About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1924)
WEATHER For Georgia —probably fair to night and Tuesday; no change in temperature. TY-SIXTH YEAR— no. 135 KLAN BACKS WATSON FOR VICE-PRESIDENT ° 0 ° 0 o O O 000 .0 000000 000000 000 State Board Expert Urges Farmers to Poison Cotton 7 ields 7horoughly °OOOOOO OO o o o o o o 0000000000 ANTI-U. S. AGITATION PEAK PASSED IN JAPAN Political Rowdy' Affair at lokio May Assume Dangerous Aspect > io PROBE DISORDERS AT IMPERIAL HOTEL HOP Demonstration Staged By Po litical Ruffians to Be Subject of Official Inquiry NO ARRESTS YET MADE Foreign Office States these Will Be Held in Abeyance I Until Investigation Ends TOKIO, June 9. —Belief that the peak of agitation in Japan against American enactment of the immigration law barring Japanese had passed, is express ed in well informed circles to day. Active phase of the agi tation, it was agreed, cannot continue more than two or three weeks. TOKIO, June 9.Thorough inves tigation will be made of a demon stration staged at a dance in the Imperial Hotel Saturday night by a group of political ruffians, the Japanese foreign office infoYmed the Associated Press today. Until such investigation is made , how ever, it was pointed out, no offi, cial action will be taken towaid K punishing the offenders. DEOOKsSis LOSE tNIIMIN Request For Hill’s Resignation Causes Withdrawal of Gen eral Education Board Funds ATLANTA, June 9.—Funds heretofore apportioned to Georgia by the General Education Board of New York, have been withdrawn as a result of the controversy between N. H. Ballard, state superintendent of education, and Walter B. Hill, supervisior of .(Gcorgia’k /nugrq schools. Ballard today denied that Mr. Hill had been discharged. He admitted he had resuested Mr. Hill’s resignation, but said that Mr. Hijl’s position had gone when the general education board in New- York had withdrawn the funds from Georgia out of which Mr. Hill’s salary and office expenses arc paid. Dr. Ballard said he had not ask ed the general education board to withdraw this fund, but admitted it had been withdrawn following his request for Mr. Hill’s resignation and the resultant controversy yvhich had arisen. Dr. Ballard, commenting Friday on the opinion issued this week by Attorney General George M. Ni pier in regard to the controversy between Dr. Ballard and Walter E. Hill, state supervisor of negro rural schools, declared the opinion had not touched the real matter in dispute. X ‘‘The question involved is not Mr. Hill’s right to appeal to the stat? board of education, said Di. Bal lard; “it is my right to refuse to administer a fund sent here from E another state, if 1 do not desire to 'do so.” Dr. Ballard said there could be no question of Mr. Hill’s right of appeal to the state board of edu cation in regard to holding his po sition. “The state board is, in fact a recognized appellate body on educational matters in- the state,” he said. WEATHER FOR WEEK FORECASTS SHOWERS WAH'SINGTON, June 9. —The weather outlook for the period, June 9 to 14, inclusive for the ‘ South Atlantic and East Gulf states is as follows: Partly cloudy weather is indicated, with occas ional thunder showers and tem peratures near noraml. _ -JSk thetWlwecorder E&AI PUBLISHED IN THE HEART" OF Dr. Maness Stresses Use Os Poison In County Impossible to Lay Too Much Emphasis On Kill ing Weevils,’ State Entomogy Board Ex pert Asserts Dr. J. C. Maness is in Sumter county today making an in ipection of a number of crops in different sections of the county. 4e repeatedly emphasized the fact that cotton can bej produced in profitable quantities provided the weevils now attacking the cotton are killed. It is impossible to place too much emphasis on killing the weevils which have lived through the winter and get on the cot ton,” said Dr. Mancss. “Not one of them should be allowed to live to lay an eg;g. ” To accomplish this I recommend that at least three applications of calcium arsenate be made before the first bloom appears in the fol lowing order: “1. First application, when the plant has five or six leaves or abouz one week before the first square appears. “2. Second application, when the first squares appear but are not large enough to be punctured or to receive an egg. “3. Third application, when the tip of the pod or squares are turn ing yellow, or as near the first bloom as may be determined. For the first two applications, two or three pounds per acre is sufficient. One pound per acre is enough if if it could be properly distributed. With a good dust'ng machine which may be adjusted to the amount required, the above is ror the third application, three to four pounds per acre may be 1 used. As a maximum say nine to ten pounds per acre for the three applications. “Note: I do not name the num ber of days between applications, but depend upon the development of the crop. Its condition is a safer guide than counting days ) “In connection with tiiis dusting, find just after the third application to accomplish the end in view, it is