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VOL. XXL NUMBER 93.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
CONTINUE PURSUIT
OFMEMBITS
\ Aviators Report Skirmish
: i With Mexicans and Ex-
• Change of Shots —Search
♦ for Airmen Permitted
MARFA. Tex., Aui 20.—Some-
where in Mexico, opposite Candelaria,
Tex., American soldiers are pursuing
tke bandits who captured and held
for ransom Lieuts. Peterson and Da
vis, American aviators rescued yes
terday after payment of $7,500 in
gold to the bandit leader. Military
„ headquarters here were without In-
Sprfnation from the punitive expedi
tion, heavy storms La. the mountains
of Chihuahua interrupting communi-
■ cation with the field telephones of
the army.
Possibility that the American sol
diers already have had their first
skirmish with the bandits was indi
jcated last night, when t>vo aviators
to the American side ■with
bullet holes in the plane of their ma
chine and a report that they had
been attacked by three Mexican
one of whom they believed they
killed with their machine gun bullets.
Another was believed to have been
wounded and the third put to flight.
First reports said the cavalry was
*tn pursuit of the remaining bandit,
but communication was interrupted
and no further word came from the
''■punitive force.
Four airplanes, which arrived from
, Fort Bliss, near El Paso, were to
augment the air protection of the
Eighth cavalry In Mexico today.
The rains last night are believed
to have wiped out the trails of the
bandits, but it was not without its
advantages, however, for the softened
condition of the earth will make
fresh trails more easily discernible
than the trails made previous to the
rains.
. A report was received here today
from Lieutenant Estill, pilot, and
'Lieutenant Cooper, observer, dated
Presidio, Texas, giving details of
firing on their biplane by the Mexi
can bandits. While flying over a
Mexican mountain trail, the Ameri
can aviators observed three Mexi
cans mounted riding south. The
plane swept down low to investi
gate.
The bandits opened fire with rifles,
bullets puncturing the wings of the
American machine. Observer Cooper
returned the fire and saw one horse
and rider fall. A short time after
ward one horse was observed stand
ing without a rider. The third
horseman dismounted and climbing
up the side of the mountains disap
peared. Neither aviator was hit.
Reports from all troops in the field
in Mexico indicate progress is being
made in searching the mountain can
yons and passes for the bandits who
held Aviators Peterson and Davis.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The
Mexican ambassador here has been
instructed by his government to
’ protest to the state department
against the dispatch of American
troops across he border aijd to re
quest their withdrawal, according to
a statement issued at Mexico City
yesterday.
AMERICAN FORCE
RESUMES CHASE
„ MARFA, Tex., August 21. —As soqn
' as it was sufficiently light this morn
ing to follow the trails, the Amer
ican punitive expedition into Mexi
co took up the bandit chase for the
third day across the border. One
column picked up the hot trail of
two bandits believed to have been
companions of the two bandits cap
tured late yesterday by Captain
Leonard Matlack.
According to an unofficial report
brought to the Rio Grande last night,
the pursuit is continuing over moun
tain peaks, down steep slopes and
through tiny mountain valleys.
By sunrise airplanes left the ground
here for Presidio, sixty miles south,
»where a flying field base for the ex
pedition has been established.
Landing there and getting gaso
line and oil, the airplanes flew across
the Rio Grade over Palisades, near
Ojinaga, along the Conchos river val
ley to pick up the trails. The cav
alry resumed its work of scouting.
Cavalry columns are searching out
efrery canyon -which could possibly
be the hiding place of the bandits.
The work of the is con
sidered extremely dangerous, because
there are few landing fields in Mex
ico.' It is necessary to fly close to
the ground, where the bandits may
fire on the aviators, as they did Tues
day.
Flyers returning long after dark
last night to headquarters here re
ported many narrow escapes.
One aviator had flnown down a
narrow canyon under a shelving
rock to see if the bandits were find
ing concealment from the aviators
under a shelf. Another came in with
his face covered with red blotches,
caused by driving through a hail
storm in Mexico at high speed.
