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WEEKLY TIMES=RECORDER.
A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE
SIXTH IKAB.
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 14.1917
HOT
[[ SYSTEM
Ie ciion of the chief of police of
by the City council. Instead
be police
commission will be
, t „[ a bill to be Introduced at
. session of the state legls-
.ccordlng to a resolution pass-
regular meeting of the alder-
night. City Attorney E. A.
as Instructed to draft a bill
amend the city charter to
(or the election of the chief by
council.
all] also provide for the
lation of the offices of city mar-
chief of police, with the au
to elect an assistant to the
handle business, If occasion
the Chamber of
'gation from
appeared to urge the appro
- $;,o per month by the city
iupoort of the trade body, this
having been presented to
men at a previous meeting. It
to defer final action on the
until after the close of tho
fiscal year, when the exact
condition of the city can he
jnericus Lighting Company,
its superintendent, J. E. John-
Attorncy W. A. Dodson, asked
ear lease on a small plot ot
the company’s lighting plant
,urpo?c of constructing a set-
in for water used in the boll
matter was referred to £
fer investigation and re
John A. Cobb and Sheriff
Harvey appeared before the
to request an appropriation of
i used iu entertaining the an*
vention of the Georgia County
association, whldf
his city June 20-21. The ap-
on was granted.
of providing a signal hell,
device for the police depart-
i referred to the police com*
the council. The installation
k Art alarm system makes It
le to use the alarm bell at tho
which lias heretofore beeu
signal bell by the police,
tan Bell, chairman of the
immittee, announced that the
securing sufficient gravel for
icrations had seriously ham-
work of paving Brown street,
t will not be commenced un
is enough gravel on hand to
job through to completion,
larshal \v. T. Maynard stated
far he has collected 43,939
taxes, about $>’>00 less than in
»nce committee of the council
wered to make arrangements
inditing of the books of the
k and treasurer immediately
clos of the current fiscal year
rch; «e of 1.000 additional feet
Sf ' was authorized, to comply
requirements of the South*
ndcrw rlters‘ association.
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FREIGHT CARS
' TA , Ua„ j une 13._x goo,?
lanta Kiris have gone in for
driving and wireless teto-
”d other forms of war-time
°d are now taking regular
I <he classes organized by
,nal League for Woman's Ser.
II remained for pretty Miss
l 'ker. a winsome lassie with
rk hair and hazel brown eyes
the way mt 0 lhe railroad
“d 'f'Rin herding freight
tt In overalls, blue shirt,
- cap and with her sleeve,
a I'arker 1a learning the
eoupiing and uncoupling
*ra. throwing switch frogs,
engineer ahead and other
features 0 fthe work'of
“tinmen.
h * r e ’‘ample, u u now
0 organize in Atlanta a claea
general mechanics, Includ-
*il * 0 rk.
♦ I'ERSIUNG AT BOULOGNE 1 >
TO^EACII PARIS TOMGHT ♦
PARIS, June 13.—Gen. Persh- ♦
♦ tog, who will command the United ♦
♦ States expeditionary force in ♦
♦ France, landed at Boulogne this ♦
♦ morning, and is expected to reach ♦
♦ Paris tonight. ♦
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^NBW YORK. June 13.—(Compiled by
tho Associated Press from European
cables during the day.).—British troops
south of Me8sines withstood German
counter attacks today on the positions
they won yesterday. Below Lens on
both sides of the Souches river, Brit
ish artillery and machine guns drove
back the Germans.
The British also spent the night in
making secure the advance scored yes
terday on a two-mile front east of Mes-
sines. There was no activity on the
French front, except artillery.
FEDERAL TRADE
g ARRIVES J 1. S.
OE RELIEF
COTTON CROP FOR
1910 IS _
WASHINGTON, D. June 13.—Ac
cording to a bulletin about to be is
sued by the bureau of the census, th->
American cotton crop of 1916—11,449,-
980 equivalent DOO-pound bales—show
ed o slight Increase, as compared with
the preecdlng year, but with that ex.
ccptton was the smallest since 1909.
