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What's Going GERMANY— POLITICS— FIRPO— NAVY GUNS On in W orld By CHARLES P. STEWART The ail es, unof ficially helped by America, hate been getting to gether gradually in the last week on the subject of war claims against Germany. Pros pects seem good for an agreement. Then Germany will have to be called m. Consid nvinn’ la. nr l->»»zl-»» <"1 ] sS'«< e ffl STEWART f^ ing how , badiV they were beaten, the Germans really will be getting a good thing. But their govern ment is feeble. If it yields too easily, then mon archists are liable to say it has be trayed the country and stage a suc cesful revolution. The allies knowthis and don’t want it to hap pen. So, to save- the government's face, the allies probably will go through the motions of wrangling for awhile with Germany and mak ing some concessions to her—which they’ll have intended all the time to make. Germany will sign on the dotted line then. NOT SO QUIET On the urface, politics appear rather quiet. But the party leaders ire getting ready. About Sept. 1. the fireworks will start. President Coolidge and John W. Davis act like queer campaigners, but not,Charles G. Dawes or Charles W. Bryan. Nor La Follette and Wheeler. Their campaign will be hot enough to satisfy anybody. It may even he hot enough to stir Davis up to the point of hitting back. Politician doubt if Anything can ex cite Coolidge. FIRPO-WILLS A strong effort is being made to force the cgovernmer.t to de port Luis Angel I'irpo before he has time to fight Harry Wills. Anti light people accuse the immigra tion department of rank inconsis tency in admitting Firpo while ex cluding his traveling companion Senorita Blanca Lourdes. Adding insult to injury, as the anti-fight folk see it, President Coolidge re ceived and. handshook Firpo at the White House, but when Canon Chase, Brooklyn cleryman, callh-d to urge the Argentines deportation he couldn't get a “date with the president. PARADOXICAL When Leopold and Loeb, Chica go’s boy murderers, pleaded guilly it was announced that that prevent ed them from claiming insanity. Ever since then, for days and days, the court has been listening to testi many to show they are insane. INTHE NEWS AGAIN Iceland,which was he last in the news when Eric the Red sailed for Greenland, is in it again now on account of the American ‘round the-gllobcfiyers’ visit. It is the last stopping place before the most dan gerous of all the aviators’ jump. All the world is waiting for now fro mthere. JUST PROPAGANDA The navy wants to tilt the big guns on American warships a little higher, so they can shoot, farth- r. The British, who already have tiled their guns higher, protest against this, saying the arms limitation agreement prohibits it. American naval oficers- deny this. They say the British know they haven’t a leg to stand on, too, but ore just trying to make the Amer ican peopel believe the increased tilt, would be eheating on this couri fVP 1 11' 1 ’ :f they can do lhat the y think the people will veto the naw < 1> an.and Britain will go on being ‘ible to outshoot us. more money wanted FOR SCHOOLS IN WARE WAYCROSS, August 7.—A re quest from the county board of edu cation has been received by the county commissioners aking for an ‘im itional two mill county-wide tax evy for school purposes. A number ° uisincss men also appeared and “® ked action from the commissioi - L little joe BOBBED HAIR. IS SO EASY TQ COMB AND '~r DoesnY CatcH ON a fellas , ■ o Coat buttons L_ i>2] C MU ! S THE TIMESyRECORDER in the "heart'of FORTY-SIXTH YEAR— NO. 184 DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE NO KLANSMAN ° 9 . „9. .. ° °- 0 ° ° ° oo O O O O O O Settle New Disputed Dawes Plan Point POLITICS WILL KEEP, BUT PEACHES MUST BE CANNED, SAYS TEXAS WOMAN GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE K FERGUSON ® SHE LL OEFEIT M 111 GBBKS MCE Woman Polled 140,000 Votes Against 185,000 Cast for Robertson Who Led Ticket RUN-OVER PRIMARY SOON Political Dopesters Say She’ll Win By 100,000 Majority If She Gets Anti Klan Vole TEMPLE, Tex., August 7. This business of running for gover nor bothers Mrs. Miriam Amanda Ferguson. The peaches have to be canned. Politicians will keep, but ripe peaches will not. And every few minutes some pesky reporter comes into the kitch en and interrupts, and just as she gets settled down again with a bush el of fruit to peel here comes an other photographer. She changed her dress for the fust few, but now she just washes the peach juice off her hands, puts on a sunbonnet and steps outside to be posed. “Come to the governor’s mansion next January,” says Mrs. Ferguson, “and 11l give you some of these preserves, spread with butter on thick slices of home-made bread.” She’s not elected yet, nor even nominated by the Democratic par ty, which has always meant election in Texas. But she ran second in the first primary among nine can didate.