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SATURDAY
EDITION
WEATHER--Thunderstorms tonight;
Sunday, Fair and colder. ;
RAIL STRIKERS RANKS REMAIN UNBROKEN
RAILWAY LABOR BOARD INTERVENES IN STRIKE
. ON MARGH 26th
Will Determine Whether Its
. Order Was Violated
TRY SETTLE STRIKE
Representatives of Employes Re
suested to Attend
€CHICAGO, March 12.—The
United States Labor Board to
day intervened in the strike on
sthe A. B. & A. setting March 21,
as the date for hearing to deter
mine whether the road has violat
ed the Board’s formal resolution
of July, 1920 establishing what
should constitute reasonable and
just wages for certain classes of
railroads.
The conference will -be in the
nature of an endeavor to settle
the strike if such action is within
Yits-power. Notices requesting ap
pearance of representatives of
striking employees and the re
ceiver of the A. B. & A. before
board were mailed today.
)Under the transportation act,
the employees must be represent
ed by one of the number who was
responsible for the interruption
of the service.. In .other words,
antA. B. & A. employee and not
a union national executive must
pypresent the men. W. M. Mar
'ti'} chairman of the joint federa
'V}{\\Vommittee of the thirteen
stifking crafts, will represent the
men. -
BIRMINGHAM, March 12—Nor
mal train schedules over the A. B. &
A. were confidently predicted by Sup
erinfendent Whitaker in a short time,
in an announcement today. The of
ficials are preparing to ask Federal
J‘t’dge Clayton for. an injunction to
prevent interference from Union men
in operating trains.
HARDING TAKES
NO ACTION
WASHINGTON, March 12.—Al
though the President is watching
,{losely the railroad situation and the
action taken by railroad executives
looking to general wage reductions,
he is taking no official action, it was
staqter at the White House today.
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Standard Oil Puts
New Rates In Effect
The new rate schedule established
by the Standard Oil Company went
into effect today. The price of kero
sene is 19 cents to dealers. Gasoline
is¥ 2714 to dealers. The consumer’s
price on gasoline is 29 cents. The
dealers fix their own price on kero
sene.
Gen. Wood Asks
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. Armenian Offering
Appeals For Aid To ' Suffering
#. War Stricken People Of
' Near East
Leader News Bureau,
4th National Bank Bllg.,
ATLANTA, March 12. (Speciol)—
Major General Leonard Wood, wiring
the Georgia Committee on Near East
Relief, of which Henry B. Kennedy,
an Atlanta banker, is state chairman,
makes an urgent plea in behalf of the
Assmenians. General Wood is chair
man of a special committee of repre
sentative men and women of the
country, charged with placing a mil
alion Armenians, the remnant of the
oAdest * christian nation, whom suffer
ings through sixteen centuries seem
to have brought them no nearer peace,
Aiberty, or security.
General Wood makes an appeal for
a Lenten sacrifice offering to enable
the Near East Relief to go on with its
work of mercy. He says that over one
hundred thousand children, who have
mabmlutely dependent upon the
s rt which America gives them
through the Near East.
THE FIrZGERALD LEADER
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Germans Accept New
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~ Invasion Quietly
Union Leaders Tell Allies Workers
Have No Quarrel with Them
(By International News gervice)
French Military Headquarters, Neuse,
March 12—There has been neither
fighting nor friction with the towns-
Ruhrort, the German cities cccupied
by the Allies Tuesday and the workers
are pursuing the regular routine of
work uninterested by the entrance cf
the Allies. :
A delegation of union leaders assur
‘ed General Gaucher that the workers
are not hostile towards the troops and
expect to remain on good terms with
them. :
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Race Riot Rages In
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Springfield, Ohio
(By International News)
SPRINGFIELD, March 12.—This
city was quiet today after riots con
tinuing until early this morning.
Troops from nearby towns arrived
this morning and, cooperating with
the civil authorities will maintain or
der.
Race feeling has run high gince
the assault on an eleven-year old
white girl by a negro Monday night
and. culminated’ after midnight today,
after a negro had shot Policeman
Joseph Ryan, who it is believed will
recover.
Citizens poured into the downtown
section. It is claimed that Ryan was
searching for firearmg when he was
shot. Five negroes are reported shot,
one in a hospital. A white man was
caught scattering dynamite in the
negro section. Negroes behind trees
and buildings shot at the whites but
their aim was poor. Many negroes
are leaving,
Seaboard Cuts Otf
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Office At Savannah
(By International Newgs Service) :
SAVANNAH, March 12—The of
fice of the general superintendent of
the Seaboard Air Line at Savannah
has been abolished. H. W. Purvis has
been removed to Norfolk, and his of
fice has closed. This is in line with
the policy of the Seaboard to reduce
operating costg. It is thought one
general superintendent at Hamlet, N.
