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VOL. XXI—NUMBER 102
PRESIDENT WILSON
ATTACKED BY REED
IN SENATE SPEECH
Missourian Says His State
ment on England’s and
. U. S, Strength in League
‘Erroneous to Last Degree’
. WASHINGTON, Sept 22.—A bitter
attack upon President Wilson by
Senator R<ed, Missouri, marked the
opening of the senate fight over the
Johnson peace treaty anYtendment to
day.
The amendment would equalize the
vote of the United States and Great.
JJritain in the League of Nations
assembly.
Senator Reed, in a speech to the
senate, declared that the president’s
statement at San Francisco that this
country, with its one vote in the
league assembly to Great Britain’s
six, cannot be outvoted is “erroneous
to the last degree.”
“Th; president disregards the fact
that when the United States is a
party in interest, it is' denied the
fight to vote at all. In a dispute
between the United States and Great
Britain, where neither are permitted
to sit in judgment, the five British
colonies and don_lnions are, as in
dependent self governing bodies, per
mitted to cast their votes.”
Senator Reed said the president
was mistaken when he said that the
assembly of the league is largely
“an international debating society”
with no real power.
He declared that the assembly not
only controls election of members of
the assembly, but of the league
council; that it controls withdrawal
from the league; that by the exercise
of the power of exclusion it may
force formation of a rival league,
leading to another world war; that
it controls the selection of secre
tariat, the executive agent of the
league; that it is the court of last
resort in disputes and has general
Jurisdiction over “all matters with
in the sphere of the league or affect
ing the peace of the world.”
While Senator Reed occupied the
attention of the senate, leaders on
both sides plan to complete the
practical preparations necessary to
their campaigns. Expecting the vote
on the amendment to be close, its
supporters and opponents were
equally alert today for indications
cf a break in the opposition.
Democratic leaders hoped to as
sume themselves that only two Dem
ocrats—Senators Reed and Gore—
will vote for the amendment while
the amendment’s friend once again
sought the pledges of several other
Democrats that they will vote for
the-proposal.
JThe question of formally calling
■— up the amendment was also to be
discussed. The impression is that
no objection will be made to bring
. ing it before the senate. It was
temporarily passed over when it
’ was reached last week in the read
ing of the treaty and can now be
called up on a motion by a majority
vote.
Senator Hiram Johnson, its au
thor, arrived back in Washington to
day from his curtailed western tour
in opposition to the league and was
expected to sit in at the final council
of war.
ENGLISHCOTTON
MANUFACTURERS
ARE COMING HERE
The delegation of si English cotton
manufacturers and spinners repre
senting the Managers and Overlook
ers’ association, of Bolton, England,
and now engaged in a tour of the
leading American cotton industries
of the east will arrive in Atlanta
next Saturday.
The delegation will arrive in At
lanta from LaGrange where they'will
be the guests of 1- uller E. Callaway,
well-known spinner and cotton man.
They will be entertained by Mr. Cal
laway at ,a luncehon at his home
Saturday and du; ing the day will
make a tour of inspection and study
of the cottOn mills of LaGrange.
They will reach tAlanta late Satur
day afternoon and will be met by a
committee of- prominent cotton man
ufacturers of the city, and state. L.
L. Arnold, editor of Cotton, will en
" tertain the visitors Saturday evening
at an informal dinner at the Capital
City club. Among the prominent
cotton men who have been invited to
meet the English visitors are George
> S. Harris, superintendent of the Lan
nett Cotton Mills, of West Point, Ga.;
John H. Howarth, assistant superin
.tendent of the Lannett Mills; F. L.
Branson, superintendent of the Fair
fax Mills, of Fairfax, Ala.,; William J.
Rooke, business manager of Cotton;
•Lee M. Jordan, of the Gate City Cot
ton Mills, and others.
The delegation will be given an
, automobile tour of the city Sunday
and will leave for Greenville, S. C.,
where thev will make a study of the
cotton mills of that district.
The delegation will visit Memphis
. and New Orleans before coming to
Atlanta. The visitors are accom
panied on their tour by R. N. Mackay
* of the Stafford company, Readville.
Mass. Mr. Callaway will be unable
to accompany the party to Atlanta,
but S. Y. Austin, general manager of
the Hillside Cotton Mills, of La-
Grange, will be Mr. Callaway’s per
sonal representative on the visit
here.
