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AMER1CUS, GEpRGlA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 6, 1919
(RTY-FIRST YEAR—NO. 6.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
French Envoys
iERMANS OUTNUMBERED 2 TO 1 WHEN WAR ENDED
TAMPA. Fla Feb. 5.—(By Associat
ed Press.)—The federal grand Jury for
die Southern district of Florida, which
sets next Monday is expected to take
ip an inquiry Into alleged "wire tap
ping" activities.
“Cleaned Up” $2,000,000.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 5.—(By
Associated Press.)—According to es
timates of the department of Justice
tgents and local officials, so-called
tonfldence men operating In Florida
the past two years have "cleaned
ip” more tjian $2,000,000. One of the
ilggest gangs Is now thought to be
mder arrest here. They were caught
tear St Augustine last week.
Deny Prove Ever Started.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—(By Associated
h-esslrrOovernment agents said to
day Ry have never started an la
ulry Into the operations of any “wire
-pping” gang operating In Florida any
ither parts of the South to which
ealtby tourists are attracted.
0 MILLIONS
LEANED UP BY
WIRE TAPPERS
inflmeport
deral Grand Jury Expected to
Probe Activities—One Gang
Reported Caught.
lysical Directors
Needed Overseas
ATLANTA, Feb. 6.—Athletic officer*
the Southeastern camps can see ser
ice overseas. The Y. M. C. A. Is In
smedlate urgent need of one hun-
red physical directors, men who have
raven a success In either army, asso-
iatlon, camp or college work In
merlca.
This Information Is contained in
legram from William H. Ball, head
the overseas recruiting service, to
C. Cubben, Southeastern department
byslral director. Mr. Ball bas just
iturned from France on his special
bruiting mission.
Fifty directors are needed with the
merlcon army, thirty with the Italian
my and twenty with the French
my.
This service should prove a splendid
•portunlty for the regimental brigade
division athletic officers In the
ime camps. Applications should be
e«l with Mr. Cubben, Peters Salld-
g. Atlanta.
Directors of athletics, gymnastics
id games is the need of tbe Italian
my. A knowledge of the language
desirable, but not necessary. Tho
me type of directors are needed with
e French army, men who have stud-
French a couple of years, or who
ak tho language.
Georgia Soldier, Back From
Palestine Campaign, Tells
of Turk Horrors in Holyland
art of 93d, Negro
)iv., Coming Home
Washington, Feb. 5—(By asso-
>ted Press.)—Approximately 13,500
•ops are due to arrive next week.
?y will include a full regiment and
3 battalions of the Ninety-Third dl-
don (negroes), the war department
lounced.
foman Announces
for Chicago Mayor
'II1CAGO, Feb. 5.—(By Associated
**«■)—Mrs. Leonora Model*, law-
club woman and former city com
moner of pnbllc works today an-
oncod her candidacy for mayor of
ic *«o. She said she would run as
ton-partisan.
ATLANTA, Feb. 5.—Sergeant
Albert S. Mathleu, of 428 Ormond
street, Atlanta, who enlisted with
the British army prior to tbe en
trance of tbe United States, and
who saw service in Egypt and the
Holy Land, was with General Al-
lenby at the occupation of Jeru
salem, and the Atlanta boy, who
has Just returned to his borne,
gives a graphic and highly inter
esting account of tbe conditions
that were found to exist among the
natives in Palestine wben the
British army took possession of
that country.
Sergeant Mathleu went over to
England with Owen Cobb Holeran,
who has written some of the most
brilliant stories about the war,
and Meredith Gray, another At
lanta boy.
"When the British army reach
ed Jerusalem,” said Sergeant Ma-
thieu, "we were looked upon by
the people In that city as their
deliverers. \ They wete In dire
need of the necessities of life, and
great celebrations were held as
the English forces took charge of
the city. It meant food and other
l things they had done without for
months, and they were glad to see
us come. The same was true of all
the villages about Jerusalem,”
declared the sergeant, "and It
would be difficult to picture the
vast Amount! of suffering these
poor people had undergone. Af
ter they had been stripped Of all
their world goods, the men and
boys were impressed Into military
service and women and children
endured almost unbelievable agon
ies.
“The-principal occupation of the
natives, Christians, Is herding
sheep and goats, olive and fruit
growing, and to some extent, the
raising of grain, but tbe herds
bad been killed off by the Turks,
and the men had been taken away
by the Moslems, leaving no one to
make tho necessary crops to feed
the people. Conditions were piti
ful in the extreme, and great num
bers of refugees, many of whom
were children, starved to a point
ARMYDOCTORS
ISOLATE MANY
BAFFUNG GERMS
LONDON. Feb. 5.—(By Associated
Press.)—The. virus of trench fever and
that of Influenza and some forms of
nepritls have been Isolated and iden
tified, according to the director gen
eral of the army medical service In
France by a number of army medical
officers.
Investigations have resulted, it Is
believed, In the isolation of the germs
of mumps, measles and typhus, the
causes of which have boon obscure and
the bacilli of which had never boon
Isolated before.
