About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1924)
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 12, 1924 WW WANTS TH f TAKE Off SHOO M Valuable Trade Train Between Helena and Columbus May > Soon Be Discontinued Z Attorneys representing the Sea board Air Line have filed a petition with the railroad commission of Georgia asking petition to discon tinue operation of the Shoo Fly train between Helena and Colum , j - This is one of Americus s most valuable trade trains, arriving from Helena at 10; and from Columbus t 5 :40 P- m. daily. Included in the petition are a number of other trains the Seaboard wou.d also like to discontinue According to the petition, auto nwbil travel has increased enor mously with the result that the re ceipts earned by the trains have been cut down in corresponding degree. The bus lines, recently set into operation, have added largely to the decreased train travel, it was said, and the railroads have been forced to operate at a loss in many in stances. At present, the Seaboard is oper ating on this division one through train from Savannah to Montgom ery, in addition to the Shoo Fly, both trains doin,g local work and stopping at all stations. Very little, if any through passenger business is handled between Savannah and Montgomery, it is stated, nor is there any great volume of business between Helena and Columbus, the Shoo Fly being almost exclusively a local trade train. Because of the small volume of passenger traffic, it has been sug gested that an entire re-arrange ment of train service on this divi sion might follow any discontinu ance of the Shoo Fly. This re-ar rangement of trains would include the discontinuance of the through train from Savannah to Montgom ery and the substitution instead of two local trains operating respec tively between Montgomery and Americus and Savannah and Amer icus. It is pointed out that with his re arrangement, the new trains could be scheduled so as to arrive in Americus at some convenient hour during the morning and depart at a convenient afternoon hour, this would give shoppers at Lumpkin, Richland, Preston, Plains an dinter mtdiate stations opportunity' to come here, do their trading and re turn home the same day. Traders from Flintside, Cobb DeSoto, Leslie and Huntington would be afforded similar shopping privileges, and it would be possible also under this arrangement to . send orders to Americus merchants from any of these towns in the morning, with goods ordered sent out on the after noon train. Should this arrangement inter fere with the trade trains of Mont gomery and Savannah, it is believed that by establishing new terminals and shorter runs this objection could easily be overcome. Inaugu ration of the new schedules would interrupt through passenger traffic by causing a change of cars and stop-over at Americus, but it is not believed that this exists in sufficient volume to interfere seriously with giving the plan a try-out. JACKSONANDCREW BE HIRE WEDNESDAY Every Man on Team in Fine Shape for Clash With Val dosta At Playground Joe Jackson and his Waycross Coast Liners are coming to Ameri cus tomorrow. They are to play the Valdosta All-Stars, and accord ing to a telegram received today, ‘ very man on Jackson’s team is in fine condition for the game. Jack son, himself is in excellent condition and will be in the line-up positively without fail, it is announced. Tne game with Valdosta will be played at the Playground diamond as a Playground benefit, and it is ex pected there will be a large num ber of out-of-town fans here for the game. from here Jackson’s .ball tossers go to Albany for a series of three games with Marietta. It is planned to transfer at least one of these games to Americus, but this has not been definitely decided, and it is probably that tomorrow will be last chance Americus fans will have io see “Shoeless Joe” in uniform u Pon a local diamond. The game here will begin promptly at 3:45, an <‘ arrangements have been con eluded to care for a large crowd. THIEVES LOOT ATLANTA , HOUSE OF FURNITURE ATLANTA, August 12.—Thieves recently looted the home of J. F. -IcKiliop, of this city, of furniture ‘alued at SSOO while the family "as away for a brief stay. Among tides taken were a floor lamp; tn ur dining room chairs, a three 'b" radio set, two art squares, t-iree rugs, a pair of window cur ain3 and some table linen. SALESMAN SAM r- . . ! Wonder What Guzz Calls Fighting By Swan ZthiS IS Pi NICE. TIME. 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( f "rUE OIL OKITUE M A'TOP <Opvnght 1924 by NEA Servtce Inc > GIL B ERT NATKINS RAPS LI f OLLET TE Says Presidential Candidate Has Shown ‘Fundamental Misap prehension’ of Issue WASHINGTON, August 12.—1 n a long statement headed “A Reply to Senator La Follette,” Gilbert 0 Nations, nominee of tnc American party for the presidency, declares that the Ku Klux Klan never had discriminated against any one or any group because of religious faith. Referring to Mr. La Follette’s re cent letter defining his attitude to ward the klan, the statement de clared the independent presidential candidate had shown a “fundament al misapprehension of the issues which he assumes to discuss.” “Neither the Ku Klux Klan, the Guardians of Liberty, the Pathfind ers, nor the Junior Order of Ameri can Mechanics,” Mr. Nations said, “nor any of the organized bodies of citizens that have vithin the last decade voiced opposition to the activities of the papal system in our country have done so on the ground of religious or racial prejudice or intolerance. “All members of those bodies concur fully with Senator La Fol lette in depreciating with all their might any such prejudice or intol erance. None of them have dis criminated against any persons or groups because of religious faith. They have uniformedly be*n among the foremost champions of the re ligious liberty guards in the amend ments of the constitution of the United States. “They would defend the religious liberty and every legal right of a Roman Catholic . with exactly the same promptness and vigor as those of a Protestant. The public has been so diligently misled touching this point that I feel justified in the interest of truth in correcting and setting forth this emphatic refuta tion