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WEATHER
For Georgia Fair and mild
tonight and Sunday. .
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 105
U. S. ARMS WILL BE SUPPLIED CUBANS
David Jennings Shot By R. P. Ewing Last Night
INJURED MAN RECEIVED
t FULL LOAD FROM GUN
IN LOWER RIGHT LEG
Was Searching For Keirosene
With Which to Kepn Brooder
Warm During Night
AFFAIR IS REGRETTED
Shot Was Fired Hurriedly Dur
ing Moment of Excitement, It
Is Declared
D. T. Jennings, well known
Americus man, was shot and pain
fuly wounded early last night in the
back yard of R. P. Ewing, who oc
cupies the premises at 217 Brown
street, in the same neighborhood
where Jennings lives. The weapon
used was a double barrelled shot
gun loaded with No. 5 shot and
buckshot. Only the No. 5 shot shell
was fired, Mr. Ewing stated this
morning, at the same time express
ing deep regret because of the oc
currence.
Following the shooting, which
occurred in dense darkness, witn
Ewing unable to recognize his
neighbor, Jennings made his way
unassisted to Brown street, where
he sat upon a curbing near his home
and called aloud to make his pres
ence known. Previous calls heard
by Ewing were ignored because of
a fear that some unknown person
outside in the darkness might en
deavor to assassinate him because
of the shot fired only a few min
utes before. At that time Ewing
said today, he had no idea he had
shot and wounded one of his near
est neighbors.
b When found and recognized,
Jennings told of his presence in Ew
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“Black Joe” Russo Put? Bullet
Into Brain When Cornered in
Gun Battle
LITTLETON, Colo., May 3.
Wounded and facing capture when
three bullets he had fired failed to
stop a marshal, “Black Joe” Russo,
escaped prisoner from the Denver
county jail ended a gun battle on
a lonely road near here by putting
a bullet into his brain.
His bandit pal, Carmel Errigo,
who had stood by without taking
part in the fight, surrendered with
out a struggle.
DuSso and Errigo separated af
ter escaping from the Denver jail
last Thursday, met accidentally two
days ago and planned a trip into
Mexico. Virgil Stephens, city mar
shal of Littleton, missed a posse
that had started in the search and
proceeded alone. He met the two
desperadoes on the road and order
ed them to surrender. They rm.
He commandeered an automobile
belonging to a farmer who was
passing.
Russo, who had hidden beside the
road, fired as the car passed,
wounding the farmer and the mar
shal. Stephens returned the fire
shattering Russo’s jaw, and drag
ging himself into a nearby con
struction camp, where he obtained
a rifle and .again took up the chase.
Russ 0 then pulled a revolver from
his pocket, put it to his temple and
fired. With two bullet holes in his
body, Stephens overtook Errigo and
held him captive pntil the posse ar
rived when he collapsed.
I TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR
COSTS STATE MILLIONS
JACKSON, Miss., May 3.—Dis
covery today of a typographical
error in Mississippi’s new automo
bile license tax law created the be
lief, in official circles that the state
would lose thousands of dollars this
tfear in revenue. The law, when it
was enacted by the legislature re
cently specified that the tax should
be a “minimum” of $lO yearly.
The error was the substitution ol
the word “maximum” for “mini
mum” by the enrolling clerk. As
sistant Attorney General Elmer C.
C. Sharp today was discussing the
bringing of a test case in order that
the supreme court might pass upon
the error. . w ,. »
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JN THE AR
GENERAL STRIE FEARED IN ARGENTINE
fOWE’S EFFORT
CULLED 'COURIES!
18 IPMESE PEOPLE
Executive Said to Have No Ob
jection to Exclusion Provis
ions of Measure
' CONFEREES CAN’T AGREE
Pcssibilitiy of Night Session
Fcced As Result of Extend-
1 ed Conference
I
i WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi-
■ dent Coolidge’s effort to postpone
1 an effective date for the Asiatic ex
‘ elusion legislation is based solely
' pn a desire to deal courteously
' with Japan, and has no objection
' to the provisions of the senate and
house bills barring aleins ineligi-
1 ble to citizenship from the limited
1 states.
