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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON
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WEATHER—Generally fair to
night and Saturday. Colder Sat
urday in north Georgia
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR.—NO. 276
SUDAN TROOPS MUTINY, KILLING THREE
Republicans J Read La Follette Out (of Party
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aim OUSTFD
Neither of Four Senators To Be
Given Places Hereafter At
Party Conferences
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.
Senator Robert M'- LaFollette,
of Wisconsin, and three of his
principal supporters in the Sen
ate, were practically read out of
the ranljs of the Republican
party today at a conference of
Senate Republicans held here.
A resolution was adopted by
the conference under which
Senator LaFollette, together
with Senator Ladd and Frazier,
of North Dakota, and Senator
Brookhart, of lowa, will no
longer get Republican places on
committees of invitation to at
tend future party conferences.
CURTIS SUCCEEDS
LODGE AS LEADER
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23
Charles Curtis, senior senator from
Kansas, was selected today as the
successor of the late Senator Hen
ry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts,
as Republican Senate leader.
Senator W’atson, of Indiana, was
i elected vice-chairman and party
“whip,” succeeding Senator Curtis
, in thisft.nlsre the
' senator nad held since the Repub
licins gained-control of Congress
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CKPW EXISTED
JURY 111 CASE FINDS
Robinsons, However, Held Not
Guilty of Extorting Money
From Ipdian Prince
LONDON, November 28. —’iThe
jury in the Robinson conspiracy
suit, involving an. unnamed Indian
prince, rendered' a verdict this af
ternoon finding that a conspiracy
had existed to extort money from
the prince, wi,o has been known
since the beginning the suit
only as “Mr. A.” It was further
found by the jury that neither Mr.
Robinson, nor Mrs. Robinson, who
was found in a Paris hotel room
with the prince, had been parties
to the conspiracy.
GEN.WOTOyETO
MSffITIH Bill
Act Directed Against Chinese
In Islands Disapproved By
Governor General
MANILA, P. 1., Nov. 28.—Gov
ernor-General Leonard Wood an
nounced today that he would veto
tomorrow the bill passed by the
Philippine legislature recently in
creasing the registration fee of
Chinese entering the Philippines
from 50 cents to $lO.
The purpose of the bill, it is gen
erally conceded, was to further re
strict the number of Chinese en-
I tering these islands.
The'Love Bet 9
a Guaranteed
Attraction
According to Manager Bohn of
“The Love Bet,” and Frederick V.
Bowers, star of the troupe, “ The
Love Bet” is one •of the fastest,
snappiest, and best little musical
comedies that has ever been south
I, of the Mason and Dixon Line.
“Notwithstanding repoits to the
E contrary,” says these gentlemen,
| ‘The Love Bet’ carries two hours of
I tre most entertaining electrical < f-
B sects, musican numbers and dances
I ever seen in this section."
He also states that they played to
fc a full house in Albany yesterday,
K matinee and evening. The produc-
K tion cost well over SIB,C-QO. •
■ “The Love Bet” is a
■' attraction, and after l>e show any-
■ one not satisfied and well pleased
■ with the performance, a return of
1 Jheir money is guaranteed.
THE TmSSeESrDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE 1
ANOTHER TONG WAR HANGS OVER NEW YORK
37.947 GEORGIANS
ME MBLLFO
Red Cross Membership Cam
paign Adds 20 Per Cent-
In New Members
ATLANTA, November 28.
First reports from the American
Red Crogs. membership rampaign
which closed yesterday show ■an
increase of 20 per cent for the
sight,, states in the Southern diyis
ioMWs- compared with the enroll
nienW’fbjtated to the same time
last ydai|§jOis was the announce
ment in Atlanta to-
W.
Georgia first among the
states in th&iSp.uthern division in
point of e«£»s&nt with 37,947
enrolled. comes second
with a total members.
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ZEPPELIH ML
SERVICE POSSIBLE
• X
Fast New Commercial Service
between America and Ber
lin Soon To Be Started
BERLIN;-- JT
weekly Zeppelin mail service be
tween the United States and Eu
rope will soon be started, Dr. Hu
go E’ckher, director of the Zeppe
lin Company,.who had charge of
the ZR-3 on its trans-Atlantic voy
age, said here today.
