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— ■ ——— - * — -• ™ •*-»*WpCi\', APRIL 28, imi, IT
FRANCE AND BRJTIAN reject offe
CENTS.
AMERICUS MAN’S
IUGHB0Y WINS
HIGH HONOR
Statue Select.
ed °v Lemon For Cen-
tralia Memorial
CLERGYMAN TO HANG TWO SLAYERS 1000STARVING Itt .• r —' ^
1 <*»** tete&rf
DES MOINES. Ia.. April 28.—Des-
pite the fact that the aixth com
mandment specifically says “Thou
•halt not kill,” Rev. Winifred E.
Robb is going to hang two men.
. . As preacher-shemf of Polk coun-
Another high honor has come to !?• I P W *’ 2. *?*?*£ his job to spring
Americus man' and through him S® , trap f"* 1 , w “* “ecuta Eugene
and through him
to Amencus. The man is E. M.
wir^ihTe- H ® ha * Juat received
word that his statute, "The Spirit of
the American Doughboy,” has been
•cccpted in a competition as the offi-
oal American Legion memorial de-
.f ?r oc ‘ io V «s a national mem
orial at Centraha. WamH -j*.,
- c «ntralia. Wash., the citv
down 6 fJ eVeral . Leffion men were sho*
bets'dur!ni? mbUSh b / '• W - W ' mem -
“ Parade marking the
S?.i n tS Ver ’Sr y w °L tho armistice.
nlleV^to T" be “ fe 8ize and a re-
Plica of tho large statue on display
•or kotoT " j he lobby of the w ? nd -
“ te1, and . ? oon t0 he erected as
a war memorial at Nashville, Ga.
aelect1on° nt<!gt wb,cb rc,u,ted in its
or ana "a a * ent £L ed b y aomo ,nn
or 400 designs. The selection!
®,*4? by . th ' National Memorial com
i«t i - r~ar .-t Eugene
Weeks and Orrie L. Cross, convicted
of the murder of George A. Foadick,
a Dea Mojncs grocer.
“God ia a God of justice as well as
of mercy,” aaya Robb, and he points
to other Biblical verses that he Bays
justify his act.
Although the law permits him to
pass the grim duty along to one of
his assistants, Robb has no such in
tention.
It would be cowardly,” he says
aadiy. “for me to let others perform
the duty that the voters of the coun-
ty entrusted to me. The task of hang-
ing Weeks and Cross would be equal*
Jy revolting to any citizen, whether
he be a preacher or a merchant, li
I^nnot carry out the duties of a
sheriff I will resign. But I assure
“ yo Kr I J>«ye no intention of quitting.
, - ..«i m.muriai com-1. nd justification in tho Bible
Sow K f the American Legion, its'f® r > he " obk “? a ‘ I «m called upon
f b 2J'® hf'nK recommended to tho *? do . a P d 1 wil1 do “»t work even
if* 1 !" National Executive commit-! ‘J'augh ‘‘means the taking of a hu-
toe for official adoption *a« "the "" a- i man life.”
Uonal Legion memorial design. Noti, Mrs- Robb endorses the stand tak-
liifii . cam c to Mr. Viqucsney in u, e " by bcr husband. Although she re-
Utter from Attorney T. Semmes tr™* ‘hat it falla to his lot to hang
the men. she says it is his duty to do
Waimsley. of New Orleans, chair-
man of the National Memorial com-
mittee, who wrote: •
. “I think you should
1 Wink you should feel quite
th * re ? Ily is * signal hon
or, but the committee felt that your
W0 2 I?* ‘he most natural piece of
work that has beert^ submitted to it.
as the law directa
in Fr * nco w “ n
‘?i I 1 !? 1 ?. Inf *? try ’ w «s elected she-
pfn ^LNoycmber. On the night of
Feb. 6 Fosdick was murdered, and it
was not until two months later that
the sheriff after
%r£!8Ti*ai
flooded with inquiries concerning the th ®.?' the Preacher-sheriff.
larger statue and with nnlm t— n,. _ . ‘ want to see them both rei
larger statue and with orders for the
one. In fact it was necea-
nploy two stenographers
i weeks recently to handle the
of correspondence concerning it
A uUphcato of the largo statue will
be erected at Furman University as
* memorial to four university men
who died in the great war, the nit-
“ ' ‘ " ” In.
veiling to take place June 7.
quirics concerning it have
from 100 counties -throughou
_ come
throughout the
which contemplate
United States ;
he erection of war memorials.
