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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-05

it took a good man to be a gimper'
This pursuit and fighting part of
aviation requires type OF aviator
who will stick. especially the way Te
ay in groups. To do your best work
you must have a mutual feeling CT
confidence In the gimper flying beside
you that is rneQualled anywhere else.
If you have a gimper with you, you
know he won't make a mistake il
Judgment or lose his nerve at the
critical time A gimper couldn't do
that If he Lost his nerve just once,
he'd never he a gimper again. We
all know that, and no gimper ever
lose. his nerve.
Il don't mean gimper will alway s
pique into crowd of Huns, no mat
Ter what their number. A good GIN
per knows when to fight and when not
to figh:. It b. hasn't a chance he
draw eff. flies around until he gets
his altitude ara then drops on he
H..Inies 4 gtinper doesn't need % be
foolharGy. lie watches his -ehanC eH,
but n2lrr gives up when another :iM.-
per is being strafed '
When yoLre fy-ng around up tA:re
over Germany and being followed 0y
string of black Fuffs from the German
arGhirgs and hear them explol! =
a:ol I'd va and then see some Ger
nran planes on ~. one side of yot, 1t
is the easiest tlir ) in the worid 20
pretend you don't see them and k'+t
atrGieai: ahead LrtI you pass the A.
Usual, th4 Germans are willing to 10
that. toe, gnlese you attack them. Eat
a gimpor reyer lets himself fail to see
tnem. He mareuvers around until he
can pique On them and let them have
it until they run home. Then hes sat
isfted he's gimper.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-05

y
many of them In that department
which. prior to his administration had
been closed to them. AS a member
of the price fixing commission of the
war industries board, he stated he
had strennously opposed any action
toward fixing the price for cotton, and
the commission adopted his view.
Mr. Harris was given a most atten-
tive hearing and frequently applaud
ed. He received many assurances of
support from the loyal voters of
Montgomery, who stated the county
woult give him its convention vote IN
the coming primary.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-05
STRONG OLD MAN
IS YEARS YOUNG
SAYS zlRON Iron Tonic Made Hin Feel
Better, Ed BstiVr aRd Sleep Better.

Cd. Blount, Tarrytown, Ca, writes:
''I am seventy-five years old, yet have
been pretty strong until about year ago:
/ did not feel so well, had worn, tired
feeling, my body ached and | was not
myself. would chill easily,-my blood
seemed thin, my flesh flabby and skin
not clear. | didn't rest well and my ap-
petite was poor. heard of Ziron, how
It was helping others and it seemed to be
what | needed, too. | soon saw after
began taking IT that It was helping me.
felt better in every way. | ate better
i slept better. took three bottles and
II helped me. am glad to recommend
Ziron."
Ziron is indicated for anesHia, pale COM
plexion, poor blood, general weakness
etc. When your blood needs iron, take
Ziron. Remember, II the first bottle dom
benefit, youget your money back. DoH't
wait. Begin taking zifon today.
At all druggists.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-05
Ed R|CKENBACkER
TELLS OF 'G|MPER
TALK" AMONG MEN
FIRST AIL.AMERICAN SAGE"
TELLS OF NEW SLANG DEVEL-
GfED AMONG NATIONS AIR
FORCES AT FRONT.

Copyright, 1918, ty the United Press.)
WITH The AMERICAN AIRNrEN
in Francs, July IO.-(By MaiD - 30
you want some gimper talk?" said
Lieutenant Eddie kickenbacker, all
American ace aae former speed king
in the auto racing world today.
Wen call bunch of the gimpers
in, and there will soon be plenty of
gimper talk But you'll have to
translate it or the people back home
will never understand this aviation
6ialect we have developed over
here"
Rickeubacker, who downed his five
Germale in less than two months
and became the second all-American
trained ace, is tall strappling chap
with a fine sense of humor and a
winning smile. In his escadrille they
call him head gimper" just because
he is naturally leader and the life of
the unit The escadrille is known as
"glimper squadron" and was the first
group of American-trained air fight
ers to take the field of the air, away
from the German airmen.
"A gimper is bird who would stick
b. you through anything explained
Rickenbacker. IF you were up in
the air and ran into dozen boches
and were getting the worst of it, per-
haEs, and the fellow with you stuck
with you and gave it to them until
the Heinies went back into Hunland,
you'd know he was gimper.
IF he didn't have motor trouble
and his gun didn't jam, or he didn't
accept any one of a dozen good ex
cuses for looming off home and leav-
i. ing you to do the same if you could
&c: away, he'd be a gimper all right
A gimper is a scout who does every
thing lust a little better than he has
to.
eve call this the gimper squadron
because every man has to prove him
self a gimper by his actions. When
rev chap arrives he's an egg. All
good eggs soon become vultures, ana
then they're to goopher standing
Then is when they have to prove
themselves gimpers and they'll be
gimpers just as long as they make
good. A man who isn't a gimper
can't stay with the squadron-its
zoom for him back to the woods.
"Gimper means lot to us. 1t
means more than good scout, or pal,
or comrade. l got the word from
mechanic I had when I was in the
racing game. He was a gimper and
knew when he finished with mo-
fer she would run. In this mans life
there we're two kinds of people, GIN
nsrs and buns. There we're mighty
few gimpers in the world and lots
os bums as this mechanic put it, ami
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-08-05
Netice Of Sale in Bulk.
GBORGIA-sumter County.

