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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
Scarcity Of Homes
In City RetGrding
Trade, Says FentOn

The lack Of housing facilities In
Memphis is strongly deplored by Mark
Fenton, Industrial commissioner Of the
Chamber Of Commerce, II Memphis
doesn't soon get more houses, the fact
ls going to seriously retard the indus
trial and population growth Of the city,
Mr.. Eenton says The utter inability OF
persons desiring to move to Memphis
to find suitable homes is discouraglng
their coming and is forcing many to
go elsewhere.
Nh Fenton in two instances during
the last week or two has been strik-
inaly reminded OF this deplorable situa-
tion. The head OF one concern, which
recently established a branch office
here, from which will be travelled 40
statesmen, wrote to each Of these men,
advising him not to attempt to move
mis- family to Memphis until the realty
situation improved. Another man, who
plans to move his business here from
New Orleans, has made his coming con
tingent upon the ability of the Cham
ber Of Commerce to find him a suit
able place to establish his home. He
declares that. he will not transfer his
interests to Memphis. though 1t would
give him business advantages, II ne
can not be assuFesgitbat he can find
| d satisfactory home Nor his family
Ii is said that there Is no. person
who comes TO Memphis to reside these
days who does not have his patience
and endurance severely tested wher
he starts out to find d place TO rent
VIRTUALLY no househ are. 70 be had thai
1.-The averaEe man Nwalsd tlvA I'M ant
1 what few hre availabi Eikn Auuly bl
| had at prices far beyond the tru'
values.
Persons who seek aecommodations al
the hotels are equally embarrassed, FOL
| there Is generally a long waiting list
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
FORMER BUSINESS MAN
PASSES TO FINAL REST

Edward c. Gilliland. former member
Of the queenswarc firm OF Irhy n Gnll-
land whose business for number OF
years was located on Main street
passed to final rest at his home 1859
Lamar avenue, Thursday morning at
4;45 O'Clock after an Illness of eight
years, During the many years he had
been confined to his chair as an invalid,
Mr.. Gillland retained his cheerful dis
position and was esteemed and respect
ed by his numerous friends and bust
ness acquantanCes made during his
active career
MIR. Gilliland would have been 81
years of age Friday He had made
Memphis his home for the past 20
years.
Surviving besides his widow. Mrs
Annie l., Gililand, are two daughters,
Misses Martha and Ann and one step
daughter. Mrs NJ, A. Poot, all Of Mem
phis Several brothers and sisters also
survive, being w r. Gililand, Of Cold
water, Miss, Mrs. Lena Sarrcll of Col
lierville, Tenn Mrs j ~ Turley and
Miss Halle Gilliand Of Coldwater.
Miss
Funeral services will be held from
the home Friday morning at 10 o'clock
and tntermcnt In Forest Hill will be
private.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
WILL CONTINUE WORK

kilograms reaching the local offices
of the United States employment serv-
ice from Washington state that although
some of the smaller offices are to be
closed, the larger offices will continue
open, in spite of the lack of sufficient
appropriations to enable the bureau to
keep the work up in as many towns
and cities as in the past
The director of the bureau urges. all
agents and directors to arrange to Sc
cure the cooperation of local commit
tees and community workers in those
towns in which the government offices
are closed so that the employment
of discharged soldiers and sailors may
be carried on in every way as had been
planned.
In Memphis the office will, of course,
be kept open and will continue to CO.
operate with the Chamber of Commerce
committee in finding places for all re-
turning soldiers and sailors who do not
have Jobs awaiting them with the firms
by whom they are employed when they
entered the service.
The Chamber of Commerce committee
urges all employers tolist their needs
daily with the United States employ
ment bureau, so that when the men OF
the local units of the 30th division
reach home early next month they may
be promptly placed in good positions.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
HINES ASKED ABOUT
POLICY UPON TRAFFIC

WASHINGTON, March l3.-Drector-
General Hines was asked today in Il
letter sent by members of congressional
committees interested in waterway de-
vclopment for a statement OF the rail
road administrations policy in promot
ing interchange Of traffic between rail
and water lines, the division OF rate
charges, the establishment Of through
rates and the issue of through bills Of
lading
Inquiry also was made regarding the
administrations policy for operating
boat lines on the lower Mississippi, the
Warrior river system in Alabama, and
the New York state barge canal
Another letter was sent to Chairman
Hurley Of the shipping board requesting
a statement Of policy regarding opera
tion Of barge fleet on the upper Mis-
gigsiDui
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
DAILY WATER TESTS
SHOW SUPPLY PURE

