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®be Atlanta ©rMWfcla Sournal VOL. XXII. NO. 64 MANY POINTS REPORT RETURN OF RAIL STRIKERS CARRANZA WESTS RIGHT TO ATTACK SONORATHROUGHU.S. No Action Is Yet Taken on Application—Four Towns Fall Before Advancing. ■ Rebel Forces WASHINGTON, April 16.—Mexico has asked permission from the Unit- • ed States to move troops through I American territory so as to attack ■ the state of Sonora from the north. ' No action on the request has yet ; been taken. Carranza wants to send his troops, ; on American railroads, across so’uth- i ern New Mexico and Arizona from ! Chihuahua to Sondra. Nnder the Mexican plan, Carranza troops would go to El Paso on the Mexican Central railroad, thence across American territory to Doug las, Ariz., by the El Paso and South western railroad. From Douglas the troops would expect to proceed into the revolting state of Sorona and the results of this movement would like ly be a battle on the border, It is believed here. FOUR TOWNS FALL BEFORE SONORA ARMY AGFA PRIETA. Mexico, April 1«. Pour towns in Sinaloa have fallen before the invading Sonora troops, according to reports to divisional headquarters today from General Fores, commanding the invading column. _ The first battle between Cai ranzista troops and the Sonora seces sionists took place at the town, of Choix, Sinaloa, where the Carran zista garrison surrendered after one hour’s resistance and joined the Sonora movement. THEODORE N. VAIL, A. T. & T. OFFICIAL, DIES IN BALTIMORE BALTIMORE, April 16.—Theodore N. Vail, chairman of the board of directors of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, died at Johns Hopkins hospital this morning of a complication of cardiac and kidney troubles. Mr. Vail was brought here frory Jekyll Island, Ga„ last Sunday, in his private car. At the hospital it was stated that he was in a serious condition, wken he reached there and his death was not unexpected to the physicians. _ _ Mr. Vail became chairman of the I board of directors upon his retire- , ment as president and held that po- . sition at the time of his death. | Mr. Vail was a pioneer in telephone ' and telegraph organizations, and • was known throughout the world. Born in Carroll county, Ohio, July 16. 1845, he was educated in Mor ristown. N. J., academy and studied at Dartmouth. Middleburg college, Princeton and Harvard universities. He married Mabel Rutledge San derson, of Boston, in 1907. His home was listed officially as Lyndon ville. Vernfont. He maintained offi ces in Boston and New York. Beginning life as a medical stu dent, Mr. Vail soon branched into general science with a particular bent for electricity. He was a friend t>f Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Vail first entered the tele phone business in 1878. He intro duced the American system of elec trical street railways in Buenos Aires in 189 G and installed telephone svstems in the principal South Amer ican cities. He became president of the American Telegraph and Tele phone company in 1907. He also was a director in several European elec trical enterprises and was widely known in London, where he was a member of the Royal Automobile club. He was a member of the American Academy of Politics and Social Science (Philadelphia), the American Institute of Electrical En galectS", the American Geographical society and many social clubs. Hoke Smith to Carry County of Chatham MACON, Ga.. April 16.—Senator Hoke Smith will carry Chatham coun tv by a large majority in the pref erential primary next Tuesday, ac cording to a number of leading Sa vannahians who are here attending the T. P. A. convention. S. N. Harris, Louie Garfunkel and others who have been active in politics in Savannah for years, declared the senator is gaining strength there every day in spite of the opposi tion of both Savannah daily papers. There are a few supporters of Attor ney General Palmer in the Savannah delegation and some of them reluc tantly admitted that Senator Smith would carry the county. Mayor Murray Stewart, one of the warmest supporters of Senator Smith .In Savannah, arrived today to at tend the T. P. A. convention. Palmer Will Not Return to Georgia Attorney General Palmer will not return to Georgia to make further speeches in behalf of his candidacy lor president. He has wired Hon. Pleasant A. Stovall, chairman of the Palmer state campaign committee, that on account of his public duties, particularly in connection with the tailroad strike, It will be impossible for him ‘o come back to Georgia be fore the primary on April 20. He expresses the confident belief in his telegram that the issue in Georgia already has been so clearly present ed that there can be no doubt of the o u t co me. CURED HER FITS , Mrs. Paul Gram, residing at 916 Fourth street, Milwaukee, Wis., re cently gave out the following state ment: ”1 had suffered with Fits .SJpilepsy) for over 14 years. Doctors 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. Ovw AO years’ have passed and the attacks have not returned. 