Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, May 20, 1918, City Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY CITY EDITION FORTIETH TEAK BOHEMIANS REBEL AGAINST GERMANY AUSTRIANS IN REVOLT; GUEST DEMONSTRATE CITY OF PRAGUE IN STATE OF SIEGE FOLLOWING RIOTING AND DEMONSTRATIONS BY POPULACE AGAINST GERMANY. -ZURICH, Bay 20.—A state of siege has been declared at Prague, capital of Bohemia (Austria), following riot ing and street demonstrations against Germany, according to new, dispatches from that city. Long processions of Czechs and Jugoslave paraded the streets, shout ing ‘‘Long Live Wilson!” “Long Live Lloyd-George!” “Long Live Clemen ceau.” The occasion was the cele bration of the inauguration of the national theatre. The police and military garrison at Prague have both been e-inforced as a result of the disorders. HEATH OF MRS. ONE OF OLDEST RESIDENTS OF THIS COUNTY PASSED TO HER REWARD EARLY SUNDAY MORN ING. II» One of the oldest residents of the county passesd away yesterday after noon in the death of Mrs. Aman noon in the death of Mrs. Amanda M. Webb, which occurred at three o’clock at her home at Sumter City. Mrs. Webb was the widow of John R. Webb, and was nearly 90 years of age. She leaves six sons, T. G., J. B. R. K., H. J., and E. C. Webb, and one daughter, Mrs. R. P. Johnson, all of this county. . The funeral was held this afternoon at four o’clock from the Primitive Baptist church, Elder Murray, of Ella ville, conducting the services. The six sons acted as pallbearars. The Webb family is one of the most prominent of the county, and it had al ways been a source of great pride to jhe venerable lady that she had raised such splendid children. She was loved herself for her many fine qualities, and though she had not been active in recent years, owing to failing health, she had many friends, who regret her death and sincerely sympathize with the relatives in their bereavement. QUIET PREVAILS IN IRISH TOWNS SINN FEIN REVOLUTIONARY PLOT IS SUPPRESSED, AND ONE HUN DRED AND FIFTY PLOTTERS thrown IN JAIL. DUBLIN, May 20.—Quiet prevails throughout Ireland today. Wit!; the exception of the shooting of Ted O'Driskell, at Skibereen. when be tt -isted arrest Saturday, there has been no bloodshed in connection with the suppression of the alleged Sinn Fein revolutionary plot. It is estimat ed that a hundred and fifty Sinn Fein ers have been arrested. AMERICAN STEAMER IS REPORTED SUNK I ■—l —■■■■■ ,» . WASHINGTON. D. C., My 20 The steamship J.-G. McCullough, an American cargo carrier, ha? been sunk either by a mine or torpedo in foreign waters, says a navy department an nouncement. AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDEK * * t • ; "LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN CEORCIA." in. _ ■■ in —. ■■■_. . . - SEC. MEB. W. PERSHING H lIIBISSMH SIIUPE IM IMTHLE Mllf C * fttmt WIUUMMCH IWNMIfIfi iIfIWWMMILK 'ITWWUMCTJIW 11. Ill* 8! !ggs 1 i In this group are Captain de Marenches of the French army; Colonel Bpyd, chief of staff; Lieut. Brett, Col onel Connor, Commander White, U. S. Navy; Ralph A. Hayes, secretary to Secretary Baker; General Pershing. Secretary Baker, Ambassador Sharpe and Major General Black, chief of engineers. Copyright, Committeee on Public Information; from Underwood & Underwood, SDRPRISE mCK ON GERMANS WAS QUITE SUCCESSFUL VILLAGE IS TAKEN AND NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED PRISONERS CAPTURED WHEN AUSTRALIANS ENGAGE IN A RAED. LONDON, May 20. Australian troops captured the village of Villa sur-Ancre, north of the Somme, in a surprise attack Saturday night, taking three hundred and sixty prisoners and twenty machine guns. The Australian casualties were light. General Haig reported. RED CROSS OPENS ITS LOCAL OBIIE STREET PARADE F SPECTACU LAR NATURE THIS AFTERNOON WAS FOLLOWED BY ADDRESS BY JUDGE COBB. The leer;! Red Cross dn e was open ° here this afternoon with a spectac jar street parade, folloved by pub lic speaking at the Fi r st Methodist church. Judge Anoiew J. Cobb of Athens, f< inter supreme vtrrt j ist cc was the syea'ker, and 1 i.-. impresi’.’e address was heard by a large audience. Participating in the parade, which was organized under the direction of \V. W. Dykes, county chairman for this drive, were squadrons from the avia tion, camp, Red Cross ambulances, the ladies of the Americus Red Cross in costume, and the camp band. Business houses here participated in the inauguration ceremonies bq closing from 3 tc 5 o'clock, those par ticipating in this feature being the Pinkston Company, Hightower’s Book store, The Bee Hive, Churchwell Bros., W. D. Bailey Co., Allison Fur niture Co., The Times-Recorder, Hop man Bros., .1 S. Bolton, M. N. Ed wards, A G Duncan, B. S. Kasdel, Charles L. Ans-ey, Williams-Niles Co., Manry Bros, W. J. Josey, Rylander Shoe Co., 3 L. Sills, The Gate Wood Grocery A Cohen, E. Pearlman, Bu chanan Grocery Co., J. W. Harris, G. E. Buchanan, S. A. aDniels, Tillman & Brown, Gyles-Andrews Co., Hay & Tillman, E. J. Walker, J. H. Poole & Sons, Kenmore & Faust, Johnson’s Barber Shop, T. L. Bell and Sparks Grocery Co. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 20, 1918 AMATEUR PLAY AT AUDITORIUM 8) HI STUDENTS SENIORS WILL ENTERTAIN THEIR FRIENDS WITH PRESENTATION OF “CLAIM ALLOWED” TO NIGHT. Tonight at the High school auditor ium, the students of the Senior class will present a patriotic performance of the amateur play “Claim Allowed.” The entertainment will begin prompt ly at half-past eight o’clock, and mu sic will be furnished by the Johnson orchestra. The play is in four acts, with five scenes and the cast is composed of a representative number of seniors. Henry Allen. Elizabeth Belcher, Lewis Merritt. Elizabeth Harris. Margaret Wheatley, Ely Horne, Barney Ball, Vaiy Sue Chambliss, Edw’ard Stukes. Jeanette Pearlman, Myrtle Baldwin. Eugene Gammage, Pauline Broadhurst, Courtney Ivey and Lorin Smith, are students who will participate in the presentation. The story of the play is thoroughly patriotic and beftting tire stirring times through which the nation is now pass ing. The first scene is laid at the home of Horace LaFohl ‘Henry Al len) a munitions manufacturer, near New' York, with a number of inspiring incidents occurring there, while later the scene shifts to Colorado and thence to “The Gates of Berlin,” after two years had elapsed, and the finale finds the audience brought to Faris, with peace restored. U-BOAT SUNK BY FRENCH TRAWLER; CREW PRISONERS PARIS, May 20.—The French traw ler Nailly recently sank a submarine, captured its commander and liberated the captain and crew of a Spanish sailing vessel which the submarine had made prisoners, it is announced here. Nine Hour Law Upheld. WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 20. Railroad employees dispatching trains or working at signal towers cannot work more than nine hours in twenty-four, the Supreme court today decided. MORE U.S. NAVAL FORGES ARE SENT " IGHDSSATLANTIC AMERICAN PATROL IS GREATLY STRENGTHENED AND TO THAT IS PARTLY DUE HE REDUCED U-BOAT LOSSES. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20 The American navy is increasing its patrol forces in European waters, the navy department announced officially today. The aircraft forces are being aug mented and ship forces enlarged, and this increased patrol is one of the fac tors in the decrease in submarine sink ings. SUGAR PERMITS ARE NECESSARY FOOD ADMINISTRATOR HERE GETS INSTRUCTIONS TO ORDER EV ERY DEALER TO HAVE SUPPLY OF CERTIFICATES. Every grocer in Americus, who ex pects to sell more than five pounds of sugar to a customer, must immediate ly supply himself with the certificates required by the food administration. Failure on the part of the grocer to have these certificates will be taken to mean that he has been violating the law' by selling over five pounds to a costumer, and it will be up to him to prove to the contrary. Any grocer caught violating this sugar law w’ill be denied the privilege of handling sugar for the period of the war, and in extreme cases he will be closed al together. Instructions were received by tele graph early this afternoon by Food Administrator Franc Mangum to en force the sugar law strictly, and require all grocers “to immediately supply themselves with certificates, as provided in circular of April 23, so they may be prepared to sell as the law provides.'’ The records of the food administra tor’s office here show that there are quite a number of grocers who have not yet furnished themselves with certificates as yet. It is believed that this action was ordered by the state food administra tor as the result of a report of a secret service operator that several of the grocers here were selling sugar in ex- FOUR LINCHEO NEAR VALDOSTA; FEELING TENSE THREE NEGRO MEN AND A NEGRO WOMAN HUNG FOR BRUTAL CRIME, AND MOB STILL SEARCH ING FOR ANOTHER NEGRO. VALDOSTA, Ga., May 20.—With three men and one negro woman al ready lynched for the murder of Hampton Smith, a white farmer and the mistreatment and attempted mur der of Mrs. Smith, at Barney, Ga., last Thursday night, one hundred men aid ed by bloodhounds, are scouring the woods in this vicinity for Sidney John son, a fifth negro, wanted in connec tion with the crime. He probably will be lynched if captured. Feeling be tween the whites and blacks is grow ing in tenseness hourly and the situa tion is threatening, mslra KILLED 81 HUNS MAJOR RAOUL LUFBERRY IS KILL ED IN AIR COMBAT AND HIS BODY FALLS JUST WITHIN THE AMERICAN LINES. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, in Lorraine, May 20. —Major Raoul Luf berry, the American ace, and former member of the LaFayette Escadrille, was killed in an air battle over the American lines Sunday. Lufberry was struck by a machine gun bullet dur ing an running fight aud fell from hia monoplane. The body fell within the American lines and was recovered. SOLDIER KILLED IT BATHINB PDDL MAURICE J. PETERS. OF MEDICAL CORPS AT SOUTHER FIELD, STRIKES HEAD ON BOTTOM—TO SEND BODY HOME Private Maurice J. Pete r s, attached to the medical corps at Souther Field, died this morning at 4:15 o’clock from concussion of the brain, as the result of skull injuries sustained yesterday when diving in the pool at Myrtle Springs his head struck the concrete bottom. Private Peters had been recom mended to be appointed first sergeant of his unite the day previous by his commanding officer, ami stood high pmong his comrades. His father is a cclenel of engineers now in France, and he has two brothers who hold com missions in the national army. He was a native of Chicago, and the body will be sent to that place for fi neral and interment. The young man was invited out to dinner w’ith a private family yesterday after church services, and later in the afternoon this family look him for a ride out to the springs. His is the first death occurring at the aviation camp. TO DISCUSS PEACE WITH UKRANIANS WASHINGTON. D. C.. May 20. The Russian (Bolshevik!) government has accepted the German proposition to enter peace negotiations with the Ukraine, according to state depart ment advices from Stockholm. cess quantities, without requiring the purchaser to sign a certificate. MONDAY ALLHEALS WEATLESS use wo bread. cm u k raus, 'Oil 11 111 lew* EASm <K HLAKEAST KKXH COHTAINIWG WHEAX A. &. M. SCHOOL TO ASK SOLONS FOO NIOHE CASH TRUSTEES CONFRONT SERIOUS SITUATION AND WILL APPEAL IO LEGISLATURE WHEN THAT BODY MEES IN JUNE. The closing exercises of the Third District A. and M. school came to a conclusion Saturday night, and today the students are leaving for their homes. A serious sltua'ion < unfronts the trustees, as they are now unamle to operate the institution, except at a loss, on the present income. The legis jature will be asked to grant more money, and if that is not done it Is piist’ble that ’be term will be shortened or other measures of re trenchment adopted. The graduating class 101 l was as follows: Herbert Gleen Bailey, Mervin Clif ford Bailey, Lera Croxton. Macq Bishop Grey, Eddye Leone Hooks, Henlen Jenkins, Paul Jenkins, Esca Meade Monroe, James Griffin Moran, Lucy lone Patterson, Cutis Flournoy Stephens, Sallie Mae Stephens, Hugh Sellars, J. C. Foster, Mary Ruth Wil liams. soldiebYS ORGANIZED HERE WILL HAVE HEADQUARTER IN , THE Y M. U. A. BUILDING—SER- GEANT MIIRHEAD PRESIDENT GF THE ORGANIZATION. ‘The Soldiers’ Club” was organized here Sunday afternoon, the organiza tion being effected rs the initial step in the Y. M. C. A. war work in Ameri cus. F. E. Varner, superintendent of Y. M. C. A construction at Souther Field, presided at the meeting, and Sergeant Miiirhead, of the 236th Aero Squadron, was elected president. Mrs. Frank Sheffield, who Is greatly inter ested in this work among the soldiers, w r as elected honorary president of the club, and Mrs. J. W. Harris, Jr., who is assisting, was named honorary vice president. Other officers are to be chosen later. The club has been formed for the promotion of social diversions of ele vating character among enlisted men stationed here, and all of these auto matically become members upon their assignment to Souther Field for train ing or other purposes. The trustees of the Americus Y. M. C. A. heartily ap prove the movement and have donated I the use of their building as a city club room for the use of the soldiers. lAn invitations is extended to all en listed men to use this building as both a rest and writing room, u plentiful supply of “Y.” writing paper and en velopes being on hand there constant ly. It is the purpose of the promoters of the club to arrange a housewarm ing for an early date, and later sev eral social entertainments will be giv en by the enlisted personnel of the aviation camp and their friends. 200 MISSING IN t GREAT EXPLOSION PITTSBURG, Pa., May 20.—Two hundred employees of the Aetna i Chemical, where Saturday’s terrific explosion occurred, were still unac counted for today. This included the workers belonging to the night shift, many of whom lived in cabins near the plant, practically all of which were destroyed by the gigantic blast of T. N. T. NUMBER 119.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, May 20, 1918, City Edition, Image 1