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THIBTY-SEYENTH YEAR
MEETING TONIGHT IS IMPORTANT
EVERY BOOSTER SHOULD ATTEND
A ERICUS AMI SUMTER COUNTY
YILL MAKE CONCERTED EE
FORT TO HAVE THE “YANKEE
LAND-DIXIE HIGHWAY” COME
THIS WAY
MEETING PROMPTLY
AT 7:3G AT CITY HALL
At Meeting Tonight Elans to Land
Highway Will he Devised —Every
Hooster is Expected to Be On Han 1
And Help Land Big Tourist Road.
Amerieus and Sumter county, unit
edly and determinedly, are going to
make concerted effort to havce the
Chicago-to-Florida Highway come this
way, and to that end a "booster rally”
will be held at the city hall tonight at
7:30 o'clock. At this meeting of
Amerieus live wires, plans will be
discussed for presenting the claims
of south Georgia for the highway at
the meeting to be held Saturday next
at Chattanooga, when the matter of
route will be settled.
Amerieus is very much upon the
map of Georgia, and as the chief met
ropolis of the southern section of the
Empire State, it is essential that the
proposed north and south highway
lead through her gates.
As is well known, the route from
Chicago to Atlanta has already been
settled upon. From Atlanta to Macon
the roads now traversed will doubt
less be used, while from Macon on
southward the logical route is the
splendid “Andersonville-Thomasville
Highway,” which leads through Sum
ter county and presents the finest sys
tem of standard roads in Georgia—
roads already finished —not promised.
It is quite possible that Amerieus
may send one or more representatives
to the meeting at Chattanooga next
Saturday, who will explain fully the
advantages offered by the Anderson
ville-T'nomasville route via Sumter
county. From Macon this superb high
way tr; verses the best towns in south
ern Georgia, while historic old Ander
tonville holds for northern tourists
an attraction unequalled by any other
Southern city.
Recently Sumter county has com
pleted, at a cost of $15,000 or sl3 000,
four splendid concrete bridges span
ning streams along the route cf /?
miles through its confinest, and photo
graphic views of these structures,
with views of road stretches, will be
shown at the meeting of the executive
GOTHAM CUE ANXIOUS TO
DROP BREACH PROMISE SUIT
(By Associated Press.) 11
XEAV YORK, March 30.—An investi- i
pation of the statement accredited to <
Miss Rae Tanzer that she acted under i
a mistaken idea when she brought suit :
lor alleged breach of promise against i
former District Attorney James W Os. '
borne, was begun this morning under
direction of federal District Attorney
Marshall.
Following her arrest for fraudu
lently using the mails, Miss Tanzer, j
through Harrold Spielberger, her at
torney, issued! a statement that for
mer District Attorney Osborne, whom
she accused of having wronged her, i
was not the person who won her love
and confidence under an asuraed name,
and that she had become convinced of
the fact only since bringing her suit
against Mr. Osborne.
The statement, because of its un
MRS. Hill LIAR
IS STRICKEN AT
HOME IN FLORIDA
Mrs. Micou Rees Lamar, a former
resident of Amerieus and esteemed
among many here who knew well this
charming and cultured woman died
last night of pneumonia at her home
in St.. Augustine. Telegrams convey
ing announcement of her demise were
received here this morning by her
brother, Mr. Albert L. Rees, and
created deepest sorrow among the
many friends whose love and apprecia
tion were hers.
The body will be brought to Ameri
cus for interment tomorrow, the fun- |
eral services being conducted from the
Episcopal church at 11 o’clock. Rev.
J. B. Lawrence will conduct the ob
sequies.
Mrs. Lamar was the eldest daughter
of Dr. Albert Rees, a pioneer resi
'dent of Amerieus, and grew up to
(young womanhood here. Talented
and gifted in high degree, >-.b was
ever the centre of large circles of ad
miring friends. For a time the family
resided in Savannah and in Macon,
while in more recent years Mrs. La
mar has resided with her son, Mr. G.
