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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Girl Of 13 Years Averts Panic Among Pupils
As Fire Breaks Out in Big Chicago School

through the |corridors of the school
building, while, nearly 1000 other
to fresh air and safety.
In less than. three. minutes after
Vivian had sounded her first chord
the last pupil had left the school
and that was Vivian.
The fire itself didn't amount to
much, aside from possibility that
it's start wasn't accidental. Where
the real danger lay was in the panic
that Vivian White and her familiar
march averted, for there hadn't been
a single practice drill this term and
never been through one.
But they did know Vivian and
they did know her tune, and they
did keep coolly stepping. 1t was
only a few minutes past 2 o'clock
when Miss Margaret Norton, teach
ing in a classroom on the third floor
noticed smoke curling through a
flue.
She sent a pig-tailed messenger
post haste to Mrs. Jeanette P. Rob-
inson, the principal, and straight
away bells were changing in every
story.
Heroine Vivian, who is thirteen
was on the third floor herself, but
in less time than it would take the
fastest typesetter to tell about it she
was at her piano.
In even less time smoke had
poured up out of the basement,
where a storeroom stocked chiefly
with drawing paper was on fire.
Louder than ever before played
Miss Vivian. Faster than ever be-
fore flew her fingers, and in time
with the dutiful humping of the
Motor March" the school building
was emptied
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Turner County Land
Doubles Value in Year

ASHBURN, CAN. w. Wilt
ford has bought from D. W.
Byrd fifty-four mad half acres of
more for $500, an average of S96.33
per acre. The same land was bought
last spring from the late Mr.. w. D.
Fountain for $4,000, showing an in
crease in value of 70 per cent. Add
in gthe value of the crop made this
year, the place has doubled in value
in one wear
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Bramlett, Charged With
Killing Mother-iin-Law,
Found Guilty Of Murder

G. ,ENvILLE, S. CA verdict
of guilty. carrying the death SEN
tence, his been returned by a ses-
sions court jury in the case of Hugh
tried for the murder of his mother
in-law, Mrs. L. G. McHugh. Notice Of
a motion for a new trial was entered
by counsel Immediately afther the
pronouncement of the verdict. Unless
a new trial is granted either by a
circuit judge or as result Of an
appeal to the supreme court, Bran
lett will be sentenced to death by
electrocution at the state peniten-
larry.
The jury deliberated only about
an hour after a trial lasting eight
days, the longest murder trial on
record in the county, and perhaps
in the state. Scores of witnesses
were examined and the defense
staked all on the plea that Bram-
lett was insane when he shot his
mother-in-law. and sister-in-law at
their home in Greenville on the
night of June 1S, last.
Eramlett drove his sedan auto
mobile, to Mrs. McHugh's home,
stopped the car, bounded up the
McHugh and daughter, Peola. AS he
started back down the steps, he
turned and fired another bullet into
the PROSTATE form of his mother
in-law.
A boarder sitting on the porch
was not struck. Bramlett testifying
in his own defense, said he remem-
bered nothing of what happened at
the McHugh home. He insisted he
was justified in killing Mrs. Nc
Hugh ito release wife and children
from bondage of hatred"
Bramlett is the fifth person to
be convicted of first degree murder
at the present term of the court.
a record unparalleled in this
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Senate Votes to
Furnish Equipment
For y. c. Y. Reunion

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 10
oBth Georgia senators Friday urged
Chairman Kahn, of the house mill
taTy committee, to speed action on
the senate resolution authorizing the
war department to lend tents, cots,
blankets and cooking utensils for the
Confederate Veterans reunion in At
lanta in October. Although preced-
ents were against such broad author
ity, the senate voted unanimously
Friday afternoon to adopt the resolu-
ton as introduced by Senator Will
liam j. Harris.
Earlier in the afternoon Senator
Hoke Smith and Senator Harris ap-
peared before the senate military
committee and obtained a unanimous
favorable report. Senator Harris told
the senate it was probably the last
request the Confederate veterans
would make and without objection
the army authorities were authorized
to supply such equipment as the vet
Grams may need for their reunion.
Equipment damaged will be account
ed for by the reunion fund
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Douglas County Votes
100000 Road Bonds

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - Douglas
county has voted 100000 in
road bonds by an overwhelming ma
jority. Every precinct inithe county
gave bonds good majority. The
vote was GIG for and SO against out
of a total reeistered vote of 1,400.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
BIB MILL CLOSED
AFTER TWO NEGRO
WOMEN ARE SHOT

