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BOMB WRECKS EXECUTIVE
MANSION IN CKLIFOBNIX
Both Governor and • Mrs,
Stephens Have Narrow Es
cape From Death
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SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Dec. 18.—What
is believed to have been an attempt to
kill Governor William D. Stephens by
means of a powerful explosive bomb at
midnight last night resulted in the
wrecking of the executive mansion, the
entire rear end of the building being
blown out. The Governor and Mrs. Ste
phens. as well as the household serv
ants. were asleep at the time and all es-
I caped injury.
Two men were seen fleeing fropn the
house immediately after the explosion.
The detonation of the explosion was
heard all 6ver the city and windows
were broken by the force of it two or
three blocks away. It was believed that
from twenty to twenty-five sticks of dy
namite were used.
Governor and Mrs. Stephens were
asleep in the wing of the house adjoin
• ing the spot where the explosion oc
curred. but beyond a nervous shock they
were unharmed.
The attempt occurred just as the
guard was being changed. H. Claussen,
| one of the watchmen, was the first on
the -scene. having passed the spot but a
' few minutes before the explosion.
Claussen said he was certain there was
nothing unusual occurring on the
grounds. He expressed the opinion
that the explosive was thrown from an
alley which runs along the rear of the
house to a distance of about forty feet
from the porch under which the charge
' was set off.
Whole Block Shaken
A hole several feet in depth and at
lease five feet wide was torn in the
ground beneath a bay window at the
rear of the structure and the entire
wall up to the second story was blown
sway. The entire neighborhood was
aroused and a crowd was on the scene
a few minutes after the explosion.
There was scarcely a house In the
block which was not affected.
A clew as to the perpetrators was
given to the police by the Rev. Frazer
Langford, pastor of a church, who re
ported that four months ago a man was
noticed looking about the executive
I mansion, and that he continued to
haunt the locality until a week ago,
1 when he disappeared
“According to my judgment, - ' said
Governor Stephens, “the bomb was
thrown from the alleyway about forty
feet to the rear of the mansion, and did
not light as far under the house as its
owner had intended I am strength
ened in this statement -by the fact that
the back gates were both locked as
usual and the watchman had visited the
basement just a few minutes before the
explosion occurred. He says that when
he passed the steps he turned his flash
light on the place where indications
prove the bomb was placed and at that
I time there was nothing there.’’
Governor C*lt>
The governor was probably the Alm
est of the group that surveyed the
. wrecked mansion
Detectives searched downtown room
ing houses without success for a man
said to have been seen in the neighbor
, hood of the mansion at an early hour
| in the" evening
William D. Stephens became governor
of California last spring, when Governor
| Hiram Johnson assumed his duties as
, United States senator.
Last week Governor Stephens made a
series of patriotic addresses in southern
i California, dealing largely with the
duties of Californians in supporting the
national government during the war.
No Clue Obtained
The police had found neither a mo
tive for the explosion or a definite clue
to Its perpetrators.
They were Inclined, however, to reject
the theory that the explosive was
thrown against the building from an
I alley, because of a high fence, but noth
ing has been shown to indicate the bomb
was “planted."
The last person admitted to the ex
ecutive mansion was a Chinese servant,
who came in about 11:30 p. m. The po
lice say the explosion occurred between
that hour and midnight.
Alabama’s Black Belt
Furnished 8,285 Men
(Special Dispatch to The Journal !
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Dec. 18.—Rec-,
ords of the first draft of Alabama men
for the national army show that the
state furnished 5,327 white men and
8.285 negroes, or 2,908 more negroes
than white persons. Employes of the !
state military department completed the
tabulation of reports from local exemp
tion boards Monday. The Urge number
of negroes is accounted for by the ex-.
cessive negro population in the black
belt of Alabama.
With a few exceptions, all white men
drawn for service in the first quota
have gone to the training camps, while
l not more than one-half, if that many.
I negroes have been placed in service. The
military department stated that it had
not been advised when the state’s re
maining negro selectmen would be
called It is probable that the negroes
will not be called Into service until
units now in training have been sent to
France, thus making room for the train- |
l k ing of the selectmen.
