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Or Atlanta an ■ WWfcla Soiwnal VOL. XXII. NO. 21. COW BE MOW RAPIOLYKEXTWEEK OPERATORS'RELIEF Men Already Returning in Some Instances Little Objection to Work Order Is Expected by Officials INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 11. —General operation of bituminous coal mines of the country, which have been idle for nearly siS" weeks as a result of the strike of miners on October 31, is predicted for tomorrow. Coal will be moving rapidly by the first of next week, in the opinion of operators here. Officials of the union mine work ers, who last night sent telegrams to the 4,000 locals of the organiza tion, telling of the action of the miners' general committee here yes terday in accepting President Wil son’s proposal to return to work, to day were condident there would be no delay on the part of the members of the union in resuming work. The telegrams of last night, which in structed the men to return to the mines immediately were supple mented today by a circular prepared by international officials of the union explaining in detail the action of the general committee yesterday, the basis on which the strike was set tled and reiterating the instructions to resume -work immediately. These circulars were mailed to the locals. Reports reaching here this morn ing told of the return as early as last night of some of the miners in near-by fields, and in other instances of some of the men reporting for work, “today. It «ras pointed out. however, that in most cases tele grams directing an end of the strike were not received by locals until this morning, and that the locals in turn must notify their members before the majority again will enter thi mines. Operators Promise Co-Operation. The mine operators on their part promise to bend all their energies to ward resumption of normal opera tion, and promise if the miners re port promptly movement of coal from the mines will become general within a very few days. All sides in the controversy just ended were highly satisfied today with the agreement reached by the general committee of the miners in their session here yesterday. The miners were especially pleased with the idea of appointment of a com mission composed of one miner, one operator and a third member not af filiated with either side to investi gate wages and coal prices and fix both at figures which they deem reasonable. This commission, under the plan, will be appointed by the president, the miners in the mean time to receive an advance of 14 per cent in wages over the scale prior to the strike. The federal grand jury investiga tion of charges of violation of the Lever act and anti-trust laws, sched uled to start last Monday, but post poned until December 17, will pro ceed when the jurors appear next Wednesday, according to the best in formation available. The probe will be nation-wide in its extent, it is declared, and will involve both opera tors and miners. The charges of contempt against mine workers’ officials, which it is believed will be dropped, are set for hearing next Tuesday morning. Palmer’s Statement Two statements were given out following adjournment of the con ference, by Attorney General Palmer, who first submitted tl -> president’s proposal to acting President Lewis, and Secretary Treasurer Green at a conference in Washington last Sat urday who came to Indianapolis Monday to await the outcome of consideration of the plan by the min ers’ general committee. Mr. Palmer’s first statement ex presesd his gratification at the de cision of the United Mine Workers and commended Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green for “their -wise and patriotic action.” The statement follows: “The coal strike is settled as the government wanted it settled. When Messrs. Lewis and Green came to see me Saturday I restated what the government’s position had been from the beginning, and insisted on their acquiesence. They finally agreed to it. They have now persuaded the officers of their organization that the situation calls for cmopliance with the court’s order and the govern ment’s wishes, and I am certain that all the miners in the country will cheerfully acquiesce in the decision of their leaders. I desire to publicly commend the wise and patriotic ac tion of Mr. Lewis, Mr. Green and their associates. I am, of course, gratified at the outcome, which is one the entire country will ap prove. Mining will be fully re sumed at once, the danger of dis tress and suffering during the win ter is passed, the authority of the government has been recognized and upheld, the supremacy of the law has been established, and a prece dent of incaluculable value has been set for the peaceful, orderly and law ful adjustment of industrial dis putes.” Atlanta Girls Go to Aid West Point People The cAll of Joseph Logan, director ■ of civilian relief for the American Red Cross, for skilled workers for work with about forty families who are Homeless at West Point, was an swered Thursday afternoon when Miss Mary Thurston and Miss