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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
ONLY $4,000 MEN
TO FRANCE in A YEAR
WAR CHIEFS FACE HARD TASK
DUE TO LACK OF TRANSPoR.
TATION FACILITIES.

The United States will not be able
to place more than 10000 additional
men on French soil before Novem-
Der, and may not send more than
100000 to France in any one year,
according to figures on file in the
war department in Washington.
Army experts declare there are many
problems to be solved before Amer
lca's man power can be placed in ac-
ton against German armies. Among
these are the shortage of transporta-
ton facilities, the building of an
aerial feet and the reconstruction of
miles of railroad in the rear of the
French and English lines.
The American army is preparing to
go forward as speedily as possible,
but war chiefs declare it is absurd
to figure that the national guard will
be rushed to France regardless of its
state of preparedness. Such claims,
IL is asserted, simply raise false
hopes and expectations in the minds
of the American people.
Obstacles to Be Overcome.
The British sea base is only SO
miles from the fighting front held by
the British army in France. The
American base is six times that far
and France is short of rolling stock,
rails and men. For this reason the
United States will have to supply
100000 tons of track, thousands of
ties, 700 locomotives and $4,000 cars
for transportation of men and sup
plies before her armies can become
vital fighting element on the west
ern front.
The American troops cannot take
an active part in the fighting in
France until the "eyes of the artil-
lery" have been built and aviators
and pilots trained for work in Eu-
rope. Congress has appropriated
$640,000,000 for this work and al
ready $4,000 machines are in process
of erection, but several months must
elapse before they are ready for use.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07

/. w. w. will go into that plant and
tie it up. The organization is the
greatest handicap to our whole air
program now that we have got it
safely through congress"
The only remedy in sight is the
strong arm of the law. That remedy
is being taken. United States mar
shals and secret service men already
are on their way into camps of Mich
igan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
where the /. w. w. has been most
active. The great Weyerhauser
tracts are the scenes of most of the
trouble and there the agents of the
government will concentrate.
Organized Labor Is Fighting.
All the branches of organized la
Dor at Butte, with the exception of
the electricians, machinists, boiler
makers and blacksmiths and their
helpers, are fighting the /. w. w.
movement. Guards have been placed
at union headquarters for fear that
the hall will be dynamited. In the
Pacific Northwest the situation is
~N~AA AAOAC OCAkSCs a all nave dTIIl-
ed themselves and are cooperating
with state and federal authorities in
keeping the I. w. w. out.
In Arizona there has been a con-
spiracy to shut down the works which
produce one-third of the nations
copper supply. In only two places,
however, has the organization secur-
ed foothold.
California Returns /. w. w. Men.
Attempts by Arizona towns to shin
the l. w. w. agitators into California
have been met with Indignation by
the citizens of that state who have
promptly shipped them back in each
case. The railroad companies have
been notified by the California state
authorities not to carry any more of
the disturbers from the mining dis
tricts into that state.
In Washington and Oregon, where
the agitators have arrived in great
numbers from the mining states, the
menace is more keenly felt, and in
some instances federal troops have
been called to take hold of the sit
uation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
FINDING MANY MEN
UNFIT FOR THE ARMY
REPORTS SHOW THAT FIFTY
PER CENT. OF CoNScRIPT.
ED MEN FAIL.
FEET AND EYESICHT ARE
LEADING In THE DEFECTS

Every Candidate Who Is Physically
Fit Must Be Accepted and No Ex-
cuse Will Free Him From Service
Unless Fully Justified.
The stupendous task of selecting
the first great American army from
the draft quota was begun during
the past week, but the work has not
advanced to the stage where any de-
finite information was obtainable as
to the percentage of exemptions.
But one thing is certain. There
will be general Tightening of the
regulations governing exemptions.
They want to avoid asking congress,
at least for some time to come, for
changes in the age limit.
The prospects are that there will
be more men disqualified for phvsi-
cal reasons than at first anticipated,
making it essential that the strictest
possible rules be followed in grant
ing exemptions.
Physically Fit Not Numerous.
Preliminary and unofficial reports
taken as the work of examination be-
gins to indicate that the number of
men who will be rejected on physi
cal grounds will be very large. Orig
lnally the war department officials
inquired that the number of reflections
on physical grounds would be rs per
cent. Later the figure was increas-
ed to 40 per cent. Now there is talk
that it will be more, and it is posi-
bic there will be a letting down of
the physical requirements later. The
prevailing ailments are said to be
hernia, fiat feet, hemorrhoids and
poor eyesight.
Married Men to Be Exempt.
Married men whose families are
entirely dependent on them for sub
sistence are the only ones who, as a
general class, will be exempted from
service in the first army draft.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
500 DIE OF HEAT.

