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Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-06
COMMITTEE PLANS.
four CITY EXPO
FOR CENTENNIAL
GENERAL OPINION is THAT THIS
WILL RESULT IN FAILURE TO
HAVE AN EXPOSITION PROP
ERLY REPRESENTING FLORI-
DA PURCHASE.

Contending that neither Jackson
vile or Pensacola were large enough
to stage properly an exposition COM
memorating the Florida purchase the
commission having authority to fiz a
site decided yesterday to divide the
exposition between four cities, Pen
s&cola, Jacksonville, Tampa and Mi
ami in the order named.
The general opinion is that fatal
mistake has been made, and that
Florida will not have an exposition
Of any merit celebrating the purchase.
Pensacola has already declared that
she will have worlds fair Of her
own, Jacksonville is lethargic, and so
far as known, Miami is not interested.
Tampa favored the four plan but has
offered no material evidence that she
will stage one.
committee ) heSOluIlOH.
| The committee adopted the follow
ing resolution in making its decis-
ion on the four fair plan:
Whereas, after full and careful
Investigation of the matter of hold
ing an international exposition, cele-
brating the Florida Purchase Centen-
mai, in all its phases, at some one
point, it is the sense of this COM
mission that under present general
and financial conditions 1t is not adj
vlsable for any one city to eXpend
the vast amount of money, labor and
materials necessary to construct,
maintain and operate such an interna-
tional exposition Of such magnitude
as will reflect credit to the state and
ration-such international exposition
being estimated to cost $4,000, 900 ia
$40, 100000; therefore, be it
Resolved, that it is the sense OF
this commission that the best inter-
>ests of the entire state will be serV'
J. eli by the holding of centennial ex'
position in Pensacola, Jacksonville
Tampa and Miami, such exposition tt
be of international character, under
the direction and supervision OF the
; Florida Purchase Centennial commits
sion, as provided in the act creating
said commission. Be it
"Further resolved, that this com
mission proceed to do any and every
thing necessary to construct, inaugu
rate, operate and bring to a success
ful conclusion such international eX
pcsition in accordance with said act
Be it
Further resolved, that the said ex
, position be officially dedicated In Pen
sacola, Jacksonville, Tampa and MI
ami in the order named"
This resolution was carried by
vote of three to two. Those Votlh
!, for it were Chairman Brorein, Burgu
eres and Logan. Those who vote
AGAINST it were Commissioners Mac
= Williams and Jones. All through tn
l,l~ debate Commissioner Jcne
E. stood by his home city, Pensacola an
=. voted for one international exposition
d Commissioned MacWilliams chan
E.. pioael the claimes Of Jacksonville an
voted 90 che worlds fair. The otl
& er commissioners, Brorein of Tampi
y Burguieres of Palm Beach and IL
= ,;,r of Jacksonville, voted for tt
: four-fair proposition.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-06
Woman's Club Meeting.

A call business meeting WIZ -
hold tomorrow afternoon at the Wo-
mans club for the purpose of electlng
delegate to the annual meeting OF tne
State Federation at St. Petersburg.
The program will be in charge Oh
the Literary Department and an IN
teresting time is promised.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-06
HALL GAMES PLAY A /
|. SPLENDID PRODUCTION
"WOMAN THOUGH GAVEST ME-
OF ABSORBING INTEREST.
Will Be Presented at Arcade Tomor-
row Night-AlsO Vivien Martin
in Beautiful Play.

Hall Gaines magnificent novel "Fh'
Woman Thou Gavest Me-" as pic
tlrized, as presented at the Arcadt
last night, was pronounced one of tn
most absorbing stories ever exhibit
cd on a screen here. This great PLAY
will be shown at the Arcade agar
Friday afternoon and night contin''
oasly from $3.50 to II o'clock.
In addition to this Paramount-Ah'
craft special Vivien Martin, the dan
ty little Paramount star will alsoloe
shown in a five reel special "pu
Never Saw Girl.'
Saturdays attraction will als9 be
cne that is sure to please everyne
especially after the heavier al
Game play. John Barrymore, thfm'
comparable comedian, will be snwr
at his best in "Here Comes 'ths
Brides" A Mack Sennett cofedy
"Ier First Mistake" featuringFay
Tazenda and Chester Conklin|wiI
complete the program.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-06
Cast for Church Play.

