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THO.MA8VILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST II, 1010.
$0.00 PER ANNUM.
GREEK ELEGTIO
BEING WATCHED
BY ALL E
N MEXICO CITY
FORMER PREMIER VEXEZKLOS
LEADING THE PARTY WHICH
QUESTIONS PRESENT STAND
OF KING CONSTANTINE — IS
SUES, OF GREAT IMPORT ARE
INVOLVED IN THE OUTCOME.
Athens, Greece, July 27.—(Cor
respondence of Associated Press;) —
The forthcoming elections In Greece
(which cable advices have announc
ed will be held in September) are
being regarded with great Impor
tance, in view of wbat has taken
place daring the past fifteen months.
It Is declared, particularly by tae
adherents of the former premier,
Venezelos, that militarism Is In the
balance against democracy, and that
*. ' . n ui.s | uitti me siriive iiub Biuyiieu wum ui
W ‘ pltted munitions factories, and was there-
BAS A STRIKE
THAT AFFECTS THE MUNITIONS
PLANTS AND THERE IS A
DEATH PENALTY OFFERED BY
CARKAAZA.
(By Associated press.)
El Paso, Texas., Aug. 11.—The
text of a decree,' issued by General
Carranza, whereby the death penal
ty was evoked against Btrlkers who
have paralyzed Mexico City, through
a general electric strike, appears In
copies of papers arriving here to
day of the El Publo, Mexico City
dally newspapers.
A strike was declared on July 31,
by a confederation of syndicates, and
the paper which is dated August 3rd
gives a list of the strikers then Im
prisoned, who are charged witn
belllon.
It is said that North American
syndicates assisted -the strikers and
that the strike has stopped work of
against republicanism.
The campaign has already begun
with Venezelos serving both as
rallying point and .as a point of at
tack. The antl-Venezelos Journals
are calling him a traitor, accusing
him of having sold his country to
the Entente Powers and proclaim
ing him as a potential dictator who
would turn his country Into a French
protectorate.
Kins is Attacked.
The VenizeTists on the other hand
have assumed 1 the attitude that the
king has no power under the consti
tution and therefore they are stop
ped from assailing him for exercis
ing a power which they deny exists.
The King Is really popular,. and
though many Greeks disapprove out
spokenly of the royal participation
In politics, there Is no bitterness
against Constantine I., personally.
Nor Is the tlgure-head late premier
Stephen Skouloudls especially at
tacked. Those who come In for at
tack by the Venfzellsta are the offi
cers of the General Staff, the Ger
man propagandist Baron Schenck,
pnd ex-MInlster of Interior Deme-
t: los Gounarls, the real head of the
Greek obllgarchy.
Greek Political Methods.
There Is nothing polite about the
political methods of the Greeks.
Strong epithets are commonly ap
plied to political opponents in the
editorials of respectable Athenian
Journals. And although the army
is In process of demobilisation. Its
officers are drawing every possible
political advantage of Its organiza
tion while there Is yet time.
The soldiers of tod-y, who will
be the citizens of tomorrow, are ha
rangued, treated to orders of the
day and manifestos and generally
shepherded by their officers Into the
antl-Venizellst fold. Each train
bringing '•reservists'’ (demobilised
soldiers) from Macedonia is accom
panied by one or more officers whb
talk politics to the men until they
split up to return to their homes.
Political leagues are being formed
among the reservists under the tu
telage of antl-Venizellst officers, and
every effort Is being made to con
serve all the political advantages of
mobilization after the army has been
disbanded.
These methods are fraught with
menace to any sort of peaceful elec
tion. Venlzelos declares that . the
Intervention of the Powers guaran
tors of Greece on June 21 saved the
country from Impending (revolution
and it Is said now that that prospect
has not been entirely disposed of,
even yet.
Venlzelos a Statesman.
Elephtehrlos Venlzelos, besides be
fore, construeu as treachery to the
Mexlca'n government.
DRIVING UP
PIKES PEAK
AUTO DRIVERS COMPETING IN A
RACE TO TOP OF THIS GREAT
MOUNTAIN IN COLORADO.
