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Newspaper Page Text(Tlj c Atlanta Semi* Sournal VOLUME XX CUfeIFICATIONS FOR SELECT SERVICE ARE LISTED BV CROWDER Five Classes Into Which Men Awaiting Call Will Be Divid ed Are Formally Announced -Before Time Planned WASHINGTON', Oct- M—The five cteMlficatfons into which men awaiting call by selective service will be divid ed under the new regulation* approved by President Wilson, have become pub *e much before the ttrne planned by the provost marshal general’s office and are hero published. It was discovered today that what was to bav* rwnainod an official secret for a week or more was divulged Saturday night at a dinner in New York which Soorotery Baker and Prevost Marshal x General Oowder attended. The provost marshal discussed the new regulations, without intending to make public the classification, but some members of a New York local exemption board, think ing to elucidate the general's speech, printed the class: fleatione on the back of the menu card. - The classifications are a* follows, and ahow every man registered to which class bo belongs and In what order the different classifications will be called to service; £N CLASS ONE. (CtaM 1.) I—Stogie mar. without dependant rele tivea. » 2—Married man (or widower'with chil dren) who habitually falls to support hie family. >—Married man dependant on wife for euppert. -• . «—Married man (or widower with children) not usefully engaged, family supported by income Independent of his tabor. <—Mon not Included in any other de scription In this or other class** I «—Unskilled laborer. IN CLASS TWO (Class 2.) I—Mamed man or father of mother less children, usefully engaged, but fam ily has sufficient income apart from his daily labor to afford reasonably adequate support during his absence. J—Married man—no children—wife can support herself decently and with- . out hardship. 3 Skilled farm laborer engaged in necessary industrial enterprise. 4 Skilled industrial labor engaged in necessary agricultural entsrprtse IN CLASS THRBE. (Class >.) I—Man with foster children depend ent on daily labor support. * Man with aged, infirm or invalid parents or grand parents dependent ori tally labor for support. j Man with brothers or sisters in- competent to support themselves, de pendent on dally labor for support. 4 County or municipal office’, a—Firemen or policemen. 4 Necessary artificers or workmen in arsenals, armories and navy yards. Necessary custom house clerk. k. Persons necessary in transmis sion of malls. j. Necessary employee in service of United States. 10 Highly specialised administrative experts. 11. Technical or mechanical exports tn industrial enterprise. 18 Higuly specialised agricultural o-pnrt tn agricultural bureau of state » or nation , 8 Assistant or associate manager cf necessary industrial enterprise. 14. Acs!sent or associate manager of 1 *ressarv agricultural enterprise IN CLASS FOUR. • lass 4: l. Married man with wife <and) or children (or widower with children) de pendent on daily labor for support and no other reasonably adequate support available. 8. Mariners in sea service of mer chan-s or citisens tn United States. 3 Heads of necessary industrial en terprises 4. Heads of necessary agricultural enterprises Class 8; L Officers of states or the United States 8. Regularly or duly erdained min isters. 3. Students of divinity. 4. Persons in military or naval serv- i. Allens 4 Allen enemies T. Persons morally unfit 8. Persons physically, permanently or mentally unfit. 8. Licensed pilots Took Ten Years to Do It, but He Won Court Fight and Also WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.—J. P. Nel son won a ten-year fight for 175.20 b damages against the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe railroad. Alleging that tardy freight service cost him many thou sands on a contract to baild a dam at Sheldon. X. M.. he fought the case through all Texas courts, winning in every case. The supreme court refus ed to grant the railroad a new trial. 4,000 Killed, 10,000 Are Wounded, in Explosion In an Austrian Arsenal WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. —Four thou sand persons were killed and 10,000 wounded In Stefeld. Austria's great ar senal. in a series of explosions on June I*. according to official Rome cables received today. Workers who miracu lously escaped were forced by the arm ed guards to return to their tasks. Deserters Go to Switzerland WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—More than German deserters have found ref uge in Switzerland. according to the Swiss paper. Blind. official Rome cables today asserted. Full Associated Press Service TURKEY A-PLENTY AT LOW PRICES DEALERS PLEDGE > Tennessee and Kentucky Ex pected to Supplyes’All Army Camps in Southeast With • 200,000 Birds Uncle Sam's soldiers in the southern camps are going to have Thanksgiving turkey and plenty of it, if the Southern Poultry and Egg Shippers' association has anything to do with it. Furthermore, people generally are go ing to have turkeys this year at prices just as cheap as it is posible to sup ply them. Thia was determined Mon day at the opening session of