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VOL. XXII. NO. 65
SMITH MANAGERS PREDICT SWEEPING VICTORY
NEW YORK BEGINS
WOBKOFREUEVING
FREIGHT BLOCKADE
Strikers in Chicago Said to
Be Losing Control of Situ
ation—Ohio Employes Re
turn to Work
NEW YORK, April 19.—Striking
railroad employes continued to flock
back to work In New York and
vicinity today, despite efforts of rad
icals. and railroad officials asserted
conditions were approaching normal.
Except to state that a majority of
the strikers had returned. J. J. Man
tell, spokesman for the general man
agers’ association, would not esti
mate the number of men who were
back at their old position. The
roads are filling permanently the
places of strikers who failed 'to re
port up to yesterday noon, Mr. Man
tell said.
All railroads ih this section com
menced to move freight from badly
congest d terminals today. Pas
senger trawc improved to such an
senger traffic improved normal sched
ules were maintained.
Tubes Still Closed
The Hudson tubes, connecting Man
hattan and New Jersey cities, were
still tjed up, and there were no sur
face indications of a break in the
strikers’ ranks. The tubes now have
hren “dead" for ten days, and the
big commuter army has relied on
ferry service for transportation to
and from the city.
The federal grand jury was con
vened at Newapk, N. J., today to
consider alleged radical activities
: mo:ig the strikers.
STRIKERS LOSING CONTROL
IN CHICAGO, IS CLAIM
CHICAGO. April 19.—The third
vcek of the “outlaw” switchmen's
/ike opened here today with the
■ • Ikers rapidly losing control an J
nv.lroads claiming a 60 per cent
re ntal situation.”
Union officials and railroad offi
c'a'.s today declared the strike “has
practically lost its effectiveness.” A
s übstantial increase in inbound and
c.t-bound freight was noticed yes
te'day. the railroads reported
Six strike leaders re-arrested yes
tr;-,’.ay. were to appear today before
I’u.itcd States Commissioner Mason
give bond for appearance April 24.
T-? new warrants charged a con
s 'iracv to interfere with the trans
portation of food. Ten strike lead- ;
were named.
Threat of a new strike among rail- i
rod employes in the Chicago district
C’day confronted claims of railroad
t - nagers and brotherhood officials
C t the “insurgent” switchmen’
ri-ike had been broken and the sit
i ion rapidly was returning to nor
i* 1.
Eight thousand freight handlers
end 30.000 railroad clerks employed '
t:i all lines entering Chicago will i
trkc a strike vote tonight after a
conference today with the railroad
Leads, George A. Worrell, chairman
of the Chicago and Northwestern
r. iiroad clerks, announced. He said
ho had been empowered »to speak for
»!1 the clerks and freight handlers.
WorreU did not announce demands
to Le presented but said there “seern
td little chance of compromise” and
Iho men probably would strike Tues
day.
In the switchmen’s unauthorized
strike, continued improvement in
traffic conditions throughout the cen
l.;al and far west was noted.
On the Pacific coast railways op
erated today for the first time since
I '.ie strike without embargoes on per
ishable freight.
As a result of a new federal de
scent on strike at Chicago, ten men
were arrested. Nine were released
on their own recognizance to appear
ttday and make bonds of SIO,OOO
er.ch, but Harold Reading, chairman
of the board of directors of the
L’nited Enginemen’s association, was
tent to jail w-hen he would not pledge
himself to stay away from strike
tn e e t i ngs.
Senator Smith Will
Cany Bibb County
By Safe Majority
MACON. Ga., April 10. —Senator
Hoke Smith will carry Bibb county
by a safe majority in the presidential
preferential primary Tuesday. The
race will be betw-een Senator Smith
and Attorney General A. ’Mitchell
Palmer. The senator made a strong
Impression in his address here re
cently, in which he bared the faults
of the League of Nations.