1 The small duplicate of the J)oi
oy statue, a bronze cast nine im
nigh, will be ready for diatribution
June 1. It will sell at $6, and man;
, . —. —. see them both repent
t r . d “ not mean the shallow repentance
that follow, the arrival of
{within tho .shadow of th© ....
man g noose, but the real repentance
of the soul for the awful act they
have committed.— • y
DIE IN A NIGHT
IN SINGLE TOWN
committed.—
1 ca >< help them to see
“? ii*. , Aa a_minister of tho gos-
pel that is my duty just aa much aa
them.” my dUty “ '" eri(r t0 hahff
By chance April 15—the date Bet
v i. t0T ! *f® Sf ngi "* ot Weeks Ant of the
lough- pair to die—falls on Saturday. And
inches so R»bb as sheriff one day will stand
j ja'ath house at Fort Madison
orders are
Wiii seil at 59, and many and spring the trap that ■nufhout'ii
waitlng filling. All indications are’torn to Des Molne. wh.~ "
that the Doughboy statue will bscome to™he will 7„ t . r M. ^,i^ a 1
“ly” n Coui P * rhaPa ln ‘ crn *“ on -| preach the go.peL hla pD,p,t
FIRST FREED IN
LYNCHING CASE
ATTACKSONGA.
STIR ROTARIAN
At the noon luncheon of tho Ro
tary Club today John Sheffield ex
pressed himself as opposed to fed
eral Interference .in the investiga
tion and trial of peonage cases in
Georgia. “We don’t want .any out
siders mixed in this; we are capable
of doing the job ourselves,” he said.
~ ~ itt
BRONWOOD
v „“ l “. Elh ' 1 T . nr 2, er '"‘attained the
younger set of Bronwood recently
With an old time pound party. Those
present were Misses Wlllilu r
Dillard
Prof, J. E. Mathis had just read >
clipping from a Baltimore paper in
which the state was violently attaek-
Belle Hplhmon and Geraldine Set-
CaJlIl!in M ‘w r i; Dr J.T A™ 01 **. Odesta
Cannon, Walter Clark, of Parrott,
ss&afrs. s; 1
a'M-'S
Miss Annie Will Cutta was th.
Ml “ W ""
Mmatss
Ethel Turner and Rubye Martir
Pref. Mathis read a paper recent* SaturH♦*
!y written by one of the Americus| mS?a
public school yirls and the club byl W(ll(lr * Bl fJJ[ li *f e A^ era J P«nt
resolution requested that the essay
be reproduced in The Timcs-Record-
er. The essay with detailed explan
ation will appear in an early edition.
E. M. Viqucsney, at request, told
of the reception that is being given
the Viquesney statue, "The Spirit of
Valley.
r M M.^ n . n i‘.?r™ ma * e a ." d da U8t>
tar, Mary, spent last week ln iwf
with relatives Daw,on
viio v iijucBnejr nuuuc.
the American Doughboy,"
' by
been officially adopted
i. He said t
can Legion.
spin
hlch
. the Ameri
. that his office
was “swamped with orders from all
of the nation.” both for live-aise and
the smaller desk statue.
The Rotary Club has been divided
into two teams, headed respectively
by Frank Lanier and Carr Glover,
and a contest is on for 100 percent
attendance of the club in May. Tho
losing team pays for the dinner of
the winner.
Among the guests of the club were
Jack McCartney, of 8avannah, assist
ant general passenger agent. In
m T h ® Woman’s Missionary societv
last Friday Srlta* Fred Bail
present. h ° Ut tWentJr '*<»'•
4*to£ Thomas" an<f "Ethel" w "4
visitors in Americua Monday
lurV-Ouickly Frees M.
