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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-24
ONE CENT POSTAGE IS
POSSIBLE, MOON SAYS

Washington, July 23.-One cent
letter postage can be established and
the Postoffice Department still earn
a surplus of $25,OO0,OOO a year, if other
classes Of mail are made to pay the
cost of handling, Representative Moon,
Democrat, Tennessee, declared today
in the House. He said the handling
of mail in the last seven years mac
been no worse than in any previous
period, and added that criticism OF
Postmaster General Burleson would
be forgotten because of "his ability
and matchless loyalty to public duty.
Use gelatine Immediately after dis
solving for ice cream.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-24
ENGLISH MINERS
MEET LLOYD-CEORCE
EFFORT NOW UNDER WAY TO
SETTLE YORKSHIRE STRIKE.

London, July 24.-The executive
committee of the miners federation
met Lloyd-George and other members
of the government this morning in an
effort to settle the dispute in the York.
shire coal fields.
No settlement was reached at the
morning session. The conference ad-
jousned until evening to allow the
miners representatives further time to
conider the government proposals.
The expectation of Cardiff coal has
been stopped by a government order
issued today.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-24

The fibre of a plant growing ex-
tensively in Argentina has been found
to possess qualities similar to the
Philippine kapok.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-07-24

Dull files are sharpened when laid
in dilute sulphruic acid.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17
OLD TIME RIVER
CAPTAIN DEAD
Captain John Sweeney, Famous for
Years on the Mississippi River,
in the Old Days, Passes
Away.

Old residents OF Keokuk, harking
back to the days when the river cap
tains and pilots were the most famous
men in the west, remember Captain
John Sweeney, who was one Of the
best known Of them all.
He died the other day at Mt Nc
Gregor and was buried at Harpers
Ferry, Iowa, where he started his
river career.
For years he was a familiar figure
all up and down the Mississippi from
New Orleans to st. Paul and on the
Ohio from Cairo TO Pittsburgh. At
the age of fifteen he came from Ire
land TO live with an aunt at Harper's
Ferry, Iowa, steamboat landing
some miles north Of McGregor. In
a year he had answered the call and
was a cabin boy on one of the pack
cts. His rise was rapid and II was
quite the talk among the steamboat
men when he was given captains
license at twenty-one None other had
been made captain so young. For
thirty years he commanded Mississip-
pi river boats in packet service be-
tween st. Louis and st. Paui in the
summers and St Louis and New Or
leans in the winter.
After fifty years on the river Cap
tain Sweeney retired wealthy man
eight years ago. He lived since with
his niece at North McGregor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17
Iowa Railroad Earnings.

DES MONIES, Iowa, July IL
Steam railroads operating in Iowa had
total earnings OF more than $4,000
600 in 1918, according to figures OF
the state legislative council made pub
lie. OF this amount the Burlington
was the leader with net earnings Of
81, 290 .035, the figures showed.
The Northwestern was next with a
total earning of sl,969, 526, and the
Rock Island figures rotaled 1922, 0S8.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul was the only road with large
mileage in the state reporting loss.
The loss was reported as s92,942.
Other roads operating at a loss In
Iowa and the amount of loss follows:
Dubuque and Sioux City railroad.
s626,114; Wabash, s39S.335; Great
Northern, s152,548: Minneapolis and
st. Louis. s17O,205: Sioux City Ter
minal railway. s36,572.S7; Colfax and
Northern, 1926; Union Pacific, s2,431
All interurban lines operating in the
state show profit except the Tama
and Toledo Railway company, which
lost 1892.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17
ELECTRIC LIGHT
CONTROVERSY
Plant at Memphis Has Been Trouble
Maker for TWO Years and
Causes Aldermen to
Resign.
[special to The Cate City.l

MEMPHIS, Mo-, July lit is ap-
parent at this time that the better ele-
rnent in Memphis is determined to put
at an end all dissensions caused by
the electric light muddle. For two
years the city has had the municipal
electric lighting proposition under con-
sideration, in litigation, in course OF
construction and for a short time in
operation. The city council proposed
an additional issue Of bonds in the
sum of $4,000 to put this plant on a
paying basis, but two elections failed
10 secure the required two-thfrds ma
jority.
Because OF the action of the citizens
on this proposition, three of the four
aldermen resigned and an election Is
called for Monday next, July 81, to
fill the vacancy After two years OF
wrangling it looks now as though an
end would be made of the discord by
drafting men who will put the cfty's
interests before spite.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17
Baker-Dodae to Erect a Large Motion
Picture House on Main Street
Above Sixth Street This
Fall.
TO BE MODERN BUILDING
viii Cost About Seventy-five Thou
sand Dollars, and viii be Open
ed Before the End of This
Year.

