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THE NEWS, Established 1871.
GRIFFIN MORE THAN DOUBLES
ITS RED GROSS OUOTA ANO EVERY
DISTRICT IN COUNT! GOES OVER
Figures Given Out Show City Subscribed $6,596 and
County Districts $4,509--Citizens Generally, Were
Liberal and. Chairman Nichols Thanks Everybody
For Splendid Showing.
Spalding county contributed sll,-
105 to the Red Cross war fund, of
which amount the city gave $6,596
and the various districts in the county
<1.509. These figures were compiled
at the campaign headquarters Tues-
Griffin’s apportionment was $3,-
600 and it will be seen that it more
than doubted ns quota. Every district
in the county “went over the top,”
substantially oversubscribing the ap
portionment. fixed by Chairman Nich
ols. The county came within $895 of
doubling the quota which was fixed
by the Red Cros s officials.
The citizens generally subscribed
very liberally and the great success
of the drive reflects credit upon the
entire community. The cotton mill
employes joined with the citizen in
giving. Rev. Firley Baum, who did
excellent work in West Griffin, re
ports that the people of the Griffin,
Rushton, Central and Kincaid No. 1
mills contributed $l,lOO, while H. S.
Butler, who also did good work in
East Griffin, announces that Georgia
Mills Nos. 1 and 2 and Kincaid No.
2 subscribed $320 in cash. The
schools also took keen interest in the
drive. The North Side* School, of
which .Mrs. J. T. Tillman is principal,
subscribed $27.06 and the West Grif
fin school gave $46.81, while the
Fourth ward and other schools made
liberal donations.
The colored people showed their
faith in handsome contributions. D. 1.
Patter-.m brought in $96,00 Monday
: •.•as.-, from Africa district for the
colored people of that community.
The . .med leople of Griffin turned
,r a . iodly sum and a collection tak
i ~n ~t i public meeting one night
.a-- . -a is yet to l>e given, which
wiil crease the total already an
red. ‘ The colored citizens were
a ' i e all over the county.
Th people of the county also were
eager to help. Every district more
. ■ ised it.' apportionment and
-ome of them doubled, among them
i cing Cabins.
Chairman Nichols feels very grate
ful f ■ the hearty co-operation of the
committees generally and thanks ev
ery individual for their subscriptions.
Hr appreciates the noble, faithful
m.ii energetic assistance given him
;t ■ i- justly proud of the magnificent
showing.
KTlmcSi
GIVES MOST IMIUI
The West Griffin school of which
Mi;.-- Mattie Corbin is principal, and
located in the mill district, is doing
iu part in helping the government in
its hour of peril. The following tabu
lation shows in a convincing way
what the school is doing for the Red
Cross, thrift stamps and Liberty loan
bonds:
To the Red Cross.
F erth grade sll.lO
Third grade 12 - 01
Sc end grade-a 6.10
end grade-b 4.80
First grade-a 5.50
First grOde-b
Total 546.81
Thrift Stamps.
Fourth grade $ 37.00
Th.rd grade 103.50
Second grade-a 35.50
Secund grade-b 4.50
First Grade-a 9.00
First grade-b 1 -5®
Total $197.50
Libert ybonds $200.00
$443.31
SMEE DRAFT
CALL IS COMING
AFTERJtJNE FIFTH
Washington, May 28.—-Provost
Marshal General Crowder’s office in
; tends to make a sizeable draft call
directly after the registration of men
twenty-one years of :age on June sth,
it was learned here today.
VAST ifilM NOW
OH IT WHEEI.ER, MACON
Camp Wheeler, Macon, May 28.—
Working day and night is the pro
gram of the Georgia soldiers detailed
for the receiving camp at Camp Whee
■er. The men having charge of the
work are nearly crazed with fatigue,
but they lare not half as weary and
worn out as the men from Illinois
and Michigan who have been riding
on day coaches for three or four days
from the cool climate of the north to
the much warmer of central Georgia.
Many of the Illinois and Michigan
soldiers have spent the last hundred
miles in wonderment at the strange
sight- they are seeing. They have
been passing through their first Geor
gia peach fields. They are seeing
their first Georgia darkeys, and yell
and call at them as they pass along
tile tracks. Ihe soft, low. Georeua
talk seems to appeal to them, for they
like to talk to Georgians.
