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JAPAN V ILL FOLLOW U. S. OUT OF SIBERIA
WEEKLY
EDITION
THE Tl
PUBLISHED IN THE
CORDER
HEART OF DlXIEl
News of The Whole
World By
Associated Press
forty-second YEAR—NO. 4.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 22, 1920.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
AIL STRIKE IN
ITALY BRINGS
MARITAL RULE
ivil Law Suspended In
Principal Cities, Is
Report
?ARIS, Jan. 21.—Martial law has
declared in the principal cities
ta’y as a result of the railroad
... -ays a Turin dispatch to the
l’arisien.
Will
*
A City Sets The Pace
Aid Defectives ASKS SENATE TO CHILD’S HAND BLOWN OFF, PEOPLE OPPOSE
CONDEMN SIMS POSSES HUNT CULPRITS VAST INVASION
SINGLE HANDED
icialists Denied
Seats During Trial
il.lt WY. N. Y., Jan. 21.—The sec-
I day of the trial of the five sus-
dod socialist assemblymen opened
; mrrning with the announcement
Louis Martin, committee chairman,
t the motion for dismissal of the
imps as unwarranted, made
terday by the socialists’ counsel,
been denied.
ounsel for the socialists then
ed that quintet be re-seated dur-
the investigation.
Viit-n both sides had closed their
luments, Chairman Martin an-
mced that the motion to re-seat the
ialists ponding their trial had been
ied.
Lads Held In Schley
or Stealing Macon Car
FOR INDISCRETION
Walsh Attacks His Reve
lation of Confidential
Instructions
LINEVILLE, Ala., Jan. 21.—A d namito cap with a sputtering fuse
ivas thrown from a passing automobile into a group of children on their
ivay to school here yesterday, and the ceven-year-old daughter of J. W.
\yers, a grocer, had her hand blownoff.
Indignation is intense and posses in automobiles are searching for mis-
reants.
SUMMERS WITH 6,000 ILL WITH
HARVEY AGAIN FLU IN CHICAGO
Official Advices Indicate
Forces Will Be
Withdrawn
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21—A reso.
lution declaring that the action of
Rear Admiral Sims, in making public
“official instructions of the most con
fidential character” affecting interna-
tional relations, deserved the condem- . —. . # # “
nation of aii Americans was jntroduc- sheriff Announces For Epidemic, Milder Than
the senate today by Senator
Walsh, democrat, of Montana, a
member of the naval committee.
Maj. Gen. Barrett, commandant of
the marine corps, was called to appear
i today as the third witness before the
senate sub-committee investigating 1’"'
naval war decorations. Summers
GUM AVIATORS
LAUD SOUTHER
WASHING ON, Jan. 21.—Official
| advices fror Tokio just received
ihere, have indicated the purpose of
the Japanese government to follow-
] the example of the United States in
withdrawing its military forces from
I Siberia.
* Discussions in the Japanese press
I and utterances of political leaders
have developed that probably a large
r „ tr ,. pn T 01 . r | majority of the Japanese people are
CHICAGO, Jan. 21—More than j ^ cntcring ^ J nd » d int0
• thousand here are ill with influen- j such a vast enterprise as the invasion
will continue to serve as za, but city health officials express-' of Siberia.
1 the opinion that the ‘epidemic
Re-lection—GlaXvson
Still Mum
That he is a candidate for re-elec
tion, and that Deputy Sheriff Tom
Last Year, Believed
Near Climax
deputy if he is chosen again is the
announcement of Lucius Harvey, near its climax.”
