Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, February 19, 1918, Image 1
©he Atlanta SBemMieeW© Stourna* VOLUME XX. AUSTRIANS AND Him SEES WIFE IT TOWER: SHE WEEPS: PASTOR THERE. TOO Woman Defendant In Black mail Case Said to Have Been Startled At Sight of Her Husband At the Tower For the first t:m« since her indict ment with J. W. Cook, on a. charge of atempted blackmail, and arrest last Thursday. Mrs Margaret Hirsch, who has since been held at the Fulton coun ty tower, had a conference with her husband. Herman H. Hirsch. Atlanta insurance man. Monday morning. The meeting was behind closed doors and the two. with Dr. J. Sprole Lyons, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, present part of the time, talked for over an hour. All the while Mrs Hirsch is said to have been in tears. On meeting her husband she seemed startled and excited. There was a round of conferences at the Tower In connection with this case which during the Last few days has at tracted wide attention. J. R. Bedgood, ot she law firm of James A Bedgood, called at the Tower Monday morning and for an hour talked with Cook and Mra Hirsch in one of the jail At 11:15 a m. Mr. Hirsch and Dr. Lyons arrived at the Tower. At this time Mrs. Hirsch was closeted with Mr. Bedgood, while Oeok occupied a seat tn the jailer’s office calmly smoking a cigarette Cook and Mr. Hirsch did not meet The arrival of Mr. Hirsch and Dr. Lyons was announced to Mrs Hirsch and Mr. Bedgood by a jail attache after which Mr. Bedgood left the room in which he had been talking to Mrs. Hirsch as Mr. Hirsch went in. After a half hour with his wife Mr. Hirsch appeared at the door and called in Dr Lyons The three, with Mrs Hirscn crying steadily, resumed the conference which lasted until the early afternoon. At 12:30 p m. Dr. Lyons left the con ference room and Mr. Bedgood went in. It was announced at the jail that Mr. Hirsch had made arrangements for his Wife’s meals daring her stay at the tower. With the permission of the jail-, er Mrs. Hirsch is to be served by one of the best cases in the city, the meals being sent into her each day. Mr. Hirsch remained with his wife an hour and a half, leaving the Tower at 12:45 p. m. with Dr. Lyons As he came from the conference room he thanked Jailer Robert Holland for the kindness shown him and with Dr. Lyons holding his arm walked briskly to Dr. Lyons' aetemob Je. which was standing in front of the Tower. He declined to make any statement whatever, skying that he probably would have something to say U a few days, but not before. After her husband's departure Mrs. Hirsch. crying softly, returned to her quarters upstairs. Cook then began a onference with Attorney Bedgood. Mrs. Hirsch, who, with J. W. Cook, is under indictment for an alleged at tempt ax verbal blackmail on Mayor Asa G. Candler, has again refused to accept bail. either at the hands of her busband or several friends, and has issued a formal order to Jailer Bob Holland directing him to allow no one . to visit her without written permission from her attorneys, James and Bed-, good. It is announced by friends of Mr Hte-sch that be will renew his offer to provide the required ss,oo<* bond and will also do bis utmost to furnish the best possible array of legal talent for his wife's defense, if she will accept his assistance in this way. Worn out by| his long railroad journey and bis nerves shattered from the shock of finding his wife under arrest charged with blackmail, Mr. Hirsch on Sunday made no effort to visit the Tower, but promised to lend every possible aid in preparing Mrs. Hlrsch's defense. Mra Hirsch and Cook held a lengthy • onference Sunday night with their at torneys, but no formal statement was forthcoming as the result. Thus far the defense has contented itself with a gen eral denial of the chargee preferred by Mayor Candler. Solicitor General John A. Boykin ts busy gathering evidence for presentation at the trial of the case on Wednesday, > February 37. before Judge Ben H. Hill. I and it is intimated from has office that ’ details of w a particularly Interesting character have Jbeen discovered. Mr. Hirsch has indicated, since his return tc Atlanta, that Cook has been • no particular friend of his. bu| rather a casual acquaintance. Cook has de clared that his interest tn the case was on account of his great friendship for Mr. Hirsch and his desire to see the 'lat ter freed from Mra Hirsch. Cook, when questioned Monday regarding this state ment. Refused to disc use it at all. No statement will be made by Mr. Hirsch regarding his future conduct in the matter until be has thoroughly ac quainted himself with every angle of the case, according to an announcement from his friends Wife Dies From Wound Inflicted by Husband c’HATTANOOGA. Tenn, F*b 18. | Mrs. Grace Moore Gossett died last night from the effects of a wound through the head from the pistol fired by her husband, William Gossett, and tier stepfather, J. A. Walters, wounded at the same time, Is not expected to live. tJossett is being held on the mur der charge. Railroad Heads To Give Service to Commission WASHINGTON. Feb 18.