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11 MARKET V Money's |h?Mipts ‘ ..XTIV bales Seastfri’s receipts 9651 bales Strict middling 22 cents WEATHER—Fair tonight; slight ly cooler oh coast; Wednesday, fair. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 222 COTTON UP $9.50.A BALE ON GOV. REPORT VJUUO 000 O 0000000000 OOOOOi Mrs. Sweetin Implicated In Double Poisoning ___ < ■>-ic JFgF* a TMBiSW •SW? I'*' 1 '*' ONE NEGRO HELD BY LOCAL POLICEMEN NEGRO iIKPKT IS ’ MFDTUESDAY mo ihiimi Police Holding Negro Thought to Be Implicated in At Least Two of Local Robberies NO NEW ROBBERIES Two Negroes Held Up Saturday Night By Two White Men, Both of Whom Escaped For several weeks now Americus citizens have been victims of a num ber of petty larcenies; home after home has been broken into; busi ness houses have been robbed) one hold-up inside the city limits . has been confirmed; a young woman was floored in her own room by the blow of a negro burglar; an other woman was dragged from her bed; an office has been broken into and things of value taken. That is part of the story of the past two weeks. .That drastic efforts should be made immediately to stop this sort of thing is being demanded by lo cal citizens. One suggestion made to the Times-Recorder was that the police be placed in plain clothes and turned loose to comb the back streets, allies, etc., and pull in ev ery suspicious character. It is argued that if the police are kept in uniform and on the main streets they or more or less help less in running down the criminals now operating in the city. Other citizens expressing the greatest in dignation, say they are ready to aid the police, either day or night. Yesterday a number of reports were coming to the office of burg laries or attempts; some of these were confirmed and the facts pub lished. Other rumors could not be en tirely confirmed, but facts suffi cient were obtained to know that there is a mild epidemic of burg laries going on inside the city limits, performed by both negroes and whites. This morning we were able to confirm one story which came in on Monday, regarding the hold-up of two negroes by two white men. It was about 11 o’clock Saturday (Continued on Page 7.) lynoficSciL IN SEES IDN TONIGHT All Interested In Bonds Request ed to Be Present and Advise With That Body Mayor Poole has today called a special session of the council for to night at 8:00 o’clock, and specially invited several Americus bankers and financiers to be present and dis cuss with the council some fea tures of the proposed bond issue on which there is a seeming division cf opinion. “We want every citizen interest ed in the bonds to be present, wheth er they now favor or oppose the is sue,” said the mayor. “There are some features of the call that has met some opposition. This we want to wipe out, satisfying all citizens, so far as we can.” The only opposition that has haen met is on the question of whetner the bonds shall be serial bonds or long-term bonds, it is said. There are those who believe that the city will save money by issuing serial bonds, that is bonds that will fall due each year will be retired in the year in which they become due. This would simply mean paying off a certain number of bonds annually instead of placing a like sum of money in a sinking fund for the ■ purpose of retiring the bonds after 30 years, provided the bonds were 30-yc-ar bonds. There does not seem to be any opposition to serial bonds and the meeting tonight will probably settle the question to the satisfaction of all interested 5 _ ..... . . THE TTmESBRECORDER (frajtPjjBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE Lieut. Smith, Chief Os World Flyers, Once Risked His Life For Villa “Lady Luck” Has Been His Pas senger for Many Years—-Was Wounded in Mexico BY 808 DORMAN NEA Service Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—“ Lady Luck” has been a passenger on tlw plane of Lieut. Lowell Smith for a long, long time. She sat beside him when he pilot ed his airplane around the world and, with his comrades, won fame. And, back in 1915, the Lady was his constant companion, and he need ed her then, for he was flying a plane for Pancho Villa, Mexican rebel leader. It was when Smith was a care free adventurer with the Mexican that I first met him, for I was with the Villa forces myself. Later I saw him return to the American continent, completing