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'HIKTT-EIGHTH YEAR.
M'tQOO GIVES I
REPORT ON WORK
IN DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 6.—Sec
retary McAdoo’s annual report of the
government's finances, presented to
congress today, estimates that the fis
cal year ending June 30th, 1917, will
show a balance of $115,000,000 in the
general fund but that the figures a
year later —June 30th, 1918, will show
a deficit in the general fund of $185,-
000,000.
Preliminary estimates place the
most of conducting the government for j
the coming fiscal year 1918, exclusive
of the postal service which is expect
ed to be self sustaining and other de
ductions, at $1,278,021,000. The ordina
ry receipts for the fiscal year 1918 he
..timates at $995,550,000, which is
$282,471,000 less than the estimated ex
pense.
Estimates of large expenditures for
national defense carry the estimated
outlay beyond the estimated income.
Sees Great Prosperity Ahead.
For the fiscal year 1916, now draw
ing to a close, the Secretary reports •
great prosperity and expresses great-|
est confidence for the future. “During
the past year,” the Secretary says, “the
prosperity which set in so strongly
during the fiscal year 1915 has grown
in strength and volume and is now
widely diffused throughout the Unit
ed States. Fundamental economic con
ditions have never been more sound. In
all lines of industry efficiency of or
ganization and production have reach
ed the highest point in the country’s
history. General confidence in the fu
ture, healthful enterprise and develop
ment have been marekd characteris
tics of the year. ,
“The financial strength of the United
States —the greatest in our history—
gives us a commanding position in
world finance. We have been trans
formed from a debtor into a creditor
nation. On November 1, 1916, the
stock of gold coin and bullion in the
United States was estimated at $2,700,-
136,976, an increase of $714,597,804 in
the past 16 months. This is the larg
est stock of gold ever held in the Unit
ed States, or in any other country
in the world. Through the operations
of the Federal Reserve System, and
with our abundant supply of gold as a
basis, the credit resources of the Unit
ed States have become more than suf
ficient for home demand, and we have
been able to finance our great domes
tic and foreign trade without strain
and to extend vast amounts of credit
to other nations throughout the world.
Value of Federal Reserve Sysem.
"The experience of the past two
years has brought into strong relief
the value of the Federal Reserve Sys
tem. It is not too much to say that
our great prosperity could not exist
without it. The usefulness of the sys -
tem has been broadened recently by
the amendatory act of September 7,
1916, which renders it more attrac
tive to member banks and increases
the scope and services of the Federal
reserve banks. Due to the transfer
ence of vault and other reserves te
Federal reserve banks, authorized by
the original act and amendatory act,
the resources of said banks are now
more than $650,000,000, while the to
tal reserves held are over $400,000,000,
and in addition, more than $230,000,000
is held by Federal reserve agents as
special security against Federal re
serve notes. About one-fourth of the
country’s stock of gold is thus mobil
ized in the hands of the Federal re
serve banks and agents.
War Risk Insurance.
Thi federal War Risk Insurance bu
reau, Mr. McAdoo, says should be ex
tended a year to September 2, 1918,
since Congress might not be in session
next September and it would be im
possible then to continue the work if
the European War is still in progress
and serious injury to American busi
ness might result. The report says
up to November 17 nearly 1,700 pol
icies were written by the Bureau with
total risk of more than $14,610,000 and
losses amounting to $833,924. Prem
iums received amounted to $3,142,525.
In speaking of customs revenues,
which increased abou t 53,400,000 over
the previous year, the Secretary says
the European conflict is still interfer-
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< (IST OF LIVING IN ATLANTA
NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL
ACCORDING TO STATISTICS
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 6. —According
to statistics regarding the cost of liv
ing just compiled by authorities of the'
United States government. Atlanta and ■
the state of Georgia are not in such a 1
bad fix after all. The statistics show
that there are only eight cities in the
country where the average cost of liv
ing is cheaper than it is in Atlanta.
HONOR BIVINS ON
TRIAL IN CHANGE
FROM CRISP HERE
The jury for the Honor Bivins case
was completed just before the noon
recess of court, and upon the reconven
ing at 2 o'clock Solicitor J. B. Wall
outlined his case. The entire after
noon is expected to be consumed with
the case, as it occupied the attention
of the court when the Times-Recorder
went to press.
Honor Bivins, a negro, went to trial
this morning in the Sumter Superior
court on a charge of accessory before
the fact in the alleged murder of
Treasurer Gleaton. of Crisp county, the
case being a change of venue granted
by Judge Walter F. George, and sug
gested by the supreme court.