WASHINGTON, July 31.-The
great heat wave that holds the coun-
try in it's grip has claimed nearly 300
victims, and caused hundreds of
prostrations in the past three days.
Maximum temperatures ranging from
100 degrees at Hartford, Conn.,, SO
at New York and Boston, 95 at Wash
ington and "a at Philadelphia, have
been accompanied by humidity which
made suffering more intense.
Although Needles, Cal, with its
thermometer at 104, was the hottest
place in the United States Wednes-
day, it was in the cities of the east,
where humidity was high and where
the population is congested, that re-
ports told of deaths and prostrations.
Dispatches from the chief cities
suffering from the heat show the fol-
lowing deaths since the latter part
of last week: New York 115, Phila-
delphia SO, Chicago SO, Pittsburg "a,
Cleveland ID, Detroit and Newark,
N. j., 10 each; Baltimore 8, and Nor
folk 1.
In some of them prostrations ran
into the hundreds.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
GOV. SLATON And
LEGISLATOR SCRAP
FORMER EXECUTIVE RESENTED
VERBAL ASSAULT MADE UP
ON HIM ON HOUSE FLOOR.

Former Governor John NJ. Slaton
and John S. VIM, member of the
house of representatives from Hart
county, were participants in a fist
fight in the lobby of the Kimball
House Friday afternoon, when Mr..
SIaton resented vicious and bitter
attack made upon him by the legisla-
tor in the house of representatives
earlier in the day.
Attacked Slaton on Floor.
Mr.. Slaton was a visitor to the
house of Representatives Friday and
IN the course of his stay occupied by
invitation for some time a seat on
the speakers rostrum after greeting
his friends on the floor. AS he de-
parted the member from Hart coun-
ty obtained the recognition of Speak
er Holder, announcing that he rose to
question of personal privilege.
The purpose of VIM was I'M
known and there a strong exercise
of curiosity to see what a member
should want of personal privilege"
at that period in the progress of de-
alterations. In less than two minutes
1T came, when VIM said:
1T is a personal insult to the peo-
pie of Georgia, to the men and wo-
men of Georgia, that man of whom
we have heard so much should take
advantage of a rule of this house to
inject himself in here and desecrate
this house by his contemplate pres
ence here, and l for one"
VIM got no further than these
words. Speaker Holder quickly ruled
him off the floor, but not before the
house was in the turmoil of the
stormlest scene it has gone through
probably in its history.
House Rebuked Winn.
Winn's conduct resulted in the
house unanimously passing resolu-
tons expunging the remarks of the
Hart representative from the journal
and characterizing his action as "vi-
ciOus, ill-advised and receiving and
meriting the disapprobation of the
house."
Governor Slaton had entered the
hall while the house was in session
under the rule which gives former
governors, former speakers of the
house and former presidents of the
senate the privilege of the floor. The
ex-governor, having filed all three
positions, was entitled to the floor on
three counts.
Speaker Holder declared that he
had no idea what the Hart represen-
tatlve had in mind when he rose to
a question of personal privilege in
order to make his attack on the ex-
governor. If the chair had dreamed
of what he intended to say he would
never have recognized the gentleman.
he said. AS soon as the purpose of
Winn's remarks became known. he
was called to order by the speaker.
Fight Followed.
1t was shortly afterward that Sla-
ton saw Winn standing in the lobby
of the Kimball house, and struck
him. Several blows were exchanged
before the men were parted. No Sc
rious injury was done to either of
them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
IAN PROPHET MEETS
"a psrv PASSING TRAIN
Hood Rivers Last 20 known
as Weather Forecaster.
Known


HOOD RIVER, Ore.-Hood River
grieves the loss of Indian George"
aborinigal patriach and last survivor
of the Indian men born in the mid.
Columbia before the coming of the
white men, who met death alone
when struck by train.
His body was found within a few
feet of the little Indian village on a
promontory jutting out into the Co.
lumbia, where several other Indian
families live.
George Shinidik Chinadere was
the full name of the departed relic of
the earlier days. Because of his &C.
curate predictions of the heavy snow
storms of the winter of 1916-1917,
the old man had won repute through
out the Northwest as weather pro-
phet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
FOUND NEEDLE SWALLOWED
FIFTY THREE YEARS ACC

