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Newspaper Page Text®ht ZViUwfe SmtrnaJ VOLUME XIV. BREAK WITH A USTRIA BELIEVED IMMINENT G*. ANO 21 OTHER • STITES ARE MADE BDNE-DRY IT ONCE When President Wilson Signs Postal Appropriation Bill -With Reed Clause, Liquor Shipments Will Be Cut Off (By Associated Press ) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—The senate amendment to the postal bill, designed to make "bone dry" states which have state-wide prohibition laws, was adopted Wednesday by the house. The vote was 321 to 72. Six southern states whose prohibition laws have permitted the importation of a limited quantity of whisky, beer or wine for persona! use, become "bone dry” under the Reed amend ment. Tney are Virginia. North and Sooth Carolina. Georgia. Alabama and Mississippi Arkansas already is en tirely dry and Tennessee becomes so on March 1 tinder the state law. Florida. and Texas, having local option laws, are not affected. The bill, with its prohibition pro vision. accepted by the house without 'hange, and other senate amendments which were diaagreed to. now goes to conference of the two houses. It is re garded as unlikely, however, that the prohibition feature will be changid. and President Wilson is expected to give it his appro*• al. thereby adding immediate ly to the •'bone dry” territory about a third of continental United States. The bill also contains a provision bar ring liquor advertisements in states that prohibit such advertising. There is a dispute among ' the con gressmen as to when the amendment goes into effect. Some hold that it will not be effective until July 1. when the appropriations in the bill are available. • Übers hold it becomes effective upon the signature of President Wilson. Advocates of prohibition were great ly elated today over the action of the house in passing the Reeii amendment. 'Some of them said the way now had been paved for the adoption of a nation wide amendment. There was a long and heated debate over the amendment. Representative Sberiey told the house <0 per cent of the whisky manufactured in Kentcky was sent into -states from which the Reed amendment would bar it. of Indiana, and Cannon, of lilino.s. sup • parted Mr. Sberiey. An amendment by Mr. Sberiey to pos'- pofte operation of the provision for’ot. year was rejected on an aye and nx> vote, after friends ot the bill had warn ed the house that any change of the » n ate amendment would kill it in confer ence. A limited amount of liqupr may be imported into those states now under staje laws. The Reed amendment follows: Whoever shall order, purchase or oause intoxicating Hpuors to be ' ransported in interstate commerce, except for scientific, sacramental, medicinal or mechanical purposes, into any state or territory the laws of which state or territory prohibit the manufacture or sale therein of intoxicating liquors for beverage • purposes shall be punished by a tine of not more than <I,OOO or im prisonment not , more than six months, or both, and for any subse quent offense shall be imprisoned not more than one year The amendment was accounted the most far-reaching prohibition measure ever passed bj congress. Every effort to change the amendment was defeated overwhelmingly. fries of "bone-dry" rang through the house. laird laughter accompanied the voting. Mem? ers who attempted to explain that •hr- re prohibitionists at heart, but ■r state’s rights, were greeted ; hter. e twenty-two states which will be prohibition territory when the amendment would be effective, only eight have forbidden importations of intoxicants for personal use. Many of these have set no limitation on the amount that can be brought in for in dividual use. In addition Michigan. Montana and Indiana have enacted pro hibition law- which will put them into the prohibition column, subject to the provisions of the Reed amendment. The amendment marks virtually the only step ever taken by the federal gov ernment. aside from the internal reve nue laws, to extend its control over the liquor traffic throughout the states It is the only important federal legislation affecting liquor shipments excepting the Webb-Kenyon law. which merely gave federal force to state regulations by providing that no liquor shall be im ported into states which forbid its im portation. The amendment also provided tbat no newspaper or other publication or letter containing liquor advertising shall be carried in the mails in tsates that pro hibit such advertising. State laws have permitted whisky, beer and wine to be imported in the af fected states tn the following quantities although their sale and manufacture are forbidden: Virginia—One quart of whisky or three gallons of beer, or one gallon of wine instead of the beer each month by every head of a household. North Carolina—One gallon of whisky or wine and five gallons of beer by an individual every fifteen days. South Carolina—One gallon nf whisky or beer or wine to any person in one month Georgia—Two quarts of whisk)- or one gallon of wine or four dozen bottles.of beer by any one every thirty days. Alabama—Two quarts of whisky, two cations of wine or four dozen l»ottles of beer every two weeks. Mississippi—One-half gallon of vlnu ous liquor or three gallons of malted or fermented liquors by any one every fif teen days. Aged Merchant Clubbed T o Death and Robbed LONOKE. Ark.. Feb. 22.