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DAILY
CITY
EDITION
FORTIETH YEAR
THOUSANDS SEE
SAMMIES PASS
THROUGHLONDON
HEARTS OF LONDONERS EVIDENT
ED ENTHUSIASM AS KHAKI
CLAD LEGIONS MARCHED TO
KING’S PALACE.
LONDON, May 11.—Thousands bf
spectators including persons of every
class .banked the street of London
today along the route taken by the
American troops in their parade
through the heart of London. The
enthusiasm in the hearts of Londoners
surpassed even that of 1914, when
the first British troops including many
famous organizations, marched to the
war in France. The troops marched
through the streets first to the Am
erican embassy, and thence to Buck
ingham Palace, where they were re
viewed by ing George.
10 AOISE
PROFITEERS IN
GRAIN-PRODUCTS
AT DIRECTION OF NATIONAL AD
MINISTRATION STATE AUTHOR
ITIES WILL TAKE DRASTIC
STEPS TO SUPPRESS TRAFFIC.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 11—Vigorous
action as suggested in a telegram from
Mr. Hoover to the Georgia food admin
istration, will be taken at once by Dr.
Andrew M. Soule to check the prac
tice of what has begun to border on
actual profiteering on the part of deal
ers in prices charged for substitutes
for wheat flour. Washington’s in
vestigation of this condition through
out the country has developed that the
practice has become almost general
of charging for corn meal, oatmeal and
barley flour on a par with the prevail
ing price fixed for unadulterated flour.
That there is no excuse for this con
dition and that somewhere along the
line from the farms to the grocery
men there exists deliberate profiteer
ing, is statd by Mr. Hooxer in his
telegram. For instance, he says that
corn meal should be selling at the mill
door at fullyw 25 per cent less than
wheat flour, that oatmeal should be
even cheaper than that, and that bai ley
flour should be at least 15 per cent
cheaper than wheat flour. He has in
structed Dr. Soule and his organiza
tion to 3° into the situation and fix a
reasonable scale of prices for all wheat
flour substitutes. The telegram also
states that “ the time when a re-ad
justment in the price of such grains
should be made, has now come.”
The campaign against the prevail
ing high prices of wheat flour sub
stitutes is one that will be carried
through with great firmness, says Dr.
Soule, and local food administrators
will be immediately instructed to
take this matter up and reduce prices
on substitute cereals to the levels out
line in Mr. Hoover’s telegram, which
is interpreted here as meaning an early
reduction in corn meal of approxi
mately 25 per cent with other cereals
also reduced in price.
GERMANS DEMAND
THAT RUSSIANS
DISBAND ARMY
MOSCOW. May 11.—Count Von Mir
bach, the German embassador to Rus
sia. today issued an ultimatum direct
ed to the Bolshevik! government de
manding that the authorities stop the
arming of Russian troops and disband
those already armed. The ultimatum
also says the question of transporting
German prisoners of war back home
must be definitely settled quickly.
Germany proposed to give Russia in
exchange for able-bodied prisoners
those Russian prisoners who are now
incapable of further military services.
AMERICUS TIMIS-RECORDEk
"LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
COMMENCEMENT
ITU M. SCHOOL
TO BEGIN TDDAT
CONCLUDING EXERCISES TO BE
HELD SATURDAY, MAY 18TH,
MEETING IN AUDITORIUM.
The first of the commencement ex
ercises at the Third District Agricul
tural and Mechanical College here,
will be held today, at Lee Street
Methodist church, where Rev. S. E.
Jenkins will preach the Commence
ment Sermon at 11 o’clock. The pub
lic is invited to attend these exercises,
and a number of special invitations
have been sent to friends of the in
stitution, requesting their attendance
at the various exercises of the week.
On Thursday evening there will be
a meeting of the Board of Trustees in
the Senior Girls’ Home, on the Aggie
campus, which will be attended by the
entire membership, with Chairman
Crawford Wheatley presiding. This
is the annual meeting of the trustees
and much business of importance will
be transacted at that time.. This
meeting will be called to order at 7
o’clock.
