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BASIC GAUSES OF
FOOD Bl FIGHT
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18
Sentiment in the senate toward com
promising differences on /ood control
has apparently crystallized on a group
of amendments drawn up at joint con
ferences of democratic leaders.
While on the senate floor another
day was spent in criticism of the de
fense council and other executive bod
ies, a reprint of the bill was made em
bodying the leaders’ proposals which
are expected to remove tnany basic ob
jections and develop general support.
Principal revisions recommended by
the leaders are for limitation of gov
ernment control of foods, feeds and
fuel including kerosene and gasoline;
creation of a special board of food ad
ministration of three salaried commis
sioners, instead of administration by an
individual; fixing by congress of a
basic minimum price of $1.75 per
bushel for No. 1 Northern wheat; ex
tension of government licensing of ele
vators, farm machinery, factories,
packing houses, coal mines and dealers,
fertilizer producers and wholesalers of
such products; and government pur
chase and sales to secure reasonable
prices of fuel, wheat, flour, meal, beans
and potatoes only.
Voting on these proposals and other
amendments is expected to begin to
day. Among the first to come up prob
ably be that to restrict sale to the gov
ernment of products in which the vol
unteer advisers of the defense council
are personally interested.
Scores Contract Policy.
Senator McKellar made a Ion?
denouncing the contract policy
ot she council’s advisory body. The
seven per cent, commissions for super
visiting consetruction of army canton
ment camps, he declared, will “milk
the government” of about $250,000 for
each of the sixteen camps. He charged
that “inside rings” dominate contracts
for the army let out competitive bids.
World-old standards of honesty and
hies, declared Senator Johnson, of
California require that government rep
resentativesq shall not serve in a dual
capacity—for themselevs and the gov
ernment. Senator Townsend, of Mich
igan, warned that “a host of vultures
to Washington” to secure
war contracts, and that the opportunity
for grafters might develop a public
scandal.
. Shoe contracts were the basis of
criticism by Senator Kenyon, of lowa,
republican.
During the debate Herbert Hoover,
the food administrator, also was crit
icised by Senator Gore and warmly de
fended by Senators Chamberlain and
Myers. Senator Weeks attacked the
shipping board and the fleet corpora
tion for not hastening action on the
shipping program. The opinion was
general early today that the bi-partisan
compromise amendments would go far
toward solving the senate’s difficulties
over the legislation. A considerable
faction plans, however, to fight for gov
ernment Icontrol (of iron and steel
products and others, favor a food board
c' five, instead of three.
The amendment creating the board
as drafted by the leaders provides that
“The president is * * * authorized
ai d directed to appoint by and with
the advice and consent of the senate,
three commissioners, at an annual sal
ary of $7,500 who shall /constitute
a board of food administration and
who shall constitute a board of food
administration and who shall perform,
such duties in carrying out the pur
poses |>f this act as the president shall'
(•greet. One of said commissioners
be a farmer actually engaged
at the time, of his appointment in the
cultivation of the son. The president
shall designate the members of said
board.”
AMERICUS MAN SAYS CROPS
FINE IN SOUTH CAROLINA
John T. Taylor, of this city, who is
spending a short vacation in Green
ville, S. C., has written friends in
Americus to the effect that conditions
in that section are excellent, with fine
prospects for a good crop this fall.
Mr. Taylor and family will leave for
heme today, after a trip through Ashe
ville, N. C., Hendersonville, N. C., and
Lake Junaluska.
THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS—COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL AND TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE—THE HOME PAFER PAR EXCELLENCE
CftSES DISMISSED AS
CITY GODOT RECONVENES
Judge W. M. Harper this morning
reconvened the City Court after a re
cess since Monday afternoon. The
ccnsideration of the civil calendar was
resumed.
Several cases were ordered dismiss
ed, as follows:
Americus Automobile Company vs.
Home Laundry & Dry Cleaning Com
pany.
City Brokerage & Bottling Co. vs.
Americus Public Service Company.
E. S. Bacharach vs.. E. A. Lockett.
Houck Brewing Company vs. Petro
pol & Farkas.
