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IS HELD WITHOUT Blit
IS BALLOONASSAILANT
he &
* Clem Clements Charged With
H Shooting at Bag Flying
U. S. Flag
MACON. Ga.. Feb. 6.—United States
District Attorney Dona Ison has directed
Dodge county officials to hold without
' ball Clem Clements, forty-five years old.
arrested near Eastman yesterday on a
charge of having tired on an army bal
f loon flying the American flag Clements
1k denied having fired the shots, but the
I j sheriff says that before Clements was
- arrested he boasted of it. Others say
t- that they are of the opinion that who
ever fired the shot thought the balloon
was a German craft.
I” The balloon was in charge of Pilot
S. W. Pardee, of New Haven. Conn.,
ife the other members of the crew being
W. Turnbull. L A. Winter and J. IL
Vernon, who recently Joined the balloon
• school, coming from Omaha. Neb.
One mile east of Eastman considerable
. activity was observed on the ground, ac
g-1 cording to the crew. This same crew
was fired upon last week, while making
a flight, and being within rifle range
• feared that there would be a repetition.
Turnbull grasped the American fia?
from its socket in the basket and waved
Z it vigorously, so that it could be plainly
seen by those below
» A shot rang out as he waved. The
/members of the crew unloaded ballast
and ascended rapidly to a higher level.
They proceeded for a short distance and
then landed. Going back to the district
where the shooting occurred they met
Sheriff C. N Mullis.
"Did anyone fire at you?” he asked.
"Tee." came the reply in chorus.
"Well. Pre got your man.” the sheriff
said. He held Clements.
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(laoe*- '!»«!> tn tel! which
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Ing increase and remarkable prevalency
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STATE ra FDR 2,111
MEN ONLY, ALL NLGHOES
New Order Supersedes First
Which Called for Total
i * of 9,000
Taking precedence over an order re
ceived earlier in the day—under which
all of Georgia’s remaining current quota
were to be ordered to camp on February
15—Provost Marshal General Crowder
Monday night telegraphed Major Joel B.
’ Mallet, officer in charge of the selective
service law. that Georgia will at this
time be called on for only 3.800 men. all
negroes. These will be sent to Camp
Gordon during a five-day period begin
, ning February 23.
It was originally intended that this
call should include all men needed to
complete the first quota, approximately
9.000. After the 2,800 negroes are sent
to camp. Georgia still will have up
wards of 6,000 men to furnish under
the first call. The number is large be
cause of the fact that virtually 2,000
men have been discharged from camps
for physical disabilities and these will
not be credited to the boards.
General Crowder directs that the next
contingent be filled, if possible, from
men in class one.
New physical regulations were being
tnailtd to various boards Tuesday front
‘he office of Major Mallet and will be
come immediately effective. Under these
regulations many men who previously
would have been disqualified will be ac
cepted for noncombatant service. Men
with remediable defects and minor per
manent defects will, in many instances
be accepted.
New Florida Judge
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.—The senate
. today passed Senator Fletcher’s bill
creating an additional federal judgeship
in the southern district of Florida.
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while taking iron in the proper form. And
ttoiv. after they bsd In some caaes been poing
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If you are not strong or well you owe it to
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NOTE —Nuxated Iron recommended above by
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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1018.
BAKER TO ANSWER
SHIPPING OUESTIOPJS
IN SECRET LATER ON
Senator Hitchcock Insistent
That Secretary Show What
Tonnage Is Available for
Sending Men to France
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Secretary
Baker came up for cross-examination to
day before the senate military commit
tee on his picture of the state of pre
paredness of the army, which congres
sional critics have attacked as "grossly
exaggerated.”
But. the principal point of the whole
controversy—the question of where the
army is going to get ships to transport
a million men to France this year—was
left untouched, partly because Secretary
Baker did not have the detailed figures
to show the committee on what basis he
made his assertion, and partly because
the committee got into a squabble over
whether it would be proper to have the
secretary of war disclose the figures in
public.
The upshot of it was that the ques
tion of ships was left to be presented in
detailed exact statements to the com
mittee in secret session tomorrow and
the cross-examination went on to other
subjects of a general nature.
