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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 24,1918.
JAPS DENY SHANTUNG CLAUSE TRAD
Is He Dead or Merely Playing Possum?
ByMo i"'j|Army of a Dozen Flyersl EVER T DICTAT
r- - _ HI7 UIIMAMIT
Result of House ‘Saving*
RAIN AND EXTRA
GUARD CHECK
RACE CLASHES
WASHINGTON July 23—(By A»-
sociated Pres:)—Although there was
sporadic shooting In tome’negro dis-
•ficts until early today, easualtiea
(rom last night’a clashes between the
»h:tes and negroes conslttad of one
*hiti- man killed and another probab
ly fatally wounded.
An all-night rain, together with
the presence of 2,000 armed enlist
ed men in addition to the police and
home guards acted as a deterrent up
on organised mob violence. ■
Scores were injured in varying de-
a result of blows from fists,
elubs and stones and the wielding of
but in none of these cases
Vere the wounds expected to be fatal.
Isaac B. Halbfingor was killed and
Benjamin Belmont seriously wound-
, . uhi *e doing duty in a negro dis
trict as members of the home defense
wapue.
r-nite the fact the capital was an
srmi.i camp, the fourth night of the
jar. warfare was no less violent than
Monday when four persons were kill
'd outright and nearly a dozen se
riously wounded. Feeling, which was
Mamed by reported attacks upon
vrute- by negroes was'no less bitter.
Th.- dosing of pool rooms, moving
P'eture houses and other places whore
trow.!, of negroes might bo expected
rather and the nolicy of the police
, rntiitary to keep everybody mov-
Mosquitoes Flourish
in Cemetery; Sexton
Can’t Sleep O’N ghts
J. P. Raiford, the veteran sex
ton of Oak drove cemetery, hail
ed Dr. B. F. Bond, of the public
health service ,on the street.
"Say,” he called, “how much are
you fellows (pending down there
on the creek to get rid of mos
quitoes?" .
“I don’t know," said Dr. Bond,
“that cornea under the depart
ment of Lieut. Tiedeman."
“Well,” replied Mr. Raiford, “ail
I want to say is I wish he would
apend some of it getting rid of the
mosquitoes that hatch out in the
water that collect* in the urns on
the monuments at the cemetery. 1
can hardly sleep at nights for the
big, hungry ones itait infest my
house, which is dose to the ceme
tery.”
Dr. Bond suggested that he get
a supply of oil from the depart
ment of health and oil this stand
ing water, and thus destroy the
breeding places of the insects. Mr.
Raiford allowed he would see
about it.
HUSBAND'S AFFINITY TRIED
TO KILL HER WITH AUTO
ATLANTA, July 23.-- Mr«. John
Eriamus declares in her suit frr di
vorce against her husband filed here,
that she really did not intend to
bring her domestic unhappiness into
the courts of the land before her
husband’s paramour went out of her
WEEVILS’ WORK
CUT TO FOURTH
IN TEST TRACT
MELANCHOLY
SPECTACLE IN
PREPAREDNESS
COMING SOON
Air Service Practically
Wiped Out By ‘Eco
nomic Program’
TOO SMALL FOR
MEXICAN MENACE
Deplorable Outlook
Shown—Officers Here
To Go
WASHINGTON, July 23—Not
withstanding the threatening aspect
of the Mexican situation there will
b e no flyers in the United States avi
ation service after September 30.
This information has been given to
the senate by Senator Wadsworth of
New York, chairman of'the senate
military affaira committee. The infor
mation waa given in a debate of the
United States’ unpreparedness for In
tervention in Mexico should that step
become necessary.
Every, officer taken into tho air
service for the period of the emer
gency will have been discharged by
September 30, although many of them
desire to remain, Senator Wadt-
worth asserted. Despite tho restraint
imposed by the rules of courtesy be
tween tho two houses of congress,
senators who took part in the debate
succeeded in making fairly clear that
they believed tho responsibility for
the wiping oat of the air service rest
ed squarely upon house leaders, who
have been trying to make a record
i S" “T ‘° Wm for econmay writhont regard to
incredible but which ha says were cessity.
proved by rather exhaustive tests, are
already apparent in the acre of cotton
under experiment for boll weevil de
struction by the calcium arsenate
method on the farm of Neill A. Ray,
according to report today of George
3. Marshall, county farm demonstra
tion agent, who is-in charge of the
experimental work there. The dis
coveries made by Mr. Marshall were
entirely unexpected because of the
fact that the experiment has been
under way such a comparatively abort
time .and the continuous wet weather
had greatly interfered with the p.
plication of the poison to the cotton
plants.
