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X ‘ WEATHER » For Georgia Generally fair tonight and Friday. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 1 38 COOLIDGE NOMINATED Kenyon of lowa Most Likely Running Mate President Insistent That Delegates Be Left Free to Select Vice-Presidential Candidate But \ Westerner Seemigly Will Be ’ ' Nominated CONVENTION HALL, CLEVELAND, June 1 2.—Riding a rumbling tide of party en thusiasm, Calvin Coolidge was swept into nomi nation for the Presidency today by one of the largest majorities ever given by a Republican convention. Before the first and only roll call was half completed, the story of his victory had been told. The vote was as follows: Coolidge, *1065; LaFollette, 34; Johnson, 10. CLEVELAND, June 12.—The nomination of Judge William S. Kenyon of lowa, as the Repub lican candidate for vice-presi dent became strong posibility ■ shortly after noon, with the an nouncement by William M. But ler, Coolidge’s manager, that Kenyon would be acceptable, Butler dispatched agents through) the hall to ascertain the senti- ■ ment among the delegates. I DELEGATES LEFT FREE I TO SELECT RUNNING MATE CONVENTION HALL, CLEVE- I LAND, June 12. —The Republican I party not only pledged its faith to ■ Calvin Coolidge today as its choice I for the-presidency but followed out H his wish that the selection of his H running mate be left to delegate rSR themselves in open convention. Assembling the convention at I 10 o’clock to go through th e for- I realities of ratifying Coolidge’s I nomination —long a foregone con- I elusion convention managers I agreed to recess for only an hour I and a half, afterward proceeding I to the selection of the vice-presi- I dency. Borah’s reiterated refusal to I take second place on the ticket aft- I er he had ben selected at an all I night conference of leaders, left I the vice-presidential situation very I much in the air, and it was agreed that a short recess arrangement would give little opportunity for conferences that might lead to any definite agreement. It appeared probable that, despite his attitude, Borah’s name be presented to the convention, along with those of at least half a dozen other eligibles, and some leaders foresaw an old fashioned floor fight for nomina tion. The formalities of nominating Coolidge was comparatively simple. Th e honor of placing his name be fore the delegates went to Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, once his neighbor in Northampton, Mass., now president of the University of Michigan. Half a dozen delegates were al lotted time for seconding speeches. Senator LaFollette’s Wisconsin delegates and their half dozen syni patthizers from North Dakota, booed and taunted by a roaring circle of colleagues last night when they refused to join in the demonstration of Coolidge, were in their seats when the convention opened. COTTON GRADING SCHOOL TO OPEN ATHENS, Ga., June 12.—The .annual session of the Cotton grad ing school of the State College of Agriculture will open June 23 and continue through July 26, says an announcement by Prof. R. 11. who is in charge of the The new international cotton standards as adopted by all the principal cotton exchanges of the world, will be used in the course and students will have the oppor tunity of becoming familiar with the new classes. It is said that the new standards vary a great deal front the old, and many cotton buy ers are expected to attend the course in order to become acquaint ed with the new grades. A complete course in the grad ing, stabling and handling of cot ton is offered, and a great deal of practice is given under the super vision of instructors. A man who knocks r>t our door is always welcome if he quits after we let him in, THE TIMES*! RECORDER EflU PUBLISHED IN THE DIXIE M’DOWEL JURY STOOD 10-2 TOR ACQUITTAL Youth Almost Persuaded Jurors of Mental Irresponsibility for Murder of Father CLEARWATER, Fla., June 12. Frank McDowell, slayer of his family, will be placed on trial in Pinellas circuit court here next Tuesday, for the second time with in a week, on the charge of murder ing his mother,, who with his father was shot to death as the co rpla lay asleep in their St. Petersburg home last February. Judge McMullen decided on the early retrial of the case when a jury, which had deliberated since late Tuesday afternoon notified the court they were hopelessly dead locked. The court ordered a mis trial'. After the jury reported the im possibility of agreement it was rum ored about the courthouse that the jurors had stood first 10 to 2 for ac quittal on the ground of insanity, which defense counsel had thrown up with the aid of* two alienists. Eater reports, however, were to the effect that in a final effort to’agree they balloted on the question of life imprisonment, but it was said one juror stood firm for the death penalty. BP. CUNNINGHAM Bl VET BE FOUND ALIVE PEKING, June 12.—There is yet no definite confirmation of re ports emanating from Changsha that Rev. Joseph Cunningham, a missionary of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, hdd been kill ed by the Chinese. Dr. Cunning ham was one of the misisonaries recently in danger at Kweilen, in th e Kwangsi province, because of activities of rival Kwangsi and KWangtiing troops. ' to reports circulated here Dr. Cunhignham had been killed, but other missionaries at Kweilen are safe. RECEIVER IS ASKED FOR M’GREGOR LBR. CO. COLUBUS, June 12.