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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Today’s Receipts 60 Son’s Receipts * 13,879 &tr ct Middling 22c WEATHER— Generally fair to- j„|>t and Wednesday; cooler to- ht in west and south portions. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 245 GOV. WALKER WILL REPLY TO CHALLENGE UTILE DAMAGE IS SIfFEH IN SOUTH FLOPIDA Bl STM Hurricane Did Not Reach Full Power —Citrus Fruit Damaged JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 2) (By Associated Press.) Southern Florida according to reports received here, has suf fered little damage, with the exception of the fruit crop, from the night’s torrential rains and high winds. The wind velocity reached as high as 60 -miles an hour, indi cating that the predicted hurri cane did not reach its full power. Central Florida and Tanina entirely escaped the storm. The Palm Beach territory is flooded with the worst rainfall in 15 years. Word from Miami is to the effect that it was not dam aged. MIAMI, Oct. 21.—The tropical storm existed by the weather bu reau for seyerfiE days, swept south ern I-’kHijda cpjiste Monday after noon, i accompanied by a The hurriewe swept over the gulf near Ft'. Myers or Punta Garda Key West reported a heavy gale and ocean-going vessels were rush ing to nearest ports along the east and gulf coasts. Schools at Tampa, Lakeland and other Florida cities were closed Monday, and other preparations made to care for residents and property. Intermittent rains have drenched southern Florida since Friday night, and many sections of the peninsula reported trains and highways block ed by high waters. PUNTA GORDA DARK AS STREETS ARE FLOODED. PUNTA GORDA, Fla., Oct. 21. —The tropical storm struck this city early Monday afternoon wreak ing havoc here,. Heavy rains over flowed the streets and the city was in darkness, all electric lines .being dowijj. Maritime interests and\ the fishing industry were said to be sufferuig damages. The ci*rus crofßsreported to be seriously dam aged. V ,1 CREW OF ONE~SHIP RESCUED IN GULF. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 21,—mes sage received here late Monday from Captain Robert Laird, of the steamship Atlantida, of the Vacarro Brothers line, Which arrived in La Ceiba last night, after having safely passed through the gulf hurricane, stated that the crew of the storpi of i! " v, ' ss< ’ l sca£ off the roast orirelize. ‘ " f MOVIE STAMPEDE FATAL FOR GIRL NEW CASTLE, Ky., Oct. 21. A ten year old girl was crushed to death, five persons were injured se riously and six others received -.e-tser hurts in a stampede of patrons in a motion picture theatre here, last night when fire in the projecting room caused a panic. The victim, Emma Massie, was killed in the eru-h of bodies that swirled in the street exit of the house. A side entrance was ignored. Efforts of persons who escaped fro mthe building to re-enter in search of others was said to have added greatly to the crush at the The confined to the pro jecting room and fire ‘os’s was said to have been rel-v.ize y small. All doctors here rushed tc the scene and additional medical aid was summoned from Campbellsville and Eminence. LITTLEj JOE ~ IT INCREASES A MAN'S APPEARANCE When his clothes aqe in crease/ Lt - L we* **• THE TImES& RECORDER [ggjLPU_BLI SHED IN THE AR T OF DIXIE GAS LEAKS; NEGRO STRIKES MATCH; TRUCK SAVED BY FIREMEN Quick action on the part of the fire department saved a lum ber truck, the property of A. W. Smith, from being destroyed by fire Monday night. The truck was parked along Lamar street and considerable gas collected on the street from a leak in the gas line. The negro driver, desiring to see how much of the fluid had escaped, struck a match to con duct his investigation. A passerby notified the fire department. Aarriving a t the scene, the firemen pushed the tiuck from over the burning gasoline and with a hand extin guisher put out the part of the truck that was on fire. POM TO S PEAK TO WOMEN VOTERS Requested To Present Views On $60,000 Bond Issue By Local League Mayor J. E. Poole has been in vited to address the Americus chap ter of the League of Women Vot ers on the question of the $60,000 bond issue for repaving the uptown streets of Americus. The mayor has accepted the in vitation extended through Mrs. H. O. Jones, president of the' local chapter. The meeting of members of the league and all other women of the city interested, will be an nounced in the next day or two. “When I go before the League of Women Voters,” Mayor Pooh said today, “I intend to give them the facts as they are, with regard to every phase of this question. “I shall endeavor to explain to them the financial status of the city, the budget system under which we are operating a.id which we will use again for the next two years. And I will .gladly answer any question they may ask, provided, I have the "ftwormation desired. “I hope the women of our city will interest themselves in the bond election. I want them t-.i know all there is to know about it and then make up their minds whether they will vote for or against the issue. If they are fully acquainted with the facts, I believe the women will support the issue. ’ TROPICAL STORM TO BRING COLD WEATHER WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.