About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1924)
WEATHER For Georgia Fair tonight and Friday; continued cool; light to heavy frost to the coast to riight. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 5 I PRESIDENT IS ASKED TO VISIT GEORGIA DURING MID-SUMMER O O O O O O 000000000 0‘o ; 0 o o o o„c INCOME TAX PEAK MAY |BEj FIXED BY G. 0. P. O Q O O O 00000000 o*o O OOOOOOOqqOO EFFORT MADE TO INVOLVE PALMER IN TEAPOT DOME PROBE MOER NOMINATED TO BE PRESIDENT OF ROTARY CLUB HERE No Vice-President To Be Nam ed By Club For Term Begin ning June First NEW DIRECTORS NAMED Mathis, Caye, Warren And Eve To Be New Members Os Governing Board Walter Rylander, of the Ameri cus Automobile company was nom inated for the presidency of the Americus Rotary club at the club luncheon Wedhesday, in the regu? lar club primary. Inasmuch as nominations are equivalent to elec tion, Mr. Rylander will Succeed John Sheffield to the presidency on June 1, the expiration of the Ro tary fiscal year. Four directors were nominated, which, too, is equivalent to election, they being J. E. Mathis, W. C. Caye, Jr., J. T. Warren and Love lace Eve. Their terms 'being June 1. The club does not elect a vice president. > There are ,seven members of the board; the other three being Wal ter Rylander, John Sheffield and Luther Harrell. Rev. Luther Harrell, Secretary and treasurer for the past year suc ceeds himself to those positions, by unanimous vote of the club. The forty members of the Rotary club stated that each would attend the Rotary District Convention at Macon, March 17-18, when the lo cal club will seek the nomination of John Sheffield for the place of district governor, succeeding Ken. Guernsey, olj Orlando, Fla. Secretary Lutrer Harrell receiv ed telegraphic information late Wednesday afternoon that the Ma con Convention will open Monday morning at 9:30, March 17th. It had been understood that the ses sions of the convention would not begin until the afternoon of the 17th, until the receipt of this tele gram. Mr. Harrell is caliing this change to the attention of the members. Most of tho members will go to Macon (by auto, many of them ac companied by their wives. Sever al parties will leave Sunday, the 16th, the others going up Monday morning. Luncheon yesterday was served in the community house by tnh la dies pf the Lee Street Methodist church. Morgan Sellars, local agent of the Seaboard Aijj Line, was a guest of the club. The Rotarians ex pressed their regrets when they learned that Mr. Sellars is being transferred to Montgomery. Welbur Smith, Boyd Stackhouse, James Davenport, and K. C. Beavers were guests of the club and sang. The program was in charge of Frank Sheffield, Jr. BIG FARM DEVELOPMENT CONCERN ASKS CHARTER MACON, February 28.—Applica tion for incorporaton charter in the firm name of the Central Geor gia Properties Company was filed yesterday with the clerk of Bibb Superior Court by Jones, Park and Johnston attorneys, for Joel Huit. F B Downing, C A Bickerstaff and S L Hurt, all of Atlanta. The corporation will conduct a farming and developing company with main offees in Macon. Capi tal stock was set at SIOO,OOO, with the privilege of increasing to $500,000. THIEVES LOOT RESTAURANT ATLANTA, February 28.—-Un able to find any money in the safe of a restaurant of this city theives who had forced an entrance sought solace for their feelings by raiding the larder of the establishment. Large portions of steak and French fried potatoes and coffee rewarded the efforts of the burglars, who left only a few soiled dishes to mark the spot Where a full larder was kept. ' — r.vr; *7l THE TIMESBRKORDER BROAD ACRES AND HERDS OF FINE STOCK ON FALL’S RANCH - ' ■ .•'ffWrStjjjn <i*inr;- ? r~ r -flfiiF ’’’■'"’'i'" "WK .~>-s-«&;s*'< ■* T?*_ ‘S?.-- r, ¥: : - / . . ' ' " > ‘ W?F'" ’ . ?; ’ ’ <s v • 'Wf’^ra 2 -' ' r ' -■> gg W ? : jl® ■ \ F< - ' ' \; ■ ■ * • ’■ ';•■. "WF . z '*V • £= HOUSE INDENTS AGREE TO SUPPOHT NEW W RATES Longworth Compromise Wins, With Regulars Yielding On Normal Rates ELIMINATE GARNER RATES Five Per Cent Tax On Automo bile Tires and Accessories Is Cut: In Half —3 * WASHINGTON, February 28. The„House republican insurgents agreed today to the Longworth com promise on surtax rates, and if the republican organization yields to a slightly lower normal rate, leaders of the group indicated they would vote to eliminate the democrat in come schedules from the revenue bill. Resuming consideration of the bill, the house voted to cut in half the five per cent tax on automo bile tires, accessories and parts. STATE SUB COMMITTEE WILL MEET MARCH 4TH ATLANTA, Ga., February2B.