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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 89.
LLOYD GEORGE UPHOLDS PEACE COUNCIL;
‘U. S. AND EUROPE NOT AT VARIANCE’
SITUATION STILL
FULL OF PERILS
FOR ALL NATIONS,
HE TELLS BRITISH
Declares Time Spent in Framing
League Was Time Save,
Not Lost
DECLARES INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA
WOULD BE ACT OF GREAT STUPIDITY
Rather Leave Country to Bolsheviki
Than Bankrupt England, He
Tells Commons
LONDON, April 16—(By Associated
Press.) —The Allied representatives in
Paris have arrived at a complete un
derstanding on the great fundamental
questions that would affect peace with
Germany, Premier Lloyd George de
clared in addressing the house of
commons today. The Allies have for
mulated their demands, and he hoped
by the end of next week they would
be presented, he declared.
LONDON, April 16. (By Associated
Press.) —Replying in the house of
commons today to previous criticisms
of his activities at the world peace
conference, Premier Lloyd George said
the situation was “still full of perils
for all countries.” He pleaded that
“those who are trying to do their best
be let alone.” He declared that no
conference in history w’as faced with
problems of such variety, complexity,
magnitude and gravity, and declared
the time spent in framing the League
of Nations plan had saved time in
stead of wasting it, as the league pro
vides the means of adjustment of pos
sible errors.
"It is not true that the Unit
States and Europe have beer, at va
riance,” he said, and deprecated at
tempts to sow dissensions among the
delegates. He declared that questions
had cropped up at the conference
which imperilled the peace of Europe,
but believed the conference had sur
mounted those difficulties.
He said it was his conviction that
military intervention in Russia would
be the greatest act of stupidity.
“I would rather leave Russia Bol
shevik until they see their way out
of it than to see Great Britain landed
in bankruptcy,” was one of his decla
rations. He said no approaches of
any kind or sort for peace had come
from the Russian government.
CAN SIGN NO SUCH
TERMS, SAYS VORWAERTS
BERLIN, April 15,—(Tuesday.)—
(By Associated Press.) —Semi-official
French announcements of the condi
tions to be laid down in the peace
treaty are denounced by the German
press.
“No German government can sign
such terms,” Vorwaerts declares.
Colquitt Votes on
Road Bonds Today
MOULTRIE, April 16. Whether
.olquitt county is to float a bond is
sue of $500,000 for permanent high
ways ie bein gdetermined by the vot
ers in the election being held today.
Reports received at campaign hern
quarters here indicate the bonds will
carry by a tremendous majority.
To make sure that tho voters will
leave their work) long enongn to go to
the polls, automobiles have been sent
to every precinct in the county to
carry farmers to the voting booths.
Nearly 3,500 names are on the regis
tration list and it will be necessary
to get out a big vote. The election
was called six weeks ago and since
that time the good roads advocates
have conducted a very vigorous cam
paign.
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WATCHJEVENTS
PARIS, April 16.—(8y Associated
Press.) —Direct news from Bavaria is
still lacking in peace conference cir
cles. Overnight developments report
ed by the press, however, caused less
confidence to be felt that the Schiede
mann government would be able to
control the situation.
An American mission leaves tonight
for Berlin to keep the American peace
delegation informed of events.
COMPLETE ANARCHY
REIGNS IN MUNICH.
LONDON, April 16.—(8y Associated
Press.) —Complete anarchy reigns in
Munich, according to a Copenhagen
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Co. All work has ceased, trains are
not running and robbers are looting
houses and threatening the banks, the
dispatch says.
The First Infantry regiment is said
to have joined the Spartacans.
Vienna Starts ‘Over
Top’ in Victory Loan
VIENNA, April 16—With hardly 200
people in the audience at the school
auditorium here last night $40,500 was
subscribed at the initial Victory Loan
meeting in Dooly county, the largest
subscription made at any one meeting
in the history of the county. The meet
ing was presided over by W. H. Las
siter.
William M. Davis, of Macon, zone
chairman, attended the meeting and
took the subscriptions. George H.
Long, of Macon, delivered the princi
pal address. It was estimated that at
least 9» per cent, of the audience sub
scribed to the Victory Loan.
