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SPOT COTTON MARKET Tuesday’s receipts 210 bales Season’s receipts 9s6fc bales Strict middling 22 cents WEATHER—Eair in north and probably showers in south tonight. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 22 PASTOR HIGHT AND WOMAN SEPARATED C. of G. Announces Winter Tourist Schedules SIX ILL-STEEL HLSSENGERTMINS DAILY THIS WINTER Central of Georgia Agent Tells of Winter Passenger Sched ules Over C. of Ga. ALL TO STOP HERE The Floridan, Dixie Limited, Dixie Express, Dixie Flyer, Southland New Trains When the winter schedules, north and south, over the Central of Georgia railway become effective there will be six all-steel tourist pas senger trains operating daily in both directions between Middle Western points and Florida. Americus is a regular schedule stop for each of these de lux trains. In speaking of the winter schedu les of the Central through Ameri cus, Agent H. C. White said to the Times-Recorder today: “Effective with the first tram Southbound passing Americus Tues day, December 2nd, and with first train Northbound passing Americus Thursday, December 4th, The Flo ridan will be inaugurated between Chicago, St. Louis and Miami, Fla. This will be strictly a De Luxe train consisting of all steel Pullmans with valet and maid ser vices, operating on approximately ■ the same schedule as last season, Southbound brain pass Ajnexicus,«a4. approximately 12:15 p. m. north bound at 3:15 p. m. “On December 2nd, the Dixie Limited will make its first trip south bound through Americus, and north bound on December 3rd. This train will be of all steel equipment consisting'of baggage and coach cars dining cars, drawing room sleepers and obversation sleepers, operating between Chicago, St. Louis, Chatta nooga and Miami, Fin. Effective with the Ist train south bound, November 2,the Dixie Ex- Gontinued on Page Three. coNfiiir FIB ARREST No Doubt of Hill’s Violation of Prohibition Law, Says U. S. Enforcement Officer WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Pro hibition Commissioner Haynes, ih a formal statement recently declared there could be no doubt that Rep resentative John Philip Fl’ll, of Bal timore, had violated the prohibition statutes ii making cider wnich he recently announced had an alcoholic strength of 2.75 per cent, challeng ing the commissioner to prosecute him. Mr. Haynes said a deih.lte course of action had beer, agreed upon be tween prohibition authorities and the department of justice. Neither Mr. Haynes nor the department of justice, however, would discuss what course would be followed. Mr. Hill, who has been trying to obtain an authoritative ruling on home made 2.75 per cent fruit juice-, in announcing his “cider party” for last Saturday declared that “anybody who wants to help me to force Prohibition Commissioner Haynes to testify for 2.75 per cent beer and is willing to take a chance of arrest, is invited to inspect and try a glass,” of the cider, which he made from apples grown on his property. He challenged the prohi bition commissioner to have him ar rested or concede that his conten tions were justified. The party, which was attended by about 1,000 guests, was not molest ed and today’s statement by Com missioner Haynes was the first in timation that action was contemplat ed, It was issued he said ‘in reply to numerous requests” for some ex pression concerning the Hill chal lenge. FLA. WAR TIME FOOD ADMINISTRATOR DIES ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 24. —(By the Associated Press.) Braxton Beacham, war-time sod administra tor for the State of Florida, died at his homo here this morning. He had been ill for many months. Mr. JBeacham was Georgian. ———- rfT THE (AOyPUBLI SHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE NEW DATE TO BE FIXED FOR BOND VOTE Mellons Attitude Turns As He Aids In Probe •*1 Senator James Couzens of De troit, chairman of the commit tee investigating affairs of the Internal Revenue Department, ran the gauntlet of newspaper me a. whan, he called at thqJKJnta. House to see President Coolidge. A reporter is interviewing him. 1’ FERGra IU COURT FIGHT Injunction Sought to Disqualify Ndminee On Ground Hus band Would Be Governor AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24.