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FORTY-SIXTH YEAR— no. 118
BONUS BILL ENACTED
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80-YEAR-OLD GEORGIA WOMAN ATTACKED
Hawaiian Mountain Throwing Out Lava
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Total of 1316 Days Lost From
Labor Because of Disease, Dr.
Payne States
271 FAMILIES SURVEYED
Renerts Received From These
Indicate Heavy Loss Thru
out County
Malaria cost Sumter county $2,-
464 during 1923, these figures be
ing obtained from a partial survey
of th e schools of the county by Dr.
J. W. Payne, count health commis
sioner. The total monetary loss
because of the disease, undoubted
ly, was much greater than this, ac
cording to Dr. Payne, as embraced
within his survey were only 271
families, having 1639 members, of
whom 74 were actually attacked and
forced t 0 secure medical atten
tion.
Discussing this survey, Dr. Payne
said that in his opinion “thousands
of dollars and thousands of days la
bor had been lost ‘to farmers and
business men which cannot be
shown in the partial survey just
completed. This survey, of neces
sity, was conducted through the
medium of the schools, and did not
include hundreds of families in
districts where malaria is most
prevalent, but/which are not rep
resented by children attending
school.
‘Malaria being more prevalent in
some sections of Sumter county
than others,” said Dr. Payne today,
“it was decided to make a malaria
survey of the county through the
schools to determine in which sec
tions it was giving most trouble.
“Cards requesting the desired in
formation were printed and carried
to the schools and sent to each pa
tron of each school in th. iunty
with the following results as a to
tal.
“Total number in families—l 639.
“Total number families having
malaria in 1923—74
“Total number persons in fam
ilies having malaria in 1923—235
‘Total number days lost from
malaria in 1923—1316
“Total expense due to malaria in
1923—52464.00
“This only applies to the time
lost and expense among school chil
dren and has no reference to thv
time lost by farmers and farm la
bor. A fair estimate of that would
no doubt run in to the thousands
of days and dollars lost from ma
laria, in just one year?
“Malaria is a preventable dis
ease, and it is in/ our power to pre
vent it with very little trouble, or
to cure it after we have it jin our
system.
“To prevent it first prevent the
breeding of mosquitoes and prevent
them biting you. Second: A cap
sule of quinine will prevent i<k if
taken only two or three times
weekly.
“To cure it, ten grains of quin
ine at bed time each night for
eight weeks will absolutely cure it
in 90 per cent of cases.
‘Taking quinine as a preventative
or< a cure will prevent the mos
quito from transmitting It from
one person to another.
“Let’s every body get after this
malaria situation and put Sumter
county on the map from a health
standpoint.”
JUDSON COBB DIES AT
WASHINGTON HOME
* GRIFFIN, May 19. —The news
of the death of Judson D. Cobb,
which occurred at his „home in
Washington, will be received wi'.h
sorrow by his many friends in this
section.
Mr. C?bb, who married Miss Bes
sie Sims, of Griffin, had often
been here and was popular with all
who knew him. He was manager
of the New Willard Hotel in Wash
ington for fourteen years but had
recently retired from active work
on account of ill health.
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THE TIMESWRECORDER
( ESLEUBJ-ISHED IN THE /Q"wL hEART OF
SENATE ACTION
MAKES BILL LAW
DESPITE VETO
U
Final Vote On Measure, 59 to 26, Sufficient to
Make Measure Law Without Executive
Approval
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The Senate to
day overrode President Coolidge’s veto of the
bonus bill. The measure now automatically be
comes a law, the House having taken similar ac
tion.
The vote was 59 to 26.
Opponents of the bonus bill rallied and fought for a time
today as the measure approached the final test in the Senate.
Seven Republican senators who had been 'numbered as
friends of the bill, were called to the White House and exhorted
by President Coolidge to sustain his veto.
Afterwards Senator Reed, of Pennsylvania, in charge of the
anti-bonus forces, declared previous to the vote that the situation
certainly is looking brighter” and made overtures for a delay
of a week for the final vote.
Evelyn Nesbit Quits
Fight Against Thaw
PHILADELPHIA, May 19.—Mo
tion for a new trial to determine
the sanity of Harry K. was
formally withdrawn today by coun
sel representing Evelyn Nesbit, his
former wife, that was recently de
clared sane by a jury.