On Friday morning the literary pro
gram will be rendered in the new au
ditorium, beginning at 11 o’clock, and
that night at 8:30 o’clock the literary
address will be delivered by Hon. J.
jE. D. Shipp, of Americus. His sub
j ject will be an appropriate one,
and following this the graduating ex
ercise will be held in the same build
ing. There are fifteen young ladies
I and boys in the graduating class this
year, their names being as follows:
■ Herbert Glenn Bailey, Mervin Clifford
Bailey, Lera Croxton, Macy Bishop
Grey, Eddye Leone Hooks. Helen
Jenkins, Paul Jenkins, Esca Meade
Monroe. James Griffin Moran, Lucy
lone Patterson, Curtis Flournoy Steph
ens, Sallie Mae Stephens, Hugh Sel
lars, J. C. Foster, Mary Ruth Will
iams, and the officers of the Senior
Class are: Mervin Clifford Bailey,
president; Sallie Mae Stephens, vice
president; Eddye Leone Hooks, secre
tary and treasurer.
The class motto is “Pull Together;”
class colors, Red and Black, and class
flower, the American Beauty Rose.
A feature of the commencement will
be the exhibition of industrial, do
mestic science and arts which will
continue throughout the week.
FUNERAL OF MRS.
L B. MATTHEWS
The funeral of Mrs. Lucy V. Mat
thews, which occurred late Friday at-
I
ternoon was largely attended by
friends of the deceased and of her
family, who turned out to do tribute
to the memory of this good woman,
w hose passing has cast a pall of sor
row- over the entire community. The
obsequies were conducted by Rev.
Hansing Burrows, assisted by Rev. J. B.
Lawrence, rector of Calvary- Episcopal
church, with interment in Oak Grove
cemetery. The pallbearers were:
Messrs. Lee G. Council, William A.
Dodson, John Council, J. E. Mathis,
John T. Taylor and Hollis Fort, and
the floral tributes received were many
and beautiful.
Decetsed was the widow- of the late
Col. John c. Matthews, and the
I daughter of Major William Black, one
'of the pioneer residents of Americus,
her family being one of prominence
in the development of the city during
its early growth, and announcement of
her death was received with general
sorrow throughout the city and county
’s well.
Dally Casualties.
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 11.—Five
officers captured by the Germans are
in today’s casualty list which con
tains a total of sixty-nine names. Os
these eight were killed in action, four
died of wounds, four died of disease,
seven died of accidental causes, and
three from “other causes.” Four were
wounded severely, and thirty-four
slightly wounded. Joe G. Mullins, of
Greenville, Tennessee, who was
wounded slightly is the only- South
ern man who name appears on to
day’s list.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING MAY 12, 1918
I SEftPUHE OBSEWER HELEASINS PIGEON
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When the British seaplane pilot flies far out over the North Sea ob
serving operations of German submarines and has not the time to run
back to his base with information he releases a pigeon with the messaye.
Then he goes on his journey-.
GREAT FOOO
CROPS BEING
OH HEBE
Sumter farmers, who are now busy
harvesting a huge wheat crop estimat
or at two hundred and fifty thousand
bushels and who also have on hand
one of the largest stocks of salt pork
ever packed here, are arranging to put
in a large acreage in sweet potatoes
which will be ready for harvest early
this fall. This is one of the easiest
raised and most prolific crops pro
duced in this section of Georgia, and
more than a million bushels will be
raised in this conty alone.
It is estimated easily five thou
sand acres will be devited to the po
tato crop in Sumter this season, and
much of this will be land from which
a good crop of wheat has already been
harvested. The tubers are in great
demand always, and even in the har
vesting season usually bring about
$1.75 a bushel net to the farmers,
which means the total crop of five hun
dred thousand bushels will add about
eight hundred and seventy-five thou
sand dollars to the agricultural wealth
of the county, a tidy sum that hereto
fore has been quite overlooked by
many farmers in this section.
ARMY Y. M. C. A.
COMMITTEE NAMED
Judge R L. Maynard has been ap
pointed chairman of the Army Y. M. C.
A. work for Americus and he has ap
pointed the following gentlemen as the
committee to work with him:
John Sheffield, T. O. Marshall, J
T. Taylor, Jno. W. Shiver, T. M. Fur
low, H. M. Stokes, C A. Culpepper. T
F. Gatewood, T. E. Bolton, C. C
Hawkins. J. E. Mahis, T. C. Tillman.
Joseph Perkins, L. P. Gartner, W E
Brown, Frank Harrold, Ed Gyles.
The purpose of this work at present
is to secure suitable men to go into
the various army camps as Y. M. C.
