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VOLUME XVIIL
FIGHTING EAST OF '
MEUSE DAS-GIVEN
KAISER ADVANTAGE
Intense Artillery Action in the
Woevre Section Is Reported
by Paris—No Infantry Move
at Verdun
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. March 6. With the
j- rench center tn the Douaument eecio.
• apparently still holding firm against
tKe desperate assaults of the crown
prince's armies, the Germans are again
turning their attention to the flanks
of the French positions, around tne
stronghold.
Berlin announces the capture of l.O(
additional prisoners on Sunday as a
result of the fighting on the east bans
of the Meuse.
Intense artillery activity tn the
woevre region was reported in the
Faris night bulletin, the fire centering
ipon the regions of Haudomont and
Fresnes. about ten miles southeast of
Verdun ' Military commentators re
cently have laid stress upon the opera
tions in this sector, holding that the
next important drive by the Germans
might be exerted there, with the object
of rolling up the rFench right flank.
Other indications, however, have
pointed to the possibility that the eyes
of the German headquarters staff were
upon the extreme French left, across
the Meuse river, where the towering
height of Le Mort Homme commands
the lesser eminence nearby and the sur
rounding plains. The heavy artiller.
of the is also pounding the de
fenses in this sector, and according to
Berlin gains have been made by the in
fantry. .
Th testing of the French strenyth by
rurious assaults on the main defenses is
continuing. Illustrative of this was
’ esterday’s attack on the left of the
I >ouaumont sector, near the Coto du
Poivre. There the French lines also
held firm, according to Paris, while in
. the immediate front of Douaumont the
German assaults were temporarily sus
pended. the heavy French artillery con
tinuing its answer to the rain of giant
«ells which the Touton 43’s and simi
lar big pieces were pouring upon the
defensive trenches.
Correspondents quote French military
men as declaring that the German
achievements so far in the great battle
for Verdun have resulted merely in re
storing the lines to the positions they
occupied at the end of 1914. be
lore the French, in a series of local at
tacks. began expending the defensive
area about the fortress.
Verdun itself is now under German
artillery tire but according to corres
pondents little damage has been done.
Indications that the Germans may be
planning another offensive movement on
the western front are contained in re
ports from Dutch sources that import
ant troop movements are going on be
hind the iront in Belgium.
Forty thousand German cavUrymn
are said to l?e on their way to the bat
tle line near Ypres. in which sector the
famous German attempt to break
through and reach Call’s occurred in
April. 1915.
From the Frecnh front to Asia-Minor
-hire have been no events of import
ance of a military way so far as the of
ficial bulletins show. In Armenia the
Russians report continuing their pur
suit of the defeated Turks and the drive
southward toward the Tigris has been
no evident of importance of a military
way so far as the official bulletins
snow. In Armenia the Russians re
port continuing their pursuit of the
defeated Turks and the drive southward
toward the Tigris and far-off Bagdad.
Unofficial advices bring word in this
connection that the British on the way
up the Tigris toward Bagdad have been
heavily reinforced and that there has
been fighting between the Turks and
the army of General Aylmer which is
trying to reach Ketel-- A mar a to relieve
General Townshend s beleaguered forces.
The British official report on the last
night’s air raid over England says that
13 persons were killed and 33 injured.
Three Zeppelins are believed to have
taken part in the attack, which was
over an area including eight counties.
1,000 Additional Frenchmen
Captured, Berlin Claim
BERLIN. March «-—(Via London.)—
Capture of nearly 1,000 French near
Verdun on Saturday and Sunday was
announced today by the war office.
The number of prisoners, who were
captured east of the Meuse, is fourteen
officers and 934|men. The statement fol
lows:
"Western front: Lively mining duels
recurred northeast of Vermelles. British
infantry which 'delivered minor atttacks
on several occasions in the neighborhood
repulsed by our fire.
”On Lhe eastern bank of the Meuse the
day passed more quietly than previous
days Nevertheless we captured yester
day and the day before during minor
engagements, 14 officer*, and 934 men.
“Eastern and Balkan fronts There is
nothing to report."
Germans Plan to Attack
British Front at Ypres
LONDON. March 6.—lmportant move
ments of German* troops in Belgium are
reported in a Central News dispatch
* from The Hague. It is said information
ban reached The Hague from Maastricht.
Hoilana. tnat 49.900 German cavalry
men of the Landsturm are on their way
to the front near Ypres.
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N. D. BAKER, former mayor of
• Cleveland, who has been named
■ Secretary of War to succeed L M.
Garrison, resigned.
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Wilson Names
Newt D.
