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PEACE PROBLEMS
BEFORE PREMIERS
MEET IM MON
Russian) Turkish and Other
Questions Are Being
Studied—League Council
Is Also in Session
. LONDON, Feb. 12.—London today
had replaced Paris as the seat of
deliberations to settle problems grow
ing out of the World war.
With the “big three” conference
of premiers in session to decide fu
ture allied attitude toward Russia,
settlement of the Adriatic dispute be
tween Italy and Jugo-Slavia, disposi
tion of Constantinople and measures
, to force Germany to live up to article
128 of the treaty of Versailles, and
the council of the League of Nations
meeting to bring about organization
of that world society, London had
' become for the moment virtually the
caiptal of Europe.
The ‘‘big three” —Premiers Lloyd
George, Millerand and Nltti —was con
fronted with some of the most dif
ficult questions that have come up
since the closing of the main peace
conference in Paris. The matters in
cluded many that have been side
tracked time after time because of
- their delicacy.
Marshal Foch and General Weig
and were called into the premiers
conference today.
. Premiers Lloyd George, Nltti and
Millerand went into conference in
Downing street shortly before noon.
One of the first questions to come
before the premiers, it was believed,
will be Germany’s virtual refusal to
deliver the list of war guilty whose
surrender for trial by allied tribu
nals is demanded, and her delinquency
in delivering coal to France, as pro
vided by the treaty. Germany al
ready is far behind in these deliv
eries, French officials have com
plained.
There were many indications that
r the premiers’ discussion probably will
he marked by heated debate, as it
was known they are at logger-heads
on many important questions.
Great Britain, it was said, is re
luctant to allow the demand for sur
render of German war guilty to be
made a test case as to Germany’s in
tentions toward the peace treaty,
w,hile France takes the position that
drastic measures must be used, if
necessary, to force Germany to live
up to article 228. The presence of
Marshal Foch, who arrived late yes
terday with Premier Millerand, was
taken to indicate the French determi
nation to discuss military measures,
If necessary, to enforce surrender of
* the accused Teutons.
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. tfdn of Constantinople also was in-
committee he favored permitting the
’ Turks to remain in Constantinople.
with possible intCMiaMonal control of
the city and port. ' Llb^d / Gabtge, on
the other hand, recently told parlia
ment that the Turk cannot be allow
ed to remain in Europe. In this
controversy, it was said, Premier
Nltti Will side with France.
Conflicting interests in the Near
East also were expected to cause
trouble. France, it was said, will
Insist upon her full rights under the
> treaty of 1918.
’ It was predicted that some solu
tion of the Adriatic tangle will be
reached at the conference, the first
plan, it was believed, will be a sec
ond endeavor to get Jugo-Slavia to
accept the recent allied compromise
agreement, which Jugo-Slavia once
rejected. France and Great Britain,
it was stated authoritatively, are
ready to go almost any length to
finally dispose of this troublesome
controversy.
M. Millerand was expected to urge
further penalties against Germany
for her failure to deliver the amounts
of coal specified in the treaty. His
debut as a member of the "big three”
was watched with great Interest.
. particularly for any possible change
' in French policies.
PAYNE SELECTED
TO BE SECRETARY
OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.—John
Barton Payne, of Chicago, has been
selected by President Wilson to be
secretary of the interior to succeed
Franklin K. Lane. Mr. Payne is
now chairman of the United States
shipping board.
Mr. Payne came to Washington
•with Edward N. Hurley, former
chairman of the shipping board, and
took charge of the board’s legal de
f partment. Later he went to the rail
road administration as counsel.
When Mr. Hurley resigned the ship
ping board chairmanship, Mr. Payne
succeeded him.
He is a Chicagoan and has been
active in politics and the civic af
fairs of that city.
~.He was born in Pruntytown, Va..
Jn 1855. Before going to Chicago he
practiced in West Virginia, where he
Was special judge of the circuit court
f of Tucker county and later mayor of
Kingwood.
He went to Chicago in 1883 and
ten years later became judge of the
superior court of Cook county.
Mr. Payne will take over his new
duties March 1, when Mr. Lane re
tires at his <»»n request. Mt. Payne’s
successor as feiairman of the ship
ping board has not yet been an
nounced.