1 wish every one who suffers from this terrible disease would write R. P. N. Lepso. 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee Wis., and ask for a bottle of the saw*- vLnd vX Aftedicine which he gave . He nste “'eaeroasly promised to send it prepaid, free to any one who writes him." —(Advt.) "He Reached So High He Touched the Sky” Miillm Wk /Sitin' tty c tn® t 'MU (J it 5 i : ac.-TTsa ; CINCINNATI.—CharIes Sims, 20, literally “became great” when he was 17. At that age he was 6 feet 8 inches tall in his stocking feet and since that time has grown one inch. Sims, his friends call him “Admiral Sims,” is a stu dent of the reserve officers’ train ing corps, studying engineering at i the University of Cincinnati. He sleeps diagonally in ordinary beds and at home in a bed made to or der. His clothes are tailor-made. PALMER’S FIGHT ON LIVING COSTS WITHOUT EFFECT (The Atlanta Journal News Bureau) 623 Riggs Buildiner. BY TH2ODOBE TILLER WASHINGTON, April 16.—Figures ; on the cost of living published by the ■ bureau of labor statistics. United i States department of labor, show that little progress is being made in ' the announced campaign of the de-' partment of justice and attorney gen-' eral to bring down high prices. Gathering statistics from fifty | principal cities, the labor depart ment's records show that twenty-nine out of forty-four articles of food have increased in price in recent weeks, while there has been slight reduc- ■ tions on eleven articles and four have remained stationary. Some of the increases during the month from December 15 to January 15 ranged from 23 to 33 per cent. These increases affected such food as granulated sugar, potatoes and cabbage, necessities which the av erage consumer purchases. Relatively speaking, the few de creases were out of step with the in creases. For instance, the greatest reduction during the period covered was 8 per cent on fresh eggs, and eggs go up and down at intervals. Most of the eleven so-called decreases in cost were only one, two or three per cent, almost negligible. Published statements and adver tisements that the attorney general and the department, of justice have brought down the high cost of living are out of tune with the investigation made by another executive branch of the government, the department of labor. So far, the department of jus tice has not furnished a detailed, statement of the reductions it i* claimed have been affected. Green’s Lunacy WrL Dismissed by Judge On Counsel’s Motion It was announced Friday by At torney H. A. Allen, counsel for William B. Green. the Fairburn banker under sentence of five years tor embezzlement, that the writ of lunacy taken out against Green by his brother, Dr. Albert J. Green, of Union City, had been dismissed on motion by counsel for the defense. This was done, said Mr. Allen, be fore Judge Hutcheson, of the Stone Mountain circuit, sitting in cham bers at Fairburn. A hearing' was to have been held Saturday before Judge Hutcheson on a writ of prohibition taken out by Attorney Reuben R. Arnold, special counsel for the prosecution, to pre vent the lunacy commission of Camp bell county from passing on Green’s sanity at this time. This hearing will not be held, said. Attorney Allen, for the reason that Che lunacy writ i has been withdrawn. Bolsheviki Meet Strong Resistance LONDON, April 16.—The Bolshe viki are meeting with strong opposl tion in their attempt to penetrate the Crimean peninsula, it is indicated in an official statement on the Soviet operations received from Moscow to day. The statement says: “In the Crimean sector our troops are advancing and are engaged at Perekop (at the neck of the penin sula* where obstinate resistance is being offered. "On the Caucasian front our regu I lar troops have entered Derbent (on the Caspian sea about midway be -1 tween Petrovsk and Baku).” FIVE KILLED IN WRECK OF THREE PASSENGER TRAINS Tl’.e cause of the derailment of Southern railway passenger train No. 24 Thursday afternoon at Ellenwood, Ga., thirteen miles south of Atlanta, resulting in the death of Engineer J. A. Acree and Fireman R. E. Cain, Atlantians, and minor injuries to ten passengers, had not been determin ed Friday, officials of the railroad said. The train was en route from Ma con to Atlanta, running at a. moder ate speed, it is stated, when the lo comotive left the rails while passing a water tank at Ellenwood, turning complete!} - over and instantly killing j the two trainmen. Injuries to pas- | sengers were mainly bruises and j shock. Engineer Acree was forty-five | years old and lived at 186 West North avenue. He is survived by his wife; his mother: a daughter, T ouise; a sister, Mrs. H. G. Hollings worth; and a brother. Earle T. Acree, all of Atlanta. Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the home, with Dr. R. O. Flinn officiating. The burial will be at Macon. Fireman Cain was twenty-three years old and lived at Inman Yards. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W. Cain, are the only survivors. Funeral arrangements have not been an nounced. The bodies of both of the wreck victims were taken to the Patterson chapel. The list of injured announced by railway officials includes: G. R. Grant and Miss Lillian Wood ward, Locust Grove, Ga.; Mrs. Sallie Eidson and R. W. Eidson, Fort Payne, Ala.; Baylor Smith and wife, McDonough, Ga.; E. H. West. C. K. Gilbert and John A. Roush, Atlanta; J. A. Cook, Stockbridge, Ga. THREE KILLED, 3 HURT t IN L. & N. COLLISION MOBILE, Ala., April 16. —Three persons were instantly killed and three injured, two perhaps fatally, in a head-on collision this morning at 3:35 a. m., near Pinchona, a sid ing on the Louisville and Nashville railroad between train number 2, northbound, and train number 3, southbound. Both engines of the two _ trains and the express cars were demolish ed completely. The wreck took fire, but was extinguished by passengers. The wreck occurred in a blinding rain end electrical storm. The escape of the remainder of the train crew and passengers from death or injuries is regarded as miraculous. The dead: John A. Spruell. 35, engineer of number 2, Montgomery, survived by wife. L. A. Culver, 35, express messen ger, number 2, Montgomery, surviv ed by wife and child. ■ Harry Scott, negro porter, Mont gomery, on train number 2. The injured: Major Saxton, negro fireman, trail number 2, badly injured, slight chance recovery; George Carter, ne gro, fireman, train number 3. badly injured; Leila King, negro woman, of New York, passenger, slightly in jured. MOREFIGURESON 1920 CENSUS ARE GIVEN TO PUBLIC WASHINGTON. April. 16—The cen sus bureau today announced the fol lowing 1920 population results: Battle Creek, Mich., 36,164; Enid, Okla., 16.576; Bowling Green, Ky.. 9,638; Hillsdale, Mich., 5.476; Owos so, Mich., 12,575; Muskegon Heights, Mich., 9,514; Phillipsburg, N. J., 16,- 923; Gloucester. N. J., 12,162; Alva, Okla., 3,912: Southbridge, Mass., 14,- 245; Grafton, Mass., 6,886; Millbury, Mass., 5,652;, Oxford, Mass., 3,820; Norwich, N. Y'., 8,209; Moorhead, Minn., 5,720; Eveleth, Minn., 7,205; Anoka, Minn., 4,287; Whittier, Calif., 7,997; South Pasadena. Calif.. 7,648; Macomb, 111., 6,714; Bedford, Ind.. 8.- 963; Perry, lowa, 5,642; Fitzgerald, Ga., 6,870; Hammond, La., 3,855; Luf kin, Texas, 4,878. Increases since 1910: Battle Creek, 10,897, or 43.1 per cent: Enid, 2,777, or 20.1; Bowling Green, 465, or 5.1: Hillsdale, 475, or 9.5; Owosso, 2,936, or 30.5; Muske gon Heights, 7,824, or 463; Phillips burg. 3,020: or 21.7; Gloucester, 2,- 700, or 28.5: Alva, 224, or 6.1; South Bridge, 1,653, or 13.1; Grafton, 1,- 181, or 20.7; Millbury, 912, or 19.2; Oxford, 459, or 13.7; Norwick, 847, or i 1.4; Moorhead, 880, or 18.2; Eveleth, .69, or 2.4; Anoka, 315, or 7.9; Whit tier, 3,4-17, or 75.8; South Pasadena, 2,999, or 64.5; Macomb, 940, or 16.3; Bedford, 247, or 2.8; Perry, 1,012, or 21.9; Fitzgerald, 1,075, or 18.6; Ham mond, 913, or 31; Lufkin, 2,129, or 77.4. „ To Charge Conspiracy In Suit to Set Aside Mary Pickford Divorce CARSON CITY, Nev., April 16. Suit to set aside the Mary Pickford- Owen Moore divorce decree will be filed in the Douglas county district court at Minden this afternoon, it was definitely announced at the of fice of the attorney general today. The complaint which he made pub lic charges conspiracy on the part of Douglas Fairbanks, Owen E. Moore and Gladys M. Moore, to evade Nevada divorce laws and names Moore and his former wife as de fendants. offersfree I PELLAGRA TREATMENT A new treatment which is said to ibe the most scientific method ever I known for overcoming PELLAGRA or a general run down condition is being distributed by the Argallep company, Dept. 601, Carbon Hill. Ala. This remarkable treatment has, according to the reports of hundreds of users, cured some of the worst cases imaginable, one patient re porting a gain of thirty pounds in weight in sixteen days. The Argal lep company are so proud of their treatment that they offer to send a full sized $2.00 package free to any suffererer who will write them. All they ask is that If it cures you, you recommend it to your friends. If you suffer from PELLAGRA or a run down condition send them your name and address today for the free treatment. —(Advt.) _ __ ft ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1920. Buddhist Fanatic, Toes Cut Off, Who Is Rolling 1,800 Miles to Sacred Mountain ■ ■ ■ 4 j > t ■■ j?'' * -I" whMMl * K This unusual photograph, just received from Tibet, shows a Buddhist fanatic, his toes cut off, who is rolling up the course of the Yangste river to the Sacred Mount Omei, a distance of 1,800 miles. When this picture was taken he had rolled half the distance and was at Ichang, in the province of Hupeh. It had taken him seventeen months to roll the 900 miles. He is living on charity en route. SAYS BRITISH ARE WORKING AGAINST SOUTHERN PORTS (The Atlanta Journal News Bureau) 623 Riggs Building. BY THEODORE TILLER WASHINGTON, April 16.