A new theater that will be worthy
of city considerably larger than
keokuk will be built here in the near
future, according to an announcement
made by the Baker-Dodge Theater
company this morning.
The new structure will be built on
the site of the old Olympia bowling
alley on Main street between Sixth
and Seventh streets and will cost
about $4,000.
A firm of theater architects at Kan
sas City have been employed to draw
plans for the new structure. Work on
the building will begin in early Sep
TENDER and it is expected that it will
be ready for occupancy in December,
While the working drawings have
not been completed, yet, enough can
be learned from the preliminary plans
to indicate that it will be the finest
theater building of its size west Of the
Mississippi river.
The auditorium will seat about eight
hundred people on the main floor. 1t
has not been definitely decided
whether balcony will be built, but il
it is 1t will seat about three hundred
more.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17
Present Rates Upheld.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON. July 1.-THE in
terstate comm cree commission today
upheld the present rail-lake-rail
freight rates from Illinois and Indiana
to the northwest. The commissions
decisions came after an investigation
requested by the director general of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17

railroads to determine whether the re-
lationship of the rates from Ohio and
West Virginia to the Illinois and In.
diana rates had been upset by the
twenty-five per cent rate increase.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17

with disease and use different meth
DDS of attempting to cure themselves
DR.. H w. Hill, who challenged DR..
John B. Frazer, of Toronto, to the
test, said he had heard no more from
DR.. Fraser. In the meantime DIR. H.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17

mentally or otherwise would be muir.
der.
This was the opinion today of Har-
ry Peterson, assistant prosecuting at
torney regarding the threat" of two
physicians to inoculate each other
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17
Death Would Be Murder.

rIJnited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
ST. PAUL, Mimi. July 17.-Death
resulting from injection of disease
germs in the body, whether expert
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17

There are fewer daily newspapers
in Spain than in any other country of
Europe.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17
Will be Fully Equipped.

The lighting, heating and ventilat-
ing system will be of the very latest
design. The lighting will be indirect
The lamps will be concealed above a
ledge just under the ceiling on three
sides of the room and smaller shaded
lamp brackets viii be on the walls.
The building Will be heated through
small ventilators in the floor. In the
summer time arrangements will be
made to cool the air admitted through
there, either by passing it through a
spray of water or over refrigerating
pipes.
The lobby will be in tile and the en-
tire front of the building will be OF
the most approved architecture. A
foyer the full width of the building and
about twenty feet deep will be another
Of the later features of theater archi-
| lecture that will be Incorporated in
the building.
On either side of the foyer will be
located ladies' room and commodious
smoking and lounge rooms for the
men.
A fine pipe organ will also be in
Guided in the equipment. The new
house will be given over entirely to
pictures.
The opening Of the new house will
not change the policy Of the Grand
theater which is operated by the same
company. 1t will continue to show
pictures, but will book more stage
shows during the theatrical season.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17

In iceland whistling is forploueA
a breach of divine law.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-17

IA. Settle, of st. Paul offered ~
up DR.. Fraser's hand in the
but was refused by DR.. Hill.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
l32 Sulnmonses Served
Ter Traffic Violations
ls'ans Ordered to Court on
Speeding Charge; Woman
Z ilied bv Auto

One hundred and thirsy-two sum
rnonses for traffic violations were
served m She FIVE boroughs yesterday,
1t waa Indicated by figures tabulated
W - $50 y. IN. Of these fifteen we're
sef9ed on oridgea leading from the
CIT. Mot Of them were for speeding.
IN traffic court to-day 250 sum
morse are returnablc from motor
cgcle policemen. including those given
20 of~nders since last Wednesday.
Following IN argument over sum
mons for speeding, Israel Dubrin, Of
155 Tiffany Avenue. was arrested On A
charge Of diaorderiy conduct yesterday
by Motprcycle Policeman william
Eynon, of the Alexander Avenue sta
ton.
Mra. Mary Paul, thirty-nine years
old, u CIT fifth Street North Bergen,
p. j, was fatally injured yesterday
while Oh her ~ay n church. She wns
run doten by an automobile driven by
man wS.o said he wag Joseph Smith
She waz dead when he took her 10 the
North Hudson Hospital. Smith was
arrested on charge Of manslaughter
ard viii be arraigned to-day.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Boy Born i'm Paris
In 1914 Sees Mother
For First Time Here
Albert Natchitz, Who Lived
With French Nurse Back
of German Lines, Rejoins
His Parents i'm BROOKLYN

