About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1924)
WEATHER For Georgia—Generally fair to night and Wednesday moderate temperature. ORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. I I 3 CITIZENS MASS MEETING TONIGHT 8 O’CLOCK AT COURTHOUSE TO CREATE POISON FUND LANGLEV COMIWITTEE GETS BUSY AFTER FINMNS Os VFRMCT Kentucky Congresman May Be Called to Bar of House For Trial There BOND FIXED AT $5,000 Convicted Solon Hears Verdict of Jury Without Losing His Composure WASHINGTON, May 13.—The case of Representative John W. Langley, Republican, of Kentucky who was found guilty by a jury in federal court at Covington, Ky, of conspiracy in connection with il legal whiskey transactions, was taken up by the house committee named to investigate the charges against him today. It is probable that as a result of this investiga tion Representative Langley wiil be summoned before the bar of the house for trial and possible expjl sion from that body MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT IS 2 YEADS AND SIO,OOO FINE COVINGTON, Ky., May 13.—A jury in Federal court here last night found Congressman John W. Langley, Kentucky, guilty of con spiracy in connection with whiskey transactions in 1921. The jury returned its verdict after deliberat ing three hours and forty minutes. Milton Lipschutz, Philadelphia defendant with Langley, was also found guilty. The jury disagreed in the case of Albert S. Slater, Philadelphia, the fhird defendant. The maximum sentence for con viction is two years imprisonment and SIO,OOO fine. Judge Cochran intimated the fine would be omit ted. The court expects to impose sentence tomorrow Congressman Langley recs’cf'W the verdict calmly. Mrs. Lai? / stood composedly beside her hus band. > The jury reported itself dead locked in the Slater case, but Judgj Cochran adjourned court until 9:30 tomorrow when the jury will be recalled. Lipschutz’s bond also was fixed 000, which was promptly made. His attorneys have three days in which to file motion for a new trial. Lipschutz’s bond also was fixel at $5,000. Attorneys for both defendants announced that motions for new trials would be filed within the al lotted time. Later Judge Cochran recalled the jury and accepted its mistrial verdict in Slater’s case after which the jury permanently discharged DR. HARRIS IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION Dr. H. W. Harris, who has been ill during some time past was re ported critically ill this afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harris, on Adder ton street in Brooklyn Heights. IS TWO MILLION DOLLARS WORTH YOUR GOING AFTER? Could Sumter farmers, merchants and bankers use an additional two million dollars this fall? Would that sum help materially to place Sqmter county on its feet? It would, and every business man in this county knows it. Every business man knows local conditions. He knows what shape his business is in today, as well as that of every other man in the county. There will be held in the Couhthouse tonight—Tuesday at 8 o’clock, the most important meeting that has been called in this county in many years. Possibly the most important ever call ed, for the simple reason that— If EVERY Americus merchant, bank er and professional man lends his aid to those planning the boll weevil fight, THETMStRtCORDER PUBLISHED IN THE FLOWERING TRAFFIC POSTS AT ATHENS ATHENS, May 13.—Athens is said to be the, first city in Georgia, and one of the first in the country, to have traffic posts with flower beds in them. The civil service commission has arranged to replace the tall, angular-shaped traffic po with large steel drums. In these drums will be planted flowers so that they will be ornamental and attractive as wel las useful. ON STANDING COTTON COMMITTEE BY SECT. L. E. Jacson of State Bureau of Markets to Aid in Collection of Cotton Statistics experts Advise action Naming of Committee Followed Report of Census Bureau’s Report On Stocks May 13.