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VOL. XXII. NO. 46.
SOLDIER SID MOVE
■LD NEK9
BONDS. IS CLAIM
Leaders State That Credit
Would Be Inflated and
Cost of Living Increased.
Still More
WASHINGTON. March 4 Leaders
of both parties in the house have
determined to oppose any soldier aid
legislation at this session of con
gress, despite demands by organiza
tions of service men for bonuses, vo
cational education, farm and home
loans. .
The position of these leaders is
that the value of the large amount
of Liberty bonds outstanding would
be jeopardized by the issuance ot
additional bonds necessary t 6 finance
any of the soldier aid programs,
which call for financial outlays rang
ing from $2,000,000,000 to $16,000,000,-
000.
Would Hurt Bond Holders
The market value of government
bonds, now around 90 cents on the
dollar, would drop down to between
75 and 80 cents, and it would be
necessary to make the interest rate
of the soldier aid bonds bear 6 per
cent interest, Representative Madden,
Illinois, member of the Republican
steering committee, and Representa
tive Garner, Democratic whip, said
today. This much of decline in the
price of Liberty bonds would mean'
a loss to the 19,000,000 bond holders
of nearly $2,500,000,000, Garner esti
mated.
In addition, the leaders say the
program would increase the inllation
of credit and send the cost of liv
ing up another notch.
Democrats on the ways and means
committee are virtually solid in their
opposition to bonus legislation. Rep
resentatives Kitchin, North Carolina
Hull, Tennessee? Henry T. Rainey, Il
linois, and Dickinson, Missouri, have
indicated their opposition during the
hearings. Among the Republicans.
Representative Longworth, Ohio, also
a member of the Republican steer
ing committee, does not favor bonus
legislation at this time.
•As a result of this opposition, i
seems probable that the committee
will give the service men a pledge
to enact the legislation they ask
within one, two or three years, or
at a time when government revenues
can be made to approach the expendi
tures.
So far the various service men’s
organizations have failed to agree on
what congress should do for their
members, the American Legion, tire
World War Veterans, the Veterans
of Foreign Wars and the private sol
dier and sailors' legion and the rank
and file association, all presenting
different proposals.
CLOTHING PRICES
IN STATE TO BE
FIXED BY MANGET
Retail dealers in men’s and wom
en’s clothing in all parts of Georgia
will be required to limit their profits
to 35 per cent on clothing selling up
to $45, according to an order which
will be issued within the next day
or two by John A. Manget, fair price
commissioner for Georgia. Mr. Man
get has announced that such an order
would be issued at once and made
applicable to the entire state. Re
strictions of this character now are in
force in Fulton county.
Mr. Manget’s action follows that
of the Fulton County Fair Price com
mission at its meeting Wednesday,
when, after considerable discussion,
the 35 per cent margin of profit re
striction was retained in effect. An
effort on the part of some members
of the commission to abolish all re
strictions on the sale of men's and
women’s clothing was*defeated by
the margin of one vote. Chairman
Manget voted to retain the restric
tion after the commission had regis
tered a tie vote, 13 to 13.
At Wednesday’s meeting a protest
was made against pride-fixing by W.
W. Orr, of the George Muse Cloth
ing company, and by R. C. Alston,
counsel for the retail clothiers. Mr.
Orr declared that the merchants of
Atlanta have not profiteered and will
not do so. but he insisted that the
greatly advanced wholesale prices
now paid by the retailers make it
necessary to charge correspondingly
high retail prices. Greater capital
now is needed to carry on a mer
chandizing business, said Mr. Orr,
• and the retailer often is made to
suffer for ills over which he has no
control.
Verdict of Guilty Is
Warranted in Newberry
Case, Court Declares
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., March 4.
Overruling all motions for further
dismissals in the Newberry elections
conspiracy case, Judge Clarence W.
Sessions today held that conviction
or acquittal of Truman H. Newberry
would not necessarily mean a like
outcome as to" the other eighty-four
men on trial with the United .States
senator.
The court held that the prosecu
tiqn had made out a prima facie
vise, and that there was ample evi
dence “to warrant a verdict of guilty
ff the jury sees fit to render one.”
