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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
SEES new ERA DAWNING
Development of Great Mississippi
Valley Urged.
President of Association Asks Union
of Rail and Water Systems
North and South.

Chicago, April 24-Development of
the great Mississippi valley, stretching
from the Rockies to the Alleghanies,
and from the Lakes southwark to the
Gulf, was urged by John M. Parker of
New Orleans, president of the Missis-
sippi Valley association, at it's first
annual convention. He spoke of "the
new era" unfolding for the prosperity
of the valley.
In the past, he said, the valley had
been made tributary to the Atlantic
seaboard, railroad lines of high resist.
ance had been established during what
he called the second period" of trans.
portation, which had carried the prod
ucts of the country from West to East
largely; even the trend of thought had
been educated to an East and West
movement. The first period" he
mentioned, was that of pioneer water
transportation. or the third the
new era"-he said:
This third period involves the use
Of our waterways in conjunction with
our easy grade rail lines, the efficient
development of our gulf ports, the eff.
cient use of our American merchant
marine, and easy access to the world &
new markets of great promise-Mex.
leo, Central and South America, Africa
Oceanica and the Orient. The Panama
canal opens the way"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
General Pershing Praises War
Work Performed by the
Salvation Army.
PUSHED TO THE FRONT
Supplied Trained and Experienced
Workers Whose One Thought Was
the WeIIbeing of Soldiers They
Came to Serve.

New York, April 24.-General Per
shing, in a cable message to Com
mander Evangeline Booth, made pub
lie here, warmly praised efforts of the
Salvation Army to push it's activities
"as far as possible to the front" in
the western war zone, with self-sacri-
fee second to none.
The message says:
THE outstanding features OF the
work of the Salvation Army have been
its disposition to push to the front,
and the trained and experienced char
acter of it's workers whose one thought
was the well-being of the soldiers they
came to serve.
while the maintenance of these
standards has necessarily kept your
work within narrow bounds, as com
pared to some of the other welfare
agencies, it has resulted in a degree
of excellence and self-sacrifice in the
work performed which has been sec
ond to none.
1T has endeared your organization
and its individual men and women
workers TO all those divisions and
other units to which they have been
attached and has spread their good
name to every part of the American
EXpeditionary forces.
please accept this as a personal
message to each of your workers"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
Colonel AnseII Continues His At
tacks Upon Existing Court
martial Methods.
FAVOR|TISM IS SHOWN
That An Enlisted Man Does Not
Receive Same Considera-
tion as An Officer.

Washington, April 24.-Continuing
his attack upon the army system OF
justice before the investigating com
mittee of the American Bar associa
tion, Lieut.. Col. Ansell, former acting
judge advocate general, reiterated that
the existing system was derived from
days when common soldiers were
the vassals of the king, and failed to
recognize the soldiers as citizens of
the state, and declared it was the
natural result of such a system that an
officer caste should be built up.
Discrimination Charged.
Declaring it fact that the enlisted
man did not receive the same CON
sideration of his rights under the sys.
tenn that officers enjoyed, Colonel An,
sell argued that the only remedy lay
in writing into the law the guaran.
tees of the rights of the soldier While
this is left to regulations to be pre-.
scribed by the President, he said, it
cannot be effective. THE attitude
of the army" he added, has been
intolerant toward those methods neces.
sary to justice. They do not take
kindly TO legal restraints"
Congress Should Provide.
Congress cannot command the
army" Colonel Ansell declared, "but
Congress should prescribe the rules
for its discipline. IL you are going to
have any law worthy of the name you
will not get it by committing it to
departmental regulations. IL it is to
be left there, all this agitation will
have been in vain.'
Different Footing for Legal Officers.
In submitting his own recommends
tions, Colonel Ansell reaffirmed his be,
lief that the legal officers of the army
ought to stand on a different footing
from any other part of the staff, not
subject to military domination. IL the
line officers would broaden out"
Colonel Ansell said, they would soon
abandon the slogan you can't have
justice in any army"
In the course of his argument Col
Ansell said he would have thrown
into the wastepaper basket" the bills
submitted by the War department
more than year ago authorizing the
president to review and revise court
martial findings or sentences.
Had that bill passed." he said
''you would have the Judge advocate
general reporting to the chief of staff
the ultra military man of the army"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
Marines Paid Big Price.