’ The senate and house conferees
reaching no decision on the can-
' troversial exclusion provision yes
-1 terday, today faced the possibility
of a night session in addition io an
all day conference in an effort to
get the report on the bills ready
■ early next week.
lEITOMO IS
Pffl DY HUD OlffiK
Tag Licenses During Year Have
Already Netted Treasury To
tola of $2,117,136.33
ATLANTA, May 3.—Up to the
close of business on April 30, the
automobile department in the office
of the secretary of state had col
lected $2,117,136.33 in automobile
tag licenses for the year 1924 .
This sum is $301,001.19 more
than was collected in the same per
iod during 1923, and is close to the
total collection for the entire twelve
months of last year, which was $2,-
156,406.08. It is probable that to
tal collections for this year will run
above $2,500,000, as it is estimated
probably 15 per cent of the total
number of motor vehicles are delin
quent in purchasing tags this year.
For the first time, delinquent car
owners will be subject this year to
collection of their automobile lic
enses by the state revenue depart
ment and, when paid this way, a
penalty of 20 per cent additional
license is charged. This department
was created by the legislature last
year for the purpose of collecting
all delinquent special taxes, and be
gan operation on January 1 last.
Under the law, delinquent automo
bile tax payers become liable to the j
more expensive collection under this
department May 1.
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IS ICCIDEDT O
Randolph Williams, a young ’
carrier boy for the Times-Recordcr!
fell from a bicycle early this as- 1
ternoon and ruptured an artery in I
his left hand as well as spraining
his wrist. He is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. Williams, and a likeable!
youth who has many friends that
will regret to learn of his misfor
tune. The accident occurred near
the Freeman bicycle shop, where the
boy was engaged in riding an “ord
inary” or high type of wheel. He
will be able to resume his duties
within a few days, it is said.
whiteTeg hornspa y
DIVIDENDS IN CRISP
CORDELE, May 3—Twenty
white leghorn hens of the Wyccff
variety bought on February 13th
by a Cordele dairyman and carried
out to his dairy farm laid 210 eggs
during the remainder of that month;
480 eggs in March, and 482 in April,
this contributing an average of fif
teen eggs a day since they were
bought,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY AFTERNOON,, MAY 3, 1924
Sought Faith Cure
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Mrs. Winn, i j. mungs Bryan,
invalid wife of the famed Demo
cratic orator, photographed be
fore she left for Hazlehurst, Ga.,
where Raymond T. Richey, faith
healer, has been holding meet
ings and where, she announced,
she hopes to be healed.
iWB WIN SEEN
HEADED NORffIEST
MOID CHffl LAKE
; Alaskan Natives Report Having
i Sighted Missing Aviator Dur
ing Wednesday
Other Planes tn Squadron to
i Proceed Today From Dutch
Harbor Without Waiting
FALSE PASS, Alaska, May 3.
As a result of information from
natives along the barren coast of
i the Alaskan peninsular that they
• saw Major Frederick Martin, the
• missing aviator since Wednesday,
! headed for the northwestward of
i Chignik lakes and the Bering sea.
: Wireless calls were broadcast to
i day to all vessels in. that northern
I body of water, and additional par-
I ties were organized to search the
•i rock Bering seashore.
Orders have been telegraphed to
> three other planes to continue their
i flight and it is expected they will
■! leave today for Atka Island, 350
miles west of Dutch Harbor.
MBOUNCES
MEDDLE CHANGES
Channing White, Americus agent
for the Central of Georgia railroad
announced today a number of
changes in schedule effective Sun
day May 4th and affecting arri
. val and departure of trains at the
Americus station. These change-:,
which are of interest to many here
as well as the traveling public, are
' as follows:
j The Southland (Train 33) from
; Cincinnati, Atlanta and Chicago,
I will arrive at Amreicus at 3:45 a.
m., instead of 2:10 a. m., as at pres
■ ent.
Train No. 11, from Atlanta and
Macon, will arrive Americus at
5:29 a. m., instead of 5:14 a. m.,
as at present.
Train No. 8 from Albany, will ar
rive Americus 6:34 a. m. instead
of 6:37, as at present.
Train No. 6 from Albany and
Montgomery will arrive Americus
1:55 p. m., instead of 1:51 p. m.,
as at present.
Train No. 5, from Atlanta and
Macon will arrive Americus 2:15
p. m., instead of 2:27 as at present.