Senator Hitchcock, who has attacked
particularly, the secretary of war’s
statement that the United States could
put a million men in France this year—
in addition to 500,000 there early this
spring—was insistent that Mr. Baker
should show the committee what
grounds he had for believing there were
ships available for their transport and
supply.
Secretary Baker replied he didn’t have
the exact figures in his mind, but that
his statement was made on figures which
had been prepared by experts who took
in the Information at the disposal of the
shipping board, as well as what ships
might be available from neutral and for
eign sources. The secretary made plain
that he was not counting wholly on
American ships to transport the troops.
Secretary Baker did say, however,
that probably the form of his original
statement to the committee, which has
been made the basis of attack, was un
fortunate in that it expressed his gen
eral opinion of a broad situation rather
than the exact statement of experts
dealing in details.
‘The misfortune for me, if I may call
it such.” said Secretary Baker, ’lay in
the fact that I attemped to give opin
ions of be broad general siuaion as I
saw it, when the information lay in de
tails that ought to have been gotten
from he expers in direct charge, or In
statistics giving specific facts. I was
attempting a general survey. It was a
misfortune for me to do that.”
Estimate Small, He Thought
An estimate of 791,000 tons of ships
available for transport on February 1,
the secretary said, he thought was small
rather than too large.
The shipping board. Senator Hitch
cock said, had advised him that on
November 1. there were available 582
American ships, all of more than 1,500
tons each, including tank ships and the
German and Austrian ships taken over.
Mr. Baker did not know how many
troops that number of ships would
transport but promised to inform the
committee later.
Secretary Baker said he had not de
termined whether troops would be kept
in the southern camps next surhmer. If
the summer weather was as extreme as
this winter has been, he said, some
would have to be moved.
American tonnage losses. Secretary
Baker said, have been exceedingly light.
“The service the navy has rendered In
the protection of the army,” he said,
“has been unexampled.”
Secretary Baker gave the opinion that
new legislation would be desirable *o
give the president general powers to
transfer and co-ordinate functions -it
various departments as conditions arise.
Possibility that the actual purchasing
power for the war department may be
largely placed In the hands of Edward R.
Stettinius, surveyor general, was indi
cated by Secretary Baker.
"Mr. Stettinius is relied upon to do
this thing,” he said.
Secretary Baker’s cross-examination
was begun by Senator Weeks, of Massa
chusetts. Republican, in connection with
the number of troops to be sent abroad
this year.
Expectations Exceeded
On January 1, Secretary Baker said
more troops had been transported to
France, including both noncombatant
and fighting forces, than had been
planned.
Secretary Baker and Senator Weeks
agreed that it was improper to disclose
the number of troops now in France.
Transportation of fighting troops was
temporarily reduced. Secretary Baker
said, in discussing the shipping situa
tion, by the necessity of sending larger
engineer forces. He did not have with
him detailed statistics regarding avail
able ships, but promised to supply it.
The shipping board, and the war de
partment, Secretary Baker said, are in
constant contact, exhaustively studying
the shipping situation. General Bliss,
he said, took the information abroad as
a basis of calculation in connection
with the shipping situation. About 130,-
000 tons additional have recently been
secured.
Senator Weeks asked If it were true
that the war department had 791,000
tons of ships available for transporting
troops on February 1. Secretary Baker
did not know, but thought that an under
estimate.
In his former statement that a mil
lion more men probably could be sent
to France this year. Secretary Baker ex
plained he did not depend wholly on
American shipping in his calculations.
Senator Hitchcock said that on No
vember 30 the shipping board advised
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him the total gross available Ameri
can tonnage was 582 ships of 3,721,806
tons, including tankers and former Ger
man and Austrian ships. Secretary
Baker said he could not estimate how
many troops that tonange would sup
ply.
Diannas Booa*velt Editorial
The much discussed editorial in the
Metropolitan magazine, of which Colonel
Roosevelt was associate editor, attack
ing the war department’s preparations
to send troops to France, came up again.
Secretary Baker had replied to the edi
torial in his first statement by saying
the war department had done more than
the magazine contended it should.
