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"WEDNESDAY EDITION VOL. XXVI, NO. 35 MAYOR KEY OF ATLANTA SPEAKS HERE TOMORROW “FOR COUNTY BOYS ‘Blooded Hog Breeders. Co-oper-‘ ate With County Agent. ‘ SALE ON MAY 14TH. ‘School Which Has Most Club - Members To Get Prize, ~ (From Yesterday’s Daily) The “better live stock, move ment in Ben Hill County received -a big impetus today when C. T. Owens, county agent, announced ‘that arrangements had been made with breeders of blooded hogs to sell to Pig Club members on ‘terms when the boys can not pay -cash. A sale of blooded hogs will be held for pig club boys on May 14th at Wright T. Paulk’s Red Village Farm sales pens. Ar- Tangements can be made so that the hogs can pay for themselves ‘as they are bred and new pigs| ‘sold. Mr. Owens announced also the offer of a prize award to the ;.:’hool having the most pig.club members, follows : A nice banner or a regis tered pig will be awarded the school which furnishes the great est number of Club members who complete the work this year. The prize will be awarded ac cording to the number of boys in school eligible to €lub mem bership. Notice to Pig Club members and parties who have registered pigs to offer Pig Club boys: I have arranged with Mr. Wright T. Paulk for the use of his sales pens Saturday May 14th, to as semble all registered pigs of the following breeds Spotted Poland China, Poland China, Duroc and Hampshire, in the county to be offered at auction to the Pig Club (boys. This will give the boys a chance to make their own selec tions in the purchase of their pigs. Reasonable terms can be made the purchase of these pigs *ere the boy is not in position to pay cash. The sale will begin about 10:00 p. m., dinner atel2:3o. 1t ‘will be necessary for all Clyh oys and their fathers to b&pres gnt. Don’t forget the date and Rayre your crates ready.. Sl C. T. OWENS, 2 County ‘;\é&nt. ° Explosion Probed X F ° . By Five Agencies Seek Cause of Deaths of Eight in Chicago Warehouse / (By International News Service) CHICAGO, March 30.—Five sep arate investigations are proceeding into the explosion yesterday that cost eight lives and wrecked a block in the heart of Chicago. Harry Weil is "‘\der arrest and the police are seek .flg two others whose negligence in storing fire works is believed respon sible. . ; . Scores were hurt when an unex plained explosion blew to pieces' a warehouse about two miles southwest of the downtown district. Police theories of the cause rang ed through bombing, faulty gas mains, starch and flour dust to fire works, The ‘building, a one-story brick structure, was filled with gro cery stocks, but the police also learned that a quantity of fireworks had been stored in the basement, The concussion was so grS.;t that timbers and bricks were thrown hundreds of feet, and windows .in a department store several blocks away were shattered. In ¢he immediate vicinity of the warehouse scarcely a pane of glass was left intact, porches were torn from houses and apartment buildings and cornices were ripped loose. ° . Prominent Highway 8 e o Men Inspect Dixie Chairman T. E. Patterson of the State Highway commission, Chief Engineer W. R. Neel and Mr. H. G. Smith of the department arrived in the city last night on an inspection Etour of the new work being.done by the State Highway department on the Dixie Highway between Macon and the Florida line. After inspecting ‘the work between here and Ocilla, _they left for Waycross. There they will inspect ‘the work in progress _through Ware and 'Charlton counties. L emmee——————————— } An optimist is a fellow who will go out riding in his apto without taking THE FITZGERALD LEADER WEATHER—Probably .showers to night.. Warmer Thursday. ’cfl ) 0 -’M STIR RACE HATE Governor Dorsey Hears They Try Divert Public Mind TRIED BRIBERY, IS SAID ‘Son of “Horror Farm” Owner ~ Bemoans Slaying of Blacks | (By International News Service) " ATLANTA, March 30.