stand on corn ers. They arc '• <ung’s police force. Boy soldiers ciom Springfield, Decatur and Cairo wear heavy re volvers arid carry loaded rifles. Miners gather at corners and taty in whispers. Leading questions from strangers always bring the an swer “I don’t know.” With the klan in control, t'. anti klan faction stays home. - Herrin, with its soldier ar.. civi lian guard, is the quietest tov>n‘ in Illinois. But the backfire of an auton bile sqnds threescore ' militiamc . and klan police on the run. Tri town isx.ready for anything that may happen. FARMER LOSES BOTH ARMS IN ACCIDENT ROCKMART, Ga., Feb. 13. Both arms, of Hugh Morgan, Polk county farmer, were almost entire ly severed from his body early this morniug when the blade of a circu lar saw with tghich he was cutting wood was thrown from ■■ its bear ing, striking the operator. AMERICUS. GA.-WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY U, 1924 ffl SWEET POTITOES SENT 18 BIRMINGHM Eight Farmers to Co-Operate in Despatch of 500 Bushel Car Hill-Cured Tubers George 0; Marshall, farm demonstration agent, today for warded to Birmingham a carload of hill-cured sweet potatoes, which brought the producers a round price ,of sl.Be per hundred pounds for the lot. The tubers wete all 'f the Borff> Rieo variety, and had ■ n cured in hills on farms where .icy were produced, eight farmers contributing potatoes embraced in the shipment, Tho car is the second to be sha ped from Americus this season, and the i price the best realized for po tatoes shipped from this point.. There is an excellent demand, Mai chall safd this afternoon, for No. 1 sweet potatoes, with buyers will ing to pay cash f. o. b. cars here and few farmers having tubers on though a scarcity of potatoes exists * 'X. ' .K. 1 x>,. •< B;:, ILUy ww 111 ilgs .y< ; 1 • Above at right S. Glenn Young; left, (tbove: 'Machine gun mounted on balcony across street from Herein’* city hall. Other maohi*te guns are on trucks, ready to be dispatched to. any trouble zone; bottom, left, Illinois militiamen petroll ing Herrin streets. NORWAY RECOGNIZES SOVIET GOVERNMENT MOSCOW, February 13. Norway has given the Russian Soviet; government recognition de jure, the foreign office Was informed today by telegram from Madame Kollantayy Soviet representative in Norway. HAD HUF MILLION IN OMK MB FORH TIIDIBB SURPLUS Capital Stock of Embarrassed Irutituticn $200,000, State ment Shows DEPOSITORS NQT TO LOSE Over-Extension of Credit and Shrinkage in Deposits Cause of Suspension ALBANY, Ga., February 13. Citizens First National Bank of Albany, for years one oY the lead ing finanrfal institutions ,of this city, failed to open its doors for business today.'' , The decision was taken at a con ference held last night by officers and directors of the bank with fed eral reserve officials. The bank had half a .million dollars on de posit with a capital stock of $200,- 000, and s4°>ooo surplus. The bank’s difficulties, officers of the institution said, were caused by over extension of credit and a severe shrinkage in deposits. The opinioi) is expressed that ffil depositors will be paid intfull. WHITE TO AGAIN BE SOWEGA SALES MANAGER f ADEL, February 13.—Southwest • Georgia melon shippers, will be glad : to know that Mr. J. B. White will I again be the Sowega sales manager . at this end of the line through coming season, NATIVES UNABLE I! EElffl AGREEMENT Elm IS RECALLED American Authorities Act to Compel Honduranians to Ad just Internal Affairs CONTITUTION IS SUPREME Government Under Basis Au thority Must Be Restored Coolidge Decides WASHINGTON, February 13. Diplomatic relations between the United Stites and Honduras have been severed by the state depart ment. ‘ ~ This step wtas taken because of the failure of the throe political factions to reach an agreement un der which tho constitutional gov ernment can be restored by peace ful means. ITTOW GENERAL PULESM POLIEffi Judge James B. Park, of Ocmul gee Circuit, Secures Official Ruling From Napier ATLANTA, Feb. 13.