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ESSENTIAL TO PEACE.
SAYS BRITISH PAPER
Westminster Gazette Says If
Germans Come Out of Pres
ent War Unbeaten They Will
Resume Old Methods
(By Aa>oci*t«d Ftm*.)
LONDON. Jan. 25- —The Westminster
Gazette today expresses the opinion that
last night’s speech of Andrew Bonar
Law. chancellor of the exchequer, is the
best answer yet made to the address oi
President Wilson.
Wilson, say* the newspa
per. "has described his ideals in terms
which as nearly as possible correspond
with our aims, but speaking as a neu
tral he has suggested that neither side
ought to score a victory. He. having to
Keep the balance poised between the bel
ligerents, may say that to his own peo
ple without offense. We. in the middle
of the conflict, are obliged to reply that
there is no possibility of realising our
aims or his unless we succeed in de
feating the enemy.”
Arguing that the Germans, if they
come out of the conflict unbeaten will
after recuperation take up their old
methods, the Westminster Gaxette con
tinues:
“It is our business that this does not
happen, but meantime we have nothing
lut good will for President Wilson or
any other neutral who attemts here and
now out methods whereby, when
this war is over, peace may be finally
established. . . .
"The negotiations between the bellig
erents may be greatly facilitated when
»he time comes if the neutrtds. under the
lead of the .United States, have clear
ideas of the manner in which the ideal#
proclaimed by President Wilson can be
nut into practice. If they can show
us the framework of a new international
structure, guaranteeing nations against
argressi »n and securing a free, peaceful
existence for nationalities, it will be
much easier to adjust the details at the
peace conference.”
The Westminster Gazette expresses
the opinion that the president's speech
mould receive an official reply from
the allies. . *
The Globe in its comment says:'
“The only league of peace which ear.
h* effected until mankind in general has
ceased to contemplate the possibility of
war is a league which has an over
whelming force behind it. That Is the
league which the allies are fighting to
establish, and to which the great na
tion which Dr. Wilson rules will, we
trust, some day give its powerful sup
port."
The Pall Mall Gazette invites Presi
dent Wilson to visit ’ Europe and talk
with wounded prisoners on both sides,
th* inhabitants of invaded provinces,
end survivors of torpedoed merchant
men. .
“Such a tour of inquiry." it adds,
•would lend an authority to his next
deliverance upon the war such as can
hardly attach itself to conclusion* form
»»* in his re-note eyrie."
School Warrants to
Be Paid in Atlanta
Instead of New Yofk
As a result of the contract by which
*1.300.00* of Georgia school warrants
were taken by the Guaranty Trust of
New York, through the Third National
bank of Atlanta, these warrants wilt
be paid right here in Atlanta, instead
of in New York.
The Third National bank. repre«ent
;rg the New York company, has agreed
•o accept them and flhy them as they
are drawn. Issuing cashier’s checks in
each case'to the school authorities of
•he county or school district to whom
they are payable. The effect will be
ust the same and each school system
will get its money just as quickly as
if the warrants were drawn directly on
•he state treasury and checks issued
by the treasurer.
The warrants will be paid by the Third
National just as they are drawn, bearing
interest at 3 1-2 per cent, and will be
due and payable by the state on Feb
ruary 1. 1918. They will be drawn all
the way from February to November,
1917. just as the county and district
systems send in their accounts.
Tbit collection of twelve fine graf ed Apole Trees constate of three each of four
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Sea Island Cotton Growers
Will Stick to Long Staple
And Fight the 801 l Weevil
Future of Great and Rich In
dustry Hung in Balance at
Valdosta Convention, but Its
Future Is Now Assured
BT BOGEBS WTHTiIB.
Journal Staff Correspondent.)
VALDOSTA. Ga, Jan. 25. —Shall Sea
Island cotton continue to be raised or
shall it be abandoned and allowed to
become extinct?
