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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
WORK OF NEGRO REGISTRARS
DECLARED MOST EFFECTIVE
Only Isolated Instances Of Evasion
and Registration Board Gratified
at Showing Made.

the day the local organization of the
W C. t. U. served fruit nectar in the
upper corridor of the court house,
while the colored w. C. T. U. organ
ization served lemonade in the base
ment where the negroes registered.
Several negroes declared they were
over 21 years of age and registered, al
though in many instances the regis
trars were practically certain that
they were not within the prescribed
limits.
When the complete returns have
been compiled. they will be forwarded
to Adjt Gen. Van Holt Nash and thence
tc Washington. D. c.. The actual draft
for military service will not be made
VI til the returns have been consoli
dated in the national capital, probably
not within the next four or weeks,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
GERMAN CAPTAIN
GIVEN SENTENCE

CHARLESTON, S. c., June Cap
tain J. r. Klattenhoff, Of the German
American merchant ship Liebenfels,
pleaded guilty in the federal court here
today to sinking his vessel in a United
states harbor "on orders" He was inn
nlediately sentenced to serve one year
and a DAY in the penitentiary at At
lanta, Ga, and in addition to pay fine
Of $500. Several members of the crew
Of the Liebenfels are already in prison.
Paul Wierse, editor of a local news
paper; DR.. w. Mueller. former Ger
man consul at Atlanta. and Captain J.
r. Klattenhoff were all indicted by
the federal grand jury after Klatten-
hoff confessed he sank the Liebenfels.
Mueller and Klattenhoff are charged in
the indictment with conspiracy to
sink the vessel. and wierse with aiding
in the unlawful agreement.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
Moods Selections 10 stand.

WASHINGTON, d. c., June 6.-Sitei
for two or the three cantonments in the
Southeastern department in which viii
be trained the men of the selective
are at Atlanta and Columbia. Of the
twelve camps to be located in this de-
partment, nine will be for the National
Guard, as all of the guard of the coun-
try will be traied in either the South
eastern or Southern departments, ex-
cept that two camps will be located on
the Pacific coast.
While selections for the National
Guard camps in the Southeastern de-
partment have not yet been approved,
| il is assumed that General Wood has
plans to recommend for camp sites
previously announced by him as having
been selected The war department,
however, would make no announce
ment
1t was made clear, at the war de-
rartment to that effect, it was said, was
National Guard camp, had not been de-
tsrmined upon as a site for one of the
army cantonments. A previous state
ment to that effect, it awssaid was
premature. Eleven of the sixteen sites
for war army oantonments are yet to
be selected.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
BLAME WOMEN FOR
MUT|NY IN PRISON

JOLIET, Ills, June 6.-The mutiny
in the Illinois state prison here yes
terday was due to the misguided in.
terference of women" interested in
prison reform, A. l.. Bowen, acting
warden at the institution, stated early
today The women's prison reform
league, some time ago, obtained women
correspondents for many of the pris-
oners, which resulting clogging the
prison mails. The revolt started whe..
this was ordered stopped by the au-
thorities. One women correspondent
residing at Mama, Fla, determined to
visit the prisoner she corresponded
with, and Ell route wired him from ev-
cry station at which a telegraph Of
fee was located, this being one incl
dent resulting in the decision to stop
all such correspondence.
One person was killed and seven
others hurt, besides two buildings be-
in burned during the progress of the
mutiny,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
.AMERICUS VETERANS
WRITE FROM CAPITAL

A brief communication received 10
day by the Times Recorder from the
veterans of Camp Sumter. U. c. v
who are now in Washington, D. c., al,
tending the reunion, states that the en-
tire party is well and fully enjoyins
the events of the great gathering.
They will leave for home on Friday
arriving in this city on Sunday by spec
ial car, having left on Saturday night
for the national capital. The veterans
in the party are c. S. S. Horne. J. W
Harris, J. D. Stewart. w. S. Moore, G.
". Markette c. d. Morris. B. S. Teel
:. P. Wise, J. B. Nicholson. E. II. Cor
esn. r R. Arlington. T. j. Bowden
P. Chapmna. j R. Culpepper, n. T.
Fulford.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
7ORNADOES AGAIN
HIT MIDDLE WEST

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 6.-Tor-
radoes caused the death of fourteea
persons and the injury of fifty others
in various sections of Missouri and
Kansas last night The death losses
may be increased when wire facilities
are restored. telegraph, and telephone
companies being amonk the heaviest
property losers. A heavy rain began
falling Immediately after the high wind
subsided and continued for hours, cul-
minating in fears of fiood conditions
within the next "A hours. Most Of the
deaths reported occurred at Centralia,
Alton and East Richmond
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
RAILROADS WILL
QUIT COMPETITION

