Americus times-recorder. [volume], May 19, 1918, City Edition, Image 1

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DAILY
CITY
EDITION
KIRTIETH TEAR
SEABOARD DEPOT
15 DESTROYED 51
FIRE JATUROAY
EIRE OF MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN RE-
SULTS IN BIG LOSS EARLY SAT
URDAY MORNING.
The Seab ar : Air Line railway de
po lu re was totally destroyed by lire
early Saturday mornin. Tne origin of
the fire is mysterious, in that shortlv
before the alarm was turned n a
•switch engine was at the scene ant
moved several cars. The night watch
man there r Iso passed near the depot
a short t.me before, and saw no evi
dence oi anything wrong. When ihe
firemen at rived the building was io
Hames and it was seen that it would
be imp ossible to save anything.
L. W. Slappey, a fireman, was stand
ing near a chimney whi.cn fell, and
sustained slight injuries when several
bricks struck him. *
A feature of interest in connection
with the fire was two explosions, on
of much violence, which occurred as
ter the firemen arrived. Henry P.
Everett, the Seaboard agent here, says
wre was no gasoline or other inflam-”
mabl oils stored in the building, wh'c?
was a one-stroy structure erected
many years ago. It is the concensus
of opinion that the fire was. of incen
diary origin.
Late yesterday afternoon it develop
ed the explosions referred to above
weer caused by two cplinders of oxy
gen gas consigned to the Americus
Lighting Company, which exploded
with great force. This gas is that us
ed in acetylene welding and mutting
machines and is perfectly harmless,
except under unusual conditions suj
a-, were created during the fire.
The loss is estimated as between fit
ty and seventy-five thousand dollars
CRISIS OVER AERO
PROBE IS MED
WASHINffTON, D. C., May 18. -
wer eclaiming victory to
day in the senate row over the Cham
berlain investigation resolution. iV
crisis apparently has been averted
and* whatever form the/ controversy
takes next week it is unlikely to pre
sent an issue of confidence or want
of confidence in the administration.
Out of the jockeying of the last few
duj -, one sac stood dear oday, ac
cording to members of the senate mil
itary affairs committee; a congress
ional investigation into the aircraft
pror-?.m, ordnance production and the
quartermaster’s corps is assured.
PRESIDENT LEADS
NEW YORK PARADE
NEW YORK, May 18. President
Wilson afoot led New York’s Red Cross
1 d' ’own Fifth avenue this after
noon. /itWan escort of secret service
men the president walked
veil in advance of the procession,
while Governor Whitman, Mayor Hy
lan and Mrs. Wilson rode in automo
i ties -behind the chief executive.
Immense crowds cheered the presi
dent ever ystep of the way. He was >•
far ahead of the parade when he i each
id the reviewing stand it was some
time before the main column arrived.
The president'first planned to re
view’ the parade from the reviewing
stand, but changed his plans sudden
ly, leading the parade until it ar
rived opposite the stand, where he
stood for an hour, returning later in
an automobile to the starting point of
the parade, which was still march
ing
All To Get Commissions.
WASHINGTON, May 18.—all of the
successful candidate . the fourth of
ficers’ training ca* J will be eligible
for commissions. Secretary of War
Baker has annoi* ~ed. Previously on
ly fifty per cent, were eligible.
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is quite gifted with the pen, and has done considerable drawing, mostly for his own gratification. The Times-
Recorder expects to print bis drawing form time to time.
TWO LENGNED 8E
MOBIT WLDOSTA
TEGROES WHO KILLED FARMER
AND ATTACKED HIS WIFE ARE
I CAPTURED AND STRUNG TO
LIMBS BY CITIZENS’ POSSE.
VALDOSTA, Ga., May 18.—Will
Head, a negro implicated in the shoot
ing of Hampton Smith and Mrs. Smith,
in Brooks county, a day or two ago,
was swung to a limb at the forks of
the road at Troupeville last night by
a mob of Brooks county citizens.
Will Thompson, another negro
connected with the assassination of
the Smiths, was hanged to a tree near-
Camp Ground church, in the vicinity
of the shooting; Hays Turner, an
other negro believed to be implicated
in the plot, is in jail at Quitman, and
Sidney Johnson, still another negr
said to be surrounded by’ a sheriff’s
pcsse of two hundred men in Knight’s
swamp, east of this city. This swamp
is si dense with brambles and um
growth it is impossible to penetrate
into it.
Will Head confessed his share in the
shooting before he was hanged.
Mrs. Smith’s conditions is reported
somewhat better today.
WILL REORGANIZE
DETECTIVE FORCE
ATLANTA. Ga., May 18—Dissasit
faction with Atlanta’s city detective
department, which has been accumu
lating for a year or more, has come to
a l ead as the result of recent disclo
sures of the mis-handling of confiscat
ed blind tiger whisky, and both the
city council and the board of police
commu’sioners are now determined to
make a complete re-organization/
The trouble with the detective de
partment, as asserted by members of
tne board, is that it’s a bush league
organization trying to cope with big
league crooks, t is fairly well known
that Atlanta has an organized syndi
cate ci automobile thieves, and an or
ganized syndicate o fblind tigers. The
detective department, composed of
men with practically’ no experience
ca»nct seem to get any hold on the
situation
A probe committe of the city coun
cil has recently developed the fact
that detectives have been giving away
quantities of confiscated blind tiger
whiskey to their friends.
