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(’’OUTWITTING THE HUN” 1
■ THE WAR'S GREATEST
I ' BY GLUT. PAT OBRIEN
(Vvauuuiu xrom Last Issue)
Has a Heavenly Meal
In a few moments my host reap
peared with a tray containing my
Meakfast. I don’t suppose I shall
oyer forget that meal. It consisted
of a cup of coffee —real coffee, not
the kind I had had at Courtrai —sev-
eral slices of bread, some hot pota
toes and a dish of scrambled eggs.
Every mouthful of that meal tasted
like angel-food to me, and Huyliger
sat on the edge of the bed and
watched me enjoying it, at the saute
time outlining the plans he had made
for my escape. •
In brief, the scheme was to conceal
me in a convent until conditions wera
ylpe for me to make my way to the
border. In the meanwhile I was to
be dressed in the garb of a priest, and
when the time came for me to icave
the city I was to pretend that I was
a Spanish sailor, because I could
speak a little Spanish, which I had
picked up on the coast. To attempt
to play the part of a Belgian would
become increasingly difficult, he
pointed out, and would bring inevit
able disaster in the event that I was
called upon to speak.
* Huyliger said I would be given
sufficient money to bribe the Ger
man guards at the Dutch frontier and
he assured me that everything would
work out according to schedule.
«. "Yours is not the first case.
O'Brien, we have handled success
fully," he declared. "Only three
weeks ago I heard from an English
merchant who had escaped from a
German detention camp and came to
me for assistance and whom I had
been able to get through the lines.
His message telling me of his safe
arrival in Rotterdam came to me in
an indirect way. of course, but the ,
fact that the plans we had made car
ried through without mishap makes
me feel that we ought to be able to
do as much for you.’*
I told Huyliger I was ready to fol
low his instructions and would do
anything he suggested.
"I want to rejoin my squadron as
soon as I possibly can.” I told him,
"but I realize that it will take a cer
tain length of time for you to make
the necessary arrangements, and I
will be as patient as I can.”
Role of Spanish Sailor
The first thing to do, Huyliger told
me. was to prepare a passport. He
had a blank one and it was a com
paratively simple matter to fill in the
spaces, using a genuine passport
which Huyliger possessed as a sample
of the handwriting of the passport
clerk.
My occupation was entered as that
of a sailor. My birthplace we gave
as Spain, and we put my age at
thirty. As a matter of fact, at that
time I could easily have passed for
thirty-five, but we figured that with
proper food and a decent place to
sleep at night, I could soon -egain
my normal appearance. and«the pass
port would have to serve me, per
haps. for several weeks to come.
Filling in the blank spaces on the
passport was. as I have said, a *Jm
paratlvely easv matter, but that did
not begin to fill the bill. Ever? gen
nnlne passport bore an official rub
ber stamp, something like an elabor
ate postmark, and I was at a loss to
know how to get over that difficulty.:
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Fortunately, however, Huyliger
had half of a rubber stamp which
had evidently been thrown away by
the Germans, and he planned to con
struct the other half out of the cork
from a wine bottle. He was very
skillful with a penknife, and. al- J
though he spoilt a score or more of
corks before he succeeded in getting
anything like the result he was after,
the finished art>*u was. far better
. than our most sanguine expectations,
j Indeed, after we had pared it over
here and there, and removed what
ever imperfections our repeated test
disclosed, we had a stamp which
made an impression so closely re
sembling the original that without a
magnifying glass, we were sure, it
would have been impossible to tell
that it was a counterfeit.
Photographed for Passport
Huyliger procured a camera and
took a photograph of me to paste on
the passport in the place provided
for that purpose, and we then had a
passport which was entirely Satis
factory to both of us and would, we
hoped, prove equally so to our
friend the Huns.
It had taken two days to -fix up
the passport. In the meanwhile
Huyliger informed me that he had
changed his plans about the convent
and that instead he would take me
to an empty house, where I could
remain in safety until he told me it
was advisable for me to proceed to
the frontier.
This was quite agreeable to me,
as I had had some misgivings as tp
the kind of a priest I would make,
and it seemed to me to be safer to
remain aloof from every one in a de
serted house than to have to mingle
with people or come in contact with
them, even with the best of disguises.
, That night I accompanied Huyliger
to a fashionable section of the ci£’,
where the house in which I was to
be concealed was located.
This house turned out to be a four
story structure of brick. Huyliger
told me that it had been occupied
by a wealthy Belgian before the war,
but since 1914 it had been unin
habited save for the occasional habi
tation of some refugee whom Huyli
ger was befriending.
