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AMERICUS SPOT COTTON Strict Middling 23 l-4c WEATHER —Fair tonight and I Tuesday; frost and colder tonight in Southwest Georgia. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR.—NO. 278 EGYPT ACCEPTS ALL BRITISH DEMANDS SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS RE-ASSEMBLED TODAY NO EFFORTS MADE BY MORITS TO TURN OUT WHEELER Funding ComnrissiDn Meets But No Conclusion Near— Borah Returns Funds (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. I.—After six months rest, the Sixty-eighth Congress re-assem bled today to renew its last and short session, a session of tur moil and strife which character ized its first and prolonged gathering. Today..s news from the capital in brief is: The first act of the house af ter the opening formalities was to pass and send a resolution to the Senate proposing to set aside December I 5 as the day for holding services in memory of the late former President Woodrow Wilson. A fight will be launched at this session of congress to have the semi-monthly cotton crop reports of the department of agriculture discontinued. The ooposition will be led by repre sentatives of the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges and the reports will be defend ed by the Co-Operative Cotton Association interests. Senator William J. Harris, of Georgia, author of the bill creating the semi-monthly reporting system, said today that in his opinion, there exists no chance of the act being repealed at this time. The American Funding Com mission today went over the re * suits of informal conferences re garding the French debt, recent ly held between Secretary Mel lon and Ambassador Jusserand. The commission has reached no conclusions. There will be no effort at this time to formally read Sena tor Wheeler, of Montana, out of the Democratic party. Sena tor Robinson, of Arkansas, Democratic floor leader, said today. Senator Borah, Republican, of' Idaho, announced today that he had returned to the donors every dollar contributed to his campaign expenses! In his final statement to the Sec retary of State, Senator Borah listed his expenditures at s9r2. JONES IS NAMED REPUBLICAN ‘WHIP’ WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. L“^ e ? atOr Wesle V L. Jones, of Washington, was today nam ecl as Republican “whip” in the senate. IMPORTANT LEGISLATION TO COME UP. WASHINGTON, Dec. I.—ln the three months interven >ig before March 4, efforts will bs made to put through some important general legislation in addition to the an nual appropriation bills. but with little apparent prospect cf success. The key to the whole stuation still is held by the insurgents, whose recognized leader, Senate r La Fol lette, of Wisconsin, and his three chief supporters in the Senate, have been read out of the party councils by Senate Republicans. Whether they will undertake reprisals for this action remains to be developed. One thinfe is certain, the last chap ter on bhis subject has not been written. Senators who have dis agreed with this action of their Republican colleagues intend to express their views when the Senate i scalled upon to act on the reports of the Republican committee on committees, covering the new as '* signments to standing committees to fill vacancies caused by the death of several senators during the last six months. Early attention will be given by the House to the' annual supply measures, the first of which, that for the interior Department, prob ably will be reporte 1 out Tuesday. The appropriations committee has (Continued on Page Two.) REGULAR MEETING ODD FELLOWS TUESDAY NIGHT The regular monthlv meeting of : the 1.00. F. will be held Tuesday evening at.7:30 o’clock at the Odd X Fellows Hall. La Officers to serve for the ensuing {k six months will be elected and all members are urged to be present. THE TIMES'" : RECORDER PUBLISHED IN THE "HEART OF PlXiE~g?a? JULESJUSSERANO WAS GREAT PAL OF THEO. ROOSEVELT Tennis, Hiking and Even a Dip In Old Swimming Hole Were Theirs BY HARRY B HUNT NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Dee. I.—-The ap proaching departure of Jules Jus serand as ambassador from France has revived reminiscences of the old days when the strenuous T. R. and the doughty French diplomat set new high marks for athletic activi ty in the Washington o iicial set. Probably no other foreign diplo mat ever was on such intimate terms with an American president, as Jusserand was with Roosevelt. They played tennis together on the White House courts. They spent hours on long cross-country hikes. Between times they talked natural history, literature and the comparative merits of boxing versus fencing. Jusserand was always bobbing up around the White House, and always was welcome He had the run of the place. Some said he had a White House latchkey. * ♦ # One of the stories recalled of the Roosevelt-Jusserand exploits is of a cross-country hike they