British Casualties.
LONDON. May 18.—British casual
ties compiled from official lists during
the past week totalled 9,881
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING MAY 19, 1918
POISON PEN BUSY
HERE; DETECTIVES
ARE INVESTIGATING
ANONYMOUS LETTERS SENT
THROUGH THE MAIL HERE ARE
REPORTED AND SECRET SER
VICE MEN AT WORK.
There is a “poison pen” busy in
Americus, and as a result a number
of people have received anonymous
letters of a scurrilous nature.
The letters have bemi turned over
to the United States secret service de
partment, and it is understood that
officers are now in the city making
an investigation. *
Several people have received letters
of an improper character, and as they
are nearly all identical in nature and
writing, it is thought that the same
person is writing them.
I cstmaster Davenport was fit st
advised of the matter, and then it was
brought to the attention of detectives.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
TO SELL VEHICLE
CARRYING WHISKY
ATLANTA, Ga., May 18.—Is it con
titutional for an arresting officer in
Gcotgia to confiscate and sell a ve
hicle in which liquor is found?
in the case of Atwell versus Gunn,
f om the city court of Macon, it 4s
Claimed that the act of the legisla
tive providing for such confiscation
and rale is unconstitutional because it
violates certain property rights laid
down n the organic law of the state,
but in setting up the <i<?ntention the
plaintiff failed to raise constitutional
grounds <>f such a nature as to entitle
them to the consideration of the court
of appeals, and hence the case has
been decided without an opinion as to
the constitutionality of seizure and
sale in blind tiger cases.
•The contention was made in this
case that the owner of the automobile
was not in it when it was seized, and
that the man then driving it had the
car in' his possesion without t
knowledge or consent of he owner.
Relief for the owner is provided by
the law in such cases as this.
American Communique.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, in
France, May 18.—The American offi
cial communique issued at 9 o’clock
tonight, said fighting today was lim
ited to ifconnaissances. intermittent
artillery fir<“ and increased aerial ac
tivity north of Toul in Lorraine is re
ported
®fi»l ARMY
HOLDS MHES
RANKS THIRD IN ARFA HELD
AGAINST THE ENEMY—FORMER
LY THE BELGIANS CLAIMED
THIS DISTINCTION.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.—
The Ameiican army now’ ranks third
in mileage of front line trenches held
on the western, front.
General I'eisbing’s army now holds
more of the line than the Belgians,
who unti? recently ranked nZxt to the
British, the French being the first.
This information was given mem
bers of the Senate military affairs
committee at their weekly confereu e
with the war council today.
Mutual Ariillerying.
LONDON, May 18.—Ther? was con
siderable mutual artblerying be
tween Givenchy and Roboeq last night
General Haig reported today.
Routine Warfare Only.
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES, in
France, May 17.—(Delayed.)—Sum-
mer weather shimmers across the bat
tlefiields, vvhile guns thunder lazily as
if about to sleep. Occasionally they
wake and with a sudden jump blaze
furiously for a few minutes, then nod
again. Air fighting has been very
heavy durin gthe past few’ days, but
the infantry is doing little outsi
routine warfare. Occasional raids
break the otherwise complete immo
bility
Only One Ship Torpedoed.
PARIS. May 18.—There was only
one case of torpedoing in waters where
American warships are operating dur
ing February compared with 34 in
October, and in April there were
none.’ declared Admiral Wilson in an
interview pm lished in the Matin.
RESUME FIGHT ON
PALESTINE FRONT
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.—
An Allied offensive on a wide front
in Palestine against the already des
perate Turks is suggested in official
cables from Rome to the Italian em
bassy beie.
Kiekeniiacher Escaped by Miracle.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES,
in Lorraine, May 18.—Lieutenant Ld
lie Rickenbacher, of Columbus Ohio,
collided with a German airplane in
n id-air yesterday, sending the enemy
machine crashing to the ground. He
was sired by a miracle.
ENTENTE MILITARY
CB-OPERATION Will
BE GIVEN ORIENT
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PRIMARY PURPOSE TO PROVIDE
SAFEGUARDING OF MANCHU
RIA AND POSSIBLE ACTION IN
THE ORIENT.
PARIS, May B.—Japan and China
have been informed by the allied gov
ernments that th&y have arranged
for Entente military co-operation to
meet the dangers threatening peace
of the far east from German penetra
tion.
Defensive Measure.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May I.*
The Entente military co-operation
arranged to meet threats to the peace
of the far east by German penetra
tion, as reported from Paris, is under
stood here as a purely defensive
measure in which participation for the
presort will be confined to Japan and
Ch ma.
its primary purpose is the safe
guarding of Manchuria with possibil
ities of its extension to Siberia.