"Did the editor nave any information
other than an ordinary citizen might
have had at that time?” asked Senator
Weeks.
“Oh. no,” said Mr. Baker, adding that
in August, when the article appeared, he
had been quite certain that tbe depart
ment could do more toward training
troops than it suggested, and also that
there was good promise that more could
be done toward getting them to France
than the article proposed.
Senator Weeks asked if the war de
partment had succeeded in doing as
much as it had hoped for in October.
“I can answer that in this way,” Mr.
Baker said. “On January 1 we had
transported to France more troops than
our schedule had called for.”
“Both combatant and non-combatant
troops?” asked Senator Weeks.
‘That is the aggregate,” Mr. Baker
said.
Senator Weeks said he had heard that
a military force ran about 40 per cent
combatant troops.
Secretary Baker said he did not have
the figures, but thought that the forces
in France might show that ratio. He
agreed to furnish Senator con
fidentially with exact figures as to the
number of men shipped and the propor
tion of fighting troops.
Senator Weeks asked what tonnage
the war department had available. He
said he had heard that it had 791,000
tons on February 1. Mr. Baker did not
know exactly, but thought that was an
under-estimate.
Tonnage CaiuculaUons.
Senator Weeks asked it the depart
ment figured on net, gross or dead
weight tonnage. He said that he had
heard that the German statements of
tonnage destroyed by submarines were
based on deadweight calculations and
the English on net tonnage, which made
the apparently divergent figures given
by each side very close together in fact.
Mr. Baker could not enlighten the sen
ator on the point.
Before General Bliss went to Europe,
Mr. Baker said, an exhaustive study of
the shipping situation was made. It was
reviewed before he went back the sec
ond time to attend the sessions of the
supreme war council. The secretary
said the war department had kept In
closest touch with the shipping board
and the supreme war council had the
data on which to rely.
"Is there any prospect of more ton
nage becoming available at an early
date?” asked Senator Weeks.
“Oh, yes,” said Mr. Baker. “I recall
now that 130,000 tons additional has be
come available during the last ten
days.”
The vessels were withdrawn from va
rious lines where they had been replaced
by neutral shipping. Much of the ton
nage orgininally available for men and
supplies had been diverted to the harbor
and arsenal projects abroad, he said, and
the purchase of artillery abroad had
served to relieve shipping somewhat,
although the necessity of' transporting
raw materials for the guns had figured
in the final result.
Examination of Secretary Baker was
Interrupted while senators discussed go
ing into executive session to permit the
secretary to furnish confidential infor
mation. The discussion was precipita
ted by Senator Reed, who thought the
committee entitled to exact Infor
mation of the number of men now in
France, and on other subjects.
Chairman Chamberlain, as well as
Senators Hitchcock and McKellar fav
ored an open session and to let the sec
retary indiacte what questions he would
rather answer in private.
Wants Open Session
As the secretary’s statment, on which
he is being cross examined, was made
at an open hearing, Senator Hitchcock
said he thought the committee would
make a mistake in not examining
him at a similar hearing.
“I think the committe and the public
are entitled to know where he proposes
to get the tonnage to supply the men
abroad,” continued the Nebraska sena
tor. “I think the secretary ought ro
be able to put those figures before us
to back up his statement that he ex
pects to have a million men over there
this year.”
“I think the whole question of ships
ought to be discussed in an executive
session,” said Secretary Baker, in re
ply to Chairman Chamberlain, who ask
ed his views. The tonnage matter, he
added, involved international arrange
ments and he sugested that he be per
mitted- to prepare a statement to show
the present status.
“I don’t think It is necessary for the
secretary to come here to disclose facts
in order to justify statements he has
made,” interrupted Senator Kirby, Dem
ocrat. “I am opposed to it. I think
the committee in executive session
ought to determine just how far it is
going in this investigation.”
Secretary Baker agreed that the
committee should have every available
fact, including confidential information.
Senator Weeks said he wanted to devel
op just what could be done in getting
men, munitions and other produtes
abroad, but without disclosing confi
dential matter.
