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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
UNIONS READY FOR
WAR TO THE FINISH
LABOR RAISES A
HUGE FUND TO DEFEAT
BIG EMPLOYERS.

Union labor is raising gigantic
fund to fight what it says is nation
wide campaign by big employers to
smash the trades unions. Labor
charges chambers of commerce and
similar organizations with banding
together to spread the "open shop"
movement and to fight collective bar
gaining, hence the offensive launched
by organized labor.
/ The international Association of
Machinists is raising $4,200,000 a
year by assessing each of its $4,000
members 81 month. Other interna-
-tional organizations affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor are
said to be levying like amounts.
Life and Death"
Labor leaders say it is the begin
ming of life or death" struggle for
the unions. So menacing has become
the situation that the convention OF
the American Federation of Labor,
which opened its sessions in Montreal!
Canada, on June 7, is expected to call
on organized labor everywhere to re-
sist the assault on its principles.
owe have evidence of well-laid
conspiracy among certain big employ
ers to return to pre-war conditions in
dealing with labor and by every
means in their power to crush the
unions asserted E. C. Davidson, gen
eral secretary-treasurer of the In
ternational Association of Machinists
"The real purpose of the open shop
campaign is to put the unions out OF
business, reduce wages and take away
the eight-hour day."
: Boycotts Ordered.
/ In cities where the anti-union EN-
ployers dominate and are locking GU
union men organized labor is retail
ating by boycotting those places
The Colorado State Federation of La
Dor has issued warning to union mel
throughout the country to stay ava!
from Colorado, where it is claimed
commercial organizations are work
ing to enforce the "open shop" an'
bar union men.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
MONSTER WARSHIP IS
FLOATED; 100000
u. S. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. TEN
NESSEE IN COMMISSION. LAST
WORD IN WAR CRAFT.

NEW YORK.-The superdread-
naught Tennessee, biggest and most
formidable fighting ship afloat, went
into commission at the New York
navy yard Friday in six-minute GER
emony, in which a ten-word order
from the bureau of navigation "did
the business"
Constructed here at cost of $780,
900, 900, she represents the last word
in battleship architecture. She is 625
feet long, has beam of 90 feet and
a displacement of $4,000 tons.
She is the next thing to pleasure
yacht in the comfort of her appoint
ments for officers and men and is the
first battleship to recruit her entire
personnel from the state from which
it takes its name.
The special feature which distin-
guishes the Tennessee from all other
units of the United States navy is the
highly organized fighting brain" IN
closed in a steel fort near the head
of the forward mast. Here are con
centrated devices for observing en-
envy ships, enabling the crew to
quickly ascertain the position of the
enemy craft. Special devices will en-
able the crew to quickly train the
14-inch guns on the enemy before the
crew of any other battleship known
could even sight the Tennessee. This
new device consists of three decks
and their fighting complement is 20
men.
Comfort and Luxury.
By special signalling devices, re-
ports from the fighting top can be
flashed instantly to all parts of the
ship. This Fighting brain" is filed
with delicate instruments never be-
fore used on a battleship.
Another important feature in the
construction of the Tennessee is her
electrical control of speed, enabling
her to quickly change from her capac-
ity speed of twenty-one knots to an
lmost imperceptible motion.
The Tennessee is believed to have
been built with more care for the
comfort of her crew than any other
battleship in the world. Her size
makes room for spacious lockers,
baths and recreation quarters. She
has a Handsomely furnished club
room and library for enlisted men.
She has a printing shop with limo
type machine and presses on which a
daily paper will be printed. The
Tennessee is the first battleship to be
equipped with motion picture cam
era. She will not actually be put mt
service until August /, when she vii
sail on a practice cruise for Guanta.
namo, Cuba. Her present crew OF
Tennesseeans numbers 631.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
TABLE TOP OF 4,21O PIECES
RESULT OF YEARS OF WORK

SQUARES shown near the center of the
table are made of kegs that were TAX
en- from piano found floating in
the Mississippi river at st. Louis on
MAY %, 1896. The square blocks
in the corner of the diamond row are
from the battleship Maine. The dia-
mopd row is of white birch encased in
black walnut, while the next row to
the inside is of lowgood and walnut,
and the plain white strip is of white
maple. The next row is red rosewood
with the corners filled with Usage
orange. The center is of brown rose
wood, sIoped with Usage orange with
coral wood in the corners, Altogeth-
er it is most unique production.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
4S ARE ACCUSED
in 100000 THEFT
MERCHANTS, WAREHOUSE MEN
AND RAILROADERS INDICTED
IN PLOT TO LOOT CARS.

