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0 0 0 0 0 THE CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1914. Page Thres. CRUELTY. CRAZED WOMEN Belgian Commission So Alleges in Report- Several Children, It Is Said, Died in Arms of Crazed Mothers. condon.

September third section of the report of the Belgian commission appointed to inquire Into alleged breaches of international law by the Germans has received in London. It supplements previous reports given out by the official information bureau here August 26 and September 16. Today's report refutes the German suggestion that the inhabitants of Louvain brought on the destruction of the town by Aring on the Germans. It follows in part: "The inhabitants of Louvain took no part in the fighting. Moreover, the destruction of the town came at a when the last Belgian troops had evacuated the district eleven days before.

Witnesses declare the fret shots were fired by intoxicated German, soldiers at their officers." Another fact established follows: "A crowd of from 6,000 to 8,000 men, womne and children were taken by the 162nd regiment of German inTantry on August 28 the Louvain riding school, where they spent the night. The place of confinement was so small that all had to remain standIng. The sufferings were so great that several children died in their mothers' arms and a number of women lost their reason. "A large number of places in the triangle formed by Vilvorde, Malines and Louvain. has been given over to plunand partly destroyed by Are, the population dispersed and inhabitants indiscriminataly arrested and shot without, trial, the reason being to inspire terror and compel migration.

"In many villages women who were unable to escape, were exposed to the brutal Instincts of the Germans soldiers. We are convinced that an. international inquiry like that conducted- in the Balkans by, the Carnegie commission would establish the truth of our assertions." COTTON DRESSES. FOR THE WOMEN Continued From Page One. encouragement on her sensible suggestion.

Women Behind Movement. Among the prominent women in the congressional. set who have enthusiastically taken it up and promised to assist are wife the following: Mrs. Champ Clark, of the speaker; Miss Genevieve Clark, Miss Lucy Burleson, Mra. daughter of the postmaster general; Hoke Smith, wife of Senator Hoke Smith; Miss Callie Hoke Smith, Mrs.

John Temple Graves, Mrs. Charles McChord, wife the interstate commerce commissioner; Mrs. John Sharp Willams, Mrs. Charles M. Lewis, Mrs.

James R. Mann, wife of the minority leader of the house: Mrs. Timothy T. Anaberry, of Ohio; Miss Sally Williams, of Mississippi; Miss Nancy Johnson, of Kentucky. Senator Hoke Smith cordially indorsed the idea, saying.

everything of this sort had a. beneficial effect. "The people should use more cotton said Senator Smith. "The people need the goods; their purchase will help the merchants help the factories and help the entire cotton situstion, so important not alone to the cotton-producing states. but to the middle west, which sells the south $150,000,000 a year of foodstuffs, and to the east which sells the south nually over $400,000,000 of manufactured products.

It is the part of patriotism now to buy and use our cotton manufactured products." Cone Hubbard Approve. Edward K. president of the New York cotton exchange, and S. T. Hubbard, a prominent member of the exchange, both wired Miss Clark their indorsement.

Mr. Cone said: "If every housewife would take advantage of the present situation and lay in her supplies for a long period ahead, she would not only be benefting herself but be doing her share In the present emergency. I heartily approve of your method that will lay before every housewife in this try The this present opportunity." brought 'European about condition that causes cotton to sell far below the cost of production. LEADING NEGRO BANKER DIES IN BIRMINGHAM Birmingham, September (Special.) -Dr. W.

R. Pettiford, Alabama founder and Arst president of the Penny Savings bank; president of the National Negro Bankers' association. and one of the foremost negroes of the country, died at his home in this city tonight after an illness of eight months. Heart fallure was given as the cause of his death. With nine other negroes, Dr.

Pettiford organized the Alabama Penny Savings bank twenty-four years ago, and through his efforts, largely, it has been developed into the largest and strongest negro bank in the country. The bank in Birmingham is the central one with branches in Selma, Anniston and Montgomery. On account of Dr. Pettiford's illhealth he retired from active participation in the bank's affairs, and since April the affairs have president." directed by Diffay, acting CONTEST WAS BITTER OVER FRENCH VILLAGE London. September Daily Telegraph's correspondent behind the allies' lines, under date of Friday, describes the keen contest for the possession of the village of Carlepont, north of Complegne, which 18.

the key to the German line of communication. It has been taken and retaken by the Germans and French. On the 16th, the correspondent says, Carlepont was captured by the French, who retired before superior forces. The Germans then elaborated the town's defenses, but Thursday Zouaves and. Algerian sharpshooters recaptured the village, after seven brilliant charges.