The Zeppelin-Goodyear combina
tion does not plan to establish a
passenger service between the two
continents at present, Dr. Eckner
indicated, but he believes that one
Zeppelin each way, carrying 500,-
000 letters at 2$ each would
be a business success.
GRBCHIIffI '
. TO GET ESTUTE
$56,C00 Distributed in Special
Bequests By Widow of Late
President Harding
MARION, 0., November 28. —
Jeanne and George BeWolfc,
grandchildren of the late Mrs. War
ren G. Harding, are left the bulk
of her estate, it became known
here today. No estimate of the to
tal value of the estate is available
here today.
Mr.s Harding’s will makes spec
ial bequests to friends and rela
tives aggregating $56,000 and
leave the residue of her estate to
her grandchildren, who reside in
Marion.
It is generally believed in Ma
rion that the value of the Harding
estate will total $500,060.
BENNING SOLDIER
KILLED BY SHELL
Private Hammond Fatally In
jured When Projectile Ex
ploded in His Hands
PGLUMBUI, Nov." 28.—Toying
with - a 75 nr.ilimeter shell he in
tended converting into a souvenir,
Private Edward A. Hammond, 19,
Service company, 29th Infantry,
Fort Benning, was fatally injured
when :the projectile exploded yes
terday afternoon at 3:45 oclock,
death coming almost an hour later.
The soldier was in his tent when
the shell accidentally went off.
Several companions had just left.
Thousands of football fans witness
ing a game on the reservation heard
the explosion.
Private Hammond was believed
to have been endeavoring to re
move the fuse in the head of the
projectile. The length of the shell
■was almost eighteen inches in
nearly three inches in diameter at
the base.
The force of the explosion hurl
ed the soldier across the tent.
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AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTHRNOON, NOVEMBER 28, 1924
BUSINESS ISpOOMIISiG _
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BY ALBERT APPLE.
Good times are returning—fat pocketbooks
for everybody. A business boom is under
way. Many conservative bankers and in
dustrial leaders are even predicting that
ahead lies prosperity such as this country
never before knew, except in the boom that
followed the World War. Maybe they are
expecting too much- But all signs point to a
tremendous revival of trade.
$ $ $
The stock market for several months has
been betting on a coming business boom. Re
cently, sales of stocks and bonds on the New
York Stock Exchange exceeded all previous
records, with average prices of securities the
highest in eight years.
Individual speculators frequently guess
wrongly. But the market itself never does.
It anticipates general business conditions by a
period of from four to six months—rising
ahead of booms, collapsing ahead of hard
times.
$ $ $
Last summer • the iron and steel industry
Stagnated- Its production sagged to about
hal sos mill capacity. But now the output is
rising swiftly. In October the nation’ s pro
duction of pig iron was 2,477,127 tons, com-
1800 SCHOOL CHILDREN
PAY LINCOLN HOMAGE
SPRINGFIELD, Hl., Nov. 28—
More, than 1800 loowa and Mis
souri school children passed
through here this morning en
route to Jacksonville, 111., where
they will pay homage at the tomb
of Abraham Lincoln. The child
ren were aboard a special train.
! LITTLE JOE |
leveiThead seldom!
falls; FLAT.'r> o i
pared with only 1,784,899 tons in July.
: This rate of gain, continued, would find the
steel industry running full blast and top spee
by spring. Indications are that there 11 be no
letup in recovery.
$ $ $
Railroads have been moving record-break
ing amounts of freight. Since early in Sep
tember, shippers have loaded more than a
million cars of freight a week. When times
are dull and no relief in sight, car loadings
fall as low as 640,,000 cars a week.
$ $ $
In Qctober, average wholesale prices went
up one and a half per cent, announces l.lun s
organization- It now takes $194 in the whole
sale markets to buy what cost $lB4 six
' months ago. The price of prosperity is higher
prices. Few care, as long as they have the
“jack.”
