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DAILY -
FORTIETH YEAH.
FOOD CONTROL
IN county TO
BEGIN ST ONCE
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR MANGUM
( ALLS A MEETING OF WHOLE
SALE AND RETAIL GROCERS FOR
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
Organization of the local food sup-;
ply distribution will begin at once un
der the direction of Franc Mangum, |
food administrator for Sumter county. I
A meeting of all of the retail and ;
wholesale grocers of th®, city and j
county will be held in the Carnegie
Library building at three o'clock Fri- |
day afternoon for the purpose of fixing I
a schedule of prices.
The law requires the food adminis-!
trator to designate a scale for both :
wholesalers and retailers for certain I
commodities, and that this schedule
be published weekly. The Times-Re
corder has agreed to publish each
week the schedule, showing such
changes as the varying market quota
tions may make necessary.
Food Administrator Mangum has
named an advisory committee to assist j
him in carrying opt the regulations !
governing the sale and storage of food I
necessities in this county. This com-1
mittee consists of W. A. Dodson, N. M.
Dudley, R. C. Moran, Mrs. Frank Har
rold and Mrs. Lawson Stapleton. _
The committee will be present at the
meeting of the grocerymen on Friday
afternoon. The apointment of a com
mittee of this character is authorized
and suggested under the dorections of
Herbert Hoover, the national food con
troller.
The county food administrator has
received specific instructions from
both the national and state adminis
trations concerning the sale and dis
tribution of the various commodities,
with instructions to put the law into
operation in Sumter county at once.
(The sale of the following articles
come within the province of the food I
administrator: Gleaned rice, rice ;
flour, oleomargarine, lard, lard substi
tutes, also oil, cooking fats, condensed
milk, fresh, canned or cured beef,
pork or mutton, canned peas, canned
dried beans, canned tomatoes, canned
corn, salmon, sardines, dried prunes,
dried peach-s, dried apples, dried rais- j
ins, syrups, molasses, sugars, flours, |
milk, butter, cheese, poultry, eggs, I
fresh fruits, fresh vegatables, fresh
and frozen fish, wheat, rye, corn, oats,
barley, wheat flour, barley flour, oat
meal, rolled oats, corn grits, corn
meal, hominy, corn flour, starch from
corn, corn oil, corn syrup, glucose,
couch rice, cottonseed, cottonseed oil,
cottonseed meal, cottonseed cake, pea
nut oil, peanut meal, soya bean oil,
soya bean meal, palea oil and copra
oil.
The object of the national food ad- 1
.-ministration is to insure an equita- •
ble distribution of these commodities. I
to prevent hoarding, to fix adequate
profits for both wholesalers and re-1
tailers, and to guarantee the buying
public a square dsal. All wholesal
ers doing over SIOO,OQO business a yfear |
are required to take out licenses.
Thtse license will be revoked if they
violate any of the rules. Cottonseed
dealers are also required to have li
censes and can only have certain
amounts of their products on hand.
It is expected that early next week
the people of the county will be in
formed of the schedule of prices for
both wholesalers and retailers to ob- j
serve.
i
- BRITISH HOSPITAL
SHIP IS TORPEDOED
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LONDON, Jan. 9.—The British hos
pital ship Rewa, 1,700 tons, was tor
pedoed and sunk in the English chan
nel, January 4th. The hospital ship was
returning from Gibraltar when attack- |
eJ. It is officially announced that all
the wounded on board were rescued,
although there were three casualties
among the crew. The statement says
th Rewa when sunk was displaying
all lights and marking required of
hospital ships by The Hague convea
tion, and had not been within the so
called "barred zone."
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
“LI VEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA."
HILL B. UPSHAW
MAKES CUMPLALNT
| ABOUT HIS NAME
SAYS HE DOES NOT LIKE TO BE
CALLED “WILLIE" AND THINKS
TIMES-RECORDER’S SENATORIAL
POLL INACCI RATE.
The following letter has been re
i ceived by the editor of The Times-
I Recorder from William D. Upshaw, of
! Atlanta, the editor of "The Golden
I Age,” who is also a candidate for the
United States Senate:
lOn Train Between Lawrenceburg.
Tenn., and Atlanta, Ga., January
5, 1918.
Mr. Franc Mangum,
I Editor, The Times-Recorder,
I Americus, Ga. x
I My Dear Franc:
When you took charge of The Times
j Recorder I wrote you (in my thoughts
| and heart) a hearty letter of congratu
lation. I wish I had not let my busy,
driving life keep me from sending it.
