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The Atlanta Semi-weekly Journal
VOL. XXII. NUMBER 6.
SUGAR REFINERS
■ THREATENEDWITH
U. S. PBDSECUTION
Attorney General Palmer De
clares Maximum Price of
10 Cents to Wholesaler.
Supply Ordered on Market
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Steps to j
prevent an abnormal Increase in the '
price of sugar beca- se of the exist- ■
ing shortage were taken today by the
department of justice.
Attorney-General Palmer notified ,
beet sugar refiners, who have been j
. withholding their products from the
market until the price situation be
came more stabilized, that the Unit
ed 'States Sugar Equalization board
had determined ten cents was a fair
price to be charged the wholesaler
and that any charge in ex- n of that
amount would be regard d as in vio
lation of the food control act.
Refiners were asked to telegraph
their concurrence in this price, which
would mean they ■would _.ut their
supply on the market immediately,
thereby relieving the present strin
gency.
The price to the wholesaler here
tofore has been nine cents so that the
new price means an Increase of ouc
cent a pound. Retailers have been al
lowed to charge H cents a pound
for controlled sugar under the old
prices. While the department of
justice and the sugar t ’.rd did n t
state what the new retail price
price would be, it was assumed that
the Increase would be -lot greater
than the wholesale advance.
Attorney General Palmer made
/ public the following telegram sent
to beet sugar refiners:
» "After thorough investigation by
th> recognized authorities on sugar,
the United States Sugar Equaliza
tion board have notified the depart
ment of justice of the following i
facts: ■
“ ‘As a considerable part of the
country generally supplied at this
time of the .year with beet sugar
may be embarrassed because of the
beet sugar factories’ failure to sell
beet sugar as produced, and this
condition in turn is due to the un
certainty regarding price, our judg
ment is that no higher price than
ten cents cash less two per cent
seaboard basis is justified and we
hope that you will decide at once
to begin marketing your sugar on
this basis and relieve the very se
rious situation.
“ ‘The price of 10 1-2 cents cash
f. o. b. plant which has been of
fered by the Sugar Equalization
beard for sugars in excess of re
quirements in your territory as
shown by your 1917 deliveries as a
minimum up to 50,000 tons for No
vember and December shipments to
relieve an acute shortage among the
—-manufacturers east is not to be con
sidered a precedent or basis for lo
cal prices.’
“I ask you to make your an
nouncement of prices based on the
» above. The department of justice
will treat as an unjust charge any
price in excess of this and consider
such a charge a violation of sec
tion four of- the Lever food control
act, as amended. Please wire today
your concurrence in the above.’’
One Held, One Sought
For Deputy’s Murder
On Dixie Highway
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 20.
With James Oliver, twenty years old,
in jail here for safekeeping, posses
today were scouring the vicinity of
Ooltewah. James county, Tenn., for
Ed Martin, his alleged companion
and accomplice in the‘killing of Dep
uty Sheriff W. B. Mclntosh, and the
| robbing of many travelers on the
F Dixie highway Saturday.
The two, both discharged soldiers,
are charged with barricading the
highway near Ooltewah early Satur
day, holding up all travelers who
approached, and finally with captur
ing and holding for hours several citi
zens who came to investigate the
killing* of Deputy Mclntosh, who was
shot by one of the boys whom he
attempted to arrest.
Oliver was wounded in an ex
change of shots with a posseman, and
was only captured, according to the
officers, when he became frightened
with the belief that he was bleeding
to death. Then citizens who were
held by the barricaded men were
forced to take him to Ooltewah for
medical attention. His companion
escaped.
Oliver was threatened with lynch-
* Ing at Ooltewah. A rope was placed
about his neck and he was drawn
from the ground, but citizens desisted
when he promised to give the name
>• of his companion.
Deputy Sheriff Mclntosh died in
> full view of persons attracted to
the spot. Attempts to reach him
with medical aid were repulsed at
the point of pistols.
Six men and a woman were huddled
along the roadside, covered by the
pistol of one of the bandits while
several of the holdups werh. in prog
ress.
$lO for Smacked Face
LONDON. —Because a little girl
named Lucy Vernum would not go
into the flat where she lived and
wait there for her father instead of
at the gate, Frederick Willing, a
youth, smacked her face. He was
arrested fined $lO.