GBORGIA-Sumter County.
Notice is hereby given to all con-
cerned that ]. NJ. France has this day
purchased from H. F. Williams the
stock of groceries in the store at Hill
and Fielder streets, in Americas, and
that said J. NJ France will continue
the business there under the name
Of the Fielder Street Grocery. H. T.
Williams will collect all debts due
him and settle all liabilities of said
grocery to date.
This July 20, 1918.
j. NJ. FRANCE.
1-1G-1. H. F. WILLIAMS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
Repeated Attacks
Repulsed by Haig
At Messines RIDGE
lBy The Associated rressl

WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN
FRANCE AND BELGIUM, April IL
The fighting was continuing this morn
ing north of Armentieres with the Brit
ish still holding Messines Ridge and
Wytschaete, which yesterday changed
hands several times.
During the day the enemy succeeded
in entering not only these positions
but La Creche, Nieppe and Hollebeke.
Vigorous counter attacks rorced the
enemy from all these places.
The Germans this morning were in
possession of about half of the village
Of Ploegsteert and Ploegsteert Wood.
The heavy enemy attacks mort and
ed in the advance of the German posi-
tions u4til the town was III a deep and
narrow pocket. the mouth of VI ;ch was
on line drawn approximately north
and south through Steenwerck.
The Germans attacked north of Ar
mentieres at 80 o'clock yesterday
morning, after two hours of intense
bombardment. They advanced under
cover of heavy fog, and the opposing
fighting was begun. The attacks were
pressed as far north as Hollebekc,
where the enemy made slight gains.
The Germans are particularly desir
GUS of capturing Messines Ridge and
Wytschaete and pressed their attacks
there hard throughout the day. Much
sanguinary hand to hand fighting oc-
cured at these places, the tide OF
battle surging back and forth for many
hours be- re the enemy finally aban-
doned temporarily his attempts here
Coincdent with the attack north of
Armentieres the enemy continued to
push northwestward from C:oix du
Bac, below Armenteres. in order to
complete the pocketing Of tie latter
city
Hard fighting occurred yesterday
about Estaires and at one time the
Germans had Il footing in the outhern
edge of the city. The battle here is
still continuing.
The enemy artillery was active in the
Somme region this morninC
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
Germany's Attack
Has Been a Failure,
Says Lord Reading
Drive Failed to Attain Its
Detectives, and Will
Not, He Asserts
IStaf Correspondence


