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OF THE DAY
Alice Brady, 12, of Woodhaven,
Long Island, took her pen in hand
and with thirty other classmates
in 7-A proceeded to wade through
a monthly examination.
‘‘What wild animal abounds in
York state, Alice jotted down, re
question that stumped Alice, but
only for a moment, for Alice has
a couple of'older brothers at home.
“Wild women abound in New
York state,” Alcie jotted down, re
calling remarks of ner big brothers
about the dinner table.
* * *
The United States soon will be
come the owner of one of the
world’s largest dirigibles, Secre
tary Daniels has announced at
Washington.
The big airship is the R-38, a sis
ter ship to the R-34 which sailed
from England to America and re
turn. Negotiations for purchas
ing the R-38, which is being built
in England, are now under way.
The ship will have # a gas capacity
of 2,724,000 cubic feet, will be
694 feet in length, 86 feet in dia
meter, 93 1-2 feet high and will
be able to cary forty-five tons.
• • •
The New York Tribune, Repub
lican, says:
“According to prominent Demo
crats in New York, who are in
touch with the White House, Ho
mer S. Cummings, chairman of the
Democratic national committee, at
the meeting of the committee, in
Washington on January 6 and 7,
will make a statement to the effect
that President Wilson in no cir
cumstances is to bt considered for
a third term.
“The statement will be definite j
and comprehensive in its meaning
and will leave no room for specifica
tion with reference to the wishes
of the President to withdaw from
the White House at the end of his
term.” v
• • *
The lure of the fox trot was too
tempting to a smallpox patient
in Duran, Torrence county, New
Mexico. He broke quarantine and
attended a dance there three weeks
ago. The state health officer here
has just been called upon to devise
means of isolating the twenty-five
eases at Duran and employing ef
fective remedies for stamping out
the contagion.
• • •
Shoulld a wife have the right to
kill her husband because he is use
less? No, of course not, but that
is what Mrs. Delia Moquet, 30,
of Burgess, Mo., did last week
when she shot her 74-year-old
husband, Jules Moquet.
When questioned by the authori
ties Mrs. Moquet is said to have
frankly admitted the shooting of
her husband.
“He was old and no good, and
I thought it just as well to put him
out of the way,” the officers quote
Mrs. Moquet as saying.
One blockade’ appears to have
cured the Germans of blockades.
The Krenz Zeitung, of Berlin,
learns from official sources that the
foreign affairs, committee of the |
assembly has concurred in the gov- |
ernment’s decision to decline to
participate in the blockade against |
Russia. All the party committees j
have taken the same standpoint
unanimously.
The German answer to the en
tente consequently will go to Ver
sailles at once. The,note will de
clare that Germany refuses any
intercourse with soviet Russia,
but is forced to refuse energetical
ly to take part in any blockade,
and that the German people, who
have suffered terribly under the
blockade, cannot conscientiously
committe “such terrible injustice”
against any people.
• • •
William Looney’s 7-day search
for a pound of sugar terminated
unsuccesfully the other night in the
surgeon’s office of a New York po
lice station. ,
Mrs. Dora Hoffman, who keeps a
little grocery store, charged him
with assault, so the police held him
for a hearing.
Looney blamel the sugar short
age for his plight.
Mrs. Hoffman said that when she
told him her small supply of su
gar was being held for her regular
customers Looney became abusive
and struck her.
* * *
Following his experience the
day before of being chloroformed,
taken to the woods north of the
city and there treated to a coat of
tar and feathers, John E. Stieger,
a Hamilton, 0., socialist leader, re
ceived a letter advising him to
leave the city in ten days, on pain
of being more severely treated. He
left.
The Cotton Market
LOCAL SPOTS
Good Middling 36 3-4 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Prev.
Close Open High Low Close
Dec. 36.60 36.45 36.53 36.17 36.49
Jan. 35.61 35.55 35.80 35.64 35.75
Meh. 34.85 34.75 35.17 34.75 35.17
May 34.28.34.17 34.75 34.17 34.75
FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 290.