Winter Coal for Poor
LONDON. —In view of a possible
shortage this winter, Lambeth Bor-
* ough council has purchased 10,000
tons of coal as a reserve stock, which
may be sold to the poor in small
quantities.
CURED HER FITS
Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916
Fourth Street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
\ ment: "I had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doc
tors and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last 1 secured a
preparation that cured me sound and
well. Over 10 years have passed
' and the attacks have not returned.
I wish every one who suffers from
this terrible disease would write R.
P. N. Lepso, 13 Island Avenue, Mil-
T waukee, Wis., and ask for a bottle
of the same kind of medicine which
he gave me. He has generously
pTomised to send it prepaid, free to
any oiie who writes him.”—(Advt.)
BASIL STOCKBRIDGE, com
mander of Charles D. Mont
gomery, Jr., post No. 1, who
was unanimously elected com
mander of the Georgia division
of the American Legion last
week.
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EARLY APPROVAL
OF PEACE TREATY
NOW IS PROBABLE
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—After
weeks of peace treaty talk in the
senate and political oratory in the
house, there ip a prospect after all
that congress may adjourn early in
November and the extra session will
not merge into the regular one. If
it happens so, there will be conserva
tion of both public impatience and
fatigue of wind-jamming politicians
and so-called statesmen.' Events are
leading at least to a ratification of
the peace treaty with Germany.
There is Indication now that the
treaty will receive final approval
early in November. A wearied house,
whose members are tired of talking
at and about one another, has sent
its leaders over to see if congress
may adjourn about November 10. Os
course, the senate with its peace
treaty debates holds the key/to the
situation, but there is hope of a
gradual wearing down of the upper
chamber’s vocal cords. A dawdling
congress cannot last forever." Trai
ned and cynical observers in Wash
ington know that not even a peace
treaty ending the greatest war in
history Js likely to bring a merger
of two sessions of congress. Wheth
er or not one is prone to “cuss con
grtyf- j,” he may not overlook the fact
that members of that great national
assembly are entitled to, or at least
draw certain allowances for mileage
—twenty cents per mile each way
for members going to and returning
from their homes. There ought to
be a respectable lapse of time be
tween two sessions, else this emolu
ment of stage coach days shall be
lost to our legislators. Therefore,
both from the standpoint of weari
ness, increasing public disappoint
ment and mileage allowances, con
gress is apt to adjourn before De
cember.
The house military committee fa
vorably reported a bill transferring
to the department of agriculture, mo
tor vehicles owned by the war de
partment and. suitable for distribu
tion among the states for road con
struction work.
After a hotly contested election.
Captain L. B. Rainey, Democrat, was
sworn in as a house member to suc
ceed the late Representative John
Burnett, of Alabama. Senator Poin
dexter introduced a resoltition asking
for a report from the department of
justice as to its alleged failure to
report foreign agitators. Because
of the president’s illness, the senate
foreign relations committee postponed
action on various resolutions ask
ing for information regarding treaty
negotiations at Paris.
Farmers’ Conference Proposed
Representative Dickinson, of lowa,
introduced a resolution requesting the
president to call a conference be
tween agriculture and capital. He
claimed that the farmers are not
adequately represented in the pres
ent industrial conference. Both sen
ate and house passed a bill direct
ing an additional survey of cotton
production not later than November
2. This was in response to the con
tention of southern members that
the department of agriculture’s latest
estimates were too high and had
depressed the price of cotton.
Chairman Wadsworth, of the sen
ate military committee, introduced a
bill to give permanent rank of lieu
tenant general to General March,
Chief of Staff and Major Generals
Liggett and Bullard.
The senatb interstate commerce
voted to include in the
j railroad bill a clause penalizing
' strikes by railroad employes. This
provision was opposed by Samuel
Gompers and other labor leaders. In
vestigation of the sugar shortage
continued before the senate agri
culture committee while country
wide complaints reached Washing
ton.
Representative Ballinger, Massa
chusetts, introduced a bill to place
an embargo on sugar exports.
Rear Admiral McGowan, paymaster
general of the navy, advocated be
fore the house naval committee in
creases in pay for naval officers and
men to correspond with the increased
cost of living.
The house public lands committee
favorably reported the senate bill
for the leasing of public lands with
oil, gas phosphates and coal re
sources.
The prohibition enforcement bill
was signed by Vice President Mar
shall and Speaker Gillett, and sent
at once to the White House for the
approval of the president.
