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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
EXPLAINS CONNECTION
WITH pOhENY INTERESTS

Los Angeles, Cal, February 2.-
w. G. MeAdoo, whose name was
mentioned by E. L. Doheny in his
testimony before the Senate Oh
probe committee at Washington
Thursday, has telegraphed Senator
Walsh, explaining his connection
with the Doheny interest. In his
telegram, McAdoo says:
'@The dragging of my name int
the Investigation of oil leases al
Washington is wholly without justi'
fication Of any sort. In 1919,
year after leaving President vii
sons cabinet, my former law firm
in New York, McAdoo, Cotton &
tranklin, was retained as counsel BY
MIR. Doheny's companies and upon
my removal to California in 1922
/ was retained as special counsel
here, such employment being entire
ly in connection with the Mexican
affairs Of Mr.. Doheny's enterprises.
II have never at any time been
employed or consulted regarding
any oil leases anywhere in the
United States. When Mr., Doheny
sought the services of McAdoo, Cot
ton and Franklin in New York in
1919, it was represented to us that
under article 81 of the new Maxi.
can constitution against which our
government had filed a protest on
its adoption some years before, an
attempt was being made to confis-
cate the valuable properties Of Mr..
D6heny's companies in Mexico.
"The members .of my firm, after
consideration of the, matter, con-
cluded that the case was nleritori-
Gus. We accepted it, did all that
We properly could for our client
over a period of about two years
and the firm received a fee Of
100000 for the service, a sum
commensurate with the very large
interests involved.
When I moved to California in
March, 1922, Mr.. Doheny said that
his companies would be glad to re-
tain me as special counsel to act in
an advisory capacity here.
Il regarded the Doheny COM
panies as the outstanding indepen-
dent oil companies in the country
and felt perfectly free to act as
counsel for them. My counsel and
advice has been confined to thej
Mexican problems with which these
companies are constantly faced,
For the period l have acted as
special counsel here have received
an annual retainer of $4,000 pay
able semi-annual. The employment
of my former firm and myself by
these companies has extended over
the past four years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
NEGRO WOMAN FAITH
HEALER NEAR DEATH

MOULTRIE, February 2.--Mol-
lie Hall, negro woman widely
and known as faith healer is in a
critical condition at her home near
Ray City, according to advices re-
ceived here. Although she has
during the past ten or fifteen years
treated hundreds of people suffer
ing from almost every known dis
ease and marvellous stories of cures
that she has wrought have been
told, the faith healer has called
a medical doctor. She is suffer
ing from typhoid fever and the
chances are said to be against her
recovery.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
NJ AD0O NOT To ALLOW
CHALLENGE TO PASS
WITHOUT HIS DENIAL
Democratic Presidential Candi-
date Resents Statement Made
By Doheny Before Body
STATEMENT UNJUSTIFIED'
---~-----~----
Bringing of His Name Into Oil
Lease Scandal UncalIed for,
He Asserts

LOS ANGELES, February g.
William G. McAdoo will not allow
to- pass upchallenged what he terms
the wholly unjustified" linking
Of his name with the oil lease trans
action now occupying the attention
of. the senatesoil committee.
His trip east was due entirely
to the condition of Woodrow VIII
son. father of Mrs. McAdoo, but he
warned that it would include an at
tempt to appear before the commit
tee to give his version of the con-
nection of himself and his former
law firm with the Doheny interests
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
MANY CANDIDATES ARE
ANNOUNCED IN STEWART

LUMFKIN, February 2-The. po-
litical situation in Stewart County
is rapidly growing very tense.
Several candidates have announc-
ed during the past few days Tor
county offices which are to be fill
ed by elections this year. The Dep-
oeratic primary is to be held in this
county on 18th day of March.
. Mrs. r. T. Humber, Jr., of Rich
land, the first woman ever to an
nounee. in this county for public
office. She seeks the office of
county Treasurer, which Is now
filled by Mr.. H. NJ. Stephens also
of Richland.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
KHAN WORKERS RAID !
PRIVATE HOMES IN
SEARCH FOR LIQUOR
Williamson County, Ills, Again
Sees New Raids Staged IN
Spectacular Manner
1913 PERSONS ARRESTED
S. Glen Young Leads Raiders
Into Many Homes Where
Liquor Is Found