“I made extenaive testa yesterday
afternoon," said Mr. Marshall today,
“taking a largh. number of stalks of
cotton and examining every square
or boll on each of them, keeping a
fairly accurate count of the punc-
Houss Cut Down Fund
When the army appropriation bill
passed the house it carried only 15
million dollars for the air service.
The senate promptly trebled the ap
propriation but the house rigidly re
sisted and the senate finally had to
compromise by cutting the appropri
ation to 2S million. The effects of
this reduction, it was statejl,
necessitate demobilization of the ait
service to an extent far below the re
quirements of possible emergency on
the Mexican border.
Senator Fall of New Mexico pre
cipitated the debate by reading to
the senate a telegram he had receiv
ed from Governor Larrmxolo of New
Mexico, stating that the residents of
the border "viewed with alarm" the
wiping out of the air service.
I believe that some action by the
United States government with ref
erence to conditions in Mexico and
HOW WORLD RACE IS
ON FOR AIR CONTROL
d°ly 23.—The great struggle for aerial peace supremacy
“ .1?,’ W , thi , n . the next few week * the mo,t *«r reaching aerial com
petitions in history will begin. England, France, and Italy have all
planned to enter twelve or more international flights and explorations.
Where the intrepid voyagers went in their sailing barka daring the
fifteenth and Sixteenth centnriee, daring airmen will go In their flying
machines.
Following America’s crossing the ocean and England’* two accom
plishments, the St. Johns-to-Ireland flight of Alcock and Brown and tho
5*84, great excitement hat worked up in Italian and French aviation
circles. France, especially, after being the flrst nation to fly tho Chan
nel and cross the Mediterranean felt keenly her failure to place in tho
Trans-Atlantic ventures. In her program Just announced, she will at
tempt to redeem her lost prestige. While Allied contemplation for the
supremacy of tho air will be on tho friendliest nature, all realize that
It la desirable that they establish firmly the control of tho air before
Germany, now crippled by Allied oerial restrictions, can once more
make up her lost ground and enter tho field.
Tho twelve great flights which France proposes to undertake
immediately are:
1. Paris to Constantinople via Cairo, with stops at Naples. Sal
onika and Djenan, Algeria.
2. Dirigible flight from Paris to Constantinople for the purpose
of studyipg compass and radio direction finding methods of aerial
navigation.
3. Paris to Constantinople one-day flight with stop* at Venice
and Belgrade.
4. Flight from Paris by dirigible to Tunis, Casablanca and re
turn, far compass study purposes.
5. Paris to Toulon, for the purpose'of perfecting wireless" con
trol of airplanes.
6. Paris to Fes, Morocco, with high speed spad.
7. Paris to Casablanca, with night departure.
8. Paris to Morocco and Dakar.
8. Paris to Rome, non-stop‘flight.
10. Paris to Amsterdam. , _
11. Paria to Vienna and Prague, Bohemia.
12. Lieutenant Fonek’s Paris to Madrid, with a 300 horsepower
Nieuport plane.
Meantime Italy has entered into the rivalry by appointing Ga
briel D’Annunzio as director of civil aviation. Plans for tho estab
lishment of regular airplanes between Sicily and Sardinia aro under
way, and D’Annunxio personally intends to fly from Romo to Tokio
shortly by way of Asia Minor, India and Tonkin, China.
Other Italian aviatora this week established a 7-hour schedule from
Paris to Rome, and expect to establish a record from Rom* to Los-
?m.
Simultaneously, Franco Is concentrating her efforts on developing
regular air service with her African colonics, and is now sending two
hundred planes there by the air route. Several are departing daily.
The terrific cost of these ventures is indicated by the fact that it
cost Lieutenant Fontan $20,000 to bring his airplane back to France
from Spain when it descended en route tosDakar. It cost $1,000 U
bring back the plane of Aviator Ktaui after hit successful flight from
Paris to 8weden, while a’third plane which fell at Neville while cn
route to Constantinople, cost $13,000 to replace.
But, despite these heavy expenditures, aviators and money to
outfit them with planes seems unlimited, and officiate arc confident
that neither money nor men will be lacking in the Inter-Allied aerial
competition.
