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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17
CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT AT
OPERA HOUSE THIS WEEK

So that everyone may have the
pleasure of witnessing this marvel
Gus fight feature Of the Dempsey
Firpo battle of the Century the
management Of the Dudley Opera
House announces that the picture
will be shown continuous from 8
to II D. M, Wednesday and Thurs
day and the price Of admission viii
be reduced to 10 cents for thildren
and 30 cents for adults. These
prices are plus war tax The many
thousands who have witnessed this
picture are loud in their praise OF
it. 1t clearly shows the entire bat
tie although it was very short
there is more action in it than there
is in any other picture ten times
its length.
To start with it shows Dempsey
and Firpo in their training quar-
tiers going through their many set
ting up exercises and bouts with
their training partners. 1t then
switches to the Polo Grounds, New
York, the battle grounds Of these
two giants. The immense crowds
are shown fighting to gain admit
lance, being held back by an army
of police. The interior of the bat
tie grounds with the crowd is then
shown.
Firpo is the first to enter the
ring shortly followed by the cham
| pion who is greeted with thunder
/ ing applause. Dempsey goes to the
challenger's corner and shakes hand.
The pose for the army of camera
men and go to the middle of the
ring for final instructions. After
the ring is cleared the gong is
sounded and they rush at one an
other like wild animals Dempsey
almost falls to his knees in attempt
ing to rush his opponept. After &
few minutes of fast and furious
fighting, the challenger is floored
and then time and time again he
is knocked to his knees by the
champion. Just when many thought
that Firpo was out for good, he
comes back stronger than ever and
after mauling the champion about
the ring, having him in his power
he knocks Dempsey clear through
the ropes. The champion comes
back and the gong saves him from
further punishment The seconC
round is as furious as the first
! After a few minutes of desperate
fighting, Dempsey knocks the Wild
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17
bandit CHASE LEADS
TO ROMANTIC WEDDING
Officer and Nurce Workins On
Chapman Escape Case, Mar
ried in Athens

ATHENS, Dec IA new chap
ter in the escape Of Gerald Chap
man. millionaire mail bandit" was
written Friday wnen Miss Coralea
Ramey, nurse in the case, and 9. 7.
Goree, assistant sidtrict attorney
for the Northern district of Georgia,
were married at the home Of Mrs
r. E. Fullove, where the bride lives.
In the court investigation that
followed the escape Of the convict
that the entire nation was asked
to search for, Miss Ramey was ques-
toned closely because she was the
nurse attending Chapman at the
time of his sensational escape. 1t
was mainly upon her evidence that
two New Workers, Abe Silversteiy
and Dominick Didato, were indicted
in the federal court here for com
plicity in the escape. She was tax
en- to Gotham by court officials to
identify the two.
The official to accompany her
was Mr.. Goree, and it was on this
trip that the romance began. In
New York, she positively identified
the two men who were described rs
Strangers in Athens with satchels
full of money" the day that Chap
man escaped. They are now in jail
in New York awaiting final court ac.
ton to bring them here for trial
The bride is originally from An
derson, S. c., and was a student
nurse at the hospital
Mr.. Goree>' is said to be about
60 years old, and his bride %.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17
'ortruas AAsrtoH

He CONCLUDED Gispass:onately
flat he never could feel Inferior
10 any woman Women might arrest
the attention of the world with
their talents, change laws and
wiring better deal out Of life than
man lad accorded them in the pa t.
put whatever their gifts and what
ever their achieyeme they al
ways had been and always would
We, through their physical disabii.
ties, their lack Of ratioc.nation. o!
constructive ability on the grand
scale. the interiors of men The
rare exceptions but proved the rule
and no doubt they had been cast in
one mould and finished in another
In sheer masculine arrogance he
was more than her match More
over, there were other ways OF
keeping a woman subject.
Did he love her? Comprehen
sively and utterly? Clear thinking
fed with the last of his doubts?
And when a man de-
taches himself from the gross ma
terial surface of life and wings 70
the realm Of the Imagination, where
he glimpses immortality what mat
ter the penalty? Any penalty? Few
had the thrice blessed opportunity
Ii he were one Of the chosen. thr
very demi gods, jeerng at mortals
would hate him
And then abruptly he fell asleep
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17

He went direct from the Office
that evening to Mrs QgIelhorpe's
house in Gramercy Park Dnring
the morning he had rece;ved The
following note from her, and he
had puzzled over it at intervals
ever since.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17

