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Newspaper
Athens Weekly Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
7
Washington June 24 The house judiciary committee refused to amend the war time prohibition enforcement bill to bar a man from having liquor in his own house. It also struck out the section banning private use of liquor in private dwellings and ruled there would be no enforcement difference between war time and constitutional prohibition.
Belgrade June 24 reports describe a peaceful influx of Austrian and German goods and presence. German speaking guests, scarce English, widespread cheap Austrian wares flood shops from Uskub to Semendsia seen with imperial imagery. American Red Cross aids northern Serbia as Major G H Edwards supports hospitals and orphans.
Washington reports on June 24 that Representative Clark of Florida proposed repealing the government housing law tied to wartime housing under construction to ease congestion. The measure also calls for selling government built houses by the treasury.
Washington report says Dr. Pessoa, Brazil president-elect, declares closer commercial ties with Brazil and other nations including the United States as a core aim of his future administration. The statement signals emphasis on expanding economic relations and trade outreach.
Paris reports Minister of Marine announces France will seek complete reparation from Germany for sinking German warships at Scapa Flow, stating the act violated both armistice and peace treaty. Sixty-six German seamen, interned at Fort McPherson, depart for Charleston to sail to Germany aboard the Martha Washington amid cheerful departure.
Representatives Langford of Georgia introduced two bills directing government engineers to study canal projects. One would link Cumberland Sound and St. George's Sound via the St. Mary's River, the other would connect the Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico along the Altamaha Ocmulgee Bluff Gum Flint and Apalachicola rivers.
Rep Osborne of California introduced a bill to form a government department for federal highway construction. It would direct three east west trunk roads and four north south trunk roads within nine months, with 1.7 billion dollars to be appropriated in annual installments.
The Georgia Cotton Ginners convention will be held in Athens on July 10 and is described as the largest event of its kind for the city. Mell Stephenson, a former Athens resident, is coordinating arrangements, with M. G. Nicholson of the chamber of commerce creating a local committee to assist.
Washington reports the senate adopted amendments to the army appropriation bill proposing an average strength of 40000 men for the year starting July 1. The house bill had provided for 90000, while Secretary Baker had recommended 90000. Mrs. Roy Brooks is recovering well after a hospital stay at St Marys.
Conferees adopted a plan to terminate government control of wire systems at midnight on the last calendar day of the month the law is approved. Toll and local exchange rates will run four months longer unless state commissions act sooner. Wires will return to private control by July 31, with presidential signing expected early in July.
Vienna reports Italian claims to ownership and restitution of paintings and jewels in the Vienna art collection are troubling locals amid talks at the peace conference. Austria may demand payment on an 1866 treaty while Italy and Greece push for readjustments of collections, including Donatello's Cupid Discharging on Arrow valued in the millions.
New York June 24 delegates at the convention of the steel and copperplate printers union adopted a resolution calling on Congress to enact legislation to insure freer and easier circulation of money. They warned that money circulating in the South and Southwest is filthy and a menace to public health.
Industrial workers of the World announces they will appeal to the solidarity of American workers for vindication after state troops and legislative committee raids. They refuse to pursue legal action, deeming justice through courts futile in America.
The Banner reports Athens faces a looming sugar famine as shoppers rush to buy early in the week. Stores report near empty sugar barrels and merchants warn of no immediate supply, unless a large shipment arrives by week’s end.
National Buttermilk Day is proclaimed to promote buttermilk consumption and benefit dairy farmers. Athens is hailed as a real buttermilk town as Canteen workers served the drink to soldiers enroute to camps. The plan urges creameries and dairies to support July 1 campaigns with recipes and tonic claims.
Athens will send a delegation to a regional Episcopal conference in Atlanta with leaders from Georgia Florida South Carolina and Tennessee to discuss a nation wide postwar campaign. The conference aims to deepen spiritual life and survey current needs across the church, led by Rev Robert S Gibson and Dr Robert W Patton with regional bishops and officers.
New York June 24. President Wilson issues a proclamation through Wheat Director Julius Barnes placing all buyers sellers and firms handling wheat flour or products made partly from flour under federal license. The only exemptions are farmers and small bakers.
Farmers around Athens will no longer receive daily market reports from the Atlanta office of the U S Department of Agriculture. Reports will only be available if requested in Washington D C, as the emergency funding for the Atlanta Market News service ends.
Berlin authorities report daily milk intake has fallen to 200000 quarts, 133 quarts less than a year ago, a level enough only for children and the sick. They blame the Food Ministry for failing to take adequate relief measures as the minimum needs of milk receivers teeters on collapse.
Amerongen June 24. The former German Emperor has resumed archaeology to distract from his exile. Professor Duerpfeld, a noted archaeologist, joined the Hohenzollerns months ago and now spends afternoons with the former ruler, discussing Palestine, Syria, and Near East discoveries. The talks include the Imperial family circle at Bentincks, with uniforms worn by the professor and others, while most stay in civilian dress. The entire suite remains in Holland with free movement but in plain sight, as they do not travel in uniform.
Washington June 4 Congress man Charlee Brand of the Eighth Georgia introduced a House bill to pay heirs of Henry E Lawrence and Frances E Brashear Lawrence the sum of 62548.50. The case details damage to sugar interests in Louisiana during the war and claims the Lawrences remained loyal to the Union yet never received due compensation. The sole heir is R B Lawrence of Athens who is deaf and poor but respected. Judge Brand seeks Congress to grant relief after courts limited by 1915 law and the Court of Claims.
Commerce Georgia June 24 Special to the Banner trains on the Athens and Lula branch of the Southern Railway will now wait at Lula for main line train 11 to arrive, letting passengers from Athens and other branch points visit Tallulah Falls and return the same day. The public praises the change and credits J C Beam assistant general passenger agent of the Southern Railway Atlanta.
Washington notes from the National Geographic Society bulletin discuss Nakhichevan near Mt. Ararat as Noah’s alleged graveyard site. The piece recounts relief worker Maynard Owen Williams and describes Armenian, Tatar, Kurdish populations, border changes, and wartime depredations impacting the region in 1917–1919.
George F Bolles died in Newark New Jersey within hours of his father death in Atlanta Georgia He was 46 and famous as a professional bicycle racer and trainer He had been custodian of the Newark Velodrome for the past decade Training top riders including John M Chapman Iver Lawson Joeer Eddie Root Elmer Collins Walter Badgett Floyd McFarland and Bill Vaughan
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