sheriff of Sumter county, in his card Pneumonia is also epidemic and
appearing in another column of this proportionately had caused a larger
paper. Mr. Harvey's platform, as he numbcr 11 f dL ' atbs todu >'- Yesterday
State College Poultry
Expert Visits Sumter
numbe
2,514
i passing
— * - *-* - wi » d °stass
I doty as sheriff of Sumter county if! P assmg largC8t . da Y 0 tha C P‘: I at Athens is in Americasto'spend
. .. T retained in that office , domic of last winter, but only 36 at Ainens, is in Americus to spena
the
ILLAVILLE, Jan. 21.—Three boys
ng their names as Roy Sims, Hen-
Riley and Henry Latham, of Ma-
, were arrested here Monday night Test* which ahow whether the mind and muscle reflexes are nor-
,hc charge of stealing a Buick car. One test is for the child to slap the hand of an adult before tlie
y passed through Ellaville late P a * m •• moved away. Movements of a child 10 should be about a third
day afternoon en route to Colum- a * * a# * "• •hat * n *dult. Blocks, taken apart, test the mental speed
and When about two miles from of a child. The patient is given a certain length of time to re-assem-
their gas gave out. Leaving the **1® ^em. Uoper left: Dr. Reuel H. Sylvester, director of the De»
in front of a negro house they
hi the shelter of the woods until
r dark. Walking into town, pen-
8 and hungry, they were arrested
uspicion. The authorities ’phoned
lacon and it was ascertained that
re wanted there and the
as requested to hold them un-
•ould be sent for. The boys*
. respectively, 12, 14 and 16
retained in that office. < , , ,
The formal announcement of Sher- ! d «ths occurred with 214
iff Harvey caused renewed speculation j * M '® vast day last year,
today as to the probable action of!, k txp f rt Pathologists are engaged in
James L. Glawson, who has been wide-1 ,iborutHry ""ostigations with a view
ly discussed In connection with the lo creating a definitely effective sc-
race for sheriff, but who thus far has 1 [ un ? a K a,ast s P rcad °* ta ? con ‘
declined to say anything defintely on 1 taR,on - A c '' ,m[>a ! gn a }*°' 18 K°‘ n * on
the subject for publication. 'gainst pneumonia which daily has
The statement was made yesterday f' al ™ d a (treater number of victims
by a reputable and well known citi-1 tha " m . fl “ cnz ®' ° r ' Edw i" God f r rey '
son of Americas that Mr. Glawson * p,dcm J I 0,0g ! ^ 0f . . NcW Y °u
had told him only shortly before that i Slatt ; H i“ alth Department is on his
he was definitely in the race and that 1 1™ 1 ' Ch ‘ ca f\ to study epidemic
he would make his formal an- here ' nr ' Rohprtson was informed.
day or two.” Mr. j
fronted with this in-
Seize Opportunity To
Give Air Ships An
Overhauling
The Wrigley gum fleet did*t thrill
Americus today as had been expect
ed. “We couldn’t miss the opportu
nity presented by the facilities at
Souther Field to give our airships the
overhauling they so badly needed,”
said Nimmo Black, one of the avia
tors who, sans goggles, helmet, grease
ant other flying paraphernalia, drop
ped in on the Times-Recorder with a nouncement
box of Wrigley’s gum, the first ar- Glawson wa
tide of commerce ever delivered by formation late yesterday, but he met Baker Prai&eS Army
Moines Health Center.
^ m h an C s“va r 8 e H D“ SEEK ORGANIZER
partment
FOR ILLITERATES
ood Denies Calling
Navy a Death Trap
DES MOINES, Ja;
salvage department is *h
health center. It sejk
the physical and mental
the community and raise them a:
nearly ns possible to what nature in
tended for them. It was opened un
Major General J>'f the supervision of th“ public wol
‘Sumter Can’t Fail As
Matter of Pride,’ Says
Mrs. Moore
plane to Americus. He also deliver- \ the report?
ed during the day boxes to the three he was still
jobbers here, the Americus Grocery “All I ca
Company, the Glover Grocery Com
pany and the Moreland-Jones Com
pany.
“This was the first time in weeks
the ships had been in a hanger,” said
Mr. Black. “The officers and men at
Souther Field, where we landed, were
Reorganization
a few days stimulating interest in the
poultry club work among the boys
and girls, and assisting breeders of
pure blood poultry. This morning
she and Mrs. Olin Wilhams, county
demonstrator, visited the homes of
Mrs. C. P. and Ed Morgan, breeders
of fine chickens, and this afternoon
visited the new Thalean school.
