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The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal VOLUME XIV AII IF.S BLAST HOPES OF PEACE IN REPLY TO WILSON, ACCORDING TO DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE THAW NEAR DEATH FROM ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE PHEFEBM TO PRUSSIAN RULE IN • EUROPE .British Premier Says This Fact Is Stressed in Reply to America Which Reached Wilson Thursday ( By Associated Press.) LONDON. Jan. 11.—It has been learned by the Associated Press that the entente reply to President Wil son makes specific designation of its terms of* peace, which includes the restoration of Belgium, of Serbia and of Montenegro and ' complete reparation for the damage they sus tained: and the evacuation of the invaded territories of France, Russia and Rumania, with such• reparation as is considered just. The terms also require the libera tion of Italians, Slava, Rumanians and Czech slaves from foreign dom ination. The retirement of the Turkish em pire from Europe also is required. The terms also provide for the re organisation of Europe, guaranteed by a staple regime and founded upon the respected nationalities and the full liberty and security of all great and small nations. While Alsace and Lorraine and the Italian Tyrol are not specifically named, yet the terms require the ’restitution of territories previously severed from allied nations by force or contrary to the wishes of their populations. This is considered clearly to refer to Alsace and Lor raine and the Italian Tyrol. Premier Lloyd-George, epeaking in the Guild hall this afternoon, said Emperor William had told lus people that the en tente allies had rejected his peace offer. The emperor did so, he said, to drug those whom he could no longer dragoon. •We had rejected no peace terms,” the premier said, and added: "We were not offered’ terms, but a trap baited with tine words. It would suit Germany to have peace now on her own terms. We all want peace, but it must be a real one.” • The premier said the allies were of the opinion that war was preferable to Prussian domination over Europe. The allies had made that clear, he said, in their reply to Germany, and clearer still in their reply to America. The Rome conference was -under no delusions. Mr. Lloyd-George continued a& to the magnitude of the task of the allies, but felt no doubts as to thj re sults. The whole situation was probed, the difficulties were faced and arrange ments were made to deal with them. All the allies felt, he declared, that if victory was difficult, defeat was impossible. The premier said the grim resolution of the allies at the recent conference in Rome was that at all costs they must achieve the high aim which was before them when they accepted the challenge •.f "Prussian military caste,” to rid the world “forever of its menace and save Europe from unspeakable despo : ism.” The premier said the navy had stran gled the commerce of Great Britain's en emies and would continue to do so de spite “all piratical devices of the en emy.” With proper support at hand, he con tinued. the armies would cleave the road to victory during 191". The best security for peace in future. Mr. Lloyd-George said, would be obtain <d when nations banded themselves to gether to punish the |>eace breaker. "The ’■ u’ser s nt out a message to his. people thn. the entente had rejected his ;-ea«-e offer.' slid IJoyd-George. “That was done to drug those whom he had be n unable to dragoon. But where are actually the German peace offers? The allies usked for them but the Germans •lid not offer any terms. They offered only a trap, painted with fair words, such words ’empted us on«-e. but the lion now has his eyes open. “We have rejected no terms, but we •tave seen that war is better than peace .it the p. ■of Prussian domination over Enrol e The alli» s have made clear in their reply to Germany and still clearer in their reply to the United States that before they attempt to rebuild the tem . pie. of peace they must see that the foundations are solid” INFANTILE PARALYSIS IN '*ZST VIRGINIA SPREADS • "LARKSBI'RG. W. Va.. -lan. 11. —In- :;-.;itle paralysis conntinues to spread in West Virginia despite the vigorous ef forts of federal, state and local health authorities. Hejiorts for the past twen •y-four hours show an additional death ind two new cases at Grafton and two Elkins There are BOW twenty-tive eases of the disease in El kins. and four deaths have been reported sinue the -epidemic began. NEWEST PHOTOGRAPH of Mrs. Bernard W. Lewis, who, al though she has been separated from him for a year, is working to clear the name of her husband whose sui <dde was declared by many to point to him as the slayer of Mazie Col bert. the Philadelphia model. y _ a * L T ROLAND ELLIS TO BE U. S. DISTRICT ATTY., IS REPORT T. J. Simmons, of Macon News, Optimistic Over Pros pects of Felder’s