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MURE OF CHAHG
Lil Pfffl FORCES
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about the i.
a lot of stni' i -
forts, part'/ Manchurian War
profanity i> cun ded, Wireless
They v .)'’ l ge Announces
Qctober 9__ (By
pression' Press.) Chang
vity to the Manchurian war
men in ' instructed his subordi-
That t they endeavor to
died' >j u ry to the legation
high of in the event the city is
finer " Jed by Chang’s forces.
Plucks' (
naval i. T TO CAPTURE
to theft U WAR LORD
iiortb ,NGHAI, October 9.
Wernment forces in the north
Tie surrounded the troops of
Chang Tso-Lin at Shan
. and are expected to
vg(. the Manchurian war lord
rinis, moment, according to a
wh® 0 dispatch from Muk
n’t a
rippeo development in Chinas
I il warfare has shifted in
, el to the northern battle area
cbov General Chang and the
' Vler of the Peking government
."•[J’Aeen waging a fight for su
babi
l.irWy-
• ang, already the supreme
J n .r in Manchuria, has been
, ' to extend his hold over
atter .ina. He has exercised al-
J Ol complete sovereignity
Manchuria and last week clos
an agreement with the Rus
sian government whereby the
Chinese Eastern railway was de
ivered to the latter.
In the south, meanwhile, the
fukien and Kiangsu troops un
er General Chi Hsien Y uan are
.ighting for control of the rail
’ay line which runs between
■i' ngchow and Shanghai. Gen*
• ew Lu Yung Hsiang, with the
• oa , of refinforcements from
iang, is resisting the at-
' DVANCE OF CHANG
pcJNSIDERED FEINT.
pI,'PEKING, Oct. 9. (By The Asso
’ slatted Press.) —Following the news
/received here that Manchurian
forces had entered the great war at
'Chinmen, 18 miles west of Shan
haikwan, an official communique
was issued stating that this attack
by the Chang Tso-Lin troops was
merely a feint to draw off tee cen
tral government forces from Shan
baikwan.
Word that the invading Man
z’ hurian irmy had broken through
great wall at Chiumen barrier
, north of Shanhaikwan, was
'.feived at Tientsin last night from
”.nat border town.
INVADING AIRMEN
BOMB TROOP TRAINS.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 9.—The Man
chur'an army of General Chang Tso
.. ' attacking the city of Shar.hai
midway between Peking,
I . nl m, and Mukden, Manchuria,
t 1 shells in the vicinity of tne
' barracks in Shankaikwan,
accojgdjng to an eastern news agency
dispatch received here telling of ac
tivities at Shanhaikwan.
i Shanhaikwan, along tl’.a line of
the Peking-Mukden railway, con
tains barracks for Japanese troops
who were stationed there in 192a.
PRISONERS USED
| I OR target practice.
K TIENTSIN, Oct. 9. — (By The As
Aociated Press.) —Twenty-four crim
; Inal prisoners, captured by Peking
Mmy forces in the vicinity of Shan
\ thajkwun, were bound on'carts and
take noutside the city to be used in
r target practice, a Peking general
' who gave the order remarking tl e
t J Proceeding would be an example to
other bad characters, according to
a communication received here to
day. *
Subsequently, two spies in the
Manchurian fortes attempting to
_ a . e Shanhaikwan > were captured
8n executed by Peking soldiers
F v ery man’s id. n of a good time
ie somebody’s ideaof a bad time,
puse°d s ss: a ° oth £
tween dentist t
American proi^ 81 ™”’ sa ’ C ““
the TIME<tpCORDER
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ZANNI JUMPS FROM
SHANGHAI TO JAPAN
KAGOSHIMA, Japan. O< . 9 -B
The Associated Pre-.-.,Ma or Pe
dro Zanni, the Arp %-,r.c
flight aviator, arrived - < re tel- aft
ernoon at 4:10 from Shanzha’
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RAMSEY M’DONALD ...
King George has ordered Par
liament dissolved after Premier
McDonald’s Labor government
fiils to receive a vote of confi
dence.
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New Albany Hotel To Build 6-
Story 150-Room
Hostelry
ALBANY, Oct. 9.—Announce
ment was made here Wednesday of
a second new hote’ for this city.