Prominent People Held
In Counterfeiting Case
l COLUMBIA. S. C., Dec. 19.—Rufus
Shannon and his wife Mattie Shannon,
both of prominent family connection
’ iln Richland county, and William Wad- I
dell, alias Wirt Moore Waddell, have
been arrested here by secret service |
I operatives on a charge of counterfeit- >
ing. Mattle" Shannon and Waddell are
1 in the county jail, while Shannon is in
a local hospital where he was taken
recently following injury in a street car
accident A supply of metal, dies,
molds, sandpaper and other parapher
nalia for making counterfeit nickels
and dollars was found in the house oc- ;
cupied by the Shannons, according to
the secret service men.
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Appels to Alabama Voters'
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MONTGOMERY. Ala.. Dec. 18.—De
i . daring that “a small coterie of aggres
r j sive zealots” has forced congress to sub
mit the national prohibition amendment
: which received a favorable report In the
1 lower house Ute Monday, John H. Wal
lace. Jr., local option candidate for gov
ernor, last night called upon the voters
of this state to elect a legislature
i which will decline to ratify the amend
. meat. He said the people had never
voted for state-wide prohibition, but had
rejected such one time by a vote of
7«.27S to 49,093 when the issue was
submitted in the form of an amendment
to tlx state constitution.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917.
SEPARATE PEACE IS
INEVITABLE RESULT
DF BOLSHEVIKI RULE
Germany Hastening Negotia
tions So That Peace Can Be
Concluded Before Fall of
Lehine and Trotzky
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—A separate
peace between Russia and Germany is
inevitable and nothing less than a mira
cle will prevent its consummation
unless Russia shakes herself free from
the stranglehold of Bolshevikism, Rus
sian officials predicted today.
"The effects of a separate peace be
tween Russia and Germany cannot be
overestimated," a Russian official
stated. "Once a separate peace has
been signed, the action will be irrepar
able. Germany realizes this and will
let nj obstacle stand in her way. She
will even make concessions which she
has no intention of keeping in order to
further the criminal actions of the Bol
sheviki.
Official forecast at the embassy is
that Germany and Austria will comply
with Trotsky’s "no annexation, no con
tribution and self-definition of boundar
ies" demands.
The Teuton foreign ministers proba
bly will also agree not to use any forces
how on the Russian front against the
allies—because the Germans no longer
have a formidable force stationed there.
What forces formerly stationed along
the Russian front have not been trans
ported to other fronts, or replaced by
weaker units, have mostly been with
drawn far enough from the line to
place them out of the Jurisdlctiin of the
“joker” in Trotsky’s peace program.
“Conclusion of a separate peace,
whichP now seems inevitable,” an official
said, “will be an irreparable wrong to
loyal Russia and her allies. Once sep
arate peace articles have been signed,
Russia will be permanently out of the
war. The fact that such a peace agree
ment will be illegal, having been con
summated by an irresponsible power,
will in no way mitigate its effective
ness.”
That the Bolshevik! will continue In
power long enough to put over their
peace program is predicted by Russian
officials. Latest reports indicate that
more than one-half of Russia territorial
ly and numerically has repudiated the
Maximalist regime. At the present rate
of disintegration, their downfall should
come within a month, it was stated, but
this will be too late. <
"Germany’s game is to sign a sepa
rate peace before the downfall comes,”
a high Russian official said. “The cen
tnbl powers will not push their demands
for eentributions at present because
they know it will be virtually impossi
ble to collect. It would make a sepa
rate peace- more difficult. Germany also
can afford to agree, in her hypocritical
way, to no annexations because
Lithuania. Poland, Courland and Fin
land’s insistence upon autonomy will
make them easy victims for German
absorption after the war.”
The Lenine-Trotzky threat of terror
ism to be instituted against their op
ponents is no idle boast, official believe.
It has always taken an iron hand to
rule Russia, and the Bolsheviki are not
Inclined to ignore Kerensky’s expe
rience. They would inaugurate a reign
of terrorism as readily as they are now
insisting upon separate peace. But, tn
the bloody excesses which are bound to
come Russia will again regain her
sense of political equilibrium, officials
predict.
U. S. Balloonists Fired
Upon by Bibb Farmers;
“Shoot Again,” One Said
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MACON, Ga.. Dec. 18.—The first an J
second battalion flights of Camp Wheel
er’s newly inaugurated balloon school
took place Saturday and Monday re
spectively. and in each instance the bal
loonists were fired on by farmers, ac
cording to Balloonists Mulliken and
i .Jewell, who made the flights.
