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THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES -THE. ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES
VOL. 5. NO. 218.
ATHENS, GA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 4,1917. .
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY., $5.00 PER YEAR.
Open Rupture in Russia Between Government
Heads and Workmen's and Soldiers' Committee
x x x x x - x x x x x X X
Great Guns Boom Without intermission on Arras Bgttlfield
STAVES OFF
Counsel Representing Workmen
and Soldiers Formally De
clares It Will Not Approve
Any Loans to Russia Until
Fully Informed of Complete
War Aims of Entente Allies
and Details of All Compacts
Entered Into by Czar and His
Ministers.
(By William C. Shepherd, .United
Press Staff Correspondent.)
Petrograd, May 4.—A dramatic
speech, appealing to the patriot
ism of the workmen and soldiers,
delivered by Premier Miliukoff
from the Balcony of the govern- _
nwnt building, had today appar
ently ataved off the crisis that
appears imminent In4tew Kussia.
From a hooting, Jeering mob
that demanded hla resignation,
the premier turned the throngs of
workmen and soldiers who had
paraded the stivets throughout
yesterday into a crowd which
cheered hla utterances, pledging
unrelenting war on Germany.
The situation was not entirely
cleared up today, however.
A Joint meeting of the representa
tives of the provisional governmental
government and workmen’s and sol
diers’ committee scheduled for to
night has been cancelled. It is as
sumed this action was taken to per
mit further conference with leaders
of the Orlcmen and soldiers demanding
a greater participation in the affairs
of the government. This would per :
mit of an explanation of the govern
ment's statement approving pledges
entered Into by t..u government of the
esar.
THOUSANDS (PARADE STREETS
After thousands of demonstrators
had paraded the streets and assem
bled in front of the DumB building, to
gether with several thousand sol
diers, demanding Miliukoff’s resig
nation, the minister of foreign af-
fulrs appeared in person on the bal-
44 When I your banner’s reading
‘down frith Miliukoff,’ I fear not for
myself, but for Russia,” the foreign
minister began.
”1 fear for what tho outside world s
interpretation of your demonstration
ill be," .
Miliukoff was given close attention
when he signified his desire to ad
dress the throng. There was some
jeering and interruption at first, but
as he proceeded the crowd quieted.
“The provisoinal government can
not strike the name of Russia from
the list of the allied nations,” he de
clared, with the greatest emphasis,
* (Continued on page 5.)
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nANCOCK AND COLLEGE
More Than 1,000 Applications
For Subscriptions Were Re
ceived in Answer to Secretary
McAdoo's Telegram to Banks,
The Response Was Instant^
neous-rKeplies Began Coining
in Before Last Telegram Left
Washington.
, (By United Press.)
Washington, D. C., May 4.—Over
subscription for the first ‘‘Liberty
Loan” is practically assured. Over
1,000 applications for subscriptions to
the “Liberty Loan” were received
over night in answer to Secretary Mc-
Adoo’s telegram to banks, clearing
houses and trust companies, it was an
nounced today.
Not even a rough estimate of the
amount subscribed was immediately
available. •
Secretary McAdoo yesterday tele
graphed the 27,613 national and state
banks and trust companies in the
United States asking approximates
of their subscriptions and those of
their Customers to the $2,000,000,000
war loan.
The response was instantaneous.
Before the last telegram had left
Washington, replies started coming
from all pA’ts of the country.
Subscriptions poured into the secre
tary’s office all night and today saw
no let up in the response,
Bankers are vicing with each other
in offering full support of their in*
stitutions and customers to the gov
ernment by subscribing to the huge
loan.
The result of their efforts is unpar
alleled in the financial history of the
country.
SUTT-THIEE STUDENTS
RECOMMENDED FOR CAMP
BY CAPTAIN BOSWELL
Up to date there have been sixty-
three men recommended' and exam
ined by Captain Walter O. Boswell
and Dr. Dan/DuPree for the officers
training camp at Fort McPheraon.
It is estimated that there have been
more than 150 men to make inquiries
for the training camp and a large
number of these have been turned
down for various reasons.