First testimony for the defense was
. heard at the afternoon session.
Saves $15.00 On a Suit
THOUSAND of men are now paying about
the same price for madc-to-meaSura suits
as they did four years ago;* according to
Mr. James D. Bell, the prominent clothing
manufacturer of Chicago. These men, how
ever. are buying from a new source. They
ere ordering their clothes direct from the
manufacturers at actual cost with only one
small profit added. Headers of this paper
interested in cutting their clothing costs
should write the Bell Tailors, Adams at
Green streets, Chicago, Illinois, and ask for
a copy of their new Fashion Book, No. 758.
with a large assortment of cloth samples
in many weaves and patterns. An illus
tration of the unusual values offered by this
firm is a guaranteed all wool casslraere in
a very attractive pattern at only $25.00 for
b three-pieee, made-to-measure suit—the
quality generally sold at $37.50 to $40.00.
They offer even larger savings on higher
priced suits. This company, the largest in
the world, is thoroughly reliable and will
* gladly send you free of nil cost their big
iry Fashion Book with simple instructions
TEXAN DEMES HE
DROPPED MO IN
FAKE 'BIJCKETSHOP'
i Mann, Greatly Impressed,
Declares He Brought Mon
ey From Dallas to Cover
Stranger ‘Broker's’ Check
Claiming that an organized band
l of swindlers lured him into a fake
■ bucketshop on Carnegie Way and
fleeced him out of $8,200, H. C. Mann,
' a young business man, giving his
home as Dallas, Tex., has asked the
Atlanta police to help him run down
the alleged crooks.
Mann says that on January 8 he
stopped off in Atlanta on his way
from South Carolina to Nashville.
Tenn., and while here fell into con
versation with a well-dressed stranger
at the Terminal station, who later
introduced him to another well
: dressed stranger at the Piedmont
i hotel.
They got to talking about stcoks,
he says, referring particularly to a
“tip” they claimed they had from
a big New York brokerage house to
buy Mexican crude oil on a one per
cent margin just before the New-
York stock exchange closed for the
day. He says they showed him a
telegram to this effect.
As a result of their conversation,
claims Mann, all three of them re
paired to a private home on Car
negie Way, and went to a room
where Man says there was a big
blackboard, telegraph instruments
and other equipment of a brokerage
office, with several men standing
around, apparently "playing the mar
ket.”
His acquaintances, said Mann, were
bewailing the fact that they couldn’t
raise $50,000 necessary, they said, to
“make a clean-up.” Mann states that
he wanted to get in on the oppor
tunity, too.
Nothing was done at the time,
says Mann, but later one of the men
he met at the “brokerage office,”
whose name he gives as Keene,
came to him and told him he had
put np a check for $8,200 as part of
a pool and had signed Mann’s name
to it.
"We won a big pile, but we can’t j
get. our money until we prove this
check is good," Mann claims Keene
told him. “If you’ll show these fel
lows $8,200 in the long green now,
I’ll split with you.”.
Mann says he was so impressed
that he went all the way to Houston,
Tex., got $8,200, brought it back to
Atlanta, gave it to Keene, and—
hasn’t seen Keene or his money
since. •
Mann says he went to the house
on Carnegie way, only to ,find the
room deserted and all signs of a
brokerage office gone. He claims he
has been scouring Atlanta'ever since
to find traces of the men, but had no
luck until Wednesday afternoon,
when, as he was walking along Car
negie way, he saw one of them in an
automobile with a girl.
Mann says when he shouted, the
man in the car stopped the automo
ble and jumped out and ran. Accord
ingly, called a policeman and
drove to the police station with the
automobile and the girl.
The girl was released on SSOO bond,
but after being questioned by Chief
Poole, all charges against her were
dismissed. Chief Poole said she prov
ed to his satisfaction that she knew
the ipan with her only casually and
had no knowledge of any alleged
swindle.
Chief Poole, With Detective Shaw,
went to the house on Carnegie way,
but could find no traces of any swin
dlers. They were told by the land
lady that she had rented a room to
a man about a month ago, but that
he had left. She had never noticed,
she said, any blackboard, telegraph
instruments or any other unusual
things in his room.