Jewell related his experience yester
day as follows: •
“About twelve miles from Macon two
men rushed out with a shotgun, and al
though I was too far up to be hit, yet I
I could distinctly hear the report of the
gun and hear one man say to the other:
, Shoot again. John, maybe you will hit
1 him next time.’ ”
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BASEL, Switzerland. Oft.'2s. —In con
sidering social conditions in Germany
from across the border in Switzerland,
one is struck by this apparent fact:
The "load line” of national misery
does not mount to any peaks. But It
continues along a monotonous and un
deviating level of privations and dis
comfort which must be indefinitely de
pressing.
No one starves, but no one has enough
to eat. ?N’o one freezes, but no one is
warm.
No one goes naked, but no one is well
dressed.
No one is deprived of the actual ne
cessities of life, but no one has the
amaller alleviations that lessen the nerv
ous tension of life in war-time.
There are no minor amusements. Once
the German hausfrau , might visit her
favorite coffee hou'se for coffee and
cakes in the afternoon. There is no cof
fee now and no cakes, and consequently
no coffee houses. It is true that the na
tionally endowed opera houses are bang
ing away full blare and that military
bands play in the public squares in al
most every German city.
Beer drinking was once a nationaJ
sport. That is a statement of bare fact.
The German had the best beer in the
world to drink and he drank it with all
the will in the world. It was a poor or
a sickening German who did not visit
his favorite beer hall at least once a
week with his family, to listen to good
music and sometimes good singing, to
smoke many pipes and drink various
huge pots of brew. His “stammtisch”
night was far more sacred than Sunday.
Then he met his cronies at the table
which had been set apart for them on
that night of the week for a generation
and gossiped and told stories and drank
beer in happiness.
“The German is gemutlich,” says one
who knows the German well. “He lives
for his social hour and glass with his
friends."
All that has gone by. The German
beer is a poor thing nowadays. It has
been watered and rewatered and watered
again until it is practically undrinkable.
I have been told by people who left Ber
lin not long ago that for months they
have not tasted beer.
It is a thin soap-and-watery, distress
ing beverage that has neither flavor nor
punch. Only the victim of long habit
continues to drink it, and he is drawn
by the habit and not by the beer. In
certain localities the manufacture of
beer has long been forbidden. In others
it is still being brewed, under strict gov
ernment regulation as to content and the
hours in which it may be drunk.
Only in Bavaria is beer comparatively
—note the comparatively—free to thirs
ty souls. The Bavarian would fight
and go hungry and half clothed, but
go absolutely thirsty he would not.
He has never had a vast liking or re
spect for the kaiser, aaiyhow and his
adhesion to the German empire is
prompted by his realization of the
tangible advantages of membership and
by the further fact that he cannot get
away. Therefore he had no patriotic
sentiment strong ’enough to induce him
to give up the beer which had been a
good part of his life. He bluntly re
fused to give up beer, kaiser or no
kaiser. So the courts took cognizance
of this menacing attitude and formally
held that:
“In Bavaria beer must be consider
ed as a prime necessity of life."
His point gained, the Bavarian con
ceded something to circumstance. Beer
drinking in Bavaria is limited now. so
that each man has the right to one full
glass of beer and two half glasses dur-
I ing the course of each day, and to no
i more. The • beer, be it understood, is
no more like the Bavarian beer of old
than skimmed milk is like Jersey cream.
No beer cards have been Issued and the
rugged and determined beer drinker can
still go from beer hall to beer hall,
drinking his one full glass and two half
glasses in each place. But that is not
the custom of the Bavarian. He wants
to puddle himself slowly, hour after
hour, in a reverie of beer, contempla
tion, music, sausage and smoke. He
has the attachment of the house cat
for his beer hall. Having once placed
himself he is good for the evening.
Not even the Bavarian can stand his
permitted allowance of modern Bava
rian beer. Fathers stay at home of
nights * nowadays who have not seen
their families by candlelight for years.
Nor is the German home a pleasant
one nowadays even if that national bur
den of sorrow and depression did not
weigh upon every rooftree. It is cold
and dark. The street lights go out
in all cities at 11 o’clock. They are
not needed later, for there is no one
on the streets. In many cities, and
perhaps in the whole empire, a police
ourfew is to -Ying this winter at 9
o’clock. So that lights shall not be
permitted in the homes or on the streets
after that hour. Even earlier in the
evening not one light twinkles now
where a dozen shone before. • The (In
ter den Linden, Berlin’s Show street,
is barely picked out of the darkness
by the lamps that sHiWe at distant in
tervals. The lesser streets are in some
instances not lighted at all.