—John Cox. an aged merchant and father of Rev. Ben jamine Cox. a widely known minister of ■BONE-DRY" MEASURE BARS BRINGING BOOZE INTO STITE "ON NIP" Congressmen Adamson, Ruck er and Others Are Convinced Reed Bill Covers Personal Carrying of Liquor BY BAiPH SMITH. WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—The dras tic provisions of the Reed “bone-dry” . amendment to the postal appropriation bill becomes effective the minute the ' president approves the measure. He probably will do this within the I next ten days or two weeks. There are other features of the bill that are still in conference between the senate and house and until an agree ment is reached as to them the bill can not be sent to the White House for the approval of the president. Congressman John Moon, of Tennes see, chairman of the postal committee of the house, today made it clear to Th Journal that the bill becomes imme diately effective with its approval by Mr. Wilson. n< "tid: “It has been i time and again and will not be ser y disputed that leg islative provis . appropriation bills become effectit the bill is approved by th president. Os course, the appropriation;-, do not become avail able until July 1. but that is because the new fiscal year does not begin until then and the appropriations are made for the succeeding fiscal year.” , REED NOT CERTAIN. Senator Reed, of Missouri, author of the bill, was unwilling this morning to give an opinion as to whether his amendment applies to the pebson.il transportation of whisky into prohibi- tion states. •■1 drew the amendment in aVninute and a half." said he. "and 1 didn't stop to construe u literally.” The sugge- ion that the amendment does not appty to beer is ridiculous. Os course <t does in states that, have prohib ited the sale and manufacture of intoxi cant liquors." The senator was asked if the •word "transportation'' as us?d in the amend ment applied to the personal carriage ot willsky by persons traveling in in terstate commerce, tie did not care to express h.mself aa to this point, but did it clear that persons desiring tp p’.Jy :u-> h.isi belter lay in their supply oi . Lc.ore the president signs the L;.:. .'ii s< cues in the: house yesterday aft ». a»..i w n arked concurrence in the s*::ate a ■ ei'J.aent, were lively, and en liius tc . pcechea against the amend n.ent were interrupted with shouts of "bune-ury' and the wildest enthusiasm marked the final action of the house. Every Georgia member voted for the amendment and two of them made speeches in support of it. Declaring that it was inconceivable to him that any prohibitionist could vote against the amendment Representative Crisp, of the Third, made an eloquent plea for concurrence. He said he had been voting the prohibition ticket twen ty-five years. He read a telegram from Dr. Charles O. Jones, chairman of the Georgia Anti-Saloon league, strongly commending the amendment and urging its adaption. HOWARD MAKES SPEECH. “This is the day real prohibitionists have been praying for,” said William Schley Howard. .“It makes it possible for dry states to raise a generation of sober men. happy children and contented wives and mothers. “I see members of the anti-saloon league who hold salaried jobs divided on this question. Too drastic, some cf them say, they are homeopathic prohibi tionists. lam allopathic. “Gentlemen who profess to be prohibi tionists and are opposing this amend ment remind me of an incident that occurred in my boyhood One morning as I was on my way to school 1 dis covered a poor bug in the dusty road, laboring under many difficulties. 1 thought at first, it was a junc bug, but It was not; its (plight touched my boy ish sympathies and I thought I would assist it in its predicament, but upon close inspection I found that this bug was pushing one way and looking an other. and in boyish disgust I left it to its task.” MR ADAMSON'S VIEW. Congressman Adamson, of Georgia, chairman of the interstate commerce committee, who is an authority on inter state commerce laws, holds that the Reed amendment literally construed applies to the personal transportation of liquor. "I have written my constituents that under the amendment they will be liable to punishment <f they should go into Florida and return to Georgia with a bottle of liquor “on the hip.” 1 feel cer tain the courts will construe the Reed amendment to apply to the personal transportation of intoxicants.”. Congressman T. W. Rucker, who serv ed several years as assistant United States attorney in the northern district of Georgia, concurs in the view of Judge Adamson. He had much experience in the prosecution of moonshiners and is familiar with the decisions of the fed eral courts relating to whisky. He said: “There is a federal statute against the transportation of whisky from an illicit still house. The courts uniformly have held that this applied to the per sonal removal of liquor ‘on the hip.' It seems to me that this law is analogous to the Reed amendment and I believe the courts will so hold.” Dance, Jealousy, Pistol; Same Old Story, 2 Dead RICHMOND. Va.. Feb. 22. —Raymond Winn. 2J. shot and instantly killed Miss Elise Thorpe, 17, during a dance her-.