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FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 165.
PRESIDENT MAY SPEED UP LEAGUE TOUR
NO QUARANTINE
FOR GEORGIA’S
WHEAT, RULING
IN WASHINGTON
Decision Announced By
Federal Horticultural
Board
THREATENED CROP
OF FIVE STATES
State Entomologist Sent
To Capital To Repre
sent State
WASHINGTON, July 15.—(8y
Associated Press.) —No quarantine
against wheat shipments from Illinois,
Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia and
Georgia, because of grain diseases
will be declared at this time by the
Federal Horticultural Board, accord
ing to a decision reached today after
hearings.
It was stated today by Capt. John
A. Cobb, of Americus, a member of
the state board of entomology, that
until today’s decision was reached the
situation had looked serious for Geor
gia farmers, as it had been proposed,
and advocated by some agricultural
experts that drastic quarantines be
declared on those states in which
grain diseases were found, prohibit
ing the shipment of grain out of the
state.
“This would have been very unfor
tunate and unfair to Georgia,” said
Captain Cobb, “for the reason that
the disease which has attacked wheat
in Georgia, the eelworm, is confined
to only one or two localities, and has
been under observation of the depart
ment of entomology for some time.
“The board directed A. C. Lewis,
the state entomologist who was in
Americus last week, to go to Wash
ington to represent the interests of
Georgia and protest if any attempt
were to be made to quarantine whole
states. W’e were perfectly willing
for counties or localities where the
disease had been found to be quaran
tined, just as counties in the state are
quarantined because of the cattle
fever tick, but we were unwilling that
the whole state should suffer useless
ly. The ruling of the federal board
is pleasing.”
SAMBO FOUND BARGAIN
BUT HADN’T REALIZED IT
A negro from the country appear
ed at the office of Capt. Cobb, county
ordinary and official distributor of
marriage licenses, yesterday, and the
following conversation was over
heard :
“Cap’n., does you sell marriage
licenses here?”
“Yes.”
“How much is they?”
“Two dollars and a quarter.”
“Huh? They used to be a dollar
seventy-five. How come they’s fifty
cents mo?”
“Well, in the first place, the law
allows a charge of $2.75 for mar
riage licenses. In the second place,
when they cost $1.75, it took ten
chickens to buy one. Today at $2.25
it takes only two chickens to get one.”
“Yassa.” And the negro bought
the license, grinning, realizing that
he had found a real bargain, after all.
RADICALS FAN FIRES
OF GERMAN STRIKE
BERLIN, July 14. (Monday)
(By Associated Press.) —Contrary to
expectations, the transportation strike
did not end this morning. In many
plebiscites yesterday the employes
failed to accept the employers’ pro
posal of 300 marks bonus.
Spartacans and communists attend
ed the meetings and turned the tide
“gainst the union leaders who wanted'
the men to return to work. Another
vote is being taken today.
? WEATHER !
1 or Georgia—Local thundershow,
probably tonight and Wednesday.
o change in temperature.
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PERSHING GIVEN
BIG RECEPTION
VISITINGiBRITAIN
Y'LONDON July 15—(By Associa
ted Press) —General Pershing arriv
ed here with his staff this morning to
participate in the peace celebration.
He was met at Dover by General Sir
Henry Horne and a guard of honor.
At Victoria Station General Persh
ing was welcomed by Colonel Winston
Spencer Churchill, secretary of state
for "’ar, and officers representing
Fie' Marshall Haig and Sir Henry
Wil.-on, chief of the imperial staff.
Later the party drove to the hotel,
warmly cheered by crowds along the
route.
CARS COLLIDE IN ROAD
BUT DAMAGE IS SLIGHT
While going to his farm south of
Americus this morning and just be
yond Council’s mill at the foot of a
hill, Chas. L. Ansley, driving his big
Cole 8 car, collided with a Ford being
driven by a farmer named Johnson
but luckily both parties escaped with
| no more serious results than a broken
j front wheel for the Ford. Mr. Ansley
was going down hill and Mr. Johnson
whose car, coming along an intersect
ing road could not be seen until they
were almost together, was traveling
very slowly, having just started af
ter having run out of gasoline. Had
he been going faster, it was said, his
car would have been hit full in side
by the heavier car and the accident
might have been serious. Mr. Ansley
who was accompanied by W. T. Cal
houn and others drove back to town.
