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WEATHER REPORT i
Fair Saturday except rain extreme
south porl'en colder north and central
portions; much colder at nialit with
probably heavy f root north ami central
portions Sunday; fair, moderate winds
becoming rvrthwest and north.
Highest temperature yesterday 66 de
grees; lowest 86 degrees.
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PEACEEMTIG
President Wilson Will Leave
Washington Tuesday Speaks
With Taft Tuesday.
PLANS VISIT TO
HIS NEW GRANDSON
Will Visit Daughter En Route
". to New York Paris Confer
ence Agrees on Finances.
Washington, Feb. 28. Members of
the democratic national committee
lunched with President "Wilson at the
"White House today. The guests said
later that politics were not mentioned.
No formal speeches were made, but
the president pave the committee an
informal account of his trip to Eu
rope. Wash inn ton. Feb. 28. Preparations
for President "Wilson's return to
France were completed today at the
White House. He will, .sail on the
transport George Washington "Wednes
day morning', after speaking Tuesday
night on the Lea cue of Nations with
former Fresfdent Taft at New York.
y president will leave Washing-.
ton on a special train Tuesday after
noon, after the adjournment of con
gress, and will st on for an hour and
a half at Philadelphia, to see Ills
daughter, Mrs. Eayi-i.. ,nd his new
grandson. He will reach New York
et 8:20 o'clock in the -evening and
after speaking, will go directly aboanJ
the transport to spend the night.
r The close of congress will find the
president at the capital signing legis
lation and winding up other public
business. He will go direct from t!je
capital to the train, leaving Washing
ton about 2 p. m. During the stop in
Philadelphia the president will see
only members of his family and will
make no public address. Preparations
for the meeting in New York in the
hands f Governor Smith, who will
open the meeting.
To Agree By March.
Paris. Feb. 28. The peace confer
ence plans to reach an agreement on
more important questions, between
March eighth and fifteenth. Captain
&ndre Tardieu, one of the French
delegates, told the foreign newspaper
correspondents tonight, according to
the Havas news agency. Tardieu said
hat tho conference had four vital
problems to solve, the Franco-German
rontier, the Adriatic situation, the
ussian frontier, and the question of
eedom of the seas. All of these will
obably be completed in a fortnight.
Dutch Hold Army.
ndon, Feb. 28. It is necessary to
;l the Dutch army ready against
effort to annex Dutch territory,
Dutch minister of war declared,
Mootncr thA second chamber today.
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. Jording to a Central News dispatch
fom the Hague. He said disarmament
at present would be dangerous.
Peace Finance Agreed.
Paris. Feb. 28. The financial com
mission of the peace conference today
' unanimously adopted the . proposition
of Lotlis Klotz, French minister of
finance, for the formation of the fi
nancial section of the League of Na
tlons. NAVAL AIR BOXERS
TAKE FIRST HONOR
? AT ORLEANS BOUTS
New Orleans. La.. Feb. 28 (Special)
The Naval Air Station boxing team
won two of the Southern A. A. U.
championships at New Orleans gym
nastic club last night. Machinist Mate
C. W. Powers taking first honors in
the 140-pound class.
Chief Gunner's Mate R. E. Hubon
won the 125-pound class in the semi
finals. The boxing team will remain
for the bouts which are to be held
Friday night at New Orleans at the
Athletic club.
SIX GERMAN SUBS
TO BE EXHIBITED
IN UNITED STATES
fashinglon, Feb. 28. Six Germaui
submarines, surrendered in riiisn
harbors, will be brought to the United
States soon for exhibition to he pub
. lie and for study by American ex-
perts, a navy department statement
said today. No indication was given
as to which ports the craft will be put
nn exhibition.
REPUBLICANS
NAME GILLETT
NEXT SPEAKER
iFBEDEHlOi .CILXE T 3 .
Frederick Huntington Gillett of the
second Massachusetts district has held
public office most of the time since
1897, two years after he began prac
ticing law in Springfield. He entered
Congress in 1892 and has been there
ever since. Gillett is one of the oldest
members in point of service.
In the last Congress he was ranking
Republican memfbei" on the Important
appropriations committee, and won the
speakership fight.
