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Newspaper Page Text-A SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER FOR SOUTHERN PEOPLE AMERICUS TlMES-RECORDEk PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF DIXIE. WEEKL EDITION FORTY-FIRST YEAR—NO. 4. AMERICUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. JANUARY 23, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS. ITY FIREMEN GRANTED PAY RAISE FLU BAN GOES ON TIGHTER AS' COUNCIL BACKS HEALTH BOARD Closing Ordinance is Passed- Social Gathering Are Hit This Time. The flu "lfd" was clamped down tighter than ever here Wednesday af ternoon when the city conncil, at a special meeting held at the request of the .city board of health and Dr. B. F. Bond, city and county health offi cer; passed a most drastic ordinance prohlblttog until its repeal$gll public gatherings of whatsoever character. By the ordinance all schools, both public .and private, are closed. All movies or other places of amusement are closed. No meetings of lodges or fraternal organizations are permitted. No gatherings of a social nature may be .held. Business houses are allowed to op erate only on condition that no consid erable number of persons are permit- * ln them at one time; that only e haying business be allowed to enter; and that only as many persons as can be waited upon at one time by the employes of the business house be admitted. The ordinance, which was finally passed at 3:40 o'clock, became ef fective at once. The ordinance was drawn/by City •Attorney Lane, at the request of the city board of health. It was submit ted to council, accompanied by a let ter explaining that the influenza situa tion was serious and It was desired to have the support of council in closing public gatherings In a new attempt to stamp out the contagion. Dr. Bofid was present in person and explained to council-the result of a two-hour meeting of the board of health, and of the present need for the ordinance. He admitted, in reply to questioning, that he had ample authority under the law to close public places,'but asked for council to grain the additional authority as a matter of co-operation. In reply to questioning he stated that it was the intention of the board of health to allow no Indoor funerals while the closing order 1% in effect. The ordinance is aimed especially at social gatherings which have ig nored requests of the health authori ties heretofore, It is understood. "We decided to close up every thing." said Dr. Bond before the special meeting of council began. “We know that when we closed before the influenza situation Improved. There j Cigarettes Next To Follow Booze, W.GT.U.Program A lbany, n. y„ Jan. 22— now that nation-wide prohibition Js a*certainty, the W. ,C. T. U. will turn its' attention to cigarettes, gambling and profanity. So an nounces Mrs. Ella A. Boole, vice- president of the National W. C. T. U., and president of the New York state branch of the organization. "The fight against the cigarette,” admitted Mrs. Boole, "will be harder than that against gam bling. swearing and other evils, because many women as well as -men indulge in cigarettes. "Gambling.wlll doubtless take on a new lease of life during after- war reconstruction. We must, therefore,-be extremely alert from this moment on. We must drive against profanity which, like Its * brother In crime, gambling, is go- Jog to become more prevalent than ever as a result of the war and wartime associations." MISSION SENT IWIFE WHO ENDED AMAZING TO POLAND BY I CAREER OF MADMAN FREED lALUED PEACE CONFERENCE Presidents’ Proposal on Russian Pol icy Taken Up This Afternoon. CONSTITUTION IS DRAWN UP FOR IRISH REPUBLIC .TUSKEGEE, Ala., Jan. 22.—(By As sociated Press.)—A demonstration of agricultural work occupied most of is every reason to believe that result- tbe morn | n g a t Tuskegee Institute from closing this time. There is too much influenza In the community not to take all possible precautions, and If we can save one life by preventing further spread el the infection the closing will not have been in vain." I have the authority, legally, to close up the city,” said Dr. Bond, “but we thought if would be better to pur sue the policy of co-operation and ask the city administration to gel behind us at this time.*’ Flu Hits Shipping Along Gulf Coast ^MOBILE, Jan. 22.—(By Associated as.)—Influenza ha| reached such a tage here and along the coast that it is interfering with the sailing of rans-At!ant!c steamers. GEO. T. OLIVER DIES. PITTSBURG, Jan. 22.—(By Asso- ed Press.)—Former United States ir George T. Oliver, died at his ie here this morning after a lln- rtng illness. DUBLIN, Jan. 22.—(By Associated Press.)—According to the provisional constitution of the Irish republic, now before the “Dahl Elre^nn,” legislative powers will be vested In deputies to be selected from existing parliament- ary constituencies. The ministry will consist of a president and four exec utive officers—secretaries of finance, home affairs, foreign affairs and na tional defense. All revenues will be raised on vote of the “Dahl Eireann." The constitution may be altered on seven days' notice. Sir Horace Plunkett, Professor Ed ward Do Valera and Arthur Griffith probably will be appointed delegates to the Paris peace conference. The British government has decided t<f proclaim the Tipperary district a military area, as a consequence of t$e killing, of two policemen and the seiz ure of blasting explosives they were guarding, en route to a quarry It Is unqnown what persons aro guilty of the killing. PARIS, Jan. 22.