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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 79.
COL. DICKMAN AND
MAJ. DUTTS KILLED
GROUP BANKERS
HERE TOMORROW
FOR ONE DAY OF
WORK AND PLAY
Barbecue to Follow Business Session
—Aerial Exhibition at Souther
Field Planned
Final arrangements were completed
today by the local committees for en
tertaining the bankers of Group 4, who
will meet in convention at the Carne
gie Library here at 10:30 oclock Fri
day morning. Indications today were
that more than 100 bankers would be
present from territory embraced in
the group.
The forenoon will be consumed with
the business session which will be
followed by a barbecue at the ’Cue
club,grounds at 1 o’clock. The
from Souther Field and their wives
will be special guests at this event, and
at 3:30 o’clock the visiting bankers
will be taken by auto to Souther Field
where they will be guests of the Fly
ing Field officers and be entertained
by an exhibition of flying.
Following is the program:
Business Session 10:30 A. M.
Convention called to order by Chair
man Frank Sheffield.
Opening Prayer—Rev. Carl W.
Minor.
Address of Welcome.—Hon. Charles
R. Crisp.
Response.—Joe S. Davis, Vice Presi
dent Citizens-First National Bank, Al
bany.
Chairman’s Address —Frank Shef
field, Americus.
Appointment of Committees on Nom
inations and Resolutions.
Address, “Proposed Legislation Sep
arating Offices of State Treasurer and
State Bank Examiner.”—Hon. Orville
A. Park, Attorney for Georgia Bankers’
Association.
Address, “Food Production and De
hydratoin.’—Hon. Lou D. Swetft, U. S.
Department of Agrculture.
Address, “Victory Loan.”—Hon.
Hooper Alexander, U. S. District At
torney.
Open discussion on Timely Topics.
Selection of next meeting place, re
ports of committees, approval of min
utes, election of orator for state con
vention, election of officers. Adjourn
ment.
Entertianment.
1:00 P. M.—Barbecue at Americus
’Cue club grounds o nGlessner street..
3:30 P. M. —Automobile ride to Sou
ther Aviation Field, where exhibition
flying has been arranged for enter
tainment of guests.
Committees.
BARBECUE —Crawford Wheatley,
Frank Harrold, C. M. Council, Mrs.
Crawford Wheatley, Mrs. Frank Shef
field, Mrs. C. M. Council, Mrs. L. G.
Council, Mrs. Frank Harrold. N
AUTOFOBILES—N. M. Dudley, Philo
Smith, T. E. Bolton.
Reception—L. G. Council, Frank La
nier, C. S. Glover.
PROGRAM—Jos. Perkins, Lee Hud
son, Joe M. Bryan.
| WEATHER FORECAST?;
Gor Gieorgia.—Cloudy tonight and
Friday and probably rain, except fair
in the southeast portion; warmer to
night in the interior.
THETIMESgRECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF
I Random Shots on
; Paved Highways
To Think About i
? By Silo Jack. ?
? I N every man, woman and child 5
? 1 in the United States is impos- >
? ed an annual tax of more than SSOO >
? because of the excess cost of trans- >
? porting food from farm to market. >
I Yet the average person thinks it ’
a great saving to pay cash and car- >
ry home the groceries.
It will take more than 160 years ?
to improve America’s 2,750,000 )
I' miles of highway under the present ?
program. Yet today some folks ?
are willing to sit back and dream <
aobut the days when they can mo- ?
tor over an improved road from ?
Houston to Halifax. Who wants ?
?to go motoring at the age of 160? \
? An automobile show was recent- <
) ly held in Chicago and every one ?
? who attended it went home with a .
? resolve to buy a car. But what’s S
? the good of a hat, if you haven't got $
? a head to put it on? Or a car if 5
? you haven’t a good road? >
? Let us make ourselves as busy >
? as busy with business as we have >
? been busy with war. Let us buy a 5
? road bond and make America a )
< fit place to travel in. Let us apply )
< our patriotism to highway im- $
< provement.—The Highway Maga- >
< zine. 5
ALLIES HOLDING
LINES AGAINST
BLOWS OF REDS
ANCHANGEL, April 3.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Repeated Bolshevik at
tacks along the front line and both
the right and left flanks of the posi
tions controlling the Odozerskaia were
repulsed today by the Allied forces,
who are holding their own positions
throughout the territory.
Embargo on Grains
Canceled by Hines
CHICAGO, April 3.—(By Associatea
Press.) —The railroad administration
today cancelled the embargo on grains
for all primary markets and discon
tinued the permit system. All con
flicting embargoes of individual roads
were also cancelled.
World Wireless
Telephone Planned
NEW YORK, April 3.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Plans for a world 1 -
wide wireless telephone system are
being considered by the Geenral Elec
tric company, it is stated.