Gillett has neVer been accused of
progressiveism, not even of the imita
tion brand. Always he has stood for
"things as they are and go ahead slow
ly." He has been the leader of the re
actionaries in the house of representa
tives. AMERICANS KILLED
ON RAILROADS IN
1917 TOTAL 9,567
Washington. Feb. 28. Casualties on
American railroads during 1917 re
sulted in the death of 9.567 persons
and in the Injury of 70,970. the inter
state commerce commission reported
today. During the previous year 9,
476 lives were lost and 66,982 persons
were injured. Accidents on grade
crossings of steam railroads number
ed 3.673 in whici 1,777 persons were
killed and 4,356 Injured.
Trespassers on railroad property
figured heavily in the accident fig
ures, 4,243 having been killed during
1917 and 3,829 injured. Trainmen
killed while on duty numbered 1.492
and injured 47.887. Passengers kil'.ed
were 301 and injured 7,582.
FINE PROGRAM IS
TO FEATURE NEXT
COMMUNITY SING
A fine program for the regular week
ly community sing at the Garden The
atre tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock
is being arranged. Among those who
will take part are Mrs. John Sandusky,
who will sing. Mrs. Howard Capped
who will sing and read, H. L. Kreitler
of the engineering corps, Fort Barran
cas, who will sing and John Roberts
and Harry Sacket, of the Garden the
atre orchestra will give violin and
marimbas duets. In addition com
munity songs led by Charles Troxell
will be sung by the audience.
KAISER BILL GETS
TRIFLE OF 600,000
MARKS EXPENSE
"Werner. Thursday. Feb. 27. The
former German emperor, it is learned
from competent sources, recently ap
pealed to the German revolutionary
government for money. It was said In
his behalf, it was impossible for him
to continue living upon the bounty and
goodwill of Dutch noblemen in whose
castle he now resides. After an inves
tigation he was temporarily allowed
600,000 marks, to meet his present in
debtedness and future expenses.
HEAVY FROST DUE
HERE NEXT SUNDAY
Washington, Feb. 28. A cold wave
will be felt tomorrow in Tennesse
and the east Gulf states, and tomor
row night in the middle Atlantis
states, the Carolines and Georgia, the
weather bureau announced tonight.
A heavy frost is probable Sunday
morning in northern and central
Florida.
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PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1919.
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ARfJV AVIATION
TO
FLY DIRIGIBLES
Major Frank M. Kennedy, U. S.
A., Heads. Delegation to Train
at Naval Air Station.
WILL QUALIFY
AS INSTRUCTORS
Later to Take Charge of Army
Dirigible Field at Old Point
Comfort, Virginia.
Entrance of army aviation into the
dirigible field of aerial navigation, in
evidenced by the fact that four army
officers of the lighter than air section
of the Army Aviation department, have
been detailed to take instruction at the
airship school, of the Naval Air Sta
tion here.
The Army officers are under the com
mand of Major Frank M. Kennedy, of
the regular armyl who has been in
charge of instructions and trainfng of
kite balloon observers at Fort Omaha,
Nebraska, and of balloon observation
work with the artillery at the school
of fire at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
The other officers are Second Lieu
tenants Robert Finlay, Theodore Faulk
and- jOeorge vKingslandV-alliof whom
have been detailed to this work from
the school at Fort Omaha.
The officers will qualify as instruc
tors ?n dirigible avi:tiion and then tak
charge of the training of pilots at the
army's- first dirigible station, at Lang
ley Feld. Old Point Comfort, Va. Tbc
pilots after they nua'ify will be detail
ed to border patrol. The machine
and equipment of the new field hays
been provided for in an appropriation
recently made by the aircraft division
of the War Department.
Telle of War Work.
At the outbreak of the war the light-er-than-air
section of the Army con
sisted only of kite and free balloons,
which were used very effectively for
observation, photography and map
making. All of the dirigibles of the
j army were turned over to the Navy de-
I partment, whose officers -: made rapid
strides in Improvement .-and develop
ments of new types, officials say.
A contract for a number of dirigi
bles for the army is now signed and
within a short time machines will be
,t ready for delivery. Having no pilots
or construction engineers available,
for the new branch of the air service,
army officers were detailed by the War
Department, to take the course of in-
) struction which the Navy department
uses to qualify naval aviators wiih
dirigibles.
Great developments are expected of
dirigibles and according to the state
ment of a dirigible pilot, who has had
quite a large number of official hours ;
in the air, the heavier than air end of t
the aeronautical game' has seen, or w;ll !
see within a few years, the maximum
degree of efficiency as far as a light
ing machine is concerned.
