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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
HIGHLAND GIRLS DEFEAT
LOCAL COURT ARTISTS

The "Sextet" representing the
Local High school went down in de-
feat to the Richland "Sextet" by
the score of to ~ 1T Richlannd
Friday afternoon.
From all accounts the game was
2 thriller from start to finish and
the two teams played neck and
neck until the last three minutes of
play when the Richlands forwards
shot two baskets and won the game.
Miss Massie Lane was credited
with scoring all points for the local
aggregation, receiving great help
from Elizabeth Merritt and Harriet
Rylander who excelled in passing
and team work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
TAX RECEIPTS ABOUT
SAME. AS LAST YEAR

"There is no material increase
in collections, this year over last, "
asserted Tax Collector Small in re-
Spouse to question by Times
Recorder reporter, this morning, re-
garding tax receipts Of this year
over last.
Mr.. Small states that there arc
still scores of tax payers who have
not yet called for a receipt, ard iIs-
dications are that wheH the books
are closed on December. 20, as re-
quired by LAW, many property own
ers will not have "sheiled out"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
GEORGIAN FLOGGED
BY UNMASKED MEN

AUsTELL, Dec. 10 Charles
j. Shelverton, Jr., rs, is confined to
his home here and is IN the care
Of physicians as the result Of a
beating which he says was given
him last night by band of un-nlask
ed men. The men, he Gays lured
him to point two miles north of
here, where he claims he was given
q severe beating.
No reason for the attack wss adj
vanced by Shelverton.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
AGED LEADER OF
AMERICAN LABOR
PASSES AT DAWN
Gompers Granted Last Request
He Died On American
Soil-Born in England
(By The Associated Press)

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. De-
cember l3.-The grand old
leader of American labor is
dead. Samuel Gompers has
been granted his last wish. He
died on American soil at 4:lO
this morning, eleven hours after
his arrival from Mexico City,
where he had been stricken ear
lier in the week.
4, In his last moments Mr.. Com
pers was surrounded by men
with whom he had fought manv
of labor's battles through gen
Grafton of American union la
Dor development.
Holding his hands was James
Duncan, of Quincy, Mass, vice
president of the federation,
who has stood shoulder to
shoulder with the leader of la
Dor for A years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
BLIZZARD Wrecks
JAPANESE SHIP,
{. PERSONS PERISH
Destroyer Rescues S. Of Crew
Of 1910 Men Still
Aboard In Peril
(By Associated Pres..)

TOXIC. Japan, Dec. 3D.
Eight bodies have been washed
ashore and about. 40 persons
are in peril of losing their lives
aboard the special service ship
kwahto.
The kwanto was wrecked in
a blizzard off the coast of Tau
ruga, Japan. 49,
"A Japanese. destroyer has res
cued five officers and SO men
and 40 others have reached
shore.
The kwanto carried a crew
said to be not less than, $50
men.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
DANISH PREMIER
IS CRITICALLY I'LL
Develops Inflammation of Lungs
And Grave Fears Are
Entertained

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec.
13.-Hjalmar Branting, premier of
Denmark, is seriously ill, according
to advices received here today.
1t is said that the Danish pre-
nier has developed inflammation
of the lungs and that grave fears
for his recovery were entertained
by his physicians.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
SAN ANTONIO TONIGHT.

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 13.-The
body of Samuel Gompers will be
taken homeward by his friends, leav
ing here tonight at II o'clock, and
going by way of St. Louis, accord
ing to tentative arrangements made
known this morning.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13

