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YOU AND I ARE SAFER IN BATTLE THAN IN CROSSING A BUSY-STREET ^UTOS kill 12,000 Americans „ year and Injure 1,000,000, says vour .h"™"" P . re8s ' That makes your chances of being killed by von‘nT 1 8 J 760 ’ U ’ s 1 t0 70 «*at you 11 be run down and injured. rr^!,j St i of .( t,u ' st accidents occur in Two causes—cart- le..sness and congestion. Carelessness can be lessened—but not ended. To relieve congestion and make motormg fool-proof, future cities - U J ave , to provide subways or over head roads for autos. The ground- leiel street will belong to pedestrians THE feflf) PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE WEEKLY EDIT! ON! FORTY-THIRD YEAR.—NO. 36 AMERICUS, GEORGIA SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SEPTEMBER 10, I 921 PRICE FIVE CENTS. HOME EDITION. insurance. heirs of Wallace L. Pierce, Bos- ton grocer, are paid *656,000 insur ance—the largest death claim in a year. How much cash Is a Human life worth? Generally it depends on how much you bet the insurance com* pany that you’ll din before it tninkl you will. • Most men don’t Iput c* much else except a first mortgage on the house Protect your family. Carry in surance—greatest system so far de vised by man for saving money. THIEF. We a;c all criminals at heart, says Andre Tridon, New York psycholo gist. He thinks repression of natural criminal instincts is all that keeps most folks out of jail. That isn’t true. The instinct of animals is to hunt their own food, not steal what some other animal has caught. Except when starving (hard times in the animal world), animals do not try to take what another animal has caught. It is man’s criminal instinct that is unnatural. RAILROADS. A plan .for consolidating the rail roads into 20 big systems has been worked out by the Interstate Com merce Commission. That would cut out a lot of foolish competition. It doesn’t mater how big a rail road combination is, as long as .the people control it through their gov ernment. And government regula tion of the railroads is here to stay. HOBBY. W. E. D. Stokes offers $250 reward foil return of 40 peculiar watches stolen from him. He spent 10 years collecting them. Another fellow has 300 watches, and Stokes is jealous -of him. The collecting instinct asserts it self in every boy. U’s human desire to accumulate — especially things that no one else has. GRADE-CARDS. You want your child to get good marks in school. - But don't get dis couraged if the marks are low. Paul Ehrlich, in school, was t great failure. He made his worst botch of chemistry. Yet Ehrlich, when he got out of school, gave the world a great dis covery—aalvaraan. Trouble was in his teachers, not him. They taught him old stuff. He had a different kind of brain—not absorbent, but creative. FIRST JOB. You boys, who want to. go on to college but couldn’t afford it, and now are adrift on your first job— Not Newton, Darwin, Koek, Pas teur, Franklin or Edison had a uni versity education. If you have the real stuff In you, you’ll come to the top, college or no colleg,. SEVERE SLUMP IN COTTON CONTINUI * * * * ******** * * * * ****.**** Hardwick Offers $500for Train Dynamiters ENGINEER DIES WHEN FREIGHT IS DYNAMITED Receiver Bugg Announces He Will Appeal To Governor For Protection EXPLOSIVE UNDER TRAIN GOES OFF AT TRESTLE Eight Cara Derailed, Track Torn Up, Bridge Damaged, Trainmen Hurt ATLANTA, Sept 8. — Governor Hardwick today offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the person or nersons who caused the wreck of the A.. B. A A. train near here last night by placing dyna mite on the track. He said he was prepared to use the power and au thority of the state to the last re source to prevent outrages of this kind. ATLANTA, Sept. 8. — Military protection for the employes and prop erty of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railway will be asked of Governor Hardwick as a result of the numerous casc-s of dynamiting of the road's freight trains, according to a statement today by Rcce:ver B. L. Bugg, of the road, following the wreck of a freight train on the out skirts of Atlanta