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FHE NEWS, Established 1871.
♦IL ENFORCE
FOOD ORDERS
TO THE LETTER
Regulations Must Be Observed
Until End of War Says United
States Food Administration.
* Going After the Big Ones.
BUSINESS MEN GENERALLY
MUST BE VERY CAREFUL
» Highly Essential Business Enterprises
Will Have First ( all. Others Will
Be Curtailed Whenever it is Found
-Necessary—Some May Be Cut Off.
Atlanta, June 4.—Rigid enforce
ment of all food administration or
ders and regulations from the first if
June to the end of the war is the mas
sage brought back from Washington
by Executive Secretary D. E. Mc-
Clatchey, who returned yesterday'.
“Very largely the greater part if
the business enterprise of the country
has whole heartedly adhered to every
order issued by the administration.
There is a percentage, though, of
business concerns who think more cf
themselves or making money and of
pet brands than they' do of the suc
cess of the American arms. These
people will simply' have to accept the
penalty of greed,” said Major Mc-
Clatchey.
“The highly' essential business en
-1 terprises are to have first considera
tion from now on. The less essential
industries will be curtailed where
curtailment is necessary. The unes-
M sentials are in direct line of elimina
tion until the war is over.
“Washington takes the position
that the people of the country' have
been through a sufficiently long pe
riod of education and instruction to
know what is expected of them. Vio
lators hereafter will feel the applica
tion of penalties as they have not be
fore. Down here we do not realize the
enormity of what at the moment is
confronting our country. Unless the
American people a s a whole operate
as one great, well oiled machine, we
are going to suffer.”
Simultaneously with the foregoing
statement from Major McClatchey
comes from Dr. Andrew M. Soule,
federal food administrator, a state
ment and communication to the public
which beyond doubt is the most im
, portvnt issued by' the food adminis
tration since the war began. A fea
ture of it is a cautionary warning to
user.- of sugar, particularly to mak
ers of soft drinks, of the danger they’
stand of being cut off from all further
,-upplies of sugar for the entire period
of the war. Moreover, it sets out the
art '.hat there is to be, hereafter, a
tendency toward a gradual alimin;>-
tion of less essential industries of the
® ■ FAILS
10 ACCOMPLISH ANY
!■ POINTS
) FAILS TO TERRORIZE.
, MERI( ANS—AMERICAN N AV
STRENGTH ABROAD WILL
\ >L BE LESSENED.
.a.-nington. June 4. —Germany has
,f 4 '.o gam any military advan
rom her spec tai '.liar U-boat
»ff the American cmis: ..nd if
. . ’tended to terrorise America:.-
, ed likewise to accomplish that.
• -e two facts stood prominently
■Jay in the wake of the .startling
s that Teuton U-boats have be n
,rmg since May 25th off cur
■. lagging probably twelve or
> vessels of various types, but
■mg any cargo or troop trans-
-ncretarv -f the Navy Josephus
. .. is authority for the fiat statc
ruc t • at the American naval strength
■ a! will not be diverted to home
V-j- .e- because of the foray.
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SPLENDID PROG RAM
MARKS CLOSING OF
GRIFFIIfSSCHOOLS
Unusually Interesting Exercises
Held at High School Auditor
ium Monday Night. Ending a
Most Successful Term.
HOLLIS GRAY, JR.. GIVEN
THE DR. AUSTIN PRIZE
Makes Highest Average of Any of the
Winners YeP —Diplomas Awarded
to Class of Seventeen by Dr. J. M.
Thomas, of the Educational Board.
Interesting exercises at the High
School auditorium Monday night
marked the closing of a successful
term of the Griffin High School and
public schools.
The salutatory was said by Paul
Goode and was very good. Clas 3 his
tory was told in a most interesting
way by Warren Williams. The class
poem was read by Ruskin King and
was an ace. Clas s prophecy was re
flated in a most charming manner by
Miss Bessie Ellis, while lhe cla-s wid
‘was made by Miss Pierce. The vale
dictories were made by Hollis Gray
'and Raiph Thaxton, the f.rmer on
| “Patriotism” and the latter'- sacyect
(.Ing “Al - . Things Are ;).;rs."
The exercises were intersperse 1
■ with singing by the High School Cho
ral Club, an instrumental duet, "Por-t
| and Peasant,” by Ralph Tnaxtor. and
I He.il i s Gray; an in.st’, a men' u solo,
'’■Moonlight,” by Mi.~. ; N'eh. Taylor,
and a song by the graduatwg class.
| Dr. J. M. Thomas, vice tre-iderg
the board of educatrnn, :■ an elziu
ient and most gracious manner deliv
■ered diplomas to M: - Bessie E' i ,
: Galley Garr. Agnes Gon, Lois Mcr re.
iMarguerite-Parker, Esther Pierce,
IJulia Pow’ell, Alice Sa’ liers, Neil Tay
lor and Bertha Turn:pseed; Mes<. ■.
i Euforresi Bunn, Pa il Goode. Hol!:-
|Gray, Ruskin King, Robert Sawteil,
Ralph Thaxton adn Warren Willian •
I Rev, Percy Jones, in an appropriate
laddress. delivered the Aust;- prize.
ia -ilver loving cup. ’ . Hollis Gray,
|Jr This prize is given ea h y t at
Iby Dr. W. H. Austin to the High
■ School student making the highest
iaverage. Mr. Grays average was 98
j 85-100, being the highest yet made by
any of the winners.
