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SAILORS TELL
OF OUR GREAT
14-INCH GUNS
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NEW YORK. Jan. 30.—The story of
the success of the American land bat
tery of 14-inch naval guns, as told by
members of the gun crews themselves,
was given to the public here today
when copies of “The Big U,” a news
paper printed on board the battleship
Vtah, were circulated on shore.
It was the Utah’s picked gun crew,
the newspaper said, that was sent
ashore to “get” the German supergun
which was shelling Paris. The gun was
removed, it was said, before the bav
teries could not get into action, but the
ravy men had the satisfaction of
smashing away at the German line for
several months before the armistice
was signed.
The shells fired by the naval guns,
according to “The Big U,” were almost
twice the size of those fired by the Ger
man supergun, and on one occasion
an exploding shell landed in a hut
where 100 Germans were watching a
motion picture show, and when the
American troops later reached the
spot, forty identification tags were all
that could be found to tell the fate of
the party.
The naval guns habitually fired at a
range of from twenty to twenty-one
miles, the article said, and more than
800 rounds had been fired when the
armistice was signed. It would have
been necessary to have removed the
guns for relining within a short time,
had not the armistice put an end to
their work.
Describing the activities of the bat
tery, the article said:
"From the forest of Cbmplege, we
•red on Ham; from Fontenoy and Sois
sons, on Laon, and its railway con
nections; front Jussy (eleven kilo
meters east of Ham), on Montiers
(north of Loan); from Chamy and
other points north of Verdun we de
stroyed the Metz-Sedan railway line at
Ifontmedy and other places, and final
ly guns Aos. 1 and 2 were preparing
emplacements in forest near Nancy
and Lunsville when the armistice was
declared.
“A number of holes made by our
projectiles have since been visited. One
was 20 feet in diameter and 15 feet
deep, another 33 feet in diameter and
12 feet daap. and so on, depending on
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Price Bulletins Posted in Every Department
An exceptional opportunity to buy the best
at the very lowest. Profits are sacrificed
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Garden of Eden
May Bloom Again
LONDON, Jan. 30. —The Journal of
tho Mesopotamian Board of Trade tells
of the irrigation projects which are
now being carried out in the valley of
the river Huphrates. Regarding the
immense benefits which might be de
rived fro msystematic irrigation, the
Journal says:
“In olden times lower Mesopotamia
as a result of artificial irrigation, was
a forest of perennial verudre and a
country of great cities thronged with
th roving population.
"The dread hand of the Turk has
pressed heavily upon Mesopotamia and
its people. In the past it was a great
country. In the future it may again
become a great country, but at present
it is moribund. Yet the rich soil re
tains life. A wonderful recovery is
within iposibility and Great Britain has
solved more difficult problems in the
empire tha nare presented by the re
storation of Mesopotamia”
Improvements of great importance
have been made in the channel of the
Shatt-el-Arab , which is the river
formed by the confluence of the Eu
phrates and Tigris rivers. Ocean-go
ing steamers may now go up the river
from the Persian Gulf as far as Nahr
nmar, which is about twelve miles
above Basra.
Heretofore, small steamers were
compelled to load and unload by
means of lighters or native boats at
these two towns. Under the present
arrangement the discharging capacity
of the ports Is 150,000 tons a month.
Pneumonia Fatal
To Acrobatic Flyer
ATLANTA, Jan. 30.— (8y Associated
Press.) —'Richard H. Atwood, U. 8. ar
my aviator, who had charge of acro
batic flying at Gerstner Field, La., and
Carlstrom Field, Fla., died in a hospi
tal here yesterday of pneumonia, con
tracted while on his honeymoon trip,
it was learned today
the character of the ground.
“In the entire battery of five hun
dred mei, only three were lost. Two
succumbed to disease and the other
died of wounds from fragments of a
German shell.”
AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
SELF DEFENSE
MAY BE PLEA
OFMRS.ABBOTT
ATIxANTA, Jan. SO.—Self- defense
may be the pleas of Mrs. Stella Ab
bott, If she is placed on trial for kill
ing her husband, John W. Abbott,
driver of the big red automobile of
the chief of Atlanta’s fire department,
and idol of all the small boys for
his daredevil, reckless courage in
turning corners and heading into
jams of traffic at top speed with his
siren screaming.
That their father was edging to
ward the sewing machine on which
lay the pistol, and that his hand leap
ed out to get the pistol and that his
expression frightened them because
he looked like he was going to shoot
them all, was the interesting testi
mony given yesterday at the coron
er's inquest by Pierce and Henry Ab
bott, the sons who saw their motehr
shoot their father through the heart.
