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Newspaper Page Textwi-W ccldjj Wtwwil VOLUME XIV ALLIES ARE PLANNING NEW DRIVE IN 1 COMPROMISE DN FOOD CONTROL DILL DECURS PRESIDENT Senate Refers House Measure to Committee, While Solons Proceed to Tack on Numer ous Amendments WAJSSTNOTOK. Jwm i4—Senate ieod today unnfed to expedite the food •octroi bill peooed Saturday by the houae. The MU was referred by the senate today without dtoousslon to the agricul tural oonrmtttM. Senator Reed, of Mis souri. today continued his attack upon IL Mo additional committee hearings are proposed. Chief among the amendments pro posed are some extending government control to tron and steel and their prod ucts oil. petroleum products, copper, lead, sloe and fertilizers. Senator Chamberlain. In charge of the bllL said there was much sentiment for having the government control basic materials as well as food. A half dozen amendments to the bill were introduced today. Senator Lewis, Democrat, of Illinois, offered a substi tute bill proposing to give the presi dent general, broad authority to issue regulations for control of foodstuffia Several measures which have been be fore the senate as part of th war leg islation also were tacked onto the bill *as amendments. Senator Walsh put in his bin permitting the government to lease coal and oil lands. The bill giv ing the president the power to direct priority in railroad shipments was offer ed as an amendment by Senator Rans dell. Senator Wadsworth tacked on the trading-with-the-enemy bill and Senator Cummins proposed amendments declar ing every product, including foodstuffs, cotton, coal and steel products to control and requisition should it become nec essary. NO COMPROMISE. President Wilson will make his sen ate tight for sod control without com promise. Friends of the administration meas ure are in complete accord with this, and declared today that opposition in the senate, numerically, at least, is confidently expected to prove to be no greater than in the house, where only ■five votes were cast against the bill. Inclusion by the house of a "bone dry*' section may split opposition to the bill in the senate. That amend ment and others adopted in the lower branch have served to scatter antago nists in the upper house to the point where some confusion is noted in their ranks today. The senate will probably retain some prohibition section, but sentiment is more inclined to favor the discontin uance of distilled spirits manufacture but not stoppage nf beers and wines Retention by the senate of this fea ture of the bill, however, is bound fur ther to intensify some isolated opposi tion to the food control bill and threat en perhaps its final passage this week COURSE NOT CLEAR. • The exact course of this opposition, however, will not become clear for sev eral days probably. After continued conferences during the past two days between different factions on pie bill, the following de cisions were reached today: Friends of the bill will not remove any of the “teeth" left tn it by the house They will, in fact, attempt 'o at d some. Opponents of the measure will fight it to the end on the ground that It is unconstitutional and unecessary to es tablish a food dictatorship. They will say the only thing necessary is regula- J tion of food speculation. It has betn agreed to eliminate all reference in the bill to control of "food consumption"—entrance into the home and dictating what shall and shall not be served. It has been further agreed specifical- Iji to exclude farmers from restrictions under the bill, making it apply essen tially to the distributors. The measure will be broadened so as to include foods, feeds, fuel, and under •‘other necessaries.” steel, iron. oil. all petroleum products, aluminum, and farm machinery. TO RELIEVE PRODUCER This will be done so that the food producer may be relieved as. well as the consumer. Price-fixing and comardeering fea tures will remain. There will be some minor changes beyond the ones mentioned, but the "teeth" will be left intact. The bill went to the senate today from the hou«e. and was to be sent to the agricultural committee for these amendments. Friends of the bill say there will be a majority report, favoring it from the committee, but probably a minority re port. too. It is hoped to present both to the senate tomorrow and every ef fort will be made to get a vote by Sat urday Senator Reed. 2 Missouri, planned to continue his Marathon verbal attack on the bill today, with Hardwick. Hoke Smith and other® waiting to take up where he leaves off. Prohibition amendments to the food control legislation will not interfere with the senate finance committee's -•■ns to complete the war tax bill this w-eK anrt have it ready to f dlow the thki bill in the senate. Chairman Sim mons said the committee would proceed epvi, the assumption that liquor will re main a revenue source. The committee today continued consid eration of excess profits section, but made no decisions. Senator Simmons in dicated that the committee might not further consider the special tax on pub lishers. but leave It for senate discus sions. Wilkes County Raises 53,500 of Its Quota . .. Dispatch to The Journal, i U .rHINGTON, Ga., June 25.