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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-24
PLAINS

PLAINS, Dec. 24.-The Metho-
dist, Baptist and Lutheran> conqre-
cations here have planned q com
munlty Christmas tree 10 be placed
IN the oak grove downtown Tues
day night at z o'clock
A short and intcres3ing program
las been arranged for the occasion.
Community songs VIII be lead BY
q. R. Stewart.
A cordial invitation is extended
70 the community and ii is hoped
ne affair will be largely attended.
MIS-. Mark Chambliss spent
Tuesday in Columbus.
Miss Laura Caughmann, who is
attending Wesleyan college In Ma
con, came Wednesday to spend the
holidays with her mother, mrs. au-
a Caughman.
Misses Aanibcl wi and Nellie
Arnold, students at Georgia State
College for Women, MilledgeVilIe,
came Thursday to spend the Christ
mas holidays with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Wise and Mr..
and Mrs. w. r. Arnold.
1Ir. and Mrs. Frank Zimmerman
have recently moved into their
handsome new home Just completed
and modern throughout.
j. S. Pope, of Panama City, has
Joined Mrs. Pope in visit to
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Re Logan.
Rey. O. L. Evans, pastor Of Plains
circuit, arrived from Byromville on
Thursday with his family and they
were warmly received by members
of the congregation as well as by
other residents in the community.
He has entered already on his pas
toral duties. Rev. Jason Shirah
was sent to Byromville by the re-
cent conference. Rev. Shirah and
family made many close friends
here who regretted to see them
leave to reside elsewhere.
j. R. Logan and j. + Plexico re-
turned Wednesday from a trip on
several days to points of interest in
Florida.
Clifford Oliver, of Worcester,
Mass, is spending two weeks with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r S.
Oliver.
Miss Susie May Davis, of Rey-
nolds, is spending some time here,
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WHAT

Farmers will be interested in this:
international Institute of Agricul-
ture announces that the worlds
1923 wheat crop totals around
1900 million bushels. This meaa,y
IL bushels for every 100 bushels
grown in 1922. The alleged law Of
supply and demand didn't wait for
rms news. 1t always plays safa-
ana on the wrong side, as far as tie
farmers interests are concerned
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-12-24

ANY Man or Woman With $2.98
Can Get the Fest Pair of Shoes
Ever Sold in Americus for the
Price
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Lot No. l for Men-Are genuine
Goodyear Welts OF fine Kid Skin,
Gun Metal or Calf; nearly all with
rubber heels, high or low cut. Any
Shoe in our house Wednesday and
Thursday, Dec. 26th and 9th
pair ..1-.---...... .............. $2.98
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Oh. Horx Fortunate !

Oh, How Fortunate
Conductor-This is smoking
car, madam.
Young Lady-Oh, good. Have
you q niatch?4New York World.
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STANDARD

EACH DAY THE RUSH
GROWS GREATER. CHRIST
MAS PRESENTS FOR THE
WHOLE FAMILY AT LOW
PRICES
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declines to be railroaded into
marriage under parental arrange
ment and with a view to royal
convenience He is not in the
held to play royal politics at
home or international politics in
Europe through marriage. Per-
haps he is in love with some
dashing, intelligent, idealistic, ro-
culture.
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GUESSING is A
LOSING GAME

GUESSING is A
LOSING GAME
No one can guess a com
ing catastrophe
The business man never
relies upon a guess
You can't out-guess a fire
or an accident
You may be most in dam /
ger when you guess you
are safe
Insurance only out-guesses
the unexpected
Win the game Of chance
INSURE!
We can give you all forms
of Property Protection POLL
cies.
BRADLEY HOGG
Phone 1875
Representing the
ALLIANCE
INSURANCE CO,
OF PHILADELPHIA
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HAVE LUNCH
With Us

Sandwiches, Hot Chocolate,
Tomato Bouillion, Hot Cof-
fee, all hours during the day,
at
Ameficus Drug Co.
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Lot No. 2 for Women-Includes
all Women's Shoes in stock, high or
low cat. Some of them have just
been received, The styles are the
best, and sizes are almost complete.
Many Of them are worth double the
price we are asking for them We'd
uesday and Thursday. Choice Of
any pair in the house -.$2.98
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CALIFORNIA

That state of many wonders,
California, has the highest place
above sea level in our country, also
the lowest below. The highest Is
Mount Whitney, sol feet above
the sea. The lowest is Death Val
ley, 276 feet below sea level. The
two places are less than 90 miles
apart.
The greatest ocean depth is about
40 miles north of the island of
Mindanao in the Philippines. The
water there is over six miles deep.
Two Mount Whitneys could be
piled on top of each other in this
water hole without coming much
closer than mile below the sur
face.
What is news? This is-to most
people.
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~ ~
VOLCANIC