ATLANTA, Ga, June Railroads
o; the South are to abandon competi-
tive activities and operate their lines
during the war as part of the one ma
tional trans-continental system under
the direction of the Railroads War Bu-
reau for the benefit of the government
Steps to make this plan effective were
completed at a conferenc of the ex
cYtive officers of the different southern
lines called to meet in Atlanta by W
] Harahan. president of the Seaboard
Air Line railway, and chairman of the
southeastern department of the war
beard.
In order TO make available the maxi
mum transportation energy for moving
fuel, food, materials and troops neces-
sary for the successful conduct of the
war. the southern lines adopted the
policy of reducing passenger service,
either through elimination or cOnsoli-
dation, and utilizing the equipment
men and coal thus released for the
more important service of the govern
ment. This policy, it was announced.
will be observed with every possible
effort to safeguard the convenience u
the public.
Plans were outlined to ask the CO.
operation of shippers in loading cars to
full capacity and releasing them as
promptly as possible in order to in
crease the car supply.
A committee of five will be ap-
pointed to visit the railroad commits
sions of the different states and ac-
quaint the state authorities with the
facts as to what the railroads are try
ing to do for the success of the war.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
AGAIN ARRESTED
AFTER ACQU|TTAL

c. II. Elmare. the Cordele man who
attained considerable notoriety on ac
count of the charges brought against
him bv his 16-year-old step-daughter
Mary Belle Keith. and who was placed
or trial in the superior court here this
morning was acquitted by the jury ear
l. this afternoon, but was Immediately
arrested on another warrant sworn ou;
in Baldwin county. charging him with
rare committed against the girl in Mil
Iedgeville
Gilmore. who has been at the head o:
a ouasi-charitable institution in Cor
dele. made frequent trips through the
country SOLICITING funds for the main
tenance of the institution. The Keith
girl accompanied him, and it is alleged
that ON these trips he committed the
crime charged against him.
He was charged with having assault
ed the girl in Americus last December
and had been in jail in this city for sew
eral weeks. AT his trial this morning
there we're many sensational incidents,
but after about two hours deliberation
the jury brought in verdict of nos
guilty.
Gilmore was Immediately arrested on
the Baldwin county warrant and will
be held to await the arrival of officers
from Milledgeville.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
TWO POUNDS DOG MEAT.
ALLOWED EACH FAMILY

AMSTERDAM. Netherlands. June e.
According to the Antwerp correspond
ent of the Handelsblad the German au-
thorities at Ghent have issued an ad-
ministrative order granting permission
to the city of Client for the erection OF
dog slaughter-hOuse. One Of the
regulations provides that 20 dog-buch-
er may supply more than about sw'7
pounds of dog meat week to each.
family
In the opinion of the correspondent
quoted, there is no doubt this example
soon will be followed in other towns
Of Belgium, for want is increasing
day hy day
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
SUMTER COUNTY CITIZENS 2210
STRONG REGISTERED YESTERDAY
REVEALS PLOT To
BL OCk MUNITIONS

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June 6.-Plans
to abduct a. st. Louis munitions man
rfacturer as a part of gigantic Ger
mon conspiracy to block shipments
of such supplies to Entente nations,
was confessed here today by c. j. Pier
sol to Prosecuting Attorney Paul
ebay, according to statement given
out by O'Day this afternoon. Piersol
is one of six men held in Jail here IN
connection with the mysterious disap-
pearance of Lloyd Leet, the 14-months-
old son of j. Holland Leet, wealthy
banker here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
DUTCH ORDER PORTRAITS
OF KAISER AND SULTAN SEIZED

SOURABAYA, Dutch East Indies,
June 6.-Printed portraits of the Ger
man emperor. the emperor of Austria
Hungary and the sultan of Turkey have
been spread broadcast among the ma
tives here, particularly in the province
Of Sourakata. The Dutch government
has ordered that such prints shall be
seized. Where they came from is un-
known.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
RECRUIT FOR u. 6. ARMY
LEFT HERE YESTERDAY

Rufus Sellers, of Preston, left
Americus yesterday afternoon for At.
l6nta to stand his final. examination
for enlistment in the United States
army, having already successfully pass
ca the preliminary examination given
at the local recrui$ting station. The
recent orders from the war department
permitting men to enlist ia the regd-
lars for the term of the war with Ger
many has resulted in securing many
more recruits than before.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
THREE RECRUITS SENT
TO MACON TRAINING CAMP

