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AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 7, 1917
ITER COUNTY CITIZENS 2210
tRONG REGISTERED YESTERDAY
Illation of Returns From All Dis-
[icts Shows Previous Estimates
Have Been Exceeded
|rK OF NEGRO REGISTRARS
XARED MOST EFFECTIVE
B10GK
Isolated Instances of Evasion
|d Registration Board Gratified
at Showing Made.
itv's response to Presi-
eall for registration of
P citizens between- the ages of
|1 year.', was whole hearted
IplPte. as shown by the returns
r from the operations of
|>trar* who worked In tho
istricts during yesterday,
al registration in the entire
iS 2.210 divided almost equal-
i the whites and negroes, al
ert is of course a slight ma-
neeroes in the total list of
by districts is
as
lus (27th 1-
Bth-74.
■24.
Ith—142.
| (Old 2f»th i-
istratlon in
ous estiniai
m officials,
f e.iglbles.
\mericus upheld
s made by the
ho asserted that
in this district
Hint to about 1.000 names,
one or two sections of the
id the registration figures fall
up to the estimates and
stricts conditions are being
:ed by the officials. The negro
on throughout the county
creditable, although In a few
sections the negroes did
urc up to the standard est
olond citizen of Americas,
1 most of the other districts,
aeration of the prominent
negroes who acted as reg-
ndling their own raoe, was
responsible for the good
»y the negroes and the
•e of the work are loud
<>f the colored regls
instance is reportec
w»r* hindered from
ibis case is being in
a* authorities,
torning at the courthouse r
olunteer assistants, made up
business men, weVe busy
the registration cards from
|u s districts and it is probable
task "‘HI consume not onl
a11 of Thursday as we!
|nunh detail work to he don
eturn* can hi
the day the local organization of the
W. C. T. U. served fruit nectar in the
upper corridor of the court house,
while the colored W. C. T. U. organ
ization served lemonade in the base
ment where the negroes registered.
Several negroes declared they were
o\er 21 years of age and registered, al
though in many instances the regis
trars were practically certain that
they were not within the prescribed
limits.
When the complete returns have
been compiled, they will be forwarded
to Adjt. Gen. Van Holt Nash and thence
to Washington. D. C.. The actual draft
for military service will not be made
ui.til the returns have been consoli
dated in the national capital, probably
not within the next four or G weeks.
THREE RECRUITS SENT
TO MACON TRAINING CAMP
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., June 6.—Plans
to abduct a. St. Louis munitions man
ufacturer as a part of a gigantic Ger-
won conspiracy to block shipments
of such supplies to Entente nations
was confessed here today by C. J. Pier
•ol to Prosecuting Attorney Paul
O’bay, according to a statement given
out by O’Day this afternoon. Piersol
is one of six men held in jail here In
connection with the mysterious disap
pearance of Lloyd Leet, the 14-months-
old son of J. Holland Leet, a wealthy
banker here.
♦ TIIE 1VKATIIE It.
♦
♦ Probably local thunder show- ♦
♦ ers tonight and Thursday. Not ♦
♦ so warm,Thursday.
♦ + + 4* + + + + + ++ + + + + +
Three additional recruits for
Americus Light Infantry were
off yesterday afternoon to the train
ing camp at Macon to receive instruc
tion preparatory to rejoining their out
low encamped temporarily in this
city. The new men are T. G. Armour.
J. Rroadnax and H. B. McWilliams.
I iiiii (it-
Itfct ration
It'bni.
■i
l<Kk li,hl night, when the
1 closed, the volun
rar *. who assisted the conntv
Hi. count of eligible
rroly commended
'• The operatiou
machinery in this
woughout the county, was
according to reports
p ea «e with which tho
made astonished man;
, 1 that the would prove
k v *° accomplished in
^ roo,n 0n *the second floor
mi**, presented a scene of
ni 1 a m until 9 p. m. las:
'"I' 1 ' 1 ",,, to lining out it
man registered, the reg-
to make duplicate
tfRro regie, rarH weri>
min (|' 111 ,, t _
about i p. m. ami
* "" ,H »th whites and
ATLANTA. Ga., June 6.—Railroads
the South are to abandon compeli
tive activities and operate their line*
during the war as part of the one na
tional trans-continental system under
the direction of the Railroads’ War Bu
reau for the benefit of the government
Steps to make this plan effective wore
completed at a conferenc of the ex
cntlve officers cl the different southern
lines called to meet in Atlanta by W.
