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The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-16
VIII Order Tzvo More Cars
Buying Cheaper Foods; CITY
housewives Besiege Marker
Fire RACES. At Muscle
Shoals Nitrate Plant
First Reports Estimate Damage at Govern.
ment Plant at Sheffield as Great as
Sl000(0

Sheffield, Ala, Sept. 16.-Fire
last night entiry destroyed
warehouse No. Of the J. G.
White Engineering corporation at
Muscle Shoals, the loss being es-
timated at $100,0o0. The ma jor
portion Of the loss was on cleo
tricaI equipment.
Y ire Continued Through Night.
The two rire companies at the plant
and the companies from Sheffield
and Florence fought the flames, but
were unable to subdue them. The
fire ragged practically all night.
The origin of the fire has not been
determined, but an official investiga
tion will be made to ascertain the
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Fair. Saws Billy 'Possum.

The high cost
of living is the
subject of much
talk, and profit
GERS throughout
this world stalk,
and people ev-
erywhere are
waiting in sus-
pense to know
just why all this
expense. But it's
my idea, If ad-
vice | was Civ
ing, that the
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up his mind as TO whether the best
interests of the state would be met
by the calling of an extra session.
He declared that this was the i'm
preston he desired to convey to a
Chattanooga Times reporter when
questioned on the subject Sunday at
the depot in Chattanooga. and had
not said that he would not call an
extra session.
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INCREASE IN EGG STOCKS

Washington. Sept. l6.-Cold storage
holdings of case eggs on Sept, l..
showed an increase OF 1.4t7.90S cases
or 23.5 per cent, over Sept. l. 1918.
while the holdings of frozen eggs in
Creased 1,7SS.4lG, or 32.5 per cent. ac-
cordng tC tlgJ~"s lmIa publ" tCdny
by the bureau OF markets, Of The de-
partment of agriculture,
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$4,000 Fine and Five Years
For Men Who Steal Autos

Washington, Sept 16.-Thc house
yesterday passed and sent to the SEN
ate a bin making transportation of a
stolen automobile from one state to
another subject to five years iRpris-
onmcnt and $4,000 fine.
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B0OKBINDERS STRIKE

Demands for an Increase In Wage Scale
Denied.
Jackson. Miss, Sept. 16-Book bin
ders employed in the printing estab
lishments in Jackson. Meridian, Yirks-
burg and elsewhere in the state went
out on strike this morning when their
demand for a wage increase of 80 Ia
per cent. was refused by printing and
publishing concerns
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Red Cross Offers Every
Aid to Storm Sufferers

st. Louis, Mo-, Sept. 16.-Telegrams
were dispatched today to Gov. w. p.
Hobby, of Texas. and to the Red
Cross headquarters at Corpus Chris
II and Galveston, Tex, by Alfred
Fairbanks, division manager of the
southwestern branch of the American
Red c. - offering all the resources
OF thu ision to aid in the relief
work ~, being conducted in the
storm apt district of Texas.
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Esthonians Will Talk
Peace With Russian Soviet

stockholm, Sept, 16.-The Esthoniau
government has accepted the Russian
soviet governments offer to enter into
peace negotiations. according To a mes
sage received here from Rcval
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-16
Gov. Roberts Denies He Said He
Would Not Call Extra Session
States That He of the Same Opinion That He ha. Been All
Time-Has Not Yet Made Up Mind.

Nashville, 90 Sept. 16.-(Special.-
Gov. Roberts today declared that
newspaper reports to the effect that
he would not call an extra session
of the general assembly were not cor
rect. He declared that he was still
of the same opinion as he has been
since the question was first broached
namely, that he has not fully made
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RUBE BENTON MARRlES

Cincinnati, o., Sept 16.-"Rube"
benton' New York Nationals pitcher,
was married here today to Miss Elsie
NJ. McNutt, of this city
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-16
ANNISTON STRIKE CLOSED
Retail Clerks Out Since June %, Bach

