Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, February 26, 1917, City Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextThe Times-Recorder is the ONLY paper in the Third Congressional District with Associated Press Service. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. “ARMED NEUTRALITY" ASKED OF CONGRESS BY WILSON WHEN HE URGES PROTECTION OF RIGHTS American Liners To Sail If They Are Allowed to Arm Their Merchantman AMERICAN RIGHTS GREATER THAN PEACE, SAYS WILSON Not a Declaration Nor Act of War Says The President In His Address WASHINGTON, D- C., Feb. 26. President Wilson went before congress in joint session at 1 o’clock this af ternoon and asked authority to use the armed forces of the United States to protect American rights abroad by es tablishing a state of “armed neutral'* ity” toward European belligerents. The arming of merchantmen as well as the convoying of such ships through the war zone are two meth ods being considered, though no defi nite decision has been reached re garding which of these is to be fin ally adopted. President Wilson still is confident no extra session of congress will be come necessary, and in his address gave utterance to the thought that if congress gives him the authority requested, all danger of such a con tingency will be avoided. Outlining the situation he said a careful re search had revealed the precedent for such action as is contemplated in the relations once existing between the United States and France. American vessels were then being attacked by the French, he said, and American foreign commerce was interfered with by that country’s naval forces. The proposition of armed neutrality was then adopted without bringing about war. he said, American interests were protected, and at the conclusion of peace in Europe existing difficulties between France and this countrty were amicably settled. Concluding his address, President Wilson said he came before con gress today after deciding it might net be wise to await the commission of seme overt act on the part of Ger many, before asking full authority to protect this country’s foreign com merce and the lives of its citizens at sea. The address created no excite ment, whatever, its terms having been forecast during several days past, with announcement of the chief exec utive’s determination to place his de sires before congress expected daily. The sentiment of senators and rep resentatives. irrespective of political lines, is clearly to back Wilson to the limit, and it is believed that in addi tion to granting him all the authority desired, he will also be furnished with ample funds to carry into effect what, ever plan may be decided upon. If necessary, a bond issue may be au thorized. or Panama canal bonds now held in the treasury may be sold for other purposes. One fact which particularly im pressed itself upon congress was that while the rights of other neutrals had been affected, some of them even more seriously than the United States, none of these nations had followed the lead of the Washington govern ment in breaking off relations with Germany. This is taken to mean that whatever action is taken by the I nit ed States is to be independent entire ly of any other government, it be ing distinctly stated by President Wilson that no direct appeal had been made to any other neutral by this government, other than the general invitation included within the verb- THE ONLY PAPER PUBLISHED IN AMERICUS AND THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WITH TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE age of tdie announcement that diplo matic relations between Berlin and Washington had been summarily sev ered. In his address, President Wilson said the necessity for establishing armed neutrality is no longer doubted by any one. It is the duty of the United States to “defend our com merce and the lives of our citizens and only the method and extent re mains to be chosen," he assarted. He then said he hoped it would not be necessary for this country to put armed forces into action, because the American people do not desire this. Definite proposals, he said, could not be made to congress at this time, but he wanted congressional sanction of his actions expressed in general terms as he believes the people are willing to trust him to act with “prudence and restraint." He asked that sufficient credit be placed at his disposal that the admin istration be not hampered by lack of funds in the carrying into effect of its intentions. Five hundred million dollars will probably be the total credit proposed to be extended the president by the democrats, though the republicans Jontiuued on Page Five.) OF GUNSHOT MUND BRUNSWICK, Ga.. Feb. 26.