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Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
HOLLAND MUST FURNISH the FIVE NEGRO SOLDIERS HANGED
SHIPS TO GET FOOD SUPPLIES AND TEN TO PRISON FOR LIFE
Men Were Convicted Of Murder in the
Houston Riot-Were Hanged
at Daybreak.

San Antonio, Tex.-Silently and
with no sign of emotion, facing the
east, where, two hundred miles dis
tAnt, had been committed the crime
for which they received the maximum
military penalty. five negro soldiers OF
Company l, TwOnty-fourth United
States Infantry, were executed by
hanging at Fort Sam Houston at day
break Tuesday morning.
The five men were: Privates Babe
Collier, Atlanta. Ca; Thomas McDon-
aid. Florence, s. c.; Joseph Smith,
Annapolis, Nd; James Robinson, Hart
ford, Conn; Albert D. Wright, Colum-
bus, Ohio.
The death sentences of the men for
their participation in the rioting at
Houston, Texas, August %, 1917, were
passed following a court-martial held
at Fort Sam Houston last October.
Only a few days ago the sentences
were affirmed by President Wilson,
who also commuted the sentences of
ten other negroes convicted at the
same time.
The execution Tuesday differed only
slightly in details from that of thir-
teen other negroes of the Twenty
fourth Infantry at Fort Sam Houston
December u, 1917. for participation
in the Houston riots. At that time
the condemned negroes went to their
death singing hymns. The negroes
Tuesday morning were silent anC
showed no sign of emotion.
Following the execution the men
fold, AS was the case in the execu-
tions last December, secrecy marked
the preparations. The scaffold was
erected at night and was torn down
Immediately after the execution. The
execution was directly in charge of a
noncommissioned officer. No an
nouncement was made in advance ex-
cept to the negroes themselves and a
statement that the execution had
taken place was not made until sew.
eraI hours after the men were dea0.
Within three hours after their eom-
rades' death, ten other negroes whose
sentences had been commuted by Pres
ident Wilson, were on their way to
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
the negroes whose sentences were
committed by President Wilson were
Corporals Robert Tillman, John G.
Eter and James H. Mitchell, and Pri-
Yates John H. Gould, Henry L. Che
nault, Edward Porter, Jr., Robert
Smith and EZekiah C. Turner of Com
pany I; Corporal CUTLER Walker of
Company K and Private Charlie Banks
of Company NJ, all of the Twenty
fourth Infantry, and all members of
the Tower A guard at Camp Logan
the night of the riot"
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
The new DRAFT CALL
IS FOR 1S1, 1888 men
All of the States in the Union Are Re
quired to Furnish Quotas
Under Order.

Washington-Draft calls announced
Monday by Provost Marshal General
CroWder will send 1888 men quail
fled for general military service to
army camps before October Is. All
States have quotas to fill. Of the to-
tai $4,000 will lie white registrants
who will entrain between October Z
and II. The remainder will be ne.
groes, who will move in two groups,
2O,016 entraining between September
25 and 27 and 10,752 on October 16.
Men who registered on September
IL may be needed in few districts to
fill the new quotas, it was said at the
provost marshal generals office, but
in most localities sufficient men remain
in class / from the registrations of
last June and August "a to meet the
requirements.
trants were called, with their numbers
and the camps to which they will go
include:
Arkansas 1886, Camp Pike, Ark.
Louisiana 1866, Camp Travis, Texas.
Mississippi 593, Camp Travis.
Missouri 6910, Camp Pike.
Nebraska 295, Camp Pike; 3712,
Camp Funston.
Oklahoma 2422, Camp Cody, N. NJ.
Tennessee 1882, Camp Greenleaf.
Texas 7941, Camp Travis.
Wisconsin 5000, Camp Macarthur,
Texas.
Total $4,000.
Negro registrants will be modified,
October 16, as follows:
Louisiana 259, Camp Travis, Texas
Tennessee 1000, Camp Sherman.
Texas 1910, Camp Travis.
Total 10,752.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
SOUTHERN TURNS AWAY SCORES
BECAUSE OF CROWDED
CONDITION..
ESTABLISH TRAINING CORPS
Session opening at Southern Univer.
sity Bids Fair To Be Most Success
full Year in the History of
the institute.
BRtnn Rouge


