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<HIRTT-NIKTfi TEAK
FINISH EXAMINATION
OF MEN IN FIRST CALL
Officials Making Up Li& ofi
Accepted Men Prior to
Examining Exemptions
ONLY FEIN WAIVE
RIGHT OF CLAIM
Many Fail to Answer Summons
To Appear For Preliminary
Medical Tests
The Sumter Exemption Board has
completed the physical examination, of
the men summoned on the first call for
military service under the draft act,
the work having been finished last
night.
Forty-four men failed to appear for
examination in response to the sum
mons issued by the locoal board, and
under the rules laid down by the war
department, these men are to be post
ed immediately as liable for military
service.
The delinquents are: ,
Ed Crawford.
Albert Cooper.
Tom Doward, Jr.
Simpscn Cox.
Hill Honor.
Simon Gant.
Colie Williams.
James W. Forman.
Charlie Davis.
Arthur Beaufort Clark.
Fletcher Carter.
Sheppard Williams.
Clin Adams.
Will Todd .
Joseph Dowdell.
Will Thomas.
1095—John Engram
783 —Willie Blanch
1237 —Will Dittman
1676 —John H. Carter
810 —Henry Lee Brown
1705 —Adam Jones
Andersen Ellerson.
Charlie Tinsley.
Lonnie Smith.
Anthony Pryor.
Fred Luther Harris.
Leonard Schley.
Berry Hollis.
. Will Davis.
Genie Walls.
James Tharton.
Griffin Birch. ;
Ed Crawford.
Albert Cooper.
1360—Clarence Wright, DeSoto, Ga.',
1996 —Lonnie Williams, Americus, Ga..'
B F. D. 437.
840 —Will West, Americus, Ga. 443.
1188 —Andrew Carter, Americus, Ga. • I
1662 —Floyd Burrow, Americus, Ga.,’
1240—lasah Roberson, Americus, Ga. |
1214 —Cleveland Edwards, Americus, ,
Ga.. 210 Jackson St. 466.
1433 —Wash Carl, Cobb, Ga. 482.
1798 —Henry Hurley, Smithville, Ga. j,
1464 —Luther Jloberts, Americus, Ga. ’,
781 —Luther Floyd, Plains, Ga. 494. |,
958 —Sammie Dunnell. Americus, Ga.. ,
612 Spring street, 499.
Os the 500 men called for physical'
examination, excluding the 44 who',
failed to appear, 123 were rejected for
physical disability, leaving 333 who j
were accepted as eligible for service']
in the new national army. Os these ,
333 men, all but 61 have filed notice <
of intention to claim exemption, 11 ]
white men being in this class and 50 (
negroes. The white men who filed no']
claim for exemption are Henry Tucker,’,
Ansley, Sam Gatewood. R. F. Poole,':
Jr„ Charles T. Underwood, Jr„ Grover ,
C Teel, Rufus Johnson, L. E. Hollo:,
way, James Rufus Bramlett, James E.'.
Denham, Phil C. Wise and John W 1 (
Westbrook.
The exemption board is today at;,
work tabulating the list of men who :
have filed exemptions or notice of in-’,
tention to claim exemption, to be senU
t? the provost marshal general’s office
in Washington. D. C„ on Monday, when ,
the 10 days allowed for the filing of
affidavits expires. It is expected that
the board will begin on Tuesday to
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pass on exemption claims.
There were 41 men who were reject
el; by the physicians yesterday on the
] .lysical examination. They were:
Eugene Bailey Hill.
Lee Floyd.
William Arthur Head.
736—Joe Kennedy, Americus, Ga., 510
Poplar street. 375.
1628 —Joshua L. Hooks, Jr.. Leslie, Ga.,
368 —Joseph Calvin Bass, Americus,
1010—John McCullough, Americus, Ga.,
1781 —John Wright. Plains. Ga. 402.
221—Robert Lee Thompson, Ameri
cus, Ga. 407.
1474—John Young Leslie, Ga. 409.
292—James Ashley Dean, Americus,
Ga 132 Jackson street. 412.
1064 —Walter Gibson, Americus, Ga.
2139—Lonnie Burke, Americus, Ga.
470—George Washington Bagley, De
Soto, Ga. 421.
1284—Jim Mitchell, Leslie, Ga. 426.
191—George Bullock, Americus, Ga.
477 —Wesley C. Kenmore, Americus,
Ga., R. F. D. 430.
