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SOUTH WINS ON
EXPORT RATES
SOUTHERN PORTS WILL HAVE
SAME RATES AS THOSE
OF NEW YORK
MORE SHIPSNMING SOUTH
Change Has Been Long Sought By
Business Interests Os
Southland
Louisville, Ky.—Readjustment of ex
port freight rates affecting the thou
sands of shippers, and said to be of
prime importance to Southern ports
and the Mississippi valley, has been
announced at the general offices of
the Southern railroad here.
The new tariffs, which, in effect,
will grant the same rates to South
ern ports as those enjoyed by New
York from territory north of the Ohio
river from the Ohio-Pennsylvania
state line to the Mississippi river, go
into efect to south Atlantic ports De
cember 1, and to gulf ports December
31.
The subject has engaged the atten
tion of shippers and steamship inter
ests for the past year. Hearings were
held in Washington before the United
States railroad administration last
July. At a subsequent hearing New
York port interests concurred in the
equalization and Director General
Hines gave instructions to compile
the tariffs to become effective on the
dates indicated.
The new arrangement is expected,
according to the announcement, aside
from relieving competition at the port
of New York, to expedite export ship
ments to Latin-America, Asia arid Eu
rope. It also will make it possible,
the statement claims, for the United
States shipping board to allocate more
of its vessels to south Atlantic and
gulf ports. These ships, the announce
ment says, largely have been assigned
to routes out of New York because of
the necessity of moving the great con
centration of export tonnage from that
port. The concentration was due, ■it
was recited, to the differential inland
rates in favor of New York. With
publication of the new tariffs, it is ex
pected this concentration will be
greatly relieved.
FRANCE WILL NOT PERMIT
REMOVAL OF THE UNITED
STATES’ SLAIN HEROES
Paris. —The 65,000 American dead in
France must be left in the graves
they now occupy until the French are
ready to exhume their own dead,
which, it is hoped, will be before
January 1, 1922.
The foreign office has promised to
consider the latest request of the
United States government for the re
turn of its fallen soldiers, but later
the following official announcement
was made:
“It has been definitely decided that
the allies who fell together for the
same cause should remain together in
death until circumstances permit of
the returning of the bodies to the
families for whom they sacrificed
themselves.”
The proposed law forbidding the
exhumation of the soldier dead for
three years did not pass at the last
session of the chamber of deputies,
but the foreign office expects that it
will be adopted soon. This bill spec
ifies a delay in exhumation of three
years from the promulgation of the
law, but it is expected that this pe
riod wil be shortened. At the for
eign office it is said to be probable
that the exhumation will commence
considerably before January, 1922.
Dig Prefits Charged Coal Operators
New York. —Soft coal mine owners
made “shocking and indefensible”
profits in 1917 and there is “grave
doubt” that they are entitled to in
crease prices because of the proposed
31 per cent increase in miners’ wages,
William G. McAdoo, former secretary
of the treasury, declared in a telegram
to Federal Fuel Administrator Garfield.
The owners’ profits as shown by their
income tax returns examined by him
as secretary of the treasury in 1918,
he said, showed, earnings on capital
stock ranging from 15 to 2,000 per cent.
“I am convinced that the wage in
creases proposed for the mine workers
are just and reasonable,” he states.
Wage Raise For 100,000 Railwaymen
Washington.—A new wage and
working agreement has been signed
between the railroad administration
and officials of the Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employees and
Railway Shop Laborers. While de
mands of the union were not fully
met, the eight-hour basic day was es
tablished for track laborers and others
of that classification and time and a
half pay after that hour was provided.
Most of the other employees will re
ceive time and a half overtime pay
after ten hours.
Wave Os Crime Sweeps Over Chicago
Chicago. —The unprecedented in
crease in the number of major and
minor crimes in Chicago over the
weekend was caused by curtailment
of street lighting due to the efforts
of the municipal lighting plant to
conserve on coal, according to Chief
of Police John Garity. The entire
police force devoted its attention to
the problem of solving the murder
mysteries of the last two or thre days
and > n an effort to arrest some of the
robbers, safeblowers and automobile
thieves. '
MEXICO WARNED BY U. S.
Mexican President Told Any Further
Molestation Os Jenkins Will Se
riously Affect Relations
Washington.—Mexico was warned
by the American government that
any further molestation of William
O. Jenkins, the American consular
agent, at Puebla, who recently was
kidnaped by bandits, would “seriously
affect the relations between the Unit
ed States and Mexico, for which the
government of Mexico must assume
sole responsibility.”