-;. And she is confident that she will win over Felix Robertson, in the run-off primary August 26. The November election is just a formality. They elect Democrats in Texas. And if Mrs. Ferguson wins, it will be the defeat of the Ku Klux Klan, by a woman, and she believes, the clearing of the Ferguson name (Continued on Page Five) eras cum mss BUM > ‘School Days’ Friend of Dickie Lceb Alleged to Have ‘Va ried Remarks’ on Stand CHICAGO, August 7. —Introduc- tion of lay witnesses by the de fense, seeking mitigation of the punishment of Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, confessed mur derers of Robert Franks, whom they kidnaped, brought from state's Attorney Crowe shouted charge that one witness had “committed delib erate perjury.” Miss Lorraine Natha, “a school days’ friend’ of Loeb, was on the stand when Prosecutor Crowe, in seeking to impeach her testimony, charged that she was “varying her remarks" from stat/unents made in his office after Loeb had been ar rested. The girl testified in a cool, catchy voice, and her conclusions on Loeeb’s conduct so clearly par alleled those of medical experts who preceded her on the stand that Prosecutor Crowe ironically start ed Kis cross-examination bv address ing her as “doctor.” NEW CRUISING PLANE LEAVES LANGLEY FIELD NEW PORT NEWS, August 7. • - Two lieutenant:- hopped off from Langley Field today for Nova Scotia to deliver the Douglas cruis ing plane in which Lieutenant \\ ade will resume his world flight. QUICK TRIAL GIVEN CONDEMNED NEGROES BOWLING GREEN, Va., August 7.—Otto Clear and Fritz Lewis, two negroes were indicted, tried and sentenced to electrocution on September 12 in circuit court here today for- the murder last week of Thomas Campbell, 63, a farmer of) Penola. The entire proceedings lasted little more than an Sunbonnet Campaign Hat In Race In Texas <"*s4 > _» L—l- -U-. . - -- -- ' —— •’ ’fcil \ ■ • s'J* . • Fur* a •jfs v a>\ fjh 6 Jk W-.1 W*- i ■ BK ’ .Xai, r ' X . A" : v ’ti* V’A f F ~q I • -1 - J ' . l W - S. J &-V & % L I »k I ' VMwSf- - .<■■■>> '-’-Ky- . iL ' ffc tj. - r ns " Sw i <•'« fc- W&gF' ■ J Mrs. Miriat* Amanda Ferguson (upper left), Democratic candi date for governor of Texas, and her political rival, Felix Robert- I son (upper left). In the lower i picture Mrs. Ferguson is shown i with her daughters Ouida (left) and Dorrace (right) and Major j and Mrs. Hoocle, who sauntered > along in time to get into the pic- | ture. lEEmm’i OTHERS INJURED 111 ABWCW Pennsylvania Train Strikes Car; Loaded With Passengers x>n New Jersey Giade Crossing HAD VISITED ACCIDENT Parly Was Returning From Scene Where Woman Met Death in Similar Crash NEW BRUNSWICK,, N. J., Aug. 7.—Three men were k lied, two injured, when the automobile in which they were driving wa struck by a Pennsylvania railroad passeng er train at a crossing near here to day. The victims had gone to see the grade crossing out of curiosity where the woman was "killed and two injured yesterday. ‘RED LIQUOR’ FOUND IN RAID IN DOUGHERTY ALBANY, August 7.—One of the | largest “red licker” hauls ever made ■ in Dougherty county was made re-1 recently when county police, R. A. | Culpepper and Deputy Sheriff D.j F. Tarver located a liquor cache eon, taining 102 quarts of imported! whiskey in the Muckalee Cr?ek swamp northeast of the city. No 11. .. . 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST, 7, 1924 HPSi BILE BROIIBHT IK B? KBBffl BBBS. raUFMCEHS I Sample is Declared Unusually ‘ Fine for First Bale By Ameri- i cus Colton Buyer CLASSED AS MIDDLING I i Received Four Days Earlier Than That Brought in Last Year By Clyde Griffin Sumter county’s first cotton bale of the 11)21 seasons was brought in late Wedne day and ginned today at the plant of the Americus Oil Company at Americus. The bale v as produced by 1V.3. and ,M. E .Morgan whose farm is located on the Rylander toad, near here, and classed as middling, the staple being extraordinarily long ana fine for a first bale. It was sold through the Commer cial Warehouse to Sam W. Coney, a local buyer, for 35 cent;; a pound. The first bale last year was brought in by Clyde Griffin on Au gust 11th, ■this’ hchson’s Tret bale being brought in jut four days earlier than lust season. DR. MELTON BETTER AFTER OPERATION ATLANTA, August 7.