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Volume XXXII. Number 64.
BELGIAN PREMIER
_ HUD of
APPLAUSE GREETS NAME OF
SON AND KING ALBERT OF
BELGIUM
U.S. IS WANTED AS A
Strong Effort To Abolish Article
Of Covenant Is Believed
Very Likely
Geneva.—M. Paul Hymans,
premier of Belgium, was elected
dent of the league of nations
bly. He received thirty-five of
lorty-two votes.
rPolonged applause greeted first
lion of the United States at the
ing session.
“Washington is the home of
and the United States cannot
remain out of the league,”
Motta of Switzerland declared in
address of welcome.
More than one hundred
and the crowd of spectators filled
great “hall of reformation” with
clapping and cheers.
President Wilson and King
drew a hearty tribute of applause
their names were mentioned.
M. Motta addressed a mesage
f ood will to President Wilson and
walls rang with approbation,
premier courteously referred to
tact that Geneva had been chosen
Brussels as the permanent seat of
league and linked it with a tribute
King Albert, The mention of
name brought renewed applause.
M. Motta declared the world
for economic reconstruction to
out of the assembly's debates,
suggested the breaking up of
olies on raw materials as a
step.
M. Hymans presided over the
ing session. He called the
to order by reading President
son’s convocation, He declared
the league, starting with
members, was certain of its future.
declared it would be most
as the agent for a new era of
national co-operation and harmony.
The session was occupied with
tine affairs. Following the
tion and welcoming addresses, the
dentials committee was appointed
the delegates adjourned.
The city was enthusiastic. Flags
almost every nation were
The Liberian flag made its first
pearance and was mistaken for
of the United States colors.
M. Haynes, in an address, immedi¬
ately following his election
there was a posibility that the
nant would be amended.
“We do not pretend the covenant is
perfect or that it can’t be improved,”
lie declared.
Premier Motta, who welcomed the
delegates, received four votes for the
presidency: R. H. Ador of England and
Leon Bourgeois of France on each.
M. Motta declared the world would
realize the honor that had been award¬
ed a Belgian.
The Swiss premier declared that he
‘‘wished most ardently that the Unit¬
ed States will not longer delay occu¬
pation of her legitimate seat in this
assembly.
"Although there are plainly evident
claims and inevitable imperfections
in the convention,” he_said, "the foun¬
dation will stand even if the first
work collapses.
M. Motta thanked the peace confer¬
ence for designating Geneva as the
home of the league of nations.
“If the reasons had been glory and
sacrifice, Brussels should have been
selected,” he declared.
He extended thanks to President
Wilson for calling the first session
of the assembly in Geneva.
Mr. Hymans, in his inaugural ad¬
dress, denied, the league was in any
way a super-state, threatening the sov¬
ereignty of any nation.
“It is rather a clearing house,” he
said, “designed to facilitate frequent
contact between various states with a
development of understanding and
sympathy.”
Caotain Steele Killed In Polo Game
Chattanooga, Tenn.—Capt. John
Newton Steele of the Sixth United
States cavalry, was thrown from his
lior 3 e and instantly killed at Fort
Oglethorpe, while playing polo.
Deposed Ex-King Chosen By Greece
Athens.—The government, in an of¬
ficial announcement, virtually admits
the defeat of the Venizelists in the
general elections throughout Greece.
It says it will await the final results
and then, in conformity with consti¬
tutional principles, resign before the
convocation of parliament, If Pre
mier Venizelos was unsuccessful in ob¬
taining a majority of twenty-five votes
in the chamber of deputies it is con¬
sidered here he will be unable to
golye the dynastic problem.
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OVER $1,000,000 SUBSCRIBED
MACON MEETING
DAY. FORT VALLEY
TAKE STOCK.
At a meeting of Georgia
held at the Dempsey Hotel in
Wednesday, a total of
wa: subscribed for stock in the
eral International Banking
(organized to assist in financing
exportation of cotton and
Southern products. Every bank in
State was urged to subscribe
stock in this corporation to
amount of three percent of the
capital and surplus.
of 1G5 out of the 848 banks of
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State subscribed for stock in the
port corpcration .
