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Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Miss Lucy Bell Nelson will visit
in Shellman through the holidays.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Miss Bess Patterson in Cordele
and Miss Ossie Mcintyre in Athens
are the holiday visits planned by two
of our school teachers leaving Friday.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Miss Virginia Ware will entertain
about forty young couples among her
high school associates at an elaborate
Prom Party on Friday night.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Mrs. ]. H. Benton is spending today
in Albany
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

666 quickly relieves Colds, Fever
and LaGrippe, Constipation, Bilious
ness and Headaches. Mar21
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Crawford will
spend Christmas in Atlanta.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Cross have
come from Ocilla and taken up resi-
dence in the Kent home on Merrl-
mac Drive.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Miss Bess Patterson accompanied
Mr.. and Mrs G E. Kicker for a
visit in Cordele on Sunday.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

". ard Mrs. c. S. Perry and chill
h en- are going to spend Christmas IN
Birmingham.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20
CHRISTMAS
BITS

HAT bathing on Christmas
day insures freedom from
fevers and toothache during
the coming year is one of
the old-time superstitions
which still exists in France.
In Scandinavian countries
1t is believed that the DOW
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Miss Mabel Alberson will arrive on
Saturday morning from Atlanta and
will enjoy brief visit or until Christ
mas night with home folks and friends.
Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-12-20

Miss Dessa Fuller will go to Fair
mount, Ga, and Miss Zula Hamilton
TO Arab, and Miss Ruth Hawkes. to
Molana, their respective homes for the
school vacation. leaving Friday.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
20 Million a Year
For II Years Proposed
To Paw u. S. Rhine Bill

PARIS. March 21.--(By the AS
sociatcd Press )-Payment. of $20,
000,000 a year for twelve years to
the United States in settlement CT
the costs of the American army of
occupation in Germany seems feast
BILE, IN the opinion Of Eliot Wads-
worth, assistant secretary of the
American treasury.
Mr.. Wadsworth, who is comforting
with representatives of the allied
governments on the question of re-
;mbursing the United States for
what she expended in the Rhine
watch, told newspapermen he was
awaiting definite information as to
the proposed number of installmcnts,
tEeir manner of payments, the ques-
ton of priority, and whether Ameri-
ca would get a definite percentage
of German reparations.
He expressed the opinion the
United States would accept only cash
payments and that the Washington
any step taken b ythe allies in col
Letting the money
Mr.. Wadsworth said the value of
the seized German ships in the
United States could not be deducted
from the total due his country, in
asmuch as this property was consid-
cred as collateral for claim against
Germany.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Eufaula Youth Held
Without Bail for
Burning Building

EUFAULA, Ala. March 21.-The
preliminary trial of Emmett Brown,
accused of setting fire to building
in which James Barf1eld and his
daughter were burned to death in
January, was ended here today,
Brown being committed to Jail with
out bail.
Brown signed written statement
confessing his guilt and this was
read in court. He set fire to the
building in order to collect fire in
surance, the confession asserts.
The defendant insisted he thought
the paper he signed was a bond, but
it was admitted by the court as a
sworn confession introduced by the
state. The legal fight over this evil
dence was one of the most brilliant
efforts ever listened to in local
court room. The opposing lawyers,
Mcdowell & Mcdowell for the de.
Tense, and Solicitors T. M Patter.
son and w. II. Merrill, for the state.
The courtroom was packed and the
witnesses examined were all for the
state.
Brown is the son of a highly
esteemed citizen of Eufaula, and ev-
cry witness examined swore that his
character was good. There is Uni
versal sympathy for his family, and
that he is not normal is the general
opinion,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Wife Was Not Mother
OF Child Judge Rules
In Divorce Hearing

