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FORTY.THIRDYEAR.NO. 10
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— AMER1CUS, GEORGIA, THRUSDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 10,1921 prtpf nvr'mnt 3
START MADE TO RESUME SERVICEON A. B. & A.
tyEEKU
EDITION
TO SELL AUTOS
ANDINVENTORY
ALL MATERIAL
Hardine For Making
Statement Public When
It Is Prepared
WASHINGTON, March 9—A com-
plete inventory of nil leftover ma
terials in possession of the War De
partment as of March 4 will be or
dered by the new secretary of war
at once.
This inventory is planned not only
to show the amount of these war
materials stored from coast to coast
but also to show their physical con
dition.
Former Senator John L. Weeks is
the new secretary of war. He has
discussed this inventory with Presi
d'd Harding, who has not only ap-
—yW it. hut has suggested that the
aata be made public when completed.
War department officials admit
they have no accurate information
concerning' the hundreds of millions
of dollars' worth of supplies left on
the department's hands at tiro urmis-
tlCCi " ,r * 1 1 * -
The situation is described thus:
The wires are down between the
outlying depots and the central do-
pots and^ Washington.”
The Harding administration plans
to send into the field experts who
will make actual inventories on the
ground.
Vast quantities of supplies are im
properly stored.
Often these supplies are thrown to-
gethor in a great heap, helter-skelter,
like so much junk, in the open with
no protection.
The consequent depreciation has
«>st the government hundreds of mil
lions of dollars and each'day this
condition continues the loss increas
es.
Congressman C. Frank Reavis of
Nebraska, has frequently called at-
tention of congress to tho loss in
automobiles, auto trucks, tractors,
mobile maheine shops and other mo-
tor equipment.
The Nebraskan, who characterizes
this situation, has introduced a bill
to compel the War Department to
turn over to the Bureau of Good
Hoads of the Agricultural Depart
ment all motor equipment which can
be used in highway construction,
ihis cquipmc-kt in turn will be dis
tributed among the 48 Ktatcs.
Thb Reavis bill has been endorsed
by highway commissioners through
out the nation, who are wiring their
congressmen and senators, urging
that the bill be enapted.
In defence of the automobile
wastage army officials claim that
when the armistice cume the depart
ment found itself possessed of thous
ands of trucks and autos “with no
place to go.” Some had accumulated
nt ports, gome were on the seas,
F.ome were on route to the seaboard.
Because the equipment had to be
removed from the ports to make room
for returning soldiers, it was found
necessary to store it in any way pos
sible.
• Array officials also claim uncer
tainty as to the future size of the « —— —
army made it unwise to dispose of j the highway department of Georgia
the motor equipment. j for distribution among the various
Thousands of the tractors were I counties in road building from a war
shipped to the Texas border for open department order put a stop to such
air storage, with most of them at * disposition of this equipment, have
El Paso and Galveston. I been in storage for six months or
Automobiles were shipped to Camp I more at the Agricultural college, un
Juct one of the places where millions of dollars' worth of surplus war
materials are going to waste—Camp Jessup, Ga.
FATE W 12,000
GOAL STRIKERS
: UPT0JURY0F3
Outcome Of Alabama
Mine War Left To
Commission
BIRMINGHAM, la., March 9.—
The case of the coal operators of
Alabama versus the United Mine
Workers of America has gone to tho
jury.
Its verdict will decide whether
there's to be ultimate peace or re
newed warfare in thp great industrial
fields 6t this district, shaken for uh.w
ators and 12,000 striking miners. *|
It will decide, also, whether thous
ands of miners and their families
now living in tent colonies establish
ed by the miners' organization, will
thus continue to live in the open or
will be permitted to return to com
pany-owned homes from which they
were oqgted by a state supreme court
ruling. The jury consists of:
William T. Sheehan, newspaper
t editor, chairman.
John W| Ducr, wholesale drug
gist.
