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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
THURSDAY! MAY 1,13u
BUTTON
Jf FOR WAR NURSE
E-SOLDIER
now the soldiers, nurses and
field clerks who served at any
from the date the tinted States
entered the war until the armistice
L «KS signed, are to be given "Victory
Britons" for wear on civilian clothes,
‘ Msrding to announcement lust mado
lj General Peyton C. March, cl.lef of
Details of the method of obtaining
■hoi buttons hsve Just best received
at Souther Field, and here puollshtd
as a matter of Information to all in-
terasted:
1. A lapel button to bo known as
r the Victory Button, for wear on civll-
Isa clothes, will be issued to all cf-
mktn, enlisted men (excluding mem-
brs of the students Army training
Corps), field clerks, and members of
the Army Nurse Corps, who serve J
ltnorably on retire duty i.i the «• r-
tse of the United States Army for a
period of flftrvn dart a* any time
Mwsen April 6, 1917, and November
II, 1>18. The button will be of silver
for those wounded In action, and
l^naie for all others.
2. For the present the Victory
Mian will be issued at time of hon-
—Ml discharge to those entitled to It
Dtf to those who have already been
: htmsrably discharged. Later the but-
lom will be issued to all remaining In
i service entitled to It.
A Those who have been dlscharg-
Hawker Plans to Land in
England 20 Hours After He
Flies From Canadian Shore
ST. JOHNS. N. F., April 28.—Avia
tor Harry C. Hawker and Lieutenant
Grieve have again had to postpone
their Trans-Atlantfc flight for the
Belly Mall 850,000 prize.
With all preparations out of the way
Hawker and Orleve' have consented
for the first time to discuss with the
newspaper men their attempt to make
airplane history. Commander Grieve
did not predict thp outcome of the
attempt to fly the Atlantic, but Hawlo-
er. without being In the least boast
ful expressed the calm conviction that
he will land the Sopwlth biplane on
the other side of the ocean. Both men
are too experienced to be Ignorant of
the boldness <of thetr attempt or heed
less of the radical difficulties that be
set them, but If either was daunted by
what lay Immediately In front of them
neither showed it.
“On the trials here she has come up
to my best expectations as she
did in the Brookland trials, Hawk
er said.
"As to ground conditions here,
ed In three years on a seaplane car
rier. the old Cunard liner Carmanla,
attached to the Grand Fleet In the
North Sea, explained that the exact
conditions of the flight would depend
upon the weather reports at the very
moment of ^starting and upon actual
conditions encountered In the Jour
ney. Taking as an example the
northwest wind prevailing at 6 o'clock
Saturday a week ago, when the start
was all but made, he said:
"Under the conditions then exist
ing we wonld have, flown six hundred
miles, dne east and then turned Into
the North Atlantic shipping lane,
thus hoping to come Into touch with
vessels, all of which are requested, j
day after day by the-New Foundland . Business Phones,
government and the admiralty office. 1 8:1.50 monthly
PHONE RATES
ADVANCE 50C
MONTHLY HERE
London Looks for
Another Flu Wave
to give us tbelr position If they see
Once striking the Atlantic lane.
A new schedule of telephone rates
will go Into effect In Americus May
1, in accordance with the order of
the United States' Telephone and Tele
graph Administration altering rates
in every town and city In which the
Southern Bell and Cumberland com
panies operate. While the general an
nouncement of the new rates says that
the changes amount to a "re-adjust
ment” of rates, and are not an In
crease In all cases, Americas Is af
fected only In the way of Increases,
and to the extent of 50 cents per
month on all contracts. Following
are the new local rates, as announced
today by Manager Westbrook:
Ucsldence Phones, old rate 92
monthly $2.50
old rate
84.00
The announced new rates, for Ma
con are:
LONDON, April 28.—London sclen-
tista who are observing the opera*
tions of Spanish Influenza say that,
so far as the British Isles are con
cerned, It uiuves in waives. The
country Is Just recovering from the
third waive within a year. The dis
ease first made Its appearance here
last July and began to subside tow
ard the end of October, It reappeared,
and, by the middle of November had
apparently ran lta coarse. The third
wave came in January, and by the
early days of March had apparently
done its worst.
