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Cotton Factors. - 614 Thlrdt Street, Macon, Ga O'fTON FACTORS Macon, Ga. 11! ; JOHN H. HODGES, Proper. DEVOTED TO HOME INTERESTS, PROGRESS AND CULTURE . ■ ; - $1.50 a Year. In Advance VOL. XL3X PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JUNE, 5 1919 i;' : ' No 21 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 * — , uucau uiiuui no uwu pu 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. PEACH TREES AND FALL GRAIN’ We are prepared to furnish acid Phosphate Raw Bone Meal, Ground Cattle Tankage Machine Dried Fish Scrap, merican Murate of Potas, Cotton Seed Me; I and alt grades of ready mixed fertilers. rite us for prices. Heard Brothers, MACON, GEORGIA. , Bill W. O. Kinney. L. J. HoitToa- W. O. KINNEY & SUOCESJORS'TO B. T. ADAMS & CO. 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.” Cotton, Mules, Fertilizers Wagons, Bagging, Money to Loan on Farm Lands in Houston Caunty a’ Low III you winr money quick write qrca'l Hatcher-Tuc 523 Mulberry St. Macon, Georgia 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. PHONE 45. A ' 'X : V mu iiwmiuMi