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VOLUME XVIII
EVERYTHING REMY
FOB GREAT PARADE
TUESDAY MORNING
Thirty Thousand Atlantians
and Hundreds of Citizens
From Over the State Will Be
in the Line of March
Once more—
GET YOUR FLAG FOR THE
GREAT PREPAREDNESS PA
RADE!
Flags are now on sale at Cone's
three drug stores, at Elkin's two
drug stores, at Jacobs* main drug
store and Jacobs' Whitehall-Ala
bama store, at Daniel Brothers'
clothing store, and at Preparedness
Parade flag headquarters, which Is
71 North Pryor street. The flags are
being handled by these drug stores
and by Daniel Brothers for the
committee, free of charg;. The price
is 10 cents each.
The mayors of Georgia towns ana
cities who have accepted invitations
to march in the parade are request
ed to report at once when they ar
rive. to the grand marshal on the
steps of the capltol facing Mitchell
street.
Out-of-town citixens arriving
Tuesday morning are request
ed to proceed at once to the
Washington street viaduct and Join
the “Citixens of Georgia” division.
If any should arrive after this divi
sion has started, they are requested
to fall in wherever the division
passes them.
The first division will move
PROMPTLY AT 9 O'CLOCK!
Everv Atlantian should be in his
place at 8: SO WITHOUT FAIL.
Make sure of being on time by going
straight to your formation point Im
mert tatelv after breakfast.
No vehicle will be allowed in the
parade except the automobiles for
Confederate and T’nlon veterans
who are too feeble to walk the dis
tance.
No advertising signs, and no names
of Individuals. Anna or corporations,
will be allowed in the parade. The only
thing In the way of a banner will be
the banners designating particular lines
of business, occupations and profes
sions. .....
Every man tn Atlanta who Is able to
walk from the eapitol to the corner of
Peachtree street and Forrest avenue is
expected to march In th- great paradq.
Grand Marshal Pomeroy at 11 o’clock
Monday morning held a meeting with
his aides, the division commanders and
the unit leaders, and together they re
hearsed the full details of the parade,
so as to make sure that divisions will
be organised promptly and started on
time tn their proper order.
Evervthing is now in readiness. The
men will march, the women and children
will review Thirty thousand Atlan
tians are expected to be tn the line, and
thousands of women and children will
review them.
The women and children will wear
white, and will carry American flage.
and will cheer the marching men and
sing patriotic songs.
The men will carry American flags,
and will march eirht abreast three
paces apart.
Immediately after the parade, every
body is requested to proceed at once to
Piedmont Park and participate in the
mammoth flag-raising ceremony.
THE PEOPLE WILL BING
WHEN THE FLAG GOES UP.
Tn the center of the race track has
been erected a flag mast eighty feet in
height. To the top of this mast will
be raised a monster American flag.
Around the mast will be grouped the
bands that march In the parade.
When the flag goes up to the mast
head, the bands will play "America."
and the assembled thousands will
join In the song.
The race track will be tilled with peo
ple. the roads In the park will be filled
with automobiles, the sloping banks of
the amphitheater will surround the raco
track with a mass of men and women
and children, and every hill side and
vantage point around the park will be
thronged with patriotic Atlantians and
Georgians who will sing the national
anthem.
It will be a great parade—the great
est the city of Atlanta and the state of
Georgia have ever witnessed
It will be a thrilling celebration of
the birthday of American independence.
Tt will be a soul-stirring tribute to
the American flag
And It will demonstrate that the peo
ple of Georgia and the people of Atlan
ta believe In preparedness—not for war.
hnt preparedness for self-defense as the
best Insurance of continued safety and
continued peace.
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Preparations on Border Are Being Rushed;
Pershing and Bell Share Funston’s Command
BATTERY 8 PASSES
EXAMINATION WITH
LOSSOFJNLYI7MEN
Only 17 Men Out of Enlistment
of 157 Are Rejected—Mem
bers of Fifth to Get Second
Examination Today
BT WABD GHEEITB.
