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VOLUME LXXXVIIt.
MONTGOMERY. ALABAMA. THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1917-TEN PAGES
NUMBER
rnRSlDENT
WILL STAND
PAT ON DRAFT
P R 0 POSALS
New Army Bill Will Carry
' “Volunteer Provision”
/by 12-8 Vote
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i ALL LIQUOR BARRED
FROM MILITARY CAMPS
Dent Will Lead Forces Op
/ posing the President’s
* Draft Program
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(Associated Press.)
Washington, April is.—The
! lines were drawn'today for
great fight between the adminis
tration and opponents in the
■ house of the plan to raise the war
■ army by selective draft
While President Wilson was at
the capitol telling senators and
representatives that no comprom
ise between the volunteer and
draft systems could be accepted
with safety to the nation, the
house military committee, by a
vote of 12 to 8, adopted amend
ments to the administration bill
. authorizing calls for volunteers in
increments of 500,000 and provid
ing that the draft shall be applied
only in the event the president de
cides that the force needed cannot
.be raised and_
£the volunteer plan.
Chairman pent headed the anti-draft
w,lJ lntroa<*' the amend
ed bur In the house tbniprr Jw, with a
view to pressing It for 'passage Mon
day. Representative Kahn fit Cali
fornia, ranking republican member of
the committee, la preparing a report
to be signed by the majority and will
Join In leading the fight on the floor
for the administration.
The senate committee formally vot
ed 10 to 7 today to report virtually
without change the bill as originally
drafted by the general staff and ap
proved by the president, and will pres
ent It tomorrow. The measure may
be passed by the senate without wait
ing for action In the house.
May Appeal to People.
The president made very plain to
those with whom he talked hla deter
mination to have the staff bill enacted.
There seems no doubt that he will ap
peal directly to the country If neces
sary and tell the people that In the
opinion of the military advleera of the
government as well as administration
olDclals, national safety demands that
the war be provided under the plans
prepared'by the army experts after
long study and consideration of lessons
learned from the war in Europe.
The war department holds that ev
ery weakness of the volunteer system
would be perpetuated under the house
committee's scheme. A feature of the
amendments providing for the selection
of officers from local units la regarded
by officials as particularly obnoxious
to sound military principles.
Mare Difficult Task.
They say the task of providing com
petent officers under this restriction
would be rendered, ten times more dif
ficult and the efficiency of the army to
be built greatly reduced from the very
start. The president thinks that full
’opportunity for volunteers Is offered
•"under the staff bill, since there will
-be room for 721,000 volunteer enlist
ments in the regular army and nation
al guard for the duration of the war.
In addition, the door is thrown wide
open to men who are qualified to be
come officer*.
The senate committee amended the
army bill so as to bar liquor from all
camps where the new army Is to be
trained. Another would exempt per
sons engaged In agriculture and In war
Industries from servlca In the army.
Committee Lineup.
Following 18 the houae committee
lineup on the vote for the volunteer
system:
For the volunteer amendments: Dent
Alabama: Fields, Kentucky; Quin Mis
sissippi; Gordon, Ohio; Shallenberger,
Nebraska; Caldwell, New York- Wise
Georgia; Nicholls, South Carolina, and
Garrett, Texas, democrats. Anthony,
Kansas; Morin, Pennsylvania; Hull,
Iowa, and Davidson, Wisconsin, re
publicans.
Against volunteer amendments and
for conscription: Olney, Massachusetts
Harrison, Virginia, and Lunn, New
York, democrats. Kahn, California; Mc
Kenzie, Illinois; Greene, Vermont; TU
son, Conecticut, and Crago, Pennsyl
vania, republicans.
The committee voted to make the
military age under the bill at to iO
(Continued on Pnge Two)
Fomut till 7 p. at. Tklnlir
F»r Nontromfrj ul Vlclaltyi
Thursday, local showers. Mot ataeh
. ehaaae la tessperatere.
River Forecast.
