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! AMERICUS SPOT COTTON . Total bales Sumter County \ cotton . 24,919 ! WEATHER ' For Georgia Showers tonight s and Saturday; cooler Saturday. < FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR—NO. 240 Senator JUNIOR-SENATOR APPROVES PLEA FOR CLOTURE Vice-President Dawes Asks Those Favoring His Position to Stand to Their Feet ATLANTA, Oct. 16.—Walter F. George, Junior Senator from Geor gia, announced his adhesion of the principle of cloture enunciated by the vice-president. Mr. George was present at a banquet given the vice president here early last night, and at the public address at the city auditorium later. _ Near the close of his address, the vice-president for the second time in his campaign for a revision of senate rules, and for the first time time to an al democratic audience, asked that thtse hearing him rise to their feet if they approved the stand he took. 1 A 100 percent democratic audi ence, including Senator George, rose to its feii and evidenced its unanimous ind'gsement of the vice president’s appeal for cloture rule in the senate. Mr. Dawes, in his speech deplor ed the revival offeectional issues by public men opposed to a change in United States siiate rules. The vice-president was discussing particularly the filibuster, which, he contends, shoi|d be prevented in senate procedJe. He mentioned the Force bill, wiich, he said, was an example of iljust legislation, while "it is true, le asserted, that the force bill wai killed by a fili buster, this fact cannot fairly be used as an argument in' favor of filibusters. 1 The speech was ■delivered before j large audience; at the Atlanta auditorium and cli-l maxed a day dusjng which he was 1 the center of an Enthusiastic recep-! tion. Immediately preceding his public address, le was guest of] honor at a banciet given by the Atlanta chamber of commerce and 1 attended by many state and city of-j ficials and promilent local citizens. "Because the force bill, a wrong measure which if it had passed would have been repealed, was beat en by a filibuster, some maintain that the pow<f to filibuster is right,” said General Dawes in his speech last night. "This argument is intended to affect the great intelligent South and revive thoes unhappy issues which have died alike in the North and South. "Ignoring the truth that govern ment policy must be based upon a general and not an exceptional and special case, they would have this a debate not upon the necessity of correcting a great existing evil, hut upon past special cases. The North and the South are united in loyalty’s flag. Their sons fought and died together behind it in twq great wars since the force bill was an issue. "We are one country and one people and the South is too intelli gent to be deluded into the idea that to protect it against another force bill the right at times should be given to a minority or even one senator to throw a monkey-wrench into the legislative machinery of ( Continued on Page Four.) Airships Probe Finding Delayed Many Weeks WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Inves tigation of the wreck of the airship Shenandoah by the naval court of inquiry was practically concluded today with the hearing of the de signer of the craft, an engineer of the bureau of aeronautics and the technical director of the aluminum company of America which furnish ed the metal for framing of the. craft. The finding by the court proba bly will be delayed for many weeks • the bureau of standards has ad ed that a month will b> necessary complete tests of the specimens materials taken from the wreck x After that report is sub mitted, it may be found necessary to call some other witnesses. Counsel for the survivors of the Shenandoah and the bureau of aero nautics scored today in their ef forts to break down the theory cf Captain Anton Heinen, former Ger man Zeppelin pilot, that structural changes in the airship contributed measurably to her destruction in the Ohio storm September 3.- C. P. Burgess, an engineering ex- THE TIMESORECORDER ' fekPUBLIg HED_IN_ THE_>>yfafe~HEAß T~oWos<ig-ih?ft*? George Endorses Dawes Senate Gag Rule lhe Lure of Far North Again Irresistibly Draws Amundsen 5 L ■ |||||||| W ' WHOIInF' ■■ • ; HhHßf Roald Amundsen (seated) and Li ncoln Ellsworth, snapped at their meeting in N ew York City. GERMANS AND POLES AGREE All Treaties Will Be Initiated ' Late This Afternoon; All Difficulties Now Overcome LOCARNO, Switzerland, Oct. 16. . The meeting of the Security Con ference set for noon today was postponed until late in the after noon, with the probability that all treaties will be initiated by chief delegates at 6 o’clcok. Germans and Poles definitely overcame lingering difficulties con cerning text of their arbitration treaty during the night, so that this document was among those ready for the ceremony of initiating. ROBERTS ENTERS ON NEW DUTIES * ATLANTA, Oct. 16. Orrin Roberts, of Monroe, today entered upon his duties as member of the Georgia public Service