In Wednesday’s Albin; Herald ap
peareu an advertisement by the Al
bany Hotel Compar.”, the corpora
tion owning and oueracmg t:ie New
Albany Hotel, asxi.ig for bids on
tearing down the old part of the
present structure and for the pur
chase of the materials in that struc
ture. These bids are to be op med
October 25 by E. B. Young, presi
dent of the Albany Hotel Company.
Contemporaneously with the ad
vertisement for bids on removing a
portion of the present frame struc
ture Mr. Young made announce
ment of his plans to give Albany
one of the finest and most modern
hotel structures in the South. Plans
for the new hotel, which will in re
ality be a “New Albany Ho^e 1 ,
have about been completed, and
bids for the construction work will
be advertised for with in a few
days. Work will start before the
.end of the year, it is expected.
The New Albany Hotel —jvhicn
will continue to be the name of ihis
already famous Albany hostelry—is
to have 150 rooms, and will be six
stories high. It will face 100 feet
on Pine street and run back 1’45
feet on Jackson street; at least
those are the dimensions of the ok
part of the present hotel »lr.ch is
to be torn away. It is not knowi
definitely whether the new structure
(Continued on Page Two.)
FOUR CHILDREN ARE
BURNED TO DEATH
WENATCHEE, Wash., Oct. 9.
Four children were burned to dea*h
Wednesday morning and three ets
ers escaped in two fires at Oroville,
according to word received here.
The dead are: Arnold, 8; Elfie, 0;
Vernon, 4, and Lillian, 15, chilofn
of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Paulsen.
Their home was destroyed.
Mrs. Paulsen is prost.-«tcd arid it
is feared she may n .it live. She was
asleep on the porch when the fne
broke out. ,
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
RECEIVES DELEGAIEb
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (By The
Associated Press.)—President Coo
lidge today received a number or
delegates in the White House, from
the joint con/ention of the Ameri
can Civic association, t; c Ameri
can Institute of Park Executives
and the American Park society.
These three organizations are now
in session in Washington, j
MERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 9, 1924
WOOLWORTH LEASES
mi® comes
Expect To Occupy Early In
1925—Extensive Improve
ments Planned
Lease of the northeast corner of
Lamar and Jackson streets, the
building formerly occupied by High
tower’s book store, the property of
Mrs. M. S. Holliday, has been closed
with the signing of a lease in At
lanta by J. B. Allen, representing
the Woolworth Five and Ten Cent
company.
The lease has been under con
sideration for several weeks, but
the announcement of its closing
could not be announce, until today.
The Woolworth company contem
plates extensive improvements, on
the building, it was learned from
George Wheatley, who has handled
the deal, which probably will be
started early in 1925. Because the
construction forces of the Wool
worth company are now engaged on
other buildings, immediate work
here has been delayed, said Mr.
Wheatley.
The lease became effective this
month and runs for a period of 15
years. The consideration could not
be learned.
Mr. Wheatley says he will sub
lease the storeroom as it now
stands until January 1 or possibly
until February at a nominal rental.
It is understood that the Wool
worth Company may extend the
building back along Jackson street
to the alley and make other changes
before occupying the corner.
CHILD DEM); HIT
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5-Year-Old Girl’s Skull Fractur
ed —Was Run Down Near
Atlanta
ATLANTA, Oct. 9. (By The As
sociated Press.) —Mary Elizabeth
Lunsford, five years of age, died
early today. From three fractures
of the skull. Concussion of the
brain resulted when t\e child was
run down by an automobile driven
by Mrs. Asa Candler, Sr., near At
lanta yesterday.
No charges have been filed
against Mrs. Candler, who is under
the care of her physician as a result
of the nervous shock.
Mrs. Candler was driving toward
her home on East Pace’s Ferry road
whe nthe accident occurred. She suf
r’ered a severe nervous shock as a re.
suit of the accident, but was able
t c go to Grady hospital shortly after
a passing motorist had carried the
girl there in his car.
Returning to her home, where she
has been residing with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Little, since
, her estrangement from her husoand,
. Mrs. Candler gave a reporter a de
. scription of what she said happened.
MOORE, ASSISTANT STATE
ENTOMOLOGIST, IS DEAD
ATLANTA, Oct. 9. (By The As
sociated Press.) —John Moore, as
sistant state entomologist, died here
today from the result from burns
suffered Wednesday. Mr. Moore
was an assistant in the office of
Mr. Ira W. Williams.
