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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
KHIRTT-NINTH TEAR.
THRUST TOWARD
TRIESTE AGAIN
SHOWS MCE
NEW YORK, June 2.—(Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—General Ca
dorna has set his effective military ma.
chine in motion again, his report to
day showing a renews?*,of the Italian
fhrust in the direction of Trieste.
The new advance was scored on a
two and a half mile front south of
Castagnavazza, along which the Ital
ians pushed something like a quarter
of a mile nearer their goal.
The process of hemming in Duino,
on the coast to the south, an import
ant outlying defense of Trieste, is in
progress over this immensely difficult
ground on the Carso plateau.
The Germans are showing some dis
position to continue their attacks on
the Aisne front. They announce to
day the capture by surprise of a
French position about 1,000 yards long
northeast of Soissons.
British bombs were again dropped
by the ton last night upon German
bases along the Belgian coast. This
was the second successive night in
which extensive bombing operations
were carried out by aircraft against
Ostend and Bruges, and also Zee
brugge, one of the chief German sub
marine bases. An intensive and sys
tematic destructive effort apparently
is being made.
This aerial activity on the entente
side in Belgian is coupled with an
increasingly violent artillery battle in
the Ypres district. No infantry move
ments aside from British raids in
force, however, have yet developed
on the Belgias front.
The taking of more than 12,700 pris
oners on the Franco-Belgian front
during May, together with three guns,
211 machine guns and other war ma
terial is claimed in the German official
statement.
SUCKERS CANNOT
EVADE REGISTRARS
WASHINGTON. D. C„ June 2.—ln an
official announcement today Attorney
General Gregory renewed attention to
the provision of the army draft law
which provides that no man can
choose imprisonment as a substitute
tor registration, but will suffer the
first, and be compelled to do the lat
ter, if he resists.
“it has come t othe notice of the de
partment," said the attorney genera.,
“that certain disloyal citizens who are
themselves beyond the conscription
age are suggesting to the young men
of the country that it is better to suf
fer imprisonment under the terms of
the conscription act than to register
w.th the likelihood of being enlisted
and compelled to serve at the front
Attention is called to the fact that
under section 5 of this act. parties con
victed on the charge of evading regis
tration are not only punished for the
crime committed, but are thereupon
duly registered with all the liability
for military service resulting there
from.”
NICK LAMAR AGAIN |
IN TOILS OF LAW
Nick Lamar, a well known character
formerly residing in Americus, but
whose departure for pastures new oc
errred some months agd. following a
series of incidents which failed to find
favor in the eyes of the authorities,
is again in the toils of the law.
He has been arrested in Columbus,
Ga., on charge of participating in the
burglary of the freight depot at Phoe
nix City, Ala., when about S6OO worth
of whiskey was stolen. The liquor had
been seized by the railroad officials
and was being held for disposition by
the authorities. Lamar has been re
moved to the county jail at Opelika.
Ala.
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4 GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS 4
4 UNDER ARREST AT TIFLIS. *
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■* LONDON, June 2.—The arrest 4
4 of Grand Duke Nicholas, formre 4
4- commander in chief of the Rus- +
4- sian armies, in consequence of 4
♦ royalist riots at Tiflis, is reported 4
4 in an Exchange Telegraph flis- *
4 patch, quoting advices received ♦
4 from Pterograd. 4
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CRIMINAL USES
COME UP MONDAY
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn will recon
vene the May term of the superior
court on Monday morning for the con
sideration of the criminal calendar. He
has been presiding on the Oconee cir
cuit during the past two weeks in
place of Judge E. D. Graham, who
was disqualified in several cases due
tj come up at the May term of that
tribunal.
The civic calendar of the Sumter su
perior court at this term has been
worked over and Judge Graham re
cessed the court late Friday afternoon
until Monday morning.
’ The grand jury, which had not been
in session since Tuesday, convened
again Friday morning and committees
began their task of investigating the
various departments of the county of
ficialdom. They will make their re
ports next Wednesday, when the grand
jury will reassemble.
It is expected that the Wade mur
der case will be called for trial on
Monday. June 11th, according to pres
ent arrangements, although no definite
undeistanding has been arrived at by
the attorneys in the case.
Judge Littlejohn desired to hold a
conference of counsel in the Wade case
yesterday afternoon but was called to
Lumpkin on important legal business.
U. 5. COMMISSION
TANOS IN RUSSIV
VLADIVOSTOK, June 2. The United
.States railroad commission to the Rus
sian government, headed by John F.