C., can handle the work.
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Fertilizer Price l
Starts Drop Here
Ben Hill Company Announces First
Slash in Commercial Mixtures
The “buyers’ strike” of farmerg who
refused to pay war time prices for
fertilizer after the action of the Ben
Hill Farm Bureau is holding off the
market, resulted yesterday in an
nouncement of a substantial cut: in
the price of commercial fertifizers by
the Ben Hill Warehouse Company.
The Fitzgerald Cotton Oil Mill
Company announced some time ago
a “ton for ton” proposition on a fer
tilizer mixture for a ton of cotton
seed.
The planting season ig now well
advanced and all the fertilizer that is
to be bought will have to be bought
within the next week or two.
The fertilizer dealers will have to
take heavy losses on their product as
all ingredients were bought at war
time prices.
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Ex-Soldier Custodian .
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' Of Alien Property
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 12—VPres
ident Harding today named Thomas
Miller, former congressman frocm Del
aware, as alien property custodian.
He is an ex-service man. i
VOL. 1, NO. 6
"HARDING’S HELP
Bugg Refuses to Mediate Strike;
- Commissioners Leave
GO TO WASHINGTON
Will Ask President to Use In
fluence for Settlement
ATLANTA, March Iz—Eftorts by
two Federal mediators te settle the
wage strike on the Atlanta Birming
ham and Atlantic Railway came to a
sudden end here late Friday when af
ter refusal of B. L. Bugg, receiver,
to enter into the proceedings the two
commissionerg announced they would
return to Washington.
The mediators, L. C. Chambers and
Whitehead Kluttz, it was indicated
will place the matter before Presi
dent Harding in an attempt to restore
service on the road which has been
practically paralized since the strike
began a week ago.
The correspondence between the
mediators and Col. Bugg which closed
the effort to arbitrate the controversy
follows. Judge W. L. Chambers wrote
to Col. Bugg as follows:
Colonel B. L. Bugg, Receiver.
My Dear Colonel Bugg: .
Acknowledging your letter of this
date in reply to the one from Asgist
ant Commissioner Kluttz and myself
of the same date.
I regret exceedingly that in our sev
eral conversations with you we have
failed to impress you with the fact
that in consenting to mediation you
do not bind yourgelf “to agree to
pay wages beyond the power of the
railroad to earn the money with which
to pay them,” nor have we proposed |
to you to bind yourself or the rail
road to any proposal or to any condi
tion except that in the acceptance of
our proffer of services you would co
operate through us in reaching a basis
of settlement which the employees
might be induced to accept. As 4
matter of fact, we do not ask either
party in advance to agree to do any
thing except to enter cordially with
us in an effort to reach an amicable
adjustment of the dispute, and in do
ing this there is no advanced commit
tal on the part of either party to make
any concession. It is always posgible,
even in mediation, that may be able
to convince the other party that he
is wholly right in the dispute. In case
the mediators should come to the con
clusion that there is a compromise
point which is just to each party there
would be nothing binding the parties,
or ecither of them, to accept such con
clusion. :
With the foregoing statement we
once more, in the spirit of decp ear
nestness, and in the highest concem]
of public interest, ask you to recon
sider what we now understand to be
a refusal on your part to accept the
services of the board of mediation as
tendered, and that guch services may
yet be availed of by you. Sincerely
yours, .
(Signed) W. L. CHAMBERS.
P. S.—Mr. Kluttz is temporan’lyl
absent,
Bugg’s Final Reply
This letter elicited the following
reply from the receiver:
“Hon. W. L. Chambers.
“My Dear Judge Chambers: ' In
reply to your favor of March 10th, I
am unable to add anything to my let
ter to you of that date, which was so
plain a statement of my position that
it could not be misunderstood.
“No matter what conclusion might
be reached by arbitration or media
tion, 1 could not pay out as wages
more than the road earns, for the ob
vious reason that I could have no
means with which to pay. This prop
osition is no more suspectible to com
promise than the multiplication table.
“If the labor unions will permit thel
former employees of the railroad to
return to work, they will be restored
‘to their old positions, provided we
can use their services and those posi
tions have not already been filled, and
mediation will not be necessary for
that purpose. Very truly yours,
. (Signed) B. L. BUGG,
“Receiver.”