Three additional recruits for the
Americus Light Infantry were sent
off yesterday afternoon to the train
ing camp at Macon to receive instruc-
tion preparatory to rejoining their out
ft now encamped temporarily in this
city. The new men are 7. G. Armour.
n. ]. Broadnax and H, B. McWilliams.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06

Sumter county's response to Presi-
dent Wilson's call for registration of
her male citizens between the ages OF
21 and 81 years, was whole hearted
alG complete, as shown by the returns
compiled today from the operations of
the registrars who worked in the
various districts during yesterday.
The total registration in the entire
county was 2,21O divided almost equal
ly between the whites and negroes, al
though there is of course slight ma
jority of negroes in the total list OF
eligibles.
The registration by districts is as
follows:
17th-139
Leslie Q5th) -S76.
Americas (27th)-930.
New 26th-74.
29th-72.
Old 16th-106.
2Sth-224
New 16th-142.
Plains (Old 26th)-147.
The registration in Americus upheld
the previous estimates made by the
registration officials, who asserted that
the list of eligibles. in this district
would amount to about 1000 names.
In only one or two sections of the.
county did the registration figures fail
to come up to the estimates and IN
these districts conditions are being
investigated by the officials. The negro
registration throughout the county
was most creditable, although in few
outlying sections the negroes dill
not measure up to the standard est
nv the colored citizen of Americus,
Leslie and most of the other districts.
The cooperation of the prominent
tmericus negroes who acted as reg
ie+rars handling their own race. was
nrimarily responsible for the gooc
showing made by the negroes and the
officials in CHARGE of the work are LOUD
in their praise of the colored regis 4
trars.
ONLY one instance is reported
where negroes were nindered from
registering and this case is being i'll
yestigated by the authorities.
This morning at the courthouse a
corps of volunteer assistants, made up
Of local business men, were busy
tabulating the registration cards from
Tho various districts and it is probable
that this task will consume not oniN
today hut all of Thursday as vel
,rhere is much detail work to be donc
hefore the complete returns can be-
sent in.
At o'clock last night, when the
registration places closed, the volun
toer registrars, who assisted the county
hoard in making the count of eligible
,oIo citizens we're warmly commended
NV the county officials. The operation
ot tbe registration machinery in this
citv and throughout the county, was
most efficient. according to reports
made today. The ease with which the
registration was made astonished man.
who thought that the task would prove
too disicult to be accomplished I'M
only one day.
The court room on the second floor
% the court house presented a scene Of
octivitv from a. m. until p. m las
night for in addition to filling out Il
oard for each man registered, the reg
istrars we're Obliged to make duplicate
comics. The negro registrars were
released from duty about p m. and
from that time on both whites and
negroes we're registered in the court
room by the white registrars. Durins
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06
Faxes in stockholm $50 Per Capita.

SToCKHOLD. Sweden, June g.
Taxes in stockholm for the year 1915
amounted to $50 person. Taxation has
Increased SAG per cent. in sixteen years.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-06

The Tnnes-Recorder is the ONLY paper
in the Third Congressional District with
Associated Press Service.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11
coLoRED TROOPS BARRED.
Race Prejudice Prevents Soldiers from
Being Sent South.

3 = 3
Washington, D. c., August, 1917.
The war department has decided
that no colored regiments shall be sent
with the national guard training
camps in the south.
Objections of southern cities to hay.
ing the northern colored troops sent to
training camps in their midst are un-
derstood to have inspired the new de.
cision. The fear of race riots, aroused
since the riots in East st. Louis and
Chester, Pa, and the trouble in south
ern towns where colored regulars were
stationed was another compelling rea-
son.
Iowa has been considered as a State
IN which a cantonment site might be
obtained for colored troops. A col
ored officers reserve camp is now be-
ing held at Des Moines. Several
Southern representatives have told
war Department officials that colored
soldiers will be welcomed if they are
we'll disciplined. So, :
There are two complete regiments of
colored national guardsmen, the Fiji.
teenth New York and the Eighth I'LL
nois. There are two battalions, one
from the District of Columbia and one
from Ohio, Connecticut, Maryland.
tennessee and Massachusetts furnish
four separate companies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11
WILL THE MOB RULER.

The Loyalty League of America has
been organized. at Phoenix, Arizona
The avowed purpose as set forth in
the constitution is to exterminate the
I. w. w.
The L. w. w. is seeking to exter-
inmate the workers who do not bow to
their mandates. -.
The draft resisters in. North Caro-
lima and Oklahoma are resisting con-
scription bv violence.
In various parts of the country
colored men are being murdered be-
cause they are willing to work. ~
Is orderly government to give way
to anarchy?
Already enemy countries assert that
the U. S. is ruled by mob violence.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11
"IN BLooD-sMEARED GARMENTS"
Colored Committee Would Make Riots
and Lynchings Federal Crimes.