the first trip by airplane around the world. How different were the planes he flew then from the up-to-date one that carried him around the ■world. The planes that Villa had were a bunch of junk that some salesman with a plausible tongue and an eye for a feig profit, had unloaded on the' Mexican leader. They only flew after' constant tinkering with their engines. And even after they were in the air. it was almost impossible to gain an altitude greater than 500 feet, due to the already high altitude of Leon, wjiere the decisive battle with Obregon, Carranza’s leader, was fought. But Smith showed then the sam i qualities of endurance and pluck that have just carried him around the world. What mattered to him that among his companions, Mays was killed in taking off because his decrepit plane refused to rise quickly enough to clear an adobe wall; that McGuire fell to his death when his, engine stalled; that Fish, unable th get al titude. nevertheless bombed the Car rancista line from 500 feet, and came back with a bullet riddled plane and a cockpit stained a bright red from the blood that flowed from his bullet punctured leg and arm? All this was part of the days work. Smith took his turn at. the daily raids over the enemy lines. Daily his plane came hack with added bul let holes until the wings looked like seives. Lady Luck was with him. But Smith would take off with a grin and return with a wider one. Gleefully he would count the bul let holes in his plane “just to see how many more close ones the Car rancists scored today.” The heat was intense. When he was not flying Smith, with his com panions, was generally to be found in their private railroad car—a box car equipped in one end with bunks for sleeping, and in the other will) a kitchen, where a Chinese cook held forth. There they would sit around with the fewest possible clothes that mo desty demanded, and yarn or play cards. Or maybe they would ‘ake a wild automobile ride at 60 miles ar: hour in a commandeered motor car, through the narrow streets of Le on, just to add another defy to their constant companion, Death. ESCAPED CONVICTS IN SWAMP RESIST ARREST ALMA, Sept. 23.—Carlton John son and Olin Wages, convists, who. escaped from Coffee county chain gang a month ago and were re-cap tured 10 days ago, escaped from the Bacon county jail here early Monday morning. The two men were brought here Sunday after noon to stand trial for the shooting of Wash Nelson, while they were out of the chain gang. A posse tracked them to the home of Johnson’s father, where it is said they are hiding in the swamp. Johnson has said that he will not be taken alive again, and both men are desperate characters, court at taches say. The men are armor and plan to resist arrest, according to reports. • , jg AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 23, 1924 S’”' ' ", '• g ""'p" 1 ".. •'s. K ■ ■*'? ■ V.o’STy I 11»' Hill t HF 1 V : J . - ?! Lieut. Smith (inset) flew the world and in the other fought plane pictured above around the with Villa in Mexico. ___ LfEMGimm PM PEN LITTERS Representative Sent to Washing ton to Investigate and Learn Source of Reports LEESBURG, Ga., (Special) Sept. 23.—Much interest as well as in dignation is being expressed by peo ple here, to an incident that tran spired here last week. The facts are as follows: The latter part of April an ex amination for the position of rural carrier was held, to fill a vacancy existing in this post office. Six citizens of Leesburg stood the ex amination, which was held under the supervision of the Civil Service Commission, in Albany, Ga. Os the six standing the examination five were placed on the eligible list. During the' past week three of the four parties on the eligible list received notices from the Civil Ser vice Department at Washington, D. C., stating that complaints had been received by the Department, against these three applicants. No infor mation as to who filed the com plaints was given, but the charge ranged from misappropration of Government funds, untrustworthi ness, immorality, to the common charge of street fighting. All three applicants thus attacked were able to prepare statements furnished by some of the leading citizens of Leesburg, as well as from Govern ment officials vindicating them of the false charges made, and have filed their answer with the Civil Service Commission in Washington. In an effort to ascertain the au thor of these poison pen letters, a representative has behn sent to Washington, D. C., to plac« the en tire matter before the Postmaster General. Upon receipt of the namte of the author of these malicious communications, legal action is con templated by the parties whose char acters have been attacked. Further developments are expected witljin the week, upon the conclusion of the interview of the representative sent from Leesburg, who is now in Washington. SKULL PRACTICE TUSCALOOSA, Sept. 23.