—Railroad ereeattves who appeared today before rhe raitrnad wage commission said theyj were present not to oppose the wig : demands made by tlteir employee, but io give whatever information they! »uld that would be of service to the* .ommlssion In making recommendations for tnereasea Full Associated Press Service EOVERNfIS ASKS FARMERS TO PRODUCE FDCDSTUFFS Ten Per Cent Increase in Pork Production Is Specially • Urged Governor Dorsey has issued a procla mation impressing upon the people of Georgia the fact that the produc tion of food on a very large scale people of Georgia the fact that the pro duction of food on a very large scale is vitally important to the success of the war. and (Especially urg ng the farm ers and others engaged in hog raising to make an increase of 10 per cent in the production of pork this year, has been issued by Governor Hugh M. Dor sey. The proclamation reads as* fol lows : To the People of Georgia: Whereas, the government of .the United States has definitely an nounced the fact that our soldiers at the front are dependent on our soldiers at the plow, and that food and feed supplies wiß win the war, and officials of both the govern ment and the agricultural organi bations of the nation hays directed attention to the fact that it ts im perative that tne production of these crops be increased this year beyond the yield of 1917, but more particularly that it will be disas trous to permit any decrease in the yields of last year; and. Whereas, it has been found neces sary to bring these facts clearly before the people of Georgia that they may realize fuly the food shortage which confronts us and prepare to meet the situation and avert calamity, to which end the farming, banking and commercial interests of the state have been called upon to assemble in the city of Macon on February 27, at 9 o’clock, am., to advise together and devise plans and means for concerted agricult.sral (jffort with out further loss of time; and. Whereas, the importance of in creasing at the same time the pork production as one of /he chief es sentials of the food supply has been realized, and plans to that end have been already put in operation, through a series of co-operative meetings to be held by the exten sion division of the Georgia College of Agriculture, the United Stales department of agriculture, the fed eral food administration and the farm demonstration agent, with the county school superintendents and teachers of .each county, to bring about a minimum increase by each Individual of 10 per cent of the pork production over that of last year-—dates and locations of meetings to be made Imowrt through announcements in the local county newspapers; and, Whereas, these preliminary meet ings to be held during the week of February 18 to 23 are so potent a factor in accomplishing the gener al purpose aimed at through the meeting to be held in Macon on February 27 Therefore, I, Hugh M. Dorsey, governor of Georgia, call on the people of Georgia to attend these preliminary meetings to be held the week of February 18.-23 in every community, and urge upon you the duty of doing your part in bringing about a minimum individual in crease of 10 per cent over the pork production in Georgia in 1917. I further call upon all participating in these preliminary meetings to. at that time, select representatives, if possible from each militia district, and charge them with the duty of attending and participating in the general state meeting called on Feb ruary 27. I especially appeal to the bankers and business men of the state to lend their unstinted co-op eration to the efforts making, to obtain the necessary increase in food production, bf aiding the farm ers and those engaged in animal husbandry in financing their opera tions. In witness whereof. I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the executive department to be affixed. Done at the capitol. tn the city of Atlanta, this, the 16th day of February. In the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and Eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and forty-second. (Seal) HUGH M. DORSET. Governor. Bv the governor: C. A. WEST. Secretary Executive Department. Don’t Fail to Read Brand Whitlock’s Story of Belgium Beginning on page 10 with to day’s issue This is the big story, not fiction, but absolute facts. You can’t afford to miss a single installment. Subscribe now, as we can not furnish back numbers. It will not be necessary for you to write a letter if you sign your name and address