(By associated Press.)
Colorado Springs, Col., Aug. 11.
—Many Americans, and at least one
European automobile driver, are
here for the purpose of competing
today, over what they declare to be
the "spottiest'’ mountain race course
on ihe continent..
They will start from' the twelve
and a half mile boulevard and go to
the summit of snow-capped Pike’s
peak.
Every driver in the race is famil
iar with the course and each flgur
es that he knows Just where to ap
ply the brakes in order to skid the
curves without plunging over the
cliffs.
Amateurs Cause Folse dans.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 11.—Mysterious
wireless calls early today, which
at one time were thought to come
from a submarine at sea, became
later attributed to some amateur.
PROCEEDINGS WITH THE RAIL
ROAD MATTER MAY BRING
PRESIDENT WILSON ACTIVE-
LY INTO THE CASK.
(By Associated Press.)
RUSSIANS ALSO SAY THEY HAVE
SUCCEEDED IN CUTTING OFF
AUSTRIANS — FRENCH KEEP
ING BERTHAS BUSY.
The French War Office today an-
New York, Aug. 11.— -After del lb- inounces that French troops have op
erating for a greater part of last i ened a heavy bombardment of the
•night, the United States Board of German positions north of the river
Mediation and Conciliation was to-i Somme, while the British claim ad-
day no nearer a solution of the [dltlonal progress north of Bazentin-
deadlock In the dispute between the Ue-Peti, and northwest of Pozleres,
and
ing one of the great statesmen of
Europe today, is also a very astute
politician. His personal organ, The
Herald, which appears every Sun
day, has some 300,000 subscribers,
and the Cretan writes at least one
leading article every week. The fol
lowers are busy In every cafe—as all
of Qreeoe lives In the cafes In the
summer. There is Just one topic of
discussion: Venlzelos and the Con
stitution — or, Gentlemen! The
King!
t neutral diplomat says:
The trouble In Greece Is not yet
over. It Is just beginning. King
Constantine cannot logically accept
the elections calmly, for the elec
tions mean the return of Venlzelos.
And Venlzelos Is determined to make
It impossible, for all time to come
for the sovereign In Greece ever to
take the reins of power as Constan
tine I has done—If the Cretan has
to change the Greek constitution to
do it. For King Constantine to ac
cept this Is equivalent to abdication
—and I believe he will actually ab
dicate before he will do it.’’
lour railroad brotherhoods
their employers.
It is reported the railroads have
refused to grant any. concession oth
er than to submit to arbitration,
while the Brotherhoods stand un
equivocally for an eight-hour day
and time and a half for overtime.
The Board today asked the Broth
erhood representatives for a twenty-
four hour delay, and it was reported
that if no solution had been reach
ed then, the Board would suggest
that President Wilson Intervene.
W. 3. 3tone, chief of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Engineers said
this afternoon:
We do not intend to wait very
long on the mediators. The tem
perament of our men Is such that
they would not have waited a min
ute If we had not persuaded them
to give the mediators a chance to
answer our demands.”
Personally,’’ said Chief Stone, "I
do not like to carry a strike vote
around In my pocket for any ex
tended period. It’s like a stick of
dynamite.”
Other Plan Suggested.
One report, current today was
that the railroad managers were
ready to propose a different form of
arbitration than that provided In the
Newlands act. to which the Broth
erhoods object.
This plan was that, Instead of six
arbitrators, consisting of two men
appointed by each side, and two neu
tral, tue arbitrators should consist
of four from each side, and either
four or six neutral. This plan, It
will be seen, makes It possible for
each brotherhood to have a represen
tation on the Board.
PRESIDENT TO
MAKE A TOUR
TO PREVENT SPREAD OF INFAX
TILE PARALYSIS VH I < H
SEEMS TO BE GAINING A FOOT
HOLD IN OTHER SECTIONS
THAN NEW YORK.
(By Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 11.—The epidem
ic of infantile paralysis showed an
other slight decline today, and offi
cials hoped that the continued cool
er weather would materially check
the plague's spread.