JOHNSON CITY, us, Febru-
airy "A total of 1873 persons had
been arrested today in dry raids in
Williamson county, the search for
whom began last night and con-
tinued this afternoon.
Several hundred men, said to be
members of the Ku Klux Khan con-
Quoted countrywide raids which
were led by S. Glenn Young, dry
worker and employee of the khan.
The raids were made principally
on private homes, with number
of negroes among those held.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
DCHENY SPRINGS
| SENSATION

WASHINGTON, February g. A
new sensation was sprung Friday
afternoon in the naval oil scandal
when L. e. Doheny, multi-million-
aire oil king, revealed he had emr
ployed on a wholesale scale ex-
members of presidential cabinets to
act as counsel for his various in
terests.
While the committee room sat
stunned Doheny calmly recited how
he had employed William G. Me-
Adoo, former Secretary Of the
Treasury; Thomas w. Gregory, for
mer Attorney General; Franklin X.
Lane, former Secretary of the In
terror, and Lindley M. Carlson, for
mer Secretary of war.
McAdoo, the witness, said, was
still in his employ at a salary of
$4,000 a year and that the candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
had been paid $25o,oOO to date,
McAdoo's work, he said was the
same as Gregory's, ito get justices
for me in Mexican matters
Doheny denied, however, that he
had employed any of the men named
while they were in the Cabinet"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
CHAMBLISS CAUTIONS
OWNERS Of PASTURES
Names Persons Who Should
Be Particularly Careful With
bitches on Their Lands

DIR. J. Wade Chambliss, president
of the Board of Health Of Ameri-
Gus today calls attention anew to-
the fight made on mosquitoes here
and cautions land owners to assist
in this effort.
The health authorities want to
call attention." said DR.. Chambilss,
"of land owners around the city
limits of Americas, that cultivate.
pasture or have in charge the low
lands, such as the property of Mr..
Starleton, Misses q Smith, Barrow's
pasture, Morgan, and Bragg and the
right of ways of the Seaboard and
Central of Georgia Railroads,
where many bitches carry water a
part, or all season, and while prep
GRAFTON is being made by these peo-
pie to cultivate or care for their
lands that they ditch these places
so that no water will stand on the
surface or in the ditch, and that the
bitches be of such grade and so
constructed that water will swiftly
flow on, and in order to keep said
bitches from caving, the straight
bitches should be made to bevel and
slope to. the bottom. This is best
done by measuring the depth of
the ditch from the top of the ground
to its bottom and take one half this
measure and lay on top of the
ground at a right angle from the
ditch and slope from ~this point
down to near the bottom of the
ditch, bearing in mind that large
ditch with a small amount of water
will clog up and give more trouble
than a small ditch made in proper
ton to the amount of water which
is the means of keeping it open.
With this notice we ask the prop
erty owners to make this necessary
drainage now, while preparing for
a crop and we feel that it is no
burden, as the ditch, from an agri~
cultural standpoint will be worth
the work. These places will be
looked over by our Inspector poss-
IDLY as early as March and we want
to cooperate with them to the ex-
tent that if there are any engi4
neering problems necessary to get
the grade etc. that we will furnish,
free of charge to the land owner
,the Civil Engineer to do the sun
veyng. This does not mean that
If you have a ditch employing into
another ditch with plenty of fall,
that a man is necessary as you acn
well take care of those problems
yourself.
Another matter we want to ask
you about now is do you know RI
the cutters in OF around your
house are open and that no water
can stand in them? If not why
wait and be explaining to Mr..
Fort about this in mosquito time.
We hope to have the Inspector
on earlier this Spring than last, in
order to get ahead of the first mos
qnitoes which heretofore have
Continued On Page Three) \
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02

WASHINGTON, February q
A bulletin issued by physicians at
1880 o'clock said ''Mr. Wilson is
growing weaker steadily. He has
had some sleep and no pain. He
recognizes those about him. but is
too exhausted to talk. Ours efforts
in the main are directed towards
keeping him comfortable" The bull
letin was signed by Drs. Grayson,
Ruffin, Fowler.
ut looks as though Mr.. Wilson
would pull through the day." said
DR.. Grayson, adding HIS opinion to
the formal text of the bulletin,
but that is subject to the hazard
of sudden change" \
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
POLICE SEEKING BOLD
LOCAL HOUSEBREAKER

