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Volume XXXII. Number 57.
SAVAGE TORTURE
OF MONTENEGRINS
CRUELTY INFLICTED BY SERBS
RECALLS PIONEER SAV.
AGERY AND BRUTALITY
UNTOLD TORTURE OF WOMEN
Owners Compelled To Fire Homes
And Are Then Thrust Into The
Flames By* Soldiers
Washington.—Terrible tortures ani
hardships were inflicted upon the
Montenegrins by the Serbian army oi
occupation, according to an officia
report of a commission of investigation
appointed by the Montenegrin, foreign
of lice after tile withdrawal of the Ser
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bian troops. Copi/s of the report;
have he. n transmitted to ite European
governments, and one also is unde, j
stood state department. to have been submitted to tiiej
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The commission charges that I
"crimes committed in Montenegro werea
ordered by the Serbian authorities a no .
and precisely by high officers, such;
as General Milosh MlsiloviU*. cm,■! ’
commander ot the troops ot occupa
tiou, and ,t gives the names ami cir ,
cumstances attending some ol the al
ieged atrocities./ M i
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Hrutal violences and abuses aie te , , ,
coided, sa>s the lepoit. t oi m am .. I (
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cattle were seized, foodstuUs, money
anil , . house furnishings , . , . were „ taken! , i ,
away, houses and huts burned, crops j
destroyed, owners of homes arid hut.
were compelled to set lire to then j
humble dwellings and then the sol
diers pushed them into the flames
in which they perished.
“Women and children, shut in the
homes, were submitted to the addi
tioual torture of bees thrown in,
that they might sting those pitiful
bodies; they even hud the cruelty ol
putting that cats under then the skir^ around of tU
women were sewn
the limbs; the animals then whipped,
so causing awful pain to the victims
"Prisons were opened for children
and received mothers with nursing
infants; the sick were cynically onb r
ed to leave their beds and were uJ
to jail; aged persons, men and women
had to walk sometimes barefooted, on
bad roads for over thirty kilometers;
old people, women and children wer
beaten with heavy sticks or iron rod.
and aiso with wet ropes; inmates ot
prisons were left without nourish¬
ment sometimes as long as ten days;
the bodies of the dead in the prisons
were left among the prisoners L.i
seven days; the prisoners were forced
to put their feet ou the fire and naik
were thrust under their finger nails
“Youths were hung up by the hail
and plunged into the water up tc
their mouths. Men were attached tu
carriages in the place* of horses and
then killed. The corpses of Montene¬
grins, monstrously murdered, were
left in the middle of the streets to be
prey to dogs. Mothers of the rebel:
were thrown upon the fire; old men
had their teeth pulled; women wen
violated.”
The commission said it examim d
more than one hundred eye-witness
to the monstrous cruelties.
GRODNO, NEAR BORDER OF
LITHUANIA, CAPTURED BY
POLES AFTER HARD SCRAP
Warsaw, Poland.—Grodno, an impoi
tant city in northwestern Russia,
the Ihthuanian frontier, has been
tured by Polish troops after
fighting, says an oficial statement it
sued in Warsaw. A large number
prisoners and much war material wer
taken by the JAdes, it is stated. Fn,
some days Polish forces have bee.,
gradually working their way
the city, which has been the conceit
tration point of Russian Bolshevik
forces on the northeastern Polish
front.
Loudon.—A retirement by the Rus¬
sians in the Grodno region is admit¬
ted by the Ru. siau Soviet war office
in an official statement on military
operations, received liy wireless. An
advance, however, to the southwest
of Grodno, where the capture of
Volkovysk is claimed, is recorded by
the statement, which reads:
‘In the Grodno region, after a num
her of battles, our troops were with
drawn :.o the right bunk of the Nie
men. After fierce fighting, we occu
pied Volkovysk and a number of vii
lages seven miles westward.”