$ $ $
This coming business boom brings you an
other opportunity to get rich—or, at least
better yourself. To the majority of the popu
lation, a period of prosperity merely means
more money to spend. A minority sees it as
a chance to save and get ahead. Trees are
most heavily laden with nuts just before a
severe winter. Be a squirrel.
IB.MWTS
VERDICT Fill SSOOO
Damages Awarded For Alleged
Injury Sustained Through
Carless Porter
A jury in Sumter Superior court
late Wednesday rendered a verdict
giving Mrs. Marie Strang judg
ment for $5,000 in her suit against
the Central of Georgia railway and
the Pullman Company. Judge;
Wm. M. Harper during
the- hearing. Judge Littlejohn be
ing disqualified by illness.
Mrs. Strang, a passenger on the
Central of Georpia from Gaines
ville, Fla., to Eufaula, Ala., al
leged she was put off a train in
the railroad yards at • Americus,
some distance from the station, and
that as a jeftyt of exposure endur
ed she was made iIL She was re
resented by James A. & John A.
Fort, of Americas, and Terrell &
<?Terrell, of Eufaula, while the de.
fendants were represented by Jas.
L. Hixon, Stephen Pace, and R. L>
Maynard, of Americus, and Wilkin
son & Yeomans, of Dawson.
FRENCH START TALK
OF FUNDING WAR DEBT
WASHIGTON, November 28—
Informal dicussions were instituted
here to4ay between represehtatives
of the French and American gov
ernments relative to a basis for
funding the former’s war debt to
the United States. No announce
ment has been authorized as to
progress attained.
Christmas, luckily, always arrives
six days before its bilk.
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NEWYORK
THANKSGIVING DAY
KILLING REOPENS
TONG WARFARE
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Assassination of Chinese Laun
dryman Shatters *ruce And
Another Tong,War Is On
By A««ocia't*d Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 28—The
spectre of another Tong war
again hovers over Chinatown
today. The flareup comes as
the result of the failure of the
Hip Sing and On Leong tongs
to sign the peace pact scheduled
for a formal acceptance on
Thanksgiving day.
Acontinuance of a campaign
of terror among the Chinese
was foreseen by Eddie Gong,
secretary of the .Hip Sings, fol
lowing the murder of a member
of his organization within a few
hours of the expiration of the
truce.
Goang Cong Foo, 58 ytfars old,
a member of the Hip Sings, was
shot to death in the yester
day. iM*** 4 *
Goag Chong Foo, a Hip Sing man
and his son were working in their
laundry in the Bronx when two men
pushed open the door and opened
fire with automatics.
The father dropped under a doz
en bullets. The son hid behind a
counter until the assassins backed
through the door and disappeared.
Thanksgiving Day strollers be
came a possee and captured Lee
Har and Moy Yiek Tong, both of
whom said, when fornja ly charged
with homicide that they were restau
rant employes at fourteen Mott
street, headquarters of the On Le
ong Tong. Two automatic pistols
were found in an alky way along
the slayers’ line of flight.
The truce, under which Hip Sings
and On Leongs had suspended hos
tilities after 15 of their number had
been slain, was shattered three
hours before it was du<t tc
expire.
All agencies for mediation, consu
lar, police and business, acknowl
edge the' taTlufe of efforts to pro
long the truce under a pact of perm
anent peace. The feudal belliger
ents of tong leaders killed all hope
and made further negotiations in
the immediate future p.'jmise bar
ren results, said the mediators.
CHINAMAN FOUND
DEAD IN BED
NEWBERN, N. C., Nov. 28.
Charlie Long, Chinese laundryruan
was found dead in bed yesterday
with a bullet wound tmrough the
right eye. A pistol with two
cartridges exploded lay beside the
bed. While every indication was
that he had committed suicide,
Coroner J. L. Hartsfield announced
this afternoon that he would go be
hind the coroner’s jury verdict of
suicide, ,
TWOU.S.WOMEN 1
MISSINBJN CHINA
Missionaries Belifetved Kidnap
ed by Bandits And Held
For Big Ransom
(By The Associated Press)
SHANGHAI, Nov, 28—Two Am
erican women—Misses Elizabeth
Berglund and Ingeborg Nystul—at
tached to the Augustana synod mis
sion at Juchow, Honar province,
550 miles west of Shanghai, were
jnissing yesterday after the town
was captured by Chinese bandits,
according to a message received
here from Hankow. All other
foreigner, excepting the two women
escaped to Kiahsien, 25 nvles away.
