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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
AGREEMENT IS BELIEVED
NEAR ON ARMY BILL
Compromise Bill Probably VIII
Be Laid Before Wilson
Next Week
nv Associated Press. J

WASHlNGTON, May wv Ork on
the army reorganization bill was re-
sumed today by the conference COM
mittee of the house and senate with in
dications of an agreement being near.
1t was expected that virtually a new
bill, the result of a compromise, would
be ready to be laid before President
Wilson next week.
Prospects are that the senate con-
ferees will have to give up the volun-
teer army provision for a reserve of
261 900 men, in view Of it's reputation
by the house. Senate conferees hope,
however, to strengthen the house pro-
vision authorizing citizen instruction
camps which would afford the nucleus
of a volunteer army.
1t was expected that regular army
with a peace footing of approximate
ly $4,000 men with the senate expan-
sive organization system for 100000
men in time of need would be agreed to.
The house provision for reorganization
and liberalization of the national
guard which would provide for a de-
Tense reserve of about 100000 men also
probably will be approved. 1t was re-
garded as likely that the house amend
ment for a nitrate plant to cost $780,
900, 900 would be accepted.
Little delay is looked for in reach
ing an agreement on the minor features
Of the bill
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
Valuable Health Hints
For Our Readers

out, but have no medical value. &c
zema, letter, acne and all such erup-
tive diseases should be treated with
POISONED BLOOD.
So many different things contribute
to poison the blood and the effect is
so startling that the sufferer becomes
panic-stricken and is led to use harm
full drugs. If you have any blood trou-
bic, get bottle of s. S. S. and take
according to directions.
Don't take anything else. Poisoned
blood is bad enough without running
your bones, joints, teeth and vitals
with minerals. S. s. S. so stimulates
cellular activity that they reject all
poisonous influences and select only
those materials in the blood that make
healthy tissue. This is why its assist
ance toward recovery is so noticeable
and at times remarkable.
s. S. S. is welcome to the weakest
stomach and is assimilated just as
readily as the most nutritious food. II
has helped to cure a host OF sufferers.
RHEUMATISM.
In any form of rheumatism give the
blood a good effectual cleansing with
Use this remedy for three days and
take hot salt water bath to open the
pores. This relieves the lungs and
Kidneys and assists 8. S. s. to utilize
the skin as the principal avenue of
elimination.
Avoid salts, calomel and other dras-
tic purgatives, as they absorb the mois-
ture from the walls and membranes of
the intestines, weaken the muscular
action, produce chronic constipation
and thus stagnate the system with
rheumatic poisons. Get a bottle of
S. S. S. at any drug store. Don't
take q substitute
s. S. s. is purely vegetable and is
prepared only by the Swift Specific
Co, 271 Swift Bldg, Atlanta, ga. Write
for special booklet on any of the dis
eases mentioned and if medical advice
is wanted, write for that also to ad-
dress given above. Both booklet and
medical advice are free.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
German Military Critic
Gives Praise to His Guns

BERLIN, May 10.-(By Wireless to
Sayville 1.-THE German attack on Yer
dun is based on the crushing effect of
German heavy artillery" writes Major
Mo+ant, military critic of the Tageblatt.
THE capture of the smaller fortresses
in the west at the beginning of the war
by the use of heavy artillery was only
prelude to the artillery operations
now In progress.
"The French have not been able to
compete with German artillery and am
munition. The enormous losses of the
French are due partly to the effect of
the German artillery and partly to the
tenacity of the French who will not
abandon their trenches.
although it is generally considered
that attacking forces must be four
times superior to those of the defense,
in the Verdun campaign the number OF
German troops engaged is much less
than half that of the French. The num-
Der of French troops may be calculated
at not less than 100000. This figure
represents half of the entire forces
which France still has at her disposal
for active fighting.
"All the German successes on the east
ern and western fronts were gained
with numerically inferior forces. More
over, the Austro-Hungarian troops for
year have been holding back twice
their number of the enemy. The prin-
cipal elements in victory-quality OF
troops and courage-are steadily work
ing to our advantage"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
BORDER RESIDENTS
ARE STILL BITTER

