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LURE INTRODUCED IN THE
SE WOULD BE FAR-REACH
ING IN ITS EFFECT.
ean Demands For Food This
» Will Take All of Our Sur
s. America and Canada Must
nish Eighty Per Cent. of Allies’
od.
4SHINGTON, D. C.—The sec
¢ the administration’s food bills,
b] to create an emergency agen
| B . ntrol, under the president’s
ion, distribution and sale of the
saries of life, was introduced in
ouse to-day by Chairman Lever,
bo aoricultural committee. The
bill aims at stimulation of pro
bn and calls for a general sur
b¢ the country’s food resources.
M rcoulatory measure was re
after President Wilson had
a series of conferences with
ert C. Hoover, who is to be food
istrator under the bill, and with
ptary Houston and members of
poriculture committee of both
ps. It places the widest powers
ontrol over necessaries of all
~ including price-fixing, in the
B of the executive.
e measure classes specificially as
ssaries food, feeds, shoes, cloth
nd fu(".
hat the Measure Would Do.
iefly, the measure would do
things:
clare the producton, manufac
storage, distribution and sale of
saries to be affected with a pub-
Bterest.
'SRke it unlawful to commit or
t preventable waste or deterior
of necessaries; to restrict sup
br distribution, or to enhance
1 to excessive levels.
horize the president to estab
tandards and grades of foods
event uneconomical manufae
br inequitable distribution; em
the president to direct the dis
;m of hoarded stocks.
Eorize the president to prevent
B, monopolization or the ex-
F of excessive profits, by having
overnment either manufacture
al in necessaries; authorize the
g over of factories or plants for
nment operation, if necessary,
ovide proper distribution at fair
PS.
thorize the president to pre
e rules for the conduct of ex
pes and boards of trade, or to
bit entircly their operation, if
n the public interest.
pthorize the fixing of minimum
s to the producer to stimulate
ction; authorize import duties
iportations threaten operation
gßuaranteed minimum prices; au
e purchase by the American
nment, at the preseribed mini
prices, supplies for allies of the
d States.
ablishment by the president of
mum prices to break food cor
]“1" to prevent hoarding and
Riation.
thorize the changing of milling
s or the fixing of grains in mak
thorize the president to pre
: restrictions on the use of food
in the manufacture of alcohol
juors,
Take Over Supplies.
there s a shortage in any food
f and it becomes essential to
?}}“ price, the government, it
paid to-day, will not hesitate to
i over supplies and distribuate
[ itself. In this way officials be
[ "2t more can be accomplished
v setting maximum prices be-
Which sellers may not charge.
i €re¢ 1s an abundance of food.
! €r, they do not think it ever
B ©COme necessary to exercise the
§ 01 commandeer.
! Send Prices Up.
i ‘\h,"” crop of any commodity,
€Xperts say, will send prices up
,: 2h competitive bidding, despite
Y salulatory 11easures, and
IRV remedy, they hold, in this
IS Tor the government to take
the product, paying the grower
‘f’ brice and distributing the
Where it is most needed.
‘j};;‘nn demands for food this
“15;‘ take all of Amerca’s sur
-1"'" allies, it has been stated
]“f authority, need one billion
" of grain to ecarry them
0 the year. With normal erops
'{m;tr_\' can furnish 400,000,000
\T'I and Canada 200,000,000.
;?' |be only sixty per cent. of
¢ Toods, but officials believe
‘4 by economizing, can in
s to eighty per cent.—pro
‘rops are normal.
i
REAM CONES FOR HOGS;
APER AND JUST AS GOOD
;‘L‘“‘l"' and Nelson Morris, Chica
fdl packers, have found a new
(""l hogs: They purchased sev
; n»flm of broken ice eream cones
eannfacturers for 826 a ton to
‘ ‘orn which is bringing f
t - £ irom
| 3‘!-70 a bushel, quy found
¢ dlet not only saved a large
| of money but produced a su-
Erade of hagy . a 0 i
THE DAWSON NEWS.
