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i OVERSEA
IS NAVY ORDER
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(•vemment Aviators Lay Plans
L to Be First to Cross
in Air.
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Manes tested on coast
Picked Men and All Material Ara
| Being Record—Conditions Chosen for Attempt Will Ba at
Ripe About June.
Washington—Navy aviation experts
are planning a flight across the At¬
lantic. Commander John H. Towers
wag ordered to take charge of “the
development of plans and assembly of
material and personnel for the pro¬
posed transatlantic flight”
Commander Towers has been In
charge of the naval reserve flying
corps and Is considered an expert of
the service In this branch.
Much attention has been given to
the project by the navy and recent
reports of similar plans by the British
naval aviation service have lent great
Impetus to the wofjt on this side.
The navy department during the war
developed a monster seaplane equipped
with three Liberty motors, giving it
about 1,200 horse-power. This machine
has as Its body a substantially built
boat and has carried as high as fifty
one persons In flights of considerable
length. It has been tested out along
the Atlantic coast with great success
within the last few weeks.
Land to Land Trip In 20 Hotfro.
When the project of a transatlantic
flight was urged here by Major-Gen.
Brancker of the British air service
last year It was brought out that the
shortest distance would be from New¬
foundland to the Irish coast. This
Is approximately 2,000 miles, and given
a plane capable of a sustained speed
of 100 miles an hour it could be made
In twenty hours. So far as known,
however, no plane has yet been built
which could make the trip without
stopping for refueling.
The route most generally favored in
naval circles, however, is by way of
the Azores, with a stop at these
Islands for fuel and oil. This would
make the first leg 1,300 miles and the
final lap 700. Some officers favor a
halfway stop at sea to refuel from a
destroyer if it Is considered Impossible
to make the trip in a single flight.
In a general way it has been said
heretofore that the crew of any plane
attempting to cross the Atlantic would
be composed of at least five men, two
pilots to provide relief at the revere,
two mechanics to care for the engines
and a navigating officer to chart the
course.
Conditions Ripe About June,
As to the weather it was said that
probably not before June would condi¬
tions become stable enough to warrant
an attempt. Another quiet period oc¬
curs in early fall. It Is regarded as
doubtful that all preparations could be
made by the summer period, although
this Is one of the things Commander
Tower will have to determine by care¬
ful study.
While there Is a good deal of friend¬
ly rivalry with the British govern¬
ment over making the first transatlan¬
tic flight, It Is said that either nation
could count upon the co-operation of
the other. A 8 the prevailing winds
are from west to east In the Atlantic
the chances favor an attempt from this
side.
SAVES COST AND MATERIALS
Method of Making Laminated Gun
stock* Ha* Been Developed at
Madieon Laboratory.
Madison, Wls.—A method of making
laminated gunstocks was developed at
the forest products laboratory here,
which would, without reducing the
strength, permit the use of the small
pieces of walnut not suitable for sin¬
gle piece stocks. This would facili¬
tate production and result in appre¬
ciable saving in costs and material.
The application of laminated con¬
struction to many articles of trade
Is a development worthy of close
study. Shoe lasts, billiard balls, sad¬
dle trees, oars and paddles, taniro
barrels and kegs, and various parts
of vehicles and agricultural Imple¬
ments may possibly be constructed
with laminated wood: -
^ESURVEY MAY BRING RICHES
San Antonio, Texas, Man Finds Oil on
Inaccurately Measured School
Lands:
San Antonio, Texas.—Inaccuracies
in the measurements of school lands
in Texas may bring a fortnne to A. P.
Barrett of this city, who has filed for
oil and gas leases on 2,000 aches in the
Ranger and Bnrkburnett districts, it
became known today.
Mr. Barrett has arranged with a
development company of Oklahoma
City to take over the leases when they
are granted for the purpose of de¬
veloping them.
When the surveys were made many
years ago rawhide tape lines were
used In measuring them and in wet
weather the line stretched with the
result that tracts described as con¬
taining 640 acres really contain as high
sometimes as 800 acres.
TRAPS BANDIT 6AN6
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Famed Beauty Discovers Cache
of Diamond Thieves.
South African Belle Visits United
States After Making Tour
of India.
San Francisco—Miss Alice Herald
Lindsay, celebrated English beauty of
Johannesburg, South Africa, and
famed on three continents as the girl
who discovered the cache of the cele¬
brated Poster gang of thieves and des¬
peradoes, tt in San Francisco, after
a visit through India and China, in
which she met with adventures as
thrilling as those that first brought
her Into international prominence.
Miss Lindsay, who is not yet out
of her teens, la the daughter of a
prominent diamond exporter and com¬
mission merchant of Kensington, a
suburb of Johannesburg, and It was
near her home In that city that she
stumbled over the cave In which the
Foster band, which had been terror
izlng the community for many months,
had secreted some of their spoil.