Both of the Fort Valley
were represented at this
Mr. C. E. Martin representing
Citizens Bank, and Mr. S. B. Brown
j the Exchange Bank. These
subscribed $4,500 and $2,250,
spectively.
j Mr. C. E. Martin of the
Bank of Fort Valley was made chair¬
man of the canvassing committee
Group Five of the Georgia Bankers’
Association to push the solicitation
of subscriptions from other banks in
this district.
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COUNTRY RUNS BY CITY
-j FIRE TRUCK RESTRICTED
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Mayor H. C. Neil informs The
Leader-Tribune that council has re¬
scinded its order whereby the city fire
truck was permitted to respond to
country calls except where fire plugs,
water and quick and sure means of
communication are available. In some
instances, the Mayor states, it has
happened that after responding to a
country call no water connections
were available to the truck, and in
such cases the fire has usually gained
such headway that the quantity of
chemical extinguisher carried on the
truck is of little avail. In a recent
case it also happened that the
only means of telephone communica¬
tion with the fire truck was entirely
interrupted and it would have been
impossible to call the truck back to
the city had a fire broken out here.
The city property owners would have
been quite unprotected in such a
contingency.
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Friends of Dr. W. II. Hafer regret
that he is confined at home on ac
count of illness. He hopes to be out
again in a few days.
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m hooves us to turn from the distract¬ passing.
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\< jSi life, that we may contemplate the virtuous and self-reliant people face
mercies which have been vouchsafed the future, its duties and its oppor¬
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to us and render heartfelt and un¬ tunities. May we have vision to dis¬
m feigned thanks unto God for His cern our duties, the strength, both of
manifold goodness. hand and resolve, to discharge them; a
This is an old observance of the and the goodness of heart to realize
American people, deeply imbedded in that the truest opportunities are
(i our thought and habit. The burdens those of service. M
and the stresses of life have their In a spirit, then, of devotion and
m own insistence. stewardship, we should give thanks
We have abundant cause for in our hearts, and dedicate ourselves
thanksgiving. The lesions of the war to the service of God’s merciful and 5g
l « are rapidly healing. The great army loving purposes to His children.
H of freedom, which America sent to Wherefore I, Woodrow Wilson,
the defense of liberty, returning to president of the United States, do
the grateful embrace of the nation, hereby designate Thursday, the 25th
has resumed the useful pursuits of day of November, next, as a day of
! 'a peace, as simply and as promptly as thanksgiving and prayer, and I call
it rushed to arms in obedience to the upon my countrymen to cease from
country’s call. The equal justice of their ordinary tasks and vocations up¬
our laws has received steady vindica¬ on that day, giving it up to the re¬
tion in the support of a law-abiding membrance of God and His blessings,
people against various and sinister and their dutiful and grateful ac¬ V*\J
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VALLEY. HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1920. TEN PAGES.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY
OFFERED EX-SERVICE MEN
Y. M. C. A. Offers Scholarships To
Houston, Crawford, Macon and
Taylor County Men. Must
Act Quickly.
Ex-Service men of Houston, Craw¬
ford, Macon and Taylor Counties are
presented for the next thirty days
with a rare opportunity to acquire a
collegiate or business education at a
minimum expense.
The Y. M. C. A. has some money
left over from its last war work
drive. It wants to use some of this
money in educational scholarships to
be awarded worthy ex-service men
who desire to equip their minds bet¬
ter for the battle of life. There are
several scholarships available to ex
service men in Houston, Crawford,
Macon and Taylor Counties. Mr. Ar¬
thur R. Siebens, representing the ed¬
ucational work of the Y. M. C. A. in
Georgia, was in Fort Valley Wednes¬
day conferring with Mr. F. W. With
oft, who is a member of the executive
committee of the Y. M. C. A. for
Georgia, regarding this phase of the
Y. M. C. A. for past-war work.
There are two general classes of
scholarships offered. The first is for
collegiate or university work for
which a high chool education or its
equivalent is a basir requirement. The
second covers business courses and
correspondence courses in various
field.
As only a few scholarships are ap¬
portioned to the counties above
named, consideration will be given to
the merits in the case of each appli¬
cant. Applications for scholarships
should be made to Mr. F. W. With
oft, Fort Valley, and should be made
within the next thirty days.
This is a splendid opportunity for
ambitious ex-service men who are un¬
able to fully finance the educational
opportunity they. desire. ACT
QUICKLY.
