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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-07-07

Tay-ho, Fantasi Crepe Burbar, Baronet Satin, Moon
Glo Crepe de Chine Fish Skin, Bedford Cord plated
and gathered wide gdles and tailored belts novel pockets
White, gray, tan, rose, jade lavender, orchid, flame,
flesh and turquoise
JeIleffs-Second Floor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
Correspondent Finds Former Bandit Making Good
AS Farmer On Vast Mexican
Tract

personally takes the birds out to
the patio of his personal quarters and
ties each to a tree. y.
He frees a pair and enjoys the
fight, meanwhile observing with an
expert and critical eye which bird
strikes the harder. They practice
without metal spurs, so the sport Of
training them is not as bloody as a
match.
Ride Over Ranch
Shortly after | was introduced to
Villa he proposed that we ride over
his ranch. The two big things |
learned on that long ride in the sad
die were:
Villa has learned much about pure
bred livestock, modern farming and
irrigation.
Villa has the best cavalry horses
/ have ever seen, horses with phe-
nomenal powers of endurance.
The general pointed out the horse
was to ride as the attendants led
out a number Of animals from the
stables for our party.
Villa himself rode big bay, with
powerful legs and a chest that denot-
ed tina enormous heart and lung ca
pacity.
Villa limps slightly with his right
leg, from sniper's wound IN one OF
his raids on Mexican towns, a wound
that caused him to hide in a cave for
many days.
The limp, however, did not inter
fere with his lifting his bulk of 200
pounds of solid bone and muscle to
the saddle And his horse was off
at smart gallop.
We saw the waterWorks the gov
ernment is constructing for Villa.
We saw the four ten colonies of
workers-living in the fields near
their work.
The 100 soldiers assigned to Vii
las farm by the federal government
are not acting as garrison. In.
stead, they are working with picks
aid shoyels. Their guns are lock
ed up in the warehouse.
Speeds Up Work.
Villa arrived on the ranch only
last September. The place was di
lapidated The buildings were il
poor repair and unclean. It had beer
the headquarters of rich Spaniarc
ousted by the revolutions.
VVilla had forced the government
to promise as the price of his ceas
ing guerrilla warfare it would install
waterworks sewerage, electric hght'
and even telephones. And he's see
ing that this is done.
We got back from the Bide. aftel
nightfall and went in for the suppe
| which Mrs. Villa had prepared for us
Mrs. Villa lived in San Antonio
t Continued on Page Two.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
ROAD TAX FOR
COUNTY BACK
TO NORMALLY
Board Cuts 1t From So
To $3.50 For Ensu-
in Year

The county road tax has returned
to "normalcy." The county commits
sioners, in regular monthly session
Monday, fixed the tax for 1921 at
$3.50, reducing it from Sc, the rate
fixed last year, which was the high
water mark for recent times. In
1919 the rate was SIS, in 1918 it
was $3.50 and previously it was So.
eve just decided people could
not pay any more than that, even
though the county needs the money
said a member of the board, "and any
way, everything else is coming down
so we thought road taxes should come
down, too"
Collectors for the various districts
were named and instructed to begin
making collections March Is. The old
rate of pay of per cent for collec-
ton was fixed. The collectors, all of
them except two having served last
year, are:
15th-W. E. Remington, (new.)
Old 16th--Roy Ethridge.
New 16th-H. A. Countryman.
17th-J. T. Ratliff.
Old 26th-J. S .McGarrah.
New 26th-W. S. Bell (new.)
27th-J. M. Kleckley.
28th-C. A. Presley.
29th-T. j. Hardin.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
NO TRACE FOUND
OF NIGHT RIDERS
Alabama Posses Report
Country People Near
Panic

SCOTTSBORO, Ala, March 8. -
Small posses of citizens headed by
two state law enforcement officers,
searched in vain last night and today
for bands Of night riders reported in
various sections of the country. They
reported today that their investiga-
tions revealed only one phantom
"nest." The officers found the coun-
try folk in a state of unrest border
ing on panic as the result Of whip
pings that have been administered
in several localities.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
BY C. A. DELFELDER.