Huyliger had a key and let me in
but he did not enter the house with
me, stating that he would visit me
in the morning.
I explored the place from top to ,
bottom as well as I could without
lights. The house was elaborately ;
furnished, but, of course, the dust lay
a quarter of an inch thick every-;
where. It was a large house, con
taining some twenty rooms. There
were two rooms in the basement,
four on the first floor, four on the
second, five on the third and five on
the top. In the days that were to
come I was to have plenty of oppor
tunity to familiarize myself with the
contents of that house, but at the
time I did not know it, and I was
curious enough to want to know just
what the house contained.
Down in the basement there was a
huge pantry, but it was absolutely
bare, except of dust and dirt. A door
which evidently led to a sub-base
ment attracted my attention and I
thought it might be a good idea to
know just where it led in case it
became necessary for me to elude
searchers.
In the cellar I found case after
case of choice wine—Huyliger subse
quently told me that there were
1,800 bottles of it! I was so happy
at the turn my affairs had taken and
in the rosy prospects which I now
entertained that I was half inclined
to indulge in a little celebration then
I and there. On second thought, how
ever, I remembered the old warning
of the folly of shouting before you
are well out of the woods, and I de
cided that it would be just as •well to
pcstpone the festivities for a while
and go to bed instead.
In such an elaborately furnished
house I had naturally conjured up
ideas of a wonderfully large bed
with thick hair mattresses, downy
quilts and big soft pillows. Indeed,
i I debated for a while which particu
lar bedroom I should honor with my
presence that night.
Judge of my disappointment,
! therefore, when after visiting beil
. room after bedroom I discovered
[ that there wasn’t a bed in any one of
• them that was in a condition to sleep
• in. All the mattresses had been re
moved and the rooms were absolute
ly bare of everything in the w r ay of
i wool, silk or cotton fabrics. The
Germans had apparently swept the
! < house clean.
(Continued Hext Issue)
’ Paris Bombardment Resumed
i J PARIS, June 10.—The long-range
11 bombardment of the Paris district con
tinued today.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1918.
The Truth
About Belgium
BY BRAND WHITLOCK
(Continued from
THE White Book, issued May 10,
1915, to justify the deeds of
the German army in Belgium,
admits all the essential facts and at
tempts a justification—a plea in con
fession and avoidance. The claim
was not that here and there some
maddened and desperate peasant had
fired from behind hay-racks or trees
—that might have been conceivable,
perhaps not unnatural under all the
circumstances; it was not even that
there were here and there bands of
“franc-tireurs; but that the whole
nation, secretly and officially organ
ized, had risen and flung itself on the
invader. "Man hat gesehossen!” be
comes "Der Belgischen Volkskrieg.”
In Brussels, to convict a Belgian of
anything, the word of a German sol
dier sufficed; he did not have to give
evidence of the fact, much less prove
it; he merely had to assert it. It
may be that some similar notion ac
counts for the fact that in the White
Book there is no convincing evidence
that the Germans were actually fired
upon, and indeed it seems that no se
rious effort was made judicially to
establish the fact. As to have a town
given over to fire and sword it suf
ficed simply for a German soldier to
cry "Man hat gesehossen!” when
justification is attempted it seems
sufficient to say "The Belgians fired
on us.” The fact that in a moment
of panic some soldier cried "Man hat|
gesehossen!” is offered as proof that!
some one did shoot at them. Three
hundred times the White Book con
tents itself with repeating the un
supported allegation, "They fired on
us.” It was, of course, sufficient for
Germany, for “a German soldier said
so.”
In the White Book there is not a
word about Tamines, not a wordj
about Suricc, not a word about Spon-|
tin, not a word about Namur, not a
word about Ethe, not a word about
Gomeries, not a word about Latour i
—not a word, in short, about sixty
five other places where there werel
pillage and massacre and incendiar
ism.
The testimony, most of it gathered
for the Louvain inquiry, consists al
most wholly of such statements as
those of Berghausen and his com-|
rades; they were the star witnesses.!
Testimony Accepted
“Men of all professions,” says the
White Book, "workers, manufactur
ers, doctors, professors, even clergy
men —yes, even women and children,
were taken with weapons in their
hands, in the regions from which the
regular troops had retired. They
were shooting from houses or from
gardens, from roofs and from cellars,
from fields and from forests, on the
Germans. They used means that
would never be employed by regular
troops—shotguns and lead shot, old
revolvers and old pistols, and numer
ous were the men found mutilated or
scalded with boiling tar or boiling
water. In short, it is not to be doubt
ed that the German wounded were
struck and killed by the Belgian pop
ulation, and also greatly mutilated;
nor is it to be doubted that women
and even girls participated in these
shameful exploits. German wounded
had their eyes punctured, their noses
and ears and fingers and their sexual
organs mutilated, their bodies ripped
open; in other cases German soldiers
were poisoned, sprayed with boiling
liquid or roasted, so that they suf
fered an atrocious death.”