Effort to Put a War Tax
On Cotton Is Defeated in House
Represem%%wfi%g} Raised Point
of Order, 1& 7 = ~ ;;c:g@gon
Amendment Was Sn.‘“;jflfiffé%@
Army Revenue Bill. e
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The pro
posed tax of $2.50 on raw cotton, of
fered by Representative J. Hampton
Moore, of Pennsylvania, was strick
en out in the house to-day on a mo
tion of Representative Charles R.
Crisp, of Georgia, by a vote of 137 to
115,
Wearied by the tedious debatz on
the tax bill, many southern members
had left the chamber when Represent
ative Moore brought up his amend
ment. Mr. Crisp was on his feet in
an instant with a point of order that
the amendment was not relavant and
under the dules could not be consid
ered. He debated the technical rules
while runners hurriedly rounded up
and brought into the chamber the ab
sentees.
Representative Fitzgerald, of New
York, and Representative Garrett, of
OPTIC HELD IMAGE OF NEGRO
WHO ASSAULTED HER. BROKE
DOWN DEFENSE.
Upon the glazed eye of a young
girl, Antoinette Rappal, the victim of
a negro’s deadly assault, the authori
ties of Memphis, Tenn., found by
microscopic examination, the mirror
ed likeness of the man who did the
killing. The girl’s body, hacked with
an axe, then decapitated and drag
ged into a clump of bushes, was
found some hours after she had been
missed from her home.
The officials, accepting the theory
that the eyes of a victim of violent
death often mirror indelibly the last
object viewed in life, subjected one
of the eyes of the slain girl to mi
eroscopiec examination. Under the
glass the eye-picture Showed the dis
tinct outlines of a man, and within
a few hours a negro woodchopper,
L. C. Persons, was placed under ar
rest.
The negro was subjected to a close
examination but there was little or
no evidence connecting him with the
crime. He stoutly maintained his in
nocence and was so convincing in his
denials that he was allowed to go.
The police also were convinced that
he was innocent.
Ruse Led to Confession.
But again the element of psychoi
ogy entered into the investigation.
The man who had conducted the ex
amination of the girl’s eye visited
the home of the negro and obtained a
pair of the latter’s shoes. After sev
eral hours he returned, pointed to
some spots on the leather and said:
‘“We have tested these stains and
find them to be blood. The stains are
‘human blood and that of a young
girls.”
~ The deception served its purpose.
;The negro collapsed, pleaded for
‘mercy and confessed the crime. He
said the girl was passing on a bicy
cle and that he stopped her, struck
‘her over the head with his axe, later
hacked the body to pieces and threw
‘his weapon in the stream.
:
ARMY OF 1,137,000 BE
~ READY IN SEPTEMBER
DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ON
FURTHER RECRUITING ARE
ISSUED AT WASHINGTON.
The policy to be followed by the
war department in raising the new
army is outlined in a message to
recruiting station, from Adjutant
General of the Army H. P. McCain,
at Washington.
The men necessary to make up the
four new increments authorized by
congress will be obtained by the vol
unteer system during the months of
May and June. This will bring the
enlisted strength of the regular army
up to 287,000.
Beginning July 15, one-third of
the national guard not now in fed
eral service will be drafted. One
third more of the guard will be
drafted on July 25 and the remain
ing third will be called into service
beginning August 5.
The war department will immedi
ately call upon the governors of the
different states to stimulate enlisting
in the 'national guard in order that
it may reach war strength as soon as
possible. The guard will be sent to
training camps beginning August 1
and from then on the grind will be
for preparation for the fields abroad.
In September the first draft of the
conscript army will be called. The
army will then be composed of 350,-
000 national guardemen, 287,000
regulars and 500,000 drafted men,
oy artpel Suking o frce of
RSN Ry 0 N e L e
DAWSON, GA., TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1917.
Tennessee, both democrats, upheld
the amendment, as did Representa
tive Mann, of Illinois, the republican
leader, and Representative Lenroot,
‘of Wisconsin.