Health Service Against Beverages
Washington.—Working against fake
fruit beverages ' which have flooded the
soft drink , maiket , since . the advent , . of ,
prohibition has been decided upon by
the ■ public health service. Many ol
the orange beverages now being sold, it
is said, consist only of sweetened car
bonated water, flavored with a little
oil from the peel of oranges and arti
ficially colored. The department ol
agriculture has ruled that provision:
tt the pure food act will be held tc
bo ve been violated in case such bev
erages are sold under trade names.
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AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 30, 1920.
i GOV. COX IN TRAIN WRECK
Save Engineer, Who Had His Leg
Broken, No One On Train Sus¬
tains Serious Injury
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Phoenix, Ariz.—Governor ox’s pres
i idential campaign train watt wrecked
miles north ot here, while eti rotate tt
Prescott, Ariz. The governcr and hits
party were severely shaken when an
engine and four cars of the special
tram were ditched, but all escaped se
rious injury. The most seriously hurt
was Charles A. Nicholls, engineer oi
Prescott, who had a leg broken in
jumping from itis cab when his engine
toppled over. I
Spreading rails were assigned by rail i
road men as the rause of the wreck
which compelled the governor and par i
ty to return here and cancel his even
ing address at Prescott. His future
itinerary also was upset,
llie accident occurred a half milt
out ot Peoria, a village oil ilie Santa
Fe railroad.
The four forward cars were ditched |
the governor’s private car at the real I
am j t j le adjoining compartment car ol
newspaper men, except for its forward
truck, remained on the rails.
A baggage coach jumped the track
about tUteeu leel aIld lurned owr on
dg g j de / Two passenger coaches and
anothei compartment car behind also
B , ip d teu feut ,, 0IU the tl . ack and
, t , ed ovei , |
Tha Q ^ double . head . j
er, Engineer b\ C. button ot „ Prescott, ri
said, left the rails . tirst. ... . It T . remained .
upright, . but the second engine top
u wvel amu d 01011,1 01 escaping raping,
steam. 0 '
A “ the Passengers on all cars were;
thrown topsy-turvy. Some suffered ■
biuises and cuts from flying glass. I
Governor Cox was in the dining
room of his private car when the
crash occurred, lie was shaken up ;
but rushed out to assist the injured
and this accomplished, cooly smoked, a
pipe whiie waiting for a wrecking train
to arrive and take them back tt
Phoenix.
Railroad officials were unanimous
I in declaring that a spreading rail un
der the two htfavy locomotives and un
usually heavy steel equipment caused
the wreck.
CHARLES E. HUGHES
CONDEMNS OUSTING
OF N. Y.
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Movement Is Called "Act Of Incred
ible Foliy ’ By Head of Bar
Association Committee
Nevv York.—While Socialist leaders
were conferring here on the next step
to obtain representation of the party
in the New York assembly, Charles J*J.
Hughes, head of the Bar Assoeiatiou
committee, which opposed the oustei
of the Socialist delegation last win¬
ter, issued a statement condemning
the second unseating.
“The ouster of the Socialist mem¬
bers ot tiie assembly is an act of in¬
credible folly and in flagrant disre¬
gard of the fundamental principles ol
American institutions," said Mr
Hughes.
“1 am absolutely opposed to Social
ism, and it is because i wish to se.
our institutions preserved that 1 think
this action, which is of the essence oi
Sovietism, should be denounced,
Ine one consoling feature of the
matter is that we may be assured that
tins ouster does not rolled the sent.,
merit of the people of the state, but <s
merely the action of a few exercising
a temporary power which has been'
r.ully abused." i
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Canadians Proiest O , U. S. Cruiser
Kingston, Ont. Declaring it a
l -.tion of the treaty belw.jan Great Bril
ain and the United Slates,, the Kings¬
ton branch of the army mid navy vet¬
erans has instructed its secretary tc
protest to the Ottaway stale depart¬ j,
ment against the United States armed
cruiser Ghillicothe being used in the
St. Lawrence river with it.; bare c <
Ogdenburg.
