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” AX j VOLUME Xl\ Congress Urged to Clear Decfs for War Measures GERMANY EXPTCTSWARWHUNITEP STATES RESIDENT IS TAKING STEPS TO PREPARE ■ COUIfTRYFOR WAR •legislation to Take Over Navy Yards, Munitions Plants and Other Industries, fr Necessa ry, Discussed With Officials By JUaocistsd Preu. LONDON, Feb. s.—Reuter’s Rio Janei ro correspondent says there is reason to beheve the reply of the Brazilian govern ment to the German note will be in har mony with the attitude of the United States. WASHINGTON. Feb a.-—J ‘reel dent Wilson at conferences today with Secre tary Raker, of the war department, and Secretary Daniels. of the navy diecussed expediting legislation to empower the government, to take possession of ship yards, munitions plants, and other faeil- i ities for hurrying the work of prepared ness. if it becomes necessary. When President Wilson left Secretary Raker's office after a fifteen minutes conference he said. “Ju»t routine business Nothing seri- Before tas conference with the presi- Secretary Daniels conferred with iChairtnan Padgett, of the house naval committee, chiefs of all bureaus and to plan further seeps to make che navy reauy. Formal suspension of the eight-hour Mw applying to navy yards may be in cluded in the navy’s program Indications are that the navy depart ment would decide in the event of war «o pnt the building energies of the coun try to quick construction of submarines and submarine ch iters. Virtually all ship builders and many munition plants have already reported to ih* navy department their readiness Co take up any policy* the government proposes. President Wilson today issued a pmcia mat ion under the authority of the recent shipping act. prohibiting Ameri can ship owners from transferring their vessels to any other registry. He then returned to the White Hoose. While officials refuse to admit that Austria's formal announcement of her * adhesion to Germany’* declaration of un restricted submarine warfare has been received officially, there is reason for believing it ie now before the govern ment and that appropriate action is be ing considered. Despite the severance of diplomatic 'relations with Germany. President Wil son believes his long struggle to pre serve the country’s peace has not yet been lost, lie still hopes not only that hostilities will be avoided, but that other neutrals, adding their voices to that of! the United States, will unite the major moral force of the world to compel peace j in Europe It had not been revealed today wheth- • er any responses had come from the suggestions to neutrals, presented with notification of the break with Germany, j that they follow the example of the United States and thus bring to bear; to end the war the united pressure of i the whole neutral world. The president, is known to be very hopeful that this. new stroke for peace will hasten the end of hostilities DISPATCHES WATCHED With distinct anxiety cable and wire less dispatches bearing on Germany's newly announced war plans are being watched for the first indication of Amer ican lives lost or ships sunk without 1 warning. Officials today heard with considerable satisfaction the reports that the Gar- 1 man government had ordered the imme diate release of the American sailors •aken from British ships by the Ger- ; man raider in the Atlantic, as demanded by the United States This action was interpreted in some quarters as an in dication of a conciliatory attitude since formerly Germany had maintained these men were legally prisoners of war. hav , Ing accepted service on armed belliger-i ent merchant vessels The state department is making ef forts to get a guarantee of safe conduct from the allied powers for Count von Bernstorff to return to Germany with his staff, and preparations were under way today_ to turn over affairs of the embassy here so the Swiss minister. Re quests that German consuls in this country be accorded full protection have been sent to governors of states and territories by the state department. RED CROSS PREPARES. .■ , «. of —.e «<»ru Cross throughout the United States today had orders to prepare hnmediately for relief work. Transportation of Belgian relief sup plies was temporarily suspended, but; th* Spanish iirtassaAir in Berlin wae expected to present an urgent request today for guarantees of immunity from < atta/k for vessels chartered by the Belgian relief commission. Government officials authorized a statement denying reports that seizure of German war-bound merchant ships in American harbors is contemplated It was explained, however, that steps have been taken to prevent the obstruc tion of harbors by the blowing up or sinking of any of these vessels. The department of justice also is mak ing secret preparations for forestalling depredations which German sympathiz ers might commit on munition factories or public works. In Washington, the capitol and state, war and navy build ings are closed to visitors and careful ly guarded, and additional police have been placed about the White House. NEW YORK FIRST U. S. STEAMER TO QUIT DANGER ZONE (Steamships Philadelphia and Finland, Both of American Line, Have Arrived at Port of Liverpool (By Associated Press) NEW YORK. Feb. s.