U. S. PREPARES FOR STRIKE
Maximum Coal Price Will Be Fixed Today
OFFICERS GIVEN
LIQUOR AND GIFTS
TO PAD JAYROLL
Graft Charges in Connec
tion With Camp Sher
man Are Aired
COLUMBUS, 0., Oct. 30.—(8y
Associated Press) —That government
payrolls were padded by army offi
cers in the quartermaster construc
tion corps, who were furnished with
liquor and valuable presents by con
tractors, was the testimony today of
E. E. Heald, former payroll auditor
and bookkeeper for D. W. McGrath
& Son, Columbus contractors, before
the congressional subcommittee in
vestigating graft charges in connec
tion with the construction of Camp
Sherman, at Chillocothe, O.
75C POUND PAID
FOR 800 BALES, IS
HIGH N.O. RECORD
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 30.—(8y |
Associated Press) —All price records i
for a half century or more were '
broken on the New Orleans market
today when the first ginnings from ’
John M. Parker’s famous Panther
burn plantation sold at 75 cents per
pound. There were eight hundred
sales, the transaction amounting to
$360,000.
J. E. Sheppard Honored
By Masonic Grand Lodge
At the annual meeting in Macon
this week J. E. Sheppard, mayor of
Americus, was elected junior grand
warden of the Masonic grand lodge
of Georgia: The other officers are: j
Charles L- Bass, Atlanta, grand mas-!
ter; J. W. Bowden, Adairsville, dep
uty grand master; J. O. Hamrick, ■
Carrollton, senior grand warden; W. I
S. Richardson, Atlanta, grand senior j
deacon; M. A. McQueen, Vidalia,,
grand junior deacon; B. L. Patterson,,
Lawrenceville, grand marshal; the
Rev. A. D. Echols, Atlanta, grand
chaplain; J. M. Rushin, Boston,
grand treasurer; Frank F. Baker,
Macon, grand secretary; W. F. Walk-i
er, Preston, first grand steward; S. |
F, Johnson, Atlanta, second grand (
steward; A. G. Miller, Waycross,!
third grand steward. A. G., Miller,
Waycross, third grand steward and
Lee Wages, Macon, grand tyler.
Hint Os Jenkins Plot
With Bandits Refuted
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 30.—(8y As
sociated Press.) —Published intima
tions that the abduction of William
0. Jenkins, American consular agent
at Puebla, presented phases indica
tive of connivance by Jenkins and
certain of his associates with the
bandits are refuted in a story pub
lished by the Excel-ior. The paper’s
story is a result of an investigation
by its special representatives at
Puebla.
Saturday and Sunday
Catholic Services Here
Services will be held in the Catho
lic church here Saturday and Sun
day as follows:
Saturday (All Saints’ Day) Mass
(preceded by -confessions) 7 o’clock.
Sunday, Mass at 9 :30.
Evening devotions at 3.
Monday All Souls’ Day) Masses,
6:30 a. m., 7 a. m., 7:30 a. in.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Noted Author, Dead
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 30.
(By Associated Press.) —Mrs. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, author and pretest,
died at her home, “The Bungalow,”
in Branford today.
She had been ill some months, hav
ing had a nervous collapse while en
gaged in war relief work in Eng-
THETHSaRECORDER
[tey PUBLI 3 HEP IN THE HE AR T OF DIXIE
STEEL WORKERS
UNDER CONTRACT
ORDERED BACK
Agreements Must Be
Held Inviolate, Strike
Committee Rules
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Oct. 30.—(8y
Associated Press.) —.The national
strike committee at Pittsburg has
endorsed the stand taken by the
Amalgamated Asosciation of Iron,
Steel and Tinplate Workers that con
tracts with the steel plants made be
fore the strike be held. inviolate and
all Amalgamated men have been or
dered to return to work, it was an
nounced todav.
SHOWCOMPANY
TO WINTER HERE,
IF PLANSC ARR Y
.Americus is to be the winter quar
ters of a large carnival company, it
was announced today by Secretary
Perkins of the Chamber of Com
merce., who is attempting to complete
the details necessary to make the
plans a certainty. The company is
the L. J. Heth shows, said to be one
of the largest aggregations of the
kind in the country. It will arrive
here about the middle of December
and, if arrangements are perfected,
which are dependent upon the Sea
board building a small amount of
trackage, it will occupy the fair
buildings at the Agricultural col
lege.
According to information the com
pany will keep 100 men here all the
winter, from its arrival until March.
It is said to be a plan of the owner,
Mr. Heth to erect a large sectional
motordrome for automobiles to car
ry as one of his attractions next sea
son, and this will be a considerable
task in itself.