If the scholarships apportioned to
these counties are not taken by men
in these counties they will be award¬
ed to applicants from other counties
of the State.
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MRS. ALBERT SEIFERT’S
ROOK PARTY FOR BRIDE
In honor of Miss Annie Laurie
Braswell, whose marriage on Sunday
to Mr. Fred Sammons was an in¬
teresting event, Mrs. Albert Seifert
entertained at a three-table rook par¬
ty on Friday afternoon. The room
where the players sat was prettily
decorated with lovely roses and
chrysanthemums. The refreshments
served consisted of a lovely salad
course with coffee, the salad being of
frozen fruit, attractively garnished
in red and green.
U. D. C. NOVEMBER MEETING
HELD WITH MRS.
Christmas Bazaar Planned To
Funds For Remodeling Winnie
Davis Memorial Hall
At Athens.
The Charles D. Anderson
U. D. C. held their November meet¬
ing at the beautiful Colonial
of Mrs. J. F. Troutman, Oakland
Heights, with Mrs. John Vance and
Mrs. Troutman joint hostess'. The
meeting falling on November 11th,
the decorations were characteristic
of Armistice Day.
Mrs. F. O. Miller, the efficient
president, presided, and completed
plans for a Christmas bazaar, to
held eaily in December at Cope
land s Pharmacy.
1 his Chapter is raising funds to re
model a room in the Winnit Davis
Memorial Hall pt Athens, this being
the only Memorial to a woman owned
by the Daughters of the Confederacy
in the state, and is the religious and
social center of the State Normal
School. This Chapter had a splendid
report at the recent Convention in
Macon for last year’s work, and are
planning to make the coming year
one of greater success.
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STAGE IS ALL SET FOR
BIG MINSTREL SHOW
Everything- is ready for the big
civic minstrel show at the Austin
Theatre in Fort Valley this Friday
night, Nov. 19, at 8:00 o’clock. The
rehearsals have been interesting and
faithfully attended. Everybody has
been mighty good about helping ’ in
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every way and the ladies of the civic
committee, who are promoting the
affair, are tickled to death with the
spirit with which everyone asked to
do anything has responded and with
the prospests for a most successful
performance from every view-point.
It’s going to be a performance
full of interest and- variety, and, no
doubt, some surprises, even to those
who have been present at all the re¬
hearsals. There will be songs, jests,
dances, a “cullud” wedding, and a
court trial—don’t know whether di¬
vorce or splendid not— and Marshallville say! w'y heard home
that the
orchestra has volunteered to be on
hand and add to the enjoyment of the
audience.
Oh, boy, it’s going to be some
show—a regular oasis of merriment
in the Sahara of these dull, dismal
days since last “peach'* season—as
wus.
Don’t miss it
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Men and women who fail to vote
in Czecho-Slovakia are sentenced to
jail.
I JAPLABORERSTOBE
BARRED FROM U. S.
i TOKIO HEARS JAPAN AND UNITED
STATES HAVE REACHED
AGREEMENT
END FOR NEGOTIATIONS NEAR
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State That There Is Disagreement As
To The Methods To Be
Employed
Toklo.—Newspapers of this city re¬
port that the Japanese and American
governments have reached an agree¬
ment in principle relative to the ex¬
clusion of Japanese laborers from the
United States. It is asserted, how¬
ever, that there is disagreement re¬
garding the methods to be employed.
America is understood to desire pro¬
visions for expulsion embodied in a
treaty, but Japan, it is said, regards
this procedure humiliating and as
forming a precedent she might be
forced to follow in treaties negotiated
in future. Japan is declared to con¬
sider that measures prohibiting her
subjects from emigrating can be tak¬
en only on her own initiative.
In other respects the negotiations
are progressing, it is reported, and
once this point has been settled, an
agreement may be expected.
Washington.—Baron Shidehara, the
Japanese ambassador, had another
conference with state department offi¬
cials regarding the treaty between the
United States and Japan growing out
of the adoption of the alien land law
in California, and it was understood
that the end of the negotiations was
near.
PRESIDENT WILSON CALLS
ON AMERICAN PEOPLE
TO GIVE THANKS
Washington.—President Wilson has
issued the Thanksgiving proclamation
for 1920, saying that "in plenty, se¬
curity and peace, our virtuous and
self-reliant people face the future, H
and setting aside Thursday, November
25, for the usual observances. The
text follows:
“The season approaches when It be¬
hooves us to turn from the distrac¬
tions and preoccupations of our daily
life, that we may contemplate the
mercies which have been vouchsafed
to us, and render heartfelt and un¬
feigned thanks unto God for His man
if old goodness.
