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DAILY CITY EDITION FORTIETH YEAR BDY MILEY FIRST 1 L. I. MN TO 8E KILLED FI6HT ING AT THE FRONT LETTER F«OM JAMES V. STEWART FIRST NEWS OF INCIDENT.— BODY TOBN INTO BITS WHEN STRUCK BY HUN SHELL—RAT LEY SERVED AT MEXICAN BOIL DEB AND WAS POPULAR SOL DIER. Roy S. Ratley, of Cobb community, Sumter county, is the first member of tbe Americus Light Infantry to meet death on the battlefields of France, He was a member of the 151st (Ma con) Machine Gun Battalion when killed, but served with the Americus unit on the Mexican border, and was one of the most popular soldiers in the whole command. He had been made a corporal only a brief while betore he was killed. James V. Stuart, a member of the same command, who wrote home the first news of the death of Ratley, was himself wounded bj the same shell that killed the Americus boy, and is now in a hospital, recuperating from his wounds. The body of Ratley. ac cording to Stewart’s letter, written to W. M. Howard, of Cobb, was blown into bits by ' - e explosion, and iden tification was made possible only by certain markings on the leggings he wore. Ratley left Americus June 20, 1916, and remained with the Americus unit until the call for volunteers to fill out the Macon Machine Gun Battalion came, joining that outfit then. He was popularly known a# “Rat” among his fellow soldiers, and was well liked by all. MEMORY OF CHIP MAN HONORED IN CHURCH WHERE HE SANG BEFORE WAR FIRST AMERICUS MARINE TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR COUNTRY AND SON OF MBS. S. WILLIAMSON, HAS POPULAR IN COLUMBUS, WHERE MEMORIAL SERVICE IS largely attended. Friends of Wyatt M. Chapman, Miss Arrif Chapman and Mrs. S. William son in Americus will learn with in terest that a memorial service held i i Columbus Sunday in honor of the former, who was the first America: Marine to make the supreme sacrifice for his country in the present war, was largely attended. The service was held in St. Paul Methodist church one of the largest and most fashion able churches in that city and was conducted by the Rev. J. B. Johnstone, the pastor, was impressive. Mr. Chapman was a native of Columbus and a member of St. Paul church. He was a gifted singer and gave up a promising career after years of voice training to enter the marines. He was formerly a member of Co lumbus Church choir, and a special musical program was given by a com posite choir at the service today. De tachments of regular soldiers and also home aguards attended the memorial service. * WHO’S WHO 1\ SUMTER BOUNTY ? AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER "LIVEST LITTLE DAILY IN GEORGIA** SCARCITY OF LABOR MAYCAUSE WORKON PICRIC AGIO PIANI TO HE WEIOEO FIVE THOUSAND LABORERS NEED ED AND FARMING INTERESTS OF GEORGIA UNABLE TO STAND FU«THER DRAIN UPON AVAIL ABLE SUPPLY—RECRUITING FOR OTHER POINTS IS STOPPED. The recent effort of agents of the picric acid plant at Brunswick to re cruit laborers n this county, to which vigorous objection has already been entered by Sumter county farming in terests, is likely to be renewed, if re ports emanating from Atlanta are to be accepted as accurate. According io these reports the contractors in charge of erecting the plant are now’ five thousand laborers short and there are nearly two hundred oarloads of material in cars on sidings at Bruns wick which cannot be unloaded be cause of the labor shortage. Butterworth, Judson & Co., the con tractors, have appealed to the govern ment to supply more labor at the plant, and the authorities at Washing ton .have in turn asked State Labor Commissioner Stanley to speed up re cruiting for the plant, and to cease recruiting for all other projects un til the demand for labor at Bruns wick is supplied. Saturday there was an agent of the Brunswick contractors in Americus but so far as known no recruiting was attempted The police authori ties here have received instructions concerning a definite course to be pursued in the event further recruit ing is attempted here, and are keep ing a close watch upon all strangers who come here, in the belief that some c* these may be labor recruiting agents working quietly and without proper authority. The labor situation here as stated in The Times-Recorder several days ago, is already acute, and there is ab so.'uiely no labor whatever to spare for any project, however necessary, except at the cost of the farming in terests here. Because of this fact, it is hoped no further effort will be made to recruit labor in Sumter coun ty. Farming interests here are thor oughly aroused over the shortage of labor already existing and if any more is taken out of this county, it is cer tain the gathering of the cotton crop here