Thursday morning they will visit
Plains and Andersonville in the af
ternoon. Friday morning will be de
voted to Leslie' and Friday afternoon
to Sumte.V
Yesterday they visited the flock of
! C. F. Howe, white rock breeder. Miss
! Smith was so impressed with his stock
| that she purchased a cockerel to ship
D*ll to Chopley to fill an order which had
been placed with her.
th the information that
losed up like a clam.”
my,” said he, “is that if' i
I decide to enter the race I will an- 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—The ar- n !• | Ftifsit»oo f n
nounce within a day or two.” j my reorganization bill, drafted by the 111 FUlUres 111
stated toduy by friends of senate military subcommittee^ _was Baby Market NoW
bureau of tlv.* ( hamber of Com
promotion
II fly over the city at about H asks re-election
o’clock Thursday morning on their
way to Eufala, Ala., where they were Three In Race For
3STON, J
ar.l Wood denied that he had re- ,a
*<1 to the American navy as ”a nicrcc.
ini: death trap” in his address at It is one of the to
Ameiican Legion meeting in this national movement tor
Monday. He said that he could °f general health.
■ecall the exact words he had nsed It wa - s largely insoi.
dictated the following as the spirit among physieiai
Lance of what he had said: country, echoed in th
Ve want a first-class navy al- ment of Dr. William Mayo, that by »t had been found that the
; ready. A navy cannot be l‘J40 medical science would n,
p in a hurry. First-class ships vanced to such an
l with untrained men do not average human life
ed 10 years.
Three Main
The health center
one head all the ge .~ ,
of this type usually carried on in ihe teachers were ready to do the teach- j Texail8 F° r HoOVer
larger cities by special agencies. It mg free of extra charge and that q. L LI nma
covers three main services: with their employment of an organ- OUlCe rlOUSe 18 rlOine
Mr. Glawson that he would positively 1 endorsed today by Secretary of War
announce, naming John Monohan as Baker, who appeared before the full CHICAGO Jan 21 The bay
U: deputy - I ! market is booming.’
The demand for babies for adop
tion throughout the United States is
j the greatest in history, according to
i the statistics of asylums for home-
Fertilize And Plow j I eas Children, child welfare bureaus
rv HP D s. II/ *1 and social workers.
Deep to Beat Weevil The quest for little ones by child
less families is being carried to the
Several other announcements for ‘ stntesmanlike attempt to reorganize
most courteous to us and extended county offices have appeared since the the army ever made in any country.
us the facilities for giving the planes formal call for the primary by the
a cleaning up and going over. We committee, all of the new’ ones, how-
found it to be an excellent field.” j ever, being incumbents and without
______ Having taken today off, the planes opposition. One of the latest an-
“This fight against adult iliitercy ! W 'B not devote much time to enter- ! nouncements is that of Ed Jenkins, of
in Sumter county must not fail; as a ! taming the populace here, but two of Leslie, Sumter’s blind coroner, who
matter of pride it must go on.”
There were the words of Mrs.
Elizabeth Moore, state organizer for asked to make a flight to the livestock # . , t . rs
the illiteracy commission, in a brief convention. The third ship will re- Sheriff Of Schley fan
talk before the commissioners of the main here, and the three will meet in \j al
1 by th * new Chamber of Commerce last evening. | Albany Friday. The trio have been ELLAVILLE, Jan. 21.—The politi- hav. . ......
ail over tin Mrs. Moore asked the aid of the on the way since last August, start- 1 cn j has begun to boil in Schley their planting to not exceeding ten this condition is simply that the Unit-
receni state-' chamber in the movement. She said ing at Chicago and traversing the county. So far. however, not mow acres to the plow. In order to beat! e( j States is getting over the “good
than one candidate has announced for the boll weevil, Mr. Marshall says, | time” hysteria that has held the
any county office, except that of sher- cotton should be well fertilized be-! country in its grip and getting back
•il deep, and put plcn- point where they are dealing In ”fu-
under the cotton,” is turps.” One Chicago institution has
‘IMow the sc
of fertilizer
advice given Sumter county farm- j n i onK waiting list of applicants wait-
by George O. Marshall, county j n g f or children of unfortunate moth-
ni demonstration agent. Mr. ! t >rs to be born.