The death of Mr.. Gompers
was enormously reported
Thursday from a village near
San Luis Potosi, as Mr.. Gompers
was travelling from Mexico City
back to the land of his 'adop-
ton. Later this report was de-
MED, but it was believed that
the end was not far.
! Arriving at the American bor-
der Friday morning he was rush
ed on toward San Antonio,
where arrangements had been
made to give him hospital at
tention. 1t was a veritable race
with death FRIDAY. so his ply
sicians believed.
During the day he was able
to sit up in his berth and take
r,ourishment, but tn: many
years of active fighting were
slowly taking their toll, and la
bor's champion passed away in
the early dawn Saturday.
Born in London, Jan. 27, 1891,
Samuel Gompers was Of Dutch
Jewish blood. His father was a
cigar-maker and Samuel, following
the custom, adopted HIS fathers
trade. After four years in pri-
mary school he was apprenticed to
q London cigarmaker. With the to-
bacco supply cut off by the Civil
War In America, cigar making in
England became precarous oc-
cupation in the early sixties, and
the family immigrated to America
in 1863.
Samuel Gompers Immediately
took UP his trade and finished his
apprenticeship in New York City.
In his teens he took an active part
in labor controversies. When the
cigarmakers We're organized into a
I union Samuel Gompers was a chart
Der member of the first union or
ganized in his trade in America.
He soon Identified himself with
the activities of union labor. He
became a leader in his own labor
circles. When the American FEEDER
alton of Labor was organized in
1881, taking the place OF the
Knights of Labor, Gompers sat at
the convention, a prominent dele
gate. When it was organized in
1881, the federation was known as
the Federation of Organized Trade
and Labor Unions of the United
States and Canada, taking its pres
emit name in 1886.
At the conventioa in 1881 there
were few who wihsed the inevitable
course of the frail SBew bark. Els
task of launching and steering tie
CONTINUED on Page ~
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13

Grafton and growth in power for
Gompers. When the organization
came into existence there were So
600 members.
Because of his genius for leader
ship and of his tremendous influ-
ence for the betterment of the con-
dition of the workingmen, capital
istic interests are said to have tried
many times to buy Gompers off. 1t
is a matter of record that certain
financial institution offered him
life job at $4,000 a year-twenty
times his salary at that time.
1t was not until 1917 that Com
pers sprang into world prominence.
America entered the war. Gompers
had been pacifistic upto the begin
ming Of that year. The federation
reflected his attitude. There were
strongly pro-German and anti-war
International unions within the OK
ganization-unions which, if they
had exer4ed their strength, might
have crippled Americas war activi-
ties.
Wins Support For War
In a conference room in Wash
ington, in March, 1917, Gompers
won one of the greatest battles of
his life. In a secret meeting of
chiefs of the great unions Gompers
put the proposition of supporting
the country in the war, already in
evitable, up to his colleagues. He
put the situation squarely: Either
they would pledge their support to
the government or their failure to
do so would be construed as open
opposition.
The rank and file og Americas
workmgmen We're depely patriotic
and the recalcritrant leaders knew
it. They signed the pledge ON the
dotted line.
When America entered the war
few weeks later, Gompers told
the president that labor presented
united front and would go the
limit to help win the war hus
through his foresight and energy
much of the labor difficulties such
as were experienced in Europe
were averted.
Labor's Spokesman
The personal result of this tri- |
position Of the recognized spokes- |
nan for labor then and after the |
war. He was in large measure
responsible for beneficial legisla-
ton and regulation in behalf of j
umph was to place Gompers in the !
the laboring man.
In 1919 Gombers represented la
Dor at the peace conference at Yer
saflles. -
!. In 1921, for the first time in
many years, Gombers seemed in
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13

serious danger of losing his posi-
ton of leadership. John L. Lewis,
striking figure in the miners in
ternational, was placed in the run
ming against him. In the final vote,
however, Gompers beat Lewis by
more than 2 to 1.
indicated, Gompers emerged
from that battle more powerful
than ever.
On May 6, 1920, Mrs. Sophie Jul
ian Gompers, the labor leaders first
wife, whom he married SO years
before, died. Besides her husband
she was survived by three sons,
their only daughter having died
shortly before. On April 16, 1921,
Samuel Gompers married again,
wedding Mrs. Gertrude Gleaves
Neuschler.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
WILL BE BURIED IN
} SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.--Samuel
Gompers, the late president of tGc
American Federation of Labor, will
be buried in Sleepy Hollow Gene
terry, near Tarrytown, N. Y; it was
said here today by Fl. Harry M
Moness, a close personal friend of
Mr.. Gompers.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
Coolidge's View.