—1 n re sponse to an inquiry from Judge James B. Parks, of Ocmulgee cir cuit, Attorney General George M. Napier Tuesday issued a statement in which he holds that Georgia wo men who have not pfeviously reg istered, may register and vote in the county primaries and the pre ferential presidential primary on March 19, without paying poll tax for either 1922 or 1923. Judge Park, in his letter seek ing an opinion on this pojnt de clares the act of the state legis lature at the special session in the fall of 1923 changing registration rules for women voters, has caused considerable confusion throughout ttye state. ■ In his reply, the attorney general quotes evtracts from Judge Park’s letter and also the latest amend ments to the registration law. He then Says: f. , “My conclusion is thijt a wom an who has not heretofore regis istered to voter ean now register for any approaching election with out playing any poll tax for either 1922 or 1923, and the law allows her until December to pay her poll tax for the current year. “A women to, pay ad valorem taxes accruing prior to January 1, 1923, just as men are required to pay suclf taxes. “And if a woman had registered to vote for the year 1922 or the year 1923, she would need pay her poll taxes for that year or years in which she registered to vote, She could not legally vote this year without paying such taxes. “However, she can register off f-J a voter and be relieved of the taxes byt she would then be a non-voter. “It may be possible that the pro vision- that women can register off and avoid tho payment of taxes is is an unconstitutional provision, as you suggest, because of the lack of uniformity in its operation; but, in asmuch as_the law says these wo men may be relieved of payment of poll "tax who have heretofore registered for voting, the opportun ity is uniform as to women; and blind persons and others are ex empted. This exemption will not be allowed, apparently, to those women who register for voting hereafter. In other words, it would sepm that this privilege is to be ex hausted upon such women as hyve heretofore registered for voting who should now wish to register off and thus avoid the payment of p»U tax. 1 “As 1 see it, the payment of poll riyxes by all citizens who are allow |ed the exercise of the elective I franchise, is an obligation and not I art option. , “Our law-makers, however, seem to have been inclined to encourage only those women to register for voting who are able and willing to pay poll tax. ATLANTA TO START NEW PAVING PROGRAM ATLANTA, February 1.1.--Way was cleared Tuesday for asking bids on 24 new street paving pro jects estimated by Max Hall, as-' ‘sistant to Chief Construction Wil liam A. Hansel, to cost about 573.73. The paving is to be in ad dition to the nearly $2,000,000 worth of public improvements pro vided in the January finance sheet. Council Monday will authorize advertising for bids on the work. 17 EETInIOTS IN MTMmi NIGHT; 20 WOUNDED Pirmasens is Scene of Heavy Fighting Between Separatists and Inhabitants BUILDINGS ARE FIRED Fighting Centered About Gov ernment Structure Where 14 Separatists Were Killed CpBLENZ, February 13. Two companies of French troop* have been ordered to Pirmasens, where officials report 14 dead as a result of fighting with the Separatists. SEPARATISTS UNDER SEIGE ALL NIGHT DUSSELDORF, February 13. - Separatists of Pirmasens, southeast of Zweibruecken, were besieged ov6rngiht in the government build ing which was finally set afire. Pirmasens Mispatches say that, eight Sparattsts and six attackers arc dead, but a telegram from Kaiser lautern estimated the dead at more than 60. The Inter-allied high commission today declared a state of siege in the Pirmasens district and ordered dissolution of certain nationalist organizations. BERLIN, February 13.—Fighting between the separatists and the in habitants of Pirmasen, in the Ba varian Palitinate, last night result ed in the killing of 17 persons and wounding 20. According to dispatches received from Pirmasens this morning, the casualties occurred during the fighting for possession of the gov ernment building, which eventwil ly was set \on fire. Fourteen of those killed were separatists. GEORGIA EDUCATORS TO ATTEND MEETING ATLANTA, February 13.-*-Many officials of the, department of Edu cation of the state of Georgia and pi eminent educators from the vari ous state institutions arexexpccted to attend the fifty-fourth convention of tke Department of Superintend ence, National Education Associa tion, meeting in Chicago, February 23-28. In addition to N. H. Ballard, state superintendent on public instruc tion, Educators from all the institu tion of higher learning in the state together with many county superin tendents and night school officials are expected to attend. Those attending the meeting will have an opportunity, it is stated, to get further insight into'the most modern school systems, a valuable feature of which will be an exhibit prepared by the Division of Re search of ' the N. E. A.'assisted by the Research bureau of several cities. It will include material gathered in a nation wide study of present curriculum practice. Among other matter.