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VOL. XXII. NO. 28.
- “BAnLE FUND" OF
51,0110,010 PUN OF
HEDS. SAYS REPORT
Deportation Action Against
More Radicals Is Begun.
Arrests Now Total Be
tween 4,500 and 5,000
| WASHINGTON, Jan. s—Collection
J of a revolutionary battle fund of
; nearly $1,000,000 was the aim of
radical leaders arrested in the "red”
joundup, it was learned today at the
department of justice.
►A large share of the fund was
in the coffers of the societies broken
up by the raids.
Justice department secret agents
now are investigating to learn the
exact amount already collected which
Is estimated at several hundred thou
sand dollars. Approximately $200.-
000 had been collected by the na
tional officials of the Communist
labor party whose headquarters were
at Chicago.
Justice department officials today
were unprepared to say what will be
done with the funds.
Officials now are attempting to
tabulate and summarize the results
of the raids which began Friday
night, and determine the exact num
ber of arrests, believed to total be
tween 4,500 and* 5.000. It is ex
pected that the tabulation will be
L finished late today at which time
& Atorney General Palmer 'will malts
B public the exact number of arrests
9 v and the number in each city.
Deportation Action Begins
Deportation action against scores
of the revolutionists rounded up by
the government during the last few
days was instituted today by A. J.
Camiiettl, commisisoner general of
i immigration. Arrangements for
hearings were ordered speeded up,
I ' so the deportable “reds” may be
L hustled back to Russia, and the way
[ cleared for more nation-wide raids
[ which the department of justice
probably will undertake at irregu
lar intervals.
Investigation of the Bolshevist
I menace by the Russian affairs divi
■ sion ofthe state department, showed
that tlB avowed purpose of Lenine
j and Tr«tsky was to overthrow exist-
B ing and standards of
gj society throughout the world, and
■ substifiie the soviet form of gov-
B x vrnmen'jand daily life, according to
B an offidai announcement made to
ft ray by Secretary Lansing.
I This lolshevist program has fail-
B ’ ed in Rtssia already, where its re
■ suits to date are “demoralization,
■ civil wa and economic collapse,”
the announcement said.
S The rnort containing these con
i’ b e£n handed by the
g srate degjrtmen.t to the cqngression
■ -—committees.
Its of Reports
mbraces the following
>r of Bolshevist rule
al ‘dictatorship of th*
knowledged to be the
ority, with a definite
liminary destruction,
it to have degenerated
mnopoly of power by
group, who use the
istic and tyrannical
ling ‘mass terror.’
c results of Bol
i—while existing on
ted wealth of the
olshevist regime has
a complete economic
consequent famine
The claim of the
at economic isolation
jonsible for the eco
i soviet Russia, can
led. The Bolshevist
lot worked, and Bob
■■ uevism yto Its credit no con
sir active accomplishment.
“3. —Bolshevist program of world
revolution —oi; e o f the main aims of
riie Bolshevist leaders from the
ft very beginning has been to make
’ their movement a world-wide social
revolution. TlLy insistently declare
that success iiVßussia depends on
the developmerk o f corresponding
social revolutiol 5 j n a n other coun
tries, Bolshevisßpoiicies and tactics
are subordinate# to the idea of the
international PWetarian revolution.
Apparent compitnises with ‘bour
r geois’ government or countries have
] proved temporal® and tactical.”