to this coupon and send to us with your remittance The Semi-Weekly Journal, At lanta. Ga.: Enclosed find $ for which send me The Atlanta Semi-Weekly Journal for months. Name P. O? ft F. D. NoState 5.000 SHIP WORKERS RETURN TO DUTIES: MORE ARE EXPECTED Intervention by President Has 1 Desired Effect in Breaking 1 Up Walkout that Had Threatened Shipbuilding NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—The strike by carpenters in the Atlantic seaboard ship yards engaged on government contracts it> over, John Rice, national organizer of the United Brotherhod of Carpen ters and Joiners, said today.. Several thousamd men who are still idle are ex pected to be at work tomororw morn ing. About 3,000 of the strikers returned to work this morning, Mr. Rice esti mated. In yards at Philadelphia. Baltimore, Jersey City, Elizabethport, Newark and New York, about 6,000 carpenters quit work this morning, Mr. Rice announc ed, because they were unaware of the fact that William L. Hutcheson, presi dent of the brotherhood, had responded to President Wilson’s letter of last night, by announcing he would endeav or to influence the strikers to resume work pending settlement of their griev ances by the wage adjustment board. Many of these 6,000 were later in formed of this situation and returned to the yards, Mr. Riqp said, and during the day every effort would be made to get in touch with the others. A mass meeting of striking carpen- ( ters had been called in Brooklyn to day und P at this gathering the men 1 will be instructed to return, Mr. Rice ! said. President Takes Hand In Situation Sunday WASHINGTON, Feb. 18—Shipping board officials were confident today that President Wilson's intervention ■in the strike of carpenters in eastern ship yards had had its desired effect ' and the men would go back to work ! pending settlement of their grievances by the wage adjustment board. The president took a hand in the slt ; nation last night and issued a sharp rebuke to William L. Hutcheson, presi* dent of the United Brotherhood of Car penters and Joiners, who had refused to send the strikers back to work and requested a personal conference to lay the matter before the president. The * president in his telegram to Hutcheson declared if the utrion leader did not wish to give aid and comfort to the enemy he would direct the men to re turn to their jobs pending settlement. The president declined to see Hutche son until he had done so. This message broeght prompt action from President Hutcheson, and local union officials in affected districts were notified last night to ask the men under their jurisdiction to returfi to work today. The union leader inform ed the men that he wanted the wish of the president of the United States complied with immediately. MB. BAKErCDMPLTTES WHEELER INSPECTION Secretary Expresses Satisfac tion With General Con ditions at Camp CAMP WHEELER, Macon,Ga., Feb. 18. After onspecting Camp Wheeler and witnessing a review of the Dixie divi sion. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war. and party left last night for Au gusta where they visited Camp Han cock today. Accompanied by General William C. Gorgas, of the pubfic health service; Lieutenant Colonel C. L. Furbush, ex ecutive officer of General Gorgas’ staff; Major W. H. Welch, a medical officer, and Edwin Newdick, of the committee on public information, the secretary of war motored to the camp yesterday morning. Soon after his arrival a re view was staged In hts honor. He expressed satisfaction because of the efficiency evidenced by the military machine and the general condition of the camp. He spent much time at tile base hospital and inquired minutely about conditions there. Mr. Baker said there was no thought i of moving the troops from Wheeler be- I fore they are ready to leave for service overseas, but couldn’t say definitely I whether more soldiers would be sent to I take their places. The secretary received a committee of ! leading Macon men and thanked them . for assurances that the city stands ready to co-operate with the government in anything it wants done in the region of the camp. The committee was com- I posed of W. H. Felton, chairman. For mer Governor Nat E. Harris, Mayor , Glen Toole and Dr. J. H. Heard, chair man of the county commissioners. As the secretary boarded a train for Augusta he •aid to General Hayden, act ing commander of the division: ‘•General, I am satisfied men of the Dixie division arc in good hands. I congratulate you on the condition of the camp and the personnel of the troops.” In an address to officers here Mr. Baker discussed war conditions in a general ’way. declaring it is necessary that every American do his part. He said the hospital here will be a perma nent institution and will continue in op eration after the war. Cured His Daughter of Fits A well-know-n resident of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reports that his daughter has been completely cured of Epilepsy • Fits) by a prescription secured from a friend. This girl had suffered as many as one hundred attacks in a day and seemed beyond all hope of relief. ; Her father says he ts so grateful for i her recovery that he will gladly mail a bottle of this wonderful medicine in plain sealed wrapper, free, to any suf ferer who writes him. If you. a friend, or a relative, suffer, write R. P. N. Lepso. 