The "old Peabody Pew" to be pre-
scented at the Woman's Club Friday
evening for the benefit of St. Marks
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-06

complete the program.
-.-----. =. go. r.
where she is visiting her sister, Mrs.
Jones.
MIR. and Mrs. John Fink of Nshua
were in town yesterday aftemon.
Miss Louis eMelton of Floril, who
spent the weekend with MissF jimmie
Powers, was honor guest at PRETTY
party Saturday evening, givePy the
latter at her home on w. Warrington
street, Several games were nJoyed
otter which ice cream and c9 were
served.-Newnan, Ca, Week Her.
aid. Miss Melton was former res
iIent of Palatka and Miss PoWs was
here as the guest of Mrs. j. Dough
lin last summer.
M. T. F, Rogers and Mrs. lwling
c., coue STRINGS were iPalau-
IA shopping this morning.
Arthur Bauer of Miami, as d
guest here last night, comir over
from St. Augustine where ne \ beer
en- business. V. -
In a letter to his mother G enc'
H. Kennerly tells of his elec'n al
, vice-president of the GeorgetoW UNI
versity law class. Mr.. ke1rly'
MANY friends here will be glad theal
; of this signal honor by C 5 o.
several hundred coming from sec
tions of the country. He will loba
|: bly practice his profession in Jason
5 vile at the conclusion of his urs'
j. in law.
5 C. Warner and Miss HeleNar
s ner motored up from EsperanzSda!
/. ]. Hart of Atlanta is buslneVlS
s itor in the city today.
3 Mrs. L. Pritchard of St. Austin
: is the guest of Miss Kate Luca
I ]. NJ. Sutherland of Greenjov
: Springs is in town today.
= Mrs. ] w. Brockman, of Gldil
= was shopping in town today
= Mrs. C. Chamberlain, of Gcer
i City spent today in Palatka.
= Mrs. Charles Kupperbus 81
.3 Mrs. Henry Hutchinson, Sir, $.
- A Smith, Mrs. Stuart Word an
- Albion Hutchinson motored 5
- Augustine this afternoon.
~ T. J. Swearingen returne tn
morning, having been called ay /
s.. the illness and death of Mrs. 'ea
81. i,,gen's cousin, who died in me
EE vile. and was buried in West rid
- Mrs. W. H. Hoyt is expected a
- rive today from New York,an
Il ford, Conn, and other points, e.
Xxx she has spent the summer M
~ Hoyt will arrive next week.
II E. NJ. Earnest left today foac
II sorville to attend a meeting tt
~ State Board of Health.
- Mrs. ]. 2. Coleman, of SAM,
I visiting her parents, Mr. and l.
II R Higgins.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

FROM THE TINE special shipments of rubber
and of fabric arrive this plant, until the finished
tire is loaded on the freight car, there is not
backward move.
AND THE MAN POWER Of this plant is as
far in advance of the ordinary as is the mechanical
efficiency. The Firestone organization is the talk
OF men in big industry everywhere.
THE FACT THAT 90a5 of Firestone workers
own stock in the Company is an index to their
interest in their work. Their superior skill, their
spirit OF service, is stimulated by their financial
interest in winning you as customer.
AT EVERY TURN Firestone thinks and plans
to give you the most for your money, knowing
that this is the surest method of obtaining the
greatest demand Every move Frestone makes
is toward this end-mileage at lowest cost
NEVER HAS FIRESTONE, NOR ANY
tire maker, offered car owners SO much as they are
offered now Ask your dealer.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-11