I New Fi Expected
While this was being
studied by coifc'SK g , federal agent-;
continued
members of the—-*nmunist and com
munist labor p:,!, through which,
it is alleged, Lg® e and Trotsky
plotted to strilinK a t the United
States governme««w xew figures on
\ the total numbe?W. res ted, and the
total number heldjM erc expected tu
* day. '■
Radicals taken l®the government
raids on the comM n ; st an d COm
p munist labor partiß a n have ma
chinery set for. fisttng desperately
against deportation,® was announc-
J ed toady at the deM tmen t of jus
tice. Lawyers havel en engaged in
practically every c® where raids
were made and ofM aJs predicted
they would take advß^ a g e o f every
technicality until tIM. clients ac
tually were aboard v«ei s bound for
their native land. ■
In view of this iiW-mation, As
sistant Attorney-Gei». al Garvan
(gave instructions to sB ed the work
of completing the ■idence, with
which he hopes to mak« de p Or t a tiong
certain. »
: Mr. Garvan said thm while the
, government believed pL o f of mem
>. bership in either he
sufficient basis for there
must be considered tli e likelihood
that many of the persoiL held might
attempt to show they reiT Ounce d their
affiliations prior to the feyernment’a
f declaration that the entirl al j en mem
vership o.f and com
munist labQff*parties wer" oeportabla
V
/Habeas Corpus Flawed
Habeas corpus proceeding- will oe
“™/ioyed in a majority <1 the cases
Garvan believed. I
Privileges accorded the laaicals un
4*r present laws with resje c t t 0 bail
f complicates the department’s work,
jf officials said. Persons helfl y n s ucn
charges as have been filed against
i| those taken into custody ; n these
L raids may gain freedom SI,OOO
B bond. But the two parte, which
HI the department is to dis-
Kt perse, are known to have a “slush
fund,” Mr. Garvan declaim and
large amounts of this l x V e been
HMt available for legal defense hail.
Commander of American
Flying Squadron Which
Is Fighting With Poles
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Major Cedric Fauntleroy.
Nine American aviators who
fought with the British, French and
United States armies have arrived at
Warsaw to fight this winter with the
Poles at Vilna. They formed the
Kosciusco Aero Squadron and have
enlisted as a co bat unit. They will
use scout planes and act as a pursuit
squadron. Major Cedric Fauntleroy,
of Chicago, is in command. He was
chief aviation tester and technical ex
pert in the A. E. F. He flew 4,000
different planes, making 6,500 flights,
before joining Eddie Rickenbacker’s
squadron, because he wanted action
at the front.
WUfIE OF UST
■ICTS IS NEAR
Joe Webb, convicted murderer and
iife-termer at nineteen, will rejoin
his captured companion, Dick Jester,
on the Fulton county chaingang Fri
day, and the capture of Roy Dicker
son. the thirl of the trio of convicts
who staged a sensational escape
Tuesday morning, is expected almost
hourly.
“I welcome arrest. I’ve had
enough,” young Webb is quoted as
saying when a squad of Pike county'
officers and citizens walked into the
negro cabin a few miles —below
Barnesville, where the fugitive was
eating supper shortly after dark
Tliurs lay evening.
Webb was arrested at about 6
o’clock by a hastily formed posse
composed of Mayor James E. Bush,
of Barnesville; Chief of Police W. 8.
Reverie, Deputy Sheriff Allan Arnold,
and a few deputies and citizens. His
presence at the cabin had been re
ported by Farley Haygood, a farmer,
who had stopped by to talk to the
negro tenant about some work. When
the negro told him that a strange
man was in the house, Farley in
structed that the visitor be detained
as long as possible, then hastened
to Goggins station and telegraphed
Mayor Bush.
The hunted man offered no re
sistance whatever when his captors,
heavily armed, suddenly walked in
on him. He was “all in,” he said,
and glad to be caught. Three stren
uous days with scant food and little
shelter while evading a pursuit that
was Close on his heels at all times,
had broken his nerve.
Weary, hungry, footsore, shivering
and desperate he sought warmth and
food at the cabin, knowing that his
rashness probably meant detection,
but preferring capture to a night in
the woods at the mercy of the bitter
ly cold weather.
News Print Committee
Will Plan for Inquiry
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—Senator
LaFollette announced today he will
call a meeting of the committee nam
ed to investigate the new print pa
per situation eariy this week, to
make plans for the inquiry. Absence
of several committee members from
Washington prevented earlier action.