—Th e Mc- Gregor Lumber Company which does business in this section of Georgia and other places, is made defendant in a suit of equity and petition 'filed in the officeof Judge Nathan A. Brown, by Charles Henry Haynes, of North Carolina. Mr. Haynes shows in his petition that he is owner of 125 -shares of the capital stock of the lumber com pany an dthat he paid $15,000 for stock some years ago and dasserts that fraud exists in the payment of salaries and dividends and in the 1 cancellation of notes amounting to $11,1)00. In the petition, Abe C. Alexander, of Waverly Hall, Ga., and D. G. Bland, of Lumpkin, offi cials of the McGregor company, are made defendants. Watkins and As bill of Atlanta, are attorneys for the plaintiff. The injunction whch wqs filed for the purpose of preventing the com pany from disposing of any of the remaining assets of the company, and the receivership petition, were ordered by Judge aniud H. Sibl >v to be tried before him in Atlanta on June 7, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 12? 1924 PAUL PAINLEVE TO BE NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT PARIS, Jun 12.—Paul Pain leve, president of the chamber deputies, received 306 votes and Gaston Doumergue, president of the senate, 149 votes in the cau cus parties left today to select!” a candidate for the presidency of France. [BISS SAHBDRN BS EM BEFORE CLUB To the Rotarians at their lunch jeon Wednesday, George Riley spoke 'of the necessity of a permanent camp in Americus, declaring that one would be of great financial ad vantage to the community. He sag gested that “The Dell” was an ideal place, that only lights, sewerage and I water was necessary. i On motion of Carr Glover, pres cient Walter Ry lander will appoint | a committee of Rotarians to work i with the chamber of commerce in ■an'endeavor to secure more tourists. Mr. Glover said that other com munities, such as Albany and Thom asville were after the tourists, rais ing funds to attract them, and he thought Americus should co-operate ( with these other towns. I Dill Caye spoke of the great good to be derived by the community from the bringing in of farming families into the county. “Vienna and other smaller communities than ' ours are at work and will have a cotton mill before we do unless we get busy,” Re said. J. A. Foster, of Fitzgerald, R. P. Stackhouse, Eugene Overby, Rus sell Thomas William Mathis and .Dr. A. C. Primrose were guests of ' Rotarians. | In introducing his grandson, Wil liam Mathis, who has just returned home from Emory, Prof. J. E. Mathis said that the boys and girls going to colleges from Americus I were a fine, upstanding lot, that they would make their mark and would be a credit to their home city, that they were not of “the flapper class” and that ‘the future is safe in their hands.” , i Dr. L. F. Grubbs was in charge 'of the program and introduced W. A. Joyner, who spoke on the sub ject, “What do you do more than Others.” He said too many men who rise to a place of importance are satis fied with themselves, pats them selves oh the back and try to get by with as little effort in the serv ice of others as he could “get awav with.” Get the right thing to do, then go and do it with all your might, he said to the Rotarians. Do it a little better than any one else has done | it, he said, do more than any other I man has ever done, if you would be | an outstanding success in your coni I munity. I Too many of us try to get by ’ with the least where it should be the most that we can do. You must not only serve, but you must serve more than others if your club is to be a success, he said. Miss Wilia Sanborn read her ori ginal essay on “Education and (.Progress.” WALKER TO ATTEND MEETING OF TRUSTEES ATLANTA, June 12.—Governor Walker left here today for Athens to attend the annual meeting of the board of trustees of the University bf Georgia. The governor is to make the Phi Beta Kappa oration on Monday af ternoon at the University. CAMERON CHILD DIES FROM COLITIS ATTACK Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cameron are receiving the sincere sympathy of many friends on the death of their little daughter, Tussie Sue, whe died at tneir home Sunday morn ing at 3:30 o’clock after a brief illness with colitis. Funeral serv ices were held Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock from the residence of tne grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Law, with interment in Oak Grove cemetery. , Surviving are the parents, one small sister, Charlotte. MERCIR I) EH OUNCES KLBN IS 'ORGANIZE!] BAND OF OUT®’ Candidate for Governor De clares Klansmen ‘Yellow- Streaked’ and ‘Cowards’ WANTS STERN OPPOSITION Otherwise, He Says Klan’s Consuming Flame Will IBe Left to Destroy Everything ATLANTA, June 12.