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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-23

She had been expecting this for days.
Now that it came it found her, of
course, unprepared Nothing to COM
rlain Of in that; declaration of love
always finds a woman unprepared,
no matter how losg she may have
been preparing for it. The primitive
instinct of flight from the male is
deathless, though it manifest only
as in that one brief moment of
panic which Lucinda knew.
She was glad of the darkness of
that section Of the hotel veranda
where they had been sitting for a
quarter of an hour after returning
from dinner duck.
This had been bound 10 come be-
fore long. One knew the signs in
a man who held his peace about as
long as he could Five weeks
since that night when, in the Vever-
,ly Hills bungalow, she had conclud-
ed that SummerIad'a interest in her
was neither impersonal nor Of
transitory nature e..
The worst<of it was, she was glad.
We'll, Linda?"
She put away her ponsiveness,
smiling to see Summerlad bending
forward in his chair anxiously
sealshing her face for a clue to her
mind but with the anxiety of i'm
patience more than the anxiety of
doubt. He wanted to have her in
his arms. A pleasant place to be;
perhaps; but she wasn't ready yet,
she was not yet sure
WELL my friend" she said in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-23
Gh@e,hqlI
BY LOUIS JOSEPH NANCK1S<@ ~
b Louis JOSEPH

ira ~.
Ju the meantime Lucinda had
moved to the Hollywood Hotel, the
Iontaines to a furnished bungalow
neaGky, where they vainly pressed
her Tto join them. She thought it
wiser to decline.
'I'n far too fond of both of you
to risk living with you," she ex-
planned. Besides, it's high time l
was learning to breathe in proper
motion-Picture atmosphere
This the Hollywood provided to
admiration. Summerlad assured Lu-
cinda, and on her own observation
she could well believe, that at one
stage or another Of their careers al
most every moH6n-picture player Of
consequence in the country must
have registered at this hotel.
With most of these Lucinda be-
came acquainted by sight, with
many she grew accustomed to ex-
change smiles and the time of day.
They made up to her saucily or
shyly, according to the style they
believed became them best. But on
one point they were all agreed they
wanted work. Lucinda spoke to
Lynn Summerlad, and was rewarded
with a worried frown, the first sign
of care she had ever detected in
him, together with some well-chosen
thoughts on the dangers Of contract
ing haphazard hotel and acquaint-
anceships.
First thing you know, they'll be
trying to borrow money from you"
Lucinda was silent for want of a
conscience that would sanction an
indignant rejoinder.
But this is, after all, Hollywood"
"No excuse for doing as the Hol-
lywoodepheads do,
"Then, l take it, you think it
might be more discreet of me to stop
going about with you alone"
"Oh, Lordw Summerlad groaned.
i might've known better than to
start an argument wit ha woman.
don't like to think of any outside
influences working on you just now"
Just now"
'Distracting your attention from
really important matters, like me
and what you're going to do about
me. I'm so desperately in love with
you, Linda"
Lucinda said nothing for a little.
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Don't be stupid, Lynn. +"

"I'm not. l mean it. I can't
very well tell you what l know, but
l do hope you'll take my word for
it and cut this woman out. She's
really not the sort you can afford
to get mixed up with"
You're sure, Lynn? You really
want me to understand she is-what
you're trying to avoid saying?"
"Yes-and more. I'm in earnest,
Linda. l think you might trust me.
After all, l ought to know my way
about Hollywood. I've lived in it
long enough"
"Of course l trust in you, Lynn.
I'm sorry, though. | felt so sorry
for her, she didn't seem one of the
usual sort"
"She isn't" Summerlad gave a
curt, meaning laugh. But you said
you wanted to get rid of me, and
think I'd better go before the old
curiosity gets in it's fine work and
you ask me questions l wouldn't
care to answer
He possessed himself of Lucinda's
hands again and kissed them while
'he looked on with lenient eyes, more
han half in love already. Why,
hen, must she persists in hanging
lire with him? Was it merely crude,
)limordial instinct prompting her to
withstand the male till his will pre-
Vailed? Or was there something
wanting in the man, some lack d.
Vlned by a sense in her subtle,
anonymous, and inarticulate?
Infinitely perplexed, Lucinda lin
gered on where Summerlad had left
ner.
The engine roared as his car
swung down the drive, then changed
IT'S tune to a thick drone as it took
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-05-23
CON b Louis JOSEPH }-4os
Continued from Our Last ISSUE
XIX

