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The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
ALABAMA TOWN WIPED OUT
Tornado Leaves Eight Dead and rs
injured-Twister Hits Cowarts'
Passes into Georgia.

Dothan, Ala.--Six children are re-
ported to have been killed and 40 9TH
ers injured more or less seriously
when a schoolhouse two miles east or
here was demolished by the w1ndstorm
which swept this district. Reports
also said that one man was killed ana
a. score injured at Webb, Ala, ten
miles northeast of here.
Montgomery Ala.-Seven persons
were killed and rs injured at CoWarts,
Ala. and the entire town was destroy
ed by a tornado, a rel -rt received at
the local office of the Atlantic Coast
Line railway said.
Cowarts is six miles east OF Dotnan.
All wires are down in the country hit
by the storm.
Macon, Ga-A tornado followed by
torrential rain, swept down on Ma
con and vicinity, killing one man, IN
turing several others and damaging
property seriously in the city and at
Camp Wheeler, near here. All COM
munication with the camp was cut OH
shortly after the storm broke, but tel
ephone communication, re-establlshed,
revealed that the greatest damage
done there was from the rain, which
had flooded many OF the hospital tents,
16 of which were blown down.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
!. W. WIS ARE CONVICTED
Highest Court Sustains Seven Con-
victions, Including Three Ohtoans'
Who Get One Year.

Washington.-Rigid operation OF the
selective service act was upheld by
the Supreme Court, which sustained
conviction OF Emma Goldman ana
Alexander Berkman on charges of con-
spring to prevent the operation OF the
law by urging men of draft ages not
to register. Ohio DEGREES sentencing
Charles E. Rathenberg, Alfred wagon
knecht and Charles Baker to one year
Imprisonment for violating the drart
law also were sustained by the court
Sweeping on through the draft law
cases appealed to it the highest trl'
bunal upheld conviction OF Louis
Kramer and Morris Becker on charges
of conspiracy to prevent persons OF
draft ages from registering In New
York.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
TT CRIES
DIT FOR FUEL
WITH COAL CARS PILED AND NO
WAY TO MOVE 'EM-FRElGHT
SERVICE ABANDONED.
Switching Is Halted East OF Pittsbur9
Famine to Continue Ten Days at
Least, and Less Vital Industries
Must Curtail Output.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-All the northeastern
section of the country faces critical
shortage OF coal, worse than any ex-
perienced this winter. Reports re-
ceived by the Director General OF Rail-
roads state that all freight movement
has been abandoned east from Pitts
burg and Buffalo. Coal cars are plea
I'M bv the thousands at various switch
ing centers. Switching has Deen
paralyzed. No freight is moving out
of Pittsburg or Buffalo to Chicago.
Passenger service has been abandon
ed on all through service east OF chi
cago; only few local trains are run
ming east of Buffalo and Pittsburg.
Curtailment of coal to the less essen
tiaI industries in Eastern cities as
means of relieving the fuel famine Will
be begun. Reports to the Fuel Admin
istration told of continued widespread
suffering in New York, Philadelphia
and other cities. Apportionment or
coal will be left largely to Federal
Fuel Administrators in the states in
which supplies are short. They Will
work under general instructions from
Fuel Administrator Garfield to supply
first householders, and next industries
producing war materials. Many indus
tries whose products are not necessary
for waging the war probably VIII be
REQUIRED to shut down until the fuel
crisis is over. DR.. Garfield instructed
p. S. Noyes, head Of the Fuel Admin
istration's Conservation Division, to
proceed from New York to Boston to
ascertain tn situation in New Eng
land. Mr. Moves went to New York to
assist Fuel Administrator Wiggin IN
procuring fuel supplies for New York
Fuel Administrators in the various
states already have been given rather
wide powers in apportioning coal IN
cases of emergencies, but the shortage
has become so general throughout the
East that DR.. Garfield has decided spe'
cific instructions concerning distribu-
ton must be issued. The less essen
tial industries will be treated alike in
all the Eastern States and Fuel Ad-
ministrators will be asked to observe
the general rules to be drawn.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
TWO PERISH, TWO MISSING
Death List In Connecticut Hospital
Remains at Two, While Loss is
to Be Determined.