NEW YORK.-Under blanket in
dictment returned by the federal
grand jury nearly fifty persons stand
charged with engaging in one Of the
most extensive criminal spectacles
ever disclosed in this federal district.
During its operations for six months
or more, it is asserted, $4,000, 600
worth of raw silks, woolens and 9TH
err valable merchandise has been
stolen from freight cars in the rail
road yards in this section or from
river lighters at the New York docks.
Among the men indicted are mer-
chants, proprietors of warehouses and
trucking companies, railroad detec-
tives, freight train conductors and
crews, all of whom had their part to
play in the ramifcations of this com
bination for rich loot.
According to detectives whose
months of quiet research now have
come to fruition silks valued at 3d.
100000 have been stolen since Janu-
airy l either from cars in the yards
of the New York Central Railroad
company alone or from the corpora
TONS river lighters.
100000 Loot Recovered.
About 100000 worth of the loot
has been recovered from warehouses,
where it had been stored pending
disposal through the system of fences
which formed an important link in
the conspiracy.
Of the men indicted forty-one
have been arrested and have been
released on bail ranging from $4,000
to $4,000 each.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
CHILD'S HEAD IS
CUT OFF BY saw
FATHER WAS OPERATING MA
CHINERY WHEN GRUESOME
TRAGEDY OCCURRED.

statewide, Cav. C. Dean,
sawyer at the biw Garbutt Lumber
company mill here, pulled the lever
which sent the body of his five-year-
old son into the whirling saw. The
child's head was severed, its body
dropped into the dust conveyor and
was almost at the great crusher
which grinds up blocks of wood and
feeds the refuse to the furnace be-
fore the father knew of the tragedy:
The child was playing in the mill
house when he fell on the carriage
about the time Mr.. Dean started 1t
to the saw. 1t was fast feed Of
the gunshot type and there was
hardly a chance that the child might
have been saved had the father seen
him fall. The father is Frustrated.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
Woman Values Foot
Of Skin at $4,000

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-one
square foot of skin is worth
$4,000 to Mrs. Alice May Fla
cy, who filed a suit for that
amount in the circuit court
against two physicians.
Mrs. Flacy, "a years old,
charges the physicians took one
square foot of skin from her
body when they had agreed to
remove a piece of skin an inch
wide and three or four inches
long. She had volunteered her
skin to aid her brother, William
Hadley, whose right leg was
scalded severely.
According to her attorney
Mrs. Flacy agreed to the graft
ing operation only after she was
assured by the physicians no skin
would be taken from her legs.
Ilrs. Flacy, the attorneys said,
made the request because she
y-as the mother Of a baby which
must be rested on her lap.
The grating operation took
place April 10. Mrs, Flacy still
is in hospital.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15

Infinite skill and patience were re.
ouired on the part of w. S. Cox, OF
Columbus, Ohio, in making an elabo-
rate table top containing 4,21O pieces;
This table has taken him several
Years to build and contains speei-
mems of many different woods of the
TTnited States and the tropics. The
top proper is of mahogany when Is
heavily inlaid with various wooos'
This inIav is five-sixteenths of an
inch thick and is composed of walnut,
USAGE orange, cherry, maple, sugar
tree white birch, rosewood. logwood,
ebony. coral, mahogany, and a wood
of an unknown kind taken from the
battleship Maine. The small black
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
MANY WAREHOUSES;
Will Be BONDED
ONE Al ~ ONE OF 81
OTHERS. sEv THIS
SECTION OF STA

