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GEORGIA’S QUOTA'
17,395 IN HEW CALL
IfULTON MUST FURNISH 83 AND
ATLANTA 1,767 MEN
I
FOR SERVICE
STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
lflrl«f News Items Of Importance Gath
ered From All Parts
Of The State
! Atlanta.—Maj. Joel B. Mallett, in
'charge of the selective service in Geor
gia, has compiled the net current quo
ta for this state under the new reg-. ... , ..
raitted hi
illations effective June 1. The quota ! eraor
amounts to a total of 17,395, of which
8,000 have been called to report on
Ijune 19 and 29, respectively. The
ifirst 4,000, to report during the first
[five days, beginning June 19, are col
ored ; the second 4,000, beginning June
'29, are white. The apportionment of
the net current quota among the sev
eral counties shows that Fulton coun
ty must furnish 80 men exclusive of
Atlanta, and that the local boards in
Atlanta must furnish men as follows:
'No. 1, 478, No. 2, 257; No. 3, 103; No.
|4, 521; No. 5, 112; No. 6, 120; No. 7.
176. One of the features of the new
system is the complete abolition. of
the method used in the past of basing
Urge Uniform Seal* Of Wages j
Atlanta.—H. M. Stanley, state com- j
missioner of commerce and labor, and
Georgia director of the federal em- i
ployment service, has returned from J
Washington. The demand of the var<-1
ous government plants for labor has i
been making a heavy demand upon his j
office and the situation regarding la-i
bor generally is regarded as most se- •
rious. One of the troubles is the lack j
of uniformity of wages, thus one gov
ernment plant recruiting labor from i
another at a slightly advanced scale,;
thus not only demoralizing the labor
market, but disturbing the morale of
the laborers. As a result of this prac- j
tice, and the consequences, a move- j
raent will be begun at once to have |
the government establish and enforce .
even among its contractors a uniform !
scale of wages, thereby preventing the
recruiting from one industry to an-
j other
SUBMARINES RAID
AMERICAN COAST
6URVIVORS REACH NEW YORK
AND TELL STORIES OF RAID
BY SUBMARINES
10 VESSELS REPORTED SUNK
Commander Of One Of The U-Boats
Seemed Unusually Humane For
German Officer
Washington.—Official confirmation
that the German submarines actually
have carried the war into American
Commissioner Stanley" has sub-i coastal waters came from the navy j an ovatl “ n
fl. H. DEAN OPENS
RACE FOR SENATE
In First Address He Pledges
Loyalty To President And
Goes After His Oppo
nents Vigorously
Athens, Qa., May 25.—Hon. H. H.
Dean, well known attorney of Gaines
ville, Ga., made the opening speech of
his campaign for United States Sen
ator here today, before an audience
of many hundreds, including citizens
of Athens and surrounding territory.
The people of Athens tendered him
He was cheered and ap-
annual report to the gov- j department. It authorized the an-' plaude(i throughout his address, par-
! ...... . ticulariy in connection with his criti-
I nouncemen, ‘hat American vessels! cjsm of certajQ public acts o( the
had been sunk by enemy submarines nosine candidates
Peooie Pray For The Allied Armies ofl lbe AtlanUc coast. j P °He s^d he pmpoeed to pilch his
i Practically the entire naval strength | campaign on a high plane of loyalty,
i of the Atlantic fleet now on this side
Atlanta.—Banked in a dense mass
about a platform above which Old
Glory floated, upwards of a thousand j the water is in pursuit of the sub
men and women stood at Five Points
at noon May 30. In accordance with
the proclamation of President Wilson,
they prayed God “that He will give
victory to our armies as they fight for
freedom, wisdom to those who take
counsel on our behalf in these days
of dark struggle and perplexity and
steadfastness t.o our people to make
sacrifice to the utmost in their support
of what is just and true, bringing us
at last the peace in which men’s
current quotas according to popula- hearts can be at rest because it is
marines
Nine Vessels Reported Sunk
New York.—Nine American vessels
were known to have been sunk by
German submarines off the north At
lantic coast since May 25.
