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VhIRTY-MM’H YEAR.
GRAY CLfiO HOSTS
THRONG STREETS
OF CAPITAL GIIT
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 4.—The
nation’s capital presented a unique ap
pearance today as the faded grey uni
forms of thousands of veterans here
for the Confederate reunion, begin
ning tomorrow, mingled with smartly
khaki-clad young men who are in
training for service in France. Special
trains brought many veterans here to
day, and it is estimated that 75,000 will
arrive before the reunion festivities
reach their zenith.
The big event of the gathering, the
parade and review by the president o*
the United States, will take place
Thursday morning and on Friday, the
Aral day, the veterans will go to Get
tysburg battlefield to take part in the
dedication of the Virginia memorial,
the central part of which is an eques
trian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Probably for the first time in his
tory Confederate battle flags are fly
ing in great numbers over the city,
and in places where for several weeks
they have floated alongside the colors
of France, Great Britain, Italy and the
other allies, more than one puzzle!
spectator has had to "brush up” to
determine the identity of the “new
ally”
The veterans will camp upon the
great Union Square plaza and congress,
working almost frantically speeding
up measures of national defense, need
only look out of its windows to see a
once hostile army bivouacked almost
in the shadows of the national capital.
Many veterans went to Arlington yes
terday and there paid tribute to the
South’s dead. President am/ Mrs. Wil
son attended the services but the pres
ident did not speak. He received an
ovation from the old soldiers, how
e'er, and many shook hands with him.
The exercises, held in the shadow of
the monument erected to the Confed
erate dead by women of the Confeder
acy, were opened with the sound of
the assembly call by the marine band
and the singing of the “Star Spangled
Banner” by a special choir, the old
soldiers and the audience helping to
swell the refrain.
Flowers were strewn on the graves
and special services were held at the
tomb of the unknown dead and the
grave of Gen. Joe Wheeler.
Gen. Bennett H. Young, past com
r.ander-in-chief of the veterans, and
Representative Frank Clark, of Flor
ida, were the orators.
REEISTRARS MEET
IT 7:30 TONIGHT
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The registrars who will act tomor
row in all tlte districts of Sumter
county will meet tonight at 7:30
o clock at the courthouse for the pur
pose of receiving final detailed in
structions as to their duties in effect
ing the registration of the male citi
zens of this county between the ages
of 21 and 31 years.
Sheriff Lucius Harvey, chairman o’
the county registration board, is anx
it us to meet every one of the volun
teer registrars who will be on dutj- at
the registration places tomorrow. Adji.
Gen. Van yolt Nash has sent out addi
tional instructions regarding the reg
istration operations and these details
will be explained at the meeting to
night.
The county registration board, com
posed of Sheriff Harvey, Clerk H. E.
Allen, Ordinary John A. Cobb and
County Physician R. E. Cato, has per
fected an organization throughout ev
ery militia district in the county to
handle the registration tomorrow, the
workers having volunteered for this
service in accordance with the request
of President Wilson.
Many eligible young men are today
filling out their registration cards as
they will be out of the city tomorrow,
while a considerable number of non
residents have already filled out their
■ards and sent them to their home
•cunties.
WILSON TELLS RUSSIA I
WAR AIMSJF AMERICA
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 4.—The
president’s communication to the Rus
sian provisional government on the war
aims of the United States has been
delivered at Petrograd by Ambassador
Francis. The text will not b epublished,
however, either in Russia or the United
States, for a day or two, while the
state dpeartment is clearing up what
is officially characterized as “matters
of detail.”
SOCIALISTS Nil
EXPECTING PEACE
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, June 4.—Ger -
man socialists who have arrived here
for the socialist conference, do not ex
pect peace to result from the conven
tion. Herr Molkenhubr, a veteran
member of the party's executive com
m'ttee in that country, told the corres
pondent today that "the whole world
wants i>eace," but added he expected
no peace to come from the sitting of
the socialist conference here. He stat
ed, however, the convention will keep
the peace movement alive, at the same
t’me denying that the German govern
ment had any part in bringing about
the conference.
HUGE CABBAGE BROUGHT
IN BY AMERICUS MAN
Ben 1. Mike thinks that he is the
champion cabbage grower in Sumter
ccunty. He brought to town with him
Monday morning a full-headed cabbage
which welshed 10 1-4 pounds.