The delegation is being sent to
this country by Lord •. Liverhulme.
mavor of Bolton and orte of the lar
gest soap manufacturers'of England
On their tour of the eastern cotton
mills and cities of Canada they have
conferred with some of the leading
. cotton men and financiers of the
* country. , „
The English visitors are: J. F.
Hayes, president of the association,
of Richard Harwood & Son: G. Clap
perton. of the Howe-Bridge Spin
ning company; J. Hill, of the Dove
.. Spinning company: J. H. Howarth,
or the Ormrod Hardcastle & Co..
W Heaps, of the Swan-Lane Mills,
j Ltd.: C. A. Hayes, of Joshua Crook &
Sons. Ltd.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916 Fourth
street, Milwaukee, Wis., recently gave out
the following tement: “I had suffered
with Fits. Epilepsy for over fourteen years.
Doctors and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope of relief
when at last I secured a preparation that
cured me sound and well. Over ten years
have passed and the attacks have not re
turned. I wish every one who suffers from
this terrible disease would write R. P. N.
Lepso. 13 Island avenue. Milwaukee, and
ask for a bottle of the same kind of medi
cine Which he gave me. He has generously
promised to send it postpaid free to any one
Who writes him.”—(Advt.)
How About That Sam Browne, General?
I ML i
WASHINGTON. Well, now,
here is General March who has no
Sam Browne belt, as he watched
General Pershing go marching by
wearing the Sam Browne in vio
lation of an order issued by Gen
eral March as chief of staff of the
United States army. And here is
how General Pershing looks in
said Sam Browne. And nobody
knows what’s to come of a viola
tion of the war department or
der. The Sam Browne belts were
ordered off officers of the A. E. F.
returning from overseas because
the officers ■who didn’t go over
d-on’t wear them but First divi
sion officers all wore them in the
New York parade.
‘BLUEBEARD’ OF
PARIS LAUGHS AT
HIS QUESTIONERS
PARIS.— (Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) —Little headway
has been made in the dase of Land
ru, “the Gambais Bluebeard,” as the
French papers term him, who is
charged by the police with being
responsible for the disappearance of
thirteen women to whom he had
promised marriage.
The police have been investigat
ing for four months and four times
a week Landru is taken from the
prison of La Sante to the office of
Judge Bonin, whose questions as to
the fate of the thirteen women
elicit from Landru evasive and at
times very witty responses. They
have got as far "as sweeheart num
ber three, and Landru’s flippant re
plies have nearly driven the judfe
to nervous prostration.
Yesterday the judge announced
that he was going for a holiday.
Landru immediately chipped in With
the request that he, too, be per
mitted to take a vacation, as the
regime of La Sante did not agree
with him. Might he not be allowed
to go to his villa at Gambais and
hold himself at the disposition of
the court? It was from Gambais
villa that Landru’s future spouses
disappeared, never to be heard of
since.
Judge Bonin was asking Landru
this week how it was that his sor,
who assisted him in removing the
I furniture of three of his fiancees,
did not make queries when moving
that of Mrs. Guillin, the third re
moval of furniture in six months.
“Did he not find it strange?” asked
the judge.
"My children obey my orders, they
do not discuss them,” responded
Landru, “I have my misgivings as
to 'the way you bring up your chil
dren, judge,” he added sententiously.
Landru contended that he had an.
order from Mrs. Guillin, drawn up
in legal form, giving him full power
of attorney to administer her prop
erty. “This document was not found
among your papers, therefore, I
must conclude that it never existed,”
said the judge.
“And as you and your police,- with
ail the means at your command, are
unable io find Mrs. Guillin. I must
therefore conclude that she never
existed.” countered Landru.
Not one vestige of the mfssir.g
women has, been found, and the
charge of murder against Landru is
growing weaker. There is no “corpus
de'. cti.” The villa at Gambais lias
been, ransacked by the police and
ponds in the vicinity of the villa
have been drained, but it w’ould ap
pear that the women have vanished
into thin air. To questions as to
the probable whereabouts of the
missing women, his relations with
them prior to their disappearance,
Landru invariably replies: “I am a
man of the world, I cannot betray
the confidence of women.”
