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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-13
high waters, it was definitely deter
mined last night.

Halifas, N. S., Dec. 12-Fourteen
vessels wrecked, missing or making
port in a crippled condition, were re-
corded by marine authorities today as
victims of storms which swept the
north Atlantic coast during the last
two da5 ). A seventy-five mile gale
from tfe Gulf of ST. Lawrence was
still aaing over New Foundland to-
day.
The steamer Pro-Patria which left
st. Pierre. Martinique. for Sydney,
Wednesday is at sea, running short of
fuel and has asked assistance. Four
United States shipping board tugs,
bound from Quebec to Boston, which
became separated in the Gulf of st.
Lawrence We're today believed to be
safe in some of the small barbors.
The United States Shipping Board
steamer Davidson County. disabled 800
miles at sea by the loss of her pro-
peller. was reported approaching port
in tow of an American steamer. The
Canadian steamer Slignor was hurry
ing to the assistance of the British
freighter Hornsee, in distress east of
Canso.
| The British steamer Carmania,
which collided with the steamer Mary
! land about 500 miles at sea Wsdnes-
day expected to reach here tonight.
Fire discovered aboard the Ley
land xne freighter Mercian off Cape
Race Yesterday, caused her to head
toward this port.
The Isteamer Chetopa lost two pro-
peller !blades about $50 miles south
east OF Halifax and was reported un-
manageable and in need of assist
ance.
/. Late messages from the American
steamer Lake Gatewood, driven
aground on Port Hood Island in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence, indicated she
would; be a total loss. All members
of the crew were rescued. Another
American steamer, the Lake Elmwood
is aground on Cape Blue,
Jackson, Miss, Dec. 1.-THE flood
situation in Mississippi had improved
tonight with the high water of Hat
tiesburg, Meridian, Enterprise and
other places receding. The known
dead in Mississippi remained at seven
Practically all the larger railroads
have repaired their lines, and are able
to send trains through to other
states.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-13
COAST DEFENSES ARE
VISITED BY INSPECTOR

Major General ]. d. Barrett, COM
manding general of the South Allan
tic Coast Artillery District, with
headquarters at Charleston, who has
been inspecting the defences at Pen
sacola since Sunday, has left for New
Orleans to continue his inspection
tour. General Barrett's report will
not be made public until it is sub
mitted to the War Department, but it
is understood that he is highly
pleased with the showing made at the
Notifications under Col. Mauldin's
command.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-13
Cut This Quits Worth Money.

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
slip. enclose with &c and mail it to
FoIeyk& Co., 1885 Sheffield Ave-, Chi
cago, Ell.. writing your name and ad-
dress CLEARLY. You will receive in re-
turn a; trial package containing Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound, for coughs,
colds and Group; Foley Kidney Pills for
pain IN sides and back: rheumatism.
headache, kidney and bladder ailments:
and Foley Cathart;c Tablets. whole
some and thoroughly cleansing cathar-
tic for constipation. biliousness and
sluggish bowels. Sold everywhere
Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-12-13
NO ACTION YET
SUGAR CONTROL

Washington, Dec. 11-Another effort
to hasten senate action on the bill
continuing federal control of sugar
until next year failed today. The SEN
ate defeating motion to lay aside
the railroad bill temporarily.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
COST THE INSURANCE
COMPANIES $5O,OOO,OOO
FLU DUG DEEP INTO TREASUR-
IES-THE LOSSES ARE TOLD
IN BIG FIGURES.

NEW YORK.-"Flu" has cost life
insurance companies in the United
States $50,000,0O0.
This is the estimate made by Vice
President Lunger, of the Equitable.
Industrial" that is the small
weekly-payment policy companies, are
said to have lost S30,OOO.0OO of the
total.
Flu" and pneumonia have increas-
ed the death-claim payments of most
companies by four times the usual
average.
Several companies are passing
dividends to policyholders, in antici-
patton of further losses from the dis
ease.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany death claims up to December l
are $15,000,OO0 more than for the
corresponding date in 1917, and still
are coming in at double the normal
rate.
Prudential Insurance Company
which in the entire year of 1917 paid
!175,89l industrial and ordinary
death claims for a total Of $30,000,-
600, paid in seven weeks of 1918
during the worse of the epidemic
more than $4,000 claims for more
than $8.500,000 on death claims for
influenza and pneumonia alone.
This. company, during the war,
maid only 1872 claims for war
deaths, totaling $3,057 ass.
Penn Mutual has paid $l,658,066
on 315 influenza and pneumonia
deaths from September % to Novem-
Der 13.
Mutual Life Company reports its
irHuenza-pneumonia loss at $4,000
600; Equitable Life at S79S,203;
Provident Life, $4,000 on 1870
deaths.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
DEAD" BABY is REVIVED
WHEN ROCKED BY FATHER
Life Returns as Parent Holds
Child for Last Time.