18 Island Ave., Milwaukee. Wis consin, and get a free bottle.—(AffirL) ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1918. HUNS SPLIT ON RUSSIA JUST BEFORE FRITZ WAS SENT DOWN. Photographs of actual air battles have been mighty few. And here is one of the best ever taken. It shows the French plane (at the top) maneuvering for position preparatory to swooping down on the German flier below. The Ger man plane was downed in a sharp machine gun duel shortly after this picture was snapped. This photo was taken by an observer in another French battleplane. —--fix:-' ... * . SEMfc< * gwjWMHhJar Atu .SEWOH HUMBERT IS IRRESTED IN PIRIS Editor and Witness in 8010 Pasha Trial Held by Authorities PARIS, Feb. 18. —Charles Humbert, senator from the Meuse, arts proprietor of the Journal, was arrested this morn ing. Senator Humbert was one of the principal figures in the case of 8010 Pasha, patently convicted of treason and sentenced to death, through the fact that it was his newspaper, Le Journal, in which an interest was bought with the money 8010 received from the United States. When the facts regarding the German source of the money involved rn the transaction were revealed last fall. Senator Hum bert cancelled the contract and return ed the money. It had not been charged that the policy of Le Journal was af fected tn away injurious to France. Senator Humbert has repeatedly af firmed his patriotism. In announcing in December last that be was leaving the control of Le Jourfia! to tts orig inal proprietor, Henri Letellier, Sena tor Humbert declared; *Tf I have been deceived twice It has been under conditions which would have deceived the most rigilant patriot ism.” Shortly afterward the senator voted to suspend his Immunity. He was a witness in the 8010 trial and becoming irritated at questions asked by the prosecutor, he shouted: "Have me arrested; place me in the dock and make a frontal attack upon me. Do not treat me as an accused.” Senator Humbert was formerly vice president of the senate committee on army affairs. Judge George Is Not Considering Race for United States Senate Apropos of a news item appearing In the Macon News to the effect, that his friends were urging him to become a candidate for the United States senate, and that be had the matter under advise ment, Justice Walter F. George, of the state supreme court. stated Monday morning that he had no intention of making the race. "Some of my partial friends have paid me the compliment of urging me to make the race,” said the judge, "but 1 have not considered it, and will not do so.” Judge George is a citizen of Cordele. He served as solicitor and later as judge of the Cordele circuit and made the race two years ago for one of the new judgeships of the st#te court of appeals, when that court was enlarged. He eas ily won a nomination. After serving several months he was appointed to the state supreme court by Governor Dor sey to succeed Judge Beverly D. Evans when the latter was appointed judge of the United States district court for the Southern district es Georgia. ALLIES TO WIN IN 1918 BY CHECKING GERMANS IN WEST Simms Says Failure of Hin denburg’s Drive, His Last Card, Will Force Teutons To Their Knees BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS BERNE, Switzerland, Feb. 17.—CDe layed.)*—Hold the west front, and the war is won. Therein is the whole story of my Swiss impressions. I don’t mean that peace will follow within 24 hours of Hindenburg’s fias co. Bat I certainly bqlieve an allied peace js possible this year. This con clusion is unhasty. It was reached by a process tantamount to 1 compu tail on. From personal opservations I know what the French punch is like, and what British bulldog-ism is, while from my study here I believe I have gained a fair idea of what Germany can do From this knowledge I don't believe •the Germans have the proverbial chance in a thousand, despite Hindenburg’s strategy and Ludendorff’s tactics. Hindenburg can expect little or no aid from Austria. Emperor CMrl’s po sition is too wobbly to warrant send ing Austrians. Hungarians, Czechs, etc., to their slaughter on the west front The Prussians may browbeat them into activity against Italy simulta neously with a German offensive against France, but this appears about