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MONDAY
EDITION
VOL. XXVI, No. 85
Christian Endeavors Demand U.
S. to Enter League
Entire World Rests on Volcanic
Economic Footing
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va,, July 11
—Five persons were killed and am
proximately fifty injured at Langin
Field here late yesterday .when a
Martin bombing plane fell on a group !
of automobiles parked oms (the
grounds. An explosion followed set
ting fire to the machines. The dead
were all spectators, Lieut, C. RY»
Mclve, pilot, and . Lieut T. H. Dun
ton, assistant pilot were rescued by
Carl Miller, coach of Bethamy Col
lege. ¢
The dead are: Earl Pettit, Fred
Edge, Mrs. George Long, 65 years
old, Moundsville, and an unidenti
fied child aged about 6, and Ralph
Hartsel. Most of the injured were
taken to the Glendale hospital, where
it was reported five were in a serious
condition. A physician’s office near
by also was used as an emergency
hospital where it was reported two
had died,
The known dead were of Mounds
ville, with the exception of Edge,
whose home was at Round Bottom,
W. Va. .
Dead Trapped in Machines l
Lieutenants Mclve and Dunton
were taking off in the Government
plane from Langin Field, starting
from the south side of the field, with
the Ohio River o6n their left, They
had risen about thirty feet, accord
ing to the reports, when the plane!
swung sharply to the left and
seemed aßout to hit a hangar. An
Aapparent effort was made, it was said,
to throw the plane into the river,
but it was flying too low, and crash
ed into a line of automobiles lined
along the river bank.
Sixteen automobiles were burned,
and the dead, in most instances,
were trappel in the machines.
Tke pilots arrived at Moundsville
Saturday afternoon with the bomber
from the Martin factories at Cleve
land and were leaving Langin Field
here 'fm' Langley Field, where the
pihe £ vas o be put into service.
Dove Of Peace
Hovers Over City
The strike situation preserits no new
features since our last issu®, Friday,
Since the troops have returned to their
respective home stations, everything
has been adjusting itself to a more
peaceful level and no violations of the
law have been reported from either
side to the controversy,
An effort has been made to secure
the cooperation of leaders of both
siles to secure the continuance of this
condition and the promoters seem to
meet with some success. As a pre
liminary, to remove some of the fric
tion, the offensive sign, said to have
been much of the cause of “he recent
outbreak, at the engineers icket post
has been voluntarily removed by the
engineers. ’
Y Mr, Venable Anderson of Vidalia
is the guest of his sister Mrs. George
Robertson.
Mr, and Mrs, O. L. Bradshaw leit
in their car for an extended trip to
friends and relatives in Alabama.
They expect to be gone about a
month.
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.Being Expernented With In Ben Hill
Mr. Editor:— !
I thank you for doing Ikaarmors
through here a great favaby pub
lishing reply last issue to oinquiry.
Below is another letter reced from
a banker at Dublin. 1
You very likely have reiin The
Savannah Morning News tat the
Chamber of Commerce at Llin has
started a county-wide drivé begin
today, Monday: in Laureioumy,
‘to exterminate the boll w\l and
‘that likely you will make tlitem a
lprominent feature in your Fue at
once. {
The letter follows:
J. E. Turner, Vice Presit Ex
change National Bank, Fitgd, Ga,
The agitation as to the bfit de
rived from the use of calcil arse
nate mixed with syrup useq cot
ton started here the presen}ason,
A good many with whom |have
discussed the solution, claimit the
mixture would with ayrup | to
the plant and the sweetness|] at
tract the insect where othery the
dry- arsenate would produce | re
sults due to the fact that theevyil
Iwould not eat it. |
I operate a number of plowy
self, about 40, and I have ady
sent out my arsenate and SyTtiv
ing instructions-to start everyjld
Monday morning to picking the
squares that have fallen, with f*w
‘oilowing spraying the cotton afe
hind this crew plows are being,
I expect to keep this up all thiy
July, plowing my cotton rapitiljl
i You will notice this man haj.
mnch faith ip DRY or PO\N,}':Z?
iarscnatc as ‘they used it last |
' You will note also -he is picking
squares and working frequently
JULY. |
. The farmers in Ben Hill are ta
THE EPIRE MERCANTILE COMPANY.
Dry Goods and Clothing Phone 18.\
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1921,
.
Expert Will Address
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Tobacco Men At Tifton
EIFRTON, jJuly 11— Dr W W
Garner, physiologist in charge of the
Bureau of Plant Industry of the
United States Department of Agri
culture, will deliver an address to the
tobacco growers of this entire sec
tion at the Costal Plains Experiment
Statjon in this city next Tuesday,
July 12, at 11 o’clock,
The United States department ap
propriated the sum of $40,000 recent
ly for the location of a tobacco test
farm in Georgia and Tifton was se
lected as the place at which the same
was to be located and the grounds of
the Costal Pains Station - were ar
ranged for this purpose,
NOTICE TO FIRST
WARD SCHOOL PATRONS
You are asked to meet at the First
Ward School building for a thorough
inspection at 4 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon. A committee of bond
boosters will meet you there and
carry you for registration.
