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WEATHER For Georgia Showers this afternoon and tonight; cooler in north and west portion tonight; Thursday fair and cooler. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 55 NEW ‘CONFESSION’ IS MADE IN NEW YORK BOMB OUTRAGE 00/000 o o o o o o d O O O O O O o O O o o M’ADOO’S SON DEFENSE COUNSEL IN OIL CASE 00000000000 O O O O/000000 o o o ACTION OF EXECUTIVE COMM!FTEE IN PRIMARY IS DEFENDED Amundsen-Hammer Expedition Set For Beginning of First Flight Over Pole EXPLORERS WILL TAKE DESPERATE CHANCES 10 ADVANCE SCIENCE Will Use Light All-Metal Plane Provisioned For Only Six Days On Trip NO LANDINGS TO BE MADE Forced Landings May Mean Death To All Those In Par ty Making Attempt NEW YORK. March 5. (By NEA Service.) —Determined to con quer the elements which stumped them before before, Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole and North Pole-West Passage, and Haakon H. Hammer, his part ner, both explorers, are completing final arrangements for another at tempted flight across the North Pole. Accompanying them will be Lieu tenant Ralph E. Davison, of the United States Navy. Early in the summer, there three men and assistants will hop oft from Spitsbergen, 650 miles tb<- other side of the pole, and will fly across it to the northern coast of Alaska, 14100 miles away, land ing at Wainwright or Point Bar row. If all goes well they may do it with only one landing—at the pole—for the Whale, their Dorni. r all- metal plane, specially built for this trip, will have a flying radius of. 1300 miles. Bv,t if something goes wrong, they will have to take the chances Os the other martyrs of the Artic and Anarctic—from Captain Scott the Englishman, whose dead body and rough notes told the tale ci his attempt to reach the South Pole, down to Captain Oscar Wist ing, in command of the Maud which can’t get out of the Arctic ice for seven years! There will be no special landing places, such as those proposed for the dirigible Shenandoah, if ever it flies to the pole. There .will be nothing for the Amundsen-Ham mer expedition but one plane, a limited supply of fuel, provisions for six days, and their own ,grit All for the sake of science. Most of the time the men will be flying over icy wastes of the polar regions, sometimes over the clouds pierced in places by the snow-cap ped mountain peaks, • Below them may be ice, water, ok mountains. rKnd if a landing is forced— “ We’ll just have to take our chances,” said Hammer, as he sailed for Europe and the North. He has flown farther north than any other man. He knows the con ditions there and the hazards. Yet he has never lost is smile. Last spring when no word came from Amundsen, who was suppos ed to hop off on his flight’ from Alaska to Spitzbergen, Hammer formed an expedition to fly to his rescue from the opposite direction. Before he could start he learned that Amundsen’s plane had broken down, and that the flight had to be postponed for a year. But the Call of the North was too strong for Hammer. He went on with his flight. He made 21 starts. On one he came down wthin about 400 miles of the pole. But he wouldn’t complete thj> trip. , He didn t want to rob his partner ’of the glory of being the first to fly across the' North Pole! But this year,” he says ‘‘we hope to do it together.” PRINCETON ALUMNI GOING TO ATLANTA ATLANTA, Ga., March 5. Big preparations are now being made Jn Atlanta to entertain the National Alumni Association of Princenten University, which will meet here March 21, 22 and 23. It probably will be ong of the largest and most representative gatherings of college men ever held in the South. THETIMES r R£cdRDER THE, HEART OF DIXI ''' 7. * 1 - VSIg&V p Ah! -- —--- ( CZ "■■ |og > MAVD’ \ ''"--A* ■ ° '- - ' I. / . I? ■/ A 271 T U' I [wwigTD —Bo’- ——A? > '1 * ISLAND | V V- AcX -X B/lvh 1 - v --Z X- • |Wainwright] Ifc- _■ - - *4 X - V v* 'b ■ X. Y point 4 *’•** '■ x X '■ barrow. x **- ■ < X —Li ’ cape. £. ALASKA. ■«* A.'?C’;'’r CTLJCUF «***' 1 . i J®aPr Wgigg. hfejV' W* ' it* *■*Kx I' « I IT, - .T > ■- ’ xvT»Z 4 I- ' if < « i ' . Captain Oscar Wisting (left), in the “Maud” stuck in the Arc tic ice for seven years, while Captain Roald Amundsen (cen ter) and his partner, Haakon H- Hammer, will attempt a flight across the North Pole this sum mer. —. LONDON PRISONER 'CONFESSES' PiT IN WALL ST. PLOT' Ralph Thursbers . Story Being Investigated By New York Police Authorities THIRTY PERSONS KILLED Similar Inquiries In Past Have All Proven Fruitless, Officers Say s NEW YORK, March 5. Whatever hopes the New York police had of solving the mys tery of th e Wall Street explosion through the reported confession of Ralph Thurber, flickered and vanished today w'hen they were advised that Thurber was in the San Quentin penitentiary of Cali fornia when the explosion occur red. NEW YORK, March s.