MESS 10 CLOSE
PRESENT SESSION
[ALLY IN NOVEMBER
Republican Leader Mondelk
Makes Announcement in
House —Domestic Legisla
tion Seems Doomed
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Repub
lican Leader Mondell told the house
today it was the intention of the
Republican leaders to have congress
adjourn between November 8 and 10
so members could have a brief rest
before the beginning of the regular
session eariy in December. The
treaty of peace is expected to have
been ratified before that time.
Hope of enacting the program of
domestic legislation outlined by
President Wilson l>as been abandoned
until the regular Session in Decem
ber. It is requiring the constant
efforts of Senator Penrose and other
Republican senators ,to keep the sen
ate moving in its consideration of
the treaty, and final action is not
expected before November 10, or la
ter by the most optimistic. Prob
ably immediately thereafter congress
will make a quick break for home.
House leaders and chairmen of Im
portant committees are still urging
the necessity of passing on important
domestic legislation, but the diffi
culty of making headway through
the treaty debate is apparently prov
ing too much for steering commit
tees.
The railroad reorganization bill, to
be reported to the senate this week,
is not expected to pass even with
the effort that Chairman Cummins
and members of this committee will
make. House and senate are far
apart on their respective railroad pro
grams.
Labor legislation has also lost
momentum. Chairman Kenyon, of
the senate labor committee, will con
sider progress has been made if only
an effective Americanization bill is
enacted. Minimum wage, federal ar
bitration, and employment measures
now pending In this committee have
little likelihood of getting through
both houses, members said.
Many congressmen are outspoken
ly anxious to get back to their home
states, to see how the political land
lies, how the woman’s vote is shap
ing up and whether radicalism is tak
ing hold of the .people.
One group, Including both Republi
cans and Democrats, is working for
sweeping action against radicals. 1
The anti-strike provision of the
Cummins railroad bill, the numerous
bills making circulation of radical
doctrines a crime, and proposals for
strict control of immigration are
supported by this group In both
houses. z Senators Poindexter, Thohias
and Representative Johnson, Wash
ington, are active on this issue.
A smaller faction favors handling
this question with delicacy, fearing
drastic action will promote extremist
agitation.
The struggle over ratification of
the treaty was resumed today. Sen
ators led by Lodge are concen
trating their strength now in putting
reservations .into the resolution of
ratification, Senator Lodge announced
last night. Previously they had tried
to secure adoption of amendments,
but were defeated. Several impor
tant amendments, however, are yet
to be voted on.
Senator Lodge’s statement, predict
ing reservations to the treaty, said:
"A decisive majority of the senate
will vote for reservations attached
to the resolution of ratification,
which will protect the peace, safety,
sovereignty and independence of the
United States. The one object of
these senators is to Americanize the
treaty, and they believe that by so
doing they will serve the cause of
general peace in the world. What
ever delay there may be in the final
action upon the treaty will be caus
ed by those who are resisting the
Americanization of the treaty by
prope reservations —reservations at
once unequivocal and. effective.”
TROOPS SENT TO
BREAK STRIKE OF
LONGSHOREMEN
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Five hun
dred soldiers of the regular army
were landed here today from the
transport George Washington to at
tempt to end the congestion at the
army piers in Brooklyn, caused by
the longshoremen’s strike. The men
are under orders “to shoot if neces
sary,” according to a statement
made by Brigadier General Peter Dav
ison, chief of troop movements at
the port of embarkation. “The
troops will aid in moving transports
or whatever else is necessary,” said
General Davison.
The soldiers were landed at Ho
boken, and immediately transferred
to Governor’s Island, preliminary to
to duty at the army piers in Brook
lyn. They comprised two battalions
.of the Twelfth regular infantry,
I First division.
The troops were in command of
Colonel Jesse M. Cullison, who com
manded the Twenty-sixth infantry of
the First division in France. He was
greeted at the pier by Brigadier Gen
eral Davison, who, when asked if
more troops were coming, said that
members of the Thirteenth regiment,
at Canips Upton and Merritt, near
by, would be berought here if neces
sary.