Retail clerks Out Since June %. Back
at Work.
Anniston. Sept. lG.-One hundred
striking retail clerks of Anniston. who
have been out since June 2s. returned to
their former positions this morning
the differences between the clerks and
their employers having been submitted
to board of arbitration. The arbitra-
tors recommended that the clerks re-
turn to work at the same pay and on
the same basis as before the strike and
without discrimination.
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ket and other utensils brought along to
convey the groceries home were rnn-
ming over and in many instances fall
ig freely on the street "A poor little
woman like ME can't buy much if she
lives at a distance" one said. for the
chances are she would never get home
with the load"
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trouble lies in the cost of high living.
The weather? Fair tonight and
Wednesday with little change in
temDerntures
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-16
Five Injured in Riot
In Won Storch Colliery

Scranton, Pa. Sept. 16.-F'ive per-
sons were injured in rioting in the
Won Storch colliery of the Delaware
and Hudson Coal company when
members of the bolshevik element of
the United Mine Workers tried to
stop the other men from going to
work today. Two hundred men were
engaged in the fight, in which clubs
were being freely used, when the po-
lice arrived. Five arrests were made.
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$1,000 PEOPLE
| MADE HOMELESS
120 Bodies Found-Property
Damage Extends Into
Millions.
TIDAL WAVE 10 FEET HIGH
Business and North Beach
Districts Submerged-Gen.
Dickman Sends Food.

Dlckman Sends Food. >,
Austin, Tex, Sept. 16.-In a
telegram to Gov. Hobby this
afternoon, Brig Gen. Wolters,
of the Texas National Guard,
reported that there are more
than one thousand bodies strewn
along the banks of the Nueces
river and in the Corpus Christi
area.
Brig. Gen. Wolters stated that
this information had been re-
ceived in Houston and he be-
lieves the sources reliable.
The known dead whose bodies
were recovered today include
w. p. Helcher, a prominent real
estate dealer, and his wife; F.
w. O'Connor, newspaper man,
and H. Prater, policeman. The
latter lost his life while at-
tempting to save Henry Spiker
and twenty-six other persons
who were in his home when it
was carried away by the tide.
None of these persons have been
accounted for.
Despite the arrival today of
several relief trains, the food
and housing situation still is
serious. Thousands of persons
lost all of their belongings, es-
Gaping with only the clothing
they wore, which in many in
stances consisted only of bath
ing suits. Several bakeries re-
sumed operation today and
placed their output at the dis
posal of the Red Cross.
Twenty-nine bodies of vic
Tins of Sundays hurricane had
been recovered at Corpus
Christi by mid-afternoon. News
from Port Aransas, Rockport
and other points in this section
still was lacking.
One Hundred and Seventy Five Ref.
ugees Rescued.
approximately IT'S refugees have
been rescued at Odem, thirty miles
west of Corpus Christie, according to
telephone message received here.
They had been carried across Neucea
bay on wreckage. All of them were
suffering greatly from exposure. They
are being cared for by citizens.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex, Sept.
16.-With troops patrolIing the
main streets and relief trains
headed this way from many parts
Of the state, Corpus Christi to-
day began slowly emerging from
the wreckage caused by tho gulf
hurricane which struck the city
early Sunday, bringing de ath to
an unknown number Of persons
and doing property damage Of
millions. 1t was impossible this
morning to get anything like
correct estimate Of the fatalities.
In the city proper the death list
was placed by some officials at
between fifteen and twenty five,
but that was regarded by many
as far too conservative. In some
quarters il was said the number
Of injured would exceed 200.
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One Hundred and Seventy-Fivs Refs
ugees Rescued.

Approximately ITS refugees havs
been rescued at Odem, thirty miles
west of Corpus Christie, according to
telephone message received here.
They had been carried across Neucea
bay on wreckage. All of them were
suffering greatly from exposure. They
are being cared for by citizens.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12

SAN FRANCISCO.-The new ideal
Of a high valuation upon human be-
tngs has penetrated into one of the
darkest crannies of the world-the
Chinese slave-girl market of Amer
lean cities.
oldest and most noxious problems
connected with Chinese immigration
to the United States, today is rapid
ly passing out of existence. Even
In San Francisco, which has the larg-
est and most mysterious Chinatown
of any American city, the bought
and-paid-for Chinese maid is becom-
ing a thing of the past.
Significant of this great moral
change is the fact that the price of
these poor chattels has lately dou-
bled. Girls purchased in the slave
markets used to bring $500. Today
they cost $1,000 and upward, and are
hard to secure at any price.
The end of the illicit traffic in
human beings is in sight.
This great moral advance has been
brought about by two agencies,
working by different methods, in the
teeth of the most strenuous opposi-
ton that the worst element among
the Chinese could devise.
These agencies are: the United
States immigration service, with its
ceaseless activity at Pacific coast
ports; and the volunteer American
missionaries.
On a hill in the western edge OF
San Francisco's Oriental quarter
stands a red-roofed mission. High
binders tell the slave girls it is in
habited by a tiger which preys on
runaway slaves. Many girls who
have been rescued only after mis-
sionaries and officials have chopped
through doors and secret panels,
fight the rescuers through genuine
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12