—A spec ial train carrying the remains of Ed win Gould, Jr., son of the New York millionaire, left here yesterday, en route for New York. Gould, the 23-year-old son of Edwin Gould, millionaire president of the St. Louis and Southwestern railroad, was accidentally killed shortly after 7 o’clock Saturday night, while hunting l coons on Latham Hammock, a Gould | game preserve two miles from Jekyl' Island, where young Gould and Noyes 1 Reynolds, also of New York, were en joying an outing. Gould and Reynolds, who had set out in their canoe about 4 o’clock, intend ing to spend the night hunting soons, traps for which had been set in many parts of ttWhammock. After walking for some time over the island, it was said. Gould and Reynolds came upon one of the traps in which a large coon was struggling, held fast by one foot.' Many sportsmen would have shot the animal, but Gould followed the custom ol natives, who kill trapped animals. hide. He struck the coon across the! with a club in order not to injure the 1 head, using his gun as a club. The 1 first blow was not sufficient, or was avoided by the animal's frantic efforts to escape, and the hunter struck again, li was the second blow, according to reports here, that was followed by the discharge if the gun. which was load ed with birdshot. The entire discharge took effect in the hunter's groin caus ing death almost instantly. AMEReJSSBMESffIffiORDER MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SAVANNAH SPECULATORS FINISHING TWO NEW SHIPS SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 26.—Putting Savannah in first rank as a shipbuild ing port comes the announcement of the Georgia Shipbuilding Company, of Savannah that the promoters will shortly launch two four-masted schooners now building at a cost of ; $270,000, at the docks on the north side iof the river, and further announce- I ment from C. G. Wilkinson, general manager of the plant that the plant will be enlarged by the erection of ad ditional wood and steel dry docks for building steam vessels of a larger type. • The schooners now building will cost $135,000 each. They are being built for speculation, and it is almost as sured that the output of the docks anl yards will be sold just as soon as the trial tests are completed. The plant is the only one of its kind in this section of the country. The ■ ownership of a tract of timber near Darien belongs to it, and they have a sawmill right at the docks. Both vessels will be four masters of 1,500 tons each and will be of the Hyde w'adless type. 200 feet long, each with 40 foot beams and single decks. The hulls will be of long leaf pine and live oak timbers. They will be launched in the Savannah river in July , or August. The machinery for steam ’ vessels, which the company is soon to. begin constructing, will be turned out by a Savannah concern. SUNDAYSSMASHED HEGORDSDFMEET HI FIRSTBAPTIST All previous records during the, meeting at the First Baptist church.; were broken yesterday. The Sunday I school hour was long to be remember- ‘ ed by hundreds of members of the, school, because of having either re- ! dedicated their lives to God or definite- , ly taking a stand for Christ as their j personal savior. The teaching of the' lessons were omitted, and the entire■ service made evangelistic. The four hundred and twenty-five who were' present entered heartily into the meet j ing with eighty-one re-dedicating their i lives to God and ninety-six definitely! accepted Christ as their savior. Eighteen united with the church for j baptism at the Sunday school hour.' The 11 a. m. preaching service filled! the house again and after a most ef-' fective sermon two united with the church by latter. The pastor preach ed at 3 p. m. and gave Dr. Buckholts, the hour for rest. A very helpful meet- : ing was conducted by the pastor and tlie singer, Mr. Williams. The night congregation as the morn tig filled the main auditorium and many v. ere seated in the annex. The sermon was one of the most powerful in effort and splendid in its effect. Eight united with the church at this service, making i twenty-eight additions for the day, I twenty-to on profession of fafth. The music as good at every service. The i ipe organ, the piano, the orchestra end four choirs led the congregation in a most spiritual and uplifting manner. The pastor. Rev. Alexis D. Kendrick, with the church, are very much en couraged with the meeting and feel sure that the church is in the midst of cite of its best meetings. Although Mr. Kendrick has been pastor of the First church only since the first of this year, there have been thirty-eight additions to tlie church and the work has taken on new life in almost every depart ment. The meetings will continue through the week at 3 and 7:30 p. m. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 26, 1917 Whipple Gets $15,000 As A Fee WASHINGTON. D. C„ Feb. 26. Sherman D. Whipple, who employment was authorized by special resolution of congress, received a fee of fifteen thousand dollars for his work as coun sel for the leak investigation conducted by the house rules committee. The fee was appropriated by the committee at a session held early today. After wards Chairman Henry announced the whole cost of the inquiry would not exceed $50,000. WAH OEPABTME’T ALLOWS BRIDGE OVED THE FEINT The war department has granted permission for the county commission ers of Sumter and Dooly countiee to begin at once constructing the con crete and steel bridge over the Flint river at Murray’s ferry. Chairman Ar thur Rylander, of the Sumter board, announced today that the commission bad received authority from the war department. It will be recalled that congress en acted special legislation allowing the bridge to be constructed, provided it j had the approval of the war depart - | ment. It is believed that the possibil ; ities of the nevigation of the Flint i river are stopped without any further i investigation by permission to erect the , Murray’s ferry bridge, as it has no | draw feature. i The contract was given to the South j era Bridge Co., at Birmingham, some time ago at a joint meeting of