Says Half Million
Men Are Jobless
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—(By Asso
ciated Press.)—Urging the house rules
committee today to give tho right of
way for passage to legislation prohib
iting immlgraton for four years, Frank
Morrison, secretary of tho American
Federation of Labor, sold a half mil
lion men In the United States are how
without employment .
of complete prostration, were
brought to the army for rations.
"Speaking of the cruelty of the
Turks to Christians, Sergeant Ma
thleu declared he had seen hun
dreds of children, whose little bod
ies had been horribly mutilated by
the beastly Turk.
“Not only did they starve, often
driving them over the big waste
places without food or water, but
they forced these children in
many cases to witness the murder
of their parents. In some places
the Christian children would have
their bands and arms and their
eyes blown out by explosive con
traptions that had been set by the
Turks. The children were afraid
to touch a tin can, or even a
string, fearing it would Bet off ex
plosives. Imagine the terror of
these little ones, hundreds of
whose mothers and fathers had
either been killed qr driven away
from them, living in mortal ter
ror of lnfernal machlnes set about
among articles they were expect
ed to handle, and on top of this,
thing of their pitiful condition,
when they were forced to go hun
gry, thirsty and naked through
their great suffering.
"The people In America, who
have good homes for their little
ones, should be so grateful for the
blessings and safety that are as
sured them, that they would not
hesitate to shoulder tbe great .obli
gation that rests upon them to aid
the cruelly used natives of the
Holy Land."
Mr. Mathleu described the oper
ations In which he Look part, be
ginning with the No. 7 light Car
Patrol,-which la composed of Ford
cars with Maxim guns mounted In
the rear, which were used with
great effect against the Turks.
Upon leaving this country for
England to enlist, Sergeant Ma
thleu went via Savannah to New
York, where he took a cattle boat,
arriving with hie companions In
England a short time afterwards.
Holleran and Gray went with the
Dublin Fuslleers, while Mathleu
Joined the Mechanical Transport.
INTERVENTIONIN
RUSSIA NOT PART
OF ALLIED PLAN
PARIS, Feb. 5.—(By Associated.
Press.)—Military Intervention in Rus
sia on a large scale will not be thought
of, declared British Foreign Secretary
Balfour In an Interview with the news
paper correspondents last night. Sec
retary Balfour said the great powers
are doing everything which he consid
ered could be done in dealing with
what he characterised as "a most dis
quieting situation." He declared on
alliance of tbe society of nations now
In process of formation.
40 DELEGATES
TO REPRESENT
SUMTERCOUNTY
AT PEACE MEET
Judge Harper Names Leading Citi
zens to Attend Congress in
Atlanta.
Councilmen Absent;
Meeting is Called
WEATHER FORECAST. f
For Georgia: Rain and colder to
night; Thursday fair, except rata and
oolder In southeast portion.
Twenty-five more prominent men of
Sumter county were appointed today
to attend the Southern Congress of
the League to Enforce Peace, which
will be held in Atlanta Feb. 28 and
March 1,
The appointments were made by
Judge W. M. Harper, of the city court,
as representing Sumter county, and
all of the men selected were from out
side the city of Americas. These ap
pointments were In addition to ten an
nounced .yesterday by Mayor Shep
pard, representing the city, and five
named last week by the Chamber of
Commerce, representing the cominer
clal interests, forty in all for the en
tire county.
Judge Harper's appointments were:
Twenty-Seventh District.—N. A. Ray,
Stephen Pace.
Old 26th—EL Timmerman, R. S. Oli
ver, Randolph Logan.
New 26th—C. C. Sheppard, Claude
Daniel. !
TwentgNJpth- T. J. Harden, Cliff
Johnson.
Twenty-Eighth—J. T. Methvln, W. H.
Chambliss, W. A. Parker.
Fifteenth—Eh-nest Statham, E. A.
Luke, Cobb Summerford.
Old 16th—J. J. Wilson, Dr. Evan T.
Mathis, Randolph Logan.
Seventeenth—C. D. Brinkley, J. A.
McRea, J. O. Feagtn, T. R. McLendon.
New 16th—T. J. Webb, S. A. Rogers,
A. B. Connors.
Judge Harper this afternoon mailed
out commissions of appointment to
each of these men, attached to each of
which Is an acceptance blank to be
mailed to headquarters In Atlanta, fte
stated to The Tlmes-Recorder that he
did not consider these appolntmenu
empty honors, that the cause was most
important to the nation, and that each
man was expected to lay aside his per
sonal Interests on the days of the
congress and attend.
The request came to Judge Harper
to make the appointments as a rep
resentative of the county. He went
before the board of county commis
sioners Monday and Informed them
that he considered the board the re
sponsible bead of the county, and ask
ed that it make the appointments. The
board, however, declined, and sug
gested that he pick the list, which he
did.
The congress is arousing much In
terest throughout the nation. The
meeting in Atlanta Is one of nine
which will be held In varlons parts of
the country for the purpose of cry
stallizing national sentiment to stand
behind the President In his League of
Nations proposal to the world peace
congress. Former President Taft, one
of the first champions of the peace
league Idea, will preside.