MACON. Ga. Sept. 12.-Followins
a night of disorders in which MANY
shots were fired, two negro women
employed at Mill No. 2 Of the BIB
manufacturing company, whose en-
ployes have been on strike for three
weeks, were shot this morning. Jen-
ME Lee Gilmore, fifteen years old,
was seriously wounded, and Della
Allen, an aged woman, was wounded
IN the arm and shoulder.
Forty non-union workers on one OF
the company'S trucks were on the
way to the mill when a short dis
lance from the plant, a man step
PED in front of the truck and ordered
the driver to stop. He had some
thing wrapped in a handkerchief.
Payne Allen, employed in the Of
flee of the company, was driving. He
increased the speed and as the
vehicle swept by twelve or fifteen
shots were fired by persons in the
group of strikers. The women were
the only persons hurt.
Immediately afterward, it was an
nounced that the mill would be
closed for the day.
The police say they have the name
Of the man who tried to stop the
truck and he will be arrested in a
short time.
Rioting was reslmed in the mill
district last night.
After strikers and their sympa-
thizers had whipped Mrs. Alice
Wheeler and her daughter, they at
tackled the home of Mrs. w. T..
Crosby wife of foreman in the
mill. Mrs. Crosby and five daugh-
ters are employed in the mill.
Mrs Crosby opened fire on a crowd
of 500 who had congregated in her
yard and in the street in front of
her home and were hurting stones
at the place. 81 shot six times at
them and they scattered" said Mrs
Crosby The police made three ar
rests in connection with the dis.
turbance. The court decided Mrs.
Crosby was justified in shooting.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
HOW FOREST HEROES WON GREATEST FIRE BATTLE
BY Jim MARSHALL

ON THE FIRE LINES, NORTH
ERN IDAHO.-Through scores of
smoke-flled gulches, over fire-swept
hilltops and in the midst of blazing
forest infernos thousands of grimy,
red-eyed men had for weeks been
! fighting the twin demons of fire and
wind.
Sometimes the fighters won skir-
mish, but the main battle was de-
termined largely by fire and wind.
I'll fight anything" said a United
| States forester to me, as we stood,
gasping and painting on top of
ridge near Wallace, Idaho. up which
| flames were advancing. but when
they put me up in direct competition
with the Lord Almighty, WE'LL APP
| preciate the compliment, but I'll have
| to admit the Lord has me faded"
The ration truck, humping up the
CANYONS IN the early morning, had
| dumped me off at the fire camp. L
had come there to do my bit in the
| battle to curb the rudy demon.
Just, over the Hill the whole world
| was ablaze.
Twelve men were lined up, waiting
| to go out-by request.
| "Wobblies," explained the forester
They're no good" he said. 1
| haven't caught 'em setting any fires,
| but they're certainly in no hurry to
put 'em out. They argue politics on
| the job, too"
We climbed straight up the rocky
| hillside through an old barn" for
| l,5OO feet. Some of us logged damp
| water bags, others hauled mattocks,
saws and axes
Wind Fans Fire to Fury
| =. Overhead a blood-red sun shone
dimly;., Shrouding everything was a
ghostlike mist. Here and there an
smoke. The ground was inches deep
| in powdery ashes. Dimly doomed
| the blackened spires of dead trees,
still smoking.
No living thing, save the black
IN, that redhot waste. The inhuman
| silence was broken only by the can
non-like crashes of dead trees fell
ing, and the hoarse voices calling for
| water.
Then-a little dust devil whirled
through the ashes; a breath of the
| coming wind. Immediately from
down in the .gulch came a suIlen
cracking, which turned swiftly into
an ominous roar as the flames swept
up the gulch.
Near the mouth of the gulch our
crew was working desperately to stop
the flames. Over on the other side
OF the draw another crew worked.
we were trying to effect a juno
ton of our lines at the stream.
-, Our crew had nearly made connec-
tlon with the others when the breeze
Fighters Forced to Retreat
In a minute-no more-the flames
mad thrown burning brands over our
heads, up the gulch. A dozen spot
fires burned behind US. A bridge
nearby was blazing.
we turned on course parallel
to our defense line and, beaten.
climbed the ridge once more. Trees
tell all around us with crashing
roarS. Our faces were scorched In
the dancing heat waves. Lips crack
air. e
Look out" yelled somebody.
I stopped dead.
With bang like a 42-centimeter
gun great blazing pine dropped
with crash not five feet in front
! OF me. Showers and sharks ana
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Mother, Learning of Her
ChiId's Death. Goes Craz\

