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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
OFFICER FLIES FROM AMERCUS TO ARCADIA FLA
IN transform; LUNCHES, STARTS ON RETURN TRIP
What to Do When
II Year Locusts
Appear This Year


THE YEAR 1919 is likely to be
one of the worst locust
years" on record But entomolo-
gists of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture see nothing
alarming in the prospect.
The "17-Year Locust" will ap-
pear this year in the following
states: Alabama, District of Col
umbia, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jer-
sey, New York, North Carolina,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
The injury done by the periodical
cicada consists almost wholly in
chiseling grooves in the branches
of trees for depositing eggs. This
injury always appears to be greater
than it actually is. Popular alarm
is usually out Of proportion to
general damage.
Young fruit trees are sometimes
killed by the cicada. The precau-
tionary measures are: Defer put
ting our young fruit trees till next
year; postpone budding operations:
do no pruning this winter or spring.
When the insects begin coming
out, hand-pick them frnm young
fruit trees or spray them wit hpyre-
thrum powder, kerosene emulsions.
or a solution of carbolic acid or
acetic acid.
Later, when the insects are ready
to begin laying, spray young fruit
trees with whitewash
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
WEATHER FORECAST.

For Georgia Probably clearing
Sunday morning; not much change in
temperature.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
Must Stick by IA
Principles---Lewis

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.--(By Associat-
ed Press .)-Senator Lewis, speaking
before the Lawyers club today in sup
port of the proposal for league of
nations, declared the American gov,
ernment could not afford to abandon
a single one of President Wilson's
fourteen points without laying itself
open to charges of pertidy, and justify
ing the Allies in accusing us of trick
cry and withdrawing from the peace
table
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
Leaves SoUther Field at 6:l5 a. M,
Reaches Destination at ll::3O,
Eastern Time.
RETURN TRIP Is INCOMPLETED
WHEN WEATHER INTERPRETERS
MCCauley Making Coast TO- Coast Trip,
Mapping Aerial Routes for
Government.

Major T. C. McCauley, of Taliaferro
Field, Ft. Worth, Tex, plotting a De-
Haviland4 airplane, few from Sou
the Field to Carlstrom Field, Area
dia, Fla, distance of 500 miles, in
4 hours and Is minutes Saturday. He
left Americus at 6:15 a. M Central
time) in the rain, headed south, and
landed at Carlstrom Field at 1I:30
O'Clock eastern time). He took
lunch at the post there, replenished
his supply of gasoline and oil and
started back for Americus at 1875
p. M, intending to reach here late
Saturday afternoon. Flying at the
rate of speed he attained in making
the morning trip, he should have
landed at Souther Field by Also p. m.
However, up to a late hour last night
he had not been reported The weather
was thick all day, and it is supposed
that because of the rain and the early
nightfall because of the heavy clouds,
he was forced to land for the night
somewhere on the route.
In the fight from here to Arcadia
Major McCauley maintained an aver
age speed for the entire distance Of
T1Q r,,iIoc on how.
Major McCauley reached Americas
Friday nieht on his way southeast
ward. He few from Baton Rouge, La,
via. Jackson, Miss, in five hours,
landing at Souther Field at $3.50 p. m.
His schedule really embraced a
round trip across the continent He
left Fort Worth, Texas, last Sunday,
starting westward for San Diego. By
Wednesday night he had returned
from the coast as far as Stanton, Tex,
a point 800 miles west of Fort Worth.
Leaving there Thursday morning, he
few to Baton Rouge. He expected
when he left Souther Field to be back
in Fort Worth Monday, takin geight
days for the round trip.
According to the officer, the fight
from San Diego to Arcadia could be
made in two days, if aerial conditions
could be found right for the whole
distance, and he declared that records
will be established before long.
Major McCauley is on an experiment
tai jaunt, of the same order that other
eross-country flights have been made
in the last few weeks. Their pur-
pose is to gather data and establish
transcontinental aerial routes. Ac-
cording to Major McCauley, when
complete data has been gathered OF
every bit of the country, aerial navi-
cation will be a simple matter. When
every locality has been catalogued for
emergency landing fields, all that villa
be necessary for pilot to DO in start
ing out in any direction will be to de-
termine his route and refer to his
book Of information for data so that
he will be able to travel in complete
safety, whether forced to land or not
Major McCauley had high praise for
Continued on Page 81
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
Loans to Allies by
US. Drop Sharply