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of Kenosha. . Wisconsin, who
has been awarded D. S. M. for
I bravery as a Red Cross nurse.
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STATEMENT OF
DR. H. H. YOUNG
STIRS CAPITAL
BY DAVID LAWBEMCE
(Copyright, 1920. for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Fob. 12.—Some
thing of a mystery envelopes the
issuance by Dr. Hugh M. Young, of
Johns Hopkins university, of a state
ment describing in detail, the illness
of President Wilson, and revealing
particularly what the White House
has so long declined to admit, name
ly that the president has suffered
from an Impairment of the left leg
and arm.
So far as can be discovered, neith
er President Wilson nor Dr. Cary
T. Grayson, his physician, were con
sulted concerning the statement and
there is good reason to believe that
Its publication was hardly pleasing
to them. On the other hand it is
thought inconceivable that a man of
Dr. Young’s position would so far
violate professional ethics as to au
thorize a newspaper interview re
vealing the nature of the illness of
one of his patients without sanction.
The plain Inference is that some
body in the government who has
felt that the White House policy of
concealing the facts of the presi
dent’s illness was misleading and un
fair to the public told Dr. Young to
go. ahead. It is not important to
know who the person was, but it is
a confession that the curiosity of the
public to know the truth about the
president’s ailment has at • ast
reached a point where the wishes of
the president’s own household to
keep the matter a private affair are
to some extent being set aside in the
interest of the public.
A Question
The whole situation develops out
of the conflict between the rights
of the public and ths rights of the
president and his family to keep
their privacy from being Invaded.
Just where' does the right of the
public end and the right of a public
official begin?
There are those who defend vigor
ously the White House, policy of si
lence on the ground that while the
president was in the midst of the se
rious stage of his Illness, and nobody
could tell just what developments
might bring, ft would have been po
litically disastrous to hand over to
Mr. Wilson’s political opponents a
lever with whigh to delay action on
the treaty by raising the question of
the president's incapacity to dis
charge his public duties. Now that
the president has passed tha crisis,
now on the road to recovery, it is in
sisted that no harm can be done by
revealing in retrospect the fact of
the case.
On the other hand, the distinct
loss to the White House in the cir
cumstances, is the Impression that it
has given to so many persons that
informal utterances on subjects of
interest to the public may have to
be taken with a grain of salt. There
always arises a moment in every
administration when the newspaper
correspondents begin to lose faith in
the sincerity in the public men who
do not deal frankly.
Correspondents “Up a Tree”
Usually when an embarrassing
-question arises officials have been
known to make a clean breast of a
case, and point out the reasons why
secrecy is necessary. This was par
ticularly true during the war, and
there are no cases of importance on
record wherein confidence was vio
lated.
But in the matter of Mr. Wilson’s
illness, the correspondents have lit
erally been “up a tree.” Torn be
tween a desire not to pry too close
ly into the private affairs of the
president, and a consciousness at
the same time that the public has a
right to know whether its chief ex
ecutive can transact public business,
the newspaper men have consistent
ly accepted statements made to
them from authoritative quarters as
being frank and complete. Dr.
Young’s revlations give the impres
sion, that on more than One occa
sion, the correspondents were delib
erately misled.
This may not be important from
the viewpoint of officials, for they
frequently imagine the public much
less interested in events than are
the inquiring correspondents. More
than one request for information
has been lightly dismissed as “idle”
I curiosity. In this particular in
stance, however, the policy of with
i holding the truth served only to in
■ tenslfy the eagerness of the public
i to know the true state of Mr. Wil
l son’s health. Demands for informa-
I tion have * come from newspapers '
i usually very friendly, but these edi- ■
I torials have had little effect. Some-
I body then hit upon the idea of issu-
I ing an inspired statement giving de-
J tails.
Mystery Deepens
This appeared nearly a month ago
In a Baltimore newspaper, but the
name of the physician was not given
and the story was not given wide
circulation because of its anonymity.
Then the same newspaper, actuated
no doubt, by the desire to keep faith
with its readers, printed a second
statement, this time by the authority
of Dr. Hugh Young himself.