When Mrs. Mary Scott, of No. 81
about to leave the house to bring in
her five-year-old son, Andrew Green,
who was playing in the street, a
policeman rang her bell and told her
the boy had been hit by an automo-
bile and was at the police station,
injured. Mrs. Scott 'ushed
to the station house and there was
told the boy was dead. The shock
so upset her that she was sent to
Bellevue temporarily insane.
The boy was playing in the street
near his home when he ran into an
automobile which was backing up.
The boy was crushed under it's
wheels before Stubenholl realized
what was happening, he said.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
LEMON JUICE
TAKESOFF TAN
Girls! Make bleaching To-
ton if skin is Sunburned,
tanned or freckled.

Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into bottle containing three ounces
of Orchard White, shake well, and
you have a quarter pint Of the best
freckle, sunburn and tan lotion, and
complexion beautifier, at very, very
small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store Or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of Orchard
White for few cents. Massage this
sweetly fragrant lotion into the face,
neck, arms and hands each taayS and
see how 'freckles, sunbur4, 2Windbdrn
and tan disappear and. how Gear,
soft and white the skin becomes.
Yes! It is harmless AdVtO
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
RUPTURED? :
TRY This FREE
Wonderful Invention Sent ON 81
Days Trial Before You Fay.

Simply send me your name and Will send
you my new copyrighted rupture book and
measurement blank. When you return the
blank l will send you my new invention for
rupture. When it arrives put it on and wear
it. Put it to every test you can think of.
The harder the test the better you will like
it. You will wonder how you ever got along
with the old style cruel spring trusses or
belts with leg straps of torture. Your own
good common sense and your own doctor will
tell you it is the only way in which you can
ever expect cure. After wearing it 30 days,
if it is not entirely satisfactory in every
way--if it is not easy and comfortable-if
you cannot actually see your rupture getting
better, and if not convinced that cure is
merely question of time-just return it and
you are out nothing. Any rupture appliance
that is sent on 80 days trial before you pay
is worth giving trial. Why not tell your
ruptured friends Of this great offer?
We refer you to any Bank or Trust Co. in
Kansas City.
EAsYHOLD CO., 1905 Koch Bldg.
Kansas City, Mo.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

thick, choking dust arose.
We went on again.
Finally we reached the top of the
caldron of flame. One minute we
were in the thick of the fire. The
next green brush and stately way
ing fir and tamarack were around
us.
Water Boy Looked Like Angel
''Nice lot of firefighters, you are"
said the chatting voice of a water
boy. "Have a drink"
I drank 100000 worth. 1t was
worth all that.
Lets 60" said the chief
The grimy gang staggered and
painted toward the head of the gulch.
Across the flames the other crew
performed the same evolution.
On tree before us hung. a dry
water bag and a tattered notice,
crudely printed. 1t said:
"JOIN THE ONE BIG UNION
7 w w -
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

Little Vivian White, whose public
performance of the Motor March"
heretofore have been given eXclu-
children are tramping into the as
sembly room, had an extra inning at
the grand piano in Calhoun public
school in Chicago last week:
She played just as calmly as if
she weren't choking twice to every
bar, and just as calmly as if acrid
smoke clouds hadn't been swirling
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
In First Aerial Funeral Child's Body Is
Carried to Cemetery in Airship Hearse

An express airplane with a speed
of 100 miles an hour, was used re-
Gently to transport a coffin in which
was the body of a si2-yearold girl
from Atlantic City, n. j., to the
casantville cemetery for burial.
The use of the aircraft for this
purpose was dore under the direc-
lion of a firm of undertalers, who
obtained consent Of tie parents OF
the child, although their names are
withheld.
The white coffin was carried to the
placed in an a*rplane, of which Cap
tain \. l.. Allen, formerly OF the
United States army, was the pilot.
A representative Of the undertakerJ
accompanied the body in the plane
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Army Chauffeurs
Killed $50 French

PARIS.-American army chauf-
feurs accidentally killed $50 French
civilians during the A. E. F.'s
stay in France, it was stated in
estimony by Colonel B. Winship be-
fore the congressional committee
from Washington.
Testimony was also shown that
the United States government had
paid 100000 to the French as the
cost. of the billetting of American
soldiers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16

