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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
FIRE TOTALLY DESTROYS
FARM HOME OF CHEEK

Fire originating in the kitchen fIue
completely destroyed the overseer's
dwelling house on the farm of j. NJ.
johnson at Huntington Tuesday
morning at 1880 o'clock.
Wade Cheek, well known in Amer
icus and vicinity, had occupied the
home for the past 20 years, and the
fire destroyed all the furnishings
owned by him. 1t was not stated
whether insurance was carried either
on the dwelling or furniture.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
NEW PLAINS ORCHARD
PACKING FIRST PEACHES

PLAINS, June 21.--The promot~
ers of Plains new enterprise, the
Oliver -McGee peach farm, are pack
ing their first peaches for market to-
day. The peaches are the Hiley Belle
variety and are of excellent quality.
Luther Bridges, of Richland, an
experienced grader, is in charge OF
the grading while Stanley Forth, of
Plains, is experimenting the Pack
ing. The fruit viii be shipped to
New Orleans.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
VESUVIUS NOT TO
START ERUPTION
EXPERTS ASSERT
Awakening Of Famous Volcano
Due To Heavy Rains, In
Their O,inion

ROME, June 21.-The activity of
Mount Vesuvius for several days past
has caused considerable alarm in the
surrounding villages, but experts con
slider the alarm groundless, attribut-
ing the awakening of the volcano to
heavy rains.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
MARIE BESSARABO GUILTY
OF SLAYING HUSBAND

PARIS, June 21.-(By Associated
Press. Mrs. Marie Bessarabo
poetess and playwright, was found
guilty today Of the premeditated muir
der of her husband, Georges Bessa-
rabo, whose body was found con.
cealed. She was sentenced to twenty
years at hard labor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
DRAWS TWO
DAYS ADDITIONAL
Barnbino's Argument With Um-
pire Before Game To Cost
Him Just 81, 500

CHICAGO, June 21-(By Asso-
ciated Press Babe Ruth's argu-
ment with the umpire before the New
York Cleveland game yesterday will
keep him out of the game an addi-
tional two days, President Ban john
son announced today.
The suspension is without ray,
Johnson said, thus costing Babe
$1,500.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
VETERANS START
BUSINESS SESSION
Memorial Exercises Held AtNoon
Today Election OF Officers
On Calendar For Day

RICHMOND, June 21.- (By AS
sociated Press.) THE election of Of
ficers, the choice of the next conven-
ton city and reports of important
committees were in order when the
Confederate Veterans on the second
day of their reunion, got down to
business today
Memorial exercises were held at
noon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
SMALL TRIAL
NEARING END
Final Arguments Started At
O'CLOCK Before Judge
Edwards

WAUKEGAN, June 21. -(By
Associated Press.) Final arguments
an the case of Gov. Len Small began
at l o'clock this afternoon.
The state made an unsuccessful at
tempt to reopen the Ridgely National
bank deal but Judge Edwards de-
cllned to reverse his ruling of yes
terday, barring this evidence from
the case.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
FORMER PREMIER
DIES AT ROME
Balkan Statesman, Prominent AS
Friend of Allies During War
Yields To Angina Pectoris

ROME, June 21.-(By Associated
Press.)-Jake Jonescu, former pre-
mier of Rumania, died here today
after an illness Of several months.
Death was due to angina pectories.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
THOMAS MEEGHAN, 6s
HACKED TO DEATEl

NEW YORK, June 2I.--Thonias
Meighan, 63, was hacked to death
with hatchet by Sabatine Svordoano
in the basement Of bis Brooklyn
home today, when, the slayer alleges.
he found the intruder ia the act of
attacking his 7-yearrold daughter.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
FLOODS MAKE
THOUSANDS HOMELESS.