—• The sub-committee of the state democratic executive committee, which will have charge of the presi dential preferential primary to be held March 19, will meet. March 4, at the state capitol to discuss plans for the primary, it is announced. The meeting is scheduled for 11:30 a. m. in the office of the state game and fish commissioner. The sub-committee is composed of J. B. Daniels, LaGrange; H. H. Elders, Reidsville; Miller S. Bell, Milledgeville; Hiram L. Gardner, Eatonton, Mrs. T. F. Greene, Ath ens, and the secretary, Mrs. Bessie Anderson and Chairman G. E. Maddox, members ex-officio. I TRAFFIC VIOLATERS WARNED SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 28. Violaters of the city parking laws and other traffic violaters are being warned before more serious penal ties are imposed upon them. More than fifteen persons were dismissed in city court here recently in ong morning by Judge Seabrook after being warned about future viola tions. The men i were all ar raigned for violation of the city, parking laws. AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 1924 DECISION AFFECTS TAX COMMISSIONS ATLANTA, February 28.—Al though a county tax receiver com putes and levies county wide school tax, he is not entitled to com mission on it, the state supreme court held Wednesday in a decision handed d >wn in the ease of Hurst tax receiver, against the board of commissioners of Burke county. KKffl SHIPS TBIMIIK BMffl FPOffl OWN SEA PORTS Claim Bulgars .Are Now Deport ing Undesirables To Soviet Territory UNITED STATES NOTIFIED Alleged That Policy Is Being Persisted In Despite Protests Lodged At Sofia MOSCOW, February 28. —The Russian soviet, government has sent a circular note tq all naval powers, including the United States, warn ing them that no ships clearing from or calling at Bulgarian sea ports will be permitted to enter Russian ports on the Black Sea. The reason for this step, the note says is that the Bulgarians, despite protests, have compelled ship cap tains to take on board persons ex pelled from Bulgaria and offered to deport them to Russia. START RECRUITING FOR NEW REGIMENT ATLANTA, Ga., February 28. — Recruiting for a new regiment of infantry for the Georgia national guard has been started here, and efforts will be made to complete the personnel of the new' unit as quickly as possible, it is announced. I The work is in charge of Lieuten | anUJohn D. McKibben. ' .. One battalion of the new regi ment will be assigned, iby com panies, to a number of forty Geor gia towns which have made applica tion to Adjutant General Charles Cox. It was stated, however, that approximately three-fourths of the entire regiment will be alloted to Atlanta. It was reported that Adjutant General Cox will be colonel in com mand of the unit when organiza tion is sompleted. NEA photographers again have run the gauntlet of the cowboy guards on A. B. Fall’s ranch near Three Rivers, N. M. A few days ago they obtained pictures of the colonial ranch house where the former secretary of the interior lives. But these photos show the broad acres of the ranch itself, and a portion of his prize cattle herd. The top one reveals how Fall has transformed the sandy wastes along the lower slopes of the Sierra Blanca Mountains in to fertile fields and pasture land. Irrigation and ditches were built.’ Then a hydro-electric power plant, with 10 miles of transmis sion line, was erected. Thous ands of nearby acres were leased to get control of water power Fall wanted. And right now, the former secretary is selling water to a railroda company for SIOOO a month. The lower picture shows blue-blooded Holsteins and registered Herefords grazing alongside ordinary range cattle. SELLARS PROMOTED TO NX AGENCY Announcement was authorized today of the appointment of Mor gan H. Sellars, of Americus, to be agent for the Seaboard Air Line at Montgomery, Ala., where he suc ceeds J. N. Moss, resigned. Mr. Sellars will be succeeded at Amer icus by John Bowen, of Cordele, who arrived today to be checked in at the local station. Mr. Sellars, who has been agent for the Seaboard here during the past five years, is popular among a large circle of friends, being a member of the Kiwanis Club, and has long been identified with the civic and business interests of this community, where news of his re moval to Montgomery will be learn ed with deep regret. The Mont gomery agency, next to the Savan nah headquarters is the most im portant agency on this division, and the promotion given Mr. Sellars by the company is a substantial as weli as merited one. untonhTgh school CLOSED BY MEASLES School at Union High closed Tuesday afternoon until Monday morning on account of so many children being out with mealsles, and the disagreeable weather. Most of the teachers and will spend the time at their homes. WILSON’S ATTORNEY