Just how much the White House
played a part in the effort to set
the public straight cannot be ascer
tained as yet. Certainly the most
direct method would have been to
issue a statement to the Associated
Press or the United Press or Inter-
NEW RESERVATION
TOO DRASTIC, ®
SENATORJETCHCOCK
Democratic Treaty Leader
Refuses to Accept Latest
Compromise Offering of
Mild Republican Group
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Indica
tions of the difficulties that must
be overcome before the senate can
reach a compromise on Article 10 of
the League of Nations covenant were
seen today in rejection by Senator
Hitchcock of a widely heralded
“compromise” submitted by mild res
ervationists.
Senator Hitchcock declared that its
acceptance by Democrats would in
volve an even more abject surrender
than acceptance of the original
Lodge reservation.
The proposed compromise modifi
cation of the Lodge reservation
which Senator Lodge was declared ty
mild reservationists to have accept
ed, provides that "the United States
assumes no obligation to preserve, by
the use of its military or naval
forces, or by the economic boycott,
or by any other means, the territorial
integrity and political Independence
of any other nation.”
It differs from the original Lodge
reservation in the addition of the
words "by the use of its‘military
or naval forces, by the economic boy
cott or by any other means.” In
the opinion of many senators it is a
great deal more drastic and unbend
ing than the original Lodge reserva
tion.
“That proposal would rob us of
every weapon we could use under
Article 10,” said Senator Hitchcock.
He said it could not be considered
for a minute.
The mild reservationists said that
in spite of Senator Hitchcock’s at
titude, they had assurances of Dem
ocratic votes.
But it was considered doubtful
that enough Democrats would sup
port it to insure its acceptance, in
asmuch as it is conceded the much
milder Lodge reservation could not
command the necessary Democratic
support.
“Many substitutes will be offered
before we get one that will prove
acceptable,” Senator Hitchcock pre
dicted. Senator Hitchcock is about
the most pessimistic man in the sen
ate about ratification. Practically all
the other leaders speak confidently
but Senator Hitchcock, when asked
as to his view of rne prospects, re
plied: “I don’t know.”
The senate adjourned today as a
mark of respect to the memory of
Abraham Lincoln. Adjournment -fol
lowed reading of Lincoln’s'Gettysburg
address by Senator Keyes, of New
Hampshire, who read from original
manuscript in Lincoln's writing,
which has been i,p the possession of
the Ksyes family many years.
Senator Harris Moves
To Protect Interests of
Georgia Hog Raisers
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Biggs Building,
BY THBODOBE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C., eb. 12.
Senator Harris, on Wednesday, asked
the secretary of agriculture to pre
pare bulletins covering the depart
ment’s recommendations regarding
the feeding of hogs so that there
may be additional light thrown on
causes of the lower prices paid
southern hog raisers as compared
with those of other sections. A re
cent report of the federal trade com
mission showed that hog raisers in
the south are paid from 1 to 5 cents
per pound less for their meat be
cause of the alleged "soft and oily”
quality resulting from the feeding
of peanuts.
Senator Harris said that he did
not admit that the lower price in
the south is due to this. He de
clared he had information that an
Illinois business man is buying Geor
gia hogs at the cheaper price and
then reselling them in Chicago at
the higher western prices. If the
quality of the Georgia hog is poorer,
the senator argues, this would not be
possible.
Secretary Meredith, of the depart
ment of agriculture, has agreed to
lay all available information cov
ering hog raising before <he s.n'h
ern farmers.
Whisky Dispensary
May Be Established
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Steps to
ward the establishment of a gov
ernment whisky dispensary were
taken today by United States At
torney Ross, of Brooklyn, because
of profiteering of druggists and the
poor quality they have sold. On re
quest of Brooklyn physicians, Ross
said he would discuss the matter
with the commissioner of internal
revenue in an endeavor to have some
federal agency sell good whisky at
reasonable prices on prescription.
Two More Arrests in
Girard Bank Robbery
COLUMBUS. Ga.. Feb. 12.—Two
more arrests have been made in the
Girard bank robbery case, in which
$27,000 was stolen by hold-up men
several days ago, it was learned to
day.
Sam Morris, taxicab man of Mont
gomery, Ala., and Tom Pace. of
| Girard. Ala., have been taken to the
i Russell county jail at Seale. Ala.,
! charged with complicity in the hold
up.