- last night, then shot himself to death. The tragedy followed a quarrel. Both were guests at the dance to which an other young man had accompanied Miss Thorpe. Ab the girl steped out on the lawn Winn drew his revolver and killed her. The victims were members of weil known Richmond families. Memphis. Tenn., was clubbed to death with an iron bar at his home here yes terday. Robbery is believed to have been the motive which prompted the killing. His assailant escaped. THE LAST STRAW • / —. -r- I.i n>. ”“7. / JW /// Km isl /// c - (5 /I • - . __MT .11, - - . . -«^ , -r4rwwwmnim ~i ATLANTA’S FUND FOR BUFORDS IS NOW $2,386.49 Contributions Received at Jour nal From Many People Thurs day Subscription List Is Still Open * Subscriptions to the fund for the family of Rev. Gaston R. Buford continued to pour in to The Journal Thursday in amounts ranging from SIOO down to 50 cents. With subscriptions previous ly received by The Journal, and other papers, and those received by several Presbyterian minis ters who issued the appeal for the fund, the grand total to date is $2,386.49. Contributions to the fund show no signs of slacking up. though it has been five days since the "little minister” gave his life in an attempt to rescue women iri deadly peril from a crazed man. Among today’s contributors are a friend who sent $10<» to Dr. Dunbar H. Og den, with the request that his name not be published; man agers and employes of the Ar cade case, who “chipped in” $31.00; people living at the Im perial hotel, where a collection was taken up |by Mrs. A. D. Frank; ,and several students at the Boys’ High school, where James Buford, eldest son of the family, was a student. These boys give today $5.00 additional to their former $50.00 subscrip tion. / The fund figures today fol low : Subscriptions previously ac knowledged by The Journal. 11,353.10 Subscriptions received by The Journal Thursday 425.75 Subscriptions announced by the Constitution 469.00 Subscriptions announced by the Georgian * 138.64 Grand total to date from all sources $2,386.49 Reduced Fares for Good Roads Convention (S|x*cial Dispatch to The Journal, i BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Feb. 22.—W. H. Howard, secretary of the Southeastern Passenger association. has notified Sec retary J. A. Rountree, of the Unifed States Good Roads association, that the passenger traffic officers of the south eastern railroads have indicated their -willingness to special fares from all points in the southeastern ter ritory on account of the fifth annual session of the association in Birming ham. Ala., on April 17-20. Mr. Howard writes that the publication of these spe cial fares will be made in the next few days and genera] publicity given to the same. It is believed that these special rates will draw large crowds to this great convention. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917 WOMEN RIOTING FOB FOOD IN PHILADELPHIA ANO NEW YORK CITY One Injured and Taken to Hos pital With Broken Leg—Boy cott on Increased Prices Is Declared . (By Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 22. —Disorderly j scenes occurred in the southeastern part of the city populated largely by foreign ers today, wJien bands of women made demonstrations against dealers that have raised food prices. In a melee in which stores were being attacked, a woman was knocked down and trampled upon. She was taken to a hospital with a broken leg. The po lice dispersed the crowd without any serious injury being done. Minor dis orders occurred in other streets ofsthe foreign quarter. Today s demonstrations were the re sult of a meeting of women at which it was decided to boycott dealers who in creased prices. Women with bottles containing kerosene are alleged to h’ave poured the oil on meats, fish and vege tables displayed by dealers and to have attacked curb merchants and push cart venders. Pickets were established and women who patronized stores where prices were raised were attacked and the articles they purchased taken from them. i Dealers in kosher meat have distrib uted circulars calling for a mass meet ing to explain that retail dealers are not responsible for the high cost of food SIX sbipTbTtlb is VICTIMS OF SUBMARINES (Five Steamships, Two Neutral, and One Trawler Are Sent Down NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—Five steamers, aggregating more than 10,000 tons, and one trawler are on today’s list of ves sels sunk as a result of the new Teu tonic blockade measure. Neutral vessels are again figuring in the sinkings reported. One of today's announced victims of the submarine op erations was the Dutch steamship Am bon and the other was the Norwegian steamship Alice. The other steamships sunk were the Uorso and Perseus, both British, and the Russian ship Sigrid. The trawler was British. Russian Fire Halts Attacks of Teutons PETROGRAD, Feb. 2. —(Via London.! i Teutonic troops in massed formation made an attack yesterday on the Rus sian positions near Dorna Watra, on the northern end of the Rumanian front. Today’s official statement says they were halted by -tbe Ruslan Tire. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY IS OBSERVED ST CAPITOL Wilson Takes Part and Renews Allegiance to the /lag (By As*oci<tnd Press.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.—President Wilson participated in George Washing ton birthday exercises here today, at which frequent reference was made to the international situation. “It is much less of an adventure to write history than to try to enact it,” said the president in presenting a gold medal to a schoolboy for writing an essay on history. The president pledged allegiance anew to the American flag, and, with the re mainder of an audience, including mem bers of the cabinet, diplomats and con gressmen. he stood at salute while the pledging ’o F allegiance was repeated. The exercises were marked by an out burst of patriotic fervor when President Wil-on appeared. Senator Pomerene devlivered the prin cipal address. Senator Pomerene denounced Ger many's submarine campaign and assil ed pacifists who are urging a referendum on the question of war. “I hope that they will make an ar rangement under which the enemy will do no shooting until the vote is taken." said the senator. In presenting the medal to the school boy President Wilson said: "It gives me a great deal of genuine pleasure to present this. I know some of the thing's that you, have gone through for I myself have tried to write history. 14 Z is much less of an adventure, than to try to enact it, but it nevertheless is the kind of adventure that lifts the spirit, and I hope that it has had that effect upon you. Government departments were closed for the day, but because of press of leg islation, congress held its usual sessions. Sock Containing $4,250 Is Found Among Effects Os Late Mrs. Kate Lee When Mrs. Kate Lee died last Thurs day at the home of Miss Lydia Hollings worth. 42 East Baker street, her friends knew that she left money. But none of them realized just what a little fortune it was until her effects were examined. | Then Peter F. Clarke, executor of the i estate, found a worn hand-bag contain- : ing $450. and, hidden in the drawer of I her bureau, a sock packed with one hun-1 dred dollar and other bills of large de- j nomination that totaled $4,250. Heren-I tire estate, it is said, will approximate $20,000. Mrs. Lee was 87 years old. She had lived for fourteen years at the home of Miss Hollingsworth. She left all her I money to the children of her late sister, Mrs. Johanna Winningham. They are Brs. ’Belle Reed, Mrs. Minnie Veal, Mrs. Laura Humphries, Mrs. Hattie Shephard, Mrs. Kate Miller and Frank Winning ham. ROGERS DICTOGRAPHS OTHERS IN ITTEMPT TO PROVE INNOCENCE Accuses M, J. Yarter of Rob- bing Paymaster Boykin Near Hapeville and Paymaster Black Near Fertilizer Works After the state > had closed its case Thursday morning'in the prosecution of W. W. (Boots, Rogers op the charge , of robbing Paymaster A. H. Boykin,* of the Martel cotton mill, of $1,200 on the ' morning of last December 2. Rogers took the stand in his own defense and im mediately proceeded to attempt to fasten i the crime on M. J. Yarter. an ex-police man who was arrested a few days ago by • city detectives, and whom the detectives are trying to connect also with the Ar ; mour Fertilizer Company holdup some ! months ago and with the Wurm murder | case. At 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon Judge ! Hill adjourned the trial until 9 o’clock Friday morning. Rogers in his statement also attempt i ed to implicate W. H. Baldwin, another i suspect held by the detectives, and Max ; Ogan, a third suspect held by the de tectives. ARMOUR HOLDUP. In addition to accusing Yarter of the I Boykin noldup near Hapeville, Rogers ac< > ii.m of the holdup of Paymaster Bl of the Armour Fertilizer company w i hapi>ened a short while previous t< ie Hapeville holdup. - .togers based his accusation of Yar ter, Baldwin and Ogan on an alleged conversation ’between Yarter and Mrs. Viola Tyler, which he claimed that he and Detectives Starnes and Campbell overehard by means of a dictograph last Saturday night, i . In the midst of Rogers' recital of the details of this alleged dictographed con versation, Judge Hill stopped him and announced that he was inclined to rule that Rogers could not accuse others of the crime for which he was on trial, but must confine himself to his own connection with or innocence of the crime. The jury was ordered out while the lawyers argued this point at great length. In the course of the argument, Hugh M. Dorsey, who with John W. Moore is representing Rogers, stated that the defense expected to prove that Yarter was the ringleader in the robbery of Boykin near Hapeville. At the conclusion of the arguments by attorneys. Judge Hill changed