a two day convention of tfae association when the body pledged Itself to W. F. Priebe, of Chicago, representative of Food Ad ministrator Hoover, to do all in its power to hold down prices on turkeys and to endeavor to make dealers not members of the association do likewise. Mr. Priebe appealed to the patriotism of the poultry chippers to deliver goods to the government as cheaply as pos sible and the shippers rose to the occa sion by promising concerted actions to put dowto prices. Provided farmers do their part in selling turkeys cheap ly it is estimated that the prices this year should be almost as low as those of last year. Kentucky and Tennessee will endeavor to supply all of the southeastern army camps with Thanksgiving turkeys. It is estimated that the government will buy for these camps about two million pounds, or something like 300,0*0 turkeys. The convention, presided over by A. M Cochran, of Nashville, Tenn., the president, opened at the Kimball house, at 10 o’clock. Mayor Asa G. Candler delivered the opening address which was responded to by O. P. Barry, of Alex andria. Tenn., past president. In addition to the discussion of tdr keys the morning was occupied with a discussion of freight rates and with reports of various committees. < The ladies of the convention were entertained at luncheon at the Capital City club at 12:80. The afternoon session will be fea tured by an address by Attorney Frank Hooper, of Atlanta, on the second Liber ty loan. Monday night there will be a buffet supper at the Kimball house. MT MO MEIT FINIIHE JFTEfI SUGIR SHOHTIGE Food Administration Official Says American Housewives Must Economize WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 —The sugar famine la juat a foretaste of wheat and «ieat famines to follow if American homes don't heed the conservation warn ings of the government, a high food ad ministration official said today. This will be one of the chief argu ments used to enlist the country's 22.- ♦OO,OOO housewives in active wheat, meat, fat and sugar conservation during the fotffi pledge campaign the week of October 28. On the assumption that the arbiters 4 of America’s dining rooms will make the requisite conservation of these foods, the government is going ahead with its plans to supply our European allies with wheat, meat, fat and sugar to make up their .enormous shortage. ' Failure to restrict their use on Amer ican tables will bring acute shortages as of sugar. Last spring when M. Hovelacque. of the French war mission, said the world was confronted with famine, many in telligent Americans scoffed at the Idea. The truth of Hovelacque's statement is dally coming to light. Herbert Hoover also warns that there is a real world shortage of wheat, meat, of fat and of sugar. The saving possi ble is shown by the fact that twenty pounds of sugar a year Is the least amount of sugar a human needs to keep fit. Americans eat ninety pounds a year. Eating an ounce less a day would end the famine and adequately supply both America and the allies. Italy's plight is the worst. Sugar cards are issued but often there is no sugar with which to honor them. Mak ing or selling sweets of any kinds is prohibited *N* food containing any sugar can be eaten Except at dinner on Thursday and Friday, and then only one sugar, dish. v , Ocly by strict individual* conservation can America’s millions avoid famines in the foods named, administration officials i insist. Billy Sunday’s Sermons Will Appear in The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal Beginning with the first issue, after Billy Sun* day starts his revival in Atlanta, in November. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL will publish a Billy Sunday sermon in every issue. These sermons will be printed Just as Billy Sunday delivers them. Billy Sunday is different from every other great evangelist who has stirred this country. His sermons in Atlanta will be un like any other sermons ever delivered here. Hundreds of people from all over the State of Georgia and the bordering States are coming to Atlanta to hear Billy Sunday. You who are not fortunate enough to get away from home at that time can get the benefit of his sermons bj reading them in THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. The Semi-Weekly Journal. Atlanta, Ga. Enclosed find $ for which please send me The Semi-Weekly Journal for months. Name •. .. *’ ’ ’ ’ P. O * R. F. P- No State W' •**’* Jk /! 