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DAILY
Ms tTT-NINTH YEAR.
0. 5. SOIOIEBS
ARE WILED IN
THE TRENCHES
AMEBIC AN ARTILLERY ACTIVE ON
FRENCH FRONT AND BELIEVED
TO HAVE CONSIDERABLY DAM
AGED GERMANS.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Nov. 14. —(Delayed in trans
mission.) —A number of American sol
diers have been killed as the result of
recent shelling of the American
trenches by the Germans. One shell
which exploded directly above a
trench, resulted in a number of cas
ualties.
The American artillery fire has been
heavy for several days past, and there
is i?ood reason to believe it has ac
count d for a considerable number of
the enemy.
John W .Foster Dead.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 157—John
W. Foster, former United States min
ister to China and dean of the Ameri
can diplomatic Jorps, died here today.
Death followed a long illness, the im
mediate cause being asthma. Foster
was the father-in-law of Secretary
Imnsing of the state department.
Pershing Reports on Operations.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15.
A revised report from Gen. Pershing
today on the German raid on Ameri
can trenches, November 2, puts the
number killed at three, wounded elev
on and the missing eleven. The list
of those killed remains as transmitted
in earle r reports.
GERMANSADVANGE
ON IM FRONT
official communication says
TH AT THE TEUTON FORCES ARE
ON THE ITALIAN MOUNTAIN
FRONT.
BERLIN, Nov. 15. —German troops
on the mountain front in Italy, are
advancing today from Fonseca to Fel
tree, says an official communication
issued by lhe war office.
SEORBIA MASONS TO
HAVE HOME HI CAMP
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 15. —Letters re- i
ceived in Atlanta tell an interesting
story of a Masonic banquet held
■’Somewhere in France” by the Masonic j
members of the Seventeenth regiment
I of Engineers, which was organized in
] this city.
The banquet was held in a “bouv-
E ette” on the edge of a French village,
[ and was attended by 150 Masonic engi
neers. representing twenty-seven dis- •
fcrent states. The menu enclosed in
the letter reads quite temptingly, al
! though if consists entirely of French
'■dishes.
As is generally known, the supreme
lodge of the Masons’ Annuity, a benefit
order for Masons only, is located in
Atlanta, and for many years has beoyj
doing a great work for the widows
anu orphans of deceased members. It
’ is the oldest organization of its kind in
America, wth a record of substant’il
service unique in the annals of Ml-i
sonic history. It has paid beneficia-,
ries approximately one million dollars
land its present assets are more than a
F million dollars. Edwards P- Burns,t
one of the best known Masons in the
South is superintendent of the organ
ization department.
Masos in Atlanta have received with
great satisfaction the recent order bv
Secretary Bake r permitting the estab
lishment of Masonic recreation halls
in national army training camps. Geor
gia Masons are preparing to build a
’ large and commodious hall in the im
mediate future at Camp Gordon, the 1
cantonment near Atlanta, an approp-1
riation for the purpose having recent
ly been made at the session of the
Grail'd Lodge, held in Macon.
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
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PETROGRAD 5110
TO BE IN FLAMES
TRAVELLERS ARRIVING LN STOCK
HOLM REPORT THAT THE CITY
IS UNDERGOING GREAT'CONFLA-
G RATION.
LONDON, Nov. 15. —According to
press reports from Stockholm, travel
ers who arrived yesterday evening at
Haharanda, Sweden, from Finland, say
rumors are current there that Petro
grad is in flames. It is impossible,
however, to confirm the report from
other sources.
2,000 Killed at Moscow.
LONDON, Nov. 15. —Two thousand
persons have been killed in street
fighting in Moscow up to noon Tues
day, according to reports brought by
travelers from the Russo Swedish bor
der arriving here today.
10 INFODMniION
FROM PETROGRAD
WORLD IS WITHOUT OFFICIAL
NEWS OF EVENTS TRANSPIRING
IN RUSSIAN CAPITAL IN LAST
TWO DAYS.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 15.--
Government authorities here are still
without further official advices from
Russia today. The last of these mes
sages, reec’ved Saturday, were dated
November Sth, and recorded events
far behind those telegraphed here in
> vs dispatches at that. time.
