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, *— ■ WEATHER For Georgia Fair tonight and Friday; slightly colder Fri day in north portion. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR— NO. 39 FIVE HUNDRED ASKED TO ATTEND ANNUAL DINNER HERE 0000000 000 0000000000000 o o o o NEW SCANDAL CROPS OUT IN OIL PROBE o-o o o o o o 00-o o a Br 0 o • o _c o_ o o o o o o RIOTS ENDED: GERMANS GATHERINGDEADEN PALATINATE ALLEGED DOMESTIC DEBACLE IS LAID TO PURSUIT OF TWILIGHT ROMANCE DOES CHEVALIER'S SPIRIT FLOURISH I ILLIOIIRES HEART Despite Years Does Soft Drink King Believe the 'Grand Pas sion’ Still Awaits Him? atlantan~~stFll silent Does Elder Candler Contem plate Divorcing His Pretty Stenographer-Bride ? By CARL TAYLOR NEA Service St.-./r Correspondent. ATLANTA. Ga., Feb. 14.—Tlie spirit of the chevalier flourishes in the heart of Asa Candler. Those near to him will tell you that is why tragedy broods over the clos ing years of bis life. Seventy-three years have passed Candler W. He has accumulated millions upon millions in the man ufactcre of Coca-Cola. No man gams millions without contact with the stern reaKtie3 of life. Few «uch men escape the world’s synicism, its hard-boiled ness. Yet romance glows in the twilight for him. Having lived his threescore and ten he still believed the Grand Passion possible. But the glow in tne twilight seems to have been only' a will-o’- the-wisp. Just a scant week after the Coca-Cola king set in federal court and heai'd his love lettdvs to Mrs. Onezima De Bouchel who was suing him for $500,000 damages for al leged breach of promise, read to an eager public, his bi'ide of less than a year was arrested by the police of Atlanta. She was found in company with J. W. (“Bill”) Stoddard, promin ent Atlanta man, and president of the National Dry Cleaners Associa tion, and another man, in an apart ment on the fashionable north side residential district of Atlanta. A whisky bottle, nearly empty, was found on the table beside them po lice declare. “We .were only having a iiitle party, what’s wrong in that? And, besides, there are other people be sides the Candlers in Atlanta,” Mrs. Candler is quoted as saying after the police broke in. And now the wags of Atlanta are whispering that the Mr. Candler once more is going to be left alone with his millions in his mansion in the city’s most exclusive residential subdivision that he shortly will begin divorce proceedings against the pretty stenographer he married last June. Whether he intends to bring a divorce suit against ihis Wife, he will not say. Next month, his eldest son. Walt er Candler, will defend a SIOO,OOO suit for damages brought against him by Mrs. Clyde Byfield, beauti ful young Atlanta woman, who al leges he assaultted her while she was a passenger on the 3. S. Ber engaria bound for Europe. HISTORICAL SOCIETY HAS MANY ACTIVITIES SAVANNAH, February 14.—t Many activities were engaged in by the Georgia Historical Society dur ing the past year, the annual re port of W- W. Goydon, president, delivered before the annual meet ing of the society Wednesday, showed. The use of the branch library in Hodgson Hall waiTants its con tinued expansion. Maj. Gordon said. He spoke of the additions to the lib. rary in Hodgson Hall stating that the New Jersey Archives and col lections have been made substantial iy complete. His report suggests that an. in ventory be made by William Har den, librarian, of every picture and historical article in the possession of the society, together with an ac count of each to preserve them for the »ocity in perpetuity. THE fBBSSXBSbtiiS3R feftfl PUBLISHED IN THE^— g'saOerffeZTjdE AßT .OF PlxierflgS? 1 *|RBH£fIB99p9RHSHHESHHHH3S2j To the left: Asa Candler, aged Galahad and (below) Mr*? One xitna de Bouchel. To the right: Mr*. Candler and W. J. Stoddard, with Whom *he wa* arre*ted. EM REBEL FORCE CITIES mmm rout Defeat Sustained by Mexican Rebels at Gcoilan Believed Decisive Engagement BANDS ENTERING TUXPAM Remnants for Vera Cruz Rebel Army Now Effectively Scat tered Over Republic Aboard Headquarter Train War Secretary Serrano QuOieturo Feb. *4.