APOPLEXYIMT
TO JUSTICE W
North Carolina Jurist Succumbs
to Attack Sustained Sunday
Afternoon
RALEIGH, May 19.—Chief Jus
tice Walter Clark of the North
Carolina Supreme court, died her>y
today of apoplexy, with which ke
was stricken yesterday.
MILLER AND OTHERS
HERE FOR MEETING
A party of prominent P. O. S.,
of A. national officers who arc
making a tour through this section
in the interest of their order are
in Americus today. This party,
which is headed by Herman A. Mil
ler, national secretary of the or
ganization, arrived at 2:14 this af
ternoon and were met at the depot
by a delegation from the local
camp. The visitors will be guests
of the Americus camp tonight, and
tomorrow will g 0 to Albany to ad
dress the camp there It is planned
to have a number of Americus P.
O. S. of A., member’s accompany
them on the trip to Albany.
How and When to Poison the Weevil
Here’s th e plan advocated by Dr. R. J. H. DeLoach J. C. Maness
and George O. Marshall. Follow this plan, they say, and you’ll
make a normal crop.
1— Poison immediately before the first squares form, or as s
a few tiny forms appear.
2 Poison again five days after the first poisoning.
3 Poison again five days after the second poisoning.
4 Pick up squares after second poisoning ahead of cul
tivation, and pick up squares a second time immediately
blooms appear, ahead of cultivation.
sln the early fall destroy cotton stalks. Any method for
destroying is satisfactory except burning.
J. A. HIXON, Chairman Weevil Committee.
GEORGE O. MARSHALL, County Agent.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 19, 1924
COOLIDGE MASTERS
COLD; BACK AT DESK
WASHINGTON, May 19.
President Coolidge today return
ed to his office after having
mastered a bronchial cold from
which he has suffered since the
middle of last week.
PINEAPPLE MOVEMENT
IS ALMOST AT PEAK
VALDOSTA, May 19.—Pine
apple movements into Valdosta rail
road yards are now reaching un
usual proportions. Up uptil tb'e
end of the past week they were
averaging about two solid trains
each day, but Saturday night there
were five solid trains of the pines.
The movement, commencing about
tomorrow night ,is expected to go
above any of the other figures, and
it is much in excess of previous
years’ records.
LANIER ‘HOBOES’ sGiT
TO GANG IN LOWNDES
VALDOSTA, May 19.—Two
white men from Lanier county were
brought to Valdosta last night and
gent out to the Lowndes county
chaingang this morning. The men
were classed among hoboes, and
one supposed to be a deserter from
.the army. They were fined $250
or to serve a sentence of twelve
months and hot being able to make
•the cash payment were put to work.
•Lowndes county leases the Lanier
misdemeanor convicts, as the latter
county has no chaingang.
CLUBS MAYPUPOVER
PLAYGROUND POOL
DURING THIS SUMMER
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Rotary Directors and Presidents
cf Kiwanis and Lions Confer
On Project
CARGILL HERE FOR DAY
F-
Prcject Wholly a Community
Enterprise, He Says, In Which
AH Are Interested
The three civic clubs of Ameri
cus will consider plans for getting
behind the Americus, Playground
swimming pool at their next meet
ing, and putting this community enj
,terprise “over the top” in a man
ner befitting Americus. This was
the statement authorized this morn
ing by J. Ralston Cargill, president
of the Playground association.
The directors of the Rotary club
met this morning with Mr. Cargill
Evan Mathis, president of the Ki
wanis club, and R. P. Ewing, presi
dent of the Lions club at which tim
the needs of the playground were
gone over and it was agreed that
jthe matter would be brought before
the several clubs at their next meet
ring, the proposition ‘ being that all
|hree join in this effort to put over
the Playground swimming pool. To
this end, it is planned, as soon as
the project has been formally ap
proved by the different clubs in
their meetings, to hold a joint meet
ing of the three clubs at which the
plans for financing the project will
be laid before the civic club mem
bers for final approval.
It is hoped this joint meeting of
,the three clubs can be arranged to
be held Tuesday, May 27, when Mr.
Cargill will again be here to pre
sent the cause of the Playground
before the clubs. “This is a pro
ject that is vary near and dear to
my heart,” Mr. Cargill said today,
“and one I am sure the three clubs,
as well as every element of com
munity citizenship in-Americus can
unite. The playground is an insti
tution upon which much energy has
already been expended, and I feel
sure that it will be maintained al
ways for the benefit of the kiddies
as well as the grown-ups.”
