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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
DEVELOPMENTS DURING
TUESDAYS HEARINGS

MACON, Sept. Il. - Positive
Identification of DR.. c. A. Var
brough as one of those active in
recent Bibb county floggings fea-
tured Tuesdays late session of
DR.. Yarborough's trial in the City
court of Macon. This together
with the allegation that Dr.. Var
brough had accused Ku Klux in
vestigators of having double-cross-
>ed him, were the outstanding fea-
lures of the afternoon session. r.
f. Mills, the first man to posi-
lively identify Dr. Yarbrough, was
followed by other witnesses con-
nected Yarbrough with the activi-
ties of the Ku Klux Khan. Two
charges Of rioting and assault and
battery were bought by Mills.
A letter, said to have been writ
ten to Governor Thomas w. Hard
wick in October, 1922, but which
never reached aim, was one of
the states exhibits yesterday, So
licitor Roy Moore having secured
it from j. P. Durkee, khan or
ganizer, who said he took it from
the office of DR.. Yarbrough.
Trembling with nervousness and
obviously broken in spirit, Mills
pointed a shaking finger at DR..
Yarbrough, and said, That's the
man."
The court room was thrown in
to excitement when Mills testified
that Durkee, after he had mailed
the letter to the governor asking
for protection, had come to his Of
flee and posed as Detective
Payne" a special emissary from
the governor Mills testified that
he has once recognized Durkee as
Payne"
Testimony of Ku Klux Khan in
vcstigators who have spent three
weeks in Macon, brought out that
Yarbrough had felt the men OUT
when they came to Macon, and
later when the work of rounding
up the accused men in the fog
gings was about to begin he accus-
ed them of embarrassing him.
To one of the investigators he is
said to have asked him to render
an excuse and leave the city so
the investigation would be drop
ped.
Miss Elizabeth Culpepper, of All
American Boulevard, who has been
employed by DR.. Yarbrough for the
last three years, was put on the
stand as q witness for the state.
She brought further light on the
meeting of Yarbrough and others
in Yarbrough's office.
Among. the important witnesses
subpoenaed for the state are ex-
Governor Thomas w. Hardwick,
DR.. C. C. Harold, Jesse B. Hart,
j. Clay Murphey, Curran Ellis,
Lawrence Bernd; and for the de-
Tense Rev. Grady D. Feagin, Rev
w. H. Sledge, Rev. Martin A
Wood, Rev. w. NJ. Fugate, R. l.
] Merritt, S. z. Downs, DR.. B. S
Continued on Page Seven,)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12

y He'lu' elIe INDUSTRY must
DE placed on commercial basis and
the object of the college this year is
to form organizations for co-opera-
tive selling; assist you in producing
higher class products, and in this
way put the Georgia farm on a cash
basis"
He declared that the egg buyers
of the North paid Is cents dozen
less for Southern eggs than. any
other, because the eggs were not
properly classified. A dozen eggs
must weigh "a ounces, he said, the
dark shelled eggs must be separated
from the light and good shipping
eggs are infertile eggs.
There are $4,000 eggs to the car
he said, and to get the highest price
associations must strive to market in
carload lots.
The Georgia hen will put the
Georgia farm on a cash basis" he
said. 1.-THE average income of the
Georgia farmer last year was $4OO.
Place two hundred average hens
on the farm and you double this in
come and place the farm OF a cash
basis. You'll put the< farmer where
he can really make his cotton crop
the cash crop. The little hen will
do it.
t'Two California counties, and
neither as large as Sumter, sell on
an average of $4,000, 900 worth of
eggs every year to New York buyers.
And, we folks down here in Geor-
gia buy some of those eggs along
about Christmas time," he declared.
Don't get theNidea that you can
oyer-produce in this line. You can't
Continued on Page ~
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
ESTIMATE TOXIC DEAD
NOW At NEAR 10000
Groups Of Hundred Bodies or
More Have Been Found in
Several Spots Near City

TOXIC, Sept. 12.-Deaths from
earthquake, fires and tidal wave in
and around Toxic today are esti-
mated to number 10000. Dyson
terry is reported as widely prevail
ent, and the Japanese government
has informed the American en-
bassy that relief would be welcom-
ed.
Groups of 100 or more bodies
have been found in several spots.
American marines have opened
an automobile repair shop and
bakery at the American embassy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
JUDGE CRISP EXCUSED
AS WITNESS AT TRIAL