FLORIDA SHORT ROUTE TO
BE FIXED TEMPORARILY
A call has been issued by Secre
tary Spivey of Columbus, of the Flor
ida Short Route association, for a
meeting of the executive committee
in Anniston, Ala., Tuesday, July 29,
at 8:30 p. m., for the purpose of fix
ing the route temporarily, to be fol
lowed by a further business meeting
at 9 o’clock the following day. Joseph
Perkins, of the chamber of commerce,
is the member of the committee from
Sumter county, but he stated today
that he was uncertain yet as to
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PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
iU. S. ACTION
|IN MEXICO IS
COMING SOON
WASHINGTON, July 15.—Ambas
sador Fletcher, who is now here, is
known to be preparing data on Mexi
can conditions for a highly import
ant conference with -President Wilson
to be held within a few days.
Fletcher is greatly dissatisfied with
onditions beyond the border and with
the Carranza regime, and it is known
that acting Secretary Polk shares
these views.
While the state department is not
talking of intervention there is no
end of talk about ample protection of
! American lives and property in Mex
ico. Withdrawal of American recog
nition of Carranza’s government will
probably be followed by putting arm
ed forces into Mexico to protect prop
erty and life. The first step will be
to put an end to the constant threat
of Carranza to seize American oil
property at Tampico and wherever
it may be necessary to assure secur
ity the American armed forces will
be sent into the interior.
This will all be done not as inter
vention, but merely as the rightful
protection of American lives and
property in the absence of any gov
ernment in turbulent Mexico
Whether President Wilson will ap
prove of such a course remains to be
seen but it is known that both France
and Great Britain have urged this
country to protect their interests in
Mexico and this may have an import- .
ant bearing upon his final decision.
Evidence of the stiffening of the
policy of this country toward Mexico
is apparent not only in the state de
partment but in the army and navy
departments as well.
The administration is coming to
believe that the Mexico question is
fast assuming shape where it may de
velon into one of the issues of the
coming national campaign unless or
'er is soon restored across the Rio
Grande.
EX-SENATOR CLARK ON
U. S. WORLD COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, July 15.—Former
Senator C. D. Clark, of Wyoming, was
apointed a member of the interna-
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 15, 1919.
U. S. WINS FIRST
ROUND IN FIGHT
0N23-4PCT.BEER
PITTSBURG, July 15.—(8y Asso
ciated Press.) —The government won
its first point in the fight against the
sale of beer containing two and three
quarter per cent alcohol when Fed
eral Judge Thompson today overrul
ed demurrers of the officers and di
rectors or tne jfittshurg Brewing Co.,
to charges of violation of the war
time prohibition act.
Each of the nineteen defendants
were held in SI,OOO bail.
PREMIER NITTI GIVEN
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
ROME, July 14. (Monday.)
(By Associated Press.) —The govern
ment of Premier Nitti, which took of
fice several weeks ago, tonight re
ceived a vote of confidence in the
chamber of deputies.
10 KILLED IN STRIKE
DISORDERS IN ITALY
ROME, July 14. (Monday.)
(By Associated Press.)—Strike dis
orders occurred at various places in
Italy today. At Lucera eight persons
were killed and thirty wounded. Near
Genoa, two anarchists were killed in
a fight with carbineers.
MONDAY HOTTEST DAY OF
YEAR? CERTAINLY NOT!
“No, you’re mistaken,” said J. M. :
Bryan, official weather observer, to |
the sweltering reporter, “about yes- '
terday being the hottest day of the |
year, for it wasn’t anything of the
sort. It was only 94 degrees, and it!
was 95 degrees on two previous days. ;
And both were Sundays, the firstl
on e June 22 and the.second July 6.” i
Indications this morning were that
today would be fully as hot as yes
terday, but merciful clouds appeared
shortly after noon and, after ob
scuring the sun, let fall a light show
er Which served to cool the atmos
phere several degrees.
tional joint commission today by Pres
ident Wilson succeeding the late
James A. Tawney, of Minnesota.
NEW BROODS OF
WEEVILS START
REAL RAIDS ON
COTTON FIELDS
75 To 8C Per Cent. Os
Bolls Punctured in
Some Fields
USE OF ARSENATE
ADVISED BY AGENT
Total Loss in Some
Places Unless Prevent
ed Now
That the boll weevil is beginning
to get in its work in the cotton fields
of Sumter county in earnest was re
ported today by George 0. Marshall,
county farm agent, who has just com
pleted examination of several badly
infested fields.