SOFIA, June 21.-Ten thousand
persons have been made homeless by
devastating floods which. inundated
the suburban districts today result
in gin much damage to live stock, but
no lives. were reported lost.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
SIX KILLED IN GRADE
CROSSING ACCIDENT

MACON. June 21.-Six tourists,
en- route from Fort Lauderdale, Fla,
to Nicholasville, KY, lost their lives
yesterday afternoon when Central Of
Georgia passenger train No 10, from
Atlanta, crashed into an automobile
at the crossing at Lorane, IL miles
from Macon.
The dead are believed to be:
j. P. Taylor, father, Nicholasville,
KY.
Mrs. j. P. Taylor, mother, Nichol-
asyille, Ky.
Mrs. Howard Cox, daughter. Mich
olasvifle, Ky.
Taylor, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Taylor.
Cox, baby daughter of Mrs.
Unidentified man believed to be
Taylor.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
PRO-TREATY PARTY
LACKS MAJORITY

DUBLIN, June 21.-(By Associat-
ed Press.) approximate represent
alton of the various parties in par
lament chosen at last Fridays cleo
ton as shown by reports up to this
afternoon, was: Coalition-Tr Treaty,
"a; Coalition Republicans, 33; Labor,
IA; Farmers, 9; Independents, 10.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
Z LARGE NOMINATED
ATLANTA POSTMASTER

WASHINGTON, June 81. - The
pres lent yesterday nominated Ed
win n. Large to be postmaster at At
lanta.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21

Seismograph shows another earth
quake. 1t may be the pessimists
shocAed at better times.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
COTTON MARKET
AMERICUS SPOT COTTON.
Strict middling, % 1-2 cents.
LIVERPOOL CoTToN.

LIVERPOOL, June 81. Market
opened steady, l4-7 down. Quota
tions, fullys 1881. Sales, 10000
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21

Thursday; no change in temperature
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-06-21
WEATHER FORECAST

For Georgia = Fair tonight and
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
CARDINAL RATT|
ELECTED POPE
CHOSEN ON THE SEVENTH BAL
LOT OF THE SACRED coll
LEGE.

Rome, Feb. 6.-Cardinal Ratti
was today elected Pope on the sew
enth ballot of the sacred college. He
will assume the name of Pope Plus,
the eleventh. The smoke signal from
the vatican this morning was white
and shortly afterwards it was an
nounced that Achieleo Cardinal Rat
ii, an Italian, had been elected to
succeed benedict, the fifteenth. Rat
it's election was not a surprise al
though he was one of the newest
cardinals, having been created in
June, 1921, by the late Pope Bene-
dict. Ratti was robed after the papal
deacons and masters of the ceremony
had been admitted to the chapel. He
then ascended the temporary papal
throne which had been prepared
overlooking the seats of the cardin-
ais. The first homage then was paid
to the new pope by the cardinals in
order. The new pope himself will
designate the time and place for his
coronation This will be the most
magnificent ceremony of all at
tending the death of the pope and the
election of his successor. Cardinal
Ratti becomes the two hundred and
sixty-first pope since the time of st.
Peter
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BAND|TSSHOW
NEW TRICK
TOW STALLED MOTORIST TO
LONELY SPOT--ROB HIM.

Sioux City, Feb. GA new era of
automobile banditry has been
brought to light with the arrest of
Ray Hughes, police authorities al
lege.
The bandits make a practice of
preying on motorists whose radiators
have become frozen. A prominent
Sioux City man, whose name is be-
ing withheld by police until further
investigation Is made, lost $3.50
through this medium.
Here is the police version of the
affair:
Shortly after supper the victim
drove his automobile to the business
district to keep an appointment. He
parked his car in Fourth street near
the intersection of Virginia street.
When he came back after several
Hours he found fluid in the radiator
frozen. Entering a nearby store he
telephoned a garage and was prom
ised that aid would arrive in 10 min
utes. This was at $50 o'clock. The
owner of the automobile went out
side to wait in his car. At 9:40 an
other car with two men In il stopped
alongside.
Frozen up?" questioned one.
"Well, sit right where you are"
The two cars were fastened to-
gether by means of tire chains. At
the mercy of the lead car the victim
was towed through unfamiliar
streets. The garage to which he
thought he was going was left far
behind and his suspicious were
aroused, but there was nothing he
could do. Shouts were unavailing
and to jump from the speeding au-
tomobile meant probable injury to
himself and certain demolition for
the car.
At the place where the robbery
occurred the chains broke and the
two men in the first car descended.
They prodnuced guns and relieved
the victim of $3.50.
Investigation by detectives has es-
tablished the fact that shortly be-
fore 9:40 o'clock on the night in
question Hughes appeared at the
Peoples Livery company, 41S Court
street, and rented a car correspond
ing to the one described by the vic
tim as the one driven by the robbers.
The car rented by Hughes showed
the marks of chain wrapped about
the rear axle when 1t was returned
by Hughes, police declare.
Ray Hughes Is no wunder indict-
ment by the grand jury of Mills
county, Iowa, for the robbery of stor-
es at Hastings, Ia. He is booked for
trial on February 2S and Is now
under $1,000 bond.
The man who is supposed to have
accompanied Hughes on the night of
the robbery has not yet been appre-
hended.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
State Auditor Shows
Tax XatiOn Facts

