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SPOT COTTON MARKET Receipts Tuesday 227 bales Season’s receipts .J 6,313 bales Strict middling ...—..22 l-4c WEATHER Today, cloudy and cooler; Wednesday, fair, warm er. FORTY-SIXTH MILITARISTS FORCE:! PRESIDENT TO RETIRE Attackers Driven Back By Defending Army FRANKS SLAYERS READY TO BE SENTENCED POLICE TO GM DEFENDANTS WHEN SENTENCE IS PASSED Leopold and Loeb to Know Fate Decided by Judge Caverly At Chicago Tomorrow SPECTATORS ARE BANNED Only Persons Interested in Case and Relatives of Defendants and Victim Admitted CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—Final prep arations were taken today to in ssur e the orderly sentencing eith er to death or life imprisonment to morrow of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, for the slaying of Robert Franks. Fifty policemen and scores of plain clothes men will be on duty in the court room and about the courthouse where the pair will be taken for sentence. Spectators will be barred from the court room and only relatives of the two defendants and of the deceased, attorneys engaged in the ease on either side, bailiffs and newspaper men will be present. PIYIIESREPDRT’ DETMLS RESULTS, 1243 Defective Children Found Among 2138 Examnied, With Total of 1439 Defects A partial report of health depart ment activities submitted to toe Board of County Commissioners by Dr. J. W. Payne, county health of ficer, shows a total of 21.38 schoo, children examined by him. These children, attending various schools throughout the county wore found to be afflicted with 1,439 defects, ‘and of the total 1,243 were defec tive, there being only 995 children in the entire school population being free from physical defects. The cost of these examanntions at $2.00 each, this being the charge regularly made by physicians for such service, is shown in the report as $4,276, this amount being sa/ed in its entirety to the tax-payers. Under the head of “Immuniza tions” the report shows that 1,027 anti-typhoid vaccinations were com pleted up to August 28, the date of the report ;2 curative anti-toxine cases were handled; 77 anti-small pox vaccinations were given and 14 anti-rabic treatments admin istered, a service that would have cost, at usual physicians’ charges $3,539.00, but fo r which no charge was made by the department. Classified under the head “San itation and Food Supplies,” the re port shows 24 dairies were inspect ed; 315 cows tuberculin tested; 48 stores inspected, and 34 eating pla ces also inspected. The cost of the tuberculin tests given under this heading in the report is given as |s63o, with the total cost, if paid for at regular prices, placed at SB9O. SAKADELIS’ CONDITION TODAY IS UNCHANGED Reports from the Americus and Sumter County hospital, where Nick Sakadelis is being treated at '2:30 this afternoon are to the ef fect that his condition is practical ly unchanged from Monday. Many friends interested in his condition will be pleased to know that Sakadelis still has a good chance to recover from wounds inflicted by a negro burglar in his store here Sunday morning. WARNING AGAINST*” WILDCAT SCHEMES ATLANTA, Sept. 9. —A warning has been issued to citizens of this city by the Retail Merchants As sociation against “itinerant ped dlers’-’ and wildcat, fly-by-night promotion schemes. “The ped dlers most of whom are said to be thoroughly dishonest flock to At lanta in the winter and fall months, offering mostly cheap weaving ap parel and gaudy ornaments and after selling their wares leave town with no record. THE TI®tSRECORDER Ell PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE FLYERS FORCED TO GROUND AT ABERDEEN; START AGAIN AT 2 President and Members of Cabi net Wait in Drenching "Rain for Delayed Flyers RECEPTION IS PREPARED Rainfall Stopped at 1 O’clock When Spectators Jammed Every Vantage Point at Field WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—(By Associated Press.) —American army world flyers will resume their flight, at 2 p. m. interrupted by a forced landing at Aberdeen, about 70 miles north of Washington, com pelled the flyers to descend for re fuelling. A dense fog forced the flyers to the ground. President and Mrs. Coolidge, to gether with the members of the president’s cabinet, were at Boll ing Field early to greet the airmen. The president waited for hours in the rain, abandoned his luncheon arrangements and decided to stick it out and wait till the flyers ar rive. The rain had stopped falling at 1 o’clock and the sun was shining at that hour. Spectators jammed every point of vantage about the field, waiting arrival of the flyers. HOPPED OFF AT 9:35 FROM MITCHELL FIELD. MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y., Sept. 9.-—The United States world flyers hopped off here for Washington at 9:3s,Jaylight saving, tiigg. NATIONAL CAPITAL READY TO RECEIVE FLYERS. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Prep arations to receive the army world fliers on their arrival .in Washing ton today were given something of a national character Monday when General Pershing issued personal orders, directing that troops in the Washington district be paraded at jtheir posts at the time the air squadron circles over the city, and that suitable military honors be paid. The reception tendered the world-girdling air men here will be given the aspect of greeting ex pressing the honor and the pride the nation feels in their achieve ment. President Coolidge plans to be nt Bolling field in the outskirts of the city when the world fliers land ■there. He was understood to he very anxious to witness their ar rival and extend greetings in his own behalf and in the name of the American people if the time of their arrival would permit him to do so. In any event, Secretary Weeks, other cabinet officers and high of ficials of the government are sche duled to meet the squadron at th a flying field. At district of Washington head quarters, staff officers were busy last night preparing foe a noisy welcome when the air squadron heaves in sight. A national salute of 48 guns, the highest honors paid in the American military service, will be roared out by field guns stationed on the ellipse back of the white house as the fliers separate form the escorting squadron ard swing by overhead, bound for Ar lington National cemetery across the Potomac to pay their own tri bute at the tomb of America’s “un known hero” before they pass on to their landing at Bolling field. The national salute will be re peated by the guns at Fort Myers, adjoining the cemetery, as the fliers reach that point and it will be amid the thunder of cannon that they let fall upon the tomb the flowers they bring with them from New York. MONDICH WOMAN , ADMITS MURDER DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 9.-- Haying confessed, according to po lice here, that she killld her sweet heart four years ago after helping him hide the body of her eighth husband, whom he had slain, Mrs. Euphemia Mondich is being ques tioned this afternoon by the au thorities in an effort to determine who her other husbands are. Information furnished by her ninth husband several days ago led to the woman’s arrest. Mrs. Mondich says she does not know the name of the man the killed, except that his name was “John.” AMERICUS,'GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMEBER 9, 1924 MrsSPlumb Declares ‘Bob’ Only Progressive Candidate In Race LA FOLLETTE CALLED CHAIYIPION OF MN THROUGHOUT CAREER First to Name Women As Mem bers of Boards Controlling Institutions in Wisconsin SAYS MINORITY RULES Tremendous Responsibility Rests On Enfranchised Woman, Progressive Leader Says EDITOR’S NOTE This is second argument in the three cornered debate on presidential candidates by the women leaders of th e threo parties. Today’s is by Mrs. Glenn E. Plumb, cham pioning LaFollette. The conclud ing article, by Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Republican, appears tomorrow. By MRS. GLENN E. PLUMB Women’s Head of La Follette- Wheeler Campaign WASHINGTON, Sept 9 Wom en are the nation’s housekeepers and home makers. All that is beau tiful and inspiring in home life is in goodly measure due to the influ ence of woman. Without her there could be no home. Government is largely a prob lem of housekeeping - on aTTSrtibfial scale. For generations we women have been excluded from partici pation in that important task and now that we are enfranchised, we must assum e the obligations of an effective co-partnership or else ad mit we are not worthy of suffrage. The tragedies that wreck the in dividual homes are in most cases confined to families in which man assumes sole dictatorship and stifles (Continued On Page Five.) AUSTRALIAN BILL!! Bl Bl BNMBStL Fifty Georgia Counties Will Use System in Election On Wed nesday ATLANTA, Sept. 9.--State-wide enactment of the Australian balloc system is only a matter of time in the opinion of lawmakers who have discussed the subject here. The system is now in operation in more than 50 of the 160 coun ties of the state, as shown by re ports received by the Secretary of State, who was requested to ascer tain what counties would use the system in coming elections. As the law now stands under an act of the L||*gisl/ituire, counties may adopt the system when recom mended by two successive grand juries in a county. There is no complaint of the law, and there is not likely to be, ac cording to editors and lawmakers who have commented upon the sys tem now in vogue in many of the counties. It was stated that the Australian ballot was tried out in a number of states forty years ago with most satisfactory results; and in states where it has been tried, it was as serted, they would not have any other system. Legislators take the position, it was stated here, that the Australian system comes nearer giving the voters “a square deal” than by any other method. Furthermore, it tends to purify the ballot. The opinion is expressed here that as soon as a majority of the coun ties have adopted the plan the Legislature will make th<- law oper ative throughout the entire state. FRENCH SHOOTING SEASON NOW OPEN PARIS, Sept. 9.