—Friends L l of Dr. W. F. Melton, head of the j < English department of Emory Uni-1, I versity, will be glad to know thatp | he is recovering from a recent oper- « iatiqn at Wesley Memorial hospital. ( [Dr. Melton has been professor cf at Emory for sixteen years jdnd is known and loved by former ir rxilirvtlet nil zitlAw }lv 4 . ( WEATHER For Georgia—Partly cloudy to night and Friday scattered thunder showers 1 riday. 3.580.8D8 POUNDS WCCS SOLD IT IWKET'S OPENING Ten South Georgi aCitics Are Scenes of Activity With Open ing of Bidding ALL SALES AT AUCTION Low Grade Tobacco Brings Av erage Better Than 20 Cents With Cash Returns Large • MACON, August 7.—More than 3,500,000 pounds of tobacco were sold at auction in 10 south Georgia tobacco marketing centers Wednes day, ,which was opeiiing day, accor ding to reports to the Macon Tele graph. In most instances the re ports indicate the growers arc with holding the best tobacco, but the grades, brought an average of bet ter than 20 cents, or a total cash return of $600,000. PACE BABY BOND BILL IS TABLED ATLANTA, August 7. —The Sen ate Tuesday tabled the Pace bill which would allow cities outside of Atlanta to issue baby bonds for paving.. This is a bill requiring a Constitutional amendment and friends of the measure, seeing it would not obtain the necessary two-, thirds vote, agreed to table it Tues day. The Senate then adjourned. Be careful about looking at ther mometers in July, lit is not. polite ALLIES UNO GERMANS 111 COMPLETE ACCORD TODECLffIEFm Final Agreement Is Reached On Disputed Point in Dawes Rep arations Program ‘BIG FOURTEEN’ MEETS American Authorities Say Basis Exists for Settlement of Every German Objection LONDON, August 7.—The allies and the Germans have reached com plete agreement on the manner in which defaults are Io be declared under the Dawes plan. The German delegation to the in ternational conference wll’ch is seeking to evolve plans for putting the Dawes plan into effect cheer ed the wearied allied plentipotcn tiaries who have been struggling with hte question for three weeks by ready Wednesday with a memorandum .outlining the German opinion of the program which the conference has adopted for launch ing a new reparation era. The Germans worked througout the night until 3 o’clock Wednes day morning to complete the draft of their views for presentation to the delegates to- the conference, held in the. British premier’s offi cial residence in Downing street. The final meeting of the “big seven” preceded the arrival of Chancellor Marx, Foreign Minister Stresemann and Finance Minister Luther. When the Germans came into the meeting room, the “big seven” called in additional mem bers of their respective delegations, and the conference, counting the Germans, thus became the “big fourteen” which is the committee of the chief delegates which will take the leading role during the re mainder of the conference. While the delegates awaited a translation of the eighteen-page German memorandum, Chancellor Marx m a speech summarized the German objections to the plpns of the experts fqr launching the Dawes project. After studying the German mem orandum and a covering letter pre sented with it, Ramsay MacDonald, the British prime minister, handed both to the committee of seven experts, including a German mciu b<y, for sifting out and cataloging the German objections. Some points which are entirely political will be passed upon by the chief delegates. Other technical issues will be reviewed by select commit tees of the experts, which will in clude Germans. The experts spent the afternoon at work and completed a study of the reports the interallied confer ence adopted on the economic res toration of Germany and the trans fer of reparation payments. This morning these two reports were placed before the “big fourteen.’’ Wednesday evening the delegates met in Premier MacDonald’s room in the house of commons to consid er the Germans’ plans which have been adopted for defaults and sanc tion under the Dawes project. Last night, a high American au thority, who had read the German memorandum characterized it a. “excellent” and as much better than I had “expected.” After studying the German ob jections carefully the American au thority said there existed a good basis for settlement of every objec tion the Germans had raised. CLAIM MACHINE PICKS BALE OF COT! ON A DAY SELMA, Ala., August I.