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CEEY CIXY
THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR
WAR NOT LIKELY
KAISER WILL SEND
FRIENDLY REPLY
Official Washington Believes Germ
any Will See American Side of
Recent Squabble and Con
cede Points.
WHAT FAULT COULD BRYAN
FIND WITH WILSON’S NOTE
Many Officials Today Express Won
der That Secretary of State Re
fused to Sign Communication.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
♦ NOTE PRESENTED AT ♦
♦ BERLIN BY AMBASSADOR ♦
+ (Bw Asosciated Press.) ♦
-f BERLIN, June 11. —Ambassa- ■*
dor Gerard presented the Ameri- ♦
-f can note to the German foreign f
-f office early this afternoon. ♦
♦ The forthcoming presentation ♦
♦ of the note failed to attract pub- wj
■f lie attention to any great degree, -f
♦ the fact not being mentioned in "*■
♦ the principal morning papers -f 1
•f published at Berlin. *
♦ Afternoon papers featured the ♦
♦ Wilson note in all editions to
♦ day, however, and following pub- -f 1
+ lication of the communication ♦ '
+ much public interest in the crisis
■f between Germany and the Unit- 1
♦ed States soon manifested it- ♦
+ self. Editorial comment upon ♦
>the American note was not made ♦ 1
♦ by the leading journals. E 1
♦ + 1
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11.— |
With the publication today of the lat
est American note to Germany con
cerning the sinking of the Lusitania, j
officials of the United States and dip
lomats stationed in Washington are
generally discussing among them- j
selves the probable character of Ger
many’s reply. Although no definite ]
information can be obtained as to the
manner in which the German govern
ment will receive the communication,
still official Washington believes that
the note will be received with due
courtesy and after being considered
will meet with the approval of the
Kaiser’s counsellors. 1
This note, prepared by the presi- i
dent, seems to open the door for a I
possible settlement of all differences i
between the two nations. It is couch- 1
ed in strong language and though it I
conveys the impression that Uncle <
Sam will not tolerate further outrages i
by Germany, still it is friendly in
tone. The note asks that the United i
States be given assurance by Ger- <
many that American vessels and pas- :
sengers will be safeguarded. What ac
tion the United States will take in i
case Germany refuses to give this as
surance, is not stated in the note.
Many officials today are wondering
what part of the note Secretary Bryan
could have objected to. The note is
friendly and carries many expressions
of good will. Most officials here dis
agree with Bryan that there is any
chance of this note leading to war
with Germany.
A cablegram from Berlin stated that
Ambassador Gerard would present the
note to the German foreign office to
day. i ! I |
I
BRYAN PLEASED AT CHANGED
ATTITUDE OF NATION’S PRES*
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 11.—
Former Secretary of State Bryan
issued a statement this afternoon ex
pressing gratification over what he
terms the marked change in the tone
of the American press regarding the
American note to Germany.
“Something has been gained if the
warrior journalists at last realize that
the country does not want war,” said
Mr. Bryan today.
The statement issued this after
noon is addressed to “The American
People,” and is the third given the
newspapers for publication by Mr.
Bryan since his retirement from
public life, and has attracted but lit
tle attention.
gjiicTiFbittle is
WON BY RUSSIANS
AUSTRIANS ROUTED
PETROGRAD PUBLISHES STATE-j
MENT THAT AUSTRO-GERMAN
FORCE HAS BEEN DEFEATED IN
BATTLE ALONG THE DNEISTER
RIVER.
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, June 11. —News dspatches
from Petrograd state that the Rus
sians have gained an important vic
tory over the Austro-German forces
in Galicia. This victory coming on
the heels of recent gains reported in
the Baltic region makes the Russian
captal optimistic over the campaign
in the extreme east.
Austro-German forces attempting to
advance on Lemberg, were met and
defeated in a battle along the Dneister
river. The Austrians attempted to ad
vance from the south on Russian po
sitions and were routed.
The first real important battle of
the war between the Austrians and
Italy is raging near Horizia, a city
twenty-two miles north of Trieste.
This battle was brought about by the
Italians trying to cross the Isonza
river.
Dispatches from Cologne and Geneva
state that the battle has not yet been
decided. The Austrian losses are es
timated to be fully 10,000.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS. GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. JUNE 11, 1915
CITY FATHERS
INI DISPOSAL
PLANT ERECTED
i WOULD PROVIDE HUGE FURNACE
TO BURN ALL GARBAGE AND
TRASH COLLECTED BY DUMP
CARTS—CITY PHYSICIAN EN
DORSES IDEA
Adequate Plant Could Be Built For
Small Amount —Would Greatly Re
duce Danger to Health Arising From
City Dump Grounds.
