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INVIAN YARD FIRE
ILL MYSTERY:
MILLION 1055
W. W. Wails, superintendent of In
man Yards, estimated Monday that
the damage from the big fire Sun
day night would amount to $1,000,000,
One hundred loaded cars and 25
empties were destroyed completely,
The empty cars were valued at $2.000
and the loaded cars with their con
tents averaged $5.000 apiece, said Mr.
‘Waits, making the tptal mount up
to $750,000. The rail and property
loss he estimated at $250,000. The
origin of the fire still is unknown.
Wrecking crews were on the scene
Monday removing the debris, Four
or five days will be required to ac
complish this task. Traffic on ad-
Joining tracks was not held up.
Yards in Ruins.
Early Monday morning the north
section of ‘the yards, from the bhig
bridge half way to the office of the
superintendent, was a mass of ruins.
The crossties and goods that had
been in the cars were still smolder
ing thickly, and small patches of
flames were still to be seen among
the ruins. The heavy rains that
started about 9:30 o'clock extinguish
ed the last vestige of fire, however.
Seven or eight tracks adjacent to
the transfer office were torn away
from their bed, and several were bhent
almost double. Only the blackened
trucks showed where the freight cars
had stood. The burned area extend
ed about the length of a city block
and more than 50 yards wide.
Mr. Waits said that he first saw
the flames when he went from his
office at 5:15 o'clock Sunday after
noon. They were bursting through
the roof of the transfer station, and
had already gained good headway.
The transfer office was 126 feet long
and 26 feet wide, and two stories in
height.
With nothing to check its headway
the fire spread quickly to the two ad
jacent platforms, and thence to the
freight cars, which were lined up
1o be unloaded. Mr. Waits said that
the cars contained all kinds of mer
chandise imaginable, from groceries
to iron beds and wire fencing.
Yards Deserted.
The yards were practically desert
ed when the fire was discovered, 200
negro roustabouts having been laid !
off, as the freight could not be han- |
dled without clerks to make trans-’
fer records. The yards were filled
with congested freight that had laid’
there since the strike.
Mr. Waits telephoned the city fire
department, and two trucks were
sent, although the fire was fully two
miles from the city. Platforms on the
cast side of the transfer office were
saved, !
The firemen worked practically tixe|
entire night. It was several hours |
before they got the flames under
control. Neighbors rendered all as
sistance possible, and several of them
served coffee and sandwiches to the
firefighters while they worked, *
All records were destroyed, These
can be replaced by having duplicates
sent from the original shipping
points, Cash taken in at the yards
was safe in a vault, ]
The loss will fall upon the Gov
ernment, which canceled fire insur
ance formerly carried on all ship
ments of the Southern Railway,
Tractor Demonstration
. |
Of 1920 to Be in Full
MACON, March 17.—1 tis probable
that the second annual Dixie National
Power Farming demonstration in 1920
will be held in Macon, The show wil
be given in the fall instead of the nprinxl
80 as to avoid rainy weather., While
the tractor manufacturers were pleased
with the show and entertainment af
forded them here, they declared before
they left for theair romes that they
were partlcularly an> us to return next
year so they could give a complete
demonstration, This was impossible
last week because of the wet grounds. 3
Macon Plans to Hold 1
. g
Centennial Exposition
MACON, March 17.~Plans are on foot l
to hold an exposition in Macon in 1923
in celebration of Macon's centennial
Many leading business men and others
have indorsed the proposgition, and it is
prohable that in the near future a <:en-l
tenmal commission will be selected. [t
is proposed to hold the Georgia State
Fair and the exposition Jointly,
y .
Macen Shriners Buy
.
Site to Evect Temple
MACON, March 17.-—-The Al Sihah
Temple of Shriners has purchased a
site at Cotton avenue and Poplar stree.
for §30,000, and will commence the l'l"'('-'
tion of a temple there in the near fu- !
ture. The lot has a frontage of 157 feel ;
and is almost directly opposite the |
City Hall. The owners transferring the |
property are W. G, Johnson, Jr., of 8t {
Louis: Elnora Ziegler, of Wayne Coyn- |
tv. Indiana: Gussie Jones, of f.;u.wml
County, New York; Emil Webbh, KHza
beth Dishroom, Robert Rogers, l.}“‘fl"‘
Reld and Leila Johnson, of Bibb County,
Bartender Is Purned
.
