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ITHIRTY-NINTH YEAR.
TO OF FOOD
CONTROL BILLS
PASSED BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C „May 29—The
administrate m's food survey bill, first
of the food control measures, was pass
ed by the house last night without a
record vote. It appropriates 14,770,000
for an immediate investigation of the
country’s food resources and for meas
ures to stimulate production. A simi
lar bill is under debate in the sen
ate and may be passed there Wednes
day.
The agriculture department expects
to present a fairly accurate estimate
of food resources within th re e weeks af
ter the bill is signed by the president.
Secretary Houston said today. As soon
as the measure becomes a law, the de
partment will start its 17,000 employees
and the 150,000 voluntary crop report
ers to work on the investigation. The
preliminary report to be made within
three weeks, will be supplemented with
monthly reports, and probably by a
further complete report within six
months, if necessary.
Material gathered will be turned over
to Herbert C. Hoover who will be nam
ed to head a food administration as
soon as the pending regulatory fool
measures become law.
The survey bill passed virtually as
it came from the committee. Miss Ran
kin, the woman representative from
Montana, inserted an amendment which
would require the department of agri
culture to use women in the survey
work whenever practicable. An
amendment by Representative McKen
zie, of Illinois, would make all per
sons employed under the bill liable to
military service and another would
permit citizens to refuse to go more
than 300 miles from their homes or
places of business to testify in a food
inquiry.
As originally drawn the bill carried
more than 18,000,000, but the commit
tee changes reduced the total. These
are the principal amounts appropriat
ed in the bill:
For seeds, $5,778,000; education for
increasing production by waste elimin
ation and conservation, $4,348,400; gen
creal survey, $2,522,000; eradication ot
live stock diseases and live stock im
provement work $885,000; miscellan
eous items. $547,400, and eradication of
plant diseases and insects, $441,000.
Many republicans, including former
Speaker Cannon, repeatedly attacked
the measure as wasteful. Chairman
Lever, of the agriculture committee,
decleared heatedly in the closing d'-
bate that they were raising a false
issue.
"It is not economy that these gen
tlemen desire to propagate that ac
counts for the opposition to the bill,"
he said. “It may be that the opposi
tion can be accounted for because • e
are carrying power in the bill to go
into storage concerns and find out who
is hoarding and who is speculating.”
The senate adopted an amendment
by Senator McKellar reducing the ap
propriation for the eradication of the
cattle tick and other live stock diseases
from $2,083,000 to $825,000. A motion
to eliminate $2,500,000 for seeds to be
sold to the farmers at cost by the de
partment of agriculture and for the
eradication of plant diseases is still
pending in the senate.
THREE AMERICUS BOYS
ENTER CAMP DEWEY
—————
Otis Physioc, Jr., Loring Smith and (
George Riley have left for New Lor
oon. Conn., to enter Camp Dewey,
where the Junior Naval Reserves of
the United States navy are to receive
instruction during the summer months.
Major W. J. Physioc, an uncle of
Otis. Jr., is the commanding officer
at the camp, which is under supervis
ion ot the federal government, and
to which appointments are made as to
the naval and military academies.
Otis J. Physioc. Sr., with his daugh
ter, Miss Jessica, and Otis, motored to
Atlanta and met Major Physioc, who
was passing through on Saturday with
a company of about 150 boys bound
for Camp Dewey.
PROPOSE TO TAX
SUGAUA, COFFEE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 29.—The
senate finance committee today agreed
to strike from the war tax bill that
section providing a general tariff in
crease of ten per cent., ad valorem, as
a substitute for the proposed consump
tion tax on sugar, tea, coffee and co
coa.
hdndTltuTents
II FURLOW SCHOOL
The award of honor certificates at
the Furlow Grammar school has been
announced by the faculty. In order to
secure an honor certificate for the
year’s work, the student must win the
mark of “Excellent” throughout the
entire year, must have no tardy nor
absent marks except for sickness.