Eight days before the war started
Albert Natchitz lay red and new and
squalling in the arms of his mother
in Paris.
Last night in a little fiat at o6 St.
Marks Place he drifted off to sleep
with those same arms clasped about
him for the second time in his four
years and nine months of life.
To his Russian father and mother
his return was more than a reunion.
1t was resurrection. Since August,
1914, they have mourned him as dead.
All this time their little boy was alive
and WELL behind the German lines,
through the care and fidelity Of the
French nurse for whom he prays each
night as "Apollonie."
1t was Apollonie who gave Albert his
first meal when he entered world on
the brink of war. Through arrange
mcnt with Mr. and Mrs. Natchitz she
took the baby to Vile Rauchct, her
home, to care for him. Then came
mobilization. The village was cut off
from the world by the rush of troops
toward the front. After that came war,
and then the Germans.
They rolled through Vile Rauchet
and on toward Paris, and the parents of
the baby, believing him dead, fed to
the coast and then to America.
For more than four years thereafter
Apollonie and her charge lived under
German rule. AS evidence of the cour-
age and steadfastness of the woman
Albert speaks only French to-day He
has no German or English. He has no
hatred for the Hun. The Germans were
good to him, he says. Once they gave
him jelly and another time soup, and
one of them made little gun for him.
They used to point out to him the
airplanes as they droned overhead, and
one day, a little while before the Ger
mans went away, one Of them told him
that the airship circling above the viii
lage was American.
jacques Langman, an exporter of
Brooklyn, heard of the boys story
while he was in France After much
negotiation he managed to obtain per-
mission to bring him to the United
States. Mr.. Langman and his charge
landed yesterday on La Lorraine Last
evening he gave Mr.. and Mrs. Natchitz
back their boy.
Albert was dazed and silent under
the thrush Of new emotions and ex-
pcriences. It. is stupefying when you
are almost five years old to meet
father, mother, older sister, older
brother and q baby sister born when
you were three years old for the first
time.
He slept last night in his mothers
arms, but first he knelt and repeated
little French prayer that Apollonie
had taught him.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
York Gets Oracle s Ans1uev::
Public Must Wait and See
But, Shucks, All the Cumberlands Know Just What
That Answer, Long Awaited by Hero Is---
and There's Big Courtin' Party Due

what Alvin Cullum York did to the
Heines, and so did little Oracle Will
Jams when Alvin hiked up to Three
Forks of Wolf the other day to talk
to her outside the little rose-covered
cabin. Alvin asked the same question
then that he did three years before and
again just before he went to war.
Nobody can say for certain just what
| Gracie's answer was, but folks will talk,
and they do say that
Well, there's going to be an old fash
ioned dinner just across the creek from
Alvin Cullu m York's home in the Cum
berlands tomorrow and the Governor
and State Senators and friends of Al
yin are going to be there for "a right
smart good time" And Oracle Will
Jams is going to be there too
81 never paid any attention to the
way he'd cut up before he went to
war" she said to-day "because that's
liable to make a man show off I've
seen it happen that way lots of times.
| just let him know ! cared a little
but not too much, and then it was up
to him to show he cared enough him
self not to get silly about it.
"Thrce years ago he was converted
! I knew he would try to live up to it.
Ny folks said it didn't amount to any
thing, but | knew Alvin. They said
he was worthless and wouldn't ever
amount to anything, so | never prom
iscd him anything one way or the other
before he went away. | told him I'd
let him know when he came back. And
now he's come back and-well, wait
and see
But the folks in the Cumberlands
have seen courtin' parties before, and
they say that it's something more than
a dinner with Governor and State
Senator's and mountain folks that is
making Alvin and Oracle smile big
smiles
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Special Correspondence


