The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, February 21, 1919, Image 7

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    ALLIES WILL PUT
CURB UN GERMANS
GERMANS ARE BITTER ABOUT
TERMS, BUT WILL LIKELY
ACCEPT
ARMY IS TO_BE REDUCED
Final Armistice Terms Call For Demo
lition Of Forts On Helgoland
And Kiel Canal
GERMAN SUPPLIES DE
LIVERED TO GREAT BRITAIN
London. —On behalf of the gov
ernment, it has been announced
in the house of commons, in an
swer to a question, that the fol
lowing equipment of the German
armies had been surrendered to
the British up to February 9:
Heavey guns 2,500
Field guns 2,500
Machine guns 25,000
Trench mortars .... 3,000
Airplanes 1,700
Locomotives ...... 4,065
Motor trucks 1,220
Up to February 14, the Germans
had surrendered to the British
126,826 freight cars.
London.—The final armistice condi
tions which the supreme council is con
sidering will be made public before
the end of the month, according to
various newspapers, and they will in
clude, among the naval conditions, the
demobilization of the forts on Helgo
land and the Kiel canal, the surrender,
for purposes of destruction, of the Ger
man warships now interned, and the
opening of the Kiel canal for civil
transports. It is stated Germany will
be left with a fleet large enough for
defensive purposes.
The naval correspondent of The Dai
ly Mail, writing of the strong fortifica
tions on the Island of Helgoland, says:
“The summit of the island is one
immense bomb - proof, and the bat
teries are so placed as to be invisi
ble from the sea. The heavy guns
there ll-inch and 12-inch weap
ons probably were reinforced dur
ing the war by 15-inch guns. The
guns are mounted in steel turrets of
great thickness. All the batteries
and observation posts are connected
by subterranean passages, and the
roads leading up to them run along
galleries which are shell-proof.
“The guns are mounted after the
usual German fashion, so as to give
them an immense range, probably from
ten to twelve and a half sea miles.
To enable the island to stand the
concussion of their discharge and re
sist their fire directed against it, £6,*
000,000 is said to have been spent be
fore 1910, and subsequently other large
sums were allotted.
“The immense seaplane sheds are
said to have been of the disappearing
type, which could be lowered as a pro
tection against long-range fire. There
are store shops and repair works, with
all the usual equipment of a naval
base. The fortifications presumably
will be blown up, but their destruction
will be no easy business. They are
of armored concrete and steel, and a
very large quantity of explosives will
be required.
“The fortifications to either entrance
of the Kiel canal are of immense
strength and are lavishly supplied with
the heaviest guns in steel turrets.”
CHARGES MADE THAT
PROMOTIONS WERE SOLD
New York. —Arrests on charges of
bribery and graft in the personnel of
the third naval district have been
made following an investigation or
dered by Secretary Daniels.
It is charged that a system of brib
ery of minor officials of the district,
with particular reference to the naval
reserve force, has been operating.
The investigation by the secretary
of the navy was ordered, it was said,
after he had consulted with Rear Ad
miral Nathaniel R. Usher, in command
of the district,
United States Army To Be 175,000 Men
Washington.—Legislation providing
for a temporary military establishment
of about five hundred and forty thou
sand officers and men during the fis
cal year beginning next July first was
eliminated from the annual army ap
propriation bill in the house after pass
age of the senate bill for resumption
of voluntary enlistments in the peace
time army, which would be restricted
to the maximum of 175,000 men author
ized in the national defense act of 1916.
The senate measure now goes to con
ference.
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there’s no place like home, and there’s no
land like the little old U. S. A.
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a date with the dearest of all girls —now for
his favorite refreshment —a cool bottle of Jim-,
Newsy Paragraphs
Of State Interest
$7,000,000 For Georgia Roads
Atlanta. —Under the senate amend
ment to the postoffice appropriation
bill, Georgia will get approximately $7,-
000,000 for good roads for the current
and the next two fiscal years. Fortun
ately for the state, the senate reversed
itself and struck finally from the bill
its amendment to prevent payment of
federal road funds to any state em
ploying convict labor on its highways.
This amendment got into the bill while
a desultory debate was under way in
committee of the whole. As Georgia
uses about four thousand convicts on
her roads the state would have been
compelled practically to give us use
of its convicts or lose its share in the
federal appropriation for roads. Cir
culating among senators from states
employing convict labor on the roads,
Senator Smith mustered a number of
votes against the amendment, origi
nally offered by Senator Kirby of Ar
kansas and, on reconsideration, the
senate struck the amendment from the
bill. Georgia came near losing its in
terest in the federal appropriation be
cause of the convict labor rider. The
state may now receive its federal ap
propriation and also continue to use
its convicts.
