About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1924)
WEATHER For Georgia—Fair tonight; Wed nesday cloudy; no change in tem perature. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 72 MISS MARY COLEMAN, VICTIM OF BRUTAL HAMMER MURDER ° ° 0 ° ° ° 0 0000000000 0000 o o o o SWAINSBORO MAN 13 ACCUSED IN KILLING o O O O C 0000000 ,'3) 00000000000 MORE WESTERN REPUBLICANS SUMMONED BY COMMITTEE KRCMNTS HER£ TO STAGE HEW FORD CUR PRONOTIODCOIITEST Everett Announces Effort At Suggestion of Number of Americus Business Houses DATE TO BE DETERMINED Success of Previous Campaigns Unites Merchants in Latest Drive for New Business Americus merchants will stage an. other Ford car trade promotion cam paign according to an announce ment authorized this morning by Henry P. Everett, secretary of the chamber of Commerce. The effort is to be undertaken, says Secretary Everett, at the suggestion of a num ber of merchants here who derived substantial benefit from previous similar efforts. “During the past two of these con tests have been conducted by the Chaniber of Commerce for Ameri cus merchants,” said Secretary Everett. “Both proved splendid trade promoters, with added cash re ceipts reported by every participat ing merchant. A total of a half million dollars poured into the tills of participating merchants in these previous contests, according to fig ures on' file in! my office, and I be lieve that this third effort will bring.in an even greater sum than any previous trade expansion effort ever staged in the community. “One reason merchants are urging the Chamber of Commerce to under take this new contest effort is the beginning of the spring buying sea son. Within the next eight weeks is embraced what should be one of the most prosperous seasons of the entire year. While farmers are buying huge quantities of supplies for their farms, city residents will soon begin buying spring clothing, garden hardware, paints and build ing materials in unusual quantities. The Millinery season is opening, toe, and Easter morn, which is to he in cluded within the period cf this con test, will see practically every wo man, and man, too—in the entire county wearing a new Tid|’ “Too much money that should be spent with Americus merchants Is now being spent with mail order houses and in nearby cities. The au tomobile is responsible, in part, for this tendency to trade in nearby cities, but it is not the cause that Americus merchants are concerned with. The problem with which Americus merchants is concerned is to retain and expand their trade ter ritory. Past campaigns have brought many new customers into Americus stores; the volume of business transacted here has been materially increased and collections upon neglected accounts have been stimulated. I believe these cam paigns have done more to assist in the development of new trade terri tory for Americus than anything ever before attempted here.” The date upon which the tam paign is to be launched has not yet been definitely determined, but the details are now being arranged, and an announcement coverig this point may be anticipated at an early dace. MRS. COOPER HEWITT JOLTS ESTRANGED MATE PARIS, March 25. Marion Cooper Hewittfi famous American beauty who is estranged from her husband, Baron Derlanger has re futed the baron’s newspaper adver tisement that he would not be re sponsible for any of his wife’s debts She inserted an advertisement saying: “These statements are misleading as Baron Ro-hin Emile Frederic* Regis Derlanger has never at any time contributed toward my support nor even his own.” LOOK OUT FOR FORGER, SAYS P. O. INSPECTOR ATLANTA, March 23. Postal Inspector Joe P. Johnston has is sued a warning to Southern mer chants and bankers to be on the lookout for a professional forger of moneyo rders. This action follow ed receipt frm Denver, Fla., of a report of the jobbery of that of fice. One hundred and forty-five money order blanks between the s»- rial nuirtbers of 7,455 and 7,600 were stolen. THE fedtPUBLISHED. IN THE AR~T~6f'' Her Romances Ended! / jBKW ' v s :. ,Z \ / f \ * w \ ] w I / / l \ W .... > / \ \ / Z / <* / '* Death has ended the stormy marital career of Dr. Zoe Z. Wil kins, Kansas City (Mo.) woman physician. The body of the wealthy divorcee, who six times had figured in matrimonial ven tures, was found in her home w’hen the landlcard dropped around to collect th e rent. She had been murdered several days before. Police have been unable to ascribe a motive. Several who had access to her home, are being questioned. FEiraSfEsT KILLIIG Os ffl MBII FOB MB New York Youth Admits He Slugged Landlady With Heavy Ha m m e r BODY FINALLY BURNED Total Booty Obtained Through Brutal Murder Amounted to Only $15.00 NEW YORK, March 25.