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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-11-06
NEGRESS SAYS SHE
SAW EDGE KILLED

Americas, Nov 5.-The mysterious
Edge murder case took new and sen
sational turn here today when Sheriff
Harvey announced the arrest of
Walter w. Wilson. white Lena Cool
edge, alias Lena Coles, alias Lena
Wilson, negro taxi cab driver all
of whom are charge with murder
The Coolidge negress. Henry Bin
yard and Jensie Mccullough, the last
named having been under arrest
some time, are whereabouts of Will
son are being kept secret by the of
ficers.
Great interest centers i nthe trial
of the casee, which will probably
take place in Sumter superior court
which begins its session Monday.
November "a. Rel tives of Joel Edge
the dead man, are seeking to secure
additional counsel to assist Solicitor
julie FELTON, III the prosecution of the
case. and it now seems strong
legal battle will be fought before the
guilt or innocence of the four de.
fendents is finally established
Wilson the white man, arrested in
connection with the murder and who
it is alleged, actually beat joel Edge
10 death. had resided in Americus
until recently. but when arrested was
1T Marvin, Ga. 1t is said he is a mar
ried man and has family living near
Albany, although this has not been
d finiteIy established.
Negress Makes Confession
Jessie Mccullough one Of the de-
PENDANTS in the case, has made a
clean breast of her participation in
the affair. and her story is corrobo-
atcd by the statement Of at lest
one other eye witness to the murder
Binyard, it is said drove the murder
car which conveyed Wilson to the
scene of the crime. while Lena Cool
edge and Jensie Mccullough were in
tackled End killed.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
GERMANS NOT /.
CONTENT WITH
FOOD RATIONS

Berlin, Sunday. March 16.-(By
the Associated Decentralization
are that the average German Is not
enthusiastic over the amount Of food
he is likely to receive under the pro-
visioning agreement with the Allies.
over the signing of the long desired
arrangement he Immediately began to
figure out his share of the provisions
under the terms Of the document, an
extended summary of which was pub
lished officially this morning. and
such comment as Is made reflects an
undeniable feeling of disappointment
at the quantity provided.
This was particularly the case be
cause the newspapers, in reducing
the totals to figures in pounds per
capita, take as the basis of their esti-
mates the population before the war
and work out the result at ten pounds
monthly per person. instead Of the
approximate 1S pounds which results
from q computation on the basis of a
population of 100000 excluding the
self providers on the farms, as the
food ministry contemplates doing.
This means that the allotment would
be half pound Of flour and tenth of
a pound of fats per day to supplement
the waning German food stocks.
In commenting on the agreement,
Vorwaerts predicts that the Independ-
ent Socialists and the Spartacans will
make capital of the fact that there is
a proviso in the agreement that no
food shall be allotted to those who
are unemployed through their own
fault The newspaper says the work
men will be told that the government
induced the Entente to insert this
proviso to prevent them from using
the stocks as a political weapon.
The newspaper declares that in re-
ality the proviso was contained in the
draft agreement submitted by the
inter Allied delegates to the Brussels
conference. The delegates undoubt.
edly insisted on it. Vorwaerts thinks
in order to make Germany finance as
large a proportion of the supplies as
possible by means of exports so that
Germany's gold resources might be
reserved for indemnity payments
The newspaper characterizes the
agreement as anything but sue.
cess"
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
SPAIN ENDORSES
PROPOSAL FOR
NATIONS LEAGUE
Holds Back Decision on De-
duction of Armament on
Army Strength. .

Madrid. Sunday March 1e.-fBy
the Associated Press. "A committee
appointed by the government to study
Spanish participation in the league Of
nations, has submitted report to
the cabinet. = The government en-
dorses President Wilson's proposals
but reserves its decision as to reduc-
tion of armaments and the fixing of
military forces by members OF the
league.
1t is understood the government
will ask definite assurances as to the
Spanish coast line, protectorates in
Africa and the suitability of military
service as social discipline for Spain.
Spain will be represented at con-
ferences of neutral nations at Paris
by Manual Gonzales Hontoria,
liberal deputy, and in 1912 under
secretary of foreign affairs. Premier
Romanones may also go to Paris.
Senior Hontoria and other members
Of the committee, who are supporters
of President Wilson's ideas, consider
that the report will have, peculiar
weight because of the prestige Spain
enjoys among Latin American coun-
tries favoring the establishment of a
league Of nations. Spain is ready to
present her views to the neutral con-
ference on military. economic and
social questions. but will not discuss
Morocco, considering her rights so
indisputable that discussion is un
necessary.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
SHORT TERM
NOTE MAY NOT
Be PRACTICAL
Wide Circulation of Fifth
Loan May be Difficult
Through This Plan.

