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AMER1CUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 25, 1919.
PRICE FIVE (
Strike Prelude to ‘Show Down’Congress’ Vi
He Won’t Be Happy Till He Gets It-
By Morris
CUMMINS fLAN
for Railroads
HOTLY ASSAILD
Takes Away Citizenship
Flights of Men, Says
BIG FARM SHOW
TO BE SEEN AT
ARLESTHURSDAY
Cheyenne All Ready
To Greet President
CHEYENNE, Sept. 24.—(By As
sociated Press.)—This city was pre
pared today to welcome President
Wilson, who will arrive at 4 o'clock
this afternoon. Upon his arrival
the president will be escorted by the
famous "Black Horse ’ troop of the
Fifteenth cavalry, now atationed at
Ft. D. A. Russel, and will go to the
theater where he will deliver his ad
dress. He will leave at 7 p. m. for
Denver.
What has been announced as one
of the finest* farm demonstrations
ever gotten together w*il lie . given
at the Arlea Plantation Thursday till
day, from 9 a. m. to 11 p. m. by a
traveling farmers’ institute sent out
i by the International Harvester com- j
pany. The party consists of seven IFAITD I T A I | A M
people, all experts in their lines, and ! I* IIII |\ I I n III M Is
nine truck loads of equivme.u. Ibe *
party is in charge if II. S. Mobley,
who is an expert in soil, nlfalfi,
corn, livestock and community build
ing, and includes one woman, Mrs.
Adda F. Howie, of• Wiseonctn, who
discusses dairy Seattle, poultry and
home conveniences for the benefit
of the women of the farms.
It was announced in advance that
the demonstration is entirely edu
cational, there being nothing to sell
and no effort being mads to csoeeial-
ly advertise the Internationa) line
of machinery. Among the educa
tional features will b; night reclr
of moving pictures which will be
show in a tent erected for the pur
pose. "he entire demr-strat.on *' H a y Baling Test To_Be
BAPTISTS PLAN
RALLY DAY AT
PLAINS CHURCH
VESSELS SEIZED
AS HUME NAVY
POLA, Sept. 22.—(Monday)—
(By Associated Press.)—Four Ital
ian warships are named as units of
the “Fiuman navy" in a proclama
tion by Capt. D'Annunzio. They . . . . . . ..
are th„ battleships Dante Alighieri,
and the destroyen Mirabello, Rullo
and Abba.
PLAINS, Sept. 24.—In order to
promote the $76,900,000 drive which
it now an, the Plains Baptist church
la tp have a bis rally day Oat. 10 , to
arouse Interest in the movement
among the people here, and also the
membership of several other nearby
churches. Well known speakers will
be here to place the facts before the
people and to stimulate enthusiasm.
list Sunday members of the Plains
church went in cars to several other
Baptist churches bearing invitations
to'the membership of those to come
to Plains Oct. A as the guests of
Plains Baptist church. Dinner will
be served, picnic fashion, in the
church grove.
While the cause is essentially the
promotion of Baptist interests, the
day promiles to be one of profit and
interest to all denominations An
of the people of Plains and commun
ity are invited to attend the services
Shown At Ansley Farm
Car Shortage Cutting A ray baling machine demonstra-
Southern Coal Output)" 7X2T?S:
Rev. dB. Johnson has the
management of the big day in hand
and through committees-will further
all arrangements for making it a suc
cessful one for the community.
Lee St. Church To Rule
On Centenary Money
more coal cars for the mines in the
Southern states were discussed at a
conference today between represen
tatives of the Southern coni opera-
v tors and Southern members of both
W houses of congress.
The congressmen were told that
the car shortage has reduced mining
0 Derations fifty per cent in msny
places, throwing labor ont of em
ployment and increasing Industrial
unrest.
David Burkhalter
Returns From Navy
David Burkhalter of the U F; S.
-ienniba], has teeahred his discharge
fror -i til- navy after service in Euro-
r?an'wtto\s ?<r 1.1 months, and ts
visiting TBs mother, Mr-. I.. II. Unrk-
halter. here. r* will leave In a fe v
WASHINGTON,; Sept,
tiona of the cjuppilna railroad reor-
ganizatii.n bill, which would forbid
strikes by railway employes continued
to draw fire tod£yib|forc the senate
interstate^cemrhaSp'eor.imlttee. , Of-
f.cers of the railway ij.-othOrbood* at
tacked the proposals as a return to
slavery tn industry, j
“These, proposals take away rights
of citizenship from railroad men,’’ P.