—Confes sion of Ralpr Thurber, a prisoner in a London penitentiary, implicating himself and a number of others in the Wall street explosion of Septem ber, 1920, in which 30 persons lost their lives and scores were injured, today was the object of an intensive inquiry by the police and district attorney’s office, which pointed out however, that a number of similar inquiries in the past had been fruit less. < f The message from London ma,.e public yesterday, quoted Thurber as having said that all details of the plot and the-fiames of the conspira tors were known to Rev. Herbert Wilson, of San Diego and L os An geles. It was pointed out’that Wil liam J. Burns, head of the secret service department, lust year ques tioned Wilson and .was satisfii d that he had no part in the crime. COOLIDGE TO OPPOSE FILIPINO INDEPENDENCE WASHINGTON. March 5 -Presi dent Coolidge informed the Philip pine independence mission today i that in his opinion the time was not , yet come for the separation of the I islands from the United State.% AMERICUS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 5, 1924 FREE ROAD MAPS FOR DISTRIBUTION Times-Recordcr has on hand a limited quantity of au thorized automobile road maps of Georgia, afrid several other tates for free distribution among readers of this paper. The maps are authentic in every detail and will furnish valuable aid to motorists touring this sec tion along roads with which they are not thoroughly familiar. They can be secured only upon personal application at the Times- Recorder office. , 1S ■ A..— NEWWONENIENT GRUNTED IN SDIT OF MRS. S. G.BYIELD DECATUR, March s.—Hearing of the case of Mrs. Sarah G. By field’s SIOO,OOO suit against Walter T. Candler, wealthy clubman and s4n of 'Asa G. Candler, soft drlr.k cause of the illness of a member magnate, was again postponed bi of the defense counsel here today. It was announced, however, the’ ease will go to trial tomorrow re gardless of the attorney’s illness. Mrs. Byfield, wife of a local au tomobile dealer, charges that the fendant attacked her in her state route to Europe during the summer of 1922. Ml® CLOSE (I ■OT WIGHT The date for closing entries in the Sumter county primary is to night at midnight, and candidates who fail to qualify by that hour will be excluded from making th ■ race. The nmaes of all who duly qualify will have their names print ed upon the tickets now being pre pared by Secretary John All< i Fort of the county committee.’ No new candidates may enter the race after tonight at midnight. Early this afternoon, Secretary Fort stated, that a majority of the •candidates announced had paid th. ir fees to the committee and that he would be prepared to receive pay ments until the stroke of twelve to night. Every effort will bo made to notify candidates who fail to rend their fees before the hour for closing entries arrives, ! CONGRESSSMf N ME JCCEJSfD Os TAKING BONE (JICTOPEPL Y Charge Will Be Submitted To Grand Jury At Washington Without Delay COOLIDGE TAKES ACTION House Rules Committee With hold Action, Awaiting Developments WASHINGTON, March ' 5.--' Charges that two members of con gress have accepted money improp erly will be submitted without dey lay to the grand jury investigation. Not only charges against congress , men but evidence relating to other suggestions of wrong-doing by offi cials in Washington as wed will be laid before the federal grand jury immediately. The subjects expected to come' under the inquiry involve charges that one or more high officials used official information for purposes of speculation, and that liquor permits were wrongly produced through the' use of money, and that government files were turned over to persons not entited to them. President Coolidge has instruct ed Acting General Attorney Sey mour to "proceed with every dili gence in the prosecution of th?; casts,” and house rules committee, in awaiting developments, is ex pected to withhold action several days on. the resolution fdr,-inyesti-‘ gation introduced yesterday by Ser.- ! ator Garrett, democratic leader. CITY ELECTION HERE ATTRACTS FEW VOTERS A city election held at the city hail today attracted few voters, with only eighteen ballots cast up to early this afternoon. The elec tion is fill a vacancy caused by the death of th© lat e J. W. Har ris, Jr., and Edgar Shipp is the only candidate. His unanimous election is, therefore, conceded, this probably accounting for the ex-1 tremely light vote cast. SHOOTS SELF MACON, Ga., March 5 I. K. ■ Melton, of this city, almost had hu| foot torn off when a shot gun was: accidentally discharged and the load ; . entered his right ankle while chas-l J ing away burglars who attempted to enter his grocery store, , . i SENATE OIL PROBE - COMMITTEE HEARS ■ MESSAGES READ Executive Session Held This Morning Before Any Wit nesses Called NO SUITS YET FILED Counsel Have Not Yet Com pleted Preparations To Ask Annulment Os Oil Lease# WASHINGTON, March s.