Ell PASO, Tex, March 81 have
visited Francisco Villa.
/ talked long with the reformed
Mexican bandit and revolutionist
rode for hours over the estate which
the Mexican government presented
to him as a peace token, ate at his
table, slept under his roof and go'
well acquainted with him.
Villa is conducting an immense
colonization scheme on his 400,00l
acres of land in Durango. in addi'
ton to 400 of his former soldiers
probably 600 other Mexicans-nlel
women and children-are living un'
der his direct rule in his new do
main.
Here Villa is supreme.
He has been supplied by the MeXi'
can government with tractors, bind
ers, mowers, gang -plows and every
kind of modern American farming
machinery.
He has planted 5000 acres of win,
ter wheat and is breaking up ground
for 5000 acres of corn.
His wife is teaching the young
Mexican WOllieH uoHlS SSoiiNiiitN" "''
English. :.
Villa is frocing education upon his
people. The little public school runs
full blast day and night.
The irrigation works on Villa,s
land is a model OF efficiency. II
would be a credit in any irrigated re
gion in the United States.
CoD,ueIs Clea aniiness.
He is constructing sanitation works
and putting bath rooms in houses
He compels cleanliness.
Of religion, Villa admits mini
mum into life Of his colonists.
However, twice a year clergyman
may. come to baptiZe childrenS@mar
ry couples and preach sermons. An'
Villa favors Bible teaching in tn
public schools.
The old church in the hamlet al
Joining Villas realm is used by hn
as storehouse.
whether there is a God or not,
Villa saws, "Bible study will tend t
make people see the difference be
tween right and wrong, to be fai
with their .fellowmen, tell the trut
and keep their word" =.
| But he still places more reliance /
\ gunpowder than in religion. His cor
1 slant companion is six:-shooter /
his belt. With it | saw him hit
mark so yards away, at the 'tir'
! shot.
With all his farming activity an
lighting cocks. ~,
Every morning the .general-th
eitle was confirmed by the govern
nnnnt. in the terms for bis retirmeI
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
HARDING ASKS
RATIFICATIONOF
COLOMBIA PACT
Drafting Special Mes
sage Calling For I'M
mediate Action

WASHINGTON, March 8.-By As
sociated Press IA special message
to the senate requesting immediate
ratification of the Columbian treaty
is being prepared by President Hard
ing, according to reports among the
senator's today in the wake of last
nights White House conference
There is a possibility, it was was said,
that the message might be transmit
ted today.
President Harding had his first
meeting with his cabinet today. Vice.
Pres. Coolidge attended at the presi-
dents invitation. 1t is understood
foreign affairs, as well as domestic
policies, were discussed.
President Harding announced early
today that the special congress would
be called not before April 4, and
might be a week later.
The announcement last night was
made after the White House dinner
which Republican leaders of the sen.
ate and house attended. The confer
ence lasted four hours and the presi-
dent said the legislative program
had been discussed.
The president said that this was the
beginning of program of co-opera-
tion. Various subjects were discuss
ed; he added, in an attempt to as
certain the most important to be TAX
en- up by the next congress.
After the conference broke Up and
his guests had departed, the Presi-
0,1f +ho sfrnY,A I1nrfinn
of the White House to talk to the
newspaper correspondents, about so
Of whom were present.
Asked about the special session, the
president said:
81 can only say to you that it will
net be earlier than April 4 and it
might possibly be a week later.
eve also discussed taxation pro-
gram for the session. We were try
ing to determine which was the real
pressing business of congress, wheth-
er it was emergency tariff legisla-
tion or complete revision of the
tax schedules.
"We passed the matter for further
conference after there has been
canvass of the committees in charge
Of that legislation. 1t means that
instead of going into a session of
congress without knowing whittier
we are going we are trying to canvass
the whole situation and arrive at
program.
"This is the beginning Of the pro-
gram of cooperation between the
president and congress. 1t is an early
step in the fulfillment of what be-
lieve the best policy of conducting
the government, bringing the fellows
together and getting them acquainted
with each others views"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
4 More Killed In
Clashes In Ireland

" DUBLIN, March 8.-Four per-
sons were killed in encounters be-
tween Crown forces and the Sim
Fein in Southern Ireland last night.
A motor lorry was anrbushed near
Baliintrome and three soldiers
wounded. Police auxiharies caught
Sim Feiners at Mullinsoe,. county
Tipperary and three civilians were
killed and twenty captured. One
man was killed at Toamer, county
Cork.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
NEW YORK CENTRAL IN
CLASH WITH LABOR.

NEW YORK, March 8s-fhe New
York Central railroad officials and
representatives of common labor en-
ployed by that system failed today
to reach an agreement at tne corr
ference called to discuss the propos-
ed reduction in pay for unsklllea
workmen. Another conference waa
set for March -.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
BEAVERS MENACE TREES.

