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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Seasons’ receipts 16557 bales Thursday receipts 29 bales Strict middling i 23l 3-4 c Weather—unsettled tonight; rain in North portion Saturday partly; cloudy. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 265 CONFLAGRATION SWEEPS JERSEY CITY 300 KILLED MANY MISSING IN JAVA QUAKE LANDSLIDES WIPI VILLAGES 1 fill SI EKE 8f IMO River Transformed Into Mud Channel in Which Bodies of Men and Animals Are Found BATAVIA. Java, Nov. I 4. The Island of Java has been severely shaken by earthquakes. Already 300 persons are report ed killed and countless are miss ing. The earth shocks extended over Wednesday and part of Thursday. Many native towns in the Kedu district of Java, have been destroyed by the landslides. One village com pletely disappeared into the river. The shock centered in the health resort of Wonsobo where all the buildings collapsed. BODIES LIE IN RIVER PAMPONG LONDON, Nov. 14. Adispatch to the Morning Post from Amstrr dam quoting reports received from Java says the river near Pampong has been transformed into a mud channel in which the bodies of men and animals are lying. Forty-five houses in the Leksono district have disappeared entirely. The whole of Dessap Badjangan has been entire ly engulfed in the Pring river. Mageling, the principal town in the Kedu district, was only slightly damaged. MANY PRECIOUS SEISMO DISTURBANCES Java in the Malay Archipelago, is the seat of government for the Dutch East Indies. Created by vioent sismo convusions, it is sub jected from year to year to similar disturbances, less violent, but suf ficient in times past to have de stroyed much life and property. Tn 1919 the volcano of Kalnut erupted and caused many deaths, variously estimated at some 15,000 to 50,000. Besdies Kalut there are many active volcanoes in the is land, with its 48,000 square miles. Some of these seismic disturbances have been accompanied by heavy floods and landslide... solonsWkTd BHLUmiEII Georgia Legislators Attacked for Failure to Pass Sheppard- Towner Act and Code Bill ATLANTA, Nov. 14.—The gener al assembly of Georgia was the ob ject of an_ attack in the report of the Georgia Federation of Women’s Clubs, department of education Thursday. The report, read by- Mrs. Felton Jones of Rome, state chairman, criticized the legislature for failure to pass the Sheppard- Towner act and the children’s code commissio nbill. The report stated that many legi slators voted against the measure because, it said, they did not know the real import of the Lili. The program of the state high way department was indorsed in the report of the committee on federal laws. Mrs. Alonzo Richardson, state di rector, at the morning session ex pressed her praise of ti e work of the women in aiding to get out the vote in the recent elections. It wa sannounced by Mrs. W. H. Griffin, chairman of the resolutions committee, that a resolution to make the birthday of Joel Chandler Harris, noted CJeorgia author, 'a state holiday, had been offered. A report on the student aid foun datio nrevealed that the'e had been $39,941.25 loaned to 283 girls in the past 15 years. FARM RELIEF BILL WILL NOT BE PRESSED (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—That the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill will not be pressed for enactment whe nthe next Congress convenes was made known here today by Senator McNary of Oregon, one of the framers of ther bill. ' " THETIMESBRECORDER PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE Official Figures Give the G. O. P. 245 in the House WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. With the return of official fiures from the 30th Pennsylvania congressional district, showing the election of a Democrat, where unofficial returns had giv en the seat to Republican the party lineup in the next house of representatives complete, stands as follows: Republicans, 245. Democrats, 185. Farmer-Labor, 3. Socialists, 2. In the present house, with all vacancies filled, the standing is follows: Republicans, 223. Democrats, 209. Farmer-Labor, 1. Socialist, 1. Independent, 1. COTTOS eras REPORT FOR OCT. 587,724 Bales Lint and Lint ers Consumed As Compared With 593,771 In 1923 (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Dur ing the month of Oct. there was consumed 532,629 bale sos cotton and 55,095 bales of linters, the census bureau announced today. In September the consumption consumed 533,629 hales of cotton ton and 49,976 bales of linters. During the month of October, 1923, 543,280 bales of lint cotton and 50,491 bales of linters were consumed. bombMieveT EXPLOSION CAUSE GRAND RAPIDS, Mi