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AMEK1CUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 27, 1919
PRESIDENTS SPEECH PLEASES ENGLISH
MAJ. M’CAULEY
TO TRY RIGHT
OF 1,200 MILES
HERE IN A DAY
Ft. Worth Flyer to Attempt to Cross
Continent Twice in Period of
Four Days
SOUTHERF1ELD, Ga„ February 20.
—Some record t runs-continental
flights through here are planned (or
the near future. Major Tom C. Mc
Cauley, of Ft. Worth, will use the
southern route and double the conti
nent between Son Diego. California,
and to Savannah, Oa., a distance of
about 2,460 miles each way, via Ameri-
cus, fitted with extra gasoline tanks,
stopping at fields en route to change
planes He hopes to average over 1,
200 miles a day and double the conti-
nent in four days.
Amerlcus will be on hand and give
Major McCauley a welcome when he
lands here twice on the tran-conti
nental flights. He contemplates start
ing from Fort Worth, and make a non
stop flight to Souther Field, 1,109
miles; then change planes here and go
on to SUvan'nah, 174 miles—ell in one
day. Returning, he will pick up a new
plane again at Amerlcus and continue
If on To Fort Worth; thence to Sangpiego,
” and return to Ft. Worth, where he Is
stationed.
.Major McCauley, It will be remem
bered,- called at Souther'Field
route Ft. Worth to Florida a few weeks
ago and Was missing severals'dSys in
the Florida swamps, having been for
ced to make a landing south of Jack
sonville on his return flight He also
met. with a mishap when he reached
Sumter county, his plane being wreck
ed'in a forced landing near Americas.
This test and that of the Handley-
Page practically will establish Ameri
cas as stated In The TImes-Recorder,
as an Important relay change plane
station on the trnns-contlnhntal route.
The visit of F. C. Sherrill, special rep
resentative of tho Postmaster Gen
eral’s department to Amerlcus Is an
other straw that tells which way < the
wind Is blowing.
The Souther Field officers wish Sum
ter connty and the city of AmerloSs
would give them a good road between
the city and the field, and then per
fect conditions on all lines would exist.
President Climbing Ladder to
Inspect Billets of Boys in France
FOUR CRIMINAL
CASES HEARD
AT OPENING OF
HEAVY GRIND
Two Plead Guilty, Two Are Convicted,
With Recommendations for
Leniency
President Wilson has shown a decided Interest in the conditions under
which our boys fought and lived In France. In this picture he Is seen In
specting the billets of the men of the 102nd Infantry, Twenty-Sixth divis
ion (Yankee Division.) The 102nd formerly was tho Second Missouri, with
detachments of tho First Now Hampshire and the Eighth Massachusetts.
The division was billeted at Mandrec les Nogents In the Marne sector.
TWO DESERTED
HUSBANDS GIVEN
FIRST VERDICTS
4.6 INCHES RAM
FLOODS CHURCH
AND HIGH SCHOOL
9 Men Leave Souther
Field For Canal Zone
Nine enlisted men have left Souther
Field for Gerstner Field, La., where,
after training, they will go to Camp
France, Panama Canal Zone. Tho
names follow:
Sgt. first class, Jesse K. Dodge, Sgt.
first class, Fredrick C. Way, Sgt. first
class, Homer <5. Eshbaugb, Sgt first
class, William S. Medcalf, Sgt. grst
class, Boyd C. Walker, Sgt. first class,
Sherwood W. Baker, Sgt Michael M.
Roaburskl, Sgt. Earl V. Webb, Chant-
fuer Harry m. Hogan.
At Gentner Field they will be Joined
by forty-six men from Kelly Field.
Son Antonio, Texas.
J. E. Stewart told the divorce Jury I A total of 4.6 inches of rain fell in
.. C ° Urt , tbU morn,nB that 27 hours from 6 p. m. of Monday to
Ms wife, Aileen Collins Stewart, who!,, „
m rtf Tiiaaitav | qj,
The trial of criminal cases began In
Superior court early-Wednesday, two
pleas of guilty hiring been received,
and two convlctiota having been
turned after trial before adjournment.
