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THE NEWS, Established 1871.
THE AMERICAN ARMY COMPLEETS
‘ SECOND LHP WHS THE RHINE;
HUNS CARRYING OUT ARMISTICE
At Several Places Retreating Army Turns Over Huge
Munition Dumps Intact—At Bouligny Several Hun
dred Carloads of Lumber, Cement and Steel Rails
I And Twenty-Two Guns Fall Into Hands of Americans
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES
4 ADVANCING toward the
RHINE, Nov. 19.—(10:30 P. M.).— ’
The American third army had com
pleted the second lap of its march to
ward the Rhine today. It halted on
the general line about nine miles
ahead of the positions occupied last
night.
So far as can be observed the Ger-
Xmans are carrying out the terms of
the armistice in good faith.
Today they surrendered millions of
dollars worth of material, guns and
munitions.
At several places they turned over
huge ammunition dumps intact.
At Bouligny several hundred car
, loads of lumber, cement and steel rails
and twenty-one guns fell into the
.Americans’ hands.
The German withdrawal continues |
far ahead of the Americans, only a [
few officers remaining to surrender;
supplies. These then retire under the
white flag.
WOULD EXTRADITE
KAISERJS REPORT
WORKMENS’ AND SOLDIERS’
COUNCIL REPORTED TO HAVE
PROPOSED THAT MILITARY
OFFICIALS BE EXTRADITED.
THE HAGUE, Nov. 19.—The Ger
man workmens’ and soldiers' council
at Antwerp is reported to have pro
posed Thursday to the Berlin council
that the former kaiser, crown flrince
and other military officials should be
extradited from Holland to Germany.
FRENCH TROOPS REACH
NEIGHBORHOOD OF RHINE
I
PARIS, Nov. 19.—The French
troops have reached the neighbor
hood of the Rhine on a front of about
thirty miles from the Swiss frontier
it was officially anonunced,
tor lay.
Large quantities of war material I
and allied prisoners have fallen into]
French hands, the communique said, j
SEyERAEIEIf SHIPS
LEFT KIEL ON SIM
T'sder Terms of Armistice Portion of
" Dreadnaughts and Battle Cruisers
Are Being Surrendered to Allies.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. ID. —In com-
• plia: • e with the armistice terms, the
German dreadnaughts Bayern, Gris
ser. Kurfurst, Kronprintz, Wilhelm,
Margaret, Kaiserx and Koenig Albert
and the battle cruiser Seydlitz and
Moltke left Kiel Sunday and are on
route to the North sea. The ships
named above are only a portion of
these to be surrendered to the allies.
JHE LIO IS CLAW ON
.IN-ESSENTIAL EXPORTS
WASHINGTON, NoM. 19.—The
railroad administration, in conjunction
with the war department, has clamp
ed the lid on exports which are held
tn be non essential in reconstruction
ujrk.
YOU NEED NOT SAVE
NUTS AND SHELLS
ALL THAT IS NECESSARY NOW
IS TO ACCUMULATE AND SHIP
WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE AL
READY PRESERVED.
—
ATI,ANTA, Nov. 19.—Owing to the
cessation of hostilities it will not be
necessary to continue the saving of
fruit pits and nut shells for the manu
! facture so gas masks, acording to
I Dr. George Brown, of this city, who
i was appointed by the gas defense di-
I vision of the chemical warfare ser-
I vice to present this matter to the
people of Georgia.
While a considerable number of gas
masks will be menufactured, recent
cable reports from the far East and
reports from the campaign collection
centers all over rhe country indicate
that it Will only be necessary now to
accumulate and ship all fruit pits and
nut shells already saved or’ collected.
The people everywhere have re
sponded to the call with fine patriotic ,
enthusiasm, states Dr. Brown, and the
government will have an abundant]
supply of the needed materials as soon :
as that now saved has been turned
into collection centers and shipped.
GRIFFIN GETS TWO NEyy
METHODIST MINISTERS
W. S. GAINES COMES TO H AN LEI-
TER AND ADRIAN WARWICK
TO THIRD CHURCH AND KIN-
I CAID—OTHERS RETURNED.
I
In the closing session of the North
Georgia conference in Atlanta Tuesday
night Bishop Candler announced the
appointments for the preachers fori
the ensuing conference year. Only a
few changes »,t-re made eomparative-
I ly.
Griffin gets two new Methodist
I ministers, being Rev. W. S. Gaines,
! who comes to Hanleiter - church, and
Rev. Adrian Warwick who has been
appointed pastor of the Third' church
ami Kincaid.
