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MMBMr iRICUS SPOT COTTON I y ~ ' jra. 22 cents. j ■- >' WEATHER J K •' Teorgia— Fair tonight ard I K ■ • r - V - < Jr _ 5 FORTY-SEVENTH QEAR—NO. 200 Ku Klux Klan Organization in Battle Over Masking DRAGON PLEADS AT MEET FOR SECRET ROLL Hiding Behind Masks Necessary for the Purpose of the Order, He Says VIEWS ARE OPPOSED BY OTHER MEMBERS Publicity Prevents Many Sym pathizers From Joining, Ne braska Leader Asserts BUCKEYE LAKE, 0., Aug 26.--' The Ku Klux Klan must revert to 1 its original intention to keeping its membership secret if it is to ach ieve the object “to which it is dedi cated,’’ Glenn Carter, grand dragon of Nebraska, asserted Tuesday be fore the national meeting of state „ and regional heads of the organiza ? tion here. He denounced the growing prac tice 6f klansmen to. appear in pub lic unmasked. “This has done mor? to prevent men who might be in cline/’ '<> join than any other thing r >cated an universal return ’ctice of klansmen never n public unless masked. | tembership is known’ he j many men sympathetic j may be deterred from ■ business, political and i ■ I • • ’tand was opposed by S the grand dragons and p . definite action was tak- H ihio, the strongest klan ® e union, acording to lead- (f> rder, it has been the re ■ ! <-tiee Mor klansmen to ap- ■ " •übli® unmasked. This is § 'rotates also, speakers I'i ' ifwicy regarding the is decided upon before the ids. Such action, how be passed upon by the < v body of the order. In addition to being grand drag on of Nebraska, Cartel is imperial represer ative of the klan in Illi nois. with headquarters in Spring field. Questions pertaining to organiza tion work were discussed at today’s meeting. The gathering wil con tinue through Thursday. The officials were told that the klan has passed through its grow ing stage now and that extraordin ary help which has been given by the parent organizations to local klans will not be further forthcom ing. Among other things. H. K. Ram sey, imperial klazik, in charge of the operation of realms, said that treasurers and secretaries of the various sub-divisions of the order would be held so strict accountabil ity in the future for funds due the national and state bodies. A rule of the klan provides that a certain percentage of al dues tak en in by local bodies is to go to the state and imperial realms. While most officials have segregated these funds on their books many have not done so when they banked the money, with a result that in a great many instances, the national and state bodies have not received their shares, he said. He said that in the future local officials will be obligated by bond to keep the money separate. Dr HiramW. Evans Washington, imperial wizard, told the dragons and titans that it is their duty to return to their communities and fos ter the impression that the klan is ■‘now taking its place in the social rife of the nation as a definite de pendable a fcy the »<*ieve • ment. of civ righteousness. “We have trown up,” he said. “The klan longer a growing child, it is fadult. • Os chief forest on tomorrow s 0 ogram w fr a discussion of the mean Obtain cooperation ot -■ kters in the religious F'anization. fcsUMES ,IHWARD VOYAGE I.: ; „ WASHINGTON, August 26 The V MjU’ t Arctic expedition lies resir - xs southward Vovn ;«• ;,f r ‘ ig been -weatherbound for seve .... days on the northwest coast of i re nland. FAMOUS AUSTRIAN ARMY HEAD DIES VIENNA, August 26. Field Marshal Von Conrad Hoctzendorf, chief of staff of the Austrian army in the wo'ld war and later cfliu mander i> chief on the Italian front, di I today at Mergenlheim , -mburg, Germany. THE ESH PUBLISHED IN THE HEART. OF DlXiE~ffgp? j GASOLINE FLOWS > FROM TOWN PUMP ' < / ( I ROBINSON, N. D., August J 26.—Residents thought they had (struck a real bonanza recently *when it was discovered that the town pump was pouring forth gasoline. ; * Several autoists filled their ; tanks, finding the fuel as good ias tha tobtained at a filling sta tion. Today a nearby garage found its storage tank empty. > It had sprung a leak. BIDS BE ASKED ON VET SCRIPT Qcvernor To Adopt This As Means of Determining World Attitude Toward Issue ATLANTA, August 26.—An ex tra session of the Georgia genera) assembly will be called to perfect the Confederate script issue unless it can be sold for not more than a four percent discount. Governor Walker announced today. The time of the extra session was not indicated, but ‘the governor inti mated that he would sign the bill. ATLANTA, Aug. 26.