Terms of Peace in President’s Address
President outlines fourteen peace terms including open covenants, free seas in peace and war, removal of economic barriers, disarmament, and fairness for colonial claims. Calls for Russia and Belgium evacuation, restoration of French territory, Italian frontiers, autonomy for Austria Hungary’s peoples, Balkan independence, and a world association of nations under guaranteed rights. Washington message stresses open diplomacy and justice for all nations as basis for a just, lasting peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Belgium
Alsace
Lorraine
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Romania
Serbia
Montenegro
Balkan States
Turkey
Tlea
Dardanelles
Indsputa
Sea
Washington
Jen
Congress
Brest-Litovak
Germany
Austria
Calendar Fixes Superior Court Calendar January 1918
The Athens bar met to arrange the January term civil calendar before Judge A. J. Cobb. The Clarke Superior Court calendar lists cases ripe for trial from January 21 to 24 1918, including many divorce actions and numerous civil dockets for the January term.
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Athens
McFarlan & Jackson
Southern States Fire Ins. Co
T. B. Wooten
Mamie Gardner
Nancy A. Jukes
Jno
T. Anderson
Hull
Clint
T. 8. Mell
Admr
C. A. Vonder Lieth
H. F. Pittard
Cobb
Carlisle Cobb
Nek
McCombs
Wilbanks
Ga. Nat
Bunk
VerNooy
Boswell & McCommons
W. F. Dr
Mary Clayton
Randall
Clayton
Easter Brown
Claude Lockhart
Frank Betts
H. L. Matthews
Moss Mfg. Co
Francis A. Fonter
Businesses Must Register Early for New Year
January 1 marks the annual registration with the ordinance for many business classes. A one dollar fee is required, with penalties for non registration. The list spans corporations, theatres, moving picture houses, shooting galleries, ten pin alleys, and numerous other lines including dealers and pawnbrokers.
French Premier Clemenceau Thanks Lloyd George
Dispatch from France quotes Premier Cle Menceau sending hearty appreciation to Lloyd George for expressing stark resolve against Germany. The message notes French thanks for truth that one must never weary in opposing the Germans, with no text of the president's speech provided.
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Associated Press
Washington
Cle Menceau
France
Lloyd George
French official in Athens buys cotton for government
M. G. E. Gayett, representing the French government, is in Athens buying cotton. He is at the Hotel Georgian with two American expert cotton men. A former French army member who fought at Marne and Verdun, he survives a near total loss in battle and now discusses war and U S relations guardedly, refusing to speak for newspapers.
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M. G. E. Gayett
Ile
United States
Republica
Newspapera
State Normal Opens Spring Term With Full Attendance
The State Normal School opened the spring semester yesterday with full attendance. New students were few. dormitories overflowed, and housing off campus is being sought. President Jere M. Pound urged clearer vision and world conscience as war work records from fall inspire the students to exceed their marks.
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State Normal
State Normal School
Athens
Georgia
Jere M. Pound
Mississippi ratifies federal prohibition in fifteen minutes
Jackson Mississippi January 8 Fifteen minutes after the subject was presented in Governor Hilboa's message to the Mississippi legislature both houses today ratified the proposed prohibition amendment to the federal constitution Only eight dissenting votes were cast Mississippi is the first state to take such action
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Associated Press
Jackson, Miss
Hilboa
Mississippi
Railroad Men in Overalls Key to War Effort Says McAdoo
Director General McAdoo urged railroad officers and workers to treat their duties as patriotic, declaring every employee as vital as troops in the trenches. He pledged fair labor handling and swift action. In Georgia, 1500 Atlantic Coast Line shop workers struck, refusing to work with a non union employee.
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McAdoo
Associated Press
Washington
Georgia
Waycross, Qa
Atlantic Coast Line
Lloyd George speech blamed for double standard on freedom
Vienna press criticizes Lloyd George as offering freedom for all peoples except those under his own yoke in a critique of wartime terms. London reports show German papers mixed, with officials undecided and most comment deeming terms unacceptable though some noting moderation.
