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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
NEW YORK CITY ALSO
THE SCENE OF RACE RIOT
Southern Negroes Weld the Trusty
Razor on Policemen.

NEW YORK, N. "a negro was
shot and killed by policeman in a
race riot near Sixty-second street
and Amsterdam avenue tonight. An
other was found with a fractured
skull in a doorway.
The shooting followed a call for
police reserves after trouble broke
out between negroes and white resi-
dents of the neighborhood
In a free-for-all fight several per-
sons were more or less seriously in
jured and many arrests were made.
Two policemn were slashed on their
hands with knives or razors welded
by negroes. The police quickly round
ed up the offenders and dispersed the
crowd. Several women were aomng
the injured.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
LIBERTY LOAN WAS NOT
SUBJECT FOR SPECIAL SERMONS
Savannah Ministers Do Not Believe
1t Proper to, Discuss Such Mat
ters in the Pulpit.

SAVANNAH, Ga.-Because most
of the pastors of local churches be-
lieve that the $2,OOO,O0O,0 ZOO liberty
loan is not a subject for discussion
from the pulpit, few sermons rela-
tive to it were delivered in Savannah
Sunday, June 8, which day was set
aside by the government with re-
quests of the ministers throughout
the United States to preach specially
on the huge war loan.
Rev. w. N. Ainsworth, pastor of
Wesley Monumental Methodist
church, is the only Savannah pastor
who has received request to preach
such sermon. He said to-day he
did not expect to deliver any such
discourse from the pulpit, but would
contine his sermon to the gospel.
Rev. j. Nj. Cutler, pastor of Trim
ity Methodist church, said he felt the
liberty loan is not subject for a
sermon from the pulpit, therefore
he would not preach on it. In this
connection Mr.. Cutler said he has
subscribed for the bonds as literally
as he is able financially, but that he
could not preach on them from the
pulpit. He said though he would be
willing to throw the full weight of
his influence, officially and unofficial
& y, to the support of the bonds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
LABOR AGENTS ARE
BITTERLY DENOUNCED
Ol4- GALS AROUSED TO
INDIGNATION BY EXODUS
OF GEORGIA NEGROES.
THREATEN TO PROSECUTE
men RESPONSIBLE FOR IT

Police Are Nightly Making Raids in
Crowded Quarters and Arresting
All Without Money or Good Rec
ords as to Character.
CINCINNATI, O.-Aroused to the
greatest indignation by the dumping
of many thousands of Georgia and
Tennessee negro laborers upon this
city and the central states by labor
agents who have recently spread
false reports throughout the south
ern states of big wages being paid
for negro help in the north, DR.. j.
H. Lands, health officer here, to-day
received a decision made by the
Ohio state health board, fixing the
recent smallpox epidemic here and at
various Ohio cities, among the hordes
of newcomers in a most drastic man
ner, upon companies and contractors
interested.
DIR. Lands says, in securing an
over supply of labor from the south
without any care as to the great dam
ger to health of the central states.
The official decision received here to-
day declares that drastic prosecu-
lions will Immediately follow in
every case where epidemics Of dis
ease result from the herding togeth-
er like cattle of the southern negroes
in the slums of this city, and in con-
struction camps in Ohio, West Vir-
ginia, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois,
where the deluded southern negro is
inveigled there to receive most mea-
ger wages, rough treatment at the
hands of gunment and none of the
comforts of life.
To Start Prosecutions.
DR.. Lands to-day was instructed
by the state board of health to fur
nish the state of Ohio with data and
evidence regarding the present small
pOx epidemic, with his promise that
all of the vast expense now being had
by the city of Cincinnati, the result
of such action by fake northern labor
agents, will be at once assessed by
law against those guilty.
Nightly police raids are being made
in the slums and daily roundups of
all strange negroes without money or
records of good character from the
police of southern cities, and drastic
prison sentences of all homeless new
corners is in progress daily. 1t is es-
timated by the police that nearly ten
thousand homeless negroes are now
crowded together in the city's worst
tenements and minor race riots, in
cendiary fires and brawls in the ne
gro tenderlOin keep several squads of
police constantly busy.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
WEST VIRGINIA NO
PLACE FOR LOAFERS
NEW LAW MAKES NO DISTINC-
FION BETWEEN HOBO AND
THE MILLIONAIRE.