W. J. Josey Remodels
His Close-In Farm Home
John W. Shiver has just taken the
contract for the remodling of the
residence on the farm of W. J. Josey
about one mile west pf Americus,
I on the Myrtle Springs road, which is
to be occupied as a home by Mr. and
I Mrs. Josey when completed. The re
modling, which calls for the expen
diture of about $3,000, will include
the building of a sleeping porch, a
sun parlor and a concrete outside
porch, among the < ' er extensive im
provements.
Mr. Shiver will have completed
within a few days the remodling of
the houses of Mrs. L. B. Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Daniels, on ad-!
joining lots on East Church street. ■
A sleeping porch is being added to
the Daniels home, and both are be
ing modernized and improved
throughout, among the installations
being French glass doors in each
house.
40 Cents Pound For
Cotton In Atlanta
ATLANTA, Oct. 30.—Forty cents i
a pound was the price paid in Atlanta
yesterday for good middling cotton,
the highest price since the war be
tween the states.
! Cotton has jumped 800 points or
S4O a bale during the last thirty days.
The demand in Atlanta continues
strong with buyers apparently eager
to secure the staple at high prices.
Many Food And Fuel
Arrests Expected Soon
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—(8y
J Associated Press)— Many new ar
i rests in a number of states for vio
lation of the food and fuel control
law are expected soon, by the De
partment of Justice.
LEGION POST IN ALASKA.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 30.
. Anchorage Post, “the farthest north”
branch of the American Legion, was
j organized here recently.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 30, 1919
Coal Strikers Warned
of Arrest By Palmer
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Follow
ing is the text of Attorney General
Palmer’s statement outlining the
government’s plans for combatting
the coal miners’ strike:
“There can be no doubt that the
government has the power in the pub
lic interest, under the law, to deal
with the projected strike of the bitum
inous coal miners, without infringing
upon the recognized right of men in
any line of industry to work when
they please and quit work when they
please. The illegality of this strike
can and will be established without
in any way impairing the general
right to strike, and the general right
to strike is not the issue in any sense
whatever in the present situation.
This is true because the circumstances
differentiate this case from the case
of any other strike that has ever
taken place in the country.
“It does not follow that every
strike is lawful merely because the
right to strike is recognized to exist.
Every case must stand upon its own
bottom and be governed by its own
facts. Therefore when the President
said in his statement last Saturday
that ‘such a strike in such circum
stances’ is not only unjustifiable but
unlawful reference wks had only to
the conditions in the impending sit
uation.
“The proposed strike was ordered
in manner, for the purpose and with a
necessary offset which taken together
put it outside the pale of the law. Af
ter the war began, the production of
fuel was regarded as one of the ob
jects of such peculiar public import
ance as to justify a special statutory
enactment. The fuel administration
was created to supervise the subject
and tnatters of wages as well as prices
were considered and sanctioned by the
fuel administration.
Annulled Contracts.
“After the cessation of hostilities
the fuel administration suspended cer
tain of its orders, but did not termi
nate them, and they are subject to re
instatement at any time upon the
President’s order and the statute un
der which the orders were made is
still in full force.
“With this situation existing, the
convention of United Mine Workers
at Cleveland last September, decided
to annul all wage contracts on No
vember 1, and took the unprecedented
step of deciding in advance of any op
portunity for consultation either with
the government or with the coal oper
ators, to strike on November 1, unless
satisfactory new arrangements should
be made.
“Without any expression from the
workers themselves, the organization
promulgated a demand for a sixty per
cent, increase in wages, a six-hour day
and a five-day week, and authorized
a strike to be effective November 1,
before the demands were even pre
sented to the operators. The demand
for a new wage agreement covered
only a part of the coal fields, but
the strike order was sent broadcast to
workers in other fields where opera
tors had been given no opportunity to
even consider demands for increased
wages or decreased hours. A|l this
has been done while the miners in
every field, through their right of col
lective bargaining had entered into a
solemn contract with the operators
fixing wages and hours for a definite
period which has not yet expired. The
operators, upon the insistence of the
President, indicated their willingness
' to negotiate and arbitrate, provided
| the strike is deferred, while the min
ers rejected the President’s request
for arbitration as a means of settle
i ment and refused to defer the
strike. ,
Some Not Acected By War.