A. workers. Any one who is suitable
for this work and is not within the
draft age would be eligible. This
is a very important work in the pres
ent day and any one contemplating
entering into this will see any mem
ber of the committe for further in
Macon Superior Court Convenes.
Macon county superior court is the
next on the docket and wi onvene
Monday. Two weeks’ term is allot
ted Macon county and usually both
weeks are used up in the holding of
the court. Judge Z. A. Littlejohn and
Solicitor-General John Allen Fort will
be on hand, as wlil several Ameri
cus attorneys.
535,000,000.00
FOR MISSIONS
TOJE BUSED
METHODISTS WILL SPEND VAST
SUM DURING NEXT FIVE YEARS
TO EXTEND CHURCH IN MISSION
ARY FIELDS.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 11.—Thirty-five
million dollars for home and foreign
missions will be raised by the Metho
dist Episcopal church. South, during
the next five years.
The report of the finance committee
on missionary centenary movement
asking this amount was today approv
ed by the General Conference of the
church, which is nov in session here.
Os this huge sum, approximately five
millions will be spent for home mis
sion work, the advancement of social
and religious work among negroes, the
mountain population and in certain
districts in crowded cities of the South.
EMPEROR KARL*
WANTS PEACE
AMSTERDAM, May 11 .—Hungarian
Foreign Minister declared in a speech
today that he hoped general peace ne
gotiations would follow the signing
of the Roumanian peach treaty, ac
cording to a news dispatch from Buda
pest. Emperor Karl has exploited ev
ery possibility of peace, the Foreign
Minister said, and he still wishes that
no opportunity be missed to conclude
and honorable and durable peace in
Europe. ,
EUROPEAN NEUTRALS
ARE WAXING RICH
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 11— The
six European neutral states are wax
j ing wealth} 7 under their profits, the
I Federal Reserve bulletin issue today,
shows. Despite tremendous increases
■ in their public debts and in national
| taxation, the bulletin shows that the
I financial position of Norway. Sweden,
! Spain, Holland, Denmark and Sw'itz
’ erland is now the strongest in history.
Reorganizing Austrian Army.
i WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES, in
the Field, May 11.—Information from
the Italian front is to the effect that
since the recent inspired announce
ment by the Austro-German press re
garding an impending offensive on the
. Italian front, it is becoming daily
mere apparent that a complete re
organization of the Austrian army is
i being effected.
TICK MCAFIOH
WOOK TO BEGIN IN
COUNTY IN JULY
THREE EXPERTS TO BE HERE TO
LOCATE SOURCES OF INFECTION
BEFORE FALL COMES.
G. O. Marshall, ocunty farm demon
stration agent, who is in charge of the
w-ork of exterminating the cattle tick
in Sumter county, arranging details
of the campaign to be carried out here,
and announced yesterday that three
experts will begin early in July the
work of locating ticky cattle and
sources of infection, as well as as in
fected pastures.
This is a necessary preliminary to
the anti-tick campaign which will be
carried on energetically, being de
signed to rid the county of the pests
entirely before next summer. After
these experts one of whom will be
named by the county, another by the
state and a third by the federal gov
ernment, have completed their exami
nation of the territory here, the build
ing of dipping vats will be commenced
at once. Dhen these are completed,
all cattle infected territory will be
required to be dipped at least once
every fourteen days, and in this man
ner the county will soon be rid of
ticks. Failure to dip cattle after the
necessary vats are completed will be
punished as any other misdemeanor,
by jury trial after indictment befoer
a grand jury, or warrants may be
sworn out for offenders by federal of
ficers in charge of the campaign.
DANIELS HONOR GUEST
AT ATLANTA MEETING
ATLANTA, Ga,, May 11. —Josephus
Daniels .secretary of the navy and
one of the most prominent world
figures of the day, was Atlanta’s guest
today. He was entertained this after
noon at luncheon at the Capital City
Club by Major John S. Cohen, presi
dent and editor of the Atlanta Journal.
The invited guests were prominent
Georgia editors from all parts of the
state, prominent bishops attending
l the general conference of the Metho
dist church now holding its quadren
nial session in this city, and promt
nent citizens of Atlanta. Secretary
Daniel delivered an address to the
general conference tonight.