TEACHER SELECTED
FOR PRACTICE SCHOOL
Miss Jennie Harrison has been el
ected to have charge of the new prac
tice school being erected on the
grounds of the Third District A. &
M. school, and today accepted. It is
the purpose of the authorities in
charge to make of this a model school,
and the senior girls in the A. & M.
School will be given normal training
here, under the supervision of Miss
Harrison.
The selection of Miss Harrison to
fill this position is most fortunate. A
! graduate of the Americus High school
and of the State Normal, she has made
an enviable record for herself in the
several schools which she has har
charge of since her graduation.
The new model school building, now
almost completed, is modern in every
respect, and has been constructed so
as to offer every facility for this
phase of educational work.
W SENTENCES
FOR FOOHIOHHS
COPENHAGEN. July 18.—Dusseldorf
advices received here today say a
state of siege there caused by food
riots has been raised after 185 per
sons received prison sentences averag
ing 18 months for participation in the
disturbances. A big mass meeting just
I held has entered a protest' against the
| severity of sentences imposed by the
authorities.
M 3. AND MRS. VIQUESNEY
HAVE LEFT AMERICUS
Br. and Mrs. E. M. Viquesney left
I this morning for Peoria, 111., where Mr.
I accepted a position with
• a large marble concern. Many in
I Americus will regret their departure.
|as they have made themselves very
Ippoular during their residence here.
I •
'FARM LOANS APPROVER
RITE OF WO,ROD DAILY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 18.—
Five per cent, loans to farmers under
' the federal farm loan plan are being
1 approved at thof rate of SBOO,OOO daily-
I Up to July 15th, the board has char-
I tered 432 associations, whose loans will
aggregate more than $20,000,000.
STORY OF DOG’S DEATH
SENT OUT FROM ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga., July 18.—This is
the true story of how an Atlanta dog
was killed by the head of a big sea
turtle, he head had been cut off and
was thrown on a trash heap, while
the balance of the turtle was being
made into soup by a hotel chef. The
dog ran up to the trash pile and gdab
bed the head, which immediately open
ed its jaws and closed on the poor
pup’s throat, and it ran howling into
I the street, where an automobile fin-
I ishel it.
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AUSTRIAN LINES
STIFFENED WITH
GERMAN TROOPS
NEW YORK, July 18. — (Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—The Russians
are being held up temporarily in east
ern Galicia, because of German rein
forcements hurled into the fray stiffen
ing the Austrian defense, the positions
along the Lomnica river being consid
ered vital to the Teutons, not only
along this front, but northward to the
Galician*border. The Petrograd state
ment today says that in heavy fighting
around Novica and Kalusz the Rus
sians were driven from the south bank
of the Lomnica, but later regain Is.
Notable activity is noted on the
Franco Belgian front, where the
French regained lost ground in the
Verdun sector and today pushed be
yond the lines from which they were
dislodged last month.
Only aerial activity and heavy artil
lery work is reported from the British
front today.
SEA PLANES FOR SCOUT
DUTY AROUND FORT SCREVEN
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 18.—A num
ber of seaplanes will be assigned to
Fort Screven for scout duty, accord
ing to army officers, who state that
regular aviators will be sent to the
fort with machines for the purpose of
training men stationed there to handle
the machines. The Savannah Volun
teer Guards are destined to handle the
guns at Fort Screven, and it is proba
ble that picked men from the four com
panies will be assigned to this new
duty.
ELLEN N. LOOK WITH
LONGING TOWARD SAVANNAH
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 18.—That the
Louisville & Nashville railroad will
eventually purchase the Savannah and
Atlanta, and through it the Georgia
railroad, which the latter already
owns, is accepted as a fact in railroad
circles. Conjointly, Port Wentworth
is mentioned as the probable location
of such port facilities as the Louis
iile & Nashville would contemplate
building upon securing a footing here.
The Louisville & Nashville now oper
ates into Atlanta. The entry of the
Louisville & Nashville would probably
mean further and more extensie im
provements in the harbor facilities.
Whether negotiations have actually
been opened looking to the consumma
tion of the deal would not be ascer
tained.
DEMAND WINE 8E
SFILLED BY LAW
ATLANTA, Ga., July 18.—When
Georgia goes bone-dry, Georgia must!
be bone-dry.