will not only be greatly delayed, but farmers will sustain substantial losses as well. CLAIM OF NEW ORLEANS FIRM IS HELD INVALID At the request of the state food ad ministration County Food Administra tor Franc Maungum today investigat ed the claim of the Rio Santos Coffee Co., of New’ Orleans, that Mitchell At tyah, the Acme Market, Salem Nassar and Sam Nassar had refused ship ments of coffee made by them without due or proper reason, and found the claim without foundation. The inves tigation revealed that the Rio Santos Coffee Co., shipped the merchants named certain quantities of coffee, but that the shipments were not made un der tbe terms of sale agreed to by the salesman for the coffee company, and accordingly were refused by the merchants to whom consignments were made. WHO’S WHO IN SUMTER COUNTY! AMERICUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 1918 DANISH LEGISLATOR AND HER SON ■iiiimnuii 1 iiibloß SUv/z Is lift o u WOP ■ ,rhw@ rmyr i,- . ■<. atai * HWU tLHA MUNCH Frau Elna Munch, shown here with her son, hag just been elected a mem ber of the Lower House of the Dan- ILLEGAL ILLDTAAE'E DEINC PAID WOMEN IN THIS COUNTY TEI BESTOPPEDATONGE AT LEAST ONE CASE IN M.W.H NEGRO WOMAN RECEIVED AL. LOTMENTS FROM MORE THAN ONE “HI SB,IND” HAS BEEN LO CATED, AND ARRESTS WILL SOON BE MADE BY AUTHOR -ITIES. Complaint was made some time ago that negroes in Sumter county were receiving allotments from drafted sol diers and since then a quiet effort has been under way to locate the offend ers. This effort has at last been suc cessful and at ’east one of the alleg ed offenders has been definitely lo cated. No arrests have been made, but R. E Bai'ey, the c.epartment of justice beau at Atlanta, has been notified, and a special representative of the gov ernment w.l be here in a day or two to further investigate the case. !• is ho t A.d to take all of the lleged of fenders into custody at the same time, and according to the information in the possession of the authorities here, there are at least several women in Sumter county who now receive il legal allotments. The latest case reported to Mr. Bailey’s office involves a well known negro woman who is said to receive allotments from three negro men now in the army, or a total of ninety dol lars a month, from the various “hus bands” now serving in the ranks. How many others there are here it is im possible to know at this time, but a caieful analysis of the roll of benefi ciaries kept in the office of the war risk bureau at Washington will be made and in every instance where it is round more than one allotment is being paid the same woman arrests will be ordered. WHO’S WHO IN SUMTER COUNTY! ish parliament, the Folkeuthing. Three other women were elected to the same lb,use, while five more were elected to t hex Landstr inget, or upper house. DRANEVILLE MAN SHOT AND BADLV HURT BHONH IX.II RED MAN TAKEN TO HOS- PITAL AT PLAINS, WHERE BI'L LET WAS REMOVED,—CONDI HON TODAY QUITE SATISFAC TORY. Netos reached Americus today of a shooting affr.r ai Draneville, Marion county, in wh ch J. Albert Hart, a prominent merchant of that commu nity, was dangerously wounded by a -convict, who had baen allowed the privileges of a trusty. The bullet entered the left breasi just beiow the heart, ranged across the tody, and was removed by the surgeons just above the right hip. Mr ■fart was rushed by automobile to Wise's Hospital at Plains, where an oporaru n was performed. At last ac count he was doing as well as could be expected. The convict has been arrested and carried out of the coun ty for safe keeping. D. S. SMITH TAX COLLECTOR MARION COUNTY DIED SUNDAY News reached Americus today of the death at Buena Vista Sunday of D. S. Smith, tax collector of Marion coun ty. the funeral having occurred there yesterday afternoon. Deceased was well known in Amer icus, where he frequently visited, and announcement of his death will be re ceived with regret by many friends. He had been tax collector of Marion county during several years and was prominent in the affairs of his home cotnmunitv. He is survived by his I wife mother and several brothers and I ststers. WHO’S WHO IN SUJTTEB COUNTY I HIGHTOWER BICK FROM Till WITH STSTE OFFICIALS ON LAROR STATUS president OF chamber of com merce TOLD COMMISSIONER STANLEY SUMTER HAS NO LA BOR TO SPARE, AND ASKED I HAT ALL RECRUITING HERE BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. President J. fc. Hightower, of the Americus and Sumter County Cham ber of Commerce, has returned from Atlanta, where he went for a confer ence with State Commissioner of La bor Hal M. Stanley, regarding the la bor situation in Sumter county. The conference resulted in the statement by Mr. Stanley that the sys tem of recruiting