WILKES BARRE, Pa.-La-
verne Scattergood, aged 4, was
pronounced dead. Her father and
mother were heart-broken and the
attending nurse went about the
task of getting the death robes
ready and preparing the body for
the undertaken.
E. A. Scattergood, the father,
entered the room with tears
streaming from his eyes. He had
been accustomed to rocking baby
every night and he decided to
take the little one in his arms for
the last time. He rocked and
cried while the nurse went on
with her work.
Suddenly there came a scream
from the father. The nurse hur-
ried to him. "She is living!" he
said. "She is living, and l know
it." The nurse thought she saw
signs of life. Baby was placed
in her bed and hot water bottles
applied. Violent rubbing started
the circulation and when the
doctor got there baby was very
much alive.
All that happened late last
night. Today little Laverne was
well enough to ask for something
tc eat. She is improving and the
doctor expects her to recover
from pneumonia,
"All the time she was sick, "
said the father, 81 thought that if
| could rock her as l did every
night she would get better. When
they said she was dead, l believed
it. But | decided to rock her Just
once more, and maybe l am not
glad that l decided to-"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
HIGH PRICES until
GOLD REGAINS POWER
MEMBER OF FEDERAL RESERVE
BOARD GIVES REASON FOR
GREAT COST OF LIVING.

RICHMOND, Va.-High prices will
prevail until the expansion of cur
rency and credit resulting from the
buying of war securities on credit
has been eliminated and until the
volume of credit and currency has
been reduced to an equality with the
needs of industry and trade, declared
A. c. Millel, a member of the fed
eral reserve board, speaking today
at session of the annual convention
here of the American Economic AS
ISOLATION,
Lost Purchasing Power.
Tested by price levels in the lead
ing markets gold has lost about one
half its purchasing power since the
beginning of the war in 1914" said
Mr.. Miller. Gold as a standard of
exchange has fallen in its purchasing
power" he said, because it has
shared the fate of paper currency
from rising prices which on a whole
sale basis are up about 100 per cent
IN the countries where the gold
standard still obtains.
Prices Must Decline.
Gold will not recover its lost pur-
! chasing power until prices decline, -
Mr.. Miller said. Financial, credit
and business relationships which have
been thrown into confusion by rea-
son of the rise in prices will not be
Strengthened out until the price sit
uation is rectified. But the price sit
uation VIII not be rectifed until the
expansion of our currency and credit
attributable TO the buying of securi-
ties on credit has been eliminated
and the volume of credit and cur
rency has once more been brought
back to a normal economic volume
that is to say, a volume correspond
ing to the needs of industry and
trade for the production and eX-
change of goods at normal values. y
Should Lift Embargo
The embargo laid by this country
/ during the war on gold shipments
Mr.. Miller said, should be lifted at
the earliest practicable moment OF
"as soon as our international tinan-
cial relationships are such that We
are no longer under the necessity OF
taking care of adverse balances OF
the nations with which we have been
associated in the war arising out of
their trade with neutral countries.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
BIG BILL FROM ENGLAND
is PRESENTED TO u. S.
Is Asked to Pay IT'S Million Dol
lars for transportation of
American Troops.

The United States has received
bill from Great Britain for $125
for every officer and soldier of the
more than 100000 men trans
ported overseas by English ships.
The total claim of London
amounts to about SITS, 100000.
Other big claims against the
United States also will be made
by Great Britain. Enormous
stretches of English farming land
have been used for American
training camps. Thousands of
soldiers were sent to England
where they received their train
ing before ordered to the western
front in France. The war de-
partment established many train
ing camps for the aviation corps
in England.
A huge war bill is expected to
be received also from France.
American armies have occupied
hundreds of miles of French soil,
and in training and practice they
have destroyed or damaged con-
siderable property. The United
States also will be asked to pay
big rent for buildings occupied by
the Americans in various parts of
France. All these claims against
the United States will be settled
at the peace conference.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
WILSON, HOBNOBBING WITH ROYALTY,
EATS OUT OF FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLAR
PLATES AT CARNIVAL OF BRlLLlANCE

