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Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
COL. BUGG REFUSES MEDIATION
Joint Committee Names Sub-
Commit\teg to Draw Plans
WILL MEET AGAIN
‘Woman’s Club Chairman Wants
Auditorium by Autumn
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The general plan- for a bond issue
for the building of an auditorium and
additional class rooms at the Fitzger
ald High School was discussed from
all angles at a meeting at the city
hall yesterday of a joint committee
representing the city council, school
board and Woman’s Club. Mayor g
L.. Pittman presided as chairman. U.
& fl:nnett, president of the school
board is chairman of the board com
mittee; Mrs. George W. Brown is
<hairman of the Woman’s Club Com
mittee. i :
Plans drawn for an auditorium in
the original blue print of the high
school building were discarded as not
being large enough for present needs.
A suQ-committee of whick Lon
Dickey is chairman, was authorized to
have new plans drawn and estimates
made. His committee will call a
second meeting of the joint committee
early next week, as soon as the defi
nite plans are ready. -
The plans will be amended or ap
proved by the joint committee which
will prepare a report to the city coun
, cil at its meeting the following Mon
day night. If the plans are accepta
ble to council, a call will be made for
a bond election which will be held in
May. ;
If the bonds carry they must be ad
vertised for sale thirty days before
sold, making the money available for
use sometime in June. Work will
probably be started the same month
and rushed so that the auditorium will
be ready for occupancy by the last
of September or, at any ‘rate before
the end of the fall term. .
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Fitzgerald Boy Gains
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Recognition In _Workl
Dr. Milton Cohen To Take College
Chair of Pathology in Cleveland
A letter received this morning from
Dr. Milton Cohen by his parents, Dr.
and Mrs. M. S, Cohen, carries the
information that the young doctor has
accepted the post of pathalogist in'
the large Alexian Brothers’ Hospital
in Cleveland Ohio, and the chair of
pathology at the Western Reserve
University Medical Department in the
same city. ;
Dr. Cohen is a graduate of the Fitz
gerald public and high schools, was a
student at Amnnapolis for one _year,
took his M. D. degree at Louisville,
served in France two years as first
lieutenant in the medical corps, and
has since been pragticing surgery and
studying pathology in Northern and
Western cities, He intends to special
ize on pathology and research work.
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Shoe Hospital -
Changes Hands
Mr. W. E. Sanderson became the
owner of the Fitzgerald Shoe Hos
pital ‘through piirchase Thursday and
has taken charge. Mr Sanderson will
be inpersonal charge and invites the
patronage of the public.
Beginning Thursday, March 10th, no advertis
ing copy can be accepted after 9 o’clock in the morn
ing for insertion in the issue of the same day.
We will be forced to observe this rule strictly
in order that we may get the paper to our subscrib
ers immediately after receiving the last quota of
telegraphic news at 4 o’clock—while it is still “red
kot.”
We earnestly solicit your cooperation in the -
interests of our subscribers—your customers—in
whose behalf this rule is made. !
Advertising copy received after 9 o’clock in
morning will be inserted on the succeeding day
without further instructions. '
.« With thanks for your support which is making
possible the publication of a daily paper,
: ; Respectfully yours,
y ~ THE LEADER PUBLISHING CO.
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE
Summer Camp for Corn And Pig
Club Boys Of Ben Hill And Irwin
TO AGCEPT LEAGUE
(By International News Service)
PARIS, March 11.—French Foreign
Office formally denies the report cir
culated in the United States that ne
gotiationg had been opened with the
American State Department by the
French Embassy in Washington in an
effort to induce President Warren G-.‘
Harding ‘to accept a modified League
of Nations.
In denying the report that former
Premier Viviani is going to the Unit
‘ed States 'on such a mission the for
eign Office stated that the League of
Nations and ‘similar matters “Are in
the scope of duties of the French
Ambassador who may be expected
to concern himself with them at the
proper time.”
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“Assisted By Sadie”
- Draws Large Crowd
Youthful Thespians Draw Generous
Applause With Snappy Farce. |
“Assisted by Sadie,” presented last
night at the Grand Opera House by
the Seniore Class of the Fitzgerald
High School, drew a record crowd for
ameteur . performances in Fitzgerald.
To say that the play and players madei
a hit would be putting it mildly. Thei
performance was a delightful success
and the clever acting of some of the
players drew frequent applause. ‘
Pauline Dunn, in title roll as Sadle
Brady, a private detective, won her
way quickly into popularity with the
audience with a clever and unaffected
portrayal of her part but the other
outstanding stars of the evening were
a juvenile comedy roll, accomplished
the thing most difficult to amateur
actors, submerging themselves com
pletely in characters they represen
ted and actually “playing” rather
than reciting their parts.
