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AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 5, 1917
ff RIOT SUBSIDES
SOLDIERS TAKE
FIRMER IEU I0H
non
Shot by Mob While
Quarters Were Set
On Fire.
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votive Calm Follows
Scenes Prevailing
For Many Hours
ST. LOUIS, 111., July 3.—Fires
y rioters In three negro sec-
noon were fanned by a ( high
preading rapidly until at 1
be conflagration was beyond.
Troops and police continue
shed to the scene where the
ssembled.
ilef of the lire department said
moon that three hundred and
Dings were destroyed during
ht's fire, and reported the re-
p( ft number of bodies among
S. Ttenly-four cases of small 4
is reported, developed during
it tneng live hundred negroes
d under Red Cross protection
r. LOUIS, Ill., Juyl 3.—Rlot-
l which twenty-one negroes
i whites are known to have
d, besides three hundred and
ins hurt and a hundred and
) homes burned was followed
comparative calm, after Ilf-
red National Guardsmen took
the city.
s certain at noon today tha*
re were killed during the
i Is definitely known, as dur
regress of the disturbances
’minded many negroes houses
d previously been set afire
the negroes as they tried to
Many are reported to have
:k Into the burning ruins, and
nrtances the corpses are said
been utterly consumed. Po
rts say eight charred bodies
recovered from ruins of ne-
ses In the "Alley” district
e morning.
ass representatives here are
up hundreds of homeless ne-
d have prepared temporary
tor them, where they are safe
estatlon.
of soldiers are bringing in
i arms taken from whites and
different points.
The property loss was estimated by
City Attorney Fekete at $3,000,000.
Forty Injured negroes and six white
men were In one hospital and almos
an equal number In another.
Vast clouds of smoke rolled across
the sky last night from the burning
district. The flames made some of- the
downtown streets as light as day and
now and then a yelling mob rushed
down a street in pursuit of a negro
or in search of new excitement. Na
tional guards men, loaded In automo
bile trucks, dashed after the mob. The
shouting died down occasionally as
bewildered people walked up and down
the streets wondering where the last
outbreak occurred.
Negroes Flee to Missouri.
The* fires started about 6 o’clock
Monday evening and spread rapidly.
Soon flames visible for miles were
shooting Into the sky. Hundreds of ne
gro women most of them carrying bun
dies that held their most precious be
longings and leading small children,
fled across the bridge to shelter and
safety with friends on the Missouri
side.
Telephone wires were cut early in
the evening. Aa telejTaph and tele
phone poles caught fire other wires
went down.
The mobs in East St. Louis were
cwolled by hundreds of people who
early In the evening crossed the river
from St. LOuis, iSm' This added such
a menace to the situation that at 8:30
o’clock the bridges were closed. This
forced hundreds of residents of sur-
turban towns to stay In St. Louis for
the night . . . . .
As soon as street car traffic ended at
. p. m., crowds walked across the
bridge into East St. Louis by the thous
onds.
Two Lynchlnjrs Frustrated.
The mobs got Into a lynching mood
last night. One negro was strung np
on a pole, but was rescued just to
time to save his life. Soldiers rescued
still another negro who was being
dragged through the atreets. After
military rule had been proclaimed, the
soldiers put more vigor Into their at
tacks! to quell the mob.
Seventy-flve white men attacked •>
negro In front of a drug store down
town and shot him twice, and attempt
ed to drag him to a polo. The troops
charged with fixed bayonets and the
irob scattered.
With this show of force the rioters
in part quieted down. Troops stood
guard at all corners and kept the
crowd, moving. At «:SO o’clock flro
broke out In the districtknown »
•’Alley." This Are cants perilously
near the his railroad yards of Eart St-
Louis. - At 9 o’clock four more negroes
were shot. At 10 o’clock It appeared
MACON, Ga.. July 3.—Amos Reed
farmer of the Warrior district, w
ordered by the coroner's jury here yes
terday afternoon to be held on a charge
of manslaughter In connection with the
death Sunday night of E. W. Hyatt, al
so a farmer of tha Warrior district,
and a neighbor of Reed, who was
badly Injured In a light with’ Rccd
Sunday afternoon that hie death oc
curred several hours later at the Ma
con hospital.
Mrs. Hyatt bad asked Reed's daugh
ter not to lead their cow through her
yard. The Reed girl reported th<
matter to her lather, and shortly af
terward Reed and Hyatt engaged In i
quarrel. Finally they agreed to meet
at a com crib halt-way between the
two bouses. According to the children
of the dead man, Reed struck their
father over the head with a plank
which were several nails. They also
claim that Mrs. Reed struck him
the back with a heavy pleca of Iron
that looked like a wrench.
