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DAILY
FORTIETH YEAR,
0.5. EMBASSY
AT PETROOHAD
HAS DEPARTED
GERMAN ADVANCE TOWARD THE
RUSSIAN CAPITAL IS RESUMED—
SITUATION HAS TAKEN TURN
FOR THE WORSE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March I.
The Committee on Public Information
today announced receipt of official ad
vices from its representatives in Pet
rograd saying Ambassador Francis,
the members of his staff, the American
consulate and military mission to Rus
sia, and Red Cross representatives all
left Petrograd for Vologda the night
of February 27th.
German Advance Resumed.
LONDON, March 1. —Despatches re
ceived by the Exchange Telegraph Com
panv today and filed in Petrograd at
6 oclock 'lhursday evening, indicate
the German advance into Russia has
been resumed.
To Defend Petrograd.
LONDON, March I.—The Russian
Council of People’s Commissioners has
decided to return to Petrograd, says
an official Russian statement received
here today. Removal of all elements
of population valueless in the defense
of the capital is being continued,
however.
Norwegians Take Over Interests.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 28.—(Delayed.)
—The American consul has left Petro
grad, where he remained after the em
bassy’s deparutre, according te infor
mation reaching the American legation
here. The consulate at Petrograd has
been taken over by the Norwegian con
sul. This bare report seems t oindi
eate the situation at the Russian capi
tay ha staken a change for the worse.
comm m is
PROPOSED AGAIN
SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS AL
READY VOLUNTEERED TO ES
TABLISH IT LN CONNECTION
WITH A FAIR ASSOCIATION.
There is some prospect of the Coun
try Club being revived.
Six gentlemen have already agreed
to take SI,OOO each in bonds of the
club, which is an incorporated institu
tion.
Effort is in progress to secure such
additional subscriptions as will make
it possible to pay all debts of the club
and re-establish it on a firm financial
basis.
The club house is now used as a
private residence, but is for sale, and
van be purchased at a reasonable fig
ure.
If the project gbe s through, the club
will be operated in connection with
fair grounds and spring baseball train
ing grounds and a golf course. The
bondholders will naturally have an
interest ’n the entire scheme.
Former leading members of the
club are taking an interest in this
matter and hope to work it to a suc
cessful c( nclusion at an early date.
It is felt that the coming of the
aviation camp makes it imperative for
Americus to furnish the aviators and
soldiers with some place of entertain
ment and recreation.
HOSPITALSHIP
SUNK BY U-BOAT
LONDON, March I.—Sworn state
ments made independently by two sur
vivors of the British hospital shop,
Glenart Castle, sunk Tuesday in Bris
tol Channel, it is officially announced
say the vessel was sunk by an enemy
submarine, which was sighted within
tailing distance, ten minutes after the
ship struck.
Italian Nhippimr Immune.
ROME. Feb. 28. ltalian shipping
was immune from German submarines,
mines and other destructive agencies
during the week ended February 23rd.’
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
REVENGE UPON
GERMANS FOR
GftS ATTACKS
ENTIRE POSITION ENTIRELY OB
LITERATE!) BY AMERICAN GUNS
—SIX AMERICANS DEAD; EIGH
TY IN HOSPITAL.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, in
France, Feb. 28. (Delayed.)—Swift
retribution has fallen upon German
batteries which this week bombarded
American trenches northeast of Toul
with gas shells. American heavy ar
tillery concentrated its fire upon the
German winewerfer batteries and ob
literated their position.
Thus far six men have died from the
effects of the gas shell while more
than eighty are in hospitals, but only
one of these is reported in a grave
condition.
FUDO VIDLUDRS
IN THIS BOOTY
TO BLPUNISHED
COUNTY FOOD ADMINISTRATOR
GIVES OUT STATEMENT SAYING
ALL FUTURE VIOLATORS WILL
BE SEVERELY HANDLED.
County Food Administrator Franc
Mangum today gave out the following
statement:
“Reports of deliberate violations of
various regulations concerning the
handling and selling of food products
have been made to m e by my depu
ties and by other persons, and sev
eral such reports have been investi
gated and confirmed.
“Information on hand is to the ef
fect that at least two country stores
have violated the law against selling
flour without permits or without re
quiring an equal purchase of other
cereals.