The men who have been recom
mended by Dr. DuPree and Captain
Boswell are those who these men
thought would have the best chance
of making officers and who have had
previous military service. There are
some of the men who have been
recommended who have not had mili
tary training, but who have had ex
perience in handling men and who
have executive ability sufficient to
make them qualify for an officer’s
place in the army.
THOSE RECOMMENDED
The following is a complete list of
the men recommended for the train
ing camp by Captain Boawell and
who successfully passed the physical
examination made by Dr. Dan Du-
nI U? G. Ashley. L. C. Atkins, R. P.
Bassett, R. D. Bedinger J. W. J.
Bourke, G. H. Cochran, Ed M. Co
hen, John S. Coleman, Wi. Alex Cun
ningham, G. X. Cheeves, R. J. Coch
ran F E. David,,E. B. Dunlap, Ro
land Ellis, Jr., W. L. Erwin, J. M.
Elrod. Alex R. Fawcett, R. R- Gunn,
W. S. Gravely, F. C. Garrett, H. B.
Hodgson, T. E. Hollingsworth, W. A.
Hodgson, F. A. Holden, A. G.Huteh.
inson, Edward H. Johnson, FltshugB
Knox. Bird DiUle, Hollis Lanier, J.
B. LenharJt, Harold D. Meyer J. 8.
Meyers, J. Louis Morrison, Will King
Meadow, R. W. Martin, John R.
Nortficutt, H. H. McCall, Jr., W. ET.
TQuarterman, A. W. Reed, Glenn B.
Ryman. Hampton Rowland, W. F.
Ruthdrford. H. M. Rylee, SheltoniP.
Sanford, George M. Scheer, Milton
C. Scott, L. Lee Stovall, Roff Simms,
Jr., F. L. Sparks, S. M. Smith, J. B.
Slater. G. W. Sprowl, Thomaa A.
Thrash, R. T. Treanor, C. M. Theua,
W. P. Tabor,'G. B. Tate, L. H.
TimMons, H. M. Willetk H. B.
WestTw. O. White, H. L. Wingatfc,
F. a WMght.
1 Having decide how our umj
should be raised no tune should bo
lost in raising it. '
» .
EXISTS ALONG
RUSSIAN
FRONT
•Not a Shot Fired on Austro-
Russian Front in Over a
Month—Russian and German
Soldiers Fraternizing — Rus
sian General Warns Troops to
Beware of a German Ruse.
Petrograd Thrilled by Reports
of' Complete Amity Between
Soldiers of Opposing Armies.
(By William G. Shepherd* United
Press Staff Correspondent.)
Petrograd, May 4.—A virtual ar
mistice exists along almost the entire
Russian front today. Not a shot has
been fired on tha Austro-Russian
front in more than ^ month. There
has been no rela activity on the Ger-
man-Russiftn. sector.
At many places, Russian and Ger
man soldiers are fraternizing, meet
ing unarmed in No Man’s liind. So
general has become the, habit•f fra
ternizing, and so completely has the
fighting spirit been subdued that
General Gourka, commander of Rus
sian forces on the Minsk front, today
issued a formal statement warning
Ws forces to beware of a Germans
ruse. He contended the Germans*
friendliness’ was part of their plan to
obtain information of Russian con
ditions.
Soldiers arriving for the Duma
meeting are authority for the state
ment there has been absolutely no
fighting on the Austrian front.
In this connection, Petrograd news
papers today publish eleven uncem
sored letters from soldiers at the
front. One typical letter from the
Minsk front, said:
FRIENDLY INTERCHANGES
Coming along the trench today I
saw a number of our men smilingly
looking over the trench—right where
they were fair targets for the enemy’s
bullets. t J 4
‘“What’s the matter?” I asked.
They answered, “There’s a meeting
of the Russians and Germans.”
