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FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 99
DECISION IN REPARATIONS PROBLEM MAY SOON BE REACHED
OHIO MAN CHOSEN NEW G. O. P. HEAD
THEODORE BUM TO
BEIWBUM
mt cumh
Political Conference Held At
White Housq Today Selects
Him To Manage Campaign
COOLIDGE IS SATISFIED
Formal Selection to Ee Made At
Committee Meeting in Cleve
land Wednesday
WASHINGTON, Aril 20.—The
selection of Theodore Burton, Ohio
representative, to be temporary
chairman of the republican national
convention, was indicated after a
political conference at the White
House today.
Chairman Adams, of the republi
can national committee, and David
Mulvane, republican national com
mtiteeman from Kansas and chair
man of the convention on arrange
ments of the sub-committee, pre
sented Mr. Burton’s name to the
president, who approved the selec
tion.
Formal selection will he made at
the meeting of the arrangements
committee in Cleveland Wednesday
Burton, who was former senator
Ohio, will be actively in charge of
party, affairs.
■TIME IMO
TALK W PEW
H. E. Glosser—Tells Committee
’of Conversation Between
Wheeler and Campbe'J
DIDN’T HEAR WHEELER
Something Was Said, Though.
About ‘Fixing Up’ Permits
In Washington
WASHINGTON, April 26.—H. E.
Glosser, formerly employed in the
office of Gordon Campbell, Mon
tana oil operator, indicted with Sen
ator Wheeler, testified today be
fore the senate committee investi
gating the indictment that in Jan
uary, 1923, he heard a conversa
tion between Cambell and Wheel
er in which there was talk of 'get
ting the former’s oil permits
“fixed up in Washington.”
He said that he left the impres
sion that he could get it fixed at
Washington because of his influ
ence.
newiSSion
FILED in TW Cl
Evelyn, Divorced Wife, Will
Continue Fight to Keep Mil
lionaire In Asylum
■ PHILADELPHIA, April 26.—Mo
tion for a new trial in the sanity
proceedings against Harry K. Thaw
will be filed today, William Gray,
counsel for Evelyn Nesbit, Thaw’s
divorced wife, announced last night
The time limit for filig the motion
expires today.
PAPERBURNING CALLS
FIRE DEPARTMENT
A pile of paper burning near the
home of W. 0. Easterlin, on South
Lee street, called the fire deart
ment there this morning. No dam
age was done, the blaze being easily
extinguished.
AUTHORITIES EXPECT
THAW TO STAND TRIAL
NEW YORK, April 26.—New
York authorities expect Harry K.
Thaw to cojne hero to answer an
indictment charging him with at
tacking Frederick Gump, Jr., Dis
trict Attorney J. H. Bantoi. said
Thursday, George C. Medalie, one
of Thaw’s New York attorneys,
promised to bring Thaw here as
soon as he is freed from the Penn
sylvania State Asylum, at Phila
delphia, Banton said.
Former Judge John M. Patterson,
who directed Thaw’s sanity fight in
Philadelphia, and other of his attor
neys are expected' here today for
a conference or.' the Gump case, it
was learned at the District Attor
ney’s office, _ r Ai ,
THETJOESW&RDER
EEftpy BUSHED IN THE ~HEART OF
SENSATION IS SPRUNG IN FLORIDA COURT
Wealthy Indians Suffer Under White
Guardians, United States Charge?
INDIAN MCE H
HIM EWffIUUS
CMSfD BE ULB IM'
Cost of Administering Estates
Excessively High in Almost
All Cases
MANY REPORTS MISSING
' - »
Guardians, However, Deny
Charges and Say They Earn
ed Lawful Fees
By ROY J. GIBBONS
SAPULPA, Okla., April 26.
Munnie Bear,, aCreek Indian wo
man was placed under a guardian
because she saved all her money.
Susanna Butler Dacon , another
wealthy Creek Indian, was placed
under a guardian because she spent
all her money.
These are cases revealed by Fed
eral Indian Service officials who
object to the law of 1908 which
placed Oklahoma Indians under con
trol o f stale court-appointed protec
tors.
Indian service employes also
charge:
That the guardian for Allie.
Da - 'ey filed a suit against himself
to set aside a lease deal on his
wards property on the ground that
he had conspired to defraud Allie
(Continued on Page Two.)
j MAJOR COHEN THANKS
FRIENDS FOR HONOR
>, ATLANTA, April 26.—Major
John S. Cohen, editor of the At
lanta Journal, today issued a
statement expressing, apprecia
tion for having been elected
democratic committeeman for
Georgia and for the messages of
goodwill received from all parjs
of the state, in being! unanimous
ly elected to „ the democratic
national convention from the
state.