“Yesterday and today I have ex
amined one 10-acre and one 3-acre
field,” said Mr. Marshall, “in which
5 I found 75 to 85 “per cent of the
bolls punctured, this being an aver
age for the entire field. In some spe
cially bad spots in these fields prac
tically every boll was punctured.
“This condition has suddenly devel
oped because ojf the fact that the
young from the first
squares that to the ground
and were not picked up and destroyed
are just now developing and attack
ing the cotton. In two more weeks
the migration period will have arriv
ed, and then we will see the weevils
spreading in many places where they
are not now found.
“Indications in some of the places
1 have examined are that no cotton
at all will be made. It can readily be
seen that this will be true when prac
tically all of the bolls have been punc
tured already, with the migration
and spread of the weevil only two
weeks away. In such cases I am rec
ommending the use of calcium arsen
ate in the hope that some of the crop
may be saved. I believe it is worth a
chance, and better to spend $7 or $8
per acre with the hope of getting a
partial crop from the late blooms
rather than to spend nothing and be
certain of a total loss.
“There is some early cotton, in
which many of the bolls have passed
the stage of danger from weevil, and
these will make a fair crop. Other
fields have not yet become seriously
infested, and may be far enough
along before August 1, when the
weevils wil come, to minimize the
I damage. However, the general out
look as it has developed during the
I last day or two is not encouraging.”
Mr. Marshall administered the sec-
I ond application of calcium arsenate
j last night to the experimental acre of
; cotton on Neill A. Ray’s farm east of
i the city, where a demonstration was
given two weeks ago. He will make
other dustings at proper intervals du
ring the season.
“I have daily inquiries,” said Mr.
Marshall, “as to the result of this
experiment, but it will be impossible
I to tell what has been accomplished
’ until cotton picking time, for the
j reason that results are measured
by the amount of cotton produced on
the treated acre as compared with
that adjoining whjph is not treated.
Os course, if the treatment is effec
tive, it will be possible tc tell some
thing of whether we are getting re
sults or not, but this will be only
general information, and it will be
impossible to tell how effective the j
work has been until the production of
the field has been measured.”
GREAT DAMAGE DONE IN
IDAHO BY FOREST FIRES
BOISE, Idaho, July 15. (By Asso
ciated Press.) —The forest fire which j
has been raging three weeks in the
yellow pine district of the Thunder
Mountain section of Central Idaho,
threatens to equal in destruction the I
great fires which swept Montana and
Idaho in 1910.
The fire has wiped out six square
miles of timber and done serious dam
age over an equal area.
LAST BOCHE
DRIVE BEGAN
YEAR TODAY
Today, July 15, is the first an
niversary of the last great drive
of the German army.
Shortly before midnight of July
14, the Germans began their ar
tillery preparation for the offen
sive launched the morning of July
15, with a great infantry attack
between Soissons and the Argonne.
Three American divisions helped
repel the German blow in less than
three days of fighting.
The following, taken from the
Times-Recorder of July 15, 1918,
will recall something of the feeling
of grave alarm that gripped the
public that day:
“The German offensive was re
sumed this morning on a fifty-mile
front extending from Chateau
Thierry westward into the Cham
pagne region.
“Early indications are that the
enemy is combining the drive to
ward Paris with a desperate ef
fort to capture Rheims, and elim
inate that city as an obstacle to an
I advance in the Champagne sector,
! thus linking up with the Flanders,
Picardy and Marne fronts and
forming a battle front of nearly
250 miles extending from Main De
Massiges in the Champagne region
to Ypres, in Flanders.
“At last two distinct American
! forces are involved in the new
drive. There is a heavy American
' force west of Chateau Thierry ant
' eastward from the Marne river to
j Jaulgonne, a front about ten
i miles, while other American troops
I are known to have 'oeen in the line
■ near Butte du Mesnil, four miles
1 west of Main De Massiges, quite
i recently.
“The bombardment of Meux.
! told of in dispatches from the
i Americans on the Marne, lends
L weight to the theory that the new
■ German drive is intended at least
in part as a resumption of the ad
vance on Paris. Meux is 25 miles
west and south of Chauteau Thier
ry, and less than that distance
from Paris.
“In the path of the drive lie the
important cities ci Eperna/, 15
miles sotith of Rheims, and Chal
ons-sur-Marne, 4 miles southeast
of Rheims.