So that the householder fights his way
home after the day's work on tram lines
that are crowded to the last inch of ca
pacity. Once no more than two standees
were permitted in a tram in most Ger
man cities, but now the last comers hang
perilously on the steps. The roadbed
has gone to pieces, for repairs are only
made when they are forced. The cars
have not been painted for two years and
if they are not coming to pieces, at
least their joints are loosened. Flat
wheels are ax normal as round wheels
used to be. The householder has been
hungry for months and he is as hungry
a.s ever when he gets up from the meal
of mildly flavored vegetables which Is
the German dinner of today. One lamp
and *no more is the rule in the average
household. At 9 o’clock in many cities
that lamp must be put out.
During the long summer evenings life
has perhaps been not so positively un
pleasant as it will be this winter. There
is to be no central heating hereafter,
j because of the lack of coal.
Only one room in each house may be
heated, and that only to a degree which
will permit the German to sit about
without an overcoat.
This is the report which reaches Switz
erland. The curfew ordinance forbidding
street or house lighting after 9 o’clock
in the evening will automatically re
strict house warming to that hour. If
the hausfrau has sought during the day
to relieve herself by shopping, her lord
and master is apt to find her in a stern
and forbidding turn of mind when he
settles down to pipe and slippers after
dark.
Shopping is on the index of expur
gated amusements. If the hausfrau
i wants to buy a broom she may go to a
shop, state her wants, pay for the broom,
put it under her arm and go home. But
I
Alleged Fake Officer
Held Under SB,OOO Bond
For U. S. Grand Jury
Charles R. E. McCann, alias Warren
G. Grey, was bound over under an JB.OOO
bond Monday afternoon by United
States-Commissioner W. Colquitt Carter.
He is now lodged in the Fulton county
Tower, pending an investigation by the
federal grand jury.
McCann was brought before Commis
sioner Carter for a hearing, out Jttlor
ney Harvey Hill, representing the de
fendant, did not care to go into the
evidence, and after one witness made
a statement Attorney Hill said he was
willing to waive the hearing.
McCann was brought into court Mon
day on the charge of impersonation of
an officer with intent to iefraud. It Is
understood that his mother is coming
to Atlanta to assist him.
McCann married Miss Rebie Wilkins
in Atlanta December 1 and insists that
he still loves her, ajtd would make good
if given a chance. In event that he
makes bond it is understood that tne
military authorities will immediately
take him in hand on the charge of de
sertion.
T. S. Wilkins, father of Miss Wilkins,
issued a .statement Tuesday in which be
indignantly denied the report that his
daughter still loved McCann.
Mr. Wilkins stated that his daughter
was met at the New York dock by
friends and left McCann immediately,
with no intention of ever seeing him
again. Mr. Wilkins also stated that the
young lady would return to Atlanta and
will immediately institute proceedings
for divorce.
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if she wants to buy a broom she may
not begin the transaction in time-hal
lowed fashion by looking at swan’s-down
cloaks and the more candid theories in
opera wear. The government Is rigidly
restricting the temptation to spend
money needlessly.
Before she may look at any article of
apparel she must produce for the shop?
keeper a police permit stating that she
may buy it. Sometimes that permit Is
limited as to the district and sometimes
even to the shop in which the purchase
may be made.
In some cities the hausfrau must be
registered with one department store
or one dry goods store and may not buy
elsewhere. The handicap that puts upon
the woman who enjoys an occasional
afternoon of shopping is readily per
ceived.
If she does buy something she must
carry it home herself, for the stores
no longer deliver parcels. If the pack
age is too big for her to handle, she
must go on the street and strike a bar
gain with a push-carter.
There'are no automobiles on the Ger
man streets now. except those belonging
to the army or dilomatlc services. Many
of these run on tires made of hinged
wooden blocks. There are some anti
quated electric vehicles which run after
a fashion on misfit wheels. The benzo)
burned in the few cars that are run
ning is of such abominable quality that
the. air is filled with smoke and stench
long after the car has gone by.