And by an even more extensive
flight of the imagination, one Ger
man soldier says that he saw a Bel
gian boy going about in a field with
a basket filled with the eyes of Ger
man soldiers.
And hence it was necessary to do
what was done at Vise, at Dinant,
at Aerschot, at Louvain and in a
hundred other towns —sacked, pil
laged and burned, with masses
mowed down by machine guns, chil
dren murdered and women raped.
And yet, if the alleged firing by
civilians was done on such a scale,
it would seem rather simple to pro
duce some direct evidence of jthe
fact, and show who fired on the sol
diers, and where, and when, and the
names of the numerous victims.
Doubtless it is not given to us.
with our common-law notions of
evidence and of proof, to penetrate
the mystery of the German idea of
justice. "Man hat gesehossen!” A
German soldier said so. That set
tles it. . • .
It is, of course, inconvenient to
argue with an opponent who has
; such a supreme and impregnable re
fuge Attemps to have all the facts
submitted to some impartial tribu
nal, as well as appeals, were all in
vain.
The Belgian senator. Charles
Magnetti, grand master of the Bel
gian Free Majons. wrote a lettpr,
September 27. 1914. proposing to
the grand lodge of. Germany that a
commission of Inquiry be constitut
ed, with delegates from the lode-es
of neutral countries, but the pro
nnsal was not accepted.
Cardinal Mercier’s Appeal
On January 24. 1915, Count von
Wengersky, Kreschef at Malines,
having asked for proof as to the
murder of priests in the diocese,
Cardinal Mercier wrote proposing
that an impartial investigation be
made.
“To this end I have the honor to
propose to you. M. le Comte, and to
propose by your kind medium to the
German authorities, that the com
mission of inquiry be composed
equally of German delegates and
Belgian lawyers, to be designated by
our chief magistrate, and presided
over by the representative of a neu
tral country. lam pleased to believe
that his excellency, the minister of
! the United States, will not refuse to
accept this presidency, or to entrust
it to a delegate chosen by him.”
No reply was made to this pro
posal.
Monseigneur Heylen. bishop of Na-
I mur, on October 31, 1915, coura
i geously published a note in which he
subjected the white hook to the piti
less examination of a remorseless
logic. On November (sth he sent a
letter to the governor-general in Bel
gium protesting against the allega
tions and conclusions in the docu
ment, and he forwarded a similar
Committee Makes Plans
Io Fix Cotton Prices
To Prevent Hardships
WASHINGTON, June B.—Steps to
! stabilize the cotton trade and prevent
; undue hardships on the manufacturers
and distributors pending completion of
price-fixing negotiations were taken
here today at a conference between the
price-fixing committee of the war trade
board and the war service committee
of the national council of American
Cotton Manufacturers.
Under a tentative plan outlined to be
operative if the negotiations for a price
agreement are concluded, prices on all
sales made on or before today for de
livery previous to next June 1 would
remain as shown in the sales. Prices
on all sales made on or after June 8
for delivery subsequent to next Septem
ber 30, would be subject to revision
to accord with prices agreed upon by
the price-fixing and manufacturers’
committees.
On all sales made for delivery after
next January 1, the prices agreed upon
by the committees are to be the prices
regardless of the fact that the sales
may have been made previous to June
8. It is understood that all prices for
so-called spring, 1919, business will be
vubject to revision.
“The plan,” said the war trade
board's announcement, “contemplates
that manufacturers' prices on staples
shall be on the same basis of cost and
profit to the government and their
usual civilian outlets. It is further ex
pected that manufacturers will agree to
devote a uniformly large proportion
of their productive capacity to making
staples.”
I protestation to Rome.
The bishop of Uiege, Monseigneur
Rutleu, sent protests not only to Com
mandant Bayer, but renewed tne
same protest on August 21 to Gener
al von Koiewe, who nad then been ap
pointed military governor of Liege.
No answer was received to any of
these protests.
Identical protests, but amplified
. and energetically accentuated, says
I the bishop, were renewed in an in
terview with the governor-general in
Belgium, field marshal the Baron von
der Goltz Pacha, then lodged in the
I Episcopal palace with his staff, on
August 29th.
xx priest accredited by His Emi
nence, Cardinal Piffle, Prince Arch
bishop of Vienna, made an inquiry in
Belgium in the name of the "Priest
erverein” of Vienna, the results of
which were published in the Tijd of
I Amsterdam and in the Politiken of
' Copenhagen. The verdict was over
whelmingly against the German mili
tary authorities. So far as is known,
this report was never published in
i Germany or in America.
