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W—WI — Wl'll —f——r?CTW WM—.» IIW ■ !■! 1 he limes-Recorder is the ONLY paper in the Third Congressional District with Associated Press service. THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR. SIR ROGER CASEMENT GOES ON TRIAL WITH CHARGE OF TREASON High Treason Is Charge Against Sir Roger KNIGHTED 81 CROWN OF J. 0. IN 1911 Relation To Irish And Germans Is Charged LONDON, May 15.—Sir Roger Case ment arraigned today in the Bow street police court, charged with high treason in connection with the Irish revolt. This trial is preliminary to the real hearing before a panel of the High Justice court. Few persons were ad mitted to the court today. Casement was arraigned together with a private soldier held on the same charge. A long statement counsel for Casement presented to the magistrate today is expected to materially short en the first trial. Casement, it was charged at today’s hearing, induced a private soldier to break his oath of al legiance to Great Britain, the act con- j stituting high treason against the gov ernment. The attorney for the crown in his opening statement to the court said Casement went to prison camps in Germany for the purpose of inciting Irish prisoners to join a brigade, w-hich te said he would take to Ireland. Sir Reger, he alleged, promised these prisoners that the German government would give them ten to twenty pounds each at the end of the war and free transportation to America. The state ments, the crown's attorney asserted, were generally treated with contempt by the loyal Irishmen to whom they were made. The prosecutor then told of Sir Ro ger’s trip to Tralee, Ireland, in a Ger man submarine and of the sinking of a vessel carrying twenty thoustand ri fles for use in the rebellion. When the ciown prosecutor began the introduc tion of witnesses, reference was made to Casement having been knighted by the king as recently at 1911, at which reference the prisoner bowed his head. JAPANESE COTTON CLOTH 15 IS GREAHIEMANQ NOW TOKIO, May 15. —The demand for Japanese cotton cloth of various kinds is steadily increasing in China, India and Russia, where stocks of European goods are beginning to run low on account of the continuance of the war. Before the war Japan re ceived from England a supply of cot ton cloth of superior quality but she i, now supplying England with large quantities of this material, essim istic views are, however, expressed in some quarters in Japan as to the fu ture of the cotton trade because the manufacturers are experiencing con siderable difficulty in obtaining the necessary supply of dyes, stocks of which are fast diminishing. Japan is now trying to manufacture her own dyes. SHRINERS FROM iALL SECTION ARE AWAITING TIMES The ceremonial cf Shriners from Alee Temple, of Savannah, to be held in Americus on June Bth, is attracting attention all over this section of the state, and most every section will fur nish candidates in the class which will tread the hot sands. The work of arranging for the enter tainment of this body is going stead ily ahead, with W. F. Smith as chair man of the general committee. Americus will entertain about five' hundred visitors on that day, and a brilliant scene will form the doings of the Shriners on June Bth. Columbus is interested in the cere monial. The following article appear ed in the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. “Members of Alee Temple, Ancient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, are looking forward with great interest to the Shrine ceremonial that is to be staged at Americus on June Bth. The original date for this cere monial was placed during the latter fart of May, but the Shriners of Americus have caused the date to be changed to June Bth. “It is the intention of the Shrine club of Columbus to take in this spring ceremonial in all its glory, and ar rangements are being made to have a party of ten automobiles to go to Americus on hte above named date, leaving here early in the morning and returning late at night.” Shriners Meet Tuesday. The Shriners of Americus and Sum ter county are urged to meet at the courthouse Tuesday afternoon at 6 o'clock in the office of Sam R. Heys. -♦♦♦♦<. ♦♦♦♦44444 4 D AILY WEATHER REPORT 4 4 4 , ♦ FOR AMERICUS AND GEOR- ♦ 4 GIA: Probably fair today ♦ , 4 and tomorrow. ♦ i ♦4 4 4 Negro Troops Guarding Mexican Prisoners r—Wi JsSSfc 1 - *•1 ", a ..... .. ... J There never were happier Negroes in the world than the guards who took charge of the Mexicans sent as prisoners to Namiquipa. These bandits had been taken in the various fights of American troops with the followers of Villa. General Pershing’s black men acted like lords of crea tion while they stood guard over th disconsolate greasers. THE TIMES-RECORDER IS THE ONLY AMERICUS PAPER WITH TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE AMLRIEUSTIMES-RECORDER MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS MUITH THIES ID QUIET IRISH BE HIS VISITS Sharp fighting is in progress today in the western field, exceeding in in tensity that recently noted along the British front. On the Verdun front notable artilery activity is reported. In northern France and Flanders there is increased interest in troop movements. Paris reports today brisk artillery action*: on both sides in the Cham pagne region and at Verdun the play I of the big guns is continuous. Noth- I ing more is reported, however, on the I western battle line. Premier Asquith has left London and 1 is in conference at Belfast, Ireland, to -1 day with leading Irishmen regarding l further punitive measures in connec -1 tion with the recent revolt. Greece and Allies Bury Hatchet. LONDON, May 15—The British for • eign office announces this afternoon that outstanding differences between Greece and the Entente Allies have teen settled amicably, with the result ' that there will be no violation df . Creek neutrality. GLASS DAY EXERCISES OF J. & M. COLLEGE : Class day exercises at the Third Dis- ■ tret A. & M. college will be hell . Tuesday night, instead of tonight as . originally planned. This out of deffer- ■ ence to the students of the Americus ■ High school who will stage a minstrel i play at the High school auditorium to night. . The public will, therefore, bear in mind that Tuesday night the Class Day exercises of the A. & M. college will be . held, that a splendid program will be . carried out and that the public gen , orally are cordially invited to attend the exercises. ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ + ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ EIGHT KILLED IN POWDER 4 4 EXPLOSION IN NEW JERSEY. 4 4 GIBBSTON, N. J., May 15. 4 ♦ Eight men are reported killed in 4 ♦ an explosion which destroyed the 4 ♦ Repauno plant of the DuPont 4 4 Powder Company. Among the 4 4 dead are believed to be the super- ♦ 4 intendent and his assistant. 4 ♦ The cause of the disaster has 4 ♦ not been located. 4 [444444444444 4 444 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 15, 1916 AMERICAN MIXES If! THE IBISH REBELLION | g i Il| ■ P W- Mg .< k k f K t • fIQo James JI. Sullivan. James M. Sullivan, former Ameri can minister to Santo Domingo, be fore which he was a New York law year and a friend of William J. Bryan, has been arrested in Dublin on some charge in connection with the Irish rebellion. ML OF EXCEPTIONS I IN RAILROAD SUIT A bill of exceptions to the Court of Appeals has been filed in the case of S E. Vaughn vs. the Seaboard Air Line railway, who was awarded a ver dict of $15,000 for alleged personal damages in the City Court. Judge W. M. Harper denied a motion ‘ . for a new trial in the case and counsel , for the railroad, E. A. and R. T. Hawk , ins, filed an appeal. Shipp & Shep pard represent Mr. Vaughan. I ‘P. 0.5. OF I. GIMPS MEET IN JOINT SFSiION The state camp of the Patriotic Ord- Icr Sons of America, will meet in this i .city on July 4. A joint meeting of lo-’ .cal camps Nos. 14 and 24, will be I held tonight in their hall for the pur-j pose of devising plans, discussing the J •I v hys and the wherefores of the ap- ! 1 proaching meeting in July. It is planned to make this a great; SOUTH GEORGIA HAS COMPANY IN READINESS NOW ATLANTA, Ga„ May 15.—That Geor gians stand ready to defend the nation in time of peril was strikingly demon- j strated in Washington, D. 0., on Satur-j day when Jesse E. Mercer, former state gtme warden of Georgia, tendered to Secretary of War Baker the services of 1,000 men, as valunteers prepared to take up arms at the first call. For several weeks Mr. Mercer has been quietly enlisting recruits for a reserve regiment of volunteers around Waycross, Brunswick, Blackshear, Ocilla. Valdosta, Americus, Cordele, Moultrie, Fitzgerald, Hazlehurst and other south Georgia towns, and when he went to Washington to tender the services of his regiment he did not pre sent the secretary of war with a fine sounding hot-air speech, but with facts, figures and names and addresses. The services of the regiment were immed iately and enthusiastically accepted, and the roster was filed in the war de partment. The week ending Saturday was one in which several Georgians came prom inently to the front in the national capital, along with Colonel Mercer and his volunteers. Senator Hoke Smith had the satis faction of seeing his vocational training provision retained in the army bill as agreed upon by the house and senate conferees, and the further satisfaction of seeing his market provision further strengthened in the senate agricultural committee’s final draft of the agricul tural bill. Vocational training for en listed men in the regular army of the United States will do more to attract substantial young men to the service than any other feature the government could offer, in the opinion of army offi cers. Still another Georgian figuring prominently in the Washington news dispatches is Major P. C. Harris, of the United States army, a brother of Hon. William J. Harris, of the Federal j Trade commission. Major Harris has been promoted to the rank of assist i ant adjutant general and assigned to duty at Washington. He is a graduate of West Point, distinguished himself (for gallantry in action in the Spanish- I American war, and has a son at West I Point who is forging ahead. 1 occasion for the P. O. S. of A., and a lull attendance is urged for this meet ; ir.g tonight. !G. I. CHAMBLISS TO I IMPBOOS RESIDENCE I C. A. Chambliss will improve his residence on Barlow street, near Tay lor. He will add another story and | make other handsome Improvements. John W. Shiver has been given the I contract to do the work, which fact is 1 I r guarantee that the improvements will be done as they should be. SCDTT RETURNS TO WASHINGTON■ WITH A .REPORT; WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 15. ‘ General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the United States army, reached 1 1 4 Washington early today from El Paso, Tex. Gen. Scott brought with him a ( complete report of his conversations with General Alxarez Obregon, secre tary of war in the Carranza Mexican , cabinet, concerning the border situa tion. It is expected several days will be re quired for Gen. Scott to discuss fully f with President Wilson and his advis- * , ers the conditions as they exist in the j . troubled republic to the south, and un- ( til then