Badly by Bandits
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March 17.—Louis Mey
ers, bartender in the saloon of Nel
son Olson, was probably fatally
burned early today by three bandits,
who held firebrands made of paper to
»his leet and arms in an effort to make
him tell whers $5,000 was hidden in
the saloon,
Although horribly burned about the
arms and feet, Meyers refused to tel
where the money was hidden.
C. OF C. ELECTS OFFICERS,
FITZGERALD, March 17.- I’llzzrr-t
ald's Chamber of Commerce chose a
new set of officers at ite annual meet
ing, electing J. H, Mayes, superin
yendent of the Fitzgorald Cotton Mills,
president, and W. A. Adams, post
master, secretary for the current
year. President Mayves will make fll
special effort to secure a bond elec-!
tion for permanent roads for the
county, and in this movement has
been assured the hearty co-opera
tion of the citizens of Fitzgerald. The
new board of governors assisting the
president this ycar are Messrs. N. N
Littlefleld, J, C. Brewer, 1. Gelders,
8. 'G. Pryor, Jv., L. O. Tisdel, J o.}
Glover, ', A. Newcomer and former
President L. 1. Griner. ‘
ALBANY ELKS ELECT.
ALBANY, GA,, March 17.~The Al-‘
bany Lodge, No. 713, B. P, O, E., has
elected the following officers for the
ensuing lodge year: D. W, Brosnan,
exalted ruler: L. N. Sterne, esteemed
leading knight: I. G, Ehrlich, esteemed,
loyal knight: B. L. Collier, esteemed
leeturing knight: R. L. Kearsoy, m-r'rn-l
tary: W, M. Baldwin, treasurer. J. T.|
Barnes, tiler: John H. Mock, trustee’
for three years. Past Kxalted Ruler!
D. W, Brosnan was named as a drl!-!
gate to the grand lodge convention
and John H, Mock as alternate repre
sentative.
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taming cars.
(By International News Service.) |
LONDON, Marc¢h 17.—A movement
has been started by a member of the
Prussian diet for the setting up of a
constitutional monarchy in Germany
and the return of the Hohenzollerns,
said a Central News dispatch from |
Copenhagen today. i
BY JOHN HOLLOCK. |
(Exclusive Cable by the I. N. 8, and
London Daily Express.) l
HELSIGNFORS, FINLAND, March
14 (via London, March 17).—The
Russian Bolshevik Government is
sending $175,000,009 into Cermany to
finance the revolutionary organiza
tions, it was learned today from an
authoritative source.
This is further proof of the conten
tion that a general European Bolshe- !
vik conflagration can only be avert.d ;
by the crushing of Bolshevism in
Russia and by using a strong armed
force to capture Petrograd, it was |
said [
The establishment of a Polish |
buffer state against -Bolshevism is !
believed in some quarters to be fore- ]
doomed to failure. i
There is now grave danger thait|
Esthonia is contemplating a separate |
peace with the Soviet Government !
o . 3
Fifteen American Food |
Ships Reach Dantzig '
(Exclusive Cable by the International |
News Service and The London I
Daily Express.)
LONDON, March 17,—Fifteen Amer
ican food ships have arrived at Dant
zig for relief of the Poles, said a
dispatch to The Daily Express., Dant- |
#ig is described as a city of the dead |
so far as business is concerned. It 18|
on the edge of a volcano, with the |
Spartaeides threatening to rise up.,
This is imperiling the most efficient
werk of the American food commis
sion
A meager meal at Dantzig costs 30
marks. There is no scap nor tobacco. |
Cigarettes and cigars are made (-ll
dried cabbage leaves '
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600 Spartacides Killed
oo . .
In Last Fight in Berlin |
(By International News Service.) |
COPENHAGEN, March 17—8 ix
hundred Spartacides were killed in
the last burst of fighting with Gov- !
ernment troops in Berlin, said a (lls‘--!
patch from that city today. quoting !
The Lokal Anzeiger. )
German Governmeént headquarters|
are being removed from Weimar to
Berlin. Martial law has been pro
claimed throughout Saxony.