Appoint ment to Federal Judgeship BT RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-The belief is strong in Washington that there will certainly be a shake-up among the hold ers of major federal appointments in Georgia It is impossible at this time to forecast its extent, but it seems prob able that it will include most of the bigger political offices in the southern district of the state. Whether the upneaval will extend to the northern district is doubtful, but the chances are that it max not - It is the impression that Earle M. Donalson, United States attorney for the southern district, will.be certainly replaced, and there is a growing belief that Roland Ellis, of Macon, will be his successor. « That Joseph Davis, of Albany. United States marshal for southern Georgia, will lose out in the <shakeup is accept ed. The talk is that Robert A. Kelly, of Tennille, will be recommended to suc ceed him. » The collectorship of Savannah, now held Jiy David C. Barrow, may also be involved in the prospective changes, and for this position the name of Robert J. Travis is mentioned prominently. This gossip is purely speculative and of unknown origin. T. J. Simmons Optimistic Over Felder’s Prospects BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—After con ferences with Senators Hardwick and Smith and an interview with Attorney General Gregory. T. E. Simmons, man aging editor of the Macon News, who is here in the interest of Thomas 8. Fel der, this afternoon expressed encourage ment over the possibility of Felder's appointment to the south Georgia feder al judgeship vacancy. He has an ap pointment to dine with Senator Hard wick tonight, at which the south Geor gia judgeship will be further dis cussed. Mr. Simmons is operating on the the ory that if the senators will indicate to the administration their willingness ' that the appointment of, either Felder or John T. West will be acceptable to : him. the president may nominate the Macon man. lie is strengthened is this I view by the belief that Felder alreadM , is well and favorably known to both the president and the attorney general, who were impressed with his recommenda i tions and indorsements for appoint ment to the federal trade commission a* the time of William J. Harris’ ap pointment. Both We.st and Felder saw the attor- I ne> general today concerning the ap- I pcintment, but neither of them had any , thing to say respecting their inter- I views.. The’ senators have an appointment to *see the president this afternoon and will J discuss with him the judgeship appoint ment. It is of course certain that the . will repeat to him the fact that West’s appointment would be entirely accept i able to each of them, and while it is known that Felder is equally accept able to Senator Smith, the attitude of" Senator Hardwick is unknown, though it is recalled that he included Felder’s tame in his list of aeceptablcs when Jodge JainMtn was nominated. BRITISH ADVANCE ON TURKS IS CARRIED TO BORDER OF PALESTINE Defensive Entrenchments of Rafa, on Sinai Peninsula, Carried in Assault of Aus tralian Troops and Others (By Associated Press .) NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—British troops pushing northeastward from the* Suez canal region on the Sinai peninsula have carried their advance to the border of Palestine. They have captured there the defensive entrenchments of Rafa, thirty miles northeast of El Arish, on the Mediterranean, taken by the British last month, and about seventy miles south west of Jerusalem. The attack was carried out by Aus tralian troops and a camel corps and TasHfoliowed by the defeat ota Turkish relief force four miles east of the Rafa position. In the operation 1,600 un wounded prisoners and four mountain guns were taken, according to the Brit ish official report. Greece has followed up her foi trial acceptance of the ultimatum of the en tente powers by beginning the delivery to the entente naval authorities of six batteries of mountain guns. This is in accordance with the agreement reached after the disturbances in Athens last month in connection with the entente de mands, among other things for the de livery of Greek army artillery. Naval losses by the British are an nounced today. The admiralty ship Cornwallis and an auxiliary vessel, a seaplane carrier, have been sunk. The campaign of Field" Marshal von Mackenzen in northern Rumania con tinues to be pressed with force and nearly all along the line from the Danube to Fokshani the Russians have been pushed back to the Sereth river. North of Fokshani the Russians have been making a stand on the River Putna, protecting the main Sereth position, and are fighting to retain the railroad junc tion at Maresti, where the lateral line joining the two north and south main line railways in Moldavia connects with the westerly road. British Score Another Victory Over Turks LONDON. Jan. 11.