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SPOT cotton market
Wednesday’s receipts 347 bales
Season’s receipts 6934 bales
Strict middling 21 l-2c
WEATHER—F air and warmer
today and Friday.
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO." 212
CITIZENS TO MEET TONIGHT AT CITY HALL
Light, Close Vote Polled In Race For Solicitor
HARRIS, BROWN, AND LAND SEEM WINNERS
HIPPIE OfflWS Nd INTERFERENCE IN
HUPPWICK IT POLLS-tHINESE AFFAIRS IS
IN ffIPGU PPINIARYJO BEJAPS' POLICY
Unofficial Report Give Him 340
Unit Votes to 18 for Former
Governor Hardwick
LAND SEEMS A WINNER
J. J. Brown Has 184 Unit Votes
Against 104 for Hunnicutt
in Commissioner’s Race
THE VOTE IN SUMTER
The county executive commit
tee, of which James A. Daven
port is chairman ana John Allen
Fort, secretary, met at noon to
day and consolidated Wednes
day’s vote in sumter county, this
being- formally declared as fol
lows:
For United States Senator—
Thomas W. Hardwick, 593; Wil
liam J. Harris, 1394.
For Governor—Clifford Walk
er, 1961.
For Secretary of State S. G.
McLendon,l999.
For Attorney General—George
M. Napier, 1997.
For State' Treasurer—W. J.
Speer, 2000.
For Comptroller General
—William A. Wright, 1993.
For Commisisoner of Agricul
ture—J. J* fewm H-1 (»;■■ .F.
Hunnicutt, 977.
For State School Superintend
ent—N. H. Ballard, 786; Fort E.
Land, 1214.
For Commisioner or Commerce
and Labor—H. M. Stanley, 2000.
For Commisisoner of Pensions
—John W. Clark, 930; C. E. Mc-
Greggor, 1057.
For Prison Commission—T. E.
Patterson, 1985.
For Railroad Commissioner—
O. R. Bennett, 1077; John T.
Boifeuillet, 915.
For Railroad Commissioner
J. D. Price, 1058; Albert J.
Woodruff, 917.
For Associate Justice Supreme
Court—Sair.’l. C. Atkinson, 2000.
For Associate Justice Supreme
Court S. Price Gilbert, 1989.
For Judge Court of Appeals
Nash R. Broyles, 2002.
For Judge Court of Appeals
W. Frank Jenkins, 1993.
For Representative in Con
gress-Charles R. Crisp, 1995.
For Judge Superior Court
Z. A. Littlejohn, 1992.
For General Jule
Felton,' 492; Stephen Pace, 1509.
For Representatives A. E.
Hines, 1980; Geo. W. Riley, 1975.
James A. Davenport, John Al
len Fort, F. B. Arthur and W.
M. Humber were named members
of the county executive commit
tee. The three first named suc
ceed themselves, while Humber
succeeds J. C. Carter, who was
not a candidates for re-election.
ATLANTA, Sept. .11,.—Over
whelming his opponent, former Sen
•‘ tor and Governor Thomas W.
Hardwick, United States Senator
William J. Harris Wednesday swept
through the Democratic primary.
Today, with one county tied, ac
cording to unofficial returns from
a hundred and twenty-two counties,
Harris was assured the nomina
tion.
Later this morning, it was as
serted that Harris had to his credit
129 counties, with 340 county unit
votes, while Hardwick had only
eight counties, with 18 county unit
votes. Sumter county is being
counted as in the Harris column.
In the various contests for state
house offices incomplete, but ap
proximately correct, returns give J.
J. Brown 184 county unit votes
against 104 for his opponent, Geo.
F. Hunnicutt, in the race for com
missioner of agriculture.
Fort E. Land on the face of
these returns 189 county unit votes
against 64 for N. IL Ballard, for
state school superintendent.
C. E. McGregor has 102 county
unit votes against 142 for John W.
Clark for pension commissioner.
