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VOLUME XX.
WHITE WIFE OF !
- CHINESE HEID BS
\ GIRL SSUIYER
Tragedy Follows Weird Cere
monies of Religious Cult in
' . Flat Occupied by Victim of
Murder
k Adele Ping, pretty Scotch wife of
■ a Chinaman. has just been sentenced
■ to five vears at hard labor in con-
■ nection <ith the inquest into the
F death of Billie Carlton, the young
Atneriia>n actrees found dead of nar
cotic poisoning in her Savoy Courts ;
apartment, in London.
Mrs. Ping was pictured by . wit
nesses at the inquest as the hign
priestess of unholy rites. alleged
to have taken place in Miss can
ton's flat previous to the death of
the actress.
.Testimony was adduced showing
that men in pajamas and women in
-chiffon night dresses squatted in a;
circle in the Carlton flat, while in
• the* center the Chinaman’s wife en- ;
tertained her party with Oriental
dances. Opium was consumed dur
ing these “rites,” the testmony
showed.
Bilie Carlton was found dead in
her apartment in the Hotel Savoy a
few weeks ago after a n.gnt of cele
bration marked by a "victory ball.
Death was due to an overdose of a
narcotic' drug.
At the coroner’s inquest It was es
' tablished that before retiring Miss
Carlton had spent several hours in
* the room-’ of Mrs. Vernon Castle. I
the widow of the dancer-aviator,
which were in the same hotel.
Mrs. Castle was immediately de
tained and quest lor. cd as -to the
* in-her apartment. Later she
was released by the police.
The dcarb of the young American
actress and the rumored orgies lead
ing up to it caused a sensation tn
London, where both Miss Carlton
. and Mrs. Castle were fooiligbt fa
vorites.
U. S. Cereal Stocks
Twice as Large as
k They Were in 1917
Mere than twice as much wheat
P and greatly increased stocks of al*
i other cereals were on hand in United ’
JL States grain elevators, war-houses
and mills December 1 than the same
time a year ago. Cats and rice were
the only exceptions. Complete fig
ures on the food supply were made
public today by the department of
H agriculture.
| The survey shows commercial
» stocks of wheat amounted to 219.434.-
■ 831 bushels. 206.1 per cent of the
1917 stocks The figures refer to
stocks reported and do not represent
M the entire commwcUl stocks of the
f country nor inolude stocks on farms.
L Chicago board of trade figures
M show 121,551.060 bushels of wheat
M * for the commercial visible supply
V as compared with 21.031.000 bush
| c!» a year ago. Corresponding Brad-
street figures for 1918 show 131,584.-
• > «et> bushels as against 29,633,000
. bushels for 1917.
The figures indicate the excsllent
position America holds regarding t.ie
foodstuffs of the world and that this
country, through economic and effi
cient distribution, will be able to ren
der extensive relief to the countries
of Europe.
Percentages of stocks of other ce
reals. as reported on December 1.
are as follows: Corn, 129 per cent of
1917 stock; oats. 94.6 per cent: bar
ley. IM.I per cent; rye. 154.2 per
cent.
Commercial stocks of flour and
corn meal also show big gains. The !
• percentages of stocks now on hand ■
based on those of a year ago are:
Wheat flour, white. 179.4; whole
wheat and graham flour, 249.1 ; rye
flour. 215.8; corn meal. 227.8; buck
wheat flour, 220.4; mixed flour,
243.5.
Other foods also show substantial
L gains over the 1917 stocks. Percen-
■ tages are as follows: Beans. 154.5;
“ rice, 62.6: rolled oats. 165.7; canned
salmon, 94.3; canned tomatoes. 140 3;
canned com. 133.5; sugar. 125: con
f flensed milk. 119.7; evaporated milk.
72.8 per cent.