J. MacNamara, vice president of the
Brotherhood of Firemen and Engine-
m pti. said. "It makes serfs out of
men." -.V^rT' §
W. J. Doak, vice president of the
trainmen's brotherhood, classed the
sections "sshfhe most bold attempt at
bondage since (he Civil War.”
“They strike down the last vestige
rights we ptoscss,” he said.
They-upset all policies and principles
which labor has secured from the gov
ernment in the'past. Tho railroad or
ganizations might as t well get out of
business.”
Machinery provided in the bill for!
adjusting wage -disputes, he said, con
stituted "the meanest form of com-1
pulsory arbitration.”'
"You don’t need )o b e afraid of!
organized strikes irl this country,"
h- declared, ‘‘but'Jdffirlo need to be,
afraid of unorganized, mob strikes.
When they start, there is no way to
get the men back. This bill simply
fosters I. W. W.-ism and the one big
union movement, because it will de
stroy sober organizations." .
Antl-8trik e provision of the Cum
mins railroad reorganization bill are
opposed vigorously by organized la
bor, testimony of threb of the fore
most labor leaders brought out be
fore the Senate interstate commerce
committee yesterday.
Samuel Gompors, president of the
American Federation of Labor, War
ren S. Stone, chief of the Engineers’
Brotherhood, and Glen E. Plumb,'
general counsel for railroad brother,
hoods arid author of the Plumb rail
road plan, all vigorously opposed th c
provisions and said no law could pre-
vent men from -quitting work at their
will.
TIMES-RECORDER
TO GIVE DETAILS
OF WORLD SERIES
B ASEBALL FANS will be given first class Ser
vice on tbe World’s Series by The Times-Re-
corder this year, arrangements having been made
for details of the game by Associated Press each
day for publication in the regular afternoon edi
tion. Everything that the .fan cares to know about
the game will be told by the Times-Recorder,
which will be on the streets shortly after the
games are over. , '
In the meantime, until the series opens next
week, the Times-Recorder will print several arti
cles of an informative nature on the two opposing
teams—the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago
White Sox. The first of these appears on another
page today. ■ . • , ,
Get the World Series results this year in the
Times-Recorder. ' ,
IPLAN TO OPJ
UP SITUATI
FOR BENEFIT i
WHOLE PU1
Little Change In A1
ment of Forces
Struggle
4 MEN STABBED,
BEATEN, IN
Two More Inder
Mills Closed,
Union Head
DIRECTORS PUT
FINAL TOUCHES
TO FAIR PLANS
Finishing touches, were put to
plans to mako the Sumter County-
FairV-howling success at a meeting
of thc directors this morning at thc
Chamber of, Commerce, it was de
clared to have been tho .next en
thusiastic Meeting the direc tors have
yet held. C.' C. Ilawk-ns, pri trident
of the association, presided
At the suggestion of Neill A. itay,
thc oflicers all pledged themselves to
get their coats olf and give several
days of actual hard personal work in
their respective districts to 'he fair.
It was declared prospects ere grow
ing daily for a far better fair than
there was any hope for early In the
year. The dates are October 10, 17
and 18. )
FIND‘BORROWED’
STILL IN CHANCE
VISIT TO RENTER
WASHINGTON, Sept.
kwhs j 8 inclined to view the
steel strike as the "first
in a coming • industrial
mid possibly only the prelude i
long talked of "show down”
capital and labor, which nun-
predicted would come in the
i justment from war to peace.
Pending the resolution by 1
utor Kenyon to have the 1
mittee investigate the causes
strike it is planned to open
whole situation if possible “in L.
of the third party—the public.’’
Plains Hog Cholera
Suit Ready For Jury
Concluding arguments were- being
made this afternoon in the City Court
of Amerieus in the damage suit o*
Logan A Forest, Plains hog buyers,
against J. F. Fender and M. H. Mott,
for recovery of $4,500 Ion by death
“ *® 3 ho *» in « herd, inflection of
which *ith cholera, it was contended,
catm* from hogs bought from the de
fendants. Attoreny Hollis Fort
opened the argument for the plain
tiffs, and he was followed in turn
by Stephen Pace and Judge J. A.
Hfxon for* the defense, and W. P.
Waliiz, who closed for the plaintiffs.
Mr. Fort m his argument read
from the 105th Georgia, a Supreme
court ruling making the owner of
an infected animal liable upon its
•die for any, damage arising from
»o<h infection, whether he b e cog
nizant of the infection or not.
CLEMENCEAU TO
DEMANDFRANCE
APPROVETREATY
Carrying a distress weuum, iur m irrcuiTue ....
cotton of this year’s crop which was j Bm M '
To be levied on in payment of tent, J BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept.
