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PAGE TWO DECIftRE MARTIAL LSW IH ALBANIA AFTER AMERICANS' MURDER Authorities Take Drastic Steps to Prevent Further Outrages By Bandit Bands WAYLAID ON HIGHWAY Robert Coleman and George DeLong Killed According to News Agency Mesage ROME, April 7. —Martial law l a been proclaimed in Albania follow ing the murder of two American merchants, who were waylaid on the Tirana-Scutaru highway, according to advices from Albanian headquar ters today. A dispatch to Steafeni Agency, which first reported the crime last night, says the two Americans killed were named Coroman and De- Long. The names of the murdered Americans were given out as Robert Louis Coleman, of San Francisco, and George B. DeLong, of New York. MURDER LAID TO HIGHWAYMEN TIRANA, ALBANIA, April 7. The murder of two Americans whc were waylaid on the Tirana-Scutari highway Sunday, is attributed to highwaymen which infest the back country of the mountainous ami sparsely settled country. Travelers along these roatw be come easy prey t 0 these (bandits, and the region through which the Americans were traveling is the wildest in Albania, where the roads are constantly exposed to danger from ambush. Martial law has been extended throughout the country, and steps taken to make rigid investigation, fearing lest the crime may hav an important repercussion of the country's international standing. PEACE CONFERECE SOUGHT BI PFPPFR Pennsylvania Senator Would Have New World Conference Summoned By America \ Washington, April 7. a joint resolution proposing a world peace conference was introduced to day by Senator Pepper, republican of Pennsylvania. The senate would advise the res ident under the, resolution that the time is now suitable for assembling another coaferepce similar to the past two held> at the Hague. BETTER SENTIMENT EVIDENT IN BUSINESS NEW YORK, April 7.—A more | cheerful sentiment developed in business and financial circles last weejj. Considerable optimism was expressed with regard to the Daw ss committee report. Attention al so as given reports of better pros pects for taxv reduction. Securi ties and commodities rallied briskly apparently because the market was oversold. Foreign exchange rates also displayed considerable strength. Coughing only aggravates a cough Control coughing— O I(F pe the first step in cur- ,n H a cough. OUGHSare’ V vay be stopped at once because they frequently ’ are a futile waste of strength. due merely to Dr. King’s New Discovery checks irritation caused coughing quickly and without any by a congested condition of throat bad after- effects. It quiets violent an'l lung tissue. Persistent hacking throat and lung spasms and gives will then only increase the conges- the congestion a chance to clear tion and continue the cough indefi- away. It has an agreeable taste, nitely. Such coughs can and should All druggists. Dr. KING’S NEW DISCOVERY “Southern Mothers Suggesten This New Kind of Laxative” K ■ Second of a Series of Three Interviews With W. L. Hand “During the many years that I ran a drug store at Charlotte, it was an every-day occurrence for women to ask me for something in liquid form- to be given the children in place of calomel and castor oil. “L got to studying this problem and found that if I could get a hap py balance between certain vege table-ingredients, some of which act on the liver and some on the bowels, I would be able t;o fill this very universal and very definite need. “I employed scientific methods and tested one combination after another unitl, finally, I hit upon a formula which proved up exactly right. Mother* Pleaded. “After that, I answere the daily question by handing out a bottle of f.AST MINUTE NEWS CORDELE CONERN GETS BIG MELON SEED ORDER CORDELE, April 7.—Haile & I Company had an order yester- I day for their local house for I eleven thousand pounds of Geor- I gia water melon seeds to go to an Arkansas house. This is prob- I ably the largest single order of I the kind ever coming here. NINA WILCOX WILL ESCAPE INDICTMENIT t PROVIDENCE, April 7.—-Al though her decree of divorce was vacated by Judge Chester W. Barrows, Mrs. Nina Wilcox Put nam Sanderson, authoress, will not be prosecuted for presenting false affidavits in connection therewith. The grand jury which investigated her case filed a special report late Friday, in which it stated that no indict ment had been found. BOLL WEEVIL FOUND HIBERNATING IN PIT BUTLER, April 7.—Word is sent to us by Mrs. Leonard Peterman, wife of one of the county’s best farmers, that if anyone believes that all of the boll weevils have been killed by' the long, hard winter, that per son is very much mistaken. In removing her pot flowers from a pit, Mrs. Peterman discovered that some of these pests had been hibernating there for the winter. TAYLOR COMMISSIONERS CLOSE ROAD CONTRACT BUTLER, April 7.—The coun ty commissioners, it is learned, 1 have closed a contract with the I State Highway department for the grading and re-topsoiling of the road from Butler to Central school building near the resi dence of E. C. Perkins. The survey several months ago will be followed. The work will be gin in June.it is learned. GEORGIA PEACH CROP MAY TOTAL 10,000 CARS SAVANNAH, April 7.