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THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
FRENCH WITHSTAND ATTACKS OF
GERMANS IN ALL MOVEMENTS
AGAINST FORTRESS OF VERDUN
Russians Bombard
Trebizond And
Sink Several
Ships in The
Harbor
GRANO bUKE SWEEPS IN
HIS TURKISH FIGHTING
French Sweep a
Wide Area With
Their Artillery
Around The
Verdun Forts
The Germans today are turning their
attention to the French flanks around
Verdun, while the French center and
the region around Douamont continues
l oiding firm.
An intense artillery fine in the
Woevre region, reported in last night’s
Paris bulletin, centered on Haudemont
and Freenes, about ten miles southeast
of Verdun. Military commentators re
cently laid stress oh the operations in
this sector, it being held that next
important German drive would be
there. The object of such a drive
would be to roll up the French flank.
There are other indications, how
ever, of a possibility that the Germans
are still watching the French from
across the Meuse, where the La Mort
Homme (‘dead man’s field”) heights
command the lesser hills and sur
rounding battlefield. The French have
prepared for inafntry attacks there, al
though it is conceded a drive across
the open at that point would be prob
ably more costly than any yet under
taken.
Meanwhile furious assaults along the
main Verdun front continue. This is
aptly illustrated by yesterday’s attack
on the left of the Douamont sector,
where the French position held firm,
ti rowing off all German attacks, these
being abandoned only after severe
losses were sustained.
There are indications of another Ger
man offensive movement contained in'
newsdespatches from Dutch cities
These tell of extensive troop move
ments in the direction of Ypres, where
the great German drive for Calais
failed last year. This newest offensive,
it is presumed, is to be directed against
the English front. Some commenta
tors, however, see in it only a feint
intended to prevent the re-inforcement
of French lines elsewhere, and these
observers profess to believe the long
military trains passing near the Dutch
border are in reality onl£ empty cars
intended to deceive Entente observers
near the Holland border line.
In Armenia, the Russians continue to
advance as rapidly as the rough na
ture of the country will permit the
bringing up of supplies. The Turkish
ormy offers little resistant.ee to the
Slav advance, and in some instances
has been cut to .pieces -by the victor
ious soldiers of the Grand Duke Nich
olas.
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The French line north of Verdun at the beginning of the present Ger
man offensive ran from the Meuse, at a point north of Cohsenvoye, in a
semi-circle into the woods to the northeast ana turned southward well
jnorth of Beaumont, continuing to the southeast, north of Ornes, to
Fromezy and Etain.
Four days of continuous fighting with heavy losses gave the Germans
Consenvoye, Brabant-sur-Meuse, Haumont and Samogneux on the west
ern end of the salient, and Ornes further east. Beaumont, half way be
tween Safogneaux and Ornes, still remains “no-man’s-ground,” being al
ternately in French and German possession, with Fort Donaoumont, one
of the French armored positions nearby, in ruins, but under such deadly
French fire as to prevent its successful occupation by the Germans. The
village of Donauomont, near the fortified position, has been occupied by the
Teutons.
Resolution Up Monday.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 6.
The house rules committee this after
noon agreed to bring into the house to
iiorrow a special rule providing a four
debate on the McLemore resolution
warning American to keep off armed
belligerent merchant ships. This is
expected to put the resolution into a
position where administration leaders
feel sure they can kill it.
The rule to be reported tomorrow
provides for an even division of time
acllwed for debate,, two hours being
allotted administration speakers and
two hours to the opposition. A vote
on the resolution is expected either
Jate tomorrow or early Wednesday.
PARIS, March 6.—lnformation re
ceived here from the front early to
day indicates the French had a good
day at Verdun Sunday. All German
efforts to advance throughout the day
were repulsed, after sanguinary losses
were inflicted upon the attackers.
The Germans hurled their best
troops forward at Vacjerauville, Wood
cote and De Poivre, attempting to win
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
new ground, regardless of sacrifices,
but were .everywhere forced to retire.
The French artillery controlled the
situation during Sunday’s fighting,
there being little actual work for the
entrenched infantry, thus minimizing
losses. Great heaps of German dead
cover the battlefield, where French
canister and shrapnel spread death and
devastation among the close-formation
ot the German ranks.
The French trenches remain filled
with infantrymen, and reserves are
inreadiness to advance, though there
remains little apprehension of further
German attempts to storm the French
position at Mort La Homme. Here
tht Teutons would be forced to deploy
over a mile-wide plain, swept by
French artillery fire, before they could
approach the defending trenches, and
even German disregard for human life
would be staggered by the losses sus
tained if such an attempt were made.