moUthful apiece and that was all we mad for two and half days.
 There was so much light and shoot ing that I felt sure we would be caught one way or another, so I told the boys, When I yell "Separate!" do so and run like he'll
 '17his was about o'clock the second night we were out. It wasn't long before we ran plumb into another German funlI-hole line and a heavy voice called Hist du Deutsch? Are you Germany l gave the word to the boys to jcat it and they did.
 "I started to run and fell right into a funk-hoIe on top of two Ger mans. We were all three so amazed that we didn't know what to do. I used the only German words l knew: Was ist los?' (which didn't know till aftervard meant Whats the matter?D and the bochc l fell most directly on, answered, Was ist los?
 "I was across bis shoulder and had my automatic in my hand and I let him have two bullets through the spine and he Quivcred and went down The other fellow was facing me and standing up, so l let him have one through the breast. The first fellow sort of quivered again so l let him have a third shot.
 There was an uproar for hours, so I lay where I was until things quieted then crawled into the brush. A dozen times scntries almost walked over me. At midnight it started to rain, and I could travel more freely. Several hours later 1 ran into an American me that he almost dropped his rifle. I don't wonder. I had blackened my face with mud and camoufiaged my head with boughs of trees. I must
New Britain herald., 1919-01-11

man and then saw two boche officers talking together. We were lying down, and I rested my automatic on q log and called on them to surrender. But they weren't 'Kamerading' One Of them let go at me just as I let fly at him. ' aimed at his mouth and plugged him between the eyes. His bullet caught me in the right wrist just nick, but enough to give me my wound stripe. The other fellow ran off 1 took his papers from the dead one and also a postcard photograph of him
 i-;eutenant McNeougn had this pho- tograph with tim. IL showed hand some young German officer and bore the words. Birthday greetings from Oscar" which was apparently his name.
 Through all ;te day Lieutenant Me keough and his two dauntless com panions, Indianlille, lay low. Not once did they move from their dense thicket. At nlghtfall the three set out again on their mission which meant life ami death to 700 comrades.
 Almost immediately we ran into 1 whole company of Germans in funk holcs.' which are little dugouts, un- connected with each other. These Germans heard us rustic in the brush, gave us challenge and receiving no answer. became suspicious. They sent up flares and star shells by the hun' dred and fired in every direction. The dark forest at night became incandes- cent with light.
 T thought it was all off. took from my e0s mask bag lot of battai' ion records and buried them, trying to mark the spot. Incidentally 1ounH one piece of bread in this bag and | split it in three ways. There was
New Britain herald., 1919-01-11
Once a "Theorist"

A trace of humor stalks pleasantly WhittleseYs Argonne forest expert. ence. Before the war some comrades referred to him as a pacifst In col lege he was studious, hump-shoul- Cered chap, and, according to com panions, the last man in the world to be selected for a warrior. He was a theorist, a savant and a good pal, they all agreed. They called him Chick" He took no part in ath- letics or sports of any description, singularly enough.
 However, possessed of a brilliant intellect and studious by nature, Whit tlesey had acquired a deep loathing for war. He soon perceived that the present war was intended to forever end war on earth, and into the task of stopping battles and bloodshed for. ever he threw himself absolutely as a zealot, once America joined in.
 He won his commission of a cap- taincy at the officers training camp at Plattsburg, and went to Camp Up. ton. About a year ago he went over. seas Meritorious conduct and eff. cient work swiftly gained for him his majors commission, and then came the Lost Battalion" exploit.
 Colonel Whittlesey is a native os PittSfield, Conn.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-11

officers and men were wiped out The next day, leaving two companies to cover our rear, we went forward a short distance and stretched out line running along hillside, which was a better position than the other, where we were in the hollow.
 Our rations gave out the following day. The men divided bread crusts, hard as rocks, but soon these were gone also.
 We occupied a strip of ground per haps 100 yards long. There was swamp back of us. fortunately, where we crawled for muddy water at night. Machinegun bullets splashed our faces while We drank.
 Led Into an Ambuscade
 "LicUtcnaut Wilhelm, of Company E. attacked a strong German position on our right, where machine-gun nests and snipers were picking our men off one after another, but his command of ninety men was surrounded and almost every one died.
 At the end of the. third day it daWned upon us that we were sur rounded and completely cut off from our re-enforcemcnts. The fact that the Huns had led us into a cunning ambuscadc was particularly galling. Runners 1 had sent out returned and reported that they had been cut off. Now the men were eating chewing to- bacco and leaves.
 
