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WEATHER For Georgia—Showers tonight and Thursday cooler Thursday and in north portion tonight. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO, 84 EXPERT EXPLAINS EASY, SAFE COTTON POISONING METHOD O O O O C 0000000000000 o o o o o o d COMMISSION RECEIVES REPORT OF EXPERTS O O O O O O O 00000000000 O OJ o o o o FIRST MEETING TO BEIHELD IN NEW CHURCH BUILDING SUNDAY METHODIST ■ SCHOOL OEPT, MEETS g CHURCH Will Re First Meeting to Be Held in Partially Completed New Edifice VISITORS ARE INVITED Supt. Wible Marshall Asks All Farmer Members of .School to Be Present The first mooting to be held by any department ot First Methodist congregation in their handsome new church here will be that on Sunday morning when the Sunday school occupy the completed section of that edifice. The study period will begin promptly at 9:30 Sun day morning, and it is anticipated taht the space available will be filled to overflowing. Wible Marshall, superintendent of the Sunday school, discussing the coming occasion today said: “This is to be our first Sunday' there, and we would like to have every body that has ever been a member of this school to be there next Sunday. “Os course we welcome all visi tors and strangers inthe city, and all those who do not already belong t'o some other Sunday school, »r would not care to join a Methodist school, we will be delighted to en roll as a regular member. “Come one Sunday any way, and try us out.” | veteKtoattehd Ml I MEMPHIS Members of Camp Sumter Will Soon Begin Preparations for Big Annual Event Although Camp Commender Joe Day Stewart is still in Florida, Americas Confederate Veterans, members of Camp Sumter, No. 642, U. C. V., will soon begin to prepare for their trip to the annual reunion, which will be held in Memphis, Tenn., beginning on June 3, ai d in dications are that it will be largely attended. Os course, since the last gathering, scores of the old war riors of the sixties' have passed to (the Great Beyond but there are still hundreds and hui dreds and it is needless to say that all who are physically able to go will take the trip. ; A. H. S. GRADUATE TO TAKE NAVAL TRAINING Skillman Young, recently con nected with the clerical department of the'li.ternational Harvester Com pany in Jacksonville, is at home for several days on a visit to his mother, Mrs S. H. Young, at her home on McGarrah street. . Next week he leaves for Nor folk, Va., where he will enter .navai training service as a student- in pharmacy, having already secured third Bating for splendid credentials furnished the navy departmen. He its a graduate of the Americus High school of the class of ’23, hav ing made a most creditable record . throughout his school years. Since leaving Americus he has been em ployed as bookkeeper, earning the highest esteem of officials and co workers in Jacksonville. After com pleting the prescribed course at Norfolk, it is expected that he will be assigned to go on a cruise around the world. MANY FARMERS HEAR DELOACH AT LESLIE LESLIE, April 9.—A very en thusiastic meeting of farmers was held at the lodge hall here Tuesday morning. Dr. H. J. H. DeLoach, employed by the Armour Fertilizer Co., made a very practical talk on the destruction of the boll weevil. The crowd was estimated at 75 farmers. If your memory is bad, you can improve it by trying to learn all the new soft drink names. TH E fIiOWtCORDER publj s hep in he ar t Where Hold Sessions i•1 ■ ' £ A "■ - . - ■ ZZSp. PiWk s ---TT < . Wit. ' ■" “ ’ W I w wt A littl e Ohio town takes the page one top head date ling with the arrival of Senator Burton K. Wheeler and his investigators from Washington Court house, Ohio town of 8250, is the old heme of Harry and Mel Daugh erty and of Roxie Stinson. The picture at bottom shows Court street, with “Bankers’ Row” to the right. Four of the town’s banks are in a row, including the Midland National Bank, of which M. S. Daugherty, brother of the former attorney general, is presi dent. Senator Wheeler is anx ious io examine the books of this bank. Photograph at the top shows the court house, the sol diers’ memorial arch and the Midland Bank (next to the trees.) EM LEWS HG ESTATE TO WORKERS Atlanta Man Bequeaths Large Holdings to A .C. I. P. Co. Employees ATLANTA, April 9.—Extending practice of his dot-trine of “tha Golden Rule in business,” the will of John J.Eagan, Atlanta capital ist and philantropist, filed for pro bate Monday in the court of ordin ary .of DeKalb county, bequeaths his holdings in the American Caste Iron Pipe company of Birmingham, consisting of 1,085 shares, valued at $80,375, to employees of that company, to insure a living wage and re-imburse them if incapacita ted. The will k-.-ves SIB,OOO to Mar ion M. JacKson, Atlanta attorney. PACKINGHOUSE SITE SELECTED BRUNSWICK, April 9.