Richard M. Hobble, wholesale gro
cer.
They were named by Governor Kil-
by to “get the facte” in the mine
war.
All are from Montgomery, far re-
moved from tho industrial Held* and
are disinterested third parties.
True. Id Effect
A truce was declared while the
Jury investigated. Van A. Bittner.
International officer of the mine
Workere, f„ behalf of workers in ths
district, agreed unreservedly to ac
cept the findings of the conjjnission
Orators made a similar promise.
The entire issue hinges upon the
recognition, of the right of the min-
erg to bargain collectively through
TROTZKY TAKES
REFUGE BEHIND
PETROGRAD FORT
Street Fighting Continu
ing, Says Helsingfors
Message
LONDON, Mary 9. — (By Asso
ciated Press.)—A Central News dis
patch from Helsingfors, dated today,
cays street fighting is continuing in
Petrograd nnd that War Minister
Trotzky and Soviet Governor Zino-
vieff, of Petrograd are reported to
have* taken refuge in tho Fortress
St. Peter and St. Paul, surrounded
by a large number of protective
troops. _
SOVIET REPORTS
MUTINEERS' SPLITTING.
LOND, March 9.—(By Associated
Press.)—Workers in Soviet Russia
unanimously are indignant over the
uiiu..iu.wuai; UIC IMUlgtlUIII. UVUI VUV
revolutionary uprising at Kronstadt
and aro begging to be allowed to
light against the forces engaged with
the Soviet troops there, says a wire
less from Moscow.
The dispatch says “Friction is be
ginning to be noticeable among the
the mutineers.”
WHITE RUTHENIANS
QUIT RUSSIA.
WARSAW, March 9.—(By Assoi
dated Press.)—Tho white Ruthecn-
ians havo proclaimed the independ-
enc from Russia, according to a
Minsk report received today.
Central Baptists To
Talk Coming Revival
Mid-week prayer services at Cen
tral Baptist church this evening at
7:30 o’clock will be conducted by
the pastor, Rev. Henry T. Brook
shire, who will speak from the fifth
chapter of James. A spiritual song
service will be included in the
prayer services.
Following the closing of the ser- Vl ° bargain collectively througl
vice, plans wil be disclusscd by the «nd national officers. Tho quar<
nf thn annisraintioH f.. „ t*i>l 11VPP tvnirnu llmn-n.l I • ii_ I 1 .
members of the congregation for the
coming evangelistic meeting which
will be held in Central Baptist
church.
A cordial invitation is extended
an the friends of the congregation to
meet at these mid-week services.
BOND ISSUE CARRIES
ATLANTA, March 9.—The $3,-
•>00,000 municipal bond issue for wa
ter and sewer extension, schools and
a viaduct over the railroad .tracks at
Spring street in the heart of the city,
passed at yesterday’s election by a
^afe margin.
Jessuo, Ga.. Fort Sill, Okla., Camp
Hotabird, Md., ar.d to Columbus, O.,
Indianapolis, Ind., and other places.
Thousands of cars were left to rot
in the open.
Efforts will be made to dispose
marketable automobiles at an
date.
THIRTY TRUCKS HERE
SHIELDED FROM WEATHER.
About thirty army trucks from
I-amp Jesup. which were allotted U
•ler the supervision of Division
Engineer Caye. These trucks are
shielded from the weather in barns
at the college, and are therefore not
deteriorating as rapidiv ns those.'left
out in the cnen elsewhere. These
trucks are to be apportioned to coun
ties in thisi district when they are pre
pared to make use of them In Federal
aid work. Sumter county has a num
ber of the trucks, allotted when the
county paving program was under
taken a year or more ago.
r >-'l over wages figured negligibly. •
The jury :a now in session at Bir.
nunghnm. It has asked for briefs
from both sides. It will hear what
witnesses it wants ot call and any tes.
tiniony either side cares to offer
Then it will report to the governor.
