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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 ■
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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
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i $ 9 :
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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-
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