Thirty-one deaths and one hun
dred and slxty-llve new cases were
reported to the health department
during the twenty-four period end
ing at ten o'clock this morning.
Disease Gets F’ooting in Philadelphia
(By Associated Press.)
Philadelphia, Aug. 11.—With six
teen new cases of infantile paraly-
on the Somme front.
On the left bank of the Meuse,
the French announce the capture of
some prisoners in a raid on Gerihan
trenches, while on the right bank of
the Meuse there was hand grenade
skirmishing around the Thlaumont
work.
There was only intermitten can
nonading on the remainder of the
front, Paris says.
The Russians announce that theyi g j 8 ant ] f 0ur deaths reported
!* re _ a ^y , ® nc * n * tt *? e . ® ere y* river, Philadelphia during the last twenty-
In Galicia, and that they have en-|f 0nr hours, the disease is beginning
tered the town of Monastorzyska,
northwest of StanlBlau.
The Russians announced they had
reached tne Dniester river, near Hal-
Icz, which city is regarded as one
of the outlying defenses of Lem
berg.
Vienna announces heavy fighting
all along the Galician front, and In
the Volhynla, with several Russian
repulses.
Germany’announces that tne Aus-
tro-German troops have retired be
fore superior Russian forces along
the river Dniester.
Salonika dispatches say that after
a vigorous bombardment the French
attacked the Bulgarians along a
forty-mile front northwest of Salon
ika, and occupied the Dorian rail
way station and a neighboring hill.
The Italians are still pressing to-
toward’s Trieste.
FLOOD. 0AMA6E
$4,500,001
WILL GO ACROSS THE CONTI-
NEXT IN SPEECH-MAKING TRIP
END WILL INSPECT TEXAS
TROOPS.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 11.—President
Wilson has practically decided to
make a speaking totfr- across the con
tinent some time before November.
It Is understood-the tentative Itin
erary will be prepared within u few
weeks. It may mdi:1e a review of
the United States troops now sta
tioned on the border. .
The President’s advisors have been
urging him to make a number of
speeches, but he has been withhold
ing his decision until the work of
Congress bad progressed further.
Invitations for the President to
stop over have been received In cit
ies In all parts of the country.
None of these invitations can be
accepted until Chairman McCor
mick and other Democratic leaders
have carefully gone over the list.
The possibility that Congress will
remain In session- offer September 1.
is preventing the President from
making definite plans. He plans to
do much of his campaigning at his
summer home at Long Branch, New
Jersey, where he Is to receive dele
gations.
6E0MAH SEAPLANE
GORIZIA IS
INTERESTING
ENTRANCE TO THI8 AUSTRIAN
STRONGHOLD BY ITALIANS
WAS AN EVENT OF UNUSUAL
SPECTACULAR EFF’ECT.
fBy Associated Press.)
Berlin, Aug. II.—It Is officially
announced today that a squadron
of seaplanes on August 9th attacked
a squadron of British monitors and
light forces anchored off the Flem
ish coast, making several hits, and
that on the same day several German
air squadrons attacked Russian
aeroplane statloni on the Island of
Oesel, damaging an aeroplane shel
ter and cansing a Russian aero
plane to descend.
It Is announced that all the Ger
man machines returned safely to
their hangers.
(By Associated Tress.)
Paris, Aug. 11.—“Upon entering
Gorizla by the way of Leone, the
sight that meets the eye is a most
striking one.” telegraphs the Petit
Parlsiene's Italian correspondent.
”It Is here that a most furious bat
tle .was fought for the possesion of
this Austrian City. The houses are
half destroyed by shells or riddled
With bullets, and the ground is lit
erally strewn with dead bodies, uni
forms, helmets and rules.
"The artillery duel continued above
our heads. Enemy aeroplanes, which
whirled across the sky. were shot at
by Italian gunners, while in the dis
tance could he heard the furious
clacking of machine guns. The
spectacle was superb!
“Hugh Italian batteries were trot
ted across an Iron bridge under a
deadly whirlwind of Autro-Hungar-
lan shells, the smoke of which some
time blotted them from sight, but
they got across and no sooner over
than they turned their guns on the
enemy, while infantry regiments
yelled and wept In enthusiasm.