Washington, March 17-Doubt that
the Victory. Liberty Loan, consisting
of short term notes. will meet as wide
distribution as past issues of longer
term bonds, was expressed by the
federal reserve board in it's March
was written before the victory loan
act was passed by congress and be-
fore Secretary Glass announced that
the forthcoming loan would consist
of notes:
the whole as well adapted for invest
ment by private individuals as longer
bulletin, while financial custom has
usually dictated the absorption of
short term issues by investment I'M
stitutions. Practically therefore, the
alternative plan (provided in the
bond actls would tend toward the
placing ut greater.% volume of the
new issues. definitely in the hands Cf
tons throughout the country, and less
in the hands Of private individuals. =.
This is equivalent to saying that 1t
may probably be more difficult to OBJ
tain a wide distribution of the fifth
loan if it be offered in the form Of
short term notes than if it be sold as
longer term bonds The alternative
whole operation more transitory and
temporary in its working than would
the original plan Of bond issue. 1t
would necessarily imply that the
early maturity of the notes must be
looked forward to and that an extern
sive refunding operation must take
place when such maturity arrives.
ION the whole. the note plan would
therefore operate to increase the in
flationary tendency already noticeable
in the present banking situation and
would add relatively speaking to the
burdens carried by the banks.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
NOTHING MORE
THAN IA POINTS
TO BE ACCEP TED
Other Conditions in Peace
Treaty Would be Voted
On by Germans. 4.
Erzberger Says Germany,
Has Unlimited Conf
dence in Wilson.

Copenhagen. March 17.-If the Al.
lies load the peace treaty with con-
ditions going beyond President VII
sons fourteen points the German na.
tional assembly will have to refuse 10
assent to the treaty, Matthias Gxb-
berger, head, Of the German armisacs
commission, declared in an address IT
league of nations, according to . dte-s
patch today. The matter then woutd
be left to referendum Of the Ger
man nation. he said.
Herr Erzberger disclaimed any OBJ
legation upon Germany to give COM
pensation for acts she commttteds
after her first peace offer in Decem-
ber, 1916.
The speaker declared that the only
means of calling halt on Boishev1sm
was the abandonment Of the mailed
fist policy Of the allies"
The German people, said Herr Err
berger. had almost unlimited conf
dence in President Wilson, and he
hoped that the league Of nations coy-
enant as promulgated February IA
would not be fully adopted, as. he de-
clared, 1t was compromise OF the
ideals of President Wilson with the
imperialistic aspirations of some OF
the Allies.
AHo AAetlC6H ptcolOChl, GAE 1SAs
berger insisted, was under obligations
to advocate the immediate admission
of Germany to the league.
Herr Erzberger asserted that Ger
many was prepared to accept the vote
of Alsace-Lorraine as to its future.
but he referred to the reported as
pirations of France respecting the
Rhineland and to Poland's claims to
Danzig as Grimes" adding: What is
German will remain German"
There was no moral obligation upon
Germany regarding compensation
aside from the case of Belgium, the
speaker argued. In that case Ger
many would act honestly, he said.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
BOlsheUists Suffer Defeat
And Heauy Losses IN Attempt
To Cut Allied Communications
American Machine Gunnerl.,, IS,
Take Stand In Block House
And Nov Down Bolshe-
visits When They Advance
To Entanglements.