Mrs. L. Keim, Mrs, Lon Dickey,
Mts. € €. Persons, Mrs. I Geldess
and others.
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Miss Mickey Sanders spent last
k visiting in the suburban home
3t Mt and Mt | A George,
(o thic new semedy since they read
in ytur p7oor what the Chamber of
Commcrce says about the treatment’
Yours truly, .
~ J. E. TURNER, Vice. Pres,
ENTERPRISEK and PRESS
IN MEMORY OF
. H. H. REEVES
—_—
Brother M, H. Reeves walked with
God. It was a habit of his walk
wth God and they took a long walk
one day and Brother Reeves mnever
returned. The last time Bro. Reeves
was. seen he was walking with God
when a pilgrim falls out of thé pro
cession “now and the survivors be
gin to miss him, They remember in
what direction he was headed when
they sighted him last. Bro. Reeves
was one of those intimates belonging
to the inner circle who walked with
God but Bro, Reeves walked with
Him and just as love is the fulfillment
of law, walking with God is the full
fillment of worship.
They that turn many to righteous
ness shall shine as the stars for ever
and ever and this was true of Bro.
Reeves.
Bro. Reeves was Deacon Clerk and
church Treasury of Salem Baptist
Church of Ben Hill County Ga. We
wil miss his co-labors in our church
work. ;
Bro. Reeves has seven sons and two
daughter who survive him. He was
67 years old, and he departed this
life May 5, 1921, e
He believed the Scriptures and prac
ticed the same where it says bhe not
sloughful in business fervent in spirit
serving the Lord. He was energetic
and enthusiastic both in business and
in religion.
To have known him was to love
him, We Salem Baptist Church do
pray God’s richest blessings for his
family and point them to their fath
er's God whom he walked so close to.
We wang this memorial spread on our
church Q(*cm'd and copy sent the
Christian Index and the Fitzgerald
Leader for publication.
. Committee on Resolutions
W._ B, WHITE Chiiian,
ALFORD GIBBS,
1 1 YOIING
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Teaching Special
. .
Courses At Fitz-Hi
Mr. Raymond Ellers is teaching a
class in Mathematies and Mr, Harold
Kassewitz will begin teaching classes
in Latin and French Tuesday morn
ing at the High School to pupils of
the 9th and 10th grades. % %
FRED KISTLER
Dr. and Mrs. L. A, Turner re
ceived the sad news this morning of
tit death of Mrs. Turner’s brother
Mr, Fred Kistler, at Colorado
Springs, Colo. Mr, Kistler will be
remembered by some of the older
residents having lived here about fif
teen years ago, Six weeks ago while
driving_a small car he was caught
between a street car and a large
truck breaking his leg in two places
and fracturing one or more ‘ribs, He
had been in a hospital and was
thought to be getting along all right
!and the news came as quite a shock,
Mrs. Turner and little daughter
Mary Francis left this evening for
l Colorado.
Miss Evelyn Nicholls of Jackson,
réturned to her home Friday after a
delightful visit in the home of Miss
Irma Dunn,
9 Mrs. Guy E. Hope and little son
Guy X. Jr. left Saturday night for
Ithoir home in Birmingham, Ala., after
ents Mr. and Mrs, J. A, George, They
ldmve down to Tifton and took the
train there. 3
“LEADER OF QUALITY AND LOW PRICE”
Union Officials Issue Statement
~ Relative To Recent Disorder Here
ATLANTA, July 11.—The investi
gation made by the commitees re
porting the clash between the strik
ers who withdrew from the A, B. &
A. Ry March sth and strike breakers
who are now in the, service of said
railway at Fitzgerald indicates that
the trouble was foamented at a bar
becue given by the Officials of the
railway at the Fitzgerald shops July
4th, It seems that the speeches of
some parties at least had the effect
of inciting the strike breakers to
strut around the streets faunting de
fiatces and making insulting remarks
to the strikers, declaring that they
would wipe out the strikers picket
posts which surrounds_the Shops and
been maintained since the strike
wernt on. .
_ About 1 o’clock the morning of
July sth Engine No. 112 in charge
of Engineer R, Saunders and other
strike breakers when passing one of
the picket posts opened fire upon the
men who were around the picket
post. In the neighborhood of twen
ty shots were fired at the picket
posts; and as the result it was pretty
well riddled with bullets. After the
shooting the strikers went to the
residence of Sheriff Dorminey, re
porting the facts to him, furnishing
the name of Engincer Strike Break
er Saunders and requested him to
make an investigation of the affair,
which he -p()siti\'el_v refused ,to do.
However, later in the day on(? of the
strikers swore out a warrant for
Engineer Saunders charging him
with attempt to murder, Imt"t was
not cerved until late in the afternoon
oi the said date. He was arrested
and placed under $300.00 bond to ap
pear for hearing.
During the entire day of July sth
strike breakers circulated around the
town giving it out that they would
clean out the picket lines that night
and from the observations of strik
ers and others strike breakers were
going around the Wreets in a bellig
erent attitude and apparently well
armed, which points to the fact that
it was their intentions to commit an
assault upon the strikers.
