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DAILY
XHIRTY-NINTH year.
WAR. COSTS BELLIGERENTS $160,000,000 DAILY
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FOURTH OF THE
W MUSES
GREAT BRITAIN IS SECOND, AND
GERMANY THIRD—THIS COIN
TRY, HOWEVER, HAS ONLY FEW
MFN ENGAGED.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—The world
war is now costing various belliger
ent nations a total of one hundred and
sixty million dollars daily, according
to an estimate made public today by
the Mechanics and Metals National
bank
Ti e f .Uimate states the United States
is' bearing one-fourth of this stagger
ing outlay, this country spending more
mriuy in prosecution of the war than
any oiher nation. England is placed
second among financial backers of the
war, with Germany third. The interest
on tills latter nation's public debt al
ready accumulated, is placed in the
estimate at ten per cent, of the normal
income of the whole German people,
while this country’s proportion is less
than one-half of one per ient. of the
national income.
E'ifty-'hree million men, including
soldiers and sailors of all the bellig
erents and others directly occupied
with war's activities, are now engaged
> j i rosecuting the war.
THE Sms
POINT OF VIEW
Business men, in common with many
others not of their class, hailed the
end of the session of Congress with
feeling of relief. No previous session
in the history of the country compares
with the latest one in number and
variety of enactments affecting in
dustrial and mercantile activities.
Not only have all the domestic in
dustries been subjected to more or less
official regulation, with the fixing of
prices or the restriction of trans
portation of products, but the whole
o' the foreign trade, unbound and out
bound, has been put under rigid con
trol. Then, too, arrangements have
been perfected for taking a larger toil
of the profits of the industry in un
wonted ways, some of which appear
to impose burdens inequitably. Added
to these disturbing factors has been
tht tremendous enlargement of the
Sitting forces of the nation, which ha»
drawn upon the man power of prac
tically every kind of occupation, and
the raising of the biggest of national
loans, which has and will continue
to take from the investment reservoirs
and the savings of all the people. A
pause in further government activity
is therefore relished, in order that the
effects of what ha g been done may be
seen and understood and the requisite
adjustments made which the new con
ditions require. Thus far, aside from
the increases in the price of com
mddities. there has been little evi
dence of embarrassment This is
due to the stimulation of productive
activity resulting from the war needs
of this country and the allies.
RonianoiT's in a New Home
PETROGRAD, Oct. 16. —Nicholas
Romanoff, former emperor, and his
family have been transferred from
Tobolsk, Siberia, to the Asolak Mon
astery, fourteen miles from Tobolsk.
Nicholas complained his prison had
no garden for exercise, and that he
and hi s family were annoyed by cur
ious crowds which surrounded the
house.
Miss Mary Youiifi.
Miss Mary Young, the six-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Young,
died Monday morning at Ker residence
two miles from Smithville. The little
girl had membranous croup, it is stat
ed, and had only been ill for a day or
two. She passed away at ten o’clock
Monday morninggand was laid to res’,
in Smithyille cemetery Tuesday morn
ing. The many friends of the bereav
ed parents extend sympathies in theri
trouble.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
“ THE LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA"
HO CMOIDJFES
FOR COUNCIL IET
FOURTEEN DAYS BEFORE THE
ELECTION, BUT SO FAR NO ONE
HAS ANNOUNCED FOR ANY OF
[ THE PLACES.
Although it is only four teen days
before th e city primary the elec
tion of three aidermen, there are no
candidates as yet.
Not even the three incumbents,
v-hose terms will soon expire, have an
nounced for re-election. However, if
is expected they will do so. They are
Messrs. I. J. Kalmon, J. E. Poole ana
Reese Horton. The latter says that
he does not think he will run again,
but he has not definitely decided yet.
Friends of Messrs. H. O. Jones, W.
E. Taylor and Everett Schneider have
suggested that they announce for
council, but it ig not known whether
they will do so- The election will bs
held on October 30.
FEIGNS BLINDNESS TO
ESCAPE THE GEBMfiNS
PARIS. Oct. 16.—A professor of
the Sorbonne, the great French
University, recently secured his re
lease from a German military prison
by a remarkable exercise of will pow
er. He fell into the hands of the
Germans in Deciding at orne
to get free m some way he feigned
blindnes.
From that time it was impossible
for the German military doctors or
eye specialists to catch him off h>3
guard. The subjected him to the
severest known tests such as sudden
apparitions of unfamiliar and unex
pected objects, sudden transitions
from complete obscurity to dazzling
light. He was tortured by scientific
ways of verifying sightlessness but
never once departed from a fixed blank
gaze, presenting always and absolute
absence of expression in his eyes. He
was finally declared totally blind and
included in a recent exchange of per
manently disabled prisoners.