The largest to fall prey to the raid-
dignity. efficiency and respectability.
He paid his respects to his opponents,
including Senator T. W. Hardwick
Hon. W. J. Harris and Congressman
William Schley Howard, and stated
specifically that his only criticism
would be of their public acts.
Mr. Dean declared that Georgia had
suffered greatly in the past.„by not
having in the senate men who would
measure up with senators from other
non.
Crushers Plan An Annual Convention
Atlanta.—Secretary K. P. Shivers of
the Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association
of Georgia, has announced that the
organization will be held this year at
organibation will be held this year at
Atlantic Beach, Pla., June 11 and 12.
In view of the close co-operation now
existing between the crushers and the
government in the production of veg
etable fats for human food, cotton
seed meal for cattle feed and iinters
•for gun cotton, special interest at
taches to the meaning of the associa
tion this year, which will rake on a
patriotic air.
founded upon mercy, justice and good
will
Experts Tell Of Georgia Minerals
Atlanta.—The importance of devel
oping Georgia's mineral resources to
(he utmost and as speedily as possible
were in the chapel at Georgia Tech
at a meeting of the Affiliated Techni
cal Societies of Atlanta, held under
the auspices of lhe Atlanta Section of
the American Institute of Mechanical
Engineers. The war department has
announced that supplies for Southern
camps and for export to the allies will
be purchased as far as possible in the
South, io save traffic congestion else
where. fieorgia is rich in mineral re
sources, including many of the ma
terials used in warfare, and the tech
nical societies are- anxious to bring
about their development.
ers which are seeking to prevent the; states,
sailing of transports with troops for • Referring to America s part in the
the battlefields of France, was the' war, Mr. Dean said:
New York and Porto Rico liner Caro- ! ['We have a great commander-in-
lina of 8,000 tons, which was attacked! clu ef of the Army and Navy, Presi-
SUBday night about 125 miles south- W,lsPn > , and w t, a11 f f}. safe in
■ , „ 6 , . . • j following his leadership and direction.
eq,st ot Sandy Hook. The iate of her. g^ould j be elected to the senate, it
220 passengers and crew of 130, who j w iii be my purpose to co-operate with
took boats when the shell| began j £im ia every plan and purpose to bring
to fall about the vessel, is unknown, j the war to a speedy and successful
but there is hope that they have been j determination. There can be no di-
picked up by some passing ship or i vision while the war is in progress
reach shore safely in the small
boats. Not a life was lost in the sink
ing of the other ships', according to
iate reports.
Besides the Carolina the known vic-
We have but one flag; we can have
but one leader, and all loyal citizens
must obey his command.”
Wants Honest Politics.
Mr. Dean then read his platform,
which is published in full elsewhere
tims of the U-boats are the Atlantic i in this paper. His declaration in fa
Refining company tanker Herbert L. 1 vor of "honesty and integrity in the
Pratt, the steamship Winneconnle, of
1.890 tons, and six schooners, the larg-;
est of which were the Hauppauge, a
political world,” brought prolonged
applause. He stated that the cor
ruptness in politics had more to do
with bringing him into the race than
new ship of 1,009 ions, and the Edward an ything else, and in this connection
Germar
Gordon Greater Camp Than Ever
Atlanta.—In point of man power.
Camp Gordon is now a greater camp
than ever before in its history as a
military training poinl, was the inter
esting announcement made by offi- j
•cials at camp headquarters. This state- i
ment means that ihere are more men: ,df ' Uennan prisoner
than is necessary to form a division I in Fulton county dr “
now at camp. A division consists of
from 30,000 to 35.000 men. Rules of .
censorship forbid the publication 0 f! ^ orman
the exact number of men a( lhe camp
H. Cole. The crew of these eight ves
sels have been landed at Atlantic;
ports.