ROCKVILLE, Md, March I'll
An authenticated infant, which I'M
til recently he believed to be their
own son, was "fraudulently i'm
posed" upon William T. Lewis, of
Bethesda, by his wife, and is not
their child, Judge Edward c. Peter
held in a decision in circuit court
here yesterday after hearing testi-
mony on Lewis application for
divorce. He denied the application,
filed on grounds of desertion, and
gave Lewis ten days in which to
file an amended bill giving the I'M
| position" of the child as grounds
for divorce.
| Medical evidence had satisfied him
| that Mrs. Lewis was not the child s
mother, Judge Peter said in his de-
! cIsion, adding that such fraud was
a "grievous and cruel wrong to a
| hubsand.
Lewis testified at the divorce hear
| ing that after numerous quarrels
when they were first married his
wife left him about five years ago
to visit in Philadelphia. Several
months later, he said, she wired him
that II and your little son are do
ing nicely"
Proud and happy at the news
Lewis said he left at once for Phila-
delphia and brought his family
home, naming the baby after his
"paternal grandfather. His sus-
picions were first aroused by his
own father and mother when he and
his wife separated two years later,
| Lewis said
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
MRS. WEEKS IL.
SPECIAL TRAIN To
CARRY HER HOME:

BRUNSWICK, Ga, March %
Mrs. John D. Weeks, wife of the sec
rotary of war who was brought here
Thursday morning on the yacht Ev
erglades, on account of illness, was
taken aboard a special train for
Washington Thursday evening.
The train was chartered over the
A, B. & A. railroad, and left
at 9:45 o'clock, connecting with the
S. A. L. railroad at 1924 o'clock at
Thalman.
The train will make a through
trip to Washington, where Mrs.
Weeks will be attended by special
lists.
DIR. G. B. Greer, Brunswick physi-
clan, who was called in by Secre-
tary Weeka declined to state just
what was the cause of Mrs. Weeks
illness, but terminated the brief in
terview with newspaper men with
this statement:
Her illness is not very serious"
Mrs. Weeks was taken i'll Thurs
day morning on the yacht, which
was hurried into port here. In the
party, which was returning to
Washington from Florida, also were
Secretary Weeks and Mrs. r. M.
Thompson, owner of the yacht.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
HARDING S WORLD il
COURT PROPOSAL
LAUDED BY GRAVES

WILSON, N. c., March 2f.-By
the Associated Press.b Declaring
President Harding, "in his heart is
for universal peace as clearly as Will
son was" John Temple Graves,
Journalist, last night asserted that
the world court proposal Of the chief
executive is an entering wedge to
better and nobler and constructive
craftsmanship, and urged the sup
port of public opinion to the PROPOSE.
ton.
president Harding and Secretary
Hughes" said Mr.. Graves in an adj
dress at the Eastern Carolina expo
sition here, "haVe done a magnifi-
cent thing in projecting the world
international court into the arena OF
frank and fearless discussion, over
and against the implacable obstinacy
of their own party. AS a Democrat
I congratulate and salute the mag
nificent gesture Of humanity.
LAS the president and his prime
minister have stated and left it, that
great phase of the peace treaty now
stands as distinct challenge to the
public opinion of the republic. 1t can
not be sighted or ignored. Public
opinion is the mightiest of all hui
man force, and public opinion is the
world hope in this tragic and tremen-
dous era of world unrest.
LAS a democrat, plant myself on
this issue behind the Republican
president and the Republican pre-
mier, who are the successors in
thought and purpose to that immor.
4o1 oi+ Of n INK on
who was the founder and the father
Of the great idea.
mo more selfish cry ever rose to
heaven from earth than the cry let
Europe stew in her own destructive
sorrows 1t is no business of ours
God bless me and my wife, my son
John and his wife-us four and no
more is the spirit of that selfish cry
president Harding has done a
brave and human thing. In his
heart, he is for universal peace as
clearly as Wilson was. He voted for
the League of Nations with modifi-
cations, as Wilson ought to have
DONE He called an arms conference
and he has planted himself behind
the world court, in spite of Borah
and Johnson and Lodge and Reed.
The public opinion of this country
should be rallied in magnificent vol
ume and emphasis of this world
court as the entering wedge to bet
ter and nobler and constructive
craftsmanship.
The president knows, as all hon
est men know, that his 100000 ma
iority was not verdict upon the
League of Nations.
mo truthful publicist will repeat
that falsehood. hughes and Root
and Taft and Hoover and the rest
know it is not true. There We're
four words. We want a change
that underlay aid underthrobbed
that ballot deluge in an age of uncer-
tainty and unrest. That was the
damned up discomfort in q political
Johnstown that loosened the flood.
This people have always been behind
the idea of world peace by world
agreement for disarmament"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Boy WIDOWED Through
Window of Train to
.Elude Guard May Die