MBffIOOR
TO BEU WISH POST
Resignation Submitted Three
Weeks Ago Based On
Personal Reasons
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The
desire of Ambassador Woods at
Tokio to relinquish his post is be
lieved by officials here to be based
wholly upon personal considera
tions and to have no connection
with the pending immigration legis
lation.
TOKIO DISPATCH
CONFIRMS RESIGNATION
TOKIO, May 19. Ambassador
Woods, in confirming a dispatch
from Washington reporting his
resignation, said it had been tender
ed weeks ago, and is due en
tirely to family reasons.
DEMPSEY ADOPTS
FIFTY CHILDREN
LOS ANGELES', May 19. —Jack
Dempsey has “adopted 50 children
from a Los Angeles orphanage and
has started a bank account for
each. Dempsey announced that ev
ery year h e will add a fixed sum
to what the children have saved.
SPRING COLD
WAVE COMING
CHICAGO, May 19.—A spring
cold wave is predicted for tonight
in the western lake region, with
heavy to killing frosts is the fore
cast in Minnesota.
Light snow is falling in lower
Michigan, with "a possible sleet to
night in Northern Illinois.
TH RHJUCTIOIt AND
EMW FEATURES
IN EIDERS' PUTFOBU
Wants ‘Real Inheritance and
Luxury Tax’ to Replace State
Ad Valorem Levy
OPPOSED TO ROAD BONDS
Radical Change in Administra
tion of School Funds Also
Favored By Candidate
REIDSVILLE, Ga., May 19.
Repeal of the tax equalization law,
limitation of city and county tax
rates to fifteen mills by constitu
tional amendment, opposition to
“any bond issue for roads or any
other purpose, and radical changes
in the various courts of justice of
the state, are embodied in the plat
form of H. H. Elders of Reids
ville, candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor,
which was made public today.
Mr. Elders, representative in the
state legislautre from Tattnall
county, declared that the chief
“plank” in his platform on which
he will make the race for the of
fice of chief executive of the state,
will be “economy and tax reduc
tion.”
He adbocates the levying of a
“real inheritance tax and luxury
tax” to take the place of the ad
(Continued on Page Two.)
METHODIST BF NORTH
CHURCHPECONSIDERS
Will Elect Only Three Bishops
Instead of Five As At First
Decided
SPRINGFIELD, May 19.—Re
considering its previous action the
northern Methodist Episcopal
church conference voted today to
elect three new bishops instead of
five.
WEATHERFORECAST
FOR THIS WEEK
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The
weather outlook for the period of
May 19 to May 24, inclusive for the
South Atlantic and East Gulf
States is as follows: Generally fair
weather is indicated, exceept that
showers are probable in Florida.
Mild temperatures.
ALLEN ACQUITTED ON
MAN ACT CHARGES
PITTSBURG, May 19.—Helen B.
Allen has been acquitted by a fed
eral court jury* here on a Mann act
indictment which grew out of a trip
he made from Washington, D. C,
t 0 Pittsburg with Gladit’.i Allen,
aged 16 years, one of his fifty-seven
adopted children.
The Government’s witnesses in
cluded A. L. Moore, a Pullman por
ter. who told of “peeping" into the
drawing room occupied by Allen
and Gladith.
The defense contended that the
girl had threatened to “get even”
with Allen after he punished her
for running away from a school con
ducted by Allen at Sabot, Va.
HATCHERY ENDS
SEASON’S RUN
VALDOSTA, May 19.—The Con
tinental Hatchery is closing dow’n
this week for the season after a.
most successful period of business.
iGrdinarly the hatching season for
day old chicks is supposed to end
about the first of May, but there
were several thousand eggs that
had to be carried through and the
last two thousand are being taken
off now.
Manager A. J. Bartlett, who has
been in charge of the plant, finds
that the business has been fully
satisfactory and it is'expected that
next season the plant will be taxed
to capacity,
Johnson and Benford
Accused of Heinous
Crime; Held at Macon
Two Young White Men Arrest
ed for Attack On 80-Year-
Woman Living Near Gray
MACON, May 19.—Charged with
attacking an 80 year-old woman at
her home three miles from Gray
last night, Wade Johnson and Gar
rett Benford, two young white men
of Milledgeville, are lodged in jail
here for safe keeping today.
The victim of the attack is said
by doctors to be in a serious con-<
dition.
Feeling is running high in Jones
county.
