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CLAIMS ERSMLE OFEICER Charles R. E. McCann, Alias Warren Grey, Talks to Jour nal Reporter in Fulton Tow er Saturday Night “I am not a crook: I am not a big amist. I took the name of an army officer before 1 knetf what I was doing and after I had taken it I didn't have a chance to change it. I married Miss Rebie Wilkins because I loved her. and the only thing I regret about the whole affair is the pain that I have caused her” This was the statement made at mid night by Charles R. E. McCann, alias Warren G. Grey, as he sat with his feet propped against a steaming radiator in the office at the Fulton county tower. He arrived in Atlanta shortly after 10 o'clock Saturday night, being brought here from New York by a deputy t’nited States marshal to answer the charge of passing worthless checks. He is also charged with desertion and impersonation of an officer by the au- I thorites at Camp McClellan, Anniston, i Ala McCann is a clean-cut, officer-like | young fellow, with a broad smile and a . pleasing personality. When seen at the ■ tower by a Journal reporter he was I wearing a trim khaki uniform, with leather puttees, but without his collar : insignia. • “Let's have a smoke,” he said, when he greeted the reported. “1 can al ways talk better when I'm smoking.” He began to puff easily upon a cigar purchased front J. W. Arnold, jailer on : the morning watch at the tower. Lcvm Atlanta OHrl “The first thing I want to say is that I love Rebie with all my heart and that I shall always love her. lam suffering now only because of the pain and shame that this affair has caused her. My sympathy is with her and her family. The whole thing would have been all right, but I was never given a i chance to explain. They grabbed me as I soon as we got to New York.” McCann spoke slowly, and seemed to i weigh his words carefully. He declared that he had been granted a leave of i absence, which explained why hoe was away from Camp McClellan, and stated that he had more than S3OO in the bank lat Anniston, Ala. when he wrote i checks, but that he made the mistake of signing the name of “William Alwyn Jennings” to these checks, instead of Warren G Grey, as he was known at Camp McClellan. “I can't tell you the whole story very quickly.” he said, “and I'd like to start at the beginning. I was graduated from I Yale with the class of 1911, and in 1913, when I was taking a post-graduate course. I was expelled for a row with the police in New Haven. The next year I married a chorus girl, and since that time that marriage has been an- > nulled. Expelled Prom College “Because of the disgrace of being expelled from college and the notoriety that my marriage to the chorus .girl caused. I decided 'to change my name, and-fry to go off and redeem myself In the eyes of my people. My father was a rich man. and we lived in New York. “On August 1, 1917, I enlisted in the First New Jersey regiment, and in three days I was promoted to the rank of a sergeant. I had had previous military experience. I went with the regiment to Anniston. Ala., and it was only a I short time ago that I was recommend ed for a commission. I was recom mended not because I had a car but because I worked hard. “When I was summoned to division headquarters I began to think what *t 1 would mean to become an officer under an* assumed name, the name of Warren iG. Grey, and it happened that I got beautifully lit just at that time, and tried on the officer's uniform when I had already ordered. The next thing I knew I had bought a ticket to At lanta.” Mires Up Deeper McCann stated that when he Reached Atlanta the first name he thought of when he faced the desk of the Hotel Ansley was the name of Lieutenant Wil liam Alwyn Jennings, and hurriedly scribbled that name upon the register, i Each day, he said, he found that he was getting deeper and deeper into the trouble, and decide dthat the only thing he could do would be to go through with I the deception. “I married the girl I loved, and I , intended to make a clean slate of the whole thing,” he went on. “but before I explained they had me. It was my in . tention to take the girl to my mother and catch the next train for Camp Mc | Clellan." McCann says he hardly expects to ■ win the forgiveness of the girl he mar ried. but craves an interview with her. I He says he is twenty-throe years old 1 and that he is going to make an effort i to secure his freedom on bail as he I understands that his bond has been as- I sessed at SIO,OOO. Ten Miners Are Known To Have Been Killed In W. Virginia Blast BLUEFIELD, West Va., Dec. 15. I Ten miners are known to have been I killed tonight by an explosion in the I mine of the Yukon-Pocahontas Coal com- ' pany at Susanna, twenty miles west of : here in McDowell county. Four others I are reported to have lost their lives I The bodies of ten have been taken from ■ the mine and exploring parties are I searching for other possible victims. The cause of the explosion had not been determined late tonight. The I mine is located along what is known as the Dry Fork branch of the Norfolk and Western railroad. The explosion is the first to occur In that section of the j