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New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Canada's Population 1885, lO2
OTTAWA, Ont, Feb. 4.-Canada's
population is estimated by the Ceasus
Branch Of the Trade and Commerce
Department at S,S35,1O The census
branch has based its estimate on the
known increases in population as shown
by the censusus of 1901 and 1911.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
DIR. Butler Urges Federal
Bud get as Price Remedy
spending Money at Washing.
ton Like Drunken Sailors"
He Saws i'm Sneech

Nicholas Murray Butler, president Of
Columbia University, and one of the
candidates for the Republican nomina-
ton for President, spoke last night on
the high cost of living and how to re-
duce it, at the Manhattan Republican
Club, 474 West 141st Street.
DR.. Butler said that the present in
flntcd prices must be reduced, and to
that end recommended business ad-
ministration in Washington and a ma
tional budget. with the understanding
that the nation is not to exceed it by
a single dollar.
"We are spending money at Wash
ington like drunken Sailors" said he.
when politicians begin to think in
billions the outlook is dark for you
and me, and our desire to reduce the
cost of living
This could be cut, DR.. Butler ex-
planned, by a simple and old-fashioned
system-by having the government live
within its income.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Montana Town Cut Off bv
Rail Electricians Strike
Tic-Up Of 40 Miles of Road
Caused bv Action to
Uphold ShOpmen

MISSOULA, Mont, Feb. "A strike
Of electricians on the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway Com
pany's lines has completely halted
operation from Harlowtown, Mont, to
Avery, Idaho, it was declared here to-
day.
The company depends upon electric
locomotives, for operation Of it's trains
over the section, distance of 44o
miles.
The electricians struck in sympathy
with shopmen of the company at Deer
Lodge. who walked out Monday, de-
manding. according to company Of
ticers. nine hours pay for eight hours
work.
East and west trains were trans
ferred TO the Northern Pacific Rail-
road. 1t was announced steam engines
would be available by tomorrow, and
that all trains would be running on
steam power Tomorrow
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

peace between Russia and these powers
and an a resumption of trade relations.
These offers, he said, have included
assurances from Lenine of the soviet
governments Willingness to recognize
all the foreign debts of Russia. how
ever illegal they may have been
several Of these offers. he declared,
nad been sent direct to President Will
son, or to Secretary Lansing, and in
aodltlon, he said similar assurances
mad been presented to the Department
of State through American business
men interested in bringing about a re-
sumption Of trade.
At the State Department this after
noon Secretary Lansing denied knowl-
edge of any of these alleged offers
sent to the President or himself. and
SAID that if any Communications Of
the KIND had come through American
business men, they had not been seen
by him.
Poole and Sisson to Testify
1T is probable that the subcommittee
Will summon both Poole and Sisson to
testify on the Martens charges concern
ing them A suggestion to this effect,
with the added proposal that the com
mittee subpoena Colonel Raymond
Robins, was made to the committee by
former Senator Hardwick, of Georgia.
counsel for Martens. The suggestion
was backed up by an assertion on the
part ofSMartens that he was prepared
to submit proofs in substantiation of
every charge he made. In view of this
Senator Moses, chairman of the sub
committee, adjourned the hearing, sub
ject to his CALL and stating that he
probably would reconvene the sub
committee next Monday.
Martens occupied most of the time in
reading lengthy statement he had
prepared describing the propaganda
activities which his mission has been
conducting. These he described as
purely defensive' and for the purpose
Of acquaintng the American people
with the truth about Russia and the
friendly disposition of the Soviet gov
ernment toward this country Con-
fronted by the pamphlet sent to the
the American workingmen, calling on
them to overthrow the government and
establish the soviet system, Martens
declared this letter had been sent four
months before he came to America and
that he had taken no part in the dis
trlbutlng copies of it since his arrival
here,
Lusk Charges Denied
He denied the charge of the Lusk
committee in the New York State in
vestisation that large number of
these pamphlets had been found in the
raid on his Offices in New York City
and assured the committee that the
copies found on his premises were
used by him simply for Preference
purposes"
"ln your communications to your
government since your arrival here
asked Senator Moses, "did you not ad-
wise Lenine of the agitation aroused
by this pamphlet?'
II reported about the investigation
Of the Lusk committee" replied Mar
tens, "but | did not conceive it to be
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Coal Famine
Threatens to
Darken CITY
Continued from page 1

