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| S .T COTTON MARKET I Thur ! y’ s Rec e >P ts l4B Bales I Sea.‘> 3 . Receipts 11,84 OBales I Stri Midillins* -23 c I rEATHER—PartIy cloudy to- I HMfeS'id Saturday. RIRTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 236 WASHINGTON WINS U. S. BLIMP CRASHES TO EARTH: 5 HURT ZR-3 Sails for America Saturday Morning GFPWBUILT . WPS HIP PEW IB . BEGIN LONG WISE Thirty-Two Persons Will Make Trip Across Ocean Aboard Big Zeppelin FRIEDERICHSNAFEN, Ger many, Oct. 10.— (By Associat ed Press.) —The American owned Z R-3, German-built Zeppelin, is scheduled to leave here at daybreak Saturday | morning for Lakehurst, N. J. Thirty-two persons, includ- , ing four Americans, will make ‘the trip across the blue waters' of the Atlantic, according to Dr. I Hugo Eckener, a director of the Zeppelin company. The mammoth ship of the air is in good condition, having satis factorily completed each of her trial flights. Ten watchmen are constantly on duty to prevent any" stowj.way making the trip across. If the Z R-3 succeeds in holding | her schedule, she will arrive on American soil October 13th. The pilots have previously announced that they will endeavor to reach the mooring mast during daylight hours, when the crew, passengers and ship will be greeted by thous ands. SHENHfIQfHDUE SIN DIEGO TODAY Georgia Man Helped Design Medel of Giant Ship of The Air SAN DIEGO,'Oct. 10. (By The I Associated Press.)—San Diego, the] rendzevous of many daring airmen I and the scene of many aircraft rec-1 ords, today awaits the arrival of: the giant Shennandoah, due iie.re late this afternoon on her last lap of the transcontinental jaunt. At 5:20 this morning, mountain vine, the airship was reported as sailing over Benson, Arizona. The course of the Shenandoah across Texas to El Paso was along the Texas and Pacific railroad From El Paso, the Southern Pacific railroad route will be followed to San Diego, Cal., the ship’s next port of call. GEORGIA HELPED DESIGN MODEL. AUGUSTA, Oct. 10.—Georgia I citizens have more than the average interest in the flight of the Shenan doah, in that the giant dirigible was built from a model made by Harry I Frost, 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. U. B. Frost, of Hephzibah, near her.?. Mr. Frost is now a professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, Boston. His associates in constructing the model of the Shen andoah were Dr. Paul Hyman, his engineering partner, and ProGsior Burgess, of the M. I. T. The model of the ship was made cf celluloid and was constructed in a cellar in Boston. Frost left Hephzibah about ten years ago. He served overseas as a first lieutenant. TO PUBLISH NAMES OF ALL NON-VOTERS AURORA, Til., October 10 Names of all legal voters of Aurora who fail to go to the noils at the presidential election will be publish ed, A. W. Shipton, president of the Aurora Kiwanis elub, announced. “Every man and woman who is en titled to vote and who stays away , from the polls oh election day is a slacker,” he declared. “We are go ing to have their names publidaed the same as the names of the slack ers were published during the war. ’ THE TIMESBRECORDER LftgJtPUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXiE-flftft? ' HAIL THE NEW CHAMPS/ * 9 9 9 9 9. 9 9 .9 UI . ” W ; . X , ' . ’ ' ™ fell ■Hr 1 ’ o * 1 |L , jL*k_ ia ■ WMiM' w Fans, meet the new world champions, young Bucky Harris and his sensational Senators. Ihe pnoto, tert to right, back row: Marberry, Miller, Ogden, Martina, Zachary, Johnson, Gosl in, Shirley, Lefflgs, Taylpr.. Middle roy, Russell, .E&upge, Peck inpaugh, Harris, Judge, Rice, Tate, Mogridge. Bottom row, Zah niser, Speece, Hargrave/Liebold, Mascot Griffith, SchacKt, Mc- Neely, Altrock, Ruel and Martin. BORM I? POLLING TO PROBE CHARGES Cancels Speakig Dates and Calls Committee on Campaign Ex penses to Chicago HAILEY, Ohio, Oct. 10.—Cancel ing the rest of his campaign speak ing engagements, Senator Borah, chairman of the senatorial commit tee on campaign expenditures, has invited the members of the 'commit tee to meet him in Chicago within the next few days. , Borah will give all the time nec essary to an investigation of cam paign expenditures of all three par ties, it was announced. Although he opened his campaign at Idaho Falls only Tuesday night, the Idaho senator has returned to his home in Boise to prepare for his trip east. ARRESTED FOR THEFT OF $20,000 RAW GOLD NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 10.