Dr. W. 1.. Pierce was returned as,
presiding elder of the Griffin district
I for the fourth year, Rev. W. P. King
comes back as pastor of the First
Methodist church for the third year
and Rev. A. B. Sanders will begin his
second year as pastor of the Griffin
circuit.
The various churches of the Grif
fiin district made splendid reports at
the conference, having had a pros
' perous year.
The appointments for the Griffin
■ district are as follows:
Dr. W. L. Pierce, presiding elder;
Barnesville, F. Pulliam; Culloden and
Yatesville, J. J. Copeland; Fayette
-1 rille, J. D. Milton; Flovilla, D. P.
’ Johnson; Forsyth, E. D. Hale; For-
■ syth circuit, H. L. Birdsey; Griffin,
First church, W. P. King; Hanleiter,
W, S. Gaines; Third church and Kin
caid, Adrian Warwick; Griffin circuit,
A. B. Sanders; Hampton, J. 0. Mul
lin; Inman, J. R. Jones; Milner, G. W.
| Hamilton; McDonough and Turners,
H. C. Emory; The Rock, R. P. Tatum;
Thomaston, M. S. Williams; Thomas
ton circuit, J. E. Cline; Zebulon. Ar
’ thur Maness.
L — — ...
Little Miss Jennie Hayden Williams
1 returned to her home in Senoia Wed
i nesday after a visit to her grandpa
rents. Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Drewry.
GRIFFIN, GA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 22, I*9lß
PRESIDENT PROCLAIMS
DA F OF THANKSGIVING
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.— ,
President Wilson in a pro
clamation has designated j
Thursday, November 28th as
Thanksgiving Day, and said this
year the American people have j
special and moving cause to be
grateful and rejoice. Complete
victory, he said, has brought not
only peace, but the confident
premise of a new day as well, in
which “justice shall replace force
and jealous intrigue among the
nations.”
The proclamation follows:
“It has long been our custom
to turn in the autumn of the year
in praise and thanksgiving to Al
mighty God for His many bless
ings and mercies to us as a na
tion. This year we have special
and moving cause to be grateful
and to rejoice. God has in His
good pleasure, given us peace. It
has not come as a mere cessation
of arms, a mere relief from the
strain and tragedy of war. It has
come as a great triumph of right.
Complete victory has brought us,
not peace alone, but the confident
promise of a new day as well, in
which justice shall replace force
and jealous intrigue among the
nations. Our gallant armies
have participated in a triumph
which is not marred or stained by
any purpose of selfish aggression.
In a righteous cause they have
won immortal glory and have no
bly served their nation in serving
mankind. God has indeed been
gracious. We have cause for such
rejoicing as revives and strength
ens in us all the best traditions of
SPALDING PEPPER I
CROP TO SHATTER
ALL THE RECORDS
Will Give This County First
Place in the Pepper Producing
Counties of America According
to All Available Reports.
Pepper Industry Started Here on
Small Scale Eighteen A'ears Ago
Has Grown to Immense Proportions
and Is Attracting Wide Attention.
The pepper crop now being har
vested in Spalding county will not
only shatter local and sectional rec
ords, but will easily give this county
first place in the pepper producing
counties ot America, according to
available official and unofficial re
ports. With a total of 320 acres, the
yield of seed is averaging a little
more than 100 pounds to the acre.
Two varieties are grown here, the
large bell-shaped and pimento pep
pers. In bulk the production is about
2,•‘>00 bushels per acre. There are:
three producers in the county, the]
Pomona Products Company, 150 acres,
S. D. Reigel & Sons, 100 acres ,and
J. W. Gresham, 70 acres.
This year’s crop will bring the pro
ducers a gross revenue of $4,000 per
acre, or a total of $1,280,000 for the
320 acres planted. The production
cost is understood to be about the
same as that of cotton. Then the
manufacturing cost in consuming the
by-products runs the expense account
up about twenty per cent.
The growers receive a minimum of
$2.60 per pound for the pepper seed
when sold through jobbers. However,
the price runs as high as $lO per
pound for some choice varieties when
sold through other agencies. The
pulp will average two gallons of cat
sup per bushel. The catsup is sold
to jobbers at 75 cents per gallon.
The pulp is also used in a variety of
meat dressings and sauces and when
manufactured in tnis way a propor
tionately higher price is received. The
two larger planters, the Pomona Pro
ducts Company, nt Pomona, and S. D.
Reigel & Sons, at Experiment, ope
rate canning factorier, while J. W.
Gresham makes a specialty of seed
for planting.
The pepper industry was started in
Spalding county on a small scale by
S. D. Reigel & Sons about eighteen
years ago. S. D. Reigel, head of the
firm, imported a variety of seed from
Spain and experimented with the
plants until he found and developed
a variety particularly adapted to this
climate.
our natural history. A new day
shines about us, in which our
hearts take new courage and look
forward with new hope to new
and greater duties.
