WEATHER
Tor Georgia— Fair flight; cool
er ih south portion Thursday;
propably showers in south and
warmer in north portion.
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 205
BODY OF WOMAN IS FISHED FROM OGECHEE
Heavy Americus August Warehouse Receipts
1132 ffllUS COTTON
PFCFIVED MREADV
IT WAPTHOIKES HERE
Fleecy Staple Now Rolling in
Rapidly With Americus Re
ceipts Increasing Daily
229 BALES ON MONDAY
General Opinion is That Much
of Top Crop Has Been Lost
Through Long Drougth
Cotton receipts in Americus at
the three warehouses here up to and
including Monday afternoon totalled
4132 bales, according to figures au
thorized for publication today by
Messrs. C. H. Burke, L. G. Council
knd Harrold Brothers, warehouse
men here. The receipts indicate
that the crop is being gathered rapid
ly and that little or no staple is be
ing held on the farms about Ameri
cus . Receipts at several .warehouses
here during Monday were 229 bales,
these same figures indicate.
Splendid weather has facilitated
gathering the crop since the first
bale was brought in and prevailing
high temperatures have resulted in
cotton opening rapidly in fields in
all parts of the county. Sustained
drouth, which was broken only a
few days, and too late in most in
stances to benefit the cotton crop,
has resulted in some loss of staple,
jt is generally conceded. Some ex
perienced farmers assert this Ipss.
will not be less than 17 to 20 per
cent, and that the entire “top crop’’
has been destroyed, and if these
estimates are sustained by later de
velopments the loss has been a seri
ous Mie.
Estimates previously made of a
25,000-bale crop in Sumter county
are now being reduced by conserva
tive cotton men to between 20,000
find 22,000 ales. This loss in pro
duction, probably, will be made, up
for in a measure by the splendid
quality of staple being brought in.
It is stated in certain circles that
recent open weather has added
greatly to the cleanliness of the
staple, and that practically no wet
dirty and stained cotton has been
brought in up to this time.
Generally speaking, farmers are
reported selling their staple at pre
vailing prices, with very little ten
dency exhibited to hold cotton for
higher prices. This is in line, it is
stated, with the policy of merchants
and bankers throughout the courftry
who are inclined to liquidate all old
debts, and begin the new commercial
year with clean slates wher
ever possible. As a result of this
Policy cotton money is finding its
way into trade channels here quite
rapidly and merchants in every line
of trade report increased activities
among their customers with mer
chandise moving in normal Septem
ber volume, as well as th e liquida
tion of many accounts that have
been carried for months upon their
books.
SCREVEN FAIR
BOOKS ISSUED
S\ LV ANIA, Sept. 3.—Premium
oooks have been printed for Screven
county fair to be held here October
14-18. No efforts will be spared
to make this the best fair the coun
ty has ever had. A new building
has been erected on the fair grounds
or display of negro planters, and
is expected that exhibits will be
will'?' ,7"’° ° ther new Matures
Co I/ 0 a e B ° y ’ S club work I'hder
ounty Agent D. F. Bruce and Girls’
-h work under Miss Frances Hines,
nome demonstration agent.
LITTLE JOE |
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makes some husbands
Worth Kluahg \s Their
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THE TIMESf’RECORDER
feKjPyBLISHED IN THE OF
KLUXERS’ DEFEAT AT AUSTIN IS COMPLETE
TRAVEL HOMEWARD
j BOUND WITH UNCLE
SAM’S FLYERS
i
Watch this man as it marks the
homeward journey of our
’round-the-world flyers.
Mr'
Ms-,
pictou harborTnovTscctla
FLYERSHOPOFF
FROM HfflES MY
FOR PICTOR, M. S,
Left Hangars at 10:12 This
Morning En Route to Nova
Scotian Landing Fields
WEATHER UNFAVORABLE
Dull Clouds Hanging Low When
American Air Service Globe
Girdlers Left Hawkes Bay
-PICTOU, N-. 5., Sept. 3—(By As
sociated Press.) —Amei'ican army
air service world flyers hopped off
from Hawkes Bay, New Foundland
at 10:12 o’clock eastern standard
time this morning. The destination
of the flyers is this port.