Coupled with the warning was a
demand for the immediate release of
the consular agent, who was re-ar
rested on charges in connection with
his abduction and ransom in the sum
of $150,000 gold. Official reports that
Jenkins had again been imprisoned
at Puebla reached the state depart
ment from the American embassy at
Mexico City, which was instructed to
transmit a note demanding his re
lease. i
The department’s action was made
known in the following announce
ment:
"The department of state has sent
a note to the Mexican foreign office
through the American embassy at
Mexico City, calling for the immediate
release of William O. Jenkins, the
American consul agent at Puebla.
"The note, which is based on the
re-arrest of Consular Agent Jenkins
at Puebla, points out that the United
States government is ‘surprised and
incensed’ to learn of the re-imprison
ment of Mr. Jenkins, particularly in
view of the suffering and losses al
ready sustained by him in connec
tion with his first arrest by Mexi
can officials.
“The note expresses the view based
on the information in the possession
of the department of state, that his re
arrest is absolutely arbitrary and un
warranted, and warns the Mexican
government that further molestation
of the consular agent will seriously
affect the relations between the
United States and Mexico, for which
the government of Mexico must as
sume sole responsibility.”
REBELS AGAIN REPORTED
BEATEN AT VLADIVOSTOK
BY KOLCHAK’S FORCES
Execution Os Prisoners Under Way.
And General Garda, Rebel
Leader, Captured
Vladivostok. — The revolutionary
movement against the Kolchak gov
ernment which was started here by
the Social Revolutionist Zemstvo
group in Vladivostok under the mili
tary leadership di General Galda, for
mer commander of the Czecho-Slovak
forces on the Siberian front, was put
down by the government forces. Gen
eral Galda, who had been wounded,
was captured.
The government forces are in com
plete control of the city. In an at
tack at dawn they administered final
defeat to the Revolutionary party,
capturing the railroad station, where
the rebels had made their last stand.
Some of the prisoners taken by the
government troops have been exe
cuted.
Shortly after midnight the govern
ment troops moved two 3-inch field
guns into position at the Svetlands
kaia bridge, by which this main thor
oughfare of the city crosses the Si
berian railroad. The bridge is only
500 yards north of the station, the
strongest position of the rebels. A
little later troops reinforced by 100
cadets from the naval training school
proceeded to the business center of the
city, while armored cars b-gan arriv
ing at the bridge.
Before the battle opened interna
tional policemen and three American
soldiers gained entrance to the rail
way station, from which they took
two Russian women who had been
marooned there since the fighting
started. At one o’clock there was a
burst of machine gun fire against the
rebels holding the railway yards and
gunboats started to drop shells on the
station.
Hunter Finds Corpse Os Missing Child
Hammonton, N. J.—The body of
little “Billy” Dansey, for wliom a na
tion-wide search had been conducted
since his disappearance from his
home here several weeks ago, was
found by a hunter in a swamp near
this place. After viewing the body.
Coroner Cunningham expressed belief
that the boy was the victim of foul
play.
Ten Persons Killed In Cairo Rioting
Cairo. —Ten persons were killed and
120 injured, 90 of whom suffered gun
shot wounds, in a riotous demonstra
: tion here. Three police stations were
set on Are by mobs, which liberated
prisoners and paraded the streets, car-
Tying wounded rioters. British troops
restored order. Six thousand persons
' participated in the Coptic demonstra
tion on the occasion of the funeral of
a Copt killed in the 10,000, mostly
' Moslems, paraded through the prin
cipal streets. Both demonstrations
were orderly.
, Lack of Experience Cause Fatalities
Washington. — Lack of adequate
training of pilots was responsible for
i some fatalities in the recent trans
: continental derby, Lieut. Belvin W.
i Maynard, the winner, told a bouse sub
i committee. Officers of high rank, but
I whose experience had been confined
, to desk work, he said, entered the race
» because there were no superior officers
• to pass on their ability. Junior offl
s cers, he added, were tested to deter
• mine their fitness to compete. “Lib
• erty motors are the best ever con
ceived," Maynard said, i
THE BULLETIN, IRWINTON, GEORGIA.
GEMANY DEUYS
ON PEACE TREATY
RECALLS DIPLOMAT WHO WAS IN
PARIS TO SIGN PEACE
‘ PROTOCOL
FINAL SIGNATURE FOR DEC. 1
' French Editors Credit Action To The
Course Os The United
States Senate
Paris. —The departure of Herr von
Simson, the German plenipotentiary,
who was sent to Paris in connection
with the protocol to the peace treaty,
will delay final signature until De
cember 1, and will also delay the en
forcement of the treaty, according to
the Presse de Paris.