Mr. Moore, who has been connect
ed with the Georgia Board of En
tomology for about a year, was se
cured by the state from Porto R’.cc,
where he was Entomologist for that
government for a period of abmt
two years.
Prior to his going to Porto R co
Mr. Moore was connected with the
federal bureau of Entomology in
Texas, and is a graduate of Dart
mouth and Harvard Colleges.
• Since coming to the Georgia
Board of Entomology, Mr. Moore
has made a special study of thou
sands of insects, and has, on num
erous occasions, gone into the field.
He was born and reared in Colo
rado.
SAVANNAH EX-BANKER
GEORGE MILLS, DIES
SAVANNAH, Oct. 9. (By The
Associated Press.) —George J.
Mills, former Savannah alderman,
well known financier and ex-bark
er, died here late yesterday after
noon following a long illness. His
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H.-re the Chekiang forces in
Chin te’s civil war are seen bringing
their wounded into .headquarters.
From Liulio, it was a painful trip
of 23 miles of bouncing on trucks
Deadlock Will Not
Mean Bryan’s Election
Those Who Imagine Such Don’t 1
Knew Senate, Says 1
Stewart (
BY CHARLES P. STEWART
NEA Service Writer
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Politi
cians who consider Charles W.
Bryan too radical to be safe have
been crying out for sometime that
a deadlock electoral college the
first of the year would amount jrat
ticaliy to Bryan for president.
It doesn’t necessarily follow, how
ever.
It only follows, if it follows ai all,
in case the Progressives are the tail
enders in the election in November.
And they may not be.
If the Retpublicans lead and the
progressives make the second best
showing, which is possible, then an
clec<oral college deadlock means
Cha . les G. Dawes for president just
just as naturally as the other lineup
means Bryan.
Just Suppose!
Politticians who consider Dawes
too onservative to be safe—just as
the conservatives (consider Bryan
too >-adical—don’t seem to have
thought of this. At any rate, they
haven’t emitted any loud cries about
it, as the others have.
C impare the two cases.
S y the electoral college does
deadlock, with Coolidge and Dawes
receiving a plurality of the vote’s,
and La Follette and Wheelei - in
third place.
Then suppose the House of
Representatives, charged with the
task of picking the president in case
the ■ lectoral college can’t do it, also
deadlocks, as probably it would
, L. such a situation the Senate real
ly would make the presidential
cho e, for the Senate elects the
■ vice president if the college cannot,
- and if the House couldn’t elect a
J pre ident, then the Senate’s vice
s pre dential selection would becoms
s pre dent.
I it while the House' authorized
by he constitution to vote on thbee
pre idential candidate, the Senate
vot'-s on but two candidates for the
vice presidency.
Bryan
Thus the senatoroial voting would
be limited to Dawes and Bryan.
I i a case like that it’s not strain
ing matters to assume that the Pro"
gressive senators, deeming Bryan
preferable to the urquestionably con
servative Dawes, would throw their
strength to Bryan. And, of course,
the Democrats would vote for him.
Between Democrats and Progres
sive ' he’d have a majority and would
become vice president, and imme
diately afterward president.
But suppose, with Coolidge and
Da-'eg’leading in the ilcctorial cjl
hge, Li( Follette and Wheeler came
second and Davis and Bryan third.
3 hen, if both the college and the
lloi.se deadlocked, the Senate would
have to choose between Dawes and
Wheeler.
Naturally Dawes would get the
Republicans’ support.
And does anybody think there
I aren’t enough conservative Demo
i cratic senators who would throw
ci in the back seats of commandeer
ed touring cars. On arrival at head
quarters, the Chinese Red Cross
took care of them. The latter or
ganization has not, however, tmen
close to the firing line.
their votes to him to give him a
majority?
Anybody who does imagine such a
thing doesn’t know much about the
Senate of the United States.
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REACHES FI. WORTH
Big Navy Dirigible Tied Up To
Mooring Mast Shortly After
Dark, Wednesday
FORT WORTH, Oct. 9.— (By
Associated Press.) Favorable
weather conditions prevail here
today. The Shanandoah will make
the second leg of its trans-conti
nental flight from here.
FORT WORTH, Oct. 9 The
giant navy dirigible Shenandoah ar
rived at Fort Worth at 7:25 o'clock
Wednesday exening.
The Shenandoah sailed westward
from Fort Worth this morning at
9:45.