3 7 a Ty wU d4Zz> v 7> —' EW e °' 4t> 'Jb Mr W NO PEACE TEAMS BRE IN ' SIGHT, LLOTIMEORGE SITS Germans Lose Twice as Many U-Boats This Year, Premier Adds ' LONDON. Oct. 22. —’’T have scanned the horizon intently,” said Premier Lloyd Weorge today, “and can see no terms in sight which will lead to en during peace. The only terms now pos sible would mean an armed truce ending in an even more frightful struggle. , Mr. Lloyd George said Germany would make peace now only on terms which would enable her to benefit by the war. He asserted that would be encourage ment to every buccanneerlng empire in the future to repeat the experiment. More than twice as many German submarines were lost in the first ten j months of this year as in all of last vear. the premier asserted. The British tonnage, lost monthly now U not much more than one-third of the total de stroyed last April. M ' •’Our monthly tonnage loss now, Llovd George aserted, “is a little over a third of the April figures. “The submarines lost in ten months by the enemy, total more than twice the number destroyed during the frhole ! of last year. 1 “We have increased our shipbuilding [ fourfold. America has done the same. The audience wildly cheered the pre mier when he declared emphatically. ' “This dbuntry is determined to prose- > cute the war to a victory.” The Albert hall meeting was a mass j gathering inaugurating a nation-wide j campaign of economy. Lloyd George 1 One sermon will more than pay you for the small amount we ask for the paper. The Price is only 75 cents for one year, SI.OO for 18 months, or $1.25 for two years. If sent in in clubs of five or more subscriptions at one time, we will make the exceptional low price of Fifty cents each. • If your subscription is not paid in advance vou had better rush your subscription to us at once so that you wifi get the benefit of every ser mon. We will not guarantee that your paper will reach you unless ydur subscription is paid in ad vance. r*e the coupon below and renew today. Please let your friends know that IHE SEMI WEEKLY JOURNAL Is going to carry a BILL) SUNDAY SERMON in every issue beginning No vember 9th, or better still, get up a club of sub scribers and send in their names. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23. 1917. HELP SNOW HIM UNDER RIVERDALE PEOPLE GIVE $15.90 FOR TOBACCO BENEFIT If Boys Over There Are to Smoke, People Here Must Help—Public Beginning to Learn This If the boys “over there" are to smoke, the people over here must fur nish the wherewith. However, the peo ple of the southeast are beginning to realize this more and more every day. Subscriptions to The Journal’s tobacco fund are received in almost every mail, most of them accompanied by a letter from the subscriber expressing pleasure at being able to send pleasure—for to bacco Is real pleasure—to the boys in France by doing nothing more than mak ing a small donation. About noon Monday R. L. Lasseter, a prominent citizen of Riverdale, Ga., walked Into The Journal office and handed over a letter to which was attached a cashier’s check on the Bank River dale for 315.90. “Here's what We did for the boys down our way.” Mr. Lasseter declared. Mr. Huie and myself got up this little con tribution for your tobacco fund. The letter which included a list of the sub scribers to the fund was signed by ! W. M. Huie, cashier of the Bank of River dale, and ended with these wrods: "May this good work cotninue.” tool: occasion at the outsebof his speech to thank 120.000 members and workers on war savings committees for their Wa4- economy campaign, which he said had “saved from five to seven per cent of' the food supplies” SPEED IN LIBERTY LOAN THIS WEEK IS URGED I Only Forty Per Cent of Issue Has Thus Far Been Taken WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 —The Ameri can people should not lull themselves into any false sense security over I the Liberty loan. They must subscribe i heavily all week. This warning was sounded by treas j ury officials intent on putting across ! the five billion dollar total by next '! Saturday night, when the subscription , books close. So far .only about 40 per j cent of this total has been taken. Failure to support the loan to the ut-1 most will give, comfort to the enemy,, 1 the treasury pointed out, especially in view of Germany's success, after sev eral years of drain on her men and re sources. In floating a seventh loan of over 33,000,000,000. Incidentally, the treasury emphasize! , that its published figures on loan sales, to date have represented exactly what the district reports showed. There has been no lowering of totals to spur on workers. It was said. For that reason the nation must not regard the loan as a success until the last dollar is on Saturday. / Liberty day, Wednesday, a national I holiday, is expected to boost sales enor mously. At that time noted men from all walks of life will preach the loan! throughout the nation, and everybody will be asked’ to buy As much as pos sible. / Liberty fires will be lighted on Wednesday night. Included in the list of Liberty day) speakers will be William J. Bryan. Sec-i retarles McAdoo, Baker and Redfield. ex-President Taft, Speaker Champ Clark and Attorney General Gregory. Many German-American subscriptions are noted, and some of them Teuton- American . societies are assisting in floating the loan. * "Probably slightly more than 32.000,- 000,000 now has been'subscribed.” says the daily state ment. / The men’s sales force alone, it is es- i t imated. totals 600,000. The Boy Scouts, > engaged in a vigorous five day cam paign. number 300,000. At least 100,000 others arc women workers. The sec ond million is composed of speakers, oiergymen. writers and school children.; It is an army of all ages and national ities. If the activities of each bond soldier : result i nthe sale of two 350 bonds every day of the six remaining days of the i campaign, the subscriptions can be run | above 34,900,000,000. Jim in the Casualties? Well, It Isn’t Fatal if He Means This Company WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.