About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (April 15, 1924)
I -r ■ ' r HEAVY STORM DAMAGE IN MITCHELL COUNTY WEATHER For Georgia—Showers tonight and Wednesday cooler in northeast portion tonight. FOTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 89 3 IN LEESBURG VICTIMS OF POISON PORK l NEGROFS IRE BESD: 30 WHITES BBJ ILL FROM WHIG Several Prominent Whites Are Among Victims of Deadly Ptomaine Virus ATE SPOILED HEAD CHEESE Deadly Foodstuf Dispensed Sat urdey By Market In Lee County Capita! LEESBURG, April 15.—Two ne groes are dead, and it is estimated between 25 and 30 are seriously ill, including members of several white families, as a result of ptc maine poisoning said to have been caused by eating spoiled souse of hoghead cheese, which was brought at a local market Saturday. PROMINENT WHITES? AMONG THOSE ILL LEESBURG, April 15. (Spec cial) —It is estimated that between thirty-five and forty cases of pto maine poisoning exist here today as a result of eating infected hogs head souse during Saturday after noon and Sunday. Most of tne cases of poisoning developed dur ing Sunday and early today. Four or white white families are among those seriously ill as a result of the posioned food, and the exact number of negroes who have been made pl is not known. At leasti three blacks have died of ptomaine poisoning here, however, and ' a ! number of others are seriously ill, Mary Allen, a negress living on the place of Charley Sheppard Pryor, near here died from poisoning Sun day night, as did. also Reuben Da'vlS' a Leesburg negro, and Victoria Brown negress, died shortly after noon today. It is expected that several of the others now desper ately ill of poisoning may also die. Among Leesburg whites who are seriously ill as a result df eating the poisonous food are Will Bullard and his entire’!family; and of whom are in a critical condition; Mrs. Susie Spillers and her two sons, Warren and Clarence Spillers, se riously ill, and L. R. Manning and his small child. Mr Manning and the Manning child were reported this afteroon as improved, and pos sibly oqt of danger. A number of physicians and nurses came here from Albany to assist local doctors in handling the poisoning cases, and it is believed the situation now is well under control.’ The poisonous souse is said to have been sold by a market doing business here, and the source of the poison is mysterious. FPISOTIUSGI! is KILLFDIIOI JIM Frank McCullough, a negro youth employed at the Windsor Ho- here, was killed early last night when a car he was driving over turned at a point near the Dai Methvin Home on Bumphead road, north .of Americus. Beats may have been instantoneous or otherwis as it was some time after the acci dent until his body was found. McCullough was_sent by Stuart Prather to convey Lee Westbrook, his overseer, to the Prather farm some distance out on the Bump head road shortly after 8 o’clock last night. The negro failing to re turn, Mr. Prather, in company* with others, went out to search for him. The overturned car, vtith McCul lough’s body underneath, was found with the light still burning, anq nothing to indicate how the acci dent had occurred McCullough had been dead some time when his body was found shortly after 10 o'clock. According to the best informa tion obtainable, he went with Mr. Westbrook to the! Prather farm and leaving him there was on his way back t 0 Americus when the acci dent occurred. Marks of violence on the body all indicated the negro met death accidentally, as the steel ing wheel of the Ford car he was driving was broken almost squa-e --ly, evidently having been forced npart when this came in contact jvith his body. —— THE TIMES , •EBLPPBLLSHED in HEART~OF*~Dixi£~ggii || | Dynamite Blast Fired Under Floyd County Home DYNAMITE EXPLOSION DESTROYS HOIYIEOF ROIDEPDTY SHERIFF Moonshiners and Bootleggers Suspected As Perpetrators Os Outrage NONE OF FAMILY INJURED Time Fuse Believed to Have Been Used By Dynamiters To Consummate Crime ROME, April 15 —The front por tion of the home of Deputy Sher iff Bobo, at Silver Creek, six miles from here, wag wrecked' by a dy namite explosion at 1 o’clock this' morning. The blast is attributed to bootleggers or moonshiners against whom he has been active. No one was injured. Officers were informed today that an automobile passed the Bo bo residence at 11:30 o’clock last night, stopping a short distance from the house.. Bloodhounds soon, after the explosion trailed to a spot a quarter of a mile from the house. The dynamiters are believed to have set a two-hour fuse to the porch. The pillars were blasted away and the windows on both floors were shattered. okSEsws JAP EXCLUSION BILL WILL PASS N SENATE Coolidge May Veto Bill Now Being Ardently Champion ed By Senator Johnson WASHINGTON, April 15.—Irre spective of any direful consequences the Senate will follow the lead of the House in enacting a Japan ese exclusion provision in the pend ing immigration bill. Senajpr Oscar W. Underwood, of Alabama, in declaring his intention of supporting the provision, declar ed that unless the W-Hite House should make a drive against the pro vision it would go over with an op position of not more than six votes. Democrats favor it, apparently, to the man. Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina this afternoon, spoke in its behalf, and declared his sole regret was the fact that Congress had not given the Japan ese government in advance an in timation that it intended to abro gate the so called ‘•gentlemen's agreement.” Senator W. J. Harris i.nd Walter F. George, oj? Georgia, have declar ed for the anti-Japane :e provision. Southerns justify their support cn the fact that Japanese cqnhot be come citizens, and like other color ed races, are not subject to amalga mation. ( Developments following the pas sage of the bill including the anti- Japanese provision are awaited here with unconcealed interest. The more than posibilities are listed as follows: (1) —Ultimately, war against Japrtn. (2) —Probably the bill’s rejection by tile President with the result that in the forthcoming election he would lose the Pacific Coast. (3) —The resignation of Charles E. Hughes, Secretary of State, in the event the Senate (as it wotild do), overrode the veto cf the ex ecutive. * Award of the political fbature of the situation, Senator Hiram John son, of California, Presidential can didate, ardently supports the Japanese exclusion provision, and declares that Japan’s pride will not be hurt, but its ambition will be hurt. His attitude is a challenge to the President to veto the bill. He war in consultation throughout the af ternoon with Democratic leaders, * Dodging an auto tax is getting to be about as hard as dodging an auto. “I* rance,” says a French scientist, “is having her day.” This is all very well, if night doesn’t come. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 15 1924 BERLIN BOWS AGAIN TO ALLIES DEMAND IMDI PRESS FBffl ill miWE IB® ■WET DELEGAW Trade Agreement Desirable, All Concede, But Sbviet Revolu tion Is Wanted COMMENTS "OUTSPOKEN Policy of Moscow Government And Russian Leaders Round ly Criticized LONDON, April 15.—Probably no foreign delegation visiting Eng land for a conference ever had the opportunity of reading from the British press such outspoken com ments on the government and itself as the present group representing .the Russian soviet. To a great extent the press ad mits that a trade settlement with Russia is desirable, but under no circumstances a soviet revolution. The policy of the Moscow govern ment and the, repeated utterances of leading of the present day come up for condemnation in a majority of the comments. ' _ w _ Inside Story’ Os Liquor Deal Told WASHINGTON, April 15. • C. H. Kerns, recently released on par ole from the Atlanta penitentiary, toT<3 the Daugherty comimttee to day what he declared to be the in side story of the liquor conspiracy of which he was convicted in Ohio. He named Abe Ungerleider, of Ohio, as one Os those to whom ha sold a large consignment of liquor, declaring that Ungerleider told him it whs his position to dispose of the liquor because" he had contributed to the republican campaign fund. At one tihle Kerns testified that an Ohio attorney named Warren Bar nett had offered to get liquor per mits at sl7 a case through (How ard Mannington and Ralph Cole, cf Washington. The witness said he had employed James Todd, a form er partner of Harry Daugherty, in order to secure influence at the cap itol, but he went to the penitentiary anyway. Kern; was released on parole in February. M. S. DAUGHERTY TO BE CITED IN CONTEMPT WASHINGTON, April 15.—De cision was weached by the Senate committee investigating the Depart ment of Justice at an executive ses sion Monday to cite M. S. Daugh erty, president of the Midland Na tional Bank of Washington Oourt house, 0., and brother of former Attorney General, before the bar of the Senate on a charge of con tempt. The comimttee, which held no public hearing also conferred at length behind closed doors with At torney General Stone regarding questions before it, members later expressing satisfaction with the in terview. * ‘ , They declared there would be no difficulty in the future in obtaining files and records of the Depart ment of Justice bearing upon the investigation and left the intima fion that Mr. Stone’s attitude and conduct of the department might cut short their labors. The contempt resolution against M. S. Daughtery will be given to the Senate as so’on as it can he prepared possibly today, and will declare that the Ohio banker has refused at the behest of a senate subpoena both to testify and to permit the records of oficial transactions involving H. M. Daugherty, the former Attorney I Rarin’ To Go j Bo 'ii W 1 V •:«’ Tiarlon F. Ston-Pnei - attorney general, snapped oh the way to his office where he /"packing his duds” in preparation fox moving n. ’ f j General, declared to be in his pos sesisoh, td be inspected by the' Sen ate or its agents. Meanwhile the comimttee will proceed with its inquiry by a resump tion of its public hearings today" when Chairman Brookhart plans to turn more light on contracts be tween the Wright-Martin Aircraft Corporation and the Department of Justice arising from “overpayments’ on airplane contracts during the war. The resolution to cite M. S. Daugherty for contempt, as ordered by the committee, will seek a dif ferent procedure than was taken by the Senate toward Harry F. Sin clair for declining to testify before the Senate oil committee. The Senate asked the district attorney in Washington to obtain an indict ment before the criminal court against Mr. Sinclair, whereas the Daugherty committee will ask kthe arrest of the banker and his ap pearance before the Senate itself for judgement. Precedents exist for both actions, it was said, but the step was order ed because it will permit Mr. Daugh erty at almost any stage of the pro ceedings to purge himself by fur nishing the evidence desired. , BOWS BILL MS PRIORITY H SENATE WASHINGTON, April 15.