all. Czernin said in December that as Germany is fighting for Trieste. Aus tria might fight side by side with the Germans on frontiers other than Aus trian. Ludendorff has practically reorganiz ;ed the German army, which probably will comprise 200 divisions (2,600.000 to 3,000,000 men) when the offensive starts, if it starts. Despite the armis tice agreement, the cream of the divi sions from the Russian front have been ■ drafted to the west- The older troops on the west front have been replaced with storm troops. Austria will aid with artillery and guns captured in Italy, and elsewhere. The Germans are boasting a horrible new gas. They i brag that this gas has already been i tried out in Italy and at Cajnbrai. I But if the information which T have is ■ true, the allies have no need to worry I much. Germany is putting up its biggest I bluff. Dying of rot, she is trying to scare the allies by making faces. Doubtlessly, she has one punch Jest, after which —nothing. The masses are thoroughly war weary. The election at Bautaen Is proof of this. This is an agrarian cen ter. always was violently pan-Gcrman and adamant against Socialism. Before the recent election the war party, certain of the result, proclaimed 1 the outcome would show the extent to ‘ which the people are backing the kai ser. A Socialist was elected by a large majority, throwing the militarists into consternation. Through the latter’s own demands the eflection cry was “for or against reconciliation and peace.” However, as George Archibald. Ameri can jockey, just out of Austria said: "Don’t let this German peace talk fool you too much. Just give them a GDNSTKBLE IS KILLED- 'Bl RESISTING NEGRO Posse Pursues Alleged Slacker Who Escapes After Shooting WILLACOOCHEE. Ga„ Feb. 18.—Mr. C. D. McCraw, a prominent citizen of this place, was shot and instantly killed at Crenshaw, Berrien county, at 11 o’clock Sunday by Ed Dancy, a negro. The deceased vzas acting constable of this district, and accompanied by John T. Paulk, undertook to arrest the negro under a warrant charging swindling. Dancy, who was located in a house oc cupied by his brother-in-law, S. B. Johnson, resisted arrest, shooting Mc- Craw with a double-barreled shotgun, the load taking effect in the right side of his head. After killing McCraw Dancy snapped the other barrel at Mr. Paulk and made his escape. Johnson is in jail at Nash ville charged with being an accessory, and a posse is in pursuit of Dancy. The dead man was the father of Will McCraw of the Paulk & McCraw Hard ware company, of this place. Dancy is an alleged slacker. Alleged Negro Slacker Shooting Sheriff, Killed • SANDERSVILLE, Ga., Feb. 18—Jake Sigero, a negro, sought by Sheriff Ben jamin English, under a warrant alleg ing that he failed to register for mili tary service, fired from a deserted cabin, near here yesterday, where he had been located, striking the sheriff, slightly wounding him iif the head. The sheriff’s deputies fired on Sigero, riddling him with bullets and killing him instantly. DUCKWORTH ARRAIGNS CRITICS OF PRESIDENT Speaking at the Plum Street Church of Christ Sunday night on the subject of "Deception,” R. F. Duckworth, the well-known Farmers’ union leader, paid his respects in no uncertain terms to the members of congress who are ob structing the administration in the prosecution of the war. "The members of congress who are trying to block the war program of the administration do not seem to me to be sincere,” said Mr. Duckworth. “War is the direct result of the deceit and corruption of men, hence I am op posed to war. It cannot be justified by the doctrine of Christ, the kaiser to the contrary notwithstanding. But that has nothing to do with the position tAken by unprincipled and yellow-streaked members of congress who are trying to deceive their people at home by playing a deceptive game of rotten politics, or worse, pretending to be patriotic while they help Germany by hindering the president. "A member of congress cAn do but one of two things—help or resign. Any other course is deception, or lack of pa triotism." / winning streak and they'll insist on annexing New York and <Jh-Ecago "On the other hand, if they pull an offensixe, just give ’em another dose of that Verdun stuff and they'll be eating out of your hand.” (Copyright. 1919, Petted Prem.) NUMBER 42. ttML DE STATE OF WAD RESENTED BV GEWVS ALLY Bolshevik! Capture Kiev, One of Largest Cities of Uk- • rainia, But Are Defeated by Holes Near Minsk I.ON DON, Feb. is.