The crop of 1916 exceeded thst of
1915 by about 258,600 bales or 29 per
cent. The production In Alabama,
jcorgla, Mississippi, North
Carolina and South Carolina fell be
low that reported for 1915. while the
remaining states show Increases. By
fay hte most pronounced decrease took
place In Alabama, to which state the
1916 crop, amounting to 533,462 bales,
was only a little more than half as
great as that of the preceding year, 1.-
020,839 bales.
The sea Island cotton crop of 1916—
117,559 running l^ales—was the largest
on record, with the single exception
of 1911, which exceeded it by 1,734
boles. Although cotton Is grown
eighteen states tho combined product
ol three—Texas. Georgia and Arkansas,
the only states which produced more
than a million bales each in 1916—rep
resented nearly three-fifths of the to.
tat crop of that year. Texas alone re.
ported 3,727.700 bales, or nearly 011c-
thlrd of tho total crop; Georgia’s out
put was 1.820,839 bales, or somewhat
less than one-sixth of the total, and
that of Arkansas was 1,134.033 bales,
or nearly one-tenth of the total.
LOUDON ATTACKED
B? GERM
IGNDON. June 13.—Fifteen hostile
airplanes bombarded tho cast end of
London today. A large number of
British air machines pursued the Ger
mans, who fled over Essex toward Bel
gium. A great battle between the op
posing airplanes occurred In mld-alr.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13.—The
pooling of news print paper produce
tion and Importation under a govern
ment agency for distribution to pub
lishers at a price providing a fair pro
fit to manufacturers is recommended
by the federal trade commission to a
report filed here today.
Reporting the results of its Investi
gation Into the paper Industry, the
commission also suggseted that the
government of the United States seek
to Induce the government of Canada
to establish a similar policy, thus co
operating In the American pool.
In a letter transmitting the report
to the senate, which body ordered the
Investigation begun, the commission
declared that the 1916 consumption of
paper Is equalled this year the cost to
consumers will be approximately 35,.
000,000 moro than last year, and that
half of this huge sum represents addl
tional profits taken by the manufactur-
urers.
Touching the so-called voluntary
agreement with tho manufacturers,
providing for the distribution of pa
per at moderate prices, the commission
says this plan failed, because there ex
ists no law whereby tho plan may be
enforced, and that cxhorbltant prices
ere still being charged. The situation,
(he report says, Is still serious.
PENITENTIARY INMATES
ATLANTA. Ga., June 13.—Bren pen
itentiary Inmates are buying Liberty
Bonds. A number of prisoners in the
United States prison to this city, among
whom are some very rich men. have
entered their subscriptions and In,
structed their agents on the outside to
buy the bonds. Word from other
parts of the country Is that Inmates of
other penal institutions arc rallying to
their country’s call to a similar way.
Recently the men In the Maryland state
prison subscribed to $2,006 worth of
the bonds.
BOLL WEEVIL F!
IN 1STH DISTRICT
Agricultural Agent W. J. Boyctt this
morning exhibited a boll weevil found
on the plantation of A. B. Connors to
the 15th district of this county,
Inssct being discovered at work on a
square In Mr. Connors' cotton field.
Weevils are also said to have been
discovered near Croxton’s Crossroads,
but Mr. Boyett has not made a personal
investigation of this section and has
no specimens of the weevils taken
tjerc.
Thus far only a few Instances have
WASHINGTON. D. C., June 18.—The
Russian mission to tl)e United States,
headed by Boris Abakjmetleff, as spec
lal ambassador, has landed at a Pacific
port. The party, which consists of
about forty members, will stop first at
Seattle, proceeding from there direct
to Washington.
HEW YORKERS INVEST
III
ATLANTA, Oa„ June 13.—Announce
ment was made here today that a
strong banking syndicate, Including a
well known New York stock exchange
house, has purchased for cash a big
block of the common stock of the Mat
thews Iron & Steel Company, of Rome,
Ga.
This company la an enlargement ot
the Matthews Iron & Mining Company,
H. S. Matthews, president, which was
recently financed by William Hurd
Illllyer, of Atlanta, and Holt & McWil
liams, of New York, both of which
firms are also Identified with the pres
ent syndicate.
The Matthews Iron & Steel Company
Is capitalized at one million dollars
common stock, no preferred stock, and
$;5,eoo of bonds. Net earnings are
said to be at the rate of 50 per cent,
on the new stoeft, which will be ac
tively traded In on the New York curb.