That was the question to be deter
mined by the Sea Island cotton planters
of Florida. Georgia and South Carolina
at their convention in this city yester
day. and they answered unanimously in
favor of the salvation of the industry.
The future of Sea Island cotton, which
is probably the richest single agricul
tural industry in the world, considering
its area and the number of people en
gaged. was in the balance.
Today there is no doubt that Sea
Island planters will continue to grow
the great crop on which they enjoy an
absolute monopoly, and as a result of
the convention they will co-operate sys
tematically and scientifically in the de
velopment of early-fruiting varieties
with which to combat the boll weevil.
It was being talked among Sea Island
planters that they could not grow Sea
Island cotton because of the boll weevil.
They had been told that they could not
grow it. Intelligent Sea Island planters
who made a study of the question de
cided that they could not grow it. The
whole body of Sea Island planters were
about to reach the point where they
would abandon Sea Island cotton and
go over to raising short staple cotton.
The future of the industry hung in the
balance.
E. Lee Worsham, state entomologist
of Georgia, conducting experiments in
Sea Island cotton under boll weevil con
ditions at a sthtion near Valdosta es
tablished for this purpose last year,
came to the conclusion that there was
every reason for Sea Island planters to
stick to the industry and no reason for
them to go over to the short staple. He
called the contention hqye for the pur
pose of conWncing them that he was
right, and he succeeded.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
At the afternoon session of the con-,
vention yesterday the Sea Island plant
ers adopted the following resolutions:
“In view of statements made in the
press and by some who are advocating
certain methods to combat the boll
weevil that upland cotton can be grown
more successfully and should be plant
ed,, this meeting of Sea Island cotton
growers, representing the entire Sea
Island cotton belt, after having heard
the reports on the successful growing
of Sea Island cotton of early-maturing
varieties, desires to go before the plant
ers of Sea Island cotton by resolution
as follows:
“Be it resolved, by the growers of
Sea island cotton in convention assem
bled at Valdosta. Ga., in the interest of
Sea Island cotton, the propagation of
early-maturing varieties, the proper se
lection of seed and the successful grow
ing of same under boll weevil condi
tions, that it is the duty of all planters
in the belt to confine the planting of
cotton to Sea Island varieties insofar as
possible, and that the acreage be limited
to five acres to the plow.
“Be it further resolved. That this con
vention urges all planters to not plant
upland cotton in the sea island belt, so
that the future of the sea island cotton
industry may be looked forward to with
assurances of success and a continua
tion of the growing of this valuable
staple in this the favored section.”
LENGTHY. DISCUSSION.
The resolution was not adopted, how
ever. without a lengthy and lively dis
cussion. and without some amendments
to harmonize the different conflicting
views. But in its final form the reso
lution met with the approval of the
entire convention and was adopted with
out a dissenting voice.
Two distinct and •opposite contentions
were advanced in the discussion of the
resolution.
On the one hand it was contended by
some sea island growers that the ex
eriments conducted by Entomologist
Worsham have not gone far enough to
Jemonstrate conclusively that sea island
cotton can be grown under boll weevil
conditions, whereas it has been demon
strated that short staple cotton can be
grown successfully in spite of the
weevil by early planting of early-fruUl
ing varieties, coupled with rapid cul
tivation and early picking. Therefore
they contended that the safe and wise
thing for sea island growers would be
.o plant some sea island, using the ear-
liest fruiting xarieties obtainable, and to
plant a large crop ol short staple.
Un the other hand, it was contended
by Entomologist Worsham and by sev
eral of the leading sea island planters
who have grown the long staple for
many years that short staple cotton can
not be planted in the same vicinity of
sea island cotton without degenerating
the long staple and rendering it worth
less for propagation. Therefore they
contended that the sea island planters
had no choice but to continue planting
sea island and let the short staple cot
ton alone, or to abandon sea island en
tirely and thus extinguish in a very
few years the last sea island cotton
seed in existence, which would result
In the complete extinction of the in
dustry.
SEA ISLAND WINS.
