Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-27
NAMES Of THOSE
DRAWN IN ORAFT I
ANNOUNCED TODAY
NINE WHITES AND EIGHTY-SEvEN
NEGROES ADE PUBLISHED
MUST BE SENT OFF AT ONCE TO
TRAINING CAMPS.

The following are those who will go
to complete Sumter county's quota un
der the first draft. reporting at Camp
Gordon, Tuesday, April End:
Whites-Chas. D. Giddings, Willie
Jones Bass, l.. E. Holloway, Rufus
Johnson, Grover Teel, Wofford M.
Skinner, Moley Pantone, Otis M. Wei
Ions, VIM. T. Holmes, Jr. Alternates
Geo. L. Holloway, R. w. Thompson,
Leon D. Slappey, Chas c. Veates.
Negroes Willie Blanche, Windsor
Walton, John Henry Brown, Fed VIII
liams, Ernest Green, John Lewis, Jesse
Jackson, Lucius Deal, Willie E. Lang
ley, Henry Sillman, Robert Daniel,
Taylor Scott, Solomon Jackson, Adson
Morgan, Bonnie Branan, Simpson Cox.
Marcellus Hawkins, Calie Williams,
Joe Roach, Dave Minter, Charlie Davis,
Henry Baldwin, Lonnie Williams.
George Crawford, Floyd Burrows, Mes
bit Pope Cassie B. Carter, Majah Dri-
YER, Mathis Folks, Popie Jeffqries, An
drew Hubbard, Sheffield Holland, Lewis
Slaughter, Willie See, Allen Bivins,
Sam Harold, Willie Jackson, Ernest
Davis, Ned Blakely, Frakn Bridges,
Jim Moore, Robert William Jones,
Henry Smith, Ulysses Jones, Calvin
Carter, Arthur Williams, Ernest Wal
ker, Dyrel Sherman Shaler, Chester
Harris, Fred Champion, Bliss McCul-
Tough, James Andrews, George Ans
drews, Henry Wade, Clifford Wright,
Ebert WINS, Douglas Wilson, Stephen
Hunt, London Owens, Geo. Ray Hlg>
gins, Jesse D. Mullin, Ulas Lee, John
Mills Bob Kitchins, James F. Ray,
Ulysses S. Ragan, Will Holbyclass,
Paul Davis, A G. Harris, George Par
fsh, Willie Jones Bates, Fred Douglas
Jones, Clark Higgins, Luther Berry
hill, Sam Guerry, Henry McMichael.
Albert Martin, Josh HargroVe, Sam
Prince, Thomas Carter, Harry Hill.
Tobe Lincoln, Barney Hawkins, Ray
mond Fdanklin, Willie Tullis, Willie
Cox, Ed Walker, Lonnie Tucker, Tom
Robertson, Iraiah Frazier, Johnnie Lee
Barnum.
All of the negroes summoned for
duty must report to the local eXemp- /
ton board here Thursday March 2Sth' I
and will entrain at 6;37 a. m. Friday
morning, March 29th for Atlanta. The
local board is required to have Sum
ters full quota present at Camp Cor
don not later than April End. All who
fail to respond to summons by the
board will be classed as deserters, the
penalty for which, in war time, is
death
After the foregoing list of selectmen
had been made up and summons sent
the individuals named therein, Chair
ran Maynard. of the local exemption
board. received the following telegram
f, ON Major Joel Mallett, who is in
charge of the administration of the Sc
Iective service law in Georgia:
Provost marshal general advises
that since negroes now being inducted
are called under old quota instructions
placing negro farmers at foot Of class
One are hereby rescinded, and negroes
should now be inducted out Of class
One in sequence of order numbers, re
gardless of whether engaged in farm
ing. However, white men are being
called under new quota and white
farmers should be placed at foot OF
list. Under the above instructions ev-
cry board will be expected to COM
pletely fill calls announced in circu-
lar letter 243 on the day and hour
Famed therein. MALLETT."
According to these instructions the
ninety-six negroes to be sent from this
county next Friday will go in the or
der of their service numbers, regard
less of agricultural occupations, but
in sending future quotas those engag-
ed exclusively in agricultural pur-
suits will be placed at the bottom of
class One, and others selected to fill
their order numbers under the draft
regulations.