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DAILY
FORTIETH YEAR.
INDUSTRIAL AGITATION STIRS GERMANY
DISTURBANCES IN
GERMAN EMPIRE
AGAIN REPORTED
SEVERE OUTBREAK S'lD TO HAVE
OCCURRED IN RHENISH INDUS
TRIAL DISTRICT—DETAILS ARE
LACKING.
LONDON, January 28.—That dis
turbances are again occuring in Ger
many is currently reported in Holland
today. Details of the outbreak, how
ever, are lacking.
The trouble is said to have started
in the Rhenish industrial district and
troops with machine guns have been
summoned from Mulheim, opposite Co
longne, on the Rhine. Military au
thorities are doing all in their power
tn suppress the disturbances, but have
failed, according to reports reaching
the Netherlands border today.
MERCHANTS HERE
MW CLOSE FOB ILL
DAY NEU MONDAY
CONFUSION RESULTING FROM OR
DERS TO SELL ONLY FOOD AR
TICLES MAY RESULT IN SUCH
ACTION.
Orders of the federal fuel adminis
tration requiring merchants engaged
in the sale of foodstuffs to sell only
such articles, and banning the dis
posal of cigars, cigarettes, soft drinks
and such articles caused much con
fusion among Americus merchants to
day. As a result of this the stores
here may agree among themselves to
close all day next Monday and during
the following “Fuelless Mondays” de
creed' by the fuel administration.
J. L Sparks, one of the leading re
tailers here told a representative of
The Times-Recorder this morning that,
perhaps, the merchants could better
observe the provisions of the order
by such action and suggested to other
merchants that all agree to close on
Mondays during the continuance of
the fuel restriction period. Such ac
tion, however, would be entirely volun
tary among the merchants, and need
not be observed by any who may be
disposposed otherwise.
Today several merchants informed
the food administration that orders
received by them included certain ar
ticles the sale which is not permitted
on “Fuelless Mondays’ l and because
of their refusal to deliver such articles,
camplaint was made. It is because of
such situations which the merchants
are powerless to avoid that the all-day
closing has been suggested.
Whether or not this course will be
adopted by the merchants here can
not bo said definitely, but such action
is to be discussed by them during the
week and it is presumed in the event
it is agreed to close on Mondays that
ample notice thereof will be given to
the public.
COL CASSELS INJURED
IN FALL AT HIS HOME
SAVANNAH, Ga„ Jan. 28.—C01. A.
Gordon Cassels, president of Cassels
& Co., and a prominent Savannahian,
is suffering from a concussion of the
brain caused by falling from the top
of a steep flight of attic steps to the
floor. Colonel Cassels has recently
been in ill health and underestimat
ing his strength attempted to bring
a trunk down from the attic for his
daughter. When he reached the top
of the flight of steps with the trung
he fainted and fell to the floor. He
was pjicked up unconscious and does
not recall the accident. His daughter.
Miss Gladys, was preparing to make
a trip to Atlanta when Col. Cassels
in the face of protests of his family
tried to bring the trunk down the
stairs.
Americus Times-Recorder
“LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
ME BEBMffi ClPTliffl BI HE FRENCH
wß' v W“ Jw" ShE:
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Copywright, Underwood & Underwood.
The French are capturing many yo
ungsters who appear to be just out
of school averaging as high as sixteen
to seventeen years of age. This line
POTATOES. NOT
TO BE SOLO US
GHMOUGI
RULING MADE AT REQUEST OF
AMERICUS MERCHANTS INDI.
( ATES THIS MAY BE PERMIT
TED.
The order of the fuel administra
tion today requiring the sale of flour
only in combination with other cereal
and grain products causes a number
of requests, due these being for a rul
ing as to whether or not potatoes may
bo sold in combination with flcJnr.
The state food administration say
this cannot be done, but in the ruling
is contained an intimation that such
combination sales may later be allow
ed. The following telegram from D.
F. McClatchey, executive secretary of
the state administration, contains the
rifling in question:
■ Franc Mangum, Food Aministrator,
Americus, Ga.