“This is an old observance of the
American people, deeply imbedded In
our thoughts and habits. The bur¬
dens and the stresses of life have
their own Insistence.
“We have an abundant cause for
thanksgiving. The lesions of the war
are rapidly healing. The great army
of freedom, which America sent to
the defense of liberty, returning to
theg rateful embrace of the nation*
has resumed the useful pursuits of|
peace, as simply and as promptly aaj
It rushed to arms in obedience to thei
country’s call. The equal justice ofj
our laws has received steady vindica-,
tion in the support of a law-abidingj
people against various and sinister
attacks, which have reflected only tha
baser agitations of war, now happilyi
passing.
“In plenty, security and peace, our
virtuous and self-reliant people face
the future, its duties and its oppor¬
tunities. May we have vision to dis¬
our duties, the strength, both of
hand and resolve, to discharge them; 1
the goodness of heart to .realize
the truest opportunities are those.
service.
“In a spirit, then, of devotion and,
we should give thanks
our hearts, and dedicate ourselves
the service of God’s merciful and
purposes to His children.
“Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson,
of the United States, do des¬
Thursday, the 25th day of No¬
next, as a Day of Thanksgiv¬
and Prayer, and I call upon my
to cease from their or¬
tasks and vocations upon that
giving it up to the remembrance
God and His blessings, and their
and grateful acknowledgment.
Sisters Perish In Alabama Fire
Bay Minette, Ala.—Mrs, C. J. Camp¬
sixty-eight, and Miss Annie Byrne,
sister of Mrs. Campbell,
burned to death when trapped in
Campbell sanitarium, which was
destroyed by fire. Two
buildings, the White Market and
grocery, were also destroyed by
conflagration. The fire originated
the sanitarium and was beyond con¬
before the alarm was sent in. The
is estimated at twenty-five thou¬
dollars. *
THE SHEPARD CASE
BODY EXHUMED AGAIN WED
NESDAY AFTERNOON AND
OTHER PARTS REMOVED BY
DOCTORS BROWN AND FUNKE
By order of Solicitor General
Charles H. Garrett, under authority
0 f the coroner’s jury empaneled here
on November Gth, the body of Fred
Shepard was again removed from
j ts g, rave j n Oaklawn Cemetery be
tween 12:30 and 1:30 o’clock Wed
nesday afternoon, and other portions
0 f the alimentary canal, lungs and
j contents of the bladder removed for
pathological examination. This se
con( j autopsy was performed in the
cemetery by Dr. M. S. Brown and Dr.
John Funke of Atlanta and the body
was again returned to its resting
place and sealed up.
These specimens were taken to At¬
lanta by Dr. Funke, who will submit
them to pathological and physiologi¬
cal examination, his findings to be
considered in connection with the
chemical tests conducted by Dr. Ed¬
gar Everhart of Atlanta, when the
reports of these two authorities are
submitted to the coroner’s jury. The
date to be set for the reconvening of
the coroner’s jury here is not now
known, and will depend on the length
of time required by Dr. Funke in
making his examinations and pre¬
paring his report. It is thought, how¬
ever, that this will be about Satur¬
day, Nov. 27.
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Oh, boy, you’ve got a vibration
coming to you on page five.
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COPELAND’S PHARMACY HAS
HANDSOME ELECTRIC SIGN
We note that Doc Copeland has
had installed a very handsome elec¬
tric sign over the front of his pop¬
ular pharmacy. Hadn’t you noticed
it? Well, too bad. But, of course,
editors are more observant than the
average run of folks, and then the
average run of folks don’t look up as
they run, like editors do. Now, if
Doc. and some other progressive mer¬
chants we know of would put their
signs in The Leader-Tribune more
folks would notice them. Their signs
would then go to the folks instead of
waiting for the folks to come to the
signs. Learn a lesson from Moham¬
med, Doc.
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LOST—Collie dog, about half grown,
white with grayish-brown spots.
New collar. Any information will be
appreciated. E. T. McMillan, ’phone
196. 1 l-18-3p It.
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