—The appointment of a standing commit tee in compilation of cotton statis tics in the Department of Com merce was announced here today by Secretary Hoover, L. B. Jack son, of Atlanta, Ga., was named a member of this committee Jack son is director of the Georgia State Bureau of Markets The committee was appointed upon recommendation of a body of five statistical experts who were named by Secretary Hoover recent ly to conduct an investigation into the census bureau’s annual report on, cotton stocks. GNOEWEOm CONVENTION TO VOTE Klan Issue Wiil Be Stressed By Alabama Candidate At Meet ing in New York * WASHINGTON, May 13—Pr s pects of a bitter wrangle over the Ku Klux Klan issue at the demo cratic national convention were made ( certain by the announcement late Monday that managers for Sen itor Oscar Underwood will force a vote on an anti-klan platform plank. Through his manager, C. C. Car lin, Senator Underwood said: “The Ku Klux Klan is an invisible govern ment operating in violation of the constitution of the United States and it is the duty of the democra tic party in convention to declare against this organization and to em body that declaration in its plat form’.’ Carlin said that when Governor Brandon, of Alabama, places Un derwood in nomination, he will an nounce to the convention the in tention of asking for a vote on the klan question, and should his pro posal be voted down there, a minor ity report will be made to the con vention and a vote will be insisted upon. Chinese President lls Reported Dead Sun Yat Sen Succumbs to Brain Fever, According to Hong Kcng Report SHANGHAI. May 13—Sun Yat Sen, president of the southern gov ernment of China, is reported to have died of brain fever. The re port, which reached here from Hong Kong, has not yet* been confirmed, but according to reliable informa tion received there, Dr Sun has been unconscious during the past two days. Dr. Sun, although few of his Associates knew it, was a Christian He was born in Honolulu n 1862 and received his medical education in the Hong Kong College. Re was married quite, early in life and was the father of two children, a son and a daughter. Few statesmen if any past, pres ent, have known more ups and downs, more victories and defeats, more loyalty or more treachery than Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the first pro. visional president of China, fee quently called “the Father of the Republic” and often referred to as “George Washisgton of the Far East.” The name of Dr. Sun first began t 0 appear in newspapers of the Western World back in the late ’Bo’s, when his vigorous pronounce ments against his arch-enemies, the dynastic Manchu Emperors of China attracted some slight attention. Ho was then living in the Hawaiian Is lands with his widowed moth.r, who had migrated to Honolulu with her husband, an agent of a Chris tian mission, when Sun Yat Sen was an infant. Since 1895, howevejr, when he essayed the first of his revolutions, his name has become almost as well known to the Occi dent as it is to the 400 million Chi nese nationals on behalf of whom he spent a life time of unremitting hardship and constant danger, Dr. Sun was twice named to the highest constitutional office in China—the first time in the fall of 1911, when he was proclaimed the first provisional president of the Chinese Republic and again in May 1921 ,when he was elected Presi dent of all China. BIG FIPEW IT BRUNSWICK Planinn Mill of Large Concern There Totally Destroyed With Small Insurance BDUNSWICK, May 13. (By Associated Press.) The Lang planing mill here was destroyed by fire during last night. The mill was one of the largest in this section of Georgia and the loss is estimated this morning at $40,000, with only a small amount of insurance carried. Probably fifty men will be thrown out of employment by the fire. there will be added to Sumter’s income this fall MORE THAN $2,000,000 over what otherwise will be secured from our cotton crop. After the most exhaustive study by lo cal cotton men a plan has been fixed to secure the maximum production of cotton in Sumter county fields this fall. We are told that if this campaign is successful our total crop this fall will be $2,000,000 greater than it will be if this campaign fails. The success or failure of this campaign lies in the hands of EACH INDIVID UAL man in Americus. This is one time in your life when you cannot af ford to let ANYTHING prevent you from doiing YOUR PART. Your effort in this campaign will be purely selfish. What you do is for AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 13, 1924 DIED TODAY I fl 1 g DR. SUM YAT SEN smEtSS SCHOOL IT 9EGINS ON JUNE 12TH Rev. John M. Outler Announces Date When Sunday School Workers Will Assemble 8 COURSES ARE OFFERED Strong Faculty of Leaders Se cured to Conduct Courses At Macon College The