—1 n the face of state-wide opposition to an extra' legislative scsison—talk of which vtfas started Monday when the $4,000,000 Confederate scrip bill was severely criticised—Gover nor Clifford Walker announced Tuesday that he would probably sign the measure and adopt some plan to test out legality of tie scrip for payment of past due pensions which the bill seeks to authorize. “I am thinking of advertising the entire issue for sale, to see if any bank will bid on it as a whole at a reasonable rate of interest,” the governor said. “In this way, I will find out definitely whether the busi ness world will regard the scrip is sued under this bill as worth one hundred cents on the dollar and 1 will also save many of the old sol diers from a probable loss which they would sustain in trying to cash the scrip individually.’ BROWN LIKELY TO RUN AGAIN J. J. Now Says His Candidacy for Re-election Depends Upon ‘Developments’ ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 26.—(A. P.) —J. J. Brown, commissioner of agriculture denied that he stated m an address at Athens yesterday that he would not be a candidate for commisisoner of agriculture at the next election. “I am not a candidate at the present time, but I reserve the right to run again for the office I de sire,” he said, adding that whether he offers for the agricultural Post post agai ndepends on “develop ments.” EX-DRY AGENT CHARGED WITH WHITE SLAVERY TAMPA, Fla., Aug. 26.— Hearing for Donald C. Campbell, a former federal prohibition enforcement of ficer, held here on a charge of vio lating the Mann act, was postponed until Thursday morning. The case was set for hearing today but was caried over at the request of de fendant’s counsel. ATLANTA CARMEN HELD FOR MURDER ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 26.—(A. P.) —Both the Fulton county grand jury and a coroners jury here Tuesday returned indictments charg ing murder to C. G. Churchill and j C. B. Smith motorman and cor.due tor respectively in connection with the death Saturday night of A. W. (Texas) Mullins, a pasenger on a street car when he was fatally knifed. The two street car operatives are 4il confined in jail where they have been since their arrest Satur day. FRENCH GARRISON TAKEN BY DKUZE LONDON, August 2(1. —An Ex change Telegraph message from Cairo reports that the French gar rison at Dierezzo, important city of Syria on the right hank of the Eu ! phrates river, has been captured by the regellious Jebel Pruze tribes -1 men. The nyssage says that the ! rebellion is spreading. AMERiCUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. AUGUST 2*. 192 5 Von Hindenburg Reviews His Troops ; j ~—w~ ' I -4 * ■ ■„ * * ; ■ AA,ak A. a A v i Marshal Von Hindenberg, newly elected president of the German re- ANOTHER CUT IN PRICE OF GAS Gulf and Lov?ng Announce a One Cent Slash, Effective Thursday Morning H. P. Everett, local manager of the Gulf Refining company an nounced this morning that he had been advised by the main ofifees of a cut in the price of gasoline of one cent, effective in Americus (to morrow) Thursday morning. This latest decrease brings the price of the precious fuel to 25 cents a gallon. The local office of the standard Oil company stated to the Times- Recorder this morning that it re ceived no notice from headquarters of a one cent cut, but it is likely this company, will follow the Gulf Refining company. G. O. Loving, of the Loving Oil company, local concern will dis pense gasoline at 25 cents a gal lon tomorrow morning, and said he was always ready Xo cut price of gasoline along with the larger Corn-! panies. t*f CITY GETS NEW THERMOMETER Temperature Controversy At End; von Herrmann Yields to Poole’s Request Americus’ temperature war, be'- tween the Local Chamber of Com merce and C. F. von Herrmann, I state Meterologist, came to a close | Tuesday afternoon, when J. Par-1 rot Poole, local weather dopester, received a letter from Mr. von Herrman stating that he was ship ping another thermometer to take the place of the one now being used which suffered a severe case of the aeebee-jeebes and registered 110 degrees one day last week. The president of the Chamber of Commerce, when informed one day last week that the local government thermometer registered 11 0 degrees wirisd Mr. von Herrman that some thing was very wrong with the ther mometers being used here and to please investigate and replace the high heat registers with a new set. which he stated that the Americus After writing several letters, in which he stated that the Americus