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1 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: i 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. NUMBER 2G