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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01

Foresees Germany and Russia
Take China Into Triple Alliance
Baney Baruch. Noted U. S. Finan-
cier, Points Out Dangers
At Genoa
BY EDWARD M. THIERRY

BY EDWARD M. THIERRY
Copyright, 1922, by NEA Service,
Inc. All Rights Reserved. Repub-
lication Prohibited Anywhere in
the World by NEA Service, Inc.
NEW YORK, May What sort
of dynamite is being manufactured
at the Genoa conference?
What are its world dangers?
These questions were put to Ber-
nard NJ Baruch, noted financier and
economist, chairman of the War In
dustlies Board during the last year of
the war, member of the Supreme
Economic Council, economic adviser
for the American peace commission
and A.gseriean delegate necQnomics
and 1eparation clauses of the treaty
of Versailles,
Baruch spoke of the dangerous po-
tentialities in the German-Russian
treaty.
"This treaty." he said, "is the logi-
cal sequence of isolation of two ma
tions made outcasts, first by America
and second by Europe and largely by
themselves.
And China now is the logical ally
Of Germany and Russia China is
a neglected nation whose territory
is beld by others, by nations China
cannot throw out"
The question was put at to the ma
ture of the German Russian COM
bination and its effect if China join
ed.
$50 far as men and material are
concerned" Baruch said, Germany
and Russia would be as self-contain-
ed as any nation in the world, with
the possible exception of America
Russia can produce any amount of
foodstuffs, and possibly cotton. Ger
many can supply manufactured
goods.
"If Russia became Germanized in
military and commercial way, it
would mean a very dangerous alli-
ance. With China in, this alliance
woyuld quickly come into conflict
with Che four-power treaty made at
Washington. There would be Japan
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
SENATE COMMITTEE
GOES INTO FORD OFFER

WASHINGTON, May /. = The
modified propose lof Henry Ford for
the Muscle Shoals projects was taken
up by the senate agriculture commit
tee today for investigation. w. B.
Mayo, chief engineer for Ford, ex-
planned the offer.
Mayo told the committee a secret
process for making cheaper fertiliz-
ers had been found and is intended
for commercial use at the nitrate
plants at Muscle Shoals. He said
only Ford and members of his inn
mediate fanny lwould be interested
financially in the operating company.
Miss Verna Johnson is spending
some time in Virginia with friends.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
PEONACE
CASE COMES Up
Ex-Governor Of Florida To Seek
Dismissal in Federal
Court

PENSACOLA, Fla, May /. = The
ease of Sidney j. Cats, former gov
ernor of Florida, under indictment
for peonage, was excepted to. occupy
the attention of feedral court which
began the spring term here today.
1t is understood Cats will attempt
this week to have Judge Sheppard
dismiss the charge, and if the court
refuses to do so the government will
ask that the case go to trial early in
the term.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
u. S. CAPTAIN WOUNDED
IN MAYENCE MAY DAY

MAYENCE, May 1.-(By Asso'
ciated Press. During the May Day
demonstration here today a captain
of the American army was wounded
by manifestants.
Quiet in Paris.
PARIS, May 1.-(By Associated
ss,)-May Day in Paris opened
quietly. The Building and Allied
trades were on holiday and taxicah
service was suspended, but the rail
ways, tramways and subways were
in operation on reduced schedules
Communist and Socialist newspaper;
did not appear.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
100000 POUNDS SEIZED
BY IRISH REPUBLICANS

BELFAST, May 1.-(By Associat-
ed Press. More than one hundred
thousand pounds sterling has been
taken by Irish Republican army ir-
regulars in raids on various branches
of the Bank of Ireland in the South,
it was reported in Belfast today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01

to consider Almost anything might
happen then---in spite of the four.
power treaty"
The possible Germanization of
Russia and the likelihood of the Ger
man-Russian treaty growing into a
military allowance were put into
questions.
Germany can put Russia to
work." said Baruch. '"That would
make an unbeatable combination
from both an economic and q mill
tary standpoint. 1t would be COM
bination of brains, determination
man power and materials.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
BOMB DROPPED NEAR
AMERICAN MARINES.

LONDON, May 1,--An airplane
used by the Chilli forces, flying from
Taotinguf to Fangtai, dropped a
'bomb, but without much damage,
near train carrying a detachment
of American marines to Peking, says
a dispatch to the London Times
from Peking.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
S NEGROES KILLED IN
ROOMING HOUSE BLAST

KANSAS CITY, May Five ne
groes were killed and a number of
other injured early today in an ex-
plosion in a rooming house, the cause
of which has not been determined.
The building was wrecked.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
BRITISH SHIP ON REEF.