“At present potatoes not listed as
one of the substitutes to be sold in
combination with wheat flour.
“FEDERAL FOOD ADMINISTRA
TION FOR GEORGIA, by D. F.
McClatchey, Executive Secre
( tary.”
ANOTHER COLD
WAVECOMING
WASHINGTON, D C., Jan. 28.—In
dustrial and railway activities in the
east were forced to slow down today
by another general snow storm. In
many sections this was usually heavy.
There are indications that the snow
will continue through Tuesday and the
weather bureau forecasts a cold wave
will sweep the South Tuesday, pene
trating as far as northern Florida
with freezing temperatures experienc
ed.
SALE OF THRIFT
STAMPS HERE IS
PROGRESSING FINE
The sale of Thrift Stamps in Ameri
cus is progressing splendidly, accord
ing to D. F. Davenport, postmaster,
who is in direct charge of their dis
tribution. The total sales of these se
curities here already has reached
nearly SIO,OOO, and each day there are
a number of them disposed of. One
day last week there were S3OO worth
of them sold, this being the highest
single day’s sale, however, since soon
after the stamps were first offered the
public some time ago.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 28, 1918
of boys are of the class of 1918, and
gives proof that the Germans are are
running shy of ful grown me to do
their fighting.
RELATIIIE Os
LEE DEAD IN
NORTH»
MAJOR WILLIAM FITZHUGH LEE
SIMPSON AMONG THE AMERI
CANS TO DIE AT THE FRONT IN
FRANCE.
NEW LONDON, Jan. 28. —News was
received here today of the death -im
France of Major William Fitzhugh
Lee Simpson, brother of Mrs. F. Valen
tine Chappelle of Huntington street.
Major Simpson was a graduate of West
Point, was a grandnephew of Robert
E Lee and a gradson of William Fitz
hugh Lee.
Major Simpson was a son of Col.
William A. Simpson, Adputant Gen
eral at Governor’s Island, and brother
of Lieutenant Commander George W.
Simpson, in command *of Uunited
States destroyer Sterrett, which picked
up Lieut. Commander Bagley of the
destroyer Jacob Jones when that ves
sel was torpedoed by a German sub
marine.
Mrs. Chappelle of this"city and Mrs.
Harold Naylor, of Washington are sis
ters of Major Simpson. Major Simp
son’s home was in San Francisco and
when the war broke out he went to
El Paso, Tex., to study machine gun
fire. He was placed in charge of gun
fire in France.
He married Miss Florence Aiken,
of San Francisco, in 1914. She sur.
vives him, as do two children. No
particulars of Major Simpson’s death
are known except in a cablegram from
Gen. Pershing stating that death had
occurred Jan. 17, due to appendicitis.
JOHNSON WILL
REGISTER 111
MILN ENEMIES
The registration of alien enemies
under the terms of the president’s
proclamation will begin in Americus
on February 4th and end on February
9th. During the intervening five days
all Turks, Austria-Hungarians, Bulga
rians and Germans, fourteen years of
age and older, except women, must
P’esent themselves for registration.
Chief of Police Olin Johnson will be
in charge of the registration in Amer,
icus, and each of the alien enemies
who register will be required to pro
vide himself with four satisfactory
photographs of himself. Failure to
register makes alien enemies subject
to severe penalties.
EXAMINER OF
LUND TITLES
ID BE_NA MED
JUDGE LITTLEJOHN EXPECTED TO
ACT SOON UNDER PROVISIONS
OF THE TORRENS LAND TITLE
ACT.
J irdge Littlejohn is expected to name
an examiner of land titles for Sumter
county, under the new Torrens land
tiltle law which passed the last legis
lature. One of the Americus attorneys
will be appointed.
The object of the land registra
tion act is to afford a simple, cer
tain and practical method by which
title to land, and ownership thereof,
may be evidenced or shown, just as
title is now evidenced, at least in part,
by deeds or other written instruments;
and also to furnish immediate and
adequate proof of title, so that land
may be used freely as a basis of credit
and in business transactions with
greater ease and facility than is ndw
the case.
