Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, June 18, 1918, City Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY CITY EDITION < HIRTIETH year i AUSTRIAN DRIVE HAS BEEN HALTED GREAT VICTORY FOR THE ITALIAN ARMY NOW FREELY PREDICTED MIDDLE GEORGIA’S SPLENDID FRUIT CROP IS INJURED BY STORM ITALIAN ARMY CHECKS ME AND HITS BACK LOOKS NIW LIKE THE AUSTRIAN ATTACK IS A GIGANTIC FAILURE -PRISONERS ARE TAKEN ON BOTH SIDES. Austria’s offensive against the Ital ian front has been checked for the mo ment, if not brought to complete fail ure. Although the offensive began Satur day, the Austrians on Monday had given up, at least momentarily, their efforts to reach the Venetian plain to the south. In counter thrusts, the Italians re gained several positions in the moun tains. Bitter Fighting in Progress. ITALIAN ARMY HEADQUARTERS June 188. —Biter fighting is in progress along the Piave river. The Austrians are sustaining large losses fMm the cotrcentrated fire of Italian batteries. Repeated counter attacks are being made by Italian in fantry, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Austrian Drive Stopped. ROME, June 18. —In their attacks be tween Zenson and Fossalta, along the Piave river, the Austrians have beet stopped everywhere, says an officia statement issued last night by the Ital ian war office. In the mountain region and arouni Montello, there have been no infantry attacks by the enemy. The Allied troops have taken sev er il hundred additional prisoners and some machine guns Germans Using Gas Heavily. WITH THE AMERICANS AT THE MARNE, June 18.—The Germans to day began using gas to a greater ex tent along this front than t!’ Jyhave tent along this front than the yhave done heretofore. The Bois-de-Belleau came in for its share, but not withstanding the heavy gas and other shelling the American lines remain intact. New Lot 01 Lerner Waists i CAME THIS MORNING Beautifnl New Style Braided and Embroidered Georgette Waist in the Well Known Lerner Make, All Sizes at $6 and $6.50 CHURCHWELfS Dept. Store Americus times-Recorder ”LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA.” WHERE THE HUNS HAVE BEGUN A NEW DRIVE WEST OF SOISSONS |OF NEW OFFENSIVE If rwsßOs*!. Lassigny « SCALE OF MILES - O&^F/W —" vX?;" ° —4 1° OF THE GERMAN ■-<& . BllUMill 11 iiiniT7nimiir«MMMriJlMMirr~ rn-nrrltiMTiTTHi iiiiiiMiumuniinihb» i iiMirMit^fiiaimiwnmißiiiiii—nwuri—mir- —‘tutu ii"Tomr •111-wmwi—mt! Stopped at the Marne, the Germans began their expected offensive on another sector, selecting the tretch of twenty miles extending west ward from Noyon on the Oise, to Montdidier, in the hope of joining the salient on the Marne with that on the Somme, east of Amiens. It was in this sector that most of hte French military experts predicts the new drive would be made, and preparation to stop it proved reasonably successful. It is certain that the immediate objective of the Germans were St. Just and Compiegne, with their r.umercnts-r ail road connection, neither of which strongholds have as yet been wrested from the French and American defenders. 4 ICE RULING WILL BEENFBRCEDHERE INSTRICTMANNER FOOD ADMINISTRATOR MANGUM DIRECTED BY AUTHORITIES TO SEE THAT THIS LAW IS OBEYED BY ALL. Food Administrator Franc Mangum has received instructions from state food administrate." to s?e that the new ice ruling is strictly enforced here. This means that in eo public eating or drinking pla- e or house must ice be put in drinxs, including iced tea. None of the soda fountains may serve iced drinks, nor any of the hotels, restaurants or boarding houses. Violations will be severely punished. The ice company will also sell re duced amounts to their customers, who are asked to use one-fourth less ice than heretofore. This order will be in fo r ce about five or six weeks, until the crop of peaches, plums and waterme’ons is shipped, because of the shortage of ice, which must be used to protect these shipments. LAWSON STAPLETON WRITES TO PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Stapleton have heard from their son, Lawson, who is with the construction department of tjhe hydroplane forces in France, near the port of Bordeaux. He complains that he does not receive mail regularly, a letter written to him in January ar riving at the same time as one written in April. He writes interestingly of conditions “over there’’ and of the dpuntrv and expresses great confidnce ku ; an ultimate Allied victory. He re jpcrts himself as being well and ex ceedingly well pleased with his place. AMERICUS. GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 18, 1918 BROOKS WILLIAMS IS OFFERED WEST POINT APPOINTMENT TODAY Brooks Williams, son of Capt. G. Leser Williams, has been tendered an appointment to West Point Military Academy. The offer comes from Rep resentative Charles R. Crisp. It is not known what the young man will do. At present he is in Pitts burg with the Westinghouse Company. He is 21 years of age, has just com pleted his junior year at Georgia Tech and is enrolled in the reserve engi neers. He has been expecting re-as signment to Tech for engineering study before being drafted into the army. imShis HIT HI FIERCE STORM MONDAY HARD BLOW AND MUCH RAIN VIS ITED THIS (TTY AND COUNTY IN AFTERNOON, DOING A GREAT DEAL OF DAMAGE. Americus and Sumter county were hit hard by a wind and rain storm Monday afternoon. The storm followed