Eldrige Powell and Effie Cleo
Brewer were the only ones who seem
ed to be entirely free from self-con
scious unease. Ruth Martin in an
Irish character part was also unus
‘ually good. : _
Ronald Burke, as Dr. Beedle, a col
lege professor, Norma- Shannonhouse,
as Vicky Vaughn, a society girl, Ear
nest Justice, as an English gentleman
of leisure, Mildred Haile, ‘as a sweet
young girl with more heart than
brains, Audre Wilcox, as an adventur
ess, all evidenced varying ‘degrees of
histrionic talent and handled their
parts very well. Edwin Stovall, as a
crooked detective, and Floyd Wilcox
played quite up to the average for
high school performers.
$115,000 Bond Jumper
®
~ Captured In Florida
{ (By International News Service)
CHICAGO, March 11.—Detectives
today are enroute from Chicago to
Jacksonville to bring back Frederick
Buckminster, alleged to be a member
of the two million dollar band of con
fidence men who have been sought
two years. He is under a sentence of
three years imprisonment for swind
ling a farmer of-$3,500 in a fake horse
race. Other indictments are pending.
fHe jumped a bond of $115,000. :
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA FRIDAY, MARCH 11.~ 1921.
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County Agent Owens Tells of
Big Time in Store for Young
sters This Year |
The following ‘notice to club mem
bers was handed to the Leader by
Mr. Owens before his departure for
Atlanta today:
- “It might be interesting to the club
members in this county to know that
we have sixty Corn and Pig Club
members already enrolled and we
fully expect to ,increase this number
to at least one hungdred.. We hope to
make this year’s work with the club
boys through the Farm Bureau morg
interesting and helpful than it has
ever been.
“Sometime about August Ist, we
expect to have a camp for the Club
boys in this county in connection
with the Club boys of Irwin county,
either at Bone Lake or Bowen’s Mill.
During the three days spent in camp
we will have some of the Club Di
rectors from the State College of Ag
riculture with us to give some real
illustrative lectures from moving pic
tures, teaching all kinds of improved
methods of farming and growing live
stock, alsp with this moving picture
outfit we will have some real inter
esting and funny picture shows to
entertain the boys.
“We hope also to have a number of
boy scouts with us and will divide
the boys into military companies and
do some’ real military drilling,. We
expect to make this one of the best
Club boy camps held in Georgia.
“Different ‘prizes will be awarded
at this time on the best record books
and other contests which will be held.
There will be at least two hundred
boys available to attend this camp
ing providing they carry out the work
undertaken in the growing of their
acre of corn and pigs. Through these.
contests the boys will have an oppor
tunity of preparing themselves for
some of the state contests to be held
in Atlanta, Macon, and other points
in Georgia.
“I trust that every boy in the coun
ty will enter into this work with the
idea of making good and winning
some of the State prizes. I earnestly
request the parents of the Club boys
to assist us in making this a success
ful year for Club boys in this county.
Please don’t hesitate to call upon me
for any information’ desiced n re
gard to this work,
: “Yours very truly, 5
“C. T. Owens, County Agent.”
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‘Rick” Woodward Is
No Self-Made Man
Baseball Promoter Who Is Strike-
Breaker Inherited Wealth.
Since the spot light was turned on
“Rick” Woodward, millionare coal
mine operator and baseball promoter
through his activity in taking the
throttle of the first locomotive to draw
‘a train over the Atlanta Birmingham
and Atlantic Railroad tracks, local
union men have looked up his history
and find that he is not at all the self
made millionare he was at first said to
‘be by the daily press,
“Rick” Woodward's father was a
millionaire coal operator and owged a
stretch of mine railroad which his son
inherited with other property. “Rick”
‘Woodward was taught to handle the
‘throttle of a locomotive on his fath
‘ers locomotives by employes of his
father. Since hé came in posession of
‘the large properties he has kept in
practice by “testing out” his new en
gines. ; g
Some difference of opinion exists
locally about the reason why Wood
ward has not attempted to take a train
past Lineville, Ala. Some hold that
he ‘realizes that he is not capable of
handling a locomotive on a longer trip.
Others believe that he is afraid to
cross the Alabama line into Georgia.“
Woodward is said to be in the forties_.‘
His hobby is baseball and he owns
several baseball parks and clubs. The
desire for personal publicity which led
him to take active interest in baseball,
which is given more free advertising
by the daily press than any other bus
insse in the world, is said by local un
ion men to have actuated his “stunt”
in operating the train, He is also an
honor director of the Atlanta Birming
‘ham and Atlantic. : : !