Mrs. Daniel Edwards, of Pleasant
vile, N. j., recently recovered a
needle which she swallowed when a
child, SO years ago. The needle was
removed from near the left breast.
The needle was black except the tin.
which still was bright.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
RED MEATED FRUIT
MEANS MORE THAN PAY

Negro Laborers Answered the Call
of the Watermelon and Go to Work.
After failing to get labor with
promises of increased pay, con-
tractor at Merchantville, N. j., lured
a number of negro laborers with of
fers of free watermelons. More la
borers were procured with water
melons than with increased pay.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
STRANGELY ECCENTRIC
Was WEEKS WEATHER
PEOPLE DIE FROM HEAT AND
CROPS INJURED BY FROST
THE SAME DAY.

SPOKANE, Wash, July 31.-Cu-
cumbers and tomatoes in the Colville
district, about fifty miles from here,
suffered considerably from frost ear
ly Sunday, according to reports
reaching here.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-13
TITUS PUTS ONE over
ON CONAN & HARRIS
MANAGER TITUS OF NEW DAY.
IONA THEATRE MAKES TAEA
TRicAL FIRM CANCEL ENGAGE
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The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-13
Gave Some Waruina.

Wife Well, dear, l shall - Y
Go the cooking nov. Cook len -
out warning this Afternoon"
band-"Not exactly without w.
She told me this morning | had -
bring some dyspepsia tablets tnn1l1S
but l didn't quite understand -
she meant.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-13
Can't Get Ahead of Plumber,

NSay.' asked the wrathful custom
er over the telephone. what 90 you
mean by charging me overtime in
your bill? You didn't put III any over
time on my work. Yes, | did, re-
Piled the plumber. soothingiy. On
that evening when you kept me wait
ing while you told NE what YOU
thought OF NE Tor putting in full day
Oh two-hours jon.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-13
God NarieA

II IS a self-eyident fact that I'll. hu-
nah oody demands variety. and each
neai should be planned to include ono
muscle making 'proteinl food one or
Two starch carbohydrates foods ono
ouiAy 1000 and one mineral food. one
tat. and one liquid.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-13
Book Agents Paiavec,

After You hear the agent talk -
the books he's selling, you wondw16[
he can have the heart to part =
them.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-13
Sheepdogs Untaxcd.

Sneepdogs are free from tax in the
United Kingdom.
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10
BIG GRAIN
ELEVATORS
|. DESTROYED
Incendiaries Bla m e d
For $4,000 Fire
In Minneapolis
BRIDGE TO FORT
THREATENED
No Guards Were Sta
toned On Burned
Buildings

MINNEAPOLIS. April lO.-Three
mysterious and apparently incendi.
aiy fires were undo- control early
today after inhicting damage esti
mated at $4,000 900.
Two large grain elevators weC
destroyed. while fire also threatened
the bridge across The Mississippi
river at Fort Smelling the military
center OF this part OF the country.
Guardsmen on duty az elevators
near those burned. said they heard
shots in the vicinity OF the build
Inrs. No guards had been stationed
al the burned structures,
The FIRST Are was discovered IN
th, middle OF the old wooden bridge
across the river AZ Fort Smelling hy
guardsmsn Troops az the post
called out by airing OF cannon. OK
ruished the Gre The blaze
which started in the darkest part
OF the bridge. was declared 10 have
been Of inccndiary origin by Pa
trolmsn Tuohy
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10
LEWIS IN
REPLY TO
HOLLWEG
German Policies Are
Flayed BY Illinois
Senator
SHIP ARMING
is JUSTIFIED
Berlin Is Accused of
Cruelty and Basest
Ingratitude