The company owns ind operates
modern blast furnace at Rome, with a
capacity of 30,060 tons of pig iron a
year, and controls extensive red and
brown ore deposits at Taylor’s Ridge
and Carteravilie. Ga. The pig Iron out
put is sold for several months ahead
H. S.‘ Matthews will
at high prices.
DUYING LIBERTY BONDS continue in the actlvo 'management of
the enterprise.
ifi
E1TED RESERVE COOT'S
ATLANTA, Ga., June 13.—That the
rich man's son will wear the uniform
as well as the poor man's eon, In this
greatest of all wars which the United
States has entered, and that a rich
man's son Is not necessarily different
from tho poor man's son who feels the
thrill of patriotism In response to his
country’s call, Is evidenced to the case
of one of Atlanta’s wealthiest young
men who has tried and failed to get
Into the officers' reserve corpe training
school at Fort Mcl’berson.
William D. Grant, the eon of John
W. Grant and Mrs. Annie Inman Grant
and whoso father owns probably moro
Atlanta real estate than any other
person outside of Asa G. Candler, la
only twenty years old, and that was the
reason why he could not enter, as
the minimum ago limit was twenty
Patriotism Is not limited to any class
and the men wao thinks the rich man's
son who wants to evade military duty,
when he's subject-to It, will succeed
because of Ills daddy's wealth. Blmply
bus another think coming to him.
ATLANTA GERMAN ARRESTED
ON MANY SERIOUS CHARGES
ATLANTA, Ga.. June 13.—R. J.
been reported where genuine bol: !p rey e r , a 26-year-old German who halls
STATE HERE FOR
N
The 16th annual convention of the
Georgia Funeral Directors’ Association
opened to Amerlcus this morning at
9:36 o'clock, the sessions being held to
the Windsor Hotel. About 66 funeral
directors from all over the state are to
T IRH attendance at the convention,
lull The State Board of Embalming was
to session all day yesterday at the
Windsor Hotel examining applicants
for state licenses, twelve certificates
being granted.
The program of today's sessions fol
lows:
Morning Session.
Call lo Order—W. V. Almand, Con-
yere, Ga.
Invocation—Rev. Oeroge M. Acree.
-Solo—Miss Mitch Payne.
Address ot Welcome—E. A. N'lsbet.
Amerlcus, Ga.
Response to Address of Welcome—W,
E. Platt, Augusta, Ga.
Roll Call.
Reading of Minutes.
Appointment of Special Committees.
Quiz Class.’
Reception of Now Members.
Paying of Dues and Fines.
Adjournment until 2:36 p. m.
Afternoon Session.
Call to Order—W. V. Almand, Pres!
dent.
Talk, "Relationship Between the Fun.
eral Directors and the Minister"—Rev.
George F. Brown.
Short Talks by Members of the As
soclatlon.
3:30 p. m.—Assemble at Hotel Wind
sor for Automobile Ride to the Na
tional Cemetery at Andersonvllle.
8:60 p. m.—Entertainment by Local
Funeral Directors. ., •
ALMOST 200 LOST
WHEN LINER SINKS
PARIS, June 13i—The 'liner
qtmaa, carrying five hundred and fifty
passengers has been torpedoed anJ
sunk In the Atlantic,-with the loss of
ore hundred and ninety men. Among
the passengers aboard was a detach
ntent of Senegalese riflemen.
Sequana, formerly the City of Cor
inth, was owned by the South Atlan
tic Navigation Co., of Paris, and was a
vessel four hundred and thirty feet
long with a' groes tonnage of fifty-five
hundred and fifty-seven tons.
EL0RID6E BLOCK BEING
T
weevils were found to Sumter county,
but since the western section of this
county was more or lest Infested la»t
year. It ts expected that the pest will
begin to make his appearance to quite
considerable numbers within a short
time under present weather conditions.
Bug a Libertg Bond Todag
Friday. June 15th. I. the la»t day on which you ea nbuy a Liberty
Loan Bond.