Mr. Palmer, who spoke two nights
later, failed completely to answer
any of Smith’s arguments, and as
a result many inclined to support
him are today in the Smith column.
They confidently expected that the
greater part of the address of the
attorney general would be devoted
to a defense of the League of Nations.
He devoted just thirteen minutes to
that important subject. Most of the
rest of the time was aken up irf ex
plaining why he entered the race in
Georgia.
Many leading men who have op
posed Senator Smith in other cam
paigns are with him this time, and
are working hard for him. Among
them are Roland Ellis and Judge
John P. Ross, among the leading
lawyers and orators in central Geor
gia. Both have practically aways
opposed Senator Smith, and both are
supporting him this time. Judge Ross
wil speak in Fort Valley tonight in
behalf of Senator Smith. Roland El
lis introduced the senator during his
address here.
CHE TBUTH ABOUT GALL ETONES
A new booklet written by Dr. E. E.
Paddock, Box 201-N, Kansas City.
Mo., tells of an improved method of
treating the Catarrhal inflamma
tion of the Gall Bladder and Bile
Ducts associated with Gall Stones
from which remarkable results are
being reported. Write for booklet
and free trial plan.—(Advt.)
IMPROVEMENT OF
CONDITIONS IN 0. S.
SEEN BY LAWRENCE
Bonus Legislation Probably
Will Be Vetoed by Presi
dent, If Successful in Con
gress, He Says
(Copyright, 1920. for The Atlanta Journal.)
BY DAVID LAWBENOE
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Eco
nomic conditions in the United States
including the whole range of fac
tors from the high cost of living to
the unrest in the ranks of labor and
the tremendous financial burdens left
by the war are showing a distinct
tendency toward Improvement. They
are not changing rapidly, but such
changes as have been noted are for
the better.
This in substance,* Is the underly
ing thought of the responses that
have been given the writer in the
inquiry just completed among offi
cials of different branches of the
government as to the business out
look in the United States. The rail
way strike served to crystallize opin
ion. There seems unanimous agree
ment that while mischievous persons
have taken advantage of labor trou
bles to interject their own ambitions
and doctrines, the outlaw strike was
but another manifestation of the eco
nomic troubles brought by the war.
Searching beneath the surface, con
servative and thoughtful men in the
government find much that ails
America —ail sorts of ills that fol
low in the wake of war. And where
political promise and partisan de
fense is not involved but the view
point is broad, there is an admis
sion that time alone can bring re
lief —that an immediate readjustment
cannot be expected. America, as one
member of the cabinet expressed it,
thought the price of human liberty
was worth paying and she is now
suffering the pain and feeling the
effects of her sacrifices in the war.
Respect for Facts
Both in congress and in the execu
tive branch of the government, there
is a recognition of and respect for
facts. Congress is wrestling in vain
with heavy governmental expendi
tures, some -of them inherited from
the war and some of them too deli
cate to be cut out because of the
fears of political disaster that may
attend the party that performs the
surgical operation.
All sides seem to be agreed that
the United States is carrying a
heavy burden of financial credits and
that to strain the load with a bonus
to the ex-soldiers would be to Impose
a weight that might bring a crash
in the status of our credits, but, on
the other hand, the votes of the sol
diers cannot be ignored by ever so
many members of congress.
Therefore, the treasury department
is watching, almost with bated
breath, to see what congress will do.
An I it goes without saying that
President Wilson himself probafcly
will veto the measure if congress
doesn’t see fit to kill it. For of one
thing the public may rest assured—
the financial situation of the United
States has given folks at the execu
tive end of the avenue in Washing
to many worrisome days and sleep
less nights.
If the truth be known, the Repub
lican leaders of congress and the
Democratic members of the executive
departments have been working more
closely in harmony on this phase of
government than anything else this
political year. They can’t help It.
'■ ither side wants the responsibility
for the prolongation of irksome con
ditions. Each side would like to re
duce taxes, but knows it can’t be done
this year, possbily not next year.
