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IHIRTY-NINTH TEAR.
‘ten loan”
MORE THIN HALF
DMHHIBED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 15.
The Liberty Loan has been oversub
scribed many hundred million dollars.
Treasury officials estimated this morn
ing that before the books finally close
that the total subscriptions will be at
least $2,500,000,000.
The loan, according to reports re
ceived by treasury officials, is in every
sense a ppoular one. By far the great,
est issues which the Bureau of Print
ing and Engraving will be called upon
to turn out will be the SSO and SIOO
bonds. For them there has been an
extremely heavy demand in every in
dustrial section of the country and in
many rural communities. The city
of Washington, officials estimate, wil!
marshal 30,000 individual subscriptions,
most of them for the SSO and SIOO
bonds. Employes of the treasury de
partment alone subscribing to the SSO
and SIOO bonds have taken approxi
mately $450,000.
Measuring the total by the number
of Liberty loan buttons which have
gone out from headquarters, the num
her of subscribers should exceed 3,-
000,000. More than 4,000,000 buttons
will have been distributed before the
three chief button factories of the
country, working night and day, catch
up with their orders several days
hence.
The small investor is to be favored
above all others, and every applica
tion for a small bond is to be granted.
In the case of over-subscription, this
would result in paring down the
larger subscriptions on a proportionate
basis, as announced by Secretary Mc-
Adoo.
Throughout the country the banks
last night kept open till late to accom
modate the last minute investor. The
treasury department has granted banks
permission in extreme cases to tele
graph the amount of their subscrip
tions to their reserve banks, telegraph
ing the two per cent, of the total at
the same time, but all subscriptions to
be counted, must have reached the
reserve banks not later than noon to
day.
The exact total of subscriptions from
every source may not be known for
seme time after the closing of the
books, because of the tremendous
amount of clerical work involved in
assembling returns and making tabu
lations. New York estimates that it
will be able to report its total not
later than 8 oclock tonight. In the
case of other reserve banks, the delay
may be greater.
NEW YORK, June 15.—The initial
transaction in Liberty latan bond trad
in.. which began on the New York
stock exchange today, was above par.
A lot of SIO,OOO sold at par and 1-50
above par.
Atlanta District Took $50,000,000.
ATLANTA. Ga., June 15.—1 t is es
timated that the total Liberty Loan
subscriptions in the Atlanta federal
reserve district will amount to be
tween forty and fifty millions. The
district allotment was sixty millions.
Total May 000,000
WASHINGTON. D. C„ June 15.—At
3 30 this afternoon it is estimated that
the total Liberty Loan subscriptions
maj soar to three billion dollars. Ev
ery federal reserve district, with the
possible exceptions of the Atlanta and
Kansas City districts, appear to have
exceeded the minimum allottment.
BRITT CRAIG MAY BE AMONG
FIRST TO BEACH FRENCH FRONT
ATLANA. Ga.. June 15.—Britt Craig,
an Atlanta newspaper reporter, will be
( , ne of the first Southern newspaper
men to reach the fighting front in
France. He has joined the ambulance
ccmpany being organized by Dr. Wal
pole Brewer, of this city, under the
auspices of Yaarab Temple Shriners,
who have bought an ambulance, and
probably will get to the trenches in
advance of the national guard or any
>f the student officers now in training
port McPherscn. Eight or ten At
- i.-inta newspaper men are in the school
for officers.
CHARLESTON LAWYER IS
SHIPPING BOARD COUNSEL
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15—Al
fred Huger, of Charleston, S. C., a
lawyer by profession, was today ap
pointed admiralty counsel for the fed
eral shipping board. Chairman Den
man, in announcing the appointment,
said it was another instance' of a man
cf large affairs putting aside persona,
interests to serve the government.
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CITY COURT WILL
CONVENE ON MONDAY
The June term of the City Court of
Americus will convene on Monday,
June 18th, Judge W. M. Harper presid
ing. In view of the fact that the an
nual convention of the Georgia Coun
ty Officers’ association occurs on Wed
nesday and Thursday of next week,
Judge Harper, after convening his
court on Monday morning, will, take a
recess until Saturday, June 23rd,
when the appearance docket will be
called and the civil calendar for the
term arranged.
The criminal calendar will be ar
ranged tomorrow morning at 9 o’clock,
when all attorneys interested in cases
to be tried at this term are requested
by Judge Harper to be in attendance.
BASEBALL SUIT IS
TAKEN DDT DE COURT
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 15.
The suit of the Baltimore Federal
Baseball club against the officers and
directors of the National commission,
generally known as "Organized Bal!”
was dismissed here today, on motion
of counsel for the plaintiff. The suit
was brought shortly after the disso
lution of the Federal league, and much
interest centered in the outcome of the
action.