First Ship Reaches Boston
From Port of Germany
BOSTON, Oct. 20—The first vessel
to come to this port from Germany
since the war was the shipping board
refrigerator steamer Yaquina, which
arrived from Hamburg yesterday in
ballast. The Yaquina carried a car
go frozen beef from New York to
Hamberg. A German stowaway dis
covered on the vessel’s arrival gave
his name as C ristian Nissen, twen
ty-two years old. He was turned
over to the immigration authorities.
Pickpocket at 83
LONDON.—Mary Ann Wilson, 83,
is believed to be the oldest pickpocket
on record. She has just been con
victed and sentenced for the twenty
third time. Her latest offense was
lifting a purse from a lady’s hand
bag while pretending to be suffer
ing from a fainting
’ ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919.
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LONDON —It isn’t royalty alone that is coining to America, for
here is the chief of British democracy, David Lloyd George, who is
planning to visit the United States with his wife as soon as things
quiet down in England.
ARNOLD CLAIMS
MRS. BRADSTREET
MARRIAGE ILLEGAL
Reuben R. attorney for the
Fairburn Banking company, retained
to prosecute charges of embezzle
ment against William B. Green, Mrs.
Catherine Queen Bradstreet, Clar
ence F. Bradstreet and Robert Elli
son, negro chauffeur, said Monday
morning he had positive evidence
that Mrs. Bradstreet had committed
bigamy. 4
He exhibited certified copies of
marriage licenses and divorce records.
The “divorce record showed thatffifrs.
Bradstreet did not get her final de
cree from J. B. Tate, her first hus
band, until April, 1919. The mar
riage record showed that before that,
on March 23, 1919, she was married
tot William D. Shoemaker under the
name of Miss Agnes Tate, Rev. Ben
jamin Rush Thornbury performing
the ceremony in Atlanta. Shoemaker,
said Mr. Arnold, left for France the
next day with the Eighty-second divi
sion
Mr Arnold said that while Mrs.
Bradstreet may have gone through
a marriage ceremony with Bradstreet
a year ago, she was not legally mar
ried to him until the second cere
mony on August 25, 1919.
fl'er marriage to Shoemaker, he
said, was positive proof to him that
she had committed bigamy.
Mr. Arnold refused to say whether
a warrant charging bigamy would
be sworn out. He admitted that such
a step had been under consideration,
but indicated that future events
would dictate the decision.
Young’Farmer Killed
At Duluth by Tenant,
DULUTH, Ga., Oct. 20.—Mr. Will
Morgan, a young farmer, was shot
and killed here on/ the street this
morning by Will Davis, a white
man that lived on Mr. Morgan’s
place. The trouble is said to have
arisen over the capture last night
by revenue officers of a still in
Davis’ barn. Mr. Morgan brought a
bale of cotton to market today, and
was followed by Davis, it is said.
The shooting occurred as Mr. Mor
gan was unloading his cotton at
the platform. Davis surrended his
pistol and waited until the sheriff
arrived from Lawrenceville.
Riga Men Over 27
Are Being Mobilized
RIGA.—AII men above the age of
twenty-seven have been mobilized in
Riga and the surrounding district,
by an order of the new government
of Letvia.
BEATS GASOLINE AT
15 CENTS A GALLON
New Invention Makes Fords Run
34 Miles on Gallon of Gasoline
and Start Easy in Coldest
I Weather—Other Cars Show
; Proportionate Savings.
A new carburetor which cuts down
gasoline consumption of any motor
including the Ford, and reduces gaso
line bills from one-third to one-haU
is the proud achievement of the
Air Friction Carburetor Co.. 213
Madison St.NDayton, Ohio. This re
markable invention not only in
creases the power of all motors from
30 to ’SO per cent but enables every
, one to run slow on high gear. It also
makes it easy to start a Ford or anv
other car in the coldest weather with
out previously warming the motor
With it you can use the very cheap
est grade of gasoline or half gaso
line 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 manufacturers 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 id 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 of
fer exceptionally large profits. Write
them today.—(Advt.)
SENATOR SEEKS
PROBE OF ‘REDS’
IN GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Sensa
tioAal charges that Socialists, reds
and other radicals “are intrenched”
in the government departments, and
particularly that the investigating
forces of the federal trade commis
sion contain men hostile to the gov
ernment and American institutions
were made in the senate today by
Senator "Watson, Republican, who in
troduced a resolution for an investi
gation by t’’ interstate commerce
committee.