Meanwhile, throughout the strike
sone, added tent colonies are spring
ing un daily.
Union leaders say 2,500 men, wo
men and children are living in tents
in the district now. and that by spring
this number will have increased to
Us* Army Tents
Eight thousand army tents have
been bought from the War Depart
ment to care for minors nnd their
families, compelled to leave company,
owned homes by court order. One
tent is given to a family.
"Tlic United Mine Workers of
America had made all arrangements
to care for the strikers until this
fight was won.” says Bittner. “Ala
bama 'is a crucial field in the nation
wide attempt to strangle union la
bor, and wo are ready to spend any
amount of money needed to defeat
these plana.”
The mine workers,. Bittner says,
spent more than (1.8(O,0QO during
their nine months’ fight.
Operators decline to give any fig
ures on what the war cost thorn, ai-
HARDING TO PAY
OLD CAM L DEBT
T. R. DEN HINGED
Former Pre3i< eht Called
It Blackmai In 1903
Sessi n
WASHINGTGON, larch 9.— Rat-
ification of the lot • pending Col-
ombian treaty was rged by Presi
dent Harding in h first formal
message, sent to th senate today.
Immediately on receiving the mes
sage the senate went into executive
session.
Although Roodevflt called the
proposal “international blackmail,”
the new administration will ratify
the agreement, which consists chiefly
of the payment of 225,000,900 to that
nation for acquisition byb the United
States from Panama of the Panama
Canal Zone.
Incidentally this will be the first
overtures ot friendship from tho
Republican administration to the na
tions of South.amWIentral Amer
ica.
Eighteen years after Panama, in
a bloodless revolution, aoealed from
Colombia, tho United Stales fill as
suage the wounded feelings of tho
Colombians.
__ , Often Attempted V
Efforts were made on several oc
casions to put 'through this treaty.
President Tnft made repeated over
tures to Colombia without result.
Early in tho Wilson administration,
while Bryan was the cabinet pro-
mler, a pact was negotiated with
Colombia and admitted to the sen
ate for ratification.
It failed of passage and now near
ly eight years later some of the same
senators, led by Senators Lodge and
Fall, who then opposed the agree
ment, are advocating ft. Their ob
Jcctions to the treaty were based
principally on a clausa which this
government apologized.
The treaty will contain no apol
ogy to Colombia. The (25,000,000
will bo paid, in five annual install
ments.
Here, briefly, is what caused the
treaty and whf the United States
wounded the feelings pf the\ South
American nation:
Itoocsvelt, in seeking a right of
way for tho Panama Canal, after
long negotiations with Colombia fi
nally agreed to pay Colombia $10,
000,000 for tho strip. The Colom
bian congress’ after .dillydallying
in 1902, without
HiiAlas
ALLIEDHANDON
TREATY TERMS
Notified She Must Fulfill
Live Stock Feature
Of Pact
VIENNA, March 9. — (By Asso
ciated Press.)—Formal notice that
it will be required to*fulfill the live
stock provisions of the treaty of St.
Germain was served upon the Aus
trian government yesterday by the
Allied reparation commission. It in
volves the delivery of twenty thous
and head of cattle including six
thousand milch cows, to Italy, Ru
mania and Jugoslavia.
THEATERS CLOSED
IN DUSSELDORF.
DUSSELDORF, March 9.—(By
Associated Press.)—Allied soldiers
patrolled this city last night. So far
as known there were no untoward
incidents.
The theaters and moving picture
concerns were ordered closed late
yesterday by General Degouette,
commander of the French forces, but
he promised this order might be 1
modified in a few days.
Hhe provincial authorities were in
vited yesterday to meet the com
manders of the Allied troops here.
A state of siege has been declar
ed. .
NOT MURDER TO
• KILL GIRL DYING
BY OWN WOUND
Ownership Of Hound '
Established By Court
John G. Bray, of Oglethorpe, was
awarded a decision in Justice Car
ter’s court today against E. JJ.