At 10:00 o'clock the night of the
sth, when an Engine.was proceeding
from the shops to the passenger sta
tion and was within 125 feet of the
picket posts the men on the Engine
began shooting at the pickets. Sey
eral shots were fired. Men at the
picket posts, seeing that their lives
were in danger, made every possible
effort to get away from the bullets of
the striker breakers. The Engine
stopped at the picket posts for an
interval of a minute then moved
quickly away down towards the pas
senger station at which time it was
found that the Engineer was shot.
This incident spread quickly through
the town, and naturally men began
to congregate discussing the affair.
The Sheriff instead of placing citi
zens as deputy Sheriffs swore in a
number of strike breakers who were
thoroughly armed which did not do
the situation any good, However,
the . Mayor of the city and others
succeeded in promptly restoring or
der.
While this instant is very regret
table it @n be charged to the failure
of the County Officials to properly
enforce the law. Strikers have been
arrested on trumped up charges and
in some cases at least perjury and
fraud have been resorted to in ‘order
to connect the strikers with the de
struction of property and the court
records will fully substantiate this
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These are the eves cabinet mem
bers and department heads have to
look into in explaining government
expenses which “any average
business man would question in his
own business.” It is a new picture
of Charies Dawes, director of the
budget President Harding has
provoscd will cut down o ex-
Retail Merchants l
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Hold Meeting
Retail Merchants Association Will
Add Collection Department
~ Friday night at the Chamber of
Commerce the Retail Merchants As
sociation held its regular meeting,
irvcci\.ing' their first monthly report
of the assogation through Mr, Eth
eredge, \\‘hifi\\'us quite satisfactory,
‘The matter of adding a collection de
partment to the assocjation was dis
icusscd and favorably acted upon.
| Mr, D. W. M. Whitley was i At
lanta Friday attending the sessions of
the Senate and House of Representa
tives, He reports our legislative rep
resentatives on the job, ‘
SlcamEee
Mr, Gibson Broadhurst spent the
‘past week visiting Bellwood Boneyl
at his country place.
statement, The strikers in their
cause have more to lose through acts
of violence than it is possible for
them to gain, and therefore, they
commend anyone who will properly
see to the observance of law and
order.
Under the decisions of the court
men have a right to strike and Judge
Clayton emphasized that fact very
strongly on March 26th, and in keep
ing with his admonition to the men
who are now on strike we are en
deavoring to comply fully therewith.
Any failure to do so on the part of
the strikers will be repudiated and
denounced by the organizations with
out hesitancy.”
Val Fitzpatrick and J. B, Hogsed,
Joint Committee, A, B. & A. Strike,
Grocery Phone 155 '
FITZGERALD COTTON
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Official Organ City of Fitzgerald
Explosion ‘Follows, Setting the
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‘Were Seeking to Avoid Striking
Hangar on Field
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NEW YORK, July lith More
than sixteen thousand delegates -to
the fifth world’s Christian Endeavor
convention today gave a tremendous
demonstration to an appeal for fa
“warless world,” and a demand that
the United States join some internas
tional association to promote world
peace,
They cheered Fred B, Smith, chair
man of the Commission on Inter
church Federation, Federal Council
of the churches of Christ in America,
as he urged all Christian churches to
bring pressure to_bear upon the au
thorities at \‘»’;l>Tlil\::tr>l\ to make
America a member: of the League of
Nations or some other guild, 3
“It is the Christian duty of this
country without further delay, to join
some league or guild that will pro
mote world peace,” he declared, ad
ding, “if isolation from other nations
comes, it will be the saddest hour in
the history of the United States.”
The speaker said ne had made a
three months tour of Europe, and a
careful study of conditions had forced
him to realize that mever in its his
tory did the entire world rest upon a
more volcanic footing,
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Churchwells Buy Bi
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Dublin Store’s Stock
DUBLIN, Ga., July 11.—Church
well Brothers of Cordele, one of the
largest mercantile firms in Georgia,
with branch stores all over the
southern portion of the State, have
purchased the stock of goods of the
Merchants Trading Company of
Dublin, one of the largest frms ‘in
‘this immediate section, It vas sold
i(’l few days ago to the highest hidder,
No announcement of the plans of
the firm has been made, except that
the present Dublin store of Church
well's would not be merged with the
newly acquired store, It is expected
‘the stock will be apportioned among
some of the present stores of the
firm,
C inst "
ases Agains
Strlkg ers Dismissed
Judge Fred Powers dismissed the
warrants against Warner Durden and
W. T, Whittle, strikers, charged by
Sheriff E, H. Dorminey with incit
ing riot,
The cases were made aginst these
men Tuesday night when they ap
peared at the A. B. & A. station
with shot guns, The warrants were
dismissed for failure of prosecution,
J. L. McCarty returned from Palm
Beach this morning and reports the
roads between Waycross and Jack
sonville better than they ever have
been. “About 37 miles of this road
is now in perfect condition, capable
of making 60 miles an hour, and the
rest of the road is better than in for
mer days. (Gangs are at work both
in (‘}vm'gi‘?and Florida to complete
this link of the Dixie Highway,” Mr.
McCarty said on his return.
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