U. S. Aviator Flying In France Injured
F lamps France. Roland Rohlfs
one of the American entrants tor the
James Gordon Bennett international
aviation cup lo be raced for here,
crashed to the ground while flying his
Texas Wildcat airplan j in practice
He was seriously injured. He had
fiown from the viila Coublay airdrome,
a aisiance of sixty miles, and was land¬
at a speed of almost two miles a
mipute when the wheels struck a
rough spot and collapsed.
Workmen Talk To Driver Of “Blaster”
,* ^- ew y ork —pour workmen appear
ed at the .. municipal building and de- ,
clared they had spoken with the driv
ei ' Aie death wagon that figured in
the Wall street explosion. According
to their story the stranger said his
horse and wagon had been blown up
after he had left the vehicle to tele
phone" to iiis employer. He said he
bad been ordered to take building ma¬ ■
terials to Wall and Broad streets, but
he had been unable to tiucl the iudet
| mite address.
MUST SELL GEORGIA
TO GEORGIANS FIRST
Georgia’s Resources Greater and Products
Better T han California’s; But
California Advertises.
/t,,., (Editorial • , Note: This is the second j
°. f a 8erMfS of artlcles by J ’ y
^ . the Geoi^via .
mmons ' ot
P ress Association and editor of the
Telfair Enterprise, who is
several weeks - in California as the
re ;presentative of the Advertise
g.a ■ Enterpnse. emt He it., hna has found fn,,,,,!
California has absolutely no natural
advantage, but she has built herselt
up out of arid sandhills—and
tised.)
(By J. K. Simmons.)
To the Newspapers oi Georgia:
Sacramento, Calif. Sept.—In a
previous letter I told you of having
come nearly 3,000 miles to California
to study her manner and method of
development and tell it to the peo¬
ple of Georgia through the Georgia
‘ ! in . order , that . Georgia
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mlii'lit . hpcoino 0l< - 0mL ns ab well known as
You will remember I told
the paragraph , that ,, .
in opening a
story could ,,, be told in one word- ,
1 have now been in the State about
weeks, and 1 am more firmly
than ever that my first
is correct. I have been pret¬
ty will over the State, and I
help but think what a
Georgia would be if she were to
forth the same effort that
California people put forth.
you must remember,
is. j a sand desert until
( .j a ] moisture is secured. Irrigation
, the only way they can raise
thing out here.
Georgia farmers have no such
. - stacles to overcome. All they have tq
do is to put a fence around their
acres, do a little preliminary clear
j nd - U j, and <r 0 to work. No bother
about water. Nature provides that.
The Californian will tell you, “with
water everything is possible in Cali¬
fornia. Without it, nothing is possi
t)le- >>
it was my first intention to draw
a comparison of Georgia and Cali¬
fornia, but there is no comparison.
Georgia is too far ahead in her nat¬
ural resources. There is only one
thing that California has that we
haven’t and that is her climate. And
come to think of it, I was talking
with a young man a few days ago
who is not a native of this State.
When asked what he thought of Cab¬
fornia, he replied very promptly
chat “it was all right, except the
olocming climate is too monotonous, >}
j have been unable to gather any
intelligent statistics on the tempera
ture 0 f the state, because it varies
so wjdel * in different parts of the
, ’ “ ut 1 , take , , some data . . gat hered .
^ j0b Angeles, the most favored j pait
Ihe state from a climatic stand-
1 learn that it occasionally
that far south, and that the
sometimes goes over
100,-so, it will be seen that they
have hot and cold weather out
sometimes. -
But, as 1 have already said, we
not going to try to compete
California. What Georgia must do
to wake up and take advantage
the wonderful natural
S that confront us. WE HAVE
GOT TO SELL GEORGIA
GEORGIA PEOPLE, and then
selling to outsiders will be the
thing in the world, just as it is
the California people to sell Califor¬
nia to outsiders.