-- “Skull” Practice is being held twice a week for the Alabama Tidesm in. These sessions are expected to make the Crimson one of the greatest teams in the south as far as alert ness and fundamentals are concern ed. In field work considerable im provement is being shown by srpull fast backs aided by Captain Hubert, Brown, and Gillis, who are show ing the form which carried Alabama through a successful season last year. The team is also beii g drilled intensively in the art of forward passing. __ FALSE FIRE ALARM TURNED IN LAST NIGHT The Americus department was called to the corner of Acade my and Poplar street last night about 7:45. Arriving the firemen could locate no fire' anywhere. The box had been pulled by some one unknown. No yeason is assigned for the false alarm, the firemen' said. BOOZE SEIZED AT NEW ORLEANS Officers Claim Headquarters of Western Rum Supply Found And Its Agents Caught NEW ORLEANS, Sept 23. (By A. P.) —Dry agents Monday seized thousands of cases of liquor at Man deville and Bayou Lacombe, across Lake Ponchartrain from New Or leans, and unearthed, they said a gigantic conspiracy to ship liquor by carloads to the large cities in the south and middle west. Ernest Prieto, wealthy sportsman, prominent member of the St. Tam many Parish Law and Order’league and parish political leader, was ar rested. Agents said they found thousands of bottles of wine in the storeroom of his general store at Mandeville. Nab “Brain* ’ of Plot. J. H. Memmingway, said by the officers to be the “brains” of the conspiracy, was arrested as he at tempted to leave Prieto’s yard in h : s automobile. He gave his address as Mandeville. Taylor Cousin, a farmer of La combe, is being sought by the off : - cers. They said that in two banns on his farm they found about I,Ot)C cases of liquor. Agents said the contraband had been brought from liquor ships in the Gulf of Mexico, throug the Rigolefs," into Late Pon chartrain, and up Bayou Lacomb? to within a few yards of Coutin’s farm. Trap For Consignee*. The raid was the culmination of several weeks of investigation, pro hibition officials said. Cars load ed with liquor have been shipped from both Mandeville and Lacombe, labled from the Lacombe mills as lumber. The conspiracy, it was stated, in volved also the movement of enor mous quantities of liquor by auto mobile and motor truck to points in Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. It was added that cars loaded with liquor were in two freight train? which left Mandeville Satur day night. One shipment was bound to Oklahoma City and a second to St. Louis. Dry agents went along in nn effort to arrest the consignees and seize the liquor upon the arrival of the shipments today, nut nothing had been heard from them early to- GFPMPNY WOULD ENTFP Lflfillf Will Demand That She Be Al lowed to Come in On Same Basis As Other Nations BERLIN, Sept. 23. (By A. P.) Germany will in the near future make efforts tyenter'the League cf Nations on an equal footing with the other great powers, it is officially announced today in the communique issued by the German cabinpt. FOUNDATIONS TO BE ESTABLISHED BY LEAGUE. GENEVA, Switzerland. Sept. 23. (By A. P.)) —The assembly of the League of Nations today authorized the foundation in Paris of an in ternational institute for intellectual co-opcration to be conducted under the auspices of the league. SYSTEM AGAINST WAR IS WATER-TIGHT. GENEVA, Sept. 23. (By A. P.) —A water-tight system against the possible outbreak of war is the wav many delegates characterize the present draft of the protocol on ar bitration and security ,which is now being studied by the disarmament commission of the league of ra tions. . [Him ISG 188 : CAPTURES CIMNG Argentine Worlcl Flyer Not Al l lowed to Continue From > Hongkong to Shanghai TOKIO, Japan, Sept. 23. (By A. P.) —General Chang Tso-Lins army has captured