the average was shown to have been
about 20 per cent of normal
Incidentally, complaints have been
made about the conditions by mins
workers, who in some instances have
been able TO work but one hour dav
IN the loading work because of the car
shortage. The Bulah mines reported
an average of but one hour day for
some Of their workers for this reason.
Carriers Are Diverted
Another reason advanced for the ca
shortage during the day was that marv
cars heretofore used in the anthracite
trade exclusively were being diverted
to the handling of soft coal, which still
Is far from being a normal basis fol.
lowing the strike.
Figures proving the magnitude OF
the car shortage, published in the cur
rent issue of THE Coal Trade Jour
nal,' show that a decline Of 737. 900
tons in the production of soft coal "A
due to this cause in one week The
car shortage for four weeks. as re-
ported by the United States Geoloei.
cal Survey, was as follows:
Week psrce,....
ending sbo,r
December e7............ ....... Is
January io................ ... "a
Reports that apartment house own
ers were seeking to take advantage OF
the threatened coal famine to escape
responsibility for providing heat for
tenants resulted in criticism of such
tactics. 1t was pointed out by repre-
sentatlves of Burns Bros and other
retailers that there was sufficient coal
of the variety and sizes used in apart.
ment houses to keep them going-espe-
cially if there was not severe storm
that would completely tie up the city's
coal supply. Until the storm of las-
night there had been no such let-down
IN coal delivery, and no apartment has
been without fuel because Of the short.
age
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Says
Poole Plotted
Against Soviet
u. S. Consul General Said
to Have Joined in Plan
to Starve Petrograd by
Destroying Rail Bridges
C-eel Men Also Accused
Sought to Undermine Len
inc While Promoting Ger.
man Revolt, He Asserts
NeU York Tribune
WASHINGTON Bureau

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Charginc
that former United States Consul Cen
eral Poole. while in Russia, had plotte
with agents Of the Allied powers TO
destroy railroad bridges leading into
Petrograd, Ludwig c. A. X. Martens
self styled Russian Soviet Ambassa ador
to the United States. sprang a new
sensation to-day, when he resumed his
testimony before the Senate sub-com
mittee investigating Russian propa-
ganda in this country.
Martens declared that Poole had
been ordered out of the country be-
cause agents of the Soviet government
had discovered that he had attended a
secret conference at the American Con-
sulate in Moscow, at which the details
of this plot had been laid. The pur-
pose of the conspiracy he alleged, was
to starve out the city Of Petrograd and
thereby bring about the downfall of
the Soviet government.
The witness also testified tina,
agents in Russia of George Creel's
Committee on Public Information, in
cluding Edgar S. Sisson, had under
taken to play a double game by pre-
tending to cooperate with the Soviet
authorities to bring about a revolution
in Germany while at the same time
taking part in the propaganda con
Quoted by the Allied powers to under
mine Lenine and Trotzky with the
Russian people. Colonel Raymond
Robins, former head of the Red Cross
have cooperated in the Soviet propa
ganda against Germany.
American Sentenced to Death
Poole, said Martens, had been ar
rested, and would have been prosecuted
critninally but for the Intervention OF
the Soviet Foreign Minister, who saw
to 1T that he left the country. Another
American, arrested In connection with
the same plot, had been sentenced tc
death, he said. but was also spared on
condition that he leave Russia.
FolloWlng his return to the United
States Mr.: Sisson made public docu-
ments tending 20 show that Lenine and
Trotzky were in the pay Of the German
government. The authenticity of these
vigorously OcHloQ al
the time by the Soviet government.
Stating that he could not recall the
official report on the circumstances
surrounding the arrest of Mr.. Poole
Secretary Lansing declared this after
noon he never had heard of the allega-
tlons made by Martens. He declared
that Mr.. Poole had left Russia at his
own accord, following his release, anc
had joined the American headquarters
of Vologda in the Archangel district
before returning % the United States
Mr.. Poole himself is now head of the
Russian bureau at the State Depart
ment, but is at present confined to his
home by illness.
According to Martens. Poole has
been particularly active in seeking to
prevent the American government from
according recognition to the soviet
government and from permitting a re-
sumption Of trade relations with
Russia.
The witness told the sub-commt ttee
that Lenine and Trotzky have made
altogether sixteen separate and dis
tnct offers to the Allied powers and
the United States for restoration of
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