I national News Service, which three
• services reach all the newspapers of
1 the country.
| But the mystery deepens when it
is found that some of the things in
Ur. Young’s utterance are described
as "minor Inaccuracies," and while
the substance of his declaration ap
pears to bo admitted, it is pointed
out by others who are in a position
to know, that Dr. Young was not
called in until the trouble with the
I prostratic gland developed. The in
! ference is that he learned about the
; case second-hand from the other phy
| sicians who treated the president’s
arm and leg.
And still there Is no full and frank
statement of the president’s condi-»
tion issued on the authority of the
White House.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1920.
EXPENDITURES ARE
BEING PROBED IN
NEWBERRY HEARING
More Speed Is Urged by
Judge Sessions —Twenty-
One Witnesses Placed on
Stand Yesterday
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., Feb. 12.
More speed was called for today in
the Newberry trial by Judge Ses
sions. The court warned attorneys
they must get faster action in ex
amination of witnesses.
Twenty-two witnesses were exam
ined yesterday, the largest numbet
heard in one day during the trial!
Approximately one hundred have tes
tified.
The government today shifted its
course from pursuance of the fraud
angle to expenditures in Uhe 1918
campaign by the Newberry organiza
tion. Many minor witnesses were to
testify regarding sums spent for va
rious purposes to procure the elec
tion of Trurr’.n H. Newberry to the;
United States senate.
Publicity Fund $130,000
C. R. Higbee, of Benton Harbor,
started proceedings in the Newberry
elections conspiracy trial this morn
ing with additional direct testimony.
Higbee, who was clerk of the grand
jury which returned the indict
ments last fall, related his recollec
tion of the testimony before that
body of James B. Haskins of How
ard City. He said Haskins was em
ployed in the Newberry publicity de
partment at $45 a week and expenses.
Higbee said Haskins described ths
publicity and advertising work. The
testimony was that the publicity ap
propriation was $130,000 at the
start but was exceeded .later.
Haskins was quoted as saying he
understood the campaign was to be
principally a publicity affair, but
later he learned a good deal of
money was being used.
The testimony quoted Haskins as
saying that William Nickel, who
“pretended to be working for Hehn-e
was really a Newberry employe.”
That “Million Dollars”
Attorney George E. Nichols, cross
examining, switched to yesterday’s
testimony regarding Roman F.
Glocheski’s grand Jury appearance.
Higbee told Martin W. Littleton yes
terday Glocheski was in the room
fifteen or twenty minutes on one oc
casion and about five minutes on an
other. Today he fixed the period at
perhaps ten minutes and “certainly
less than an hour.”
The “million dollars” piled on a
table in Paul King’s office was then
taken up.
"Didn’t he say this money was
used for payrolls and when asked
how much was there Replied that
there might have been a thousand
or there might have been a million?’
asked Mr. Nichols.
"I don’t remember that statement.”
said Higbee. "I do remember that he/
said the bills were S2O, SSQ and SIOO
- add that it looked Hke $1,000,*
Higbee could not remember that
Glocheski told the grand jurors he
never paid a cent to anyone ♦-« • r*et
votes or influence for Newberry.
The government yesterday kept up
its bombardment on the money issue,
getting into the record a quotation
from one defendant that the cam
paign cost around SBOO,OOO, and from
another that he saw on a table in
the office of Paul King. Newberry
campaign manager, a pile of money
that “looked like a million dollars."
Expenses Near $500,000
Frank Sparks, associate editor of
the Grand Rapids Herald, said he
talked last spring with Richard R.
Fletcher, state labor commissioner,
at Lansing. He said he told letcher
that he heard the expenses of the'
campaign were nearer $500,000 than
the $176,000 reported, and Fletcher
replied that it was “nearer SBOO,OOO,
and he knew what he was talking
about.”
The money on the table was de
scribed to the grand jury by R. F.
Glochoski, a Grand Rapids defend
ant, according to C. R. Higbee, clerk
of the grand jury. He testified sev
eral days ago concerning testimony
given by three campaign field agents
and was recalled to relate what Glo
choski and Frank O. Gilbert, of Bay
City, told the inquisitors.