K. BoutWell At
Camilla!^a^i^^s-m. k .
Boutwell was found not guilty of
the charge of violating the mob vio
lence act by a jury in Mitchell county
superior court at 4 o’clock Wednes-
day afternoon. Boutwell was one of
nine men arrested in connection with
the lynching of Jim Roland, a ne-
gro.
SAVANNAH NOW
SHIPPINGCOTTON
Tho call of famine stricken China,
with millions starving and thousands
dying daily for lack of food—and
harvest still two months away—has
come to Americus ant' Sumter coun
ty. Rev. G. W. Mathews, who 18
'/are ago was pastor of the First
Methodist Church here aqd is now
J?l“!°. nary secretary of the South
,; onfere "''’ was in Americus
eaaftoajr securing co-operation of
the ministers and public here in this
relief movement. Dr. Mathews has
Kiyen up his work as missionary sec*
n e ,£, y f0 r, t ? ree for this cam-
through South Georg& * flyin * trip
" c ' d i* «o peat and the time
a ®., l ™ ort ‘ h a‘ •" intensive campaign
ml.fh P ir t u n Ji r two we * k, through-
M.V '» i, ni ^ sta ‘ e '-, The week of
„ f ay ‘'® . ha * been designated a week
of racrifice tor these starving peo-
pie. So pressing is the need that the
relief committee has refused many
we " tcrn farmers,
insisting that it be sold and turned
into money. Arrangements have
P erfe '‘«<‘ for transferring tho
funds by cable so that within 10 days
;. a . <,ona ‘ l °" is. received the
food it buys is in the hands of the
persons to whom it bring, relior
r„ P «5 e, i. 0 . f . 1 coara ^ ,ood »«» available
in Manchuria and other Asiatic dis
tricts not far away from the famine
a ; ea ."; and advantage is being taken
of this fact.
Georgia the movumenf 'ls h*ead-
2L. by n Joh . n A ‘ Manget, of Atlanta,
state director. Rev. Mr. Mathews is
director of famine relief for South
Georgia. He emphasizes that every
«iiw con & ib Y.t d 5?T* t0 the
y ea “hy Atlanta men are
said to have provided the expenso
“J?"f y fo ' the campaign work, per-
mining all of the donations to go to
saving lives.
,, The gifts will be entirely volun-
i tary, made by the givers to the local
- - ; treasurer, whose name Will be an-
nounced at once, and no canvassing
wil be done. It is announced that
H.S en o*? wll l “ v ,®„ one 11,8 ,0 ' one
day. 25 cent, will save one life for
S°T h t'r
until next harvest
The work of the China Famiin
NoBasis,French View
diwl.r < i N | D APril 28 -~ tBy Associated Press.)—Premier Llop
declared in Commons today reranfinv : ....
regret to sa^Zv"*‘°^ V re « a / din * th ® German proposals, “T very mfie^
. y th 7 ‘horoughly unsatisfactory and I wi R h it had been
possible for me to say they alter the situation.’’ '
structad" Am'h Lim d ^ T t0day announ " d “ had learned that France had in-
government -Zlr J "“ erand Washington to thafik tho United Sta ",
government for ita assurance that the United States would not deliver
o German reparations note without approval of the Allies.” ' ■
or !* y f * h ® ® g ® ney - that “ ' ouId n»‘ approve the propo«al<
or aee in them the basis for poaaible settlement p p
Si,. 01 S f
WASHINGTON. April 28—(By AaaocUtcd Press.)—Rriti.i, a ,
aador Gcddes conferred with Secretary of State Hughes todav I d
Ambassador D, Marchienne arrived .7th. B^rCnt
Aa far «• the American government ia concerned the situation* m-ii,
regard to the German reparations proposals remained tnd.v , . 11
was after the Berlin communication was laid before the all7/ a ‘ wber ® “
hero Tuesday.by Secretary Hughes a ? Allied ambassadors
United States i,LSS 7o fntimat nZ to h ^
ments with respect to the proposals. f AIIicd govcn "
ONS FOB
FIXED, TOO.