In the race for public service
commissioners the returns are far
from complete. These, however,
indicate that O. R. Bennett is lead
ing John T. Boifeuillet, with 162 to
98 county unit votes, while J. D
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THE TIMESBkECORDER
SHED~ iN THE HEART OF DIXIE
Foreign Minister Baron Spide
hai a States Position to Asso
ciated Press at Tokio
NO FURTHER COMMENT ,
Statement Authorized Following
inquiry Concerning Policy
Policy Toward Civil War
TOKIO, Sept. 11.—Japan has no
intention of interfering in the do
jnestic difficulties of China, Baren
Kijuio Spidehara, foreign minister
here, told the Associated Press to
day.
The statement was authorized
when Baron Spidehara was asked
cone- ruing the Japanese govern
ment’s policy toward the civil war
now going in China. The baron re
fused further comment upon the
issue.
FIERCEST FIGHTING
NEAR IHING TODAY.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 11.—The
forces of rival governors fighting
for possession of Shanghai di
rected their fiercest battling in the
vicinity of Ihing, 90 miles west of
Shanghai, where the defending
forces of the Chekf.ign governor
capture<L-duree-towne—rwar Tai&w-
Lake today.
A communication from the Cheki
ang Lungwha headquartes. said that
the captured towns included Wu
chiakwan and Kaochienli Kiang-u.
Troops are reported to be bringing
reinforcements to Ihing from
Quinsan, 35 miles west of Shanghai.
PLENFY BE MILS
IB! LEFTIH FIELDS
George O. Marshall Says Light
Infestation This Season May
Arouse False Hopes
Plenty of weevils remain in Sum
ter county r fields and will shortly
go into hibernation to present a
serious problem next season. This
is the statement of George O Mar
shall, county farm demonstration
agent. According to Marshall, the
light infestation of boll weevils
this summer has started rumors
among the farmers that the boll
weevil is “passing,” that is that v/0
have experienced the worst from
the boll weevil and that in the fu
ture they will not be as numerous
as in the past. Unfortunately,
there appears to be no basis for
this optimism. Like other false
hopes it may cause disaster by en
couraging farmers to plant more
cotton and to neglect proper meth
ods of boll weevil control.
In support of his position that
the weevils is here to stay, and that
Sumter county farmers may as well
continue the fight against the
weevil along the same line as dur
ing this summer, Marshall draws
attention to an experiment made at
the Georgia Experiment Station.
(Continued On Page Five.)
LAURENS WINS FIGHT
FOR TAX REDUCTION
DUBLIN, Sept. 11.—Laurens
county won the fight for a reduc
tion of tax values before the board
of arbitrators which heard the com
plaint of Ihe state tax commissioner
that the valuation of farm land in
this county had been put. too low
this year. After hearing the con
tention on both sides the arbitra
tors, who met in Dublin Monday
afternoon decided tha. Laurens
county’s returns were ju. t, and no:
too low, and made them the findings
of the board.
The board was made un of S.
M. Kellam, of Dublin ;W. G. Lank
ford, of Lyons, and N. L Gillis, Jr.,
of Soperton. Laurens county’s
land values were cut by the county
tax assessors approximately 11 per
cent this year and the digest was re
fused on this account bv the state
tax commissioner Fulbright. This
brought about the arbitration.
i WHEN WORLD FYERS LANDED AT MITCHEL FIELD,
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Marriage of Interest to Many
Friends Here Performed To
day at Noon in Montezuma
Word was received in Americus
Thursday at noon of the marriage
at Montezuma today of Mrs. Ada
Hudson to Mr. R. J. Perry, both
residents of this city. The cere
mony was performed at Montezuma I
this morning by Rev. Overby, pas
tor of the Montezuma! Methodist
Church.
Friends of the contracting parties
stated that they left th eitty by
automobile about 10 o lock this
morning, and were of the opinion
that Mr. and Mis. Per. would re
turn to the city during he after
noon. It is also state ! that Mr.
ad Mrs. Perry will make heir home
at the home of the briae on East
Church street.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Perry have
been residents of Americus for a
number of years.