At least that is the indication of the :
present status of a bill pending in the
legislature providing for the sale out
side this state of 20,000 gallons of
scuppernong wine, left the University
of Georgia by the late Judson L. Hand.
This wine—some 700 unspeakably I
juicy, luscious barrels of it —is valued
at approximately $40,000; that is, in
localities where there is an open mar
ket for liquor, while in Georgia, per
haps, it would be worth any sort of a
fabulous sum that might be mentioned.!
what with the price of ordinary “red'
licker” said to be in the neighbor
hood of $5 per quart. Anyway, it is
figured that the sale of the wine would
bring the university about $40,000.
But the house temperance committee
says there is nothing doing. Tuesday
it reported the bill back to the house
with unanimous recommendation that
it do not pass.
In the meanwhile Senator Wohlwen
der has introduced in the senate a res
olution calling upon the state officials
to instruct the sheriff and solicitors of
Mitchell county, where the wine is be
ing held, to destroy the wine. This
resolution was referred to the senate'
temperance committee.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. JULY 18,1917
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
SOOPI ROAD REGISTER
/a new system of accounting for the
maintenance of the roads of Sumter
county has been adopted by the county
commissioners. A road register has
been installed and every citizen liable
for road tax is listed with regard to
the district in which he resides. I
Failure to pay road tax or failure
to do an amount) of work on the road*
to offset the payment of such tax, will
be systematically followed up and ev
ery piece oj work done on the various
roads will be carefully recorded in thq
register.
The new system is in operation in
several counties of Georgia, ana very
satisfactory results have been accom
plished through its use.
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AMERICANS WITH
DISEASE—GERMS
KANSAS CITY, {July 18.—A plot
having as its object the wholesale in
fection of Kansas City residents with
disease germs through the medium of
court plaster, it is said by the United
States district attorney here to have
been unearthed with the arrest of
three men whose names are withheld
fearing lynching, but it is said they
are all of German origin. Other facts
indicate an intricate plot, he said.
CHANCELLOR NOT
TO OUTLINE HIS
POLICY THURSDAY
COPENHAGEN, July 18.—The new
German chancellor is not expected to
outline his policy in detail in his
Thursday speech to the reichstag, be
cause the time for preparation is too
short.
He is expected, instead, to ask six
weeks’ grace, and many newspapers
believe his utterances will have a de
cided pro-German accent. Clerical and
radical organs generally fear the new ’
chancellor will not accept the peace
declaration policy should a resolution
demanding this pass the reichstag.
Munich Newspaper’s Prediction.
BASEL, Switzerland. July 18. —
“Noueste Nachrichten,” a newspaper
published at Munich, says the declara- I
tion of the new German chancellor be-'
fore the reichstag tomorrow will be
for peace, having the same general
trend os the resolution prepared by
parties of the Left.
SUFFRAGETTES GIVEN
60 DAY SENTENCES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 18.—
Home, husbands and children have de
veloped into strong factors in the cases
of those suffragists sentenced today to !
serve sixty days imprisonment At j
It ast one husband has determined his
r ife must accept a fine and return to
their children at home.
EDWARD LEWIS RUN DOWN
AN KILED BY MISS SARAH HULL
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 18—Edward
Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Lewis,
was run down and killed late yesterday
by an automobile driven by Miss Sa
rah Hull, daughter of A. B. Hull, one
of Savannah’s richest citizens. The
boy’s skull was crushed and his neck
broken. The lad was turning a cornerj
when his bicycle collided with the.
auto. Miss Hull fainted and had to be
ONLY PLACE AND
iDATE OFDRAWINC
NOW UNSETTLED
WASHINGTON. D. C„ July 18.—
Although seven states still have not
reported, the draft organization and
plans for drawing have been complet
ed with the exception of the place and
cate. These plans are to be immed
iately explained in correspondence giv
en out! for publication. Wire facilities
are to be provided for quickly getting
out the news factor of the selective
drawing. The plans were approved by
Secretary Baker today.
Sentiment apparently is growing in
congress for amending the conscrip
tion law to make aliens liable for ser
vice or otherwise to relieve the re
quirements placed under the present
allotment of communities with large
foreign populations.
