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WEATHER For Georgia—showers tonight and Tuesday cooler in north portion. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 88 ANTI-MALARIA WORK TO BE PUSHED,THIS WEEK IN AMERICUS o O O o C 00000000000 OO o o o o o o o G. O. P. CAUCUS SPLITS UPON JAP EXCLUSION 0 O o O O O O 0000 0000 000 O O J o o o o COOLIDGE WILL BUCK CONGRESS IN PROBE'CON TROVERSY Now Begins The Epilogue Os Harry Thaw's Eighteen-Year Tragic Drama PRETTY FLDRMMRA BL NO* CAPTIVATES CABARET AIJDIEHCES ‘Never Happier and in Best of Health,’ Says Former Wife of Patient ONCE TRIED SUICIDE Thaw, Now Fighting for Free dom, Also Tried to End Life Years Ago By ALEXANDER HERMAN ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., 'April 14.—-With Evelyn Nesbit singing and Russell Thaw, her 13-year-old son trumming a banjo, the epilogue of the great Harry K. Thaw trag edy begins. When •finally the curtain drops, they all pray it will be on a happy ending—a long, long time in com ing. For nearly 18 years have passed since the tragedy began. Love, hate; confidence, jealously; mur der, birth; hope, despair—all have been churned about in their caldron of human emotions since that night of June 25, 1906, when Thaw Ten years after the murder architect. Nearly $2,000,000 have been spent to save the millionaire, fir.-t from the death chair; then from ending his days in a lunatic asylum. , And now, finaly, a group of five alienists have declared him sane, and he stands on the brink of his freedom. But.the friends that were once his have deserted him. His wife has been divorced from him. Only his mother, Mrs. Mary Thaw, remains unshaken in her faith. Evelyn Nesbit, the beautiful Flor adora girl, over whose love Thaw went mad is back at work as a pro fessional entertainer. Nightly she captivates her audi ences in the Palais Royal, an Atlan tic City cabaret on Kentucky aven- 1 ue, a few yards from the board walk. She sings light, frolicsome gongs, some in dialect. And then at 3:30 in the morning she goes back to her hotel, tired— “ But never happier,” she says, “and in the best of health.” For Russell lives with her now and she is dedicating her life to him. He is a handsome boy, good at school and an expert at the banjo. Though he doesn’t go out and play games much with the other boys; he does like to play his bahj 0 for them. But even over the youngster the Thaw tragedy is casting an ominous shadow. For the boy doesn’t know hi.s.father. Since the sensational trial when .•Thaw’s brilliant lawyers saved him from the chair by puttting up a de fense of insanity, Evelyn Nesbit ai d he have drifted farther and farther apart. Then years after the murder, came their divorce. And only once gince has there been a meeting of their minds on common ground. Each contemplated suicide when the new life seemed darkest. Evelyn attempted it when the tea shop which she was running in New York failed. Thaw attempted it in a rooming bouse in Philadelphia, when ie was plunged into a new scandal, after gaining his freedom from Matte wean, when he had ben sent after I his conviction. But both have lived to be thank ful that their attempts failed. One obstacle still looms up be fore Thaw r —an indictment in the New York district attorney’s office that hasn’t yet been dismissed. It was handed down in 1917, when Thaw was charged with kid napping and whipping a Kansas City boy visiting in Nev/ York. The civil end of the case has been settled by Mrs. Thaw, but the New York ■Officials say they will press the in dictment as soon as Thaw is freed from the Philadelphia asylum. However, he is hopeful that they [will change their minds. THE TIMESORECORDER IMF PUBLISHED IN ThEAF?T OF DlXfrCffiFffi - % - nJ® •M • . w » ? ‘ a »j| EVELYN NESBIT, FORMER WIFE OF THAW, AM) aw kUSSELL Hearing on Thaw's Sanity Began Today At Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, ■ April 14. Russell William Thaw, claimed to be the 13 year old son of Harry K. Thaw, gave out an interview through his guardian in the Thaw insanity proceedings which began in common pleas court today. The jury, after hearing an alien ist appointed by the court in Thaw’s petition and a number named in be half of the trustees of Thaw’s es tate, will determine his sanity, with REPUBLICS POW LEWES EXCLUSION IN UNSETTLED QUESTION Senators Free to Vote Own Convictions in Pending Immi gration Measure SQUABBLE OVER QUOTAS Finally Fix One Per Cent As Basis Quota Based Upon 1910 Census Figures WASHINGTON, April 14. Whether the bonus or the tax bill shall have right of way in ..the senate will be taken up late.. toda yat a meeting of the finance committee. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Sen ate republicans spent so much time in controversy over immigration quotas that they failed during to day’s party conference to reach the Japanese "exclusion feature in the pending immigration legislation, Chairman Lodge announced follow ing the conference that the mem bers were left to vote as they pleas ed in the exclusion amendment which had been offered by Sena tor Shortridge, Republican, of' Cal ifornia, which is similar to a pro vision in the immigration bill was passed by the house Saturday. While no formal announcement was made, some of the senators said the conference has gone on record as favoring a basic quota of one per cent of the 1910 census. The conference also approved an amend ment by Senator Reed, of Pennsy; vania which would make all quota based on the relation of various na tionalities to the whole population and limit yearly immigration from all countries to 120,000. The conference is in no way bind ing on the senators participating. Forty-one of the 51 members ma | jority attended nope of the insur gewtfr group beoing present. ” AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 14, 1924 the view of having him released from the Pennsylvania hospital for mental and nervous diseases, where he has been confined since 1917. Evelyn Nesbit petitioned Satur day for permission to intervene in behalf of her son, declaring Thaw still lunatic, and if released would dissipate his estate and the life in terest in his father’s estate, in both of which, it is said, the son had anticipatory interest. HEAVY EARTHQUAKE IS RECORDED TODAY A heavyec.rthquake was recorded today onthe seiemograph at WASHINGTON, April 14. Georgetown University, which was of prolonged duration. SMOOT WiLL HI PILOT BONOS BILL 111 MIE THIS WEEK WASHINGTON, April 13.—The soldier bonus bill will join the tax reduction measure on the Senate calendar this week, and leaders cf both parties are prepared to clear the path for immediate considera tion of both. Which of the measure will be given precedence will be determin ed today or Tuesday by the finai.ee committee, while it is likely also that this subject will be discussed at the conference of Republicans to day. , Announcing his opposition to the bonus bill, chairman Smoot, of the finance committee, turned over to Senator Curtis,-Kansas, a Republi can member of the committee, the handling of the measure. Mr. Cur tis said he would report the bill to the Senate by Tuesday at the latest. Senator Smoot based his opposi tion on the failure of the bill to carry a financing provision, insist ing its cost could not be met out of regular government funds. The tax reduction measure would not only eat up and treasury surplus next year, Mr. Smoot said, but would go $50,989,000 beyond the limit of the estimated surplus. Cost of the bonus bill has been estimated at $135,000,000 for the first year. . The report of Democrats of the finance committee on the revenue bill expected to be submitted to the Senate tomorrow, STRIB-M’EWEN FIGHT scedule D’lonight PHILADELPHIA, Aril 14. Young Stribling meetaj Tex Mc- Ewan of Canada, tonight in a 10-round bout to a cftcision. In commenting on the ftut Strib ling said he only regretted that his opponent was no® Mike Mc- Tigue. “I could licit McTigue every night in the Jweek,” he added. WMIHISTPrtU TO STftRT COUNTER MOVE IN FIGHT OF MELLON Defense of Treasury Secretary WiLL Be Handled By White House in Vigorous Manner CONFERENCE IS HELD President Talks Over Situation With Mellon and Senator Watson of Probers WASHINGTON, April 14.—The administration is preparing to re new with vigor a counter offensive against the fight on Secretary Mel lon in the senate. The president conferred at length with Mellon to day and with Senator Watson, of Indiana, one of the administration’s leaders who is chairman of the committee investigating the bureau. He indicated Senator Watson would make another speech in the senate setting forth in detail an argument for discontinuance of the inquiry, probably tomorrow. COOLIDGE’S MESSAGE CRITICIZED IN SENATE WASHINGTON, April 14.—1 n the senate late Saturday Senator Reed charged that the President had made a false statement in his message when he stated the Treas ure Department was under attack. Senator Walsh said the Presi dent’s message was “the most ar rogant since the days of the Tudors and Stuarts.” Senator McKellar, who has intro duced a resolution challenging Mel lon’s right to hold office because of his large business holdings, charged that Mellon was one of the “biggest distillers of whisky” in the United States, and that this ac counted for “no real effort at pro hibition enforcement.” McKellar also read excerpts from a report compiled by H. L. Scaife, former Department of Justice Agent, concerning Mellon’s alleged connection with the Overholt Dis tillery in Pennsylvania, and some correspondence between Mellon and Scaife with regard to the latter’s investigation of the Secretary of the Treasury. Senator Reed’s attack on Presi dent Coolidge, characterized as one of the most harsh and bitter attacks to which a President of the United States had ever been subjected, cul minated in his offering a resolu tion in the Senate to expunge from the Congressional Record the spe cial message of President Coolidge condemning the investigation of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon aiid the Bureau of Internal Rev enue. Declaring that the presidential message should “never have been Ifiven the courtesy of being re ceived,” Reed described it as an “offensive document” which was an insult to the Senate.” GEORGIANS WATCHING PRIMARY IN TEXAS ATLANTA, April 14. Political ob servers over the state are watching with unusual interest the outcome of the preferential primary battle in Texas between Senator Oscar W . Underwood of Alabama and William Gibbs McAdoo of California. Both are entered in the Texas primary for the forty delegates to the national democratic convention. McAdoo carried the state in 1920 solidly to the convention although Underwood supporters are declared confident at present that the Ala bamian with his declared opposition to the Ku Klux Klan will find much favor in the state and will run the Californian strong. It Pays!Americus Merchant To Advertise In iTimes Recorder The following letter has been received by the Times-Re corder from the National 10c-25c-and-SLOO Store, recently established here, illustrating th e high value placed on Times- Recorder advertising by this firm: Mr. Lovelace Eve, Publisher, Times-Recorder Co., Americus, Ga. Dear Sir: May we take this means of thanking you and the good people of this section for the extraordinary reception given us on our opening day? Seldom have we received such splendid support and it is appreciated. Long before the opening hour Friday morning crowds be ,gan to gather in front of our store, and a throng so great that we could not wait on them remained in Os near the store all day. Policemen were forced to remain in front of our store the entire day to keep the sidewalks clear. Every available foot of space in the store was filled from 8:30 in the morning until closing time Friday night. This unprecedented reply to our advertising must be as gratifying to you as it, is to us. You will recall that we used page advertisements in your daily and also in your weekly papef, besides the circulars you printed for us. Evidently your readers live in every part this scetion, for there were automobiles by the hundreds coming from miles away. And it is always very evident to us htat your subscribers READ the advertisements in your two papers. We wer e giving those who came excellent bargains, and this they recognized and appreciated in their generous support and evident good humor, notwithstanding the terrific crowding that existed all day. To the people of this community we “offer • our grateful thanks for their welcome to us. We ar e here to serve them and will do so, kepeing them constantly informed through the advertisin gcolumns of your two excellent papers. Respectfully yours, NATIONAL 10c, 25c and $1 STORE, By I. H. Richardson, Manager. MBUBIESM MEET TO SETTLE TAME CONVENTION SHOTS First Session of Delegates Held Today in British Foreign Of fice at London MACDONALD PRESIDING Entire Session More or Less Ceremonious, With Busi- Taken Up Tomorrow LONDON, April 14.—The first session of a conference called to settle outstanding questions be tween Great Britain and Soviet Russia is being held today iri the foreign office with Premier Mac- Donald presiding. Today’s meeting if more or less ceremonious, the business session beginning tomor row. The conference was barely under way when Premier MacDonald took the opportunity to warn soviet Rus sia representatives against engag ing bolshevist propaganda during the negotitions which seem certain to extend over many weeks. He said that being a socialist, he was familiar with propaganda methods, and at the first indication of sueh he would halt negotiations. SENATOR COUSFNS IS MOVE OTO HOSPITAL Michigan Senator Is Now At Johns Hopkins In Baltimore For Observation WASHINGTON April 14.—Sen ator James Cousens, of Michigan, suffering from bladder and internal trouble, was removed today to John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, for further observation. SPRING GRID WORK BEGINS AT ATHENS ATHENS, April 14—Forty men are working out daily on the Uni versity of Georgia gridiron going through the regular spring football training. The Athenians, realizing that the schedule facing them in 1924, is ore of the most ambitious attempted by any southern institution, are anxious t o iron out rough spots and start) fall practice with a fair knowledge of the fundamentals of the game, while veterans are limbering up and practicing punting and passing. POOLE PBOELIMS CLEfNBP m BHB SI I IMS Mayor Asks That Citizens Join In Observance of Annual Oc casion Beginning Today LET ALL AID IN WORK People Should All Assist, He Says, In Destroying Mosquito Breeding Places With the advent : of ppring, it becomes important that every precaution possible in the interest of health be rigidly observed; therefore, I, J. E. Poole, Mayor of Americus, issue this my pro clamation, calling on all of our citizens /to observe the week be ginning Monday, April 14 inst., as Clean-Up Week. Let all our people co-operate with our city