WARE CANNING CLUB
SEASON AT HEIGHT
1
WAYCROSS, Sept. 11. —The
canning season in VI are county is
at its height and indications are
khat more yans of food, will be
saved for winter use this year than
.ever before in the history of the,
county.
Miss E. P-exford Brinson, homei
demonstration agent for the county'
is in charge of the work. She visits
various points, centers of the can
ning activity, daily*
AMERICUS, C WURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924
IDII.US ATTORNEY IS
SHOT TH DEATH W
EHFEI® BANK BLDG.
Pa> O’Day Victim of William
Lester, Who Used Shotgun
With Deadly Accuracy
FOUR SHOTS ARE FIRED
Sir er Gives “He Insulted My
I ''other” As Only Reason
For Murderous Deed
P XLLAS, Sept. 11.— (By Asso
ei it -d Press.) —Paul O’Day, a
you: : g Dallas attorney, was instant
ly died when he was shot four
tim with a shotgun upon enter :
ing . bank building here today.
1 illiam Lester Crawford, anoth-l
er 1 eminent attorney, was taken in
cus dy following the shooting, and
is being held by the authorities on
a c ;rge of murder.
“He insulted my mother,” is the
onl; statement that has been made
by Y'rawford, according to the of- j
fici rs, in whose custody he has!
: bee since his arrest.
PROPOSE GAS PLANT
FOR THOMASVILLE
THOMASVILLE, Sept. 11.—The!
! local chamber of commerce hasj
taken into consideration, as its 1
; lati t project, a gas planteorpora
[tioi for Thomasville, whicn will like
ly ba put oter, it is announced. The
need of such a plant has been felt
for some time, it is said.
Above, Mitchell Field, L. 1.,
near New York, will long remem
ber the day the world flyers
dropped down for a short stay.
The Prince of Wales came miles
to see them, lut even he w-as on
the side of the picture as the ar
row shows Others in the group
ate Senator James Wadsworth,
of New York; (1) Lieuts. Nelson
(2) Smith (3) Wade (4) Arnold
- Ad- ■
mirnl Plunkett (8) and Gen. Pat
rick (9). Below at left, Lieut.
Eric Nelson’s plane, the New Or
leans, circling over Mitchel! field.
'DEmrnT
iOYTELESCOPE
I VO OE EMM
Secretary Weeks Issues Final
Statement Preparatory to
Actual Staging of Test
PROCESS IS EXPLAINED
Actual Mobilization Would Be
Prolonged and Progressive
Precess, He States
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 .—The
test of American defense plans to
Ibe made tomorrow will be only a
‘telescope” view of what actual
I war expansion would mean, said
I Secretary Weeks today in a final
I Statement explaining the origin and
I purposes of the Defense Day pro
ject.
Actual mobilization, he said,
would necessarily be a prolonged
and progressive process proceeding
in regular order, first affecting
the regular army, then the Natio
nal Guard and then the organized
reserves.
There exists no practical way, ac
cording to Secretary Weeks, of con
ducting a test of this nature in one
day, and the three arms of the ser
vice must he moved simultaneously
ins affording the only metho’d by
which the soundness of the theory
upon which they have been organ
ized can be obtained.
RESULTS OF FERTILIZER
TESTS WILL BE SHOWN
LYONS, Sept. 11.—County ag-
I ent Garner, L. V. Davis of the
State College of Agriculture, and
representative of the fertilizer as
sociation vzill hold a meeting Satur
day, September 27, at the fertili
zer experiment plats three milos
sout of Lyons on the Jeff Davis
(Highway from Lyons to Reidsville,
i These testts will be completed for
| one year on cotton and corn plant
j ed on Norfolk sandy loam.