Journal Staff Oorreapondent.
CAMP HARRIS. Maoon. Ga.. July 8.
With the issue of the last necessary
equipment today, the Georgia troops at
Camp Harris settled down to a routine
program of drills. Instruction and short
hikes and hoped for early orders send
ing them to the Texas border.
Every unit in the brigade except the
First infantry and the two batteries of
the Chatham artillery has been examined
by the United States army officers.
The First is being examined today,
lattery B, the Atlanta battery, command
ed by Captain A. J. Mcßride, passed
the examination with the loss of only
seventeen men out of an enlistment of
157. This is another record for Atlanta.
Second examinations for members of
the Fifth who failed on the first are
scheduled for today or tomorrow.
Field hospital corps No. 1 was mus
tered today. Muster of the Fifth may
take place this afternoon, as the entire
brigade will march in the Macon pre
paredness parade on the Fourth.
5.000 PAIRS OF SHOES.
Six thousand pairs of shoes have arriv
ed in Camp Harris. They range in size
from fours for the smallest trooper to
number twelves for the big infantryman
from the wiregrass. The shoes are part
of the equipment expressed by the gov
ernment from the Philadelphia arsenal
which arrived in five carloads Saturday
and two more Sunday. They are the
first army shoes to get here, but there
are enough of them to allow two pairs
to almost every man in the brigade.
With the blankets, the cots, the shirts,
hats, underwear and other clothing in
the seven carloads, they will complete
the equipment of the brigade. The men
now lack no quartermaster's supplies.
All of this equipment has been unload
ed and placed in a big warehouse near
the railroad- They will be distributed
Monday. The officers are greatly pleas
ed that all the equipment has at last
arrived after such a long delay. They
believe It will mean a speedy departure.
’They are fixed a good deal better
than when I went Io war in ’61,” said
“Dad" Mangum, sheriff of Fulton coun
ty, as he gazed on Camp Harris Sun
day. Sheriff Mangum motored down
from Atlanta to see his son, who is a
lieutenant in Battery B.
"I had to go off and leave nobody it
home but my old mother and father,
one nigger, four dogs and six eats when
I went to war.” he said.
VISITORS BY THOUSANDS.
All roads, and not a few lanes and al
leys. led to Camp Harris Sunday. Th*
countryside turned out. Macon turned
out. The railroads ran excursion trains.
From as far north as Clayton and as far
south as Valdosta, Georgia’s people came
to look at Georgia's soldier boys, until
the camp took on the appearance of a
combination auto show, carnival and
concentration camp.
There were many Atlantians among
the visitors. Some of them came in
autos, making the three-hotlr run down
in the morning and back in the after
noon. Milledgeville sent over 200 cars
packed with patriots who besieged the
tents of the Baldwin Blues. The Amer
icus Rifles had a big picnic dinner which
was brought over by a delegation from
the old home town, and there wasn’t a
regiment nor a company that didn’t have
at least a dozen visitors.
Men in citizen's clothes and pretty
girls in gay hats and dresses wandered
through the camp, exclaiming over the
guns and the uniforms* the mascots and
the meals, the wrist watches of the offi
cers and the dog-watches of the enlisted
men. No spot in camp was sacred, and
if a private trying to get cool behind,
his tent in negligee suddenly found him
self surrounded by females, everybody
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MRS. HETTY GREEN DIES
AT HOME IN NEW YORK
Estate of World’s Richest
Woman Estimated at Nearly
$100,000,000
(By Auociated Press.)
NEW YORK. July 3 Mrs. Hetty
Green, said to be the wealthiest woman
in the world, died at her home here to
day at 8:05 o'clock.
