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DAILY
FORTIETH YEAH.
POLICEMEN TO
GET MORE PSI
IN THE FUTURE
'J HEIR SALARY NOW NINETY DOL
LARS A MONTH—INCREASES
ALSO GRANTED TO THE CHIEF
AND THE LIEUTENANT.
The pay of the Americus policemen
has been raised. They will now re
ceive ninety dollars a month, instead
of seventy.
The chief will be paid sllO hence
forth, and the lieutenant SIOO.
These were decided upon
at. a special meeting of the maydfr and
council yesterday afternoon, when ac
tion was taken on the recommendation
of the police commission.
The fact that three members of tho
force had quit because of the inade
quate pay made it necessary for the
city to do something at once.
The Times-Recorder urged that this
action be taken several months ago,
and it probably would have been done
then, but for the fact that the city’s
finances did not permit at the time.
The policemen are jubilant over
their raise and members of council
are being warmly congratulated today
by many citizens.
PLAY AT AGGIE
SCHOOL TONIGHT
INSTEAD OF LAST
The play at the Aggie school will
be presented tonight, instead of last
night, as published in the Times-Re
corder of yesterday. The public is
cordially invited to attend. Those who
came last night and were disappointed
are respectfully asked to be present
tonight. The senior girls will present
tonight. The Senior girls will pre
sent “Fortunes o p War,” together
with other presentations that will
make th e entertainment about one
hour in length.
FRANK G. OLVER IS
ILL AT HOSPITAL
Friends of Frank G. Giver will be
pained to learn of his very serious ill
nqss at the Americus hospital, where
he was removed for an operation early
this afternoon. Mr. Giver, who is one
of the best known citizens of Ameri
cus is prominent in Masonic and fra
ternal order circles in Georgia, and
news of his illness with be received
with sorrow both here and elsewhere.
Vie was stricken Tuesday evening, and
his illness has since developed se
rious complications. Today the at
tending physician advised that mem
bers of the family be summoned be
cause of the critical condition of the
patient, who was ordered removed to
the hospital without delay.
IMMT decision
mu sowe com
ATLANTA. Ga., February 28. —If a
man is tried for murder and convict
ed mainly on the testimony of one
single witness, and if he secures a
new trial and the witness is missing
on the second trial and the state can
not bring the witness back, it is ad
mi jsable to put in evidence the
stenographer’s transcript of the testi
mony given by this witness at the
first trial.
Such is the ruling just handed down
by the Supreme court in a case com
ing up from Oglethorpe county, where
the circumstances were such as above
outlined. In rendering the decision
the decision the Supreme court re
marks that it would place an unjust
handicap on the state to let a defend
ant go scot free because the lips of
a witness against him were sealed in
the interim between his first and sec
ond trials.
Americus Times-Recorder
GERMAN NAVAL GUN, CAPTURED AND HAULED IN BY A BRITISH TANK
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One of the massive British tanks, after having smashed the Hindenburg line in the great Cambral battle finished
up the day by bringing back one of the prizes of the victory, a 5.9 German naval gun. The tank lumbering through
the muck easily hauled the big naval gun along in its wake.
000 JURORS FOB
GOBBI NEXTWEEK
SPECIAL DRAWING OF JURORS
MADE FOR WARREN L JOHNSON
CASE—OTHER DEFENDANTS MAY
BE TRIED.
Three hundred jurors who will
serve at the special term of Sumter
Superior court, called to assemble on
Monday, March 4th, were drawn today
by Judge Littlejohn, and Sheriff Har
vey and several bailiffs are busy al
ready summoning these for service
The principal business to come before
the court is the trial of Warren I.
Johnson, charged with the murder of
Walter Wade, and other defendants in
thise case. It is known, however, that
Johnson will be the first of the de
fendants to be placed on trial, and
the cases against the four others In
lit ted jointly with Johnson and Dr.
C. K. Chapman may not be reached at
this term.
The names of jurors drawn today
are as follows: John W. Shiver, Rev.
Lansing Burrows, G. A. Deavours, L.