—J. T. Jackson, general agricultural agent of the Central of Georgia railway, says the outlook at this time was that his road would j handle at least 10,000 carloads of Georgia peaches this year. Un less some unforseen disaster over takes the crop, will be made pos sible by the coming into bearing of many acres of new the yield should be that large, states Mr. j Jackson. He also said the Central rail- j way was advising against the planting of further acreage along its lines at this time. The (heavy crop of this year trees, he stated. "We do not advise the of new orchards now,” I »said Mr. Jackson. $75,000 FIRE IfF ATLANTA FRIDAY ATLANTA, April 7.—A loss, estimated at $75,000, was caused by flames which destroyed the garage of the Atlanta Auto club, 329 Marietta street, about 3 o’- clock Friday morning, cremating the negro night watchman, J. Biown, and his dog, who were asleep in the building at the time. Inaddition to destruction of the building, 15 trucks and six 1 , Liv-o-Lax, and the demand for it • grew so rapidly (from one mother 1 recommending Liv-o-Lax to anoth i er) that I finally had to give up the ' drug store and start a factory. Available To All Now “Now I am able to tell this story of Liv-o-Lax tp every family and to say that you can get Liv-o at your own drug store. I "If any one in the family is bil- I ious, constipated, stomach not do ' ing its duty, or with a cold coming on, get Liv-o-Lax and give it a try. Really a Doub'e Action “I will guarantee hat Liv-o-Lax passenger cars were lost in the blaze, which had gained great before the fire depart ment could be summoned. The roof of the building collapsed as the fire fighters arrived. INTEREST MANIFESTED IN ASHBURN REVIVAL ASHBURN, April 7.—Consid erable interest is being manifest ed in advance in the revival meeting that begins next Sunday morning at the Methodist church and will continue until April 20, Easter Sunday. The pastor Rev. C. C. Ernest, will be assisted in the meeting by Rev. E. O. Heath, pastor of the Methodist church in Cordele The singing will be a fine feature of the two weeks service. There will be two services daily. MOTORISTS MUST HAVE TAGS TO OPERATE CARS BUTLER, April 7. —Sheriff McGuffin has been very nice, indeed, in putting off as long as possible the “evil day” of en- • forcing the law against operat ing cars and trucks without license tags for 1924. Match Ist was the time allowed in which to get tags, but to furt'her accommodate auto towners the sheriff granted an extension of thirty days or to April Ist, yet there are those who have still delayed the matter. To such the sheriff insists that cars must bo kept off the road until tags have been secured, or a receipt there for produced, otherwise he says he will take steps to see that the law is enforced. TWIGGS COUNTY STOPS WORKING ITS CONVICTS JEFFERSONVILLE, Apr. 7 Twiggs county has changed her system of working the public road/s. Beginning this week the county abolishes the convict sys tem in favor of the tractor and grader, sending the convicts to Baldwin county for the time be ing. The qounty commiss,ione , rs have for some time contemplated the change and recently decided to buy a tractor and graders. A ten-ton tractor, with two large graders, was purchased and these together with a small squad of laborers employed by the day will compose the coun ty roads Working force. MISSING FARMER FOUND IN JESUP SANITORIUM BAXLEY, Ga., April 7.—John B. Herndon, a farmer of Appling county, who disappeared March 30 has been located in Causey’s sani torium in Jesup by his relatives who live near here. His family located him late yesterday after fears Had been expressed as to his safety. Herndon left here to go to Sa vannah, where he expected to enter a hospital. He was suffering from high blood pressure and complica tions. On his way to Savannah, Herndon became delirious and left the train at Jesup. He was taken to the hospital there. His condi tion is reported to be serious. COOLIDGE TO VETO ALL TAX INCREASES WASHINGTON, April 7. While the senate finance commit tee warned of a $75,000,000 de ficit as a result of reductions now carried by the revenue bill, turned to means of raising new revenue, President Coolidge late Friday an nounced a general policy of oppos ition to any new taxes. Mr. Coolidge, while not express ing any specific attitude on the new taxes voted last night by the com mitee radio and Mah Jongg sets indicated he would approve new levies only if designed to shift the tax burden from a class ol- interest now heavily taxed to a class or in terest which might without injury bear additional taxation. Before taking up the remaining exercise and miscellaneous tax rates Chairman Smoot called attention to estimates which he said showed the bill as now framed would fall by about $75,000,000 to raise suffi cient revenue in the next fiscal year. Originator f * Shi ■ Jw I w. 1,. HAND, Charlotte, N. C. hose 1< ng conlinued investig*. .md exp riments ; ,-e re- - ••"»<■<! in thk ;.. w will not only clear the bowels, but relieve liver congestion as well, and