Caught at Capitol
\ An exciting chase followed dis
; covery, by Washington, police, of
I a read fox in the Capitol grounds
hn Washington. George M. Green,
I a passing motorcyclist, captured
the prize.
CONGRESS COIWES
FACED BY ENORMOUS
LEGISLATE TASKS
Domestic Problems, Grave
and Complex, Must Be
Solved at Present Session,
as Well as Foreign Affairs
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—Congress
| met promptly at noon today after a
two weeks’ recess over the holidays, ■
' with the treaty of Versailles still i
| the foremost of the great array of'
subjects with which the national
law-makers were expected to deal be- j
fore adjournment, probably just be- I
fore the presidential election next i
November.
Private conferences initiated dur- |
ing the holidays looking to some sort I
of a compromise in the treaty fight I
were continued and renewal of debate .
on the senate floor was expected at i
any time. No concrete plan under I
which the senate would restpne so:
mal consideration of the subject had
been agreed upon, however.
.In the senate today the sedition '
bill of Senator Sterling, Republican
of South Dakota, had the right of ’
way.
It had been expected the house I
would be called upon to again pass
on the question of seating Victoi ’
Berger, Socialist, of Wisconsin, whn .
was re-elected after the house had
declared his seat vacant, but Berger
was not present when the house,
met.
Representative Mann, Republican
of Illinois, former Republican leadc.
of the house, announced he would op
pose any action to withhold Berger’s ,
seat.
“I am opposed to any summary ac- ;
lion which would deny Berger his •
seat,” he said.
Chairman Dallinger, of Massa - '
ehusetts, of the elections committee,
which recommended Berger’s ejection
as a member of the special session,
was ready tod%y with a resolution
which would deny Berger his seat on
the ground he has been “guilty of ■
giving aid and Comfort to the en
emy-” The resolution was drawn to
day after a meeting of the steering
committee but will be withheld un
til Berger presents his credentials.
Returning to work after two weeks’
holiday, congress faced one of the
busiest sessions in history and a
staggering array of problems await
ing soluti *>. In addition to in
numerable domestic matters, some
of which will have a far-reaching
effect on the industrial life of the
country, there are international
questions of far-reaching import
that must' be settled, including the.
treaty of peace w’ith Germany and
Austria.
Adjournment was not expected be
fore fall and the only breast in ths
long session that members &an look
forward to is the brief rc that
will be taken coincident with the
holding of the national party con
ventions during the summer. But
despite the mass of work ahead
there were indications aplenty that
ample time would be found fob
partisan politics and no angle of the
coming presidential election wou’d
be overlokod. Political speeches in
record-breaking numbers were look
ed for.
Besides the treaties with Ger
many and with Austria, interna
tional problems so be considered ac
the resumed session include the pro
posed alliance with France, the
Panama canal settlement with Co
lombia, treaties with Poland and
possibly Turkey, and numerous
measures dealing with the war
changed conditions of American
commercial and financial relations
abroad.
Important domestic legislation
awaiting action includes the rail
road reorganization bill and the oil,
coal, gas and phosphate land leas
ing bill, both of which now are in
conference; army reorganization,
shipping legislation, control of un
desirable aliens ’ and on scores of
ether subjects. Many investigations
also have been arranged for by both
the sena'e and house. Among them
will be inquiries into war expendi
tures, the Mexican situation, Bol
shevist activities, coal situation, fed
eral trade commission and the Ford-
Newberry election.
Pardon or Parole for
Last of Rawlings Boys
Is Sought by Attorney
What may be the last chapter in
the famous Rawlings case, which
created a great sensation a dozen
years ago when a father and three
sons, together with a negro, were
charged with the murder of the two
Carter children at Valdosta, was
written Monday morning in the gov
ernor’s office when John R. Cooper,
of Maon, appeared before Governor
Dorsey to ask for a pardon or parole
for Milton Rawlings, who is serving
a life sentence.