—Implica ted by his eonscience-striken bride Harry Fenton, 21 confessed to mur dering Miss Mary Coleman, his 60 year old landlady, with a hammer and burning the body after saturat ing it with kerosene. Robbery was the motive, the mur derer getting sls. WOMAN GIVES AUTO TO GIRL SCOUTS COLUMBUS', March 25.—As a mark of appreciation for assistance in winning the prize in a recent salesmanship campaign, Mrs. Wayne Patterson of this city has announc ed that she will sell an automobile and give the proceeds to the Colum bus girl scouts. The proceeds from, the sale of the automobile will go towards paying off the indebtedness on the girl scouts camp located at ■Elbeck’s mill, near here, Mrs. Pat terson is local commissioner for the girl scouts and largely responsi ble for their development. WAYCROSS SEEKING TRADE OF TOURISTS WAYCROSS, March 25.—A fund of SSOO has been raised by local business men for the purpose of bringing tourist trad; through Way cross both returning from and en tering Florida, sh .■ money will go for the purpose of printing and I distributing an attractive folder showing tne condition of the ro«ds around Waycross and their short ness as compared with other roads going into Florida. Th e business men expressed the ooinion that this will bring quite a bit of out of town trade into Waycross and do much toward promoting general business conditions here. What this country needs most isj less things it needs most. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MARCHC 25, 1924 HEFLIH W.L CARRY LAIiOS FRAUD FIGHT TO FLOOD OF SENATE Alabama Senator Dissatisfied With Manner of Conducting Investigation ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE Lands in Two Texas Counties Included Within Scope of Al leged Frauds WASHINGTON, March 25 Frotesting at the manner in which the Rio Grande land frauds inves tigation is being conducted, Sena tor Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, an nounced today he would carry the fight to the floor of the senate. Chief Inspector Simmons testified before the committee Monday that R. B. Creager, republican national committeeman, had asked and ob tained the transfer of Inspector Donaldson claiming he was “prej udiced and over-enthusiastic.” He said Creager complained also about the methods of £he postoffice department was employing in obtain ing evidence. He specifically ob jected to action of the department in sending out a circular letter to all purchasers, Simmons testified. The alleged frauds concern sale of land in Hidalgo and Cameron counties, in southeastern <Sexas. Purchasers had petitioned that con. ditions in the Rio Grande ' Valley were misrepresented. FomicW nipi mu sow Community Orchestra Will En tertain Friends Sunday After non at Rylander Theater The fourth concert to be given by the Community Orchestra will be staged Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the auditorium of Ry lander theater. There will be -no admission charged and as au udaed attraction the ::Moultrie Quartet ’ will sing for the entertainment pf those present. The Community orchestra has re cently been re-organized with new enthusiasm infused into the artists erolled, and the concert .Sunday af ternoon promises to be on e of the most cnjoydble yet furnished in this community. GEORGIA RAILROAD MAY ABANDON LINE WASHINGTON, March 2ft.