Helen Muse, who left for the flood-strick en city at 2 o’clock. Miss Thurston and Miss Muse were schooled in case work with the Associated Charities and both saw service overseas. Mr. Logan, who went to West Point Wednesday with the Red Cross relief train, also ordered additional supplies, including many pairs of rubber boots. Fitzpatrick Declares Strike Will Keep Up ’ CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—John Fitz patrick, chairman of the national committee in charge of the strike of steel workers, in replying to reports Wiat the strike was to be ended soon, Saturday, asserted today , that it would go on indefinitely. SOME IDEA OF THE TREMENDOUS PROPORTIONS OF THE FLOOD AT WEST POINT, GA., WHERE THE CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVER HAS REACHED THE HIGHEST POINT ON RECORD, may be gained from these pictures by Floyd Traynham, one of the staff photographers of The Atlanta Journal. Note that in the top picture, left, houses are almost completely inundated. The picture of the trestle, at the right, shows how impossible it is to operate trains. Note the telegraph poles and the floating houses in the bottom pictures. r ' MB HI ~ ~ ijM IjHiO Jme ßreaks HUwfc vHHBI I Aw/. 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Upshaw, of the Fifth district, who accompanied him on the inspection, to wire Chairman Kahn, of the house military affairs committee, request ing the committee to make no dis position of Camp Gordon until he completes his inspection of the can tonments and makes his full report and recommendations. General Pershing arrived at Camp Gordon at 9 o’clock and spent two hours going over its main features with General Wil-ds P. Richardson, the camp commander. He expressed the opinion that the cantonment it kept by the government as a perma nent military establishment should have additional ground for maneu vering purposes and a rifle range. The range used by Camp Gordon men vzhile the war was on has been turn ed back to the owners from whom it was leased. Congressman Upshaw assured General Pershing that the citizens of Atlanta would assist the government in every way to get whatever additional ground might be needed. Reviews Fifth Division. General Pershing passed the pa rade ground while five companies of the Fifth division were being in spected. He stopped and made an informal review of the husky regu lars and remarked that they were among the finest troops in the regular army, most of them having been overseas and many having been wounded. While General Pershing was busy with General Richardson, members of his staff took different departments of the cantonment an ' inspected them. The whole insp: tion lasted two hours and was im. thorough in every detail. The members of his staff accom panying General Pershing are as follows: Brigadier General Fox Conner, chief of staff; Brigadier General V. H. Moseley; Colonel George C. Marshall; Colonel John G. Quekcn meyer; Colonel E. T. Collins; Col onel H. B. Eeuwkes; Lieutenant Col onel E. Bowditch; Captain J. T. Schneider. Returns to Hotel. At 11 o’clock General Pershing left Camp Gordon and returned to the Georgian Terrace hotel, where began the procession in automo biles through the city to Fort Mc- Pherson. He was met at the hotel by Mayor James L. Key, Colonel Al bert Howell, Jr., Mrs. Samuel M. Inman, Dr. K. G. Matheson, Rev. Richard Orme Flinn and others. Members of the War Mothers a'rfub of Atlanta, headed by Mrs. Sam D. Jones, were in the lobby and gave General Pershing a most enthuias tic ovation. The general congratu lated them in graceful and appro priate words on being the mothers of sons who served their country in the army and navy, and the moth ers expressed in the highest terms their admiration of the general’s achievements as commander of America’s army in France. In addition to this reception for the war mothers, General Pershing was given an ovation by the mem- bers of the Girls' Overseas club of Atlanta, composed of girls who served in France, and was presented by them with a very beautiful gen eral's flag bearing the four stars of a general’s rank. It was made by hand by members of the club, of silk and gold braid, and was a most exquisite piece of work for which which he thanked them warmly. While these festivities were tak ing place in the lobby of the Geor gian Terrace, the entire student body of Georgia Tech were lined up at attention in Peachtree street, and the Tech brass band was making the welkin ring with patriotic music. Shortly before 12 o’clock General Pershing emerged from the lobby and got into an automobile for the pro cession through the streets. Great Public Ovation Never in the history of Atlanta was a famous visitor given a greater outburst of popular enthusiasm than General Pershing as he rode through Peachtree and Whitehall streets on his way to Fort McPherson. Homes, stores and office buildings were dec orated with American flags and bunt ing. Enormous pictures of General Pershing were on display in scores of show windows. Banners and pla cards