CHICAGO, April 11.-Germany's last
Western front drive has failed of the
detectives which it was meant to at
tain, Lord Reading, the British Ambas-
sador, told great audience here to-
night in the Auditorium Theatre.
cit was undoubtedly a terrific at
tack the ambassador said. 1T would
be idle to pretend that that attack did
not succeed to some degree. but not in
the least to the degree that was ex-
pected Of it. 1t was a great venture
on the part of Germany. The object
ives which they meant to attain thew
have not yet attained. They will fail
to attain them"
This statement brought the men and
women out of their seats cheering.
Lord Reading continued:
There is that within our people who
are engaged in this struggle, both our
selves and our French comrades and
all of our allies, which will enable
them to sustain these attacks, notwith-
standing 1T may be that here and there
lhey may have to give way
Cost of Partial Success
The whole Importance of an attack
of this kind is that it should succeed
completely; if it does not the cost of
me attack IS infinitely greater than is
warranted by the success, even count
know it, we
The number of men sacrificed tbe
norts that are made, all go to show
mat there was to be this one great
attempt tor the moment. but, as our
rIlme Minister reminded us in a speech
"hich ne made two days ago in Lon
don, we must not assume there will
be none other wan
There will be other attacks. There
must be other attacks. Germany's one
chance and only chance is to continue
70 MAKE these attacks. as apparently
nel lnllltary commanders thoroughly
sustain them
We have no fear of them. We shall
sustain them. And as time progresses
gay by day. week by week, we shall
nave better opportunity of defending
'hem because we shall be sustained bV
'hose whom you are sending from here
am not sure that even YOU quite
recognize how important it is to ms
mat decision should have been arrived
az oy the President which allowed vour
soldiers as they now
W VIC DIlE6OoO With tho
French and the British. 1t means +, bnt
Tor the time being they will lie engaged
IN the battle with us; and we are most
thankful that your President. speaking
lot you. enabled that to be done with.
Can BE No German Pence
and the end, therefor of +b;s oro
struggle, delayed as it NAV he ana O.
indeed it probably will for vet some ne
iie time, must be, as we firmly be-
!ieve and as ] am sure you do. that
; y can be no German peace; that
sonable terms" GIL" ie"-
The Ambassador then told of the
great need of the Allies for man power
and ,! he showed that it was an imme,
eh need. Referring to the work Of
the navy, he said: "a
Your vessels over there take nar+
wlth ours Ours take part with yours
ney work together as one feet. Your
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12

the hope Of splitting the Allied armies
ana marching on Paris has been aban-
doned by the enemy must not be i'm
aslned for moment.
Expect New Amiens Thrust
Fighting on this front will certainly
be resumed in the next few days. prob
ably as soon rs the British make a
definite stand in the north. Intended
originally to relieve their right flank
resting on Arras-thus defensive
measure the Germans have turned it
into an offensive and have won consid-
cradle success.
The big indentation to the west of
Armenticres may lead to considerable
rcadjustmcnt Of the line In the Ar
mentieres sector the ground is too soft
and muddy for rapid artillery move
ment, and consequently much of the
fighting Is being done with machine
guns and rifles, towns and hamlets Of
fcrng excellent shelter for both de-
tenders and attackers.
Rivers Red With Blood
The Rivers Lys md Lave arc run.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
The Official Statements

LONDON April The official reports from Hogs
headquarters IN France to-dau foLo1us:
his
been delivered by fresh German divisions
In this fighting the 5s Division
which
Heavy lighting has
steenwerck also
ceeded pushing back
the the
launched
of
loebke but completely repud by
to he
Fighting continuing whole Canal
the Confines the front
day passed comparatively
DAYThe battle La Bassco
taken Mace
the ncighbohood Of the 1rom 70
full
North in tho situation Heavv
~
Plocgecrt, Messnes Wytschaete.
Foe Repulsed at Noyon Paris Reports
PARIS April lThe Office todou 0nue ont the f.,
loavng:
MGHT-Thcre violent artillery fighting points on
of
and this We repud
both banks of the River Disc and around lie pret
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
Gen. Plurner Won
Fame in First
Messines Battle

The ground between Ypres and Ar
mentieres under attack by the Ger
mans was almost exactly the Identical
front on which General Sir Herbert
6. o. Plumer won his clean cut vic
tory of Messines Ridge June 7 last.
On the morning of that day. after
ten days of intense gunfire over a
front of about 80 miles, the British
set off d million pounds of high ex
plosives which their miners had
placed under Messines Ridge by more
than two years of patient tunneling.
Premier Lloyd George. staying up to
listen, plainly heard the great shock
in London.
The Germans holding the ridge were
either DESTROYED Or dazed, so that
The British advanced with little re
sistance offered them to depth of
about three miles. They captured the
whole of the ridge, the towns of Mes
snes, Wytschaete and Ostaaverne
more than 1000 prisoners and 81 guns.
The British advanced behind smoke
barrage, preceded by tanks, but the
only resistance offered was by a few
stubborn detachments of Germans
holding out IN pockets" English
cavalry was put into action. 1t was
unable TO develop the success so as to
shake other parts of the German line,
but the battle was generally consid
cred the greatest British victory Of
the war up to that date and the least
costly victory ever won on the West
front One Of its most important con
sequences was the wiping out of the
Germans Wytschaete salient, from
which they had annoyed the British
in Ypres for more than two years.
This particular part of the battle
line in the West has been the scene
of terrible fighting for nearly four
years. Armentieres marked the furthest
retirement in this region Of the French
British and Bclgians in August and
September. 1914. Just to the north,
near Ypres. the Germans on April o.
1918, first loosed on the Canadian
troops their poisonous gas, and here
on December 10, the same year, they
drove hard al the thin line Of Cana
dams in a desperate effort to reach
Calais. On both occasions, the Cana
dams beat back the enemy and held
their lines intact.
Nearby the British launched their
counter offensive in February, 1916,
and withstood furious attacks during
April and May. the same year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
Foe Repulsed at Noyon, Paris Reports

