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Atofrttarr-JOURNAL MO.NIUOMEKT. ALABAMA Kirch 11, IMS CIVIL WAR THI5 WASTES Crash Kills Atlantan LOWNDE'SBORO (AP) An Atlanta man, Leland Bern Stef-fey, 55, wa3 killed Friday in a Stops Listed For Bookmobile The Montgomery County Book- i car-truck collision on U.S. 80, about 37 miles west of here. The Highway Patrol said the car, driven by Steffcy, rammed into a tractor -trailer truck that jack-knifed. carcity Of Food In South mobile will make the following m.i Rainbow Tmitr court.

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TUESDAY: Daliaida School em until' 12:45 until 100 p.m Mrl. Rob 12:00 noon: Rivprcl.l. School FELT HATS CLEANED BLOCKED By Experts Quick Service) On Out-Ot- 7 m. 2 00 until 2:20 pm.l Hunter, 2 35 Vir'm until 3:00 p.m.! Old Selma Road m' By MERTON T. AKERS United Press International "The gaunt form of wretched famine still approaches with rapid strides," John B.

Jones, the dairy-keeping clerk in the Confederate war department in Richmond, wrote on March 30, 1863. Jones was a white collar worker and was having trouble making ends meet on his salary which was shrinking because of inflation. "I am spading up my Novelist Bordeaux Siicruinljs In France PARIS (AP)-Henry Bordeaux, 93, French novelist who came to public attention at the end of the 19th century, died Friday. He was elected to the French Academy in 1919 and had served longer in the academy than any of the other present Town And loeelt AflRICAfl HAT COMPANY 30 NORTH COURT ST. QUALITY, FIRST LAST AND ALWAYS THAT IS THE YAMAHA-PIANO UNCONDITIONALLY GUARANTEED Price From $755.00 TERMS JES5E FRENCH 419 Cloverdale Rd.

263-2358 little garden, and hope to raise a few vegetables to eke out a miserbale existence for my family," he wrote the same day, adding "it is strange that on the 30th of March, even in the 'sunny fru trees are as bare of blossoms and foliage as at midwinter." The next day, still morose, he noted some prices of necessities, heading the list as "another stride of the brim Corn meal, $17 per bushel; coal $20.50 a ton; wood $30 a cord; common tallow candles, $4 a pound. AFFLUENT RICHMOND people were having no food troubles. Mary Boykin Chestnut noted in her diary that she received wine, rice, swtatoes, ham, eggs, butter and pic; about once a month from the Chestnut plantation in South Carolina. Nor was there any dearth of luxury goods In Richmond shops. Stores displayed expensive silks and jewelry, English mutton iced and run through the blockade tropical fruits and champagnes.

Few had enough money to buy the luxuries but enough did to make business brisk. Some remarked it seemed strange that luxuries came up from A 1 blockade runner ports kit staples like bacon, meal and flour, known to be plentiful in North Carolina, did not, the reason being given as the feeble state of the southern railroads. THE RICH could buy a good meal for $25 in Confederate money at a first class Richmond hotel but the pcor people and low-paid workers found it difficult to get enough bread to live. A few weeks earlier President Jefferson Davis had proclaimed a day of fasting and prayer. Church service were well attended that day but the sardonic jibed: "Fasting in the midst of famine!" The stage was set for trouble and it came on April 2, a Thursday.

A crowd of several hundred women and boys gathered early that day in Capitol Square. They were quiet and orderly but determined. An emaciated girl of about 18 told a bystander, who asked why the crowd was forming, that they were starving and that they were going to raid the bakeries and each seize a loaf of bread. BY 9 A.M. the crowd numbered about 1,000, nearly all vomen but with a sprinkling of men, boys and free Negroes.

Led by a six-foot woman who jrore a white feather in her Bat, the crowd marched out of Capitol Souare by the west gate down Ninth Street LOOK 'with CAPITOL FENCE 48-Jn. Fence ALL MATERIALS FULLY AS LOW AS GUARANTEED AGAINST what for EASTER! injure anyone, but this lawlessness must stop. I will give you five minutes to disperse, otherwise you will be fired on." THE TROOPS were workers at the armoy. Some of the women in the mob were wives of the soldiers who stood with loaded muskets awaiting an order to fire on their own people. The situation was tense, with the soliders and the president fair targets for any rioter.

But within the five-minute limit Davis had set, the crowd thought better of its spree and dispersed without the troops having to fire. JONES SAID the president "seem deeply moved; and indeed it was a frightful spectacle and perhaps an ominous one, if the government does not remove some of the quartermasters who have contributed very much to bring about the evil of scarcity "All is quiet now three p.m.) and I understand the government is issuing rice to the people." He reported that those who government rice threw it into the streets in disgust. The riots shook the government. Secretary of War James A. Seddon "requested" the Richmond newspapers to avoid all reference "directly or indirectly" to the riots for "obvious reasons." BUT BY Saturday April 4 the news broke in the Examiner, which opposed Davis, when some of the rioters appeared in police court.

The Examiner laid the riots to "foreigners and Yankees" and criticized the government for not shooting down the mobsters on the spot. "If the officers of the law, with the ample force and power in their hands, had not enough decision and energy to do more than arrest highway robbers and disperse a mob of idlers at their heels, whose presence Uiere deserved immediate death quite as well, no words or ar RUST. EXPERT INSTALLATION UP TO 36 MONTHS TO PAY NO DOWN PAYMENT CALL TODAY FOR FREE ESTIMATES PER FOOT 269-5216 22Iy MT. MEIGS RD. 269-2462 The ventillated look.

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Mary Jackson, a painter's wife. Whatever her name, she was reported to be armed with a pistol and a bowie knife. Along Main and Cary Streets the mob smashed show windows and pillaged shops. They impressed drays and carts along the way to haul their loot. SOME SEIZED food but most Air Conditioners This handsome style is available to you in black and white or dark brown and white.

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FULL ONE TON BTU i i.r;,,-., Shoes and clothing were scarce articles in Richmond and jewelry always could be traded off for necessities. A part of the crowd was diverted to the YMCA where they received food but most of them rejected the offer and remained with the mob. Gov. John Letcher and Mayor Joseph Mayo met the crowd on Main Street. Neither had any influence with the rioters although the mayor read the riot act to them.

Then a company of state troops was called from the armory and was posted in front of the mob. PRESIDENT DAVIS hastened to the scene. He mounted a dray and attempted to speak to the rioters. They threw crusts of bread at him, the leavings from the loaves they had stolen from the bakeries. But in a few minutes they quieted and listened.

Varine Davis, wife of the president, wrote in later years: "He reminded them of how they had taken jewelry and finery instead of supplying themselves with bread, for the lack of which they claimed they were suffering. "He concluded by saying: 'You say you are hungry and have no money. Here is all I have, It is not much, but take it." "He then, emptying his pockets, threw all the money they contained among the mob, after which he took out his watch and said: 'We do not desire to QUIET OPERATION FLUSH MOUNTING ill i I i A '4. A li 1 1 i STARTS TOMORROW Don't Miss I 'A Q) A d) i Cuihion Arch-Lift Dooblf Cushion for Support Rubbar Hatl Air-Colled KfdJLr Rubbtr Cushion 1 Sttal Shtnk for Comfort Jf Stronrth i i JIMMY JOHNSON As Manager tf CENTURY FINANCE CO. Invitci his many friends and customers to visit him.

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