“What is the significance of the
departure of Herr von Simson for
Berlin?” asks the La Presse de Pans.
“The reasons alleged by the German
diplomat are by no means conclusive.
Why should it be necessary to consult
the national assembly on the terms
of the protocol, which have been
known since the beginning o
month?
t “It must be, therefore, a
of Germany, wishing to exploit the
American senate’s hesitation, bu s
a move is condemned to failure m ad
vance and the supreme council is
' ready to meet it. Furthermore if must
. be repeated that the Berlin govern
ment is the first whose interests de
mand prompt application of the treaty
of Versailles.
The Temps’ editorial takes the same
“Germany,” says this editorial, ‘ has
i just struck a coup de theater. eas
t her explanation. Germany has been
• insisting for five months that the trea
, ty enter into force. A German mis
i sion arrived to make the
- ments The allies decided that the
treaty should be put in force Decern
ber 1. The mission left without sign
ing anything or indicating a date tor
. itS " Are 1 there not men in the Ge ™ a "
’ government, or about it, who seek to
bring up the question of peace again
’ under the pretext that the American
senate has not ratified the treaty.
The possible effect on the proposed
Franco-American and Anglo-Fiench
r military convention of the American
- senate’s failure to ratify the treat,
r is commented upon editorially.
I BALL ROOM INVADED
BY FLAMING DEATH;
; 28 DANCERS ARE DEAD
t
- Three Hundred Persons Dancing At
’ Time Building Was Fired By
Explosion Os Oil Stove
J Ville Platte, La.-Twenty-elght per
sons are dead here, victims of tire
’ and trampling feet of a terror strick
• en mob, after a ball here, which was
3 suddenly stopped by the alarm that
the building was burning below. At
- midnight all had been accounted for
1 and the search in the debris of the
- burnt two story building was stopped
Fourteen were crushed to death
■ when the narrow stairway leading
f from the dance hall to the street col
s lapsed and the frantic fighting mob
L was hurled into the street Fourteen
I caught on the second floor m the
1 dance hall, were burned to death and
3 their charred bodies recovered.
The explosion of an oil stove on
which a 12-year-old boy, D. Bngnac,
- was making coffee in the rear of a
1 grocery store below the dancers, start
' ed the disastrous fire.
c In the midst of the music the or
-1 chestra was stopped and the alarm
5 sounded that the building was burn
-1 ine Most of the 300 persons at the
3 dance made a wild dash for the single
1 exhibit and in the mad stampede broke
3 the frail wooden stairway and cut off
the escape of half of the number.
1 Famous Argentinian Dead; Age 68
f Buenos Aires.—Francisco P. Moreno,
■ founder and director of La Plata mu
-1 seum of anthropology and archaeolo
-3 gv died here. He was 68 years of
3 a-e Doctor Moreno was one of the
r foremost Argentinians. He was a
, noted South American explorer, a
f widely prolific writer, often compared
1 to Theodoroe Roosevelt, who was one
of his friends.
j Claim German Girls Spoiled Troops
1 With the American Forces in Ger
- many .-Among the civilians in the
, American occupied area complaints,
a originating with the German men, are
1 2K- •»
American soldiers are spoiling the
* German girls by heaping luxuries upon
s them and by spending money reckless
r lv for presents, wines and good things
f Z. eat . Since the anti-fraternization
y regulation was revoked by army head
i- quarters several weeks ago, the cases
s in Coblenz have been crowded each
night with soldiers and frauleins.
s Size Os Harems Cut By The Moslems
e Constantinople.—The high cost of
r living is badly hampering the Turkish
’■ households— especially with regard t>
'■ wives. The sultan has reduced the
>- size of his harem; shahs who formerly
t were rich also retrenching in this re
fl aD ect and notwithstanding the Ko
e ran’s ’ authorization of four wives to a
s man the proportion of unmarried wom-
I- en is said to be increasing as the men
r- are finding more than one wife too
>- expensive to maintain. Turkey s lose
i- in population is not beginning to be
made up by polygamy.
U. S. WILL CONTROL FOOD
Powers Exercised By Food Adminis
tratar Hoover Have Been
Revived
Washington.—President Wilson
placed the government again in con
trol of the nation’s food supply by
transferring the authority of food ad
ministrator to Attorney General Pal
mer.