Washington, April 24.-Of the 5000
officers and men comprising the ma.
rine brigade when 1t and other units
of the Second division were thrown
into the fighting near Chateau Thierry
last June s to stop the German thrust
at Paris, 126 officers and 5,073 men
either were killed or wounded before
the brigade was relieved. While in
this action the Marines took Lucy-le-
Boege, cleaned up Belleau wood and
finally captured 1.-THE important town Of
Bourescbes
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
Yank Prisoners Released.

Archangle, April "a. - Additional
American prisoners in Russia have
been released. According to a mes
sage from Secretary Penningroth of
the Y. M. C. A.. at Terejoki, Finland;
Bryant r. Ryall, Y. M. c. A. sec.
retary of Bloomfield, ~ j.; Sergeant
Glen Leitzel of Mifflinburg, Pa, and
Privates Freeman Hogan of Detroit,
and Jens Laursen of Marietta, Mich,
whom he saw in prison at Moscow,
have been released and are proceed.
Ing to Copenhagen.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
Aged Woman Riffs Ranks.

San Francisco, April 24.-San Fran
cisco turned out to welcome the heroes
of the Three Hundred Sixty-third In
fantry and the Three Hundred and
Forty-seventh field artillery, following
the breaking UP of their parade by a
shouting mass of relatives and friends,
who defied rope barriers and police to
welcome them. The thousands of
well-wishers broke their packed ranks
when an aged woman, spying her son
In the line, and Immediately ran out
TO kiss him.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
FRENCH TO DESTROY GATES
Have Bad Effect on Sanitary Condi-
tions at Strassbouru

Strassbourg, April 24.-The belt of
stone gates and walls which has sur
rounded Strassbourg for hundreds of
years it to be loosed slightly by the
destruction of four gates and some of
the ramparts.
The gates and walls had bad effect
on sanitary conditions.
The gates to be torn down are
known as the Saverne gate, the Pierre
gate, the Shirmeck gate and the Ma
tional gate.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
MICHIGAN GOES OVER TOP
Indications Are That Liberty Loan Is
Oversubscribed.

Detroit, Mich, April 24-Indications
are that Michigan has oversubscribed
its Victory Loan quota on the first
day, F. r. Fenton, Federal Reserve
director, announced here. Complete
returns from eight counties and incom-
plete returns from 35 counties show
subscriptions close to $100,000,000.
twenty-five counties have made no re-
port. The states quota is $110,925, ,000
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
STOLEN BELLS ARE FOUND
Germans Will Return Them to French
Churches at CoImar.

Colmar, April 24.-Five bells taken
from the churches of Colmar during
the war by the Germans have been
found in Frankfort and will be re.
turned to their old places. Four OF
the bells were from the Church of st.
Martin, while the fifth was the great
bell from the Church of st. Joseph.
Valuable treasures s,o1en from the
museum have been found in Munich,
where they were taken by Bavarian
soldiers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
Germans Asked for April 20.
SHERIFF ENDS |. w. w. MEET
Official Abruptly Halts National Con.
vention at Sioux City.

Sioux City, Iowa, April 24.-The l.
W. w. national convention, agricultur-
al branch, was brought to an abrupt
end when Sheriff Jones, aided by rs
deputies, half dozen federal agents,
so police and IL secret service men,
raided the headquarters hall where
the convention was being conducted.
No trouble was experienced.
Sheriff Jones ordered the place
closed, the convention permanently ad-
journed and the delegates and others
to make their exit from the city as
quickly as possible. Some records
were seized.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
Says Italy Cannot Have Fiume
to Exclusion of Small Ma
tions Behind 1t.
PRINCIPLES At STAKE.
italian Premier Threatens to Return
to Rome Unless Satisfactory Ad-
justment comes-Army and
Navy Officers Have Left.