With 420 students presenting them
selves for enrolment by noon last
Wednesday, and long line waiting
to be admitted at the door of the
alumni building, the Louisiana State
University promises to have-R large
attendance this session.
The enlistment Of the student
army training corps at the university
probably will bring the attendance
up to one thousand or more, it is
thought. 1t is evident the enrolment
OF young women this session wifi be
materially in excess OF that of any
previous year, even though the num-
Der Of women attending the unWer-
sity has increased from Year to year.
Southern University already has en-
rolled 442 negro men and women Icr
its various courses during the session
now beginning, and has turned away
$50 more because of lack of room for
them, announces President J. S. Clark.
The session opening at Southern
University bids fair to be the most
successful in the history OF the insti-
tuition.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
SATURDAY, OCTOBER Il, IS.
PROCLAIMED LIBERTY DAY.
President Wilson Issues Proclamation
Asking Universal Observance
on That Day.

Washington.-Presi Wilson Fri
day proclaimed Saturday, October Il.
the four hundred and twenty-sixth an
niversary of the discovery of America,
as Liberty Day, and called upon all
citizens to celebrate it to stimulate
a generous response to the fourth lib
erty loan The presidents proclama-
ton follows:
Ever the great principles for which,
we are fighting take fresh hold upon
our thought and purpose and make it
clearer what the end must be and
what we must do to achieve it. We
now know more certainly than We ever
knew before why free men brought the
great nation and government we love
into existence, because it grows clear
er and clearer what supreme service
it is to be Americas privilege to rem
der to the world. The anniversary
of the discovery Of America must
therefore have for us in this fateful
year a peculiar and thrilling signifi-
canoe. We should make it a day of ar
dent rededication to the ideals upon
which our government is founded and
by which our present heroic tasks are
inspired.
Now, therefore, /, Woodrow viii.
son, president of the United States, do
appointed Saturday, the 18th day OF
October, 1918, as Liberty Day. On that
day l request the citizens Of every
community of the United States, city,
town and countryside to celebrate the
discovery Of our country in order to
stimulate a generous response to the
fourth liberty loan.
Commemorative addresses, pa
geants, harvest home festivals OF
other demonstrations should be ar
ranged for in every neighborhood un'
der the general direction of the Sec
retary of the treasury and the imme,
diate direction of the liberty loan COM
mittee, in cooperation with the Unit.
ed States bureau of education and the
public school authorities.
Let the peoples response to the
fourth liberty loan express the meas
ure of their devotion to the ideals
which have guided the country from
it's discovery until now, and of their
determined purpose to defend them
and guarantee their triumph.
For the purpose of participating in
Liberty Day celebrations, all employees
of the federal government throughout
the country whose services can be
spared may be excused on Saturday,
the 18th day of October, for the entire
day.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
Done in the District of Columbia
this 18th day of September, in the
year of our Lord 1918, and of the in
dependence of the United States of
America the one hundred and forty
third. WOODROW WILSON.
"By the president: Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State"
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
Large Quantities of C0rsslS and Other
Supplies Available II &oO, 1000 Tons
Of Dutch Shipping IL Released.

