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INNIAN YARD FIRE
IILL MYSTERY.
MILLION 1055
W. W. Waits, 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 total mount up
to $750,000. The rail and property
Yss he estimated at $250,000. The
origin of the fire still is unknown.
Wrecking vrews 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 big
bridge half way to the offige 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 hent
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
to be uniocaded. Mr. Waits said that
the cars contained all kinds of mer
¢handise imaginable, from groceries
1o 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-l
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 ‘
east side of the transfer office were
saved. |
The firemen worked practically t:nel
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
sént 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 lelonal
Power Farming demonstration in 1920
will be held in Macon, The show wil
be given in the fall instead of the spring
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 their homes that they
were particularly anxious to return next
year so they could give a complete
demonstration. This was impossible
last week because of the wet grounds.
Macon Plans to Hold
. g
Centennial Exposition
MACON, March 17.—Plans are on foot
to hold an exposition in Macon in 1923
in celebration of Macon’s centennial.
Many leading business men and others
have indorsed the proposition, and it is
probable that in the near future a cen
tennial commission will be selected. It
is proposed to hold the Georgia State
Fair and the exposition Jointly,
Macon Shriners Buy
.
Site to Erect Temple
MACON, March 17.~The Al Sihah
Temple of Shriners has purchased a
site at Cotton avenue and Poplar streei
for $30,000, and will commence the erec
tion of a temple there in the near fu
ture. The lot has a frontage of 157 feet
and is almost directly opposite the
City Hall. The owners transferring the
Frnperlv are W. G. Johnson, Jr., of St.
«ouis; Elnora Ziegler, of Wayne Coun
ty, Indiana: Gussie Jones, of Queens
County, New York: Emil Webh, Kliza
beth Dishroom, Robert Rogers, Lillian
Reid and Leila Johnson, of Bibb County,
Bartender Is Burned
.
Badly by Bandits
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March 17.—Louis Mey
ers, bartender in the saloon of Nel
son Olson, was probably fatallyl
burned early today by three bandits,
who held firebrands made of paper to}
his feet and arms in an effort to make
him tell where $5,000 was hidden In‘
the saloon,
Although horribly burned about the
arms and feet, Meyers refused to tell
where the money was hidden. ' i
C. OF C. ELECTS OFFICERS. |
FITZGERALD, March 17—Fitzger
ald’s Chamber of Commerce chose a
new set of officers at its annual meet
ing, electing J. H. Mayes, superin
tendent of the Fitzgerald Cotton Mills,
nresident, and W. A, Adams, post-
Aaster, secretary for the ocurrent
year. President Mayes will make a
special effort to secure a hond elec
tlon 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 year are Messrs, N. N.
Littlefield, J. . Brewer, I. Gelders,
8. 0. Pryor. Jri, L. O, Thadsl. 3. C.
Glover, ', A, Newcomer and former
President L. L. 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 vear: D. W, Brosnan,
exalted ruler: 1. N, Sterne, esteemed
leading knight: I. G. Ehrlich, esteemed
loyal knight; B. L. Collier, esteemed
lecturing knight; R. L. Kearsey, secre
tary: W. M, Baldwin, treasurer: J. T.
Barnes, tiler: John H. Mock, trustee
for three vears. Past Exalted Ruler
D. W, Brosnan was named as a dele
gate to the grand lodge convention
and John H, Mock as alternate repre
sentative,
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(By International News Service.) l
LONDON, March 17.-~A movement
has been started by a member of tho!
Prussian diet for the setting up of a
constitutional monarchy in Germany
and the return of the lln:\':nzull»rns.j
said a Central News dispatch from
g i |
Copenhagen today. ]
BY JOHN HOLLOCK. |
(Exclusive Cable by the I. N. 8. and |
London Daily Express.) 1
HELSIGNFORS, FINLAND, March
14 (via London, March 17).—The
Russian Bolshevik Government is
sending $175,000,000 into Germany 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 Bolsheyism is
believed in some quarters to be fore- ‘
doomed to failure.
There is now grave danger th ;t‘
Esthonia is contemplating a sepumte‘
peace with the Soviet Government.