GALVESTON, May 1.-The Brit
ish steamship Victoria Del Arrinaga
was wrecked yesterday on Muchoir
Reef, sixty miles north of Haiti, ac-
cording to message received here
today from the master of the Afleri-
can steamship Lake Fairlie.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
ARKWRIGHT HoNoRED.

ATLANTA, May Preston S.
Arkwright, president of the Georgia
Railway and Power company, has
been selected to deliver one OF the
four main addresses before the in
ternational convention of Rotary
clubs, meeting in Los Angeles June
4 to 10.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01

Miss Susie Taylor left today for
Albany to spend the weekend with
Mrs. Agnew hilsman at her home
there.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01

WASHINGTON, May l. - The
packers and stock yards act of 1921
was declared constitutional today by
the Supreme court.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
LATE NIE.AeSt
BULLETIN

WASHINGTON, May IA bill
amending the federal reserve act so
that state banks with capital of
$4,000 may be permitted to enter
the feedral reserve system was in
troduced in the senate today by Sen
ator w. j. Harris, of Georgia, as a
further step in the program of ex-
tending aid to agriculture. The pres
ent law requires bank must have a
minimum of $4,000 capital.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
WASHINGTON. NAV l. =

WASHINGTON, May 1. The
Emergency Fleet Corporation of the
United States Shipping Board is not
a governmental agency in the sense
that it cannot be sued without its con-
sent, the Supreme court today decid~
ed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
MARKETS
AMERICUs SPOT COTTON.
Strict middling, II 1-8 cents.
LIVERPOOL COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, May /. = Market
opened quiet 5-7 up. Fullys, 1888.
Sales, 5000 bales. Receipts, 27,042
bales, of which 23,736 are American.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-01
WEATHER FORECAST

For Georgia-Partly cloudy to-
night and Tuesday; probably unset
tied ON the cast; little change in
temperature.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
Lord Astor Doesn't
Care Much For
Title
By MILDRED MORRIS,
International News Service.

BALTIMORE. April 28.-Lord
Waldorf Astor. husband of Lady
Astor. American-born and the
son Of an American, who be-
came an English citizen and ac-
quired a peerage, apologized
yesterday for his title.
"You see. l didn't want it
and ! didn't want my son to
inherit it," he said. "But in
England the only way you can
lose a title is to die or to have
it removed by an act of Par
lament.
"The English Parliament has
been too busy with peace meas
ures and things to give the nee
essary time to changing me
back to a red .blooded man.
"And 80 | have to continue
to be blue-blooded."
81 have always been blue
blooded," put in Lady Nancy,
formerly of Virginia, teasing
ly. "We Yankees have always
been red-blooded," retbrted his
lordship.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
WIRELESS TO BROADCAST
MESSAGE FROM SPIRITS

PHILADELPHIA, April 2S.-From
a radiophone station in Chicago
spirit messages will be broadcast to
spiritualists throughout the country,
Mrs. M. E. Cadwsllader, Of Chicago,
yesterday told delegates attending
the fifteenth annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania Spiritualist Associa
ton. Mrs. Cadwallader, who Is edi-
tor of a spiritualist magazine and IA
ce-president OF the National Spir-
itualists' organization. said that she
and John Slader, a Chicago medium.
had made plans to broadcast all mes.
sages received from spirits during
the present convention.
The delegates adopted o resolution
recommending legislation to recog.
nize spiritualism as a religion.
George Warren, of New York,
president Of the national association
urged the spiritualists to oust all
fakes from their ranks. The power
of prophecy is real, but mediums
cannot do their best work, he said,
when they are laboring under the
apprehension that every caller may
be planning their arrest.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
BAD DIPLOMACY
/. |SbLAMEDF FOR
BEGINNING WAR
Newspapers overSated Ability
of Professional Diplomats,
Writer Asserts.
By International News Service.

