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Newspaper Page Text3ottrtial VOLUME XX. FiRST ANNOUNCEMENT BE U. 5. FORCES IN CMGNE IS MADE German Leadeis Discuss Mili tary Measures Against Rus sia. Whose Conduct Worries Central Powers I’AKIS. !*cb. 14- —American batteries took pari i.t tne artillery bombardment . n connection with the large French raid/in the *.*hampagne yesterday, it is announced officially. Effective assist ance was given by American gunners. • This is the first mention of American butteries on l ie Champagne front.! The statement foltour: A German atteuii l aya m t a small French pest north of fargny-Fillian • Aisne front* v.ih repli ed There were lively artillery actions in the region east of Rhe ms. in the Champagne. In the ’.argv raid y sterda.- American bat terie* gave very effective support. French troops uganiz-. d the (tositious captured on that day in the region southwest o. Butte du Mcsnil The nmn be.- of prisoners taken by the French and actually enumerated exceeds 15®. There is nc.hiag to report on the re- I mat der of the front." American gunners a~e trained, by the Fiench before goi.ig into active ser vice on their own iront The American batteries re erred to in the Yrench of ficial report evidently are some of those undergoing this instruction. • The vl.i.-.al |-’rench statement of last nigh; reported a large raid on a front ot r.cout !.—-•<» meters in the Champagne near Butte du Mesnil. in which the French penetrated as far as the German third line. The American sector is in Lorra’.ne. some distance to the east of this pain*. . BERLIN*. Feb 14.—’Via London.*—ln I •’telr attach yesterday on ’.he Chain y-egne front near Tahure. the war of- i <ce an no u.ices, the French obtained a footing :r. •* salient of the German po- , siticrc. May Use Military Force Against Russia AMSTERDAM. Feb. IThe confer ence ct military leaders at German I headquarters is discussing “energetic , military measures toward Russia.*’ the ; Stuttgart Neues Tageball declares, in I • optes tecclved here today. Peace Debate to Begin In Reichstag on Feb. 21 LONDON, Feb. 14.—An important peace debate will begin in the German reichstag on February 21. according to i a wireless dispatch from Amsterdam ! Chancellor von Hertling will discuss the 1 treaty with the Ukraine and will reply to President Wilson, Premier Llcyd •ieorge and Premier Orlando. Resignation of Polish Cabinet Is Announced ZURJCH. Feb. 14.—Resignation of the Polish cabinet because of dissatisfaction with the terms of’the separate peace be ween Ukraine and* the central powers was officially announced in Warsaw dis patches today. • Rearrangement of the Ukrainian boundaries gave the new republic a arge slice of territory generally re garded as Polish. Resignation of the Polish ministry probably was the result of this. Germans Are Uneasy Over Russian Move N’.lW YORK. Feb. 13.—(Summary of j European Cables./—Uneasiness over the i Russian situation in German and Aus trian official circles is indicated in re ports in the German press. The central •• wen are said to be uncertain con- ’ rrning ihe future attitude of Foreign | i*i”lster Trotsky and the Bolshev-ikl government, and one Berlin newspaper, ays that, the announcement that the ■ Russian army had been ordered demo »iiised was a "sham maneuver.” German leaders are said to have held onferem.es as to the best course to pursue. One report is to the effect that military operations against the Bolshev- i ki might be resumed, but both Ber-1 iin and Vienna appear to be anxious j v. er ihe probable fate of the many • thousano of Austro-German prisoners ‘ n Russian hand.*. Circulation of the message ordering .ic demobilisation of the Russian army, the German paper? say. was halted three nours after the order was sent out. Con- • erning the situation in Petrograd there have been no press reports since early fast Tuesday. Dispatches last Thursday reported rioting in Petrograd in which 13® persons were killed. In France there has been a slight I increase in the fighting activity. On the British front Canadian troops have arried out two successful raids and. in the Ypres sector, the Germans failed in an attempt to hold two British posts they had taken. In Champagne French troops penetrated to the third German line south of Butte Meenil on a front of about 1,20® yards. Shelters and de fenses were destroyed and 100 prisoners captured On the