—Direct ing attention to an alleged British ■ propaganda for the sale of ships be longing to the American merchant marine, Matthew Hale, formerly of Wilmington, and president of the re cently organized South Atlantic States association, has written the senators -of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, sug gesting congressional inquiry. Mr. Hale says there are evidences of an organized effort by alien in terests to check development of new trade routes through cancellation of certain export rates, as well as through bringing about sale of the He asserts that certain Britishers have joined in the efforts of the northern trunk line railroads in this country to disturb export rates through South Atlantic ports grant ed by the railroad administration. Mr. Hale’s Letter As head of the South Atlantic States association, which Mr. Hale says represents forty trade bodies in the four states named and was formed following the trade confer ence at Greensboro, N. C., Mr. Hale sent a letter to the senators from the four states, saying in part: “We wish to call your attention to something serious enough in our judgment to warrant prompt con gressional investigation. We refer to what seems to be definite British propaganda designed to handicap the development of our new trade routes so necessary to the commercial ex pansion of the middle west, the South Atlantic ports and the Gulf ports: First, by attempting to bring about the immediate forced sale of our government-owned vessels; and sec ond, by opposing the recent export rate revision which gives manufac turers and shippers of the Mississip pi valley freer access to foreign mar kets. “As you know, the south Atlantic states are now enjoying increased prosperity due to the export freight rates recently estaolisiied by the railroad administration to the south Atlantic ports. These rates place southern ports, for the first time in their history, on a parity with New York. The great English steamship lines do not relish the diversion of traffic which results. Apparently, with their approval, Delos W. Cooke, associate director of the British Cunard lines, second in command to Sir Ashley Sparks, has joined with him some of the more selfish and less broad-minded shipping and railroad interests of the north Atlantic, and is actively striving to obtain the can cellation of these rates. The tact that certain commercial organizations in various north Atlantic ports have been induced by this representation of the facts to co-operation should not disguise from us the essential pro-British character of this activity. “The effrontery of these forces does not stop here. At the same time they are agitators for the cancella tion of export rates to south Atlantic ports, not served by their steamship lines, they advocate the continuance of similar export rates to Halifax, a British port, which is served by their lines. They ask, in substance, that export freight from the middle west be hauled to Halifax at practically the same rate as to New York, al though Halifax is obviously much farther from the middle west than our south Atlantic or gulf ports. The British Attitude “In regard to the British attitude toward the American merchant ma rine, Lord Inchcape disclosed the defi nite interest which British shipping firms have in the precipitate dissolu tion of our huge new merchant fleet. He said: “ ‘lf the United States government will only turn the ships in which the United States shipping board is in terested over to private owners and leave the owners to compete with private enterprise in this country, 1 am not afraid, but if the government, on the other side of the Atlantic, is out to tax the people to build up a mercantile marine at all costs, the outlook for the shipping industry of these islands is anything but rosy. 1 am hopeful, however, that the gov ernment of the United States will leave the shipping industry of the world, including their own, to look after Itself.’ “The agitation for the immediate sale of our merchant marine started from big New York shipping compa nies, which formerly operated to a largte extent under the British flag, or were financially allied to British shipping interests. Their aims are, perhaps, naturally, in complete ac cord with Lord Inchcape’s wish that the huge fleet owned by the govern ment be broken up into smaller units under private control, with which competition is easy.” BONUS WOULD BOOST PRICES, SAYS EXPERT WASHINGTON, April IG.