It was dark when the great ship
skirted the city limits and, following
the guiding light of the mooring
mast beacon, passed over the east
ern portion of the city, and set* lid
at the mast. Little difficulty was
encountered in making the giant
fast.
A crowd of several thousand per
sons welcomed the big craft and a
mighty ovation of whistles and bells
announced its arrival. National
guardsmen, augmented by Boy
Scouts and police, held back the
crowds which surged forward as the
Shenandoah’s nose was drawn i r ’to
the big cone on the mast.
Oresmen find mirrors useful as
aids to training.
It has been observed that several
kinds of flowers are affected ly
music.
j LITTLE* JOE 3J
ThFtPOUBIF is THAT
TOO MANY GOOD
INTENTIONS ARE
CARRIED OUT- --
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DEMOCRATS ELECT
HIWITTEE
Committee To Consider Primary ’
Nomination Protests To
Act Monday
MACON, Oct. 9.—(By The As
sociated Press,). —The undecided
election contests planned Monday
will come before the protest com
mittee appointed by the Democratic
Convention. The contest in dis
pute are one solicitor general in the
Southern circuit, one representative
in Atkinson county, and one repre
sentative in Twiggs county.
With no startling developments
the state democratic convention met
at Macon Wednesday and after
going through its routine work ad
journed at 2 o’clock central stand
ard time. The convention was in
session a little over three hours,
and in that time it ratified the
democratic nominees, as selected by
the voters in the September pri
mary, heard addresses of accept
ance from Governor Clifford Wal
ker, re-nominated for a second
term, and from William J. Harris,
nominated for his third tern, as
United States senator; named a
new state executive committee and
adopted a party platform for- the
next two years.
Members of the new state execu
tive committee named by the dis
trict caucuses, who, with the mem
bers at large, yet to be selected by
Chairman Maddox, will direct the
affairs of the party in Georgia for
the next two years, are as fol
lows:
First District—J. A. Lee, W. C.
Hodges, J D. Clarke, George T.
Pate, R. R. Tippins, Mrs. Hinton
Booth, Mrs. Cleveland C. Thomp
son.
Second—Judge R. Eve, E. H.
Ba,g'gs, Ira Carlisle, Judge C. W.
Monk, Dr. J. M. Spence, Mrs. E. L.
Smith, Mrs. H- H. Merry.
Third—A. J. McDonald, A. S.
Bussey, Zach Arnold, W- W. Dykes,
Miss Nina Cox, Miss Emily Wood
ward.
Fourth—William D. L. Worsley,
A. Jones Ferryman, E. T. Moon,
M'rs. Lee Hand, Mrs. Charles How
ard, Jr., Shirley G. Boydkin, J. T.
Hatchett.
Fifth—Mrs. G. R. Dabney, G.- H.
Gullatt, J. E. Bodenheimer, Young
H. Fraser, Jr., R. Hutcheson (two
from Fulton yet to be named.)
Sixth —W. A. Strickland, L- B.
Ryals, W. H. Connor, J. B. Jack
son, W. M. Dallas, Mrs. N. W.
Gable, Grady Dumas.
Seventh —John M. Vandiver, G.
H. Aubrey, S. W. -Ragsdale, Mrs.
Edna Tate, Dr. L. S. Ledbetter,
Mrs. Julian McCamy, Ed Hall, Jr.
Eighth— J. TT. B. Thompson, W.
T. Davidson, E. M. Williams, W. W.
Bruner, Dr. Luke Robinson, Mrs. T.
F. Green, Mrs. JL. Hodges.
Ninth —Fermor Barrett, Pearce
Matathews/ 0. A. Nix, B. S. Smith,
Dr. J. C. Verner, Mrs. A. S. McCur
ry, Mrs. J. C. Dover.
Tenth —T. R. Fleming, J. B
Burnside, R. B. Bell, George C.
Evans, John C. Evans, Mrs. N. N.
Abbott, Jr., Mrs. L. S. Arlington.
"Eleventh —W. A. Jenkins, Frank
M. Scarlett, S. L. Davis, H. L. Cau
sey, S. M. Turner, Mrs. R. G. Dick
erson, Miss Annie L. Walker.
Twelfth —Mrs. Eula R. Car
michael, R. R. Hicks, Janiaes
Shannon, Ernest Rivers, Will Stall
ings, Charles Mullis, J. N. King.