h„ Nov. 14. —Federal agent sinvestigating the possibility that a bomb wrecked the Grand Rapids mai npostoffice this week, taking a toll of three lives and injuring 13 persons announce that they had in their possession a threatening letter that might lead to some tangible clue to the method used and to the parties implicated, if a bomb was used. The letter was found by Ensign Harold McDonald, of the United States naval reserve force, in his automobile a short time before the explosion. Although for he most part blurred and almost illegible the words “disaster” and “death” are quite clear. A man’s picture ac companied the note and federal agent sare now scouring the city in an attempt to place the man under arrest. At noon Thursday, a man’s leg bone was removed from the wreck age. Another checkup of missing persons in the city has failed to give any clue. It is thought that perhaps some oner might have been blown to pieces. Vos Annatyn, a postoffice em ploye, is still in a critical condition and may (die, hospital authorties said early this evening. The other 12 injured are expected to recover. DEMOCRATS TO FIGHT BUTLER’S APPOINTMENT BOSTON, Nev. 14.—William M. Butler, who led President Coolidge’j campaign for nomination and, as chairman of the republican commit tee, conducted the party’s campaign in the recent election, will take the seat in the United States made vac ant by the death of Henry Cabot Lodge, but may find it challenged by th edemocratic state organiza tion on a question of the constitu ionalit yof the act under which Gov ernor Cox appointed him toda v Filing with a legislative clerk late today a bill which would strike out of the statutes the law enacted two years ago, which gives the governor the power of appointing a senator to serve until the next state elec tion, Charles H. McGlue, chairman of the democratic state committee said there was no objections to Mr. Butler’s being named for a “tem porary” period. The democratic party does feel, he said, that an ap pointment extending over two years passes the period that might be considered “temporary” and violates the federal constitutional amend ment providing for d : rcct election of United States senators. AMERICUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 14, 1924 Four Victorious JF omen}Politicians wB '"'M® , J \ \ ' ' y / X FZ ? ■ Z / -W ■ < < k c etl it MAKY '' NeRTeN. b . ' Wealthy ]\ew Yorker Weds Cabman Daughter Gotham Society Surprised at Wedding of Young Rhine lander Heir to Fortune (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—New York society was greatly surprised today at the wedding on October 14th of Leonard Kipp Rhinelander, 22 years of age, to Alice Beatrice Jones, the daughter of a New Ro chelle carman. The couple were mar : ed in the city hall of New Rochelle by Maye r Scott. No member of ti.e Rhinelan der family was present. Since the wedding the couple have lived in a small frame dwell ing with the bride’ stwo sisters and husbands. One of the husbands is a laborer, the other a chauffeur The Rhinelander and Kipp fami lies date their family history hack to the earliest settlers of New Am sterdam. The young groom recently in herited $300,000. FAMILY ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS STORY NEW ROCHELLE, Nov. 14. The romance of the wealthy youth and the beautiful New Rochelle girl apparently has been in progress for the past three years. See is said to be well educated'and attractive in manner as well as apnearance. Rumor of the marriage began to spread Wednesday. Jones, the fath er, refused to answer questions whe na reporte rwent to rhe tempo rary abode of the newlyweds. Neitb er Rhinelander nor ms wife have been since Wednesday after noon, shd it is brlioved that they may have left New Rochelle. According to Harol 1 Forbes, pub lisher of the New Rochelle Standard Star, a, representative of the Rhine lander family calle 1 upon him and attempted to have the story of the marriage suppressed. Forbes re fused and printed the story under sensational headlines These carried an implication which is expected to brin gan indignant denial from the Rhinelander and Jones families. Philip Rhinelander, the wealthy and socially-dashing father of the young bridegroom,* is reported to have sent his so naway three times with a view to breaking up the 10- mance. One of these times the youth is said to have been sent to a chool in Arizona, but continued to correspond with Miss Jones. About three weeks ago Miss Jones visited the leading modiste here and selected an expensive crodsseau. CLEMENCEAU DUEL CHALLENGE DENIED LONDON, Nov., .4.