The upper Coosa will not change
much and the lower Coosa and the
upper Alabama will continue to fall
Thursday.
Note—The stages of the lower Coosa
and the upper Alabama rivers are
subject to Irregular fluctuations due
to the operation of the dam at Lock
No. 1!, Coosa river.
P. U. SMYTH', Meteorologist.
Girard Catfish,
Weil Liquored,
At Fucy Prices
TIMBs MAY BB HARD, hat Vm
aare that tha nt«n>rlili|
yeatasraat an wha adver
tises Chattahaeehee catBsh caa set
' Marylaad tarraala aad labatar a la
Ntwtarc frlwa Mr that lawly hah
Hfht at this ttaaa,” waa tha aaaa
reaaark at Charley Kracer attar
readlac tha repert that WMOi
warth at “rat Ueker** waa ta ha
poared lata that raawatleally
aaaied atreaai at Girard Wedaes
day.
“Yea caa talk abaat year aallk
*ad chtekca aad yaar yaaaat-trd
park, bat I caald taatfae aathlac
atara daltataaa thaa a triad eathah
steak with a reatlalaceaea at Raeea
ltartla. a thoacht at Jee Abrahaa>,
aad a aacceatlaa at Marry Haad
with each bite."
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French Pound
Away inGreat
Aisne Action
(Associated Pmi.)
WASHINGTON, April II.—The fol
lowing summary of conditions along
tbo; various battle fronts Is compiled
by tha Associated Press from official
reports Issued by the vsrlous war of
floea:
The great offensive of the French
army against the Germans from the
bend In the line in France from Sots
sons eastward Into the Champagne con
tinues unabated. Numerous new points
of vantage have been taken,' prisoners
and guns captured and violent coun
ter attacks put down with heavy cas
ualties. In three days bt lighting
more than 17,000 unwounded prisoners
have fallen Into the hands of the
French, together with 71 cannon.
In Wednesday battle In the forest of
Vllls-Au-Bols*an enveloping movement
was carried out against the Germans
and 1,300 of them threw down their
arms and surrendered. In addition 110'
machine guns wege captured there..
Many Prisoners Taken
Between Solssons and Rhelms the
villages of Ostel and Braye-en-Laon
nols were captured, together with ter
ritory about them, the Germans In the
latter region retreating in disorder and
losing to one French regiment alone
300 prisoners, belonging to seven dlf
rial. Here the French captured It
cannon.
Between Juvincoutt. and the Alsne
the Germans threw a' counter attack
against the French line With about 40,
000 men, but according to Paris, the
artillery of General Nievelle's men re
pulsed the attack with sanguinary I
losses. |
British Make Gains
South of St Quentin during Wednes
day the Germans also made an attack
against the French‘east of Gauchy.
This attack, which failed, was follow
ed by another in which the Germans
penetrated advanced French positions.
In a counter attack the French killed
or made prisoners of the Germans and
regained their lost trenches.
The British war Wfflce reports that
the forces of Field Marshal Haig have
gained additional ground along the
river Scarpe, to the east of Fampoux
and also captured the village of Vll
lers-Gatslaln, north of St Quentin. To
the north. In the region of Loos, a sys
tem of German front' line trenches also
was taken.
ALABAMA BOY WINS
.. . HIGH DISTINCTION
< Associated Press)
WEST POINT, N. Y., April 1*.—
Names of the flrst ten men selected
for geheral merit from the class of
1317 to be graduated from the mili
tary academy Friday .were an
,. nounced tonight. In Order, they
are as follows: * .
L. Palmer, North Dakota; William
F. Heavey, Georgia; Harold R.
Richards, Indiana; Robert M. Bath
urst, Pennsylvania; John J. F.
Steiner, Alabama; Daniel Noce, Col
orado; Willis A. Teale, Michigan;
William H. Saunders, South Caro
lina; Clark Klttrell, Georgia.