TOOMBS CITIZENS
FACE INDICTMENT
LYONS, Ga.. June 4.—The most
sensational indictments in the history
of Toombs county have been returned
against four prominent men and two
women on charges of rioting. The in
dictments were based on information
furnished by Tresa Phillips, an 18-
year-old girl residing on the Lyons
and Cedar Crossing road, four miles
from this place. The men and women
under indictment live in the same
neighborhood. They are AV. A. Dick
erson, Medy C. Dickerson. .1. B. Thomp
son, Jerry Smith, Mrs. Sidney Dicker
son and Mrs. W. A. Dickerson.
Efforts have been made to keep the
indictments secret on account of the
necessity of baring skeletons in at
least two family closets. The indict
i ment on which the charges were based
| is alleged to have occurred six weeks
[ago. The informant before the gram'
jury is said to have sworn that she
was taken from her home in broad
daylight, tied to a post and whipped
until she could hardly stand. The
charge is that the men under indict
ment seized the girl and tied her, while
the indicted women plied buggy whips
to her back. It is further claimed
i
; that there were fifteen or twenty in
i the party punishing the girl, but bill-,
! ware found only against those who ae
[ tuaily took part.
| It i/ no secret in the neighborhood
I that an assault of some sort occurred
! The defendants are said to vindicate [
I their action by making charges of too
much friendship between Tresa Phil
lips and Sidney Dickerson, the latter a
married man with five children. The
\V. A. Dickerson and Mrs. AV .A. Dick
erson under indictment are the parents
of Sidney Dickerson. Medy C. Dicker
son is a brother and Mrs. Sidney Dick
erson is the wife alleged to have beer,
the victim of duplicity. Thompson and
Smith are neighbors not related to any
of the other parties. The family of
the Phillips girl made no effort to de
fend her. possibly overawed by the
' number of her assailants.
Following the attack on the Phillips
ipirl, Sidney Dickerson and his wife sep
arated. according to information react 1 -
irg Lyons. Dickerson joined the offi
cers’ training camp at Fort McPber
■ son.
The parties involved in the alleged
I attack are farmers, and stand very high
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THEIN AT ION CALLS
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AMERIEUSTIMES-RECEJRQER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
'MISER WILLING
TO ACCEPT HUGE
LOSSES IN WEST
NEW YORK, June 4. —(Cimpoled by
' the Associated Press from European
' cables during the day.)—There is am
-1 pie evidence that the Germans are pre
pared to go to any length in sacrificing
men to hold their present western front
positions. Along the entire French
front they are almost ceaselessly coun
ter attacking, although suffering san
guinary repulses. Sunday in repeated
attacks at Valcleurc and on the Cali
fornia plateau, they made a new
' thrust farther west near Friodmont
farm and gained some of the advanced
French trenches, Paris announced to
day.
! The British are not being attacked
’ so much as are the French, but when
ever they sally forth they are met by
1 masses of Germans. Apparently, Gen.
’ Haig is not pressing the attack nea •
’ Lens, which was checked yesterday by
1 violent counter attacks.
' * The Russian situatio nis extremely
‘ uncertain today, and while better re-'
’ pertr ata coming from the army at
’ the ftont conditions are Petrograd are
becoming still more unsettled. The is
’ suance >f a decleration of independ
ence by the authoroties at Kronstadt,
Russia s greatest naval fortress, was
followed today by threats to send sail
ors from the Petrograd garrison for a
i demonstration against the council of
workmen’s and soldiers’ deputies.
BLOCKADE RUNNER “FLIVER”
‘ W ANTED THEM TO TRADE QUICK
a
ATLANTA, Ga., June 4.—A blockade
runner in the well-known “Fliver ’
I drove up to a certain Atlanta street
i corner frequented by runners and
| blind tigers. He had a cargo of
, moonshine put up in gallon tin buck
ets with the lids sealed on.fl He was
in a hurry and wore a look of appre
hension.
"Trade quick, fellows,” he jerked out
in a low, tense whisper to the thirsty
r brethren who flocked around. “Trade
i quick, $7 a gallon. They’re right after
( me and I've got to buy gas and be on
my way.” He snapped his fingers.
1 “Who wants a gallon? Those that
dont want to trade, step back and
make room for those that do. They’re
right after me and I’ve got to buy gas
L and be on my way.”
, In ten minutes his stock of 20 gal
lons was gone at $7 a gallon spot
cash, and he threw in the clutch and
was on his way, rounding the corner
on two wheels.
Then one of the buyers, moved by a
, strange premonition, cracked open his
. gallon bucket to examine the contents,
and what he found was pure spring
water.
