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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 71.
HUNGARIAN SOVIET CLAIMS TO
POWER DECLARED EXAGGERATED
VAST STORE OF
ROAD BUILDING
MACHINERY TO
BE GIVEN STATE
Government to Apportion Accumula
ted Equipment, Now Useless,
to Various States
In addition to the dollar for dollar
■which the government promises to pay
to the Gteorgia counties for perma
nent highway building, an enormous
quantity of highway building ma
chinery and equipment of every sort,
accumulated during the war, is to be
distributed among the various state
by the government, according to news
which has come from Washington.
This equipment, which, it is under
stood, is to be given outright to the
states that will make use of it, is in
such vast quantities that it will re
duce the cost of road building greatly,
enabling the construction with the
same amount of available money at
many miles more of highway that
would otherwise be possible. While
the details of the distribution of this
war material have not been worked
out nor announced, it is believed that
Sumter county, when the permanent
highway bonds are voted, will be allot
ed a just share for use in building
her permanent highways.
Here is an estimate, compiled by
the Washington correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution, of what part of
this equipment Georgia will be en
titled to, if she complies with the gov
ernment conditions:
One hundred and eighty-four mo
tor trucks, 92 tractors, 92 automobiles,
92 pumps, 24 hoisting engines! 24 pile
drivers! 50 concrete mixers, 24 stone
crushers, 276 miles industrial rail
way tracks, 92 industrial locomotives,
50 gravel elevators, 24 portable en
gines, 92 stump pullers, 24 steam roll
ers, 50 transits, 50 levels, 920 wheel
barrows; 92 combat wagons, 12 plows,
920 sets of harness, 920 wagons, 920
drag scrapers, 84 road engines, 92 tons
of dynamite 276 tents, 184 cars of, ce
ment, 920 cars of stone, 1,000,000 feet
of lumber, 972 tons reinforcing steel
4,000 feet pipe culvert, 24,000 feet steel
forms, 4,000 barrels oils and asphalts,
50,000 feet wrought iron and steel pipe,
1,000 tons of stee]; specified quantities
of miscellaneous supplies, picks, axes,
carpenters’ chests, drill steel, sledges,
blacksmith outfits, steel sheet piles,
nails, spikes, roofing paper, expansion
joints, steel cable, manila rope and
fencing wire. i
“Stop to figure the value of this
amount of equipment and the total is
astounding,” says the correspondent.
“And that is what Georgia wil\ get, in
addition to the seven and a half mil
lion dollars in federal aid money in
three years, provided the state legisla
ture this summer gives to Georgia a
highway department that is construc
tive and clothes it with authority and
funds to provide a state system of
good roads.”
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Huge Contracts for
Air Craft Cancelled
I
WASHINGTON, March 25.—(8y As
sociated Press.) —Nearly $500,000,000
In aircraft war contracts have been
cancelled and suspended up to March
19, the war department announced to
day.
New York cotton exchange closed
for welcome to returning New York
troops.
ERIC U SiLgRsC f
THE TIMES- . RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DlXlE~flfrfr?
SUMTER NEGRO
HAS SLEEPING
SICKNESS’AFTER
SIEGE OF FLU’
Unconscious Six Days From Myste
rious Malady—Now in Conva
lescent Stage
The “sleeping sickness,’ ’that mys
terious malady which has been report
ed in rare instances here and there
over the United States in the wake of
the influenza epidemic, has appeared
in Sumter county. It is not contag
ious.
The victim is Charlie Wood, a negro
farmer living near Cobb. His case was
reported to Dr. B. F. Bond, commis
sioner of public health, who visited
him this week for the purpose of mak
ing a report on his case to the state
authorities. Dr. Bond found the ne
gro had lain in a comatose condition
for six days, but has now recovered
consciousness and is convalescent.
Little is known of the sleeping sick
ness or how to treat it. It is esti
mated that only one-fourth of the
cases of it are fatal. The period of
unconsciousness varies with the pa
tient from a few days to several
weeks. During the period of un
consciousness the patient usually may
be aroused with effort sufficiently to
permit of feeding, when a relapse into
consciousness takes place.
Miliam Johnson, aged 14, of Kansas
City, Kan., slept f<>’ five weeks after
she had had the influenza. For two
weeks she could only be roused for her
meals. The next three weeks she was
awake for short intervals. Physicians
consider her case the most notable of
sleeping sickness in Kansas. The
girl had returned to school and
seemed to have made complete recov
ery from the flu. She came home
one day, complaining of “seeing dou
ble’ ’and went to sleep. She appeared
partially paralyzed. When roused
from her sleep she would talk of her
school, her basketball games and hunt
about her bed for her books, but now
she is recovering her faculties she
has no recollection of those waking
moments. She walks feebly as in a
daze.