The city council of Americus wants
to erect a modern disposal plant large
enough to destroy all the garbage and
trash, collected in the city each day.
Every member of the council, his
honor, the mayor, and the city physi
cian, endorse the plan, and just as soon
as the funds are available actual work
on the plant will begin.
With a disposal plant owned and
operated by the city all trash, garbage
and refuse would then be burned in
stead of dumped on some vacant lot at
the edge of the city. Danger of dis
ease arrising from dumping the trash
of the city would be greatly reduced
and the general health of the city
would not be endangered.
A disposal plant, large enough to
serve Americus could be erected for
SB,OOO or SIO,OOO. A small sum would
be necesary each year for maintenance
and operation. But this would be mon
ey well Invested. Health is a valuable
asset a thing that tends to im
prove sanitary conditions is cheap at
any price.
That the citizens will endorse the
plan to erect a municipal disposal
plant, is the belief of the members of
the council. Just as soon as practical
they will make plans for erecting a
modern plant.
HOMES NEEDED
FOR DELEGATES
TO CONFERENCE
COMMITTEE ANXIOUS TO AR
RANGE ALL DETAILS FOR EN
TERTAINING THREE HUNDRED
EPWORTH LEAGUERS
The committee on securing homes
for- the coming Epworth League con
vention next week desire to state that
they are confronting a very embar
rassing situation and desire their
friends to help them out.
Over two hundred and sixty-five
names of accredited delegates have
come in and only one hundred and
sixty delegates have been placed in
homes. It is a time when all those
interested in the welfare of our city
must come in and do their part.
Americus has invited this splendid
representative body here and must
entertain them. All “boosters” have a
chance now to put in some work by
entertaining some of the delegates,
who will come from all parts of south
and middle Georgia.
The committee on entertainment
wish to express appreciation of the
kindness of many members of other
churches who have asked for some
delegate to be sent them. They face
a crisis with the conference almost
upon them and all who can possibly
entertain delegates or who will take
more than they at first promised, are
asked to communicate immediately
with Mr. Joseph M. Bryan.
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♦AUSTRIAN SUBMARINE ♦
♦ SINKS BRITISH CRUISER ♦
♦ (By Associated Press.) •*
♦ LONDON, June 11.—Reports ♦
♦ from Vienna late today say an ♦
♦ Austrian submarine attacked and
♦ sank a British light cruiser of ♦
♦ the Liverpool type in the Adri- *■
♦ atic Sea last night. The British ♦
♦ admirality has not yet confirmed ♦
♦ the Vienna statement. ♦
♦ Two British fishing smacks,
♦ the British steamship Strathar- ♦
♦ ron, the Russian steamship ►
♦ Dania and the Russian bark To- ♦
♦ masino, compose the day’s toll ♦
♦ exacted by German submarines, -t
♦ No loss of life has been report- ♦
♦ ed in connection with the sinm ♦
♦ ing of the five merchantmen. The ♦
♦ fate of the ciew of the cruiser ♦
♦ alleged to have been destroyed ♦
♦ is unknown. -f
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BERLIN COOES FOR
ORPHIOJIDDIES
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, June 11.—The number of
orphan children for whom Ihe city of
Berlin has to care has grown, since
April 1, 1914, from 9,478 to 10,006 on
April 1, 1915. The increase of 528 is
not entirely due to an increased deatn
rate of parents, however, for 228 of
the children have been added to the
city’s list from institutions that form
erly looked out for the waifs them
selves.
RUSSIAN SURVIVORS
OF IRE LUSITANIA
SAFE AT PETRUGRAO
(By Associated Press.)
PETROGRAD, June 11.—Nine Rus
sian survivors of the Lusitania have
arrived here. They are all reservists,
w’ho were on the way from Chicago
and New York to join the army.
After their rescue they were taken
to Queenstown, where they remained
in hospital for several days before re
suming their journey. Os the 82 Rus
sian passengers on board the liner on
ly 39 escaped, and of 24 Persians only
ine survived.
AMERICUS VET
VISITING OLD
SCENES OF 61
Americus friends of Gen. H. T.
