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Strict middling, 23 cents. \ WEATHER—CIoudy and colder tonight and Sunday; probably rain or snow in south and central por tion. FORTY-SIXTH YEAR. NO. 296 SAMUEL GOMPERS SLAPS WIDOW IN WILL Reserve Bank Asked to Accept Calcium Notes SENIOR Bf URGE PETITIONS BOARD FAPM EPS INTEREST f ■■ If Request Is Granted Poison Can Be Purchased In Fall at Lower Prices WASHINGTON, Dec 20. The governor of the Federal Re serve Board was today request ed by Senator Waiter F. George, Democrat, junior senator from Georgia, to accept notes secured by calcium arsenate, which is being used in large volumes throughout the South, in combat ing the boll weevil. Senator George pointed out to the Federal Reserve Board that calcium arsenate was non-perish able and if stored in federal warehouses would furnish suffi cient securities for federal re serve notes. The Senator .said that if his quests was granted the farmers of the South -'would be able to pur chase fertilizer in the fall and win ter and would not be compelled to go into the markets in the spring, when the price of calcium arsenate might be boosted. The Georgia state board of en tomology already is advising- Geor gia farmers to purchase their cal ciums as early as possible, to store and have in readiness lor the ear liest possible use. In past -sOtVoorts it has often been difficult and some +; tjies impossible to secure the poi- F' son in large quantities when most needed. U.S.MFM CM UfflSE Fight On Tuberculosis Brings Results- White Plague Takes 90,731 Lives in 1923 (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Deaths from cancer increased in the United States last year while the flight ugainSt tubercolosis made progress, according to figures given out by the Federal Census Bureau. There a total of 86,754 deaths reported as hiV’ng resulted from cancer last year. This show ing is an increase of 5,816 deaths over last year. The death toll from tubercolosis last sl'ear amounted to 90.731 against 90,452 deaths in 1922. ginningfSes GIVEN BY BUREAU (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 20—Cot ton ginned prior to Decgfber 12 totaled 12,796,216 running /bales, including 293,326 round bales count ed as half bales. This figure compares with !>,- 549,01'5 bales, including 232,643 round bales, ginned prior to that ■date last year .announ c.s the Cen sus Bureau today.' Ginnings for the state cf Georgia are give nas 1,012,802 bales. The census bureau states that . there were 15,271 ginner es in oper ■ ation prior to Dec. Ist. I I I ■ v/ wlr b- *■ ■- ■ "•*»» «—»l—i —»i»ai»Miji. W) THE TIMES EmI'PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OT DIXIE Herbert Hoover Discusses Business • Booms and Business Depressions Ccmmercia] History a Succes sion of Alternate Slumps and ’Booms, Says Cabinet Mem ber. BY CHARLES P. STEWART NEA Service Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. “Boom and slump! Slump and boom! Boom and slump! “That,” says Secretary of Com merce Herbert C. Hoover, “is the business cycle. “Business history, broadly, ir a constant succession of alternating, irregularly separated booms and slumps. “Why the boom and why the slump? Well, what’s -the business incentive? Profit or the expectation of profit. “When business men's expecta tions of profit are bright the cycle swings upward. As their expecta tions grow brighter the curve rises higher yet. Finally the expectations become too brilliant to be realized. “A boo mis on. Anxious to take full advantage of it, business men generally extend and overextend themselves. The demand for credit increases to finance this and for speculation. Prevent Excessive Booms . Transportation facilities are over burdened. Deliveries are delayed. There is an apparent ,not a real, shortage of goods. Merchants duplicate their orders, hoping, by ordering too much, jto get enough. “Tresentlyi- credit nears its limit. Business me bank accommodations harder to get. rublig confidence is shaken. Can cellation sos orders follow. • “Merchants, pressed for money, are forced to liquidate their stocks. Prices fall'. Goods will not sell for what they cost. Many business men, already overextended, cannot take their losses and pay what they owe. “A period of depression, with bankrupticies and unemployment, has come. At length, tne curve is at its lowest. “Only strong, sound businesses are left. Being strong and sound, they begin to find opportunities, for profit again. The curve begins to rise. “Ip preventing excessive booms