Negro Hunted for
Shot Gun Slaying
Deputy Sheriff Summers spent Mon
day in the 28th district, searching for
a negro named Waters, who is wanted
as the slayer of John Caldwell, an
other negro. His search was unsuc
cessful, the negro apparently having
fled and no trace having been found
of him.
The killing occurred at Caldwell’s
cabin on the farm of J. G. Chambliss
Sunday night. It was said Waters shot
Caldwell through the door which Cald
well was holding shut to keep him
from coming in. A shotgun was used.
The trouble is said to have been over
Waters’ wife, who was Caldwell’s step
daughter, and who had left Waters.
She was at Caldwell’s home and Wa
ters came there, armed, to force her to
go with him.
SERVICES AT SOUTHER FIELD.
Religious services will be held at the
Y. M. C. A. at Souther Field on Wed
nesday night, conducted by Dr. Carl
W Minor, pastor of First Baptist
church. The music will be furnished
by the choir and orchestra of the
First Baptist Sunday school, who are
requested to meet at the church
promptly at 7 o’clock, where cars will
be waiting to carry them out.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 25, 1919
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Emory to Push
Building Work
During Summer
ATLANTA, March 25. —Construction
work at Emory University this sum
mer will total approximately $175,000,
according to announcement made to
day by the dean, Dr. Howard W.
Odum, bringing the value of the build
ings on the campus in Druid Hills
park to about $775,000 The work
will be completed by next fall when
tnc School of Liberal Arts (Emory Col
lege) will be moved from Oxford to
At anta. It will be started within the
next few days under the direction of a
building committee headed by Judge
J- hn S. Candler, the bo-trd of trus
tees, confident of the wisdom of con
struction at this time, having enthus
iastically approved the schedule.
Emory’s construction schedule pro
vides for the addition of a physics
building to the present science group
of buildings, and an addition to the
chemistry building, total cost about
$65,000. In conformity with the other
buildings in the science group—-the
engineering and chemistry buildings—
the physics building will be of solid
steel, concrete and marble.
At a cost of approximately $75,000
a modern new dormitory with accom
modations for 150 students will be con
structed. This has already been found
necessary because of the applications
for space for next fall.
A frame work dining hall with a ca
pacity of 400 will be erected at a cost
of about $12,500. There will be an ex
centionally fine new athletic field, 350
by 550 feet. This and other improve
ments will bring the total cost of
summer work to $175,000. It is con
sidered highly probable that even more
construction than this will be approv
ed during the summer in anticipation
of an exceptionally big enrollment
next fall.
PEACE CONFERENCE
THANKS GOMPERS
P9RIS, March 25.—(8y Associaten
Press.) —Terms of the report which it
will make to the peace conference
were- decided upon Monday by the
commission on international labor leg
islation. The members of the com
mission adopted a resolution thanking
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, for his
work during the sessions of the com
mission.
ATLANTA FLANS
WELCOME FOR
RETURNINGI7TH
NEW YORK, March 25.—(8y Asso
ciated Press —Fourteen hundred and
sixty men of the Seventeenth regi
ment Engineers, recruited from em
ployes of Southern railways, were
among the troops arriving today on
the transport Susquehanna.
Great Welcome Planned.
ATLANTA, March 25. —Plans are
being made in Atlanta and other parts
of the state to welcome the Seven
teenth Engineers, who are scheduled
to leave New York for Camp Gordon
some time this week. The Emory unit,
. which is made up of leading physic
ians of Georgia, will arrive at the
, same time, and will be included in the
. welcome given.
Mayor James L. Key will proclaim
• the date of their arrival in Atlanta as
s a half holiday, and everybody will be
. lined up to watch the war veterans
I march down Peachtree street. The
school children of the city will take an
( active part, and with various cadet
. organizations will march in the Sec
. ond division of the big parade.
I Governor Dorsey and his staff,
; Mayor Key and his staff and other
state and city officials will be in the
. first division and in the third and
t last division will march the Seven
. teenth Engineers and the Emory unit.
> The decorations for the returning
. soldiers will be tire most spectacular
; ever seen in Atlanta. Flags and ow
. ers and bunting will be in evidence
> everywhere and a great electric arch
. will be the feature of the decorative
i scheme.