—Her man H. Haug, confidential employee of the Frank Krementz company, jewelry manufacturers Thursday is in a police cell charged with the theft of $20,000 worth of raw gold. Haug, assigned to trace the theft of quantities of raw gold, was ar rested by police detectives who were called in when the thefts continued. A quantity of gold was recovered. JAPAN AND MEXICO SIGN COMMERCE TREATY MEXICO CITY, Oct. 10.—An amity, commerce and navigation treaty was signed by Foreign Min ister Saens and the Japanese mini-, ster, replacing the treaty of 188 The new pact is alon gthe usual line except for a special clause by which both governments forego any claims against, each other for dam ages suffered by their citizens in rebellious commotions or civil wars 6 KILLED AS PARIS EXPRESS JUMPS TRACK RdME, Italy, Oct. 10.—Six per son all Italians, were killed ai d 30 were injured in the wreck of t ic Paris Express, one of the fir.est trains in Europe, near Santa Margh erita. Several of the injured prob ably will die. Seventy passengers, traveling m de luxe sleeping cars, were on board the fast train when she was derailed by spreading rails just after s ie passed Santa Margherita. The express was traveling at 50 miles an hour as she left the trae’es. A tremendous crash followed, c lam es being demolished and tracks up torn for many yards. Six persons were killed instantly. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 10, 1924 i— . , MEXICAN TROOPS HUNT KIDNAPERS OF YEWELL MEXICO CITY, Oct. 10.—Fed eral troops have been sent in pur suit of bandits who early this month kidnaped Paul Yewell, American manager of a British mining con cern at Parral, Chihuahua. The Mexican government acted after representations had been made by thw American charge d’affaires. No details of the case are available in official quarters. BBITISH ELECTION BITTERLY FBMT Liberals and Conservatives De termined to End Labor Gov ernment’s Power LONDON, Oct. 10.—(By The As sociated Press.) —The election of October 29th, following the fall of Britain’s labor cabinet, and the dis solution of Parliament by King George, will be one of the bitterest ever fought on English soil, cer r tainly within recent years. The Liberal and Conservative par ties are determined to prevent an other laborite government and the McDonald party is just as determin ed to fight ever>inch of the way. Less than 24 hours after the spec tacular defeat of England’s first labor government in the house of commons, the king’s speech dis solving parliament had been read in the house of lords, the commons had taken its final adjournment and Premier Ramsey MacDonald had be gun war on the opposition parties which turned him our of office in the first election speech of the cam paign. * , England will go to the polls on Oc tober 29 to register public opinion on the nine months of socialist rule by a minority government. Mac- Donald announced the date of the election in a statement to commons, following a conference with the king, in which the royal assent was obtained for a dissolution of'jiarHa ment and a general election. Parliament will reassemble on Oc tober 31. The premier suggested that the new parliament meet one week or a fortnight after the flec tion, which would have continued the labor party in nominal power for another five weeks, but the com mons decided to enforce the decision of the electorate at the earliest pos sible moment. When parliament re convenes, the political complexion of the new house will determine whether the laborites shall continue in office or make way Tot the con servatives. James Fenimore Cooper could not write unless he was chewing gum drops, BODY OF MN TO BE MOB 1 Will Finally Rest in Simple Sar- I cophagus In Bethlehem 3 Chapel j I WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. (By The Associated* Press.) —The body of ' former President W’oodiow Wilson I is soon to be removed from the crypt j where it now rests to a simple mar- , ble sarcophagus in Bethlehem chap el, Washington. The sarcophagus will be complet ed within a month. The only orna ments Will be a pair of crusaders’ ' swords carved in; relief on the marble cover and a very brief in scription. TM ■ PUNNED BY Dlffi NEW YORK, Oct. 10. (By The I Associated Press.)