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Following the conference with
him late Friday by Samuel Gomp
ers and other officers of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, in which
they were said to have opposed the
attorney general’s use of the in
junction in the coal miners’ strike,
Mr. Palmer gave out the follow
ing statement at his office in Wash
ington : '
“I explained the necessity for
the action and the manner in which
this case must be differentiated on
its facts from all other cases in
which injusetion have been used.
I have been opposed, and the ad
ministration has been opposed, to
government by injunction where
by employers might use the pro
cesses of the courts on an ex-parte
hearing to force their empoyes into
submission.
* * *
“This is the government itself,
using its own courts to protect it
self from paralysis. It is not an
injunction obtained by employes,
not to settle the controversy,
to save the people of the entire
country from disaster. It doesn’t
affect the right of a man to work
when he pleases.’’
In this connection Mr. Palmer
explained that the petition for in
junction, as prepared by the gov
ernment, seeks to restrain the offi
cers of the United Mine Workers
from doing anything in further
ance of the strike order.
“If the injunction is obeyed,”
Mr. Palmer said, “and it goes with
out saying that the law must be
obeyed ,it will take away the direc
rection of the strike from above
and leaves to the men perfect free
dom to wofk or not as they see fit.
No strike can go on without direc
tion.”
• • •
Railroad union officials confer
ing with Mr. Palmer, entered no
protest against the injunction is
sued in Indianapolis but tendered
the good offices of their organiza
tions in attempting to arrange a
settlement of the strike.
The Attorney General told the
railroad union chief as well as Mr.
Gompers later, that he did not be
lieve it would bp necessary to use
any other power than the courts to
“protect the government.”
Mr. Palmer said he told the
union men that they were'at lib
erty to say to either side in the
strike that the President was ready
to act immediately to have the
controversy settled amicably when
ever the strike was called off.
• » »
“I’m going to greet the King of
Belgium,’’ Secretary Tumulty re
marked as he left President Wil
son’s sick room the other day.
“The King of the Belgians,”
corrected the President.
“I accept your amendment,”
said Tumulty.
“It’S not an amendment, it’s an
interpretation,” replied the Presi
dent.
• • *
Lower food prices must come
within the next few months be
cause of a large surplus of sup
plies now accumulating. Herbert
Hoover, American food expert,
predicted before the house war de
partment expenditures committee.
The results of this year’s har
vests will be a surplus of from 16
to 20 million tons of food, the for
mer food administrator said.
This accumulating surplus al
ready has been reflected in -the
lowering of wholesale prices, he
said, although no appreciable de
crease has been shown in the retail
figures. X
* • *
The agricultural organizations
have refused to enter into alliance
with organized labor was assert
ed by John D. Miller, representing
the National Board of Farm Or
ganizations, before the house jod -
ciary committee. Mr. Miller ap
peared in support of the bill legal
izing collective bargaining by
farmers.
• • •
Because of the scarcity of spe
cific knowledge of influenza, the
American Public Health Conven
tion in general session at New Or
leans had no definite plan to fore
stall the recurrence of the epidem
ic this year and approved the plan
of Dr. Allen B. Freeman, Ohio
state health commission, to center
its efforts to prevent complications
resulting from the disease
Several delegates voiced dthe
opinion that the epidemic would
appear this winter and that a com
prehensive plan for preventing it
could not be detailed until more
definite information was available.
• • •
Richard H. Little, a Chicago
newspaper correspondent with
Gen. Yudenitch’s army, was seri
ously wounded in the fighting near
Petrograd.
His legt leg was broken and he
received severe wounds in the
head.
Little is a correspondent for
the Chicago Tribune and has been
on his European assignment for
considerable time. He was among
the first American writers to reach
Berlin after the armistice.
FORTY-FIRST YEAR.—NO. 252.
