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< SEASON’S RECEIPTS \ ' Bales received Wednesday .... 200 ? ' Total bales received 15,850 ? WEATHER ; For Georgia Local thunder- j ; show tonight and Friday, ) ORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 223 Discussion of France’s Four Billion Debt Underway FRENCH MISSION LOSES NO TIME IN APPEARING Greeted By Secretary Mellon Promptly at 10 O’clock at the Treasury NEGOTIATIONS, LONG RUMORED, ARE NOW ON Optimism Prevails, and Indica tions Are Agreement Will Be Reached Soon WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Con versations looking to the settlement of France’s $4,000,000,000 war debt to the United States were for-. mally begun today when members i of the French and American debt commissions assembled at the treas- 1 ary. Led by the Finance Minister of France, Joseph Caillaux, the French mission appeared at the treasury promptly at 10 o’clock, and were met there by Secretary Mellon, head of the American mission and actual negotiations, long rumored and deferred, were on. Optimism prevailed among the missions, and indications point to a speedy agreement being reached. MADISON, Wis- Sept. 24 —Gov ernor Blain, of Wisconsin, today made public a telegram he sent to President Coolidge, declaring that before the conversations are enter ed upon with France upon the set tlement of the war debt, America should demand “a halt in this ruth less warfare” between the French and Riffians in Morocco. HOLD CHINESE IN TONG DEATH Cleveland Yellow Men to . Be Quizzed in Connection With Murder Yee Chock CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 24. More than 450 Chinese had been rounded up by police Wednesday on orders from Safety Director Barry to bring in all .Cleveland Chinese for questioning in connec tion with the murder Tuesday night of Yee Chock, believed to be a vic tim of a tong war. Provision was being made for the care of a half dozen or more Chinese women and their children whose husbands and fathers were in custody. Sam Bo told police Tuesday that Yee Chock visited him Tuesday night and expressed fear for his personal safety, saying that gunmen were here looking for ™e. City Manager William R. Hopkins tonight ordered all buildings In Chinatown condemned and razed as fire and health hazards. 3,821,085 AUTOMOBILES ON FARMS OF THE U. S. Automobiles owned on farms in the South Atlantic seaboard states number 367,526 accordingto automotive, statistics issued here, by the American Research Foundation. North Carolina ranks first: among the states in this section «»the num ber of farmer-owned the figures show with 89, 293 Virginia is second with 3, Then comes Georgia with > , South Carolina with 52,179. Mary tand with 51,413, and Florida with Total automobiles owned on' all farms in the United States num q 821 085 of which 1,454,159 S “ d m, ’ m •” motor trucks. CHARGING BULL EMBLEM OF AMERICAN FLIERS OUFZZAN, Morocco, Sept. 24. A charging black bull buffalo in an orange circle on their planees is the emblem of the American aviators serving on the Morocean front. The emblem was designed by two of the American fliers, Captain Lans ing C. Holden, and Lieutenant Cousins, both well known in the 'ounger American art circles in Paris. * IN THE WHISKY RAID Times Square, the Heart of Newi York’s Theatrical District, Scene of Spectacular Raid Last Night, When Ten Mem bers of Manhattan’s Liquor Ring Are Arrested- 14 WARRANTS PENDING Twenty-Seven of the Most Alert Members erf the Enforcement Squad Descend Upon the Of ficers of the Knickerbocker and Longacre Bwldings—Re sult of 3 Months’ Investiga tion. NEW YOR^~Sept. 24.—Times Square, the heart of New York’s theatrical district, was invaded late last night by federal prohibition agents who arrestea ten men con sidered by the authorities as mem bers of one of the largest bootleg ( nngs in the city. In addition, four teen warrants are pending against other men said to belong to the gang. The raid was particularly spectac ular in that 27 agents and police men suddenly descended upon of fices in the Knickerbocker and Longacre buildings where the ar rests were made. Among these ar rested were Max Greenberg, de scribed by United States Attorney Buckner as the “brains of the ring,” The raiding party was led by John A. Foster, federal prohibition direc tion of this district. He was assist «d by federal agents, and city po licemen. The raid was the result of three month’s investigation, Mr. Ruckner said, which started with the landing of a large cargo of liquor at Astoria L. 1., last April and led to the offices in the heart of the city raided. HARRISON NOH. DECLAREDSANE Youth Who Slew Little Mary Daly Most Answer to the Charge of Murder NEWARK, Sept. 24.