NASHVILLE, Tenn, March Iii
Diving through the window OF a
fast moving Tennessee Central train
Tuesday night in an attempt to es-
cape from a reform school guard,
Andrew Lawless, IS, suffered In
juries that may prove fatal. He is
at hospital at Lebanon, Tenn.
When the train upon which they
were riding was about a mile from
Lebanon, Lawless asked for a drink
of water. When the guard turned
to get the water from the rear OF
the coach, the boy dived headfirst
through the glass Of the car window
He was handcuffed.
The youth was placed in the re-
form school here about two months
ago for housebrealling and larceny
He later escaped from the school
hospital and made his getaway on
a farmers horse, which he appro-
priated He was captured several
days ago in Knoxville.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
BEAVERS To HOLD
POSITION PENDING
NEW LEGAL TRIAL

An interlocutory Injunction re
straining the police committee of the
Atlanta city council from enforcing
it's order OF suspension against Chi2f
of Police James L. Beavers; but not
restraining it III any way from le'
gally preferring other charges
against the chief or suspending or
discharging him thereon, was issued
by Judge George L. Bell, of Fulton
superior court, at the conclusion OF
the Beavers hearing shortly before
rcon Thursday.
Judge Bells order was considered
victory for the police committee,
since it allows that body an oppor-
tunity Immediately to proceed
against tn echief on the original
charges of inefficiency or any other
charges whatsoever except insubor-
dination, that might be preferred
against him.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
EDITORS ENDORSE
PEANUT GROWERS
MARKETING COOP
BY EDWIN CAMP
| (Staff Correspondent of The JOurnaD

ALBANY, Ga, March 22.-Backed
by the unanimous and unqualified
Endorsement Of the leading editors
in south Georgia, the organization
campaign of the Georgia Peanut
Growers Cooperative association is
in full swing this week with every
indication of splendid success.
If any of the newspaper men Of
the section who heard the principles
Of cooperative marketing expounded
Wednesday by Z. M. Defender pre-
vious1y had any reservations on the
subject these doubts were cleared
away, the editors declared at the
close of the meeting.
They promised their full support
to the campaign in the belief that
it will add greatly to the prosperity
and happiness Of south Georgia and
therefore to their own prosperity
and happiness.
The work of obtaining signatures
TO contracts WAS dCtudAAS pCSUfl
Tuesday at Camilla and at Pelham.
About 800 farmers signed at these
two meetings. Many were kept
away by the bad condition of the
roads and the Mitchell county organ
ization committee says that within
a. few days practically every peanut
grower in the county will have
signed.
After Wednesdays gathering of
the editors here, the organization dl-
rectors drove over to Dawson, where
a, rousing meeting was held and
many signatures to contracts were
obtained,
Colonel r. E. L. Spence. of AL
bany, is chairman of the organlza-
ton committee and heads an execu'
tive committee consisting OF w. j..
Oliver, Of Shellman; Paul j. Brown,
of Albany; r. l.. Hall, of Newton
and j. P. McRee, of Camilla.
E. M. Defender, who achieved ma
tional note oy his accomplishments
as sales manager Of the Sun Maid
Raisin association in California, and
who is now sales manager of the
Peanut Growers Association of Vir'
GINA and North Carolina, is taking
an active part in the campaign ana
is winning many converts by his adj
dresses telling how the Virginia-Car-
DINA association is functioning.
The editors were the guests We'd
nesday of Colonel Henry NJ. McIp
tosh editor of the Albany Herald.
The Herald has thrown the influence
of It's full support behind the move
nent
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Tarheel Farmers
Repay Money Lent
By Finance Board

RALEIGH, March 22.-Approxi-
mately 70 per cent. Of the $500, 900
loaned in North Carolina by the war
finance corporation has been paid,
according to Fred Starek, a direc-
tor, who was here today to confer
with the state agency regarding its
activities.
Mr.. Sta:ek declared that the vol
ume of repayments is striking evil
dence that the cotton and tobacco
growers and farmers of this state
"are able to carry on their industry
in a sound and business-like way
when properly financed" North
Cardinals average of repayments
is above the average, he said.
With the powers of the war fl
nance corporation extended for an
other year and with new rural cred
it's machinery created, Mr.. Starek
predicted that agricultural financ
ing should work out satisfactorily
during the coming year.
Mr. Starek will go to Wilmington,
Columbia and on to Atlanta, and
from there visit states as far west
as New Mexico
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Little Girl Burned
To Death in Bed;
Mother Also Burned