“It is also reported, and proved, that
a number of persons have sought to
•persuade grocers to violate this rule,
and have declared that they could
bi y flour surreptitiously, without com
plying with the rule.
“Any person who will do that is a
criminal. Not only that, but he is tan
tamount to a traitor to his country,
which has established the rule by
which he should live because it wtf,
deemed necessary for the successful
prosecution of a war on which our lib
erties and even our very lives de
pend.
“In my capacity as food administra
tor for the county, I have made many
personal sacrifices —serving altogether
without compensation and at a consid
erable personal expense—and the on
ly possible satisfaction I can get out of
the office is the knowledge of having
done my duty. I am going to perform
that duty as the law says it should be
done, and I give unqualified notice that
henceforth all violations, whether
small or large, will be punished with
out fear or favor. There will be no
more reprimands, and no more pleas
that the violations were committed in
ignorance, without intent to violate
tie, will be accepted.
“I feel that the dealers and the cit
izens who are striving so hard to live
squarely up to the law should be pro
tected, and that persons who are guilty
of hoarding, or dealers, big or little,
who are guilty of unfair practuces
should be severely handled, as an ex
ample to the community, and as a mat
ter of simple justice. Any man who
dees not unhesitatingly submit to ev
ery requirement of his government in
this great crisis is distinctly disloyal,
T.id he should be exposed as such.”
Five Mor/'e Bodies Recovered.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March .
Five more -oodles of men lost on the
raval tug Cherokee have geen recov
ered and sent to a morgue. Two of
the bodies are still unidentified.
German Advance Continues.
/ BERLIN, March I.—German troops
are continuing their advance in Russia
and have reached the Dnieur river, it
fig officially announced. Austria-Hun
garian troops have begun an advance
into Ukraine
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 1, 1918
MAKING PICTURES UNDER SHELL FIRE
jgk Mr «
1 i '■ $3 w||l|a n/
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When you pick up one of the many publications which print war photo
graphs and see startling pictures of actual fighting at the front, or when you
see real battle scenes on the screen, very rarely do you think of the hazard
the photographers run who make the photographs. This picture shows French
photographic operators working near the front lines within the range of
enemy fire. The smoke from an exploded shell can be seen. The men in the
photographic division who make the photographs for war records and for the
intelligence bureau are in as much danger as the men In the trenches.
plant for your table is
ADVICE OF COUNTY AGENT
The Southern former as a whole,
will do his duty as he sees it, and
now it the time when he should think
a little to determine just what his
duty is to the nation, of which he is
a vital part. It seem s clear and sim
ple that every farmer should produce
every ounce of food it is possible for
him to produce.
There are forty million people with ?
drawn from productive occupations
and engaged in destructive work;
therefore, it is hardly possible for
production to meet the demand, an-l
by no means exceed. Fom a stand
point of duty and patriotism, the far
mer should put down a dollar’s worth
of fertilizer, as long as he can count
on harvesting a dollar’s worth of food, ■
and a very little is worth a dollar. I
In order for Georgia to produce all j
the meat it will consume during 118 i
we will have to increase our produc- i
tic n of hogs 500,000 head over the crop
of 1917, or 37 trainloads of 18 cars
NEW RULINGS ON
FOOD QUESTION
The food administration has made
the following rulings:
No wheat substitutes are required
fcr bread to be used in religious cere
monies. where such bread or crockers
been made of pure wheat flour
heretofore.
All soda founts and lunch stands
selling meat sandwiches on prohibited
days are subject to the food adminis
tration's penalty, it is announced.
It is also in violation of the law to
sell ham sandwiches on porkless Sat
urdays.
Possession by merchants, peddlers
or other dealers of live hens or pul
lets will be considered by the Georgia
food adminsitration as evidence of vio
lation of the ruling for chicken con
servation, unless the dealer can pro
duce affidavits showing that the hens
are to be sold only for egg-pfoducing
purposes.
This announcement was accompan
ied by a warning that possession of
freshly killed hens or pullets would
Le accepted as evidence of violation
cf the food laws.
SERVICES AT CATHOLIC
CHURCH HERE SUNDAY
There will be a celebration of the
Holy Mass in the Catholic church on
Lee street Sunday morning, begin
ning promptly at 8 o’clock. Rev.