Europe has been particularly short
of dairy products, and the shortage
In evaporated milk is accounted for
by the enormous shipments of these
to France. Belgium. Italy and Eng
land. * 1
Wealthy White Woman Held Because She
Lured Young Girls to Shame in Orient
• Sirs. Jane Chard-Coward. said to be
a wealthy resident of Shanghai, was
arrested at San Francisco on a de
portation warrant and sent to the
a immigration station on Angel Island
for deportation proceedings.
V Mrs. Chard-Coward was arrested
Three Suspects Killed by Constabulary
While Running Whisky Blockade in West
Running Colorado's whisky block
ade has already cost the lives of
three more or less prominent citi
zens and resulted in the wounding
of a dozen others. The third man
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1. What official position does Marshal Foch of France hold?
2. What is the largest city in the world? z
3. What is the largest city on the Pacific coast?
4. What American woman first sought to obtain passage-of an
equal suffrage law in congress?
5. Where is the forest of the Argonne?-
6. What is the world's most precious metal?
7. Who first perfected the wireless telegraph?
8. Who is William Gibbs McAdoo?
9. What is feldspar?
10. -What is the largest state, in area, in the United States?'
11. What is the smallest state?
12. "Who was Aesop?
13. What is the greatest river in the world?
14. Who was the founder of the Christian Science faith?
15. What is a flamingo?
16. What woman made tho first American flag?
17. Who invented the telephone?
18. the American Red Cross?
the most celebrated war nures in history? M
Napoleojfr die?
If This Doesn’t Pay,
Nothing Ever Will
Why whine about the high
cost of living?
Here is a ad” that ap
peared in Th? Atlanta Journal,
daily edition, the other day;
v II 131 and egx«. break fast, bacon, nint
t«m. pork c!h.|». battercake., every
I day- hot nn<l cold water, steam neat.
1 electric light*, phone, for 87.50 week.
Killed Old Woman
Who Poisoned Him
Unemotionally. Ralph Bowling,
alias Hurley, eighteen, sat in a police
| cell in Washington declaring he had
killed sixty-eight-year-old Mrs. Eliza
both Beckwith because she poison
-1 ed him after he had spurned her
. pleas of marriage.
The terrible tragedy occurred
near the hamlet of Colesville.
Md. Bowling. an escaped in
mate of a reform school, claimed that
I the uoman kept insisting on mar
riage end that when he refused she
I put iodine in his coffee.
Awakening from the stupor this
caused. Bowling struck her with an
i axe handle and then "to put her out
? of her misery," hit again, killing her.
I according to C'c story he told the
i bov was apprehended here at
the home’of a negro woman he called
! his “old colored mammy.”
Hot Plum Pudding
For Soldiers Overseas
Hot plum pudding was served
to soldiers overseas on Christmas
dav from forty-five rolling kitch
ens manned by Knights of Colum
bus secretaries. Other holiday
• cheer sent abroad for soldiers and
sailors bv the Knights of Colum
bus included 4 0.000,090 cigarettes,
.*•0.000 pounds of hard candy. 60,-
000 pounds chocolate. 50,000
pounds of lemon drops. 25,001
l»ounds of gumdrops and one mil-
I lion packages of hewing gum.
Negro Labor in North
To Be Kept There, Says
Reports to Government
Southern cotton fields are getting
back practically none of the negro
labor attracted north by the high
wages of war plants. This is shown
• ’ey reports to the department of lu
■ bor. Their exodus caused serious la
tor shortage in many localities.
In several districts, such as Ohio,
Pennsylvania and the Virginia Tide
water. negro immigrants from Dixie
are already being absorbed by peace
• time industries. Although the la
bor department has not decided
whether to try to induce numbers of
these laborers to return south, the
employment service is already vy
ing to get better working conditions
for the negroes in the south and is
making plans to absorb the discharg
ocl soldiers
Indicating that many of the ne
groes will remain north, a, state
ment of the department says:'
“Industries in the commuijities of
Cleveland. Columbus, young-gtoWn/
akren, Cantdfi. TAma,' M Jffelawarti
Greenfield, Steubenville, Zanesvijl*,
Chillicothe. Sandusky, Portsmouth,
Marietta and Ironton, Ohio, either
have been able or will be able to ab
sorb the negro wage earners releas
ed tram war work or who may be
idle from other causes. Iron and
steel mills, paper mills and several
other lines of industry are offering *
openings to negro men and women.”