—(8y The Associated Press.) —Statements alleged to have been written by Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, democratic nominee for governor of Texas, were introduced in court in an at tempt to show that there had been an agreement between Mrs. Fergu son and her husband, James E. Fer guson, that the latter would be gov ernor in case of the former’s elec tion. Quotations from the “Ferguson forum,” purported to liave been written by Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson, were contained in a supplemental petition filed by the plaintiff, Charles M. Dickson, who seeks an injunction disqualifying Mrs. Fer guson from holding the office of governor. One article quoted said: “The is sue in this campaign is the Ferguson issue and the Ferguson name and we need not quibble over first names, Jim Ferguson is the only candidate for governor who has been telling the people about all this business (government economy) "or the last two years. Ask for a Fer guson ticket whether it begins witr, Jim or Miriam.” Another statement quoted as writ ten by Mrs. Ferguson was: “I promise to carry out the platform and he (Jim) will help me to give the people of Texas the best admin istration that our ability can pro duce. Jim wants another chance and if you will elect me he will con secrate himself to your service.” These statements will be relied on by the plaintiffs to sustain 'their al legation that Mr. Ferguson will be the real governor and Mrs. Fergu son only a “figurehead.” GIRL KILLED LOVER; MUST SERVE YEAR CLARKSBURG, W. Va , Sept. 24. —One year in jail and a fine of $1 was the sentence imposed Tuesday by Judge H. R. Waugh upon Miss Lucille Pierce, a stenographer who shot and killed Harold Smith, her lover and a Clarksburg traveling man, as he stood conversing with a Buckhannon girl a year ago. Miss Pierce, convicted of involuntary manslaughter, must serve 133 days in jail, the court having deducted the 232 days she was held awaiting trial. She was tried three times, the first two trials resulting in dls agreementSj AMERICUS, GA., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 24, 1924 Secretary’s Change Causes Sur prise in Washington—Mel lon Once Threatened To Resign $ BY HARRY B. HUNT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. Washington is" a good deal surpris ed at the.change iu Secretary of the Treasury Mellon’s attitude toward the Couzens investigation of his de partment. Not so lon gago he threatened to resign if the inquiry wore pushed. He was so emphatic about it that President Coolidge himself de manded a stop to the “probes” the Senate was conducting. Now it’s announced that he’ll co operate in this one—the very one that pre viously he was most particularly dead set against. From the committee room comes the news that the investigators are getting their data in order and that Mellon is helping them. It is stated that the first witness will be called about Oct. 1. ♦ ♦ ♦ One theory is that Mellon wants to know what’s going on before it actually happens; that having failed to head the investigation off, hi? ■ plan is to' give a Tittle ’direCtlßfi~t'd it. He can’t overshadow Couzens. Everybody who knows the latter feels sure of this. But can’t he out-maneuver him? Couzens is not a first class investi gator, like Senators Walsh and Wheeler. He’s fearless. His tenacity is something to wonder at. He knows what he wants and goes after it with indomitable resolution, but in matters of this sort he doesn’t know exactly how to do it. He prove dthis several months ago, when the present inquiry (Continued on Page Five) DITimL FUNDS FOP SUITER SCHOOLS Supt. Dupree Announces Allot ment of Two Funds for Schols in the County Approval has been given by the State Board of Education, Superin tendent E. W. Dupree stated today, for the allotment of SSOO each to the Plains, and Union high schools; also SSOO to the consolidated school at Andersonville and SSOO to the Nunn Industrial School, under the Barrett-Rogers act for the yea?' 1924. Sumter county, says Supt. Du pree, is also to receive her share of the $250,000 additional appropria tion made by the last session of the Legislature. This will amount to $1,827.87. MARION SPARKS FACES JURY TODAY SPARTA, Ga., Sept. 24.