The grand Jury was still in
session, grinding out Indictments, and
a considerable number Of cases were
piling up for disposition
The largest part of the day's session
was occupied with the case of Mose
Lee Hawkins, colored, charged with
assault with intent to kill. Mose Lee
was defended by Wallis & Fort, and 33
men wore called to the Jury box be
fore twelve suitable to both sides were
found. All those not acceptable were
stricken by the defense, except two.
Nearly a scofe of witnesses were
heard, the larger part of them for the
st-.le.' T
Mose Lee Hawkins was charged
with shooting Hugh Smith, another ne
gro, at a wedding on the place of Bose
Johnson, near Huntington, on the night
of December 8. Smith was the flrsT
witness Introduced by the state. He
showid the acar on two sides of his
arm where'the bullet had passed, and
iwo holes In his coat, made by the
saaftTsfiVit. fie declared that the trou
ble arose over Hawkins, who Is la
much younger negro, wanting to
smoke a cigar which be had Just
lighted. He refused to let Mm smoke
the cigar, he said, which angered
Hawkins, who followed him out Into
the yard and shot him through the
arm. The defense contended that
Hawkins shot In self defense In a fight
wMch took place In the yard, and in
w))lch Smith had knocked Hawkins
down and was on top of him. Two pis
tols of formidable size were shown the
witnesses .one of which belonged to
Hawkins. The other, the defense al
leged, belonged to Smith. ,The state commo ' 1
contended, however, and Smith' testi-
Five Wonders
of the Wotld of
Air Navigation
IN connection with the Air Service.
A so Important to Georgia, a few
feata may be interesting and term
ed aa the five wonders
1. CapL Long reached an ele
vation of 30,600 feet, or 1498 feet
higher than Mt. Everest in India,
the highest mountain tho world.
2. An airplane has carried 50
passengers.
3. MaJ. Gen. Salmond has flown
from Cairo, Egypt, to DelM, India,
3.000 miles, the route being via Da
mascus and Bagdad.
4. An airplane recently covored
the distance New York to Washing
ton. 226 miles, In eighty-five min
utes.
6. Six men In a dirigible holding
180,000 feet of hydrogen gas wero
recently propelled by two Hlspano-
Sulza moters from New York to
Key West.
LONDON PRESS
HOPES APPEAL
ON LEAGUE WILL
MEETSUPPORT
Wilson to Go to Capital to Discuss
Legislative Action With
Senators
CUMMMGS NEW
HEAD OF PARTY;
PLAN FOR 1920
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—(By Amo,
dated Press.)—Homer S. Cummings,
of Connecticut, was today elected
chairman of the Democratic National
committee and the committee voted In
CavoT of a complete re-organization for
an aggressive campaign In 1920,
LONDON, Feb. 26.—(By Associated
Press.)—Comment on President Wil
son’s Boston speech takes first place In
this morning's London papers. Thoy
uMte in the hope that tho Presidents
appeal for support for tho Loague of
Nations will moot a favorable response
In the United States.
„ To Meet Senators.
WASHINGTON, Fob. 26.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—President Wilson will
go to the capitol today, If his engage
ments permit, to meet senators and
discuss tho legislative situation. In
addition to urging prompt action on
the big appropriation bills, he will en
deavor to expedite the passage of the
oil leasing and water power bills, and
the provision continuing the federal
employment service and the bill for
the reclamation of land to bo opened
to soldiers and sailors.
abandoned Mm In 1917, after IS year. 8 P ' m ’ ot Tue8,tojr ’ accort,n *
of married life together, and whom he o0c,al record of Jo « M - Br >' an :
waa suing for divorce, would stay Inj eminent observer at this point. I This
bed two and three days at a time, and j Is one of the heaviest downpours In. flod - that It* had no weapon, except
continually quarrel at him while she, that length of time ever recorded here
was In bed. He said she was nev«r '.and resulted In all the streams In this
suited with anything he did, and at vlcIMty being flooded.
Labor Shortage in
Navy AskS Civilians
in Scandal be Pushed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—The department of Jus
tice will be asked by the navy depart
ment to prosecute civilians and others
who do not come under naval Jurisdic
tion, and found to have been inpllcat-
od In the bribery scandal of (he TMrd
Naval district
GETS CLEMENCEAE’S evidence.