Mrs. Hyatt ’Anally succeeding
separating the men and got her hus
band into the house, where he became
unconscious. He was taken to the hos
pital, where it was found that his
skull was fractured.
In telling of the trouble at the
quest this morning, Mrs. Hyatt said
that her husband was unarmed. Reed
she said,-picked up a board and struck
her husband twice. Then, according
ti. Mrs. Hyatt, she ran and separated
the two men. Her two children ,Had!c
and Albert corroborated her story.
Reed refused to discuss his case to
day further than to say that had he not
felt that he was Justified In doing what
he did he would not voluntarily have
given Mmeelt up to the sheriff.
Reed surrendered as soon as-he
learned that Hyatt bad died.
mis taken from whites anu were snoi. r -----
nany part, of the city, and a. If the "alley” Mrlct * d
Iturbanees are considered as
i occur.
officers today answered the
R»t soldiers were not allow-
t during the progress of the
fs>lng that If such hrderr
liven unnecessary general
would have resulted, be
lie intemperate mood of the
lobs.
T. LOl'IS, Ill., July 3.—Sou-
«rs today took bits of cloth-
bodies of negroes In the
>t police authorities stopped
iraphing of ruins with bodies
1 'till lying here and there,
ft that la being generally
d on came to light today.
» reported to the authorities
1 whites who found a negro
>e streets late last night first
d the black still breathed
'»rd two of the whites dellb-
lhot the prostrate negro
i* head,
— 1 ■ * ,
lo '« Estimated at $3,000,000.
rr -LOUlB, III., July 3 —At 11
"t Mght estimates of the
esterday’s race riot and tire
"nut 15 to 75,'of,whom two
t* men.
were still burning at four
“destruction. This I. the third Urge
area burned. The property damage
will reach many thousands.
12 Military Companies on
SPRINOF1ELD. III.. July “ d *
dlttonat companies of »t»te tr°ops we e
ordered to East St. Louis for riot duty
night. making a total of « com-
panics detailed there. AdUUntOen
oral Frank 8. Dickson lett for
(Continued on Laat Puge.)
GIMP 14 P.O.S. OF *. ELtCTE
NEW OFFICERS LIST UGH
eassssssS:
BMSSrlS!
The felectlon resulted ft* .
Hast President, 6. A. Jennlng*! Pres
dent. T.E. Castleberry; Vice FresWenL
tun «’. Speer; Master of
L. Williams; Conductor. R A Herrin,
Inspector. R- A. Hos “®’
harles R. Crisp. E. F. V lldc •
An alarm turiwid from box 53.- at
the- corner ot Etmimnue and Taylor 1
el rest last night about 11 o'clock gave
the firemen a brisk run, but on arriv
ing at the scene of the expected blaze,
it was found that the alarm had been
turned In by partlcq evidently wishing
to play a practical joke. Not a sign ot
Are was to he Been, any where In the
vicinity.
Investigation ot tho affalr'thia morn
ing developed several ciues which are
being closely followed with tho Idea
ot apprehending . tlje culprits. Four
persons evidently formed | the party
turning In the alarm, as their tracks
were followed fronTYhe box through
several gardens to College street. Two
boys and two girls formed the party
and one resident of tho neighborhood
sew them as they passed tho rear of
the house.
Drastic ifleans arc to be employed
to prevent the ringing In of false
alartns and Recorder Marshall has
In promised to deal out swift punishment
to culprits bri.ufht before him for this
offense.
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NEW YORK, July 3.—(Comtflled by
the Associated Press from European
cables.)—The treat offensive of the
Russian^ la being so successfully push
ed that even the Germans In an offl
dal statement admit the Russians have
moved fbrward across the heights on
the western bank of the river Strlpa
in Galicia and have succeeded In ex
tending northward the gap In the Ten
ton lines made the previous day.
Advices to the Russian government
say the offensive Is progressing favor
ably. How costly the attacks have prov.
ed to the German personnel la shown
in the taking of 16.000 prisoners In
one narrow sector, the lose proving
almost disastrous to the enemy. The
question of whether or not the drive
can be continued remains unanswered,
hut conditions today are still encour
aging. General Bruellofrs forces are
still pressing toward Zlocboff. 3» miles
eest of Lemberg, capital of the prov-
ince of Galicia. '
German troops continue attacking
violently on the Alsne front and be-
for Verdun, the French war office re
torting all of these completely check
ed. with heavy loesea sustained by the
Teutons. „ , ,
Signs of an Impending British at
tack in Belgium are seen In the Ger
man official statement saying artillery
Are in the Ypres district Is Increasing
In violence.