Young, of near Americus, in a dis
pute over the possession of a hound
dog.
The case grew out of a misunder
standing of a trade between the two
men concerning two dogs. Young
stated that he bought "Spot,” the dog
in question, and another, from Bray
for (130_gnd paid (110, taking one
of tho dogs, and as “Spot” had dis
appeared, was to pay the remainder
when “Spot” returned. Bray said
that he had not sold “Spot,” and had
repeatedly refused to sell hlm.Youfig,
he claimed, came to his home in his
absence and without his knowledge
or consent took "Spot” nnd shippod
him to a man In Pennsylvania, nter
Young came and. traded with Bray
the *“* J — —* *
BRUSSELS, March 9.—-(By As
sociated Press.)—The question of
whether one person is guilty of a
crime in hastening the death of
another who is suffering from a
mortal wound has been decided in
the negative here in the case of n
married man who shot and killed
a girl who attempted to commit
suicide. His plea was Uiat she was
dying and that tie kiiied.her rather
than to watch her suffer, lie was
a n et;ted but acquitted of the
charge of murder by the Brabant
court of Assizes.
The man in the was Jerome Her
mans, 32 years old and the girl way
Colino Vandyck, age 18. They hath
a love affair and the attempt at
suicide resulted. The shooting oc
curred in the Bois De Cambre,
Brussels’ largest public paw.
“Colinc ran from the path into
a thicket,’” said Hermans.
heard a shot and ran after her.
She had shot herself in the temple
but was still alive. I could not
see her suffer and I took her re
volver and shot her. in the neck.
Then she was still, and I shot my
self.”
Hermans recovered from his
wound and was in prison for eight
months until acquitted. Medical
testimony given at the trial dras
to the effect that the girl’s suicidal'
wound ultimately would havo been
fatal.
STATE TO TAKE
OVERALLROADS
ITGAJYSTCM
To Maintain Highways
Independently Of
Cpunties
That the state highway department
is organizing a maintenance system
for roads designated as part of tho
for the two dogs, paying part down
and agreeing to pay the remainder
when “Spot” came back, knowing .all
tho while that “Spot” was in Penn
sylvania. The man In Pennsylvania
sent "Spot” bsck, however, stating
that he was no good, and when Bray
heard of it he reported it to Sheriff
Harvey, who seized tho dog, the
trial following. Tho cozts were
charged to Young.
Big Baraca Class To
Use Tent On Lawn
around adjourned ...
■ratifying the treaty. The people of
anxious to have the
Panama were
pact approved.
Colombia Losas.
when their congress proved iself
politicians instead of statesmen, the
people of Panama seceded. The
Washington government thereupon
served notice to Colombia that it
must not land troops within 60 miles
of the Panama Railroad. Four Am
erican warships were dispatched to
the isthmus to enforce the mandate.. . - ---- - ...
A few days later the New Panama '“mprehensive dealing with the
icvernment was recognized by Presi- fiaastion of prohibition, expressly
lent Roosevelt and tho s i n linn non states there must bn no lim;t n t;„n
The yong men’s Baraca clan of
the First Methodist church voted at
ita last meeting to purchase a large
tent, 09 they have qutgrown their
classroom, and pitch it on the lawn
of the church for class use.*
Tho clast has more than 80 mem
hers and expects to increase this to
75 by next Sunday.
USE OF LIQUORS
LEFT TO DOCTOR
IS U. S. OPINION
WASHINGTON, March 9.—(By
Associated Press.)—The govern
ment is without authority to pro
hibit or limit the manufacture and
sale of liquors, wines and beer for
pon-beverage purposes, accord
ing to thft opinion of the attorney-
general, mqde public today by the
internal revenue bureau.
The opinion, one of the most
comprehensive dealing with the
dent Roosevelt and the (10,000,000
was paid to Panama instead of Co
lombia.