—Official* of the American line received a cablegram to day saying that the steamship New York, carrying passengers, left Liver pool at a p. m. Saturday. She is the first American passenger ship to sail since Germany promulgated her new submarine warfare. The American line steamship Philadel phia arrived at Liverpool at 11 p. m. Sunday, according to caibelgram re ceived here this morning by officials of the International Mercantile marine. The steamship Finland, also of the American line, arrived at Liverpool at 8 o’clock this morning. Officials of the International Mercan tile marine officially anounced this morning that the American line steam ■ ship £t. Louis would not sail today. German Ships at Manila All Damaged by Crews MANILA, Feb. s.—lt is reported that virtually all the machinery and engines of the twenty-three German steamers lying in Philippine ports have been damaged by thtir crews. Seventeen of these vessels are interned at Manila, three at Cebu and three at Zamboanga Damage in some cases is said to have been done thirty-six hours before the first report of the break in relations between the United States and Ger many. The Filipino crews of the steam ers have been discharged. Crews of the steamers at Cebu have been exclud ed from the engine rooms. The government has redoubled pre cautions concerning the ships, but there have been no seizures. The American squadron has returned to Manila from target practice and is patrolling the bay. American Ship Eurana Arrives at Liverpool SAVANNAH. Gl.. Feb. 5. —The Ameri can steamship Eurana sailing from Sa vannah for Liverpool January 17. reach ed her destination in safety Saturday morning, according to a cable received by Strachan & Cb.. her owners. Japanese Ship’s Crew Forced To Boats 200 Miles From Land GALVESTON, Tex., Feb. 5 —Captain Anderson, of the Norwegian steamer Agereon. which arrived here this mom- I ing from Gibraltar, reports having picked I up, on January 5. the captain and crew of forty men of the Japanese steamship Chinto Maru, 220 miles from the near est land. ' The Chinto Maru had been sunk by submarine shell fire ori* January 4, ac cording to members of the crew. WMIEM i FOR SERVICE IN 11. 8. —— (Os These 10,535,945, It Is Estimated, Up to Physi cal Standard By Associated Press.) NEW YORK. Feb. s.—ln a serious emergency nearly 18,000,000 men are available for military service in the United States, according to an estimate made by the executive committee of Mayor Mitchel's committee on national ' defense. There are now physically fit . for service in the field, it was said. 10,- 535.940 men the ages of eighteen I and forty-five years Upon the basfs of actual experience I of other countries, where universal mil itary service prevails, the eommmittee has calculated that out of 900,000 men annually reaching military age in the United States 690,000 are fit for military j service, according to the French stand ard of 1910, and 459.000, according to the German standard of that year. The committee, in estimating the na tion's resources in men between eighteen and forty-five years available for mili tary sendee after deductions for "mor bidity." physical defects, industrial ne cessities and dependency of families, places the number at 4,778,050. "Now that war is on us.” former Pres ident* Taft told an audience at the Brook lyn Ristltute of Arts and Sciences last night, he believed the people “would sup port congress in enacting a conscription law making provision not only for the preesnt. but for the future after/he war shall end." ••Conscription was needed.” Mr. Taft said, ”to teach native American young men respect for authority and our mil lions of newlv created citizens loyalty.” — Seven of 10 Stranded On Elephant Island Saved; Three Dead WELLINGTON. New Zealand. Feb. 5. —(Via London.) —Seven survivors of the Shackleton antarctic expedition, who were stranded on Elephant island, have been rescued by the relief steamer Au rora, whinh arrived at Cape Evans Jan uary 10 with them on board. , Captain Mclntosh and two other men of the stranded party perished. im TO 5 AS ICY GALES WRIP ENTIRE SOOTH Blizzard From Northwest De- moralizes Traffic—Wind At tains Velocity of 63 Miles an Hour—Due to Moderate The unexpected cold wave which swept down on Atlanta at 6 o’clock Sun day afternon, bringing a gale sixty miles an hour and a temperature as low as 5 degrees. Is due to moderate somewhat Monday afternoon, but it will not begin to get much warmer until Tuesday, ac cording to today’s forecast from the weather bureau. Atlanta shivered in a temperature of 8 degrees at 8 o'clock Monday morning. The mercury rose gradually as the day advanced, but the intense cold was ex pected to keep the tempertature rather low throughout the day. The weather man predicts a minimum of about 12 de grees Monday night. , This is somewhat warmer than it was Sunday night and there will be none of the snow or sleet that made Sunday night so bitter, he says. Fair and warrn er is the forecast for Tuesday. Condi tions in the northwest, whence the two cold waves in succession came, have cleared entirely and after Monday At lanta wrill see the last of near-zero weather for a time at