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MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1917.
Have you made preparations for the
v.arm weather that is hurrying in this
direction? You'll need several suits
of lighter weight underwear and our
war mweather clothes will add to your
general ense of comfort.
Chances are that if you pay us a
visit you’ll discover several articles of
wear in our shop that belong in your
wardrobe.
W. J. Josey
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Metal Roofing, Metal Ceiling. Sky
lights, Roof Vents, Roof Gutters, Job
Work and General Repairs. Roof
Painting, Auto Radiators Repaired at a
Live and Let Live price.
B. H. ALLEN
Lee St. Near Artisian Well. Phone 788.
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Potato Plants
Delivered April 7. Toma
to plants now ready.
W. A. GAMMAGE
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C. P. DAVIS
Dental Surgeon.
Orthodontia, Pyorrhea.
Residence Phone 316. Office Phone 813.
Allison Bldg.
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Easter Parade?
—'j Shiny paint, new tires, tankshlled
—' with oil and gas are no use unless
| your battery is in shape to put the
spark of life into your motor.
If you have not already Jiad your battery tuned
I up for the season, better see us right away.
Now is the time to prevent battery troubles dur
ing the coming season.
We have a rental battery for your use if yours
needs repairs.
While you’re here, ask us for your Willard Serv
ice Card. •
(Coprttcbt xcistznd. 1917)
• Americus Automobile Co.
WALTER RYLANDER, Manager
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German Aircraft Is Now Found
To Cope With Entente, Allies
LONDON, April 2.—The superior
ity of the English and French aircraft,
which was frequently asserted in offic
ial statements from the Entente side
last year, is less pronounced this year,
according to the British correspond
ents at the front. This is due to the
appearance of several new types of
German machines, chiefly modelled, it
is said, on French and British de
signs, and known as the Albatros. Hal
berstadt, Ago, Roland and the new
Fokker.
The majority of them have fixed
cylinder engines, giving about 160 to
200 horse power. A few retain the
rotary engines with which the Ger
mans achieved some success in the
Fokker two years ago, but these rotary
engines are seldom of more than 130
horse-power.
The new German machines have a
speed of about 120 miles an hour, but
their chief feature is their ability for
climbing. Ordinarily they frequent
the 14,000 foot levels, and they have
been observed on picket duty as high
as 20,000 feet. The latest German
order for airplane engines is said to
have specifications designed to give
their machines a radius of action up
to at least 30,000 feet.
Meanwhile the British Air Service
is putting forth strenuous exertions
to keep ahead of its rival. Only in
■part is this a question of planes and
engines . It also involves the prob
lems of more skilful pilots, and in
this direction of training the British
service has expanded extraordinarily.
After a class of military aviators
have passed through their course of
training on the slower types of school
machines, those who show special apt
itude are passed on to the “scout
schools,” where they are given a spec
ial course in what is commonly called
‘ aerobatics,” which involves the use
of the highest speed machines and
handling them acrobatically in the
air, as is necessary in air fighting.
The instructors carry on sham fights
in the air with their pupils, armed
woth cameras instead of guns.
Then there are the post-graduate
aerial gunnery schools. The most ex
pert pilot in the world is useless as a
fighting man if he does not thorough
ly understand his machine gun, for a
perfect flyer with a jammed gun is of
little use against a merely moderate
pilot who is a crack shot and a real
gun master. A combination of the
two is the desideratum, as, for ex
ample, in the case of a young pilot
recently mentioned in despatches,
whose engine stopped dead at a height
of 15,000 feet when he was h|eing at
tacked by two German aeroplanes.
Despite this loss of motive power,
forcing him to descend constantly, he
shot down one enemy machine, drove
the other away, and glided into his
own lines undamaged.
The work of the aviator has become
highly specialized in the course of
the last twelve months. At the Brit
ish aviation camps along the front in
France, there are separate squadrons
of machines for reconaissance, in
fantry contact, photography, artillery
spotting, and bomb dropping and, in
almost every instance, squads of
these machines may only accomplish
their duties successfully when they are
protected from enemy attack by ma
chines of a type comparable to the
torpedo-boat destroyers of a naval
fleet.