Washington-Ths 2cquiescence oi
the Netherlands government in Ger
man threats which kept 100000 tons
of Dutch shipping idle In port while
the people of Holland suffered foI
want Of the food these vessels might
bring is commented upon in q state
ment issued Friday by the state de-
partment to clear up misapprshension
as to the attitude Of the United States
toward exports to Holland.
The department expresses the hope
that the Netherlands government will
lift the embargo on the movement OF
its ships, which constitute the only
considerable unit of idle neutral ton
mage, and in effect gives notice that
appeals for American foodstuffs will
be in vain until Holland follows the
example of the Scandinavian cOun-
tries, Switzerland and Spain and en-
ters into equitable agreements with
the United States and the allies.
Reviewing the efforts of the Ameri-
can government to lend its assistance,
the statement discloses that, after re-
fusing to approve a tentative general
understanding for the export of enor-
nous quantities of food, petroleum,
metals and other supplies, reached in
London last winter, the Netherlands,
bowling to the German threat to tor
pedo even ships sailing between neu-
trail countries, failed to avail itself of
the offer of the United States and
the allies to permit the export of 100,-
900 tons of bread cereals as an emer-
gency measure. In spite of the free
licensing of bunker coal for ships
other than those originally stipu-
lated, and which carried $4,000 tons of
cereals to Holland, an additional 5O,-
900 tons, largely in Argentina, has
been left untouched for more than six
months.
The state departments statement,
in part, follows:
1T has always been, and still is, the
desire of the United States govern
ment that the resources of the United
States, in so far as they can be spared
from purposes essential to the success
full prosecution of the war, be made
available, under proper safeguards, to
neutral countries, in order to assist
them in the maintenance of their eco
nomic life.
'It has been the hope of this gov
ernment that an arrangement could be
reached by the war trade board with
the Netherlands authorities similar to
those reached with other neutrals
similarly situated, whereby imports
from the United States to the Neither
lands might be permitted. An under
standing was, as is known, tentatively
reached in London in January of the
current year, pursuant to which the
United States and the allied govern
ments would have facilitated the i'm
port to the Netherlands of ample
amounts of those supplies which were
judged essential for the economic life
OF that country. This arrangement
failed to receive the assent of the
Netherlands authorities
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

All arrangements are being made
for the annual Tangipahoa parish
fair, which is scheduled for October
II, Is and 1s at Hammond. the cata-
logue for which is being distributed
this week. The premium list provides
prizes for great variety of exhibits,
nearly 500 in number Increases IN
prizes over those of last year have
been made in the agricultural depart
ment, while special attention is given
corn clubs.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
Factory Girls Burn to Death,

Newark, n. Trapped in a cloak
room on the top floor, eight girls, a
boy and man perished Tuesday in a
fire which destroyed the plant OF the
American Button Company Another
girl was killed when, seeking to es-
cape from the flames. she leaped from
a window. Nine other girls were in
jured, several probably fatally.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Louisiana was one of the first states
to report to Washington regarding the
success of the registration OF all men
from IS to 35 on September II. and
a telegram has been received from
Provost Marshal General CrowGer
congratulating the State Council of
Defense upon the effective work of
the state and parish organizations in
securing one hundred per cent Or
ganization.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Parish taxes in Ouachita which
have heretofore been based ON q 80
per cent assessment will now be had
on an assessment of so per cent. This
action was taken at a session OF the
police jury as a result Of a deficit OF
$4,000 in the parish school fund and
the necessity of employing more
teachers at higher salaries than for
merly.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
Arkansas Convention Ends.

Little Rock, Ark.-The Arkansas
constitutional convention adjourned
sine die Friday after a three days
session called for the purpose o. per-
fecting the draft of the proposed new
constitution. The convention decIIed
to submit the document at a special
election on December Y.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

DR.. Dowling, president of the State
Board of Health, and Lieutenant AG-
Ter, of the Public Health Service. at
conference with city officials, ply
sicians and others at Monroe, com
pleted arrangements for the estab-
lishment Of a free outdoor clinic and
laboratory to be opened at st. Frances
Sanitarium.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Secretary Marshall of the State
Council of Defense says many thons-
ands of dollars worth of building con-
struction is being held up in Louisia-
ma by the new law and that probably
the mapority Of these applications
will have to be denied.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Pointe-a-la-Hache Exemption Boari
owing to the scarcity of labor to move
the growing crop, has notified all la
bee agitators Of draft age that entic-
ing of other laborers to leave will
cause them to be inducted into mill
tary service at once
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