—Jesse Mor cer, who announced recently as a candidate for governor of Georgia, has issued a statement attacking the Ku Klux Klan as an “organized band of outlaws” the only possible hope for protection against which is the “organization of the God fearing law-respecting people of the communities affected. The state ment is an open letter addressed to T. if. Wicker, mayor of Coleman, Fla., and is as follows: I havg read your appeal to the grand wizard of the K. K. K. through The Atlanta Constitution, and, understanding the utter futil ity of your appeal to that source. I am disposed.to offer yo>’,,a sugges tion and hold out to you the only possible hope for protection against the organized oar.d of outlaws: is in the organization of the com munities affected. Only a coward is willing to cover up his face, op erate in the dark, and seek safety in superior numbers. Even when a frail defenseless woman is to be the victim of brutality they go out in numbers sufficient to protect their yellow-streaked carcass from harm at her feeble hands. Being towards they hunt cover whenever they scent danger, and if youd decent and law loving people will only organize they will promptly desist from their out rages, assaults and home invasions “Should the ‘wizard’ respond to “protection,’ he would only send a man to prepare and publish an alibi. Nothing is more important to ku kluxism than the alibi. It would be the easiest matter for them to prove that you have been a party to every crime committed in the three couh {ties since the reign of terror began, and don’t you think they will hesi tate to do it if it becomes neces sary, unless it appeared more ex pedient to weight your body down to the bottom of a convenient la goon. “'Like a plague or conflagration these crimefests eat their way to a finality. Stern opposition may check the consuming flame, other wise it must be left to destroy until there is nothing to feed upon. Be sure the ‘wizard’ isn’t going to help you; he is sworn to help the other fellow.” HIGH SffIUOLS 111 ' GEMffl GROWING Enrollment Has Encrcased 355 Per Cent During Past 7 Years Figures JJisclose ATHENS, June 12. —Enroll- ment in the high schools of Geor gia has increased 355 per cent dur in the past seven years, according to records compilea by Dr. R. P. Brooks, alumni secretary of the Uni versity of Georgia. This remark able growth has been due to the leadership of the University of Georgia through its department of Secondary Education, it is pointed out. Dr. Brooks has prepared a chart which outlines the number of stu dents in high schools of Georgia in 1911-12 until the present year. In 1911-12 there were from 4,000 to 8,000 students in the high schools and this number has increased Steadily until 1922-23 there 45,000 students in Georgia high schools. The same chart shows the enroll ment of students in the University of Georgia since 1908 when five hundred were registered until 1923- 24 when slightly over 1600 stud ents were enrolled. However, as favorable as this showing might be Dr. Brooks points out that fewer high school grad uates are entering the university now than in 1911 in proporion to the number graduated. The univer sity can ixpt accommodate the num ber that apply for admsson. It seems as if the right side for a politician to be on is the inside. NOMINATED AT CLEVELAND 1 ■MCTMWMIWMW■■■■!■ 11l ■ ———WI—IIIIB | I 111 jgF A I / ' X n a fir/ * uk > ■’W-” » V~-j f J < » Jf • • a. . CALVIN COOLIDGE BELGIANS RELEASE ALL GERMANPOLITICALS Only Those Condemned For Destroying Proper ty Still Held In Prisons There Fifty Are Set Free BRUSSELS, June 12.—The Belgian government has ordered the release of 50 German political prisoners condemned for offenses in the Ruhr. This action is intended to lessen the tension in the Ruhr and make easier the German government’s acceptance of the Dawes repara tion settlement report. Only those found guilty of destroying are held in confinement. Dick White Matched to Fight Boorde Here Columbus Lad Has Sensational Knockout Record Behind Him During Recent Bouts By “BUGGS” RAMSEY When Dick White of Columbus, and Freddie Boorde of Afllanta, meet for a ten-round main event boxing n.atch here next Tuesday night, Americus fistic enthusiasts will see two battlers of different types facing each other. White is one of the most sen sational maujers Georgia has produced. He is in his teens and has never been knocked off his feet. During the last few months White has met *five of the best scrappers in his weight in the state and all of them have been knock ed out. He has never let a man remain in the ring with him in a scheduled contest longer than four rounds. John D. Mathis Post, American Legion, which is promoting the engagement has gone to a consid erable expense to get White and Boorde together. The Atlanta boy is high in pugilistic circles and demands a guarantee for his bouts against such men as White. Boorde’s record is different from that of White. He is a dyed in-the wool boxer. K'e does not put the boys to the mat but cuts them to pieces and leaves very lit tle doubt who is .the victor when the contest is concluded. He is on the Stribling type. Gets into the ring and goes after his man from the start and gives him a boxing lesson if h e is not pro ficient in the art of give and take. White is under the management of Charlie Loch, a professional wrestler and boxer of many year’s eperience. Loch has managed some of the best fighters in the game today. He is a Nebraskan by birth and for several years work ed in Farmer Burns’ stable where he learned boxing from the great est grappler of his day. Loch has been showing White all the tricks of the ring