—state alien ists testified in court here today that Harrison Noel, who by his own confession kidnaped and killed six year-old Mary Daly, was sane enough to stand trial for murder. Noel sat impassibly through the testimony of the experts that re peated examinations had convinced them he is entirely normal and capable of aiding counsel for his own defense. Noel’s crimes are of the “thrill murder” type, being somewhat sim ilar to the Bobby Franks-Leopold iLoeb murder case. The New Jersey 'youth will also answer to the charge [of slaying a negro chauffeur, whose car he used to kidnap little Mary Daly, FRENCH RELIEVE SEUIDA GARRISON DAMASCUS, Syria, Sept. 24. A French column has entered the Seudia, relieving the garrison which has been besiged for nearly two months by revolting Druse tribes men. After an eight hour battle, the tribesmen fled before the troops of General Gamelin, which had been pressing to the aid of the besiged for several weeks. ATLANTA BOND ISSUE IS DEFEATED ATLANTA, Sept. 24.—Although receiving a vote of about five to one in favor of its passage, the $2,000,000 bond issue proposed to erect a new city hall building which would house all of the vari ous city departments of Atlanta, failed to carry in the city primary he'ld here Wednesday, when the total vote did not equal one half the total registration. LAGRANGE WELCOMES GEORGIA EDITORS LA GRANGE, Sept. 34 —Mem bers of the Georgia Press Associa tion en route to TaluHah Falls from West Poiny reached here this morn ing and Ware welcomed by a com mittee from the Chamber of Com merce. W. L. Cleveland, secretary delivered; the welcoming address .and Jack'Williams, Editor the Way -1 cross Jotirnal-Herald, responded. AMERICUS, GA., THURSDAY AFTERNOON. S On Exhibition at limes-Recorder Office ■ill If $ < It • BJI - -B. IM One of the grand prizes in the Times-Recorder’s $10,000.00 cam paign, Chevrolet Sedan, fully equip ped; value $975. Purchased from the Marshall Auto Sales Co., of Americus, Ga. Realty Board Predicts 100 1 Meeting Called for Friday Afternoon Stock Holders By Friday Committees working Wednesday afternoon and Thursday received so much encouragement that it is being steely pre dicted that 100 stockholders in the Americus Realty Board will have been signed up by Friday afternoon. While 100 is the minimum number necessary to perfect an organization, the board hopes to enlist not less than double that number. Chairman Hollis Fort urges every man interested to be present at the Times-Recorder office tomorrow (Friday after noon) at 5 o’clock, for just a few minutes. The object of the meeting is to count applications and receive applications from those who have not been approached. “All of us are busy men,” Mr. Fort said; “we «re all working for Americus and there is no reason why any one should wait to be requested to join in this organization. If Americus is to go—and she surely is going—every man who loves and has faith in his city and county should be ready to work. Therefore, don’t wait, but come on down to the Times- Recorder Friday at 5 o’clock for just a few minutes. We will have the organization going in a week if this is done,” he con fi, U ° ne or two committees reported during folding to the list already published: ‘MYSTERY CAR’ ON DISPLAY HERE Mwray Cribb, Builder, Hopes to! Attain Speed of 200 Miles ... p «* Hour After experimenting for three years, perfecting whid resistance, radiation and equilibrium, Murray ; Cribb, proprietor of Cribb’s garage ( on Jackson street, has produced a .racing automobile which he claims | will do better than 200 miles per hour and with which he hopes to I break the world’s official speed rec ord. The “Mystery Car.” as it is | called by the leading automobile , writers in the United States, is now i on display at Cribb’s garage. The powerful motor, and that is just about all there is to the "mys tery car,” is slung very low, being only a few inches above theground. The construction, says Mr. Cribb i makes it impossible for the car to ■turn turtle, providing the track [comes to the specifications of the racing association. There are no gears on the racer, it being a direct drive, and the re leasing of the clutch is all that is necessary to start the car in