J Harahan, president of the Seaboard
Air Line railway, and chairman of the
southeastern department of the war,
board. I
In order to make available the maxi
NEW YORK, June 6.— (Compiled by
the Associated Press from European
cables during the day.)—British
French and German official statements
all tell of infantry activity on the
stern front last night, with Berlin
admitting that British forces penetrat
ed German trenches in the vicinity of
Reou. The British reported they
gained ground In two sectors north of
the river Scarpe on the Arras front
and Paris announces that the Germans
attacked the French lines heavily after
on intense bombardment in the vicinio
of Hurtebise and Chemin-des-Dames,
Tut were repulsed.
There is lively artillery activity in
Belgium, and it is evidently the inten
tion of Gen. Haig to make Lens and
the mining region around it untenable
for the Germans and thrusts last ni?ht
ard today form part of his plans In
this direction.
fighting makes up much of to
day’s news from the war fronts, the
.casualties in yesterday’s raid over Eng
land being given at 12 dead and ?■*»
hurt. The British report four airplanes
participating in this raid were de
stroyed. London also reports that pho
tographs taken during the aerial bom
bardment of Belgian coast towns re
cently show much damage was done to
dockyards and warehouses there, adn
that several ships in the harbor wer •
sunk.
mms mini
ploimck io mens
B. C. Ammons, a well known barber
cf this city, whose arrest on a charge
of bigamy occurred on Monday in Sa
vannah, was brought back to Anicrictis
lest night about midnight and lodged
in the Sumter county jail.
Sheriff Harvey, being apprised o:
threats of violence made against Am
mons by indignant friends of the young
t.idy whom he married here about tw
months a?o, removed the prisoner
from the Seaboard train at Huntington
and rushed him by automobile through
the country to the Jail in this city.
Ammons was brought from Savannah
by Deputy Sheriff Bob Price. Quite
rowd met the train at the Seaboard
shops last night, but there was no dis
turbance w hen it was seen that the offi
cer and his prisoner were not aboard.
Relatives of the Americ-us girl whom
Ammons married in March, declare
that their investigations show that ho
was married in Elba, Ala., In 1909, wit
nesses to the ceremony having been
found, as well as the record of the
marriage license issued by the probate
judge, authorizing the union. His first
wife is now living with their two .child
ren, aged 4 and 7 years respectively,
in Victoria, Ala.
Public indignation over the affair
continues at a high pitqh. particularly
since - it became known'that Ammons
has signed a complete confession, ad
mitting the facts charged against him
It is thought that he will be arraigned
before Judge Littlejohij without delay
’S SELECTION
1TINY IN PRISON OF CAMPS STAND
JOLIET, Ills., June 6.—The mutiny
in the Illinois state prison hero yes
terday was due to the “misguided in
terference of women” interested Jn
prison reform, A. L. Bowen, acting
warden at the institution, stated early
today. The women’s prison reform
league, some time ago, obtained women
orrespondepts for many of the pris
oners, which resulting clogging the
prison mails. The revolt started whe:.
this was ordered stopped by the au
thorities. One women correspondent
residing at Miama, Fla., determined to
visit the prisoner she corresponded
vitli, and en route wired him from ev
ery station at which a telegraph of
fice was located, this being one inci
dent resulting in the decision to stop
all such correspondence.
One person was killed and st
ethers fiurt, besides two buildings be-
in burned during the progress of the
mutiny.
it min
CUT TO ENROLL
KANSAS CITY. llo.. June 6.—Tor
undoes caused the death of fourtee.
persons and the injury of fifty other*
arious sections of Missouri an*’
Kansas last night. The death lossei
may be increased when wire facilities
are restored, telegraph and telephone
ompaules being amonk the heaviest
property losers. A heavy rain began
falling immediately after the high wind
subsided and continued for hours, cul
minating In fears of flood conditions
within the next 24 hours. Most of the
deaths reported occurred at Centra I la.