heralded in big letters a whole hearted southern welcome to the com mender of the A. E. F. Beginning with Tech students at the terrace, the procession passed through an almost continuous lane of students and pupils as far as Brotherton street. At North avenue the general was greeted by the lit tle boys and girls of Miss Dargan’s kindergarten who cheered him to the echo and waved American flags in his honor. At Forrest avenue he be gan to encounter the main body of Atlanta’s 25,000 public school chil dren, and from there to Brotherton street he saw them on nearly every block, lining the curb in single file, waving flags, throwing kisses at him, cheering madly: “Pershing! Pershing! Hurrah for Freshing! The man who won the war!” Legion at Five Points Ranged in a double phalanx on both sides of the street at Five I’oints were Atlanta members of the American Legion wearing red bras sards on their arms with the words. “American Legion. Welcome, Gen eral Pershing.” As the general’s au romObile rolled slowly through the ranks of these men, who a few months ago were fighting under his command in a foreign country 3,000 miles from home, he was greeted with a yoar of enthusiasm, and he smiled and saluted to the right and the left in acknowledgment of their stentorian ovation. And then came the veterans, the wearers of the gray, the grand old heroes of the southern Confederacy, assembled in a body at the intersec tion of Alabama and Whitehall streets. They greeted the general with the old rebel yell that always thrills the blood of southern people, greeted him with hats hurled into the air, with tear-dimmed eyes where blazed again the fighting spirit of the thundering sixties. No ovation given General Pershing in the whole parade seemed to touch him quite so deeply as the admiration of these aged men. In fact, as he said in his speech Wednesday evening at the Elks Club dinner, it was in the eyes of Confederate veterans who have grasped his hand on this south ern tour that he found the answer to the wonderful aggressive fighting spirit of southern doughboys who broke the Hindenburg line. They are the men, as he was proud to acclaim, who have “done more than any oth ers to inspire in the south its intense love of country.” ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1919. CARTER GLASS TO i LEAD FIGHT FOR FEDERAL BUDGET WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. —Leader- ship in the fight for an effective federal budget system is expected to fall upon the newest member of the senate—Carter Glass, of Virginia, now secretary of the treas ury, who will leave the cabinet to succeed the late Senator Martin. Because of his long service on the banking and currency com mittee -f the house, and his expe rience, while secretary, as ad ministrator of the government’s money chest, Secretary Glass is probably better qualified to judge the merits and demerits of the various budget proposals than any of the older heads in either house. Secretary Glass will oppose ac ceptance by the senate of the Good budget bill, passed by the house at the last session, as inadequate and inefficient. Effective budget legislation, Secretary Glass declares, must provide three things: the centering of responsibility in the executive, the exercise of self control in con gress and the consolidation and ex pansion of the audit system. Government Great Company “The government of the United States,” Secretary Glass said, “is like a great company whose operat ing managers, publicity managers, sales managers, purchasing depart ment are given carte blanche to make expenditures * conceived’ by them to be in the interest of the development of the business with out consultation with or control by those officers of the company who are char. 1 with the business of ascertaining its revenues and borrowing the money to make good their deficiencies. “It is literally true that the sec retary of the treasury, under ex isting law and practice, is unable to obtain from any department an accurate or approximately accurate estimate of its expenditures for a few weeks in advance, not to say months or years. “Let us be honest with our selves and honest with the Ameri can people. A budget that covers the appropriations asked by the executive departments but does not cover the initiation or increase appropriations by congress will be but a semblance of the real thing. Villistas Loot Towns In Revenge for Death Os General Angeles EAGLE PASS, Texas, Dec. 11.