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U.S. TO PROSECUTE
324 CONTRACTORS
PROCEEDINGS WILL INCLUDE
BOTH CRIMINAL AND
CIVIL ACTION
GRAFTBASIS OF PROSECUTION
Not Only Purchase Of War Supplies,
But Construction Camps And Can¬
tonments Will Be Investigated
Washington.—Prosecution of 324
contractors, the beginning of a move
by the government to clean up its
■war contract controversies, has been
ordered by the department of justice.
The proceedings will include both
criminal and civil action and involve
“millions of dolars,” department offi
cials say.
Practically all of the cases embraced
by the prosecution order have been
turned over by the war department,
but there are indications that similar
cases wilt be received from other gov
eminent departments, The shipping
board is understood to be planning to
request criminal prosecution iu half
a dozen cases in addition to those al¬
ready in the hands ot the attorney
general. will
The contracts on which action
be pressed were said to involve big
amounts “ranging from a few thousand
to a few millions each.” They in
dude agreements tor the furnishing
ot supplies of nearly every commod¬
ity which the government purchased
for war purposes, as well as construc¬
tion of camps, cantonments and ware¬
houses and other facilities for training
the army.
Preparatory to instituting legal pio
ceedings in most cases, the govern
ment has started a rectiecking of such
data ar,d figures as it has, planning
later to pursue the investigation into
the records of the firms and individ¬
uals whose contracts are questioned.
This work will require several months
and possibility of early settlement of
most of the suits appears remote.
Offcials express the belief that al
though the war department has tailed
to reach an agreement many of the
controversies will be settled out of
court. The war department abolished
ds fraud and graft-investigating laeil- see¬
tions some months ago and its
ities for making necessary inquiries
In most of the cases were limited.
GERMANY HAS REJECTED
RUSSIA’S REQUEST FOR
HER COLLABORATION
Berlin.—Dr. Walter Simons, the for
eign minister, addressing the
stag foreign affairs committee,
clared he had been urged to
orate with the Russian Bolsheviki
against the western pow r ers as a
’ of breaking the bonds imposed by the
treaty of Versailles, but that,
mature reflection, he bad rejected
course. exhorta
“It we had followed these
tions,” said the foreign minister, ‘Ger
many would immediately have become
i theater of war. Furthermore, the
disastrous consequences which
jhevistn might be expected to bring
with it would have fallen with double
force upon Germany.”
Doctor Simons said proposals also
aave been made that Germany co-op
srate with the western powers against
Russia, which he considered an
squally impossible course. Soviet
"No power at war with Rus
sia,’ the foreign minister aded, “need
:ount upon our support.”
BIG RANSOM IS ASKED
FOR AMERICAN CITIZEN
KIDNAPED BY MEXICANS
Mexico City.—Charles Hoyle, an
American citizezn, who was kidnaped
the bandit Pedro Zamora, at Cuale,
jtate of Jalisco, on August 20, and
who was later released, arrived at Gua
ialajara recently, seeking 100,000 pe
jos ransom which Zamor is demanding
lor W. A. (Sandy) Gardiner, another
American, who, with W. B. Johnson,
i British subject, is still being held
taptive by the bandit.
Hoyle, according to press dispatches,
leclares that he was released before
:be fight between tlie outlaws and the
government troops at Rancho Ilivsii
iero, where the Zamora forces were
sadly defeated.
Italian Factories Seized By Workers
London.—Several ractories in Rome
aave been seized by striking metal
workers in concert with the metal
strikers at Milan and Turin, where
> number of factories had
-jeen occupied by the workers,
ug to a Rome dispatch.
Sold Reported To Be Found In Ireland
Loudon—.According to an
2 i« pa Ceil, American mining
lave discovered gold ciep isits in the
a ills near Horseleap, county
aieath, Ireland.