Stuart S. Janney, a director of the
Baltimore club and its chief counsel,
announced in court toady that fol-
Jowing a conference of plaintiff’s coun
sel last night, it was decided to dis
continue the case. He said later he
was convinced there exists no organ
ized baseball conspiracy as the suit
had charged.
Representatives of both sides to the
controversy stated there had been --o
settlement effected out of court the de
cision of the plaintiff to withdraw the
suit being purely voluntary, and de
void of any ocnsideration offered bv
the defendant.
Men prominent in baseball affairs
regard the action of the Baltimore
l «ople as a distinct vindication of or
ganiz.ed baseball. The suit resulted
from the peace agreement concluded
between the directors of the Federal
league and representatives of organiz
ed baseball.
GELDERS DISRIBUTING
NEW PATRIOTIC MOTTO
ATLANTA. Ga., June 15.—A button
with a picture of a farmer carrying
Old Glory nailed to his plow handles,
and bearing the motto, ‘‘Nail a Flag to
Your Plow and Serve Your Country by
Raising Food Crops,” is being widely
j distributed throughout Georgia and
| ther Southern states by Isidor Gelders.
editor of the Fitzgerald Leader-Enter
prise, of Fitzgerald, Ga. The motto was
originated at a mass meeting of farm
ers held at Fitzgerald several weeks
ago and immediately gained wide cir
culation, as it struck exactly the right
note of patriotism for the men upon
whom the country is dependent for its
food supply.
EIGHT FRENCH SHIPS
SUNK DURING WEEK
PARIS, June 15 —Four Frencn
ships of more than 1.600 tons, one un
der that size and three fishing vessels
were sunk either by mines or subma
rines during the week ending June
4th, the admiralty announced today.
Six ships were unsuccessfully attaek
ed by submarines.
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THE NATION CALLS
I AMER«®®«OROER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 15, 1917
PERSHING WILL
VISIT FRONT TO
VIEW CONDITIONS
l
PARIS, June 15.—Although General
Pershing’s first day in Paris was nat
urally filled to overflowing with soc
ial affairs, he managed to utilize odd
moments for business.
It is understood this afternoon that
he will leave soon for an extended
[ tour of the front. Pershing and the
members of his staff visited the avia
tion field today and expressed frank
astonishment at the feats performed
r*
in mid-air by French aviators.
’ Paris has opened its arms to Gen
Pershing and his staff and welcomed
them with a\ outburst of spontaneous
enthusiasm such as only Paris is ca
pable of. No conquering hero return-
• ing home could have hoped for or re
’ ceived such a tremendous reception as
1 greeted the American commander as
’ his automobile sped through hun
: dreds of thousands of cheering people.
Paris and particularly the French
authorities had planned and hoped for
a great reception, but it is doubtful
’ if even the most optimistic pictured
’ the almost frantic crowds that all but
1 blocked the progress of the automo
‘ biles. Men and women cheered them
selves hoarse and flung masses of flow
ers into the cars. Parisians declare
that the only event in their life-time
that approximates the reception en-
• thusiasm was that accorded to King
George of England in 1914.
ARMED BRITISHER SUNK ♦
1 WEDNESDAY IN NORTH SEA >
1 ♦ LONDON, June 15.—The Brit- ♦
,-A ish armed merchant cruiser ♦
’ * Avenger, was torpedoed and 4
i 4- sunk in the North Sea Wednesday *
t 4 night. All on board except one ♦
- * were saved. ♦
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bTORM DIO MUCH
DIKE IHMSMT
t
Considerable damage to crops, roads,
, telegraph and telephone lines and
. railroad property was caused by the
storm which swept over this section
, jesterday afternoon.
The rainfall, which was unusually
heavy, was accompanied by high
winds and considerable electric dis
. turbance, which put the commercial
. and lighting circuits of the Americus
Lighting Company out of commission
i for a short period of time.
I _ Several telephone poles along the
[ Dixie Highway just north of the city
were blown down and telegraph and
telephone service was badly demoraliz
ed for several hours.
The mill dam at McMath’s mill.
, i about 3 miles west of Americus, gave
i way as the result of the heavy vol
ume of water rushing into the pond
. from the tributary streams. The en
tire dam was swept away, although
( the mill itself was undamaged.
About 75 feet of the Central of Geor
gia tracks were undermined by the
! About 75 feet of the Central of Geor
gia tracks were undermined by the
water near the old Yirginia-Carolina
, plant at the northern boundary of the
city, but although freight service was
, temporarily interrupted, workmen
soon had the damage repaired.