—Six lines of en trenchments covering the town of Rafa, on the Sinai peninsula have been cap tured b ythe British, it is announced of ficially today. The statement says 1.600 Turks were captured. A Turkish relief force was destroyed. Rafa, is thirty miles northeast of El Arish, Egypt. Following is the official statement: “On Tuesday our troops -uiptured a strong enemy position consisting of six lines of entrenchments with six main redoubts and a central keep, covering Rafa, thirty miles northeast of El Arish. *1 he attacking force, composed of Anzac mounted troops, and the imperial catnel corps, left El Arish on Monday and the attack on the position commenced at 7 o'clock on the morning of Tuesday. The fighting lasted until 5 in the afternoon when the position was finally carried “After the engagement a Turkish re ref force was located advancing from Shalal. sixteen miles east of Rafa This force was engaged at a point about four miles from the Rafa position and was entirely destroyed. “Full details of these operations are aot yet at hand. Up to the present we have taken 1,600 unwounded prisoners and feur mountain guns. The enemy killed and wounded in our hands amount to 600.” The operations of the British have carried them to the Turkish frontier, the farthest advance eastward tvhic’n has been made since the defeat of the Turkish expedition against the Suez canal. The new campaign of the British has been in progress for several weeks but almost no information has been receiv ed concerning it with the exception of an ocasional official statement. There have been no indications whether the British has embarked on an offensive with the design of striking a serious blow at Turkey from the south or whether they intend merely to clear out hostile forces from the Sinai peninsula and improve the defenses of Egypt and the canal. The first report of these operations was the announcement on December 22 of the capture of El Arish, 90 miles east of the canal. A few days later Lon don reported the capture* of Maghabab, twenty miles southeast of El Arish, with the virtual destruction of a Turkish force of about 2.000 men, but Constanti nople characterized this statement as exaggerated and said the British subse quently evacuated the position. Rafa, tjie ancient Egyptian Rh.aphla, is just across the line in Palestine. It has been the scene of many battles, which history traces back as far as 721 R. C. The town is about seventy miles southwest of .Jerusalem. Russians Take Town From Teuton Troops (By Associated Press.) PETROGRAD. Jan. 11.—(Via London. I (British Admiralty Per Wireless Press.)—Russian troops yesterday cap tured a village in the Riga sector of the northern Russian front which ha* been stubbornly defended by German troops with a great number of machine guns, says an official statement, issued today by the Russian war department. Fighting in the region south of Lake Habit continues. ATLANTA, GA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 12, 1917 TICK ERMITION Gilts BOOST TO STOCK RAISING Dr. J. A. Barger Tells Confer ence of Improved Condi tions in Mississippi Dr. J. A. Barger, inspector in charge In Mississippi, told how cattle raising con ditions had improved in that state in an address Thursday at the conference on tick eradication in the federal building. In one county cattle raisers said that they had gained $50,000 in a year as a result of having freed their herds of the tick. In another county the tick eradication, by encouraging cattle raising, had. offset the injury of the boll weevil and farm lands haCd come back to their original high values. The state legislature of Mississippi has passed a lick eradica tion law and it is believed that the state will be freed by the end of 1917. The elimination also encouraged the impor tation of pure bred stock. Dr. Barger told of the great impetus given stock raising as a result of the tick eradica Lion campaign. There was a discussion which . was taken part in by W. A. Clemons, O. L. Beeney and L. V. Polk. George W. Wharton, who has charge of the information bureau and publicity work of the bureau of animal industry, told those present how to prepare news paper articles. He said that these arteries should not be too technical and they shouldn’t be too personal. They should confine them selves briefly,to the subject in hand, and the writer should try to* put news h them. A story once printed, Mr. Whar ton said, was an old story. He also suggested that writers deal their facts out in installments and not all at once. Through always having in formation on hand, the government workers could always attract newspaper men who were friendly to people whe could furnish MH. TiIITESWESSOII WILL BE NAMED THURSDAY Six Candidates for Two-Yeac Term in Eighth Congres sional District ATHENS. Ga., Jan. 11. —Election of a successo to the late Representative Samuel J. Tribble was being held in the Eighth congressional district of Geor gia today'. It was expected that, as a result of an active campaign by every one of the six candidates a record vote would be cast. T. W. Rucker and Quincey L. Willi ford are seeking election for the unex pired portion of Mr. Tribble’s present term, while .Williford, Charles H. Brand, Thomas J. Brown, Julian B. Mc- Curry, James B. Park and A. E. J. Sto vall are candidates for the two-year term beginning March 4. Returning to His Home, Farmer Finds Lifeless Bodies of 5 Children (By Associated Press.) GREELEY, Colo, Jan. 11.