“I hurried to my sentry post,
where, looking through my binoculars
I saw a gathering of men in Russian
and German uniforms, out between
the trenches. I' hurried over to the
group and found them addressing
each other as “comrade”* except those
who were unable to speak one an
other’s language. Some of our men
who couldn’t talk, German were hold
ing their palms horizontally before
their mouths and blowing a huge
Pouff’—their way of indicating,that
the Czar had been blown away. The
German s repeatedly thrust their
bayonets in the ground and threw
down their rifles.
TOLD OF RUBS REVOLUTION
“Finally an interpreter from the
German lines came along. He tpld us
the Germans hadn’t heard the news
about Russia. We tlod him the story
of the revolution and he in turn in
terpreted it for his comrades.*’
Petrograd is thrilled by such re
ports as thik of complete, amity be
tween the opposing forces, but mili
tary leaders are fearful of German
trickery.
SHOULD EMPOWER WILSON
10 SERVE ULTIMATUM
ON NEUTRALS
(By Robert h Bender, United Press
Stiff Correspondent)
Washington; D. C., May 4.—That
President Wilton should be empower
ed to serve an ultimatum on neutrals
of the world, Earning them that con
tinued re-expbrtation of American
foodstuffs into Germany would li
met with a'.complete severance of
commercial relations was demanded
by Senator Walsh, of Montana, on
the floor of tlft senate today.
The embargo provision $>f the ad
ministration ispionage bill would
give the president that power, Walsh
said. 1
“It would te a powerful and ef
fective weapon, unless those neutrals
changed an attitude which we hold
inconsistent with their avowed npu-
4.n1 !♦(* *
nate debate went on,
mmissioners and this
ifficials were working
f rationing not only
its fighting allies, but
ate whose boundaries
or are contiguous to
teutonic Iands^
Balfour, Linsing, Redfield and
other officials conferred on the sub
ject
United $1 .
be completelyjn accord with British
and %ench Tdlas. Conferees partic
ularly desire tq retain trade with all
the Scandinavian countries, but they
likewise •dre determined that no food
stuffs shipped into thpse countries
get Into Germany.
(Trading with the enemy acts were
also discussed. More conferences on
the same subjects are to be held
later.
Fighting to get a vote on the em
bargo measure before adjournment,
today, Senator Overman, in charge of
the bill made a dramatic appeal to
“show your confidence in the presi
dent, at this, the very outset of the
SHAME-BROKEN MRS.
TORPEDO MISSED
FRENCH STEAMER
(By United Press.)
Paris, May 4.—The French liner
Rochambeau, recently arrived at a
French port, narrowly escaped a tor
pedo A red by a German submarine,
according to one of her pasaengere
today. The Rochambeau immediately
fired a dozen sheila at the subma
rine. Whether they found their mark
la not known.
At soon as the torpedo waa sight
ed the Rochambeau’s officers sounded
the alarm all passengers • were
hurried to the life boats. There waa
no panic. Patrol veesels arrived at
tha scene within twenty minutes but
did not sight the «ubi\vrine. .
Only the Rochambeau’s speed ap
parently, saved her frgm a "hit” by
the submarine.
AUSTRIAN SAILS
Nrr York, Msv 4.—Coant Adam
Tamowslci von Tsrnow, who Was
sent to the United States as Aus
trian ambassador but never received,
win to sail from New York today
bound for Vienna via Holland. He
waa accompanied by all - Austrian
consuls and attaches, and by aertral
Germans from-China.
Overcome by Weight of Self-
- Imposed Disgrace, Wife .of
Prisoner Remains Abed at
Home Today—iWtnesses Tes,
tify That Vawter Was Not
Drunk Evening of Killing.
Rumors of Compromise Ver
dict Again Sprefld.
(By United Press.)
ChriatianSburg, Va„ May 4.—Brok
en by the weight of her own disgrace,
seif-told to save her husband from the
electric chair, Mrs. Charles E. Vawter
was unable today to resume the stand
for continued cross-examination.
The strain of yesterday’s sordid
confessions so upset her that the re
mained in bed today at her home at
Blacksburg, where she spent the night
with her husband, on trial for the
murder of Stockton Heth, Jr,
. j ,- x After producing two witnesses who
plans^were "e^.^frestifled t h a t Vawter was not drunk
the evening of the killing, the defense
closed. Court then recessed to allow
the commonwealth to confer with
First Lieutenant Clement C. Heth,
brother of the dead man.