Then Italian Infantry followed,
nnd once Into the city, with the en
emy gone, normal life was seemingly
renewed at once.
"Italian residents, who had scat
tered through the environs, return
ed and raised Italian flags over
their houses and fraternised In the
cafes and street* with the Italian
soldiers, while beyond Gorizla a fur
ious battle continued as the Italian
cavalry pressed the enemy.”
to assume serious proportions In the
eyes of the medical authorities who
are renewing their efforts to stamp
It out.
Since July X. there have been 14 8
casea of Infantile paralysis and
deaths In this city.
The health authorities today plac
ed officers at all points where the
railroads enter the state to enforce
the quarantine regulations.
South Carolina Bars Children Who
Are Without Health Certificates
(By Associated Press.)
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 11.—An or
der of the Health Board here, bars
from South Carolina, all children
who are without proof that they
have not been exposed to infantile
paralysis, of which a total of thirty-
five cases, and five deaths are re
ported to have occured here up to
the present date.
Children Must Have Health Cer-
tlcates in South Carolina.
(By Associated Press.)
Columbia, S. C.. Aug. 11.—To pre
vent a possible spread of Infantile
paralysis In South Carolina, the
State Board of Health today ordered
that no children be permitted to
travel on trains without a health
certificates from a reputable physi
cian.
MILK DRIVERS
AREON STRIKE
UNUSUAL SITUATION BROUGHT
ABOUT IN CLEVELAND WHEN
WORKMEN QUIT DELIVERY
WAGONS.
(By Associated Presi.)
Cleveland. O., Aug. 11.—As a re
sult of a strike of drivers of the
Telling Bell Vernon Company, the
largest milk dealers here, three hun
dred thousand Clevelanders were
without their usual milk supply to
day.
The arivers of the Schnelder-Beck-
er Dairy Company, supply one hun
dred and fifty thousand customers,
are expected to strike later.
The strikers did not hinder the
delivery of milk to hospitals and
baby dispensaries.
TURKEY REFUSES SYRIAN!
IN THE CAROLIXAS ACCORDING
TO ESTIMATES OF AUTHORI
TIES AT COLUMBIA.
(By Associated Press.)
Charleston. S. C.. Aug. 11.—Rich
ard H. Sullivan, section director of
the weather bureau at Columbia, to
day estimated the total flood dam
age throughout the Santee and Pee-
dee river system of North Carolina
and Sorth Carolina, at four and a
half million dollars, of which two
million loss was In South Carolina.
The rains, which caused the July
floods, were among the heaviest In
the history of the two states.
Sullivan said that between July
14th and 18th, along the Rroad and
Catawba watersheds in North Caro
lina, the rainfall ranged front ten
to twenty-four Inches.
total of three hundred and fifty
thousand acres of crops in South
Carolina were affected by the high
water, Sullivan said.
CAUCUS ON
HOUSE RULES
0 OF WHISKEY IS
SPILLED IN ALA.
GIRARD PEOPLE WATCH THE
DEPUTIES BKEAKIXG BOTTLES .
ON SIDE OF WALKS UNTIL
THEY GET TIRED — MOBE IS
TO BE DESTROYED LATER.
FOLKS AT HOME LET REPRESEN
TATIVES HAVE THEIR VIEWS
OX PRESENT ANTIQUATED
.METHODS — DON’T LIKE FOR
SPEAKER TO HAVE IMWER.
Atlanta, Aug. IT.—The annual In
surrection of members of the Geor-
i By Associated preaa.)
Girard, Ala., Aug. 11.—The de
struction of what Is estimated to be
three hundred thousand dollars
worth of Intoxicants, proceeded here
today while a large, but orderly,
crowd, tiring of watching the depu
ties monotonously breaking beer
and whiskey bottles against a
warehouse, finally left the scene. '■
The liquor destroyed was the prop
erty of live men who had ap
parently fled when the warrants
rere issued.
Much more liquor is still awaiting |
. court order for Its destruction.