—Enrique Estrada’s rebellious forces arc continuing disorderly re treat aftera decisive reverse suf fered at Ocotlan. x 1 Scattered remnants 'of the Vera Cruz inserreotionist army are en tering northward into Tuxpam and southward toward Oaxaca to gain the Isthmuian states, General Francisco Serrano, secretary of war and General Juan Audreu Almazan stated last night. BISHOP AINSWORTH CALLS TO METHODISTS LA GRANGE, February 14- Bishop W. Nj Ainsworth, of the tenth Episcopal district of th M. E. church, South , has issued a call to | Methodists of this section in behalf j of the “Forgotten Men” of the ! church, as the aged and disabled Methodist ministers are designated. The tenth Episcopal district includ 3 the territory of the South Georgia Florida, Mississippi and North Miss- j issippi conferences. According to Bjhop Ainsworth, there hgs never been a greater cause undertaken by Southern Methodism than this nlbvoment to raise $lO,- 000,000 to be used as an endow ment fund to give peace and materi ■ al comfort to the worn-out ministers of the chiy-ch in their declirvg years, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 14, 1924 UNDERWOOD PETIT! IS FILED HT ATLANTA Gordon Completes Arrange ments to Have Name Placed . On Primary Ballots ATLANTA, February 15. R. Cuyler Gordon, General Manager j for Senator Underwood’s campaiyn in Georgia, Wednesday, filed with Mrs. Bessie Anderson, secretary of the State Democratic Executive ; committee, a petition that the? name of Oscar W. Underwood of, Alabama be placed upon the ballot j as a candidate for president in the j Georgia presidential primary to be held on March 19th, 1924. The petition was accompanied bj the names of many hundred white democratic registered voters of this state, and Senator Underwood is the first presidential candidate to qualify in Georgia. In a person al letter to Gordon, Senator Under wood declares thaf he is a thirty third degree Mason, in good stand ing, that he, his wife and two sons, are members of the Episcopal church, he having been a member of that church since he was eighteen Senator Underwood is a distin guished citizen of our sister state of Alabama, and has many thousands of loyal friends in Georgia who, ap preciating his conspicuous service during twenty-nin<s years as a mem ber of the National Congress, will be glad to rally to his sepport in the primary on March 19th. ■ Sena tor Underwood is known and ap preciated as one of the great lead ers of his party as well as one of 1 the foremost statesmen of his time. | His record in the House and Senate 1 has been such as to distinguish him |as a man of great vision, broad j purpose and unswerving devotion j to the national welfare at all times. DEBT COMMISSION CALLED TO MEET W 4SIIINGTON, February 14— Secretary Mellon “today called the debt finding commission to mrct next Monday, at which tune whole pA’icy with .respect to future dealings with foreign 'debtors will bo decided HERSCHEL ELDERS TO BE HERE FRIDAY Hon. Hcrsche Eder*, of Tatt nall county, wfco is promoting the presidential candidacy of Senator Oscar W. Underwood in Georgia, will reach Americus at 2:30 Friday afternoon and at 6'o’clock he will be a guest of < honor at a dinner attended by Senator Underwood’s friends at the Windsor. Immediately fol lowing this dinner Mr. Elders will address a meeting of Under- Wood supporters in th e court house when an Americus Un. dcrwood dub will be formed- CHSUNCEV RHODES is m* District Highway Engineer Re ceived Into Clvb at Lunch eon Today Chauncey Rhodes, division high way engineer, at the head of this district, was elected to membetv ship in the local Rotary club yes terday. Mr. Rhodes succeeded W. C. Caye, resigned, in the local of fice. Among visitors attending the Ro tary luncheon yesterday were W. W. Dykes, father of Rotarian Bill- Dykes; Charles Cannon. Moultrie Rotarian. Tho club adopted' the recommen dation of the board of directors to attend the Chamber of Commerce dinner next week and not to hold its usual luncheon. The next meeting of the Ro tarians will be February 27th at the Community club house, when a musical program, ender the man agement of Frank Sheffield, Jr., will be offered. I After luncheon Wednesday , the Rotarians were guests of Manager Herbert Kencey at the Rylander theater, witnessing a film shown uu der the auspices of the business methods comrnitttee of the Club. Great Britain’s postage stamp* have been printed by only four tlifw ferent firqjs since 1839, l PUBLISHER DECLARES HE.RECEIVED RUSE SUII FROJJIL KEN Eighth Interest in Pioneer Com* 1 pany Granted Him ‘For Noth ing,’ He Says HAD ‘PERSONAL ACREAGE’ Witness Tells Committee Any body Could Demand Share in Sinclair’* Lease WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.