Alton and East Richmond.
DUTCH ORDER PORTRAITS
OF K USER AND SULTAN SEIZED
SOUIIABAYA. Dutch East Indies.
Jrne 6.—Printed portraits of the (!
man emperor, the emperor of Austria-
Hungary and the sultan of Turkey have
spread broadcast among the na-
i here, particularly In the province
o!,lig„ (I
The
mum transportation energy for moving i { goorakala. The Dutch government
fuel, food, materials and troops neces- L g or( j ere( j t j, at guc i, prints shall be
sary for the successful conduct of Bk I Where they came from is nn-
war. the southern lines adopted the[ fc n0 wn.
policy of reducing passenger servie\
either through elimniation or consoli
dation, and utilizing the equipment
men and coal thus released for til-
more important service of the govern
ment. This policy. It was announced
will be observed with every possible
effort to safeguard the convenience o.
the public.
Plans were outlined to ask the co
operation of shippers In loading cars to
full capacity and releasing them as
promptly as possible in order to in
crease the car supply.
A committee of five will be ap
pointed to visit the railroad commis
sions of the different states and ac
quaint the state authorities with the
facts as to what the railroads are try
ing to do for the success of the war.
Taxes In Stockholm $3« Per UopUa.
STOCKHOLD, Sweden. June
fre ^ uu-j j Taxes in Stockholm for the year 191 >
the’ Hl ' K1>U ' re<J ,n the court -. mounted to $36 a person. Taxation hat
‘“ te re Klstrars. During j increased 346 per cent. In sixteen years.
MUCUS VETERANS
WRITE MM CAPITAL
A brief communication tecelved to
day by the Tlmea-llccorder from the
veterans of Camp Sumter. U. C. V..
v, ho ate now In Washington. D. C„ at
t. ndlng the reunion, states that the en
tire party Is well and fully enjoying
the events of the great gathering.
They will leave for home on Friday
arriving in this city on Sunday by spec-
|j| car. having left on Saturday night
for the national capital. Tho veterans
in the party are C. S. S. Horne, J. W.
Harris. J. D. Stewart, W. S. Moore, O.
vy, Markettc, C. D. Morris, B, S. Teel.
Wise. J. B. Nicholson, E. H. Cor-
d, li, R. R. Arrington. T. J. Bowden.
. p. Chapmna. J. R. Culpepper. N. T.
Fulford.
AGAIN ARRESTED
AFTER ACQUITTAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—Offi
cial registrations reports received from
all over the country early today show
the- work was carried on most success
fully, as ordered in the president's
proclamation. Disorders occurring at
registration places during the day were
in the aggregate less than usually
mark general elections.
Many centers of population, it is be
lieved today, enrolled more than orig
inal estimates anticipated for these
communities. In the eastern states
anti-draft agitators remained
erectly in the background, and wher
e'er they were successful in stirring
up demonstrations in the west and
widdle western states, their activities
were quickly counteracted. The regis
tration of negroes In the Souther:*
states was unusually heavy.
The work of selecting about 1,000,000
en from amon» the clegibles will bo
gin as soon as complete reports from
all states in the union are tabulated
ami those selected for service will be
notified later when and where they will
be required to report for physical ex
amination and actual enlistment.
CHARLESTON. S. C., June 6.—Tho
Southeastern department will still get
twelve camps, and selections of sites
already approved will hold, according
to latest advices at headquarters here
Three of these camps, of which one
will be at Atlanta and ope at Columbia,
will be wooden cantonments, and
them the national army will be quar
tered, while the remaining nine wii
be canvass. The third will probably be
located in Louisiana, Mississippi
Arkansas.
The militia units, when called out,
xxill be expanded, organized into divis
ions, and given some training in their
native states. The three divisions from
this department will shortly afterward
we placed in their divisional camps and
six additional divisions will be brought
from the Northern states and placed In
camps in this department with the
coming of winter.
