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MORE 82D DIVISION MEN CITED FOR EXTRAORDINARY BRAVERY
Here are some of the long-sought an
swers—answers to the home foil as 1o
ho= their boj would act in battle, ar
swera to the hero-dream of the 80
diers, answers from our ow ) f
the BEighty-second Division-—ihe 8.4
stuff we knew would be their reward
There are fol g 1 tatio from
the Eighty-second 1y s list fron
General Pershing 1 ! ' 128th
infantry as a e o ting 1
the Argons 'l e { tain Charle
H. Sissor Lieute nt Fran I M
son, Corpora Alvin ¢ York and First
Class Private \ ! B. Drawling A nd
the records of elr exploits are In some
measure a heahing aim to the bleeding
hearts ol v' ved ones who fell in the
fight
They follow here
Lieutenant Francis H. Mason, 3lßih
Infantry For extraordinary eroism In
action near St. Georges, France, Gclo
ber 22, 1118 Lieutenant Mason led a
patrol of 40 men through a w« wis in o 1
Jder to envelop the ene ) o \d
vaneing under heay e, this offi
ver was severeg W nd but, « play
ing excellent leadershi i 1 Isual
hravery, he continued the #« wnce and
succeeded | occunying ' voods
Home address not giv
Captain Charles H B( Kt In
fantry. For extraordina heroism in
action near Corna Frar October 8
1918 When the ady ¢ was check™
on the outskirts of Cornay because of
the exhaustion of 1 Wi ma
chine-gun fire from the oWI Captaln
Stsson, who had bheen 1 on gevera
hours, took charge wi t order and
started two patrols into the lOWI Oine
was driven back by tl mia ir U
fire, L=< this gallant oflicer personall
ed the other and sul eded in captur
ng two machine guns and_dlelr crev
and 112 prisoners ompleteiyt 2
out the tow Throughout 1A oper
jon Captain Sisson displayed greal
bravery and coolness unde the most
irying circumstances Home addres
Mre. W \. Sisson, mother Juckson-
Ville, Ala
Corporal Alvin C. York, Company G,
328th Infantry. (A, 8. No. 1910421.); For
extraordinary heroism in action near
‘hatel-Chehery France October 5
1918, After his platoon had suffered
many casualties and three noncomimis
sioned officers had been pul out of ac.
tion, Corporal York-assumed command
and, with seven other soldlers, al
tacked and captured a machine-gun
nest, taking & number of machine guns
and 122 prisoners, including 4 officers,
Home address, Mrs. Mary Brooks York
mother, Pall Mall, Tenn
Private First Class Albert B. Drawl!
ing, Company G, 328th Infantry (A. 8
No. 2148801.) For extraordinary hero
f¢m In action near Chatel-Chesery,
France, October 7, 1918 Private Drawl
ing, & stretcher bhearer, displayed excep
donal courage in {ransporting wounded
from the hattle field under machine
gun and artillery fire. He worked con
tinuously for more than 48 hours with
out rest, supervising a detachment of
stretcher bearers searching the woods
for wounded Home address, O, C
Drawling, father, Carbury, N. Dak
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Athens Officer Arrives |
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Wearing War Cross
NEW YORK, Dec, 21.—~Among those '
" who arrived today on the transport
w,\(em&n was Second Lieutenant John
© 5. Mess, of Athens, Ga., who wore the
. Croix de Guerre for gallant action in,
the Toul sector. Others were: Captain
_ Albert Btuart, of Des Molnes; second!
Licutenant Summerfield, of Decatur,
1il; Captain James D. McCoy, of To
peka, Kans, and Private Alfred J.
Schnemann, of St. Paul
Lieutenant lewis, who was attached !
to the signal corps, told of his expe- |
‘riences as a balloon observer on the!
Toul sector. On one occasion he said
" he had to jum& in a parachute from
* his stationary balloen to escape the
* fire of German planes. He landed un
' Injured. l
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_Government Not to Sell
- War Trucks and Autos
¢« WASHINGTON, Dec 21.—Rumars
~that the Government intends to put on
sale all trucks and passenger automo
blles that are now being used for war
. mervice are officially denied by Colone! |
_ ¥, Glover, chief of the motors and vehi
% division of the War Department.
& rumors that the Government would
~\~ the m:%‘rk(;)l th‘lruvk:fl and pas
- cars had caused widespread un-
Q'l‘f::n in automobile ('in‘\mfl‘ l
Soviets Must Cease All l
s a 8 oy
Activities, Say British
: (,{ International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21,-All of the
soviets In the German territory occu
pled lfi' British troops were ordered by
the British militdry goverhor at Cologne
today to cease their political activities
* and to evacuate all public buildings
The order was issued in the form of a
o mclnmunon and the penalty is “aetive
tish interference,”
Chattooga County Boy
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Dies in Kansas Cily
' LYERLY, Dec. 21 —Clarence Hamiiton,
S a member of one of (Chattooga county's
oldest and most prominent families \\!m‘
& left his home at Bubligna on December 3|
L 1o enter a mechanical school at Kansas
City, was stricken with Spanish m!‘luvn{u‘
. almost immediately after reaching Kan.