In their response to the French
i Catholics, the German Catholics,
speaking of the violation of nuns, say
that when the German governor gen
eral in Belgium addressed himself on
the subject to the Belgian bishops,
the Achbishop of Malines, Cardinal
Mercier, caused it to be made known
that he could furnish no precise in
formation as to any case whatever of
the violation of nuns in his diocese.
Thereupon Cardinal Mercier pub
lished his correspondence with Baron
von Bissing an this delicate subject,
in which he said that the priests were
bound to respect secrets of the con
fessional, and physicians those of
their profession; that he would not
submit any nun to an interrogatory,
and that no good could come from a
discussion of the subject. But when
his words were misinterpreted, he
I wrote:
“I wrote indeed to the governor
general that I could furnish no pre
cise information, because my con
science forbade me to deliver to any
tribunal whatever the information —
alas! too precise—which I possess.
Assaults on nuns have been com
mitted. I believe them, happily, to be
not numerous, but they occurred, to
mv knowledge, several times.”
The cardinal thereupon published
in its entirety his correspondence with
the governor general.
The White Book is fully analyzed
by the Grey Book of the Belgian gov
ernment ("Response au Livre Blanc
Allemand, etc 1916”), and in a me
moire published in 1917 by the Bel
gian government ("L’Armee alle
mande a Louvain en aout 1914, et le
Livre Blanc Allemand de 10 mai
1915”). This review is a very able
and conclusive examination and pre
sentation of the whole subject.
' Monseigneur Rutten, Bishop of
Liege, as early as August 16, 1914,
■ had written to Commandant Bayer,
German military governor of Liege:
“I appeal to your heart as a man
and a Christian and I beseech you to
, put a stop to the executions and re
i prisals. I have been informed repeat
. edly that several villages have been
i destroyed; that many notables,
■ among them priests, have been shot;
that others have been arrested, and
all have protested that they were in-
; nocent. As I know the priests of mj
• ’parish, I cannot believe that any one
of them was guilty of acts of cruelty
i to German soldiers. I have visited
several hospitals, and have seen that
they are as well cared for as the Bel
i gians. They themselves have testi
fied to thia. Ido not wish to discuss
past events; I only ask of you in the
name of humanity and of God, to pre
vent acts of reprisal against our
harmless population. These reprisals
can no longer have any useful object,
but will only push the population to
the depths of despair.
"I should be pleased to discuss the
matter with you, for I am confident
that it is your wish, as it is mine, to
lessen the hardships of war rather
than to increase them. At the last
minute I learn that the curate o
r— has been arrested and con
ducted to the. Chartreuse (a fort). I
do not know what the accusation
against him Is, but I do know that he
is incapable of committing a hostile
act toward your soldiers. He is a
good priest ; gentle and charitable. I
can vouch for him, and beg you to
send him back to his parish.”
(Continued Next Issue)
(Published by special arrangement
with the McClure Newspaper Syndi
cate. Copyright. 1918, by Brand
i Whitlock, under the title "Memories
of Belgium Under the German Occu
i pation.” All rights reserved. Copy
. righted in Great Britain, Canada and
Australia. All rights reserved for
France, Belgium, Holland, Italy,
Spain, Russia and the Scandinavian
' countries.)
' I
Cotton
NEW YORK. June 10.—The cotton market |
opened steady today at a decline of 2 points ■
to an advance of 20 points, generally 10 to 20 ]
points higher on firm cables and complaints of i
grassy fields from the cas-ern belt. There was
Liverpool buying and some demand froflt do- :
mestic trade sources but as soon as the early
orders had been supplied the market turned ■
easier under realizing with July selling off
from 26.20 to 25.50, and October from 24.11 to
23.90 before the end of the first hour.
The statement issued by the war industries
bosird regarding agreements with the war serv- j
ice committee of American cotton manufactur- ,
ers with reference to goods prices was not a
factor in the market, which was very irregular
during the middle of the morning. The early j
advance met a good deal of realizing and i
there were rather sharp reactions, particu- j
larty in the case of Joly, but there seemed |
to be a good deal of nervousness over eastern ;
belt crop conditions, and the market was ;
firm late In the morning on covering and trade
buying of October. That delivery sold up to
24.48, or 55 points net higher, while July held
around 26.03. or at practically Saturday’s clos
ing figures.