The city streets this morning; were
cleared of the accumulation of mud
and debris washed down by the deluge I
which poured through the gutters and!
choked the storm sewers. At the cor-]
ner of Lee and Church streets the
sediment of mud was three inches
ccep.
Conciderable crop damage is report
led in this immediate section, although
it is not expected that the loss will be
serious. The worst of the storm pass
ed northwest of Americus.
A gin house on the plantation of AV.
J. Williamson on the Friendship road,
! was biown down during the storm.
• while on W. T. McMath’s place, about
■ 4 miles west of Americus, a barn col
■! lapsed, more or less seriously injur
■jing three mules which were sheltered
| inside the structure.
4 ALL PRISONERS TAKEN IN ♦
♦ IRISH UPRISING TO GO FREE ♦
+ +
*■ LONDON, June 15.—1 t was an- 4
♦ nounced in the house of com- 4-
4- mons today that the government 4
+ has decided to release all prison- ♦
♦ ers taken in the Irish rebellion ♦
♦ of Easter Sunday a year ago. It ♦
4- was further stated that all Irish 4-
4 political prisoners of every class ♦
are to lie released in accord- 4-
♦ ance with the decision. ♦
♦ 4- 4- 4- ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦
RED CfIDSS WILL
START CAMPAIGN
HERE ON MONDAY
Practically every business house in
Americus has offered its financial and
moral support to the Red Cross cam
paign which begins all over the United
States Monday the 18th. The campaign
is to extend over the entire week end
ing June 25th, and all interests ar)
united in an effort to over-subscribe
the $100,000,000 now needed by the Red
Cross war council for their relief
work.
The Americus merchants are to help
by giving five per cent, of their entire
cash business for one day of this week
to the local Red Cross chapter. Sev
eral of the business houses, each in a
different line of business, are to con
duct Red Cross sales each day, to be
listed under direction of the executive
committee of the Red Cross chapter.
The list for Monday. June 18th, is as
follows:
Sparks Grocery Company.
Morgan & Company.
Ansley’s.
Rylander Shoe Co.
Allison Furniture Co.
J. W. Harris Hwde. Co.
Prather-Ansley Drug Co.
An earnest appeal is made to the
l>eople of Americus and Sumter county
to trade with the above named business
houses on Monday, June 18th. Whether
or not you carry your account and de
business with some other house, you
arc expected to change for the one day
and pay cash. This is one way of
helping a worthy and noble cause with
cut any cost whatever to the public
generally.
You are asked, urged, and it is your
patriotic duty to fill your pantry, your]
wardrobe, your home, your medicine I
chest and your cigar case with a six ;
months’ supply during this week.
The full list of business houses, with ]
the days on which they wili conduct)
Red Cross sales, will be published in ■
Sunday s Times-Recorder.
This is no time for any man to say, ]
I Well, so many calls have been made)
lon my pocketbook that I don’t feel as]
if I could afford to give to the Red |
Cross. This is an inopportune call.’ ]
Well. we. say to that man, “My friend, I
the whole war is inopportune. It is]
inopportune that millions of brave men,
are dying or suffering that we may re-1
main a nation, not a.German province..
It is inopportune that millions of wo-.
men and children are miserable and]
i hojieless and starving. Also a German )
I governor-general of occupied Ameri-;
levs would be rather inopportune."
Americus and Sumter county are ex )
pected to raise SIO,OOO of the SIOO-j
(100.000 required for immediate needs
of Red Cross. We must contribute lib- i
erally.
RED CROSS EXECUTIVE COMMIT
TEE.
AMERICUS BO! NOW ON
BOARD SUPPLY SHIP
/ Harry Williams, who left Americus
six weeks ago to enter the yeoman ser
vice of the U. S. Navy, has recently
finished his course of instruction at the
yeomans’ training school at Newport.
R 1., and has been transferred to the
paymaster's office of the U. S. S. “Ful •
ton.” a supply ship belonging to the
South Atlantic submarine New
London. Conn., is his home port and
it is thought that the Fulton will re
main in American waters.
INDICATIONS OF
GFRMANRETREAT
ON WEST FRONT
NEW YORK, June 15—The British
campaign in Belgium gives signs to
day of developing into one of the most
important of the war. The Germans,
apparently, are unable to resist the
pressure being directed against them,
and are being forced back at a com
paratively rapid date.
Today brings announcement of an
other British gain of five hundred to a
thousand yards on a front of seven
miles, while correspondents at the
front reports signs of a probable ad
ditional German retreat.
The German offiical statement ad
mits a German retirement at two
j oints in Belgium.