* sas City, pneumonia developed, and his
* death followed Friday morning. The body
was brought here for burial in the Sub.
« ligna cemetery i
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Soldiers Aid in Search
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Of Moonshine at Macon
MACON, Dec’ 21 Twenty-six m-.q.h}
S from Camp Wheeler joined with revenue
£ officers Friday in searching for meonshine
¢ #ills in Jones county At the sight m‘
. the soldiers negroes along the route quickly
;qfiumwur«d. not knowing what to make of
the appearance of a small “army’ One ‘
™ lone negro was arrested and brought back
= 1o Macon
~ Mother Hears From
%
- Son She Thought Dead
W WAYCROSSE, Dee. 21 Mra. M. (. Wynn, |
& wWho had heard that her son, Bugler Os.
L gond Wynn, had been killed in France
» A received a letter from hno bearing n‘
= November date, in which he sayn he s well
and hopes 1o be home within p short time 1
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. More Than 300,000 Men
A .
§ Have Been Discharged
B WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-Secretars
5 paker announces that demobilization
& %fl‘u‘h«i 150,000 & week. The War
9 rtment is trying to make the ave
A w dally discharge 1,000 per camp. More
" n ”3.000 men have been discharged
OFFICIALS ARE ( HOSEN,
B THOMABVILLE, Dee sl.~The full
B Pourd of city officors nominated at the
here includes the Muyor, John M
tJ 16 eity clerk, A. A. Riley: treasurer,
£ . Mitchell; ehief of police, A. B
: liton: sexton, H. 1. Murtin. The beard
B of aldermen comprises M. B. Puller, Hryan
S M. Wright, Prank B. Harris, W, B Hey-
Herring, B. E. Mack, W A
= der, Ardis McDougald There Were
Efifleen canlidates for the poasition of us
% derman Four members of the schonl
R bourd pominated were €0 W uuh. nE R
s lerger, T L. Rose, W. J. Upehurch
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
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e e R e o O NWTERKATIONAY,
This is one of the first photos to reach here showing the retreat of the German army after the signing of the armistice.
Photo shows a car laden with arms, being convoyed to Germany, one of the many singular incidents of the great retreat of the
German hordes.
CAMP WHEELER, Dec. 21.-Only
W commissioned officers and abo
2,500 enlisted men are left at Camj
W heeler During the last few day 2y
officer have been mustered out Ll
more than 12,000 soldiers have been re
leased since the armistice was signed
Office ot division headquarte wil
be there for five or six weeks 1 i
expected they will be called to Wash
ngton when the amp totaily vhar
doned to cheek over ! repor from
Wheeler
Wounded men are beginning arrive
vt the base hospital, which will increase
in population ingtead of decreasing It
g 8 more than likely that Camp Wheeler
will not only get the wounded men
from the 151st Machine Gun Battal
but those from other South Georgia and
Florida organizations, regular army, Na
tional army and National Guard
Camp Wheeler soldiers will be given
time to enjoy the yuletide Work wi
be suspended Christmas eve morning
ind will not be resumed until Friday
morning In addition, the men ar 'u‘
be given halfl holidays each day until
lanuary 8, beginning next Friday. At the
Y. M. !, A huts there will be Christ
mas tree and maybhe present Cap
tain Ralston Fleming, intelligence offi
cet s In charge of arrangements for
showing the soldiers a good time Christ-
Two hundred Camp Wheele soldiers
¢ 1o take part In the singing of the
carols at the new City Audtiorium n
christma evy A\t 7 o'clock hundreds
of Maco cople will find their way
wly, ging all the while, to the d¢
ignated wher the will ¢ met
b oldier rom Wheele: A\ party of
Macon gers will visit the bhase hos
pital and ng téd the wounded soldiers
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Wayeross Railroad Men
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Set Pace in Stamp Sale
WAYCROSSE, Dec. 21,-One departmont
of the ralirond shops here hag set the
pace for others to follow L. M, Btewart,
superviser for the boilermakers’ depart
ment, turned in his report on the sale of
war savings stamps which showed that in
June when the campaign was made for
pledges, his department had seventeen
white men who pledged to buy $l,lBO worth
and eleven colored men who pledged for
$195 worth, His final report shows that the
seventeen whites bought 32570, and the
eleven colored men bought $260 worth, or
a total of $1,466 more than was subscrib
ed
st
Macon Merchant Sued
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For $20,000 Damages
MACON, Dee. 21 Alleging he was false~
ly and maliciously arrested and slandered
in the presence of a number of people, Al
hert 1. Bernstein, of Muassachusetts, haw
filed a suit in the United States District
Gourt against Joseph Waxelbaum, a well
known Macon wholesale dry goods misg
for $20.000 damag»s. The suit is In two
counts
Hernstein claims that Waxelbaum had
him arrested and prosecuted on a charge
of doing business without & license when
he attempted to sell Waxelbaum a ship
ment of rainconts at $3.60 each The
cuusg was dismissed In the recorder's
L coart
Albany Attorney Gets
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; Artillery Commission
ALBANY, Dec. 20D, H. Redfearn, a
prominent attorney of this eity, has writ.