"He examined the fu;l-lenath c.
ture of her painted shortly before
her marriage"
lily 10 meet ner in many moods.
never to weary her with monotony?
He was man OF many moods him.
self What had saved him from
early matrimony was a certain
monotony in women. the cleverest
OF them.
But there must be something be-
yond some subtle, spiritual de-
mand, developed throughout nearly
twice as many years as he had
dwelt on earth; born not only of
an aspiring soul and terrible dis
entertainments, but of a wisdom
that only years of deep and living
experience, no mere intelligence,
however brilliant, could hope to as
semble. He was thirty-four. There
was no possible question that at
flfty-eigAt, if he lived sanely, and
his intellectual faculties had pro-
AOSoCu ulAAAAl pan GU nc hOnAu iOOh
back upon thirty-four as the homage
of life-when the future was a mis-
~ abyss Of wisdom whose brink he
had barely trod. She herself was
an abyss of wisdom How in Gods
name could he ever cross it? Her
body might be young again, but
never her mind. Never Der mind!
And then he had a flasA of insight.
Perhaps he alone could rejuvenate
that mind.
Certainly he could make her for
get. Men and women would be
aged at thirty, but for this benef-
cent gift of forgetting. He
could make the present vivid
enough.
He explored every nook Of those
personalities of his, determined to
discover if he felt any sense of in
feriority to this woman who knew
so much more, had lived and
thought and felt so much more,
than himself-whom he still vision
ed on plane above and apart. No
woman was ever more erudite in
the most brilliant and informing
declensions of life, whatever the
disenchantments, and for thirty
years she had known in varying de-
grees Of intimacy the ablest and
most distinguished men in Europe.
She had been at no pains to con-
ceal her opinion OF their intellecr
tual superiority over American
men. 49,. - -----.--------j
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17
WAYCROSS PAYS HONOR
TO FRANK L. STANTON

WAYCROSs, Dec. 17-Waycross
Friday paid tribute to the dis
tinguished Georgia poet, Frank l..
Stanton, and to the memory Of his
brother, V. L. Stanton, at appro-
pirate exercises held at the start of
the Dixie highway south of Way
cross, stretch of road that the
late Mr.. Stanton was deeply inter-
ested in
Two trees were planted and dedi-
Gated, the Frank L. Stanton sree
and the V. L. Stanton tree. The
pupils of the high school, all Of
whom had through close association
come to know and honor V L. Stan
ton Were present and took part IN
the exercises. Superintendent A.
G. Miller and Jerome Crawley were
the speakers of the occasion. Mrs.
j. /. Walker had charge Of the pro
gram.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17
Xxx (contInusd)

What was 1t she demanded in,
love, that she had sought so ar.
IDENTIFY and ever missed? Could he!
give It to her? Was she merely
glamored once more, caught up:
again in the decisions OF youth,
with her revivifed brain and re,
awakened senses, and this time
only because the man was of a
type novel in her cognizance OF
men? Useless to plead the urge Of
the race in her case. New.
ertheless, many women, denied the
power Of reproduction fell as mis-
takenly in love as the most fertile
OF their sisters. But hardly WON.
an OF Mary Zattiany's exhaustive
experience! She certainly should
know her own mind. Her instincts
by this time must be compounded
OF technical knowledge, not the
cropping inherited flashes playing
about the shallow soil O. youth.
If her instincts had cen
tired on him there must be some
deeper meaning than passion or
even intellectual homolosy. After
all, their conversations, if vital,
had been few in number.
Perhaps she had found, with her
minds trained antennae, some one
OF those hidden layers of person.
atty which she alone could reveal
to himself What was it? She
wanted far more than love-making
and mental correspondence. What
was 1t? He wished he knew. Ten.
derness? He could give her that
In full measure Sentiment? He
was no sentimentalist, but he be.
lieved that he possessed the finer
quality. Fidelity? That was not
worth consideration. Appreciation
of the deepest and best in her,
sympathetic understanding of all
her mistakes and of all that she
had suffered? She knew the an
swer as well as be did. The abil.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17

Bull of the Pampas for home run.
The referee can be seen count
ing him out, and here is where you
can determine whether or not the
refereee gave him the full count.
To miss this picture is to miss a
treat of life time. Come when
you like, and remember the prices
are 10 cents for children and so
cents for adults. plus tax.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-17

with Navy Blues" Christie COM
edy.
Evening star., 1923-12-31
GUARDSMEN QUELL
ARKANSAS RACE RIOT
One Negro Seriously Wounded and
Eleven Others Arrested as
Killing Aftermath.