WOMAN ATTACKED WAS
PROMINENTLY CONNECTED
Information received in Ameri
cus this afternoon from Anderson-
Lausanne Treaty To
Be Effective Soon
Jajan Has Finally Ratified Convention, With
French Diplomatic Opposition Thereto
Removed
® TOKIO, May 19.—The foreign office informed the Associated
Press today that the Lausanne treaty would become effective within a
week through its ratification by Japan.
It is denied officially that France had exerted any pressure to
prevent its ratification.
Kilauea Volcano In
Violent Explosion
HONOLULU, May 19.—Three persons are unaccounted for fol
lowing a violent explosion in the crater of Kilauea volcano on the island
of Hawaii, said advices reaching here from Hilo. They are Miss Molly
SAVANNAH STIRRED Bl
ATTACK UN GIRL MTU
POSSE SEEKING NEGRO
Citizens Aroused and Scouring
Entire Section In Search For
Accused Culprit
SUSPECTS ARE ARRESTED
White Girl, Victim of Assault,
Atacked in Home West of
Savannah
SAVANNAH, May 19.—County
and city police are today combing
the city and county for the negro
who yesterday attacked an eleven
year-old girl in the western sec
tion of this city.
Several suspects were arrested
last night and early today, but
were released when two small boys
who witnessed the crime, declared
none of those arrested was respon
sible. The little girl and her two
brothers were picking flowers near
a cemetery when the negro attack
ed the child.
QUARTERLY MEETING
AT LEE ST. TONIGHT
The second quartery meeting of
the conference year will be held to
night at Lee Street Methodist
church. The conference will begin
promptly at 8 o’clock and Dr. W.
C. Lovett, presiding elder, will pre
side. Reports will be submitted by
all departments of the church, and
a number of matters requiring con
gregational attention will be
brought up and acted upon.
HONEY SHIPPING
SEASON STARTING
MILLEN, May 19.—Barney
Lightfoot, one of Jenkins county’s
most progressive farmers, began
shipping honey this week and will
ship around 2,000 pounds each
week for the next several weeks.
Lightfoot is planning to enlarge the
apiary next season and this will
make him the largest producer of
quality hohey in this section. Good
prices are being secured and the
quality is excellent.
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ville is to the effect that the lady
mentioned in the foregoing' news
dispatch is prominently connected
in that community. A brother
who lives just across the Sumter
county line in Macon county left
this morning, it was said, to investi
gate the attack upon her, imme
diately following receipt of the
news, and other relatives there are
excited because of the occurrence.
The lady attacked, it is said, was a
highly respected member of the com
munity in which she lived, beinga.
active in church and community af
fairs, and because of her age, it is
believed that robbery was the ob
ject of the men who perpatrated the
crime.
iJimum
UH) Tfl BOOTLEGGERS
ROME, May 19.—The confession
of one man, Will Swent, wh 0 is- im
plicated in the dynamite attack on
the home of Deputy Sheriff John
Bobo on the night of April 4, impl
cated three other men at a pre .
■minary hearing granted Wai tec
Heegetach, also one of the four.
Swent took the witness stand and
turned State’s evidence. His con
fession directly implicated Frank
Williams and Carl Lemaster, who
pre both serving sentences on the
Floyd county chain gang.
The witness testified that he and
the other three men stole 50 sticks,
of dynamite on the Friday nigh'
preceding the attack, Monday night,
and that all four went to the offi
cer’s home, set two sticks of the
dynamite under the house concealin’
the rest in the loft of the Antioch
Baptist church.
The events of the last 24 hours
tend to make the officials at Rome
believe that the attack on Bobo was
made by the notorious Floyd county
bootleg ring.
A special session of the grand
jury will probably be called to
handle the case Monday or Tuesday.
JOY-RIDERS END
RIDE IN JAIL CELL
CHATTANOOGA, May 19.—Mil
dred Dean and Mildred Cantrell,
young Rising. Fawn, Ga., girls, de
nied all knowledge of how Leo
Mayo, 36-year-old local married
man. came to his death while on a,
joy-ride with them and two men.
The girls were returned here for
questioning and are being held as
witnesses. Jhey say Mayo was
found unconscious on the auto seat.
Roy Garwood and Robert Earl, of
Rising Fawn, who brought Mayo to
a local hospital Friday morning, ares
being held in the county jail here.
Earl said he knew of no trouble
on the joyride, but that one of the
girfs had discovered Muyo on the
auto seat unconscious. Examina
tion revealed his brains had been
pierced five times by some sharp
instrument.