The result was Colombia having
lost (10,000,00 in American gold, al
so a valuable strip of territory, felt
deeply humiliated and blamed
United States.
though their financial loss is known
to have been heavy.
Governor Kilby says the strike
cost the state (420,000 for mainte
nance of troop* in the strike dlz-'
trict and for other expenses.
Alabama, overjoyed, .following the
■ . v “••■•/•nun, i aptestsiy
states there must be no limitation
of the use of liquors except as
prescribed by congress in limiting
the sale of spirituos liquor to one
p ' nt , { . 0T . **» days. The question
'ho", the opinion
Mid, fa left to the good faith of
the physician.
MEANEST THIEF
TAKES MOTHER OF
DAY-OLD BIDDIES
state highway system, under which
they will be put in good condition
and so maintained by the state, with
malqta... m
out dependence upon the counties
through which they pass,, fa tho in
formation given out today in a state
ment prepared by W., C. Cayc, Jr.,
division engineer in charge of state
work in the Third congrezfaonnl dis
trict
Mr. Caye states that arrangements
are being made to take over main
tenance of the recently paved section
of the Dixie Highway in Sumter
county, and points out other high
ways in the district now being main
tained and still others which are to be
taken over. The statement, which is
interesting to ev*ry person concern'
cd with better highways for Geor
gla, fo’lows in full:
Etiglnmr Caye’s
“For the information of those in
terested in what the Highway depart-
Mi ' ' thoThi
MILLIONAIRE
MANS ENGINE
PULLING TRAIN
Passengers and Freight
Hauled Out Of
Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, March 9.—Trail!
22 on the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic left hero on schedule time
for Linoville, Ala., this morning, car
rying mail and passengers.
Tho engine was in charge o( A.‘‘j
II. (Rick) Woodward, millionaire
member of the board of directors.
LOCAL FREIGHT
SERVICE BEGAN.
ATLANTA, March 9.—Announce-^
ment was made today that local*
freight service had been established
on the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic road between Birmingham and
Lincvillc; Ala., the first since the road
was tied up by strlko last Saturd
W. J. Tfnnoy, president of a ll
ber company at Tyriton, Ala,, Is
■'ng his own cnglno.' . ‘~’
Efforts looking to a partial ,
sumption of service on other ccctio
of the road are being made by
ficials.
The conferences between the Fd
oral mediators and both faction CQ
tinued today.
PENNSYLVANIA
ORDERS WAGE CUT
, PHILADELPHIA, March !).-
rectors of the Pennsylvania rail:,
today adopted a resolution direcii.
executives to “give a3 promptly ;
possible, proper notice of tho into
tion of the company to reduce
aries and wages to accord with
nomic conditions.”
CAPT. CRANSTON
WILLIAMS CITED
Alabama, overjoyed .following the | M V ch recent
truce and the end of bitterness and I JLa Graves not!-
violence in the .trike zone. I. nw.it-1 g 0UI ^tM
violence in the strike zone, fa await
ing the outcome oj, the governor’s
experiment with intense interest.
n at , vic i nity - The' sheriff,' with
•centing big game. When the ne-
gro was. rounded up a crocus sack
was W <W,? r P rfn8r 0n , hi * ‘Moulder
fou " d to contain a live lien.
On investigation it was.found that
the_hcn had been stolen from El
noirwith'« ? fter . com j n U off the
nc-t with •j^rood u of chickens
jMm.
to"
ment is doing for roads in the Third
Congressional district, it seems wor
thy of note kt this time that, in addi
tion to the foderal state and county
projects now under construction in
cluding every county in the Third
Congressional district, except two,
and which projects are being-taken
over for maintenance as fast as they
are completed, the department is now
arranging to also take over and
maintain those roads on tho statu
system that at present are bad and'
that have no fundi provided for im
mediate federal, state or county im-
movement. The idea of this program
s to eliminate from the minds of tho
people the fact that tho state system
depends upon tho county through
which the road runs to make it passa
ble the year ’round for travel through
the state. It fa through the intention
of tho Highway Department to make
those roads taken over in weaker
counties passable through the state
at the earliest possible date.