Reports brought ashore by the sur-
he called attention to the Macon con
vention of 1914 concerning which he
laid:
“We saw the Tammany Hall methods
463,000 Is Paid For 2 ; 000 Acres Land I
Americus.—Dr. Thomas M. Merritt j
of Americus has just sold to the firm j
of Ashford & Smiih of Oconee county :
his Sumter county plantation of 2,000 i
acres, located seven miles west of |
Americus. Sixty-lhree thousand dol- j
lars was paid for this property by
the new owners, and the price is re j
garded here as an excellent one. The !
farm is located in one of the best
producing belts in Ibis county.
Record Food Crops Expected In State
Griffin—After touring fifty-seven
south Georgia counties as guest of the
tours committee of lhe. Georgia State
Automobile associaiion and later visit
ing central Georgia counties, W. B.
Royster, secretary of lhe Griffin-Spald-
ing board of trade, is thoroughly con
vinced that Georgia will this year es
tablish a record in food production
that will surpass any yet made by a
nouthern state.
Fiax Successfully Grown In Georgia
Waycross.—An acre of flax planted
iby J. B. Tompkins at Scotehville, near
,St. Marys, as an experiment, has just
been harvested. The yield of seed
amounted to approximately 20 bush-
lels, worth around $3.50 per bushel, and
were it not for the fact that there
are no linen mills in this section, even
:morc could be realized from the fiber
ttian from the seed.
[Rural Educational Conference Planned
Athens.—Special interest is already
lapparent in all parts of the state in
'the approaching annual conference on
Irural education to be held at the 1918
[summer school of the University of
(Georgia. The conference will be at-
ftended by thee ounty school superin-
Itended by the county school superin-
Iby a large number of the boards of
ieducation of the counties.
i
, .ivors indicated that the Winneconnie ! practiced there, introduced by V\. J.
, • Harris and T. W. Hardwick, which
Prisoners Are Now At Worx ; and nearly all the schooners were , jn debauching and buying up
Atlanta.—After several days’ delay j soak by the same l -boat, which bad i a ] arge nlimbe r of the votes by trades
in getting the contract for the use of; been lurking in the path of shipping! and corrupt manipulations, resulting
for road work j ofr Tl,e New Jersey coast and the Del- j i n the defeat of the choice of the
aware Cape since late last month. : people of the state.
The stories told by the skippers of j “W. J. Harris now undertakes to run
the schooners indicated Thai the com-! f° r 'he senate, and states he is run-
mander of the submersible was un-j nirw on bis record All of his record
„ , , in Georgia has been to put 1. V\ Hard-
tisually humane tor a German subma-, v ick in * thp scna1e in the Macon con
iine officer. In no instance, so far as i VPntion of 13Uj and tu step in and
known, was a lifeboat shelled and in !
all cases reported that crews were j prevent the people of Georgia from
given opportunity to escape or were j laying in their usual supply of coai
taken aboard the submarine where ' at the usual season, and causing Geor-
some of ihem were kept prisoner for i Eia alone and her people the loss of
eight days before thev were turned ! nudl0ns dollars.
. .. • _ Mr. Dean denominated Senator
adnfi to be picked up by a passing j jjarawick the “bantam” senator, and
vessel. j referred to the fact that Mr. Hard-
Forty-eight survivors of vessels j wick had refused to meet him in joint
sunk by German U-boals, brouhgt to j debate at Carrollton. He criticised Mr.
porl by a coastwise steamship, were j Hardwick for voting against all meas-
landed. Abou! half of them had been ' ures proposed as necessary to carry
prisoners for several days aboard the ! on the war gains' Germany, naming
submarines.
n up. the eon-
iract between til (“government and Ful-
I Ion county w-as signed and twenty-two
were put to work on the
I Campbell!on road. The government
j furnishes the guards for the prisoners
and feeds both the prisoners and the
guards, while lhe county’s part, of the
tract between the government and Fnl-
malerials and machinery and pay $1.25
for each man. The government re
ceives $1 of this amount and the pris
oner gets the remainder..
