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■ HIBTY-NINTH YEAR.
FIVE MEN MILL
BE RE-EXAMINED
BX LDGJL_ BOARD
Five men who were rejected by the
Sumter Exemption Board on the phys
ical examinations held last week un
der the provisions of the draft act,
have been summoned to appear once
more before the examining physicians
and be re-tested for physical disability.
Additional instructions were receiv
ed yesterday by the local board from
the office of Provost Marshal General
Crowder at Washington, D. C-, altering
the previously prescribed rules gov
erning the physical examination of men
summoned on the first call under the
universal military service law.
The new rules alter somewhat the
restrictions as to weight and the five
mtn who must appear for re-examina
tion were originally rejected because
they failed to come up to the tsandard
weight as prescribed by the regula
tions. A wider margin has been al
lowed for weight as compared with the
height of the man examined, while a
slight difference is also made in the
rules relating to the condition of the
teeth.
The five men summoned to appear on
Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock at the
Court House are: Levie M. Johnson,
Homer Jackson Prance, Willie Jackson,
Joseph Curry Pouncey and Willie Jones
Bass.
These men were rejected either be
cause they were slightly under the re
quired weight or because the condition
of thei rteeth did not come up to the
prescribed rules laid down for the
examining physicians. Under the new
instructions as viewed by the local
board, their previous rejection may be
nullified and they may be declared elig
ible for service unless exemption is
granted.
The local board was busy yesterday
preparing tabulated lists of the men
examined on Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday and within a few days these
lists will be forwarded to the office of
the provost marshal genera).
Although lo days are allowed after
the physical examination for the filing
of affidavits in support of exemption
claims, the board will begin early this i
week to pass on such claims as are pre
sented. The order in which the men
are drawn will be observed, however,
in she consideration of the exemptions.
MAJOR J.W.FURLOW
GETS PROMOTION
The following clipped from a recent
issue of the El Paso Morning Times of
August 7th. will be read with interest
by many in Americus:
“Major James W. Furlow of the
quartermastir corps, U. S. Army, has
been ordered from the Southern de
partment to the quartermaster gener
al’s office in Washington. Major Fur
low has had charge of the automobile
machine shops at Fort Bliss for a year,
and has made them the largest and
most complete from a scientific stand
point in the United States army. The
shops represent an investment of sl,-
000,000 and has taken care of the re
pairing of 1,000 motors and rebuilt as
many as thirty trucks in a week.
“Major Furlow was the first officer to
run a truck train into Mexico during i
the Pershing expedition. At one tinny
his train covered a distance of morA:
than 300 miles through the most diffi-'
cult deserts. He recently was elected
„ member of the society of automobile
<1
engineers of New York City. He has
many friends in El Paso who wish him
success in his new duties.’’
The Times also carried a photograph
of Major Furlow in his uniform. Enlist-1
in ■as a private in the United States 1
;:;nty. Major Furlow has by hard work
and exceptional ability risen to his
present rank, and hosts of people in
Americus, his boyhood home, are
watching with interest his military i
career. His mother. Mrs. L. E. Furlow
has recently returned home from a visi’
of several weeks to her son in El
Paso.
THE NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS—COMPREHENSIVE LOCAL AND TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE—THE HOME PAPER PAR EXCELLENCE
THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
HOUSE. PUSSES BILL
FOR UM. SCHOOL
A telegram was received yesterday
afternoon by the Times.-Recorder from
Representative Stephen Pace, stating
that his bill appropriating $5,000 for
the Third District A. & M. School was
passed by the House and had been
turned over to the Senate for action.
This measure provides $5,000 for the
installation of a heating system in the
buildings of the school and had been
1 advocated by the friends of the insti
tution as one of the most important
features of the program laid down for
the improvement of the school.
In order that the bill may be passed
during the present session, it is nec
essary that the Senate take immediate
action, as the session closes on Wed
nesday, August 15th, and the bill must
be read three times before its final
passage. Senator M. B. Council has
been urged by wire to get behind the
bill and see that it is read for the first
time on Monday, which will allow two
more readings before the session closes
on Wednesday.
No opposition is expected to develop
i i the Senate and it is probable that
the' $5,000 appropriation will be avail
able within a short time.