John J. F. Steiner, of Alabama, of
the list of members of the class. dis
tinguished for general merit. Is a na
tive of Montgomery, the son of Gen
eral and Mrs. R. E. Steiner. General
Steiner Is brigadier general of the Nat
ional Guard of Alabama, and won high
est of commendation from regular
army officers for his efficiency both as
colonel of the South’s flrst cavalry reg
iment, which he raised and organised,
and since his promotion to brigadier
generalship.
Harry Jones, New
FEDERAL JURORS ARE
DISMISSED FOR DAY
Expressing his regrets that no work
lay before them for the day. Judge
Henry D. Clayton Wednesday morning
In the United States Court, dlaralssed
the Jurbs until Thursday morning at
t o’clock.
"You may go, gentlemen; I wish I
could go with you, but I am afraid
1 would not ' go far before meeting
the district attorney and the United
States marshal, whereupon we three
would go Ashing. It would please me
very much to wet a hook today,” said
ludge Clayton.
CONFISCATED OPIUM
TO BE IN WAR DRUGS
(Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April U.r-Large
quantities of opium seised by agents
Jf the treasury department In enforc
ing antl-narcotlc laws will be used in
making valuable hospital drugs which
the war has made scarce, according to
pirns reported to the National Acad
emy of Sciences by the national re
search council, a body created to study
icientlAc war problems. Members of
the council also told of various experi
ments to Improve aeroplanes, detect
mines or submarines beneath the water
ind protect soldiers against gas at
tacks. Details, for military reasons,
sere not mads public..
DOCTORS ARE
READY TO GO
IHTO JSATTLE
22,000 Members of Pro
fession Ready to Ans
wer Country’s Call
RENOWNED SURGEON
AROUSES ENTHUSIASM
Dr. Mayo Declares Peace
Can Be Based Only gn.
Humdn Liberty
Dr. William J. Mayo, of Rochester,
Minnesota, America’s most renowned
surgeon, in an address Wednesday to
the Alabama Medical Association. In
formed his hearers that 22,000 doctors,
and nearly 100,000 hospital employes
are ready to go to the front at a mo
ment's notice.
The auditorium of the Exchange ho
tel was closely packed with the crowd
which came to hear the distinguished
speaker, and the meeting was con
tinually on the verge of becoming a
patriotic demonstration,, as reference
w>* made by fir. Mayo to President
Wilson as the "champion of democ
who, he said, loved peace, but
preferred war to national dishonor,
la Fight For Liberties.
"Ours Is a fight for the liberties of
the world, and we must see that these
liberties are secured through the es
tablishment of a peace based on human
liberty," said Dr. Mayo. “Universal
Peace will not come about through
warships patrolling the world and the
matntalnance of an armed peace, based
on fear; Instead, It must hare for Its
basis a higher spiritual development,
and a' fuller realisation of the rights
of others."
Dr. Mayo spoke without any evi
dence of premeditated “style," In the
•tralght and forceful manner of the
man who knows. In appearance, he hi a
lath fbrtje*. jTSffi above the average
beUtfrk *a4 with the look of a thinker
whb b«s grasMd the essential point. It
gas only at times when be spoke of
the recent history of his country, of the
wrongs patiently borne, and the final
acceptance of the challenge of autoc
racy, and the part which his profession
will play in tho conflict, that any trace
of emotion was ylslble.
•Explains Medical Preparedness.
In explaining medical preparedness.
Dr .Mayo told how the National Coun
cil of Defense was organised last Au
gust, with two doctors, Franklin K.
Barnett, of Chicago, and F. F; Simp
eon, of Pittsburg, appointed to repre
sent the medical profession. The suc
cessive steps by which the National
Committee on Medical Preparedness, of
Which Dr. Mayo is chairman, and the
various state committees, were or
ganised, and the work which has been
achieved in organizing the doctors and
surgeons wbre told In detail.
Dr. Mayo pointed out that In Eng
land and France the powers of the
profession have been severely taxed
through neceslty of caring for both
the military and civilian population,
and urged the necessity of training
more doctors in the colleges of the
country.