inspectors in ex terminating the mosquito by de stroying their every possible breeding place, thus making our premises more sanitary and at tractive, and better converving our community general health. Done at the City Hall in Amer icus, Georgia, this 14th day of April, 1924. J. E. POOLE, Mayor. The above proclaamtion issued today by Mayor J. E. Poole, marks the inauguration of Amerieus’s an nual celan-up week, in which all citizens are asked by the health au thorities to co-operate to the end of maintaining here the best possible standard of health. Inspectors who have been engaged in health work hei'e during the past two weeks wih redouble their efforts this week and in addition extra inspectors will be assigned to the task of destroying mosquito breeding places and j/ther wise elevating sanitary standards here. Dr. J. W. Chambliss, city health officer, is being assisted in th!, work by Dr. J. W. Payne, county health comissioner, and the whole machinery of the department of health is to be put behind this ef fort to clean-up Amerieus at the very beginning of the summer season. Joel Arrington, sanitary inspector, who is a trained anti malaria man, will be in charge of all inspections during the week, and the work will be continued through out the summer under his direction. Dr. Chambliss and Dr. Payne aiding as during previous year's. As stated previously, accurate records are kept in the office of Dr. Chambliss, and close wateh'ks to be kept upon all places where mosquito breedings places, or other insani tary evidence is found. New York Future* ”” PC. Open High Low Close Jan. ._24.70|24.38|24.70 24.20 24.20 May ~31.14130.85|30.15 30.00 30.00 July ..29.65129.40|29.6? 28.60 28.68 Oct, 25.67|25.3(Ji25.67|25.33 25.03 Dec. ..25.03|24.6&|25.03|24.48|24.48 Americus strict middling 30 cents. PRICE FIVE CENTS iiwiffm FOPIIGH CROPS IS m Mm 60,000 Varieties of Plants Havtf Been Intoduced During Past 25 Years BRING GROWERS FORTUNE Sudab Grass, Wonderful For age Grass, Brings $15,000,- OGO Annually WASHINGTON, April 14.—Unit ed States, melting pot of foreign crops! Perhaps greater than its fame as melting pot of the world for hu man immigrants, is this unresogn ized distinction of adopting the plants of the world for dofestic growth. Altogether 60,000 varieties of plants have been introduced, most of them in the last quarter cen tury. And enough comercial suc cess has been made for the “immi grants” to total more than SIOO,- 000,000 annual income for the farmers of this country. Yet less than half a dozen of our major crops are native American Corn is the great 100-percenter. Th: tomato, potato and tobacco may al so be termed native, although even these might have been imported be fore the white man came to this country. Explorers Out That is about all. The rest of our crops have been brought or sent from all corners of the earth to make the United States one of the leading farming countries in the world. Acquiring new crops is a regu lar job, for which the Department of Agriculture has established tba office of foreign seed and plant in troduction.. Explorer s have been going out for the last 25 years and have brought back many new speci mens fro travels tinged with roman tic adventure. A small percentage of the 60,000 ; alient plants have been successes here, but those that have succeeded have brought fortune to their grow ers. I Durum wheat, for instance, brought here from Russia 25 years ago, and now grown in the great plains region of the west, brings an annual crop worth nearly $50,000,- 000. Pima cotton from Egypt brings $5,000,000, a year. In the southwest a prosperous date industry is already producing nearly $300,000 worth of fruit an nually. Bamboo is being tested' in Georgia, and favorite plants of nearly all other countries are being tried out in various sections here. Small Beginnings The southwest, the middle west and the east now know Sudan grass a wonderfully productive rorage in troduced in a small bag from Afri ca in 1909. It is a good fed for livestock and the half million acres now devoted to it brings Uncle Sam additional wealth of $15,009,00(1 an n Sally. Superior varieties of alfalfa from Siberia and South America bring in $5,000,000 a year. Avocados, or alligator pears, in troduced from the tropics of Cen tral and South America, are now be ing grown in 100 acres of groves in Florida and California. Two thou sand farmers in the southern states are growing dasheens, a potato-like tuber from the tropics. Hundreds of new plants are on trial on government lands. Among them are blight-proof pears, the Chinese jujube, a tree with wood like mahogany, medical fruits, sap that makes a cooling drink, a peach flavored citrus fruit and a pigweed that produced grain for the Aztecs. - . -- 2 BOYS’ WEEK BEING PLANNED AT SAVANNAH SAVANNANH, April 14.—Local organization of the “Boy’s week movement" is underway here with various committees meeting to work out plans. Week of April 27-May 3 is one composed of special programs, it is announced.
