davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
| AR &c SUM s
PAID To LABOR
IN EXTRA WAGES
RETROACTIVE CHECKS DIS,
BURSED IN BRUNSWICK BY
TWO SHIPYARDS AMOUNT
TO AT LEAST S50,0O0-EM
PL0YEES ARE HAPPY.

Perhaps $4,000 has been expended
in Brunswick since January Is, by
the two government controlled ship
yards, the American Shipbuilding
company and the United States Mari.
time corporation in back pay to all
their employees.
This back pay represents the diff
ference between the old scale obtain
ing from October / to December 81,
1918 2nd the rev scale recently
adopted by the scyernment and the
order increasing this sale was made
retroactive in it's nature to cover the
period from October first.
Since Wednesday tf.ase two yards
have beer paying the men as rapidly
as possible and 1t the close of bus
mess yesterday practically all of the
employees hid received the very vel
come little checks while some of the
men dubbed Santa Claus"
The checks ranged in amounts from
S25 to $3.50. according to the scale
OF wages received. Local merchant
announce that they felt the increase
in the trade End many of them were
hard pushed yesterday to cash the
checks after banking hours. but %
far as could he learned all of them
succeeded in doing so.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
F
WHITEWASED BY
VOTEOF SENATE
RESOLUTION DISMESSING ALL
DISLOYALTY CHARGES
AGAINST LA TOILETTE is
ADOPTED BY A VOTE OF
so TO II.

Washington, Jan. 16.-By a vote of
fifty to twenty-one the senate today
voted for a resolution under the
terms OF which the lisloyalty chsrges
against Senator La Toilette Of Wis
consin, are to be dismissed.
1t will be recalled that the charges
against the Wisconsin senator were
brought by the Minnesota Public
Safety commission and came cut of
public utterances made by Senator
LaFoilette before the United States
entered the war.
The final adoption Of the resolution
dismissing the charges preceded BY
bitter aIraisl slnient Of Senator La Fol
lette by Senator John Sharp Williams.
o. Mississippi
In the final vote it was noted that
thirty-three Republicans and seven
teen Democrats voted for the resolu.
ton.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
MADDOX NAMES
LARGE BANKERS
HEAD OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
APPOINTS BIG MEN ON COM
MEFCIAL AND MARINE cow.

Atlanta, Jan. 1G-Rcbert F. Maddox
president CT the American Bankers
association, has made public a list
q prominent bankers from various
sections of the country who have
been appointed by him to serve on
the commerce and marine committee
Of the national organization. His
action is taken in conformity with the
resolution passed by the association
at Sts Hast meeting pledgin itself
to support by every means in its
power to development of export
trade, to encourage manufacturers to
enter upon this field Of distribution
and to provide as rapidly as possible
adequate facilities for financing ex-
port operations sufficient to meet
every reasonable demand that tmay
arise"
The bankers appointed by Mr.
Maddox are: Lewis Person, New
York; Charles H. Sabin. New York;
Holm McHueh, New York: Fred l.
Kent New York; Arthur Reynolds,
Chicago; William A. Law, Philadel-
phia; T. 0. Watts St Louis; Charles
A. Hinsch Cincinnati: Thomas R. Nc
Adams. Richmond John e. Bouden,
Jr New Orleans; James j. Pagan,
San Francisco; Robert H. Harper,
Washington, D. c.; John L. Hamilton.
Columbus. Ohio.
Mr.. Maddox will serve as chairman
Of the committee by virtue of his
office, He will leave for New York
on Saturday to attend y meeting of
the administrative committee of the
association and while there will he
present at q meeting Of the commerce
and marine committee on January 81.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
POWELL NAMED
FOR Big. PLACE
FORMER SOUTHERN RAILWAY
OFFICIAL HEADS DEPARTMENT
IN r. r.. ADMINISTRATION.

Washington, Jan. 16.--4T. G. Powell
for many years vice president of the
Southern Railway and we'll known
all over Georgia and the South, was
appointed director of capital expen'
ditures of the railroad administration
today by Director General Hines.
The newly appointed official re
Gently served the railroad administra
tion as its representative on the
priorities section of the War Indus
tries board. He is one of the most
wiGaly known railroad ioffici,ls in
the southeast and will take to his
new position a llong and valuable
experience with some of the larger
transportation lines in the country.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
ROSE URGES SALE
OF WAR STAMPS
GEORGIA DIRECTOR APPEALS TO
PEOPLE TO SART NOW ON
FRANKLlN'S BIRTHDAY.