it is in this latter respect that so many family laxatives fall short. “I will be glad to send a sample Write me.” W. L. Hand, president W. L. Hand Medicine company, Charlotte, N. C. THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER f TIMISTIC TALK IS ODE BY GIRL (Continued From Page One) dealings, and the respect and good will of his fellow citizens. This is shown by the words of Mr. Paulk, county Turner Superior court clerk he says “true, there have been quite a number of mortgage fore closures recorded in my office dur ing 1923; but, widely acquainted with the people of Turner county as I am, I can say that in no irt stance in which a debtor has adopt ed the Turner county plan and was trying conscientiously to follow it on his farm, have foreclosure pro ceedings been filed against him. In every instance the foreclosures have been against men who were not trying to make good.” John J- Story, clerk of the city of Ashburn, and engaged in the real estate ata loan business, says: “The city for the first time in many years, is running on a cash basis, it having got out of debt, with the exception of its bonded debt of $60,000 which has several years to run. This is the first time since I have been clerk that we were able to meet our floating debt. According to Agent Ralls Turner County sold and shipped through his office during 1923 the following products: Peanuts, $125,000; hogs, $50,000; poultry and eggs, $50,- 000; cream $90,000; corn, beans and hay $5,000; watermelons, $lO,- 000, catton, $600,000; sweet pota toes $1,500; syrup $1,000; beef cattle, SIO,OOO, these make a total of one million two thousand five hundred dollars, besides this amount the Ashburn Distributing company paid for cream in 1923 to the farm ers of Turner the sum of $216,887. 36, and $27,300 for poultry and eggs. Thus there has been paid into the hands of 900 farmers of Turner during the year 1923 the staggering total of $1,246,687.36 for which we have the records to show. This means that every farm which joined, in the Turner county plan and there are 900 plows in the organization was paid for their prod ucts an average of $1,385.20, or more thar.- 100 dollars for every man, woman and child in the coun ty. This does not take in local sales, but money from other locali ties paid into the hands of the far mers. Turner county is just an average county. Conditions there prevail all over Georgia. What this county has done others are doing and still others can do the same. Mr. Geo. CONING For Free Lectures In Sumter County 801 l Weevil Expert 1 . R. J. H. DeLOACH Poultry Expert JjK.s’i I-' VAL CISMOSKY Both will Speak at following places: I FCI IF - - - InW- O. W. Hall Tuesday, April 8, 10:00 A. M. A syi FO i i i Cj. H In Court House “ "I w ■ Khs “ Tuesday, April 8, 3:00 P. M. DI A Iki Ch, I n Masonic Hall Mr. R. J. H. DeLoach, weevil expert, probably has more first hand practical knowledge than any man in Georgia. He will speak on “How to Control the 801 l Weevil.” Mr. Vai Cismosky is a dairy and poul try expert and will speak on these two subjects. He will be in the county for several days. The lectures of these two men will be o f great aid to the farmers of the coun ty. Come out and hear them. 4 ■.. ~ » i f i FREE-Everybody Welcome-FREE SPEAKING UNDER THE AUSPICES OF Americus Chamber of Commerce and George O. Marshall, County Agent T. Betts said: I want to emphasize ther fact that the returning pros perity to Turner county is to be J attributed solely to the county wide! adoption of the dairy cow, the hog and the hen on the farms in the county. And the wonderful change in the spirit of the people of the county is due to their having proved to themselves that farming with the dairy cow, hog pnd hen is. a profitable enterprise. 1 am not going further in t’r.-;i consideration of the individual county, but will take the State of Georgia as a whole. Has the boll weevil been beneficial or harmful to her? According to figures furnished by the department of Agriculture the agricultural products of Georgia sold for more money last year than ever before, in fact fifty million dollars more, than the' year before. This increase has been caused by diversification and nothin# else. In 1919 Georgia had at the close of the year 5,250,000 head of poul try valued at $2,000,000; while in 1920 wound up the year with 7,- 500,000 head of poultry valued ax more than $6,750,000. Another striking comparison: In 1909 Georgia produced $3,971,760 worth of eggs while in 1919 she produced $9,736,414 worth of eggs, or more than 300, per cent in crease for the tenl year period. These figures tell an elequenfa story. They show that the poultry business is fast forging to the front, and is taking its place along of cotton, corn and potatoes as p source of revenue. For years it was out of the ques tion to think of shipping a car of poultry from Georgia, but thanks to the boll weevil in 1923 we ship ped from the Georgia to the out side markets more than 100 solid cars, besides many solid cars of, eggs. In 1916 the peach crop in Geor gia was valued at $7,995,000 and in 1923 at $9,341,000. These statistics that I am giving on Georgia were sent by the State College of Agriculture and their accuracy is beyond question. In 1916 the Pecan crop of Geor gia was valued at $482,000, in 1923 at $1,782,000. In 1916 Georgia produced 1,240,000 bushels peanuts while in 1923 77,324,000. In 1916 she produced 1,534,000 pounds of tobacco and ir.