Father Walsh, of Albany, the regular
visitant at Americus, will be the cele
brant. and a cordial invitation is
extended the public to attend. Es
pecial attention is called to hour at
which the service begins, viz.. eigh f
o’clock, Sunday morning.
"LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
to the train.
Transportation will likely be lack
ing to haul food, ana this alone nec
essitates the production of at least
a’l food supplies needed on the farm,
and in the immediate community.
Grow the products that will insure
food for the family and feed for the
live stock. These are: A vegetable
garden, milch cow, brood sow, poultry
flock, ample corn, potatoes, peanuts,
cane and then as much cotton or to
bacco as can well be cultivated.
Here is given a striking illustration
by Clarence Ousley, assistant secreta
ry of agriculture: “For any man now
to determine his business operations
from the standpoint of profit alone,
without regard to the nation’s needs, is
for him wilfully to profiteer in the
blood of his fellows who are fighting
in France for the preservation of the
republic. No man can be excused for
not taking his share of the responsi
bility.” G. O. MARSHALL.
County Farm Demonstration Agent.
JUDGE W. T. WEEKLY
DIED LAST NIGHT
.Judge W. T. Weekly died at his res
idence on Spring street at 12 o’clock
Thursday night. He had been in ill
health for several years, and his con
dition had been growing more serious
daily. He was at the courthouse, in
his office there, during office hours
’ Thursday, and was as well as usual
during the day. He was seized during
the night with sudden illness and at
11 o'clock passed away.
Judge Weekly was for a number of
years with the Sheffield Co., and after
leaving them was elected to tlie office
of justice of the peace, which office he j
had since held. He was a member of
Central Baptist church, and of Camp
Sumter, United Confederate Veterans,
and was affiliated with Camp No. 24,,
P O. S A. He is survived by his
wife and two brothers, C. H. Weekly,
of Atlanta and Emmett Weekly, of
Columbus, and one sister, Mrs. Ella
Cammage, o f Bronwood, Ga.
Funeral services will be from the
Central Baptist church Saturday morn
ing at 10:30, Rev. R. L. Bivins and Rev.
George F. Brown will officiate. Inter
ment will be in Oak Grove cemetery
Judge Weekly was a good man, anj
all of his acquaintances were his
friends. The sympathies of all are
extended the bereaved family in their
sorrow.
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Want Rates Raised.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 1—
■ Ten railroads operating in the cotton
■ states asked the Interstate Commerce
i commission today to fix a rate of two
- cents per hundred pounds for services
: rendered at interstate points in con
nection with concentrating, compress
ing and re-shipping.
JAPANESE MM
ASSIST ALLIES
AGAINST HUNS
I HEIR PROPOSALS ARE FAVORA
BLY CONSIDERED, AND THEY
MAY BE PERMITTED TO MAKE
DEFENSE IN SIBERIA.
LONDON, March 1. —Japan’s propos
als with regard to Siberia, and their
reception in Washington, have brought
the question of Japan’s active partici
patoin in military operations to the
forefront here Developments in the
negotiations are dominating the news
columns of all papers, and the bulk of
opinion favors Japan’s proposed ac
tion, without qualification. In fact
the plea is made m some quarters that
Japan ought to be implicitly trusted
and given a tree hand to deal with
developments in that section of the
world
BROTHERS MEET
IT FRENCH CHIP
LIEUTENANTS EVAN AND JOHN
MATHIS ARE NOW STATIONED
AT THE SAME PLACE “SOME
WHERE IN FRANCE.”
It is decidedly unusual for two
brothers, enrolled in different branches
of the military service, and at differ
times, to finally be thrown together
in the same camp in France.
But that is what has happened with
Lieutenants Evan and John Mathis,
sons of Dr. E. T. Mathis.
One is in the aviation branch, as a
machine gun expert, and the other is
in the infantry. Now they are sta
tioned at the same camp “Somewhere
in France.”
The surprise and pleasure they felt
in thus unexpectedly meeting with
each other may be imagined.
LOCAL BOARD IS
PAID COMPLIMENT
UPHELD IN PRACTICALLY EVERY
APPEAL FROM THIS COUNTY—
( HABLES U. ROGERS IS PUT IN
( LASS ONE.