.~ Mr. Moore’s amendment was based
‘upon the conviction that the steel and
‘other munition plans of his district
ought not to be taxed and the agri
} cultural sections of the country large
ly escape tax. Mr. Crisp reminded
\him that if the cotton tax was adopt
ed it would inevitably lead to the
taxation of bituminous coal at the
mines in Pennsylvania, to a tax on
wheat, corn, beef and other products
of the western farmers. If this was
not done, he indicated, the southern
members would know the reason
why.
Representative Foster, of Illinois,
who occupied the chair, upheld the
point of order and on appeal the
chair. was sustained, 137 to 115. It
is possible that some members who
'voted to overturn the ruling of the
chair in striking out the amendment
as irrevelevant, would have voted
against the cotton tax on a straight
test vote, but the situation was de
cidedly uncomfortable for the south
ern members for a bad half an hour.
SHARP INCREASE IN NEARLY
ALL CLASSES OF DRUGS WILL
BE EFFECTIVE JUNE FIRST.
Drug prices are slated to soar sky
ward on June 1, when the war tax
bill goes into effect.
It is expected that all imported
drug articles such as cinchona bark,
quinine, strychnine, belladonna, sen
na, manna, opium, all narcotics and
hundreds of other necessary drugs in
daily use will be taxed 10 per cent.
ad valorem.
On all such items imported and
hitherto brought in without duty a
flat tariff is' to be paid. The ingredi
ent from which toilet soaps are made
have been advanced in price from
200 to 500 per cent. on account of
the demand hy the, warring nations
for nitro-glycerine which is a bipro
duct of the soap manufacture.
The biggest tax will be that on
alcohol. The present tax on a barrel
of alcohol is $2.10, and an additional
tax of $2.10 is to be placed on it.
This will be retrospective as the al
cohol on hand now and on which the
original tax has been paid will be
subject to the additional tax. The
present price of alcohol is $3.60 a
gallon and when this goes into ef
fect it will be over six dollars. At
least seventy-five per cent. of liquids
used in medicines contain alcohol so
it can readily be seen just what what
the retail druggist and consumer will
be up against. 4
All natural mineral waters will be
taxed 1 cent a gallon and all per
fumes, cosmetics, face creams, tooth
powders and patent medicines will
be taxed five per cent of the selling
price.
In the soda water department of
the drug stores a tax of 10 per cent.
is proposed on ail syrups used in the
production of soft drinks. The price
of fruit syrups has advanced 25 per
cent. in the last four weeks on ac
count of the price of sugar. The pro
posed tax on carbonic acid gas is 8
cents a pound. The present price is
8 cents, making an increase of 100
per cent. Grape juice and ginger ale
will be taxed 2 cents a gallon.
There will be an increase of 3
per cent. on freight bills and 10 per
cent on express bills. This will make
it harder on the retail druggist be
cause most of his articles come by
express.
Five-cent cigars are expected to
advance in price $1 per 1,000, 10,-
cent cigars $3 per 1,000, and 15-
cent cigars will go to $4 per 1,000.
Chewing gum is due to go up five
per cent. Pill boxes, paper twine,
corks, bottles and such articles neces
sary to druggists will go up with the
articles enumerated above.
MAY CUT THE NUMBER OF
PASSENGER TRAINS A THIRD
By Eliminating Expensive Duplica
tion of Effort Many Engines Will
Be Freed for Freight Service.
Passenger service on the railroads
of the country will be reduced about
one-third, according to a recent state
ment from railroad men in Chicago.
By this step a large number of en
gines will be freed for freight ser
vice, and expenses for coal and other
costs of operation will be saved.
The cuts in service will be made
principally where there is a duplica
tion of service by competing rail
reads. Satisfactory agreements will
be made by the different railroads,
so that the change will be a hardship
to none.
As an instance of duplication it is
pointed out that 15 trains on 6 com
peting railroads leave Chicago for
St. Paul, between 6 p. m. and mid
night, eveg night. There is not suf
ficient traffic to warrant this number
of traing, but each road must operate
them to compete successfully with
the others. : .