I The invocation was pronounced by
Rev. W. A. Murray and the benodi -
tion said by Rev. W. P. King, after
! which the class and audience joined
in singing “America,” bringing the
exercises to a close.
GRIFFIN, FRIDAY. JUNE 7» 1918.
The War Bride
W. R. SPRAY BERRY DIES
AFTER LONG ILLSESS
Mr. W. R. Sprayberry died at his
home. 208 West Chapel street, Tues
day morning at 9:15 o’clock, after an
illness of several years’ duration, age
sixty-seven years. Mr. Sprayberry is
survied by his wife and five sons. W.
IJ R. Sprayberry, Jr., of Atlanta, and
|J. E., I. C., J. A., and I. S. Spray
| berry, of Griffin
PIKE MOW ffl (lILS
SELF NEIB aiOlfflLLE
—
I A. ('. Heath, In 111 Health and De
spondent, Ends Life W ith
Shot Gun.
News was received in Griffin Fri
jday morning about eight o’clock
stating that A. C. Heath, a well known
farmer of Pike county, had commit- >
. j ted suicide earlier in the day by p
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. i shooting himself with a shot gun. The
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I deceased was forty-seven years of
'age and leaves a wife and twelve chil- j'
jdrem He had been in ill health for ’
sometime, suffering from rheumatism, 1
[and despondency on this account is
I ascribed as the reason for the rash
J act.
'j Funeral arrangements navtt not 1
I been announced, pending arrival of a
son, who is in tne army and located
iin Texas. j 5
FOm NlilFS RETORTED
l« UTESI MILREsIi
Masrimg: ■. . June I.—Forty names
were imtluded in today’s casualty list.
I Three were ~i. i in action, two died i '
|from wound'. died from disease.;
died I’rom ac-iden'.-., eight!
.■were wounded -everely. one was I ’
J L» NEW DMFT CSLL
i Atianta. J.r • 4. Maj -r J 1 B I
1 Mallett, in charge of the selective ser-
Tvice in Georgia, ha- complied the net
J current quota for this State under!
I the new regulatims effective June I.
'The quota amounts to a • .tai of 17,- i
■‘.'s, of which 8,000 have been called:
’ i‘ • report on June 19 and 29th, respe, - I
'lively. The first 4,000. to report dur-!
■’.ng the first five days beginning June
19. are colored; the second 4.000, be-i
; ginning June 29. are white.
CHICAGO PAPERS
ARESEIZEOHEHE
Bf AUTHORITIES
Accounts of Recent Events Tak
ing Place in South Georgia
Presented in Light to Arouse
Strife is the Belief Prevalent.
COLUMNS DEVOTED TO THE
LYNCHING OF NEGROES
Matter Which tame by Express Dis
covered by Local Garage Consigned
to Colored Employe and is Turned
Over to Department of Justice.
Several hundred copies of a recent
issue of a well known Chicago news
paper shipped here by express have
been seized and placed at the dispos
al of the Department of Justice, lo
cal authorities believing the issue,
eve-; though it was not sent through
the mail service, to be in violation of
the espionage act.
The newspaper devotes several col
umns to the recent lynchings of ne
groes in Georgia, with photographs
of some of the victims, and also con
tains long editorials criticizing State
and federal officials. The whole pa
per seems to be made up of matter
designed to create racial strife in the
S ;‘h and to weaken confidence in the
g. ernment. The detailed account of
lynchings in the vicinity of Vai
d<-.-ta and ..X, the more recent one
ne.j- Barnesville is evidently the work!
. staff mar..
So far as ,wn here the paper in I
(j.tstion has r->’ been d'-nied the m i
o -he Unite ! State? mails. The pr - I
:■ tor of a io-a’, .. i .gi- di<, over .-i ,
matter when the express ■■■■•np:r y
vered the large bundle at r. 1
consigned ‘o ore of hi.-; .-oi .
plOVes. i - • ■ . -cly • ■' ••
authorities.
TWO GEORGIANS KILLEO
«MP IP FRANCE W
-'hing\ Latest ' .isualty List ( or
in- One Hundred and I n Name*.
1 hint v-X me Killed in Action.
■ ,
ng today reported one i.mri.'e i a:, ; 1
o-ualtle- Th. -ti.:e
led in a ’ tm rt n died f . !
mds. - d<d f- dr-ease, f ;-. . ’
a from a, cider;* -. f.,rty-sever. we.*'
•crely wn i-’ded ;> d two were n.--
g in'action. The killed in action
l aded \dn lira! i>. H a', ey, of Re
al, Gm. and Will Ford Funder-
rg, of H F. D. No. 1, Durand, Ga.