Disclaiming any defense of the
great meat packers. Senator Watson
declared that the open records of
some of the commission’s employes
on that invc tigation showed them to
be respectively, outspoken anarch
ists, participants in red parades, pro-
Germans, admirers of Lenine and
Trotzky and avowed exponents of
soviet government.
“Chase Socialistic Exponent”
Os Stuart Chase, who had gen
eral charge of the investigation of
the meat-packing industry, Sena
tor Watson charged, that besides
being a well-known exponent of so
cialistic doctrines. Chase was pres
ident and organizer of the Fabian
club of Chicago, “a society founded
for the express purpose of fur
thering the doctrines of socialism.”
“Grouped about him in his of
fices at Federal Trade commission
headquarters,” declared Senator
Watson, “were Victor Berger, Ir
vin St. John Tucker and many
other extreme socialists. His office
became the rendezvous of men de
voted to the destruction of prop
erty, the overthrow of government
and consummation of the ideals of
socialism.”
Chase, Senator Watson charged,
helped organize a Chicago meeting
at which “Berger and other radi
cals made inflammatory speeches,-"
and also organized a meeting at
which Lincoln Steffens spoke.
“That anarchist,” said Senator
Watson referring to Steffens, “had
just returned x from Russia and his
address was to aid in the recogni
tion of Lenine and Trotsky by our
government.”
Chase later wrote a magazine ar
ticle, Senator aWtson said, assail
ing the United States government
for not recognizing the “Russian
reds.” On Chase’s specific instruc
tions. Senator Watson further
charged, the commisions accoun
tants inflated the showing of
profits of the packing companies.
Samuel W. Tator, who, with Chase
had general charge of the investi
gation, Senator Watson charged,
was “an avowed admirer of Lenine
and Trotsky and frequently ex
pressed his admiration of the so
viet government of Russia.”
“He was pronouncedly against
the allies in the world war,” con
tinued the senator, “and frequent
ly made the statement that all big
business should be confiscated by
the government.”
A. S. Kravtiz, credited in the
commission’s report with “impor
tant aid” in the investigation, Sen
ator Watson charged, was “a Rus
sian from Riga, an intellectual so
cialist of the most pronounced
type, and throughout the war in
tensely pro-German.”
“He has always expressed him
self as an ardent admirer cf
Lenine and Trtosky and claims to
be a personal friend of Lenine. Fre
quently he has stated he was heart
and soul for the German cause,”
said_ the senator.
Raphael Mallen, a statistician,
Senator Watson charged, was a for-
I mer preached ousted from his church,
for socialistic tendencies, and also
had been confined to a military
I prison in 1917, as a “conscientious
objector.”
“He frequently waved a red flag
at the meetings of his co-employes
of the federal trade commission,”
declared the senator, “and always
carried the red emblem in his pocket.
He openly stated his home had been
raided. He stored his socialistic
writings in Chase’s office, and boast
ed that the packages holding them
contained ‘government dynamite.’ ”
R. N. Buck, credited in the com
mission’s report with “valuable as
sistance.” Senator Watson charged,
was the author of attacks on the
rights of property and American in
stitutions, and Basil Manly, who as
sisted in the investigations, the sen
ator described as one who was a
member of the Fabian club and a
conferee wit hother socialists at
Chase’s office.
FLYING PARSON WON
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8Y NIOKI
His Nearest Competitor
Hundreds of Miles Behind
When He Alighted at Min
eola Field
NEW YORK. —Lieutenant Belvin
W. Maynard completed his ocean
to ocean, flight at Mineola Satur
day afternoon, a double winner In
the first trans-continental air races
The “sky pilot” won the first lap
a ago from Saturday when he led
large field into San Francisco. H?
left that city Tuesday afternoon and
arrived here hundreds of miles abend
of his nearest competitor.
Maynard left Roosevelt Field,
Mineola, at 9:24 a.m. October 8, an-J
arrived at the Presidio, San Fran
sisco, at 1:13 in. on October 1T
His total elapsed time was seven
ty-eight hours and forty-nine min
utes. The rules governing the race
required him to remain there forty
eight hours exclusive of Sunday. Hf
started back at 1:19 p. m„ on Octo
ber 14, and reached Mineola at 1:50
p. m. today. His total elapsed time
for the second leg was ninety-three
hours, thirty-one minutes. The of
ficial actual flying time for his first
lap was twenty-four hours, fifty-six
minutes, fifty-five and a half sec
onds.