Ambassador Francis, it is believed,
is entirely safe, and no anxiety is
entertained regarding other members
of the American embassy at the Rus
s’an capital.
No Report Issued Today.
LONDON, Nov. 15.—-Word was again
received by wireless from Petrograd
today that no report from Russian
army headquarters had been issued.
R.T. Hawkins is
Local Attorney
For These Roads
Mr. Robert T. Hawkins, local coun
sel for both the Seaboard Air Line ani
the Central of Georgia, is being con
tinued in those offices by the rail
roads.
Mr. Hawking is also an applicant
for division counsel for the Central of
Georgia and district counsel for the
Seaboard, which offices were held for
many years by his late father, Col. E.
A. Hawkins. Pending announcement
of a permanent appointment, Mr.
Hawkins is carrying on the work of
representing the railroads here, as
hi s father had done. There are sev
eral other applicants for the places.
Regardless of what disposition is
made of the division and district
attorneyships for the railroads, Mr.
Hawkins will remain as local counsel
for both.
RIVER IS SWITCHED
TO BOILS ftEHO DOME
LONDON, Nov. 15.—The opening
this week of a large new aerodrome
at Hanworth Park, near London, martts
the completion of engineering work
i which involved the dellecton under
ground for a distance of nearly a mile;
of the Wolsey river. The streaii
intersected the field selected for thte
main landing ground of the aerodroipe
and impeded the landing of aircraft
there. To remove this defect, the
engineers constructed a conduit, cap
able of carding 27,000,000,000 gallons
of water daily, into which the stream
has now been diverted, and its bed
leveled to -ive an unbroken surface
for the aerodrome. The size of the
conduit was su(4i that before the river
was diverted fifty soldiers marched
upright through the underground way.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 15, 1917
ITALIANS CAPTUHE YOUNG ANO OLD AUSTRIANS
Hsw;.Tt •
rar y
Variety of types of Austrian prisoners captured by the Italians in their
drive before the reversal. The youngster in the center of this photograph
looks to be no more than fifteen.
AMERICANS RAIDED
TRENCH UNO IMPOSE
REVERGE DN GER® |
I
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE. Nov. 15. -American intantrv.
men exacted a t art revenge for a
trench raid during a recent night by
ambushing a large German .patrol in
Nc Man’s Land, kill'ng or wounding
a number of the enemy.
The American patrol, in which there
was some Frenchmen, arranged the
ambuscade ”ear the German lines on a
shell-ruined farm.
After lying in the mud nearly all
night the patience of the watchers was
rewarded by the sight of a large Ger
man patrol of the Franco-Americans.
Trapped the Germans.
The Germans were permitted to pass. I
when the Americans and French oni
their flank, opened a hot fire from I
shell craters and other shelters where]
they were secure. The German were j
taken complctly by surprise, and bolt- ]
ed, carryin ■• with them men who had |
been hit.
The number of dead and wounded,
Germans i s ' uncertain, but none of •
the men in ambush was hit by the I
bullets the Germans later sent in from j
a distance There were congratulations'
all around when the Americans and|
French re-entered their trenches.
During the last two nights the Ger
mans have continuously used machine
guns in the direction'' of the American I
line. Sniping is becoming more ac- j
five on both sides. American sharp ]
shooters are warking close to the Ger-.
man lines, especially when the nights '
are clear.
The activity of enemy snipers thus 1
far has resulted in one American
causalty. A non-commissioned officer]
was hit in the head and killed.
i,
TECH AND PITTSBURG |
TO HAVE GREAT GfflE
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 15 - Al a meet-i
tug of the Georgia Tech faculty late i
yesterday the way was cleared for;
.the Tech football elevent to meet the j
Pittsburg University team in a lied i ■
Cross benefit game to be played >
November 24th. The place the game ]
will be placed 's yet to be selected, j
but. it is expected, will be either New |
York <>r Philadelphia.
No Change in Prices.
WASHINGTON. D| C., Nov. 15.
Coke prices, heretofore fixed by the
fuel admflnistrat'ion. will not be
changed, it was announced today, tin i
less producers establish their conten I
tion that, the cost of production is now
such as to justify alteration of the '.
existing schedule of prices.