The elder Rawlings was hanged
for the crime and with him the ne
gro charged -with participating in
the murder. Three Rawlings boys
were sentenced to life terms in the
penitentiary. Two have been par
doned. Milton Rawlings s the last
one of the four. He has appealed
several tmes for executive clemency. I
but has never obtained it.
Attorney Cooper in his argument |
to Governor Dorsey Monday mornin•.
made the statement that the appeal
in the present instance is not op
posed, but, on the contrary, is sup
ported by several parties who had
heretofore opposed executive clemen
cy for any of the Rawlings boys.
The. governor’s decision in the ease
will be. announced late..
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TAPE WORM QUICKLY '
AT HOME
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gives quick and lasting relief in all
forms of stomach trouble, including
I tape worms or other worms, is bc
i ing supplied to sufferers by Walter
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■ Wise. He is so confident of results
i that lie guarantees absolute satis-
I faction in every case or there is no
i charge for the treatment. If you
i suffer from stomach trouble or ar. r
j kind of worms, send him your name
I and address today as this notice may
I not appear again.—(Advt.)
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1920.
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WILSON TO SEND
JACKSON DINNER
IMPORTANT WORD
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—President
Wilson will send “an important word
of greeting” to the Democratic din
: ner on Jackson day, January 8, it
was announced today at the White
House.
The vanguard of "the Democrat
ic leaders who will gather here
this week for the quadrennial
meeting of the party’s nation
al cfommittee and the Jackson
day dinner, began arriving today.
Although the only business meeting
of the committee at which the time
and city for holding the national
convention will be chosen, will not
be held until Thursday, many of the
leaders desired to arrive early in or
der to discuss the conning ..campaign.
The national committee announced
-Today that seven governors would at
tend the Jackson day dinner Thurs
day evening. Acceptances of invi
tations have been received from Gov
ernors Cox, of Ohio; Cornwell, of
West Virginia; Ritchie, of Maryland;
Brough, of Arkansas; Cooper, of
South Carolina; Robertson, of Okla
homa, and Davis, of Virginia. Gov
ernors Cox and Cornwell will speak
at the dinner.
No information was available at
the White House as to the form the
president’s message would take.
Secretary Tumulty declined to am
plify the bare announcement that it
would be an ‘important word.”
Some friends of the president be
lieved, however, that he would take
this opportunity to give his views
as to future policies.
There was no wide conjecture as
to whether the president would dis
cuss the third term question. On
this White House officials were si
lent. but some of the president’s
friends have insisted throughout that
he would not be a candidate under
any circumstances. They regard it
as probable that he will make this
tlear in his message.
Drinks Com at Dance;
Thinks Himself Blind
When Lights Go Out
Many Atlantians are reported to
have signed the pledge since the
wood alcohol scare swept the coun
try, but none swore off under more
startling circumstances than did a
certain well-known young man dur
ing holiday week.
Attending a dance, he had fortified
himself with a number of drinks, it
is said, and also “sat out” several
dances in the gentleman’s dressing
room, where he again imbibed. He
was not sure of the quality of the
liquor, but decided to “take a chance,”
praying that it was free from/ the
“blind death.”
Shortly thereafter he was pranc
ing around the ballroom floor, when
some practical joker turned out the
lights. And then, above the laughter
and the calls for light, there rose a
terrible voice.
“My God! I'm blind! I’m blind!”
A shiver of horror struck every
heart while the voice wailed on, “I’m
blind! I’m blind!”
And when the lights came on £gain
and the young Atlantlan was discov
ered groveling on his hands and knees
in the middle of the floor, a lot of
] people roared with laughter and a
j lot of people kidded him, but be did
i not smile himself. Instead, wHh
lifted hand, be took an oath:
“Never again!”