The young girt was out walking with
a companion when the spirit of ad
venture induced them to enter what
seemed merely an abandoned cave in
the hillside. She tripped over a pair
of boots near the entrance of the dug
out, and Investigation disclosed that
they were sploshed with blood. Im
mediately It dawwed upon her that she
had unwittingly entered the cave of
the Foster gang, and, frightened, she
withdrew, not any too quickly, for
later It was discovered that two mem¬
bers of the band returned to the cave
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very shortly afterward. The alarm
was sounded, and eventually the en¬
tire gang was captured, several com¬
mitting suicide in the cave rather than
give themselves up to the authorities.
In India, where she spent the? last
six months, Miss Lindsay was winner
of an international beauty contest,
held In the city of Calcutta; She also
tells of her experiences elephant hunt¬
ing. As guest of the party, she was
permitted the first shot at the ele¬
phant, and succeeded in sending home
the shot that ended his career. She
also had several exciting experiences
hunting tigers in the Indian Jungles,
and has brought here as a trophy a
luxurious tiger skin from an animal
which was brought down in one of
the hunts In which she was engaged.
GAVE WATCH TO WAR HERO
Indiana Man, Badly Wounded In War,
Remembered at His
*1 Home Town.
Charlottesville, Ind.—As a token of
appreciation for his services In the
world war, Walter McDaniel, who was
severely wounded during the fighting
In France, and who is now at his home
here on a furlough from the Walter
Reed hospital at Washington, Thurs¬
day received a $45 gold watch, the
purchase price being made up by citi¬
zens of Charlottesville.
McDaniel, who lost his right leg as
the result of shrapnel wounds, is walk¬
ing an hour each day with the aid of
an artificial limb. He expects to be
discharged from the hospital within
the next few weeks.
BRUSSELS TELLS GRATITUDE
Confers Freedom of City on Brand
Whitlock, American Minister
to Belgium.
Brussels—The municipal council for¬
mally conferred the freedom of the city
on the American, Spanish and Dutch
ministers to Belgium in recognition of
their services to the city and country
during German occupation.
The address was made by Burgo¬
master Max.
Brand Whitlock, the American min¬
ister replied, saying:
"I am grateful that fate called me
to share In the city’s sufferings and
Insults throughout the long nightmare
of occupation by an aggressor who
vainly desired to assassinate the na¬
tion’s soul,”
Y. M. C. A. SECRETARY
HONORED FOR BRAVERY
Brooklyn Man Is Awarded Croix Bo
Guerre by Commander of
Polish Forces
Paris, Dec. 11.— “for heroic and un¬
tiring work for the soldiers while un¬
der fire.” Stanley Modra, of 2123 Ca
ton avenue, Brooklyn, a Y. M. C. A.
secretary, has Just received the Croix
de Guerre from General Haller, com
mander-ln-chief of the Polish army,
and has been mentioned in the offi¬
cial cltatlona. He is the third Y. M.
C. A. man thus honored for conspicu¬
ous bravery.
Modra has been with the Polish
forces continuously since his arrival
in Prance five months ago, and has
given many notable exhibitions of gal¬
lantry and fidelity to duty. During the
last days of the hostilities he served
with the Plrat division in the Vosges,
in charge of a hut in a narrow valley
between the first and second lino
trenches. Prom this hut he made trip
after trip, carrying supplies to the men
at the most advanced posts, and was
under fire repeatedly.
When the fighting was at its heavi
®®t Modra and the men associated with
him In Y work continued their minis
trations to the soldiers, serving cocoa,
cakes, when the men were in position
receive them, and cigarettes. This
service contributed much to the high
n,ora ' e °* t * ,e tro °P s an d won not only
*he praise of the officers but the last
* ng gratitude of the men.
DR. R. 0. FLYNN
AS “Y” WORKER
Wall Known Minister Leaves Pulpit to
Take Up Work Overseas
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. ...—Dr. Richard
Orme Plinn, pastor of the North Ave¬
nue Presbyterian church, Is going to
Prance for the Y. M. C. A.
Dr. Iftinn, who is one of the best
known ministers in the Southeast, and
who has a host of friends throughout
this section of the country, will be en¬
gaged in special educational work, and
will likely be overseas for some time.
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State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
he is senior partner of the firm of F.
J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
"’ii— of ONE HUNDRED DOL¬
LARS for each and every case of Ca¬
tarrh that cannot be cured by the
use of HALL’S CATARRH MEDI¬
CINE. - FRANK J. CHENEY. -
Sworn to before me and subscrib¬
ed in my presence, this 6th day of
December, A/D., 1886. A. W. Gleason,
(Seal) Notary Public.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is taken in¬
ternally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System.
Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
TAX NOTICE.