Another puzzling element was add
ed to the case when Mann gave the
names of several -well-known Atlan
ta business men a the alleged swin
dlers. They had given him these
names, he said, and had pointed out
to him their “places of business.” De
tectives sought out these men and
established to their satisfaction that
the swindlers had been masquerad
ing as “prominent citizens.”
CHAMP CLARK IS
UNDECIDED ABOUT
ENTERING RACES
(The Atlanta Journal News Bureau)
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODO2E TILLER
WASHINGTON., D. C., March 4.
Former Speaker Clark, who has been
worried for some ime by a tempta
tion to enter teh presidential nom
ination contest, another temptation
to run for the senatorial contest in
Missouri, and still another not to get
into either race, must make an early
decision, because of a complication
offered by the Georgia presidential
preference primary.
Without consulting Mr. Clark, cet
tain Georgia Democrats have peti
tioned that his name go on the Dem
ocratic primary ballot. The signa
tures of one hundred Georgia Demo
crats are sufficient to enter a name
on the presidential primary ballot
and unless the former speaker of the
house takes it off Mr. Clark is en
tered in the primary.
Forinpr Speaker Clark naturally
will not want his name to stay on
the Georgia ballot unless he is to
make a real effort to get the dele
gation. If he enters the presidential
race in that state he practically en
ters the race in all states, dud so
far Mr. Clark has not decided that
he wants to try for a nomination
which he lost at Baltimore seven
years ago. The Georgia situation,
however, is one demanding rather
prompt action, and Mr. Clark prob
ably will issue a statement within a
few days, eliminating himself from
one or the other, or both contests.
Indications are that if Mr. Clark gets
into any race it will be the senate
race in Missouri.
Three Are Killed in
Jersey Train Wreck
NEW YORK, March 4.—Three
persons are dead and more than
twelve others injured as the result of
the Jersey flier on the Central Rail
road of New Jersey crashing at high
speed into a Newark local at Eliza
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BOMB EXPLODES
UNDER CONSULATE
OF U. S. IN ZURICH
ZURICH, March 4.—A bomb ex
ploded last night under the porch
of the American consulate here, seri
iously damaging the building but in
juring no one. police authorities are
believed to have, secured clues as to
the guilty persons.
WASHINGTON, March 4.—An of
ficial report on the bombing of the
American consulate at Zurich last
night, was made to the state de
partment today by Consul General
Keena, who said the building was
partly destroyed, but that no one was
injured.
Mr. Keena said the police officers
attributed the outrage “to anarchis-
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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920.
WASHINGTON.
Morrison Marshall,
'foster son of Vice
President and Mrs.
Thomas Marshall,
who died recently,
was one of the cap
ital’s most inter
esting and beauti
ful babies.
Two years ago
Mrs. Marshall bor
rowed Morrison
from the diet
kitchen of a Wash
ington hospital. He
had been taken
there by his moth
er in a last de
spairing attempt
to bring him
health. The baby
was the seventh of
a poor family,
and the plain fact
was he never had
enough to eat.
Mrs. Mar shall
had a special diet
kitchenette built to
cook his food.
Every aid of mod
ern baby culture
was brought to
bring him back to
health. He grew
strong, and a year
ago might have
taken a prize in a
baby show.
But despite the
given him,
the poor start he
had handicapped
him and ,the acidu
lated blood that
caused his death,
is traceable, it is
said, to malnutri
tion.
GERMANY'WILL
BE ALLOWED TO
LAUNCH A LOAN
LONDON, March 4.-r-The Evening
Standard states today that the allied
supreme council has decided to allow
Germany to launch an international
loan, because it is recognized that
Germany rhined would mean a weak
and dangerous spot in Europe.
• The loan, the newspaper says,
would take precedence over any in
demnity payments Germany is called,
upon to make.
tic activities.”
The consulate offices are attached
to the residence of Alfred W. Done
gan, vice consul, and Mr. Keena said
no government property had been
destroyed.