I have been much encouraged by
talks with some of the large farmers
truck growers out here. So long
as I talked with chamber of com¬
merce representatives and land de
i velopment agencies, I got only the
I i most glowing accounts of
j successes,
but when I finally decided to seek
■ out the “sons of toil” I then began
to get down to rock bottom and get
the unromantic side of California
life. And I found these farmers to be
about as interested in Georgia as we
have been interested in California,
They all, without exception, tdll me
that a Georgia farmer on his Georgia
acre can make as much or more, on
his peaches, watermelons, canta
loupes, cane, potatoes, peanuts and
live stock, as the California man does
on his acre. True, we can’t raise
.......... manges and , , lemons and , other such
*' k * crop 8 ’ but Wl ‘ (ion,t have to. The
< California
. people themselves
admit
that a California peach will, not com
pare with a Georgia peach, and when
1 mentioned Georgia watermelons to
man here a few days ago his face
lio-ue,, lighted t „ up nil . v. he told , of having once
j been in Georgia and how he enjoyed
j those delicious Georgia watermelons.
Th<*’ .largest 1 have seen out here
would not weigh over ten or twelve
pounds and they taste flat. 1 hap¬
pened to be talking day with 1
one a
prominent produce man and men
Honed wi something about i . the 1U delicious , .
Georg,a cane syrup. That man said ,
he had tried every year to get a
supply of Georgia cane syrup, saying
that he had never in all his life eaten
any syrup to compare with it. I have,
his order for a supply in my pocket
right now. i
1 was talking with a party of
California business men one day and
someone said something about pota
toes. I suggested that what he meant
by potatoes was Irish potatoes. He
replied, “Oh, no, 1 meant sweet pota
toes, but I am frank to tell you that
we cannot raise anything as delicious
as your famous Georgia yam. The
only ones we get out here are those
that come canned and while they are
better than ours, I happen to know
they arc not as good as they are be
ioie they are canned. y
That’s the way those who know
Georgia out here look upon our
products. 1 have had California
men tell me that there is no peach
a.s good as the Georgia peach. They
.ail .,ii frankly admit a., that Georgia zi ■ is .
THE pecan section and that fhis
crop alone would make Georgia
world-famous if we wouid onfy go
after it like they are going after de¬
velopment out here. I was talking
with one of the California live wires
a day or so ago, and when I told him
chat Georgia apples had taken five
international premiums he couldn’t
believe it. He frankly said he did not
know we could grow apples in our
section of the country. Truth is, the
great majority of people out here,
those who have only a general
knowledge of the South, think that
Georgia n is and cotton state
a corn
and that we raise ^nothing else. One
man I met who is a stock man, said
he was in Georgia about twenty
years ago and he remembered Geor¬
gia as a state that made cotton al
nost exclusively and bought her
neat and bread in the middle west,
(n fact, he started out to give me
some advice and advised that 1 go
back to Georgia and tell the Georgia
people to go to making their own
meat and bread. You should have
seen how surprised he was when I
told him we were already doing that.
They have told me of the wonder¬
ful Sacramento valley out here and
what it will One of the
they boast of in the Sacramento
valley is tobacco. They were very
much surprised when I told them
that in Georgia we had the largest
tobacco plantation in the country,
25,000 acres with 3,500 employes.
They have been boasting to me ever
since I came out here that Califor¬
nia’s rice crop last season amounted
to $72,000,000. It may interest you
Georgia people to know that the by¬
products alone from one Georgia cot¬
ton crop brought more than $72,000,
000. Remember, by-products on!/.
They tel] you only of their suc¬
cesses out here. That is why their
descriptions are so glowing. I have
gotten some of the less romantic
side of California however. 1 have
talked with hard-headed bankers—
men who are not accustomed to ro
mancing-—and their information has
always been that there is a “seamy ■ ’
side—that there are failures as well
as successes. One real estate man was
boasting to me of how a friend of
his had sold his crop of grapes this
year for $300 an acre, and the buy
er is to do the picking. That sounds
fine, but that land is worth $1,000
an acre. Considering the investment,
the cost to produce—and don’t for
get it certainly costs something to
after a grape vineyard—to
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Los Angeles, Cal.—Discoverey of
the body of Jacob Charles Denton,
local capitalist, who disappeared four
months ago, buried under several tons
of earth in a hermeticaly sealed box
in the cellar of a house at 675 Cata
lina street, brought to light what the
police characterized as the most weird
murder mystery in the history of the
city. Physicians said Denton had been
dead about three months.