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March
22,-Inez Selvis, 4-year-old daughter
of Martha Selvis, of Knoxville, lost
her life in the burning of the cottage
home of her aunt, Mrs. Hatcher, in
Cleveland Tuesday night, where the
little girl, with her mother, Mrs.
Hatcher's sister, was visiting.
The family had retired when fire
! broke out an all narrowly escaped
with their lives.
Mrs. Selvjs ran out with her baby
in her arms and then went back in
| an effort to save her little daugh-
ter and was badly burned and the
little girl was dead before she reach
ed her bed.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Mrs. Armour Speaks

CAMILLA, Ga, March 21.--Mrs.
Mary Harris Armor spoke at t.l4
Camilla Methodist church Monday
night. She is president of the state
w. c. 7. u. and after her address
the local organization was reorgan-
lied and officers elected as follows:
Miss Claire Culpepper. president;
Mrs. J. P. McRee, vice president;
Mrs. Bell Jones, recording secretary
Mrs. J. F. Hooks, corresponding sec
rotary. The first Tuesday evening in
each month was fixed as the regular
meeting time
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Bandits Shot to Death
By Saloon Keeper; Own
Pistol Turned on One

GRANITE CITY, ILL.,, March Iii
Two bandits were killed in an at
tempt to hold up the Walter s. Mich
OILS saloon here today. Nichols was
slightly wounded.
AS the two robbers lined up Gus.
toners In the crowded bar the sa-
loonkeeper grabbed his pistol and
opened fire. One bandit fell dead
With three bullet wounds.
The second robber returned the
fire, slightly wounding Nichols. With
his own weapon empty, the saloon
keeper grappled with the robber,
wrested the pistol from his grasp
and fired. The bandit dropped dead
as he staggered out the door.
A third member of the gang, who
waited outside in an auto, escaped.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Editor I. Y. Blanton
Buried in Pelham

CAMILLA, Ga, March 22.-Edi-
tor q. V. Blanton, of the Pelham
Journal, and one of the county's
best known young men, died at Pei
ham Tuesday of pneumonia. Mr..
Blanton was i'll for several days, but
the reports from his bedside led his
friends to expect his recovery. Mr..
S. r. Blanton, his father, was buried
near Pelham about a month ago, his
remains having been shipped from
Washington, and three days later
Mrs. S. r. Blanton died and was
sent to Pelham for burial.
Mr.. u. V. Blanton leaves a wife
and several small children. He had
lived in Mitchell county the most of
his life, and had endeared himself
to her people. He had since early
youth devoted his entire time to the
newspaper business, having edited
several papers in south Georgia,
among them the Pavo Journal, the
Boston Bostonian and the Pelham
Journal.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Nine Men Indicted
In Connection With
Attack on Florida Tail

PALATKA, Fla, March 21.-In-
dictments were returned by the cir
cult grand jury here today against
Russell White, c. f. Covan, c. E.
Smith, John Baumgartner, c. 7.
Accosta, w. T. Gore, f. j. Bryan,
G. B. O'Neal and Chesley Fowler
on charges of assault with intent
20 commit murder and shooting
into dwelling.
The men were recently bound
over to await the action of the
grand jury oy County Judge Cal
noun on charges growing out of
the attack on the Putnam county
Jail on March 8, when Sheriff Ha-
gan was shot in the left hand and
more than fifty shots were fired
into the Jail. All had hcen reIea@-
ed on bond. The hearing probably
will be set for this term az o00xt.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24