400,000 OBEY STRIKE ORDER
Leaders’ Mouths Closed By Court Injunction
PACKING HOUSE
RALLY TO BRING
NOTED LEADERS
Tift, Vereen, Greer And
Mewborn Invited To
Meeting Here
It was announced Saturday by!
John Sheffield, president of the ■
Chanioer or Commerce, which is ar
ranging for the big mass meeting at
the court house next Thursday fori
organization looking to the build
ing of a packing house in Sumter!
county, that four of the biggest men
in Georgia who have been connect-!
ed with the packing industry—all of'
them well known men—had been in- j
vited, in addition to C. L. Brooks, ;
manager of the Macon packing plant,I
and that, while responses had not
been had from all of them, it was be
lieved highly probably that at least
some of them would be present and
would take part in the meeting.
The men to whom these special in
vitations have been sent are:
W. L. Newborn, vice-president and
assistant manager of the White
Provision Co., Atlanta.
Capt. H. H. Tift, of Tifton, who;
built the Tifton packing plant.
M. C. Vereen, of Moultrie, who
as head of the Moultrie Chamber of
Commerce was largely instrumental |
in the erection of the Moultrie pack- i
ing plant.
John Greer, of Moultrie, who as
assisted in the organization of the
Moultrie plant, now -engaged ex-;
clusively in promotion work.
In addition, Mr. Brooks, who is j
himself an authority on the packing.
industry and organization of pack- I
ing plants, has. given assurances that j
he will be present again to assist[
in any way in which he can in the;
organization movement.
Indications Saturday were that the
meeting next Thursday will be a
hummer. Farmers and business men
are planning to attend not only from
all parts of Sumter county, but from
surrounding counties as well. In
terest in the proposed packing plant I
has swept the entire section, the
farmers and business men having
realized what it will mean to this
section to promote hog growing, now
that the boll weevil has made cot
ton a precarious crop.
“Men are coming not only from all
over this county, but from Dooly,
Crisp, Lee, Terrell, Webster, Macon,
Schley and other nearby counties,” ;
said L. A. Morgan, one of the prime
movers in the enterprise, Saturday.
“The people of the entire section are
awake, and they are going to put this
thing over; there is no doubt about
it.”
The time for the meeting is 4 to 6
o’clock, this time being set because'
of the inconvenience to men of the 1
country or from a distance to attend
a night meeting. The meeting will
be’hcld at the court house, where it is
believed ample room for the crowd
will be found.
New Orleans To Unload
Raw Sugar At Mobile
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. I.—(By
Associated Press.) —The American
ugar refinery, which has been clos
ed down several days because of scar
city of raw product, ordered the
-cb.ooner San Turce, with a cargo of
raw sugar, to Mobile today for un
loading. The cargo will be sent here
by rail and will afford some relief.
Twelve other ships with cargoes of
raw sugar will be docked here.
! Favor Continuing
f Os U. S. Sugar Board
WASHINGTON. Nov. I.—(By As
sociated Press)-—By a vote of nine
to two, the senate agriculture com
mittee today ordered a favorable re
port of the McNary bill to continue
the United States sugar equalization
board during 1920 and to authorize
the board to buy sugar crops next
year.
ITALY DEMOBILIZES FAST.
ROME, Oct. 30, (Thursday)—-(By
Associated Press) —Premier Nitti an
nounced today that during the past
two months Italy has demobilized
more than a million men.
PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE
TO BUILD GIANT
I PLANE HERE AT
PRIVATE PLAN!
Bremen Quits Negotia
tions With U» S.— To
Mine Own Bauxite
j Americus is to be the site of the
[ plant for the erection of the first
I Brennan-Deming giant passenger
carrying airplane.