280 KOO PUPILS
OPOIEO K ?TMER
STRIKES JIP MW
Catastrophe Occurred On West
Coast of Korea Near Chinam
po In Pacific
VESSEL SANK QUICKLY
Rough Seas Prevailing At Time
Prevented Rescue of Imperil
ed Koreans
TOKIO, April 26.—Two hundred
Korean students were drowned in
the Pacific ocean on the west coast
of Korea near Chinampo, when a
steamer which was taking them to
visit a group of Japanese destroy
ers anchored off the shore collid
ed with the destroyer and capsized,
according to • dispatches from
Seoul.
Th e steamer sank quickly, and
due to rough seas, only a small
number was rescued.
GEORGIA STUDENTS PUT
BAN ON DRUNKENNESS
ATHENS, April 26. —-University
of Georgia students, by- a vote of
472-19 at a mass meeting, put the
ban on drunkei ness and served no
tice to all offenders that they will
in future be reported to the chan
c llor faculty and “fired” from the
institution.
This action was take by the stu
dents after members of the Sphinx
Club, highest hoWorary organization,
and undergraduates had declared
in speeches that if the conditions
regarding drunkenness and disor
derly conduct at the university arc:
allowed to centime the institution
will never get the support it de
serves from the state.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 26, 1924
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j\ Munnie Bear (left), Susanna
I Butler Dacon and Allie Dancy
j (inset), Indian women figuring
S ' / in Oklahoma guardian contro-
versy.
Early Poisoning Means
Prosperity Says Council
HEROES ESPECIALLY!
ADVISED TO BOST ALL
COTTON PLAITS WELL
Weevil Has Been Getting En
tirely Too Much Sumter
Cotton, Banker Asserts
TELLS HOW TO POISON
Put On First Application 5 Days
Before First Squares Appear
is Advice Given
“Poisoning early and thorough
ly is the one method whereby Sum- .
ter county farmers can make a nor
mal cotton crop this year despite
thc boll weevil,” said L. G. Coun
cil, president .of the Planters Bank,
and on e of the largest cotton plant
ers in this section of Georgia, to
day. Continuing his discussion of
the subject, Mr. Council .'aid:
“We have raised just as much
cotton every since the advent of
the boll weevil as before; the
trouble is, the weevil gets too much
of the staple. The farmers should
realize this and begin their tight
early enough to defeat the weevil
this year. I want to see every
farmer in Sumter county use cal
cium arsenate liberally in the cot
ton fields, and I want this work
to begin just as soon as the time
is propitious.
‘ I was greatly impressed with
the advice given farmers by Dr.
DeLoach in his talk here a few
days ago, and I sincerely wish that
every farmer in the county would
profit-by hi • experience. To ,n.y
mind, the one essential to tb<; pro
duction of a normal cotton crop in
Sumter county is early and thor
ough poisoning..
“Let every farmer watch his
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NEGRO SCHOOL ENDS
GOOD BALL SEASON;
The baseball season at Americus
Institute ended Friday afternoon
when the Americus negro team won
from Albany 19 to 7. The Ameri
cus Institute team has beer, defeat
ed only once during the entire sea
son, it is stated, the season hav'ng >
been most prosperous.
LEEDS AND PRINCESS
BRIDE SEEK ADVENTURE
LONDON, April 26. —William
B. Leeds, Jr., son of the Ameri
can tin plate magnate and hus
band of Princess Xenia, Greece,
is preparing to make an adven
turous voyage from the Isle of
Wight to New York in the fish
ing smack ‘Salem,’ which is only
60 feet long, and is equipped
with a 60-horsepower motor.
HAY DEFER BENEFITS
UNDER IRINE ACT
House Committee Reports Reso
lution to Postpone Effective
Dale of Section 28
WASHINGTON, April 26.—The
enforcement of section 28 of the
merchant marine act would be de
ferred from June 20 until May 1,
1925, under a resolution reported
today by the house merchant marine
committee.
On a vote of 14 to 2 the commit
tee report recommending the post
ponement of referential railroad
freight rate conferred uon shippers
using American vessels which
would be declared by section 2.
Consideration of the resolution is>
asked for at the earliest ossible
time.