CIVILIANS
PARIS, April 28—The
‘ i ?" 8 n 'O m n>is»i° n hat fixed 132,000,-
000,000 gold marks as the total dam
ages for which reparation is duo by
Germany under article 283, second
paragraph, and annex one. part eight,
of the treaty, of Versailles
The commission’s decision was of-
ficially communicated to Dr. Von
uettxon of the German war burdens
commission last night.
The action of the reparations
commission I, in accordance with the
provision of the treaty that the find
ings of the commission at to the
amount of damage dono to the civ
ilian populations of the Allied and
listed Po
Associated Powers and to their prop
erty during the oeriod of the bellig-
. y t /j b ’ mns ‘ he cemmunica-
hofore Msy G L?02 n i* OVe ™ mC ' n on or
upon"‘at m th nS ‘| hc 5'na“‘ea decided
that the territories’ occupi™ b/vTr!
evacuated!*’’ PCaC ° tr “ ty sh - id he
Over 12,500 Bales Off
To Europe--Outlook
'SSSs
WILSON ATTACKED
IN REICHSTAG.
I" th. R1 SU5? ^yesteril* v° d ° ba ' n
M?nisTc"Simons $ 23 £ by K
aimisier a |m °ni, n crr K c i sser in ?
tion “ uhlrii f nt “media-
J Vft ‘ continued Herr Rii*«*
: U“to bc -ef: I for which ‘eo^enre^n^i. SemSnded
Jh_e direct testimony 0 , JSffS
immediate results if it
fective.
SAVANNAH, April 28 The ship
ping of 9,565 bales of cotton to Eng
land nnd 3.203 bales to Germany, re- I—.®?*]? ® nd ,n great
Will Reeves, another of the nine
men indicted, was immediately placed
on trial charged with murder.
Roland won lynched after wound-
1 "8 Jason Harrell, a brother-in-law
or Boutwell, near
lutweli, near Peinam last Jan-
“J’Tt. 1 ," X P 1 * 4 ®! battle. It ia alleg-.
effo t rt. t had°bJ ; y e n „ C m;5, OCCUrred
,—-e to remove the
to?«’n,ni h / waa in . fear of violence,
to Camilla for protection.
th« T ,i.» i e ;“*“P‘« d *° 'how that
the defendant was one of the party
°{. m «n who had the negro in custody
)ri ° r to ‘bedtime that he was shot
to death, and that he was near the
scene of the crime when it bad oe-
curred. Boutwell in hi. statement
said he was not a member of the
week-end orfrh'aL'L *9“"* ‘h» party and when told the negro had
v“„" d with her Parents, at Fort """ caught went on homo satisfied
n . --.r- —- home satisfied.
Boutwell was not charged with mur-
der. J D. Bettlson, one of the de
fendants, was placed on the stand,
but exercised his constitutional rights
In refusal to give any damaging testi-
n°. e m M s a Uli”i; Gi i b *s rt Beau'hanp. Wil-
“*m Smick. of Americus, and Eric
Jones, Lydia Phillips brought back
SMITHVILLE
R S phn? VIL ^ E ’ April 28—Ml*. W
charge of publicity of the Central of | many beautiful flowers and * Disced
Georgia Railway, and Dr. Jordon, of “Jem upon the graves of the old tol-
Oeorae Clarke and
Ellavllle.
Secretary Silas Jehnson announced
that 8er<rcnt York, of World war
fame, will lecture in Americua Tues-
day, .Tune 14. In the Rylander thea
ter, the proceed, of the lecture to be
eonajly dMded between the Ameri.
’ Scout troona and a school
VI*, Cedje Pvnls waa elected of
ficial ntanlat of the club.
!? A rn '7‘'“s*|andiy!° n
amencus Sunday.
