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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
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NEWS OF THURSDAY, MAY 29. 1913
WILL AGAIN COMMAND
CONFEDERATE VETS
DANIELS IS NOW PLANNING
FOR A BETTER U. S NAVY
W ASHINGTON, May 29—The
Hearst papers, in advance of
other American newspapers,
exposed the fact that the American
navy was not much more than half-
manned.
The Hearst papers made the state
ment, later so emphatically confirmed,
that not a battleship in the great
Hudson River display of last October
could have gone out to sea to fight
without a shortage of from three to
five officers and a shortage of from
150 to 300 men.
These newspapers developed the
fact that few men were enlisting in
the navy and gave the cause for this
in the fact that our navy offered so
few inducements and attractions for
American youths to enlist in that
branch of our country’s service.
The Hearst papers are now able to
give the first exclusive information
that these unfavorable conditions are
to be changed.
Information comes from 'he Navy
Department that Secretary Daniels
has caught the progressive movement
urged so long in these newspapers and
is going to make the American navy
a more attractive and a more profit
able place for the American youth
who is willing to serve his country
and does not desire altogether to
forget himself.
The Secretary of the Navy plans
that hereafter every battleship and
war vessel shall be a naval school—
an industrial school—a school of the
sciences and incidentally of the arts.
When the Secretary’s plans are com
pleted there will go out from Annapo
lis with every naval vessel a corps
of trained instructors to teach the
sailors and enlisted men. This corps
of instructors will be reinforced by
the educated officers of each ship.
A battleship will hereafter be no
idle place even in peace, and the en
listed man who binds himself to three
years in the service of his country’s
navy can emerge at the end of his
service, if he has will and intelli
gence, with an educational equipment
for a profession by which he can sus
tain himself in the world.
The three-year enlisted man of the
navy who will avail himself of these
new and admirable advantages can
come out a skilled engineer, a navi
gator, a machinist or any one of a
half-dozen skilled professions that
point the way to success in life.
The Secretary plans more frequent
cruises to foreign ports, so that the
education of travel and observation
may be added to a sailor’s opportu
nities on shipboard.
And last, but not least, the new
Secretary of the Navy expresses the
intention with all his influence and
authority to insist upon the recog
nition of the individuality and man
hood of individual seamen. An Amer
ican sailor is promised that here
after he shall be regarded, not only
as a fighting machine, but as a man
and treated as one.
IN FAVOR OF HORSE MEAT.
PARIS, May 29.—With a view to
reducing the cost of living the Cham
ber voted to-day to reduce the im
port duty on horses intended for
slaughter from $30 to $10. A rebate
will be granted on the production of
a certificate that they have been kill
ed for food.
There are in France 700 places
where horses are slaughtered. Paris
consumed 60,000 in 1911, valued at
$40 to $50. Horse meat sells at 3 1-2
cents a pound.
DUEL BY AVALANCHE.
GENEVA, May 29.—A duel by ava
lanche was the method chosen by
two rivals for the hand of an Italian
girl.
To settle their claims the men, who
live below Mont Blanc, decided to
stand for several hours every day in
the path usually followed by ava
lanches on the mountain side until
one of them was swept to death.
One of the men was struck but re
ceived only slight injuries.
FOUGHT WITH PISTOLS.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL., May 29.—
Joseph Stoughton, a hotel proprietor
of Lexington, Ill., is dying to-day
following a revolver duel with Grant
Preble, an automobile dealer, of the
same town. Preble is severely
wounded and physicians to-day said
he might die.
The duel occurred on the streets a
few minutes after Stoughton had
made a will leaving his property to
his wife.
WANT SCHOOL MOVED.
MACON. GA., May 29.—When the
Georgia Association for the Deaf and
Dumb meets in Macon in annual con
vention on June 5 and 6 a formal de
mand will be put on record for the
location of the State School for the
Deaf and Dumb at some place other
than Cave Spring.
KNIFE PENETRATED BRAIN.
LEXINGTON, KT„ May 29.—Ches
ter Lacefield, 23, a wealthy farmer
of Tyrone, Ky., while intoxicated at
tacked his wife and her brother, Ray
mond Carrier, with a knife.
Carrier knocked Lacefield down
and as he fell the knife penetrated
Lacefleld’s brain, killing him. Car
rier was arrested.
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■VETERANS OF CONFEDERACY
END REUNION WITH PARADE
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., May 29.