XIX
Weeks slipped stealthily away, a
spring ensued like an eastern sum
mer, while delays on delays accumu->
lated and still the day when shoot
ing" SHOULD begin fingered remotely
down tomorrow's dim horizon.
Lontaine had leased studio space
in the Finn plant, which Summer
lad recommended as the most
modern and completely equipped on
the cost. For this the company
was paying weekly rental of fiji
!, hundred dollars. An expensive
executive and technical staff, lacking
only director, was kicking heels of
enforced idleness on full pay. A
story had been selected, an old novel
by moderately popular author to
which linn had III 1914 purchased
all motion picture rights outright
for five hundred dollars and which
he wa now wiling to part with for
ten thousand as a special courtesy
because he had taken such mad
fancy to Lontaine.
A scenario writer warranted By
linn "the best in the business" had
received five thousand for casting
the story into continuity form, the
labor of one whole week, and retired
rejoicing to his hundred and fifty
week inh in tba Zinu Scanar,r danart
ment.
A reading If his bastard brain
child had persuaded Lucinda that
continuity writing must be the mys-
terry its adopts alleged; in fact, she
couldn't understand the greater part
cf it, and what she did understand
somewhat preyed upon her mind.
But I0ntaine seemed satisfied.
Summerlad solaced her misgivings
with the assurance that Potter
Monahan simply couldn't write
poor continuity, and both agreed
that Barry Nolan would know what
to do to make it right when he got
down to work on it.
incidentally. he did: Nolan read it
half-through, thoughtfully SHE'D the
manuscript out of a window, and
dictated a continuity all his own, of
which nobody but himself could
make head of tail, and which at
times in the course of its production
seemed to puzzle even its perpe-
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quis.
Her voice broke huskily OH the
darkness: who are your"
Miss Lee-Linda Lee. Can't do
something"
With startling fury the girl struck
aside Lucinda's hands and at the
same time flung herself back and
away.
mo" she cried thickly. "No, 70,
no! Not you! Go away-please go!'
Continued in Our Next Issue)
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amused indulgence-"so it seems you
love me-"
"How long have you known it?"
Quite as long as you have loved
me-"
"And YOU'D"
81 don't know yet"
He ventured too confidently: 81
don't want to hurry you"
"You couldn't, Lynn. And-you
won't be wise if you count on me. :"
"I'm going to count on you-un-
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SALE AT $I,OO

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SHADES AT SI.OO

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Perfect Rugs, not Seconds; plain
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OUR FAMOUS VICTORIA
SHEETS AT SI.20

Extra size for large double beds,
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used in the sheets would sell for
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here ST.:
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New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
REGULAR SATURDAY
 SPECIAL Regular 3Sc Coffee, 35c lb.
About the Store
 COOKED FOOD LIST

Meat Loaf.
 Bockwurst.
 Roast Ham.
 Baked Ham.
 Boiled Ham. Potato Salad. Baked Beans. Chicken Salad. Y Pimento Salad. Y Cabbage Salad. waldorf Salad. Vegetable Salad. Crab Meat Salad. Corned Beef Hash. Bologna, All Kinds. All Kinds of Pickles in Bulk.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
SUSPECT HELD AS
 SLAYER OF CHILD
Isoarder in Mccarthy Home Unable to Reconcile Facts-Admits Own-
 ing Revolver.