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JEWELER KILLED AND
ROBBED IN NEW YORK
(By International News Service)
NEW YORK, March 11.—Abraham
Harris, Jeweler 'was found shot to
death in_a jewelry store on Eighth
Avenue today with his hands tied. A
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STANDARD OIL CUTS -
GAS AND KEROSENE PRICE
ATLANTA, March 11.—Effec
tive today the price of gasoline
kerosene in all districts éerved by
the Standard Oil Company of
Kentucky is reduced one cent a
gallon on each. Gasoline goes to
twenty-eight and kerosene to sev
enteen and one-half cents a gallon
under the new schedule, 2
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Prohibition Law Blow
Confirmed By G.O.P
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 11—The
ruling -drafted by A. Mitchell Palmer,
retired attorney general, giving a li
beral interpretation to the Volstead
law and upsetting many existing en
forcement regulations governing man
ufacture and sale of non-beverage li
quors will be anitted to stay in
force it was annotinced at the depart
ment of Justice today.
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NO CHANCE FOR TAXES
TO BE REDUCED |
WASHINGTON, March 11,
Congress has failed to decrease ap
propriations to a point where they,
will permit lower taxes, according to
members of the Senate finance com-}
mittee and House ways and Means.
committee. ;
The appropriation bills passed dur
ing session just closed, together with
army -anid naval appropriation bills to
be passed during a special session,
total around one billion, three hundred
fifty million doflars. Practically the
same as provided for the present fis
cal year.
CRISSINGER NOMINATION
CONFIRMED BY SENATE
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 11.—The
United States Senate this afternoon“
confirmed the nomination of D, H.
Crissinger, of Marion Ohio, to. be
Comptroller Currency.
%+ SRR ey &
ESCH FOR ICC |
SAYS HARDING |
WASHINGTON, March 11.—Pres
ident Harding today sent to the Sen
ate the nominations of John Esch of
Wisconsin and Mark Potter, of New
York, to be members of the llnter
state Commerce Commission. Esch
was defeated for re-election to Con
gress in November. 'He is one of the
authors of the Esch-Cummings Rail
road bill, |
BAKER IS GIVEN
HIS COMMISSION AS
ARMY COLONEL . .
(By International News Service)
.~ WASHINGTON, March 11.—New
ton D. Baker, former secretary of war,
has been commissioned as colonel in
the officer’s reserve corps, judge
advocates general’s department. Sec
retary Weeks announced today. Col.
Baker returned last Saturday to his
home in Cleveland, wrere he has re
sumd practice of law.
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Resolutions Against
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Strikers Solicited
Grand Lodge Learns that Alma
Resolutions Were “Fixed.”
Information received by local union
officials from grand lodge officers in
Atlanta is that the resolutions said
to have been passed at Alma, Georgia,
by the board of trade there was writ
ten and was delivered to an Atlanta
‘newspaper reporter for pubjication be
fore the meeting of the board had
ever been convened.
“This indicates to us,” says Val
Fitzpatrick, chairman of theofficer’s
committee, “that resolutions con
deming us are inspired by certain
people interested in defeating the
strike.” i
Atlanta headquarters also reported
yesterday that religious services were
being held ih Manchester at the union
meetings similar to those in Fitzger
ald.
The Tifton meeting at which Bugg
was endorsed was attended by only
nine men, according to reliable infor
mation reaching here today. Five of
these nine went to Tifton in automo
biles, representing the A. B. & A. rail
road. These men left immediately
after the meeting to attend one at
Omega.
- Mrs, Charles I. Isler will entertain
a number of friends Friday aftérnoon
at her attractive home on South Maine
Street complimentary to her charming
RO e e R
Fitzgerald Fair Dates SuggQSte'd l
October I to 8; Big Week Planned
Fitzgerald Exposition Will Be
Week Before Southeastern
Fair in Atlanta
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Following the meeting in Macon
yesterday of the association of South
Georgia Fair Executives, executive
committee of Fitzgerald Fair Associa
tion decided upon week from October
Ist to Bth as best dates for the third
annual Fitzgerald Live' Stock and
Agricultural Exposition. The recom
mendation of the executive commit
tee will be submitted to. the board of
directors for approval. 3
The executive committee, composed
of G. S. Willcox, president, Isidor
Gelders, vice president,, and R. L.
Jones, secretary and treasurer, de
clared confidence that Autumn time
and Fair time would see conditions as
prosperoys as in any. normal year.
That impression prevailed among all
the fair association men at the meet
ing in Macon, according to Mr. Jones
who represented the Yocal association
at a meeting.