The following students have been
granted these certificates:
First Grade, Section One—Mary Li
cile House, Virginia Moreland, Frances
Reeves, Barclay Allison, Elton Gam
mage.
First Grade, Section Two—Robert
Barnett, Frank Buchanan, Coney Oli
ver, Teresa Daniel, Martha Duncan,
Louise Hegwood, Ruth Hightower, An
nie Turpin, Sam Heys, Jr .
Second Grade, Section One —Ruth
Brady, Doryth Fetner. Mildred Hines,
Helen Hosselton, Lottie Livingston,
Mary Will Stevens, Janette Slappey,
Daniel Everette.
Second Grade, Section Two —Eliza-
beth Andrews, Mary Harris, Bartha
Sawyer, Frances Warlick, John Alli
son. Charles Davis, Laney McMath,
Forrest Nicholson, V. P. Young.
Third Grade, Section One—Massie
Lane, Nelle Prance, Charlie Mae Sieg,
Henry M. Coleman.
Third Grade, Section One —Louise
Reeves, Lucile Sumerford, John Ca
ruthers, Anthony Council, Robert Cul
pepper, Jake deßruyne. James McDan
iel, John Edgar Sheppard, Frame
Weaver.
Fourth Grade, Section One —Mildred
Clark, Willa Sanborn, Florence Stev
ens, George Oliver, Melvin Tye.
Fourth Grade, Section Two—Joe
I'oole, Dora Riley, Alice Harrold.
Fourth Grade, Section Three —Louise
Ellis, Thelma Lansford, Virginia Nich
elson.
Fifth Grade, Section One. —Ruth Ev
erette, Ann Heys. Mary Elizabeth Eas
terlin.
' Fifth Grade. Section Two —Claire
Harris, Mary Glover, Christine Brown,
Sara Margaret Culpepper, Mary Earl?
Allen.
Sixth Grade. Section One— Lena
Mayo. Mildred Warlick.
Seventh Grade, Section One —Eliza-
beth Sheffield.
Seventh Grade, Section Two—Cath
erine Sanborn.
Prospect Heights School, First Grade
—Douglas Tye. Caroline Mathis.
Prospect Heights School. Third
Grade—-Lillian Cannon, Elizabeth
Smith, Ruby Johnson, Frances Belcher.
East Americus School, First Grade
—Rachael Carruthers, Nannie Claire
Speer, James Wheeler.
East Americus School, Second Grade.
—Lizzie May Gammage. Anton de-
Bruyne.
ARCTIC EXPLORERS
SAFEJNJREENLAND
NEW YORK. May 29.—Donald Mac-
Millan and other 1 members of the
Crockerland expedition which went
into the Arctic circle during 1913, and
have not been heard from in months,
are all safe in Greenland, according to
a message received by the American
Museum of Natural history here to
day„
♦ SENATE TO I SE SHARP STICK ♦
♦ GOING AFTER FOOD SHARKS *■
+ ♦
♦ WASHINGTON. D. C-. May 29. ♦
♦ —The senate agricultural commit- ♦
♦ tee today directed the immediate ♦
♦ consideration of legislation de- ♦
signed to prevent the storage of •
♦ food by speculators. *■
RECRUITING OFFICE FOR AMERICUS LIGHT INFANTRY IS NOW OPEN IN THIS CITY—THE NATION CALLS
AMERICUSTIMFS-RECDROER
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
GERMAN AGENTS
THY TO HINDER
REGISTRATION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 29.—Ger
man influence combating army regis
tration has been uncovered by a Texas
grand jury and already resulted in
the return of indictments against 11
of the alleged conspirators. The de
fendants have not yet all been taken
into custody.
Arrests are being made in other cit
ies of persons not so closely connect
ed with German influences in this
country, but who, nevertheless, are
being closely watched by agents of
the department of justice. Some of the
evidence uncovered in these investiga
tions discloses efforts being made to
arraign certain cities in the west in
opposition to the draft, but seemingly
there is no connection between these
propagandists, such as to indicate an
organized effort.