ish defensive zone measures about
seventyfivc miles.
LudendorT is out to break, crush
ard destroy the British army, and a
terrific struggle of endurance is tax
ing place. No bcwildering surprises,
no wonderful strategy. no marvellous
gencralship is responsible for the first
enemy successes. They have been
won, like those on the Somme, by a
prcpondcrancc Of artillery, superiority
Of numbers. and ability to concen-
trate quickly at given point.
Spirit That Counts, Now
This stroke in the north NAV be
aimed at turning the Passchendacle
Messines- Vimy ridges and capture Dun
kirk. Calais and Boulognc, but greater
even than the question OF territorial
gain is whether the enemy has sue
cceded in crushing the offensive spirit
Of Haig's army.
Beaten back, the British are still Of
fcring strong resistance and exactin0 d
heavy toll as they fall back to better
natural defensive ground.
From Arras south TO Rheims the ar
tiIlery duel continues, but the infantry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
Brig. Gen. j. w. Lester
Honorably Discharged
Former New York Guard Off
Ger Found Untitled for
Overseas Duty
Staff Correspondence1

WASHINGTON, April 11-Brigadier
General James Westcott Lester, of
Saratoga Springs, N. Y, has been hon
orably discharged, the War Department
announced to-day. The discharge is
effective April 5. General Lester re-
Gently appeared before board of
army ulcers for examination and was
found untitled for overseas duty. The
department. also announced the dis
charge Of Brigadier General Roger d.
Williams, Of the Kentucky ,-atonal
Guard, for physical disability.
General Lester formerly was COM
mander of the old Third New York
National Guard brigade and was at
tached to the 9th division when the
New York State troops first went into
training at Camp Wadsworth having
charge, of the Saith infantry brigade
Later he was transferred to a brigade
of the army and corps troops.
Army orders today carried the pro-
80 Vanderbilt avenue, New York. to the
rank of lieutenant colonel in the Medi-
cal Corps, and the promotion of Cap
tain Frank w. Sears, formerly of the
Flrst Ambulance Company Of the New
York State Guard, to major of the
Medical Corps. Both officers are on
duty viii. the 9th division at Camp
Wadsworth. Captain Edward E.
Gauche,. 6O5 West Eleventh street. has
accepted commission in the National
Guard and given duty with tx 27th
division.
ALBANY, April 1l.-Brigadier Cen
eeral James W: Lester is a resident of
Saratoga Springs, where fer many
years he practiscd law. General Lester
has long, been identified with military
affairs, having enlisted as "a priyate
IN the National Guard when a younc
man, During the Spanish = merican
war he, was major Of the Second Req.
ment,, New York Volunteers. He Vas
called into Federal service carly last
summer and in the fall assumed com
mnnd OF a depot brigade at Spartan
ourg, >. Z. General Lester was born
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
Cherries Letters
From Home Cause
Guard Desertions
War Department to Warn
Relatives Not to Write
Discouragingly

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Letters
tives and of restitution among de-
pendents, have caused a cons iderable
number Of assertions among members
Of The National Guard organizations of
the nation, the War Department has
learned To-day it was announced that
q direct appeal will be made to the
relatives of the men to write moro
cheerfully, for it has been found that
in great majority of cases the dis
couraging reports were not justified.
Seventy per cent of the men who took
French leave returned when they
found conditions at home not as de-
scribed.
The War Department will point out
that soldiers deserving in time of war
are liable to the extreme penalty, and
if the folks at home cause them to
quit their duty they will be placing
the lives of the men in more certain
danger than they will face on the bat
tlefeld
OF SIX hundred assertions in all the
National Guard units Of the nation re-
ported during February. 80 per cent
were said to have been due to the dis
couraglng word they had from home,
and OF this number 70 per cent came
back voluntarily.
No evidence was found to bear out
the first assumption of the depart
mcnt that the wholesale desertions
were due to the activity of German
agents using the names of relatives to
describe fictitious conditions at the
homes Of soldiers.
The reports from National Guard di-
vision commanders show that the Penn
sylvania division at Camp Hancock,
Augusta, suffered the greatest from
assertions. more than 100 members of
that command departing without leave
during February. The Bath Division,
composed of Iowa, Nebraska, Mime
sofa and North Dakota troops, reported
the least, only four assertions, and the
New York State Guard was next with
ten assertions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12