- Contracts will be closed this sum
‘mer for the same carnival company
‘that will play at the Georgia-Florida
Fair at Valdosta, according to plans
tentatively made by the' executive
committee. Every effort will be made
to make the amusement features ex
ceptionally good. :
The Ben Hill Farm Bureau has a
committee appointed to encourage and
assist preparing of agricultural and:
live stock exhibits for the fair. The
corn, pig and calf club boys will fur
nish a strohg department for the fair.
The poultry show, as in previous
years, will be equal to that at the state
fair, £ |
Precedes Southeastern Fair |
The Southeastern Fair Association“
have selected for their 1921 dates Oct.
13th to 22nd, inclusive, instead of Oct.}
15th to 25th as was previously announ-.
ced. o |
Through co-operation with the pure
bred livestack organizations of the
South, the National Hog and Cattle
Show will again be an exclusive fea
ture at the fair, and the International
Club Stock Judging Contest, which
last year was such a wonderful success
and created interest from all over the
country, will again have its place
among the leading features.
The best race horses in America will
be entered in the Grand Circuit Races,
the merit of whch all fair visitors are
acquainted, and in addition to the
horse races a number of big auto
events have been arranged.
This year the Worthams Exposition
Shows will make their first trip South
to furnish the Midway attractions, and
will with their own excellent shows
and amusements devices combined
with those of Lakewood Park, make
the greatest collection of shows and
rides ever seen at Lakewood Park
before. g >
A hearty attempt will be made by
the mandgement of the Fair Associ
ation this year to make every depart
ment bigger and better, and the won
derful entertainment program will be
such that will continue to make the
Southeastern Fair “The Fair Pre-emi
nent in Exclusive Features.”
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P_o 0- So Of Ao votes
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’ Approval Of Strike
‘Second Patriotic Order to Endorse
| Stand Of A. B. And A. Men.
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i Washington Camp No. 20, Patriotic
Order, Sons of America, last night
‘unannmously passed resolutions en
dorsing the stand of the employes of
the A. B. and A. Railway. The Pa
triotic Order of America passed res-i
olutions on the same Tuesday. The'
P. O. S. of A, resolutions are as fol
lows:
Be it hereby, Resolved, by Wash
ington Camp No. 21. P. O. of A. in
regular session assembled, this 10th
day of March 1921 that we do hear-‘
tily approve of the stand taken by the‘
employees of the A. B. and A, Rail--‘
road in upholding the laws of the
United States and refusing to be a
party to their being broken by the
operators of the road. :
Be it further resolved, that we be
lieve that ther stand is taken in behalf
of their highest ideals of good Amer~
icanism and in protection of ‘these
principles that we as good Americans
hold most secred. ; i
Offered and passed, this the 10th
day or March, 1921, G e
Signed, i
fi“m il At
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PACKERS’ EMPLOYES
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, March 11.—Unless
President Harding intervenes in the
wage cuts and working hours between
the big packers and their employees,
balloting on a strike will begin Sat
urday. There are four hundred local
unions in the United States and Can
ada.
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“Buy Now” Campaign™
uy Now” Campaign’
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Going Over Natmn'
Observers in All Sections Say Prices
A\te at Bottom Now
Leader News Bureau
4th National Bank Bldg.
- ATLANTA, March 11. (Special)—
“Buy now and save n}oney’f is the bus
iness slogan in Atlanta, and from re
ports received here by business men,
the same slogan is taking throughout
the State and the South. . Atlanta
business men say that those who fol
low the advice will be gainers thereby,
those who reject it not only will be
standing in their own light, but they
also will be . obstructing business
without a good and sufficient reason.
All over the United States, accord
ing to reports received here, a cam
[paign for buying is under way. Tt is
a campaign in the interest of the buy
ing and the selling public and that
means the whole public, for practical
ly everyone either buys or sells. Bus
iness, as pointed out here, has been
halted because buyers went on a strike
for lower prices. The great troeuble,}
says Atlanta business men, is that the
strike did not end when the lower
i were .obtained. = Prices, it is
shown, are down today on practically
‘everything. They are lower by far
than a year ago, or two years ago, and
in many instances they are as low as
before the United States’ entered the
great war. _
Business experts say prices cannot
be expected to go any fower than
they are now. Instead, they say, there
isassurance that prices for most com
modities this spring will be higher
than at present. This ,it is stated, is
one of the results of the “buyers’
strike,” That “Strike”. causéd mills
and . factories to close down, because
merchants did not buy, the goods fac
tories made, and that was because
the public did not buy what the mer
chants already had on hand. Qf
course, it is declared, there has been
some buying all the while else the
whole fabric of the nation would have.