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Reduction Ot Food Cost Is Predicted
Chicago.—A general reduction in
food prices is predicted by Sol Wes
terfeld, president of the Retail Gro
iters’ association, who excepted only -
eggs and butter from what lie said' j ;
would be a steady decline. He said
high interests on bank loans made i
price cutting necessary for producers I
to move their crops.
Called To Explain Cause Of H. C. L.
Chicago.—Managers of one large
hotel aud three chain restaurants
were summoned to (he city hall to ex
plain their restaurant prices to the
council committee on living costs.
Simultaneously Russell Poole, secre
tary of the city food bureau, suggest¬
ed that all down town workers carry
their own lunches until prices come
down, and announced that milk will
to the city hall aud sold
direct to employees at ten cents a
TEN PAGES.
MINERS POSTONE STRIKE
It Is Realized That Strike At This
Time Would Prove Unpopular
With British Public
London.—As a result of a further
conference with Premier Lloyd George
concerning the threatened coal strike,
the miners’ executive body decided to :
recommend to the delegates of the!
miners, who were in session recently,
Sv. ta STwit
enable the miners to meet the owners
ts suggested by the premier. I
The premier’s proposal was that a
basic line be fixed for coal output |
it a sufficiently low level to insure
i wage increase if any reasonable rate
production is maintaned.
Tlle recommendation ot the execu
dve body was followed by the miners’
lelegates at their meeting later ’ a,ul
, il was decided to suspend the strike
aoticea one week> as req uested by the
premier.
The conference was deadlocked at
adjournment, but the decision was
»ade immediately after the men reas
semi)led the next day.
A great many miners who originally
voted to strike did so in the belief
that Premier Lloyd George r. could be
driven, , . in . other negotiatons, , to
as
, iel(l , 0 the dema nd for increased pay.
it was realized a strike now would
prove unpopular with the British pub
lie and even radicals among the lead-
3rs - such as Robert Smilie, desired an¬
other vote when it was seen the pre
tnier could not he coerced.
During the coming week the miners’
lea(le ™ will confer with colliery own-
3rs < regarding the-output of the mines,
Tlle proportion of increasing output
provided wages went up is one of the
sticking points in the negotiations,
CALIFORNIA ANTI-JAPANESE
LEGISLATION IS EXTREMELY
OBNOXIOUS TO NIPPONESE
i Tokio, Japan.—The Washington
government will be asked to appoint
a commission to effect a solution ot
I Japanese-American problems and in
the event of the passage ot the Cali
fornia anti-Japanese legislation the
Japanese government will arrange for
a lawsuit against the California leg
j islature on the gl ' ound tllat the 1)111
is unconstitutional and a violation of
the treaty rights ot the Japanese, ac¬
cording to the leading newspapers
iiere. ,
The newspapers say the above pro¬
gram was defined at meetings of the
cabinet and the diplomatic advisory
council.
Washington.—Reports in the Japan¬
ese newspapers that the Japanese cab¬
inet and advisory council bad decided
to ask the United Stales to appoint
a commission to effect a solution of
Japanese problems created surprise
at tlie state department where efforts
to effecl an understanding by (Uplo
matie means are stili being made.
It has been made clear that the
state department has no intention of
attempting to influence the result in
California, it is said that should the
legislation be adopted an understand¬
ing with the Japanese government on
tiie result of it might lie obtained in
two ways—one by a treaty modifying
action taken by a state or by action
in the United States courts.
To invoke the first method is said
to be no part of the plan of the state
department. The second method is
believed to have been suggested in
and may have been the
basis of the reported decision of the
government to resort to the
to determine the constitution¬
of such legislation.
