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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 3, 1921
mbasts IWar Probers
BIG SHIP STILL
BASIS OFNAVY,
BOARD REPLIES
No Thought Of World
Competitive Building
Daniels Is Told
- *WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — The
major ship remains the basis of sea
power and those who argue that the
airplane and submarine have supple
mented it arc asking the country to
"accept hopes for accomplishments,”
the navy general board says in a
Teport to Secretary Daniel* made
public today,
“The general board having kc^t
•in touch with naval progress along
all lif\rs,” says the report, “reiterates
its belief in battleships forming the
principal units of the fleet. Without
them the United States cannot hope
• to compete with existing navies.”
Urging that the equality in power
be the continuing naval policy of the
United States,* the board says there
is “no thought of instituting inter
national competitive building and
that no other nation can in reason
take exception to such a po-ition.”
“It. cannot justly be construed as
# n challenge,” the report continue?.
“A policy of equal •*>* Mile laiitiallly
equal armaments may well tend to di-
mini: h their growth and lc 1 \\ 1 h<
danger of f'udd' n war."
Asserting that the giuding policy
that had shaped the general board’s
construction recommendations since
19.03 was that of eventually creating
n navy equal to the strongest in the
world, the board nrgrd that “no »*■: *
•Hod* or limitation of agreement”
j agreed to by the United States
that would modify the great r.avnl
NOTED WRITER
OF WAR FRONT
WHO VISITS U. S.
sue I'liiLit* GIBBS.
WARFARE STILL
GIBBS BRINGS
NEW MESSAGE
Lorry Is Blown Up By
Mine In Road; Others
Bombed
DUBLIN, Feb. 3. Four men are
dead ac the result of the ambushing
of a squad of auxiliary police at
Ballinalcc near here, yesterday, two
of tho wounded having died during
the night.
Details of tho attack have
ccivcil, but it kno
motor lorries wan hh
plction.” j mine in the road, it
v:il building that thi.; was the-first
attributed by , m .ihnd «.f attack had
the great-pre-’j ag ;i j, 1S L ||
Masses Demand Security
Of Common People,
He Says
Sir Philip Gibbs, famous war
correspondent, student of interna
tional affairs, and editor of tho
English Review of Reviews, has
arrived in New York. Gibbs comes
to America after a tour of Europe
during which he maJe a close study
of tho reconstruction problems
«nd feelings of its various, nations,
lie will tell Americans about those'
cn a loctqti twr. Tho London
correspondent of th < Newspaper
Enterprise Association, Milton
Bronner, intirvienv.d Gibbs -*ist
before he sailed. This interview
anticipates what Gibbs will tell
Americans when he mccis them
fnctj to face.
I . By MILTON BRONNER.
j. LONDON. Feb. ‘The !;c-
I ; curily of thocamaiim popple, the j
plain people.’
I “A closer fclowshlp among all the
r : vi!i-vd nation".”
“A resistance io the old men who
largely made the war, made the
Fence and still wish U govern the
world.”
“The utter and complete destruc
tion cf militarism.”
These arc the thing* that Sir
Philip Gibbs say.* are, in his opinion,
the overmastering dsjire of must of
the common folks «»C Europe. .
Gibbs was on C thi most dis-
buililing program of 191G now under) j, Pn r( .
construction “in number^ general j the inr
types, or dates of con
The cessation of na
by Great Britain w:
the general board'll
ponderance in her navy of all types Three In mm loaded
of -hips and to Hi epresent economic v/erc attacked h
situation in that empire. The bus- Ucvcral bombs Ih
pension of work on the United States yers returned th
naval program for six months to al-J jpg wounded,
low experts to determine, in the light| J\ conateablo in plain clothes
was cycling ojong Tiinity atr - *
not '■ ting
«P by of Wa
ig Bald test. -i
’ r-m-h ! Hie m
cf the lessons of the war, wlmf types
of ships and to the present economic
ed In tho pending Borah resolution,
“is neither necessary nor advisable,”
the board nssertc.