his mind and ruled that Rogers could go ahead and tell what he claimed to have over heard by means of the dictograph. Dan Carr, who had been expected to go on the stand as a witness for the defense and furnish some kind of a ' sensational development rn the trial, was not put on the stand Thursday, and it is understood that he will not go on the stand. ROGERS’ STORY. Boots Rogers began his statement by saying he was at home on Crew street on the morning of December 2, and knew nothing about the holdup until he was arrested some days later and made a bond of $5,000 for his release. He then proceeded to bring Mrs. Viola Tyler into the case and through her lead up to the alleged conversation which he and Detectives Starnes and Campbell dictographed last Saturday night. Mrs. Tyler is the woman who has re cently figured in the counterfeiting case in the federal court in this city. Boots Rogers said she called him up last Thursday dnd told him to come to see her about his case. He said when he went to see her, Mrs. Tyler told him that he was being wrongfully accused and she hoped to help him out of trou ble, with, the result that on Saturday night he, Starnes and Campbell went to her residence. 15 East Mitchell stree’. installed a dictograph in her room, re tired to a room adjoining, and awaited developments. Pretty soon, said Rogers, Yarter and Harry Young entered the room where Mrs. Tyler was waiting for them, and by means of skillful questions she ma neuvered Yarter into telling her that he- was the leader in the robbery of Boy kin. According to Rogers’ account of Yar ter's narrative, as Rogers claimed that (Continued on Page 7, Col. 3.) 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'By Associated Press..’ AMSTERDAM, Feb. 22.—(Via Lon-' don.>—A dispatch rece ’ here from' Berlin s&ys that the sailors who were taken to Germany on ths-, steamer Yarrowdale have been The Americans were released the dis patch says, after the German govern ment had been informed officially that German ships in America had not been confiscated and that their crews had. not been interned. <Ey Aosoeiatad Press.) BERNE (Via Faris), Feb. 22.—Au*-, tria s reply to the Unite*) States defin ing her position in the war is known in; Berlin, according to the Frankfurter which predicts that a breach of relations between Washington and' Vienna is inevitable. The paper’s BeS». lin correspondent says: “The memorandum which President) Wilson has sent to the Vienna govern-* ment leaves no doubt that the breach of : relations between the United States and’ Germany soon will be followed by a • breach with Austria-Hungary. Presiri dent Wilson wishes to be clearly told, whether the Austro-Hungarian govern-i ment has withdrawn its earlier declara tion regarding the conduct of submarine warfare. Really, one ought to think{ the explanation given by Austria-Hun-1 gary at the beginning of the unrestrtct-| ed submarine warfare to the effect that from February 1 all ocean traffic in the blockaded zones will be prevented by all means, should not be capable, of misconception, but ia his with the central powers President Wtl son is always painfully exact. “It is true that we have not heard’ that he ever sent cautions, let altone warnings, to the entente for torpedoing. Austrian or German ships without warn ing, but when Germany or Austria do the same thing President Wilson raises his voice in the name of humanity and civilization. The Anstro-Hungarian gov-__ eminent will, answer President Wilson’s memorandum and wiiat this answer will be is known. Mr. Wilson wiM be able to draw his conclusions therefrom and wilb break off relations.? .. < Five Americans Aboard Swedish Steamer Sunk CRy Associated Press.) WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.—Sinking by a German submarine of the Swedish steamer Skogland, which had five Ameri cans aboard, after the crew had been given ten minutes to take to their boats, was reported by Otmsol General Hurst at Barcelona, Spain, in a message today to the state department No one was. injured and the crew landed safely at Tarragona, Spain. P. A. S. Franklin, president of the In ternational Mercantile Marine, owner of the American line, conferred here today with Secretary Daniels and Assistant. Secretary’ Roosevelt of the navy. None of the three officials would comment on the purpose of the conference. It is understood that Mr. Franklin’s visit today was on the qifestion of the navy furnishing arms for merchant ships. The government it is understood, has not yet decided the question. v 4 -ini 4ouse Lining Up for Fight on Hicost Probe (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The house be gan lining up today for the fight over President Wilson’s request for a $400,- 000 appropriation for the federal trade commission’s investigation into the high cost of living. Chairman Fitzgerald or the-appropria tions committee, announced he would fight the expenditure on the ground that nothing would be accomplished. Five Republicans and five Democrats joined in a letter to all other members urging them to support the appropriation.