American front in France there has been no activity oT consequence- The Germans are reported to be work ng assiduously building new defenses .vnd adding fresh troops to the west i-rn front. The Associated Press cor respondent at French army headquarters -ays the Germans now have 195 divi -'ons, probably 2.340.000 men. on tne i front between the North sea and tho Swiss bordec Nineteen British, four Italian and two ■ French mercHkntmen are reported sunk by submarines or mines in the current ' statement of shipping losses. Disclosures of British production in 1917 shows that the tonnage sunk last year by submarines was three times as great as that built by the United States and Great Britain. The combined total t of production is slightly more than 2,000.00® tons, while sinkings by sub- ■ marines have been estimated at 6,000,- ••00 tons. Greatly increased production is expected In 1018. The British house of commons late yesterday by a large majority defeat ed an amendment offered by a radical • member which regreted that war monop olized the energies of the government. ; The government ministers had declared ’hat passage of the resolution would . ause the resignation of the Lloyd .George cabinet. In the debate in the house. Lord Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, announced that the British government was giving attention to a league of nations and that he had pre pared a scheme for it. Full Associated Press Service HUNS CRYING FOR FOOD AND PEACE; WANT WAR TO END Allies Aie Sure to Win, Says Simms, by Keeping Just Aims Before World and Holding West Front IT WITiL/AM PHILIP SIMMS ZURICH. Switzerland. Feb It. —As indicating Germany's thoroughness, she will no longer permit corpses to be buried in their clothes. They must he placed In pasteboard coffins. They must be clothed in paper 'shroud-, or bound in paper sheets. No woolen cotton, linen or similar material must be wasted in graves, while wooden, zinc, copper and other metal caskets arc generally forbidden. An American woman, .ust leaving Germany, <!:ei»:e all ordinary articles aie -o scarce bit a sale of her worn ‘tit kitchen utensil brought undreamed ‘of i-ric. German women packing tn her home sought an opportunity to |>uy I tilings .h • would have thrown away. Tacy paid fancy sums. The woman says the coal shortage is fa more acute than outsiders imagine. This is not due to lack of coal but to ■ lube.- shortage, plus transportation dif ficulties. The scarcity of cars caused the military authorities to reduce trains to little more than sufficient for the I army's needs. 'lhe roil.ng stock is In fr ghtful disrepair. Silver and nickel have ttsen demoni t.ed. -AU gold, including jewelry, Is requested "in the name of patriotism," in order to keep up gold coins and pre vent too rapid decline in the value ol paper money. Tl.e pcope no longer ex-* pect victory, the woman declares. The best they hope for is that Germany reach a satisfactory ending. Pleased With Wilson’s Speech I understand that President Wilson's ’ speech made a deep impression in Ger- j many and probably will bear fruit. On the most reliable information it is said the kaiser is sa-d to have declared Wil- I son’s aims were reasonable enough to ■ i'o: m the basis for negotiations. Wilhelm, however, is without in fluence. I am told that while openly opposed to the extremes to which the I war party is leadgig the empire, he does not murmur, as Hindenburg and J.uden i dorff are his absolute masters. An American girls, recently arrived from Germany, says many children and ■ even women are now going barefooted. I They are unable to buy shoes. A proud professor of the University of Liepsig asked as a favor to buy discarded • shoes of the girl's brother A crime wave is sweeping the ooun- ■ try from end to end. Thugs ofter rob pedestrians of their clothes. The chil dren of one of the girl's friends were robbed of their shoes while on their way home from school. The weather was bitterly cold and the children arrived with their feet almost frozen and bleed ing The girl says the newspapers are most active in sneering at America. Every effort is made to diminish before the masses the United States participa tion. They are constantly repeating that the American effort is all bluff and noise—worthy of the country which pro duced Barnum. Food and Peace The girl had the utmost difficulty in leaving Germany. She was on the verge of receiving