MAD DOG IS KILLED
IN MOULTRIE SUBURB
MOULTRIE, April 26.—A man
deg was shot and killed in Hill
Crest, a Moultrie suburb, a day
or two ago, but i :<>t until after it
had bitten a large number of dogs,
according to a report received by
the police. The dog sufffering
from rabies covered a wide section
of Moultrie before it was finally
killed. No person was bitten, how
ever, so far as can be learned.
The dogs that were attacked will
have to be kept up, or will be shot,
it was announced. ,
REWARD OFFERED
ATLANTA, April 26:—Gover
nor Walker has offered a reward of
SSOO for the arrest and conviction
of Wyst Morgan, who is alleged to
have shot and killed Policeman S. C.
Goss, near Weldon's Bend, in Gor
don county last Thursday. J
■Bl ATTEND ANNUAL
1 IHfflllL MSES
Hi RYLANDER THEATER
Confederate Veterans Attend in
Body, and Hear Splendid
Oration Delivered
DR. DANIELS TALKS
Daughters of Confederacy Dec
orate Graves in Oak Grove
Following Exercises
: Hundreds of Americus residents,
, descendants of Confederate sol
diers and supported® of the “Lost
Cause” assembled this morning in
the Rylander Theater to attend the
' annual memorial exercises held
there. Eyery, section of the city and
county was well represented in the
gathering, men, women and chil
dren vieing with one another in
their efforts to do honor to those
• old heroes who yet remain as ex-
■ emplars of the “Old South,’’ and
I those never-to-beforgottgn heroes
‘ who laid their lives upon the altar
of their country during the sixties.
Camp Sumter, No. 642, U. C. V.,
composed of about forty veterans,
' or less, assembled at the court
(Continued On Page Two)
HUNDRED QUARTS OF
LIQUOR CONFISCATED
ATLANTA, April 26.—Nearly
100 quarts of whisky were confis
cated Friday and two arrests made
> when Federal Prohibition Agents
Sowell and Adair captured
1 a liquor car speeding south on Ivy
I street. The men arrested were R.
L. Mauldin and H. C. Vann, both
. of Detroit. The car had been driv
, en to Atlanta from the Canadian
■ border, according to the occupants.
; Both made cash bond of S2OO.
i
TIFT ORDINARY PAYS
PENSIONS TO VETERANS
I TIFTON, April 26.—Ordinary J.
J. Baker, of Tift county, has re
ceived a check for $4,400 to pay
the pensioners of Tift courty. This
sum will pay SIOO each to the forty
. four pensioners in the county and
f Judge Baker invites them to come
i in and get there checks.
> The paying of the pensions for
the year will be a nice Meromial
- Day rememberance for the Veterans
jind their wodows.
DELAND DOCTOR NOT
SURE MISS NICHOLS
IS ASSAULT VICTI
Among First to Reach Woman
But Is Not Positive Regarding
Nature of Attack
DESCRIBES HER WOUNDS
Made Examination At Her
Home, Where Bruised Condi
tions Were Repealed ?
DELAND, Aril 26.—Dr. J. E.
Taylor, one of the first persons to
reach the victim of an alleged as
sault on Aubrey Lee Nickels here
December 19, 1921, stated today
on the witness stand during the sec
ond day of the trial that he was
unwilling to express positively an
opinion such crime was com
mitted. His opninion, however, he
said, was that the condition found
on examination of the women was
of such nature as to make appar
ent that the assault was committed.
He testified that he called at
the vyoman’s home about mid-after
noon on the day of the occurrence
and found evidence that she had
been so seriously handled as to pro
duce semi-unconsciousness. Wounds
were found on the head, the doctor
|said, the (light teye bruised and
another wound on the breast.
miHmT
MACHES.««!»
Airplane ‘Seattle’ to Leave For
Dutch Harbor Monday
Morning
CHICAGO, April 26. Major
Frederick Martin, who arrived here
yesterday in the plane “Seattle”
from Kanatak, Alaska, is expected t
leave Monday for Dutch Harbor,
Alaska.
In a severe snowstorm, Major
Martin broke flight from Kanatak.
alighting at Kumlik Bay, half way
between. He resumed his flight af
ter 30 minutes checking may and
landmarks.
«181 WANTED
BN SB BA. FARMS
Ledsinger Advised Alien Ele
ment Not Suited to Develop
ment of Rice Lands
ATLANTA April 26.—Establish
ment of a colony of Japanese in
Georgia for the cultivation of rice
which was proposed recently by a
citizens of South Georgia would not
be advisable at this time, according
to an opinion handed down by Attor
ney General George M. Napier.