—The soldier bonus bill won the right of way over the tax measure in the Senate by a vote late Monday of the finance committee and will be brbUght up for consideration before the end of the week. Senator Jones, Democrat, New Mexico, join ed Republicans in approving such a program, which other Democrats did not vote,* Chairman Smoot said. Senator Curtis Kansas, a Repub lican mejnber of the committee, will report the bill formerly tb the. Senate tomorrow and there were indications tonight that the legisla tive calendar would be cleared for it by Wednesday or Thursday. Passage of the bonus bill has been freely predicted even by op ponents and Chairman Smoot ex pressed the opinion today that it wopld be disposed of by early next week. TIMBERS WORTH HUGE SIIHMffIMMD MIHM RUINED Telephone and Telegraph Poles, Fences and Outhouses Are Destroyed CAMILLA HEARS DETAILS Heavy Rain and Lightning Ac company Disastrous Tornado in South Georgia CAMILLA, April 15.—Thous ands of dollars worth of timber was blown down, blocking roads and damaging crops, four houses de stroyed, miles of fences blown down, and two persons seriously in jured in the western part of Mit chell county last night when a tor nado acoippaiTietl ■fry, hdavy' rain, hap, and lightning §w«pt fu ipiie wide space through this county. The torpedo lasted only three miiiutes. STETEIWOEPT. iY GET »RB Two-thirds of Gasoline Tax Money To Be Demanded July 1, It Is Stated ATLANTA, April s.—Attorney Seward Smith, of the State High way Department, after studying the provisions of the law, will rec ommend to the State Highway De partment that it make requisition on the Governor July 1 for two thirds of the total returns from the three cents gasoline tax beginning that, date, .If Attorney Smith’s opinion is upheld . .this will mean the highway department will get half a million dollars more this year and quite a million dollars more in 1925. The opinion exists to some ex tent over the state that the high way department already gets the entire benefit of the three cents a gallon gasoline tax, but that is er roneous. As a matter of fact, only one-third, of the total goes Lp that department, though , the ultimate purpos e the legislature in en acting the gasoline tax law was that two-thirds of the total should be turned Over to that department for road purposes, and such provision already is made. Under the terms of the law one cent goes to the counties, one cent into the treas ury to offset the Western & At lantic rental and cept goes to the highway fund. ! Th e Western & Atlantic Rail road rent notes to the state were funded in 1921 for a period of five years, which period expires in 1926, and the gasoline tax to the amount of one cent a gallon has been turned over to the treasury ever since that tajs has been levied, under provision of existing laws. Attorney Seward Smith now takes the position, which will be the basis of his recommendation to the Slate Highway Department, that the controlling language in the law is contained in that portion of the three-cent gasoline tax act, which says: “All monies collected under the provisions of said act, as amended herein, shall be paid into the State treasury; one third of the entire fund shall be credited to tna gen eral fund for the purpose of sup plying the deficiency .arising out of the discount of th e rental of the Western & Atlantic Railroad.” That language, says Attorney Smith, is specific and mandatory arid is the controlling clause inso far as application of one-third of the fund goes. “The act of the legislature,” says Mr. Smith, “sets out in clear language the ‘purpose’ for which diversion of one-third of this fund was intended, and just as clearly defines the ‘deficiency’ which is in tended to be covered by that fund, FLYERS HELD ANOTHER DAY BY BAD WEATHER •SEWARD, Alaska, April 15. Postponement of another day of departure of th e four United States army aviators flying around the globe appeared likely (today on accounjt of adverse weather conditions. The snj>w is ‘falling here, and’“'Chignik, the iiext scheduled Mop. reported a hea\y southwest gale. » STINNES' »IOW IS LEFT HUGE FORTUHE HE GERMAN CROESUS Great Fortune Goes To Woman Who Shared Life With Crea tor of Monstar Interests POMP MARKS FUNERAL Uniformed Guards From Coal Mines Part of Retinue At tending Last Rites BERLIN, April 15.