GENERAL WILL BE CALLED AS WITNESS A. Mitchell Palmer To Be Call ed Before Oil Scandal Probe Ends, It Is Stated UNDERWOOD MENTIONED Chairman Walsh Immediately Clears Situation As Regards Alabama Senator WASHINGTON, February 28. — A. Mitchell Palmer, attorney gen eral under the Wilson administra tion, will foe called before the sen ate oil committee", that body de, termined today, before resumption of reading additional telegrams sent to Edward B. McLean, pub lisher of the Washington Post, at Palm Beach, concerning the oil in quiry. Senator Dill, democrat from Washington, insisted that Palmer be called, charging he had been the “go-between” in the delivery of Me Lean’s messages to the committee. Among the telegrams read today was one from John Major, a Mc- Lean employee here, reporting to McLean that “Curtis advised us to see Underwood, who promised to speak to Walsh, but he hinted that it would not do any good.” Walsh interrupted! the reading to say that Underwood called on the telephone a few minutes before today’s hear ing, saying he had read in the news papers this morning that he had endeavored to dissuade Walsh from his purpose of examining McLean. “Senator Underwood,” said Walsh, “never attempted to influ ence my conduct in the matter in any way. I havq no recollection of Senator Underwood speaking to me on the subject except that one morning in the senate chamber he asked me if I had any objection to having inserted in the congression al record a letter to me by Mr. Palmer, and I said I had not.’* DAUGHERTY REFUSES IO TALK OF SITUATION CHICAGO, February SB. —- | Harry M. Daugherty, attorney gen eral of the United States, arrived here today, ostensibly in connection I with the federal grand jury investi j gation of the veterans bureau and refused to add to previous state ments relative to the oil inquiry at Washington. SEABOARD PASSENGER TRAIN IS WRECKED LYONS, Ga., February 28.—Sea board passenger train No. 12, from Montgomery to Savannah, turned over, combination baggage and ex press coach and engine tender one mile west of Lyons depot at 7:30 o’clock Tuesday night and W. G. Chambliss, baggagemaster; Miss Emil Osborne, Jeff Collins, negro expressman; Norman Coles, negio porter, were cut and bruised. No one was seriously injured and no trains were delayed. Medical treat ment was furnished at Vidalia and all passengers were carried back to Vidalia hotel. A broken rail is saia to have caused the accident, ATLANTA AUTO OWNERS GET MONTH OF GRACE ATLANTA, Feb. 28. Sheriff James I. Lowry, of Fulton county has announced he will not exnet any penalty until after April 1 from automobiles owners who have been delinquent in buying their state license tags for 1924. Under the law the tags must be obtained from the office of the sec retary of states by March 1, and af ter that date the sheriff of the county may impose an additional fee for reporting delinquent own ers. Under the law creating the new | state revenue department, that de partment is charged with the duty of rounding up delinquent tax payers. However, the law has been interpreted as not laying adtomobile owners subject to the 20 per cent penalty this department can collect until May 1, * SEVERAL BURIED BENEATH DEBRIS ■DALLAS, Texas., February 28. —The walls of an old build ing being torn down collapsed today. The first reports were that several persons were injured and possibly two or three killed. FOUR IN TEXAS NOB WOUNDED BT SHERIFF IN DEFENDING NEGRO Lufkin Is Scene Os Disturbances In Effort To Lynch Accused Black PRISONER SAFE IN JAIL National Guardsmen Now Pa trol Area About Prison Where Negro Is Confined LUFKIN, Texas, February 28. Lufkin is quiet again this morning following an attempt last night to lynch Booker T. McMillan, a negro, alias Williams, held in the Angeliae county jail on a charge of murder in connection with the slaying Tues day night of Andy Sulsfer, 54, com missary clerk, at a sawmill near here. A National Guard unit from Na cadoches, which arrived here late last night, is maintaining guard about the jail in which the negro is confined. Four members of the mob were injured when the party was driven back by revolver firs from the sheriff and six deputies who barricaded themselves in tha jail. ALBANY HERALD BISSIS IDITIDN Lack Os Power Causes New.spa per To Delay Delivery To Albany Readers ALBANY, February 28. —Herald subscribers who get the last edition failed to receive their papers on time Tuesday afternoon, due to one of those trings that arise in the con duct of any business and which are beyond human control. The Geor gia-Alajbama power Company, which furnishes, power to The Her ald. and other enterprises in this section had one of its big transform ers burnedout during the electric storm which accompanied the heavy rain, and this cut off the power. The “forms” of the paper had all been made up” and steroptyped, ready to be put on the press, when the power went off, at about 3:15 o’clock. There was nothing that could be done by either The Her ald or the power company to rem edy matters, as the press could not be operated without power. The exact cause of the, accident to the transformer was not ascertained, but it was stated that it had been giving trouble for some time. TENNESSEE JUDGE PURGES JURY BOX NASHVILLE, Tenn., February 28.