The high cost of transportation
has been a factor hindering the re
turn of this labor, department offi
cials believe. Higher wages for la
bor in the south are destined to
come, some members of the depart
ment believe, in order to adjust the
shortage caused by the exodus to
war plants.
PRESIDENT WILL LEAVE
FOR ITALY VERY SOON
President Wilson’s program after
I his return to Paris on New Year's
day has been revised. It now provides
that he will leave for Italy twenty- ,
four hours after returning to Paris,
as there wilt be an interval between
his return from England and the
preliminaries to the inter-ailied con
ference.
BEBGEB TRIAL
Testimony for the defense contin
ued at the trial Os Victor-Berger, So
cialist congressman-elect, and four
others Socialist leaders in Chicago. I
Names of President Wilson and
former President Roosevelt were ,
brought into the testimony by Clar
ence Darrow. Chicago writer and at
torney. who told of visits to Wash
ington. in behalf of free speech and
1 free press
by federal oficials c/i a charge of
having made false statements in her
application for a permit to return
to China.
At that time inquiry was made
into the allegation tttat the woman
was trying to recruit American
girls for underworld life in China.
to try conclusions with the state I
constabulary over his vested rights I
to import liquor into dry territory I
has just been taken back to Denver
a corpse. • . I
‘GREAT - BEHIG
J® EX-KAISER LIVED
LIKE RATS IN GROUM)
Mighty War Lords of Prussia
Burrowed Way to Safety
Far Beyond Even the
Sound of Allied Guns
The former headquarters of the
kaiser and his general staff is dis
closing some extraordinarily queer
facts thees days about the men who
engineered the world war. Take lor
one. Hindenburg, Germany's supen
man, around whom reams of poetry
have been written disclosing him as
a fearless Napoleon leading ins
troops to victory.
As a matter of fact he spent a
great ueal of time in a wonderfully
constructed "funk hole,” or dug
out, underneath the grounds of nis
villa at Spa, in Belgium.
• Spa. it may be noted, is almost on
the German border and so far trona
where battle lines used to be that it
was alindst a day’s journey in a! fast
motor car to get within sound of
the big guns. The kaiser, too, had a
similar hiding place at Neubois, near
i a-comic opera trench system about
which he is said to have paraded lor
the benefit of motion pictures. At
each of their villas there were-deli
cate electrical instruments which
would set up furious buzzing when
ever an airplane approached any
where near. At the first sound from
this contrivance Hindenburg and the
kaiser used to run to shelter, it is
reported. People who worked about
Hindenburg's establishment said that
he was continually running for cover.
America’s representatives on the
international armistice commission
are now occupying Hindenburg's
headquarters and they were amazed
when they discovered this under
ground refuge of the great warrior.
The entrance was through the dining
room. From there a flight of steps
led down to a tiled ante-room which
by the way. now serves as a very
good pantry for the Americans.
From the tiled room there was an
other flight of steps that led down
to the real dug-out. This was block
ed from the inside only. Within it
was fastened by a double bolt which
would do credit to an American
banking establishment.