For these “destroyer machines,”
high speed, high-climbing ability,’ and
high fighting and manoeuvring are
essential. Some of the newer British
machines of this type are said to
show a speed of over 150 miles an
hour.
RHODES STUDENTS AT OXFORD
TO TAKE VOLUNTEER TRAINING
OXFORD, Eng., April 2.—Twenty
American Rhodes scholars have volun
teered to train in England should the
United States declare war on Germany.
Their names have already been for
warded to the war department at
Washington through the London em
bassy, and when formal permission is
granted they will join a training corps
either English or American. It is ex
pected that they will receive a portion
of their training under American of
ficers.
Some of the volunteers have had
considerable previous military train
ing. Several have been cadet officers
at state universities and polytechnic
schools, or in private military schools
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
in the United States. Those who have
volunteered to train in England are'
R. P. Coffin, Maine; Wyatt Rushton,
Alabama; W. C. Bosworth and R. L.
Grismer, Vermonnt; W. Pickett, Del
eware; L. S. LaFitte, Florida; F. W.
Rogers, Arizona; S. S. Sharp, Wyom
ing; P. F. Good, Nebraska; D. P. Mil
ler, Colorado; W. W. Stratton, Utah;
P. Newhall and S. H. Paradise, Con
necticut; D. T. Nelson, North Dakota;
W. S. Burwell, Rhode Island; J. H.
Binns. Washington; E. V. Nash, Mis
souri. and H. R. Bigelow, Minnesota.
HUGE SUMS SUNNING
EUROPE’S GREAT WAR
NEW YORK, April 2.—The end of
the British fiscal year and the closing
of subscriptions to the new German
war loan fell on the same date, today,
bringing into the limelight the stag
gering totals of cash spent on the
war thus far by those two belliger
ents.
England lias spent more than Ger
many, her total to date being nearly
19 billion, or $18,759,240,000. England
estimates she is spending approxi
mately $27,307,700 a day in her fight
to whip Germany.
Germany has spent $16,750,000,000
in her attempt to whip England. This
includes the 4 million dollars sought
in the new German loan, subscrip
tions for which closed today.
It was last December that the Brit
ish Counsellor of the Exchecquer ask
ed for the latest $1,948,000,000. At
the same time the call went out for a
million more men of all ranks. This
million men brings the total number
of British subjects under arms and
in training, up to 5 million. Germany
has approximately 10 million men un
der arms and in training.
England estimates that she has 3,-
219,000 w’omen in war service and
other occupations. The British cas
ualities daily in killed, wounded and
missing are estimated at 38,000.
Casualties for all belligerents in
killed, wounded and missing since
the beginning of the war to date are
estimated at approximately 23,000,000
men. Os these casualties Germany
has suffered slightly more than 4 mil
lion, England slightly more than 2
million, France about 3 million and a
half.
It is estimated that England’s in
terest on her present war lebt for one
year is well over $200,000,000. Ger
many and France face deficits in pro
portion to this.
For months Germany and England
have been mobilizing hundreds of
thousands of women to work either
directly behind the fighting lines,
elsewhere along the fronts or at
home in what is known as civil war
service. The voluntary period of en
listment for this service expires in
Germany today and tomorrow com
pulsory service will be inaugurated.
INNES GIRLS MAY BE LOCATED
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTH AMERICA
RIO DE JANERIO, Brazil. April 2.
The fate of Victor E. Innes, lawyer of
Portland, Ore., and San Antonio, Tex
accused of the murder of Mrs. Elois
Dennis and her sister, Beatrice Nelms,
today depends on the finding of the
two women alive in South America, ac
cording to advertisements appearing in
papers here. These advertisements are
said to have been authorized by South
American consuls acting on advice of
the state department at Washington.
Innes is now in jail at Atlanta, La
under sentence of seven years on the
Georgia chaingang, having been con
victed of larceny after trust.
Innes is the lawyer who, Mrs. Nelms,
mother of the missing women, alleged
went to Atlanta, and after alienating
the affection of Mrs. Dennis for her
husband, defrauded her of her fortune
and then murdered her and her sister,
in an attempt to make it appear thaty
had taken the money and gone to a
foreign land.