—Tho Rome & Northern railway has re quested the Interstate Commerce Commission’s permission to abandon its line from Rome to Gore, Ga. The railw-ay company declares the j road has ceased as a profitable en terprise. GLUCKSBURG DYNASTY DETHRONED ’W- ATHENS, iMarch 25. —The national assembly today passed a resolution favoring the over throw of the Glucksburg dy-i nasty and establishing a Greek republic. f SUHTER DELEGHTES. HOT YET DINED BV CMHITTEE NEE Underwood Men Not to Be Per mitted to Represent County in State Convention WAIT FOR INSTRUCTIONS McAdo Supporters to Supplant These Originally Named By Committee Here ■I 1 1 c Sumter county Underwood sup-1 porters who had planned to attend the state convention as delegates are unpacking their luggage. Mc- Adoo men are to represent Grand Old Sumter in the Democratic gath ering at Atlanta next Month. No discordant element is to be per mitted upon the floor when the ques tion of selecting twenty-eight dele gates to represent Georgia in the national convention at Atlanta is to be decided. Notwithstanding Underwood car ried Sumter by a substantial major ity, this county is to be represented in the convention by McAdoo sup porters. This was decided today at a conference between James A. Davenport, chairman, and John Al len Fort, secretary of the county committee. Such procedure is in accordance with the rules of the state committee adopted prior to die primary, and action taken 'by the commitee in naming Underwood delegates following the primary was in contravention of these rules. As yet the Sumter county com mittee has received no instructions as to the personnel of the delegation .but as soon as these are received through usual channels, McAdoo men will be certified as represen tatives from this county, Chairman Davenport stated today. AMERICUS PEOPLE TO ITTEH FESTIVAL - Many Americus people will go to Fort Valley Thursday to attend the annual Peach Festival to be held there on that date. Reports from points en route indicate that while roads are not in their usual state of repair due to recent continued rains that all the main roadways are easily passable, and capable of handling a considerable volume of automobile traffic. Miss / Susan Stallings has been named to rep resent Americus in the annual pag eant there, and she will be accom panied on her journey by a number of handsome and popular young women from this community. In addition numerous young men will go there from this city to participate in the annual ball, which is to be a feature of the festival again this year. Fort Valley at peach festival time each year is lost to thousands of visitors. The occasion is becom ing traditional, like the Mardi Gras, of New Orleans, or California’:; tournament of roses and from every point of the United States meh anu Women of leisure and of perception of beauty go there. Every arrange ment has been made Ibis year, as in the past, to take care of all visi tors. A pageant depicting the part play ed by the peach in outstanding events of civilization wll be pres ented in an amphitheater erected in Oakland Heighs, in Fort Valley, to seat 10,000 persons. Every clime and every epoch will be represented, by beautiful women Costumes gorgeous and expensive have been designed for the occasion' and nothing has been spared, Fort Valley people assert, to make this year’s the greatest and most res plendent of many magnificent pag eants of the peach. % Eon to testify EEGMHG OIL BEIL BBBING COWEHTIM Oklahoma Republican Leader to Be Asked Concerning Re-t cent Disclosures SANDERSON IS SUMMONED Pueblo Banker Told Today of Loans Made by Him to Al bert B. Fall WASHINGTON, March 25.—R. H. Wilson, Oklahoma Republican leader, was subpoenaed today by the oil committees or questioning re garding the story of the oil deal at the Chicago convention. F. W. Sanderson, a Minnesota official, was also summoned. M. D. Thatcher, Pueblo, Colo rado, (banker told of loans made so Albert B. Fall. By ordering contempt proceedings brought against Harry F. Sinclair for refusing to answer questions put to him by the senate oil committee, the senate has given new impetus to the demand for the registration or suspension of Attorney General Daugherty. Following the vote to hold Sin clair in contempt, Monday Senator Dill, of Washington, democrat, call ed for Daugherty’s suspension, de claring that the federal district at torney, who was appointed by Daugh erty, should be given a free hand in prosecuting the case. Dill pointed out that Daugherty himself is under investigation by another committee, and therefore has a deep personal interest in the precedent set in the Sinclair case. “With this question of the right .of committees of congress to ex amine witnesses being taken to the supreme court, there is an added reason why Daugherty should be suspended,” Dill said in the senate. “The federal district attorney can not be as free to prosecute Sinclair as he would if he did not have [at superior like Daugherty who is ■friendly to Sinclair. Daugherty should he suspended by the presi dent so that the federal attorney may have a fre hand.” Some of the republican senators who recently urged Coolidge to drop Daugherty, have renewed their sug gestions. Senator Borah was a call er at the white house Saturday night it is learned, and the question of Daugherty’s early resignation was considered. CUSTOMS INSPECTOR MAY BE IMPEACHED WASHINGTON, March 25.