—The tropical storm inland over southern Florida is moving directly eastward with its center a short distance north of Miami. Frosts are reported in the ex treme upper Mississippi and upper Ohio valleys eastward to the At lantic coast. Weather in the remainder of the country remains fair. Tempera tures will be lower in the Atlantic states and southward tonight, and in Tennessee and in the East Gulf and South Atlantic states Wednes day. Frost is probable tonight as far south as northern Tennessee. HEAVY FINES FOR PROHI DEFENDANTS COLUMBUS, Oct. 21.—Fines of $lO3 each were imposed on three defendants charged with violating the prohibition law by Mayor Ashby Floyd yesterday morning in Phenix court. Sixteen eases were made by ■Hie police during the week-end. It was considerably smaller than a week ago when thirty-five' cases were docketed. W. D. Pravett, arraigned on a dry charge, paid the heavy fine. Lester Henderson and Will Nelson, charged with dr.iil ir offenses, ap pealed their eases. Nearly ssoo.in fines was imposed yesterday mor.l EV the mayor. Os that amo'j V ? 156.75 had been paid last night. HANCOCK SHERIFF SEIZES STILL AND NEGRO SPARTA, Ga., Oct. 21.—Three hundred gallons of beer were de stroyed and a 80 gallon copper still and five' gallons of whisky were seized Saturday by Sheriff J. M. Jackson and Deputy Rosser D. Smith, on the Thatcher place, i.ear the Oconee river. Mirabeau In gram, alleged negro operator and owner of the still .was caught with two gallons of liquor in his buggy preparing to leave his home for this place. This still is the first that has been captured since the last term of Hancock superior court, operators of stills having eeased aeffvitLs to a large extent. y BOMBING MIPS ' OFF SHANHAIKWAN Intense Fighting Continues In City, Port of Which Has Been Taken MUKDEN, Oct. 21 —(By As sociated Presfc.) —Manchurian airplanes are throwing bombs on the government warships off Shanhaikwan. Manchurian troops now are occupying the southern half of the city of Shanhaikwan, on the Chihli-Manchurian border. The town is almost surrounded now, according to reliable advices, re ceived here. Intense fighting is proceeding there. The Peking government troops are stubbornly defending the steep hill in the northwestern section of the city, against re peated assaults. an mF" OCCUIKTONBRROW No Opposition Except In Race For Two Police Commis sion Places The city primary occurs tomor row for the election of a mayor, three alderm-i i and two police com missioners. There is no opposition to Mayor Poo.e or to Aldermen Alli son, Carswell and Mitchell. For the police board, there are three applicants to fill the two terms expiring. G. O. Loving is running to succeed himself; S. L. Hammond would succeed himself, and John F. Monohan is running for one of these two places. The polls will be located at the usual place near the city hall. The polls open at 7 a. m. and close at 6 p. m. - BIG SHENANDOAH ARRIVES SAN DIEGO • Will Mopr This Afternoon After Tempestuous Voyage Down Coast (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.) SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21—Foggy weather condition's are preventing the Shenandoah fro mmooring at North Island air station here until late this afternoon. The big air • tfhip arrived early today, after a tempestuous voyage down the Pa cific coast from Camp Lewis. MAN KILLED IN AIRPLANE A GEORGIAN OCILLA, Oct. 21 —■ By the As sociated Press.) —Merrit J. Flan ders, killed in the crash of two naval planes 13,000 feet above Coronado October 16, was a native Georgian and the son of J. J. Flanders, of Ocilla, editor of the Ocilla Star. He was graduated from West Point in 1922 and was attached to the transport Vega which carried assistance to strick en areas in Japan following the great earthquake. DENTIST IS KILLED BY SHOT FROM CAR TAZEWELL, Tenn., Oct. 21. Dr. E. J. McDaniel, 40, practicing dentist o fthis city, was ’’hot and almost instantly killed last night by an unidentified man who sped by him in a large touring car and fired on him with a shot gun. Dr. McDaniel was en route to his home from office in th: easiness dis trict and was shot down within six hundred feet of his residerice. The automobile was being operated at a high rate of speed and no clue as to its occupants had been obtained late tonight. NEGRO LOCKS HIMSELF IN; SETS HOUSE AFIRE An unbalanced negro living on Coker