—David Lloyd-George has rushed into print a denial of the story that he was challenged to a duel by Georges Clemenceau during the Paris peace confeience. “It is a stupid invention,” Lic'yd- George declared Thursday. “The statement does not contain the slightest basis of truth.” A circumstantial account of the challenge and the warm scene lead ing up to it are contained in a book, “Through Thirty Years,” by Wickham Steed, former editor of the London Times. Publication Thursday moring of Steed’s memoirs created a sensa tion in London, EVENING PRAYER AT CALVARY CHRUCH Evening prayer will be said in Calvary church tonight at 7:30 o’clock. j LITTLE Zl JOE j MANY A WOMAN DRESSES FIT TO KILL HER HUSBANDS BANKROLL/ tT / z, « it BY MARIAN HALE NEA Service Writer Being a politician is one thing-- and a home-maker quite another. Yet those are the achievements of -three America nwomen, two of them having been elected chief ex ecutives of their state, and the third as a congresswoman. And at the same time a fourth woman, who still carrie sher title of Miss, broke through rhe political ranks for a victory as a congress woman. And although all of them gain political honors by their victories, the yall say the care of their homes is first in ther minds. “Ma” Canned Peaches While the voter swere discussing the abilities of Mrs. Miriam Amanda “Ma” Ferguson, Democratic guber natorial candidate in Texas, she was at home canning peacnes and per mitting “Pa” Ferguson to do most of the talking. Yet she carried her stats by near ly 190,000 votes. At the same time, out in Wyom ing, Mrs. Nellie Taylos Ross was elected governor. Widowed only five weeks, her one desire is to car ry forward the work of her late hus band, Governor William B. Ross, whose unexpired term she has been chosen to fill out. A mother of three sons, her homo ha salways been a model for the state’s capital ci;y. First in East To be the first woman east of the Mississippi to wi na seat in the House of Representative s is the honor the voters bestowed en M.-r. Mary T. Norton of Jersev City, N. J. Mrs. Norton has been interested in politics but four years. She was not a suffrage campaigner or a feminist. “I can make pie better than any maid we ever had,” was a campaign toast which brought her many votes. Nellie Cline of Larned, Kas., will also go to the House of Representa tives. She made a “flivver” cam paign of her state, visiting every nook and hamlet. She too boasts that she knows more of keeping house tha nleading the voter sto the polls. So it is not unlikely that they will do a little “house cleaning" when they pick up their political brooms and start to work. 7housand Families Are Homeless; Scores Injured Fire Departments of Two Cities l ight Flames Am'd Series of Explosions From Saltpetre Thousand Families Homeless JERSFA CITY, Nov. 14.—1:30 P. M.) —The conflagra tion that swept this city has resulted in losses that will go into millions of dollars; almost a thousand families are homeless, and a score of persons have been seriously injured. 3 he lire which started early this morning was first discovered in the saltpetre plan; of the Richardson Chemical company. Al most immediately ft leaped beyond control of the fire-fighting forces of two cities and spread to the abandoned plant of the American Sugar Refining company. Several smaller factories E av g- been>destr °y^ d ar> d two rows of tenement house were burn- CRIPPLED BARBEP SLAYS FDBP. THE! COBITS SIIICIOE Kills Wife, Couplt; in Same House, Woman Visitor, and Turns Gun on Himself MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 14 Four persons were shot and killed here last night by Henry Weber, crippled barber, who then killed him self. The victims of Weber's murder ous rage were his wife, Mrs. Bessie Weber; Mr, and Mrs. E. A. Shead er, and Mrs. Thomas Alexander. The shooting occurred at the Web er home in the eastern section of the city. Weber and his wife quarreled Sunday and he has not been home since, according to information giv en police by neighbors The man purchased a new riflo Thursday and last night went to hi shome, car rying the weapon. 