Paris, April 24.-President Wilson
Issued a statement declaring America
must stand by the principles it has
already enunciated in making deci-
sions regarding Italian claims. A new
set of principles cannot be established
for the Balkans, he said.
The president held that Fiume can
not be given to Italy, but must be
made available as a seaport for the
small nations behind 1t.
1915 Conditions Altered.
President Wilson pointed out that
pact of London was signed 1915) have
been altered by the dissolution Of Aus
tria-Hungary and the establishment Of
new Balkan states. He insisted the
peace conference must apply the prin-
ciples established in the armistice and
the IA points"
IF these principles are to be ad-
hered to, Fiume must serve as an out
let for the commerce, not of Italy, but
of the lands to the northeastward-
Hungary, Bohemia, (Czech-Slovakia)
Roumania and the states of the new
JugoSlav group.
Bottles UP New Nations.
ITO assign Fiume to Italy would be
to create feeling that we had delib.
erately put the port upon which these
countries chiefly depend for access to
the Mediterranean in the hands of a
power of which these nations did not
form an integral part and whose SOW
ereignty, if set there, must inevitably
seem foreign, not domestic"
The president concluded by point.
ing out that the fear of aggression,
existing at the time OF pact of Lon.
don, is not longer valid.
The Italians are now intimating
they will begin conversations with
the Germans looking toward a sepa.
rate peace. They indicated they ex-
pect to obtain coal from Germany and
food from the Ukraine, instead of from
Great Britain and America
Orlando Threatens Return.
Premier Vittorio Orlando threatens
to return to Italy unless there is q
satisfactory adjustment of the Fiume
and Dalmatian questions. Premier
Lloyd George of Great Britain is trying
to persuade the Italian leader to re
main in Paris longer while he is con
tinuing his efforts to reconcile the op
posing viewpoints.
With Premier Vittorio Orlando still
absent, Premiers Georges Clemenceat
and Lloyd George and President Viii
son resumed the consideration of ques
tions concerning China and Japan.
Admiral Di Reval left for Rome and
General Diaz has also decided to de
part.
Germans Asked for April %.
The Allied and associated govern
ments have informed the German gov
ernment through General Nudant a
Spa that they are ready to receive the
German delegates at Versailles Apri
2S
A dispatch to Information from
Berlin today, relayed by way of Zurich
said the German peace delegates prob
ably would leave April %, arriving IL
Versailles on May l.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
WANTS TEN THOUSAND MEN
War Department Recruiting Soldiers
for the Orient.

Washington, April 24-Recruiting of
a force of 10000 soldiers to protect
American possessions in the Pacific
has been ordered by the War depart
ment. These troops will be used to
increase the earrisons in the Philip
pines, China, Hawaii and the Panama
canal zone. War department officials
deny that this force is being organ
lied because of recent clashes between
Americans and Japanese in China and
Korea.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
CRAFT NEARING NEW YORK
One German Submarine Will Steam
Up Mississippi River.

Washington, April 24.-Four cap
tured German submarines now are 500
miles off the Atlantic coast, accom-
panied by the mother ship Bushnell
and are due to arrive at New York
April 26, for exhibition at various
Atlantic ports in connection with the
loan campaign. After the loan drive
ends, one will go up the Mississippi
river and one will enter the Great
Lakes through the St Lawrence river
and Welland canal, to be stationed
permanently at some lake port, prob
ably Chicago.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
SHOT IN CHICAGO RACE RIOT
Outbreak Results in Injuries to Chill.
dren and Negro.

Chicago, April 24.-Police are on
guard here against new outbreaks in
miniature race riot between white
and negro school children. 1t ended in
the probably fatal shooting Of negro
and injury of several children.
When policemen responded to the
riot call they were fired on. They shot
in return and downed William Epps,
%. Another negro was disarmed and
arrested.
Racial feeling. said the police, had
been intense and the riot, in which
several hundred took part, was pre-
cipitated by the stoning of white chill
dren.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
PLEAD GUILTY TO MURDER
Two Michigan Youths Given Solitary
Confinement for Life,

Kalamazoo, Mich, April 24.-The
seyerest penalty provided in the Michi.
gan criminal statutes, solitary con.
finement for life, was imposed in cir.
cult court upon George Z. Bird, Is
years old, and Arthur w. Sterling
aged 20, when they pleaded guilty to
a charge of numbering Walter w.
Mattison, leading druggist here, In
his store last Friday night.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
SITUATION IS UNCHANGED
Council Of Four Fails to Solve italian
Problem.