LONDON, April 2S.-"The world
would never have been plunged
into the catastrophe of the world
war II the press had not overratsd
professional diplomacy. thereby en-
trusting to the diplomats the most
vital questions"
This is the view OF Sigmund
NUM-, who, writing on diplomats in
the Contemporary Review, analyses
the characters, deficiencies and pre-
tensions OF many of the leading fg-
ures in European and American pre-
war diplomacy. He Is further OF
the opinion that postwar diplomacy.
both in England and America. SUI
fers from Ignorance.
"A distinguished participator In
the Paris conference has told me
incredible things about the ignor-
ance of Central European condi-
tons tha. prevailed there" he re-
lates.
And, strangely enough, they
were generally Anglo Saxon diplo-
mats who proved themselves to be
ignorant.
How much" he continues,
could / tell you of the shallow
ness Of the American diplomats with
whom I have come into cntact!
II have met men like Marsh.
Andrew White, Elihu Root, Oscar
Strauss and others, but they were
all men who had distinguished
themselves in other ways than the
trade of diplomacy.
American diplomats he biandly
and confidentially tells his readers.
ARE by no means the pick of their
country and were not infrequently
people who had helped President
with money or influence in his
campaign.
America has had excellent and
well-informed representatives abroad,
especially in England.
II shall avoid details about the
American embassy in Vienna dur
ing the last thirty years. But the
inner life of the majority of these
diplomats consisted OF petty social
vanities. and If ever their diaries
see the light OF day they will reveal
that the height of their ambition
and fame was reached at those
hours which saw princes OF the
blood at their tables"'
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
BRYAN AGAIN INVITED
TO SUNDAY SCHOOL MEET

COLUMBUS, Ohio. April 2s-
Resistance OF an invitation to
William Jennings Bryan to speak
at the international Sunday School
convention at Kansas City next
June, was decided upon yesterday y
at a meeting OF the convention
program committee. Withdrawal of
an invitation extended Mr.. Bryan
last December had brought numer.
Gus protests.
Yesterdays action was taken
after consideration had been given
to these protests and representa-.
tations had been made by a delega.
ton from Kansas City.
In announcing that Mr.. Bryan
again would be asked to address
the convention, the committee in a
statement reiterated former denials
that withdrawal of the previous
invitations had been caused by Mr..
Bryan's religious or theological be.
liefs.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
ANGUS A|RMAN
|. WILL ATTEMPT 7
WORLDJ0URNEY
Mai. w. T. Blake Will Try
Flight Which Brought Death
To Sir Ross Smith.
BY FORBES w. FALRBAIRN,
Universal News Service.

London. April 2s.-Just two weeks
after Sir Ross Smith crashed to
death while testing the machine in
which he proposed to make a flight
around the world, announcement is
made that Maj. w. T. Blake is TAX
ing up the project Of the world
flight and will start at the end OF
May.
Major Blake was the British
aviation expert for Universal Serv'
ice and the London Daily News dur
ing the world war. and wrote q
number .of articles which were
widely read. He is famous in the
royal air forces. had brilliant war
record, and is regarded as one OF
the keenest pilots in the world.
The navigator on the world triI
will be Capt. Norman Macmillan
who accompanied Major Blake wher
the latter covered the Moroccan wal
by airplane in 1921.
On his world trip Major Blake
expects to fly eastward, and vii
try to complete the flight in sixty
days.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
GIRL, IS, AIDS DETECTIVES
ARREST ALLEGED THIEF

NORFOLK, Va, April 2S.-A
pretty young girl detective" yes
terday aided police in the arrest of
Louis Plunger, alleged to have abb
seconded with $4,000 in funds of
her fathers company in New York.
The arrest was made at the Fair
fax Hotel. Louis Plunger, alias
Louis Fox, New York, was arrest
ed on a warrant charging burglary
and larceny.
The girl, Virginia Furman,> fif-
teen years old, came to the station
and told detectives her father had
been robbed recently in New York.
She said he had notified her that
Plunger was to be at the Fairfax
Wednesday night or yesterday, and
gave police a description of the
man.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
GRANT H0N0RS
GRATIFYING To
NLYDAUGHTER
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris-
Jones, Now Chicago Invalid,
Thanks Nation.
BY Universal Service.

CHICAGO. April 2S.-Nellie Grant
Sartoris-Jones, the only daughter
of Gen. Ulysses 8. Grant. the great
commander of the Northern armies
in the civil war. is an invalid In
Chicago. She was overwhelmed by
congratulations yesterday, the CEN
tennial anniversary Of her fathers
birth.
81 am deeply grateful to the peo-
pie of the nation for their affec-
tionate interest in my father" she
said II only regret that my i'll
ness prevented me taking part in
the celebration in his honor.
When a girl Nellie Grant married
Algernca Sartoris, an Englishman.
She was a widow some years when
she married, in 1912, Frank II.
Jones, who is head of the Woodrow
Wilson foundation, and who was
First Assistant Postmaster General
in Cleveland's administration. She
recalled her girlhood today-stir-
ring days during the civil wal, I,
when North and South locked in a
death str6ggle to determine wheth-
er States had sovereign rights.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
SMELL OF BLOOD SETS
BULL ON WILD RAMPAGE