LOCAL SPOT.
Good Middling 26 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Previous
Close Open High Low Close
May .23.56 25.88 25.94 25.82 25.85
July .22.65 27.74 23.30 22.74 22.96
Oct. .20.63 20.70 20.98 20.70 20.95
Dec. .20.14 20.75 20.75 20.60 20.60
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 3, 1919
OCCUPATION OF
GERMANY TO BE
LEFT TO FRENCH
AND BELGIANS
U. S. and British Troops not to Re
main After Peace is Signed,
Paris Hears
PARIS, April 3. —'(By Associated
Tiess.) —The Council of Four bar vir
tually decided, according to informa
tion from French sources, that the
left bank of the Rhine shall be neu
tralized until Germany has paid the
indemnities fixed by the peace confer
ence.
It is understood that French and
Belgian troops will hold this territory,
the United States claiming it to be im
possible to leave American troops in
Europe after the siganture of the
peace treaty and England having in
sufficient effective troops to maintain
garrisons along the Rhine.
DRAFTING COMMITTEE’S
WORK NEARLY FINISHED.
PARIS, April 3.—(By Associated
Press.) —The drafting committee of the
League of Nations Commission has
finished its work, but has not passed
on the French amendments to articles
8 and 9, as well as the American and
Japanese suggestions on the Monroe
doctrine and the equality of nations.
It is expected the League of Na
tions commission will meet Saturday
to adopt the definite text of the cov
enant
Serb Dynasty Not
Out, Says Legation
WASHINGTON, April 3.—(By Asso
ciated Press.) —Formal denials of re
ports that the Karageorgevitch dynas
ty had been overthrown and a republic
proclaimed at Belgrade was issued to
day by the legation of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes.
310 Men Total Now
at Souther Field
SOUTHS RFIELD, April 3.—Souther
Field, consolidated, now has about 120
civilian employees, and the following:
31 Officers.
131 Enlisted men.
21 Medical Corps.
7 Quartermaster Corps.
Grand Total, 310 men.
Hog Buyers Coming
to Sale at Plains
PLAINS, April 3.—Another farmers’
co-operative hog sale will take place
here April 11 under the direction of
George O. Marshall, county agent.
Two packing houses have assured Mr.
Marshall that they will have buyers on
the ground, and some real competi
tion for the stock is assured, with the
prospects for good prices. A number
of farmers have arranged to market
hogs at this sale.
PLANE FALLS 200
FT. WITH FLYERS
Lieut. Col. F. W. Dickman, commanding officer, and Major
John W. Butts, executive officer at Souther Field, were both killed
shortly after 3 o’clock this afternoon when a plane in which they were
tiding fell a distance of about 200 feet to the ground.
The two officers were riding in a
Curtiss training plane, with Major
Butts piloting and Colonel Dickman
in the second seat. At a height of
about 200 feet, Major Butts attempted
a vertical “bank.” The wind, which
was gusty, caught the plane and threw
it tail upward, into a nose dive. The
short distance to the ground did not
allow time for a recovery and the
plane hit the earth with a crash, be
ing smashed to bits. Officers and
men rushed up and the two officers
were soon taken from the debris.
They were breathing but unconscious
and both died within a few minute s.
Colonel Dickman had been in com
mand of Souther Field only since Jan
uary, coming here from Washington to
succeed Major Wash, who was trans
ferred to Dayton, O. He was the son
Sidelights on the Barbecue;
Dinner Call Sounded too Soon,
But Nobody Goes Hungry
The big barbecue the new Flint
river bridge yesterday, given jointly
by the commissioners of Sumter and
Dooly counties, and attended by citi
zens of several counties, was chief
topic of discussion about the streets
today. The general comment was that
it was a huge success, and carried out
to perfection, except for the sound
ing of the dinner call a bit too soon
for the score of men who were prepar
ing the viands. However, everybody
was hungry and the dozens who had to
do so didn’t seem to mind having to
help themselves, and not an appetite
went unsatisfied.
Police Lieutenant John Bragg, who
always goes to barbecues and usually
helps carve, was present but confined
his activities to helping look after the
crowd and consuming roast pig and
Brunswick stew. A few days ago John
made a deal with Chief Johnson to
get off duty in the city’ for several
hours during the ’cue on condition
that he bring back a generous portion
of the meat to the other members of
the department, and he made good,
bringing back helpings not only for
the other policemen, but for the fire
men as well.