—Marion Sparks, young farmer of Washing ton county, indicted by the grand jury at the present term of Han cock superior court, in connection with the slaying of his father-in-law T. E. Frazier, prominent Hancock county farmer, several weeks ago, will be arrainged for trial when court convenes Wednesday morning. Domestic troubles, resutling in the separation of young Sparks and his wife, are said to have been the cause of Frazier’s death, at whose home the young woman had resided since her separation from her husband. The defendant will set up a plea of self-defense when thecase against him is sounded, and ii addition at torneys will undertake to show that the defendant was insane at the time of the homicide, it is reported here. Sparks had re.’entlv been discharged as a patient for the state sanitorium at Milledgcvitl i and thi, will furnish a basis for the insanity plea, it is alleged. Marion Sparks is a son of J. E. Sparks, Washington county merch ant and farmer. __ _ DIpTTEIIF T[ HIT ÜBER 0. I j P. CORRUPTION Determined That the American People Shall Be Aroused Where They Will Condemn CRITICIZES DAUGHERTY Quotest Former Statement to Show Charges Were “Direct and Specific” NEW YORK, Sept. 24. (By A. P.) —Having ,'servect notice that there ■■ tj b? no obscuring of the issue that the American people shall be aroused to the point wheije the/ will condemn and not to condom the betrayal of public trust, John W. Davig, Democratic nominee for the presidency of the United Statee today is'preparing to return to the stump, Sle declares that he is de termine® to hit harder than ever before the “corruption of the gov ernment,” under Republican regime. Instead of retracting and apolo gizing for the statements that he has made regarding Harry M, , Daugherty, as the former attorney generah-tfbmended; '.TiHWi 'WTTtavis, democratic standard bearer in an open letter Tuesday night, reiterat ed and emphasized his campaign ut terances that drew a protest from Daugherty. Instead of his references to Daugherty being “vague” or “veil ed,” as Daugherty said in his letter to Davis, the democratic candidate quoted his allusions to the former cabinet officer to show that they were direct and specific” and added that he found “no warrant whatever for withdrawing any single state ment.” So far as Gaston B Means, star witness before the senate committet which investigated the alleged cor ruption in the department of justice (Continued on Page 3.) inpedom ■fflS MH Declares Klansmen and Klan women Are Salt of the Earth and of Superior Blood KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept 24. (By the Associated Press..—The Ku Klux Klan was held up as “the last refuge of American patriotism wor thy of the name” by Imperial Wiz ard Hiram W. Evans in addressing the second Imperial Klonvokation here today? “Klansmen and Klanwomen are the salt of the earth, upon whom depends the future of civilization,” he declared. “The blood which pro duces human leadership must be [Protected from‘inferior blood,” he said, and told his Audience that they were of the superior blood. KLAN ENDORSES BOTH OLD PARTIES KANSAS CITY, Spt. 24 —Sev eral thousand delegates met behind barred doors in convention here Tuesday at the, opening session of the second imperial klonvocation of the Ku Klux Klan. The meeting was secret and the only news of the proceedings to reach the outside was contained in a report given to the press by the klap publicity department. A dec laration of Imperial Wizard Hiram Wesley Evans that the klan is not in politics, neither , is it a political party, was the most important de velopment of the day. The imperial wizard’s assertion was made in a written statement in which he said that the national platforms of the Democratic and Republican parties “provide a home in either party for the conscientious klansmen thereof.” He added that klansmen as individual citizens “naturally belong to one of these great political parties.” “Where our conscience leads us we will be found,” the statement said, “regardless of who we find in the different political camps.” x Council To Issue Serial Bonds for Local Streets $ I 00.000 Will Be Requested; $75,000 for Streets and $25,000 for Bonds To Be Sold Only As Funds Are Needed ■■■■"■—■ % With every member of council in his seat and a few in terested citizens present, the Mayor and Council Tuesday night re-opened the bond election question, annulled