Rumors again spread that a com
promise verdict waa. being considered.
Mrs. Vawter alone fought against
the plea of insanity Indicated yester
day when physcians declared they
believed the prisoner insane, it be
came known today.
Both sides urged a compromise to
save Mrs. Vawter from herbqm tes
timony and also yave tha memory of
Heth. Vawter agreed to accept a
compromise verdict of insanity and
go to an asylum for observation.
Determined ' that her husband
xhould suffer no" further Mrs. Vaw
ter is said to hava insisted she
would go on tho stand and tell all,
despite the cost to her.
Unable to stay away longer tha
widowed mother of the prisoner,
Mrs. Virginia Longley Vawter, ar
ranged to come here today from
BJacksburg to stand by her son in
the closing days of his trial. A chair
has been placed for her within the
railing beside her boy.
ADMITS INFATUATION.
In placing herself on the sacrlAciai
altar in defense of her husband, on
trial for the murder of Stockton
Heth, Jr., Mrs. Vawter admitted her
infatuation for Heth, that she could
not give him up and that he had ab
solute power over £er. Earlier the
hod incited that she had refused all
of Heth’s advances except when un
der the influence of liquor.
Belief grew among followers of
the case that the defense had clev
erly laid the foundation for a line of
argument that would make convic
tion of Vawter difficult.
In rebuttal the defense was expect
ed to enlarge^n the bare mention by
Mrs. Vawter-in her testimony that
she had her finger on the trigger
when the ahot was fired that killed
Heth.
Doubt regarding who pulled the
trigger would greatly increase the
difficulty m securing a conviction, it
was said. ™
WANTED TO KILL HERSELF.
Mrs, Vawter testified that sh»
was still trying to get the gun to kill
herself when Vawter and Heth grap
pled over her in the fight to death.
The^courtroom crowd thought' it
was aven possible Mrs. Vawter might
claim a part in the killing of her
paramour in an effort to lave her
husband. i
■Whqn the wonjsn without emotion
, . „ „ began her shameful atory yesterday
Chicago, Ills., May 4,—After all she told how bar husband, after the
Sherman waa all wrong, according to .hooting of Heth. had declared he
Father Thomas E. Shell an, a son of
a civil srar hero. “This war.” he de
clared, “in so bad that if my father
were alive he woald owe an apology
to hell.”
Father Sherman- ia in the recruit
ing business just now, bat not for sol
diers of war. Ha is seeking workers
for the great forma - of the north-
weafc
The president has been informed
that, through some neutrals hundreds
of thousands worth of ammunitions,
foodstuffs arc now reaching Ger
many," Overman said. "Give him
the power to® top that, if he deems
it necessary in the Interest of the
public.”
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
FOR STUDENT T, M, C, A,
The annual election of offices for
tha University of Georgia Y. MlC. A.
waa hold last night and the nominat
ing committee, after some delibera
tion, turned in the names of tha men
for the various offices. It is thought
that the committee showed excep
tionally good judgment in its selec
tion and the Y. M. C. A. is assured
of having good officers again next
year. .
The cabinet meiriben will be Select
ed- during the next few dayi and it is
thought that the board for the Y. M.
C. A., as a whole, for next year will
be the best that has been selected
for some time.
The officers elected last night at
tha meeting were; Messrs. Alfred
Scott, of Atlanta, president; R. L.
Etheredgc, of AubuFn, vice president;
C. Murphy Candler, Jr., of Decatur,
secretary and Walfaca Zachery, of At
lanta, treasurer.
Student Secretary R. M. Guess is
expected to resign for two years of
special college work, provided We is
not called to do army association
work.
IF ALIVE SHERMAN WOULD
OWE “APOLOGY TO HELL"
(By United Press.)
CASHIER HELD UP
(By United Praia.)
