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Associated Press Service.
If HTRTY-NINTH YEAH.
SUMTER COUNTY CITIZENS 2210
STRONG REGISTERED YESTERDAY
Tabulation of Returns From All Dis
tricts Shows Previous Estimates
Have Been Exceeded
WORK OF NEGRO REGISTRARS
DECLARED MOST EFFECTIVE
Only Isolated Instances of Evasion
and Registration Board Gratified
at Showing Made.
Sumter county’s response to Presi
dent Wilson’s call for registration of
her male citizens between the ages of
21 and 31 years, was whole hearted
ai u complete, as shown by the returns
compiled today from the operations of
the registrars who worked in the
various districts during yesterday.
The total registration in the entire
county was 2,210 divided almost equal
ly between the whites and negroes, al
though there is of course a slight ma
jority of negroes in the total list of
eligibles.
The registration by districts is as
follows:- '
17 th—l 39.
Leslie (15th)—376.
Americus (27th) —930.
New 26th —74.
29th—72.
Old 16th—106.
28th—224.
New 16th—142.
Plains (Old 26th) —147.
The registration in Americus upheld
the previous estimates made by the
registration officials, who asserted that
the list of eligibles. in this district
would amount to about 1.000 names.
In only one or two sections of the
county did the registration figures fail
to come up to the estimates and in
these districts conditions are being
investigated by the officials. The negro
registration throughout the county
was most creditable, although in a few
outlying sections the negroes did
not measure up to the 'standard est
by the colored citizen of Americus,
Leslie and most of the other districts
The co-operation of the prominent
Americus negroes who acted as reg
istrars handling their own race, was
primarily responsible for the good
showing made by the negroes and the
officials in char.ee of the work are loud
in their praise of the colored regie
trars.
Only one instance is reported
where negroes were nindered from
registering and this case is being in
vestigated by the authorities.
This morning at the courthouse a
corps of volunteer assistants, made up
of local business men. were busy
tabulating the registration cards from
the various districts and it is probable
that this task will consume not onh
today but all of Thursday as wel
There is much detail work to be don,
before the complete returns can b®
sent in.
At 9 o’clock last night, when the
registration places closed, the volun
teer registrars, who assisted the countv
board in making the count of eligible
ll)a le citizens were warmly commended
by the county officials. The operation
of the registration machinery in this
city and throughout the county, was
most efficient, according to reports
made today. The ease with which the
registration was made astonished man:
who thought that the task would prove
too difficult to be accomplished in
only one day.
The court room on the second floor
of the court house presented a scene of
activity from 7 a. m. until 9 p. m. las
night, for in addition to filling out
<ard for each man registered, the reg
istrars were obliged to make duplicate
copies- The negro registrars were
released from duty about 7 ,p. m. and
from that time on both whites and
negroes were registered in the court
room by the white registrars. During
the day the local organization of the
W. C. T. U. served fruit nectar in the
upper corridor of the court house,
while the colored W. C. T. U. organ
ization served lemonade in the base
ment where the negroes registered.
Several negroes declared they were
over 21 years of age and registered, al
though in many instances the regis
trars were practically certain that
they were not within the prescribed
limits.
When the complete returns have
been compiled, they will be forwarded
to Adjt. Gen. Van Holt Nash and thence
to Washington, D. C.. The actual draft
for military service will not be made
ui til the returns have been consoli
dated in the national capital, probably
not within the next four or 6 weeks.
THREE RECRUITS SENT
TO MAI ON TRAINING I AML’
Three additional recruits for the
Americus Light fnfantry were sent
off yesterday afternoon to the train
ing camp at Macon to receive instruc
tion preparatory to rejoining their out
fit now encamped temporarily in this
city. The new men are T. G. Armour.
Fi. J. Broadnax and H. B. McWilliams.
RAILROADS WILL
QUIT COMPETITION
ATLANTA, Ga., June 6. —Railroads
o: the South are tn abandon competi
tive activities and operate their lines
during the war as part of the one na
tional trans-continental system under
the direction of the Railroads’ War Bu
reau for the benefit of the government
Steps to make this plan effective were
completed at a cont'erenc of the ex
c.itive officers of the different southern
lines called to meet in Atlanta by W.