 each attack the Germans fired trench mortars at us. Night and day sev- eral thousand of them raked us with a whitening machine-gun fire. Snipers fired at us from everywhere. Rowling like thousands of wild devils the Ger mans approached to within ten yards and hurled hand grenades, which we called potato mashers,' causing great loss of life. We lost 1O7 killed and more than twice that number were wounded. The wounded men insisted on doing their share. We were not able to bury the dead then, so we placed them all on a rocky hillside and inferred them later
 of course I don't know how many Germans we got rid of but I judge their losses far surpassed ours. They buried their dead every night, of course, but later we found many of their dead bodies in the underbrush, where their comrades had not been able to get them.
 "The fierce fire from the German trench mortars had smashed nine of the eleven machine guns we had, and there were only five boxes of machine gun ammunition left And nothing to eat for four days! The men were so weak that they were scarcely able to stand on their feet"
 Then October !. the fifth day that we had been hemmed in the ravine, with the Germans firing down at us from the hills, there came German, bIindfolded and bearing white flag. He brought us typewriter message. which ran about as follows:
 "'We have heard the cries of your . wounded It is impossible for you to escape. Why do you not surrender in the name of humanity? Send back your reply by messenger carrying & white flag
 we did not know that re-enforce.
New Britain herald., 1919-01-11

ments were near at hand, and W thought we would all die of starvation We had made up our minds never to surrender, but to die as men. So, when ] yelled, Go to hell!' all tue men roared 'Righto! Stick boys. Never say die!' and gritted their teeth tc face the death they felt was inevitl. ble."
 And with an eXulting rush and q shout of joy fellow Americans swept the enemy from their strongly in trenched positions overlooking Whit. tlesey and his men. Of the 700 men originally iii the battalion. not more than one-third was alive and unwound ed and even these few were so weak from living for four days on leaves and chewing tobacco that they col, lapScd
 At this point the story is resumed by Lieutenant Arthur F. Nckeoush. q mild hammered, sunny dispositioned young newspaper writer. who used to sit at his Typewriter in the office of q New York newspaper a couple of wears ago and delight in writing "thrillers " Little did Mckeough think two years ago that today he would be a greater hero than any that he had ever Written about
 For it was this same Arthur Me. keough, now First Lieutenant Me. keough, who won his way out of tbo forest of Argonne by cunning and bv killing, and carried the word which resulted in reScuing forces being sent to the aid of the famous Lost Rat. talion, which lay there starving. thirst. ing, surrounded by foes and annar. ently doomed.
 Major Whlttlesey gave me fifteen or twenty mon with grenades to wine out what we thought was a si,,o,a machine gun nest OH the left" Me heough said, after relating how the battalion had pushed beyond it's com. munication lines. But when we got close to it We found that there were three nests and at least three machine guns in each nest.
 "kamerad. Hellt'
 Thc bochcs heard Us coming and shouted over something about "ka- merad!" l got one of my boys, a little East Side Jew named HirschI5ovitz land wonder, tool, who knew German. to find out if they wanted to surrender. He had long palaver with them and then reported, No, sir; they want us to surrender. They say they've got us surrounded and they want us to do the kamerad act Tell them. Ka- merad, hellH I instructed Hirchy, and he did it with great glec
 We cleaned out what we could of them with hand grenades, but it was a tough job. Then along about eve. ming another lieutenant with q detail of men joined my party and told me that Major Whittlesey said I should take a couple of men, make my way back to headquarters and tell the colo nel, if I got there, that the battalion was surrounded. I picked out this fellow HirschoWitz and another lad named Jack Munson and we started off through the darkness, going by compass. II was a jungle we had to 20 through, and we could make only a few feet ot a time, crawling along.
 "rrhere were boches all around Every few yards we could sec them or hear them and it was miracle we weren't caught. We were headed due south. but so thick was the under. growth that we'd frequently have to go due north around a thicket before we could get our right direction.
 "At dawn we reached the edge of 8 little clearing. We heard talk in Ger
New Britain herald., 1919-01-11
luAuAtA ~nAhAEs W. wlnrLH4EA