—At a public meeting here Sunday evening 18,- 500 was raised of Wilkes county's $lO.- 000 for the Red Cross. Much interest was shown and it is believed Wilkes will oversubscribe her quota. Full Associated Press Service RECRUITING FOR REGULAR ARMY IS INCREASING HERE "70,000 Men Before June 30” Is Slogan of Week's Cam paign-State's Quota Re duced by This Enlistment “Seventy thousand men before June 801*' was the slogan of the regular army recruiting campaign begun throughout the nation Monday. President Wilson has designated the week as recruiting week for the regu lars and the understanding is that If the 70,000 are secured. It will mean a quick movement toward France for the regu lar army. In Atlanta the campaign began au spiciously. Both Sunday and Monday the enlisting officers at the postoffloe building were busy examining recruits, and reports from all over the state in dicated that Georgia may get before the week Is over the 2,840 men yet needed to complete its army quota. The regular army, which totaled a little more than 100,000 men three months ago. Is now nearing the 250,000 mark and officers are hopeful that the 300,000 mark will be passed this week. In connection with the campaign, it was pointed out by Adjutant Genera] McCain at Washington that under the selective service law, every man who voluteers In the regulars now from any state means one man less that state will be required to furnish In the selec tive service army. A careful record of the state distribution of recruits Is be ing kept for that purpose. EXPECTS RECORD WEEK. Captain G. V. Heidt. the recruiting officer In charge in Georgia, said Mon day morning before leaving for a short trip to several sub-stations in the dis trict that he hoped to see a record week for the state. "I have every reason to believe that the state will come forward magnlfl ciently,” le said, “and furnish enough men to almost to round out the 5,00” asked of the state when war was de clared. “The service promises a man ideal llvlag conditions, a good salary, and the best of surroundings. If he Is of good material he will not have to re main long as a private, but will be rapidly advanced. “There is an urgent need for many non-commissioned officers for the new regiments now forming, and there will be an even greater demand for them when the national army begins to form. These men are coming from the ones who enlist now, who get in on the ground floor and get their training now under army officers who have spent lifetimes studying the game. In order for Georgia to fill out its quota by the first of July, it will be necessary for an average of 300 men per day to be maintained during the week, as the state is now about 2,000 men short of its number. The week began auspiciously Monday morning, about thirty men being on hand for examination at local of fice In the postoffice buildin. and re ports from various sub-stations indi cated that many men would arrive during the day. BISHOP OF STLINTI TO . HE ELECTED HF COUNCIL Diocese of Atlanta, Episcopal, to Begin Extra Session Here Tuesday The council of the diocese of Atlan ta. of the Episcopal church, will begin its extra session in Atlanta Tuesday, when it will assemble at St. Philips 1 cathedral. This meeting was made necessary by Rev. R. S. Coupland, of New Orleans, I who declined to accept the position of fered him as successor to the bishop of Atlanta, the late Bishop C. K. Nel son. The council assembled in Macon in the spring, when Dr. Coupland was elected. It meets here to elect another * as a successor to the late Bishop Nel son. Bishop Thomas F. Gallor, of Tenes see, will preach Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock to the council in St. Phil lips’ cathedral. Tty ere are about 100 delegates to the diocesan council, which must elect the successor to the late Bishop Nelson. Every parish has three lay delegates to the council, and every organized mis sion • has one. Each lay delegate has the power of casting one-third of a vote. Every minister in recognized standing in the diocese has a vote. The council is thus divided Into two bodies when voting, one of laymen and one of ministers. It is not known just when the coun cil will act on the matter of electing the new bishop, since a day or two ' may be taken up with discussion. Patriotic Chinese “Sling Stlah Splangle Blannah” CHICAGO. June 25.