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FORTY-FIRST YEAR—NO. 146
U. S. READY TO THROW ARMY INTO MEXICO
•
GERMANS SEEK
TOSAVE KAISER
AND PUT LIMIT
ON INDEMNITY
Query Sent to Clem
ceneau By Matthias
Erzberger
WANT ADMISSION
TO LEAGUE NOW
Provincial Press Urges
Quick Signing of
Allies’ Terms
PARIS, June 21. (By Associated
Press.) —Dispatches received over
the American military wire into Ger
many early this afternoon stated that
Herr Mueller, having failed to form
a cabinet, Dr. Eduard David, former
president of the national assembly
had been asked to assume the task.
CLEMENCEAU IS ASKED
FOR MORE CONCESSIONS
BERLIN, June 21. (By Associa
ted Press.) — Mathias Erzberger is
reported to have sent a note to Pre
mier Clemenceau as president of the
conference asking whether the Allies
will agree to an immediate admission
of Germany to the League of Na
tions. s 'x
Herr Erzberger also desires to
know if the powers will consent to
the limitation of Germany’s indem
nity of 100,000,000,000 gold marks
and renounce their effort to have
former emperor William surrendered.
PROVINCIAL PRESS FOR
SIGNING QUICKLY
PARIS, June 21. (By Associated
Press.) —President Ebert has re
quested Herman Mueller, majority
Socialist leader to form a new cabi
net according to advices received
by the American peace delegation.
Mathias Erzberger probably will
head the German peace delegation,
the advices indicate.
The opposition attitude of the
Democrats and Nationalists oft the
question of treaty probaly will ex
clude Coun Von Brockdorff-Rantzou
and Count von Bernstorff from, the
government.
The German provincial press is
strongly urging the speedy signing
of the treaty.
Berlin advices to the American
delegation summarizing the situation
in Germany up to midnight show the
sentiment throughout Germany to be
in favor of accepting the peace terms.
The advices cover Leipzig, Dresden,
Chemnitz and other representative
regions.
The advices indicate that all of the
southern German states are favorable
to the acceptance of the treaty, while
the Prussian regions are maintain
ing some opposition.
PEREMPTORY REFUSAL
IMPOSSIBLE, SAYS WOLFF
BERLIN, June 21.—(8y Associa
ted Press.) —Theodore Wolff, editor
in chief of the Tage-blatt, telephoned
that newspaper from Weimar that
those in favor of signing the treaty
are so active and numerous among
the Majority Socialists and the Cleri
cals that a peremptory refusal to sign
the terms is hardly possible.
Members of the national assembly
who take this stand, Herr Wolff says,
are being given active support by
several Majority Socialist members
of the cabinet, who now are openly
urging the appointment of Mathias
Erzberger to head the new cabinet.
Herr Wolff states that the solution
now being sought will be in the na
ture of a compromise. He believes
that Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
the foreign minister, can hardly be
expected to stay if the compromise
represents too great a concession to
the elements now clamoring for the
signature of the treaty.
NITTI ASKED TO FORM CABINET
ROME, June 21. (By Associated
p res9 .) —King Victor Emanuel has
reouested Francesco Nitti, former
minister of the treasury, to form a
new cabinet, the Giorgale ’ltalia an
nounces semi-officially.
CAN YOUTH AND !
1 MIDDLE AGE BE i
s HAPPY MARRIED?
) ’ | ’ HE older man is attracted by S
) * the young girl’s freshness s
( and innocence. And the girl is <
c fascinated by the older man’s ex- ?
) perience, his broader outlook on ‘
S life, his delightrui manners, in S
! brief, his sophistication.
! Can they be happy together? ■
2 Will not the young girl’s very 2
> sweetness cloy after a time? And >
j will not the coldness and unde- >
( snonstrativeness of the older man <
2 kill his young wife’s love? Or 2
> worse yet, drive her to some 2
> younger and more agreeable man )
S for comradeship? ;
< Is any love strong enough to \
2 reconcile two people so different 2
sin character? Sandra Courtney /
) thought so, but even she had hours )
j of black doubt. 2
< Read the solution of her prob- <
2 lem in “Sandra the Jealous,” (
> which starts tomorrow in The 1
) Times-Recorder. S
NEWWAREHOUSE
TO BE BUILT ON
BALL PARK SITE
As soon as the remainder of the
brick can be obtained, which is ex
pected to be very shortly, C. H. Burke
and W .M. Humber, proprietors of
the Commercial warehouse will be
gin the erection of a new compart
ment warehouse on the site of the old
baseball park on Hampton street. A
part of the material is already on the
ground and the other has been or
dered and is only awaiting delivery.