,f yon have not yet subscribed to this loan, go to your bank today
sod enter your subscription for as large an amount a. you are able .0
takC v , the best security in the world-a United State, government
bond—wMch to*non*-toxable l and saleable to any market, and pays you
3 1-3* Interest. rendw B distinct and Imperative
But you do more than that. ^ m0|t nrgenUy needed,
service to your c0 “ ntry ft l J gutt3 has called for men an dmoney. If
~ “ ““ ”
“Mr.. »«m. » “
stead, knowing full well that he ■ . * ikert.t TYnnH tl
Do not wait. Oo to your
back and buy your Liberty Bond today.
Tho second floor of the pidridge
block on Jackson street te being re
modeled to be used for office purposes
by Dr. L. F. Grubbs and Dr. N. S.
Evans. A stairway Is to bo construct
ed between the planters' Seed Com
pany and Hay A Tillman's establish-
j |inu/ uuu il*/ w »
claims to bail, from Atlantic Beach, raen ta and a corridor running the en-
Fla., enjoys the distinction of being
the first enemy alien to be seized to
Atlanta on the double charge of fall
ing to register on June 5 and of violat
ing the president's order forbidding
enemy aliens from going within half
a mile of armories, army poets, etc.
And the fanny part about the case
of Dreyer Is that It was a cargo 0*
blockade liquor, neatly packed away In
two small kegs Inside of excelsior In
side a trunk. Inside an automobile, that
got him In the toll* of tho taw.
The police went Into a garage to look
for stolen tires, and while there they
accidentally ran across the cargo of
blockade liquor to the automobile.
They arrested the owner, who denied
all knowledge of the liquor to tho car.
The police then put It np to him to
produce the guilty party, and the auto
mobile owner went out and got Dreyer
and accueed him of hauling the two
Veg* of liquor Into Georgia.
At the police station It was discov
ered that Dreyer I* »« >«« r8 of age
that he did not register, that he ta an
enemy alien, and that, be has been
tire depth of the building will be ar
ranged on the eecond floor.
Additional windows are being put to
on the front of the building and the
entire second floor will be thoroughly
remodeled. The work will he complet
ed not later than September.
within bait a mile of the Atlanta ar
mory and Fort McPherson. Where
fore bis case will be submitted to the
federal grand Jury.
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♦ SUNK ENBOtTE TO ENGLAND, ♦
-4- BOSTON, Juna
a- submarine has sunk the LeyYaWiMi
♦ liner Anglican which left hero on
•f May 36th for Liverpool, according ♦
♦ to a cablegram received by the ♦
-4- vessel's agents today.
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ATLANTA, Os., Juno 13.—Tho mem
bora of the Italian mission to the Unit
ed States, who are on a tour of the
Central Mississippi valley, arrived hero
today. In the absence of Prince Udine,
who le III, the commission Is headed by
Enrico Arlott a member of the Rat
tan cabinet. The commission formally
Inspected the troops and members of
the officers training: camp at Fort Mc
Pherson, and after being formally en
tertained at the fort, left this after
neon for Birmingham.
MS HIM SI
Ml IT OISE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 13.
Treasury officials declared today that
because of the failure of many banks
to report they had been unable to es
timate the progress of the Liberty Loan
since last Friday night when only $1,-
360,060,666 of the two billion dollar Is
sue to be sold had been taken.’
Another call went out from tho
treasury today asking banks to re
port subscriptions.,
Reports today from many cities told
of gratifying progress, but In most
casSs contained db figure*.- Tin —ll|
subscriber on the face of today’s gen
era! reports, has awakened to tho fact
that the country needs Ms money, and
officiate expect tho final count to show
a tremendous number of Individual sub
scriptions to the |5 and |106 bonds.
There will have to be a tremendous
number of such subscriptions if tho
loan la to show the $166,666,666 a day
needed for tho closing seven days. One
official predicted that the total nnm
her of subscribers would approximate
2,666,666.
As tbs situation stands today, off,
data frankly do not know whether the
$106,666,666 a day has been obtained
Thousands of banks have failed to no
tify the reserve banks of progress made
by them.
To insure success the closing days
of the campaign will he devoted to re
doubled efforts to bring .out the dol
tars of the smell investors. As part of
this campaign tho old Liberty Bell at
Philadelphia, which proclaimed to the
world 141 years ago the birth of the
American republic, will ring once morz
in the cause of liberty. On Thursday
at noon, beginning the last twenty-tour
hours of the subscription period, the
clapper of the bell will be sent
sounding against the cracked eldes.
Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, will be
the bell ringer.