ALL THE NEWS OF AMERICUS AND SI MTER COUNTY
“ THE LIVES T LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA"
< MISS PAPPENHEIM ♦
♦ TO HEAD DAUGHTERS. ♦
♦ •*-
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.. Nov. ♦
I ♦ 15. Mss Mary Peppenheim, of >
i * Charleston, S. C., was unanim- >
i ♦ ously elected president general of 4
I ♦ the Daughters of the Confederacy ♦
♦ here today. +
♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
PROMOTIONS GIVEN
TWO AMERICUS BOYS
' NOW AT MACON CAMP
l
Promotions are the order of the day
for Americus boys who are serving in
I the army.
; Yesterday it was announced that
i John C. Holst and Harry Hawkins had
: been advanced. The latest now to be
I put up to higher grades are J. E. B.
McLendon and B. C. Hogue.
i Lieutenant McLendon has been ad
; vanced to a captaincy and transferred
I from the Americus company to head
quarters company of the 121st Infantry
; stationed at Camp Wheeler. B. C.
J Hogue has been made a first lieutenant
I and is canteen officer of the regiment.
| The>'r many friends will be delighted
! to hear of their rise.
I
BRAZILIANS LOCATE
| GERMAN SHIP PARTS
SANTOS, Brazil. Nov. 15.—Pieces of
machinery removed from German ships
: in Brazilian harbors before these vas-
I se's were recently requisitioned by the
government, and amounting to ten ton,
<:f metal alto-ether, have been discov
]ered by police agents here. The parts
I v ill be recovered immediately, it is>
| stated and replaced upon the former
I German ships from which they were
removed by the crews.
H AW RONS MAN KILLED
IN AUTOMOBILE A( (TDENT
• I
WAYCROSS, Ga., November 15, — I
j While going to Douglas last night t<>:
iiit’end the Coffee county fair, Dan \.
I Hudspeth, one of the most prominent
! and popular men in Waycross, was
] Celled when the automobile in which
Ihe wa s r’ding ran down an embank
ment six miles east of Nichols and
turned over. Three ladles accompli
anying Mrs. Hudspeth. Mrs. Joe Soyar
and Mrs. Ralph Sessians. all brides oi ■
this year.
* WEATHER FORECAST. ♦
I, I ♦
CONTINUED FAIR TODAY*,
* AND TOMORROW. *
AGGIES IIS. LANIER
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
LEADING FOOTBALL GAME OF THE
SEASON LOCALLY WILL BE
FLAYED HERE TOMORROW AT
THREE O’CLOCK.
The season's stellar football event
locally, will be played here tomor
row afternoon at three o’clock, when
the Aggies meet the Lanier High
school eleven from Macon.
The Lanier team is claiming the
state prep championship, and is bring
ing its strongest line-up here. How
ever, the Aggies are in their best, form
and a close game is expected. Coach
Dan Chappell has had the boys work
ing out every afternoon, and they are
in their best trim.
The game will start promptly at
three o’clock.
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PILE SHE BEATEN
BRITISH CAPTURE FIFTEEN
THOUSAND PRISONERS AND
CONTROL ROAD FROM BEERSHE
BA TO JERUSALEM.
LNDON, Nov. 15. The junction
point of the Damascus-Beersheba rail
way line with the line leading to Jeru
salem is naw in possession of the
British army in Palestine. This is
officially announced today.
The statement further says the re
treating Turks lost fifteen hundred
men taken prisoners, over four hun
dred dead, fou r guns and more than a
score of machine ?uns during Tues
day’s fighting.
.a*
BEAVERS KOT LIKELY
h TO RESIGN IS CHIEF
j ATLANTA. Ga.. Nov. 15.—James 1,.]
j Beavers, reinstated chief of the At- •
lanta police department, is not going i
' to pay any attention to the board of j
police comm’ssioners if they ask him
to resign in ninety days, according to'
some political observers who declare i
the commissioners were a lot >f j
chumps to th’nk he would.
Before they put him back into the'
office from which he was fired for.
closing, the red I’ght district, the board '
of police commissioners got a signed :
agreemenet from Beavers that he I
would resign in ninety days if a ma-1
jority of the board requested him to do :
so. Evidently they thought they were I
paving the way to slip the skids under-:
neath him, o r else they wouldn’t have (
gone to the trouble of getting the
agreement.