—Soaring I prices would be given a new impetus I by the proposal to lay a tax on all sales to get money to pay a $1,000,- . 000,000 bonus to ex-service men, Dr. Royal Meeker, government price ex pert, said today. The new tax proposal is being con sidered by the bonus subcommittee of the house ways and means com mittee. “It certainly would increase prices,” said Dr. Meeker. The subcommittee proposed to lay a tax of one-half of one per cent on all sales. This tax would be paid by all dealers in four installments. Committee members estimate it •would raise at least $1,500,000,000. “It would simply increase the cost operation of all' jkauLDr_ Meeker. “The dealers would pass the increased cost along to consum ' ers. The consumer would pay far i more than the one-half per cent. The dealer would add enough to the price iof each article he sold to make i doubly sure of getting the tax back.” Treasury department experts now : are preparing estimates on the pro posed tax for the house subcommit tee. Officials pointed out that it probably would increase the tax of every article offered for sale in the United States. On commodities val ued at SIOO the increase would be SUOOO. For commodities worth SI,OOO, the increase would be $5. This would include automobiles, real estate and a score of like commodi ties of every day use. Gasoline sta tions doing- more than $2,500 worth of business a year would find their operating costs increased. This cost would be passed along to the public, officials said, but probably in greater proportion than the half of one pei’ cent. On articles selling for $1 or less, the resulting price increase would be most felt, officials said. It would •be impossible to assess the tax on articles selling for less than $1 be cause the tax would be one-half cent. The dealer would be inclined, offl • cials argue, to add at least one cent to all such articles. 637 Killed in Fight Between and Japanese m Siberia LONDON, April 16. Japanese forces lost 237 killed in fierce fight ing with Russian troops at Khaba rovsk, Siberia, last Monday, a News ' Agency dispatch from Tokio said to , day. The Russians lost 400 killed. Jap- ■ anese claim 1,500 prisoners. Fight ing continued throughout the day in i the streets of the city, the dispatch i said. I The Russian forces presumably would be social revolutionaries (in i sympathy with the Moscow soviet * government). This element recently \ clashed with the Japanese at Vladi , vostok. * Khabarovsk is an important Sibe ; rian city, formerly seat of the gen ; eral government of the Amur. It is ; at the junction of the Amur and Ussurri rivers and on the Ussuri”. , branch of the trans-Siberian rail i way. ; Gardner Expects Every County Will Vote in Primary j > Hiram Gardner, of Eatonton, sec . retary of the state Democratic execu l tive committee, announced Friday i morning that in his judgment every L county in Georgia will participate in , the presidential preferential primary ; next Tuesday, April 20. i “I have heard from something » more than 100 counties, and all have : signified their purpose to hold elec . tions,” said Mr. Gardner Friday . morning. “The malls are bringing in I assurances from other counties, and j these, with the counties in which lo : cal primaries are to be held, will in clude the entire state.” » Secretary Gardner added that the 1 official form of the ballot has been ■ forwarded to every county chairman, i “The tickets will be printed in the - several counties,” he added, “and will i contain the names of only three pres , idential candidates—Hoke Smith, A. - Mitchell Palmer and Thomas E. Wat t son. The county chairmen have been - instructed that no ballot containing s another name is to be counted or con i sidered in the consolidation of the returns.” Hoke Smith’s Speeches at Quitman and Thomasville Stir Farmers Enthusiasm Hearty Indorsements Given 1 ; Senator by One Big Audi- ’ ence After Another Indi-' cate He Will Sweep South' Georgia BY ROGERS WINTER (Staff Correspondent of The Journal) •THOMASVILLE, Ga., April 16. That the Hoke Smith tide Is rising rapidly in Georgia was plainly evi denced by the reception accorded the senator In Quitman yesterday morn ing and Thomasville yesterday after noon. In both of these places he was heard by audiences that filled the courthouses and his friends in both were fully confident that he would carry Brooks and Thomas counties as the result of his powerful pres entation of the issues to be settled by the Democrats of Georgia when they vote next Tuesday in the presi dential primary. Neither Senator Smith nor his sup porters had expected he would carry Brooks county. The town of Quit man is not noted for large audiences or vociferous enthusiasm when po litical campaigns are concerned. Practically all of the organized ef fort put forth In the city and the county had been on the side of At torney General Palmer. Contrary to his own and local expectations Sen ator Smith