Alaskan Forests May
Help Solve Problem
Os Paper Shortage
SEATTLE. Alaska wants to
throw open her millions of acres of
national forests so that the billions
of feet of paper wood of the north
land can help relieve the pulp and
newsprint famine. Governor Thomas
Riggs, Jr., of Alaska, declared here
recently.
Governor Riggs was here on his
way from Juneau, capital of Alaska,
to Washington, D. C,, where he ex
pected to help press pending legis
lation intended to remove restric
tions and allow pulp manufacturers
to go into the Tongass and Chuga. i
reservations, the northern territory’:
two great reserves. ,
Pulp and paper men are anxious
to go to Alaska and establish mills
i s great as those operated in British
Columbia not • south of the
Alaska boundary line, the governor
asserted. Under the present law
the pulp makers cannot enter the
reservatioi s with any certainty that
they will be allowed to stay.
Alaska’s great fob’sts stretch over
approximately 34,000 square mues,
an area nearly equal in size to the
state of Indiana, according to esti
mates made by government officials.
Several tundred million feet of
good pulp wood, including western
yellow j hemlock,. Sitka spruce,
white fir and lodgepple pine, are oa
the forest reserves alone.’
Man Who Torpedoed
Sussex Is Demanded
BERLIN, Wednesday, Feb. 11.—A
first lieutenant in command of a
German submarine torpedoed the
English channel steamer Sussex on
Marcvh 24, 1916, according to a local
newspaper, which comments on the
extradition list received from the al
lies. It is declared this man has
since died.
Captain Steinbrinck is charged on
the extradition list with being re
sponsible for the attack upon the
Sussex, which caused the death of
fifty persons.
NEW YORK’S ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED TRAFFIC TOWER, erected on Fifth ave
nue for a trial, which, if successful, will lead to its installation throughout the city. It is
claimed in Detroit, where the towers are used, that they facilitate the handling of traffic in
congested districts.— Photo by Central News Service.
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GIRL HITS CHIEF,
AND LATER TELLS
STRANGE LIFE-TALE
She stood up very straight—and
very easy to look at in the feminine
ward at the police station Thursday,
and she told her own story, also very
straight, to all appearances; all
about her mother and a step
fafther and her adventures as a
saleswoman of Texas oil tsock in St.
Louis; and how she was married last
April and it didn’t take, and her
mother had it annulled, and why she
had jumped on Chief Beavers yester
day afternoon and e>ither scratched
or bit him, the fair deponent didn’t
rightly know which.
/Now, this may seem to the gentle
or mettlesome reader to be a bit
confused, and so it is. Very confus
ed, for so straight a story. But,
you see, a great many strange things
have happened to x this young girl
between the time she matriculated
at a local female college and the aft
ernoon-r-yesterday—she fh%w at
Chief Beavers in his own office for
asking her a rather personal ques
tion.
The Girl’s Story.
Using her own calculations, the
Btory runs thus: ~,,
'The girl is 'Miss Catherine Simp
son, 19 years old in two months—
she says; 17, according to her moth
er, M?s. Jessie Spencer, of- 90 Ira
street. Last April she was married
to Raymond A. Gould, a newspaper
advertising man in Atlanta; but her
mother had the marriage annulled,
on the plea that her daughter was
not of age.
Miss Simpson, then, was a junior
at Cox college on the second day of
last December, when she suddenly
disappeared and went to St. Louis to
seek her fortune. She found some
thing resembling it.
"I got a job selling stock in a
Texas oil company.” she explained.
“I did well, I was $1,600 ahead when
my r other found out where I was
and began begging me to come back
home. I came on to Atlanta and got
here last Sunday.”
At this stage of the proceedings,
to put it bluntly. Miss Sompson got
cold feet on the home-and-mother
proposition*.
"I felt that I simply couldn't go
home,” she said. “My mother had
been awfully hard on me,’ and my
step-father had been harsh. I went
to the Ansley hotel and registered
under an assumed name.”
In fact, Miss Simpson was said
to be living in considerable style
and a suit of rooms when her moth
er found out about it and had her
arrested by Mrs. J. C. Davis, a po
licewoman;
Bit Chief Beavers
The altercation with Chief Beav
ers followed soon after the arrest,
Wednesday afternoon.