The aerial hearse rose from the
made several circles of the city be-
fore it pointed to the mainland an l
winged its way across the meadows
At the cemetery were gathered rel
atives of the child, who had gone by
automobiles. After a simple burla1
service, the party returned home, end
ing what perhaps was the first trans
portation of body TO the grave by
airplane.
1t was said that the funeral was
intended to show to the undertakers'
convention here that the swift air
plane was available for the moving
Of bodies.
1t is reported that one of the air
plane factories has under considera-
ton the designing Of an aerial hearse
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-16
Indian Ordained Preacher

Black Hawk, a full-blooded In
dian. was ordained into the ministry
of the Church of Christ recently at
Lancaster, Pa, probably the first or
dination of it's kind in Lancaster
county. The ceremony was perform
ed by the Rev. w. A. Sherwood, pas
tor of the church, assisted by Red
Fox, another Indian, also an ordain-
ed minister, and the elders of that
church. Black Hawk is a member of
the Blackfoot tribe and a graduate
of Carlisle Indian school. With Red
establishment of a home for Indian
boys and girls at the Yakima reserva-
ton, not far from the new National
park at Yakima Wash
The Washington times., 1919-12-14
OPERA SOCIETY OF D. G..
WILL OFFER "PINAFORE"
q.
Makes Initial Bow to Music Lovers
at Central High School,
December %.

The Peoples National Opera So
cIety Of Washington, under the au-
spices of the Community Center de-
partment of the public schools, and
with Rollin Bond director, will make
its initial bow on Monday, December
-, at S:15 y. IN, in Gilbert & Sui
livan's rollicking comic opera, "H. NJ.
;. Pinafore" in the Central High
School auditorium.
Admission to this performance will
be free to the public. but will be by
invitation ticket only. Each ticket
means a seat, as they will be issued to
the capacity of the auditorium only.
These tickets may be obtained, be-
ginning tomorrow. December 15, at
the following community centers: Will
son Normal School, Grover Cleveland
School, Eastern High School Thomp-
son School, Elizabeth Brown School
Chevy Chase; Powell School, Tyler
School, Petworth School, and Park
View School at Newton and Warder
streets. Also from Mrs. Locllman
Government Recreation Leag que, room
80, Commission on Training Camp
Activities, Eighteenth and Virginia
avenue, and from any member of the
cast, chorus, orchestra, or the dircc-
tor, Mr.. Bond
\ brilliant cast of principals fs an
nounced, assisted by singing and
dancing chorus. and a special opera
orchestra. Among the principals will
be AlCernon f. NJ. Greig, of the Brit
ish embassy. in the leading comedy
role of Sir Joseph Porter, X. c. B.;
M. Miner, of the A. Il. F., will sing
the romantic tenor role of Ralph:
Harry Stevens, the captain of the
Pinafore; Frederick Miller, Dick
Deadeye; stephen o. Ford, the boat
swain.
Miss Estelle Murray will sing the
prima donna role of Josephine; Elaine
Sebring Ford, Little Buttercup; and
Agnes Charnstrom, Hebe. New spe-
cial scenery has arrived from New
York, and new costumes will adorn
this production of community opera
The Washington times., 1919-12-14

outpour of such great drivel as the
songs which confront US daily. In
the language of the erudite, Il can't
be done. Our popular music is a
joke. Our great American song has
never been written. And as long as
we countenance the publishing of a
certain class OF popular song. we may
consider ourselves musically and in
moribund-
= PreJudfce? Nothing of the sort;
plain commonsense. Twenty old
years ago they published a soothing
ballad entitled "Her Eyes Don't Shine
Like Diamonds" which achieved a
certain material success with the
elite Of Ninth avenue. An eminent
musical blacksmith, followed this
with . succession of tear-wringing
and throat-choking compositions,
dealing chiefly with errant wives and
prematurely deceased juveniles and
ladies who went to the big city and
made mistakes there-and the gentle
man is now a millionaire.
The good work continued. Bril-
liant lyrics poured from the publish
er's presses in admired confusion
Such-and-such sold its $4,000 copies;
this-and-that ran into the 100, 900;
and popular song had come into It's
own The fact that is was invari-
ably the slushy stuff that sold speaks
volumes. The brains that produced
the songs of the revoiurfon, and the
chants communal Of the civil war,
were at least sincere. Their efforts
- interpret the phenomena Of life
were inspired by the highest motivec.
But the brains Il use the term ad-
visedly) that give US "Oh! Frenchy,"
"Johnny's in Town." "The Blues My
Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me-" and
the rest of the songs after sunrise,
are obviously impuised by motives Of
the lowest.
The Washington times., 1919-12-14
CR|T|C|SES SONGS
OF POPULAR TYPE
Writer Declares Jazz Tunes and
Ragtime Inspired by Low
! Motives.

