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DAILY
CITY
EDITION
10RT1ETH TEAR
U. S. RUSHING DRAFTED MEN TO FRONT
HUN INTRIGUE IN MEXICO AGAIN EXPOSED
IHOOSANDS OF
DRAFTED MEN TO
SEESEDVICESOON
TROOPS CALLED IN LAST TWO
DRAFT INCREMENTS WILL SOON
- BE ON THEIR WAY TO FRENCH
BATTLE LINE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.
Thousands of men called to the colors
in the last two draft increments will
soon be on their way to France.
So rapid has been the movement of
American troops across the Atlantic it
is now stated that soldiers who had no
hope of seeing active service within
six of eight months wll, perhaps, be
on the flrng line this summer.
The great increase in the shipping
facilities of naton s partly re
sponsble for the rapd movement of
troops to Europe.
ISSUE MUSTBE
FOUGHT OUT ON
BATTLE FIELDS
IDLE TO TALK OF PEACE UNTIL
FATE OF MILITARISM HAS BEEN
DECIDED BY ARMED FORCES
SAYS CHAMBERLAIN.
LONDON, May 14.—“ The British
government is not opposed to peace,
but it is idle to talk about it until
the issue has been fought out on the
battlefields of France and Belgium.’’
The foregoing statement was made
today by Austen Chamberlain a mem
ber of the imperial war cabinet, before
a woman’s unionist meeting here. The
statement is accepted as representing
the official attitude of the British gov
ernment toward peace negotiations so
long as German armies continue to
occupy Belgium, Serbia, Russia, Ru
mania and other conquered territories.
Hostile Artillery Active.
LONDON, May 14. —Hostil guns were
active last night in the Somme and
Ancre sectors. General
today. One enemy party attacked a
British post west of Merville, being
repulsed with losses. We made a suc
cessful raid northeast of Robecq and
took prisoners. These Were'Acreaauai
tiet.
CONSUMPTION OF
COTTON IN APRIL
SHOWS DECLINE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.
rive hundred and forty thousand bales
of cotton were consumed during April
against five hundred and fifty thousand
during the same month last year, the
department of commerce reported to
day.
Four million, six hundred thousand
L iles are now held in sonsuming es
tablishments, public storage ware
houses, and compresses, the report
adds.
—
Georgia Soldier Listed as Casualty.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14
The names of twenty-seven men, most
-1 / New Englanders, are included in to
day’s casualty list, bringing the total
numher of men captured by the Ger
mans at Seicheprey so more than one
hundred. The list also includes the
names of fourteen killed in action,
seven died from wounds, three died
frim disease, twenty-one’ wounded
slightly. James H. McCarty, of Sur
rency, Ga., is among those reported as
slightly wounded.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
"LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN CEORCIA.”
SECY VIRNER ID
TALK TO WUMEN
ON Y M WORK
INTERESTING GATHERING WILL
BE HELD AT CARNEGIE AUDI
TORII M AT HALF-PAST ELEVEN
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
A meeting of interest and importance
alike to the club women of Americus
will be held tomorrow (Wednesday)
morning at 11:30 o’clock in the audi
torium of Carnegie Library. Secretary
Varner, a field worker who is here in
the interest of the Y. M. C. A. War
Work, will be the principal speaker of
the occasion, and it is certain he will
be heard by a large audience.
Secretary Varner will speak on that
occasion to the ladies of the Music
Study club and the Woman's Club of
Americus, and all members of these
organizations are requested to be pres
ent. The gathering will be held im
mediately following the session of the
Muse Study club, the ladies of that
organization remaining wthin the aud
torium, where they will be joined by
the ladies of the Woman’s club. Mrs.
Frank Sheffield, president of the latter
named organization, is especially anx
ious that a full attendance of the
members be present.
Secretary Varner is a man of broad
experience in Y. M. C. A. war work,
and his talk is sure to be interesting,
as he will lay before his hearers many
incidents illustrative of accomplish
ments of that organization, as well as
explain the future work to be done at
Souther Field and elsewhere through
the instrumentality of the Y. M. C. A.
HARRIS’ REPLY
SHRSPOLmCS
ATLANTA, Ga, May 14—Political
Circles in Atlanta are very much stir
yed today by William J. Harris’ im
mediate and stinging reply to Con
gressman William Schley Howard’s
reference, in his Wrightville speech,
to a campaign contribution to Mr.
Jlarris, in which Mr. Howard convey
ed the implication that someone in
Washington had presented Mr. Harris
with a check for $23,000.
“It is a deliberate and malicious
falsehood,” said Mr. Harris, “and Mr.
Howard must have known it when he
’vi"de his inuendo. Ido not propose at
this time to concern myself with the
many unfounded false statements of
this self-seeking candidate until he an-*
swers the calls that are being made
upon him by the press of the state to
reveal the full truth concerning his
self-sought interview with President
Wilson. He has been charged with
deliberately misrepresenting what
transpired in that interview, and with
deliberately attempting to deceive the
people of Georgia.”