Daily tests Of city water in the area
which was contaminated by a broken
sewer pipe some time ago show thar
the water Is pure. according to the city
health department The tests being
made at present show count Of baC-
teria colonies per cubic Centimeter OF
water to he from zero to eight The
count Of eight was found at points on
Main street
F, A. Mantcl, city chemist, SAYS pure
water shows from zero to ten colonies
per cubic centimeter, and as there Is an
absence Of cotton haci'li or gas IN this
water, il IS absolutely safe to drink
Without boiling
Rumors have reached the health de-
partment and have snread over the
city that the water in North Memphis
il still bad and dangerous to drink and
1t was reported that people in North
Memphis are still hauling water for
consumption.
city Chemist Nantcl says there Is
nothing to the reports
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
CLAIM RADICALS S0UGH
ONLY TO PL UMIl { R

\ -.
\ fONDON, March Ts. "A Gopefifiag gen
dispatch says the nature of the fight
ing between government troops and
Spartacan bands In the eastern suburbs
or Berlin seems to indicate local Spar
taea1 groups have been formed for no
other purpose than to plunder the
city"
An Amsterdam telegram received
here says that on Monday Spartacan
adherent was captured and in his pos
session were found jewels valued at
100000 marks. The message adds the
man was executed.
Picturing internal conditions in Ger
many, the Daily Mails Berlin corre-
spondent under date of Monday, says
that the carnival of senseless prodi-
gality and reckless debauchery preva-
lent in the German capital is result
OF the complete breakdown Of the peo-
pies nervous system.
THE tension everywhere In Germany
is greater even than during the war,
the correspondent says, because over
the country hangs the shadow of inn
pending horror-chaos and anarchy
combined, from which many believe the
country can not be saved.
Faith in the national assembly has
almost vanished and hardly anyone
takes the trouble to read the reports
OF the proceedings at Weimar. Still
fewer deny that the Scheidemann gov
ernment has proved a failure.
The prevalent impression is that
the division between the left and right
is becoming sharper and that the days
of the majority socialists are numbered
The success Of Hugo Haase Oender OF
the socialist minority may result in
communism or chaos unless at the last
moment salvation comes from the new
democratic party, which took practical
shape Sunday in the foundation Of a
new political club, professionally under
the presidency of Count Won Bern
stOrff"
German government wireless dis
patch received here last evening says
that, according to official announce
ment up to Tuesday afternoon there
had been no more important fighting
anywhere in Berlin. night attack on
the staff quarters of the government
troops in the suburb Of Neukolln was
frustrated
There were occasional unimportant
engagements in Charlottenherg and va.
rious places In East Berlin.
A military order declaring that any
one found in certain streets of East
Berlin after 7 o'clock in the evening
| will be shot" has been issued, say,
| the dispatch.
The Berlin newspapers, the dispatch
continues, say the Spartacans visited
| Herr Noske, secretary Of military af
fairs last night to inquire into peace
conditions. 1t Is rumored that after
protIacted negotiations Herr Noske de
manded unconditional surrender of tn,
Spartacans and also possession OF al
| their arms.
BASEL. March 10. (By the Assocat
| ed Press. )-Silesian troops, acting i
agreement with the central soldiers
council, have occupied the public build
ings of Breslau, according to advice
from that city. This action was taken
owing to the discovery that SpartacaI
leaders were arriving in Breslau from
Berlin for the purpose of occupying tn
buildings and delivering the town t
pillage.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
MEMPHIANS LOOK
TO SANTO DOMINGO
AS COTTON FIELD
Big Eastern Syndicate Now
Investigating Lands in.
Black Republic on Which
Options Have Been Secured