Pierre. Feb. 6.-volume two of
the report of the state auditor for
1921 has been delivered to the state
auditor, this being the volume which
contains the summary of all expen-
ditures and collections from all sour
ces which come to the state, whether
by tax levies or any source what
ever.
1t also carries a shown of all
county receipts and expenditures, as
well as those of the state, and this
volume will no doubt be much in evi
dence for the next few weeks in at
tempting to make different showings
without really telling what is con-
tanned, but anyone who cares to be
really informed can easily secure the
document for himself and find out
just what 1t actually shows.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
TRIMMING UP
PUBLIC WASTE
DAWES USES HELL AND MA
RE- TO EMPHASIZE NEED
OF ECONOM.

Washington, Feb. 6.--Brandish-
ing broom in either hand, striding
rapidly from one end of the platform
| to the other hand stamping his feet
until the echoes rang in ID. A. r.
hall where the arms conference
meets in dignified session, Charles
G. Dawes, director of the budget,
brought home to more than a thou
sand officials assembled yesterday in
the second business meeting of the
government the appropriateness of
his Hell and Marie nickname. For
more than half an hour he poured
forth criticism and praise alike on
officials of high and low degree.
Stopping suddenly in the midst of
a citation of instances of lack of CO.
operation by governmental depart
ments with budget bureau coordina-
tors which instances he described as
Fly specks' on the bureaus record
of accomplishments, Mr. Dawes sud-
denly shouted:
Where are those brooms?"
Three brooms were produced from
under table by an assistant.
There" the budget director ex-
claimed, pounding the floor with the
handle of one of the brooms, ''is
your broom that meets navy specifi-
cations. And here are brooms that
do not meet those specifications, but
sweep just as we'll. The navy bought
$4,000 of its specification brooms
when it could have had $4,000 ar
my brooms for nothing"
The budget director went on to
say it took a months persuasion to
make the marine corps adopt a
slight change in color in order to use
100000 army shirts and save $24,-
600. He told Secretary DENLY, how
ever the record of the navy for CO.
operation with the bureau was the
best of the departments.
AS an instance of cooperation in
the treasury, he declared that when
it was found there were IS differ
ent purchasing agencies in that de-
partment, their cooperation was af-
fected without delay.
Secretary Mellon is a business
man." he added.
Legislative and executive heads of
the government determine how the
ship SAIL" but the budget bureau
determines how far she sails" Mr..
Dawes said at another point, and
added:
''If congress should decide that
garbage should be spread on the
white house steps-much as we love
the PRESIDENT would be for the
budget bureau to advise how the
largest amount of garbage could be
spread in the most economical man.
ner."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
Arbuckle Trial
On March 18th
San Francisco, Feb. 6.-Roscoe
Arbuckle must go to trial for the
third time on March 13.
Twin Babies And
No Explanation

Omaha, Feb. Carl Fisher, a
railroad man, was brought back
from Curtis, Neb., by Deputy Sheriff
Charles Johnson on charge of nom
support of wife and child, filed by
his wife.
"A year ago." Fisher told the dep
uty, my wife asked me to get her
a pass to town In Iowa.I did. She
had been gone about four days when
I got a telegram rfom her. 1t read:
Come home at once. Big baby boy
/ went home and found her with
twins, six months old. She refused to
tell me where she got them. l sued
for divorce. Later she offered to tell
me where she obtained the twins If
withdrew the suit. did this and
she still refused to tell me the Sc
cret. That's why I left"
The twins, Carl and Eleanor, now
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
MAY DECREASE
ARMY OFFICERS
WOULD REDUCE NUM-
BER TO 12,OOO-TO RAISE
STANDARD OF PERSONNEL