Attorney Hill, of Cordele, is assist
ing Solicitor-General J. B. Wall in th®
prosecution, while the defense is in
the hands of E. F. Strozier.
E. L. Kiker, of Cordele, official court
I stenographer, is in the city, being a
probable witness as to the records.
| Bivins was tried, convicted and sen-
I fenced to be hanged.
It was just before noon when the
, court reached the Honor Bivins ease,
as two other criminal cases had occu
! pied most of the morning hour —more
i time than was anticipated.
Frank Morse and Jim Boon, two
negroes, each charged with assault
1 with intent to murder, were sentenced
to twelve months each on the gang, or
| pay fines of $125 each. The jury rec
' ommended misdemeanor punishments.
Busta Pickett, a negro charged with
assault with intent to murder, was
feund guilty of shooting at another.
Ben Lewis and Walter Johnson, two
negroes, charged with simple larceny,
were tried this morning. Johnson was
convicted, and the same jury which
brought the verdict of guilty for John-
I son, was agreed upon as the jury for
Lewis.
LAST PRAYER MEETING
OF REV. A. W. QUILLIAN
The last prayer meeting of Rev. A.
,W. Quillian, Jr., pastor of the Lee
! Street Methodist church, will be held
I Thursday evening, and a large attend
ance is urged.
i ing with such receipts.
"Before the breaking out of the
European war.” says the report, “the
amount of the collections indicated
that under normal conditions the
present tariff will produce all the
! revenue it was estimated it would
produce at the time it was drawn, and
since the war the receipts under the
tariff bill have been all that could be
expected under the present condit
tions.”
Mr. McAdoo points out that for the
! year the value of imports was about
$484,000,000 greater than the previous
I year and those of exports $2,768,589,-
340 greater.
i Congress is asked to amend the anti
narcotic law in view of the Supreme
Court interpretation of the clause re
lating to drugs in possession and to
I provide funds to care for drug addicts
I through government treatment.
"To cut off suddenly the supply of
drugs without curing the addict of his
I cravings or making any provision for
, the amelioration of his sufferings,”
, says the report, “is not only inhum
ane but encourages evasions of the
law.”
Appropriations are asked to enable
I the Public Health Service to prose
cute investigation of infantile paralys
[ k and for the aviation section of the
■ Coast Guard, authorized but given no
funds by Congress.
I The report concludes with a resume
■of operations of the various bureaus
in the Treasury Department.
AMERMSOMSsfIffIRKR
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMERICUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTER MOON, DECEMBER 6, 1916
TEUTONS ON THE
EDGE OF POIZES
FOR BUCHAREST
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♦ DAVID LLYOD-GEORGE ♦
♦ IS NEW BRITISH PREMIER ♦
♦ -F
j > LONDON. Dec. 6.—After re- ♦ '
I > ceiving David Lloyd-George, for- +
♦’ mer minister of munitions, to +
+ whom he presumably offered the T
> premiership, King George today ♦
♦ summoned several members of >
> the recent cabinet in hope of solv- +
+ ing the crisis. Later Mr. Asquith ♦
♦ was summoned by the king. Y
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BERLIN, Dec. 6. —Teutonic forces
advancing toward the railroad running
northward from Bucharest to Picechti,
caused the Rumanians to evacuate the
positions north of Sinai, states the war
office today. South of Bucharest Teu
ton troops have occupied towns along
the Alt river and advanced toward Bu
charest. More than six thousand
prisoners were taken yesterday.
Bucharest Taken by Germans.
BERLIN, Dec. 6. —An announcement
here late this afternoon i ecords the
capture of Bucharest by Teuton forces.
Rumania’s Plight is Acute.
(By Associated Press.)
Rumania’s plight continued acute to-
I day, with no signs of a stand being
I successfully made by either the Ru-
I manians or Russians. Although Turk
ish reports last night said the Teutons
! were within eight miles of Bucharest,
| the chief force of their thrust seemed
I to be exerted toward Ploschti, north-
I west of Bucharest, with the apparent
heme of cutting off the Rumanian re
i treat by railroad toward Moldavis.
Petrograd said the Rumanians had
' retired into the Tergovistea-Ploschti
sector and along the Titu-Bucharest
railways, and declared the Teutons
I had been driven back at other points.
I The Berlin statement said that Rus
: sion attacks in the Carpathians failed,
I but admitted that the Russians suo-
I ceeded in reaching the German second
I line in the Trotus valley.
I Paris announced further Serbian and
French successes in Macedonia, with
< a violent artillery duel in progress
I north of Monastir.
The British cabinet crisis is still
' acute, dispatches show., with indica-
I tions pointing to David Lloyd-George
I as the man through whom it may be
'solved, One dispatch says Lloyd-1
j George has been summoned by King
j Georgia, the customary proceeding |
I when a statesman is to be asked to
I form a ministry.