took on a sweltering July day. They had been hitting it up with characteristic Rooseveltian vigor, up hill and down dale, when they came to a stream winding down toward the Po tomac at a point where there seem ed to be a good swimming hole. “Ah! The Old Swimming Hole!” Roosevelt exclaimed. “How about a dip?” No sooner said than done. With the abandon of three school bays playing hookey, Roosevelt, Jusse rand and Archibald Butt, who was the third member of the expedi tion, shed their hiking duds. Roosevelt and Butt plunged in in good American fashion, but Jusserand waded in rather cau tiously. He had got in about knee deep when T. R. noticed that he was /Still wearing gioves—nice black ones, like an undertaker’s. “What’s the idea?” Roosevelt asked. “Why the gloves?’ “Jussey” shrugged his shoulders and turned up his palms in a deprecatory French gesture. “Who knows; there might, uer haps, some ladies come by,” he said. * * * On another one of these hikes Henry Lodge was a participant. Lodge wasn’t the ardent athlete that T. R. and Jusserand were, and the fast pace set by tr.e president and the ambassador soon had him winded. They had reached a stretch of rough up-hill going when Lodge called a halt. “Theodore, Theodore,’ he called, panting, breathless. “Siow up a bit. You must think I’m a damned kangaroo.” » * * The intimate palshir between Roosevelt and Jusserand at this period is said to have caused a change in the British ambassador to Washington. Sir Mortimer Durand, Great Britain’s envoy, never achieved any personal relationship with the president. Their contacts '-sere al ways formal. He was always “Mr. Ambassador” to T. R. and Teddy was “Mr. President” to him. Sir James Bryce, afterward Lord was sent over to re place Sir Mortimer. As a writer and historian, familiar with Ainer lican affairs and institutions, Bryce fitted much better into the Roose velt scheme of things. They found themselves »n com mon ground in historical and liter ary discussions. Also, Bryce cut in on some of the president’s rough cross-country hikes. But no other diplomat ever achieved the camarderie with Roosevelt that was held by Jusserand. His departure marks the passing of the last of the ‘‘strenuous brotherhood” which flourished at the capital in the days of the : big stick,” the “Ananias Club.” and the reign of Roosevelt. Even people who tel Ithe trrh are saying business is getting better. AMERICUS, GA., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER I, 1924 j Principals in Los Angeles ’ Latest Murder x Jr w K 1 -%i Hr9r ■ •• 91 . wBtS la IMfes ik n nfWmk w real fl ix.. .flr aw w JB KatJin .■WWN .. w # j.- flnH Montague Noel Newton Business Outlook Bright SayslChamber President BY RICHARD F. GRANT President Chamber of Commerce of the United States The business outlook is distinctly encouraging. The business man can now go ahead with the assurance that the country is sound at heart and is go ing to stand by our long-tried fun damental principles. This will reflect itself in all lines of trade and particularly in our basic commodities. We may con fidently expect increa/ng volume in all these lines and a year of un questioned prosperity in 1925. Maintenance of large distribution of merchandise into consumptk n may be expected. The readjust ments in prices among different classes of commodities that has re sulted from earlier events in 1924 are having their effect. The in dex number of all wholesale prices has changed but little during the year, but prices for many commod itie sthat have been depressed have moved upward and prices of some other groups that were well above the general level have shown ap preciate declines. The result is stimulating to pro ducers. . In so large a country with sich a diversity of business as the United States conditions are never quite uniform throughout. There will al ways be dark spots -with pressing problems. When improvement is widely re corded, however, and the funda mentals underlying the business structure, like finance and transpor tation services, are sound and in a condition to tend ready support, we can look for business developments of a satisfactory sort. HANDCUFFED NEGRO LEAPS FROM TRAIN WAYCROSS, Dec. ICand • Clark, negro, wanted by Forsyth authorities, leaped from the fast moving Southland train as it neared the city late Saturday and made his escape. The negro, handcuffed, made a daring leap through the window of the train and although he is believ ed to have been injured in the fall, so far he has made gcod his get away. The escape w’as made as the tiain slowed down as it entered th l , city. Bloodhounds failed to pick up the trail. • ’’’ x • ' • . \ v - ■ ft 7 J ‘ •y /i Mrs. Maude Robinson fiSWERF ESCAPE EDOM PEN Two Make Get-Away Sunday— One Walked Oft Friday— All Were ‘Honor’ Men ATLANTA, Dec. I.