fifth annual training school of South Georgia Methodist Sunday school workers will open in Mac .n lat Wesleyan College on June 12th. This announcement was made to day by Rev. J. M Outler, pastor of the First Fethodist Church in Amer icus, and chairman of the Sunday school Board of the South Georgia conference. The school this year will offer eight courses in teaching methods r pupil psychology, administrative ef ficiency, and Bible. There will also be recreational, and social features. Included in the faculty will be such well-known Sunday School leaders as Dr. Walter Kirkland Greene, dean of Wesleyan College; Professor George E. Rosser, of Wesleyan; Rev. S. T. Slaton, of Birmingham; Rev Albert Barnett, of Auburn, Ala.; Mrs. Cora T Court of Nashville; Mrs E R Mich aux, of Greensboro. N. C; Mrs Ferguson and Mrs Guerrant of At lanta Deservations for the school, which will run from June 12 to June 18, are being received stead ily by Mr Outler, chairman of the board of managers; and the pros pects are that over five hundred students will attend the training school this summer. OUR TWO MILLIONS PHD 118 l BEOM WHILE OWNERS State Highway Department I Audit Shows Income From License Was Large MANY PROJECTS ACTIVE East Point Shops and Offices All Completed and Paid For, Holder States ATLANTA Ga., May 13.—State funds t 0 the amount of $2,098,- 651,54 was received by the state’ highway department during the year 1923, according to a report of audi tors appointed by Governor Walker to audit the books of the highway board, given out by John Holder, chairman of the board. This amount represented the state auto license fund with interest of $2,- 888.17, it was stated. Os the total amount of $6,35!’.,- 610.38 received by the highway de partment for work accomplished, $2,098,651.74 represented state auto license fund; represented federal funds; other state funds amounted to $4,200; counties, by work and funds, $ 1 ,- 915,879.32 and other work super vised for construction, $200,000, the report showed. Administration cost was $294,500.82, or 4.63 per Continued on Page Three. POllClflt iroiJIT OFFICE 01 ME ffl PARIS, May 13.—President Poincare and his recently re-organ ized ministry will step from power June 4. The premier interpreted the ma jority given to the parties of the left in Sunday’s parliamentary elec tions as repudiation of his govern ment, and forthwith decided to resign. The decision was ratified at the council of ministers held in the Palace of Elysees under the chairmanship of President Millcr and. | June 4 is the earliest constitu tional date the government could have chosen to resign. Informed observers declare that the socialist victory virtually as sures a reparations settlement on basis of the expert’s report. Edouard Herriot, socialist mayor of Lyons and leader of left bloc. ex-Premier Briand and ex-Premier Painleve are mentioned as possible successors to Poincare in the pre miership. Entrance of the socialist into of fice would alter the French for eign policy, particularly in regard to reparation and the Ruhr. The socialists favor the application of the experts’ plan without Poincare reservations. They also favor eva cuation of the Ruhr and recogni tion of Russia. YOURSELF—not for someone else. More cotton means more trade for you, more bills paid. Your failure to act —your failure to be present tonight —will be a neglect of your business, as well as a deliberate neglect of the duty you owe to your fellow merchants and citizens. We are going into this fight along the same lines that were used in Carroll county last year and the year before. The first year in Carroll county 10,000 bales were added to the crop, we are told by reliable authorities. l_ast year Carroll county produced more cotton than any other county in Georgia. Carroll county is about the same size as Sumter. Its soil is probably not so good. Its people are no more intelli gent than ours. Its citizens no more loyal or patriotic. What Carroll did NEED $20,000 TO FINANCE FIGHT ON BOLL WEEVIL Business Men Called to Meet Tonight to Hear Maniss and Decide Final Details in Patriotic Crop-Saving Campaign With every one of the nine militia district in th? county rep resented by two or more farmers, the weevil extermination cam paign was put into swing this morning. Judge J. A. Hixon was elected permanent chairman, with Henry Everett, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as permanent scretary. Plans are rapidly beirjg perfected to form militia district committees to -work in their respective communities, meet ings already are scheduled for Wednsday and Thurs day, when Dr. R. J. H. DeLoach will speak in a number of* places, to the negro tenants and croppers.