The warehouse 's to be 100x100
feet, in two compartments and will
have a capacity of 1,800 to 2,000
bales. It will be so constructed that
other compartments can easily be
added, maintaining the symmetry o
the building. A sprinkler system will
be installed to reduce fire risk.
Accordingto Mr. Bu>ke tne ware
house is being built to take care of
the cotton now being handled each
season, which is far greater than
the capacity of the Commercial ware
house. During the past season 7,000
bales have been handled by this firm
resulting in various places of storage
having to be rented and some cot
ton remain out in the open all sea-
I son. The new warehouse will take
• care of the firm’s present needs, he
i says.
A permit for construction of the
warehouse has been granted by tht
city.
HAWKINS HEADS JERSEY
BREEDING ASSOCIATION
The first meeting of the Sumter
County Co-Operative Jersey Bull as
' sociation was held at the court house
Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. The
constitution and by-laws were adopt
ed and a board of directors elected,
one from each block and one at large.
The board consists of C. C. Hawkin
Chas. Hogg, F. P. Jones, Henderson
Dodson and George O. Marshall a
large. The board elected C. C. Haw
kins president and Geo. 0. Marshall
secretary and treasurer. A meeting
of the board of directors will be
held at the chamber of commerce
Saturday morning, June 28, to com
plete the workings of the associa
tion.
The association has secured four
bulls of high breeding which were on
i exhibition at the court house. Each
of these bulls has a dam with a rec
! ord of between 500 and 600 pounds
of butter per year, and are sired b?
one of the best bulls in the state.
W. H. Howell,.of the State Col
lege of Agriculture met with tht
members and gave them seme idea
of the merit of the animals.
AIRMEN GO TO PHILIPPINES.
WASHINGTON, June 21.—(8y
! Associated Press.) —Orders for the
Third Aero squadron at Hazlehurs'
Field, N. Y., to proceed to the Phil
ippines, sailing from San Francisco
July 5, were announced today by the
War Department.
For Georgia—Sunday partly
cloudy; probably showers in west
portion.
South Atlantic and East Gulf
States—Generally fair weather first
half of week, local thunder showers
second half. Nearly normal tempera
ture.
THE TIMESHWCORDER
ttl PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
$3,000 BLAZE AT
SEABOARD SHOPS
NARROW ESCAPE
Roof of Machine Shop
And Belting Are Chief
Loss
A narrow escape from total de
struction by fire wsa experienced by
the Seaboard shops at midnight Fri
day night when the round house be
came ablaze, apparently from coals
where fire had been pulled from the
fire box of a locomtive. The flames
spread to the machine shop before
it could be extinguished the roof had
been practically destroyed at a loss
of SI,OOO and all of the belting in the
shop had been ruined, a loss of $2,-
000. The machinery was reported
undamaged and a few days will see
the shops again in operation.
The fire department was given
great credit bj Seaboard employes'
who saw the blaze for saving the
several buildings. They had great
difficulty getting their hose lines lais
under freight cars, over ditches, and
around obstructions, and they brought
the fire for nearly two hours before
being able to leave it.
It was said that the firemen were
inconvenience by the fact that the
water plugs nearest to the shops are
inaccessible to trucks, and it was
necessary to use the pump in this in
stance forcing the use of couplings
at some distance from the fire.
"he value of the entire Seaboard
plant at the shops is put at $35,00.
li* is composed of several buildings,
only one of which was seriously dam
aged.
MAJ. FORT HOME ON LEAVE
AS MAJOR FORT LANDS
Major James L. Fort, formerly a
resident of Americus and brother of
Recorder Hollis Fort, came home
from Camp Gordon Friday afternoon
on a furlough of 15 days. At the
expiration of his furlough he will re
turn to receive his discharge.