New York, Dec. 29.--A little white satin coffin containing the body of ten year old Theresa Mccarthy, stood today on the spot where her Christ mas tree had been. With her heart pierced by bullet from a .22 calibre pistol, she was found on the floor of the dining room in the Brooklyn home of her mother, Mrs. Pauline Mccarthy, late Tuesday.
 Benjamin Prenderville, a clerk in the Brooklyn post office and board- CT at the Mccarthy home who ad- mitted to police that he owned a pearl handled .22 calibre revolver, is held on a charge of homicide. He was with Mrs. Mccarthy when the little girls body was found and told police he became frightened when he saw the girls dead body and threw away that revolver and two others of larger calibre. Police say Prender- vile has a police record.
 Theresa WI be buried today, after 'equiem mass at St. Cecelias Roman Catholic church.
 Police working on the theory that Theresa found Prenderville's loaded 'evolver under pillow on his bed,
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
America funded.

America funded.
 second--AslS America to assist if
 ascertaining the amount of repara.
 tons Germany can pay, and induce
 France to accept that sum by under.
 taking to cooperate In the defense
 or France against German aggression
 Third-America and England then
 to inaugurate some system of interna-
 tional legal tender, permitting re-
 sumption of international exchange on a sound basis.
 Upon the premise that the outlook is dark unless the mechanism of commerce is stabilized, and that es- sontial to this is fixing the repara- lions irrevocably. without which he says there can be no recovery for Germany or indeed for the whole world. Mir. Strachey submits that the separations problem is insoluble with out preliminary agreement in re- gard to the interallied indebtedness.
 He suggests that Chancellor of the Exchequer Baldwin tell the Wash ington government painly that he has come to pay, and. like bank off1- cial, ask the Americans "how they will take It." Thus 1t would be for the Americans, and not the British, to propose plan. for funding the debt in manner suiting them best, and causing the least possible incon- to the worlds money market.
 Having, by such funding, placed herself in the position of creditor nation England should approach Am erica with ( request for joint action to settle the ihteralIied indebtedness and for advice concerning the rep arations problem. England should recognize, however, he adds, that the American system of govern ment procludes alliances and that dreads diplomatic entangle- nents.
 France, under his plan, would be induced to accept the amount Ger many is able to pay, as ascertained ,y America, by a promise to cancer Ter indebtedness to England, as we'll IS Italy's indebtedness.
 Further, England would promise 0 go to the assistance of France if he were attacked by Germany. Tn jew of the difficulty of the United 'tates entering such an undertaking, would be suggested to the Ameri. ans that they should virtually, if |. ot formally. recognize the British romise to France, and make it clear ow they would view any attempt by ( iermany to disturb the peace of the vorld, and in particular foreshadow { he economic measures which they { vould take should Germany attack , rance" I
 These steps, he says, would pave { le way to the Anglo-American legal z ,nder suggestion.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

ALL DAY SPECIALS Potato Salad,
 18c ID. Chicken Salad,
 45c lb. Stuffed Olives,
 35c pt. Imported Wamco Brand Crab Meat, 45c can Our Own Make Mayonnaise,
 75c at.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
CALVARY CHURCH
 PUTS HAYWOOD OUT
K. K. K. Lecturer Dropped by
 Unanimous Vote of DeaconS

New York, Dec. 29.-The Rev. Dr Oscar Haywood national lecturer fol i the Ku Klux Klan, was discharged from his position as general evangelist of Calvary Baptist church, Wednesday night, where resolutions demanding his dismissal, passed unanimously by the board of deacons, was adopted by members of the church.
 Dr. Haywood was declared busted from his position by Dr. Straton, pas- tor of the church, few weeks ago, when the fact of his connection with the Klan became public, but he re- fused to accept this dismissal as off,
 cial, and declared Dr. Straton had no
 authority to take such action.
 The resolution removing pr. Hay
 wood from his position read:
 Resolved, That the resolution of
 June 26. 1918, and June 29, 1921,
 recognizing the Rev. Oscar Haywood,
 D. D., as evangelist or general evan-
 gelist of Calvary Baptist church, be
 hereby rescinded and his name be.
 omitted from the church calendar so long as Dr. Haywood Is employed in work incompatible with his position as an evangelist of this church." In telegram Dr. Haywood, from
 his home in Mount Giead. N. C., re- gently said pr. Straton was afraid to bring the matter of his position as an evangelist to a conference of the church or to make public statement that he intended to press the matter no further.
 "The former he is afraid to do," he l said further, "the latter he is too | proud to do. Once the matter is | brought to an open meeting the church will split on the pastor and not on me. Calvary church knows it has received naught but good at my hands. Calvary church knows it has reveived mortal wounds in the hands of the present pastor.'
 Commenting on Dr. Haywoods dis missal Dr. Straton said yesterday:
 "The passage of this resolution unanimously, both by the Board of Deacons and the Calvary church in regular business session, is suffi- cient answer to Dr. Haywoods un- founded and unfortunate statement.
 "So far as the assertion that I have given mortal wounds to Calvary church is concerned, I have only to say the trouble which finally culmi- mated during my pastcrate here had their beginnings years before l came to New York And every action [ taken was taken by an overwhelming vote of the church itself on rscom- x
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

