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_WEATHER-Cloudy Tonight and Saturday; Local Rains; Ww 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 : T e \ 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. . ° e Fitzgerald Boy Gains e, 0 - 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. . 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.” e ° “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. h*w 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.” (79 198 &) ‘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. : : ! s il i AL 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 %:M. SO L ’3 ‘n v"%in\-fi’«éw’”sa; 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 | of e 0 50t 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. s-——/ P ; 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. e e e e e *° . Resolutions Against - . - 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 —————— : 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.” \ P_o 0- So Of Ao votes . ’ Approval Of Strike ‘Second Patriotic Order to Endorse | Stand Of A. B. And A. Men. o | 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 A eeeoy a 4 AR O 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. i R “Buy Now” Campaign™ uy Now” Campaign’ < ° 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, :