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VOL. XL3X
PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JUNE, 5 1919
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EARTHQUAKE KILLS AMERICAN PLANE
16,000 people; CROSSES OCEAN
WILL ERECT ARCH
I TO DEAD HEROES
KALUT VOLCANO BELCHES OUT
DEATH AND DE-
IfTfffiJT STRUCTION if®®
NC-4 REACHES LISBON AND WINS
FOR NAVY TRANS-ATLANTIC
i PALM
ERECTION OF $50,000 SHAFT IN
ATLANTA IS PLANNED AS
MEMORIAL
GREAT DISASTER IN JAVA COMMANDER READ WINS OUT STATE NEWS OF INTEREST
Thirty-One Villages Destroyed In One American Biplane Completes Last Leg
District Of Island
Of Java
Tokio.—Sixteen thousand persons
were killed or Injured In a volcanic
eruption In central Java on May 20.
This Information Is contained In of
ficial advices from Batavia.
31 Villages Destroyed
Amsterdam.—The volcano of Kalut,
Of Voyage In 9 Hours And
44 Minutes
Washington.—Blazing the way of
the first air trail from the western
to the eastern hemisphere, the United
States navy seaplane NC-4, under Lieu
tenant Commander Albert Cushing
Read, swept into the harbor at Lis
bon, Portugal, the first airship of any
kind to have crossed the Atlantic
ocean under its own power and
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n/ av ?\ has burst Int0 eruption ’ wlp - through its natural element,
ing out twenty villages in the district Talcing the air at Ponta Delgada,
f r £a1 ' and eleven In the vicinity Azores, at 6:18 a. m„ Washington
or Blitar and causing deaths estimat- time, on the last leg of the trans-At-
© at fifteen thousand, according to lantic portion of the voyage from
a Central News dispatch received in Roclsaway Beach, Long Island, to
Amsterdam.
Last Serious Eruption In 1901
The volcano Kalut (Keloeet) is one
Brief News Hems Of Important Gath
ered From All Parts
I Of The State
Plymouth, England, the NC-4 covered
the 800 miles in 9 hours and 43 min
utes, maintaining an average speed
of the fourteen active volcanoes on j of better than 80 knots an hour. The
the island of Java. Kalut is in east*' total elapsed flying time from New-
ern Java south of Surabaya. For foundland to Lisbon was 26 hours and
At® size Java has more volcanoes than j 41 minutes.
any other country in the world. Ka- At the first opportunity the big plane
Jut’s last serious eruption was on the w m continue to Plymouth, 775 nauti-
23d of May, 1901, when one hundred i C al miles to the north. To the navy
and eighty-one persons were killed.! department, however, it makes little
The volcano of Galoenggoen became difference when he completes the
very active in 1822 and one hundred journey. The great object of all, the
and fourteen villages were destroyed effort lavished on the undertaking,
and more than four thousand lives navigation of a seaplane across the
lost. Much of the island was laid Atlantic through the air, has been
waste by eruptions and earthquakes | accomplished. Twentieth century
in August, 1883, when the loss of life 1 transportation has reached a new pin-
was estimated at thirty-five thou- nac i e an <i the United States navy has
sand.
AMERICAN TROOPS ARE
LEAVING NORTH RUSSIA;
ARE READY TO EMBARK
All Members Of The 339th Infantry
Are Reported To Be At
Archangel
Washington.—Withdrawal of the
American forces from Archangel is
actually under way, according to ca
ble advices to the war department,
which stated that all members of the
339th Infantry were awaiting evacua
tion.
The cablegram also said that the
return of individual soldiers as cas
uals, in accordance with a recent re
quest of the department, would not
, .expedite the discharge of such cas
uals, since their units would arrive
at home before these individuals.
The withdrawal of the American
forces from northern Russia is in line
with the policy of the American gov
ernment announced by Secretary Ba
ker before the house military affairs
committee last February. At that
time Mr. Baker said it had been de
cided to withdraw all American troops
from the- Archangel district as early
in the spring as climatic conditions
would permit.
led the way.
Ringing Welcome Given Navy Plane
Lisbon.—The achievement of the
first trans-Atlantic flight, with Lis
bon as the first European stopping
point, has aroused the enthusiasm of
the Portuguese aB no event has stir
red them for many years. When the
American seaplane NC-4 came over
the Tagus river, the populace crowd
ing all places of vantage, gave full ex
pression to this enthusiasm by cheers
of welcome, the booming of guns and
the ringing of bells.
SECRETARY DANIELS
BELIEVES IN SHOWING
CONFIDENCE IN LEAGUE
FORMER BRITISH SOLDIERS
AIDED BY BRITISH SAILORS,
MOVE ON PARLIAMENT
London.—Thousands of discharged
BOldiers and sailors out of employ
ment, armed with stones and other
missiles, marched toward the house
of commons. They ca^ie into con
flict with the police hairing the ap
proaches,! however, and were scatter
ed. Later the procession was reform
ed and marched toward Buckingham
palace, but the demonstration broke
Up, before it reached the palace. There
were no further disorders. The dem
onstrations followed a big meeting
held during the afternoon in Hyde
park, where the discharged soldiers
and sailors demanded work and a
minimum wage scale. Similar dem
onstrations were held throughout the
country during the day.