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ALABAMA MINERS
FACE BAYONETS
STATE TROOPS REFUSE TO AL
LOW MINERS TO HOLD
MEETINGS
MEETINGS are called off
General Steiner Says Meetings W eri
Barred Because Speeches Would
Have Inflamed Hearers
Birmingham, Ala.—State rhilitar>
forces, under command of Gen. K. E
steiner > Prevented the holding of num
» cheduled ove
h ^ >' leadens 1 of n n the striking f a miners. A f
some places the soldiers were armet
with machine guns,
Attempts were made to hold tht
meetings as scheduled, but the troops
were 011 the scene and the union offi
dais were advised that the meetings
would not be allowed. Thereupon tht
?h eakers gave way and the crowds lefi
the scenes. There was no disorder.
Mrethigs announced included points
in . Walker county, Bradford, Republic,
Wylam, Mulga, Blocton and Docena
Some of the meetings had been adver¬
tised in the newspapers and some
were called locally by distribution ol
hand bills.
At the smaller meetings ten to a
dozen soldiers appeared, while at oth.
ers detachments of as many as seventy
five men with machine guns were ori
hand. At each place the officer ip
approached the union leaders
and informed them that the meetings
would not be permitted. i ,
Commenting on the events, General
Steiner said: “We issued orders on oui
arrival in the strike zone that there
would be no mass meetings. This
was thoroughly understood by the
strike leaders, because we told them
so. We were, therefore, surprised,
more or less, when we got wind ol
the date set for the meetings.
took steps accordingly. No mass meet¬
ings were held, and none will be held
in the territory under our jurisdiction
This includes the entire mining towns
and fields immediately adjacent tc
them.
“The reason why we will not permit
the mass meetings is because they are
addressed by men whose speeches teijd
to inflame the minds of their hearers
and that, in turn, tends to lead to a
brehcli of the peace. We are here,
primarily, to prevent any breach of the
peace, and we shall stop that which
aims in that direction.
RIOTING AND WHOLESALE
MURDER RAN RAMPANT
THROUGH NORTH BELFAST
Belfast, Ireland.—Fierce rioting
has broken out in North Belfast. The
first reports from tire hospital are that
five gunshot cases and many other
injuries are being treated.
Tiie rioting followed a reign of ter¬
ror in the Falls road district of Bel¬
fast, as a result of the murder of a
policeman, the wounding of two oth¬
ers and the killing of three civilians,
who were shot down in rapid succes¬
sion by bands of men who visited theii
homes.
Previous, the shooting in this city
had occurred in the heat ot rioting,
but now. for the first time deliber¬
ately planned killings have b een car
out. The affair had its beginning
while Constables Leonard and Carol!
patrolling the Falls road. When
a public house they heard foot¬
behind them, and, swing around,
they were eontronted by two men
with rifles, who ordered “hands
Simultaneously with the order, fire
was opened upon the officers, and
Leonard fell dead, His companion had
a most miraculous escape.
shots were directed at him,
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Plenty Of Coal For The
Washington.—To forestall the possi
bility of a bituminous coal shortage,
anywhere in the country this
the coal operators are bending
effort to attain a weekly output ol
over twelve million tons of soft coal,
from now to December 1, says a state
ment issued by the National Coal as
satiation. Deficiency in car supply at
llle mlnes llas hindered this rate of
f <luctlorl during the summer, the
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association charges, but assurances
luive ll(3en made by the railroad exec
utives that they will live up to the
requirements put upon them. v
To Act As Attorney For The Public
Washington. — The National Com¬
munity Board, Inc., according to its
to “act as attorney for the
public,” has opened headquarters in
Washington. Its immediate aims are
announced as including the “develop¬
ment of local communities into little
democracies with sehoolhouses as cap
hols. and to put into operation the
nation’s original and expanding deals
of justice and democracy. The board
will simply seek to stimulate and as¬
sist local communities to organize
themselves.
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