Middletown, Conn.-The death list
in the fire which swept wing of the
Connecticut Hospital remains at two,
with two other patients missing. The
damage to the building and contents
is estimated at 100000 and the cause
of the fire still is to be determined.
The surviving patients of the burned
wing are safely housed in other Sec
lions of the hospital. 1t is believed
both of the missing patients may have
got away in the confusion attendant
upon the fire.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Food and Coal Get Priority.

Washington-Int with rail-
road transportation by the blizzard lea
Director General McAdoo to establlsh
limited priority orders on coal ana
food for New York and vicinity, giving
the first instructions of the kind since
he recently cancelled all formal prl--
ority. For the Middle West, where
most freight and passenger traffic still
was held up by frigid weather ana
deep snow, Mr.. McAdoo issued no prl-
oritv orders, but railroad arrangements
received instructions to move coal ana
food ahead of all other shipm ents aud.
to do their utmost to clear the snow
from main travel routes.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Enrmer Premier Arrested.

Paris.-Former Premier Joseph
Caillaux, who has been under invea-
tigation by the authorities in conneG.
ton with the German propaganda id
France, was placed under arrest. The
arrest of NJ. Caillaux was announced
in an official note which states that
Police Commissary Priolet, with a
warrant from Captain Bouchardon, the
military investigator, arrived at %
Alphonse de Melville street, NJ. Call
laux's apartment, to arrest him. In
the presence of Madame Caillaux the
commissary notified the former Pre-
mier of the fact of the warrant.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
THEFT OF $4,000 REVEALED
Suicide Of Army Captain at Camp
Funston Reveals Murder and
Theft of Money.

Camp Funston, Kan.-Details Ct the
manner in which Captain Lewis j.
Whistler robbed the bank of the army
cantonment here and killed with a
hand-ax four of the men who were in
the building were told to army Off
GERS by Kearne7 Wornall, who, him
self seriously wounded, was the only
survivor of the Captains fury. For 4S
hours Wornall, who was cashier of the
bank. had lowered between life and
death. But his progress was so salts
factory to the physicians that they per-
mitted him to tell :he full story OF the
tragedy.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
cerm.n Masquerades AS Seaman.

Seattle, Wash-Federal agents as
serted that a German spy, masquerao-
ing as helmsman under the name Oh
william Swanson" stood at the w1eef
of the Alaskan liner Spokane when she
crashed into the rocks off Idol Point
B. c., on the night of November 2zr
1917, while bound from Southeastern
Alaska for Seattle, with 237 passer-
gers. Swanson" has disappeared, the
agents said. With Carl E. Else, a Ger
man, and Carl Wiltsche, an Austrian
members of the crew, he was arrested
November % on his arrival here. The
three were released December 1.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
BILL PASSES HOUSE
COURAGE OF MANN AND SIMS
IN RISING FROM SICK BEDS
SAVES DAY FOR WOMEN.
Republican Leader Is In Time to Vote
aye" and Fellow Member, Hurt IN
Fall, Answers "Yes."-Resuit Is a
Triumph For Rankin, of Montana

Washington, d. C.-The woman sur
frase constitutional amendment bill
passed the House by vote OF 2|4 TO
1856. The result was so close that the
victors actually had not a single vote
to spare. Two-thirds of 410 votes (the
total of 374 yeas and 1876 nays) makes
136 and two-thirds. But the House
parliamentarian ruled that you can
not split a man" into one-third OF
any fraction Only the bare two
thirds majority, therefore, was ob-
tanned, Speaker Clark not voting.
Suffrage leaders commended the
courage of James r. Mann, the Repub-
lican leader, and Thetus w. Sims,
Chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Committee, without whose votes the
measure could not have been passed
Had not Representatives Mann and
Sims both risen from their SICK peas
in order to vote aye the result would
have been in dire jeopardy. The only
thing that could have saved the sur
frage day would have been that with
only one OF these men present, Inefe
still was Speaker Clark to be counted
on. The suffragists had him as AN
ace in the hole" for he was scheduled
to vote aye.
Mr.. Mann has been i'll in hospital
m Baltimore, and Mr.. Sims, one OF the
foremost House Democrats, fell on the
ice two days ago and injured himself
These two votes represent the margin
obtained over the necessary tWo-thlrds.
Mr.. Sims daughter, Mrs. Louis
Brownlow, is President of the local
suffrage organization, and also the
wife of one of the District Commits
sioners.
When the vote was announced the
galleries, which we're crowded with
women. burst into a salvo of applause
such as the Chamber has n t heard in
wears. Speaker Clark made no effort
to restrain it.
With President Wilson's indorse-
ment having insured them success, sur
frage statisticians passed the day can
vassing the Senate Definite assur-
ances we're obtained of vote by Feb
ruary l.
Expectation is that the same forces
which carried the amendment to sue
cess in the House will repeat them
selves in the upper branch of the Con-
gress, and that the amendment VIII be
before the various Legislatures for
ratification within a month. Suffrage
party headquarters declared the meas
ure would be part of the National
Constitution within two years.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Three Score officers Are Slain.