The British statement says today's
attack in Belgium resulted in their
capturing one big gun. seven machine
guns and 150 prisoners. The domi
nance of the British artillery seems
almost wholly responsible for the Ger
man retirement.
( HINESE BRIBE-TAKERS
FIRED BY UI YI AN-HINU
PEKING, June 15.—Two high Chi
nese officials, Chen Chin-tao, minister
or finance, and Yin Ju-lien. vice-minis
ter in the same department, are seek- ]
ing new jobs here today, following
tl.e disclosures of a bribery scandal in
vhich they were implicated. The vice
minister when called before President
Li Yuan-hung, admitted that the fin
ance department had accepted SIOO,OOO
(gold) from a syndicate which put
forward a scheme last Januanry for
buying and melting brass coins. Presi
dent Li investgated the charges. Then
he issued a mandate dismissing the
officials Criminal proceedings may be
instituted against them.
155,000 111 BONDS
TAKEN IN COUNTY
Sumter county’s subscriptions to the
“Liberty Loan” amounted to $55,000.
according to figures gathered from the
various banking institutions of Ameri-1
cus. Plains and Leslie.
The final returns on bond subscrip
| tions were sent in to the federal re
] serve bank in Atlanta, headquarters
I tor the sixth district, fast night, since
I the books closed today at noon, and it
I was necessary that ail subscriptions
Ibe in the hands of the reserve banks
at that time.
The "Liberty jLoan” campaign in I
|this county was in the hands of a]
I committee composed of bankers repre-1
] seating their respective sections, the]
I members being , Frank Lanier. Frank ;
; Sheffield, L. G. Council. R. S. Oliver j
] of Plains, and W. T. Anderson, of Les i
lie.
Much publicity has been given to >
the "Liberty Bond” campaign and al
special effort made by the committee,
vith the co-operation of the business
I men jpnerally, to place the bonds i”
]tbe hands of the small investors.
Americus subscribed for $50,050.]
| Plains $4,000 and Leslie $750.
OVERTON. FIRST STUDENT
OFFICER TO LOSE I LIMIU
ATLANTA; Ga., June 15.—Having
lost a lerr in a street car collision in I
front of the entrance to Fort McPher-)
son. Edward B. Overton, of Mobile,
Ala., who was a student officer at the,
tiaining school, will never see the bat-1
tiefields of France, but he has gained I
the distinction at the post hospital ot)
being one of the nerviest men the sur |
geons have ever seen on the oprating ■
table, and his fellow student officers ]
have tried to overcome his disappoint-]
ment by making themselves especially |
nice to him in many little ways. Over
ton's friends in Mobile and in other
parts of Alabama, where he was a fa
mous college athlete, have deluged hin.
with letters and telegrams of sympa
thy.
CONDENSED MILK
SENT TD GERMANY
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15.—Ger.
man agents bought large quantities ol
condensed milk in the United States
and shipped it to Germany through
neutral ports recently, the w’ar com
mittee of the condensed milk industry
informed the department of commerce
today. The milk was bought at retail
stores in order to avoid suspicion.
FAIR STOCKHOLDERS
WILL MEET TONIGHT
Tonight at 8 o’clock at the offices
of the Chamber of Commerce, the
I stockholders of the Third Agricultural
District Fair association will hold a
meeting at which business of vital im
portance will be transacted.
Proxies have been sent out to all
stockholders in order that there may
be no question of illegality in the dis
position of such business as may come
before the meeting.
The election of new officers and di
rectors will constitute one of the most
important features of the session,
while reports will be received from the
various retiring officers.
A large attendance of stockholders
i< most essential.
SEASON OF EARLY
PEACHES AT END
FORT VALLEY, Ga.. June 15.—The
peach season of the year 1917 is now
in full swing. The season of the early
peaches will close the’ first of next
week. After this the growers will be
gin marketing the very popular Geor
gia and Hiley Belles, along with the
Early Belles, which will come first.
The early varieties have brought an
exceedingly good price this year. Tha
color of the early peaches was the nest
in the history of the peach industry
The size, while in some instances not
so very great as a standard, was of the
size that makes a pretty and attractive
crate, ’lhe growers are perfectly sat
isfied with the prices they are receiv
ing for their peaches this year. The
rices for the early varieties have rang
ed anywhere from $1.75 to $2.75 per.
■ c rate.