—City Manager George L. Rinkliff yester day announced that he had been requested by E. C. McLean, of Pal metto, Florida, to take the steps necessary for the opening of the packing hoqse site selected by Mc- Lean, for the preparation of agri cultural products of Glynn county for shipment to the northern mar kets. City Manager Rinkliff stated that he would have the plans for the new packing house ready on iiis return to Brunswick. Approx imately ten thousand dollars worth cf buildings and machinery will be lequired to handle the business in Brunswick. “Mr. McLean told me that the entire plot he had selected would be needed for the business right, fro rathe start, and that he might need more room for expansion,” said City Manager Ringliff. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 9, 1924 MIS- BEHMM EnffIEHTWI ®ffll COME Hiram Johnson Loses After Vi gorous Campaign; Chicago Vote Very Close M ADOO WAS UNOPPOSED Despite This Delegates of Anti- McAdoo Democrats Defeat His Overwhelmingly LINCOLN, April 9—Frank Har rison, campaign manager for Hiram Johnson in the Nebraska presiden tial preference primary, conceded the victory to President Coolidge, at 11 o’clock this morning. President Coolidge led Johnson in Illinois by 40,000, with approxi mately half the precincts heard from. CHICAGO, April 9.—lllinois re publicans added their endorsement of President Coolidge by giving j him a majority over Hirman John-1 son in yesterday’s primary election, I although the Californian, after a vigorous c.f.npaign, ran the presi dent a close race inChicago where he helped found the Progressive party which nominated him for vice president several years ago. W. G. McAdoo who was unoppos ed for presidential preference on the democratic ticket, polled only half the number of votes cast by the Chicago democrats, and his delegates to the national conven tion were defeated overwhelming ly by candidates put forward by the state organization opposed t<?. McAdoo. BIDS OPENED FOR REBUILDING LINE COLUMBUS, April 9.—Bids for the Columbus-Alabama line project were opened by the Central of Georgia Railway, according to in formation obtained from Savannah. The figures were not announced by Captain C K. Lawrence, chief engineer of the Central, who saia that the contract would probably be Swarded within the next few days. It is estimated that the cost of the work will be about $4,500,000. The roadbed between Columbus and Birmingham will be straightened in several places and many grades will be eliminated. Sow your garden seeds according io driections or you will be sowing the seeds of discontent. COMMITTEES Eli GERMANY MLE TO Pf.Y tIW Final Conclusions Recommend Establishment of New Gold Bank of Issue MUST HAVE SOUND MONEY League of Nations to Be Final Arbiter As to Disputed Points in Experts Plan PARIS, April 9. (By Associat ed Press.) —The report of inter national experts who have been en gaged in the past three months in the task of ascertaining t(he Ger man government’s capacity to pay, was handed to the full reparations commission today. The two committees of experts under the chairmanship of Charles G. Dawes, of Chicago, ana Regin ald McKenna, of London, had gone deply into the intricacies of many problems connected with the set tlement of tho existing reparations problem, their report' stating that they approached their task “as busi ness men anxious to obtain effec tive results.” In fine, the recommendations of the two committees which make a voluminous document include: That Germany should pay repara tions and that she has resources with which to pay, but that she must have her hands free to exploit her economic resQprces. , A prerequisite to the payment of reparations is the establishment of a sound money in Germany In order to accomplish this, the committees unite in recommending the establishment of a new gold bank of issue with 400 million gold marks capital, and that the allies and Germany should co-operate in the organization of such a bank. Germany’s production will en able her to meet the nation's own requirement, the reports state, and raise amounts apply upon repara tions yearly graduating install ments running from 110 million gold marks during 1926 to 2,500,- 000,000 gold marks during 1934, when the maximum payment should be attained. In order to prevent these pay ments affecting adversely Ger many’s financial stability, an index of prosperity has been fixed, mak ing it possible to judge whether or not the amounts .scheduled as pay ments go beyond the nation’s capac ity. Here the experts plan embraces the the League of Nations, in that any disputed point involving- the ap plication of statistics on this index iball be referred to the finance section of the League of Nations for abitration. PRESBYTERIAL ASSN. TO MEET AT MOULTRIE MOULTRIE, April 9. The Southwest Georgia Presbyterian as Sociation which is composed of the women’s societies of the Southwe.v Georgia presbytery of the Presby terian church, will hold its annual meeting here on April 10 and 11. Mis. W. C. Vereen, of Moultrie, is president of the presbyteriel. Other officers are Mrs. M. N. Def fendefer, of Bainbridge, vice presi dent; Mrs. R. A. Heinsohn, Sylves ter, corresponding secretary; Mrs. James Watt, Thomasville, treasurer The sessions of the annual meeting will be held at the First Presby terian church Speakers prominent in missionary work are among those on the program. NEGROES COMING TO INVESTIGATE SAVANNAH, April 9.