Poles Starving In Streets.
STOCKHOLM, July 3.—Three Poles
here Issued an appeal for aid at War
saw today, the appeal Baying Poles arc
dying in the streets there as the result
hunger. The Associated Press Is
in possesion of Information from other
sources which indicates conditions arc
equally bad In other parts of Poland
In Warsaw.!
TWO additional recruits
KM.1ST 1> NAVY HKKK TO!)
USE Mill WE
Tho new pipe organ to bo placed In
the Lee Street Methodist church as a
memorial to Sarah Margaret and Min
nie Sue Culpepper, Who were the vic
tims of a fatal automobile accident
which occurred In this city early In
April, has arrived % from tho factory
and will he Immediately Installed.
Tho instrument, v^Mch is the largest
In the city. Is the gtft of Mrs. Jerry
Mugtvan, wife of one of the propriet
ors ot John Robinson’s Ten Big
Shows which wintered In Amerlcus
last season. Sirs. Mugtvan was driv
ing the automobllo that figured In tho
tragedy which cost the life of the two
little girls. '
The organ la 16 feet wide and 17 1*2
feet high and la of tho moot approved
design. It was made at the factory of
J. W. Setere & Sons Organ Company
of Springfield, Maas., at a cost of $2,
800. ,
The Instrument will probably be
ready for use on Sunday, July 15th
and It Is planned to give a recital on
August 10th at which Prof. James R.
Gillette, pipe organ Instructor at Wes
leyan Collets, will ho the principal
artist
Miss Melva Clark Is to be the regular
organist at the Lee Street church.
As the result ot a conference held In
this city yesterday, afternoon between
officials of the Central of Georgia rail
way and representatives of the Cham
ber ot Commerce, a definite agreement
was reached regarding the continuance
of tho passenger service botween
Amerlcus and Columbus.
Tho now arrangement provides that
trains Nos. S and 6 shall be mixed
trains carrying both freight and pas
sengers and while a slight change has
been made In the schedule, daylight
service will he afforded residents of
this territory desiring to make short
trips to Amerlcus on shopping mis
sions, etc. ’
The Central of Ceorgla filed o' pctl
tlon not long ago with tho rtato rail
road commission asking permission to
discontinue trains Nos. 9 and 6 be
tween Amerlcus and Columbus, where
upon tho Amerlcus and Sumter County
Chamber of Commerce mado strong
protest against such action, taking the
matter up with the commission. At the
hearing held last week, this commission
held the petition In abeyance, sug
gestlng that a conferonco ot tho rail
road officials and tho Chamber of Com
merce representatives be held to ad
just tho difficulty nmlcably.
The’ conference yosterdav was tho
result of the suggestlon,o£ the'com
mission, the railroad being represented
by John Blount, assistant general pas
senger agent; O. L. Candler, general
superintendent; Henry Baldwin, divis
ion superintendent; J. O. Carlisle, gen
oral freight agent. Secretary P. A.
Fcnimoro and J. E. Hlghtowor, chair
man of tho transportation committee
of the trade body, represented tho
Chamber of Commerce.
The details of the new schedule upon
which tho mixed trains will operate
havo not yet been announced.
FORMER RESIDENT OF
AMERHTS PASSES AIVAV
News was received In Amerlcus Sat
urday of the death of G. W. Andrews at
his home near Hamilton, Ga., after an
Illness of some length. Mr. Andrews
was an uncle of R. M., W. S. and Frank
Andrews, all of Amerlcus, and *
brether of the late S. S. Andrews, an-1
was well known here, having at one
time lived In this city. He was reared
In Marion county, near Friendship, but
lor the past twenty years had lived
near Hamilton.
Sir. ‘Andrew* was about nitty years
old and Is survived by his wife and
three children,' two eons, William and
George Andrews, and one daughter!
Miss Mattie Andrews, all of whom re
side near Hamilton. ;
The funeral will take placo today and
Irtcrment will be made In the family
burying ground.
NEGRO PAROLED Fill
SUMTER COIIITT (INC
Ollls Wimbush, a negro serving
leng term on the Sumter county chain
gang for manslaughter, has'been par
oled by the State Prison Commission,
after continued efforts In his behalf. L.