Naturally, there is no automobile de
livery. Nor is there delivery by horse
carts, for the few horses which still
stagger about German city streets are
used for the “droskies” —the little car
riages which just hold two people com
fortably. They are mere racks of bones,
of course. Their food has necessarily
been cut to the last straw, for fodder
is needed for cattle which may later
become food for humans. They began
their term of drosky service as castoff
and spavined wrecks unfit for anything
else. The pushcarts on which all de
liveries are now made are pushed either
by women or cripples or temporarily
exempt men. The women, for that mat
ter. do much of the work In German
streets now. They clean the streets and
run the tramcars and light the lamps.
In no one item of this acqpunt is
there actual suffering to found. But
when one adds the items, and reflects
that no relief is to be found in amuse
ment, one begins to comprehend the
grave depression from whiclj, the Ger
man eople are suffering. It is impor
tant to understand that the people have
not yet lost hope. The greater part of
them firmly believe in eventual German
victory. They are undergoing these
miseries because they believe this. When
the realization of inevitable defeat
comes to them it seems certain to me
that the collapse will be a sudden and
an overwhelming one.
It is not precisely accurate to say
there 1s no amusement. On the other
hand, the theaters and concert halls and
opera houses reported as jammed
full for every performance throughout
the empire. The morbid Ibsenism of two
years ago has gone out of fashion and
the people demand only “laughing" plays
now. In this the incessant demand fell
by these jaded and worn-down nerves
for some relief from the ever present
griefs and privations inay be seen. But
all this is relief for the moment only.
They step out of the theaters to face
the realjty they had momentarily for
gotten.
This reality is made up of saddening
items such as the people of no other of
the major belligerents are compelled to
meet. The daily report of deaths and
wounds from the front is common to
all. But in Germany there is also the
story of the ravages of the epidemic of
dysentery in the next street, and of
the danger of a coal shortage for lack of
man-labor, and of the possibility that
underfeeding in.ay be converted into
starvation. The boy of the household
has been called to the war, for boys of
sixteen and one-half years have now
been summoned to the colors. The fath
er of the house is at the war or is
engaged in work affiliated with the war
—for men of fifty-five are now liable
to call —or else he has been sent home
to wait the day of his final call.
The moral standards of the people
have been breaking down. Juvenile mis
behavior. petty theft, illegitimacy, are
all reported as increasing.
As a people the Germans face indus
trial stagnation and grinding taxation
and practically universal poverty even
if the central powers win the war. If
what the allies believe is inevitable
comes to pass, and the central powers
lose the war, the Germans know they
face national bankruptcy plus individual
bankruptcy plus repudiation and con
fiscation.
“If the very best happens we still
are ruined.” said a Berlin banker to a
friend of mine in Switzerland this week.
This picture has not been painted in
too black colors. There has been under
statement rather than exaggeration.
But from this brief and neutral-tinted
statement of conditions as they seem
to exist from across the line in Switzer
land. the reader may arrive at an under
standing of the utter depression which
reigns in Germany today. No individual
in all the warring countries so hopes
and prays for peace today as the Ger
man. I believe.
But it would be both unfair and un
wise to represent the German as having
lost' heart and courage. There is every
reason to believe that he will fight on
for at least another year. He still hopes
for peace bn his own terms.
The German plans for next year s war
are more sweeping and more scientific
and more murderous than they have
been for any of the past years of war.
OLPIRTMENT ORDERS
PROBE OF 10W GUMPS
Result of Surgeon General
Gorgas’ Report May Cause
Congress to Act
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19—The war
department has issued orders carrying
into effect urgent recommendations of
Surgeon General Gorgas for removing
and alleviating conditions which have
led to excesisve measles and pneumonia
cases in many American camps.
His main 'recommendation was to re
lieve overcrowding, giving a tent for
five men instead of nine. The chief of
staff at once ordered this change, along
with establishment of observation
camps, installation of plumbing in hos
pitals where incomplete and expediting
of issue of heavy clothing.
Work on observation camps are in
progress. This along with relief from
overcrowding will ten<| materially to cut
down the number of’measles eases to
which pneumonia is generally traceable.
Gorgas’ counsel, given nearly a month
ago but revealed a short time ago. was
promptly followed by the chief of staff.