Some men are poor but honest, some are just poor, while others are simply honest. The gift of gab generally strates that it takes a wise man to say nothing. IT WILL HAPPEN ON A MONDAY? REPULSED BY SERVIAN FORCES Heavy Losses Inflicted by the Servians Servians Are Marching on Sarajevo. Nish, Servia, September London)-It is announced officially that a numerically inferior Servian force has repulsed an attack of 20,000 Austrians near Novipazan. The Servians inflicted heavy losses on the attacking force.

Near Sarajevo. London, September 21. The Dally Telegraph's Rome correspondent the combined Servian and Montenegrin army was within 16 miles Sarajevo Thursday, attacking the fortifed towns of Jabuska and Rogatiza and that it expected to enter Sarajevo within a week. Great Enthusiasm. Rome, September dispatch from Cettinje, Montenegro, says: "There is great enthusiasm over the reunion of Montenegrin and Servian troops marching against Sarajevo.

It is believed this will lead to the capture of the Bosnian capital. "Montenegrins have defeated the Austrians on the mountain slopes, killing BATTLES AT SEA ARE FAIRLY DIVIDED Continued From Page One. pompoms, The action lasted one hour and 45 minutes, when the ships capsized and sank, her survivors being rescued by an empty collier. "Of the Carmania's crew, nine men were killed and Ave seriously wounded. None of the officers was Injured.

"The first lord of the admiralty has sent the following telegram to Captain Grant: 'Well done! You have fought a fine action to a successful Captain Cyril Fuller, royal navy, British steamer a Cumberland, ports from the Kamerun river that German steamboat on the night of September 14 attempted to sink the British gunboat Dwarf. Commander Frederick Strong, with an infernal machine In her bows. The attempt failed, and the steamboat and one passenger was captured. "On the night of the 16th the Dwarf was purposely rammed by- the Nashtigall, Dwarf a German merchant ship. The was slightly damaged, but sustained no casualties.

The Nashtigall was wrecked. The enemy lost fourteen men and twenty-two men are missing. German Launches Destroyed. "A further report from the Cumberland today says two German launches, one carrying explosive machines, destroyed. The enemy's losses were one white man killed and three white men and two natives taken prisoners." The admiralty report confirms an earlier report from Tokio last week of the sinking of six British steamers by the Emden.

Of the steamers, the Indus was of 2,103 tons, and WAs last reported at Calcutta, August 11. The Lovat Was of 8,109 tons; the Killim (or Killin), the Diplomat of 4,873 tons, was last reported at Suez, August 11, bound from Liyerpool the Katinga is mentioned in the offCalcutta. Neither the Frabbock 01 nor cial maritime register. There is a Kabinga, of 2,925 tons, which at Calcutta, September 8, ready to sail for Boston and New York, and a Katanga, of 2,160 tons, which sailed from Port Talbot, August 20, for Calcutta. CARMANIA WINS OVER GERMAN BOAT.

Montevideo, September Brit- Ish auxiliary cruiser Carmania has sunk the German steamer Cap Trafalgar. The Carmania, Cunard liner, piled between New York and Liverpool until taken over by the British government and converted into a She was reported last as ready to sail from Liverpool September 5. The Cap Trafalgar was ship of 9,854 to tons. She sailed from Montevideo August 22 for Las Palmas. SUBMARINE LOST BY AUSTRALIA Melbourne, Australia, September (Via London)-Rear Admiral Sir George Patey, commander of the Australian navy, in a wireless dispatch to the government.

states that submarine AE-1, reported yesterday as lost, disappeared with all hands on board. Other vessels of the fleet failed to discover any -wreckage. The loss is attributed to accident, as there was no enemy within 100 miles and the weather was. fine at the time. This is the first disaster in the history of the Australian navy.