—The New ton County Grand Jury, probing into the deaths of eleven negroes on the plantation of John Williams today diverted its attentions to the activities of the three sons of Williams, It is cfiarged’ according to advices reaching Hugh M. Dorsey, that these three have conspired to arraign New county whites against the blacks in an effort to strengthen their father's de-‘ fense. An important witness is said to be held in Newton county who will sayl the three offered him a bribe to give false testimony. It is reported that the three men have fled from their homes but the report is not verified. The first statement coming from a member of the family of John S. Wil liams, a prosperous Jasper County farmer who is being held with Clyde Manning a negro, in the Fulton coun ty jail in Atlanta in connection with the alleged murder of eleven negroes on the William’s farm, was made to day by Dr. Gus Williams, a practic ing physician of McDonough, Ga., and the eldest son of the Jasper farmer, when he paid a visit from the farm to this city and breifly engaged in cnversation with some of his rfiends. Dr. Williams openly bemoaned the alleged slaying of the eleven negroes oy his fathers farm and stated that he had come to Monticello- from his home in McDonough to be with his mother and his three brothers. The physician during the conversation never mentioned his father nor did he go into any details as to how or why the alleged crimes were comitted. e Courts Martial For ° German Communists Communists Suffer Heavy Loss es in Battles with Police (By International News Service) BERLIN, March 30. Twenty eight communists are reported killed in the heavy fighting between the security police and reds at Gevels- Burg in Wesphalia. The police cas ualties are not given. Two officers and ten men of the securities police are reported killed by communists near Groethers. Attempts by the communists‘to ter orize Berlin workers and bring about a general strike seem to have failed completely. According to an unconfirmed re port to the Berliner Tageblatt, 50 communists were killed in the fight ing at Gevliburg. In a clash at Man heim, three were killed and five were wounded. Limited demonstrations occured in Dresden. The situation has hecome sc serious that President Ebert ‘has ordered drum-head court martials for the .ris oners. et ‘Balloomsts Feared To - Be Dead In Swamp (By International News Service) ‘ PENSACOLA, March 30.—1 f, as now believed, the five naval balloon ists who have been missing since Tuesday of last week descended in a swamp, naval officers here expressed the further belief that they are dead. A search is now on for the bodies following réports yesteday that cries were heard from a swamp near Apal achicola. Hungary May Have . . | Charles For King (By International News Service) LONDON, March 30.—1 t is “re ported that the Hungarian minister ial council has decided to crown Charles, former emperor of Austria, King of Hungary within two or three days, said a Central News dispatch from Vienna. Advice from other sources made a mystery of Charles’ . whereabouts but the Central News said he would be at Steinamanger consulting with officers. ; ..PAYS THE PIPER—He must be an optimist who can continue to sing “Home Sweet Home” after the rent has been raised six 'tinie.s'.;;ggston Shoe and Leather Reporter, FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA WEDNESDAY, MAR. 30, 1921 Farmers Union President Endorses - Sapiro Plan For Marketing Cotton } The machinery for the potato syrup experiment station for the Gov ernment is in the city and will im ‘mediately be installed at the Union iCotton Oil Mill. Chemists from the 'department of Chemistry at Wash ‘ington will be in charge. . e ° Britain Bids For World Trade Lead Spending Millions to Establish Fav orable Trade Balance (By International News Service) -~ WASHINGTON, March 30. Great Britain’s effort to clinch her trade supremacy in all parts of the world has assumed a new impetus through government support for ex ports and millions are being spent to buy the obligations of other coun tries and provide credits for payment for goods, according to official advices. Officials manifest keen interest in these and other adverse factors op erating against American foreign trade, and the significince is men tioned in an official call issued by Euguene Meyer, managing director of the war finance. Corporations, for a conference of representative South ern bankers in Washington April 4, to discuss methods of financing cot ton and other agricultural products. Dr. Haymore Preaches 0 o Revival To Baptists Dr. Haymore is doing great preach ing. He is dealing with the funda mentals for a few days. On Monday | evening he discussed in a most force ful and conclusive way “How to Have a Revival” On Tuesday after noon he discussed “Paul’s Passion forf Souls,” and at the evening service the preacher delivered a forceful dis course -on “Intercessory Prayer.” l Large crowds are hearing these services and they are giving prayer—i ful and serious attention. This afternoon at three o'clock Dr.