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VOLUME XVIII.
VIENNB ASKED TO SAY
WHAT IT KNOWS OF
THE PERSIES SINKING
Ambassador Penfield Presents
Formal Derfiand on Austrian
Government for All Facts in
Its Possession
(By AwccUted Press
WASHINGTON., Jan. 6.—Ambassador
Penfield cabled today that he had pre
sented informally to the Vienna foreign
office the American government’s re
quest for any information on the de
struction of the British liner Persia and
at the time of filing his dispatch had
received no reply-
American Consul Garrels at Alexan
dria reported that the affidavits he has
gathered from Persia survivors give
no more proofs that a submarine torpe
doed the liner, or regarding its national
ity. than were contained in his first dls
j patched
Senators Simmons and Overman asked
President Wilson today if any further
information about the death of Consul
, McNeely had been received. The presi
dent told them that no new facts had
come to the government within the last
two days, but that every effort was
being made to obtain additional informa
tion.
The Rev. Homer R. Salisbury, of this
> city, the Seventh Day Adventist mis
sionary superintendent for India who
‘ sailed on the liner Persia from Mar
seilles. is given up for lost in a re
port which the Peninsular and Oriental
line has transmitted to the American
embassy in London. The report was
| transmitted today to the state depart
ment.
Dr. Salisbury was born at Battle
Creek. Mich., in 1870.
Ambassador Penfield was instructed to
ask the Austrian government informally
for any Information it might have on
the Persia which would develop the
facts in the case and help the Ameri
can government decide how the liner
was destroyed. Consul Garrels was in
structed to get affidavits for the same
purpose.
So far the only actual statement tend
ing to prove that the ship was torpe
doed game from one of the officers of
the ship. • He said he saw what he
thought was the wake of a torpedo. No
submarine was seen at any time.
Further dispatches from Ambassador
Penfidld are expected at the state de
partment. probably late today and at
any event tomorrow. Meanwhile other
consular agents along the Mediterra
nean coast are, * like Consul Garrels.
seeking further information.
The absence of further definite ad
vices is holding the situation, so far as
• any ac’ten by the United States is con
cerned, at a standstill
A memorandum defining the general
status of armed merchant vessels visit
ing American ports was issued by the
state department in September. 1314,
in part as follows:
"That no guns are mounted on the
forward part of the vessel.
"That the vessel is manned by its
usual crew and the officers are the same
as those on board before war was de
clared.
“That the caliber of the guns car
ried does not exceed six inches "
Since this memorandum was Issued
the state department caused guns to be
removed.
Chairman Stcne. of the foreign rela
tions committee, discussed the situation
with the’ president today and talked of
other questions expected to come up at
a meeting of the committee tomorrow,
particularly Senator Fall's resolution
for information on the recognition of
the Carranza government and informa
tion on the Mexican question.
. The president told Senator Stone no
additional information of importance
had been received on the Persia inci
dent and expressed the hope that until
the government had formulated its poli
cy there be as little discussion as pos
sible in the senate.
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NAME OF ALEX C. KING
IS TO BE PRESENTED FOR
• U. S. SUPREME COURT
Distinguished Atlanta Lawyer
Will Be Supported by Geor
gia Bar as Successor to Mr,
Justice Lamar
A movement has been inaugurated by
a number of the leading members of
the Georgia bar to present to President
Wilson the name of Alex C. King, of At
lanta.. for appointment to the United
States supreme court to fill the vacancy
caused 'by the death of Mr. Justice Jo
seph R. Lamar.
Mr. King's name was prominently
mentioned for the supreme court five
years ago when President Taft was con
sidering Judge Lamar, of Georgia, but
he declined to let the president con
sider his name and went to Washington
and urged the president to appoint Judge
Lamar, who was one of his closest
friends.
Mr. King is a South Carolinian by
birth and a grandson of Mitchell King,
who was a contemporary of Henry Clay
and one of the greatest lawyers that
state ever produced.
In 1877 Mr. King was admitted to the
bar in Atlanta and has practiced here
ever since. For thirty-one years he
has been Jhe law partner of Jack J.