In the Woevre district during Sun
day the French infantry gained a day
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 6, 1916
' GEORE EPPS ARRESTED ♦
♦ FOR JUMPING BOARD BILL ♦
> ROCKMART, Ga., March 6. ♦
♦ George Epps, o; -of the witnesses ♦
in the Frank case, was arrested ♦
♦ here Sunday on the charge of *
♦ jumping a board bill in Cedar- ♦
♦ town. As he dismounted from a ♦
> Seaboard train, he was met by ♦
♦ Chief of Police Williamson, and +
A from thence was escorted to the ♦
♦ “little brown jug." Later he was ♦
•* released. 4
20 ROOM HOUSE IS
BEGUN HERE NON
Miss Yona Buchanan has let the con
tract to J. W. Shiver to build on the
old Buchanan home site on Jackson
street an up-to-date twenty-room
apartment house. The work of tearing
down the old building begins todav
and work on the new residence will
begin at once.
The building will be covered with as
bestos rootling and beaver board finish
will be used on the inside. The house
will be wired for .electric lights,
screened throughout and have every
modern sanitary arrangement. All
the workmanship will be first class in
every particular, and when completed
this will be one of the most modern
apartment houses in this section of
the state.
MHE UIUMOII
DIED M SATURDAY
Mrs. Lula Jackson died at her resi
dence three miles south of Americus at
Council’s mill, Saturday morning, from
an attack of apoplexy, with which she
Was stricken Friday evening.
Mrs. Jackson was th.e wife of John
Jackson, miller at L. G. Council’s mill,
and besides her husband, leaves three
sons and one daughter to mourn her
loss.
The funeral was held Sunday after
noon at 2 o’clock, and interment was
at Rylander church cemetery, near
Plains.
Many friends of the deceased greatly
sympathize with the bereaved ones in
t'eir sorrow.
FIRE DOES DAMAGE
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BUENA VISTA, Ga„ March 6.—Fire '
broke out in the large brick store of j
J. E. Moore & Co., at Buena Vista, Mon- |
day morning about 10 o’clock. It also'
caught the store of George C. McCrary
and the millinery store of Miss Parker.
The flames were extinguished after j
considerable damage was done by Are
and water.
A strong wind was blowing at the
time, and the volunteer firemen did
good work. It is supposed that the fire
caught from defective wiring.
COMMUTE GOES
BEFORE COUNTY
E. H. Hyman, J. G. Oliver and Prof.
J M. Collum visited Buena Vista Mon
day morning, where they went before
the board of county commissioners of
Marion county in the interest of a
building for the Third Agricultural
District fair. The matter was post
poned until the next meeting of the
body.
CORDELE WORKS
ON BIG MEETING
OF THE W.OF W.
CORDELE, Ga., March 6—Cordele
camp, No. 106, Woodmen of the World,
has begun making arrangements for
the entertainment of members of this
great brotherhood, who will meet in
ithis city on July 20 and 21, and will put
cu one of the most interesting pro
grams ever pulled off by the South
Georgia Log-Rolling asosciation, which
is composed of Woodmen of the World
representing camps in south and mid
dle Georgia.
A Woodmen of the World bazaar will
open on March 15th, and will be in
charge of twenty young ladies. This
bazaar will be continued during the re
mainder of the month, for the purpose
of raising funds to help defray the ex
penses of the association.
Cordele is one of the wide-awake cit
ies, and being an important railroad
center, easily reached from all parts
of the state, one of the largest gather
i' gs in th.e history of Woodcraft is ex
pected to feature the Cordele meet.
Mayor J. Gordon, of Cordele, who is
vice president of the association and
a delegate from the state to the sov
ereign camp, together with the officers
of Cordele camp, will spare no effort
to make the Cordele meeting the great
est ever held in the history of the fro
ternity in south Georgia. The two
days during which the association will
te in session, will be days of feast and
frolic for all visitors.
Merchants and owners of all build
ings in the business section of rordele
will be requested to decorate and make
gay for the occasion, the best bands
obtainable will furnish music and the
whole city of Cordele will turn out to
greet the thousands of choppers who
will come to enjoy themselves and par
take of the hospitality of the city and
.the warm grasp of the Cordele Wood
men of the World.
Hon. W. A. Frazer, sovereign com
mander, will be invited and urged to
attend the meeting by every camp rep
resented in the association. Mayor
Jones has already taken up the ques
tion of reduced rates over all railroads
entering the city, and has been assur
ed by the management of these roads
that the beet rates possible £r«nt
under existing laws will be given. Cor :
dele Woodmen and the whole citizen
ship here .expect ten thousand people
to be with them during the session of
tie association.
CHICAGO TEAM PASS
01 SPECIAL TDM
The regulars and recruits of the Chi
cogw National league baseball team
passed through Americus at 1 o’clock
Monday on a special train, bound for
their spring training camp at Tampa,
Fla. The train consisted of five
coaches, with every convenience, even
including a pool table, Victrola and
other amusements.
Bradley Hogg, of Americus, who will
join the squad for spring training, will
leave Tuesday for the battle ground.