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Not the least incentive to play the game is the splendid list
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CANDLER OPPOSED
TO SCRAPPING OF
A.,8.&A. RAILROAD
That the scrapping of the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad is
not to be conceived as a remote pos
sibility, owing to the fact that there
is a great public interest involved,
was the opinion expressed Monday by
Charles Murphey Candler, chairman
of the railroad commission, in a dis
cussion of the recent disclosures that
a movement was on foot by certain
dissatisfied bond holders of thb
property.
As Chairman Candler explained,
there are only two ways by which
authority can be obtained to scrap
a railroad. One is by a surrender of
charter granted by the legislature
and the other is by a court order.
The railroad commission of Georgia
is not authorized by the legislature
to surrender railroad charters and
authorize dismantling of railroad
property. The courts have author
ity to foreclose mortgages on rail
roads and order such property sold,
either with or without the proviso
that operation must continue.
In the case of the Atlanta, Bir
mingham and Atlantic railroad, Chair
man Candler does not believe any
court would scrap it, because he does
not “believe would be possible to
make to <n sourt a showing to jus
tify suclr . procedure.
“The discussion in the newspapers
of the probability or possibility of
a dismantling and junking of the At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail
road,” said Mr. Candler, “is unwise
and calculated to work great harm
to the numerous towns and communi
ties served by the road. Such spec
ulations vill deter or entirely pre
vent ne nt investments and develop
ments, will tend to arrest the
growth ’ industrial enterprises al
ready established.
MORE
“Dismantling and discontinuance
of the business of a common carrier
is possible, under due process of law
and under the proper jurisdiction, but
in this case I cannot think such is
remotely probable. Creditors such as
bond holders have their rights anr
remedies, as they ought to have, but
in enforcing them no court, in the
exercise of a wise discretion, is going
to disregard the fact that credits
were extended with full knowledge of
the fact that the physical properties
involved had been dedicated to the
public use and that the public there
. fore has a vital interest and force
ful voice in their operation or final
disposition.
“I cannot for a moment entertain
the thought that any court is going
to direct the abandonment of 600
miles of railroad dedicated to the
public use except under an extreme
emergency or absolutely unavoid
able circumstances. The Court will
be bound to consider public as well
as private interests, especially when
private interests involved themselves
with prior knowledge of the rights
of the public.”
Whisky Poison Warning
DETROIT, Mich., Jan. s.—Police
issued a warning to consumers
of illicit whisky against possi
ble lead poisoning following the find
ing of a still in the basement of a
hotel here in which a lead coil was
used instead of copper.
The owner of the still had not
been located and the quantity of li
quor distilled was not known.
So far no cases of lead poisoning
have been reported. Physicians say
that such poisoning would develop
slowly, however, and that several
weeks might elapse before its effects
would be felt.
SENATOR KING. OF
UTAH. INTRODUCES
NEW RESERVATIONS
iSome Senators Would Have
United States Guarantee
Integrity of Czech, Poles,
Newly Established Nations
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—Senator
| King, Utah, a Democrat, today intro-
I liuced in the senate a set of com
i promise reservations to the peace
■ treaty. Senator King announced that
It’ no compromise is effected by oth
er means in a reasonable time, he
I will ask the senate to take up his
I plan.
The King reservations closely fol
low the Lodge program which failed
I last session. Senator King has al
tered the preamble so that affirma
i live action is not necessary to ac-
I ceptance of the reservations by oth
i er powers. He provides merely that
■ the reservations shall be effective
I when accepted by three other na
' tions. The Lodge preamble read
that they should not be effective un
i til accepted, through affirmative ac-
I tion, by three other powers.
I A flood of petitions for treaty
i ratification poured into the senate
I today. Civic bodies and chambers
j of commerce from many states sent
argent appeals for action.
Senators favoring the Lodge pro
gram presented clippings from
French and English newspapers to
show that Europe is ready to ac
cept the fourteen Lodge reservations
unchanged.
| A proposal that the United States
! assume responsibility for the safety
I of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and other
i new states created by the war, but
I declined to guarantee the status quo
i of the rest of the world, has been
j made by Democratic senators as a
compromise on article ten of the
League of Nations covenant, it was
i learned today.