my duty to say anything about IL
effect Of this pamphlet. | regarded -
as harmless 50 far as Affecting thn
overthrow Of this government ~as cor
cerned, and you must rerrember that "a
doing this Leninc was simply sdoptir
methods which the United States AM
the Allied powers we're following in
Russia
You considered our American ins't
tutions proof against this sort Of
propaganda? ?" asked Senator Moses
Il supposed they were Martens an
swered, smiling.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

who reported the Socialist conv.n.;o,
at Chicago last September I."'eo1l Thn C.
clalist attorneys during the dehat. "t 90. d.
the question snid the necessity i"t' ~ +In Ia
commission might be avoided ~ - the the
prosecution would make know ~ ~
testimony sought from Harris '"'
seymour Stcdman said it might he
admitted. Mr.. Stanchfeld then read o
from from a newspaper report Of the conven-
sor s'oni ,' wr,.rcn W. by Harris, in which As
saying: H1o'eo AS
"If knew we could sway the bovs
when they get the guns to- .use tho,r I"yr
against the capitalist class, I would ha "a
for universal military traininpH w
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

PRAGUE, Feb. 3-Former Russian
Premier Kerensky and former War
Minister Savinkov are on their wav to
Prague to inaugurate a new policy
founded on an understanding between
Czecho-Slovakia and Russia
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05

Commission Appointed
At the close of the days session a
commission was appointed to take the
testimony in Milwaukee of J. E. Harris
editor OF 1.-THE Milwaukee journal. !,
New-York tribune., 1920-02-05
Odessa Reports
SOviets Routed
BY Volunteers
Bolsheviki Are Driven Back
Over Don River, Losing
6O Guns, $50 Machine
Guns and 5000 Prisoners

ARCHANGEL, Feb. "A wireless dis
patch from Odessa to-day rcborts a
great victory of the Russian volunteer
army over the Rolshevik forces. which
have been driven back over the Don
hlver The finest cavalry of the Reds"
under command of Generals Dudenny
and Doumenko. are in disorderlv flight.
the message says
The trophies taken by the volunteers
consisted of so guns, 15O machine GUNS
and 5000 prisoners.
LONDON, Feb. 5.-The Czcchs have
rietaken lrkutsk. according to a wire
less message received at Vladivostok
and forwarded by the correspondent of
The Daily Mail" Their troops are
returning westward to relieve the Ru-
manians, Serbs and Poles.
according to recent advices. Irkutsk
was IN the hands of the Bolshevik
forces of local soviets. A Vladiyostok
disnatch 81 January % stated that Ad~ d.
MIRA kolchak and Premier Pepeliavev
OF the All-Russian government were
imprisoned at lrkutsk, and their fate
was unknown
The Bolsheviki, after the capture OF
Nlkolaie and kherson, to the northeast
of Odessa, continued their adance and
captured number of villages accord
ing TO an official statement sent out
by the Soviet government at Moscow
to-day. The Bolsheviki troops are
making forced marches, the statement
says.
Poland has sent tentative reply to
the peace offer of the Bolsheviki. stat
ing that she is studying the proposed
whlle the Soviet government has or
dered the Bolshevik troops to stand on
their present lines.
GENEVA, Feb. 4-General Denikine.
former anti Bolshevik leader in South,
western Russia, landed at the Bulgar-
ian port of Varna on Monday with q
few OF his officers, according to a dis
patch from Belgrade. 1t is reported
that Denikine is going to Bucharest to
confer concerning the danger of Boil
shevlk invasion of Besarabia, the dis
patch says.
PRAGUE, Feb. 3-Former Russian
tremler kerensky and former War
Minister Savinkov are on their way to
Prague, to lnaugurate a new policy
founded on an understanding between
Czecho-Slovakia and Russia
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-The PURPOSE
of Kerensky's visit to Prague is to stir
up the Czecho- Slovaks, Poles and Ru
manians to take military steps against
the Bolsheviki, it was said today at
the Czecho- Slovak official information
bureau here. Both Kerensky and
Savinkov had been in London for some
time.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
SEASHORE EXCURSION
VIA A. B. & A. RY. SEPT 9th

