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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
IfHIRTY.NINTH YEAH.
RED GROSS CAMPAIGN GLOSES
MONDAY AFTER STRENUDDS WEEK
Canvassing Committees of
Americus Chapter Will Make
Final Round Tomorrow
52613 20 CONTRIBUTED
DY SUMTER COUNTY
Special Effort to Be Made On
Last Day of Big Drive
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4 Where to Trade Monday to Benefit 4
♦ Red Cross. ♦
-4 Pinkston Company. ♦
4 Joyner Dry Goods Co. ♦
4 Tillman & Brown. ♦
4 25% of sales of Americus Light- 4
4 ingi Co.
4 A. Cohen. "4
4 Howell-Prather Drug Co. "4
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“Red Cross Week,” which began on
Monday, June 18th, will end tomorrow
night and the national campaign, car
ried on for the purpose of raising a
fund of $100,000,000 for the gerat org
anization, will be concluded.
The Americus and Sumter County-
Chapter, through several committees of
ladies who have decided their time to
the work of canvassing this city an 1
surrounding communities for funds, has
endeavored to raise Sumter county’s
pro rata share of the national fund
Thus far the goal of SIO,OOO is far from
being reached, but a filial strenuous
effort is to be made tomorrow, the fina'
day of the campaign, to at least ap
proximately the desired total.
Many business houses of Americus
have given 5% of their cash sales on
specified days during the past week for
the benefit of the Red Cross fund and
of special interest along this line is the
announcement that the Sparks Grocery
Company will continue to give 5% o'
each Monday’s cash sales to this cause.
The donations secured through tlwe co
operation of the business houses in
this feature of the campaign will be of
materoal help in raising Sumter coun
ty’s share.
The total contributions for the week
including yesterday's donations,
amount to $2,613, and the final drive
to be opened tomorrow morning by an
augumented squad of canvassers, is
expected to materially increase thes.-
figures.
In a statement to the general public
regarding the conditions under which
the campaign is being put on and the
object in view, the executive committee
of the Americus and Sumter County
Chapter says:
Os all the horrors of the present war.
the .greatest has undoubtedly been the
inability of the Allies for months after
the struggle began to furnish adequate
medical treatment and supplies, proper
food and sanitary accommodations for
their wounded and sick. This chapter
of unpreparedness is indescribablv sad
and indelibly discreditable.
During the first year of the struggle
thousands upon thousands of the sol
diers of the Allies died or were per
manently maimed, diseased and incap
acitated for life, solely because they did
not receive proper or prompt medical
attention and nursing, and were left
without the most elementary comforts.
The military authorities and the Red
Cross societies found themselves woe
fully lacking in equipment, facilities,
in nurses and surgeons, in ambulances
and beds, in buildings and tents to
accommodate the wounded and sick,
and were overwhelmed by the number
they were called upon to care for. In
numerable were the instances of the
wounded whose lives could and should
have been saved and innumerable the
instances of frightful and unnecessary
pain and suffering endured by those
whose every want should have been
foreseen and provided for by the great
and rich nations whose battle thev
were fighting.
It is too heartrending to describe
the sickening details of this awful
story—of the thousands who bled to
death for want of medical attention, of
the thousands whose wounds became
’ infected for Want of surgical dressings
of the men—our fellow human beings
—whose feet were frozen and had to be
amputated for want of proper foot
wear ,of those whose arms or legs had
to be amputated without anaesthetics,
held down on the operating table by the
nurses, of those who succumbed for
lack of nursing, of those who suffered
hours and hours and sometimes days
before their excruciating agony could
be relieved—all because the people for
whom they were fighting had neglected
to furnish the necessary attendance
and supplies.
Now, after thirty-five months of the
war, with all its horrible lessons and
all its awful warnings, we, the richest
and the most powerful nation in the
world, find ourselves as unprepared as
was England in August, 1914, when
she sent her small but immortal army
to Belgium to face ten times its num
ber in order that the plighted faith o*
England to a small and weak nation
might be kept inyiolate.