Aviators located all American col
umns in Mexico yesterday. The fly
ers also found the Mexican federal
column under General Antonio Pru
neda near Cuchillo i-’arado, and re
ported the location of other small
bodies of Carranza troops.
Few landings were made in Mex
ico. When the troops found a smooth
landing place they placed a giant
. panel-shaped letter "T” on the ground
for the guidanceof the aviators. The
aviators have been dropping orders
to cavalry commanders from the air
ami returning to the Presidio base,
wvhen the flyers left this morning
they carried news bulletins furnished
by the Associated Press, which they
planned to drop ror each cavalry
troop operating in Mexico, to give
them news of the outside world since
they crossed the border.
FUTURE ACTS WILL
GET ARMED ACTION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Mexi
can border raids and depredations
by bandits directly across the bor
der, evidence from official sources
today showed, will in the future
bring upon the marauders the armed
forces of the United States. The
present punitive expedition led by
Major-General Joseph T. Dickman,
commander of the southern depart
jrient, it was ■ learned; constitutes
■ the first working out of the new pol
icy, which one official, character
ized ag "handling the border nui
saiAe without gloves.”
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Louis J. Brotton, California octogenarian, firmly believes in that old
adage about the “ill wind, etc.” Incapacitated by age from plying his
trade as stationary engineer, Brotton has rigged himself an eight-foot
windmill on the mud flat of San Francisco bay and cuts firewood when
ever the breezes blow. In this way he makes a comfortable living. Brot
ton, like Noah, lives in an ark and has no patience with modern flub
dubs. The only “jazz” music he can tolerate is the moan of the zephyr
through the blades of his windmill.
ATLANTA PUT ON I
EASTERN TIME BY |
NEW STATE LAW
That Atlanta has been placed on '
the equivalent of Eastern time by [
the Barnes’Jaw passed by the legis
lature and signed by the governor
on Wednesday apparently is the sit
uation as construed Thursday by
state house officials who are study
ing the effect of the law.
Hal M. Stanley, state commission
er of commerce and labor, shed •
some light on the subject when he !
stated Thursday that factories ■
whose employes are under the ju- I
risdiction of his department will be |
required to observe the time fixed '
by the Barnes law.
This Jaw passed by the legisla- .
ture at the recent session and ap- ■
proved on Wednesday by Governor
Dorsey establishes the present Cen
tral time as the uniform time j
throughout ’the state of Georgia I
The law goes ,-n effect at midnight;
on. the last day of August. The ;
law makes no provision for setting 1
back the clocks at midnight on the'
last Saturday in September, as pro- I
vided by the act of congress abol
ishing the daylight saving system.
In other words, the Barnes law takes ■
Central time as now in -existence i
under the summer season schedule
of the daylight saving system, and
applies this time throughout the
state of Georgia as the uniform I
time throughout the yea‘r.
Great Cave With Blue
Water Fountain Found
Workers in a mine at Matehuala, 1
near San Luis, Potosi, Mex., have |
discovered a cave which is said to -
be one of the largest in the repub-1
lie. It is more than 300 feet below;
the level of the mine and is 15
feet in width. Its length has never
been estimated, but exploring par
ties expect to survey it carefully
in the near future. One of the most
fantastic of its many grotesque
adornments is a sulphurous foun
tain which pours out continuously
a stream of blue water.
“BUNNY BEEF” TO SWAT H. C. L,
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What with the coming of reindeer meat from Alaska and the juicy
flesh of these bouncing New Zealand jack-rabbits, now being bred exten
sively in the United States, pretty Cara Le Moyne opines that tlhe pack
ers will soon be setting on the street corners with tin cups in their hands.
The film star, jncdentally, was lifting about half her own weight when
the above photograph was taken. “Despite prohibition,” she whispered
in bunny’s' ear, “i'll wager you will be' stewed within ihe next forty-eight
hours! ” ‘ *
MURDER CHARGE
MAY BE BROUGHT
AGAINST GERMAN
LILLE, France, Tuesday, Aug. 19.