London.-The Daily Mails Petro-
grad correspondent reports rioting has
been going on for several days at Sc
bastopoL Apparently the rioting was
started by the crew Of torpedo boat
who arrested their officers and shot
them. The sailors then made whole
sale arrests, and many lynchings fol
lowed. Sixty-two officers were killed,
including Vice Admiral Novitsh and
three other admirals.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
GHOULS ARE SHOT TO DEATH
MANY Shot to Death at Guate-
mala While Robblng Earth
quake Victims.

San Salvador-The newspapers
print with reserve report brought
here by traveller from Guatemala to
the effect that the number of persons
killed in the recent earthquakes il
Guatemala was estimated at 5000
The traveller said that more than one
hundred persons were shot while rob
bling the dead. He added that many
of the inhabitants of Guatemala were
fleeing for safety to Mexico and Sal
vador.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Russia Is Warned.

Petrograd.-I the course of New
Years message to the Russian people,
David r. Francis, the American Am
bassador says: The Russian people
can not too often be reminded and
too deply impressed by the fact that
their hard-earned freedom is leopard
lied by negotiations for a separate
peace. nor that if Germany dominates
Russia their liberty and the fruits OF
the revolution will be sacrificed.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
AMERICAN SHIP
IS SUNK AT SEA
FOLLOWS U-BoAT ACTIVITY IN
THE GuLF-oIL TANKER Te->-
AN GOES TO OCEAN BOTTOM
After Being Rammed BY Unknown Ad-
vers1 ry-Navy Officials Receive
Confirmatory Report, But Doubt %
Expressed AS to Fate of Crew.

Western Newspaper Union News Servics'
-Warships were rush.
ing to the rescue of possible survivors
of the American oil tanker Texan, re-
ported to have sunk at sea following
collision with another vessel. Offlclal
report of the accident was received at
the Navy Department, following day
of unconfirmed rumors The Texan
and the vessel it collided with are re-
ported to have been under convoy
Attempts were made in some quar-
tiers to establish connection De-
tween the rumored sinking OF the
Texan and the report that German
submarine had been sighted in the
Gulf OF Mexico. The Navy Depart
ment has received no confirmation OF
the latter report, however, and is dis
posed to scout 1t.
No information was forthcoming as
to the location of the Texan at the
time of the accident, nor were any
other details available beyond the
bare statement of fact given above.
The name of the vessel with which the
tanker collided is withheld. While 1t
is assumed that the conveying war"
ships picked up all survivors other
vessels were sent to the rescue, Twas
learned.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
eattIe sbio Florida Awarded Cup

New York-The United States bat
tie ship Florida has been awarded the
American Defense Society cup for
making the highest score during 1917
at short range target practice for bat
tie ships. it was announced. Annual
presentation of the cup has been the
occasion heretofore of a celebration for
the purpose of increasing public inter
est in the navy.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Electric Power is Cut of.

Jersey City, N. I-what was de-
scribed as "a general industrial shut
down" took place when electric power
for commercial purposes was discon-
tinued for "a hours by the Public Serv-
ice Corporation, under its plan to con-
serve fuel by Withholding electric pow
or three days a week in different parts
Of the state.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Nins Men Still Missing.

Washington.-Nine men OF the
American steamer Harry Luckenbach,
torpedoed and sunk on January 6. are
still missing, the Navy Department an
nouneed. based on a report from Vice
Admiral Sims.
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
kin Eour MiIltarY PoIieemen.