Two enormous geysers are spout
ing two million cubic feet of mott
en- lava every hour from the Kilaussl
volcano in Hawaii, says a radio
message to Department Of the In
terror.
In Abraham Lincoln's day this
news wouldn't have reached Amer
lea for couple of months. Now
it comes within a few minutes. But
we don't see how this particular
brand of speed makes life more en-
joyable or interesting. Most of us
forget that we have all eternity
ahead of us.
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Children's Shoes at $1.s8.
New styles, excellent quality,
most all sizes in the lot Choice of
the whole stock Wednesday and
Thursday, pr. .......-,..-....,.--....-$l SO
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see the High Piles of Merchan-
d1issse ~ Have Here at Clearance
Prices. Many Prices Are Just
0ne-HaIf of What They Were
Two Days Ago.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
SACCO ON HUNGER STRIKE;
LAWS DELAY is CAUSE
Man Whose Conviction Was Fol-
lowed by Radical Protest De-
spairs of Freedom.

BOSTON, February "a Nicola
Sacco, who was convicted with
Bartolomeo Vanzetti of the murder of
two pay roll guards, at South Brain
tree. on April Is, 1920, and in whose
behalf radicals in North and South
America and Europe have conducted
demonstrations, has been on hunger
strike since February Is, in the
county Jail at Dedham, the Sacco-
NanZetti defense committee announc
ed last night.
Sacco, on entering upon hunger
strike. declared that he was discour-
aged and hopeless of securing justice.
He protested his innocence. Motions
for new trial will be heard on
March IL. Four motions were to have
been heard on February 3, but the ILL
ness of the trial judge resulted in a
poStponement. In statement by the
defense committee. Sacco was quoted as
declaring that he meant to continue his
hunger strike until he had obtained
release from prison, if necessary, even
by death. He said:
ut is now thirty-four months that
I am in prison for a crime I did not
prisonment to continue without pro-
testing. | refuse to eat until ! am
released from prison either alive or
dead My friends have tried to dis
suade me from taking such an ex-
treme stand, but l think it is the only
way
Sacco and vanzetti were found
guilty of the murder Of two payroll
guards employed by the Slater & Nor
rill Shoe Company Of South Brain
tree. They were convicted in Ded-
ham in July, 1921.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
EDARMy WARNED
| OF IMPENDING WAR
.Trotsky and Radek Exhort
Soldiers to Be Prepared
for Conflict.
SOVIET WATCHES BALTIC
Note to Powers Declares Russia
Will Ignore Decisions I'm
less Consulted.
SOVIET WATCHES BALTIC
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, February 24.-The fifth
anniversary of the formation of the
red army was celebrated throughout
Russia yesterday. Leon Trotsky, the
minister of war; is suffering from a
cold and was unable to appear, and
therefore there was no review of the
troops. Trotsky, however, sent the
following message to the army:
I'VE want peace but nobody knows
when the bad intentions of our
enemies will compel us to get into
the field. Let us. therefore, during
the coming year meet every month
and every day us if it were the last
month and the last day OF our pre-
parcdness."
Karl Radck, chief Of publicity for
the soviet government, at Il meeting
held to celebrate the anniversary,
said
Tho red army has not yet accom-
nlished its aims, and must be ready
for coming events. as, despite our
country's peacefulneSS, the threaten
ing situation in Europe cannot leave
1t q mere onlooker, Indifferent as to
whether the German workers VIII or
will not be enSlaYed. or as to who
will rule Turkey, the Turks them
selves or CurZon.
I'VE are moving toward big events
in the near future during which Rus
sia will not be able to stand aside,
as. no matter which way the allies
solve the German entang clement, Rus
sian interests sooner or later will
nc threatened. | can promise in the
name of the committee of the inter-
rationale that in future battles every
national army will have hattalionS
working in their own interests"
George Tchitcherin, the bolshevill
foreign minister. in Il note addressed
TO Italy, Great Britain, France, Ger
many, Poland and Lithuania, an
nounces that Russia. unless she is
consulted, must ignore any decisions
made by the allies regarding Memel
without Russias consent and in the
future must present claims for uam-
ages, as the Baltic port is of vital
interest to Russian trade.
Russia is endcavoring in every way
possible To protect her interests in
former Russian territory.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
30 GET 3-YEAR TERMS
FOR SETTING MINE FIRE
Seventeen Others in Custody of Au-
thorities-Remainder of
Mob at Large.