motion, I i said Mr. Cribb. The fact that its! | minimum speed is 40 miles an hour | prevents Mr. Cribb from using it in [ i the city and when he wishes to try the car out he has to have it pulled to a point outside of the city limits. Last Labor Day Mr. Cribb enter ed his car in the annual speed class ic at Daytona Beach, Florida. He tailed to win the race, but attained, the highest speed of any of the cars, his speedometer reading 145 miles per hour for the ten miles. Mr. Cribb is at present negotiating for a race with Sig Hugdual, owner and driver of the famous “Minnesota Special,” which holds the unofficial speed record of 180 miles per hour. If the race can be arranged, it will be 'held at Daytona Beach within i the next few weeks. The “Mystery Car” attracted [ quite a bit of attention at the At | lana races last Fourth of July. It i was leading the races by several [laps when an accident occurred [ which turned the car over and killed I the driver, Mr. Cribb’s partner, i Since then the car has been made [ over, and the body slung so low that lit is now impossible for the racer to ' duplicate its tragic performance 1 said Mr. Cribb. This is the first of the three grand prizes delivered to the Times- Recorder. The two remaining cars will be on display at the Times-Re corder office at the earliest possible moment. Al! of the cars and oth- George Holston Gammage Print Shop Planters Seed and Drug Co. Miss Annie Pickett J. P. Luther A. E. Hines J. A. Pinkston, Jr. W. H. Cobb. S. W. Coney R. T. Crabb Jim Parker C. R. Whitley T. L. Martin J. E. Eldridge. W. M. Humber Aar.ercius Auto Co. BERLIN ACCEPTS PACT INVITATION BERLIN, Sept. 24.—The cabinet council, under the chairmanship of President Von Hindenburg, today accepted the allies invitation to the security pact conference, on the as sumption that the German note of July 20 will be adopted as the basis of negotiatios. (The German note maintained her right to strive for the revision of a peace treaty to meet changed circumstances). MAIL BY RADIO IS NEXT STEP FORWARD Speed, more speed is what we want and so we look and long for a mail service by airplane like that the government maointains across: the continent. But so leisurely has [ been the extension that ere we get i it we may not want it. It may then be too slow—and we want the limit of speed—the air plane is a freight carrier, a prehis toric ox-cart when compared with the radio’s dazzling pace of 186,300 miles a second. And now the gov ernment is experimenting with the radio for the Postal Department ac cording to advices received in At lanta. i A photogram—a picture of a kt- I ter is actually sent at the rate of | 100 words a minute while experi ment is yet in its infancy. Chinese characters and all the idiosyncra . cies of the writer are perf jctly re ' produced as in any other photo [ graph. There is not of course the 'secrecy of letter mail, but what do [ we care for secrecy if we get speed? —and that it what the experiments promise. .PTEMBER 24, 1925 er prizes are creating mucii favor able comment among the candidates and their friends, and the Times- Recorder is holding an “open house invitation” to the public in general to come down and “look’ em over.” COOLIDGE STILL RULES SUPREME “Silent Cal” Continues to Occu py the Driver’s Seat in the G. O. P. Bus By CHARRLES P STEWART WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. “What is Giford Pinchot's show in the presidential race?” This query lands on my desk from a middle northwestern edi tor. It's also been coming lately from other sources—quite numer ously. “Strong Pinchot sentiment is breaking out all over the country,” - says a progressive Minnesota paper. Seemingly something of a White House boom in his interest has de veloped from the Pennslyvania gov ernor’s candidacy to succeed George Wharton Pepper in the United States Senate at the 1916 election. Os course it’s too soon to do any thing but guess on what the presi dential situation will be three years hence. If this were 1928 Gov. Pinchot. wouldn’t stand a ghost of a show. Nobody would stand a show but Calvin Coolidge, either for the Re publican nomination or for the elec- . tion. One may like him or not, but a big majority are “for” him at this time of writing. At any rate they favor the status quo, in which he’s included. Times are pretty good now. That’s the whole basis of the admin-1 istratiton’s present popularity, for population it is. Everything indi cates it. , I If times stay good, and particular ly if they improve, between now and 1928, President Coolidge likely will be renominated and re-elected If they take a turn for the worse his chances will dwindle. He can do nothing at all or make a lot of mistakes, but if times stay good he’ll get another term. He can do the best job in the world, yet if, prosperity wanes he’ll be blamed for ft. ATLANTA FIRM SPENDING MILLIONS IN FLORIDA ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 24.