858—Leroy Robert Taylor, Americus
168—Wofford Marion Skinner, Ameri
cus, Ga.; 438.
1932 —Elder Dunlap, Americus, Ga., R.
F. D. 440.
2213—James King, Andersonville. Ga.
1995—Escher Terry. Plains, Ga 449.
300—Robert Judson Hill, Americus,
Ga., 133 Hill street. 452.
2111 —Alex Clark, Americus, Ga. 458.
eq ‘snapetny ‘joouods Jamia—gm
532—Emmett Cawood Reid, Ameri
cus, Ga., Route C. 461.
1517 —Nesbit Pope, DeSoto, Ga. 462.
1139—Emory Hulbert Hunter, Ameri
cus, Ga., 201 E. Jefferson. 465.
■19 —Benjamin Franklin Bass, Ameri
us. .13 Prince St., 471.
1707—Fred Hall, Smithville, Ga. 473
2039—Charlie Foster Lyles, Americus
1160—Cassie B. Carter, Sumter Co. Ga.
305—Moley Pantone, Americus, Ga
1651 —Lucius Smith, Jr.. Leslie, ga., R.
F D. 2. 481.
1640—Cleveland Phill, Americus, Ga
622—Dupont G. Forrest, Plains, Ga.
585 —Junius Cleo Lail, Plains, Ga.
I^l5 —Lonzo Brown, Leslie, Ga. 496.
1033—Everett Marshall, Americus, Ga
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FARMERS J 5 CLASS
IOTTII BE EXEMPT
ATLANTA, Ga., Augus 10. —Farmers
as a class, are not to be exempted from
service under the selective service act
but each individual application* for ex
emption from service made by a far
mer will be considered upon its own
merits.
This was the decision of the district
J exemption boards in joint conference
in the governor’s office here.
| This meeting of the three district ex
emption boards, to which appeals will
be made form the local boards in Geor
gia. was for the purpose of going thor
oughly over the work ahead of them
and determining just what course
should be pursued in all cases which
the board is able to foresee.
Alter a thorough discussion and ref
erence to the rules and regulations
submitted to the board front Provost
Marshal General Crowder, at Wash
ington, the board came to the decision
that because farmers produce food
stuffs is no reason why farmers as a
class shall be exempted from service.
Each farmer who is called to the col
ors under the selective service act will
be required to make out his exemption
claim upon its individual merits and
it will be so considered. The question
of whether or not the applicant for ex
emption is essential to the continu
ance of his farm and whether or not
the continuance of the particular farm
in question is essential to the mainte
nance of the government and is armed
forces, or just how important tfle work
of this farm may be.
It is likely that the boards will pur
sue the same policy toward applicants
for exemption who are engaged in other
pursuits which have a bearing upon the
maintenance of the government and
the armed forces of the government.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 10. 1917
EXPORT LICENSES 18
8E ISSUER IN SOUTH
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 10.—
Branch offices for the issuing of ex
port licenses aie to be established, it
is announced here today. Charleston,
S. C., and Savannah, Ga., are among
seven cities already selected for the es
tablishment of such branches,
curai bi
ENTENTE ALONG
WESTERN FfIONT
NEW YORK, August 10. —(Compiled
by the Associated Press from Euro
pean cables during the day.)—While
Entente guns hammering the German
lines in Flanders, apparently are equal
to the original bombardment, infantry
movements there have again become
more active. Two important gains are
reported today, British and French
forces advancing on a seven-mile front,
taking in Westhoke. It is reported
that British troops cleared the Teu
tons out of Westhoke and occupied a
ridge near the town, this giving the
British a better grip than ever on the
line east of Ypres.. The French made
further gains near Bixschoote, on the
Flanders front.
The British made extensive trench
raids during last night and today on
tlie Arras front, and the Canadians con
tinue to get a tighter grip around Lens,
the center of a rich mining district
long held by the Germans.
Warships Bombard Turk Batteries.
LONDON, August 10—Entente war
ships have been bombarding Turkish
land batteries on the Asia Minor coast
since yesterday. The warships’ fire
silenced one of these batteries com
pletely and destroyed an airdome, lo
cated near another of the defensive
works.
oFSIIGE
PHI BROUGHT IN
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 10.—
Authority to carry out the govern
ment’s program of insuring the nation’s
fighting men, is asked of congress in
biils introduced today in both houses.
The plan is to insure at a minimum
cost and provides for family allow
ances to dependents, and indemnifica
tion for disabilities sustained in the
military service. The re-education and
rehabilitatidiKOf injured men at gov
ernment expense would be made com
pulsory by the terms of the bills.