Cumberland. Md, May 4.—Three
blackface bold up man bald up ihe
cashier of the First National Bank, of
Kitzmiller, Md„ fifty milu south of
I here today, grataed all the eash in the
place and escaped. Their loot was
not less than JtO.OOfl, according to 1
D. V. Inspeck, the cashier. t
STILL NEARER
IN ML
Appointment of Dantas as Tem
porary* Minister of Foreign
Affairs Everywhere Regard
ed as a Strengthening of the
ProAVar Advocates’ Demand
That Brazil Go Farther Than
Her Break in Relations With
Germany. J'
(By II. B. Robinson, United Press
Staff Correspondent.)
Rio de Janeiro, May 4.—Brasil in
clined. closer today to ,a declaration
of war against Germany.’
Appointment of Under-Secratary
SouI»* Dantas as temporary minister
of foreign affairs, succeeding Dr.
Lauro Muller, was everywhere re
garded as n strengthening of the pro
war advocates demand that Brasif go
farther than her -break in relations
with Germany. Dantas was known*,
ns a proponent of hostilities.
A great orator, who in tha past few
weeks has stirred criwds to enthu
siasm ior war in hla personal cam
paign for such a move, Barbosa, ia
expected to precipitate a violent de
bate, in his speech before the con
gress tomorrow. Barbosa ia a pop
ular idol throughout the nation.
Dr. Muller, retiring foreign minis-
r, today followed pp hfs retirement
from the cabinet by resigning his
dldaey as president of the Mill .
club, one of the strongest of Brasil’s
lolitlcal organisations. He gave as
Is reason his desire to avoid any In
ternal diasentlona In Bratil, in tha
face of the . present international
criais.
LUGE
ELD BY BRUSH
MANAGER OF BASEBALL
TEAM PLACEd ON TRIAL
FOR MVRDEILOF NEGRO
— t . .
Indianapolis, Ind., May 4.—Daniel
Shay, manager of the Milwaukee
Americqp Baseball aasociation team,
waa today held on a charge of mur
der following tho shooting of Clar
ence Euell, a negro waiter in a cafe.
The shooting followed an argument
over a piece of sugar,
Police'today *erc searching for a
woman who was. with Shay at the
time of the shooting.
NTERCOllEEUTE DEBATE
AT UNIVERSITY CHAPEL
- FDMERINC
■IIWbtllK w* UCUli ****** UBfcWiK* aw®
would go to the electric chair with
sealed lips, having “avenged the
family honor.” Tolling of an en
counter Vawter had with Hath when
the professor’s suspicions were
roused, she said Heth overpowered
he enraged hptbaod and pat him to
bed. She found finger prints on
Vawter’s throat the next day. *He
could hardly swallow. She testified
Vawter denounced Heth as a “damn
libertine.”
ENGINEERS CALLED
'Washington, D. C., May 4^-Thirty
five officers of tha engineer section of
Hie officers’ reserve corps from
Washington, Maryland. ’ New Jersey
and Virginia were assignee to active
doty today and mdared lo report
May 8 at- Fort Myer training camp.
Saturday evening in the chapel of
the University of Georgia the inter
collegiate debate in which Georgia
and Washington and Lee will meet is
to take place. The debate will Be
gin at 8 o’clock and it is expected
that It will be one of the best that
has ever been held by the University
of Georgia.
The question of debate will be “Re-
solved, that congress should past a
law providing for compulsory arbi
tration of disputes between alter-
state railroads and their employes
(constitutionally ratified).”
The debptata for Washington and
Lee, affirmative, are.Messrs. Frank
Stipes and David Archer Folk, with
Dean Owens as alternate for Geor
gia, negative, Messrs. Richard W.
Courts, Jr., and Lucas H. Tippett,
with R. V. Harris os alternate'.
Dr. Willii H. Bocnck will be mas
ter of ceremonies and the University
of Georgia band will furnish the
muaic. The public ia cordially In
vited to attend and It ia expected
that the chapel will be packed be
fore the debate ia opened. ,
URGING PEACE
Copenhagen, .May 4.—The conserv
ative party In the Reichstag hat for
mally askedrlmperml Chancellor von
Bethmann-Hollweg to define his at
titude in view of the "great concern
occasioned by the socialists parties'
resolution urging peace without an
nexations,” according to the Berlin
correspondent of the Politfken today.