P n ^n, G ;d°MT:. B B n a rt hrLe”"ch^
,n Americ1,a Tu " day
'Milton Fuller, of Albany,
. -. Phillips brought back
contast h0 "°r " the ready-tyritlng
Mias Lila Scarborough waa a vis-
‘ n town Tuesday from Adams,
ti. Tv C- 2*P. w ‘“ sntertain
the Southern Bell Telephone boyr
Friday night at her home. All the
young people are invited.
E. A. Clai' “
carded at the Savannah Cotton Ex
change yesterday, caused an optimis
tic feeling among the cotton men.
"Whet is wanted ia an immediate
settlement of Germany's affairs.'
«id one of the cotton factors. “Until
tins takes placo business in thU
country, especially concerning cot
ton, will be at a low level. German]
HM h h.7 •‘enmity to tho a’
L‘ ca '. but -V“ keeping the question
^n* “re for ao long is simply
d‘flx.” "" "*** in thl * coun ‘ r Y *
It ia expected there will be large
shipments made to Europe in a short
‘ i ”e. ns it ia believed business inter-
••to •“ over the world are becoming
nneas y at the delay being made in
, iljr i
tween the
June.
' at ‘ 1 "»‘*. nva
volume be-1 poses nnd all levli
present time and late in cxaetioi
million Chinese are dependent upoi
contributions still to come iron
America.
Manifestly ail willing to assist in
raving these, lives must act at once
and in unison to prevent a disaster
must act and work with the same re-
ihysically and fl-
be the case If tho
suffering were at their own doors.
An outline of the situation fol
fettling the European question, and “**£ °‘ 1920,
that those in charge of the settle- Drought, which
. — * ■— - ire c
ment are beginning to realize it.
FRIENDSHIP
There was less than three inches
of rain in the lost year in a district
In which the. normal rainfall is 25
inches. In some districts no rain
fell between the nutumn of 1919, and
Mrs. 8. H._ Kccsc is spending s
Carter at
her
t. A Llarke, Rev. E. W. Gray, Dr.
H. L. Simpson and Mr. W. L. Child-
ers left Monday for Florida, where
thejr wil lspend a few days fishii
intnin children which York is l.-t w«.k--nd w”h hi, parents Vr
'ng ln finsnclng. _ n” J Me F M. Fuller.
\Thnre who (.tfc-d-d the Hleh
* •* a, ’’h”-n from here
s-d Mr, T. A. Stanton,
"*hon1
Pfre dextrov»*d the ntanln*? mil! F*v. F. W. Gr^y. F«hv f *• Chtldor/
n f fhm wnilnm-? Lpm*>«r Yn*** Tv^fa PhfMIns M«»rfe
rsnny { n Alhnny e»r!v Wodno-dnr. | M«rv Flln Jono« ’ EIi y . a *
Th* drv Irfln* and the boiler
were «nved.
rheds T^r*no P^-er^on,
ey wil Impend a few days fishing.
The little con of Marion Long U
siow>y improving after several weeks r
Ulness.
Mrs. A. P, Lane returned Tuesday
after a very pleasant visit to her
mother.
' M" - - and Mre. K. A. Phillips and
little daughter. Mary Virginia, of
Amcricu,, spent Sunday as guests of
Mr nnd Mm, W H. hPilltp,
Mm. A. J. Johnson and Ml*, Ivah
JnV-,on spent Monday afternoon in
Mrddov. \
F. M. Foliar 1, roendlng some
*!■"» In Atlanta as the guest ot re!-
at!**,.
Mrs A-kor »nd d"n"h**r. EHzn.
h»*h, who h«v« h»«n vWtlng Mr. and
Mr* n**f\r*» Pffr**m. h*vp returned
Fmnk r%IM— Pom, PhPIlns. Ro,’- to the'r home In KnoxviPe, Ten”
time with Mrs. Earl
nome near Lilaville.
Mrs, Kosa McUarrah vuited Mrs.
Henderson Dodson at her home near
UlaviUe.
Mrs. Rosa McGarrah visited Mrs.
Henderson Dodson at her home near
rlaina Monday.