Pocahontas field in a number of years, i At Ripe Age of 107 Jones Patriarch Dies MACON. Ga.. Dec. 14. —George Wash- I fngton Comer, aged 107 years. probably | the oldest resident of Jones county. | died at the home of his son. Kit Comer. | at Holton today. Mr. Comer at one time represented ! Jones county in the legislature and he had resided in that county practically 1 all of his life He leaves seven chil dren. twenty-three grandchildren, sev eral great-grandchildren and two great great-grandchildren. He was a Con- ' federate veteran and served with distinc tion throughout the war. Mr. Comer's children are Otis, Tom. Kit and Wash Comer. Mrs. John Malone, Mrs. R. W. Norwell and Mrs. M. M. Phillips IHE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1917. SELECTIVE SERVICE RHESTIOHRIES SENT PART Os REGISTRANTS Nine Million Americans Will Be Classified for Service by Machinery Just Set in Mo tion WASHINGTON. Dec. 15. —The war department's huge task of classifying the nation's man power for army serv ice actually began today with the mail ing out of the first 5 per cent of the questionnaires. At the same time re cruiting facilities, already overtaxed with recent enlistments, threatened to give way before the rush of selective service registrants eager to avail them selves of the last chance to volunteer. Secretary Baker today came to the re lief of the thousands of men who have volunteered for the regular army but have been rejected because of the break down of the recruiting machinery, by ordering that all qualified applicants who presented themselves before noon today should be accepted even though their examination and other details could not be accomplished until later. The mailing of questionnaires will be completed speedily by the war de partment, and within sixty days more than nine million registrants will be divided into five classes as regards their liability for military service. In a statement issued today, Provost Marshal Geenral Crowder said: “The plans have been made, the ma chine has been built and with the loyal cooperation of the local boards, so am ply demonstrated by their past accom plishments. the millions of registrants will, within the space of stxty days, stand marshalled for their place In the world war, each in the class to which his economic worth entitles him. “I have not the slightest hesitation in predicting the absolute success of the classification system. From every part of the country has come praise for th plan. It will provide armies in a steady stream; armies built from the body politic by the body politic. “Never before in the history of the world have armies been chosen with the scientific precision of the new sys tem. Men will shoulder the gun first who should by all the laws of reason offer themselves first to their country and only grim necessity will compel us to invade the more deferred classes;, but if such necessity does arise, it will find the country ready. “Through the governors of the states a Legal Advisory Board, to assist reg istrants to make intelligent answers to their questionnaires has been assigned to every local board; though the same agencies the leaders in medicine in ev ery community have pledged themselves to gM and assist in medical examina tion*. The great majority of the men who are building the new system have offered their services without price io their government. "The completion of the classification will practically complete the great work of the local and district boards. There after they will act each in their res pective areas as the government’s agents for any new registration which may occur, and will consider changes of status or transfers of jurisdiction when such may arise.” 2,000,000 in First Class Os the nine million men who will re ceive the lengthy questionaire it is esti mated two million will be assigned to the first class and subject to duty with the colors before any man in any other class is called. The first class will be made up of the following: (A) Single man without dependent relatives. (B) Married man, with or without children, or father of motherless chil dren, who has habitually failed to sup port his family. (C) Married man dependent on wife for support. (D) Married man, with or without children, or father of motherless chil dren; man not usefully engaged, family supported by income independent of his labor , (E) Unskilled farm labor. (F) Unskilled industrial laborer. Reg istrant by or in respect of whom no de ferred classification is claimed or made. Registrant who fails to submit ques tionnaire and in respect of whom no de ferred classification is claimed or made. All registrants not included in any I other division in this schedule. Legal and medical advisory boards in I every community will aid the registrant in making his answers. He will Indi cate in what occupations he considers himself expert and from that list it is purposed to create separate groups of men trained in any particular trade or i profession should the need arise for I them. The men will be divided into five ' classes. The fifth composed of the fol- Er. ee«^^—■■ Your Farm Home in Sunny Florida awaits you. 