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Fifteen American Food
Ships Reach Dantzig 1
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London |
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
zig is described as a city of the dead
so far as business is concerned. It is
on the edge of a voleano, with the
Spartacides 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 of
dried cabbage leaves |
600 Spartacides Killed |
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 dis
patch from that city today. quoting
The Lokal Anzeiger,
German Government headquarters
are being removed from Weimar to
Berlin. Martial law has been pro
claimed throughout Saxony,
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 Allles and dis
‘r-rpdlt their Paris representatives, sald
an Amsterdam dispateh to The Daily
Express today.
~ “Germany will not sign any peace
treatly,” i 8 now the cry of the reac
tionaries in Germany. While they
listened to indemnity talk calmly, the
talk of disarming Germany has
aroused loud protests. The Socialist
paper Vorwaerts at Berlin publishes
a warning to the Allies,
Many Women Among
Executed Spartacides
BY H. J. GREENWALL.
'(Exclunivc Cable by the I. N. §, 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 8 in charge of the exe
cution,
“The Battle of Berlin” came to an
end on Friday.
\ It is expected that the city will
‘remain quiet until the end of the
month, when there may be another
louthreuk of excitement over the pros
pect of an early peace,
The Government round-up for pris.
oners and arms in Berlin is being
carried out systematically Pogters
L announced that at a certain hour a
| house-to-house search will he mude
in the barricaded distriet and that all
| inhabltants found in any house where
arme ave concealed will pay the death
penalty, When the scarch is under
way if ten or less prisoners are taken
Here Is Procedure for
Obtaining Bonus of S6O
Allowed Discharged Men
To make clear the exact procedure
to be followed by men already out of
the service in obtaining the S6O 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 service since
April 6, 1917, with date of last dis
charge and their present address. The
statlznem 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 accompany 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:
FPOM . o iivrssvanssormiborsnsspen
To Zone Finance Officer, Lemon
Building, Washington, D. C. I
Subject—Claim for the S6O bonus;
for discharged soldier.
1. Herewith attached and marked
“A"” is my statement of service since
April 6, 1917, with date of my last
discharge and a memorandu:a of my
present address.
2. Herewith attached and marked
“B” is my military order for dis»
charge (and, or) my discharge cer
tificate for release.
3. The ahove are submiti 4 in sup
port of my claim for the $6, bonus to
be paid soldiers already discharged
as provided in the revenue act of
1918, approved February 24, 1919,
Respectfully submitted:
‘ Btreet. .. oiiessirsasesesasaisenis
MBEE . L R e s s
In case of lost discharge certificates
soldiers, in lieu thereof, must forward
certificate of service, to be issued by
Adjutant General at Washington,
which they will secure on proper ap
plication.
THE NAVY-—-Papers required for
sailors, naval 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 Department,
Washington, D. C,
The following form is suggested:
To the Disbursing Officer of Sup
plies and Accounts, Navy De
partmernt, Washington, D. C.
Subject—Claim for the S6O bonus
for discharged sailors and marines.
1. Herewith attached and marked
“A” is ‘my discharge certificate (or)
orders to inactive duty, together with
ia memorandum of my present ad
dress. ‘
2. The above is submitted in sup
port of my claim for the S6O honus to
in any 6ne house they are immedl-‘
ately stood up in the courtyard and
‘shot on the spot. If more are found
they are marched off to Moabhist pris
on, 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 cartridges 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, ,
Germans Foufiht 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 blood
land dust and just fresh from the
battles in the streets, crowded the
dance hall and saloens all night, re.
suming their slaughter at daybreak,
This was part of a graphic descrip
tion of conditions in Beriin during
the fightie between Spartacides and
Government troops given today by a
merchant who had just arrived from
the capital,
Nonehalant ecrowds watched the
troops march out of the barricades
and looked on with mild interest
while the wounded were being car
ried back from 'the front”
The food supply dwindled during
the fighting and the merchant told of
vaying S3B for an ordinary dinner,
A_ULlean Newspaper Tor douinern tomes
be paid sailors and naval reserves
already discharged, as provided in
the revenue act of 1918, approved
February 24, 1919,
Respectfully submitted:
BEROY. .. oosiarnsivisnsonrsabrbors
BIRLE, . .o larnrsnonvinsionarsss
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 by
whom final settlement of pay ac
count was made that no credit of the
S6O has been made,
MARINE CORPS-—ln 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 Pacific
coast this simply means that the as
sistant paymaster of the Marine
Corps, No. 36 Annie street, San Fran
cisco, Cal, will pay the bonus.