In certain quarters this suggested
modification was being urged ear
nestly today as more likely to prove
acceptable to President Wilson than
any of the other proposed reserva
tions on this article.
Senators returned after two
weeks spent in their home states,
i where many found the sentiment for
! ratification stronger than it has been
, since the treaty was put before the
I senate, they said. ,
Though there were no definite
: plans for reopening treaty discus
j sion on the senate floor, it is likely
; to be resumed on the slightest ex
- case, leaders said. Senator Under
i wood’s resolution for a conciliation
committee of ten may be called up
this week, although Senator Under
wood has been advised to delay it
until later in the month.
; Mild reservationists plan to meet
! early this week to exchange views
i upon the situation. Their leaders
! are constantly in touch with Demo
| cratic senators who are working for
[a treaty compromise. .
DRY ENFORCEMENT
ACT HELD VALID;
2.75 BEER ILLEGAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—The su
preme court today declared consti
tutional sections of the Volstead
prohibition enforcement act prohib
iting the manufacture and sale of
“beer, wine or other intoxicating
malt or vinous liquors” containing
one-half of one per cent or more of
j alcohol.
Beer containing 2.75 per cent of
alcohol is illegal under the war
time prohibition act, the supreme
court also decided.
i Dismissal by the lower court in
I New York of injunction proceedings
j brought to restrain government offi-
I clals from interfering with Jacob
I Ruppert, a brewer, in the manufac
ture of beer, containing approxi
mately 2.75 per cent alcohol, but al
leged to be non-intoxicating, was
sustained.
Associate Justice Brandeis, who
rendered the opinion of the court,
said the right of congress to sup
press the liquor traffic was not an
implied power but a powei- express
ly granted.
The court divided. 5 to 4. Associ
ate Justices Day, Clarke. Van De
vanter and Mcßeynolds dissenting.
Under the war emergency con
gress has a right to stop immedi
ately the sale of intoxicating liquor,
the court held.
Justice Mcßeynolds, in a dissem
ing opinion, said that the eighteenii
amendment had not yet come into ef
fect and that the federal govern
ment haxl no general power to pro
hibit the manufacture and sale o
liquor.
Justice Mcßeynolds took the po
sition that the war emergency unde
which national prohibition was made
effective had passed.
Justice Brandeis first announced
the conclusion of the court and ther
■ read the opinion.
“The court believes that the a--
tion of tlie Volstead law defining in
toxicating liquor is necessary to en’
force prohibition,” Justice Branded
said. Otherwise we might have pro
hibition without the prevention o"
intoxicating liquor. Congress has
the power not/ merely to prohibit, but
to prevent.
“The law Is a measure
; of congress deemed reasonably neces
' sary to enforce pronibition.
j “The ways and means of enforcing
prohibition rest solely with congress.
; The right of congress to suppres”
i the liquor traffic is not an implied
‘ power but one specifically granted
That power has not ended through
■ the cessation of hostilities.”
Justice Brandies pointed out th i'
' the court had upheld the power of
the states to prevent the manufac
; ture of all malt liquor and that i:
was evident the federal government
' had the same power as the states.
I He also knocked out the brewers'
claim that congress had no right to
! make the Volstead act effective on
passage.
The financial interests involved in
i the decision today are estimated at
$1,000,000,000 by liquor attorneys, in
cluding the amount of near beer on
hand and the property for its manu
facture which will be rendered vir
tually useless. One hope of the liq
uor interests was to convert many
old time breweries into plants for
I the making of the 2.75 product.
In deciding the New Orleans and
; Baltimore cases, Justice Day in an
j unanimous opinion held that the
Ljjjanufacture of beer containing 2.75
alcohol aws legal until the
I enactment of the Volstead act.