The contention of Entomologist Wor
rham was presented so ably and convinc
ingly. and was backed up so strongly
by old sea island planters, who have
found by experience that short staple
cotton cannot be grown adjacent to sea
island without degenerating the sea
island through admixture of the two va
rieties, that the convention came over
to their view of the situation and adopt
ed the resolution quoted above.
Experiments In raising sea island un
der boll weevil conditions will be con
tinued at the Valdosta station on a
larger scale than before. The United
States bureau of Entomology has joined
with the state board of entomology in
defraying the expenses of the station,
and will assign experts to work with
the experts of the state.
The earliest fruiting varieties of Sea
Island cotton that can be obtained will
be grown at the station, seed will be
carefully selected from the finest plants,
and in a few years the station expects
to be able to develop several varieties
in sufficient quantity to supply the
whole Sea Island industry.
Meanwhile, Sea Island growers will re
duce their acreage, as agreed dn the reso
lution, to five acres to the plow, and
will plant the earliest fruiting varie
ties, obtainable. They will also make
special selections of seed from the finest
plants and continue this process of se
lection until they have “bred up” new
strains of early fruiting seed.
WORKING TO SOLUTION.
This co-operation between experiment
station and Sea Island planters is ex
pected within a very few years to place
Dm Bea Island industry on the same
faatta* with tfie short staple industry,
where breeding of early varieties of
seed has been in process for several
years, with the result that the solution
of the boll weevil problem in short staple
cotton is fairly well worked out.
Early planting of early fruiting varie
ties, rapid cultivation, early picking—
that is the program of fighting the boll
weevil, whether in short staple or on
Sea Island cotton.
In other words. the crop must be
made and picked before the boll weevil
can destroy it. He comes out in the
spring, begins to raise a family with
the first warm weather, and by the
tenth of August he has plenished the
earth with about three generations cf
boll weevils, which proceed to feed im
mediately upon their chosen diet—the
boll of the cotton plant
By planting early, cultivating rapid
ly, picking the crop as early as possible,
the farmer is able to “Beat the boll
weevil to it.” That is the science of
the whole proposition—’’beating him to
it" , '
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
The convention here yesterday was at
tended by representative Sea Island
planters from the whole Sea Island belt,
which embraces thirty-seven counties ly
ing along the coast of Florida, Georgia
and' South Carolina.
Valdosta is the largest Sea Island cot
ton market in the world, getting about
half the production of the entire belt.
Hence this city is vitally concerned in
the salvation of the industry. The Val
dosta chamber of commerce has co-op
erated with the state board of entomol
ogy in experimental work at the station
near this city, and also in working up
interest in the convention. The visitors
were entertained with true southern hos
pitality and tendered the people of Val
dosta an enthusiastic vote of thanks.
Among those present at the conven
tion were the following:
PROMINENT PLANTERS.
C. W. Webb. Hnh’ra. Ga.; A. J. Ingram.
Valdosta: C. R. Wei b. Hahira: John High.
Jasper, Fla.: S. R. Walker, FenhoUowe.y, Fla.:
Israel Folsom. Bamy, <ia.; S. S. Boone, Val
dosta; J. A. Studstill. Ousley. Ga.; J. P. Pay,
Shady Grove. Ga.; J. M.-Roberts, Willacoochee,
Georgia.
A. Morrison. Ramey. Ga.: H. J. Jordan, same;
J G Scnigef. same: J. W. Lott, Hahira; I).
J. Devane,’Barney, Ga.; G. C. Hopper, Quit
man, Ga.;. Frank Devane, Barney; T. M. Ray,
(Continued on Page 2, Column 2.)
ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1917
COMMISSION ASKS
W, & A. BOARD FOR
HEARING DAI PLAZA
Conference Held Thursday
Morning With Chairman C.