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Germans Attempting |
To Split the Allies \
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
LONDON, March 17.-The Germans |
apparently have begun a campaign to
attempt to split the Alltes and dls—l
credit their Paris representatives, said |
an Amsterdam digputeh to The qu.l)‘
Lxpress today, '
“Germany will not sign any peace |
treaty,” is now the cry of the reac
tionaries :n Germany., While they
listened to indemnity talk calmly, the
talk of disarming Germany h:nxl
aroused loud protests. The Socialist
paper Morwaerts at Berlin pub!uhvsl
a warning to the Allies
Many Women Among
5 R .
Executed Spartacides
BY H. J. GREENWALL.,
(Exclusive Cable by the I. N. 8. and
The London Daily Express.)
BERLIN, March 16 (via London,
March 17).Fifteen hundred Spar
tacides, including many women, have
been executed at Moabit prison in
four days and it will take another
week to kill all of the Spartacide
prisoners under sentence of death,
it was stated today by Captain Dela
voche, who i In charge of the exe
cution '
“The Battle of Berlin” came to an |
end on Friday. |
It is expected that the city \vlll[
remain quiet until the end of the
month, when there may be another
outbreak of excitement over the pros
pect of an early peace,
The Government round.up for pris.
oners and armas in Berlin is being
carried out systematically, Posters
announced that at a zertain hour a
house-to-hovse search will be made
in the barricaded distriet and that all|
inhabifants found in ary house where
arms ave concealed will pay the death
penalty., When the search is under
way if ten or less prisoners are taken
Here Is Procedure for
Obtaining Bonus of S6O
Allowed Discharged Men
I To make clear the exact procedure
to be fetlowed by men alveady out of
the service in obtaining the §6O bonus
provided in the new revenue act, the
War Department, the Navy Depart
ment and the‘Marine Corps, each for
its own branch of the service, has
issued the following instructions:
THE ARMY —Papers required from
soldiers are:
A.—Statement of their gervice since
April 6, 1917, with date of last dis
charge and their present address. The
statement need not be in aflidavit
form, the soldier’'s simple written
statement is sufficient.
B.—Discharge certificate or military
order of discharge, and both, if both
were issued.
Botn A and B must accpompany’ the
written claim for the bonus, which
must be addressed to the Zone Fi
nance Officer, Lemon Building,
Washington, D. C.
The following form is suggested:
To Zone Finance Officer. Lemon
Building, Washington, D, -C,
Subject—Claim for the S6O: bonus
for discharged soldier.
1. Herewith attached and marked
“A" is my statement of serviice since
April 6, 1817, with date of my last
ldim-)mrgo and a memorandwa of my
present address.
2. Herewith attached and} marked
“B” is my military order for dis
charge (and, or) my dischmrge cer
tificate for release,
3. The above are submitted in sup
port of my claim for the §69 bonus to
be paid soldiers already discharged
as provided in the rewenue act of
1918, approved February 24, 1919,
Respectfully submitted:
BErOBL. ..o vis i ipcnsimaprossrninsah
MBI viovns s o ovenis R
In case of lost discharge certificates
soldiers, in lien thereof, must forward
certificate of service, to be issued by
Adjutant General at Washington,
which they wiil secure on proper ap
plication.
THE NAVY-—Papers required for
sailors. nava! reserves, etc, are:
A.—Discharge, or orders to inactive.
duty.
This document “A” must accom
pany the written claim for the bonus,.
which must be addressed to the Dis
bursing Officer, Bureau of Supplies’
and Accounts, Navy Departiment,
Washington, D. C,
The following form is suggested:
To the Disbursing Officer of Sup-,
| plies and Accounts, Navy De-y
partmert, Washington, D, C.
Subject—Claim for the $69 bonus;
for discharged sailors and marines,
1. Herewith attached and marked;
“A" is my discharge certificate (or)
orders to inactive duty, together with
a memorandum of my present ad-.
dress.
2, The above is submitted in sup
port of my claim for the S6O bonus to
.
Iln any one house they are immedi
'ntely stood up in the courtyard and
shot on the s]\o’. If more are found
they are marched off to Moabist pris.
'(un_ where they are killed with ma
chine guns,
Anticipating trouble when the peace
terms come, the authorities have be.
gun to close some of the dance halls,
but many are operating clandestinely,
Many eartridges and grenades that
failed to explode in the recent fighting
were found filled with sand, They
had been made by Spartacist sympa
thizers at the Spandau arsenal.