ten relatives here that he has fust been
commissioned with the rank of first lieu
tenant In the artillery officers’ training
sohool at Camp Zachary Tayler, Ky A
soon as he recelves his discharge he will
roturn to Albany and resume the pracs
tice of hig profeasion
‘A\l‘llil"l’.,‘l BOY «PHEDATE
Americus Boy Sepnds 180
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- Days in Front Trenches
- AMERICUS, Dec. 21.0ne hundred and
elghty days spent in the front line
tronches out of 224 days in France (8 the
record attalned by Claude Callaway, an
Americus boy, whe went through the war
ag & member of the famous Rainbow 1
visien and escaped being wounded
In A letter to his sister, Mise Mabel
Callaway, of Americus, Private Callaway
says ‘We wera at the front until the
fighting stopped, and had been in the
front line 150 days out of 224 days in
France. The rest of the time was apent
lén moving frob ene front to anether
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Fugitive From Rome
Captured at Texarkana
ROME, Dee. 21 «Reuben A. Jones, who
on November 30 obtained s new Hriscoe car
from MeUartha Hros' Garsge by forged
note, It s charged, took his 16. year-old
sieteor-insdaw, Bunlee Oakes, and three sons
hy o former wife amnd left for parts un
known was arrested Friday in Texarkana,
Texna sl Bheriff Bmith has gone after
Bl He was a prom nent farmer i the
Cave Bpring section
Quarrels and Uproar Mark
Sittings of Berlin Congress
London Times Wireless to The At
lanta Georgian.
THE HAGUE, Dec. 20.—A special
correspondent in Berlin telegraphs
that National Congress of Workers
and Soldiers’ Councils affords no lack
of exciting and dramatic moments,
the debates being tumultuous and the
disturbanece often hutin“ for minutes,
while the chairman's. bell is com
pletely inaudible amid the noise, This
happens especially when Ledebour
addresses the congress, his utter-)
ances provoking indegeribable uproar, ‘
Ledebour's attack on Herr Ebert
appears to have shaken the latter's
position. Herr Haase also has c'rm-‘
cised Ebhert's procedure by making
an observation implying that the mll-‘
itary authorities are seeking a con
flict with the Entente and desiring
an imperial peace. The commanding
officers again are consulting in Berlin
and planning a counter revolution. It
also is regarded as certain that a mil
itary coup d'etat is to be expected
very shortly., In thig connection it is
considered not unintentional that the
officers are unwilling that red sailors
should be sent to Berlin.
The days. now passing are decisive
for the revolution, The cerrespond
ent in Berlin observes that there is
nothing new under the sun. The
great French revelution is repeating
itself In Berlin. Parislans often went
to the national assembly at Versailles
and forced their way In and made
demands. The same thing happened
on the second day of the German
congress, when the soldiers from the
Perlin garrison entered the chamber
and created a panic. Yesterday the
Berlin workers’ deputation declared
if they were not admitted 250,000
workers would strike today as a pro
test. Their admission followed.
\ Liebknecht Storms,
These demonstrations are diamet
rically opposed to the policy of the
Ebert majority Socialists, The stage
management is in the hands of Dr.
Liebknecht, who gsits in the former
court box of the House of Deputies,
whence he follows the debates, do
claring that those on the floor will
have to reckon with him. As he lis
tens to the discussion the pallor
caused by his imprisonments alter
nates with a flush of indignation
whenever a speaker savs something
which does not agree with him. The
leader of the Cerman Bolshevik only
controls himself with great difficulty,
His strongly Jewish features reveal
by turns feelings of scorn and con
temnt for the independent Socialists,
The mafority watches the disturh
ances in the congress by deputations
with anger. When the leader of a
deputation was leaving the chamber
Wednesday he shouted to the major
ity, “You stink of counter revolution™
They were silent, If signs are not
deceptive and the Covernment does
not adopt a new policy, the counter
revolution will come to pass.
The Ebert CGovernment was op.
posed to the revolution until the last
when it broke common ecause with
the revolt In order not to be swept
away by the revolutiondry tidal wave
It now has no other chance of sur
viving than either to promote the fur.
ther course of the revolution or to
help the cognter revolution. Should
the first course lead to the Lenin-
Trotsky syvstem, it will in self-de.
sense prefer the second.
Another Rerlin telegram states that
Count Rantzan, German Minister to
Conenhagen, has arrived in Berlin
snd it is belleved he was summoned
from his nost to be offered that of
YVareign Minister in suceession to Dr,
Sols,
Soldier Ultimatum,
The dehates of the nsaemhly dele.
eates to the soviet eouncila continne
very aritated the deecussions center.
ing hetwesn the Covernment execn
tive committos and the Revlin coun.
el After four hours of heated de-
Wnte hetween Ledeshour, Ebhert and
Tarthnud, Tandsherg, n delsente
from one of the counells In Sonthern
CGermany. ended It by exelaiming:
“We have had enourh of vour Rer.