least. SUNDAY’S STORM. Coming on the heels of the previous cold weather, the wave struck Atlanta like a prize fighter strikes his antagon ist recovering from the effects of a stunning body blow. The city had just got on its feet, and - -straightened up when out of the northwest came the second blizzard with the suddenness of a lightning dash. And a peculiar thing about the sec-1 ond blizzard was that lightning and j thunder actually accompanied the gale ( and the snow and the drop in tempera- ' ture. Plate glass windows were shattered, trolley car traffic was demoralized, tele phone and telegraph communication was shot to pieces, electric light and elec- j trie power was switched off and on with fitful frequency, and water pipes be ginning to thaw from the previous bliz zard were frozen again before the plumbers could stop the leaks. The following temperature readings from the office of the weather bureau give the story of the blizzard at a glance: I MERCURY TUMBLES. At 12 o’clock noon on Sunday the tem perature was 42 degrees, and from that hour until 8 o’clock Monday morning the range of the mercury was as fol lows: 1 o'clock—43 degrees. 2 o’clock—4s degrees. 3 o’clock —47 degrees. 4 o’clock—4B degrees. 5 o'clock—49 degrees 6 o’clock—43 degrees. 7 o'clock—23 degrees. 8 o’clock—lß degrees. 9 o’clock—l 4 degrees. 10 o'clocldi—lo degrees 11 o’clock—9 degrees. 12 o’clock —(midnight—B degrees. .1 o’clock, a. m.—7 degrees. 2 o’clock—6 degrees. 3 o’clock—6 degrees. 4 o’clock—s degrees. 5 o'clock—s degrees. 6 o'clock—s degrees. 7 o'clock —6 degrees. , 8 o'clock—B degrees. 9 o’clock—lo degrees 10 o’clock—l 2 degrees. 11 o’clock—l 4 degrees. 12 o'clock—l 6 degrees 1 o’clock—l 9 degrees. WIND VELOCITY The highest wind velocity recorded by the instruments of the weather bu reau was at 6:10 o’clock Sunday after noon. when the gale was roaring down j from the northwest at the tremendous i rate of sixty-three ‘miles an hour. Sunday morning was fair and pleas- } ant. Between 2 and 3 o’clock gray j clouds began to pile up in the sky and the -wind shifted into the northwest. It looked as if the warm weather was go ing to bring a rain. But around 5 o'clock the wind began to get cold and I the first flurries of rain were more ice ! than water. The temperature began to I drop and the wind began to rise. At 6 o’clock it was snowing and the gale was howling like a pack of wolves. In the midst of the snow and the howling gale came flashes of lightning and roars of thunder, punctuated by<he crashes of heavy plate glass windows that caved in and fell to the sidewalks in a thousand pieces. Pedestrians left the streets. Auto mobiles scurried home. Street cars moved with difficulty, rocking on the tracks like cradles when the terrific gale . took hold of them. Coming ahead of the snow, the rain froze when it struck the cold pave- 1 ments and made a place for the snow to ; stick and freeze as fast as it fell, so that a coating of thin ice was laid over ■ the city. Neither the rain nor the snow amounted to much in inches, but ail of I it froze and stayed, making all kinds of traffic exceedingly difficult and dan gerous. British Ships Floated NORFOLK. Va_. Feb. s.—The British j transport Hannington Court, which went ■ ashore off Cape Henry Saturday night. I was floated about 8:45 o'clock this morn ing. The released steamer passed <n the cape* and jroceeded back to port. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1917. THE KAISER’S MOVE (AILw&HtT) ’ 1 WILLIAM,--L /WX i irs ggg; AX. MOVE J ■ 'jaawMaaEia > K i Zr •'» r-T I ll— imh I!d ■■ ■— ■ ■ ».1 f d > 1 ILLGERMAN tOWSULS TO GO WITH BEBNSTOBFF Party of More Than 300 to Leave United States Via Cuba and Spain WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. —Arrange- ments are being made tor all German I consuls and consular officials in the i United States to accompany Count von Bernstorff and the German embassy staff out of the country. The whole party—mose than 300 in all —probably ) will go via Cuba and Spain. Under the tentative plans, the con suls and their families will go to Ha ' vana ’via Key West from various parts ; of the country, while the embassy staff will go directly south from Washington. ( From Cuba the party probably will go . to Spain and thence to Switzerland. I Dr. Paul Ritter, Swiss minister now in charge of diplomatic interests here, is conducting negotiations for the de parture of the. German staffs. It was said that plans for departure were being I delayed only while Information of steam -1 ship and transportation facilities being gathered. The first step is to mobilize all the German consular forces in time to join Count von Bernstorft’s party. There is understood to be some ob jection by American oflicials to the Ger man party going byway of Cuba and Spai n because it would be necessary for them to pass through France or Italy, I both hostile countries and that might make some difficulties in securing the safe conducts. An effort is being made to get the party to sail from New York on a ship which would take them to Denmark or a Scandinavian port STATE WrdWoHDER IS HELD IN READINESS Two Units, Ready to Leave for Home, Are Stopped at El Paso (By Associated Press.) FI. PASO. Tex.. Feb. s.