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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
FRANCE. PLEASED OVER
QUADRUPLE PROPOSAL.

PARIS, Dec. (By Associated
Press Frances acceptance Of a
quadruple agreement for the Pacific
is considered certain in official cir
cles, although the draft received from
Viviani at Washington today is rec
garded as a, suggested outline and not
the perfected plan Action here il
expected shortly.
Official circles as well as the press
received with the greatest satisfac-
tion the idea Of Frances participa
tion in this accord
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
TREMENDOUS CROWD AT
CORDELE SPECIAL SAL

cORDELE, Dec. 81 Trampled
hats, torn clothes, scratched faces and
other minor casualties were sustained
in the jam that filed the street in
front of the Louis Miller store here
this morning at fhe opening of
special sale put on here by the Mer-
chants Advertising and Sales Ser.
vice, Of Amerieus. A tremendous
crowd was present and a great busi-
ness was done after the opening Of
the doors. Three other sales opened
here today, but this proved the nrin-
cipaI attraction.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
By HARRY HUNT.

u !
SHEFFIELD, Ala, Dec. 9.-"Will
Henry get it?"
That's the question fired by nine
out of ten men in northern Alabama
and southwestern Tennessee today.
No one asks Henry who?" or
"Get what?" There's only one Hen
Try and only one "it."
Henry is Henry Ford 'It'' is
the Muscle Shoals water power and
nitrate development.
And on the question of whether
Henry gets it depends the whole fu-
ture industrial development and pros
perity of the South, folks hereabouts
firmly believe.
It's not simply the prospect of de-
velopment of immense water and
electrical power. That's the smallest
part Of it.
It's the advent into the South of
Henry Ford, master industrialist,
model employer, that has electrified
minds and hopes.
Ford's acquisition of Muslce
Shoals, folks here say, will mean new
conditions of labor, of housing, of
pay-a whole new standard of rela-
tionship between employer and an
ploye below the Mason-Dixon line.
'sWill Henry get it?" asked a
workman in grimy overalls outside
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
''Will Henry get it,"

"Will Henry get it?"
A brisk, nattily dressed chap was
talking in the street car.
Represent st. Louis and Chicago
capital, he breezed along. Beer
following oil, but this looks like g
good bet now. Haven't been in town
"a hours, but I've signed up an op
ton on 100 acres adjoining the gov
ernment reservation northeast Of the
DAM"
"Sold seven sites today al
business locations" announced {
Wallingford type individual. "Pricesi
oh, $500 to $4,000 for sites sc
by $50. Worth half that, maybe less
if-if Henry doesn't get it.
That's cross section Of CONVEX
Isation in and around Sheffield.
Limitation Of armament, prices Of
cotton, the Ku Klux Klan, Harding''
racial equality speech all those ia
miliar topics of conversation and de
bate are overshadowed by the one in
sistent query:
"Will Henry get it,"
For this section of the South be
lieves Henry Ford'sI acquisition Of
the $1O0,000,000 government projec
at Muscle Shoals means more work
more money, more progress ant
higher standards Of living in Dixie.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
NOTICE TO THE CHILDREN

RECAUsE of the growing NUM-
- Der Of Santa Claus letters sent
to the Times-Recorder each Christ
mas season for publicasion, and
the great hsafden oF space and time
required to print Them, Il will not
me possible to publish them this
year. II the chiidrsn desire so
send them anTway. We win q
tempt te deliver them 10 Santa
Claus. Be SIRE to show shens TO
your mother ar DADDY befcre
mailing So that yoys vii h@ sure
Old Santa can read them and thak
they are addressed prosperity, tsea
drop them IS the possolfiee Il
bring them 70 the Times Recorsser
Nons will BIZ puIsiiAhed this year,
hosscver.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
AUCUSTASCENE
OF BIG HOLD-UP
Paymaster And Mill Secretary OF
Sibley Manufacturing Co.
Robbed Of Payroll

AUGUSTA, Dec. 9.-Two bandits
entered the office Of the Sibley Man
ufacturing company here this NOR
ming, held up the paymaster, the. mill
secretary, and then fled with the pay
roll amounting to $4,000. They were
captured few minutes later after
an exciting chase and the exchange
of many shots by the bandits and the
officers. All Of the money was
recovered.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
DOOMED BANDIT TAKES
CHARGE OF PENITENTIARY
Toms Slaughter, Arkansas Desperate, Escape
After Holding Prison In His Power
5 Hours