the bridge when the bids were opened, and they have been notified to start the work at once. The structure will have over a thousand feet of concrete work and a large span of stee' construction. It is proposed to build a highway from Americus to the bridge on the Sumter side, and Dooly county will build a fine road in their county, while Crisp is expected to improve their roads leading to the bridge which will afford a direct line of travel without the inocnvenience of ferries over the j Flint. WEATHER MAN PROMISES FAIR AND WARMER WEEK - , , 1 ATLANTA. Ga., Feb. 26. —The week • iy weather forecast announced today i predicts local rains Tuesday or Wed nesday and probably Friday, with fair 1 skies at other times. Temperatures 1 during the week will be above ncjtaaL AMERICAN BOAT ORLEANS FAFELY IN FFIENGH PORT BORDEAUX, France, Feb. 26.—The American freighter Orleans has been sighted off the mouth of the Gironde river, and is expected to dock at Bor deaux early tomorrow. The Orleans, with the freighter Rochester, was ona of the first American vessels to leave the United States for a port within the so-called prohibited submarine zone after the break in diplomatic relations between that country and Germany. The vessel, which sailed February 10th from New York, is unarmed. The Ro chester has not yet been reported. ♦ ♦♦♦♦■*•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ DAILY WEATHER FORECAST ♦ ♦ The weather forecast for Amer- ♦ ♦ icug and vicinity follows: ♦ ♦ Monday: Fair. ♦ ♦ Temperature: Unchanged. ♦ NEGRO KILLS AND lAIOUNDSNEGRESS LATE LAST NIGHT John Statham, a negro man, is being hunted by the authorities for the mur der of a negro woman and the serious shooting of his wife, which took place about 11 o'clock last night on the place of J. W. Howard, a well known farmer on the Lee street road about three miles from Americus. Annie Thomas, the negress, who was killed died almost instantly, she hav ing received the entire load of a shell from a shotgun. The shell had been “rung” and the whole load was taken from the woman and is now in the hands of Sheriff Harvey. The “rung” shell was also taken from the gun. The shell with which Statham shot his wife, Leila, was used as bought. The wife of the alleged murderer is in a serious condition, having been badly wounded in the lower stomach and over the legs. According to a statement of John Thomas, the husband of the dead wo man, Statham must have been planning some deed, as he is said to have been in Americus Saturday afternoon when he secured a shotgun. It is said that Statham and his wife had separated. Immediately after the shooting Sta tham rushed away, already having his clothes packed. The authorities with relatives of the negroes involved searched for Statham last night and ■ were out this morning. It is not known why Statham killed the Thomas woman, as she was with her husband and a party of negroes re turning from church when the shoot ing began. John Thomas described Statham, as being “jealous” in refer ence to Statham’s wife because of their separation. OFFICIALS WARN ABOUT DATS THE SAMEASTHEI.-H. The same advice to the farmers about their oat crop which was given a week ago by the Times-Recorder at the instigation of a well known farmer has been duplicated in a statement to day from the United States Depart ment of Agriculture forwarded to thi s paper. The warning of the Times-Re corder last week about waiting to see whether the oats were killed entirely, has been met with investigation by the farmers who find tht they can make a better crop from the stands living af ter the freeze than by planting now. I The dispatch says; WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 26.—The extreme cold weather in the Southern states during the first two weeks in February caused much winterkilling of fall-sown oats. The yield from fall town oats is so much better than from spring-sown oats, however, that it will I not be profitable to re-sow to spring ' oats unless much more than half the, fall-sown oats were winterkilled, ac-: cording to the U. S. Department of I Agriculture. It is best to delay re seeding a few days until it can be de-. termined definitely whether or not there is a sufficient stand to justify, leaving the crop to mature. Fields ( where it is certain that this crop was destroyed by cold may now be sown to spring oats with fair prospects for j profitable yields if the seeding is done ■ in February or early March. Only the most fertile land should'be sown to oats in the spring, as this crop will not yield well from spring seeding on j oor land. The best varieties to sow at this time ( are Burt, Fulghum. Red Rustproof and Appier. The land should not be plow ed. but the surface should be loosened by disking or thorough harrowing and the seed drilled in. If a grain drill is j not available the seed may be sown, broadcast and covered by disking and. harrowing. The best rate of seeding is , about 3 bushels to the acre of good seed. FOUR NEGROES HELD J ON GAMING CHARGE I Homer Yarbrough, Henry Bivens. I Lucius Minyard and Walter Killibrew, ( four negroes, were arrested last night, charged with gaming when the party was raided by authorities led by iLeut. John Bragg, of the city police depart ment. Warrants were issued this morning before Judge W. T. McMath. ; The alleged gambling is said to have - taken place at the home of Minyard, 3 on West Church street. * J- 'L. IT . ~ : GUNAHO LACONIA ■ SUNK WITHOUT A WARNING DY SUB 3 i QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 26.