Bills have been prepared in both
senate anil house, but the administra
tion has not indicated it will favor any
change. Many officials hold to the
opinion, on the other hand, that to
compel aliens to serve would be a vio
laticn of international law.
Reports still are to come from Illi
r.cis, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi,
New York, Missouri and Pennsylvania.
There are indications that a more
complex arrangement than has yet
been outlined publicly will be employ
ed in the interest of perfect fairness.
As far as can be told now, every
registrant will have to be informed not
only of the serial number placed on
his card by the local exemption board,
but also of the exact number of regis
trants in his district. Otherwise he
will be unable to know until he is
ordered before the board what his or
der of liability is
GEORGIA VERSION OF
ROMANCE OF ENOCH ARDEN
ATLANTA, Ga., July 18.—A new
version of “Enoch Arden” has come
to light in the experience of S. N.
Murphy, a Georgian who went away
from his home in Carrollton, Ga., forty
years ago, and was never heard of
again. His wife, thinking him dead,
married again, and in the course of
years her second husband died. Re
cently Murphy returned to Lindale,
Ga., near Rome, and stopped at the
. home of W. B. Murphy, and applied
■ tor work. The fact that his name and
i the name of the man at whose home !
■ he stopped were the same, led to mu- j
I tual inquiries, with the result that S. i
N. Murphy found his wife and his'
sor, now a man about forty years old.
101 RED CROES
PLEASEDJT GIFT?
Two handsome donations have re
cently been made to the work room
fund of the Americus Chapter, Amer
can Red Cross, which were very much
needed and appreciated. A check was
received yesterday from the Ameri
cus Lodge of Elks for $25.00, and
through their manager, George Adams,
the Atlantic Ice & Coal Corporation
sent check yesterday for $25.00.
These liberal gifts were very time
ly, as the funds for the purchase of
gauze, muslin and other materials for
I the work room were running low. Only
| a small percentage of the fees receiv
ied for membership in the American
Red Cress is retained by the local
chapter, the largest portion being sent
straight to headquarters.
Now that the classes have nearly all
finished the course in surgical dress-1
ings, and there are about one hundred
| women in Americus prepared to do this
work, a great deal of) material will be
required to make up boxes of dressings
to be sent on, and with American sold
iers already in France, the call has
come for boxes.
carried from the scene, while Miss Lo
vell Schrim, who was in the car with
Miss Hull, was an eye-witness to the
aqeldent. , Miss Hull, it is said, is
greatly upset because of the tragedy.
fITV
Sedition a
ALLOWED TO SEND BUT
TWO RECRUITS WEEKLY
I Only two recruits for the United
States Navy may be sent in each week
from the recruiting station in this
city, according to orders received this
morning by A. M. Ferillo, in charge of
the station. This does not apply* how
ever. to enlistments for landmen,
quartermaster’s mate, machinist's
mate or aviator-machinists.
The need for musicians in the navy
is also emphasized in the new orders
and several enlistments for this branch
of the service are desired from Amer
icus. The pay of musicians ranges
from $32.60 to $63.20 per month.
GRASS MUST BE GUT
UN ALUACANT LDTS
The municipal authorities are pre
paring to make inspections throughout
the city to secure the enforcement of
the ordinance which provides that
grass on vacant lots, as well as on
premises surrounding residences and
business houses, be cut hegularly and
not allowed to grow into unsightly
masses of weeds.
Several complaints have been re
ceived to the effect that this ordinance
is being violated in various sections of
the city, and an inspector will start on
his rounds within a few days toves
tigate conditions.
All grass should be cut without de
lay, as failure to comply with the ordi
nance will mearj an appearance in re
corder’s court.
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RUSSIIN__MPITIIL
PETROGRAD, July 18. Another j
demonstrations led by sailors, sold
iers. workingmen and women occurred
in the Nevsky Prospect yesterday af
ternoon, a few stray shots being fol
lowed by firing from upper windows
and roofs at apparently imaginary
foes.
Cossacks patrolled the streets fol
lowing the disturbances, for the first
time since the revolution. These
troops carried machine guns strapped
to theii saddles while men led their
horses.
BEN. F. EASTERLIN BUYS
SMITH PROPERTY ON LEE ST.