Mn ouarrels: we are not hare to lia.
ten o vens famite Zhickarinese hnt to
ationd to the interects of Clermany ™
“Ie it to be a pational assembly or
A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes
a local dictature?” That is the ques
tion that created an uproar. The de
bates often are interrupted by the ar
rival of a deputation of local com
mittees, who have to come to lay
grievances before the assembly. One
of 30 soldiers from the Berlin gami
son came to convey a sort of ulti
matum from the regiment of guards,
demanding the creation of a supreme
military council to represent the
army, which should have to deal with
disciplinary matters. The president
of the assembly answered that the
matter would be dealt with in due
course, but not now,
The speaker of the deputation re
torted: “We must have an answer.”
The members of the executive council
and Ledebour supported the demand.
Herr Ebert declared the deputation
was only a maneuver to interrupt the
proceedings of the assembly. The
majority Socialists threatened to
leave the assembly room, and Herr
Haase proposed to adjourn the sit
ting, which finally was adopted as a
temporary solution of the contro
versy,
Copyright, 1918, by Public Ledger
Germans Surprised
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At French Toleration
London Times Cable to The Atlanta
Georgian,
MAINZ, Dec. 20 —Some persons at
tribute the submissive attitude of the
townsfolk of Mainz to the French
‘trnnps. but they say if Germany had
‘won the Prussians would have been
'much more intolerable but they ex
pected the French to be brutal. On
the contrary, they find them firm yet
gentle and even friendly.
Copyright, 1918, by PubMc Ledger
War Damage in France
Is $3,000,000,000
London Times Cable to The Atlanta
Georgian,
PARIS, Dec. 20.—1 n the debate over
the bill tor war damages, Louis Du-
Loise, Deputy from the Seine, gave
aetails of German robbery in the
northern district of France. In
Rheims alone 12,000 out of 14,000
houses have been razed to the ground,
he said. The total houses destroyed
ke estimated at 250,000, What ma
chinery had not been taken away had
been destroved,
According to a report by the budget
commission, the damages are 600,000,
000 pounds sterling ($3,000,000,000),
divided into 8000000000 for Wving
houses, 200,000,000 for fuenitare,
400,000,000 for damage to flelds and
loss in live stock and destruction of
forests, 800,000,000 in industry and
400,000,000 in publie property,
Copyright, 1818, by PubMde Ledger
Truth Causes Huns
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To Hate Prussia
London Times Cable to The Georgian.
MAINZ, Dec, 21.-Detestation of
Prussia in the occupled provinces of
Germany is growing as the people
gradually recognize the truth, as, for
Instance, what was told them by Gen -
eral Favolle, of the infamous manner
in which Germany carried on the
war, Prussia is their scapexgont and
now that she s in the dust, they re.
member they have abways hated her
in their hearts
(Copyright, 1918, by Publie Ledger (o)
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Bolshevik Positions |
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Bombed by British
London Times Cable to The Georgian.
THE HAGUE, Dec, 21.—A Koenlgs
burg telegram says, according to res
ports from Reval, the British fleet be.
gan bombarding the Bolshevik posi
tions on December 14, The loishe
viki thereupon retired. The British
fleet has taken on itself the pr cc
tion of the troops at Reval.
The British =0 far have not ' nded.
The Bolsheviki have blown p the
great bridge at Warmar, by which
action troop transport is endan L
(‘"(s'-"\\wn.' 19, h‘ Publie Leiger g’"(
'(NOT A LETTER LOST.
MONTREAL, Dee, 21.--Not a sack
of mall sent to Canada was lost dur.
ing the war as the result of German
navy activity, it i stated by Ruper.
intendont L. A, Prairie, of the raliwvay
nuw service |
London Times Cable to The Atlanta
Georgian. |
ROME, Dec. 20.—~The Messagero
published a telegram from its Paris
correspondent which reports certain
declarations made by M. Clemenceaun
to Signor Raimondo, the reformed
Socialist, who has been in Paris. In
the course of the conversation M.
Clemenceau referred to “certain inev
itable incidents and misunderstand
ings,” and said it was only in the
case of enemies that such incidents
did not happen.
Clemenceau said a personal opinion
expressed by a neisy voice in a lim
ited circle was readily mistaken for a
real movement of public opinion. The
Premier insisted on sympathy in
France for Italy and Italian aims, and
said: “Believe me, France will never
abandon Italy.”
Signor Rainmondo suggested that
the best way of preserving friendship
among the nations was not to close
the eye to difficult problems., To this
M. Clemenceau agreed, and continued
as follows:
“I must inform you the peace con
ference will be compelled to tackle
new and vaster problems which have
arisen out of the war.
“The Adriatic forms the eastern
frontier of Italy, and Italy must pro
tect it, but Italy. like France, has an
interest in avoiding the formation
outside of its frontiers of irredentist
grouping tendencies, It is not my
duty to make forecasts regarding ar
guments which have aroused and will
still arouse such passionate debates.
The conference will listen to the ob
servations by your statesmen if they
are animated, as I do not doubt, by
a spirit of equity, if they are resolv
ed to conciliate Italian rights with
those of the Jugo-Slavs, which must
not nor ecan't be in opposition, and
they will find not only among the
French, but among the Allies, a dis
positoin of greatest sympathy and
most cordial friendship.