Judge Charles r. Crisp, who had
been summoned as a character wit
ness in the Macon flogging trials,
did not go there to testify as stat
ed in the Times-Recorder Tues
day. Instead, he spoke at Col
quit Monday and at cambridge
Tuesday, having been excused from
attending after a telephone con-
versation with Solicitor Moore dur
ing which he explained his pre-
vious engagements at the points
named.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
DR.. TUNNEL WILL
REMAIN AT LAGRANGE

LA GRANGE, Sept. 12.-Dr.
Spencer Tunnel, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of LAGRANGE
has announced that church. that
he would decline the call which
recently came to him from the
First Baptist Church, of Cleve-
land, Tenn, and would remain
with the First Baptist Church here
at least until its new building was
completed.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
TIFF COUNTY TAX RATE
PUT AT $22 A THOUSAND

TIFTON, Sept. 12.-Tift's tax
rate will be same this year as last
according to officials. The coun-
ty levy is ST on the $1,000 Of tax
able property and states SIS. max
ing total of S22, to which the
school tax outside Triton must be
added, bringing the grand total to
SGT,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
WAYCROSS CREAMERY
ALREADY OPERATING

WAYCROSS, Sept. 12.-Way-
cross now has a local creeamry
operating here, which is providing
a market for dairy products of the
county.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12
WEATHER

For Georgia 49, Generally fair
tonight and Thursday; slightly
cooler Thursday.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-09-12

Americas pot Cotton
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-21
Retail Sales Are Good:
BabSOn Says; Advises
NeWSpdperAdvertiSing

banks can adopt such cheap ap-
pearing methods of publicity Is be-
yond the comprehension of most
businessmen. Yet, I understand the
temptation, having once fallen for
outdoor advertising myself r UGH
against the advice of the Gundlach
Advertising Agency which handles
our copy"
Mr.. Babson added a word of cheer
to those retailers who fear the
chain store.
Instead of worrying about chain
stores" says he, .'the independent
retailer should copy their good Tea
lures and avoid their pitfalls. The
chain stores are revolutionizing re-
failing. They are introducing many
good features from which every re-
taller thould profit. But chain
stores have many troubles ahead.
When their employees organize into a
labor union-as Is inevitable with
such big units-then the indepen-
dent merchant will again have a
great. opportunity. I. however, do
believe that it would be wise for in
dependent merchants to get together
more among themselves and form
small chains which they themselves
can control. Personally / should not
want to struggle with one lone gro
Gerry store; but had just as soon have
a group of a dozen groce stores.
General business" concluded Mr..
Babson, sis good. The Babsonchart
stands today at 8 per cent above
normal compared with 16 per cent.
below normal a year ago"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-21
MANY ROME BUILDERS
DESIRE BRICK HOUSES

CLEVELAND. April 21:-1udicat-
ing an increased tendency to build
brick homes, 1900 persons from all
parts of the country have written to
the Common Brick Manufacturing
Association since January 1 saying
they are going to build homes and
asking for the ASSOCIATIONS plan
book showing brick houses, accord
ing to Ralph P. Stoddard, secretary
manager of the association.
This breaks all records" Mr..
Stoddard said. at shows that more
people are interested in owning their
homes this year than at any other
previous time. Not every one who
thinks of building writes us, of
course, but assuming, conservatively,
that we receive an inquiry from one
person in a hundred that intends to
build, this would indicate that two
million four hundred thousand new
homes are now being talked of and
considered in the United States"
Referring to brick construction,
Mr.. Stoddar said that the United
States Bureau of Standards recently
made an announcement as to the
strength of the ideal wall" as COM
pared with a solid brick wall. The
ideal wall" he explained, was de-
veloped from within the common
brick industry to provide a lower
cost of brick for co. ~'ructing small
buildings.
Although by the use of this wall
the manufacturer will sell one-third
less brick for each house built, it is
believed that by reducing the cost of
brick construction many more brick
homes VIII be built.
The wall is constructed by laying
bricks on edge instead of on their
fiat bed. making a ollow wall.
THE Bureau of Standards an
nounces hat when loaded eccentric
ally the eight-inch ideal walr' is
about "a per cent stronger than a
solid brick wall of the same thick
ness" Mr.. Ste 'dard said. when the
load Is applied centrally, each type
of wall has about the same strength"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-21
Our Industrial Community
THE I~NDUSTRIALIST SAYS