of an error that has been very widely propagated.” The statement declared that in the democratic national convention and in other cases the issue had not been raised by the klan but by its “furiously intolerant” enemies. It was asserted that Catholic law “con demns our schools and prohibits Roman Catholic children from at tending them” and that the Vatican consistently exercises powers that are not “religious, but political.” SLAYER OF THREE IS FREED AT PRELIMINARY ZEBULON, August 12. Threi men sitting in judgment upon B. G. Leach, Pike county farmer who shot his wifle and his neighbor, John Moore, when he encountered them at his home last Monday, de clared him Saturday afternoon not guilty of murder in the two deaths, and set him frge. The three judges were Pike County Justices of the Peace—J. P. Baker, W. H. Johnson and C. B. Ridley. They announced a decis ion, after hearing the evidence, that the death of Mrs. Leach was accidental, and that of Moore a justifiable homicide. This was Leach’s preliminary hearing, to de termine whether he should be held to the grand jury. The principal story was that of Leach himself. From the first he said he had not intended to kill his wife, but the first shot he fired missed Moore, and struck her rtowu, instantly’ dead. ' ' f ' ‘ *’ r THE AMERICUS nMES-RECORDER P 0 LIT IC A L DOPESTERS FIGURE POSSIBLE ELECTORAL DEADLOCK With 25 Votes Necessary to Elect in House, Republicans Would Have 23, Demo crats 20 WASHINGTON, August 12. (By Associated Press.) —As always happenns when more than two out standing presidential nominees arj in the running political dopesters again are figuring over the possi bilities of a deadlock in the Elec toral College this year and speculat ing whether in that event the House or the Senate finally would decide who should become president. There are many ifs and ands in these calculations and the dopest ers themselves are not forgetful of the fact 'that only twice in the country’s history—in 1800 and 1824—was the College of Electors unable to make a choice. And on those occasions the issues were set ■ tied in the House without difficulty. Nevertheless, the figuring goes on as Coolidge, Davis and La Fol lette begin warming up for their three-cornered campaign, and some of the prognosticators even ad vance the theory that all three may fail of election. That point in the complicated skein df theorizing is arrived at in this fashion: Should no presidential nominee receive a clear majority of the 531 votes in the Electoral College the House would be called upon to se lect a president from the three can didates receiving the highest num ber of votes in the college, and the Senate would be directed to chuoso a vice president from the two high est vice presidential candidates, deadlock thr-n develop jj, tfrf' rFbule; Tn§ vfed president en by the Senate would become, president. The possibility of a House a House, deadlock is based upon the present political situation there, coupled with the language of the twelfth amendment, which provide t that if, after counting the electoral vote, no candidate has a majority ‘'Then from the persons having the highest number not exceeding three on the list of those voted for t as president, the House shall choose immediately, by ballot, the president. But jin choosing the president, the votes shall be taken by states, the representaives from each state having one'vote; a quor um for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all states shall be necessary to a choice.’' In the present Congress, the Six ty-eight, which -nuld be the one to handle such a situation should it develop, the Republicans control 23 state delegations o| 23 votes; the Democrats 20 while Maryland, Mon tana, Nebraska, hW-w Hampshire and New Jersey probably would be unable to vote as tll'ir delegations equally divided between Democrats and Republicans, supposedly would be unable to agreejr and thereby deadlock themselvesA The 23 Republican stales as t'.io membership now stands are Califor nia, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Itjwa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North ftakpta, Ohio. Oregon, Pennsylvania. Rhode Is land, South Dakota, lltan Vermont ,and/Wj#m ** - ' The 2(1 Democratic r.tates are 1 Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Del b aware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, ' Neaadv, New Mexico, New Yorx North Carolina, Oklahoma, South 1 Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, V:r --1 ginia and West Virginia. ' The La Follette followers control the Wisconsin house delegation and j hope in the event of Electoral College-deadlock to swing over also some of the other states in the Democratic as well as the Repub lican column. With 25 votes, each representing a state, needed to elect, the deposi tors say triumphantly: “There you are; see if you can figure it out for yourself.” Summer is half gone, so practic ally every elbow in the United States should be clean by this time. RAILROAD SCHEDULES Arrival and Departure of Passenger Trains, Americus, Ga. Central of Georgia Ry. Central Standard Time Arrive Depart 12:01 am Cols-Bghm-Cbgo 8:45 am 12:37 am Chgo-St. L., Atl 2:53 am 1:54 am Albany-Jaxville 3:45 am 2:53 am Albny-Jaxville 12.37 am 3:45 am Cin-Atl-Chgo 1:54 am 3:45 am Albny-Jaxville 12:01 am 5:29 am Macon-Atlanta 10:35 pm 6:34 am Albany 7:21 pm 10:20 am Columbus 3:15 pm 1:55 pm Albany-Montg’y 2:15 pm 2:15 pm Macon Atlanta 1:55 pm 3:10 pm Albany 10:22 am 7:21 pm Macon-Atlanta 6:34 am 10:35 pm Albany-Montg’y 5:29 am SEABOARD AIR L’NB (Central Time) Arrive Departs 10:05 am Cordele-Hel’na 5:15 pm 12:26 pm Cols-M’t’g’y 3:10 pm 3.10 pm Cordele-Savh 12:26 prr WJ F* MR PAGE FIVE The highest cable railway in the world—l2,6oo feet above sea level > —is being constructed at Mt. L’Aigi ulle Du Midi, Switzerland. Every Day In The Week You can get a tender Beef Roast and Steak, pound— 20c and 25c Good Juicy Beef Loaf, pound— 18c Let us make it. ’•£? Fat Fryers, pound— -35c Extra Large Salt Mackerel, each 15c New crop Choice Prunes, pound Helen Lawton Coffee and Tea, best ever; same price. Very best Plain and Self-rising Flour, whitest in the world— makes health better. Try it. Get these at— 5 Bragg’s Market Phone 181 ..,