—After the South Carolina 1 and Tennessee units sta tioned here had already entrained today , for home an order was received by Gen ; oral Funston suspending the return of all state guard troops here. Pershing Heads Troops As Boundary Is Crossed (By Assocsted Press.) COLUMBUS, N. M., Feb. s—Major General Pershing rode out of Mexico at I 10:15 a. m. today at the head of more I than 10,100 soldiers of the American punitive expedition. Orders for Homeward Move of Troops Cancelled <By Associated Press.) SAN ANTONIO. Tex., Feb. s.—Orders ’ for the homeward movements of the Second Wisconsin infantry, at San An , tonio, and the Fifth Maryland inrfantry , at Bagle I'ass have been cancelled- BEAMS OF FOUR STATES TO POSE AT LAND SHOW Seven Atlanta Girls Will Be Among Bevy to Appear Before Movie Camera Beautiful girls of Georgia, Florida, Sot»wi Carolina and Alabama, in the role of real actresses, impersonating by cos tume the various characters of fiction and the drama, will pose before the mo tion picture camel's, on the stage of the auditorium Monday night at 8:30 o’clock. This event, for which extensive plans have been under way for weeks, is ex pected to be the red-letter feature of the Southeastern Land Show an<L Mid- Winter exposition, which opened again to the pwbllc Monday morning after Leing closed over Sunday. The day has been designated as “Mo tion Picture Contest day.” It has been widely heralded for weeks over the four states represented at the show. The contestants represent the most beautiful and most popular young women of their respective communities and their elec tion as candidates in the contest was held by popular ballot at one of the motion picture theaters in their respec tive home cities. ATLANTA GIRLS TO COMPETE. Seven Atlanta girls are among those who vfill compete. From the outside ter ritory, forty-two young ladies have been enrolled of which number thirty were re ported to have been in the city Monday morning. It will be the first time in their lives that these young ladies have undergone the thrills of posing before the motion picture camera Their appearance is ex pected to draw an usually large attend ance of relatives and friends. The stage at the auditorium will be flttted up to represent a motion picture studio. The powerful arc lamps will be iin evidence. It will present a most daz- I zling spectacle. The rivalry between the contestants ■is very keen. In addition to the honor ; attached to the contest, the winner will ; receive, at her own option, either a handsome Chevrolet automobile or a two weeks’ trip to some high-class motion picture studio where she may receive in- I structions, all expenses to be paid by the show management. A handsome j diamond ring and a silver service will be given as the second and third prizes ■ respectively. In addition there will be ' four state prizes to be awarded the I contestant making the best showing from I her state. Not a single detail has been overlooked to make Motion Picture Contest day ' the big event of the show. The whole -program, from choosing the contestants several weeks ago, up to the present time has gone forward wtih a display of en ' thusiasm which only can mean success. Port Collector Malone At New York Discovers Bomb Under His Home WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. —Customs Col lector Malone at New York reported to the treasury department today that he had found a bomb under the steps of his home. FLORIM’S KBETIBLE CHOP PMCmil GONE Nothing Left but Potatoes, Says Letter From Fort Lauderdale Grower’ Atlanta produce dealers Monday morning found themselves dependent upon other sources than Florida for sup plies of fruit and vegetables, as the result of the damage to crops in Gor gin's sister state. A typical instance of the ruin which the freeze wrought and its effect on At lanta dealers is found in the following letter to T. A. Lovelace & Co., of Atlan ta, from W. H. Marshall, a vegetable grower at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which is situated on the lower Atlantic coast and is the furthest southern shipping point for truck farming products. The letter was written on Fort derdale stationery headed with the cap tion, “Warmest climate in America.” In part it says: “I want to state, Mr. Lovelace, that whatever you have on hand in vegeta bles grown in Florida next Monday morning just ask any price you want to, for Florida is frozen out. I have been here seventeen years and this is the eighteenth winter and it is the coldest weather that 1 have ever seen here, it is not a ijrost, but it is a plain freeze. Everything that was not covered is frozen and a lot that was covered is frozen. Cabbages have burst open, and you know what it takes to freeze cab bage. • • • I had hoped to do a nice business with you the remainder of the season, but it will be some time before we have anything but potatoes. • • • The state is damaged to untold millions ” Falling Tree Kills Two Young Business Men of Statesboro ißy Associated Fres*.) STATESBORO. Ga.. Feb. s.