Certainly if the soldier bonus goes
through, the prospect is considered
even more remote for a relief from
taxation.
Don’t Like Bonus "ea.
After having struggled hard to re
duce the c government by a
billion dollars, men like Republican
Leader Mondell don’t fancy the idea
of putting out another billion dollars
in credit obligations to the ex-sol
diers.
But while government economy Is
advocated in order that expenditures
may be still further reduced, the
pressure from the various parts ot
the country affected by diminished
appropriations is so strong that men
in the government hardly know
where to begin lest they be envelope!
in a whirlpool of political currents
that will sweep them out of office.
Perhaps the most common thought
that one finds throughout the gov
ernment, and especially in the treas
ury department, is one of criticism
of the American people for their un
limited expenditures on luxuries.
Extravagance is the mainspring of
the high cost of living. Profiteering
is condemned but conservative minds
do not attribute all America’s woes
to profiteers. Prosecution is always
urged but is considered futile with
out the co-operation of the purchas
ing individual, who must refrain
from buying from profiteers. Signs
of economy and thrift are beginning,
however, to appear.
Peak in Prices Beached
Broadly speaking, it is felt here,
that the peak in prices has been
reached and that the tendency of
the average American to refuse to
pay the prices being asked of him
is the first and necessary step in the
mental process that makes economy.
Any one who buys a suit of clothes,
a pair of shoes, or any other item of
apparel or builds a house or motors
a single mile that isn’t absolutely
necessary, does that much to keep
up the high cost of living. That’s
one principle which is being empha-
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NEW YORK.—Gay Fifth avenue has fallen! Wooden shoes are
appearing in the fashionable shops and the fairer sex are already
slipping in and trying them on. The clumsy, yet durable feet apparel
from Holland may yet get a foothold in America if the—price of
leather keeps going up.
LUNACY BOARD
WILL EXAMINE
CHURCHSLAYER
NEW YORK, April 19.—Thomas
W. Shelley, known also as Thomas
W. Simpkin, faced arraignment in
Yorkville court today for shooting
Dr. James Wright Markoe, an emi
nent surgeon, in fashionable St.
George’s Episcopal church yester
day. Police officials said they would
ask for the appointment of a com
mission to examine Shelley as to his
lunacy. He told the police he had
escaped from a lunatic asylum last
Detectives questioned Shelley
closely in his cell at police head
quarters in a fruitless endeavor to
learn a motive for the murder. He
told rambling stories of his career
as an itinerant printer since coming
to this country from England. It
also developed that he was a deserter
from the Canadian army, the police
said.
A suitcase owned by the man was
filled with religious tracts and news
paper clippings on a variety of sub
jects. He told the police he had
never before seen or heard of Dr.
Markoe.
The murder occurred soon after
the rector of the church, Dr. Karl
Relland, had concluded his morning
sermon, in which he had advised
his congregation to be friendly to
every stranger visiting the church.
Dr. Markoe was taking up the col
lection when his assailant, without
warning, produced a revolver and
fired a shot in the head, death re
sulting soon afterward in a hospital.
Before Shelley was captured out
side the church he fired another shot
which grazed the cheek of J. Mor
gan Jones, an usher, and wounded
Dr. George E. Brewer in the leg. An
other shot just missed Herbert L.
Statterlee, son-in-law of J. Pierpont
Morgan.
Pacing his cell nervously today,
Simpkin told detectives in disjointed
answers to questions that he worked
as a printer in Gary, Ind.; Wisconsin,
New York and elsewhere. He said he
came to this country from England
five years ago and was a member of
the New York branch of the Typo
graphical union.
The prisoner’s statements indicated
that he had a mania for hearing ser
mons. He told of listening with
pleasure to a Paulist priest in .New
York a year ago and of having an ar
gument with a minister in Gary.
“The minister called a chief of po
lice and had me arrested,” he said.