In the last sixty days thirty-one
warehouses in Georgia have made ap-
plications for licenses and bonds so
that hereafter they will be known as
bonded warehouses,
This is due to the efforts of the
state banking department in order to
facilitate the examination of various
securities found in the banks of Geor-
gia. Wherever these securities are
based on bonded warehouse receipts
the auditing work is vastly simpiified
according to T. R. Bennett, superin-
tendent of the state banking depart
ment. Prior to the activity of the
department there were only nine
warehouses in Georgia duly licensed
and bonded.
Following is a list of the ware
houses making the applications:
T. ]. Reeves, Thomaston; Sumter
Lee Warehouse, Leslie; Colley and
Loan Company Warehouse, Grant
vile; w. "A. Brannon, Moreland; Ar
mold Baxter Warehouse Company
Granville; w. w. Cannon Warehouse
Company, Moreland; j. +. Dunsof
Brothers Company, Lagrange; Mer
chants and Planters Warehouse Com
pany. Locust Grove; Ashburn Bonded
Warehouse Company, Ashburn; S. G.
Evans Company, Wadley; The Mitch
ell Company, Yatesville; Farmers
Gin Corporation. Wadley; MCGEE &
Cowart, Arlington; Greensboro Bond
ed Warehouse, Greensboro; Farmers
Warehouse Company, Graymont;
Rome Cotton Compress Company
Rome; Sherwood Railway Compa-
ny, Brooklet; The Cotton Warehouse
Company, Atlanta; Hamilton Bonded
Warehouse, Hamilton; Holmes Bond
ed Warehouse, Culloden; Consolida-
ted Warehouse, Carrollton; Coffin Il
Wood Warehouse, Richlard; Bro n
wood Bonded Warehouse, BronwCtd;
Farmers Bonded Warehouse, Fila
willie; Omega Bonded Warehouse,
Omega; Dudley Bonded Warehouse
Company, Amegicus; = N. q II. b.
Lannius, Monroe; Joe J. Reynolds,
Waynesboro; Farmers Warehouse,
Kite; w. F. Cullens Warehouse Com
pany, Camilla.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
a MILLION CHILDREN
Are FACING DEATH
WAR ORPHANS IN EUROPE ARE
WANDERING ABOUT EAT
ING GRASS AND NUTS.

A movement to save 4,000,00O
children in Europe and Asia Minor
from death caused by famine and
disease is meeting with a generous
response in almost every country. IN
the world. Even France and Italy,
with their countless war orphans,
have responded nobly to alleviate
the misery of the children m Cen
trail Europe.
In the Ukraine approximately 80
per cent of the population are af-
flicted with typhus, malaria or small
box. The infant mortality in south
Russia has risen as high as 80 per
cent and in Kuban 100000 refugees,
chiefly women and children, lack ev-
erything, score dying daily.
Live Like Savages.
Thousands of Armenian children
are reported to be wandering around
like houseless savages, separated
from their parents and eating grass
and nuts. There are 100000 or
phans in the district of Erivan alone
with tyhus raging.
In Poland, of the 100000 or
100000 children. about AZ per
cent are i'll or enfeebled Nearly
100000 are orphans or separated
from their parents and about 1,500,-
600 children are running wild with
ia dire lack of food and clothing.
There is no milk to be had in Bull
garia and infant mortality is high.
The infant mortality in Hungary
is about 40 per cent, one-tenth of
the children being tubercular. In
1918, $4,000 more children died in
Budapest than were born. There is
also much tuberculosis in Serbia,
where 100000 orphans are wander
ing about uncared for, living from
hand to mouth.
In some parts of Germany infant
mortality has increased 158 per cent.
There are 100000 war orphans
and 100000 other children need
ing aid there. There are 100000
needy children in CZecho-Slovaki OF
$4,000 tubercular children 1880
remain unattended.
Greece has $4,000 war orphans,
Italy 10000 war orphans and UNI
estimated thousands in the Baltic
states A special school for mutila-
ted children has been opened in
France. More than 100000 war or
.phans in France are dependent upon
the state but despite this both Italy
and France are caring for Austrian
war orphans.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
INDIANS WATCHFIRE
BURNS FOR SO YEARS
Is Kept Alive as a Memento to Great
Spirit. No One Knows When
1t Was Kindled.


MIAMI. Okla.-Down in the Spav-
anaugh hills near the little hamlet of
Murphy in this state there burns an
Indian campfire that has not been
quenched for fifty years. It is the
watchfire of the Cherokees, a fire
that is kept burning as a memento to
the Great Spirit that the Indians re-
member his goodness to them and
that their hearts are true.
No one knows when the fire was
kindled, not even Chief Charlie Tee
Hee, but B. F. Alternately, a white
man who lives in Murphy, says it was
burning thirty-three years ago when
he took up his residence there. 1t
does not always show signs of life,
but down in the cone of ashes that
has accumulated until it is three feet
high are embers that are kept alive
by an insulation of gum that is
taken from tree. Many of the In
dams believe the fiye cannot die on
account of it being a symbol of a
covenant between God and man.
On special occasions such as stomp
dances the fire is allowed to become
a good sized campfire and then the
braves sit around it and smoke pc
culiar pipe, an act that renews the
Individual covenant of each. But be
it great or small, the fire is kept alive
by an attendant, the present one be-
ing George Potato, ON whose land
the ceremonies are held.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
HARDING AND COOLIDGE
NAMED BYREPUBLlCANS
OHIO SENATOR AND MASSACHU-
SETS GOVERNOR HEAD THE
PRESIDENTIAL TICKET.