BY the Associated Press.
FORT SMITH, Ark, December 81
Quiet prevailed today in the Catcher
community, twenty miles from here,
whore q race riot late yesterday re-
suited in the serious wounding of one
negro and the arrest of eleven 9TH
ers as the aftermath Of the killing
last Friday of Mrs. Robert Latimer.
Ten of the negroes arrested are in
Jail at Van Buren, on charges of
night-riding. The eleventh prisoner
was charged with having held up a
party Of white men with a pistol.
The two negroes, Spurgeon Ruck
and William Bettis, charged with
killing Mrs. IAtimer were in Jail at
Little Rock.
National guard machine gunners
uuelled the riot at Catcher yesterday.
The ten negroes held on night-ridlng
charges. were barricaded in log
the scene. They surrendered only
when the troops trained machine
gun on their stronghold.
The riot followed mob demoristra-
ton at the jails here and at Van
Buren, Saturday when Several hun
dred men attempted to lynch Ruck
and Bettis. One mob formed at Van
Buren, Saturday afternoon and dis
Lpersed only after they found the men
had been spirited away. Two hours
later q crowd formed here and threat
ened to storm the Sebastian county
Jail.
For more than four hours Sheriff
Pink Shaw and prominent citizens
held the mob In check, pleading with
the men to permit the law to take
its course. The crowd finally dis
persed early yesterday.
Mrs Latimer, twenty-four years
old, was dubbed about the head and
shot in the back.
Evening star., 1923-12-31

4 CONvICTS TUNNEL
WAY OUT OF ATLANTA
Dig Fifty Feet to Freedom
Through Narrow Passage
Under Walls.
BELIEVED NEAR MACON
Excavating Under Way for About
Two Months.
BELIEVED NEAR MAC
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ca, December 3I-In
the most sensational jail delivery in
the history of the Atlanta federal
penitentiary, four convicts, one a
partner of Gerald Chapman, million
dollar mail bandit, are at liberty
after having wormed their way to
freedom through a narrow fffty-foot
tunnel which ran under the concrete
wall encircling the prison, late yes
terday.
OF the quartet the most notorious
of the fugitives is George Anderson,
who was serving a twenty-five-y year
sentence for participating in the
Sl,OO0.O00 New York mail robbery for
which Chapman was convicted.
Three of the men were thought
Macon. Ga. Three suspects were
seen to alight from the Royal Palm.
a tourist train, as it neared the city
early this morning after a signal
tower man here saw them swing on
board the tender of the train near
the penitentiary early last night.
Crimes Of COnviets.
With Anderson were Hiram Lepper.
NIFTY, sentenced in Baltimore ia 1914
for hfteen years; Ludwig Schmidt, a
German sailor. sentenced in Roches-
ter. n. Y, for ten years for mail rob-
berry, and Frank Haynes, sentenced
months.
The tunnel. barely large enough to
admit passage of human body. was
found to lead from the center of a
small tent in the prison tubercular zone
to a point fifty or more feet away, and
outside the big stone wall.
Move Dirt I'm Buckets.
The wardens and guards were at a
loss to know how the prisoners conveyed
the enormous quantity of loose dirt from
the tunnel to freshly graded spot sew
enty-ive feet away from the tent, but
thought that the passage had been in
process of excavation for perhaps two
months. and the dirt had been smug-
gled to the site in buckets.
A small shovel and lighted miners
lamp were found by officials in the tun-
mel near the exit.
Entrance t0 the tunnel was through
a trapdoor, which had been constructed
in the wooden floor of the tent. Under
the trapdoor was a drop of eight feet
through a hole three feet square. in
the sides OF which had been dug out
small steps.
Then the passage ran HORIZONTALLY to
tho wall, where it curved down under
the foundation until the eight-foot
thickness Of the wall was passed, and
then went straight up alongside the
wall to daylight.
The quartet are though to have es-
caped between 3 and 4 o'clock.
Their absence was not discovered un-
til after the 5 o'clock check-up.
Evening star., 1923-12-31
BROTHER C. ANDREW DIES.
Member of Christian Order Well
Known in Washington.