{ Haymore will preach on “The Per-f sonality and Deity of the Holy Spirit,” the beginning of a series of | three sermons on the Holy Sprit. The preacher will preach tonight on | the “Function of a Christian.” ‘ Come and hear these sermons and' bring your friends. ! el eyl S | Farm Bureau To Help Cotton Market Pool Will Send Special Committee to At lanta. Mass Meeting on Cotton ATLANTA, March 30—A spccial‘ committee of the American Farm ! Bureau Federation, which has a totall of more than a million and a half’ members throughout the United States, is expected to be appointed to attend the mass meeting called for Atlanta on April 26, to assist farmers of Dixie in the adoption of ‘a cotton marketing plan. - j Some of the foremost marketing ’experts of the country are in the employ of the American Federation, and their advice and service it is ex pected will be tendered the cotton raisers in solving their marketing problems. Indications are that the meeting will be largely attended by representatives of all farmer’s organ izations in Georgia and throughout the South. Efforts are being made by the Georgia Farm Bureau to secure 56,000 bushels of Georgia cowpeas, to fill an order recently received from a neighboring state. President R. A. Kelly has notified the county agents throghout the state, and it is expect ed that the desired amount of peas will be secured. Farmers who have any cowpeas to sell should get in touch immediately with their county agents. At a meeting of the advisory board of the Georgia Farm Bureau Feder ation held here this week, it was de cided to go ahead with organization of county bureaus in a number of counties in Georgia where there are no bureaus located at the present. Indications are that the movement will meet with success, as every day letters are received at the state head quarters inquiring for information relative to the formation of a county bureau. 5 ’ Leader Want Ads Pay!! Accepts Apointment on State Com mittee to Prepare Report For At lanta Meeting April 11. | (From Yesterday’s Daily) Announcement was made here Sat urday by O. E. Tate, of Elberton that ICharlcs S. Barrett, national president |of the Farmers Union and chairman ‘of the national board of farm organi zations has accepted appointment as a member of the state-wide commit | tce to work out a plan of organiza tion for Georgia cotton® growers on 'the California (or Sapiro) plan for 'presentation for the state wide mass ‘meeting to be held in Atlanta on {April 11 | The object of forming this state wide , committee in advance of the ‘meeting was to get the benefit of }state wide advice. Mr. Tate is pres ‘ident of the Elbert County Cotton 'Growers Association, which indorsed ‘the Sapiro'plan some weeks ago and launched a movement for state wide organization. A tentative association contract and marketing law for Georgia is being prepared by Aaron Sapiro. originator of the Sapiro plan, and this will be submitted to the state wide committee for such modifica tion as they see fit-to make on it. No other member of the state-wide committee has yet been announced by Mr. Tate. His acceptance from Mr. Barrett was received in a very | remarkable letter which praised thci Sapiro plan and ventured the predic tion that the long expected day of co-operative marketing ‘by the cot ton growers is about to come to pass. In this letter Mr. Barrett says® “I think you are engaged in a great work, which, from all T can hear, you are going about in a splendid way, and with a brilliant prospect of suc cess. I have known both Mr. Sapiro and his plan for a pretty long time, and fundamentally 1 believe both of them are sound. I refer to his prop osition in regard to cttoon particu larly. “It has been my opportunity, in twenty years of almost ceasless travel from coast to coast and from the gulf to Canada, to keep in inti mate touch with farmer enterprises