The dug-out was luxuriously
equipped. On the floor was a heavy
flowered carpet and a Louis XV tabic
and chairs added to the artistic ar
rangement. The walls which were of
corrugated Iron were painted solid
white and the whole place brilliantly
Illuminated by electricity. On a lit
tle table was an electric fan to keep
the marshal cool in summer, while
an electric stove provided for heat ’n
the winter. The room was about
fourteen by twelve feet and was pro
tected by four to six feet of earth
about it. ' -•
The emperor's dug-out was similar,
except that it was much deeper utt
devgeound and there were two en
'tmwees. one through the villa and
, ,l>e other -from tht' &wxwfa “**>*••
menaws <>rxv- *
Another touch te the picture wa<
rtilded today when a German resi
dent of Aix-ln-f’hapclle told the cor
resiiQHdont of the Associated Press
that the crown prince spent virtually l
His $5,000 Turns
• To Tissue Paper
It’s a< brief tale. Hb: name is
Cantella Charlie. He's a farm
hand from Indiana. He was see
ing the sights in Chicago. Mei
two men. Ofie of them wanted to
give $5,000 to the poor. Would
Charlie hold the money? He
would and put up $l,lOO and SBOO
in Liberty bonds with the
stranger for good faith. The ;
strahger gave him the J>ox with
the $5,000. Charlie bpened It
• next day. It was full of tissue j
paper. Felice!
1,100,000 Soldiers at
Home and Abroad Are
Designated for Release,
-uore 1,100,000 A;;;crjcan ao|-
u.crs al inme aim auivau been
1 uesigua icu xor uemuuH.aauon since
the . artuiatice was signed. General
Aiufen gave the ngurta as Vai.Uvv
u-iU in uume units io be uiscnaigeu,
uiiu itih.uuu men anu t»,»uo officers
aSsigucu by General Pershing 101
early convoy home from rrance.
Inis mciudes men alreauy dis
cnaiged and muse Wno nave, lauded
from 1-rance. To date official reports
show 533,334 men and 3c,4d9 otnceia
actually _ dischaiged. Complete re
' pons lor' tne week just ended are ex
pected io raise the total at least
lUO.UUO.
Genet al March announced also
that the distinguished service meuai
will be awarded to the olluwmg
prominent generals whose work a<
noine has Deen of very vital Im
puitapce to the prosecution ot the
war; •
Black, chief ot engineers; CroKv
der, provost marshal general;
; Goetheis, formerly quartet master'
general and later director ot pur-
■ cause, storage and truific; Gorges,
I lormerly surgeon-general; Frank T.
Hines, chief ot embarkation, and,
I Jurvey. director ot operations.
In a special ceremony. Secretary
I of War Baker and the chief ot start
will make the awards. \\ ith each
medal will go a statement snowing
that the services these men per
formed were fully comparable to
those of officers in the field in
I France.
Ag to casualties of Thirtj'-fifth
and Eighty-ninth divisions, -March
pointed out that the total replace
ments asked for the former number
171 officers and 4.086 men* while for
the latter the total was 196 officers
and 5.727 men. Replacements give
a general Indication though not tn
tirely accurate, as to casualties suf
fered.
I
Another Skyscraper
Building in Atlanta
Atlanta's newest skyscraper, tin- j
Transportation building, at Forsyth ’
and Marietta streets, is nearly ready
for occupancy. It is 10 stories high
and costs $500,000.
SUSPECTED CHEF ARRESTED
Chief of Detectives Mooney today
received ■ word from Norfolk. Va.,
police that J?an Crones, former Uni
versity club chef, sought in connec
tion with the poisoning of Arch
bishop George Mundelein and 20«»
guests in Chicago two years ago,
had been arrested there.
Mundelein and practically all the
guests became’ violently ’ ill imme
diately after the banquet at which
the archbishop was welcomed to Chi
cago. Crones disappeared soon after
investigation began and was sus
pected.