J Harahan, president of the Seaboard
Air Line railway, and chairman of the
southeastern department of the war
board.
In order to make available the maxi
mum transportation energy for moving
fuel, food, materials and troops neces
sary for the successful conduct of the
war. the southern lines adopted the
policy of reducing passenger servic’,
either through elimniation or consoli
dation. and utilizing the equipment
men and coal thus released for the
more important service of the govern
ment. This policy, it was announced. |
will be observed with every possible j
effort to safeguard the convenience of
the public.
Plans were outlined to ask the co- ’
operation of shippers in loading cars to
full capacity and releasing them as
promptly as possible in order to in
crease the car supply.
A committee of five will be ap
pointed to visit the railroad commis
sions of the different states and ac
quaint the state authorities with the
facts as to whaX the railroads are try
ing to do for the success of the war.
Taxes in Stocktudm $3« Per Capita.
STOCKHOLD, Sweden, June 6.
Taxes in Stockholm for the year 19VI
mounted to >3€ a pertbn Taxation has
Increased 346 per cent, in sixteen years.
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY ISJNOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THE NATION CALLS
AMERICUS TEMES-REEORDER CHY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 6, 1917
REVHLS PLOT TO
BLOCK MUNITIONS
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 6.—Plans
to abduct a. St Louis munitions man
ulgcturer as a part of a gigantic Ger
mon conspiracy to block shipments
of such supplies to Entente nations,
vas confessed here today by C. J. Pier
sol to Prosecuting Attorney Paul
(■’Day, according to a statement given
out by O’Day this afternoon. Piersol
is one of six men held in jail here '.n
connection with the mysterious disap
pearance of Lloyd Leet, the 14-months
old son of J. Holland Leet, a wealthy
banker here.
BRllililNG
GROUND IN NEW
WESTEBA. DRIVE
NEW YORK, June 6. (Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—British
French and German official statements
all tell of infantry activity on the
western front last night, <vith Berlin
admitting that British forces penetrat
ed German trenches in the vicinity of
Recu. The British reported they
gained ground in two sectors north of
the river Scarpe on the Arras front
and Paris announces that the Germans
attacked the French lines heavily after
an intense bombardment in the vicinitv
of Hurtebise and Chemin-des-Dames,
but w'ere repulsed.
There is lively artillery activity in
Belgium, and it is evidently the inten
tion of Gen. Haig to make Lens anil
the mining region around it untenable
for the Germans and thrusts last night
ard today form part of his plans in
this direction.
Air fighting makes up much of to
day’s news from the war fronts, the
i casualties in yesterday’s raid over Eng
i land being given at 12 dead and '■’ >
hurt. The British report four airplanes
participating in this raid were de
| stroyed. London also reports that pho-
I tographs taken during the aerial bom-
I bardment of Belgian coast towns re
cently show much damage was done to
I dockyards and warehouses there, adn
that several ships in the harbor wer
sunk.
DUTCH ORDER PORTRAITS
OF KAISER AND SULTAN SEIZED
SOURABAYA. Dutch East Indies.
Jvne 6.—Printed portraits of the Ger-’
man emperor, the emperor of Austria-1
Hungary and the sultan of Turkey have!
been spread broadcast among the na-j
tives here, particularly in the province |
of Sourakata. The Dutch government I
has ordered that such prints shall be |
seized. Where they came from is un-1
known.
AMERICUS VETERANS
WRITE FROM CAPITAL
A brief communication received to-:
day by the Times-Recorder from the I
veterans of Camp Sumter. U. C. V. 1
who are now in Washington. D. C.. at
tending the reunion, states that the en
Pre party is well and fully enjoying
the events of the great gathering.
They will leave for home on Friday
arriving in this city on Sunday by spec
ial car, having left on Saturday night
for the national capital. The veterans
in the party are C. S. S. Horne. J. W.
Harris. J. D. Stewart, W. S. Moore. G.
'V. Markette, C. D. Morris, B. S. Teel
J. P. Wise, J. B. Nicholson. E. H. Cor
dill. R R. Arrington. T. J. Bowden.
. P. Chapmna. J. R. Culpepper. N. T.
Fulford.