Thousands Will Be Needed.
; “The Navy Is our first line of defense,
and after It comes the army, but the
medical profeslson is certainly the
third essential In time of war,” said
Dr. Mayo. “With the raising of a great
hew army, thousands of doctors will
be needed. The officers' reserve corps
Is open, and Is a promising field for
doctors who wish to serve their coun
try. The regular army needs surgeons
to complete its equipment. I am proud
to say that American doctors have sig
nified their willingness to do their
duty In war as well as In pea^e."
In addition to Dr. Mayo's address,
Dr. J. N. Baker, chairman of the
State Committee on Medical Prepared
ness, delivered the report of the State
Committee, showing that the quantity
of doctors and other available hos
pital accessories In Alabama have been
compiled and sent to the surgeon-gen*
eral of the United States army, as a re
sult of energetic co-operation of coun
ty medical preparedness committees.
Army Officers Speaks.
Colonel Shriner, one of the regular
army dffleera sent here to muster out
the guard, delivered a brief address.
The colonel pointed out that with a
million men In the field, organized new
from the ground up, seven thousand
doctors would be needed, the ratio de
cided on as right by the government
being seven doctors per thousand men.
Colonel Shiiner gave some Interesting
Information on the performance of mo
tor ambulances during the Mexican
campaign last year, and showed how
they are supplanting mule power In
the army. The government has appro
priated $400,OgO for motor ambulances
alone. Colonel Shriner said. The cost
of equipping a motor ambulance com
pany was given ai about $25,000.
A resolution Introduced by Dr. Ba
ker, pledging, unstinted support to th-»
national cause, was received with ap
plause.
. In addition to his preparedness ad
dress, Dr. Mayo delivered the Jerome
Cochrane lecture on the importance of
septic Infection In the three great
plagues, tuberculosis, cancer, and
syphilis. This was the great feature of
the year for hundreds of Alabama doc
tors, and was received by them as a
rare treat.
ALLIES MAY RECRUIT
THEIR CITIZENS IN U:S.
( A atoclatfi Preu.)
WASHINGTON, April It.—Tha bill
permitting the allien to recruit their
citizens In the United States was passed
today by the senate by unanimous con
sent, and went to the house.
The Webb bill to permit foreign gov
ernments at war with Germany to re
cruit their cltisens In this country for
their armies passed the house todav
without g roll call.i y
“Nuiiftgto
Yoor How; Work
For The Countrjn
(AncdaM Pmi.) , . ■ *y
O Cl I, LA, OA, April 18_«Nal| ■
*»a te your plow and work
for rowr country as yws
would aaht for her.
Thu la Ot ■ locos adopted hr
termers of Boa Hill aod lrok
counties.
Preparations are under wap te
tter hr ■ committee of oafetr of the
two counties to furnish tho Saits,
folio Wins ■ mane m retina here last
nlsht at which heath Ceorola term,
era were arsed te produce terser
teed crops.
I- >
Harrhless And
Are Released
Two surpieloua characters, both af
terward proving to be Mexicans, were
arrested Tuesday by a squad of soldiers
In command of Sergeant Brannon of j
the ith Infantry. The two foreigners
were walking across the bridge of the !
Louisville and Nashville Railroad over
Catoma Creek. They were brought to
camp Wednsday morning, interrogated
by Colonel Screws and afterward re
leased.
Neither of the men could speak Eng
lish. so when the soldiers halted them,
being unable to vet any information
Sergeant Brannon, brought them ln<o
camp. Colonel Screws, who Is able to
understand Spanish, found one to be a
Shoemaker, a man of about 40 years ot
age. The other was a decrepit oil
man (0 years of ave- They did not
know war had been declared between
the United States and Oermanv. Both
were warned to keep away from rail
road trestles and bridges.
It Is understood the shoemaker came
to the city to try to get work. The
older man accompanied him, both say
ing they much preferred to remain
here If able to earn a livelihood.