And I also congratulated myself. I
said: The former editors did not give
me a square deal—Franc Mangum
will!
Then I read your truly remarkable
I editorial on Thomas E. Watson, and I
| wrote you another silent letter of con-
I gratulation. I wish I had stopped my
'drive long enough to say to you what
I really thought.
But, lo! in your senatorial round
up, which credited me along with
Cooper with not carrying "a precinct,”
you didn’t even seem much inclined to
give me a dignified editorial square
deal. I suppose you simply failed to
hear from counties where I have a
strong following. One of them is your
old county, Emanuel. I believe from
actual observation, I would carry the
rural districts there at least two to
one over Harris. The same with Wilkes
and even Chatham. I am judging sim
ply by what leaders told me when
there.
But that is not what I started out ;
Ito say while this train jogs along.
| You referred to Mr. Harris as' Wil
liam J. Harris. Wny didn't you call
him Willie Harris as you called me
Willie Upshaw? Why not call me
W. D. Upshaw or William I). Upshaw
or Will D. Upshaw as you call Harris,
your man. W. J. or William J.? Why
try to belittle me?
I I was one time an unknown boy on
the bed in Cobb county. 1 fought my
way up from seven years on that bed
to where I am actually called all over :
the continent for platform work. I :
lecently returned from the Liberty I
Loan campaign in New York where 1
spoke on the same platform with the
most famous: men of England and
America. I have been invited to re
turn for the Third Loan campaign.
My critics did not give that reputation.
Y’ou are too bright a man to join the
I Macon Telegraph in the cheap prac-1
I tice of ridiculing a man whose service
• record they dare not attack.
I wish you mighty well. Fraternally,
WILLIAM D. UPSHAW.
(Editorial Note: Mr. Upshaw is
entirely too sensitive to be in politics.
He has sufficient intelligence to know
I that he has not the remotest chance
o? going to the United States Senate.
His place is the platform work, where,
as he says, he is successful and in de
mand. As for the senatorial poll—the
returns from Georgia newspapers show
that W. J. Harris is, in the opinion of
those newspapers, the strongest sena
torial candidate in about 110 counties.
Not a single newspaper gave Mr. Up
shaw credit for enough strength to
even one county. Mr. Upshaw should
read as he runs.
GERMAN COMMENT ON
PREMIER’S ADDRESS
BERLIN, Jan. B.—(Delayed.)—Vor
waerts, the principal organ of the Ger
jran socilaists, commenting on Premier
Lloyd George's recent speech, de
clares the British premier ‘‘masquer
ades in a carefully selected disguise."
The newspaper says the speech was
so framed in some of its parts as to
meet approval among German work
k'.gmen, but adds his restoration of
territory ideas call forth condemna
■ tion.
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. J ANUARY 9, 1918
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This photograph shows a batch ,»f bolsheviki soldiers, followers of Lentne, being marched off to captivity by for
mer comrades who are supporters of the provisional government and who took them prisoner during the fighting In
the streets of Petrograd.
BASKET BILL GAME
TO BE MEO HERE
ON FRIDAY EVENING
Tlio Aemricus High school basket
ball team will play the Albany High
school basket ball team Fiiday night.
The game will be played in the Y. M.
C. A. athletic department here, and
■ a good crowd is expected to attend.
The line-up of the local five will
•be as follows: Hardin and Merritt,
I forwards; A"ebb, center; Allen and
j Monahan, guards.
This will be the first game of the
season to be played here, and every
body is urged to attend. Albany is
coming strong, but the Americus boys
fee! sure of victory.
SPECIAL SESSIONS
OF COURTS TO BE
HELD IN FEBRUARY
i It is expected that special sessions
oi both the city and superior courts
will be held early in February.
The courts have been suspended
• during the period for making out
! questionnaires, as this work engaged
I the entire attention of all of the at
torneys of the city.
The city court will probably con
vene early in February, and so will
the superior court, at the direction of
Judge Z. A. Littlejohn, for the, pur
pose of giving Warren 1. Johnson a
I trial.
The date for the hearing of the mo-
I tion for a new trial for Dr. C. K. Chap-
■ man is January LI th.