Physicians point out that If the dis
ease Is to remain for an indefinite
period another wave may be expected
toward the' end of April, and are
warning the people to take all nec
essary precautions.
$100,000,000
FRUIT MERGER
LATEST TRUST’
C. 8. .ENGINEERS SWIFT
MAP MAKERS IN FIELD.
PARIS—(Correspondence of the
socle
Associated Press)—The twenty-ninth
Engineers of the American Expcdi
we would have, and probably will If j Business Service.—Special Line, un. t | onary force are conducting some In
similar weather prevails, followed a limited, $3.50 per month.
teresting evperlments In map making
straight away for the other side and Residence Service.—Special Line, and reproducing In the field. With a
would have held closely to th“ **" n unlimited. £3.25 ner month* fwn *«***• I— • - —*
. ... . , . . . . or Ideal course, that Is the s
am disappointed. I have not found, „ ne Navlgators figure that tl
, e T t 1 th0U8 . ht tier ? tnnee !h 1,920 miles from St.
would be more open spaces. I am not
worried at the fog belt off New Found,
land and anticipate no trouble on ac
count of It. The local weather people
predict a fog only thirty feet high.
Once oft the ground I intend to rise
quickly up ten thousand feet and hold
M 'before a supply of buttons was i ‘hat until nearly home and then go flf-
ireliable may secure a button by; t pen thousand which will give me a
—*“nf to the supply officer of the planning radius In landing of fifteen
t military poet, camp or station
Including recruiting station, their
aal discharge certificate or a true
thereof prepared on the form
ded for the purpose, or, in the
: of officers to whom no discharge
miles, or about one mile to each
thouaand efet, with favorable weath
er conditions.
Float for Some Time,
Asked what were the chances of
floating if forced to land In mid-ocean
:e was Issued, their discharge I Hawker said:
_» a true copy thereof. The I "H we land two miles from home we
copy of a discharge certificate j ca n float for a week because the pe
nt s discharge order must be ex- j ^ re l tanks will be empty and they are
by a- civil officer empowered! especially designed after much study
or ideal course, that Is the shortest
the dls-
Jobns
to Cape Clear.
"What will happen on tho flight
will, of course, depend on the condl-.
t.ons as they develop. We may havc , unlimited. ,3,^ per rnomh.
The purpose of these new rates, ac
cording to the information filed Satur-
ty, unlimited, $2.75 per month.
The new rates in Attlanta are to be;
Business Service.—Special line, un
limited, 87.50 per month.
Residence Service.—Special line,
unlimited, fl. per month; two party.
to go to the north of the true course
or to tho south of it. We can't tell.
With Saturday’s wind we could have ... ... „
held to the true course with little da lL“ wl ^ the . SUite Rallroad
fear of drift, and I do not regard the
drift as a serious factor. For navi
gation I will have a sextant and com
pass to serve us. The sextant Is not
very accurate, especially when we
have not a good horizon, but we hope
commission, Is to meet, as nearly as
possible under commercial conditions,
a heavy deficit which Is being accumu
lated during the period of operation
of the telephone properties by the.
United States government, and which
can be met In no other manner tha
a administer oaths and be a full, lit-
1 and complete copy of the original
contain all written or printed
' appearing on both sides of the
i certificate or discharge or
. The certificate of the civil offl-
t be In the following form:
' that the following Is a true
nplete copy of the original dis-
(or discharge order) of..
and contains all writ-
printed matter appearing on
i sidles of the discharge certifl-
dlscharge order).
■ certify that I have endors-
, the original discharge (or dis
order) over my signature the
In words and figures- True
1 by me (date)
the purpose of securing a
t Button by mail.”
blank forms 'Firm
, A O. O. for enlisted mm and
704-1, A O. 0„ f»r i dicers)
Lion of true copte* ot dls-
ilflcates will oo I, n *... ed
u war department an I may 1 e
* when the supply Is avtlla-
i the supply officer ot any Mll-
canfp or station. Including
station. No blank form
copies of officers’ discharge
i will be furnished.