REST ROON SITE 15
NOT YET SELECTED
Prominent members of the Woman’s
I club met this morning at the Chamber
' of Commerce and arranged the plans
j for the rest room in this city. The def
j inite location of the proposed feature
I has not been selected.
The club Will be for the women vis
itors to the city, especially those in
the rural districts and visitors to:
Americus while shopping. It will be'
neatly furnished, and in charge of the.
Woman’s club, which has made the:
rest room possible. This is one of
the many constructive features, which
are being developed by the new organ
ization, composed of prominent wo
men of the city.
SPANISH STEAMER PIO X
WRECKED DURING STORM
MADRID. Dec. 6.—one hundred
members of the crew of the Spanish
steamer Pio X, bound from New Or
leans for Barcelona, with a cotton
cargo, were drownel when their ves
sel sank during a storm two hundred
miles off the Canary Islands. Twenty
two of the crew were saved. There
were no passengers on board.
4 CONGRESSMAN TRIBBLE’S ♦
♦ CONDITION IS PRECARIOUS ♦
* ♦
♦ WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Rep- ♦
♦ resentative Samuel J. Tribble, of ♦
♦ Georgia, who was stricken Mon- +
+ day with apoplexy at his office ♦
♦ here, rallied temporarily today, ♦
♦ but is still unconscious. Attend- +
+ ing physicians at Providence In- ♦
♦ firmary hold out little hope for >
♦ his recovery this afternoon. ♦
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HubbyGetsHis
Via Wife s
Race
UMATILLA, Oregon ,Dec. 6. —Mrs.
E. E-. Starcher, who ran for mayor of
Umatilla in yesterday’s election here,
was declared elected today when the
count of the ballots was completed.
Mr. Starcher, the defeated candidate
holds political views in many ways op
posed to those of his wife, but their
home life is most congenial.
sen™ WANTS 1
WATERING POLICY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6.—The
railroads of the United States have not
kept pace with transportation needs
and waterways improvements should
be carried forward as the sound eco
nomic policy of the United States, Sen
ator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida,
told the National Rivers and Harbors
congress here today. He declared the
development of waterways would tend
to overcome the inconvenience, loss
and danger attendant upon railroad
strikes such as that threatened last
September.
FUNERAL OF MRS. fi.
V. SMIIH HELD TODAY
The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Smith,
widow of the late A. W. Smith, was
held this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
from ti e lato residence on Lee street.
Rev. R L. Bivins officiated at the ser
vices and the interment took place in
Oak Grove cemetery.
Mrs. Smith’s death came late Tues
■ day afternoon at her Lee street home
1 after a week’s illness, and the news
I wlrch spread rapidly over the citv,
was a shock to her many friends. Mrs.
Smith was 68 years of age and a Vir
ginian by birth, having moved to this
city in 1895, when she was married tj
the late Mr. Smith.
Her long residence in Americus had
ghen her many associations, and her
beautiful character had endeared many
hearts in lasting friendship. Many
friends mourn the death of Mrs.
Smith, together with the relatives.
Surviving relatives are Mrs. J. P.
Waldhauser, of Savannah; step-daugh
ters, Miss Rosalie Smith and Miss
Gertrude Smith, step-son, Whit Smith,
of Colorado.
OE
ImAYSToT
I (HPISTMAS
SOUTH CHECKING
MOVEMENTS FOR
NEGROES NORTH
o «*> ■
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 6. —In an effort
to check the widespread migration of
Southern negroes to Northern labor j
fields, negro leaders and white econ- 1
omists have joined forces and at mass'
meetings which are being held gener
ally a repolnting out that no perma
nent gain awaits the average negro in
the North. It is estimated that fully
100,000 negroes already have left the
Southern states since the northward
movement began last summer.
Alluring offers of high wages and
easy work made by labor agents in all
parts of the South, appear to have met
with a general response from negroes
in all sections. Varied reasons have
been adbanved for the apparent will
ingness of so many negroes to leave
their homes.
A serious shortage of labor in the
cotton fields next spring and summer
is feared, if the exodus continues.
When the movement began several
months ago it was not viewed serious
ly, but when labor agents were suc
cessful in indusing thousands of ne- j
.groes to go North to work, employers
of labor in the South became alarmed.
Efforts were made to hamper the
agents by law. In some cities ordi
nances providing a prohibitive license
fee for such agents were passed-. Old
laws were scanned to ascertain if some
means could be found to stay the mi
gration. These efforts resulted in slight
but in the main the movement con
| tinued on a large scale.