5
Germans Fought All
Day, Danced All Night
By PERCIVAL PHILLIPS,
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
COLOGNE, March 16 (via London,
March 17).~Helmetted German offi
cers in Berlin, covered with bhleod
und dust and just fresh from the
| battles in tho streets, crowded the
dance hail and s=aloens all night, re
suming thelr slaughter at daybreak.
This was part of a graphic descrip
tion of conditions in Beriin during
the fighting between Spartacides and
Government troops given today by a
merchant who had just arrived from
the capital,
Nonchualant crowds watched the
troops march out of the barricades
and looked on with mild Interest
while the wounded were being ear
ried back from “the front”
The food supply dwindled during
the figliting and the merchant told of
| paying S3B for an ordinary dinuner,
_A Clean Newspaper for Southern Homes
be paid sailors and naval reserves
already discharged, as provided in
the revenue act of 1918, approved
February 24, 1919,
Respectfully submitted:
BRI swa i v e Rs e
G s v vk og d b sCr
In case of loss of original discharge
papers or orders to inactive duty, it
will be necessary to obtain from the
Bureau of Navigation a certified copy,
and a certificate from the officer hy
whom final settlement of pay ac
count was made that no credit of the
S6O has been made.
MARINE CORPS—In applying for
the S6O bonus enlisted men of the
marine corps should forward their
discharge certificate, accompanied by
the request of payment of the bonus,
with their address, to the pay office
which handled their accounts at the
time of their discharge.
For men discharged on the Pacifie
coast this simply means that the as
sistant pavmaster of the Marine
| Corps, No. 36 Annie street, SBan Fran
i cisco, Cal, will pay the bonus.
] Other men who were discharged
| elsewhere will direct their applica
llion to the assistant paymaster at
the place cnncc\rm-d\
l Do not address any paymaster by
name,
The following form is suggested:
FUIRG . o h il ik
To Assistant Paymaster of the
United States Marine Corps at......
Subject--Claim for the S6O bonus
‘t’m' discharged marines,
1. Herewith attached and marked
“A” is my discharge certificate (or)
orders to hm@}i.vc- duty, together with
a memorandum of my present ad
dress.
2. The above is submitted in sup
port of my claim for the S6O bonus
to be'paid marines already discharg
ed, as provided in the revenue act of
1918, approved February 24, 1919,
Respectfully submitted:
BIEE ¢l N svt
BAPROL il cvin i iR
PR e i i i
If a marine has lost his discharge
papers he sbould address the Adju
tant and Inspector, Marine Corps
Headquarters, Wushington, D. O, Tae
dunlicate papers,
When settlement is made by the
army, the navy or the marine corps
all personal papers will be returned
to the applicant with the S6O check,
It is suggested that the letters con
‘aining the documents forwarded to
Washington be registered, to avold
the danger of loss in the mails,
! It is further suggested that a eopy
| of the discharge papers or other doc
uments, certified by a netary publie,
be secured in each instance for use
during the period the original docu
ments are out of the possession of
the soldier, sailor or marine, or to
'ho used in securing a Government
‘dunncate in the event the original
documents are lost,
|
!
! Harry Lauder, the famous Scotch
!N-n.ml;.m‘ was guest Monday at the
Capital City Club of the Atlanta Ro
}ulmlm. who gave him a luncheon at
| 12:30 o'clock, Mr, Lauder is a mem
| ber of the Rotary Club and has heen
| entertained by the Rotarians in every
| large city he has visited
i Mr. Lauder arrived in Atlantu sarly
| Sunday and paid a wvisit to Camp
| Gordon in the ifternoon He ad
drossed the soldlers there at the Red
Cross chapter house, making a brief
talk on the war and its resuits before
inrt-m-mmg a program of his inlmita
| ble songs. Mr, Lauder spoke feeling.
fl\. for he lost his only son, Captain
John Lauder, in Flanders, early in the
!\un. und gince then has devoted most
tof his time to entertaining the sol
| diers in their camps in France
| After the visit to Camp Gordon Mr.
Lauder was taken to the Robert
!l}mlm Cottage, where he was guest
of the Scottish Association at tea
That association s to give a dinner
in his honor at the Kimball House at
6 o'clock Monday evening,
Mr. Lauder was escorted to Camp
| Gordon by rerresentatives of several
| organizations, including the Scottish
| Association, the Order of the Eastern
Star and the War Camp Community
| Mervice, He was introduced by A, A
Cralg, chief of the Scottish Associa
tion and o childhood playmate of
Lauder in the Scotch town of Mus
selburgh,
)
i (By International News Service.)