Chaoyang, a town in the northern province of Chihli, this morning, according to reports received here from Mukden. | ARGENTINE WORLD FLYER STOPPED. . SHANGHAI, Sept. 23. (By A. P.) —The flight of Major Pedro Zannt, the Argentine world flyer, to Shang hai froth Hong Kong, where the Argentine flyer arrived Monday, has ' been postponed. Because of war I conditions, General Yung-Hsiang. . the Chekiang governor, communica*. , ed with authorities urging the post . ponement of the flight. A GENERAL LABOR STRIKE THREATENED. SHANGHAI, Sept. 23. (By A. P.) —The Kiangnan arsenal at Lungwha, which has been working day and night to supply the defense . forces with ammunition, worked on ly part of the day today. Labor , troubles in the arsenal have develop ed and a general strike is threaten ed. DAVIS ANiTmADOO TO CONFER TODAY NEW YORK, Sept. 23.—John W. Davis, the democratic presidential : nominee, and William G. McAdoo, former treasury secretary, who . made a determined fight for too presidential nomination, have an : agreement for a conference today at Mr. Davis’ personal headquarters here. i The engagement was made after , the arrival here of Mr. McAdoo . from Europe late in the day. Be forehand, Mr. McAdoo sent to ths Davis headquarters from his hotel to obtain copies of all of the nonv nee’s set speeches, including his ad dress of acceptance. Mr. McAdoo has been in Europe for two months and he desires to familiarize himself with what Mi. Davis has said on the issues of the day before he starts out to speak on behalf of the candidate en route to his home in California. LLIGHTS ON TYBEE FOR WEEK ENDS SAVANNAH, Sept. 23—Mem bers of Savannah’s swimming con tingent who degire to participate in winter surf bathing will hate the opportunity’ of doing so. The lighting plant will run full time at Tybee until Sept. 30 and on B'"(- day, Saturday and Sunday througn out the winter. In the winter the sea water is much warmer than the air and there are many who like to enter the surf on warmer days. ■IN CONFESSES SHDIKTEI! IN WINS Tffl After Grilling Mrs. Sweetir Admits She Aided Hight in Poisoning Husband WERE TO MARRY Her Husband and His Wif< Were to Be Removed So Pair Could Wed, She Says MOUNT VERNON, Ills., Sept. 23 (By the Associated Press.) —Afte: an all-night vigil, Mrs. Elsie Sweet in confessed this morning that sh< was implicated with Rev. Lawrcnci M. Hight in the plot to poison he: husband and Mrs. Hight, in orde that she and the minister could b< married. The confession of Mrs. Sweetii confirms the confession of High made to the police yesterday. When arrested Monday afternooi at her home at Ina, 111., Mrs. Sweet in steadfastly denied any part ii the poison plot, but. the widov broke down this morning after be ing closely confined in the sam< cell with the minister, while a num ber of newspaper men and th, state’s attorney listened from th, cell door. Earlier Monday ifae Ina clergy maji had signed confessions that h had administered poison to both hi wife and Sweetin. Until afternooi he had steadfastly maintained Mrs Sweetin was in no way to blame. In his latest confession Hight rc pudiated his statement that he ha I put poison in Sweetin’s drinkin, water. “ I said that to shield Mr.s Sweet in,” he declared. Fearing possible mob action State Attorney Frank G. Thorhpsoi telephoned the sheriff- office a Ina, asking the jailer to throw ; guard around the jail. Thompso: said feeling was running high a Ina. Fifteen special deputy sher iffs were sworn in immediately. PREACHER’S SANITY WILL BE EXAMINED MT. VERNON, Ills., Sept. 23.- Alienists wil lexamine the Rev. Law rence M. Hight, Methodist ministe of Ina, 111.,/in an effort to deter mine whether insanity prompted hin to murder his wife and Wilfro< Sweeint member of his church, b; poison. At the break of a cold bleal dawn' Monday, the clergyman, won out by an all-night grilling, broki down and signed written confes sions that he had murdered his wifi and SweeLm while they ill to ‘e’asi their pain,” In the little kl}ite Methodis church at Ina, the Rev. Mr. High stood above the casket in whicl Sweetin’s boijy lay and in the pres ence of a large congregation said “K'e died a saved man. Only : few hours before he passed on, th< victory was won. I converted hin on his deathbed. We prayed togeth er for hours and he gave his soul t< God.” On Saturday, July 27, whih Sweetin was ill, the minister visit