500 Arrested hi Ireland.
LONDON, May 18.—Five hundred
persons have been arrested in various
parts of Ireland according to the news
paper Evening News today. Latest
i ,
I reports show no disturbances result
ed, nor was there any resistance t<
the arrests. Sinn Feiners, apparent
ly, were dumfounded, bein gtaken com
pletely by surprise.'
GERMANS BOMB
U. S. HOSPITAL
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, in
i Picardy, May 18.—.A German aeroplane
diepjed a dozen bombs about an
American field hospital today, with the
result that all the physicians and pa
tients able to walk sought refuge in
an American trench. .
BLUE DEVILS WILL
PARADE IN ATLANTA
ATLANTA, Ga., May Jx The fam
ous 100 ‘‘Blue Devils” of the French
Alpine Chasseurs, who have been cre
ating such a sensation in New Yor’.
since their unheralded arrival a few
days ago to aid in the Red Cross drive
will be in Atlanta on Wednesday of
next week, according to announcement
yesterday by the local Red Cross chap
ter. All of these men have been', in
service on the western front and most
of them have been wounded. In New
York they were the central figures in
a great parade in the closing days j‘
the third Liberty Loan, and strong ef
forts have been made to secure them
in cities throughout the country. They
are to make a tour of the principle
cities of the south.
Hindenburg Would Send Out Fleet.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.—
Von Hindenburg is trying to impose
his will on the rest of the German
war lords and force them to send out
the high seas fleet so that bis land
operations may be a success, accord
ing to th? navy department’s latest in
formation He has already succeeded
in compelling mobilization of the bulk
of the fleet under steam at Kiel, and
the navy department’s information
tends to indicate he has the whip
band and will wring or more less de
perate action from the navy, unless
the Allied navies strike first.
4,000 Pounds Tobacco Seizer.
WASHINGTON, May B.—About four
thousand pounds of seized tobacco will
be sold Monday at the old tobacco
exchange in Richmond, Va., the alien
preporerty custodian has announced.
Wheat Under Convoy to Switzerland.
WASHINGTON, May 18.- Nearly one
million bushels of American wheat
under heavy convoy are en route to
Switzerland, it has been learned here.
SUNDAY
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BOD LOSE EIVES ’
IN AN EXPLOSIDN
in mm, PA.
MANY OTHERS WERE INJURED
WHEN GIGANTIC BLAST OCCUR
RED—AN INVESTIGATION IS
NOW UNDER WAY.
PITTSBURG, Pa., May 18.—More
than five hundred war workers weie
killed or injured this afternoon when
a terrific blast of T. N. T. wrecked the
plant of the Aetna Chemical Co., at
Oakdale, near here.
The casualty figures give one hun
dred and thirty as identified dead, with
a hundred and seventy’ yet unrecogniz
ed and more than four hundred injur
ed. Beyond the fact that a large
quantity of T. N. T. blew up nothing
was known of the explosion or its
cause
Officials said an inquiry would be
launched immediately
The main building and surrounding
structures were completely wrecked
and their debris rapidly consumed by
fire.
A second explosion occurred at 1:53
p. m., the entire building occupied by
the T. N. T. department being utter
ly destroyed. All workers are believ
ed to have been out of the building at
the time, but there are reports of
further loss of life and injury.
Workmen returning from Oakdale
late this afternoon said the number
of injured will exceed the above fig
ures, which are based on the semi
official statement that only two hun
dred and fifty men were in the T. N.
T plant, and that few were in other
departments injured by the first blast.
A canvass of the hospitals here
shows a' steady Stream of injured still
reaching those institution
IRISH-GERMAN
PLOT UNCOVERED
BADGE NUMBER OF PERSONS AR
RESTED N DUBLIN AND OTHER
PART!? OF COUNTRY O.N POLIT
ICAL CHARGES.
LONDON. May 18 ; —Prof. Edward
De Valero, president of the Sinn Fein;
Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn
Fein; Countess Markieviez, Dr. Dil
lon and William Cosgrave, Sinn Fein
members of parliament for Kilkenny,
have been arrested, according to an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Dublin. ‘ ’
RED CROSS POSTER
ATTRACTS CROWD
ATLANTA, Ga., May 18. —One q£
the most effective and striking Red
Cross posters yet displayed in Atlanta
in preparation for the drive which
starts next Monday is also at the same
time the simpllest of them all.
It consists of a huge red cross
painted in the windows of the Fourth
National Bank, which occupies the
first floor of the First National Bank
building at Five Points in the center
of the business district.
The thousands of civilians and sol
diers thronging past the windows ev
ery day never fail to stop and take a
look at the crosses, which are as wide
and as high as the outside dimensions
of the windows. There is nothing else
to the poster and nothing else on it,
simply a huge red cross painte
crimson paint on the inside of the
plate glass windows.
American Casualties.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.
Thirty-nine casualties were reported
by General Pershing today, includ
ing three killed in action, three died of
wounds, four died of disease, five
severely wounded, nine wounded
slightly, one wounded, but the severity
of his wounds yet unknown, twelve
missing in action and two prisoners
previously reported as missing.
NUMBER 118.