theormometer was registering O. K. Mr. von Herrmann realized from the letters he received in answer to his, that he was gradually los ing ground in the battle to keep the ; high running thcrmoriieters in use j in Americus, so he raised the flag of truce and decided to end the , controversy by shipping the new [ thermometer. Tn a letter to Mr. Poole, Mr. von I Herrmann said: “Although I do not think that there is anything the matter with your thermometer, it might be some relief to those inter ested to know that you have re ceived a new one. and accordingly 1 have sent you another maximum today. TWO SLAIN IN PAID ON SHANGHAI JAIL SHANGHAI. August 26. Two persons were killed when Chinese police today fired into a crowd of dockyard workers, who wore he- I seiging the police station and de. muiuling the relase of four urrest- I ed workmen. zllpublic, reviews his troops in Berlin -lifor the first time since the German PALLADIUM CLUB ■ HONORS SCOUTS Thirty«Fcur Youths Vote to Re organize Troops; Civic Clubs To Aid Thirty-four Boy Scouts were honor guests of the Palladiums last, night and each signified his desire to have the troops of Americus re organized, and the Palladiums re quested the other clubs of the city to join them in making this pos sible. President Turner appointed the following committees from his club to advise with similar committees from the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs: Dr. E. L. Thurman, chairman, J. F. Finch anil Rev. Joe M. Branch. Barbecue dinners were served by the Palladiums to members and guests. Rev. Joe M. Branch spoke on the usbject of the home; Steven Pace told of the opportunities Sumter county offers its citizens and those who desire to cast their lots with the county, Fred Smith, president of the Kiwanis club, spoke briefly. Frank Harrold, song leader of the Rotary club led in the singing, with Mrs. Emmett Anderson at the piano. A mandolin club composed of J. Ed Chapman, L. L. Lester, S. L. Ham mond and Gordon Brooks entertain ed during the dinner with their stringed instruments. It was ladies night with the Pal ladiums and many of the wives and friends of the club were present. It is expected that the scout com mittees from the three clubs will hold a nearly meeting ahd put the reorganization of the scouts under way. J The resolution unanimously pass ed by the Palladiums follows: “Resolved, that it is the sense of the Palladium Club of Americus that the training—both physical and mental, ag well as moral, that is given to boys in what is known as the Boy Scout movement, is beneficial in a very high degree to their development into sturdy men and upright citizens, and there fore this club calls oh each of the other civic clubs in town to co-op erate with us in bringing about the reorganization of the Boy Scouts in Americus, and in pledging ourselves to stand behind them in this move ment. To this end it is moved that president be authorized to appoint a committee to confer with like committees from the other civic clubs which he shall request them to appoint, and these joint commit tees shall be authorized to call a joint meeting of all the civic clubs in the city at such time and place as shall be deemed by them appro-' I priate, to consider this movement for the Boys of Americus and Sum-’ Iter county. STEWART COUNTY BOARD LEVIES ADDITIONAL TAX RICHLAND, Aug. 26.—At a re- I cent meeting of the Stewart Coun ty Board of Education it was de < ided to levy an additional school [tax of three mills for county wide j purposes. This gives the schools j eight mills, thus enabling all schools jof the county to have a term of nine months. | Through consolidation the num- I her of Stewart Gouty white public I schools have been reduced from I fourteen to six. There are also in I the county two colored schools that i arc partly supported by the Rosen -1 wald Fund. AH the county teach ; ers have been paid in full and the 1 Board is out of debt. I forces were defeated by the f armies in the World War. WALKER SIGNS W.&A. MEASURE Bill Creates Plenary Commission to Deal With Chattanooga Over Railroad Property ATLANTA, Auguxt 26. —Pre»i dent J, Howard Ennis, of the Geor gia senate, announced the name of the senators whom he has appoint ed to serve on the Western and At lantic plenary commission to dis pose of the terminal property in Chattanooga. They are Senators Capp, 43d district; Guess, of the 34th, and Knight of the 6th. ATLANTA, Aug. 26.