--John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Chica go Evening Post and other papers, was questioned by the oil commit tee today about the reputed grant to him of pne-eighth interest in Pioneer Oil Company, the Standard subsidiary, for ‘service rendered.” Asked what was the service rendered, the witness said, 'none. Shaffer said his payment came out of the million dollars paid the company by the Sinclair interests. A letter to Assistant Secretary Finner was put into record. In it Shaffer said he had “person al interest in' the deal,” adding that 'Secretary Fall had arranged with Mr. Sinclair for acreage for me personally.” Just before the letter was read the witness testified he had no in terest in the "Sinclair lease, _ Asked if in his memory were now refreshed, he said that in 1917 he applied for land on the Tea pot, and was later promised 200 ucres by Fall. “Was it your opinion anyb&dy could go to Secretary Fall and de mand a share of the Sinclair lease or qjoney for ,it,” he was asked. “1 think so,” Shaffer replied. VANDERLIP ARRIVES TO GIVE TESTIMONY WASHINGTON, February 14— Frank Vanderlijr arrived at the oil committee room a few minutes be fore the, advance hour set for the hearing. The committee assembled at 10 o’clock this morning, then disap pointed the crowd by calling first Oscar Sutro, counsel for the Stand ard Oil Company of California. FLOCK OF SENSATIONS ARE SPRUNG WASHINGTON, February 14. While Frank Vafderlip waited to testify regarding references to tho sale of President Hiding’s Marion Star, the senate oil committee pro dcccd a fresh flock o fsensatiions John C. Shaffer, publisher of the today from other witnesses. Chicago Evening Post, testified that Secretary Fall told him the very month that he entered the cabinet that he was going to lease the Tea pot Dome to Sinclair. The Teapot was not then under Mr. Fall’s jurisdiction. A letter by H. Foster Bain, di rector of mines, written before the lease was made, and put in the com mittee record, declared the writer “understood’* Attorney General Daugherty had given his informal opinion upholding the leasing pol icy. Mr. Dsvugherty previously had denied giving any opinion. In a letter addressed to Secre tary Fall, Oscar Sutro, counsel for the Standard Oil company of Cal ifornia, testified he had suggested to Assistant Secretary Finney, of the interior department, that an op inion be obtained from Mr. Daugh erty, but that Mr. Finney replied that Secretary Fall thought 5t “un necessary.’ The committee decided to quet tion Mr. Vanderlip tomorrow, FARMERS’ CONFERENCE TO BE HELD FRIDAY ALBANY, February 14.—There Will be a Farmers’ Conference in Albany itt the courthouse Friday, February 15, at 10 a. m. Many porminent men will address this meeting, among them being: G. V, Cunningham, State Boy#’ Club agent; Dr. R. J. LeLpach, defector of Armour’s Bureau of Agricultural Research; R. A. Cobb, agricultural editor; and J. A. Winslow, agrieui Jurist for the Central railroad, T ’ * .. ..W.. i /, . t'. TWIGGS TO INAUGURATE AGRICULTURE PROGRAM JEFFERSONVILLE, Fob. 14— The Tvriggs county agricultural de velopment program meeting will be held here Tuesday, February 19, with prominent speakers and ex perts from the state department of ’ agriculture present. County agricultural development program meetings arc being spon sored by various commercial and financial organizations. Among the speakers are E. Cl Westbrook, who will outline a farm program and discuss special crops, and J. N. Harper, who will speak on boll weevil control. BATES. H LIONS TO ATTEND CHAMBER PEEDAT WINDSOR Ki warn an* Expected to Take Like Action at Weekly Luncheon Friday INVITATIONS SENT OUT Dollar Plate Dinner to Be Serv ed in Main Dining Room With Capacity ot 200 Seats Marked interest 4h the Chamber of Commerce membership dinner next Tuesday night is being evi denced, not only by the members, but by other business men of Amer icas. The Lions club at its meeting this week unanimously voted to cancel their regular meeting riext week and instead that every member would attend the chamber dinner. In the absence of President Ew ingtoday, C. A. Ames, of the club said, “The Lions will be there 100 per cent, attending as individuals and business men, with the ho)»e and intention of doing our part in standing squarely behind our Cham ber of Commerce.” The Rotary club on Wednesday unanimously adopted the recom mendation of the Rotary directors to attend the Chamber of Cony mevee dinner instead of holding their regular meeting next week. Every Rotarian it, was stated would be present, except one who said he expected to be called from the city, but would attend if here. President John