Under Georgia’s land registration
act it is not necessary to have a title
re-examined back throughout all its
dependent transactions each time it
is sought to deal with the land. The
recurring expense and delay is obvi
ated. Under the new act the evidence
df a good title does not depend upon
any chain of documents, nor upon
the proper administration of estates,
nor upon the established rights of
minors, nor upon the legality of ev
ery transfer, or upon facts which may
pr may not rest in the memory of the
Oldest inhabitants.
' xtcgfctration localizes the evidence
of title, and declares and fixes the
exact state and condition of a title as
it is, down to the minute of registra
tion. With but few unimportant ex
ceptions all further inquiry into title
prior to registration is made unnec
essary and of no effect. The regis
tration entry speaks affirmatively as
the solemn judgement of a superior
court and is conclusive.
The registration of titles to land
has been employed in certain Euro
pean countries from time immemo
rial; and since the time of Quyen Eliz
abeth the development of a system
for registering land titles has engag
ed the attention of the English-speak
ing people everywhere. However, it
was a business man, Sir Robert Rich
ard Torrens, the collector of customs
at. Port Adelaide in South Australia,
who finally prepared a statute which
took effect in that province in 1-858.
cessThe “Torrens System” proved suc
cessful and became the mode of la
ter laws in England, Canada and many
British dependencies. In more than
a fourth of the states of the United
States, in Hawaii and the Philippine
Islands there land and registration
systems which resemble and which
are in the main designed to attain
the same purpose and end as the orig
inal Torrens system.
32 DIVISIONS
RHDHOGOTO
FRANCE NOW
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Jan. 28.
Secreatry Baker today replied to the
charges of inefficiency in the war de
partment in a statement before the
senate military’ committee. He deliv-j
ered the statement verbally, saying it
was not supplementary to his former
statement, but on e demanded by the
circumstances. Part of the statement
d : sclosed there are now thirty-two
divisions of American troops ready to
go to France. He did not know, how
ever, when the departemnt would
send them, nor how fast it had been
planned to send these men to the
front.
COMBINATION
SALES DF FLOUfi
ORDERED NOW
NEW AND IMPORTANT RULING OF
FOOD ADMINISTRATION EFFECT.
IVE AT ONCE.
Franc Mangum, food administrator
for Sumter county, received tele
graphic instructions this morning to
put into effect here the new ruling of
the federal food administration rela
tive to the sale of wheat flour in
Americus, and immediately all retail
grocers a n d other dealers in the city
were notified of the provisions of the
order. The order originated with the
fcod administration ats Washington,
and its enforcement is not optional
with the local authorities.
The most drastic order, which be
came effective this morning, is that
requiring the selling of flour only in
combination with other cereal prod
ucts.
In other words, beginning at once
every retail grocery dealer in Geor
gia—similar orders having been is«
sued to the other states —who sells C
pound of wheat flour on and aftel
this date must sell with it a pound
oi some other cereals. A 24 pound
sack of flour must be accompanied by
24 pounds of corn meal, rolled oats
or' oatmeal, rice, barley or rye prod
uct or similar cereal.
This feature of the food control reg
ulation has been changed in that it is
not permitted longer to be optional
with the retail merchant whether or
not he will effect this form of combi
nation sales, and henceforth it becomes
obligatory 7 that he do effect them un
der direction of the federal food
administrator, and that he shall make
no exception in the matter of retail
sales, unless there is specific exemp
tion in individual cases by the federal
food administrator.
Dr. A. M. Soule, federal food admin
istrator for Georgia, also issued an
order effective today requiring that,
bakers must bake a mixed bread, ris
ing gradually to 20 per cent other
cereals than wheat, that point, in per
centage to be reached by February ’
24. On and after February 24 all !
bakery products must contain not
more than 80 per cent wheat flour,’
and be maintained at that standard
unless otherwise directed by subse
quent order.
UGLY Soil
FOUND WITHOUT
TRUTH ST BOTTOM
REPORT THAT COAL DEALERS
HERE SENT OUT SHORT WEIGHT
TO CUSTOMERS NOT PROVEN BY
COMPLAINANTS.