MAXINES GET FURLOUGHS
Fifteen thouscand sailors and ma
rines from the American fleet an
chored in the Hudson were given
in New York and started
■or their homes. Thousands’were at
pile landing stages and cheersd tho
us they came aehore with their
ATLANTA, GA.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1918.
| PRESIDENT AND MRS. WILSON ARRIVE IN FRANCE
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Marshal Petain Receive? Baton From Poincare in Redeemed Metz
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I MARS-H*,!. JOFFREn. MATCH Al. HArs'l f'g fiMu? I GEffk . HALLER ;
I BRtrorf. j I ’BCtciULn _ I • Portugal, ■
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,• First pu iurr ot th? Frenrh military carrmony in re-won Metz, when President Poincare presented
th mtlitn’ y baton of « marshal of Franfec to Genet ill Petain. Poincare, hat off, is handing the baton to
th* fca-Tat, and standing rear f.re “Pupa” Marshal Joffre and Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France, Gen
r '‘Jik <-k Jack” Persbi’in of the Ani *riaH> foren*-, General Sir Douglas Haig of the British, General
G/Lan, Pc; ; army, Gsnsral Italian nnn v, and General Hallsr, Portuguese forces.
■ Senator Simmons, Poss Taxmaker of Country,
Now Counted “Biggest” Democrat in Congress
I It’s an awful lytndcap for a fel
low when his pnrcntu name him
Furnit'old, but that’s what they did
to Senator .Simmons, head of tne fi
nance committee v.-hi -h knocked the
t pots ouf of the Kltehfil revenue bill
9ml assembled a meat of taxes
which soon will bo law for the
L\ S/ A. . . .
Furn'ifold Simmons had other Hand
icap?. tco. As a boy he war. the
>,1031 delicate proposition In Jones
county, North t a»olna. Other boys
tailed him “The Kun*.” He was
pugnacious, but al Ways getting
licked, history recites. His lifetime
ambition was to take a good stiff
poke at big fellow some day. He
hoped for the time when he cpuld
land heavy on a giant.
Simmons Gets Even. With Kitchin
Family
And he has landed on a physical
giant—Claude Kitchin, chairman of
the house ways ab.,l means commit
tee, who also hails from North Caro
lina. .What Simmons didn't do to the
Kftchin revenue bill, after Claude
had spent hours and weeks tinker
ing with it. yds done Jo it by Sim
mons' colleagues.
Now Simmon? gets a further wal
lop by heeding the conference com
mittee, of- which Kitchin will be a
H-.ember, and which will cram the
Simmons bill down the Kitchin neck.
Years ago Kitchiri’s brother, then
governor of North Carolina, kicked
holes in Shnmons' senatorial record
by pointing* out that StrtmOnn, Demo
cratic right-hand for the old stand
pat Republican guard in the senate,
voted for Senator Lorimer.
Now Simmons Is- even wth the
Kitchin famib’.
World Is Against
Her, Says Girl
Who Asks to Die
“The world is against me—l’ve ■
'quarreled with my husband," said a
woman who gave her name as Mar-1
ion Garedy, her age as is years, and
her home “somewhere in Chcago."
Christmas eve she was found in the
I snow by pedestrians. She was taken
to a hospital, where she refused to
give her name and address, main
taining that she had taken poison
and that she wanted to die.
The next day she reiterated that
•she "wanted to die,” but • admitted [
that she had taken no poison.
HEAR WHISTLE TWELVE MII.ES |
What is said to be the largest
whistle In the world has. been placed;
on one of the smokestacks at the,
Homestead Steel Works, in Pitts
burg. Pa. The whistle. 200 feet above
the ground, is 5 feet long and 1 foot
in diameter and is connected with a
three-inch steam pipe. It requires .
150 pounds of steam to blow the:
whistle, which can be heard twelve
miles.
Sl’tLL BOYS ROB CHURCH
Small boys broke into the Cath
olic church at, Dublin, Ga„ and stole
valuable gold cups used hj the serv
ice. Three boys, all’ under 11, were
arrested and confessed.
TIUT GIKLS TURN DAHDITS
Stn< e the wdr began bOy bandits
have become unfashionable. True to
feminine Instinct, three little girls at
Gloucester. N. ,T„ took the boys’
place. Three cf thpin, two aged 10
and one, aged S were found living in
under a reaidence.