Washington, Feb. 6.-Passage by
congress Of the war departments
bill for reduction to approximately
10000 the number of commissioned
army officers would permit, General
Pershing explained today, the as
signment of highly efficient Off
GERS of the regular establishment of
the army with national guard or
ganizations and the organized re-
serve. He said, in addition, the reg
ular army would be greatly improv-
ed by training and administration
under officers who remain in the
service.
"Only officers fit for any duty, "
he said, will remain, and of course.
that is what we want. They will be
used for development of the citizen
army which / consider the most i'm
portant thing from a military stand
point ever presented to this country.
The passage of the bill will raise the
standard of officer personnel very
much, and one efficient officer is
worth several inefficient.
''The high class of officer mater
ial then will be sent to the service
the nationa l guard and organized
reserve. That assignment will do
much to create in those two ele-
ments a feeling of actually belong
ing to the army of the United States
which they do.'
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
Work For Farmers
In F e bru ar v

Brookings, Feb. 6.-The follow
ing are timely reminders from State
college experts on things to be done
by farmers during February:
Clean seed grain-Seeding time
will be here before we know 1t. Is
the seed grain clean and free from
weeds? Sue the tanning mill. Look
for noxious weeds, such as thistles.
dodder and quack. If there is any
doubt, send sample for purity ex-
animation to Mathew Fowlds, agron-
omy seed laboratory State college.
Quarters for brood sow-Members
of SOW litter clubs should do every
thing necessary to furnish dry, warm
and comfortable quarters for sows
which are soon to farrow. Have the
pens in good repair with pig rails
in position and plenty of dry, warm
straw. Refer to instructions on
feeding the brood SOW before far
rowing times.
Test seed corn-Corn club mem
bers should secure their seed and
make a careful termination test
during February. Success of the
work depends upon 100 per cent
termination seed and there is no
time to do this testing after the
spring work starts in March.
Treat hens for lice-Now that you
have time, treat your hens for lice.
They will appreciate it and repay
you in extra eggs and lice-free
chicks. Try sodium fouride--one
treatment does the business.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
BOOtleggers Clog
Sioux City Sewers

Sioux City. Feb. 6.-Sewers in
North Riverside went dead" yester-
day.
City engineers were rushed to the
suburb to investigate.
They found several wagon loads of
corn ''mash" had been dumped into
the sewers by thoughtless moonshin-
ers. The mash was removed and
housekeepers in that suburb now
can dump dishwater into the sink
without being in fear Of ''back
flow"
City officials are considering the
advisability of providing garbage
can for the moonshiners, so that the
city sewers will not again be clogg-
ed.
The bootleggers still are at large.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
FIVE TREATIES
ARE SIGNED
SIMPLE CEREMONIES INCIDENT
TO THE CLOSE OF THE ARMS
LIMITATION CONFERENCE.

Washington, Feb. 6.-The five
treaties, memorable products of the
Washington conference, were signed
today with sober simplicity typically
American. In the stately d. A. r.
hall, beneath the vari-colored ban
ners of the nine nations represented
here, occurred the ceremony which
crowned three months of arduous la
Dor, a labor marked with more fruit
full results toward peace than CEN
turies of dreaming after such
achievements. 1t was a stirring
scene.
A distinguished company headed
by President Harding saw the dele
cations of nine nations represented
file to the table within the center of
the great hall, attach their sigma
lures carefully and file back to their
places around the great horseshoe
table which had witnessed so much
making of history in the past twelve
weeks. President Harding, the
cecermony done, addressed the gath
ering, the work his invitation had
put in motion at last at an end. His
speech, sort of God speed to the
delegates, was also a sort of bene-
diction on their noble work.
The final session of the confer
ence opened shortly after 10 o'clock.
The conference adjourned sine die
shortly after IL o'clock.
The treaties signed by the five
major powers, America, Great Bri-
tain. France, Italy and Japan. were
the naval limitation and the joint
poison gas and submarine limita-
tion document. America, Great
Britain, France, and Japan signed a
supplement to the four power Pa
cific treaty defining clearly what ia
pans insular possessions are. Nine
powers signed the Chinese customs
document and the Chinese policy
treaty giving China a new deal and
a new place in the sun. The treaties
now go to the respective legislative
bodies of the powers for ratification.
President Harding eloquently
praised the conference as having
lighted the torches of understand
ing which ought to glow and encir-
Gle the globe" He predicted future
conferences to carry forward the
work begun by the conference on
arms limitation and the way TO ever
lasting world peace.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
DAKOTA, MONDAY FEBRUARY 1922