Kolchak Tells Allies
He Has Resigned in
Favor of Denikine
LONDON, Sept. 22. —Admiral Kol
chak, head of the all-Russian gov
ernment at Omsk, has informed the
allies that he resigns the title of
chief ruler in favor of General Den
ikine, leader of the anti-Bolshevik
forces in southern Russia, according
to a wireless dispatch sent out by
the soviet government at Moscow.
The message admits the Bolshevik)
have abandoned Kursk after severe
fighting against General Denikine’s
troops.
Grave Diggers’ Union
Formed at Youngstown
YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Sept. 22.
When Youngstown’s grave diggers
pass the steel mills tomorrow on
their way to work they can greet
the strikers as fellow union men. If
they’re asked for their union cards,
the cards, bright and new, will be
ready for display.
What is believed to be the first
grave diggers’ union in the nation’s
history was organized here yester
day. Eleven of these workers band
ed together and have affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.
The impending steel strike hastened
their action
Woman Replaces Husband
! LONDON.—During the absence of her bus
oand on military service in Italy. Mrs.
Edith Williams is discharging his duties as
■ school attendence officer at Northrop, Klint
j shire.
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BELGIAN ROYAL
FAMILY LEAVES
FOR AMERICA
BRUSSELS, Sept. 22.—(Havas.) —
King Albert, Queen Elizabeth and
Crown Prince Leopold left Brussels
this imorning for Ostend where they
will go on board the steamer George
Washington for their voyage to the
United States.
KING ALBEERT MAY
ATTEND WORLD’S SERIES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—King
Albert, of Belgium, who sails to
day for the United States on the
steamer George Washington, may be
a guest at one of the world series
i baseball games;
Fains here today proposed this as
Chief Arbiter Cook of the
state department worked to hurry
to completion formal plans of the
government for the king’s enter
tainment.
King Albert saw many baseball
games played in France by members
of the A. E. F. and is reported to be
an enthusiastic fan. Informal Sug
gestions for the entertainment of
the king include an airplane sight
seeing tour ot New York to give
King Albert a chance to see the
American skyscraper in all its glory.
Army and navy aviators here today
were eager for the distinction of
piloting the king over /America’s
biggest city. The state department
social leaders and secret service of
ficials, however, are expected to
frown on airplane sightseeing be
cause of the possibility of accident.
Formal plans for the king’s en
tertainment here, although not yet
announced, are understood to include
a state banquet at the White House,
a reception at the Belgian legation,
a trip to Mounf Vernon and a num
ber of receptions.
As guest of the nation, the king
will live at the White House while
here.
Twenty-one guns will be fired in
salute to him as the George Wash
ington sails up New York bay. At
the dock he will be met and of
ficially welcomed by representatives
of the president. A special train will
waiting to bring the royal party to
Washington. At the union station a
guard of honor will be on duty and
cavalrymen will escort him to the
White House. The cavalry escort
will accompany the king in all his
movements about Washington.
Wants United States
To Leave Europe Alone
SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 22.—Right
Rev. Benjamin J. Keiley, Catholic
bishop of Savannah, in an interview
in The Savannah Press today, says
It should be the business of the
United States to get out of Europe
as soon as possible. While the
bishop says he is not concerned over
the League of Nations, he thinks
Uncle Sam should follow Andrew
Jackson’s advice and give attention
strictly to the business of minding
his own business.
He predicts that in twenty-five
years a representative of the house
of Hohenzollern will be again on the
throne tn Germany. He seriously
doubts the sincerity of the European
nations iu their dealings with each
other and with the United States.
1 He declares there was but one thing
for the United States to have done
when it licked Germany. That was
to get out of Europe.
Turns Night Into Day
New Lamp Has No Wick, No Chimney,
No Odor. Most Brilliant Light
Known.
A new lamp which experts agree gives
the most powerful home light in the world,
is the latest achievement of W. 11. Hoffstot,
407 Factory Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. This
remarkable new lamp beats gas or elec
tricity—gives more light than three hun
dred candles, eighteen ordinary lamps or
ten brilliant electric lights, and costs only
one eent a night, a blessing to every Home
or farm or in small town. It is abso
lutely safe and gives universal satisfaction.
A child can carry it. It is the ambition
of Mr. Hoffstot to have every Dome, store,
hall or church enjoy the increased coin
tort of tins powerful, pleasing, brilliant
white light and he will send one of his
new lamps on free trial to any reader ot
The Journal who writes him. He wants
one person in each locality to whom he can
refer new customers. Take advantage of
I his free offer. Agents wanted. Write him
today.—(Advt.)