—Judge Chester K. Hart an nounced Wednesday afternoon fol lowing the conclusion of the grand jury investigation that his duty was plain, and he would hand down an opinion Thursday in division 11, Davidson criminal court, purging the jury of those members deem ed by him to be unworthy follow ing the evidence adduced at the hearing. The court did not indi cate how many members would be relieved of jury duty however. PEABODY DEAD COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 28— News of the death of Charles J. I Peabody, former Columbus man, at his. home in Brooklyn, after a' prolonged illness has been received ( in Columbus by friends. He was the son of the late George II? Peabody, PO Open High Low Closd Mar . 29.27(29.25(29.76J28.59J29.65 May ..29.66i29.65j30.i1129.36J30.00 July ..28.98,28.90|29.37'28.68(29.23 Oct. ..26.20(26.00(26.30(25.95]215.08 Dec... 25.97|25.75|26.00(25.62(25.80 Americus strict middling 29c. PRICE FIVE CENTS COOLIDGE MAY ATTEND GEORGIA PRESS ASSN. MEETING JEU JULY President Takes Under Advise ment Invitation Extended By Delegation DEFINITE ANSWER LATER Senators Harris and George and Two Representatives Join In Invitation WASHINGTON, February 28. President Coolidge took under ad visement today an invitation ex tended by Senators Harris and George and Representative Larsen and Lankford, of Georgia, to at tend the meeting next July of the Georgia Press Association. The President, however, told the Georgia delegation he could not give a definite answer at this time. W 00« IS HEPE TO «RE FORESTRATIOH Expert From Federal Depart ment Will Show Picture® of Work Being Done Here W. R. Mattoon, an expert from the federal forestry department, is spending today, tomorrow and Sat urday in Sumter county in the in terest of re-forestration projects. Today he will visit a number of farmers in company with George O. Marshall, county agent, and Fri day morning he will conduct a dem instration at the Third District Ag ricultural and Mechanical college. This demonstration will foe followed by showing of moving pictures in the Aggie auditorium at 7 o’clock, Friday night, these pictures illus trating in graphic manner of re forestration as well as the need, for this important work beginning with out delay. One hundred and fifty young “slash pine” trees Will be planted Friday morning by Mr. Mattoon on waste lands belonging to the college, and he desires as many as possible to attend this dem onstration. In addition to the showing at the Aggie college, these pictures will be shown at Americus High school at 9 o’clock Friday morning, and Saturday afternoon they will be shown in the Rylander Theater in connection with the reg ular afternoon program. This program begins at 1 o’clock, and the forestry pictures will be shown at approximately 2 o’clock. “Re-forestration is a work that is beginning to atract much atten tion,” said Mattoon this morning, “because of its possibilities in re claiming and making pAfitable lands that at present are consider ed wholly waste, and for the furth er reason that under proper condi tions these lands can be made to provide an adequate reserve sup ply of timber tor future building purposes. The “slash pine’ now being planted in this section! for re forestration provides a profitable crop within twelve to fifteen years, and will easily pay as high as $4.09 to $5.00 an acre, considering the revenue from both turpentine and timber. The turpentine crop taken from these trees usually is worth twice as much as the timber itself, and in planting forests on waste lands, it is well to remember that young trees can be raised to pro duce a gqqd quantity of turpentine and this can be cropped over a con siderable number of years, where ) the product is handled properly and I the precautions taken not t« waste the forests.” ; DEMONSTRATION COUNCIL TO MEET The ladies of the county home demonstration council will meet ! Saturday afternoon at 2 olclock in [the office of Miss Bonnie Parkman in the Courthouse, according to an 1 announcement authorized today. This is to be an important meeting, and it is especially asked that all cf the members of the executive board be present,