B. Lamar, who is at the head of one
of the St. Augustine banking houses.
| She is survived by her two sons, Wi
ley Lamar, U. S. A., and G. B. Lamar,
of St. Augustine, and by two broth
ers, Mr. Raymond Rees, of Jackson
ville,-and Mr. A. L. Rees, of Amerieus.
Friends of the family are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral exer
cises tomorrow afternoon.
The pallbearers will he Messrs.
Thomas Harrold, Frank Harrold, H. R.
Johnson, F. B. Arthur, J. A. Daven
port, J. E. Gyles, L. F. Tower, Cra\\-
' ford Wheatley.
board at Chattanooga Saturday, to
gether v'th other facts and fe 1 far s
of imeiesl along the route here.
Amerieus has ample charms ana is
prepared to back them up, and the
meeting tonigh* will discuss plans
along that line. Every loyal booster
is expected to rally in this cause and
aid, by suggestion, in having me 1 i:.-
j way from the snowfields of Illinois to]
the orange groves of Florida cons- j
* tructed through Sumter county.
usual nature, attracted considerable
attention, but failed to satisfy Mr.
Osborne, who denounced Miss Tanzer
as a blackmailer and imposter as
soon as informed of the filing of her
suit. He will consequently insist that
charges already preferred against the
woman be pressed vigorously, and
sensational developments may result!
at the hearing.
Federal Attorney Marshall, who is
Jin charge of the prosecution of Miss
Tanzer’s for alleged misuse of ths
mails, this morning characterized a
( portion of the woman’s statement as
i "unbelievable.” Prosecutions for con
spiracy may result at the conclus
■ ion of the present investigation, At
torney Marshall declared, but other
persons suspected of having assited
J Miss Tanzer in the alleged swindling
plot, were not named.
AMERtKISMMMER
Federal Trade Commission At First Session
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From left to right: George Rubles of New Hampshire; William ,1. Harris of Georgia; Joseph E. Davies of Wiscon
sin; Edward N. Hurley of Illinois, and William H. Parry of Washington.
The new Federal Interstate Trade
Commission has begun business. This
photograph shows the meeting in the
department of commerce building at
GERMANS CLAIM
VICTORIMNPOLAND
(By Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 30.—The German
war ministry this afternoon issued a
statement denying early reports ema
nating from Petrograd to the effect
that the German offensive in northern
Poland has been abandoned. Three
thousand Russians, the report asserts,
have been made prisoners during the
past twenty-four hours and two
thousand Russian dead lie upon Polish
battlefields as the result tof encoun
ters during yesterday.
A severe engagement in which Ger
man forces hurled the Russians back
a distance of several miles, was fought
in the vicinity of Kras Nopl, the
slaughter being unusually heavy dur
ing the fighting at that point.t
alllooTsigns
MUSI GOME DOWN
OVER INJLABAMA
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 30.
Attorney General Martin today made
public his opinion construsing the re
cently enacted Alabama prohibition
laws, relative to the removal of signs
and the circulation of liquor advertise
ments within the state of Alabama.
The opinion construes the statute
literally and under its provisions sher
iffs and local authorities are author
ized to force the immediate removal
of all signs advertising saloons or
places where liquor is retailed. Deal
ers who sell liquor at wholesale only
ate permitted under a federal statute
to display signs advertising their
business, the lettering on which shall
not exceed three inches in length.
WHAT WOULD YOU THINK?
What would you think if a friend 01 /ours found a SIOO.OO bill 01 the street, and didn’t have enough
energy to bend over and pick it up? What would you think if a friend of yours had an opportunity to
secure $1,200.00 in Valuable Prizes and then didn’t have enough ambition to use a little spare time and effort to
secure them?
it seems to the Thrift Club Manager that any young lady or young man whose friends had entered them
in the Times-Recorder's big $1,200.03 Thrift Club would have ambition enough to make the race that was ex
pected of them by these friends.