ATLANAT, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1919
LANSING URGES
WIFICM OF
THE PEACE TREATY
Secretary of State Says
Objections to Treaty Are
Trivial Compared to Need
of Peace
WATERTOWN, N. Y„ Sept. 20.
Secretary Lansing, making his first
public utterance since William C.
Bullitt’s testimony before the sen
ate foreign relations committee, de
clared this afternor that the treaty
should be ratified without delay and
without change.”
The secretary's speech was made
at the dedication of Lansingdorf, a
suburb built for munitions workers
by the government and named after
Secretary Lansing’s family home in
Holland. He made no reference to
Bullitt, who testified that Secretary
Lansing had told him in Paris that
“if the American senate and the
American people understand this
treaty, they will defeat it.”
“We are approaching a new era,
an era of peace and, I am confident,
an era of national prosperity unsur
passed in our history,” Secretary
Lansing said.
“The people of the earth long to
enter this era, so they rfiay again
begin to rebuild what has been de
stroyed. This cannot be done until
normal commercial and industrial
conditions are restored, and they
can only be restored by ratify
ing the treaty of peace which now
lies on the table in the senate. The
economic life of the world will con
tinue in its stagnant and wretched
state of uncertainty until the sen
ate consents to ratify.
“There is nothing in the treaty
of peace which invades the sover
eignty of this republic, or which
limits in any way the full exercise of
such sovereignty. There may be in
the treaty features which do not
meet with universal approval. It
would be strange if it were other
wise. But the objections which have
been made are trivial as compared
with the imperative need of peace.
“We ought to have peace at once.
The treaty should be ratified with
out delay and without change. It
a narrowminded statesmanship which
would endanger the treaty becoming
effective by changing its provisions
and postponing the return of peace.
I cannot comprehend how any man
with a true appreciation of the sit
uation can permit any objection less
than impairment of the national sov
ereignty of the United States, to
weigh against the universal prayer
of the nation for restoration of
peace. Let the treaty, be immedi
ately ratified. The world demands
it, patriotism demands it, and com
monsense demands it.”
NO BODIES SEEN IN
SUPPOSED WRECK
OF VALBANERA
KEY WEST, Fla., Sept. 22.—The
fate of the 450 passengers and crew
of the Spanish steamer Valbanera
was still a mystery today. Identifi
cation of the tessel lying in forty
feet of water of Rebecca Shoals
lighthouse as the Valbanera has
been establishd by divers.
Rear Admiral Decker, commander
of the seventh naval district, re
ported to the ravy department at
ashington today that his investiga
tion of the wreck showed that no
eiiort was made to lower the port
life-boats, bu 4 : th it some of the star
board boats were off their davits.
He said that no bodies were seen ip
the hull, or in the vicinity of the
wreck.
The Valbanera has been missing
since September 9. Radio records
at Key West show that on the aft
ernoon of September 12 the Valba
nera called Key West and asked for
“instructions.” A few minutes later
the station here called the vessel,
but received no response. The hur
ricane was raging violently at the
time.
Steel Strike Not
Reflected in Markets
NEW YORK. Sept. 22.—The steel
strike exerted little adverse influ
ence over the stock market at the
opening of today’s trading. Steel
shares were least disturbed of any
important issues, opening mostly at
gains, which extended from 1-2 a
point in United States Steel to 1
point in Bethlehem and 3 for Crucible.
Reactions in the first half-hour can
celled most of gains, however.
Stocks dependent upon the stability
of the steel industry, such as equip
ments, were steady to firm, although
the motor group was inclined to
yield.
Trading was comparatively small,
with po indications of urgent liqui
dation. Commission houses reported
vehy small offerings for out-of-town
accounts.
Warns Against
Counterfeit S2O Bill
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—Chief
Moran, of the treasury department
secret service, today sounded a
warning against a counterfeit $29
bill in the form of a note of the
New York federal reserve bank.
The bill, one of which is in pos
session of Moran, bears the check
letter “G,” the face plate number 10(»
or 109 and are printed from photo
graphic plates on two pieces of pa
per between which silk"threads have
been distributed. The department
numbers are printed in black in
stead of the official blue and the
border, faces of the notes and back
ground of the portrait of the late
President Cleveland are solid black
instead of criss-cross lines.