(French Wireless Service.) —Evi-
dence adduced before the French mil
itary court inquiring into crimes
committed by the Germans during
the occupation indicates that a
charge of murder may be brought
against Von Heinrich, a former mili
tary governor of Lille.
Madame Jacques and Madame Mar
tens, widows of men shot by the Ger
mans, testified today that after sen
tence of death and had been passed
on their Husbands, Von Heinrich au
thorized their lawyers to appeal to
the German emperor. While the ap
peal wag being made, Von Heinrich,
it was declared, ordered that the men
be executed and they were shot twen
ty-four hours later.
The court also has heard evidence
against Von Zoelne, former quarter
master-general at Charleville. It has
been testified that, he was respon
sible for the deportation of girls
from Lille in 1916. General von
Gravenitz, goverior of Lille at the
time, it was declared, held him re
sponsible for the order of deporta
tion.
Dr. Van Henverhny, a resident of
Fives, near Lille, told the court that
his son was killed with
a bayonet by a German soldier on
order of Captain Himmen le Bela
fre. The doctor testified further
that the captain, the German gover
nor of Lille and the German gover
nor of Roubaix were respbnsiole oi
the torturing of French youths in
German work camps.
The court also is inquiring into
the case of Lieutenant Boysel von
Gymnitz, of the Eighth Chausseurs
of Treves, who is charged with the
attempted murder of Abbe< Halinck,
of Marcq-en-Baroeul. It is declared
that the officers while driink twice
stabbed the priest, in whose house
he was living. Afterwards he smash
ed the furniture and slole some
money.
ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919.
IfflS COMMITTEE
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WO CHIROL LAW
U, S. Department of Justice|
Investigating Conditions
in Southeastern Territory
as to Hoarding and Prices .
Developments Thursdav In the j
nation-wide effort to reduce the high
cost of living were:
Amendments to the food control
act imposing a $5,000 fine and im
prisonment of two years for profi
teering ordered favorably reported by
the house agricultural committee.
The legislation was proposed by
Attorney General Palmer, and ex
tends the terms of the act to include
among the. list of necessities "wear- [
ing apparel, containers of food, feed |
or fertilizers, fuel, oil and natural ;
ga s.
Fair price food committee of Ful
ton county met at Atlanta chamber
of commerce building at 11 a. m. to
fix equitable prices on foodstuffs and
to hear an explanation of Its. duties
by' Major D. F. McCl.atchey. executive
secretary of the food administration [
for Georgia.
United States District-' Attorney
Hooper Alexander announces that
libels for the seizure of hoarded food
are being prepared.
United States District Attorney
Earl M. Donaldson, of Macon, states
that the recent investigations made
in that city by a special agent of the
federal bureau of investigation indi
cate hoarding and profiteering. Sim
ultaneously, there, comes from Macon |
the news that retail meat prices al
ready have been reduced in some in
stances.
Theodore Leonard, Jr., of Colum
bus, Ohio, one of the forty food deal
ers arrested last week by the state of
Ohio on charges of violating the
Smith cold storage law by holding
meats in cold storage longer than
the time limit set by the law, found
guilty on one count in the Columbus
municipal court and given the maxi
mum sentence, a fine of SSOO and
costs.
Acting Mayor John S. McClelland
authorizes retail government food
distributors to increase the limit of
commodities allowed individual pur
chasers, so that they may buy four
times as much as they have been
allowed to purchase heretofore.
“Fair price” committee for Fulton
county fixes maximum retail price
to consumers on granulated sugar at
*K„cents per pound.
Investigation of the food situation
as it exists throughout the south
eastern territory was continued on
Thursday by the department of jus
tice. Federal agents under the di
rection of L. J. Baley, head of the
bureau of investigation for this ter
ritory, indicated that inventories of
the amount of food products being
held in storage throughout the dis
trict were being rapidly completed.