OF HUMANIT’
DEMANDS PACT,
SAYS jmi
Foes of League of Na
tions Scored As Re
actionaries
U. S. TO SIGN WITH
TURKS, BULGARS
Jbled the authorities to keep way to humiliate and even Injure
uation well in hand. 1
! her personally by violence. Mrs.
‘I’*™* ’ between ' Frisk's'M^i'that'as she’was cross-
»n ;,,5„ B f k l r * nJ f re »‘d>-'nt nil-; ins , t fc e 8treet the other day. the
. • * yesterday, a force of about •affinity,” driving a handsome racer,
•!(,. S" ":"" 1 "" 1 *'• bought with her own husband’s
/"•-neral W. G. Ham., recently re-
. rr ‘ <! from ove-seu service, was or-
u rt *' ,0 Washington from Camp
I :lrul other nearby posts. 1 hit
15 ox P ccte d tv remain on duty
k , ,ht ' wave' of lawlessness has
’ 1 °ut and normal condition* re-
lin T night, nggie'-sion , „
k , .'“xht appeared to come from tho. tally wounded.
c ** "i* 0 hid armed themselves for Hundreds we
bought
money, tried to “run over her” and
nearly succeeded. She wishes to go
on record against such indignity, not
because she especially cares for the
man, but because she values her own
life.
period of disorders since Monday
showed five dead and at least ten fa-
hid armed themselves for Hundreds were less seriously h rt
and the jails snd hospitals were lit
erally overflowing.
Sale of Arearms and ammunition i'l
the city has been stopoed. Further
serious trouble is not expected by ths
authorities.
•Mali
- of a number of negroes Eat-
,1, ■. " n d Sunday nights. Practically
‘01 the more serious trouble was in
"1 uistriet.
‘' v ‘s*d figures early today for the
\ , , ..... * - uiuiivc tv vviitiiuvui iu a
tumd and untouched bolls, and thi.|.]o„g the border will bo
is what I found: On the stalks which
had not been treated with calcium
arsenate about 20 per cent, of the
bolls were punctured. Immediately
adjnining, on the stalks in the acre
which had been treated, only 5 per
cent of the bolls were punctured."
Mr. Marshall yesterday afternoon
gave the test acre its third real ap
plication of calicum arsenate bat the
hard rain of test night washed all the
poison off the plants, and he plans
>o make another application soon as
the rain appears to have stopped.
The flrst application, which v
made at the demonstration early in
uly, was made in the forenoon, at
the time of day not recommended be
cause of the dew not being on the
pi nits The next app«cvti>n was
wadi on Saturday, July U\ but was
followed the same day by a heavy
rain and was repeated the follow
ing Monday by a heavy rain and was
repeated the following Monday,
where the poison remained for 10
hours, when another rain fell. The
10 hours was regarded as saffietent
time for the poison* to become, effec
tive, at least partially, however. The
next application was that made yes
terday. • A* - :
in the near future," ths governor
wired. He suggested that Senator Fall
get in touch at once with the war de
partment with a view to the saving
of some of the air service.
Congress Responsible
Senator Fall stated that he had not
gone to the war department because
he had learned the responsibility rest
ed squarely on congress. Senator
Smith, of Arizona, corroborated Sen
ator Fall’s statement, and added that
he would have aomething to say soon
“about the necessity for the United
States taking some steps’ to safe
guard the lives of the Americana, not
only those along the border, but those
who have gone Into the interior of
Mexico at the invitatin of the Mex
ican government."
“There will not be a single emer
gency officer in the army after
September 30, because of the limited
appropriation made,” said Senator
Wadsworth, in response to a ques
tion by Senator Fall “This will have
the effect of cutting down tho num
ber of officers in the air service to
232. All of these will be needed for
35,000 REBELS
IN25 BANDS ARE
BUSY IN MEXICO
WASHINGTON July 23.—(By As
sociated Press.—Twenty-five distinct
bands of rebels, with a strength of
about 3S,000 men, are now operating
in Mexico according to a tabulation
of figures published in Mexico City.
Opposing them Carranza baa foreas
of 60,000 men which are able to con
trol little more than the railroad lines
with a narrow atrip along the Pacific
coast from Guaymas to San Bias and
the territory around Tampico.
HALF MILUON IS ASKED
TO FIGHT FOREST FIRES
WASHINGTON, July 23—(By As
sociated Press.)—Secretary Lane to
day asked congress for a special ap-
priation of $50,000 to fight forest
Ares in Montana, Idaho and Wash
ington.