Spalding, under the firm name of King
& Spalding.
Mr. King Is regarded throughout the
southern states as one of the great
lawyers of America, and enjoys an
equally high standing in the north ana
east. He has practiced in nearly all
the great cases that have come up in
the south during the last thirty or more
years. His practice has extended to tne
supreme courts of Georgia, South Caro
lina, Alabama, Tennessee and other
southern states; to the various United
States district courts in this territory;
to the United States circuit court of ap
peals In the fifth and other circuits, and
to the supreme court of the United
States.
EARLY SHOWED ABILITY.
Early in his career Mr. King showed
extraordinary - ability. In 1885, only
eight years after being admitted to tne
bar. he made a brief and argument be
fore the supreme court of Georgia that
was singled out for special compliment
tn the court's decision, a thing that has
been done very few times In the court’s
history. In that case he was opposed
by the late United States Senator A. O.
Bacon, the late Judge John L. Hopklne,
of Atlanta, the late Judge Henry B.
Tompkins and other famous lawyers.
Mr. King also enjoys the distinction
of having been very highly compliment
ed by ex-President Taft when the lat
ter was a Judge of the United States
circuit court of appeals. Mr. Taft sala
of him that he had the most lucid mind
of any lawyer that he had ever heard
make an argument. When the vacancy
arose in the United States supreme court
to which President Taft appointed Judge
Lamar. Mr. King was one of the first
lawvers that came into President Taft's
mind, together with Judge Lamar, whom
President Taft also knew and admired
very highly.
It Is believed that no lawyer In the
United States Is more familiar with fed
eral practice and with the great consti
tutional questions that come before the
federal • courts than is Mr. King. His
knowledge of these branches of the law
was recognized a few years ago by the
United States supreme court, which ap
pointed him as one of three lawyers In
the fifth circuit to revise the rules of
practice in all federal courts, including
the supreme court.
Mr. King is frequently called upon to
deliver addresses before state bar asso
ciations on legal subjects, and since the
appointment of Judge Lamar to the
t nited States supreme court he has
been one of the three bar examiners of
Georgia who pass on the written exami
nation papers of applicants for admis
sion to the bar. having succeeded Judge
Lamar to this position.
RECALL IS DEFEATED
BL J BIG MAJORITY
' IN EVERY CITY WARD
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Only One Out of 18 Precincts
Carried by Recall, and Vote
There Was Only 56 to 50
For It
The recall movement, begun last fall
after the removal of J. L. Beavers from
the office of chief of police, ended Wed
nesday at the polls. The defeat of the
recall was overwhelming, decisive and
conclusive, the majority in every one
of the ten wards in tne city and in sev
enteen out of eighteen voting precincts
being against the recall of Mayor James
G. Woodward and all of the six police
commissioners.
Mayor Woodward was one of the cen
tral figures In the fight, as many of the
politicians allied with the recall had
been urging the voters to oust him even
if they voted against the recall of the
other commissioners. The result was
that more votes against the recall of
Woodward than against the recall of
any other commissioner were polled,
and also more votes were polled for the
recall of Woodward than of any other
commissioner. The vote was 6,299
against the recall of Woodward and
3,399 for his recall.
The smallest number of votes for the
recall of any commissioner was cast in
the instance of Robert C. Clark. The
vote for the recall of Clark was 3,272;
against his recall, 6,225.
The fact that the vote on all of the
commissioners ran so evenly, most vot
ers casting a straight ballot for or
against the recall of them all, was a
decided surprise to many o fthe work
ers for the recall.
While not varying materially at any
of the precincts the majority of Mayor
Woodward would have been smaller
than that of the others had it not been
for his heavy vote at precinct A of the
Second ward.
The result of the election became ap
parent early Wednesday evening, when
the returns from the Fourth and
Seventh waj-ds, the supposed recall
"strongholds" came In, both wards
showing a majority against the recall.
While the vote was not quite two to
one the conclusive character of the vic
tory of the commissioners Is shown by
the fact that the only precinct carried
by the recallers was Second ward "B”
where only 106 ballots were polled, and
even there the majority for the recall
was only six votes. In one of the other
small precincts the vote against the re
call was at ratio of more than 5 to 1.