The war department said today Mhere
has already been a marked improve
ment as a Result of the changes. Camp
Wheeler, for instance, where measles
and pneumonia have been epidemic has
shown a gratifying decrease in both.
The clothing situation is now nearly
remedied all around and the war de
partment believes that henceforth there
will be less reason for complaint as
to sanitary conditions. • •
Probable Congress Probe.
Shocked by General Gorges' disclos
ures, congress proposes to widen its
inquiries to find why such conditions
have been permitted to continue.
Partly they are the natural outgrowth
of transition from an unprepared peace
to a state of war; others are manifestly
due to mismanagement.
All the facts for congressional prob
ing will be promptly available, for Gen
eral Gorgas’ department, spurred by the
copimittee on public information, long
since adopted »the policy of absolute
frankness. His first revelations covered
conditions at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga.
Now, after a personal inspection, he
has revealed that serious disease epi
demics —mainly pneumonia and menin
gitis—in Camps Funston. Kan.; Doni
phan, Okla.; Bowie, Tex., and Sevier. S.
C.. are traceable mainly to lack of warm
clothing, insufficient hospital accommo
dations, overcrowding and improper
camp selection. (
Lack of proper clothing has been the
most common and persistent cause of
trouble. Men in the “sunny south”
have for a large part been equipped with
summer clothing apparently on the as
sumption that the climate would permit
this, whereas, in fact, the weather has
been far too rigorous.
Camp Funston’s death rate has been
seven times normal. The difficulty
there, General Gorgas reveals, may in
part be attributed to the Insanitary lo
cation, but he says this fact was well
known in advance.
It recalls that in selecting camp sites
the war department was submitted to
the strongest political pressure and that
apparently decisions once made were
occasionally altered by this.
One of the main troubles is the incom
pleteness of hospitals, particularly as
to plumbing, despite no apparent reason
why all buildings should not have been
completed long since.
The clothing matter is being rapidly
remedied.
Meantime, war work is likely to have
a fresh impetus from the injection of
new blood into the quartermaster gen
eral, ordnance and coast artillery
branches.
The real need for a war council which
the former chiefs of these bureaus now
enter has not been clearly demonstrated,
and the general interpretation here is
that the secretary of war is making
shifts to gain efficiency within.
Steamer Under Convoy
Is Sunk By Submarine
AN ATLANTIC PORT. Dec. 19
Sinking of the British steamer City of
Naples,<*3,7l4 tons, on December 5,
while under convoy of destroyers, by a
German submarine was reported on the
arrival here today of an American
steamship. The British ship was just
ahead of the American ship when struck
bv a torpedo.
After the city of Naples was struck,
destroyers dropped four deptl) bombs
over the spot where the submarine was
believed to have been. The American
captain did not know whether these
reached their mark and did not know
what became of the crew of the British
vessel-
Two Saved from U. S.
Destroyer by Germans
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 18.—Two sailors
were saved by the Germans from the
American destroyer Jacob Jones, accord
ing to an official German announcement
received here today.
The Jacob Jones was torpedoed arnd
sunk In the war zone on December 6 and
sixty-five men on board were listed as
missing. Survivors reported that one
American, who spoke German, was taken
iway a prisoner on the submarine.
One Killed When Train
Crashes Into Motor Truck
WARREN, Ohio, Dec. 19.—Liberty
motor truck No. 7, comprising one of
thirty-three Liberty motor trucks en
route from Detroit to Newport News,
near Braceville, Ohio, at 2 a. m. today,
was struck by an Erie passenger train,
resulting In the death of Frank Pappelo.
Canton, Ohio, driver of the truck, and
seriously injuring John Litzenburg, an
assistant, of Mineral City, Ohio.
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FDD COUNTIES NAMED ’
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Food administrators in practically ev
ery Georgia county have been named by
Dr. A. M. Soule, state food administra
tor. These county administrators will
each appoint an advisory board to aid
in making the food regulations effective.
The county administrators appointed
by Dr. Soule are:
J. A. I’earion. Bacon; Benton Odum. Ba
ker; o. N. Hardin, Banks; George Wood
ruff. Barrow: M. S, Johnson. Bartow; D.
W. M. Whitley, Ben Hill; H. L, Jackson,
Berrien; Dunean L. Mcßae, Bibb; T. D.