had an audience that filled the courthouse to its capacity, gave him the most earnest and friendly hearing, Indorsed unani mously his stand on the League of Nations, and promised to support him on next Tuesday. One of the features of the Quit man meeting was the introductory speech delivered by Dr. S. S. Gauld in, one of the leading physicians of Brooks county. “I cannot agree with President Wilson in his assertion in his Kan sas City speech a few months ago on his western trip,” <said Dr. Gaul din, “that the League of Nations is greater than our government.” Here the doctor read an extract from an official record of the president’s speech byway of showing that he quoted from, the text and not from, memory . . Senator on Aggressive Senator Smith was on the ag gresive throughout his speech, knowing that certain of hia politl caf 1 opponents had been active against him in Brooks county, and had utilized to the fullest advantage the publications put out against him by such papers as the Atlanta Constitution and the Macon Tele graph. He went after the Brooks county situation in hammer and tongs style. The audience was com posed in the main of farmers who had come to Quitman for the spe cial purpose of hearing him pres ent his side of the case. There was also a representative sprinkling of business men', lawyers and other citizens residing in Quitman. He cleared away the whole underbrush of campaign misrepresentation and criticism, converted his audience ab solutely to his position on the League of Nations, presented the candidacy of Attorney General Pal mer in the light of its weakness as revealed in the Michigan primary and received a unanimous vote of approval when he submitted the whole issue in all its phases. “I was forced to enter this cam paign,” said Senator Smith, “to prevent Mitchell Palmer from tak ing to the San Francisco a delega tion which he would deliver up to indorsement of the League of Na tions without reservations and de liver up to Woodrow Wilson for a third nomination. I am fighting for the preservation of the Democratic party. I am fighting to prevent Georgia from being exploited though a false pretense of loyalty into sup porting- a program that will break the party down. If Palmer were nominated on his platform, indors ing the League of Nations and ev ery other phase of the administra tion, he would be such a load upon the party that he would break it down, even in the south. If Presi dent Wilson should be nominated the load on the party would be even greater. What Palmer asks of the Democrats of Georgia is an Indorse ment of a program that would cru cify» the party.” Weakness of Palmer’s Position The senator then emphasized the weakness of Palmer’s position as conclusively demonstrated by the Michigan primary. He gave the facts concerning Palmer’s record in Pennsylvania where Democratic leaders charge him with bolting the Democratic nomination for governor two years ago, charge him with bolting numerous other nominations, charge him with costing his party five out of ten Democratic congress men by his gross mismanagement of party affairs, and charge him with forfeiting the confidence of the party in his state by his selfish manipula tions and habitual desertion of Democratic nominees. Though not in any way personal to Mr. Palmer, the senator's discussion of the at torney general’s record was without gloves and straight from the shoul der. Reviewing his fight for the freedom of the seas to send cotton abroad in the_ fall of 1914 and the spring of 1915, Senator Smith demolished com pletely the charge by his enemies he was actuated by motives of friendship for the Germans. He showed that the president supported his position in a note to Great Britain, cind that British interests virtually acknowledged the justice of the protest by buying in Liverpool and New York the equivalent num ber of bales which their govern ment had blocked from the neutral ports of northern Europe. His review of his fight against the price fixing raid by Bernard Baruch in the fall of 1919 was even more effective, for the history of that raid was fresh in the memory of the farmers in the audience. Likes President Wilson In the course of his attack upon certain provisions of the League of Nations, Senator Smith took occa sion to say something with reference to his relations with President Wil son. “Get out of your minds the idea that I dislike the president,” said he. “In both of his campaigns I made speaking tours for him at my own expense, expending about a ’thousand, dollars on each of the j trips. I contributed in his first cam . paign about a thousand dollars to SURE, VAMPIRES GO TO CHURCH :' z > • ’V< : : * ■M', iL- Y \ >w. THEDA 11111 l BARA NEW-YORK. —How does Theda Bara do it? Everybody eays the new show in which the “world’s greatest vampire” is appearing, is n. g. and yet people are turned away nightly. Theda