Wade B. Lott’s Name
Added to Hero List
The name of Wade B. Lott, of Ameri
cus, one of Sumter county’s first men
to lay down his life in the great war.
was inadvertently omitted from the list
of heroes publiched in Tuesday’s
Times-Recorder, as sent out from At
lanta by the headquarters for the
Victory Loan. Mr. Lott died in the
service at Paris Island, where he was
in the Marine corps
ERIC
TH E TIMES RECORDER
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 16, 1919
j THE COTTON MARKET j
LOCAL SPQT.
Good Middling, 27c.
NEW YORK FUTURES
Prv.
Close Open High Low Close
May .26.85 26.90 27.08 26.72 26.78
July .25.49 25.45 25.63 25.20 25.36
Oct. .23.67 23.63 23.88 23.49 23.70
Dec. .23.27 23.25 23.50 23.25 23.28
DISTRIBUTOR OF
‘RED’ BULLETINS
IN U. SJS HELD
PATERSON, N. J., April 16—(By As
sociated Press.) —Thousands of circu
lars styled “Anarchistic Soviet Bulle
tin” have been distributed here by mail
and were thrown on doorways and
streets here last night by a man de
scribing himself as Robert Parsons,
of Montreal, Canada.
Parsons admitted he had distributed
the pamphlets in many cities.
Lieut. Wilson New
Adjutant at Souther
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Lieut. Floyd A. Wilson was today
appointed by Major E. S. Schofield,
commanding officer, to be personnel
adjutant at Souther Field, succeed
ing Capt. Chas. J. Glidden, who has
been granted a leave of absence from
the air service and will probably be
assigned to duty elsewhere.
It is understood that an intensive
campaign to secure recruits for the
air service is to be inaugurated by the
government, and there is understood
to be a likelihood that Capt. Glidden
will be put in charge of this branch
of the service.
Gen. Dickman cables
Son’s Widow Here
SOUTHER FIEL, April 16—A cable
gram was received here this afternoon
for Mrs. T F. Dickman, widow of
the late commander of the post, from
Major General Joseph T. Dickman,
his father, expressing sympathy in
their mutual bereavement.
The message was sent from Cob
lenz, Germany, where General Dick
man Is in command of the American
army of occupation.
BAR AND COURT
OFFICIALS PLAN
BIG BARBECUE
What is touted by W. P. W’allis, who
proposed it, as one of the greatest and
grandest barbecues ever pulled off in
Southwest Georgia, is planned by the
Americus Bar association for some
date in May, to be arranged later when
it is determined what day will not in
terfere with court business. It is to
be held at Myrtle Springs, according to
present plans, and the gues'.s are to
be the members of the bar and their
families, all courthouse officers and
their families, including the solicitor
general.
The proposal for the barbecue was
made at a gathering of lawyers last
Saturday morning, and forthwith a
committee composed of Mr. Wallis, W.
A. Dodson and H. E. Allen was ap
pointed to arrange !he affair. This
committee met this morning in the of
fice of Mr. Allen at the co.r'hovte,
and, with R. L. Mavnard looking on,
proceeded to lay plans. An enter
tainment committal, composed of K
L. Maynard and W. W. Dykes, was ap
pointed, and discu s lion took place a?
to possible features to make the af
fair a great success.
There are 26 members of the local
bar, including the judges, and prepa
rations are to be made for an attend
ance of about 200.
Soldier Vote Keeps
New Zealand Wet
LONDON, April 16.—(8y Associated
p ress .) —The vote of New Zealand sol
diers has wiped out the majority for
prohibition which was voted in that
commonwealth April 11, according to
a dispatch to the Central News from
Christ Church.
Gibson First U. S.
Minister to Poland
PARIS, April 16.—(8y Associated
Press.) —Hugh S- Gibson, secretary of
the American embassy at Paris, has
been appointed the first United States
minister to Poland.
PHONE STRIKE STILL ON
BOSTON. April 16.—(Ry Associated
p res .) lnterruption of telephone
service in New England outside of
Connecticut by the strike of more
than six thousand employes in the ex
changes continued today.