10 CBSyiLTIES ill Bfflf
■ STUCK W KPITILS
London, May 28—Three hundred
[casualties resulted from the recent
I bombardment of hospitals in Etapb. s,
France, by German airmen. Andrew
Bonar Law, chancellor of the exche
quer, announced in the house of com
mons this afternoon.
IGMriiKJffi WIIES
TO COST BILLION MORE
Washington. May 28.—The carry
ing of America’s war supplies will
cost the nation’s railroads this year
about a billion dollars more than last
year and force Uncle Sam to dig into
his pockets for a deficit of nearly two
hundred million dollars at the end of
the year.
RATE INCREASE JUNE STH
RAILROAD FARES UP JUNE 10
'Washington, May 28—The war de
per cent rate increase on class and
commodity freight rates will go into
effect June sth. Railroad fares will
be raised to three cents a mile on
June 10th.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Johnson receiv
ed a cablegram this afternoon from
their son, Capt Herbert Johnson, slay
ing he had landed safely “overseas."
Captain Johnson was in charge of his
'company on the ship Moldavia, that
wa s torpedoed by the Germans and
it wiil be a source of much joy to his
friends to know he arrived safely
“over there."
GRIFFIN, GA.. FRIDAY, MAY 31» 1918.
OFFICIALTABULATEO STATEMENT
SHOWING ROW SPALDING COUNTY
RESPONDED TO THE RED GROSS
1
The following official statement was j
riven out Wednesday at the Red Uro.--I
headquarters showing how Griffin and;
Spalding county contributed to the 1
second Red Cross war fan-:;
Griffin District.
First Ward—
O. J. Ba captain. Contribu
tors, 600.
Cash .< G.« 4.41
Pledges <>5,65
Griffin Mili—
Cash .. .. .“ s2l-8.-
Pledges .......... 319.1
Operatives Central Mid—
Pledges $ 29.00
Pledges 76.7 '
Total $1,500.06
Second Ward—
A. P. Patterson, captain. Contribu
tors. 180.
Cash $535.97
P!edge s 330.53
Total $866.50
Third Ward—
P. J. Slaton, captain. Contribu
tions, 260.
Cash $ 909.06
Pledges 1,196.50
Total $2,105.56
Fourth Ward—
J. P. Nichols, Jr., captain. Contri
butors, 276.
Cash $1,337.35
Pledges 814.25
Total $2,151.60
Total for city—
Cash $3,476.79
Pledges ".146.93
$6,623.72
Unioii District.
C. L. Eld. ;. captv;l::. Contributor-',
Cash $241.00
Pled ... 246.00
Total slß7.v<!
Ml. Zion District.
J. W T• . .- . . ... C itri-
■ i tor- 1'
'fash ••.!.'•)
Pledges : >.50
T..-.J. siM2JM
Cabin, District.
I T. •; P . ip.-, rap: . <
| but
Cash $ 841.95
Ifiedges 336.2 ■
Total $1,178.20
Orrs District.
•J. A. Bui'neit, captain. Contribu
tors, 73.
| Cash $566.75
ll’-igc.- 15.00
fra. Cotton Mili No. 1—
Cash $78.0b
Ga. Cot. Mill Bleachery —
('ash ..$27.00
Ga. Cotton Mills No. 2—
Cash $68.00
Ga. Cotton Mill office ..$50.00
Kincaid Mill No. 2 —
(ash $94.50
Total $581.75
Akin District.
A. E. Futral, captain. Contribu-
tors, 110.
Cash $362.20
Pledges 50.00
Total $412.20
Line Creek.
F. M. Scott, captain. Contributors,
5.°
Cash $133.00
T Gil $133.00
Africa District.
D. F. Patterson, captain. Contri-
butors, 750.
Cash $805.30
Pledges 167.65
Operatives Rushton Mill—
Cash $ 60.00
i Pledges .. 64.50
(Operatives Kincaid Mill No. 1
I Cash $291.35
i Pledges 54.60
• Colored people, cash and
pledges $72.00
Total $972.95
iCH AIRMAN NICHOLS THANKS
| THE RED CROSS HELPERS
1 '.!'•< Re 1 I’rov Helper-: In
the work as chairman •»!’