PARIS, Feb. 28.—(By Associated
Press.)—Captain Bouchardon, of. tho
military court went to Premier Clem-
enccau's house today to take the pre
miers' testimony on tho attempt on Ma
life by Emile Cottln.
one time threatened to shoot Mm. He
asked for total divorce, through his at
torney. H. O. Jones, and the Jury grant
ed a first verdict The case was un.
contested.
Joel White told the Jury that when
he refused to obey her orders, his wife,
Irene B. White, after living with him
23 years, picked up her belongings and
went to her mother’s and refused to
live with him any longer. The couple
were married In 1890 and lived to
gether until September, 1913, in North
Carolina. Mr. White, after trying to
get her to return to him, came to Geor
gia three years ago.
“She had to hare her soy-so about
everything,” he told tho Jury In reply
to questioning by his attorney, R. L
Maynard. "If I bought anything, she
had to make the decision about It It
I got anything without asking her
about It, she would raise sand. Final
ly, when ahe got ready to leave ahe told
me there was somebody else she was
looking at, and she was going." First
verdict of total divorce for both par
ties was rendered.
Only two other divorce cases were
heard, both colored applicants. Bertha
West was granted first decree divorce
from Chaa. West on ji charge of deser
tion. She was represented by Attor
ney W. T. Lane. Lena Bruce was given
first decree from Tom Brace on a
charge of desertion. She was repre
sented by Attorney G. C. Webb.
At times the rain fell In auch great
volume that the street gutters and
storm sewers could not carry it ofl
fast enough, and yards were overflow
ed and cellars flooded in some cases.
The basements ot the First Baptist
church and the High school were each
filled with 3 to 4 feet ot water this
morning, and the fire department
called on to pump them ont before
fires could be stalled In the furnaces.
Amerlcus has bad more than her
■bare of rain in the last five months,
according to Mr. Bryan, the fall In
that period having been about twice
the normal. Up to live months ago,
however, there had been a deficiency.
The normal annual rainfall for thta
point is between 40 and 60 Inches
Retail Merchants’
Dinner Postponed
The dinner and annual meeting ot
the Retail Merchants’ association,
which had been announced for Wed
nesday Mght at the Windsor hotel,
was postponed.
Hils action was taken yesterday at a
meeting of the officers of the asso
ciation, at which It was decided to
hold the dinner the latter part of
March. At the same time It was de
cided that the association would pat
on a series of trade excursions on_tno
first five days of. the week beginning
April 7. The excursions are to be
made by automobile Into the territory
MILBURY, Mass., Feb. 24.—Miss snrronndlng Amerlcus, five different
Dellla Chapin Torrey, aunt of former trips being taken, ending in Amerlcus
President Taft and who was much In' each night Full details Of tho ex-
the limelight during his administration' curslons are yet to be worked out,
as “Aunt Delia," died here last night.! and will be announced later.
Ex-President Taft’s
‘Aunt Delia’ is Dead
hU knife, with which he hit Hawkins
on the bead during the fight.
>und guilty, but the
miedemeanor pun-
Mose Leo whs fo:
Jury recommended
lahment.
Dudley Floyd, Colored, was found
guilty after a short trial of assault
with intent to murder, but the Jury
brought In a recommendation of pun
ishment for a mlsedmeanor. It was
shown that Floyd, who was indicted by
the November, 1915, grand Jury, had
shot both barrels of a shotgun at Luke
Burton, also colored,
wounding Luke, near T. M. Ethridge’s
place. Mr. Ethridge alid his son, Roy,
who saw the shooting, were witnesses
for the state. Floyd was defended by
T. O. Marshall, who placed the negro
on the stand to make a statement In
Ma own defense. The negro attempted
to show the shooting accidental, but
his story did not agree with that of
the two white witnesses. Sheriff
showed that three years bad elapsed
after the Indictment before he was
able to And Floyd'to arrest him.