M, Candler, Who Said Audi
ence May Be Granted
The newly-created plaza commission,
composed of committes from the city
council and the chamber of commerce
which organized Wednesday afternoon
by electing Victor H. Kreigshaber chair
man, held a conference Thursday morn
ing with Chairman C. M. Candler, of the
Western and Atlantic railroad commis
sion and requested that the plaza com
mission be given a hearing before the
Western and Atlantic railroad commis
sion.
Chairman Candler told the commission
that he had no doubt his commission
would afford the hearing desired, but
that no date had yet been fixed for the
calling the Western and Atlantic com
mission to meet again. He said that as
soon as such a date was decided upon
be would notify the plaza commission
and he felt certain the commission would
hear from them.
Chairman Kreigshaber informed Chair
man Candler that the local organization
had now become- a commission instead
of the chamber of commerce commit
tee which has hitherto conducted the
negotiations and that while the com
mittee had been before the Western and
Atlantic commission on the plaza project
the commission desired to appear in Its
new and enlarged capacity.
Although the session of the
plaza commission Wednesday was
executive, it was announced
afterward by Chairman Kriegshaber
that the commission was in thorough
accord, in placing itself on record that
the plaza plan should not be condemned
as a “piece of damn foolishness” before
it has ever been gone into, and especial
ly after expert railroad engineers have
rendered written reports that the plan
is a thoroughly practicable and desir
able one.
The commission adjourned after an
hour’s session, to meet again on the
call of the chairman. As soon a« the
railroad commission sets a date for a
conference Chairman Kriegshaber will
call the plaza commission into another
session for further discussion of the
matters It will take up with the com
mission.
KELLEY VICE CHAIRMAN.
At the meeting. Aiderman Charles H.
Kelley was elected vice chairman and R.
R. Otis, secretary.
One of the first -duties of the plaza
commission will be to urge favorable
consideration by the Western and At-1
lantic commission on the petition pre
sented by the former plaza committee I
of the Atlanta chamber of commerce
asking the commission to insert a clause
in any lease that may be closed for the
.Western and Atlantic road, whereby the
city of Atlanta will have the privilege
to appear before the commission to ob
tain its consent to a plaza plan, with
the understanding that the plan be sub-
I mitted later to the lessee of the road
for its approval. z
The plaza commission is willing that
a clause be inserted stipulating that the
plaza shall be built without cost to the
I state or to the railroads.
Chairman Kriegshaber said that the
plaza would cost from $7,000,000 to
$7,500,000, and that about half of that
sum would be spent in improving pas
senger and freight facilities for the rail
roads. ’ •
It was the opinion of Chairman Krieg
shaber and Secretary Otis, as expressed
j after the meeting, that the Louisville
' and Nashville railroad and the Nasb
' ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis rail
road. instead of opposing the plaza plan,
ought really to support it. because of
the poor terminal facilities these roads
i now have in Atlanta.
SURE TO MATERIALIZE.
The plaza plan is certain to material
’ ize some day,” said Mr. Kriegshaber,
| “and the railroads nnght have to pay
for just the improvement that Atlanta
is willing now to give them.
“The railroads using the Union sta
tion especially are ih need of improved
facilities. The plaza plan would enable
the city of Atlanta to, rid itself of the
smoke nuisance and the noise nuisance
and would permit ihe city to build a
beautiful park in the center of the city.
: Therefore, the city is willing to pay
' for these improvements itself at this
time.”
Secretary Otis called attention to the
recent agitation by the interstate com
merce commission for the unification of
terminals and said that sooner or later
I all terminal stations must be the same.
Under the plaza plan, he reasons, this
can be done now cheaper and more con
veniently than perhaps it could be done
| in the future.
The city plaza commission was ap
pointed recently by Mayor Candler and
is composed of the following:
From Council —Aiderman Charles H.
Kelley. Councilman A. J. Orme and
Councilman J. V. Little.
From City-at-Large—Victor H. Krieg
shabcr, William L. Peel, R. R. Otis, Paul
Norcross and Alex W. Smith.