Atlanta.—Plans to erect a memorial
arch or a monument to the memory
of the men and officers of the 325th
Infantry regiinent of the 82d division
who were killed In action overseas,
have been set on foot with Col. Walter
M. Whitman, commander of the regi
ment, sponsor for the movement, It
has been learned. The memorial will
be erected at one of the entrance© to
Piedmont Park, If the city’s permis
sion is given, and a campaign for ap-
proxmately $50,000 to defray the ex
penses of the movement is to begin
at once among the members of the
regiment, as well as friend® of the
organization. The shaft or arch, to
be decided upon later, will be unveil
ed at Piedmont Park next October
11, the anniversary of the heaviest
losses of the regiment in the terrific
Argonne forest fighting. The me
morial will have a tablet giving the
names of the men killed in action, and
on the day of the unveiling the offi
cers of the regiment will hold a re
union in Atlanta. The $50,000 fund
for the memorial will be raised
among those members of the regi
ment who live in Georgia, Alabama,
and Tennessee, together with those
who come from New York, Pennsyl
vania and the West. In fact, the per
sonnel is so widely scattered that the
campaign will be vlrtualy a nation
wide one.
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Fish Scrap, merican Murate of Potas, Cotton Seed
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U. S. Ship Picks Up Hawker’s Biplane
St. Johns, N. F.—The Sopwith bi-
• plane in which Harry Hawker and
Mackenzie Grieve attempted to fly
across the Atlantic was picked up in
latitude 49.40 north, longitude 29.08
oeast v.v an A^jeric&n ship.
Washington.—The policy of the
navy department for a fleet “second
to none in the world,” has been tem
porarily abandoned.
Secretary Daniels, appearing before
the house naval affairs committee to
outline the needs of his department
for the next fiscal year, recommended
that the entire 1919 three-year build
ing program of ten battleships and
ten battle cruisers be abandoned, say
ing that the trend of the world to
wards universal peace, and the oper
ation of the proposed league of na
tions, made competition for suprem
acy of the seas no longer necessary.
The naval secretary asserted that
as the United States had taken a
foremost part in promoting the league
of nations plan, it would be this na
tion’s duty to show faith in the cove
nant by refusing to authorize fur
ther large additions to the sea forces.
Work on the 1916 program, he said,
should be completed as soon as pos
sible, but the 1919 program, which
it is estimated would involve an ex
penditure of more than a billion dol
lars, should be “wiped off the siate.”
Plan Reception for Editors
Atlanta.—If Ernest Camp of the
Walton Tribune is to be believed,
the citizens Monroe are making
preparations to pu( the big pot in the
little one along about the middle of
this coming July, when the country
editors from all over Georgia assem
ble at Moni’oe for their anual meet
ing. Mr. Camp came into Atlanta to
renew his invitation to newspaper ed
itors to pay a visit to Monroe this
summer, and outlined some of the
things that city is preparing to do
for its guests. "More than one hun
dred and fifty editors have accepted
the invitation to attend the conven
tion of the Georgia Press Association,’’
he said. “And early in July, when
melons are ripe and the date draws
nigh, we expect all the rest of them
to come. Why, the way the weekly
editors are paying up back dues and
renewing their good standing in the
association makes me believe the
whole membership is coming to Mon
roe on July 14.”
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To Celebrate 200th Anniversary
Savannah.—Encouraged over the
success of the recent group of centen
nial celebrations—the sailing of the
steamship Savanah in 1819, the found
ing of various institutions in Savan
nah a‘century ago, and other histori
cal dates, plans have already been
suggested for an all-Georgia celebra- j
tion here in 1930 of the two hundredth 1
anniversary of the founding of the
Georgia colony. It was agreed that
the years intervening between this
time and 1933 will not be too long to
prepare and arrange a worthy pro
gram of events to signalize that his
toric date.
COAL; COAL; COAL;
;
important
Cotton Men To Urge More Ships
Savannah.—Savannah cotton factors
and exporters held a meeting, at which
it was decided to send a representa
tive to Washington to appear before
the United States shipping board in
the interest of securing more ships
for moving the thousands of bales of
cotton now congested at the port of
Savannah. The inability to get ton
nage has’ become a matter of acute
concern for the exporters. Ships are
allocated to Savannah lines, it is said,
but space in them is‘assigned to ship
pers all over the country, and the
congestion here is not relieved.
Knights Templars To Meet In Albany
Atlanta.—With the election of offi
cers for the coming year, the selec
tion of Albany for the 1920 annual
conclave and the hearing of various
committee reports, the fifty-eighth
annual convention of Sir Knights com
posing the grand commandery, of the
Knights Templars, of Georgia, came
to a close after a two-day session in
Atlanta, and the knights and ladies
to the number of more than a thou
sand were taken in special cars to
the Robert Burns cottage, near the
Soldiers’ -fctSnie, where the closing so
cial eveflit .jbf the conclave, an old-
J fashioned^barbecue, was held.
Dont forget
matter, we will begin to deliver
Blue Gem Lump and Montev-
allo Lump Coal in June, and the
orders will be filled in the order
in which they are taken. Get
your order in early and be as
sured of getting thebest coal and
getting it before the
advances.
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