Stevens, former chief engineer of the
Penama canal, has arrived here. The
members of the commission were cor
dially receive by a committee of sold
iers and working meh. The speeches
delivered indicated eagerness on the
£>art of the people to accept American
aid in the spirit in which it is offered
The commission spent Friday morn
ing studying the terminal problems at
Vladisvostok. The members will pro
ceed Sunday on their journey to Petro
grad.
REMAINS WILL BE
TAKENJ EiiFAULA
Mrs. T. D. Woods, daughter fit Mrs.
J. M. Fields, of this city, died shortly
after midnight Friday night, after an
illness of about 6 weeks. .The deceas
ed was 26 years of age and had been
■ residing in Macon since her marriage,
but several weeks ago came to Ameri
cus on a visit to her mother, and had
been at the Fields homb on Jackson
street during her illness.
She is survived by a son 2 years
of age, her husband, her mother, five
sisters, Mrs. C. H. Evans, of Clearwa
ter, Fla.; Misses Martha. Louella.
Edith and Emma Fields, of this city
and one brother, J. S. of Eaton
ton, Ga.
The remains were taken today to
the former home of the deceased in
Eufaula, Ala., where the funeral will
be held today. Rev. G. B. Dickinson
officiating.
Mrs. Woods was well .known in
Americus, where she had many friends
who will learn with sorrow of her
death.
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4 WEATHER FORECAST ♦
♦ Generally fair weather daring 4
4 the coming week in southeastern 4
4 states. Temperature near ’or ’’
♦ slightly above normal. 4
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RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THEJNATION CALLS
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING
FINAL DETAILS OF
REGISFHAIIONARE
ABOUT COMPLETE
In accordance with the military reg
istration law preliminary to the selec
tive draft authorized by the Congress
ot the United States, the machinery for
efficiently completing the registration
of all male citizens in Sumter countv
between the ages of 21 and 31 year,
has practically been assembled.
The county registration board, com
posed of Sheriff Lucius Harvey, Clerk
H E. Allen, Ordinary John A. Cobb and
Dr. R. E. Cato, has called a meeting
on Monday night at 7:30 o’clock in the
court house for the purpose of giving
final instructions to the assistant reg
istrars throughout the county who
will participate in the operation of
registering Sumter’s eligible citizens.
At this meeting it is requested that
all who have been sworn in as assist
ant registrars be present, along with
those business men of Americus and
vicinity who have signified by one
method or another that they will co
operate with the county officials to
make the registration comprehensive
and efficient.
In each district of the county the
regular voting place will be utilized
a.'.’, the registration headquarters and
at each placd there will be a corps of
registrars who will act under the di
rection of the county board.
In Americus, the white and colored
citizens will register separately, the
whites registering in the office of, the
sheriff, while the negroes will be en
umerated in the office of the county
school superintendent.
Several of the most prominent ne
groes of Americus have volunteered to
assist in the registration of their
race and have been properly sworn in
About 50 non-residents have appear
ed thus far at the office of the county
clerk to fill out their registration
cards and send them to their home
counties .as provided by the statute.
Heads of corporations and planters
employing many hands have been urg
ed to co-operate in the work of regist
ering all eligible men and it is ex
pected that very little difficulty will
be experienced by the registrars in
Sumter county.
A comprehensive publicity campaign
has been carried on for some time past
and the public thoroughly acquaintei
with the methods to be used in mak
ing the registration. The heavy pen
alities for failure to resister or for
preventing or attempting to prevent
eligible males from registering, have
been published throughout the county.
Every man between the ages of 21
and 31 years must register on Tuesday
No exception is made to this rule.
White or black, sick or well, married
l or single, whole or z crippled, with or
I without dependents—every man be-
I tween the ages mentioned above must
I register or suffer prosecution at the
j hands of the federal authorities.
The registration is entirely separate
and distinct from the selective draft,
which is to be made during the sum
met as soon as the returns from the
registration have been consolidated.
The registration places are open at I
7 a. m. and close at 9 p. m. and each'
man as he registers will be given %i
certificate to that effect by the reg !
istrars in charge.
The whistles and bells in Americus
will combine to make a heterogeneous i
hullabaloo on Tuesday morning at 7I
o'clock and all the banks, as well as j
many of the business houses. will
close during the day, in accordance I
with the proclamation issued by May- ‘
or L. G. Council requesting that the I
day be made more or less a holiday. I
GEN. HARRISON HAS
ARBIYED AT CAPITAL!