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-(By Assp-
ciated Press. America S job as bank,
er for the Allies was lighter this
month than any since the United States
entered the war. Only $17,00O,000 has
been paid out as Allied loans since
January 1, the treasury reported to-
day, although payments on Allied ac-
count for a long time ran around
S400,O00 monthly. The United States
has actually paid out to Allied credits
$3.50, $4,000
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
Mine LAYING
FLEET CAPTAIN
TELLS OF TRAP
FOR U-BOATS
Banage 230 Miles Long and Is to
rs Miles Wide Planted in
North Sea.

81 WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.5-(By Asso
ciated Press. 1.-The American mining
squadron, which, in conjunction with
the British navy, blazed 230mile
trail of mines across the North Sea
from the Orkneys to the coast of Nor
way has returned home with the story
of how this great achievement in the
campaign to throttle the German sub
marines was contributed
Captain Reginald B. Belknap, COM
mander of this feet of ten ships-two
light cruisers and eight converted mer-
chant graphically described in
a statement today the work of laying
the 70,100 mines which made up the so.
called North Sea barrage. and an=
nounced that at least seventeen enc
my submersibles were known to have
come to grief in attempting to pass
through this field
The American ships laid $3.50 OF
the total number of these American
invented and manufactured engines of
destruction The field averaged %
miles in width and nowhere was it less
than Is miles across, an hours run for
a submarine. If safe course were
sought underneath, several lines of
mines would be found there equally
deep, and if the submarines went down
even deeper, mines were ready for
them there, too, and one touch was
enough.
Before the barriers was half way
across" Captain Belknap said, the
barrage began to yield results. Early
in July, 1918, after the second eXcur-
sion of the mine layers and from time
rines damaged or disappearing in that
area. From the nature of the case it
may never be known definitely how
many actually did come to grief there,
but the best information gives a prob
able ten before the middle of October,
with final total of seventeen or more.
In addition to this toll the squadron
should be credited with two subma-
rines lost in the fields of British mines
laid by the Baltimore off the Irish
coast
The American squadron arrived at
Inverness last May &c ready to begin
operations and twelve days later start
ed on its first mine-pIanting "excur.
sion" On these trips which lasted
from 40 to 48 hours, the squadron was
part of the British grand feet, and for
protection against submarines and
raiding cruisers, it was accompanied
by British destroyers and battleships
or battle cruisers.
"On the second mining excursion"
said Captain Belknap, the sixth bat
tie squadron was the support, con-
sisting Of four American battleships,
commanded by Rear Admiral Hugh
Rudman of the United States navy, in
the flagship New York. One may mag
inc with what feelings we saw our own
ships file out of Scapa Flow, form
line and slowly disappear in the haze
as they swept off to the southeast
ward It will be readily understood
that the way had to be made smooth
for the mine planters. A single well
placed torpedo or mine, or few enc
my shells, would certainly finish one
vessel, and probably destroy all ten
of them. Each mine planter carried
from "a to 100 tons of high explosive,
a total of nearly 500 tons in the
Continued on Page Four)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
LOCAL SPOT.
NEW YORK COTTON FUTURES.