Not only are the federal agents as
certaining the quantity of food held
in storage, but they also are search
ing the books of food dealers to
find out the prices paid for the goods
being distributed to the ultimate con
sumer This is for the purpose of
uncovering profiteers.
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New Questions
1— When and by whom was the
city of Rome founded?
2 Who was the first of the Bour
bon princes?
3 Which was the latest depart
ment of the United States govern
ment formed, and what are the du
ties?
4 Who was Pompey the Great - '
5 What evidence have we that
the Assyrians reached a high degree
of wealth and civilization?
6 What city of the United States
was built in a day with 10,000 in
habitants?
7 What strategy did Bruce, the
Scotch leader, once use to escape
from bloodhounds?
8 — How does money get into cir
culation?
9 How far up the Nile does Egypt
extend?
10— What are the three religions
of China?
Answers
1— What people put criminals to
death by hemlock poisoning? The j
Greeks.
2 What is known as the Pyrrhic
victory? In the year 280 B. C.. after
a long and bloody contest. Pyrrhos
king of Epirus, brought forth his
elephants, thereby exciting the ter
ror of his Roman enemies who .led.
The loss of life was so terrible that
the king said: “Another such victory
and I return to Epirus alone.” Thus
the term, Pyrrhic victory.
3To .whom was the title Quastor
applied?" A class of Roman magis
trates in the fourth century.
4 Who are the Shans? A group of
tribes living on t’m borders of Buy- j
ma. Siam and China.
5 What valuable discoveries were
made by Sir William Siemens? A j
water meter, a bathometer for meas
uring ocean depths, an “lectrical
thermometer and a process of has
tening the grovzth of plants by elec
tric light.
6 What was the stamp act? A
measure for raising revenue by re
quiring the use of government
stamps on all legal documents used
in the British colonies in America.
7ln what island did a three
year drought cause the death of over
30.000 persons? Cape Verde Islands
8— -Who are the Copts? The Chris
trian descendants of the old Egyp I
tians.
9 When did the Shepherd kings ;
reign? About 2000 B. C.
10 — Who were the Scythians? An |
ancient race of Asia.
Clothing Prices Reduced
By Large Manufacturer;
Chicago, August 18.—Mr. .Tas. D.
Bell, head of tne Bell Tailors,
Adams at Green St. Chicago. 111.,
said to be the largest made-to
measure clothing establishment in
the world, recently stated that his
firm is now able to quote prices
on Fall and Winter suits 35 per
cent below what others ask. To
prove his point, he showed the
writer a very attractive piece of
all-wool cassimere for which they
ask only $20.00 a suit made to indi
vidual measure, whereas the same
fabric is now being offered by
merchants at $30.00 to $32.00 per suit
Even larger savings are offered on
their higher priced suits. Every
reader of The Atlanta Weekly Jour
nal should write Mr. Bell for his
price list, and a free copy of his
style book No. 92, which contains
large cloth samples of many beau
tiful patterns.— (Advt.)
WHEN THE PRINCE CAME IN 1860
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NEW YORK. —Some contrast between this picture of the demonsirrtion in honor of Prince Edward of
Wales in 1860 and that which will be made of the reception of the presen. P.. : : of Wales upon his arrival
in New York next month. A high-powered motor car instead of the quaim c.'U'ir.ge here shown will be
the vehicle at his disposal, and planes, undreamed oi in Edward’s day, will circle overhead. We’ll all
agree that the uniforms of a military escort of today are nattier than those here pictured. Arrow points
to Prince Edward.
WILSONREFUSES'
SUGGESTION OF
LEAVING ALLIES
BY DAVID LAWItT-NCE.
(Copyrighted, 1919, fcr The At'anta
Journal.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—Presi
dent Wilson today took another step
which tends even more clearly than
anything that has preceded it to ac
centuate the issue as between him
and the Republican party in the sen
ate. He flatly refuses to proclaim a
state of j>eace if the pending treaty
is not ratified. His first reason is
that he has not the power, but that
is a question of legal interpretation.