Nation Wide Interest.
Interest In dirigibles is nation wide
because of the recent flight of the C-l
naval dirigible, from Rocky Park, New
York, to Key West, Florida, without
mishap and on a pre-arranged sched
ule. To add to this, the announcement of
the new non-explosive gas , called
Helium is made. Although the chemi
cal ingredients of the new gas has not
been made public, it is understood to be
far superior to the hydrogen gas now
used. Provisions for it's production
have been made and it is to be used
by both the army nd the navy.
OVERSEA FLIGHT
CONDITIONS ARE
BEING STUDIED
Paris, Feb. 28. Captain Coli. who
recently crossed the Mediterranean
and made the return trip within
twenty-four hours, will soon make a
flight by the way of Madrid to Fez
and Agadir, Morocco. He will make
a special study of conditions over the
sea in view of his intention to make
a flight from Dakar, . at the extreme
point of Cape Verde, to Pernambuco,
Brazil, within the next two month.
Washington, Feb. 28. Foreign ex
change transaction between the Unit
ed States and. Russia have been pro
hibited by the federal reserve board
and similar action has been taken by
the authorities of Great Britain and
France. It is understood that one pur
pose of the step is to stop the financ
ing of Bolshevik propaganda.
QUARTETTE
IT
ARE
WILSON TRUSTS
KAHN TO HANDLE
MILITARY BILLS
When President Wilson didn't like
the way Democratic Chairman Dent
of the house military affairs committee
handled army bills in the 65th Con
gress he turned the job over to the
ranking member of the minority. That
was Julius Kahn of California, now
sclfrNtuled"; to. . be rtht ew chairman of
tnef committed ln the new hou&if.and
who will handle the new army legis
lation, i
Kahn was born' in Germany (1861)
and came with his parents to Ameri
ca when he was 5. He was In the
California legislature before he was
elected to represent the fourth district
(San Francisco) in Congress.
'News In Brief
From All Over
The Universe
Rome, Feb. 28. 'Pope Benedict has
authorized the faithful to substitute
some other day for Saturday as a day
of abstinence during the coming Len
ten season.
Salonikl. Thursday, Feb. 27. Bands
of Bulgarian frregular forces are pil
laging Greek property and torturing
Greeks . In the Greek districts of
Strumnitza, according to reports re
ceived here.
Halifax. N. S.. Feb. 28. The Furness
line steamer Graciana reported by
wireless today that she was caught
in an ice, jam two miles off Cape Race.
The Graciana left here Saturday for
Ct. Johns, N. F., and Liverpool, Eng
land. Washington, Feb. 28. Premier Or
lando today cabled a personal message
to President Wilson declaring "that the
whole Italian people comprehend and
acclaim with joy the high value and
everlasting significance" of the League
of Nations.
Little Rock, Ark.. Feb. 28. Benny
Karr, a pitcher formerly with the
Memphis and Chattanooga clubs, was
signed today by the Little Rock club
of the Southern Association. Karr
recently discharged from the army af
ter fifteen months service.
Buenos Aires, Thursday, Feb. 27.
All hope of immediately ending the
harbor strike under the decree of Pres
ident Irigoyen, nationalizing port ser
vices, passed today when both ship
pers and port workers decided not to
renew operations under present con
ditions. Washington, Feb. 28. Investigation
of the charge that the Belgian relief
commission shpped large quantities of
bad wheat into Belgium for food pur
poses, causing the death of more than
a thousand war sufferers was demand
ed In a resolution introduced today by
Senator Calder. of New York. The
resolution provides for an inquiry by
the senate agricultural committee.
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Portsmouth, Va., Feb. 28. Captain
Elsberry V. White, survivor f the
Monitor-Merrimac battle in Hampton
Roads in 1862, died at his home here
today. Captain White was a member
of the Confederate Engineer corps and
was arsistant engineer of the ' Merri
mac then the ironclad Virginia, dur
ing the fight. He was born in Wilkin
son county, Ga, and was 80 years old.
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NEW YORK NEXT WEEK
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TAFT URGES A
SOLD) SOUTH
ON PEACE PACT
Speaks to Delegates Gathered
of Meeting of League to En
force Peace in World.
LAWRENCE LOWELL
TALKS AT NIGHT
Says Recommendations of Exec
utive Council Would Not
Bind Nations of League.
