About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1924)
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Strict Middling „..,23 1.4 c 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 IM, MW ~ BMKIW ALSO 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 i* 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. .. ■ 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. ogt,leaetaoi shrd shrdl, eta Bhr shr AMERICUS, GA., FRIDAY AFTHRNOON, NOVEMBER 28, 1924 BUSINESS ISpOOMIISiG _ ' fl " -—— \ gp Bvsinzss v-a u// rA j===- J 'A. «-a ,• »' r ... .......... . ....... —.. . 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. Hru/l- ■ iigfe NEWYORK THANKSGIVING DAY KILLING REOPENS TONG WARFARE ——ik ■ 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 NEW YORK COTTON FUTURES. Pq Open 11am Jan „..|23.Q0|23.88|23.59123.52 Mar |24.26[24.20]23.97'|2390 May 24.58{24.56j24.30|24.23 July |24.57i24.54!23.31|24.25 Dec |23.75|23.75[23.44|23.37* PRICE FIVE CENTS BRITISH OFFICER 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.