Leaders in Dog Team
Race Hope to Reach
U. S. Border Thursday
MORRIS, Man., Jan. 25.—After a
breakfast of raw fish the "husky ’’dogs
' of the ten trains competing in the 522
mile race from Winnipeg to St. Paul, I
were urged out of Morris at daylight.
It was hoped to reach the border today I
and the leaders nmy enter Grand Forks,
N. D„ for tonight’s stop.
Heavily Laden U -Boat
Appears Off. Newport,
Rhode Island Thursday
, (By Associated Press I
NEWPORT. R. 1.. .Tan. 25.—An uni
dentified submarine, heavily laden, is
lying off shore between Point .ludiah
and Beaver Tail, where she arrived a
little after 2 o’clock this afternoon.
PROMINENT CITIZENS
RAPIDLY FILL HANKS
-DE LOYAL LEGION
Mayor Candler Names .Stand
ing Committees and Active
Plans for Trip to Inaugura
tion Are Under Way
Atlanta's Loyal Legion and its de
cision to attend the Inauguration of
President Wilson In a body was the
topic of discussion on all sides today,
and it was evident that when the Legion
special leaves for Washington it will
carry the most enthusiastic bunch of
Atlanta boosters that ever represented
the Gate City beydnd its borders.
Two important announcements in the
Legion's plans were made today.
One was the appointment of four com
mittees by Mayor Asa G. Candler,
elected president of the Legion at the
meeting Wednesday in the office of
James R. Gray, editor of The Journal,
which resulted in fifty leading citizens
forming a permanent organization to
work for the betterment of Atlanta at
every opportunity. *
The other was the anouncement that
the legion will take to Washington as
its guests one man each from the po
lice, fire and sanitary departments of
the city, so decided by Mayor Candler,
in conference with other members of
the legion.
These three men will be chosen by the
heads of their departments, Chief Mayo,
Chief Cody and Cnief Jentzen. They will
be picked according to their record and
their merit and their appearance, for
they will march at the head of the At
lanta delegation in the inaugural pa
rade, bearing the flag of the city of At
lanta.
AS LEGION’S GUESTS.
No officers in either of the three de
partments will be' chosen. The Honor
will go to "one of the force,” and each
of the three will be selected after the
head of his department consulted
with officers of the legion. As the le
gion’s guests they will receive every
courtesy throughout the trip and should
have the time of their lives.
The four committees appointed by
Mayor Candler have already gone to
work completing preparations tor the
trip. Within a week it is expected that
tiie last detail will be aranged, so that
when the special pulls out, probably at
10 o'clock on the morning of Saturday,
March 3, its personnel, plans and equip
ment will be perfect.
I The committee on transportation con
sists of Wylie West, chairman.- John A.
Brice and Forrest Adair. Their duties
are to decide the route for the special,
which will be made up of five Pullmans
for the one hundred members of the le
gion, including an observation car, a
tourist Pullman for the drum corps, two
diners, a baggage car and a day coach
for a smoker. The committee will also
decide the exact time for departure and
return and will probably arrange sever
al stop® en route at different towns,
where the legion and the drum corps
will parade in honor of their city.
The committee on music is E. E Pom
eroy, chairman; G. W. Hanson, W. T.
Winn, John E. Smith and A. L. Bellisle.
They will select the drum corps which
will accompany the legion and decide on,
what basis it shall be taken.
The committee on subscriptions is
composed of Forrest Adaar, chairman,
John E. Murphy, J. S. Cohen. J. P. Al
len, Albert S. Adams and L. J. Daniel.
DUTIES OF COMMITTEE.
This committee’s duties are to enroll
the legion to its limit of 100 members
and arrange the financial details. To
the fifty names on the legion’s muster
at its birth are being added many more.
Prominent business men throughout the
city are laying their plans for the fu
ture so that they may be away for the
five days' trip to Washington.