Tobacco Pays Turks
COX ST A N TIN oPLE. T lie Turkish
treasury is empty and the govern
ment is selling tobacco to pay sal
aries.
GE 0 R GIA FAMILIES
ME RECEIVING 0. S.
WAR BISMBICE
Government Is Paying $24,-
716,720 inClaims —Moth-
ers Are the Main Benefi
ciaries Named by Men
Georgia families are being paid
$24,716,720 in war risk insurance
claims by Uncle Sam. He is making
restitution to those whose sons and
husbands died In the service of their
country during the greatest war of
all times.
There are 2,828 insurance claims
being paid in Georgia through the
bureau of war risk insurance to ben
eficiaries named at the time applica
tion for insurance was made by sol
diers, sailors and marines, now dead.
The average policy carried by these
2,828 men was $8,740.
Disabled soldiers, as well as wid
ows and* children and dependent par
ents of those who have died, are
tiding made comfortable by the gov
ernment, which is paying 1,533 com
pensation claims to residents of
Georgia.
In addition to the insurance and
compensation claims now being paid
in Georgia, there are 1,187 of both
these classes of claims under inves
tigation. These cases, however, are
rapidly being adjusted following an
investigation by bureau representa
tives.
The bureau of war risk insurance
which administers these affairs has
been established by the government
as a permanent institution in recog
nition of the services veterans of the
world war rendered their country.
The insurance which veterans are
able to carry as the result of this
act of an appreciative government
will be a constant reminder to them
of the part they took in the war
Whether it has been a matter of ac
complishing a deed of valor as per
formed by Sergeant Alvin Cullum
York, of Pall Mall, Tenn., or that
of the newest recruit who only under
went the discomforts of barrack life
and was deprived of overseas service
by the armistice.
Records in the bureau show that
this has been a young man’s war and
a mother’s war. More than 47 per
cent of the men who carried govern
ment insurance made mothers their
beneficiaries. Fathers were named
by approximately 16 per cent of the
men.
The average age of the men killed
in France was twenty-three years.
An examination of the records in
the bureau of war risk insurance
shows that a large percentage of
married men in arranging for the
future protection of their families
planned for insurance to be paid to
their mothers, while their thought,
in arranging their compensation ben
efit .was for their wives.
About 32 per cent of the men who
carried war risk insurance named
their wives in making arrangements
for compensation. Mothers were
named by 22 per cent, while the
“wife and child” were named by 14
per cent. This is con
sequence of privileges granted by the
war risk insurance act. They felt
it their first duty to provide for the
immediate needs of their family,
making, at the same time, through
application for insurance, provision
for their parents in their advanc
ing years.
Insurance claims which the bureau
will be called upon to pay amount
to more than $1,012,000,000. The
amount of premiums received from
all service men and which was de
ducted from their pay during the
active period nf the war approxi
mates only $200,000,000, or less than
one-fifth of the amount of insurance
claims. The excess above premiums
will be paid by the government.
More than 1.200,000 men who were
born and raised on farms in the
United States and who served in the
army navy and marine corps during
the recent world war carried ap
proximately $10,488,000,000 of war
risk insurance. Records show that
a large percentage of this sum was
made payable to their mothers,
fathers and others who reside on
farms.
Reavy Farm Loss.
According to an estimate made
by the department of agriculture,
the loss in man power to farms as
the result of former service men
giving up farm life for the city
upon their return from the war,
eventually, after the general rest
lessness brought about by the war
has subsider, will be about 500,000.
Records in the bureau of war
risk insurance, compiled during the
rapid demobilization, covering the
period from January 1, 1919, to
June 1, last, show that more than
half the men change their residence
after being mustered out of the
service.
A certain percentage of 'the vete
rans of the world war are keeping up
their government insurance. In or
der to reach those who temporarily
have allowed their insurance to
lapse, the bureau of war risk in
surance has organized a voluntary
field force which will endeavor to
conserve as much as possible of the
nearly $40,000,000,000 of insurance
carried by m-'n in the service.
BEATS GASOLTnEAT
15 CENTS A GALLON
New Invention Makes Fords Run
34 Miles on Gallon of Gasoline
and Start Easy in Coldest
Weather—Other Cars Show
Proportionate Savings.