War Secretary
Former Cleveland Mayor
Chosen for Cabinet Vacancy
Created by Resignation of
Lindley M. Garrison
(By Associated Frets.)
WASHINGTON. Maifh 6—Newton D.-
Baker. former mayor of Cleveland, has
been selected by President Wilson for
secretary of war.
Mr. Baker has accepted the position
and is now arranging his affairs >n
Cleveland preparatory to coming to
Washington to take up his duties.
The Selection of Mr. Baker is under
stood to have been discussed by Presj
i dent Wilson with Colonel House today.
When President Wilson was making
jup his cabinet in 1913 he offered the
place of secretary of interior to Mr. Ba
ker twice Mr. Baker then was mayor of
Cleveland and declined for that reason.
The president and Mr. Baker have been
close friends for some time and have
corresponded frequently. .
Mr. Baker is said by his friends to
be in close sympathy with the presi
dent's j>olicies and is known to have
had the support of some members of the
cabinet for the war office. When Pres
ident Wilson recently was touring the
middle west on his preparedness pro
gram he saw Mr. Baker in Cleveland
and had a long talk with him.
Mr Baker has been in Washington fre
quently of late and on his last visit here
said tie had not been offered the post
of secretary of war and did not believe
he would be.
Ever since Lindley M. Garrison resign
ed the president has been seeking a mid
dle western lawyer for the place.
BAKER A REFORMER.
For years Mr. Baker has been closely
identified with the.reform movement in
Cleveland. Wheli Mayor Tom Johnson
oied Mr. Baker took up the tight for
lower street car fares and finally brought
about adjustment of street railway
franchises in Cleveland.
At the time of the Baltimore conven
tion, Mr. Baker was prominently men
tioned for the Vice presidency because
of the tight he made for Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Baker has been known for years
as a leader of the Ohio bar and is highly
regarded by the president as a lawyer. .
Mr. Wilson wanted the place tilled by
a lawyer because of legal questions con
stantly- arising in the administration of
the war department the Philippines, the
Panama canal and Potato Rico.
Mr. Baker is a member of the. state
committee and chairman of the executive
committee of his county. His past rec
ord has run for public office in Cleveland
during fourteen consecutive years with
out defeat.
Mr. Baker is understood to have spec
ified when he joined his firm that he
would free for six months prior to the
next election to work for President Wil
son's re-election.
The thirty-day period of which Major
General Scott, chief of staff, was desig
nated of secretaiy of war ad interim,
will expire March 11. It is believed
that Mr. Baker’s nomination will be
sent to the senate before that time.
Mr. Baker is forty-four years old.
He was born in Martinsburg, W. Va.. and
at the age of 25 was appointed private
secretary to Postmaster General Wil
son iiJ President Cleveland's cabinet.
In JB9v he began the practice of law
at Martinsburg. He later moved to
Cleveland where he became city solici
tor in 1902. He held this office for
' ten rears until his election as mayor.
In 1904 he was re-elected mayor for a
two-year terrtf
Mr. Baker has received degrees at
.Tolins Hopkins and Washington and
Lee universities.
ONE DEAD; ONE IS DYING
FROM SHOOTING AFFRAY
T. W, Warren, Lodged in
Crisp County Jail, Claims
Self-Defense
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CORDELE. Ga., March 6. —As a re
sult of a shooting affray at Hatley late
• Saturday, Clifton Spikes, aged seven
teen. is dead and his father, G. A.
Spikes, aged forty-five years, is at the
point of death a» his home two miles
from that place, while T. W. Warren,
aged about thirty-five years, who al
lenes that he fired on the Spikes in self
defense, is confined in the Crisp -county
jail.
Spikes is a farmer and has a wife and
several children. Warren is a sawmill
man and also has a wife and several
children. H® is a brother of John War
ren. ordinary of Wilcox county. All are
citizens of Wilcox county, though the
shooting occurred just within the Crisp
county line.
The trouble leading up to the shoot
ing is said to have originated in a
quarrel about a week ago, ‘ when it is
alleged that Spikes employed a labqrer
who was already in the employ cf War
ren.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1916.
TWO DEFENSE MEASURES
IHE NOW OP TO CONGRESS
House Army Bill Is Declared
to Embody All Necessary
Features
(Be Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 6.—With the
introduction today- of the house army
bill Chairman Hay of the military com
mittee. the second of the national de
fense measures recommended by Presi
dent Wilson was before, congress. The
first of these measures, ttie senate army
bill, was introduced Saturday.
The house bill, the result of months
of work and investigation, was accom
panied by a report which asserts that
the committee believes it has succeed
ed in embodying in the measure "every
feature which is necessary to bring
about a reasonable plan for national de
fense.”