Five Asking For
Adamson’s Place
COLUMBUS, Oct. 16.—L. H. Chap-
I pell, for twelve years mayor of Co
!lumbus, this afternoon entered the
congressional race a 8 a candidate to
succeed Judge Adamson. He retires
'from the Columbus mayoraltj’ race,
| leaving the field to John C. Cook, D.
J Parmer and Robert Reid. Charles
I. Davis, of Warm Springs, has an
nounced as a candidate for Congress.
.Thomas T. Miller, city attorney of Co-
I ambus, wired today from Atlanta
fiat he would not a congressional can-
i didate.
Judge Joseph J Dunham, of Marion
county has announced as a candidate
J for congress. Garland M. Jones, of
■ Newnan, is also a candidate for the
■office vacated by Judge Adamson, and
A. P. Persons, of Talbotton, is the
! other candidate.
Dr. W. D. McWhorter Is
Offerered Professorship
By Cornell University
He Goes to Ithaca, N, Y, to Confer Un
i The Matter.—He Is Health Commit
i sloner in This County.
I The many friends of Dr. W. B. Mc-
Whorter will be interested to know
(that he has been offered a professor
ship at Cornell college, at Ithaca, New
York.
[ Dr McWhorter, who is health com
missioner for Sumter county, has gone
[to New oYrk to look over the situa
tion and confer with the officials of
'itie university. Upon leaving here he
[was inclined to believe that he would
acctpt the offer.
I He has made Americus and Sumter
county an efficient health officer, and
if he makes his residence elsewhere
his departure will be generally re
gretted.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 16, 1917
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I—Columbia1 —Columbia university war hospital just formally taken over by the government as a receiving and evacuat
ing medical center. 2—Maj. Gen. Sir J. E. Capper, director general of the British tank corps which Is doing such
efficient work on the battlefields. 3 —G. T. K. Giragosslan. a Boston Armenian, who has offered the government v
“free energy generator,” which will be tested by authority of congress. 4 —Ruins of a French manufactory, typical
of the way In which the Germans destroy everything in the districts from which they retreat.
KERENSKY IS III;
CONGRESS POSTPONED
PETROGRAD. Oct. 16. The prov --
lonal government today postponed the
opening of Russia’s first preliminary
parliar. nt ! >r.til October l&th or twen
tieth. Tile reason for the postpone
ment is attributed to the illness of
Premier Kerensky, who, 1 it is antici
pated v ill have sufficiently recovered
T y ’.hat date to open the assembly.
LaFullette Asks
Copy of Charges
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 16.
When the senate sub-committee inves
tigating Senator LaFollette’s St. Paul
speech began its hearing today, Sena
tor LaFollette presented a formal de
mand that the committee present him a
copy of charges, and that he be per
mitted to summon and examine wit
nesses in hi s own behalf.
The committee went into executive
session to consider the demand. In
I,'s letter presenting the demand, Sena
tor said he believed everj
statement made by him was accurate,
and demands to be informed who chal
lenges them.
County Clubs to
Show October 27
EXHIBITION WILL BE AT ( OI KT-
HOUSE AND MANY ENTRIES EX
PECTED—BIG EXHIBIT BY ( AN
NING CLUBS.
The anual competitive exhibition cf
[the pig clubs, corn clubs, canning
clubs and four-crop clubs of Sumter
ccunty will take place on Saturday,
October 27, at the courthouse.
County Demonstrator Marshall and
Home Economics Agent Miss Long
lave made arrangements for an ex-
JceFent display of all entries. It is
[expected that there will be a parties
larly splendid showing by the canning
club.a
VEGETABLE CROP ID
SHOW BIS INCREASE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct 16.—En
ormous increases in the production of
fall onions, cabage and beans over
last year, is shown in estimates of the
department of agriculture. Estimates
this year place onions at 13,500,000
bushels, last year 7,800,000; cabbage,
691,000,00 tons, against 252,000 tons.
Almost double the amount of beans,
estimated from five principal bean
growing states.
lindisl an
MEN FIERI WEEK
ON FW SDH
CONGHESSMAN OVERSTREET SAYS
THAT UNITED STATES WILL
HAVE A MILLION ACROSS BY
EARLY SPRING.
SAVANNAH, Ga., Oct. 16.—Repre
sentative J. W. Overstreet, member
of Congress from the First district,
reached Savannah yesterday from the
nataional capital on his way to his
home in Sylvania.
Speaking of the sentiment of the
people against Senator Hardwick’s
v. ar views, Mr Overstreet said he
thought Haardwick now understood
that the people of Georgia were be
hind the prtsident, and against any
one who stood counter to that policy.
He said: "The government has made
wonderful progress in getting ready
for dar during the last six months.