a degree at the University of Leipsig when America entered —the war. The degree was withheld because Americans were refvsed permission to leave the country. After a time she was told she could leave if she would do certain work for Germany—and would receive the degree and "big pay." She indignantly refused to become a traitress and a spy. Whereupon the po lice dogged har day and nicht until she finally succeeded in getting out. Travelers agree that 90 per cent of the German people have lost their en thusiasm for war. The sole topic of con versation is food and peace. Intelligent people are asking. “What is the good of launching another offen sive?" Many of them know America be cause they lived and worked there. These say the United States con tinue the crusade 100 years, if neces say. to rob Germany of her spoils. Everything points in the same direc tion—the central empires are econom ically and generally in such a turmoil that all the allies need to do to win the war is to keep equitable war aims be fore the world, and hold their own on the west front. H'oryrigbt. 1918, by the United Press ■ J' 1 - THE TRUTH ABOUT BELGIUM Told by Brand Whitlock \ * WATCH for the first article of Brand Whitlock's As the„ Germans destroyed Belgium—so they story which appears in the next issue of THE woujd us—if they could. This story will bring us SEMI-Wr»EKLY JOURNAL. together and will help each other in bringing this ! • • ravenous nation to our feet. The first issue of this great story as told by Brand Whitlock begins in our next issue of The It will appear in installments in this paper, be- Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal. Terrible in each ginning with the ssue of February 19th. If your U detail —but thrilling and heart-rending to the gen- ,■ . . . . J eroiis-minded people of America—who have here- ime " as expired or you are not a subscriber now tofore hardly believed the incredible reports of * s the time to get your subscription to ns so you su<«h brutality and horror. will not miss a single part of this great story. He tells—for he KNOWS, and you will see the Our prices are ,nore than reasonable: 75 cents devastation and desolation wrought by the Ger- tor one year. $1 for 18 months, $1.25 for two mans on Belgium soil. You will see the TRUTH; years or $1.50 for three years. Tell all you see you will feel the horror of rapine; you will shrink about this great story and induce them to sub before nameless brutality and the murder of scribe. If you can raise a club of five or more Edith Cavell. subscribers and send to us at one time we will make a special club price of only 50 cents for a This story meansfca great deal to each true one year’s subscription. Raise a club for us in American, and every one should read each story. your community. Subscribe Now—We Cannot Furnish Back Numbers _________ • It will not be necessary for you to w’rite a letter if you sign your name and address to this coupon and send to us with your remittance. The Semi-X\eekly Journal. Atlanta. Ga.: Enclosed find $ for which send me The Atlanta • ' Semi-Weekly Journal formonths. ■ Name I v P. O R. F. D. No # State | SIR CECIL SPRING RICE I HIM OF HEART FAILURE Former Ambassador From England to United States Dies at Ottawa OTTAWA. Ontario, Feb. 14.—Sir Ce cil Spring Rice, former British ambas | sador to the United States, died this morning at 1 o'clock of heart failure at ; Government House. Lady Spring •nnd his son and daughter. Anthony and Betty, aged eleven and nine, respective ly. were with him. — Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice was born in 1859. the son of the Honorable Chares Spring-Rice and was of Irish descent. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and started his public service as a clerk in the war and foreign of -1 fice. He served as secretary of the legation at Brussels, Washington, To ; kio, Berlin and Constantinople, charge d'affaires at Teheran, minister to Per : sia and minister to Sweden. loiter lie i was first secretary at Petrograd. He I became amba.