Sheriff Ilarvcy yesterday unwitting- 1 (By Associated Press.) Men
ly ran onto one of the finest still Wacksittlths mach nists
ho had ever located In Sumter county j in Birmingham district wort
on the Tisou farm, northwest of Am- 1 out on strike today by R.
cricus, at the home of Willie Hal- j J""*# business agent for l) lV ma ‘
stead, a white renter on thc place. ■ lf ^ s un * on » upon receipcc of a
It was u fino copper still, set up for ! ff ram from W. R. Johnston,
operation in the sftioke house, and j nalional organizer of the union, i
was promptly seized and’brought to . at Washington.
the city by the sheriff to be used ns ',„ •
evidence in case Mr. Ilnistcnd chooses I --ITTLE CHANGE IN
to fight tho charge. Mr. Halstead ALIGNMENT OF FORCES,
also was brought in ami made bond. W Associated Press.)
Thc sheriff 'was reluctant to dis- j Reports from all site! centers I
cuss tho find today, but tho details' ‘ ay rcvc »led little change in ra
became known generally about tho a ‘'Boment of the opposing force*. '
court house. Tho ‘sheriff wa3 ac-! ,n thc Mahoning valley in
compnnied by City Marshal Pouncey “Mko success is complete. F
when he went to Mr. Halstead's homo ,our thousand wage earners are
to levy on the cotton. No ono was 0,1,1 Youngstown and the surrou
nt home when they arrived, and in n *J Vllln fjes are paralyzed,
searching about tho premises the ' „ ,n *** 0 Pittsbrug district Came,
sheriff spied n bit of copper through ”*•* company officials announced I
a crack in tho smoko house. In- a j t “ a «on today "looks good." T!
vestigation showed something sus- *‘ olm * n3 usual were denied 6y un
picious inside, but the door was ,ea<, ers, who claimed thc strike n
locked. The officers hurried to the mcnt wns spreading.
I home of Justice A. W. Buchanan,; , n the Chicago district the
■■not far from the ze«ne and obtain- 0 “ 00 w° a moro definite. A major
PARIS, Sept. 24—(By Associated ; ed 0 «Y eh JT ,rr,,nt ’ with ' vh ‘ ch th * v eLunl'J 1 ?*' Werc cIoscd ’ thoa *
Press.)—Premier Clemcnccau is ex- I re, “ rned
pected to speak in the chamber of j
deputies this afternoon and demand
a vote ratifying peace with Germany.
Foreign Minister P’cliou is alio ex*
pected to make a similar demand.
No me.dfng of the S'co.vm- eoun
eil was he’d today because of the
engagements of the French mem
bers.
Collins Furlow Street
Home Brings $4,200
, day—on the farm of Charles L. Ana-j p« v Silas Johnson d as tor of T —
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.-(By | , ey on tfc. Lee street road, by Car- stn , et ' Metho dlrt ehor ^ ow ,
Associated Pres.)-Efforts to secure mich , el * Sons, repreaenUtives of e ry member of this church to be pres-
W'l'iama Mfg. Co., makers or tne |ent tonight , t the mid . week prayer
machines Abat will be demonstrated, j Mndee . it will be a meeting of Un
it is claimed that Sumter has this u decision U to be made
rr—r.,—— • , H b wp«“C«rto
bales can be compressed in several
different sizes.
An invitatioi is extended tj *11
those interested anc it is promised
that the visit will be instructive ard
profitable. *- I Si!
Centenary money.
The Collins cottage on Furlow
street, considered one'of the most
attractive (tomes in the city, has been
. , . , sold to Mrs. Watson, of Fort Vsl-
inf«tion ef rf d .l nt "l,' 1 '? U ^ ,, J th,t ‘ h * ,ry ’ nl0,, ’ er ot E ’ P ’ Ca P i(,n ’
from anlm.U^u h h rd .u hMa . liTea ^ weat ot » he city, for
from animal* sold by them *lthough | consideration of $4,200. The sole
th TJtVT W *7 * he ,n ! wa » •"»<•* by Georg.. D. Wheatley.
di * ° r 91! Possession will be fcven shortly
^ 'and Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Cspien
will make it their home.
The sale was made by Mr. Whcat-
They found Mr. Halstead
Told that they wanted to
search his amoks house, he declared
the key had been lost and the door
could not be opened, whereupon the
oflicers proceeded'to bred: thc lock.
The still was found ready for uae,
and is said to have bore evidences
of having been used. No whisky
was found, but a barrel nearby con
tained a. considerable quantity of
muscadine "beer,” which was r»i».
ed along-with the still.