Do you want to loaf? Then stay
away from West Virginia. The state
legislature has just passed measure
providing Jail sentences for any kind
of male loafer, between the ages of
10 and go. 1t declines to distin-
guish between a genuine hobo and
silver-spoon-marked scion who is
caught wandering over the golf links,
not even if his income be twice that
of Rockefeller or Carnegie. His DO
sltlon of living in elegant idleness on
his income is as reprehensible under
the law as the back-door Emporium
ings of the Weary Willies."
All able-bodied men must go to
work or move beyond the boundaries
of West Virginia; otherwise they will
be arrested and put to work mending
roads, digging bitches and building
fences, blowing fields, hoeing pota-
toes, besides being fined 500.
Law to Wipe Out Idleness.
The law is designed to wipe out
all idleness in the state until the war
is over and is scheduled to include
"all able-bodied male idlers, loafers
or loiterers," and Sin no case shall
the possession by the accused of
money, property or income sufficient
to support himself and those legally
dependent upon him be a defense to
any prosecution under this act.'
Under the law, loafer is one who
shall fail to or refuse to regularly
and steadily engage for at least Sc
hours per week in some lawful and
recognized business, profession, occu-
patton or employment, whereby he
may produce or earn sufficient to
support himself and those legally de-
pendent upon him, and shall be held
as a vagrant and be guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
Only bona fide students are ex-
empt, and these only during school
terms.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
A STATE BOARD WILL ALSO BE
NAMED TO WHICH APPEALS
MAY BE TAKEN. WHO WILL
BE EXEMPT.

Boards of Georgia citizens will de-
eide what men in Georgia of military
are age exempt from CONSUMPTION.
An exemption board of three mem
bers will be appointed in each coun-
ty. one of whom shall be a doctor,
and none of whom shall be connect
ed with the military organization,
state or national.
In cities of over 10000 population
separate board or boards shall be
appointed; and the city shall be
marked off into subdivisions, each
subdivision containing 10000 resi-
dents. For each of these subdivisions
an exemption board of three mem
bers shall be appointed. These NOM
nations will be forwarded through
Governor Harris to President Wilson.
Only the president himself can APP
point the board.
Governor Harris will nominate the
boards that are to act in the coun-
ties, and these boards, too, must be
ratified by President Wilson.
In addition to the boards in the
different cities and counties, a state
exemption board will be appointed,
to which appeals may be made from
the rulings of the local boards.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
MAN IS CRAzEO
BY BIBLE STORY
CIT WAS GODS WILL THAT I
KILL MY CHILD" DECLARED
KANSAS CITY MAN.
WAS FOUND KNEELINC
WITH The DEAD CHILD

Mumbled to Mission Worker That 1t
Was Heavens VIII That He Should
Offer Up His Child on the Altar
of Religion.
Jacob Bentz, 35 years old, of Kan
sas City, Mo-, crazed by religious fer
vor, applied the story of Biblical
sacrifices to his own home and drag
ged Helena, his oldest child, aged six
years, into room and beat her to
death with the heavy arm of sew
ing machine Two hours later Bentz
was found with his Bible opened at
the chapter in Genesis. telling the
story of Abraham's offering of Isaac
as sacrifice. He was kneeling be-
side his dead child, his hands clasped
in prayer.
at Was Gods WILL"
Bentz did not resist arrest and said:
ct was Gods will that / kill nv
child" as he was being taken to Jail.
In another room Mrs. Bentz was
found clutching her three reamining
children.
The man was known to be deeply
religious and read his Bible at every
opportunity. The sacrifice of his
daughter was premeditated, as he
had informed fellow workmen at a
packing house that he was contem-
plating three days journey such as
Abraham took before offering Isaac
to the Lord.
Beat Daughter to Death.
On the evening of the tragedy
BentZ had been reading his Bible.
Suddenly he closed the book and, TAX
ing Helena by the hand, forced her
to leave her mother and enter an
other room with him. The mother at
tempted to follow, but Bentz pushed
her back and locked the door. Half
an hour later, the Rev. A. S. Sixta,
who conducts a mission in the city,
called to visit the Bentz family. The
crazed man opened the door slightly
and peered out. He saw the minis
ter.
"You are a servant of God and and
welcome" Bentz said. Then the min
lister inquired who was home and the
mailman replied: 81 am praying be-
side the child l have sacrificed to
God" Sixta, fearing to excite the
maniac further, remained with Bentz
until late in the evening when he
managed to escape and called po-
liceman.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
WILL FIRST
PASSION WAR EXEMPTIONS