Mayor of Detroit Who
Gave Away $2,000,000
In Christmas Presents
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MAYOR JAMES COUZENS
James Couzens, mayor of De
troit, gave away two of the mil-
Jions he has made in the auto
mobile business as Christmas
presents. The money, which
went chiefly to institutions in his
home city for the care of crip
pled children and orphans, was
distributed as follows: Annex
for Michigan Hospital’s School
for Crippled Children, $450,000;
endowment fund for school,
$650,000; Nurses’ Home, Harper
Hospital, $650,000; Children’s
Free Hospital, $125,000; St. Vin
cent’s Orphan Asylum, $75,000.
SEMI MOSES IS
BUMS TO PBOBE
PBIMJBIESINSOCTH
Senator George H. Moses, of New
Hampshire, author of the senate res
olution providing for a joint com
mittee of the house and senate to in
vestigate election laws of the sev
eral states for the purpose of ascer
taining whether any of them restrict
the suffrage of citizens in violation
of the fourteenth amendment to the
federal constitution, was in Atlanta
Saturday as a member of the joint
committee investigating salaries paid
the men in the different branches of
the postal service.
Senatpr Moses, .was asked to dis
cuss his resolution and readily con
j sen ted. He said it was not the pur
pose of the proposed investigation to
bring about federal interferenoe in
state elections, but it was contem
plated that election laws in certain
states —the southern states, for ex
ample—might have a bearing upon
the number of representatives in the
national house apportioned to those
states, and upon the number of rep
resentatives their votes in the elec
toral college.
Southern senators\ led by Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, are plan
ning a fight to the finish against the
moses resolution. They look upon
it as another attempt in a new dis
guise to bring about federal Inter
ference in state elections ,in the
south. Senator Smith is a member
of the subcommittee of the judiciary
committee to which the resolution
was referred. He will fight it there
and at every other turn. All of the
southern senators are very much
opposed to it. Hence the views of
Senator Moses as to what are the
purposes of his proposed investiga
tion of state election laws are a mat
ter of interest not only here but in
other southern states.
American Baroness Who
Will Seek to Have U> S.
Citizenshin Restored
WO
Ifelk ■ W
Declaring that she never wishes to
leave America again and that she
will seek to have her citizenship re
stored. Baroness Speck von Stern
burg has/returned, to the United
Spates. The late Baron von Stern
burg was for years German ambassa
dor at Washington. The baroness
before her marriage was Miss Lillian
May Lanham of Louisville, Ky. She
States that sire is in straitened finan
cial circumstances because < her
American property* was seized at the
beginning of the war by the alien
property custodian and is still held
by the government.
SCENTS A < <>»•'
$1.25 A YEAR
SCORES ARE KILLED 1
Ji W 6 RAZED ■
W SEH Guild
Disturbance Is Felt for 50CO|
Miles in the Territory
the Gulf to the Pacifift
Coast
MEXICO CITY. Jan. 5. Ten
w.-re shaken by the e u'thquake v.
on Saturday night <lc.-troyccl at
two villages and caused many
in the state of Vera Cruz.
states were Mexico, Puebla,’
Cruz, < >axr. Guerrero. Moi
■isco. Tlaxcala, Hidalgo and
taro. They stretch from the 1
of Tehuantepec in a r.ort hw.
direct.on a distance of
miles and from the Gulf of
the Pacific. .
Reports received up to 11
last night Indicated the center of
seismic convulsion was in the
borhood of Mount Orizaba, a v.dcJHnrag
situated about seventy miles west
Vera Cruz on the line •'
states of Vera Cruz and
wa< in this neighborhood
most so-i.ms diwige was f
oceln. a village thirty-fi
m'rthe.ist of tiie volcrffio, jM ’
des: rove-d. and a similar
Couztlan, a small hamlet
neighborhood. Wires have be’efi
down by the violence of the tremonf
and only fragmentary reports havi
reached this city, but it is stateci
there were many casualties in botU
towns.