REDUCTION OF TRESPASSERS
(IN RAILROADS IS NOAV SHOWN
I
I ATLANTA, Ga., une 4.—A reduction
;in the number of trespassers may b-*
■! one of the benefits derived by the rail
■ [ roads from the war, in the opinion of
■ railway officials in Atlanta, who calls
1[ attention to the fact that hundreds of
[ soldiers are now guarding raiUoad
: property with instructions to shoot and
(kill any person who fails or refuses to
i obey orders to get off the right-of-way.
Fairfax Harrison, president of the
| Southern Railway and chairman of the
I American Railway Association's spec
-1 ial committee on national defense.
points out that, “In addition to th 1 '
ever-present danger of being killed by I
a train, the man who now trespasses
on railway property subjects himsel*’
to the peril of being shot, should he
fail to heed the challenge of the mil
itary guard.”
Statistics recently issued by the
Interstate Commerce Commission show
that 1,512 trespassers were killed by
trains during the months of July, Aug
ust and September. 1916.
in Toombs county. On account of their
prominence the affair has created •<
series of sensations. The previous
standing of both Sidney Dickerson and
the Phillips girl had been high in the
community, and there is a disposition
cn the part of some people to claim
that the entire trouble grew out of a
: neighborhood quarrel.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 4, 1917
GEN. WOOD URGED
CONSIDER CHARGE
The advantages of Americus as a site
for a subsidiary military camp for the
training of the new army to be raised
by the United States have again been
brought to the attention of Major Gen
eral Leonard AVood, who has absolute
charge of the location of these estab
lishments.
Congressman Charles R. Crisp, in a
letter received here this morning states
that he has wired Gen. AVood, request
ing that inspectors be sent to Ameri
cus to look over available camp sites
near this city. Senators Hardwick
and Smith has also asked Gen. Wood
to send inspectors here, their action
being taken at the request of Congress
man Crisp.
Not long ago, when the cantonment
plan of instruction for the new army
was announced by the war department,
the Americus and Sumter Count -
Chamber of Commerce immediatelj
communicated withiGen. AVood, asking
that Americus be fciveir consideration
in the matter of selecting the camp
fiites. Congressman Crisp was also
urged to place the matter before the
war department and request that an
inspection of the local sites made.
While every effort is being made to
secure a subsidiary military camp near
Americus, it is feared that in view of
the fact that the number of camps has
been reduced, owing to the increased
expense of construction, and other rea
sons. and also that the department
wishes to place the camps near large
cities where the soldiers may find
amusement, the claims o fAmericus
may not receive favorable considera
tion. All iMissible means are being
taken, however, to bring about the de
sired result.
The buildings on the fair grounds
here have been tendered to the govern,
men to be used as barracks in case a
training camp is located in this city, so
that the questio nos expensive struc
tures for the housing of the troops
vpuld be practically solved.
MILLION MEN TO
BE UNDER DRAFT
WASHINGTON. D. C„ June 4.—That
the war department plans to draft from
900,000 to 1,500,000 of the ten million!
> men who are expected to register to-j
: morrow was disclosed to the senate,
' military affairs committee today when [
I Provost Marshal General Crowder told •
the committee that exemptions to be
allowed probably would reduce the [
number who would actual!v enter the i
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service to 625.00 men.
11. 5. COMMISSIONERS >
LEAVE FOB PETROGRAO[
A TA RUSSIAN PORT. June 3.—The
members of the American commissior.
mho arrived here this morning, calico
on the port officials and left immed
i lately on a special train for Petrograd
[ It is expected the commission will ar
[rive in Petrograd June 11th.
A Proclamation
Whereas. The President of the United States has designated the sth
day of June, 1917, as "Registration Day,” requiring all persons who are
eligible to military service under the terms of a bill recently passed by
congress to register their names with the proper authorities on that
day, and
Whereas, The President has also requested that registration day be
made a general holiday and that all citizens unite in assisting and en
couragong persons between the ages specified in said bill, and
Whereas, It has been estimate! by the Department Os the Census at
Washington that this work will require the co-operation of all of our
citizens in order to make it success,ll:
Therefore. 1. L. G. Council, Mayor of the City of Americus, do here
by declare Tuesday, June sth, 1917, a genera! holiday and request that
all business as far as practicable be closed on that day and all cit
izens of Americus to aid .he registrars in performing this necessary
work.
The Chamber of Commerce lias tendered its services and will under
take to make this day an occasion foi a patriotic demonstration, and I
therefore request for it the united assistance of all the people of our
city.
Given under my hand, at the City Hall, this the 25th day of May.