“Some of the wage contracts were
made with the sanction of the Fed
eral Government, operating through
the fuel administration, to run dur
ing the continuation of the war, or
until April 1, 1920. Many others,
Miners Lay Blame On Coal
Barons in Final Statement
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 30.—Fol
lowing is the text of the statement
ssued here last night by the United
Mine Workers officials following
heir decision to let the strike order
stand: . I
| however, run until a time still in the
future without regard for the con
tinuation of the war.
“While it is perfectly plain that the
war is still on and any contract run
ning until its conclusion is still in
force, whatever weight may be given
to the argument that the successful
operation of the war, no longer re
quire such contracts, it has no applica-
I tion whatever to the large number of
such contracts which expire’at a fixed
date without regard for the war pe
riod. The armistice did not end the
war, and the courts in many cases
have held that the war emergency
statutes are still in force; the same
rule must apply to war emergency
contracts. The Congress has held to
this position so late as October 23,
when an act of Congress was approv
ed making even more effective the
food and ftfel control act.
“The suspension of the restrictions
as to the price of coal is not necessa
rily permanent and conditions war
rant a renewal of these restrictions
at this time; and yet the government
if it reinstated the order fixing a
maximum price would be absolutely
helpless to protect the people against
exorbitant prices of the product if
the contracts made under its sanction
should now be deliberately broken.
This does not mean that a change
could not be negotiated and either
agreed upon or arbitrated, if proper
protection of the public be accorded
in the settlement, but it does mean |
that the public welfare in the war
time emergency must still be the
same permanent interest to be serv
ed by both parties. The government
is the protector of the public wel
fare.
Would Paralvxe Industry. .
“The proposed strike, if carried to
its logical conclusion, will paralyze j
transportation and industry. It will j
deprived unnumbered thousands of'
men who are making no complaint,
about their employment of their right |
to earn a livelihood for themselves'
and their families; will put cities in '
darkness, and, if continued only a
few days, will bring cold and hunger
to millions of our people; if contin
ued for a month, it will leave death ,
and starvation in its wake. It would ;
be a more deadly attack upon the life j
of the nation than an invading army.!
“By enacting the food and fuel
control act Congress recognized the ;
vital importance in the present cir- ■
cumstances of maintaining production
and distribution of the necessaries of I
life and has made it unlawful for any i
concerted action, agreement or the ar- ,
rangement to be made by two or more ;
persons to limit the facilities of trans- •
portation and production, or to re
strict the supply and distribution of
fuel, or to aid or abet the doing of
any act, having this purpose or es-i
feet. Making a strike effective under!
the Circumstanres which I have de- ;
scribed amounts to such concerted ac
tion or arrangement.
“It is the solemn duty of the de-'
partment of justice to enforce this
statute. We have enforced it in
many cases. We must continue to do
so, irrespective of the persons in
volved in its violation. I hope it will
not be necessary to enforce it in this
case. Indeed, I am hearing from
many sources that large numbers of
the miners themselves do not wish to
quit work and will not do so if assured
of the protection of the government,
of which they properly feel them
selves a part. It is probably un
necessary for me to say that such pro
tection will everywhere be given, so
that men may exercise their undoubt
ed right of continuing to work under
such terms and conditions as they
shall see fit. The facts present a sit
uation which challenges the suprem
acy of the law and every resource of
the government will be brought to
bear to prevent the national disaster
which would inevitably result from
the cessation of minings operations.”
“The conference of United Mine
Workers, composed of members of
the international executive board,
■ the scale committee of the central
competitive district -and the district
I (Continued On Tage Two.)
IMPOSSIBLE TO
AVERT WALKOUT
ASSERT MINERS
Fuel Administration To Take Over Handling Os
Fuel, Palmer Announces After Special Cabinet
Meeting—Confiscation Os Fuel In Transit To
Keep Roads Supplied Ordered By Hines.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 30. (By Associated Press.) — Backed
by the sentiment displayed in yesterday's conference, the Executive
Board of the United Mine Workers met today to finish the prepara
tory work incidental to the coming strike of the soft coal miners.
It was stated no development could avert the strike.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. (By Associated Press.) — Revi
val of the U. S. Fuel Administration to deal 1 with the coal strike cos
ditions is not necessary, Dr. Harry Garfield advised the President’s
cabinet, sitting in special session to consider the situation today. Dr-
Garfield held that the war-time powers of that body are now vested
in the Railroad Administration, which has full power to distribute
coal to essential industries and allocate coal in accordance with the
preferential list in effect during the coal shortage two years ago.