As noted in the Times-Recorder
recently, the Dixie Limited and
Floridan de luxe tourist trains
have been discontinued for the sea
son and the Columbus local has
been extended to operate between
Columbus and Albany via Ameri
cus, instead of making its terminal
as heretofore in this city, „
00V. PARKER DENIES
TOTION MADE BY
ITALIAN’S AJTORNEY
Louisiana Executive Says State
ment of Gulotta “Deliberate
Falsehood”
DEATH STAY IS SOUGHT
Application For Habeas Corpus
To Be Filed Monday in Ef
fort to Save Men
BATON ROUGE, May 3.—Gover
nor Parker today branded as a
“deliberate falsehood” the state
ment of George Gulotta, attorney
for the six men condemned to
hang at Amite May 9, that the gov
ernor declared “if the people didn’t
lynch them I will see them hang.”
This statement, which Gulotta is
said to have attributed to the gov
ernor, is understood to be the
grounds on which application for a
writ of habeas corpus proceedings
is based. The application will be
filed Monday, according to Gulotta.
FBEOEBICK KILLED
MADID 0
Americus relatives were advised
this morning of an unfortunate ac
cident near Marhsallville, in which
T. R. Frederick, prominent Macon
county business man, was killed in
stantly, and Persal Baldwin, his
companion, sustained a sprained
back and numerous bruises.
According to brief telegrams re
ceived here, Mr . F'rede'rick was
driving upon a business mis
sion between Marshallville and
Montezuma, having visited a
number of points where he
has business interests during the
day, and was returning homa when
the accident occurred. That he
was killed instantly is the belief
expressed by Persal, he having
heard no outcry following the acci
dent, but it was three hours later
before the body was taken from
beneath the wrecked automobile;.
Mr. Frederick had numerous
relatives here, being connected
with the well known Davenport
family, was a frequent visitor here,
having been a recent guest in the
hom e of Mr. and Mrs. Lawson
Stapleton. Funeral services over
the remains will be held at Mar
shallville Sunday afternoon at 3
o’clock, when it is expected a num
ber of Americus people will go
ther e to attend the obsequies.
WOODRUFF HERE TO
VISIT SUMTER VOTERS
Albert J. Woodruff, a candidate
for membership on the Georgia
Public Service Commission, was in
Americus today circulating among
Sumter county voters. This is the
forty-third county he has visited in
the interest of his candidacy, said
Mr. Woodruff today, and the situa
tion he reports as entirely satisfac
tory in all of these, Mr. Woodruff,
who is a resident of Decatur, be
lieves that propan and equitable ad
justment of freight rates and a
marketing system, will of necessity
be one of the first beginnings in
the return of Georgia business to
istable conditions existing prior to
the World War.
NEW WEEVIL POISON
FORMULAE IS FREE
TIFTON, May 3.—W. H. Cooper,
of Route 5 who was in town and,
says he would have finished chop
ping cotton this week if the weath
er had remained good.
Cooper is from Jackson county
and gives the boll weevil poison
formula below, which proved suc
cessful when tried out by farmers
in that county:
Calcium Arsenate—Ten pounds,
Saccharine—one ounce, Ice Cream
Powder—-Two packages, Molasses
(black strap)—Two gallons,Watei
—Eight gallons.
Mix saccharine and ice cream
powder in a quart of hot water be
fore mixing with other ingredients.
One gallon will cover an acre or
more. Keep mixture stirred while
applying as the calcium arsenate
jvill settle tq the
BURSON PENSION
BILL IS VETOED
WASHINGTON, May 3.
President Coolidge today vetoed
the Bursum omnibus pension
bill. The veto is based on the
ground of economy, the chief
executive holding that the meas
ure will entail an unwarranted
drain on the treasury.
COAN MAY BEHELD
IN CONTEMPT ORDER
Senator Walsh Proposed Prose
tion of ‘Star’ Witness in
Wheeler Inquiry
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Con
tempt proceedings against Blair
Coan, one of the star witnesses in
the senate’s investigation indict
ment against Senator Wheeler, was
suggested to the senate today by
Senator Walsh, prosecutor for the
oil committee.
The proposal is based o nreports
that Coan claimed he uncovered evi
dence in Montana warranting Sena
tor Wheeler’s indictment.