AE-1 was under command of Lieutenant Com- mander Thomas F. Begant. AUSTRIA LOSES TORPEDO BOAT. Vienna, September Venice and. Paris)-The Austrian torpedo boat No.

27 was sunk, in the harbor of Pola last Monday. Much secrecy has been maintained regarding the occurrence. It is believed a boiler explosion caused the vessel to sink. The was rescued. crime work of fortifying the great naval station.

of Pola continues with unceasing activity, especially on the land side, where barbed wire entanglements have placed. GERMAN BARK TAKEN BY BRITISH SHIP. Falmouth, September London, 2:45 p. German bark Ponape, from Iquique, Chile, for Antwerp, with nitrate, has been captured by a British warship and brought here. GERMAN CRUISER HOTLY ENGAGED.

Berlin, September Amsterdam to -That the German cruiser August 28 Stettin by had British been warships hotly engased lowed to become known here today." No details were given out. A casualty list was made public today. Of the 6,126 casualties reported, 3,976 fall to fifteen battalions of eight regiments. The 131st regiment reported 1,141 casualties. Six of its ofAcers were killed and twenty-three wounded.

The 132d Infantry reported thirty-two officers and 561 men killed, wounded or missing. The Tenth Gren. adiers lost twenty officers and 820 men and one battalion of the 157th infantry had eight officers killed and Ave wounded. Wreck Is Destroyed. Charleston, 8.

September revenue a cutter. Yamacraw, it was wreck of the cement-laden schooner nounced today, has destroyed the Frederick W. Day, which sank Thursday, five southeast of the Charleston lightship, and which has been a menace to coastwise shipping. Russia's population is Increasing at the rate of 3,500,000 a year. It now stands at about 147,000,000, of which 100.000,000 are peasants.

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The senate tomorrow will resume consideration of the rivers and harbors bill, with prospects growing brighter for further compromise. Even some democrats have grown halfhearted in their support of the meas-, ure in the present financial stringency. President Wilson has held up a warning hand against any expenditures not absolutely necessary. The house this week will take up the war revenue bill, which was completed yesterday by democrats of the ways and means committee. The measure as agreed on would tax beer, wines, gasoline, bankers, brokers, amusement proprietors- and levy, a stamp tax on commercial instruments, with checks and drafts eliminated.

Majority Leader Underwood believes he can pilot the bill through within a week. The bill will be introduced tomorrow. Its consideration will be begun Thursday. The measure would take effect immediately on passage, except that stamp tax provisions would not become operative until November 1. Trust legislation is about concluded.

The trade commission bill awaits the president's signature, who is delaying signing it until the Clayton anti-trust bill also reaches 'him. The conference report on that measure will be completed tomorrow. The disputed point of the measure to be determined tomorrow concerns the amendment by Senator Reed to give the courts authority, when corporations are convicted, to appoint receivers and sell property of corporations to persons who would restore competitive conditions. The house this week will pass the tional Ferris system bill of to public provide land for leases. a na- I HALF MILLION ITALIANS ARE READY TO STRIKE Best of the Troops Are in Camps in Lombardy and Venetian Provinces.

Rome. September already has more than 500,000 men under arms. The best of these troops in camps and barracks in the Lombardy and Venetian provinces. THERE'S LITTLE HOPE FOR JOSIAH CARTER Well-Known Georgian Has Failed to Rally From Effects of Operation. Washington, September Carter, editor of The Marietta.

Courier- and secretary to Senator Hoke Smith, is lying at Garfeld hospital here at the point of death. He has falled to rally from the effects of an operation performed to relieve him of an abdominal trouble, and the attending physicians fear that in his weakened condition the chances of his, recovery Carter are was city exceedingly editor of slim. The later worked on The Atlanta Journal. Constitution a under Henry Grady, and He has been connected with Senator Smith for years. Senator Smith and the members of his family have been constant visitors at the hospital, and have given Mr.

Carter every possible attention. SOCIETY MAN AND GIRL KILLED IN AUTO CRASH John Craig and Miss Maxwell Lose Their Lives and Others Are Injured. Charlotte, September Craig and Miss" Christine Maxwell, prominent young society people city, were instantly killed tonight at 10:50 o'clock when an automobile, in which they and three others were returning from Statesville, N. crashed into a telephone post on a curve at Crofts, -this county, and overturned, crushing them beneath it. J.