English miner are the pick, the
shovel and the mule. Power ma
chimes to break down the coal in
the mines and electric engines TO
pull out OF the mines trains of load
ed cars are not permitted. What is
the result of this false belief?
Before the war, England was hav-
ing a hard time selling goods in the
markets of the world in COMPETE
ton with other countries offering
equal goods at lower prices. The
weekly pay of the English workman
was not big, but his individual pro
duction was SO small that the cost
per piece or article was so high that
1t was difficult to sell. Less orders
for British factories, less work, less
product going out of the mills to
other countries in exchange for food:
less food coming into the country;
less of everything to divide; lower
standard of living. England has
long had a National employment
problem.
In 1909 the president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor visited
England and reported that idleness
in that country was a chronic con-
dition, and that in London alone
there was a hundred thousand peo-
pie out of work, who had given up
all hope of ever being able to again
obtain work. He reported the thing
which impressed him most while in
England was the idleness and pow
erty seen on every side.
The British workman believes 1t
to his advantage to hold back indi-
vidual production. He fails to un-
derstand that 1t is not his employer
who pays his wages, but the custo-
mer who buys the production. The
employer Is merely a sort of middle
man, who obtains some capital, raw
materials, furnishes tools and super
vision and employs workers to as
sist him in making a finished pro-
duct, from the sale of his finished
product is obtained all the money
to pay for the raw material, wages
of workers, and going rate of interest
to those furnishing the money or
capital to conduct the business.
BY reason of the workers turning
out less product per individual, the
selling price is higher than the Gus.
toner can obtain elsewhere, or in
some other country. so he decides
not to employ British workmen, but
go to some other country where the
wages per week may be higher. but
on account of more individual pro-
duction, the price per piece is less.
The common belief that the en-
ployer pays the wages of his work.
men, is not true. The customer, the
ultimate consumer, is the one who
pays all the wages. The employer
is a middleman in business for the
| purpose of getting pay for rendering
a service; that of bringing together
workmen, materials and supervision
and finding customers who will buy
the product.
Next week I will finish telling you
a few more facts about Work and
Why.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-21
Lehigh Buys Engines

Tho Lehigh Valley railroad has
ordered forty freight locomotives
and will shortly place an order for
ten passengers engines. The new
fei5ht engines will be OF the Mikado
type (four driving wheels). equipped
WITH automatic stokers and boosters,
representing the last word in modern
locomotive equipment. Delivery will
be made in the fall.
The passenger engines will be OF
the Pacific type (three driving
wheels) and also will have the stok-
ers and booster equipment ordered
for the freight locomotives. Boost
ers. on passenger engines, are ex-
pected, in addition to furnishing
greater power in starting trains, 10
eliminate the unpleasant jerking
which comes with the use of heavy
steel cars in passenger service.
The Lehigh Valley is carrying on
extensive work, strengthening and
renewing bridges where necessary 20
make possible the use over its
whole main line of these and other
heavy locomotives recently acquired.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-21
Busy Iron season

DULUTH, MINI. April 2i.-The
Oliver Iron Mining Company. ore
producing subsidiary of the United
States steel Corporation. and owner
and operator of 40 per cent OF the
ore properties in the Lake Superior
district, the worlds greatest ore beds
will open no new mines in 1928, ac-
cording to an announcement by John
E. Mclean, general manager.
All of it's forces will be centered
on developing the previously estab-
lished properties to meet what is
expected TO be a smart demand for
the iron mineral, Mr.. Mclean said.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-21
New Inventions

CHICAGO, April 21.-An instru-
ment capable OF measuring extreme
temperatures without coming in di-
contact with the source OF heat
is now being used in a number Of in
dustrial plants to determine the
mount of heat in the kilns Qr fur
naces where raw materials are being
burned or melted. according to Of
ficials of the Structural Materials
Research Laboratory of the Lewis
Institute here.
The instrument is known as a
radiation pyrometer, and consists OF
a small telescope containing a piece
of colored glass and two small wires,
attached to an indicator box. stand
ing back some distance from the
kiln or furnace. the operator sights
the little telescope at the spot where
the glow is hottest. The glass
focuses the heat on the wires, which
expand and register tbs degree ef
temperature on a dial on the indi-
Gator box.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-21