CHICAGO, June 12.-Senator War
rem G. Harding of Ohio was nomina-
ted for the presidency in the repub-
Ican national convention on the
tenth ballot, receiving 674 votes.
The number necessary to nominate
was 493.
Governor Calvin Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts was nominated for the
vice presidency.
The official vote for vice president
was: Pritchard II, Johnson II,
Grona "a, Anderson %, Allen 68h
Leenroot 146h, Coolidge GIG.
Rush for Band Wagon.
Following the big landslide to
Harding on the ninth ballot, he gain
ed steadily at the beginning of the
tenth. Arkansas saw the band wag-
on and climbed aboard, giving hel
entire block of thirteen to him. State
after state followed and when Penn
sylvania threw its sixty votes tt
Harding it gave him the nomination
I The eighth ballot put Governo1
Frank o. Lowden Of Illiois in thu
lead with 3O7 votes, closely followe'
by General Wood With 299 votes.
Senator Harding, who had not re
ceived more than rs votes on an,
previous ballot, made a substantial
gain on the eighth ballot, SCORING
1873 ".
On the ninth ballot Harding jump
ed to 374 and Wood dropped to 249
kowden to 131 and Johnson to 80.
The tenth ballot showed 674 TO
Harding, 1877 for Wood and 80 TO
Johnson.
Not since 1880, when eight ballot
were required to nominate BENJAMIN
Harrison, has a republican conven
ton delayed so long in selecting
standard bearer.
Given Ovation at Washington.
Washington, D. c., June 14-Sena
tor Harding arrived in Washington
at 1905 o'clock this morning fror
Chicago. He was greeted by thFon&
which crowded the union station.
He was met by reception com
mittee and was escorted to the presi
dents room of the station. He passed
through long lines of people who Wig
orously applauded him. AS he pass
ed out of the station to his automo
bile he was greeted with popula
air from the Boy Scout band.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
THE STATE HIGHWAY
LAW IS HELD INVALID
JUDGE PENDLETON REFUSES A
MANDAMUS SOUGHT BY
GOVERNOR DORSEY.

ATLANTA.-Judge Pendleton has
refused the mandamus sought by
Governor Dorsey to force Comptroll-
er General Wright to countersign a
voucher for $4,000 for the state
highway department. The state high
way law thereby is held unconstitu-
tional.
This means the legislature must
remedy the law or enact new legisla-
ton. The mandamus was a friendly
action to test the highway law fol
lowing a ruling by Attorney General
r. A. Denny that it is unconstitu-
tional.
Judge Pendleton held that the law
is defective in that it was not passed
by the "aye' and may" vote re
quired for all legislation carrying ap
preparations.
Under the law all highway depart
ment vouchers must be countersign
| ed by the comptroller general aDC
this the latter declined to do follow
+ ing the attorney generals ruling.
Attorney General Denny and Ora
ham Wright, his assistant, appeared
against the law, while H. j. Quincy
attorney for the highway depart
ment, represented the opposing side
Following the refusal of Judge
John T. Pendleton to issue rule alb
solute to compel Comptroller Genera
Wright to countersign an executive
warrant drawn in favor of the state
highway department, Attorney Quin
| cey announced that he would file
/ bill of exceptions to the supreme
court.
Victory for Denny.
The decision of Judge Pendletor
represents the first round in the lega
battle against the validity of the
highway and motor vehicle acts OF
last year and is victory for Attor.
ney General Denny.
At the conclusion of the argument
Judge Pendleton said: "Where the
language of the constitution is man
datory, as it is in this scase, l cannot
afford to decide against it. / will ad-
nit the legislative journals in evi-
dence to prove the contentious of the
defendant"
The court then told Mr.. Denny to
take an order denying the rule abso-
lutte asked for by Governor Dorsey
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
WAR PRICES DISCL0SFD
OUTRAGEOUS ROBBER Y
Congressional Expert Asserts Profits
Increased rs Per Cent Over
the Peace Time Business.