“While we render thanks for
these things, let us not forget to
seek the Divine guidance in the
performance of those duties, and
Divine mercy and forgiveness for
all errors of act or purpose, and
pray that in all that we do shall
strengthen the ties of friendship
and mutual respect upon which
we must assist to build the new
structure of peace and good will
among the nations.
“Therefore, I. Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States of
America, do hereby designate
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day
of November, next, as a day of
that!:-,giving and prayer, and in
vite the people throughout the
land to cease upon that day from
their ordinary occupations and in
their several homes and places of
worship to render thanks to God
the ruler of nations.
"In witness whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the' seal of the United .States to
be affixed.
“Done in the District of Colum
bia. this sixteenth day of Novem
ber, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand nine hundred and eigh
teen. and of the independence of
the jl’nited States of America, the
one hundred and forty-third.
"WOODROW WILSON,
“By the President:
“ROBERT LANSING,
“Secretary of State.”
RED CROSS WORKERS
TO MEET IN ATLANTA
CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD
NOVEMBER 21ST IN PREPARA
TION FOR THE CHRISTMAS
ROLL CALL DECEMBER 16 TO 23
ATLANTA, Nov. 19.—A conference
of the Red Cross workers from all the
chapters in Georgia will be held in
Atlanta on Thursday, November 21st
in preparation for the Red Cross
Christmas roll call from December 16
to 23, which is designed to enroll ev
ery adult American in the Red Cross.
The object of the conference is to
bring together those workers in direct
charge of the roll call in the chapters
with a number of the Southern di
vision directors in order that full in
formation may be given them con
cerning the plans for the drive for
universal membership.
Guy E. Snavely, assistant manager
of the" Southern division, Willis J.
Milner, Jr., director of publicity for
the division and special director of the
roll call; 11. V. Carson, director of the
speakers’ bureau, and Miss Carolyn
Cobb, director of the roll call pagent,
will address the conference.
Guy E. Snavely, of Atlanta, will
: pre.-ide and Samuel H. Sibley, of Un
j ion Point, director of the roll call for
I Georgia, wilt also be present.
A full attendance is anticipated, as
the increased work of the Red Cross
at this time demands the fullest co
operation and support of every patrio
tic person in Georgia.
mgiHHoTpliin
TO HUNT FESTIIE QUAIL
ATLANTA, Nov. 19.— More Geor
gia Nimrods are going to hun the
festive quail this year than ever be
fore. according to figures showing the
sale of hunting kic« ;se«. Already sev
eral hundred dollar- more has come
in from the sale of licenses than had
been received last year by December
1. The supply of quail in south Geor
gia is said to b> exceptionally abund
ant.
HOOVER TO GO TO BERLIN
TO STUDY FOOD SITUATION
PARIS, Nov. 19. —That Herbert
Hoover will go to Berlin within two
weeks to study the German food situ
ation at first hand was the belief ex-
Gets One Hut
And Now the Slogan Is
“Let’s Get Another One”
Total Subscriptions to War Work
Fund This Morning Reached
the Sum of sl,6o3,24o—Re
ports Are Incomplete-
THE GREAT CAMPAIGN
COMES TO END TONIGHT
Ely R. Callaway Urges Counties Not
to Slacken in Their Efforts Until!
Last Minute—Appeal to Counties
That Have Not Raised Quota.
ATLANTA. Nov. 20.—Georgia’s
total subscription to the United Wat-
Work fund last night stood at $1,603,-
240, an oversubscription not only of
her original quota of $1,330,589 which
she passed last Friday afternoon,
but also so her accepted quota of sl,-
585.780 and the end is not yet in sight.
Reports continue to come in from
all over the State running to their to
tal hourly, so that there is prospects
of Georgia winning the naming of an
other hut for oversunsenptions dur
ing the two remaining days of the
campaign. In fact, State Campaign
Headquarters has adopted the slogan
“Let's get anothev one,” and Director
Ely R. Callaway, is urging the coun
ties not to slacken in the efforts un
til the last minute. He is especially
making this appeal to those counties
which have not yet raised their quo
tas, and to the eleven counties from
which no reports at all have yet
received. Sixty three counties have
reached their quotas.