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. o.
Tom Slaughter, the notorious bandit,
who is under death sentence for the
killing of trusty at the state prison
farm at Tucker, escaped from the
penitentiary here at 2:30 O'Clock this
morningS taking six other convicts
with him.
For FIVE hours prior to his escape
Slaughter was in complete control OF
the penitentiary yards and offered
liberty to all who wanted it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
.ROTARIANS HEAR
new CITY HIGH
SCHOOL DEMAND
City System Has Never Spent
Cent More Than Charter
Provides, They Are Told

A cali for new city high sehoo
building, modern and sufficient, witt
the present building turned into q
junior high school, was made yester.
day by City Supt. j. =. Mathis on the
occasion Of the visit of the Rotary
Club to the high school Just before
| the clubs regular luncheon at pm
His suggestion was endorsed by Col
George r. Ellis, a member Of the
school board, who said the, duty is
ours and we must discharge it like
men. Get the money as you may, We
must have these things"
| Supt. Mathis and Colonel Ellis botf
declared that, while the city's present
finances may be in an embarrassed
condition, the schools had never re.
ceived one penny more than the one
half Of one per cent levy set aside
for them by the charter, and Colone
Ellis asserted not even all of this hac
lat times been received.
The Rotarians were greeted as they
filed into the high school assembly
room at noon by a song, Welcome
Rotarians,' sung by the entire as
sembled student body, led by Miss
Ella Polk. A yell was given anC
Principal C. NJ Hale introduced the
visitors in body to the school. Pres.
ident Lanier, of the Rotary club, pre-.
|sented Rev. Silas Johnson, who spoke
briefly and entertaininly, concluding
with a pledge to the high school that
if there was anything for the schoo.
or students that the Rotary Clut
could do, it would be glad to under
take it. '%E E
Character the Test.
Colonel George r. Ellis, Rotariar
and member of the school board, spok.
briefly in the absence of w. w
Dykes, president of the board, whC
was absent, impressing the Importance
lof character building in getting al
Education, and said that one man i
better than another only to the ex
tent that he has more character than
the other.
AS he concluded Miss Ira Gatewood
leader of the girls basket ball squad
Irose and challenged the statement o.
Rev. SiIas johnson that the club was
ready to do anything for the students
or school She asked the club if this
were true, to intercede with Dir
Grubbs" to permit the use of the Y
NJ. C. A. gymnasium for basketball
games so that games with larger
schools could be scheduled here. Thi'
lchallenge met with sweeping applause
When called for, DR. Grubbs explain
ed that certain negotiations by th'
physicians who own the building fo-
its disposition, of which Superintend
ent Mathis had been informed, hat
Ipreventedsthe granting of the reques
but assured the students that II ;
Iway could be worked out whereof.
their desires could be met, the,
would be.
| Allen McNeill, a high school stu
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09

Four negroes who fled were under
death sentence.
Some one smuggled revolver in
to Slaughter in the death cell and he
outwitted the trusty guards assigned
to watch him and took complete
charge of the penitentiary. Warden
Dempsey, wife, son and two daught-
ers were locked in the death cell by
the bandit, who escaped in an auto
mobile belonging to Mrs. Dempsey
which was standing in the prison
yard
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
SlO,5OO ROBBERY
AT BANK OF GRAY
Institution Ransacked And Valu-
able Papers and Bonds Are
Stolen

GRAY, Ga, Dec. 9.-The Bank OF
Gray was ransacked last night, and
nearly $4,000 in stamps, money or
ders, Liberty bonds and $500 in
commercial notes were stolen.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09

LATEE 7ge,zL,g
VI HE!zA.S,aZEEE.S s.

