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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. e 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 ® . . 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 % Germans Accept New ® L ~ 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. : @ Race Riot Rages In e ® ° 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 o 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. oRe L 3 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. : L l o ° Ex-Soldier Custodian . o ' 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 =~ 23 . 1 - 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. ® . Irish Rebel Killed ” 0. 0 ' In Attacking British (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. ¢ 9 Alleged “Scabs” Sent ‘ . ® - Away Without Injury 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. | . Knights Templar ° 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. o Linotype Censored o L] “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.” - ° Harding Urges Aid » @ - 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 R 4 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. . Locomotive Damaged ‘ ® 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. ] R —— | . Strike Breakers On : L] 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