“Then bearing in mind that it is the
bad places that must be made passa
ble first and that the' funds for such
improvement are limited, depending
upon what is and is not considered
as justified at this time, there is be
ing organized by the division engineer
in each congreseional district a main
tenance force under a competent su
pervisor that prill be actually turning
out '■oostniction work in a reasonshle
time. The division engineer has em
ployed Mr. Henry T. Christian, of
Americus, to handle the maintenance
work insthlr Third district. The or
ganized in patrol units, divided into
fifty-mile sections or as nearly as
such sections can be divided, will
start as above mentioned this month
to functioning in the worst sections
first, wheih sections int Ss not likely
that thore will be any federal, state
or county permanent construction
work on within a reasonable
time. It will be the duty of these
forces to start at had wash-outs, mud
holes and weak bridges and repair
them gradually as time will allow to
build them up to at least the general
standard of the brat portions of the
road in their fifty-mile section.
Now Maintaining Road.
'■The ilivi>i„ii r ’s office i
The following dispatch to the Ma
con Telegraph will bo pleasing to tho
ninny friends hero of Cnpt. Cranston
Williams, secretary to Senator Har
ris and formerly editor of tho Times-
Recorder: "Washington, March 8.—
The following citation in general or
ders of the Seventh division was pre
sented tadhy to Captain Cranston
Williams:
'* ‘For exceptionally, meritorious
nnd courageous service in the face of
the enemy. Lieutenant Williams dur
ing tile period from October 8 to
November 11. 1918, in the l’unven-
eile sccto.r, France, while serving as
tile commanding officer of the Ma-
chine Gun Company, 5Gth Infantry,
by his courageous conduct and ex
cellent cxampld at all times before
his men, by his well organized and
properly functioned compand, by his
leadership and his devotion to duty
under great stress showed excep
tional qualities and was an inspira-
t on to his men, thereby gi-caliy as-
sistmg in tho success of his Regiment,
Brigade nnd Division.’
. "Williams served with tho ECth In
fantry, 7th Division,' throughout his
army service, and is now secretary to
Senator William J. Harris. Ills home
is in Greensboro, Georgia.”
organizing to take over tho pavement
and new bridges on tho Andersonvillo
road in Sumter county, and tho Mar-
"He-Fort Valley road Jus? con?-
plcted by federal and state funds Ir.
Macon county. It fa explctcd that
the Uawson-Albany road in Terrell
county and the Cuthbert-Blakoly road
in Randolph county, both federal aid
projects, will coon he completed nnd
taken over by the stqts department
for maintenance. In addition to tho
abave forces will at an early date be
organized to put into passable condl-
tion immediately and later to improve
by carefuj maintenance tho bad sec.
tion of road from the Sumtcr-Wcb-
stcr county line west to Georgetown,
on the Alabama line, so that with the
already good cast o»il west road in
Sumter county and the federal nfd,’
project now under construction in
Dooly county from Flint river bridge
to Vienna, a good travel-way through >j
the district may at on early date b-
expected; also as soon as this immed
iately above section is satisfactorily
organized, a fore, will bo started onH
the section from the north end of
on? "m* fcdc ™' * id Project north of
Eliaviiie to Butler. It is contem
plated that, provided another federal
aid program is made from Washing-
ton, that Taylor county will partici
pate in building a federal aid mail
from Butler to the new federal, state "
and county Taylor-Upton V„k,.. at
Holmes Ferry, nnd since Upson
county has already started their new
road into Thomaston and on to Griffin
that a short route to Atlanta in a
good, passable road may soon be ex*
pected It might also be well to not,
that the county, although progrcaiii
rather slowly on account of nee
other parts of tho county for
work is. with f.* l.-ral nU\, huildin
the bad piece >f road between I