Atlanta, Jan. 16-(SpeciaI TO The
Brunswick NewsJ sJ.-Tomorrow, Thurs
day, is the birthday anniversary of
Benjamin Franklin, the great apostle
OF thrift and economy. Poor Richard $
Almanac says Save and have little
strokes fell great oaks" He that
waits for fortune is never sure of a
dinner" IF you would be wealthy
think OF saving as well as getting"
1t is easier to suppress the first de-
sire than to satisfy all that follows"
Who of US cannot remember the
little plate with the letters of the
Alphabet around it and the picture
OF the sheep md COW and the owner
saying Nov | have a sheep sna a
cow, everybody bids me good morn
ing"
The treasury department at Wash
ington has very appropriately taken
Franklin as the symbol of saving and
his picture appears on the War SAVING
stamp of 1919
What more appropriate and helpful
decision could We. all make than t9
start if we have net already dora
SO on Franklin's birthday by buying
Thrift or War Saving stamps and re
solve to continue to do so Throughout
the year. God helps those who help
themselves. Buying War Saving
stamps is both helping ourselves and
the government
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
SAYS LEAGUE OF
NATIONS NEEDED
LORD CECIL ROBERTS SAYS THIS
POWER SHOULD BE USED TO
LIMIT ARMAMENTS.

Paris, Jan. 16.--Lord Robert Cecil
who discussed with American Jour
nalists tonight his views as to the
work of league of nations, had little
t. say relative to the limitation ol
armaments. He expressed the opin
icn, however, the league certainly
would provide for the limitation and
decrease of present ornaments" This
feature he said, is being given deep
est consideration, although no defin
tie agreement has as yet been reach
ed. He said the League if formed
would do away with all treaties in
consistent with its tenets, includina
compacts providing for a balance OF
power
Asked what effect the formation
ora league of nations would have
upon Monroe doctrine, Lord Robert
asserts he could see no conflict with
the doctrine. Hypothetical questions
were raised as to what would happen
in case Mexico or a South American
country did something that caused
trouble with the league, and LORD
Robert replied:
Then think an arrangement could
be made by which America could act
in behalf of the league M
Regarding the admission of che
central powers and their allies to the
league, Lord Robert said they should
be admitted 'if they showed an in
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
MRS. Il BAUDY
IS REMANDED
WITHOUT BAIL
NEW YORK WOMAN WHO
SHOT HER HUSBAND DEAD
HAS PRELIMINARY HEARING
BY NEW YORK JUSTICE OF
THE PEACE.

Hampstead, N. Y, Jan. 16-Mrs
Marie LIE Baudy, wife of Jacques l :
Baudy, the eccentric New Yorker and
multi millionaire, whom she shot t:
death last Wednesday in ner home
near here was given a preliminary
hearing here today
The arraignmeat was before an or
dinary Justice Of the Peace OF this
county and Mrs. lie B2udy, who ap
peared in court almost, in a state
CT nervous collapse, was held without
bail. The defendant entered a plea
OF not guilty to the charge of murder
but under the charges she was re
manded on charge of murder in the
first degree,
Bee use of her weakened condition
Mrs. lie Baudy was placed in the
custody Of a ccroner's jury at Min.
eo'a.
The, case has attracted much at
tentiCr here. where sympathy
strong FOR the defendant. lie Baudy
was believed to be insane by manv
people who kr.aw him, well. He in.
sisted i'm calling himself "Jacque~
Emperor of Sahar2"
Tho defense viii contend that Mrs
lie Baudy shot and killed her husband
to defend the honor of her fourteen
year old daughter and at the same
time to save her own life.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
IT MEANS MUCH
FOR HUMANITY
mo ACCIDENT WEEK" ON RAIL.
ROADS IN THIS SECTION BE-
GINS SUNDAY MORNING.