Mood’s .Selections to Stand.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6.—Site <
for two or the three cantonments in the
Southeastern department in which wRJ
be trained the men of the selective
draft army have been chosen. They
arc at Atlanta and Columbia. Of the
twelve camps to be located in this de
partment, nine will be for the National
Guard, as all of the guard of the coun*
try will be traied in either the South
eastern or Southern departments, ex
cept that two camps will be located on
the Pacific coast.
While selections for the National
Guard camps in the Southeastern de*
partment have not yet been approve 1,
it is assumed that General Wood has
plans to recommend for camp sites
previously announced by him as having
been selected. Tlje war department,
however, would make no announce
ment.
It was made clear, at the war de
partment to that effect, it was said, was
National Guard camp, had not been de
Urmlned upon as a site for one of the
rrmy cantonments. A previous state
mrnt to that effect, it awssaid, was
premature. Eleven of the sixteen sites
ior war army cantonments are yet to
be selected.
L WILL
BE DEDICATED B?
VETERANS TODAY
REGISTER
TO
TODAY
If EU HU IT FOR U. S. ARMY
LEFT HERE YESTERDAY
II. Eliuore, the Cordele man
attained considerable notoriety on
cmnt of the charges brought against
him by his 16-year-old step-daughter,
Mary Belle Keith, and who was placed
or trial in the Superior court here this
morning was acquitted by the Jury ear*
\j this afternoon, but was immediately
arrested on another warrant sworn ou.‘
Baldwin county, charging him with
rope committed against the girl in Mil
ledgeville.
Elmore, who has been at the head oC
a quasi-charitable institution in Cor-
dele, made frequent trips through the
country solocltlng funds for the main
tcnance of the institution. The Keith
girl accompanied him, and It Is alleged
that on these trips he committed tho
crime charged against him.
He was charged with having assault
ed the girl In Americus last Decerabci
and had been In Jail in this city for sev
eral weeks. At bis trial this morning
there were many sensational incidents,
but after about two hours' deliberation
the Jury brought In a verdict of not
guilty.
Elmore was immediately arrested on
the Baldwin county warrant and will
bo held to await the arrival of officers
from Mtlledgevlile.
Rufus Sellers, of Preston,
Americus yesterday afternoon for
Lnta to stand his final examination
lor enlistment in the United States
army, having already successfully pats-
jeu the preliminary examination given
jut the local rccrui$ting station. Tho
recent orders from the war department
j permitting men to enlist ir. the regu
lars for the term of the war with Ger
many has resulted in securing many
n-orc recruits than l»efore.
GERMAN CAPTAIN
GIVEN SENTENCE
CHARLESTON, S. C., June 6.—Cap
tain J. H. Klattenhoff, of the German-
American merchant ship Uebenfels,
pleaded guilty in the federal*court here
today to sinking hie vessel in a United
States harbor “on orders.” He was ini
mediately sentenced to serve one year
emLa day in the penitentiary at 4 ,_
lanta, Ga., and in addition to pay a fine
of $500. Several members of the crew
cf the Liebenfels are already in prison.
Paul Wierse, editor of a local newj
paper; Dr. W. Mueller, former Ger
man consul at Atlanta, and Captain J.
WASHINGTON, I). C., June 6— Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder notified
the governors of all the states this
morning that he Interpreted the selec
tive consc/Jlption law as permitting
ull those who in good faith failed to
register yesterday to do so today. This
interpretation of the law opens the
way for all who for any reason failed
to either send in their cards or ap
pear personally before the registrars
yesterday, to comply with the law to
day. thus obviating many prosecutions
that otherwise would certainly have
resulted.
New Jersey was the first state t*i
send Its complete registration report
to the office of adjutant general here
today. The report shows a total of
302,000 cligibles registered there,
which compares with the estimate of
the bureau of the census that 309,000
eligibles resided in that state.
GEORGIA COTTON ACREAGE
REDUCED FIFTEEN PER CENT
ATLANTA, Ga., June 6.—The belief
is expressed in some reliable quarters
in Atlanta that the cotton acreage in
Georgia has been reduced from ten to
fifteen per cent, by farmers plowing up
cotton. !
High price
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 6V—Con
federate veterans in reunion here ^
down to business today, the eecond ct
tbelr session, but are looking forward 1
to the annual memorial ceremonies ax.