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MOVE TO SAVE
PEACE PACT IN
SENATE SEEN
WASHINGTON, March 4.—Both
Republican and Democratic senators
who favor a compromise, again have
combined in an effort to save the
peace treaty from heading into a
deadlock over the article 10 reser
vation. | A move was on foot for a
slight modification of the original
reservation around which most of
the tumult over the pact has been
centered.
The Shantung reservation, which
was before the senate for action, has
given way to the ge..-ral fight over
the treaty and the negotiations were
being continued today. Some sen
ators had moderate hopes of reach
ing an acceptable modification to the
article 10 reservation, which would
clear away one c" the main obsta
cles to an agreement on ratifica
tion.
Discussion of the treaty ranged
over a wide field yesterday and
when the session ended no action had
been taken.
Resuming discussion today of the
Shantung reservation the senate ap
peared ready to vote on it without
delay. Senator Hitchcock opposed
the. reservation on the ground that
its adoption would not benefit China.
“In making this reservation we
not only do an idle thing, but re
linquish our hold on Japan as a
result of its promises to return Shan
tung to China. If we hoped to bene
fit China, the proper course would
be to declare that we propose to hold
Japan to her promises, mate in
Faris and elsewhere,” he said.
Senator Reed asked if Mr. Hitch
cock’ would support an amendment
stating that the United States under
stands that Japan will return Shan
tung to China.
“Yes,” replied Mr. Hitchcock. “That
would be of material benefit to
China.” _
Senator Norris ridiculed Mr. Hitch
cock’s “new friendship for China.”
“China is praying to her gods that
she will not have many such
friends,” said Mr. Norris. “Had this
new friendship and desire to aid China
existed earlier it might have pro
duced some votes for the Shantung
amendment, which would have done
China some good.”
He declared Mr. Hitchcock and oth
er senators “tried to reach secret
agreements on reservations,” but that
Mr.’ Hitchcock “now has lost *-inter
est and is not willing to carry out
some of these agreements.”
Senator Lenroot repeated his
charges that Mr. Hitchcock is co
operating with Republican “bitter
enders” to beat the treaty.
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COUNTRY WILL BE
DIVIDED UP DY
PWFMMOO
And When They Get to ’Fris
co the Well-Known Chant
“We Want Wilson” May
Sweep Convention
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Riggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.
It is possible now to reveal how At
torney General A. Mitchell Palmer
entered the presidential race with
the consent of Woodrow Wilson and
how th president, waiving any third
term ambitions he may have had, has
let down the administration bars to
the green fields of Democratic poli
tics.
Attorney General Palmer did not
get blindly into the presidential race
Monday night. He did not act with
out knowing his entry was satisfac
tory to the president and that Mr.
Wilson would not lift a hand to
terfere with any member of his cab
inet, or any former member, or any
one hundred per cent administration
Democrat who wants to seek the
Democratic nomination.
Vance McCormick, former chair
man of the Democratic national com
mittee and campaign manager for
President Wilson three years ago, was
the principal intermediary between
the attorney general and his chief.
Mr. McCormick will probably be cam
paign manager for Mr. Palmer in
seeking election if he is nominated,.
Democratic politicians in Georgia
played almost if not quite as import
tant a role in bringing out Mr. Pal
mer and in getting the O. K. of the
White House.
Through an emissary in Washing
ton it was represented to the White
House and to ’ the attorney general
that the factional situation in Geor
gia was such that It Has necessary
to enter immediately there a one
hundred per cent administration can
didate, otherwise, it was represented,
the Georgia delegation might fall into
hostile hands. It is authoritatively
understood here that the desire of
Mr. Palmer to get into the race ahd
the joint representations of Mr. Mc-
Cormick and Georgia political lead
ers finally moved the White House
early this week to give the “Go, Go”
signal to the attorney general. With
in a few hours Attorney General
Palmer had wired the secretary of
the Georgia executive committee that
he was authorized to put Palmer’s
name on the presidential preference
primary ballot.
On the Wilson Record
This anouncement from Attorney
General Palmer was practically the
same as a White House statement
that Mr. Wilson had climlnSWriiim
self as a third term qaijjjidate. .Mr.