Decse Back To Sumter
County After 20 Yearc
. J. A, Depse, who for the post 20
venrs has .been a resident of Ter
rell county, where he has been cn
•.••■iced in extensive farming opera
tions, has arrived in Amcricus to
operate the farm recently owned by
George M. Owen.
' Mr. Deeso was n former resident
Ilf l r county, wheio lie was
reared, and lie l.-ill.s i nllui. iastieaaiy
of the ettnving prospccUs of his Sum
ter county farm tho coming crop
year. Ho has already outlined his
plans, assigned wiiat acreage lie In
tends to devote to cotton, end says
that everything to be eaten will be
raised at home, - thereby killing nil
talk of hard times.
American Fleet
Returns Compliments
LIMA, Peru, Feb. 3.—This city
and Callao, six miles westward, shar
ed toilay in the program of enter
tainment arranged for tho officers
nml crews of the warships making up
tb|i United States Atlantic fleot.
The feature of the day’s activities
was a i--(---j-1 ion given by Admiral
Wilson aboard the flagship Pennsyl
vania, ns a return of courtesies shown
ih- higher officers,of tho fleet at
till- presidential banquet Tuesday
night. Duriiig tho afternoon, the
Peruvian and ■ United, States .sailors
were to compete in sporting events.
Jap Opposition Party
Split Over Armament
shot dead durin
the
HaHincr Due Back At
Augustine Today
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb.
3.—Delayed by channel obstruction*,
President-elect Harding’s hou.seboat.
Victoria, pushed her way northward
in tho Indian river today on the sec
ond leg of the cruise Jjack lo Si.
Augustine. Ii was expected to reach
St. Aqgustlbtt this aftrenoon, whefO
the president-elect will play i
• f - If.
bed of British
sis:- His booit, “The Realities
r,*' is tho most passionate pro-
gsinst militarist cliques and
»sl truthful picture of the hor-
been used j rors <■( battlefield t amt trencheJ
••••■ »'i Ireland: I that been written.
With police I |f rings from the heart of an
f night an I, KngiiKhmnn who a aw the stricken
t them. Offi- j fields of France and Flanders,
two civilians since the war Gibbs has- been
i spending a great deal of time Iravcl-
“°!ing in Europe and studying tho na-
’ an tioiir. to see how they were react
ing after tho armistice. Ho has rc-
i ccntly been appointed editor of the
| British magazine “Review of Rc-
“Europe today,” said he, “is .stag-
ring under an avalanche of debts
lich il is doubtful it can ever pay.
Ranks Of Young Depleted,
oplc
“The
and bu
ranks
>f t!
who would
pre
r'yLm^and’ the
ordinarily he the
v.i terribly dc-
ilencc, under
rated by tl 1
j production.
“Things seem black to the ordinar;
man, whether he bo a citizen of tho
victor or the vanquished nations. It is
only the profiteers and the inheritors
of great fortunes whom one sees
callously .pending great sums of
money in the big cities of Europe.
R ! ghl around the corner from
NeW Orleans NeEr'tes
Total Near 100,000
WASHINGTON. Feb. 3. — The
negro population of New Orleans is
100.018 ;m increase at J3.t per cent,
the census bureau nnnourici-a today. j wheru tliouo people arc guzzling'ami
Tlint of Newark, N. J., is 17,010, an
increase of 7D.5 per cent.
GERMAN GIRLS
SEEK'HUSBANDS
IN DIXIE LAND
MONTGOMERY, Ala.. Fell. 3.
—Tho pretty frauleifte of Ger
many are longing for American
husbands.
A local nowspaper has Just, re
ceived a letter from J. Stalil of
Duisburg, Germany, which gives
an ill iulil ie-o litions In C-r-
many brought on by the war. The
writer nays:
“On ni-cnunl of tlic unhappy .war,
in which more than 1,800,000
young Germans lost (heir liven, a.
still greater number of young
German ladies arc deprived of the.
opportunity to find husbands.