A most significant feature of the elec
tion is the fact that the recall polled less
than 500 votes in excess of the number
of signers to the recall petitions.
WAYCROSS, GA., HAS NEW
COLD_STORAGE PLANT
(Special Dispatch to The Journal !
WAYCROSS, Ga., Jan. 6.—Waycross
now has a cold storage plant, which
will be followed shortly by a modern
abattoir and packing plant. The cold
storage plant has been opened by the
Ware County Light and Power company
to enable producers to kill and cure
their meat without having to wait on
weather conditions. Arrangements have
also been made by the same company
to store apples, butter, eggs and other
produce. It is expected that the plant
will enable producers of this section to
save thousands of dollars.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1916.
Russians Pound Germans in East;
French Claim Gains in the West
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GILLS FOR REPORTS
OF NOTIONAL BANKS
Comptroller Will Learn if
Money Is Being Loaned at
Usurious Interest
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—The comp
troller of the currency today, issued a
call to all national banks requiring them
to report to him their condition at the
close of business Friday, December 31.
The comptroller in today's call goes
further than at any previous time to
learn if money is being loaned by na
tional banks in violation of state usury
laws. He asks for a list of loans by all
banks during 1915, “upon which interest
was charged or collected either in tne
shape of interest, discount or commis
sion, at rates which would amount to
more than the equivalent of 6 per cent
per annum.”
"Banks are cautioned,” says the call,
, "to prepare this statement with care
and accuracy. When this report shall
have been received national bank ex
aminers will be instructed to verify the
reports submitted by some banks, ana
if errors or discrepancies should be dis
covered which may seem to make It
necessary in order to secure accuracy
to verify the reports submitted by all
banks, the examiners will be given in
structions accordingly.”
The call also asks banks to state
whether it is their custom to require
borrowers to carry deposits when loans
are granted, how much they are now
loaning to non-depositors and how much
is loaned and not secured by collateral.
The aggregate of amounts which bor
rowers have refused to pay banks be
cause of alleged usury is asked and
also the total payments made by banks
as penalties for usury. The call asks
for complete information as to the Con
nections of officers and directors of
any bank in other banks or trust com
panies, their salaries, liability as pay
ers or indorsers and guaranteers of pa
per and the amount of overdrafts against
them.
Says Americans
Still Feel Like
England’s Colony
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN (Via London), Jan _6. —Dr.
Bernhard Dernberg, the former* secre
tary for colonies, who returned some
months ago from the United States, dis
cussed at the Lyceum club for Women
I today “the difficult position of the Ger
man-American- ’
“Germany,” he said, “mutf not exag
gerate the chase for wealth in Amer
ica. Americans still regard themselves
as a colony of England, temporarily fal
len away. The pro-possession against
Germany has been promoted by the
Puritan strain, a sentimental attitude,
besides an anti-militarist spirit.”
4 Children Die in Fire
NEW HARTINSVILL’S, W. Va., Jan. 66.
Four children of John Morgan, ranging
from four to fifteen, were burned to
death in their home today. Morgan
saved one daughter, and while attempt
ing to reach the others was so badly
| burned physicians feared he would not
recover. ,
Mil GIVER SENATORS ON
INTERNATIONAL SITUATION
I
Foreign Relations Committee
Will Hold Meeting Friday, It
Is Announced
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 6.—The general
international situation, Including the
crisis in the relations . between the
United States and the central powers
over submarine warfare, will be consid
ered at a meeting tomorrow of the sen
ate foreign relations committee. The
meeting has been called by Chairman
Stone.
The committee had before It today a
mass of data bearing upon Great Brit
ain's attitude toward neutral shipping
and negotiations with Germany, over
submarine warfare. The information
was sent by Secretary Lansing in re
sponse to a senate resolution. All avail
able data on the destruction of the
British steamer Persia also was said to
be before the committee.
President Wilson and Secretary Lan
sing still were without definite informa
tion upon which official action in the
crisis arising from the Persia incident
is to be based. Meanwhile, officials
still are reserving judgment.