The Council of Defense for Pla-
quemine parish has ordered the cen
sus taken of all able-bodied males and
females between the ages OF 18 and
As years and so acute has the labor
situation become in the fields for the
approaching sugar season that the
parish ocials will strictly enforce
the work or fight law.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

That Morgan City officers are rigid
ly enforcing the work or fight order
was evidenced by gambling raids
made when officers arrested a score
of negro gamblers, who faced Mayor
Shannon and were fined $25 and costs
or given Jail terms.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

The Catholic Church at Grand Isle
is nearing completion and will be del
icated in one month. The fair given
for the purpose of furnishing the in
terror of the church netted a good
sum
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

District Court for the Sixth District
convened at Monroe and after empan-
cling grand jury the court and grand
jury adjourned to October Il, due to
the fact that practically all members
Of the local bar are engaged in as
sisting recent registrants in nlling
out Questionnaires.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

The Liberty Loan campaign, which
really opens September 28, is being
planned for actively in advance, and
the big drive to be headed by Craw-
ford H. Ellis of New Orleans is being
organized and will start with full
force and program to push it through
to a successful finish.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Harvesting of corn on the lower
coast was finished this week and
larger crop was produced from a small
Ter acreage than last year. Large
quantities of hay are being cuS and
put into the barns.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Ten new wells were completed in
the Caddo oil field during the week
ending September Il. The approSt
maze total new daily production Of the
wells is 5,400 barrels. One million feet
gas well was brought in by the ARK
parish.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

The navel oranges in the groves at
Pointe-a-la-Hache are fast turning
yellow and getting ready for market
The growers will begin packing and
shipping to market next week.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Seventy-hve delegates attended the
Monroe District conference held near
Lostown recently, representing tue
Monroe Baptist and Methodist schools
and the Sunday schools Of Logtown
and Risor.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Migratory ducks have made theic
appearance in large numbers here
and at the famous feeding grounds at
the Jump" near the mouth of the
river.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

The large caulifiower crop at Grand
Isle is the most promising in years,
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Forces are being organized for the
fourth Liberty Loan drive at Shrever
port.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Work on the new nfe-saving station
1T Grand Isle is being pushed to COM
pletion, but it will require several
months vet before the station will be
ready for service.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Rev. Alonzo Early, director of the
w. S. S. drive in the Amite district,
reported that Amite has raised its
quota in the drive which ended last
Monday.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

Secretary Marshall of the State
Council of Defense says many thous-
ands of dollars worth Of building con-
struction is being held up in Louisia-
ma by the new law and that probably
the mapority of these applications
will have to be denied.
That Morgan City officers are rigid
" enforcing the work or fight order
was evidenced by gambling raids
made when officers arrested a score
of negro gamblers, who faced Mayor
Shannon and were fined $25 and costs
or given Jail terms.
Pointe-a-la-Hache Exemption Boar1
owing to the scarcity of labor to move
the growing crop, has notified all la
bee agitators of draft age that entic-
ing of other laborers to leave will
cause them to be inducted into mill
tary service at once
The Catholic Church at Grand Isle
is nearing completion and will be del
icated in one month. The fair given
for the purpose of furnishing the in
terror of the church netted a good
sum.
Harvesting of corn on the lower
coast was finished this week and a
larger crop was produced from a small
Ter acreage than last year Large
quantities of hay are being cuI and
put into the barns.
Seventy-five delegates attended the
Monroe District conference held near
Lootown recently, representing tue
Monroe Baptist and Methodist schools
and the Sunday schools OF Logtown
and Risor.
work on the new life-saving station
1t Grand Isle is being pushed to COM
pletion, but it will require several
months yet before the station will be
ready for service.
Both the parish police jury ana the
city commissioners each have voted
sums of $500 each to Shreveport Con-
federate veterans toward their ex-
pense fund out of which the aid will
give them to attend the reunion at
Tulsa, Okla
Rice farmers around Pointe-a-la-
Hache have harvested all OF their
first-planted rice and threshing is be
ing pushed to q finish. The yield is
good, with an average yield Of eigh-
teen sacks to the acre.
L. M. Firnberg. cotton gin inspector
for Rapides parish. reports that there
was a total of 1896 bales Of cotton
ginned to September /. this year, as
compared with 6s4 ginnedsto the same
date last year.
The oyster season has opened on
the lower coast and the fishing boats
are brfning in large quantities to mar
ket with good paid.
Cotton growers around Estherwood /
are protesting against fixing the price
OF cotton.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Monroe's new bank, the Citizens
National Bank of Monroe, has opened
for business.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Cotton growers around Estherwood
are protesting against fixing the price
OF cotton
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