—Dedication Os the new home of the Hip Sing Tong was ocncluded early today. Reporters visited the hall while the ceremonies were at their height last • night. The hall was decorated with Chinese and American flags and the 259 members were making a bedlam of noire. "What are they doing?” was asked. ’’Slining' ’Stlah Splangle Blannah,' ” he was told. Machine Guns Are Used On Rioting Sinn Ferners CORK June 25.—Machine guns were used on the Sinn Feiners in the disturb ances nere yesterday. They were ' brought into action after the police with clubs had failed to restore order. One I rioter was killed. another severely i wounded while a dozen were treated In (hospitals for bayonet and other wounds. The riot was eventually quelled without troops coming Into action. CAMPAIGN BEGINS FDR 5250.000 QUOTA ID DE MISED HERE Two Subscriptions Already Re ceived, One of Which Was From Widow of Veteran Dis abled in the Civil War Atlanta is digging down into Its pock et to give to the Red Cross fund. Plans and preparations are over. The actual canvass has begun, and before 6 o’clock Thursday evening the city's contributions will total $250,000. That is what Atlanta will give for the sake of humanity, for the sake of the boys who are going to France. Two hundred of the leading business men are at this moment canvassing the city, and in response to their appeal every one is giving. The rich and the poor, the old and the young. No announcements have yet been made of subscriptions, and none will be until Tuesday. But <the city is aroused, and the drive to raise $250,000 is going forward with a The last details of the campaign were settled at a luncheon Monday aft ernoon at 12:30 o’clock, in the chamber of .commerce building, attended by the twenty working teams, their captains and the executive committee. That meeting set the machinery go ing, and formally opened Red Cross week. Each committee was assigned a list of prospective donors, was assign ed its working district, and, at the end of the luncheon, all set about the whirl wind campaign. GEORGIA CTTIEg REPORT. Four Georgia cities have also been heard from. Savannah has raised $99,- 000; Brunswick, $12,500; Newnan, $5,- 000, and Americus, $2,500. Birmingham has challenged Atlanta to a race to see which can reach the $200,- 000 mark first. But, since her subscrip tions already total $150,000, while Atlan ta is just beginning her campaign, the race would hardly be fair. Deluge of Gold sor v Fund on Red Cross Day WASHINGTON, June 25.—G01d con tinued to roll into the Red Cross war chest in unprecedented quantity today —the last of the one week drive to raise a $100,000,q00 fund. Every dollar given today was a trib ute to General Pershing, leader of the American forces, as the day was named in his honor. No accurate idea of the total raised during the week will be available be fore tomorrow night, according to pres ent indications. Returns are coming in so fast that It is impossible to tabu late them, and many districts are too busy to make any official reports what ever. Colorado Springs leads the per capita contribution column in the west, with subscriptions of $4.21 per inhabitant. Tulsa, Okla., is second, with $3.27 per capita, and Butte, Mont., third, with $2.84. Other cities ■well up in the list are Salt Lake City, $2.32; San Jose, Cal., $2.30: Houston, $1.07; Omaha, $1.22; Kansas City, Mo., $2.10. New England leads the rest of the country in per capita contribution, an average of 94 cents per person. The entire country’s per capita contribution today stands at 84 cents. Ready to give Katherine Stinson, twenty-one-year-old aviatrix, a rousing reception when she arrives here this afternoon from Buffalo, N. Y., on her Red Cross flight, a big crowd gathered at the polo grounds in Potomac park. Upon arriving here she was to go to the treasury, where she will hand Secretary McAdoo or his representative Red Cross checks from Buffalo. Miss Stinson is flying a Curtiss military tractor —battle plane type. Germany’s Claim About Rain and Splendid Crops Bears Earmarks of Fake COPENHAGEN, June 25.—A report sent out today by the German govern ment for free distribution In the neu- I tral press says that in consequence of the long desired rainfall, the crop pros pect in southern and western Germany really is brilliant. In the middle and eastern provinces It is thoroughly sat isfactory. The report wduld deserve more credence if Germany had not fol lowed the tactics every harvest during the war. Private reports received by the Asso ciated Press up to the end of the sec ond week of June describe prospects for 1917 as anything but brilliant. They say that rains are urgently needed, and if they come opportunely could do much i to save suffering spring grain or im- I prove winter grain prospects, but in no case could produce better than a : bare middle harvest. Official reports fioday that fodder cut [ now is far above the average is flatly contradicted b£ private advices and dif ficult to reconcile with past weather conditions. Danish crops grown undeß similar climate conditions were given as poor to bad in last week’s official report. Gives Four Sons to U. S., But Will Give Another When He Is Old Enough BOSTON, June 25.