-Americus police authorities are
seeking bold thief who entered
the home of Angelo Magnus ON
Finn street and secured a quantity
of clothing and other ,valdables.
Practically ali of Mrs. Magnus
clothes were taken by the thief, who
entered the house through a front
window in broad daylight as well
as a number of shirts and somd
wearing apparel belonging to
Louis Rosenberg, who resides with
the Magnus family. No trace Of
he thief has as yet been found,
Chief Bragg stated today.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02

just like a womanl Anna J.
Kearns, 81, "flapper bandit"
walked into Cleveland drug
store, pointed a shiny little au-
tomato at the male attendant
and proceeded to help herself to
the cash registers contents. Five
days later she rhoned to tell
him how sorry she was. That
proved her undoing, for police,
tracing the source of the call,
arrested her as she left a pay
station. Anna told detectives
Unemployment and impending
hunger drove her to it. just an
other case of a small-town girl
getting off on the wrong track
in big city, the officers say.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
TALMADGE CRABB GETS
BUSINESS FOR SELF

PaImadge Crabb, who has been
employed by the Americas Automo-
bile company during nearly ten
years past, has hranched out for
himself, and is now engaged in bus
mess in the building occupied by
the Americas Battery company he
will devote his entire time to the
work of repairing automobiles aad
will specialize on Fords. He has
long been recognized as an expert
Ford repairman, and in his own
business he will continue his old
specially line
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
TWo-PLATooN SYSTEM
is PUT INTO EFFECT

VALDOSTA, February g.
Promptly at 8 o'clock Friday morn
ing the two-platoon system was in
augurated in the valdosta fire de-
partment and six additional men
were placed on the roster to enable
the work to be carried forward un-
der the new system.
Chief T. NJ. Cook, ,Jr., said that
he considered it fortunate indeed
that five of the six men added had
formerly served in the department
and that the sixth man, was an en-
ploye of city in another department
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
FIRE LOSSES VERY
LOW AT VALDOSTA

VALDOSTA, February 2. -
The fiscal year of the Valdosta fire
department closed at last midnight
for the year 1923, showing a most
excellent fire record for Valdosta.
The entire record for the year has
not been compiled but it is shown
that for 1923 the, department re-
ceiyed and answered 1856 alarms
against LAG for the previous year
Figures on FIRE losses for the pc
riod are not available.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
WILSON STILL LOSES
STRENGTH. May DIE
NOW At ANY MINUTE
Remarkable Resistance by For
mer President on Fight
Against Death
FITFUL SLEEP RESTS HIM
Was Very Weak During Morn
ing, With Scarce Strength to
Open His Eyes

WASHINGTON, February 2.
AT 3 o'clock this afternoon
there was no indication of any
material change in the condition
of Former President Wilson.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02

WASHINGTON, February 2.
Hailed before the senate oil com.
mittee against the protest Of his at
torney and physician, Former Sec
rotary Of the Interior Albert B.
Fall refused to answer any ques-
tions about the naval oil lease and
his relations with DoheAy and Sim
clair. Two major reasons were Civ
en- first that the authority. given
the committee by the last congress
had expired; second, that the light
of a motion of congress directing
court action on civil and criminaI
oil lease ceases, his answer might
tend to incriminate him.
Clearing the crowded hearing
room, the committee went into exc
cutive session to determine their
course on the attitude of Fall,
while the former secretary waited
in an ante-room with his lawyer and
physicians, as the committee delhi
Grated.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
FALL HES BE HIND
FEAR Of CRIMINAL
CHARGE IN PROBE
Former Secretary of Interior
Refuses to Answer Questions
Directed to Him
AFRAID TO MAKE REPLY
Waits in Ante-Room While
Committee Deliberates on
Course to Be Taken
WASHINGTON, February 2.

WASHINGTON, February 2. =
tie authority to continue investi-
cation having been challenged by
Mr.. Fall. the committee decided
to ask the senate Monday to re-
move all doubt of re-adopting the
original resolution authorizing the
inquiry.
The committee adjourned until
next Tuesday, at which time Mr.
Fall will be recalled before the
committee, and should he then de-
cline to answer questions, senators
said an issue Of authority would be
given the committee to compel an
answer under pain of contempt
proceedings in court would be
squafely raised.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02
WEATHER

For Georgia - Fair and con-
tinued cool tonight; probably
light frost in south portion;
Sunday fair and somewhat
warmer.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-02

PC. Open High Low Close
Mar .83.6OI3S.SOIs 40SIS3.76I34.03
May .83.91I34.14lS4.34I34.11I34S4
July .,3258I32.85l33. O0I327sI33.d0
Oct. -.28.o5I2S. 20E2S. 33l28.12l2
Dec ..27.77I27.76I27, 8OI27.76I27s0
Americas strict middling, 33c
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
FULTON KEEPS
RESPECT Of
BOXERS
Nobody oVer-Anxious to Bat
tie Man With Sixty-two
Knockouts