—(By Associated Press.)—The supreme peace council this morning ocnsldered the Polish question and decide dto send a mis sion to Poland. This was announced In an official statement of proceedings. The proposal from President Wilson regarding the'-Russian situation will be discussed this afternoon, the statement added. In addition to the members, Mar shal Foch, General Weygand, his chief of staff, and Rear Armlral Hope, of the British admiralty board, at tended this morning’s meeting. It was assumed the Russian situa tion on the Baltic and the land front was to be discussed. More of Old 31st ' Reach U. S. Soil NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—(By Asso ciated Press.)—The transport -Man churia arrived today with training corps from the Thirty-first division, composed of men from Georgia, Flor ida and Alabama, and artillery anil ammunition units from the same di vision. Parts of the same units were brought home on the same vessel De cember 20. Bremen in Hands of Working Men A late iphotograph of Mrs. Jac ques Lebaudy, and her daughter, Jac queline. Mrs. Lebaudy has confessed her crime to the authorities and expressed confidence (a her acquittal, (c).Underwood'& Underwood. No Indictment Against S'cyer of Millionaire Who Seized Part of Africa to Rule. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 22.—(By Asso ciated Press.)—The city of Bremen is "' ul " ““ virtually in the hands of wording men, »****» daughter. Jacqueline, for MINEOLA, N. Y.. Jan. 22.—One of the most amazing and eccentric ca reers ever brought to light came to an end when Mme. Jacques Lebaudy flred tour shots into the body of her mil lionaire husband, the self-styled “Em peror of Sahara,” at their palatial home near here, a couple of weekB ago. Yesterday the Nassau county grand Jury exonerated her, returning a nb-bill for the slaying, and Mme. Le baudy left the cell a free woman. She went to her home, accompanied by her 500 Delegates at Tuskegee Meeting here, where the annual Tuskegee Ne gro conference started today. More than five hundred delegates from all over the country are here. ^OES THIS POOR NUT EXPECT APPLAUSE WHEN HE MAKES THIS REMARK* according to a dispatch to the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger. Working men have occupied the barracks, town hall, tele phone office and banks, and hav9 post ed machine guns In the market -place and public buildings. » t Merchant Marine Policy is Taken Up WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—(By Asso ciated Press.)—Formulation of a defi nite merchant marine policy was con sidered at a meeting of shipping men which opened here today. The speak ers included Senator Fletcher, of Florida. Amusement Tax Rate Will Stand ^WASHINGTON. Jan. 22.—tBy Asso ciated Press.)—Taxes on amusement admission wlll^pot he Increased by the war revenSfb bill. The conferees agreed today to rescind their previous decision to Increase the rate to 20 per cent | THE COTTON MARKET i LOCAL SPOT. Good Middling 25 1-2 cento. NEW YORK FUTURES. Prov. Close Open High Low Close Jin. .25.10 25.25 28.03 24.20 2420 Mar .23.78 23.78 24.07 23.30 23.49 May .22.50 22.80 2220 22.13 22.15 July .21.03 2L70 22.02 2120 2122 Oct. .19.92 19.03 20.15 19.32 19.44 the preservation of whose happiness, more than for her own safety, she says she killed h£r husband. "My fondest wish Is that I will be permitted now to rest in seclusion,” was her only comment as she left the Jail. News of her exoneration was token to Mme. Lebaudy by Mrs. Phlneas Sea- ginan,, matron of the Jail, at 3 o'clock, shortly after the grand Jury hod re ported "no Indictment.” Madame Le baudy, who had pased her quarters In, the Jail nervously throughout the afternoon, fainted but quickly recov- .rcd. She w*a kneeling with a crucifix pressed to her breast, and offering a fervent prayer in French when her at torney entered to confirm >Irs. Sea man's report "Thank God It’s all over," she cried, bursting Into tears. Mme. Lebaudy Is a middle-aged wo man with an Inexpressibly sad face. It la a face bearing still some traces of beauty, ai evidenced by Its oval out lines, Its very dark eyes and its crowr of plenteous black hair. The room she occupied in the jail here Is the same one in whfch was confined Mrs. Blanca de Saulles, who shot and killed her husband. John Longer de Saulles. Mrs. De Saulles and Mrs. Lebaudy are neighbors, too, their.long Island * homes adjoining. Both say they killed for the Bakes of their children, Mrs. De Saulles for her little son, Mrs. Lebaudy to protect her 15-year-old daughter. Jacqueline. "I killed to save my daughter from worse than death," Mrs. Lebaudy told her attorney. "Lebaudy told me I must be like women in certain Oriental countries where the mouther upon be coming unattractive to her hnsband. must permit her daughter to take her place. He was a Mohammedan and belleied In strange practises.” * The four bultel sMrs. Lebaudy put Into the body of her husband ended one of the maddest, -most picturesque careen of modern times. Jacques Le baudy, by inheritance