CARDS the character of the country
it is barren gain. Moreover, the
enemy communications are length
ened across long tracts of clay.
The weather had improved, and
at 10 o'clock this morning the en-
envy made formidable attack
against Hollebeke. Fighting of great
intensity followed. Masses of the
enemy advanced in waves over the
heavy ground thanking Roozebeek,
making a great target for the rifle
men and machine guns, which
wrought what is described as terri
bic execution.
Comparatively few Of the enemy
got to grips with the defenders, and
eventually the attack was complete
ly repulsed, the struggling retreat
being followed by the field guns un-
til the enemy disappeared in the
mist,
Around Ploegsteert Wood and
Estaires there has been continuous
fighting, but the results are not yet
known. The enemy has brought up
more reserves, and we have also
thrown in reinforcements.
Northwest Of rmentieres, in the
direction of Ploegsteert, large bodies
of German infantry are reported by
our airmen as massing. Artillery
heavily concentrated there on the
evacuation of Armentieres carried
out very successful firing on these
bodies. The enemy is not attempting
to press our retirement. The whole
place is a vast pit of mustard gas
and our soldiers welcome the release
from the place"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12

in the
along the front between Monddor
was caught under the French
dispersed before able
Northwest
ing back
Germans attacked
pulsed alter spirited Another
broken by the French
brought down by the fire of rene machin eguns
A Belgian statement issued Wednesday reads:
During the nights Oourpat made several rails
into enemy advanced works especially
Nmude and Zcveco After the brought
back Similar
Merckem vitbou+
Along
a Of gas shel
Across the Lave at Certain Points, Says Berlin
BERL1N April LITTLE tus issued from ,ener
headquarters
NlGHTThe battle further favorab1o
course We If
hstaes the Lave has been a points.
DN-The battle full swing since Ami,
Armenteres and Festube
urd English and Portuguese positions the s
and the bank Of the ~'N
After he Chapele in ts first 90
u
which
into
The crossing of the Iy forced Regiment
Yesterday the Cenero,
SX Won Anms 1olbeke
the south They of Mnc and WIN
tanned it against attacks -
10 the south of Waasten
Poegseer Wood and reached the Poegee- road
General Quasts
Armcnt and Esae and freshly bupbt
Esaes We fought the region northeast
The considerably over ooOo
including
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12

costly. Lestrem is taking place
among towns made famous by the
gallant fighting of the British The
same is true of Estaires, where Il
desperate duel was fought for the
bridges Of the Lys, the Germans hold
ing one and the British another at
the present juncture.
Along Mcssncs Ridge the British
are holding the crest, the enemy being
stopped at the foot, although he adj
vanced few hundred yards from the
old line, which he has been holding
since last May, following the blasting
of the ridge by General Pumer.
Similar reports arc coming from
Givcnchy, where the enemy made re-
nehted attempts to break the British
hinge
German airplancs have been particu-
ihrly active in the last two days, giving
considerable assistance to the in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12

admiral has been in charge and IN ess
mand of our fleet in one Of our y =
ports. They arc just the same. -, ~
work with yours and are euite p
pared and have been under the ss'
mand Of yours. e
"All that is a very good augu! !; 4
the present, as it is indeed TOR 'as
mediate future With that navy ~. W.
ing together as it is. with your -, :,
increasing and with ours increass,a y ~
can have little fear what would 1.r y. !.
If only the German navy would S's
a chance"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-12
British Are Now
Defending Line
rs Miles Long
D.. A Ill., c
By Arthur S. Draper
fTfIbuile Cable servlcel

LONDON, April 1.-THE British
have evacuated Armcntieres, which
kas been within their lines since 1914.
The Germans have driven far into the
British defences, and now hold a line
approximately six miles west Of their
old front.
Agajn1t the Ncesines Ridge the
enemy has made alowes progress. The
battlefront has been extended north 10