I CHICAGO, March 17.»-Praet|cally‘
the entire Mississippi valley fromi
Minnesota to the gulf, is taking in-i
ventory today of the damage done by‘
tornadoes and heavy rains which
thave swept through this region ln‘
{the last 48 hours. Appreiension !s‘
| still felt today in many sections be
¢ ‘
cause of high water and lowering,
clouds that threaten further down
pours. ‘
Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma in
the Middle West and Mississippi and
Tennessee hore the brunt of the
| storm and suffered the largest dam
age, Because of the interruption of
telegraphic ¢ommunication it has
| been impossible to learn definitely the,
exact number of persons killed or in
jured or to check accurately the ex
tent of the damage. Property loss.‘
however, will amount to millions of.
dollars and more than a score of per
!snzm are known to have lost their
i lives, ‘
i At Atchison, Xans., more !huni
{ 1,000,000 damage was done whem
t~‘Z.x_\' Creek left its banks and flooded
E.z large area
| Two persons were killed at Porter,
j Okla,, and the village of 1,000 inhabi.
ttants was wrecked by a tornade.
l’l‘h:m- persons are reported to have
{ been . Killed in Kingfisher County,
Il\':m.xu.v, and many are said to have
been injured at Hinton, Kans.
Heavy damage was caused by
clondbursts along the Kaw River|
water shed in Kansas between .\‘alinu‘
land Lawrence Flood warnings are
]hvm:: issued in many localities and
| persons iiving in lowland districts
i“l‘(- preparing to leave their homes.
"l'lw Kaw and the Big and Little Ar
kansas Rivers are reported at flood
stage,
In Minnesota clear sunshiny weath
{er, following heavy rains, has n!m\ed‘
{ danger of floods and nermal condi
| tions have been restored, ‘
3 At Memphis, Tenn,, all local records
{ for rainfall were broken and rallway
| and street car traflic is badly crippled
| by high water
| @ )
| Seventeen Reported
i . . . . . .
{Killed in Mississippi ‘
I (By International News Service.)
i VICKSBURG, MISS., March ]T,»—l
| With wires still down to points where
{the tornado ecrogsed the M“uunumlf
river yesterday and tore its way |
| through Sharkey, Washington and |
| lssaquena counties, in Mississippi,
|the toll of dead this morning was
| placed at seventeen, with betweeen
{l6O and 200 injured. J. W. Johnson,
lnt’ Vicksburg, millionaire cotton
{ planter, who was on his plantation
{at Panther Burn, was killed when
1!11:-: house collapsed in the path of
‘(h» wind.
E. P. Green, plantation mnnaxer‘
for J. B. Binai, at Grace, was brought
here fatally injured Eight negrm-x‘
are reported to have been killed on'
the place, and so far as known here
most of the other fatalities and in
juries occurerd among negro tenants
on various plantations. ‘
The path of the tornado starts in
Louisiona, the wind having done,
slight damage In Monroe, and l'u-n]
1 having passed between Deihi and
Faverly, .
A fine cypress hrake, the property
of Mr. Johnson, who was killed, lur‘
which he recently refused a price of
| $385.000, is reported to have been
|l‘n:||-l;v.»n,\ swept {rom the earth
Telegruph and telephone wires are
.I down west and north of here and the
]'meuv can not be ipproximated.
iTh" cyclone cut a swath three-quar
tters of a miie in width,
| Kentucky Reports
I Al o
Damage by Floods
(By International News Service.)
] LEXINGTON, RKY., March 17~
{ Mountain streams throughont Ken
’t.n-'.g are badly swollen as the result
lul’ heavy raing of the last 36 hours,
land residents in many lowland gee
tions today are preparing to move in
fear of serlous floods. Many of the
larger rivers of the State, fed by the
mountain streams, are rising rnp-l
idly, i
In the viclnity of Hopkinsville large
| areas are flooded and much damage
| to property has resulted
i e co———- ——
| MASONIC PILGRIMAGE,
] BAVANNAH. March 17 Ales Temple,
A. A O N M 88, will make a pligrim
Age the latter part of April to I':.lum-l
| bus, Judge Davis Freeman, |lustrious
potentate, announced today. The wm-‘
ple's fine band with'a large delegation
will make the pilgrimage.
MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1919.
Continued From Page 1. l
ident Wilson's viewpoint. On the ¢on
trary, nowhere is the chief of the
American delegation likely to find
such strong backing in his fight this
week as from Premier Lloyd George.
The British Premier, more than any
other non-American delegate, is sym
pathetic to the rresident's ideals and
methods.
Polish Commission Reports.
Nevertheless, it is understood that
the British delegates will require it to
be known whether the conference can
delay the preliminary peace treaty
without allowing Germany to drift
into anarchy. They are even mepre
insistent on this alleged peril than
are the French.
The Polish commission reported to
the council of ten today. It is pro
posed to give the Baltic port of Dant
zig to the Poles and also a strip of
land 60 miles wide, extending north
ward from the main Polish nucleus ‘o
the port. The Germans are to be
granted freedom of transit across this
Polish corridor to East Prussia.
A plebiscite is recommended forl
the section south of the northern
boundary of Alenstein to enable the
thousands of Protestant Poles living
in the Mazurian Lakes district to say
whether they wish to join Catholic
Poland.
(Alenstein is in East Prussia, on
the Alle River, 65 miles south of
Koenigsberg.) ‘
Provisioning Work Slow. |
The work of provisioning is pro
ceeding slowly. Over 4,000 tons of
flour and 250 tons of fats have been
delivered to Czecho-Blovakia, but 25,-
000 tons of foodstuffs are still held
up at Trieste by lack of transporta
tion facilities,
The Germans have agreed to allow
shipments to Prague (the capital of
Czecho-Slovakia) by way of Ham
burg and the Elbe River. With lm-!
mrovement in railway-carrying capac
ity put through by Colonel Ryan and
Colonel Causinge, it is expecetd that
the acutest phase of the food crigis
in (zecho-Siovakia will be passed
this week. ‘
’
Wants Germany's Hands
Tied by World League
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, March 17.—-A plea for a
strong league of nations plan to over- |
throw the economic imperialism of
Germany is made in an open letter
which Henri de Jouvenel, editor of
The Matin, has addressed to Presi
dent Wilson. The writer appeals to
the President to make the league of
nations covenant an instrument for
guaranteeing reparation from Ger
many. The letter says:
“The applause of Paris once more
expresses France's confidence in you,
Just as Premier Clemenceau symbol
izes victory, so do you symbolize
peace. The universe agrees with your
principles and as you resume yourJ
place at the peace conference it re
calls your vow not to return to the
United States until peace is signed.
“By signed do you mean guaran
teed ?”
“The German empire, now re-form
ing at Weimar, believes it can estah
lish a population of 80,000 000 by an
nexations from Austria. Already the
Germans have begun to consider the
poor, weak countries Hurrmmnling‘
them, Bohemia, Poland, Jugo-Slova
kia, Roumania and Belgium, as future |
colonies, Germany is preparing to
crush them with her industrial ar
mament ‘
If the league of nations is only a
military insuranee corporation, if it
only protects the peoples against one
risk and.abandons them to poverty,
it does not confer upon each lhv]
means of life and introduce justice
in international order.
“It would not merit the name of
league of nations. A deceived world
will only see in it a new edition of
the old European concert Germany
must restore the factories she ruin
ed, her economiec imperialism must
be overthrown. She must be pre
vented from reducing to servitude
the nations to which we give liberty,
“France's unanimous cry is repa
ration.”
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Negotiations for Hun
Potash Broken Off
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 17.—The Aallies’
negotiations with Germany for the
delivery of potash have been broken
off, said a dispateh from Rotterdam
today.
It was reported Saturday that pnf-'
ash was expected to be one of ”"‘l
chief exports from CGermany when
the embargo on German commerc !
was lifted,
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Germans Build Planes |
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For Commercial Uses f
BY PATRICK DEVITTE. |
(Exclusive Cable by the I. N, 8. and |
The London Daily Express.)
GENEVA, March 17.~As soon as
the Allled commissioners left Fried
richshafen the Germans commenced
feverishly to construct small zeppe
lins and big airplanes for commercial
and postal use in Germany, and later
into Allied countires, it was learned
from an authorftative source today,
(Friedrichshafen is the seat of Ger
many's greatest air works, The first
zeppelins were bullt there.)