A distinct compliment has been paid
the local exemption board by the dis
trict board.
Os fifty-three appeals to the district
board from this county, only two were
allowed, the board here being em
phatically upheld in all of the other!
cases.
The district board made two changes
in classification. Charles Rodgers,
manager of the Windsor Hotel, who
had been placed by the local board
in class four, was changed to class
one Mr. Rodgers is married, but has
no children.
AMERICUS BOY
LOSES HIS LEG |
IN FRANCE
William Judson on Americus '
bey, serving with the infantry in 1
France, is the first from this city to.
be wounded in the war.
In a letter to a young lady in this h
city he has written that he has lost, a I
leg. His foot was injured, and it fin [
ally became necessary to amputate the i
leg. The censor would not permit the ■
young man's statement as to the ex
act manner in which he suffered the
ii jury t o go through the mails.
As soon a 8 the young man fully re-1
covers he will be sent here.
McAdoo Allows Rates.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March I. .
Director General McAdoo today decid-,
ed not to interfere with transports-
err i
EDITION
NEWS CENSOR
IN FRANCE 15
GIM ROAST
ACTING CHIEF OF STAFF IN
FRANCE RETURNS AND REPORTS
THAT U. S. SOLDIERS GIVE
SPLENDID ACCOUNT.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, March I.
Maj.-Gen. Peyton March, acting chief
of staff of the United States army,
arrived here today after none months
spent abroad as chief of artillery with
the American expeditionary forces. He
described the American troops as well
trained as to be able to handle them
selves “with credit to the United
States.” He described the censorship
as "lamentable,” and intimated he
would advocate that regulations in
tl.is respect be made less strenuous.
SEN. TIILMAN TO
STIRT 818 TIGHT
SOUTH CAROLINA ALSO IS ON THE
VERGE OF WARM SENATORIAL
CAMPAIGN—BLEASE AND M’LAU
RIN TO RUN.
WASHINGTON, March I.—Georgia
is not to have a senatorial fight all
to herself during the coming summer.
There is also to be a small sized show
not many miles from the Georgia line
and just across the Savannah river on
the Carolina side,
“iPitchfork" Ben Tillman, or as he
has for almost a quarter of a century
now been known. "Senator Tillman,”
i. preparing a vitriolic broadside at
his adversary, former Governor C. L.
Blease, ex-Senator John L. McLaurin,
and others who are opposing him,
which, when it is made public is ex
pected to cause a big sensafion in
Carolina.
Blease and McLaurin have been pes
tering “Uncle Bennie” Tillman until
his patience is about spent. A month
ago Mr. McLaurin issued a newspape"
statement declaring that he was tired
of all that old talk aobut Tillman dy
ing in harness,” one foot in the grave,”
and “being ready to quit congress
whenever the democratic voters of
South Carolina should indicate this
to be their desire.”
He said some mean things about
Tillman. The latter prepared an elab
orate reply but upon advice of friends
, withheld it for the time being.
Now, however, he has gotten up an
other old time “manifesto” and this
document is at present in the hands of
Tillman's South Carolina friends for
revision. As soon as it comes back to
Washington it will be given the press
and made public. Then it will be seen
that Georgia will not have a senato
rial fight all to himself.
Thi s Tillman statement is going to
be red hot from start to finish unless
it is changed from its present form.
McLaurin is the man who, while in
the senate of the United States many
years ago went off in the so-called
“McKinley commercial democracy” and
was ridiculed out of politics by Till
man after the two had enlivened the
senate with a real old-fashioned fight
in which neither was badly hurt.
From that day to this there has
never been any good feeling between
Tillman and McLaurin and so far as
Tillman and Blease are concerned, re
lations are even worse strained than
in the case of McLaurin
Blease hates Tillman and everything
named Tillman, and Tillman has abso
lutely no use for Blease under the
sun.
( . E. FIELD SECRETARY AT
PRESBYTER! A N CH URCR
Mr Taylor. Field Secretary of the
General Christian Endeavor Society,
will speak at the Presbyterian church
tonight at seven-thirty o’clock. All
Christian Endeavorers, seniors and
juniors, are expected to hear him as
well as others that are interested in
this great work.
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| t>on for the Tulsa Confederate reun
ion, allowing veterans special rates.
NUMBER 52.