—Two honor prisoners, Mack Brawly, 31, and George Faillips, 22, both of whom had only short terms to serve at they would be free, quietly walked away from the honbr farm Sunday afternoon and g »od their es cape. Their absence was not notic ed until a check was n;ad§ at aoout 6 o’clock Sunday night, as no guards are kept over pi i ’.oners who work on the farm. Another pris oner from West Virginia escaped last Friday, making three in as many days. Brawley would have completed serving his sentence Feb ruary 1, 1925, and Phillips on April 4, prison officials said Sunday. Brawley was sentenced to the fedral penitentiary from Abingdon, W. Va., for forgery. He began serving his two-year sentence in De cember, 1922. Phillips was sen tnced to the Atlanta federal peni tentiary for two years on the charge of sending obscene matter through the mails. He was sen tenced from Bluefield, W- Va. SAFETY OF HIS TWO WORRIED BOY EMEPROR PEKIN, Dec. 1. —Fears for his own saftey and that of hi* two wives, of whom he is very fond, causeiP Hsuan Tung, the deposed boy-emperor of Chirm end last of the great Manchu dynasty to oc cupy the exotic premises within the imperial forbidden city, to seek refuge in the home of Ambassador Yoskhizawa, the Japanese represen tative at Pekin. Young Hsuan himself so explain ed his sudden departure from the house of his fathe- where he had beim living since the Cnristian gen eral, Fang Yu Hsiang, and his col league in revolution, Chang Tso Lin,' decided to turn the young royalist I out of the ancient palace. i Chas E. Robinson, husband of the woman in the case. > MO COMMUNISTS ATTACK ESTHFUIIII PUBLIC SIME Uprising Suppressed—Several Renorted Killed Among Whom Are Several Police (By Associated Press.) REVAL Esthonia, Dec. I.— Armed Communists attacked certain government and military buildings here at 5-30 o’clock this morning. According to government officials, the at tack was immediately suppress ed and order restored. No disturbances are reported from other towns or provinces. SEVERAL PERSONS REPORTED KILLED. (By The Associated Press) HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dec. 1. —According to advices from Reva], the Esthonian capital, armed men occupied the railroad station there today and attempted the capture of the telegraph and telephone offices. Several persons were reported kilted, among whom are said to be a number of policemen. NORWAY CELEBRATES UNUSUAL ANNIVERSARY By NEA Service LONDON, Dec. I.—Norwaj not so long ago celebrated a very re markable anniversary—nothing less tha nthe nine hundredth anniversary of the introduction of Christianity into the country. A fine memorial ser 'ic : took place in a tiny church at Moster, on the west coast near the ar. >ient ship ping town of Bergen. The church itself is part of the history of Norway. It was certain ly in use in 1024 when the Ring, Saint Olav, imposed the Christian faith upon his wild and independent subjects. It was not entirely unknown to them because for the preceding two centuries the Vikings had been in touch with the peoples of western and southern Europe who were al ready Christianized. CONGRESSMAN CRISP . NOW IN WASHINGTON Congressman Charles R. Crisp left Americus today for Washing ton where he is today in attendance on the sessions of the 68th Con gress. Mrs. Crisp did not acocmpany the congressman, but will join him later in the month. LINER MUNNEKAHDA ASHORE OFF GLUCKSTADT By Associated Press LONDON, Dec. I. The liner Minnekahda, from New York to Plymouth, Cherbourg and Hamburg, went ashore off Gluckstadt, /Ger- j many, yesterday evening, according ' to advices received here. Five tugs failed to get the vessel I eff, advices say, but it is hoped to float her at the next '.ide. * BMIHOnUUHTS DESTROYED Bl FIFE E. L. Bell Loses Building, Ma chinery and Live Stocf: Valued at SIO,OOO Fire of an unknown origin ' uly Saturday morning destroyed a large burn and it's contents or tro farm of E. L. Bell at Allan s station in Lee county. Thirteen mules 11 hogs r several wagons aril many pieces of farm machinery wa - con sumed by the blaze. The owner cf the property estimates the loss a SIO,OOO. Only the .building proper was covered by insurance Mb. Bell states that at 2 o’clock in the morning he was aroused from his sleep by the cracking of flames and on going to the r<ar of his Lome found the btvn eave! >p< d n flames. In half hour ?.Ir, It -I] .• ai < the barn was laid in and that due to the intensity of the heat I e was unable to get near enough to the barn to drive out the live stock or to save any of th ■ machinery. SMTWK Mt BE FEDERAL JUDGE Rumored He Will Be Offered Vacancy Caused By Resig nation of King ATLANTA, Dec. I.