Ben F. Easterlin recently purchased
of Mis.-es Rosalae and Gertrude Smith
their r< sidence on South Lee street.
The ccnsideration has not been made
public, but it is understood that the
property brought a good price.
Mr. Easteriin will improve the place,
but has not fully decided as yet
whether he will occupy it as a rest-1
: dence or not.
BRITISH ELATED OVERI
STROKE AGAINST TEUTONS
LONDON, July 18— If Monday’s coupe
against German shipping halts the in-!
creasing trade between the Rhine and
Hamburg, there would be great satis-'
taction among the Entente Allies.
I utch papers declare part of the
encounter occurred in Dutch territo
rial waters. Four German merchant
men were captured by British warships
cn Monday and two others driven
ashore.
CHIEF OF POLICE WANTS A
RESTRICTED DISTRICT
FOR MEXICO CITY
MEXICO CITY, July 18.—Colonel
Donzalo de lo Mato, Caief of Police,
has submitted to the Governor of the
federal distret and the president of the
municipality a project for the estab-
TWO IMPORTANT
BILLS APPROVED
BY COMMITTEE
ATLANTA, Ga., July 18. —Two im
portant measures were approved yes
terday by the house committee on con
stitutional amendments.
One of these was a bill by Represent
atives Burwell, of Hancock, and
Chupp, of DeKalh, exempting college
endowments frem taxation, except
where they were invested in lands.
Representative Hall, of Bibb, op
posed the measure on the ground that
it attacked the most, vital part of the
constitution and opened the floodgates
to other tax exemptions. He did not
believe in denominational schools, he
said, and people who felt as he did
ought not to be discriminated against
by] the state in favor of those who
did believe in them. It was the ac
cumulation of vast amounts of prop
erty in tax exempt church institutions
that led to the reformation in England,
he asserted.
In reply, Representative Atkinson, of
Fulton, said that no one could be more
of an individualist in government than
he. He was opposed on general prin
ciples to taxing one man or class of
men for others’ benefit. But constitu
tions had to be made to suit occasions.
When the constitution of 1877 was
adopted there were no college endow
ments to speak of in Georgia, he said.
Exemption could naturally not have
been an issue then, but now that great
denominational institutions of learning
were being built up, it was right, in
his opinion, that the people should
have an opportunity to vote whether
they would encourage their growth by
exempting their endowments from tax
ation.
The other measure, which was
recommended by a vote of Bto 6, was
a bill by Mr. Walker, of Ben Hill, to
increase the number of senatorial dis
tricts in Georgia from 44 to 51. The
I bill provides that each senatorial dis
trict shall contain three counties,
with the exception of Fulton and De-
Kalb, which together should constitute
one district.
The senate constitutional amend
ment committee yesterday afternoon
passed favorably on the bill to create
Cook county. It is proposed to create
this county from territory now includ
ed in Berrien county. Adel is propos
ed as the county seat of the new coun
ty. The vote was 8 to 0.
LAND TITLE REGISTRATION
BILL IS SUBJECT OF DEBATE
ATLANTA, Ga., July 18.—The bill to
establish a new land title registration
system in Georgia has reached its
I third reading in the house, and is
I now under debate, and probably will
hold the boards for several days.
The system created by the bill is a
modified form of the Torrens land title
; system. The bill was drawn by a cotn-
I mission appointed by the legislature
land consisting of distinguished law
yers and business men. It is a lengthy
document deesribing in detail the man
ner in which land titles shall be es
tahlislitd and validated.
Georg'a’s land title system at pres
ent is one of the most antiquated in
the United States. No person can be
certain that his title is good until he
pays a lawyer to abstract it for him,
and there are many cases on record
where the ablest lawyers in the state
have approved faulty titles, owing to
the fact that no amount of careful
examination can absolutely find the
defects.
Georgia farmers are especially in
terested in the passage of the bill un
der debate in the house, because they
will have difficulty in availang them
' selyes of the benefit of the [federal
I farm loan system until they get some
I system whereby the can validate their
I titles in a simple, efficient and abso
lutely certain manner.
lishment in Mexico of a restricted dis
trict. In addition to the regulation
the social evil, Colonel de la Mato pro
poses also to include gambling houses
in the district.
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