ed his home and gave him arsenic in a glass of water, he said. Ther Hight began to urge upon the dy ing man that he “get right witl God.” , On’Wednesday, September 4, the minister administered arsenic to hi: wife, Anna. The first confession reads: “While temporarily beside my self with grief at my wife’s con dition, she suffering intensely, and believing she was suffering intense ly and believing she was sure tc die, and wishing to save her pain I put some arsenic in some coffee and gave it to her.” Another portion of his confes sion says: “My sole thought was to ease hei pain in her dying moments.” Several hours after he had made his confession, Hight became hys terical in his cell. All night long he had been in a state bordering on collapse, and by noon he had alternate fits of weeping and laugh ing. A physician succeeding in quieting him and the authorities talked to him later so ra short time. The minister again was question eel abou the ejeath three years ago at Centersville,, Hl a young high school girl, Xvho had been a com panion of Mildred Hight, his daugh- on Page Seven) 1 - new YORK Futures Pc. Open High Low Close Jan. .21.59121.50|23.27|21.46|23.27 Mar. ..21.89|21.83|23.56|21.75|23.56’ May . 22.09|22.05|23.75|24.94|23.75 I Oct. ..22.16|22.12|23.87'22.04,23.87 Dec. -.21.57|21.59|23.25|21.46|23.25 PRICE FIVE CENTS COTTON ADVANCES . 168 POINTS ON WS REPORT ■ Crop of 12,596,000 Bales Is In dicated By Report of De- I partment cf Agriculture GEORGIA CONDITION .59 Ginnings Are Placed at 2,662,- i 000 Bales, 1,224.000 Bales Less Than Same' Date 1923 NEW YORK, Sept. 23. (BY A. / I’.) The government cotton report issued from Washington this morn- ! ing proved to be so bullish that a big buying movement set in on the market here, advancing prices $9.50 a bale. r GOVERNMENT FORECASTS - CROP OF 12,5«6,000 BALES. ? WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 23. (By A.'P.) —The government col ton crop forecast issued today indi- r cates a total yield of 12,596,000 bales, equivalent to 500 pounds to the bale. Os this crop forecast, 2.- $62,000 running bales, counting round bales as half hales, has been ginned prior to September 16, states the report. Condition for the 1 cotton belt is given as 55.4 per cent of normal. 1 The condition on Sept. 16 of the 1 Georgia crop is 59 per cent of nor mal, and the forecast of the state crop is 1,198,000 bales. For Tennessee the condition is ‘ given as 60 per cent of normal ard 2 production at 413,000. - COTTON ADVANCES e 168 POINTS TODAY. s January cotton opened at 21.59 i and jumped to 22.93 on the local boards irhtnediately after receipt of the government report. January - closed today at 23.27, an advance of d 168 points. December udnmccd 5 168 points. The previous government report ■- had given the crop condition at 59.6, with an indicated total yield , of 12,786,000 bales. Today’s' re i port shows a decrease in the crop of t only 190,000 bales. a This same day last year there had n been ginned, it is reported, 3,866,- t 000 bales; this year’s ginnings are - 2,662,000 bales, a decrease of 1,- 224,000 bales. A local cotton buyer stated that this market shows interior cotton to be worth now not less than 25 cents _ on the government’s report and in _ his estimation the crop would not ex t- ceed 12,-000,000 when the last re . ports for the 1924 crop are.in. i 1 DUBLIN AUTHORITIES BUILDING FLATS c DUHUN, Sept. 23. (A. P.)— T Twenty-two thousand families, num % bering almost a third of the city’s . population, are living in Dublin in > one roomed tenements. It is esti . mated that at least 20,000 new • houses are heeded.' t -The municipal <. commissioners t have drafted schemes to provide for j- 7,000 faniilies. They propose to _ clear away old tenements and lij( . out a number of blocks in flats. , Temporary structures will be pro , vided to house the people during t recoiistruction. ’ LONG SIATUE TO BE CARVED ATLANTA, Sept. 23.—Contract has been let for the carving of tho statute of Dr. Crawford Long, fa mouse Georgian, the discoverer and 1 first exponent of Anesthesia, to Massey Rhind, of Philadelphia, ac- 1 cording to an announcemen by Dr. Frank K. Boland, President of the • Crawford W. Long Memorial So ’ ciety. The statue, when completed. will be placed in the hall of famg at Washington. i[ LITTLE JOE | FATHER IS STRONG FOR ALAIN AGAINST DRIVING FROM THE REAR SEAT' u t r adi