Walker, Bleckley; S. J. Faircloth, Brooks;
J. I*. I hike, Bryan: Brooks Simonds, Bulloch;
11. J. Fullbrigtit, Burke; Threatt Moore. Butts;
E. 1. Smith, Calhoun; R. B. Tatum, Camp
bell; S. <’. Townsend. Camden; L. K. Smith,
Carroll: B. E. Satterfield. Catoosa; B. F.
Scott, Charlton; W. W. Gordon, Chatham; N. K.
Ridding, Chattooga; Pierce Latimer, Cherokee;
H. J. Rowe, Clarke; Zaeh Arnold, Clay; G. M.
Hine. Clayton; Alex Seasons, Clinch.
Bernard Awtrey, Cobb; J. W. Quincy, Col- -w
fee; J. L. Weeks, Columbia; H. H. North, •
Coweta; Jesse Barry. Colquitt: R. L. Dickey,
Crawford; W. H. Dorris. Crisp; C. S. Tur- M
ner, Dade; B. H. Stone, Dawson; J. W. Cal- ■
lahan. Decatur; George R. Jones, DeKalb; '
J. H. Roberts. Dodge; M. T. Mclhtosh.
Dougherty; John T. Dunean, Douglas; John
G. Butler. Early; P. M. Hawes, Elbert; A.
S. Bradley. Emanuel; C. S. Grice. Evans;
Charles D. Redwine, Fayette; Hugh T. Rey
nolds, Floyd; Jarret P, Fowler, Forsyth; H.
H. Chandler, Franklin; J. H. Ewing. Ful
ton; J. 8. Hudson, Gilmer; L. B. Abrams. *
Glynn; E. Dillard. Gordon; J. B. Wight,
Grady; E. A. Copelan. Greene; D. M. Byrd,
Gwinnett; C. A. Wells, Habersham; John N.
Hoech. Hall: T. H. IJttle, Hancock, B. Bul-
Irrd, Haralson; L. L. McMullan, Hart.
P. T. McCutcheon. Heard; G. Fears, Henry:
.7. A. Evans. Houston; D. J. Henderson, Erwin;
John Holder. Jackson: C. Hinson, Jeff Davis; <
John R. Phillips, Jefferson; A. S. Anderson.
Jenkins: W. J. Faircloth, Johnson; L. C. Morton,
Jones: George Davis, Tanrens; 8. J. Youmans’
Lee; J. B. Fraser. Liberty; C. C. Brantley,
Lowndes; Craig R. Arnold, Lumpkin; John T.
West. McDuffie: N. C. Willy. Mclntosh; J. W.
Frederick. Macon: W. 8. Ix»ng, Madison; F. D.
Kieh, Miller; E. H. McMichael, Monroe; N. T.
McArthur, Montgomery; R. Bennett, Mitchell;
Sam Rutherford. J. B. Swords. Morgan: E. fl.
Beek, Murray; T. N. Garrard, Muscogee; Hugo
Trice, Oconee: Miss Ellen Brooks, Oglethorpe;
Tom Cooper, Pnulding.
E. L. Darling, Pierce; Charlea R. Gwynn,
Pike; C. C. Bunn. Jr.. Polk; H. T. Asbufy, Put
nam; R. E. A. Hamby, Rabun; A. 8. Perry.
Randolph: N. L. Willet, Richmond; John B.
Almand, Rockdale; Dr. G. W. Overstreet.
Screven; Dr. Jeff Davis. Stephens; R. T. Hum- .
her. Stewart; T. A. Fenlmore, Sumter; T. H. 2
Pearson. Talbot; Alvin G. Golncke, Taliaferro:
Judge E. C. Collins. Tattnall; Henry Wallace,
Taylor; Tom J. Mcßse, Telfair; Walter Doaier.
Terrell: Judge Charles P. Hansell, Thomas;
B. Y. Wallace, Tift; Phil Lanier, Troup; Rea
son Paulk, Turner: Cary Shaanon, Twiggs; W.
E. Chandler, Union; James Shaddock, Upson;
Dan Lott, Ware.
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ton; R. M. Milliken, Wayne; J. R. Stapleton. *
Webster; Arthur Gailbraitb, Wheeler; E. H.
Edwards, White; Thomas S. McCamy, Whit
field; N. M. Pattern. Wlieox; W. T. Johnson,
Wilkes; George H. Carswell, Wilkinson; C. C.
Grubos, Worth.
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