A number Of Memphis cotton men
are interesting themselves in an inves-
tigation which is being made in the
black Dominican republic in the east
ern half Of the island OF Haiti with a
view to possible investment in large
tracts Of land there for cotton grow
ing.
Joseph Newburger, Of the Newburger
Cotton company. is the local representa-
tive Of big Eastern syndicate, which
has already secured options on 10000
acres in Santo Domingo, which is ready
to buy thrice that number OF acres II
the reports Of experts now on the
ground are favorable
The party Of experts sent to exam-
inc the land by Mr. Newburger in
cludes w. II Reid. of Reid & Jones.
farm and cotton expert; Prof w. r.
Perkins, Of the University of Louisiana,
an expert on sea island cotton; II, Nj.
Spain, Of Memphis, forestry and tins
her expert, and an engineer from the
offices of Ford Bacon Il Davis
The party Is now In Santo Domingo
and Mr.. Newburger expects to Join
them within two weeks.
The finest sea island cotton, which
Is used In the Eastern mills which spin
allh weave INC inner Eldub VI tNlluH
fabrics. Is growing sCarcer. The boil
weevil has made inroads on tthe small
cotton section on the Eastern coast
where that kind Of cotton grows Com
siderable sea island cotton has been
grown IN Haiti for years, but owing to
unsettled conditions OF government In
Santo Domingo none has ever been
raised there, although the lowlands
there are exactly the same ms those IN
Haiti The country when the uplands
are reached Is also rich in a large
variety of timber, including mahogany,
rosewood and many dye woods,
Mr.. Newburger believes that II the
reports OF the experts are favorable,
the syndicate which represents cotton
mills which buy at least 10000 bales
of sea island cotton year, will en-
large its option holdings and will prob
ably develop the largest cotton planting
company In the world,
Personally, Mr.. Newburger has not
yet taken amy financial interest in the
company. but as his firm deals largely
| In the finer grades az cotton, It Is prob
| able that he and n num6er. Of his triendy
! may become interested when the COM
| phIiy is formed,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
NEGROES TERR0RIZE
PASSENGERS ON CAR

In answer TO riot alarm. Emergency
Policemen Ham and Taylor raced to
the extension OF Florida street Wednes-
day night In a police car, where II was
reported negroes had held up a street
ear, The negroes had gone and thero
was no work for the policemen TO do
when they arrived,
Earlier in the night Florida street car
5l4, OF the Memphis street Railway
company, in charge Of j, II, Knight.
motorman and l. S. Gibson, conductor,
had been blocked by an automobile
across the tracks. In the efforts to
clear the path the negroes became hos
tile toward Messrs knight and Gibson,
Tho negroes departed and returned to
the scene some time later with REIN
f0rCements, looking for the crew Of the
street car shifts In the crews had
been made and the negro band found
others besides the men they sought
when the car was held up.
Policemen Ham and Taylor turned the
case over to Sheriff Perry and his men
as the trouble was beyond the city
limits. All day Thursday passengers on
the car held up by the negroes were
telling Of the profanity and arrogant
manner OF the negroes who, armed with
shotguns and automatic pistols, stalked
back and forth through the car. shoul-
derng the crew, and passengers aside.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
CRAWLEY is CHARGED
WITH BEING l0lTERER

Held since Monday night on the Sc
cret docket Lonnie Crawley, 10 years
old, clerk, 1888 olive avenue, was reg
stered at noon Thursday on the reg
ular police blotter, charged with loiter-
ing.
He had been detained on orders from
the detective bureau, which suspected
that he could give some information
on the hodup and robbery of Edward
Slater, bookkeeper Of the Green River
Lumber company. at noon Saturday.
Although slater and several negroes,
including both those who had witnessed
the work OF the auto bandits and those
who had seen them hide the money
bag had look at Crawlcy they failed
to identify him as one Of the bandits,
The negro man who Identified Louis
| H. Weiman as being one Of the two
men whom he had observed hiding the
black bag, explained that CrawIey was
| not large enough for the other man,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
MEMPHIS PARK SYSTEM IS
WORTH OVER SIX MILLIONS

The land comprised in Memphis grea.
park system is worth more than $6,OOO,-
900, according to n report recently com
piled by Louis M DeSaussure, secre-
tary Of the park commission.
Probably thousands Of residents of the
city do not even knew how many parks
Memphis owns. For the benefit of those
in that category, there are 16 parks IN
the system including Belvedere triangle
the smallest and least valuable.
II one owned Court square the income
tax upon it might be considerable, but
he would be rated millionaire, for
according to Mr.. DeSaussure's esti'
mates. which are based upon those OF
the city tax assessor, Court square is
worth $2,4SO,0O0.
Here are the complete figures:
Annesdale park, $500; Astor park
s20, 900; Auction square, $lS,0O0; Belve'
dere triangle, $4,000; Bickford park
s2s, 900; Brinkley park. s46.95O; Chicka
saw mark, $2l4500; Court square, ST.
4SO, 900; Desoto park, $4,000; Douglass
park. $31 ,95S; Forrest park, $500 900
CASTOR park, $50 900; Overton park, 81,
500. O00+ Parkway, 100000; Riverside
mark, $3.50, 500; Confederate park, $780,
900 Total, $6, ,266,4 ,40S.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
CAPT. NEGRE MAKES.
PLEAFOR ORPHANS.