Here From Texas by
Air in Seven Hours
HOT FIGHT OVER
FLA. SHORT LINE
ROUTE ARISES AT
COLUMBUS MEET
Three Times the Number of Expected
Delegates Attend Meeting-
Officers Elected
(BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.)
COLUMBUS, April 16.—“ Dog-gone
the route!’ shouted one of the dele
gates from Troupe county. “Build
your highway in any direction you
want to. We don’t care whether it
comes through Troupe county or not.
What we are here for is to start build
ing hard roads, and I can tell you
now, it matters little to us who is
chairman, who composes the nomi
nating committee, or what they do. Up
in Troupe we are going to build such
good roads that everybody will come
our way, whether they .see Columbus
or the route you lay out 6t not. Stop
this wrangle and get down to busi
ness.’’
This came from one of the 500 or
600 delegates jammed into the Colum
bus Country club last night, who had
come from far and near to partici
pate in the formation of the Florida
Shortline Highway association.
Columbus was expecting and had
prepared for 200 delegates. More than
600 rolled in by train and automobile.
They came from every section of wes
ern Georgia and eastern Alabama. Ho
tels were unable to care for them.
The Country club banquet was not
sufficient to satisfy half the number.
Men stood in the windows, in the
kitchens or anywhere else that offered
shelter from the terrific rainstorm that
broke at 7 o’clock.
J. E. Hightower, praaident of the
Americus Chamber of Commerce; J.
Lewis Ellis, W. E. Taylor, Paul West
brook, Jos. Perkins, King Stillman,
Lovelace Eve, Major E. S. Schofield,
Capt. Chas. J. Glidden, Capt Bridge
man and several officers, Mrs. Scho
field, Mrs. Glidden, Mrs. Hightower,
Mrs. Eve and other ladies composed
the Ameircus delegation, ponw 20 or
25 in all.
At 10 o’clock the fireworks'* be
gan with a motion that the temporary
chairman, W. E. Page, of the Colum
bus Chamber of Commerce, name the
nominating committee, who should re
tire and bring in nominations for the
permanent officials of the association.
“Mr. Chairman, I am not from one
of the big four counties,” shouted a
delegate who got the floor. “I am
from one of the smaller counties. We
have come here tonight looking for
a square deal, and we are going to get
it, or else. We know that the big
four counties have caucused and pre
pared a slate. We won’t stand for
this. I offer as a substitute for the
motion that each county name a rep
resentative who shall sit on this com
mittee.”
A vote on the substitute was met
with a yell of yeas. Many offered ob
jections to this motion, both before
and after its passage, but the great
majority of delegates were not to be
denied.
The nominaing committee repaired
to an ante room and elected A. F.
Kunze chairman. After deliberating
for more than an hour, the commit
tee submitted a slate of officers which
was unanimously elected without
change.
It is understood that a lively tilt en
sued in the committee room, the parti
cipants being Messrs. Bell and
Wright, each representing opposing
routes. Chairman Kunze demanded
order and, it is said, this saved a
probable fistic encounter. Other than
this, no unpleasantness arose to mar
(Continued on Page 4.)
County First ‘Over
Top’ to Get Eagle
F romll.S.S.Georgia
Atlanta, April 16.— a portion
of the . S. S. “Georgia” is be
ing set up today on the lawn in
front of the State Capitol, and is to
be awarded to the county in this
state which “goes over the top”
first in the Victory Loan Bond
drive.
When this country went to war
against Germany an order was is
sued by the Navy Department di
recting that all superfloUs decora
tion and ornament on battleships
be immediately dismantled and re
moved. Around the bow of the
Georgia there was a considerable
ornamentation, the prow of the
ship being surmounteg with a gi
gantic eagle over an American
shield and from this extended an
elaborate scroll running down eith
er side of the ship. These plates
have been sent to Governor Dorsey
by Secretary Josephus Daniels, and
will be awarded by the Victory
Loan Bond committee as above
outlined.