Valentine C. Rogers Dead.
i
Mr. Valentine C, Rogers, a farmer,
! living at Adams Station, died this
I morning at three o'clock, after a brief
illness of pneumonia. He was fifty
i seven years of age. and had been liv
ing at Adams Station, for four y.ars.
i Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mary
: L Rogers, and Ids mother. Mrs. ato
• Rogers.
j The funeral will take place from the
residence, and interment will take
I plaae in Oak Grove cemetery, Aineri
icus, fololwing arrival of the two
.o’clock train tomorrow.
Mr. Nat LeMas'er, of the Americus
■ Undertaking Company, went to Adams
| Station today to mt ke the fune'-al ar
; langements.
I Nine Men Still Missing.
> WASHINGTON, I). C., Jan. 9.
Nine men from the American steamer
Harry Luckenbach, submarined Jan
! vary Cth. are still missing. The nayy
department announced today that 22
i members of the crew had been res
’ cued.
Sugar Shipment Arrives.
I PHILADELPHIA, Penn , Jan. 9
• Two steam-rs carrying nearly thir
teen million pounds of Cuban sugar ar-
| rived here today.
SLEEPER SERVICEi
TOSAVANNAHHAS
BEEN TAKEN OFF!
Passengers boarding the night Sea- I
board train for Savannah expecting to !
sleep comfortably on sleepers, have I
| been sadly disappointed during the i
I last thirty days.
I It seems that the Pullman service
has been discontinued for about a
month, although there has been no
public notice to that effect given here.
For that matter, not even the local
officials of the Seaboard were aware
of the fact.
Today when complaint was made to
them they began an inquiry, and
found that there was no longer any
night Pullman service between Amer
icus and Savannah.
It has been the custom to sell tick
jets to Saavnnah, and direct the pas
sengers to pay for the Pullman after
entering the train. Consequently,
many passengers went aboard confi
dent of engaging Pullman accommoda
tions.
SURPRISE ATTACK BY
FRENCH NETS GAINS
I PARIS, Jan. 9.—(Delayed)—ln a j
i sur, rise attack east of St. Mihel today.
■F'ench troops penetrated the German,
i line on a front of nearly a mile. As - ;
■ ter demolishing the defensive positions •
• the French returned to their own lines j
• bringing with them 150 prisoners and j
a number of machine guns, says an :
j official statement.
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SUBMARINE ZONE ;
I IS AGAIN EXTENDED,
LONDON, Jan 9.—Further extension j
.oi the submarine "barred” zone is an- ■
i nounced in a wireless statement is I
sued by the German government to- j
I day. The extension of the zone be- j
comes effective January 11th, and the |
zine is extended to include the Cape :
Ve;de Islands; Madeira, off the north
eastern coast of Agrica, and part of the I
coast of French Senegal, alleged to be
enemy supporting points. ■*
I'LEAMNG SHOW AT THE
OPERA HOI SE THIS WEEK j
i
The Anderson-Gunn Comedy Co. |
again made good with an appreciative I
crowd at the Opera House last night.
Th offering was a farce comedy en
titled “A Pair of Liars," in two acts, j
It made one think of the old poem in
McDuffiie’s reader: “When oft one
hath deceived. The truth itself it not
believed.” Aside from the many
amusing incident? of the character of (
'tho play, an excellent moral was pre
sented. The company also carries an
< Aoe'lent band and orchstra. Three |
< rnplete* plays will be presented to-,
night.
OOESTIBNAIRES
FOR SUMTER HAVE
I BEEN NIAILEO OUT
I
Chairman J. A Hixon, of the legal
I advisory board of the Sumter local
j exemption organization, announces
i that the legal advisory board, com
posed of the lawyers of the Americus
(Jar association, will dissolve and dis
continue their services in such capac
ity after Saturday, January 12th.
The Local Exemption board has no
tified Chairman Hixon that the last
questionnaires were mailed out Tues
day, which will give all registrants re
ceiving their questionnaires at least
tour days of this week in which to
seek assistance from the members of
the legal advisory board. In view of
the d’act that the members of this ,
board have given their undivided at
tention to aiding registrants prepare
their questionnaires during the past
three weeks, without compensation,
Chairman Hixon urges that all regis
trants holding questionnaires unan
swered present themselves to the
board, sitting in the Superior court
room of the courthouse at once. This
is deemed necessary in order that none
will be without legal aid when the
members of the board are relieved
from their labors Saturday night.