Mr.. Coolidge was reported as
holding the view that such advances
should be made in order to provide
the necessary revenue for what he
regards as merited raise in the
pay of employees of the postal scrv-
ice. Some senators said hey car
ried away the impression that such
legislation would have his support.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
COOLIDGE BACKS !
MOVE FOR RAISE
IN POSTAL RATES
Legislation to This End Expect
ed To Have White House
Support

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-Legi-
Station proposing increased postage
rates on practically all classes of
mail except letter mail to take care
CT Pay advances for postal employ
ees is to be expected &c have active
administration support as a result
of White House conference Fri
day between President Coolidge and
a dozen republican senator's.
The conference was called by
the executive after the blocking i'll
the senate yesterday of efforts to
postpone action on the president
veto of the postal pay bill passed
at the last session. There was a
rather general discussion OF the
whole situation, including the pros
pective oppositionsto mail rate ad-
vances, particularly tbose on second
class matter, embracing newspapers
and MAGAZINES.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13

WEATHER-Fair and warmer to-
night; Saturday fair and warmer
in Georgia.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-12-13
AMERIcUs SPOT COTTON

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
LIQUOR Theft TRIAL
POSTPONED SIX DAYS
Policeman Rome and Grossman Re
leased Under IS, 900 Bail
Each.

The police court hearing of house.
breaking charges against Policeman
Guy Rome, detailed to the sixth pre-
cinct, and Harry Grossman, who were
arrested early yesterday morning in
the wine cellar Of Gustave w. Fors-
berg, yachtsman and proprietor of
the Forsberg Iron Works. was post
poned today until July s, as the court
was Informed the government was not
ready with the case.
Rome and Grossman were released
from No. 10 police precinct yesterday
afternoon under bond of $4,000 each.
They had been in a cell at the police
station since their capture, about $3.50
o'clock yesterday morning, by De-
tectiye C. ]. P. Weber and Policeman
E. F. Lewis of the tenth precinct and
Prohibition Enforcement Officer w. >.
Brown. who had lain in wait at the
Forsberg home, 1907 14th street. for
the expected return or llquor Dur
glars who had entered the mouse the
two previous nights.
The Forsberg house had been va
cant during the robberies, Mr.. F'ors-
berg living aboard his yacht in the
Potomac and Mrs. Forsberg and chill
dren being away on vacation. APP
proximately 1000 worth of valuable
WHISTLES, wines, brandies and gin
were taken. Part of the loot was re,
covered in a clump of bushes several
blocks away.
Rome, regardless of police court
action, will be tried before the police
trial board, it is said. He is under
suspension from the force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
D. c. CHIEFS ASK
OVER $35,oDQ,O)D
Estimates for 1926 to Be
Taken Up by Commissioners
Next Week.

the District Commissioners will be-
gin Monday the task of going over
the estimates of their department
heads for the fiscal year 1s25-1926.
Their first object will be to arrive
at an approximate total and submit
that figure to the budget bureau. All
department estimates are not yet be-
fore the Commissioners, and, con-
sequently. no one can say what they
will aggregate. Indications are, how
ever, that the figure will be between
sS5,o00,0o0 and 100000.
The original estimates of depart
ment chiefs will be higher than last
year because of the substantial salary
increases that have been granted since
last years estimates were prepared.
Will Renew 6O-4O Fight.
Before advising Gen. Lord of the
approximate total the city heads will
go over the details of what their
subordinates have asked for to make
sure that only essential projects are
included.
Although Congress abolished the
6o-4o plan of appropriating for the
the National Capital for the coming
twelve months and substituted a
lump sum of 100000 as the federal
governments snare, II Is understood
the Commissioners intend to ask Con-
gress next fall to restore the 6O-40
system.
The estimates will be prepared on
the basis of what the city actually
will need next year. without mention
of the fiscal relations. That is a leg
islative question on which the Com
misSioners will state their views
when they are called to the Capitol
in December to defend the sum of
money they have asked for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
CONTINENT MAIL
PILOTS NEAR GOALS
Flyers Leave Chicago and
Cheyenne on Eastern and
Western Routes.
SCHEDULED TIME KEPT
Post Office Officials Believe Expert
ment Already Has Been Proved
Successful.
SCHEDULED TIME KEPT
By the A ssOcja ted presu