“l ask you only to consider that
here is our interest superior to all
extension of territory, and that is to
have good friends on the other side
of the Adriatic. If unhappily there
:shuum exist discords due to irredent
ism, it is not Italy only who would
suffer, but the whole of Europe. That
is why T ask you what is easy for us
all--to consider that an equitable ac
cord Dbetween divergent interests
must come before any old-fashioned
tradition of the indefinite extension
of territory.”
| Yesterday various newspapers ex
pressed satisfaction with the news
| from Belgrade which reported the
formation of a Jugo-Slav cabinet,
with M. Palchiteh, M. Kossure and
M. Trumbich as their principal fig
ures. Some commentators honed the
differences between various tenden
cles amone the Slavs were now com
posed, while others were frankly
skeptical, and Jast night's news of
the resignation of M. Palchiteh will
be taken by them as confirming their
contention that an aereement Is un
likely, if not impossible, Some ner
| song, however, see in the resignation
of M. Palehiteh the firgt sten toward
n workahble Jugo-Slavia Covernment,
Further news is awaited with inter
est
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Bolsheviki Preparing
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To Attack Finland
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Dec 21.-~Bolshevik
forces are preparing to attack ¥inn
land, according to an Exchange Tele
graph digpateh from Copenhagen, The
Red forces are scattering mines in the
Gulf of Finnland and concentrating
troops on the frontier, the dispatch
ndds
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Four Ware County Men
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Listed Among Casualties
WAYCROSS, Dec. 21.<Four Ware
County boys are reported in the casu
alty list, three slightly wounded and
one missing in action The slightly
wounded are Private Walter F, unn,
Private John B Jones, Waveross, and
Private John Grant, Millweod Private
Theodore Ingram, of Emerson Park,
‘\\ aycross, is reported missing in action
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918,
AP OFFIGERS
ARE GLASSIFIED
CAMP GORDON, Dec. 21.—An official
memorandum issued from camp held-‘
quarters setting' forth the latest War‘
Department regulations governing the
discharge of officers of all classes from
the army will be of interest to officers
stationed here and to thelir friends and
relatives in civii life,
Noofficers will be discharged whose
services are required in the army,
whether they apply for discharges or not,
and extensive changes are made in the
various commands to facilitate the sep
aration of those slated for 'immediate
discharge from those classes who will
be retained until the present emergency
is over.
Following is the official memorandum
ag issued at Camp Gordon Friday by
General Cameron:
“For the purpose of discharge of offi
cers or for the purpose of reassignment
to make officers avallable for discharge,
all officers of the line and staff serving
within the territorial limits of a de}mr(-
ment are placed under control of de
partment commanders, with the follow
ing exceptions:
‘Officers on duty at the divisional
camps and cantonments exempted from
control of department commanders.
“Officers on duty or casuals at ports
of embarkation or debarkation, such
ports including all units, establishments
and utillties in their immediate vicinity
and closely associated therewith,
‘“Medical officers on duty at general
hospitals.
“Officers on duty at camps or stations
which are under direct control of the
chief of a staff corps or a bureau chief
of the War Department.
“Officers on duty at arsenals and other
ordnance establishments.
“Officers on duty under the provost
marshal general's office.
“Officers on duty with units of the
students’ army training corps will be
discharged by department commanders
on recommendation of students' army
training corps district headquarters, Of
ficers on duty at students’ :u'm{ training
corps district headquarters will be dis
charged by department commanders
when discharge is approved by the
chairman, committee on education and
special tralnin%. War Department,
Washington, D. C.
“Medical officers on duty at genera'
hospitals will be discharged by the sur
geon general. Officers who are patients
in general or other hospitals not at a
military camp or station will when rur
ther treatment is unnecessary be phys
ically examined at such hospital. Offi
cer's qualification card filled out by the
officer will then be sent by the com
manding officer of the hospital to the
nearest department, camp or port com
mander, having authority to order dis
charge of officers. The commander re
ceiving the ahove report will either dis
charge the officer or order him to report
for duty according to circumstances in
each case,
“Officers on duty at air service train
ing or experimental stations and air
service repair depots will be discharged
by the director of military aeronautics.
“Officers of the coast artillery corps
will be discharged by department com
manders upon recommendation of the
coast artillery distriet commander or the
commanding officer, coast artillery train
in‘ center.
“The provost marshal general will dis
charge officers holding commissions for
the period of the emergency only who
are serving under the office of the pro
vost marshal fem-ral.
~_"Officers hoidf§ig temporary commis
sions in the reguSar army will not be
congsidered as holding commissions of
any kind in the army and will be dis
charged. Retired officers holding emer
gency commissions in the regular army
<o hold commissions in the regular army
and will not be discharged from any
commission held by them. Recommen
dations in such cases will be forwarded
to the adjutant general of the army.”
It was learned here today that the
157th Depot Brigade, an old Gordon or-
Fanizatlon now stationed at Camp Mec
lellan and soon to be returned to this
cantonment, is now composed entirely
of class A men, all physically unfit men
having been transferred to physical de
velopment battalions for physical train
inq. to render them fit for civil life.
he brigade is now said to be com
posed of only four battalions, comprising
sixteen comg:nlan and that these com
panies have been ordered to hold a train
ing cadre of sixty men each. It is un
derstood that this work has been about
completed and that practically all who
’romain in the organization are noncoin
missioned officers whose services are
' still required by the army.