—Governor Clifforil Walker late Tuesday sign ed the bill creating a plenary com mission to deal with the city of Chattanooga over the Western and Atlantic railroad terminal property, owned by the stale of Georgia, in Chattanooga. The bill provides that the com mission shall be composed of the governor, Paul Trammell, chairman of the public service commission; Charles Murphey Candler, three members of the senate and six mem bers the house. The following have been appoint ed by Speaker W. Cecil Neill of the house to be house member of the commission: Fermor Barrett, Stephens coun ty; Jud P. Wilhoit, Warren coun ty; Ed B. Dykes, Dooly county; Miss Bessie Kempton, Fulton coun ty; John M. Murrah, Muscogee county, and J. Q. Smith, Grady county, Miss Kempton is chairman of the house W. and A. committee. FARMER LOSES ONLARGECROP Bumper Corn Yield* Have Play ed Havoc With lowa Farm ers, Says Reed DES MOINES, lowa, Aug 26.—- (By A. P.) —A bumper crop of corn does not necessarily mean prosperity for the lowa farmer. More than likely it means money out of his pocket, says C. D. Reed, director of the weather and crop re porting service. In his bulletins, Mr. Reed has been repeating “More corn—less dollars.” Basis for the statement was found in a fact pointed out by the late Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, usbstantiated by figures in Mr. Reed’s own ofice. The reverse is equally true, he declared, “Less corn—more dollars.” “Take the crop of 1924,” said j Mr. Reed. “It was the poorest we j have had since 1901. The average I yield was only 28 bushels to the acre. Despite the yield being 132,- 000,000 bushels shorter than the previous crop and that it was of in ferior quality, it brought the lowa fajmer $13,000,000 more than the year before. “The 1921 crop—lowa’s greatest —is another example. The average yield for that year was 43 bushels an acre, a bumper crop even for lowa, yet the total return to far mers was only $133,000,000 com pared with the $250,000,000 which the average corn crop brings. In that year Mr. Reed said the gross return for land that grew corn w'as $12.90 an acre, the lowest figure since 1902. HELD FOR PASSING CONFEDERATE BILL MACON, August 26. Charged with passing a $lO Confederate bill as legal tender fo r that amount, Sidney Brown, negro, is held in jail here. The negro is alleged to have given the bill to Charlotte High tower, aged negress, for lodg- J ing Sunday night, and nine good modern dollars change. She J learned the trick played upon her Monday and had Sidney ar rested. The bill is in the hands ? of the sheriff. FIFTH TRIA! FOR BANKER Organizer of $40,000,000 Insti tution Has Been Acquitted By Two Juries CLEVELAND, Aug. 26. (By A. P.) —Josiah Kirby, who has faced four juries on charges growing out of the collapse of the Cleveland Discount Company, which he organ ized virtually single-handed, wil) go to trial here again on a federal indictment charging use of the mails to defraud. Twice the juries that sat in judg ment on Kirby disagreed and twice he was acquitted. In each cast* it was said that the defendant “sold himself” to the juries, it bein’ freely admitted that the same per sonal magnetism and ‘supersales manship” which lifted Kirby from n penniless stranger in Cleveland to the head of the $40,000,000 con cern, helped to convince the ju rors that he was innocent of the charges made against him. Kirby has started in business in California, while the discount com pany is being reorganized by the receivers. The company was estab lished in 1918 and $14,000,000 of its preferred stock was sold through out the state. Shortly after the company purchased the Rockefeller Building, the name of which was changed to Cleveland Discount Company Building, which it still bears. * itfg & SHEFFEY DENIES MURDER CHARGE Former Army Officer Brands As False AH Criminal Charges Against Him MARWVILLS, Tenn., Aug. 26.—• (By A. P.) —William D. Sheffey, defendant in the Blount county criminal court trial for the murder of Luther Wells, took the stand m his own defense here late Tuesday and denied that he was the murder ous midnight marauder, who has terrorized homes in this and neigh boring comunities over a period of ten years. The former army officer, describ ed by the prosecution as a night time house breaker, assailant of wo men and the slayer of two young husbands. branded as false all charges against him of criminal con duct. Sheffey spoke in calm and em phatic tones as he. broke his sil ence inaintaoined since the trial be gan Monday of last week. He de clared that on the night of the fa tal shooting of Wells he had been in the home of his sister, Mrs. Louis Erving, On