Member Of Legislature Joins Marines
Talking Rock.—Chesley Vincent, 28
years old, representative to the Geor
gia legislature from Talking Rock,
has enlisted in lhe marines. He is a
widower and has two small children.
He was sent to Paris Island, S. C.,
where he will be in training until the
next session of the legislature. He
will then receive a furlough and rep
resent bis district.
Woman Made School Superintendent
Moultrie.—Mrs. Dismuke has been
named by lhe board of education,
county school superintendent lo suc
ceed her husband. Lee S. Dismuke,
who died several days ago. The ap
pointment is temporary, the law not
providing for a woman holding the
office permanently. The board will
name a man lo fill the unexpired term
at its regular meeting in July.
Rural Mail Carriers Meot In Savannah
Savannah.—At lhe annual meeting
of the First Congressional District Ru
ral letter Carriers’ association held j
here, the following officers were elect- j
ed: President, Thomas Kennedy of
Manassas; vice president, O. O. Stew
art of Halcyondale: secretary and
treasurer, B. L. Collins, of Cobb.
State Normal School Awards Diplomas
Athens.—One hundred and sixty-
three young women and one lone young
man, representing over two-thirds of
the 152 counties in Georgia, were giv
en diplomas at the annual graduating
exercises of the state normal school
held in the J. M. Pound auditorium
. among others the bill to raise an army,
! the food control bill, the air ship bill.
The survivors were from the steam- j the ship producing biUt the biu to
ship Winnieconnie and the schooners j ma ke it unlawful to make liquor from
Hattie Dunn and Edna. Twelve more j grains and sugar and the sedition bill,
survivors of the schooners Tauppage i He declared Hardwick had voted for
and Isabel B. Wilev, who were making [ and demanded the privilege of “insult-
for shore in a motor yawl at night, j in S our fla g, our president, our gov
were believed to have landed some
where further down the coast.
Capt. Charles E. Holbrooks, com
mander of the Hattie Dunn, said that
his vessel had been sunk May 25, and ■ ton, Harris knew of it, but
he and his crew taken prisoner by the j something over two hundred
eminent and our constitution, the
navy and the army.
Again referring to Mr. Harris, Mr.
Dean said:
"When Hardwick came to Carroll-
tayed
miles
[Schwab To Visit Brunswick, Georgia ; here
Brunswick.—Tlie Southern Ship- j
tbuiiding companies here organized an i General Scully Buried With Honors
[association for the purpose of speed-1 Atlanta.—The funeral services of
[ing up shipbuilding and co-operating j Gen j tV. Scully, the distinguished
rwith the government to win the war. | armv officer who died at his home.
submarine 1 away. When the battle was over and
Scores of United States warships : 1 had driven Hardwick out of Georgia,
. „ . - , he comes forward, stating, ‘I won a
are scouring the seas m search of .the j gr@at vjctory • •>
submarines. j Declaring that there is something
Five Submarines Said To Be Raiding j truly amazing about the method of
Norfolk Va.—Na,vai officers here ! MHowards entrance into the cam-
said their reports indicated five Ger- pa L^’ Mr Dean challenged Mr. How-
. . . . . .. ard to tell where he got the $4.2a5
man submarines had been operating which he admittpd he had
received as
along the Atlantic coast and that two campa ig n contributions. He spoke
had been sighted oft the Virginia also of Mr. Howard’s refusal to meet
capes. Rear Admiral Fechteier. com- j him in joint debate,
mandant of the Norfolk navy yards, i
said two U-boats had been sighted off 1
Mr.
iHon. Charles M. Schwab was elected |
[an honorary member. He will shortly j
ivisit Brunswick and the association is j
(arranging a demonsi ration for his
ivisit.
610 Piedmont avenue, were held from
the Sacred Heart church. Interment
was in West View cemetery, with full
military honors. The pallbearers were
all army officers of rank.