—Having given four of her sons to Uncle Sam’s fighting forces. Mrs. William J. Brickley, mother ; of Charley Brickley, the Harvard foot ball star, has one left. And he, she ! said today, will be handed over just as soon as he is old enough. Charley, , George. Joe and Rill are “in.” . British Ship Aground LIMA, Peru, June 25.—The British steamship Elder Branch, 4,443 tons gross, is aground at the Lobros Is lands, off the coast of Peru. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 1917. - wJr , JBr .--J IPS KSW jgf FI K / ■ 1V TIFT Mil BE CHIEF OF EXEMPTION THIBUNJL t Former President Calls on Wilson at Request of the Latter WASHINGTON, June 25.—Ex-Presi dent W’llliam Howard Taft called at the White House this afternoon on request of the president. It was j resumed Mr. Taft was to dis cuss the selective service exemption reg ulations. He has been one of the presi dent's principal al • sers En t rs mattei’ which will affect the 10,000,000 m<n of America who registered for service «n the new armies of the republic. While the White House was silent re garding the personnel of the "supreme court" of the exemption organization which will have the last word in excus ing men who claim exemption, it was authoritatively reported today that ex- President Taft will be asked to serve as chief justice of this supreme tribunal. Nominations for selective draft ex emption boards for the few states yet unsettled were today placed in the hands of President Wilson. By night local boards comprising a personnel of 30.000 are expected to be finished and notification sent governors. With the completion of the local boards the next phase of the draft awaits only Issuance of exemption reg» ulations by President iWlson. The president is today considering the boards in Illinois/ Wisconsin, Ohio, Tex as, New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. Other states boards are com pleted. Many appointees in the states already fixed are trying to resign, on grounds that such a position has too much “po litical risk.” Such cases have been referred by the president back to the governors. Mushroom Collectors Warned by Department WASHINGTON, June 25. —Inexpert persons who insist on collecting “mush rooms” and afterward die of regret— and poison—on learning they picked the poisonous kind, are warned by the de partment of agriculture that there is no simple test for distinguishing the eat able from the other. For example, the common belief that any mushroom may be eaten with safe ty if the skin can be peeled readily from the cap is unfounded. The same peel ing is possible with many poisonous species. The presence of Insects on mush- I rooms, too. is no proof they are safe for human consumption. The common belief that if mushrooms are soaked or boiled in salt water they will do no harm, also is a dangerous and unfound ed supposition. German Papers Angry With Bethmann-Hollweg LONDON, June 25.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph company from Amsterdam says that leading German newspapers are protesting angrily against Chancellor von Bethmann-Holl v.eg’s decision to allow them to use only 14 per cent of their former quantity of paper. The Tageblatt, the Tames Zeltung and he Rundschau, of Berlin, charge the chancellor with attempting to kill the German press. The Cologne Gazette says the blow Is a deadly one for the German newspapers which probably will soon cease to extat. CRUSH 'EM! mSTEBE SUBBOUNDS THIS DOUBLE SUICIDE Man Believed to Be Naval Officer and Woman Dead in Hotel PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—Two problems confront the police today in the deaths of “Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Alexander" in a room of the Bellevue- Stratford hotel yesterday. The man Is supposed to be a naval officer. The girl is supposed to be Louise Jones, of New York. The coroner’s jury is completing an autopsy to determine whether the man really died of natural causes or died of poison. They knoi/ that the woman died of a bullet wound through the head, but there is still a shred of doubt as to whether she killed herself. The mystery is still further compli cated by the note found beside the woman’s body. This read, "Notify Lieu tenant R. B. Colton, United States cable ship Joseph Henry, Norfolk, Va.” Until word is received from the Nor folk police it will not be known what bearirtg this note has on the tragedy. All that is really known definitely Is that the couple went to the hotel Sat urday afternoon. They registered and went to their suite. Yesterday