Attorney General Gregory today rec
ognized the situation officially, giving
out a statement for publication, con
taining details of the Texas operations
of the alleged conspirators. In this
statement, the attorney general says
the Texas organization, formed osten
sibly to promote co-operative buying,
has for its real purpose the intimida
tion of persons eligible for compul
sory military service under the select
ive conscription law’. The statement
concludes with the assertion that the
federal government will prosecute all
of the deefndants vigorously.
GENERAL MANAGER OF
SEABOARD HAS RESIGNED
NORFOLK, Va„ May 29. —General
Manager C. D. Lake, of the Seaboard
Air Line railway, has resigned. Presi
dent Harahan announces that the res
ignation is for personal reasons, Mr.
Lake’s services having been in every
way satisfactory.
NEGRO ARRESTED ON
CHARGE OF LARCENY
Lindsey Wiley, a negro, is in jail
awaiting trial on a charge of simple
larceny, the alleged offense consisting
of the theft of a quantity of cotton
seed from W. A. Chappell in the 17tn
district of this county.
Wiley was arrested last night by
Sheriff Lucius Harvey.
"SERGEANT MAJOR” IS
BACK MR ARREST
“Sergeant-Major” A. B. i’arks re
turned to Americus today in custody
ci' Sheriff Charles Christian, of Web
ster county, having been arrested in
Preston this morning at the request
cf Sheriff Lucius Harvey of this city.
He is charged with jumping his hotel
til] at the Windsor, where he register
id on Friday last, claiming to be a
member of the 19th infantry, U. S. A.
Parks declared that he was about to
give a demonstration here of a ma
chine gun of special construction and
on Monday, bororwed a saddle horse
from Lawson Stapleton to make a trip
to the country. He left the horse at
the livery stable of J. B. Clark, in
Plains, and walked to Preston, where
he was arrested this morning. He will
be given a chance to explain his posi
tion.
On being arrested by Sheriff Christ
ian, Parks confessed that he is a
member of the Fifth Georgia regimeni,
now encamped in Atlanta, his cor-
YOUNG MAN:
ARE YOU GOING TO THE WAR EXCUSES THAT ARE AC
CEPTED TODAY WON’T BE VERY CONVINCING 20 YEARS FROM
NOW.
SEE THE RECRUITING OFFICER FOR THE AMERICUS
LIGHT INFANTRY’ AND CLAIM A RIFLE.
THE MAN WITH THE RIFLE IS THE SOLDIER PAR EXCEL
LENCE. ALL OTHERS SERVE HIM- IF THE BATTLE IS TO BE WON
HE WINS IT.
THE AMERIUUS LIGHT INFANTRY.
Co. I, 2ad Ga. Inf.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1917
♦ COUNT JULIAN ANDRASSY *
♦ NEW HUNGARIAN PREMIER ♦
♦ ZURICH, Switzerland, May 29. *
♦ —An official message from Buda- *
♦ pest, received today, says Count ♦
4- Julius Andrassy has been appoint- *
*■ ed premier of Hungary. ♦
NEITOFFM
IN FRANCE MAY
BEGIN JHDBILY
NEW YORK, May 29.—(Compiled by
Associated Press from European ca
bles during the day.)—While the only
important activity in the war zone to
day is confined to the Italian front,
where General Cadorna is steadily
pushing forward, there are outstanding
indications that the present stagnation
on the western front may soon be in
terrupted.
Berlin also officially reports that th<
Germans expect attacks by Russian
and Rumanian forces momentarily.
Tn the west there is unusual aerial
activity. Paris reports that during
last night and today nineteen German
airplanes were brought down, and
twenty-two others damaged.
The French today made a small
thrust in the Verdun sector where the
Teutons began active operations dur
ing yesterday.