Preparedness
Boosters Are
i *
Fifteen well known oltlsene and tax
payers of Montgomery County have
been requested to meet at the court
bouse la Montgomery to discuss ways
and means looking to the public wel
fare during the period of the war. They
will come from the dounty beats, and
each will be expected to serve as
shairman In hie particular community.
The meeting has been called by R. U.
rones, chairman for the Home Protec
tion division of the committee on Pub
lic Welfare, which Is nation-wide in
Its character, and will assemble at
11:30 o’clock on the morning of April
The scheme, spreading like' a fever
aver the country, with America's
■taunchest sons back of It, promises
preparedness advocates all they are
looking for. It Is said, In the way of
organization. In Its nature the organ
isation might be compared to the end
less chain plan of letter writing. There
Is. Indeed, no end to it. Its tenacles
reach every point, even the most Iso
lated. It will be the eyes and ears
of the stay-at?homes. It will never
sleep and will ceaselessly gather the
most Important Information. That In
formation will be available to all true
Americans but to none other.
The beats will be represented as fol
lows:
No. 8, W. G. Jones; No. *, Dr. J. N.
McLane; No. 10. F. G. Lasseter; No. 11,
Gideon Amason; No. 12. Charles Good
wyn; No. 13, B. G. Wright; No. 14.
I. L. Scogln: No. 15, S. T Rushton;
No. 16, W. C. Norman; No. 17, John
I. Cochran; No. 18, John C. Carter;
No. 19, Richard Braseell; No. 20, A.
I. Taylor; No. 21, J. Mason Handy;
No. 22, J. H. Smith.
BAKER DESIGNATES
14 CIVILIAN CAMPS
(AMociatrd Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 18.— Fourteen
locations for civilian training camps
for applicants for commissions in ibe
new war army were designated by Sec
retary Baker today as follows: Fort
Bthan Allen. Vermont; Plattsburg, X.
V.; Madison Barrack*, New r&rk: Fort
Niagara, New York; Fort Mver, Vir
ginia; Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia; Fort
McPherson. Georgia; Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Indiana; Fort Sheridan, Illi
nois; Fort Logan H. Root, Arkansas;
Fort Snelling. Minnesota; Fort Riley,
Kansas; Leon Springs, Texas, and the
Presidio, San Francisco.
' $80,000 Worth of
Girard Booze Is
Burned by Officers
GIRARD. ALA.. April IS—Ap
proximately $80,000 worth of
liquor, more than one third
of the stock selred by state offi
cials in the prohibition raids here
about a year ago, was burned ly
Hherif Lindsey of Russell county
today. The destruction had been
ordered recently by the Alabama
supreme court.
The sheriff said the work of
burning the liquor would be re
sumed tomorrow.
John Temple White of Girard
was arrested late today charged
with contempt of the supreme
court, after It was alleged, he fired
on persons detecting him In the
act of carrying oft some of ths
liquor.
Ernest C. Haye. pastor of the
First Methodist Church started
the work by taking a sledge ham
mer and bursting barrels as
long as he could raise the ham
ner.
A report reached here that ef
forts were being made to obtain
an injunction to atop the work.
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MONTGOMERY
PATRIOTISM
IS GIYEN FIRE
Mon&ter Crowd Attends
Revere Rally at Capitol
And Sees Parade
ROOSEVELT’S NAME
IS LOUDLY CHEERED
Throng Wild When Judge
/ Clayton Pays Tribute
H ■ ‘ To The Colonel
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If Jrod* have ever doubted Montgom
ery’s patriotism you don't now—that is
if you were on Dexter avenue Wed
nesday night—and you were there be
cause everybody In Montgomery was
there. \ *
If you hav* seen one of those
carpers who deplored the loss of the
spirit ofi blood and iron that In the
past has made. Alabama's soldiery the
Crlde of the commonwealth, you know
now that spirit still lives.
You knew It when Judge Henry D.