Brother c. Andrew. Order of Chris
tian Brothers, died this morning at
the Mother House, Ammendale, Md,
after brief illness
Brother Andrew was well known in
especially for his work
among small boys, over whom he is
said to have exerted a big influence.
He was born in F1orissant, Mo. De-
cember Is, 1S4S, and his name in the
outside world was Henry Raptue. He
entered the Novitiate at Carondelet,
Mo. April %, 1868, and his first mis-
sion was in Chicago. Two years later
he came to Washington and was iden-
titled with St. Matthews Institute.
now known as ST. Johns College.
Many years thereafter were divided
between duty in Washington and at
Calvert Hall, Baltimore. Brother An
drew, although eligible for promo
ton and advancement, preferred to
remain in the educational work.
Funeral services will be held We'd
nesday morning at $3.50 o'clock and
interment will be in the Mother House
cemetery, TmmendaIe.
Evening star., 1923-12-31
u. S. TAKES H0N0RS
IN AVIATION FIELD
Summary Shows Thirty-Three New
Record World Flights
Achieved in 1928. +.
LARGEST RIGID SHIP BUILT
Air Mail Sent Across Continent in
Twenty-Six Hours.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 31.y-Unparal-
ieled achievements were recorded in
American aviation in 1923, the twenti-
eth year of mechanical flight, says "A
summary prepared by the AeronauticaI
Chamber of Commerce of America
Establishment of thirty-three new
world flight records, construction of the
worlds largest rigid airship and the
largest airplane; operation of the first
night airway, enabling the air mail to
cross the continent in twenty-six hours,
and development of commercial avia-
ton to new degrees of usefulness, were
recorded as outstanding events of the
year.
Other important developments Were
perfection of the aerial torpedo; non
stop transcontinental flights, progress
in bombing battleships from the air
development of the aerial smoke screen
and deyising of means to refuel planes
in fight.
Advances in commercial aviation dur
ing the year. says the review, lay in
improved transportation of passengers.
mails and express; forest patrol and
crop survey flights, destruction of boil
weevh and gypsy moth by spraying
from air machines, mapmaking, aerial
photography and advertising.
The report deplores the fact that
American commercial aviation, strug-
Cling for popular recognition and
conservative SUPPORT, finds itself five
years after the armistice still lacking
a federal air law and a bureau Of
civil aeronautics- in the Department
of Commerce.
OF the thirty-three world records
twenty-five are credited TO the naval
bureau of aeronautics and eleven 10
the Army air service. The three out
standing speed records, set by Lieut.
A. j. Williams, u. S. N, were:
1. Speed of 266.59 miles an hour
for three kilometers, at Mitchell
Field, New York. November 4.
2. Speed of 243.S1 miles an hour
for 100 kilometers, at st. Louis, Oc-
tober g.
3. Speed of 243.s7 miles an hour
for 200 kilometers. at st. Louis, oc-
tober 6.
Other notable performances were
the establishment of a new duration
record of 36 hours, minutes and
81 second by Lieut.. Oakley Kelly
and j. A. MacReady of the Army
air service, at Payton, Ohio, April 16-
II, later eclipssd by Lieuts. Lowell
II. Smith and j. P. Richter, with a
record of 81 hours, Is minutes and
43.s seconds, at San Diego, Calf.
August 27-2S.
Lieuts. Kelly and MacReady also
made a nonstop flight from New
York to San Diego, May 2-3. cover
ing the 200 miles in. &c hours -
minutes.
Evening star., 1923-12-31
CONDITIONS IN SAAR
IMPROVING SLOWLY
Report to League of Nations Says
All Causes for Anxiety Are
Not Removed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GENEVA, December 31.-Satisfac-
tory from some points of view. the
economic and social situation of the
Saar valley territory causes anxiety,
from others, according to a report re-
cefved by the league of nations from
the governing commission of the dis
trict. The Saar valley. which extends
along the Franco-German frontier,
was handed over to the league for
control during period of years after.
which the Inhabitants by plebiscite
will decide their future political
status
The commission reports that the
territory Is gradually recovering
and that there is large increase in
the gross yield from the mines.
However, the territory as q whole
has not regained its prosperity, the
situation being aggravated by con-
tinual difficulties in transport to the
materials. and by the rise in the cost
OF living which began in August.
Since June the French franc has been
the only legal currency in the dis
trict, replacing the German mark.
The, effort of the governing COM
currency reform at first succeeded
but in August and September some
what alarming increase in the cost of
living set in, the main causes being
the rarity Of credilA difficulties in
obtaining supplies, the enormous rise
of prices In Germany. and the ever
widening use of the gold unit for the
establishment of prices. However,
prices are now lower than in Ger
many. The commission has adopted
measures to deal with the agitation
tendency in labor circles.
q Compilation of results of census
taken last year shows that the total
Saar population Is 713,105. The SUR
face of the territory is 1SS.06s square
kilometers.
The commissioners express belief
that they will be able to cope with
the problem of the cost Of living and
eventually succeed in balancing the
budget.
Evening star., 1923-12-31
ESTABLISH VILLAGES
FOR GREEK REFUGEES
League Commission Members Get
ting Homeless Families
Back on Land.
BY the Associated Press.