Germans Will Oppose
Wrecking of Helgoland.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 17.--The German
envoys to Paris will strongly oppose
any interference with Helgoland, ac
cording to a dispatch from Basle to
day. The opposition to the demoli
tion of the forts on Helgoland is said
to be due to the pressure of German
naval men, who contend that the de
struction of this German naval base
would render the Kiel canal useless
to Germany,
Dr. Jones Makes Plea
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For¥ . W.C.A. Supportl
Dr. M. Ashby Jones, at Ponce Delweon
Baptist Church Sunday, so stirred hig
congregation in his appeal for support
for the Y. W. . A that one listener
contributed SIOO, to pay for 100 dollar
memberships for business girls
Dr. Jones spoke on “"]'hr Larger
Menning of Motherhood.” He spoke of
conditions before the war, when 60 per
cent of working women were pald 'ngt
a year for their work. He warned men
not to keep women on a wage basls like
that, He declared the true motherhood
was not found behind four walls, be
cause A true mother must go outside a
home and give a welcome and a helping
hand to other women. He spoke of the
Y. W, ¢, A as the great medium for
such help
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Young John D, Denies.
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Mercenary Motives in
Backing Prohibition
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 17.—“ What do
I want with more money —or what does
my father want with more?’ was
John D, Rockefeller's reply today to
the charges that the motive back of
his support of prohibition was the ex
ploitation of labor
“My support of temperance is due
to an inherited habit and to a funda
mental principle based on the convic
tion that such support is right and
proper,” he continued
Young Rockefeller declared he and
his father had given about $350,000
in the last twenty years to further
the cause of prohibition,
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 17—
General Pershing has assigned the
Eighty-second Division to early?
convoy, it was announced at the
War Department today. The
Eighty-second is composed of na
tional army troops from Georgia,
Alabama and Tennesee.
The following ambulance sec
tions also have been assigned to |
early convoy it was stated: Nos.
570, 600, 501, 521, 530, 569, 589, 602
and 604,
The Eighty-second Dtvision, (rsln-|
ed at Camp Gordon, is officially
scheduled to leave Bordeaux for
home in April, according to a let
téer received Monday from Harry
Lewis, former sporting editor of The
Georgian, on duty with the Eighty
second. Mr. Lewis wrote on Febru
ary 26 that the division was just
leaving its old position to go to Bor
deaux, preparatory to being sent
home.
“We have received a number of of
ficial orders praising the Eighty-sec
ond,” he wrote. “But I've been too
busy to send them along. But in
closed is a copy of a general order
recefved this date from headquar
ters."”
The order follows:
Headquarters Eighty-second Divi
sion, American LExpeditionary
Force, France,
25 February, 1919,
General Orders No. 10,
The following letter from the com
mnnder-ln-ch'nt is a source of grati
fication to t division commander.l
and he knows it will be to-all the
officers and men of the division, and
is published with the information of
the command:
“American Expeditionary Forces, Of
fice of the Commander-in-Chief.
“France February 19, 1919,
“Major General George B. Duncan,
Commanding Eighty-second Divi.
sion:
“My Dear General Dunean:
“It gives me a great deal of pleas
ure to extend to you and the officers
and men of the Bighty-second Divi
sion my compliments upon their ex-l
cellent appearance at the inspection |
and review on February 11, near !
Prauthoy. It was gratifying to nept
your troops in such good physical
shape, but still more so to know that
the moral tone of all ranks is so high.
It is hoped that this will continue,
even after their return to civil life,
; “Your division is to he congratu
lated on its record in France. At the
end of June it was placed in a quiet]
sector of the French line to release
veteran divisions for the battle. From
the 12th to the 16th of Septem
‘ber'it took part in the first American
offensive at St. Mihiel, attacking and
occupying Norroy and the heights
north and west of Vandieres. In this
operation it advanced 5 kilometers,
In the Meuse-Argonne offensive the
division attack on October 7. and was
engaged almost continuously for 25
days. Attacking across the River
Aire it asssisted the Twenty-eighth
and Seventy-seventh Divisions to ad
vance, and on "October 9 captured
Cornay. On October 16 the strong
position of Hill 182 was ecaptnred
and the towns of Bt. Juvin and Mareq
were captured, making a total ad
vance of 12 kilometers,
“The officers and men of your divi
sion may proudly carry home with
them the gratitude of the Allies with
whom they fought and the pride of
their fellows throughout our forces ,
Sincerely vours, {
“JOHN J. PERSHING. |
“By Comamnd of Major General Dun- I
can
"GEORGE 1. ROOSEVELT, |
“"Major, Acting Chief of Stafy.