A. Thomas. E. E. Williams, B. H. Du
piee, C. C. Williams, E. Timmerman,
G. W. Thomas, G. H. Horne, J. T. Mc-
Lendon, T. B. Woolridge, Dell Smith,
J L.fl Griffin, R. D. McNeill, T. R.
McLendon, C. C. Wormack, Reese M.
Andrews, L. L. McCleskey, B. T. Mar
shall, L. G. Methvin, J. R. Edge, W.
M. Humber, Crawford Wheatley, W. J.
Cordell, G. W. Montgomery, T. G.
Heys, E. J. Ealter, S. M. rCassidy, W.
M. Pennington, H. F. Comer, Allen
Chappell, H. L. Speer, W. L. McNeill,
A. S. Johnson, G. F. Sutton. L. D. Sta
pleton, H. S. Schneider, L. L. Lester,
Samuel Harrison, N. E. Wellons, S. H.
Young. R. A. Deriso, T. M. Jones, J. R.
Logan, W. E. Carter, G. B. Dell, E. L.
Ratliff, O. C Brown. Homer Chappell,
Chas. B. Hudson, C. 11. Burke, TV. J.
McDaniel, Herbert Hawkins, E. M. Oli
ver, Cary Daniel, L. K. Heys. C. A.
Ames, W. A. Jones, E. R. Stewart, J.
R. Kennington, W. G. Hooks, Z. T.
Pace, H. R. McGee, T. L. Carruthers,
E C. Parker. T. H. McGilUs, F. U.
Jcnes, H. G. Davis. J. M. Young, H. S.
Walker, H. C. Murphey, S. II Turner.
W. E. Parker. M. M. Jennings. S. M.
Pool, H. B. Mashburn. P. O. Bradley,
J T. Wiggins, J. J'P Bennett, K. G.
Bradley. F. H. Hines. E. C Ratliff, J.
T Methvin, J. T. Boylton, J E Poole,
C. J. Clark, J. P. Wise. Walter Ry
hmder, G. F. Webb, T. J. Frazier, W.
F Smith, W. W. Wilson, Earl Speer.
B T. Johnson. S. A. Rodgeds. B. L.
Dell, R. L. Griffin. G. W. Walker, B.
L Bothwell, R. E. Pilcher, I. A. Perry,
J. E. Ferguson, P. J. Lee, M. C. Veal,
J S. Glover, Tom O’Hern, J. C. Witt,
D A. Methvin, C. N. Murphey, W. F
Darden. Claude Schneider. E. D. Black
burn, C. N. Griffin, J. M. Council, C.
C. Sheppard. W. A. Harden, H. A.
Deriso, Sr., Oscar McLendon, H. N
West. L. A. Wise, Will Carter. H. A.
Chadsey, J. F. Base, T. M. Lowery,
W. O. Easterlin, C. H. Yearwood, E.
N. Argo, R. E. McNulty, John F. Mc-
Math, O. V. Hogshead, G. E. Mask. C.
•G Mills, J. B. Griffin, C. D. Arrington.
W. S. Roach. TV. M. Jones, E. B. Ever
err. W. M. Jones. E. B. Everett. J. W.
L. Daniel, N. M, Dudley, J. W. Peel, C.
D Brinkley, Frank Lanier, A. C.
Crockett, W. E. Sullivan, W. P. McAr-
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 28, 1918
"LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
thur, G. W. Kenmore, W. M. Andrews,
E L. Gammage. J. J. Kianrd. J. L.
Hall, S. J. Bradley, F. W. Griffin, W. L.
Thomas, Thomas Harrold, E. B. Crox
ton, D. G. Forrest, R. L. Thomas, L.
W. Hays, Jesse D. Cock, A. J. Eason,
J W. Carter, W. D. Moreland. Rt P
Stackhouse, B. F. Easterlin, W. O.
Barnett, L. C. Hobgood, G. A. McNeill,
A. J. Johnson, W. J. Hill, L. A Mc-
Crea, O. T. Bagwell, H W. Knowlton,
T. W. Walters, T. E. Castleberry, J.
Vv. Timmerman, H. L. Mifie, J. R.