“They took me to the chief’s of
fice,” said Miss Simpson, “and he
asked me a lot of questions, and I
answered him politely, and then he
asked me If I was a dope-fiend.”
Whereupon, to the best of the de
ponent’s. knowledge and recollection,
she hit him. She does not remember
either scratching or biting the chief,
but he had a small nip on one hand
after the encounter.
“I’m sorry,” she said, “but it made
me so mad I dian’t know what I was
doing.”
Incorrigible Says Mother
And so Miss Simpson, 17 or 19,
five-feet-two, with very dark hair
and very blue eyes and the prettiest
complexion you almost ever saw, sits I
quietly in the women’s ward at the
police station, awaiting a hearing in ’
the recorder’s court.
The mother says the girl is incor- |
rigible and that she wants to get her |
in the industrial home.
U. S. Destroyer Talbot
Reported in Distress
In the Black Sea
CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. 10—The
American destroyer Talbot, was re
ported -today in distres near Ser
pent’s Island, in the Black Sea. It
Is thought, however, that the report I
may refer to the Talbot’s standing
by the British cruiser Ceres, which
is towing- a v tanker and two tugs
loaded with refugees from Odessa to
ward Constanza, Rumania, under bad
weather conditions.
A blizzard is general ovfer the
Black sea.
The ' Russian steamer Gregorieff
ran aground near the Killia life-sav
ing station at the Black sea entrance
to the Bosphorus. One hundred and
fifty of her passengers were rescued
in the raging storm by means of a
line landed from the ship by a rock
et, and efforts are continuing for the
rescue of the 200 remaining passen
gers and crew.
The Gregorieff is a 7,000-ton ves- I
sei. She left Odessa Sunday.
EXPECT RAILROAD
MEASURE TO BE
LAW BY MARCH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—(8y ths
Associated Press.) —While some op
position to the railroau bill as final
ly agreed upon in conference has de
veloped, senate and house leaders
predicted today the conference re
port on the measure would be
promptly adopted so that the legisla
tion would be on the statute books
before the roads are returned to pri
vate control March 1.
The final draft of the conference
report is now being made and it will
be presented to the senate Saturday
or Monday. The house expects to
take the report up Monday or Tues
day at the latest and leaders said to
day it would be disposed of in two
days.
Chairman Esch, of the house inter
state commerce committee, one of
the authors of the railroad bill, and
other leaders expressed confidence
that opposition by house Democrats
would not delay passage of the meas
ure. They based their prediction up
on the fact that the bill, as rewritten
In conference, is substantially the
same as the Esch bill recently pass
ed by the house. . Senate provisions
to which there was objection, Includ
ing the anti-strike section, creation
of a transportation board and com
pulsory consolidations were stricken
out in conference. The essential ad
dition to the house bill was the fix
ing of a guaranteed return of 5 1-2
per cent.
“With the time already fixed by
President Wilson for return of the
roads and the widespread demand
from the people that they be handed
back," Chairman Esch said today,
“failure to enact necessary legisla
tion before March 1 would be dis
astrous. I am satisfied, however,
the_ house will adopt the conference
report without delay.”
Chairman Cummins of the senate
interstate commerce committee and
one of the framers of the bill, said
there was no doubt of the acceptance
of the conference report by the sati
ate.
“There is no opposition to the bill
tn the senate other than which was
expressed when the bill originally
was up for consideration,” he said.
“As far as the house is concerned,
however, I have made no effort to
ascertain what its fate there will
.be.”
Senator Pomerene, Democrat, Ohio,
one of the senate conferees, said he
was "very confident the conference
report would be approved.”
“While I have not undertaken any
canvass of the house,” said Senator
Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas, an
other conferee, “I am sure it will
pass that body and I am sure a large
number of Democrats will vote for
the report.”
An equally optimistic view was ex
pressed by Senator Lodge, the Re
publican leader.
"It most certainly will pass the
senate and I feel sure it will also
pass the house,” he said, referring
to the conference report.
Senator Smoot, Republican, Utah,
said reports that congress would not
finally approve the bill as modified
by the conferees "were only part of
the propoganda that has been circu
lated against the bill.”