and declares that his boy is the best bet fog a light- | weight champion the South has | known. I Training each day has already been started by both White and Boorde for the match here. White is working put in the Columbus Y. M. C. A. under Loch. Boorde who is managed by Billy Lotz, veteran of Atlanta does his fistic stuff in Lotz’s gym in the capital city of Georgia. An excellent card of prelim inaries is being arranged and these will be announced within a few days. mltWldto' REPORT ON COLLEGE Proposed Change at Aggie School to Be Investigated by Chamber of Commerce The Chamber of Commerce has named a committee to investigate the proposed establishment at the Third District Agricultural and Me chanical college of a junior normal college. This committee is com posed of George O. Marshall, G. . Webb and John M. Prance, and the position to be assumed by the Cham ber of Commerce regarding the pro posed change will ’be determined by their report. This committee has just been named by Lovelace Eve, president of the Chamber at the suggestion of the directors following a discus sion of the proposed change, men tion of which has already been made in The Times-Recorder. There exists a considerable debt at the Third Aggie school, which it has been suggested be disposed of be fore any change is made looking to ward the establishment of a junior college there, and this feature prob ably will be looked into very closely by the committee named above. What is so rare as the money for the income tax payment in June? New York uture* Pc. Open High Low Close Jan. ..25.07j25.00125.40^24.88 25.20 Mar ..25.76|25.11|25.50.25.02 25.28 July ~28.22|28.15|28.99|28.17 28.80 Oct. ..26.03|25.90126.25|25.13 26.15 Dec. ..25.30j25.24|25.56125.09|25.38 ■■ ’< PRICE FIVE CENTS' i—i ,—4*4 . AMERICUS METHODIST DISTRICT CONFERENCE OPPOSES UNIFIMH Ministers and Laymen At Daw son Gatherings Signg Paper Setting Forth Views SUBJECT Ts DISCUSSED Claim Would Result in Collec tion of Many Into Union Against Their Wills DAWSON, June 12.—Opposi tion tto the unification of the Meth odist church and the Methodist church, south, and disapproval cf the calling of a special session qf ithe general conference in July were expressed in a paper presented by Rev. T. M. Christian, pastor of the First Methodist church, of Dawson, and signed by leading laymen and ministers, at the final session of the Americus district conference, widen met at the Dawson Methodist church. The sentiment was that the pro posed unification “will not unite the churches, but would be a collec tion of many into the so-called un ion against their will.” Disapprov al of the calling of a special session of the general conference before tthe meeting of the annual confer ence was voiced on the grounds that if the annual conference whether held, first, instructed delegates could be elected to atttend the spe cial session of the general confer ence. More than half of the delegates failed to vote on the paper, declar ing that they desired to study the action. As a result, following a mo tion of Frank G. Branch, president of the Andrew Female Colleg of Cuthbert, Ga.; the paper was tabled by a vote of 36 to 21 and no du-» bate was held on the question. The conferepce, at which Dr. W. C. Lovett, presiding elder of the Americus district was one of the best attended ever held here. It was voted to hold the next meeting of 'the conference at the First Meth odist church, Americus. LAURENS FARMERS i POISONING 60 PCT. Operators of 25,758 Acres There Are Using Poison; 8,- 161 Acres Unpoisoned DUBLIN, June 12.—With a par tial survey of the cotton situation in Laurens county completed, some interesting figures on eotton acre age and poisoning have been com piled by the Chamber of Com merce. According to Secretary W. H. Proctor tto Secretary W. H. Proc tor of the Chamber of Commerce today, 882 farms have been visited by the special demonstrators to help fight the weevils. On these farms were 3241 plows. Acreage in cotton on these farms amounted to 35,831, or an average of just a fraction more than 11 acres to the plow. Os this acreage owners of 8168 (acres do not intend to use poison against the weevil; owners of 25,- 758 acres will use poison this year, and owners of 2824 acres will use poison if they can arrange to get it. It has been found that 50 per cent of the non-poison acreage in the county is on the east side of the river south of the A.ldrian road, and 50 per cent, of the remainder of the non-poison acreage is located on the borders of the county. This gives about one-fourth of the non-poisei. acreage scattered over the major portion of Laurens county. GIVES CONVICT LIFT; LOSES COAT AND SSO COLUMBUS,, June 12.—Giving a lift to a convict whom he encount ered on the road cost L. E. Greer., of this city fifty dollars and a coat. Mr. Green passed the convict, a white man named Piper, carrying a bucket o.i his arm, v alking along the road near the cqi-vic". camp at the Muscogee county lire and was psked for a lift to the top of the hill. When the automobile reached he top the convict jumped from the running board carrying Green’s coat with him and fifty dollars which was in a pocket. He has not been located since. Now that warm weather is hefe we can seewhat the garls had up their sleeves all winter. 4- ——