Clayton tried to say something about
Theodore Roosevelt, leading an army
of Americana into France and was
drowned- out before he got anywhere
near the climax of his peroration, by
the cheers of the throng, who antici
pation his words and so endorsed them
that the people just had to loosen
their lungs and wave their flags and
blow their auto horns and make noise
generally.
Everybody In Montgomery knows the
story of thiai meeting last night.
About one- hundred- and forty-two
years ago a Boston engraver did a
job. of night tiding that ao aroused
tho people of America that they de
cide# to b*. people of America and
nothing els*, grabbed their -flintlocks
and.,'powder horns and began the,
ijrotjft Of establishing the republic. 1
. ’mepecMlsm off hide. .
The ride of that engraver was so
successful that now thst a great ;
oriels In the nation's history hss |
arisen. It was . decided to see If a !
duplication of Paul. Ravere'a ride
would’nt have the same general re
sult, the stirring of the people to
arms.
Wherefore Revere rode Wednesday
night, not through Middlesex village
and farms, but through lighted streets
of the city of Montgomery, while
thousands of people stood on the side
walks and cheered him while other
thousands, including some who had
previously paraded in his honor watted
at the Capitol to cheer him as he
brought his tidings from the President
of the United States.
That was a great big scene on the
old Capitol grounds, which In Its
time has staged, so many great big
scenes that now it does it gracefully.
The crowd was so dense from the
portico to Bslnbridge street below that
moving was Impossible and only those
on the Capitol veranda could hear the
speeches.
But the members of the crowd didn’t
need to hear any speeches. They could
feel the speeches. They cheered lustily
for the orator despite the acoustical
Impossibilities, they went wild when
the Fourth Regiment band crashed In
to "Dixie" and they stood In reverent
attention with bared heads when the
lofty strains of the “Star Spangled
Banner” rose ' over the hum of the
assemblage.
Parade A Big Tfclag.
The parade was a big thing. It
showed that Americans and Alabam
ians can do things with system and
precision when the time comes for
those virtues. The parade was schedul
ed to move at 7:30 o'clock and It did
move right at that time, shattering
all precedent for Montgomery and
nearly everywhere else.
It was a corking fine parade too.
It looked fine from the soldierly figure
of Col. W. J. Valden leading the
military section to the last whopping
small boy following in the waks of
the fraternal order crew.
From the number of people In It.
an observer would have said that all
Montgomery marched If he hadn't been
able to see all Montgomery watching
the parade. There was the first regi
ment band, blaring a lively quickstep
and there was a battalion of the same
outnt under Maj. Dallas Smith march
ing along like veterans. And then
came the First cavalry looking as
dashing end businesslike as possible
and high school boys from the Sid
ney Lanier, Starke's and Barnes’
schools, seemingly fine military ma
terial and the Boy Scouts, who march
ed and looked like campaigners of
years. And then mighty nearly every
organlxation In Montgomery was out.
There was Alcazar Temple's band of 1
Noble Shrlners In their brilliant red j
uniforms playing patriotic alra and j
Alcazar's crack patrol all lit up_with '
electricity, and Elks, and Woodmen, j
»nd Pythlans and Knights of Colum- I
bus, and lota of others.
UKillurln la AatM.
In automobiles were Governor Hen- !
derson and General Steiner and Mayor
Robertson and Judge Clayton and all
aorta of state, city, national, and mil
itary officials and dignitaries. And
everybody waa happy and everybody
cheered.