Weather conditions at Hawkes
Bay when the flyfers hopped off
were reported as unfavorable, with
dull clouds hanging low about the
pntire community.
At 12 o’clock eastern standard
time the airmen passed over the
cruiser Milwaukee stationed approxi
mately 100 miles from Hawkes Bay.
SHERIFF ■ DEPUTY
NX® I MINISTERS
Galligan and Thomas Assert
Williamson County Disord
ers Due to Klan Preachers
HERRIN, Ills., Sept. 3.—Sher
iff George Galligan and his dep
uty, Ora Thomas, were charged
with having fired the first shots
in Saturday’s encounter between
his force and klansmen during a
hearing at the inquest here today.
Dave Sisk, a garage employee,
asserted that the sheriff and his
deputy fired the shots that kill-
Chester Reid, an innocent by
stander, and one of the first men
to be killed dicing the resulting
melee.
MARION, Ills., Sept. 3—Reply
ing to a demand by the Protestant
Minister’s Association of Williamson
county that he resign from office,
Sheriff Galligan late Tuesday that
four Protestant ministers, whom he
named, could restore law and order
in Williamson county if they would
cease preaching “murder and law
enforcement by the Ku K.ux Klan.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan in
Williamson county, opposed to law
enforcement by duly constituted au
thorities, killed Deputy Sheriff
“Bud” Allison Saturday at Herrin
before a shot was fired by Sheriff
Galligan or any of his deputies or
.anyone else, said Sheriff Galligan
and Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, in
a statement today.
FIRE LOSS PLACED
$l5O BY CHIEF
Damage sustained in the fire at
the Oliver Mattress factory was esti
mated today by Fire Chief McArthur
at $l5O. The causfc of the fire was
not stated. The factory is located
in a small frame building on Felder
street some distance from the busi
ness section of Americus.
AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 3, 1924
The Van Swerihgens’ Latest Deal
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The greatest railroad merger
in years was completed with the
unification of the Nickel Plate,
Chesapeake & Ohio, Hocking
Valley, Erie and Pere Marquette
lines and their subsidiaries. All
are controlled by O. P. and M.
J. Van Sweringen of Cleveland.
Here is official map showing the
extent of the consolidation.
FORM Efl UWES SEW.
H.S.TREMI 111
fIEPAPHIGNS IHtlff
Seymour Parker Gilbert, Jr.,
Succeeds Young As Repre
sentative of Allies
RECEIVES ALL PAYMENTS
Administration of Dawes Plan
Already Uncter Way to Be
Continued by Gilbert
PARIS, Sept. 3.—(By Associated
Press.) —Seymour Parker Gilbert,
Jr., formerly under secretar yof the
United States treasury, today accept
ed appointment as agen general for
reperations under the Dawes p'an
as agreed upon bv the Allied na
tions and Germany at the London
conference. The post is now being
filled temporarily by Owen D.
Young, of New York, who aided in
drawing up the plan under direc
tion of Gen. Charles G. Dawes, its
originator.
Administration o fthe Dawes plan
under which Germany is to pay an
unnamed su mduring an undecided
number of years until damage
wTought during the war is liqui
dated had already been inaugurated.
This was done by Young who opened
offices in Berlin several days ago.
The first payment of 20,000,000
gold marks, or approximately _ss.-
000,000,000, due under the Dawes
plan was paid at Berlin Tuesday,
being deposited in the Reich bank
there by the German government to
the credit of the agent general of
the reparations commission.
DARIO RESTA, FAMOUS
AUTO RACER, KILLED
BROOKLANDS, England, Sept.
3.—Dario Resta, world famous au
tomobile racer, was killed here to
day while attempting to establish a
new world’s record.
HUGHES PAID MODEST
TRIBUTE TO UNKNOWN
PARIS, Sept. Secretary
Hughes earned the good will of the
photographers while in Paris by the
gracious way in which he allowed
himself to Ke photographed. Movies
as well as “still” operators took him
on his arrival, at his departure and
on all the occasions when he appear
ed in public, excepting one, and that
one exception, of which they learned
only when the Secretary of State
was leaving, they hold against him
ns an indirect blow- at their busi
ness.