I The negroes were brought in from
I the country and small towns to con
centration points and in many in
stances shipped north in trainload lots.
After several hundred had been col
lected at Montgomery, Ala., something:
went wrong with the agents’ plans
and the negroes were left without any
money and away from home. It was
then that the situation was first taken
seriously in Alabama.
In most cases the Southern negroes
have been placed where labor has been
scarce in the more thickly populatedl
districts. Reports of their welfare:
vary, but those which have gained the'
widest circulation in the South tell
of hardships suffered principally be- j
cause of the cold weather which the
negro as a race cannot stand. One >
report told of an old negro farmer I
v ho had sold everything he cwned I
,ut a mule and had gone north. Soon
after cold weather came his wife re
ceived this telegram: “Sell the mule
and send money to me. It’s cold and ,
I want to come home.”
MEETING IHUHSDH
1. 11. OK MUOIO
Railroad will be talked again at
9:30 o’clock Thursday morning at the
Chamber of Commerce. The proposi-.
tion of J. S. Morton, of the Georgia
l umber Co., has been made, and it is
said that a definite plan has been
agreed upon which will bring the new ’>
read to Americus.
Strictly sub rosa seems to be all the
proceedings yesterday afternoon at the
meeting wnlch had the propositions
under discussion and consideration.
The meeting Thursday is expected to
show the plan agreeable to all parties
for bringing the road here.
MR. AND MRS. BOLT AND
FAMILY RETURN TO CAROLINA
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bolt and two
daughters, Misses Lillie and Dora,
and three sons, R. T., Clyde and Clau
dia, left this afternoon for Anderson,
S. C„ where they go to make their fu
ture home. Mr. Bolt and family have
been residents of Sumter county and
have resided in the Seventeenth dis
trict for the past four years, and only
leave to return to South Carolina be
cause it is their old home, and Mr.
Bolt recently purchased a home there.
He says that there is no better soil
on earth and no better place to live in
than old Sumter.
riTv
VEDITION.fi.
F. G. OLVER HEADS SUMTER
LODGE, I. O. O. F. FOR TERJ
Sumter Lodge, No. 264, I. O. O. F
held its semi-annual election last night
the meeting being well attended, am
renewed interest being manifested b:
thote present. F. G. Olver, was chos
en eble Grand for the ensuing term
and other officers elected were 11. F
Comer, Vice Grand; S. H. Edge, Re
coding and Financial Secretarv; R
W. Buchanan, Trustee.
AMERICAN SHIP
SHELLED BI SUB.
SMS THE CHEW
NEW YORK, Dec. 6. —The steamship
John Lambert, carrying a crew of six
teen Americans and listed as an Amer
ican vessel, was shelled and sunk
without warning by a German subma
rine twenty-five miles south of. the
Isle of Wight, on November 22nd, ac
cording to members of the crew who
arrived here today on board the French
liner Epacne, from Bordeaux.
The John Lainbert, was the last of
twelve vessels built on the Great
Lakes, which the French line had
agreed to purchase, and was being tak
en to Havre for delivery to the pur
chasers when sunk according to to
day's arrivals here. Engineer Edward
Harrison of the Lambert said today
that his first knowledge of a subma
rine being in the vicinity was when a
shell was sent through the bridge of
the Lambert. The shelling continued
without intermission while the crew
were taking to the ship’s boats, state
survivors. After taking to small boats
the crew of the Lambert rowed forty
miles to the French coast, where thej
were picked up by patrol vessels.
HONOR ROLL OF PUPILS
ATTENDING THOMPSON SUHOOI
Following are the pupils who have
attained 90% in their school work in
the primary grades during the month
of November at Thompson school:
Herbert Allen, Lucille Andrews,
Robert Dozier, Charlie Dozier, Mary
Helen Thomas. Lieutishia Logan,
Nettie Mae McLendon, Annie I-aura
Salter, William Thomas, Herschel Lo
gan. Charles Rufus McLendon, Sarah
Mott, Pearl Smith, Hulda Smith, Mary
McLeod, Ella Teasley, Roy Kinard.
Thomas Kinard, Eula Brown, Tanzie
Kinard, Christine Mims, Robert Mills
L. W. Wishard.
Thompson school, one of the best in
the county, is instructed by Mrs. Os
car McLendon, and C. A. Phillips is
superintendent.
WANTED: SOME PRETTY GIRL
WILLING TO REPRESENT
ATLANTA AT BEAUTY SHOW
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 6.—“ Uncle Jim’
Woodward, Atlanta’s fore oi less well
known retiring mayor, is calling in
vain for a beautiful girl to represent
this city in the beauty contest in New
York-, where the cities of the country
will compete for the honor of queen
of the preparedness bazaar.