Martial Law Again
l Declared in Spain
I
> MADRID, March 24.—(Monday.)—
(By Associated Press.)—Martial law
was proclaimed at 5 o’clock this morn-
; ing. It is understood that constitu
s tional guarantees will be suspended
i forthwith throughout Spain.
A general strike has broken out at
Barcelona.
Americus Couple
Wed by Nods to
Written Questions
W. H. Alexander and Miss Lil
lie Strickland, both mutes, were
married last night at the bride’s
home, 216 Earl avenue, Rev. Guy
ton Fisher, pastor of the First
Methodist church, officiating. In
25 years of active ministry, this
was the first time Rev. Mr. Fisher
married a mute couple.
The questions in the marriage
ceremony were written by the
minister and answered by the
couple by nods of the head. A
sister of the bride interpreted the
entire ceremony in the sign lan
guage.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander will beat
home at 216 Earl avenue. Mr.
'Alexander is a barber employed by
Manry Bros.
Sgt. J. P. Gartner
Reaches Ne w York
Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Gartner received
a telegram last night from their son,
Sergeant James P. Gartner, stating
that he had just landed at New York
from Bordeaux, France. Thp message
stated that he did not yet know the
camp to which he would be sent.
Sergeant Gartner returns as a mem
ber of the 160th Infantry, 40th divis
ion. He went across as a member of
the Dixie ivision, the 31st, from
Camp Wheeler, and was transferred
in France. He was a member of the
A. L. I. and went with that organiza
tion to the Mexican border.
Food for Russians
Held in Germany
COBLENZ, March- 24.U(Monday.)
(By Associated Press.) —Eighty cars
of food for Russian prisoners held by
the Germans have arrived here from
the American army commissary.
Two barges of our have arrived via
the Rhine from Rotterdam for the
Third army.
HOME
EDITION
PRICfi FIVE CENTS.
COUNTRY IS NOT
READY TO JOIN
REDS, ASSERTS
VIENNAREPORT
Budapest in Panic, but Messages
Sent Out Declared Largely
Untrue
THREATENING SITUATION IN
AUSTRIA, DELEGATES HEAR
Bolshevik Army Said to Have Ad
vanced Fifty Miles East
of Lem burg
COPENHAGEN, March 25.—(8y As
sociated Press.) —The claims of the
Hungarian soviet government to power
as set forth in its wireless communi
cations is largely untrue, according to
a Vienna dispatch to the Achtuhr Ab
endblatt.
Panic prevails in Budapest, but the
country, it is declared, has not yet re
solved upon a Soviet republic.
There are rumors that the Entente
commission at Budapest has been de
tained by the Hungarians.
Situation Threatening.
PARIS, March 25. —(By Associated
Press.) —The conditions in Hungary
seem to have affected German Austria.
Advices to the American peace confer
ence delegates from private agents in
Vienna indicate the existence of a
threatening state of affairs there. One
agent reports that even the date has
been fixed for some time in April for
the transformation of thef existing
government into a soviet government,
which will co-operate or merge with
the Hungarian soviets.
Red Army Going Westward.
BERNE, March 24.—(Monday.)—(By
Associated Press.) —’(’he Bolshevik
army which is en route to Hungary
has reached Brody, according to the
latest news here. Brody is fifty miles
east of Lemberg.
Backing For New Regime.
VIENNA, March 24.—(Monday.)—
(By Associated Press.) —Dispatches to
the Neue Freie Presse declare that all
rcn-socialist parties of Hungary will
1 support the new government for the
i reason, it is said, that it has decided
I 1.0 act against the Entente.
The rural population is reported to
have gone over to the communists.
Amending League Charter.
PARIS, March 24.—(Monday.)—
(By Associated Press.) —During a
three hours’ session tonight the League
of Nations commission, which is con
sidering proposed amendments to the
covenant, disposed tentatively of the
; first sixteen sections, agreeing upon a
number of changes in form which
'members of the commission believe
will meet wore than fifty per cent, of
: the objections offered by Senator
Lodge and other American senators.
Negotiating With Reds Since November
PARIS, March 25.—(8y Associated
Press.) —Budapest dispatches to the
Lausanne Gazette say Count Karolyi,
former premier of Hungary, has been
negotiating with the Moscow soviet
i government since last November with
the object of introducing bolshevism
into Hungary, Rumania and Jugo
slavia.
! WEATHER FORECASTj
For Georgia—Partly cloudy tonight;
warmer in central portion; Wednesday
■ showers.