Mr. Hughes made the usual pil
grimage to the. tomb of the Un
known Soldier under the Arc de
Triomphe without letting them know
anything about it, and was the first
visiting statesman to pay this tribute
without previous announcement and
Without more or less form and show.
MIHMS I
CHINASTAPTfI WITH
CLASH NEAfI SHMGHM
Forces pf Gen. Lu Yang Hsiand
in Battle With Those of Gen.
Chi Shieh-Yuan
SITUATION IS SERIOUS
.Sections of Railway Tonr-Up
and Extensive Fighting is
Believed Inevitable
SHANGHAI, Sept. 3—(By As
sociated Press.) With fighting
at Hwangtu, near here, in prog
ress at 4 o’clock this afternoon
between contesting armies of two
rival provincial governors, reports
received here indicate that the
battle lines are extending toward
the coast and in the direction of
Woo Sung. _
STATE DEPARTMENT
HEARS OF HOSTILITIES.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Hos
tilities between the forces of Mili
tary Governor Chiang and Defense
Commissioner Ho at Hwangtu, near
Shanghai, began at 10 o’clock this
morning, the state department was
advised today by Consul General
Cunningham. Consul Cunningham
reported that American naval forces
in Shanghai harbor are prepared to
land forces along with Japanese,
French, Italian and British contin
gents, if this should become neces
sary. The French Consul has al
ready served notice upon the Chi
nese authorities that naval forces
will be landed from French War
ships in the harbor at 5 o’clock this
afternoon.
PANIC REIGNS
IN SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI, Sept. 3. (By As
sociated Press.) —General Ho Feng
Lin, who is General Lu Yang
Hsiand’s administrative officer, an
nounced here this . morniiyg that
fighting between the forces of Gen
eral Lu, tuchung of Che-Kiang pro
vince, and those of General Lu,
rival tuchung, has actually begun.
No information was given as to
casualties sustained by either army
engaged in the fighting.
Traveling through the country
(Continued on Page Five)
TOMATO GROWERS TO
MEET ON FRIDAY
There will be a meeting of the
Sumter County Tomato Grower’s As
sOciation Friday afternoon at 2
o’clock. At this meeting there will
be presented a full statement of
sales made and returns, thereon and
net earings of the association’s mem
bers will be there disclosed.
An important feature of the meet
ing will be a discussion of the ex
perience gained through producing
tomatoes in Sumter county the past
season. It s declared by those in
position to know- hat this experience
may prove invaluable in the future,
development of this.crop, and that
with certain disappointing features
before the farmers in Sumter coun
ty will hereafter be able to produce
tomatoes profitable and upon a'
broad -commercial scale.
OFFICER SUCCUMBS
TO NEGRO’S BULLET
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept.
3. Policeman W. J. Kely died
here today from th c effects of
a bullet wound sustained Mon
day when he was shot by a ne
gro gunman.
eTblmwiim
HELD IN CSWLIHA
FOR HDim GIRL
Mrs. Nora Bellew Arrested at
Greenwood on Complaint of
Georgia Authorities
CLAIM CHARGE BASELESS
Says Girls Accompanied Her
From Elberton of Own Free
Will, Without Persuasion
GREENWOOD, S. C., Sept. 3.
Mrs. Nora Ballew, of Elberton, Ga.,
was arrested here today on a charge
of kidnaping Louise Moore, a 15-
year-old school girl of Elberton. The
woman was arrested on instructions
from Chief of Police Irvin, of the
Georgia town.
Mrs. Ballew, following her arrest
here, stated to authorities who took
her in charge that the Moore girl
accompanied her on her own free
will and that no basis exists for the
kidnaping charge preferred against
her.
MASONS OCW
MITCHELL TEMPH
Americus Masons, members of
Wells Chapter, No. 42, R. A. M.,
have already occupied handsome
new quarters in th e building at the
intersection of Forsyth street and
Cotto navenue. The last regular
meeting of Wells Chapter was held
there, and other Masonic bodies of
Americus will begin holding their
meetings there immediately. The
former quarters in Planters Bank
building occupied jointly by the
several Masonic bodies were vacat
ed on August 31, at which time the
lease was terminated.