As completed the measure proposes
to increase the regular army to a
strength of 140,000 fighting troops which
means the addition of fort/' thousand
men and 7,439 offiecers. It also pro
vides 786 additional officers for detach
ed service with the national guard, mil
itary schools and elsewhere. A max
imum strength, however, is fixed at
170,000 men.
The bill provides for federalization
of the national guard under a militia
pay bill substantially similar to that
proposed in the senate bill. The house
plans, however, differ from the senate
bill in that the president is authorized
to draft national guardsmen into the
federal service on the outbreak of war.
The ultimate strength of the guard is
greater under the house plan since a
minimum force of 425,000 is stipulated
to be organized within five year. The
senate plan provides for approximately
250.000 guardsmen.
In the house bill as in-the senate an
officers, reserve corps is provided for,
but the house plan would double the
enrollmdht at the military academy.
Chairman Hay’s report estimates that
a force of 1,324,790 men trained for
military service "will be at once avail
able upon the passage of this bill.” To
reach this total he relies upon the reg
ulars with a strength of 140,000 and a
reserve of 60,000, upon i 29,000 national
guardsmen, the guard’s present strength
and upon 995,790 former regulars or
national guardsmen.
A feature of the house bill is the
broad scope given its proposals for the
mobilization of commercial industries
and lines of communications for war
use. Regularly enlisted reserves in
all elvil occupations necessary- to tire
maintenance of an army' in war time
are authorized and government orders
,for war materials are given right of
way at all plants by law. The bill au ;
thorizes also the construction of a plant
for the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen
for use in manufacturing explosives.
The total cost of the plan for the
first year Is estimated at $116,319,271
while for the fifth year and thereafter
it is at $137,494,945.
Judge Transfers
To Save Ideals
Os Married Life
CHICAGO, March 6.—ln order to
save w-hat he termed the remnants of
his shattered ideals of matrimony.
Judge Jacob H. Hopkins, a bachelor,
was transferred to another department
today from the bench of the Chicago
court of domestic relations, being suc
ceeded by- Judge John R. Newcomer, a
married man.
For the last six months Judge Hop
kins has listened from the bench to the
marital woes of the city, but recently he
told friends he could stand it no longer.
Chief Justice Harry- Olson complied
with Judge Hopkins’ request and an
nounced the new assignment.
"Once I viewed marriages through
rosy mists of sentiment and poetry,”
Judge Hopkins said. "I believed there
was still love in the world—love that
endured from the altar to the grave.
In the court of domestic relations my
ideals died one by one. Day after day
I listened to nothing but the sorrows
and tragedies of married couples. I
began to wonder whether any such
thing as marital happiness existed on
earth. So 1 asked to be transferred. It
was a last measure to self-defense —a
measure to save at least some of my
ideals.”
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• Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
VALDOSTA, Ga.. March 6.—;The first
word from (JeergeSv.-Vjw'w. banker and
capitalist, who went to El Paso last
Wednesday to try and verify reports
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CEDARTOWN LIVE STOCK
EXHIBIT BIG SUCCESS
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CEDARTOWN, Ga., March 6.—The
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of the ‘State College of Agriculture and
the Central of Georgia railway showed
here Saturday’ before a large and in
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and the raising of live stock, and it con
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Perchcron horses, Hereford cattle and
hogs, besides a car of home-grown food
stuffs. Addresses were made by Dr. W.
B. Hirleman and Profs. Ross M. Gridley,
J. F. Jackson, W. H. Howell, S. H. Starr
and J. G. Liddell.
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JoeHillHall; His
Injuries Serious
MACON, Ga., March 6.—Colonel Joe
Hill Hall, one of the best known men
in Georgia and for years Bibb county
representative in the house, was seri
ously injured this morning on the At
lanta road when struck by an automo
bile driven by R. L. Williams, Jr., a
weli-kaown lawyer. The machine struck
Mr. H»4l 4n the stomach and threw him
through' the windshield, knocking out
all of his teeth, cutting his face and
head and inflicting other injuries.
When the ear was stopped Mr. Hall was
thrown to the ground. He was picked
up by Fred Marshall, a contractor, and
hurriedly driven to his home. Mr. Hall
was waiting for a street car to come
to the city, having spent th e night in
the country with his son.
Mr. Hall was crossing the road to get
into the car of Mr. Marshall, when
struck by Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams
was driving from Forsyth to Macon.
Two ladies were in the car with him. He
was driving at a fast rate of speed anff
was coming down hill near the Idle
Hour Country club.