1917. L. G. COUNCIL Mayor.
MIDOLE GEORGIA
BADLY DAMAGED
OF HAIL STORM
MACON, Ga., June 4 —Hail that ac
companied a storm of tornado violence
yesterday afternoon caused heavy loss
to peach growers and farmers in
Crawford, Bibb, Twiggs and a corner
cf Houston county, four counties in
middle Georgia. Hailstones measuring
feur inches in circumferences fell in
some places. In fifteen minutes from
the time the storm broke in some sec
tions fields were covered with three
inches of hailstones. Where the hail
stones drifted there were piles six
to eight inches deep.
Peach orchards in the path of the
storm were stripped of their fruit’
growing corn was stripped of its
leaves; cotton shared a similar fate and
watermelon vines were ruined. Thous
ands of acres of peaches, many of
which were ready to be placed on the
market, were ruined. Corn, some of
which was waist high, will have to be
plowed under and replanted. Peaches
in the belt struck by the hail are a
total loss.
Byron. Fort A'alley, Marshallville and
ether sections southest of Fort Val
ley had a violent wind, but no hail.
The loss in dollars and cents is
difficult to estimate. One man who rode
through the district shortly after the
storm, said that the peach crop had
been cut short a thousand cars by the
storm, in his opinion. Another pre
dicted that the loss to middle Georgians
would be around a million dollars.
According to reports from different
points in the storm-swept area and
from persons returning from a trip
through the peach bel|t, the storm
broke above Byron, in Crawford coun
ty, when two dangerous storm clouds
met.
Byron suffered heavily from the wind
that followed, but there was little hail
in that peach section. A few miles
rorth of Byron, at Roberta, in Craw
ford county, peach orchards were strip
ped of their fruit by the hail and the
damage is heavy. The temperature
dropped from close to 90 to around
7o degrees. As the hail fell a dense
vapor or fog, rose and for more than
an hour automobilists had to feel their
way over the country roads and train
crews had to operate their trains at
; slow speed.
The hail seemed to have jumped from
Loberta to a section between the Echo-
Iccnnee and Tobesofkee creeks along
[the border line between Bibb and Craw,
ferd counties, where it continued south-
I westward through Bibb county, across
[ Twiggs county, losing its force as it
; reached Jeffersonville. A swath about
! two miles in width through this dis
trict is as barren as it was last winte r ;
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BOA BREAKS ARM BY
» ALL FROM AUTOMOBILE
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The friends t>f Chle; a,id Mrs. Olin
Johnsou will regret to hear of an ae-,
cident which happened yesterday to ;
tl.eir six-year-old son. Eston. He fell!
free an automobile, which was stand-1
i:.g in front of the Johnson home, ane I
(sustained a fracture of his right arm !
GEORGIA UN HELD
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
WASHINGTON. D. C„ June 4.-The
Georgia law requiring locomotive whis
tles to be blown and all trains to
slow down at grade crossinge, was to
day held unconstitutional by the Unit
ed States supreme court. The action
came before the court on motion of
the Seaboard Air Line railroad which
claimed the law placed an unlawful and
unnecessary burden on interstate com
merce.
CBIMIIOISES
NOW BEING TRIED
The second week of the May term o’
Sumter Superior court opened this
morning. Judge Z. A. Littlejohn presid
ing. Last week Judge E. D. Graham of
the Oconee circuit, presided during the
consideration of the civil calendar.
Judge Littlejohn substituting for him
in Dodge county on some disqualified
cases.
The criminal calendar at this term
is of average length and in all proba -
bility will be finished not later than
the end of the present week. It is the
intention of Solicitor General John
A. Fort to dispose of all the other
cases on the criminal calendar before
taking up the Chapman case, which,
according to present plans, will be
called on Monday, June 11th.
The grand jury is in recess until
Thursday of this week.
BUSINESS WILL BE
SUSPENDEDTUESDAY
ATLANTA, Ga., June 4. —Business
will suspend tomorrow in Atlanta and
in many other cities and towns
throughout the state in honor of na
tional registration day, in pursuance of
proclamations issued by the governor
end mayors. The people will lay aside
t! eir regular occupations, and while
the men of military age are placing
their names on the lists at the regis
tration precincts, women and men
above the military age will assemble
at the precincts to cheer them on in
the discharge of their duty -to their
country.
Throughout the state, the wome.i
ave been requested to place arm bands
on the arms of men who register, and
(this will be done in many places. The
,! regulation arm band recommended by
[the authorities in Washington is a
■ strip qf cotton cloth not over three
■ inches wide, dyed khaki color. The
‘women are requested to station them-
I st Ives at the resistration precincts and I
[to exercise particular care not to pin!
I a band on the arm of any man who I
I docs not register.