WELISBURG, w. Va, February "a.
Forty seven men of the mob which
burned the tipple at the Cliftonville
mine, near the Pennsylvania state
line, last July are in custody of West
Virginia authorities. having been con-
victed or entered pleas of guilty to
the indictment brought against them
Sheriff ii. ii. Duvall was killed in the
fighting, and Frank Boda will be
brought to trial next Monday for the
part a grand jury decided he had
played in the crime.
The most spectacular feature of
the longest term of court in the his
tory of Brooke county came when
thirty of the indicted men entered
pleas OF guilty to conspiracy and
were each sentenced to serve three
years in the Moundsville penitentiary
Deputy sheriffs and state policemen,
who hunted the hills around Clifton
Vile after the fight, arrested 10 men,
most of whom had come from AveIla,
Pa, where the attacking party was
formed. The grand jury indicted 220
men, but the remainder have never
been apprehended. All of the indict-
ments were for conspiracy. and in
charged with murder. Four Of the
accused went to trial and were found
guilty. Each was sentenced to ten
years in the penitentiary.
A total of forty-three pleaded
guilty. All other indictments against
the men now under sentence have
been quashed, but the indictments
against those who have not been ap-
pretended will be permitted to stand.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
Scl,,Uab Convinced Business Men
Alone Can Settle Reparations
British and american Governments Nav
Derise Plan, He Says, Keeping U. S.
Out of ENHANCEMENT.

and hnd out what Germany is able to
pay and then help her finance the
payments through large issue of
bonds.
When asked what would happen to
such proposal IL France objected,
Mr.. Schwab said he believed that
France would prove reasonable. In
other words, if two creditor nations
operating together place a sufficient
difficulty in doing anything but to
agree to the plan. Throughout his
talk with the American newspaper
men Mr.. SchWab emphasized the vast
Importance of the recent debt settle
ment between Great Britain and the
United States, declaring that this act
was the key to the whole problem Of
eral times tie steel magnate en-
phatically praised the courage of
Great Britain in accepting the Ameri-
can terms and lauded Ambassador
Harvey and others, who. he said. had
been instrumental in accomplishing
the settlement.
This one act paves the way for
two great nations to cooperate un-
restrainedly toward the solution of
Europe's problems" said Mr.. Schwab,
in laying stress upon the necessity of
Immediate and drastic action. He de-
ciared that American opinion, gem
orally, was against the French occu-
patton of the Ruhr despite great ad-
miration for the French people.
While Mr.. Schwab declared that he
was only expressing the viewpoint of
the average business man, it was none
the less clear to those who heard him
that his views were shared by other
prominent men powerful enough to
make their wishes felt even in France.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
RUSS GRAIN EXPORTS
STOP RELIEF SUPPLIES
American Association Will Ship
No More Food After
March Is.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 24.-The dis
covery that the soviet government
was enriching its treasury through
grain exports at the same time benev-
olent nations were shipping in wheat
for distribution among the starving
Russian hordes led the American Re-
lief Administration to announce last
night that It would cease shipping
any food into that country after
March Is.
Grain shipments to Russia were
stopped several months ago. when
first reports that the soviet was sell
ing the domestic supply were verified
by the association, it was disclosed.
The only supplies going forward
now are food stuffs sufficient for one
meal day for 100000 famine
stricken children. These also will be
discontinued by the association, which
predicted that native supplies would
be exhausted in the spring, leaving
100000 children dependent upon out
side relief.
The administration will continue,
however, to distribute supplies al
ready in Russia. 1t was predicted
this work would be concluded during
the summer.
The action Of the Relief Adminfstra-
tfon follows that Of Sweden. which
recently curtaiIed its aid when 1t
was learned that the soviet was neEo-
tiating for the sale of grain actually
needed to feed its own people.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
MAXIM URGES 5-YEAR
WAR ON BOIL WEEv|L
Plan Calls for Huge Zones Without
Cotton Each Year-Would
Cost $5OO,OOO,OOO.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. February "a
Elimination of the boil weevil by Zon-
ing the cotton-growing area for a pc
riod of five years can be accom-
plished with an expenditure of ap-
proximately s500,000.Oo0, DR.. Hudson
Maxim, noted scientist and inventor.
declared in an interview here.
DR.. Maxim's plan provides for the
dividing of the south into zones, be
ginning at the Atlantic coast. The
first year no cotton would be grown
in a section extending from the coast
800 miles westward. The following
year the 300-mile zone would be eX-
tended $50 miles farther to the west.
thereby overlapping an area $50 miles
in width. This work would continue
until the entire cotton-growin,s sec
tion of the country had been covered.
Let the government appropriate
500, 100000 a year to carry On the
work of zoning and TO reimburse the
farmers for their losses" Mr.. Maxim
said.
Mr.. Maxims plan calls for 4 com
mittee composed of six members of
the naval consulting board. six Army
and Navy Officers and twelve others
to be chosen by the first twelve.
While he Will not officially present
| this plan to Congress or the War
| Department upon his visit to Wash
| ington following his stay in Birming-
| ham, the scientist declared he would
! talk it over with friends in order 10
benefit by their suggestions.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
MAY
STOP BANKRUPTCY
David and Hogsett Continue
Probe Into Cleveland Dis
count Company's Affairs.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, February "a
William l.. David and Thomas IL.
Hogsett. receivers for the Cleveland
Discount Company. continued their
investigation into the affairs of the
company today in the belief that the
fling Of the petition in bankruptcy
against the concern in federal court
yesterday will not affect the receiver
ship.
II is the general belief that if Fed
eral Judge d. c. Westenhaver names
any receivers, he will choose David
and Hogsett who were appointed by
Common Pleas Judge Alvin T. Pear
son Thursday. However. the company
has twenty days in which to answer
the petition in bankruptcy hled by
three former statesmen, who today
had not decided whether they Will
ask for the appointment of receivers.
David and Hogsett have not Yet
been able TO take up the relations
between the discount company and
the Sharon Pressed Steel Company of
Sharon. Pa, in which the discount
company is interested to thS extent
of S2400.000. OF this S1,500.00o Is in
the form of first-mortgage bonds and
$500. 900 in notes secured by accounts
receivable The mortgage is secured
pS IltlSuufSH rus SoihP"h'. ~
cording to Josiah Kirby, former pres
ident of the discount company.
Negotiations are pending for the
disposal of the discount company's in
terest in the Sharon organization. II
was stated by Mr. Kirby. who former
ly also was president of the steel
company. and \. f.. Swan, vice presi-
dent and general manager of that
concern.
The receivers are giving consider
alton to the possibility of speeding
the audit of the discount companys
books which began several weeks ago.
Announcement few days ago was
that the audit would not be completed
before April 20, and would be as of
April !.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
HITS HIGH SALARIES
. OF RAILWAY HEADS
Senator Brookhart Calls
Presidents Pay, 100000
Downward, Farm Drain.