The advertisements state that after
the women were supposedly murdered
they were seen in Jacksonville, Fla,
and that they remarked there that they
were about to make a trip to South
America and the West Indies. The
mother reported this rumor to Wash
ington.
So far as can be learned the girls
have not been seen in any of the South
American countries.
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THUNDER-STORMS PREDICTED
FOR FIRST HALF OF WEEK
ATLANTA. Jia.. April 2.—The
weather bureau forecast for the South
Atlantic and East Gulf States for the
week ending April 7th, indicates local
showers and thunderstorms will pre
vail during the first half of the week,
while the second half will be gener
ally fair. The temperature will av
erave above seasonal normal, al
though cooler weather may prevail
during the middle of the week.
RATTLE BE MARNE
WAS EYE OPENER
PARIS, April 2.—lt was not until
the Battle of the Marne was at its
height when war munitions were run
ning low that the French government
realized the imperious need of an in
tense production of war material, ac
cording to statements made by Albert
Thomas. Minister of Munitions, in
the Chamber of Deputies. M. Thomas
was speaking in reply to criticisms of
the conditions under which war mater
ial had been supplied to the French
army.
From his assertions, it appears that
the French War Department had es
timated before the war that it would
be necessary for state arsenals to pro
duce not more than 13,000 shells a
day. In the belief that the conflict
would be short, no provision whatever
was made for the production of explos
ions during the hostilities.
When it was discovered, during the
battle of tiie Marne that this estimate
was insufficient, Alexandra Millerand,
then Minister of War, summoned to
Bordeaux the heads of all manufactur
ing establishments available and org
anized them into groups for the rapid
production of 3-inch shells.
Neither the government nor the
manufacturers had then any basis for
figuring the costs. The exceptional
conditions and the great need of im
mediately replenishing the supply, M.
Thomas said, accounted for the ab
normal prices and for the fabulous
profits reaped by the manufacturers.
Three-inch shells at that time cost
the government fifteen francs each.
Today they are purchased at prices
ranging from six francs and fifty cen
times to seven francs and fifty cen
times.
The French War Department has
placed 64,000 contracts for artillery,
projectiles and explosives since Sep
tember, 1914, M. Thomas said. All mu
nitions producing plants in France, he
added, have been under the control of
the state from the beginning. Replying
to deputies who demanded that all in
dustries able to contribute to the na
tional defence should be requisitioned
by the government, M. Thomas de
clared that this would cause disorgan
ization. He accepted a proposal for a
regime under which the state would
exercise a control and share in the
profits of these industries.
The government has established ten
new gun foundries since September,
1914, and has enlarged eighteen others,
it deveoped in the debate.
EXCURSION FARES TO MACON, GA.
The Chautauqua of the South and
Southern Conference for Education
and Industry, March 18-April 7. 1917.
$2.45 Round Trip From Americus. Tic
kets sold March 17 to April 7th, in
clusive. Final limit for return, April
10th. 1917. For tickets and full in
formation, phone or call on J. E. Hlgh
tiwer, Agent.
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA RY.
“The Right Way.”
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FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS
By Being Constantly Supplied With
TSedford’i Black-Draught
McDuff, Va.—"l suffered for several
years,” says Mrs. J. B. Whittaker, oi
this place, "with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a friend told me to try
Thedford's Black-Draught, which 1 did,
and 1 found it to be the best family medi
cine for young and old.
I keep Black-Draught on hand all the
time now, and when my children feel a
iittle bad, they ask me for a dose, and it
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have a long spell of sick
ness in our family, since we commenced
using Black-Draught.”
Thedford’s Black-Draught is purely
vegetable, and has been round to regu
late weak stomachs, aid digestion, re
lieve indigestion, colic, wind, nausea,
Headache, sick stomach, and similai
iymptoms.
It has been in constant use for more
than 70 years, and has benefited more
than a million people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Black-Draught. Price only 25c. Get a
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We help teeth, breath, appetite,
digestion and deliciously (dMm
soothe mouth and throat with
this welcome sweetmeat.
The Wrigley Spearmen want to send you
their Book of Gum-ption. Send a postal A
for it today, Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.,
1732 Kesner Building, Chicago.
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“around the corner” is ju& the time to
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