GOVERNOR SIGNS
TWO SfttftßY BILLS
Governor Hugh Dorsey yesterday
signed two bills affecting the officers
of Sumter county, the first being a
measure to place the county treasurer
on a salary of $1,200 per year. This
bill was put through both the House
and Senate through the efforts of Sen
ator M. B. Council and Representatives
Stephen Pace and Ed Timmerman. It
goes into effect immediately.
The second bill signed by Gov.
Dorsey provides that the solicitor of
the City Court be placed on a salary
cf SI,BOO per year and was also intro
duced and supported by the entire Sum
ter county delegation in the legislature
PEACE RESOLUTION
BROUGHTJNTO SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ August 11.
A peace resolution was introduced in
I'he senate today by Senator LaFollette.
I It provides that this government de
j fine definitely the objects for which it
shall continue to wage war, and that
the allies also make public a re
statement of the ptace terms which
they will demand.
The resolution seeks to put congress
on record as opposing support by the
United States for annexations, or in
demnities for other nations, and pro
poses the amassing of a common fund
b' all the belligerents for restoration
of battle devastated territory.
Senator LaFollette made no speech!
on his resolution, and there was no
debate. On motion of Senator Wil
liams, it went over a day under the
rules.
RECEIVES COMMISSION
IN MEDICAL CORPS U.S.A.
f Dr. Herschel A. Smith of this city
1 yesterday received his commission as
: first lieutenant in the medical corps of
the United States Army and is awaiting
orders as to when and where to report
for dutyyZ
Dr. smith was examined a few weeks
by medical officers who made a
I tour of the state examining physicians
' within the age limit fixed by the con
scription act and also others who de
’ sired to become connected with the
( medical arm of the military service.
, He was accepted by the examining of
. fleers, who sent his name in to the War
■ Department authorities and the com
mission which arrived yesterday is the
' result.
Since locating in Americus several
j months ago, Dr. Smith has been associ-1
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 12, 1917
RUSSIANS SIOP
GERMAN DRIUE
Bl GREW BLOW
PETROGRAD, August IL—Austro
: German attacks yesterday in the region
■of the villages of Vydra. Voloshkany,
and Cifestchi on tht northern Ruman
! ian front were repulsed by the Rus
sians, says the official statement issued
. today by the Russian war department,
and the Teutons were driven across the
.Putna river.
In the course of a battle south of
the river Pruth, on the frontier of
Rumania and Bukowina, the Russians
entered the town of Lukovica and took
prisoners 200 officers and men. The
Russians also captured 200 Austro-Ger
■ mans and took three Machine guns by
wresting a height in that region from
the enemy.
The Russian war office report an
nounced that the Austro-Germans at
tacked in dense waves near the village
of Zarkov, southwest of Brody, in
northern Galicia. The statement adds
that the Teuton offensive which began
on Thursday in the Zarkov region com
pletely failed with heavy losses.
British Hold Ground.
NEW YORK, August 11. — (Compiled
by the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—The British
during last night clinched their hold
on the ground gained in Friday’s at
tack in East Flanders, east of Ypres.
The Germans made six heavy counter
attacks during the night, but the Brit
ish not only succeeded in beating them
oft. but gained some ground on the
ridge near Ypres. These ?ains are
probably important to the success of
the British plans as they failed to pro
gress there before as much as had
been expected by Gen. Haig and his
.lieutenants.
On the remainder of a two-mile front
running north of the Ypres-Roules line,
the raiders gained their objectives, al
though the German resistance was par
ticularly stubborn on the British
right.
At St. Quentin the French regained
the ground lost in the German thrust
Thursday night, and north of the Aisne
river they also re-took positions re
cently lost.
German forces took the initiative in
the Champagne region over a two-mile
front today, but when the fighting had
ended, the Teutons held only fifty
yards of new territory
STEMSINKS
GEHMAN 11-BOIT
A CANADIAN PORT, August IL—
Officers on a steamship which reached
here today tell of an encounter with
a German submarine on the trip across
the Atlantic in which the undersea
boat was sunk near the Irish coast.
Tlie lookout man notified the captain
that a small sailing vessel was acting
suspiciously. It was watched and soon
a submarine emerged from behind it.
The gunner on the steamship fired and
hit the undersea boat with his first
shell. A second shot struck the con
ning tower and the submarine crew
clambered on deck and waved white
handkerchiefs. The steamship wasted
no time in the vicinity, but left the
saving of the Germans to a patrol boat
that came up.