absolutely necessary, and much more economical to gather the squares that perchance have been punctured. It is scarcely possible that all the weevils will be killed at any one poisoning, and if it were so, one might drop down and punc ture a square and deposit an egg before being killed. So that to fin ish the job, go over the entire crop twice within two weeks after the third application of dust is made ’Remember, our purpose is to kill all weevils and to sec that not a grub is raised from this first fam ily. If this is done, we have a re spite of several weeks in which to push the growth and well nigh ma ture the crop before the migratory period. If this is not done, wo have cost and labor increased with yield of cotton sadly decreased. It is better to gather the squares from the stalks than to wait for them to drop to the ground as they ar<4 more easily seen and better time made. There should be so few squares at this time that acres may be covered in a day which rend ers it much cheaper and more ef fective than to use the dust. if you fall down on your job. then give it a fourth application of the poison, for woe be unto you if you let this bug get ahead. The above is the determining point. Here we win or lose. “The above statements are made on the assurance that you have com pleted the job. If you are not dead sure that the weevils are all dead, then be dead sure that you keep at the work until you aro dead sure that are all dead,” con cluded Dr. Maness. In the above statement, Dr Maness refrains from using speci fic dates on which poison should bt applied. ‘That it is not safe,” he said. “The farmer must watch his crop and determine from its growth the proper time to apply the poison. The rest period mentioned by Dr. Maness depends on how thor ougidy the work has been done, he says. “The farmer who has applied hi spoison carelessjyy, wno has for that reason or some other, failed to kill all the hiberation weevils, AMERICUS, GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE «, 1924 Slain Priest MB wll* 7 V \ 1 F EIB F' Rev. Michael C. Gilbridge, Lowell, Mass., who was shot and killed by John King, Jr., as he was administering the last rites to King’s dying father. Inset is King who is said to have had a maniacal antipathy to religion and who took out his fanati cism on the kindly priest. ANOTHER FUNSHI’ IS STAGED BY JAPANESE TOKIO, June 9.—Another ‘‘funshi” or protest by suicide at the exclusion of the new American imigration law is re ported by a correspondent of Nichi Nichi at Miyazaki, Kyus hu. The correspondent asserts the youth threw himself in front of a train and was killed. Letters asserting he committed suicide as a protest against the I attitude of the United States are said tq hav e been found on his body. Ho FORCES 111 FLOBB TRIUMPH JACKSONVILLE, June 9.—W l liam G. McAdoo, of California, ap parently has - gained the state’s in dorsement for presidential prefer-1 ence over Senator Oscar W. Un- I derwood, of Alabama, in the state democratic primary election held recently. Figures compiled last night gave McAdoo 40,000 votes to 20,1G7, indicating lie was maintain ing his lead of two to one. Leading state papers conceded Mr. Me Adoo’s victory. Interest in the state centered in the five-eornered race for gover nor in which the largest vote in the history of the state was polled. With returns nine-tenths complete, the total vote early last night was 137,737, with the expectation that it would reach 150,000. John W. Marin former mayor of Jacksonville, was credited w th 52,138 votes. Sidney J. Catts was running second with 39,593, and Frank E. Jennings third, with 37,- 737. Worth W. Trammell had poll ed 6,212 and Charles 11. Spencer, 1,499. ... .x*. IKJURGENTSIO TRY AHD FORCE PARTY TO CONMH MGIW* Junior LaFollette Issues State ment Setting Forth Demands to Be Made By Group EVANS IS IN CLEVELAND Imperial Wizard Will Fight to Prevent Anti-Klan Planks’ Adoption CLEVELAND, June 9. —lm perial Wizard Evans, of the Ku Klux Klan, on arrival here from Atlanta today, came out with the declaration for Senator Watson, of Indiana, as the klan’s candi date for vice-president. Evans made known the klan’s position in the following state ment: ‘‘All of our boys through out the nation will understand only one thing, and that is, Sen ator James E. Watson for vice president flat. CLEVELAND, June 9.