Many prominent speakers have ap-
peared in Memphis in the interest of
the Fatherless Children of France or
ganization, for it is a cause worthy
but 1t would not be possible to secure
a more noted or more popular speaker
than Capt. Henri Negre member of
the French high commission. who will
arrive in Memphis Thursday evening
to deliver series Of lectures for the
Capt. Negre, who speaks English as
perfectly as he does French, Is hand
some man and possesses remarkable
personality. His first lecture will be
to the pupils at Central high school d
which he will go to M. U, $. to ad-
dress the pupils there. At 1890 o'clock
he will be the guest of honor at the
C, Of C. luncheon, where he has been
asked to speak
The women of Memphis will have
the pleasure of hearing him at $3.50
o'clock Friday afternoon at the Nine
teenth Century club, when he will de-
liver an address in French on Il
Avenir de France" under the auspices
of the Alliance Franchise.
Saturday morning at $3.50 o'clock the
teachers of Memphis and Shelby coun-
| ty will be the special guests at Capt.
| Negre's lecture on THE Battle Front
| AS 1t Is Today" at the Majestic NO. z.
| In addition to his spIepdid talk Capt.
Negre will show a Commute motion
picture film which has won favorable
comment throughout the United States.
! 1t is a very strong and realistic drama,
called Remember"
| At 2 o'clock Saturday he will speak
at the CITY club luncheon, and his final
address will be made at the Goodwin
Institute Saturday evening at s o'clock
when the film Remember" will be
| ehnwn again
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
BELL HOP CONFIDED
IN COP: IS FINED $25

That the negro bell hops at the Hotel
Chisca are no pikers and believe in
demonstrating the high cost of luxuries
TO certain patrons, developed in police
court Thursday when Clemmie Will
liams, negro bell boy was fined $25 on
a charge of violating the liquor law
and held for the state court.
The testimony was to the effect that
Clemmie had priced his wares to De-
tective King, Of the police department,
at So for half-pints and IS for pints.
Current quotations are s1,5O and 81. re-
spectively. While trading with King,
the bell boy confided to him that De-
tective Moore, of the police department,
had tackled him a short while before,
but that he could not be fooled as
Moore had previously been pointed out
TO him.
Better watch yohself, boss" eau
toned Clemmie, "er dat Mister Moore
will shorely rid you OF dat package of
-" but Clemmie never finished, for
just then Detectives Moore and F.
Smith came up in answer to King )
signal
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
GIRL VICTIM OF CITY
WATER LAID TO REST

Funeral services for Miss Emma
Marye Neide, aged 10. daughter Of
the Rev. and Mrs George l.. Neide,
543 North Fourth street who dled Of
Influenza and entero colitis brought on
by drinking polluted hydrant water.
were held Wednesday afternoon at 5
o'clock from the home Bishop r. r..
Gailor officated and many friends paid
their last respects to a Young woman
who was well known and beloved and
who had been an emplove of the Co.'S
slit library for the past two years.
The body was sent to Batcsville,
Ark, for interment.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
BASKET MEN WILL
KEEP PRICES UP
Present Stock Cost, They Say,
Too Much to Stand Any
Reduction.

The next meeting of the National
Basket and Fruit Package Manufac-
turers' association will be held in At
lantic City, N. j. The time for the
meeting, as fixed by the constitution
Of the association, is the second
Der.
This action was taken just before
adjournment of the two-day Conven-
tion of the association at the Hotel
Chisca at 1880 O'Clock Thursday. 1t
was upon the motion OF j. R. farrell,
meeting-site committee.
The meeting adjourned with the
members holding in their minds the
determination that they should stand
pat on prices of the commodities they
manufacture and make no reduction
until such time as the present stocks
have been disposed of and production
Eas been cheapened.
j. +. East, of Norfolk, Va. and E.
A, Florang, of Burlington, Iowa, urged
the members not to sacrifice their
stocks to meet the opinion of the buyers
that prices should go down. The farm
ers and packers will ultimately have
to come to the manufacturers prices,
they said. Prices of packages of the
various kinds were based, they said
on the high cost of labor, as 80 per
cent of the cost of production was
labor. 1t would not be possible to re-
duce prices until wages come down
and it would not be right at this time
to try to force wages down, because the
cost of living is high.
Reports of five Standardization com
mittees were read and adopted stand
ardizing splint and veneer baskets
market baskets; hampers, round stavt
| baskets, all kinds Of crates and eli
| max" baskets.
In the formulation and adoption o.
| standardized specifications for thest
| shipping and marketing crates used n
| the transportation and marketing o
fruits and vegetables, the association
sought to reduce loss and damage t,
minimum and meet the strict re
| quirements OF the Blood committee o
| the railroad administration.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
HUNS HAND IN
AUSTRIA SHOWN
Cipher Dispatches Reveal
Kaiser Backed Nation in
Serbia Row.