A new carburetor which cuts down gaso
line consumption of any motor including the
Ford, and reduces gasoline bills from one
third to one-half is the proud achievement of
the Air Friction Carburetor Co.. 213 Madison
St., Dayton. Ohio. This remarkable inven
tion not only increases the power of all mo
tors from 30 to 50 per eent but enables
everyone to run slow on high gear. It also
makes it easy to start a Ford or any other
car in the coldest weather without previous
ly warming the motor. With it you can use
the very cheapest grade of gasoline or half
gasoline and half kerosene and still get
more power and more mileage than you now
get from the highest test gasoline. Many
Ford owners say they now get as high as
45 to 50 miles to a gallon of gasoline. So
sure are the of the immense
saving their new carburetor will make that
they offer to send it on 30 days trial to
every car owner. As it can be put on or
taken off in a few minutes by anyone, all
readers who want to try it should send
their name, address and make of car to
the manufacturers at once. They .also want
local agents to whom they offer exception
ally large profits. Write them today.
(Advt.)
IVill Prince of IVales
Cross American Border
A Bridegroom Elect?
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LADY DOROTHY CAVENDISH AND THE PRINCE OF WALES
Rumor Points Toward Lady
Dorothy Cavendish,
Daughter of Governor
General of Canada
WINNIPEG. Man.. Sept. 20.
Has Lady Dorothy Caven
dish. second daughter of the
Duke of Devonshire, govr
ernor-general of Canada, stolen a
march on her American and Cana
dian cousins?
Feminine hearts, set aflutter by
the visit of Edward. Prince of
Wales, may have fluttered in vain,
if reports which have followed in
the wake of his royal highness’
visit to Winnipeg are anything but
idle, gossip.
Join* Royal Party
Backed by the. vjist wealth of
the Devonshire family and a so
cial position second to only that of
loyalty, the Duchess of Devonshire,
it is said, has taken advantage of
the pronounced empire-wide senti
ment against foreign marriages for
royal heirs, and set out to land
the prince as a son-in-law.
It would seem that the duchess
holds a whole handful of trumps.
Lady Dorothy is young, beautiful,
has a charming personality, with
the added prestige of great wealth
and pedigree.
Since the prince first came to
Canada he has been thrown into
the company of Lady Dorothy on
several occasions, and now it is
announced that the duke and
duchess and Lady Dorothy will ac
company the royal party on a trip
to the Pacific coast. Whether by
design or not. the prince will be
thrown constantly into the company
of the girl, who, according to ru
mor. has the best chance of any
gir' in the English-speaking world
CHURCH WOMEN OF
LINCOLN COUNTY IN
BIG WHISKY RAID
A raid on Lincoln county moon
shine stills, led by two women church
workers of Lincolnton, last week re
sulted in the capture of two com
plete outfits and 3,700 gallons of beer,
according to a report received at the
office of Revenue Agent J. D. Gantt
Monday morning.
The two church women, whose
names have been withheld by the
revenue agent for fear they would
suffer at the hands of the moonshine
element of the county, were begin
ning a raid on the stills "without out
side help when two deputies stalking
the same game arrived and the four
went in together.
In spite of some fifty signal shots
fired during the raid, the women re
mained steady and assisted in the
destruction, of the liquor and appa
ratus, according to the report. The
operators of the stills had fled and
were not captured. The stills were
about ten miles northwest of Lin
colnton, it is said.
Deputies Scott, Jackson and M. F.
Kimsey were stalking the moonshine
plant from the south side when they
discovered two women doing appar
ently the same thing from the west
side. Thinking they were taking food
to the operators, the deputies capr
tured the two women, only to dis
cover that they were church workers
intent upon the enforcement of pro
hibitlon in Lincoln county. Whon
identification was mutually estab
lished the four rushed the still and
destroyed it.
Completing this, the two women
led the deputies to a second still,
which met the same fate. In both
cases the liquor makers had fled,
warned by the efficient system of
rifle shot communication, which the
deputies say has been developed by
the moonshiners to a baffling degree.
West Point Youth
Drops Dead at Home
WEST POINT, Ga„ Sept. 22.
Thomas Jimmerson, seventeen-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jim
merson, of Lanett, dropped dead at
his home today. He was a high
school boy. He was apparently well,
except for a headache, when death
came sudden'y. He leaves his par
ents and several brothers and sis
ters. H?s mother is critically ill
from shock. He will be buried today
at Bullas, Ala.
of becoming the Princess of Wales.