A number of the delegates already
appointed here hare signified their In
tention of attending the meeting.
KAISER’S ARMY.
NEVER MATCHED
IN MAN POWER
TILL LAST JULY
Enlightening Figures on Conflict
Made Public by the War
Department.
3,703,273 AMERICANS UNDER
ARMS WHEN FIGHTING ENDED'
Allied Rifle Strength WhenJArmistice
Was Signed Put at
1,485,000.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—(By Asso.
elated Press.)—The total strength of
the United States army, November II,
when the armistice was signed, was 3,-
703,273 officers and men, Including tho
marine corps on duty with the army
in France, war department figures
made public today show.
These figures Indicate that tho Allies
on July 1, for the first time, exceeded
the Germans in rifle strength and that
on November 1, tbe Allied rifle
strength of 1,485,000'represented odds
of upwards of 2 to 1.
This Is the latest photograph of tbe
ruler of Greece, King Alexander, who
ascended the throne after the abdica
tion of King Constantine and his elder
brother, Crown Prince George. He Is
shown here waiting to receive mem
bers of a French mission with whom
he\dlscussed Greek Interests st tbe
peace conference.
2nd Acquittal Ends
Trials for Lynching
Greek Met Greek
in Greek; Recorder
Calls Row a Draw
TNSCUMBIA, Ala., Feb. 5.—(By As
sociated Press.)—Tbe jury In tbe case
of Jeff Jenkins, second of eighteen-
defendants charged with murder In-
connection with the lynching of two-
negroes last November, today return
ed a verdict of not guilty.
Tbe Judge announced he would no]'
prosse the other sixteen cases o»
which arrests bad been made.
Owing to the absence from the city
of three members of the cily council
and the sickness of another, no quo
rum was present at the council cham
ber last night, tbe regular meeting j
date, and consequently no session I dated Press.)—Letters read today be-
could be held. Aldermen Burke, f ore the senate agrtcnltnre commlt-
Mashburn and Horton were absent. | tee's hearing on the meat industry leg
end Alderman Taylor was 111 st bis' Ration disclosed that last February
Wilson Refused to
Help Packer Swift
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—(By Asso-
home. Aldermen Poole and Warren
and Mayor Sheppard were present
Mayor Sheppard Instructed the city
clerk to issne.a call fqr * special
meeting of council tonight and it no
quorum could be secured, to issue an
other call for tomorrow night Gen
eral business is specified ta the call.
President Wilson made a personal In
vestigation of protests against the
federal trade commission’s conduct of
the packers Inqnlry and Informed
Louis Swift that he was convinced
"there was no warrant for his Inter
fering with the Judgment and action of
the commission."
Tom and John Nlta, two mem
bers of tbe Amerlcus Greek col
ony, faced Recorder Fort this
morning on a charge of disorderly
conduct, as the result, they de
clared, of being served two por
tions of over-ripe chicken In a
local Greek restaurant.
It appeared from what could be
made out at tbe hearing with tbe
aid of an Interpreter, that one of
the Nitas had been a victim of the
flu recently and, on recovering,
had gone to the restaurant In
search of a palatable dish, some
thing that would tempt back an
appetite stifled by disease. Wheth
er the bad taste was in the mouth
of the convalescent Spartan or in
the chicken was not made certain,
rant manager know what they
but the two Nitas let the restau
rant manager know what they
thought of the service. And they
did It In the Greek language.
Ross Hubbard, who chanced to
be In the restaurant at the time,
was sworn as a witness, but he
said he couldn't tell whether the
Nitas’ conduct was disorderly or
not, because he couldn't under
stand Greek.
Recorder Fort decided it was a
draw and dismissed the charge.
Mrs. Roosevelt Sails
to Visit Son’s Grave
frHECOTTON MARKET}
LOCAL SPOT.
Good Middling 25 1-2 cento.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—(By Associated!
Press.)—Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt was-
among the passengers of the Frenchi
liner Lorraine which saiied today. Sho
is going to France to visit the grave ■
of her son, Quentin, who was killed In i
tbe war. and will spend several weeks
with her sister, Miss Ehnlly Carew,:
who Is doing war work In Italy.
While In France Mrs. Roosevelt will-
also see her eons .Lieut-Col. Theodore
Roosevelt and Captain Kermlt Roose
velt.
WeimerUnder Guard
Telephone Line Cut
BERLIN, Feb. 4.—(Tuesday.)—(By
Associated Press.)—The Independent
socialists Interrupted telephone com
munication between Weimar and Els-
cnbach and Erfurt several hours Mon
day, according to advances to the
Tageblatt from Weimar, where the na
tional assembly will meet Thursday.
An Alpine corps of 1,000 men has ar
rived to police Weimar. . /
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London Still in
Throes of Strike
LONDON, Feb. 5.—(By Associated'
Press.)—There was no Improvement
today ta the strike situation In Lon* -.-
don. All tabes and underground lines,
except one, are stilt tied np and thous
ands are forced to tramp to work
through the slush.
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