—One of the most gigantic developments now being made in Florida is at Sarasota and is conducted by an Atlanta firm—the Adair Realty and Trust company—according to local real estate men. More than five hundred work-| men, under the direction rs expe-> [rienced engineers and landscape; [architects, have been steadily at I j work throughout the summer, in j : building plans at the Florida resort. Twenty miles of sidewalks, turning] along the flowering parkways, are ( nearing completion. Work on an extensive water system is well ad vanced. Within a short time the 500,000 gallon concrete and steel reservoir, the 125,000 gallon steel auxiliary tank and pumping 'nd aerating facilities will be serving water to the residents among hem many Georgians. PRICE ON HEADS OF AMERICAN AVIATORS QUEZZAN Sept. 24.—Abd- Del-Krim, Riffian chief has offered i ft is reported, rewards totalling , $5,000 for every member of the Sherifiam squadron, composed of i American volunteer aviators,. [brought to him dead or alive. »-/. ‘ 'T. ' . PHILANTHROPIST Bernard Baron, London Million aire, Is Giving Millions of Dollars Away to Hospitals, Universities, Homes and Oth er Institutions. Says He Hopes He’ll Die a Poor Man. WAS BORN IN RUSSIA Has Made Tons of Money in His Time, and Is Still Making Money, But Prefers to Give It Away Rather Than Sport and Climb the Social Ladders for Titles and Honors. LONDON, Sept. 24.—“ When you are young it’s fun to make money. When you are old it’s fun to give it away. “When you are young you think of the pleasure you can buy for yourself. When you are old you think of the pleasure you can buy I for others. That’s the philosophy of Bernard [ Baron, of the watering place of Hove, who in London is the million aire head of a cigarette concern. ! His career in some ways ran par- ! allel to that of the late Samuel' Gompers. Gompers, born in Eng land, and Baron, born in Russia, came to America to carve their for-1 tunes. They didn’t find the strata paved with gold at the start. Gompers became a cigar-maker. Baron got his first job in a tobacconist’s shop. I He earned $4 a week and saved .$1.50. Later he, too, became a cigar-maker and worked at the bench alongside Gompers. Then he invented a cigarette making ma-' : chine, brought it to England and became head of a great business. 1 Gompers lived and died compara-| ! tively poor. Baron will probably I die a poor man as he is giving h's riches away as fast as he can. His fortune has never alienated him from the working class Ramsey Mac Donald and Arthur Henderson, lead 'ers of the British Labor party, are his intimate friends. And at the' last election, when the Labor party I made ready to appeal to working-I men for their pennies, Baron start ed things going by a gift ofs2s 000. I He is a widower 74 years old, and before starting on his campaiga of giving, bestowed $1,500,000 upon his realtives. “I have made tons of money in' my time,” said Baron. “I still am - making money. But money as such , gets me very little. I am not a I sporting man. I never cared a rap for high society. I have no de sire for honors and titles. “I am finding out that one of the supreme joys is giving. And espe-, dally to charity. Charity has no | religion, no nationality, no race. Ib springs from something higher than ourselves. For instance, when I see a sick man in a hospital getting well again and know that I have enabled that hospital to serve him, well that gives me a glow. *1 feel a per-1 son al interest in that man. He is my brother. So I intend to go on giving until I die." Baron’s recent gifts have been: $50,0000 for the building of the Middlesex Hospital, London. $40,000 for a new wing to the Hove hospital. S4OOO to clear the debt of the Hutchinson House Club for Work-| ing Lads inAidgate, London. S3OOO to the Leman Street Girls Club of Aidgate. $55,000 for the Liberal Jewish! versity in Jerusalem. $55,000 for the Liberal Jawish Synagogue Building Fund. $12,500 for the London Jewish Maternity Home. $50,000 to the London Jewish Hospital. AUGUST BUILDING CONTRACTS $12,709,500 Building and engineering con tracts awarded in Georgia during the month of August reached a to tal of $12,709,500, according to F. | W. Dodge Corporation. This high, total, which was 167 per cent over July and 48 per cent over August 1924 was more than half account- I ed for by the 7-million dollar Macy store project in Atlanta. This pro ject gave the preponderance of the [month’s contracts to commercial buildings, which amounted to $7.