Besides handling these hot shots to
Congressman Howard, Mr. Harris dis
posed of H. H. Dean, the Gainesville
awyer who promulgated on Sunday his
second or third, or perhaps his fourth
announcement as a senatorial candi
date, by remarking that his candi
dacy is an amusing joke, in view of
the fact that he was defeated for may
or of his o wn city by a Republican op
ponent.
Truly, the senatorial race Is begin
ning to sound like old tmes in Geor
gia.
GEORGIA MARINE
REPORTED MISSING
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.
The marine corps casualty list today
contain g the name of one gunner, Ser
geant Elmore Butler, of Washington,
Ga., "missinf in action.”
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, 1918
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Secretary of War Baker being greeted by General Tasker H. Bliss, who
is on his right, and General Pershing, coinamnder of the American forces
in France on the left. The photo was taken in the railway station at 6:30
a. m., on March 11th, when Secretary Baker arrived in France. This is
the first photo showing Secretary of War Baker in France to arrive in
this country. Copyright, Underwood &Underwood.
4.011110005 FELL ’
IN BIS BATTIE
WITH FINN GUARD
FIVE HUNDRED RUSSIAN OFFI
GERS EXECUTED IN GROUPS OF
FIFTY AFTER HUNS OCCUPIED
TAMMERFORS .
MOSCOW, May 11—(Delayed in
Transmission.) —Four thousand Ger
mans and members of the Finnish
White Guards were killed in the bat
tle with Red Guards near Lahtis, sixty
miles northwest of Helsingfors, it is
reported here today.
The German bombardment of Hel
ingfors resulted in the killing of many
civilians.
After the occupation of Tammerfors
t the Willie Guards, five hundred Rus
sian officers and me'n were shot in
groups of forty or fifty' by machine
guns.
scmSres
ON PUBLIC PLACES
THOSE NOT COMPLYING WITH THE
SANITARY RULES PRESCRIBED
BY I’. S. GOVERNMENT CAN'T
GET SOLDIER TRADE.
Effective May 15, every soda foun
tain in the city, which expects to re
ceive a share of the trade of the sol
diers, must adopt sterilization and san
itary methods as prescribed by' the
government. Those not doing so will
be blacklisted, and soldiers will not
be permitted to trade with them. One
of the requirements is the installation
ot screen doors and windows.
This will also apply to barber shops
and other places patronized by the
soldiers.
Later on the restaurants and hotels
will be required to adopt similar sani
tary measures.
Call For Condition of Banks.
WASHINGTON, D C., May 14.
The comptroller of the currency today
issued his call for a statement of con
dition by all national banks on May
19th.
BISHOPS' VETO
OVER-BIDDEN OF
CONFERENCE VOTE
FINAL ACTION NOW RESTS WITH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE, WHICH
MAY EITHER ACCEPT OR REJECT
PROPOSITION.
ATLANTA, Ga., May 14.—Following
the decision of the College of Bishops
that granting of laity rights to women
iin the church is unconstitutonal, the
I
j Southern Methodist general conference
today, by an overwhelming vote, over
ruled the bishops’ veto and again de
j dared itself as favoring echial rights
for women in all church activiites.
Final acton on the resolution to con-
Ifer such rights on women now rests
with the annual conference, which has
' the right to either reject or accept the
: proposition. For the first time in the
history of the church the general con
jference voted today to debate fhtf
bishops’ veto before the vote was
' taken.
URGE CDDNCiTtD
. GLOBE POOLROOMS
COUNCIL OF DEFENSE WILL ASK
TONIGHT THAT ITS MEASURE
AGAINST IDLING BE ADOPTED
BY THIS ( ITY.
At the meeting of city council to
night, a delegation from the Sumter
County Council of Defense will ap
pear and urge the passage of an ordi
nance against idling, t is specifically
to be asked that the pool-rooms be
made to close during the day, opening
only at night. This is in line with the
position of Governor Dorsey who wants
all pool rooms in the state dosed for
the day time.
Janies Gordon Bennett Dead.
NEW YORK, May 14.—James Ben
nett, proprietor of the New York Her
old, died in Paris this morning, ar
cording to a cable jpessage received
. here. ' j
THREE ALABAMA
SAMMIES RAID
TRENCH_UNAIBED
SIX HUNS, INCLUDING ONE OFFI
CER, SHOT WHEN ENCOUNTER
ED BY PATROL IN “NO MAN’S
LAND.”
‘WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY in
Lorraine, May 14. —Three southerners,
woof them Alabama men, conducted a
daring and successful daylight raid in
“No Man’s Land” yesterday at a cer
tain point in the Lunsville sector.