ALBANY, N. Y, March 8.-The
conservation commission will ask the
state legislature to pass bill au-
thorizing seasonal trapping of beav-
ers. For c. G. Abbott, commission
secretary, says rapidly increasing
numbers of beavers and the dams
they build flood annually great areas
Of valuable timber.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
IN
MOSCOW STRIKE
Several Hundred Work
men Reported Killed
By Artillery

LONDON, March 8.a-(By Associ-
ated Press. During a recent bonn
bardment Of the workmens guar
ters of Moscow from artillery placed
on hills overlooking the city, says
a Central News dispatch, sevepi
hundred persons were killed and
many wounded
More than 100000 men and wom-
en- are on strike in Moscow, the dis
pitch adds.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
A., B. ( A. STRIKE
CONFERENCE ON
Mediators Meet Repre-
sentatives Of Employees
OF Road

ATLANTA, March 8.s-The CON
ference set for this afternoon be-
tween Federal mediators Chambers
and Klutts and the joint committee
Of the grand lodge representatives
directing the strike of employees of
the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lartic road is the next important
step in The effort to bring The two
sides together. There were no de.
velopments in the situation today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
NEW AIR LINE PLANNED.

MIAMI, Fla, March g. II. H.
Lambert, an oil man of Lumberton,
w. Va, and R. A. Neville, Conneils-
vile, Pa, coal man, are here to get
first-hand knowledge of long dis
tance flying. They plan to start
conanercial air line between Pitts
burg and New Orleans, along the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
PROGRAM TO BE
SUBMITTED TO HARDING.

WASHINGTON, March. 8.-A pro.
gram for tariff and revenue legis.
lation will be laid before President
Harding by congressional leaders
within few days, according to plans
agreed upon at the White House con-
ference last night, according to in
formation today from members OF
congress who attended.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
WOOD TO PHILIPPINES.

Q WASHINGTON, March 8.-Major
General Leonard, Wood has been de-
tailed at the request of President
Harding to go to the Philippine Is
lands and make a study of conditions
there in the light of Philippine as
pirations for independence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
HE SENTENCES HIMSELF

NEW YORK, March 8.-"Sentence
Yourself" Magistrate Kochendorfer
told vagrant who had been fousd
living in the street at ought to be
warm' by April" said the man. "Fhir-
ty days" said the judge. ..-.....,
aid program is made from Washing
ton, that Taylor county will .rartici
pate in building a federal aid road
from Butler to the new federal, state
and county Taylor-U Upton bridge, at
Holmes Ferry, and since Upson
county has already started their new
road into Thomaston and on to Griffin
that a short route to Atlanta in a
good, passable ROAD may soon be ex-
pected. 1t might also be well to note
that the county, although progressing
rather slowly on account of needs in
other parts of .the county for road
work is. with federal aid, building up
the bad piece of road between Lees
burg and Smithville."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
Germany Unable TO
Employ Force, Says
Ebert, rotesting
"We Must Bear Them With Dignity" Cabinet
Member Says Of Penalties After
Session

MAYENCE March 8(By Belgian and
Dusseldorf this morning and French and Belgian
troops occupied Dusbug The Allied Rhine fota took pos
of Rutrort
incident marked the eastward movement OF the Aimed
troops, far a late hour showed
Dusseldorf, the largest Of the cities taken over
issued proclamation TO the people
which he declared against the population
German to carry out its obg
tons
The occupation Germany refusing the raratons terms
aid own the Allies TAI.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
800. CHINESE DIE
IN SHIPWRECK
News Of Great Disaster
Of March 8 lust
Received

H0NGKONG, March 8.-(By AS
sociated Press. More than eight
hundred Chinese are believed to have
been drowned in the wrecking OF
the steamer Hofgmoh ON Lamock
Island, off Port Swatow, kwantund
province, March 3, news of which was
received here today.
The steamer, which was British
vessel. carried LOO Chinese on. the
trip and only 248 are reported res
cued-
Six thousand soldiers graves are
located in 1900 cemeteries scartter
ed throughout Canada.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
WE EATHER