The humanitarian value OF the plan
of Regional Director B. l.. Winchell
to institute a mo Accident Week
among all railroad employees OF the
South commencing January 19 is
strikingly shown by report just com,
piled by the regional supervisor OF
safety showing the extent to which
railroad workers are ljjLed or in
jured each month in the performance
of their duties.
During the month Of August, 1918
when the railroad administra ton had
just organized the safety section in
the interest of making safe the lives
OF the great army of railroad workers
approximately forry-five employee
were killed and two thousand one
hundred were injured on the rail.
roads of the southern region At the
close of November, the latest month
fol which the figures are avail2 bic
these fatalities had been reduced tc
approximately thirty-one killed and
one thousand, two hundred injured
These figures include only employee
and do not take into consideration
the large number OF trespassers killed
and injured.
1t is the purpose of the 9aaaty
Section of the Railroad admihistr9-
tion to demonstrate by "No Accident
Week that this great economic loss
of life md service of trained indus
trial workers can be materially reduc.
ed and to this end two hundred and
thirty thousand railroad employees in
the South have taken the pledge to
do their best to work these seven
days without getting hurt themselves
OF being the cause Of another's in
jury.
This plan was tried out by the
Central of Georgia railroad in Decem-
Der with such signal success that
Regional Director Winchell deidea to
extend "No Accident Week" to all
railroads under Federal control In
the South The psychological effect
on the railroad workers it is believed
will give great imnetus to the move,
ment and thereby benefit the railroad
service and the public.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
PRESIDENT ELECT OF
BRAZIL PASSES AWAY

Rio Janerio, Jan. 16.-Dr. Rodriguez
Alves, president-elect of Brazil, died
today He had been critically H.
for some time.
GREAT PICTURE TODAY
Manager King of the Bijou is pre-
senting today Maurice Tourneur's
Paramount-Artcraft special Sporting
Life" in seven magnificent reels
There is IN appeal in it to men and
women both--men who love to see
horse racing and prize fighting. Wo
men who adore wonderful gowns, SO
eiety fetes, etc. Manager King has
gene to considerable expense in
booking this picture and will show
it for the small sum of 20 and 80
cents. Special music has been ar.
ranged by the Bij0u orchestra.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
ARMY BILL To
co OVER FOR
congress
AGREEMENT REACHED YES
TERDAY BY HOUSE Mill
TARY COMMITTEE. AND SEC
RETARY BAkE,2 TO CON
TINUE WAR BILL.

Washington, Jan. 16.-The House
Military committee practically reach
sd an agreement today in conference
with Secretary Baker and Chief OF
Staff March to postpone the lwar
departments army reorganization bill
until the next session of congresses.
AChairman Dent of the military com
mittee suggested that rider be
placed on the army appropriation bill
continuing the existing war organ
ization.
The suggestion Of the chairman net
the approval of Secretary of War
Baker and it was practically agreed
tC hold the new organization bill and
permit the entire matter to take the
caTe outlined by Chairman Dent.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
ONLY INFORMAL.
SESSION HELD
WAR COUNCIL MET YESTERDAY
RUSSIA AND THE PRESS SIT.
UATioN SUBJECTS HANDLED.
(By Associated Press. }

Paris, Jan ia meeting of the
Supreme War council was held in the
fOreign office this morning lasting
two hours.
There IVES only formal gathering
of the peace delegates today
According to official information
the Russian situation and the confer.
ehce relations with the press were
the only subjects treated.
After the session President Wilson
Lloyd George, Secretary Lansing and
A. ]. Balfour remained for some time
in an earnest conversation.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
BONE DRY GOES
UNITED STATES
ON JULY FIRST
NEBRASKA LEGISLATURES ON
YESTERDAY RATIFIED THE
PROHIBITION AMFNDNENT
TO THE CONSTITUTION
THIRTY-SIXTH STATE.