street, set fire to his house Monday, night and locked himself in the dwelling. Neighbors tele phone the fire department which reached the scene just in time to get the negro fro mthe house be fore he had suffocated. On entering the house the fire men found the place filled with smoke from burning bundles of rags, and the negro on his knees praying and singing. Tr<* name of the negro is not known, ~ AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 21, 1924 Those Eligible to Vote in Municipal Primary Because of conflicting statements made regarding the question of who is eligible to vote in the Americus municipal primaary to morrow—Wednesday—the Times-Recordfer requested the following statement from the chairman of the city Weeutive committee, which follows: As chairman of the Executive Committee of the City of Americus, I desire to make the following statement with reference to the matter of a list of voters for the primary to be held tomorrow, for the nomination of a Mayor, three Ai dermen and two Police Commissioners. I wish to state in the beginning that there has never been any confusion on the part of the Committee as to who would be entitled to vote in this primary, and that he Commitee regrets any mis-understanding that may have arisen. All persons whose names appear on the registration list for the year 1923, and who have paid the taxes due for the year 1923, will find their names on the qualified list of voters in tomorrow’s primary, whether or not they have signed the registration book which has been kept open for the last two weeks. * In the absence of the chairman of the executive commit tee, the Times-Recorder called the city clerk, who, it seems, had misunderstood the directions of the committee. The Times-Recorder quoted the city clerk. However, the executive committee is the final authority in the matter of primaries. It was th purpose and ruling of the Executive Committee to use the registration list of 1923, together with the registra tion list recently made on the registration book kept open for the last two weeks, and prepare from these two sources a list of persons qualified to vote in this primary. The City of Americus has no permanent registration list, as it should have, but for the purpose of this primary, the Committee decided to take last year s list as a basis, and permit other names to be added by payment of 1923 taxes and otherwise qualify ln~, J here are 825 qualified voters in tomorrow's primary and this list may increase by payment of 1923 taxes at this rT 6 ’ r i n perS ° n whose name a PP ear s on the registration hst of 1923. ROBERT C. LANE. • Chairman City Executive Committee. GEM GENERAL ELECTION CALLED For December 7 Following Dis solving of Reichstag By President Ebert -THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.) BERLIN, Oct. 21.—1 t was defi nitely announced today that the German general election will be held December 7. Chancellor Marx’s efforts to ob tain outside support’ for his coali tion government have failed and the reichstag has been dissolved in preparation for a general election. Tn a joint statement following the dissolution order, Marx and Presi dent Ebert said that the present composition of the reichstag pre vented the fromntion of a stable ef fective cabinet and that in order to carry out the indorsed policies of the government including the Dawes plan, an appeal to the people for the election of an adequate ma jority was essential. President Ebert consented to the dissolution when the cabinet formal ly advised him of the state c.f af fairs. The dissolution is the climax of a parliamentary situation where in the tri-party eoalirto • heeded by Marx, found itself unable to func tion without the •support of other party blocs. Germany is squaring away for what virtually amounts to a test of popular feeling in the Dawes plan, although the government has formal ly entered into the Dawes pact and passed the laws required to put the plan into operation. The nationalist, or pan-German group that contains a monarchial element, is the German party least willing to concede anything in the struggle to rebuild Europe. This party does not approve of the Dawes scheme and its leaders have refer red to the application of the Dawes regime as “the enslavement of Germany.’’ BURGLARS BLOW MACON COCA-COLA CO.’S SAFE (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.) MACON, Oct. 21. —Burglars blew the safe of the Macon Coca cola Bottling company early last night, escaping with the contents of the safe. The burglars used “soup” of ni tro glycerine and the company’s tools in their operations About S9OO in cash was secured and the safe was wrecked. SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TEXAS PRIMARY LAW WASHINGTONToct. 