—In reprisal for the recent execution of General Felipe Angeles, four hun dred Villa followers Tuesday attack ed the town of Muzquiz, state of Co ahuila, looting the stores and seiz ing several prominen tcitizens for hostages, according to information received here today. Air Mail Service For Atlanta in Year “WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. —Exten- sion of the airplane mail service to Atlanta is planned within the next year, Assistant Postmaster General Praeger today told the house post office committee. The Atlanta serv ice will be an extension of the New York-Washington service. Mail be tween New York and Atlanta would we speeded up twelve or fourteen hours, he said. Mr. Praeger appeared before the committee to request an appropria tion of $3,000,000 for continuing and extending the airplane mail service. The committee deferred action until it completes hearings no the postof fice appropriation bill. TRADE CONGRESS TO SEEK ENLARGED CONSULAR SERVICE SAVANAH, Dec. 11. —A campaign for the appointment of American con sular agents at every port and in land city of commerce in the world, as a means of furthering American and particularly southern Commerce, will begin soon, under direction of the Southern Commercial congress, which at its closing sessions here authorized Dr. C. J. Owens, director general of the organization, to insti tute the movement. Control of tuber culosis, as an economic and public health safeguard for the south, also will be emphasized in the work of the organization during the coming year. The next meeting of the epngress will be held in Washington, D. C„ next December, and Thomas R. Pres ton, of Chattanooga, Tenn., will hold the office of president for the com ing year, having been elected to suc ceed Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, of Florida, who was made honorary president. Richard I. Manning, of South Carolina, was elected first vice president; Carl Espy, of Savannah, second vice president; Dr. Owens will continue as director general; William H. Saunders, of Washington, was elected treasurer, and Buist C Get singer, Commissioner of commerce. At its closing sessions, the con gress went on record as favoring an agreement by the United States sen ate on ratification of the peace treaty with its League of Nations covenant; indorsing the metiric system, the American Cotton association, and the movement toward an American sugar crop sufficient for American needs, reclamation of waste lands and Com pletion of the intra-coastal water way from Beaufort, N. C„ to Gal veston. Wilson Thanks Miners For ‘Patriotic Action’ In Calling Off Strike WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. “We must all work together to see that a settlement, just and fair to every one, is reached -without delay,” Pres ident Wilson said today in a tele gram to John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, expressing ap preciation of the “patriotic action” in ending the strike. The message said: Kay I not express to you, and through you, to the other officers of your organization, my appre ciation of the patriotic action which you took at Indianapolis yesterday. Now we must all work together to see to it that a settlement just and fair to ev ryone is reached without de lay. WOODROW WILSON. Announcement of members of the commission to investigate miners’ wages and operators’ profits will be made at the “White House after At torney General Palmer returns to Washington late today or tomorrow. White House officials stated defi nitely that the third man on the commission would not be anyone con nected with the government. The secretary of the treasury is directed to submit to the senate a statement of dividends paid during 1917 and 1918 by bituminous coai mining concerns in a resolution of fered totdav by Senator Johnson, South Dakota. Gould Divorce Decree PARIS. Dec. 11.—The court at Ver sailles late yesterday sustained the decree of divorce granted Frank Gould from Edith Kelly Gould. Mrs. Gould’s attorneys had contended the French court was without authority in the case, since it could not try a suit involving two foreigners -with out eonsejlt of both. Rene Viviani, former premier, represented Gould. Record-Breaking Rains Cause Disastrous Floods; West Point Under Water BY LAF4BDIN KAY (The Journal’s Staff Coorrespondent) WEST POINT, Ga. —The flooded Chttahoochee about reached its crest here Wednesday at 31 feet, five feet higher than the record of 26 feet in 1886. The business district, including prac tically all the stores and business houses of the town, manufacturing plants, and many residences stood late Wednesday in mud and water, five to ten feet deep, the two central spans of the big highway bridge over the Chattahoochee, connecting the two sides of the city, are gone, stocks in some of the stores are floating away on the turgid waters, and hundreds of people are without light, fuel, food and drinking watbr. Definite estimates are impossible as yet, but it is believed about thirty residdnees have been washed away on the east side of the river and as many on the west side. This does not include negro houses. The river is about a mile wide. Losses are estimated at several hundred thousand dollars. The Sterling, McGhee and Houston bridges over the Chattahoochee are also gone, and it is estimated that Troup county has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in bridges which it will take months to replace. Fire broke out about noon in the big warehouse of the West Point Iron works. The building was entirely surrounded by water and the flames did not go beyond the building, although the