we shall also prevent disastrous slumps. By no means that we know c'a nwe smooth out tie curve com pletely. There will be ups and downs, but if the upward swings oar, be kept from rising to high, the downward swings will net sink too low. Voluntary Restrrhit “It is* the duty of agencies like the Department of Commerce to keep the business public informed concerning actual conditions —t-.ot what appears on the surface bu*i the real, underlying truth. “But the government can’t tell in dividual business men v.hat to do. In full knowledge of the facts, they must reach their decisions for them selves. Individual voluntary re straint is the preventive of unneces sarily violent commercial fluatua tions. Will this work, though? “The country voluntarily ration ed itself during the war. Many said it couldn’t be done then—that "it was ridiculous to expect any public to restrain itself voluntarily. Yet the American public did. “The business public restrained it self in the spring of 1923, thus con trolling at the start wnat might have been a disastrous boom. “It can be done. “There .are various palliatives— public construction, unemployment reserve funds, governmental sup port of banks—which can be em ploye dto goo deffect during periods of acute depression, but the better method is prevention of such pe riods in advance.” NEGRO KILLS ANOTHER ON CRISP PLANTATION Cecil Foster, a negro living on the Crisp Plantation was shot and killed Friday afternoon by Lucius Patterson another n»gro. The shoot ing is said to have been the outcome of altercations regarding one or the others wife. Patterson was lodged in the coun ty jail after a coroners jury stated that Foster came to his death bv the shots from a gun in tr.e hands oE Patterson, AMERICUS, GA.. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 20, 1924 St W-'s 'st - • . , » ' t. life . Bw '~w-. a 1 i Pg .EjrW- j ■ 1 1 - B *‘l |FW' ' J? c jM ,• V ■ JraL. A'.... • w- / ■V- HERBERT HOOVER Empty Stocking Fund Closes W ednesday The Empty Stocking Fund will be closed Wednesday afternoon and turned over to tne Associated Chari ties, so that they may make their purchases that afternoon. This, al lows three more days in which to send in contributions to the fund. The Associated Charities needs considerable more tha.i has been raised so far and it behooves Am ericus people to get busy and send in their contributions. Ask yourself what you would do if your little tots were going to wake up and find Empty Stockings on Christmas morning. Previously acknowledged .. $126.91 Ira Oliver .10 Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kyian- der, Sr :....... 5.30 Marie McNeill 50 Glendal Parsons 25 Mrs. W. H. Summerford ........ ,50 Lorane Davis 25 Billy Cobb 1 99 Preston Cobb 1.00 Ophie Lee Williams ,35 Ralph Willianls 10 Lynwood Jordan 10' Harry Murphy .10 Charles M. Hale, Jr .25 Laura May Hale 25 Kiwanis Club O.SO Martha Marshall 1.00 T. O. Marshall Jr 1 00 Dan Marshall 1.00 A Friend 1.110 Elizabeth Langford .10 Total $147.46 LIBRARIAN REQUESTS BOOKS BE RETURNED Mrs. W. C. Merritt, librarian.of thC Carnegie Library, is desirous that all persons who have maga zines or books belonging to the library should turn them in im mediately so that an annual report can be made regarding the con dition and number of books in the library. VANDERBILT LEASES MIAMI NEWS BLDG. (By The Associated Press) MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 20.—Cor nelius Vanderbilt, Jr., has leased the present home of the Miami Daily News for the Tabloid Morn ing daily which he will publish here, beginning early in January. TOLL Os LIVES LOST FROM COLO lOlllT IS REPORTS CHE Freezing Weather Sweeping To ward East and South—Wire Communication Hindered 1 (By The Associared Press) CHICAGO, Dec. 20 —The icy grip of Winter is slowly relaxing its hold on the Far West and the Rocky Mountain region today, while tight ening its chilly grasp on the East and the Middle Wes±. Although, nearly normal temper atures may be reached in most of the cold area in the next 24 hours, many days will elapse before wire and telephone and railway communi cation are restored, ar.d again are normal. All were paralyzed in many sections. Meanwhile the toll of lives lost from freezing are added to by the Matalities from fires resulting from overheated furnaces and st >vcs. There is much suffering among the poor. Three persons were ourned to death at Casper, Wyoming, in an explosion" caused by lowered gas pressure that put out fires in the homes of the city. Eight deaths