Springs believes that many more were
killed. He says he saw more than that
number fall as though mortally wound
ed Dempsey and many ranchmen be-
1ieve the Mexicans carried away several
of their dead. Two were found near
the mill under heaps of the candelia
plant from which the wax is made.
The left hand of one Of these missing
tho anoputation being fresh. 1t is be-
Iieved to have borne ValuaDle rings Oh
the body of the other was heutenants
commission from the Carranza govern
men+ At that time there was an al
'lionca bertween CarranZa and villa, now
ayer and for this reason little I'M
Variance is attached to the incident.
11be two residences, one factory, one
moe one store, the ruins OF
on adobe building from Where seven
of the nine American troopers mace
their gallant fight, and a dozen ADOBE
Mexican huts, composing the village Oh
sidas nv mountains. The west approach
20 the village is open land, and the most
accurate information is to the effect
+bot This was the direction from which
the bandits attacked.
SNEAKED UP FROM RIVER.
They are believed to have sneaked up
from the Rio Grande, nine miles, 10 the
village. by a circuitouS route from the
mountains to the south. Private Brick
was doing sentry duty about 1 o'clock at
night. when he noticed men moving
along slowly at the base of the noun
tains. He called on them to halt, and
his answer was a volley Of shots from
tha Mexicans. He ran for the shelter
of the adobe house, and by this time
his comrades were ready for action.
From this time on until 2:30 o'clock
I-xI
1t concluded only when the Mexicans
set fire to the adobe shelter by throw
ing balls of Irvine saturated with kero-
sene on the matched roof. Even then
Uncle Sans brave little band of war
riors refused to cease fighting until
their feet, legs, arms and heads had
been lacerated by fire.
The battle began with Sergeant
Smyth, the commander of the small
garrison, and Privates Brick and Cohen
firing from within the adobe shelter.
Privates Dempsey, Defrees, Tyree,
Cohen, Rogers and Kroskem used as a
fort a tent standing alongside the adobe:
A fire ball soon ignited the tent, and
all but Dempsey and Kroskem sprang
through a window into the stronger
shelter. These two made use of anoth-
er tent in which feed was stored.
Cohen was the first to attempt flight
from the burning building, according
to the narrative of Dempsey, and as he
crawled from the window a charge of
buckshOt tore away half his face and
he fell to the ground dead.
Rogers met a similar fate a moment
later when he ran from a door on the
west side of the shack. He was shot
through the head.
Cohen, although he was fatally
wounded, succeeded in crawling several
hundred feet toward the mountains to
the north. His body was found that
afternoon at o'clock.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
Germans Claim Further
Progress at Verdun
(By Associated Press. }


BERLIN, May 1O-(By Wireless.)-
The Germans have made further prog
ress on the Verdun front and nave
driven back French attachments south
east OF the hill, the war Office statement
OF today says. The text of the official
statement follows:
I'm the Argonne, the enemy after a
mining operation attempted to enter our
lines, but was repulsed.
Southwest of Hill 3O4 advanced de-
tachments Of the enemy were driven
further back. One detachment was cap
tured. The new German positions on
Hill 304 were extended.
German airmen dropped numerous
bombs on factories at Bombastle Car
gomez and Raon L'Etape (Vosges).
Eastern front: A Russian attack
south of Garbunovka along a small
front was repulsed. The enemy suf-
fered heavy losses.
Balkan front: There has been no es-
pecial event"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
GERMANS AGAIN ARE
REPULSED At VERDUN
Attack on French Trenches
Completely Broken, Says
Paris Official Report

PARIS, May 1O.-Activity on the Ver-
dun front mas decreased, according 70
the statement given out by the war Of
fee this afternoon. Artillery action west
of the Mouse was less pronounced ana
east of the river was only intermittent.
An attack on French trenches between
the Olse and the Aisne was repulsed.
The statement follows: Between
the Disc and the Aisne, a coup de main
upon one of our trenches southeast %
ulain-Sous-Toutvent was completely
checked.
an the Verdun region the lombard
ment west of the Mouse noticeably
diminished East of the Mouse and in
the Woeve region there was intermit-
tent cannonading.
Hand grenade skirmishes were re-
ported during the night in the woods of
Avocourt and in the region south of Fort
Douaumont.
I'm Upper Alsace an enemy recon-
noitering party which attempted 70
seize one of our small posts near Hirz-
bach south of Altkirch was repulsed
with losses"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
UGH! CALONIEL IS HORRIBLE! It
SHOCKS YOUR LIVER, # BILIOUS
CaIomeI SickenS! Don't lose days work! Clean your
Liver and Bowels With "DodSon'S Liver Tone"