A statement of these facts was
made Wednesday morning by Adju-
tant General J. Van Holt Nash.
This statement made clear for the
first time how the question of eX-
emption is to be decided. 1t will
rest entirely in the hands of Georgia
citizens-as far as this state is con-
cerned-the boards will be nominat-
ed by the mayors of the four largest
cities and by the governor, and no
one connected with the military will
serve on any of the boards.
General Nash has written to the
mayors of Atlanta, Savannah, Ma
con and Augusta, asking them to
nominate the boards that are to
serve in the cities. Governor Harris
is preparing a list of the different
counties in the state. All these nomi
nations must be in the hands of
President Wilson by June z.
Those who are exempted from mill
itary service will be relieved of duty
because Of one of the following
three reasons:
They are unfit physically for mill
tary service.
They have others wholly depend
ent on them for support,
They are engaged at an occupation
necessary to the government in the
prosecution Of the war.
When President Wilson ratifies
these nominations, the appointment
will become mandatory No one can
refuse to serve on an exemption
board after the president has affirm
ed his appointment.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
SOUTH AND WEST
SWEPT BY TORNADOES
HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE IN EIGHT
STATES, AND DEATHS MAY
REACH FOUR HUNDRED.

Spring tornadoes, making their APP
pearance earlier than usual in the
Central West and in the South, have
caused deaths of more than 800 per-
sons and injury to at least 1,400
more, together with property loss
that will mount to millions of dollars.
The damage can scarcely be estimat-
ed because of the serious loss in
growing food crops. The series of
storms swept sections of Illinois,
Kentucky, Kansas, Alabama, Arkan-
sas, Indiana, Oklahoma and Tennes-
see, and in each state wiped out viii
lagos, caused heavy damage in cities
and towns and swept over vast ex-
panses in rural districts.
Relief agencies, slow in getting I'M
der way because of crippled railway
facilities and broken lines of commu-
nication, are caring for the thousands
of homeless persons in the several
states. Hospitals have been estab-
lished in hotels, fraternal homes and
private residences, and bandages.
made for war purposes are being
used in caring for those injured by
the storm.
Illinois Was Hardest Hit.
The series of tornadoes started at
Andale, Kan, where the village was
wiped out causing loss of SO lives.
It swept across the state of Illinois
and inflicted the most serious loss
at Nation where the list of dead
comprises nearly so persons and the
property loss amounts to $4,000,000.
In the city a strip blocks wide and
26 blocks long was wrecked. The
storm spent it's fury in Charleston,
ILL.,, where nearly so were killed, and
then moved into Indiana where slight
damage was done.
At least $50 persons were killed
and more than 500 injured by the
southern wing of the wind and hail
storm that swept through portions of
Western Tennessee, Kentucky, Ala
bama and Eastern Arkansas. Twenty
persons were killed near Hickman,
KY, where the storm appears to have
reached its greatest fury. At Bondu-
rant and Lerford, KY, the reported
dead are estimated at 35. Twelve
were killed at Sayre, Ala, near Bir-
mingham. A property loss of over
100000 was sustained in Alaba-
ma.
Eight persons were killed near
Tins Lake, Ark, one at Clear Lake,
six at Dyersburg, six at Pate Land
ing, Tenn, of whom all but the six
were white persons. At Clinton, KY,
five persons were killed. Twelve were
lost at Cypress and FIVE at Dublin.
In addition many sustained injuries
from which they will die.
The monetary loss for the South
ern states cannot be estimated.
In Colgate, Okla, several people
were killed and over a hundred in
jured, and four hundred residences
wrecked. At Drake FIVE persons were
killed and several houses demolished.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
GOVERNMENT GIVES COTTON
CONDITION AS 6s.5 PER CENT.
First Report of the Season Is of
Crop to Ma

WASHINGTON, i. mary
dition of the cotton crop on Ma,
was 69.5 per cent. of a normal com
pared with 77.5 last year, 500 in
1915, 74.3 in 1914 and 79.1 was the
May rs ten-year average, the depart
ment of agriculture announced to-
day in its first report of the season.
The acreage planted in cotton will
not be announced until July. Cold
weather in April and May hurt the
cotton crop severely through the en-
tire South.
. Condition of the crop by states
follows: Virginia rs, North Carroll
ma 63, South Carolina 70, Georgia
50, Florida 76, Alabama Gil. Missis-
sippi66, Louisiana IA, Texas IA, Ar
kansas Ga, Tennessee SO, Missouri 10,
Oklahoma II, California 80.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
THE SUN is SAID TO
BE LOAFINC ON THE JOB
Government Man Says That Is Why
Weather Is so Cool Over Country.