WITHIN a year probably the hazy " mists and uncertain obsCurity which enshroud glorious exploits in this greatest of all wars will lift, and there will stand revealed an array of martial heroes who will live for ever in the heart and mind of the American people, coupled with those great names of Washington, Gen. eral Israel Putnam, Paul Revere, Gen eral Warren of Bunker Hill, "DaShing Phil" Sheridan. Admiral Farragut, and of later days Hobson.
 And when the one hundred mill lions of Americans have had time to weigh the respective claims of each of these men to greatness, it can be stated that the name of Lieutenant Charles w. Whittlesey will probably precede all the rest.
 It is not entirely beyond the range of probability that the American ma ton, so proud of her victorious army, will snatch up Whittlesey and make him immortal as "Go-to-HeH" Whit tlesey.
 Your children and your children's children will often mount your knee and beg to hear the heroic tale of Whittlesey and his men. So here it is unfQlded, so that you may pass it along to future generations of Americans, that they may absorb some of that lofty love of country of which Colonel Whittesey is one of the high est opponents.
 Really, I don't see why you should be interested in my story" said Colo mel Whittlesey, when he landed from France recently. Colonel Whittlescy is modest.
 The Hun on the Run
 However, after he had been com manded to tell his story, leaving out no details whatever, Colonel Whittle- sey capitulated, but he fixed as one of the terms of the stipulation that his personality was to be hidden in his narrative.
 "On October 2, 1 was in command of 700 men of the first and second battalions of the 308th Regiment, and Company K, of the 307th Regiment. They were mostly New York city boys, with whom had been at Camp Upton, but some were from the West. l was a major then.
 Tt was the time when Foch was dealing the Germans deadly thrusts each day, first in one salient, then another. I was in the Rainbow Di- vision, and we were in the Argonne forest. We got the order to push ahead. and started before the fresh provisions which had been brought up could be given around. Each man bearing 220 rounds of ammunition. we advanced all night.
 "The Argonne forest has an under brush so dense and tangled that it is impossible to see more than ten feet ahead. But our boys had the Hun on the run, and we pushed right ahead, their skirmish line offering lit tie resistance.
 The following day our course lay along a deep ravine, with hills about 200 feet high rising abruptly. On tor of these hills the Germans had plant ed machine guns, which they used tt cruel advantage. I sent Company 4 against one hill, and almost all of tn
New Britain herald., 1919-01-11

refusal, a ma1ediction and a proph- ecy, the enthusiastic gathering of com rades prolonged their Williams Col legc cheers for five minutes. And then they sang the famous Williams Mountain Song" and at the end cheered again for whittlesey. It gave one the same thrill as would arise at the annual football game between Williams and Amherst.
 As was expected, WhittIesey, when he spoke, made no mention of his own experiences. He praised the en- listed American soldiers, to whom he said enough glory could not be given. Men who have gained honors and medals for distinguished acts of hero ism, he said, are merely symbols of the American soldier in the mass. For iu the army, as we'll as elsewhere, Colonel Whittlesey said, it takes a number of men to bring about any thing that is worth while. Then he confessed that at the start of the war officers and enlisted men had little in common. All this has changed, and officers who return from France carry back with them memo ries that will endure for lifetime of the self-effacing valor of the American boy in the ranks Suffering the same hardships and mingling with common dangers, he said, make an officer pos. sess an appealing fondness for his boys" and feel good and proud at the thought that he is an American.
 And in justice it must be recorded that when all pledged to Colonel Whittlesey and shouted For he's a jolly good fellow" the Williams men gave "the hero" a reception he will always remember.
 With a wonderfully wistful look. this man, who had seen so much, said simply, "It's fine to be here and see all these friendly faces again" Then he sat down.
 Who can say thai Whittlesey did not live over again in that short sen. tence those horrible five days in Ar gonne forest, seing men he loved as brothers perish in the hail of Ger man shot, while starvation threatened the whole command with annihila- tiou?