War profits of corporations, after
paying heavy war taxes, were IS pei
cent greater than the average peace.
time business returns, according t.
Representative Hull of Tennessee
one of the financial experts of con-
gress.
"The corporation net income of the
country remaining after payment OF
all taxes from 1916 to 1919, incius-
i've, is more than $4,000, ,000,' OF
an average of $7,000,00O,000 a
year." said Congressman Hull, 'while
the corresponding net income remain
ing for the years 1912, 1913 and
1914 average but slightly over Sd
O00, 1000, O00"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
FURFURAL FROM CORN COBS
NEW AND VALUABLE PRODUCT
Discovery Opens Way to Develop
ment of Vast Enterprise.

Discovery Opens Way to Develop
ment of Vast Enterprise.
Furfural, new substance obtain
ed from corn cobs, which can be
made into great many dyes, sew
eral paints, lacquers and perhaps
many other useful commodities, is
the result of series of experiments
made by the bureau of chemistry of
the United States department of agri-
culture toestudy the best methods for
the utilization of corn cobs. Furfu-
raj was recovered in the process
which was developed. Further ex-
periments have shown that it can be
obtained in much larger quantities
by chemical treatment of the adhes-
i've recovered from corn cobs. It can
be used successfully to manufacture
hard resins similar to those used in
making pipe stems and like articles,
and it seems to have promise as an
insecticide.
The United States produces from
$500, 100000 to 3,000,000.000 bush
els of corn every year. That means
100000 or 20,000,000 tons of
cobs. A large percentage, of course,
is not available for manufacturing
purposes, being scattered over the
farms or fed with the corn. Large
quantities. however, are concentrated
at central points and are easily avail
able. The establishment of plant
for the Manufacture of corn cob
products in the Ohio valley is being
contemplated Three shelters will
furnish $4,000 tons of cobs year.
The plant will operate on basis of
100 tons a day. 1t will turn out cob
adhesive, furfural, acetate of lime
and cellulose.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
COTTON CROP NOT EXPECTED
TO EXCEED 10000, 900 BALES

The cotton crop of the south will
not exceed 100000 bales this year,
even with favorable weather condi-
tions, the Memphis farm bureau pre-
diets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
GREAT THEFT OF wHIsKEY;
HALF MILLION GALLONS GONE
II Was Taken From Warehouses on
Forged Permits.

PITTSBURGH.-More than 5OO,-
900 gallons of whiskey have been
withdrawn from bonded warehouses
in the Pittsburgh district since Janu;;
arv is last with bogus or forged
permits. according to an announce
ment made here by w. H. Hlndman
federal prohibition agent for penn
svlvania. Mr.. Hindman said cases
Under suspicion run into the thous-
ands.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-15
Has Right of Way

y, IN former days crowds gathered at
we depot to see the president arrive
II depart. All is changed now. When
!. are president starts on a journey he
10 driven direct to his own private
Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-08
Series Scandal Evidence
Removal Causes Chicago
Judge to Order Seizure

CHICAGO. Dec S.-Chief Justice
Charles A. Mcdonald seized grand jury
evidence in the baseball scandal Tuesday,
following discovery that copies Of papers
in the case had been Obtained By Mac
lay Hoyne States attorney. shortly be-
fore his retirement from office Monday
All of the original papers are turned
over to the judge. who ordered them i'm
pounded by the clerk until the cases Of
eight White SOx players who We're in
dicted come to trial.
Judge Robert Grove. who succeeded
Hoyne as States attorney. ordered an in
vestigation after Hartley Replogle. for
mer assistant States attorney, who con-
Quoted the baseball investigation. notified
Judge Mcdonald that HOyne had de-
manded copies of the papers last Friday.
Hoyne later said he had asked for the
records simply TO have copies made to be
put In the cases in his office, for which
he was responsible and that the copies
were there now. sealed up.
Federal Judge Lands, baseball CON-
missioner. when informed Of the affair by
President Ban Johnson Of the American
League, said that If il was found any OF
the evidence had been tempered with or
was missing. Federal action would be
taken AGAINST tie guilty persons.
Baseball is going TO be cleared OF
gamblers and there is no one who viii
be allowed to interfere" said Judge
Lands.
Replogle last night said he had acted
unGcr H0yne's orders and could not say
what use had been made Of the papers
after they left his hands.