IL 1t doesn't straighten you right w
and make you feel fine and vigorous
want you to go back to the store and
get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone Is
destroying the sale of calomel because
1t is real liver medicine; entirely vege'
table, therefore it can not salivate or
make you sick
/ guarantee that one spoonful OF Dod-
sons Liver Tone will put your sluggish
liver to work and clean your bowels of
that sour bile and constipated waste
which is cfogging your system and max
ing you feel miserable. l guarantee
that a bottle Of Dodson's Liver Tone
will keep your entire family feeling fine
for months. Give it to your children.
II is harmless; doesn't grippe and they
like its pleasant taste.-(Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
POWDER MILL EXPLOSION
KILLS AT LEAST FOUR

NEW YORK, May AT least four
men are reported to have been killed
and a hundred others to have sustained
more or less serious injuries today in
a dynamite explosion in the works OF
the Atlas Powder company, at Lake
Hopatcong. y. J. Owing to the isolated
position of the plant, only meagre de-
tails could be obtained.
The explosion shook the surrounding
country, rocking houses, bringing down
ceilings, and breaking windows. Some
reports placed the dead as high as 10
The explosion occurred in one of the
mixing houses, a wooden single-story
shack, considerable distance from the
main plants.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
CATARRH

CATARRH
Just because you hawk and spit and
your nose is wet, cold, red, sore and
a nuisance, don't merely plug it up.
your nose. Take s. S. s. regularly
and you will drive catarrhal poisons
out of your blood. The membranes
will soon recover and no longer con-
tinue to accumulate the mucous that
gathers and thickens into catarrh.
S. S. S. stimulates the cells of the It's
sues to select from the blood their own
from catarrhal inflammation in the stom-
ach, kidney, bladder and all mem
branes i, the result.
MALARIA.
Throughout the country, wherever
malaria abounds, are happy, joyful
people to whom S. S. S. has given won
derful help in the treatment of mala-
ria after the most sickening torture
imaginable.
The gaunt complexion Of ma1aria's
victims, the chills and fever, the ma
larial dysentery that seems to defy all
other treatment, the malarial leg, the
enlarged liver, the persistent anemia
where the blood turns to water and
the system wastes away. These are
the conditions that S. S. S. so effectu-
ally ASSISTS in overcoming, by helping
to restore the blood to its natural vigor.
STUBBORN SORES
Sometimes a sore spot becomes indo-
lent. The tissues surrounding 1t lose
tone and are unable to provide suff-
cient nutriment to stop the drain. It
is then chronic. Just saturate your
blood with S. S. S. This is quickly
accomplished, as S. S. S. is naturally
assimilated the same as milk or any
other healthful liquid.
Nature acts with marvellous rapidity
when given the proper assistance, and
S. S. S. so stimulates cellular activity
that the parts surrounding an ulcer Sc
lect from the blood the materials that
make new tissue. Thus the sore spot
rapidly heals in a natural way.
Local applications for any skin dis
ease will afford protection from with
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12

Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. It's
horrible! Take a dose of the dangerous
drug tonight and tomorrow you may lose
a days work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour bile crashes into IL, breaking
Il UP. This is when you feel that awful
nausea and cramping. If you are slug
glsh and "all knocked out" If your liver
Is torpid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated tongue,
II breath is bad or stomach sour, just
try a spoonful of harmless Dodson's
Liver Tone tonight.
Here's my guarantee-Go to any drug
store and get a 50-cent bottle of Dod-
sons Liver Tone. Take a spoonful and
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
PROPOSES REGULATION OF
COTTON FUTURE C0NTRACT

WASHINGTON. May 9.-Regulation
OF cotton future contracts was proposed
today BY Senator Smith, Of South Caro-
lima. in an amendment 10 the agricul-
turaI appropriation bill. framed 70 meet
the decision of the New York federal
courts that the law is unconstitutional
because il is a revenue measure.
The existing law taxes cotton future
contracts unless they contain a provision
giving the seller Of a certain grade
the option TO tender TO the buyer other
grades at a difference in price based on
the market price Senator Smiths
amendment provides that in the event
the buyer and seller. cannot agree as
10 the grade TO be substituted the buyer
can demand the delivery OF the grade
actually sold.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
c. 0. P. CONVENTION HEADS
TO RAISE ADMISSION PRICE
Rush for Seats at $50 Each
Already Is Far Greater
Than Supply
Csv Associated Press.l