Within the next few days the iimil of
10ti will be reached, for besides the
worthy civic ideals which the legion
has aj heart, membership in it means
the opportunity- of a lifetime to attend
a presidential inaugural in splentfid
style. With suites of twenty-five rooms,
each with a bath, already reserved at
the Hotel Raleigh, the special railroad
sendee and the assurance that the le
gion! will receive every attention in
Washington, is easily worth many times
the price, which will be only $75 apiece,
this covering all expenses except meals
in Washington.
The fourth and last committee, on
equipment, is composed of James D.
Robinson, Lucian York, Lowry Arnold,
E. H. Cone and Clarence Haverty. They
are to select the apparel which the At
lantians will wear and design streamers.
No uniform will be worn, but the same
details will be observed as to cravats,
shoes and canes.
The streamers will be emblazoned
with appropriate slogans and will be
spread along the sides of the special
and at the Raleigh hotel in Washing
ton.
While in Washington the legion will
not only march in thq inaugural pro
cession. but will probably be granted
a special audience by President Wilson.
The idea of sending her foremost citi
zens to the inaugural is one which will
make Atlanta unique among all other
cities represented at Washington and is
sure to win the admiration- of the presi
dent, his administration and the ent’re
1 country.
Citizens who are anxious to be one of
I the one hundred are urged to communi
’ cate with Forrest Adair, chairman < f
! the legion, as only the limited number
can be taken and the ranks are rapidly
filling.
99 Persons Indicted
For Election Frauds
(By Associated Press.
CINCINNATI. 0.. Jan. 25.—Ninety
nine sealed indictments were returned
by the federal grand jury investigating
the election frauds here today. The
indictments were banded to the United
1 States marshal and the men named in
them will be brought into court under
capias as soon as apprehended.
Baron Masham Dead
LONDON. Jan. 25.—Samuel Cunliffe-
Lister, second Baron Masham. died last
night at Masham, aged fifty-nine.
COUNTERFEITING
SCHEME BELIEVED
UNEARTHED HERE
Secret Service Men Arrest C.
W. Garr, Taxi Driver, *Who
Implicates Two Men * and
Woman as "Higher Ups”
In the arrest of G. W. Garr, a taxicab
driver, of 392 Pulliam street, Wednes
day, city police and United States secret
service men believe they have unearthed
a clever counterfeiting scheme by which
fake five-dollar bills were to be made
I from dies innocently prepared by the
I Wrigley ’Engraving company, of 35 1-2
' Alabama street. .
‘ Garr was arrested by City Policeman
I O. R. Jones and Captain Wright, of the
secret service, at the Wrigley plant,
whither he was summoned by officials
of the company, who had become sus
picious of him and tipped off the police.
They charge that for the past six
months he has been bringing designs
to them at weekly intervals from which
they made dies and delivered them to
him. Saving the drawings, they discov
ered only the other day that when pieced
together they were the exact reproduc
tion of a five-dollar bill and thsft, unwit
tingly, the company had been made the
instrument of counterfeiters. Secret
service officials were at once informed
of the plot.
While the company kept the drawings,
the completed dies were delivered to the
customer and are now being sought vig
orously by the police, who think they
are in -the possession of two men and a
woman who, Garr charges, employed
him to take the designs to the Wrigley
company.
Garr, held at police station until a
federal warrant is sworn out for him,
says that he met one of the men whose
name was either Hielsman or Hightman,
six months ago, when the man hired his
taxicab for an evening. He was a good
customer, says Garr, and employed him
time after time, every now and then
sending him to the Wrigley company
with designs.
Garr says the first design he took was
a big strip, lettered “Good for $5 tn
Christmas Trade.” Then he says he
took a design showing the landing of
the Pilgrims, which is the picture on all
five-dollar bills; and this was followed
by a design of numbers, the serial num
bers on 'the bill, and so on until, little
by little, the man for whom he says
he acted had completed his alleged coun
terfeit.
The last time Garr called at the com
pany’s office he gave the name of H. C.
Glover. Now he says Hielsman, or
Hightman. told him, to ossume that
name and to send the plates to him at
Newnan. Garr says he did this.