Steve Pace was present in all his
oratorical glory and acted as official
innouncer for the speaking before
noon. Steve made a great hit when
he announced that dinner was ready
—which it was not, but that fact was
discovered too late to stop the stam
pede toward the pits and tables
Among he numerous distinguished
isitors was Judge 0. T. Gower, of
he Superior court of Crisp. Judge
lower delivered a magnificent eulogy
of Dooly county, the mother of Crisp
and numerous otlysr counties in this
section. He showed the kind of peo
ple Cordele and Crisp are composed
of Major General Dickman, comman
der of the Third 1 Army of Occupation
in Germany, and was an exceedingly
popular officer. He was married and
lived with Mrs. Dickman in the quar
ters provided for the commanding offi
cer at the post. The Aviation General
Supply Depot was placed under his
command jointly with Souther Field
effective April 1. He was democratic,
but essentially military, and highly es
teemed by all the men and officers at
the post.
Major Butts came here shortly af
ter Colonel Dickman and was made
executive officer at once. He also
was very popular. Both were experi
enced flyers, having taken their train
ing at San Diego. They had led nu
merous cross-country flights from
Americus.
of when he vowed that his home coun
ty would have a road to the new bridge
fully as good as that from Vienna or
Americus.
One of the most interested attend
ants at the barbecue was Arthur Ry
lander, who has sufficiently recovered
from his recent stroke of paralysis to
be out. Mr. Rylander was chairman of
the Sumter county board when t he
bridge was planned and started, and
he had watched its progress with a
great amount of pride and fatherly
solicitation. ‘ Well, it is finished now
and I am happy and satisfied,” he said
as he beamed with joy at the success
of the celebration in honor of the open
ing of the structure.
Not as many pigs were furnished
for the ’cue as had been expected, but
the crowd was only a little more than
half that for which preparations had
been made. Sumter county furnished
32 carcesses and Dooly 26, a total of
58. It was estimated by numerous
men accustomed to crowds that be
tween 5,000 and 6,000 people attended
the festivities, and the 58 carcasses
provided more than enough for all.
There were plenteous basket dinners
in addition to the barbecue, too.
Congressman Chas. R. Crisp made
the opening speech. ‘‘l am told that
' 43 years ago, almost to a day, the open
! ing of the old wooden bridge on this
site was celebrated here with a picnic,’ -
said he. “In those days it took 3 1-2
hours to come to the bridge from
Americus. Now, over the good road
we have, it can be made in 25 min
utes by automobile.” Mr. Crisp also
paid a high tribute to the industry of
the Dooly folk. “Dooly used to grow
10,000 bales of cotton a year,” said
he. “Since that day she has loft half
her territory and last year she raised
30,000 bales and in addition all the
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MOBIEILATION
OF GERMANS IN
EAST ORDERED
BY HINDENBURG
z
Germans Destroying Industries in
Upper Silesia, Polish Agency
Reports
700 BODIES OF WOMEN AND
CHILDREN IN MITAU, REPORT
Boche Troops Opposite Coblenz Move
on Frankfort, Scene of
Uprising
GENEVA, April 3—(By Associat
ed Press.) Marshal Hindenburg
with a large staff, has rarlved at Glf
wice, in northern Silesia, and contra
ry to the armistice, has ordered a gen
eral mobiliztaion in that region, ac
cording to dispatches here.
The Polish agency at Lausanne
states that the Germans are system
atically destroying industries in up
per SNlessia, and taking away every
thing from the factories.
The Lithuanian troops on re-taking
Mitau, are reported to have found
seven hundred bodies of women and
children in the streets when they en
tered the city.
GERMAN TROOPS MOVE
TOWARD FRANKFORT.
COBLENZ, April 3.—(By Associat
ed Press.) —German troops opposite
Coblenz bridgehead began moving ear
ly Thursday toward Frankfort, where
the Spartacan revolution has been
causing disorder.
According to information reaching
American headquarters, the trouble at
Frankfort became serious Tuesday. A
mob of 10,000 marched through the
streets, stormed the warehouse and
helped themselves to the food stored
there. Street fighting followed an at
tempt by the local authorities to gain
control of the situation.
foodstuffs she needed to carry her
through, and to spare.’ ’
Judge Crisp went into federal legis
lation in his talk, explaining some
things about federal ail for good
roads, the income tax, the league of
nations and cotton acreage reduction.
He declared the farmers of the South
cannot look to Washington for help in
their cotton troubles, and showed them
that acreage reduction is their only
salvation to get for their cotton wha
it is worth. He quoted his platform on
which he ran for congress in 1912 as
being for a league of nations, but de
clared he favored several amend
ments to the proposed constitution of
the league as outlined to safeguard
American rights.
Frank Reynolds, secretary of the
Georgia State Automobile association,
did not get to speak until after din
ner, and many had left as soon as din
ner was finished. The speaking was re
sumed from the porch of the cottage at
the well, and he was listened to by a
crowd of probably 1,000. He made an
excellent talk for paved highways, a
portion of which was reported in yes
terday’s Times-Recorder. One of hi*
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