PARIS, March 13-Twq dispatches
sent In cipher by Count Won Szogyony-
Marlch Austrian ambassador at Ber-
lin. before the war, to the Austro-
Hungarian foreign ministry showing
Germany was backing Austria In her
war-llkc attitude toward Serbia, have
been made public by NJ, II, Vesnlteh,
Serbian minister to France As printed
In the Journal des dc Bats, the ines
sage reads, a-Es
sssgiipa July 25, 1914. II is. seperaly
from NEfhlA will be followed on oHl
part by an Immediate declaration q
war and military operations, Any ad
journment Of military operations woult
be considered here Rs very dangerous
on account Of intervention by other
powers. We are counselled with the
greatest insistence to pass immediate.
~ to action and thus put the world
In face OF an accomplished fact"
The second dispatch marked strict
ly secret" says
Berlin, July o. 1914: The secre.
tarY of state has Just declared to me
positively, but under the seal Of most
strict secrecy that very soon eventual
propositions Of mediation from Eng.
land viii he brought to the knowledge
ernment assures me In the most con
Vincing manner that II In no way iden
tifies itself with these propositions
that It IL absolutely against their being
taken into consideration and that II
will only transmit them to us to give
effect to the English request"
Minister Vesntch then quotes thS
message sent July 30, 1914, from Sil
Edward Grey the British foreign min
lister, to Ambassador Goschen mt Ber.
lin. Offering, II the crisis passed, tC
take the Initiative in arrangement sat.
isfaCtory to Germany The minister
says neither Sir Edward Grey, Foreign
Minister Sazonoff, of Russia or Pre-
mier Vivani Of France, then knew
positively that Germany wanted war
The minister concluded:
III any one is inCredulous. let hin
mediate upon the foregoing docu
mnmIs ~
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
MAN ASKED TO QUIT
BY PRESIDENT AGREES

WASHINGTON. March 13--Charles
NJ. Galloway, of Columbia, S. c., mem
ber of the civil service commission,
whose resignation has been called for
by President Wilson, announced today
he would submit his resignation within
a few days.
AT the proper time" he added, "I
shall probably make a statement of the
real reasons for the request for my
resignation"
The appointment of successor to
Mr., Galloway has been withheld at the
White House pending receipt OF his
resignation. Successors were appointed
yesterday to the other two members
of the commission, Herman w. Craven,
whose resignation also was requested,
and John A. McIlhenny, who resigned
several weeks ago.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
Jack CurLey Brands
JOhnsOn's Tale q
ChiLdLike Whine

CHICAGO, March 13-Jack Curley,
promoter of the Johnson Willard heavy
weight championship battle and one of
Wizards former managers, today
branded Johnsons confession as a
pathetic, childlke whine coming from
an ignorant mind, from one who real
ICES he has gone to the end OF his
rope.
to make confessions a la Fred Fulton
that johnson evidently thought he had
to fall in line. ,,-. .-.,
"The world knows my feeling toward
Jess willard, but | cannot lie strong
enough, even, to injure that migrate, ana
give any color of truth to Johnson
story. ,r-
"Willard defeated Johnson in Havana
in as square and as honestly fought
contest as was ever pulled Off
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-13
kJN GOVERNMENT
TROOPS REOCCUPY
REBELS SUBURBS

BERLIN, March 49, tBy the Associated Press)-A large
number Spaacans taken prisoners yesterday when the rad
ca forces began abandon their positions in Lchtcnbeg
under strong pressure from the government forces
cuted summariy The government troops used artillery and
nethrowes against the Spaacans in this operation and the
radical forces began to quit their positions early yesterday
morning
The government troops entered Lchnberg after lombard
ing heavily the main Spartacan nests The Spartacans He'd
leaving behind them their weapons and ammunition The sub
urb surrounded by troops and the only chance
the Spaacans have of escape by dscardg their weapons
and conceang their identity by mngng with the peaceabe