—Be fore calling any witnesses today, the oil comimttee held an execu tive session to examine additional telegrams applied by the Western Union Telegraph Company from Its Washington office. It i# announced that special gov. eminent counsel in oil annulment suits have not completed their pre parations to go into court, and it is expected no action .along this line will be announced before to morrow. SON OF M’ADOO COUNSEL FOR INVOLVED PUBLISHER WASHINGTON, March . 5. - Three mere interesting contribu-. tions were added to the records of the oil committee late Tuesday while speciall government counsel were completing plans for action within the next few-hours for the annulment' of the- Sinclair and Do beny leases. Senator Walsh, of Montana, chief prosecutor in the oil scandal dis closed that in the midst of the is quiry, E. L. Doh\jy had suggested that he might care/tp associate him self with the Doheny interests in a proposal to develop Montana oil lands. The second disclosure was pro duced by William J. Burns, director of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice. H? testified that in order to save pos sible embarrassment to Attorney General Daugherty he had hinted to Edward B. McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, that he re sign this commission as a sl-a-year secret agent of the bureau, a po sition he said MftLean had held since 1921. Francis H. McAdoo, of New York son of William G. McAdoo, furn ished tlh? third sensation of the two hour committee session. He declar ed McLean, for whom he is c6up sei, had telegraphed him that A. Mitchell Palmer, a former Demo cratic Attorney General, was coun sel for Albert B. Fall and Harry F, Sinclair. Palmer ' denied before the committee last week that there was any such relationship. AWEPICUS MASONS PLAN JOINT MEET Barbecue Will Be Served, With Many Visitors From Nearby Lodges Expected There will be a joint meeting i f Americus Lodge No. 13, and M. 11 Council Lodge, No. 95 Friday nij.it in the Masonic Temple, Planters Bank building. There will be work in the Master’s Degree, exem plified by the Americus Degree tef.m, it is announced, and there will also be a barbecue supp.-c served by the two Americus lodges. Americus Masons are preparing to entertain a hundred or more vis itors on this occasion, with visitors here from Masonic lodges at Plain,, Preston, Richland, Weston, Lump kin, Andersonville, Oglethorpe. Montezuma, Ellaville, Smithville, Leesburg, Leslie, and DeSoto, and Cordele and Albany lodges may also be represented in the gathering. The Anwrieus degree team is recognized as one of the best ’.n this selection of Georgia, and there will be a number of candidates upon which the Master’s degree will be- exemplified. The team lum been practicing during sevcrcl weeks in preparation for Friday workbeir'l’uTon'de EXPECT LARGE FRUIT CROP IN SO. GEORGIA THOMASVILLE, Ga., March 5.- Fruit growers are looking forwai 1 to exceptionally line season and good fruit crop's here, all varieties are expected to mature well. The cold that vegetation in south Georgia only had the effect of help ing the fruit trees, as it put them back so that they will be later in bearing, it is said. F. 8. ARTHUR TILLS MT COMMITTEE TFT mi® KN VOTE Member of Executive Commit tee Indicates Test Cast Nec essary To Decide Law SAYS STATUTE IS. CRUDE Would Be Difficult, He Says In Keeping Votes Apart Under Present Law Fred B. Arthur, a member of the Sumter County Democratic Execu tive committee, and the man who made the fnotion to permit Ameri cus voters to participate in the nomination of county school super intendent as voters in the March 19 primary, today explained his position in this matter to a Times- Recorder representative. in his opinion the law as set out in Sec tion 147 of the school code of Georgia represents ’“a very crude piece of legislation,” and a test case should be brought to decide its constitutionality.’ Telling of the controversy now being waged as a result of the ac tion of the committee, Mr. Aruthr today stated. “Being a member of the Sum ter County Democratic Executive Committee and being one who at our last meeting that made a mo tio nthat we let everybody in Sum ter county and in the City of Amer icus vote for candidates for county School .superintendent. This motion was carried by a vote of 8 to 3. “At the tim e said motion was made, it was explained why such a motion was made and that was to make a test case of same, we had the law before us, <nd found it to be a very crude piece qf legisla tion. “For instance, should we pro hibit the people of Americus to vote for county school superinten dent, we had jxjst as well say that