WASHINGTON. April iO.-How
master evil spirits in the Prussian
military dynasty" turned machinery
OF death on innocent women and
children was told cloquenly in the
senate last night by Senator James
Hamilton Lewis. of illinois.
Replying 10 The charges OF Chan
cSllor Won Bethmann Hollweg In tho
reichstag that America violated the
laws OF this country in putting
arms on ships OF commerce. Lewis
defended the course OF the United
States aud arralgned Germany =
submarine outrages in scathing
terms
Senator Lewis said he replied to
the Misrepresentation because OF
the effect they may have on cit!.
Erns OF German birth in America.
he told how Germany turned on
President Wilson just when he was
exerting his peace efforts.
1T was while this friendship To
Germany was being exerted by the
United States and was being cham
p.oned by the president" said Sen.
ator Lewis. that these master evil
spirits In the Prussian military
dynasty set the machinery OF death
upon the innocent and defenseiess
women and children OF the United
States.
What can be said 20 mitigate
FAR less iustity-the assaults upon
America while America was extend
Ing her hand of friendship and gen
eTOus aid 70 Germany
This was hut the act OF cruelty
and ingratitude that can hnd no
"nice that can excuse Il in all
Christendom-and none 20 forgive
Il This was the act of those mad
for conflict craving hatreds and
reckless and defiant OK the laws OF
the nation and The rights ~ hn
mbnity
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10
ASKS FOR
WAR DRILL
IN SCHOOLS
Compulsory Training
Is Recommended
By Chadsey
SPECIAL SESSION
TO DECIDE ISSUE
Military Work For the
Boys; Red Cross For
the Girls, Plan

The board Of education will hold
a special meeting Tuesday afternoon
at O'Clock to determine whether
or not compulsory military training
shall be established for boys OF lf
years and Older in the high schools
and junior high schools % Detroit
The resolution In which the propo-
sal is made also provides for Red
Cross training for girl pupils OF this
age.
Or. Charles r. Chadsey. superin
tendent of schools. introduced the
resolution Monday afternoon before
the committee on teachers and
schools. and before going into an
extended discussion, the members
Of the committee agreed that the is
sue was OF such grave Importance
that IL should be considered by the
entire board samuel c Mumford.
president OF the board. then called
the special meeting
Dr. Chadsey said he had discus td
the resolution with principals uf ths
high schools and Junior high school
last week and that only two Of them
did not agree that the plan was an
excellent one
The resolution provides that all
pupils must take tho training unless
thet are excused by The supcrinten-
dent II recommends that az least
six hours a week b. devoted 20 the
training and that standard uniforms
be adopted
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10
NAVY BOYS
PREPARE
TO DEPART
First Battalion, 300
Strong, To Leave
Thursday Noon
MANY MEMBERS
DISAPPOINTED
Rule Barring Married
Men COmpels Them
To Stay Home

When the first battalion Of the
Naval Militia entrains for PhiIadel.
phia next Thursday noon II will be
made up Of 800 men, OF whom 2t0
will he from Detroit. and II Is ex.
pected there will not be man in
the detachment who leaves behind
family dependent upon him
Practically all such men have been
discharged and others have been re-
cruited in their places. Captain
Lewis and Leut-Commander Lundy
are strict on this point. and they
have rejected many who appealed
with tears in their eyes to be taken
along
The Michigan naval militia eV.
pected until late Monday 20 start
for the Atlantic seaboard early
tuesday morning, but definite orders
came settinr the departure for
THURSDAY noon
The young sea lighters will leave
from the Union station over the
Psre Marquette and they will re.
ceive a popular demonstration. They
will be escorted TO the station by
veterans of the Spanish-American
war and the members OF the Michi-
gan naval brigade Of 1898. which
manned the L s s. Yosemite. Va
rious other military organizations
will accompany the naval militia
from the armory 70 CadillaeSQ.
where colors will hc presented 20
the battalion. MAYOR Marx and 9th
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10