When the supply officers Issues
Button, be will endorse on
irge certlflcte, discharge or-
r, or true copy of discharge cer-
or discharge order, the fact
sue and kind of button Issued.
;n praise
STELLA-VITAE
wantevery afflicted woman to try
-’.one bottle of Stella-Vltee on
in, open guarantee to return the
paid for it if it docs not benefit,
u doubt our word that it will
the distressing aches, pains am!
‘ peculiar to the diseases of wo
od the testimony of these women
. whohave tried it ami uro glad to tell
* - Men what it has done for them. The
interest they have in the mutter
* which any true woman feels ir.
to rclIcvethesniTcrlugsof olliei
i You can believe them.
J. F. Lee, Mils tend, Ga., had
C sle complaint for years. Three but-
of Ktblla-Vitae cured ber, she
arid, and added,“I am certainly thank
ttlorthis great female tonic.” Mrs.
Irinlce Frazier, Longview, Tex., cx-
, potted appreciation of Btella-Vitae
ferttasewords: “I cannot say toomuch
wonderful medicine. I had
r female medicines for two
t no good results. I am truly
l for the good Stella-Vitae
a me.” Mrs. Bandy Withers,
af Greens born, Ala., was a terrible suf-
•flrier from female trouble—and only a
, Wain knows what that means! Her
m got BO bad her pains threw
> spells like fits. Her husband
fshe would lose her mind. The
ro doctors pronounced her in-
Thcn somebody suggested
e take Stei.t.a-Vitae. She did
e first dose lightened her spells.
'A-ViTABlsa perfectly h.irm-
ind nnditnotonlv alleviates
pain, but builds up her
k; it stimulates her appetite, aids
““.quiets her nerves and clears
. lexion. It improves her per-
•AU deScrsselfstella-Vitae, and are
o return the money paid
bottle if it does not benefit
uoweus rnsnuacjr
to be strong enough to float the ma
chine. Otherwise she will float a little
while. We can pump the fuel out of
her but that Is a long Job. We went
thoroughly Into the question ot ar
ranging tanks to empty them quickly
In emergency, but that would have
meant another gadget on the madhlne
and besides would Involve danger of
fire from compressed fumes unless
equipped for elaborate precautions.
In the end wo decided to leave her as'
she was.
“I regard the flight as a perfectly
straight away Job and I expect to get
there. I anticipate no trouble. Wo
ought to land at Brooklands twenty
or twenty-one hours after we start.
We reckon It at less than twenty-
three hundred miles and we have a
cruising speed of one hundred miles
until we slip the under carriage, then
about one hundred tnd six. We figure
It Is nineteen hundred and twenty
miles to the Irish coast, thon two and
a half hours's flight to Brooklands.
It Is possible we may never see the
Irish coast. The weather conditions
may make It advisable to fly far south
of It.
Don't Know the Landing.
“If we do cress. It Is Impossible to
predict in advance where. We do not
expect to land In Ireland unless thpre
Is somo good reason, but we may do
so if we are having trouble. If we felt
we would not get to Brooklands wo
would go down rather than limp along
for the sake of getting a little farther.
"I don't look for any trouble be
cause of physical atraln. It felt none
absolutely after more than nine hours
flight and am confident we will feel
nono from twenty or moro hours. In
the war I think no fellow was up
more than ten hours, but In 1914 u
boche stayed up twenty-four hours.
“Yes, that Is true, we will slip the
under carriage. It works on a trip and
we will drop the entire chassla with
one pull In order to reduce the wind
resistance. lie weight la negligible. A
single pull will release the spars,
wheels and everything. I can't say Just
where we will do It. We may decide
to drop five or six miles out at sea
or may fly with the carriage two or
three hours."