He claims he does not know where the
man is or where the dies are, and had
no idea what was afoot when he re
ceived a telephone message from the
Wrigley Engraving company Wednesday
summoning him to the office, where he
walked into the arms of a policeman.-
WOMAN IN CASE.
A woman, whom he characterized as
a large, blonde," well dressed
and good looking, and soft spoken, fig
ured extensively in the various nego
tiations for the counterfeit designs, ac
cording to Norman Wrigley, of the
Wrigley Engraving company, who gave
additional details of the scheme.
This wpman never gave her name; at
least no one could recall that she did.
She simply described herself as being
the mother of H. C. Glover, the latter
being the name. Mr. Wrigley said, that
Carr gave later.
“This woman came to us last Octo
ber,” Mr. Wrigley said, “and asked us if
we could make a drawing of the five
fives on a five-dollar bill. She wanted
the figures duplicated and a separate
design for each. We told her we
couldn’t accept the order on account of
.Ujicle Sam. She said she wanted the
design for a powder box.
• “The woman didn’t return soon, but
in November a man named Hilfsman, or
Kightman, called on us. He was about
twenty-five years old, thin, well dressed
and well supplied with money. Hexcar
ried a roll containing hills from $1 up,
and he was always wanting to set us up
to something. He offered to pay fancy
prices for our work.
“The job he gave us was an engraving
of the Pilgrim s Landing. I didn’t know,
until Captain Wright told me, that this
design appears on five-dollar bills. He
gave us a postcard with this design on
it and told us to make the plate from
it. We accepted the order.
"About a week later, the woman re
turned. She gave us an order for a
design, “The United States of America
Good for Five Dollars in Trade.”
“She said that this design was for H.
C. Glover, of Newnan, her son. We mis
understood her directions, and, as it was
a C. O. D. order, we sent at to Mr. Glover.
He. it appeared, is a well-to-do real
estate agent of Newnan and of course
knew nothing about the design. He re
turned it. We didn’t know what to do
especially as the woman had promised
to return about December 15, for furth
er information about the design. A few
days later, hbwever, she did call. She
was very much flustered about our hav
ing*sent the thing to Newnan.
’’ ’He’ll never get it,’ she said. He
lives on a R. F. EL route.’ This call,
by the way, was just before the real
Mr. Glover returned the design. The
woman didn’t return, but I saw her
two weeks later driving in an automo
bile with Hillsman. This was the first
time that I had connected the two in
any way.
“A few days later Garr came in and
said that he was H. C. Glover. He paid
for the design and plates. Not long aft
erwards he gave us another order, but
we were suspicious by now and turned
it over to the secret service.”
“How Dry I am,” Sing
600 Men as Arkansas
Governor Bans Booze
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., Jan. 25.—While
600 men stood and sang the refrain,
“How Dry I Am.” Governor Brough
signed the Arkansas "bone-dry” prohibi
tion bill at the annual dirmcr of the
Little Rock board of commerce last
night. Delay in engrossing the bill
made it impossible for the governor to
sign the bill yesterday as he had in
tended. and he was induced to perform
the ceremony last night at the dinner,
at which state officials and members of
the legislature were guests.
Express companies were rushed to the
limit yesterday delivering orders of
liquor. One telegraph company report
ed that it handled 800 telegrams from
Little Rock residents ordering liquor
Tuesday.
NUMBER 33.
■ FIGHTING ■
IN PROGRESS ON RIGA
. SECTDR IN THE EAST
Petrograd Reports Teutons
Have Been Unable to Follow
Up Successes Won Recently
in That Section
'By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—The heaviest _
fighting now in progress in any of the i
war areas is on the Russian front in-*
the Riga sector where the Germans re
cently took the offensive and drove back;
the Russians a mile and a half in the
region of the great Tirul marsh.
Berlin announces today that the at
tack netted the Germans strong Russian
positions on a front of about six miles,
with more than 1,700 prisoners and 13.
machine guns. Russian reserves’were
unable to check the advance.