They said their father was angry and
was quarreling in a violent manner
with their mother, and all the time he
was edging over toward the sewing
machine.
This testimony was substantiated
by L. H. Fenn, father of Mrs. Abbott,
who was present in the living room of
the Abbott home when the shooting
occurred. He swore that Abbott had
his eye on the revolver and moved
closer toward the sewing machine.
Mrs. Abbott has retained the ser
vices of Reuben R. Arnold to defend
her, in case she is brought to trial.
She was bound over yesterday to the
grand jury at the conclusion of a cor
oner’s inquiry into the circumstances
of the killing.
Hiccough Epidemic
Following Influenza
IXIUISVILLE, Jan. 30.—The epi
demic of hiccoughs in Louisville ane
many other parts of Kentucky contin
ues. Tandy Quizenberry, widely
known tobacco man, has bee* hie- '
coughing almost continuously for sev- !
eral days. His condition is reported
serious. Physicians attribute it to
after effects of influenza.
Baker Would GiveUp
14 of 16 Cantonments
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—(8y Asso
ciated Press.) —Abandonment of four
teen of the sixteen national army can
tonments. including Camp Sevier, 8.
C„ was urged today by Secretary
Baker and Assistant Secretary Crow
ell before the house military com
mittee.
Poison in His Tea.
Man Gets Divorce
ATLANTA, Jan. 30.—0 n the ground
that his wife once tried to poison him
by putting some substance in his
t«a that sent him to a hospital with a
vinolent illness, Charles Martin, of
this city, was granted a divorce yes
terday in Fulton superior court. He
said he knew nothing of the present
whereabouts of his wife. She neither
defended his suit nor the poisoning
charge.
LADIES
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Do not experiment, with others, save
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ARE CHILD ELOCUTIONISTS?
GEORGIA AGAIN
4TH IN VALUE
OF FARM CROPS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—High
prices and increased production swell
ed the total value of the farm crops
of the country in 1918 half a billion
dollars more than the total of any
previous year The aggregate value
of farm crops for the year has been
placed at $14,090,769,000 by the bureau
of crop estimates of the department of
agriculture. The previous record
value year was 1917. The value of last
year’s crop was double the average
value for the five years, 1912 to 1916.
Illinois ranked first in the value of
all crops, as did that state in 1917.
lowa, Texas and Georgia were second,
third and fourth, holding the same
rank they did in 1917. Minnesota took
fifth rank, jumping from ninth place,
which she held in 1917. Ohio dropped
back into sixth place from the fifth
rank North Carolina moved up into
seventh rank from eleventh place. In
diana retained her eighth place. Mis
souri dropped into ninth rank from
the sixth place she held the previosu
year. Pennsylvania moved into tenth
place from the fourteenth position. Ne
braska, which held seventh place n>
1917. dropped back to the seventeenth
rank. California dropped from tenth
rank to twenty-first.
The thirteen principal farm crops—
corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buck
wheat, flaxseed, rice, potatoes, sweet
potatoes, tame hay, tobacco and lint
cotton—which formed almost 80 per
cent of the value of all of the coun
try’s crops in 1909 as reported by the
census bureau, were valued in 1918 at
$11,125,996,000.
The total value of all crops as given
is the hypothetical value, based upon
the ratio of the 13 principal crops to
all croqws in the 1909 census bureau’s
report.
CEMETERY ISLE REMINDS
SERBS OF FLIGHT IN WAR
CORJFU. —(Correspondence of The
Associated Press.) —Now that the Ser
bian government and civilian refugees
have returned to their native country,
this little island off the Greek coast,
to which they were driven by the Aus
trian invasion has resumed its pre-
I war appearance.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, l»lt.
Miller Sees Bread
High for 18 Months
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jam 30.— (8y
Associated Press.) —War-time bread
prices will prevail throughout the
world for another eighteen months,
leading Minneapolis flour millers pre
dicted today when informed of the
statement made yesterday by Julius
Barnes, president of the United State*
Grain corporation, regarding American
guaranteed price of wheat in relation
to the world -price.
The milling industry of the coun
try has been practically at a stand
still since the government agency
ceased buying flour six weeks agOp
and was awaiting just such an an
nouncement as Mr. Barnes made, said
H. P. Gallagher, vice president of the
Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co.
Immediate resumption of flour mill ac
tivities will follow, he said.
Colds Cause Grip and Influenza
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