-' At the courthouse tonight, the Americus business men will meet to raise a revolving loan fund to supply poison to those farmers financially unable to get it elsewhere. Dr. J. C. Maniss, of the State Board of Entomology, returned to the city this morning and addressed the farmers at the court house at 11. He will speak again tonight at the mass meeting of Americus business men. Pamphlets are being printed giving the exact plans for poi soning that are to be followed in the campaign. These will be distributed over the county by the ‘ ——•—-—■ Times-Recorder. MASS MEETING TONIGHT AT COURTHOUSE Every citizen of Americus is be ing urged today through the press, by word of mouth and over the telephone to be present at a mass meeting in the courthouse tonight at 7:30 o’clock. This decision was made last night when a few citizens, some of them members of the three civic clubs, met in the courthouse. The attend ance was small because of the in ability of the presidents of the three clubs to get in touch with their members. Notices to the presidents were not received until after th e noon hour. The three civic clubs were re quested by the general committee take the initiative in the cam paign loan fund, of $20,000, a fund to be used to purchase arsenate for those farmers unable to get it oth erwise This was discussed last night and the mass meeting tonight is the result. The banks’ of the city have assured the committee that they will do their part, but that there are some to whom they can not give aid. It is for this purpose that the fund is necessary. The commit tee states that while SOO,OOO is necessary, that with $20,000 in cash, the committee will finance the other $40,000 Walter Rylander, president of the Dotary club, was elected chair man of the loan fund campaign commitee. He will preside tonight and outline his plans and the pur poses thereof. Speaking last night, Judge Hixon (CContinued On Page Three) Sumter can do and will do PROVID ED Sumter men do their duty duri ig the next week or ten days. This meeting is called at the request of the steering committee of weevil cam paign. You know these men, you can depend on what they say. These men have literally given up their business to put this campaign over. They are. working for themselves, yes. But they are also working for YOU. The seven men are Judge J. A. Hixon, chairman, T. G. Hudson, George O. Marshall, W. T. Andreson, L. G. Coun cil, R. S. Oliver, Gordon Heys, S. E. Statham, N. A. Ray and Frank Sheffield. I have used strong language in this editorial and I know it. But after having givep much time to this proposed campaign, after having studied local conditions, after having investigated to the best of my limited ability, I am convinced that PROSPERITY in Sumter county this fall depends upon the action taken tonight—upon the success of this weevil campaign that must be fought within the next ten days.—Lovelace Eve. New York Future* FC. Open High Low Close Jan. ..24.19|23.96|24.02|23.87|23.95 May ..31.22|31.40131.40|30.95[31.15 July 28.72128.90,28.61’28.61’128.77 Oct. .24.77124.85|24.93[24.72(24.92 Dec. . .24.20(24.25(24.33124.151,24.30 Americus strict middling 28 3-4 c. PRICE FIVE CENTS TWO AIDES SHOT BY MILITARY SOB ' De La Huerta Rebel Leader Put to Death Quickly Follow ing Courtmartial WAR DEPT. GETS REPORT 1 Gen. Guajardo, His Chief of Staff, and Manuel Flores Also Executed MEXICO CITY* May 13.—Gener al Fortunato Maycott, one of the leading military commanders of the De La Huerta rebellion, was executed after a Courtmartial at Fochutla, Oaxaca, yesterday , ae cordisg to a report t 0 the war de partment from General Alberto Gua jardo. With the rebel chieftain were executed his chief of staff, General Leovigildo Avila and Manuel Rlores, both pominent. in the De La Huerta rebel movement. SEWANEE CITIZENS WANT PLACE ON MAP ATLANTA, May 13.—Citizens of Sewannee, Ga., through the mayor have filed a petition with the Geor. gia Public Service commission ask ing that that city be made a flag stop for train number 29 of the Southern Railway. The petition v. ill be heard May 26.