Bandits are hold ing the Rev.
Arne Anda for SIOO,OOO ransom
and 200 rifles since his capture eb
S'ichwan, Honan province, accord
ing to a message received by the
Norweigan consulate. The Rev.
Anda was reported miss'ng Novem
ber 21. Sichwan is 130 miles south
west of Juchow, where the women
were reported missing. i v
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ftND TWO DOCTORS
ftREOSSINRTED
Two Platoons of Sudanese Mu
tiny at Khartum Not Con
nected With Cairo Trouble
CAIRO, Egypt, November
28.—Two platoons of the Elev
enth Sudanes, at Khartum, to
day mutinied and attacked the
military hospital here.
One British subject was in
etantly killed and two Syrian
doctors were murdered.
NOT CONNECTED 1'
WITH CAIRO TROUBLE
LONDON, Nov. 28.—The
Egyptian embassy in London
said regarding the out
break among the Egyptian
troops at Khartum, that the
mutiny was not due to any in
fluence outside the battalion in
volved and thjit it was not of
ficially connected with the
trouble in Cairo.
(By The Atkociated Press)
LONDON, Nov. 28 —The discov
ery of a network of plots through
cut Egypt, declared to menace thd
lives of British official! in that
country and in the Sudan, from the
governor-general down to civil
plerks, has caused the British au
thorities to issue orders for the ar
rest and imprisonment of all promi
nent anti-British plotters.
Further arrests, poscibly on -a
large scale, in Cairo and Alexandria,
are expected to follow quickly the
arrests announced.
Those arrested were Nekraahy
Bey, secretary in the interior, Ab
dul Rahman Fahmy, one of Zagioul’s
closest political assistants; Wil
liam Makrm Obeid, a prominent
Coptic member of the nationalirtic
delegation, and Barakat Pasha, who
was Zagioul’s minister of the in
terior. ,
OFFICERS
TO OBEY ORDERS.
CAIRO, Nov. 28. An official
communication says that when the
acting sirdar gave orders for tjhU
Egyptian officers and troops to
leave the Sudan, they declined to
do so and offered resistance.
They informed the acting sirdar
that they would not leave unless
they received orders for the Egyp
tian government.’ British troops
thereupon surrounded the Egyptians
and the Khartum government wired
to Cairo asking that orders be trans
mitted instructing the troops to de
part.
On receipt of the message the
Egyptia nministry met and decided
that the war minister should send
the required orders with a view to
preventing bloodshed.
It appears that the message from!
the surrounded Egyptian troops to
the Egyptian government was allow
ed to be transmitted to Cairo, The
message said:
“We are surrounded by British’
troops and have only twenty rounds
o fammunition per man, which ia
insufficient for resistance, as the
British have unlimited supplies.
“Will the Egyptian govemrticnt
send us orders to leave so as to
avoid bloodshed?”
The war minister thereupon ad
dressed the following message to
the Egyptian officers and troops at
Khartum:
“Animated by courage and loyal
ty, there is no doubt you are ready
to shed the last drop of your blood
for the king and country. However,
I order you to cease resistance,
which can only result in useless
bloodshed. Moreover, tl.e Egyp
tian government, having already
strongly protested against this meas
ure by a superior force, your re
turn will in no wise prejudice the
country’s rights or your military
honor.” .v
LEAGUE TO HEAR
EGYPT’S PROTEST. ’ '
GENEVA, Nov. 28 —The League
of Nations has decided, after re
flection, to bring the Egyptiaft
parliament’s protest against Great
Britain to the attention of the coun
cil of the league. Interest center
ed in the probable attitude of the
council when it meets in Rome early
in December.
EVENING PRAYER ■»!
AT CALVARY
Evening prayer will be said in
Calvary church tonight at
Rev. Lawrence announces.
The Chinese are raising nufre pea
ruts than Americans now. They al
ways have raised Snore cata.