WILL BE BUILT BY U, S.
GOVERNMENT WILL PUT THE
NEW DRAET ARMY IN BEST
CAMPS EVER USED. |
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WOODEN BARRACKS INSTEAD ‘
OF USUAL CANVAS TENTS
i |
Cloth Would Cost Too Much, So the
Fighters Will Be Housed Under%
6,000,000 Feet of Lumber, With
Il Sanitary Plumbing. 1
Uncle Sam is going to build 32
complete towns, to house the men in i
the new army. The finest camps that
ever have been used by any army
will be provided for the American
soldiers in training. Six million feet
of lumber will be uséd in the con
struction of these camps.
Plans for building the camps have
been completed and the work will
start immediately after the military
department designates the sites.
Each of these barracks will be used
by 22,000 men, and they will be
equipped complete for men and
horses.
Wood Has Twelve Camps.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood will have
12 of the camps in the new South
eastern department. The other camps
will be distributed as follows: Six in
the Central department, six in the
Southern, four in the Eastern, three
in the Western and one in the North
western. Army officers will be in
charge of the construection and will
let the work by contract. Col. I. W.
Littell, of the quartermaster’s corps,
will be in general charge.
Each town will cover a little more
than a square mile, not including the
drill ground. The barracks will be
fully equipped with sanitary plumb
ing and other facilities to insure the
health and comfort of the army.
Some of the barracks will be two
story affairs, but most of them will
be long, low, one-story buildings
built for the convenience of the regi
ments. ;
] Two Thousand Buildings.
. Each encampment will include 2,-
1000 buildings. Besides the stables
}and barra¢ks there wil “be mess
' halls, kitchens, bath™ houses, store
rooms and numerous other buildings
for special purposes.
The idea of putting the men in
wooden barracks was takeh up by
the war department because of the
high price and secarcity of canvas.
Two complete new outfits would be
needed each year to keep the soldiers
in tents, so lumber was chosen as
being cheaper and more durable.
FOR $lO,OOO DAMAGES
WERE ARRESTED ON ARRIVAL
IN SAVANNAH AND KEPT IN
JAIL ALL NIGHT.
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Newlyweds in
the persons of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel
Hargrove of Augusta, who spent their
honeymoon in the police barracks on
their arrival in Savannah on May 14,
are now seeking damages to the ex
tent of $lO,OOO from Officers J. J.
Murphy, M. J. Scully and S. B. Bry-:
ant of the Savannah police depart-%
ment, according to twin suits filed
to-day for the plaintiffs by Messrs.
Edwards and Lester. |
Married. |
According to the action for dam
ages filed by both Mr. Lionel Har
grove and Mrs. Bessie Radcliffe Har
grove, on May 14, 1917, the couple
were married in due form of law in
Augusta; that on that day they left
Augusta on the Central of Georgia
for Savannah, arriving there about
7 o’clock on the afternoon of May
14; that as they stepped from the
train in the depot of the Central of
Georgia they were maliciously, ille
gally and wrongfully arrested and
taken into custody.
Detained All Night.
Petitioners further recite they
were forced into an automebile and
taken to the police barracks, where
they were detained all that night and
until the following afternoon. Peti
tioners claim the police refused to
allow them to see an attorney or to
call a doctor for Mrs. Hargrove,
whose nerves were affected by the
shock; also that the police would not
state under what charge, if any, the
couple were being detained.
Two Suits of $lO,OOO. |
Damages of $lO,OOO is asked in
each of the suits, which were filed to
day in the city court. |
PAYS $1,250 TO SOLICIT LABOR
FOR NORTHERN INDUSTRIES}
ey |
For permission to open an office in'
Macon to solieit labor for an alumi
num industry in Tennessee, C. J.}‘
Hayes has paid the city §7,600, and
the county $5OO. |
As the result of so many laborers
going north during the winter, coun-‘
cil fixed the license for labor agents
at $l,OOO, The pro rata part of this
license at the present date is $750,
‘which was paid the city uw};y Mr. |
Hayes, .+ . TR
No Army Exemptions Until |
After Registration Has Closed
President Will Name Special Boards
to Consider Exemption Claims.