was snapped on the street on htjr way to church. the national committee and in his second campaign about five hundred dollars. I have always liked him per sonally and my relations with him have been most cordial. He is gift ed with one of the brightest minds I have ever seen. I have never failed to make him see my point of view when I could go to him in his studio and discuss a matter quietly with him without intrusion. Only when in company with other people was the president averse to changing his mind. “Contrary to some of the false statements circulated in south Geor gia, there was never the slightest friction between us on the federal judgeship. Mr. McAdoo came to me and told me the president would ap point any man I suggested, but I de clined to accept the offer, and told him south Georgia was Senator Hard wick’s territorv and I would not in terfere with him. There was never the semblance of an acute difference between myself and the president un til the fall of 1918, and then I did differ with him most emphatically, when he authorized Bernard Baruch to raid the cotton market, costing the farmers of my state more than fifty million dollars on their cotton crop. I am satisfied that if I could see him now and if he were well. I could show him I was right, but nobody sees him except his wife, his physi cian and his secretary. When 1 left Washington, no member of the cab inet, with possibly one exception, had seen him in months. Senator Hitch cock had begged to see him on the peace treatv matter. McAdoo lias been to the White House twice in re cent weeks and has not seen him. He is isolated from the world, isolated from the country, isolated from the government, isolated from the lead ers of his party.” Obligations In League The senator’s exposition of the ob ligations placed upon the United States by Article X of the League of Nations covenant was one ot tne most powerful ho has yet delivered. He showed that President Wilson went to Paris with announced inten tion o& giving subject peoples the right of self-government. He read an extract from the president s fa mous speech before the plenary coun cil in Paris in January, 1915, in which he declared that the founda tions of the war must be swept away, that those foundations were the hold ing together of empires of unwilling subjects by the duress of arms. But Instead of a treaty giving subject peoples the right of self-gov ernment, as the senator showed, there was brought forth a settlement giv ing Afrffifn colonies Mesopo tamia, the Islands of thdrpacific and other colonies to Great Britain, gi - ing Syria to France; giving Shantung Io Japan. And there was brought forth a League of Nations that obligates the United States in Ar ticle X to protect and preserve the control of those nations oyer those subject peoples for the balance of time. “Everybody got something, said the senator, “but the United States.” . “What we got was the p Vtoiviinp’ thorn keep wnat uney &v We may be obliged to cross the seas acain toVrush some barbarous enemy iVviPzntion but I insist that we wait and let the folks who will then do the fighting, and bear ?he burdens and endure the sorrow, decide the question for themselves when Save Party Concluding this argument, the sen ator said: “I do not want our party to in dorse the League of Nations with out reservations. I do not want our party to nominate President Wilson for a third term. I am in this pri mary to prevent Mitchell Palmer from delivering Georgia’s delegates to either proposition, for such a pro gram would destroy the party. No man can stand before the American people and defend the League of Na tions as the president brought it back. If you are Interested in this great issue, go to the polls next Tuesday and vote your convictions. You will render your party a splen did service. And now I would like for all of you who agree with my line of reasoning to hold up your hands.” Nearly every hand in the audience went up. There was not a single vote on the other side. At the close of the speech the audience gave the senator a prolonged ovation. Scores of men flocaed around him and told (Continued on Page 6, Column C) 5 CENTS A COPY. $1.30 A i'EAB. PISSMSffIICE fiENEMLLY BETTEH; FHEIGHTJMffIOVEO Crumbling of Strikers in West Indicated Labor > Board Takes Up Question of Wage Demands WASHINGTON, April 16.