Trading was less active durnig the early
afternoon with bulges meeting realizing, par
ticularly in the case of July. That delivery
remained relatively weak, selling off to $25.70,
or about 33 points net lower, and the easier
ruling of the near month tneded to unsettle
later positions. Octoter reacted from 24.49 to
24.35, compared with 23.93 at the close on
Saturday.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling quotations ox
the exchange today:
Tone, steady; middling, 29.70 c, quiet.
Last Free.
Open. High. Low. Sale. CJose. Close.
Jan. 23.47 23.95 23.30 23.90 23.90 23.35
Feb 23.85 23.30
March ... 23.42 23.60 23.42 23.60 23.81 23.25
June .... ••••• .... •••• •••• 25.58 25.93
July 26.20 26.22 25.50 26.50 26.68 26.03
Au€ 25.66 25.05
Sept. .... 24.94 34.43
Oct 24.10 24.49 23.90 24.48 24.44 23.93
Nov 34.22 23.69
Dec 23.60 24.11 23.45 24.08 24.07 23.54
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, June 10.—Rains in the
belt caused a rise of 10 to 12 points in
the price of cotton around the opening today,
but offerings increased after the call and the
market sagged. At the end of the first half
hour of business prices were 6 to 36 points
under the level of last week's close.
Heavy buying appeared on universal com
plaints of labor shortage in the cotton states.
In the trading up to noon the price of July was
put up 6 points over last week’s close and that
of tile new crop months 46 to 50 over.
Moderate recessions, under realizing on long
contracts, occurred, but the lower range oi
values served to bring in new buying and at
1 o’clock July was 4 points up net, while the
new crops wer 45 to 50 points uji.
NEW ORLEANS COTTON
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today:
Tone steady; middling, 30.38 c; steady.
Last Prev.
Open. High. Low. Sale. Close. Close.
Jan 22.65 23.01 22.45 22.81 22.92 22.45
March ... 22.82 22.40
June 27.48 27.69
July 26.80 26.80 26.33 26.68 26.48 26.69
Aug 26.68 26.03
Oct 23.10 23.55 22.97 23.44 23.47 23.03
Dec 22.75 23.11 22.56 23.00 23.10 22.65
NEW ORLEANS SPOT COTTON
NEW ORLEANS, June 10. —Spot cotton, dull
and unchanged. Sales on the sp6t, none; to ar
rive none. Low in'i’WHng, 2*7.88; middling,
30.38; good middling, 21.63; receipts, 4.’JBi;
stock, 368,695.
SPOT COTTON MARKET
Atlanta, steady, 29.80 c.
New York, quiet, 29.70 c.
New Orleans, steady, 30.35e.
Augusta, steady, 31c.
Memphis, steady, 30c.
Charleston, steady, 30c.
Montgomery, steady, 29.50e.
Boston, steady. 30.20 c.
Philadelphia, steady, 29.95 c.
Norfolk, steady, 28.50 c.
Galveston, steady. 30.50 c.
Mobile, steady, 29.10 c.
Little Rock, steady, 29c.
Dallas, steady, 28.85 c.
Savannah, steady, 29.75 c.
St. Louis, steady, 30c.
Houston, steady, (30.35 c.
ATLANTA SPOT COTTON
Atlanta spot cotton 29.80 c
Sales ...'. 100
Receipts 80
Shipments 291
Stocks 30,534
ATLANTA COTTONSEED PRODUCTS MARKET
MARCH—
Crude oil, prime basis 17% .....'
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent
ammonia 47.50 .....
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate.. 47.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.50
Cottonseed hulls, sacked 25.00 26.00
Linters, clean mill lun 04% .05
APRIL—
Crude oil. prime basis 07% .....
Cottonseed meal, 7 per cent
Georgia common point rate 47.50
Cottonseed hulls, loose 20.50 21.00
Cottonseed hulls, sacked 25.00 26.00
Linters, e’ean mil! run ,04% .05
COTTONSEED QUOTATIONS
Georgia common rate points. ..$70.00075.00
Cottonseed f. o. b. Atlanta $70.00078.00
COMPARATIVE PORT RECEIPTS
Last Year. Today.
Galveston 2,970 1,933
New Orleans ’ 1,546 4.987
Mobile 73 238
Savannah 813 1,531
Charleston 61 27
Wilmington 1
Norfolk 7711 366
New York 40 1,219
Boston 177
Philadelphia 124
Total all ports 6.275 10,002
DAILY INTERIOR RECEIPTS .
Last Year. Today.
Augusta 24 21
Memphis 1,015 3,674
St. Louis 3,890 617
Cincinnati 335 440
Houston 3,881 1,351
Little Rock 300 3
LIVERPOOL COTTON
Tone, steady; sales, 2,000; good middling,
22.56 d.