Provost Marshal Says Registration
Must Be Completed First.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Exempt
ions from army service will be grant
ed after registration and draft and
not before. Every one between the
ages of 21 and 30, exclusively, must
register.
“With registration day plans well
under way the war department to
day turned attention to exemptions,
exclusions and discharges from the
draft.
Exemption claims will be consider
ed by special boards appointed by
the president. These boards will
function under the law and under
regulations preseribed by the presi
dent.
No exemptions will be made until
the registration is complete.
Determination of exemptions, the
war department emphasized to-day,
“is a second step, quite separate
from registration.”
WOMEN WILL WEAR
Mo
SILK; IT IS CHEAPER
3
MORE ECONOMICAL THAN SOFT!
SERGES AND OTHER FINE. |
WOOLENS FOR SPRING.
Women are going into silk for
economy’s sake.
Shop windows are filled with gay
little silk dresses instead of the soft
serges and other fine wools which it
is women’s custom to buy in early
spring. |
When finally discovered, the price
of one of the coveted plain serges is
sure to shock the shopper into buy
ing one of the cheaper silks. And it’s
the same with a coat; we go out to
buy cheviot, and return with satin,
for the war has made wool one of the
highest priced of our necessities. |
But it isn’t war’s fault altogether,
say the wool growers. We should eat
more mutton and less beef, they ad
vise, if we want to put wool onto our
own backs.
Mary ought to let her little lamb
grow up. If cooks would stop order
ing a leg o’ lamb and would learn to
cook mutton so-their families could
eat it, serge and cheviot would be
cheaper, and we would not have to
put on silk and satin to reduce the H.
C. of L.
~ Skirts are longer by an inch or
two but this leaves them six or eight
inches from the ground. This is also
‘an economy. Short skirts save much
cloth and e¢leaning. |
l There is a certain tendency to copy
‘the outline of a bowling-pin but
!there is an equally pronounced move
ment in favor of straight lines and
a hem from two to two and one-half
vards around. .
This new straight silhouette makes
bust and belt measures almost inter
changeable. Even girdles are ad
justed loosely enough to slip over
the shoulders, so they may not pro
duce the slichtest curve where na
ture has developed one of choicest.
Clipping off the fool of the skirt
diminishes the apparent height. In!
order to have as long dresses as pos—i
sible, the necks of dresses have, in
a a very literal way, “inched” them
selves up. It is a brazen blouse that
opens much below the collar bone.
Women do not like this style, for
this is the most unbecoming of all
possible places for a bodice to stop.
If the neck of a waist curves deeply
anywhere (.it is on top of the shoul
ders.
Leaders of Race In Georgia Discuss
The Problems Caused by War.
Much Enthusiasm Shown.
MACON, Ga.—An unusually large
crowd was present this morning at
the city auditorium to attend the
opening exercises of the negro state
wide patriotic meeting and food con
ference. The auditorium was practi
cally filled at the opening hour, and
those present evinced an enthusias
tie interest in the proceedings. There
were nearly 700 delegates from all
sctions of the state,, representing
nearly every county in the state.
In calling the meeting to order
Prof. R. R. Wright, of the colored
state college at Savannah, who is
responsible for the call of this meet
ing, said: ‘“Our chief purpose here,
however, is to discuss the iood ques
tion and to devise ways and means
by which we may help to meet the
pending crisis.”
He further urged the men consid
er this a grave responsibility and to
give the questions to be discussed
their earnest consideration.
THE SEA, THE WAVES, THE
GIRLS AND THE CURVES
They say that the waves at Tybee
this year are not going to be near
as dashing ac some of the girls who
will be there.-—Colimbus Enquirer-
Sun.