ny IN" Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 2-The east bound
transcontinental air mail. which left
San Francisco on the initial trim 70
New York at 5:57 am, Pacific time.
yesterday, was brought to Chicago at
flo central standard time, today by
Pilot William c. Hopson. .
Hopson brought in twenty-five mail
pouches. weighing 400 pounds. dis
charging six pouches, weighing 10
pounds. for Chicago. Williams took
on five pouches, weighing As pounds,
departing with an eastbound cargo
or tWenty-one pouches, weighing. $40
pounds.
. Air Lane Perfect.
The air lane was perfect and I
always had three beacons in sight. or
visibility of about seyenty-fiye
miles" Hopson said 1T was a ,bit
cold up there, but I feel fine. 1t was
easy sailing all of the way, only the
WIND slowed me up some"
II Is only reasonable to believe
mat the first days transcontinental
hight is success" Col. Paul Hender-
son, second assistant post!nater gen
eral. said. Already the Post Office De
partment has received many messages
OF congratulations. Practically all of
the country's railroad heads con
graduated the department. They re-
gard the air mail as an interesting
transportation development which
VIII benefit the railways by supple
mentlng existing service with move
ment OF greater speed
The most helpful interest has been
shown by Carl Gray, president of the
Union Pacific railroad. Mir. Gray has
placed a the disposal of the air mail
service the facilities of his line"
Col. Henderson said that included
In the mail going to San Francisco
rs a package of news pictures taken
in New York before the first plane
left there yesterday. They will be de
veloped and shown in San Francisco
theaters less than two days after ths=y
were taken, he said. The postage
amounted to S10632
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
CITIZENS ASSA|L
BOXING IN COUNTY
Permits Recommended De.
spite Protest by Delegation
at Marlboro.
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

UPPER MARLBORO. Md. July q
The law passed by the last session
Of the Legislature providing that be-
fore the state boxing commission
shall issue permits for boxing bouts
in Prince Georges or Montgomery
counties the applications must be
recommended by the county commits
sioners became effective yesterday
and a delegation of men and women
from a number of sections of the
county appeared before hte commits
sioners to protest against granting
permission for bouts Thursday at
Berwyn and Monday at Kenilworth.
Judge ]. II. Shepherd, DIR. Albert F.
Woods, president of the University
of Maryland Rev. B. Andrew Matzen,
pastor of the Berwyn Presbyterian
Church; the Rev. Fred c. Klein of
representing the county grange. II. A.
Marsden, secretary of the county
community council; Mrs. G. p. Bick-
ford of Berwyn and others were in
the delegation. They said the bouts
deprecated property in the county,
constitute nuisance. Roads in the
Berwyn neighborhood are damaged
by the heavy traffic incident to the
bouts and the county is deriving no
revenue from them, it was said.
Judge ]. H. Shepherd declared that
Prince Georges County was being
made dumping ground" since the
District of Columbia, Montgomery
County and nearby Virginia had re-
fused to permit boxing. The COM
missionerS voted three to one to
recommend the granting of the per-
mits They said future permits would
not be favored, if it was proved that
the affairs constituted a nuisance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
REPORT ON GERMANY
SOUGHT BY COOLIDGE
Conference Arranged With Ambas.
sador Houghton, Now Home
From Berlin.