Although tire age limits are very sim-j
[ pie. there seems to be some confusion I
; both here and elsewhere over the stat
|The ages can best be stated this wav. [
(Every man who has reached his twen-!
it.'-first birthday on tomorrow. June 5,
: and who has not passed his thirty-first 1
I birthday, is required to register. A
: man who is twenty-one years old to
i x-rrow must register. Likewise a man
I who will be thirty-one years old on
Wednesday. June 6, must register, be
'cause he is not yet thirty-one.
It makes no difference whether a
I man is white or black, rich or poor
■ sick or well, sound or maimed, at home
lor absent from home on business —he
I must register. The United States take-’
ino exesues. It wants every man be
! tween the ages stated, and after get
[ting them all it will decide later on
the ones to b:- excused- if a man has
only one leg. or r-o legs at all. and
within the age limits, he must go to
the precinct and register. If he is sick
ir bed he must register through an
,a ent. -if-he ts in jail he mast reg-,
ister. If he is married and has a chile
or children, he must register. If he is
blind, he must register. If he is deaf
and dumb he must register, o excuses
go with the government, so far as
istration is concerned.
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FEDERAL AGENTS
DEVOTING ENERGY
ED REGmilOli
WASHINGTON, D. C., June
activities of the department of jostac*-.
centered today on the enforcemeM. <C:
the conscription law. Attorney Greg
ory said in a formal statement itarit
whenever necessary the assistance
state and local officials will be re
quested in the enforcement of the Jaw
end magistrates will be asked tn see
bail as high as practicable in the eases
of all persons arrested on etiargsw rs
advising eligibles to evade the law- 'The.
bail for such offenders, the at torn,-y
general said, should be placed mock
higher than that required of perwaw
actually avoiding registration
ADD that what’s up here
"I anticipate no resort to fore® ttt
prevent registration,” Attorney Ike
eral Gregory said in a statement to
day. "If any individual should at
tempt it, he will be dealt with prowqe
iy.
“In almost every community thene
wiil be persons who will attempt
e.ade registration. One class will®raH
sist of weaklings who lack the p’hj's*-
cal and moral courage necessary
face the possibility of a fight, ami an
other of those under the influence .<
men and women beyond the conscrijs
tion age who are endeavoring to diss--
suade young men from registering:
Some of the people exerting this tnfl<
cnce are w'holly disloyal; other* aw
lacking in patriotism or an apprecia
tion of the needs of thei? country, and
ere animated by a fear of the pcsssiMi
loss of members of their families.
“The young men of the country wise
‘come within the provisions of the
scription act are brave and inherently
loyal.
"They are ready to answer the mi*-
“The registration law puts into ef
fect a policy new to the present geta
cration. It is to be expected that srase
individuals subject to the law will at
tempt to evade it. To him wta» does
not ‘grasp the magnitude of the regis
tration proposed, the number who on
June 5 appear to have failed to register
may seem large. The failure of <«w
nau in a hundred to do so wontH
make a considerable total If the earb»
I returns show that the number regis
tered does not equal the preliminary es«-
itimates it will not indicate that th'-
i law has not been generally obeyed.
“It is the duty of this department to-
■ piosecnte evaders, and it is prepared
to do so.”
MERCHANTS WILE
CLOSE ONTHUBSIItt
Practically all the business house-.
[in Americus will close their doors ev
[ ery Thursday at 1 o'clock for tire
ibalance of the day, following the etts
[ tem established several seasons aga.
The closing of the mercantile esta.i»-
[ iishments, it is pointed out by the lne;i
--i ness men, gives the employees art op
! portunity to enjoy much needed recrea-
I tion through the summer months. th<
[ weekly half holiday movement liavtav
long been recognized as one of the few
tures of modern merchandising efti
ciency.
The Thursday closinz plan starts
■ this week and continues until Thurs
day. August 30. 1917.
The three banks in Americas wilt
(close at 12 o’clock each Thursday, in
stead of 1 o’clock.
The following mercantile lur.tse
have agreed to the Thursday closing
movement: Churchwell Bros. W. -It-
Bailey & Company. J. AV. Harris. El
Pearlman. Rylander Shoe Company. U
J. Josey. Williams-Niles Compart'
Pinkston Company, Hay & Tillman R
J. Walker, Tillman & Brown, A_ »
[ Smith Furniture Company, Chastav L-
Ansley. Sheffield Company. B. S. Kas
sel. AV. H. C. Dudley. M. N. Edwards
Davis & Son Furniture Company. W.
A. Joyner. Hoffman Brothers, T. L
Bell, J. D. Maffett, Allison
Company, Standard Dry Gawds Ckao
pany.
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