-.sador to the L'nited States in 1912, succeeding Viscount Bryce. He acted as best man at Colonel Roose velt's second marriage. He was mar ried in 1904 to the daughter of Sir Frank Lascelles, the British ambassador to Berlin. Washington Is Shocked at News of Diplomat’s Death WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. —Diplomatic Washington was shocked today by "the news of the sudden death in Ottawa of Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice, who re tired alter nearly five years’ service as British ambassador to the United States last month in favor of Lord Reading. Although it had been known that Sir I Cecil had desired for a long time be fore his retirement was announced to be relieved of his duties, no intimation was given when he left Washington that he was in ill health. However, officials here pointed out that he had been under tremendous strain from the responsibili ties devolving upon him especially dur- I ing the negotiations on the operation of the allied blockade before the United i States entered the war. It was known’that Sir Cecil tendered his resignation during the visit here of Arthur Balfour to take effect at the con venience of the foreign office. His retire ment was announced front London Jajt uary 2. LIVERPOOL COTTON MAN i PREDICTS LONG STRUGLE A. J. Buston Thinks Austria Alone Is in Mood for Negotiations That there are no signs of peace and that the peace addresses now going the rounds are all mistakes except as they might show Austria the error of her way in not breaking away from Ger many and behaving herself, was the as sertion of A. J. Buston. of the A. J. Buston company, big cotton importers of Liverpool, England, who spent Thurs day in Atlanta. Mr. Buston, who is well known in the south, especially in Atlanta, has been in the United States now for about a month in connection with matters con cerning his firm. He crossed the At lantic on the last complete trip of the Cunard line steamer, Tuscania. which was sunk a week ago while Carrying over two thousand American troops to Europe. Mr. Buston will leave Atlanta Thursday night for Savannah, where he now has several thousand bales of cotton waiting shipment. He will re turn to Liverpool a few days later. Mr. Buston Thursday said it was all war in England and that things were moving slowly but becoming more sure. He declared thal the country has a big afmy and is dotted with military camps the same as the United States and that the people are confident of the defeat of Germany. "I think the talk of peace now heard,” Mr. Buston said, "is a mistake for in my opinion there are no signs of peace at present. Such talk is a mistatke, ] believe, except in the fact that- Presi dent tvtlson and the other speakers might show Austria the right way, caus ing her to get out of the war and be have herself.’’ i ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1918. SAY WILSON WILL .GET RESULTS WITH ■ APPEAL TO AUSTRIA i All That Is Needed Is to Im press That Country With Our Ability to Wage War to . a Fiijish I WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. —President • I Wilson s effort to get a separate peace i with Austria will win. if he convinces ! i the Teutons that he and America are ' in earnest in the war. Officials of the government whose po t ' sitions for many years have made thehi ? ! the intimates of Europeans—particular ( !ly Austrians and Germans—-said today I the only chance of the president failing 1 i lay in Austria's belief that the presi- was only bluffing about the war. - I ; I “It is clear enough to our American ’ | minds that he means business as to the . I war to a finish if necessary; he must . ' get that into Austrian minds.” said one . high official. “Once that knowledge . i sinks into the Asutrian mind, and jou , Will iind thal the president's political , ; offensive is a success.” Indications are that, despite German • i press camouflage, the Germans and the ; ' Austrian military leaders know well that i : American war plans are built on laj*ge I lines and that the American spirit is I one of determination. American government authorities re gret that the appearance of anything I I controversial should be injected into the . i Austrian problem by reason of the Brit . , ish attitude toward the Czernin speech. - i Hereafter, it is possible, some consul . I ration of envoys will be had in advance i Iso that there may not be an aftermath ; of discussion, such as at present, indi cating a difference of viwpoint and of • action toward Austria. The British are . not strong for the political propaganda , offensive; President Wilson believes it i cn be made very Affective if all play it : together. IMESiMIi fS QB; ; OWHL SHELL FIUL , I • Only One Man Wounded and That Occurred Through an