LONDONPresiden the of honor last nt at
banquet the midst Of verltable taryand OF
a+sfvnc in every particular childhood dreams of royal spendo
Sitting between King and Queen Mary the prdenI ave
With what nerhaps was the identical knife and fork used by George
III who was king United States was born dne 6ao h
gold colecton worm 9loooVVVO ~
was started in the reign of George Ill . , ,., NJ.
the president and the queen followed by ne KING @ M
Wilson and other guests the they were
servants in gold livery walking backward and WAVING VINE ]
timed with GOLD AS the president stepped into the banquet oo
his expression he felt the scene seemed 700 %
really rne and that it for him to believe was not s
Barrieized fairy phantasy - r. a;o1oro5 beieyeling
Inon the table than hundred candles HckerI
tho 6id ates cases and other table Another h4hded
dies studded the Overhead SIN big crown % 80
cbardeer The walls hung with tapestries ana so"
Ponsettas sproung from vases harmoned WIN 1n r nirt
C,~-Ss n ne Tower of London encrced the rooms 'I p
esoue uniforms making of them look like the JACK o.
"Alce in Wonderland
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
Poison Gas, Wars Greatest
Horror, Will Be Sunk in Atlantic


towers of spindle steel looking like
miniature Eiffel towers are scatter
port pipes through which the gases
port pipes through which the gases
were distilled.
Plant Being Dismantled.
Already in Baltimore the plant is
being dismantled The machinery is
being carefully taken apart, oiled,
wrapped and stored away for the next
war, should there be one. The parts
that have come in contact with the
gas are taken by means of tongs out
into the fields and buried.
In all the thousands of tons of
noXious gases, one drop of which will
kill man, there is but little of com
mercial value. Mustard oil cannot
be used in any way. In small quanti-
ties phosgene is saleable
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
SCORES FEDERAL
RAIL ADMINISTRATION
DEAD, DUMB AND BLIND, is THE
ARIZONA IDEA OF GOVERN
MENT CONTROL.
g ABUSES CANNOT Be SEEN, -
SAYS BOARD OF THAT STATE

Nebraska Commission Concurs in
Much of the Western States Rul-
ing-One Carrier Ashamed to Ac-
cept Increase in Rates.
LINCOLN, Neb.-Out in Arizona
the state railway commission has
handed down a decision which would
test the right of the states to regu-
late rates of railroad companies with
in their own borders in opposition to
the theory that the United States rail-
road administration has sole author
ity over rates, both state and inter
state.
The Nebraska commission, which
sympathizes with these views to some
extent, has a copy of the decision
which contains some rather juicy
wording.
The Arizona board charges the fed
eral railroad administration, of which
Director General McAdoo is the head,
has been deaf, dumb and blind to the
abuses in the present system and has
allowed the carriers to dictate what
the rates should be.
The opinion is given in connection
with rate case in Arizona and in
part reads:
"The action of the United States
railroad administration in putting
into effect general increase of Is
per cent was i'll timed and i'll advised,
as may be gathered from the fact
that one of the Arizona carriers has
recently requested US to permit it to
make reduction of 20 per cent in its
freight rates, for the reason increased
cost of living brought about by the
war, when added to freight rates
which are more than remunerative
imposes such burden on the people
depending upon it for transportation
that it would be unconscionabie fol
it to continue to charge the higher
| scale"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
BIG CROPS MAKE
A KNOTTY. PROBLEM
TWO COURSES OPEN TO GOV
EMINENT IN REGARD TO
PROMISED PRICE.

