SPOT COTTON MARKET
Monday’s reicepts .183 bales
Season’s receipts 11247 bales
Strict middling 241-4 c
WEATHER—Generally fair to
night and Wednesday,
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 133~~
JAPAN AND RUSSIA MAY ENTER
Serious Changes Made Against Coolidge
WHFELEP DECLARES
»rai M TO
GET CWM FUND
Secret Contract Between Mor
gan S. S. Line and Govern
ment R, R. Also Asserted
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 7.
In a campaign speech to a Seat
tle audience Monday night, Sen
ator Wheeler, independent can
didate for vice-president, charg
ed that there had been with In
terior Secretary Work’s approv
al “a secret contract entered in
to between J. P. Morgan’s Alas
ka steamship company on the
one hand and the government
owned Alaska railroad on the
other, which fixed divisions of
freight rates between the two
concerns on joint shipments. He
exhibited a cony of the contract
which he said Senator LaF'ol
lette, independent presidential
candidate, had been unable to
obtain from Secretary Work.
H|e also assailed President
Coolidge, in a prepared in ad
vance text, which recited an ac
count of banking transactions in
state funds when the president
was of Massachusetts
“Senator La Follette one year
ago and a half ago asked Secretary
Work to furnish him with a copy of
each contract entered into by the
government railroad and the Alaska
steamship company and the Pacific
Steamship company,” Senator Wheel
er said.
Attorney General Rustgard, of
Alaska, Senator Wheeler proceeded,
obtained th' 1 copy of the contract,
and a letter declaring that it ’‘was
not for general publication nor for
the public,” while he read a para,-
graph from the exhibited document
which said, “the Alaskan engineer
ing commission and the steamship
companies will treat all division ar
rangement as confidential and pro
mulgate the information to interest
ed employes only.”
Concluding this subject Senator
Wheeler said that one of the first
steps proposed by the independent
ticket candidates was “the breaking
of this unfair, illegal hold of the
Morgan-Guggenheim group upon the
land and water transportation of
Alaska
MOOlf'W
• CWFDRTABLY W
Operation Very Simple One,
Performed Under Local
Anaesthetic
BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 7. (By
The Associated Press.) —Wil'iam
Gibbs McAdoo, ex-secretary of the
treasury, whe underwent an opera
tion for- removal of gravel from h;s
bladder, yesterday, is reported rest
ing comfortably today at Johns
Hopkins.
Dr. Hugh H. Young, who per
' formed the operation,said it was a
very simple one, only requir ng a
few minutes and that the patient
suffered but little. He also an
nounced that Mr. McAdoo will re
main m the hospital for possibly
’’t. aeration was performed un
■r cal anesthetic, the patient
r . t eto t:A, with the surgeon
■regress and was.in excel
fll ts throughout.
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MIND THE OTHER
FELLOWS BUSINESS
USUALLY KNOWS A LOT
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THE TIMESB RECORDER
SHEP IN THE T OF DIXIE
BELGIUM’S REPARATION
SHARE IS $7,500,000
BRUSSELS, Oct. 7 (By The A.
F. —Belgium’s share of the $200,-
000,0000 German loan, provided for
under the Dawes reparation plan,
was fixed at $7,500,000 today.
■MF
' IN IDPY'S HANDS
For 12 Days Former Sumter
County Man Has Fought
For Life
CONWAY, S. C., Oct. 7 (By The
Associated Press.)—The case of
Edmund Bingham, former resident
of Sumter county, charged with the
murder of five members of his
family, was today given to the jury.
The trial has been in progress for
12 days and this.is not the first time
that Bigham’s neck ha? been in
jeapody. ’
LDCALWPWGF!
TO THHSMILE
General Joe Day Stewart Heads
Sumter Delegation of
Seventeen
A number of Confederate Vet
erans left Americus this afternoon
by rail for Thomasville, where they
will attend the sessions of the State
Confederate Veterans Reunion.
Accompanying the Sumter county
veterans were Miss Frances Sparks
and Miss Betty Castellow, sponsors
■ for the Southwestern division.