Major Fort is just back from over
seas service with the 82nd division,
being attached to the 321st Field
Artillery. He spent a year in France
seeing a large amount of service. He
received his promotion to major just
at the close of the war.
Major Fort, who was formerly sec
retary to former Congressman Dud
ley Hughes was in the moving pic
ture business in New York, being as
sociated with the D. W. Griffith en
terprises when the war broke out.
Resigning his place, he returned tc
I Georgia and entered the first officers
training camp at Fort McPherson,
where he won a captaincy. Upon his
| discharge he plans to return to New
i York where he has been promised his
old place with the Griffith organiza
: tion.
Majpr Fort’s stay in France was
full of varied experiences, of which
he is reticent, like most of the other
i returned soldiers.
On the day of Major Fort’s arrival
home word came to relatives here of
the landing in New York of his cousin
Major James A. Fort, of Americus
who left here as captain of the old
Americus Light Infantry. He is ex
pected here shortly, to resume the
practice of law as soon as he re
ceives his discharge.
SALVATION ARMY CORPS
I HERE TO TAKE UP WORK
Notice was received yesterday by
Lovelace Eve from Brigadier A. W.
Crawford, head of the Salvation
Army for the South Atlantic divis
ion, with headquarters in Atlanta, of
of his appointment as treasurer of the
Corps Maintenance in Americus. A
fund of $2,000 was ordered placed to
the treasurer’s credit to cover the
maintenance of the corps here for
the next six months.
Three Salvation Army workers,
who are to be stationed here arriv
ed in Americus Saturday afternoon
to take up their duties.
I THE COTTON MARKET j
LOCAL SPOT
Good middling, 32 cents.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1919.
BRYAN IN SPEECH
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
SPEAKER CRISP
! Americus Charmed by
Nebraskan Urges
League Adoption
William Jennings Bryan, three
times the nominee of the Democratic
party for president of the United
States, charmed an Americus audi
i e.iee of 500 or more for an hour
Friday afternoon in one of his
1 speeches in support of the League of
Nations and the anti-saloon league.
He was a visitor here less than three
1 hours, leaving early in the evening
for Columbus where he delivered two
lectures Friday night, but he touched
the hearts of his hearers as soon as
he mounted the platform with i
reference to Speaker Crisp beloved
resident of other days, who, he said,
gave him his change in public life.
“I never come to Americus,” he
said, “ that I do not recall with ten
| der memories the late Speaker Crisp,
j When I was a young man in congress
| he showed his confidence in me by ap
pointing me to the important ways
and means committee which gave me
my chance. Although I was never able
to repay my debt of gratitude to hin |
it has been my great pleasure to
be able to detain the confidence of his
son.”
It was recalled after his speech by
old residents that Speaker Crisp crea
ted a great storm in congress by ap
pointing Mr. Bryan, then a young
ster and almost unknown, to this
important place. Speaker Crisp had I
come in contact with Mr. Bryan
while campaigning in the west and, re
I alizing his great power as an orator
| and thinker, had placed him in this I
! powerful place. His judgment was |
I amply vindicated before Mr. Bryan !
j had long been a member of the com- !
! mittee.
| Mr. Bryan’s address, which was de
i livered in the First Baptist church, |
I was divided between the League of
■ Nations and the Anti-Saloon league j
the league coming in for hearty en- I
! dorsement as the machinery needed
for insuring peace to the world, and j
j the latter subject embracing the sub- 1
I jject of the progress of prohibition
and the plan of the league for ex-
■ tending the dry movement to the >
’ world.
Introduced by Mayor.
Mr. Bryan was introduced by May- |
j or J. E. Shepparl, who referred tc
the visitor as a man whose public and i
private life was en inspiration i<
exery red blooded boy in America.
"He has done more,” said Mr. Shep
pard, “to mould public sentiment
than any other man in the history of
our government, and. although it was
not his fortune to be chosen to the
presidency, he enjoys a place in the
hearts of the people of America given
to few presidents to enjoy.”
1 I Mr. Bryan was accompanied by Dr.
Howard H. Russel, organizer and
president of the Anti-Saloon league.
A part of the time of the meeting
[ was taken up by Dr. Russell in tell
ing of the movement and securing
' contributing memberships to the
’ league, cards being distributed for
signing, pledging monthly payments
from a few cents up to SIOO, for a
period of five years.