—Two more m , ■ tensive drives, are planned by John 1 W. Davis, Democratic standard-bear er, before election day. One, starting late toduy with a swing through the Middle west, in i' eluding Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky ] 1 and Tennesee points. The other will I iollow his return to New York Oct. II 25, which will carry him into New 1 1 England. * I Mr. Dakis and his political ad ’i viser s claim that his tour cf New J York was successful. MOVING PICTURES AT A. & M. SCHOOL t Every Friday night at the Third : District A. and M. school there will . be moving pictures sljown in the , main building for the benefit of the school children of this community'. ' Tonight’s program will include a temperance production “What the J Keg told Me;” a comedy, “Farmer I Alfalfa and his Wayward Pup;” and J scenic picture of the Andes noun- 1 1 tains. The show will begin prompt jl B at 8 o’clock and the admission ! will be 20 cents. j| r [ STEAMER CAPTAIN NOT - GUILTY OF PIRATING V MONTREAL, Oct. 10. —Captain . Samuel Ford charged with pirating . 1 the steamer Lutzen of her liquor i' cargo off rum row last October was a found not guilty by a king’s bench B jury here. ' :In summing up «he evidence? Judge Demers said there* had - been I an ‘‘incredible amount of lying” dur ing the trial and that’there were} . “perjurers in this case on one side I and the other,” __ ! SINGING AT SHILOH CHURCH SUNDAY, 2 P. M. Sunday afternoon Oct. 1 2 at 2:00 o’clock there will be a singing at Shijoh church, under the leadership of C. G. Cheek, of Leslie, and all singerg of the county are cordially invited to be present. MBffIBOHH FBIBESIGmiOD Prof, of Biology’s Teaching On EvoluSon Cause Action Os Trustees ' MACON, Oct. 10 (By The Asso ciated Press.) —There is to baa meeting of the faculty of Mercer University this afternoon to decide whether or not Dr. Henry Fox is to leave the institution. " Mercer students in a resolution, have entered their protest against the action of the board of trustees. The resignation of Dr. Henry Fox, professor of biology and for eight years a member cf the faculty of Mercer University, has been re quested by the board of trustees. The request came after an investi gation oL the teachings of Dr. Eox of his theories, on evolution. These theories of the Mercer professor are out of harmony with the beliefs of Georgia say the trustees. SO. CAROLINA TOBACCO CROP, 47,047,000 POUNDS RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 10.— (By The A. P.) —South Calolina’s tobac co crop amounted’ to 47,047,000 pounds this year, according to the •monthly review of business and ag ricultural conditions of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, is med recently. The crop has been mar keted. JERSEY DEMOCRATS HIT KLAN AND PROHIBITION TRENTON, N. J., Oct. 10 After a long battle, which finals re sulted in expressed approval of the child welfare amendment to the federal constitution, the democra tic state convention this week adopt ed a platform in which the Ku Klux Klan, the Volstead act and the Ho bart enforcement act of the state were denounced by name. With but little alteration, the plat form unanimously was approv-'d as drafted by the resolution committee. An anti-lynching plank was added. The plank on labor and child wel fare was widened to include mere liberal workmen’s compensation pro vision. SEKATMS DEFEET GM MIME 'DEWMSESIES With Score Standing Three — All Players Battle For Big Money WASHINGTON, D. C., October 10.