Craig, of Statenville, brother of the dead man; W. H. McCabe, of Charlotte, and a negro chauffeur, the -remaining three. were also hurt Craig being badly bruised about the head, while McCabe's arm and the chauffeur's leg were broken. BUCHU FINE FOR WEAK KIDNEYS Mixed With Juniper Is Old Folks' Recipe for Clogged Kidneys and Backache.

Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, get sluggish and clogged and need a flushing occasion: ally, else we have backache and dull misery in the kidney region, severe headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid stomach, sleeplessness and all sorts of bladder disorders, dizzy spells, spots before the eyes, frequent desire to urinate. To avoid above troubles, you simply must keep your kidneys active and clean by taking spoonful of Stuart's Buchu and Juniper Compound after meals. Also atop eating sweets or sugar. This is old recipe for strengthening weak kidneys and bladder. In few days your kidto flush clogged kidneys and stimulate neys will then act fine and natural.

them to normal activity, It also net. Stuart's Buchu 1 and Juniper is harmless tralises the acids in the urine BO 1t 20 longer hurts to pass water, thus ending bladder GRAY HALEY Latest Creations In WALL PAPER Twenty-four Luckie Street Bell Ivy 736 Atlanta 322 Beautiful Ranging Done By the German Batteries London, September (8:10 a. The Daily Telegraph's correspondent behind the allies line along the Aisne, in dispatch dated Saturday, says: "The bulk of the fighting on the line held by General French's command has been In inclosed country of many woods that afford cover on every hill. It has been for the most part an artillery battle. "The German positions evidently were chosen long ago and the work of entrenchment was begun before the Germans turned AWAy from Paris.

Most of the German, heavy artillery is planted on concrete foundations. So far the Germans have four the advantage in heavy artillery, but the British have captured three of their large guns. "The German batteries have ranged beautifully. When the range was picked up they poured in a fire at a high rate and the infantry simply had to bury itself in the trenches to avoid' annihilation. The casualties from shell fire have been heavy on both sides.

German Attacks Fail. "Military men do not think the allies' left will move up the valley of the Oise until the German front north of sons has been driven back. The river is swollen and roads and fields are heavy, Moreover, General Von Kluck has taken pains that the high ground between Noyon and Chauny is 80 strongly held as to dominate the whole valley. "The Germans have made three daylight attacks in an attempt to break the allies' front, where it stretches east and west along the Aisne. All three attacks have failed, with losses so enormous that the ground in front of the allies' trenches is strewn with the enemy's dead and wounded.

"The bad moral effect of having to I I DROP IN COTTON SEED WILL BE INVESTIGATED War Congressinan Will Not Hughes Account Says for the the Decline in Price. By John Corrigan, Jr. Washington, September Hughes in discussing the alleged conspiracy to keep down the price of cotton seed, said the European war would not account for It. The surplus of cotton here would not account for low prices for cotton seed, since practically all of this seed .18 crushed at home. Nearly All Used at Home.

"On investigation of census reports And there were produced last year 6,305,000 tons of seed," said Mr. Hughes. "Of this amount 4,767,802 tons were crushed. Only 8,171 tons of seed were exported, an almost inconsiderable quantity, Of the 197,160,000 gallons of oll produced, approximately 25,725,000 gallons were exported, or one-eighth of the amount produced. About 400,000 tons of cake and meal were exported.

These figures clearly Indicate that practically the entire crop is either used or manufectured in this country and that the bulk of the manufactured products are consumed in this country. The comparatively small effect that the foreign trade In oil has on the value of cotton seed is shown by the figures for the amount of oll exported since 1896, and the prices SON OF GERMAN KAISER IS WOUNDED IN FRANCE MORTUARY (All funeral notices page) L. M. Prouty. L.

Prouty died at the residence, Delta place, Inman park, at o'clock Sunday afternoon. He is survived by his wife and one sister, Mrs. G. Livermore, of New York. He had been resident of Atlanta for twenty-two years and widely known.