' A great many public men abou’
the capital seem to think that the
war may come to a close in a very
short while. Others think it might
last two or three years longer. The :
on a tremendous scale which would ,
indicate that it i s preparing for a ■
war of almost any duration. 1 have ■
been reliably informed that we are '
landing in France about 20.000 sol- ,
diers every week, and at that rate i
we should have an army of 1,000,000
men in France by next spring. Mil
itary experts here think that as soon
as w e have an army of sufficient size
in France to aid the allies in striking
a heavy blow that i’ will be decisivee
nd the war will soon end. Germany '
seems to be ready to make peace now j
if it can be secured on the terms >
agreeable to her and the Central Pow_ j
ers, but the United State s and the |
lilies are determined not to consider
any peace proprop, sals until the t.'me
for such proposals from their stand
point has arrived. It seems to be the
cpinion among all well-informed men
that the German government must be
entirely overthrown before a perma
nent peace can established.”
Billion Already
Taken in Bonds
WASHINGTON, D. ,C, Oct. 16.
Treasury officials here declared today
that unless all signs fail Liberty loan
subscriptions will reach $1,000,000,-
000 by tonight. They expect the two
billion dollar mark to be passed by the
end of the week.
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* WEATHER FORECAST. ♦
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* FAIR AND WARMER TODAY ♦
4 AND TOMORROW. ♦
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CHURCHBELL’S MOTOR
TRUCK IN OPERAIION
Churchwell Brothers have recent)' ■
put in operation a new delivery truck i
It is one of the prettiest in the city
as well as one of the busiest. The ;
business done by this big concern de- ■
mands that they put on faster deliv- i
ery, which they have done.
Sweden Protests
Holding ol Mail
j
, WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 16.—The 1
i Swedish minister here conferred today I
; wi;h Secretary Lansing regarding cer- :
tain Swedish diplomatic mail pouches |
removed from steamers by British an- I
thorities and at present held in the I
Briitsh embassy here. The United •
States, it wa 8 stated, knows nothing
officially concerning the affair.
The British ambassador, it is stat- :
cd has offered to release the pouches. [
if Swedish authorities will consent I
t 0 disclose their contents. The seiz- [
ed pouches are alleged to contain im-[
1 ortant Argentine and Mexican disco- I
sures.
Ansley’s Horse
Won Race Today
“KING JAMES,” A LOCAL PRODUCT'
MAKES MAGNIFICENT RECORD
AT EASTMAN FAIR TRA( K.
EASTMAN, Ga., Oct. 16.—" King .
James,’’ a horse owned by Charles iz.
Ansley, of Americus, won the trotting
race here this afternoon, in a superb
exhibition of form and speed. The !
lorse wen the race in straight heats, [
easily outdistancing the other horses. ■
all of which were seasoned campaign
ers. Track experts have congrsucuiat- •
cd Mr. Ansley on having one of the ■
Test young horses ever raised in this
state.
InEXI ID THE LARGEST
CATTLE YARDS 81IBNED
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 16.—More than
I half of the Kansas City stock yards!
; plant, the second largest of its kind in !
the United States, was destroyed here
i today by fire. After the blaze had been
brought under control, several thous
and cattle thought to be safe, escaped
from pens and were burned to death.
It is estimated at noon that as high as
ten thousand cattle are now roaming
the streets of the city, although efforts
to round them up are already under
way. ,
CHINA STIRRED
61 GERMAN PLOT
INTRIGUE TO CAUSE INTERNAL
STRIFE IS DISCLOSED—GOVERN
MENT MAY INTERN AUSTRIANS
AND GERMANS.
PEKING, Oct. 16.—(8y mail to New
,York.) —German plots designed to
prompt internal trouble in China are
L being disclosed here almost daily.
| Alany of these intrigues are of most
serious nature, and it is believed the
government of China will find it neces
■sary to intern many Germans and Aus
'trians, if not all of these nationals,
. before the end of the year.
Ministers representing the nations of
: the Entente Allies here, are extremely
'uneasy regarding the situation, anl
are advising with Chinese officials re
garding steps to be taken in suppress
r.g fomented disorders.
FEWER CRIMINALS IN
i THIS ROHHJRY STATE
i ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 16.—Georgia D
.confronted with a shortage of crimin
als.
| For the first time in the history of
j the criminal division of Fulton Supe
rior court, the judge has taken a re
jeess for a week because there are no
'cases on the docket.
I From other large county seats in
Georgia come reports of a similar sit
uation, one county even going so far.
r 9 to advertise Its jail for rent, because [
! t was empty.
j Georgia’s bone-dry laws, which fin- i
ally have banished liquor from the.
I
state about as completely as it can be
• banished, are undoubtedly the explan
ation for the remarkable decrease of
'crimes and misdeineanors. Court ofii
fcials, sheriffs and police authorities ev- ,
■ erywhere in the state declare that the ■
absence of liquor accounts for the ab-
1 sence of lawbreakers.