—'Returning to his home from work early tonight, Everett Crozier, a farmer residing near here, found the bodies of his five chil dren lying in the house shot to death and his wife lying unconscious in a field nearby with a pistol in her hand. Mrs. Crozier died later. Late today Dr. W, P. Allen, of Greeley, received a telephone message from Mrs. Crozier asking him to come at once to the Crozier home. “You're needed here,” she told the physician. Nearing the home Dr. Allen encount ered Crozier and when he asked the rea son for the call Crozier said he know of none. When the two men entered the house the bodies of four of the children were found lying on a bed and the baby in a cradle neafiby. A note, found on the table and believed to have been writ ten by Mrs. Crozier, accused Crozier of infidelity and -declared “I don't want my children to grow up in a house of shame.” Child, With a Peanut Lodged in His Lungs, Lingers Near Death CORDELE, Ga, Jan. 11.- a pea nut lodged on his lungs since last Sat urday. Hardwick, eighten months’ old, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Simmons is at the point of death at a local hospital. Attending physicians are much in dpubt over his recovery and believe that an operation to reffiove the peanut would provefatal. The child ate peanut can dy and a peanut from it passed through his windpipe into his lungs. Child of Six Years Is Killed by Auto ASHBURN, Jan. 11.—The six- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Tilly was run over and killed about noon to day by an automobile driven by Mr. Daughtry, of Alabama. The child was playing in the street and stepped out of the way of noe ear to be hit by another too '.lose to him to stop. The accident was unavoidable. KEMUCKY GOVERNOR. I JUDGE ffl SOLICITOR THREATENED BI MOB Special Train Ready to Take Officials From Murray If Further Demonstrations Against Lives Are Made (By Associated Pres*.) MURRAY, Ky., Jan. 11.—With the govenor of Kentucky on the scene and with a posse reported forming a» Hop kinsville, for their relief, Circuit Judge Charles Bush and Commonwealth’s At torney Denny Smith spent the night at I a hotel here guarded from a mob by a heavy force of deputy sheriffs. The special train on* wnich Governor Stanley arrived was left standing with steam up, ready to take the officials from Murray if further demonstrations were made against their lives. Open threats were made on the streets that any attempt to remove Judge* Bush from Murray or to prevent the trial to day of Lube Martin, a negro charged with killing Guthrie Duigiud, a white man, would place the governor’s life in danger. ' , , It was because of a continuance ' granted yesterday by Judge Bush in the i case of Martin that the anger of the I mob was aroused. Immediately after I the continuance was ordered Martin was sprited out of Murray and taken to Pa ducah for safe keeping. The fact that a continuance had been granted was kept secret for a time and then publicly announced by Judge Bush, who stated that be would be tried next month. Jlowls and jeers from the crowd gath ered in the court room greeted this statement. T9»e mob called for the prisoner and when he was not pro duced demanded that the judge surren der himself in place of the accused man. JUDGE HOWLED IX>WN. Attempts at explanation from the bench were howled down while leaders of the mob demanded that the negro be returned to the court room and placed on trial. Court officials then explained that Martin had been spirited away and could not be returned before this morning. This further aroused the anger of the mob which demanded that Judge Bush order the return of the negro, threatening in the event of his failure to comply with their demand to lynch him together with the com monwealth’s attorney or to dynamite the hotel at which they were starting. At a hasty conference between counsel and Judge Bush it was announced that the negro would be brought back and placed on trial this morning. A hurry call was put in for Governor Stanley and he was informed of the situation here. He left Frankfort on the first available train bringing with him Judge H. B. Hines, chairman of ; the state prison commission, and Ward en J. B. Chilton, of the Eddyville peni tentiary. 