That was definitely announced last
; evening by ex-Lieut. J. D. Brennen,
of Souther Field, who stated that he
. had ended negotiations with the gov
| ernment for permission to use Sou
rther Field or any other field, and was
j arranging for the erection of a private
! plant here. Application was made by
him Saturday to Secretary Perkins,
of the Chamber of Commerce and
fair association, for permission to use
a portion of the fair grounds as a site
for the plant. At the same time it
i was announced that he had taken an
option on 40 acres of bauxite ore
I property near Andersonville, with the
intention of digging ore and manu-
■ facturing his own aluminum, large
I quantities of which are to be used in
; the giant plane.
Tuesday of this week Mr. Brennan
I will leave for Baltimore to complete
I details far going ahead with the en
i terprise. He held papers showing
I that he has at his disposal $5,000,-
000 for the building of the first plane
and the beginning of manufacture of
the great' craft on a commercial scale.
[ The backer of the enterprise is a weal-
■ thy widow and her son, who have long
[ been interested in a nation, and, hav
[ ing had noted engineers check and
I re-check the Brennan plane plans,
j have assured him and Sergeant Dem
j ing, joint inventor, that they are
I ready to finance the enterprise. ’
To Build Fleet Os Planes.
“We intend to.build a fleet of these
planes,” said Mr. Brennan last
night. “My plans have been check
ed by a number of the greatest aero
nautical experts ih the country and
have been found flawless. That is
why these people are willing to back
: the enterprise to the limit. The wo
man, with whom I have become very
well acquainted, wrote me a letter
which I have just received inclosing a
clipping concerning the govern
ment’s purchase from, the British of
the biggest dirigible airship in the
world. She expressed the fear that
some of the plans of my ship had been
I stolen, I having sent 43 complete sets
[to the government, and that this ship
embraced ’ some of them. However,
her fears are groundless, because this
dirigible is a dirigible purely, while
our ship is a plane. Besides, last
Thursday I received from the govern
ment patent office at Washington ten
separate patents upon our plane,
[which cover every exclusive phase of
[ its construction. So we are safe in
[that respect, and there remains noth
ing now but to go ,-nead with the
! construction.
Refused To Listen.
“The government has refused to
I listen to building the plane here, but
has suggested that arrangements
i might be made for its erection at Mc-
Cook Field, Dayton, O. Well, so far
|as the government is concerned, I
[am through. I remember the years
[of difficulty encountered by Brown
[ ing, the machine gun wizard, who fin
! ally had to sell his inventions to Eng
! land; and the bungling of the air ser
vice in air craft building during the
[ war. I don’t want to start under any
[government restrictions, which might
[ kill the whole enterprise at the whim
[of some incompetent officer. And
[ believe me, there is a bunch of in
[competent ones in the service. Where
i some of these fellows that call them
selves engineers learned their math
ematics I don’t know. I finally de
i cided it would be dangerous to tie up
I under any such conditions, and that
the only safe way to start building
[ these planes was to go at it independ
ently as a private enterprise.
“The location here is ideal. We
have the best climatic conditions in
the world for airplane construction,
with open weather the year around.
Besides, we are right at the source
of supply of aluminum, whifh will be
the principal material used in the
building of these planes. If we can
get started successfully, this, of
course, would be the site of the per
manent factory which would build
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/ AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1919.
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Americus Wires Pershing
Invitation to Visit Here
13,496 BALES OF
COTTON GINNED
UP TO OCT. 18
That Sumter county’s cotton crop
for this year is slightly higher than
most guessers had estimated, and will
total not far from 15,000 bales—
possibly slightly over that figure—
was indicated Saturday by the report
of W. P. Persons, government census
taker for Sumter county, his report
showing the ginnings up to October
18 to have been 13,496 bales, count
ing round bales as half bales. The
ginnings last year to the same date
were 19,816 bales, with a final yield
for she county of less than 27,000
bales.
Cotton men Saturday were of the
opinion that probably 1,000 bales had
been ginned throughout the county
since October 18, wtilcii would bring
the ginnings to date up to about 14,-
500 bales. The crop is practically all
gathered now, however, most of the
bales now coming being small and
going into the census report as half
bales. Conservative cotton men do
not expect 500 bales to be marketed
during the remainder of the season.