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Room 19 City Building St Augustine, Florida IMO'S HELMSMAN HELD AS HUN SPY AT HALIFAX Nurse, Suspicious of Patient, Notifies Authorities—Wild Spy Rumors Follow HALIFAX, Dec. 14.—John Johansen, helmsman on the "Norwegian steamer Imo, the Belgian relief ship whose col lision with the ammunition steamer Mont Blanc led to the disaster of last Thursday, was detained as a German spy suspect yesterday. He was turned over to the military authorities by of ficials of the Massachusetts relief hos pital, where he has been under treat ment. One of the nurses at the hospital, a young woman from New York whose name was not revealed, notified the au thorities yesterday that her patient was acting queerly and that he did not seem to be wounded. Physicians exam ined the man, and the conclusion was reached that he was shamming illness. Later, It was said, Johansen offered a nurse SSO if she would go out and buy him a newspaper, the assumption being that he had in mind an attempt to escape, in her absence. After that incident, a military guard was placed on duty by his bed, the provost guard was sent for today and Johansen was locked up Tn connection with the arrest, the wildest spy rumors heard here since the war began were spread broadcast. These culminated in a report that eight Germans had been shot at sunrise. Mil itary a»d naval authorities, while ac knowledging that the Johansen case was being thoroughly investigated, de clared that the shooting story was ab surd. ’ Another persistent story was that a secret code in German had been found on Johansen, and that a wireless sta tion had been unearthed in the district destroyed by fire after the explosion. J. C. Burchell, counsel for the Imo in the admiralty hearing on the col lision of the vessel, said today that the secret code story, so far as concerned Johansen, was without foundation. Jo hansen, Mr. Burchell said, had been liv ing in the United States ten years and. as he was anxious to return to his old home in Norway, he shipped on the Imo With the relief situation so well in hand that its services no longer were required, the Massachusetts unit, first on the ground here after the great fire and explosion, went home today. The departure of the delegation, members of the general committee declared, meant tnat Halifax was prepared now to han dle its own problem. This is evident throughout the city. Each day has seen great progress made. The continued cold, however, has re tarded work In the district laid bare by the blast of a munition ship, and it will be days perhaps before the snow has thawed sufficiently to enable sol diers and workmen to drag the ruins for .the bodies known to be there. The task of rebuilding the homes in a two-and-a-half-square mile area hardly can be accomplished in a year, it is believed by the committee direct ing that activity. The big public funeral service planned for today was postponed until Monday because of the difficulty of opening graves. lowing will be exempted or discharged from draft. (A) Officers, legislative, executive, or judicial, of the United States or of state, territory, or District of Columbia. (B) Regular or duly ordained minister of religion. (C) Student w’ho on May 18, 1917, was preparing for ministry in recognized school. (D) Persons in military or naval service of United States. (E) Alien enemy. (F) Resident alien (not an enemy) who claims exemption. (G) Person totally and permanently physically or mentally unfit for military service. (H) Person morally unfit to be a sol dier of the United States. (I) Licensed pilot actually employed in the pursuit of his vocation. Member of well recognized religious sect or organization, organized and ex isting on May 18, 1917, whose then ex isting creed or principles forbid its members to participate in war in any form, and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein. Advisory Board* Organising . Supporting affidavits of other persons must be secured by every registrant who claims exemption or deferred liabil ity in grounds of studying for the min istry, detendency and industrial or ag ricultural grounds. Liability to service in the other classes follows the numbers drawn in the famous lottery on July 20. These classes will be made up of the following: Class IX (A) Married men with children or father of motherless children, where such wife or children or such mother less children are not mainly dependent upon his labor for support *for the rea son that there are other certain sources of adequate support (excluding earn ings or possible earnings from the la bor of the wife), available, and that the removal of the registrant will not de prive such dependents of support. (D) Married men. without children, whose wife, although the registrant is engaged in a useful occupation, is not mainly dependent upon his labor for support, for the reason that the wife is skilled in some special class of work which she is physically able to perform and in which she is employed or in which there is an immediate opening for her under conditions that will enable her to support herself decently and without suffering or hardship. (C) Necessary skilled farm laborer in necessary industrial enterprise. Class