wind blew toward another warehouse not far away. There was no one in the warehouse. The fire caught in the round house. West Point business men are negotiating with a Norfolk firm in efforts to get a barge from Columbus to ply on the river between the two sides of West Point. The big Goat Rock dam several miles from West Point is under ■water, and the plant of the Columbus Power company has been put out of commission. The merchants of West’Point will lose heavily, inasmuch as their in surance does not cover damages by water. Some moved their stocks be yond reach of the water and others filled their top shelves. Some stocks are floating on the streets. One wholesale grocer had got in a big shipment of flour only to have it covered with mud and water. The Moody bridge is the only one left over the Chattahoochee in Troup county. When the big bridge at West Point was swept away, a big water main was carried with it, and the part of the town on the west side of the river is without drinking water. There is no imme diate prospect of getting food, fuel or water to the people on that side. Banks, manufacturing plants, churches and some residences are under five to ten feet of water. The West Point Iron works is per haps the heaviest sufferer, having lost perhaps SIOO,OOO worth of sup plies. A cotton seed warehouse is practically submerged. In another warehouse, practically $35,000 worth of lime and cement has been ruined. The Goat Rock dam of the Colum bus Power company, which serves West Point, LaGrange, Newnan, Car rollton and Hawkinsville, is under water and the power plant out of commission. The Wainwright-Roller covering v’orks are under water. The weather here is very cold, probably 33 or 34 degrees, adding to the inconvenience and in some cases actual suffering of the peo ple. SIOO,OOO FLOOD LOSS; 15,000 IDLE IN COLUMBUS COLUMBUS, Ga.. Dec. 10.—With SIOO,OOO as the estimated damage to the machinery and stock, the cotton mills, grocery stores, iron foundries, and commercial concerns along the river front; 15,000 workers out of employment; the power plant sus pending operation; no street car ser vice; and the Chattahoochee river at an estimated height of fifty feet, the conditions around Columbus, re sulting from the flood Tuesday night, are quite serious. Street railway service has been discontinued and all textil eand oth er large industrial plants have closed down. It is estimated some five hundred tenement houses in Lower Girard are inundated by water and work of res cue is being pushed in efforts to get women and children to places of safety. Numbers fowls, dogs, cats and even large animals are floating down the stream. The river again is rising slightly. At noon the last plant furnishing power and lights to the smaller industries was closed down, thus shutting off everything in the city, including the two news . papers. ANNISTON CUT OFF FROM MANI POINTS ANNISTON, Ala., Dec. 10.—With all streams out of their banks, bot tom lands inundated and roads wash ed in many places until they are im passable, Anniston is cut off today from many parts of this trade ter ritory. Torrential rains have fallen almost continuously since Saturday “ morning throughout this district. Southern railway trains from the east are being detoured byway of Rome, Ga., because of tracks wash ed out. Snow creek, in the southern part of Anniston, overflowed, flood ing homes and factories and leaving the city completely without gas by reason of the flooding of the gas works. Freezing temperature is add ing to the discomfiture in the flood ed areas. OCMULGEE IS RISING RAPIDLY AT MACON MACON, Ga., Dec. 10.—The Oc;»h'- gee river is rising steadily and is now above its banks at a height of twelve feet. Eighteen feet is the flood mark. No damage from the flood has been reported here. POWER DAM BREAKS NEAR MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 10.— The Montgomery Light and Water Power Company suffered a loss of between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000 last night when the dam at its hydro-elec tric power plant at Tallassee Falls, Ala., was swept away by flood, ac cording to S. P. Ireland, general man ager of the company. Pearl Thompson, negro, was drown ed at Prattville last night on the main jftreet of the town when a creek flooded the business section of the place. Scents a copy. $1.25 A YEAB. WEST POINT FLOOD DAMAGES REACH TO_SI.SOO.DOII Red Cross Workers and La- Grange People Furnish and Distribute Relief —Opelika Merchants Help West Side BY LAMEDIN KAY (The Journal's Staff Correspondent) WEST POINT, Ga., Dec. 11.