COMMITTEE TO
RAISE $2,500 TO
PUT FAIR OYER’
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WEATHER
For Georgia.—Showers and thun
derstorms probably tonight and
Thursday; no change in
A minimum fund of $2,5d0 is to
bo raised by the Sumter County Fair
association to put over the big two-
day fair October 16-17, it was de
cided at an entnusiastie meeting of
. the officers and directors at the
chamber of commerce headquarters
this morning. To obtain that amount
committees were appointed from each
of the nine militia districts, the
committees to be given the respon
sibility for raising the amount deair-
ed. Following are the committees:
27th—Frank Lanier, Frank Shef
field, Frank Harrold.
15th—E. P. Anderson, G. C. Thom
as, J. E. Ferguson.
28th—J. T. Methvin, A. A. Pres
ley, Will Chambliss.
29th—A. F. Hodges, J. W. Car
ter, C. A. Slappey.
New 26th—Sam McGarrab, John
F. Daniels, C. C. Sheppard.
Old 26th—R. S. Oliver, Alton Car
ter, E. Timmerman.
17th—C. D. Brinkley, John D.
Williams, Georg* IsreeL
New 16th—S. A. Rogers, E. C.
Webb, W. E. Mitchell.
Old 16th—J. W. Peel, G. B. Dell,
George Waters.
The money to he raised b to he
England Gets Honor
First To Sign
.Treaty
WASHINGTON July 23—(By!
sociated Press)—The United States
will sign the treaties with Bulgaria
and Turkey, it was announced today
at the state department.
The United States was not tech
nically at war with cither of the
nations.
JAPANESE DENY A »
TRADE ON SHANTUNG
PARIS, July 23—(By Associated
Press)—The Japanese delegation %
the peace conference today isdued
denial of assertions that the
tunc settlement in the German pe
treaty wag in exchange for *Cio will
drawal of the Japanese ontentia
lCgnrding the racial clause in thi#
League of Nations.
LEAGUE IS CALLED
GREATEST FORWARD STEP
WASHINGTON July 23—(By As*
sociated Press)—The League of N»-
tionn was supported in th._. somite »*-
day ly Senator McKellor of Tennes
see. as one of the greatest forward
steps in the nation’s history.
Most of tho opposition, he assert
ed, came from “reactionaries” of ths
same school as those who opposed
the federal constitution and thosa
who later handicapped the growth
and development of the country. Sen
ator McKcIIcr said that every dictate
of humanity, of enlightened seif-is-
tcrest, of commercial and iitdustrtel
advantage and of desire for peacs
requires the establishment of this
world pact.
ENGLAND RATIFIES
LEAGUE AND ALLIANCE
LONDON, July 23—England to
day formally atands aide by aide with
France to repel any future German
Invasion, the house of commons hav
ing yesterday unanimously passed tha
Anglo-French treaty bill. It now ro-
malna for th e French chamber of
deputies end the United States ses-
otc to adopt the ratification meas
ures to make “the triple defensivs
alliance” complete.
To Ehgland also goes the first
honors of giving official approval to
the peace treaty with Germany. When
brought up . in the house of com
mons on Monday night, a bill rec
ommending the ratification of tha
pact waa passed by 103 to 4 votes.
An attempt to interject the Iri*
question in tho debate failed.
The proposed trial of the ex-kaiser
was also brought up which led tha
premier to say In reply to a query
that he ’knew of no neutral country
that wanted to bo the seat of ths
trial. • ■ -
used in paying of premiums nnd the
defraying of whatever necessary ex-
pensci may b- incurred.
Arrangements were completed to
day fer securing the services of the
Lowell Military band, of Roanoke,
e. 'Ala., to furnish musio for both days
SOLUTION OF RAILWAY
PROBLEM IS PROPOSED
■WASHINGTON, July 2.1— (By As
sociated Press.)—Private ownership
and operation of railroads, merged
into twenty or thirty great compet
ing systems, under supervision of a
federal transportation board, with a
statuatory rule of rate making as
suring to the roads a net return of
six per cent, waa offered to the
house commerce committee today ms
the plan of the National Transporta
tion conference for solving the rail
road problem.
Continued government operation
until remedial legislation is enacte4
' was urged by the conference.
of the fair. It
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tainment features which
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