—'(Special)— In the greatest game in the history of baseball Washing ton won today from the Giants after 12 of the hard est fought innings witnessed in years. The final score Whs 5 and 3 in favor of Wash ington. Washington drew first blood by crossing the plate for the first run in the fo'urth inning wheh Wrrfe W a homer. . The Giants put three men across in the next, and Washington scored two in the eighth, tieing the score. Bucky Harris called out Walter Johnson at the ninth inning, who held the Grants, 'while Washington put across two more runs in the twelfth and won the world scries for 1924. WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 10. (By Associated Press. ) Good weather conditions are the prospects this morning for the seventh and deciding game of one of the greatest of base ball’s world series. President and Mrs. Coolidge are planning to again be present when the Giants and the Senators face each other for the hardest fought battle of the entire se ries. Baseball gossip has it that “Curly” Ogden will pitch for the Senators and Barnes will take the mound for McGraw s Giants. senators won sixth GAME OF SERIES. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10— (By The Associated Press.) —Launching a spectacular come-back just when their hopes seemed to be at i.he.r lowest ebb, Washington’s battling Senators captured the sixth game cf the 1924 world’s series yesterday from the New York Giants, 2 to 1, and forced baseball’s championship struggle to the limit for ti e third time in history and the first time since 1912. Victory-frienzied crowd of 35,000 that saw “Bucky” Harris, the slim, dark-haired young manager of the Senators, come through wjth a pinch hit that clinched one of the most thrilling triumphs of the series, Harris, with two out and the count 4 w o strikes and three balls, slashed a single to right in the fifth inning that scored Peckinpaugh and McNeely with the Senators’ only runs and broke up a sensational southpaw battle between Art Nchf, Giant ace, who had Vv«n the' first game, and “Old Tom” Zachary, who came through with his seuond tri umph of the series. ILLINOIS POLICE HOLD NEGRO WANTED IN GA. COLUMBUS, Oct. 10. (By The Associated Press.) —Full descrip tions have been sent the police ol Carlyle, 111., of Will Mattox, a ne gro wanted here for the murder of a motorcycle officer in Mav, 1920. The.negro being held in Carlyle is not thought here to be Will Mattox. Mattox is said to have died in Texas last year. The negro under arrest is said to be George Cain, alias George Wil liams. , NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Jan 23.73'23.90|24.20(23.71 Mafrch ......|24,05'24. 20j24'.55124'.00 May |24.23j24.:;4|24.73124.22 Oct. . / ... |24>61:24.75 24.'90|24.54 Dec. . ..... j28.7012;k85|24.14|23.G'9 PRICE FIVE CENTS LIEDLS.BP!mSD mw »i EPON INJURIES Premature Explosion of Bomb Cause of Catastrophe At Newport News Today NEWPORT NEWS, Va.. Oct. 10.— (By Associated Press.) —• Two officers and three men were injured, some of them seriously, when the United States blimp T C-2 was sent crashing to earth at noon today by the premature explosion of a bemb. The bomb was on board to be used in target practice. The army blimp, which ar rived here yesterday from Ab erdeen, Maryland, exploded early this morning. Lieutenants Bruce, and Mar t’h and Alfred Puryear are se riously injured. Master Ser geant Fitch and Sergeants Wells and Jacobs are less seriously in jured. ffIWKW# - « MF IMG Property Damage Great In Cag ayan Valley Swept By Typhoon MANILA, Oct. 10.—(By The As sociated Press.) —According to mes sages received here today, a ty phoon has swept through the valley of Cagayan, killing, and injuring many and destroying much proper ty. Thirty person are said to be daa 1 and many are mining. The damage will reach several hundred thousand dollars. BODyToUND;1007g00 MARKS IN POCKET NEW YORK, Oct, 10. (By The Associated Press.) —With 100,000 German marks in hi, -oat pcci'.et, an da bullet in his head, the body* of a ma nwas found here today. Near l>y the body was a revolver. WILLIAM ABNER GARRETT, BALDWIN ENGINEER, DIES PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10. (By The Associated Press.) —William- Abner Garrett, transportation man ager of the Baldwin Locomotive works died here today, he was ir.o. of the most widely known engineers in the country. 13 INCHES RAIN IN 7 DAYS IN LLUKIDA DELAND, Fla., Oct. 10. (By T! J Associated Press.) — Unprecedent ed rains have flooded this section efi I' iorida. Thirteen inches of rain h.ivtj fallen here in seven days. An in fant is reported to have been drown ed at New Smyrna. Railroads ants highways are under water. iLITTLEJOE j ITS ALWAYS EASKP FIND FOLLOWERS; LEADERS ARE .THE HARD ONE TO GET r NQV./X,)■- L,■ Ya Yh 1 i ■ S ■ fw’i r*- ?• * j . 1