—(Sum mary of News to the Associated Press.) —Return of strikers and Im- : provement in service was reported I today by railroads in various sec- I tions of the country as the newly- i appointed railroad labor board as sembled in Washington for its first I session to consider wage demands ’ of rail workers. The New York district, where vol unteer crews continued to man trains in increasing numbers, there were conflicting reports concerning the number of men who had returned after the railroads last nighty had delivered an ultimatum that their last chance would expire tomorrow noon. Some roads announced that strikers were flocking back, but others reported sporadic walkouts. Some brotherhood officials express ed fear that the men might regard the ultimatum as a challenge and prolong their walkout. Efforts at conciliation in Jersey City this morn ing were without result. Crumblln'g strikes In the cen tral and far west was indicated fol lowing the action of the government in arresting twenty-five strike lead ers in Chicago. Improvement In serv ice also was reported in the middle west, one of the sections hardest hit. Almost normal operation was re ported by many roads leading into Pittsburg. Fassenger Service Better With passenger service generally Improved throughout the country, increased freight shipments were re ported In the New York and New England districts. Officials of the New York Central announced that freight service was so much im proved that the embargo had been lifted east of Buffalo and north ot Yonkers on the New York Central and north of Newburgh on the West Shore railroad. New England poinU repented ft: rival of more freight, including coal, than any day since the strike spread to the east. Proposed drastic cuts In railroad passenger schedules and a general industrial shutdown were believed to have been averted. Take Up Wage Demands Wage demand of the 3,000,000 railroad employes of the country were taken up today by the newly appointed labor board, which held its first session at the railroad ad ministration with seven of the nine members present. The absent representatives, Judge R. M. Barton, of Memphis, Tenn., of the public group, and A. O. Whar ton, of the labor group, are expected to arrive later in the day. Both arbitration and railroad of ficials believe that the prompt as sembling of the board will have Its influence on the present strike of the railroad men. Many of those who walked out already have returned with the understanding that their de mands would receive prompt atten tion. At the railroad administration it was said that the demands of the strikers would not be given prefer ence over those of the other rail employes; that the wage question would be considered as a whole. The board perfected a temporarv organization at its initial meeting by electing Henry Hunt, former mayor of Cincinnati, as chairman, and G. Wallace Hanger, of this city, as secretary. Both are members of the public group. The wage dispute, as It stood with the breaking up of the bi-partisan wage conference here two weeks ago, was submitted to the board, Mi- Hanger announced, and the board will begin consideration of the dis pute as it now exists. The board will-meet again tomor row and by that time the two absent members —Judge R. M. Barton, of Memphis, Tenn., representing .the public, and A. O. Wharton, of the labor group—are expected to be present. After their arrival the or ganization of the board probably will be made permanent. Secretary Hanger’s announcement made it clear that the. hoard would not consider separately the wage de mands of the railroad men now on strike. The bi-partisan conference here between the representatives of the roads and the unions a settlement of the whole wage ques tion and the board will take the neu ter up where that conferencelt. NEW YORK SEES SIGNS OF WALKOUT ENDING NEW YORK, April 16.—Indica tions that the unauthorized rail strikes were nearing an end in this vicinity were declared to be visible today by railroad officials and offi cers ot the “big four” brotherhoods. They said the ultimatum of the railroad managers yesterday, giving the men until Saturday noon to re port back for work on penalty of tw*ng dropped from consideration, was a body blow to the morale of the strikers. As an indication of the ef fect of the decision, Hoboken rail road men belonging to the brother hoods, as well as the men on strike, hate voted to stick by the loyal uj ions. They have asked Vice Pres ident Timothy J. Shea, of the Broth erhood of Firemen, to request Mayor Hague, of Jersey City, to use his 'in fluence with the roads to have all the men taken back. Other rebellious strikers were ex pected to take action during the day. Meanwhile, the brotherhood leaders continued their efforts to induce the men to return and submit their grievances to the new railway la bOt board. F. A. Dodge, assistant president of the Brotherhood of Rail :oad Trainmen, said “the men had better go back while the going is good.” A gradual improvement In the transportation situation was report ed by the railroads. The number of ccllege students and business men who volunteered their services In creased greatly today. Two young women applied for positions as fire men on the Long Island railroad. They admitted they did not have the strength to fire an engine, but they were hired by the traffic manager on the ground that “they had the right spirit.”