Archangel, Saturday, March 15-
(By the Associated Press 1.-THE
futile attack which the Bolsheviki de-
ltvered yesterday. on the Allied and
American forces comprised the first
serious attempt to cut the line of
communications, of the Dvina and
Vaga, columns. The attempt was not
only frustrated but the Bolsheviki
forces suffered defeat and sustained
heavy losses.
Moving from the Kadish-Tarezvo
sector, the first battalion of the sixth
soviet regiment, 500 strong, attacked
the Allied positions in the village Of
Gorka, which is 25 miles north Of
Beresnik, at the junction of the Vaga
and the Dvina. The American-Rus-
sian detachment at Goorka was we'll
entrenched and it decisively repulsed
the enemy, capturing five prisoners
and five machine guns during the
fighting. After the attack the bodies
Of 81 Bolsheviki were found. The
Allied force suffered one casualty
man wounded.
The Vaga sector in the vicinity Of
Kitsa is quiet, as.are the other fronts.
American officers who returned to-
day from the Vaga front declared that
the Bolsheviki sustained exceedingly
heavy losses last week. One particu-
lar instance occurred after the enemy
had razed with artillery fire nearly all
the blockhouses in Vistavka.
All the defensive troops withdrew
with the exception Of a squad of
Americans who lay concealed in q
partly destroyed blockhouse with ma
chine guns. The enemy scouts ad-
vanced and were permitted to cut the
barbed wire ENHANCEMENT. On doing
this they shouted back to their COM
rades that the village = had been
abandoned.
When the first column Of the Boil
sheviki walked up to the entangle-
ments the Americans inside the block.
house turned their machine guns
loose and moved down the entire
party After this the defensive forces
went back into Vistavka.
OF the total of SO Americans listed
as missing since the beginning OF
hostilities on this front, it has beer
reported that ten are prisoners In the
Bolshevik hospital at Velsk. This in.
formation was given an American
Red Cross field worker who Ques'
toned Bolshevik desertexs on the
Vaga front.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
Suppression Of Spa1tacan Outbreak in
Germans Sholus Military and Monarchist
Reaction in @ Ouershadowing Government

London, March H. Dispatches
from Berlin report that the sup
preston Of the spartacan outbreak
has shown that q military and mon
archist reaction is growing and over
shadowing the new government.
The Berlin correspondent OF the
Mail has arrived in London, having
left Berlin March IA. He reiterates
the statement made in his dispatch Of
February ~. that President Ebert.
Chancellor Scheidemann and Minis
ter Of War Noske are merely puppets.
He declares that for the purpose Of
retaining power they have allowed
members of the military caste to re-
appear as organizers Of the new re-
publican armies. si
..These men are the real governors
Of Germany he says. They make
mann and. his colleagues willingly sign
them" ~ n I. 81
similar testimony is given by other
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
FIGURES ON INCOME
TAX REPORTS WILL
BE READY in WEEK

Washington, March IT, Revenue
collectors reported to the internal
fices were submerged beneath the
thousands Of income tax returns and
which reached them Sat-
urday. the final day for reporting.
Indications were that fairly accurate
figures on payments would not be
available for q week.
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Roper today discussed with bureau
officials the issuance Of formal in
structions to collectors providing for
leniency in the case of belated returns
reaching their offices this week.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17

correspondents in telegraphing from
Berlin, some stating that the capture
OF the suburb Of Lichtenberg has been
Intentionally prolonged with View
to exterminating the Spartacans,
whose treatment at the hands Of gov-
ernment troops Is said to be sharply
condemned.
While alleged atrocities are attrtb-
;uted to the Spartacans, details which
have been given are doubted or de-
MED. Even the Vorwaerts admits
them to be much exaggerated. The
correspondents concur in the state
ment that extreme bitterness has been
created against government troops,
and that further trouble Il inevitable
According to q dispatch to the Mail,
the, Spartacan revolt Will recur in
ever-increasing force unless miracle
happens. II adds that Herr Noske's
forces have been recruited by bribes
and promises of big rations. and that
to this may be attributed some OF the
food shortage in Berlin. 1.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17

Have prices Of your product bssns
lower recently from the high pricees
prevailing during the war? Yes, 1AS:s
No, 80. u.
is labor more abundant, Yes. s3s:s
No. 81. II
Is labor more restless, Yes. 1875
No. VI. =. s 81
is there less re-employment, fss.sss
Is labor more efficient, Yss se;ss
No, 142. i
Has there been any lowering ses
wages? Yes. II: No. 2s8. y
Arc you paying lees for nv ma
terials? Yes. Isl; No, 80. X ss
Is the supply adequate? YsR 3l3:s
No, Is. SIS Z
Do you anticipate making any sx-s
tensions or repairs TO your plants aAs
the near future which will nsceelita4aE
the purchAsA Of building materials go
equipment? Yes, ~: No, 303. 4 4
Have You . satisfactory ana1nt -
orders on hand? Yes. "a; No. 1So. rs
Most cOncerns reported ths out1ee1s
uncertain. III u. 81 & i d Il M n
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
Manufacturers and Dealers Reports
To Federal Reserue Board Show Large
Stocks on Hand and Lessened Demand