■ The empty jails and dwindling con ■
ivict gangs are being cited as the most i
[powerful of all arguments for prohibl
!tion, in the campaign now being wag
led throughout the state in the interest
! of national prohibition by amendment
of the federal constitution. Under the '
auspices of the Georgia Anti-Saloon
league, of which Janies A. Christian is
superintendent, a number of nationally
prominent speakers are making a tour
of Georgia in support of the federal
amendment which already has passed |
the United States senate.
Fort Valley Hit
By $40,000 Fire
FORT VALLEY, Oct. 16.—Fire which
broke out here about 10 o’clock last
night in the O. M. Houser warehouse,
destroyed the warehouse and 125 bales
of cotton, then spread to Fred Shep
ard's livery stable, a vacant building
formerly used as a hotel and owned
by John Brown, and finally swept over
a number of negro houses before be
ing brought under control. The loss
will aggregate possibly $40,000.
REVIVAL SERVICES TO I LOSE
AT IVEDNESDIY NIGHT MEETING
Wednesday night will mark the close
of the series of meetings al the Central
Baptist church. Rev. J. E. Sammons
has preached with great p< wer. While
the attendance has not beeh so great,
the congregations have been attentive
and appreciative. Services today and
tomorrow at 3:30 and 7:30 o’clock .The
public is most cordially invited to at
tend these meetings.
Rise of An American.
i ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct, 16.-
John Greely Jenkins, of London, who
Is one of the founders of the National
Party in England bears the distinction
of being the only native American who
ever became head of an Australian
state. He was born In Clifford, Penn.,
in September, 1851. In 1878. however,
he came to Australia and settled in
South Australia. From 1901 to 1905
, wa g Premier of that state.
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EDITION
NUMBER 247.
NO MARCH ON
phkmd io
EXPECTED NOW
GERMANS "ILL MAKE THE GULF
OF RIGA A LAKE STRONGHOLD
AND ISE IT AS A NAVAL AND
MILITARY BASE.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—(Compiled by
.the Associated Press from European
j cables during the day.)—While the en
trance of the Germans into the Gulf of
‘Riga presents a threatening situation
I for the Russians, Russian naval au
thorities do not believe the German
movement there will be extended this
fall. Because of the preponderous
German naval supremacy in the Bal
tic, there exists little to prevent the
Teutons making the Gulf of Riga vir
tually a German lake and solidifying
it for a strong nsjval base from which
military operations could be success
fully launched.
: The situation on other fronts is vir
tually unchanged .according to today’s
official reports.
I The Germans are laying much stress
on the heavy British bombardment in
'progress in Flanders, where mud and
rain are important factors retarding
Infantry actions. Fighting on the
French front today was confined al
most entirely to artillery exchanges.
British casualties are decreasing,
last we, < total of fourteen thousand
comparing with seventeen thousand for
the previous week and twenty-one
thousand the week before.
CHARGE IGMNST
OFFICER BIGSBF
POLICE COMMISSION ASKED TO IN'.
! VESTKMTE COMPLAINT THAT
HE ACTED UNBECOMING AN OF
FICER.
Formal charges of conduct unbe
coming an officer were preferred
against Policeman W. W. Rigsby with
the police commission today, the ac
cusation being made by Franc Man
gum, editor of The Times-Recorder.
j It is probable that the commissoin
i will hold an early meeting for the pur
i pose of an investigation.
! Mr. Mangum’s charges grew out of
the following occurrence. Yesterday
at 2:1.5 o’clock, Policeman Rigsby caem
into The Times-Recorder office, and
after calling the editor in. announced
tha, he wanted to discontinue his sub
scription and desired to pay up. He
then stated also that he demanded a
correction of a recent news story,
which gave an account of Mr. Man
gum’s arraignment in police court on
the charge of speeding. He said that
he could not submit to the statement
that he itad lied when he swore the
editor was going 35 miles an hour in
an automobile —-a statement for which
the editor had fully apologized in open
court to the court and to the officer.
Policeman Rigsby was told that there
would be no further apology, nor any
correction of the story. At that he
struck at the editor, who received the
blow in his open hand and clinched
with the officer. As he did so. the
policeman thrust his hand toward his
hip or back pocket, as if to draw a pis
tol. Whereupon the editor retreated
in search of a weapon, and seized a
pair of scissors. There was no further
altercation. The policeman then left
the office, saying he would return soon,
for his receipt. He has never returned.
Thi s happened at 2:15 o'clock. Ac
cording to Chief Johnson, Officer Rigs
by went on duty, at two o’clock. The
affair was witnessed by a young lady
employed in The Times-Recorder office,
•who became frightened and ran out
when the officer made the motion to
ward his pistol.
i Anumber of prominent citizens who
heard of the occurrence have called
upon The Times-Recorder editor, as a
matter of justice to all parties,’ to
bring charges against Policeman Rf»s
by, and at their instance the same has
been done.