Many houses and churches in Ja-»|
lapa, a city about fifty miles norths
west of Vera Cruz, were damaged/;, i !
while reports from Orizaba, a city
ten miles south of the volcano, stata i
that several business blocks amU
churches near the center of the town!
were cracked. In the suburbs of!:
Orizaba the shock was very severe,:
many persons being reported
beneath their wrecked houses. Tha.
shock came during a performance ad
the theater at Orizaba and panic-J
stricken people leaped from the Bal- 1
conies into the pit in their efforts I
escape. No one was killed but many. I
were injured. |
Fifteen shocks were experienced atij
Cordoba, a city ten miles east offl I
Orizaba, where eleven tremors weraj I
felt. First reports received her®
stated the tremor centered at AcamJ
baro, a town near Teluca, about twen-4
ty-five miles southwest of Mexicrw
City, but more recent advices Stataf
the shocks were not severe there.
While telegrams last night from# ‘
the state of Vera Cruz, where tha
earthquake was more severe, stated
scores perished, accurate estimatesi
of the casualties cannot be made aa|
yet. ]
MAN IN FEDERAL
PEN HERE WOOEDJj
\>;\V YORK—Richard F.
member of a prominent
family, Yale graduate,
about town.” could furnish
-resting copy for the women’s
azines, if he, in his cell in an
lanta (Ga.) jail could be induced
write on the subject: “A Wife, How(
to Pick Her, Woo Her and Win
This is apparent from the
of the annulment suit filed by
Irene Price, pretty. 22. and
sioticd, ami from her
.•■■ird so the man she mai
Mrs. Price gives seven c, ‘Sf
for not u:.tiling her
count. •
The first four tea; mis- I
-us v. \. whom Price
I-- h<- ma rri. it
•• as a widow: X'o. was "’’j,"'’
No. i stcrio;-r.-i pher. and nBH
violinist.
The fifth reason—Price told
vas an unsophisticated girl just
out of a convent when Price met
her and wooed her, while he was
69 years old in years, but much |
younger in ardor and appearance. 1
The sixth reason—Price told her '
that he was a fiction writer and
$20,000 was to be her yearly allot- ‘
ment for pin money. The only fic
tion he wrote, Mrs. Price says, was
his letters to her, while the money
he gave her wouldn’t buy many pins.
The seventh reason —Price is now
serving a sentence in Atlanta. Ga.,
for defrauding the government;
served sentences on Blackwell’s Is- /
land, and another at Sing Sing.
Mrs. Sturgis Tells
Os Punishment Given
Her by Mex. Bandits
WASHINGTON, Jar,. s.—Mrs. Corai
Lee Sturgis today told
for the senate Mexican committ. «
how she was held captive in Mexico!
for eight months by Zapatistas
.she said, worked with the Carranza
forces against Americans in Mexi< o,
Mrs. Sturgis said tlie bandits taunt
ed her with a wild story that Henry
P. Fletcher, United States ambassa*
dor to Mexico, had been given a msl
- dollar bribe by Carranza. Wheat
she told the bandits this story wat*
a ridiculous falsehood Mrs. SturgitT
was punished, she said.
Mrs. Sturgis was asked whether
she agreed with Fletcher’s <tatemen(|
to the effect tha Carranza has rr.<s
situation in hand.
Mr. J. C. Clements,
Former Legislator,
Dies at Mcßae Homa
M’RAE, Ga., Jan. s.—Mr. J. Clay-1
ton Clements, prominent citizen,
. mer member of the state legislaa’
ture and for some twenty-five years!
treasurer of the Georgia Agricultural
society died Sunday morning at his».
home at Towns, tea miles south of?«.
here, after having been in declining;
health for more than a year.
He had served as trustee and wits, '
active in the founding of the South.’] , •]
Georgia college, at this place. Hfli:
was one of the most prominent Ma-L
sons in the state and was worship-]
ful master of Lumber City i
many years. Mr.
vived by his wile and Mrar
Graham Clements, ami many
relative.-- The fin,l v.;is
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