- 1923 11,237,000 pounds. What has caused the change in the products that Georgia is produc ing? Diversified farming is the answer. Taking all things in considera,- tion we must come to the conclusion that weevil or no weevil, the one crop has been a serious mistake. That our people under this system; were slaves to a credit system that made progress impossible. e had ; to make up our minds to -ive at, home and grow cotton as a clean' surplus. No sensible man will deny I that the cow, the hog and the hen , 'have been the salvation of Georgia.; We know that there is a great, future for the county or the state where the type of agriculture tli.it is adapted to her peculiar conditions is followed with a county wide in tensive effort. We must come to see that no individual can live unto himself alone, but that the individ-l ual owes certain obligations |to the other individuals of his group and to the community as a whole, and ih.it ccme weal or woe, whatever is to come should perforce be shared in common. Now, I have shown you many of the results of diversified farming in Georgia. Bank clearings show [ that the state is in better condi tion today than ever in her history. The city of Atlanta alone has spent more in buildings durirg the past; year than all damages done by the boll weevil in the state. We aa mi't that some sections were hit hard by heavy rains and that the crop was cut short by the weevil, but at the same time we contend that the law of supply a: d demand is now governing the price of cot ton and ,'that the South produced all the cotton that there was de mand for. A greater yield would have made lower prices. The world is not consuming cotton as a few years ago. The world war caused this condition and not the boll weevil. When conditions of war are over there is no doubt but that spinners will need more than we are now producing, therefore, we contend that the short cotton crop has been the salvation of Geor gia and the South.. Now let us see about the cotton situation in Georgia. In 1923 Georgia, according to State College of Agriculture, produced 590,000 bales of cotton and sold this crop for $94,400,000. Add to this amount the amount derived from the sale of all other products and we find that products of the farm sold for more than fifty million dollars more last year than ever in the history of the state. Compare this with the crop before the wee vil, in 1914 we<produced cotton and nothing else to market. We sold 2,723,094 bales for $101(110,000 only seven million more than we received for one fifth less last year. Five years before 1914, the year before the weevil came to Georgia, for a five year average we sold for these years an average of 2.297,- 716 bales of cotton and the price received averaged $122,294,- 000 each year, while taking five MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 7, 1924 , years since the weevil hit Georgia the average was 1,914,072 bales ! and the average price was $229,- I 026,000. From these figures we see that while we have been taking a ! five year average, 383,644 less bales in the state, we have received an average of $106,732,000 more for the crop that we did get than for the enormous yield before the weevil came. It is easy to sit up and howl hard times and the boll weevil has us i going, but the facts are that such is not the case. These are not my figures. They are here for your inspection and I wish taht every doubting Thomas, and every man Mho yells hard times in Georgia would write the State College of Agriculture and see for a fact how much real damage the boll weevil has done for Georgia. It is true tnat every man has not prospered under the weevil, but all those who have adopted the cow, the hog ai'd the hen slogan, with his cotton as a clean surplus is or, the road to un heard of prosperity. Th© '.South has come to the fullness of Hit 'breaking of our day that the great Grady spoke about, and Georgia, the home of Grady, is leading the way. The boll weevil has made the farmers of Georgia break away from the one crop idea. We eat our own chickens and eggs and have some t 0 sell, we eat our but ter and hams and sell enough to pay expenses of the farm, we eat our peaches, pecans and water melons arri pay just any old price for gasoline to drive that splendid car. Times may be hard for some but the man who has seen the light had found a market for all the pro ducts of diversified agriculture and j Jias assumed the leadership in the , i fight to make Georgia indeed the I Empire state of the South. Another sure sign of spring is , when you worrier if you hear a saw mill or a mosquito. RYLANDER TODAY | A war hero loved her, a so ciety gigolo attracted her, and she got swept into marriage by the fascinating, restless mountebank—Triona. ‘THE FOOL’S AWAKENING’ HARRISON FORD ENID BENNETT and a comedy ‘Safe and Sane’