shall is engaged in an effort to | According to Dr. Frank A. Carter,
cotton farmers here restrict famous child specialist, the answer to
a navy, but are sometimes
trap to those who are
>uld Substitute Tax
on Purchases Over $2
perintemlent h
tent that the employed with
j hi be extend- the teachers, th
; sary to employ
•rvice*. ganizer to orga
nl>races under adult whites wl
al r»Lcf work struction. Sre
ihe teachers were r
It ing free of extra charge and that,
with their employment of an organ
county su- Mississippi valley fro
completely border this far south,
s duties as were their way to Florida, a
it wouKi be ueces- turn of warm weath>
n experienced or- northward, until they reach Cl
e the classes of land, where they will appear at the
are to receive in- opening of the baseball season,
ported that the
^AUK, N. J.. Jan. 21.—Aboli-
f the excess profits tax and sub-
tior therefore of a % tax of one
on all purchases exceeding
dollars, to be paid by the pur-
1— Medical clinics
2— Psychological <
an! dispensary.
*»nir and miv-
Thia promises to be a three-cor- fore the planting
work noro d rnce, T. E. Carter, Clarence fertilizer at all
Bivins and Bob Battle having an- should consist solely of an applica
nounced as candidates. Mr. Battle is tion of nitrate of soda when the cot-
the present sheriff. ton is chopped out.
The friends of J. M. Collum have i About 50 per cent of the farmers,
announced him for the state senator- Mr. Marshall says, have plenty of la-
ship, this being Schley’s time to fur-' bor to cultivate their farms, while the
nish the senator from the 13th sena-' other half are experiencing some dif-
AUSTIN, Tex., Jan. 21. Since the torial district. His friends are con- ficulty in securing needed help. He
Texas fident of his election, although it is j s advising farmers to pKnt largfc
ason, and if any ! to the realization that a home with-
used later, it; ou ^ children is no home at all.
3—Child conservation service.
The child conservation ser
reaches out into an entirely
ork would go forward
juickly. arrival of Col. E. M. House __ ^
After some consideration the , u few days ago many of the leading probable that he will have opposition, forage crops, and predicts that corn
chamber officials readily agreed to democrats of the state have express- j w j|j se u this fall for unusually high
lend their moral support to the move- t »d themselves in favor of Herbert GERMANY MUST GIVE UP
ent to obtain an appropriation of Hoover for president. One of these
880 TO ALLIES FOR TRIAL.
! prices.
Washerwoman Came
To Work In Limousine
C HICAGO, Jan. 21—The haugh.
ty Chicago washwoman now rides to
her work in her own limousine. She
also insists upon a full meal, served
in the best style, in the dining room,
not in the kitchen, and various other
concessions hitherto unknown.
Mrs. Lewis F. Masoe, wife of a
United States commissioner, can fur
nish testimony along these lines. She
r was advnrnY i oI h field of welfare work A croo of ex- $300 for that purpose from the coun- 1 is Lewis Hancock, of Austin, whose
.New York banker ^in an ad- perts has been engaged to make ty board at its next regular-meeting, guest Colonel House has been since PARIS, Jan. 21.—Germany will be May Ask $2,000,000 To
Wore the As.socUti/m of Credit a survey of nil the «hool children in and arrangements were made for the hia arrival here from Houston. ' compelled to surrender to allied mill- R ;„ Pl.n*' recently advertised for a washwom.
here today. He expressed the Des Moines, this survey including ‘; b e br o ugh totheaUenon cysTEM “T, * ut »Jor.t.c» for tr.al 880 persons K.qUip Pig IWate come t# her home in Wauke-
f tint „.,,i j ni,.ntal measurements as well as phy- of the count} board at its meeting TEST OUT r IKE SYS I EM. guilty of crimes committed against „
nt revenue tn nermit the sical The worst subnormal cases Monday, Feb. 2. No, there was no epidemic of fires t h 0 rules of warfare. Of that num- FLORENCE, Ala., Jan. 21.—The * . . rece j ve< j a tele-
>n of th^ in' mo P t«T on in will be sorted out and given syste- Mrs. Moore left this afternoon for in Americus this morning. The fire- b er 329 will be demanded by France, advisability of asking an appropria- J b aex day h —
under s om ner ' matie treatment by physicians and Ellaville, but before going she is-1 men were merely testing out the T he list was completed at a meet- tion of *2,000.000 as a starter ^ f'r rheTosUion QLertion*M
* . 00 per year. : , cho | 0 _ i9ts Thocvcntunl aim of sued a call for the county illiteracy alarm boxes, ringing in the alarms inK attended by Baron Birkenhead, equip the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant P' dr , P in / orm . t ion that she
KI • 1 n ! ! h ‘ service is to restore these chil-' commission to meet with the county: from each trying them out and at- | or j chancellor of England; Edouard for manufacturing ammonium sul-1 ', ..