'Shader, employe of a dental firm, who Jive sin a wing of the house where the Webers made their home, was the first person that the barber met. He shot Shader through the head and then throwing a fresh shell into the rifle’s chamber walked into the house. When he emerged a few minute slater the place was a shamble. Mrs. Thomas Alexand er, a bride of only a few months, was visiting Mrs. Weber. Her cries did not save her. In each case Weber shot his victims hrough the head and all died within the space of a few minutes time, arcording to the police. The barber left his house and walked to his barber shop about three blocks away. There he fired a shot into his own brain. Weber left two notes’., according to police. Both indicated that he had planned to kill himself and his wife, but made no mention of any others slated for death. The barber had brooded ’•'ver his troubles until he was mentally un balanced in the opinion of detec tives who made an investigation BP. BI SEE SEmCEHML Arctic Explorer Now Serving 14-Year Sentence for Mail Frauds (By The Associated Press) FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 14 —Attorneys for Dr. Freaerick A. Cook, the arctic explorer, whe was sentenced to 14 years in the peniten tiary for mail frauds, will face a, federal judge today and argu? for a reversal of that sentence. Dr. Cook’s sentence came as a re sult of hi soffering for sale through the mafis certain oil lands, it is said. The court will conclude the hear ing in a few hours but announces that the decision of the court will not be made known for several days. GEN. WALTER HARRIS TO GET U. D. C. CROSS Mrs. Frank P. Harrold, president general of the United Daughters of Confederacy announces that Gen eral Walter Harris of Macon has been selected as one of the two-dis tinguished World war heroes to whom the daughters will award crosses of service at the vonventieft in Savannah next week. General Frank Parker of South Carolina is the other to whom a seivice cioes will be awarded. The crosses are given by the U. D, C., in recognition of spsoial service to the country. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Jan 24.68j24.95124.98124.75 Mar 24.92j25.20!25.27|25.04 May 25.30;25.60125.62[25.35 July 25.08|25.25|25.82|24.56 Dec 24.46j24.70'24.80124.56 PRICE FIVE CENTS ed. Ihe flames raged for four hours before firemen declared they were under control at I P. M. today. Losses are being estimated in to the millions, but no figure ap proximately near can be made at this time. Fifteen seriously injured or badly burned have been removed, while scores of others have been cut by the glass blown over a radius of half a mile in a series of explosions. More than 900 families are to day homeless as a result of the devouring flames. Fire which started in the salt petre plant of the Richardson Chem ical company first spread to the huge American Sugar Refinery and buildings used by the Colgate soap works. The entire city blo.rk was a roar ing furnace by 11:30. The flames leaped through dozens of streams of water and soon was beyond control, while explosions, one after the oth er, blew out wall and roofs. Ex plosions form the saltpetre plant ‘ blew out windows over a narea half a mile wide. Terror was spread among the resident o£ the district. Firemen were overcome by tha fumes which rolled ncrcss the city, an dover the Hudson river. Hurry calls for assistance brought fireboats from New York. At 11:30 {there were many ambulances on the scene ready to care for the in jured but at that time only one man, with a broken leg, had report ed for treatment. PEWHG LEE MUY HW Fourteen Miles Between Sumter County Line and Leesburg Topped With Gravel One of the most important con structs nprojects to be started by the State Highway Department, ac cording to a statement given out this morning by Cobb Milner of the Department, will be the laying of a gravel surface over a stretch of 14 miles from Leesburg to the Sumter county line, on the Dixie Highway. This stretch of road has been sur faced with sand and clay for a long time an dnow that it has firmly set tled the highway department will top it with gravel that will make it one of the best roads in this sec tion, says Mr. Milner. For the past two weeks materials to be used in the construction of the road have been unloaded and by Monday the actual work of surfac ing the road will take place. The approximate cost of gravel ing the stretch is estimated by the department as $70,000, half of this to be paid by the ReJoial govern ment and the other half to be paid by the state and county. When this stretch of road iq com pleted it will make tii> road from Americus to Albany c.ne of the best highways in the state, as re ports give nout by the Highway De partment show that all o*her streth es between the two points are in splendid condition. Travel over the 14 mile stretch to be surfaced will not be suspended while gravel is being laid. ALLEGED GUILTY LARCENY (By The A««ociatcd Prei») BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 14—A verdict of guilty of petty larceny was returned this morning in the cases -of William McCreedy and Gordon Wells, alleged Ku Khtx Klan probations. The men were charged with the theft of vestments and other arti cles from the St. Mary's cathedral here on August Bth. We still have some 010-fashioned girls. One was arrested in Arizona for stealing a horse,