She had suffered three strokes of pa
ralysis during the past two months and
for several weeks had been practically
helpless. She was eighty years old. Her
death occurred at the home of her son,
Colonel Edward R. H. Green, at No. 5
West Ninetieth street, adjoining the
plain brick, four-story house at No. 7,
on the corner of Central Park west,
where Mrs. Green had lived lately in se
clusion, except for her son and several
Japanese servants and trained nurses.
For several weeks past Mrs. Green had
been unable to walk and had spent prac
tically all of her time in a wheel chair.
Her son. Colonel Green, and her daugh
| ter, Mrs. Matthews Astor Wilkes, who
I were the only children, had been with
! her much of the time, and it was re
cently reported that Mrs. Green had
turned over all of her financial affairs to
her son's charge.
Wall street estimates of Mrs. Green’s
fortune range from 320,000,000 to SIOO,-
000,000. Officials of the Chemical Nation
: al bank, in which Mrs. Green once made
her downtown headquarters, declined to
hazard a guess concerning her estate.
A few years ago Mrs. Green was a
familiar figure in the financial district
but Jaterly her appearance there bad
been very infrequent. It is believed
that a considerable part of her money
was invested In first mortgage and high
( class railway bonds, although she was
said at one time to have large sums
i invested In the shares of the smaller
j southern and southwestern railroads, in-
I eluding several In which her son was
actively Identified. •
Mrs. Green was also the reputed own
er of large tracts of land In Texas, Al
abama and other southern states, but It
is believed that she sold the last of these
holdings a few years ago.
Stella Griffin is Given
Freedom by Judge Hill
Stella B. Griffin, sentenced to serve
four years in the state penitentiary for
subornation of perjury, was given her
release Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock
by Judge Ben H. HUI, following a writ
lof habeas corpus taken out for the girl
ias the result of a recent decision of the
state cqurt of appeals nullifying the ver
dict returned against C. C. Garrett, with
whom she was Implicated in the black
mail proceedings brought by George B.
Rauch.
The Griffin girl was brought from Mil
ledgeville Monday morning and held in
the Tower until the hour set for the ha
beas corpus hearing.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1916.
GREAT INCREASES
FAVORED IN FUNDS
FOR U._S. ARMY
Senate Military Committee
Raises Appropriations to
$328,000,000, $1,146,000,-
000 Over Bill Passed by
House
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 3.—The army
appropriation bill revised by the senate
military committee and ordered reported
today carries $328,000,000, an increase of
$146,000,000 over the bill passed by the
house.
Eleven Greek Officers
Arrested for Attack
On Editor at Saloniki
PARIS, July 3.—Eleven Greek officers
who were concerned m the attack on the
offices of the Rizoastls, a newspaper
pupblished at Saloniki, are said by the
Saloniki correspondent of the Matin to
have been arrested and confined in the
French military prison.
The officers are accused of having as
saulted the editor of the Rizoastls, who
was badly wounded, and to have torn up
a portrait of former Premier Venlzelos,
whom the newspaper supports, because
of political articles in the newspaper
which were deemed insulting to the
army.
Killed While Holding
To His Brother’s Hand
(Special Dispatch to The Journal)
LINDALE, Ga., July 3.—Clifford
Eaton, aged seven, was dashed to death
here yesterday morning under the fast
northbound Royal Palm Southern train,
while attempting, with his elder brother,
Burl, aged eleven, to make it to the
other side of the track.
The brothers were running hand and
hand, and Burl barely escaped w’ith his
life, as he fell from the track, stum
bling on the rail. His feet cleared the
rail but a few Inches, while the other
brother was being crushed and hurled to
his death by the wheels on the other
rail. It was a horrible sight and was
witnessed by more than 200 people, who
were about the depots. The train was
running thirty miles an hour.