Government Man Says That Is Why
Weather Is so Cool Over Country.
WASHINGTON, D. Cold Sol,
acting in most unreasonable way,
is playing Stacker.
That accounts for the unsual cool
weather throughout the country, the
United States weather bureau ex-
planned to-day.
But warmer weather should come
within two or three days, the bureau
predicted.
Because the sun isn't functioning
properly, there is an excess of air in
Alaska, Canada and the northern
states and a scarcity of it in the
South. The drift of air is southwark
when it normally should be north
ward.
But the North is running out of
excess air and the South will begin
delivering soon.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
MAN MAY die BECAUSE
OF HIS LOVE FOR FLOWERS

ProfusiOn of Rare Specimens in His
Home Robbed Air of Its Oxygen
and Caused Illness to Owner.
His passion for flowers may result
in the death of Charles PIN, of Gar
field, O., who is now critically i'll.
Physicians say that the mans condi-
ton is due to the abundance of
plants in his home.
To satisfy his desire for flowers
PIN turned a portion of his home
into a greenhouse. He also did this
that he could take care of the rare
specimens he had under cultivation.
The many flowers robbed the air of
its oxygen, while the poison they
gave off infected the atmosphere, re-
sulting in PINS critical illness.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
|PLANS HAVE
|FEN MADE FOR YEAR
.ucTRATION AT WASHING
/, WILL SPEND ENTIRE
EOIoD IN PREPARATION.
INENSE ARMY OF
SOLDIERS TO BE TRAINED

!, Ships Constructed and De-
Will Be Raised for the Entente
scr, Sent to European Waters
Fight U-Boats.
!. governments plans for the
rear of war with Germany as
ned by the war college, the gen
lt,f of the army and the navy
\ hoard have been endorsed by
isrt Wilson and British and
war missions in the United
These plans contemplate that
lotre period shall be spent in
Hal, military and naval prepar-
and .that the United States
not assume a leading role be-
After that year America
lake her place at the side of her
he allies and pour in men and
81 in unlimited measure so long
sre is need Of either or both.
Il plans thus far endorsed cover
line year, though everything that
&pg done in Washington regard
she war is based on the assump-
J THAT the struggle will last at
three years.
Bone of First Years Plans.
L first step taken by the United
4 government in the European
Twill be the loan of $3,000,000,-
or more to the entente allies.
Sum of 750,000,000 will be in
kd in new ships to be used in
fng the German U-boat campaign
effective The United States will
kr share in hunting down U-boats
Aaleady has a number of de-
ers in European waters. More
snter this service as soon as pos
In the meantime the navy will
France and Great Britain in
lng the Atlantic ocean and the
h feet will be held in readiness
hStant service, if required.
army of 100000 men will be
piled, equipped and trained for
E in Europe next year. Nine
sentS Of engineers, for railroad
spction work behind the French
ritish lines, will be sent forward
sn as recruited and the main
bean army will be preceded to
r by Gen. Pershing and staff,
they will study European
|OdS of fighting and prepare to
up the defense of section of
Pine.
tuStrial plants which are begin
to turn out munitions for the
ed States will be kept at full
and all equipment for the i'm
e American army will be manu-
lfed before the men are started
+ the sea. While military prep
on is being pushed to the limit.
government will encourage in
possible way the production of
ultural supplies throughout the
try.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
S Will PAY HEAVIEST
SHARE OF WAR REVENUE

US Predict That Ultimately All
Levies on Estates and Incomes
Will Rest on the People.
enOers of congress, who have
careful study of war revenue
ores' are of the opinion that
Of the $1,8OO,OOO,OOO propos-
De raised by tax levies will be
directly by the masses. The
S'VO,OOO,O00 will be paid by
eSS and individuals but ultimate
\ Oulk Of this may be shifted
Pc masses.
Eus' 'ne war revenue bill, taxes
ps'o by business and individ-
are excess profits, $2OO,OOO,O 900;
IL income tax 1858, 100000; ret
l. income " tax, S1O8,OOO,OOO;
'|9sG 30 6eo tax, sos, 900; estate
N 00T6O00oV'oO0; tax on club dues,
navy OG" u. Of the new income tax
' tb falls on corporations
;5 DUE balance $372,OO0,OOO, on
~, Excess profits tax, automobile
ana aaS Individual tax will be shar-
, w by the people. These
Mt to $64O,OOO,0O0. By this
so0j 81 elimination the total to
leu on the people in new taxes
We We ~, $40, 100000. The total
S salhed from surtaxes on in
. " will faiI on comparatively few
f %lI Will leave $1,2OO,OOO, 900
,r ~"ally distributed on men of
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-06-05
81 y SAYS WOMAN is
: WIFE OF TWO HUSBANDS