Mr. Bryan hinted that the League
of Nations covenant was the out
growth of his own treaties which he
put through congress while secretary
of state in President Wilson’s first |
cabinet. He showed that the United j
States now has 30 treaties which pro- j
vide for the lapse of a perod of time i
; in case of international dispute be-
I fore either side resorts to war. The
. first of these treaties was entered in
j to nearly six years ago with Salva
j dor, the smallest American republic. ■
, President Wilson said he, had taken
j the idea behind these treaties and
laid it before Europe as the basis of
the League of Nations.
The Soldier and Prohibtion
Discussing the liquor question he
declared that, despite the expressed
opinion of many people, liquor is
never coming back, not even beei
and light wines. He pointed to the
fact that majorities in congress and
elsewhere had been growing in favor
of prohibition since it was first voted
instead of decreasing, as was shown
by the recent votes on the proposal tc
repeal the war-time prohibition as
regards wine and beer. Disposing of
the assertions made frequently that
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American Soldiers Watching Juarez.
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International bridge from El Pa so to Juarez which American troops
crossed in attacking Villa’s troops on Mexican territory. Soldier can be
seen watching Juarez through spy- glass. (C) Underwood & Underwood.
YANKS READY TO
START ADVANCE
AGAINSTBERLIN
Lookout Germany If
She Doesn’t Sign’ Is
Sentiment
COBLENZ, June 21. (By Asso
ciated Press) —Divisions of the Third
army Wednesday began moving for
ward toward the edge of the great
semi-circle which marks the dividing
line between the occupied areas and
the neutral sections of Germany.
Orders had been flashed from
headquarters in Coblenz to divisions
across the Rhine, ordering them to
' prepare to march into the zone of
concentration.
The Second division was the first
! to move. Ordinarily the Sayre Val
ley, which meets the Dhine neai
Neuweid, where the division head
quarters are located, is cool and
peaceful in summer, but today it ap
peared somewhat like the valley of
the Ourcq, last summer, when the
Americans were driving the Germans
back to the Vesle.
All day clouds of dust followed
the movement of the tractors and
guns of the Seventeenth Field Artil
ley, which meets the Rhine near
tress of Ehrenbreitstein, out to the
, edge of the bridgehead, where the
' great valley stretches away toward
! Berlin. Tonight the American sol
diers are sleeping in the open fields.
With the infantry are engineers,
sanitary trains and signal corps men
who strung wires as they went ahead.
Even observation balloons moved up
get a better peek into Germany
if .he Allied peace terms are not ae
i ceptcd.
(he c<ncentration of the First Di
vision is well under way and
completed before tonight. Officers
said the doughboys wanted Germany
to sign and after that to go home, but
“if Germany did not sign—look out
Germany.”
CHIEF JOHNSON WARNS
AUTO LAW VIOLATORS
A crusade against speeders and vi
olators of the dimmer law will be
inaugurated by the police department
beginning tonight, according to Chief
Johnson. He is waiting until ntonight
in order that all may have an oppor- |
tunity for notice.
“It looks iike the drivers of autos
especially the bigger cars, do not pax
any attention to the laws,” said Chief
Johnson. He is waiting until tonight
something. Lee street is the place
where they are worst. Beginning to
night, we are going to make cases
against all violators of the law we
find, and we are going to be on th>
lookout.”
PRESBYTERIANS
OPEN DRIVE TO
STOP JIG FIGHT
Ohio Governor Declares
He Hasn’t Power To
Interfere
NEW YORK, June 21. (By As
sociated Press.) —Every state super
intendent of the Presbyterian Boari'
of Home Missions is urged in tele
grams sent out from the board’s head
quarters here to send messages to
congress immediately asking
that Governor Cox of Ohio
be asked to forbid “desecration” of
the nation’s holiday through the
holding of the Willard-Dempsey fight
July 4.
GOVERNOR DENOUNCES
MOVE AS HYPOCRISY.
COLUMBUS, 0., June 21.—(8y
Associated Press.) —With references
to the situation affecting the Willard-
Dempsey contest, Governor Cox to
day made the following statement:
“The propaganda begun a short
time ago under political auspices is
j based upon such a deliberate attempt
to deceive the public that it would
seem proper for me to give the facts.