Britton, J. W. Oliver, J. T. Taylor,
A. A. Forrest, F. G. Beavers, R. C.
Andrews, J. J. Dozier, J. A. McDon
ald, Willie Bailey, R. C. Markett, W. O.
Williamson, J. A. Walker, J. T. War
ren, J. F. Monohan, R. B. Stackhouse,
W. T. Jordan, H. H. Smith, F. W.
Hines, G. E. Kinard, W. T. Cock, G.
W. Ratliff, Thad B. Reese, J. B. Rat
liff, W. D. Bailey, A. L. Forrest, W. E.
Taylor, J. T. Ratliff, W. H. Crawford.
I: S. Broadhurst, W. L. English, T. F.
Robins, J. M. Dupree, C. F. Giddings.
F. F. Timmerman, F. P. Harrold, G. C.
Deriso, W. A. Frazier, J. E. Griffin.
.1 J. Hanesley, E. L. Wilson, G. S. Jen
nings, C. B. Bond, O. P. Jones, A. F.
Hodges, W. J. Payne, C. C. Hawkins,
R. P. Israel, Chas. L. Ansley, T. C.
Rodgers, A. C. Murray, L. D. Lock
hart, R. O. English, O. A. Williams
(27h), G. T. Adams, Frank Sheffield,
C E. Ansley. B. R. Boyd, J. B. Clark.
A. D. Derriso, A. W. Martin, H. A. Der
riso, Jr., S. M. Brinkley, A. R. Royal,
E. A. Williams, J. A. Mills, Jr., T. M.
Hudson, J. L. Forrest, G. A. Perry, J.
L. Peters, W. R. Lipscomb, C. N. Bai
ley, O. D. Reese, C. A. Slappey, Edgar
Shipp, Jr., J. R. Daniel, Henderson
Justice, R. S. Hutchinson, R. E. Dav
enport, A. J. Timmerman, Thad Bar
row, C. N. Hagerson, J. T. Gray, J. I.
Pennington. W. B. Heys, A. J. Harris,
T. L. Holman. P. D. Cannon, W. G.
Tur-pin, H. T. Bivins. L. C. Summer
ford, J. A. Mills, Sr.. W. H. Summer,
ford. C. A. Johnson, J. D. Williams. W.
W. Page, R. L. McMath, W. L. Jenn
ings. W. E. Snipes, U. K. McTyier. T.
B. Lunsford, W. J. Wise, B. B. Cham
bliss, T. B. Westbrook. H. L. Keil, J.
TV. Hightower, J. M. Buchanan, J. Mc-
Crea. Claude Forrest, D. M. Jossey,
K. C. Davis. C. L. Crutchfield, H. A
Battle, R. L. Pilcher, J. H. Rushin, S.
H, Edge, W. T. Halstead, C. S. S
Horne, J. E. Carter. I. L. Howard. W.
D. Fowler, G. W. Dorster, Jr., Jno. O.
Suggs, J. H, Poole, Jr.
GERMAHS SEIFtD
ENORNIOUSSUPPLY
DI RUSSIAN GUNS
( APTURE OF FIFTY THDUSAND
RIFLES AND TWO THOUSAND
MACHINE GUNS BY THE INVAD
ERS IS ANNOUNCED.
LONDON, Feb. 28—The German ar
my has received orders to stop its ad
vnace into Russia, according to the I
Petrograd correspondent of the Ex-,
change Telegraph Company, who re-1
gards the information as reliable.
—
BERLIN. Feb. 28.—Germany’s mili
tary operations on the northern front
are taking a normal course, it is offi
cially announced. In Minsk; the Ger
mans captured 50.000 rifles and 2,000
machine guns.
IWO BIG DRYDOCKS
SDDN THE READY
WORK UPON THOSE AT NORFOLK,
IS PROCEEDING RAPIDLY,
ACCORDING TO ADJMIBAL MAC
CLAIN .
NORFOLK, Va., February 28.—Nor
folk is to have two of the largest dry
docks in America, according to Rear
Admiral Walter Me Lean, command
ing the Norfolk Navy Yard and the
Fifth Naval District.