21|— The supreme court Monday in passing upon a case from Texas, in -which it was charged negroes ware ex cluded by the democratic executive committee, of Houston, from voting in a primary election, declared that the state courts had acted properly in refusing to grant an injunction. The right to vote at primary elec tions is not a question over which the courts have the su -preme court held, I CAR AND TRUCK CRASH; 50 INJURED (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.! CHICAGO, Oct. 21.—Thirty street car passengers were injured none thought to be fatally hurt, but. some seriously, m a car and motor truck wreck. The crash occurred in the northwestern side of the busi ness section of the city; - • OfflS IN Sj FOP 3 JJPEECKES Democratic Chieftain Confident of Having Captured Tennes see For Party (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.) NASHVILLE, Oct. 21.—John W. Davis quitted Tennessee today for Kentucky, where he will carry Democracy’s message to the Blue Grass State. From Kentuckky, Mr. Davis doubles back»into Indiana and Ohio, where Democracy is fighting the other parties for every inch of ground. . His departure from Tennesse was made the occasion for repeated declarations, confidentially voiced to friends who has been in confer ence With him during' his two days stay here, that Tennessee's political trend was altogteher, satisfactory from a Democratic standpoint. On his way to Louisville, where he speaks tonight, the Democratic chieftain speaks at Bowling Green and Elizabeth town. At midnight Mr. Davis leaves Louisville for Vincennes and Evans ville, Ind. KNIGHT APPOINTED TO SULCEtD DILMNSUN (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.) ATLANTA, Oct. 21. —Governor Walker has appointed John J. of the Ala Knight, of Nashville, Ga., as judge o fthe Alpaha circuit court He succeeds the late Judge R. G. Dickinson. NEW $650,000 COTTON MILL AT GRIFFIN GRIFFIN, Oct. 21.—The expen diture of $650,000 for the erection of a new cotton mill two miles north of this city on a tract of land measuring 168 acres, and whidti fronts on the Dixie Highway, has been announced by W. F. In gram, president of the Unity In vestment Company, James W. Brawner, vice president, and Charles 11. Murray, secretary. Ac tual construction will start when the plans and specifications are com pleted, which are now in process, it is stated. President Ingram was vice presi dent and treasurer of the Kincaid Manufacturing Company here which was sold, and was also in charge of sales, finances and purchasing for that concern. James M. Brawner was likewise an official in the form er concern, and both are well known among textile men of the south, POLICE FIND LIQUOR IN ABANDONED TRUNK ATLANTA, Oct. 21. Acting on information received at federal prohibition offices here, officer, raided a house in the downtown district to find it vacant except for an old abandoned trunk. Investi gation proved that the trunk had not been permanently abandoned for it Contained 3 quarts of Scotch whisky, 10 quarts of rye and 15 Imperial pints Irish whisky. IWW» MT VETCH Has Few Superiors As a Soil Builder, Says County Agent George Marshall, county demon strator, has been devoting consid erable time to showing- the farm ers of Sumter the importance of en riching the soil on their farms. Mr. Marshall states that one of the cheapest and best ways of improv ing the soil is to plant hairy vetch. “If the farmer will plant hairy vetch in the fields,” Mr. Marshall says, “where he now has cotton and where he intends to plant corn next spring, he will improve the soil wonderfully. The method of planting is very simple. The vetch seed is sown on the ground between the cotton rows and harrowed un der. “Vetch should be permitted to grow to its full maturity before it is turned under. Unless this is done there is little soil nutrition derived from the growth,” Mr. Marshall concluded. Hairy vetch seed can be procur ed from the seed stores of Ameri cus; and Mr. Marshall has been in formed that they have a large quantity. Ml NG SESSION PRESBYTERY TONIGHT With Election of Moderator Fol lowing Sermon by Rev. Rob bins Long The 135th State session of the Presbytery of Macon will convene at the Americus Presbyterian church tonight at. 7:30 o’clock. The opening sermon will be preached by the Rev. Robbins Long, pastor o fthe Vineville Presbyterian I church of Macon. After which the electio nos moderator will -be held to succeed the Rev. Richard F. Simpson, retiring. The meetings of the Presbytery will continue through Wednesday I evening, with a devotional sei vice Wednesday’ morning at 11 o’clock and a popular meeting Wednesday evening at 7:30 on the subject of Home Mission. The public generally is cordially invited to attend the meetings and a special invitation is extended to local and visiting ministers to be present. A large number of delegates preg ent are being entertained in Am ericus homes. AIRPLANES SAVE 100 DAYS FOR COURIER KOENIGSBERG, Germany, Oct. 2b.