last night in which the engineer was killed and several negro trainmen injured. Engineer John E. Morris, of Fitz gerald, who was killed last night, was the first person to lose his life as a result of the various freight wrecks reported to have been caused by dy namite. A charge of high explosive, touch ed off under a big locomotive on the A., B. & A. Railroad trestle at the Bellwood freight terminals, \seven miles from here, killed Engineer Mor ris and injured a fireman and brake- man. The locomotive was lifted com pletely from the rails, portions of it being carried twenty feet onto -an embankment at the side of the road. The trestle was damaged and the track was torn up. Eight c%r* were derailed. The train was No. 92, just leaving Atlanta at the time of the accident, and due to arrive at Fitzgerald this morning. Engineer Morris was a brother of W. J. Morris, master car builder in the A., B. & A. Railroad shops at Fitzgerald. His home was at Fltz- geruid, where other members of the train crew also resided. PRIEST SLAYER’S DAUGHTER QUITS CATHOLIC MATE REAL WILD WEST THRILLER STAGED IN GA. ROMANCE Obdurate Father Of Terrell Bride Loses Her At Point Of Pistol THEN GETS RIFLE, BUT RESORTS TO COURTS True Love Of Young Couple Has Rough Sledding, But Triumphs PHOTOGRAPHERS on , tho * N. E. A. staff cover theworld. Haven’t you often wondered how this newspaper gets those mar velous pictures so soon—pictures from the four corners of tho globe? It’s just modern journalistic enterprise—one more ex ample of the way this news- read- paper with the pictures.” MORE REPUBLICS MAY QUIT LEAGUE American Republics, Including Chile, Reported To Be Ready To Withdraw Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Gussman. BIRMINGHAM, Sept. 8. — Mrs. Ruth Stephenson Gunman, daughter of Rev. Edwin R. Stephenson, who has been indicted for second degre* murder for the slaying of Father James E. Coyle, a Catholis priest, in a letter to a Birmingham newspaper yesterday said she was “leaving Piedro Gussman,” her husband, and was starting “for the North.” Mrs. Gussman charged that her husband* met her father at the gate and in- had gone over to her “enemies, the de- j formed him of what they had done, fense,” and further charged that “my The father, although surprised, was husband was thrown/in jail on a pre- gaid to have told the bride and groom tended charge because it was thought! to get out and come in the house. I would return home or tha they ! that there was no use after the mar- might carry me off to the asylum.” j riago had taken place to dicuss it The marriage of Mrs. Gussman to I and that they should make them- a communicant of the Catholic faith j R elves at home with him, especially Is said to have led to the killing of; until some house guests of the bride the priest by her father. had departed. This was Thursday. regular wild-west romance, en acted in a little settlement in Ter rell county just about three mile? beyond Wilburn's bridge, on tne up per Dawson road from Americus, in which a secret wedding, a kidnaped-j paper strives to serve* its bride, forced sepaiation. irate rein- j ers. tiyes, automobiles, a pistol and a 11 Times-Recorder Winchester rifle in the hands of the ! fathers of the bride and groom, ha-; l* « miniTnnn bean cr-rpjs proceedings and war- |J|| l/AVV>L|Us IjD rants f igured, came to light today i |J|lj £ lULill when J. C. Snipes, Sr., father of the . groom in the cane, appeared at the ' law otfice of Judge J. A. Hixon here for advice as to whether to make bond on the warrants sworn out by Windsor Allen, father of the bride! lor the bride and groom and the groom's father and brother. The two fumbles are neighbors, liv ing a half a mile apart in the settle ment. The groom, J. C. Snipes, Jr. and hie bride, Miss Nannie Allen, grew up together, attended the same school,-and had been sweethearts for some time. The groom is slightly over 21 years of age. and the bride of a corresponding age* it is said All Seemed Lovely. The first chapter of the thriller of real life was enacted about 25 days, ago, according to the story when the young couple took a ride into the