Now it develops that Beavers can ■
disregard the agreement and give the;
board the merry laugh, if he’s so a ,
mind to. and they can't do anything.
but humor the joke by claimin'-’ they ]
are satisfied to keep him as ch>ef. ■
The politicians opposed to the rein-!
statement e??press the hope that Beav
ers will be asked to resign, and will.
refuse, because they regard the agree
ment as a nice little joke on the police
cimmissioners.
A chief of police, or a patrolmen ]
walking a beat, is protected by the i
civil service rules of the department, i
He cannot be discharged without a'
'.trial, and he cannot be tried without i
I written charges are sworn to. Hence
jit appears that the board will have no
| power to compel Chief Beavers to re-.
Is’gn if he takes a notion to hold the;
ijob.
Stripes To Show Service.
I?>NDON. November 15.—Brit'eh
soldiers who have served in the great,
war will henceforth bear a distinctly.'
mark of their service on their uniform
The war office announces that chevron'
I stripe will be immediately issued to]
j every soldier who serves overseas in i
ja theatre of war. Soldiers whose]
I service dates back to 1914 will he!'
.given a red chevron, and a’.iuse whose
I service began after that year will get ■
ja. blue stripe. An additional blue
j stripe will be added for each aggre
j gate of twelve months’ service. The
new stri; es will be worn by officers
as well as privates.
JUNES ANO PERSONS
WILL FIGHT IT OUT
IN THE CONVENTION
COLUMBUS, Ga., Niv. 15.—Garland
M. Jones, of Coweta county, candi
date for congress to succeed Hon. W.
C Adamson, will go into the Fourth
Congressional district convention at
Greenville next Thursday, tied with
A. P. Persons, the Newnan candidate
having received eight vote 9 as a re
sult of the primary that was staged
yesterday. Jones carried Coweta, 4
votes; Heard, 2 votes, and Troup 2
votes. A. P. Persons, of Talbot coun
ty, won an unusual victory when be
carried a county north of the moun
tains, Meriwether going for him by
about 75 majority over a Meriwether
man, Charles L. Davis. Persons car
ried Talbot and Harris, also securing
eight votes.
Lucius H. Chappell, of Muscogee,
carried this county, securing six votes.
His majority was only 300, with Per
sons next. Sid Holderness, of Car
roll, carried his own county, with
Jones second, going into the conven
tion with four votes.
G. J. Dunham carried Marion, nis
home county and Chattahoochee bi
comfortable majorities, w>th Persons
second in each county. He gets four
votes. Davis i s the only candidate
who did not receive a convention vote.
Before next Thursday, when the con
vention is held in Greenville, Meri
wether county, the chairman of the
county executive committee will ap-1
point delegates. A hot convention is
expected.
LLOMIIfIJF IS
IIIJIN UNDER FIRE
ENGLISH PREMIER IS FA( ING THE
CRISIS OF HIS CAREER E.NG
LAND NOT PLEASED WITH HIS
I’OEKTES.
LONDON, Nov. 15.—Premier Lloyd-
I George explained to the house of
'•ommons yesterday that the inter-al
llied council, the establishment of
' which was arranged for at the re-1
i< ert conterence of British, French and
'ltalian representatives would have no;
executive power. He said final decis
ion in regard to matters of strategy I
and the distribution and movement cf ■
armies would rest with the several
gov the allies.
The new council. Mr. Lloyd-Gefirge
.■-.lid, would be chadn ed with the duty
cf surveying continuously the field of i
operations as a whole in the light of
information derived from all the gov-1
ernments’ and staffs, also of co-ordi-j
nating plans and making plans of its
own, if necessary, for the better co
duct of the war.
Premier Lloyd-George, o his re-j
turn fro htnsi hurried trip to consult
and hearten Great Britain's ally, Italy,
finds himself face to face with tho
shai pest crisis of hi s career as prime
minister. The crisis is onel which
may result possibly n a vote of want
of confidence by parlament, which
would be followed automatically by his
resignation.