Camp Funston, Ksnsas.-Four mill
tary policemen and a banker were
killed when a band of robbers attempt
ed to ROB the bank at the army can
torment here. The robbers. it was
said. wore soldiers uniforms. Charles
=. winters, one Of the victims. was
vice President OF the Kansas City Re
serve Bank
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Max Reeounize LenIne.

acknowledgements in the Rus
so-German negotiations, the Daily
Chronicle says, are likely TO cause the
Western Powers to give de facto rec
IGNITION to the Lenine Government in
Russia
The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1918-01-25
Must Refund Fares.

Chicago, Hit was said upon re-
ceipt of news of the UNFOLDING of the
Illinois two-cent fare law by the Su-
preme Court of the United States that
Illinois railroads will have to refund
approximately 100000 Of excess
fares since May 1, 1917.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-12

FEW people have kept the location of the Ukraine mind that publish
the which the
Ukraine has signed with the central powers the Ukraine the
portant locality
The inability of the bsheyf handle the delegates from Una in
responsible the Petrograd dmobing
Russian army which yesterday While the
already established the acton yesterday pessnstc
that the allies
OF the Ukraine with with all be
aa to real democracy The refusal of the bohev admit the Ukranan
the first parey Lov has indeed been dreadful
tons with the Ukramlans which bore fruit
AS concerned the bolheyk The
relief which had will the black
cts the Ukraine One of the important provisions of the
full
ties The importance of this understanding appreciated when recalls
constitute the old entity, the Ukraine
Ukraine
Oklahoma decided they had
the southwestern federation and
This analogy
the several independent formed federation and
incorporation provinces with the Russian empire
Ukaians further advanced civilization booded
culture machinery agriculture other Of the
which rapidly is crushing to small pieces
cherished naonsc
suffered the partitions that bel their neighbo the north
fact King Ferdinand The Rumanans
nothing do but crunch between their bloody
portion the old Rumanan which the hands
o loyal forces.
multiplying Hndenbug making
OF Mh by PcrsgS The
between Metz
trying dispositions which
medicine before
troops the first line local attack without French assiancW
NJ H.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-12
MECHANICS WANTED.

WITH that caption appropriated from the Classified
" advertising pages, we renew appeal for to
build the nations ships Nonsinkable transports promised
as result Of Yankee ingenuity will help and relentless
war on submarines serve the tonnage aioat
but were there guarantee that vessels should be
torpedoed there would still be a demand for more ships.
Unfortunately there Is such guarantee hence the need
for ships Is the more imperative. The only way to
get the ships is to build them and America is prepared
do its share and in this constructive program II only
adequate army Of skilled mechanics be enlisted for
the cause.
This week the Oklahoma Council OF Defense Is con.
dueng drive to fill It's quota Of 5000 to the army of
Of the shipping program The council should have
the help Of every patriotic citizen who be useful in
filling the quota II you aren't artisan of the sort
used in ship yards, probably you know who is and
can say word which might influence him to respond
to the call Emphasize the fact that this is service
patriotic manning these ships for service, going
to the trenches in France Ships the greatest immediate
need and their construction has bearing not only the
war but the conduct OF business generally lack Of
ships handcaps the railways cogging terminal facilities
and delaying inland transportation
Incidentally il may be added that the mechanics wanted
will be well paid but the ship yard place to seek
soft snap, Men wanted who willing TO give the
nation their best endeavor because that best Us needed
and not merely for wages offered however liberal they
may be- Let this state exceed its quota in this instance
as has so frequently heretofore
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-12
LITTLE HOPE OF PEACE.