Division Commander Joe Day
Stewart was in charge of the dele
gation. Accomapniyng hime were:
G. 11. Walker. A. M. Caskey, W. W.
Dykes, Dr. Henry C. Bagley, J. M.
Sims, N. T. Fullford, W. P. Persons,
W. T. A. Dunn, T. R. Strange, Leon
ard Parker, J. B. Nickleson, C. L,
Peacock, T. R. Murphy, J. P. Chap
man.
The Sumter County Veterans join
ed several hundred others, who are
occupying four coaches oh the Cen
tral of Georgia train.
Thomasville has the heroes of the
sixties two full days of speech mak
ing, feasts and a general good time.
NEW ORLEANS GANGSTER
SHOT AT BEDSIDE
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 7 (By The
A. p.)—Robert Hackett, a gangster,
was shot and fatally wounded at his |
bedside shortly before break of day
this morning by several men who
had invaded the gangster’s home.
No arrests have yet been made.
BANDITS GET $25,000
IN SERIES OF HOLD-UPS
DETROIT, Mich., Oct. 7 (By The
A. P.) —Approximately $25,000 was
today obtained by bandits, heavily
armed, in a series of pay-roll hold
ups here.
LA FOLLETTE INVADES
PENNSYLVANIA TODAY
... ROCHESTER, N: P„ Ort. 7.
(By The Associated Press.) —Sena-
tor La Follette, independent candi
date for the presidency, left early
today to carry his campaign into
Pennsylvania’s coal district. He is
scheduled to speak at Scranton, ga.
tonight.
WORLD FLIGHT AVIATORS
ARE GIVEN AUTOMOBILES
CHICAGO, 111., Oct. 7. (By The
Associated Press.) —Lieutenant Lo
well Smith, commander of the army
world flight, and Relief Pilot Arnold
each will be presented with an au
tomobile by Chicago admirers, it is
said here today.
ESCAPED PRISONER IS
KILLED BY POSSE
LAWRENCEVILLE, Tenn., Oct.
7. (By The Associated press.)—•
Sidney Rosson, one of the prisoners
who escaped from.the Lawrence
county jail Sunday, was shot and
killed by a sheriff posse Monday
night.
TRUCK BURNS: TOURISTS
NARROWLY ESCAPE
ATHENS, Oct. 7. (By The Asso
ciated Press.) —While en route to
Florida, the family of W. M. Huff
narrowly escaped death near here
Monday when the truck in which
they were riding burned. Three
members of the family were slight
ly, t
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AMERICUS? GA., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 7, 1924"
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have invented new sport to em
ploy old auto tires. Ten pins are
set up on a sidewalk or any
Sumter Delegates Leave
Wednesday For Macon
Formal Nomination of Walker
and Harris Many Dele
gates Expected
The Sumter county delegation to
the state convention at Macon Wed
nesday will leave Americus Wednes
day morning on the Central of Geor
gia at 6:51, a member of the dele
gation said today.
The delegates from the county all
of whom are expecting to attend
are Representatives George W. Ri
ley and A. Edward Hines, Frank
Harrold, W. W\ Dykes, Dr. Thad
Wise, of Plains, Neal Ray, Mrs. H.
O. Jones and Mrs. S. H. McKee.
The alternate appointed, some of
whom are expecting to go to Macon,
are George Israel, Cobb Summer
ford, Ross Dean, Robert C. Lane, T.
O. Marshall, Ben Easterlin, of An
dersonville, Mrs. Henry Clay and
Miss Sarah Cobb.
A number of others are planning
to accompany the Sumter delega
tion, which will remain in Macon all
Sumter-Mercer Alumni
Meet Here October 16
List of Mercer Men In County—
Two Prominent
Speakers
Alumni of Mercer University in
Sumter county will hold an impor
tant meeting in Americus Thursday
night, Oct. 16, when A. B. Conger,
of Bainbridge, and Dr. John B.
Turneiyof Albany, come for a con
ference with Mercer men relative
to the Mercer alumni war memorial
program.
The program calls for the erec
tion on the Mercer campus of a
$150,000 building as a memorial in
honor of Alumni who fell in the
world war.