Counting against Maynard’s fly
ing time will be the eighteen hours
he lost when the crankshaft of. his
Liberty motor broke near Wahoo,
Neb. *VX ith the aid of army me
chanics rushed from Omaha, one of
the twin engines of the Martin bomb
er, abandoned near that pla.ee, was
transferred to the “Flying Parson’s”
Dehaviland-4, and he continued his
flight.
Those flying westward on the':
second lap were Captain L. H. Smith,
en route from Des Moines to Omaha.
Lieutenant E. C. Kiel and Lieutenant
M. E. Queens, close on Smith’s heels
and Lieutenant B. Worthin ton.
Sixty-three started th© race. One
has completed both laps; seventeen
have finished one lap; twenty-eight
have been eliminated; nine were
killed.
Sergeant W. K. Kline, mechanician,
and Trixie, a Belgian police dog,
made the entire trip with Maynard.
ONEISKILIiD,
ANOTHER HURT,
IN AUTO CRASH
H. E. Tison, aged seventy years, of
Shellman, Ga., was killed instantly
Monday morning at 11 o’clock, when
the automboilfe in which he was rid
ing was struck by an army motor
ambulance at the corner of Capitol
avenue and Georgia avenue. Miss
Dobie Gaines, a nurse riding in the
ambulance, was slightly injured.
According to witnesses, when
the automobile and ambulance col
lided the passenger car was struck
and hurled for a distance of forty
feet. Mr. Tison, riding in the rear
seat, was thrown from the car and
dragged for this distance by the
army machine. Pie was dead before
first aid could be rendered.
B. J. Burnett, driver of the am
bulance and a member of Motor
Truck company 712, at Fort Mc-
Pherson, was placed under arrest
by Lieutenant H. G. Hewett, of
the provost guard, and taken to
Fort McPherson. The army driver
claims that he was driving slowly
at tire time of the collision and
that Mr. Tison, upon seeing that
the accident was unavoidable jump
ed from the rear seat of the pas
senger car and landed on his head.
The ambulance, the driver stated,
struck but did not run over Mr.
Tison.
Miss Gaine, the injured nurse, was
taken to Fort McPherson. Her in
juries are not considered serious.
Two other nurses in the ambulance,
Misses B. A. Montgomery and Mar
garet McCall, were not injured; z nor
was Thomas Peters, another soldier
in the machine.
KRONSTADT FALLS;
PETROGRAD CUT
OFF BY RUSSIANS
LONDON, Oct 10. —Petrograd is vir
tually isolated, the war office an
nounced today, anti-Bolshevik cav
alry having cut tfce railroads lead
ing from Petrograd to Vitebsk, Mos
cow and Vologda. The Petrograd-
Vitebsk road is cut at Viritza and
the Petrograd-Moscow railroad at
Tosna, south and southeast of Pet
rograd, respectively. The line to
i Vologda is cut south of Lake Ladoga.
The white flag was hoisted over
‘ the Russian fortress of Kronstadt
Friday, it was announced by the
British war office today.
A Bolshevik division, which was
being rushed to Petrograd from the
interior to defend the city against
the threatened advance of General
Yudenitch, was virtually wiped out
at Krasnoe Selo when General Yu
denitch took that outpost to Petro
grad, according to war office ad
vices. /
The war office announces that
Pskov, lhe important railway junc
tion town about 180 miles south of
Petrograd, is under bombardment by
the Esthonian troops. Petrograd is
reported to be preparing for a siege.
Machine guns are posted to com
mand the principal streets, and sup
plies of food are being brought into
the city.
Cuts Clothing Prices
Chicago, Oct. 20.—The Bell Tailors,
Adams at Green St., Chicago, 111.,
i said to be the largest tailoring con
cern in America, announces a big
I reduction in price on men’s tailor
! ing. Their most popular value is
in all wool cassimere at $20.00, a
very attractive pattern, which is
generally sold at $30.00 to $32.00.
Even larger savings are offered on
their higher priced numbers. Their
latest catalogue, No. 282, containing
large cloth samples of many beau
tiful fabrics, will be sent free upon
request to any reader of The Jour
nal,—(Advt.)
DR. LANSING BURROWS,
for more than thirty years sec
retary of the Southern Baptist
convention and one of the lead
ing ministers of that denomina
tion in the country, who died
at Americus Friday.
