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■l A Southern Newspaper for Southern People j —. — FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 211. CITY STREET FORCE ON STRIKE HERE WAR UNFINISHED TILL WE FULFILL PLEDGE-WILSON “Must Assume Responsi bilities To Prevent Future Wars.’’ ON BOARD PRESIDENT WIL SONS SPECIAL TRAIN, September j 3. (By Associated Press.) —When President Wilson’s special train stopped for a few minutes at Pasco, Wash., shortly after 9 o’clock last night a crowd surrounded the pri vate car, Mayflower, and the Presi dent came out to shake hands and to exchange greetings with them. Af ter telling several stories, he wound np by making a short speech, in which he said the war was “unfin ished” until the United States assum ed responsibility for its pledge that future wars would be made impos sible. When he asked how so large a crowd gathered without having the band out, Mr. Wilson was told by one of the boys present that “the band’s wore out.” Another boy wearing a faded bandman’s uniform, was thrust for ward then and presented as “the sol e member of Pasco’s Brass Band.” The President remarked that he did not look as though he had wind enough and then an old inhabitant confided that “he had given the band sls not to play tonight” One of the President’s stories, which got a long enough laugh, was about a man who played golf and always said “Assousan” when he missed the ball. When asked why, he replied that “Assousan” was the biggest dam in the world. “They’re building a dam for me down in Georgia,” added the Presi dent. Thanking the crowd for coming out to see him, Mr. Wilson said in a briew speech that he regarded it as another evidence that the people wanted the peace treaty ratified. ACCUMULATED $184,802 ESTATE DURING 25 YEARS MONTEZUMA, September 13. The appraisers of the estate of the late Louis Frieden have filed their returns of appraisement on the prop erties in Dooly and Macon counties comprising the estate. The valuation they placed on the lands, stock, farm implements, crops and other property. making up the estate is $184,802. This represents one of the most remarkable achieve ments. Starting twenty-five years ago with nothing but the will to suc ceed, Mr. Frieden gathered together this large holding. E. B. Lewis has been appointed admir istrator on the estate and will have charge of wind ing up its affairs. negro worker loses ARM IN COTTON GIN Going to the help of another gin hand who was having trouble cost Willie Latimor, a negro, living at 311 Hampton street, the loss of his right arm just below the elbow Saturday morning. Willie is an employe of the Farmers Cotton Oil Co. According to his statement, a gin unit which was being operated by another ne gro became clogged and stopped. He volunteered to remove the trouble and thrust his hand into the machin ery to remove the accumulated seed. fho machine started running again before he could remove his hand, mangling him so badly the arm had to be amputated near the elbow. The operation was done by Drs. Stukes, I’rather and Lewis. » OHIO ORDERS END TO PHONE CONNECTION FEE COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 13.—(8y associated Press.)—The Public Util ‘Ces commission today ordered the telephone companies operating in the state to discontinue the $3.50 connec tmn charge authorized by Postmaster General Burleson. The Weather Forecast 1 or Georgia.—Showers probable Sunday. * Americus Woman Drives Touring Car 390 Miles In Day ) ——— c \ M RS Chas. M. Council and chil- < I ’ dren returned Friday even- < ’ I■, ing from Candler, N. C., where ? ' 1 they had been spending several > I I ( weeks. > “We drove the touring car s ) from Waynesville, N. C., to Am- < ( ericus, a distance of 390 miles, < <[ in the one day,” said Mrs. Coun- ? ? cR * i I“The roads were wonderful or > we couldn’t have done it. But 5 smooth as they were my body ( aches so that I almost cry.” $ GIRL PARALYZED BY CHANCE SHOT IN BACK OF NECK J PLAINS, September 13.—The 11- year-old daughter of V. M. Reeves, of Weston, Webster county, lies hov ering between life and death at the Plains Hospital, completely paralyz ed below the neck, as the result of being hit in the back of the neck I acidentally by a bullet from a bullet : from a .22 rifle, fired yesterday as- I ternoon by her brother at a bird. By a chance of fate, it was said, the 1 bullet hit a pane of glass and was j swerved in its course in such away as to hit the little girl, who playing about the yard at the time. After emergency treatment had been ad- I ministered by Dr. Lunsford, of Wes- I ton, the child was brought here for treatment by the Drs. Wise. j It was stated Saturday afternoon [ at the hospital that, while her con ; dition was very serious, there was I hope of her recovery. It was be lieved the bullet had entered the spinal chord. TRACK WORKERS WIN DEMANDS; I STRIKEAVERTED DETROIT, Sept. 13.