—With practicaly every business establish ment in West Point standing in three to eight feet of water and with per haps two score homes in the same condition, the people of the flooded city are showing a wonderful spirit of cheerfulness and courage as they go about the work of distributing relief wherever the need is discover ed. Thanks to the efficient work of the citizens’ committee and of the relief workers who arrived from At lanta last evening about 9 o’clock, together with thoughtful generosi ty of the people of LaGrange, who have sent truck loads of food and other supplies, no unusual suffering is apparent anywhere this morning. Opelika Aids West Side Conditions on the west side were greatly relieved this morning when trucks arrived from Opelika, Ala., with food an dother supplies sent by the wohlesale grocers of that city. A committee of seven has been ap pointed to assist the Red Cross in all relief work, and they have manv people busy now carrying food, water, aspirin and other medicines to the people maroned in the stores and other buildings. A few people are slightly ill fro fnexposure, but relief measures are being carried out so rapidly with more boats in use, that no serious illness is antici pated. With Opelika sending aid to the west side and the Red Cross work ers and others paddling around in the business district under the di rection of LeGare Davis, the whole situation looks much brighter. The water is now falling rapidly and people are being taken from the stores to the shores with more dis patch. Rough estimates of the damage done in West Point and viefriity place the probable loss at something like $1,500,000. The high waters have been reced ing very gradually, but as the day wore on the fail became more notice able. If trfere is no more rain crew, can beglq work In a few hours oi. the work of repairing the railway 1 and telegraph lines. The water sit uation is causing the most worry. The big water main was carried away when the big wagon bridge was washed away. Business men are now working on a proposition to Lring a temporary main acrose the river on a? pontoon bridge. Help on this project is awaited from Camp Gordon. Adjutant General Harris has wired from Washington that the military authorities at Camp Gordon will fur nish aid, and it is likely that the flrdt thing they do will be to construct a pontoon bridge on which a temporary main can be laid for supplying water to the west side. There was comparatively little five damage yesterday when fire broke out in a warehouse of the West Point lion works following an ex plosion. The flames did not spread beyond the building. No lives have been reported lost as yet. Leed Roberts, ‘proprietor of a soda fountain in the business dis trict has not yet been accounted fbr, and searchers have gone out in a boat to try to find out If he was drowned. Word came from Camp Gordon this morning that Major Finley, en gineer, would arrive here early in the day. Two business men. Mayor Mark McCullough and Ed Cook, have been designated to assist him in the water main pontoon proposition. It is possible to walk across the A. & W. P. bridge this morning by wading through the water on the ap proach to the far side. Places Flooded Among the principal places ol business, public buildings, etc.,/sub merged to a depth of from th/ee to ten feet by the flood and constituting the entire business district of West Point are the following: Charles hotel, West Point Whole sale Grocery company, Adams Hard ware company, Lee Stein’s Economy store, A. C. Brooks & Co., general supplies; Cohen Brothers, dry goods; Hudson Hardware company, W. L Barker, dry goods; barber shop, City Drug company, Ferrell Tatum com pany, dry goods; Miller & Erwin shoe store; M. Stark, dry goods; Lee Stein, dry goods; Solomop dry goods; Lee Herzberg, men’s fur nishing; Citizens’ bank, Neal Allen, drugs; C. E. Hill, department store' Reid Roberts, soda fountain; A. Pal misina, restaurant; West Point post office; Phil Lanier, Insurance; Firsl Natnonal bank, J. T. Zachary Broth ers, groceries; Ford Auto Supply company; R. L. Williams, meat mar ket; J. L. B. Barrow, gooceries; I M. Scott, heavy groceries; Sunset Tea Room, city council room, city jail, Sid Johnson, bottling works; West Point Iron Works, Welst Point Coca-Cola Bottling company, Hugu ley-McCollough, warehouse and wholesale groceries; Batson & Cook lumber and building material; Farm ers’ Products company, warehouse; Wainwright Roller Covering Works, Presbyterian, Baptist, Episcopal and Methodist churches, telephone ex change, Standard Oil, Gulf Refining and Texas company filling stations. River club and West Point-Lanett News. Flooded Residences Residences inundated were as fol lows: Lee Herberg, P. G. Whitaker, Dr. Norman Poer, Jamie Hudman. Grigg Zachary, W. Kirby, G. F. Ir win, M. A. Tice, Trox Bankston, I. M. Scott. Charles Hill, W. S. Wood, Forrest Sims, Charles Banker, Rob ert Dixon, J. S. Booker, John Hors ley, Jesse Johnson, E. D. ‘Fuller, T. W. Johnson, E. C. Barker, Grady Webb, Lee Hardy, Abbott Johnson, L. Strong. S. L. Dickson, James Moore, Robert Hogg, E. Lanier, Noe Lanier, Phil Lanier, James Lanier, Hollis Lanier, John Daniel, J. S. Mil ler, Mrs. W. R. Lloyd, H. K. Lamp kin, Mrs. William Myra, A. T. New ton. Grady Perry, Norman Reed, Causey Hamilton, Willie Johnson. Mrs. T. M. Delamar, E. C. Bass, Dr. Hugh McCullough, F. Paul, Mrs. Ed ward Schafer, John McGlon, John Mitcham, Mrs. Thomas Whito, Mrs. Ed Rutland, Mrs. William (Continued on Page 8, Colum: 8.)