Palmer would never have announced
so long as there was any uncertainty
about this. He is one of the most
loyal n en in the cabine: and will run
squarely on the Wilson record with
out getting the go-ahead sign from
the president, Mr. Painter would no
more enter the presidential :ace than
would Josephus Daniels, secretary of
the navy, or Secretary of War Ba
>ker. ,
It has been known for some time
that Mr. Palmer had further politi
cal ambitions. But, like Mr. Mc-
Adoo, the president’s son-in-law, and
former cabinet officer, Mr. Palmer
held back awaiting some indication
of the president’s attitude toward a
third term. His sudden action Mon
.Y is fraught with significance and
virtually tells the story, even if oth
er details were not known.
The s tor Y> however, goes further
than this. It is understood here that
as matters now stand both Attorney
General. Palmer and former Secre
taxy will be the “fair-haired
boys” of the administration. The
president apparently is willing that
each should go out and corral as
many delegates as possible. They
have sort of “go to it boys” permis
sion and each has the blessing of
the party chief.
Another well authenticated angle
of the situation is the shaping of
a program whereunder Mr. Palmer
will contest for delegates in some
states and Mr. McAdoo in others.
Probabilities are now that Mr. Mc-
Adoo will not go into Georgia, al
though it is his native .state, because
he took his name off the ballot there
before Mr. Palmer’s name went on.
At that time, Mr. McAdoo was hold
ing back, evidently in view of the
silence of the White House. Mr.
McAdoo, it is said, will most likely
get into the Texas contest, while
Mr. Palmer will be an onlooker. Here
and there Palmer and Mc'Adoo dele
gates will be gathered up, for such
developments as may come at San
Francisco.
No cahdidates, according to pres
ent indications, wil go to San
Francisco in command of the con-/
vention. Un’ristructed delegations
doubtless will nold The balance of
power.
May Start to Chant
But with the president out of con
sideration it will be a lively and
fair fight. It is within possibility,
of course, that somebody will start
the chant—accompanied by the famil
iar stamping of feet and the me
thodical pounding of hands together
—“We want Wilson; we w’ant Wilson;
we want Wilson.”
If that should happen and the con
vention should go off its feet, it is
easy to surmise to whom the Palmer
and McAdoo delegates would be
thrown.. Nevertheless, in view of
developments within the past three
days there is little belief here that
the president is thinking of a third
term. At last lie appears to have
reached a self-eliminatieq decision,
albeit his letter to the Jackson day
diners, challenging the opposition to
throw the peace treaty into the cam
paign. was construed as making him
a potential candidate.
It is known that some weeks ago
Vance McCormick, who has just an
nounced in his newspaper his sup
port of .Palmer, endeavored to draw
cut the White House regarding the
Palmer candidacy. At the time, it is
understood Mr. McCormick received
the suggestion to wait awhile. This
he did, meanwhile anxious no doubt
to have Mr. Palmer get into the
race at the earliest moment.
Then along came the Georgia sit
uation helping out Mr. McCormick.
Hoover sentiment was sweeping
Georgia and there was another com
plication—the claim that the anti
administration element in the state,
might mobolize all Democratic op-
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STRONG IN ALBANY •
AND DOUGHERTY
Mayor Peacock, Chairman
of Dougherty County Ex
ecutive Committee, As
sails Effort to Bar Hoover
BY ROGERS WINTER
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal.)
ALBANY, Ga„ March 4.—One
doesn’t have to seek far to find I
Hoover sentiment in the city of Al
bany and the county of Dougherty,
and by the same token one doesn’t
have to seek far to find men pro
testing vigorously against the action
of the subcommittee of the Demo
cratic state executive committee in
attempting to shut Hoover out of
the primary.
Mayor Herbert Peacock, for exam
ple, one of the leading young lawyers
of this section, formerly a member
of the house of representatives from
Dougherty county, and mayor of the
City of Albany, is a red-hot sup
porter of the former food admin
' istrator.