John T. Oakes, city marshal of
Gi aid, was arrested in Columbus,
Ga., this morning and taken to Seale
Alabama, on a warrant charging I
him with accepting bribes In con
nection with liquor cases.
DUPONT HAS
EXPLOSION
(By Associated Pres*.)
Wilmington, Del., Aug. II.—An
gla house of representatives against; explosion, which blew out the cylln-
the rules of that body Is now un-!<> er on the rehydraung pres* at the
der way—with the difference that DuPont Powder company’s plant, at
the insurrection this time is not eon-.barney Point, New Jersey today,
fined to a handful of individuals! killed three workmen and injured
disappointed because their pet leg- i two.
Islation Is about to be lost In the I °”e man who was eating his lunch
closing rush of the session, hut Is aj in another building was Hilled by
widespread, aroused, organized and
determined movement backed by
enlightenment among the folks at
home.
The rules of the Georgia house
are practically the same as the old
rules of the national house which
enabled ex-Speaker Joseph G. Can
non v wield the power of a czar.
Everybody remembers the Insurgent
movement in Congress brought on
by Speaker Cannon's abuse Of pow
er, resulting In the famous speaker’s
defeat for re-election and contribut
ing very substantially to the elec
tion of a Democratic majority to
both the house and senate.
When the Democrats went In
power In Washington, the first thing
they did in the national house of
representatives was to throw the
old Cannon rules Into the waste
basket and write a set of rules that
enabled a majority of the house to
be master of their own legislative
program and conduct.
In other words, they took from
the speaker the power of appoint
ing the standing committees of the
the flying bits of steel.
MUNITIONS MANUFACTURERS
MUST PAY A SPECIAL TAX
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. Aug. 11.—The Demo
crats of the Senate Finance commit
tee today decided on a ten per cent,
net profit tax on munitions of war
manufacturers, as a substitute for
the munitions taxes, proposed in the
House revenue bill.
Vote on Shipping Bill Soon.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 11.—The Sen
ate Republicans today indicated
they would permit a vote on the Ad
ministration shipping bill either on
Saturday or Monday.
Mciiiph;* Officials Was Suspended.
HUGHES VERY HOARSE
Is Traveling Toward Billings In the
Far West Where He Will
Make An Address.
(By Associated Pres*.)
Fargo. North Dakota. Aug. 11.—
Charles Evans Hughes, candidate for
the Republican nomination for pres
ident, left here this morning for
Billings. Montana, where he is to
speak tonight.
Mr. Hughes is very hoarse, and
Is suffering slightly as a result.
(By Associated Press.) ,
Washington, Aug. 11—Turkey
has refused to grant the United
States request for a neutral com-
mlttce to undertake relief work In
Syria, where thousands of native
Christians are reported starving.
Turkey claims that the good crops
■now being gathered makes the pro
posed relief work unnecessary.
(By Associated Press.)
. , Memphis. Tenn., Aug. 11.—W. T.
house and placed their power in.McLain, a member of the Memphis I
their own hands. They took from c u y commission, against whom ous-
standing committees the power to t er proceedings are pending, was-
pigeonhole a bill and prevent action suspended from office today on mo
on It by the simple expedient of tlon of attorneys for the State. *3
holding it tor an Indefinite lengtn I McLain who was fire and police L
of time without reporting. They * commissioner, is charged principal-I
took from the hitherto all-powerful, )v w)th a uillure to eniorct the |
rules committee the power to say state’s prohibition law.
what bills should be acted on by the < — —-~-
hou8e and what bills should not be. insurrection has been growing. And'I
acted on. tonight a general caucus of member* I
These are the well-defined re- will be held for the purpose of for-f
forms which are. now proposed in mutating a program of reorganlzln
the rules of the Georgia house, the rules when the 1917-1918 geiy- I
Year by year, slowly but surely, the eral assembly meets next year,
FLOUR TAKES A
(Bv Associated Press.)
New York, Aug. 11.—F’lour sold
here today at five to nine dollars a
barrel, a clear advance of seventy
to eighty cents a barrel as a result
of the Increased price of wheat.
The price of bread has not yet
been increased.
STRAWS 1-2 PRICE
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