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♦ COAL PRICES MAY HE ♦
♦ REDUCED BEFORE WINTER. ♦
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♦ WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 11. ♦
♦ Coal dealers who increase their ♦
♦ price for anthracite more than 10 ♦
♦ cents a ton before September will 4
♦ beconsidered by the federal trade 4
♦ commission as openly declaring ♦
♦ a ‘policy of profiteering.’’ ♦
♦ Indications are that bituminous ♦
♦ coal prices will be reduced in the ♦
4 future, the commission announces. 4
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ated with Dr. W. S. Prather and is rec
ognized as one of the most prominent
young physicians in this section.
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WILL PROSECUTE
BOARD MEMBERS
FOUND JSTRICT
WASHINGTON, D. C., August IL—
Members of the New York selection
board, relieved yesterday after an in
quiry into the manner in which dis
charges from draft had been granted,
will be prosecuted, officials of the pro
vost marshal general’s office said to
day.
Whatever improper action the New
York board may have taken will be
rectified, before the district board.
If it is shown that fraud or bribery
was employed to obtain a discharge
beth the old board members and the
individual would be liable to prosecu
tion, and it was indicated that the gov
ernment would seek to n)ake such cases
an example.
Officials have in preparation a sup
plemental ruling as to discharges for
registered men, mostly naturalized
aliens supporting relatives in Europe.
The difficulty is that the affidavits re
quired cannot be obtained from any
foreign country in the time allowed.
Indications are that discharges will
not be granted in many cases of this
kind. For one thing officials said,
the soldier will have twenty-five dol
lars a month at least to contribute to
his family during his army service.
That is more than the average foreign
er sends home.
wntsonlenied
HABEAS CORPUS
WRITS Bl SPEER
Mt. AIRY, Aug. 11.—Petitions for ha
beas corpus writs presented by Thomas
E. Watson, of Thomson, and C. E. Mc-
Gregor of Warrenton, former State
Senator, in behalf of two persons con
fined in the Richmond county jail at
Augusta, on charges of having failed to
register under the selective draft law,
have been denied by lJudge Emory
Speer, of the United States Court for
the Southern District of Georgia. Judge
Speer, however, ruled that the jailer
and United States deputy marshal at
Augusta appear here next Saturday
and show cause “why the writ should
not be granted." He also directed a
copy of the proceedings today be serv
ed on the Federal attorney for the
Southern District.
The petitions are based on allega
tions that the selective draft act is
“unconstitutional and therefore void."
To Restrict Exemptions.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Reports
from many districts throughout the
country that as high as 80 per cent of
the registrants called for examination
are filling claims for discharge because
c dependent relatives, has caused Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder to in
struct exemption boards to reduce
grants of immunity from the draft law
“to a far more restricted class and to
very necessitous and clearly defined
circumstances.”
Wholesale applications for discharg
es indicate, said the provost marshal,
that unfair advantage is being taken of
the regulations designed to protect men
who properly should be exempted from
military service. Existing conditions,
he intimated, are a positive menace to
ti e raising of the national army.
Regulations detailing the procedure
in assembling the soldiers of the selec-j
tive draft army were being forwarded
t > exemption boards today. Every (
stage of the draft is outlined, from
SENATE BOOSTS
TAX BURDEN ON
BIG WAR PROFITS
I WASHINGTON, D. C., August 11.—
Chairman Simmons, explaining to the
senate the finance committee’s purpose
in re-drafting the war tax bill, de
clared the changes made will greatly
increase the tax burden to be borne
by the big corporations who have prof
ited from the war.
In a detailed statement opening de
bate on the measure, Senator Simmons
said the committee had jveighed every
schedule carefully and that the bill
as now presented would place the tax
where it belonged without working in
justice to any one. He did not complete
his statement.
Without mentioning him by name,
the North Carolina senator replied at
length to Chairman Kitchin of the
house ways and means committee, who
recently charged that the senate com
mittee had re-written the house bill
in such a w'hy as to favor prosperous
corporations and individuals. On the
contrary, the senator insisted, the sen
ate revision would tax the prosperous
more than the house bill. The house,
he said, had been far too lenient with
those who had “reaped this harvest of
gold.”