—(8y Asso ciated Press.) —The railroad adminis tration has unreservedly accepted the proposal of the Brotherhood of Main tenance of Way Employes, and Rail way Shop Laborers for a new work ing schedule, according to ,a message to the convention today. This means there will be no strike. MINE WORKERS BACK PLUMB RAILWAY PLAN CLEVELAND, Sept. 13.—(8y As sociated Press.)—The United Mine Workers’ convention today er.dors ' ed the Plumb plan for nationalization of railroads, pledged their support to [ secure its enactment, and invited the railroad brotherhoods to join in an alliance for jo'nt iction, to be later extended into an economic alliance with labor organizations in other la ' sic industries I 3he action was almost unanimous 1.8 INCH RAIN FOLLOWS UNWELCOME HOT WAVE I • The hot, sultry weather of the greater part of the week came to an end Friday night with a drenching rain of .8 of an inch, which follow | ed an unusually uncomfortable day lof heavy humidity. The weather I Saturday for the most part was clear | and fine, with an invigorating atmos- I phpere. I The highest temperature of the ; week was Thursday, when it reach ed 93 degrees. Friday’s highest was 90 degrees. MAY DEDUCT OTHER U. S. TAXES FIGURING INCOME WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—(8y Associated Press.) —Responding to inquiries by the bureau of internal revenue anounced today that virtual ly all federal taxes, even th e two cents paid for the privilege of an ice cream soda, may be deducted ■ from the gross income in computing i income taxes. Only income and ex cess profits taxes may not be de ducted. ERIC ■ TH E T DER PUBLISHED IN HEART OF CURIOUS NEARLY BLOCK PERSHING ATBAKER’SDOOR 'General, on 59th Birth day, Takes Report To War Department WASHINGTON, September 13. ! (By Associated Press.) Almost ! fighting his way through hundreds ■ of admirers gathered at the war de partment, General Pershing official ly reported to Secretary of War Baker today from France with his mission of victory over Germany ac- i complished. General Pershing was welcomed upon his return to the national cap ital late yesterday with a fitting demonstration of gratitude to the victory in France. Appropriate to the occasion of General Pershing’s return to Wash ington, a resolution proposing the gift of a sword to the ranking of ficer of the American Expeditionary Forces has been given right of way for consideration in the House to day. The resolution, which tenders the thanks of the American people and th e Congress to General Persh ing and the men of the American ; Expeditionary Forces, would appro priate ten thousand dollars for pur i chase of the sword. : As a feature of the Victory Pa [ rad e here Wednesday in which Gen- I eral Pershing will lead the First Di i vision and receive the formal greet i ing of the capital, the War Depart | ment announced today that five : flights of airplanes and an observa | tion balloon will take the air when ! the procession starts and conduct maneuvers over the line of march. This was General Pershing’s fifty ninth birthday. He was born on September 13, 1860, when the war clouds of the struggle between the States were about to break and when the first calls for volunteers would soon be heard in the Missouri town where he was born. From that day his life’s history has been filled with the things of war. General Pershing dined tonight with his father-in-law, Senator War ren, of Wyoming. It was a private dinner with only a few guests. i SHERIFF CAPTURES TWO WOMEN LIQUOR MAKERS Two female whisky makers were , brought to the county jail last even -1 ing from the vicinity of Leslie by Sheriff Harvey and Deputy Sheriff Summers. The two, negroes, were Minnie Smith,, an aged woman, and j Lucy May Warren, a girl. A small quantity of whisky, which the girl [ tried to destroy when she saw the officers, was found in their home, to gether with a quantity of beer for I making liquor. No still was located. SYLVESTER WARDEN AND BIG SOMBRERO ARE HERE | County Warden Nelson, of Sylves- I ter, wearing a gigantic sombrero of : the western movie sheriff type, was |in Americus last evening and took I charge of David Thomas, life convict i recently sentenced here, who has been assigned to bis county gang by ' the prison commission. HELP ASKED FOR NEGRO FAMILY, HOME BURNED The Associated ChariUes request ■ , help for a negro family whose home . and all its contents were burned last week. There are three children in the family, aged respectively 1 1-2, 5 . and 7 years, and any donations, whether of clothes or furniture, will . ’ be gratefully received. DUDLEY GATEWOOD BACK HOME FROM OVERSEAS Dudley Gatewood has returned to Americus from a year’s service in [ France and will re-enter civil life in his old home. RAYMOND PETERS, OUT OF NAVY, IS BACK HOME Raymond Peters, who was a mid ' shipman on the Mississippi, has re ceived his discharge from the navy : and returned to his home here. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1919. A New Version of September Morn. /you SCRUB ' //Z/T/T/z/Z/ “ NECK AND EARS ''///Z//'''ZZ/Z VOUNG MAN.ANP IP XoVRE LATE FOR SCHOOL ILL / 71 //7/> TZZZZZ y ME comes , / ZZ &«£ ££ i /// 7//// i 1 /77/7T/77 had sent me i i /// /■ P 7//Z wont make mV all G,RLS 7 "V///, 8 7/7// *' DS 60 I I ///7/ \//// I school if I 7/Z// '/J/7 A fwAMAteHV '//' 7//// (MILYOH iX'TU —00ESNT sg - > VTZ 5 J <9 7 i - ■ S •v i \ xZ/ • PUBUC INVITED TO HEAR ROTARY i PASTOR SEPT. 21 Americus Rotary club will observe Rotary Sunday, today week, Septem ber 21. Dr. J. A. Thomas, pastor of the First Methodist church, at I Columbus, and one of the first men J in Georgia to become a member of i Rotary, will preach a sermon on Ro ! tary at 11 o’clock, in the First Meth odist church. Recently the Rotary club by reso lution invited each of the Ameri cus churches to suspend their serv ices and meet with the Rotarians ■at the First Methodist church. Dr. i Guyton Fisher very readily volun i teered the use of his church for the ! service and the Rotary committee has received word from Rev. Silas Johnson that he and his church will join the Rotarians in hearing Dr. ' Thomas. Rotarians today issue through the Times-Recorder a most cordial in j vitation to every man and woman— i particularly the business men of Americus to hear Dr. 1 homas. It is the desire of the Rotarians that Am , ericus know what Rotary is, what j are its aims and what it means to Americus. Mrs. J. M. Bryan has charge of the music for the service and is prepar ing a special musical program. It is the expressed wish of R-o --j tarians that every church will find ;it possible to join the great serv t ice held under the auspices of Ameri cus Rotary. EX-CROWN PRINCESS IS CALLER AT AMERONGEN AMERONGEN, September 13. ; (Friday) (By Associated Press.) | The former crown princess and two sons arrived here today and I were received by the former emper- ■ or and empress. ITALY AGAIN SHAKEN. ROME, September 12. (Friday.) j —-(By Associated Press.) —Several i villages in the province of Siena were severely shaken last night by an earthquake. One person was re ported dead and scores injured. SEARCH ABANDONED FOR MISSING FLYERS i SAN DIEGO, Calif.. September 13 (By Associated Press.) —Search in lower California by the war and navy departments for Lieut. Water house an*l Connelly, U. S. aviators | missing since August 21, has been iabandoned. 5,215 BALES OF i NEW CROP ARE RECEIVED HERE Despite the lateness of cotton here this year, due to late planting and wet i weather during a large part of the [growing season, more bales have been received by the Americus warehouses up to this date than to the same date last year by nearly three hundred bales. This was revealed by reports ifrom the local warehouses Saturday, all of which, except one. gave out figures for the similar period a year i ago, as well as this year’s figures. [ Only one warehouse reported a [smaller number of bales received than , last year. Allowing figures for last year of equal to this for the ware house which did not report 1918 re ceipts, the total receipts for the city showed: For this year, 5,215; for last year .same period, 4,939 bales. Saturday of the previous week was th<> largest day of receipts of the sea son for Americus, and cotton men generally say they do not expect it to be equalled this year. Receipts for the city yesterday were said to be j only about half of the previous Sat urday. The warehouse which show ed n decrease over the sa re date last yet.- had equalled last year’s figures up until Friday, the slump coming in the last two days. “I still stick to the prediction that , the crop will be about 13.500 hales,” said T. G. Hudson, who is weighing for L. G. Council’s warehouse. There will be some more cotton to come, [ but a large part of it is already in, ; and the receipts will grow lighter [from this time on.” There were 1651 bales of cotton, | | counting round as haff bales, ginned ; i in Sumter county from the crop of i 1919, prior to September 1, 1919. as ' i compared with 2,068 bales ginned to ; September 1, 1918, according to the . report to Washington by Wm. P. ■ | Persons, census bureau agent for this , j county. MISS MORGAN TO BE HONOR MAID ATVETSREUNION Miss Hattie Pope Morgan, of Am i ericus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. ’A. Morgan, has been appointed Maid of Honor for. the Western Brigade, Georgia Division, United Confederate Veterans, for the At lanta reunion next month, by Com mander B. N. Jjarroy, of Griffin. 