— (By the Associated Press.) A courier in the service of the Mos cow .government, who travels fre quently between Russia and conti nental Europe, has given up trains for the airplane. He has made 50 air flips between here and Mos cow, a distance of 700 miles, and estimates he has thus saved him self 100 days of travel in uncom fortable trains. LEPER FOUND ON NAVAL TRAINING SHIP Annapolis, Md., Oct. 2'L —Naval academy authorities declared that there was no cause for alarm over the discovery of a case of leprosy on board the training ship Cumber land, moored at an academy wharf, which became known last night. Of ficials stated that the patient, a Filipino, had been under surveil lance for several days and that he had been under strict quarantine. He will be sent to the leper colony at Carville, La., tomorrow. Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, superintendent of the academy, ■ made the following statement in connection with the case: “The regiment of midshipmen is not in any case exposed to this case, and parents may confidently put their minds at rest regarding their sons," NEW YORK FUTURES Pc Open 11am Close Jan |22.58|22.66|22.88[22.94 Mar J22.93'23.03123.71123.25 May |23.14!23.23|23|43|23.45 Oct |23.08|23.20|23,53123.75 Dec !22.47|22.55122. ! 76|22.81 PRICE FIVE CENTS TUfIULTY CALLS GOVERNOR WALKER’S CHARGE FALSE Willing To Meet Walker In Georgia and Tell Him Charge Deliberately False ATLANTaTgZ, Oct. 21. (By Associated Press.) —Com- menting on the published state ment pf Joseph Tumulty, Gover nor Walker said today that he would attend to the matter "in the proper way and at the proper time.’J I he governor was referring to the challenge made by Tumulty, former secretary to President Wilson. Tumulty challenged the truthfulness of the statement made by the Governor of Geor gia before the Ku KI ox Klan klonvocation at Kansas City, Sept. 23. Gov. Walker stated that busi ness prevented his giving consid eration to the matter at this time. ATLANTA, Oct. 21.—Charging that, when Governor Clifford Walk er accused the Woodrow Wilson ad ministration of showing partiality to the Roman Catholic church dur ing the war, he uttered “an un qualified falsehood,” Josheph P. Tumulty, Mr. Wilson’s former sec retary, heatedly replied to the gov ernor’s Kansas City klan speech in a telegram Monday to The Atlan ta Constitution. MF. Tumulty charged that Gov ernor Walker’s speech, published in full in several state papers, which the governor has admitted he de livered before the national klonvo cation of the Ku Klux Klan at Kan sas City last month, was “a scur rilous attempt to asperse the memo ry of his late chief.” Governor Walker was quoted as saying in his Kansas g.jty speech, that “It is an infinitely different thing when a Catbolie-scrrctaty df a sympathetic president so manipu lates the chicanery of politics that he will place in the center of every national war camp a Catholic church and drive outside of the border of that camp on the back streets, ia the back yard, on the alley-vzays, (Continued On Page Five) HOLD UP KN GET [HMDS ?ND CH Newark Jeweler Loses SB,OOO In Unset Stones And Cash NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 21.—-Two hold-ups made good their escape with thousands of dollars wortft of unset diamonds here today. Approaching Isadora Finkel, in his Ferry street jewelry store, two men, compelled the jeweler to turn over to them $7,000 in unset diamonds, one ring said to be valu ed at $1,0200 in cash. The hold-up men made good their escape with their booty. 6 KILLED; 20 HURT ABOARD U. S. S. TRENTON (BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS?) NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 21.—Six men, one of whom was a commis sioned officer, are dead: four oth ers arc not expecte dt<> live, and 16 more are fatally injured. That is the result of the turret explosion aboard the U. S. S. Tren ton late yesterday. The cause of the catastrophe still is unknown. The trenton was engaged tit tar get practice about 40 miles off East Cape Henry when the explo sion occurred. M’ADOO QUITS HOSPITAL SILENT AS TO PLANS BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 21. William G. McAdoo, former secre tary of the treasury, who has been a patient at Johns Hopkins hospital for several weeks, was discharged from the institution Monday. Seen in office of his physician, Dr. Hug i H. Young, Mr. McAdoo refused to discuss his plans, and declined to say where he would go upon leaving Baltimore. Dr. Young, in a statemens last week, said thiit it was inadvisable for the former treasury secretary to enter the strenuous work of tne presidential campaigns, as Mr. Mc- Adoo had planne dbef<’ ro being tak en ill, and prescribed for his patient a, period of rest and quiet following his release,