Robert C. Lane and other local
Mercer Alumni will aid in arranging
the meeting here. Mercer men over
the United States are engage ! in a
joint effort to raise the $150,000
needed for the memorial building
which will take the form of a com
bined auditorium, gymnasium and
classroom structure, it is said.
Sfeorge H. Carswell, of Irwinton, is
national director of the undertaking
with distinct directors assisting him
in organization work.
Dr. Turner and Mr. Conger will
come to Americus from Dawson,
where they held a conference with
Mercer Alumni Thursday morning.
Their tour ends here, and is .1 pert
of a state-wide simultaneous Mercer
alumni tour. ■
“The list of Mercer men in this
county given below is as nearly cor
rect as could he determined by the
Alumni office,” Mr. Lane said to
day. “Any corrections that mav be
made will be highly appreciated ns
the Alumni secretary is making ef
forts to list Mercer Alumni in every
county correctly.”
The list of Mercer men in Sum
ter county as shown by the files of
the Alumni office are as follow#
Burnett, E. Stanlev, Leslie. ‘ 1
Callaway, T. F. Rev,, Americus.
Castellow, Alpheus 8., Americus.
Cato, Frank L., Americus.
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smooth surface. The game is
played the same as bowling, ex
cept that only one roll is allow
ed to a frame.
day Wednesday, returning Wednes
day night.
GOVERNOR EXPECTED
AT MACON TODAY.
MACON, Oct. 7.—Governor Clif
ford Walker is expected to arrive
here today for the state convention
which will convene in the City Au
ditorium, making the Hotel Lanier
his headquarters.
Many delegates and observers be
gan arriving in the city Monday and
others will come in today, partic
ularly those committeemen who rnutf
bold meetings before the openjng
of the convention.
John S. Cohen and Mrs. Edgar
Alexander, Georgia’s national com
mitteeman and committee z woman,
have made reservations pt the Hotel
Dempsey for Tuesday and tomorrow.
It had not been learned last n’.ght
the exact hour they will reach Ma
con, but plans have already been
made for their entertainment. Sen.
William J. Harris is expected to
Continued on Page Three.
IWBK PUN
PIMP CfflPlH
Another Trade and Pay Affair
Being Signed Up Today
In Americus
A number of Americus merchants
have signified their desire for the
Chamber of Commerce to again aid
them in putting on a trade-at-heme
and pay-your-bills campaign, under
the same conditions as the two held
last year and which, merchants say,
proved satisfactory to them and to
their customers.
Secretary Everett went to work
on the campaign Monday, many mor
chants signing up for lue campaign.
Others are being interviewed today
and the chamber secretary expects
to wind up the lists by Wednesday
night. “We don’t want to miss any
local merchant,” said Mr. Everett.
“The campaign is open to all and
should any one be sk'pped, they may
phone me at the Chamber of Com
merce, an ! I will see them.”
During the campaigns last year a
number of merchants reported many
“aged” accounts as having been
paid up, a stimulation in business
and good results all atcund.
MINE GATEWAYS AND
BRIDGES DYNAMITED
M’ALASTER, Okla., Oct. 7. (By
The Associated Press.) —The gate
ways to mine No. 12 of the Rock
Island coal and Mining company,
near Hartshone, were dynamited
Monday night. Two railroad bridges
also were dynamited at the same
time. The damage is said to be
slight, but the coal field is aroused
over the incident. No arrests have
jet been made. ’
BRITISH PREMIER
WFSMBM
MacDonald Will Resist Censure
Vote General Elections
Inevitable
LONDON, Oct. 7.—(By the As
sociated Press.) —British Premier
MacDonald today scored commun
ism in hid address to the annual
Labor party conference. “It is a
product of charism and war bru
tality,” he said.
The Prime Minister confirmed in
dications that he has planned re
sistance to a vote of censure and
also resistance to a vote on the lib
eral’s amendment seeking' inquiry
into the circumstances of the re
cent filing of Sedition charges
against a communist editor.
It is indicated that the govern
ment would not shrink from disso
lution and would call an election
if the Laborites fare put to the
test.