INDICTMENTS ASKED
New York, May 4.—Diatriet At
torney Maan announced, today ho >
wopld go before the grand Jury *
Monday and ask for the indictment
of George F. Montgomery, Clarence
F. Birdseye and Kellogg Birdseye.
New York brokers, on charges o!
wrecking the Pittsburg Life and
Trust company.
Teutons Deliver Severe Counter-
Attacks at* This Point—Pro
gress Made by British North
east of St. Qtlentin and North
east of Hargieourt—Tremen-
AVeight of. German Reserves
Flung Violently Into Advance
of British Forces Troops to
Fall Back. • r't't
Throughout last night and to
day the guns continued to boom
with ont intermission on the .
Arras -battlefield. Frequent
bursts of machine gun and rifle
fire told of attacks and counter
attacks along the various parts of
the front of the British offensive.
The British today hold the vil
lage of Freanery and the nearby
positions which were captured
yesterday. The Germans deliv
ered severe counter-attacks here,
and also near Chcrisy and on the
Arras-Cambrai road, from both
of which the British were com
pelled to fall back.
The' British made additional
progress northwest of SL Quentin
during the night and also north
east of Hargieourt.
HAIG REPORTS PROGRESS
ON' ENTIRELY NEW SECTOR
(By United Press.)
London, May 4.—The .tremendous
weight of German reserves flung vio
lently into the' line of the British
advance hat forcad a slight falling
back of British troops from advanced
positions captured yesterday, Field
Marshal Haig reported today.
Hla statement, however, revealed
p»ogre*s*on an entirely new sector
from that In which the British drive
of .the past forty-eight hours has
hcretolbre centered northeast of gt.
Quentin and northeast of Hargieourt.
"At night around Chcrisy and also
aatrida tha Arras-Cambrel road we
were compelled to fall back from ad
vanced positions captured yesterday,’’
the British cammander-fn-ebicf said.
“We further progressed northeast
of St. Quentin and northeast of Hur-
gicourt, where wo captured Malakoff
farm.”
Hargieourt, from where Barg has
launched a now driva, it two miles
distant from the main German line of
communications between 'Cambrel and
SL Quentin. But little fighting has
been reported from this sector for
the past ten daytj
“Tho’village of Fresnoy and our
positions north and south were sub
ject to hostile counter-attacks yester
day aftajmion, but tjli positions were
maintained and the enemy repulsed,”
Haig’s report continuod. gm
“At Buliecourt and to tho east the
enemy heavily counter-attacked, t*.
the evening, along the sector of the
captured Hindcnburg line. Failing
completely the enemy lost heavily."
BERLIN CLAIMS BRITISH •’
OFFENSIVE UNSUCCESSFUL
Berlin (Via London) May 4.—The
British offensive is being waged by at
least sixteen or seventeen full.divis
ions (320,000 or 310,000 men) on a
front of eighteen miles, but has so far
failed, today’s official statement de
clared.
“Between Achleville and Queant,
for a distance of eighteen miles a
fresh English attempt to Wreak
through was made by ' sixteen or
seventeen divisions, after the strong
est possible artillery fire failed,” the ,v
statemvit said.
FURTHER PROGRESS
REPORTED BY FRENCH
Paris, May'4.—“Further progress”
northeast of Rheims iq a combat fea
tured by violent cannonading was re
ported in the war office statement to
day. In the Woods west of Mont
Comillet a German attack was re
pulsed with grenades*
West of the Meuse the statement
said a French raiding party obtained
success in Avocourt wood.
DRUGGIST 1 PINCHED
(Br United Press.)
Jacksonville, Fia., May 4.—Dr. *
Walter T. French, proprietor of a lo
cal pharmacy, was arrested today by
government agents, charged with be
ing an alien enemy and with threat
ening President Ijjjlsaiu