SALONIKI, December 31.-The. ar
rival in SalonikI Of Henry Morgen-
thau, former United States ambassa-
dor to Turkey, as chairman of the
refugee settlement commission Of the
league of nations, has officially opened
the greatest project of re-establish-
ing a homeless refugee population
that probably ever has been under
taken. With John Campbell of Great
Britain, the second member Of the
commission. Mr.. Morgenthau made q
brief survey OF refugee conditions in
Saloniki and adjacent territories, af-
ter which the two commissioners pro.
ceeded to Athens to confer with the
government and start drafting plans
for the agricultural settlements which
the league has authorized in its loan
of $25, 100000 to Greece.
At the present time hundreds OF
thousands OF refugees are crowded
into Saloniki, Macedonia and western
Thrace, dependent upon goyernme ent
doles and what feeding; can be given
by British and American relief or
ganizations. The Immediate purpose
of the commission Is to establish the
agriculturalists among them upon the
untitled lands of Macedonia and west
ern Thrace. This involves scientific
estimate of the nature Of soils, the
division of the refugees into groups
such as wheat, tobacco and vine cu1ti-
vators for assignment to various dis
tricts, and the providing of houses,
barns, live stock, implements and
seeds which will enable them to get
into production.
The commission will follow the Rus
sian system OF building villages ad-
joining agricultural lands. Each set
tlement will consist of about 1000
acres. Houses will be constructed
and tools and seeds supplied. Land,
buildings and equipment will ulti-
mately be offered for sale to the ten
ants on the installment plan of pay
ment. Mr.. Morgenthau believes such
loans will be repaid in from twelve
to fifteen years.
It Is hoped that agricultural banks
may in the future, relieve the COM
mission by handling portion of the
land contracts. Later efforts will be
made to interest foreign capital in
the drainage of the Strouma and Var
dar valleys, which would result in the
reclamation of large areas of ex-
tremely fertile land. No distinction
has been made between Greek and
other Anatolian refugees in drafting
the plans. of these refugee settlements.
ments.
Evening star., 1923-12-31
JOBS FOR VETERANS
ASKED BY PRESIDENT
Urges Labor Federation and Com
merce Chambers to Pro.
vide Places.

President Coolidge has called upon
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States. the American Fedora
tion of Labor and the chambers of
commerce in all larger cities to help
provide jobs for rehabilitated vet
GRAMS Of the world war;
This was made public today by
the Veterans Bureau in giving out
texts of letters by the President to
Julius H. Barnes of the United States
Chamber of Commerce. and to Samuel
Gompers of the Federation of Labor.
Referring to the good that has
been accomplished, the Presi-
dent says: There is still much to
be accbmplished for the approxi-
mately 10000 who are still in train
ing and who are to become ready
for employment at the rate of about
5000 per month. Assistance is asked
in placing these men and women in
employment immediately following
their rehabilitation, and in following
up such employment with view to
making it continuous"
Evening star., 1923-12-31
Changes in Stations of
Army and Macy Officers
Of Interest to Capital

Mai. G. H. Mccoy. field artillery at
Indianapolis. Ind, has been detailed
to duty with the Tennessee National
Guard at Murfreesboro; Capt. I. d.
Offer, oath Field Artillery. with the
Ohio National Guard at Cleveland;
Sergt. Bradley Egan, field artillery,
at Fort Adams, r. u with the New
Hampshire National Guard at Man
chester. and Sergt. William Burns,
with the New Jersey National Guard
at East Orange.
Maj j. f. Roohan, Medical Corps,
has been transferred from Fort Sher-
idan, Ill, to the proving ground,
Aberdeen, Md: Lieut.. Col. L. 8.
ChappeIear, adjutant general, from
the philippines to San Francisco: LIST
Lieut.. w. NJ. flanagan, air service,
from Langley Field. Va, to the Phil
ippines. 81
Technical Sergt. David Maxwell,
Signal Corps, at, Fort Benjamin Har-
rison, Ind. and Private Ossie o. Bur-
roughs at Fort Myer, Va, have been
placed on the retired list on account
Of age. -------.-..-..aa1