Throws Away Money
To Illustrate Waste
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Feb. 12.
bilver and gold were thrown away
here yesterday to illustrate a talk I
on’the waste represented by the al-I
leged carelessness among factory j
employes. The treasurer of a i
hosiery company told the operatives I
tnat in a week 11,760 needles, worth I
1 1-4 cent each had been lost.
The effect was the same, he said, I
as if $147 were thrown from the :
shop window, whereupon the treas- |
urer took from' his desk a pile of !
147 silver dollars and tossed them
out of the window.
Boiler Explosion Is
Fatal to Two Men
FORT PAYNE, Ala., Feb. 12.—1
Charles Morgan and a young man
named Everett were literally blown
to pieces in a boiler explosion at a
sawmill near Chevies, a small town
on Sand mountain, west of here, just
as the employes were quitting work.
According to details of the acci
dent reaching here the boiler had
been allowed to become dry and when
cold water was turned in it exploded,
wrecking the mill and throwing mis
siles for a great distance, one large
stone going through a roof of a
house and narrowly missing the oc
cupants.
PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES TURN
EYES TO GEORGIA
The Atlanta. Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The
early presidential primary in Geor
gia has caused Democratic candi
dates to turn their eyes towards that
state, with indications of a prompt
showdown, particularly on the Un
derwood candidacy. Published state
ments indicating that Senator Un
derwood had tacitly consented to the
use of his name in Georgia are like
ly to bring on lively complications,
including the presentation of the
name of Senator Hoke Smith by his
friends in the state. Meanwhile, the
Champ Clark, Palmer, Hoover, Cox,
Marshall and other booms may be
expected to show some life in Geor
gia.
Georgia Democrats in Washington
for the past two days have been
dicusslng the meeting of the
Democratic committee and the com
ing presidential primary in Georgia.
Senator Hardwick is urging that
Senator Reed’s name be put on the
list of candidates to be voted for.
Senator Reed had been called home
>by the sickness of fils mother and
will not return until Friday, when
his consent to enter the Georgia
primary will be asked.
There is talk here of presenting
to Georgians the names of Vice
President Marshall, Attorney Gen
eral Palmer and Hoover.
The suggestion that the name of
Senator Underwood be presented to
the Georgia electorate for president
has brought forth the query as to
whether this is just a scheme of
certain politicians to enter the Geor
gia convention with a plan to cap
ture the delegates and fight, under
cover, the position of Senator Smith,
using Senator Underwood’s name
simply as a stalking horse to get
delegates. Senator Underwood Is
known to have advised his friends
that he does not desire the nomina
tion at San Francisco this year, and
that he will not be a candidate, but
that he is a candidate now in the
election about to be held in Alabama
, for the sante.
Senator Hoke Smith has received
within the past two days a number
of letters and telegrims urging
if the name of Senator Underwood
■is used in the Georgia primary, he
will owe it to those who oppose the
League of Nations covenant without
rfeservatiohs to permit the use of his
name for the presidential nomina
tion.
When this subject was bfought to
his attention, Senator Smith said:
"I do not wish to discuss it further
’than to say I cannot believe Senator
Underwood will consent to the use
of his name in such a manner, but
■I do not fear the Issue, if forced.”
Wilson Probably Will
Call and Attend Next
Cabinet Meeting
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The next
meeting of the cabinet probably will
be called and presided over by Pres
ident Wilson.
Secretary Lansing, who has been
issuing the calls for the meetings
for several months, said today he
had written cabinet oficlrs there
would be no more regular sessions
of the president’s official family for
the present. He would offer no ex
planation, but ft was understood his
letter was written by direction of
Mr. Wilson.
Throughout the president’s illness
the cabinet has mat regularly and
when the coal strike situation be
came acute the meetings were in
creased from one to two weekly.
There was no meeting yesterday and
none will be held tomorrow.
For several weeks now the presi
dent has been taking more and more
of a hand in the conduct of official
business. Secretary Tumulty said
today he had never seen Mr. Wilson
looking better.
President Wilson today showed
how far he had gone toward re
covery by: ,
Taking complete charge of rail
road wage controversy.