[Dorsey Urges Coal Port At St. Macys ! g ood R 0 ad Projects Receive Approval
Atlanta.—Gov. Hugh M. Dorsey, in
this capacity as chief executive of Geor-
igia. and as chairman, of the state
icouncil of defense, telegraphed Sec
retary William G. McAdoo, director
|of railroads and water transportation,
:and the governors of thirteen states,
[including those along the Mississippi
(and Ohio rivers, calling a conference
tat St. Marys, Ga., on the 10th and
lllth of June, looking to the establish
ing there of a government coal port,
and the immediate construction ot til*
|Bt. Marys to SL Marks caaaL
Atlanta.—Judge T. E. Patterson, the
chairman of the Georgia state high
way commission, announces that seven
projects for federal aid have been ap
proved and that plans have been made
and work ready to begin on these im
provements and will begin on the oth
ers as soon as plans are complete. The
largest project approved thus far is the
Atlanta-Macon highway on which one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars
will be spent, the government paying
half this amount, as will be the oust
in all the project# awrered.
Sued for Liquor Bill.
Dean next referred to a suit
the Virginia capes, and Rear Admiral brought against Mr. Howard in De-
McLean. commandant of the fifth na- Kalb C ° unty b J * J Park ; a , certified
, ’ ’ : ... . ..... . .. „ copy of which he presented. R. J
val district, said in addition to hese p ar k was formerly in the,whisky busi-
two others were reported off the New ness in Chattanooga and this suit, ac-
Jersey coast, and one off the coast of cording to Mr. Dean’s statement, was
North Carolina. * j brought against William Schley How-
- ; ard on a bill for whiskey amounting
U-Boat Captured After Sinking Ship to *61.90, on which there was a bal-
An Atlantic Port. — Hovering for [ ance due . °* J® 9 -*®- Tll “ s ' dt ' mas
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ican tanker William RocKeteller had e( j Mr. Howard defeated the suit
been sunk by a German submarine, a br jfle^ing the statute of limitations,
flotilla of destroyers and two sea-' Mr. Dean charged that Mr. Howard
planes finally succeeded in capturing bought the whisky for the purpose of
the U-boat, according to naval officers, i defeating Congressman Livingston,
survivors of the disaster who landed , making this statement:
here. The sea for miles about the ' v ° u wi " no ' ice , M . r - Howard post-
, ,, , , , , , , , hi _ poned payment, claiming he was
spot where the fatal blow struck the brokp> mm ^ ^ accQunt was
tanker was closel> matched by destioy .^ our y ears 0 ld, and then took advan*
ers and their accompanying seaplanes j tage of the statute of limitations to
for any sign of the U-boat speeding ; defeat paying the debt he had incurred
from the scene of its encounter. ! for the purpose of defeating old man
j ‘Lon’ Livingston for congress.”
-Accident” Hides Numerous Things 1 Mr. Dean thanked his audience and
Washing ton.-Death among the ex-! Promised that if elected lie would give
. . „ ® . T the whole state his best and most ef-
peditionary forces as a result of ac-, flc - ent seryice as senator
Following his Athens speech, Mr.
Dean went in the afternoon, by spe
cial invitation, to the Goshen Picnic
grounds in Oconee County, where
more than a thousand citizens of Oco
nee were gathered for the 44th Go
shen anniversary. He was most en
thusiastically received, and Judge H.'
M. Saxon, a former Hardwick leader,
who introduced him, stated at the con
clusion of Mr. Dean’s address that
after what had been said of the other
candidates, he did not feel he eonld
support them.
cidenL suicide, homicidal attack and
military execution hereafter will be
included in the casualty lists under
the heading “accidents and other
causes,” Secretary Baker announces,
after having consulted with his ad
visers as to whether the exact cause
of death should be made public in
each case. Officials were unanimous
ly against such action, holding that it
would humiliate unnecessarily the rel
atives ia some instanoea.
TALC
ontee
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and delighted to find that Talc Jon
teel sells at a price no higher than
that of ordinary powders. Try it today.
For Sale by
H. _J. .PORTER, .Druggist,
Butler, .Georgia.
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