Several different kinds of fc-i’-
tilizer were used to determine the I
proper kind and amount of fer-
I I ilizer that would pay best on that
. Pjlnd of land. The cotton tests
I have shown some rather remark
able results so far and when all is
picked- and the corn harvested, as
it will be by the time of the meet
ing, they arc expected to have some
startling results on the corn plats
to show the farmers, too,
FELTON WINNER DEEB
pice fuf sum
IN MSI CIPCIJIT
Apparently Authentic Returns
Give Nomination to Macon
County Candidate
LIGHT VOTE IS POLLED
Svmter Veters Fail to Visit Polls,
Notwithstanding Intense In
terest Manifest
At noon today it appeared prac
tically certain that Jule Felton, of
Montezuma, had been re-nominated
to succeed himself as solicitor-gen
eral of the Southwestern judicial
circuit. Stephen Pace, his oppon
ent, this afternoon declined to con
cede the race to Felton, but made
no claims to a victory for himself.
The official returns had not been
consolidated and announced when
Mr. Face was seen by a Timcs-
Recordor man.
No official report could be se»
cured from Macon county this aft
ernoon, but it was stated, upon ap
parent authority that Felton had
carried his home county by a ma
jority of 1056, while Sumter went
for Pace by a majority of 1005. In
Stewart, Pace’s majority over
Feltbri was 111, in Webster Face
polled a majority of 85 over Fel
ton; in Schley, Felton’s, majority
was 50, and in Lee county Felton
won by 142 majority over Pace. On
the fac e of these returns, Felton is
a winner by 47 votes, and while
Slaughter Creek precinct in Web
ster county is missing,- and the oth
-wr -figm-es
is regarded as unlikely that Felton’s
majority will be overcome, either
by errors that may be corrected
upon official consolidation or with
the receipt and counting of the
Slaughter Creek ballot box.
SENATORIAL RACE
IN LEE CLOSE ONE
LEESBURG, Sept. 11, The
final vote in Wednesday’s primary
as ascertained here today, was as
follows: For United States sena
tor, Thomas W. Hardwick 217, Wil
liam J. Harris 258; fbr solicitor
general Southwestern judicial cir
cuit, Jul e Felton 320, Stephen Paco
178; for state senator, J. I?. Clifton
J. g. Davis, 165, J. T. Horne
8T; fori representative in General
Assembly of Georgia, C. L. Ketch
am 288, G. A. Wallace 208.
PACE WINNER IN
WEIBSTER COUNTY
PRESTON, Sept. 11—In the race
for solicitor-genera] of th e South
western judicial circuit in Wednes
day’s primary, the vote in Webster
county was as follows: Pace 155,
Felton 70. Pace’s majority 85.
Slaughter Crek precinct is missing
from these returns.
BROWN, LAND, BENNETT
WINNERS IN STEWART
LUMPKIN, Sept. 11—Returns
from Wednesday’s primary early
today gave successful candidates in
Stewart county majorities as fol
lows: Commissioner of agricul
ture, J. J .Brown 100; state school
superintendent, Fort E. I>and 448;
railroad commission, Albert J.
Woodruff 300; commissioner of
pensions, C. E. McGregor 107;
solicitor-general Southwestern ju
dicial circuit, Stephen Pace 100;
railroad commissioner, O. R. Ben
nett, 120.
SCHLEY COUNTY GIVES
FELTON 50 MAJORITY.
ELLAVILLE, Sept. 11.— In
Wednesday’s primary here in the
race for solicitor general of the
southwestefti judicial circuit the
vote was as follows: Pace 172, Fel
ton 222. Jule Felton’s majoiity
50. The final official consolida
tion showing the vote here for oth
er offices is not yet complete.
ROME WOMEN BOOST
DAVIS FOR PRESIDENT
ROME, Sept. 11.—At a recent
meeting of the Woman’s Democratic
Club of Rome a motion was passed
to make the club a Women’s Demo
cratic Davis-Bryan club, and to hold
meetings weekly, it is said.