Hlalo- k of this < ity represented th
negro’s side of the esse.
huge mini ii
REPORTED IN GIVEN 1) HOUSE
SEMITE TH-OH TO HOST OF BILLS
OTHERS BIOL)
HOOT IN FILL
Ernest Slappey was Instantly killed
today at half-past one o’clock when a
ropo broke which was holding tho
scaffolding upon which be was stand
lng to paint the main building of tho
International Agricultural Corpora
tton south of Amerlcus on the Central
ot Georgia railway, throwing him to
the ground, four atories below. Medi
cal aid was Instantly summoned, but
he was dead beforo tho physician ar
rived.
Charles Gammago and Phil Suber,
who were on the scaffolding with Slap-
pty, were both eerlously hurt, and are
now at the Amerlcus hospital, where
they are being given medical atten
tlon.
. Mr. Gammago euffored a fracture of
Ills right ankle and both Jaw hones
were broken, jrblle it Is thought his
back Is also Injured. Sir. Suber had
his right ankle, his right hip and hi
right arm broken and Buffered serious
internal Injuries.
Mr. Slappey was thirty-one years of
ate and Is survived by bis wife. Ills
tttothor, Mrs. B. H. Allen, his father,
William slappey. of Andersonvllle; two
brothers, Arthur Slappey, of Tampa,
Fla., and Lucicn Slappey of Amerlcus.
and one sister, Mrs. W. O. Masters, of
Tampa. The funeral arrangements will
be announced later.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 3.-
final draft of tho war tax bill, reduc
ed from $1,800,000,000 to $1 JlTO/iO".
000 and carrying no provision for ad
ditional bonds, was reported to tho
senate today.
Next year's war expenses arc placed
In new estimates submitted today by
tho treasury department at $2,326,000.-
iien, but Secretary McAdoo advised the
committee that additional bonds were
not necessary at this lime.
The final committee vote on adopting
tho revised bill was 12 to 3, Senator*
LaFolIctte, Goro and Thomas uniting
In support of LaFolIotte's substitute
tor raising all war taxes from Incomes,
excess profits, liquor and tobacco. Vir
tually all commlttco members also ro
served tho right to offer amendments
to the commlttco draft, after Just six
weeks of deliberation.
Tho commlttco approved IncrcaseJ
taxes on ’’swollen" excess profits to
raise $18,000,000 additional revenue.
They Increased tho maximum graded
tax on such profits between 40 to 50
per cent., levying 40 per cent, on cx-
vess profits between 150 and 200 per
cent., 45 per cent; on those between
200 and 250 per cent., and 50 per cent
upon those over 250 per cent.
These amendments would levy In all,
$748,000,000 on excess profits, or $523
000,000 more than at the present, wltl
tho sale of unissued bonds In treasury,
the committee estimated that as re
dcccd to an aggregate of $1,070,000, th-
revlsed hill will bo short $228,000,t)0i
of meeting tho probable expenses o;
the war nevt year. It was agreed that
this sum as well us additional appro
priations for the war and .navy depart
ments not yet submitted, should bo
provided for at tho regular December
session of congress.
ATLANTA, Ca.. July 3.—Loglslatlvo
attention has turned to a rush for
placo In the introduction of new mat
ter. The senate Saturday had adjourn
ed until 11 o'clock today, and yester
day's session Jn the house was given
over almost entirely to pouring the
first of the bills into the hopper. The
effort to dispense with tho rule re
quiring a roll call of counties fAlled.
and on objection to unanimous consent
that members be allowed to Bend their
bills to the desk, several aspirants
for the honor of getting In Bill No. 1
had to take their place down the line
of counties. The first measure on tho
new calendar Is that providing for a
system of land registration along the
line ot the Torrens system, for which.
Earflcld, of Bibb, fought so hard dur-
the last two regular sessions, and on
which ho has contored attention during
the Interval since tho last session. It
was Introduced by Representative
Johnson, of Appling, in printed form.
Messrs. Carter, of Bacon; Clements of
Irwin; Dorris, of Crisp, and YValkor.
of Ben Hill representing the statewide
commlttco appointed at the Cordele
meeting last December, introduced
under tho Bacon county call, the blit
providing for tho re-dlstrictlng ot the
Btato, creating fifty-one districts out
of the forty-four at present. The same
hill was Introduced ’ In ,tho senate last
week by President Fro Tem Peacock-
also of tho Cordele committee.
Probably the most significant fea
ture of the first batch of bills is the
number proposing repeal of tho state
tax equalization law. The first or that
batch came from Bale, of Floyd, and
was followed by others from Trammell,
of Harris, and Stovall, of McDuffie,
None ot these bills propose any substi
tute system, seeking merely to wipe
Tho war tax hill, as ready for thd
senate, and carrying provisions for
raising $1,670,000, Is destined to, he
materially amended, not only In the
tenate, but also in conference. Tho
commlttco draft, however, eliminates
several features objected to In tho
house. Tho bill provides that single
persons enjoying an Income of $1,000
annually and married persons, with
$2,000 Income annually will bo taxed
’normal,” or' 2 per cent., tho chief
revenue to bo raised by the measure
coming from lncomo nssessincnts, ex
cess profits and taxes on liquor and to
bacco.