—-A resolution providing the impeach ment of C. C. Chase, El Paso cus toms collector, on conspiracy charges was introduced today by Senator Walsh who recited his re fusal to testify before the oil com mittee and tried to get Price Mc- Kinney, Cleveland banker, to give false testimony. Senator Bursuin protested saying that Chase intends to resign. Senator Robinson said “no resig nation will be permitted to pro tect the offending office holder Chase is the son-in-law of Albert B. Fall. WILD PLUM BUSHES THREATEN ORCHARDS ATANTA, March 25. —Extreme care should be used in the cutting of wild plum trees in the vicinity of commercial peach orchards , it is pointed out by the government and state laboratory at Fort Valley, which warns growers that “wild plum thickets and bushes frequently furnish peach orchards with three or four of the most serious pests.” “Many bushes have been removed in. the peach belt, but it is reported that new bushes have sprouted from the roots of those previously cut down, and these, together with the | trees which have not been destroy-1 ed, may prove a serious menace to the 1924 peach crop. The laboratory advises peach growers to “see that the bushes are grubbed out imnrediately.’ ’The axe should not be used a s sprout from the roots will have to be reckoned with next year.” BRITISH PLANE HOPS OFF TO TOUR WORLD LONDON, March 25 The British plane hopped off today on its flight around the world, the pilot of which is Stuart Mac- Laren. MffIiCESfOBE~ PAID FOB POULTRY Good prices will be paid for poul try in Americus Thursday when the Seaboard railway will inaugurate its “Poultry Special” between Ameri cus and Savannah. Two thousand pounds of hens and fryers have al ready been promised for the initial shipment, Henry P. Everett, secre tary of the Cahmber of Commerce said this morning, and it is expested this total will be more than double before the car starts on.its journey to Savannah. Every class of fowl will be ac cepted and paid for at the car door, the sales of all being upon a basts of weight, except n the case of guin eas, which will be accepted only at 25c per head. Prices which will be paid sos the other classes of fowls are as follows: Hens -21 c per lb. Stags (Young chckens over fryer weight)....lßc per lb. Fryers (Not over 2 lbs. each) 40c per lb. Roosters 10e per lb. Ducks ,20c per lb. Geese 12c per lb. Turkeys -25 c per lb. Capons 25 c per lb. Guineas 25c per Head J. A. Kelley, of Savannah, will be in charge of the poultry ear, and loading will begin at Americus dur ing Thursday afternoon. Sellers will receive checks upon Americus banks in instances where fowls’ are loaded at this station, and upon nearest banks in cases where load ings are made at other stations. This is the first instance in ,he history of Georgia’ in which poultry raisers have been afforded such ex cellent marketing facilities, with the highest market prices offered for their fowls, and George 0. Mar shall, county farm demonstration agqnt, who is co-operating in the movement, urges all who have fowh; for sale to bring these in for disposi tion Thursday afternoon. John Bowen, Americus agent for the Sea board, will take special care of sell ers who may call at his office for information, and Henry P. Everett, secretary of the Chamber of Com merce will be glad to furnished in formation upon any point where poultry growers are in doubt. As to the advisanility of selling poultry through this method, George O. Marshall, county agent, stated to day that the continued operation of this train, in his opinion, means the building up of a great poultry in dustry in this section that in years to come will pour a golden stream of cash into the pockets of Sumter county farmers. “Every farmer should contribute fowls to this train,” said Marshall today, “and this