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WEATHER For Geo/gia tonight or Wednesday; warmer tonight. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 54 SEVERE EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATES NICARAUGUA’S CAPITAL 00000 O O OxO O O 0 O O O O O O o o o o o TEAPOT OIL PROBE PRODUCES NEW SCANDAL 000'000000 00 O O O O O/0000000 O o o CANDLER-BYFIELD SUIT IS POSTPONED AT MARIETTA TODAY HEW BOMB EXPLOSION EE?TORE OIL SCANDAL PROBE IT Cimi Doheny Tried During Last De cember To Interest Senator Walsh In Oil Venture M’LEAN IS SECRET AGENT Washington Publisher’s Name On Rolls jOf Department Os Justice Operatives WASHINGTON, March 4. There was another series of bomb explosions today in the oil scan dal. Her e are some of the things the oil committee was told when it re sumed its hearings: That E. L. Doheny tried* unsuccessfully last December to interest Senator Walsh, chief prosecutor’ of the in quiry, in an oil venture in Montana; that the senator replied he should have nothing to do with an enter prise where he might appear to be using his official position for his own profit; that Edyard B. Mc- Lean, publisher of the Washington Post and central figur e in the scan dal, has been carried on the gov ernment rolls as a secret agent of the Department of Justice; that McLean had a copy of the depart ment's cod e and that some messages sent him and his employes in Flor ida were in cipher code used oy the department. t DHMIMK IS NATIONAL THREAT Agitation Started As Plea Has Developed Into National Threat, He Says NEW March 4.—“ The agitation foi* the bonus started a plea,” says Knowlton Durham pres ident of the Ex-Service Men’s. Anti- Bonus League, and now it has de veloped into a national threat.” Continuing Knowlton asserts: “Back of the bonus agitation, and indeed at its very foundation, there lurks a threat and a mdnace toward I which leaders of public thought! have apparently feared to direct at tention. “As a result of a close analysis of newspaper clippings from ali parts of the country, and of hun dreds of letters received from cor respondents in every state, it has become clearly apparent that much of the present strength of the 00-. nus agitation lies in the fact that it has become essentially an anti capitalistic crusade. “Thousands upon thousands of American citizens who have listed themselves as advocates are not in reality fighting for a bonus at all. They are actually contend ing for a bonus because they see in such an expenditure a means of wrecking vengeance upon what they term “the war profiteers,” “the money grabbers,” “big business,” the Wall Street interests, and the capitalistic system.” TO MAKE SOIL SURVEY OF ALTAMAHA BOTTOMS BRUNSWICK, March 4.—-Pro fessor,Geo. A. Crabbe of the State Agricultural College, in charge of soils, has agreed to a request re cently made by Fred Warde, secre tary of the Board of Trade to make a new soil survey of the Altamaha river rice plantations, bringing with him several students from college so that the work may be expedited. This is done at the request of 0. ! C. Lamp and Ralph Wharff, of ! New York, with the idea of planting and growing just those kinds of crops that are adapted to the par ticularly heavy black soil bordering 1 on the banks of the Altamaha. By Monday of the coming week three hundred acres of the first pur chase of Messrs. Lamp and Wharff on Butlers Island will be ready for , the drying out process, dikes hav- , ing been completed to keep qut the , overflow of the river, and just as ] soon as' the drying process is com- 1 pleted these three hundred acres < will be immediately put under 1- I tivation. r * ’ THE S^PUBLISHEDnN7THE~^^7W^ > , HEART' OF ROTARIANS HEAR STORY ( OF COTTON CULTIVATION SALEM, Ala., March 4.—The en tire story of cptton cultivation from the selection of the seed to the picking of the fleecy staple was told in an interesting address de livered by E. F. Cauthen, expert in cotton production at the Rotary Luncheon at the Ex-Ki-Ro Club rooms. A large nurriber of Dallas county farmers and cotton growers were the guests of their Rotary friends and evinced ken interest in the talk and the lessons and ex hbits showing all stakes of cotton raising. The talk was effectively illustrar led by reels of pictures portraying the intresting step sin the proce dure. The proper amount of fer tilizer ta the acre, the correct mix ing of the plant foods, the selection of the seed, preparation of the soil, terracing and delinting eff the seed were some of the ‘ salient points brought out. Y Under the head ot methods of cultivation, the right and the wrong and out-worn meth ods were exhibited. The talk was replete with sound advice and sug gestion in growing cotton, being the boiled down results of years of study anck experimentation. Dr. Louis Bristow, chariman of the On-To-Tuscaloosa meeting, made some important announce ments and explanations regarding the trip, which it was agreed would start from Selma on Monday March 17 via Maplesville where 0. would be