-j that will be discussed at the convention is inchidcAd educational policies af fecting juore than twenty million boys and girts. Eleven topic, conferences offer ing thorough discussions of live subject will be held, recording to advance information on the meet ing. and there will be fourteen al ; lied organizations meeting on j specialized programs, covering i kindergarden, primary, elementary, ' secondary, rural, vocation, col lege, state and teacher training. ■TT-niri PC .Open iligh Low Close Mar 33.08ia3.02|33.02}82.e®|32.8t May . 33.24]33.18|33.21[32.83|33.00 July 31.88i31.70i31.80|31..50;31.65 Oct. ’ . 27.9,0|27.85ie7.8»i27.72f27.76 Dec. 27.53:27.50127.50127.25,27.40 Americus strict middling 31 3-4 c PRICE FIVE CENTS OIL PROSECUTIONS TO BE IMMEDIATE, SMS COOLIOGE IN SPEECH, President Appeals for National and Bi-Partisan Support for Mellon Bill OPPOSES SOLDIER BONUS Address Delivered At Lincoln’s Birthday Dinner in New York Last Night NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—(8y As sociated Press.) —President Cool idge, speaking here tonight before the National Republican Club, promised immediate and unshrink ing prosecution of the oil land lease case, appealed for national and bi partisan support for the Mellon tax bill called for assistance fox' agri culture from all resources of ttte country, and defended the sale of arms to Mexico. The Chief Executive also re iterated his opposition to soldier bonus legislation declared there was some promise of a European I settlement and asserted the United States stood ready to join with oth er nations is further limiting arma ment whenever there appears to be reasonable prospect of agreement. The address, which was made at the Lincoln Birthday dinner of the Club, was the first Mr. Coolidge has •made outside' of Washington since he became President. In many re spects it was ah elaboration of his message to Congress. The President devoted much at tention to taxation and agriculture, but in concluding turned to the Sensation of the present time—the oil land lease investigation. “Lately there have been most startling revelations concerning the leasing of government oil lands.” • he said, “At the revelation of greed making its subtle approches to (pub lic officers, of the prostitution of high place to private profit we are ■filled with scorn and indignation. \Ve have a deep sense of humilation at such gross betrayal of trust, and we lament the undermining of pub lic confidence in official intregrity. But we can not rest with righteous wrath; still less can we permi*' our selves to give way to cynicism. “We propose to follow the clear, open path of justice. There w'-lf be immediate adequate, unshrinking prosecution, criminal and civil to ’ punish the guilty and to protect every national interest. In this ef fort there will be no' politics, no partisanship. It will be speedy, it will be just. lam a Republican, but I can not on that account shield anyone because he iS a Republican. I r.m a Republican but I can not on that account prosecute any one because he is a Democrat. “I want no hue and cry, -no ming ling of innocent and guilty in un thinking condemnation, no confu sion of mere questions of law with questions of fraud and corruption. It is at such a time that the quali ties of our citizenry is tested —un- relenting toward evil, fair-minded and intent upon the requirement of due process, the shield of the in nocent and the safeguard of society itself. 1 ask the support of our people as chief nmgestrate intent on the enforcement of our laws with out fear or favor, no matter who is hurt or whaEJhc consequences.” > Starting with the declaration khat the “National Unity for which Lincoln laid the foundation requires I perpetual adjustment ‘for its main tenance”, Mr. Cooledge asserted the I observance of this principle makes necessary that muth attention no’ t I should be given to agriculture. J It is obvious, the President said, | that there is “something radically wrong when'agriculture is found in. its present state s>f depression when i manufacturing, transportation, and commerce are on a whole in a re markable state of pi-osperity.” He ' analyzed the dificulty as due to a | greater increase in production thun !in the power of distribution and consumption and added that be cause of this the great food staples were not selling on a parity with (Continued on Page Two.) ,