The bills would also require officers
and men to allot a minimum of not
less than $15.00 a month out of their
pay for the sustenance of dependent
wives and children, with a maximum
compulsory allotment to such de
pendents of half the pay .received
by every enlisted soldier. Liberal in
demnities for losses sustained are
planned to be paid under the terms of
the proposed new laws.
AMMO&S’ STATUS MUY
cmiimoN
The status of B. C. Ammons, a pris
oner in the Sumter county jail on
charge of bigamy, with regard to the
military draft act, is causing* consid
erable speculation at this time. Am
mcns was duly registered while in jail
and his name was drawn among the
first 500 men drafted for service in the
national army.
He stood his physical examination O.
K. and was then returned to jail,
where he will await the action of the
authorities. He filed no claim of ex
emption and is anxious to go to the
front without delay.
The local exemption beard is ex
pected to take the position that if a
RULES ISSUER TO
GOVERN GRAFTED
MEN FOR SERVICE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 10.—
Regulations under which men of the
new national army will be called to
[ the colors, begennin- September 1,
have been issued by Provost Marshal
General Crowder. They map out in de
tail the whole program to be followed
until every soldier of the selective
draft army has been accepted by he
| adjutant general of the training can
tonment to which he is assigned.
Two hundred thousand of the first
687,000 men will be called up Septem
ber 1, and forwarded to their camps
before September 5. The whole busi
ness of assembling the levies at en
( training points, providing them with
I shelter, food and transportation and
; giving them their actual induction into
’ military lives is entrusted to civil-
I ian local boards which selected them
for service. Until the men reach the
camps, they will not be in contact
with uniformed officers.
I
To Adjutant General.
The actual call for men will go in
’ each case from the provost marshal
general to the state adjutant general,
stating the number of men to be sup
plied at a specific time. Each local
board will be promptly informed of its
proportion in the call, and the adjutant
general will fix the date when the men
from his state shall entrain for the
( camps. Immediately the local board
will make out the list of men to fill
the call from the roll of accepted men,
and it wil also fix the place of en
trainment and the exact time of depar
ture.
/Orders to he men will be posted and
also be sent them by mail. They will
be directed to report to the local board
at its headquarters not less than 12
hours or more than 24 hours before
the time of departure for camp.
' From the time specified for report
ing to the local boara for military
duty,” the regulations state, "each man
in respect of whom notice to report has
been posted or mailed shall be in the
military service of the United States.”
Prior to the arrival of the men of
the board headquarters board members
are instructed to make arrangements
1 for their sleeping* places and meals.
The boards will issue tickets for ac
commodations to be redeemed for cash
later by a government dusbursing offi
cer. In its discretion, the boards may
giant permission for the men to re
main at their homes.
Food Must Be Good.
> Arrived at the board headquarters
i at the hour fixed for reporting the men
■ will be drawn up, the roll called, and
i agents of the board will take them per
• sonally to their quarters, remaining
■ with them until every arrangement for
> their comfort has been made. Emphatic
I instructions are given that the quality
■ of food furnished shall be good and
• the board is held liable for seeing that
meals are adequate.
s Retreat roll call at the board head
: quarters, set for 5.30 p. m. on the day
’ of reporting to the board, will be the
: first military ceremony the drafted
i men pass through.
The board members are directed to
be present in person and to impress
■ on the men the fact that disobedience
cf orders is the gravest military crime.
’ The light hand baggage, containing
toilet articles and a change of under
clothing, which the men are permitted
t > take with them to camp, will be
inspected by the board and the lists of
men sent forward made out and copies
O’ original registration cards prepared.
For each district five alternates will
be summoned to the board headquar
ters in addition to the men actually se-
■ keted to fill the beard quota. They
i Will be held at the assembling point
> until train time to fill in vacancies
should any men of the levy fail ot re-
• port.
I
■ demand is made by the federal author
s ifies fcr Ammons, reply will be made
by Sheriff Harvey that Ammons is a
. prisoner, and then whatever legal steps
, are taken to draft him into the rnili-
> t.iry service, will be fought out in the
• courts.
■ Ammons has not yet been tried on'
the charge of bigamy and the draft
- rules do not cover the case of men in
i jail tut not convicted of any crime.
CROWD TEARS DOWN
SUFFRAGE BANNER
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 10.—
A banner displayed at the whit ehouse
gate by a suffr?-ette picket, and ad
dressed to “Kaiser Wilson,” was torn
down after an indignant crowd had
hissed and jeered the emblem.