after noon the woman asked a maid for a bath robe. The maid rapped at the door on four separate occasions, but received no answer. Then the door was forced. Alexander was found face down on the bed. His face was contorted and his hands clutched the sheets. Wet handkerchiefs by his head led to the belief that the woman had tried to re vive him. It Is«supposed that the woman then became desperate. She took the man’s revolver from his grip, lay down on a couch and when found was dead with a bullet through her head. Besides the note there wai but. one other clue. That was an envelop? ad dressed to Alexander Scholz, 104 West One Hundred and Twenty-third street, New York. Scholz says he believed the woman is Louise Jones. It was also learned that Alexander and Miss Jones were planning to be marrisd in this city. Search of the marriage records failed to revea’ that a license had been issued to them. Atlanta Spot Cotton Is Quoted at 26.25 Atlanta spot cotton was quoted Mon day at 26.25, or 25 points off from Sat urday’s close. The Atlanta Warehouse company reported a sale of 1,600 bales at 26 3-8 cents. New York spots are uoted at 26.60, or 55 points off. Over 1,000 Bales Burn In Cotton Warehouse (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) AUGUSTA, Ga., June 25.—Over 1,000 j bales of cotton were destroyed when fire broke out in the cotton warehouse of Grogan & O’Dowd, on Ninth street, Sunday night. In addition, 2,000 bales were damaged. NEW YORK GIRL SHOT; : BODY FOUND IN DITCH Six of Her Companions Ar rested—Another Girl Disap pears—Cruger on Stand , NEW YORK. June 25.—As Henry D. i Cruger, father of Ruth Cruger, the : high school girl murdered and burled by • Alfredo Cocchi, took the witness stand i to tell how the police bungled their I probe of the case and let Cocchi es > cape, New York today recorded one mur der, one disappearance and two mld , night attacks on other girls. ! Helen Wheelan, 17, a pretty sales girl, i was shot dead In a joy ride brawl. Her body was found in a ditch. Six of her , companions are under arrest. Police are seeking Pearl Fisher, whose mother reported her mysterious disappearance June 7. She worked for a paper box factory on the Bowery. Edith Miles and Mary Egan were at tacked by two men on their way home , at midnight. Miss Miles was knocked senseless and was being dragged to ward a shadowed lawn by her assailant when Miss Egan’s screams brought Louis PauYaud and his son, who cap . tured both men. Cruger will tell Commissioner Wall stein, publicly, every detail of his daughter's case. Cruger has charged that the police did not investigate his daughter’s disappearance more than su perficially. At the same time Lieutenant Vincenzo E. Ludovici, an attache of the Italian war commission visiting here, who was a lawyer in Italy before he joined the, colors, intimated that Italy Is likely to I send Cocchi back to New York to be punished for the Cruger murder. Commissioner Wallstein’s probe dis closed that police records In the Ruth Cruger case, following the report that Cocchi was in Italy, were marked "case closed.” Papers required for the extradition application to bring Alfredo Cocchi, self confessed slayer of Ruth Cruger, from Bologna, Italy, where he fled when he feared he was suspected, were completed today by Edward Swan, district attor i ney. In the ppinion of Mr. Swan and i lawyers conversant with Italian law, I the present friendly relations between Italy and the United States’was expect ed to cause the Italian government to stretch a point by not insisting upon ob servance of its penal code, which pro hibits the extradition of Italian citizens taking precedence over its treaty provid-| ing for reciprocal extradition. With records of the police activities in the Cruger case before him, Leonard M. Wallstein, city commissioner of ac counts, today resumed his inquiry, order ed by Mayor Mitchel, to place responsi bility for the failure of the fourth branch detective bureau to solve the ! mystery of the missing girl. • British Ship Puts Shell Into U-Boat’s Magazine And Blows Craft Apart AN ATLANTIC PORT. June 25. Memembers of the crew of a British I steamer which arrived here today reported having sunk and attack ; ing German submarine. The Brit ish vessel sent a shell into the U-boat j magazine causing an explosion which I i parted the undersea boat about midships. I I Each end sank separately. The British steamer waif uninjured. The submarine was five miles distant ■ and running away after having attacked ' the Britisher nearly 400 miles off the I coast of Ireland. NUMBER 76. WEST ■ed ran is NOTICED ON BRITISH AND FHJ FRONTS London Reports Many Raids by British in Nearly Every Important Sector From Bel gium to St. Quentin NEW YORK, June 25.—(8y Foreign Cables from European Capitals.)