of every conceivable sort, and in that experience I ought to have leartid a thing: or two about co-operative mar keting. “I am intimately acquainted with the workings of the splinded Pacific coast organization, many of which were in operation a decade or more before Mr. Sapiro, with his improved ideas, entered the field, but nearly all of them are being run in accord ance with the fundamental theories which he so well advocates. “It is not only sound, but in its fundamentals it is not at all new. Except in details, Mr. Sapiro has had deep-thinking predecessors -of my personal acquaintance. But that .is a point in favor of, rather than against, his plan, and the milk in t]u-' cocoanut at this hour is that, in the opinion, his plan is today feasable when it was not so heretofore. “The storm of farmer interest in co-operative marketing, which is the result of years of hard driven educa tion by farm organizations, coupled with the farmer’s painful predica ment today, is glorious and intense, There has never been anything like it, and unless I give the farmer credit for less intelligence than years of close assocjation have taught me to think he has, he is going to shake himself free from the shackles which have enslaved him. “What’s more, your ‘‘ncle Ruben’ in Georgia is not near as far behind : his brethren eclsewhere as I ‘some times like to fool him into thinking for his own good. And if some city folks realized the amount of horse sense he has in his head, they’d spend their lives wondering how it is that he has allowed himself to -be the goat of our economic system for so long. “But there’s an end coming to that. The farmer is just waking up to the fact that God (including the times)’ helps those who help them selves. And he is now out to act upon that information. “You have got a fine scheme, and if you don’t make mistakes you've got a fine opportunity to put it over in Georgia and be a blessed mem ory. All strength to your good right arm. I will be with your commit tee when it meets, and insofar as I can be helpful otherwise, let me know.” Fourteen Presidents were the sons of farmers or planters; thrce were the sons of Clergymen. Anlrew Jackson’s father was a sexton and constable. Fifteen Presidents of the United States were of English decent, six Scotch-Irish, three Scotch, two Dutch, one Welsh and one Scotch-Dutch. | ° ° Registration For ° Primary Increases Registration eached 350° Mark; Few Women Are Registering Registration for the city primary April 18th reached the 350 mark to day with only seventy-five feminine voters among the number. The books close Friday, April Bth and brisk registration is expected during the next week. The civic league has not yet be come active in registering its mem bers and the women of the local churches to support its candidates for mayor and aldermen, Citizens must register before city election or primary, regardless of other qualifications to vote. No un registered women will be permitted to vote at the April primary as ample opportunity will have been given Ithem to register before it is held. | . -_— | e o ° ° 1 Viviani And Harding In Conference Today | French Envoy Denies He Is to Talk‘ League of Nations’ Business } By International News Service. r WASHINGTON, March 30. President Harding today meets Rene | I\7iviani, special envoy from Fr:-mcc.l Official denial was made that Viviani comes as a representative of Lcague of Nations or will attempt to advise the President with regard to the league question. He will be intro-! duced to Secretary Hughes at noon and to the President at 4 o’clock this afternoon. ' Corporal Mashburn j . ® ) Buried at Unadlllai Delegation of Fitzgerald Vets Attend! Funeral of War Hero I (From Yesterday’s Daily) Betwen parallel lines of the com rades with whom he had fought in France, the body of Corporal W'fl-] liam B. Mashburn was carried to its| last resting place near his Unadilla home . Sunday oh the shoulders of‘| others who had been his friends in peace and his comrades in war. Corporal Mashburn, who was a son of Mrs. M. L. Mashburn and a| brother of Mrs. H. B. Varnadoe and. Miss Claire Mashburn, all of Fitz gerald, died at Beauvais, France, May‘ 21st, 1918, as a result of gnss‘mg suf fered in battle May 3rd, 1918, Afaer; temporary interment in France, the