The question before us today is
whether we shall send our young men
to fight for us on the battlefields of
Europe, three thousand miles away
from home, without adequate prepar
ation to save them from unnecessary
suffering and pain and from needless
death. It is as certain as that the
sun will rise tomorrow’ that if we
Americans fail to respond to the pres
ent call of the Red Cross, our own sol
diers will suffer and die who could be
and should be saved from pain, fron.
death, from disease, from mutilation
But we hear on all sides three ques
tions, three chilling and sordid com
plaints. The first question is: Why
did not the Red Cross wait a few weeks
before iqjtking this; appeal, and let the
clamor and recollection of last week’s
campaign for the Liberty Loan becom
more or less dim? Why follow so soon
upon that great appeal to the patrotisir
of the country? Why press.the gen
erosity of the people? We are told that
the time is inopportune. The second
question is: Why should not the army
and navy take care of its own wounded
; and sick under competent and traine'.
■ army doctors and orderlies and nurses ’’
And the third question is: Why shoul'.
not the funds be provided through tax
ation by Congress ? When thousands o<
millions are being raised through gov
ernment appropriation, it is urged, an
extra hundred millions would not make
I much difference and would not be felt
[ by anyone.
I But the objectors wholly fail to rec
ognize that the Liberty Loan called for
no gift and no sacrifice. Every dollar
Continued on Page 8.)
GANS IM BEINS
BEHOLD HERE
The first shipment of 18,000 cans for
the use of Sumter county citizens co
operating in the national food conser
vation campaign, is being distributed
among those who ordered the contain
ers through the Chamber of Commerce
and the Sheffield Hardware Company of
this city.
Several weeks ago the Sheffield Com
pany announced that through a spec
ial arrangement with the American Can
Company, it would be possible to pro
vide cans for the citizens of Sumter
county at a figure which included only
the actual cost of manufacture. plus
the freight charges to Americus. No
margin of profit was to be made by the
Sheffield Company.
Many thousand cans were ordered
I under this arrangement by members of
the canning clubs of this county, as
well as by individuals desiring them
lor their own private use but not affl
ated with the canning clubs. Miss Row
ena Long, Home Economic agent for
Sumter county, was largely instrumen
tal in bringing this offer to the atten
tion of the residents of the rural dis
tricts.
The first shipment of No. 3 cans ar
rived last week, but owing to the fact
that the individuals ordering them
■ have apparently not been notified of
I their arrival it is desired that anothe?
mention be made of the matter so that
■the cans may be moved at once.
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THE NATION CALLS
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 24, 1917
PLANS MADE FDR
DRAFTING UNDER
CONSCRIPT LAIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23.
Regulations for drafting the new na
tional army, now awaiting President
WHlson’s approval contain provision
for every step in the great undertak
ing, except the actual method of the
draft itself.
No official announcement has been
made, and official confirmation is
being withheld, but it has been stated,
and generally is accepted here as true,
that the federal government itself will
do the drafting, probably in Washing
ton, so there will be no opportunity for
local favoritisms, political or other
wise.
As the regulations stand now, every
registered man bears a number. The
numbers will be forwarded to Wash
ington and the drawing will be entirely
by number. The identity of the num
bered men will be entirely unknown to
those in charge of the draft machin
ery and can be established only by
comparing a number with a printed
list in the man's home district.
As the numbers are drawn, they will
be telegraphed to the home districts,
where the registered men will learn if
they have been drafted. Then the
question of exemptions will come up
and this will go before the local
boards. If a man is exempted, the
man bearing the number which wa?
drawn next in order will take his
place and so on.
In this way all those available for
service out of the ten million who reg
istered will be made ready for ths
country’s call and from them the first
increment of 625,000 will be assem
bled. The others will be called as
the need develops. Plenty of time will
be given for drafted men to arrange
their personal affairs and report to the
cantonment camps. It is hoped to
have them all in training by Septem
ber 1, or soon thereafter.
SUBMARINE HIT IN »
FIGHT WITH LINER
AN ATLANTIC PORT, June 23.—A
running fight between an American
armed freighter and a German sub
marine, June 6th. while the vessel was
one day out from Genoa, which result
ed in the American gunners making
at least one hit, was reported by’ the
captain on arrival here today .The cap
tain said the hit destroyed the peri
scope of the submarine.
FATAL EXPLOSION
IN MUNITION FACTORY
AMSTERDAM, June 23.—More than
one thousand persons w’ere killed or
injured, or are missing, in consequence
of an explosion in munitions factories
at Bloeweg, according to an announce
ment in the lower house of the Aus
trian parliament by the minister of
defense, as forw’arded in a dispatch
from Vienna.