Fred Fulton, the elongated
enigma Of pugilism, who has been
explained completely out Of the
picture more than once by some of
our most expert explainers. but has
always returned to present a new
puzzle to his detractors and a new
threat to the good heavyweights,
has again filed for election to the
upper ten Of pugilism and announ.
ces that he will stand on his
record.
Fulton has never dropped into tho
trial horse class. Fights with him
have never been sought and very
often, they have been skillfully and
persistently avoided. The reason is
not far to seek it lies in the records.
Fulton has a pretty good record.
In nine years Of heavyweight
boxing, from the time he was taken
from his plastering trade in Roch-
ester, Mimi, and thrown into the
ring as an awkward and unskilled
preliminary fighter, Fulton has had
1O2 fights and he has to, his credit
sixty-two knockouts, an unofficial
worlds record. That serpentine left
arm that weaves slowly and DELHI
erately past his opponents guard
and suddenly snaps a lethal punch
Of crushing power has found its
target on some of the best chins in
pugilistic society.
At the moment Fulton is training
at his northern Minnesota summer
resort for an intensive summer
campaign under the direction of his
new manager, Jack Reddy, who
handled Billy Miske until that un-
fortunate fighter moved on to the
reward that awaits real fighting
man.
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
MEMO LIEHoLD PROVING
WHY HARRIS PLAYS HIM

Memo Leibold, the gigantic mid
get in the Washington outfield, is
proving every day why Bucky Har-
ris is using him in the outfield and
keeping younger lads on the bench.
Leibold is quite the best out
fielder with the Griffs, not even ex-
cepting Sam Rice The centerfielder
Is faster, but he is not the polished
performer the midget is.
1t is with the stick that Leibold
Is doing mans work. In twenty
contests Memo has aInassed a bat.
ting average of $40. Going to bat
fifty tines, he has hit safely seven
teen times, getting three doubles
and one threebagger. The little fel
low is outhitting such batsmen as
Sisler. George Burns, Judge, Jacob.
son, Babe Ruth, Speaker, Mostir,
Eddie Collins, Bassler, Flagsteadi
Goslin. Joe Sewell, Hauser, Rice,
Blue, Tobin and Hale.
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
SPIRITED PLAY IN
TENNIS TOURNEY

After taking the first two sets in
rather handy manner, the
Thomas Mangan-Paul Kunkel ten.
mis- team, playing in the middle
Atlantic doubles tennis champion
ship were easily defeated by Gerald
B. Emerson and Col. John Temple
Graves, 3-6, 2-6, 60, 6-3, and 6.2.
Mangan and Kunkel seemed Ger.
tain winners after they had won
the first two sets by wide margins.
Their team work was splendid, and
their net game was never better.
The collapse of their game was CO.
incident with the rise of Graves
and Emerson to the height Of their
tennis ability.
Miss Penelope Anderson went into
the final rounds of the women'e
singles when she defeated Miss
Louise Kelly in straight sets. Miss
Helen Sinclair is the other finalist.
The mems singles finds the semi.
final round scheduled.
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
CONNIE MACK THINKING
OF QUITTING AS LEADER

Connie Mack, ancient leader Of
the Philadelphia Athletics, is so dis.
appointed at the failure Of his 1924
aggregation to get started that he
is said to be planning his retire
ment from active management.
Before the season opened Connie
announced that his team would
surely finish second to the Yam.
KEGS and, with luck, would win the
pennant in 1925. Since then his
Eigh-prtced and press.agented stars
have fallen by the wayside, and he
is in the doldrums Of despair.
Now 1t Is rumored that Danny
Murphy win be named the 1926
manager Of the Athletics. For years
he has been ConnIe-s chief lieuten.
ant on the field, usually coaching
at third base.
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
HARVARD TRACK
IN SHAPEFOR
HIGH SPEED
Springiness of cinderpath
Augurs Well for IntercoI-
Iegiate Meet