are reported in Mis souri and damage amounting to thousands of dollars is recorded. Two deaths have been reported in Chicago, where the thermometer dropped 30 degress, to 5 below zero in 24 hours. In lillinois, Kansas and Missouri The Associated Press was compell ed to rely on radiocast news, all other mean sos communication be ing interrupted. Wires in the Southeast and South west are so bady crippled that re routing is necessary in order to carry the day’s news over the,wires. first real cold AT NEW ORLEANS. (By The Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20. Strong northerly winds brought to New Orleans territory he first real cold of the winter. Early today' the mercury stood at 39 degrees with' freezing predicted for later in tne day and lower temperatures in oth- I pr sections of the state. GERMAN HUMAK BUTCHER TO DIE ON GUILLOTINE Killer of 24 Boys and One Ac complice Sentenced tc Block for Many Crimes HANOVER, Germany, Dec. 20.-—Fitz Haarmann Friday heard the jury's answer to his plea for speedy death. It was a sentence to die on the guillotine for both the attic ogre and his vulture accomplice, Hans Grans. ■ Haarmanns was found guilty of 24 of thfe 27 murders with which he was charged. Grans was held guilty of instigation of one murder and as accessory in a second. Grans was sentenced to the guillotine for prompting the murder of one of the many youths he lured to Haarmann's little room overlooking the river where Haarmann killed them that Grans might sell their clothes. As accessory to a second mur der of the possible two score, •Haarmann admitted he may have committeed and lost in the ruck of his murder-clotted memory. Grans was sentenced to I 5 years in the penitentiary. “1 fully accept the verdict. 1 want no appeal, no pardon,’’ he said. "However, in some of these cases 1 was not guilty." Both Haarmann and Grans stood calm and emotionless. Haarrnann was acquitted of three murders because absolute proof that he committed them was lacking. The verdict parallels the opin ions of experts who held that Haarmanh was sane. It read: “He knew he would kill when he saw his victims for the first time. Therefore, he acted de libercftely." oecJbm 12 YEAR RECORD Thursday Was Hottest Decem ber Day in Americus in a Dozen Years To say the weather is fickle is putting it niildly. Here vze arc al most in the throes of one of the worst freezes That the country has felt in several years according to the weather man, and only two days ago, on December 18 we experienc ed .according to the records of Joe Bryan, local weather prophet, the hottest day felt in Americus in this month in 12 years. The therniom ter climed to 81 on Thursday and earlier in the month on the 6th it reached the same figure. Mr. Bryan has only been record ing temperatures and rainfalls since 1913 and all the figures he gives are within this 12 year period. Mr. Bryan states that he has no records of temperatures prior to 1913. In 1922 the thermometer reached 80 in the month of December, but this was around the first of the month. The next nearest approach to the record climb of the thermom eter was recorded in 1917, when the mercury climbed to 79 Rainfall for the mon'h of Octo ber, November . and! December is 1 way below the average, with the heaviest rains occurring the first part oF»ihis month, running the De cember average to 2.33 ; nches. In October only 1.07 inches fell, while in November the best average Jupi ter Pluvius could reach was .3?. Mr. Bryan states that the average for these three months should be around 3 inches. The Atlanta bureau forecasts a drop in temperature ti 20 degrees in that section before Sunday night. Providing this prophecy is cor ect, Mr. Bryan says we can look for a low mean temperatu.-e around degrees, , —— - ** Scalper? JI in w l ' Ii H - : - zjW! ERL 'Lt-SF* >■ Mrs. Maybelle Fuller, Douglas is one of the alleged principals in the $200,000 Chicago ticket scalp ers’ syndicate that went on the rocks. Her husband, Captain Bruce Douglas was previously ar rested by police anti released on bonds. Mrs. Douglas was captured in a downtown office building. DISCHARGED CLERK KILLS EMPLOYER THEN SUICIDES Fred S. Stewart, Head of At lanta Shoe Company, Shot to Death Yesterday ■ ATLANTA. Dec. 20. Two men are dead and two others fatally wounded as the result of a shooting late Friday in the heart of Atlanta’s business shop ping district. The dead are Fred S. Stew art, president of a large retail shoe company, and Edward O. Riordan, a discharged clerk, who shot him. After