—A rumor which appaers to have at least some substantial ground, was brought back here from Washing ton that there is probability Sena tor Waltr F. Gorge will be of fered the appointment on the fed eral court bench to fill th vacancy caused by the resignation a few days ago of Judge Alex C. King. Senator George passed through Atlanta Sunday on the way to Washington, but the report of the probable tender was not known un til after he had left Atlanta. FARMER BEATEN Bl IE6M_B DEAD Lewis Winn Dies l n Valdosta Hospital—Negro Under Arrest (By The Associated Press) VALDOSTA, Dec. 1. —Lewis Winn, 47 years old, a farmer and merchant at West Lake, Fla., died here today from blows >n the head inflicted yesterday by Lawson Zip per, a negro. Zipper was arrested and placed in jail at Jasper, FBllFMims ROOMING HOUSE FIFE Many Others Injured, Some Fa tally, In Early Morning Blaze . ' (By As«oc ated Press.) NEW YORK, Dec. 1. -Four per sons, three of them women, lost their lives in a fire which sweat a five-story rooming house 'in Wc.it 63rd street early this morning. Twelve other persons were. in jured, some probably fatally. ' LITTLE JOE ( ( XOO ' CM. BACK U?, A\\\j * TO X)O\NU OH THAT <? OOVHTS/ ■O- NEW YORK FUTURES Pc Open Ham Close Jan 23.30123.32 23.10|22.7S Mar. . . .. 1 23.76i23.65j23.46|23*17 May ..........|24.10|24.00|28.80|23.50 July !24.10|23.92|23.80|23.50 Dee. .23.28 23.15i22.»0'22.60 Spot' cotton 22 3-Bc. PRICE FIVE CENTS ’EMTIOHOFM B BY EGYPTAIH ' SOLDIERS COMPLETED , Drastic Demands Made By Great Bnta.in on Egypt Have Keen Accepted (By The Associated Press) CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. I.—Al j though not yet officially an y,' nounced, it is understood au e I thoritatively that the Egyptian is) government has accepted all of n | the British demands made at 1 I ■ time of the assassination of yi Sir Lee Stack, sidar of Egvpt. Egyptian evacuation of the fl Suonn m complete. The last Egyptian soldier left r K.harb'-im Saturday, according *o riel a <'cl dispatches received I: he e I first group of evac n naticl soldiers reached Cairo : Satnrdav. British troops are corralling n the remaining mutineers of the < I'leventh batt'lion of Sudanese t infantry, which made a futile i. effort to resist the British ulti , mati’m ordering Egyptian troops to withdraw from the Sudan, ac cording to dispatches from Khartoum, where the fighting . took place, ' When the last of th > pitiful rem it nt has been captured, and disarm _ ed, the British will search the ruins of the European hospital bui'oing to discover the number of casual ties among the black fn ops. The destroyed building is believed to I he strewn with bodies of Sudanese ' oldicrs killed by the British bom bardment. Lor,] Allenby considers the situ ation at, Khartoum to be satisfac t tory. There is general optimism re ’ warding the future attitude of this native and Egyptian troops in the Soudan, following the scern repres sion of the Eleventh’s attempted ■ The authorities believe that tin? remaining Egyptian troops in the area will permit themselves to bo sent away without resistance. Cairo is quiet. Repented parades of British troops in full war kit have had the desire .1 effect upon . the populace. A majority of the schools pre still affected by the students’ and teachers’ strike al though a few have resumed classes. It is authoritatively stated that negotiations between the British residency and the Egyptian gov ernment of Premier Ziwar Pasha, are proceeding smoothly. INFANTRY ARRIVES FROM KHARTOUM. k Cairo, Dec. I.*—The fourth bat talion of Egyptian infantry arrived here Sunday from Khartoum and will be confined in the Abbsssia barracks for a week. No further arrests t >ok plae? yes terday. The 34 men who previous ly had been taken into custody were interrogated by the public prose cutor. A delegation of members of the prosecutor, and the liberal con stitutional party has published a manifesto protesting against ar rests of members of the chamber. ORIGIN OF MUTINY SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. LONDON, Dec. I.—The situation in Egypt is described as being “in good order” in dispatches to the foreign office from Viscount Al lenby, British high commissioner in Egypt. Official dispatches from I the Sudan likewise report conditions “easier and satisfactory ” Nothing, however, not yet indi cates the real origin of the Khar toum mutiny, which took several hours to suppress. By that time, the building in which the mutineers took refuge was in ruir.s from gun fire. The mutineers then separated into small parties. Some escaped to the surrounding towns, and oth < i s were arrested by the soldiers. | Cairo advices indicate that the /new government is devoting itself I to the preservation of peace, and that no reports of new- incidents in the Sudan have reached Cairo. ZAGLOUL GETS PASSPORT X TO GO TO EUROPE. , CAIRO, Dec. I.—lt is said heva that Zagloul Pasha, the former Egyp tian premier, has obtained a pass port for Europe, and that he is live ly to go to some French or Italian health resort. MINISTERS OF FINANCE TO MEET JANUARY 6TH PARIS, Dec. I.—A meeting of ministers of finance, at which it is planned to locate definitely tlie amount of reparations to be racuiv cd, from. Germany under the Dawes J; program has been ret ahead to Jan- ' ■*; uury 6,