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May &c.
All doubt regarding the springiness
and possibility Of speed on. the new
cinder track in the Harvard sta
dunn for the forty-eighth annual
intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track and
field championships on Friday and
Saturday, May 80 and 81, has been
dispelled. Dennis Enright, veteran
Harvard athletic groundkeeper,
promised to have the cinder path
ready for the title contest, and
proof that il is as fast as ever was
furnished by the Harvard interschc-
lastics.
Several months ago an eight-inch
coating of cinders was spread over
the old surface, which had seen
service for twenty years. The origi-
nal grade was reached. and a new
cement pole was. installed. Fear
was expressed that it would be i'm
possible to get the track into good
enough shape for this years cham.
pionships, but Charles Borat, r.,
Andover Splinter, equaled the 100,
yard record with a sound ten-secOnd
performance Saturday q week ago,
and Albert ONeil Exeter's captain,
lowered a long-standing record in
the half-mile run. t4
It is pointed out that such marks
from schoolboys assure speed pev-
formances when athletes from more
than thirty colleges bid for honors
in the college classics on the last
two days of this month,
The Washington times., 1924-05-26


Central High stadium every Thurs
day evening from until o'clock.
It was further explained that
practice beginning this Thursday
night, would be continued about
six weeks. At the end of this
training a big official track meet
was proposed.
The next unseen speaker wanted
to know how long the reducing
class would continue. ! was some.
what surprised, but then explained
that reducing class had not been
the original idea, but that we did
want to. do. everything to help our
readers, and II she could gain by
losing We wanted to see her Thurs
day night.
Evidently she and many Of the
future Glass" realize that there is
nothing better than track exercise
for putting ones self into perfect
physical condition. |
Many wished to know what to
wear. According to Connie Wing,
gym boomers, MILDLY, tie, black
stockings and sneakers" constitute
the proper dress. If you want to
make speed, see that the boomers
are not over supplied with plaits
and get yourself some track shoes.
How much will It cost?" was q
popular questions.
This opportunity to train will
cost you nothing. All that will be
required Of you is to register with
me before the practice Thursday.
So reckon it can be boiled dowr
to this: II you like track for the
pure flin Of It; II you need exercise
and aren't getting any; IL you wan
two hours a week or good healthy
fun with the gang" or IL vol
desire to take off little extra
avoirdupois, come up to Contra
track Thursday evening at 8 O'Clock
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
LO0BlHs 9fAcYEp
BY LOfu2 AsnOuGurn
BY LOUIS A.DOUGHER


WHEN WAITER JOHNSON held the White sOx to single
wv safe hit famed fourteen
nothing unusual for him. In his younger days great
ball set up record Some have been surpassed but
several Of them stand Many telephone inquiries office
asking whether Johnson had pitched noh game He
On 1920 Harry Harper former Gr southpaw then
with the Red Sox hooked up in pitching duel with johnson at
team no sign of safe binge and his duel o. AS
pnng oneht he has done that than that his
other
Is now his eighteenth major league pitcher
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
soUTHWoRTH IS NOT UP
TO HIS MARK WITH BAT

Billy Southworth hit for .319 last
season as a member OF the Boston
Braves and. when he was traded to
the Giants, everybody figured he
would leave that figure far behind.
But he hasn't.
According to the unofficial aver
ages for the first thirty-one games
Of the present campaign, South.
worth's batting average is an
even $50.
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
CAPITAL GIRLS
ANX|OUSFOR
TRACK WORK
Jack Martin Expects Hun
dred to Report at Gen..
trail Thursday
By JACK" MARTIN

From the early returns it looks
as Il there will be about one hun.
dred Washington women and girls
out on the Central track Thursday
night.
The edition announcing the Times
track project was hardly off the
press before my phone began to
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
PUBLIC LINKS GOLFERS
IN PUTTING CONTEST

With a total of LIS points
out of possible 1900 points, James
p. Hubbell former Colorado State
champion, won the first putting con.
test ever held on a public links
here. Earl McAleOr and G. b. Roll
Inns were tied for Second place with
a score Of 1910.
More than fifty entrants took part
in the contest. All Of them were
required to make puts varying
from two feet to eighteen feet. The
point score was 100 for successful
putt, with a loss Of five points for
every three inches away from the
cup the ball rested. Each made
twelve puts.
The Washington times., 1924-05-26
Triple Play By Foe
Marks Printers
Easy Victory

,Third-baselnan Wood, Of the
Virginia Greys, made an I'M
assisted triple play when his
team was beaten Is to 0 by the
Union Printers in the Potomac
League. Lefty Pound held the
Greys to one hit in nine innings.
To make the triple killing,
Wood snatched Simons' pop-up,
tagged Charley Warren of
third and then caught Feldman,
who had left second with the
crack Of the bat.
Nine runs in the fourth IN.
ming put the game away for
the Printers, who are now
favored to win the Potomac,
League championship.