—The Cu i r.ard line steamer Laconia (British) a vessel of eighteen thousand and 1 ninety-nine tons burden, sailing from - New York February 18th, with ap ? proximately one hundred passengers t on board, has been submarined, with i out warning. Ten of the passengers t were Americans, while twenty other Americans were among the ship’s - crew. Two hundred and seventy sur t vivors have been rescued and will be i landed tonight. I I BRITISH BETAKE KUT-EL-AMARA FORT LONDON, Feb. 25.—Andrew Bonar Law announced in the house of com mons today that British forces have captured Kut-El-Amara, and that Turkish forces on the Sinai peninsula are retreating. Kut-El-Amara is the farthest point leached by the British during the orig inal advance up the Tigris, and where Gen. Townshend’s force of 10,000 men surrendered to the Turks after a part I of the supporting army had retreated | down the river. SIX MILLION 15 WANTED FOR RELIEF WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 26. , 1 Senator Bcu-ah, of Idaho introduced a J i resolution in the senate today to ap ! propriate six million dollars for fed- ■ era] relief in the food situation in 1 congested centers of the east. The • I resolution also provides for an inves j tigation to devise better methods of marketing distributing the food prod ucts of the nation. Action of the res olution was deferred indefinitely. SANin OF HARRY : K. THAW UP AGAIN PHILADELPHIA, Pa„ Feb. 26 Lunacy proceedings were begun here today to determine the sanity of Har ry K. Thow. He was arrested here' 1 several weeks ago on a New York [ 1 warrant and slashed his wrists and’ throat as officers entered his apart-1 i ment to carry him to jail. GERMAN OESTRiIYERS j i KILL J. 8. WOMAN LONDON, Feb. 26.—Sir Edward Car-' son announced today that one woman and a young clhld were killed and two others injured when German de ' stroyers bombarded Broadstairs and ' Margate. The property damage inflict-j ed was not referred to in the state- I ment. riTv V editionl. DIVORCE SUIT IN OHIO BRINGS END FDR THIS CITY CINCINNATI. O„ Feb. 26.—Answer ing the suit for divorce filed by Mrs. Lillie Lockett Brown, of 2532 Bell Place, in this city, David Fisher Brown today denied her allegations of neglect. Brown admits he criticiz ed his wife’s conduct, charging her with improper actions, and alleges the criticism was with just cause. Brown denies that he failed to pro vide for his wifs and says he invested $15,000 in property in Americus, Ga„ and that she receives the entire in come from this Americus property as well as the income from a 450 acre tract near Americus, which she in herited. He asks the court to give him custody of their son and to order his wife to re-con vey to him the house and lot at 2532 Bell Place and an other very valuable piece of real es tate at 3055 Clenview avenue, in this city, as well as the property he pur chased at Americus. Brown avers that he is 65 years old and his wife is many years his junior. Both parties to the case are very prominent here and move in the highest society circles. Their com bined property interests are estimated at SIOO,OOO. The husband’s allega tions in his answer created a decided sensation, though no names of cor respondents have so far been men tioned. The formal papers were filed in court here today. FURLOW CHURCH HAO VERY FINE MUSIC The question as to whether or not the people of Americus are appreciat ive of good music was emphativally answered in the affirmative last even ing. when the auditorium of the Fur low Lawn church was filled to its ca pacity in response to an announcement of a special musical program arranged for that occasion. Numbers of those present pro nounced the musical numbers the best ever heard in Americus or elsewhere for that matter. The music while el aborate and finished, was harmonious and such as the average church goer appreciates. The voices, all of which were cultivated, harmonized beauti fully in the choral numbers. The male quartette proved a treat, and i:' the members can be kept together will prove the best that Americus ever had. as they all have good voices and have a fair knowledge of music. The beautiful soprano of Miss Helen Crumley, of Ohio, and Miss Agnes Thomas, of Plains, were never heard to a better advantage than in their solo selections. The lyric qualities of the former and the dramatic of the latter were such as to afford a pleasure indeed rare, and we are complimented and glad to have such talent m our com munity. It is to be hoped that this occasion will be the forerunner of other equal ly enjoyable. MONTGOMERY OS HU MEET THERE MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Feb. 26 Mayor W. T. Robertson last night wir ■ <1 Genera! George P. Harrison, com :iandcr-in-chief, United Confederate veterans to transfer the Confederate r< union from Washington to Moctgom • ry. The telegram reads: "Montgomery saw the birth of the young Confederacy. Without assist ance of any other community the city ut Montgomery extends to the United Confederate Veterans an earnest invi tation to hold their reunion here, so that the people may show the gratitude and affection in which the ‘Cradle of the Confederacy’ holds its noble he •ces.” NUMBER 49.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, February 26, 1917, City Edition, Image 1