If you are one whose friends have entered you in the race, TAKE HEED before it is too late. When they
nominated you in this campaign, they did so because they believed you to be made of the stuff that makes
WINNERS. They believed you to be an aggressive person who would go into this race with the "neved-say
die” spirit, and WIN OUT. Now it’s right up to you—not your friends—to make good during these last few •
days. If you don’t make a creditable showing you will not only fail to win a prize, but your friends will lose
all confidence in you. They, will see that they were MISTAKEN in you; that you Were only commonplace
after all. ONLY COMMONPLACE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 30, 1913
which the five members organized. Mr.
Davies w 7 as elected The
members were sworn in by Chief Jus
tice Covington of the District of Co-
BATTLESHIP ALA. TO
GUARD GERMAN
WARSHIP
(By Associated Press.)
NEWPORT NEWS .March 30.—The
battleship Alabama arrived in Hamp
ton Roads today, and will remain an
indefinite time, having been assigned
to the duty of protecting the neutral
ity of American waters. The detailing
of the Alabama to guard duty between
the Virginia capes has aroused interest
in the status of the German auxil
iary cruiser Prinz Eitel Frederick.
The time allotted the German war
ship in which to effect repairs, it is
generally understood, has about ex
pired, and the fear that warships of
belligerent nations opposed to Ger
many may be lurking near the coast
probably led Washington authorities
to order the Alabama here. The
Eitel Frederich, after leaving Newport
News will be privileged to keep with
in the three-mile limit during an ad
ditional twenty-fours after leaving
port, and should Commander Thier
ichsen elect to make a dash for the
open sea, every precaution will be
taken to prevent his ship being at
tacked while, in United States wa
ters.
In official circles, the presence cf
the Alabama off the Virginia coast is
accounted for by the statement that
British ships leaving Newport News
recently are suspected of having car
ried coal and supplies to allied war
ships outside the harbor, and to guard
against this practice is the purpose of
the government. These charges, it is
stated, have not been fully substan
tiated, but naval authorities acted
promptly on their attention being di
rected to the alleged breach of neu
trality upon the part of British mer
chant ships.
lumbia Supreme Court. He was the
author of the bill creating the commis
sion when he was a member of the
lower house from Maryland.
SUBMARINE TO BE
RAISED FROM SEA
ALL HOPE OF FINDING CREW OF
“F-4” ALIVE GIVEN UP lIY
NAVAL AUTHORITIES BODIES
W ILL BE RECOVERED
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 30.
The United States submarine “F-4 ’,
which sunk Friday at the entrance to
Honolulu harbor, with twenty-one men
aboard, has been moved three hun
dred feet shoreward, according to a
message received by Secretary Daniels
this afternoon.
While brief, the communication ex
presses a belief it will be possible to
salvage the wrecked warship, but no
hope is extended that any of the crew
of the vessel will be found alive.
GOVERNOR PAROLES
PRISONERS WITH
MUSIS
(By Associated Press.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 30.
Go\emor Henderson today ordered the
immediate parole of all the incurable
tubercular patients confined in Ala
haa prisons, the action being taken
in accord with a program designed to
rid the state’s penitentiary system of
the white plague.
As a result of today’s action nine
teen long-term prisoners, all in ad
vanced stages of tuberculosis were
released from the tuberculosis convict
camp located at Mount Meigs. Ninety
seven others afflicted with the disease,
but whose conditions is not yet regard
ed as incurable, remain in custody
there.
LIQUOR IS II GREATER EOE THAN
KAISER SAYS ENGLISH CHANCELLOR
TURKISH AIRMEN
DROP BOMBS ON
ALLIED WARSHIPS
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 30.—Official an
nouncement has just been made publi.:
at Constantinople relating details of
an aeroplane attack upon ships of
the allied fleet attacking the forts of
the Dardanelles. The statement as
serts that several aeroplanes partici
pated in the attack and that several
bombs were dropped upon a British
warship. No estimate of the damage
inflicted is given.
Encouraging news for the allies is
contained in early dispatches from
Petrograd today. It is asserted in the
Russian capital that the German of
fensive in northern Poland has com
pletely failed, and that an early re
sumption of the Russian march west
ward is to be anticipated in that
quarter. The safety of Warsaw is
doubly assured by the abandonment
of German operations in northern Pol
and.