The condition of the farmer will be
an important factor in the next cam
paign and it will become more and
more. apparent every day that the
farmer can get better prices only
when the purchasing power of Eu-
rope is increased through improved
exchange.
ALREADY the tariff is beginning to
work out as we thought it would.
price fixing is going on right now.
The size of our imports is due en-
tirely to disjointed exchange"
At this point the writer asked Mr..
Cox whether he intended to take an
active part in the pre-convention
campaign preceding the next cleo
ton.
He replied: when a man Is in
the newspaper business he is in
touch with public life and the job
of the presidency nowadays is such
that few men are really eager for it's
responsibilities I am much more
interested in the platform than in
the nominee of our party. I will
say this much that if the nomina-
ton is rendered me on a platform
WIICII u1Nl llOL pLONldS 1Ol 4IllSI IId-
tional cooperation / would not for
a moment consider, accepting it. I
feel that our party must take its
stand in favor of improved economic
condition Of affairs throughout the
world and that America must plain
ly take her part in the councils Of
the world again"
Mr.. Cox spoke at a dinner Of the
Florida Bar association, at which
William Jennings Bryan also spoke.
The commoner publicly commended
Mr.. Cox''s stand in proposing that
form of international cooperation
be decided upon which, without re-
spect to party label, would make
possible turn for the better
through the use of the moral re-
sources of the United States.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
III
FIRST DAY IN ATLANTA
RITSY ONE FOR MIR, UPSHAW

Congressman w. d. UpshaW. who
reached Atlanta Wednesday morn
ing, found a busy day awaiting him.
In the morning he attended the BIZ
BILE conference a 1.-THE Baptist Tab
ernacle and at 4 o'clock in the aft
ernoon he was to review the band
and r. o. T. c. regiment at Georgia
Tech.
The congressman will be in At
lanta a good part of the time until
congress reconvenes next December,
he announced He has many speak
ing enga gements. to fill from time
to time in various parts of the coun-
try, he said. Since congress ad-
iourned he has made a tour of the
east and has spoken in a number
of cities.
On Tuesday night Congressman
Upshaw addressed the chamber of
commerce at Charlotte, N. c., and
then came directly to Atlanta on a
night train.
Press dispatches announcing that
an official of the Minute Men of
America has put him forward for
the next vice president of the United
States, pleased the congressman.
''Of course / am honored by this
compliment from a Boston man hold
ing office in an order of 100000
men," he said. 'The statement he
makes is significant in that it pre-
diets that tn esouth is some day
going to come into its own"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Three Georgians Accept
R.OT.C. Commissions

WASHINGTON, March 21.--The
war department announces that
three Georgians have recently &C
copied commissions in the officers
reserve corps, as follows:
Edmund Augustus Wright, of VAL
dosta, captain, infantry; Jacob
Brantley Baum, of Macon, second
lieutenant, infantry; Joseph Spencer
Stewart, Jr., of Athens, first lieu
tenant medical CORDS
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Branch of Fascist Is
ORGANIZED in CHICAGO

/ CHICAGO, March IA branch
of the italian Fascist, numbering
IS persons, has been formed in Chi
cago, functioning as social club.
p. Oppedisano, secretary, announced
today. He said the organization at
present has no political significance,
and was formed to further the social
interests of the Italians in the United
States.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24


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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
Beating the Boil Weevil

Every grower will this free book which shows how
the weev has been controedhow at profit
by fertizng literally and busting with Calcium Arsenate
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24

TINE weevil has been beaten by con-
elusive tests on 237 farms and in As
~ different Southern counties. On
each farm, tests were conducted upon ten
acres of uniform land. planted to cotton,
fertilized and cultivated by the farmers.
Upon the appearance of the weevil, half
of each field or five acres, was busted with
Calcium Arsenate. The other halfw not.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-24
.UPSHAW IS URGED
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
BY NEW E|vCLANDER

WASHINGTON. March 21.-Rep-
resentative Upshaw, Democrat, of
Georgia, was put forward Tuesday
as a candidate for the Democratic
nomination of vice president by
Frank J. Batcheller of Boston. leg
islarre chairman of the Minute Men
Of America.
Mr.. Batcheller praised the record
of Mr.. Upshaw in the house as one
of robust Americanism and sober
citizenship" The consistent prohi'
bition record of Mr.. Upshaw, he de-
clared, placed the representative IA
vorably before the national public.
I'VE can hardly hope the Demo
cratic party will be bold enough to
go south for the first place on the
ticket" said Mr.. Batcheller. but
the southern break must come some
time, and we are heartily in favor
of Mr.. Upshaw for the second place.
Indeed, We would love to see him