MEDINA, Ohio, April 2s.-A bull
which escaped from the l.. May
slaughter house, near Akron, went
on a rampage after smelling the
blood of a butchered companion.
II gored three dogs, snapped OIL
a hundred, or more, saplings and
broke down three barbed'wire and
two rail fences.
Deputy Sheriffs Scotty Ingerton
and Edward Hutchinson worked
over two hours before they sub
dued and then killed the bull The
animal didn't die until after three
shots had been fired into II.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
MRS. S. M. MORRISON GIVEN
DIVORCE FROM HUSBAND

Mrs. Sarah NJ. Morrison was today
awarded a limited divorce by Justice
Hoehling, of the District supreme
Court. from George J. Morrison.
The wife was recently arrested and
later indicted by the grand jury for
tampering with the mails In connec'
ton with the opening OF q letter ad
dressed to her husband In an effort
to obtain evidence to prosecute her
suit against him for divorce. The
letter. it was testified. was from an
other woman.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
KNIGHTS TEMPlAR PLAN
FUND FOR EDUCATION

NEW ORLEANS, April 2S.-A
plan suggested by Grand Master j.
K. Orr by which $4,000 would be
expended by Knights Templar each
year for the education of American
girls and boys was considered at
some length by the grand encamp-
ment of the order here yesterday.
No decision was reached.
The report of a special committee
recommended 100000 be transferred
from the permanent fund as a
nucleus for the proposed educational
plan that each of the 1000
knights Templar in the United
purpose.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
TAYLOR MURDER LETTER
LAID TO RIVAL EDITOR

SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.-
Rivalry between employees Of news.
papers in Hilo, Hawaii is advanced
by Honore C, 'Connette. former
Rochester, N. Y, newspaper man,
as the reason Nor the authorship of
a mysterious letter which purport.
ed to link him with the murder in
Los Angeles of William Desmond
Taylor, motion picture director.
Connette characterized the letter
as plant by a rival newspaper
man"
II never saw this letter" he
said, until II was shown to me yes.
terday. The letter was unsigned
and apparently built upon things
! said in moment of levity in the
presence Of a newspaper rival in
Hilo. / know absolutely nothing
about the Taylor muredr other
than what is common knowledge" Z"
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
GREAT FIRE is RAGING
IN PROVINCE OF CUBA

HAVANA, April 2S.-A great for.
est fire is raging in the mountain
district of Pinar del Rio Prov
ince, according to a dispatch re.
ceived at the Interior Department
today.
The conflagration is spreading
rapidly. and is menacing all the
mountains between San Cristobal and
Hacienda Sandiego de Tapias.
Great quantities of valuable tropi.
cal timber also has been consumed
and II is feared that the loss will be
enormous before the first is under
control. Not n drop OF rain has
fallen in the section for six months.
All the military forces OF Pinar
del Rio were ordered to aid in check
ing the fire.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
WIFE ADMITS POISONING,
GOES TO PRISON FOR LIFE

PORT ORCHARD, Wash, April
2s.-After celebrating only thirty
minutes. the jury in the case OF
Mrs. Ruth Plumley, charged with
poisoning her husband, Hugh c.
Plummer, yesterday returned a YER
dict of guilty In the first degree.
Mrs Plumley was Immediately SEN
tenced to life imprisonment.
Previous ito presentation of her
case to the jury she changed her
plea Of not guilty to one OF guilty.
She had confessed, according to
county authorities. she had placed
poison in a salad she gave to her
husband March 29. He died a few
minutes later.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
PAMPERED HEN LAYS
ITS EGGS ON CUSHION

ALLENTOWN, r'a., April 2S.-
James Dorney,. Minesite. is the
owner of a pet Plymouth Rock hen
that lays all its eggs on a cushion
in the house.
1t was rather sickly as a chick
and was raised to it's feather stage
in a box under the kitchen stove. In
consequence it always showed pref,
erence for the house and allowed It.
self to be fondled by members of the
family.
Just as some families furnish a
cushion for the pet dog or the cat,
one was provided for Jenny, the pet
hen. II the cushion chanced to be
out of place she struts around and
makes a clucking noise until 1t is
properly placed for her comfort to
do her laying.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
TA[LEYRANDS
To CD EAST ON
HONEYMOON
Anna Gould and Duke Recon-
ciIed and Divorce Plans
Are Cancelled.
BY c. r. BERTELLI,
Universal Service.