“When I got out I decided to get a
revolver. In St. George’s yesterday I
felt all right until I heard the min
ister say: ‘Some people seem to ig
nore others and don’t treat them
kindly.”
Then, the prisoner told detectives,
he was seized with an impulse to
shott. He also said:
“Since I caine out of the asylum I
always carried a revolver to make
sure that I’d hever be put in the asy
lum again.”
He added that he had resolved to
shoot the first person who tried to
arrest him.
Government Loss in
Operaton of Railways
Was More Than Billion
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Total
loss to the government growing out
of federal control of the railroads
was estimated today by the house
appropriations committee at $1,129,-
030,000. This includes the $225,000.-
000 estimated as guarantees to the
roads und4r the terms of the trans
portation act.
Second Annual Reunion
Os Old Hickory Boys
ASHEVILLE, N. G-, April 19.—Sep
tember 28 and 29 are the dates select
ed for the second annual reunion of
the Old Hickory association or Thir
tieth division. The mayor, chairman
of county commissioners and presi
dent of the board of trade and a num
ber of others met Colonel H. B.
Springs, Greenville, S. C.; pres
ident of the association; Cap-
Captain Franks B. Bowen, secretary
treasurer, Knoxville, Tenn.; Colonel
T. B. Spratt, Fort Mills, S. C.; Colonel
Don E. Scott, Graham, N. C.; Captain
J. Laurence Gantt, Charleston, S. C.,
and J. C. Lattimer, of the publicity
committee, Greenville, S. C. These
dates were selected because at this
time Asheville is better able to take
case Os the- 15,000 or 20,000 visitors
who are expected to attend this re
union than any other, although
earlier dates were suggested as being
more suitable to a large number of
the members of the Thirtieth divi
sion.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1920.
OCCUPATION OF
RUHR BASIN IS
BEFORE ALLIES
PARIS, April 19.—Allied occupa
tion of the Ruhr -basin, in western
Germany, is being considered by al
lied premiers gathered at San Remo,
says the Petit Parisien. Premiers
Lloyd George, Millerand and Nitti
held a brief meeting last night, and
agreed in principle on the necessity
of forcing Germany to disarm, the
newspaper declares, but were not
agreed as to the best means of pro
cedure.
There was a certain coolness be
tween M. Millerand and Mr. Lloyd
George at the opening of the meet
ing, but it vanished in a short time,
and utmost cordiality prevailed at the
close, according to the Matin.
Demands that the allies, during the
San Remo meeting, resist all at
tempts to revise the terms of the
Versailles treaty with Germany are
made by Raymond Poincare, former
president of the French republic, in
an article published by the Matin.
France and Belgium have been de
prived of guarantees by the failure
of Great Britain and the United
States to put the tri-partite conven
tion into operation, he says, and the
League of Nations is as yet with
out means of action.
Premier Millerand is congratulated
by M. Poincare for the wisdom he
showed in pursuing a “wise policy
in view of the necessity of stopping
the fatal movement leading the allies
to the precipice.” M. Millerand says
the allied governments should sup
port France against Germany, and
asserts Germany is violating the
Versailles treaty and avoiding all en
gagements, and that France and Bel
gium could not have done otherwise
than advance east of the Rhine when
German regulars invaded the neutral
zone m the Ruhr valley.
Say France Must
Have 700,000 Army
PARIS, April 19.—France must
maintain an army of 700,000 men un
til enemy countries "show their good
will by executing the terms of their
treaties” in the opinion of govern
ment officials, according to newspa
pers here. Plans under contempla
tion call for 350,000 conecripts con
stantly under training, eighteen
months’ service being required of
each man.
Wages equal to those paid indus
trial workers, less the cost of food
and lodging provided by the govern
ment, will be paid enlisted men and
conscripts who are enlisted.
It is expected bills to carry out
this program will be introduced in
the chamber some time in June.