“Thi:; calamity, if I dare call it
thus, is still increased by the fact
that, owing to the extraordinary
dearness of household furniture
and tho scarcity of apartments,
matrimony lias become a luxury
ii TOKIO, Feb. 3. — Proposals that
; Japan agree with other world pow
ers to' restrict armaments, which re
cently were submitted to Kensei-
'f>al, or the opposition party, by ,
fJjKfki, a prominent member of the j and a privilege of the rich in this
organization, have been referred to; country
n special committee, it is declared! “Ill their distress oar young la-
by newspapers here. I dies lcok over to America in Hie
The proposals have threatened toi hope of finding tiie conjugal happi-
split the party, as many member:-,, ness, for which reason they appeal
agree with J)zal:i’s theory, but assert | to all American bachelors who can-
it is practicable for Japan to curtail! not find a match ever there end | propags
gobbling, one goes into mean streets
of little houses where hunger stalks
“This condition is bad enough but
people see little reward for the
enormous sacrifices they made dur-
i In- war. Tin-re is no assurance
■ 'if" 1 :-' fi"in future menace. There
i no ii-l,from the burden of
armaments. There is even Apparent
a swing to the • reactionary out of
I vor of th- ftoi.-.iu vii ."
Reminded that the first editor of
tho Review.of Reviews was W. T.
Stead, who was a passionate pacifist,
Gibbs was asked with what expec
tation he had takcii up tho editorial
pen. ,,
"f am not a pacifist,” said he. “But
l (Hall fight With afi tile strength of
my being.against the enormous and
criminal stupidity of modern, war.
Lo«e Though Winning,
"Leo!: at it! You lose when you
wilt!
“France won, hut tier fair fields
nre ravaged, her coal mines destroy
ed, her factories looted, her debts
enormous, her taxes increasing, her
manhood sadly, depleted.
"It Is ::o more or less with all' the
victor nations, it is so more or less!
with the vanquished nations.
"It is a mistake to say that wars j
are inode entirely by a few old men. 1 th
Before the old men can make war, I
they must be supported by bellicose ! In
KAYLOR, CONVlff
MISSING 5 YEARS,
GIVES J5ELF UP
Surrenders To Finish
Serving 4-Year Sen
tence On Gang
Nearly five years ago, Ivah Kaylor,
a white man, whose home was near
DcSolo,-ouade his third escape from
the Sumter county chain gang, where
he was serving a sentence of 4 years
for manslaughter for killing a negro.
Nothing was heard of him thereafter
until Wednesday. Today ho is back
on the chaingang to complete his sen
tence.
Kaylor came home, he said, to give
himself up, :;o that ho might complete
his sentence and return to his family,
which has continued to live with Mrs.
Berry Williams, mother of Mrs. Kay
lor, near DeSoto, .during*'the fugi
tive’s absence, arid he surrendered
himself voluntarily 5 to County Engi
neer John B. Anisloy, who is also
county convict warden. He would
not have had the opportunity of sur
rendering, however, had he waited a
bit longer before starling for town.
It was Tuesday evening that Kny-
lor alighted from a train at DcSoto
and started to walk into the country
to the Williams home, where he wife
and several children were living. He
was changed in appearance, but was
recognized, unknown to him, by a
man who knew that he was an escap
ed convict. Kaylor was permitted to
spend the night with his family, hut
early Wednesday morning 1hc
sheriff’s office was notified and Sheriff
Harvey and Deputies Summers and
Cox later went to the Williams homo
to the Williams home, where his wife
however, they found that Kaylor had
started for Ainericus, and by the time
they returned to tHe courthouse he
had already surrendered to Mr.
Anslcy.
Kaylor did not say where he had
been during his five years of absence,
but indicated he wanted to get the
sentence served and have his freedom
again. He had to identify himself to
Mr. Anslcy in surrendering, that of
ficial not having had any connection
with prisoners at the time of his es
cape.
Kaylor was originally rentenced on I
December II. 1914, in Surntrr Su
perior coiiit, for killin'? an old negro |
named Harris near DcSolo. He s^rv- l
ed a total of a year and eight months. I
escaping and being raptured Twice. {
His third and last escape took place •
in April, 1910.
Had Kaylor not attempted to es
cape, and he have hern a good pris
oner, bin term would have been com
pleted by the middle of 1918, or two
and a half years ago.
destroy the civilization of the
white race.
“But f am not a pessimist. I am
an optimist. I have faith arri hope.