An executive order restoring a maximum price for coal wiH be
issued by President Wilson probably today. Officials would not say
what maximum had been determined upon.
At the conclusion of the special cabinet meeting Attorney General
Palmer announced that the Fuel Administration would take control
of the handling of coal, and he would use his authority under the
Lever act to take whatever steps might be necessary to ! meet the
situation.
The U. S. Railroad Administration ■
today ordered the confiscation of all
coal in transit where necessary to ob- !
tain a reserve supply to keep the rail- '
roads in operation.
In taking over such coal exemp- '
tions will be made far as possible of
coal destined to certain classes of con j
signees, based on the priority list es- |
tablished by- the fuel administration. !
Refusal of the miners’ organiza
tion at Indianapolis to withdraw the
order calling out half million men ;
brought instant announcement here
that drastic action would be taken to
keep the mines in operation.
As to those miners who go on
strike and thereby curtail production,
the food and fuel control law, with
its recently added criminal penalties :
of fine and imprisonment will be en
forced without regard to persons. !
This attitude of the government, At
torney General Palmer made clear, ;
does not affect the right of workers i
to strike for redress of grievances in .
other cases where no violation of the ■
law is involved.
Every resource of the government, j
in the words of Attorney General ;
Palmer, will be used to prevent the
’’national disaster,’.’ certain to follow
•he stoppage of work.
Adequate police protection, with .
troops as a last resort if necessary, ;
w !, l be given those men desiring to
remain'at work.
Reports from government agents |
show that a big part of the miners
ordered to quite work want to stay
on the job.
Mr. Palmer’s announcement of the
government’s plans, made after a
consultation with Secretary Wilson, J
Director General Hines, Assistant
Atorney Amos, in charge of prose- .
cutions under the food and fuel con- i
trol law, Assistant Attorney General j
Garvin, directing criminal prosecu- !
tions and investigations of the De
partment of Justice, Secretary Tu
multy, representing the President,
and Dr. H. A. Garfield, former fuel
administrator, did not mince words
in dealing with the strike.
“The proposed strike,” the an
nouncement declared, “would be a
more deadly attack on the life of the
nation than an invading army. The
facts present a situation which chal
lenges the supremacy of the law.”
Director Generali Hines later is
sued a statement showing that the
production of coal this year has been
below normal.
Yam Grows In Shape
Os Duck On The Water
A novel freak of nature is a Sum
ter county sweet potato which hast
grown in the shape of a swimming
duck. The potato was grown by Lee
M. Hansford, and is now on display
in the Chamber of Commerce bead
quarters.
i HOME
I EDITION
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
6DEAD, 120 HURT;
ENGINEER TRIES
TOO MUCH SPEED
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30.—(8y A*.
sociated Press.) —Six dead and about
120 injured, some seriously, is the
known casualty list today resulting
from the wreck of the Southern Pa
cific Joaquin Valley Flyer” late
yesterday, near Acton, a few miles,
from here.
Officials said the wrecK was caused
by the engineer attempting to make
too much speed on a ten deg-ee
curve.
Only SIOO Raised For
T. R. Memorial Here
Crawford Wheatley, chairman for
Sumter county, today forwarded to
state headquarters for the Roose
velt Memorial campaign $108.70
which had been collected on Sumter's
• quota of S7OO to the $50,000 Meno
rial fund which Georgia was asked
to raise.
Every cent of this was raised by
the, ladies of Chapter No. 63, Or
der of the Eastern Star,” said Mr-
Wheatley. “The memorial drive was
staged as a purely voluntary contri
bution proposition, and that is the
reason we have not done better. If
we had been permitted to solicit
l funds, I am sure the quota could
i easily have, been raised, for there are
a great many who would gladly have
given had some one called their at
tention to the matter personally. As
it is, I understand we have done as
(Well as other sections of Georgia,”
Sanitary Sewers For
Two East Side Streets
The city sanitary department to
day began the laying of sanitary sew
ers on Reese street, extending
feet between Crawford and Forsyth
streets, and on Cherry steet, extend
ing 300 feet between Elmo and For
syth on Reese street.
The sewer construction is being
done under the supervision of John
B. Ansley, city engineer.
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The Weather Forecast J
For Georgia— Showery jrobabJy
■ tonight and Friday.