—lnman Donaldson and F. Pierce Register, two young business men of Statesboro, were killed last night while returning in an automobile from Woodcliff, where they had been visiting. Their bodies were found this morning nine miles from Statesboro still seated in the car. A tree had fallen across the car and had killed both the occupants and stopped the car. The bodies were found by the father of Donaldson, who, uneasy at the failure of his son to return home, j went out to search for him. U. S. Seizes Seventeen German Merchant Ships Anchored in Manila Bay MANILA. Feb. s.—The naval authori ties at 6 o’clock this evening seized the seventeen German merchant vessels an chored in Manila Bay. All the German crews were removed. Customs officers, aided by navy ex perts, have discovered that every one of .the seventeen German ships anchored > here have been extensively damaged. NUMBER 36. ; NEW 11-BOAI MOEB WILL SIH US ISSUED Reratification of Treaties Giv; ing Nationals Nine'Months to Laave Hostile Countries Be Proposed, Is Report (By AuociaXed Preu.) BERLIN, Feb. 4.—(Via London, Fel 5.) —Peaceful continuance of Gertnai American relations after the departur of the respective embassies at Washing ton and Berlin in the sense indicated b’ President Wilson in his address to con gress, appears to be very slight, judg ing by all the information, some of tb highest authenticity, gathered by the Ai sociated Press. 4 It was stated positively in high pc litical circles that the German ordef for the conduct of a submarine war couf not, and would not be modified, that i Germany the determination to enforc the prohibited zone order was absolu and final and that the only security fp shipping was in avoidance of ths prohit ited zone. Germany, so the Associated Press wa informed, resorted to thia measure afi er the "shameful** rejection by the et tents powers of peace csret liuea and onl after the fullest determination and a the imperative weapon in defense of it threatened interests; Germany oannot linquish this weapon the only one pron, ising a speedy end to the war—reluctaq as Germany was to take this step. f The government had hoped that tig United States would see it in this iigh and was and is actuated by no animostt to the United States in its determtoi tion. Germany therefore, so the hig informant of the Associated Press coe tinued, is very keenly disappointed an grieved by the terms of Mr. Wilson/ metisage, but the government canni alter or modify the course upon whic it has determined. This official added: "We can only hope and trust tha American ships and American citizen will avoid the danger zones laid down i the German memorandum." The .Associated Press learns author: tatively that Germany will propose t Ambassador Gerard a special refafifka tion of the Prussian-American trestle of 1779 and 1812, allowing nations 1 case of war nine months in which t settle their affairs and leave hoetl'l countries. This step would positivel insure Americans in Germany and Gsi mans in America against internment 1 hostilities break out and would preven a precipitated exodus from either coun try such as was general in Europe whs the war began. A representative of the foreign ol fice pointed out to a correspondent o the Associated Press that the anden treaties between the United States an Prussia were still in effect and coa tained a clause, contrary to the usua rule, that they should not be invalidate! by the outbreak of hostilities. This of ficdal said that so far as he was ill formed Germany certainly would hoi to these treaties and that there woul be no question of interning American in Germany in case of war. In official quarters there seemed t be anxiety to reassure the few Ames cans still here on the question of totem ment. Several of these Americans ar in a highly difficult position with n prospective means of return to tb United States except by the trans-S: berian railway or possibly by a rounc about route through Switzerland ( Spain and by Spanish steamers to Cub, Scores of Americans have applidfi sine Wednesday for the necessary mill tar permission to leave the country but thi involves a delay of at least a fortnigiv Others, including long time resident) whose entire interests are in German’ plan to remain no matter what ha*ppem Ambassador James W. Gerard t>J morning received instructions to his passports. His plans for depar|*jre are not y< decided.**’ United States Ambassador Gerard ha practically decided to return to tn United States from a Spanish port. Til plan to have American interests takd over by the Brazilian minister has bee abandoned and it is not known who Wil represent America in Berlin after Mi Gerard’s departure. X The news of the breach of relations between the United States a; Germany was made known here tod? through newspaper dispatches. Ambassador Gerard was on his way" keep an appointment with Foreign Se retary Zimmermann at noon today wh< an Associated Press corresponds showed him dispatches giving details I the president’s speech. The ambass dor declined to make any comment. I conferred with Chancellor von Bed mann-Hollweg yesterday, but neith official had then any information in r gard to the president’/ decision, ai their conversation was general in ni ture. The chancellor apparently ask< Mr. Gerard to call in order to learn he had any information as to his go eminent's course, news of which he been eagerly awaited here.