I think youth will make itself mani-
fesfc.
“There is a great stirring in the
world which is not yet. represented
in our, governments. Fact is, most
of the governments of .Europe mis
represent the aspirations, ideals and
wishes of their people.
“That was manifest at the meeting
of the Assembly of the League
Nations at Gemva.
The saqio old jdcas seemed to pre
vail because in the main the same
old statesmen spoke for the govern-
men Is of tho big nations.
“But those old men won’t always
go on living. They will die. The
younger men with tho newer ideals
will come into power.
League Need* America.
“That i;- what makes the League of
Ndtions an instrument of go9d for
tomorrow. It would have been infi
nitely stronger even yesterday at
Geneva had America been in it.
“Americans, with their frank dis
regard for the niceties and finesse of
old-world diplomacy, would have!
dared speak out with candor and j
truth.
“They would not have
TALKS FROM SHOULDER ON WAR PROBE
Pessimist Worse Than Huns
Asserts Methodist Bishop
[MEMPHIS, Feb. 3.—;A “pessimist is worse than a Hun,” Bishop
4 James Atkina, of Nashvillr, told the members of the Educa
tional Commission of the Southern Methodist church attending the
conference here to map out plans for a drive for $33,000,000 to
promote educational v/ork.
“Hard timer, is the cry of n coward,” he also declared.
A mcciing^of the College of Bishops wjl| be held tomorrow.
SHINE SLAYERS
ARE SENTENCED
One Gets Life, Another
20 Years, Third’s
Case To lurv
TL’RCUJiniA. Ala.. Feb. 3.—The
ease of Jake Smith, alleged member
of the Colbert county moonshiners’
ring, who was placed on trial yester
day charged with murder in connec
tion with the slaying of Dan Steph
enson, pohibition officer, will go to
the jury by noor. today, the state’s
attorney predicted.
Hampton Kirby has been convicted
and given a life sentence, and Sid
ney Kirby, his father, convicted and
sentenced to twenty years.
$30,000 BANK
ROBBERY INFLA.
Largo Visited By Bandits
Who Cut Wires And
Escape
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., Feb.
—Thirty thousand dollars was taken
from the State bank at Largo, sixteen ,
miitn north of here, this morning and | ^ -
several hundred dollars from the At- I GREENSBORO, N. G.,
lantic Coast Line railway station, by Congress will not be askfdJ
bandits who escaped in an auto. The ! Volstead * n order
robbers cut the telephone and tele- < purchaser of “bootleg” whE
graph wires leading into the town. * wo ^ the vendor amenable i
— . j law, Wayne B. Wheeler, general
qr- | j j « | 8cI for tI,c Anti-Saloon Le«
Turks Ordered To Free i America, today told rhe Nort_
Captured Frenchmen: i in “ A "“; s,,l0 ? n **
iorcemcnL < onferonce here, and a
Not To Be Sought I
Says Anti-Sa"
Leader
DISARMAMENT
CALL ADVANCED
WASHINGTON, Feb. ff. — The
resolution authorizing the president
to invite the nations cf the world to
a conference to provide £or world
disarmament was favorably reported
today by the house foreign affairs
committee.
Under tho resolution the proposed
conference would he held in Wash
ington, hut the calling of it would
be left to the discretion of the presi-
tlcilt.
This Is the firrt definite action tak
PARIS, Fob. n. - Admiral Durnc:;-! ,,rr ^
til, commanding the Frenchr naval I cr . a ?
for
the Nc
Ea
ent ;
alist
ding ;
ultimatum to the Turkish Nat
government at Angora, deni
the immediate role use of Frenc
iers captured in recent engagements,
says a Constantinople dispatch to the
Lamin. He has threatened to born-
hard localities occupied by tire
tlonalist forces if the demands
not met.
intoxicating!
for their own consuonf
technically violating, the
u»t he sought for the pretell
lightrning-up activities of
sicnt officials.
Na-
Boy Loses Eye From
Cartridge In Fire 1
II RON WOOD, Fob. 3.—Fred !