tract the powder from bomb left
there at the tiree that Francisco VIII
la, with his forces stormed the town,
according to dispatch received to-
day in San Antonio by the newspa-
per La Prensa.
The children were at play when
one of their number found the gren-
ade near the powder house in which
an explosion recently took place.
One of the children held the machine
in his hands while another drove a
nail into it so they could get the
powder.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
l Big Fire
At IrOquOis

Iroquois, Feb. 6.-Fire of un-
known origin starting in the Abbott
drug store here, famed by the high
wind of early yesterday morning, got
beyond the control of firemen and
spread to the Bootee shoe store,
owned by III. Hazel, completely de-
stroying the latter building and all
its contents.
The drug store where the first
started only suffered small dam
age to the roof. The loss was Who'll
ly covered by insurance.
A shipment of $500 worth of new
shoes received by Mr.. Halle Wednes-
day, and which was still standing in
the crates, was likewise burned.
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was thought the victims death was
;v,f

was thought the victims death was
self-inflicted.
He shot himself in the mouth, as
the right side Of his head and the
top were blown off, and it is
thought the firing of the gun set fire
to the straw pile.
He was 80 years old and was a
veteran of the world war. He was in
France for more than two years,
serving on the front line several
months. About a year ago he show
ed signs of insanity, and was taken
to ankton, where he remained for
some time He is survived by his
mother, two brothers and four sis
ters.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1922-02-06
DROP IN FREIGHT
RATES|MPOss|BLE
STATE OF RAIL
ROAD SYSTEMS WILL NOT
PERMIT GENERAL REDUC-
TION.

Washington, Feb. General
freight rate reductions are impossi-
BILE at this time, because of the i'm
poverished state of the railroa sys-
TENS of the country, Secretary of
Commerce Hoover testified today be
fore the interstate commerce COM
mission investigation of transporta-
tion rates levels.
Until rates come down, and rail-
road expenditures for new construc-
tion and betterments climb up, Mr.
Hoover declared, the economic read
justment will move slowly. He add
ed however, that in his opinion rail
way operating costs in which connec-
ton he mentioned wage scale, must
come down and railroad credits
must be bettered before rates can be
safely reduced.
Most of the existing economic de-
preston is due to the spread" be-
tween the prices received by produc-
ers of raw materials and the prices
paid out by commissioners for fin
ished goods, Mr.. Hoover declared.
Railroad rates, like wages, on their
present basis increase this gap, he
asserted, giving this increase spread
as the explanation of the lost pur-
chasing power of the farm popula-
tion.
Expressing his belief that an OPP
portunity to cut rates would be had
H. Mr. bn
was called as a witness by the Unit
ed States chamber of commerce said
it would be an economic crime" if
rates scheduled were not revised to
make basic raw materials transpor-
tation much cheaper as compared
with finished and high grade mater
ials.
Mr.. Hoover's views of railroad
credit brought him into sharp con-
flict with Clifford Thorne, counsel
for shippers and farm organizations
who demanded on cross examination
whether railroad users should be OBJ
liged to pay rates based ION stock
securities issued as bonuses with
bonds, created for promoters prof.
it's and generally, representing no.
i've heard that talk all my life,
rejoiced the secretary, but that com
is dealing with the future,
not the past. Its rates are based on
its tentative valuations of existing
railroad property, not on the mass
of paper in the markets which sells
for a dollar one day and a hundred
the next"
State railroad commissioners GEN.
tered their evidence today upon an
attempt to get passengers fares re-
duced. Clyde M. Reed, chairman of
the Kansas utilities commission, OPP
ened the discussion with an argu-
ment that the present rate of 3:6
cents per mile was economically un-
justified and had operated to reduce
the income of railroads by restricting
their travel.
Fred Putnam of the Minnesota
and J. F. Shaughnessy,
chairman of the Nevada commission,
similar views.
The Pullman company also ap-
pealed to the commission to reduce
the sur-charge on travel in its cars,
estimating the drop in its revenues
from those of 1920, at one million
dollars npr month