FLOYD VETERANS TO
ATTEND GA. REUNION
ROME, Sept. 11.—Plans have
been made for a large number of
Floyd county Confederate veterans
to attend the forthcomiag annual
reunion to be held at Thomasville,
October 8 and 9, according to an
i nouncement. Railroads will give
the usual half rate, it is said.
NEW YORK FUTURES
Pc. Open High Low Close
Jan. 22.30 22.45 22.69 22.43 22.67
Mar. . 22.61 22.82 22.95 22.72122.93
May 22.87 23.00 23.20 : 22.95|23.18
Oct. 22.87^22.80123.09!22.80123.08
Dec. 22.37122.45122.67 22.4ij22.65
PRICE FIVE CENTS
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O'CLOCK IMfflIT
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Vital Street Paving Problem to
Be Discussed and Citizens
Asked to Act Thereon
TAXPAYERS ALL INVITED
City Authorities Seek Advice of
People Affected by Serious
Existing Situation
Tonight’s mass meeting at the
city hall is to be one of the most
important municipal gatherings
held in Americus in many years.
This is the opinion generally held
by those familiar with the subject
to be discussed.
The problem to be presented to
the citizens present is one of, if
not the mast -vita! that has con
fronted Americus municipal author
ities in a long time. It is one that
affects as many citizens, perhaps,
as any problem that has ever been
brought up here.
The position of city council in
the matter is an open one. There is
to be a full and complete showdown
of the city’s resources. Practical
estimates of expenditures necessary
to maintain the present paved busi
ness district will be presented. The
question of economy will be put
squarely up to the citizens present.
Every man and woman present will
have, full opportunity to present)
their views.
In short, municipal authorities
are appealing to the people of Am
hricus to aid in solving a pressing
municipal problem. It is generally:
agreed that the streets must be re
paired, that something must be
done. The wood blocks in Ameri-
Will soon, be
ruined entirely, it is asserted, un
less extensive repairs arg mide
thereto without delay.
The meeting will begin at 8
o’clock, and the business will be
gone into immediately. Mayor
Poole and every member of city
council will be present to hear the
advice of Americus citizens an<l
property owners in this crisis. It
is the duty of every citizen interest
ed in the welfare of the communit
to be present. The place ie the
city hall, and.the hour is 8 o'clock.
You are expected to attend.
MOIL TO BE
NAMED TUTtE
Judge Richard Russell Advises
Luther Harrell Americus Man
Will Be Named
An announcement of interest
made at the Rotary club luncheon
was the statement by Luther Har
rell advising members of the club
of receipt of a letter from Chief
Justic R. B. Russell of the Geor
gia Supreme court, stating he would
gladly name L. G. Council, of Am
ericus, a member of the board of
trustees of the new Tifton South
Georgia Normal school. The ap
pointment of Mr, Council as a
member of the board there, had
been suggested by Americus Ro
tarians, and much satisfaction is ex
pressed here because of Judge Rus
sell’s decision to name him.
Another interesting announce
ment made at the meeting was the
statement that Elsworth Hall had
consented to be a guest of the club
at its next meeting. Mr. Hall is a
( speaker of note, and his address
here next week is expected to be
one of notable interest to Ameri
cus Rotarians.
SUSPENDED COLQUITT
BANK IS RE OPENED
COLQUITT, Sept. 11.—The Col
quitt Exchange bank, which closed
its doors July 17, after shrinkage
of deposits, reopened for business
today. Judge Charles C. Bush is
president and W. B. Johnson, cash
ier.
WOMAN TO REPRESENT
WARE COUNTY LEGION
WAYCROSS, Sept. 11.—Miss
Gertrude Nettles, a member of tha
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Ware
County post of the American Le
gion appointed at the state conver
tion at Savannah as one of the
seven pages to the national con
vention from the state of Georgia,
will represent Ware County post
1 No. 10 at the St. Paul convention,
Sept. 15-20.
; This actipp was taken at the
i meeting of the Ware County post
i Monday night. Miss Nettles is also
| a state delegate from the Woman’s
Auxiliary. ..