the advance of an enormous red-and-black cloud and burst upon the city about 4 o'clock. There was a deluge of rain, and a wind estimated at 60 miles an hour. Trees were blown down all over the cily. finally crippling the light plant so that it was completely out of business, by reason of falling wires and being short circuited. The power was off until about ten o'clock and then came on intermit tent. Supt. Johnson and his assist jants werked until three o'clock this morning trying to get the Hues cleared. PAMPHLET AIMED AT PROPAGANDA IS CIRCULATED ATLANTA Ga., June 18. —“Swat the Yellow Dog” is the title of a pamphlet being circulated among advertising men in Atlanta and other Southern cit ies, aimed at the stamping out of the German propaganda in this country. The object of the movement is to stop the circulation of false reprts concerning great German victories, great German devices for winning bat tles, great German submarine activity, etc., coupled with discouraging re ports concerning the progress of events on the side of the Allies. A person who innocently falls into the trap of circulating such stories is aiding the kaiser just as effectively, if not more so, than the paid agent of the German government. As a result The Times-Recorder was unable to operate, and yesterday af ternoon’s paper was not printed until today. The Southern Bell Telephone Com pany had connections open only to Plains and Albany, while both the Postal and the Western Union were shut off from the world. As a result, The Times-Recorder is unable today to present it s telegraphic dispatches. Four head of mules belonging to Mr. Shannon, residing about two miles out, were killed when a barn blew down and several negro houses on the place of Dr. F. A. Thomas were also de molished by the wind. All over the county the crops were injured, though reports today w’ere to the effect that the damage wa 9 not severe, except in isolated instances. The storm lasted for about an hour. ♦ WEATHER FORECAST. ♦ ♦ PROBABLY RAIN TODAY ♦ ♦OR TOMORROW; UNSETTLED ♦ A ON COAST. WITH LIGHT VA ♦ ♦ RIABLE WINDS IN INTERIOR. ♦ BIG SWINDLE IS UNEARTHED BI < B. S. OFFICERS NATION-WIDE CONSPIRACY * BE TWEEN CONTRACTORS AND SALES AGENTS CHARGED BY GOVERNMENT. WASHINGTON, D. C„ June B.—- A nation-wide conspiracy between manufacturers and contractors’ agents in Washington to solicit government war orders under an agreement to pay commissions illegally to the agents was disclosed today by the department of justice. Simultaneously with the announce ment raids were made on hundreds of manufacturers’ business offices in all parts of the United States in search of paper showing the scope of the ille gal practice, and four Poston busi ness men were indicted in Washington, on charges of acting as contingent agents. PRICE OF FLOUR WILL BE RAISED INCREASE IS ALREADY IN EFFECT FOR A FEW OF THE STORES AND WILL BE RAISED FOR THE OTH ERS EVENTUALLY. An increase in the price of flour will he in effect generally in this county at an early date . For a few of the stores, which have had to buy flour on the new market, the food administra or has sanctioned an increase al* reedy. The jobbers are now charging $13.75 a barrel, a raise of a dollar a barrel. They are buying what flour they can procure from Atlanta, and are having to pay more for it ti \ .t\ b , .SUNDAY WHEATEESS usr wo bread, oucu** IlHgll \ ns-in.nWMiWBXM WWMI.tjjMF iwHWHiix, wheat .1 . PEACH CHOP IT FORT VALLEY 15 BADLYfIAMACEfI AROUND MAKJSH ALEVILEE, 3U9NTE ZUAM AND B¥RO> PROBABLY * YHIJ’ OF SPLENDffIBkCROP WAS . BLOWN FROM TREES' MACON, Ga., Juna lS?--A high w which swept over Macon- fate yeet day afternoon, snapping off trees a limb<4, smashing and breaks. w wire connections, apparently wrought Its. greatest havoc in the peach belt immediately south of Macon, damaging the peach crop to the extent of Uhout IS or 20 per cent at Fort Valley, > around Marshallvine, Montezuma and Hyron it is reported the peach crop was damaged. 50' per cent L P 1 This information was contained In a egram from Fort Valley last night, wire stated that the city was in ‘total darkness. Fort Valley was for U while cut off from wtrec onununica tidp with Macon. Sot only was the peach crop damag ed greatly in the vicinity of Fort Val ley,- Byron and Marshallville, but sev eral packing sheds were torn down and juaffs were blown from the Iracks. ! The brief dispatch frpm Fort yalt ley says: The peach crop was damaged 15 or 20 per cent, by the storm. Byron, Marshallville and Montezuma peaches darhaged about 50 per cent Several . packing sheds were blown down and cars were blown from the tracks. Plate glass windows were blown oat and the city was In total Barknwo. AUTO THIEVES GOT PARSON’S FINE CAR ATLANTA, Ga., June IS.—While Rev. Carl Minor, pastor of First Bap tist church at College Park, an At lanta suburb, was preaching Sunday night, a thief stole his automobile from the curbstone in front dF the church, according to a report to the county police department yesterday. THESE SPECIAL VALUES Daobco Nainsook, very fine quality, in pink, blue, maifie, flesh and white 10 YARD BOLTS FOR $3.90 72 Inch Mercerized Damask at $1 yd. Extra good quality Union Linen Guest Toweling, special at 60c yd. CHURCHWELI’S ’Dept. Store NUMBER 144. ’*'Y r vv v x

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, June 18, 1918, City Edition, Image 1