BBITISITuiBOB
POT PHESENTS
PEIGEJIEPOBT
LONDON, August 10. —At a labor
party conference called to decide
whether British labor is to be repre
sented at the Stockholm socialist con
ference, a special committee of the
British labor party's executive com
mittee today presented a memorandum
outlining labor’s ideas concerning
peace. The proposals presented in
the memorandum endorsed the princi
ple of reparation and restoration of
invaded territory and took a stand
against war for conquest. The memo
randum pointedly asks if the working
(lasses of the world could not unite
to end the war, but states emphatic
ally trat British laborers are resolved
to fight for a peace such as will insure
the elimination of war in the future.
After considerable discussion of the
executive committee’s memorandum,
the conference voted to send represent
atives to the international conference
at Stockholm.
Kt-.V. PHILLIPS WILL
PREACH HEBE SI XDAY
Rev. J. R. Phillips, pastor of the
Baptist church at Montezuma, will
preach at the First Baptist church on
Sunday morning, in the absence of
Rev. Alexis D. Kendrick. There will
be no services in that church on Sun
day evening.
THREATEN STRIKE
II GANTONMENTS
NEW YORK. August 10.—Labor lead-1
ers and representatives of the army :
and navy department resumed their j
conferences here today in an effort to
avert a strike of twenty-five hundred
carpenters working on the construc
tion of the army cantonment buildings
today? The labor representatives re
ported the trouble started over the al
lo Jed employment by the cantonment
contractor of about a hundred and
lift;, non-union carpenters. A general
strike of the carpenters is threatened
as a result of this action, the union
men declining to continue at work with
those not affiliated with thier organi
zation.
After the conference had continued
a short while, representatives of the
carpenters withdrew the threat to tie
up work on- the cantonment when the
contractor agreed to employ only un
ino labor in the construction of the
buildings.
BiC PACKERS INVOLVED
IN PRICLEXTORTION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 10.—I
Federal investigators in California re
ported to the department of justice to
day that Armour & Co., Morris & Co. j
and Libby, McNeil & Libby, three of.
the largest packing concerns doing'
business in the United States, are all,
involved in charges of price extortion'
in that section.
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GUARDSMEN WILL
GO INTO CAMP
SEPTEMBER IST
CHARLESTON, S. C., August 10.—
National guard organizations will be
held at their state encampments or in
the individual company quarters until
September 1 at the earlest, according
t- an order issued by General Wood
last night. He stated that thei federal
camps could not be ready before that
time, and that sufficient equipment had
not arrived with which to outfit all the
recruits properly for going into en
campments.
As soon as it arrives it is being is
sued. That the officers’ training camp
to open at Fort Oglethorpe on August
27 would not be the last, but that prob
ably the system would become an in
stitution in the American army, was
mentioned today by General Wood as
I radically a certainty.
The demand for officers which will
become greater instead of smaller, the
necessity for special training which an
enlisted man might not receive and the
exceptionally fine material constantly
arriving at military age or above the
. draft age, were strong factors, the gen
eral said, making it to the interest of
the government to keep the camps
running.
A great convalescent and base hos
pital will be built by the government at
Wilmington, N. C., according to the
present plans of the department. It is
t care for the wounded and sick from
the camps and cantonments near the
coast and for wounded when are
returned from France. General Wood
has just inspected a 7,000-acre tract
near Wilmington which he stated was
the most ideally situated in his depart
ment.
MAY PROCLAIM SPECML
HDLIDAy SEPTEMBER ORO
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 10.—
That a national holiday may be pro
claimed September 3, in celebration of
the entrainment of the first draft lev
ies, is regarded as probable at the of
fice of Provost Marshal General Crow
der today.
AMERICAN SAILOR 1 ]
LETT TO PERIEH
LIVERPOOL, August 10.—William
Snell, a negro of Jacksonville, Fla.,
the only American survivor of the Brit
ish steamship Belgian Prince, which
I was sunk July 31, by a German subma-
I line with the ioss of 38 lives, today
I gave details of his experience to the
Associated Press. He said:
"A torpedo hit the engine room. A
submarine then quickly came to the
surface about 200 yards to starboard
and fired at our wireless apparatus.
“We left the Belgian Prince in three
boats and had got fifty yards from the'
ship when the submarine came along-!
side and asked for our captain, who'
was taken aboard and inside the
u-boat.