Washington, D. C., August, 1917.
A committee representing colored
people who had silent parade in New
ork to protest against race riots, left
a petition at the White House asking
Tor action by Congress and the Presi-
dent to make ''lynch1ng and mob
violence" national crime punishable
by the laws of the United States.
In their petition the colored men
pointed out that in the last 81 years
1857 of their race, men and women,
have been lynched, and that less than
half a dozen of those involved have
been punished. The petition also says
no nation that seeks to fight the bat
Ties OF civilization can afford to march
in blood-smeared garments"
James w. Johnson of the N. A. A.
Z. T. was the spokesman who ad-
dressed Secretary-Tumulty. The presi-
dent said he was too busy to see the
petitioners
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11
Chicago's CoIored Protest.
Chicago, ILL.,, Aug. 1917.


Alleged race discrimination by the
war department in the handling of
colored troops led prominent Chicago
colored men to send a strong telegram
OF protest to Washington.
Reported here" it reads, "the war
department has issued orders that no
colored national guard regiment shall
be allowed to attend training camps
IN the south because of prejudice of
southern people. = ~
I'VE protest against any order by
the government based upon race dis.
crlmlnation. Our soldiers have en-.
listed and are being drafted and will
tight and die if need be for this coun.
try and democracy. ~.
I'VE demand the same treatment
and training for all United States
soldiers regardless of race or color.
Let our government stand for one
country, one flag, one duty for all citi-
zens and for real democracy in DIR
own country as we'll as for democracy
in Europe" .>-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11

groes than was done by these white
people. The organization of the, man.
hood of the nation for the protection
OF human life and liberty on the seas
and for the deliverance Of democracy
in the world will be needed at home
after it's task abroad is done. While
our fellow:creatures in the United
States are hunted and tortured as if
they were wild beasts, government can
scarcely be called democratic. So long
as colored people are prescribed, dis
eliminated against, segregated and
despised, ill-will and antipathy will
furnish fertilizers of hatred and muir.
der.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11
CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION.

In the opinion of THE APPEAL,
the strongest article denouncing the
East Saint Louis massacre was an
editorial published in the Christian
Register of Boston, Mass. The Regis
ter is the leading Unitarian paper pub
lished in the United States and per-
haps that accounts for the article.
The Unitarian church is one of the
few Christian denominations in Amer
lea in which there is no color line.
The orthodox Christian sects in Amer
lea are so filled with prejudice that
the ruthless massacre of helpless men,
women and children fails to bring out
a protest.
The article from the Christian Reg
lister, which follows, is not so long as
some of the articles which have ap-
peared in the daily papers, but it is
evidently the most sincere which THE
APPEAL has seen:
The hideous outrage against law
and humanity in East st. Louis, ILL.,,
makes us turn again from the barbara
ties of war to the ferocities of peace,
from crimes against civilization abroad
to crimes against civilization at home.
The testimony of eye witnesses shows
that nothing is to be learned among
white people of this city from the cru
elites and brutalities' of foreign con-
quest. No tribes of any name or time
have ever outdone the white men and
women who burned colored men.
women and children the other day in
this American city. Nothing more re-
Voting Was ever CHARGED against Ne.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11
a LlTANY OF ATLANTA.

In September, 1906, there was a
brutal massacre Of colored people at
Atlanta, Georgia. Scores Of colored
men, women and children were muir
dered because of their color. DR.. w.
D. Burghardt Du Bots wrote the story
of the massacre in the form of a litany
which appeared in the New York In.
dependent shortly after it's occur
renee. 1t was "done in the day of
DEATH"
The recent massacre at East St.
Louis so resembles the Atlanta muir
derfest that we print in this issue Du
Bots "A Litany of Atlanta" by ex.
press permission of the New York In
dependent. =. r
e.,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11

Charles Edward Russell, a member
of the American Commission to Rus
s1a, appeals to the Americana people
to help Russia build a republic. Per-
maps in the years to come when the
Russian republic has been built, some
great Russian will aid the establish
ment in. America a republic which
knows neither race, creed nor color.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-11

The Year Book of the Federal Coun-
Gil of the Churches of Christ in Amer
lea for 1917 states that 747,0OO people
Joined the church" during the year
1916. Judging by the evidences of
Christianity as exemplifed by the So
called Christians in the country,
Joining the church" is largely a mat
ter of hypocrisy. The people of the
United States are further from true
Christianity than ever before in the
history of the nation.