Britain Worried About Cotton Supply
Washington.—Increased
)f cotton has res .ted in grave
aess in England as to future supplies,
1C cording to official advices
ufcTe and cotton merchants in
; the
’ashire are eonsidering
U ot sending a trade mission to
p ar East to investigate the
rade in manufactured cotton
this means, they believe a
muld be provided for securing
Me informadon to assist in
<ig the cotton industry.
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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ SEPTEMBER 16, 1920
LABOR IN ARMS
TO SAVE raw
BRITISH LABOR CONGRESS IS
SUES WARNING TO THE
GOVERNMENT
APPEAL TO SYMPATHIZERS
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Talk Of World-Wide Boycott On Brit
ish Goods In Retaliation For
Treament Of MacSwiney
London.—British labor, six and one
half million strong, has takers
stand against the government iu
MacSwiney test, as Irish Republicans
exhort the whole world to heU> them
in their fight by striking at Great
ain's pocket book through a fimuiciai.
economic and industrial boycott.
The great Portsmouth conference of
950 delegates, representing six million
five hundred thousand workers, puss
eu ;1 a resolution reminding-the
meat that organized labor would bold
it responsible for MacSwiney’s death,
should he die.
MacSwiney’s wife hue addressed an
appeal to sympathizers with the Irish
cause, the world over, to take part iu
an economic boycott against Great
Britain.
MacSwiney Rejects Food
Each day as the fast of Lord Mayor
MacSwiney in Brixton prison pro¬
gresses there is staged by the bedside
of the dying man a tragic little act,
which lias been disclosed to the press
by Father Dominick, chaplain to the
mayor.
Every morning food in some form
or another is brought in by the pris¬
on authorities and ottered to the
starving prisoner in the hope that his
almost uncontrollable craving will
master him and that he will be tempt
ed to eat. Every morning there is the
same end to the act—MacSwiney, who
is too weak to utter a spoken refusal,
crushes his desire and turns his head
away. So it has gone on until the
twenty-fifth day of his hunger strike.
There have been many rumors that
MacSwiney was being given suste
nance in drinking water or otherwise.
This is indignantly denied by relatives
rnd friends. Father Dominic says:
FARMERS ARE MENACED
BY THE LOFTY PRICES
OF FARMING IMPLEMENTS
| There Has Been An Advance Of
Seventy-Five Per Cent In Cost
Of Farming Machinery
Washington.—Declaring prices of
farm implements to have been increas¬
ed without warrant through “conceit¬
ed action” of manufacturers and deal
srs, tlie federal trade commission in
r report made public recommends re¬
opening of antitrust proceedings
against the International Harvester
company and institution of judicial
proceedings against implement manu¬
facturers and dealers.
The commission declares its inves
tigation, which was ordered by the
senate, disclosed t^at in the period
between 1914 and 1918 the prices paid
by farmers for implements advanced
73 per cent with greater portion of
the increase coming in 1917 and 1918.
The increase, the commission asserts,
was larger than warranted by the ad
vances in the costs and expenses of
the manufacturers and dealers, and re¬
sulted in unusually large profits.
Notwithstanding the increase, the
tanners of the country, according to
the commission’s report, “were not pre¬
vented from making as much profit as
oefore, because the prices of farm prod
ucts increased to an even greater ex
tent."
three tourists killed
IN CAVE OF THE WINDS
UNDER NIAGARA FALLS
Niagara Falls, Two women and a
man were crushed to death and two
men were injured when a slide of
shade forced out a bridge leading to
one of the stairways in the cave ot the
winds under Niagara Falls. A hun¬
dred or more tourists who were in the
•cave at the time, had narrow escapes,
many being bruised and cut by the
falling rock.
Trolley Cars Collide In Niagara Gorge
Niagara Falls.—Seven persons wero
Injured in a collision ot two trains of
trolley cars in the Niagara gorge; none
seriously A break in the trolley line
caused the train to stall, and pas¬
sengers jumped when they saw an¬
other train bearing down upon them.