Revival of the war-time functions
of Administrator Hoover resulted di
rectly from government efforts to
avert a famine in sugar, but the pow
ers delegated to the head of the de
partment of justice will be also to
help put down the ever-mounting cost
of living.
For the present the attorney gen
eral will not put into operation all of
the machinery permitted under the
executive order signed by the presi
dent, but should conditions arise to
make it necessary, the full pressure
of all the broad power vested in him;
will be exercised to meet them.
Mr. Palmer’s staff will begin im-.
mediately to build up a sugar distrib
uting system which will allocate alb
sugar stocks in the country. It will
provide an equitable system of dis
tributing supplies and will defeat any
concentrating or hoarding, officials
said.
Plans, tentatively decided upon, pro
vide for increasing the price of all
sugar, excepting the Louisiana crop,
to twelve cents a pound, wholesale.
Through this increase, new sources
of supply are expected to be opened.
With assurances that a fair margin
of profit, said to be about $1.54 a
hundred pounds, would be allowed,
sugar refiners are ready to enter the
Cuban markets and purchase all
availbale stocks, it was stated. Thus,
officials believe the increased price
will avert a shortage which threatens
to become a famine during the next
sixty days.
Beet sugar refiners already have
tentatively assented to the plan, It
was learned, upon assurances that a
1 higher price than now prevails would
be established. Cane sugar dealers
will be called into conference at an
early date. They also are understood
to favor the arrangement providing
the price is raised, as is planned, so
1 that they will not be involved in any
heavy losses which they say would
; result from buying Cuban sugar at
the present prices in Cuba and sell
ing at ten and one-half cents, the
1 present price in the United States.
! Immediate action also is contem
plated in curtailing the consumption
of sugar by manufacturers whose
products are not regarded as essen
tial food. This will apply particularly
to soft drink dealers and candy man
i ufacturers. The abnormal increase
of sales of these articles and the con
t sequent heavy drain on the sugar sup
plies is traceable, officials declared,
to the enforcement of prohibition.
MEXICANS CAPTURE
VILLA’S LIEUTENANT
>
Washington. —The Mexican embas
i sy has issued the following:
“The Mexican embassy has receiv
' ed the following telegram from the
' governor of the state of Chihuahua:
“‘I have the honor to inform you
! that I have just received advice from
Parral that our troops have captured
i Felipe Angeles, general of the ex-fed
; eral army who operated with the ban
dit, Francisca Villa.’ ”
i Announcement of Angeles’ capture
, was considered highly significant in
, both Mexican and American official
I quarters. Angeles had recently pre
pared a plan of campaign for Farn
t cisco Villa, the object of which, ac
cording to authentic advices from
’ northern Mexico, was to cut Mexico
. City off from the north and to make
possible the repetition of a former
exploit of the Villistas, the invasion
t of Mexico City itself.
19,000,000 Men Available For Army
, Washington.—A final study of the
’ selective draft records made public
■ fixes the “military strength of the
United States” at 19,000 in potential
military man power. Registrations
, for the draft, between the ages of 18
and 45, totaled 23,908,576, almost 80
’ per cent of whom were listed as
“physicaly fit for military service.”
. The medical reports indicated that the
’ zone where men were found most heal
' thy runs through the rienter of the
t country, from north to south. States
J in this belt showed the smallest per
, centage of physical disqualifications
for active service.
. Stop Enlistments For Foreign Service
Washington.—The secretary of war
announces that in view of the fact
3 that the number of men prescribed
’ for the American forces in France
3 and Germany for the infantry and en
-3 gineer corps have been obtained, en
-3 listments for those countries will be
1 discontinued. Instructions will be is
sued, however, to recruiting officers
3 that intensive recruiting calnpaign be
1 made from now until January 1, next,
with the idea of obtaining as many
3 enlistments for the Panama canal de
-1 partment as possible.
s Pact In Effect On December 1
{ Paris. —The supreme council has
i agreed upon December 1 as the date
j when the German peace treaty will be
B formally ratified. Further informal
7 discussions have been held with the
German representatives now here In
" connection with the negotiation by
1 the allies that a protocol must be
•- signed by Germany guaranteeing ful
-1 Ailment of all its terms. The discus
-0 sions have been confined chiefly to
s the- methods of procedure in consid
e ering the protocol.