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Mis BROUGHT
BICK TOJEBIEDS
B. C. Amnions, a well known barber
of this city, whose arrest on a charge
of bigamy occurred on Monday in Sa
vannah. was brought back to Americus
last night about midnight and lodged
in the Sumter county jail.
Sheriff Harvey, being apprised of
threats of violence made against Am
mons by indignant friends of the young
lady whom he married here about two
months ago, removed the prisoner
from the Seaboard train at Huntington
and rushed him by automobile through
the country to the jail in this city.
Ammons was brought from Savannah
by Deputy Sheriff Bob Price. Quite a
crowd met the train at the Seaboard
shops last night, but there was no dis
turbance when it was seen that the offi
cer and his prisoner were not aboard.
Relatives of the Americus girl whom
Ammons married in March, declare
that their investigations show that he
was married in Elba, Ala., in 1909, wit
nesses to the ceremony having been
found, as well as the record of the
marriage license issued by the probate
judge, authorizing the union. His first
wife is now living with their two child
ren, aged 4 and 7 years respectively,
in Victoria, Ala.
Public indignation over the affair
continues at a high pitch, particularly
since it became known that Ammons
has signed a complete confession, ad
mitting the facts charged against him
It is thought that he will be arraigned
before Judge Litcfejohn without delay.
TORNADOES D
BIT MIDDLE WEST
KANSAS CITY. Mo., June 6.—Tor
nadoes caused the death of fourteen
persons and the injury of fifty others
in various sections of Missouri and
Kansas last night. The death losses
may be increased when wire facilities!
are restored, telegraph, and telephone
* companies being amouk the heaviest
' property losers. A heavy rain began |
< falling immediately after the high wind :
' subsided and continued for hours, cul-.
: minating In fears of flood conditions i
i within the next 24 hours. Most of the'
deaths reported occurred at Centralia,!
Alton and East Richmond.
AEAIN ARRESTED
AFTER HEOLBTTJL:
C. If. Klmsre. the Cordele man who,
[attained considerable notoriety on ac ,
[count of the charges brought against I
I him by his 16-year-old step-daughter.
I Mary Belle Keith, and who was placed j
[or trial in the Superior court here this!
morning was acquitted by the jury ear |
1.. this afternoon, but was immediately '
arrested on another warrant sworn ou.‘
in Baldwin county, charging him with
rave committed against the girl in Mil
ledgeville.
Elmore, who has been at the head □;
a quasi-charitabie institution in Cor
dele. made frequent trips through the
country solociting funds for the main
tenance of the institution. The Keith
girl accompanied him. and it is alleged
that, on these trips he committed the
crime charged against him.
He was charged with having assault
e<’ the girl in Americus last Decembe;
and had been in jail in this city for sev
eral weeks. At his trial this morning
there were many sensational incidents,
but after about two hours’ deliberation
the jury brought in a verdict of not
guilty.
Elmore was immediately arrested on
the Baldwin county warrant and will
be held to await the arrival of officers
from Milledgeville.
BEAME WOMEN FOB
MOW IN PRISON
JOLIET, Ills., June 6. —The mutiny
in the Illinois state prison here yes
terday was due to the "misguided in
terference of women” interested in
prison reform, A. L. Bowen, acting
warden at the institution, stated early
today. The women’s prison reform
league, some time ago, obtained women
correspondents for many of the pris
oners, which resulting clogging the
prison mails. The revolt started whe.\
this was ordered stopped by the au
thorities. One women correspondent
residing at Miaina, Fla., determined to
visit the .prisoner she corresponded
with, and en route wired him from ev
ery station at which a telegraph of
fice was located, this being one inci
dent resulting in the decision to stop
all such correspondence.
One person was killed and seven
others hurt, besides two buildings be
in burned during the progress of the
mutiny.
NATIDNRALLIEO
ST PRESIDENTS
CALE TOJNROLL
WASHINGTON, D. C- June (s.—Offi
cial registrations reports received from
all over the country early today show
the work was carried on most success
felly, as ordered in the president's
proclamation. Disorders occurring ac
registration places during the day were
in the aggregate less than usually
mark, general elections.