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 12th, 1921,
TURNER GA. FARM
State Convention in Atlanta
Names Him for 3rd Dist.
‘ BUREAU MEETS TODAY
‘To Vote on National Cotton
l Pool; New Committees
‘ J. E. Turner, treasurer of the Ben
!Hill Farm Bureau Federation, was
yesterday elected as member of the
lGeorgia Advisory Board of the farm
bureau from the Third Congressional
‘District. The election was held at
‘the closing of the state convention in
Atlanta.
’ The Ben Hill Bureau was represent
ed in Atlanta by Secretary =~ C. T.
Owens, and A. J. Sword, chairman of
‘the Fitzgerald council. Marion Dick
‘son, county chairman, was unable to
‘attend because fires which broke out
in the woods around his farm had to
‘be watched. Mrs. S. M. Whitchard
and Mrs. R. L. Stone, other delegates
‘were detained by illness.
~ The special meeting of the Ben Hill
‘Farm Bureau set for today went into
session at 2:30 o’clock today.
. Its principal work will be reaching
la decision on whether to recommend
;cntrance of the members into the na
‘tional cotton sales pool plan. Ferti
lizer and cooperative fire insurance
will also be discussed.
- Secretary Owens stated that a new
lplan of operation for the Farm Bu
reau would be innuagurated today.
The administrative work of buying
and selling which has been largely
thrown on his shouldérs will be di
vided between special committees ap
pointed each for a certain thing and
held responsible for it by their fellow
members. A watermelon marketing
committee will be named this after
noon. Mr. Owens wants to devote
more time to Club work.
J. J. Flanders and Wife of Ocilla
in Accident
HAWKINSVILLE, Ga., March 12.
—ln an automobile accident six miles
south of this city Friday afternoon,
J. J. Flanders, editor of the Ocilla
Star, and his wife were seriously in
jured. The machine was being driven
by Mrs. Flanders. The full extent of
the injuries sustained by the couple
had not been determined. Mr. and
Mrs. Flanders were on their way to
Adrian to spend the week-end with
Mr. Flanders” mother. A -daughter is
attending Wesleyan College at Macon
and a son is at Annapolis.
Editor Flanders is well known
throughout South Georgia. He has
relatives living in Valdosta and Ocilla,
Atlantan’s Murder =~
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- Remains Unsolved‘
Was Cousin of A. M. Mobley, Skat
ing Rink Proprietor Here
(By International News Service)
ATLANTA, Mar. 12—Fred Thomp
son, thirty-five year old propric\or of
a vulcanizing concern was found
stabbed to death near the end of the
Lakewood trolley early today. He
was literally hacked to pieces. The
police woh are investigating, have dis
carded the robbery theory. ‘
Mr. Thompson was a cousin of A.
M. Mobley, operator of the skating
rink on Central and Sherman streets.
Mr. *Mobley confirmed the reports
from the police that robbery was
probably not the motive of the crime.
as Mr. Thompson rarely carried any
large amount of money on his person.
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Irish Rebel Killed
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(From Yesterday's Daily)
DUBLIN, March 12—Seven Sinn
Feiners were killed in County Leitrim
when detachment thirty British sol
diers was attacked near Seltonlil, The
Troops were attacked from am
buscade.
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Alleged “Scabs” Sent
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l Is Said That Strikers Persuaded Seven
Non-Union Men Friday.
According to a rumor current this
afternoon, a detachment of seven al
leged strike-breakers were met by a
delegation of strkers yesterday after
noon when they came in on the Sea
board Air Line and were persuaded to
leave the city without attempting to
interfere with non-operation of the A.
B. and A.
It is said that the men were escor
ted out of the city in automobiles and
persuaded to return to Atlanta after a
conference with the union delegation.
According to the rumor it is further
understood that no ill treatment was
offered the men but that they were
simply convinced of the fact that the
’Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic is
‘not in operation in this city and that
no really good jobs are open at
l present.
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Knights Templar
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Pass Inspection
Gesthemane Lodge Guest of Eastern
Star at Thurgday Banquet :
Gesthemane Commandery No. 20,
Knights Templar, held its annual
banquet and inspection Thursday
night at the W. R. C. and Masonic
halls. At the W. R. C. Hall the
ladies of “the Eastern Star prepared
and served a sumptuous banquet for
the local and visiting Knights after
which the inspection wag held at the
Masonic Hall.