Accident » WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES I FRANCE, Feb. 13. (Delated.) —Broken only by an occasional exchange of shell fire this was the quietest day on the American front since *The men took over the sector. There aws the usuaj routine patroling and sniping la-st night. The only Amer ican casualty was one wounded —acci- dentally. Here’s how it happened: Two soldiers were occupying an ad vanced listening post. One was station ed. in ihe foremost bay; the other was several feet back along the sap. The man in the rear noticed a move ment ahead. He thought it was a Boche and hurled a grenade. It wasn’t a Boche; bt®i his friend. The latter picked up the grenade with only a second to spare, tossed it over the jKtrapet. It exploded in inid-air, slightly wounding the foremost soldier. A sergeant from Portsmouth. 0., who was wounded in the chest during the recent patrol encounter in which five Americans were killed, was itnerview ed by the correspondent in the hospital. The sergeant was lying on a cot among a ward full of wounded, many of MfchOKe hands and legs were trussed up in swinging slings “I was leading the patrol, and the first thing 1 knew the Bodies attacked from both sides,” he said. “I fired the whole clip of shots from my pistol: then reloaded and fired three more before J was wounded. ”1 have not yet heard all the <’ :ail.s of what followed. Two of the fellows killed were national army men. An other was my pal, a coporal from Cleve land.” A ’’bounching rocket” is an innova tion tried out by the Germans on the American sector. It throws up the us ual star shell, whereupon patrols flat ten themselves on the ground. When the patrols resume their work the star shell suddenly shoots up from the ground, with a surprising reillumi nation of No Man’s Ijand. : 0. S. Win CONTRACT ORDERED PROBED BY PRESIDENT WILSON 1 ) |Hog Island Operations, in Which Frank A. Vanderlip’s I Company Figured, Will Be e s Investigated e . , WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—President u Wilson today directed Attorney General _ Gregory to investigate the much-dis- i cussed Hog Island shipyard contracts j ! which have been adversely criticised be- • | fore the senate commerce committee, and I determine if there has been any criminal II ' misuse of government funds. e The president also directed the attor u ney general to work in conjunction with e Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, J in his investigation. About $42,000,000 1 of government money has been involved in the Hog Island oroject, in which the e American Internation Corporation, t headed by Frank A. Vanderlip, president e of the National Citjy bank of New York, s has figured. The Hogs island ship yard on the , Delaware river, near Philadelphia, is B planned to be the greatest in the coun- - try. with more than fifty ways on which '• to lay down ships. b I The American International corpora j ' rion, through its subsidiary corporation. - the Atnerieaif international Ship Build s ing company, has contracts lor its con s struction and for ship building there. 1 from the ‘Emergency Fleet corporation, t acting for the L'nited States shipping t board. Testimony beiore tne senate commerce committee, investigating the whole sub ■ ject of shipping contracts, has developed ; statements that the government will i be obliged to spend between *IU,OOO,UUu and $5u,000,000. where government and i civilian experts estimated $21,000,000 | would suffice. ’ | This testimony developed charges by ■ | Representative Lenroot, Republican, oi I Wisconsin, on the floor oi the house, that throng a laxness in the letting ot . , the contracts the American Interna | | tional and its subsidiary were placed in i position to loot the treasury oi millions i of dollars. These charges, however, that the In ternational was “gouging” the govern ment have been characterized as “ma liciously false” by George J. Baldwin. ’ of New York, head of the American in i ternational Ship Building corporation, 1 in his testimony before the senate com , meree committee. ( • | It was developed among other things iat the senate committee's hearing that i Colonel Black, of Philadelphia, one ot ; the former owpers of Hog jsiand, got $2,000 an acre for his property, whereas a year ago he held an option on Hog island at SI,OOO an acre. One of the principal points of attack ■ on ’the international Ship Building