4
iii,,fA"o' pee. 9---N'h q Dlil %
complaint flied IN the federal court
today. Judge Lands issued tempo
rary RESTRAINING o1der preventing the
Chited states haiiioad LABOR Board
lfoIo isaulhg q decision against the
PennsylVania ka'road m their recent
&hoP controversy
D1
= IiN'A' Rse' (hy Assoelatea
! 0.'-' = : i..i'i.ia ''oiathan' tlle de-
Lotteu poc'ai'st lof Russia from the
o'iieeu ota'7% Al i'eiiiei,ioet' i2i9'
Dee,'ose =. u a'iebea af'aicilis1ie ac''F-
,'ies' iia's Ieit MOSCOW II was learned
~. nere 'ouay enc $ peleVed 20 pc N
'sis" w" t''s iilteiitioh 81 sethlHs
asti'''''s'ph Z, 70 ''lafn :" tne unitea
states
a Ian - DEC 9'---Mafshal' Foch
spenI t"o houfs mere To-Day en- route
70 :, 7" asii'ist2h' paft'elpated ~ nlii-
i'''i y pai@ue, Iaia q wreath on tle
iiio y 'i'l,eht 70 Fulten county DEAD
,.''u . oeiiVerea'an 'l''n iaafess az fledmoht
: a. y ~ e'ie asf's'i'iileo VhousahaS'
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dent, was called for. He expressed
appreciation on behalf of the student
body for the visit Of the Rotarians,
and pleasure that they had come to
see what they could of the school and
conditions that exist in it. The school
orchestra played, Frank Harold, Ro-
tartan song leader, led in couple of
cheers and the gathering sang "Ev-
erybody Neighbors. AS adjournment
was about to take place, Supt. Mathis
rose for just a word to his fellow
club members.
Never Exceeded Allotment.
1--WE are glad to have you here to-
day to see what we have and what
we have not said he. ''Never in
the history of the Americas schools
have we spent one cent more than the
one per cent levy provided for the
schools in the city charter, while 9th
er city departments have gone on and
exceeded their allowances. If the
city treasury is now in an embarrass-
ed condition it is no fault Of ours. :"
he pointed out that every good thing
the world has, every modern apph-
.ance, every bit of equipmeiit, all the
machinery, all Inventions, are the re-
suit of education. tOur science de-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09

eve are having great meeting
here. Please announce that l viii
reach home in time to fill my pulpit
morning and evening" postcards
Dr. Carl M. Minor, pastor of the
First Baptist church, from Savannah
where he is attending the state Bap-
tist convention.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
EMPTY STOCKING
FUND is STARTED;
ON HONOR ROLL2

The Empty Stocking fund has
started The total is small in the
first announcement, being only $3.25,
but it win grow rapidly and steadily.
Following are first donors:
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09

Nitrate Plant No. 2, surveying the
f'No Help Wanted sign and the mile
of idle buildings.
"Boy! When the smoke goes up
from those chimneys everybody with
in 200 miles is goin' to flock here. If
you burn a tarbucket, you'd have a
mob here in an hour"
viii Henry get it?" asked an
engineer.
"He told me he didn't want any
man to work more than eight. hours
a day or six days week. The com
pany that's taking the power plant
over ON a monthly basis is starting
us on a 12-hour day. So you can
see why we're for Ford"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09

LONDON, Dec. 9 (By Associated
Press) The Reputation by Eamonn
De Valera of the agreement reached
between the British and the Irish
ple.lipotentiaries fer the establish
ment of an Irish Free State and the
resultant split. in the Dali Eireann
cabinet overshadowed all other devel-
opnents in the Irish situation today
The best opinion here is that the
split among the Dali leaders viii not
affect the plans for the opening OF
the British Parliament.
De Valera last night issued a state
ment saying that he could not recon-
mend TIE besce treaty with Great
Britain to the Dali Ereann or to the
country, and that in this attitude, he
is supported by the ministers of de.
fease and Of home affairs.
A public meeting Of the Dali Ei.
reann has been fixed for Wednesday
The third session Of the Dali Ell.
Ereann cabinet ended a few minutes
after o'clock. 1t is understood thai
the opinions of the members of the
cabinet regarding the peace agree
merit were divided and that the ques
tion will be left to the decision Of
the Dali Eireann,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
CLERKS MISTAKE.

MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala, Dec.
9.-"Mussel Shoals" it would be,
not Muscle Shoals"
This spot on the Tennessee river
used to be a rendezvous for In
dians to feast on the fresh water
mussels.
But when the government pre-
pared the first formal map of the
river, some clerk Inscribed it
Muscle instead of "Mussel."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
GRIFFITH TO PUSH
IRISH PEACE PLAN.
To Move It's Ratification Despite
Opposition of DeValera And
His Party

DUBLIN, Dec, (By Associated
Press) The ratification of the trea-
ty between Ireland and Great Brit
ain will be moved at the Dali Eireann
meeting next Wednesday by Arthur
Griffith, as chairman of the pleni-
potentiaries, De Valera announced
today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
AMERIcus sPoT COTTON
Good middling, lie.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
IIvERpooL CoTToN

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 81 - Market
opened quiet, 1924 up. Quotations,
fullys, II .35. Sales, 5000 bales.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
WEATHER FORECAST:

For Georgia: Generally fair and
somewhat colder tonight; possibly
light frost! Saturday fair.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09
AMERIcUs TEMPERATuREs

-Furnished bY RexaIi Pharmacyl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-09

Two leading local liquor offenders
Of the pasta white man and ne
oro-ran afoul of Judge Littlejohn in
superior court yesterday and emerg-
cd each with chain gang sentence.
The two were Wade Frazier. who
heretofore has served time under fed
eral sentence and paid fines in state
courts, and Gus Shealey, negro
1ouor seller who has paid two stiff
f;nos in the City court in the last year
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
dead" Man Receivers
When He Hears Hearse
Coming Around Corner

At 4:30 o'clock Thursday morning
the telephone of A. c.. Hemperley, the
well-known funeral director of East
Point, awoke him from a sound slum-
Der after a hard days work
"a man is dead on the sidewalk
on Ware street." said the person
calling.
Mr.. Hemperley got up, dressed
himself hurriedly, went to his ga
rage and started the motor of his
large, white hearse, which silently
and swiftly sped through deserted
streets to the place where the man
was dead On the sidewalk.
Joseph William Miller, chief of
police of East Point, had received
the same call at about the same
hour, and he likewise had risen from
bed and was hurrying to the place
where a man lay dead. He expected
to find a bloody homicide or the
corpus delecti of speed demons
madness.
Thy arrived simultaneously, from
opposite directions. They pressed
the buttons of their electric flash
lights, searching in the shadows for
could not find it.
"Yonder he goes, Mr.. Hemperley,"
said a nocturnal pedestrian. running
up to the funeral director and the
police chief.
HE wasn't dead. He was sick.
When he heard the hearse coming
around the corner he got up and
walked away"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
LEAGUE IS DIVIDED
ON SERBIAN DISPUTE

GENEVA, Sept. 23.-1mmediate in
tervention by the allies to prevent
the Serbo- Albanian dispute flaming
into a new Balkan war was asked in
a note addressed to the powers of
England, France and Italy by the
council Of the League Of Nations to-
day.
The threatened conf!agratton in
Middle Europe's powder box, where
the slightest flare can start another
of the interminable Balkan wars. may
be averted by the councils action, but
the league itself has been split into
two factions by the Introduction of
the dispute between Albania and
Jugo-Slavia in the assembly.
Allied members Of the league coun
Gil, moreover, are lined up against the
non-allied, temporary members. Last
ly, the allies themselves are divided
into two camps over the question.
Albania's appeal to the league, de-
claring that Serb artillery was bonn
harding Albanian villages and de-
handing that the league intervene,
was answered by the Serbian repre-
sentative to the assembly, who said
that the borders of Albania rot hav-
ing been fixed, Serbia was only at
tempting to occupy what rightfully
belonged to her.
The assembly at once divided. Some
nations favored Intervention, others
leaving the matter to the big powers.
It was the first test Of he leagues
attitude towards an appeal to Article
x.
Of the allies, England was dispos-
ed to recognize Albania's frontiers as
claimed by that country and fixed in
1913, while Italy refused to consent
to that position, as there are certain
islands within those frontiers she
wants for herself.
The majority of the council favor
ed backing Albania's claim to the
boundaries of 1913, and in conse-
quence note was today addressed to
the powers, asking them to aid AL
bania against Serbia.
At IL o'clock today three new ma
tions, Esthonia, Lithuania and Lat
via, were admitted to membership in
the League of Nations.
This brings the membership of the
league to 81.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
H. !, SOCIETY GIRL
SHOT THREE TIMES

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.--Miss Mil
dred Hanan, said by the police to be
a daughter of the late John IT. Han
an, wealthy head OF Hanan & Son,
shoe manufacturers, was shot three
times early today as she was emery
ing from an apartment house in
Brooklyn with John S. Soland, an
importer Mrs. Grace Lawes, who
fired the shots. then ended her own
life by firing a bullet into her brain.
Mrs. Lawes, who is a daughter of
Mrs. M. E. Ditmars, of San Francisco,
was a distant relative of Miss Hanan.
For four years she had lived with
Miss Hanan and the latter's mother
in an apartment in the exclusive
Park avenue district of Manhattan.
Two weeks ago she moved to the
Hotel Vanderbilt, nearby. The po-
lice said that she had sent several
threatening letters recently to Miss
Hanan.
Two letters were found in Mrs.
LaweS' pocketbook. One, addressed
to her mother, asked forgiveness for
what she had done. The other, ad-
dressed to Mrs. Birdie Williams, of
Manhattan, formerly a nurse in the
Hanan household, requested that
Mrs. Williams take Mrs. Lawes' body
to San Francisco and have it Gre
mated.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
Debate on Resolution
On Mandates Begun
In League Assembly

GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. o.
(By the Associated Press). Debate
on the resolution urging the council
of the League Of Nations to work
for an early settlement as to the
terms of the mandates for former
German colonies between the manda-
tory powers and the United States,
was opened in the league assembly
today by Madame BuEge- W'Sksell, Of
Sweden. She expressed satisfaction
with the offers of France, Great Bri-
tain and Belgium to allow the COM
mission on mandates to examine into
the administration of the territories
in their charge, and urged the pas
sage of the resolution.
Lord Robert Cecil, representing
South Africa, expressed regret that
the proposed class B mandates were
not more explicit on the prohibition
of slavery and not more stringent
as regarded regulation Of the liquor
traffic. He thought the council
might have defined the B mandates
at its present session, but added that
in view of the obstacles the commits
sion had obtained the next best thing
the consent of the manufactures to
open their administrations to inves-
LEGATION.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
DIXIE HIGHWAY CONVENTION
TO BRING 800 AUTOS HERE
1900 VISITORS EXPECTED
BOD BODIES FOUND
AFTEROPPA BLAST

BERLIN. Sept. 23.-Penetrating
the fog of poisonous vapor which
still lowered low over Oppau, scene
Of the greatest explosion disaster in
German history, resceu corps. gas
masked. today fought for the lives
Of possible survivors, while reports
came back that the death roll would
total at least 1900.
Five hundred bodies have been ex-
tricated from the shattered ruins
about the synthetic nitrate plant of
the Badische aniline works, near
Ludwigshafen, which was destroyed,
together with the little town of OPP
pau, by a series of terrific explosions
yesterday morning.
Scores of injured were taken from
wreckage far from the scene of the
original explosion, but it was feared
that all those trapped in the fatal
area had been killed by poison
fumes, which yesterday prevented
rescue work.
Three hundred bodies have been
identified and hundreds of others
found mutilated beyond recognition.
At Ludwigshafen, the huge hospi-
tai, all the schools and many public
buildings have been requisitioned by
the Red Cross.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
ASYLUM |MBEC|LES
WILL De RETURNED
FOR LACK OF SPACE
Governor Finds That 700
Weak-Minded Don't Re-
quire State Aid and They
viii Be Discharged

Declaring that at least Is per cent
of the inmates of the state sanitar-
ium for the insane at Milledgeville
have been committed in violation
of the spirit, if not the letter of
the law, Governor Hardwick an
nounced Friday morning that the
harmless imbeciles at the Milledge-
Vile institution will be returned to
the counties from which they were
committed.
This course has oeen made impera-
tive, the governor stated, because of
the overcroWded condition at the
sanitarium and the absolute neces-
sity of making room for violently
insane persons who are being de-
MED admission.
Governor Hardwick's announce
ment follows recent statement
from asylum officials declining to
receive additional inmates because of
overcrowded conditions.
II had a personal interview with
DR.. L. M. Jones, the asylum super
intendent, upon the occasion of a
S11OIL Nl0lL " Ml1lCu6ONA41C 11oL
week." Governor Hardwick said. Il
explained to him the necessity for
making some sort of provision at the
institution for the reception and care
of violently insane persons, who are
being held in county jails in diff
ferent sections of the state. 1t was
agreed that in order to make room
for this class of patinets, harmless
imbeciles will be discharged from the
asylum and returned to the counties
from whence they came"
Governor Hardwick stated that the
state law concerning committals to
the insane asylum provides that only
violently insane persons shall be adj
mitted.
'Of the 4,S00 patients at Milledge-
vile, am satisfied that at least 700
or Is per cent are harmless inbeciles
and have no right to accommodations
and treatment at the expense of the
state" SAID the governor. 1.-THE asy-
lum is for the accommodation and
treatment of violently insane per-
Giles whose families are amply able
to provide and care for them at their
homes.
There are many cases on record
where members of well-to-do and
wealthy families have oeen commit
ted to the insane asylum and there
kept at the expense of the state,
when, as a matter of fact, they are
harmless inbeciles and should have
never been sent there"
The governor added that he was
anxious for the joint legislative COM
mittee, which was created to investi-
gate conditions at Milledgeville, to
begin it's work as speedily>a as pos
sible, in the hope of further reiiev-
ing conditions.