commission. Mr. Roberts was sworn in by Gov ernor Walker and succeeds the late James D. Price, of Athens. pert in the bureau of aeronautics, I conceded that, in the way the new gas valve installation was operated by the crew during the -‘-"■m, prob ably less stress was exerted on the structure than would have been the case had the original automatic sys tem been in operation. He refused to concede, however, that the new installation was superior to the ori ginal, explaining that he did not concur in the decision of the bu reau to make alternation because he did not like to change from a mechanical to a human clement for the safety of the ship. Commander Jerome C. Hunsaker, assistant naval attache at London, who designed the Shenandoah, mild ly disapproved the removal of the sixth or emergency engine on the airship to make way for a better radio installation and a greater fuel capacity. He said this engine was designed to assisted the craft in run ning away from a stqrm, but said had it been in operation while the Shenandoah was fighting the cyclo nic disturbance it probably would have increased the chance of her destruction. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 16. 19.25 RAILWAY WILL KELP TO GET MORESETTLERS A., B. & A Proposes a Definite 1 Plan to Get More Farmers to Locate in Georgia ATLANTA, Oct. 16. The At lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway, according to announce ment ’”st made here, proposes a clear-cut definite plan to secure new farm settlers along its* lines in Ala bama and Georgia. The railway has made the following offer to all land owners and communities on the road: That the railway will endeavor to find a desirable purchaser to take up every farm which the own er will put in acceptable shape, that is, to meet the conditions required by progressive farmers from other sections. The conditions are: 1. Area approximately ' one hundred acres. 2. At least seven ty-five per cent of the land offered shall be cleared of stumps and fenced. 3. A modern farmhouse and barn be provided. 4. Located convenient to a school. 5. Also, pasture ground and a deep well. “We will have no difficulty in finding thife fall and winter the right kind of new settlers to buy a large -i ’ of such farms on ; rea ..liable terms,” said Colonel B. ! L. Bu ’g, head of the A., B. & A. ' railway. “There are golden oppor tunities in the agricultural territory all along our* railway. These op ! portunities are becoming better and ' better known. It is not so difficult i now to find good farmers who can i be persuaded to move to our section ' of the country, but the difficulty i is to find farms which are accept -1 able to them to move to. j “They are not attracted to cut ! over lands and worn hillsides as ' sites for new homes. Neither will ! they buy farms without good com- I sortable accommodations for their.- I selves and their animals in these I days and times. “We are convinced that the time has come to make a strong effort to bring in desirable immigrants from other parts Sf the United States. Our experience and obser vation lead us to believe coonfident i ly that the homeseekers can be se | cured at this if attractive farms are I provided for them, otherwise it will j be a difficult, matter to make much headway in locating them.” SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT BEAT US UP THERE /Amundsen and Ellsworth Be lieve Mistakes of Last Expe dition Can Be Corrected By GENE COHN NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Two great adventurers were sitting in a commonplace hotel room. They were Roald Amundsen, just returned to America, and Lincoln Ellsworth, hero of the | most recent Amundsen effort to conquer the North Pole by air plane. They had, only a few month since, enacted a north land epic—crippled airplane, men adrift in the vast Ice drifts, death stalking them daily and week upon week in which the world wait ed for word. Most of |he world knows that great tale. Now thye were sitting in the se curity of four walls, with steam iieat sputtering from the; radiator, gay clusters chrysanthemums on ta bles and. dressers, steamer trunks and great bags, a comfortable bed, the chatter of voices from a hotel lobby—all the appurtenances of comfort. ~ And what do you suppose they talked about? No—not of the haz ards and escapes; nor even of the tomorrow when they will be off again to new dangers. They were laughing heartily over the little human idiosynwacies which men discover when thrown to gether in the intimacy of a long voyage and companionship that has no parallel elsewhere. “It’s funny the little human things you get to notice,” Amund sen commented to the reporter, “Now, Ellsworth here. Out of all the things that happened, one that sticks out is a peculiar way he had [of sighing when he went to sleep and while he slept. He didn’t snore —heaven prevent. I used to joke with him about that sigh—l’ve nev er known anyone who did it just that way.” “Companionships like that are al most like marriage—little things get on