Teutons Cross Mme.
“PARIS. The Germans have
crossed the Marne river at several
i points in their new drive, it is
■ learned authoritatively here this af
ternoon. French positions at the
river have been penetrated at some
; points to a depth of 5000 yards
i over a front of 3 miles and sev
; eral small villages have been taken
by the Teutons.”
PHOTOS OF CORPSES OF
GERMANS PROVE POPULAR
Ernest Pantone, of the 28th Engin
eers, who landed a few days ago
after two years in France, returned
to the home of his parents in Amer
icus Sunday, and yesterlay and today
was renewing acquairtancej about
the city. Today he spent an hour or
two at the fire station swapping war
stories with the firemen half a dozen
of whom saw service, several of them
overseas.
Mr. Pantone proudly exhibited a
number of kodak pictures taken at
the front by him and his “buddie”.
Among them were pictures of ruined
French villages at the front, many
of them snow covered, which led
Roach Brooks, formerly of the 31st
division to remark that the scene
looked unpleasantly natural, his most
vivid recolections of France having
to do largely with the cold weather
of last fall and winter, which was
spent almost entirely without fuel in
the most meager shelter.
Several pictures showed the corpses
of German soldiers, and these were
th e most popular of all his pictures,
giving great satisfaction wherever
shown.
Mr. Pantone was asked if he was
going back to railroading here. <•
“No, I’m going to go to farming,”
he said.
STREET CARS TIED UP
IN MACON BY STRIKE
MACON, July 15—(By Associated
Press) —No street cars were running
today on account of a strike of 185
motormen, conductors and linemen
for recognition of the union and bet
ter wages.
HOME,
EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
NOT WANTED
BY COMMITTEE
TO ELUCIDATE
PEACE TREATY
Committee Members De
clared Hostile To
Consulting Wilson
NORRIS ‘EXPOSES
SHANTUNG PACT
Says Ratification Would
Write Black Page
Into History
WASHINGTON July 15—(By As
sociated Press) —Indications that
President Wilson would not be asked
to appear before the senate foreign
relations committee for discussion of
the peace treaty were said today to
have been received in administration
quarters.
High administration officials inti
i mated they had been informed by
! some members of the committee that
i the majority of that body seemed hos
' tile to suggestions that the president
be asked to appear or that the com
-1 mittee confer as a body with him at
the White House.
Should the committe finally; de
cide not to invite'the president to ap
pear before it Mr. Wilson might be
gin his tour of the country earlier
than he had planned. The general
understanding had been that the
president was withholding decision
regarding his itinerary and the date
for beginning his “swing around the
circle” until the foreign relations
committee should decide whether it
desired to discuss the treaty with;
him.
SHANTUNG AGREEMENT
‘EXPOSED” BY NORRIS
WASHINGTON July 15—(By As
sociated Press) —A charge that Ja
pan secretly secured pledges from.
Great Britain, France, Italy and Rus
sia early in 1917 that in peace set
tlement Shantung peninsula should
for certain considerations, be turned
' over to the Tokio government, was
made in the senate today by Senator
Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, who
produced what he declared to be cop
j ies of diplomatic correspondence em
■ bodying the promises of Great Britain
and France.
These pledges, the Nebraska sena
tor declared, fully explained the pres
sure which resulted in Shantung’s
transfer to Japan under the Versail
les treaty, whose ratification by the
senate, he asserted, would write “t’re
blackest page in the nation’s history.”
Great Britain’s influence in the
matter, h e charged, was secured by
Japan’s support of British claims to
Pacific islands south of the equator
while France’s aid was purchased by
a promise of the Tokio government
to help draw China into the war so»
! that German ships in Chinese harbors
! would be available for carrying
i troops and provisions to France.
ATLANTA HOSPITAL CREW
STRIKES FOR HIGHER PAY
ATLANTA, July 15.—The colored
employes of Grady hospital, includ
ing cooks, waiters, janitors, laundry
men and orderlies, went out on a
strike for higher pay yesterday! stat
ing that they would not return to
work unless they were given an in
crease of fifty per cent.
The hospital, while crippled by the
strike, is operating as usual, and a
hurry call for-financial assistance was
made to Mayor Key, who will present
the matter to general council with
the recommendation that it be attend
ed at once.
j COTTON MARKET.
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Good middling, 33 3-4 cents.
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