Arlington cemetery late this afternoon
1th unusual interest.
Veterans and visitors in Washington
by thousands for the twcnty-seventlr
annual reunion of the United Confed
erate Veterans joined yesterday in
giving President Wilson a great ova
tion w hen he welcomed the soldiers o£
Dixie to the nation’s capital and toUt
them the country was beginning to
understand that one of tne purposes)
of Providence in keeping the nstton
united was for the opportunity norr
before America to fight for liberty u£
mankind. His declaration that th&
day was one of gladness because ot
the sacred memories and of a re-dedf-
eation of a united country to those
(principles that have made America,
great among the nations of the earte
was greeted by the veterans by a roos-
ir.g cheer.
The great hall in which the presi
dent spoke was fill led with thousands-
and twice that many more had to be
rned aw*ay because of lack of room.
While waiting for the president, the
eterans and visitors checre dthe va-
.’oua leaders as they came to the-
latform. The Marine Band kept the
Id soldiers in a Joyous mood by play—
g the beloved airs -of the South, uruL
each time they swung into "Dixie’*
the “rebel yell” would go rioglne.
through the hall.
The number of veterans here is call-
mated at nearly 7,000 and the touts*
provided for them could not accommo
date all of the late comers. Many ot
the leaders declare this the largest re
union in point ot attendance of visitors
ever held. The presentation of a link
ed States flag to General Harrison ac
the initial meeting of the Confederal*
eterans by Col. Andrew Cowan, of the*
G. A. R., was the signal for a patriotic
demonstration led by the veterans. The
Stars and Stripes were hung side bar
side with the Stars and Bars behhuf
the presiding officer and will remat*
there throughout tho reunion.
Telling of his four years at the Geor
gia Military Academy, where he learnecY
to love the Stars and Stripes, General
Harrison said: "For four years l learn
ed to love another flag, the Stars ami
Bars, which you have truly said was
borne with honor throughout the war.
And so long as red blood flows In oar
veins we will cherish its heroic and
tender memories. Now that the war of
sections has ended our country I*
again reunited, my love for Old Glory
has returned, and we who wore the
gray stand side by side with you who -
wore the blue in fighting for iiberty
and human rights whenever and wher
ever our country calls.”
James Tanner, who served In the
Union army, as a member of a New
York regiment and was wounded at
tl.fe second battle of Manassas, wel
comed the Confederates in the name
o! the Grand Army of the Republic, ot
which he is a former commander.
Several hundred of the veterans we*t
to Manassas yesterday and visited the
localities of the two famous batttee
of that name.
Balls, and other entertainments ir*
1 onor of the veterans, sponsors and
maids of honor were given in severa!
or the hotels of the city last night
TWO POUNDS DOG MEAT,
ALLOWED EACH FAM1LT
AMSTERDAM. Netherlands, June K
According to the Antwerp corrcspond-
of food, with the end ent of the Handelsbiad the German au-
not vet In .iitht, are believed to be re-' thoritlee at Uhcnt have lesntd an ad-
tponalble for tlils to aorne extent, while minlstratlve order granting permlaalou
others have plowed up cottou because ta the city of Ghent for the erection ot
the cold spring weather killed a food ' B jog slaughter-house. One of the
portion of It, and others have plowed 'regulations provides that no dog-bulcb—
It up because of the early appearance's- may supply more than about tw* •
R. Klattenhoff were all Indicted by.of the boll weevil. ipounds of dog meat a week to 'each,
the federal grand jury after Flatten-) Farmers are advised not to plow up family.
holl confessed he sank the Ucbenfcl.v J their cotton because of the boll wee-1 In the opinion of the correspondent*
Mueller and Klattenhoff are charged in! vll, because the few Insects which Jquoted, there Is no doubt this example,
the Indictment with conspiracy tojhave ventured out of their hibernating'soon will be followed In other tows?
sink the vessel, and Wierse with alding | places this early tn the season sre not'of Belgium, for want W Increasing-
In the unlawful avreetnent. (going to destroy the crop. 'day by day.
RECRUITING OFFJC^FOR AMERICUS;LIGHT INFANITRYIISINGW OPEN IN THIS CITY-THE NATION CALLS