Mr. Hal! saw the approaching car be
fore Mr. Williams saw him, and made
every effort to get out of the way. Mr.
Hall having suffered severely with rheu
matism for several years was unable
to move quickly, and before Mr. Wil
liams could stop the car Mr. Hall was
hit.
Physicians fear internal injuries, and
Mr. Hall’s friends are greatly alarmed
over his condition.
TWELVE ARE SLAIN 111
ZEP MID ON ENGLAND
»
Five Children, Four Women
and Three Men Killed by
; Germans
LONDON, March 6. —Twelve persons
were killed and thirty-three injured in
last night’s Zeppelin raid. Three Zep
i pelinsc took part in the attack. This in
formation was given out officially to
day.
The statement follows:
"The number of Zeppelins which took
in last night's raid is now believ
ed to have been three.
"After crossing the coast the airships
took various courses, and from the de
vious nature of their flight apparently
were uncertain as to their bearings. The
aera visited included Yorkshire, Lin
colnshire, Rutland, Huntington, Cam
bridgeshire, Norfolk, Essex and Kent.
"As far as known about 40 bombs
were dropped altogeter. The casual
ties, so far as ascertained amounted to:
Killed, three men, four women, five
children. Injured 33. The material
damage was: Two terrace houses prac
tically destroyed, one office, one public
house, a case and several shops partly
destroyed anil a block of almost houses
badly damaged.” t
Hereford Bull Is
Mascot of Proud
Vidalia Bank
"The Bank with the Bull Attachment."
as it pridefully calls itself, has written
W. J. Speer, state treasurer, a letter
calling his attention to the fact that
live stock as an asset is not to be de
spised by any financial institution.
The letter is the outgrowth of a re
cent speech delivered at Canton, Ga., by
State Senator W. J. Eakes, of Conyers,
Ga., a candidate opposing Mr. Speer for
state treasurer. Mr. Eakes’ remarks in
cluded certain facetious references to
“cow banks.” called forth, it seems, be
cause one of the state banks included a
cow in its list of assets submitted to
the state treasurer. Senator Eakes ap
peared to think that close scrutiny by
the treasurer should not permit cows as
bank assets.
But now comes J. E. Schumpert. cash
ier of the Citizens’ Bank of Vidalia,
who writes to Secretary Speer in part
as follows: “We are not the cow bank
mentioned, but we are the Bank with the
Bull Attachment, in which we take
considerable pride. ’Forward March,’
our, Hereford bull, bears a registration
number and is a thoroughbred. He was
not taken to close a bad debt. But our
board o fdirectors deliberately paid Tiis
price and he is carried as a valuable as
set of our bank. We telleve that better
stock will mean better times for this
section and better times will, of course,
increase our business and our profits.
‘Forward March’ is our mascot.”
CROP DIVERSIFICATION
TOUR PROVES SUCCESS
Agricultural Commissioner
Price Declares 801 l Weevil
Crusade Taking Shape
Commissioner of Agriculture James D.
Price was back at his office at the capi
tol Mondaj’ morning, after a week's tour
cf *the congressional districts -of the
state in the interest of crop diversifica
tion, under the auspices of the agricul
tural committee of the Federation of
Women’s clubs.
Mrs. Nellie Peters Black and Mrs.
Samuel Lumpkin are in charge of the
work and made the trip with Mr. Price
and other state officials.
Commissioner Price declares that the
movement is meeting with success
everywhere and that the crusade against
the boll weevil is taking definite shape.
NUMBER
RULES COMMIUEE.
OF HUUSE BACKS
PRESIDENT WILSON
Agrees to Report Rule Making
McLemore Warning Resolu
tion an Immediate Special
Order With 4-Hour Debate
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(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 6.—The house
1 rules committee today agreed upon, and
will bring into the house tomorrow, a
! special rule for four hours debate on
the McLemore resolution warning Amer
icans off armed ships of the European'
belligerents. This action puts the much
discussed resqlution into a parliamentary
position where administration leaders
are confident they can kill it.
The four-hour debate on the McLe-,
mere resolution itself will be evenly,
divided between the administration |
forces and those opposed to it. and will
be preceded by an hour and a half of ■
debate on the adoption ot the special
rule.
The rules committee’s action today
is a preliminary victory fb» <he admin*;
istration forces which have neen fighting t
so ra week against delays and against '
opposition to President Wilson’s demand
that the house take up the resolution
and defeat it as a demonstration to Ger- .
many that the dissensions against his !
foreign policy do not represent a ma- {
jerity of congress.