Many centers of population, it is be
lieved today, enrolled more than orig
inal estimates anticipated for these
communities. In the eastern states
anti-draft agitators remained dis
creetly in the background, and wher
ever they were successful in stirring
up demonstrations in the west and
widdle western states, their activities
were quickly counteracted. The regis
tration of negroes in the Souther:’
states was unusually heavy.
The work of selecting about 1,000,009 j
men from among the elegibles will be.
j gin as soon as complete reports from
all states in the union are tabulated,
and those selected for service will be
notified later when and where they will
| be required to report for physical ex
lamination and actual enlistment.
RECRUIT FOR U. S. ARMY
LEFT HERE YESTERDAY
j Rufus Sellers, of Preston, left I
Americus yesterday afternoon for At I
Junta to stand his final examination j
: for enlistment in the United States
larmv, having already successfully pass-1
I
eo the preliminary examination given
at the local recruisting station. Th-)
recent orders from the war department
permitting men to enlist in the regu
lars for the term of the war with Ger
many has resulted in securing many |
more recruits than before
GFRMAN MN i
WSENTENCEj
CHARLESTON, S. C., June 6.—Cap-]
tain J. R. Klattenhoff, of the German- ;
American merchant ship Liebenfels, |
pleaded guilty in the federal court here
today to sinking his vessel in a United
States harbor "on orders." He was im
mediately sentenced to serve one year,,
and a day in the penitentiary at At
lanta, Ga., and in addition to pay a finer
of s7ioo. Several members of the crew
of the Liebenfels are already in prison, j,
Paul Wierse, editor of a local news [
paper; Dr. W. Mueller, former Ger-;
man consul at Atlanta, and Captain J.;i
R. Klattenhoff were all indicted by ,
the federal grand jury after Klatteu-;
hoff confessed he sank the Liebenfels. p
Mueller and Klattenhoff are charged in!
the indictment with conspiracy to|l
sink the vessel, and Wierse with aiding
in the unlawful agreement.
WOOD'S SELECTION
BE CAMPE BUNDS
CHARLESTON, 8. C., June 6.—The
Southeastern department will still get
twelve camps, and selections of sites
already approved will hold, according
to latest advices at headquarters here
Three of these camps, of which one
will be at Atlanta and one at Columbia,
will be wooden cantonments, and in
them the national army will be quar
tered, while the remaining nine will
be canvass. The third will probably be
located in Louisiana. Mississippi or
Arkansas.
The militia units, when called out,
w ill be expanded, organized into divis
ions, and given some training in their
native states. The three divisions from
this department will shortly afterward
we placed in their divisional camps am]
six additional divisions will be brought
from the Northern states and placed in
camps in this department with the
coming of winter.
AVood's Selections to Stand.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—Sites
for two or the three cantonments in the
Southeastern department in which will
be trained the men of the selective
draft army have been chosen. They
are at Atlanta and Columbia. Os the
twelve camps to be located in this de
partment, nine will be for the National
Guard, as all of the guard of the coun
try will be traied in either the South
eastern or Southern departments, ex
cept that two camps will be located on
the Pacific coast.
While selections for the National
Guard camps in the Southeastern de
partment have not yet been approve!,
it is assumed that General Wood has
plans to recommend for camp sites
previously announced by him as having
■ been selected. The war department,
however, would make no announce
ment.
It was made clear, at the war de
partment to that effect, it was said, was
National Guard camp, had not been de
termined upon as a site for one of the
r.rmy cantonments. A previous state
ment to that effect, it awssaid, was
premature. Eleven of the sixteen sites
tor war army cantonments are yet to
be selected.
MANY ALLOWEU TO
BESISTEB TIM
WASHINGTON. D. C., June 6.—Pro i
vest Marshal General Crowder notified i
the governors of all the states this |
morning that he interpreted the selec
[five conscription law as permitting
I all those who in good faith failed to
| register yesterday- to do so today. This
I interpretation of the law opens the
I way for all who for any reason failed
Ito either send in their cards or ap-
Ipear personally before the registrars
I yesterday, to comply with the law to-]
day. thus obviating many prosecution?:
that otherwise would certainly have I
resulted.
New Jersey was the first state to:
send its complete registration report
to the office of adjutant general here j
today. The report shows a total of;
302,000 eligibles registered there,
which compares with the estimate of;
the bureau of the census that 309.000 |
eligibles resided in that state.