There was current on the streets
teday a report to the effect that cer
tain coal dealers here had resorted
to sending out short weight loads to
customers, but Fuel Administrator Al
len states no proof of the assertion
has yet been presented to him.
The report grew out of the seizure
cf two cars of coal in the Seabord
Air Line yards, this coal being deliver
ed to the Atlantic Ice and Coal Cor
poration, and by that concern sold to
domestic consumers. The coal receiv
ed by the coal company was “steam
coal” and this Is the same quality
delivered to their customers, although
it was reported on the streets that
lump coal had been seized and “steam”
coal delivered.
One verbal complaint regarding
weight of deliveries from this lot coal
was made by J. M. Goolsby to W. S.
Coleman who referred this to Fuel
Administrator Allen, the fuel adminis
trator told the Times-Recorder today.
The complaint was, toweve», too vague
and unsubstantiated to be investigated,
it being ruled by the fuel adminis
trator that where giving of under
weight is charged it is the duty of the
consumer to furnish proof in support
of the complaint, which will then be
CFT”*
EDITION
CHILDREN 10
RECEIVE SEED
FOR PLANTING
PRIZE HOME GARDENS WILL BE
ENCOURAGED BY SCHOOL AU
THORITIES UNDER DIRECTION
OE MISS M’LENDON.
The Times-Recorder through the
courtesy of Senator Hoke Smith has
received a quantity of garden seed,
which will be distributed among the
school children of Americus, and the
children in turn will be encouraged
by Superintendent Mathis and Miss
Lizzie McLendon, who is in charge of
the home gardening feature of the
school work .
Supt. Mathis, in conversation with a
representative of The Times-Recorder
this morning, agreed to accept the
seed on behalf of the children and they
will be sent out to the Furlow Gram
mar* school for distribution late today.
There are only five varieties of seed
in the lot, these being lettuce, musk
melon, onion, radish and turnip, but
all are well adapted to this soil-and
climate, and it is anticipated that some
cf the gardens produced will reflect
great credit upon the young agricul
turists in the schools here.
gw tiTpresioe
OVER DELIBERATION
ON "AGGIE” Bill
CONGRESSMAN FROM THIS DIS
TRICT WINS NOTABLE RECOGNI
TION A THANDS OF SPEAKER
< LARK.
BY L. 0. MOSELY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Announce
ment today of the designation of
Congressman Chas. R. Crisp of the
Third district of Georgia, as presiding
officer in the House during the dis
cussion of the agricultural appropria
tion bill, by Speaker Champ Clark,
will be of considerable interest to. his
many friends in Georgia. No stronger
recognition of his great ability as a
parlimentarian could be made. The
honor is thrown upon able and worthy
shoulders, and is one which is coveted
by members of Congress generally.
Particularly notieable is the fact
that Congressman Crisp is called on
by Speaker Clark to preside in par
ticularly every real important bill.
The Georgia congressman presided
during the debate on the War Resolu
tion, the Aviation Appropriation bill
providing for the expenditure or $650,-
010,000 for war deficits; the Armed
Neutrality resolution, and other bill.
The Agricultural Appropriation bill,
now under discussion provides for an
appropriate of $24,000,000, and will
consume at least one week or ten days
of debate.
Congressman Crisp’s ability is not
without notice and appreciaHon. He
it considered the best parlimentarian
in the House and is constantly called
upon to unravel the tangles into
which members and bill are frequently
drawn. He has never faltered in his
decisions, nor asked for time to study;
he grasps parlimentary questions read
ily.
Mr. Crisp is the only member of the
Georgia delegation on the Ways and
Means committee, the most powerful in
Congress. He is generally regarded
as one of the ablest men in the House
and certainly hasn’t a peer from the
South, being decidedly the strongest
man from Georgia. He is looked to
as a leader among the Georgia con
gressmen, especially.
No hibher honor could be paid a
member of Congress than that which
the speaker has bestowed upon Mr.
Crisp, and no one doubts the strong
possiblity that he may some day be
speaker himself if he remains in Con
gress.
investigated, and if substantiated ap
propriate action will be taken by the
fuel administration.
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