Good middling 25 cents.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
Doctors to Strike to
Curb Citizens Strikes

AMSTERDAM, Jan. "a Friday -
(By Associated Prses) All of the doc
tors and chemists of Bremen have de-
cided to strike, according to the Ber-
lin Lokal Anzeiger, as soon as the
political strikes endanger the traffice
of supplying the people with food, gas
and electricity, or if citizens of Bremen
are arrested for political reasons.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
Pershing Orders All
Men to Write Home

WASHISGTON, Jan. 25.-(By Asso-
ciated Press. THE failure of rela-
tives and friends at home to hear
from many members of the American
expeditionary forces in France has
caused General Pershing to order ev-
cry man to mail to his nearest rela-
tive postcard. giving the present To-
cation, state of health and military
unit of the writer. Special postcards
are being supplied the men.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26

Above A. Mitchell Palmer, alien
property custodian, who has always
been very close to President Wilson,
was considered at Washington to have
an excellent chance OF appointment
to succeed Attorney General Gregory
Below Frank l.. Polk counsellor of
the state department, who bas been
prominently mentioned Photos (c)
Underwood & Underwood.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
Rebels Battling in
Streets of Lisbon

LISBON, Jan. 23.- Thursday -
(By Associated Press. s.)-Fighting be-
tween the republicans and monarch
lists is in progress today in various
parts of the city The monarchists
appear to be giving way.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-01-26
100000 Tons Hun
Ship Awarded US.

NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-(By Associat-
ed Press.) The German ships allot-
ed to the United States for transpor-
tation OF troops aggregate a total Of
100000 tons, and includ the giant
Hamburg American liner Imperator
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
Gets
BUSY WITH WAR
ON PROF F|TEERS
House Adopts Resolution For
Investigation of Increased
Prices of Shoes Army Sales
Are Going Well,

Washington, Aug. 19.--With adop-
the federal trade commission to in
vestigate Increased shoe prices, the
house today took first legislative ac-
ton toward reduction Of the high cost
of living.
Previously the house voted down an
amendment which would have extend
ed the inquiry to other articles of
clothing and food.
The house agriculture committee
considering legislation to extend the
food control act to other necessities
of life. to extend the powers of the
act beyond the war time period, to
give the president authority to fix
fair prices for necessities and to pro-
vide penalties for boarding, today
continued its hearings Tomorrow At
torney General Palmer will appear
before the committee.
The senate agriculture committee
after some members had held that
the legislation as proposed by the
attorney general did not clearly define
what constitutes profiteering, hoard
ing, postponed final action today.
Reports to the postoffice depart-
ment indicated that the war depart
ment's food surplus which was offeced
to consumers yesterday through the
parcel post. was meeting with ready
sale. Assistant Postmaster General
Dockery today instructed postmasters
that no war stamp tax was applicable
to parcel post shipments of army food
stuffs.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
MEXICAN BANDITS
To Be CHASED BY
CAvALRYMEN AND
j. 6. AIR FORCES
New Policy is Adopted For
Putting an End to Raids
Across Border is Announce
ment at Washington.
VIGOROUS ACTION TO
FOLLOW DEPREDATI0NS
American Troops are DiStrib-
uted at Strategic Points
Along Frontier So That Pur-
suit VIII Be Prompt.
tsv ~oss,so Jouss.l ,rserAL LEASED w,ss,