CARLOAD OF WHEAT SHIPPED
TO MACON WILLS SATURDAY
The Planters’ Seed Company of
Americus Company of Americus ship
ped to a Macon firm yesterday a car
load of first class wheat, which grew
in Sumter county. This wheat will be
milled there and distributed from that
point.
Farmers who are raising wheat in
stead of an over supply of cotton, have
no trouble in finding a market for it.
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4 AMERICAN MERCHANTMAN 4
4 GUNNER SANK SUBMARINE 4
4 WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 23. 4
4 —The gun crew commander to- 4
4 day confirmed yesterday’s report 4
4of an American merchantman ♦
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DECLARES RUSSIA
WILL STAY IN WAR
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 23.-
Ambassador Bakmetieff, head of the
Russian mission, emphatically de
clared in his address today before con
gress assembled in the hall of the
house, that the Russian people them •
selves are opposed to a separate peace
with Germany.
The ambassador’s declaration came
after, the most remarkable demonstra
tive reception yet given any of the for
eign missions in either house of con
gress. Shouts and cheers came from
the floor and in the galleries.
Members of congress who on prev
ious visits of missions have ap
plauded or remained quietly In theft
seats cheered loudly; men, women
and children caught the sweeping wave
of patriotism, shouting and wavlnw
handkerchiefs. The applause and
cheering were renewed when the am
bassador added:
“Rumors of a separate peace are
without foundation in fact: Russia’s
endeavor is for a lasting peace be
tween democratic nations. Triumph
of the Germany autocracy would ren
der such peace impossible. Russia wil
not fail to be a worthy’ partner in th?
league of honor.
BAR EXAMINATION TO
BE HELD HERE JONE 11
On Wednesday, June 27th, at the
court house in his city, will be held an
examination for admittance to the bar.
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn having charge
of the examination.
Several young law students from this
section of the state will take the exam
ination, which will continue through
out the day .being held in the court
room on the second floor of the build
ing.
DISPUTE OVER SHIPS
NOTJET SETTLED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 23.
President Wilson today authorized the
statement that he had not yet settled
existing difficulties between Chairman
Denman, of the shipping board, and
General Goethals, head of the emerg
ency fleet corporation over the wooden
ship building program. The presiden
i’ waiting for additional information
touching the subject.
RUSSIAN PROVINCE MAY
SET UP INDEPENDENCE
LONDON, June 23.—A Petrograd
news dispatch late today says the
Ukranian military conference has
i called upon the Ukranian national as
sembly to immediately establish an:
independent government for Ukrania. I
MARTHA M'LEDD MOZO
BURIED SATURDAY MORNING
The funeral of Martha McLeod Mozo
the 13-months old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John F. Mozo, was held Saturday
at 10 o’clock, from the family residence
on Church street, Rev. Paul W. Ellis
officiating. Interment was made in
Oak Grove Cemetery.
AMERICUS LIGHTING CO.
WILL HELP RED CROSS
J. E. Johnson, manager of the Amer
icus Lighting Company, is in receipt
of a letter from the home office au
thorizing) him to donate 25 per cent
of all cash saies on one day to the
local Red Cross chapter. Upon re
quest of the Red Cross committee,
Monday, June 25th, has been selected
as the day for this contribution. Ar
ticles, such as electric fans, gas stoves,
etc., should be purchased on Monday.
ADMITS MURDER
DF HIGH SCHOOL
EIRE INJD.Y. CITY
BOLOGNA, June 23.—Alfredo Coccht
today confessed to the Italian author
ities that he had murdered Ruth Cru
ger in New York.
Cocchi said that he murdered Ruth
Cruger in a fit of furious jealousy be
fause he failed to win her love.
The admissions of the younsi Italian
whose escape the New York police
failed to prevent were made in tear?
after searching interrogation by Judge
Zucconi, broke down Cocchi’s reserve.
Prior to this examination. Cocchi had
coolly and insistently maintained he
had known Miss Cruger only two dasy
before her disappearance in February
when she went to his shop to have her
skates sharpened, and had declared
his conduct toward her was entireb
correct.
Under Judge Zocconi’s searching
questions today, however, Cocchi final
ly burst into tears. He became so agi
jated as his confession fell haltingly
from his lips that the physicians sur
rounding him believed that he was
about to have an epiletic fit.