criticing the modern song produc-
tions. a writer IN Musical America
Says:
Well. can you imagine what the
tconine Ludwig. builder OF titanic
sonata and deathless symphony, would
say, IL he were in New York today,
ION being told that the current ma
tfonal folk-song was all about
f'blues,"
| Ten years ago we were all being
Eagerly invited to listen to the Rag
Time organization of Mr.. Alexander,
(which was bad enough. Now. our
senses are bludgeoned and our good
mature imposed upon by q torrent OF
song that has absolutely nothing to
justify it's doubtful existence. Which
IL clearly making bad worse.
/ You may try to trip me up, at the
start. by shouting gleefuily that the
songs of country reflect the ideas
lof country; but I'm skififul enough
10 avoid your outstretched foot by re-
!torting that it's impossible for q great
Icountry like America to continue the
The Washington times., 1919-12-14
"Fhe Messiah." OratePio. weanesAa,
Central HlEh school.

The sixteenth annual. rendition oil
The Messiah" under the direction OF
sydney Lloyd - Wrightson, will be
given under the auspices Of the COM
munity and civic centers of the pub
lie schools.
The rty separate numbers, or
solos. with recitatives and airs. and
of choruses, win be given by th.
massed chorus of 360 voices and a
solo quartet consisting of Meta Craig.
soprano, Mary Beisser. contralto.
Richarding Backing. tenor. and ].
Campbell-McInnes, bass-baritone.
There are n more tickets. The
supply was exhausted by o'clock
the opening day of their distribution.
No one admitted except with ticket.
Two new series Of concerts of un-
usual interest are announced for
Washington beginning with the New
Year. Ten Concerts Diplomatiques"
and six concerts OF chamber Music"
will be presented by NJ. F. Kline.
Pasquale Amato. opera baritone
and Claudia Muzio. dramatic soprano.
both of the Metropolitan Opera. will
open the Concerts Diplomatic es"
with joint recital on Sunday even
ing, January 4. at $50, at the Belasco
Theater.
Amato's concert career has been as
phenomenal as his operatic career.
and he brings the same consumma ate
art and emotional significance to the
concert platform that has made him
the most famous baritone of the
Metropolitan today. ! He made his
frst bow to the American public in
1908. 10
Claudia Muzio Is also an Italian
who came to the Metropolitan In 1916
She has an extensive list of opera
roles, but in recital she also gives a
wide program Of English. French and
Italian songs which she interprets
with notable emotion and convincing
insight.
First Monday Csneerts.
The following artists are definitely
announced for this series OF ten con-
tenor, with Eleanor Brock soprano
in joint recital: Toscha SeideL who
looks like young Paganini and
plays like a young SYsaye." will be
heard with Marguerite DAfvarez, the
Peruvian contralto of the Metropoli-
tan; Emmy Destinn comes in a solo
recital: Nine. Julia Claussen, mezzo
soprano of the Metropolitan and the
Chicago Operas, will sing in joint. re-
cital with Leopold Godowsky, pianist
Nine. Yvette Guilbert and support
ing company will give one afternoon
program: Mischa Levitski, pianist,
and Emma Roberts. contralto, will be
joint stars; Nine. Tamaki Miura the
tiny japanese soprano, will be heard, !,
and Nine. Louise Homer and her
daughter. Miss Louise Homer, will
have their first appearance in joint
recital in Washington.
The six Chamber Music concerts,
will be given on Mondays at 4::,0 in
the ballroom of the Wardman Park
Hotel, commencing January 16, ard
every other Monday.
In this series will be heard the
Eionzalay Quartet: the Salzedo Harp
Ensemble of seven harpists, with
Nine. Povla Frijsch. soprano; the
Chorniavsky Trio; the Barrere En-
semble: the Berkshire String Quar-
tct. and the Lets Quartet.
In bringing such a list o: oele-
brated artists to the National Capital.
Mr.. Kline has entered the music field
here with new day" in the city's
music schedule. with Monday ctn-
ceFtS
The Washington times., 1919-12-14

tion. Even now it has astounding
qualities
Max Rosen has already played in
recital here, winning much favor. His
telents are numerous and explicit. His
tone is lovely, and he knows seeming
ly everything about mechanics. He is
also gracious and pleasant in man
ner.
This is the only series of evening
concerts Washington is having, and
they are filling a genuine need.