PLAYING BASEBALL
ONINESTEBN FRONT
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, May 29.—The baseball sea
son on the western battlefront is al
ready under way, and much interest
in the current games is manifested. In
the shadow of Vimy Ridge, the recent
scene of such sanguinary fighting two
Canadian teams of a well-organized
league played a game yesterday on a
diamond in xyhich shell holes had been
filled, while half a mile away Ger
man shells exploded and airplanes
hummed busily overhead. A rough
grandstand held many officers, includ
ing one general during the progress ■ i
the game. Canadian troops already
here are anxious for the first Ameri
can contingent to land, so that they j
can have inter-league games.
COUNTY HSSESSDBS
BEGIN THEIR WORK
The board of assessors for Sumter
county has begun its operations far
1917, and the work of fixing the val
uation of property throughout this
ccnunty will probably continue for a
month. The assessors have their head
quarters in the courthouse.
The members of the board this year
are: E. 1 . Bell. K. T. Mathis and F. A.
Wilson. Sr .
.. -——— -————————
rect name being Arthur H. Parks. The
commanding officer of his company, he
says, is Capt. Hal Morrison. Parks,
while not yet technically a deserter, is
absent without leave, and is subject
to trial in a summary court.
Mr. Stapleton, in loaning Parks the
saddle horse, was under the impress
ion that the soldier was a friend of his
son, Frank Stapleton, who is at pres
ent attending the officers’ training
camp at Fort McPherson.
NEGROES BEATEN
AND THBEATENED
BI FIERCE MOB
EAST ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 29.—A
great mob which swept through East
St. Louis late last night and early
oday, beating,many negroes into insen
sibility, had been dispersed at noon
but officials are in hourly dread of an
other outbreak, and the situation con
tinues critical.
There was a public meeting in the
city council auditorium last night tn
hear protests against forthur importa
tions of Southern negroes to take the
places of strikes in this section. It
became rumored at the meeting that
several white women had been insulted
by negroes and that two white men
had been held up and abused by ne
groes, and this quickly determined the
will of the already empassioned as
semblage.
Leaving the auditorium, the crowd
hurried to the negro section of the
city, where every house was searched
and every armed negro caught was
badly beaten, one of these being dan
gerously hurt. A few negroes found in
their own homes unarmed, and who
ouickly opened their doors to the mob
outside, escaped injury, while hun
dreds of others sought safety by hid
ing in old wells, in cellars and along
the river bank, where the under
growth afforded hiding places.
Shortly after the rioting began, an
official order signed by the mayor re
quired the immediate closing al all sa
loons in the city, but police authorities
found difficulty in enforcing this until
today. The sale of whiskey is still
prohibited by this order, and the bet
ter element of citizens are assisting in
the effort to restore order. It is esti
mated that BXIOO Southern negroes
have recently been imported here, and
last night's riot is but the outcome of
disturbances which began with their
arrival.
The mayor late today ordered the
sale of arms and ammunition stopped,
and it became known that four com
panies of guardsmen have been order
ed here to assist in preserving order
tonight. The city is quiet this after
noon, but the mayor announced he
would requests railroad authorities not
to bring any more negroes to this
city for the present, and employers are
urged not to import others, because
of the threatening situation.
MORE FOOD CROPS IN
GBIINH THAN 3EFORE|
That Sumter county will this year •
produce more food and forage crops [
than ever before in its history, is i
claimed by parties who have just com-j
pitted a careful investigation of agri- ■
cultural conditions throughout the
county.
The cotton acreage has been reduced
about 20 per cent, from that of 191’5
and the acreage devoted to corn has
been greatlx augmented. Peanuts and
vt Ivct beans have sprung into immense |
popularity with th farmers of Sumte.’l
county and the revenue from these two
crops will amount to a handsome sum.
The production of meat in this coun -
ty this season will also show a decided
increase over any previous year, while
the watermelon crop promises to bring
in gratifying returns. The acreage in [
watermelons this year amounts to [
about 500 acres in the ciunty as a
whole, while canteloupes are also on“
of the prominent early money crops.