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INITIATION THURSDAY
Locale Voiture to Be Organized
In Americus This Week,
Commander Lane States
Robert C. Lane, commander of
John D. Mathis Post, No. 2, Anieir
can Legion, announced today that a
Locale Voiture of “La Societe 40
Hommes etß Chevaux” will be or
ganized in Americus on Thursday
afternoon, and that final arrange
ments for the occasion will be com
pleted Monday night at the regular
meeting of the post at 7:30 o’clock
in the courthouse.
“There will be a public initia
tion of candidates for “La Societe
40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux” begin
ning at 4 o’clock,” said Command
er Lane telling of the coming occa
sion today, “and continuing until
’5 o’clock, when the secret ceremon
ial tests will be administered.”
According to Commander Lane,
it is urgent that every Legionnaire
who desires membership in “Le So
ciete 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux” be
present at the meeting Monday
night, and that fifty members of
Colunfbus locale will be present
for the initiation bringing all nec
essary paraphernalia with them for
the initiatory ceremonies. “La So
ciete 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux,”
as is well known, is the playground
auxiliary of the American Legion,
with international features, and is
capable to the Shriners in the Ma
sonic fraternity.
MIER TEACHERS
108 PCT OBGANIZED
Sumter’s rural schools, as well
as those with the Americus inde
pendent system, have been enroll
ed 100 per cent as members of
the Georgia Education association,
with the schools here well repre
sented at the Savannah convention
of that organization.
Names of school principals or
superintendents who have enrolled
as member of the association for
the current year have just been
supplied for publication today as
follows: Thalean. Miss Ilah Burch;
Plains, E. L. Bridges; Anderson
ville, J. M. Lanier; Union (Leslie),
J. M. Harvey; New Era, D. C.
Burl; Pleasant Grove, A. B. Phil
lips; Thompson (Lysian), C. A.
Phillips; Huntington, W. T. Mack
ey; Concord. Mis s Ida Ward; Shi
loh, Mrs. J. C. Sgllars.
Besides these officials, it is
stated, that the entire corps of
teachers in all the schools in the
city and county have been prop
erly enrolled as members of the as
sociation, and that Sumter has re
cently been added to those coun
ties on the 100 per cent roll at
state headquarters.
HI PENSIOH UH IS
WENTK SBHES
NATION'S SRBILin
Nation-Wide Strike May Be Re
ply of Workers and Capital
ists to Drastic Law
STRIKES ALREADY BEGUN
Lock-Outs Also Reported in
Many Cities Throughout
Southern Republic
BUENOS AIRES, May 3.—Presi
dent DeAlvear w«s faced today
with the alternative of postponing
application of the new pension law
or accepting the consequencees of
a nation-wide strike, A situation
unique probably in the history of
any country for the reason that vir
tually it voices a common protest
from both capital and labor against
what its termed an absurb piece of
legislation.
The law provides that a reduc
tion of 5 per cent be made in all
salaries to be applied to the pension
fund employers contributing a like
amount.
Strikes ‘and I|uckoi(ts hhve be
gun already in various cities.
COOLIDGE TO ATTEDD
KI«L EIEBCISES
President Accepts Invitation to
Be Present At Confederate
Ceremonids
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi
dent Coolidge has accepted an invi
tation extended by the United Con
federate Veterans to attend the
Confederate Memorial day cere
monies, May 25, at Arlingtton.
President Coolidge today told a
delegation, headed by Senator
Glass representing the valley of
Virginia, that he would like to ac
cept the delegation’s invitation to
attend the first annual Shenandoah
apple blossom festival Saturday at
Winchester, Va., but he withheld
definite response to the invitation.
Secretary of War Weeks will rep
resent the president should Mr.
Coolidge be unable to attend.
SORROWING - CITIZENS
MOURN TOP GEN. M
DURHAM, N. C., May 3.—Long
sorrowing lines of citizens passed
the bier of the late General Julian
S. Carr today seeking to get a fare
well glimpse of a face known so
well. Hundreds of Durhamites met
(the train from Chicago on which
the body arrived, forming a silent
escort to the late home. Among
these were Confederate /veterans
and aged negroes for whom he did
much in life. ,
Funeral services will be held
Sunday afternoon from the home
at 3:30 o'clock.
alleged~blackmaTler
GUILTY, JNRY FINDS
DETROIT, May 3.—Vaslav Si
mek, 26 year-old graduate of the
University of Prague, was found
by a recorder’s court jury late
Thursday of attempting to extort
$1,050,000 from Edsel Ford.