A Washington, Jan. 16.-The sratifica-
Ation' of the prohibition -ameninAht to
the feeral constitution by the legis-
lature of the state of Nebraska today,
finally settles the. question of nation
al prohibition and makes it a Ger:
tainty.
Nebraska makes the thirty-sixth
state to ratify the amendment and
insures the necessary two-thirds to
insure the measure and the amend
ment.
The amendment, under it's provis.
ions. becomes effective one year from
the date of the final ratification. Ad
ditional legislation by congress is
necessary to make it operative and
ground work for this already has
been laid. This legislation will pre-
scribe, penalties for violation of the
amendment, determine how and by
what agencies the law shall be en-
forced.
Many officials here believe the
country will become permanently
dry next July /, the date on which
the special war time prohibition Ea
Gently enacted by congress goes into
effect. This law prevents the manu-
facture an sale of intoXicants for bey-
erage purposes and remains in force
until the demobilization of the ma.
tons war armies is completed
Court action to prevent the amend.
ment becoming operative already has
been started in California, where an
ord4r temporarily restraining Gov.
Stephens from signing notifications
of the amendment has been obtained
1t has been intimated that similar
action may be taken in other states
III which it is said that state laws
require that federal constitutional
amendments must be. submitted to
referendum.
The prohibition amendment resoiu
tion passed by congress provides that
ratification shall be by ''the legislsa-
lures of the several states as proyid-
ed by the constitution"
The resolution follows:
Resolved by the senate and house
OF Representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled (two-thirds Of each house con
curing therein), that the following
amendment to the constitution. BE-
and here is. proposed to the states
to become valid, as a part OF the
constitution when ratified by the leg
islatures of the several states. as pro.
vided by the constitution:
article
Section l. After one year from
the ratification of this article the
manufactur, sale, or transportation of
Intoxicating liquors, within the i'm
pcrtation thereof into, or the expor
tation thereof from the United Statee
and all territory subject to the juris
diction thereof for beverage purposes
is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The congress and the
several states shall have concurret
power to enforce this article by ap
propriate legislation.
Section g. This article shall be
ur-operative unless it shall have beer
ratified as hn amendment to
constitution by the legislatures of the
several states as provided in the con
stitution within seven years from the
date of the submission hereof to the
states by congress"
The resolution wcs passed by tho
senate As to 20, on August 1, 1912
and by the house 2S2 to 1913 on De
cember II, 1917 Mis- '"~'1pi was TIL
its legislature acting CT January
1918.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
SEATTLE HAS TO BREAK
UP DSOlRDERLY PARADE. toe

Seattle. Jan 6.-ApDroximatelv
five hundred workers. leaving an open
air mss meeting. started parade
through the streets today singing
W w. songs.
TWENTY mounted policemen assist
ed by five automobiles containina
armed police behind which came an
other platoon Of police with clubs
succeeded in dispensing the mob.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
COTTON MANUFACTURERS
REFUSE TEXTILE DEMANDS

Boston, Jan. 16-President Frank
w, Shove, Of the National Associa-
tion of Cotton manufacturers, an
nounced here tonight at the associa
tion that it had unanimously rejected
the demands OF the United Textile
Workers of America for a shorter
work period.
The textile workers demanded an
eight-hour day and forty-eight-
week to become effective on Febru,
ary 2 instead of the present week
OF fifty-two hours.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
STRIKE IN ARGENTINA
-
HAS BEEN CALLED OFF

Buenos Aires, Jan. 1G.-L2bor lead
ers in conference with President Iri-
gCyen have agreed to call off all
strikes in Argentina except the one
which virtually paralyzed shipping
here.
President Irigoyen promised to do
everything possible to meet the de
mands Of the workmen including wage
increases and the study Of the port
strike Cor q solution.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
MONTENEGRO IS
FIGHTING SERBS
THEY OBJECT TO THE SERBIAN
TROOPS OCCUPYING THEIR
COUNTRY.

Washington, Jan. 16.-The occupa-
ticn of Montenegro by the Serbian
troops has caused a revolt of Monte
nt grins, according to advices receiv-
ed by the Montenegrin delegation in
this city.
Insurgents numbering about TWEEN
ty thousand men have succeeded in
occupying several towns from which
Serbian troops have been driven.
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
ciination to do the right thing"