Washington. March 1.-THE feder-
al reserve board made public today
summaries OF reports from federal
reserve agents throughout the coun-
try in answer to q QUESTIONABLE re-
Gently sent out to ascertain the ex-
tent Of business and industrial read
justment. The reports showed in gem
eral large stocks on hand by manu-
facturers and dealers and lessened
demand with prices decreasing in
many cases.
A typical example of the reports
from industrial districts was afforded
by the tabulation Of replies to ques-
tions from business concerns in the
Philadelphia district These questions
and classified replies were as follows:
Are the quantities Of materials.
supplies and goods as shown by your
last inventory larger than usual
Yes, ia; No, 129.
Area they principally for war or
civiliin businesses?
22l. nj q
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
SETTLEMENT IN
BOAT EMPLOYEES
STRIKE FAR OFF

New York, March 17.-Private boat
owners and their employees remained
in deadlock today with little prospect
that compromise agreement could
be reached fof an early settlement Of
the haSbor strike.
The refusal of the boat owners to
meet delegations of the men If their
union leaders were present, was met
with a counter, refusal on the part of
the harbor men to join in confer
ence attended by the counsel for the
Boat Owners association. The men
have offered to settle with the owners
on the same basis as they did with
the war and navy departments and
the shipping board.
James L. Hughes. federal concili-
ator. returned to New York today to
renew his efforts to settle the strike.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
FORMER EMPEROR
DOES $50 WORTH
OF LOG SAVING

Amerongen, Holland, Saturday.
March 15-(By The Associated
Press. Hohenzollern to.
day completed saving into logs his
thousandths tree since he took
refuge at Count Won Bentinck's
castle hero last fall. A few OF the
logs were converted into souvenirs
and marked in red ink with the
inscription wv ~ These were
presented to members of the
Bentinck family and to those who
have assisted the .ex-enperOr.
Expert saWyeFs compute the
value of the wages Herr Hohen-
zollern would have earned IL he
had been paid the trade union
rate, at about $50 for the whole
period.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
FARMER HELD
ON CHARGE
OF MURDER
Nc cDonnell Of Courtenay, N.
D., Believed to Have Beat
en- Daughter to Death.

Courtenay. N. D., March 17.-Dan-
lei Mcdonnell, farmer, is under ar
rest here today suspected of having
beaten his 12 year old daughter, Eta,
to death. An investigation started
Sunday after Mcdonnell had attempt
ed to obtain a burial certificate, show
ed that the girl had been beaten from
head to foot. Approximately SO bruis-
es and marks were found on the
child's body, including two or three
in the face and seven or eight else
where in the head.
When officers arrived to conduct an
investigation of the girls death, Nc
Donnell said he was going to water
the stock. Half an hour later he could
not be found, but tracks in the snow
showed the direction he had taken.
He was captured about two miles
from Hannaford last night.
The investigation, being conducted
by Assistant States Attorney Alex
Jorgenson, Of jamestown, also dis
closed that the girls feet had been
SO badly frozen that she probably had
been unable to walk for some time
prior to her death.
There were seven children in the
Mcdonnell family. including Eetta.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
COCCHI MURDER
TRIAL POSTPONED

Bologna, italy. March 17-Alfred
Cocchi charged with the killing of
Ruth Kruger in New York in 1917,
will not be tried March 81 as had
been planned. 1t was learned today
that the trial had been postponed in
definitely on account, it was said. of
further investigation of the case,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17

localities.
The situation was said to be most
serious near Wichita, where the pack
ing house district as we'll as residence
sections were threatened. Volunteers
patrolled the banks of the Little Ar
kansas river last night. prepared to
place sandbags at weakened points
in the levee-e... eae . ~ ~;
emily was taken only in OKLAHOMA,
where two persons were killed at
Porter, village near Muskogee and
three negroes lost their lives at Dover.
Okla.
The storm moved east Of the Mis-
sissippi river last night and reports
today from north of Vicksburg tell Of
several persons killed and consider
able property damage sustained.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
Judge Bruce Named
On Committee To
Investigate The
Court Martial Law