HI (Al Man with dependent children (not his own) but toward whom he stands in relation of parent. (B) Man with dependent, aged or in firm parents. (C) Man with dependent, helpless brothers or sisters. (D) County or municipal officer. (E) Highly trained fireman or police man at least three years in service by municipality. (F) Necessary custom house clerk. (G) Necessary employe of United States in transmission of the mails. (H) Necessary artificer or workman in United States armory or arsenal. (I) Necessary employe in service of United States. (J) Necessary assistant, associate, or hired manager of necessary agricultural enterprise. (K) Necessary highly specialized technical or mechanical expert of neces sary industrial enterprise. (L) Necessary assistant or associate manager of necessary industrial enter- I prise. Class IV (A) Man whose wife or children are mainly dependent on his labor for sup port. (B) Mariner actually employed in sea service or citizen or merchant in the United States. (C) Necessary sole managing, con trolling, or directing head of necessary agricultural enterprise (D) Necessary sole managing, con trolling, or directing head of necessary industrial enterprise. HOOVER OENOONGES SPRECKLES' CHARGES ON SUGAR SHORTAGE Food Administrator Intimates Refiner's Attack Was In spired by Fact That Profits in Transactions Were Cut WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Charges made by Claus Spreckels, president of the Federal Sugar Refining company, before a senate investigating commit tee that the food administration is re sponsible for a sugar shortage drew from Food Administrator Hoover to night a vigorous attack on Mr. Spreck els. An open intimation is made by Mr. Hoover that Mr.' Spreckel’s testimony was inspired by the fact that the food administration cut profits in sugar transactions. “It requires no proof from me,” said Mr. Hoover, "to establish that Mr. Spreckels, a leading sugar refiner, is sore at the food administration and would like to see it destroyed. "I realize that Mr. Spreckels’ balance sheet will not look so good next year as last, for refiners’ profits have been regulated. Furthermore, his balance sheet would have looked better th.’s year if the price of last August had not been reduced and held fast, in the face of a partial shortage that prom ised a fair opportunity for thirty-cent sugar and much increased profits. “Has Beason to Feel Badly” “Mr. Spreckels therefore has reason to feel badly. There are other citizens who will feel the same way, no doubt, and no doubt can entertain the public by assaulting the food administration. While many feel badly, still the vast majority of men and women of our business community and of our farmers are sacrificing their profits daily to the nation’s necessities without complaint, for many are sacrificing more than their money—their sons. "We have had two months of partial sugar shortage—October and Novem ber—and will also have December be fore relief by the new crop. The Am erican people have had 500,000 tons of sugar in these two months—that is 70 per cent of their normal supplies in each month, and if cars are available they will have 70 per cent in Decem ber. Owing to car shortages, the short-age has been most acute in the northeast and about 200 cars are today blocked from that region. “This 70 per cent is twice the French ration. In the meantime we have given France a good part of the 30 per cent and are proud of it. This supply to France was given deliberately and the , American people were told of it at the time. We have also agreed to draw 10,000 tons for our friends in Canada. I have yet to meet an American citizen who would have had it otherwise. AU Available Bought Xu "As to the food administration stop ping the sources of supply. The fact that all available supplies have been brought here that ships and cars could bring, and that it has already been eaten is sufficient answer. “Mr. Spreckles knows the bitterness of the ten-year fights between produc ers and refiners —between different refin ers—and if he looks back over the last three months he will observe a desire of many of these elements to use the food administration as a club to set tle their long standing bitterness. “If Mr. Spreckels will tell us where there is any sugar today that shios can be obtained to carry or cars be ob tained to deliver it will be delivered *t unce with the same resolution that we have requisitioned or distributed over 60.000,000 pounds of embargoed sugar since October 1 In the meantime the 900,000 tons of sugar in Java is as re mote as cheese out of the moon—unless we wish to take bread ships from our own soldiers and the allies to provide ourselves with candy.” Warning Issued Against Stories About Lonesome Boys in Training Camps WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—As a warn ing to the public to beware of published stories that men at the army training camps are unhappy, lonesome, without food, and dejected, the war department today made public a letter from Post-1 master Wolfe, at Chillicothe, Ohio, deal- | ing with a specific case. “Last week,” wrote Postmaster Wolfe, I "a syndicate set of newspapers publish- i ed