— a deep, serious schism has been created between Ger many and Austria-Hungary by the ter mination of the armistice between the central powers and Russia and the re newal of a state of war, according to the Copenhagen correspondent of the Ex change Telegraph company. The Austrian press, continues the cor respondent, is warning Germany against the reopening of hostilities in which Austria does not wish to participate. The semiofficial' Fremdenblatt is silent, but the Neue Freie FTesse is quoted as pointing out that the Austrian monarchy no longer borders upon Russia and ?s not, like Germany, compelled to resume warfare. The only thing Austria might do against its will, says the newspaper, is t» protect the free connection between the monarchy and the Ukraine. i ie Zeit, which has Intimate connec tions with the Austro-Hungarian for eign office, is reported by the correspon dent as contending that Count Czernin, the foreign minister, can continue to act as a negotiator with the west. "For our monarchy,” it says, "the war is in -the main finfehed, and for one of our an tagonists it has virtually not begun. Millions of thinking people now point to Count Czernin and President Wilson.” The article concludes with a sentence which the correspondent interprets as being plainly addressed to Germany, reading: "From our side the -pre-disposition to positive negotiation has never been in terrupted, and it is to be hoped that the r.cgc; la’uens will not be interrupted from* the other side.” The Austrian press is protesting against a re-opening of hostilities in which Austria has no desire to partici pate. the correspondent says. ' The newspaper. Die Ziet, hopes "Thc\ Czemin-Wilson rapprochement contin ues, and that Germany won’t interfere with it. Germans Resume War Against Russia, Report STOCKHOLM, Feb. 18.—The Germans resumed war measures against Russia today, the Social Demokraten states. Their first objective- is the ’ seizure bf"“ Esthonia and Livonia, it declares. Germans Expelled From Trenches, French Report • PARIS, Feb. 18.—The Germans last night made an attack on the Champagne front, today’s war office statement re ports. They gained a footing in the French but after a spirited engagement were driven out. Bolsheviki Take Kiev; Lose Another Battle NEJW YORK, European Cables.)—Belated dispatches from Russia furnish farther revela tions of the disordered conditions pr«- . vailing throughout the former empire; ravaged by civil war and apparently about to be subjected to another mili tary attack by Germany. The thick of the fighting has been in the Ukraine, from which fertile re gion the central jxwers have been con fidently expecting shortly to secure supplies of foodstuffs to replenish their sadly depleted stocks. Kiev, the seat of the government of the New Ukrainian ’ republic, which/ made peace’ with Germany and Aus tria, is reported to have been captured by the Bolsheviki February 8 after fighting in which the killed were es timated at 4,000 and the wounded at 7,000. About the same time there was a battle in the streets of Odessa, the great grain shipping port on the Black sea, in which hundreds of persons wers killed and the city wa/s bombarded by warships. On the other hand, the Bolsheviki are reported to have been defeated by the revolting Polish troops in northern Russia, the Poles winning* a battle at Bobrinsk, some 85 miles southeast of Minsk and sending their forces on toward Smolensk, on the road to Mos cow, and nearly 200 miles northeast of Minsk. In the "two air raids of Saturday and. Sunday nights on London the Germans killed a total of 19 persons and injured 41. In each case .only one raider ap pears to have been able to escape the British barrage and bomb London it self. The greatest harm was done by the Sunday night raider, when bomb;; killed 16 persons and Injured 3.7. As the time for more active military operations on the west ern front approaches the American expeditionary force is widening its sphere of activity along the front lines. Not only do American soldiers hold a sector of the front east of St. Mihiel. but American artillery is helping the French in Champagne and infantrymen in company with French units are hold ing the front lines in one of the most famous fronts in the world. It is not disclosed Where this front is, but it is describea as being a plac*; where ruined villages and devastated country tell of bard fought battles in which the German pushed forward only to be driven back later by the French. The Americans were well equipped to deal with the enemy and their officers with' difficulty restrain them from at tacking the Germans at every opportu nity. On the American sector especially, the Germans have tried various ruses in an endeavor to outwit the newcomers »n the battle line but in vain. Raids have had no effect. The enemy has tapped and destroyed telephone lines, he has sent up false signals and has charged hik wire entanglements with electricity but he has been outmaneuvered each time. The artillery has been active at vari ous points on the British. French ard American fronts. British airmen have fContinned on Page 9, Column 3.)