Washington, Aug, 19.--No official
announcements are being made OF
how the United States government in
tends to handle the bandit nuisance in
northern Mexico. from this point on,
but there is every evidence that all
preparations have been made TO meet
future depredations with a swift
movement of troops, such as is now
being conducted against the despera-
does who held the two army aviators
for ransom.
Swift moving cavalry, fully equipped
with machine guns and guided by
airplanes, 1t Is understood, will be re-
lied upon, and win be prepared to
move quickly from strategic points
along the border of the bandit coun-
try on the Rio Grande.
Organization of thu bc~Ger guard
TO insure the greatest speed in these
movements has been completed, the
cavalry detachments being so distrib-
uted as to place the nucleus of a fly
ing column at carefully selected points
along the Rio Grande.
Inaugurates New Plan.
Movements of troops of the Eighth
cavalry into Mexico today inaugurated
the new plan, according to officials
and from this time on similar incl
dents will be handled without
gloves"
In announcing that Maj. Gen. Jo-
seph I. Dickman, commanding the
southern departmra.s had acted on
instructions from the war department
Secretary Baker intimated that only
the danger in which the two officers
were placed prevented an attempt to
rescue them by force.
when the reports of the capture
of these two officers and their be-
ing held for ransom" Secretary Baker
said, "the hour of execution on the
next day in default of the ransom
being paid, there was, of courN, no
opportunity to make a military rescue
within such a time and / therefore
directed that the ransom money be
paid and that force be. arranged to
take up the hot trail of the bandits
and pursue them with the hope of
being able to capture as many as pos
sible"
All Left to Dickman.
Details of how the dash to be con-
Quoted were left entirely to General
Dickman, the only requirement be-
ing that it would be made with a
swiftly moving force"
Cavalry with machine guns and
guarded by airplanes would be used.
If captives are taken, they will be
brought to the United States.
The close proximity of the bandit
rendezvous to the border, led to the
hope that the American troops might
overtake them before they would have
time to scatter
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20

Milwaukee. Wis, Aug. 1S.--Three
companies of state home guards were
ordered from Camp Douglas tonight
to aid deputy sheriffs in keeping order
at the Cudahy Packing company's
plant at Cudahy, near here, where
one man was killed. eight slightly
wounded and a score injured in a
clash between strikers and the police
this afternoon.
More than six hundred strikers, men
and women, took part in the riot. The
wounded and injured were not in a
serious condition, it was reported.
The trouble began when women of
flee employees started to leave tho
plant late this afternoon under guard
of deputy sheriffs. A number of wom-
an. wives of strikers, threw sticks and
stones at them, they said, and the dep
uties came to their rescue. Strikers
then Joined their wives and became
50 riotous that the deputies drew their
guns and fired into the air. A free
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lhf MORNING JOURNAL tPtClAL LEASED MiNSl
Maria, Texas, Aug. 19.--Rain-soak-
ed and saddle-weary, the American
troops Of the Eighth cavalry tonight
were pursuing the Mexican bandits
who held ,Aviators Peterson and Davis
for ransom over the Mexican noun
tains south OF the border.
Lieutenant Peterson and Lieutenant
Davis, the ransomed flyers, are riding
with the columns to help locate tho
place where the bandits made them
prisoners and to identify the bandits
if captured.
Following release OF the aviators
near San Antonio, Chihuahua, early
today. American cavalry troops cyoss-
ed the border, Reports received from
the troops in the field late today
gave no intimation that contact had
been made with the bandits or that
there had been any fighting.
Storms sweeping the Mexican noun
tain district south OF the Rio Grande
Big Bend district multiplied the diff
ficulties of the American troops. In
the Ojinaga district .torrental rains
made 1t difficult to follow the hot
traiP, on which the troops crossed.
Pursuit Is Difficult.
Clouds and low visibility prevented
The airplanes from rendering good
scout service.
In the entire district, where palo--
verde, mesquite and cactus grow. bar
rem hills, rocky canyons and noun
tains are superimposed on mesa be-
yond the border over which winding
trails are traced in white.
Along these trails the cavalrymen
were making their way tonight. The
columns often were forced to break
into detachments and wind slowly up
the sides of mountains, down box
canyons, always alert for bandit
ambush. The soldiers and officers
wore rain-soaked uniforms, caked
with dampened dust Their horses
were tired from the long forced
march.
The troops are on field rations from
mule pack trains. as no field kitchens
were taken.
The communication line is being
maintained to the border, along which
supply trains and couriers pass from
the base on the American side to the
columns in the field.
Air Communication Only.
A field wireless pack and airplanes
ere maintaining communication with
headquarters here. The storm is in
tcrfering with field telephone COM
mnnication through the district
The line to Preside tonight was
out of order and nothing was known
OF movements OF Carranza troops from
ttinaga, opposite that point Orders
were issued at headquarters here to
all commanders in the expedition to
use every care TO protect peaceabls
Mexicans
The balance of the $4,000 ransom
which Captain Leonard F. Matlack
brought back to Candelaria after hay
ing tricked the bandits into releasing
Lieutenant Davis without paying the
full ransom was deposited in the bank
late today 1t amounted to $4,000.
1t was said here tonight that it
virtually was impossible to carry out
Major General Joseph r. Dickman's
order ,instructing officers to pay the
bandits the full ransom unless the
bendits are overtaken and captured by
American troops.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
STATE GUARDS CALLED OUT
TO SUPPRESS RIOT; WOMEN
ATTACK CUDAHY EMPLOYEES
(By Morning journal Special LEASED Wire)