1 Word of the appointment came Sat urday in a letter from Commander Barrow to Capt. Joe Day Stewart who had been at work -for some time to I hav e an Americus girl named for this honor. Following is a copy of the letter Ito Capt. Stewart: “Griffin, Ga., Sept. 12. 1919. Capt. Joe Day Stewart, Americus, Ga. “My Dear Comrade —I am sending commission to Miss Morgan as re quested by you, I am glad of th e op portunity of appointing such a fine young lady as Maid of Honor of our Brigade. Very ’truly, your friend and comrade. “B. N. BARROW. A copy of the appointment was en closed as follows: “Order No. 5. Order that Miss Hattie Pope Morgan of the city of Americus, be and is hereby appoint- I [ ed Maid of Honor, for the Western Brigade, Georgia Division, U. C. V. and that she shall be respected and honored as such. z B. N. BARROW, “Commander Western Brigade, of | i the Georgia Division U. C. V.” It is said that Capt Stewart’s sue- , cess in securing this honor for Miss Morgan, representing Americus, was the fact that Commander Bar [ row and the other veterans of Geor gia have not forgotten the lavish 1 manner in which they were enter tained at the reunion held here in I 1916. The Cotton Market LOCAL SPOTS. Good Middling 27 1-4 cents. NEW YORK FUTURES. Prev. Close Open High Low Close j [Oct. 28.70 28.75 28.85 28.52 28.57 1 Dec. 28.88 28.90 29.02 28.80 28.80 (Jan. 28.80 28.93 28.97 28.70 28.73 1 HOME EDITION By Morris ! 35 MEN QUIT WHEN ORDERED TOOBSERVEOLD WORKINCHOURS Entire Crew, All Ne groes, Out, Leaving Streets Unswept ANSLEY DISCOVERS DAY 2 HRS. SHORT Says Change Was Unau thorized—Heidt De- nies He’s To Blame Americus has its own murweijeT strike. Declaring that they wvoM not return to the old schedule <rf 12 hours a day, 35 members of the city street department walked out Sat urday at noon. At least part of then walked out—those who were to have worked Saturday afternoon, The remainder have Saturday af ternoon off regularly. Last night the 13 street hands, who were due to go to work at 11 o’clock to give j pavements a thorough cleaning did I not put in their appearance, as a re ! suit unclean pavements will have to be tolerated by the citizens today. All of the men said they would j not report for work Monday morn ; ing unless word came to them that their grievances had ben adjusted. City Superintendent J. B. Ansfey said last night there would be no adjustment, and notified “Diek” Heidt, street supervisor, to hire & I new street force. All Striker* Colored- All of the men on strike are col ored. The walkout came when the men were told by Mr. Ansley, as i they appeared for the pay envelopes Saturday, that the woufd have to re i sume their old bourse of duty of' from 6a,m.to 6p. in. Mr. Ansley, informed them that those were the - city hours, and that he had just dis covered that they werg working two . hours less than that per day, which was without authorization. Sherman Walker, speaking for the negro work men, rtated that they did not like the idea of returning to the schedule, but <F • i.ot say they would qu t wcrir. later however, they njtitma Mr. Heidt that they were throng! ueless Mr. Ansley receded, and theffiev e ne gro garbage wagon drivers who were to work Saturday afternoon refused to take out their wagons. The men involved include 17 street cleaners and 12 scavengers, of whom five are garbage wagon drivers. Winter Shortens Day. “The city’s hours of work for these men have always been 6 a. m. to 6 p m...” said Mr. Ansley. “In .>uh»- mer, with one hour off for din.ter, this allows 11 hours for work. In ! the winter, with darkness from 5 p. ; m. to 7 a. m. the best we can get out jof them is 8 1-2 hours of work. I only recently discovered that Mr. Heidt had given them permission to put in a 10-hour day, instead of 12 without knowledge or consent. I merely notified the men that they j have to return to the old schedule.” ■ “The 10-hour schedule was in ef fect when I went to work for the city last October,” said Mr. Heidt last evening,” and I did not know that there was any other schedule, as no one had said anything about it to me. The men informed me Sat urday at noon that they were through i unless things should be fixed up by ; Monday morning. Otherwise, they would look for other jobs.” Most of the men affected ar e paid $2 per day, but a few who do special work get $2.50 per day. They say they are not striking li* an increase in pay, but the right to continue the working hours they have been eb- ■ serving. CHILEAN MINISTRY OUITS. SANTIAGO. September 13.—(8y Associated Press.. —The Chilean min istry has resigned. PRICE FIVE CENTS.