taken. SENATOR PICE ME AGRICULTURAL RANKS Announces Purchase To Friends With Statement That He is Now In ‘Dirt Farmer Class’ Senator Stephen Pace is a farmer now, As he himself states it, he’s a “dirt farmer.” During a number of years past Senator Pace has been longing* for’ distinction as an agriculturalist and recently he managed to get into that class through Jhe purchase of a hundred broad and level acres a few •miles west of Americus. His farm, he says, will soon be into a %how place, with pecans predominat ing among its products contented fine grazing upon its fertile grases. It; is stated that he will address the Kiwanis club, of which he is a lead ing members, at its next luncheon upon' the general subject of agri culture, elaborating during his talk upon the necessity for diversifica tion of crops in Sumter and hand ing out some good advice to farm ers here -upon scientific methods they "should use in the production of their crops. FOOT AND MOUTH > . DISEASE RE-APPEARS WASHINGTON, March 4.—Foot and-mouth. disease, from which this country has been frpe sSnce 191(1 has just made its appearance in Cal ifornia, according to announcement by the United States Department of Agriculture. The secretary of agriculture has declared a quaran tine on the several counties of that state, and the bureau of animal in dustry, in connection with Califor nia authorities, is taking steps to prevent spread of the disease and to stamp out the infection. The disease, which is onp of the most universal of clovenfooted animals, was first found in a large herd of dairy cattle near Oakland and is now known to be present on six premises within the quarantine 1 area. On these farms are some 600 head of cattle and 200 head of hogs, it was stated. CONDITION OF ARTHUR RYLANDER IS IMPROVED Reports from the bedside of Mr. Arthur Rylander, who has been ill during several days past are to the effect that today his condition is much improved. Attending physi cians now believe Mr. Rylander will be as well as usual within a short time and that all danger of a sec on hroke of paralysis which has been feared by members of his family has passed. LITTLEJOHN DECLINES TO ISSUE MANDAMUS IN PRIMARY ELECTION Petition Is Declined On Ground That Court, Being A Voter, Is Disqualified SITUATION IS UNIQUE Phillips, Houston And Jennings Ask Court Require Commit tee To Bar Americus Voters In chambers in Sumter Superior court here today. Judge Z- A. Lit tlejohn declined to receive a peti tion for mandamus* presented the court by Bradley Hogg, represent ing A. B. Phillips, W. H. Houston and A. H. Jennings. The petition sought to have the court direct James A. Davenport as head of the county Democratic executive com mittee, call that body together and have certain primary rules revised so as to comply with Georgia laws, which the petition alleges are be ing violated. The effect of the petition, if granted, ryould have been to exclude Americus voters from participation in the primary' election called for March 19th, in sofar as the office of county school superintendent is concerned. Judge Littlejohn declined to receive the petition on the ground that being a democratic voter he is an inter ested party and therefore disquali fied. The petition in full ,as presented to the court this afternoon, is as follows: ■ “To Honorable Z. A. Littlejohn Judge Superior Court, of said cou:u ty; .* , “The petition of A. B. Phillips, W. H. Houston, and A. H. Jenninfis and A. H. Jennings respectfully shows as follows. “First. The petitioners are citi zens and qualified to vote in said ■.•ounty ender the .democratic fora' of government. , Second. That J. A. Davenport, chairman of the Democratic Execu tive Committee, which committee has charge of making arrangements for the voters of raid county, to vote in the coming primary to be held on March 19th 1924, for the election of county officers for said co'unty. That said committee has made a rulting that will give su?.‘- frage and the right to vote to a certain number of those voters of, and tre ruling of said committee is contrary to law. t “Third. Said law being Section 1440 (b), entitled ‘The term ofl of fice of the County Superintendent of Schools in every county in the state’ of Georgia, shall begin with Ist day. of January 1913 and shall terminate with Ist day of January 1917, that said county superinten dent shall be elected for a term of four years as now provided by the law, at the same time and place as state and county officers. Provided if .there is in this county one or more independent schools systems, not under- the supervision of che county superintendent, the voters of such independent system or systems shall- not vote in the election for the county superintendent. Fourth. Wherefore the pCtitoiners pray that said Democratis Execv iixecutive Committee, by its chair tive Committee, by its chairman J. A. Davenport, be served with this copy of mandamus, to compel said committee to, call a meeting of said committee and correct their error made in their decision for