LITTLE BOY HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
——
William Connally, whose parents re- 1
ide at 502 Barlow street, had a narrow
escape early Saturday morning when a
light car belonging to the aviation
corps here in which he was riding,
overturned and he was caught be
neath the engine. The little fellow
was unconscious for a brief time, but
v / I
soon recovered after receiving medical
treatment. He is still rather sore,
however, and will be confined to his
i bed for several days With him in the
car were James and Luther Alexander,
land the cause of the accident has
plot been definitely ascertained. None
of the other boys in the car at the time
I were injured except minor bruises.
MRS. ARMOR TO
SPEAK HERE TODAY
| Mrs. Mary Harris Armor, national L
lecturer for the W. C. T. U., will de- ‘
liver an address at First Methodist
■church this afternoon beginnig at 3
'o’clock. She is a speaker of wide
.reputation, and doubtless will be
heard by a large udience.
801 l Weevil in Muscogee.
COLUMBUS, Ga., May 11.—Boll
weevil have appeared in Muscogee |
■ county to an alarming extent, not
withstanding the fact that cotton is
barely an high . The situation is re
' garded as serious and unless the pest I
can be controlled the entire cotton
crop is threatened with destruction.
SUNDAY
1 1 OWE MEAX '
WHEATLESS
U-SE NO BREAD. CRACKF-IVS. »lul 11111 IJtoj.'
I’AST‘O ERLAKIASI I’OODS I
CONTAINING 'WHEAT
i ‘‘
ROOSEVELT TO
CARRY FIGHT
INTI) SENATE
FORMER i PRESIDENT ISSUES
STATEMENT SAYING POSTMAS
TER GENERAL FAVORED CER
TAIN PUBLICATIONS.
NEW’ YORK, May 11.-Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt will carry his fight
I against Postmaster General Burleson
o the Senate. Today the former presi
dent issued a formal statement in
which he declares the government has
shown favoritism in attacking Col
lier’s, the Metropolitan Magazine, and
the New York Tribune, for their criti
cisms of the administration, while
the Hearst publications, which Colonel
Roosevelt said, had been helpful to
Germany, have not been interfered
with.
methooTstTmust
MAKE SICRIFICES
SAYS HAVY SECRE'Y
ADDRESSIN GGENERAL CONFER
ENCE, SECRETARY DANIELS
POINTS OUT SUPREME DUTY OF
ALL DURING WAR.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 11 —‘The su
preme duty of the Methodist church,
North and South, is to make any and
all sacrifices that may be necessary
to mobilize themselves into one mighty
church,” declared Secretary of the
Navy Daniels in an address before a
patriotic rally that featured tonight’s
session of the Methodist general con
ference.
Secretary Daniels declared the unifi
cation of the two great divisions of the
church must be accomplished at once.
“We have lost much by divisions and
seen much wasted effort,” he said. And
he added: “There is no excuse for
a Northern Methodist church in At
lanta or a Southern Methodist church
in Seattle. If the politicians and busi
ness men have forgotten the Mason &
Dixon line, then the Methodist churph
cannot wisely longer march in sepa
rate columns, under separate organi
i zations.”
Secretary Daniels outlined the work
of the church, stating that it should
carry its message to the men in arms
and cheer into the homes from which
they had gone.
FUNERAL OF MRS.
J. T. LIVINGSTON
■
The remains of Mrs. J. T. Livingston,
who died Friday evening at her home
in Jacsonville, Fla., was brought here
and interred in Oak Grove cemetery
yesterday morning. Deceased who
was a former resident of Americus
was 58 years of age, and had many
friends here who will learn with re
gret of her demise. The remains ar
rived here on board the Seminole
Limited being taken from the station
to the chapel of the Americus Under
taing Company, whence the funeral
procession beginning at eleven o’clock.
Reverend S. E. Jenkins, pastor of the
Lee Street Methodist church officiated
at the obsequies, and the pallbearers
were: Messrs. G. E. Davis, P. Y. An
drews, H. C. Davis, F. B. Arthur, J. E.
Chapman, and W P. McArthur.
The deceased is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. W. B. Lanier, of Mill
town, Ga.; Miss Nell Livingston, and
Miss Mary Kate Livingston, of Jack
sonville, Florida, and by four sons,
H. E. Livingston, of Arlington. Geor
gia; William D. Livingston, J. T. Liv
ingston, Jr., and John Livingston, all
stationed at the Radio Naval Base at
Cambridge, Mass.
The family lived in Americus until
about two years ago when they moved
to Jacksonville, where they have since
made their home.
The sympathy of thG entire com
munity is extended to the bereaved
relatives.
NUMBER 112.