The Massachusetts senator said, how
ever, he thought there was “a good deal
of camouflage about keeping informa
tion from the enemy which is published
in annual reports and otherwise.”
“I want to make a suggestion if I
may,” Secretary Baker interposed. “The
misfortune for me, if I may call it such,
in my first statement to the committee,
lay in the fact that I attempted to give
opinions of the broad general situation
as I saw it, when the information lay
In details that ought to have been got
ten from the experts in direct charge,
or in statistics giving specific facts. I
was attempting a general survey. It
was a misfortune for me to do that.
I think it better to give the committee
specific statemetns and the committee
is entitled to that.”
Secretary Baker proposed to have de
tailed statements of information pre
pared at the department and submitted
to the committee and then If the com
mittee desired to cross examine him
later regarding the statements he
would be glad to return.
Senator Hitchcock asked if the secre
tary would object to giving the commit
tee the basis for his opinion that he
expected a million men would be in
France before fall.
“Not in the least,” said Mr. Baker. “I
could have the committee go Into the ad
joining room and give It to you in three
sentences.”
Senator Hitchcock thought the in
formation should be given the same pub
licity as his first statement.
“The secretary conveyed to the coun
try.” said Senator Hitchcock, “ the In
formation that I think was very unfor
tunate. Did you consider shipping an
important factor?”
“Very Important—controlling.” Mr.
Baker replied. “I was not relying whol
ly on the supply of American shipping.” |
Shipping Tonnage
Senator Hitchcock asked how many ’
tons of American shipping could be de
pended on and Secretary Baker said
he could not give the information. The
Nebraska senator said he secured from
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the shipping board a statement of avail
able American tonage on November 30,
that there were 582 ships of 3,721,806
deadweight tons, including tankers and
former German and Austrian ships, all
over 1,500 tons.
“That was the grajid total at the dis
posal of the United States,” said Sen
ator Hitchcock, adding that excluding
passenger ships, tankers and other non
cargo carrying ships only about 1,400,000
tons was available for supply and trans
portation of troops.
Senator Hitchcock asked Secretary
Baker if that statement conformed to
his information and the secretary said
he could not remember.
“If that statement is correct, how
many troops can we supply In Europe?’’
persisted Senator Hitchcock.
‘I can’t answer that,” said Secretary
Baker. “It would depend on tne basis
of calculation.” ,
Senator Hitchcock said he understood
that basis was five tons per man. Sen
ator Weeks said he thought it was fif
ty pounds per man per day.
Senator Beckham interrupted protest
ing against "efforts to drag out of the
secretary indirectly, by probing ques
tions” information which would be of
value to the enemy.
Senator Hitchcock said he did not wish
to be misunderstood, but only desired
to find the basis of Mr. Baker’s assur
ance to the country that a million men
could be transported to France during
1918.
“You said you expected to have l.OOix
-000 men in France in 1918. Now, how
would you supply them?” he contin
ued.
Prospect* of Shipping
Mr. Baker read from ’his* original
statement that he had said a million
and a half troops would be available for
shipment in 1918 and that tne prospect
of forwarding them “was not unpromis
ing.”
"Why do you think it is not unprom
ising?” insisted Senator Hitchcock.
Secretary Baker replied that esti
mates made as to available tonnage in
dicated the possibility.
When he made the statement, Secre
tary Baker added there was in his mind
the conclusions of the shipping board as
to what tonnage it could produce in
1918. There were other factors as to
shipping, he added, such as vessels in
non-esesntial trades and domestic routes
which might be released by sailing ships
or neutral tonnage.
“I am asking you for the basis of your
assurance to the country that the pros
pect was not unpromising that we
would have a million men in France in
1918,” persisted Senator Hitchcock.
“I am anxious to tell you what is
in my mind,” answered Secretary Baker,
asking again that he be permitted to
explain his statement as far as possi
ble without disclosing military informa
tion.
Before General Bliss went to Europe,
he said, the subject was discussed with
members of the shipping board and
others as to the “extent to which the
emergency fleet corporation would sup
plement the existing tonnage” and the
“extent that tonnage then available to
America would need to be ’
by international arrange. in order
to carry out the allied i..jgram.”