PAIL MALL, Tenn, June 1.-There
was a courtin' party up near a little
rose-covered mountain cabin at Three
Forks of Wolf three years ago. Alvin
Cullum York was there-youve heard
tell of Alvin-and SC was Miss Gracie
Williams, reckoned one of the most
winsome little girls in the Cumbcr
lands.
Alvin somehow or other got it into
his head that he and Oracle ought to
be man and wife, and he told her so
then. Gracie didn't say much, because
Alvin wasn't just the sort of man her
father and her mother and she thought
he ought to be. She listened to him
tel her about the mountain sunrise
i? her cheeks and the red IA her lips
ana her smile and her eyes anC, al
though she sort of liked it, she felt
big red headed Alvin ought to have
more of Christianity in his org heart
than he did have. She told him so.
Alvin Cullum York Jo1ned The church
and in time became an elder. Folks
in the Cumberlands didn't set much
store by his conversion, except Gracic.
She believed he meant business and
encouraged hm-but all the time keep
ing back the word Alvin wanted ! or to
say.
Then the war broke out At first
Alvin didn't want to go. He said he
had conscientious scruples against
killing men. and he was quite stub
born until Oracle and others .old him
that it was men just like him shat the
Kaiser hoped would sway public opin.
ion in this country. They old him
about the Lusitana and Belgian babies
and all at once Alvin plumb got "riicd
up Alvin went to war
The whole world kn0Wc hv thia tin
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Summer
draperies

These are in such wide
range of choice of style ana
price that any scheme oi
decoration can be carrlsl
out successfully.
There are rich gray ere
tonnes for door curtains
window hangings, ard even,
valances for beds if deslrea
to be had for 45c up to Sl.o
a yard in excellent quailu
and wide assortment.
Even handsomer designs
including the imported Eng
lish chintzes, 81 and % Ih'
wide are to be had froD'
$1.25 upward.
The cver-popular madras cur.
tam Is cool and pretty. aunae,s
we'll; we have them in the pla~
cream color IN floral and eea
ventional pattern, $50
S3.75 pair; some with vala"s
headed ready TO hang; also !"
cream ground with floral eeI sl
orations in pink, blue and yu
low, $4.65 and S5.T5 PAIR.
In the snowy. futtery VII, .,
dow curtains Of appropr's..
sheerness and simplicity for sus
mer use there's equally WV;
choosing. An exceptionally gov
value is offered in soft, ns's
plain net edged with lace, SAD .,s
to $1O.5O pair-and with po's
insertion and edging, $3.50 p''
upward.
Fourth Gallery, New Buiio''
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Quilts reduced

$24 quilts for S1S.
$50 quilts for S24.
$3.50 quilts for So 80.
S32 quilts for S25.
5000 quilts for $50.
Just so. Pure wool Of
lambs, covered with plan
satin. brocaded and striped
satin; some tufted, some
stitched. Reduced because
choice of colors in any one
style is too limited for our
regular stocks.
Fourth Gallery. New Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
800 dinner sets
prices reduced
Of English porcelain. S25

Of English porcelain, S25,
$50, $3.50.
Were $3.50, $40, S42.50.
Of American porcelain,
$3.50, SIG, $40, $25, $3.50.
Were $3.50, $40, $25,
$3.50, $35, $45.
Nippon china, $40; were
$3.50.
French china, $50; were
$50.
Beautifully encrusted gold
sets, $3.50; were 1920 and
$3.50.
These sets are from our
regular stocks. They came
from the most noted pot
teries in France, England,
Nippon and this country.
Each is our own standard
composition for IL persons.
Each important table piece
is included.
We have reduced them in
price 600 only) because we
cannot find in any market in
the world anything of equiv
alent value to offer our GUS
toners in our looked-for-
ward-to early Summer sale.
This sale is especially for
the benefit of people opening
up Summer homes and who
do not wish to risk their
home china in transporta-
ton.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Briefs

A non-p partisan discussion OF the ]eay,,c of
nations in its relation to women and children
VIII be held at the Hctel Plaza Tuesday at
80 y. m. Miss Elisabeth Murbury md
Mrs. w. c. McAdoo will speak
Mrs Annie Okcl. of Montgomery, Ala,
who was found unconscious from Eas in the
bathroom of n vacant apartment ut 1888
Valentine Avenue. The Bronx. died at Ford
ham Hospital.
Is. Martin. Of AO3 East i58th Street, wns
run over and killed by sounbound Seventh
Avenue subway express Mt 1t9th Street The
Bronx.
snhll number of used passenger and
commercial of miscellaneous makes rot
adapted for government purposes will be sold
mt public auction Mt various military posts
beginning to-day. Further announcement
will be made through advertisements.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Some Examples