“We were then ordered to the deck
of the submarine, where we were told
l.y ihe < muuf.icLer to it-jw e our life
4 be” . :.d to :i _■ on the This we
a L ;n< n tne • < mmaiKit r went into
ii: : . ' . tint . th oars into the sea,
'and had his men remove the : rovisions. 1
! After i!:ut the pings w re taken out of
ho.es in (he boat . . l.itii were then
least a dril l.
'The submarine went to the north
ea t for t.weh -miles, the < immander
’taking the life belts to the top of the'
I cunning tower and throwing them ov
erboard. I hid mine under a raincoat.
| and as the submarine began to sub-
I merge I tied mine around my neck
l and jumped into the sea.
i “The rest of the chew stayed on
i deck until they were swept off by the
j sea as the boat dived. It was a terrible
I sight. One. by one they threw up their
hands and went down, or, fighting to
t keep up, they splashed water as they
disappeared.”
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WILSON AFFIXES
HIS SIGNATURE
ID CONTROL BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 10.—
Tlie food control bill, which became a
law with the affixing of President Wil
son's si mature today, establishes dur
ing the war, broad government control
over foods, feeds, fuel, fuel oils, nat<
ural gas, fertilizer and its ingredients,
toools, utensile and equipment re
quired for the actual production of all
such products designated "necessa
ries.”
In establishing government control,
the bill authorizes the president to en
ter into any voluntary arrangements, ■
create or use any agency or agencies,
to accept services of any person with
out compensation, to co-operate with
any agency or person, to utilize any de
partment or agency of the government
and to co-ordinate their activities.
In pursuance of such authorization,
President Wilson plans to appoint Her
bert C. Hoover food administrator. Con
trol of other necessaries named may
be accomplished through other agen
cies. The house provision for an indi
vidual food administrator was en
acted only after the president had pre
vailed upon the senate and house con
ferees to eliminate a senate amend
ment, inserted by two overwhelming
votes of 63 to 19 and 60 to 23, propos
ing a board of food of three subject to
senate confirmation.
Comprehensive powers are given in
the bill, passed as a war measure, to
assure adequate supply and equitable
distribution of the named necessaries,
t. facilitate their movement; to pre- ?
vent, locally and generally, scarcity,
monopoly, hoarding, injurious specula- ; S
tion, manipulation cr private control
affecting supply, distribution and
movement.
Other provisions of the bill fix a
minimum price for wheat beginning
next year at not less than $2 per stan
dard bushel; provide for coal and coke
price fixing, commandeering and gov
ernment operation of factories and
mines producing necessaries; for gov
ernment purchase, sale and requisition
cf various producing necessaries, and
for federal licensing of agencies pro
ducing and handling them.
The bill appropriates a fund of
$150,000,000 to be used in its admin
istration and $10,000,000 for federal
purchase and sale at cost of fertilizer.
The prohibition provisions, a com
: promise for “bone dry” prohibition
: proposed by the house, prohibit man
i ufacture and importation of distilled
1 liquors for beverages during the war,
authorize the president to suspend th£
manufacture of malt, fermented and
vinous liquors or to limit their alco
hclic content and "authorizes and di
rects” the president, in his discretion,
to commandeer distilled beverages in
bond or stock when necessary for re
distillation into alcohol for military
or other public defense purposes, or to
conserve foodstuffs.
Congressional leaders understand the
: president does not intend to comman
deer distilled spirits or to curtail their
consumption, unless military exigen
cies require. Tlie so-called Smoot
amendment, directing the federal pur
chase of distilled beverages in bond
■at cost, plus 10 per cent, profit, was
eliminated.
I In lieu of house provisions authoriz- ||
ing the food administration to fix min
imum prices for all necessaries, the
law provides that the food adimnistra
tion shall fix a minimum price for
.wheat alone Until May 1, 1909, the
bill provides that the basic price shall
not be less than $2.00 per bushel, bas
ed upon No. 1 spring northern at all
primary markets.
Sweeping powers to control prices
also are provided. The bill authorizes ’’
the president, through the Federal .
Trade commission or other agency, to
fix coal and coke prices, at the mines
and among wholesalers and retailers,
to regulate method of sale, shipment -
ind distribution among dealers and
consumers, and to requisition and op
erate mines oro ther coaling facilities
j A system of federal licensing off all
agencies related to the production,
Iransportatlon and distribution of the
lesignated necessaries also is pro
> ided, and rigid provisions against .
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