Sheffield, of the Rotarians, said he thought it both the duty and privilege of every Rotarian to be present at the an nual membership dinner. The Kiwanis club, it is said will take action tomorrow on the at tendance of the Kiwanians. Arrangements were completed with the hotel today for a dollar plate dinner. The main dining room will be used and the doors will open promptly at 6:30. President L. A*. Downs of the Central of Georgia, with his party of Central officials, will arrive about 7:30, coming directly from his car to the dining room. Mr. Downs will deliver the principal ad dresses. “We are sending out tonight in vitations to 500 business men and professional men in Americus to attend the annual dinner,” said Secretary Everett, “with a return cards for plate reservations. * In terest manifested is most pleasipg to the directors, and while we shall use every effort to reserve plates for every one, it should be remem bered that the seating capacity of the dining room is limited to a lit tle over 200. Plates wfill be re rerved in the order in which the replies are received at my office.” SAVANNAH CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS SAVANNAH, Feb. 14 All offi cers of the Anglers and Hunters Club were re-elected Wednesday, at the annual election officers at a meeting at the De Sotq hotel. They are, H. B. gtanton, president; Dr. B. 0. DoLoach, vice president, and Dr. h. A. De Loach, secretary-treas urer. The directors chosen are the officers; Frank Slost and Martin Price, the last two being new direc tors. h«w York PC Open High Loav qjjo»K* Mar :j2.8tt32.85!33‘.10|81.78|31.78 May ..33.00j32.27(32.05!32.05j32.06 July ..31.6r>:31.75f31.85|30.52!30.52 Oct. .27.65|27.80;27.80[27.20|27.20 Dec. 27.40127.30j27.38i26.80j26.80' AmerCius strict middling 31c. PRICE FIVE CENT 3 MUTED BODIES IRE RECOVERED EROIA EIECUTIIBI.fi! Sfi Total Dead as Result of Tues day's Masacre at Primasens, in Bavarian Palatinate SEPARATISTS ATTACKED All Traffic Over River Rhine River Suspended as Result of Disturbances There PIRMASENE, Baviyian Palatin ate, Feb. 14.—Fourteen multitated bodies have been recovered from the ruins of Bezerksant, govern ment building, and two wounded died last night, bringing to 16 the total know dead in consequence of Tuesday’s massacre. Forty separatists were, in the building when attacked. Seven of the remaining 24 are receiving hos pital treatment, some are seriously wounded, and others unaccounted for. Traffic over the Rhine bridges has stopped and the German "police is under orders of the occupation forces. The persons participating in the attack will be tried in court mar tial at Dusseldorf. i behoHtSd , lEIIL SERVICE Prof. C. M. Hale Will Deliver Eulogy of Wilson There Dur ing Sunday Afternoon Memorial services for the lato former President Woodrow Wilson will be held Sunday afternoon at Rehoboth church, it was announced here today. These services will be gin promptly at 2:30 o’clock, with Prof. Charles M. Hale, of Americas as the speaker, and it is expected there will be an unusually large crowd/to hear him. Rehoboth church, with one of the most progressive rural congrega tions in the county, is located on the Dawson road five miles out of Americus, and a number of resi dents will go out from the city to attend the memorial services there Sunday. A cordial invitation; is extended to all who will attend and participate in the memorial. BONO DUPLICATION IS DENIED BT TREASURY Charges Filed by Charles E. Brewer Declared to Be With out Foundation WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Secre tary Mellon today, in a lettter to President Coolidge, declared un founded the charg«jg of Charles Brewer, department of justice at torney, that there had been bond duplications in* bureau engraving. At the same time it was announc ed that Major Wallace Kirby, of the army engineer corps, had been detailed today to act as director . of the bureau', succeeding Louis N. Hill, whose resignation has been ac cepted. JOHN RODGERS DENIED NEW TRIAL BY JUDGE VALDOSTA, February 14. Judge R. G. Dickerson has just over-ruled a motion for a new trial for John Rogers, the aged white man "found guilty in Cook superior court of the murder of the McGills. It is presumed tha't case will now go to the Georgia supremo j court. I The hearing on the motion for | a new tridl was conducted at \del | today. Col. R. A. Hendricks, of i Nashville, appeared in behalf of I-.Roger;', - while the case for the Statu jwas argued by Solicitor General J. D. Lovett, .j