Senator Brookhart Of Iowa. repub-
lican, in a speech in the Senate yes
terday read list of the salaries paid
to presidents of the principal rail-
roads of the country, declaring that
these salaries, which ranged from
100000 d year downward, were a
drain on the farmer and partly re-
sponsible for high freight rates. The
Iowa senator said that, while high
railroad officials were receiving large
salaries, minor officials were under
paid.
The highest salary on the list read
by senator Brookhart was for julius
hruttschnitt. chairman of the board
OF the Southern Pacific, 100000.
Others Listed.
Others were listed as follows: w.
II. Finley Chicago and Northwestern.
$4,000; William Sproule, Southern
Pacific, $4,000; Daniel Willard, BaIti-
more and Ohio, $4,000; c. IL Mark
ham, Illinois Central. $4,000; ]. D..
Maher; N n Norfolk and Western. 100000:
81; Paul. $4,000; w. T. Noonan, Buff
falo. Rochester and Pittsburgh, $500
600; Samuel Rea, Pennsylvania. $50. =
So: A. H.. Smith. New York Central,
Soo'oop NdlSo 9l4,UUO as president of
Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago and ST.
Louis and s5,430 as president of Bos-
ton and Albany
w. Il. Story. Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fee. $4,000: Marvin Hughitt,
chairman board, Chicago and North
western, $4,000: B. +. Bush, Missouri
Pacific, $4,000; S. NJ. FELTON,, Chicago
Great Western, $4,000; Hale Holden,
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy, $50
900 talso $4,000 as president of Colo
RADIO and Southern, and $1,000 as pres
ident of Fort Worth and Denver
City): f.. j. Pearson, New Haven, s5O.-
900; c. f. Scharff (receiver). Missouri,
Kansas and Texas. $4,000: J. f.. Cor
man, Rock Island and Pacific, $4,000
Lesser Amounts Noted.
J. NJ. Kurn, st. Louis and San
Francisco, $4,000; J. T.. Taussig,
Wabash. $4,000: Howard Elliott
Northern Pacific, $4,000; J. NJ. Hustis.
Boston and Maine. $4,000.
l.. Z. Loree. Delaware and Hudson,
$4,000; J. p. Bernet. New York, Chi
cago and St. Louis, s31,SS3; w. A.
Winburn, Central of Georgia. 100000;
W. J. Harahan, Chesapeake and Ohio.
$4,000: A. 7. Dice, Philadelphia and
Reading. $4,000.
The aggregate of the salaries re-
ceived by these twenty-seven railroad
officials. according to Brookharts
list. is s1,452.635 a year.
The. lowest salary on Brookhart.s
list is that paid to Mrs. c. B.
williams, president of the Georgia,
Florida and Alabama railway, who
receives s5,66S a year.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
RAIL HEADS FIGHT
MILEAGE RATE CUT
Presidents Conference Plans
to Combat 20 Per Cent
Reduction on Books.
TRAVELLING MEN TO ACT
Will Oppose Any Attempt to De-
feat I. G.. C. Order Lowering
Charge to 2.S8 Cents a Mile.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 24.--Two
factions were making plans today for
and against the operation OF the re-
cent order of the Interstate Commerce
Commission calling upon class rail-
roads to issue interchangeable mile
age books at reduced rate of 20, per
cent, effective March Is.
Officials of the eastern railway
presidents conference were planning
mass meetings in the larger cities, at
which arrangements would be made
for combating the order Commit
tees of the National Council OF Travel
ing Salesmens Associations were
block any effort of the rail executives
to have the order set aside.
Both organizations met yesterday
and threShed out the situation thor
oughly. The statesmen voted to call
local mass meeting. to be held soon,
tion will be served on the rail heads
They issued IL statement that they.
would fight to u finish in behalf of
the travelling public and the business
interests of the nation and that the
case must be carried to the highest
court. if necessary.
Officials announced that the car
riers would fight the order on the con-
tention that the terms are discrimina-
tory in that they favor those who
travel long distances and have money
to pay in advance. They said that
a reduction of 90 per cent in their
revenue was equivalent to depriving
them of about one months operating
income, and that it would put the
beneficiaries of the new order on a
rate basis of 2.SS cents mile They
added, that, while the rate was order
ed on application of the commercial
travellers organizations, it would be
available for any one able to use
$500 miles of transportation within
a year.
Executives of thirty-five railroads
were present at the carriers confer
ence.
Evening star., 1923-02-24
KLAN CHANGE ANNOUNCED
E. 2. Clarke Relinquishes Duties as
Propagation Chief.