. The men left in the Depot Brigade
are men making up the training cadres
of the Second, Fifth, Tenth and Thir
teenth receiving battalionsg, and all the
’men that are picked for the training
cadre must be class A men. The ma-
Jority are noncommissioned officers.
The men who were not physically fit
for discharge have been transferred to
the development battalion, which 18 to
remain here at Camp McClellan.
.
London Times Sells for
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Fifty Francs in Ghent
London Times Cable to The Atlanta
Georgian.
LONDON, Deec, 20.—A letter from
an inhabitant of Ghent tells The
Times that in 1914 and 1915 they got
The Times in Ghent nearly every
week and paid 5 to 10 franes for
each copy. In 1916 and 1917 they
got The Times occasionally and paid
from 20 to 25 francs. In 1918 only
two or three numbers of The Times
were received, and these sold for 50
francs. The few copies smuggled
from Holland were rented secretly
at 1 mark per hour. Some copies of
The Times produced their lucky own
ers from 300 to 400 francs. The pun
ishment, if they were discovered, was
heavy.
(Copyright, 1918, by Public lLedger Co.)
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Cristobal Pankhurst
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Predicts New Election
(B( International News Service.)
LONDON, Dee. 21.-—-Another general
election in the British Isles soon was
predicted today by Cristobal Pankhurst
famous suffragist, in a speech at Queens
Hall. Miss Pankhurst, who was a can
didate for election to the House of Com
mons in the election on the 14th, fore.
cast a big coalition majority when the
votes are finally counted on December
36.
““The coalition majority would have
been larger but for the labor party."
sald ilhu; Pankhurst. “The country is
now Tthreatened with political opposi
tion from the old ldberal crowd, the
Bolsheviki and the Sinm Feiners, Con
sequently, it may Become necessary in
the near future for Premier Liloyvd
George to decide upon a general election
to purge the House of Commons of these
enemies of Britain and the empire."
Ware County Gets Prize
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In Vegetable Exhibit
WAYCROBS, Dee, 21 ~Mra. T. B. Atwell,
home econymics agent for Ware County, re
ports that Ware County was awarded the
second prize on vegetables grown from
plantings made since June 30, at the State
Fair held in Macon. This exhibit was fur
nished by Mra. Horace M. Bowman, who
Hyes just & miles west of Waycross on the
Dixie Highway. Twenty-three varieties
were exhibited and it was only one short
of the winning exhibit which it surpassed
in quality The Interesting thing about
this exhibit is that Mrs. Bowman (s a
newcomer here, having come out of the
ecity of Chieage a little more thin one
VUnT gO, And this is her first altempt at
farming Another demonstration of what
can he done n Ovorgia by the proper aps
plication of braif and brawn,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.~—~The following
army orders have been issued:
First Licutenant Maximilian Hugo Wein
berg, medical corps, Camp Wheeler to
Camp Beauregard,
First Lieutenant William Bruce Luns
ford, medical corps, Camp Wheeler to
Camp Shelby,
First Lieutenant George Walworth Mel
lon, medical corps, New Port News, Va.,
to Camp wordon,
First Licutenant Leonard A. Haskell
ordnance department, Picatinny Arsenal,
to Camp Hancock,
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Staff Correspondent of the 1. N. S.
WITH' THE AMERICAN ARMY
OF OCCUPATION IN GERMANY,
Dec. 20 (by courier to Nancy).—Cap
tain W. G. Claxton, of Toronto, a
member of the Canadian air service,
who was shot down while “strafing”
the Germans on the Cambrai front on
August 18, and who was reported
dead, turned up today. He had been
daptured after his machine fell. The
intrepid Canadian had shot down 27
boches before being made a pris
oner.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, of Co
lumbus, Ohio, accompanied by Cap
tain James A. Meisner, of Brooklyn,
have just arrived on the “Rhine
front."” Ri~kenbacker, who has 26
German airplanes to his credit, has
een ordered to hurry back to the
United States,
Captain James Norman Hall, of
Boise City, lowa, is another airman
who has just turned up alive after
being reported Kilied. Hall was shot
down on the Toul front after half of
one of the wings of his machine had
teen shot away and one of the cylin
ders ot the motor had exploded. He
escaped with a broken ankle and wa
captured
| Members of tha Ninety-fifth Air
Squadron are incensed at a report al
leged to have been circulated by a
Y. M. C. A. worker to the effect that
Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, sop of
the former American President, might
have been saved if the other members
of his flying group had not flown
away when the Germans attacked.
Captain John Mitchell, former Har
vard student and commander of the
Ninety-fifth Squadron, hotly denied
that Lieutenant Roosevelt had becn
deserted.