Atlanta, Feb. 28. Recommendatk-ns
of the executive council of the League
of Nations would not necessarily
bind nations who were members of
the league. Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell,
president of Harvard university, said
here, tonight, in addressing the South
ern congress for the League of Na
tions. Dr. Lowell, v ho was the principal
speaker at the night session, referred
to an address of Senator Lodge in -he
senate today, warning Americans to
weigh carefully the league's consti
tution. "I have the greatest respect
for Mr. Lodge and almost always
agreed with his opinions, but I find "it
impossible to follow his doubt In this
case," Dr. Lowell said.
Atlanta, Ga.. Feb. 28. Necessity for
the organization of a society of na
tions as part of the peace settlem
to be reached at Paris was emphas I
again today by William H. Taft at
the opening session here of the South
ern congress of the League of Nations.
The Atlanta conference is the last of
nine held in different sections of the
country and at all of which Mr. Taft
delivered virtually the same message.
Former President Taft and a num
ber of other nationally known speak
ers at the sessions today and tomor
row will discuss the league and en
deavor to put the South on record
in its favor.
New York To eHar Taft.
New York, Feb. 28. Former Presi
dent Taft has accepted the invitation
to speak here next Tuesday night on
the same platform with President Wil
son, the League to Enforce Peace an
nounced today. Mr. Taft telegraphed
the acceptance from Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Taft, in his telegram, empha
sized his desire to do everything pos
sible to help make clear to the coun
try the non-partisan character of tho
League of Nations issue.
METHODISTS WILL
LAUNCH A DRIVE
FOR $35,000,000
Memphis. Tenn., Feb. 2S. General
officers of the Methodist centennary
commission. conference secretaries
and chairmen of Southern state com
mittees, met here in executive session
j today, to prefect plans for an eight
I day drive, planned for the latter part
j of April, to secure the $35,000,OOO.The
Methodist Episcopal church, south, is
I pledged to contribute to a fund for a
world-wide missionary campaign, in
which all branches of Methodism, in
the Fnited States and Canada, will
participate.
PENSACOLIAN IS
TO HANDLE ESTATE
OF BUFFALO WOMAN
Buffalo, N. Y.. Feb. 28. Special)
Letters of administration of the two
thousand dollar estate of Anna Laboy-
teaux. who recently died in Dansville,
New York were granted today to
Rebbecca T. Gould of Pensacola, Flor
ida, and Charles J. Laboyteaux of
Dansville. The letters of administra
tion with the will of the deceased.
j were filed at Buffalo and the petition
t granted.
WAGE SCALE FOR
GRANITE CUTTERS
HAS BEEN FIXED
Boston, Feb. 28. A three-year
agreement, providing for daily wages
ranging from $5.60 on March 1st to
$6.80 on April 1. 1921. in the monu
mental granite industry of the coun
try, was announced today as a result
of a conference of producers and
granits cutters union representatives
held here. Fifteen thousand workers
in various states, including North and
South Carolina, are affected-
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FORDNEY HEADS
COMMITTEE ON
WAYS AND MEANS
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Elevation to the charmanship of the
house ways and means committee will
put the name of Joseph Warren Ford
ney upon the next revenue producing
bill. It will be a Fordney bill, and be
ing a Fordney bill it will be u high
protective tariff bill, for Fordney is a
staunch advocate of tall tariff walls.
He believes that nothing else will, keep
prosperity in the country.
Fordney was born in Indiana, in
1853, and has become wealthy in the
lumber business, living at Saginaw,
Mich. He was alderman twice before
being elected to Congress in 1899. Ho
gradually worked up in the ways and
means committee, being the ranking
Republican committeeman in the pres
ent Congress.
FREE TEXTBOOKS
FOR SCHOOLS WILL
BE RECOMMENDED
Recommendations for free text
books for the public schools of Florida
will be made to the state legislature
at the coming April session, according
to County Superintendent of Schools
Edwards. The legislature will also be
asked to change the present systern
of state teachers examinations.
Tests can more conveniently be con
ducted, it is said, by having one of the
members of the state board, instead
of three, conduct tests, with local com
mittees assisting.
State Superintendent Sheats will call
a meeting of all county educators, in
j the near future, to plan the requests to
be made of the P'lorida solons. Talla
hassee or Live Oak will be chosen as
the meeting place.