11l feeling against the negro, Martin, has been keen in Calloway coun ty since the shooting of Duigiud several weeks ago. Immediately following the shooting Martin was taken to Hopkinsville for safe keeping. When he was brought back here for an examining trial, it was announced, in order to forestall possi ble mob violence, that the negro would be promptly tried upon the convening of the circuit court. Martin was brought from Murray Tuesday from Hopkinsville, where he had been held since his examining trial. Because it was feared an effort might be made to lynch him he was held all night under a heavy guard of deputy sheriffs in the court house. Long before the negro was brought into the court room every available space was filled and spectators crowded corridors and vestibules. J. T. Holt, ap pointed by the court as counsel for Martin, asked for a • continuance in order that the evidence in the case might be more fully developed. This was granted and the negro smuggled from the court room and out of Murray be fore those present were aware of what was happening. “I have come here to uphold law and order and to protect this court, with my own body if necessary.” declared Gover nor A. O. Stanley, facing a crowd which tilled every available space of the cir cuit room of the Calloway county court house. r The governor’s first move after his ar rival in Murray was to deputize 75 Citiz ens and order them to prevent any out break at all costs. His next move*was to address the crowd 1n court room when I court convened. For more than half an I hour Governor Stanley explained his I purpose in coming to Murray. "A little more than a year ago,” said i the governor. “I put my right hand on a Bible and called to God to witness that as chief magistrate of Kentucky and sup porter of the law I would maintain its integrity./ I have come here today to plead with you to allow the law to tale its orderly course and to declare that I am here to uphold the law and to pro tect this court, with my own body if necessary.” Governor Stanley’s address was ap parently well received, except by a few in the rear who cried: "Bring In the negro now. Try the negro now, don’t wait.” After Governor Stanley had conclud ed it was announ''ed that the time and place for the trial of Martin would be made public later. The greater part of the .crowd filed out in an orderly man ner. The tension which has existed here for the last twenty-four hours appears to have been considerably relieved. HARRY KENDALL THAW, who ' attempted suicide Thursday in a Philadelphia hotel while the police □f the entire country were search ing for him on an indictment charg ing him with beating a boy in New I York. Thaw' cut his throat and ' wrists and is not expected to live. EiES OF THE GOIEBNMENT TURNED ON GEOHGIIPECSN Investigation Shows That Pe can Is Taking First Rank Among American Nuts f BY RALPH SMITH. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. —The pecan industry of Georgia has developed to that point where it has attracted the attention of the federal government. Experts in the department of agricul ture are now engaged in investigating the cultivation of the pecan, which they class as the “one species of nut which promises soon to surpass any other grown in America.” The pecan, it appears from investiga tion, is about to crowd the English wal nut out of its place of first rank among American nuts. In comparison with round steak, pecan kernels contain about two-thirds as much protein, be j tween four and six times as much fat, and have four times as much fuel value. Federal investigation of the nut in dustry shows that the greatest impetus given pecan cultivation came with the perfection of machinery for cracking/ the hulls. A number of machines have been perfected to do this work, and since 1900 the price of pecans has mounted rapidly. Pecan growers are reaping a rich I harvest of dollars from their orchards, i according to the department of agri culture. Mention is made of growers in the Albany district receiving $12,500 a carload for nuts of the second-class shipped to the Chicago market in last October. “The development of the industry,” says a department bulletin, “has reached the stage where the pecan promises to become an important money crop in the cotton belt, at a time when the boll weevil is becoming a serious menace to the cotton industry.” Persons interested in the pecan in dustry may inform themselves fully by communicating with Frederic J. Haskin, The Journals’s information bureau, Metropolitan Bank building, Washing ton, D. C., or writing to Congressman Frank Park for the recent bulletin on the pecan. TESTIMONY CONFLICTS IN WIDE MURDEB CISE Railroad Men Say W. I. John son, One of Defendants, Was in ‘Albany Night of Killing (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) AMERICUS, Ga., Jan. 11. —Trainmas- ter H. K. Frierson, of the Central* of Georgia railway, swore this morning in the .trial of Dr. C. K. Chapman, charged j with the murder of Walter