the night when three homes were invaded by the prowler, the defendant aserted he had been in Knoxville, returning to Maryville the following morning. HOWARD’S CAPTIVES ELUDE CHINESE TROOPS HABIN, Manchuria, Aug. 26. — The Manchurian bandits who are holding Dr. Harvey J. ’ Howard, American eye specialist, for ransom, have evaded the Chinese troops who had sjirrounded them and have tak en their prisoner by boat up the Hwachwan river to the Manchurian province of Holunghiang. FRENCH AGREE WITH COOLIDGE DEBT POLICY I PARIS, August 26. —The French; foreign office appears t<> be in entire agreement with President Coolidge’s reaffirmation at Swamp scott cf the principle of capacity for payment as a fair ' ,nf i ru » e I to apply to America’s European j debtors. That was th? first reaction to un-l official accounts of the President’s I point of view as outlined in die- I patches received here. NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open Ham Cl<s3e 5 1 Oct. 22.79 22.95123.02J22.79 J Dec. . 23.26 23.23 23,26123.02 ’ SEASON’S RECEIPTS > Bale.- Received 5,414 ’ PRICE FIVE CENTS CHINESE TONG WARFARE RAGES OVER NATION Yellow Men, After Enjoying Half a Year of Peace, Take* to the War Path KILLINGS FOLLOW IN SEVERAL CITIES Baltimore Restaurant Keeper Is Latest Victim of Hatchet Men Baltimore, Augu.t 26—Lout* Kwong, proprietor of a Chinese restaurant, was shot and fatally wounded by two unidentified Chi nese. Kwong died en route to the General hospital. NEW Y|RK, Aug. 26.—(8y A. P-) —The pistol shots which early I uesday struck down three men, two of them Chinese, in Boston, echoed half across the United States, as Chinese Tong men, after a six months peace renewed their warfare. 11. Yen Yung, a Hip Sing Tong man, Yee Yip a member of the On Leong Tong, and Joseph D. Crowley, a bystander, wore wounded in the burst of gunfire in Boston’s China town. Almost immediately after the Boston break, Ho Kee, a member of the rival On Leong Tong hero, was found dead on a cobbled China town street with three bullets in his hack. It is believed he was the victim of Hip Sing revenge. In Pittsburg, Shing Sun, a laun dryman, was killed, and shortly af terward Low Suey, and a Chicago Chinese were murdered in Minne apolis. In St. Louis Leong Chooey a former “king” of Chinatown there was wounded seriously by enemy Tong men, and in scores of other cities where the great Chinese Tongs have outposts, police found the Tong hatchet men preparing for battle. News of the Boston attack spread over the country as quickly as tele graph wires could carry it. 11. Yen Yung was obscure, hut he was a member of the Hip Sing Torjg and the shots which felled him destroy de the slender threads holding to gether the armistice arranged months ago between the Hip Sing and the On Leong Tongs. Warned by a code mesenges, the gunmen of the rival Tongs slipped into doorways to. avenge the new blood debt and to settle debts held over from the peace conference here last March. The new outburst followed by only a few hours the burial of Lee Kue Ying, the foremost Chinaman of New York’s Chinatown, who was most influential in arranging the truce. Members of both tongs sat side by side in his funeral cortege as a) Chinamen paid their last re spects to him. Until last October there had been no hostilities between the two tongs for years. Then came a sud den outbreak of hostilities which lasted through the winter. The On Leong Tong is composed principal ly of Chinese merchants. The Hip Sings, larger, but less wealthy, draw their members chiefly from Chinese seamen. STEAMSHIP COMPANY TO EXTEND LINES WASHINGTON, August 26—The Illinois Central and the Central of Georgia railroad applied to the In terstate Commerce Commission to day for authority to extnd the serv ic their subsidiary company, the Ocean Steamship company, by es tablishing water lines between Sa vannah and Miami. BRITISH CABINET TO HEAR CHURCHILL LONDON, August 26. The British cabinet has been summoned for this afternoon to learn from Chancellor of the Exchequer Chur chill the progress of his conversa tions with Finance Minister Cail laux, of France, I 1 CATCH NEGRO WHO ESCAPED FROM CITY Although arrested for loitering, David Lewis, colored, did not loiter long after being sentenced to ten days on the streets by Recorder but took to his heels and made his escape. The negro was caught in Dawson Tuesday afternoon and returned to the county jail. He will face Judge Harper on a mis demeanor charge, which will lik“ly result in his doing his “stuff” oq the gang for awhile.