Admiral McLean also says the
naval base recently established on the
site of the Jamestown exposition, over
looking Hampton, roads, will be the
operating centre, and from it the navy
will be supplied with material and
men.
Asked as to the important pieces of
work now under way in the district,
Admiral McLean spoke first of the
great docks within the district. “At
the navy yard there is now being
built one of the greatest docks in this
country.” he said. “The plan calls for
two docks; but while the second one
will b e built eventually, it will not ba
completed in the near future. We are
spending all our energies on the one
now bein built which we call number
four.
“This dock ought to be finished in
October or earlier, and all ships cap
able of going through the Panama
Canal locks will be capable of going
in this dock. The other dock planned
ter is immediately alongside of the
one now being built, and will be as
large. The two together are the
largest docks the coiintry contemplates
building. The siz e of the docks is
regulated by the size of the locks of
the Panama Canal. When the time
comes that we get ships that won’t
go through the canal we will build
bigger docks than the ones at the
yard. But we don’t expect that day to
come for some time.
“While I was commandant of the
yard, work was begun on a very large
structural shop and is now nearin?
completion. We also have a new
power plant over at the yards, together
with machine shops and foundry, and
there is an appropriation for a very
extensive improvement -in the water
front at the yard.”
DRAFT WON’T HURT
FARMERS THIS YEAR
ATLANTA, Ga., February 28.—In
formation has been received here that
Senator Hoke Smith in Washington
has secured a statement from Provost
Marshal General Crowder that farmers
clasifled in Class 1 go ahead and plant
their crops without apprehension of
being drafted into service before they
can make arrangements. In fact, it
was stated to the senator by the pro
vest marshal that the War department
is now at work on a plan whereby it
hopes to be able to relieve the farm
ers long enough not only to plant this
year’s crop but also to gather it. The
senator took the matter up with the
provost marshal in response to a num-
ALL VISITORS TO
CAMP SITE MOST
SECURE PERMITS
ROAD IS OPEN FOR VEHICLES--
GUARDS PATROL THE PLACE,
WHICH IS NOW ONE OF UNUS
UAL ACTIVITY.
Permits are now required by visitors
tc the aviation camp. The road from
Andersonville to the Arles plantation
road is still open to vehicles, but
persons are not allowed to leave the
roadway.
A score of guards with long sticks
are patrolling the place, and admit no
visitors who do not have passes sign
ed by Lieutenant Roach, who is the
government officer in charge.
Smoking on the camp site is also
prohibited during the work of con
struction.
The Americus Lighting Company is
now laying its lines to the camp holes
for the posts being dug.
Every day more employes for the
Hardaway Construction Company and
the McCrary Company are arriving.
Two buildings have been erected al
ready, and the foundations laid for
three others.
The trees are being cut down, the
ground cleared, and roadways estab
lished.
The place is one of great activity,
and every day hundreds are attracted
t » it to watch the progress of the
work.
LESS A GIRL WEARS
THE MORE SHE EATS
ATLANTA. Ga., February 28.—The
less a girl wears, the more she must
eat. Thia i* the law of clothes, laid
down by physicians after a full re
search into the “folly of fashions.”
An inch cut off the skirt necessi
tates an extra pound of beefsteak
inside—or comething like that, as
nearly as it can be stated in untech
nical language.
Os course the whole story is based
on cold weather conditions. It is con
tended that the girl who walks tne
street in winter with skirts half way
to her knees, thin silk stockings and
a chest partly bared to the chilling
breeze, must eat more than is good
for her, simply in order to keep the
heat calories working. She has to
eat so much that she sometimes get
irritable, nervous and eventually dys
peptic.
“The girl with money can get enough
to keep her warm when she undress
for ‘ the street,” it is said, “but the
working girl who spends nearly all she
earns on Clothes to imitate the heir
ess, has s o little fleft for food that
she becomes weakened and an eacy
victim for tuberculosis.”
It is admitted, however, that the
theory applies only to cold weather
In the summertime, so far as mere
physical health is concerned, every
body would be far better off by going
entirely naked, if such a thing were
possible.