LLOYD GEORGE
ATTACKING LABORITES
LONDON, October 7. A defeat
of the Labor government in the
house of commons Wednesday, fol
lowed by the calling of a general
election, is now regarded as in
evitable.
This prospect became practically
certain when premier MacDonald’s
cabinet decided Monday that the
government would oppose both the
conservative motion, of censure and
the liberal amendment to it, which
will be debated in the house Wed
nesday.
If the Laborites persist in their
present course, it will mean that
they deliberately sought defeat on
a comparatively minor issue.
However, if tire government does
not make of the present ques
tion, it would be sure to meet with
a damaging attack on the Russian
view apparently, that nothing' is to
be gained by temporizing.
Already, campaign speaking has
broken out like an epidemic
throughout the country. Lloyd
George opened his speech-making
at Leicester Monday, mercilessly
lashing the Laborites and declar
ing that an election was made nec
esssary by the government's sur
render to “a gang of Its own ex
tremists.” He denounced the gov
ernment in the case of the com
munist editor, declaring it had in
terfered with the course of just
ice, and asserted that the proposed
Russian loan was “lunacy.”
LIEUTENANT CRISP
ORDERED TO CHINA
Sails Nov. 1 From San Francis
co t o Join Legation
Guard
Lieutenant Charles F. Crisp, s>n
of Representative and Mrs. Charles
R. Crisp, has been ordered to sail
from San Francisco November 1
for Peking China, where he will be
connected with the United States
legation guard.
Lieutenant Crisp is now in tin
city, guest of his parents, having re
turned from Wakefield, Mass., and
Seagirt, N. J., where he accompani
ed the Marine Corps rifle team for
rifle practice,
It is not known whether the in
ternal wars now in progress in China
caused his orders to join the Pek
ing guard.
The United States legation guard
is one of the units of the interna
tional legation guards established in
China after the Boxer rebellion,
when the live sos many foreigners
were threatened.
Lieutenant Crisp : s a graduate
of the class of 1922 from the Uni
ted States military academy at
Annapolis.
owboTruT
1 SHIP WANTED
NEW YORK, Oct. 7. (By The
Associated Press.) —-The arrest and
extradition of the Canadian owner
of the seized British rum shi,p Fred
erick B. is requested in a report to
the State Department from Division
Prohibition Director Merrick. The
owner, when extradictod, would be
tried in the United States for con
spiracy to violate America’s prohi
jtion laws. ... .. ..
CHINESE WAR
He’s Oldest Fire
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Karl Bisswurm, 82, is the old
est fire-fighter in Germany, and
probably in the world. He still
answers the call in the little town
of Bottweil. Hi.; main regret is
the passing of the fire horse.
wSfiST
SUES om GESffl
Atlanta and Others Will Wit
ness Dirigible in Trans-
Continental Flight
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 7. (By
The Associated Press.) —It was de
cided, after a conference here this
morning, that the giant dirigible
Shenandoah would start her trans
continental air voyage early today.
The proposed outbound route will
take the ship over Athens and At
lanta, in Georgia, later passing over
Birmingham, Ala.
Air officials had previously plan
ned to set sail at noon today.
f DUPTH GIK IN
BIG m TOPK
Excellent Weather Awaits Sena
tors and Giants at Pclo
Grounds
NEW PORK, Oct. 7. (By The
Associated Press.)-—Excellent weath
er conditions arc again e ured in
the nation’s metropolis for today’s
fourth game of the world series
The Senators lost the first game
at Washington and took the second,
again playing on their home lot, and
were defeated the second time by
the Gians in New York yesterday.
MONDAY’S GAME
A WILD ONE.
NEW YORK, Oct. 7. Two singles,
an error and’a wild pitch in the sec
ond inning gave the New York
Giants two runs here Monday after
noon and enabled the National
league champions to beat the Wash
ington Senators, 6 to 4, in the third
game of the world series.
Battling gamely as they did all
season and in the first two games 1
of the series, the Senators rallied
in the ninth inning and gave the
jliants' a terrible feght. They
scored one run and McGraw had
to use three pitchers to stop them.