WASHINGTON. D. C-, June 2—The
arrival here of Gen. George P. Harri
son. commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans, marked the
(pening preliminaries of the Confeder
ate reunion. More than seven thous
and veterans are expected to be in
attendance before the reunion closes
it® session.
CANDIDATE DROPS
DUE DE JUINNING
ATLANTA, June 2.—Any remaining
doubt about the claim of William H.
Burwell’s friends that he will be elect
ed speaker of the next house of repre
sentatives, to succed himself, on the
first ballot, will very probably be re
moved by the announcement that Rep
resentative Morton Turner of Brother
county, one of the candidates, has
withdrawn from tile race. A letter
from Mr. Turner announcing his with
crawal from the race has been received
by one of his supporters here, who
had expressed the desire that he be
a; prised of the accuracy or in accu
racy of the report that Mr. Turner
would withdraw, in order that he may
be in position, if Mr. Turner does in
tend to drop out, to give his suppor'
to Mr. Burwell. Mr. Turner's letter, it
is stated, announces his withdrawal
and puts those members? of the next
house who were pledge'! to him In po
sition to give their support to whom
soever they desire.
Report, through one of the members
from the Forty-third idistrict is that
there is a belief being expressed
among friends of Representative Gar
land M. Jones, another of the candi
dates, that he, too, will withdraw
from the race in a veYy short time
However substantial this opinion may
be, it is known that for several weeks
Mr. Jones has not been active in
pushing his candidacy, and the opin
ion has been expressed elsewhere that
he would withdraw.
The speakership contest now’ stands,
therefore, between Mr.’.Burwell, John
N- Holder and N. M. Culpepper.
NEW CHAIRS INSTALLED
IN GABNEGtE LIBRARY
The new chairs for the Carnegie
library auditorium, recently ordered
have arrived and have been placed
The purchase of these chairs has Been
made possible through the generosity
of the City Council, who donated S3OO
toward their cost. The remaining S2OO
will be paid by the Library associa
tion.
These chairs, of which there are 400.
are very attractive and comfortable,
and are in banks of four each, well
finished and durable, and the acquisi
tion of them will make the auefitorium
very useful to many organizations, the
drawback having always been that
I w’hen it was desired to use the hall, it
was necessary to borrow or rent chairs
for the purpose, and the hauling up
and down was very troublesome.
ANOTHER ECONOMY I
CONTEST ANNOUNCED
Allen Chappell, of the Chappell Ma-j
cLinery Company of this city, agents I
for the Maxwell cars. has received I
notification that another economy test,
I is to lie made throughout the country I
| between June Itith and June 25th. This
i|est is a sequel to the one held not ,
! many days ago.
Fifty thousand dollars in “Liberty |
I Bonds’’ is to be distributed to dealers
land owners competing in this test, the
I prize money being divided equally be
| tween the two classes of contestants.
Both men and women drivers of
Maxwell cars are eligible to compete.
I
AMERICUS BOY WELL
PLEASED WITH NAVY
Oswald Speer, of this city, who en
listed as an apprentice seaman in the
United States navy a few days ago, has
written to friends in Americus that he
iv well pleased with his new’ duties at
the training school at Norfalk. Va.,
where he is now stationed to receive
instruction preparatory to being as
signed to a warship,
“This is the finest place I was ever
i he writes and apjtarently is ex
tremely well satisfied w’ith things in
general at the training school.
UNE 3, 1917
TORNADOES TOOK
HEAVY TOLL IN
WESTERN STATES
• KANSAS CITY, June 2.—Twenty
three persons were killed, mor cthai
200‘ were injured and property valuer
at hundreds of thousands of dollar
.was destroyed, according to advite to
day from various communities in Ok
lahoma, Arkansas, Kansafc and Mis
souri, which were swept by tornadoes
lute yesterday and last night.
Colgate, Okla., county seat of Coa
ccunty and a mining town, sufferer
the heaviest loss of life. Eleven per
sons were killed there when a tornadc
described as a perpendicular pillar oi
clouds three miles high and audiblt
six to eight miles away, swirled anc
twisted through the western end ol
the town. More than 150 houses werr
destroyed and a number of persons in
jured, some of them, it was stated
cculd not recover. Special trains
nurses and doctors were sent to Co!
gate from other cities.
Coffeyville, Kans., suffered proba
bly the heaviest financial loss, though
no deaths were reported. Late esti
mates planed the property damag;
there* at a half million dollars. Mort
than thirty persons were Injured, some
seriously. The tornado took a. ioursr
through the residence district.