American diplomatic and consular
representatives abroad today had in
structions from Secretary Lansing to
hasten the collection of the facts.
The question of national prepared
ness again today occupied the center of
the stage in congressional committee
activity.
Hearings on the administration’s na
tional defense program were begun to
day before the house military affairs
committee with Secretary of War Gar
rison as the star witness, and the house
naval affairs committee continued its
hearings on the annual naval appropria
tion bill.
Secretary Garrison had prepared a de
tailed statement of the army’s part of
the preparedness plans.
Rear Admiral Stanford, chief of the
navy's bureau of yards and docks, re
sumed his statement as to the needs
of additional naval stations when the
naval committee again took up the
yards and docks section of the. naval
bill. It probably will take some time
to reach the all-important construction
provisions in the measure.
Man Is Roasted
By Boiling Tar
But May Recover
Sentenced to the stockade fifty-eight
days ago, Joe Long, colored, 268 Chapel
street, was serving the last day of his
term Thursday at the corner of Eighth
and Peachtree streets, where the as
phalt was being repaired.
Joe was one of the group putting
down tar binder. As he stooped above
the street, his arm knocked off the tar
hose. Its nozzle turned frill in his face
and hot, black tar squirted all over him.
In an instant he was black and burning
from head to foot.
The Grady ambulance was called and
Joe was rushed to the hospital. There
it was stated that he will probably re
cover despite the fact that he is well
night roasted from top to toe.
CHARGES AGAINST STATE
PRISON FARM DENIED
Charman of Prison Board Re
plies to Statements of
Robert Avera
Emphatic denial was made by Chair
man Robert E. Davison, of the prison
commission, to sensational reports of
mistreatment in the state prison farm at
Milledgeville given out in Atlanta Thurs
day by Robert Avera, who was released
from the farm Wednesday.
Chairman Davison branded as “abso
lutely false” a statement by Avera to
the effect that the men on the farm*were
fed cabbages and other vegetables in
which were worms and grit and dirt.
"We raise all sorts of vegetables
there, in large quantities, and the food
for the prisoners is well prepared and
sanitary,” said Mr. Davison.
Chairman Davison also said Avera’s
statement that "Warden Smith cruelly
beat the prisoners, hitting some from
thirty to forty licks with a heavy strap,
was absolutely false.
“Warden Smith ih the best warden yve
have in the state of Georgia,” said Mr.
Davison. "His treatment of the prison
ers is most humane.
"The trouble down in Milledgeville
now is that Atlanta and Fulton county
are dumping large numbers of dope
fiends onto the farm—men who are unfit
for anything but to give trouble. They
can’t work; they need medical attention
constantly; they are sent to a prison
farm when they ought to be sent to a
special sanitariu mor hospital where
they can get decent treatment.”
Avera had other things to say about
the farm, all of which Mr. Davison
branded as false. Avera has been in the
prison for over a year, having been
sent from Judge Andy Calhoun's court
for kidnaping his wife from her father,
he said.
Moderate Cold
< Wave Reported
Traveling East
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—A moderate
cold wave prevailed today and will con
tinue tonight and Friday, from the Mis
sissippi river eastward to the Atlantic
coast the cold extending southward to
ward the gulf states.
STEAMER HITS PIER IN
STORM AND GOES DOWN
PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Jan. 6.
Captain Brady M. Berry and sixty-two
of the passengers and crew of the steam
er Kanawha, which sank in the Ohio
river at dam No. 19 last night, arrived
here early today on a special train sent
by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
company to pick up the survivors scat
tered along four miles of river front
on the West Virginia side.
Captain Berry said that although he
saw no one in the water and did not
know that any had been lost, he felt
there had been fatalities and would re
turn to the scene to make a thorough
search on the West Virginia and Ohio
.shores.
NUMBER 28.