DRESlDENT WILSON'S reply 10 Won lienling and
Count Crefnin delivered 10 congress and The wide
Sord yesterday was the moderate statement Of states
man who feel, sure Of his ground Plainly the president
pointed that there be peace but one Of justice
which will make peace permanent throughout the world
lie showed distinctly how far Won Ilenng particularly,
fell short Of approaching such basis and while oeditng
CIernn with iendlier tone, cited the obligations Of
Austria TO Germany as probable why the count
did not yield more in his recent speech.
But while the lais, state paper is moderate in II, tone
is also firm and while peace talk holds little hope
Of immediate termination Of hostile, When peace comes
will not be the patchwork affair which Germany seeks,
with Il, balance Of power and barerng Of peoples II the
lates, speech seem, gener in tone than the to which
the central empires replied there !, consolation in the
fact that II shows sign Of yielding
Just now this war looms like great calamity to many
Of u.s. To many il may mark the end Of ie and to others
sacrifice Of that which is dearer Tho one, life the
sacrifice Of SON, Yet as awful as Il h II, premature end
ing would be worse for that would that all the years
Of blood and sacrifice had been in vain and that the
trouble must certainly break ou, airesh future day
when Germany had again marsasd her legion and her
resources for the fray Former Presiden, Taft
rect in his analysis Of the situation yesterday when he
told the soldiers that only pro-Germans are seeking
premature peace
So Il is we'll that we read peace talks carefully and
grasp their meaning that they may build up false hopes
Instead because only peace must come the peace Of
victory let bend every effort to the work Of winning
such goal As spokesman for America and the allies,
President Wilson has stated terms which must be met
and until they the sparing Of the Statesmen will mean
less than the dueng Of the guns, which must ultimately
decide the issue.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-12

LINCOLN AND WILSON.

AS THE NATION pays its annual tribute to that martyr
- president on this anniversary Of his natal day seems
fitting also TO consider the present president who guides
our country through another awful crisis Lneolns work
d done. and history and time have proved how we'll
free nation never firmly unhed Is America today
and al honor Is due that master hand who held Il TO m
course throughout four fearful years As result OF his
sifcrs this land whstood the shock Of civil war, and
~ common sense Of free people, together with the
soohins touch Of time have healed the wounds. The
tsbules we pay to Lineon memory well earned, and
spsins from grateful people
But here today Is crisis gayer than that which Lincoln
imew for not the freedom Of America alone Is threatened
snd all Of America instead Of single minority race, but
the entire freedom Of humanity the whole principle Of
free government Barely venturng in and not yet feeling
the strain and suffering Of war; II is conceivable that
America despite the vaor OF her allies and the remend
ON sacrifices they have made, may still have harder
ask In store than that which tried the soul Of Lincoln and
won for him undying fame
And now a. then the burden Of responsibility in this
Great venture rests heavily chief executive To
him the nation looks for guidance to him the world APP
peas for succor and for susenance and the force which
shall decide the battle In favor Of humanity How such
man must need the support OF the people he serves
can only imagine. History has given perspective to
measure TO- some extent the load which Lincoln carried
and that In measure should help us understand the
present demands loyalty to the tired in the
Whits House He has grefs enough and troubles wshou
pstv dsssnsions and csrping criticism at home An
American is who 10 willing to help solve this problem
vhkh now vexes all the world.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-12
A DISTASTEFUL TITLE.

THE CLOSING NUMBER of musical text book used
in the Oklahoma City schools is entitled "Fatherland
Psalm" That, to put It mildly is helva title for a
song be sung in American schools. An American calls
this our country" "our native country" sometimes
he land Of fathers but he doesn't speak Of il the
"faherland" title which has become most dstasefu
since pro German publication appeared under that
to preach treason II dare The word is
like vaterland to suggest Teuonc origin 1t is also
doubtful if America the land referred by the author
Of this psalm" At any rate, said author has a name
suggestive Of sauerkraut 1t is well known that German
propaganda tries to sneak into the school books and while
this may not be instance the title suggests it, and we
shouldn't blame children for declining with thanks to sing
anything with such a name.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-02-12
FOOLING THEMSELVES.

GERMANY may kid the Prussian proleariat with
Published statements that but 10000 Americans have
arrived in France However the difficulties Of foolng all
Of them all the time numerous and well known. Mini
srns Americas effort may have soothing effect the
German mind and to that extent be worth the effort and
lie more less is negligible addition to the sins Of
official Germany But there is the possibility that this
form Of fiction may prove boomerang when the kaisers
Iesoas get the rude awakening coming to them when they
meet American troops in force Autocratc the Teuonc
government Is much Of its strength still lies in the
fdence Of the people and too many lies for home
sumption to be revealed in time cannot fail under
mine that foundation A government founded on might
and butressed by irshtfuness and trckery not likely
Do endure