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1M M O
Bißy DOS EMPLOYES IM ALBANY, GA„
TO OELIVES WHISKY FOa BLIAW TIGERS
I Rumors have been circulated in
come places that blind-tiger opera-
I tors get bold enough to deliver their
irarcs to the “relable” ones even on
telephone requests, but It remained
for a man ih Albany, Ga., to go this
cne better.
A couple of little negroes saw a
bird dog enter a certain business
house, carrying a note in his njoutli.
In a few minutes the dog came out
with the rote gone, but a package
Cruel Husband Put Lock on Family
Ice Box So Wife Couidn l Get Food
Put a padlock on the ice box, so
! that his wife couldn't |at.
Put a padlock on hi,-? door so that
he couldn't get into his room.
Tore down the American flag and
put it on a shelf.
Kept every window in the house
wide open when the thermometer
was at zero.
Kept them shut tight in summer
when rhe mercury was in the UU's.
These are a few of the reasons
Mrs. Katherine Manrbrecht. of Hicks
v:lle, L. 1., gave to Justice Bene
dict in the Brooklyn supreme tourt
when she asked for a separation from
Henry Hembrecht. When, he tore
down theL.Tmerican flag Jropi.hef
window, flfc says, he said to her:.
t “This ought to be put on the shelf
with the dishes, where it can't be
scen -' ‘
Farmer by Occupr iion; Has a Dozen
Furnifold Simmons is the poorest
orator in congress, but as an organ
iser he’s THERE.
Also, Siihmons is the only man
in who succeeded a popu
list, wearing the toga taken direct
ly from Marion Butler. Also, Sim
mons is ths only senator who as a
cqngressman was beaten by a negro.
Simmons is rich (for North Caro
lina),’ a lawyer by trade, a farmer
by occupation, having a dozen farms,
with a hobby for protective tariff
for farmers and free trade for the
rest of the U. S. A.
Simmons boasts he has spent more
IT. S. dollars in North Carolina than
any othet senator from that state.
He wants a federal postal building in
bvety North Carolina town and fed
eral dredge on every creek.
Simmons is known as the “dainty
man.” He has the smallest feet in
congress. He’s a nifty dresses and
very quiet of speech.
He is to the Democratic senate
what Nelson ‘ ch was to the old
nublican senate, a man of few
words anu »,i abaity to make a
finance committee eat out .of his
hand.
Tito “ major’ difference’ between
Simmons, Democratic boss of the fi
nance committee, and Penrose, Re
publican boss of the same commit
tee, is size. Furnifold is about as
big as a quarter-slice of Penrose.
Otherwise, they must, be much alike;
for Penrose likes the revenue ,bill
Simrrfons and he cooked up. And
Penrose will be with Simmons on the
conference committee to put it
across.
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held firmly between his jaws in
stead. Following the dog. the boys
managed to corner him and make
him drop the package. Unwrapping
it, and examining it. the little ne
jrroes found that it was’ nothing but
a perfectly good pint of booze.
Now some fcilow is wondering
what became of his "Christmas
Cheer” and why his trusted canine
failed to perform the mission which
he had no doubt carried out per
fectly manv time:; in the nast.
- According to Mrs. Hembrecht, her
husband is worth $40,000. She waS
allowed SBO a month pending suit,
and $250 for counsel fees.
bzekeembs TO MEET
The third annual meeting of the
State Beekeepers’ association will be
held in the Board of Trade hall in
Asheville, N. C., on Thursday, Jan
uary 9. This meting was sched
uled for October. out called off on
account of the prevailing epidemic
of influenza.