lower part of Terrell county, said to have been somewhere in the neighborhood of Shellman. where they married. Nothing had been said to their parents of their plans, but when they returned home and tiiove up in front of the bride's home, they SPOTS TUMBLE HERE TO 18 l-4c AS SELLING OF FUTURES CONTINUI Liverpool Registers Heavy Drop and Market Sags] Anew, After Brave Effort To Rally Frc Opening of 150 Points Below Previous Clo —Ginriings Exceed Last Year Influenced by a severe slump in Liverpool, and a bearish ginnihgH pert, the severe reaction in the cotton market which set in Wednesdays tinned Thursday. October delivery cotton on the New York exchange, a: opening nt l£u rflints under Wednesday’s sheer drop, recovered partially j and held most of the day, only to lose it practically all and close at only 20 points above the opening and nt a net loss over the previous close of 130 points. Local spots, yesterday quoted at 21 1-2 cents at the high point, and j at 20 cents at the close Wednesday, brought a top price of 19 cents today The VESSELAGROUND British Steamer, To Brazil With 1200 Passengers, In Danger Off Lisbon LISBON, Sept. 8.—The British royal mail steamer Almanzora, with 1,200 passengers aboard, en rouJte from England 'to Brazil, is aground off Cape Espichel, twenty'' miles couth of here. Eight launches and a cruiser have gone to the assistance of the vessel. HOKE SMITH INSTITUTE OPENS AT BUENA VISTA BUENA VISTA, Sept. 8. — Hoke Smith Instiute opened its doors Mon day morning to an enthusiastic bunch of boys and girls and despite the un usually hot weather both teachers and pupils have gone earnestly to work. The school for this year is in charge of Prof. Pendergrast, who comes to Buena Vista with an envi able record both as a teacher and a disciplinarian, and it is believed this will be one of the best years In the history of Hoke Smith Institute. The other teachers are, principal, Mrs. RUSSIA REFUSES ALLIEDINQUIRY Investigation Preparatory To Famine Relief Declined By Soviet Government and they remained until the follow- Brown Reese; domestic science, Miss ing Monday, with everything lovely Irma Rainey; music. Miss Lois Kali: MOSCOW, Sept. 8. — By Asso ciated Press.) — The Rusisnn Soviet government has declined to permit nitn ., An „ . i the international Russian relief com- BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 8.—Rej**^*, misison recently, appointed by the t»on of the League of Nations of thej Allied Supreme Council, to investi- amendments to the covenant of the lg S tc conditions in Russia preparatory League proposed by Argentina may to famine relief. be followed by withdrawal from the league of certain American republics, flQY, BITTEN BY DOG IN ' el,0bk, l ’ PLAY, IS GIVEN SERUM ned here sources. The belief is expressed that*Chil will be among them. Argentina withdrew from the first assembly when her amendments were not accepted. Previously reported" $1,402.’18 Judge and Mrs. R. L. Msynard Miss Mabel Callaway i 0® .Saint Andrews Sunday School, Plains, Ga 6.00 Mrs. W. P. Wallis 100 $1,415.33 Total wE ATHER . Forecast for Georgia — Partly cloudy tonight and Friday; no change in temperature. americus temperatures I Furnished bv Result Pharmacy < 4 pm 6 pm 8 pm 10 pm Midnight 2 am .... 4 am C am 8 am 10 am Noon .. 2 pm . WAGNON NO OWL, MOSQUITO NOR A FLORIDA ’GATOR John Wagnon, former umpire in the Georgia State League, has just returned frob Florida where he h»dd an indicator in the Florida State League for the last two months. The season has just clos ed in the Florida league, and Mr. Wagnon isn’t sciry. “The heat was something fierce.” said Mr. Wagnon. “I lost 20 pound« down there. The sun just naturally K>ils it out of you. If anyone tells vnu that it ;sn’t any hotter in Florida than Georgia yoi can pat it down that he doesn’t know 1 what he is falling about I’d rather die a pauper in Georgia than be a mill’onaire in Florida if 1 had to live there all the time. There are only three things in Flor ida that feel perfectly »onlfortable all the time, and they are the mos quito, horn»*d owl and alligator— and even the alligator rets fever Misters in