“Certain corporations in this coun
try are going to be made to disgorge
in order to pay the expenses of this
war a very considerable porportion of
their income.” said Senator Simmons.
“The 1916 war profits exceed three
billion dollars. The house bill pro
posed a ridiculously small sum from
the swollen war profits.”
Other Countries Use Plan.
Senator Simmons said those who
criticise the senate committee because
it substituted a graduated tax on cor
porations' war profits for a flat rate of
eight per cent, as levied by the house
did not understand the situation. He
declared that out of fourteen coun
tries having such a tax, only two, Can
ada and Spain, impose a war profits
profits tax on a basis other than the
plan outlined by the committee.
Defending the committee’s consump
tion tax on sugar, tea and coffee, he
said the original house bill levied just
about as much tax in other forms on
these articles. He denied charges that
the senate bill favored the railroads.
Many senators have prepared to de
liver speeches, and a long deabte is
expected. Senator LaFollette is pre
paring a minority report in conjunc
tion with Senators Thomas and Gore,
and hope, to be able to present it late
today.
Senator Simmons submitted statis
tics said to have been compiled by J. P.
Morgan & Co., showing that 45 great
corporations alone will pay, under the
proposed committee revision war prof
its taxes of $239,977,000, against only
$77,736,000 proposed under the house
bill.
I >
TO DISCUSS NEW
RftIIROMHOESDAY
A joint meeting of the Commission
ers and the Business Council of the
Americus and Sumter County Chamber
of Commerce has been called for Tues
day afternoon at 4 o’clock. It is
planned to discuss at this session sev
eral vital points in connection with
the construction of the new Americus
& Atlantic Railroad, which is being
built from Games, on the A. B. A. Rail
road, to this city.
A representative of the new road will ■
be in attendance at the meeting and
will outline the situation to the trade
i
body, so that a full and free discussion
may be had of the variouc important >
features which must be considered
without delay.
It is also planned at the meeting
Tuesday afternoon to review the work I
of the chamber since the annual meet
ing and to lay plans for the future ac
tivity of the organization.
the initial call for service to the en
trance of the men to the cantonments
where their training period will begin.
FIRST BftLE DE 1917
CROP REACHES CITY
The first bale of the 1917 cotton crop
reached Americus yesterday afternoon,
being consigned to the L. G. Council
warehouse by A. Bagley Stewart of De
Soto, who rushed the cotton to this
city by express rather than to take any
chance of delay in shipping it by
freight.
The bale was sold to B. B. Ford &
Company of Macon for 27 cents per
pound, the deal being consummated y
F E. Campbell, representative of the
•firm in this city.
Mr. Council stated yesterday that
three bales of the 1917 crop had been
shipped to his warehouse since Wed
nesday last, but owing to a most un
satisfactory freight schedule on the
Seaboard Air Line between Americus
and stations cast of the Flint river, I
this cotton has not yet arrived here.
Two of these bales were shipped from
Leslie on Wednesday and Thursday
respectively, Charlie Tomlinson send
ing in a bale on August Bth and W. W.
Hooks shipping one on August 9th.
Another bale was shipped on Friday
by J. B. Delmar, of DeSoto.
ORDERER ID REPORT
AT TRAINING GAMP
Robert Lee McMath, Gordon Howell
and John Frank Thomas, all of this 1
city, have been notified of their ap
pointment to the second officers’ train
| ir.g camp which will open at. Fort
Oglethorpe on August 27th.
The three young men have been ord
ered to report on August 27th at the
camp to enter upon the ocurse of in
struction which will fit them for com
missions in the new national army.
All three of the men made applica
tion for entrance to the first officers’
training camp at Fort McPherson, but
on account of the overplus of applica
tions for this camp, were obliged to
await the opening of the second camp
at Fort Oglethorpe. Fort McPherson
lias been abandoned as a training camp
site.
DEATH CULLS WELL
KNDWN miDENT
Mrs. Georue C. McDonald, of Sumter!
died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock!
.it the Wise sanitarium at Plains, as- ,
'ter an illness of several weeks dura
tion. She is survived by her husband,!