“OMeia:l:
“R. L. Boyd, Major A. G. D, Aa-
Jutant,”
FARM BRINGS $30,000,
AMERICUS, GA., March 17.—A rea)
estate transaction of interest was
consummated here today, when D, I,
Thrasher, of Ocopee County, pur
chased the fine farm of C. . Haw
kins, tHree miles west of Americus,
on the Plains road. The farm, which
Is one of the best improved in this:
entire section, containg 500 acres, nn(l‘
the price paid by Mr. Thrasher !mi
the property was 830,000, Cuarl Haw
king, who now operates the farm, will
continue to reside there, the new own
er taking possession after the fal
harvest.
FARMERS FIGHT TICKS,
AMERICUS, GA, March 17.--With|
farmers unanimously favoring kho]
tick eradication, the first dippings of
cattle in Sumter County under for
mal direction of the State Depart
‘ment of Agriculture oceurred here to
day. Dr. W, B, Martin, who is as
sisted by J. L. Glawson and A, J.
Johnson, will remain in the county
until September, when it is planned
to make this tick-free territory.
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VALDOSTA, GA., March 16-—~The
County Commissioners of Lowndes
County at their meating on the first
Tuesday in April will call an election *
for a half-million-dollar good roads
bond issue in this county. There i 8
apparently an overwhelming publle
sentiment in favor of the bonds, and
this &timcnt is expected to grow as
the eampaign progresses. The elec~
tion will be called for the latter part
of June,
At a called meeting of the com
missioners held on Saturday formal
application was made for $500,000 of
the FKFederal good joads funds, and
the county will be ready by the time
thi= money is avgilable to match It
dollar for dollar with county bonds.
The application for the Govern
ment funds now is in the hands of:
State Highway Engireer W, R. Neel
If the county votes for bonds, as there
is every reason to believe will be
done, $1,000,000 will be put into paved
roads in Lowndes County as fast as
the work can be done.
It is proposed to create a bond
commission to handle the funds, and
the bonds wil) be sold only as needed,
or as fast as the work progresses,
The 300 miles of graded roads already
ih existence will materially reduce
the cost of the paved roads, as there
will be very little grading to do. A
large number of the county's promi
nent taxpayers attended the called
meeting of the County Commission
ers and pledged their co-operation in’
the good roads campaign.
Another bond proposition that is
growing by leaps and bounds is that
for a bond issue to build a publie
hospital in this city. The Lowndes
County Medical Society has just
passed strong resolutions indorsing.
the movement, and many of the city's
'heaviest taxpayers and most promi
nent citizens express themselves in
favor of it. It is believed that §75.000
will build and equip an institution
large enough to meet the needs of
this city and section, and this prob
ably will be the amount of the bond
issue if carried. At present there is
only one hospital in Valdosta, a pri
vate institution that has more busi
ness than it can accommaodate,
Murder Mystery of Days
r .
Before War Discovered
MACON, March 17.—Workmen exca
vating on a Cotton avenue lot Q\nz up a
skeleton, the glass plate and handles of -
a coffin and remaing of a box that in
closed the coffin. There is some mys
tery attached to the discovery, ag a
leaden ball, of the old-fashioned musket
styvle, was found in the midst of the
bones. Ic ig believed that the man was
murdered, and that the body was o
ably buried in the backvard of lh{’x"e!-
idence that once stood there, t in
thought that the tragedy, if there was
one. ocourred many yvears before the
War Between the States,
MEDLIN TO SEEK PARDON,
MACON, March 17.—Walter E. Medlin,
who was convicted several months ago
of the murder of Frank Baker, a bar
ber, formerly of Atlanta, and sentenced
to life imprisonment, has lost in his
appeal to the Supreme CoUrt and will
have to serve his sentence Attorneys
for Medlin declare, however, that they
intend to go befare the pardon board
and the Governor next in the interest of
their client
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