The oyster season has opened on
the lower coast and the fishing boats
are brfning in large quantities to mar
ket with good zges paid.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

The number OF men between the
ages of Is and 45 who registered in
ST. Mary parish September IL was t.
ESQ.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

yellow and getting ready for market.
The growers will begin packing and
shipping to market next week.
Migratory ducks have made theic
appearance in large numbers here
and at the famous feeding grounds at
the Jump" near the mouth of the
river.
Rev. Alonzo Early, director of the
w. S. S. drive in the Amite district,
reported that Amite has raised its
quota in the drive which ended last
Monday.
The number OF men between the
ages of Is and 45 who registered in
ST. Mary parish September IL was t.
ESQ.
Engineer Kirkpatrick has finished
the preliminary plans Of the propos-
ed filtration plant for the city Oh Mon
roe.
Caddo and Bossier parishes will
work shoulder to shoulder in the
forthcoming fourth Liberty Loan
drive.
The boiler room of the Major Stave
Company at Monroe was destroyed by
fire recently for the third time WITHIN
a year.
Hfonroe's new cemetery is now be-
ing used, the first burial in the new
reservation taking place last satur
oay.
Monroe's new bank, the Citizens
National Bank of Monroe, has opened
for business.
The large caulifiower crop at Grand
Isle is the most promising in years,
Forces are being organized for the
fourth Liberty Loan drive at Shreve-
port.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Both the parish police jury and the
city commissioners each have voted
sums of $500 each to Shreveport Con-
federate veterans toward their ex-
pense fund out of which the aid will
give them to attend the reunion at
Tulsa, Okla.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Rfonroe's new cemetery is now be.
ing used, the first burial in the new
reservation taking place last Satur
oay.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Engineer Kirkpatrick has finished
the preliminary plans of the propos-
ed filtration plant for the city Oh Mon
roe.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

Rice farmers around Pointe-a-la
Hache have harvested all Of theil
first-planted rice and threshing is be
ing pushed to q finish. The yield il
good. with an average yield of eigh
teen sacks to the acre.
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1918-09-28

L. M Firnberg. cotton gin inspector
for Rapides parish. reports that there
was a total of 1896 bales of cotton
ginned to September 1, this year, as
compared with 6s4 ginnedsto the same
date last year.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-11
RE-ADvERT|SE FOR
NEW ROOF FOR JAIL

In The Journal this morning the
board of county commissioners ad
vertise for bids for furnishing the
labor and materials, for the removal
of the old roof and constructing a
new roof on the county jail and court
building at the corner of jefferson
and Zarragossa streets. This is a re-
advertisement for the performance
of such work, only two bids having
been received from the first adver-
tisement and one of those was not
in proper and legal shape.
The commissioners propose to hold
a meeting on the morning of Satur-
day. May Is, at which time the bids
will be publicly opened. 1t is the
hope of the commissioners that a sat-
isfactory offer be made for the work.
as a new roof is cry much needed
on the building.