The opinion was given at the re
quest of J. J. Brown, stat© com
missioner of agriculture, who stat
ed that he had received a commun
ication from G. Ledsinger, of South
Georgia, relative to bring)' g Jap
anese from California to develop
the neglected rice plantations on the
Satilla river in Camden county
either under lease or purchase by
the Japanese. •
The attorney general pointed out
that there is no written statute that
would prohibit the colonization by
the Japanese, but added that “since
the act of congress excluding Jap
anese from the right to own land
in thc Ur.ited States is now being
considered by the president, having
passed both houses of congress, it
would seem desirable not to en
courage the settlement of Califor
nia Japanese in Georgia at this
time.”
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
MEETING POSTPONED
ALBANY, April ,26.—Secretary
Manager R. E. L. Neil of the Al
bany Chamber of Commerce an
nounced today that Colvin ■ B.
Brown, chief of the organization
service bureau of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, would be
unable to come to Albany next
Tuesday and that the annual mem
bership banquet of the chamber has
been postponed to a date to be an
nounced later, MiSli
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UULIfUKEOkCTS
TU PECffIIHG REPORT
OF DffiS COMITTEE
Four Other Big Powers All Ac
cept Experts’ Findings in
Theit) Entirety
REPLIES ARE RECEIVED
Italy Declares Report is ‘lndi
visible Whole’ In Acceptance
Thereof
PARIS, April 26.—Replies from
four big powers on the reparation
commissions regarding the Dawes
report all accept the experts find
ings wholly. France alone raises
th c question of procedure, while
Italy declares the report to be “an
indivisible whole,” which should be
Taken in its entirety, without con
dition or qualification.
SUNDAY STARir H
BEBIUD, IB BE*;
mtsi taasius
Unusual Sunday School Gather
ings Will Be Held in Several
Churches Sunday
CAMPAIGN TO CONTINUE
Visiting Ministers to Preach
Twice Daily, Assisted By
Americus Pastors
• ’
The first week of the simul
taneous revival closed out with
good attendance and splendid inter
est being manifested it! Aft vfts
churches. The pastors and church
es taking part, have expressed them
selves as being gratified with the
progress made thus far, but are
anxious to make the; coming week
bring forth a real victory.
For tomorrow there will be ths
usual meetings of the Sunday
school in the morning, followed by
the preaching at 11 o'clock, with
a special mass meeting to be held
in each church at 3:30 in the after
noon, closing the day with stirring
appeals at the evening hour. The
general theme for mass meet
ing in each church will be, “Home
Builders,” with the entire church,
urged to attend.
At the Lee Street Methodist
church Rev. H. T. Freeman, of Ma
con will preach at all the services,
delivering a special message at the
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HAZLEHURST NEWS
TO BECOME DAILY
HAZLEHURST, April 26. The
Hazelhurst News, heretofore a week
ly paper, will soon make its debut
as a daily. The News was estab
lished in 1904, and Otto Middleton
is editor.
PTOMAINE VICTIM
GETS SI,OOO VERDICT
ATLANTA, April 26.—A verdict
for SI,OOO damages was won in-
Fulton superior court Thursday by
Attorney Lawton Nalley in litiga
tion filed by D. L. McPherson, of
South I’rayor street, against Mor
ris Capiat 'o, et al., as operators of
a delicatessen store at 106 White
hall street, where sandwiches were
purchased* by the plaintiff one of
which, he' alleged gave him ptomaine
poisoning.
McPherson alleged he was taken
with a violent case of ptomaii e two
hours after eating one of the sand
wiches, and that has been under
treatment of a physician ever since.
ALEXIUS COMMANDERY
ELECTS NEW OFFICERS
JACKSON, April 26.—AlexiuJ
Comma jdery No. 22, Knights Temp
lar, has elected officers for the en
suing year, the officers to be install
ed on May 2.
The following were chosen:
A. B. Lindsey, eminent, com
mander; J. P. Lemau, generalissi
mo; W. L. Nutt, captain general;
W. P. Newton,, senior warden; R.
P. Newton, junior warden; D. G.
McMichael, prelate; J. C. Jones,
treasurer; L. B. Hopkiiv, recorder,
L. J. McKibbenn, standard bearer;
A. W. Newton, sword bearer; T. E.
Robinson, warden; H. O. Ball, first
guard; H M. Moore, second guard;
A. C. Finley, third guard; George H,
Kimball, sentinel.