The twenty-third annual reunion of
the Confederate Veterans closed to
day with the veterans’ parade, In
which the old soldiers of the South
marched under the tattered battle
flags of half a century ago and under
the Stars and Stripes of a reunited
country.
Military bands furnished martial
music to which the tottering old sol
diers, hundreds of them in gray uni
forms, ‘tramped through the down
town streets. Grandstands along
Market and Broad Streets, the prin
cipal thoroughfares traversed, were
filled with visitors and Chattanoogans
who lustily cheered the old veterans.
General Bennett H. Young, mount
ed on a Kentucky thoroughbred
charger, headed the parade. General
J. P. Hickman, of Nashville, com
mander of the Tennessee Division,
was chief marshal.
The exodus of visitors began im
mediately after the parade and
throughout the afternoon and night
special and regular trains wall be
leaving the depots every hour.
The reunion festivities will come
to a formal close to-night when the
Sons of Confederate Veterans give
their annual ball to sponsors and
maids of honor at Bennett H. Young
pavilion.
Several hundred veterans will go
to Dalton, Ga., to-morrow to attend
commander of the Army of Northern
Virginia Department; General George
P. Harrison, of 'Alabama, commander
of the Army of Tennessee Depart
ment, and General K. M. VanZandt,
of Texas, commander of the Trans-
Mississippi Department, were re
elected, and Jacksonville, Fla., was
chosen for the 1914 reunion by the
veterans at the principal business ses
sion of the reunion late yesterday aft
ernoon. Next year’s gathering will be
the first reunion held in Florida.
Jacksonville defeated Nashville, its
nearest competitor, w r hich has had
two reunions, by a vote of almost 4 to
1. Houston, Texas, and Tulsa, Okla.,
received scattering votes. The selec
tion was then made unanimous.
PEACE IN CHINATOWN.
NEW YORK, May 29.—After three
years of nearly continuous warfare,
during which 26 persons were killed,
a treaty of peace was signed to-day in
the chambers of Judge Foster between
the heads of the tongs in Chinatown.
NEW OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN
BY GEORGIA ODD FELLOWS
SAVANNAH, GA., May 29.—With
the conclusion of business this after
noon the Grand Lodge of Odd Fel
lows of Georgia adjourned to meet
next year at Macon. A feature of to
day’s session was the report of the
committee on Odd Fellows’ Home,
headed by T. S. O’Neil. This report
and the agitation to establish the
home provoked the liveliest discus
sion of the meeting. Legislation af
fecting the conduct of lodges and
complaints and grievances were also
considered.
Two steamers took the visitors
down the Savannah River this aft
ernoon.
The election of Thomas M. Haynes,
of Savannah, as grand master, the
choice of other officers, including the
retiring grand master, W. S. Cole
man, of Cedartown, and Dr. L. B.
Clarke, of Atlanta, as grand repre
sentative to the Sovereign Grand
Lodge, and the competitive degree
drill at the Savannah Theater last
night, completed the session yester
day.
John W. Bennett, of Waycross, who
went into the Grand Lodge with
enough strength to elect him without
difficulty, moved that Dr. Clarke be
elected grand representative, and this
was done by acclamation. The other
officers are W. B. Sloan, Gainesville,
deputy grand master; Frank Harrell,
LaGrange, grand warden; T. R. Rob
ertson, LaGrange, grand secretary,
and C. A. Vonderluith, Athens, treas
urer.
Mrs. Hester Millon, of Thomasville,
was elected grand warden of the Re-
bekah Assembly, defeating Miss Nell
Rodrigues, of Macon. The other offi
cers are Mrs. J. W. Gholson, Mil-
ledgeville, president; Mrs. Ivy Hen
derson, Savannah, vice president;
Mrs. A. L. Moore, Fitzgerald, secre
tary, and Mrs. Sarah Lutici, Augusta,
treasurer.
TAFT DELIVERS LECTURE.
NEW HAVEN, May 29.—Former
President Taft delivered his first lec
ture at Yale on the general topic,
“Some Questions of Modern Govern
ment.” He criticised the short sight
ed policy of the United States in not
maintaining a sufficient army, and at
tacked the United States Senate for
its attitude toward foreign nations.