W. A. Postell, Brunswick. Brunswick, September -(Special.) William A. Postell, one of Glynn county's best known residents, passed away at his home on St.

Simon island Friday night after a month's illness. Mr. Postell has been a resident of St. Simon practically all of his life and was well known and popular among many friends. He is survived by his wife, two children and three brothers, besides a 'number of relatives.

Mrs. A. L. Wilson. Mrs.

Alexander L. Wilson, 54, died at private sanitarium last night at 9 o'clock. The body was carried to Patterson's chapel. Mrs. Wilson is and a son, A.

L. Wilson, of Atsurvived by her husband, A. L. Wilson, lanta; also by two sisters, Mrs. A.

Ormond, of Jacksonville, and Mrs. F. N. Love, of and a brother, E. W.

Scarborough, of Chattahoochee, Fla. John Finlayson, Quitman. Quitman, September Finlayson, eldest son of Mrs. L. J.

Finlayson, aged 40, died last night at Asheville, fifteen miles south of Quitman. Interme? will occur Monday morning at The Finlayson home cemetery. A wife and four children survive. Mrs. Eunice I.

Cowan. Mrs. Eunice I. Cowan, aged years, died Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at her residence in Forest Park. She is survived by her husband, C.

C. Cowan: one J. L. Cowan: her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

J. L. George, and brother, Paul George. Paraguay has a pod-bearing -plant which is useful in making a vegetable silk. Burmese rubber cultivation began in 1877.

In 1918 the producton was 650,000 pounds. London, September 21-An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from The Hague says a message received from Berlin asserts Prince August William, fourth son of Emperor William, was shot in the left arm during the battle of the Marne. pass so many bodies prompted the Germans to make their fourth attack Friday in the night. The night was black and rain was falling heavy when the Germans sought to pierce the lines along Soissons with an attack covering a wide area. The allies repulsed them with a withering fire, followed by bayonet charge.

"German artillery has made the work of signal officers at British headquarters very dangerous. Their observers keep lookout for the hellograph, and as soon as the mirror begins flashing they train their guns on the instrument. Wireless poles, too, are constant targets. "One shell fell in a British feld hosto fall in the neighborhood the a medical pital, wrecking it. As shells continued corps was compelled to abandon the ten most, serious cases." What Allies Hold.

The Dally Chronicle's Paris correspondent, in a dispatch filed Sunday, that the western triangle of Noyon, Compiegne and Vic is in the hands of the allies. "The German positions," the correspondent declares, "remain strong, but they have been pierced and what the middle of last week looked like a continuous wall of tron from Complegne to Rheims now presents rather the appearance of three groups of entrenched hills, which are liable to be isolated and. turned. "Laon is the key of the roads of retreat to the defense of which the German forces are reduced. Here the Germans had time to choose good artillery positions and entrench themselves "The allies have reached the edge of the Craonne plateau at Vendresse and Vassogne.

There is substantial breach in the German lines between Laon and Rheims and it is doubtless this threat of their armies being divided which accounts for the repeated and desperate assaults on the French before paid for seed last year. The export -of oil last year was less than it has been since 1896, and yet the price of cotton seed was unusually high. In 1912 more than 42,000,000 gallons were exported and in 1911 more than 000,000. "To offset any natural depression which may be brought about in the price of the manufactured products of cotton seed is the fact that it now appears that it will be difficult to secure Germany sufficient potash for the. fertilization of next year's crop, and this will necessitate the removing of a large quantity of meal from the foreign market to be used as fertilizer.

No Economic Reason for Decline. "I can see no economic reason for the severe decline in prices. Taking advantage of the embarrassed condition of the farmer, the speculator and manufacturer are depressing his seed prices, in spite of the fact that that there is abundant reason to believe the demands for seed this year will 8p- proximate that of last year, if it does not pass it, and when competitive business should keep the market at least in the neighborhood of last year's crop. But still we And the singular fluctuations in the market, singularly similar approximately fluctuations, one-half around what it should we can secure the evidence of the combination which circumstances so clearly indicate, I hope that the administration will take such steps in the matter of criminal prosecutions for violations of the anti-trust law, the as will peremptorily put a the stop low to price singu- fluclar similarity in tuations." Dr. Coleman Accepts.

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