Hawker explained the pair was
using larger wheels than should go on
the machine because of the big tires
needed for soft ground and the heavy
to make out with It. It will be a big through revision of rates, except by
help If any ships we pass give us direct payment from the United States
their position from which we can cal- treasury.
culate ours, which will be nearly the j j n the letter ot transmission with
same. They can communicate by.j which the Southern Bell and Comber-
wireless, as I carry a receiving set. land companies file these new sched-
There Is no difficulty of seeing ships . u les of rates In this and other states
from our flying altitude unless clonds in which they operate, the several
arc underneath us. I do not regard state commissions are Invited to call
the fog belt as a serious handicap. At upon the companies tor any financial
night there will be stars to steer by, or statistical data showing cost of
1 hope, and by day we will have the operation and Income, all of which
sun for that purpose.
COUNT KAROLYI SEEKER
OF POPULARITY AT ALL COSTS.
the companies offer to submit In sup
port of the new rate schedules. At
tached to the schedules Is copy of the
order of the postmaster general to the
operating board of the United States
Telephone and Telegraph Adminlstrp-
ographlng establishment they hare
succeeded In turning out 10,000 copies
of field maps an hour. The French and
British are taking a keen Interest In
the American outfit as they have used
a railway train for such work and
tbelr best output has been 300 copies
an hour. Furthermore a railway train
is limited in operation to available
trackage while there virtually la no
limitation to the mobility of the truck.
In some operations of this war every
man In a trench raid party has been
furnished with a map of the sector
Involved so the Importance of quick
map making Is very great The quick
development and proippt reproduction
In quantity of air photographs is also
a phase of these experiments.
LOS ANGELES, April 29.—A citrus
grove and apple orchard merger to be
known as the American Fruit Growers
Inc., said by Its sponsors to Involve
property worth 100 million dollars la
the United States and 20 million dol
lars In California land was announced
here today by J. S. Crutchfield, of
Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Crutchfield le
president of the Cantaloupe Shippers'
Association, active in the Northwest
Fruit Exchange, and said to be the
largest Individual grower In the Uni
ted States.
The plan, Mr. Crutchfield said, Is to
merge citrus interests of California
end Florida, and apple Interests of
various sections to remove the haz
ards asoclated with the fruit business
by neutralizing the losses of any glv-
et. district In an off year by pooling
the profits of the entire territory cov.
ered by the merger.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Iu
DR. M. H. WHEELER
DENTAL SURGEON.
Bell Building,
Office Phone 78S. Bes. Phone 8Jtj
*—*********** - rfffpjj
r fM|)j ^
C. P. DAVIS
Dental Surgeon
ORTHODONTIA. PYORRHOEA
Res. Phone 81« .nice Phone ill
AlUson Building.
MISCELLANEOUS
Callus? Peel
It Off Quickly!
Nothing On Earth like “Cets-It"
For Corns and Calluses.
HAND MADE iIRTimi T
GARBAGE CANS.
The Best That Money Cun u a j. j
83.50 DELIVERED.
B. H, ALLEN, Metal Worker,
122 S. Lee St Phone 702 ]
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TAXI CAB PHONE 49
B. C. Vaughn.
I no longer get my calls at 825. j
Always call 49.
A spot of thickened skin on the
bottom of your foot which so often
makes walking on agony, is as easily
removed by wonderful’^Oets-It” ai
NEW BRITISH FIELD
GUN SUPERIOR WEAPON.
LONDON—(Correspondence of tho tlon appr0Tlng these rates and dlrect-
Assoclated Press)-The prominence, |„ g that they be put Into effect at
given to Count Karolyi, the Hungarian tho earliest practicable moment; and
Premier who Is credited here with 1 copy of Ietter from the oper atlng
turning the government of that coun-. board to the companies, directing that
try over to the Bolshevlkl, has recall- these new rates be put Into effect May
ed to one of hls London acquaintances - or at the earliest dote thereafter
that he l> a millionaire "racing man, | consistent with the ability of your or-
never weary of reminding Europe that ganlzatlon to handle the details.”
one of hls ancestors was executed by I Burleson’s Order.