another fellow’s nerve. I think we know most of the hobbies (Continued on Page Four., LONG DROUTH IS BROKEN Rains of Past Few Days Have Been General, Many Points Reporting Good Rains That the backbone of the severe drouth that has held Georgia and the south in its grip since March and April has been broken in most places by the rains of Wednesday and Thursday, is indicated by re ports received from over the state. , Rome reports a rainfall Wednes day and Thursday of 1.24 inches, Columbus, Augusta, Macon, Atlanta all report good soaking rains. Riv ers that have been low all summer are filling and in some places the creeks are out of their banks. The rain of the last two days have been general from the mountains of north Georgia to the sand of the sea on the south, with practically every part of the state getting enough to break th e drouth. Farmers are now expected to be J busy gathering such fall crops as! were grown under drouth condi-' tions, potatoes and cane. They will also rush sowing of fall grain and 1 .other cover crops. | NEGRO KILLED IN ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE STATESBORO, Ga., Oct. 16 Failure to stop when so ordered cost Fred Hendrix, negro, his life late Thursday. County Officers I Brannen and Kennedy were taking i Hendrix to the chain gang and when they were about eight miles from town the negro jumped out and ran. The officers told him if he did not stop they would kill him and even shot in the air once or I twice to frighten him, but it had no ' effect. They then aimed straight j and Hendrix fell dead. He was sen , tenced to the gang for stealing cot- Iton. Mexican Minister's Maid m * * Hr a*: . < Sr • mV |g' • if •• X > / 1 # - v. !MW I ' F * cwt fl v 4sh K.. ir* 'flSt 1 X w V' sJmH After “careful consideration,” no action was taken by U. S. immigra tion authorities on charges that beuatiful Floria Faure traveled from El Paso to New York as ‘maid’ in the private car of Senor Alberto J. Pani, Mexico’s minister of fi- HALF MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL FOR VALDOSTA New Seven-Story Hotel Will Have 132 Rooms Con struction Begins Shortly VALDOSTA, Oct. 16. Con struction work on the Hotel Daniel Ashley, Valdosta’s new $500,000 hostelry, will probably get under way within the next two weeks, ac cording to announcement here today by members of the board of direc tors of Daniel Ashley Hotel, incorp orated, owners of the new house. According to plans drawn by Dougherty & Gardner, architects, of Nashville, Tenn., and approved by the board of directors, the new ho tel will be seven stories high, and will contain 132 guest rooms, all with private bath. The plans pro vide for all bath rooms to have tile floors and wall and twenty-five per cent of the bath rooms will also be furnished with showers over the tubs. The building will be of brick construction, reinforced with steel and will be fireproof throughout. A feature of the hotel will be the' fact that each guest room will be equipped with an electric ceiling £c» n RECORDER FORT HOLDS LIGHT POLICE COURT Police court was called this morn ing with only a few disorderly cas es on the docket. The city’s coffers were enriched by more than $50.00 as the result of the fines assessed by Recorder Hollis Fort. At the Sheriffs office things were reported as being unusually quiet, I here being no arrests of any con sequence. — MEN AND BOYS . FORM ORGANIZATION With Colonel Hollis Fort as the , principal speaker, a get together ‘ meeting was held by the nen and ,boys of First Baptist Church. More than two hundred were (Present at this meeting which re sulted in a temporary crganization, I with the following officers: H. 0. (Jones, president; Lee Hansford, vice !president; P. D.Cherry, secretary anU C. R Whitley, treasurer. i A luncheon was served by the Sa idies of the Church during the which I Several short talks were made. It is i the intention of the organization to , meet once each month. nance. Senorita Faure and Pani i are shown above. The girl vanished from New York when the charges became public. She is an actress, a former Mexican revolutionist and a granddaughter of Francois Faure,' one-time president of France. MORGAN AGAIN HEAD VETERANS D. D. Freeman Succeeds General Joe Day Stewart as Com mander Western Brigade ALBANY, Ga., Oct. 16.