body of Corporal Mashburn was’ brought back to the United States for | interment at his home. ‘ The funeral services were at thei Baptist church under general charge | of the American Legion Post at. Vienna, Ga. He was buried with mil-! itary honors. The active palll bearers were members of the Vienna post and were attired i_n service uni forms. More than fifty other ex service men in civilian clothing formed an escort of honor, From Fitzgerald, representing the Mars-McDonald Post of the Ameri can Legion, went Commander Cleon Howell, Past Commander Roy Ad ams, O. D. Mulky, historian, Will Mashburn, Sam Story and B. E. Wilcox. ° 1 2] Strychnine “Condy . Ends Infant’s Life Ocilla Baby Licks Tablets for Candy, '~ Death Results Few Hours Later (From Yesterday’s Daily) OCILLA March 29.—At five o’- clock Monday morning, the twelve months-old child of W. H. Brown, a prosperous farmer of this county, who lives five miles from Ocilla, died of strychnine poisoning. Yesterday at noon his three-year old brother found a box of one sixtieth grain sugar-coated strych nine tablets and thinking they were candy, licked the sweet coating off and fed twelve of them to the baby. A physician was called at once, but was unable to relicve the little sufferer. ; RO Sy YT R ® e Librarian To Study - 4 j New Library Methods (From Yesterday’s Daily) Miss Louise Smith, librarian at the Fitzgerald Carnegie Library, is in Atlanta to attend a two weeks special course in library methods. During her absence Mrs. J. B. Wall and Miss Lillie Mae Hughes will handle the details of the library work here, - COTTON—Good Middling -...11%4c No Receipts Sk No Sales ORDERS A. B. & A. ~ TO PAY STRIKERS | T | Isstrasce of Note for $125,000 Ordered by Judge Sibley MUST PAY WAGE SCALE iForbidden to Pay Strike Break ers More Than Scale ’ ATLANTA, March 30.—Upon ap ‘pl'ication of Colonel B. L. Bugg, re ‘cvivor for the Atlanta, Birmingham ‘and Atlantic railway, Judge Samuel }H. Sibley handed down an order Tuesday afternoon authorizing the jissuance of a note for $125000, with 'which to pay the former employees ‘of the railway company who are now ‘?out of the service of the company on strike. | ~ This money, it was officially ex ‘plained, if obtained, will be used for Ithe payment of the former employ ‘ees, whose money was denied them ‘on last pay day, because of insuffi cient funds. The men now on strike ‘will be paid in full up to the time they left the service of the road, on iMarch 5. The last pay day when train service and other employees now out of the service because of the strike, would have received their pay under ordinary conditions was March 15. The company was un able to raise the money, however, be cause of reduced revenue consequent to the strike. \ Scale of Pay Fixed The employees of the company now working for B. L. Bugg, receiv er for the A, B. & A. railway, will receive their money in regular order, according to the scale of pay set by the federal court, and it was stated that there would be no variation from this scale. No one, it is declared, has any right to make a variation from the wage scale set by the court for the employees of the receiver of the A, B. & A, and it was pointed out that there would be no bonuses or other changes in the published wage scale. “We can pay the employees just what the court said we could,” said an official, “and we have to pay them that scale, no more and no less.” The application of the receiver for permission to borrow on a note $125,000, it was stated, was because of inability to meet the back pay of the former employees through any other source. ® Florida Man Urged G. 0. P. Patronage (By Internauonal News Service) WASHINGTON, March 30. George W. Bean, republican national committee-man from Florida pre sented Eugene Ashe of Key West to President Harding and urged his ap pointment as minister {o Cuba. He is also urging C. W. Logan of Jack sonville for the shipping bhoar{. . . . Railroad Officials * © o Visit Fitzgerald (From Yesterday’s Daily) Messrs. J. F. Sheehan and C. E Brower, officials of the Atlanta, Bir mingham and Atlantic railway com pany, are in Fitzgerald, it is under ‘stood, making a general survey ol ‘the strike situation and the condition of the railroad and service. Both gentlemen are former residents of iFitzgera]d and well known here. Chief Construction Engineer Bell ac companied Messrs. Sheechan and Brower. Mr. Brower, general superintend ent, stated to a Leader reporter that the party which is now here has no statement to make to the public. “All information of interest to the public is being issued from Atlanta offices,” Mr. Brower said. He stated that they might return tomorrow, Government Money * | For Railroads O ———————— G. & F. Authorized by I. C. C. to Borrow from Government (From Yesterday’s Daily) WASHINGTON, March 29.