relies on cunning and superstitious
ignorance on the part of his VIC
tim. On the other hand the mission
airy must match knowledge of Chi
nese customs against the knowledge
Of the dealer, and few Americans
ever know a Chinaman thoroughly.
Not so many years back when i'm
migration laws were slack, and en-
forcement Stacker, young girls were
landed here with little trouble. High
binders bought them at Canton for
$40 and sold them here for $500. To-
day the Canton price has scared to
$3.50. Consequently the slave trust
has advanced the price.
With the authorities at Angel Is
land, the western port of entry, draw
ing the net tighter, slave-dealing Is
rapidly passing. Today the high
binder, to play safe game, must
marry a girl in China before he can
get her into the United States. This
trick can only be worked once and
is not often INDUCED in.
The commonest method is to buy
Identification papers made out to an
American born Chinese baby taken
to China and not coming back to the
United States. Years later a slave
girl is substituted and American Of
ficials have hard time proving that
the slave is not the baby grown up.
That dealing in girl chattels will
never be stopped altogether unless
radical changes are made in the inn
migration law, is the opinion Of Chi
nese welfare workers. But when
river pirates in China recently cap
tured a deported San Francisco high
binder and beheaded him on the deck
Of a junk they unknowingly dealt a
hard blow to human slavery in Amer
lea. He was the head of the slave
girl trust"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
''WorId viii Go Naked,
When It's Educated"

A new religious cult known as the
Kosmanites are preaching the right
of the people of the earth to go
nude. Their leader, H. 7. Mercer,
who is a prison warder in one of
London's prisons, was indignant at
the premature discovery OF MS
church, small hut, hidden away
in the wilds near Plymouth, where
Boys and girls go naked up to fiji
teen years of age.
"When the world is educated, it
will go nude" asserted Brother"
Mercer, leader of the faithful. But
we were not yet ready for the dis
covery of our beief-the world has
not been educated up to it. We
believe that it is right to go to
church naked-to go entirely with
out clothes at all times, for this
gives the sun time 10 do it's work
beneficially, and it is more healthy
and more sane! Adoption of our
creed is bound to come, sure as fate,
and shame will disappear!
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
fear of being thrown to this mythical

fear of being thrown to this mythical
beast.
This is the home Of famous mis-
aldina Cameron, sweet-faced, white
haired-rescuer of girls.
Even the girl who has been COM
p1acent slave" can easily be per-
suaded to reform if she can get her
freedom. She does not need to FEAR
her past and cast her out.
Many young Chinese merchants of
the better class marry these rescued
girls and pay the former owner bIr-
gain prices to release his claim on
her. To attempt to marry her and
keep her without satisfying the debt
is counting assassination.
Black as is the heart of a slave
dealer, he has a characteristic which
plays directly into the hands of the
rescuers of girls-he is honest in his
bargains. A girl once sold is seldom
stolen.
Then there is the, typical Chinese
belief-a merciful belief-that mo
woman has past"
And a liberated woman makes "a
good wife and mother, according to
records Of such cases.
Miss Cameron fought the slave
traffic in the days when her life
was not worth the hole in a Chinese
coin.
Inspired by the crusaders fervor,
she labored to win the girls away
from the clutches Of old tradition.
Today her final victory is in sight.
At present the dealing in human
chattels in Chinatown has reached
destroy these young women has be-
come one of wits The slave-dealer
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
Girl Thought Dead Saved at
GnneV hV "ReIIoWS system"

