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Oe Atlanta ® Sauraal 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 Can You Answer These Questions? Try Them Or.r nf the greatest advantage* of readi ig a seaii-weekly paper that presents AU. THE KEWS la cvndenwd form, aich r.« is the uietbof of >he Atlanta Semi- Weekly Journal. is that yvu are thoroughly informed on every vital topic of the day. It l< the aim of the editor to provide INSTRt’CTION as well as INFORMA- i THIN aad ENTERTAINMENT. Het- is a sample QUIZ that will teat YOIR MEMORY AND OBSERVATION. Here are 31 gaesthms. dealing with subjects of COMMON INFORMATION. Can you aaswer every one of them CORRECTLY? ■JTie orrect answers will appear in The Semi-Weekly Journal in the issue of Jani’.iry 3. W WHITE OCT YOVR ANSWER-5 NOW AND WHEN TOC GET THE NEXT MSI E OF THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOI'ENAL SEE IF YOl HAVE ANSWERED THEM ALL CORRECTLY. t NOTE.—Sciool tr iclx-rs will find the Semi-Weekly Journr.l’s QI'IZ a big >lelt> rs the school room. The QI'IZ will appear hereafter in every inaae.) 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 i »-■■■■ . - ; .. ——■ Jr-cP I » t; t * Hr l Marshal Petain Receive? Baton From Poincare in Redeemed Metz t ; r _ v I MARS-H*,!. JOFFREn. MATCH Al. HArs'l f'g fiMu? I GEffk . HALLER ; I BRtrorf. j I ’BCtciULn _ I • Portugal, ■ -til ■! r ==== jg>^ c===== ,• 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. v ; - • 1 F. fT 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. ■■ T ■ 1— •“ z 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 CAN YOU WRITE® A SHORT STORYJ Can you .write a short In the next Issue of <■ mi-Weekly Journal will pear a short story of Jess,. JOt) words. 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