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Lloyd George
Vienna Free Press
Associated Press
Amsterdam
Vienna
London
Harris Made Brigadier General in World War I Army
Col. P. C. Harris is nominated to brigadier general by President Wilson and sent to the senate. A West Point graduate of 1888, he served in Indian campaigns, earned a brevet for San Juan Hill, fought in the Philippine insurrection, and held adjutant general duties in the Philippines. His son, Captain Harris, serves in France. Harris hails from Cedartown, Georgia, and is related to several notable figures including Wm. J. Harris of the Federal Trade Commission.
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Washington, D. C
P. C. Harris
Senate
Wilson
Harris
United States Military Academy
Judson C. Clements
Interstate Commerce Commission
West Point
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Post Graduate School of
the Army
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
McKinley
San Juan Hill
Santiago de Cuba
Army
Department of the Philippines
France
Engineers
General Harris
Cedartown
Georgia
Wm. J. Harris
Federal Trade Commission
Seal Harris
Hunter Harris
J. C. Harris
Georgia School For the Deaf
Probable 1918 Merchant Ship Output Put at 3 Million Tons
Washington January 8 Homer L Ferguson president of the Newport News Ship Building Company testified before the senate ship building inquiry that America's probable merchant ship output in 1918 is three million tons. He said estimates of five to eight million tons are misleading and should be challenged.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
Homer L. Ferguson
Newport News Ship Building Company
Senate Ship Building
South Carolina Hears Wartime Labor Plan
Columbia Jan 8 The South Carolina legislature convened for a pivotal session as Governor Manning delivers his annual message urging a law to compel all able bodied white men to perform work to aid the state in using its resources for the country and war effort.
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Associated Press
Columbia
8. C
South Carolina
Manning
Results of War Economy Scheme Reported
Washington January 8 The federal reserve board monthly report shows the war economy campaign results. Christmas buying was similar to other years with a shift to useful gifts and weak luxury sales. Atlanta district reports indicate good business industries and fair labor conditions.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Atlanta
Madison Superior Court Postponed for March Term
Madison county court in Danielsville Georgia postpones the January term 1918 scheduled for January 14. Only the appearance docket will be called Monday morning and all motions for new trials will be heard. No cases will be tried and all trials are continued to the March term. Parties witnesses and jurors need not attend by order of the judge.
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Danielsville
Superior Court
Madison County
Prohibition Party Leader Calls March Convention
Chicago January 8 Chairman Hinshaw issued a call for a special national convention of the prohibition party in Chicago for March 5. The appeal censures President Wilson for his stand on liquor and argues allied soldiers in Europe are becoming degraded because of liquor.
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Chicago
Prohibition Party
Hinshaw
Wilson
Europe
Senate panel to speed housing for shipyard workers
Washington Jan 8 The senate committee investigating shipping today named Senators Fletcher and Harding to a sub committee to confer with government agencies on speeding up housing for shipyard workers. Ship builders testified that government cooperation is lacking and hindering the shipbuilding program.
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Washington
Senate Committee Investigating
Shipping Today
Fletcher
Harding
Ahipbuilders
Approval for War Labor Administration Program
Washington January 8 approval by the president of the war labor administration program was announced by the Council for National Defense. The plan aims to supply workers for war industries and to safeguard labor standards and maintain industrial description of safeguards.
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Washington
War Labor Administration
Council For National Defense
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Balkan
Brest-Litovsk
Great Britain
Lawyers OF
D. Martin
W. H. Shelton
Minnie Edwards
Jas. B. Butch
Prin
J. M. Hodgson
Maxwell Bros
J. B. Crowley
Truman Bullock
Mary Dell Bullock
Mrs. Nelle Bullock
W. H. Bullock
Commercial Bank
S. C
Madison Superior Court
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