The enormous grain crops of 1918
are a striking tribute to the ability
and energy of the American farmer,
according to a government report
recently published.
The wheat crop of $4,000, 900
bushels fell short only a few thou
sand bushels of equaling the record.
The oats crop of 1,538,O0O,O0O also
was only trifie less than the high
mark. Barley, rye and other minor
fOodstuffs set new records in produc-
ton. Corn was the only grain that
failed to produce a bumper crop. A
long period of nigh temperatures
over a large part of the corn belt re-
duced the crop to one of barely suffi-
cient proportions to meet domestic
requirements.
The effort of the government to
handle the distribution of the grain
crops to the peoples OF the world re-
suited in putting prices at high
figure, SO that the American farmer
has been we'll repaid for the effort
he made, it is stated.
Facing New Conditions.
Now that the war IS over the
farmer and the government face a
new condition. says the bulletin.
| The farmer has planted something
( 4 e
wheat, a new record, and he proposes
to plant record breaking acreage
of spring wheat The president has
guaranteed him a price for all the
wheat raised in 1919, based upon
S2.26 for No. l hard wheat in Chi
I,cago.
The wheat was planted when there
was every reason to expect big de-
mand in 1919 The abrupt ending of
the war has developed a big problem
in the wheat trade. The farmer S
patriotism as we'll as his thrift result
ed in his planting as much wheat
as he could handle, which will result
in probably a greater wheat produc-
ton next year.
The Courses Open.
The report states that difficulty
will arise if the government asks the
consumer to pay a war price for
wheat in order to observe the con-
%ract with the farmer. Grain men
assert that there are two courses
open. The government may purchase
the grain at the promised price and
sell at a loss as a part Of the war eX-
nense or it may arrange to have the
farmer market his grain in the regu-
lar way and pay him a bonus equal to
the difference in the price at which
he sells and the price promised him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
MANY ENEMY ALIENS ARE
FACING DEPORTATION
Seeking Authority to Prevent
Their Return to United States.

1netf Neturn TO OnlteQ StatSS'
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of most of the 5000 or 1000 en-
at liens now interned in the
Un. M tes will be recommend
ed to CT shortly by the de-
partment OF Special leg
islation will be ID for the
deportations, and i, learned
today the department " ask also
for authority to prevent the re-
entry of these men into this coun-
try later.
The department never has an
nounced how many enemy aliens
are held in internment camps in
this country, but the number is
understood to be between 5000
and 1000. Most of them are
Germans and a few are women.
About half are understood to be
men who served actively at one
time as German agents in the
United States, receiving and exc
cutting orders directly from the
German government or it's repre-
sentatives. These include trained
propagandists, men who plotted
directly against American ship
ping and the transportation of
troops overseas.
Many of the prisoners are men
with families in the United States,
and have lived here for a number
of years. The internment camps
confne not a few men of large
wealth. Precisely which of these
might be considered too danger
Gus to remain indefinitely in the
United States will not be deter
mined until the department is
ready to take action under the
supposed legislation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
A STRANGE QUIET
OVER BATTLE FIELDS
DIN OF WAR HAS ENDED AND
SCARED COUNTRYSIDE RE-
TURNING TO NORMAL.
SILENCE NOW REIGNS WHERE
BIG CANNON BELCHED DEATH

Villagers Creeping Back to See What
Remained of Their Homes-Friend-
ly Lights Flicker at Night for the
First Time in Four Years.
The vast battlefield in northern
France is queer land now. Over
the shell-torn villages and blasted
woods, the pitted fields and the ruin
of all that once was, is a strange
quiet. The winter sky is lacking in
aeroplanes and great f1ocks of crows
have taken their place.
A few villagers have crept back to
see what remains of their homes and
holdings, but they are few and prob
ably the winter will have passed be-
fore reclamation and reconstruction
are undertaken on large scale.
Need for Haste Is Gone.
Along the roads, repaired and re-
bridged for the allies advance into
| German territory, long canton trains
move slowly and always southwark.
They travel leisurely now, for the
need of hurry is gone They bring
back the salvage of battlefields, all
the things that go to make war, aban-
dOned or captured.
Truckload after truckload of rifles
and shells, of water bottles and haver-
sacks, cartridges, machine guns, bay
onets and trench knives and pistols
! mess kits, overcoats, caps, an endless
catalogue Of paraphernalia are
brought in. The battle zone is still
| full of it all, in heaps and racks, wait.
ing salvage.
Bringing Back War Material.
Now and then come trains of aero
plane camions, burdened with dis
mantled flying machines of every type
and every nation, engine and fusilage
and running gear on the truck and
| the great wings on its specially de-
signed trailer. Some of them are un-
harmed, but many show bullet holes
| through the frail fabric or the ruins
If a crash. A fair proportion of them
bear the Maltese cross that marks
them German.
There are trains of captured enemy
artillery, particularly of motor batter
| les, driven and manned by French
men, and these are happy outfits. Of
ten the guns are decorated with ever
green's, and always the French sol
diers laugh and wave a greeting. AS
they creep through the villages the
populace fiocks out to view the can
non that for four years sent death
and devastation to their land and the
children Chamber on the carriages and
ont on the grim barrels.
Strangest of All Are the Lights.
Strangest Of all are the lights al
night, in the hamlets and villages
shining friendly from the isolated
farmhouse, in regions further back.
For so long France seemed a deserted
land to the traveller by night. Hour
after hour person travelled at night
without a glimmer to be seen in the
countryside; now from every hill and
vale the CHEEKY windows shine and the
villages are ablaze. Where once cam
ions or staff cars doomed lightless in
| the roads to the imminent threat of
collision, and often its accomplish
ment, the brilliant headlights stab the
night
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
COTTON SHORTAGE
MEANS PROSPERITY
WORLD MUST DRAW CHIEF sup
PLY OF STAPLE FROM GROW
Frs AND MILLS.
MAY RESORT TO RATION
SYSTEM TO KEEP DOWN PRICES
Government to Apportion Americas
Cotton to European Countries.
Supply Cannot Meet the Worlds
Demand-Must Have Clothes.