Forecast for Georgia-Cloudy to-
night; Wednesday showers and
and cooler.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08

gnomes have let all the animals The twins greatly
worried for that circus they offer to bring the ANIMALS
back The Magical Mushroom provides Magic Green Shoes ad the
travels visiting ge coasts deserts and for
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
AMERIcUs TEMPERATURES
FURNISHED by Rexall Storey


ess n search missing They
called Mr. FppetyFap who has feet and always ra
notes the soe of his shoes Ihebu read he ssosy %
your kiddies tonight It's the Editorial Page
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08

BERLIN 8(By Associated Press)Presdent Ebert OF e
many proclamation issued today that Germany IS not IN
the occupation of additional &c
territory protested vigorously against Wha
president declared was an open of the taty
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08

dusseldorf Duiburg lie along the Rhine and are co
a ports into which traffic OF the Ruhr iron region
These cites adn the British occupation Cologne The Amer
south and the French at May
ence another rs cities the Rhine the oen
nation did involve marching inland beyond the Rhine except the
immediate vicinity of occupied cites)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08

8.(By Associatd Pesshe occupation OF Dusse
Duisbug by the Allies will not be opposed by @
man government. indicated here early today
The session until II o'clock then dispersed without YAK
any action the situation Speaking of the Aed
penalties said after adjournment: We must bear them
with dignity"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-03-08
MARX E T S.
.AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Good Middling II Sac.

and Nancy the adventurous and the Magical Mushroom
start today of Who wouldn't be aled
The Magical brings Nancy and Nick that the
The Washington times., 1921-04-09
SWISS DECIDE TO EXPEL
EX-EMPEROR CHARLES

PARIS, April 9.--The Swiss Federal
Council has decided to expel former
Emperor Charles, of Austria from
Switzerland. says a Geneva dispatch
TO the Echo de Paris
The Washington times., 1921-04-09
ASKED.
. HELP OF 'F|F|'
Hotel Keeper Tried to Prove
Wife Figured With Still
man "Women."

NEW YORK, April 9.-The three
great dramas Of society, now absorb
ing public attention--the Stillman,
Stokes and Elwell cases-were
brought together in startling fash
ion through the suspicious of Will
liam Earl Dodge Stokes. yesterday.
MYSTERIES MERGED.
The merging of the mysteries was
staged in the old courthouse in City
Hall Park where the Stokes divorce
suit is on trial. Martin Littleton,
chief counsel for Mrs. Helen Stokes.
charged that w. E. ID. Stokes. in his
efforts to divorce his young wife,
attempted to involve her in the still
man and Elwell scandals. Mr.. Lit
tleton said, during recess in court:
81 have been given information
that this man Stokes took lot of
photographs of his wife down to
representatives of Mrs James A.
Stillman to see II Mrs. Stillman
could identify the photographs of
Mrs Stokes as those of one of the
red haired women whom Stillman Is
said to have visited. OF course they
could not be identified"
STOKES DENIES CHARGE.
When Stokes was asked to comment
on Mr.. Littleton's statement he hesi-
tated a minute. then said emphatic
cally:
Just say that Mr.. Stokes says
NO to that statement"
He turned away abruptly, declining
to add anything to the reply.
But a member of the legal staff
employed by Stokes admitted that the
millionaire hotel owner believed there
was a connection between the Stillman
scandal and the Stokes divorce. This
man said:
Mr.. Stokes has Identified pictures
Of Florence Leeds, who has been
named in the Stillman divorce case,
as photographs of young woman
who used to visit Mrs. Stokes FIRE.
quently for luncheon and tea and
was a friend of hers. Mr.. Stokes does
not recall the name used by this
young woman, but recalls her as hav-
ing been in his house as Mrs. Stokes
guest. No. nothing has been done
about the matter more than what
I've said.' ...N
The Elwell case connection was
established by sworn testimony on
the witness stand from a Stokes en-
pioye and later elaborated at re-
cess by Mr.. Littleton and Stokes
lawyers. Two keys. testified to hav-
ing been found in a bureau drawer
in the Stokes home after Mrs. Stokes
had left, were offered In evidence
against the young wife
The Washington times., 1921-04-09
DOROTHY ARNOLD
FOUND, IS REPORT

NEW YORK, April "a sensa-
tional report that Dorothy Arnold.
central figure in Americas most fam
Gus missing girl mystery, is no
longer listed among the missing per-
sons" was denied as "a damned lie"
today by John s. Keith, attorney for
Francis r. Arnold. father of the girl,
who disappeared on December IL.
1910. and upon the search for whom
100000 has been spent.
The report arose from a statement
attributed to Police Captain John A.
Ayres, who was quoted as having
said in lecture last night that the
mystery was solvei.
Its lie from start to finish," said
Keith. "Dorothy's disappearance is
as much a mystery today as it was
the day she disappeared"
The Washington times., 1921-04-09
RAv|NE CRIME
STILL BATTLES
Identity of Headless Man Re-
mains Mystery-SIain on 10y
ride, Latest Theory.