Sign Painter is Killed
In Fall From Building
Due to the Insecurity of a hook sup
porting a ladder hanging by ropes from
the top of a building on Auburn avenue,
near the corner of Peachtree street, Gus
Paris, a sign painter in the employ of
the Grant Sign company, fell two
stories Monday at 8;30 a, m., fracturing
CENSORSHIP ORDERS ARE
PUZZLE TO ARMY OFFICERS
Not Yet Decided What Means
Will Be Used to Prevent
News of Movements
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 3.—Army officers
were puzzled today deciding how strin
gently they shall attempt to enforce cen
sorship on troop movements and location
at the border. They had before them
copies of newspapers from over the
country publishing stories from their
special correspondents who are with lo
cal national guard units arriving at
border points. In most cases the cor
respondents specified the destination of
their troops.
The war department has objected to
the publication of this information, yet
officers admit privately that under pres
ent circumstances tney do not blame
newspapers for announcing the destina
tion of their local units. They point out
that the Mexican government has not
sufficient agents in the United States to
gather these reports published in such
scattered localities, and to construct'
from them a comprehensive schedule 1
showing strength of troops at various
points along the border.
Officially the destination of all na
tional guard units is supposed to be a I
military secret. Officials thought it im-J
probable that any step would be taken i
at this time toward more complete cen
sorship. They will rely on newspapers;
not to publish and the public not to ex- ■
pect news of future shifting of forces
from one point to another on the border.
Another U. S. Marine
Killed in Battle With
Santo Domingo Rebels
WASHINGTON, July 3.—Two encount
ers near Santiago, Santo Domingo, July
1 between American marines and revo
lutionist bands, in which one marine,
Private Mills, of the Thirty-first com
pany, was killed and three wounded,
were reported to the navy department
today by Rear Admiral Caperton.
Private Mills was killed in a fight be
tween marines commanded by Colonel
Pendleton and 100 revolutionists at a
village named Oldcamlnoreal, while the
Americans were advancing upon Santia
go from Monte Crlsti. An American de
tachment advancing from another point !
clashed with a group of revolutionists'
twenty-five miles north of Santiago. !
Lieutenant D. B. Roben and Trumpeter |
Julius Goldsmith were slightly wounded j
and First Sergeant Fernando Barriero ,
was seriously wounded in the leg. At |
Monte Christi last week a marine was j
killed and several wounded.
his skull and receiving other injuries
from which he died in the Grady hos
pital at 10:30, having been unconscious
during the entire two hours.
Leonard King, colored assistant, was
standing on the sidewalk when the acci
dent occurred, having just hoisted Paris
to his position. The injured man was
rushed to the Grady hospilal la a taxi
cab, _ <
THREE DIVISIONS WILL
REPLACE FORMER BIG
AREA ALONG BOUNDARY
Believed New Order From War
Department Means New Ap
pointment of a Major Gen
eral
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 3.—The war de
partment announced late today that the
order creating a new department to be
known as the New Mexico department,
commanded by General Pershing had
been temporarily suspnded, "pending the
adjustment of minor administration de
tails of the rearrangement.”
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 3.—With more
than 150,000 troops assembling along
the Mexican border, the war department
today took steps to decentralize direct
administration of the 1,800-mile frontier
in the interest of efficiency and proba
bly to pave the way for the appoint
ment of a supreme commander to. co
ot dinate all military activities on the
International line and in Mexico. The
border formerly in the southern de
partment from the Gulf of Mexico to
California, now is divided into three
military departments, commanded re
spectively by Major General Frederick
Funston, Brigadier General John J.
Pershing and Major General J. Franklin
Eell.
War department officials said the new
order, which automatically relieves Gen
eral Funston of supreme command on
the border and the enormous responsi
bilities that have crowded upon him,
had no significance as indicating prep
aration for war. There was no formal
announcement in regard to the probable
selection of a senior major general for
commander-in-chief of the border guard
and field forces. There are no indica
tions that Major General Leonard
Wood, former chief of staff and now
commanding the department of ths
east, is being considered in this con
nection.
PROMOTION OF PERSHING.