no negotiations will be umder t taken with Emelio Arredondo, the Car- ( ranza ambassador-designate, here. Fu- ( ture negotiations upon the situation { ; are to be conducted through the state A department, but the war department t ; will continue the efforts to put down , bandits in northern Mexico. ( Washington officials today appeared ! anxious to learn precisely why Gen. , Obregon, the Mexican representative , at the border conference, declined to , i sign an agreement covering the opera- , ticns of American troops in Mexico, ( ; though none of these officials appeared ( exercised over the possibility of future j ■ clashes between United Stales and Car- 1 ranza troops. It was announced Sun- ( I day that a “gentleman’s agreement" : 1 1 1 had been reached concerning the hunt > for bandits in Mexico, but no formal | ■ agreement upon the subject has been j 1 signed. ( i i Scott and Baker Confer. • WASHINGTON. D. C., May 15. ( s General Scott, chief of the army gen- i ’ oral staff, conferred today with Secre- ( - tary Baker, of the war department. ( : Following the conference, Secretary • j Baker stated the border conferences 1 had generally created a favorable im- I pression, and expressed the opinion that an agreement acceptable to both ( sides can be formed. , I More Raids Are Planned. ■' SAN ANTONIO. Tex., May 15.—Re- 1 ' ceipt of information at army head-i quarters at Fort Sam Houston that . 1 agitators across the line from Pro-! 1 gresso have planned more raids caus-4 ’ ed military officers today to strength-, ’ en the border patrol between Browns ville and Rio Grande City. It is ex- ■ 1 pected also that an entire regiment of , ’ infantry will be sent to Progresso. Department of justice agents today 1 reported to General Funston that agi- 1 tators in Mexico have succeeded in 1 getting a number of minor Carranza officers to promise to co-operate with 1 or give passive support the raiders’ 1 plans. Lanjpthorne’s Expedition Stops. MARATHON, Tex., May 15.—The ex- , pedition chasing the Glenn Springs i bandits in Mexico, stopped its dash; today and it now awaiting reinforce ments, acocrding to reports reaching here this afternoon. Maj. Laingshorne, in command of the expedition has ask ed Gen. Funston for aid, and it is pos sible national guard troops may be pent over the line to his supoprt. riTv ’Ueditionl. PROHIBITION IS HERE TH STAY IN AU OF GEORGIA ATLANTA, Ga., May 15.—Prohibi tion of the presen* genuine variety, which was ushered in the first of the ■ rent month, is an established insti tution in Georgia, according to the concensus of opinion among newspa pers. public officials and well informed citizens in general. Moreover, the strict enforcement of the law against blind tigers, bootleg gers and other violators is generally accepted as a foregone conclusion. With hardly an exception the news papers of the state have come out strongly in support of the laws. Some of them were openly opposed to the enactment of statutes so drastic in their provisions, and others gave more or less aid and comfort to the enemies of the laws, but now that the laws are written upon the statute books these same newspapers, taking high ground, have demanded that the laws be en forced. They have demanded it on the general ground that all laws should be enforced, regardless of honest dif ferences of opinion prior to enactment, and have demanded it on the particu lar ground that Georgia should en force her prohibition laws as an ans swer to the chargee of lawlessness which have been spread abroad against the state. One after another the judges, solici tors, sheriffs and other officers have placed themselves squarely on record as opposed to violations of the prohi bition) laws, and it is significant to note that this has happened in com munities where previously the prohibi tion law had little weight, as well as in the communities where previously the prohibition laws had little weight, as well as in the communities where the old law was enforced as thoroughly as it was capable of enforcement. . Even the city of Savannah and Chat ham county, which have their own ideas concerning the right of a citizen ofwoting age to slake his thirst, have rallied to the support of Mayor W. J. Pierpont, the fighting chief executive cf Savannah, in his campaign to en force the prohibition laws, and the po lice department of the city, as well as the county authorities, are making it extremely uncomfortable for blind ti gers. Practically the same condition prevails in Augusta, another city that was not famous as a Sahara desert un der the old prohibition law. So far as Atlanta is concerned, there is absolutely no question, nor has there been, as to the enforcement of the law. Beginning with the police depart ment and going all the way up to Judge Ben H. Hill, of Flton Superior court, the blind tigers have been served with notice that they cannot ply their trade, and are being given daily doses of treatment for failure to heed the warning, while the upper crust is likewise warned in no uncertain terms that any violations of the law com mitted by them will be visited with heavy penalties. The clubs that were formed for the sole purpose of selling liquor and were bereft of their only means of support when the prohibition laws went into ef fect, have gone out of business, and in this category are included several organizations that were patronized by a highly representative clientile of prominent busines and professional merit. The bona fide social clube. which were in existence prior to the enactment of the old prohibition law, and which are not dependent upon 11- cuor profits for support, are still run- (Continued un Page 6A NUMBER lid.