“KEvery man would have sacrificed
his own life to save Lieutenant
Roesevelt's if that had been possible,”
said Captain Campbell. “Quentin’s
parents know the correct version of
his death. The last man to see Lieu
terant Roosevelt on the day of his
¢eath was Ned Buford. He saw Quen
tin's airplane suddenly emerge from
a cloudbank,. falling in flames. Ap
| parently, Roosevelt Lad strayed from
| the group.”
‘Smiles Across Sea’
For Xmas Display
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Dec. 21.—Forty-one reels of
The Atlanta Georgian and Sunday
American’'s “Smiles-Across-the-Sea
those cheering motion picture mes
sages of homefolk, made to bring
warmth to the hearts of soldiers across
the sea, were distributed this morn
ing by Charles 8. Hart, director of the
division of films of the committee on
public information,
They are to be shown Christmag Day
in the huts of the Y. M, C. A, K. of
C, Y. M, H. A, of the American ex
peditionary camps and recreation cen
ters and at American headquarters at
Chaumont during President Wilson's
visit.
There will be a special showing of
the fiims by the Y. M. C. A. at the im
mense Palace de Glace benefit to men
on hnllda% leave in Paris and in the
isolation hospitals. '
A special courier is rushing “Smiles-
Across-the-Sea' films to the American
exseditlonuy forces at Coblenz.
Mr. Hart said today:
“The ‘Smiles-Across-the-Sea’ de
serves the utmost praise, It is the
most splendid Christmas present the
boys could have and it comes at a
time when it is most appreciated by
our organization. I am glad to ap
prove and co-aperate.
“All the men are eagerly awaiting
the showing of the home faces. Ev
ery facility will be afforded for re
peated running of the fiims.”
More Overseas Troops
. .
Arrive in New York
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Dee. 21,—Thirty-seven
army officers, including three majors
and two colonels, arrived here from
France today on the transport Metapan.
The Baltic, bringing a consignment
of nearly 2,000 enlisted men, was ex
pected to reach port late in the after
noon,
Among the troop ships scheduled to
arrive on Christmas Day is the George
Washington, on which President Wil
son went to Kurope. This vessel will
carry the 139th Field Artillery.
Between Monday and New Year's Day
nine transports are due in port, Nu
merous civilians are returning with the
soldiers,
Masons of Decatur
Install New Officers
DECATUR, Dec, 21 -—Pastmaster Kin
sey, of Edgewood, Friday night publicly
installed the following officers, elected
Thursday night by Pythagoras Lodge No.
41, . & A. M., at Decatur: A, R. Almon,
worshipful master; Leon O'Neal, senior
warden: J. B Creech, junior warden; H.
G. Hollinshead, sensor deacon; H n
Sharpe, junior deacon; Sasnett Gardner
senior steward: Hugh ° Burgess, junior
steward; W. P. Hudson, chaplain; J. O,
Norris, treasurer; Flotcher Pearson, secre
tary,
l’enlmunnr Seott Candler, captain with
Ameriean expeditionary forces, and now
absent in France, was presented with a
jewel and pastmaster's apron, which was
received by his father, Charles Murphey
Candler, in behalf of the son,
The ladies of the Kastern Star wserved
suppor to the Masons and their families,
Two Suspects Arretsed
After Battlini Detectives
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.«-After a pitch
ed battle with detectives, two men who
described themselves as 'l‘hmmun Dugan,
an iron worker, Chicago, and Walter
Hayes, longshoreman, New York, were
arrested here early today and are being
held pending Investigation.
The men attracted the attention of the
detectives because of their resemblance
instature to the men who are wanted
for the Brooklyn bank robbery., They
earrfed automatie pistols and black
jacks and are sald to have admitted
they are *“out for the coin and would
not hexitate to shoot their way out of
trouble, '’
! CAMP JACKSON, COLUMBIA, 8. C.
Dec. 21.—The first publltL appearance of
General Thomas H. Rees at Camp Jack
i son was at the Liberty Theater yester
| day afternoon, when he delivered a short
| address to a pm-lvd house of soldiers
‘ut the regular Ftiday afternoon pre
| demobilization meeting.
| General Rees, the new commander of
I(‘znnp Jackson, arrived here last Tues
{day to relleve General Danford, who
| was called to the staff of generals now
| in Washington,
| General Rees is an old army man,
| having spent the better years of his life
lin the army, as he told the men. His
| epeech was short but to the point, and
he was given the closet attention.
I “l have been with vou only a few
days,” he stated, “and I am not ac
quainted with you. 1 wish General Dan
ford, waom you all knew, could have
! remained here to have told you good-
I by. 1 appreciate what you have done,
land T am glad you are going home, Last
| Christmas I spent on the Pacific, eom
{ing back from the Philippines.”
| General Rees told the men who stayed
| on thig side that their service had been
{ just as honorable as that of those who
{ had the opportunity and honor of going
tover, and added:
i *“l want you to take home with you
| the feeling that you have done your
| part and that you have done it well.”
' He requested the men to put into
;pv;u:i-u» in civil life the training they
{ had received and the information they
had gained while in the army, as it
would make of them better and mere
{ useful citizens
! Dr. Josiah Morsé, professor of psye
‘(hulw:\ in the University of South Car
| olina, addressed the soldiers on the sub
| ject *‘An American Citizen."”
| The Sixty-third Regiment Field Ar
| tillery won the silver cup in the compet
{ltive singing contest conducted by Wil
{ liaem McEwan, camp song leader, at the
| Liberty Theater.