Open Prev.
Range. Close. Close.
June j... 22.15 22.04
July 21.63 21.59 21.49
August 20.72 20.68 20.52
September 19.76 19.71 19.49
October 19.25 19.21 18.98
OLD CONTRACTS
Prev.
Open. Close. Close.
June 20.78 20.78 20.74
June-July 20.70 20.70 20.66
CHICAGO PRODUCE-MARKET.
CHICAGO, June 10.—Butter: Creamery ex
tras, 41 %c; creamery standards, 41c; firsts,
38%c; seconds, 34@36%c.
Eggs: Ordinaries, 29@30c; firsts, 30@32c;
Twins, 21%c; Young Americas, 22@
Live Poultry: Fowls, 28c; ducks, 25@26e;
geese, 14c; turkeys, 24c.
Potatoes: Cars, 94: Wisconsin and Minnesota.
$1.6501.90; new, $2.6502.83.
E. E. HUTTON & CO. STOCK LETTER
NEW YORK, June 10.—The stagnation of the
presen (market reminds of the market just be
fore the recent good rise. -It looks sold out i
and has a fair short interest. It seems for the
time being to be unaffected by either good or
bad news. The question of the excess income |
tax is probably for responsible as much as |
anything else for the quiet; Until it is im- i
posed there will be a lot of uncertainty and i
after it is imposed a certain amount of dis- :
satisfaction but that will rapidly pass away,
because nothing lasts long here. Big business I
with good profits seem assured. Marine, pre- j
ferred has been the fluctuator of the day.
There is a feeling generally that the deal is
consumated but as yet no terms are announced.
Copper stocks are sagging after the reduc
tion in the dividends. Railroads are absolute
ly neglected. Money conditions are getting
easier and the inflation we have noted a num
ber of times continues. The issue of federal
reserve bank notes is over $100,000,001) and in
creasing weekly. This must result sooner or
later in another outburst of activity.
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Government Report for
State and United States
United States department of agriculture, bu
reau of crop estimates. Office of field agent,
Atlanta, Ga.
Winter grain improved during the month. A
large part has already been harvested, aud with
the exception of oats, turned out well. For sev
eral reasons oats are much below tiie maximum,
requiring that additional corn be planted tor
foodstuff.
Hay and other field crops upon which re- i
ports are made this mouth, are several points '
above average. Garden and truck crops have •;
been much finer than usual. With the present
good rains the farming prospect is very bright.
The condition of all fruit, from the wild
strawberry to the luscious Elberta, is excel
lent. Tabulations from several thousand cor
respondents indicate high yields unless weather
conditions prove very unpropitious. The dry
spell caused some drop of late peaches in the
northeastern peach belt.
Georgia
1918. 1917. Average.
Winter Wheat —
Cond 89.0 64.0 85.0
Pd. bu. . 4,480,000 2,074,000 2,4(3.1)00
Oats—
Acreage 592.000 650,000 600,000
Cond. .... 86.0 56.0 80.0
Pd. bu. . 13,000,000 10.400,000 ' 12,046,000
Rye—
Cond 93.0 80.0 88.0
Pr. bu. . 159,000 128,000 118,000
Hay—
Cond. .. . BS.O 80.0 83.0
Pd. tns. .. 779,000 576,000 380,000
Clover Hay—
Acreage . 10,000 11,000
Cond. ... 93.0 SO.O 84.0
Alfalfa-
Acreage 9,000 9.0C0
Cond. ... 97.0 83.0 87.0
Pastures—
Cond 90.0 79.0 84.0
Field Beans—
Cond 92.0 88.0 85.0
Cabbage—
Cond 88.0 79.0 82.0
Onions —
Cond 92.0 80.0 86.0
Apples—
Cond 85.0 70.0 64.0
Peaches—
Cond 101.0 67.0 70.0
PearSi—
fond 78.0 51.0 58.0
Berries—
Cond 97.0 88.0 88.0
Watermelons
Cond 86.0 79.0 81.0
Cantaloupes—
Cond 85.0 76.0 79.0
Cotton—
Cond 78.0 76.0 75.0
United States
1918 1917. Average
Winter Wheat—
Cond 83.8 70.9 80.8
Pd. bu. . 587,000,000 418,070,000 552,591.000
Spring Wheat —
Acreage 22,500.000 18,511,000 18,406,000
C»nd 95.2 .91.6 93.7
Pd. bu . 344,000,000 232,758.000 256,751.000
Oats —
Acreage 44,500,000 43,572,009 39,456,000
Cond 93.2 88.8 89.4
Pd. bu. .1,500,000,000 1,587,000,000 1,296,406,000
Rye—
Cond 83.6 84.3 80.6
Pd. bu. . 81,000,000 60,145,000 44,547,000
Hay—
Cond 89.0 85.1 88.0
Pd. tns. 107,000,000 94,930,000 95,371,000
Clover Hay—
Acreage . 7.950.000 7,609,000
Cond 92.9 82.2 85.5
Alfalfa-
Acreage . 6,380,000 6,362.000
Cond 89.3 89.5 91.6
Pastures—
Cond 92.5 83.8 89.9
Field Beans—
Cond 89.9 93.4 87.5
Cabbage—
Cond 90.4 87.8 87.4
Onions—
Cond 92.1 90.2 . 59.6
Apples—
Cond 69.8 73.9 68.2
Peaches—
Cond 62.7 77.1 67.3
Pears—
Cond 62.7 77.1 67.3
Berries—
Conil 80.5 85.4 87.4
Watermelons —
Cond 83.3 78.0 79.9
Cantaloupes—
Con 4, .... 75:6 80.8 81.0
Cotton—
Cond. .... 82.3 69.5 79.0
Acreage and production, average for 1912-16;
condition, 1908-17.