Peace Congress Plans Endorsed
Atlanta.—The states of North and
South Carolina and Florida, keenly
alive to the great responsibilities rest
ing upon the people of America rela
tive to the formation of a league of
nations, are marshaling large delega
tions of their most prominent citizens
to send to the southern congress of
the League to Enforce Peace. This is
the report brought back to Atlanta by
F. I. McCanna, field representative of
the League to Enforce Peace, and pre
sented to Clark Howell, regional chair
man of the congress, and to Samuel C.
Dobbs, president of the chamber of
commerce, who is chairman of the
committee on arrangements. “From
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH GEORGIA.
the highest state official to the mere
citizen of these states with whom I
discussed the congress, the greatest
interest was shown,” stated Mr. Mc-
Canna Sunday. “The people are fully
alive to the situation and indorse the
congress to the last man. All three
states are pledged to support the con
gress to the limit.”
To Build Postoffice at Waynesboro.
Waynesboro. Congressman Over
street, of the first district, has intro
duced a bill in congress for the con
struction of a postoffice building in
Waynesboro. The building to cost in
the neighborhood of $50,000. The post
office at present is located in a build
ing wholly inadequate to the demands.
Federal Control of Roads Opposed.
Atlanta. —A great majority of the
manufacturers of Georgia are opposed
to the continuance of government con
trol of railroads, according to state
ments that have been made by them to
E. A. Kimball, secretary of the Geor
gia Manufacturers’ association. The
statements were made in response to
an inquiry made by the association
which wishes to express to the Geor
gia senators and representatives in
congress the opinion of the manufac
turers of the state as regards federal
control.
Rome Man To Aid Air Flight
Rome. —Commander John H. Tow
ers, formerly of Rome, has been re
lieved from duty with the naval bureau
of operations, and has been detailed
by the secretary of the navy to assist
in formulating plans for the first trans-
Atlantic flight in an airplane, accord
ing to advices received from Washing
ton.
Many Stills Are Destroyed.
Atlanta. —A report just forwarded
by Internal Revenue Agent D. J. Gantt
to the bureau of internal revenue in
Washington shows that during January
raiding officers made 198 seizures and
adoption of seizures of contraband
whisky. In 185 cases prosecution was
recommended. There were 159 stills
destroyed and 84 arrests made.
Labor Leaders Plan Important Meet
Atlanta. —Calls have been mailed
from Atlanta for what, in the opinion
of local labor leaders, will be the
most important meeting of organized
labor ever held in the state of Geor
gia—the annual convention of the
State Federation of Labor, April 16,
17, 18 and 19 at Brunswick. The calls
were sent out by T. E. Whitaker, sec
retary-treasurer of the State Federa
tion, who predicts that the convention
will be one of the largest gatherings
of labor men ever held in the state.
Military Trial For George Crawley
Atlanta. —Following a conference
between the district attorney and
Glenn Young, the captor of George and
Decatur Crawley and Blaine Stewart,
who was taken single-handed about
fifteen miles from Alcoa, Tenn., and
about forty-five miles from Knoxville,
it was decided that George Crawley
be delivered to the military authori
ties to be tried on the charge of de
serting from the army and for the mur
der of United States Marshal Ben
F. Dixon, which occurred in Union
county.
Woman Charged With Cruelty.
Marietta. —Charged with excessive
cruelty to children under her care,
Mrs. Naomi V. Campbell, who con
ducts a private orphans’ home eight
miles from Atlanta on the Marietta
road, was held for the Cobb county
grand jury under bond of $750 follow
ing a lengthy hearing at Marietta be
fore Justice of the Peace B. V. Greer.
Testimony that children at the home
were beaten and their cries stifled by
being choked, and that Mrs. Campbell
had poured salt, pepper and hot ashes
upon the wounds of one child
May Convicted; Gets Eighteen Years
Bainbridge.—The jury in the case
of H. H. May, charged with murder,
brought in a verdict of manslaughter.
May, who formerly was cashier of the
Citizens’ Bank of Bainbridge, was tried
on a charge of murder of H. S. Rich
ardson, an architect and contractor.
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eighteen years in the penitentiary.
New Hotel For Augusta
Augusta.—A new 100-room hotel
next to the Union Station, involving
improvements costing $60,000; a new
clothing house on Broad street, cost
ing $30,000, and a new garage, cost
ing $50,000, are principal items in con
struction announcements in a large
amount which were announced in Au
gusta.
Waycross.—There was a meeting of
farmers and others who are inter
ested in the coastal plains experiment
station, held at the office of the county
ordinary, Judge B. H. Thomas, for .the
purpose of completing the details in
the proposition that Ware county is
to offer the state to locate the experi
ment station in this county.