and cancelled its former action calling for a bond election on Oc tober 22 for the purpose of issuing SIOO,OOO 30-year in street and waterworks bonds. Immediately, the council and may instructed City At torney Lane to prepare another resolution calling a bond election of the nearest possible date for the issuance of SIOO,OOO in serial bonds. The action last night was made necessary in order to £? an ge ie bonds from long-term bonds to serial bonds. Lhe effect of this change is only to" eliminate the pilinr up of money in a sinking fund. Instead of laying aside $3,000 ea .ch year for 30 years to retire the bonds, the serial bonds w>ll be retired at the rate of three SI,OOO bonds each year tor 2J years, then five serial bonds each year lor the next hve years. Before calling the council hers of the council discussed the wisdom of the change with Frank Sheffield, preident of the Bank of Commerce ami Frank Lanier. Aft er - this consultation it was found that the city would reduce its in terest charges by changing to serial bonds and at the same time remove the temptation of future councils using sinking fund money for oth er purposes than that of retiring bonds. In opening the discussion, the mayor stated that lhe only opposi tion that had developed, so far as he or any member of council had heard, was the question of serial bonds in lieu of long-term bonds. Lee Hudson, cashier of the Bank of Commerce, replying to a question (Continued on Page Five) DDMCIIiiK ID Ml OillU Renewed Assaults On Shanghai Momentarily Expected—Ki angsu In New Drive SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 24 (By the Associated Press) Guns on the fighting front remained sil ent tonight, but renewed assaults upon the city’s Chkiang defenders is momentarily expected. I KIANGSU FORCES IN NEW DRIVE TUESDAY SHANGHAI, Sept. 24—A new Kiangsu offensive early today was reported started against Chekiang troops defending Shanghai in the district adjacent to Tsingpu, about 2 Omiles west of Shanghai. Unconfirmed reports also were received that Kiangsu agents had blown out two bridges Shang hai railway between Shanghai and Kashing. Refusal of military au thorities to permit observers to ap proach the fighting lines made con firmation of such reports extreme ly difficult. A report from the south, which was given credence in official quar ters, asserted that internal war had broken out in the province of Chekiang due to the appointment by the Central government at Peking of Sun Shuan Fang, tuchun of he province of Fukien as temporary ruler of Chekiang. General Sun has not proven ac ceptable to the Chekiang soldiers, the report said, and they are fast turning on the invading Fukien troops with which they allied them selves following their rebellion against Lu Yung-Hsiang, comander of the forces defending' Shanghai last week. HELD ON CHARGES OF STEALING AUTO ROME, Sept. 24—John Smith, who is aik;ge(L.by Polk county of ficers to have secured an automo bile from a salesman in Rockmart with the intention of trying ’£ out before -purchasing and to have driven off and failed to return, is being held here on charges of steal ing the car. Smith is a citizen of - - to order, the mayor and mem- Dying 0-. Anatole France, “grand old man” of modern French litera ture, is dying, according to dis patches from Pari/. This is his latest picture. It show:; him at work upon his manuscripts. SENATOR EDGE WINS IN N. J. PRIMARIES NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 24. (By the Associated Po ss.) —United States Senator Walter E. Edge de cisively defeated Hamilton F. Kean, national committeeman from j New Jersey, for the Republican [ senate in y:. terday’s primaries, nomination for the United States With returns practically complete Senator E<lge i> leading his oppon ent by 47,000 votes. COURAGE DESERTS WOMAN PLANNING TO KILL HERRIOT | — FARIS, September 24—A worn-! an’s plans to assassinate Premier I Herriot of France failed Tuesday, when the would-be assassin, believ- . ed insane, lost courage as she ad vanced to slay the statesman. Members of the cabinet were i meeting at Rambouillet, southwest of Versailks. As they dispersed! later gave the name of ?«igdame Pen-' jan, approached and demanded to ■ see Herriot. Then her nerve failed. “I have come to kill Herriot,” she said, "but as I do not have the cour age, I leave you this revolver.’ She surer.dered an automatic re volver she had concealed on her person. When questioned, the woman talked incoherently, regarding al leged wrong, condemning the po lice and I* l6 republican regime. It was believed that she might have royalist sympathies. She was taken ll> asylum. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Jan 23.27122.99122.95j22.82 Mar. 23.56|23.32|23.23.23.13- May 23.75'23.38'23.46122.30 Oct 23.87 23.72!23.64|23.50 Dec 23.25j22.95122.99j22.80 PRICE FIVE CENTS PMTHffI BL DEM BPLFOUIB W HIBBT'S IF.FECT Po'scner Had Previously Denied : That He Knew Whose Pic- || Pare It Was • W HIGHT IN NASHVILLE JAIL . Prisoner Writes Daughter Letter Giving Incturction for Dispo s'tion cf His Property CARMI,' 111., Sept. 2.4, (By The Associated Press.) —The photograph of a • irl found in the home, of Rev. < Lawrence Hight, ams of which the / parlor said he.did not remember, va. today identified by George El- ’ liott. a farmer, as a likeness of hist ■ daughter'Grace, who died two years ; 3gO. Hight, it is said ’here, was a friend of the Elliotts. MANY MILES SEPARATE ' fl HIGHT AND MRS, SWEETIN. | MOUNT VERNON, 111 . Sept. 24, ; (By Associated Press.)—The princi pals in the Sweetin-Higljt poison plot romance were separated by miles to- s day, the Rev. Lawrence Hight being in jail at Nashville, 111., while Mrs. ! Elsie S'weetin is being transferred because of a lack of women’s quart- ; ers in the local jail. . Hight was re moved as a precautionary measure. : WRITES DAUGHTER REGARDING HIS PROPERTY. NASHVILLE, 111., Sept. 24. (By The Associated Press.) —Rev. Law rence M. Hight gave instructions as to the disposition of a small amount of property he owns, in a letter wri 1 ; ten vest; rdaj» to his daughter, Mrs. Mary Eaton, of Tamaroa, so it w?S . renorted here' today. The instruc tions contained in the letter were not made public. Hight is calm to day and less nervous than ho han been since he made his confessif?. to the police. MOUNT VERNON, HL, Sept. 24. —The Rev. Lawrence M. Hight and Mrs. Wilford Sweetin, confessed poi soners of their spouses, Tuesday were removed from the county jail here because of reported mutterings of mob action at Nason, a small town near Ira, The minister was 4 taken to Salem and Mrs, Sweetin to Belleville. No crowds had gathered-either at Nason or Ina, and the transfer ofi the pri oners was declared merely precautionary. Loveless married lives, both, the minister and Mrs. Sweetin told tlie state’s attorney drove them togeth er and led to the poison plot so that they might marry. “I’m a preacher, but I’m human, all too human,” Hight told report er.', He wept as he held to the cor se pondent’s hand and thought of his children. * “I had lived for them,” he cried, “before I met her, I had planned not to poison my wife until I left Ina, but She fell sick with ptomaine poisoning and suffered such agony 1 thought I might relieve her pain and free myself at the same time. “How sorry I am now. I agonized in prayer to God, and he heard me. I am forgiven. “Then is a lesson in tips,” thp p.' tor philosophized. “Marriages must have passionate love as a ba sis, or there is no happiness. Had I met and married Mrs Sweetin firi !, our lives would have been un utterable happy. But she married a col 1, indifferent man, and I mar ried th.-.! kind of a woman. My wife was good, but nothing I did would please her. Nbgging was all I got. As he wept the citizens from Ina, pro-sed about him and offered syr> • pathy. No one spoke an unkind word. During the night’s questioning ni - ni wspapermen were allowed to interview Mrs. Sweetin. She told . them they were “not gentlemen.” She still held to her denials. “Could you face your Maker?” om reporter asked her, “with lie upon your lips?” “I’m telling the truth, and as far us this case is concerned, my con cicnee is clear,” she answered. “I can face my Maker, but I don’t want i (o yet. for I am not a Christian," The reporters asked Mrs. Sweetin if she believed the pastor would IM in facing his superior, District Sup erintendent C. C, Hall, who procur ed the segftnd confession involving her. She tenswered that she believed “he would do anything,” “Ho prayed awful prayers at my husband's side as he was dying,” shd added, ‘ after he had administered