should be done as a fixed pol icy. Every trip this train makes should be the signal for every farm er to market a dozen or. more chick ens. It means cash, just the same as if the farmers were placed upon a bi-weekly payroll, for it is the pur pose of the railroad to operate this train every other week. J sincerely hope that the farmers here along the entire line of road will contribute to making its operation a success.” PEDDLER CAR TO VISIT AMERICUS ON APRIL 2 It is announced that a peddler cat of calcium arsenate being operatea by the State Board of Entomology will be at the Central of jGeorgia station here April 2, for the distrib ution of the poison to farmers at 12 cents a pound. Detailed information will Le given at the car as to the best method for controlling the boll weevil, together i with instructions as to best use of j calcium arsenate. Cuntrolling the boll weevil with , calcium arsenate and producing a normal crop of cotton is no longer | an experiment. Any cotton grower can produce a normal crop if he frill 1 follow the method aud uses* calcium arsenate as outlined by the Georgia | State Board of Entomology, blew York Future* PC. Open. High Low Cfose Mar ..27.05j26.80|26.92|26.64)26.64 May July . 26.70f26.70|26.83|26.30|26.75 Oct. . 24.63, j24.60;24.65(24.20,24.45 Dec. . 24.40124.2ff|24.20|23.74|24.11 Americus strict middling 26 l-4c PBICE FIVE CENTS WfflNT OP MGING MURDER TO SWAINSBORO CITIZEN* S. T. W. Hal! emerged With Capital Crime By Sister of Slain Man NO ARREST YET MADE It Is Expected, However, Hall Will Be Jailed At Swains boro During Day STILMORE, Ga., March 25fl warrant charging murder was sworn out here by Miss Rosa Belle Con nell, the sister of Thompson Con nell, who was shot and) killed 'by S. T. W. Hall two weeks ago. The warrant has not yet been served, although Hall is expected to be taken by the sheriff at Swains boro in the next few hours. EESffIOBE ffiEWEOffIILII First of Rehearsals for ‘Kath leen’ to Be Held Here - April 3rd John D. Mathis Post, American Legion, has set April 3rd as the date for the first rehearsal of their musical play “Kathleen,” which will be given at the Rylander theater on the night of April ,18th, with a csst of one. hundred and fifty people for the benefit of the post. Everything i s how in readiness for the arrival of the professional directors who are sent by John B. Rogers Producing Co., of F’ostofia, Ohio, the largest and best pro ducers of local talent shows in this country, according to Robert C. Lane, post commander. It is expected that participants in the production of ‘Kathleen will come from Plains, Leslie, Ellaville, and Smithville, as these towns will be asked to furnish girls and boys to take part in the production of this show which is hergj,ded as the nest ever produced by this com pany. The costumes and scenery for Kathleen’ are said to be very at a-active as everything l is furnished complete by the producing com pany. comnooTßi M FIMTIW Anderscnv.'lie School Crippled By Prevalence of Measles in Community The County School meet ,with its attendant ahtletic and literary events, will be held Friday and Sat urday of this week at the Third Dis trict Agricultural and Mechanical school here. Every school in the county is to be represented, and many interesting contests are ex pected to b e presented. J. M. Lanier, principal of An dersonville School, discussing the prospects of his school winning one one or more of hte events, regretted th e prevalence of measles in Ander sonville community which he states has already badly crippled his school. With several of his best students unable to attend th e nifeet here. Prof. Lanier states, Ander sonville will come to the meeting somewhat handicapped, but deter mined nevertheless to win. MAY BUILD SIG WATER POWER PLANT SPARTA, March 25. —A hydro electric power plant may be erected soon upon the Oconee river near this city upon property, sold several years ago to eastern capitalists. En gineers at present are surveying the site and it has been reported here that the owners will being the de velopment of the project at once. The river at the site for the power plant is the dividing line between Greene and Hancock counties. The development of this project will in sure hydro-electric power for Spar ta, Greensboro, Eatonton, Milledge ville and smaller