lr prominent citizens will make
brief addresses al this point.
Members OF the FIRE commission
have decided that hremen who en-
list in any branch OF the army or
navy will be given leave Of absence
for the term OF the war and that
their places will be held open for
them pending their return. Several
firemen already have availed them
selves Of the opportunity.
DR.. w. l.. Babcock. superintend-
ent OF Grace hospital, who was ap-
pointed on a committee by the sec
retary OF war TO fX standard OF
hospital supplies and medicines for
use in the army has left for Wash
ington TO take up the work Dr.
Babcock will be given leave Of ab-
sence by the trustees OF Grace hos
pital.
Major Waldo, Of the Thirty-hrst
Michigan infantry. declares that one
of the great needs OF this regiment
Is better motor car equipment, and
he suggests that some public spirit
ed men might donate few auto
mobile trucks Major Waldo thinks
the regiment should have az least
eight automobiles before Il leaves
TO take the held again,
LieutCol. II. Burgess. corps OF
engineers. in charge OF the Detroit
district. has been notified that he
will be needed for active service.
He has already started 10 enlist men
for the engineer reserve corps Of
the army Major John n Poole
will be charge of the FIRST battalion
OF the regiment IAeut-Col Burgess
will organize.
The recruiting ofices in Detroit
on Monday sent TO joint the hghting
forces OF the country SO men, the
largest number recruited in a single
day since the war began. Each day
shows an increase over the proceed
ing day. OF the fighters who en-
listed on Monday 25 Joined the ma,
rines. l6 the army and % the navy.
Many others have been accepted by
all the offices and are only waiting
for waivers from the war depart
ment because they are slightly
underw eight or undersiEe Others
are having dificulty in proving that
they are citizens.
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10
BRAZIL TO.
BREAK WITH
GER man Y
Decision Reached By
President BraZ, Say
Officials
DEFENSE WORK
SPEEDED UP
Army and Navy Are
Getting In Shape
For Duty

RIO DE JANEIRO. April l0.-Bra-
zil will sever diplomatic relations
with Germany some time within the
next "a hours. An authoritative
source was quoted early today as
declaring the formal announcement
would be made before night
President Braz decision 70 take
this step followed formal report
from the Brazilian minister IN Paris
corroborsting in fun the story Of the
captain OF the Brazilian steamer Pa
rama as 10 the circums stances OF the
sinking OF that vessel by a German
U-boat Every detail OF the original
story. including the unWarned at
tack. the firing OF shells on the sink
ing vessel the deaths OF three Bra
Eilians by the explosion OF the tor.
pedo and the > hours OF suffering
In open boats endured by the sur.
vivors-many OF them wounded
was said 20 have been fully con.
hrmed.
n was expected that Switzerland
would assume charge OF Brazilian
interests AZ Berlin.
Minister OF Marine Alencar today
ordered speeding up in Brszil's ns-
val preparations and great activity
in national defense was indicated
But the ofncial governmental hope
is that there need not be actual war
declaration following the diplomatic
rupture, unless Germany gives addi-
tlonal provocation
The public on the other hand to
day apparently regarded the diplo-
matte break as purely a preliminary
step tu war.
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10

WASHINGTON, April lV.-lht
cabinet meeting today on the NTH
day OF the war had 10 consider
The Austrian break
Opposition within congress on The
administration army measures
The announced plans for financing
the struRgl".
Perhaps the most serious propo
sitiou beforr rhc cabinet TODAY Was
that OF congressional opposition 'o
the selectivc conscription idea. Cor.
Eress, instead OF meeting the emer.
gency quickly and unfsltsrIngly ia
hesitating President Wilson him
self has attempted-probably sue
cessfully-to stem the anu-draft
spirit within the military committee
itself
However. the general view today
was that this revolt against the ad-
ministration plans would crumble
As for the anaRee- demands, u Il
thought that they will he gladly
granted once they are introduced In
congress.
The administration plan is TO get
these under way Thursday and then
20 ofYer the bonds to popular sub
scription.
Everyone IN the United States will
have an opportunity 90 buy bonds.
Advertising may be resorted TO in
an effort 10 dispose OF this "Old
Glory issue. The bonds VIII prob
ably be sold in small denominations
30 that the people will have the wld-
est opportunity to subscribe.
Further steps towards Austria ap-
parently await the next move on her
part. Seizure OF Austrian vessels.
described as a protective measure. +"
is believed to have been undertaken
because OF the belief state OF war
II coming The government. II is
believed. preferred not TO take any
chances OF having the AUSTRIAN ves-
sells dismsntled.
Opposition 20 the presidents army
plan is not based on any reluctance
20 give him the money and men he
needs. according 20 Chairman Dent.
OF ne house military committee but
there g. difference OF opinion as TO
the means which should be en-
ployed.
Many members urge tha, the vol.
unteer system be given a trial be
fort resort Is had 10 compulsory
draft.
The Detroit times., 1917-04-10
Two Held as rhuas

Two men were arrested following
An attempt early Tuesday 10 rob
William Katssky, g.. In Michigan
Central sleeping car near DlX-avc.
They are George Davis. %, Brook
lyn ". Y. and Burt Fay, 80, Jack
son. Both are held on charges OF
attempted robbery. Katasky's as
sallants Knocked him unconscious
with coupling pin but obtained
nothing