Deciding to preside at the next
cabinet meeting.
Appointing John Barton Payne,
recretary of the interior.
Approving, the sale of ex-German
liners.
Deciding to accept an offer to. be
come honorary president of the
American Olympic association.
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PRESIDENT WILSON .
TO CONFER WITH
RIILHJCHIEFS
Settlement of Controversy)
Without Strike, Is Expect
ed by Officials in Wash
ington
WASHINGTON, Feb’. 12.—Presi
dent Wilson will have a personal
conference tomorrow with three rep
resentatives of the railroad brother
hoods to discuss the wage demands
of the 2,000,000 railroad employes
which are to be referred to him to
day by Director General Hines.
Bert M. Jewell, head of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, railway de
partment, was named chairman of
the committee of three to meet Pres
ident Wilson.
Other members of the committee
are: J. E. Manion, of the Railway
i Telegraphers and Timothy Shea,
head of the firemen and enginemen.
To Meet on South. Lawn
The union leaders will see the
1 president on the south lawn at the
(White House, where Mr. Wilson
spends a portion of each morning.
Before meeting the brotherhood Offi
cials the president will study in de
tail the report on the wage negotia
tions which Mr. Hines will submit 1
through Secretary Tumulty.
The director general was In con
ference with Mr. Tumulty this
morning, and then returned to his
office to complete his memorandum
for the president, who will be asked
to make the final decision on the de
mands presented by the railroad
workers nearly a year ago.
Mines* Memorandum
Mr. Hines’ memorandum, which
was sent to the White House shortly
before noon, was understood to have
embodied the claims and arguments
of the union offlcals with whom he
has been conferring since February 3.
Railroad administration officials
and union representatives apparently ,
were Inclined to regard the situation
as quiescent while White House offi
cials expressed concern at the grav
ity of the problems presented. With
out disclosing what these questions
were, it was declared the general pub
lic did not realize the serious nature
of issues involved.
Mr. Hines has made a tentative
appointment for this afternoon with
J. B. Malloy, vice president of the
brotherhood of maintenance of way
employes and shop laborers and his
committee of ten, to discuss the or
ganization’s alleged grievances which
led to its call for a strike next Tues
day.
Administration officials were en
gaged today in resurrecting all
claims submitted by this group of
workers before its wage agreement
was signed last November 22. Tho
agreement shows it became effective
December 16 and federal officials say
they have not been formally notified
of an abrogation of the agreement
which provides that a 30-day notice
of cancellation must be fflvSn.
Officials Concerned •
W. G. Lee, president of the broth
erhood of railroad trainmen, also
was to confer with the director gen
eral on his individual reasons for in
validating the agreement which his
organization has. Notification of in
tention to break the agreement was
given Mr. Hines January 23, which,
under the thlrty-day clause, will
leave that oragnization without a
working contract with the railroad
administration on February 23, six
days before the roads return to their
owner.
The action of Mr. Lee admittedly
is giving administration officials con
cern. While his representatives have
participated in all sessions of the
general conference, Mr. Lee contend
ed his organization had reserved the
right to press its grievances for ad-,
justment separately. He declined ‘to
add to his statement of yesterday
which asserted the trainmen had
waited sufficiently long for the gov
ernment to force down living costs.
Optimistic View
. Just how much time the president
will require in considering the state
ments is problematical, but it was
believed it would be short. Whether
he upholds the views of Director-
General Hines or decides that the de
mands of the employes are just and
should be granted, the opinion was
expressed that a settlement finally
■will be made through the machinery
to be set up by llglslatlon now pend
ing which will govern the return of
the rail properties to their former
owners.
HOUSTON GIVES’
REASSURANCE ON
MONEY OUTLOOK
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—An
no.'ncing that the last remaining
floating Indebtedness of the gov
ernment would be redeemed Monday,
Secretary Houston said the posi
tion of the treasury was “very
bright,” and that government offi
cials saw nothing in the present
financial situation which they would
regard as extremely grave.
Savannah Puts License
On Passenger Airplane
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 12. The
Savannah city council is right up to
date in the matter of garnering reve
nue. It has fixed a license of $1
per day for all airplanes used to
carry passengers over the city for
hire.
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