New York, March 17.-SeCe-
tary of War Baker has been ad-
vised , Of the, appointment of q
committee of five members of
the American Bar association ITO
investigate the status of the pres
ent military law relating to
courts martial" This was an
nounced by the aesoeiatien- here
o today with the statement that
fstte committee expects to com
mence it's work at an early date"
The committee Is headed by S.
S. Gregory of Chicago. The other
members are Judge w. p. BynuIn
Of Greensboro, N. c.; Judge An
drew Alexander Bruce, Minne-
apolis, MIMI; Col. John Hinck-
ley Of Baltimore and Martin Con-
boy of New York.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
UNION REC0G IGNITION
MAY BE GRANTED
NEWARK STRIKERS

Newark, MI. March 17.-Prior to
a conference today between the Pub
lie Service Railway company and its
$500 employees who have been on
strike throughout northern New Jer-
sey. it was learned that the company
had virtually assured the federal war
labor board that the mems chief de-
mand-union recognition-would be
granted.
The company today restored the
men their privilege of placing union
notices on the company's bill boards
and their action was interpreted by
the employees as foreshadoWing the
winning of their principal demand.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
TWO AVLAT0RS
KILLED, WHEN
MACHINE J DROPS
Cause Of Fall Being 1nvesti-
gated by Officials of
Kelley Field.

Houston, Tex. March 17.-Lieu-
tenants Robert Morsbach and o. D.
Davidson Of the Ellington field avia-
tion personnel, were killed Sunday
night near Richmond. their plane
crashing to, the ground as they were
nearing the end Of flight from Kelly
field. San Antonio.
Lieutenant y Morsbach who was
plotting the plane, was from Durand,
Wis. and Davidson. was from Omaha.
Neb.
The cause Of the crash is being in
.vestigated by an official board from
Ellington field and as yet have not
been announced.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
EIGHT BODIES
FOUND IN PATH
. OF WIND STORM
Great Loss Of Property
81, 900, 900 Worth of Tim
Der is Destroyed.

vicksburg, Miss. March IT,
Searchers today continued examina-
ton of wreckage in the path of the
tornado which yesterday swept eight
miles, from a point near Grace, fifty
five miles north of Vicksburg, north
east to Pantherburn. The bodies Of
j. w. Johnston, Pantherburn planter,
and eight negroes already have been
found. Among the seriously injured is
E. p. Green, manager of a plantation
near Grace.
The greater part Of the property
loss, estimated at more than $1,000
900, was to cypress and gum timber.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
German Army Officer
Reported Beaten To
Death By Peasants

London, March 17.-6eneral count
Sixt Won Arnim. commander Of tho
German army in Flanders during q
large part of the war. has been beaten
to death by peasants at Asch, Bo-
hemia, according to the Exchange
Teleeraph company. It Is said that
General Won Arnim shot at lpeasantss
gathering firewood on his property
and that the mob invaded and pill.
laged his chateau after killing him.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
High School Athletic
Play At New Rockford

New Rockford, n. D., March IL
A real treat is in store for the peo-
pie of New Rockford and vicinity.
The High School Athletic association
will give their annual play in Nivens
opera house. Monday evening, March
"a.
''The Freshman" is three-act
comedy, dealing with college life and
it is full Of snap and pep from begin
ming to end.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
TROUBLE AT
ten T'SlN
ESET Tied
Minister Reinsch Instructed
to Send Facts to u. S.
Officials.

Washington, March 17.-Minister
Reinsch at Peking advised the state
department today that all was quiet
at Tien Tsin, where there was trouble
last week between American soldiers
and Japanese, and that he was send
ing a full report of the incident by
mail. The department instructed him
to report all important facts by cable
imme ediatelY
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
Soldiers And Sailor.
Given Place OF Honor
In St. Patrick Parade

New York. March 17.-soldiers and
sailors were accorded the honor
places in. the st. Patrick's day parade
in which u, e00 representatives q lvG
Irish societies were assigned to places.
Conveyances were provided for
wounded soldiers. Service men also
were the, guests of the Irish societies
III Brooklyn and other boroughs of
the city. John w. Goff, former SUI
preme court justice, led the parade as
grand marshal.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-03-17
Dreadnaught Named
After This State
First To Go Through
The Panama Canal

Washington, March 17.-The
battleship North Dakota is the
first warship of the dreadnought
class to go through tho Panama
canal. Governor Harding report
ed to the secretary of war today
that the North Dakota had pass
ed through the isthmus without
accident and in but little more
time than is required for the
small cargo ships.