—Dear Father i and Mother: If son Jim writes home I from training camp that he is in the cas- I ualties. don't jump at conclusions When men arrive in cantonments too fast to be organized, the leftovers are as signed for a few days to "casual” com- i panies. “What company you in?" Jim is asked. • Casualties," he replies. ONE GEORGIA Mi PERISHED WITH 06 OTHERS ON AIHTHLESi Private Neptoin Bobin, of Sa- i vannah. Is Included and Also a Private From an Address in Tennessee Young King’s Name Is Not in Qsualtv List j On the casualty list of the army transport ship Antilles, which was sunk by a German submarine last Wednesday, the name of nineteen year-old \Claytou King, of Atlanta, does not appear. The fist was made public Monday morning and was anx-i iously awaited by relatives and friends of young King, who was 3 gunner on the Antilles. . King is a son of Mrs. C. P. Mor gan, of 70 Pearl street, and enlisted in the navy last April, when he was assigned to the training ship Penn sylvania. He made an excellent rec ord as a gunner and z was soon as signed to the Antilles, on which he was making his third trip. Prior to his enlistment he was employed at the Chamberlin-Johnson-Dußose de partment store. V ! WASHINGTON. Oct. 22.—Sixty-seven lives were lost in the torpedoing of the American transport Antilles, it was def initely and officially announced today. The casualty list shows that not all the lost were Americans. The fire men, of whom many were probably killed by the explosion, came principal ly from Spain and Portugal. Some Os the non-comissioned army officers among the American troops lost ’ were men of foreign birth. Two of them Were Germans by birth and now have parents living in Germany, one in Ber lin and other in Oldenburg. General Pershing’s report throws no’ new light on the circumstances of the attack and so far as is known neither a submarine nor a torpedo was seen. Dispatches from th* commanding offi cer of the American announces the following were lost: Private Burnett Hamilton, infantry, (father) J. R. Hamilton, Grapevine, Tennessee. Private Neptoin Bobin, transport work er, wife Mrs. Annie Bobin, 715 Ogle thorpe street. East Savannah, Ga. The committee on public information today gave out the following additional casualty list for the sunken American tarnsport Antilles: The survivors numbered 170. The first announcement of the sinking from the navy department on Friday said Wibout were missing out of a total of 237 souls aiyoard. Today’s list, based on the checking up of muster rolls Im mediately after the survivors were land ed ffi France, showed that 67 lost their lives. The army lost seventeen men, the navy four/and the medical corps two, and. except tJ*e single civilian listed, the balance of the casualties were among thfc crew. GERMANY’S FODDER IS ONE-THIRD BOYS, THEIR DIARIES SAY 'Thousands of Teuton Youths Are Sacrificed to Terrible British Artillery Fire—Troops I Brought From Russian Front BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN THE FIELD. Oct. 22.—About 30 per cent of Hihdenberg's cannon fodder in ; the recent Ypres sector fighting—nearly i one-third of those whose mangled bod ies carpeted the ground in the British advance or were included in the con stant stream of prisoners—were of the 1918 class of youths. Nothing could illustrate ' waning man power more forcibly than this crowding of mere boys into the front ranks. Headquarters figures today showed that of the total German draft of 1917. approximately one-half had been made ' up of wha*t was really the 1918 class. Thousands of these German boys have Seen sacrificed in the terrible British ar tillery fire. One letter found in the pocket of just such a beardless boy sol ' dier declared; “Os my company of 14V men all have ' been lost except IS —and the same ratio applies to my whole regiment." One boyish German diarist entered this note: "In four days the British have smashed seventeen of our divisions." A captured battalion commander’s re port exhibited today at headquarters complains that his own German heavy artillery batteries shelled the German lines for twenty minutes and that two companies had telephoned they were leaving their positions. There is yet another evidence of des peration of the German high comma/rd over; this drain on its man power. That is in the constant withdrawal of troops froift the Russian front for duty here on the west. For months the Germans have been shunting troops from the east ern war theater. Now they are hang ing guns from that section to bolster up their batteries. Captured documents show that many of the pieces smashed in the great Flanders drive have been thus replaced. < - There is no mistaking the fact that Hindenburg is now giving the crown prince Rupprecht all available German artillery and men. Fresh divisions are | brought up with orders to hold at all I cosH> and to retake captured positions at | any price. NUMBER 8. RUSSIAN FLEET HAS ESLWfMir; SET BI FOE'S NIVT Russian Submarine Sinks An . other German Transport and Fires Two Torpedoes at Big German Dreadnaught BERLIN, Via London. Oct. 22.