“I am going to vote for Hoover,”
; said Mayor Peacock to The Journal
correspondent, “and I am going to
vote for him regardless of whether
his name is placed on the ballot in
the preferential rimary. If his name
is placed on the ballot, then I will
vote for him and thousands of oth
ers will, in my judgment. If his
name is not placed on the ballot, then
I am going to scratch all the names
on it and write on the ballot myself
with a pen and Ink the name of
Herbert Hoover. Os course, they
may not count my vote if I vote'
1 that way, but I am going to vote
for Hoover A.ist the same.
“If the subcommittee wanted to
' shut Hoover (Ait of the primary and
' eliminate him from the Georgia pref
erential primary—which undoubtedly
must have been their object in chang
ing the rules of eligibility after the
game started—they certainly have
' succeeded in accomplishing directly
the reverse of what they intended.
Their action was neithei* sportsman
; like nor democratic. It ’ has created
a very bad impression. It looks like
■ a piece of political chicanery, pure
and simple, and is so regarded
throughout the state, from what I
see and hear. It has made Mr. Hoov
er the central figure of a raging con
troversy in the public prints, adver
tising him all over the state. In a
sense the whole primary revolves
around the questipn of .whether Hoov
er’s name shall go on the ballot. O
course, the effect of this agltitlori J
is to help Hoover, and I have no ob- -
jection to the subcommittee’s action
to ‘hat extent.
Why He Havers Hoover
“The problems confronting our
government for the next four years
or more will not be political prob
lems but economic problems, and we
need a man of great ability to han
dle those problems. That is why I
favor Hoover as the Democratic can
didate and the next president. To
my mind he is pre-eminently quali
fied to handle the vast problems of
an economic character, not only na
tional but international in scope. The
people know him, they admire his
magnificent record of Service in the
war, they are satisfied of his inde
pendence and character and fearless
courage, and they will vote for him.
“He is the only man, in my judg
ment, with whom the Democratic
party can hope to win success In
the next election. Everybody knows
that we haven’t got a chance if we
count on’nothing but thp straight
Democratic vote. We arc obliged to
have the independent vote ,and It is
not coming to us if we try to win
with a candidate ‘who makes no ap
peal but a partisan appeal. The west
is going to cut a very great figure in
the outcome and so are the newly
enfranchised women voters. All ac
counts are that Hoover will sweep
the west.”
Mayor Peacock is chairman of the
Democratic executive committee of
Dougherty county, and he and other
members of the committee have been
much interested in the action taken
by the Democratic executive commit
tee of DeKalb county, where the de
termination was made a few days
ago to place the name of Herbert
Hoover on the ballot of the prefer
ential primary in spite of the action
of the sub-committee declaring him
ineligible to be placed upon *the bal
ot upon petition of 100 or more white
Georgia Democrats. t
“We are giving serious thought to
the interesting suggestion contained
in the action of the DeKalb county
committee,” said Mayor Peacock. “It
certainly was an admirable stand for ,
that committee to take. It shows
their independence and courage. I
would like to ask the distinguished
political experts of the sub-committee
two questions, to-wit:
“What Is a Democrat?”
“What is a Democrat?
“What is a Republican?
“Do they know a test /by which
to determine whether a man is a
Democrat or a Republican? Do they
think it is sufficient to say merely
that so-and-so has always itoted
the Democratic ticket, thereby
making him a Democrat? Or would
they be willing to go on record with
the proposition that a man is not a
Democrat because he has not always
voted the Democratic ticket? I
would like to know, honestly I would,
as a matter of public information,
what is a Democrat? Are not the
principles enunciated by Herbert
Hoover, in his speechei and state
ments, good sound Democracy? If
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Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 946
Fourth Street, Milwaukee, Wis., re
cently gave out the following state
ment: "I had suffered with Fits
(Epilepsy) for over 14 years. Doc*’
tors and medicine did me no good. It
seemed that I was beyond all hope
of relief, when at last I secured a
preparation that cured me sound
and well. Over 10 years have passed
and the attacks have not returned.
I wish every one who suffers from
this terrible disease would write R.
P. N. Lepso, 13 Island Avenue, Mil
waukee, Wis., and ask for a bottle of
the same kind of medicine which
he gave me. He has generously
promised to send it prepaid fre£ to