Davenport, commander of Camp Sum
ter Confederate Veterans, have receiv
ed a letter from him stating that he is
now paying a visit to the battlefields
of Virginia. Mr. Davenport attended
the re-union in Richmond recently and
before returning to Americus express
ed the desire to again visit the old
battlefields where he fought for the
stars and bars in the sixties.
Together with his son, Gen. Daven
port will again visit Manassas, Bull
Run, and the other historic battle
fields around Winchester and in the
valley of the Shenandoah.
MAD DOG SCARE
FOR AMERICUS
Chief of Police Johnson was called
over to Brooklyn! Heights this morn
ing to kill a supposedly mad dog that
was reported as running about in that
section of the city. The owner has
the do locked up and he will be
closely watched and with the first sign
of rabies will be killed by the police.
A. L. I. READY
FOR SERVICE IF
WILSON CAFES
LOCAL CRACK COMPANY CAN RE
CRUIT TO WAR STRENGTH
WITHIN TWELVE HOURS. EQUIP
MENT MODERN IN SMALLEST
DETAIL.
The Americus Light Infantry can re
port for active service within tw’elve
hours after the president issues a call
for troops, according to an oflicer of
that company. While the Americus
soldier boys are not especially anxious
to invade Germany and face the
sauer kraut gang still they will answer
the call if their president sees fit to
issue it.
The Americus Light Infantry is one
of the best companies In the second
Gorgia regiment. Many of the men in
the company have been members for
several yearfe. Their drilling is per
fect, according to army officers who
have inspected the A. L. I. Their eqip
ment is modern to the smallest detail
and they are ready to take the field at
a moments notice.
Recently many members of this
crack company qualified as expert ri
fle shots. For two weeks every mem
ber was. Instructed each day in the
gentle art of hitting the bull’s-eye by
an expert marksman from Uncle Sam’s
regular troops. Practically the en
tire company showed remarkable skill
and ability.
While Americus is not desirous of
seeing these soldier boys march off
for the concentration camp, still the
city feels sure that no better company
in the state would answer the presi
dent’s call in time of a crisis. The A.
L. I. is a rattling good company, made
of fine, clean young fellows and Amer
icus is proud of them.
stateTearning of
BIG CELEBRATION
FOB DIXIE HIGHWAY
STATE PAPERS HELPING AMERI
CUS BOOST BIG OCCASION BY
CARRYING NEWS STORIES OF
EVENT
Georgia is learning about the Dixie
Highway celebration on July Fifth.
The papers of the state are co-oper
ating with Americus and running good
news stories about the event. Column
after column about the celebration
have already been carried by many
of the state papers.
The local publicity committee is
working overtime grinding out good
“copy” for the state papers. Yester
day sixty-seven news stories were
mailed out to as many different news
papers in the state. These stories will
advertise Americus as nothing else
will.
Special Rates on Railroads.
The Southeastern Tariff association,
with headquarters in Atlanta, has no
tified Secretary Hyman, of the Amer
icus Chamber of Commerce, that re
duced rates will be granted to Ameri
cus on the Fifth on account of the big
celebration. Tickets bought to Amer
icus on the Fifth will be good from
the third to the eighth, five days. All
other fourth of July tickets for other
cities will 'be good till the night of
the Fifth.
Preparations are being completed to
make the celebration on the Fifth the
biggest stunt of its kind ever engi
neered in South Georgia. Invitations
♦ WHEREABOUTS OF GERMAN ♦
♦ CREW OFFICIALLY STATED ♦
♦ (By Associated Press.) ♦
♦ WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 11. ♦
♦ —Lieut Brauer and “certain ♦
♦ men of the crew’’ of the German ♦
♦ cruiser Prinz Eitel Frederich, ♦
♦ who left the ship before she for- ♦
♦ mally interned at Norfolk have ♦
♦ not returned to the Norfolk Na
♦vy Yard, and are believed to ♦
♦ have left the country. ♦
♦ The Treasury Department late ♦
♦ today made announcement of the ♦
♦ facts above related, the same ♦
♦ having .been reported by Collec- ♦
♦ tor Hamilton at Norfolk some ♦
♦ time ago. No explanation ac- ♦
♦ companled today’s announce- ♦
♦ ment, but it is believed the cable ♦
♦ dispatches telling of the arrest ♦
♦ of a man alleged to be Comman- ♦
♦ der Thierichsen, of the Eitel, at ♦
♦ Algeciras, Spain, lead to 'he offl- ♦
♦ cial statement. Thierichsen is ♦
♦ now, on board his ship at Nor- ♦
♦ folk. 1 >
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SAILOR BOYS LEAVE
HOME 10 FIERI FOR
THHNION JACK
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, June 11.—How severely
the naval and military losses of the
war have already affected some com
munities in Great Britain is shown by
the announcement that at Chatham, a
naval base on the lower Thames,
there are 180 war widows on one
street. Most of them lost their sailor
husbands in the sinking of the Formi
dable, Hermes, and Princess Irene.
negrlTurderer
HANGED JIFLOIIDI
(By Associated Press.)