By rotation the subscription stands
as follows: Albany district—quota
$79,500, subscribed $51,101; Atlanta,
district—quota $640,785, subscribed
$678,134; Augusta district—quota
$155,500, subscribed $93,276; Colum
bus district—quota $95,500, subscrib
ed 99,072; Macon district—quota
$170,000, subscribed $175,000; Savan
nah district—quota $207,500, subscrib
ed $190,462; Thomasville district—
quota $47,000, subscribed $36,335;
Waycross district—-quota $35,500
subscribed $23,082; Valdosta and
Moultrie district—quota $38,500, sub
scribed $46,483.
The army camps of the State have
subscribed $37,618.
TWENTY SUB-BOATS
SURRENDERED TODAY!
GERMANS TURN U-BOATS OVER’
TO ADMIRAL TYRWHITE 30 i
MILES OFF HARWICH AT SUN-1
RISE—2O OTHERS TOMORROW
IIAIWICH, Eng., Nov. 20.—Twen
ty submarines were surrendered to
Rear Admiral Tyrwhite thirty miles
off Harwich at sunrise this morning.
Twenty more U-boats will surrender
tomorrow and Friday and the balance
later. Following the surrender the
commanders proceeded with their
own crews to Harwich, where they
were boarded by British crews. The
Germans will return to their own
country latetr in a German trans
port.
ELKS TO HOLD LOD(.E
OF SORROW DECEMBER 1
The annual B. P. O. E. Lodge of
Sorrow will be held in the lodge room
of the local Elks on the first Sunday
in December. No official program
has yet been arranged, but plans are
being made. John 11. Morrow, chair
man of the committee, states the pro
gram will be announced as soon as
completed. The Lodge of Sorrow is
held annually in memory of the mem
bers who have died during the year.
The service is very impressive and
largely attended.
SUPREME COURT TO RECESS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—1 t was
announced yesterday that the Su
preme court will adjourn from No
vember 25 over Thanksgiving day r.nd
| until December 9.
THE SUN, Established 187 T.
1,399 CASUALTIES,
REPORTED TODAY
MANY GEORGIANS ON THE TWO
LISTS REPORTED BY THE COM
MANDING GENERAL OF AMER
ICAN FORCES IN FRANCES.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 —The fol
lowing casualties are reportci by tho
commanding general of the American
expeditionary forces:
Kileld in action 263
Died of wounds 145
Died of disease 145
Wounded severely 131
Wounded, degree undetermined.. 280
Wounded slightly 318
Missing in action 94
Prisoners 18
Died of acident and other
causes 5
Total 1,399
Georgians.
Private Thomas Cobb, Cobb Town,
killed in action; Captain Joseph W.
Conklin, Atlanta, Sergeant Marvin
Gillis, Soperton, Privates Henry •.
Griffin, Eastanollee, Charlie Mcßur
rows, Rochelle, died of disease; Har
mon E. Wren, Augusta, wounded de
gree undetermined; Captain Thomas
Barrett, Augusta, Sergeant William
G. Akin, Fort Valley, Corporal Henry
Kendrick, Barwick, Privates Jeff
■ Briant, Conyers, Oscar Davidson, Ma
con, Remer J. Anderson, Lyons, Wal
ter C. Lee, Cuthbert, Flint H. Wil
liams, Dalton, slightly wounded in
action; Andrew B. Cook, Augusta,
Graydon G. Ledford, Marietta; John
L. Wall, Trenton, missing in action;
John M. Smith, Macon, kiled in ac
tion; Corporal Dave Stone, Ranger,
Privates Walter L. Pruitt, Dahlonega,
died of disease; Eugene R. Daniel, La-
Grange, Hershel Dykes, Blackshear,
wounded degree undetermined; Shel
ton E. Price, Columbus, missing in
action.
NO DEMOBILIZATION
ORDERS AT WHEELER
SEVERAL HUNDRED NEW YORK
ERS WERE ILL WHEN THEY
WERE DISCHARGED MONDAY
AFTERNOON IN MACON.
MACON, Nov. 20. —Several hundred
of the newly drafted men from New
York and Alabama, received at Camp
Wheeler several weeks ago, who were
sick on their arrival, were discharged
Monday. They had not been inducted
into service, Maj. Harry P. Stickey,
adjutant, said Tuesday.
Since their arrival they have beeit,
in hospitals. As fast as they recupe
rate they are allowed to return home.
Only those who have not been induct
ed were discharged.
Major Stickly said nothing official
had been received from Washington
relative to the demobilization of the
men at Wheeler. The regular pro
gram is being carried out.
commWemt
unhid n km
Plan to Seize All Public Buildings
and Establish Bolshesiki Govern
ment Revealed —Many Arrests.
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 20.—A great
communistice plot has been uncover
ed in Vienna, according to reports
which were received here today. It
was planned to seize all public build
ings and proclaim a Bolshevist gov
ernment. Several hundred have been
arrested.