' <e -e.:on,: Red Cross campaign,
• ic- . - , express my deep ap
■ :.itio . >! the valuable work
tm- several committee
■’ ’- •' and the county, also
:••• •. people for the hearty
■ ■ • '•■ vhich they gave the
c >mmittees. Without ’hi.- splen
■j-operation it would have
•-n impossible to have raised
' • ' ‘Ota of $6,000, but with it
■; ■■ al>.e to report having rais
ed nine than SII,OOO. Thanking
• who took part in any way to
this- worthy cause. I am sincere
ly- J. P. NICHOLS.
i nairman Second Red Cross. War
Fund.
WARNING IS ISSUED
TO ALL YOM OF 21
M a.'hington, May 28—Twenty-five
partment his issued a warning to all
youths attaining the age of 21 on or
before June 5, that they must present
Themselves for registration on that
' day. No excuse will be tolerated, the
department said, except when the per-
• son is actually in the military or na-
I val service.
The department’s warning slays:
: "ifi-aU officials wish it clearly un
derstood that no person who has at
. p.incd •:.•■ nee of 21 -ince June 5, 1917
who ■ attain that age on or be
v '-rc .i. i.< excused from regis-
. ' •", unless on that date
y cs ac . ual and active member of
i •• niiii-.crv or naval service. Per-
■ eject to registration on
■ ■•' being in the military or
• 1 • c <;• :>ec >me subject to regis-
• '■'■ a: 1 are required to register
•m.i e-' upon leaving such mili-
• - > i\ i. -ervice. Any such per
■ ted after June 5 must
■ "'i.otely after their dis-
Mar.-'nal General Crowder,
-m-r ■ ..r men to study the draft
egu atm .today issued the foliow-
■ ' g statement:
• • “It Un-iuM be clearly understand
i.a: '-fi-tration is a public duty. It
-.•■ dist. l ’.': from selective service in
i'-h'tt it i-merely preliminary to the
• o' . <•-■ of selection. For fail
-1 r " nwcm-m this duty congress has
provide ! penalty of imprisonment
:■ one year. Furthermore, such fail
''e may lit in the loss of valua
j '• rights and privileges and imme
’•• induction into military .-ervice.
“No delinquent can be excused for
•t registering on grounds that he
I'M'got or did not realize hi s duty. The
I'.wden is on him and on him alone,
Jto perform that duty, and he alone
Ci responsible."
AOUNG SON (>F HENRY MAYS
IS KILLED ACCIDENTALLY
‘. Lamar, seventeen-year-old son of
> Rev. and Mr-. Henry B. Mays, for-
■ merly of this city, was killed Tues
' day when a gun in his posse-Mor; was
accidentally discharged. The many
•i friends of the familj' will be sorrv
to hear of the younr man’s untimely
1 death.
i Total for ('ourty Districts—
[Ca-’n $',.,11.7ft
■ Pledge- 1,145.40
I Total $4,457.10
i Total for Griff.n and Spading county
Ca.-h ..$6,812.71
Pledges $4,292.33
Total $11,105.07
Total number contributors, 3,615.
The colored people of Griffin
tributed liberally. From a union
meeting came $24.25 cash and a
. numberhave unpaid p’edges which
i will increase their gifts a good deal.
AMERIGANSWIN BIGGEST VICTORY
OFTHEWARINCAPTURINGCANTIGY
UNDSCORESOEGERffIPRISONERS
[Suminics C-hurgc to Lupture idling "Now That We re In
Germany Let’s W r allop Hell Out of’Em and Go On
To Berlin' —Teutons Squeal Like Pigs W r hen Facing
Americans' Bayonets,
AA .:ti the Americans in Picardy,
Mav - Ameri an troops charged
t> capture yesterdav yelling-, “Now
that '• e are in Germany let’s wallop
hell out of ’em and go on to Berlin.”
Baek at headquarter- when the
boys “went over” officers waited an
xiously fm news of the attack.
After forty-five minutes of fierce
fighting a voice came over the field
telephone:
"Hello; this is Cantigny.”
And headquarters knew the Amer
icans had taken one of the most im
portant towns on the Amien s front
and had won their biggest victory of
the war to date. The report came
from the signal corps.
The captain of the wire carriers,
ignoring the German counter barrage,
followed the American infantry and
the French tanks in the attack.
When Cantigny fell the telephone
station was ready for business.
The attack took place over a front
of more than a mile.