CHICAGO, May 9.-Managers OF the
Republican national convention. 10 be
held here the week OF June Z. have a
serious situation confronting them in
regard to the sale OF tickets The seats
nave been. placed on sale At $50 each
AID the demand has far exceeded the
available supply and il has been suE-
gssred that IL viii be necessary to raise
me price to SIOu or possibly higher in
order 10 stop the rush for reservations.
The situation will be considered today
by Frederick w. Upham. chairman OF
the Chicago committee for the conven-
ton. The committee has been allotted
, 200 tickets, which, at $50 n ticket.
WOULD be more than enough TO meet the
SIOO. 900 guarantee made TO secure the
convention for Chicago.
Seats for the Progressive party con-
vention have been placed on sale at
prices ranging from $40 to SIS.
Owing TO the holding here at one time
II. June of the Republican. Progressive
and woman's party conventions, with
their thousands OF delegates and Wis
ftors. ChicagO's housing facilities will
be severely taxed. Most OF the dele
-ates to the first two named conven-
items have been provided for by the
local committees. but the women dele
zateS. their visitors and those who will
take part I'm the suffrage parade and
demonstration are finding IL difficult TO
obtain accommodations.
Mrs. George Bass. chairman of the
hospitality tor the suffrage parade, said
today that plans had practically been
completed for the housing OF all the
women who may wish TO come, but
various kinds Of sleeping places AT
widely scattered locations will be used
Mrs Bass Is nov negotiating Tor
track space where the special trains
from various points may stand. so that
the women can sleep in the cars There
we're practically no rooms available for
the women in the downtown hotels, but
ali available space in the outlying hotels
has been reserved
We shall probably have. a camp III
Grant park which will house Loco Wom-
en- Mrs. Bass said. ''and $500 more
will be able 10 get rooms in Chicago
hotels. The women from down state,
from Indiana. Michigan and Wisconsin
will be asked 10 return home the night
OF the parade IL has been an almost
unsurmountable task TO ind places for
the hundreds Of women who are COM
ing from farther east. south and west
The special suffrage hat which will
he worn i'm the parade will be placed on
sale in zoo millinery stores on May 20
The nat was described as being made
OF white straw. partly covered with
white MORE ribbon and with a cockade
or purple. white and gold.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
Peace Talk Boosts Cotton
Market to New High Figure

NEW ORLEANS, May 9.-Peace ru-
more were numerous in the cotton mar
ket after the noon hour today, causing
one of the sharpest bulges of the sea-
son and putting prices 81 to 80 points
well over $3.50 bale-above the lev
ell of yesterdays close. Heavy buying
continued until the end of the session
and last prices were % to "a points up.
During the morning the market was
apathetic and prices at their best were
only to s opints up. During the lunch
hour the dullness was suddenly broken
by all sorts of peace talk, contained in
messages from New York and else
where, and the ring suddenly became
intensely exciting. Interior points join
ed in the buying movement and the
market took on decided strength.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
Turks Are Kind to
CAPTURED British

LONDON. May 1O.-According to a
dispatch from an EYE witness" with
the British army in Mesopotamia Khalil
Pasha. the Turkish general to whom the
British forces under General Townshend
surrendered at Kut-El-Amara, showed
the utmost consideration for his pris-
oners. Khalil Pasha expressed admira-
ton for the gallant defense of the gar
rison and showed anxiety that they
should be we'll fed. He especially de-
sired that every comfort and considera-
ton should be shown to General Towns
bend and expressed regret that his own
supplies were not more plentiful.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
Torpedo Craft Battle
Off Coast of Belgium