Albert Martin, accused of larceny
frome the house entered a plea of gull-
ty with a request for a misdemeanor
punishment through Hilliard Wil
liams, who had been appointed by the
court to represent him.
Eugene Brown, represented by Lewis
Ellis, also appointed by the court,
pleaded guilty to burglary on two
counts.
No sentences had been passed by
Judge Littlejohn this afternoon.
New Indictments.
The following additional indictments
have been returned by the grand jury.
In which arrests hars already been
made: . \
Willie Jones, coolrecl, selling whisky
and shooting at another; 2 counts.
Aaron Boom, colored; arson;
charged with burning the barn at
Jesse Faust, white, near Plains.
Scab Hunt, colored, manufacturing
whisky and selling wMsky; 2 counts. A October
Throng at Funeral
of Mrs.S.H.Hawkins
o ,1 o.-li 1-1 . I A wonderful tribute was paid today
dOUtn Otlli r.Vlsfc |to tho memory of Mrs. S. H. HawMns.
In the large attendance at her funeral
at 10:30 a. m., at the First Baptist
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—(By Asso I church - The vicinity of the coffin was
the current week, but conditions In tho| a vost bowcr of ,Iowora 1™“ grieving
friends of all ages, and organizations
dated Bay favorabIe ’ with which she had been connected.
n a™itT;h7n n t,TmT " “ A * * ™rk of special respect the
n V ^ T r<> * mo ® bers ot Benevolent society, the
ported by the employment service for , oea| clmrltjr organIzatIon , whlch
JtZrlnZT T 0, , UO ° helpen found-nbout fifty In number-
unskUled workers with threat, of attended tho , uneral , n ^
strikes. Atlanta reports a shortage ot 1
non labor with threats of a gen-
oral strike In building trades. Jack- Great Naval Bill IS
•onvllle and Pensacola report a Short-1 VJIC£U *vaV<U UI11 lb
age and saw mills throughout the state
experiencing difficulty in 'getting ne- raVOFaDly KepOfted
gro labor for their lumber camps.
— r . WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.—(By Assa-
Keturn from Florida p”® 1 * 1 Pre * 5) - Tho »•«»** naval at
tain committee, without a record vote,
Auto Trin hv Railwav today orter * d the » 722 - 000 -°®° naTal
rtUlU I lipuyi\dliway|appropriation biu favorably reported.
The new building program was ap-
. „ , . „ . . proved by a partisan vote, the repub.
Mr. antI Mrs. LA. Morgan and torn- Hc ans opposing It Tho provision em-
ny and Mr. and Mrs. 8. B. Beal and Lowering the president to curtail the
family, returned thta morning by rail
from a three weeks trip through Flor
ida, which started from Americas by
auto.
Both Mr. Morgan and Mr. Seal left
their cars at Waycross and mode the
trip from there by railroad, owing to
the bad condition of the roads In Geor
gia as the result of recent rains. Both
families left here os members of the
Carter party. They report a wonder
fully fine trip.
program at Ms discretion was re
tained.
Soviet Republic at
Mannheim is Ended
COPEKHAOEN, Feb. 25.—(Tuesday)
—(By Associated Press.)—A dispatch
from Mannheim, via Berlin, says that
'after two days’ negotiations, the ms-
Czechs Give up Mine Jorit7 * ni1 |nde p«“ d «“t socialists have
r agreed to rescind the proclamation of
Districts, in Disputes uw? 71 * 1 wpnbUc ana “ boIteh marUal
The independent communists
„ k . , .sentod to evacuate the public bulld-
WARSAW, Feb. 25. -(Tuosday.)- | nfn , and surrender their arms, they
(By Asaoicated Press)—Under the aus-1 bC | n g granted Immunity,
pices of the Inter-Allied mission to* w
Poland, Czech troops today began the
evacuation
trlct. which Is In dispute.
h 0 L?n e d“. D m,n,Dg d “ I Agreement Reached
on War Contracts
I THE COTTON MARKET j|
LOCAL SPOT.
Good Middling 25 1-2 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—The deadlock between
the bouse and senate on the bill legal
izing Informal war contracts waa
High I broken today by a compromise agree-
Low Close I ment limiting tho xmendment provld-
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