—-Fifty negro men from Chicago , New York, and New Jersey will reach Savannah on Friday of next week to obtain first hand information and a “truthful idea” of conditions among the negroes of Savannah and make a survey of business be ing conducted by the negro people of this section. Jack Nail, a New York negro real estate man, will head the party and the visitors will use two special cars on their journey. Flight Sponsors r~ $ -Y ■ . ■ ■ '■noStt * |h W z .-A< \ -- v \ / /f 'X A ' / / \ • ! These are the godmothers of Unce Sam’s ’round-the-world flight. They christened the planes at Sand Point Field, Seat tle, just before the flyers took off on the second lap of their long jaunt. From top to bottom the sponsors are Mrs. David Whitcomb, wife of the president of the Seattle Chamber of Com merce, who christened Major F. L. Martin’s flagship Th e Seattle, and Mrs. Theo. Koenig, wife of the comandant at Sand Point; Mrs. M. F. Harmon, Chicago, and Mrs. Auwilda Connell, wife of a captain in the army air service. They “stood up” for Lieutenant Erik Nelson’s plane, The New Or leans; Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith’s The Chicago, and Lieu tenant Leigh Wade’s The Boston. BANK STOCKHOLDERS ADOPT RESOLUTIONS Resolutions upon the death ot Col. G. R. Ellis have just been adopted by the stockholders of the Empire Bank of Americus, of which institution he was president, as follows: “Whereas, the great and benefi cent Ruler of the universe has in his infinite wisdom removed from among us George R. Ellis, our be loved and our esteemed fellow citi zen and brother, be it “Resolved, that the removal of such a noble life from out' midst' leaves a vacancy and a shadow that will be deeply realized by all the members and friends of our organization, and will prove a se rious loss to our community; “Resolved, that we express our deep sympathy to his bereaved fam ily and relatives; “Resolved, that a copy of this res olution be spread upon the records of this organization, a copy be printed in the local paper, and a copy sent to the bereaved family.” The resolutions were prepared by a committee composed of Joe M. Bryan and G. C. Webb. REVIVAL SERVICES - TO START MONDAY LESILIE, April 9. —Revival serv ices will begin at th e Leslie Bap tist church Monday evening, April 14. Rev. H. J. Johnston, the pas tor, will do the preaching. HUGO STINES CONDITION TAKES SERIOUS TURN ; BERLIN, April 9. Th e con ■■ dition of Hugo Stinnes took a i serious turn for the worse today. ' The industrial magnate has been x ill some time. ( ‘ He was operated upon twice > within the past few weeks, the > last operation becoming neces s sary on Saturday of last week. HUNDREDS HEM DR. OELOOIHIILK HH CONTROL OF fflL Poison Early and Thoroughly Is Keynote of Notable Address Here Yesterday CONTROL IS FEASIBLE No Question As To Certainty, and Ease With Which Situ ation Can Be Handled Poison early for the weevil. Poison thoroughly for the wee vil. Don’t let anything interfere with the poisoning. You can destroy more weevils before you see a singi.e weevil than you can after they multiply to a point where they manifest themselves. And you can control the weevil easily and certainly. This is the message brought to three hundred Sumter county far mers and business men who heard R. H. J. DeLoach, weevil expert who delivered two lectures here Tuesday afternoon at Leslie and Americus, and who spoke (again Wednesday at Plains as the rep-* resentative of the Americus and Sumter county Chamber of Com merce at noon today he addressed the Rotary Club at luncheon. Dr. DeLoach, who brought ti e most hopeful message yet heard by Sumter farmers on .the vexed prob lem of the weevil, is an expert who has demonstrated the practicability of his method in actual “dirt far ming,” and as he said prefacing his remarks, he “has nothing to sell. ’ Use calcium arsenate, he says; either dry or liquid; that’s a piat ter for the individual to decide. He used the dry mixture, and tained 100 pci- aent woevil kill on the big seven hundred acre farm lof Armour & Co., near Arlington in Calhoun county. The time to poison, lie says, Is when the cotton is young. “Begin ten days before the first square appears, and continue pois oning every five days thereafter until four applications have been made. Then forget about poison ing until the migration season,” is the method that made more than, a bale to an acre in spots on the I Armour farm, and Dr. DeLoach be-1 lieves the performance can be re peated on any farm of equal fer tility anywhere. In poorer spots on the same farm he says, a poorer yield was pro duced, “but on every acre farmed the crop made last year under boll weevil conditions was larger that, ever had been produced there be fore, even before the advent of the weevil.” 