The damage that was done in Craw-)
ford county was very great and there)
will not be one-half as many cars of]
peaches shipped from that portion of
the peach belt as normally. This means I
that the growers in this immediate sec-|
tion will receive more for their peaches j
at they will be the only growers who]
I «;11 have peaches on the market at |
| this time in the state.
f J. L. Wilson, one of the largest]
(growers in this section of the state,]
' has one of the largest crops in this
I ]>lacc. or county. His orchards are at
'ail times kept in the very best of con
dition. and he personally supervises
I the i»roduclng and marketing it his
' fruit. He has on his farm 100.000 trees.
| He estimates his crop for this year to
be near one hundred cars. He has al
ready shipped ten cars of the early va
rieties. for which he received a verv
encouraging price. It is generally es-
' timated that there will be shipped from
I this state some 3,000 cars, or in the
mighborhood of 4.000 cars.
4 WEATHER FORECAST. ♦!
♦ j
4 FAIR txxlay and tomorrow; ♦)
i probably WARMER. ♦
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*
EXEMPTIONS ALLOWED FOR
. DEPENDENT CHILDREN
WASHINGTON, D. June 15—An !
income tax exemption of S2OO for each'
dependent child of taxable parent;;]
and a reduction of the two-cent stamj,
tax on bank checks to one cent, were 1
decisions reached by the senate fl-j
nance committee revising the war tax
bill today.
PI T V
V edition!
ALL RAILROADS
MUST GUT DOWN
EXTRA JRAFFIC
ATLANTA, Ga., June 15.—The opera
tion of all the big trunk line railroads
over the entire country as a great con
tinental railroad ssytem, the elimina
tion of all duplicate transportation ser
vice, and the conservation down to the
finest possible point of economy of the
fuel and euqipment of all railroads
a general war measure and to meet the
necessary demands of the government,
was an insight into the inside condi
tions presented to the Georgia railroad
commission late yesterday by E. H-
Copeland, first vice president of the
Southern railway system, who is here
from Washington to present the South
ern’s reasons for asking approval of
elimination of certain local service la
this state.
In so many words. Mr. Copelandt
made it c.ear to the commission and
to the number of local delegations wh>>
v.ere present to protest the intended
action, that, if the Georgia railroa**
commission does not grant the request
made, it will be thit a matter of a short,
time when the federal government it
self not only will do what the South
ern is now trying to do, .but will go
far beyond that and will take over and
operate the railroads for purely mili
tary purposes, and then will come the
elimination of all kinds of service that
j in the least conflicts with war move
ments.
Mr. Copeland directed attention (to
the commission in Washington, ap
pointed by the big trunk lines of the
. country, as a directing board for lian
■ Cling the country’s railroad traffic, and"
r said if the plans under which this
t board are now working do not suc
. cessfully meet the government require
. menta, then the federal governmen*
. will then stej> in and take the abcoluU
control. This, Mr . Copeland says,
means operation of all railroads for
troop movements, for war supplies and
for munitions. Then it will not be a
question of serving any patron or pa
tions, but that the government wiK
do a general traffic business on thr
railroads only when it finds it conven
ient to do so, between war department
business —which will be practically
none at all.
Immediately upon completion of Vio*
I President Copeland's presentation ««*
| the railroad commission of the inside
1 story of the seriousness ot the war
land railroad situation in this country
fa remarkable act of patriotism occur
' red. H. D. Shackleford, who wus
(present as the general representative
] with a blanket objection and protest
t > be filed by the United Commercial
Travelers’ association, announced to
I the commission his desire to withdraw
! all protest that had been filed by the
IT. P. A. to the proposed reduction of
I duplicated passenger service on the
Southern system. Mb. Shackleford,
who is chairman of the railroad com
mittee of the organization for the
Southeast, said the T. P. A. organiza
tion did not realize the situation; tha’
Mr. Copeland’s statement was a reve
lation to him, and he would withdraw
and leave the situation entirely in the
hands of the state commission, be
lieving it to be a patriotic body, and
that the duty of the people right now
is patriotism and his organization is a
patriotic one.
NEW ARMY NOT TO BE CALLED
“VOLUNTEER," BUT “DRAFTED"
ATLANTA. Ga.. June 15.—Hereafter
I it seems the United States army wiH
i not be known as the "regular” army, us
| of old, but will be known as the “vol
unteers,” if a statebent of an armv
officer to an Atlanta friend is l<» be
[ taken seriously.
The Atlantian said something- about
the “regulars.” and the army officer
corrected him. saying: "You mean th*i-
Ivolunteer army?” To which the At
i lantian replied: “No. I don't mean the
national guard; I mean the regulars.”
| ‘‘Well, that doesn't make any
’ence,” replied the officer. "All regr-
Mars are volunteers, just as much as
] the national guard, for every man now
in the army was a volunteer. There -
'fore they are the volunteers. The ar
' my that will be raised by the conscrip
tion act will be called the drafted ar
|®y.”
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