Judge D. A. R, Crum, a Knight
from Cordele, ‘officiated at the inspec
tion, praising the men for their excel
lent work. Judge Crum was made an
honorary member of the local com
mandery.
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Linotype Censored
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“Assisted By Sadie”
Names of Two of Best In Class Play
Dropped by Typesetting Machine
The Leader'slinotype machine, prob
ably in a spirit of revolt over being
worked considerably more than union
hours since the daily was started, took
a hand in editting copy Thursday
night dropped several lines of the
criticism of the Senior Class play, “As
sisted by Sadie.” While only those di
rectly concerned noticed the typo
graphical error, the Leader believes in
giving credit where credit is due so‘
this correction is made, ‘
The second paragraph of the story
in Friday's paper was written to read
as follows: !
“Pauline Dunn, in the title roll of
Sadie Brady, a private detective, won
her way quickly into popularity with
the audience with a clever and unaffec
ted portrayal of her part. The other
outstanding stars of the evening were
Effie Cleo Brewer, as an excitable but
masterful dowager, and Mark Mayes,
as the dashing young leading man,
Thoge three and Eldridge Powell, in a
juvenile comedy role, accomplished
the thing most difficult to amateur
actors, submerging themselves com
pletely in the characters they repre
sented and actually “playing” rather
than reciting their parts. :
“Mrs. C. F. Shewmake, head of the
English department was directress of
the performance and the players
showed effect of her practiced hand
in making an effective interpretations
of several difficult situations.”
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Harding Urges Aid
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- To Standard Chinese
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 12—Pres
‘ident Harding today issued an appeal
to the American people to continue
lqid to famine stricken China. N
SHORT AND SNAPPY
NEWS OF THE WORLD
BY TELEGRAPH
COTTON—Good Middling_____lo%¢
No Sales, No Receipts
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Seek Injunction Against Inter
ference with Trains
TRAIN BREAKS DOWN
Officials Predict Resumption of
Traffic Schedules
(By International News)
ATLANTA, March 12—With Fed
eral Mediators on their way to Wash
ington, Receiver B. L. today is still
preparing to resume schedules as fast
as possible. Applications for vacant
positions continue to be received and
‘examined in Birmingham and Atlanta.
' Officials of the A. B. &A. stated
today that practically none of the
strikers have applied for reinstate
ment.
A train left Atlanta at 7:15 o’clock
t his morning for Cordele, and is ex
pected to return to Atlanta Sunday.
The train from Birmingham to Line
ville and return will run again today.
LEHIGH VALLEY CUTS
ALL EXCEPT BIG 4 :
HAZELTON, PA., March 12--The
Lehigh Valley Railroad today announ
ced wage cuts for all except the four
Big Brotherhoods, effective April 16th,
The amount has not been fixed.
PACKERS AND MEN TO
ARBITRATE WAGES
CHICAGO, March I%tn.,—President
Warren G, Harding’s suggestion thru
Secrtary of Labor, Davis, that the
packers and employees each ser.d rep
resentatives to Washington to aid in
investigation of wage controversy was
agreed to by both sides, it was learned
today.
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Locomotive Damaged
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By Non-Union Man
Reliable information just reached
union headquarters at Fitzgerald that
the train that was supposed to have
left Atlanta yesterday and went thru
to Manchester was manned by an in
expcrienc‘ engineer and: that a
minor accident to machinery of en
gine occured at Stratford a distance of
six miles from Atlanta and as the
non-union ' engineer did not know
what to do, the train did not get any
further.
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Strike Breakers On
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Way Here, Is Said
Rumored that Train Headed for Cor
dele Today Carries Breakers
A report current here this after
noon was to the effect that the At
lanta Birmingham and Atlantic Train
No. 2, bound from Atlanta to Cor
dele and which normally reached
Fitzgerald at 4:10 o’clock, is carry
ing a force of strike breakers. The
train is scheduled to stop at Cordele
and return tonight, ;
The strike breakers, if any are be
ing brought, are expected to come in
this evening over the Seaboard or in
automobiles tonight, it is said. It is
generally understood that the strike
breakers will ‘be met by delegations of
union men who will explain the facts
of the situation to them.
SEE COLD WEATHER
FOR NEXT WEEK
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 12,
—The weather next week; South At
lantic States—unsettled, frequent rain
and temperature below normal w}‘_!h
frosts in the interior. ey
Advertised goods are good good:
mm't afford to wms