Is. ” 1
PROHIBITION LAW
ENFORCEMENT ACT
UPTO WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The
prohibition law, deemed one of the
most sweeping acts ever passed by
congress, was to be sent to the White
House today by Attorney General
Palmer, who has been investigating
its constitutionality.
The plan, it was learned, is to have
the bill remain at the White House
until October 28, when it becomes
effective even without President Wil
son’s signature. From responsible
quarters there has been no hint of
a veto. k >
Under this law, on October 28, at
the latest, it will become a crime to
manufacture or sell any liquor con
taining more than one-half of one
per cent alcohol, or any parent med
icines or other compounds, fit for
beverage purposes, containing that
amount of alcohol.
Violations are to be investigated by
commissioners of internal revenue
and reported to the local United
States attorneys. Commissioners
are authorized to swear out warrants
giving them a right to search for
liquor and arrest offenders.
The alcoholic liquids not deemed
illegal are denatured alcohol, me
dicinal preparations if unfit for bev
erage purposes which must have the
quantity of alcohol contained print
ed on each package, flavoring ex
tracts unfit for beverage use, vine
gar and preserved sweet cider. y
Liquor manufactured before the
bill goes into effect may remain in
United States bonded warehouses,
and the alcohol content reduced to
bring it within the law or withdrawn
to be denatured.
Beer containing less than one-half
of one per cent alcohol may be sold,
but not under the name of beer, ale
or porter.
Rigorous Penalties Imposed
Places where intoxicating drinks
are sold are to be declared common
nuisances, and the' fines imposed
shall rest as liens against the
property if the owner had guilty
knowledge of what was going on in
his building. When such a place is
discovered the law provides that an
injunction may be issued to stop
the illicit sales and prevent removal
of the liquor.
Liquor which is seized may be de
stroyed or delivered to any gov
ernmental agency for medicinal, me
chanical or scientific uses or sold- to
persons having permits to purchase
it for such purposes.
Distilleries and bonded warehouses
may under the law, upon the filing
of a bond and the obtaining of a per
mit, be used as industrial alcohol
plants. The commissioner of in
ternal revenue authorized to issue
regulations governing industrial al
cohol plants, to prevent Illegal use
of alcohol and develop the non-bev
erage alcohol industry.
Penalties under the dry law are
varied, ranging from prison sen
tences to fines, according to what
section of the law is violated.
When the eighteenth amendment
to the constitution goes into effect
next January, many more provisions
of the law become operative. These
include the regulation of physicians,
who cannot prescribe liquor unless
they are in active practice and li
censed. and the physician must be
lieve it will afford relief to the pa
tient. Not more than one pint may
be prescribed within ten days. Pro
scriptions must be made out on a
form supplied by the internal rev
enue commissioner, with stubs —like
a check book—the book to be turned
in after all the blanks are used,
for official records. No prescription
may be filled more than once, and
druggists must ktep a record, sim
ilar to a poison record, of each sale,
time, place, etc.
Frima Facie Evidence
Advertising, manufacture and sale
of tablets or formulas for making
liquor at home is prohibited.
Advertising of liquor in any way
is made illegal.
Even the giving of information as
to where it may be obtained is law
breaking. Vehicles used for trans
porting it shall be seized.
With regard to possession of al
coholic drinks, the act says posses
sion after February 1, 1920, shall be
prima facie evidence of intent to
violate, except that liquor in private
homes legitimately purchased before
the law went into effect. This liquor
may be used only for the personal
consumption of the owner, his fam
ily and guests.
Private dwellings cannot be
searched unless it is suspected the
beverage is being sold in them, or
part of the house is used for busi
ness purposes. Hotel and lodging
house rooms which are transiently
used may be searched. Those perma
nently occupied by the same persons
are regarded as private dwellings.
Buildings used for selling liquor
tiiay be ofesed for a year at the op
tion of the court.
5 CENTS A COPY.
$1.25 A YEAK.
GARY DECLARES HE
IS FIRM IN STAND
FDR “M SHOP"
President Wilson Will Not
Allow Round Table Con
ference to Break Up in
Fight
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Reaf
firming his refusal to negotiate with
representatives of labor unions not
employes in the plants of the United
States Steel corporation, Elbert H,
Gary, chairman of the corporation’s
board of directors, informed Chair
man Lane, of the National Industrial
conference, and Frank Morrison, sec
retary of the American Federation
of Labor today, that he would not
recede from his stand for the open
shop.