All along the line fronting the Nie
men river, where, large bodies of Ger
man troops were sacrificed in the ef
fort to invade Russia, operations dur
ing the past twenty-four hours have
been of minor character, and com
iparative quiet reigns there today. 83-
fore Ossowetz, the Russian fortified
position near the East Prussian bor
der, the German bombardment has ma
terially slackened, and may of the big
guns employed in the effort to reduce
the stronghold are believed to have
been secretly removad.
SPANISH UNIVERSITY TO
TEACH JOURNALISM
(By Associated Press.)
LEIPSIC, March 30.—Supported by
both private and public finances, a
"school of journalism” is to be inaug
urated at the University of Leipsic
with the coming semester, under the
direction of the well-known professor
of economics. Dr. Burchner. There is
to be instruction in three branches—
political, commercial and literary re
porting.
ARMY SURGEONS ADVOCATES OE
“BACA TO NATURE" CURES
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, March 30. —Surgery upon
the battlefield, according to a well
known physician. Dr. Ziegelroth, is be
coming more and more a matter of
"back to nature.” The doctors, mili
tary and civil, who are tending the
wounded In the west, are discovering,
not without some surprise, how po
tent a factor nature is in healing
wounds.
Amputations are resorted to only in
cases of utmost necessity, and sur
geons are acting with the greatest
conservatism where previously limbs
were severed quickly when certain
symptoms appeared. The conserva
tism appears to be rewarded by re
coveries that ordinarily would have
been impossible. Ordinary wounds
are dressed with antiseptic bandages,
and then are not re-bound any more
CKY
JOHN HULL WILL ADOPT DRASTIC
PROHIBITION IAW IN NEAR FU
TURE TO RIVAL RUSSIAN I)E
--UREE
i Chancellor Lloyd George
1 j Fot National Prohibition
Wealthy Classes Promise to Co-Op
erate By Giving Up Wine Cellars—
Labor Leaders For New Law.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 30.—Prohibition as
drastic as that prevailing in Russia
today faces the United Kingdom, and
the British press discusses wth inter
est thj letter sent by Chancellor of
! the Exchequer Lloyd George to the
Ship Owners Federation, relative to
the Fa la,La disaster.
In his communication to the Ship
-1 Owners Federation the chancellor of
the exchequer asserts that drink, in
his opinion is a far greater foe to
the ultimate safety of England than
the Germans and Austrians combined.
He makes an earnest appeal to 'the
British public to demand the imme
diate enactment of stringent prohibi
tion laws and in support of his posi
tion points to the loss of morg than
a hundred lives in the sinking of the
Falaba. This disaster, asserts Lloyd
George would have been averted but
for the use of liquor, a startling and
convincing argument for the suppres
( ston of the traffic.
j No appeal to sentiment is contained
in the movement to make Great Brit
ian and Ireland dry territory, leaders
in the movement asserting the pro-
I posed law to be one not only of mili
j tary necessity but one demanded by
, the sober sentiment of the age, and
I all classes, irrespective of previous
political alignments have rallied to
the support of the movement with a
unanimity that is startling as it is
pleasing to the government.
Employers in all lines of trade-are
energetically backing Chancellor
Lloyd-George is the movement to en
act prohibition laws, and labor lead
ers in all parts of the kingdom have
j proffered their support to the move
ment. Wealthy persons maintaining
j wine cellars and club members have
also promised their support, many of
( these even pledging themselves to
close their own wine cellars and dis
, pose of their stocks of intoxicating
| liquors.
than necessary. The healing is being
left to efficient nature.
The civil practitioners in the west
ern field, according to Dr. Zeigelroth,
are engaged in, a friendly but spirited
contest with the military physician ll ,
and are giving extraordinary ser
vice. Men, who in ordinary life have
a “golden practice” are enduring all
the hardships of the field without a
murmur and good humoredly contest
for bundles of straw upon which to
sleep in barns and stables. The snor
ing of fellow physicians seems to
bother them more than the artillery
fire.
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