GEORGIA COTTON ACREAGE
REDUCED FIFTEEN PER CENT
•ATLANTA, Ga.. June 6—The beliefj
is expressed in some reliable quarters]
in Atlanta that the cotton acreage in '
Georgia has beer, reduced from ten to
fifteen per cent, by farmers plowing up [
cotton.
High prices of food, with the one
not yet in sight, are believed to be re
sponsible for this to some extent, while
others have plowed up cotton because
the cold spring weather killed a ?<>od
portion of it, and others have plowed
it up because of the early appearance
of the boll weevil.
Farmers are advised not to plow up
their cotton because of the boil wee
vil, because the few insects which ,
have ventured out of their hibernating ;
places this early in the season are not <,
going to destroy the crop. . <
MEMORIAL WILE
HE DEDICATED BY
VnERANS TODAV
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6. —Con-
federate veterans in reunion here got
down to business today, the second r.fi
their session, but are looking forward-,
to the annual mendorial ceremonies ax
Arlington cemetery late this afternoon
with unusual Interest.
Veterans and visitors in Washington
by thousands for the twenty-seventh
annual reunion of tne United Confed
erate Veterans joined yesterday in
giving President Wilson a great ova
tion when he welcomed the soldiers of
Dixie to the nation’s capital and tote
them the country was beginning to
understand that one of tne purposes
cf Providence in keeping the nation
united was for the opportunity now
before America to fight for liberty and
mankind. His declaration that the
day was one of gladness because oi
the sacred memories and of a re-dedi ■
cation of a united country to those
principles that have made America
great among the nations of the earth
was greeted by the veterans by a four
ir.g cheer.
The great hall in which the presi
dent spoke was fiilled with thousands
and twice that many more had to be
t urned away because of lack of room.
While waiting for the president, the
veterans and visitors cheere dthe va
rious leaders as they came to the
platform. The Marine Band kept the
old soldiers in a joyous mood by play
ing the beloved airs of the South, ant
each time they swung into "Dixie”
the "rebel yell” would go ringing;
through the hall.
The number of veterans here is esti
mated at nearly 7,090 and the tents
provided for them could not accommo
date all of the late comers. Many of
the leaders declare this the largest re
union in point of attendance of visitors
ever held. The presentation of a Univ
ed States flag to General Harrison ac
the initial meeting of the Confederate
veterans by Col. Andrew Cowan, of the
G. A. R., was the signal for a patriotic
demonstration led by the veterans. The
■ Stars and Stripes were hung side by
| side with the Stars and Bars behind
the presiding officer and will remait>
there throughout the reunion.
Telling of his four years at the Geor
gia Military Academy, where he learned
to love the Stars and Stripes, General
Harrison said: "For four years I learn
ed to love another flag, the Stars and
Ears, which you have truly said was
borne with honor throughout the war.
And so long as red blood flows in our
veins we will cherish its heroic and
tender memories. Now that the war of
sections has ended our country is
again reunited, my love for Old Glory
has returned, and we who wore the
gray stand side by side with you who
wore the blue in fighting for liberty
and human rights whenever and wher
ever our country calls.”
James Tanner, who served in the
Union army, as a member of a New
York regiment and was wounded at
the second battle of Manassas, wei -
corned the Confederates in the name
oi the Grand Army of the Republic, of
which he is a former commander.
Several hundred of the veterans went
to Manassas yesterday and visited th*?
localities of the two famous battles
of that name.
Balls and other entertainments in
tonor of the veterans, sponsors anA
maids of honor were given in several
of the hotels of the city last night
TDD MUNDS DOG MEAT.
ALLOWED EA<TI FAMILY
AMSTERDAM. Netherlands. June
According to the Antwerp corrtspoud
ent of the Handelsblad the German au
thorities at Ghent have issued an ad
ministrative order granting permission
to the city of Ghent for the erection of
a dog slaughter-house. One of the
regulations provides that co dog-butch
er may supply more than about two
pounds of dog meat a week to each
family.
In the opinion of the correspondent
quoted, there is no doubt this example
soon will be followed in other towns
of Belgium, for want is increasing
day by dsv
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