tuating to such an extent lately that 1t has been common occurrence for dealers to boost many articles billions of rubles over night.
 These were principally luxuries sought by spectators, the ''quadril- lionaires" and others with loads of the soviet paper cash.
 One day the ruble dropped to S5,- 000,000 to the dollar and two days later Topped back again to 27,000, 900 to the dollar. During this period the street car fare on the Moscow trans was increased in one jump from 500,- 900 rubles to 100000 flor a single ride.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

mendations of the officers of the church after mature consideration of the issues concerned.
 T have no unkind or unfriendly feeling for Dr. Haywood. sincerely hope he may be led to see the error of his present alignment and may be led again in the future to take up the work to which God Almighty called him when He made him a preacher"
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

may be equally long," he predicted. Hence there is no valid reason for hesitating to believe that the begin ming of erosional work seen in the canyon today may be continued until it's completion is realized in the wear ing away of the plateaus and their reduction to nearly featureless low lands"
 Of all parts of the earth, he said, there is no other in which the later chapters of evolution are revealed with such. striking clearness as in the Colorado canyon walls.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
WEIGHS. ONLY SINGLE OUNCE
Scientists See Tiny Machine
 Other Demonstrations

Il Cambridge. Dec. 29.-A typewrite
 weighing one ounce and fitting in vest pocket was brought by Dr. H
 E. Wetherell of Philadelphia to tn
 meetings of the American Associa
 ton for the Advancement of Science
 He devised 1t for his own use. Helt
 between the fingers and upon the pa
 per, the machine writes by means o
 a wheel equipped with rubber letters
 which special devices bring in contac,
 with the paper Dr. Wetherell said
 operation of the writer was slow fir
 the hands of beginner, but an ex- perienced writer could attain a speed of IT words a minute. It almost Is noiseless.
 Plant Process Not Duplicated.
 Dr. Herman A. Spoehr of the Car negie Institute of Washington told that he and his co-workers in IS years of experimentation had been unable Ito duplicate artifcially the photo- synthetic process of plants, whereby plants manufacture sugar out of water and the carbon dioxide of the air, using sunlight as their source of ener- BY. Recently Prof. Baly, distin- guished British scientist, reported that he had succeeded in producing for maldehyde by means of an ultraviolet light, which caused the union of car bon dioxide gas and water. Dr. Spoehr said he had attempted without suc- cess to reproduce this experiment and that the whole matter must still be considered open.
 He explained the conviction that science ultimately would Ming about this artificial duplication. When it was done, he said, the world would have available not only a much greater supply of food, but a much greater supply of total energy.
 The influence of written language upon civilization was discovered by pr. Chi Ii, Chinese graduate stu lent at Harvard He expressed the belief that a picture language such IS that of China and the alphabeti lsed in most countries produced afun- different types of civilza- ion. Use of the alphabet, he said, re- ulted in capacity for charge incapa-a ity for sustaining any idea use of he picture language resulted in in to storm and stress and esistance to changes.
 'The fundamental reason why II ,hina is so slow in being modernized, e added, lis that its language can ot be indexed.
 Grand Canyon Walls Will Wear.
 The Grand Canyon of the Colorado annot get much deeper. but will con inue to widen, under the gradual york of weather and water which reated it, until it's towering walls are o more, pr. William Morris Davis of [arvard University told the associa- on in an illustrated lecture.
 The Colorado cannot cut down it's purse to sea level as it must preserve ,me slope on which to run and carry s load of waste rock to the sea, he id. The widening must go on as /. ng as any plateau-like highlands re- ain on either side.
 The evidence shows, Prof. Davis ,inted out, that this great gash in e earth was not caused by any sud- | m break, but is the result of con- 1ued action of slow weathering and ashing. If the past history of the rth has been long enough for sev- al successive cycles of erosion as e shown in the canyon the future v
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