PALATKA, Fla., June 11.—Clyde
Stover, a negro, was hanged here to
day for the murder near Welaka last
January of Alonzo G. Gardner, of Bal
timore, Md., and Horace B. Gardner,
of Springfield, Mass.. The Gardner
brothers were in Florida on a hunting
trip and employer Stover as guide.
Before the trap was sprung the ne
gro confessed his crime, saying he
shot both men from ambush, robbery
being his motive.
HEAVY FIGHTING ALONG
SHORES OF DARDANELLES
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, June 11.—Late this af
ternoon the censor permitted to be
published brief dispatches relating to
heavy fighting in progress on the
peninsula of Gallipoli, where the Al- ,
lies and Turks are engaged in a gi
gantic struggle for possession of the
forts guarding the straits of the Dar
danelles.
Today's news from the continent
failed to reveal any significant change
in the positions of the contending ar
mies along the Franco-Belgian front
though continuous fighting is in pro
gress there.
are being accepted by prominent peo
ple and indications are that over 5,-
000 will be on hand.
► THE WEATHER
t
*■ For Americus and Vicinity
f Probably fair. ♦
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AMERICUS MAN
CANDIDATE OF
ENTIRE STATE
HON. J. E. SHEPPARD, WILL BE
SUPPORTED BY ANTI-SALOON
LEAGUE, BUT IS NOT THEIR
CANDIDATE
Decides to Make Race After Receiving
Hundreds of Letters Promising Him
Hearty Support, From All Portions
of the State.
Tb'**, Hon. J. E. Sheppard, of Amer
icus, who is running a strong race for
the speakership of the Georgia house
of representatives, is the candidate
of the people and not of the Anti-Sa
loon League, is forcefully stated in a
statement given out by the league to
day, endorsing Mr. Sheppard’s views*
“While the league as an organiza
tion, heartily endorses the candidacy
of Mr. Sheppard,” says the statement,
“it is not true that he Is the candidate
of this league or of any other organ
ization or person, except in the sense
that he is the candidate of many thou
sands of the state's citizens and of
scores of the representatives in the
house, who have'personally solicited
him to enter the race.
It is well known that long before
hia announcement, Mr. Sheppard re
ceived hundreds of letters, telegrams
and messages in other forms, from
persons of all w&j.ts of iife, asking I,'na
to become a candidate, not of the pro -
hibitionists, but in the interest of the
people, in the interest of law enforce
ment and fair dealing. Those who
have asked to be permitted to vote for
him or who have pledged him their
support, know that if elected, he
would be the servant of the whole
people and not of any one interest.
The fact that the name of Dr. G. W.
Eichelberger, superintendent of the
league, happened to be connected with
the announcement of Mr. Sheppards
candidacy in Atlanta grew out of the
fact that it happened to be Mr. Eich
elberger who gave the first news of
the candidacy to the Atlanta press.
Neither Dr. Eichelberger nor the
league is any more strongly endorsing
Mr. Sheppard than are thousands of
others who believe in fair dealing and
remember events of the past two
years.
The superintendent of the league is
acting for and upon the advice of sev
enty-six men constituting the board
of the league. These men represent
the views of a great majority of the
poeple of Georgia on the subjects of
prohitfitioni and law enforcement. Dr.
Eichelberger is thoroughly endorsed
by the league. His antecedents are
well known and his record established.
HISTORIC ESTATE
ID GO TO HIGHEST
BIDDER J FALL
(By Associated Press A
LONDON, June 11.—Stonehenge, the
most famous of British ruins dating
back to the Bronze Age, is to go under
the auctioneer’s hammer in September
next. The property to be sold includes
6,400 acres of farm land, the estate if
the Antrobus family. The principal
building is Amesbury Abbey, past
which flows the River Avon. The prop
erty to be sold is located in a corner of
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