BELGIANS ALSO HAVE
LAUNCHED DEFENSIVE
AGAINST FOE'S LINE
I
Petrograd Clairqs Russians
Have Penetrated Teuton
First Line of Defense in
Neighborhod of Czernowitz
(By Associated Press.) •
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. —Russian
pressure on the Austrian lines from
Volhynia southward to Bukowlna con
tinues heavy and official reports fronv'
both sides indicate that the fighting is
of a desperate and sanguinary charac
ter.
Reports of the evacuaHon of Czerno
witz by the Austrians have not been
confirmed, Petrograd unofficial ad
vices today t>n!y claiming that the Rus
sians have compelled the city’s defend-,
era to fall back to their secondary line.
The French are pounding heavily on
the German trenches In the Champagne
and between Soissons and Rheims, and
claim to have Inflicted notable damage
by the bombardments. The Belgians
have also taken the offensive on their
front.
Bulgaria, whose armies have nowhere
been actively engaged since Serbia was
cleared of entente troops, has appro
priated $100,000,000 for war purposes,
a Salonlkl dispatch states. All parties •
united In support of the vote of credit.
At Washington, the senate committee
on foreign relations will meet tomorrow
to consider the International situation,
including the conditions growing out of
the submarine warfare in the Mediter
ranean.
At a conference to be held in London
today British laboring men will deter
mine upon the attitude of their organ
izations toward compulsion.
Berlin Confirms Offensive by
Allies, but Claims Advantage
(By Associated Press.)
BERLIN, Jan. '6.-—-(By wireless to
Sayville.)—A French hand grenade at
tack against the German lines northeast*
of Le Mesnil was easily repulsed, Ger
man army headquarters announced to
day.
Allied artillery has been uninterrupt
edly shelling the important town of
Lens, northeast of Arras.
It is announced that an allied air craft
attack upon Douai failed. German avia
tors shot down two British aeroplanes.
One of the machines was brought down
by Lieutenant Boelke, this being the
seventh aeroplane that he has succeed
ed in disabling. There have been artil
lery duels at several places along the
western front.
On the Riga-Dvinsk front in Russia,
a German reconnoitering detachment
that was advancing in the forest south
of Jacobstadt withdrew before the at
tack of a superior Russian force, tne
statement says.
In Volhynia the Germans attacked an
advanced Russian position and succeed
ed in dislodging its defenders, the state
ment declares.
Vienna Denies Russians
Have Made Slight Advance
(By Asaociated Preaa.)
BERLIN. Jan. 6.— (By Wireless to
Sayville.)—A •’’denial of news agency
dispatches from Petrograd reporting
ithat the Austro-Hungarians had evacu
ated Czernowitz and of the Russian of
ficial claim to advances near that city
is made by the official press bureau in
Vienna, the Overseas News agency an
nounced today. Its statement says:
"Vienna further states that the Rus
clans have not advanced beyond the po
sitions which they have occupied foi
months on the frontier east of Czerno
witz, so that the Russian headquarters
report of January 3, which tells of a
continuous Russian advance is untrue."
DEMOCRATS OF FLORIDA
MEETING IN JACKSONVILLE
State Executive Committee
Holding Most Important
Session in Years
(Bv Associated Press.)
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 6.—Lead
ing Democrats from every county in
Florida gathered in Jacksonville this
morning for what promised to the
most important meeting oft the state
Democratic executive committee held in
years. The committee is In session for
the purpose of arranging details for the
holding of the general state t primary
on June 6 next.
Because of the fact the national
convention meets in St. Louis but eight
days after the Florida primary the ques
tion of seating the delegates from this
state is occupying paramount attention
It is believed it will be necessary to
appoint a special committee of the state
committee to canvass the returns for
delegates and that it will be necessary
to inform the successful candidates of
their election by wire so that they may
lose no time in leaving for St. Louis.
Their credentials will await them at the
convention city.
A movement was on foot to take cer
tain offices out of the primary, includ
ing circuit judges, states attorneys, so
licitors and clerks of courts. Others
favored the inclusion of all appintive of
fices in the primary.
Another important question scheduled
is the selection of a state campaign
committee to conduct the primary, draft
an itinerary which would take candf*
dates for all offices to each county of the
state twice before the primary, and to
levy an assessment against candidates
to defray this . expense.