Under the laws of this state and
i their interpretation by the courts,
' boxing contests are legalized under
j direction of local municipal authori-
I ties.
“Boxing contests are conducted in
1 at least a dozen of our largest cities.
| If the law is changed, giving me the
- right of interference, it will be ex
-1 ercised, but I shall not meet hypoc
; risy with usurpation of power.”
AGED NEGRO COMES BACK
TO OLD HOME TO PREACH
Rev. George H. Dwelle (colored)
of Atlanta, will preach Sunday at
the Bethesda Baptist church (color
ed) on Forest avenue, occupying the
pulpit of Dr. W. M. Redd'ek, speak.ng
at both services it is announced.
“The Rev. Dwelle was one of the
first colored preachers in Southwest
Georgia,” Dr. Reddick sai 1 Saturday.
“Before the Civil War—away ba ex
in 1860 and 1865—George Dwelle
was a wagon maker in Americus.
Soon after the Civil War he entered
the ministry in the Baptist church
He has held some of the principal
pulpits of his church in the state.
For years he was president of the
colored Baptist State convention.
Though now more than 80 years old
he has come back again to preach
to his people. He has many friends
among the white people of Americus,
same of whom remember him before
he began to preach.”
HOME
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
INVASION WILL
FOLLOW FIRST
REPRISAL ACTS
OF REBEL VILLA
Watchful Waiting Gives
Way to Watchful a
Preparedness
CARRANZA LOSING
GROUND IN NORTH
Little Faith In Report
That Bandit Has End
ed Offensive
IM-.. t
WASHINGTON, June 21.—(8y
Associated Press.) —Recent develop
ments along the southern border and
within Mexico itself, it was learne
officially today have brought radi
cial change in the attitude of this
government toward Mexico. It can be
stated on positive authority that
“watchful waiting” has been discard
ed for “watchful preparedness.”
The War Department has perfect
plans to throw a punitive expedition
of adequate strength across the Rio
Grande the moment official word is
received of reprisals on the part of
Villa for the Juarez incident, or in
case of other contingencies tending
to bring the Mexican situation to a
stage approaching the crisis last Sun
day.
Orders for the advance of this col
umn, however, it was said, would be
accompanied by instructions for the
military occupation of territory nec
essary to insure safety of the expedi
tion and absolute protection of the
border through the creation of a neu
tral zone south of the line. Further
movement of the expedition would
depend entirely upon subsequent de
velopments.
Villa Not Through.
Military observers here place little
credence in the reports that Villa
I has abandoned his offensive to the
| north. Economic, as well as military
| necessity, it was pointed out, call for
the elimination of the Carranza gar
risons now stationed on the flanks
of the territory Villa now controls
and for possession of the principal
frontier entry port which would give
the rebel chieftain fresh sinews of
war in the shape of custom duties
and equipment.
Although three federal generals
now are operating against Villa in
Northern Mexico ccnfidential reports
to the War Deparment are not op
timistic regarding the success of the
Carranzista campaign there, while
the withdrawal of badly needed
troops from the south, it is expected,
will be followed by fresh incursions
of the Felicistas—already at the very
gates of the capita l . The Carranza
military establishment, according to
official reports filed here, actually
includes less than forty per cent of
its proper strength of 16i.',0u0 and
its military value is decreased by ’ho
doubtful loyalty of some high offi
cials and the fact that hundreds of
recruits were forcibly conscripted.
Angele* Able Leader.
Os the rebel factions, of which
there is said to be seven opposing
Carranza, Villa was reported to be
the strongest. Angeles is character
ized in official circles here as “un
doubtedly the most skillful militarx
leader south of the Rio Grande.”
The Villistas are conservatively es
timated to number ten thousar
equipped with fairly modern arms,
including cannon up to 105 millime
tres in calibre.
WHOLESALE DEPORTATION
OF RADICALS IS PLANNED
NEW YORK, June 21. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —Information that the
! government has under consideration
wholesale deportations of Bolsheviki,
anarchist and other radicals in this
country was obtained here today from
what was considered an authorita
tive sources.
It was declared that the plan call
ed for using returning troopships
to take alien agitators gack to their
native lands.