''a'e Deserted Her and She
'''ed Again After Waiting.
TURK, N. Y.-For the first
the history of the United
One woman has been declared
a'' the legal wife Of two hus-
|Sli Timchick deserted Mary
h. IL IN 1908. In 1915, not be-
NJ 70 md him, she married
stic men Timchick came back.
/ looGI feenhaum ruled that she
NJ gal wife of husband No. 2
tbo | establishes his claim and
sba second ceremony annuled.
\ ii leverts to her original place
I Wife of No.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-20
That Prize Essay Contest

Seeing that it is a matter Of public
concern The Transcript desires to ask
our school teachers to request their pu-
pills to submit essays in the Contest for
prizes in gold, $40, 2 S. and s. so.
There are bright scholars in our
Academy and they should be encouraged
to employ their talents is cause both
useful to the community and to them
selves
This movement to get our town people
to patronize home stores all home
stores of every kind is one which is
vitally related to our towns prosperity.
We are all in the same boat, real estate
owners, workers, teachers, and all the
rest, including our stores If these go
down 50 will all the rest. Aiessrs FogeI
& Burstan are working for the whole
towns good, and their praise worthy
scheme to boost home buying should be
aided hy all-eleven more days before
the contest closes. Let each compost
ton writer, boy and girl, submit an
essay.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-20
GOLDEN WEDDING

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Smith Bacon
celebrated their golden wedding last
night at their home, 2403 West Will
mington street Only relatives attend
ed the celebration.
The couple were married at N1iddle-
town on January 16, 1867, by Rev. Will
liam Uric, minister of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. There was blizzard
a few days before the wedding, AMI
while Mr. and RS. Bacon were driving
from Middletown to their new home, at
Port Penn, on January II they got in a
snow drift, out Of which they had to
dig their way.
Mr. Bacon is 72 years old He was
born at Salem, N j., and is a son of
the late Edward S. and Mary Ann
Bacon. When he was 10 years old his
parents moved to Delaware settling
near Port Penn. From 1861 to 1868 he
carried mail between Port Penn and
Kirkwcod For l3 years he was in the
employ Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
CO., % years as gardener in its flower
department and 20 years as janitor of
roundhouses in Wilmington. He was
retired on pension four years ago.
Mrs Bacon, nee Harriet Redsmile, is
69 years old. She was born in England
and i. daughter Of the late Benjamin
and Sarah Redsmile When she was
two years old her parents came to Del
aware, and at various times they resided
in Delaware City and at Glasgow and
iddletown.
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-20
ODESSA

MailIy Davis, Of Wilmington, was the
week end guest of his mother
Mrs. F. A. Reynolds and dau liter,
Miss Dorothy We're recent Wilmington
visitors.
The "Bibe Class" Of St. Paul's M. F.
Church, met this week at the home Of
Mrs. Ella Smith.
Mrs. j. Mccoy and daughter, Miss
Margaret, are spending some time with
relatives in Wilmington.
Mrs. Joe Heller has been spending
some time with her mother, Mrs
Austin, near Summit Bridge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas Bush, of Will
mington, We're recent guests of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. L. Townsend.
The teachers and friends of the Pub
lie School are arranging for ''Cake
Bake" Proceeds are to benefit the
piano fund, which it is hoped can be
placed in the School in the near future
Middletown transcript., 1917-01-20
Forest Church Notes
Su lday, January 2lst. 1917.

Sunday, January 2lst, 1917
1890 a. m. Public worship with SER
mon.
1l.45 a. m. Sunday School session
The Mems Bible Class, led hy the Pas
tor, meets in the Library room. Men
cordially invited.
Gas P. M. Christian Endeavor SER
vice. Topic: '.Seeing the Good in
Others" Phil pill
730 p. N. Evening service with SER
mon
Wednesday evening, Prayer meeting.
The annual collection FOR the Board of
Ministerial Relief will he continued next
Sunday. The object Of this Board is To
aid the disabled and int.r;n ministers, anC
also The needy families of such as have
departed this lie The whole number
of persons now enrolled under the care
of this Boatd is 1875. a generous con-
tribution to this worthy and sacred
cause is earnestly requested.
Although the conditions were un-
favorable on last Sunday evening yet
the collection for the relief of the Assy-
rian infant orphans whose parents hao
been rhassacred by the Turks, was Sc 605.