the com ing primary on March 19th 1921. which is stated above. This 4th day ofTMarch 1924.” LAMAR MOSELEY BRINGS IN RATTLER VALDOSTA, March 4.. —Lamar Moseley came into town with his sedan pretty well decorated with rattle snakes which he had dug out of a’gopher hole and had killed. One of them was lying across the radiator, one was hanging over the top of the ear, and the other over the other side of the car. The rept iles had 14, *!), and 8 rattles, s'e ,spectively. Lamar said that was the biggest business he has had in that line in a long time, and he doubts if anybody would have believed him if he had not brought the snakes in to show* them 5 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 4, 1924 < Real Sport! yy O/iOr 8 ' Hk i These are the days -of real sport! Up in Amoskeag, near Manchester, N. H., a brave crowd, calling themselves ‘super- g Very Severe Earthquake 9 Recorded On Instrument Shocks Lasting 23 Minutes Occurred 2,100 Miles Southward From Washington, Seismograph Record Indicates WASHINGTON, March 4.—“A very severe” earthquake, about 2,100 miles from Washington in a southerly direction, was recorded to day on the.seismograph at Georgetown University. Father Tondqrf, seismologist, said the shefcks began-at 5:13 this morning and reached maximum intensity between 5:23 and 5:26, and were still in progress at 7 o”ctock. HALF BUILDINGS IN SAN JOSE DAMAGED SAN JOSE, Costa- Rica, March 4. —A series of earthquakes, the strongest felt here in *25 years, damaged fully half of the build ng of San Jose and caused a num ber of casualties. A part of the American Legion building collapsed, but the Ameri can minister and cofisul and then families escaped unhurt. No 'American residentiTare reported in jured. Communicatioij with neighboring cities has been entirely cut off. threThundred are BURNED TO DEATH AND TOO HURT IN PANIC Chowtsum, China, Is Scene Os Horrible Catastrophe, As Re sult Os Fire TSINGTO, China, March 4. Three hundred persons were burned to death, suffocated or died in pan ics as a result of fire which swept the town of Chowtsun, 40 miles west of Tsinan, in the province of Shan tung Friday. Seven hundred others were in jured. RECEIVER NAMED FDR VIRGINIA-CAROLINA NEW YORK, March 4.—C. G. Wilson, president <?f the Virginia- Carolina Chemical Company, and Arthur C. Vanderbilt, a lawyer of Newark N. J., Monday were named receivers of the company in a credi tors’ suit filed in the United States district court for New Jersey. This action was taken. President Wilson said, when it became appar ent that it was the only means of protecting the company’s assets and property and the Ernst interests of the holders. tr I brownies,’ dive and swim regard- I less of temperature. Joe Me ■ Bride, 21 (inset), di,ved from the top of a mapl e .tree 108 feet 1 into an ice hole. COOLIDGE RE AFFIRMS AUHFPENCE TO MELON MEISUFE PRINCIPLES Position Os Executive Remains Exactly As Outlined In Mes sage To Congress INQUIRERS TEARN TRUTH White House Authorities Make President’s Position Clear To Those Interested WASHINGTON, March 4.—Ad herence to the principles and pro visions of the Mellon tax plan was reaffirmed today by President Coo} idge. The president’s position regarding the tax remains exactly as cutlined in his message to congress declaring for the Mellon plan. This was made clear at the White House in response to inquiries about a compronfise bill passed by the House. JUDGE MELDRIM INSTRUCTS JURY SAVANNAH, March 4. The March term of the superior court was formally opened at 10 o’clocx this morning when Judge Meld rim charged the grand jury. Judge Meldrim directed the at tention of the grand jury to the state law prohibiting seining* for five years in Georgia waters. To become operative in a county, law must b eapproved by two suc cessive grand juries. The inquisitorial body, Xvhich will for the ensuing three months, organized just prior to the charge by electing James A. Rourke as foreman, William S. Rankin as sec ‘retary, and Deputy Sheriff R. W. Westcott as special bailiff. J. J. Cornell, it is understood will serve as assistant secretary, WILL ERECT BRONZE STATUE OF WILSON ATLANTA, Ga., March 4.—The first installment of the fund now being raised here for a memorial to Woodrow Wilson will be used for the erection of a lifesize bronze statue of the ex-president on one of the streets in the business dis tricts herg. * Approximately $5,000 has already been suljpcribed by Atlanta citizens for the proposed memorial and the fund is being increased daily, it is reported. »O®E SWEEPING PROBE Iff 11. S. SHIPPING BMRD Special Committee To Be Named To Inquire Into Af fairs Os Organization DEBATE IS BRIEF ONE Proposal Os Senator Davis, Os Tennessee, Quickly Adopted By/ Upper Chamber WASHINGTON, March. 4.