- 977,300, or 63 per cent of all con-j struction. Residential buildings in Georgia amounted to $2,721,000„ or 12 per cent of the total; and pub lic works and utilities amounted I $890,24)0, or 7 per eent. • I NEW YORK FUTURES Pc. Open 11am Close Oct. 23.34| |23.33|2.337 ! Dec. 23.69|23.60|23.68|23.72 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON 5 Middling 22 l-2c. PRICE FIVE CENTS 1926-1927 10 BE YEARS WITHOUT ANY SUMMERS This is Opinion of H. J. Brown, Washington’s Fam our. feath er Prognosticator 1816 WAS A YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER Disastrous Crop Failures Pre dicted; Weather Chief Takes Exception Brown’s Prophecies ' BOSTON, Sept. 24.—Better keep your fur coats and heavy “undies’’ ami galoshes handy during the sum mers of 1926 and 1927. I For Herbert Janvrin Browne, of Washington, probably the world’s | leading authority cn long distance weather forecasting, says meterolo i gical conditions now are exactly i* t 0 1,1080 ■’ URt prior t 0 18t« I— The Year Without a Summer.” During that summer, our great great-grandparents had to the fortieth anniversary of the re public in below freezing weather. Two weeks before a snowstorm swept down from Canada and blanketed the eastern part of th-» ■ country as far south as Maryland. Disastrous crop failures resulted and Browne predicts the same 'hard times” for the farmers dur ' ing the next two years. Browne, known as a "radical” among the meterologists, expects to present his views to the Babson conference on meteorology which opens its session here Sept. 23. I Charles F. Marvin, head of the United States Weather Bureau, who says that any weather predictions for more than a few days in advance are pure guess work heads the con servatives. Long range weather forecarting he says is a scientifie impossibility. Browne is not alone in his view* and the two opinions are certain to bring a clash at the conference. Dr. R. E. De Lury, assistant director of the Oominion Observa tory at Ottawa, Canada , backs I Browne’s opinion and while Prof H. | H.. Clayton of the Smithsonian As tro-Physican Observatory, does not agree with Browne on several points I Marvin will be represented st the conferencce by one of his lead ing meterologists. Dr. William J. i Humphreys, and will be supported bis sttfnd by Prof. Charles F. Brooks of Clark University. Browne’s theory is that weather conditions are mainly the result of ocean temperatures; that ocean temperatures depend upon the amount of heat generated by the sun; and therefore, by study of the variations in the sun’s radiation, it lis possible to predict accurately what the weather will be in any given locality years in advance. And so he says: ‘ “Beware of 1926 and 1927. "Conditions in 1927 will be * "summerless year*—a replica of 1816. ‘The Year Without a Sum mer,’ when crop failures brought disaster to the land. “The oceans are great reservoirs iof the sun’s heat. They do not, however, react to it Immediately, ft | takes from one to five years. ,| “Now in the early part of 1922 the sun’s heat fell below normal. i By September of that year it haF dropped to its lowest point sine* i 1905. 1 “At the present time we are feel i ing the effects of that drop, and during the next two years we will fee! it still more. “The change started last year. The great dominating currents of i the antartic were chilled and their volume increased. They then start ed pushing the warm currents of the northern hemisphere farther north ward and blocking off their return Check Up On This i “Here’s what the effect will be the remainder of this year—- “An early fall, accompanied by rainfall above normal over a great portion of the United States and Canada, particularly in the Atlan tic coast sections, the Great Lakes regions and the lower St. Lawrence valley. j "Above normal rainfall on the Pacific coast, particularly in south ern California, which should have a precipitation of 30 inches. I “Rains in Nevada, Arizona and I (Continual an Page Eight) La k.