The new Masonic Temple, donat
ed to the uses of the fraternity in
Americus by W. E. Mitchell, has
been named in honor of the donor
and will be known hereafter as “W.
E. Mitchell Masonic Temple.” Fol
lowing the deeding-of the property
to the fraternity Masonic bodies
here thoroughly renovated the in*-
terior and installed handsome new
lighting effects in addition to re
arranging the entire area for lodge
uses. These repairs, made at a cost
of $5,000, have recently been com
pleted, and it at an early
date to have a formal house-waarm
ing there, with Masons invited to
attend from all lodges surround
ing Amnrictin,
TffISBEMCSm
ADDPTFERCUSOR
EtMMSTIII
Document As Drawn By For
mer Governor Unanimously
Accepted By Convention
KLAN GIVEN NO QUARTER
Lower Taxes Demanded and
Economy in Governmental
Expenditures Suggested
AUSTIN, Texas. Sept. 3. —The
platform as drawn by former Gov
ernor “Jim” Ferguson was adopted
by the platform committee of the
Democratic state convention in ses
sion here today. The platform as
submitted denoupces the klan and
demands lower taxation. Mora
‘economy in governmental expendi
tures is an outstanding suggestion
contained in the provisions of the
platform.
\ Proclaiming no quarter for the
Ku Klux Klan, framing a platform
which denounced the Klan and de
clared for strict economy in govern
ment and according complete recog
nition of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson
as the Democratic nominee for gov
ernor, the state Democratic conven
tion went through vociferous ses
sion here Tuesday with the Fergu
son element in absolute and audible
control. As night fell on the capi
tal, the meeting was still continuing
With the permanent organization ef
fected only a short time before by
electiou..uf Joseph Weldqn Bailey,
former United States senator,. as
chairman, and Senator Joe Burkett,
of East Land, as secretary.
The day was croweded with bitter
denunciation of the Klan and its
methods with heated oratory, cli
maxed by a masterful appeal of Sen
ator Bailey for peace and marked
by warm acclamation for Mrs. Fer
guson and her husband, James E.
Ferguson, who, with their daughters,
sat on • the speakers’ platform
throughout, the day.
To be certain that the convention
would be 100 per cent anti-Klan, all
Klan delegations were ousted and
every attempt of the Klan delegates
to place their friends on important
committees was decisively defeat .d
by election of substitute committee
men favorable to the convention ma
jority. In this manner committee
members favorable to the anti-Klan
element from the Fourth District,
composed of Orange, Jefferson, Lib
erty and Hardin counties, and from
the Thirteenth District were seated
A bitter fight over the Dallas Coun
ty committee selections brought
former Gov. C. B. Colquitt and
Lieutenant Governor Davidson into
the fray, attempting vainly to stop
the procedure. In every instance
Klan delegates and committeemen
were ejected.
DETECTIVES TRAIL
MOBILE PHYSICIAN
DrJ'hompson, Believed Drown
ed in New York, Reported
As Being Alive in Calif.
BINGHAMPTON, N. Y., Sept. 3.
—Detectives here are investigating
reports that Dr. Marshall J. Thomp
son, 30, reported as having been
drowned in Silver Lake, near hcrc ;
had recently been seen in California.
Dr. Thompson’s cap and canoe
were found adrift in Silver Lake
during July, but the body was never
recovered. His home is in Mobile,
Ala., where he engaged for some
time in the practice of his profes
sion.
EFFORT TO INCREASE
WATER RATE IS LOST
ATLANTA, Sept. 3.—An effort
to obtain an immediate increase in
the water minimum through city
council failed when the body voted,
13 to 11, to refer the question to
the finance committee.