*TKer [Nominated ror J as nearly as possible to nor- commissioners on that date, promis- j tempting to locate a bit of wire trou- Ignace, French under secretary for phate, a commercial fertilizer prod-! •• t h ‘ h fln
ma j iing to return herself for the meeting, ble. They found it, and all is O.K. military justice, and representatives uct, was discussed by the house war, ^ h* ' '
piy auiPAvo’t ~Treat Defectives. or be represented by another mem- again. There are 23 alarm boxes in 0 f the allied nations. ' expenditures committee here today. iou ge e
“ • “LEANS, Jan. 21. John psychological service is link- ‘ ber of the state organization. The, j n the city, connected with head
‘‘fe 0 ? Ncw ,r eaa8 . on the ,„i Vlose'lVwith this. Expert psycho- members of this commission ore quarters by 11 miles of wii
ub b , Pr of mary over Col. Frank P. j -t or whom', H^oid Vrs. Ofin W.' T.'
I of Monroe, by a majority cs- and «id in treau g Andc „ on o{ Leslie; Dr. B. F. Bond,
u l n f oT 6 ’° 0 ° g t0 g- 10 ’ 00 ?- nervous incorr g ble and' subnormai' W. C. JoLdon, W. W. Dykes and W.
u upporters concede his nomi-1 nervous, mcorrigiu . c __j p c nf
children are taken to the psychologi
cal clinic and given examination to
determine the cause which lie back
! of their weaknesses and correct treat
ment prescribed.
The system Is now being extend-
WEATHER FORECAST.
For Georgia —
Cloudy tonight and
Thursday probably! cd Vo"every school in the city and to
rain, except fair family physicians and parents
. tonight in the well.
southeast and ex
treme south por
tions ; colder in
north portion to
night; Thursday
| colder in interior
Kirkpatrick and R. S. Oliver, of
Plains, a member of the county board.
Mrs. Fleischman Gets
$25,GC0 Year Alimony
CINCINNATI, Jan. 21.—Mrs. Lily
Fleischman was today granted a di
vorce and $25,000 a year alimony
from Julius Fleischman, of New York,
former mayor of Cincinnati.
The psychological department is
also installing a special service for
the factories of Des Moines.
The medical clinics arc operated
much along the same lines as private fields of medicine and surgery and
clinics, except that they embrace all are free of charge.
The Cotton Market
LOCAL SPOT COTTON.
Good Middling 39 12 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Prcv.
Close Open 11am 1pm Close
Mch. 3C.40 36.25 36.05 36.13 35.76
May 34.47 34.25 33.98 34.09 33.71
July 32.66 32.55 32.16 32.21 31.75
NEW ORLEANS FUTURES.
Prev.
Close Open 11am 1:30ph Close
Mch. 37.40 37.15 37.10 36.90 36.72
May 35.36 35.16 35.08 34.88 34.58
July 33.36 33.20 33.11 32.88 32.65
HAVE YOU BEEN ENUMERATED?
If not. or if you have any doubt, fill out this coupon and
mail to T. M. Furlow, Supervisor of Census, Americus, Ga.:
On January 1, 1920, I was living at address given below, but
to the best of my laiowiedge I have not been enumerated there or
anywhere else.
NAME
STREET AND NUMBER
CITY
AGE
OCCUPATION
WHERE BORN
asked Sirs. Mason.
“I'll come in my limousine, of
course." was the answer, “providing
you have a garage or proper parking
om in your yard."
Mrs. Mason employed her.
‘Old Miss.’ Votes Down
Suffrage In 10 Minutes
JACKSON, Miss., Jun. 21—Amid
cheers and laughter, after only ten
minutes of debate, the lower house of
the legislature this morning rejected
the federal woman suffrage amend
ment.
Constitution Couldn’t Stand It.
“It is healthier to be cremated,” eay»
in English physician. Maybe so, but
I for our part we know we should never
>e the same man again.—Boston Tran*
I urripL