After all hope for her recovery
had been given up. Miss Evelin
Thorton, eighteen years of age, was
resuscitated after she had been near
ly drowned at Coney Island, by the
new government life-saving treat
ment known as the bellows sys-
tenn"
Miss Tho-ton went out beyond her
depth, was seized with cramps, nd
sank Immediately. She was brought
ashore, and the life guards announc-
ed that she was dead. Policeman
Franklin Harmon, of the Coney Is
land station, who recently completed
a three-months' course of study in
a government school of the new sys-
tenn of resuscitation known as the
"bellows system" (Which consists of
pressure to the lower ribS) worked
over the girl for an hour, and, when
she showed signs of recovery, the
rulmotor was used to complete the
rescue.
Spectators considered the resusci
tation as remarkable, in view of the
girls condition.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
.PELLAGRA CURED
/, IN MISSISSIPPI

Parrie Nicholas. Laurel, Miss,
writes: Seems to me if l had not
obtained your treatment when l did
L would not have lived much longer.
1 am glad you discovered this Won
derful treatment for Pellagra. When
I began taking Baughn's Pellagra
Treatment my weight was 6O-odd
pounds; now it is 90-odd. 1 would
like to have this published and sent
to sufferers of Pellagra."
This is published at her request.
If you suffer from Pellagra or know
of anyone who suffers from Pellagra
it is your duty to consult the re-
sourceful Baughn, who has fought
and conquered the dreaded malady
right in the Pellagra belt of Alabama.
The symptoms-hands red like
sunburn, skin peeling off; sore
mouth, the lips, throat and tongue a
flaming red with much mucous and
choking; indigestion and nausea;
either diarrhea or constipation.
There is hope if you have Pellagra
you can be cured by Baughn's Pei
lagra Treatment. Get a big free
book on Pellagra. Address American
Compromising Co., Box 587-L, Jasper,
Ala, remembering money is refund
ed1in any case where the treatment
fails to cure.-(Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
Worlds Champion Prop oser, s.
Years Old, Tells How He Did 1t

All you fellows who have been
asking Mary Meredith's advice about
proposing to your ladye faire-lend
an ear. and we'll quote you man
who, by his own unblushing admis-
sion, is a postmaster in the gentle
art. He confesses that he has pro.
posed to sixteen girls, fourteen of
whom accepted him, and three of
whom married him-at different
times, Of course!
Gentlemen, we present Mr.. Charles
Ritch Johnson, of Toledo, Ohio, who,
at So, asserts that he has lost none
of his youthful charms, and who,
if he were single, would start gaily
in proposing again. He says that
you needn't bother about the place
the girl is all that counts. He
ought to know for he has proposed
amid unus1ai circumstances which
include the old hair-cloth sofa, the
top Of Washington's monument, in
six feet of water (here he proposed
to the girl whom another chap had
risked his life to save-and what's
sled with the temperature at -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12

below, in an apple orchard in spring
time Ooh, boyD, in cemetery while
seated on a tombstone, in a Ferris
wheel at the worlds fair, the morgue
of an undertaking parlor, and many
other unique spots. The first time,
he lost-because Of too much dig
nifty, he says. He won a blushing
undertaker's daughter, in the morgue
Of an undertaking parlor, within two
feet Of the stark corpse of a man
who had been murdered!
He deplores the ''cave-man" tao
tics of the present day, but also de-
plores the tendency Of some weak
spined young men to cling to a
girls apron strings.
My advice to young suitors is to
strike a happy medium-not too
hasty, not too slow, but plan the
campaign in accordance with cir
cumstances. Too many refusals are
based on faulty technique, or indif-
ferent planning"
And from his record, we think you
will agree that Mr.. John knows
whereof he speaks, so have a care
young mainland study his meth
OdSi
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
Sees Former
Pet Horse Overseas

There have been some odd meet
ings "on the other side" but perhaps
none more so than that of Sam"
and Norris L. Craig. Sam is a
trick horse-he shakes hands.
plays dead, rolls over and says his
prayers.
At the outbreak of the war, Sam
was sold to a buyer for the French
government. and after long train
rides, a crowded transport, and more
train rides, he saw active service
near the front, as the mount of
French cavalry officer
Then America entered the war, and
Morris L. Craig went overseas.
What was his delight and joy. one
day, to encounter Sam. back of the
lines. There was q glad and joyous
reunion between the two 'pals'' and
now Morris is trying to buy Sam so
shat he may return to America with
the rest Of The NanlSS
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
From Duck Chasing to Life
SaVinu for a HydrO-PIane