Other men who were discharged
clsewhere. will direct their applica
tion to the assistant paymaster at
the place concerned.
Do not address any paymaster by
name,
The following form is suggested:
EOWEL o v i e aahass
To Assistant Paymaster of the
United States Marine Corps at......
Subject-—Claim for the S6O bonus
for discharged 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 be paid marines already discharg
ed, as provided in the revenue act of
1918, ‘approved February 24, 1919,
Respectfully submitted: -
T siiiiinih RGvt b i s
PIRTONL. « fiiins o 0 €3 0s saives vinhbasss
BUALE: o i v v Blr i ieis itaans
If a marine has lost his discharge
papers he should address the Adju
tant and Inspector, Marine Corps
Headquarters, Washington, D, C., for
duplicate papers.
When settlement is made by the
army, the navy or the marine corps
all personal papers wiil be returned
to the applicant with the S6O check.
It is suggested that the letters con
taining the documents forwarded to
Washington be registered, to avoid
the danger of loss in the mails.
Tt is further suggested that a copy
of the discharge papers or other doc
uments, certified by a notary 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
be used in securing a Government
duplicate in the event the original
documents are lost,
|
. Harry Lauder, the famous Scotch
|"l'llt-1|‘.:vll_ was guest Monday at the
| Capital City Club of the Atlanta Ro
| tarians, 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
Mr. Lauder arrived in Atlanta early
Sunday and pald a visit to Camp
Gordon in the afternoon e ad
draseed the soldiers there at the Red
:4'.4.;(\ chapter house, making a brief
| talk on the war and its results before
| presenting a program of hisg inimita
‘hl“ songs. Mr.'Lauder spoke feeling
{ly, for he lost his only son, Captain
iJohn Lauder, in Flanders, early in the
| war, and gince then has devoted most
of hig time to entertaining the sol
dicrs in their camps in France
After the visit to Camp Gordon Mr
| Lauder was taken to the Robert
| Burns Cottage, where he was guest
|of the Scottish Assoclation at tea
| That association {8 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
lorganizations, including the Scottish
| Assoclation, the Order of the Fastern
sStar and the War Camp Community
| Seryice He was introdured b R A
| Cralg, ehiet of the Scoltigh Associa
[tion and a childhood playmate of
ll.mulv'r in the Scotch town of Mus
selburgh.
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March 17.—-Practically
the entire Mississippi valley from
Minnesota to the gulf, is taking in
ventory today of the damage done by
tornadoes and heavy rains which
have swept through this region in
the last 48 hours. Appreiension is
still felt today in many scctions be
cause of high water and lowering
clouds that threaten further down
pours,
Kansas, Missourli and Oklahoma in
the Middle West and Mississippi and
Tennessee bore the brunt of the
storm and suffered the largest dam
age. Because of the interruption of
telegraphic communication 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
sons are known to have lost their
lives, |
At Atchison, Xans., more than
$1,000,000 damage was done when
Clay Creek left its banks and flooded
a large area, \
Two persons were killed at l"nrter.‘
Okla., and the village of 1,000 InhuM-‘
tants was wrecked by a tornado.
Three persons are reported to havn‘
been killed in Kingfisher County,
Kansas, and many are said to have
been injured at Hinton, Kans. ‘
Heavy damage was caused by
cloudbursts along the Kaw River
water shed in Kansas between Snlinu‘
and Lawrence. Flood warnings are
being issued in many localities and’
persons ilving in lowland districts
are preparing to leave their homes.
The Kaw and the Big and little Ar
kansas Rivers are reported at flond‘
stage, !
In Minnesota clear sunshiny weath.
er, following heavy rains, has abated
danger of floods and normal condi
tions have been restored, }
At Memphis, Tenn., all local records|
for rainfall were broken and rallwu,\,"
and street car traffic is badly erippled
by high water,
Seventeen Reported
. . y % .
Killed in Mississippi
(By International News Service.) |
VICKSBURG, MISS., March 17.«‘
With wires still down to points where
the tornado crossed the Mississippl
river yesterday and tore its way
through Sharkey, Washington and
Issaguena counties, in Mississippi, |
the toll of dead this morning wuu!
placea at seventeen, with betweeen
160 and 200 injured. J. W, Johnson,
of Vicksburg, millionaire cotton
planter, who was on his plantation
at Panther Burn, was killed when
his house collapsed in the path of
the wind.