ciination to do the right thing"
Speaking of Germany he said:
I'VE must await events. If she
turns over new leaf and tries to
repair the damage she has done there
is no reason why she should not
join. The league is for the good OF
humanity and not for any select
group. 1t will benefit her if sh.a
comes in"
Austria, because of her internal
condition, is not yet ready for the
league" Lord Robert said
Fealing with another specific in.
stance he declared it would be an
injustice to exclude Bohemia, say
ing:
"She was not to blame for the
war and is progressive" Lord Rob
ert said the league might in some
cases take over the administrative
control of certain territories of o~n"'
international interest. He said Pales-
tine and Constantinople might be in
this class. He said he accepted
President Wilson's view that tho
league must be constituted by the
present peace congress. adding 10Th
e1wise it will become an impossible
ity."
Lord Robert felt the reace con
gress should get some approval OF
the peoples at the beginning of the
meeting. but was of the opinion the
details should be worked cut with
care by committees which should re
port to the peace congress.
Questioned as to the attitude CT
the allies as whole toward the le1-
que, Lord Robert said every one of
them favored league of some sort
and that they were not separated by
any vital point AS to the scope. Of
the purely legal jdispuHes between
nations which he thought ought to
be settled by an arbitration tribunal
outside the league.
In discussing the probable efficacy
Of the plan to force the nations to
bring their disputes to the tribunal
OF the league, Lord Robert declared:
"If we had had a conference on
ttr, reply of Serbia to Austria and
had not allowed them to fight for q
set period there would have been no
war. If the situation had been known
to thu word No n"tion could have
forced it's people to fight"
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
PROMPT ACTION ON RATES
URGED BY DIRECTOR HINES

Washington, Jan. 16-Prompt ac
tion was urged today by Director
men Of Eastern, Western and South
ern freight traffic committees, in the
matter of pending rate revision ques
tions
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
MISDEMFANOR GRIMES
DECREASE IN GEORGIt

In a period of eighteen month
the misdemeanor crimes in George
have decrea sed to almost fifty per
aent according to statietics compi'e@
by the state prison commission ami
received in Rrunawik veeterday
The figures show th9 ~ June
1917, there were twenty waite peni-
tentiary female convicts, while on
January /. 1919. there were 90. On
the same date in 1917 the number Of
negro female convicts was 10. and
IN January 1. 1919, there were bu'
&c.
The white ma'a mis1emaahor cor
vi"ts in Tune 1917. were 2S0. and on
January l.. 1919, there We're 1874 The
nilmher CT negro male misderean~T
vonciets in Turo 1917 was 9ih9 AMI
on January l. 1919. it was 1433
The Brunswick news., 1919-01-17
THE TIDES

High w~ter S:25 a. IN. and 1920 p m.
Low wafer 2:56 a. m. 2nd 3:07 p. m.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-29
PHYSICALLY FIT
AT ANY AGE

It isn't age, it's careless living that
puts men down and OUT Keep your
internal organs in good condition and
you viii always be physically lit.
The kidneys are the most over
worked organs in the human body.
When they break down under the
Strain and the deadly uric acid ac-
cumulates and crystalizes look out.
These sharp crystals tear and scratch
the delicate urinary channels causing
cxcruciating pain and set up irrita-
tons which may cause premature de-
generation and often do turn into
deadly Bright's Disease.
One OF the first warnings of slug
gish kidney action is pain or stiffness
in the small OF the back, loss Of appe-
tite, indigestion or rheumatism.
Do not wait until the danger is upon
you. at the first indication OF trouble
go after the cause at once. Get trial
hox Of GOLD MEDAL Harlem Oil
Capsules, imported direct from the
laboratories in Holland. They VIII give
almost immediate relief. II for any
cause they should not, your money viii
be refunded. But be sure 80 get GOLD
MEDAL. None other is genuine. Il
sealed boxes, three sizes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-04-29
A Splendid Hair Grower
and Wonderful Beautifier

When your hair becomes faded, dry,
streaked and seraggly, when it falls
out badly and new hair cannot grow,
the roots. should be Immediately vital
lied and properly nourished. To do
this quickly, safely and at little ex-
pense, there is nothing so effective as
Partisan sage (hquid form) which you
can get at w. F. Root g and all good
druggists.
It's guaranteed to abolish dandruff
stop scalp itch and falling hair and
promote new growth or money re.
funded. It's in great demand by dis
eliminating women because it makes
the hair so soft and lustrous and ap-
pear heavier than it really is.
massage with Partisan sage is Z
real delight-easy to use, not sticky OF
greasy, and delcately perfumed. II
you want good looking hair and plenty
of it use Partisan saga little atten
ton now insures beautiful hair fol
years to come-Adv.