801 l weevil control, according to Dr. DeLoach, has now passed the scientific stage, wherein scientists delved into secret recesses in search of a poison that would kill the insects. This poison has been found in calcium arsenate, he asserts, and the whole issue now is the placing of the poison at the proper time and in the proper place to secure maximum results at minimum cost. “Poison the weevil’s plate,” says Dr. DeLoach, “and when the in sect goes to lunch, you poison the weevil.” The essential thing about poison ing the weevil intheopinion of Dr. DeLoach, and a thing that impress ed his hearers deeply, is to poison the plants thoroughly before thq weevil is able to any great dam age to the cotton plant. That is to say, cotton fields should be poisoned thoroughly be ginning a few days before tho squares the weeds’ favorite feeding spats, begin to appear—and this poisoning should be kept up at five (Continued on Page Two.) New York Futures™*” —— "" PC. Open High Low Cose Jan. ~24.78i24.91|24.91[24.54|24.45 May .31.10|31.11j31.75|30.85i3L02 July ~29.80|29.80t30.25!20.50!29.64 Oct. ..25.67125.65|25.80 25.43i25.43 Dec. ..25.79|25.70j25.25|24.80i24.80 Americus strict middling 30 cents PRICE FIVE CENTS MBTIIIJ GBM ■ INDICTS MELffl UH ■GI 01 FRAUD Accused of Receiving Fees Un lawfully to Influence Pros pecting Permits ON PROBING COMMITTTEE Prominently Identified With Investigation Into Attorney General’s Office WASHINGTON, April 9.—The senate committee appointed to in vestigate the Department of Just ice and the official acts of Harry M. Daugherty, announced after an executive session today that its in quiry would proceed with renewed force, despite the indictments of Senator Wheeler, the committee prosecutor, for alleged fraud by a Montana grand jury. The meeting was held behind closed door and the indictment dis cussed at length. Afterward Chairman' Brookhart made the fol lowing statement: “This investigation will proceed, and proceed with a force and de termination it has never shown be fore.” George Strock, a Department of Justice accountant, following the executive session was questioned concerning a list of department cases upon which he had worked. Most of his testimony given during yesterday concerned the Old Hick ory Powder plant, of Hermitage, Tenn., while today’s examination centered about certain phases in another war fraud case, that of the Bosch Magneto company; GREAT FALLS, Mont, April 9. —Burton K. Wheeler, United States senator from Montana and prominently identified with the senate Daugherty investigation committee, was indicted by the federal grand jury here yesterday He is charged wjth unlawfully re ceiving money as retainer fees to influence the issuance of oil and gas prospecting permits by the com missioner general of the land of fice and the secretary of the inter ior. PRIVATE PAPERS STOLEN DAUGHERTY DECLARES WASHINGTON, April 9.—For mer Attorney General Daugherty - aid last night he had been advised that- his residence at Columbia, Ohio,, now unoccupied; had been entered by force last week and many of his private papers rifled. Nothing of value in the house was stolen, he said, but it dppear !cd from his advices, that some of I his papers had been extracted from ! the files. All of them applied to his private law practice before he entered the cabinet and had been stored there in 1921. The former attorney general did not indicate whethere the matter would be called to the attention of federal or state officials. WHEELER DENOUNCES INDICTMENT AS ‘FRAME’ WASHINGTON, April 9.—Sena tor Wheeler in a statement lasij night declared the indictment re turned against him in Great Falls, Mont., was brought "solely for the purpose” of interfering with the Senate investigation of the Depart ment of Justice. It was convincing evidence, he. asserted that the investigation of ■the department, should go on and he declared that it would go on be cause the action in Montana, “shows that even with Daugh erty out of office, his malign influ ence still moves his old pawns.” The Montana Senator reached the decision to depart, for Montana immediately and demanded an ear ly trial but after consultation with several of his colleagues declaied he had decide dto remain here for the time being. The statement added the indict ment was “evidently brought at the instigation of the Republican na tional comimtee officials with the late Attorney General” and in hope that it will be tried before a judge who was recent selection of Daugherty.