Paris, April 2S.-The reported
reconciliation of the Duke and
Duchess Talleyrand was confirmed
today when Maitre Jieules, one Of
the battery of counsel for the
former Anna Gould, appeared in
court and when the divorce case
was called. said:
I'VE expect in a short time to
demand the withdrawal Of the suit
from the records" he told the
court when the case came up in
the First Seine Tribunal. Both
parties to the case have agreed 10
become reconciled."
The duke and duchess are now
on the Riviera preparatory 10
their departure Friday or Saturday
from Marseilles for India, from
where they will go to Tokyo.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
MAJOR EDWARD HEADS
MILITARY SERVICE LEGION

Major C. E. Edward was last night
elected president of the Military
Service Legion of the District of Co
lumbia at it's meeting at the Ma,
tional Guard Armory. Other Officers
for the ensuing year. chosen last
night. are: Capt. William Zea, first
vice president; Major Frank Hodg
son, second vice president; Major
C. A. Meyer. third vice president
and Capt. Thomas A. Green. secre
tary and treasurer.
The next meeting of the legion
will be held on May 1S. Brig. Gen
Lloyd NJ. Brett and Brig. Gen. An
ton Stephans. II was announced last
night. will address the meeting on
that night. Plans are now being per
fected for legion smoker carly this
summer.
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
F0ULKE ASSA|[S
'SPO|LSSYSTEN'
.|NG0VERNMENT.
Former Civil Service Commis'
+ sioner Denounces Recent
|. DisrnissaIs.

Thousands of young men and
women throughout the country
have been frightened away from
Washington" by the recent attacks
on the civil service by Cabinet
members.
This was the report made TO the
National Civil Service RetorIn
League, in conference here.
representative of the largest sys-
tenn of correspondence schools III
the country was sent to Nashins
ton TO seek some hopeful mes-
sage" TO take back to headquar-
tiers. =,
Young men and women all over
the country, who had planned 10
take correspondence school courses
preparing them for civil service
examinations and positions IN
Washington have abandoned the
idea, Il was stated.
Business colleges and correspond
ence schools are suffering TO an
alarming extent, the conference
was told.
Declares Law Violated.
William Dudley Foulke. civil
service commissioner under Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and acting chain
man of the present conference. de
clares the summary discharge OF
the director and thirty division
heads OF the Bureau of EngraV-
ing and Printing was Sin absolute
disregard OF the law"
Mr.. Foulke assailed the FIRST
Assistant Postmaster General, John
Fl. Bartlett. yesterday afternoon at
the opening session Of tie confer
ence and last night met Mr.. Bart
lett in Joint debate IN the Masonic
auditorium. Charges that coterie
of Harding administration leaders
Is seeking to restore 'hc spoils sys-
tenn in the Government depart
ments were made by Mr.. Foulke.
Counter charges that the Civil
Service Reform League is acting
in the interest of Democratic office
holders were made by Mr.. Bartlett,
was chairman of the Civil Service
Commission.
Mr.. Foulke named Attorney Gen
eral II. NJ. Daugherty. Postmaster
General Work. Assistant Postmas-
ter General Bartlett, Assistant Sec
retary OF the Treasury Elmer
Dover, Senator Moses, Senator
New. and Congressman Williams of
Illinois as the "spoilsmen" group
Of the Harding Administration.
worked From Common Plan"
I'VE are led TO believe these gen
tlemen have understood each other
from the beginning and have all
worked from a common plan." Mr..
Foulke declared.
Bartlett, in his rejoinder, declared:
II never did and l never shall
advocate the repeal of the civil
service law. I am for II more than
you, Mr.. Foulke, or any other Of
the cranks who are building a fire
under civil service to destroy it."
A spirited debate for two hours
ensued between Foulke and Bart
lett. both frequently resorting to
personalities.
The meeting last night adopted
a set of resolutions viewing with
apprehension any movement that
may cncroach on civil service re.
form.
At the preliminary meeting of the
conference yesterday, an effort was
made by Mr.. Foulke to have reso-
lutions passed that would condemn
the recent attacks on civil service
reform made by those holding high
offices
The Washington times., 1922-04-28
RETREAT FOR WOMEN TO
OPEN AT MT. CARMEL

The first weekend retreat at the
Mt. Carmel Retreat House for wo.
men. 200 T street northeast. opens
tonight with a sermon by the Rev.
william J. Kerby, Of Catholic Uni.
versity. The retreat will close with
mass Monday morning.
Another retreat will be held next
week, marking the beginning of a
series of weekend missions at the
house. Arrangements have been
made to accommodate business
women at the retreats.
Nightly services will be held nj
Mt Carmel beginning next Monday
and continuing through May. june
and July.