NEW YORK. - Prosperity and
plenty of work face the southern cot
ton growers and the northern and
western cotton mills.
There is a great shortage of cotton
in the world today. America has the
only supply. The government has
taken charge and practically forbid
den speculation.
World Demand Exceeds Supply.
Cotton is one of the foundations of
American prosperity. The ten south
ern states, comprising the cotton belt,
produced last season cotton valued at
nearly 1,500,000,000 and for the four
seasons since the war commenced the
total value of the south's chief crop
amounted to about $4,300,00O, 900.
This crop actually gives employment
to about 100000 persons in the
United States annually. Of these
some. 100000 are employed in
growing the plant; another million
pick the crop and 100000 are en-
plOyed in the cotton mills. The bal
ance are employed in the gins, the
cotton seed and cotton oil plants.
Cotton on hand today cannot meet
the world demand. Summed up, there
were 100000 bales carried over in
the hands of cotton planters and es-
adjustments from the 1867 crop.
This seasons yield was about H.
100000 bales, making a total in this
country at this time of 100000
bales. In 1867 the worlds con-
sumption of cotton was 14,250,000
bales, exclusive of Teutonic allies. In
peace times Germany and Austria
alone took 100000 bales of Ameri-
can cotton.
They will be in the market for at
least 100000 bales for immediate
delivery. Of course, food takes
precedence, but cotton is an actual
necessity to the people of the former
Teutonic alliance-they must have
clothes as well as food
Ration System Seems Certain.
Consumption of cotton in the
United States in 1919 will probably
be about 100000 bales. Britain
has only 100000 bales on hand, far
below the danger margin. The safety
margin in Britain is somewhere
around 100000 bales. In normal
times Britain will take 100000
bales of cotton from US per annum.
France also has little or no cotton
and she takes about 100000 bales
annually. Belgium and Spain take an
additional 100000 bales.
1t is thus easy to see that our cur
rent crop and surplus will probably
be disposed of before the coming sea-
sons crop is picked
The certainty of great demand
with short supply induced tremen-
dous speculation on the cotton eX-
change, and necessitated the govern
ment stepping in, making practically
certain the "rationing" Of cotton to
the countries of the world
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-01-07
'VuLD PASS A new LAW
10 PROHIBIT BOOZE AIRMEN

r. UOnVeyanees, Which Are Now
. s''p0r'ing Whisky in Some
states Not in Georgia's Law.
nav ,tiLANTA, Georgia's bone-dry
n .. (. law prohibits the importa-
rad y h. iquor into the state by rail
conver Wy automobile, by horse-drawn
bow s{SaIltse and by boat or shin, but
b soont airplanes?
III The are not mentioned anywhere
trom M law Jaw: What is to prevent a Aver
Iof Wb Sipulng a machine with a barrel
Iiyne ny. contained in small bottles.
IN s,m INTO the state and disposin rplI Of
ssion & at some previously agreed
thSa'oSh en flying away and giving
0pes n 10 the hounds of the laws
|ggetipSp m NJ Alabama they are already eaJ
lry s ready to amend their ie%~s
lon Of t ~. at the forthcoming ges-
H. t n me- general assembly ' by m ngs-
Il sta unlawful az, to bring LIQUOR i into
kganc ase by any sort Of AERIAL c .nro