He was granted time to recover and
then resumed the story of how the 18-
year-old Wadleigh High school girl
met death at his hands in the building
where her body was recently unearth
ed from the cellar.
After making up his mind to tell the
truth Cocchi talked freely and without
reserve, gave full detaibs of his crime,
including the burial of Miss Cruger’s
body. After the confession had been
completed the judge directed the clerk
to read to Cocchi the written report of
bis deposition. The prisoner said it
was correct and later signed it.
Search For Accomplices.
NEW YORK, June 23.—While ex
pressing gratification at Alfredo Cbc
chi’s confirmation as clearing up the
Cruger girl’s murder, Police Commis
sioner Woods indicated today that
there were other important reasons for
pushing the effort to bring th efugi
tive back to this country in addition
t(< seeking punishment for the crime.
SUFFRAGETTES ARRESTED
AT WHITE HORSE GATES
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WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23.-
Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, of Philadelphia,
and Miss Gladys Greiner, of Baltimore,
both militant suffragettes, were ar
rested here today and taken to a police
station, almost before they could un
furl a suffrage banner in front o fthe
white house. The women were later
released by the authorities on their
own recognizance, after cases had
been formally docketed against them
No date for the hearing, however, was
set.
FINDS A READY MARKET
FOR SUMTEFI COUNTY FLOUR
J. C. Brown, who operated Brown’s
Mill 8 miles of Americus, brought into
town yesterday a wazon load of splen
did wheat flour. The sacks are at
tractively labeled. "Sumter County-
Flour Mills, J. C. Brown. Proprietor,”
and are of uniform size. He had no
trouble in disposing of the entire
amount brought in to local firms here.
Mr. Brown has a very complete
equipment for milling wheat and each
sack is filled and weighed automat
ically.
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4 TO DO WORK IN RUSSIA 4
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4 WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23. ♦
4 —The Red Cross organization in ♦
4 this country will send an Ameri- ♦
4 can commission to Russia to do ♦
4 work behind the battle front 4
4 there, as they will also do in ♦
4 France and Belgium. ♦
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HOME GUARD WILL
TAKE OATHMONDAY
The “Americus Home Guards,” a mil
itary organization to be established in
this city to furnish protection to the
citizens of this section in case of any
disorder that might occur during th?
absence of the Americus Light Infan
try, has been practically completed as
far as the roster is concerned.
The committee in charge of the mem
bership feature, R. H. Horton, G. L.
Williams and C. J. Clark, interviewed
prospective members on Friday secur
ing the names of 110 men who will
serve in the organization. A petition
bearing the signatures of the prospec
tive members has been forwarded to
Gov. Nat E. Harris to secure a license
permitting the organization of the
Home Guard under the provisions of
Section 1447 of the penal code of Geor
gia of 1910.
The organization will come under the
head of a posse comitatus and will b j
subject to the orders of the sheriff of
Sumter county. The company cannot
be put into service outside the countv
and will be sworn in after the manner
ol assistants to the sheriff.
Rifles and other necessary equipment
are to be furnished by the federal gov
eminent, the Krag-Jorgensen rifles be
ing used for this purpose by similar or
ganizations established recently
throughout the country.
On Monday night at 8 o'clock at th?
armory a meeting of the members of
the organization will be held forth?
purpose of perfecting the plans, elect
ing officers and receiving the oath as
administered by Sheriff Harvey. Only
those duly sworn in will be allowed to
become members of the Home Guard.
Male citizens 21 years of age or older
a* eligible for membership in the or
ganization.
CITY COURT GONVENES
ON MONDAY MORNING
The regular June term of the City
Court of Sumter county will convene
on Monday morning at 9 o’clock for the
consideration of the criminal calendar.
The appearance docket was called yes
terday by Judge Harper, who announc
ed that the assignment of civil eases
would be made on Saturday .July 7th,
provided it is practicable to do so.
The civil calendar will be taken up i
on July 16th .
It is considered probable that the ■
City Court term will be interrupted by j
the calling of the special term of th?
Superior Court for the trial of the,
Wade murder case, as well as several'
other criminal matters which are now j
pending.
EXAMINATION HERE
FORARMYSURGEONS
On Saturday, July 7th, Major T. E.:
Oertel, president of the board of medi
cal reserve corps, will conduct exam- j
inations in Americus for the purpose
of selecting physicians to be used as |
surgeons in the United States army.