cor . poration in the senate committees in i vestigaticn has been that by its contract with the Emergency Fleet corporation it would receive a fee of $6,000,000 for > the "know how” of building the ship yard and getting out the ships. > Mr. Vanderlip’s name was brought I ■ into the investigation as being presi-' > dent of the mother corporation and as • having countersigned the contracts. i Mr. Baldwin, before the senate com-: , niittee, attiinuted the rise in costs 10l > the fleet corporation’s delay in signit.g I j contracts The fleet corporation, he de- ; . dared, while pressing for speed, wasted two monthes ir/Zsigning a contract and I threw the work into midwinter, whicn' brought also great increases in material,, , labor and everything else. Charles A. Piez. vice president of the , fleet corporation, said in his testimony I before the committee that there had been extravagance in building the yard. Mr. Baldwin, however, reminded the | , committee that the engineer who sup- | plied the data on which that assertion | was made later had withdrawn most i i of it. There has been a great deal of pres-! sure in the senate committee to have! the government take over the «hip yard i and continue the work itself. Investigation by the department of justice was recommended by Chairman , Hurley, of the shipping board, who i asked that an assistant to the attorney general be sent to Hog Island to work with Assistant General Manager Bowles, of the Emergency Fleet corporation. Mr. Bowles was put in active charge of the yard recently. Mr. Bowles has been directed by Chairman Hurley to put the Hog Island yard on an economic basis Shipping board officials are of the opinion that has been nothing worse than in efficient management and a reckless spending of funds but they want to ascertain all the facts. Rear Admiral Bowles who assumed active charge of the new plant a few days ago, dispensed with an expensive publicity bureau, but declared he was confident all expenditures ordered by the corporation would be vindicated by the extent of the work necessary. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 14—Officials I of the American International Shipbuiid j ing corporation declared today they would welcome the investigation which President Wilson directed into the ship ! yard of the company under construction : at Hog Island. A portion of the keel of the first 120 ships’ contracted for at the yard was laid this week. Americans Are Coming, Breslauer Volkswacht • .Warns German People AMSTERDAM, Feb. 14.—The Ameri i cans are coming, and it is useless for Germany to hide from that fact, the Breslauer Volkswacht warned its read ers, according to copies of that news paper received here today. “They are coming,” is the. title of the ' i warning. “As a certain percentage of provi- , | sion ships are torpedoed,” the article says, “so may a certain percentage of • ! the American troop transports be tor- i I , >edoed. “The Americans can be provisioned as ; well as the British troops in France. ' 1 It is better to look things squarely in the face than to cling to pleasing self- | deception.” MRS. H. H. HIRSCH, who is j charged with trying to blackmail Mayor Asa G. Candler out of | $500,000. She and J V-' Cook, j alleged tg have been her accom i plice, were indicted by the grand ■ jury Thursday and plated in the II - ■ I ' Wk"' ■ ’ SF i $ 9 : L —— MAYOR’S CHARGES : UNTRUE, DECLARES •MRS. H. H. HIRSCH . j ‘ • ' “This Is Another Case of the Power of Money/' She As serts Cook Declares His > Innocence l Immediately following the return of 1 indictments against* them on a charge J of attempting to extort $500,000 from , Mayor Asa G. Candler, Mrs. H. H. and J. W. Cook were placed, un der arrest by deputy sheriffs and taken to the tower, where they are held for , $5,000 bond each. Mrs. Hirsch declared to a Journal re -1 porter, that she is absolutely innocent ; and, will neither attempt to make bond ■ | nor employ a lawyer, but at the proper i time will tell the whole truth. I Cook was arrested at a real estate office where he is employed, while Mrs. Hirsch was arrested in the office of her husband in the Trust Company of Geor gia building. Cook will try to make bond. Mrs. Hirsch declared emphatically to a Journal reporter: "The charge against me is untrue and ridiculous. At the right time I will tell the whole truth and won’t need any lawyer. This is another case demon