The second reason is along the line
of Mr. Wilson’s conception of "moral
obligations.” which he stressed at the
Tuesday conference with the senate
foreign relat’ons committee at the
White House. He says it would be
a stain upon our national honor which
w« /iever could efface if after send
ng our men to the battlefield to
fight the common cause, we should
abandon our associates in the war in
the settlement of the terms of peace
and dissociate ourselves from all re
sponsibility with regard to those
terms.
The president considers inde°d that
America made her decision on April,
1917, when she entered the European
war. Then she Joined a League of
Nations, and if there were any sur
renders of sovereignty involved in
submitting American troops to the
orders of a French commander-in
chief, or the American navy to the
orders of a British lord of the ad
miralty, he-. Mould contend that those
steps of unity were as necessary to
put down a common enemy two years
' ago as they may become in the fu
ture to crush another militarist mis
creant among- the nations of the
world.
Cannot Willi<lra-w
Mr. Wilson is trying to disclose,
both by his answers to senatorial
questions on Tuesday and by his an
nounced conception today of out
moral union wit.- the allies, that the
cause of world freedom would have
sooner or later drawn us into the Eu
ropean malestrom irrespective of the
attacks on American ships and that
having on e become a artner in
winning the peace of the w.rld. the
United States cannot very well
withdraw when the formulas for pre
serving peace are drawn.
So the president oppos- -a sep
arate resolution by congress declar
ing a state of war at an end and
denounces itw ith the same vigor
that he exhibted whenever the notion
of a separate peace with Germany
w ■ suggested whil th war was on.
Many a time it .zas asked whether
the United States in view of the tact
that she never signed any pledge
against a se-o->rate peace would feel
free to make a separate peace with
Germany.
But again and again it was stated
officillv that while the United States
did not consider herself •' “ally” she
was never the less an ’associate”
and as such morally bound to act in
unison with her associates ‘ ard
the common enemy.
But today’s declartion on the part
of the president that even if he le
gally could do so. he never would
proclair a state of peace in separa
tion of our European associates prac
ti Uy settles that point
It also moves the controversy stage
forward, for if the Republican sen
ators insist on putting reservations in
the ratifying resolution instead of in
a separate resolution, the president
could withdraw the treaty from the
senate and announce to the other
powers that a new treaty with Ger
many would have to be drawn, so far
as the United States is concerned.
DaybMit Saving Puts
You Home Bes ore You
Start, Says Lankford
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—This
is how daylight saving works in
Georgia, as related by Represen
tative Lankford in a speech to
the house
“A man the other day In my
district and county at Ambrose,
Ga„ said that he got out of bed
in the morning at 8 o'clock,
caught a train at 7:45 o’clock,
rode fourteen miles to Douglas,
Ga., reaching Douglas at 7:30
o’clock, ate breakfast at 7:15
o’clock, made some purchases and
caught a train back home at 7
o’clock, and got back home at
7:30 o’clock. According to our
different times, he was gone from
home an hour and a half and got
back home thirty minutes before
he started.” »
Daughter of President of
Czecho - Slovakia Who
Asks Aid for New Nation
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MISS OLGA MASARYK
After touring England, Miss Olga
Masaryk, daughter of ihe president
of Czecho-Slovakia, has ecme to
America. She is lecturing, 'elling
the people of the United States
about tlr? desperate s'raits her new
country is in. Food and clothing
are the things most needed, she
says. . \
Mother of Fether
Visits Girl’s Mother
ITHACA, N. Y., Aug. 21. —Calling
on Mrs. Edward Crance, mother ot
eighteen-year-old Hazel Crance, Mrs.
Nina Fether Smith today pleaded the
innocence of her son, Donald W.
Fether, who was charged with hav
ing caused the girl’s death by drown
ing.