— A cot ton picking machine, more effective than anything so ta- d. vised by tho scientists, has been built up by 0- F. Wilemon of lied Day, Ala., ac cording to his recent letter to the Mayor of Selma. The letter, turn ed over to Secretary H. H. Frazier of the Chamber of Commerce, sets forth that Wilemon has an organi zation which pick a bale of cotton a day. The cotton picking organi zation of which he boasts is made up of a family of ten each one an expert “hand.” In adition the father of the family is experienced in store keeping farming and truck ing, while several members of the family are expert truck drivers and saw mill hands. New York Futures Be. Open High Law Close Jan. ..27.47i26.80|27.32|25.80127.28 Mar. 27.55|27.10|27.53]27.i0 27.47 May 27.83'27.28127.61127.28 27.52 Oct. . 28.20127.60 28.06 1 27>.60 28.06 Dec. . 27.56127.00127.43127.00127.40 PRICE FIVE CENTS DBNOHLUH HEVEF HAS BEEN AND I NEVER WILL JOIN ! Democratic Nominee for Presi dent Nails Charge That He’s a Kiansman in Letter DECLARATION POSITIVE Revere Allen, Magazine Editor Makes Public Stand Assumed Toward Klan By Candidate NEW YORK, August 7. —John W. Davis, democratic presidential candidate, declares be is not a mem ber of the Ku Kins Kian, never was, and won’t become a member, in a letter made public today writ ten in answer to a letter from Re vere Allen, a magazine editor heer, calling attention to the cuarge that Davis was a kiansman. GOMI’LRS ASKED TO CONFERENCE ATLANTIC CITY, August 7.—- Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, said here last night that John W. Davis Democratic nominee for President, sought a conference with the Labor leader in New York July 17, arid later requested Mr. Gompers to file with him “a statement of questions which Labor is chiefly interested in.” “The conference was impossible,” said Mr. Gompers, “because of a conflicting engagement.” The re quest war. denied, he added, because he could not, submit questions to Mr. Davis, ‘which would not be . equally submitted to other candi dates for the presidbney. That Mr. Davin had cpminunicat ed with Mr. Gompers was reverb I in a letter the federation leader wrote to William B. Wilson, former Secretary of Labor and a present member of the Democratic na tional committee at Washington. The letter was in reply to one re ceived from Mr. Wilson by the exe cutive council of the American Federation of Labor urging that it defer endorsing La Follette until Mr. Davis delivered his notification speech. ME REFUSES TO' RECONSIDER BILL Perkins Meaaure to Substitute Electrocution A® Capital Pun ishment Stands ATLANTA, August 7.—By a vole of 27 to 18 the senate re fused to reconsider it action of passing the Perkins house bill sub stituting the electric chair for hanging as the legal method of exe cution in Georgia. The senate Tuesday uasesd the House bill making electrocution the legal method of execution < f criminals convicted of capital crimes in Georgia and an amend mnt was adopted providing that no persons now under indictment for murder in the State shall be affect ed by the provisions of ■ the bill. The bill is returned to the House for action on the Senate amendment Senator Smith, of the Thirty fifth announced after passage of bill lhat he would move its recon sideration. The vote on the bill was not with out a dramatic touch. A total of twenty-six votes was necessary i;r passage and unofficial compilations of the vote at the conclusion of tiie roll call showed twenty-five voles [in favor of the change and twen ty-one against. There was q hu.su as President Carswell announced: “On the passage of the bill, the ‘ayes’ are 25 and the ‘nays’ are 21 and the bill fails to receive consti tutional majority—hut the ci .ir votes ‘aye’ and the bill is therefore passed.” The president’s final words were almost drowned in a burst of applause from proponents of the bill. biennfJvlTsession BILL IS NOW A LAW ATLANTA, August 7.—Gover nor Walker late \Yednesday after noon in the presence of Senators Mundy and Mason, signed the leg ■ islative resolution submitting to the people the proposal of a constitu tional amendment for biennial ses sions of the General Asembh, which passed the House yesterday. The pert was presented to Senator