Another probable change indicated by
the new order is the promotion of Gen
eral Pershing under the army organiza
tion bill now effective. It provides for
an additional major general, and it is
believed General Pershing will be given
one of ‘these posts in recognition of his
services in his pursuit of the Columbus
bandits. The statement issued by the
department follows:
The present southern department Is
divided as follows with assignments of
command thereto as indicated:
"A—The southerp department, to be
under command of Major General Fred
erick Funston, to embrace that part of
the present department to a line east of
El Paso.
‘‘B—The department of New Mexico,
with headquarters at El Paso, Tex., to be
established under the command of
Brigadier General John J. Pershing, to
extend from western boundary of south
ern department to the 109th Meridian.
"C —That portion of the southern de
partment west of the 109th Meridian to
be assigned to the western department
under the command of Major General J.
F. Bell, with field headquarters for same
at Douglas, Ariz.”
General Bell is In command of the
western department w’ith headquarters
at San Francisco. He also is a former
chief of staff of the army.
Pending the appointment of an of
ficer to supreme command. jhe func
tions of the three departments will be
co-ordinated through the war depart
ment.
NOT TO RETURN AT ONCE.
The assignment of General Pershing
to the command of the department of
New Mexico, it was stated officially,
does not mean that the expedition into
Mexico is about to be withdrawn or that
General Pershing himself • will return
to direct the affairs of the department
from El Paso, his new headquarters. It
is assumed that he will remain in the
field for the present at least. If he
is promoted, a brigade commander prob
ably will be sent to relieve him in
Mexico unless developments should ne
cessitate the sending of a large number
of. additional troops across the border.
Brigadier General George Bell, Jr.,
will remain in direct command of the
El Paso district where his brigade is
on duty.
Retirement of General Pershing’s ex
pedition to the bases it now occupies,
probably 100 miles closer to the border
was declared by officials of the war
department today to be due to military
reasons alone. At the state department
it was said there was no change in the
policy regarding the expedition although
private advices from Mexico City assert
that Carranza officials construe the
movement as an indication that the ex
pedition will soon be withdrawn and
that this feeling may have some bear
ing on the diplomatic situation.
Army officers explain that the prob
lem of supplying the expedition has
become more and more difficult. The
rainy season is due but there has been
no rain for weeks and the country.about
General Pershing’s camp has been
stripped of the last vestige of forage
for his animals.
The war department is without direct
information as to present disposition
of the expedition forces, the matter
having been arranged between Generals
Funston and Pershing.
NO NEWS OF REPLY TO NOTE.
The state department had no advices
today as to when a reply of General
Carranza to the demands sent a week
ago might be expected. The Mexican
embassy also was without information.
The department has received intima
tions that the Mexican ambassador had
received the note last week. It was
said today, however, that the official
notification of the release of the pris
oners taken at Carrizal was the only
message in any way bearing on the
immediate diplomatic situation which
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NUMBER 78.
TRENCHES IN SECOND
POSITION OF ENEMY
CAPTURED BY FRENCH
t
British Are Pressing Forward
to North of Fricourt and
Have Taken Higher Posi
tions
(By Aiiociated Fresi.)
WASHINGTON, July 3.—The marked
successes won by the British and French
in initiating their great offensive along
the western front are being systematic
ally and successfully followed up.
Heavily pounding the German second
line south of the Somme the French have
captured two lines of trenches along a
three-mile front, and taken the villages
of Herbecourt, two miles northeast of
Dompierre.
The captured village is on the road to
Perronne, which town is apparently the
immediate objective of the French forces
in this sector. It is five miles distant
from the furthest thrust of the French
advance.
To the north the British are pressing
for Bapaume, where numerous main
highways join. Having taken Herbe*
court, which formed a salient desperate
ly held by the Germans to check the
British advance on either side, General
Haig's force now command the terrian
toward Bapaume.
North of the River Ancre, the British
have met the most determined resistance
and their advances here have not been
so marked as between that stream and
the Somme. Nevertheless, they are de
clared to have maintained in conjunction
with the French the initiative all along
the line of the grand offensive.