MINIMUM PRICE
FOR HOGS WILL
BE CONTINUED
Washington, Feb. 28. The present
minimum price of $17.50 a hundred
pounds for hogs which expires at mid
night, will be continued until a de
cision is made by President Wilson re
garding the existing embargoes on
pork affecting neutrals and other coun
tries. This statement was made today
by officials of the food administration.
TERMINATION OF
FEDERAL CONTROL
OF WIRES ASKED
Washington. Feb. 28. The senate
' postoffice committee today repo-ted
favorably on the resolution of Chair-
itnan Bankhead, providing for the term
ination of federal control of telegraph,
f telephone and other wire utilities De
cember 31. A similar resolution is
pending in the house.
SOUTH CAROLINA
COTTON PLANTERS
TO CUT ACREAGE
Columbia, S. C. Feb. 28. South
Carolina cotton planters gathered to
day at mass meetings in virtually
every county to consider plans for a
reduction of one-third In their cot
ton acreage for next year. The day
was set aside by Governor Cooper in
a recent proclamation ass "pledge re
duction day," and business was prac
tically suspended in some localities.
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THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL
Prints more want adds than any other
paper of like circulation in the world
Journal Want Adds Bring Results.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ONE THOUSAND
HEN RELEASED
AT SHIP YARD
Big Shake-Up by U. S. Shipping
Board Rumored for Weeks
Hit-i Local Plant.
PEACE FOOTING
IS PLAN OF U.S.
Continuation of Operations at
Local Yard for Many Months
Regarded as Certainty.
One thousand men of the PensacoW
Shipbuilding company were Included
in the big cut, made yesterday,
through a decision of the U. H. Ship
ping Board, to put the plant on a
peacetime basis. This includes men In
all departments of the construction
work.
eA. C. Ketler, president of the com
pany, who was said to be slated in
the big shake-up. because of differ
ences which are said to have existed
between him and officials of the
Shipping Board, has not yet severed
his connections with the plant.
Almost every department of the big
plant will feel the effects of the
change of policy. Engineers, office
men, draftsmen, carpenters and paint
ers were included when government
officials planned to use the ax. The
police force, under Capt. O'Brien, was
cut down to a minimum, with only a
handful of men to do guard duty.
As the construction of the plant is
practically completed, it was stated
that men employed in this capacity
were no longer necessary. Hence, the
action of the Shipping Board, it H
said.
CENTURY WOMAN
WAS BURNED TO
DEATH AT HOME
Century. Fla.. Feb. 2. As the result
of burns sustained Thursday morning
about 6 o'clock, at her home here, Mrs.
G. W. Youngblood, 40 years old, died
early yesterday morning. She was
burled at the family burying ground,
near Peterman in Monroe county, Ala.,
yesterday afernoon.
At the time of Ihe accident Mrs.
YounKblood was alone in the home
! with her thren small children, and her
clothing caught from an open grate.
H. N. Crumpton, a merchant of Cen
tury went to the rescue and he also
was painfully burned in his efforts lo
extinguish the flames. Bed clothing;
was also on fire at the time assistance
arrived as Mrs. Youngblood attempted
to extinguish the flames by wrapping
a quilt about her body.
Besides her three small children
a number of brothers and sisters re
main. She was preceded to the gravo
by her husband few months ago.
CATTS ATTENDS
PEACE LEAGUE IN;
ATLANTA, GA.
Tallahassee, Feb. 28. (Special.
Govemor Catts left Tallahassee today
for Atlanta to be present at the South
ern Congress for a League of Nations
to enforce peace, which will convene
at the Piedmont Hotel, February ". 28
and March 1. From Atlanta the gov
ernor will proceed to Washington - to
be present at the conference of gov
ernors, on March 3.
GOVERNMENT WILL
NOT RELINQUISH
RAILROADS NOW
Washington, Feb 28 Director Hines
announced today, with ths approval
of President Wilson, that the rail
roads would not be relinquished from
government control until there had
been an opportunity to see whether a
constructive permanent program of
legislation was likely to be adopted,
within a "reasonable time."
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
AMENDMENT MAY
BE RE-INTRODUCED
Washington, Feb. 28. Chairman
Jones of the senate woman suffrage
committee announced today that be
fore congress adjourns, another effort
will be made to secure an adopted res
olution authorizing the equal suffrage
amendment to be reintroduced as a
modified resolution, giving the states
initial authority to enforce the Dis
posed amendment.
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