Tax books are now open for giving
in State and county taxes. H. T. John¬
son, T. R. 2-21dwlm
January Special: Typewriter rib¬
bons, dozen, black, superior, $5.95, or¬
dinary, $5.00. Carbon, 1,000 sheets,
$14.95, and $10.00. All colors 10 per
cent extra. Second Sheets, ink, etc.,
special prices. U. S. Carbon Co., Bir¬
mingham, Ala.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
the
Signature of
MADE HELPLESS
BY RHEUMATISM
ZIRON Did This Kentucky Gentleman llora
Good Thao Any Other Medicine.
“Eight years ago I was down with
rheumatism,” writes M. J. Hutcherson,
of Tomkinsville, Ky. "I was helpless
for three months, unable to even feed
myself. Doctors doctored me and I got
up, but have had bad health ever since,
with soreness and weakness across my
back and in my arms and legs. I final¬
ly took Ziron, and it has done ine
more good than any medicine I have
ever taken, and I Intend to take more
of it, for tt Is the best medicine I ever
used. I have found It just what It la
recommended to be, ahd l am ready to
tell other suf 'erlng people that Ziron
helped me, and anxious to speak a
word of praise for it”
Ziron acts on the blood and has been
found of great value In Rheumatism,
Indigestion, Weakness. Anemia and General
Ziron puts Iron into the
blood, and Iron Is needed by your sys¬
tem to make yon strong and healthy.
Ask yonr druggist about the guaran¬
tee on the first bottle.
ZN 7
\bur Blood Needs
GUARD FORESTS FROM FIRE
Women Do Efficient Work In Lonely
Position* on Lofty Pooka of
Western Mountain*.
To the creditable list of occupation*
tn which women have prosed efficient
and faithful, may bo added that of
edrviaf as observers la lookout poets
mi the peaks of western mountains
and hills, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine. Prom those lonely points
of vantage watch is constantly kept
for forest fires in the region round*
about. Because of the scarcity of
available men during the war, this
work was performed largely by wom¬
en and girls, many of the latter being
of high-school age who were glad of an
opportunity to spend a summer vaca¬
tion in the open. Usually the girls
“manned" the posts in pain, but In
oue instance a lone girl and her faith¬
ful dog were on duty. Whenever
smoke was seen rising among the
trees it was the task of the watcher
to calculate the location of the fire
by means of special apparatus pro¬
vided for the purpose, and then com¬
municate at once by telephone to the
forest rangers, who would hurry out
prepared to fight the flames.
Gift Brought Punishment
A young woman employed In the of¬
fice of a Kobe shipping house received
from her millionaire employer a sum
of money tg a present on New Year’s
day. The girl took her fat wad of
notes home. She was promptly thrash¬
ed by her mother for stealing them and
dragged to the office to apologize for
the theft. Explanations were made,
but when the'y got home she was ad¬
monished once more for not stating
her case more dearly.-—Japan Chron¬
icle.
PETITION TO AMEND CHARTER
Georgia, Spalding County.
To the Superior. Court of said
County:
The petition of the Kincaid Knit¬
ting Mills reapertf i .y shows:
1. That on the Uth <*»y oi March,
1918 the said corporation >"is duly
chartered by the Superior Court of
Spalding County, Georgia for the pe¬
riod of twenty (20) years from and
after said date.
2. Petitioner desires the right to
amend its charter by adding a para¬
graph 5 1-2 to read as follows:
‘‘Petitioner desires the right and
privilege of issuing preferred stock
to an amount not to exceed $50,000
of the face value of $100.00 per share.
The rights of holders of preferred
stock shall be set forth and determin¬
ed by the by laws to be adopted by
the corporation at a meeting of the
stockholders to be held after the cor¬
poration has been granted authority
to issue preferred stock; Such phrts
of Said bylaws as relates to the rights
of preferred stockholders shall not
hereafter be altered, amended or re¬
scinded without the consent of all of
said preferred stockholders.”
3. Petitioner attaches hereto and
files along with this petition a certi¬
fied abstract from the minutes of the
corporation showing that this appli¬
cation for amendment to its charter;
has been authorized by proper cor¬
porate action.
Wherefore petitioner prays an order
amending its charter as above speci¬
fied. CLEVELAND & GOODRICH •l
Petitioner’s Attorneys.
State of Georgia, Spalding County.
I, W. H. Wheaton, Clerk of the Su¬
perior Court of Spalding County,
Georgia, do hereby certify that the
above and foregoing is a true and
correct copy of the petition fqr
amendment of charter of the Kincaid
Knitting Mills as the same appears of
file in said office.
Witness my signature and seal of
said Court, this the 24th day of Jan
uarv. 1919. W. H. WHEATON. CWV
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We have on hand ready for immediate
delivery*-*
1 Olds 37 Touring / 1 Olds 37 Roadster
1 Olds 45 Touring
And the following second hand cars-— •
1 Dodge Delivery Wagon 1 Ford Delivery Wagon
1 Ford Touring Car, 1918 Model 1 Chevrolet 4-90
All Are Bargains at the Price
Spalding Auto Co.
PHONE 764. n '* r -J.t GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
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