The bulk of the opinion at the be
ginning of the ginning season favor
ed a 13,500 bale crop.
i> The Cotton Market >
LOCAL SPOTS.
Good middling 37 1-2 cents.
NEW YORK FUTURES.
Prev.
Close Open High Low Close
Dec. 36.65 36.60 36.80 36.52 36.80
Jan. 35.92 35.90 36.29 35.85 36.29
Meh 35.25 35.30 35.73 35.10 35.73
May 34.40 34.97 35.35 34.80 35.35
The Weather Forecast !
For Georgia—Showers and colder
Sunday.
Forecast for week—Generally fair
although showers are probable Mon
day on the Atlantic coast with a re
turn to nearly normal temperatures,
probably somewhat below normal
early in the week.
Chamber, Rotary Club
And Officials Unite
In Message
General Pershing was Saturday in
vited to visit Americus on his forth
coming inspection trip to the . army
camps of Georgia, in a telegram sent
to Congressman Chas. R. Cusp, at
Washington. Judge Crisp was ask
ed to convey the invitation to Gen
eral The' telegram was
sent by John Sheffield, president of
the Chamber of Commerce, who was
joined by the Rotary club and city and
county officials. Following is the
text of the telegram:
“Hen. Chas. R. Criep, M. C.,
Washington, D. C.
“Americus Chamber of Commerce,
R. tary club, city and rounty officials
join in request that you convey to
General John J. Pershing urgent in
vitation to include Souther Field and
Aviation General Supply Depot in his
Southern itinerary. Delegation of
prominent citizens will meet party at |
Fort Benning, Columbus, in automo
biles and convey them to Americus
over sixty miles of perfect highway.
Every possible facility will be used
to make visit here entertaining and
profitable.
“JOHN SHEFFIELD, President.”
General Pershing’s itinerary is
now understood to be in the making,
and the date of his proposed visit to
Georgia is unknown.
Near Beer Outrage,
Say Liquor Dealers
NEWARK, N. J., Nov. I.—(By
Associated Press)—--The Liquor Deal
ers’ Protective Association today vot
ed to ask the brewers to discontinue
the manufacture of “near beer,’’ de
claring it an “outrage to ask decent
people to drink it.”
Georgia Defeated
By Auburn 7 To 0
COLUMBUS, Nov. I.—Auburn
defeated the University of Georgia
on the Columbus gridiron here this
afternoon before a large crowd by a
score of 7 to 0. Both teams were
accompanied by large squads of root
ers.
SUMTER READY
FOR RED CROSS
THIRDROLLCALL
The Third Red Cross Roll Call will
be staged in Americus and Sumter
county Monday. Organization of the
entire county has 'been effected by
Chairman Gordon Howell, and he
announced last night thaf he expect
ed the canvass by the committees to
be completed the first day. If it
should not be completed Monday the
work will continue until everybody
in the county has been given an op
portunity to rejoin.
“All you need is a heart and a
dollar” is the slogan of the drive. No
one will be asked for a donation of
more than sl, the membership fee,
although there is no limit to the num
ber of memberships one person may
take. A dollar contributed buys a
membership for one year, and en
titles the donor to a lapel button, a
certificate, a receipt and a window
flag. All contributors are requested
to wear their buttons and display
their flags.
Ministers in every church in Sum
ter county have been asked by Chair
jnan Howell to speak from the pulpit
today of the Red Cross and its work,
and several of them had assured
him yesterday that they would be
glad to comply with the request.
Committees have been named in
every town and militia district in
the county. The soliciting commit
tees will begin work at 10 o'clock.
Downtown four booths will be erect
ed for the convenience of passers
by These will be in charge of well
known Americus young women, un
der the chairmanship of Miss Em
mamae Borum.
Following is the personnel of the
Americus committees:
District 1.
Mrs. C. P. Davis, District Chair
man.