Z. R. PETTET, Georgia Field Agent.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET
NEW YORK, June 10.—Flour, quiet and un
changed.
Pork, quiet; mess. $47.00@49.00.
Lard, w’eak; middle west spot, $23.90@24.00.
Sugar, raw. quiet; centrifugal, 96 test. 6.005;
refined, quiet; cut loaf, 8.95; crushed, 8.70;
powdered, 7.60; granulated. 7.45.
Coffee, Rir No. 7, on spot, B%c.
Tailow, specials, 17c; city. 16%c.
Hay. easy; No. 1, $1.40@1.55; No. 3. SI.OO
@1.15; clover. $1.15@1.35.
Dressed poultry, quiet; turkeys, 25@39c:
chickens, 33@37c; fowls, 260.36 c; ducks, 35c.
Live poultry, firm; geese, 17c; ducks, 25@
38c; fowls, 34c; turkeys, 20c; roosters. 23c;
chickens, broilers, 40%55c.
Cheese, firm; state milk, common to specials,
16026 c; skims, common to specials, 50.19 c.
Butter, firm; receipts, 6,800; creamery, ex
tra. 43%@43%c; do. special market, - 43%@
44%c; imitation creamery, firsts, 35013 c; state
dairy, tubs, 34@45c.
Eggs, firm; receipts. 14.894; near-by white
fancy, 42@44c: near-by mixed fancy. 30@37c;
fresh firsts, 33%@39c.
Negro Confesses to Part in
Hampton Smith Murder
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 10.—
Shorty Ford, wanted at Valdosta. Ga..
as one of the negroes charged with the
murder of Hampton Smith, and shooting
of Mrs. Smith some time ago and ar
rested here, has made a full confession
of his part in the crime, according to
the county authorities.
The negro has begged to remain in the
county jail. He fears lynching if taken
to Valdosta, as six negroes have already
been lynched for the Smith murder.
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CHICAGO. June 10—Sharp advances took
place in the corn market today as a result
of unfavorable weather. Opening prices which
varied fronx the »ame as Saturday’s finish to
%c lower, were followed by a slight down
turn nad then a temporary advance amounting
to 1c or more a busheL
The close was strong, 2% to 3%c net higher,
i with July $1.39% to sl.lO, and August, $1.40%.
Oats reflected the changes in corn. After
: opening off to a like advance, with July
66%. to 66%c, the market scored moderate
upturns and then underwent a sag.
Big exports of lard and meat gave strength
to the provision list. Business was chiefly in
lard aad . iba.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the ruling prices in the
exchange today:
Frev.
Open. High. Low. Close. Close.
CORN—
June 1.36% 1.38% 1.3 C% 1.38 1.36%
July ..1.36%@1.3G% 1.40 1.36% 1.40 1.36%
Aug. .1.38 @1.38% 1.41% 1.37% 1.40 1.38
OATS—
June 72% .74% .72% .74% .72%
i July 66% ,65% .66% .67% .67
August 62 .63% .62 .63% .62%
I PORK—
I July 41.00 41.00 40.50 40.80 41.15
| September ’....41.25 41.25 41.00 41.20 41.45
i LARD——. »
i July 24.22 24.25 24.10 24.20 24.17
September ....24.50 24.52 24.32 24.40 1 24.57
RIBS—
July 22.32 22.35 22.15 22.22 22.17
September ....22.70 22.72 22.35 22.65 22.60
RECEIPTS IN CHICAGO.
