Americus times-recorder. [volume], August 18, 1918, City Edition, Image 1

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DAILY
CITY
EDITION
FORTIETH YEAR
METRII WHITS
CONCESSIONS IF
HOOPS ISE SENT
WESTERN FRONT
I
KING OF POLAND MUST BE AUS-
TRIAN ARCHDUKE, AND BEL
GIUM MUST BE EVACUATED IF
GERMANS RECEIVE SUPPORT OF
DU'.I. EMPIRE IN RESISTING AL
LIED THRUSTS.
LONDON, August 17.—Germany has
made concessions to Austria on tin.
Polish question in consequence of the
strong stand taken by Emperor;
Charles and the Austro-Hungarian
government, according to information
received by the correspondent of the
Daily Mail at the Hague to which the
Mail gives much prominence.
It is possible there will be no per
sonal union of the crowns of Poland
and Austria but the king of Poland
is certain to be an Austrian archduke,
says the correspondent who adds that
the discussion at German main head
quarters had the following basis:
The Germans demanded that Aus
tria send to the western front from
ten to fifteen divisions of picked
troops, confining themselves to the
defensive on the Italian front.
Emperor Charles and his advisers
made the counter demands that Ger
many make further declarations re
garding Belgium, guaranteeing evac
uation, restoration and an indemnity,
make a powerful movement in the di
rection of peace and that the Polish
question be solved in a manner save
able to Austrian wishes.
MYSTERY SURROUNDS
SHOOTING ON LAMAR
STREEHfiIDJY NIGHT
ALEX STEVENS SHOT ONCE, AND
ASSAILANT TELLS UNUSUAL
STORY OF CAUSE LEADING TO
AFFAIR.
Alex Stevens, a well known young
man of Americus, was shot in the
right breast Friday night by J. F.
Daniel, the cause of the difficulty be
ing shrouded in mystery. The wound
indicted will not prove serious, ac
cording to Dr. W. S. Prather, who at
tended Stevens.
J. F. Daniel, who shot Stevens, was
seen by a Times-Recorder representa
tive in the city barracks Saturday at
noon and according to him, the affair
grew out of a certain insulting uro
posal made by Stevens, the proposal
being followed by an assault when
Daniel refused t 0 consent. There
were no witnesses to the shooting,
which occurred on the lot occupied
by a negro church just east of Tur
pin’s stables, on Lamar street.
Alex Stevens, the young man who
was shot, was carried to the Amer
icus and Sumter County Hospital
where his injury was dressed, and la
ter went to his home. Seen Satur
day by a representative of The Times-
Recorder he stated the charge of
Daniel that he had made him any
indecent proposition was without
foundation. He says he went with
Daniel .who was drihking. behind the
church building for some purpose, and
that Daniel assaulted him without
provocation, because he refused to
spend the night with him (Daniel) in
the cellar of the structure.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER nirNTY 1
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
“LI VEST UTTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA.**
A BOX FROM HOME
MWWRBIWHfc :lW|
Drawn by Gaar M'llUama, Division of Pictorial Publicity.
Food saving* of million* of American* during our first year of war enabled this govern
ment to send enormous food shipment* abroad for our fighting force* and the Allied nations.
Our savings in cereals—-out of a short crop——amounted to 184,900,000 bushels; all of which was
shipped to Europe. We increased our meat and fat shipment* 844,600,000 pounds. This was
America's “box from home" to our army abroad and the civilians and military force* of the
Allied nations.
MILLIONS DF MEN
PUT IN FRINGE ST
DNIIEB STITES IND
OTHERS ME READY
GENERAL MARCH IN WEUffLY
CONFERENCE WITH NEWSPA
PER MEN GIVES FIGURES SHOW
ING VAST’ ARMY ALREADY
ABROAD AND OTHERS IN TRAIN
ING HERE TO GO ABROAD
LATER.
WASHINGTON, I). C.. August 17.
General March at his conference to
day with the senate military omniit
tee, tocld the senators that the Ameri
can army now under arms numbers
slightly more than 3,000.000 men, with
more than 1,450,000 men now over
seas or on the way over, and approx
imately 1,550,000 in contonments at
home.
Senators were also informed that
the Russian situation is very bad be
cause of general complexity of af
la'rs there. They were given to un
derstand that there was not much
chance of establishing a real offensive
cn the eastern front because of the
great number of men that would be
tequired.
The battle now going on in Picard
was formally characterized as the
German retreat by General March i
his weekly conference with newspa
per men. M
While he made no predictions and
did not discuss the significance of any
move on the front, he took occasion
to point out that the Germans have
voluntarily surrendered ground in lo
cal salients four separate times since
the Picardy attack was launched by
General Foch.
♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦L* + +*** +
♦ WEATHER FORECAST. ♦
♦ PARTLY CLOUDY TONIGHT ♦
♦ AND TOMORROW. ♦
4♦♦ ♦ 4 ♦
WHO’S WHO
k IN SUMTER COUNTY!
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 18, 1918
HUNDREDS OF
OFFICERS SHOT
8T BOLSHEVIKI
IT KTBOGIID
OUT OF ONE THOUSAND ARREST
ED TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY
SIX WERE SUMMARILY EXECUT
ED—RUSSIA AGAIN BECOMING
WAR-TORN COUNTRY—IRKUTSK
FALLS TO CZECHOSLOVAKS.
AMSTERDAM, August 17.—Out of
1,090 officers arrested at Moscow and
Petrograd because of counter revolu
tionary tendencies, 236 have been
summarily shot, according to Moscow
ad>ices to the Preuz Zeitung of Ber
lin.
Irkutsk Falls.
WASHINGTON. D. C., August 17.
Capture of Irkutsk, the important
lake Baikal port of the trans-Siber
ian railroad, by the Czech-Slovaks,
aided by the Siberian peoples’ army,
on July 7, is announced in a belated
dispatch from American Consul Har
ris at Irkutsk dated July 22 and re
ceived today at the state department.
Poole to Remain.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. August 17.--
American Consul General Poole at
Moscow, who recently burned his code
book and turned the consulate over
to the Swedish consul, notified the
state department in a cablegram re
ceived today that he intended to re
main in Moscow to assist the British
and French consular officers there
who are in great personal danger.
Soviets »t Kazan.
AMSTERDAM. August 17.—Razan,
an important city in the Vologda re
gion has been surrounded and being
bombarded by soviet troops, accord
ing to telegram from Moscow receiv
ed byway of Berlin. The telegram
states that a number of English and
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
GEMINS IBOUT TO
MDITE SAIIENT
ABORT ROTE AND
FILL BACK ON LINE
ALLIED ARMIES REACH POINT
WITHIN MILE AND A QUARTER
OF IMPORTANT TOWN, WHILE
ALL ROADS LEADING OUT OF
C()N( ENTRATION POINT ARE
COMMANDED BY ALLIED GUNS.
PARIS, August 18.—The Germans
are preparing to evacuate the Roye-
I assigny-Noyon salient, says the Echo
de Paris. It indicated, the paper adds
that the German pioneers and labor
ers are at work behind the German
front lines on a new Hindenburg line
The German position in Roye is seri
ous.
Not only are the allies a mile an
one-quarter west of the town but the
loads leading out of it toward Pf
ronue, Nesle and Noyon are under
’he fire of allied guns.
Mangum Named Chairman
The organization of the Fourth Lib
erty Loan campaign which will be
launched at an early date, is progres
sing rapidly, and Chairman J. B. Key
has just named Franc Mangum pub
licity chairman for Sumter county. St.
Elmo Massengale, of Atlanta, is gen
eral chairman and director of public
i y in Georgia.
liench have been placed under ar
rest t Vologda. Civilians between the
ages of 18 and 40 are being mobilized
by the sbviets for the construction of
trenches.
Bolsheviki troops advancing toward
Onega Bay. have occupied Girlov in
the government of Novgorod, east of
Petrograd. If. is reported that violent
fgl ting is proceeding on the south
ern front in the direction of Tcher
kask for the possesion of the Don
railway bridge.
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
SUMTER VETERANS
IRVING TO MAKE
GOOD SHOWING IT
THEWS! REUNION
ADJUTANT JOE DAY STEWART AL-
■ READY BUSY ARRANGING DE
TAILS OF TRIP AND ASKS ALL
WHO WILL GO FROM AMERICUS
TO COMMUNICATE WITH HIM AS
SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Camp Sumter, No. 742, U. C. V., will
I be represented at the Tulsa, Okla.,
reunion this year by a large delega
-1 tion if plans being made by Com
mander H. D. Watts and Adjutant Joe
Day Stewart are perfected. It is the
purpose of the camp here tp send a
strong delegation of the old boys of
the Sixties to the convention city,
and Americus people, doubtless will
assist in the plans for permitting ev
ery veteran here to visit the big re
union.