special Leased WIreJ
for all fight ensued and the deputies
said they were forced to fire into the
crowd to restore order.
The Cudahy plant has been closed
for two weeks. A disagreement over
wages and unionizing of workmen
caused the walk-out
A committee of strikers were in
conference tonight with Michael
Cudahy, president of the company,
trying to reach an agreement tina.
would end the strike.
This morning a mob of 500 strikers
stormed train that stopped at
Cudahy. The. men said that they
thought the train brought strike
breakers to the plant. A riot call was
sent out and deputy sheriffs arrived.
Cne striker was arrested and for a
time the men threatened to storm the
Jail. This feeling brewed all day and
reached a climax in this afternoons
rio.
Paul Helmskie. 35 years old, the
man killed. was one Of the strikers.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
ERWIN WILL NOT
CHANGE HIS PLANS
tsr posslso JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASE. wsr,

Ell Paso, Texas, Aug. 1s.-Brigadier
General James b. Erwin, commanding
the El Paso district. said tonight thar
he had in no way changed his orders
for troops at Summer Camps In the
Sacramento mountains and that he
had no plans. and had not had, for 4
tour of the camps. General Erwin
said that he had received no orders
or instructions from Washington re-
garding troop movement in connec.
ton with the Mexican situation.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
CAPTAIN MATIACK HAS
RECORD AS FIGHTER

Louisville, Ky, Aug. 19.--Capt.
Leonard f. Matlack. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. II. Matlack, Louisville, gained
fame in December, 1915. when with
twenty men he followed a band of 200
bandits into Mexico and after a battle
in which thirty-five of the bandits
were killed. recovered herd of cattle
stolen from the American side Of the
border.
Matlack, veteran of the Spanish
American war. enlisted in the regular
army in 1903 and saw service in the
Philippines. He has been mentioned
three times in official dispatches for
extraordinary service.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
BRITISH FLEET WILL
ATTACK KR0NSTADT

Stockholm, Aug 19.--The rein
forced British fleet is concentrated
against Kronstadt, naval port of Pet
rograd, a dispatch from Helsingfors
says. The city of Kronstadt, it Is said,
is burning.
The Bolshevik submarine depot
ship Viatka is reported to have been
sunk in an engagement off the Tolbou-
kin lighthouse, several miles north
west of Kronstadt.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
Evidence Not sufficient

Cazenovia, n, Y. Aug. 19.--Donald
w. Fether, of Los Angeles. Cal, stu
dent at Cornell University, charged
with murder in connection with the
death of Miss Hazel Crance, Of Ithaca,
in Cayuga Lake, July 10, was ordered
released on the ground of insufficient
evidence by Supreme Court Justice
M. H. Kiley here tonight.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-20
THE WEATHER
EnRECAST

Denver, Colo. Aug. 19.--New Mex
leo. wednesday and Thursday, partly
cloudy, probably local showers north
portion; slightly warmer east por-
ton.
Arizona: Wednesday and probably
Thursday, fair; little change in tenn
perature.