The jury was out but a short time
Simex faces a maximum penalty
of two years ’ imprisonment. He
will be sentenced next week.
Simek accused his landlady of in
citing him to write the three threat
ening letters that he sent to Ford
These letters, scrawled in laborious
and almost unintelligible English,
warned Ford of impending injury to
his children unless he paid over the
money.
Simek was arrested when he piek
ed up a package “planted” at the
spot the letters had indicated.
Edsel Ford went on the stand
Wednesday and identified two let
ters that had been sent to him.
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
ETffl DEPARTMENT
APPMIIES ZAYAISTA
EFFORT TO GET ARMS
War Department Now Has Ap
plication, Refuses to State
Quantity Sought
SEC’Y. WEEKS~IS ABSENT
Specific Provision Made in
Embargo to Permit Govern
ment Shipments
WASHINGTON, May 3.—Th-?
Cuban government which is facing
a “condition of violence” in Santa
Clara caused by revolutionists, has
appealed to the Washington govern
ment to purchase a considerable
amount of arms and ammunition to
be used by the Zayas forces against
the revolutionists. The appeal has
been approved by the state depart
ment and forwarded to the war de
partment, where it is regarded as
certain that arms find ammuni
tion will be made available to the
Cuban government immediately.
In the absence of Secretary
Weeks, the war department declin
ed to reveal the amount asked, but
it was indicated that no trouble
would be occasioned in filling the
order from excess war supplies.
Under proclamation issued yes
terday by president Coolidge in es
tablishing an embargo on the arms
shipment to Cuba, specific provi
sions is made to allow this govern
ment to supply President Zayas'
forces with arms and at the sama
time to enforce an embargo upon
exports of war material in commer -
cial shipments to Cuba.
7.AAA LEAVES
FOR SANTA CLARA
HAVANA, May President
Zayas left Havana this morning for
I Santa Clara province, where many
armed mcen are in revolt. He was
accompanied by Secretary of the
Interior Iturradale and General
Herrero, his chief of staff. The de
parture was kept secret .until their
special train with its military
guard aboard had left.
It is understood the president is
going to Cienguegos, where it is
reported most of the trouble cen
ters. Sub-Secretary Ddatore saic
the president desired to ascertain
the. exact situation in Santa Clara,
and that his departure for the scene
of the anti-Zayas and the anti-re
election outbreak does not mean
that the situation is more serious.
DE imIETDBI
HEBE FOP LECTURES
R. H. J. DeLoach, whose expe
rience with early poisoning as a
method of boll weevil control has
so stirred this section, will visit
Americus and Sutmer county again
to give farmers here the benefit of
his knowledge. George O. Mar
shall, county agent, co-operating
with the Americus and Sumter
County Chamber of Commerce, has
just arranged for this second visit
of DeLoach to Sumter county, fin
al arrangements for his coming be
ing perfected today. The date of
his lectures has been made May 14
and 15, and it is announced that
he will talk before mixed audiences
of whites and negroes at several
points throughout the county.
In order that every community
may have the benefit of Prof. De-
Loach’s advice, it is desired that re
quests for his services be filed eith
er with the Chamber of Commerce,
or with George O. Marshall. There
will be no charge mad© for his ser
vices, it is stated, the expense of
his coming here being borne entire
ly by business men and extensive
farmers who are interested in a
normal pro-weevil cotton crop be
ing produced here during the cur
rent growing season. Hours al
which Prof. DeLoach will speak a-:
well as the communities in which he
will lecture for the benefit of tj.e
farmers have not yet been def
initely determined.
SINGING SCHEDULED
AT AGGIE SUNDAY
The regular first Sunday sing
ing is scheduled for Sunday after
noon at the Agricultural college,
and it is expected there will be a
number of visitors here for the oc
cmfnn, as usual. ‘The singing
will begin promptly at 2:30 o’clock
lead by Chief John T. Bragg, who
is a leading spirit in staging these
occasional sings in the community.