3-plece putty enamel suite of
reed decorated in green and Law
ender with loose seats of Gre
tonne; settee at 1892; arm
chairs $81 each.
3-piece blue enameled suite of
reed with black trim and ere
tonne covered seats; settee at
$146.50; arm chairs at $66.5O
and $3.50.
3piece ivory enamel suite of
reed with cretonne seats and pad
backs, $100.
3-piece blue and ivory enamel
suite Of reed with cretonne COW
cred cushion seats and valance
back; settee at $77.5O; arm chair
at 5000; arm rocker at SAL.
7-piece gray enamel suite of
reed with trim of blue and white,
cretonne cushion seats and 2 silk
pillows, settee, arm chair, rocker,
table and lamp, $195.
Apiece black and white enamel
suite of reed with black and
white printed covered seats and
valance back; settee at $41.5O,
rocker at $23, arm chair at
$3.50, table at $3.50.
7-piece green and ivory enamel
suite with hardwood frames and
seats of cane and sides Of willow,
settee, arm chair, rocker, bench,
desk, table and side chair, $29S.
Chaise Tongue in black and
white enamel, hardwood frame,
with seat and back of cane, $54.
Peacock chair Of willow in red
and black enamel, $38.
Day bed of willow and brown
stain, fitted with box spring and
mattress, 1921.
Breakfast set of five pieces in
ivory and black enamel reed,
table and 4 chairs, $40.
Chaise Tongue in decorated
parchment with cretonne COW
cred cushion seat, $155.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Brooklyn Leads Nation in
Paving War Subscrintion

The executive committee Of the Brook
lyn United War Work Campaign an
nounced last night that total collections
to the end Of April show 90 per cent of
the amounts subscribed in the drive
last November have been paid.
Subscriptions totallcd $2,969, ,01244.
and Of this $2,725, ,984.3O has been paid.
Brooklyn, it is reported, stands higher
than any other city in the country. The
committee makes an appeal for early
remittance Of outstanding subscrip-
tions
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02

of the jazz band, the glare and glitter
of garish lights, the twinkle of
comely limbs in pink tights exorbitant
prices for second rate food and the
cheap, dirty salacious play which by
charity to-day is called drama"
In the typewriter copy of his SER
mon sent by Dr.. Straton to The Trib-
unc the line "thc twinkle of comelv
limbs in pink tights" had been written
in with a pen.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Best-1rearin8g
u,indOaU screens

Extension screens that
slide without fuss or "back-
talk screens that know
their business, all made Of
the best enameled black
wire, close-Woven and taut,
are here in all standard
sizes; extension, 40c to
$3.50; all-metal, 75c to $1.40.
Seventh Gallery, New Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Specially priced

Eight-piece breakfast r DOM
suite in Delft blue enamel;
buffet, table, server and five
chairs; $313.75; regularly
S418.50.
Floor lamp Of Delft blue en-
amel, $37.10; regularly S4s.
Arm chair or rocker of gray
enamel, with cretonne cushion
seat, $23.50; regularly s31.5O.
Arm chair or rocker of frosted
brown reed, with cretonne
cushion seat and pad back, $33;
regularly $44.
Settee in canary and blue en-
amel reed, with cretonne cushion
seat and pad back, s66; regu-
larly SSs.
Arm chair to match, s33; regu-
larly S44.
Arm rocker to match, S33; reg
ularly $44.
Table, with glass top, to match,
$39; regularly $52.
Brown stained settee of reed,
with spring seat and cretonne
cushion seat, 500; regularly 500.
Brown-stained davenport table
of reed, with glass top, $47.25;
regularly, S94.50.
Brown-stained chair of reed :;
cretonne cushion seat and valance
back, $28; regularly $42.
Brown-stained desk of reed,
$27.50; regularly $40.
Fifth Gallery. New Building.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-02
Victor records
for June

Included in the we'll balanced
popular list are four good dance
numbers, with "Just Blue" by
the all-star Trio, prcdominating.
The red seal group of records is
headed by "The Little Old Log
Cabin in the Lane" by Alma
Gluck, refrain, accompanied by
the Orpheus Quartet. Records
played all day in Victor Hall.
Firs. Gallery. New Building.