Francis Joseph as a rebel In 1849 for | The postmaster general's order dl-
ha.ing taken np arms agalnstt Austria. reeling the putting Into effect of the
In the name of Magyar liberty.” | cow rates, which is attached to the In-
"The present Count KarolyJ," con- lormatlon filed with the several State
tlnues the correspondent writing to a Commlslsons, says:
nowupaper, “is always careful to con-1 "In this connection I desire to call
ceal the fact that ho has always been, jour, particular attention to the fact
at one with the other Magyar mag-, that, owing to prevailing high costs
nates on one point, namely, the keep- ! of labor and material, the deficit from
Ing under of the subject peoples by { operating Is growing daily, and to
the Maglars. He has often paraded hls meet this condition every effort should
friendship (or the Entente, but as a: be taken to Insure the government
hussar officer he fought eagerly ■ against loss from operation during the
against the Russian, Serbian, Ruman. 1 p< rlod of federal control.”
ian and Italian. j It is, therefore, with the particular
"With the duplicity of a Tisza, Ka-j view In mind of protecting the federal
rolyl has not even the excuse of fa- { treasury against the heavy burden of
natlcal conviction, whether political, providing a considerable sum—ap-
or religious. He Is a time server, al- 1 proximately 820,000,000—for the year
ways playing to the gallery for bis '1919, to make up the difference be-
own end, which may be summed up ! tween what the service is costing the
In the phrase ‘popularity at any cost.’ | United States government to render
To secure the plaudits of the mob for and what that operation, In service to
hls racing colors, Is hls prime polit- the public, brings In the form of rev-
leal consideration. So now- ho comos erne for the service given, that the
out as the super-patriot and Social- ncw fate schedules are made, to he
ist.” come effective May 1, says the com-
puny.
LONDON—(Correspondence of the
Associated Press)—A British field gun
which woe tested to some extent dur
ing the closing stages of the war, has
now been perfected to each a point
that It is said to be considered the best
of Its kind In the- world. It' Is claim
ed that the new gun will fire the
18 1-7 pound shell used In the ordi
nary quick-firer a greater distance
and with more rapidity than has ever
bepn attained with a field-gun before.
The rangeincrease Is said to be more
than 3,000 yards over the old field-
gun and the new weapon can dis
charge twenty-eight rounds a minute.
Callow Comes OH Like Beoeoa I'eel:
fow drops of "(Jeta-It" did the
work. The callus comes loose from
tho true fleeh. No Irritation what
ever. You peel the callus right off
just like a banana pael—peacefully,
- - - -— - -»»> x„.
painlessly. "Gets-It" doss the enmo
thing to any corn, without tho use
of etlcky plasters. Irritating e.-tlves,
greasy ointments or bundling tape.
There's no fussing—nn knife, no
scissors to use. "Clets-Tt" Is used by
US qalckly relieves Constipation.
Biliousness, Loss of Appctlto and
Headaches, dne to Torpid Liver.
If you have any lumber to be dress
ed or ripped, bring It down to our
mill, whore we run It as you want into
celling, flooring, etc., and give you
prompt service.. Full stock of Man
tels, both plain and cabinet, Window
Sash, Doors and Blinds carried at all
times. Mill work of all kinds our
specialty.
JN'’ W. SHIVER.
Phone 117. Americas, Ga.
“Oetfr-It," the Kuarantoeil, money -
tuck corn-remover, the only sure
way, costs bat a trident any tin nr Ftore.
I by E. Lawrence <& Co., Chicago, IU.
Do it Now
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BESSIE WINDSOR AGENCY
FOB INSURANCE,
fit Forsyth Street. Phone tit
w—w—f*—ig—
Or. 11
PAHSONS
DENTIST
Office: Com
mercial City
Bank 'Building.
Night Service:
7:30 to 9,.ex
cept Thursdp
DELCO-LIGHT
Tho complete Electric Light and
Power Plant
Saves Itme and labor—Increases
farm efficiency—Pays for itself.
H. F. BYRD,
Windsor Hotel, Americus
Farm Loans
Lowest rates.
Immediate action.