Miss Julia Holly, who has been
nursing Mrs. Henderson Dodson for
tne past two weeks, is visiting rela
tives here before returning to her
work at the Georgia Baptist Hospit
al in Atlanta.
„ Mr -and Mrs. R. C. Wells. Mrs. and
Mm. T C. Wells, Mrs. K W. Har-
vey. Misses Georgia Harvey, Irienc
Guest, Mary Hams, Posephine Yells,
Doris Wells, Messrs. Monroe Gaston,
George Gaston, Isaac Harvey, Rob
ert Harvey and Mose Harvey were
among those attending the closing
exercises of Ebernezer school Thurs*
day evening.
Mrs. Claud Daniels and little Hiss
Jane Daniel, of Americus, were
guests of Mrs. Eugene Drane Satur
day morning.
A number of ladies from here at
tended the meeting of the Woman's
Miasionery Union in Americus the
past week. Among them were Mrs.
P. W. Harvey, Mr,. R. E. Wells, Mrs.
Harry Priddv and Mrs. H. M. Guest.
Mr and Mm. R. C. Well., Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Wells and Ernest Weil,
destroyed three
successive crops, canned famine in an
area of many square miles in the
B rovinccs of Chihli, Shensi, Shansi,
lonan and Shantung.
Several large’ refu
—rge refugee comps
suited from the first flight otti
Ine victims to the important cities
where they hoped to secure food; but
every possible effort has beta made
to return the sufferers to their home
villages and farms to prevent epi
demic, and In order that they may
be on the land at the time for plant-
• «" d levies, fines and other
turns imposod by Germany and
Allies upon civilian populations.
GERMANY EMBASSY
AT PARIS EXPLAINS.
™rrT™t ^ Iou , ly
perform. “
Apri J 28.—The German
embaaay here has Issued a lengthy
explanatory statement regarding
offer. It
ny’s reparations
that tho difference between
Gorman;
elalma i
‘he sum offered In Berlin’s last pro-
tho a oon nnnnm? nn°n 0 k °.j‘ "larks, and
‘, b j -r-C.OOO.OOO’OOO gold marks un-
dc L‘he Parts terms is “but small.”
Th' statement also says with re-
gard to tho conditions relating to the
suppression of penalties that “It ap-
Jft*‘ ‘‘ ‘a possible to perform It
this attempt a so fail, li JXi,
cd W6rid!” an UXhaU3ted ® nd ’‘evastat-
foSLTtf Chancellor Mueller
test of Si S°n’’ d ,e»Pi‘e the
test or tho National party
SgKfl Kreat excitement among
m nhS t |l, by n b s ^ vigorous atta
2 ka ‘ nat ‘ h o Pan-Germans. Dr.
t w m tormer vice-chancellor, said
‘ hat hearty not only opposed the
govonmant a apprnl to America, but
fllso tho spirit whirl promrted If
Tho peace of VersaJIIoR had re«ultod
intervention he declared’ through the
intervention of a man who came to
Europe from America bringing a
SMB* W “L, th0 n,oa ‘ remark
Hon if'tt r n C att g thc r —' 1,a '
' d " d ?e m " elnele nroml.re. I do
not hold the American peoole re-
sponsible for this, hdwever. 1 ',
reto«re 1, di i e "d , f™™ e ;i. 0 " 0 tb °T nd ' at Ui —always with a pathetic smile
. ? toe 'Old In a never In resentment. Th.t t.
single night in Knlgan. I went to j Chinese nature,"to" be patient'” ‘ h *
under
•aid Mrs.
Tientsin. I couldn’t aleep on nc-ltho dcrnct n j.«n.T»
count Of the groan, of the men, wt c.“i Cro“ ont woman me'mhefS
men and children who were lying thc American Chamber of Commerce
S’relbA-sk "•» »
ing.
from China.
../- A Wi,h ® H »art-
“Contiltion. were so pitiful that
did not have the heart to take
turei of such utter misery. ~ ^wo
Food must come to these victims
from th* outside.
Here is a copy of a cablegram:
“Peking, March 6. 1921, China
Famine Fund, New York City.