British Pushing Forward
To North of Fricourt
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, July 3.—(Via London.)—*
furthter advance has been made by the
British forces to the east of the Ancre
river. To the north of the town of Fri
court the British have pushed forward
and *have gained ground at a higher ele
vation.
Fighting continues Intense on virtu
ally the whole British front. Above tho
Ancre there has been no important
changes. The British have heavily bom
barded Thlepval.
At La Boiselle severe fighting is pro
ceeding.
The situation at Fricourt Is promising
for the British.
A heavy shelling of Montauban by the
Germans continues. The British appear
to be well established in the town.
The number of German prisoners tak
(en in the south so far exceeds 4,000.
The weather continues favorable.
German Second Line
Is Broken by French
PARIS, July B.—The French offensive
south of the Somme in conjunction with
the British drive continued last night
with complete success, the war office
announced today. ;
The French have occupied two lines
of trenches of the second German
position on a front of five kilometers
(three miles.)
The French have captured the village
of Herbecourt.
East of the Meuse on the Verdun
front the Germans captured Dan’loup
redoubt, but the French soon after re
gained posssession of it.
The trenches of the second German
position captured by the French extend
from Mereaucourt wood, which is in pos
session of the French, as far as the
edge of Assevillers. The village of
Herbecourt, taken by the French, lies
between these two points. Further south
the French made progress toward Asse
villers and Estrees.
North of the Somme the Germans
made no attack on the positions pre
viously taken by the French.
The French captured heavy artillery
and took more prisoners. The state
ment says thirty-nine battalions par
ticipated in the fighting and that thirty
one of these battalions sustained impor
tant losses.
During the artillery preparation pre
ceding the inauguration of the offensive
thirteen German captive balloons were
burned.
Austrian Positions Taken
By Storm in Galicia
PETROGRAD, July 3.—(Via London.)
General Letchitzky’s army, after in
tense fighting, has captured by storm
the Austrian positions in the region
west of Kolomea, in Galicia, says the
Russian official statement issued last
night. The statement adds that up to
the present 2,000 prisoners have been
taken in this sector.
The text of the statement follows:
’’ln the region west of Kolomea the
army of General Letchitzky, after In
tense fighting, took by storm the en
emy positions. Up to the present wo
have taken 2,000 prisoners from the
fresh troops brought to this region. The
greater number were intoxicated.
“In Volhynia the enemy continues to
make desperate attacks. The offensive
of the Germans between the rivers Styr
and the Stokhod, in the region of the
villages of Koptche and Zobary. was re
pulsed.
“A series of fresh enemy attacks
southwest of Kiselin-Zubilno-Kochey,
were repulsed. The enemy’s columns
were put to flight with heavy losses.
The fugitives have been destroyed Jn
masses, but reinforced by reserves, the
enemy is making fresh attacks which so
fa r have been repulsed.
“Caucasus front: East of Plsntana
we captured by brilliant attack a chain
of mountains which had been fortified
by the Turks. The enemy was repulsed
beyond the river Samsoon Darassi. He
left behind many corpses on his posi
tion.
“In the direction of Gumischlor an
attempt by the Turks to advance to
the north was repulsed and the enemy
driven back to their trenches. In the
direction of Baiburt our advance guard
took the Turks in the rear during the
night on a height in the region of Var
tanis. In a bayonet attack our sol
diers hurled the Turks from the top of
a mountain down a precipice and re
turned safely to their trenches.
“In the direction of Bagdad, in the
Kering region, pressure by important
enemy forces continues.”
Russians Launch Another
Attack on Eastern Front
BERLIN, July 3. —(Via London.)—Tha*
Russians have launched an attack
against the army of Prince Leopold oh
the central section of the edstern front.
The war office report of today says the
Russians succeeded in advancing at one
point, but otherwise were forced to re
treat with heavy losses.