—Gener al D. B. Morgan, of Savannah, was re-elected Commander of the Geor gia Division, United Confederate V eterans here late Thursday. General W. S'. Jones was re-elect ed Commander of the Eastern Brig ade. General John M. Weeks again was chosen commander of the Southern Brigade and General G. M. Murchison was re-elected com maritTer of the calvary brigade. General Joe Day Stewart of Americus will be succeeded by D. D. Ffesman as commander of the Western Brigade. TEXTILE ASSOCIATION MEETS IN COLUMBUS COLUMBUS, Ga., Oct. 16. More than 200 members of the Southern Textile association are in Columbus today for their semi-an nual two-day convention, organiza tion which opened this morning. Among the entertainment fea tures planned is a trip to Fort Ben ning, the largest military reserva vation in the world. More Laboratories Vanderbilt’s Reply , NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 16. ‘ The answer to the episode at Day .ton is the building of new labora tories on the Vanderbilt campus for ■ the teaching of science,” Chancel ' lor J. H. Kirkland said in address today at the opening of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the col lege. “We must stimulate a board cul [ ture, a scientific habit o*f thought and scholar attainments,” Dr. Kirk lland declared. “These things we J shall do without haste or impatience, j “The remedy for a narrow sectar ianism and a belligerent fundamen talism is the establishment on this campus of a school of religion, il lustrating in its methods and in its organization the strength of a com mon faith and the glory of a uni versal worship.” Vanderbilt, Chancellor, Kirkland said, faces the future with confi dence. “We declare our faith in a i , future more glorious than the past,” he asserted. J NEW YORK FUTURES i Pc. Open 11am Close J-Oct. 21.32|21.32|21.57|21.40 J Dec. .... 21.35|21.55i21.61|21.49 AMERICUS SPOT COTTON 5 i Middling 20c. J PRICE FIVE CENTS AMERICUS FIRE INSURANCE RATES RAISED Recent Hike New Effective Im- I poses a 30 Percent Addition al Tax In Many Instances I Practically every fire insurance pate in Americus was raised, in | some instances as much as 30 per cent when the city was recently re rated by the rate bureau of the Southern, Eastern Underwriters, Councilman Edgar Shipp stated to the Kiwanis Club today at luncheon. "I do not know why Americus tire rates have been raised,” Mr Shipp said, "but they have been and the new tariffs are now in the hands of the agents, I understand. In one instance I knov* the raise was as much as 30 pec cent and I understand others are of like pro portion. We have fewer fires here than the average town our size. Insur ance men tell me Americus is one of the best risks jn the state, and yet we are being forced to stand for a much higher tariff. I tnink some thing should be done about it.” Lee Hudson, cashier of the Bank of Commerce, said that the rate on every building in the city had in creased. "Os course,” he said, “you must understand that the lo cal agent has nothing to do with the fixing of rates. The rate is made by the bureau and we must pay whatever the bureau specifies,” Councilman Nathan Murray said that every requirement of the un derwriters had been complied with by the city; that every request or practical suggestion made by fire inspectors had been complied with L “Americus is recognized as a pre ferred fire risk,” Stephen Pace said. i ( “Only a short time ago a fire insur /ance official said to me that Ameri- Jcus had no suspicious fires; no con i flagrations have occurred h«re. We have always had plenty of water. This city is a preferred risk and the insurance companies know it and I think it a sham e and a dis grace for our rates to be raised. I 1 . know of no reason for it, nor can I find any one who does know why | the rates were hiked.” A committee from the club was appointed to go into the matter from every angle and report back to the club, recommending what action could be taken. John Shiver made the suggestion that an effort be made to tie in on the city water mains the new Cen tral of Georgia water tank. He re quested that the city officials take the matter up with the railroad, saying that it would be for the mu tual protection of the city and rail road. s UNITED STATES AIRMEN BOMB IMAGINARY BASE NEWPORT NEWS, a., Oct. 16. United States airmen today demol ished an imaginary enemy airdome located on Back river just off Chesapeake Bay, tons of bombs be ing hurled at an enemy base estab lished during the night. WILES CASE ~ GOES TO JURY DURHAM, N. C., Oct. 16. —Fol lowing a charge which required more than an hour to deliver, the case of Robert E'. Wiles, of Colum bia, S. C., on trial for the murder of his wife and Ralph B. Gordon, also of Columbia, was given to the jury this morning. The head of this leading south- - ern university pointed out that Van . jderbilt had served as the media . tor between the north and the south r “trying to keep well toward the - front in its section and not too far ; behind when compared with the north and east.” •j The school had upfield the desire iof its founder, Cornelius Vanderbilt , who donated the first million dol : lars to the school “to strengthen the ■ ties that should exist between all t sections of our common country” as a* one of the causes to which the university is committed, he said. Although the efforts td found i, Vanderbilt University began with • the membership of the south Meth , odist church, Chancellor Kirkland • declared that it was most signific ant that Bishop McTyeire, who was a great leader in the Methodist I church and was the real head of ■ | Vanderbilt by reasons of his presi idency of the board of trustees, did ■j not permit the university to pass 'under ecclesiastical control.