Within forty-five minutes after the
infantry had “gone over” at Cantigny
Chateau a and several hundreds of
yards of the German second line
trenches were American territory.
The regiment sent back one hun
dred and eighty prisoners, including
five officers.
The big cellars at Cantigny, where
it was possible to conceal hundreds
of troops, were completely smashed
by the American artillery.
The enemy losses are probably the
heaviest in these parts.
The Germans ran toward the
• Americans kamarasing in groups of
from ten to twenty.
From the dugouts or when they
■ were cornered in hand to hand fight
in-c the Americans used weapons.
■ The\" have learned to love the bay-
■ onet and the Roches, squealed like
■ pigs when they faced the cold steel.
French officers gave highest praise
for the offensive spirit of the Ameri
cans. Not only did they show no hesi-
• tation -in the assault, but their offi-
■ ce - tVperienced considerable diffl-
■ culty in holding them back.
ENEMY RUSH CONTINUES.
Paris, May 29.—The German rush
wit'n the arrival of fresh divisions
continued last night on the two wings
' of the Soissons and Rheims front,
the war office reported today.
Hl N ADVANCE DEEP AT
POINTS.
THREE DETERMINED AIMS IN
PICARDYREPDLSEDBYAMERIGANS;
GERMAN LOOSES REPORTED REAU!
With the American Army in Pi
irdy. Maj' 2*. Three determined at
ta..r. the nature of raids on a large
scale wer- delivered against the
American lines yesv-rday morning
The first wa 5 before Fountaine,
S >us and Mont Didier. The second
and tr.ird was launched simultaneous
ly. one to the right of Cantignj - and
the other again before Fountaine,
Sou- and Mont Didier.
A of the attacks were repulsed
with heavy German losses. Not only
were the attacks repulsed, but the
Americans drove the Boches from
their trenches, counter attacking and
holding the oaptured positions until
ordered to withdraw to their original
1 line-.
The three attacks netted the Ameri-
THE SEN, EdUbUaked JL&7Z*
laris, Maj- 29.— Ihe Hun advance
at <(*r*iin points of the Aisner front
has reached a depth of fifteen and.
a haif miles, the Echo De Paris de
clared today.
German} Demand* Withdrawal of
Danish Bottoms.
Washington, May 29.—Germany
has demanded in a virtual ultimatum
that Denmark withdraw
from allied trade four hundred thou
sand tons of Danish bottoms offered
in exchange for needed products from
Great Britain and the United States.
Czech, Slovac and Jugo Slavs Have
Our Sympathy.
Washington, May 29.—Nationalis
tic aspirations of the Czech, Slovac
and Jugo Slavs for freedom have the
united sympathy of this government,
the state department announced to
day.
American Losses Are Light.
With the American Armies in
France, May 29.—American losses in
the battle at were light, it
wa 8 officially announced today.
I
Germans Still Shelling Parie.
Faris, May 29.—Ixing range shell
■ ing of Paris continued today. Th©
Germans appear to be using a slight
! ly different model of shells.
1 Many En<?my Planes Brought Down.
Washington, May 29.—Allied air
men brought down and destroyed 252
German airplanes between May 16
and 23, according to war office re
ports received, a British military at
tache said today.
Britons Praise Sammies.
With the British Armies in France,
- May 29.—Every Briton from Field.
• Marshal Haig down to the soldiers
• are enthusiastic over the way in
•' which the Americans licked the Ger-
• mans in the Montdidier region yes-
- terday morning.
Americans Break Two Attacks.
Paris, May 29.—American troops
have broken two successive German
attacks on the newly captured town
1 of Cantigny, the war office announc
> ed today.
, Kaiser on Aisne Front,
Amsterdam, Maq 29.—The kaiser
is on the Aisne battle front at a
point south of Loan, according to des
patches from Berlin today.
five German prisoners.
The fighting was extremely bitter.
The opposing forces clashed hand to
hand in the midst of smashed sand
hags and caved in parapets. The Ger
mans ’were loaded down with hand
grenades but the Americans rushed
close to the quarters and forced they
enemy to use bayonets.
The soldiers declare that the Ger
mans were equipped with armored
breast plates, which turned aside the
bayonet thrusts.
One company of Americans, count
er attacking before Cantignyt pene
trated tße German lines clear into the
i village, where they remained until
; called back.
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