“The policy of this country teems to
be the Lord looks after the children
and the drunken men and He ought
to look after the United States,” said
Mr. Taft
HE SAYS ROOSEVELT KEPT
GENTLEMAN’S WINE CELLAR
MARQUETTE, MICH., May 29.—
Testimony of Philip James Roose
velt, son of a cousin of the former
President, that Colonel Roosevelt kept
a “regular gentleman’s wine cellar” at
his home in Oyster Bay was the fea
ture of this morning's session of the
trial of Colonel Roosevelt’s suit for
$10,000 libel for charges made in an
editorial by George W. Newett, editor
of The Ishpeming Iron Ore, that
Roosevelt “was drunk, nota infre
quently.”
The younger Roosevelt followed
Charles Thompson, a New York
newspaper man; Andrew Abele, for
mer locomotive engineer of Ashtabula,
Ohio, and A. Z. Blair, an attorney of
Portsmouth, Ohio, all of whom bore
witness to the former President’s so
briety during trips when they accom
panied him.
After stating he lived near the
former President’s home at Oyster
Bay, ond that he was the colonel’s
daily companion when the latter was
at Oyster Bay, Philip Roosevelt tes
tified he never had seen the colonel
drink other than at meals and then
only white wine and occasionally a
glass of champagne. He also de
clared that the limit of his indulgence
on the last Presidential campaign was
a spoonful of brandy in a glass of
milk, and denied ind ; gnantly that he
ever had seen the colonel drunk.
“Does Roosevelt keep wines and
liquors in his home?” was the first
question of Attorney Andrews for the
defense.
“Yes,” was the answer.
Q. A collection of liquors?—A. A
regular gentleman’s cellar.
Q. Scotch whisky?—A. I npver saw
it, but I supposed it was there.
Q. White wine?—A. Yes.
Q. Champagne?—A. Yes.
Q. Brandy?—A. 1 presume it was
there.
The witness returned the same an
swer to the following: Red wine,
sherry, rye, whisky, bourbon whisky,
Madeira, Russian wine, creme de
menthe.
Q. How long have you been a new s
paper man?—A. Since March, 1913.
Q. Are you doing newspaper work
here?—A. My pay is going on.
Q. Are you acting for your paper?
—A. I am sending out stories.
Q. Did you write up and send out
Colonel Roosevelt’s testimony before
it was given?—A. No.
Q. Was it written up before it was
delivered?—A. Yes.
Q. And sent out by any person?—
A. The Colonel prepared a statement
embodying the substance of his testi
mony and I presume it was sent out.
Q. And it was printed in New York
before the Colonel went on the stand?
On objection, . the court refused to
permit a reply. On redirect exami
nation the witness said liquor was
never pressed on guests at Roosevelt’s
home.
FIRE MADE HER ILL.
NEW YORK, May 29.—A story of
hardships to which she was subjected
by her husband, including long horse
back rides over the Mexican moun
tains and threats of death, was told
to-day by 22-year-old Mrs. Dace
Charlet, who is suing Alfonson Char-
let for separation.
Charlet is president of the Charlet
Mines and Smelters Company.
“Sometimes he would threaten to
shoot me if I was not merry,” said
the wife.
WIFE AFRAID OF HIM.
NEW YORK, May 29.—Mrs. Hilla
D. Shonts, wife of Theodore P. Shunts,
president of the Interborough, is in
a serious condition as the result of
the burning of her country home neaf
Mobile, Ala., April 19 last, when she
and her daughters were driven out
by the flames.
A statement to this effect was made
in the Supreme Court yesterday by
Dr. E. B. Ligon, of Mobile, Mrs.
Shonts’ physician, on an application
for the adjournment of a suit brought
against Mrs. Shonts on a note.
MAKES NEW RECORD.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 29.—A
new European cross-country record
for automobiling was established by
M. Christians, the French aviator,
who arrived here to-day from Brus
sels in a motor car.
Christians traveled by way of Ber
lin, doing the 1,800 miles in 37 hours.
This is within a fraction of an aver
age speed of 50 miles an hour.
FAVORS BIGOER NAVY.
WASHINGTON. May 29.—Repre
sentative Stephens, Progressive, of
California, who has been assigned to
the House Naval Affairs Committee,
declared to-day he would vote for the
construction of two battleships at the
next session'tff Congress.
“I am in favor of a big navy,” said
Stephens, “and I believe in maintain
ing the navy in its present efficient
status. If thje. navy officials decide
they need two battleships next year,
or even more. I shall be in sympathy
with whatever they recommend.”
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