—A sweeping investigation of the ship ping board was authorited today by the House. After a brief debate, a resolution was adopted providing for the appointment of a special committee to conduct the inquiry. The inquiry was proposed by Sen ator Davis, Democrat of Tennessee, PUITTOMTOKIffI EGG CO-OP SELLING Seed Now Here For Kiwanis Club Project, With Many Farmers Interested A quantity of Livingston Globe variety tomato seed ordered by the Kiwanis club of Americus for use in co-operative development of the tomato as a commerical product have arrived and are now ready for distribution. This announcement was made today by Rev. John M. Outler, Henry T. Everett and George O. Marshall, who are in charge of the project for the Ki wanis club. The seed have been placed as a matter of convenience with the Planters Seed Go., for distribution, and those who have arranged to plant tomatoes this spring are ask ed to call there for the seed. Now is the time the seed should be plant ed, it is announced, and final de tails for co-operative selling of t'm tomato crop are now being made. Any member of the above named committee will gladly advise any person interested in raising toma. toes, and they are anxious to have as many planted as possible. GEORGIA OSTEOPATHS TO MEET IN ATLANTA \ ATLANTA, Ga„ March 4.—The twenty-third annual convention of, the Georgia Osteopathic Association will be held here April 18 and 19, it is announced. The addresss of Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth, of the Still-Hildixith Sanitarium at Macon, scheduled for the night of April 18, is to be the feature of the convention, it was stated. Dr. Hildreth was formerly one of the lecturers at the Ameri can School of Osteopathy, Kirks ville. Mo. WILL DEDICATE ALBANY BAPTIST CHURCH SUNDAY ALBANY, March 4.—The First Baptist church of Albany will be dedicated with appropriate services next Sunday morning at 11 o’clock The dedication, in accordance with the custom of Southern Baptist churches, marks the freedom from debt of church, the first time since its erection in 1910. Dr. Charles Bray Williams, of Mercer University, former president of Howard College, will preach the dedicatory sermon. The music will be in keeping with the spirit of the occasion. New York Future* PC Open High Low Close Mar. ..28.12j27.78f28 20127.74128.78 May . 28.35J28.06 28.74127.95J28.35 July . 27.73|27.50J28.14J28.50J27.73 Oct. 25.09j2|.05J25.00j25.00|25.09 Dec., 24.8.5|24.75|24.98|24.70|24.85 Middling 27c. PRICE FIVE CENTS ILLNESS OF COUNSEL WINS CONTINUANCE FOP WALTER CINDLER Suit Os Mrs. Sarah G. Byfield In DeKalb Superior Court To Be Tried ATTACK CHARGED IN SUIT Alleged Assault Ocurred On Steamer On Which Both Were Traveling In 1922 DECATUR, March 4.—Because of the illness of a member of the defense counsel, the suit of Mrs. Sarah G. Byfield for SIOO,OOO against Walter T. Candler, sqn of Asa G. Gandier, Sr., soft drink magnate, was postponed until to morrow, when the case will be call ed in DeKalb County Superior court here t'oday. z Mrs. Byfield, wife op Clyde K. Byfield, local automobile dealer, al leges. that Candler attacke'd her while she and her husband, Can dler, and his two young daughters, were en route to Europe .on the liner Berengaria during the sum mer of 1922. iFTFBJNS CSITTEE WON'T MAKE ME Chairman Reed Announces Forbes And Thompson Should Be Promptly Prosretuted WASHINGTON, March 4.—No investigation of the findings of the Chicago grand jury which indicted Charles R. Forbes and J. W. Thomp son will be made by special senate veterans committee, it was anrtounc ed today by Chairmaji Reed, whb declared that information furnished the committee concerning two mini bers of the House showed that it was not a matter for investigation but for prdmnt prosecution." 15 DEAD®HURT - IN WCIDENT Military Escort And Second Class Passengers Suffer Cas ualties Near Guadalahara MEXICO, CITY, March 4—A passenger train bound from this city to Guadalahara was derailed yesterday near Monteleone, causing 15 casualties, including the dead and injured among the military es cort, and others among the second class passengers. INCOME TAX RETURNS MUST BE MADE SOON ATLANTA, Ga., March 4.—Geor gians must make their income tax returns for 1923 before March 15 or pay the penalty for delinquency regardless of the fate of the in come tax bill now before congres;, according to the collector of inter nal revenue here. The passage of the new tax bill between now and March 15 w’ll have no effect now nor at any time prior to that date, he said. The first payment, or one-fourth of the tax due. computed at the present rate, must be paid on 1923 returns and in case the new tax bill is pass ed, those who have already paid will get a refund, he explained. WOMEN WILL BE~In”’ CHARGE OF SERVICE Thj prayer meeting of the First Methodist church, held at the Court House Wednesday evening at 7:30 will be conducted by the Woman’s Misisonary Society. The subject, Missions, all cordially invited, the following program will be given: Subject!—“Missions.” Hymn—. Prayer—-Hymn—Devotional, Mrs. Annie Walker; Solo—Mrs. Little; Talk; “Little Beginnings and Great Endings,”—Mrs. John W. 11 Shiver; Hymn—Talk on "China”—Mrs. J. M. Outler; Talk on “IJome Mis sions,” —Mrs. W. M. English; Clos ing Hymns; Benediction,