WOULD PUT BASEBALL
UNDER U. S. COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—Rep
resentative Sol Bloom, of New York,
announced last night that he would
introduce at the next session of con
gress a bill under which baseball
would be governed by a federal com
mission.
“The nation-wide interest in the
world series,” he said, “combined
with the ns Hnal chagrin that one
of tty? parti, ating teams is involv
ed in a scare.al convinces me that
the time has come when the federal
government should maintain a su
pervisory interest in baseball.
“Baseball is a matter of inter
state commerce. The two major
leagues and most of the minor
leagues are interstate affairs. Base
ball magnates recognized the de
mand for some sort of super-regu
lation when Judge Landis was chq>W
en as "»r but .Ibe big j
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Manchurian Air Craft Using
Aerial Bombs As Land
Troops Advance
SHANGHAI Oct. 7—(By
the Associated Press.)-—Sun
kiang, 22 miles sputhwest of
Shanghai, has been cantured by
General Sun Chuang-Fun. Mili
tary Governor Fukien and Che
kiang troops are reported as now
retreating on Singchawn.
Manchurian Air Craft
Bomb SbanFaikwan
I iENTSIN, China, Oct. 7.
(By the Associated Press;)
Shanhaikwan , located in the
province of northern Chihli, was
bombed early today by Man
churian air craft, while the sur
face armies of two factions car
ried on an intensive battle for
the possession of the city now
held by Peking forces.
Japan and Russia \
May Take Sides
SHANGHAI, Oct. 7—(By
the Associated Press.) Out
side influences the measure
of participation Russian and Ja
pan may take in China’s civil
war—loomed large Monday as
a factor in the fight for control of
the Central government of Chi
na as opposing armies continued
battling on widely separated
fronts.
Japanese citizens and military
organizations are urging their
government to interfere as an al
ly of General Chang Tso-Lin,
the Mti nchurian leader, who is
conducting an offensive against
the Peking government. Thia
Japanese assert their govern
ment is privileged to interfere
because of special interests in
Manchuria, according to reports
received here. Russia is report
ed to have taken action in favor
of General Chang.
AMERICAN WOMAN
INSULTED BY POLICE.
HONG KONG, Oct. 7. (By the
Associated Press.) —Mrs. Harvey
L. Decker, an Am< rican, and wife of
the manager of the Canton City
Transportation company, Saturday
was subj cted to rough handling,
jostling and jeering, and finally 1 •
detention in a police station cel.',
by twenty Chinese policemen 0
Canton, according to word received
here. -
Mrs. Decker, who fe in delicat'
health, had gone to the police sta
tion in connection with a demann
for payment of a police fax alleged
to be due from her husband on the
ground that he is engaged in busi
ness in Canton.
CHINESE RAILWAY TURNED
OVER TO RUSSIA.
MOSCOW, Oct. 7.—What is de
scribed in soviet circles as an agree
ment between Russia and China to
block the advances of western pow
eis in the Far East has just been
concluded in an agreement, whim
turns the administration of the en
tire Chinese Eastern railway over
to the Russian government.
The railway administration was
delivered to the soviets on October
4, it has just been learned, in an
agreement signed September 20 at
Mukden between the soviet govern
ment and General Chang-Tso-Lin»
war lord of Mancbui'iu.
In an interview given to the Rosta
agency in Pekin, M. Karakhan, Rus
sian representative there, describes
the agreement as a “crushing blow
to imperialist states, destroying their
last chance to grasp the Eastern
railway.”
The Chinese Eastern railway, an
import ant strategic line which runs
eastward from Manchuli through'
Manchuria and on to Vladivostok,
had long been a subject of contro
versy among various powers which
have sought Its control. Since the
overthrow of the czar’s government
its status has been in dispute.
The -railway property returned tai
Russia under the treaty is worth
half a billion gold rubies, Karaklian
1 elieves. The treaty with Ciuing-
Tso-Jan came about through! the
earlier treaty between the soviet
and the Peking government, which
the latter was incapable of fulfill
ing.
SOUTHERN RY. WOULD
ABANDON TENN. LINE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. (By Tb.o
Associated Jress.) —-The Souttern
railway today uppliad to the Inter
state Comnnrce Commission for M-