BERLIN, May 10.-(By Wireless to
Sayville. I'm an engagement off the
Belgian coast on Monday between Ger
man and British torpedo craft, a Brit
ish destroyer was badly damaged by
artillery fire, according to official an
nouncement by the German admiralty
under date of May 9.
1.-TWO German torpedo boats" says the
official statement, while accommodating
on the morning of May s. had brief
engagement north or Ostend with five
British torpedo boat destroyers. One
destroyer was badly damaged by artil-
ley fire. The German torpedo boats re-
turned to port unchanged"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
ALBANY COMMITTEE TO
STUDY BOIL WEEVll
Special Dispatch to The Journ;

special Dispatch TO The JOurnalO
ALBANY. Ga. May 9.-Albany will
send a committee Of three, including
a farmer. a banker and a merchant. to
study boil weevil conditions in Louis
lana Texas and Mississippi. The COM
mittse will be named in a few days.
This is the principal feature of Albany
plans OF preparedness for the coming
OF the boil weevil. The committee on
its return from its investigation trip
will make recommendation for the
people OF this section TO prepare for
the coming OF the pest. the advance
guard OF which already has made its
appearance here.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
December Futures Sell at
1886 on New York Marke-

NEW YORK, May 9.-There was a
sudden renewal of general and more or
less excited buying in the afternoon ses-
sion of the cotton market here today and
prices made new high ground for the
movement. July contracts sold up to Is
cents and December 1886, or about $3.50
bale above the closing figures of last
might.
Trading had been comparatively quiet
earlier in the day and May has been
restricted by nervousness over the Mex
lean situation, but there has been no
sign of spot pressure, while trade inter-
ests were good buyers and a renewal of
bull support accompanied by peace ru-
more sent prices rapidly upward.
Covering by local and southern shorts
was a feature on the advance.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
Wood Alcohol
jag Kills Three

PLAINvIEW, Tex, May 9.-As the
result of drinking denatured, alcohol
Paul ]. Warren, Joe Dingler and Mug
Brock are dead and Tom Erneast is in
a dying condition. Jim Carpenter, Noah
Stallings and NJ. L. Helton are seri-
ously i'll and may die.
They. with several others, it is said,
drank hair tonic which contained the
alcohol. Doctors express the belief
that all who drank of the poison will
die or become blind.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
N. Y. PRESBYTERY WILL
NOT REPLY TO CHARGES

NEW YORK, May 9.-Leaders of the
New York Presbytery have decided not
to call a special meeting Of that body
to prepare a formal answer to the
charges made against 1t by the Gin
cinnati and other Presbyteries which
demand that the New York organization
be excluded from participation in the
general assembly. After a conference
it was decided that 1t would be wise
to say nothing at this time.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
IBy Associated Press. }

LONDON, May 9.-The Daily Tele.
graphs Rotterdam correspondent sends
a long statement concerning Germany S
attitude toward peace, which he says
is based on information received from
Berlin. He declares that Germany is
now willing to give up absolutely any
claim on France and Belgium, including
even demands for military and economic
guarantees of which Chancellor Won
Bethmann-Hollweg has spoken in the
past.
"In the east" the correspondent adds,
"Germany's ambitions remain the same
with the possible exception of autonomy
for Poland. Germany will insist on
retaining Courland."
The London newspapers refuse to &C
cept seriously the peace talk which has
followed publication of the German note
to Washington. The Daily Telegraph
says:
THE entente powers are out to win
the war and overthrow Prussian mill
tarism No inconclusive peace will suit
their demands and the very suggestion
of a draw is abhorrent They will con-
tinue to use their superiority in sea
power to promote their common pur-
pose"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
aiSer Hopes Wilson Way Be
Mediator, Declares Paris

PARIS, May 9.--In the opinion of the
Temps one of the chief reasons why the
German emperor is unwilling to break
with President Wilson is that he hopes
still to be able to invoke Mr.. Wilson's
mediation and that it is to appeal to
"the most noble ambition of the presi-
dent that the German note mentions
Germany's desire for peace, twice made
manifest before the world"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12
KAISER WILLING To
EVACUATE BELGIUM
FOR PEACE, REPORT
Peace RumorS Persist in Euro
pean Capitals and Now De-
tails of BerIin'S Attitude Are
Put in Report
(Ry Associated Press. }

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Late today
Secretary Lansing let it be known that
the United States does not consider
that its response to the German note
calls for a reply from Germany unless
Berlin specifies to the contrary, it was
assumed that Germany accepts the
American view as stated.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-12

The French official report on Sunday
said that about 20 captive balloons mad
broken from their moorings during a
squall and that some of them had been
carried to the German lines.