. P. Green, plantation manager
for J. B. Sinai, at Grace, was brought
here fatally injured. Eight negroes
‘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
Louisiana, the wind having done
slight damage in Monroe, and then
having passed between Delhi and
Faverly,
A fine cypress brake, the property
of Mr, Johnson, who was killed, for
which he recently refused a price of
$385,000, I 8 reported to have heen
I;vrm-'n ally swept from the earth
Telegraph and telephone wires are
llh)wu west and north of here and the
[tl:nm.lut- can not be approximated,
"l‘hc- eyclone eut a swath three-quars
ters of a miie in width,
Kentucky Reports
5
Damage by Floods
(By International News Service.)
LEXINGTON, KY March 17~
Mountain streams throughont Ken
| tucky are badly swollen as the result
‘nr heavy rains of the last 36 hours,
| und residents in many lowland sec
tions today are preparing to move in
fear of serious floods, Many of the
larger riversof the State, fed by the
mountain #treams, are rising rap
idly.
In the vielnity of Hopkinsville large
| ureas are flooded and much damage
| to property has resulted,
| MASONIC PILGRIMAGE,
SAVANNAH. March 17 --Alee Temple,
A A O N M 8, will make a pilgrim
age the latter part of April to Colum
bus, Judge Davis Freeman, illustrious
potentate, announked today. The tem
ple's fine band with a large delegation
will make the pllgrimage.
MORDAY, MAKCH IY, 1919,
Continued From Page 1. l
ident Wilson's viewpoint. On the con
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 Premiér; 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 trm(_\‘}
without allowing Germany to drift
into anarchy They are even more‘
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. 1
A plebiscite is recommended for
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, onr
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-Slovakia, 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) bv way of Ham
burg and the Elbe River., With im
provement in railway-carrying capac
ity put through by Colonel Ryan and
Colonel Causinge, it is expecetd that
the acutest phase of the food crisis
in Czecho-Slovakia 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 your
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 7"
“The German empire, now re-form
ing at Weimar, believes it can estab
lish a population of 80,000.000 by an
nexations from Austria. Already the
Germans have begun to consider the
poor, weak countries surrounding
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 insurance corporation, if it
only protects the peoples against one
risk and abandons them to poverty,
it does not confer upon each the
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 restare the factories she ruin
ed; her economic 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.”
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 dispatch from Rotterdam
today.
It was reported Saturday that pot
ash was expected to he one of the
chief exports from Germany when
the embargo on German commerce
was lifted,
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Germans Build Planes
For Commercial Uses
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 CGermans commenced
feverishly to construct small zeppe
ling and big airplanes for commerecial
and postal use in Germany, and later
into Allied countires, it was learned
from an authoritative source today.
(Friedrichshafen is the seat of Ger
many’s greatest air works, The first
zeppeling were built 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
struetion of this German naval base
wonld render the Kiel canal useless
to Germany,
Dr. Jones Makes Plea
v
For Y.W.C. A. Support
Dr. M. Ashby Jones, at Ponce Del.eon
Baptist %‘hun-tn Sunday, so stirred his
congregafion in his appeal for support
for the Y. W, . A, that one ligiener
contributed SIOO, to pay for 100 dollar
memberships for business girls,
Dr. Joues gpoke on "“The Larger
Meaning of Motherhood.” He spoke of
conditions before the war, when 60 per
cent of working women were paid $326
i year for their work. He warned men
not to keep women on a wage basis like
that. He declared the true motherhood
was not found behind four walls, be
cause a true mother must go outside a
home and glvc a welcome and a helping
hand to other women. He gpoke of the
Y. W, . A. as the great medium for
such help. .
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Young John D. Denies
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 tßmperance is due
to an inherited habit and to a funda
mental prineiple based on the convic
tlon 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
{ GGeneral Pershing has assigned the
tlll;:h(_\—sm‘nnnl Division to early )}
) convoy, it was announced at the )
? War Department today. The |
'; Eighty-second is composed of na- }
", tional army troops from Georgia,
2 Alabama and Tennesee.
g The following ambulance sec- §
tions also have been assigned to {
{ early convoy it was stated: Nos. §
¢ 570, 800, 501, 521, 530, 569, 599, 602
{ and 604, }
The Eighty-second Dtvision, train
ed at Camp ' Gordon, is officially
scheduled to Jeave Bordeaux for
home in April, according to a let
ter 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
received this date from headquar
ters."”