the summer time. •‘Times are tightening ut> in Florida. If you’ve got a dollar down there now you had better not flash it. That’s my advice. Some ire ♦‘vpeefing a good tourist season this fall and winter, while rome are not. Anyhow, times are not flush there like they were.” Henry Williams Bynum, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bynum, Is havin gadmlnistered to him thi Pasteur treatment twice daily by Dr. R. P. Glenn, as n precautionary against rabies followin ga dog bite Tuesday afternoon. The little* fellow was playing on College street with a crowd of oth little boys, when a wild bull .w knocked into an adjoining yard, and Htnrv Williams was sent to get it, Passing a big collie dog belonging to Aaron Cohen family) he stopped to pet him, when the dog, misunde standing the friendly advance, jumo- rd at the hnv, biting him on the face, legs and arms. The wound? on his arms and legs wer.e mere •cratchcF, but the bite oh the jaw was uneasiness reposition ti normal con deeper, causing so Th»* dog has shown madness, and appear dition today. • Dr. Glenn, who w is called to at tend toe lit!, » ley dec .not st advis able to ndmir.H-’er me Pas our treat ment, because of the face wound, and his c mdiion today is entirely satis- 40 WARRANTS FOR MEN IN MINE WAR FORCES LOGAN. W Va., Sept forty warrants l ave for the arrest of m« are alleged to hav of Ih K.—Some sued here who la;d week formed a part who?.* ..march <»»n count brought the federal l-oons into the Wc:;t Virginia coal fields. , . - A special grand jury ha« been sum moned for next Wednesday. grade work, Mrs. H. W. Sapplngton Miss Hennie Butt, Miss Grace Belk, Miss Josephine Weaver. LAYSlANDATE DELAYS TO U.S. Lord Robert CecO, For South Africa, Scores Our ‘Purely Negative’ Attitude GENEVA, sTpT 8.— (By Aaso. . i. I-— > us. hi. elated Press.) Charges that the back home to his son to bring his, H i *t,„ car to Dawson.which was done and ^ ^tas b^ef respoti^ lh, ‘ fat ^ r A®. .nd tor tlle i" ‘he application of home, h' , . J . , mandates by the League of Nations brother took charge of her packed' w ,, r „ nla(l / hy T .„n! Robert Cecil railroad station’where the father and! IX.yTi/ss'iur/of thT Assembly of! rt “ ny txruBe for thc extremely low the airl boarded the. train for Co- Z, ? enaue wMeh took „ dll a . J* rlc “ w " h * ve »»<1 if it had not [umhia, Ala.. Th, father.sent wotd and serene, accordin gto the story. Tilw^Brida Away. On that day the groom announc ed that he was going to take ;• trip down to Shellman and look for a house for himself and bride, as they intended to move there. The bride’s father told the groom he would like to ride as far as Dawson with him and the two drove off together. Ac cording to the groom, the trip paw ed pleasantly, without any discus sion of the marriage or any suspic ious circumstances. Mr. Allen left the groom at Duwson, as he had in tended, while the groom proceeded to Shellman. Shortly after reaching Dawson, it said, the bride’s father telephoned and closed weak at 18 1-4 cents. The U. S. Census Bureau’s report on winnings up to September 1, to talled 481,788 bales, an compared with 367,841 the sniAe date last year. The increase wan attributed to 1 prematurely e«Hy opening of cot- tpn generally through the belt this f.eason, wrhich will be more than off set by eariv completion of the har vesting. The ginning for Georgia this year wag put nt 19,124 bales. Europe Wokinf Up. The New York Journal of Com- mrce, commenting on Tuesday’s rise Ih cotton, says: “The great event of Tuesday was the awakening of Europe. It realizes at last that it faces a grim situation. And consumers in England, France and elsewhere in Europe wanted cotton. The fear now is of something like a famine r~ * ton is concert better grades, tenderable cotton, including snaps date of the 1919-1920 crop. “According to a New Orlea culation, the carryover into reason will be 4,000,000 against • 9,- 194,000 last season. This figures the present crop at about 6.600,000 bales. Suenk«|MeuIationr,« M *Tf-courfe; ~trre purely*tentative,* but they show the fears of scarcity that dominate the situation at home and abroad/ BREAK ON NIGHT*" SELLING ORDERS. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—Cotton oke 160 points or more at tlu» opc ing todty, due to overnight nellingj order* and continued weakness of Liverpool. October dropped to 13 cent*, but heavy buying advanced prices about 60 points from the low levoK dared that all indications were that 1 the South is entering upon a year of l prosperity, and that within a few | months it will be again on “soil ground.” AMERICUS SPOT COTTON _ Good middling 18 1-4 cents. Markftl quiet. LIVERPOOL COTTON , LIVERPOOL, Sept. 8.—Matket opened excited. 147-167 down. Fully! middling 13.10. Sales, 16,000 ball Receipts, 2,881 bales, of which 1,8 are American/ Futures. Oct. Nov. Jan. Prev Close........14.06 18.96 13.62 Open 12.67 - — Close 12.46 12.40 12.16 Prev. Close .... Open 10:16 am ..... 10:30 10:46 11:00 11:16 11:30 11:46 Oet. Dec. Jan. ... 19.00 19.80 19.75 18.00 18,40 18.81 18.65 18.96 18.90 18.75 19.05 19.05 18.80 19.15 19.10 18.07 19.00 18.90 18.26 18.00 18.45 J 18.60. 18.88 18.80 18.66 18.97 18.90 12:00- 12:16 pm ..... 12:30 .... J2:46 18.88 19.28 • 18.90 19.20 19.20 19.05 19.40 19.34 .......18.95 19.34 19.26 1:00 J. 18.78 19.08 19.03 1:16 Z. 18.90 19.24 19.20 , 1:80 18.80 19.22 19.16 1 1:46 19.00 19.34 19.28 | 2:00 t 18.72 19.09 19.02 ] 2:16 1H.70 19.00 18.99 1 2:30 18.27 18.08 18 6lJ 2:46 IS.20 18.00 18.&11 Close 18.20 18.00 18.iH BROWN NOW PREDICTS ONLY 600.000 BALES. ATLANTA, Sept. 8. — That tho world is on the verge of a cotton' famine, the extent of which has been untaualled in history, is the opinion of Lommisisoncr of Agriculture J. J. Brown, after a careful survey of the situation. “With information I have gather ed in going about Georgia the last few dava, and that which has come to me from other states, I am of the opinion that 1921»will see the big gest cotton shortage we have ever known, followed by a Revere cotton famine In 1922 and 1923,” said Com- mlsisoncr of Agriculture Brown, to day. “Therefore, I feel safe in »**. : ing that with the bill recently passed by congrerH, nroviding a billion dollars for agricultural credits, through the war finance corporation, coupled with the least, visible cron ever produced, W,r„ main 1 „ y „oru uuuHrt Invom/LlT/™? . hil< Tu r COtt0n ,hnM representative 'for South Africa. «t' ™ " eV ' back to be delivered to the groom, that his bride was being taken away from him and that he would never b»* uermit'ed to see her ugain. When Snipes returned home from his Shellman trip nnd was given the word, he soon discovered where she had been taken, and caught the next train he could get for the same dcsti- n.Vibn. On arrivul at Columbia, He Inter roror.cd he fmnd the girl closely guarded by her father and others nt the home of a! relative He made several efforts to see her without avail, then after a week of trying, returned home. Pride Is Returned. After'still a few more days the " rl’s father brought her back home i 1 after returning home, the i-nt to Dawson whe of that body. the two homes. The bride and her father started toward the school house, with the bride driving ♦he car. Within about 100 yards of the store they sited another car con taining the father nnd brother of the groom. As they appruached they raw the Snipes car turn suddenly across the road. In some manner the elder Snipes appeared to fall oil! fj the carr. hr.d when he got up he had a pistol in his hand. Bride Re«cued. A« the jkllen car drew nearer, the bride’s father cautioned her to keep her head and “be good” and nothing would lumpen to hurt her. As they reached the Snipes car the bride stop ped her car. As the elder Snipes never have gone to Shortl sought a writ of habeas corpus to! drew his pistol on the girl’s father secure possesion of his bride, hut he-1 the groom appeared suddenly and fore he rouhl eet actio- on it he unexpectedly on tho other side of found tha’ the bride had signed all tjie Allen car. called to the bride to affidavit statins that/ she did not I come ^tb him—and she went— want to live w : th him. which she af-l As the bride and groom left, hnp- terward seated, she was forced by! pilv, in the Snipes