Bliss Determined Question
Secretary Baker said he did not per
sonally determine the question, but that
it was done by General Bliss and others.
Upon Senator Weeks’ suggestion, the
committee dropped the shipping ques
tion until the secretary could get in
formation from his department to prop
erly answer the questions. This will be
furnished to the committee in executive
session.
Senator Kirby wanted to adjourn un
til tomorrow when an executive session
would be held, but other senators ob
jected and the examination went on.
Senator Weeks then asked if Secre
tary Baker knew how many pairs of
shoes were required per man in the
French and English armies. Mr. Baker
did not, but said he would obtain the
information. The senator said he wanted
to know in order to “determine if we
are buying more shoes than are neces
sary.”
Senat >r Weeks said he had received a
letter in which it was charged that
many men in the army are of German
sympathy and that many “officers and
men in conversations expressed pro-
German sentiment.”
The writer of the letter, he said, cited
an instance of an American officer be
ing sent home from France by General
Pershing for that reason. The senator
said he had also heard of a chaplain
who had been dismissed for similar
reasons.
Secretary Baker said he had received
no information of such conditions, but
would make an inquiry.
"I don’t doubt but that something of
that sort exists,” said the Massachu
setts senator, “and I think we ought to
make an example of some one.”
Senator Reed said it was unfair to
question the secretary in a large audi
torium filled with spectators, and im
pugning that the army was reeking with
treason.
“Why should the question be asked at
all?” the senator demanded.
Senator Frelinghuysen interrupts!
Senator Reed yielded.
“I want to ask a question, which 1
hope will pass the censor,” said Senator
Frelinghuysen, with his eyes fixed on
Senator Reed.
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Senator Frelinghuysen turned to
Secretary Baker, with the statement that
the committee was not interested in the
punishment of medical officers found
negligent, but in the protection of the
men in the camps. He said Surgeon
General Gorgas had stated to the com
mittee that he lacked authority to draw
the public health service into the camp
sanitation work.
"Has that subject been given any con
sideration?” he asked.
Secretary Baker said the recommenda
tions of the American E’ublic Health -vs
sociation had been adopted with the ap
proval of the surgeon general of the
army and navy.
“Then you think that you have the
health As the men well in hand?” said
Senator Frelinghuysen.
“Yes.’*
“Do you expect to keep soldiers in
the southern camps during the sum
mer?”
“I can’t answer.” the secretary re
plied. It depended much upon the na
ture of the summer weather, he said.
If it was comparatively as severe as
the winter, he said, it would be neces
sary to move some of the troops.
Senator Fletcher, of Florida, inter
rupted to deny that the south is un
healthful.
Senator Frelinghuysen replied that If
the soldiers stayed in some places "they
would shake to death with chills and
fever before they reached France.”
Statements attributed to Lord North
cliffe say preparations were being made
in America for raising an army bu{ lit
tle was being made to provide for the
transportation across the ocean, were
read by -Senator Hitchcock.
Secretary Baker said he had not heard
of the statement, and could not remem
ber if the subject had been discussed In
conference with Lord Northcliffe.
Declaring that “everybody knows
about half the men. both officers and
enlisted men, in the camps have never
been trained with artillery or machine
guns,” Senator McKellar asked the sec
retary if he thought it wise to send
men to France untrained.
Secretary Baker replied that many ar
tillery officers were being trained in
France at a school turned over by the
French and that it took more time to
train artillerymen than officers.
“The plan,” the secretary added, "is to
give as much training in this country as
possible by concentrating artillery sup
plies in units likely to go first to Franca
but in no case for them to be used in
combat until their training is completed
on the other side. I therefore do not
think it unwise to send men over who
are not completely trained.”
Is it unwise to send men not trained
at all, men who have never seen artil
lery or machine guns?" asked Senator
McKellar. stating a major had told him
that, at his camp, only the commanding
general had ever seen a six-inch gun.
Trusts Pershing’s Judgment
"Yes, I think it would be right; that
is, I do not think ft would be right to
send untrained men into combat, but I
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