There are many veteran here who
will go to the reunion in addition to
the regular delegates, and a few of
those who would like to visit the
gathering are without the necessary
funds to make the trip. This will
necessitate the raising of some money
for their benefit, as all who want t
attend the reunion must be allowed to
dp so. For many of the old Confed
erates this will be the hist of the re
unions of their comrades, and the gen
erous people of Americus and Sum
ter county have always responded
whole-heartedly to any appeal made
in behalf of the veterans.
Adjutant Stewart, of Camp Sumter,
is engaged now in perfecting plans
for raising the necessary funds to al
low several indigene soldiers here tc
attend the reunion at Tulsa next
month, and those who are interested
and will help him are requested t<
consult him at once. The time in
which these funds can be raised is
-h.nl. and there must be no failure.
HOOKS OUT OF RACE
FOR LEGISLATURE
W. W. (Bill) Hooks, whose friends
announced him as a candidate for the
legislature only a day or two ago, has
withdrawn from the race. In con
versation with a Times-Recorder man
Saturday, Mr. Hooks stated that while
he appreciated the compliment paid
him his interests require so much of
his time until he would not be able to
give the office due attention, nor could
he spare the time to conduct a cam
paign. The announcement of his can
didacy was made by friends of Mr
Hooks, and had he remained in the
race, doubtless he would have re
ceived strong support.
DEATH OF MOS. WHEELER
IT HOSPITAL SATURDAY
Mrs Gladys Nellom Wheeler, wife
i’ Lieut. Chester E. Wheeler, of Sou
faer Field, died Saturday afternoon
at 3:45 at the Americus hospital, af
ter a brief illness. Deceased was
twenty-eight years of age, and is sur
vived by her husband, her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Nelloom. of Lo
well. Mass., and two brothers, Llem
Ralph X 1 on*, now in France ar>
• ’ll.. I' lico.n. Os Lowell, Mess.
T ie remains were prepared for burial
1 shipped last night to Lowell,
v' ere <he funeral and interment will
It
WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY!
WE SUGAH I
THE - L
¥HO V
fffly FIOHTS
BANK CREDITORS
WILL GET FOURTH
DIVIDEND SDDN
ONNEW DEGREE
I
I
! litigation involving assets
or BANK OF SOUTHWESTERN
GEORGIA SETTLED BY CONSENT.
AND RECEIVER WILL SOON DIS
TRIBUTE NEARLY ALL OF
FUNDS REMAINING ON HAND.
A decree just rendered by Judge Z.
A. Littlejohn in the case of the Bank
of Southwestern Georgia, L. G. Coun
cil. receiver, an action to establish
the status of certain creditors and
distribute assets, will result in the.
early payment to all creditors of a
dividend of 12 1-2 per cent. The pay
ment when made will represent a
total of 42 1-2 per cent, paid to cred
itors of the defunct bank which clos
ed its doors more than year ago.
Involved in the litigation just con
cluded by consent of all involved were
<7 rtain securities held by New York
creditors, the value of which is ur
certain, and in some instances in
adequate for liquidation of debt for
the security of which they were given
by the bank. The value of these se
curities is fixed in the decree just
rendered, and those ‘‘secured" cred-
Jors whose collateral has been de
cleared inadequate, given the privil
ege of participation in the dividend,
about to be declared, and in all future
('ivdends.
The decree also defines and order.;
paid certain fees allowed attorneys
engaged in the litigation as well as
compensation allowed the receiver
of the court, and has the effect of
placing the assets of the defunct bank
an < cnc'il’on for ready liquidation
and with a minimum of delay. Them
are still one or two claims, the sta
tus of which have not been finally le
fined. and upon the amount realized
from these depends the total of dLt
dends that will ultimately be declar
ed bv Rereiver Council.
25 NEGROES WILL
GO TO CAMP JACK
SON AUGUST 22ND
The local board of Sumter county
has received orders to send twenty
five negro selectment to Camp Jack
rcii S. C.. on Thursday, August 22,
and these will be selected from among
those in’ the class of 1917 as far as
possible, although it may be neces
sary to invade the ranks of the 1918
class to avoid going into deferred
c'asses. The men. will go to Camp
Jackson via Savannah, leaving Ameri
cus on the Seaboard Air Line at 12:30
on the date of their departure.
REGISTRATION OF
ELIGIBLES AUG. 24
Secretary E. A. Nesbit, of the local
exemption board yesterday authorized
the announcement that the office of
the local board here will be open
from 7 a. ni. to 9 p. m. on August 24th,
on which date all young men who at
tained the age of 21 years since Line
I
sth must register for military service
There are quite a number of these
in Americus, and the authorities have
completed every preparation for their
registration with a minimum of delay
I WHO’S WHO
IN SUMTER COUNTY?
NUMBER 193.