Rules relative to * the length of
hair, mustache and beard, which,
since early in the, war, have been
strict, have been relaxed. In future
a soldier may cut his beard in any
way his fancy may dictate.
Express Clerks’ Officers
Booked for Conspiracy
CHICAGO, April 19.—Officers of
the Chicago Express Clerks and
Freight Handlers’ Union, an outlaw
organization, which has been on
strike since March 6. were booked
last night on charges of conspiracy
preferred by State’s Attorney Hoyne.
The men, formerly officers of a
Chicago local of the brotherhood of
railway and steamship clerks affili
ated with the American Federation of
Labor, were expelled from the broth
erhood when they called the strike in
defiance of an order issued by J. J.
Forrester, president of the national
organization.
Lloyd George Insists on
French-English Union
PARIS, April 19.—Great Britain
and France are “united and must
remain united,” Prime Minister Lloyd
George declared in an interview at
Marseilles, a dispatch here said.
Lloyd George landed at the port
in southern France while on his voy
age from Southampton to San Remo
to attend the conferences of the
council of premiers, which opens
Monday.
Whitfield Acquitted
Os Cordova Murder
NEW ORLEANS, April 19.
“Not guilty,” was the verdict re
turned by the jury in the case of
Andrew J. Whitfield, on trial for a
week on the charge of murdering Dr.
Leopoldo Cordova, former Hondur
an consul in New Orleans. Whit
field fainted when the verdict was
read. . - V’
DEMOCRATS VOTE
TUESDAY DM CHOICE
FORTHEPRBIDENCY
Preferential Primaries to Be
Held in All but Few Coun
ties —County Races Also
Scheduled
Democrats of Georgia on Tuesday
will express at the polls their choice
for the Democratic candidate for
president to be nominated at the San
Francisco convention in June.
In all but a few counties in the
state preferential primaries will be
held. Many of therp, as in Fulton
county, will be held In conjunction
with the regular white primaries for
the election of county officers. Some
counties already have elected their
officers and have been unable to ar
range for the preferential primary
in all precincts. Thus, under the
rule of the state Democratic execu
tive committee requiring the primary
to be held in all precincts, they are
eliminated.
Since, however, a large majority
of Georgia’s counties have been able
to arrange the primary, the expres
sion of the voters at the polls Tues
day will be, in the main, the ex
pression of the majority of the peo
ple of the state.
The result should be known early
Tuesday night. The Journal has ar
ranged to receive returns from its
correspondents in every part of the
state, and, as usual, will flash re
turns on a screen on the Austell
building and will publish election
extras.
There are three candidates for
president in the Georgia prefrential
primary, Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, Senator Hoke Smith and
Thomas E. Watson. Each has qual
ified under the rules of the execu
tive committee, and the name of each
will appear on the official ballot.
OVERALLS LATEST
ATLANTA FASHION;
THOUSANDS JOIN
The 4,000 or more overall-wearers
noticeable Monday morning on At
lanta streets and in stores and of
fices are only the vanguard of an
army that will cover the state when
thousands of other citizens accustom
themselves to the comfort, conven
ience and economy that the thrift
crusade represents, according to
leaders of the movement.
About 1,000 additional pledges re
sulted from the mass meeting at the
Baptist Tabernacle Sunday after
noon when speeches outlining the
plans and objects of the overall idea
were delivered by Rev. John W. Ham,
Fair Price Commissioner John A.
Manget and Mayor Key. Many worn*
en at the morning and evening serv
ice signed pledge cards promising
co-operation by home dress-making
and similar means of retrenchment.
Commissioner Manget now holds
options on 20,000 pairs of overalls
which he will distribute among clubs
anywhere in Georgia at wholesale
cost, he announced Monday, and
should any profiteering be reported
despite this convenient supply of
low-priced raiment, vigorous and im
mediate action will be taken, he says.