Mrs. Smith, who came from her
home in Los Angeles to fight for her
son. declared she will remain here
until he is completely vindicated.
Her visit to the missipg girl’s moth
er, she said, was one step in a cam
paign of opposition to attacks on
Fether.
LONDON’S LITTLE TANKATEEN
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LONDON.—This little flit-about with a three-horsepower motor is
London’s newest popular means of transportation It’s less strenuous io
drive it than to drive a motorcycle and cheap to own and operate.
! BANDITS HOLD UP
L. & N. TRAIN AND
RIFLE MAIL CAR
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NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Aug. 21. —
Posses from three counties were
searching today for two masked ban
dits who held up and robbed a
. ouisville & Nashville railroad pas
senger train at 2 r>‘clock this morn
ing at Glendale station, four miles
out df Columbia. Tenn. The mall
car was rifled, but the contents of
the express car were not touched.
The robbers boarded the engine at
Columbia, stepped it at Glendale,
where the passengers were forced to
detrain, the baggr e and mail cars
were cut loose and the engine sent
running wild down the track. It
' stopped after a journey of 20 miles
: because of lack of stfam. The ban-
I dits are said to have entere s an
. automobile w b ch had been standing
near the tracks and Iriven toward
i Columbia. Two other men were said
’ to have been In the automobile.
I No estimate on the loss in regis
' tered mail has yet been made.
I Reports that the men were head
ied toward Nashville this morning
caused the police to throw a guard
I out on all roads entering the city.
Senator Suggests That
Congress Go on Strike
Deploring the “contagion of strike
disease,” which he said had appar
ently spread throughout the world,
Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Col
orado, in the senate last 3v-eek sug
gested that the “disaase” be brought
into congress, its members organize
a union and refuse to legislate until
conditions have been changed, or at
least until the members have been
assured of re-election in 1920,
Senator Thomas contended that
, some of the labor difficulties now in
progress throughout the country
were actuated by Bolshevik doctrines.
He said policemen In Washington and
other cities <vere forming organiza
tions which might at some time pre
vent them from acting in strikes.
He declared that he believed the po
lice of the country should be pre
vented from entering int« any obliga
tions that might handicap them in
fu Ifi 11 ing their duty.
{Horse Commits Suicide
By Jumping From Bridge
A queer case of suicide-happened
recently when a horse owyied by J.
Sharp, of Dairyville. Cal., took its
own life. Sharp was hauling grain
from his ranch to Red' Bluff, and on
the second trip to town he sgys the
animal acted very queerly and while
crossing sand slough bridge refused
to go. He unhitched the team to
find the trouble and when he had
done so the animal pulled away from
him and jumped over the three-foot
rail of the bridge, plunging to its
death, thirty feet below.
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A YEAR.
ANSWERS QUESTIDNS
OF SENATOR Fill 03
VERSAILLES TOTV
Friends of League Plan
Strategy in Senate —Hitch-
cock Disclaims Support of
Pittman Resolution
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. Press
dent Wilson has not the power co
declare peace by proclamation. o
could consent in any circun;
stances to take such a course prim
to the ratification of a formal treaty
of peace by the The press
dent so wrote Senator Fall today tt
answer to One of the twenty writ
ten questions the senator presented
at the White House conference Tues
day.
Replying to another question, the
president said the provision of th?
treaty that it should come into fore?
after ratification by Germany an<’>
three of the principal associated
powers and that it was “questionable
whether it can be said that th?
League of Nations is in an” true
sense created by the association oi
only three of the allied and asso
ciated governments?’
As to the question of when normal
conditions might be restored, the
president said he could only expre s
the confident opinion that immediate
ratification of the treaty and accept
ance of the covenant of the league
as written would “rcetainly within
th near future .educe the cost of
living,” both in this country and
abroad through the restoration of
production and,commerce to normal.