II You Are looking for q good real estate
| investment. look first at the Lots for
Sale column in ths Classified Section.
The Best Available properties IN ana
near the city are offered for sale IN the
Evening News Classified Columns.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
Christmas Period
Not an Emergency

Madison.-The Christmas shopping
rush cannot be considered as an
emergency period" under the law
passed by the 1923 legislature and
consequently women cannot be en-
ployed longer than nine hours day
and fifty hours week in stores nor
more than eight hours day and g
hours a week at night work.
This is ruling made by the indus
trial commission today in response to
the requests of a number of merchants
and department store owners
throughout the state asking to employ
women, because of the Christmas
rush, longer than the period permit
ted by the law.
! zone essential Characteristic of an
emergency is that it is an unforeseen
occurrence or situation" the state
ment of the industrial said. "The es-
sential features of the so-called
Christmas rush in business are well
known with ample time and opportun-
ity for adjustment to meet the situa-
ton"
The commission also held that If a
woman works after $3.50 p. m. on more
than one night in the week she must
be employed on the eight hour, 48
hour week schedule.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
Use Coop System
in Raising Chickens
Farmers May Use Cooperative Mark
citing In Raising Chickens
and Eggs.

Madison.A new move to organize
farmers who raise chickens on a
whole scale and produce large quaint
tiles of eggs for Chicago and other
eastern markets is seen with the pub
LEGATION of a bulletin here today by
the state department of markets on
cooperative egg selling.
"Why can't Wisconsin poultrymen
secure fancy price for their eggs
by association in marketing, is the
question" raised by the bulletin. The
answer is "they can-of a community
group can be formed which will pro-
duce a reasonable quantity of high
quality eggs during the whole year,
and the members of this group will
honestly support their marketing or
ganization."
Wisconsin now ranks next to Cali.
fornia in the number and efficiency Of
cooperative societies to assist the
farmer in is marketing his produce,
which are functioning in the state.
Tobacco, cranberries, cheese, honey,
butter, and grains are a few of the
more important crops which are CO.
operatively marketed. Very direct re-
suits have been observed since for
nation of most of these organizations,
according to Edward Nordman, com
missioner of markets.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
Ships Inundated
to Provide Thrills

San Pedro, Cal.-Clipper ships and
merchant schooners of the old days
symbols of a past era of adventure
are being assembled here from the
hooks and crannies of many ports. The
romance of their careers will close
in a burst of thrills. What if the
thrills be tinseled? They will be none
the less real to the movie audiences Of
a nation.
Some of the ancient windjammers
are destined to reach Davy Jones'
locker in a way their builders never
dreamed of. While the cameras stand
by, they will be wrecked by terrific
storms or scuttled by pirates. Hand
to-hand fights will be waged on their
decks. From some of them high flames
may shoot at the signal of a director.
The movie companies recently have
bought many of these archaic craft, for
which commerce has no further use.
The vessels will be altered to fit the
script" thus becoming Chinese junks,
vikings ships, historic men-of-war or
what-not
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
KORETZ SWINDLE TO
REACH S1O.OOO.O00

Chicago.-Victims of Leo Koretz's
outstanding oil swindle, which is now
believed to have netted him S10,00O,-
600 were to appear before a grand jury
here. They are expected TO tell many
important details of the gigantic fraud.
At the same time Mrs. Koretz will
testify in a bankruptcy hearing which
is expected to indicate the extent of
the swindle. The wife of the SECOND
Ponzi," it is believed, knows little of
her husbands business operations,
however. When the coil bubble" first
exploded, Mrs. Koretz was living with
her children in an expensive subur-
ban home, surrounded by many lux
uries, all gifts of her husband, whom
she believed was millionaire
broker" Koretz, it is said. spent
little time at his home.
While investigation of the swindle
was in progress here others were at
tempting to. trail the missing Koretz
on his fight. According to the latest
evidence he was last seen in New
York on December 5, At that time,
investigators said, Koretz complained
to friends that he was ssick" and tired.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
Nab TWO BEFORE
BURGLARY HERE
Sharley and Doonan Come
to Kenosha to Rob a
Clothing House.
POLICE FOIL THEM
Pair Admit Thefts in Racine
and Say They Came to Get
Suits Here.