At Drake, Okla., five persons, all oi
them members of one family, were kill
ed. Two residences and the schoo’
house were destroyed there.
One person was killed at Montana
Kans., two at MjfCune, Kans., and on<
at Bartlesville, Okla.
At Morse, Kan., three persons wen
killed, several others injured and ex
j tensive property damage done.
WILL HAVE TO STAND
ANOTHER EXAMIN VHO?
ATLANTA, Ga., June 2.—They an
putting the men of the Officers Re
serve Corps training school, at Fori
McPherson, through another physica
examination, and every one of then
is afraid the army doctors will find
something wrong and throw him out
Some are uneasy on account oi
their eyes, others on account of their
hearts, others on account of their
lungs, and others on account of var
ious ailments and defects both real
and imaginary.
It seems that after the training
schoo opened and the men got down
ti brass tacks, with a steady, relent
less grind of drill and study, the army
officers and army doctors riscovered
that physicians who examined suc
cessful applicants were in many cases
! rather too lenient concerning defects,
land thus a number of men got into
I the school who would have been re-
Ijected if army doctors bad examined
them. Hence the re-examination.
Men found below the required phys
ical standard will be excused and
I their places filled with applicants who
I failed to get into the school when it
1 started.
(ATLANTA’S BATHING SUIT
REGULATIONS ABANDONED
ATLANTA. Ga.. June 2.—Protracted
cool weather in the spring has sent
the largest throngs on record to At
lanta’s lakes and swimming pools, now
that summer weather has arrived at
last. The absurd bathing suit regula
tions which the city tried to enforce at
municipal swimming pools w’hen they
were first opened have been abandon
ed.
HUGE WAR BUDGET
IS AGREED UPON
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 2.
agreement was reached today by the
senate and house conferees on the
three billion dollar war budget includ
ing provition for ss7sJso,(>oo,ooo for an
American merchant marine and for;
$2,000,000 for a naval base on the
old Jamestown exposition site.
The house conferees yielded and re-
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♦ FRANCE GETS ANOTHER F
.♦ FROM AMERICA 4
1.4 WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 2. C
+ The government of the United 4
4 States today advanced to France 4
4 ano’ther $100,000,000, making the 4
| 4 total French loan $200,000,000, and 4
. 4 the total advanced to the Entente 4
I 4 Allies $845,00,000. ♦
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■ VETERAnF LEME
e
FOR WASHINGTON
S
. Twelve well known citizens of Sum
, ter county, veterans of the Confeder
acy and members of Camp Sumter U.
C. V., left this city last night for Was-
’ ington, D. C., to attend the annual re
union to be held in the nation’s capital
e
on June 5, 6. and 7.
, Several other residents of Americus
accompanied the veterans, among them
being Miss Ruth Barnett, who goes as
sponsor for A. S. Cutts Camp. Sons of
Veterans and Miss Sara Poole, maid
of honor for Camp Sumter, U. C. V.
A special Pullman sleeper carried
the party, being attached to the 10:40
t train over the Central of Georgia. On
reaching Atlanta, the car will be
transferred to the Seaboard Air Line
through train for Washington, D. C
arriving there on Monday morning.
The party leaves Washington on
Friday, arriving home on Sunday,
f June 10th.
The Sons of Veterans appropriated
1 SIOO to be used in defraying the ex
r.enses of veterans whose financial con
ditions was not such as to warrant
their taking the trip. Several business
e
me> of this section also donated cash
£ to be used for this purpose as well.
The veterans comprising the delega
tion from Sumter county were: W. S.
Moore, C. S. S. Horne, J. P. Wise, J.
R. Culpepper, J. P. Chapman, B. S.
Teel, J. B. Stewart, T. J. Bowden, G.
S W. Market!,‘N. T. Fulford, R R. Ar
rington, J. W. Harris. Sr.
: LAWYERS OPPOSED
'lO ‘BONE DRYNESS’
r
r
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 2.—Orville A.
I Park, one of the best known attorneys
of Macon, was elected this afternoon
; as president of the Georgia Bar As
i sociation, which closed its annual con
. vention at Tybee tonight after a two
r day session.
1 The association today* adopted res
- olutions calling upon the state legis
s lature to repeal the Veazv act, which
, passed at the last session. The Veazy
> act provides that grand juries shall
.1 periodically investigate conditions in
I all religious, charitable and eleemosy
nary institutions. It was framed by
. Thomas E. Watson
I The association also adopted resolu
> t’ons advocating the amendment ot th •
i present “bone dry” prohibition statute I
at the comihi session ot the legisla-l
ture.