German Possessions
To Senator Fall’s question ting
to the disposition of Germany’s wpns
; sessions, the president said the
, agreemen in the treaty conve d no
title to the allied or associated pow
ers. but merely ‘‘entrusts disposition
of the territory in question to their
decision.”
‘‘Germany’s renunication in favor
I of the principal allied and associate.!
powers.” the president continu< 'i,
“of her rights and titles to her o\e.-
seat possessions is meant sim nti'
to operate as vesting in those powe
a trusteeship with respect of thei’
fir il disposi ’?'! and government.-' ,
“There has been a p. ovis.u; i
agreement.” the president udtleu •
this connection, “as to th a dispo
sition of these overseas possessmi. .
whose confirmation and execution :•
dependent upon the appioval- of u r :
Legue of Ntions, and the L’at.. •
States is party tp that provifiipn I
agreement.”
The president said the only agre '
inent between France anti G. a '
British with regard to African te
tory. of which he was cognizant, con
cerned redisposition of rights a
- possessed by them on u: .
continent.
It was deemed wise, he said, th t
the United/States should be ie'.„-
sented by one member of the cu .i
--missi'on for settling the new front 1 r
lines of Belgium and Germany "be
cause of the universal opinion that
Americ’s representative would add t >
the commission a useful elerq.eiit oi
entirely disinteersted judgment."
The sanie thought applied, he add.
to appointment of an American rej
resentative on the commission s.
up to exercise authority over 1.-c
plebiscite in upper Silesia.
The president wrote the senate
he had no official information as to
whether Norway, Sweden, Denmark.
Holland or Switzerland would jo. a
the legue.
Senator Fall’s fifth question wt-s
divided into four parts: Whether the
League of Nations is established
after three allied powers and Ger
many have ratified the treaty; wheth
er all provisions of the treaty are •
in full force as to such ratifying
powers; whether as to the two re
maining powers, particularly the
United States, the "state of war will
terminate, although the particular
terms of the treaty itself will not
be in force such non-ratifying
powers;” and whether such last pow
ers will not be members of the
league.
The sixth question was “by what
process” will the immediate adop
tion of the treaty and Covenant
“within the near future or one of
two more years reduce rentals, costs
of necessaries, etc?
Administration leaders in the sen
ate hope, by careful strategy, to ob
tain ratification of the peace treaty
not only without amendments but
without reservations, it became ap
parent today.
Rejection by treaty opponents of
President Wilson’s suggestion that
the reservationists content them
selves with a separate, interpreta
tive resolution, such as Senator Pitt
man introduced yesterday, was th?
answer today to the first move in
the administration campaign.
The refusal to accept the Pittman
plan was followed by equally em
phatic disavowal by Senator Hitcn
cock, the administration leader, of
Senator Pittman’s resolution as aa
administration measure.
Though Senator Pittman averred
that his resolution was intended to
carry out President Wilson’s person
ally-expressed idea «of the way th?
demands of reservationists should be
taken care of. Senator Hitchcock de
dared that he is as much against
any sort of reservations as he ever
was.
Administration senators now are
trying to work out parliamentary
tactics which will force reservation
ists to a showdown. If possible
they want to force the senate to
vote squarely on the issue of rati
fication or rejection. In such a case,
they are confident, the demand for
reservations will not prove strong
enough to beat the treaty.
Ferguson
Dr. John C. ierguson, navisor to
the president of China on the Shan
tung award, was again before the
senate foreign relations committee
today. He told how Japan forced
China to accept the 21 demands made
early in 1915. Among other threats
by which Japan gained her
Ferguson said, was one that Japan
would not return Kiao Chow to Chinn
unless the 21 demands were granted.
Alabama “First Bale”
Is Sold for $1,750
TROY, Ala., Aug. 21.—The first
bale of 1919 cotton grown in Pike
county was sold to the local board of
commerce Wednesday for $3.50 a
pound, the bale bringing $1,750. The-,
cotton was grown by James Powell.
Claim is made by the board of com
merce that the price sets a worldT
record.