BOY COKFESSES MUEDEB
Police officials of Des Moines. lowa
declared that 18-year-old Paul Carda
mon. confessed after his arrest that
he attacked Miss Esther Vivian Figg,
cutting her throat with a razor, and
also attempted a murderous assault
upon another_.woman. confined to her
bed withM
I LAST MINUTE CABLE AND TELEGRAPH NEWS
UNITEO STUFFS TO
JOIN ALL OF NONE
IN ffl|E LEAGUE
Says America Is Not Inter
ested in Politics of Europe;
’but Wants Partnership of
j Right
I MANCHESTER, Dec. 30.—(8y the
Associated Press.) —America -s not
interested in European poli-'cs, but
she is interested in a partnership
of right between America and Eu
rope, declared President Wilson in
receiving the freedom of the city of
Manchester at the Free Trade hall
here today. America is not interest
ed merely in the peace of Europe,
but in the peace of the world, he
added.
"If the future had nothing for us
but a new attempt to keep the world
at the ; poise by a balance of
power,” the president added, "the
United States would take no inter
est in it, because she will join no
combination of power which is not
’a combination of us all.”
"I wish we could, for the whole
■ world, enter league and covenant and
declare ourselves the friends of man-
; kind,” the president added.
The president said he was not
hopeful that the individual Items of
the settlement which was about to
be attempted would be altogether
saisfactory.
Gradual Adjustments
“One only has to apply his mind,"
he continued, “to any one of the
questions of boundary, of altered
sovereignty, of racial aspiration to
do something more than conjecture
this. There is no man, no body of
men who knows just how they ought
to be settled; and yet If we are to
make satisfactory settlements we
must see to it that they are render
ed more and more satisfactory by
subsequent adjustments which is
made possible. We must provide the
machinery for readjustments in order
that we may have the machinery of
good will and friendship.”
There was a feeling of cordial fra
ternity and friendship between Amer
ica and GJbat Britain, declared the
president, which was based on the
principle of friendship and patriotism
that led men to give more
demanded. The partnership of inter
ests which had attempted the gov
ernment of the world had broken
down, he said, as Interest did not
bind men together, but separated*
them. Common devotion to the rtght
was the only thing, he said, that
could bind men together.
In the settlement which Is just
ahead something more difficult than
was ever attempted before had to be
accomplished—a genuine concert of
min dand purpose, the president said,
but a keen international conscien
tiousness would make it easy. There
is a great voice of humanity abroad
in the world “which he who can not
hear is dead,” he added.
”We are not obeying the mandate
of parties or politics,” the president
continued. “We are obeying the
mandate of humanity." If the world
is to remain a body, of friends, he
said, there must be an easy and con
stand methods of conference so that
troubles could be taken when they
were little and not allowed to grow
until they were big.
americuhsTrrest
PLANNED (S COUP
FT GERMAN GROUP
BY FRANK J. TATI.OB.
BERLIN, Dec. 28.—The German
I group which favors allied occupation
of Berlin as a political coup, plans
to force this move by arresting all
Americans and British newspaper
men in the city, Police Prefect
Eichorn warned me today.
Eichorn said the politicians in
1 this group believed arrest of the cor
respondents would draw allied troops
into the capital immediately, thus
changing the entire complexion of
thb political situation and probably’
resulting in the overthrow of the
Radicals. - •
Conditions here are far from stable
yet, with the Socialists and Spaj-ta
cides still struggling for power. In
view of the Vorwaerts’ call for the
masses to demonstrate against "ter
rorism” tomorrow, the Spartacides
called for rival demonstrations.
Further disorders, with some cas-i
ualtics, were reported today from
Dresden. There was also said to be
some plundering in Hamburg. In j
Essen, 20,000 factory workers were j
on strike. . . ’
_A dozen casualties were reported
to have' occurred yesterday on the
streets of Posen, in fighting between
the Poles and Germans. '1 he Berlin
newspapers declare the disorders
were precipitated by the arrival ot
Ignace Paderewski, who is expected
to be the president of the Poland re
, ‘ public.