—The shooting season in France is about to open, and there are evidences of good sport in prospect. Partridge, hare, quail and pheasant are plentiful, iand the total of shooting permits issued breaks all previous records, J Heads LaFollette-Wheeler Women > ■ ' " 7,.3:.- ■ "■ W A <■■7 i- - uh— p ■ > -- - UJ -rm - « * MRS. GLENN E. PLUMB REPUBLICANS WIN ME ELECTIONS: PATTANGALL LOSES Ralph O. Brewster Assured of F ection As Governor; Bert M. Ferald Named Senator WIN SEATS IN CONGRESS Four Republican Candidates For Those Places Defeat Democratic Opponents PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 9.—By Associated Press.) —The election of Ralph O. Brewster, Republican, as governor of Maine over William R. Pattangall, his Democratic op ponent, in Monday’s election, be came apparently assured with tho receipt of later returns early today. B rt M. Ferald, Republican, has beer elected to succeed himself, and nil four Republican candidates for Congress, apparently, have been SUCteSSful. REPUBLICANS LEADING IN EARLY RETURNS. PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 9.—(Bj Associated Press.) —Returns from 170 precincts out of 633 in the state in Monday’s election, gave for gov'rnor: Brewster, (R ), 23,386; Pattangall (D.). 13,922. Returns from 63 precincts of the 633 in the state gave for governor: Brewster (R.), 7,721. Pattangall (D.), 5,391. Four years ago the same pre cincts for governor: P rkhurst (R.), 7,475. Mclntire (D.), 4,028. R turns from 20 precincts gave: For senator: Fernaid (R.), 1,941; Redman (D.), 1,221. For governor: Brewster (R.). 1,911; Pattangall (D.), 1,226. CO iTON INJURED ’ ' IN WASHINGTON S kNDFRSVILLE, Sept. 9.—Tor ren' al rains, accompanied by high win is, swept down on Washington county here recently doing much . damage to the cotton crop. TIMES-RECORDER NOT TO FURNISH ELECTION RESULTS Hie Times-Recorder will not furnish telegraph election bulle tin service covering Wednesday’s primary. This decision has been reached after a careful survey of the state, and with due consid eration given interest being mani fested in the several contests to be decided. There is no opposition for the gubernatorial nomination, with interest in the senatorial race surprisingly small among patrons of the Times-Recorder as well as friends of Senator Harris and former Governor Hardwick in this section. Neither of these candidates have visited Americus in their speaking cam paign, and this probably accounts for the lack of interest here. The Times-Recorder will fur nish full reports on the election up to its usual time for going to press, and after that hour no further bulletins have been ar ranged for. BLEASE AND BYRNES CONTEST DOMINATES Senator Dial Eliminated as Con testant in Primary Held There Two Weeks Ago COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 9 The contest between Cole L. Blease, twice governor of South Carolina, and Congressman James F. Byrnes for the United States senate domi nated interest in this state today as Democrats vote to decide upon the nomination which was not fet tled by the primary held two weeks ago. The winner in today’s election will succeed Senator N. B. Dial, who was eliminated as a contestant by the result of the first primary. The Democratic nomination for senator in South Carolina is equiv alent to election. While white duck trousers look nice on men they wrinkle quickly with two sitting on them, MMK FORCES iPEGHN ALL LOST GROUND LT CHANGHAI Defense Army at Shanghai Ral lies in Liuho Sector and Drive Attackers Back RAIN St6pS~FIGHTING Terrific Downpour Makes Fur ther Advance There Impos sible Late This Evening SHANGHAI, Sept. 9—(By As sociated Press) —■ General Che kiang’s forces, defending Shang hai against the armies of General Kiangsu, have regained all the ground lost along the Luho sec tor northeast of Shanghai, it was announced here Jate today*!. Heavy rains filling in that sector stopped fighting there late this evening, latest reports from the fighting front state. SHANGHAI, Sept. 9.—A ter rific rainstorm which continued during several hours flooded Shanghai’s streets this afternoon to a depth of two feet. Fighting > between troops contending for possession of Shanghai was sus pended as a result of the flood. Chinese military tradition pro vides for suspension of hostilities whenever the weather is bad. FIGHTING MOVES NEARER SHANGHAI. SHANGHAI, Sept. 9.—(By As sociated Press.)—While’ prelimi-' nary, battles continued - China’s cW'l war was renewed With intensify in the vicinity of the! ptize city of, S'hangiiaL.. 1 Chang Tao Lin, war lord of Man churia, and Wu Pei-Fu, military head of the Peking government en tered their forces to meet in tliq main contest, which has shifted to a fight for control of the central Chinese government. Reports from the defending forces indicate that the fighting has moved nearer to Shanghai. Warned by constant firing with in hearing of Shanghai, foreign gov (Continued on Page 3.) BETRAYED HBUSEGIRL SLAYS WEALTHY If! A N Bodies of Pair Lay for Days in Sumptuous London Batersea District Apartment LONDON, Sept. 9.