The ABBA Railway will operate
excursion to Brunswick Monday,
Sept. 9th. Rate from Fitzgerald
Oiserheld, Wray, Ambrose, and Bush
nell, $500 round trip. War tax ex-
ira. Tickets good to return date OF
sale only. Tickets will be sold for
SPECIAL TRAIN leaving Fitzger-
aid sos a. m. arriving Brunswick
1880 noon. Returning special train
will leave Brunswick Hoo p. m
Probably. last opportunity this sea
son to visit Brunswick and St. Sim
ons Island at cheap fare. For fur
Their information call on ABBA tick
ct agent. t. dS5
L OST-Sunday afternoon between
five and six o'clock black leather
grip between Fitzgerald and Irwin
vile containing mostly children's
clothes five dollars in money. Finder
may keep money if they return grip
to w. L. Wingate, Sylvester, Ga.d26p
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
JUNIOR RED CROSS
ACTIVE IN EUROPE

Garden seeds for Polish orphans.
milk for anaemic Greek babies, car.
penters' tools for Czecho- Slovakian
cripples-these are only a few of the
gifts that young Americans are send
ing to the war-crushed children of the
Old World.
Through the Junior Red Cross the
boys and girls of the United States
are giving fresh start in life to little
war orphans scattered all over Europe.
They have set up orphans homes in
France, school colonies in Belgium and
Montenegro, and day schools in AL
bania.
They are sending dozens of young
Syrians, MOntenegrins, and Albanians
to American colleges in Constantinople
and Beirut, and maintaining more than
a hundred orphans of French soldiers
at colleges and trade schools. In or
phanages and farm schools up and
down the peninsula of Italy there are
nearly 500 wards of American Juniors.
Last winter thousand French chill
dren from the inadequate shelters of
the devasted regions were sent by the
Junior Red Cross to spend the cold
months in warmer parts of France.
At the same time five thousand little
Belgians were having a hot lunch every
day at Junior Red Cross school can
teens.
American school children have al
ready raised something like million
dollars for these enterprises. and they
are still hard at work.
In China, through campaigns of ed
ucatfon, the Junior Req Cross is help
Ing to combat widely prevalent blind
ness and cholera.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
RED CROSS RELIEF
IN CENTRAL EUROPE

But for timely assistance of the
American Red Cross during the last
year, large proportion of the 100000
900 population Of the Balkan States
might have starved or persisted from
disease or exposure. Six million dol
lars worth Of food, clothing and medi-
cal supplies have been sent to the Bal
kans-Roumania, Bulgaria, Albania,
Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Greece
since the beginning Of Red Cross re-
lief operations in Central Europe,
while millions Of dollars worth of food
alone has been sent to the needy in
these states.
The money expended by the Red
Cross in this stricken portion of Eu-
rope has been used to set up hospitals,
orphanages, dispensaries, mobile medi-
cal units and to help in the general re-
construction of devastated areas Amer.
iican tractors and other farming imple-
ments have been sent to the agricul-
tural regions where aid has been CIV
en- in blowing the land.
By the last of this year probably
all American Red Cross agencies ad-
ministering relief in Central Europe
will have withdrawn. By that time, it
Is believed, the people will have ap-
preached a normal state Of living and
will be able through their own agencies
which the Red Cross has helped set
up to provide for themselves.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
FARMERS ARE UNJIED
AGAINST SPECTATORS

AS result Of the conference OF
the American Farm bureau Fed
GRAFTON held at Chicago recently q
committee Of II. representing all
the nations food producing
groups. is endeavoring to formu-
late a standardized cooperative
plan to knock the H. G. of L.
Aaron Sapiro, California COOP
erative expert, gives a few Of the
results that have been brought
about. through the American
Farm Bureau Federation. If mid
dlemen are profiteering, Sapiro
says that the remedy is legisla-
ton which California Cooperative
Food Producers Association ia
advocating. Mr.. Sapiro is a firm
advocate Of labelling 6arm pro-
duce with the price it sold for as
it left the farmer
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
Not Allowed TO Kiss Bible.

kissing the Bible is forbidden in any
virginia court by a new law. It
Is declared that the practice is not
only unnecessary, but unsanitary in
the extreme. The law provides that
no officer shall require any one sub
scribing to an oath to kiss the Bible
or any book thereof, but they may
De required to place their hands on
the Bible. The punishment for any
violation Of this act is to De a fine
of 500.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25

ileges and immunities herein set forth,
and as are now, or may hereafter be
allowed corporation of similar char
acter under the laws of the State of
Georgia.
QUITS & NICHOLSON
Wd27 Attorneys for petitioners.
GEORGIA, Ben Hill County.
l, D. w. M. Whitley, Clerk of tho
Superior Court of said county, do
hereby certify that the foregoing is
true and correct copy of the appli-
cation for charter of Pittman- Gibbs
Drug Company as the same appears
on file in this office.
Witness my official signature and
the seal of said court this the 30th
day of July, 1920.
Filed in office, August 2nd 1920
d. w. M. WHITLEY,
Clerk Superior Court Ben Hill County
Georgia. Wd27
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
PETITION FOR CHARTER