John Dismukes, of Birmingham, Ala.;
Harry Couch, of Nashville, Tenn., and
John McCain, of Birmingham, Ala., are
the three men who carried out the dar
ing raid. Starting out to locate an
enemy sniper’s nest from which sev
eral Americans had been killed, they
encountered a German officer and
twelve men, and despite the odds, at
tacked, killing the officer and four of
the men. They then took the officer’s
papers and retired as German rein
forcements were coming up. Th pa
pers contained the enemy’s code and
other valuable information.
CITY WILL NAME
HEALTH OFFICER
LIEUT D’SAUSSURE WILL BE
ELECTED BY THE CITY—HE HAS
ALSO BEEN DETAILED BY THE
COUNTY AUTHORHES.
At the meetng of city council to
night, Lieut. Dr. DeSaussure, who was
recently* elected county health officer,
without pay, will be elected city health
officer, without pay. Thus the health
and sanitary work in the city and
county will not only be consolidated,
but will be conudcted henceforth un
der government supervision. Lieut.
DeSaussure already has thirty men
working under him in the work of
cleaning out the canals and cess-pools
and mosquito breeding places.
FRENCH PATROLS
TAKE PRISONERS
. ...
PARIS, May 14.—“ Our patrols took
prisoners in the Amiens and Verdun
' sectors today,” the French war office
announced. A German surprise at
tack was repulsed southeast of Mont
Didier and north of Fecht. There has
been heavy and continuous cannonad
ing in the Vosges and Buttedesme-
Snile sectors, where American artil
lery is engaged.
ANNUAL CONCERT AT
ELIZABETH MATHER
ATLANTA, Ga., May 14.—Atlanta
musical critics are singing the praises
today of the musical depaitment of
ETzabeth Mather College , which gave
its annual concert last night as one
of the features of commencement ex
ercises. A splendid musical program
of varied features was rendered, and
a representative audience of promi
nent music lovers were carried away
with the exceptonally finished work
oi the cstudents. Elizabeth Mather Col
lege girls this year are doing away
with the usual expensive dress, elab
orate corsage bouquets and other finer
ies incident to commencement, and
have shown their patriotism by wear
ing smple dresses made of smple ma
terial according to practically a stand
ard design. This dea of standardizing
women's clothng was recently given
a nation wide impetus at the biennial
convention of the American Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs, and is being
suriously considered by the most
thoughtful women of the county.
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wheatless
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TEUTONS TRYING
ID GET CONTROL
Os TAMPICO OIL
ARMED FORGES KNOWN TO BE IN
THAT REGION WHERE TREMEN
DOUS PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE AT
STAKE.
WASHINGTON, D. C-, May 14.
Germans recently endeavored to gain
a foothold in the Tampico oil regions
by purchasing rights there, and some
of the armed forecs in that region are
known to be Germans.
These t owsignifleant facts, it became
known today, have come to the at
tention of the American government.
Secretary Lansing appeared before
the senate foreign relations committee
to discuss the Mexican problm, and
particularly the Tampico situation.
KILL-A-SKEETER
CAMPAIGN BEING
CONDUCTED HERE
LIEUT. D’SAUSSURE APPEALS TO
THE SCHOOL CHILDREN TO AS
SIST IN EFFORT TO DO AWAY
WITH MOSQUITOES.
A "kill-the-skeeter” campaign is un
der way in Americus and Sumter coun
ty, under the auspices of the United
States government.
Dr. R. L. DeSaussure, the county
health officer, who is also a lieuten
ant at the aviation camp, with the
sanitation work especially in charge,
is devoting all his time to cleaning
up the cty and the county. Thirty men
pre now draining the creeks in this
vicinity.
Last Friday Lieut. DeSaussure ad
dressed the Grammar school pupils,
and on Saturday he spoke to the Wo
man's club. Yesterday he made a talk
at the High school. He is conducting
a campaign of education, with the view
' of making mosquitoes mighty scarce
around here this summer. The school
children were urged to pick up every
■ empty tin can and throw it into the
garbage can.
Lieut. DeSaussure points out that
mosquitoes are the principal malaria
agent, and that, an aviator affected with
malaria is unable to work and a loss
to the government. “Every time you
kill a skeeter,” he says, “it is possible
that vou are saving the life ot an avia
tor.” He tells tiwm-Jlow an aviator
with malaria in his system ‘/‘‘-Liable to
dizziness and swimmng of the head .
and is liable to injury while in the
performance of his duties?
METHODISTS GIVE
WOMEN SUFFRAGE
ATLANTA, Ga., Maq 14.—N0 more
significant sign of the times could be
pointed out that the action yesterday of
the Methodist Episcopal church. South,
holding its quadrennial session here,
in granting laity rights to women.
Four years ago ‘his proposal was de
cisively defeated, and since that time
the women of the Methodist church
have been quietly but steadfastly as
serting their rights for a voice in
church affairs on equality with men,
contendng that since the church re
gards their aid in all church move
ments being distinctly valuable, cer
tainly the church should accord them
a position of dignity. The proposal
yesterday was not even submitted to a
roll call, but was adopted overwhelm
ingly by a viva voce vote.
NUMBER 114.