labor here would be Changed immediately, but no promise was given that it would cease entire ly. The plan of the Atlanta authori ties consists in the appointment of a committee of three local parties to supei intend the recruiting here and to direct the operation of the labor bureau, and it is impossible as yet to say whether or not the plan will prove I acceptable to farmers and others vi tally interested in the solution of the problem It is proposed by Mr. Stanley to ap point three Sumter county men, one shall represent the govern ment, one the employers and the other the employees of the community, and no labor shall be sent out of the coun ty, except by direction of this com mittee. It is proposed untimately to pro rate the labor to be furnished for necessary war work among the various counties aqd to requisition la bor from each of these in proportion to the population, but this plan has not yet been definitely worked out. FRENCH PIERCE GERMAN LINE TO DEPTH OF 2 MILES OISE-AINE FRONT LDM.ON August 19. —The French tenth army, which attacked the Ger man posk’ens between the Oise an 1 the Aisne last night, has penetrated to an extreme depth of nearly two tu les. The enemy machine gunners are resisting desperately and the German an sei'ice is very active St Marbles-Triot, a little over a miles sou' hv.es! of Roye. was taken by the French yesterday, according to reports from the battle front. The French alsc cantured the town of Beuvraignes. two and Ihree-quarter miles south of St Mard. according to the dispatches. MANY PAPERS STOLEN FROM TIMES-RECORDER OFFICE EARLY SUNDAY Early Sunday morning some mis *creant entered the office of The Times- Recorder office and stole a quantity % of papers of that day's issue, the re sult being that many subscribers fail ed to ft e*ve their paper during the, day. The papers were pari of a rout, j < c,uprising J.amar street, and no rea-i re can he assigned for the malicious I latent of the thief, as the papers in 1 su h quantity could hardly have been WHO’S WHO IN SUMTER COUNTY? SAVE ' BKEIISS I MAN who i I LOCAL ACTIONS Dll WEST FRONT WITH INITIALISE STILL IN THE ALLIES HANDS BRITISH AND FRENCH ARE MAIN TAINING PRESSURE AGAINST «OYE BUT FIGHTING IS NOT SO GENERAL AS DURING LAST WEEK.—BRITISH MAKE PRO GRESS NOKTHWEST OF TOWN. LONDON, August 19.—Fighting oa the western front is still confined to local actions, with the initiative in the bands of the allies. As in the last week the scenes of most activity are in the Picardy battlefield and the Lys salient. South of the Somme the French and British maintain their pressure against the strong point of Roye, but the fighting is not as general as it was toward the end of last week, when the French moved forward to within a mile and one-quarter of Roye. Northwest of Roye the British have made progress between Chilly and Fransart. while south of the town I the French have taken 400 prisoners in spirited local actions south of BeauvraJgnes. German efforts to hold their line in the sector between Roye and Lassigny have been challenged by the French with success.. Since the general fight ing in Picardy died down the French have been pushing relentlessly be tween Roye and Lassigny with the evident purpose of outflanking both positions. The Germans have been pressed back in violent combats as a salient driven in her might prove dis ertrous for the entire enemy defense system on the present line. CENTRAL BAPTIST B. Y. P. U. WILL ENJOY OUTING AT PROSPECT TUESDAY Tuesday night the members of Cen trap Baptist B. Y. P. U. will enjoy an outing at Prospect Park, the occa sion being the culmination of an im aginary trip taken by the whole union recently, during which the organiza tion was devided into three groups, each group working to maintain the highest standard of excellence and this standard being divided into points. Each point scored by the contest ants counted as part of the distance to be travelled, and in the final county Group Three won, the other two groups thereupon agreeing to enter tain the winners at an outing. This has been arranged for Tuesday night, and hose who will attend are to ga ther at the church at 6:45 tomorrow night Soldiers who attend the B. Y. P U. meeting at Central church, and vho cannot get jpto the city in tim> to be at the church will be met at the train at 7 ;45 by a committee and ac comßante-’ to the park. of real value to any one. The theft of papers Sunday is not the first to occur at this office recent ly. however, and in future a sharp watch will be kept in the eff' rt to apprehend the thief Any informatio regarding the probable identity of the thief who took the papers Sunday will be thankfully received by this of fice. WHO’S WHO IN SUMTER COUNTY! NUMBER IM.