"Present funds from all sources
nre sufficient to save only two and
one-half million people. Chine
dnve funds and other sources may
save additional million. Remaining during the summer' miserable, pale!
ad* emaciated—bearing on their facet
things from which I turned away my
camera were thirty thousand people
in the last stages of starvation gath*
c . r . cd ‘n ■ great bare field Just out-
?L d ® “^^‘entoin; and a roadside with
the bodies of a whole family—fath-
e/. mother and five children—
stretched along It,” says E. S. Glines,
of the engineering firm * *
attended the rinsing exercise of Shi
loh School Friday
Mi*s Georgia H«rvey was the
w*ek-end guest of Miss Mildred Do-
neo.
Ml,—, Dsriro and Kknrey attended
♦]>* n«en«e »*ven tar the school at
Fbernez»r Sstnradv.
five million people dependent on
ditional American funds.
“American Advisory Committee.”
We have a- tremendona task
ahead • • • requiring all agen
cies .working together to the best ad
vantage to handle it withont a de-
bade actually resulting,” says John
Earl Baker, director of Famine Re-
lief. American Red Crosa, Peking,
of the engineering firm of Lam,
G “nes t Co., New York City.
'I have seen large numbers'of per
sona of every age, still clothed as
cmaei
the si
a tj n s W 2S e pe? r people staggering
and hard{y able to itand—mothers
signs of long privation. I have
i these poor people stanerimr
carrying babies crying from ! -nger,
children in regs, old men and women
. . — women
who have nothing more to eat. Mis-
aionarfes report hundreds who have
died of starvation. In one month in
II villages, 255 died ' '
u villages, 255 died of hunger,
ia the word of Rev. N. Barnudf, gen-
eral privlear of Catholic Minion at
Chenetingfu.
"There is mow on the ground and
there are no leaves on ton trees or
weed, left tar food. The doomed
‘hrong mv dnera dsllv and have to he
sent »w»y w'th kind word, hut
..... toe background.' 'lost is
too famine. In our ono
ra™! ft June if wnolcsalo'sta'r 1
JH!*? hi t° bo prevented. Our dis-
®£l y ®?e of a . doacn men. and
CL A’., Pa r otlS^S. b Chli^' C ‘ ark ’ Y '
^ ,an,xa ' io “ Formed.
Ameriean
President
P‘8ht ae o n ? c7r n nnd Pr0 e C l!!e m d Cd l ipt
mnn"if/ t amo , n ‘ to become chair-
PWI.. i s-hfY-^^^^-Goinjnittee for
house day * aftCr h ® ent ' r ' d ‘he
white
Chl»*a.
“Fertile land haa been turned into
n desert. The total crop yield
nmnuntnd to only 8 pnre#»nt normal.
'Hie Hcture N a* pathetic aa it ia
ennntlin,. Honest, siron'e folk com-
mtt suicide on o wholeraln se,1,
rathe- toon resort »„ nlnn-t-r. The „, IV
nrp«mt fMmi"e ********* nrevi* V*r. p i Cpiffith'*
nns fsmloe of 1*78-79 hoth In ra. t.-,nt » - ' J G rtffIth,_Pre-
T«ms m«sns !rhl-a.
hev. -e-n to- traradv ond ,noV- nre- d-ene,.d he ^ , o0 ked % dayYlght 1
VJS ^ me i can committee has ap*
evhnr possible agency to
fh« ™ l* °\ of mcrc y; ami
toe press, tho churches, the banks.
too civic, professional and business
Fng"" M ‘ ° n P * Amcr ‘ ca are respond-
m.dr.tatak**’' Tr lT / d ?ve slant im
mediately hv cable through the Asia
Broking Cerneration and tb~ I-t-r
"*1*7*1 to "to 1,1(r a Gorroratinn with-
r"^‘I toe. American n-nimiitne
in Foklne, formed to receive. n l!nc n te
n-d scowmt ta» at) r n -,i„
p htaa Famine Fund In
ted »—
the United States’