Nor will the waves be any more
ready to show their curves than will
be the beautiful girls,—Savannah
Press.
The provost marshal general said
to-day regarding exemption machin
ery: :
“From the lists of persons regis
tered names will subsequently be
drawn by lot by the fairest system
that can be devised.
‘“Persons whose names are drawn
and others interested will be given
an opportunity to present claims for
exemption, exclusion or discharge
from the draft and to support such
claims by evidence.
“Regulations governing the deter
mination of exemptions, exclusions
and discharges will, when promulgat
ed, be made available to all concern
ed at the offices of the local boards.
Until such regulations have been
promulgated further introduction can
not be given as it might later prove
misleading; and even after the reg
ulations have bcen made publie, de
cisions concerning exemptions, ex
clusions and discharges individual
cases cannot be made by this office
(provost marshal general) since the
law provides that all such cases shall
be heard and determined by the
boards to be established for that
purpose.
“LADY’S MAID” A MAN
GERMAN SPY WAS EMPLOYED
BY RICH CHICAGO FAMILY
AS WOMAN SERVANT.
German spies are operating in the
United States disguised as women.
Secret service men are finding cases
of spies in feminine garb, and in
Chicago, in less than one week, two
such agents of the kaiser were discov
ered. It also has been discovered that
women are obtaining information for
the enemy in places where men could
not enter.
In one of the Chicago cases gov
ernment officals heard that a spy was
employed by one of the city’s rich
est families. Detectives visited the
home and examined the servants one
by one. Finally they asked the lady
of the house if all the servants had
been presented.
- “AIL-but my persoval maid;'’ the
woman replied, “and she is above
suspicion. I will veuch for her.”
Pulled Off “Woman’s” Hair.
The detectives insisted that she be
brought in. As she entered the room
one of the government men seized
her hair and it came off. The “maid”
then confessed to being a man. What
class of information he was obtain
ing and what was done with him
were not revealed.
The federal investigation has dis
closed that there are women spies,
and men disguised as women, in nar
ly all branches of war activity.
Maids, tutors, governesses, lecturers,
singers and artists are employed by
the German intelligence office. Most
of the disguised men are employed
as maids, but women themselves are
doing the spying in other lines of
work.
'WOMAN BRAVED THE
DANGERS OF FRONTIER
\
| 5%
' ALONE SHE CLEARED HER OWN
HOMESTEAD. HER NEAREST |
NEIGHBOR WAS SIX MILES. i
Mrs. Frances H. Whitehead has
braved the dangers and hardships of'
frontier life in Oregon and has won |
‘out. She is about to prove up herl
claim to a half section of land in}
Christmas Lake valley. For 32
'months she toiled alone on the sage
brush wilds to live up to the require
ments of homestead law.
Single-handed the brave woman |
faced the threat of cattle rustlers,
escaped convicts and other danger
ous characters that inhabit the des
lert stretches. During that time she}
killed or trapped several hundredi
'wildcats and coyotes and fought a
losing battle against the jack-rabbits
that invaded her garden. Her near
est neighbor was six miles away. |
| Was a Great Experience.
| Now that it is all over and she
ihas a clear title to the 320 acres,
Mrs. Whitehead looks back on the
past months as a great experience.
It was all fine except the loneliness,
yhic‘h no one can comprehend unless
they have been entirely away from
civilization for that long, she says.
Originally from Kentucky, Mrs.
Whitehead found herself forced by
circumstances to take care of herself.
She turned to the government claim
as an opportunity and imemdiately
set about to work her allotment of
land. She first constructed a little
cottage for her own use and then
}started clearing the large tract for
cultivation. She says that she has
done only what any healthy woman
!could do.
BRIDE 19, GROOM 65,
IN KENTUCKY ROMANCE
BOWLING GREEN, Ky-—Miss
Mary Marris, 19, and John Cannon,
65, a farmer, were married by
"Squire Virgil M. Cox at his home
here. e o R
VOL. 35.-—NO. 40
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ARRIVED THERE FROM MICHI.