STIFF SENTENCE FOB
REGISTRATION SUCKER
NEW YORK, June IS—Federal Judge
Ubatfield In tbe district court In Brook
lyn today Imposed a penitentiary sen
tence of eleven months and twenty-
nine days on Herman P. Levine, a
school teacher end college graduate,
for not registering under the selective
draft law.
YOUNG MAN:
II DELAY
PULASKI HOLT ALSO -
DA COLLIER NEPYUN
ARB YOU OOINO TO THE WAR EXCUSES THAT ARE AC
CEPTED TODAY WONT BE VERY CONVINCING fo' YEARS FROM
NOW.
SEE THE RECRUITING OFFICER FOR THE AMERICUS
LIGHT INFANTRY AND CLAIM A RIFLE.
THE MAN WITH THE RIFLE IS THE 80LDIER PAR EXCEL
LENCE. ALL OTHERS SERVE HIM—IF THE BATTLE IS TO BE WON
HE WINS IT.
TBE AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY.
Co. 1» Sad Ga. InL
Pulaski Holt, son of Mrs. P. U Holt,
of this city. Is also a member of the
crew of tho collier Neptune, which
arrived safely at-h French port on Sun
day after carrying a cargo of supplies
from this country to the Allies on the
western front. John D. Sullivan, Jr,
whose presence on the Neptune was
mentioned a day or two ago and young
Holt, recently completed their term of
Instruction at tbe naval training school
at Norfolk, Va.
ATHENS, Jane 13.—King Constan
tine has abdicated to favor of Ms son,
rrlnce Alexander.
King Constantine's abdication was'
tbo result of a demand made by tbe
entento allies.
Premier Zalmls last night made an
nouncement that Constantine had des
ignated Prince Alexander ns bis suc
cessor. He said also that Constantine
and Crown Prince George would leave
the country.
Alexander, the new king, Is the sec
ond son of tho monarch who has Just
abdicated, and Is a nephew of the Ger
man hsgkSr. The crown prince wes
Princo George, who wns born July 19,
1896.
Prlnxe Alexander was born August
1, 1893. He was a captain to tbe first
regiment of artillery to the Greek
army.
Constantine bos expressed tbe In
tention of embarking on a British war-
shfp and proceeding to Switzerland by
way of Italy.
Allied troops have occupied Elas-
sona without resistance. There has
been no disorder to Athens up to tho
present
The reign of Constantine dates from
March 19,1913, when his father. Georgs
I. was assassinated to Salonlkl.
Born on August 3, 1868, Constantine
was educated largely by private tutors
from Leipslc, which was said to have
stamped upon him a permanent Ger
man Influence. His military education
was fathered by attendance at maneuv
ers to Germany. He became a brother-
in-law of the German kaiser by marry-
Itg the latter's sister, Princess So
phia. to 1889.
o-German leanings thus Indi
cated, were not always popular with
tbe Greek people.
With tho entrance of Turkey Into tho
European war the question of the In.
tervention of Greece soon became to
be seriously considered, but King Con
stantine insisted upon' strict neutrality.
The c&blnct, headed by Premier Venl-
zelos, which wns for war on tho side
of tbe allies, finally tendered its res
ignation. The Greek attitude, at
least, so far as the war party was con
cerned was largely to the effect that If
Greece had no band to tbe war her In
terests might suffer when peace was
arranged.
The Athens correspondent ot the
London Morning Post on March 29,
1915, attempted to explain the situa
tion In a letter to which he said that
to the second month ot tbe war, the
Greek premier had Intimated to the
tentente powers that Greece would Join
their cause actively If the neceselty
should arise, and with the commence
ment of the operations against the Dar
danelles, the government believed the
time had come for Greec to abandon
nutraltty. Tho king, however refused
to countenance this plan. It was ar
gued that sending forces to tho Dar
danelles would dangerously weaken
Greece’s defense on the Bulgarian
frontier, and since Greece had received
no formal Invitation from tha triple
entente her entrance Into the war
would tbe undertaken without any
guarantee from tho power* as to tho
Greek position on the mainland.
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-4 WEATHER FORECAST.
RECRUITING
^OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT IN PANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY-THE NATION CALLS
.
Probably FAIR tonight and to 4-
♦ morrow.