MEMPHIS MAN AND
WOMAN FOUND DEAD
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 9. (By
The Associated Press.) —The life
less body of a woman, with two bul
lets in her head, was found in u
house here beside h man, who also
was dead, with one bullet hoi; in
his head.
The police advance the theory
that the man shot the woman and
then turned the gun on himself.
The woman is said to be the moth
er of five children, and the man ii
■reported as being her cousin.
SON MISTREATED, FRENCH
BARON ENTERS PROTEST
PARIS, Oct. 9. (By The Associat
ed Press.) —Baron Rudolph Ilot
tingeur, the French financier, has
entered a protest at the Foreign
Office of the treatment of his son at
Ellis Island, while the son was on
his way to attend study at Harvard
university.
He claims that his son was de
layed two days under most disagree
able clreurtistancts.
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aLLEDFOROCT.29
House of Coirmons Dissolve;
Lords Pass Irish Boundary
Bill
LONDON, Oct. 9.—(By As
sociated Press.) —King George,
after a conference today with
Premier Ramsay McDonald, has
agreed to dissolve Parliament.
Th.c House of Commons was
dissolved tonight and a general
election will be held on October
29.
The House of Lords today
passed a bill creating an Irish
boundary ccsmmksion, giving a
third reading to a measure al
ready passed successfully
through the House of Commons.
The bill be given the royal as
sent this evening.
M’DONALD’S FALL
IMPRESSES FRENCH.
PARIS, Oct. 9. — (By Associated
Press.) —French political circles are
deeply impressed with the fail of
the McDonald labor party.
M’DONALD DEFEATED
BY VOTE OF 364 TO 198
■ LONON, Oct. 9.—The house of
commons Wednesday night passed
the liberal amendment, providing
for an inquiry into the labor gov
ernment’s dismissal of charges
against a communist editor.
The vote was 364 to 198.
This constituted a defeat of the
labor government. Premier Mc
onald had announced previously
that if the motion were passed, his
government would “go to the coun
try.”
The conservative motion of cen
sure voted on previously, was de
feated 350 to 198 when the liberals
joined with the laborites in oppos
ing it. The conservatives, how
ever, supported the liberals in the
latter’s amendment.
It was the most fateful session
of parlian.ent since Premier Me-'
Donald assumed office. Earlier in
the day, the conservatives introduc
ed their motion of censure against
the laborites for the withdrawal of
sedition charges against the com
munist editor, Ellis. The liberal
party was represented by the mo
tion for an amendment, which pro
vided an inquiry into the incident.
McDonald Issue* Warning
McDonald, opening his defense,
warned that passage of either res
olution would “end a government
which had contributed much to the
honor and social stability of the
country.!’
Sir Patridk Hastings, Attorney
general, who dismissed the charges
against the communist editor,
spoke in defense of his action, but
said he was not attempting to apol
ogize and would “do the same thing
again under similar circumstances.”
Hastings, explaining his part in
the matter, said that he had started
the prosecution of the communist
editor, Ellis, when the latter’s dis
tinguished record in the war, where
he was crippled, was pointed out to
him. Then he and the solicitor-gen
eral consulted McDonald, who had
declared the prosecution would do
more harm than good. The cabinet
had taken the same attitude, Hast
ings said; whereupon he ordered
that the prosecution be dropped.
The temper of many members
of commons was reflected in a
statement during the debate by T.
?. O’Connor, who urged the debate
be adjourned “to permit everyone
to cool off.’’
“Not a dozen members of this
house want an election on this tin
pot issue,’ he declared.
Former Premier Asquith, leader
of the liberals, taunted- the premier
for “whimpering’’ anj for deliver
ing his pwn “ante-mortem funeral
oration.’ The liberals, he said,
werely wanted an impartial investi
gation in the interests of justice.
ROTARIANS TO OBSERVE
LADIES NIGHT OCT. 23
Cobb Milner, chairman of Rotary
program committee announced at
the luncheon of Rotary Wednesday
that a ladies night would be cele
brated Thursday October 23, with
L. L. McCleskey in charge oS the
program.
’ The local Rotarians will have
‘ their wives, sweethearts and others
*• present as their guest and supper
1 will be served at the Americus coum
■1 try club. It will be a night of fun,
with no serious business, President
’- Walter Rylander said.
- J. T. Warren was in charge ol
the program Wednesday,