First-hand information on condi-
tions in Germany, particularly as
bearing on the situation with respect
to the Dawes report, was understood
to have been sought by President
Coolidge in arranging a conference
today with Alanson b. Houghton,
American ambassador at Berlin. On
arriving in New York yesterday Am
bassador Houghton was quoted as
saying he considered Germany had
done everything asked of her under
the Dawes plan and that he hoped
she would accept it.
Mr.. Houghton is said to have post
poned previously planned date of
departure for the United States for
several weeks in order that he might
continue his observation Of develop
ments in Germany during that time
Interest of the administration in Ger
man conditions has been made clear
by its repeated expressions of hope
that the Dawes plan would be ac-
cepted as starting point for a solu-
ton of the reparations problem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia and Maryland
Partly cloudy tonight; tomorrow
fair, not much change in temperature;
gentle variable winds.
Virginia-Partly cloudy tonight,
probably showers in southwest por-
ton; tomorrow partly cloudy. not
much change in temperature. Gentle,
variable winds, mostly north.
West Virginia-Generally fair to-
night and tomorrow; not much
change in temperature.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours
Thermometer-4 pm, II; 8 pm,
So; IL midnight. GO; am, 81; s am,
Sc; noon, Is.
Barometer-4 pm, 5000; s pm,
30o6; IL midnight, 30.0S: am, 30.06
s am, 3012; noon, 5000.
Highest temperature, 70, occurred at
noon today.
Lowest temperature, 81, occurred
at am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, rs; lowest, 81.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of the
water at s a.m.-Great Falls: Tenn
perature, 20; condition, very muddy.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-07-02
MERGER Of TRADE
ROUTES APPROVED
Ship Board Agrees to Con-
solidate U. S. Lines to Old
WorId-Saving Seen.

The Shipping Board today approved
the recommendations of the Fleet
Corporation for consolidating the
governments trade routes operating
from the north Atlantic and gulf to
the orient and Dutch East Indies,
and South Atlantic to the United
Kingdom and continental European
ports.
The merger of the first named serv-
ice will be effected through a COM
bination of the Barber steamship
lines Of New York and the Tampa
Inter-Ocean Steamship Company Of
New Orleans and the elimination of
the Kerr Steamship Company of New
York
Four ships will be taken off the
berths and twenty-four retained.
eight to be operated from the North
Orient, eight from the north Atlantic
via south Atlantic ports and Homo
lulu, direct to the Philippines, and
eight from the gulf to the ORIENT.
Large Saving Expected.
Approximately $335,o0o a year will
be saved under the consolidation,
President Palmer estimated, with fur
Their economies possible by improved
routing and increase flexibility of
service.
The Carolina Company, the Tampa
Inter-ocean Steamship and Trosdal,
Plant and La Fonta, the three opera.
tors of government tonnage OUT Oh
Savannah, Charleston and JACKSON
Vile will be merged into one company
. 70
Kingdom and continental European
ports.
Nine ships have been running in
the trade and the consolidation was
on the assumption that the
three companies would form volun-
tary combination. Mr.. Palmer In MS
said he believed
satisfactory service could be given
with seven vessels and savings OF
S250400 a year effected.
Other Mergers Considered.
The Carolina company operates
from Charleston to Bremen and Ham
burg, the Tampa Inter-Ocean Steam
ship Company from Jacksonville TO
Rotterdam and Antwerp and
Trosdal, Plant and LaFonta from
to Liverpool and Man
chester.
Other cargo route mergers, as pro-
posed by the Fleet Corporations con-
solid a ton committee, were under con-
sideration today by the Shipping
Board, including the twenty eight
vessel service from north Atlantic
ports to French ports north of Bor-
deaux, Antwerp and Rotterdam. oper-
ated by the Cosmopolitan Steamship
Company and the Black Diamond
Steamship Company, both of New
York, and the north Atlantic to Med
iterranean port routes, conducted by
the Mallory transport lines, A. II.
Bull & Co. and the Export Steamship
all of New York.