—Repub lican insurgents, acting through the Wisconsin delegation, will ask the Republican National convention to formally condemn the acts of Harry M. Daugherty as attorney general and Albert B. Fall as sec retary of the interior. This was disclosed in an official -copy of the insurgent platform made pub lic here today by Robert M. L»i (Follette, Jr., son of the Wisconsin senator, acting in the name oi the Wisconsin delegation. Former Governor Lowden’s de flation of his boom for vice presi dent served today to spread the limelight more evenly ampng the growing field of prospects for the Republican vice presidential nomi nation. With practically the last of the arrivals pouring into Cleve land for the opening of the con ention Tuesday morning milling and maneuvering took place on larger proportions today and cent ered about the selection of a vice presidential nominee. Active opposition to anti-ku klux plank in the Republican national platform was presaged by the an nouncement that Imperial Wizard Evans, of Atlanta, would arrive here today for a conference with convention leaders. KISS COM DIFS IFTEII BRIEF ILIHESS Funeral services for Miss Zen obia Godwin, who died at the Americus and Sumter County Hos pital Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock following a short illness of gastritis, were held this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock from the Rylander Methodist church near Americus, of which she had long been a mem ber. In the absence of th e pas tor, the obsequies were conducted by Rev. C. A. Phillips, pastor of the Plains Lutheran church, and in terment was in the family lot there. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. W. H. Holland, of Bronwood; Miss Josephine Godwin, also of Bron wood, and Mrs. John Mohrman, of Americus. Besides these near rela tives, she leaves a number of nephews and nieces, among whom is Mrs. T. H. McGillis, of Ameri cus, wit hwhom she had made her home several years ago. Miss “Tobe,” as she was affec tionately known to many friends in this community and the coun ty, was 71 years of age, was born in Sumter county, having spent her entire life in Sumter county and Americus. For many years, since early childhood, she had been a member of the Methodist church, and attended its services and work ed in its departments. At the time of her death she made her home with Mrs. Andrews on West Church street, from which place she was carried to the hospital a week ago in a serious condition. Announce ment of her passing will be read with sincere regret by scores of friends and acquaintances. Her death removes from this communi ty another of its oldest and most beloved residents, _ j' M IB* >, ■ 1 •• : ' .•» W’ tjIBMiEM t, : £g ’■/'i *< S' r '*<-s^ ■ • Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, of Lius vilic, Ky., has suceeded Mrsi Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio, as vice-chairman of the can National Committee and loader of women’s activities in the party. Mrs. Upton has re signed so she may be able to de vote all her time to her candi dacy for Congress. JIBS BOYCOTT ILL AMERICAH PICTURES Tokio Motion Picture House to Cease Handling American Products July 1 TOKIO, June 9.—Attributing their action to public demand, own ers of motion picture theaters in Tokio at a general meeting today launched a boycott against Amer ican films. Beginning July 1 theater proprietors will not buy or rent American films or show them in theaters, according to a resolu tion passed at the meeting. Sever al motion picture theaters show'rg American films were forced to close when invaded by ruffians Saturday night. POLMLLIDTII MHTBIILMffIUTIIS WILIAMPORT, Pa., June 9. The local police department last night was asked by the chief of po lice to help subdue 200 or more youths, said to be students of Buck null university, who have been on a rampage in the borough since Wed nesday night, it is alleged. “Students here are shooting off cannon crackers, carbide cannon and dynamite in the main street,” Chief of Police Earl Miller, of Lewisburg, declared. “A number of small fires have been started 1 in automobiles, dresses have been burned off of women on the streets and a number of children have been injured. “The students entered the vet erans” memorial cemetery and trampled down the flags there. Then thehy tried to roll away the boulder dedicated to the soldier dead of this town. They smashed all the windows in front of a house in which a woman was lying dead and pulled a wagon filled with burning boxes down the main street. They also hurled water on the burgess, H. O. Miller,, and threatened to throw me into the river.” Chief Miller declared the state police said they could not give him aid and that he had “gone down on his knees” to tho college authorities but that the troubled continued. The Williamsport police depart ment, because several men were ill and others were on special duty, was unable to send aid., SIX DIE WHEN TOSSED IN DEEP SEWAGE Hl ROME, June 9.—A number of children were precipitated in to a sewage pit 40 feet deep in the Campagna yesterday when the planks covering the open ing collapsed. Patrons of a nearby restaurant rushed to the rescue, but were overcome by the fumes. Firemen ware call ed and found six dead and two injured. MilS. FORTH DROPS DEM IT PLfflS PLAINS, June 9.