No action taken by any British gov
ernment since the beginning of the
war has caused such a maelstrom of
criticism, speculation and symptoms
of uneasiness as the announcement of
formation of an international war
council, composed of cabinet minis
ters of Great Britain, France and
Italy, with a military committee rep
resenting the three nations, which lat
tei is to be n constant session at
Versailles.
The questions being asked are
whether it will bring effective con
trol of the '-ampaign and particularly
how fa" t ie new military trinity will
supersede or overlap the management
of British operations by the general
staff.
Bond Payments Due.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 15 -
The regular installment payment on
the second issue of Liberty bonds
amounting to eighteen per cent, of the
face value of the securities became
due today at federal reserve bank.’,,
and by tonight th e government, ex
pects-to add at least $6X5,000,000 to
its credit.
CI i v
EDITION
81l CAPTURES
Clll OF OJIIIGI
•
MEXII AN TDOOPS ( ROSS THE RIO
GRANDE TO ESCAPE THE BANDIT
and SURRENDER TO AMERICAN
TROOPS.
PRESIDIO, Tex., Nov. 15. —Villa
forces are today in possession cf Ojin.
aga, Mexico, having captured the town
last night, afte r a battle lasting two
hours, with federal troops, who finally
fled to the American side, surrender
ing to United States troops at the
border.
Fighting began early yesterday
morning at Ofcinaga, the first assault
I of the Villaistag being repulsed by the
federal#, after which it was officaily
reported the bandits withdrew. They
returned, however, about dark and re
newed the battle, finally routng the
I defenders.
1 It was estimated this afternoon hr
the Mexican consul here that more,
than two hundred had been killed on
I both sides. The government forces
suffered the heaviest losses because of
their wounded being 'executed when
ever left behind.
PINGHOT RESIGNS
HIS FEDERAL JOB
HAS DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
"ITH FOOD ADMINISTRATION
OVER QUESTION OF TAKING
OVER MEAT INDUSTRY.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 15.
The resignations of Gifford Pincbot
'and E. C. Lassiter, the Texa a cattle
raiser, have been accepted as mem
. hers of. the food administraton or
ganzaton. They had been serving a*
voluntary aids to Herbert Hoover.
• The resignations were tenderer!, it
is explained, because of differences
with food administration officials as
to t’./w the meat situation should be
handled. I’inchot and Lassiter both
contended that the packing industry
phould be taken over and operated by
the government, and that the cotton
seed crop should be taken by the gov
ernment so that <x>tton seed
cake might, be ..old to cattle-raisers
at low prices.
G. P. HAMMOND TO
BE BURIED TOMORROW
After a long illness, ('has. P. Ham
mond. a former resident of Americus,
but for seevral years a leading, figure
in railroad circles in Atlanta, d’ed at
his home in the Byrom Apartment-,
212 West Peachtree street, Wednesday
morning.
Mr. Hammond was born in Mobile,
Ala., on October 18, 1856. Friday
morning the body will be brought to
Americus, his old home, for funeral
and interment, which will take place
Friday afternoon. Hi s remains will be
laid to rest beside two of his children
who are buried in Oak Grove cemetery
here.
Mr. Hammond ! s survived by his
wife, formerly Miss Cornelia More
land. of Mobile, to whom he was mar
ried October 10, 1888. Three sons, W.
P. Hammond, of Atlanta, connected
with the Georgia Railway and Power
Cp.; Edward C. Hammond, of At
lanta, and iLeut. C. S. Hammond, IJ.
S. A., stationed at Camp Hunt, near
Washington, D. C„ are surviving chil
dren, and two brothers, L. W. Ham
mond, of Cncinnati, 0., and F. G.
Hammond, of Montgomery, Ala., are
brothers and the deceased, and one
sister, Miss Carrie Hammond, of Mont
gomery, Ala., also survives..
Pallbearers will be: R. E. Cato,
.1. A. Davenport, D. F. Davenport, Ar
thur Rylander, George Van Riper. I
E. Hightower, Harry B. Grimshaw
and Dr. John Hudson.
The funeral will take place from
the’ Episcopal church after the arrival
of the two o’clock train. Rev. J. Jj.
Lawrence, assisted by Rev. Leroy
Henderson, will conduct the servicces.
NUMBER 275.