' BREAK THIEf MADE
I WAY WITH POCKETBOOK
r
Burglars entered the residence of
. B W. Rouse on Horne street Friday
: t'.'ght, securing about $6 in cash from
’ a pocketbook in the drawer of a sew
ing machine in the bedroom where
Mrs. Rouse was sleeping. An unen
dorsed check was left in the drawer,
j while a pistol lying on the mantel in
‘the room was also overlooked.
Mrs. Reuse discovered Ike front dooi '
epen when she arose Saturday morn
ing. but did not discover the loss of I
:the money until the iceman made his I
lappearance and she went to the pock-'
i t book to pay for the ice.
No clue has thus far been found to
lead to the arrest of the guilty par- 1
ties.
j .
. tained in the bill aenat eappropriations,
'of $1,400,000 for purchase of the
'Jamestown exposition site, and othe.’
i property costing $600,000 on Hampton '
Roads for naval training. purposes.
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TEUTONS GROW
DISSATISFIED IT
WRFWWIH
COPENHAGEN, via London. June 2.
• Private advices from Germany tell
of growing dissatisfaction among the
I people with the political results of the
ruthless submarine campaign and th*
I absence of any indications that it has
brought the desired peace near to hand.
During their long campaign for the
unrestricted submarine warfare the ad
. vocates made very definite promises of
. immediate results.
“Two or three months” was the
. phrase used everywhere in regard U>
I the time it would take to -bring Eng
land to her knees, ready for peace,
i though the official propaganda has
i since declared the government bouna
i itself to no particular time to produce
• results, the prediction that they would
i b? obtained in two or three months has
remained in the public mind.
[ Grumblings are now heard that al-
> though four months have passt/l Eng
i land shows no signs of weakening, but
> seems determined to prosecute the war
> more bitterly than ever.
Statements that France has been
“bled white” and will be forced to re
t tire from the war have been made so
Cften that they no longer attract the
slightest credence. The entry of the.
I United States into the war and the
rupture of relations between Germany
. and the bulk of tile neutral world out
side Europe now is taken seriously
s and regarded with gloom.
r Questions have been recently asked
the correspondent by Germans here.
. not in official positions, who are dis
gruntled over the results of the sub
marine campaign as to what would be
the effect In the United Stales if sub
marine warfare were abandoned. The
. government, however, shows no sign
of weakening and is engaged in a vig
orous publicity campaign to bolster up
the waning confidence at home ami
quiet the complaint of the neutrals.
TO TOE UMPIIGN
THROUGH COUNTY
I
On Tuesday, registration day, the
registrars will not be the only individ
uals working for Uncle Sam along the
lir.es laid down by the experts in
charge of the "preparedness” program.
At every regiatndion place in Bum
ter county there will be members of
the production and conservation com
mittee of the Sumter county organiza
tion in the food campaign. These men
will make it their business to urge up
on all farmers and business men the
necessity of increasing in every pos
sible way the supply of food now avail
able.
W. A. Dodson is chairman of the
j ccunty production and conservation
: committee and he has requested the
! members of this committee in each
I district to be at the registration places
jon Tuesday to carry on their cam-
I paign.
The members of this,committee In
I the various districts are: Anderson
ville, A. F. Hodges, R. T. Naylor; 28th
district, R. L. McNeill, W. S Morgan .
Leslie, E. R. Bolton, R. J. Sims; Sum
ter. S. A. Rogers, R. S. Williams;
Plains, Dr. Sam Wise, T. M. Lowrey.
Dr. Thad Wise: 26th district, J. M.
Buchanan, Sam McGarrah; 17th dis
trict. W. E. Mitchell, John D. Williams,
T. J. Suggs; 27th district, W. A. Dod
son, N. A. Ray, Gordon Heys. S. C.
Hawkins, J. W. Hightower.
MRS. ABIGAIL MORRIS’
ADVICE TO YOUNG PEOPLE
ATLANTA. Ga.. June 2.—Wait i
minute. Don’t hurry. There are cen
turies ahead of you. Be calm. Go
church every Sunday, even if you
haven’t got any religion. Eat lightly.
’ Take exercise. Develop regular habits.
Mr®. Abigail Morris, of this city. gives
this advice to young people, and she
has a right to, considering the fae"
that she is 106 years old and still hale
and hearty. . «
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