Tcflsy.
i Whea t 1 car
Corn 169
I Oats 81 cars
Hogs 34.000 bead
GRAIN CLEARANCES
Total clearances: Wheat, 29.000 grersus 2.363
last year. (
Corn, none versus 7.000 last year.
Oats. 1,249.000 versus 504,000 last year.
Flour. 9.000. versus 19.000 last year.
Wheat and flcur, 70.000 versus 2.449,000 last
year.
CHICAGO CASH QUOTATIONS
CHICAGO, June 10.—Corn: No. 2 yellow.
$1.65@1.G6; No. 3 yellow, $1.5801.63; No. 4
yellow. $1.!0@1.46.
Osts—No. 3 white. 75%@76%c; standard
76077 c.
Rye—No. 2, nominal.
. Barley, §1.1201.50.
Timothy. $5.00@5.00.
Clover—Nominal.
) Pork—Nominal.
Lard $23.95.
) Ribs. $21.72@22.10.
NEW YORK COFFEE MARKET
Close.
k January 8.4108.42
February 8.47@8.48
) March 8.5308.55
April 8.59@8.61
May 8.65@8.67
) June 7.95@7.97
July 8.03Q8.05
August 8.10Q8.12
1 September 8.18@8.19
October 8.2408.25
November 8.3008.31
December 8.3508.36
Atlanta Live Stock
(Corrected by W. H. White, Jr., president of
the White Provision Co. United States Food
Administration License No. G-2137L)
Good to choice heifers, 850 to 1,000 pounds,
$10.50 to $12.50.
Good steers, 750 to 850 pounds, $9.50 to
$11.50.
Medium to good
$9.60 to SIO.OO.
Medium to choice beef cows, 750 to 850
pocuds. $8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good cows, 650 to 750 pounds,
SB.(>V to $9.00.
Gaod to choice heifers, 550 to 650 pounds.
$8.0) to $9.50.
The above represents ruling prices for good
quality fed cattle. Inferior grades, dairy typ:a
I and range cattle quoted below.
M.-dium to good cattle, <JSO to 750 pounds,
$8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good cows, 600 to 700 pounds.
$7.50 to SS.SO.
Mixed common, $6.50 to 7.50.
Good fat oxen, $8.50 to $9.50.
Medium to good oxen, SB.OO to $9.00.
Good butcher bulls, $7.00 to SIO.OO. ,
Choice veal calves, SB.OO to $9.00. ■
Yearlings, $7.00 to SB.OO.
Prime hogs, 165 to 225 pounds, $15.25 ta
$16.00.
Light hogs, 130 to 165 pounds. $14.50 te
$15.00.
> §14.50.
Light pigs, SO to 100 pounds, $12.50 to $13.00.
Stags and roughs, $12.00 to $13.00.
The above quotations apply to good quality
mixed ted bogs.
LIVE STOCK BY WERE
CHICAGO. June 10.—Hogs: Receipts 34.000;
’ steady to strong, compared with Saturday's
close; bal kof sales, $16.50016.85; top, 16.95;
heavy butchers. $16.55016.65; medium and
light butchers, $16.70016.85; heavy packing.
! $16.13016.45; medium and mixed packing,
$16.-15016.60; rough, $15.50015.85; light,
; §16.75016.95; pigs, $16.50016.90.
’ Cattie —Receipts 14,000; active and steady to
strong; butcher stock steady; beef cattle,
prime, $16.75@17.75; common and mixed. $12.25
@16.25.
Sheep—Receipts. 13,000 ;slow: mostly 25e
• lower; shorn lambs, $17.40017.75; medium and
good. $13.00017.25; ewes, $14.25@14.50.
EAST ST. LOUIS, HL. June 10.—Cattle: Re
, ceipts, 100,000; including no Texans. Maraet,
• slow; native beef steers. $11.50017.60; yearling
. steers and heifers, $9.50015.50; cows, $7,500
13.75;; Stockers and feeders, $8.50012.00;
calves, $7.75014.00; cows and heifer 3, $6,000
I 13.50.
, Hogs: Receipts, 13.000; market, 15- to 20c
lower. Mixed and butchers. $16.40'1116.50: good
and heavy, $16.40016.55; rough. $16.60016.85;
! light, $16.25016.75; pigs, 16.50ftt 16.80; bulk,
t $16.40016.80.
Sheep: Receipts. 2.500; market steady. Clip
ped ewes, $12.00014.00; lambs, 14.00020.25;
, canners and choppers, $7.00010.00.
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