Train Crews Quit Because Of “Cut »i
Little Rock, Ark.—All train crews
of the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf rail
! way, from Hot Springs to Texarkana,
i have quit work as the result of a 10%
reduction in wages.
Covington Man Killed In Wrangle
Covington, Ga.—Boyce Wander, a
very prominent young man of this city,
was shot and killed following what is
said to have been a domestic wrangle.
T. E. Webb, an employee of a local
oil mil, is in jail charged with the
killing. Considerable excitement tot
i owe d the shooting, but within a very
short time everything quieted down
; Wander is survived by his wife, three
' children, father and mother and one
) sister. It is not known what the do¬
mestic wrangle was about.
GEORGIA LEADS THE SOUTH
IN WAR RISK INSURANCE
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Atlanta, Georgia, September 7th
- -Are Georgians better business men j
than other Southerners? The Bureau j
I of War Risk Insurance, while it does)
not draw this conclusion has figures)
which are significant. According to!
their announcement made today at!
the office of John It. Folsom, Special
Represtntativc, more Georgia
service men have reinstated their:
! War Risk Insurance than from any ■
other Southern State .
According to Mr. Folsom, this is
due in a large measure to the fact
; that Georgia business men have a
better appreciation of the value of
War Risk Insurance, not only to the
individual man, but to the community
as well, -as evidenced by their whole
hearted support of the Government
j to give the ex-service men this privi
lege.
| There is a very strong possibility
- according to the present rate of re
instatements that by January lst,
) 1921 a majority of ex-service men
1 will have taken advantage of the of
fer to reinstate their lapsed insu
j ranee,
The American Red Cross and the
American Legion are maintaining a
staff to give any information that
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CONVENTION L-cLi GATES
FROM CRAWFORD COUNTY
The delegate;-, to the State Con
vention appointed h.v the executive
rennmtL are as follows; \
It. ( . I eSucur: alternati • J. F. Dick
and K. I’. J.owe.
The deh gate s to the-tith Con
gressiowul Convention to he held 'at
the Dempsey Hoi el ;n M'ncon on
September 18, who were appointed
by Mr. Wise: Mr. R. C. LcGucur and
H. J. McCrary; altornales unknown.
—Crawford County News.
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M. B. CARR IS CRAWFORD
COUNTY’S REPRESENTATIVE
M. B. Carr wins the race for Rep
resentative in Crawford in a walk.
\y e predict for Milton that he will
make a representative of the people
and whom all will be proud of.—
( rawford County News.
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“The safest and sanest kiss is that j
of a husband and wife, always pro- i
vided they are married to each I
other.”
FIVE
We Must Guard
* gfellP mfam 8 ! Our Girls
'»• On the threshold of womanhood
m r s' comes the crisis which means
V; health or invalidism. Three gen¬
erations ago an old southern doc¬
ft. tor wrote a prescription for the
ill / ills of women, which has become
known to fame ‘ ‘ Stella Vitae;
as
has been the right thing at the
right time for thousands of
young girls, down to the present
*j Saved An day. Try it for YOUR daugh¬
I Operation ter. Money refunded if FIRST
^ BOTTLE does not benefit.
■ MR. W. F. NELSON, a merchant of At your drug store
| I Hixon, of Tenn., of his says: neighbors, That the Mr. daughter James
one
I Roberts, was in such a condition with
B female trouble that an operation was
3 1 advised, and the young lady was sent to
( hattanooga for its performance. She
I I droadod the operation, and STELLA
VITAE having been recommended,
5} ®J decided six bottles to try and that is first. happily She has the taken road
on
j3 to work recovery. and is in She better is able health to do her than usual for
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I a years before, but continues to use it. i
H She writes: ‘‘STELLA VITAE will do
all you claim.” Her father says "She
■ ■ began to improve at once, after taking J "la
STELLA VITAE. n a;
THACHER MEDICINE CO.
Sole props. & Mfrs., Chattanooga, Tenn. U. S. A.
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