strating the power of money. Another case where the woman suffers while the man goes free. At the. proper time I will tell several incidents throwing light on the* whole affair.” , Mrs. Hirseh did not seem in the least disturbed or embarassed. In fact, she was inclined to # treat the matter in a light and laughing way. Her husband is out of the city. Cook asserted his entire innocence of | the charge. Sixth Threat Made On Mayor Candler, His Son Declares Asa G. Candler. • Jr., son of Mayor Candler, stated Thursday afternoon that this was the sixth time people have trierj to blackmail his father. Once before, about six years ago. a blackmail’ attempt against the mayor was given 1 considerable publicity. On this occa sion, a youth whom Mr. Candler has assisted financially, wrote him a letter i threatning his life unless a considerable j sum of money was left at a certain I place. The fraull was exposed, the boy confessed and the case was not prose cuted. Movements of Men In the First Call Will Extend Into March WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Movements of men to complete the first select serv ice call, beginning on February 23. will not be completed within the following five days as originally planned, but will extend over into March. A movement not included In previous announcements will begin March 4. mov ing 10,077 men to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., and Camp Funston, Kan. The following increments of white men will go to Fort Oglethorpe: Dela ware, 281; New* Jersey, 940; Michigan, | 1.500; Ohio, 1.500: West Virginia, 1,520; I making a total of 5.741. The following states by Jhe calls is-1 sued today will have on March 4 sent | to camp all remaining white men in their respective quotas: Delaware, New Jersey, Arizona. Colo- i rado, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico ! and South Dakota. Provost Marshal General Crowder to day notified governors that classifica tion of selected men virtually has been) 1 completed and that in the future local | boards’ duties will consist only of su-, pervision of the drawing of units from , their respective committees and reclas- ; silication of men undergoing change of j status. 8010 Pasha Sentenced To Death for Treason PARIS, Feb. 14. —Polo Pasha was sen-; tenced to death today by the court-mar tial. which deliberated for only fifteen minutes. Darius Porehere, an accountant, who was a co-defendant. was sentenced o three years’ imprisonment. American Killed in Action OTTAWA, Ont. Feb. 14.—The follow ing American was mentioned in today's Canadian Casualty list issued by the records office here: Killed in action: G. H. Marsh, Park ton. N. C. NUMBER 41. ' COUPLE ARE INDICTED ON ALLEGED ATTEMPT . TO EXTORT 5500.088 I J. W, Cook and Mrs. H, H. Hirsch Charged in Bill Witfi ii Trying to Compromise I! Mayor Asa G, Candler I Indictments charging them with an attempt to blackmail Mayor Asa G. Candler out of $500,u00 were returned by the Fulton county grand jury Thurs r day morning against J. W. Cook?a real g estate man of 50 Columbia avenue, and | Mrs. H. H. Hirsch. • Their bonds have I been assessed at $5,000 each, and they | have been arrested and lodged in the I ■ Fulton county Tower. . | The indictments were the direct re- I suit of testimony given before the grand I jury by Mayor Candler himself, who, ’ ' declared that on Wednesday, February 6, • Airs. Hirseh and Cook endeavored to i place him. in a compromising position in his office at the Candler building and. afterward threatened to take their story to Mr. Hirsch unless Mayor Candler sent Mrs. Hirsch out of town and gave her half of the sum he donated to Emory university, which was $1,000,000. In his testimony. Mayor Candler went * into full details !of the scene in his II office with Mrs. Hirsch and Mr. Cook . and described how, through friends, the man and the woman were “led onK to make their demands. Once Mrs. Hirsch had come out openly and demanded 3 money, said Mr. Candler, he at once or- J dered his attorney, Reuben R. Arnold, to take the matter before the grand jruy. In less than two hours after the grand , jury returned its indictments Thurs -5 day morning, Mrs. Hirsch and Cook were arrested. Mrs. Hirsch was taken in cus -1 tody at the office of Mr. Hirsch in the Trust Company of Georgia building, f They were at once taken to the tower. , e Mr. Hirsch, who is a well-known insur- | ! ance man, was