car. the elder her father to sign. j Snipes commanded the girl’s father to There matters Ftood for several return hortie, which he did in his car, days. The groom on several occas ions saw his bride at a distance, but got close enough to converse with her. He no’ed that her appear ance grew wan and the she seemed thin nnd worried. This morning about 8 o’clock the final chapter in the cn«e up to date took place in the public road with in a short distance of the neighbor hood school and store and close to such low levels. The activity and life in cotton manufacturing todav means that the world haFi gone without cotton ns Jong ns^ it can and is now demanding it. Prices of manufactured goods are strengthening, and will continue to da so. Higher prices for raw cotton arc bound to follow. “As to my nrevious estimate of 700,000 HaIps for Georgia, am of the oninfon that, it will he nearer. 600,- 000. I am Iqst b«tk from a visit to the Georgia Experiment station where T found conditions deplorable. There, where cotton has been grown bv expert^ and treated by experla with /aleium nrr.enatc In addition to ether methods of fighting the boll weevil, li.nd which formerly mad** a bale to the acre, will, this year, yield only one bale to 5 or 6 acres: It is easy to see what that n^eans in ♦ions which have not had lion.” vxpert at- HOLD FOR PRICE. THEN LIQUIDATE, SAYS BENNETT. ATI/ANTA. S»*pt. 8.—Expressing I he belief that Liverpool good mid- followed by Mr. Snipes for a distance dling cotton would reach 20 pence a while the reunited couple disappear- j pound, which*. recording to the BRITISH INVITE ANEWPARLEY DcValera Told, However, Con-' tention For Repubic Can not Be Admitted INVERNESS, Scotland, 8ept; 8.— (By Associated Press.) — Official confirmation that th? British cabi net’s reply to tho latsst note "from Eamnnn de Valera, wEich was dis patched to Dublin last evening, in vites representatives of tho V Slhjt Fein to further conference, wns riv en here today. The cabinet naked de Valera for n definite reply sherc he was pre pared to enter a conference to asejjl^^ tain how the association of Ireland and the British empire can best bin reconei'ed with Irish nntional lions. I*, fujrjfe* ts that the ence he b.-.d nt I.tvertteu Se,lumber 20. The British reply says “govern ment hv consent of the-governed &' the basis of the British constitution, but we rnnnot accept as the basis of a practical conference an inter pretation thereof which would com mit us to any demands you miirht pr**R«»nt. ovnn to t.hnt of * ’•©public.” GRADING CHURCH ST. ft' FOR PAVING STARTS Grading work, preparatory to ac tual paving, wns begun by the city forces under City Engineer Tiede- 1 man on Knst Church street Weflnes* j dnV morning ^pd continued today, j Laying cf concrete will‘begin short ly. Some citizens of that section are I very anxious that Church street be] paved all the way to the cemetery J entrance while the project is on, **11 would like to see it done and xb donnto * 100 to It. or T might do a little better,” ga : d L. G* C cil, who lives on that street _ whore parents lie burled in the ceme* I terv. “Tt ought to be done, and believe there are several citisens wht*H would loin me In helping to put i acro?s.” V. H. GAINFS CHOSFN ELKS EXALTED. V. H G»ie*~ ed. He then turned homeward. [ American standard, is 40 cents here, ruler of »he Am-riees T od- On srrivimr at his home Mr. Allen end orvine all holders of cotton to: at *hr reonae meefioir w secured his Winchester and returned liquidate in such an event, so that, nitfht St the EIV. Vn’l to to the school house, which is within i’hev can meet their obligations shooting distance of the Snipes home j Thomas ? Rennett. .tale sunerin. where he parked himself until Ordered j tendfnt of banks, delivered en on- away by the school trustees. It was timistic talk to members of the l ions' then that he went to Dawson and | einb at its weekly luncheon at the took out warrants for the four. Piedmont hotel. Mr. .Bennett de- evrired term of Dr. Wilb resumed. Frank T nwson was rhp ___ cost of Esteemed Lecturing Knit also *o fill - vacancy..- Installed at the same meeting.