The prince’s first meeting in Can
ada with Lady Dorothy was at
Ottawa, where his royal highness
was the guest of the Duke and
Duchess of Devonshire for four
clays The young people spent much
time together during the prince’s
stay in the dominion capital. This
was under the watchful eye of the
duchess. At the grand ball. Lady
Dorothy was the first partner se
lected by the prince. He danced with
her several times during the eve
ning.
After the prince left the east,
the governor-general decide?! quite
suddenly, to make a tour of the
west Just an hour before his royal
highness arrived in Winnipeg, the
vice regal party, which included
the Duke and Duchess and Lady
Dorothy, arrived in the western me
tropolis.
Although the duke and duchess
ostensibly visited Winnipeg to at
tend a Red Cross meeting, it was an
nounced after their unexpected arri
val that they would join the royal
party in a trip to the coast. This
is really what started all the
gossip".
Suitable Match
Althoifgh Lady Dorothy is not
of royal family, it is not believed
that would make any material
difference to the powers who direct
the lives of the empire’s rulers to
suit the best political ends If the
choice should center upon her.
There is little doubt but that she
would be welcomed throughout the
empire as the bride of the popular
soldier-prince. The union would
prove of immense advantage in
strengthening the bond between
Britain and the principal dominion,
Canadians look upon the
Lady Dorothy as a native Cana
dian.
So the duchess, if the gossips have
correctly guaged the situation, holds
a winning hand. It remains to be
seen if some other American, Cana
dian or English match-making moth
er “trumps her trick.”
HUNPRISONERS -
LEAVE ATLANTA
CAMP FOR HOME
,
The German sailors who for the
past two years have been held as
prisoners at the war prison bar
racks near Fort McPherson, entrain
ed Monday afternoon for Hoboken,
N. J., to take ship for home.
There were 1,250 of the men and
it required three special trains to
accommodate them. Among them
were many officers, although the
large majority were ordinary sea
men.
Most of the prisoners were mem
bers of the crews of German sea
raiders captured early in the war or
interned in American ports when the
allied naval forces pressed them too
close.
The conclusion of peace was the
signal for preparations to repatriate
the German prisoners and the war de
partment for some weeks has been
busy with arrangements for their
transportation to seaports.
Colonel Pickering, commanding of
ficer at the prison barracks, receiv
ed orders Some days ag to prepare
the prisoners for their trip, and for
the past few days the interned sail
ors have been gathering their ef
fects and making final preparations
for their journey to the Father
land.
The special train carrying the Ger
mans to Hoboken pulled out Monday
afternoon with an escort of Amer
ican troopers to accompany the con
tingent to Hoboken.
Bolsheviki Plan
Petrograd Evacuation
COPENHAGEN. Sept. 22. The
Bolsheviki have made all prepara
tions for the evacution of Petro
grad, according to a Helsingfors dis
patch to the Central News agency.
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STEEL MEN STRIKE
,1 FEW PLANTS ME
IN LARGECENTERS
Elbert H. Gary Withholds
, Comment Union Leader
i Gives Figures—More Dis-
order Is Reported
NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—The pre
liminary skirmish in the great in
dustrial struggle which opened to
day between labor unions and
the United States Steel corporation,
which directly or indirectly affects
half a million wage earners, produc
ed the usual conflicting claims by
the generals on both sides.
In the great strategic centers o*
the struggle, the Chicago and Pitts
burg districts, many thousands of
workers obeyed the strike order, but
early reports stated that compara
tively few plants had been compelled
to close. At a large number of the
outlying points officials of the small
er plants reported they were operat
ing as usual.
Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the
board of directors of the steel cor
poration, refused to make any com
ment on the situation.
Secretary Foster, of the steel
workers' union, issued a statement
expressing satisfaction with the out
look and claiming that reports from
outside the Pittsburg district showed
that the shutdown was general.
An important feature of the sit
uation was the announcement by rep
resentatives of the 35,000 workers
employed by the Bethlehem Stee'
company that these men would not
join the strike, pending an attempt to
obtain a conference with the com
pany officials.