been destroyed, but it has been lim
ited buying and not what the public
needs demanded. |
Resumption of buying, therefore, to
which southern business men call at
tention, creates an immediate demand
and that demand must be met by re
sumption of activity in industrial
plants. Those who buy now help to
restore industry to a normal basis, re
lieve unemployment and thus restore
prosperity. Frank C. Gilreath,
Advertised goods are good goods:
Advertisers can’t afford to misrepre
sent. s ‘
To Our Patrons: |
Our supp\ly of six column size newspaper is rapidly
being exhausted and it will be impossible to get a new
supply this month. As a result, we will have to use seven'
column size paper of which we have ample supply, for the
daily and tri-weekly beginning Monday. ‘
Our plant is not prepared for publishing a daily paper
of that size and will be badly handicapped and put at con
siderable financial loss unless we can reduce the time and
cost of getting out the paper by having one full page stand
ing and ready for publication. A
To overcome this difficulty and to enable us to m
Fitzgerald people an even better daily next week th i
before, we are going to ask our advertisers to buy space in
a “trade extension page” to be run Tuesdays’ Thumfiaya
and Saturdays until April 9th, or until the daily i&discon:.,‘
tinued if it is discontinued before that time, There will be
twenty-eight spaces in his page and will cost only $4.50 per.
space per week. : LT
‘lf our advertisers will help us in this we will order
twice as much telegraph service as we are carrying this
week and thus give our subscri‘bers--the'custwgag our:
advertisers—a news service twice as good. :*,Juf,
' ; o Simeerely, iR
i ' LEADER PUBLISHING COMBANY.
FITZGERALD COTTON '+ .
Good Middling .%,.f.r._‘.-ms;@@‘?
No Reteipts o 18109&15&§
VOL: XXVE NO. 20
‘THERE’S NOTHING
TO MEDIATE”--BUGG.
Judge Chambers: Severely CntL
cizes for Refusal - . «
“IT MEANS WAR"
“No Longer Controversy But a
~ Fight to Finish” Say E en
(By International Neéws Sérvice)
ATLANTA—March 11.—Vir
tual refusal to accept mediation
as a means of bringing about a
settlement of the walk out of
employees on the A. B, & A. this'
aiternoon by Receiver Bugg,.re
plying to a pointed letter from.
Judge Chambers and C:-
sioner Klutz of the Federal F
of Mediation, " THER T
The official statement given:
out by the mediators on the ac
tion of Bugg taking the stand.
that there is really nothing toar
bitrate, contending that the n:%
question involved was the inabil
ity of the railroad to pay the
former scale of wages was that
his attitude is regretted by med
iators. ; St
Judge Chambers in his state
ment said that mediation must
be practically abandoned and se
verely, criticized the attitude of
the receiver in refusing to accept
government mediation. = =
Refusal Means Fight ;
“B. L. Bugg’s refusal to accept
mediation in this case,” said \/%
M. Martin, chairman of the joint.
federation committee of the At
lanta Birmingham and Atlantic.
employes this afterrioon, “means.
that we are no-longer in a contro-.
versy but in a fight, and a fight to
the bitter end.” S
Union men here declare thaks
Bugg’s action is final - evidence”
that the railroad operators of the .
A. B. & A. and of Ameriea have
decided to stand not on law or
justice but on brute strength and
the power of money. i
“We did not invite so cruel a
war”_said ‘Mr, Magtin, “but it
has been forced on us and for our,
sakes and our wiles’ sakés and
thé sakes of our children and. our
children’s children we will not,
can not, submit to being pushed
down into another century of
wage slavery and poverty and
misery. g
“Bugg’s decision to stand on
force of arms makes ‘ous case ne
longer our case alone, and our
‘cause no longer our cause alone,”
concluded Mr. Martin with feel
ing. “It throws down the gaunt
let to all union labor afd to all
labor. 'We have no’cheice in this
‘matter; we must fight, fight 1o
the bitter end, and may God hegp
the side of right.” it
The statement was' approved
by C. L. Fox and P, C. Collins
of the press committee. by
ATLANTA, March 11—The first
train out of Atlanta#since the strike
on the Atlanta Birmingham and At
}lantic left the Haynes Street Station
at 7:15 this morning for Manchester
carrying passengers, mail and express.
It is expected to return leaving Man
chester at 10:30 o'clock tonight,
_ Receiver B. L. Bugg said he ex
pected to extend the serviee Saturday.
Col. Bugg will this afternoon give an
answer as to whether he 'will accept
the mediation of the Federal Board
of Mediation created by the New
lands Act of 1913. Two members of
the board are now here and have been
conferring with union chiefs, :