after the boarder and Mrs. Mccarthy mad departed for work Tuesday and Killed herself accidentally are unable to reconcile the fact that the body was found on the floor in the dining room. while Prendervile insists he found the pistol. with one chamber discharged. lying on his bed when he entered the house Tuesday afternoon.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
PREPARATIONS MAY
 BE SOLVED THUSLY london Editor Outlines What He
 Considers Good Plan

London, Dec. zs.--John St. Loe strachey, editor of the Spectator, under the caption An Appeal to America" supposedly refecting in Q broad way the views of the British government, propounds plan for world settlement as follows: a
 .Ffrst-Get Great Brltain's debt to
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

make possession of the fred card'' a requisite for employment in Texas and Oklahoma oil field camps Mayor c. H. Fulwiler has refused request of
 I. w. w. to open an organization hall
 here or to speak on the streets
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29

Malta, an island in the Mediter- ranean. headquarters for the British Mediterranean feet is 17 nNtles long and s miles wide, is treeless, and has no rivers or lakes, water being ob- tained from springs.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
HOOKED. SHOP
 MUTUAL BUILDING
 118 MAIN STREET

Now for another Saturday Bargain Harvest. Look over the items quoted below and take advantage of them. Some very attractive specials are included in the morning as we'll as the all day specials.
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
I. W. W. ACTIVE

VIII Seek to Organize Among Texas
 Oil Workers a
 Breckenridge, Tex, Dec. 29.-I. w. w, organizers announced today that they proposed to combine all oil, workers in this section to enable them to contend for higher wages and better living conditions.
 The organizers said they intended to
New Britain herald., 1922-12-29
RUBLES IS PRICE OF ONE "FAGv
American Cigarettes Selling for High Price in Moscow-But It's
 Soviet Money

Moscow, Dec. 2s (By Associated Press s)-American made. cigarettes are now on sale in Moscow streets for about one million soviet rubles each.
 The Bolshevik ruble has been fluc-
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which indicated a breach between
England and France at Genoa.
EXTENSIVE SELLING
LOWERS WHEAT PRICE

CHICAGO. April 25-Persistent
selling on the part OF houses with
eastern connections resulted IN a
decided drop In wheat prices Fri
day and was accompanied BY re-
ports that private settlements had
been effected on large contracts call
'ng for delivery of wheat here dur
ing May. The market closed un-
settled az &c 10 sc net lower. with
May at 1.047s 10 III and July
1874 10 1878 Corn lost zeal
10 Ia and oats Il q & 20 81 20
sea g C. In provisions the outcome
was unchanged 20 1Oc lower
II was currently estimated that
private settlement involving as
much as 100000 bushels. and
rendering actual delivery Of that
amount OF wheat unnecessary In
May had been brought about.
Reports Of this kind together
with talk that some leading bulls
were letting go OF their holdings Of
May did much 90 ease the strain
which has recently been apparent I'm
the market in connection with fore
casts Of huge shortage of supplies
OF wheat in Chicago next month.
Smaller holdings OF May wheat
has tended 90 realize profits or 10
avoid losses as the case might be.
with the market meanwhile des-
cend--g rapidly. az times. and show
ing az one STAGE an extreme fan OF
5 Ac as compared with yesterdays
finish.
Corn and oats declined in sym
pathy with wheat. Besides there
was considerable talk 81 large re-
ceipts OF corn after planting Is over.
Provisions We're easier owing 20
downturns IN the value OF hogs and
grain.