—Riddled with bullets fired by Peggy Mercer, U pretty servant girl , Arthur Michael Joshua, man of great wealth and high social position, has lain dead for days in a sump tuous apartment house in Battersea District. Close by his body was stretched that of Peggy, an armv revolver still grasped in her right hand. The double tragedy was enacted Tuesday, but the discovery of the bodies was not discovered until one day jtater. What mysterious, ro mance lies behind the crime is now being investigated by the best brains of Scotland Yards. In the City of London, Joshua who was 45, was a financier of high standing, and formerly a di rector of one of the biggest fur nishing stores in the country. His home was a splendid mansion in Mayfair where, with his wife and two daughters, he entertained lavishly. That he had been leading a dual life with Peggy Mercer comes as an astouhding revelation to his family and friends, Peggy, a slender brunette, was not only very pretty, but had breeding which made her distinc tly superior to the average Engl ish maid. MANY WITHOUT JOBS IN JAPAN TOKIO, Sept. 9. —Unemploy- ment is increasing in Japan, ac cording to figures compiled by gov ernment employment offices. Dur ing June 86,000 men applied to these; offices for work, an increase of 160 percent over the figures for June, 1923. Industrial depression and the effects of the earthquake are blamed. New York Futures Pc. Open High Low Close I Jan. ..23.03123.16i23.i6t23.02|23.04 K Mar. ..23.2523.37'23.37!23.32123.30 I May ..23.45!23.65!23.65!23.42'123.55 | ? Oct. . 23.58j23.57i23.57i23.50!23.50 j Dec. ..23.08|23.30!23.30'i23.03|23.06 I ——- - , PRICE FIVE CENTS ALESSANBRI RES® CHILIAN EXECUTIVE’S PLACE TO ftLTASIARINE Head of Military Cabinet As sumed Power Friday Night, Santiago Despatch Says ASKED TO LEAVE COUNTRY • Persona! Safety Guaranteed De- Posed President and Mem bers of Family | SANTIAGO, Sept. 9.—(By As- S sociated Press.) President Ar turo Alessandri, of Chili, has re- ' signed and has been succeeded by General Luis Altarr.arine, head of the military cabinet, which assum- : ed power on Friday night. President Alessandri resigned aft- 3 er he had been requested to do so . 3 by member of the cabinet and lead- | ers in the military group, who also < asked him to absent himself from | country within a stated time. The leaders who demanded the ? resignation of the president guar-';..; anteed to him and the members of his family personal safety to the national borders. ■Wfin BOTH CLAIM VICTBR* 11 PPIBfI TOMORROW Candidates for Various Offices Spend Day Making Final Ap peal for Votes SPEAKING EFFORT ENDED > Formal Statements Issued by Both Candidates for United , States Senator's Place ATLANTA, Sept- 9—Candidates for various offices to be voted upon in the statewide primary Wed nesday spent today putting in a final ;® appeal for 'votes. The speaking campaigns ended last night. Senator William J. Harris, who is seeking nomination to the Unit- ® ed States senate, and his opponent, former Governor Thomas W. Hard wick, both issued statements today, each claiming victory. Former Governor Hardwick has 3 been denouncing the Ku Klux Klan g in his speeches since the beginning | of the campaign. GEORGIA DEMOCRATS TO VOTE IN PRIMARY. ATLANTA, Sept. ',9.—,“WiU ' Thomas W. Hardwick be able* to come back?” is a question which will be answered by the Georgia Democrats when they vote in tlio statewide primary Sept. 10. Mr. Hardwick is seeking the seat J in the United States Senate held by W. J. Harris, of Cedar-’ Lown, who defeated him in 1918. . j Two years later, Mr. Hardwick wai chosen Governor over Clifford 1 Walker only to be beaten by tha fl latter when he ran for ye-elecl}tonfl| two years igo. Mr. Hardwick uDo_rt| contested fen,' the unexpired terra M of the late Senator Thomas E. W at '3 son in 1922 v\iich seat was won by W. F. George of Vienna. This year the''former governors and former senator is opposing the.wg man who beaat him- six years agxi f for the Democratic’, nomination,W Democratic nominatiorf, in Georgia Im is equivalent to In this, campaign Mr. scored the Ku Klux Klan. Ihi also f attacked the record of Senator? Har ris. The latter is asking the voters to give him another term on Shis record at Washington. ilii' Governor Clifford Walker is UlMn opposed for renomination. I BICYCLE THIEVES \ ARE ACTIVE HEREK A number of thefts of bicycles have recently been reported to Americus police authorities. Among A these were the loss of bicycles be longing to Tommy Warren and j Carolyn Crockett, young chjldrciij of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Warren and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Crockett. The ’ theft of these bicycles was from ; the porches of the Warren and Crockett residences, and were ex ceedingly bold in their execution. A Because of the loss of these wheals, S? clu.-e watch should be klpt by per-’ t sons leaving their bicycles on their i front porches and elsewhere, and m the meantime the police of Am-' erieus are keeping a close watch i f tor stolen bicycles.