Paris, April 24.-The Italian situa.
ton remains unchanged, according to
the authoritative announcement after
the meeting of the Council OF Four.
The Italian premier, victorio Or
lando, while not attending the session
OF the council. had series of private
conferences and arranged meeting
with Premier Lloyd George, with =
view to seeking plan of adjustment
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
GENERAL ALVAREZ EXECUTED
Mexican Rebel Leader Put to Death
by Firinu Squad,

Vera Cruz, Mex, April 24.-General
Francisco Alvarez of the anti-govern.
ment forces, was executed. He met
death at the hands of a firing squad
with the utmost bravery. Alvarez was
captured last Tuesday in the battle
in which General Aurelanio Banquet,
minister of war in the Huerta cabi-
net. was killed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-04-24
MILITARY RULE IN BREMEN
Communists Establish Martial Law
and Strike Follows.

and Strike Follows.
Amsterdam, April 24.-Communists
have establish martial law in Bremen,
according to dispatches from that city.
Al shops, restaurants, theaters and
churches are closed and streetcars are
stopped between p. m. and 6 a. m,
during which period the public Is not
allowed on the streets. Private use OF
telephones and telegraphs is forbidden.
Only one NAH is allowed daily and this
Is censored.
The middle classes are striking In
protest
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04

record, special Investigations were
made by landing experts throughout
the entire cotton belt AS result
they report as follows:
"Boll weevi damage viii exceed
all previous records and will cover a
far greater territory in the belt than
it was thought possible DUNG the
present year. This is probably due
to q mild winter, wet spring and late
start of the plant. The damage from
the boil weevil will reduce the cotton
crop to a far greater extent than in
any previous year. Owe "a large Sec
ton of the belt inroads Of boil wee
vii will bring about a crop disaster.
There is also considerable damage
from root lice and root rot"
The trade should give special at
tention to the fact that considerable
territory, especially in Alabama, IS
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04
REPEAL OF ZONE POSTAGE
RATES URGED BY MoNDELL

Washington, July IAN attempt
to push through congress legislation
for the repeal Of the zone system Of
newspaper and magazine postage
rates will be made soon after the
Fourth of July holidays, Republican
Leader Mondell said today.
The support Of the Republican
leaders to the repeal is indicated by
the fact that Mr.. MondeN intro
duced the repeating bill and win per-
sonally urge action on it before The
house ways and means committee.
"Wth the return Of the pre-war
postage rates on first-class matter
today, we believe that the objection-
able zone system for second-claa
matter also should be- discarded, !"
Mr.. Mondell said. &
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04

planted this year in cotton, which
territory has absolutely been aban-
doned for the planting of cotton for
years on account Of the serious in
roads of the boil weev1. The unsatis-
factory price for peanut oil resu:tsd
in the planting Of these lands In
cotton this season. Reports show
that the boil weevil is rampant in
this territory and the damage Is
enormous, and that the acreage SO
planted cannot possibly swell the
production Of cotton to any extent.
"The condition Of the Califonis
crop being very high results in rails.
ing the general condition. The acre.
age planted in California being very
small, it cannot affect production tc
any material extent.
j. Skottowe Wannamaker,
President American Cotton Associa.
tion."
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04
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= SANTUC NEWS. -
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Santuc, July Mrs. s. W. NC
Claim and son, Alvin, who has just re-
turned home from France, motored
over and spent Sunday afternoon at
Mr.. joe Ables. Alvin McClain's
friends are glad to see him home
looking 50 well.
MIR and Mrs. Jesse Richey Of Ware
Shoals, spent Saturday night with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Haddon.
Mrs. M. s. Langford spent Sunday
with Mrs. E. J. Bolts.
Mr. and Mrs. w. F. Kay called at
Mr.. A. M. Milford's Friday morning
to see their little daughter, who has
been hick.
Mrs. F. E. Hagen and daughter
Frances, spent Thursday with Mrs. j.
B. Culbreth.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Haddon had
as their spend-the-day guests Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Furman Martin OF
Hodges, and Miss Willie Richey.
Mrs. Tuppy Boyd is sick at this
writing.
Mr.. R. B. Haddon spent Friday
night with his mother.
Mr.. John Stevenson spent the
weekend in Fonville with friends.
MIR. S. E. Price and family spent
Sunday at Mr.. J. B. Culbreth's.
Margaret and Sara Ables spent
Sunday with Marie and Belle Boyd.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04