and by exercise of peculiar faculties for sensation and money making, was many times a mil- Jlanaire. In 1903 h estartled Europe and almost caused international com plications by seizing n strip of land on th6 northern coast of Africa am! pro claiming It his empire. • 'No jjatlon Claimed the land, but England, France and Spajp were interested In adjacent regions and they did not welcome their new neighbor. Lebaudy’s project fail ed and he disappeared. Later he turn ed up in New York City. He bought a 60-acre estate on Long Island, built a 50-room ipanslon known as “Tho Lodge,” and installed his wife and daughter there. Lebaudy spent little time in his mansion, however, and what little be did spend there was tempestuous The man's madnesses were many. When “emperdr" he threatened repris als on “all parts of the earth's sur face” against those who opposed him. He claimed the titles Jacques I, Najim- al-Din, Commander of the Faithful, King of Tar^ala. Duke of Arieuf, ( rlnce of Cbat-Huin and Emperor of 11 the Sabaras. On one trip to New York he bought several hundred pounds of coffee, then obtained a great Iron safe and pnt 'the coffee in It. After ordering a dinner at tjie Waldorf-Astoria he sprang to his feet as a waiter passed him with some Iamb chops on a tray, seized cne cf the chops and calmly ate it, holding it In his fingers. A few days ln'i-r In the same hotel cafe ho emptied a curate of water about him, suylog the room was too “darned wiiim.” He always wore a brown ulster, the hl*!i collar turned up, whlli lie ate hii »• eels. At another time te chartered » me t?r car and ten cabt and, titling in t-.ie car tad the c.n.r > cabs fs.i.w him In single file while he tonred the city. For the smallest purchase, even a nickel’s worth, he would demand a re ceipt. On one occasion he" idorncJ oto •. ead with a tin dlnn r and stuck parts of dessicated wash boilers about his person, then proceeded to run wild on his estate. He threw up all sorts of earthen Unifications and barri cades of old wagons and household furniture about bis estate and (Continued on Page 4.) WALK-OUT AT NOON STOPPED BY PROMISE OF INCREASE OF $5 Impromptu Meeting of Fire Commit tee and Mayor Held to Meet Situation. STRIKE SATURDAY NIGHT IS PREVENTED NEAR MIDNIGHT Sliding Scale, Twice Refused by 'Council, to Apply Only to New Men. The firemen of Amcrlcus received a promise of higher wages Wednesday which averted a walkout of all of the department, except the chief and as sistant chief, set for 12 o'clock. The men were given a definite promise by the mayor and fire committee of coun cil of a flat increase from their pres ent wages of 265 per month to 970 per month. All new men entering the department, however, are to be put on a sliding scale, starting at 965, and getting 91 Increase each month until the rate of 270 Is reached. The Increase came as a result of an ultimatum from the men which was given to tho officers privately last Saturday at about 11 p. m.. after their petition for an Increase had been re fused at a special meeting of council. Some of the men were so disappointed at' the action of council at that time that they prepared to walk out body at 10 o'clock that night, leaving the city without Are protec tion. Cool heads prevailed upon the men not to act hastily, and Mayor Sheppard and Chairman Horton, of tho council Are committee, were call ed to the fire station, it was reported today, where they asked thb men to abide by their promise in tho'r peti tion not to strike, bnt, If they tiesired to quit, to do so singly, that the city might not bo left unprotected from fire. The men acqulcsped, but an nounced their intention of leaving, Wednesday nt noon being tho time limit set by them, according to information. Tuesday Chairman Horton of the fire committee, called (he committee {together, and with Mayor Sheppard, each .fireman who proposed to walk out was Interviewed alone. A major ity adhered to their threat to quit at noon Wednesday. Wednesday as the hour of noon approached, and tho men held to their intention of quitting in a body at the noon hour, the fire committee and mayor met again and, after consider able discussion, decided that, sjnee they were powerless, and since the city must not be left without fire pro tection they woulej offer tho men the schedule of increased pay presented at the conhcil meeting last Saturday by Mr. Horton, providing foi; a sliding scale for the men, starting at 265 and increasing 91 each mohtli up' to a maximum of 270 per month. Tho men offered the counter proposal of ac cepting, if tho raise were, made Im mediate and applicable to all present membors of the department. The com mittee decided to grant the proposal, with the stipulation that all now men hereafter employed shall begin at 965 and bo Increased '21 monthly until $70 is reached. This was tho Ilnai ar rangement was accepted both sides. The men tbqn returns to their poste. The mayor and fire commute* war* ablo to enter Into this agreement be cause they constitute a majority of council, having, four votes against three remaining members who are on this committee. However, the committee does not anticipate any set ’ opposition to their agreement with I (Continued on Page Five)

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1917-1922, January 23, 1919, Image 1