Attempting again to advance over the
frozen ground which has made the ef
fort in this swampy region possible, the
Teutonic army has sustained reverses,
according to Petrograd today. North-'
west of the marsh they opened a heavy
artillery fine and then attacked, but fail
ed to make any headway. A similar re- 1
suit met attacks between 'the marsh and;
the river Aa, and here, ip a counter at
tack, the Russians dislodged the Ger
mans and drove them back.
The fighting extended to the south-*I
east of the river Aa, near Kalnzen. which ,
lies twenty miles southwest of Riga.,
1 Here the Russians, after taking the of-*
fiensive, were caught in a counter-of
fensive of the Germans and compelled <
to retire northward a third of a mile.
Elsewhere there has been little but;
artillery, patrol, and air fighting. En-|
tire quiet apparently prevails all alongl
the Rumanian front, where the sever:-'
ties of the winter wither have check
ed all operations except sporadic bom
bardments and skirmishes.
Greece has formally apologized to thq
entente, in compliance with the demands,
for the events of last December when
Greeks fired ont he entente forces at
Athens.
Guynemer Brings Down
Twenty-Seven Airplanes
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS. Jan. 25. —Lieutenant George
Guynemer has brought down his twenty
seventh airplane, the war office an
nounces.
A German surprise attack south of
Berry-au-Bac last night was checked by
the French. There was no change in
the situation on the remainder of th>r
front.
The statement follows:
“After a spirited bombardment, the
Germans undertook, without success, a
surprise attack against our trenches
three kilometers southeast of Berry-au-
Bac. The enemy left dead on the
ground.
“Lieutenant Guynemer yesterday
brought down his second German air
plane for this day, near the railroad
station at Chaulnes. This brings up. to
twenty-seven the number of enemy air
planes destroyed by this pilot. Lieu
tenant Herteaux, on the same day,
brought down his seventeenth enemy
airplane, which crashed to the ground
near Parvillers.”
Peanut Dislodged After
Three Weeks in Boy’s
Lungs; Child May Live
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CORDELE. Ga., Jan. 25.—With a pea-,
nut lodged in his lungs for the past,
three weeks from which he developed
pneumonia and suffered a scorching fe
ver most of the time, Hardwick, eigh
teen-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs. A-.
H. Simmons, of Crisp county, now has
a good chanc'e to live. Last night after
a spell of coughing the peanut wa*
loosened and coughed up. This morn
ing the little fellow’s temperature is
normal.
I‘neumonla developed shortly after th a
unusual accident. A peanut passeC
through the baby’s wind pipe and Into
its lungs while it was eating a piece
of peanut caqdy which its grandfather*
had gtven it by mistake, thinking It was
chocolate. Physicians thought for days
that the child could not live.
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Wilson Is Considering
Trainmen’s Proposals i
On Railway Legislation
(By Ascociated Press.) •
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—The railway
broffierhood leaders today laid before
President Wilson in writing their pro
posals for a compromise on his railway
legislation program and he began con
sidering them.
The labor leaders propose instead of
a law to prevent a strike or lockout;
pending an investigation, that provision
be made for investigation by a mixed
board of employes and employers. This,
they say, would settle every dispute.
The action of the senate interstate
commerce committee yesterday in voting
down the president’s plan a second time
was taken by some officials as the fore
runner of some sort of a compromise.
Woman Is Found Dead;
Movie Actor Is Held
(By Associated Press.)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 25.—woman
identified by the police as Mrs. Nell
Harvey, of Exeter, Cal., was ‘found dead
today, lying face downward in a bed
in a hotel, and Harlan J. Winter, a mo
tion picture actor, was taken into cus
tody.
Winter, the police say, said the young
woman died from natural causes. He
said they were to have been married.
The police say the woman's body was
braised. The hotel proprietor said he
heard sound* which he thought indicat
ed scuffling. .