GAN TRAVELING ON CHARI
TY RAILROAD PASSES. %
THE ENTIRE CROWD WAS
IN A STARVING CONDITION
Engaged in Riot With United States
Soldiers, Who Fired Upon a Negro
Settlement. North Is Bitterly Op~
posed to Negro Influx.
CINCINNATI, O.—The police of
this city successfufiy deported a par
ty of five hundred negroes from Cen~
tral Georgia to-day. These same ne
groes had less than a week ago pass
ed through this city on their way to
a Northern Michigan! railroad con~
struction camp, but the police dis
covered that they had been allowed
practically no food and had been paid
only a small part of 'the wages pi'oma
ised as an inducement for their com
ing North. '
In a starving condition, the erowd
of refugees arrived here on charity
railroad passes begging for mercy.
and food, and they were not allow
ed to alight. All the negroes seemed
to be glad to be on their way back
South after they discovered the
stringent police rules which have
been put in force here since the res
cent influx of Southern labor began.
The city and state and federal
authorities are unitedly bitterly op
posing the negro influx.
Fired on by Troops.
Friday a riot between United
States soldiers and negroes tool&:;i
place at Camp Dennison, a suburb,
when Company E of the Third regi
ment fired upon the negro seitle-"
ment there as a lesult of refusal of
the demand of Sergt. Lester Doyle
that W. E. Cisco, a young negro,
be given up by Cisco's parents for
punishment according to army dis
cipiline, as a result of the alleged
attack and threatening of a soldier.
For a while volleys of rifle shots
were exchanged by white soldiers
and the blacks, but fortunately no
one was killed. The police interfer-"
red and the alleged negro marauders
will b sent to prison. ¢
PRISON COMMISSION RECOM
MENDS PARDON MRS. GODBEE
Question of Her Freedom Is Now Up
to Governor Harris. ¢
ATLANTA, Ga.—Among a batch
of recommendations sent down from ‘
the prison commission to the gover
nor’s office Friday afternoon was
the form of a recommendation for
pardon of Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee,
serving a life sentence for the mur
der of Walter S. Godbee, whom she
killed at the same time she killed
Godbee’s third wife, Mrs. Florence
B. Godbee. : N
Mrs. Godbee has been at the state
prison farm near Milledgeville since
nearly four years ago, when she was
sentenced to life imprisonment,.
The commission gives as its reason
for the request for executive clemen
cy the fact that Mrs. Godbee’s health
is rapidly declining, that she was in~
sane at the time of the killing; that
the relatives' of the deceased, every
member of trial jury, the trial judge
and the prosecuting attorney have
signed a petition requesting that she
be pardoned. Her petition for a par
don was filed December 6, 1915.
CONFEREES ON CENSORSHIP
BILL AGREE TO COMPROMISE
“Section Will Never Pass Congress,”
Asserts Senator Smith;
WASHINGTON, D. C.~—A new
compromise censorship provision, for
bidding the publication of certain
kinds of information useful to the
enemy, but eliminating the authority
of the president to preseribe censor
ship regulations, was agreed to by
the senate and house conferees on
the espionage bill this afternoon.
The censorship compromise agreed
to to-day would not prevent the pub
lication of information regarding
equipment, and specifically limits
taboo publication “to information
which “is”” useful to the enemy. The
compromise decided upon. yesterday
would have prohibited publication of
news which “may” be useful to the
enemy. 7 ¥
The opponents of censorship made
it plain immediately that they will
accept no compromise.
“Never in your life will such a
proposal pass this congress,” said
Senator Hoke Smith, when he read
the section.
LARGER MEMBERSHIP FOR
FEDERAL RAIL COMMISSION
Senator Smith Wants Hearing and
Rates Confirmed Before Increase.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The sen
ate to-day passed the bill increasing
the membership of the interstate
‘commerce commission from seven to
nine members allowing them to dis
- vide for the expediting of bfi PSS,
Smith providing that the commission
'must give a hearing and confirm
freight rate increasen before they can