Mayor Woodward has asked for vol
unteers, but while the streets of At
lanta are thronged with pretty grls
so that a man can hardly walk down
I eachtrce street without getting rur
over by an automobile when he allows
his gaze to wander, none has beer
found who will enter the New Yorl
contest.
W. T. LANE GOES TO MONTICELLO
TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF SISTEI
W. T. Lane left Wednesday after
noon for his old home at Monticellc
Jasper county, where he goes to a
tend the funeral of his. sister, Mis
Minnie C. Lane, whose death occurre
at 12 o’clock Tuesday night. Miss Lan
I was in her thirty-seventh year, an
had been in delicate health most of he
life. The immediate cause of deat
vias pneumonia. Acocmpanying Mi
Lane was his sister, Mrs. W. W. Sim
mens, of Weston. The funeral wil
occur Thursday morning at Monti
cello, and the many friends of Mi
Lane and Mrs. Simmons sympathiz
with them and the family in their be
r eavemen t.
'GIRL ARRESTED
' LAST NIGRI ERB
MURDER CHARGE
♦ GRAND JURY NOW ON ♦
| f THE WALTER WADE CABK ♦
♦ When the grand jury convene* ♦
>at ? o’clock this afternoon a ♦
■t number of witnesses summoned ♦
♦ before that body in regard to tke ♦
♦ Wade case were present. It la
: > said that the grand jury has en- ♦
tered into the investigation. ♦
Subpoenas are being served and ♦
•F the recipients are coming immed- ♦
> lately for the hearing. ♦
Clara Gather Oliver, a young vo
rran known in the restricted district
of Americus as “Little Bit.” was ar
rested early last night in Atlanta, ac
cording to advices received at the tims
by the Times-Recorder. Other
cials received the news of the seventfe
arrest last night, which in part bears
cut the statements that a woman
would develop.
In Atlanta, in conversation with a
newspaper man, the Oliver woman told
a story of her life here. She said iff
Atlanta that she lived with Lois Reeves
when in Americus.
The press dispatch which tells aboafc
I her arrest, sent from Atlanta, is:
I "Miss Clara Gather Oliver, a dancet
I vias arrested here Tuesday night,
! charged with cimplicity in the killfag
'of Walter Wade, near Americus, lai
August. The local police acted on In
structions from Sheriff Harvey, of
I Americus, who in the past two dajfa
. I has caused the arrest of six men fa
several cities in connection with the
Wade murder.
“The dancer admitted that she
met Wade in Americus last summer,
' but denied having seen him on the
night he disappeared from Amerien%
' August 17th.
"Wade left Americus in his autom
: bile, after taking part in a p«ker
I game. The blood-stained machine was
found north of Americus next day.
and his body discovered with a bullet
: in the skull in the Flint river ten <fay»
later.’
j The grand jury has not touched the
| Wade case yet, according to reliable
information. Not a single subpoena
has been issued, and, of course, w
, witnesses have been summoned. The
Times-Recorder has it reliably that the
I state has prepared a list of more thaw
; fifty names, which it is expected wilt
be summoned before the grand jury.
It was expected that the case would
I occupy the attention of the grand jury
this morning, but Solicitor Jule Fcltor
was engaged in criminal cases before
I tl:e court on trial until after 11 o’clock.
'lt is said that the obsence of Officer
i Foster, who is accompanying Jofat
Etheridge here from Hot Springs, Art,
may be the cause of the delay, as Foo
ter is said to he one of the detectives
who has been on the case.
j Attorney Blalock, the first couim*#
st cured by several of the arrested par-
Jt.’es, was seen by a Times-Recorder
; representative today. “WatcMal
■ waiting," was all that Mr. Blalock tad
to say.
I Solicitor Jule Felton and Attorney
L Hixon had nothing to say.
1 Warren I. Johnson, one of the ar
. rested parties, was vtefted yesterday
! afternoon by a number of friends,
c among them being employees of the
Central of Georgia railway, for which
system Johnson is a special agent,
with a long period of service.
1 TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED
ELECTION FRAUDS IN OBI®
I,
t COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 6.— Secretaqr
s of State Hildebrandt today ordered a
d statewide investigation held concene
e ing charges of fraud and error fa tta
d recent Ohio elections. Original cob
r plaint was filed with the authorities
h by representatives of the Republican
•■ state committee.
-> DAILY WEATHER FORECAST •
■.' The weather forecast for Amer- ♦
e •> icus and vicinity follows: ♦
- ♦ Fair tonight and Thursday. <
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