The Society for the prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals has been all
wrought up over the hydro-airplane
duck-chases at Patchogue, L: $50
much so that they warned W. A.
Riley, of the Hotel Clifton, under
whose auspices the chases were Civ
en-, that if another chase took place,
they would swear out warrant. A
hydro-airplane flies out over the wa
ter, live duck is dropped into the
water, and swimmers have lot Of
fun swimming for the duck.
Wednesday, Mr.. Riley announced
that there would be duck chase; the
S. P. c. A. was on hand, and Mr..
w. D. Walton, pilot Of the plane, tun-
ed up, to depart. At this moment,
there was a wild cry from the bay
and the crowd on shore saw a group
of young folk struggling in the wa
ter beside an overturned canoe: MI Mr.
Walton stepped into his plane, sailed
out-and returned half an hour later,
with the dripping passengers.
There wasn't duck-chase-but
the crowd of sport-seekers left, sat
isfied, at having witnessed, some
thing even more eXciting-becauSe
If was entire1v imprOmDtu.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
Bandit Meets Death on
Eve eof His Wedding Day

a man known as Peter swanson"
entered the First Trust & Savings
Bank, of Chicago few days ago, pre-
which he had written, Hand over
all you've got" The cashier hest
tated, the bandit shot, and the bullet
struck a bar Of the cage, saving the
cashier. In another moment, watch
man fired at Swanson, firing five
shots in rapid succession. The man
died later at a local hospital.
He was identified by his mother,
Mrs. J. ]. Slokerman, who said that
has was to have been married, the
next day, to Miss Hattie Algomino-
wicz, of Joliet, Ill.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
French Aerial Service
, Over Mediterranean Sea

TUNIS.-The Tunisian commission
transport has drawn up a Vost pro-
gram of colonial aviation and rec
ommends that a great aerial trans
port center be established here to
|centralize aerial traffic over the Med
|iterranean sea. The commission ar
CUES that Tunis occupies an adVan-
ltageouS position at the junction OF
French and interna tional Mediterra-
mean and that a regular aerial serv-
lice should be established between the
lefty of Tunis and the rest of this
|F'rench protectorate. Already a line
|of oirplanes is in operation between
|Gabes and the frontier Of Tripoli.
|This may be extended later to Tunis.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
UntimeIy Charivari
UniteS AnurV Lovers

There be people who complain of
the "vulgarity" of the western
charivari, when the friends Of an
engaged couple come around, at twi-
light, with boilers, ten pans, bells
and like instruments to make hide
Gus the night, as a "congratula-
lions" party. But Lieut.. John Over
holt, and Miss Mabel Rixse, who met
when the gallant lieutenant was in
the artillery, and Miss RiXse, a tele-
France, find something mighty nice
about it. They were engaged, and
their friends arrived for the custom
ary charivari, ust at the suspicious
moment when the two had quarreled
and decided to part forever. The
both, and they kissed and made up
in the presence of their friends
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
Just Once! Try D0dson's Liver Tone!
Take No CaI0neI! Listen To Me-!
If bilious, constpated headachy sick, guarantee
relief without taking dangerous calomeI
which sickens and salivates.

if it doesn't straighten you right
up and make you feel fine and
vigorous by morning, I want you
to go back. to the store and get
your money. Dodsons Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of calomeI
because it is real liver medicine; en-.
tirely vegetable, therefore it can
not salivate or make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson's Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean
your bowels of that sour bile and
constipated waste which is clogging
your system and making you feel
miserable. I guarantee that a bottle
of Dodson's Liver Tone will keep
months. Give it to your children.
1t is harmless; doesn't grippe and
they like it's pleasant taste.-(Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-12
People of MontCIair Object
To" CurI-and-Gir Songs

MONTCLAIR, N. j., being a most
progressive and influential city, has
community singing, of course: But
now they're having quite a bit of
trouble. Because the returned SOL
diers were tired of war songs, the
committee whose duty it was to Sc
lect the songs, tried out some of the
new popular ballads, with the re-
suit that the "highbrows" objected.
a fool, when he's singing one of
these curl and girl ditties," as one
business man expressed it, but he
can't help FEELING like one!'
So, from now on, they have decid-
ed to sing "oId favorites" on Thurs
day and Friday evening, and the
other nights, the newer melodies.