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Boone.!
who reside in Virginia, and three i
brothers, Russell Boone, of Atlanta;
Lester Boone, who is now in the United
States navy, and Leroy Boone, who re
sides with his parents.
j The deceased was in her twentieth'
I year, and had been married about two!
i vears. As Miss Irene Boone, of Ameri-|
j cus, she was well known and very pop I
I t'lar among a large circle of friends j
■ here, all of whom ar^ saddened by her
i untimely passing away.
j The funeral will be held this after I
I noon at Oak Grove cemetery, probably!
at 4 o'clock, although the hour has not:
been absolutely fixed. Rev. Leroy
Henderson will officiate, the arrange-!
ments being In charge of the Americus-
I Undertaking Company.
IfiRjSIAN TROOPS
IH SERIOUS CLASH
PETROGRAD. August 11.—-Delayed)
'— Portions of a new Ukraine regiment,
while passing through Kiev today in a
train on the way to the front, opened'
fire on the Cuirassiers who were guad
iug the station. The Cuirassiers fired
back and a battle began in which sold
iers on both sides were killed or
wounded.
When the Ukrainians reached Nov
grad-Volynskan the entire regiment ot
Cuirassiers was sent against the muti !
nous rain and a fresh battle began.
On the Cuirassiers bringing up ma
chine guns the mutineers surrendered.
Fourteen dead were taken back to Kiev.
About fifty men were wounded.
WILL NOT ALLOW
ANTI-DRAFTERS
USEGOOBTHOUSE
If the mass meeting "to discuss the
cnscription act” is held in this city on
Saturday, August 18th, at 10 a. m., an
advertised on small handbills distribut
ed here yesterday, it will not occur in
the court, house, has announced on the
circular.
Chairman Arthur Rylander of the
Board of County Commissioners com
municated with the other members ot
the board yesterday afternoon, immed
iately upon learning of the proposed
'gathering, and found that every com
missioner was unanimous in refusing
to permit the anti-drafters to hold their
mass meeting in the Court House. As
custodians of the county property, the
County Commissioners have absolute
authority over the Court House and
can forbid its use for any purpose of
which they disapprove.
Handbills announcing that a mass
meeting "to discuss the conscription
act" would be held here next Saturday,
were distributed throughout the city
yesterday, but for some time it was
impossible to discover the identity of
the parties calling the meeting. Dur
ing the afternoon Mr. Rylander was
waited upon by James Hall and
IJ. B. Hannon, both well known its
thos county, who asked his
as chairman of the board of County
Commissioners, to hold the mass meet
ing ni the Court Houes. As the hand
bills did not specify definitely that the
meeting was called in opposition tn
the draft act. Mr. Rylander inquired as
to the object of the gathering and was
it formed that it was to be for the pur
pose of opposing the draft law.
He immediately refused to allow the
mass meeting to be held in the Court
House and communicated with the oth
ed commissioners, who unanimously
supported him in his action.
Handbills similar to those distributed
in Americus, were scattered among
the standing vehicles in Leslie, Plains
and ether nearby towns.
Much unfavorable comment was
caused by the appearance of the band
bills here and further developments in
the case are expected.
mS OMED FOR
FEDERAL BENCH
i WASHINGTON, D. C., August IL—
President Wilson today Bex -
erly D. Evans, of Sandersville, Ga., to
be United States district court judge for
I the southern district of .Georgia.
i As Judge Evans was one the list of
! eighteen suggested by Senator Thomas
‘W. Hardwick, it is practically certain
the nomination will be confirmed by
the senate. The list, it is understood.
■ had the approval of Senator Hoke
I Smith. He will succeed the late Judge
IW. W. Lambdin, of Savannah.
Judge Evans, who recently entered
upon the fourteenth year of his ser
: l ice on the bench of the state supreme
I court, is well known throughout Geor
i .
; ?ia.
He was born at Sandersville May 21.
i 1865, the son of Col. Beverly D. Evans,
a gallant officer in the Confederate
li’-my, and Sallie Smith Evans.
Following his admission to the bar
he was continuously in practice until
11899. He was a member of the Georgia
legislature in 1.886 and 1887, and a del
egate to the democratic national eoa
vention in 1888, which nominated Gro
ver Cleveland for a second term as
president.
For seven years he was solicitor ot
the Middle. Judicial circuit, beginning'
with 1890, and from 1899 to 1904 was
judge th of the same circuit. On April 1.
19144, he was made associate justice of
the supreme court of Georgia, which
position he now fills.
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