AMERICUS GATE
IS OOING WORK
The Americus Case is making some
improvements there that will add much
to the attractiveness of the place. The
shelter in front is to be removed, and
some remodeling is being done on the
glass front interior. When this is fin
ished additional light will be afforded,
a much needed facility.
WILSON NAMES EX
MAYOR N. D. BAKER
SECRETARY OF WAR
PAY YODR TIKES
AND REGISTER RY
WEDNESDAY BTH.
Every citizen of Sumter county who
pays his taxes and qualifies as a voter
for the county primary to be held on
March 15th, by Wednesday, March
Bth, can have his name on the registra.
tion list, as it will go to the printers
late that afternoon.
Tax Collector I. B. Small is very
anxioug that the list be made as com
plete as possible, and if the citizens
wait until after Wednesday they will
have to vote by presenting their tax
receipts at the ballot box which may be
inconvenient.
The time limit for candidates to en
ter the races in.the primary expired
Saturday, leaving the various contested
offices exactly as they had stood sev
eral days previous to the closing of
the entrance time.
It is essential that every citizen of
the county who can qualify for the
registration should do so. Every
American citizen deserves to display
an interest in his government, and
join in in the solution of the prob
lems.
Pay up your taxes and register with
Tax Collector Small by Wednesday,
March Bth.
Also Register in City.
The registration books for the bond
election to be held by the City of
Americus on March 15th, closes at 5
o’clock, Saturday, March 11th. On
Monday 520 citizens had registered for
tLe election, and the people are urged
to qualify so as to be able to vote in
ti e bond election.
SPANISH BOAT IS
SUNK 0£ B HAZIL
SANTO, Brazil, Marche 6.—The
Spanish steamer Principe de Austurias
sunk near here today after striking a
rock. The vessel disappeared in five
minutes after striking. Eighty-six of
th.e crew and fifty-seven passengers 1
were brought here this afternoon on
board the French hsteamer Viga. A
Spanish steamer is standing-by in the
hope of rescuing other survivers, one |
hundred and two of whom are unac
counted for.
LONDON, March 6. —A Lloyd’s dis
patch from Santos, Brazil, late this
afternoon says there were 338 passen
gers and 107 members of the crew on
I’oard the Principe de Austurias, which
pag wrecked near that place.
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ LOVE IS BOUND OVER A-
> FOR HIDING ASSETS *
ATHENS, Ga., March 6. —One ♦
>of the first cases of the kind in ♦
♦ years came before United States ♦
A- Commissioner Cornett here when ♦
f L. Love, of Winder, a merchant, A
A was bound over in $1,500 bond for ♦
A alleged concealment of assets to ♦
♦ the amount of |3,000 in a bank- A
ruptcy proceeding. He and his 4
4 brother, Leon E. Love, were in- +
♦ dieted by the last federal grand A
a jury here on this charge. ♦
fITV
edition!
Big Democrat of
Cleveland, Ohio.
Has Accepted
WARM FRIEND OF
lOESIDFN
Talked the Matter
To Col. House is
the Report.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March fc.—.
Newton Diel Baker, former mayor at
Cleveland, Ohio, has been selected hgy
President Wilson as secretary of oar
to succeed Lindley M. Garrison. «he
resigned several weeks ago. Mr. Bahar
has accepted the portfolio.
The t election is understood to have
been discussed by President WHaoat
and Colonel E. M. House this mmra—
leg.
President Wilson twice offered Me.
Baker the secretaryship of the interMr
in 1913. They have been close friends
and have been corresponding often.
During President Wilson’s reeeatt
middle western tour he had a long «m~
veisatlon with Baker.
Sketch of New Secretary.
Newton Diel Baker w r as born in Mar
tinsburg. W. V., on December 3rd, ISII.
He graduated with the bachelor ot arte
degree from Johns Hopkins university
in 1892 and received a bachelor of laws,
degree from Washington and Lee uni
versity in 1894. In 1905 he married
Miss Elizabeth Leopold, of
Pa.
During 1896-97 Mr. Baker was pri
vate secretary to Postmaster-Genereh
Janies Wilson, and began the praetie*
of law in the place of his bjrth in IWL
He was city solicitor of Cleveland Q_
from 1902 to 1912, and mayor of O«re
land from 1912 to 1916. He is classed
as a democrat in politics and a mt— ■■
her of the Phi Gamma Delta fratereSy.
The appoint comes as a surprise, tike
most of President Wilson’s selections.
STATES GAN TH
COUPONS GIVEI
FOR PREMIUMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., March t
The supreme court in a decision hand
ed down today upholds the power
the states to tax coupons redeemable
in premiums. The decision was ren
dered in a test case brought up from
the Florida federal courts.
The case decided today was based aw
the Florida law taxing each place giv
ing trading stamps, and althongh Uk.
Florida law has since been Tepeahat,
the case was prosecuted in ordez to
secure a decision from the court of last
resort.
The decision definitely decides th*
legality of state license tax law*
putting a tax on premium advertising.
NUMBERS.