Councilman Harry York, leader
of the “irreconcilables” t gainSt the
present water rate, introduced an
amendment to the present ordi
nance, backed by Councilman John
A. White and others, providing that
700 cubic feet of water, instead of
500 cubic feet as at nresent, be
charged at the minimum rate of $1
New .York ”?* ur-'f ’
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Mar. !’W3'5|24.26|24.48tM:23?i4.»te
May . 24.46|24.40|24.62j24.40)24.57
Oct. .24.40|24.30124.60|24..‘J0|24.53
Dec. . 24.05)24.00124.32j24.00)24.2?
Strict middling spots 23 5-16 c.
Receipts Tuesday 229 bales.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DECWaSFD fflfflffi
FOUND FLAMING IN
GFOPGIf BIM W
Farmers Find Corpse With Two
Weights Tied to it and Report
Gruesome Discovery
WOMAN NEATLY DRESSED
Bobbed Hair and W'earing Ap
parel Only Clues As to Identi
ty of Dead Woman
MITCHELL, Ga., Sept. 3.—Th?
badly decomposed body o fa young
woman was found floating in
Ogechee river, near here, early to
day. The body had two weights tied
to it, and little doubt is expressed
that the dead woman was murdered
and thrown into the river
The corpse as found by two farm
ers who chanced to observe the
corpse at a turn in the stream. The
woman’s hair had been bobbed and
the body was neatly dressed. Ex
amination of the corpse indicates
she was about 23 years of age.
' The only clue to the identity of
the dead woman is her bobbed hair
and wearing apparel, and the au
thorities here hope from this evi
dence to finally determine who she
MCUS SCHOOLS
BESUI SEPT. ] STH
Vacation Season to End With
Third Monday in This Month,
It Is Announced
The schools of Americus, includ
ing those at Prospect Heights and
East Americus, will resume their
sessions on Monday, September 15.
according to an announcement au
thorized this morning by Superiten
dent J. E. Mathis. This is the usual
date upon which the schools begin
their fall term, and school authori
ties are expecting the young pupils
to return greatly refreshed after a
long vacation to their accustomed
studies.
An increased attendance is ex
pected at the several schools, w'th
Furlow Grammar school already
over-crowded with pupils during last
‘year. At this school, as usual, the
greatest increase in atttcndance is
expected to report, and school au
thorities are busy now working out
plans for accommodating the ex
panded attendance without avaial
able housing facilities. At the high
school a normal increase in attend
ance is anticipated, and at Prospect
Heights and East Americus schools
a larger number of pupils must ba
cared for, as compared with last
year.
At Furlow Grammar school,
where perhaps seventy per cent of
the city’s school children attend,
there will be no change in the facul
ty during this year, and this same
condition is reported at Prospect
Heights and East Americus schools.
At Rees Park High school, Mrs. Stall,
ings, who had been promoted to bj
assistant in the department of En
glish, has been given a vacation at
her own request, and Miss Geraldine
Goodroe, of Eufaula, Ala., has been
secured to fill" this position. Miss
Goodroe, it is stated, is a graduate
of Agnes Scott Institute, at Decatur,
having been a classmate of Miss
Quenelle Harrold, of Americus, ard
she comes here with the highest re
commendations, both as a teacher
and as a young woman possessed of
many charming manners certain to
stamp her at once as an acquisition
of value to social circles in Ameri
cus. Mrs. Olin Williams will suc
ceed Miss A|artha Cobb, resigned, as
head of the department of domestic
science at the High school, and Mrs.
Ethel W. Robihson will be in charge
of the first year High school classes
(here.
These constitute the total changes
made in the several faculties, here,
and with the old teachers all in thei •'
accustomed places, it is expected
thilt Americus schools will make un
usual progress during he school year
to begin with the third Monday in
this month.
BANK CLEARINGS
SHOW INCREASE
COLUMBUS, Sept 3.—The Co
lumbus bank clearings for the month
of August were $3,894,430.47. The
■increase over $3,192,911 63 for the
same month in 1923 was S7QI,-
518.84, according to W. R. Luttrell,
secretary of the Columbus Clearing
House Association.
Clearings of the local banking in
stitutions for July of this year wer<j
$3,596,774.69 as compared with
$3,212,244.85 for the same month q
year ago.