COTTON GINNINGS
I PASS TEN MILLION
i BALES TO JAN. IST
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan 9.-’
'Cotton ginned prior to January Ist,
amounted to ten million, four hundred
i and fifty thousand, four hundred and
|one bales, exclusive of linters. in
i eluded in this total are one hundred
land eighty-four thousand, five hun
idied round (counted as half) bales,
I and eighty-six thousand eight hun
idred and thirteen bales of sea island
; staple. Georgia ginnings to the date
. named were one million, seven hun
l.dred and sixty-eight thousand bales.
Honey For Housing Facilities.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 9.
I The shipping board today set aside
!$i,200,000 for providing housing facil
. itios for shipyard workers at Newport
News.
Ten Tousaud Substitutes for Food.
1 AMSTERDAM, Jan 9-Ten thousand
I substitute food articles have been in
troduced into Germany since the war,
according to a statement made in the
Berlin newspapers by Professor Jucke
,nack, a prominent Garman food ex
pert. He mentions as the most strik
ing examples of successful substitu
tion the following: Artificial butter,
eggs, salad oil, honey, milk, coffee,
tea, sugar, tobacco, fish, sausage,
cheese and caviar. Some of the sub
stitutes are directly harmful but oth
ers are so good that they will outlive
the war and become regular article!
of consumption, he asserts.
’IMI ADDRESS
15 APPROVED Bl
BRITISH PAPEBS
NEWSPAPERS see THOROUGH UN.
DERSTANDING BETWEEN AMER.
ICA AND NAIONS OF THE EN.
TENTE.
LONDON, Jan. 9.—President’s Wil
lson’s address before congress takes
the leading place today on both news
.and editorial columns of the London
press.
j One newspaper describes the ad
dress as the “Magna Charter of Fu
(tore Peace.”
I All the evening papers find disa
, greemc nt in essential policy between
i the address and Premier Lloyd
j George’s recent speech enunciating the
j Entente war aims.
IGEN. PETER HARRIS Tfl
JOIN ARMY IN FRANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 9.—The
appointment of Colonel P. C. Harris
as brigadier general has been sent
to the Senate by President Wilson.
General Harris was appointed to the
I nited States Military Academy by i
Congresman Judson C. Clements, who
afterwards served until his death on J
the Interstate Commerce Commission, i
He graduated from West Point in the •
class of ’BB and was assigned to ser- I
vice in the Indian campaigns in the
Indian Territory and Oklahoma. He
graduated with honors in 1895 from
the post-graduate school of the army
t Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was
nominated brevet by President MqJCin- !
ley for gallantry and meritorious ser- ■
vice in the battle of San Juan Hill I
and in the attack on Santiago de |
Cuba, and was stricken with yellow |
fever after that campaign. He served !
■ in the Phlippine insurrection and was ■
a member of the general staff of the I
army from 1897 to 1911. He was ap-'
pointed as Adjutant ( “ral. Head-
! quarters,’ Department ui tu®*’ ■
pines, until May, 1916, when he was
a pointed Assistant Judge Advocate
General of the army, Washington, D.
C., where he is at present.
Under his appointment as brigadier
general he will be assigned to regular
army troops and will be sent to France '
Ivery soon.
General Harris' on, Ca tain Har
ris. with the engineers, who graduated '•
i with honors at Jjoint this year, i
is the younged captain in the army
| and is irijv serving in France.
>1 Giner . Harris is from Cedartown,
I Georgia, and is a brother of William
;.J. Harris, Chairman of the Federal
p’rade Commission, and Major Seale
.Harris and Major Hunter Harris, of
the army, and Mr. J. (’. Harris, super
intendent of the Georgia Sschool for
the Deaf.
Four Firemen Hied.
i < HICAFO Jan. 9.—Four firemen
were killed and four fathers probably
i fatal!;. inju ed early today t.te'n the
wall of a burning moving picture
; theatre collapsed. Several hundred
jspect: o: s in the street had narrow es-
Icape •,
• i> an Prisoners ht Germany.
. i v. ASIiINGTON, D, C., Jan. 9.
■ Two m n from the destroyer Jacob
Jones, submarined December 6th, are
now prisoners in Germany. This be
camef known here today through Red
Cross agencies.
ANOTHER OUTBREAK
.REPORTED AT LISBON
MADRID, Jan. 9.—Another outbreak
has occurred in Portugal, according to
news from across the frontier.
Ths crew of a Portuguese warship
mutinied, it is stated, and bombarded
the forts of Lisbon. The army, how
ever, appears to have remained faith
ful to the government and succeeded
in restoring usual tranquility.