After Judge Gary had conferred
with Chairman Lane and Secretary
Morrison, the conference session was
called to order, but the entire cap
ital group was absent. The chair
man sent word that the group could
not complete its discussion on col
lective bargaining until after noon
and, as the rules require thgt all
groups be present at the sessions,
the conference adjourned.
While hesitating to speculate as
to what would happen should the
conference find it Impossible to
agree on a resolution declaring col
lective bargaining several leaders
said the members would not “dare”
break up the conference yrithout fur
ther effort to reach a settlement of
the grave industrial problems fac
ing the country.
If the conference reaches an im
passe on collective bargaining, John
Spargo, Socialist, of New York, and
a representative of the public, will
propose that it adjourn temporarily
after instructing the committee of
fifteen to draw up a general pro
gram of work. The plan was said to
have the approval of other publio
representatives and Chairman Lane.
Employers have been in group cau
cus almost continually since Fri
day.
The public and labor groups are
ready to vote in favor of the col
lective bargaining, m< nibers say.
A negative vote by the employers
group will defeat it.
Labor men say they will quit the
conference if this occurs.
Collective bargaining, they declare,
must be conceded as a flght of or
ganized labor if the conference is
to go on.
Members of the public group, fear
ing a break today, were making un
usual efforts to hold the conference
in session.
President Wilson, however, will
not permit the national industrial
conference to break up in a fight,
it was learned on high authority at
the White House today.
If any delegates quit the confer
ence the president will name sub
stitutes or cause them to be named,
it was made clear. Even should an
entire group walk out, the adminis
tration would make an effort to have
it replaced.
The industrial conference is here
to “see this thing through,” accord
ing to the attitude taken at the ex
ecutive mansion. So much is at
stake that the government cannot
afford to let the conference' go to
pieces. - .
Trying to Avoid Cow
Moultrie Man Is Killed
■When Car Turns Over
MOULTRIE, G , Oct. 20. Mr.
Curran R. Farley, a young business
man of Moultrie received injuries
Sunday night when big automobile
turned over on the Moultrie-Doerun
road from which he died about 1:3)
this morning. Hary Kline and
Eutace Harrell, who were in the car,
a high powered roadster, with Mr.
Farley, were only slightly hurt.
It is said that Farley lost con
trol of his ma<ptfine when he tried to
keep it from rbnning into a cow and
it skidded into a ditch turning over
two or three times. Mr. Harrell
was thrown out, but Messrs. Kline
and Farley remained seated in the
machine. The steering wheel pinned
Mr. Farley to the ground crushing
him so badly that he never regained
consciousness.
His body will be carried to Thom
aston, his former home for burial.
Mr. Farley was one o fthe most pop
ular young men of Moultrie.
Woman Killed in Auto
Wreck; Her Husband
Indicted for Murder
ASHEVILLE, N. C., Oct. 20. A
coroner’s jury empanelled to investi
gate the death of Mrs. F. L. Hudgins,
who was instantly killed near Can
ton late Saturday, when an automo
bile in which she was riding struck
a post, brought in a verdict charg
ing the husband of the deceased, and
H. F. Stewart with murder.
Both men are charged with being
in an intoxicated condition at the
time of the accident and with reck
less driving. Five other occupants
of the car escaped with slight in
juries.
Foreigners Organize
To Advise Chinese
SHANGHAI. Fearing popular
demonstrations against foreigners be
cause of the Shantung Award, mem
bers of the European colonies here
are systematically advising the mass
es that the fault lies primarily with
the weakness of the Chinese govern
ment at Peking.
Stomach Trouble or Tape
worm Banished
Many persons who suffer from
stomach trouble really have a tape
worm and don’t know it. A guar
anteed remedy which has proven
to be remarkably effective in ex
pelling tapeworms and giving quick
relief in all forms of stomach trou
ble is being sent on free trial by
the Schoenherr Co., Dept. 55, Milwau
kee, Wis. They guarantee it to re
move, in less than one hour, any
tapeworm with its head. No pain,
no dieting, no danger; also, to re
lieve any form of stomach trouble
or it costs nothing. .Take- advantage
of their free trial offer. Write
today.—(Advt.)