Then there was the Navy recruiting
outfit in an auto rigged up aa the
German submarine “U-53 captured In !
the Alabama river" with bronze throat
ed Jackies and a bull pup and enthus
iasm and things. i
The ceremonies were under way !
quickly at the Capitol. Monseigneur |
Dennis Savage pronounced an eloquent j
Invocation approprltate for the occas
ion and then Judge Clayton made the
opening remarks. He hadn't proceeded
far before he said "and though I will
have no part In the conduct of the
war. It Is my earnest hope that Con
gress and the War Department will
grant a commission as major general
to an American with whom I have
differed politically, but whose loyalty
ICestUsM ua Page Twel
Bloodstains Found
After Battle With
Occupants of Boat
Quick Action of Fourth Infantrymen Frustrates At-.
tempt to Damage Railroad Bridge Over Talla
poosa at Sturdivant—Speed of Darkened Motor
boat Makes Escape of Prowlers Possible—Offi
cial Report Awaited
Soldiers of Company "M”, Fourth Alabama Infantry, were un
der fire for several minutes and returned the fusilade of an armed
party approaching the Central of Georgia railroad bridge over the
Tallapoosa river, seven miles from Alexander City, at an early hour
Wednesday morning. This information was telephoned to The Ad
vertiser by J. F. Thornton, postmaster at Alexander City. Hb infor
mation he declared to be well authenticated.
Camp Hears of Battle.
No official advices of the clash had been received by Col. William
P. Screws, commanding the Fourth, at his headquarters at Vandiver
Park at a late .hour Wednesday, though the camp there was alive with
rumors of the battle.
According to Postmaster Thornton, the scene of the clash is be
tween Alexander City and Sturdivant and detachments of Company
M , under Capt. Ranee Norris, of Oxford, have been on duty at the
railroad bridge since the declaration of the distance of a state of
war.
t--\
Geneva Ships 353
Cars of flogs, 148
of Cattle This Year
t* The Advertiser.)
Geneva, ala.. April u.—
A canvass of the several
.> shipping points In the county
Of CMjteva. far the purpose of as
certaining the number of cars of
hove, cattle, corn and velvet beans
that heee been shipped out over the
railroad lines from April 1st, t»i*,
to April 1, 1*17, gives the follow* ,
ingw S53 cgr*. of hogs, ltd oars of
cattle, 111 care of corn and 41
'Airs of Velvet beans.
This Is a big increase over the
i preceding year, when the same
canvass was made. ,
The growth of peanuts for sale to
the oil mills also Is engaging the
attention of the farmer. More food
producing crops are being planted
than ever before, and the cotton
held now Is only a small patch as
compared with the past.
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Germans'Hate
For U. S. Told
By Official
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(Associated Press.).
BOSTON, April 18—To show "the
deep hatred” which he asserted Ger
many has held against the United
States, former Ambassador James W.
Gerard tonight disclosed facts which
he said had been kept from the Ameri
can people during the past two and
a half years. He was the prnclpal
speaker at a national defense dinner
given by the Pilgrim Publicity asso
ciation.
Weald Collect From II. 9.
Mr. Gerard said that Admiral von
Tlrpltz in statement and In the Ger
man relchstag and Prussian parliament
In open discussions proposed the In
stitution of unresistrlrted submarine
warfare against England with the
Intention, "when England should have
been subdued by hunger to come over
to the United States and collect the
trice of the war from us."
The former Ambassador expressed
his belief that citizens of German de
scent would prove loyal, but he added
''It they do not stand with us, I think
we know whore to festoon them.”
Mr. Gerard's statement that the war
would be a hard one was echoed by
General Wood.
Wood’s Warning Words.
"No one can tell how the war Is
going to go as far as we are con
cerned," he said. “It may be a very
serious thing, for us. It Is virtually
serious now. We have got to send a lot
of men across the sea, and we must
Lring back a lot of men who die on
the other side. It will not be a paper
war. It will be a war of living men,
and important as food, money and
munitions may be. men will be the
big factor.”
Major General Wood said that “those '
wbo are opposing President Wilson's
policy of universal, obligatory mill- 1
tary service will be responsible for
thousands of lives if their arguments J
prevail."
ALABAMA WOMAN ON
PRESIDENT’S STAFF
(Anwlaltd Prtn.)