One Thousand Huns
Killed by Americans;
Troops To Go Over
Sccretiiry of Xavj Panic! Issues Chalb- <• t Germa
ny Apropos of Her Efforts to Intimidate United
States, Declaring Navy’s Duty is Open Door to
I rante- I criectly Laid Mine at Mouth of Delaware
Torn to Pieces.
WITH THE FRENCH ARMA ON THE MARNE, Jun< .
I American machine gunnel - ' hate kim : at lea-t < • tfi .'md
I Germans in ( hateau-Tiiierry. it is testimated by French mili
tary authorities today.
The Yankee gunners, during the battle lor the city, fired
lens of thousands of machine gun bullet' into the place and
the city's streets are tilled with German bodies
In the repulse of the Germans by the Franco American fore
| es at Jaulgonne the enemy attacked three time' before the
■ bi idge was finally blown up by an American detachment.
The Germans have been completely checked in the battle of
. the Marne. Following successful resistance to all enemy at
i tacks yesterday and on Monday, the battle has now reached
the point where the allies are holding the Germans on the en
tire front between Noyen and Chateau-Thierry.
NAVY’S DUTY IS OPEN DOOR TO FRANCE.
WASHINGTON, June s.—" The great duty of the navy is
to keep her doors open to France so that men. supplies and food
for our allies can be sent across. That is the great task that
will be accomplished successfully at all hazards.”
This was Secretary of the Navy Daniels’ challenge to Ger
many today apropos of her efforts to intimidate the United
States by the hurling of U-boats against the American coast.
He let it be known most emphatically that the navy will not be
diverted from its main task by this foray.
Further evidence of the scorn with which America views the
German U-boat extravaganza was shown today when Secre
tary of the Treasury McAdoo announced a reduction in insur
ance rates on master officers and crews of merchant vessels
coursing the war zone. The armament of coastwise vessels as
a result of the U-boat operation off our shores is under way
however. (
ENEMY RAIDERS CARRIED DISEASE GERMS
WASHINGTON, June s.—That the German U-boat raiders
carried disease germs to this country was the belief in some of
the naval quarters today. Officials warned that the survivors
of U-boat attacks should avoid giving away as souvenirs any
food or water given them by the U-boat commanders. It is of
ficially hinted that German submarines carried disease germs
into Spain, where a strange epidemic similar to the grippe is
now raging.
PRESIOENT WILSON THANKsi
SRIEFIN SCOUTS FOR IM
Appreciates Their Loyalty and Ready
Response to Every ( all—Scouts
Hunting Walnut Wood.
The Boy Scouts held a very enthu
siast; and interesting meeting at the
city hall Tuesday after. ,o<»r., Th'* I
Griffin .Scout.- have .ei” kept 1 asy |
thi< year doing many thing- t a; i i
their country ami tr.e R-u C: The
work of the - - at- thro ziiout th
a’.r 'as ire:, :r< ci,.ited the
preside. * ami ith- - go'.ut of
ti iai-. At •!.• -me’ c her- i let
ter wa ■ read ;• t W or
if-' ■ r m »•. t-ry .■ ./Vv?: -
. !. j V■: .' ‘ f ’’F - - ■'
• ” -ame <n< - • i
‘ r r. ; . ’. . . v- - .'-Tgi '
S’ : :• . . S ,t- . ;t: - I
ri- I * -a" t; at N- 1 It .
'■■;*>.a a ■ " ’ • '
■■■ .- . M. .’.V bcV.-. |
•he s it movement, forth- -• e- .
; _ th.»t it is a very at:r,. :.m uri
prut’tatde work for our real American i
''■•.’■vs. Griffin i< nr<? id of its scouts.
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THE SUN, Established 187 X
HORRIBLE DEAFH,
CAUGHTINAFLY
WHEEL AND BELT
IMRNEY KIN\RD, PROMINENT
l UITIZEX IS HURLED INTO
ETERNITY IX \< ( IDENT WHILE
OPER \TING THRESHER.
Lan ;r Kinard, a well
■ tizen o: Butts county, met a
horr !ea--i Monday everiag about
1 ' o' 1 ..-c- i.e- Wee.-, u fly
; ..■tan’ly killed.
Head's Shop,
; a engaged in
- ‘ ’ - machine.
■ ■ ■ : enty-fmar years
. ; i - '-.r-s of friends who
: ar f ris ‘ragia
( ' ' ‘ liens ar-
, • ■'■*■ • '■ ■■ w.f , • <hil:. his pa-
..a .u < W T. Kinard.
1 I' '• : ■ rai ar. 1 interment
t ’ -a ...'lurch ;n Butts
•hr- -• ’■: ek Tues lay aft
'y ,i*t- ■ '. ! y • -
■ ft!- ■ mi his fam-
H. H. WHI Til io DIKEt T WAR
IXDI <[-R| \fl \X I \ ZONE
j Wi .ire •■ .■■ .* 1. H IL White,
f nal repre
- to ■ X ? war industry
M. war Indus—
Aries ' '..rd sr.r. ar; e.! todav.
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