College Street, North Side.—Mrs.
Tom McLendon, Miss Leta Merritt,
Mrs. Sam Cohen.
Lee Street—Mrs. Charles M. Coun
cil, Chairman; Mrs. Cl_iff Williams
Mrs. Willis Hawkins. Mrs. Robert
Fetner, Miss Elizabeth Eldridge.
Spring and Lamar Streets —Miss
Jimmie Josey, Chairman; Mrs.
Charles Dunnaway, Mrs. Lewis
Brooks.
Church Street —Mrs. Edgar Shipp.
Chairman; Mrs. -John Allen Fort, Mrs.
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TO-DAY
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
WALKOUT WILL
EMBRACE OVER
HALF MILLION,
UNW CLAIM
Regional Committees To
Handle Diversion OF
Coal
CHICAGO, Nov. I. (By Asso
ciated Press)—Upward of 394,000
bituminous coal miners throughout
the nation, of a total of 615,000 men
employed in that industry, today
were on strike in response to
the general strike call, effective at
midnight last night, according to re
ports, in some instances estimated,
received dby union leaders. Despite
the federal injunction issued at In
dianapolis against the strike, the
leaders asserted that the strike to
day would be extended to more than
500,000 miners. Minus reports from
some of the states on the number
oi miners affected by the strike or
der, principally Alabama and Vir
ginia, following in a table by states
of the number of men reported out
today by the union leaders:
Arkansas 4,000; Colorado 5,000;
Illinois 80,0(10; ’lndiana 25,000;
lowa 14,000; Kansas 12,000; Ken
tucky 10,000; Maryland 10,000;
Michigan 2,400; Missouri 2,000;
Montana 4,000; New Mexico, Ohio
40,000; Oklohoma 7,000; Pennsyl
vania 100,000; Tennessee 2,000;
Texas 2,500; Utah 1,000; Washing
ton 6,000; West .Virginia 40,000;
Wyoming 8,000.
OFFICIALS OBEYING
RESTRAINING ORDER
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. I.—(By
Associated Press) —Headquarters of
the United Mine Workers was life
less today. The leaders thus far are
apparently obeying the federal-court
restraining order to the letter. They
decline to give out statements or re
port concerning the strike and will
not discuss plans for combatting the
government’s action in the courts.
REGIONAL COMMITTEE TO
HANDLE COAL DIVERSION.
WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—(By
Associated Press) —Enforcement of
the coal diversion order issued yes
terday by Fuel Administrator Gar
field will, be in the hands of regional
coal committees to be set up in eight
cities by regional directors of the
railroad administration. These com
mittees will work under a central
committee in Washington.
Director General Hines announc
ed today that in alloting coal for
commercial purposes the committees
would give preference to consumers
without a reserve supply whose needs
are urgent.
Each regional committee will in
clude a representative of Dr. Gar
field, The cities in which these com
mittees will be set up are New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, St.
Louis, Chicago arid Atlanta.
15,000 OUT AT
BIRMINGHAM, IS CLAIM.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. I.
(By Associated Press.) —Conflicting
claims made it impossible to give an
accurate estimate of the coal strike
situation in this district today. Un
iffn men claimed fifteen thousand to
be idle. It will be Monday before
the full scope of the walkout can
be determined, owing to the holiday
today,
WALKOUT A> L "UT
SOLID AT KNOXVILLE.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 1.-,
(By Associated Press) —Not exceed
ing 500 of the 18,000 miners in
this district were at work today, it
was stated by union representatives.
No trouble is anticipated in this dis
trict.
STATE TROOPS TO BE
MOBILIZED AT BIRMINGHAM.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. I.—(By As
sociated Press) 2 —State troops will be
mobilized here tomorrow to quell any
disorder arising from the miners'
strike, Maj. Lucien Brown, of the
National Guard, announced at noon
today. Eifuipment for shout six
hundred men is 0.. hand here.