WASHINGTON, April 18.— lira. Cor
delia Powell Odenhelmer, president
general of the Vnlted Daughters of the
Confederacy, as matron of honor for
the veterans today announced the ap
pointment of her start for the confed
erate reunion to be held here In June.
It will include Miss Mary Custlss Lee,
of Virginia, daughter of Robert E. Lee;
Mrs. George P. Harrison, of Opelika!
Ala., wife of the commander-in-chief
of the veterans, and Mrs. Samuel Spen
cer, of Washington. ,
RUSSIA WILL NOT
MAKE PEACE MOVE
WASHINGTON, April 18—Assurances
reached Washington today that aader
no renditions new conceivable will the
provisional ■overnneat of Russia yield
te the overtures from German and
Austrian socialistic represcntatlvca to
ssaatlsia a separata sues
Wednesday morning, according
to members of the company who
have since reached Alexander
City, a sentry observed and re
ported a darkened motorboat
coming upstream in the direction
of the river bridge.
The occupants of the boat, two
in number went ashore a short
distance from the bridge and be
gan to approach it, when they
were challenged by the sentinel.
rfply *° th€ challenge, the aue*
pecta Immediately opened Are. It waa
promptly returned by the sentinel and
member* of the detachment who toln
Twenty jib mare shots ' 'here
flredliefore the pair reached the boat
. and scurried off do wit* t ream, pursued
by the soldiers untii the boat’* speed
distanced the militiamen.
Subsequent search of the ground
from which the shots were flred,
disclosed bloodstains, according to the
guardsmen, and it Is believed that one
or both of the mysterious pair was
wounded.
** *• expected that official report of
the clash will be received at Vandiver
Park Thursday.
Coast Guards
Report Heavy
Guns off Coast
i ,t.UiwetaW Press.)
BOSTON, April It.—It was officially
announced at the navy yard late to
day that no credence was placed in re
ports from three coast guard stations
on £spe Cod that heavy gunfire had
been heard off the coast. The positive
statement was made that there had
been no naval engagement and that
warships had not exchanged salute with
foreign vessels.
The previous announcement that
heavy gun Bring had been heard dur
ing the morning was also Issued offi
cially at the navy yard. It was based
on reports from Cape Cod received by
Lieutenant E. G. Blakeslee, in charge
of the naval radio district.
Newspaper correspondents at points
on the Cape reported they had not
heard any gun firing.
The statement discrediting the first
official announcement was issued after
the navy yard radio station had been
In communication with the patrol fleet
off the coast. . No Information of any
firing was obtained from ships at
sea.
MISS CAVELL’S SLAYER
DIES IN AMSTERDAM
(Associated Press)
LONDON, April 19.—Reuter'* Am
sterdam correspondent eays that, ac
cording to a Brussels dispatch. General
von Biasing, German governor-general
In Belgium, died Wednesday evening.
General Baron Moritz Ferdinand von
Biasing was appointed governor gener
al of Belgium In November. 1914, in
succession to General von Ber Goltz.
He was born In 1844. During hia rula
In Belgium General von Biasing has
come Into prominence many times, no
tably In connection with the execution
of Miss Edith Cavill, the English nurse
frequent clashes with Cardinal Mer
cler, primate of Belgium, and the de
portation of Belgians.
It was reported in 1915 that he had
ordered the round up of spies and per
sons suspected of working against the
Germans In Belgium and that scores of
executions followed the carrying out of
this order. Several times by this order
Belgian cities and towns were fined
heavily for alleged breaking of rule*
laid down by him. He had been 111 OU
and on for more than a year.
CATHOLICS PLEDGE SUPPORT
(Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. April 18.—Full jfnd
hearty support of Catholic people for
the government in the war was pledged
In a communication to President Wii
aon prepared today by Catholic Arch
bishops of the United States at their
annual meeting here. Archbishops will
call upon their people to rally to tha
aid of the nation and give their aer
vice. Cardinal Gibbons presided at to
day's session and Cardinal O'Connell
also was present. Cardinal Parley
sent word that he was detained at
home by a cold,