—Mrs. Lucy Brantley Forth, a prominent resi dent of Plains community and one of most beloved women there, died suddenly this morning shortly aft er 9 o’clock, death being due to a heart affection and being entire ly unexpected. She was a native of Meriwether county, having been born there Mareh 20, 1860, and was married March 21, 1881, to the late Frank Forth, being 64 years of age at the time of her death. Mrs. Forth, who had long been a consistent of Plains Baptist church and active in the affairs of the congregation, as well as civic progress in her home community, is survived by live sons and two daughters. These are Herman Forth, Key West, Fla.; Palmer Forth, Plains; Carl Forth, so San Francisco, Calif.; Frank Forth, of Clearmont, Fla.. Stanley Forth of Homestead, Fla.; Miss Jessie Belle orth and Miss Marguerite Forth, both of Plains. A sad co-incidcnce attend ing the death of Mrs. Forth is found in the fact that her daugh ter, Miss Marguerite Forth, had left her only a short time before her death, going to Macon to spend th e day wit h friends, and leaving her mother apparently in her usual health. Funeral services were held in abeyance early this afternoon pending communication with the bereaved children. LIGHTNING BOLT KILLS 2 CONVICTS ■ ZEBULON, June 9.—Fred John son and Will Allen, two Pike county convicts were killed instant ly and two others were seriously injured late Friday afternoon when at Taylor Springs, eight miles on Bhe Zebulon-Thomaston road. The names of the two injured men could not be learned here tonight. The men had been working on the road and entered a barn be longing to Rich Gibson, farmer liv ing nearby to get out of the rain. Guards accompanied the men to the barn, which was burned up af ter being set on fire by the bolt. New York Future* Pc. Open High Low Close Jan. ~24.94124.82|24.93|24.41124.98 Mar . 25.11 i24.83f24.83|24.51|25.70 July ~28.45i28.25j28.25|27.85|28.45 Oct. ..25.98)25.55(25,55|25.38|25.98 Dec. ..25.25|24.95|24.95|24.62j25.25 Americus middling spots 27 3-4 c PRICE FIVE CENTS GEORGIA YOUTH ffIES FLOW'IOHI FOR. IMDFR OF MOTHER Selection of Jury Began At Clearwater, With Several Tal esmen Already Empanelled KILLED ENTIRE FAMILY Previously Burned Two Sisters t oDeath At Their Home in Decatur, Near Atlanta CLEARWATER, Fla., June 9. The trial of Frank McDowell, slay er of his entire family, charged here with the murder of his father and mother in St. Petersburg last February, begun here today witn the selection of a jury. Shortly before noon several prospective jurors had been impanelled. McDowell will be tried on thei first indictment charging the mur der of his mother. He shot his ■ parents as they slept, subsequent ly confessing that crime and the murder a year ago previously of his two sisters in Decatur, Ga. CO 111 PLETE DETAILS OF ODMFB SCHOOL John M. Prance , principal of the Third Aggie school here, has just receied final plans for the summer school to be held there This school will be held under au spices of the State Board of Educa tion, and will provide teacher train ing facilities as absolute costs. T n e entire expense of the course for teachers who will board at the school, including room and meals, has been fixed at sl6, while those who perfer to live in the city may pay only $4. To these sums must be added certain incidentals for the purchase'-of necessary materials which will be sold at cost, the cost of which will not be in any pvemj more than $2.50. The summer school will begin July 3, and Principal Prance has been adised by Supt. Ballard, of the appointment of faculty mem bers, who will teach subjects as signed as follows: Arithmetic, A. N. Swain; prim ary work, Miss Sarah Cobb; ele mentary reading, Mrs. W. Left witch; geography, Mrs. J. C. Hin son, English, Mrs. T. E. Jago, art, Miss Martha Wheatley. In addi tion to these faculty members, a number of lecturers will visit ttbe school with special subjects to be discussed including agriculture; arithmetic, upon which Mrs. G. V. Cate, of Brunswick, will addtess the students; “education in Geor gia,” by Prof. S. V. Sanford, of the University of Georgia, “The Boy and Corn,’ - ’ by P. F. Brown, of the State Normal School; ‘Exam ination of School Children,” Dr. M. A. Fort; “The Science of Life,” Dr. Rickner (illustrated by moving pictures); “Investments in Health,’ by Dr. Faulkner; “The Story of Life,” “First Aid” and “Defects of School Children,” by Miss Simpson, Miss Coventry and Miss Gallagher; history, upon which S'upt. W. W. Stancil, of Winder's school is the lecturer; junior Red Cross Work, Miss Marion Crawford, lecturer; nutrition, Miss Mary E. Cresswell and Miss Susan Mathews, State College of Agriculture, lecturer; penmanship, Miss Baldon, Miss Mettler and Mr. Thompson, lectur ers; physical training, Miss Caro Lane, director; reading, Miss Lur line Parker, lecturer; spelling, The Mastery of Words, E. C. Temple, lecturer. In addition to these lecturers State/ School Supervistor M. L< Duggan, George D. Godard J. O. Martin, E. A. Pound and I. .S Smith, will attend the summer school and deliver lectures, and there will be a course in normal methods in Sunday school w'ork, provided during the continuance of the sessions of the school. A number of reservations have already been received by Principal Prance, who anticipates tha£ ev ery dormitory at the school here will be filled completely during the 'summer school’s session,