Lieut. Robt. McMath
Home from Border
Lieut. Robert L. McMath, Jr., has
received his discharge from the army,
after 18 months service in Texas and
Arizona, much’ of this time being
spent in the Big Bend section of the
Rio Grande, and has returned to
Americus, where he is being welcom
ed by his relatives and freinds.
Although Lieut. McMath did not get
across, he had had some thrilling ex
periences with the Mexicans and oth
erwise.
He will again be associated with
his father in business here.
Atlanta Folk to Show
Kindness to Animals
ATLANTA, April 16.—The week
from April 21 to 27 this year in Atlan
ta will ba known as “Be Kind to Ami
mals” week. During that week, and
especially on Humane Sunday, every
man, woman and child will make an
effort to show some special attention
to the dumb creatures on their prem
ises. Over in France during the war
the anti-cruelty workers were found,
according to returned coldiers, and the
army was saved many horses and
mules as a result of their devotion to
the cause.
3 Awaiting Noose
Respited by Gov.
ATLANTA, April 16.—Three ne
groes charged with murder and sen
tenced to be hanged, have been respit
ed by Governor Dorsey. Attorneys
for Mitch Williams, charged with kill
ing a white man in Macon county
twelve years ago, have geen given un
til May 23 to complete their pleas for
commutation from death to life im
prisonment.
Will Frank Hunter, a negro, charg
ed with killing another negro in Je
per county, has been respited for 30
days to' allow his attorneys opportuni
ty to complete their petition of a new
trial. Paul Bates, a negro accused of
killing a white man in Screven county,
has been given a respite until May 23.
Bates is asking for commutation of
his sentence of death to life imprison
ment.
;
For Georgia.—Fair tonight; except
showers in southeast portion; colder
Thursday, and fair and colder in
southeast portion.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MAJ. MCAULEY
CHANGES SHIPS
AND IS OFF FOR
JACKSONVILLE
Plans to Return to Souther Field
From Florida to Spend
Tonight
SETTING NEW RECORD FOR
TRANS-CONTINENTAL FLYING
Only 17 Hours Spent in Air on Trip
From Pacific Coast to
Americus
Spending only time to change air
ships and mechanicians, Major T. C.
MacCauley, noted flying officer, reach
ed Souther Field from Fort Worth,
Tex., at 1:25 o’clock this afternoon
and was off again for Jacksonville,
Fla., which he expected to reach in
two hours, and then return to Souther
Field to spend tonight. He left Fort
Worth at 6f2 o’clock this morning,
making his flying time for the 1,100
miles three minutes less than seven
hours.
Major MacCauley left his ship and
mechanician at Souther Field, the
ship to be overhauled, and sped away
in a DeHaviland from the local camp,
accompanied by Master Signal Elec
trician Horace W. Hill.
Major MacCauley’s present feat is
expected to set a world record for
trans-continental flying. He left San
Diego, Calif., Monday morning, reach
ing Fort Worth, a distance of 1,300
miles, in 10 hours, making a total of
17 hours for the 2,400 miles to Amer
icus, and, if he accomplishes his pro
gram by reaching Jacksonville in two
hours, a trans-continental flight in 19
flying hours, will have been realized.
Major MacCauley did not take the
shortest route from Texas to Souther
Field, being obliged to follow the Gulf
coast line for a considerable distance
because of adverse weather conditions.
He lost one day’s flying yesterday,
also, because of adverse conditions.
Frank Sheffield is
Champion Fisherman
Seven channel bass, weighing from
14 pounds up to 26 1-2 pounds, were
brought back to Americus Tuesday
evening by the party of Americus
sportsmen who went to Spring Creek,
Fla., for an outing. Frank Sheffield
proved to be the champion fisherman
of the trip, he having hooked the
largest fish. Lee Hansford came next
with one weighing 24 pounds, and Wil
lis Hawkins also registered in ibe big
fish class. About fifty pounds of.
sheephead were also caught.
Transports to Move
Despite Strike Threat
WASHINGTON, April 16—(By As
sociated Pres.) —Transports will be
operated in and out of New York har
bor ‘/if it requires the entire United:
States navy,” it was stated officially
today in connection with the plans oE
harbor workers to start a strike to
morrow, with the announced intention
of tying up traffic completely.