—Re ceivers of the Georgia and Florida Railway were authorized by the In terstate Commerce Commission to day to issue $1,600,000 of receivers’ certificates with an interest rate of 8 per cent and to pledge $BOO,OOO of them to the Government for a loan to sell $600,000 of them at par and ‘the account of the uncertified indebt ‘edness of the receivers incurred prior to January 1, 1921, : An optimist is a man who can make lemonade out of the lemons that 'ntel handed him.-- Portlagd Me. Express. SHORT AND SNAPPY NEWS OF THE WORLD BY TELEGRAPH . Official Organ City of Fitzgerald “CURRENT ISSUES” ? IS MAYOR’S TOPIC Debates Municipal Ownership with Joe Hill Hall Today - SPEAKS AT 10:30 HERE ‘To Inspect Fitzgerald Schools and Water-Light Plant . Mayor James L. Key of Atlanta will visit Fitzgerald tomorrow before returning to Atlanta from Abbeville, where he is debating munigipal own ership with Joe Hill Hall of Macon today. He will address an open meet ing at the Grand Opera House at 10:30 o’clock tomorrow morning. The public is invited. Mayor Key will come to Fitzger ald especially to observe the work ing of Fitzgerald’s municipally owned and operated water, light and power plant. While here, he will also be shown the Fitzgerald public schools, the second biggest “brag” point of Fitzgerald. President Ulric J. Ben nett of the board of education will escort Mr. Key through the schools. Mayor Key will probably talk to the high school pupils at chapel at 8:45 tomorrow morning. From the high school he will go to the water light and power plant and ‘then to the Grand Opera House where he will speak at 10:30 o’clock on cur rent issues of the day. Mayor Key has made speeches in several Georgia towns and cities re cently. He is a good speaker, having been elected twice a mayor of At lanta by taking the stump against strong opponents. May Free All U. S. o 0 . Political Prisoners (By International News Service) WASHINGTON, March 30—At torney General Daugherty’s forthcom ing. recommendations._. on. Eugene Deb’s appeal for pardon will probably include recommendations of amnesty for all political prisoners it is learned. Daugherty refused to say whether he discussed the matter with Debs free ing all political prisoners. Daugherty made it plain that what ever recommendations may be made will not be based on any promises se cured by Debs. Cordele Man Held, 9 Passed “N.G.” Checks (By International News Service) MIAMI, Fla.,, March 30.—]. T. Hill lawyer of Corlele, Ga, who came here several months ago, was yestar day bound over under $2,5C0 honds on eleven charges of passing worth less checks and three charges of embezzlement. His alleged defalca tions amount to less than $7OO. . Dempsey-Carpentier . ® Fight Be In America i (By International News Service) ~ NEW YORK, Marci 30—Tex %Rickard said he will name the site of the Dempseéy-Carpentier fight April 9. It will be in the United States. . e Russian Princess *® ‘ In America \ ‘ (By International News Service) BIRMINGHAM, March 30.—Har ry Veo, leader of an orchestra, and formerly assistant conductor of the Russian Imperial Orchestra, said he saw Princess Tatiana, second eldest daughter of the Russian Czar at At~ lantic City in 1918, Peanuts Be Graded By Federal Orders RS 7 (By International News Service) WASHINGTON, March 30-—Es tablishment of grades of peanuts as a basis of sales was announced by the department of agriculture because of the large proportions the market ing of this product has assumed. Grades will be established for pea nuts sold by the farmers, for shelled and unshelled peanuts. el The 'grape is native in Southern Europe, Algeria, Morocco and West= ern Asia. i ‘When it is necessary to cut fresh bread heat thehfl}?nd the bread will ok LR et g L R o cut easilyy . e b e T R