S0RGIA, Ben Hill County
lN&.ie Superior Court of said County.
a. ALhe petition OF ]. L. Pittman. /,
III Pittman, Jr., and G. C. Gibbs. all
!ANIhe SAID State and county, respect
- shows:
,l: That they desire for themselves
their associates and successors, to be-
incorporated and made BODY poll
TIC under the name and style of
PlIIMAN-GIBBS DRUG CON-
RANY for the period of TWENTY
2. The principal office of the said
company shall be in the CITY of FITZ.
GERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY
GEORGlA, but petitioners desire
the right to establish branch offices
within the State or elsewhere, when
ever the holders of majority of the
stock may so determine.
s. The object of the said corpora
ton is pecuniary gain to itself and
Its shareholders.
4. The business to be carried on bv
said corporation is that of retail and
wholesale Drugs, Medicines, Toilet
articles, Candies, Medical prepare.
tions, School books, Stationery, Rub
Der goods for dispensory purposes.
Cigars, Tobacco, cigarettes Confec,
' tons, and other articles of like ma,
tture usually carried in Drug Store
5. The capital stock of the said
corporation shall be FIVE THOU,
SAND DOLLARS .($5,OO00O) with
the privilege of increasing the same
to TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($25,0OOOO) by major
iSy vote of the stock holders, said
Stock to be divided into shares of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
(SlO0OO) each. Ten per cent of the
amount of capital to be employed by
them has been actually paid in. Pc
titioners desire the right to have the
subscriptions to said capital stock
paid in money or property to be
taken at fair valuation.
e. Petitioners desire the right to
sue and be sued, plead and be i'm
pleaded, to have and use common
seal, to make all necessary bylaws
and regulations, and to do all other
things that may be necessary for the
successful carrying on of said bust
ness, including the right to buy, hold
(. and sell real estate and personal pro-
perty suitable for the purposes of
the said corporation, and to execute
notes and bonds as evidences of such
Indebtedness incurred, or which may
be incurred, in the conduct of the af-
fairs of the corporation and to Sc
1cure the same by mortgage, security
Sdeed or other legal lien.
7. They desire for the said corpor-
alton the right and power to apply
for and accept amendments to its
charter either in form or substance
BY majority vote of shareholders
outstanding at the time. They also
desire the authority to wind up its af-
fairs, liquidate its affairs at any time
it may determine to do so by a two
thirds vote of its outstanding stock
at the time.
s. They desire for the said corpora
ton the right of renewal when and
as provided by the laws of Georgia,
4 and that it have ali other such rights,
,lpowers, privileges and immunities
herein set forth, and as are now or
W'may hereafter be, allowed corpor-
: n of similar character under the
4 Of Georgia.
THEREFORE petitioners pray to
be Incorporated under the name and
style aforesaid with the powers, priv
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
Not Up to Scratch.

Il have been knocked down twice by
the same bus but fortunately have
sustained no serious injury" stated
plaintiff at London police court
the other day. The bus in question,
we understand, will be given one more
try. and in the event of failure will be
debarred from all further contests of
the same nature.-Punch.
The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1920-08-25
In Other Words, Concentrate.

The great secret of both health and
successful industry Is the absolute
yielding up of ones consciousness to
the business and diversion of the hour
never permitting one to infringe in
the least upon the other.-Sismondi
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-12-24
BOARD or EQUALIZATION

Commissioners met at two o'clock
P. M. this 18th day of December,
1920, as a board of equalization, to
Equalize the Personal Property Roll
for 1920 as completed by the Asses
or and Auditor.
Present Ezra ]. Howell, chairman;
j. T. Peterson and Silas L. Wright,
commissioners; James Dunn, county
assessor, and s. II. Rich, clerk; and
the following proceedings we're had
to-wit:
The Board proceeded to examine
said personal property roll page by
by page and name by name.
There being no application for
reductions and 1t appearing to the
Board that the valuations and levies
are the same as other property are
assessed it is therefore ordered that
the Personal Property Tax Roll be
approved as submitted without
change
Ordered that this board do now
stand adjourned sine die
Ezra J. Howell,
Attest: Chairman.
s. H. Rich.
Clerk.