wounding S. R. Turner and H. E. Maddox, two department managers in the store, and shooting at Mrs. Wil liam King, an assistant manager, Riordan, said to havy been a former army officer, then kill ed himself. The shooting occurred as hun dreds of Atlantans, bent on purchasing Christmas goods, were in the crowded aisles of the Stewart company and scores of nearby retail establishments. Intense excitement prevailed and a special detachment of police was rushed to the scene. Stewart was the first man shot by Riordan. The president was on the second floor, talking to his wife, when the clerk whom he had discharged, approached. Mrs. Slew art said she left the two men talking. A few minutes later, Rior dan shot Stewart through the nee.i. Dashing down the steps, Riordan encountered Turner, who had rush ed to the second floor upon hear ing the phopting, and shot him through the abdomen. The former clerk then began shooting at Mad dox, who ran down the steps. Riordan followed, but stopped at the botto mlong enough to file at Mrs. Stewart. He then shot Mad dox three times. With one bullet remaining in his pistol, Riordan shot himself through the head, falling lifeless across Maddox. Stewart was rushed to a hospital, where he died on the operating table. Physicians said Maddox and Turner probably were wounded fa tally. Friends of Riordan said he had been “driven mad” because he had teen discharged a week ago, follow ing the dismissal of his wife from the store during the pa :t summer. BUSINESS COLLEGE , CLOSES FOR HOLIDAYS The Americus Business college, following the example of the pub lic school of the city and county, has closed for ths Christmas holi days and will not re-open until January 5, , —*7 ’ - MEW Y(IRK FUTURES I Pc Open 11am Close I Jan 23.62’23.45123.42123.51 I Mrn. I May . . .'. 24.37 24.28'24.20|24.32 | Jrtv .21.52 <J4.40124.35'24.48 I Dec. ■24.00i23.55|28.85j24.00 I PRICE FIVE CENTS MINIM MOUNT .. RLO'ff 0 8! Iffl IS SMffl IN WILL Estate Goes to Sens and Grand daughters of Labor Chief Value of Estate Mot Given WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. The will of Samuel Gompers, filed here today for probate, leaves the bulk of his estate to his sons and his granddaughters and directs that only "the mini mum amount allowed by law” should be. paid to his widow. The will was dated Nov. 8. 1924, and was accompanied by a mut'lated copy of another will previously made. The mutilated will was torn across the face and across it»was written, "i cancel and revoke this will." The value of the estate left by the deceased labor leader was not mentioned in the will. The present Mrs. Gompers was the second wife of the labor chief whom he married a fewg. months ago. X COUNTY SCHOOL ' TEACHERS TO GET SALARY TO DEC, I E. T. Moore, Newly-Elected Superintendent, Will Take Office January 1 The County Board of Educa-* tion held a call meeting Friday in the courthouse, for the pur-' pose of approving and ordering payment of all pay rolls of the county schools up to December first. The board approved the bond of E. T. Moore, newly-elected county school superintendent and it was recorded in the Ordi nary’s office. Mr. Moore takes over his new duties January 1. The members of the board ex pressed their appreciation upon learning that Prof, J. Mr. Harvey, principal of the Union High school, was again on duty after having spent several weeks at the bed side of his wife who is sizk in a Sana-* toriu min Atlanta. J After reading letters From mathematical departments ' Georgia, School of and the Univcrsit yof in whiuW the heads of these deiy».nments calb ed attention to thy fact that the county schools yvwr6.no’, giving Ihicr pupils the in math -1 matics, it was decided by the board to have four mathematical examina tions eacii year in the schools. This it was thought by the board v\cuid help to rectify the deficiencies. It was learne.-l by the board at then - meeting Friday that L- B. Strickland had signified his inten tions of resigning from his position as principal of the Anderson School, and it is expected tha-; he will tender his resignation to that uperinttenderit today No probable success to Mr. Strickland’s piece was discusfeed by the board. SAVANNAH MAN ESCAPES FROM PEN ATLANTA, Dec. 20.—Captain 11. V. Evans, sent to the federal pen itentiary from Savannah on a charge of violating the prohibition laws es caped from the ti-ii-on Friday night it was learned today. LITTLE JOE [ EAR MUFFS.NEVER PREVENTED ANYBODY FROM UEARiNOAN INVITATION TO I ■ HP O’- ,X< ' Xi * !