The reduction in cotton acreage and
the great, increase in food and for
age crops is taken by the agricultural I
authorities to mean that Sumter coun- [
ty as a whole has taken to heart the'
warnings of the federal and state ex
perts, who have urged diversified farm '
ing as the only remedy for the boll
weevil.
-Welfare” is Hated Word.
LONDON, May 29. —At a conference’.
i> discuss industrial welfare work, Miss
Mary Macarthur stated that in a lares
number of factories there was no
word more hated than the word "wel
fare.”
WOULD HAVE BRAZIL
TAKE POSITIVE STANB
RIO DE JANERIO. Brazil, May 29.
The seizure of interned German ships
at Brazilian ports and the adoption of
naval operations against Germany are
recommended by’ a diplomatic commis
sion of the chamber of deputies, to
which was referred the message ff
President Braz regarding the sinking
-of the Brazilian steamship Tijuca.
cosimTWILL
OCCUR OJUUNE M
The annual convention of the Sun
day schools of the Friendship Baptist
i association will be held on June sth
and t'lh at Rehoboth church, about
, four miles west of Americus.
This occasion promises to be one of
extreme interest to the Sunday school
i workers of the association and a large
, attendance of delegates is expected.
I Dinner will be served on the ground
. each day and a cordial invitation has
. been extended to Sunday school work
, ers in this section to attend.
, The program for the tw’o-day gath
, ering is as follows;
Tuesday, June 5: 9:45 a. m.. De
. votional, Rev. Edward Dupree; 10:15
. a m„ Welcome, J. E. D. Shipp; 10:30
. a. m., “The Modern Sunday School,”
Geo. W. Andrews; 11 a. in., Sermon,
Rev. E. D. Warnock. Dinner. 1:45 p.
I
m., Devotional; 2:00 p. m., Enrollment
and Organization; 2:15 p. m„ Address,
Geo. W. Andrews; 2:45 p. m., "The
!
! Teachers’ Preparation,” Rev. George F.
I Brown. Open meeting.
Wednesday, June 6: 9:30 a. m., De
votional; 10:00 a. m., “The Training
Department of the Church,” Frank M.
Leavell; 10:45 a. m., “The Efficient
, Sunday School.” T. F. Gate wood; 11:15
. a. m., “The Adult Department,” Rev.
Lansing Burrows. Dinner. 1:45 p.m..
Devotional; 2:00 p. m., “B. Y. P. U. and
the Country Churches,” F. M. Leavell;
! 2 45 p. m., “Associational Organiza
■ tion for Sunday School Work,” R. L.
Maynard; "For B. Y. P. IT. Work,” F.
W. Dupree.
< akranza congressmen
WILL BOOST OWN SALARIES)
MEXICO CITY. May 29.—Taking in [
to consideration the high cost of living I
and other things as well, a number of
I the members of congress have started
I a movement to increase their salaries
i June 1. A bill shortly will be intro
j uuced increasing the salary of a depu
ty from sixteen and a half pesos a day[
to twenty’ pesos.
Derby Hats Going Out in England.
LONDON, May 29.—Derby hats arei
i gradually giving way to the soft felt!
I and other neglige type of hat owing to j
• the Ministry of Munitions being un-1
I willing to grant supplies of wire which |
fare used in brims of the hard felt, or |
i derby hat.
AMERICAN SCHOONER !
SUBMARINE VICTIM
NEW YORK. May 29.—The Ameri-i
can schooner Margaret Rouss, which I
sailed several weeks ago from St. An-|
drew’s Bay, Fla., for Genoa, with a car-j
’ ■ go of lumber, has been sunk by a Ger-.
■ man submarine. The members of the[
j crew were robbed of all their personal I
'belongings by members of submarine'
1 crew and then set adrift in open boats
Capt. Foote, who has just landed at
a European port, told of the expert-1
ences of the crew, including the rob-
Ibery practiced by the Germans.