said to be out of town. Both Mrs. Hirsch and Cook are well known to hundreds of Atlantians. The - latter has been in the real estate busi i ness here for years. He is said to be a r handsome, a natty dresser and a great sports fan. Mrs. Hirsch has interested - herself with Red Crosg work, civic af t fairs and various charitable entertain i ments, benefit performances and the r like. Had Known Mrs. Hirsch 5 In his statement before the grand jury • Mayor Candler said he has known Mrs. Hirsch since the summer of 1917, when he met her in connection with some ? Hed Cross work. “I saw her several times in discussiw that work and she was with other ladifcX on most of these occasions, most of them prominent clubwomen,” the mayor told the grand jury. “I do not recall I having seen her alone but two er three ' times and when I did, the matters she ( talked with me about were matters re- j ' lating to Red Cross Work only, and . nothing in these conversations gave me ’ any reason to believe that she was other than a lady.” ; On Monday morning, February 4, the mayor esaid he was going along Forsyth j street to the city hall, when Mrs. Hirsch crossed the street, stopped him , in front of the old Weinmeister hotel and said she wanted to seq him and talk with him at his office in the Cand ler building Wednesday if he would be V there. “1 presumed she wfished to talk again " about these Red Cross and club mattefs and 1 told her I would be in my office Wednesday at 4 o'clock in the Candler building," said the mayor. "On Wednes day at 4 o’clock she came to my office.” ' The mayor describes what happened • I then as follows: Mayor Describes Meeting was sitting at his desk and | Hirseh took a seat in « chair nearby. After talking a few minutes, said the mayor, she exclaimed, is a man at the window.’” Mayor Candler, whose 4 ■ ba'-k was tinned toward the window, : turned and saw no one. Wondering why she snould remark al>out anyone being at the window, the I mayor says he replied: "It was proo- S j ably a window washer.” Mrs. Hirsch is alleged to have replied, 1 ; ’’No, it was a well-dressed while man.” i Mr. Candler said he then turned and ; looked f r some lime at the windt/w, I but saw no one. Turning again to face Mrs. Hirseh, the mayor said she ha*j I risen from her’chaT thrown off her hat i and coat and had started toward the j door. ‘‘As she reached the doo . it opened | and a man whom I afterwards found to be <’ook strode into the room.” According to Mr. Candler. Cook tossed up his arms in a gesture of surprise , and exclaimed, “This is a pretty state 'of things.’” “It immediately flashed across my mind that they meant mischief, so I left the office and hurried down to the flour below to the office of my son,” contin ued the mayor's testimony. “I told t ' him to come to my office quick. When we returned to my office Cook was gone, but the woman was still there. She , asked me if that was my son with me I and when 1 told her ’yes,' she immedi | ately left the building.” Made No Advances, He Says I “I made no advances whatever to this woman." concluded the mayor emphat ically. “and nothing whatever of an im proper nature took place between us. So far as 1 knew the woman was a lady, and nothing in her words or actions up to that titne ever indicated otherwise. Mr. Candler's son, it was testified, ■ called Forrest Adair to the office for a conference. Here Mr. Adair took up the | story in his testimony to the grand N I jury. “While 1 was sitting there talking | to Mr. Candler Mrs. Hirsch telephoned his office,” said Mr. Adair. “The mayor simply took her number and told her he would call her later. Then I went back to my office and called up Mrs. Hirsch and asked her to call on me for a conference. “She. came. With her she brought a note which she said Cook had left on a desk in her husband's office. She said she found it there right after she ( left the mayor's office and that it frightened her ” Mr. Adair exhibited the note as evl- * 4 dence. It was as follows: “H. H. Call me up at Ivy 164 before you go home this p. m. without fail. Cook.” Mrs. Hirsch told me that the note had frightened her to death,” continued Mr. Adair. “She said she was afraid Cook was 9o:ng to tell her husband and that her husband would go and kill Mr. Can dler. She didn’t want to see Mr. Can dler killed, she declared, and she want- (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.)