—Hugo Stinnes’ great fortune has been left “ft) his widow, Claire Stinnes, of Wagenknecht, who is admonished to consult her sons and daughters concerning the things affecting the magnate’s private and business af fairs. POMP MARKS BURIAL CEREMONY AT BERLIN BERLIN, April 15.—The thing which the late Hugo Stinnes most bitterly hated ail his life completely dominated the funeral service when the body was cremated here amid great pomp and ceremony The earthly remains of the mul ti-millionaire financier who was fa mous for his shabby clothes and the rusty derby he had worn for so many years, were surrounded by a resplendent circle of mourners wearing glistening top hats and frock coats or brilliant banked uni forms and the casket was banked with flowers. Stinnes had expressly wished that the color of black be avoided at. the funeral services. In conse quence, the hall at the crematory was completely converted. The sombre draperies were replaced with lighter colors. Not a single shr/d of black was visible except ,the black garments of the mourn ers. 1 d A striking feature was a group of uniformed guards from the Stinnes coal mines. Each held a lantern in his hand. The altar was surrounded with lilacs and orchids. The coffin was draped with the house flag of the Stinnes shipping line in taken of the world-wide reach of his name and power. During the .service the youbg Stinnes boy knelt with his head in his- mother’s lap. SUGAR CROP FORECAST IS 21,600,000 TONS WASHINGTON, April 15u—The world sugar production this year is forecast at 21,600,000 short tons, an increase of 600,000 tons over the previous high record made in 1913- 14, according to reports received by the United State department of agriculture. Production last year was 20,400,000 short tons. Beet sugar production is expect ed to be about 6, 200,000 tons, which shows a large increase over the 3,500,000 tons produced in, 1919-20. The Clibari'crop this year is fotecast at 4,271,000 tons, which is 240,000 tons more than last year, but lower than the crop of 1921-22. The Louisiana cane sugar crop'is short, but is more than off set by the larger beet sugar production of Continental United States. The curse of the age is “Darn those wrinkles,” New York Futures PC. Open High tow Close Jan. .24.20|24.41j2f4.41[24.00|24.0$ May ..30.00i30.08|30.41[29.,70|30.13- July ..28.68|28.72|29.06|28.46|28.80 Oct. . 25.03125.08|25.25f24.80|25.12 Dec. . 24.48j24.58j24.6424^2i24.^3. Americus strict middlings PRICE FIVE CENTS GERMAN CABINET HIS DECIDED TO ACCEPT DECISION OF EXPERTS' _ . Report To Be UsiAd As Basis In • Negotiations With Repara tions Commission WILL INFORM ALLIES SOON • —r- . . ... Paris Representative Instructed To Pave' Way For Resump tion of Negotiations GERMANY, April” 15,—The Ger man cabinet today decided to ac cept the experts’ report as a basis for negotiatibns and) will ihform the reparation commission to this effect. This is in line with the at titude taken by conferences at yes terday’s meeting betw> en the cen-> tral government and the premiers b? the federated states. .. The government has instructed D. Fischer", of the German burdens comission at Paris, to npti fy the reparation commission that Germany is prepared to rirsume neg orations On a basis of the expert’s report. No reference was made to the manner in which the party is to be resumed, but it is assumed that these will be initiatdrpthrodgh oral discussion shortly after the Easte# holidays. - MCDONALD GIVES . , , > ftEPORT HIS APPROVAL , LONDON, April 15.—The’ first official expression of opinion on 9 the reparation experts’ report camo; from Prime Minister MacDonald in the House of Commons today, when, he announced that the government had learned with the greatest satis faction of the uipmimous sigining of the experts findings. , • “The experts report constitutes in our opinion,” he said, “and un biased and carefully thought. out ( endeavor to aid in the government’? concerned task of reaching a Bet-, tlemept of a vital and long-etand-; frig problem.” ♦ ’’Britain,” he said further, ‘"is prepared to support the.scheme en tirely, provided all other parties* ar<L. the same course when on April 10th .t was communicated that the govern, ments were concerned. tilwTSe ’ FOP ilfflt PLACE Former Railroad Man Here De cides To Enter Contest For Late Justice Gnthn’s Job T. M. Lajney, well known Ameri cus railroad man, it became known late Monday, had decided to enter, the race for justice of the peace in this district, being a Candidate to succeed the late Fletcher W. Grif fin. His opponents, already an nounced; are W. A. Harden and H.‘ C. Davis, both of whom qre ipaß ing an active canvass for the place. Mr. Laney was formerly a Con-, ductor on the Seaboard Air Line railroad here, giving up that posij tion a year or two ago when he lost a hand in an accident on the Savan nah line at Vidalia. Sinoe then he has been engaged in business here, and at present is agent at Ameri-' cus for a number of qpwspapers. He is a genteman of engaging man ner and’tui# n;any friends here wha will support his candidacy witlr usual enthusiasm. ALBANY RESIDENTS PLANNING VACATIONS ALBANY, April 15.—Many lovers of out-of-door sports in thia section are planning to spend their vacation at fishing resorts on the gulf coast during the summer. ,