Louisville, Ga., Fire
Does $150,000 Damage
LOUISVILLE. Ga.. .Dec. 30.—Fire
’ that broke out in tile wholesale gro
cery house of William F. Little
Co. shortly after midnight Satin-;
day night spread so rapidly that, five
stores and the ‘ First Natiotiai bank
and several smaller buildings were
destroyed before the flames were
checked. The loss was $150,060. .1.
■ Goldfarb, dry goods, and L. R. Farm
i I er. owner of the largest store build-
ing of the town were the principal
t losers besides those named. The
. town uas a volunteer fire company.
I The fiMnen did wonderful work and
t confined the blaze between the
■ Knights of Pythias building and tho
D. B. Ramsey store.
NUMBER 132.1
PBESIBEIIT TELLS
BOM PEACE IS
SOLE BOFII, 9
Great Midland Industrie
City of England Accord!
Hirn Highest Honors
Thousands Hear Speech I
F3ZSIDENT LEAVES FOB I
ITALY WEDNESDAY NIGBtI
PARIS, Dec. 30.—President Wil J
son will leave Faris for Italufl
Wednesday night. Definite
rangements to this effect were anH
nounced today. ■
PARIS. Dec. 30.—From presefl
indications President
leave Europe on his
' ' F< hr uar
MAXCHESTEF!. E..gland.
carried WO «|?3|
t . h. art of
.--■ver'i t:io:iFand
in Er- ■ Trade hall, lie was
with the wildest enthusiasm.
president had run the gamut
the royalty of London to the
ly piety of Carlisle and the
ming activity of Manchester. Tfl
quality of his welcome was
ed in any of these widely
atmospheres. M
From early morning the
were thronged in an anticipation ®
ths president’s appearance. Ho Bifl
his immediate party arrived hdfl
from Carlisle late yesterday
spent the night as the guests of tB
lord mayor. He rose early and
ed for the hall at 9:30.
pan led by Mrs. Wilson, the
mayor, ths latter's wife and the
clerk, he went to the canal,
they boarded the White Star
Majestic, on which they rode
docks.
Leaving the canal the party
cec led to the town hall,
son was made an honorary
of Manchester. From there he
to Free Trade hall and delivered
second and final public,
England. He was given a great
tlon as he rode through the
, , o president
the freedom from the
of the regal atmosphere in
His adaptability was never more dM
parent than today. .
Four Thousand Present
Manchester is in, the ,
manufacturing midlands of ; En«
land. President Wilson, who
ed hero last evening, fo.und in
city a different atmosphere
that of London. There his Ltinfi
was absorbed, and necessarily, Jgt®
formalities and official V , J
Here there have been
events, but with a' more
air and on a more ydfciocta»l
scale. Here he found a
which could not be warmer,’tThaß
that of London, -but which
him closer to the people.
There is a strong civic
Manchester. Its people feel
city was signally honored in
ing chosen from -among ’other
lish cities for the pre
The lord mayor, is . self
man. His home, "where
Mrs. Wilson' were guests.c is*
tion of the city hall;' wfiirjs
mayors live during their tehnaHM
office. It is a
home. The rest of the
party was quartered at
hotel. f
Justice Department I
Favors Deportation fl
For Enemy Alieifl
WASHINGTON. Dec. 30.—pepcB
tation of most of the 3,0(lt) or
enemy aliens now interned
United States will be
to congress shortly by the
ment of justice.
Special legislation will
for the deportations and it was
ed today the' department of
will ask lor authority to
vent the re-entry of these
this country later. •*
Some of the interned aliens.
not considered dangerous
iy and no effort will be made
port them. Careful
the records, however, convinces <iM
partment of justice officials
larger proportion of those
should not be left in this
foment future trouble. -
Railroad I
And Agents Given Raj
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30—
telegraphers and station agents
~iv< a a further wage increase
by In rector General McAdoo,
active to October 1. j9B
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