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We Wanta Sour nal 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 S ....... ...... • I ./• ' -C '--..T •< X .. / < ■' X-. ? ■ ' : ■ I- " M 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.. HEALS STOMACH AND TAPE WORM QUICKLY ' AT HOME A simple home treatment which 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 iA. Reisner, Box C-64, Milwaukee, ■ 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. CARTOONEnESOFTHEDAY - (gjETTiAJG To \ " A MIGHTY I PRESCRIBE / uAI HEALTHFUL. \ AN I MME Pi ATE ( Country [ "SEA For. Them -’ k -fRj |~|3 The J : I L w,ll GO NO (Ji further. 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!” A Solenoid Game-Loads of Fun— -1 Big Awards SI,OOO FOR READERS OF THE SEME WEEKL Y JO URN A L Thousands of readers of The Semi-Weekly Journal are having a good time playing the Figure Puzzle Game. During these long fall evenings this new entertainment is amusing people in every walk of life and providing a pleasant pastime for evenings which would otherwise be dull. Not the least incentive to play the game is the splendid list of prizes which The Semi-Weekly Journal is going to divide am.ong the best players. A total of SI,OOO in gold will be given to those who play the game best according to the rules. 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 fir ■ R wl ft " ’ ' 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 »<j Mn<l ay x\ :th Mic-iTiic :ii ■hBBBB