they should not vote for th e com missioners of roads and revenues, as the principal i s one and the same. “Again the people in Americus that have owned farms in Sunitcr county have been paying a special county school tax for years. This tax is to help run the schools of the county. Then why should these land owners be prohibited in vot ing for county school superinten dent. “Then suppose we had said the people of Americus should not be allowed to vote, how could we have kept the vote separated in the 27th district? You see Americus is the voting precincit of the 27th district, but all the voters don’t live in Americus. “Therefore, we would have had to establish a voting place outside of Americus in thez27th district in order to have kept votes from get ting mixed. Now then, what we did was done in th e kindest of feeling, but in order for th e best interest of the county at large.” EARL COCKE IS NAMED ON LEGION COMMITTEE DAWSON, March 5. —Erie t’oolo , of Dawson, who has long been a<-- Itive in .affairs of the American I.i --' gion has been appointed upon a committee to decide whether the Georgia department of the Legi <n shall l>egin issuing a periodical. The committee, which is composed of tni.-e men will consider the expedi ency of the proposal and, if it i ' New York Future* F’C Open High Low Close Mar. ..28.13 28.34i28.39i28.00128.10 May -.28.43128.75'28.80’28.22 28.41 July ..27.g7 28.20 28.20 28.57:27.85 Oct. .25.11 25.25 25.40 25.70 25.40 Dec. 24.77 24.94j25.01 24.85i24.98 Americus strict middling 27 3-4c| PRICE FIVE CENTS U. EORT EXPLAINS DNDEPWOOD’S M ON PUMIONII Light Wines And Beer Not Favored By Alabama Sena tor, Americus Man Says VOTED FOR ENFORCEMENT Stands For Enforcement Os As This Stands, With Constitution Supreme Maj. James A. Fort, chairman of the Sumter County Underwood-for president club, today issued a formal statement setting forth Sen ator Underwood’s position as op posed to the enactment of any law that would permit the legalizing of light wines and beer in this coun try. The statement was issued.,; Ma. Fort says, because of interest displayed in this issue of the cam paign by a number of Americus ladies who have been misled to be lieve. that Senator Underwood is a “wet” in the common acceptance of that term. “Senator Underwood’s position on the liquor position is best ex plained,” said Major Fort, “in lie own words. Writing to Rev. W. B Crumpton, Baptist minister who is known' in his home state as ‘the head, heart and brains qf the pro hibition movement in Alabama— captain of the force, and superin. tendent of,the anti-saloon league,’ Senator Underwood on ’ July 31 1623, made himself clear on the is sue of light wines and liquor in the following communication: ‘‘The erv that is being made in favor of light wines and beer does hot meet my approval. It misleads a good ma, y people, and is not attainable umb® my interpretation of the Constitu tion. ,/ “With regard to Senator Under wood’s support of the Volstead act and its enforcement, examination of the Congressional Record dis closes that every appropriation bill that has been presented to the sen ate providing funds for the enforce ment of this prohibition law has been supported and voted for by Senator Underwood. “There has been so. much about Senator Underwood’s stand on prohibition, so much that is mi-- leading and unfair in newspaper headlines and elsewhere, that a de ’- inite presentation and intfljigent examination of the Underwood view point and condition in this matter is due. ‘Following an address by the Sena tor before the legislature of Alaba ma last summer while that body was in session, Rev. Crumpton ( re ferred to above) seconded a motion to make Senator Underwood Alaba ma’s candidate for the presjden:\V in the following Words: “WhAl he (Senator Underwood) declares for the enforcement of the Eighteenth amendment in its entirety, that sat isfies me. I second the motion thac he be recognized as Alabama’s candidate for the This statement would indicate that Sen ator Underwood is regarded by the highest Officials in the organize! anti-liquor forces of his home state ,as a iriepd of prohibition and a man to he trusted with the enforce, i thent of the nation's law against the liquor traffic.” COMMITTEE TO MAKE REPORT ON MEASURE WASHINGTON,. March 5. I House insular affairs committee de cided today to report on the bill pto viding for Philippine independence. FORM ROTARY CLUB GRIFFIN, Ga., March 5. —The Griffin Rotary Club was organized here recently at an enthusiastic meeting held at the Griffin hotel, .where a luncheon wus enjoyed. Twenty-five charter numbers will cbmpyse the orgauizutiop at the tart. Officers elected were: J. M«>'"l- Hammond, president; M. 'Frank Smith, vice president; J. Lem Xaltei-whiU., secretary; M. J. Daniel and J. M sergeants a'j 1 armK *