—The • whole of Dago island is ours,” said to day’s official statement. . ’’Twelve hun dred Russians werj taken prisoners. witH a quantity of guns and stores.” NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—(8y foreign • cables to the Associated Press. —In co- J operation with the French on his left. Field Marsha! Haig launched a new blow a10r.,? a narrow front at the Ger man lines northeast of Ypres this morn ing. The allied infantry moved forward in the neighborhood of the A’pres-St<- den railway, and on the outskirts/ot Houtholst wod, on the extreme northern edge of the active front in Flanders. The French advance was along a width | of about three-fifth of a mile. The I British attack was probably along a somewhat wider front, extending to wards Poelcapeiie and possibly taking ki the area of that town which has been the scene of some desperate fighting within the last few weeks. The Ger man reactions were extremely persis tent here. Both groups of attacking troops scor ed early successes. Paris announces that all their objectives were attained by the French troops, while Field Marshal Haig reported satisfactory progress for the British. The operation apparently is aimed at bringing the left flank of the allied ad vance somewhat further forward as a support to the center, where the wedge has oeen driven farthersst into the German front. Russian naval units in the northern part of the Gulf of Riga have outwitted ‘superior ground forces and have escaped from Mooa sound, where they apparently had been bottled up a/ter the engage ment in and about the sound last week. The Russian warships made their escape wlthotu losses and are now in positions protecting the northern entrance to Moon sound. The new pbsltion of the Russian squadron probably will compel the Ger mans to give battle If they wish to enter the Gulf of Finland by going through the sound between Dago island and the coast of Esthonia. The military forces n the Moon sound region were moved successfully by the Russians, who also rescued their transports and smaller cratt. Before their retirement they de stroyed all positions of military value to the enemy. In addition to the warships and trans ports already reported sunk by the Rus sian units, Petrograd reports the sink ing of another German transport by a Russian submarine. Two torpedoes were fired by the same submarine at a Ger man dreadnought of the Markgraf type, vessels of 25,000 tons displacement. Be ing attacked, the submarine was unable to note results. One torpedo detonated, and the submarine, on rising again, saw clouds of smoke Berlin officially admits the loss of four Zeppelins of the squadron which raided England Friday night. The offi cial statement, however, falls to an : nounce the safe arrival home of the [other members Os the contingent. Ber lin claims that several English cities ’and ports were attacked with “spedial success,” including London, Manchester, Birmingham and Hull. ' Hundreds of bombs have been drop ped British aviators on the airdromes and railway stations at Roulers, Cour trai. Ingelmunster, and Gontrode and on German billetes. On Sunday British aviators made a raid into Gernfany and bombed with excellent results a foundry and rail way junction ten miles north of Saar brusken, northeast of Metz. Fifteen German machines were downed by the British aviatsTs and four others were • driven down out of control Saturday and Sunday. Emperor William returns to Berlin today and among his engagements are political conferences with Prince .von Beulow and Dr. von Bethmann-Holl weg. the former imperial chancellors. Priiice von Beulow has been mentioned as the probable successor of Dr. Michaelis, whose position as chancellor, recent reports from Germany have In dicated, is most insecure. The Japanese steamer Hitachi Maru, from Yokohama for Liverpool, is three weeks overdue at Delagoa Bay. Portu guese East Africa, and is believed to a have struck mine with the loss all on board. The steamer carried senders, the number of which is T.’i- H. Maru meaiturra 556 tons Justice Is On Trail Os Night-Rider Band Terrorizing Negroes (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MACON. Ga., Oct. 22.—Plans to stamp out a small band of night riders who have been terrorizing negroes in Craw ford and Houston counties are being made, by farmers and business men, ac cording to reports received here. TJhe activities of the band will be in vestigated by the grand jury of those counties. Solicitor General John P. Ross announced. Mr. Ross declared the bet ter class of people will defend the ne groes and briag the night riders’ band to justice. It Is believed the leaders of the band are known. Mr. Ross said if .it became necessary a special term of court would be held to investigate the cases and try persons In dicted. It is understood the night rldcrz ob ject to the negroes driving trucks and automobiles. A number are thus em ployed on farms and orchards in the two counties. Several have been whipped and many ordered to give up their posl-- tions or suffer similar punishment. ’