The special rule w-ill provide thaii’ **
after the four hours' debate the McLe- j
more resolution will be before the house
for action. The program is to table it.
thus expressing the sentiment of a ma
jority of the hout-e that no legislation.,
whatever regarding the traveling ofT
Americans on armed ships shall be en-'
acted. i
BRYAN IN WASHINGTON.
** William J. Bryan made his headquar
ters today' at a hotel almost under th£
shadow of the capitol and conferred at.
a luncheon with many congressmen who
are rated as Bryan men. All of them '
are either strong advocates of a resclu-y r
tion to warn Americans off armed shipS*J
which Mr. Bryan advocates, or are
against preparedness. Mr. Bryan had
denied that he would take any active
part in the fight against the president.
Administration supporters, however;
> were counting on being ready to fight
his influence in the house. -I
I In the house itself, the administration
forces got the McLemore resolution on
I tc the calendar from which it can be
called up when they are ready for a
vote.
The text of the rules committee pro
posal foltyws:
"Resolved, That immediately upon the
adoption of this resolution the house
shall proceed to the consideration of
H. Res. 147 (the McLemore resolution):' ,
that there shall be four hours of general
debate, one-half to be controlled by ther
gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Flood, an<L
one-half by the gentleman from Wiscon
sin, Mr. Cooper, and that at the conclu
sion of said gentlejnen. the said resold*’
tion shall be considered under the gen
eral rules of the house.’”
Republican members of the commit
tee voted solidly against the rule, while
Democrats unanimously supported it.
While the rules committee was meet
ing, Representative Bailey, of Pennsyl
vania, telephoned invitations to senators
and representatives to lunch with Wil
liam J. Bryan at 1 o'clock at a hotel near
the capitol. About twenty members of'
congress were invited, most of whom are
strong advocates v of. a warning resolu-
1 tion.
Some of those invited were Senators
Kern and Vardaman, and Representatives
Callaway and Slayden, of Texas, Helver
ing and Ayres, of Kansas, Steele, of
Pennsylvania. Hensley of Missouri,
Stephens and Shallenberger of Nebras
ka. Dill of Washington, Van Dyke ofi
Minnesota, Sisson of Mississippi, Tav
enner of Illinois. Tillman of Arkansas,.
• Jordon of Ohio and Lobeck of Nebraska.
Efforts were made not only to invite
men regarded as particularly friendly to
Mr. Bryan but also to draw representa
tives from as many different sections of
the country as possible. Thus leaders in
the movement believed a better general
view of the sitaution might be obtained.
Majority Leader Kitchin was invited
but declined on the ground that he had
an engagement. Mr. Kitchin spent the
greater part of the morning in confer--
ence with Representative Shackelford,,
the unofficial leader of the warning res
olution advocates.
Mr. Bryan insisted that the luncheon
was only, a “friendly gathering." Mr. I
Bailey said 4t was a "meeting of those'
opposed to preparedness and favorable to
warning passengers against taking pas
sage on armed ships."
He was emphatic in his declaration
that no “conspiracy" was on foot.
"I can’t say a thing about the situa
tion in congre-ss,” Mr. Bryan said. “I
don’t know what it is.”
“What I shall say today is problemat-.
leal. I won’t say that I shall not discuss
warning American citizens against tak
ing passage on armed ships, but I will
say that I have said nothing about it
thus far."
Mr. Bryan told the guests he could re- j
main only an hour or two as he had to
leave for Wilmington, Del., at 4:30
o’clock
Republican congressmen uecame ag
gressive today in advocating speedy ac
tion to table the McLemore warning res
olution and al lothers pertaining to the
subject. Representative Gardner circu
lated petitions urging the minority mem
bers of the rules committee not to ob
struct an early report.
Representative Gardner told Acting
Chairman Pou, of the rules committee,
that the attitude of many’ Republican
members toward the warning issue had
been misrepresented.
When the senate convened Senator
VcCumber, author of a pending warning
resolution, again discussed the subject.
"The country, while ever ready to de
fend the rights of its citizens, does not ,
want its citizens to lead it heedlessly
into war," he said. t
When Representative Gardner de- j
dared in the house that there should I
be a clear vote on the subject Repub
lican Leader Mann anrjounced that he
was against bringing the matter up in
the house at all.
"I have believed,” said Mr. Mann,
"in letting the house attend to its con
stitutional duties and letting the presi
dent attend to his constitutional duties.’’
The house resounded with cheers when
Mr. Mann took the floor and asßailed
Americans who might involve the coun- 1
try in war by traveling on armed ships, j
"1 hope our citizens never will be J
put to the test of having to fight be
cause some fool has incolved us by '
entering upon a joy ride,” he shouted.