The order follows:
Headquarters Righty-second Divi
sion, American Expeditionary
Force, France,
25 February, 1919,
General Orders No. 10,
The following letter from the com
mander-in-chief is a source of grati
fication to the division commander,
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 REighty-second Divi
sion:
“My Dear General Duncan:
“It gives me a great deal of pleas
ure to extend to you and the officers
and men of the Eighty-second Divi
sion my compliments upon their ex
cellent appearance at the inspection
and review on February 11, near
Prauthoy. It was gratifying to see
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 s to be 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 § 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 . captured
and the towns of St, Juvin and Mareq
were ecaptured, making a total ad
vance of 12 kilometers,
“The officers and men of your divi
slon 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 yours, :
“JOHN J. PERSHING,
“By Comamnd of Major General Dun- \
can: ‘
"GEORGE E. ROOSEVELT,
“Major, Acting Chief of Stafr.
“OfMecia:l:
“R. L. Boyd, Major A, G. D., Ad
jutant.”
FARM BRINGS $30,000, .
AMERICUS, GA., March 17.—A real
estate transaction of Interest was
consummated here today, when D, E,
Thrasher, of Oconee 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 hest improved in this
entire section, contains 600 acres, and
the price paid by Mr., Thrasher for
the property was $30,000, Carl Haw
kins, who now operates the farm, will
continue to reside there, the new own.
er taking possession after the fall
harvest,
FARMERS FIGHT TICKS,
AMERICUS, GA, March 17.—With
farmers unanimously favoring the
tick eradication, the first dippings of
cattle in Sumter County under for
mal direction of the State Depart
‘ment of Agriculture occurred here to
day. Dr. W. B, Martin, who is as
sisted by J. L. Glawson and A. J.
Johknson, will remain in the county
until September, when It {s planned
to make this tick-free territory,
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VALDOSTA, GA., March 16-~The
County Commissioners of Lowndes
County at their meeting on the first
Tuesday in April wiil call an election
for a half-million-dollar good roads
bond issue in this county. There 8
apparently an overwhelming public
sentiment in favor of the bonds, and
this sentiment is expected to grow as
the campaign progresses. The elec
tion will be called for the latter part
of June. 1"
At a called meeting of the com<
missioners held on Saturday formal
application was made for $500,000 of
the Federal good ioads funds, and
the county will be ready by the time
this money is avallable to match it
dollar for dollar with county honds.
~ The application for the Governs
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 will be sold only as needed,
or as fast as the work progresses,
The 300 miles of graded roads already
in existence will materially reduce
the cgst 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 ecity The Lowndes
County Medical Society has just
‘l\nsm}rl strong resolutions indorsing
the mevement, and many of the city's
heaviest taxpayvers 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 probs
ably will be the amount of the bond
issue if carried. At present there Jds
only one hospital in Valdosta, a. ptis
vate institution that has more busi
ness than it can accommodate, i
Murder Mystery of Days
. ;
Before War Discovered.
MACON, March 17.--Workmen excas
vating on a Cotton avenue lot dug up a
skeleton, the glass plate and handles of
a coffin and remains of a box that in
closed the coffin There is some mya
tery attached to the discovery, as &
leaden ball, of the old-fashloned muskeét
style, was found in the midst of the
bones. 1¢ Is believed that the man was
murdered, and that the body was prob
ably buried in the backyvard of the I'ol
- that once stood there, It is
thought that the tragedy, if there whs
one, oceourred many vears hefore the
War Between the States. »
MEDLIN TO SEEK PARDON. ¥
MACON, March 17.~Walter K. Medlin,
who was convicted several months l‘fl,
of the murder of Frank Baker, a bar
ber, formerly of Atlanta, and aemencfi
to life imprisonment, has lost in W
appeal to the Supreme Court and will
have to serve his sentence, Attorneys
for Medlin declare, however, that th
intend to go before the pardon bol%
and the Governor next in the interest
}thelr client.
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