Was the man whose skeleton was
found. Tuesday in a ravine on the
grounds of the Georgetown Univer-
sity Preparatory School, five miles
east Of Rockville, the victim of foul
play while on joyriding party?
RESORT OF JoYRIDERs.
States Attorney Thomas L. Dawson.
of Montgomery county. directing the
Investigation of the mystery, today
learned that last summer the Lincoln
highway, near where the body was
found. was a trysting place for Wash.
ington joyriding couples.
That the man may have been lured
to the ravine in an automobile
robbed. and then slain. is one of the
many theories that States Attorney
Dawson is working on. The presence
OF the can of chloride of lime in
dicates to Dawson that after the
mans death, his slayer or slayers
sprinkled the powder on the body to
effect rapid decomposition and thus
attempt to cover up the crime.
FAIL TO IDENTIFY REMAINS.
Believing that the skeleton might
be that of their missing son, the
parents of Jesse j. Kidwell, 1I5
Eleventh street southeast, last night
attempted to Identify the remains at
the undertaking establishment of w.
X. Pumphrey and Sons, in Rockville.
kidwell, who was twenty-four years
old, disappeared last December. He
was last seen by acquaintances at
Fourteenth street and New York
avenue, just outside the office of the
Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis
Electric Railroad Company, where he
was employed. This was on Decem-
Der % and no trace of him has been
found since by his parents. After
viewing the body, Mr.. and Mrs. Kid
well declared they could not Identify
IT.
A year ago young Kidwell had con-
siderable dental work done by DR..
Dowd Rozzelle. a Ninth street dentist.
Or. Rozzelle Is out of the city. but
when he returns he will be ask ed
to examine the dental work in the
skull Of the man found at Rockville.
One of the reasons the police ad-
vance for not believing the skeleton
is that of Kidwell Is that he disap-
peared early in December from Camp
Jackson. South Carolina. He came to
the Capital a short time later. The
police say that two months ago II
was reported that Kidwell was in
Missouri. but in just what city could
not be ascertained-
The Washington times., 1921-04-09
ABANDONHOPE
.FORF|vEFL|ERS
Naval Authorities Give Up Be-
lief That Lost BaIloonists
May Still Be Alive.

PENSACOLA, Fla, April o.
Floating on the Gulf of Mexico,
about twenty miles from st. An
drews, the free balloon lost nineteen
days ago was found this morning by
the motorboat Electra, Bay coun-
ty fishing vessel, commanded by
Captain Ecker. The balloon had no
note attached to it, and the basket
had not been cut away.
BALLOON BAG SUBMERGED.
The balloon bag was submerged
when Captain Ecker saw it. The
basket was high enough above the
surface of the water to attract at
tention.
Shippers of fishing vessels and
other craft which ply about the Gulf
of Mexico in this section have kept
an incessant watch for any trace OF
the ill-fated navy balloon. There
| had come to be something of a rival
ry over which would be first to re-
| port some definite word regarding ii.
Hope that the balloon and possibly
| the crew would be found never had
| been definitely abandoned, and when
Captain Ecker entered the harbor
| early today at Panama City with the
shredded Remainder of the lost bag
the news spread rapidly.
NO TRACE OF FILTERS.
The most careful search of the cloth
balloon and the basket failed to re-
veal anything which might give a
clue to what happened to Chief Quar-
termaster Wilkinson and his men.
That they sank beneath the waters
OF the gulf at least a fortnight ago
was accepted as . foregone conclu-
sion
The basket swung with the wash
of the sea. There was no trace Of
any of the five men who left the local
air station March % for an all-night
flight. That the men are lost was the
opinion officially expressed at the ma
val station today.
The Washington times., 1921-04-09
BRITISH SEND TROOPS TO man Mine PUMPS

MRS HELEN ELWooD STOKES, photographed in
M the New York Supreme Court, where she is defend
ing the suit for divorce brought by her husband w.
T. D. Stokes, New York millionaire. Stokes names
seven men in his complaint.