the story about (soldier’s name de- 1 leted). He was lonesome and had never received a. piece of mail since being Ln camp. His picture went with the article and it made good reading. “In yesterday’s mail alone he received 1.200 letters, 19 special delivery letters and parcels, and 54 ordinary parcels. It happened he can neither read nor write. Mr. Gregg made an examination and he found nineteen soldiers sitting about him helping him read the mail and they had lots of fun at the expense of senti mental women, but got all the money and stamps enclosed. “An interesting feature is that he was not accepted by the army, but he refused to leave. Other newspaper articles along the same lines will simply swamp the camp offices.” Children Are Suffering Because Price of Milk Puts It Beyond Them WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Increased reports of suffering among young chil dren because exhobitant prices have eliminated milk from the diet of many families evoked warning today from the ! children’s bureau of the labor depart- i ment that aside from humanitarian con- | siderations it would be a great economic ; loss to the country if lack of milk was I allowed to impair the health of future citizens. "There is no substitute for milk in the diet of babies and young children,” Dr. Grace L. Meigs said. "Yet the increase in price is so startling that, as the bureau reports show, many mothers are economizing on milk. Young chil dren cannot get the nourishment they require from the would-be milk substi tutes given them and we can expect them to be weakly and ailing.’’ Cities in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware have found their milk supply problems so serious that the governor’s tri-state inilk commission has recom mended that the distribution of milk be regarded as a public utility and fair prices be assured. Conditions in New York. Chicago and Philadelphia have not improved greatly as the cold weath er has curtailed the milk supply. THREE MEMBERS DE EXEMPTION BOARD ARE SUMNIARILYJEMOVED R. F. Thompson, S. J. Mitchell 1 and Dr. C. M. Curtis Re lieved of Duties by Order of the President At the direction of the president the I three members of the local board of ! exemption for Fulton county—R. F. Thompson, S. J. Mitchell and Dr. C. M. > Curtis—were summarily removed Satur- j day by Provost Marshall General Crow- ' der. Notice of their dismissal was sent the board by Officer In -Charge of the Selective Service Law Joefi B. Mallet. Dr, W. C. Bryant, assistant medical ex aminer, was not removed. Whether he will be retained has not been announced and probably will not be known until after the new board meets Monday morning at 10 o’clock. ,In their places wera appointed E. Rivers, the, well-known real estate man of Buckhead; L. G. Whitney, of Hape ville, and Dr. George C. Trimble, of East Point, who immediately assumed their duties. The dismissal of the board followed a sweeping investigation which dis closed the fact that out of 526 men exempted or discharged by the board, 520 were white men and six were ne groes. The vast majority of the ex emptions were on physical grounds, the percentage on this ground being so great as to indicate there are far more physically disabled young white men in the county than there are sound one®. All three of the dismissed board members gave statements to The Jour nal Saturday afternoon. Mr. Thompson, who is the mayor of East Point, and Mr. Mitchell, who is a farmer in the Buckhead district, stated that all ex emptions on physical grounds were made after at least two of the three physicians—Dr. Curtis, head examiner, Dr. W. C. Bryant and Dr. T. E. Fos ter, 'assistant examiners—had recomr mended such action. The medical examinations were en tirely in the hands of the doctors,, they said, and the other members acted on their recommendations. Dr .Curtis asserted that the percent age of rejections for physical deficien c:«s was no greater, according to the number of men examined, than in any other district, and that a number of men he had passed up as physically sound had been rejected by Camp Gor don medical examiners. Major Mallet declined to comment on the reason for the dismissal, stating merely that the action was taken at the direction of the president and the pro vost marshal general. Figures on the exemptions, compiled and submitted by the department of justice were avall ’ able, however, indicating plainly that the investigation revealed a situation that did not by any means meet the ap proval of the government. At the same time the Fulton county board was removed, J. H. Gas kins, clerk of the local board of Ber rien county, with headquarters at Nashville, was dismissed. T. J. Griffin, a well-known farmer, being appointed as his successor. FmciWfriffis IN ALL USEFUL ARTICLES Clothing, Farm Implements, Cooking Utensils and Tin ware Included WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—The new price-fixing bill in preparation empow ers the president, through Food Admin istrator Hoover, to fix the prices of clothing, farm implements and even the housewives’ tinware, cooking utensils and fruit cans. 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