WAR IS BREWING
ALONG ADRIATIC
ITALIAN LEGION HAS BEEN FORMr
ED AND EQUIPPED AT
SEBENICO
*
JUGOSLAVS READY TO FIGHT
Only Interference By Allies Can Pre
vent Clash Between Italians
And Jugo-Slavs
Geneva.—Telegrams received by the
Serbian bureau at Berne from Bel
grade, Zara and Spalato, convey the
impression that only prompt interfer
ence by the allies can prevent war
over the Adriatic situation, as the
Jugo-Slavs are said to have lost pa
tience and to be ready to fight the
Italians. “We are astonished that the
peace conference permits our people
to endure constant Italian . persecu
tion,” says one Belgrade paper, re
ceived here. “Our peaceful attitude
is praiseworthy when we might at
one stroke throw d’Annunzio and his
filibusterers into the sea.” Another
newspaper accused Italy of desiring to
blockade Jugo-Slavia’s exports and im
ports, and thus “strangle her.”
Reports Are Confirmed
Paris. —Dispatches confirming re
ports from Geneva that the situation
along the eastern shore of the Adri
atic is critical, are issued by the Jugo
slav bureau here. The bureau says
the Jugo-Slav government has asked
its ministers at Paris, London and
Washington to draw the attention of
those governments to the dangerous
situation arising from d’Annunzio s
raids and those he is reported about
to make.
Italian Legion Formed
Belgrade. —A semi-official communi
cation says that a significant move
ment has been noted among the Ital
ians in the northern occupied zone. An
Italian legion has been formed at Se
benico. it is composed of newly ar
rived troops equipped with ammuni- t
tion and other supplies by the Italian
army.
NO INTEREST PAID
TO UNITED STATES
BY ANY OF ALLIES
Plan Considered To Defer Interest
Payments For Several
Years.
Washington.—lnterest payments on
American loans to the allies may be
deferred “until the war reaction pass
es,” it is said at the treasury. Nego
tiations to this end are now being
conducted at the request of the allies,
but officials explained that the latest,
advices from the treasury’s represent
tatives at Paris did not indicate an ;
early conclusion.
U. S. Loans Total $9,647,000,000
American loans to its associates
in the war aggregate $9,647,000 000,
and the interest rate averages five,
per cent. All of the obligations are
in the form of term notes, but it has
been proposed by the allies that they
be converted into long term paper
which should fall due on dates corre
sponding to those on which Liberty
Loans mature.
Not Seeking New Arrangement
Officials in Washington say the
United States government is no. see
ing the new arrangement. They ex
plain, however, that they fee that the
Present chaotic condition of Europe
mZy be bettered if the interest pay
ments were funded. Tentative plans
would defer these .from
three to five years, which it is stated,
“will allow European conditions.to re
adiust themselves and place the
eign governments’ reconstruction pro
grams well under way.’
Steamer Crew Os 18
Sault Ste Marie, Mich.— Eighteen
perspns comprising the crew of the
steamer Myron are believed to have
been added to the victims of Lake
Superior’s fury of the past two weeks
Caught in a terrific northwestern gale
the Myron foundered a mile and a
half off Whitefish point and sank in
four fathoms of water. The beach
is covered with lumber, the Myrons
cargo, but not a body had come
ashore. The gale continues and there
is little nope that passing steamers
could have picked up the life boats,
which, it is believed, were swamped
in the mountainous seas.
Prohi Enforcement Up To The States
Washington—Enforcement of con
stitutional prohibition will be placed
squarely up to the state and munici
pal authoriites and the federal ma
chinery will not intervene unless ob
vious inefficiency on the part of lo
cal officials makes such action nec
essary, the board of temperance of the
Methodist Episcopal church was told
bv John F. Kibner, federal prohibition
commissioner. It was Mr Kibner s
first pronouncement of policy since
he assumed office.
Trial Os Ex-Kaiser To Be Held Soon
London.—The British government
. expects the trial of former Emperor
William of Germany to begin in Lon
’ don early in the new year and is com
-1 pleting necessary arrangements, says
the Daily Mail, which adds that as
’ soon as the allies have ratified the
treaty a united request for the sur
render of the erstwhile emperor will
' be presented to Holland. There is
no room for doubt that the request
will be complied with, the newspaper
says.
Rescued After Four Monti*
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toy husband was so dok, not able to do any-
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ic dysentery. He
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resLM'He doctored
and Had X-ray pic
tures taken and did
everything he could
to get relief but noth
ing gave him any
help. He became
very much disoour
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give up getting any
better, nut having
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one of Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical
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MRS. J. ALEXANDER, 100 Nelson St.
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