KIRK SMITH
Carolina Bond A Mortgage Company,
409 Trust Ce. of Go. Bldg.
Atlanta, Go.
Now Well
006 has proven its will rare Malaria, 1
Chills and Fever, Billons Fever, Colds >«T TIIE ONLY ONE.
and LaGrtppe. It kills the parasite
Uml causes the fever. It Is a splen-‘ There Are Other Americas People
did laxities and general Tonic. adv. 1 Similarly Situated.
AMERICAN MADE LIMBS Can there be any stronger proof of-
M)R C RIPPLED SERBIANS, than the evidence of Americua
residents? After you haw read the
BELGRADE—(Correspondence of!
crippled soldiers of Serbia are (o be
provided with American made artlfl-
load. adding that tlroa of that slzej clal Un ' bs . acordlng to an arrange-
were never used on a service machine; mcn f mado by the American Red
and their wind resistance was great. Uross mission to the Balkans. A
"Our useful weight Is the difference I p,ant for ,hc manufacture of artificial
between sixty-one hundred or sixty-j llmbs cs <abllshed by the‘American
two hundred full weight if loafled bi- j Red Cross iB now operating in Bel-
plane and three thousand weight of | grade -
the plane Itself. Of that thirty-one
the Associated Press)—The numerous fallolwn - < l uletl y answer the question.
A. C. Alexander, prop, of grocery
712 Spring St, gave tile following
statement March 18, 1910: "My back
hundred or thirty-two hundred at the
most Is petrol fuel, while the rest of
It amounts to perhaps four hundred
pounds, Including lubricating oil,’ be
said.
Discussing the directional wireless
and the discarding of bis wireless
sending set, Hawker said:
"We will have to come to the di
rectional wireless. It is a good thing,
but not developed enough yet. I don’t
regard teh discarding of the sending
apparatus as a serious handicap.”
All Depends Upon Weather.
Commander Orleve, whose experi
ence as an aerial navigator wss galn-
HIXES READY TO TALK
ABOUT PRICE-FIXING
caused me much suffering and I was
hardly able to perform my tlutes.
bad a great deal of trouble with rheu
matic pains, also. My kidne-, > didn’t
act properly and caused me 'o get ui
several times during the night. : had
heard Doan’s Kidney Pills so highly
spoken of, I decided to try Jtcm. They
qulcl iy relieved me of the trouble and
I vu rid of all the complaints. I
heartily recommend shim.”
FOR ONE-8COLG YEARS.
April *24, 1918 Mr, Alexander said:
“ T t has been twenty years since Doan’s
Kidney Pills cured me. I take D.san’s
occasionally as a preroar.ee and they
keep me la fine condition. I hare
recommended Doan's to a great many
(SCO has more Imitations than any people and they have always gotten
other Chill and Fever Tonic on the tne re-ulta"
tS?:«to.A # re 0 MtlE»ln , ttS , med£ c <* “ -“>*"• ^.ter-MIlbnrn
dne line. Co.. Hfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. ad?
DENVER, April 28.—(By Associated
Press.)—Director General of Rail
roads Hines, in u statement here to
day announced hls willingness to ac
cept the offer made by the Industrial
Department of Commerce to bring to
gether representatives of the Railroad
administration In the government’s
price stabilization program.
•Thedford i Black-Diaught
Is the best all-round medicine
lever used ” writes J. A.
Steelman, ol Patton ville, Texas.
•‘I suffered terribly with fiver
troubles, and could get no relief.
The doctors said I had con
sumption. I could not work at
an. Finally 1 tried
sai
THEDFORD’S
BLAGK-
DRAUGHT
and to my surprise, 1 got better,
and am to-day as well as any
man.”Thedford’s Black-
Draught Is a general, cathartic,
vegetable fiver medicine, that
has been regulating Irregulari
ties ot the fiver, stomach tnd
bowels, for over 70 years. Get
ever
L use the
uzianne a:
.your
’&S e d. not
coffee
J. A Davenport
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’ll
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NOW !S THE TIME .
- TO HAVE YOUR HOUSE SCREENED
get busy
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