Brookshire, a pupil in the second *
___ grade, Friday noon, picked up a piece
en by any congressional committee j of fiWl cartridge adn put it in the lire ,
looking to a conference for general 0,1 the school ground, where some j
trash was burning; the cap blew out,
striking him in the eye, which result
ed in his having to undergo an oper
ation in which tho eye ball was re
moved. The operation was perform
ed by Dr.s. Gardner and Bowman.
New Plan Favored
For Packers’ i
HINTON, Fob. 3. — F (V a
;:ori was ordered today, 1
■ " agriculture committee ■
‘HHiIo plan for the .(WM
Federal regulation ot ’til
i" H y. Under the rubltihM
of the packers would bo THM
" Department of AgrtaUtft)
stock yards would be ]
disarmament.
Unemployed Danes
March On Palace
thing*. They would not have post
period things for the sake of pro-
rerving harmony or far flic sake of
keeping unruffled, the feelings of the
old fogey ;chool of politicians, states
men and diplomats.
“1 believe America will come into
*1 believe it will help make it
inder and bigger and more worka-
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 3.
mothered I Associated Press.)—A proco
■ <P>y
on of
1 or
Hilary and naval program.
an An’.i
r d y rsn
of Gr;
buxini
with a
dy. to
half.
* Thi
on* to contract mi
ell-bred young Gc
ppraach them on
Io nian ladies ask'
this be
fd an a boy -it Leslie a num-
ears ago. “He was a mighty
said Sheriff Harvey.:
business at Graves Station.
be their interpreter in assisting
them to find an American husband.
“J. STAHL.
“Duisburg, Germany, Realschul-
strasse 14, Jan. 6, 1921.”
i know by publicity, by
by prcr<n and pulpit ami
num you urn ?o nr:>u>c a nation that
mi tm: make it bellicose.
"It should be ;>o&»ible hy the rani"
■ win;; to make it easier to submit dif-
Tonecs— if any there be—to tri-
ur.al*.
“Argue, discu-s, consider, weigh, j
anything honorable before
; Lie
j “I believe it will help make it an
I instrument of healing for a sick
j world. America can help make it a
j bulwark against the stupendous fell;
of war.
Thi* is the message from Europe
that Sir Philip Gibbs brings to
America
Of the 25.662 farms in the state
sorting to final arbitrament of arms of UUb, *cven-cigbtb*,are tpenteil ti
which, If resorted to soon again, will I by ownefs. |
unemployed, estimated to number
48,000 left City Hall square thin aft
ernoon, marching toward the parlia
ment building and the king’s palace
demanding work.
FALLS 16 STORIES
YESTERDAY; BACK
ON THE JOB TODAY
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. — N.lh.n
Cohen, a structural iron worker
who plunged from tho top eif «
new sixteen-story building in
Broadway yesterday, reported for ,
work today.
Hi* fall through .pact was brok
en by a haary tanraa debria re-
e.ntaele itretchtd from tha filth -
Alabama’s Road
Amendment Is Uf
MONTO.MEUY, Ala., Fob.
I he Supreme court today do
lu.Situtional the measure
:ubniit(«m| to the voters i
l i t I VI ruary, ft
•Miu n! fo the constitn
"ft the isauanco of $25,
)'*d road boiiucs.
England May Be I
Mesopotamia f
Schwab P<ts8enger
On Liner For Europe
NEW YORK, Frb. 3. - IHiarlon
M. Scliwab, head of tho BoUilehcm
Steel corporation, was listed .as a pas-
nenger aboard the stenm-bip Afpii-
tanift leaving here today for .South
Hampton. At Sewab’s office it w.v,
said he would vi;«it England, France !
and Italy, but that hh; trip had m* j
business significance.
Job Printers Of West. ;
^Demand 44-Hr Weck j t^ su , „ f n,u„„ s nt »„
ST. LOULa, Feb. 3. —- Employing Geneva this month, newsuanin
commercial and job prmters jpf the I ■ H
Middle West met here today*to dis- GASOLINE 26 I
cuss methods of combatting the de-
nwo4 of anion printers for a 44 in-
‘ ‘ <48 hnr working weak. The
it* threatened to strike
tfiWMBd laaot.