any private reporters, and employs q
far larger number of representatives.
than the government. Through these
personal representatives, and with
the assistance of leading experts, it
has secured the most direct and cor
rect information that IS possible to
secure otherwise concerning the cot
ton crops. Through these sources,
the association has completed its de-
tailed condition report up to January
rs, which is as follows:
Acreage Planted.
"Condition Of cotton crop for the
entire belt up to June rs, 69.3 per
cent. Abandonment Of acreage
planted 6.5 per cent. In our last re-
port issued May rs, acreage planted
in 1919 is shown as 30,216,097. The
abandonment of 6.5 per cent must be
deducted, that is, 1,964,046 acres,
which brings the total acreage in
cotton planted in 1919 down to 49,
252,051 acres.
"The growing crop of cotton is
two to three weeks late throughout
the belt. AS a result of excessive
moisture the plant is diseased and
undersized. Plants show the result
of lack of tap roots and diseased
root system" Throughout the section
of the belt using commercial fertii-
izer, the plant plainly shows the re-
suit of lack of potash. The fields are
very grassy. -
Labor Conditions.
Labor is extremely short and
conditions e t.qhls u1sa :sfactor7.
The labor situariDn renders these
conditions even more serious. The
great demand for labor will be far
more pressing in the harvesting If
the crop. The farmer realizes that
he is facing a condition which is i'm
possible for him to solve. Even with
an extremely small crop with pres
ent labor conditions it will be abso-
lutely impossible to harvest Same
without serious loss.
'It has been impossible to prepare
lands properly or to properly culti-
vate the plant on account of ex-
treme shortage of labor.
"With reports that the boil weevil
conditions were the most serious or
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04
CROP CONDITIONS IN
THE COTTON BELT

st. Matthew'S, June 26.-The fol-
lowing report made by the American
Cotton Association is probably the
most accurate report ever issued of
crop conditions not being in the form
of an estimate. as is the case with
the government reports, but being
based Oh actual facts and conditions.
The American Cotton Association
has more thoroughly organized and
larger representation in every sec
ton of the cotton belt today than
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04
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Cold Springs, July 1.-Mr. and
Hrs, J. Kay Carwile spent Friday
With Mr.. B. A. Uldrick and family.
Miss Maude Hawthorne Of Able
vile, is visiting her grandmother,
Hrs Cornelia FAINT.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Uldrick and
children spent Saturday night and
, Sunday at Mr.. Bill Andersons near
Hedges.
Messrs. Bob King and D. E. Newell
Jr., Of Mccormick, spent Sunday at
Mr. D. E. Newell's.
Mr. w. B. Uldrick and family din
ed at Mr.. T. F. Uldrick's on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith and chill
iren spent Sunday with Mr.. J. r.
MeCombs and family.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kay and child
ren spent Friday at Mr.. B. A. Ul-
drieks.
Mr.. Noah McMahan and sister,
Miss Bodie, and Miss Lorene Grant,
of near Lowndesville, spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
,. Kay Carwife.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. A. Hagen and
Hrs. F. E. Hagen spent Saturday at
Mr.. Jim Blum's.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Kay and child
rvn worshipped at Bethlehem Sunday
snd dined at Mr.. r. S. Uldrick's.
Mrs. F. E. Hagen and daughter,
Frances, spent Thursday at Mr.. Jim
Czlbreth's.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Winn of Abb
Seville, and Mrs. J. D. Winn spent
Sunday at Mr.. R. W. Crawford's.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Hagen spent
Friday with Mr.. B. Moss and family.
Private w. C. Ellis returned home
Friday after seeing service overseas.
he was among our boys watching on
The Rhine. His many friends are
glad to have him with us again.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-07-04

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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-05-07
GRADY GOES TO POLLS
TO CAST BALLOTS ON
COURT HOUSE MEASURE

With the S5OOOOOOO state road
bond put to bed with practically a
5 to 1 vote against it, Chickasha and
Grady county headed back for the
polls today to vote on the $250OO0
worth of bonds for the purpose of
building a courthouse.
In order to make it more difficult
for the voters to get out, J. FfStvI
tipped the sprinkling can along in
the wee sma hours Of the morning
and gave roads and streets a good
soaking. At II o'clock the rain was
still falling with little prospect for
clear afternoon, for which reason,
campaign headquarters predicted a
light vote south in the city and
county
The early vote was bearing out
this prediction to the letter. At II
o'clock, 5 votes had been cast at the
city hall and so at the Carnegie
library, where probably the heaviest
vote in the city is normally cast. Al
the ward voting place, at the