Jeter Moved From Washington.
Americus relatives of Corporal Jesss
Jeter, who was recently transferred
from Camp Wheeler to the govenment
engineering school at Washington, re
ceived a message from his today say
ing he was leaving Washington, prob
ably for France, although his desti
nation was unknown. Corporal Jeter
is an experienced public service en- [
gtneer, having assisted in the con ,
struction of many public works ini
Americus, and will doubtless prove!
very valuable to the army forces up-1
on his arrival in France.
Spanish Ship Torpedoed.
MADRID, Feb. 28.—The Spanish I
press announces today, without offi-i
cial confirmation the torpedoing of the
Spanish steamer Sarniero, and efforts
are being made to obtain such confir
mation. U-boats obtained better re
sults against Spanish shipping than
against either Italian or French ton
nage last week.
ber of letters sent him by Georgia
farmers who have been classified in
Class 1 and who did not know whether
to plant a crop.
crn
EDITION
MBS. HIRSCH HOT
TO BE TBIED AT
THE PBESENI TIME
COOK GIVEN TWELVE MONTHS ON
THE CHAINGANG FOR BLACK
MAILING ASA CANDLER, UNA
BLE TO GIVE BOND.
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 28 —Solicitor-
General Boykin announced this after
noon that he would not try the case
aaginst Mrs. Hirsch this week. No
date has yet been set for the hearing.
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 28. —Now that
J. W. Cook has been convicted and
given the maximum penalty by law for
his joint attempt with Mrs. H. H.
Hirsch to extort $500,000 from Mayor
Asa G. Candler on a blackmail threat,
it is understood that the prosecution
of the indictment against her will be
drc/.ped.
As it stands without any prosecu.
tion, Mrs. Hirsch has lost practically
all *a woman can lose. She has lost
her husband and her home, has lost
the friendship of some of the best
people in Atlanta. The trial was con
summated in remarkably quick time.
Beginning at 9 o'clock yesterday af
ternoon, it was concluded at 4:20 P
m., when Judge Ben Hill pronounced
sentence, sending Cook to the peni
tentiary for a year and imposing in ad
dition a fine of SI,OOO.
Cook Unable to Make Bond.
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 28.—Early this
afternoon, J. W. Cook, convicted of
conspiracy to blackmail Asa G. Can
dler and sentenced to a year on the
chaingang and a fin e of SI,OOO, was
still in jail in default, of bond. Hear
ing on the motion for appeal has
been set for March 16th.
FOUR SENTRIES IN
TRENCHES WILL DIE
FOR FALLING ASLEEP
WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 28.
Four American soldiers caught asleep
on sentry duty in first line trenches
have been sentenced to death, but
General Pershing, although lie has
authority to carry out the sentence,
referred the cases to the war depart
ment for review.
RED CROSS CHAPTER
ORGANIZED IN SCHLEY
The Schley County Red Cross chapter
was organized at the school auditor
ium here last night. The following
officers were elected: Col. J. H. Che
ney, chairman; Mrs. J. E. Sampley,
vice chairman; Mrs. T. A. Collins, sec
retary; Mr. Rogers Williams, treas
urer, Vice chairmen for each militia
district and each school district of
the county were appointed; also a
complete quota of committees selected.
A large number of people were pres
ent, and much interest maniisted in
the work. All indications point to a
thorough organization of the county
within the next few weeks. About
three hundred dollars and much ma
terial was turned over to the new
chapter by the local organization,
which had been operating as an aux
iliary of the Sumter county chapter.
COMMISSION GETS
RATE MAKING RULE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 28.
The house today amended the rail
way control bill to place the rate-mak
ing power with the interstate com
merce commission. The vote on the
amendment was 164 to 157.
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Services at I’alvry Church.
The Lenten services for Friday will
be as follows:
Penitential office, 12 o’clock, nopn.
Evening prayer and address, 7:30
p. m.
The subject of the address at the
evening service will be the second
Epistle of Clement of Rome to the
I Corinthians.
NUMBER 51.