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EDITION
LOCAL RED CROSS
CHAPTER SENDING
BHX TO SOLDIERS
CORES OF AMERICUS LADIES ARE
KNITTING FOR SOLDIERS—ALL
WHO CAN KNIT ARE ASKED TO
HELP.
The ladies of the Americus Red
Cross chapter are continuing their
work of providing necessary comforts
for the men constituting the army,
both in taining camps and abroad. The
ladies here are doing much of this
work at home, out each Tuesday there
is a box of articles packed and sent
away.
The numbers of woikers is none too
large for the gigantic task before the
Red Cross organization, and realizing
this fact, the ladies of the local chap
ter have decided to invite all who will,
whether members of the Red Cross or
ganization or not, to assist in the work.
' The chapter has on hand a quantity
, of wool, which will be distributed
■among those, ladies who will volun
teer to assist, and Mrs. Thomas Har
' rold, who is in charge of this part
of she work will be glad tql impart
any desired information to residents of
Americus. The wool is free, and all
the ladies ask is the co-operation of
j hose other ladies who are skilled in
the art of knitting.
I Because of the decision to so :v. ?.rd
a box of supplies each Tuesday, all
! who volunteer to assist in knitting
jincse are urged, whenever possible, tu
finjsii their sweaters or whatever they
may be making and send these in to
Mrs. Harrold in time to be placed in .
the weekly box.
Ladies who have alre;piv
I knitted articles and ’ticles/con- *
tiibuted are:
I Sweaters: Mrs. J. Thornton
|(2); Miss Kathe Thornton (2); Mrs
C. A. Schneider ,2, Mrs. Louise Mar
shall (2); Miss Annie McLaughlin,
1(2); Mrs. C. 1. Crapps, Mrs. R. W. Buc
hanan, Mrs. J. B. Ansley. Mrs. C. C.
; Tillman, Mrs. Rainey, Miss Elizabeth
I Eldridge, Miss Marie Wa’lker, Mrs. J
iL. Marshall, Mrs. Lillie F. Brown, Mrs
I nfc'VtfaWß, Mrs. W. L. Pmdh, Mrs. | *
. elle Graham. Miss Maria Harrold, Mrs
, Chalkley, Mrs. C. L. Wilson, Mrs
Flowington, Mrs. Emory Rylander, Mrs
jS. D. Cobb, Mrs. Hallie Disosway, Mrs
Jas. A. Davenport, Mrs. J. D. Stewart.
L. Crew, Mrs. Chas. Smith
Mrs L S. Mathews, Mrs. Thos Har
|rold, Mrs. J. P. Raiford (2); Mrs. K.
D. Sheffield, Mrs. Sarah Howard, Mrs
, W. H. Chappell, Mrs. G. R. Ellis, Mrs
: L. F. Grubbs, Miss Elizabeh Cobb, Mrs
F. B. Arthur. Miss Sarah Cobb,. Mrs.
!Cloyd Buchanan and Mrs. McLendon.
In addition to those enumerated in
'the foregoing paragraph, the branch •
i organization at Ellaville has sent
eivht sweaters here, which have been
neerporated in 1 oxes already forward
ed tc the (loops. »
Furlow Gtammar school pupils have ,
sent to ths chapter twenty-two knit-,
ted mufflers, and similar articles
been contributed by the following la
dies: Mrs. Eugene A. Hawkins. Miss
Annie Ansley, Miss Foy Mott, Mrs
I Stephen Pace, Miss Clara Ledbetter.
' Miss Lillian Cameron, Miss Hallie
Walker, Miss Frances Harper, Mrs.
Hoyt and Miss Nannie Speer
Airs 1 ou Furlow has contributed five •
pairs if wristlets, and Mrs. Howard -?
sent ‘n tvr, pairs of these mastt'ar
tides, while Mrs. J. H. Clarke has
g’vert the chapter two knitted hel
mets.
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W. H. WOODRUFF TO
. ADDRESS CIRCLE
C.1.T1811 111
Members of Minnie Vann Grove, No.
1’26, Woodmen’s circle, ase interested
in the announcement that W. H. Wood
ruff, state manager of Woo:', craw. JJt
Georgia, will visit that grove tomor
row afternoon. Mr. Woodruff is an
1 able speaker as well as enthusiastic
Woodman, and well known here. Tljje...
( ladies will hold a called meeting at
|3 o’clock tomorrow (Thursday) as
■ternoon, which will be addressed by
i Mr. Woodruff, and all the members ut
, the circle who attend will enjoy the
occasion.
NU3TER 8.