Wade, that he saw W. I. Johnson, one of tire six men indicted in connection with the killing, in Albany on the night of Au gust 17, which is the date tne crime is alleged to have been committed. Frier son testified that he joined Johnson at Albany and rode to Macon with him that night, reaching Macon at 1:10 i o’clock Friday morning, and a little while later saw Johnson near the depot. Frierson said that he and Johnson, as ' a special agent of the road, were dis cussing the impending railroad strike ; and investigating the matter of secur ing deputy sheriffs to protect the prop erty and trains of the road in case of»a ; strike. Mrs. Yeartie Howell, the star witness of the state, swore that W. I. Johnson was in the alleged murder car and that about the time Frierson swears he was with Johnson. Mrs Howell testified that she was with him. Various Central of Georgia officials at Albany swore this I morning that they saw W. I. Johnson in Albany at different intervals during : the afternoon of August 17 from 4 to 9 o’clock at night. NUMBER 29. CUTS WRISTS MDTHHOIT IN EFFORT TO DIE i Philadelphia Captain of De tectives Reports That Thaw Is Near Death in a Hos pital (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ll.—Harry K. Thaw cut his wrists and throa*. in a private house on Walnut street west of Fifty-second street here to-i day and was taken to St. Mary’s hosj pital, according to Captain of Del tectivqs Tate, who has been search! ing for him. • Captain Tate said he had been iifl formed that Thaw was expected t! die. 1 According to Captain Tate, Thaw'l whereabouts were learned early t<fl day and the house was surroundefl When detectives entered the placß according to Tat’e, they found thia Thaw had eut his wrists and thm!™ Thaw, Tate says, asks that Drl Elwood Kirby, a well physi l cian, be sent for. When the doctor arrived he ordered Thaw removed to St. Mary’s hospital where Dr. Kirby ■ is head physician. ' The house where Thaw was found is within a short’ distance from the street where Thaw was in an auto mobile accident last May. A damkge suit instituted against his mother, the owner of she machine, brought Thaw here last Monday to defend the action. Lieutenant Scanlon, of th© detective bureau, said that Thaw was found in the house shortly before 2 o’clock. Scanlon said that he had learned that, while Thaw was unconscious, he was expected to live. Third Indictment In Thaw Case Returned by Grand Jury NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—A third in dictment in the Thaw case was handed down today by the grand jury. The defendant is Oliver Brower, who is under arrest on a technical charge in. Philadelphia and in whose possession were found papers left with him by Har ry K. Thaw before Thaw and Georga O’Byrne, known as his body guard, wera indicted heer otfc charges of assault and kidnaping brought by Frederick Gump, Jr., of Kansas City, Mo. The indictment today accused Brower of conspiracy to kidnap. Brower’s alleged direct connection, with the case is that after Thaw left New Yor|t subsequent to the whipping he is accused of having inflicted upon Gump on Christmas night, Brower act ed as Thaw’s emissary in coming to New York in the hope of finding Gump and preventing him from telling his story to the authorities. Application will be made to Albany for papers for Brower’s extradition. Manning Moves for • Fire Companies’ Retuml COLUMBIA, S. C-, Jan. 11.—Sere J bills were transmitted to the legisl%! ture by Governor Richard I. Manning! today, which, if passed, will permit the! return of the fire insurance companies! to South Carolina. The most importantl of the new measures is a bill provid-l ing for the. appointment of a commission I of three members to have judicial pow ers over rate making in this state. TV' action of the commission will be sub ject to review by any court of compe tent authority. j The passage of the Laney-Odom act | during the last session of the legisla- J ture which abolished the Southeastern I Rating bureau and gave the state in-1 surance commissioner supervision over! rate making, caused nearly all the fire I insurance companies to leave the state I It is stated that the passage of the ] seven bills proposed today wnll bring the companies back. The bills -introduced today in both the senate and the house. Heads of Brotherhoods Hold Important Meeting CHICAGO. Jan. 11. —Six hundred rep resentatives of four railroad brother hoods met here today in what was said to be the most important meeting of its kind since the one held in Wash ington last summer just prior to the passage of the Adamson act. The meeting is 'or the purpose of out lining policies contingent on the ac tion of the UnitedOstates supreme court in the suit now being heard to test the constitutionality of the Adamson x 1.-,w. and it was stated all of the ccfffTJ siueratiors which led to the strike threat in 1916 arc to be cussed.