—The British front in northern France Is again developing signs of marked ac tivity. Today’s official statement from, London details an unusual number of raids carried out by the British in vir tually every important sector from Belgium to St. Quentin. Operations by raiding forces on this scale are usually the prelude to offen sive movements of moment. General Haig has not struck a hard blow on any extended front since the week of the Messines fighting when the famous ridge on the Belgian front was cap tured and the way prepared for fur ther smashing operations In this sec tor. * Incident to last night’s raids were local operations that gained ground for the British. Thus some progress by them below Lens and northwest of Warneton in the Messines area is re ported. There is a momentary lull In the In fantry in re-establishing in its entirety their line in the Vauxaillon area, dent ed by the crown prince’s forces In flr sudden drive on a narrqw front last week. Further fighting Is in prospect to the east of this sector In the skir mishing for position on the part of the two armies, each anxious to gain domi nating points for either offensive or defensive purposes. In this connection the artillery activity reported today along various portions of the Chemln des-Dames plateau is significant. Venizelos Expected to Head New Greek Cabinet ATHENS, June 25.—The entire Zaimls ministry resigned today. It was reported that Elutheros Venize los, former premier and president of the provisional Greek government, now en route here, would probably be named by King Alexander as the head of a new cabinet. Venizelos Is known to have departed from Salonika and to have reached w city In southern Greece en route to Ath ens. King Alexander Is known to have great admiration for the prime minister, whom his father, the former King Con stantine, rejected and whose advice he refused to follow. Allied officials have asserted here that the new king could make no more popu lar move with his people than to Install Venizelos as the head of the cabinet. Such a move would, it was said, im mediately reunite the monarchical and provisional governments. Venizelos was three times supported in elections by the Greek people against the former king, and as many times did Constantine re fuse to follow Venizelos’ policies. London Reports Activity - In West k Increasing LONDON, June 25.—Increasing ac tivity on the western front Is reported in today's official announcement, which records various successful raids by the British. The statement follows: "Successful enterprises were under taken by us last night at a number of points on our front. Parties of our troops raided the enemy’s trenches In the neighborhood of Epehy, Bullefourt, Roeux. Loos and Hooge, killing many Germans and taking several prisoners. In another raid east of Vermelles we captured fifteen prisoners and tWo trench mortars. Our party remained over two hours in the enemy’s trenches, blew up his dugouts and inflicted heavy casualties on his garrison. "Ijf addition to these raids, success ful * minor operations carried out by us southwest of Lens and northwest of Warneton added to the number of our prisoners and enabled us to gain fur ther ground in both localities.” Sharp Artillery Fighting_ Reported by the rrench PARIS. June 25.—Sharp artillery fighting was in progress continuously during the night near Froldmont farm and Chevreux, says today’s official state ment. The statement follows: ’•Unusually active artillery fighting continued during the night in the sec tor between Royere and Froidmont farms and also near Hurteblse and east of •Chevreux. Two surprise attacks against our trenches east of Chevreux cost the eijemy losses withotft any other result. German attacks on our small posts in the Woevre and in the region of St. Mihiel were checked completely. "Everywhere else the night passed quietly.” Serbian Cabinet Resigns, Says Report From Corfu CORFU, June 25.—The Serbian min istry has resigned. A new cabinet will be formed with Nikola P. Pachitch as premier and minister of foreign affairs. Berlin Reports Artillery Fire Greatly Increased BERLIN, June 25.—(Via London.! . The artillery engagements in the dunes ' sector in Belgium and between the fiv ers Yser and Lys increased in intensity yesterday afternoon and continued into the night, army headquarters announq ed today. Survivors Report Loss Os British Steamship MONTREAL, June 25.—The Brltisn steamship Ortolan, of 2,145 tons gross, owned by the General Steam Naviga tion company, of London, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine Jure 14 and three members of her crew lost their lives, according to survivors <gf the styip who arrived here today. J An American vessel which was about J four miles from the scene of the U sinking came to the rescue and several ■ shots were fired at the submersiblefl from guns on board that, ship.