{ The contest was between the Sixty
first, Sixty-second and Sixty-third Fieid
' Artillery and the Twenty-first® Trench
! Mortar Corps. The presentation speech
| was delivered by Lieutenant Colonel
{ Cole. During the closing ‘“‘sing’ the of
| ficers of the various regiments climbed
upon the stage and urged their men to
{=ing as they never sang before. Me
{ Ewan decided that the Sixty-third had
y won the cup on spirit, originality and
'c:ulvm--'.
{ Thirty officers and about 750 enlisted
men were given honorable discharges
{ vesterday and most of them left for
their homes Among the officers dis
charged was Major Barber, of the base
| hospital. No hew men reported at camp.
] Private John Henry Powell, of Com
| pany A, 328th Labor Battalion, Q. M. C.,
| was given 20 years hard labor at Fort
| Leavenworth, Kansas, by a court-mars
i tial held at Camp Jackson.
i Powell had been engaged in cutting
| wood for the . Government and was
{ charged with escaping from confine
i ment, where he had been placed for de
'svrtinz.
f Charged with absenting himself from
{ his battery for several days for the
{ purpose of evading overseas service,
| Private Joseph F. Cromer, Battery A,
i Ninth Regiment, F. A R. D,, was sen
| tenced to a period at hard labor, and
the forfeiture of two-thirds of his pay.
}l!?s‘ sentente is to be served at Camp
Jackson.
' The general court-martial gave Pri
jvate Cecil G, Axtell, Aero Squadron No.
276, one year at Fort Leavenworth and
I!n be dishonorably discharged from the
sorvice on a charge of stealing S6B in
|ecash from Private George D. Fowler,
lu!’ the Aero Sqguadron,
Four Negroes, Two of
Them Women, Lynched
MOBILE, ALA., Deec. 21.—Four ne
groes, among them two women, charged
with the murder of Dr. E. L. Johnston,
former Mobile dentist, were taken from
the jail at Shubuta, Miss., Friday night
and lynched. They were hanged from
the iron girders of the bridge spanning
the Chickasahay River by a band of
men who overpowered the jailer and
took the prisoners.
Early in the night the jailer was
called into the street by one of the
members of the mob and handcuffed. He
was made to return to the jail ana un
lock the prisoners. The four negroes
and the jailer were put into an auto
mobile and a drive toward the home of
the slain physician was begun, but the
jailer was put out on the road before
the bridge was reached. The four
negroes were then placed in a row ajong
the bridge,
The negroes were under arrest
charged with the killing of Dr. Johnston
one day last week when he was shot
while milking a cow in his barn. Major
Clarke, a negro, was arrested for the
crime and is alleged to have'confessed,
implicating the others, including his
brother, Andrew Clarke, and Maggie and
Alma House, sisters,
Major Clarke is sgaid to have stated
in his confession that he shot Dr. John
ston at the request of one of the
women
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Manufacturing in U. S.
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~ To Boom, Kimball Says
| The United States now is on the
very threshold of an unprecedented
‘growlh in manufacturing, in the opin
‘irm of leading manufacturers of the
country, according to E. A. Kimball,
secretary of the Southern Manufac
turers' Association. who has retnrned
from a mecting of the National As
[nm'ialiun of Marufacturers in New
York.
Mr. Kimball reported that the mane
ufacturers do not regard the read-
Justment of business conditions in
factories and stores as the tremen
dous problem it has been pictured.
The readjustment, it was agreed, will
work itself out satisfactorily, and
there will be ample work for all the
:dh-chnrged goldiers and sailors,
Official Cars to Have
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City Licenses in 1919
Atlanta's official automobiles, in
cluding 116 pussenger cars, fire trick:
service trucks and police patrols, wia
cperate in 1919 under licenses issued
by the city instead of by the State as
formerly, thus eifecting a saving to
the eity of about $760,
In a recent test case, wh'n the
State hrought proceedings .uiinst
Chief W, B Cody, of the iire departs
ment for driving his departmental eae
without a State license, the Superior
Court decided that the city held the
right to issue {ty own license and, ac«
cording to Alderman W. F. Buchanan,
chairman of the garage committes,
full advantage will be taken of this
decigion, Licenses for all of the cars
in the eity's service will be issued
through the yocular heense bureat: in
the City Clerk's office, !
Three Negroes Are Held
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To Trial as Burgalrs
LYERLY, Dee. 21— Henry HBenson, Julius
Balley and "Laz" Bailey, !Im threes nogroes
who were arrested ‘at Summerville on »
charge of hurglary, following the recent
epidemie of burglaries in the homes of the
well-to=do ecitizens of thut place, wers
bound over ‘o the Superior Court by Judge
J. M. BRellah
The Bailey negrees made hond and have
been r»l-n'ml from custods iyt Bensong
who also s under suspicion a= belng @
tlesortor P the crmiy, was reraanded Lo
Juil, being uuable Lo Jurnish bali,