—_—_
* BR AZIL’S ACTION I RE ATES ♦
]♦ A VIRTUAL STAT EOF WAR *
WASHINGTON. D. C„ May 29. ♦
| ♦ —Brazil’s decision to revoke the
?♦ government’s decree of neutrality ♦
[♦ in the war between the United *
~♦ States and Germany, is construed * t
[♦ here as little less than a decla- ♦
ration of a state of war with the ♦ |
♦ latter country. ♦
[♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
I I
CSXY
TORNADO DEATH
[IST GROWS AS
NEWS COMES IN
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 29.—Revises
reports from the sections of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Arkansas and Alabama,
swept by a series of tornadoes Sunday,
place the number known to have lost
their lives at 175, and the injured t<>
approximately 550.
The storm death list in Alabama in
creased today to fifty, with seventeen
known dead in Tennessee. Wire con
ditions in these states and Kentucky
continue still so interrupted until re
ports from the devastated sections are
considered incomplete.
Southwestern Kentucky, reports so
far received indicate, paid the heav
iest toll in lives lost. In Fulton coun
ty, the southwestern tip of the state,
sixty-six persons were killed and more
than 100 injured.
In Alabama, the mining towns of
Sayre, Bradford and Carbon Hill re
ported forty-six fatalities, and in Ten
nessee, Tipton, Dyer and Carroll coun
ties reported thirty-four dead.
The property damage in Alabama
was estimated at about $1,000,000. No
accurate estimate of the monetary
loss in the other states is available this
afternoon. Wire communication is still
badly crippled.
The town of Clinton, where twenty
live persons were killed and seventy
five injured, reported the greatest loss
of life in Kentucky. Sixteen were kill
ed on the plantation of Syd Dodd, near
Hickman, and thirteen persons lost
their lives in the vicinity of Bondurant.
Os the known dead in Alabama,
where the storm struck widely sepa
rated towns, the area extending from
Huntsville to Tuscaloosa, the majority
lost their lives in small mining settle
ments about Birmingham. Bradford,
ere of the mining camps, reported
twenty-six dead.
In Mississippi county, Arkansas, ten
were killed.
Dyer county suffered the largest loss
of life in Tennessee. Near Dyersburg
seven were killd and forty injured.
Other Tennessee towns reported cas
i ualties, among these being Cates Lake,
[Trezevant, Ore Springs, Sharon, Lin
jdtn and Barkertown.
I
•NATIONAL BABY WEEK”
BEING ORGANIZED IN LONDON
LONDON. May 2V. —A "National Ba
by Week” is being organized through -
’out the country under the auspices of
’ the local government board. The ob
! ject is to arouse a sense of responsi-
I b.’lity in every citizen and secure the
[ t est possible conditions for the grow’h
I cf infants.
j Baby shows will be held everywhere,
| there will be prizes for babies who
ihavc been regular attendants at infant
|-a cite re centers and have made the
, best, progress in a given time, and
[prizes for the best exhibit in perambu
lator parades. •
[TRYING SUIT FDR
■GES OF
The case of H. O. Johnson, et al., vs.
[ S H. Kress & Company, occupied
I the entire forenoon of today's session
I of Superior court, and not until after
[court convened at 2 o’clock did the
jury receive the case to deliberate up
on a verdict.
The action is brought to recove
damages to the amount of $2,000 for
injuries received by the late wife of
the plaintiff.
Mrs. Johnson, whose death occurrel
some few months ago, slipped and fell
ii the Kress store in Americus more
than a year ago. suffering a disloca
tion of the left hip. Not long after
this accident, Mrs. Johnson died and
her husband filed suit against the
Kress Company for damages, alleging
that the accident proved to be one of
the causes of her death.
j No verdict had been rendered when
the Times-Recorder went to press to
day.
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