Even dapper young thieves need to
renew their wardrobe now and then,
especially in the mid-winter season and
in the midst of the holidays. That's
why two alleged burglars, Alexander
John Sharkey and James Doonan OIL
Racine came to Kenosha. They came
here to get a suit of clothes apiece
Their method of procuring the clothes,
they said, according to the police, was
by the Jimmy-wa through key-hole
in the nighttime.
There's many slip 'twixt cup and
lip, and the element that turned their
adventure into mis-adventure was
unfortunately for them, the Kenosha
police. They had not been in Kenosha
many hours and were just looking over
the lay of the land and the display IN
the haberdashers windows when they
were arrested on suspicion by Otflcer
Callahan of the local police department
and Special Merchant Policeman Emil
Fox. Callahan and Fox did not ike
the looks of the pair and arrested
them on suspicion and the alleged con-
fessions followed.
AOFnII IdnS 10 VET SAOCACo AA~AN"
Sharkey,. 25, of 1920 Grand avenue,
Racine, and his partner, Doonan, 20,
of 1882 Wisconsin street, Racine, came
to Kenosha with the definite plan of
burglarizing store in order to get
a suit of clothes each, the police say
they admitted.
They also admitted, it is alleged,
that they had robbed barber shop
at the corner of 18th street and juno
ton avenue, Racine, getting $4, and
broke into the Northwestern Dinner
restaurant in Racine and secured $2.25.
Sharkey already has a record in Ke-
nosha, having been sent to the refor-
matory in 1917 for breaking into a
butcher shop on Charles street.
Robbed Milk Bottles in Racine.
Both young men told the police, it
is said, that they had pilfered change
from milk bottles in Racine, watching
the stoops and porches where occa-
sionally money was placed in bottle
in payment of milk bill.
They did not get enough money to-
gether to buy themselves clothes for
Christmas they said, and so built up
a plan of coming to Kenosha and pull
ing a bigger job here in order to
get enough clothes together to make
themselves presentable.
Through the shrewdness of the two
officers, this plan was frustrated.
Sharkey according to the police, said
that he did the "inside job" while his
companion was the Outside" man. He
said that he superintendent the inside
work because by so doing he was en-
abled to knock down a little on his
pal"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-20
TO
BE STAGED HERE
Civil Service Examination
for POstmaster's Job is
Set for Jan. s.
TANGLE In MANY CITIES

January 9th was the date set today
by the federal civil service commission
at Washington for the holding of an
examination to choose postmaster eli
gibles at Kenosha The examination
will be held here under the direction
of civil service officials at the Keno
sha postoffice. On the same day an
examination will be held at GAINESVILLE
for eligibles for the postmaster posi-
ton at that city.
The Kenosha postmastership pays a
salary of $4,000 a year. 1t is antici-
pated that there will be number of
applicants to take the examination al
though as yet none of these has filed
application.
Many Cities in Tangle.
Kenosha is not the only city in Wis
consin where the Office of postmaster
is in dispute this year. There are sew
eral applicants at Racine and hot
political fight is on there over the APP
pointment. Three eligibles have been
chosen there by an examination
George Herzog, Thomas Powers, both
Democrats, and George L. Buck, Re-
publican. 1t is now up to Congress
man Cooper to recommend one of these
for appointment.
At Madison there are three eligi-
bles-one Democrat and two Repub-
licans. The following dispatch from
Washington covers the ground, and is
interesting:
"The question of who is to be Mad
ison's postmaster and draw $4,000 a
year in the last big piece of federal
patronage in Wisconsin is still hang
ing fire and there was no indication to-
day as to when an appointment might
be made.
San examination to obtain eligi-
bles for the Madison postmastership
was held on May %. Out of the big
list of applicants William A. Devine,
Walter H. Sacket and Robert o. Quick
were certified as eligibles on Sept. IA.
Meanwhile Postmaster Devine's COM
mission had expired on Aug. 20.
''Mr. Devine is still serving. There
has been a strong move among Repub-
licans to retain him in office on the
grounds of efficiency. Although there
have been few Democratic postmasters
appointed under the Harding Coolidge
administration, the movement for De-
vine is said to be the strongest yet
made for a Democrat.
at is not known here whether Sena-
tor Lenroot or Congressman Nelson
will recommend the Madison postmas-
ter. Mr.. Nelson, it has been reported,
favors the reappointment Of Postmas-
ter Devine."