Maj. Oertel will have headquarters in
the offices of Dr. W. S. Prather and will
conduct the examinations during the
entire day. He is one of a party of
army surgeons making a circuit of
Georgia cities holdirg examinations of
this character.
About 400 army surgeons are needed
fiom Georgia to supply‘the demands of
the medical cofiis and all physicians
desiring to enter the service are af
forded this opportunity to stand the
required physical and mental examina
tions.
Physicians between the ages of 21
and 31 years are expected to take the
examination here on July 7th. since
under the universal military service
act they are subject to draft and the
government desires their services ir
the medical corps rather than in the
ranks of the fighting men.
Several physicians in Sumter county
are within the age limit and will take
the examinations on July 7th.
“LIBERTY LOAN”
MORE THAN HALF
OVERSUBSCRIBED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 23.
Liberty loan subscriptions were $3,-
035,226,850, an over-subscription of
nearly 52 per cent.
The final tabulation as officially an
nounced todoy shows that more than
4.000,000 persons bought bonds. Ninety
nine per cent, of subscriptions, or those
of 3,960,000 persons, were for sums
varying from SSO to SIO,OOO, while
twenty-onq subscribers applied for al
lotments of $5,000,000 each, or more.
The New' York federal reserve dis
trict led the last with subscriptions to
taling $1,186,788,40, or more than three
times the amount subscribed in the
next district, Chicago, $357,195,950. The
other districts sent subscriptions as.
fellows: ,
Boston, $332,447,600; Cleveland,
$286,148,700; Philadelphia. $232,900;
Richmond, $109,737,100; Kansas City,
$91,758,850; St. Louis, $86,134,700; Min
neapolis, $70,255,500; Atlanta, $57,-
878,550, and Dallas, $48,948,350. These
si inscriptions include those sent direct
to the treasury and apportioned among
the various reserve districts.
Allotments will be made. Secretary
McAdoo announced, as follows:
On subscriptions up to and including
SIOOO, full amount. These subscrip
tions totaled $1,296,684,850.
More than SIO,OOO up to and includ
ing SIOO,OOO, 60 per cent, of the amount
subscribed, but not less than SIO,OOO in
any instance. These subscriptions to
taled $560,103,050. Allotments to sub
scribers in this group will aggregate
$336,061,850.
More than SIOO,OOO up to and includ
ing $250,000, 45 per cent, of the amount
subscribed, but not less than $60,000 in.
any instance. Subscriptions in this
roup totaled $220,455,600 and allot
ments will aggregate $99,205,000.
More than $250,000 up to and includ
ing $2,000,000, 30 per cent, but not less
than $112,500 in any instance. The to
tal of subscriptions in this group wa-.
$€01,514,900. Allotments will aggregate
$184,381,800.
More than $2,000,000, up to and in
cluding $6,000,000 each, 25 per cent, but
not less than $600,00 in any one in
stance. Subscriptions in this group to
taled $46,674,150; allotments will ag
gregate $9,801,600.
Two subscriptions of $25,000,000 each
were received. The allotments to these
subscribers will be at the rate of 20.22
per cent., and they will receive bonds
of the value of $5,055,000 each. One
subscriber to $25,250,000 —the largest
wili be given 20.17 per cent., or $5,093,
670.
ALARM SYSTEM IS
ACCEPTED W CITY
The new automatic fire alarm system
that has just been installed in this city,
was yesterday formally accepted by
the tire committee of the City Council,
after the apparatus had been thorough
ly tested both by the representatives of
the manufacturers ahd those of the
municipality.
The system Is now ready for actual
use and in operation throughout the
city. On each of the 25 alarm boxes are
wditten in large letters the directions
for operating the box and turning in
an alarm. Each alarm is registered at
i the fire station by a ticker and a large
I gong, while a striking mechanism at •
[tached to the alarm bell on top of the
I city hall also sounds the number of the
box from which the alarm is sent.
( Alarms may also be turned in by tel
ephone as heretofore, the installation
of the new system affording additional
protection instead of eliminating the
Fuse of the telephone as a means ot
sending in alarms of fire.
| The police department is preparing
to exercise extra vigilance to apprehend
any persons who may tamper with the
alarm system or turn In false alarm?
’ “just to see it work.” This practice, if
inauguerated in Americus, will be giv
| en a sudden termination by the record
■ er’s court, where stiff fines will be
imposed on meddlesome individuals of
this character.
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