Mr. Halstead ia raid to have in
formed the officers that h* h«d only
borrowed the still for his own use
anil had delayed taking ;t back to its
owner, who he did not name. He
denied he had made any liquor, but
said he had tried to do so and hnd
not succeeded.
crating doing so on reduced for
The question of summoning „
lake seamen and union trainmen
tho assistance of the steel
will be considered at a mer
tho steel workers’ national.
te 0 at Pittsburg today.
4 MEN STABBED, 2 BEATEN
IN STRIKE RIOTING.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 24.— (By
socintcd Press.)—Four men
stabbed, two of them probably ;
ly and two others Were badly b
near the Ncwburg plant of the
crican Stool Wire comoany this mo
mg in a clash when a car was ,
pod to let off men bound
nt the plant.
MORE INDEPENDENT
PLANTS CLOSED, SAY
PITTSBURG, Sept i
sociatcd Press.)—“Wo i
couraged,"
J. W. Mosteller, Jr.,
Wert Point Alternate!.* s H ? JTmJSK M*
The Cotton Market
LOCAL SPOTS. I!
Good Middling 30 1-2 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Close Open High Low Close
Oct. 31.49 31.50 31.16 31.25
Dec. 31.75 31.70 31.80 31.48 31.58
Jan. 31.80 31.78 31.86 31.57 31.68
days for Atlanta, where he hai sc-.Mch, 31.95 31.92 32.04 31.75 31.8.,
cepteO a poait.on. _ I May 32.07 31.98 32.02 31.92
, I In Plains. The crop this year is the
Word was received in Amerieus to- largest produced in years. Among
day that J. W. Mosteller, Jr., son tlle nioat populaq varieties in town
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mosteller, tho Froteher, Stuart, Schley and
had been appointed by Senator Wm. ®“"*?* 0thcr being
J. Harris as first alternate to West J™* ho J™ w - One grower expects
fifty pounds per tree fron\. compara-
tively young trees. An out-of-town
[grove expects 1,000 ponfids from a
TLf» Wealhar Forecast h vc, Y ’mall acreage. Among Plains
me vyearner rorecan > rit ; 7 .. n . Klv „ fn „ r „, pr
'~ CTT'. ;;" U j , ’ l 8 successful are A , C. Murray. J.
k..r Georgia. — l:i,r torighl and (. Uii|,. r . H . R .McGee. J. A. Mc-
Point military ^cadcmy.
Thursday; slightly cooler Jenight in j Donsld. R. L. Stewart, R. S. Oliver,
School Boy, Wrestling ______
At Play, Brwk. Leg SESeS-mS'*!
_. „ . ! CUirton it was -aid moi
Theo. Barton, a high school fresh- J ments will! be placed in operati
man, son of H. 8. Barton, of Bran- i day. Information from Home
non avenue suffered a broken leg j said more work, r- wore or, l
yesterday afternoon whiL wrestling ; yesterday,
on the school grounds, when he fell, ( Secretary Foster, of tl.
shattering one of the hone* ef hia workeh’nntinn,,1 committee,
lower rght limb. He was wrestling ed that the strike was ’-nr. sair
sold the place several times over, i * lt . h •' am e* Johnson, another school, “We closed two large indenend
All of which showa that, notwith- I al tl |e *"»e of thc accident, i plants in Pittsburg today ” h- said
standinj? what some folks say, there to hfs home by Prin- j
ia a real demand for city real estate ; c, 8“* c - **• Ho,e - : THREATEN SHUT DOWN
in Amerieus—and at good prices.’’
Be Gatherer! At PloL. Iey throu 6 h *e agency cf e small
“ erea At Plains, advertisement in the Tin.es-Reeorder.
pi *TN<J oa had *° many ca,la oa 0 fesnlt of
PLAINS, Sept. 34.—Pecan grow-j this ad," said Mr. Wheatle, “that I
get any rest at homt. ( could have
REDS OCCUPY TOMSK.
DOY UNDERGOES OPERATION. I , L °W10N, Sept. 24—(By Asro-
Fal Gatewood, the young son of I clat *< 1 Prae*.)—A BoUheviki wiri l, ^
east and south portions.
W. S. Moore.
Mr. nrd Mra. Furlow Gatewood, nn-l ^ rom Moscow rays thc Red Guards
derwent an operation for appendicitis' ar * reported to have occupied Tomsk,
yesterday at tlie City Hospital. He) five hundred miles cast of Omsk, the
reported this morning as l'm- *H Russian scat of government, on
•%_ I proving rapidly.
-
Trans-Siberian railway line. , , months.
for six months.
INDIANA HARBOR
24.— (By Associated
ficialx of the Indian Steel
an ultimatum to striking
today that unless they ;
work within two *
will shut
Ind.,
Press.)