Some of the blast furnaces in the
Pittsburg district were banked, bui
the majority of the plants were in
operation although with forces re
duced from fifteen per cent to sixty
six per cent. In the Chicago dis-
■ trict, including Gary and Hammonu,
• where 90,000 steel workers are em
j ployed, similar conditions were re
3 ported. At Cleveland the union lead
-1 ers claimed 15,000 men were out and
■' that sixteen' mills of the American
L Steel and Wire company, employing
! 9,000 men, were closed down. Al
s Ohio’s second greatest steel center,
r Youngstown, the strike leaders also
■ claimed that the great majority oi
1 the workers had struck and at S ?u
--’ benville, where three plants of th-
Carnegie Steel company are located
’ it was asserted that all three had
’ bean forced to suspend operations.
I At the less important points in
s Ohio and Pennsylvania, including
1 Portsmouth, Warren, Canton, Toledo,
r Columbus, Loraine, Pottsville, Read
’ ing and Harrisburg, officials of th«
5 various plants announced that their
- men had remained loyal and that op
• erations were' in full swing. One no-
• table exception was Johnstown, Pa ,
! where 12.000 men were reported to
a have struck.
Outside the great pivotal states ot
Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, con
ditions were reported nearly normal
i with a few important exceptions. At
1 Buffalo, where the great independ
i ent plants of the Lackawana -Steel
> company are located, the union chief s
! claimed 70 per cent of the workers
; had obeyed the strike call. At Wheel
’ ing, W. Va., it was asserted that
i 8,000 men were idle and the Colorado
1 Fuel and Iron company’s plant at _
i Puebio, Colo., was closed down when
i its 2,000 employes walked out.
j The mills of the Illinois Steel com
-' pany, at South Chicago, were closed,
the unions estimating that 95 per
‘ cent of the 4,000 men on the day
j shift had struck.
At noon William Z. E’oster, secre
tary-of the national committee fdtf
organizing iron and steel workers.
’ gave out the .following figures in
Pittsburgh as indicating the num
bers of men on strike:
Chicago district, 60,000; Clevelano,
30,000; Youngstown proper, 15,«000;>
Youngstown district, Including Shai
on, Farrell, Newcastle, Strowthers,
Butler, Canton and Massilon. 50,000:
Buffalo, 12,000; Homestead. 9,000;
Braddock 5,000; Rankin, 3,000; Clair
! ton, 4,000; Monessen and Donora, 12,-
3 COO*; Wheeling, 15,000; Steubenville
6 000- Pueblo, 6,000; McKeesport an-1
’ Duquesne, 12,000; Pittsburg city.
’ 12,000; Vandergrift, 4,000; Leech
, burg, 2,000; Brackenridge,, 5,000;
Johnstown, 15,000; Coatsville, 4.-
I 000. ‘ .
> Several men had theii* headb
clubbed and several arrests were
. made today in the Borough of Clair
ton, when the Pennsylvania state
police had another brush with crowds
that refused to Several
shots were fired by each side, ac
i cording to Clairton'police headquar-
Investigation of the steel strike
was proposed in Washington today
, in a resolution introduced by Sena
tor Kenyon, lowa.
T. J. Bray, president of the Re
public Iron and Steel company, at
. noon issued a statement in Youngs
town, Ohio, saying that the plant
would close down. Some men re
ported for work, he said, but it was
, found to keep the milt
; in operation. The company employs
about 6,500 men.
W. A. Thomas, president of the
Brier Hill Steel company, of Youngs
-1 town, Ohio, in a statement issued
at noon declared the jnill had been
closed. It employs about 7,000 men.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 22.—The strug
ble between organized labor and the
employer® in the steel industry was
in full swing today. In the Pitts
burg and nearby districts many thou
sands of men obeyed the orders of
their leaders and failed to report
when the whistles blew for the day
shifts to go to work. How many
joined in the walkout and with what
degree of effectiveness the strike
was initiated was not known defi
nitely by either side in the contest h.
the early hours of the day.
Dawn found mill guards, borough
and city police, the mounted Penn
sylvania state police, volunteer
guards, deputy sheriffs, detectives
and other guardians of the law on
duty for any emergency. Likewise
the strike Ifeaders in every steel miil
community w-ere abroad instruct
ing strikers and pickets in their duty
and persuading men on their way to
work to turn back and join in th* 1
I strike. Early reports indicated that
i hundreds of men were turned back
[ in various communities.
Full protection as fax as could be
made was given to men who deter-
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