ATLANTA, Ga, February 24.-Ofti-
cial announcement was made at head :
quarters of the Knights of the Ku
kIux Khan here that steps had been
perfected transferring the propaga-
tion department, heretofore under Ed
ward Young Clarke, to the imperial
headquarters. This means the actual
severance of all official relations be-
tween Clarke and the khan, it was
stated.
The announcement, signed by H. w.
Evans, imperial wizard. and e. Y.
Clarke, imperial giant, read:
I'm conformity with the general
plan announced to the press in No
vember of last year Edward Young
Clarke has formally turned over to
imperial headquarters of the knights
of the Ku KIux Klan the entire ma
ehinery and the control of the propa-
cation department of the order which
departments he organized and of which
lie has been the head Effective today.
all propagation activities will be un-
der the guidance and directioh Of i'm.
oeTtRA headquarters" .-.--...--.a-A
Evening star., 1923-02-24
|ANT|-SALOON LEAGUE
IN NY. SPENDS S25O,OOO
Money Collected Chiefly in
Churches for Educating
Voters Court Plea.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
ALBANY, y. Y. February 24-The
State Anti-Saloon League receives
about s25o.00O a year and spends a
like amount for its work of education,
according to the testimony of its su-
perintendent. William II. Anderson.
in proceedings brought by the Asso-
citation Opposed to Prohibition to de-
termine il the league is a political
organization.
Most of the money comes through
subscriptions taken up at field days
in churches, for which special en-
velopes are provided. Anderson testi-
fed. Supreme Court Justice Staley
concluded the hearing yesterday so
far as witnesses are concerned and
set March as the date for filing
briefs.
Anderson, who was en- the stand for
four hours, admitted that distribution
OF the leagues election bulletin last
fall on Gov. Smiths prohibition rec
ord was election propaganda, but as
serted it was u departure from the
regular policy. The regular policy,
he explained, was to educate the
voters on the position of candidates
regarding prohibition.