Tho bill-reported by the senate fl
ranee committee today Is epochal
marking as it docs tho first time In
tho history of the American republic,
when senate republicans and demo
crats united on a revenue measure.
GEORGIA DOGS MAY PULL STATE
OUT OF BIG FINANCIAL “HOLE.”
5is] out the present law and ro back to the
old system of taxation. Two bills havo
been Introduced to (provide for bien
nial sessions, one by Kidd, of Baker,
which gets place as No. 3 on the calen
dar, and one by Fowler, of Bibb, No.
7. Tho Neill primary election bill,
which was vetoed by Governor Harris
a year ago, am) 111! Australian ballot
bill were both introduced this morn
ing and referred to the committee on
privileges and elections.
Three bills were Introduced provid
ing* for county levy of school taxes for
self-aid In tho educational system, one
by Jones, of Coweta, one by Smith, of
Dade, and another by the Laurens
county delegation.
Representative Ayers of Jackson
county, has a couple of bill* to regulate
pistols. One provides that It shall be
unlawful for a man to carry a Pistol
less than two feet long and the other
that It shall be unlawful to sell a fire
arm In tho state less than two feet
lent-
Representative Jones has a bill
which' will. If passed, prerent anybody
in Georjia profiting by inheritance
through having another murdered or
committed to an Insane asylum. Un-
ATLANTA, Ga., July 3.-Why not
tax the dogs, In view ot .Georgia's fi
nancial embarrassment? That’s Just
what legislators want to know. Of
course, some of them would project
around with schemes to tax dpgs and j present condition there is noth
soft drinks and hat bands and every j
other thing on the face of the earth,
except land, which ought to bo the
backbone and bulwark of the etate’a
financial system, but there -are num
erous men of serious-minded purpose
who have no Intention of letting a tax
ing to prevent a husband or wife—or
tho next of kin—having the other dis
posed Of and claiming Inheritance ot
an estate. Several such cases havo
come up in the state, and the Jones
■ — .. till makes it Impossible for crime to
dogs repeal the tax equalization, COBlng int0 Inherl-
law, that seeln a tax on dogs a really |«« •
l e’pful step toward solution of the tance when the crime la proven. The
state's perplexing financial problems, bill provides against the disposition
' cl property by verbal contract and re-
0111 UrPOIl -Timi Tfl Iqulrea all such contracts to he In wrlt-
ULU nlbnll I nftfc.IV lu !lng In the form of an expressed will.
icvi iiu it uii i tncfUii l f Dr - J - R - ncal1, ot Rlcl,mond lntro '
AO I LU 111 HI HIILLLUOtflLLL j uced a pm clarifying the pocseasloi*
[ot land where there Is no legal owner
’to be found. The property would es-
passed preliminary examination for en
listment before A. M. Ferrlllo, who Is
In charge of the Amerlcus recruiting
station today, leaving at once for At
lanta to under go final examination
eride C nts Cl o? d R a ichla H n<l A 'successful!/land assignment to training stations
- METHODIST CONFERENCE
COMMISSION HAS DISAGREED F
TRAVERSE! CITY, Mich., July * Edmund Lynch, a negro about
4- 3 Th C conference commission on ♦ years of age, who has been living in c eal to t e - a e.
-V Methodist unification adjourned ♦ Amerlcus (or many years, was taker. | The real work of the house probab J
*■ today without reaching an agree- ♦ yesterday to the aUte hospital for th< w ni not start until the last of th tw
in sane at tillledgevllle. Deputy Sheriff week or ( |, e fl rB t 0 f next. Inasmuch a*
Tom Summers having him In custody. I (h< _ cominlttee a „ lf a men u wRl hot br
The negro wa* not violent, but there, _ .
wa» no doubt as to his Insanity, and announced until Thursday or Fridar.
afur due trial before Ordinary John and no action on the matter now be-
A. Cobh, he was consigned to the state i Be introduced can come antll tho com-
. ment. They were un able to ♦
♦ reach an understanding whether ♦
♦ „ souther? Desm~ ; should "
♦ have seats In the law making ♦
♦ body, and will meet again next ♦
♦ January, eomewhere In the South ^
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*! institution.
mitteee are made up.
IN THIS CITY-THE NATION CALLS