Approximately 2,600 pairs of over
alls were sold at the city hall Sat
urday. All buyers paid fifty cents
extra per garment for charity, the
total sum making possible the distri
bution of SIOO each to thirteen lo
cal institutions. The stock unsold
Saturday will be handled by the S.
H. Kress stores, beginning Tuesday
morning. The stores will make no
charge for the service and the fifty
cent item will be eliminated.
The following charities will re
ceive checks for SIOO each during the
week as a result of Saturday’s over
-3.11 s3>le •
Atlanta Child’s Home. Baptist Or
phans’ Home, Hapeville; Catholic Or
phans’ Home; Methodist Orphans’
Home, Decatur; Jewish Orphanage;
Clington Presbyterian Orphanage;
Carrie Steele Colored Orphanage;
Home for Old Women; Confederate
Soldiers’ Home; Home for the Friend
less; Home for Incurables; Shelter
ing Arms; Ex-Slaves’ association.
OVERALL CRUSADE
SPREADS INTO CANADA
ST. THOMAS, Ont., April 19. —The
overall crusade in the United States
has spread over the border to Can
ada and clubs have been organized
here and at several nearby towns.
More than 300 employes of the Mich
igan Central railroad have joined the
local club. The Wallaceburg, Ont.,
club was organized today with a
large membership.
Senator Hoke Smith’s
Work for Wounded
And Disabled Soldiers
Editor The Journal:
The vocational rehabilitation
legislat4on for maimed, crippled
and disabled soldiers stands on
the federal statute books as a
monument to Senator Hoke
Smith’s interest in the future
welfare of the patriotic veterans
of the world war who risked their
all on the battlefields of France
and Flanders. Senator Smith
drafted the vocational legislation
and directed its successful course
through its various stages in con
gress.
The legislation provides the
funds and the machinery for the
vocational training of disabled
soldiers. Under its provisions,
thousands of American boys who
were wounded are being trained
and fitted to pursue useful occu
pations.
No member of the United States
senate has been more active in
behalf of the returned soldiers
than the senior senator from Geor-t
gia. He has taken a leading part
in the preparation and passage of
all legislation designed to aid the
veterans of the world war.
WALTER O. MABSHBTON,
Captcln in Eighty-second Dlvlrlon
“I Will Win the Election
And I Have Confidence
In County Committees”
—SENATOR HOKE SMITH.
BEFORE leaving for Cartersville, where he spoke Monday,
Senator Hoke Smith issued the following signed
statement:
“I am perfectly sure the county executive committees will
do their duty. I do not for a moment suppose any commit
tee will yield to Senator Harris’ thinly-veiled appeal to stack
delegations against me in the hundred and more counties I
will carry.
“I know he belonged to the opposition, but I admit I am
surprised at any public officer attempting so barefaced a
scheme to pilfer an election.
“The campaign against me has gone through its usual
stage of Clark Howell’s lying and its usual reaction.
“I expect to carry the state overwhelmingly and no one
can persuade the county committees to take it from me—cer
tainly not the junior senator. 1 have the utmost confidence
in the Georgians who compose these committees.
“HOKE SMITH.”
VALIDITY OF DRY
LAW UNDER FIRE
IN U. S. COURT
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The su
preme court reconvened today with
out rendering an opinion in any of
the various pending cases involving
the validity of the prohibition
amendment and portions of the en
forcement act.
Seven suits, attacking prohibition
from every angle, are under consid
eration, all having been argued dur
ing March. The court is expected to
hand down a blanket opinion cover
ing all, which will settle definitely
whether the prohibition amendment
is valid and the Volstead law enforc
ing it constitutional.
The court may uphold both the
amendment and the Volstead law,
may knock out both, or may hold
the amendment valid, but the en
forcement law unconstitutional. It
might pass on validity of the amend
ment, and leave the question of con
stitutionality of the Volstead law to
a later opinion.
Cases which await decision are the
original proceedings brought by
Rhode Island and New Jersey as
states, and appeals brought by indi
viduals from New Jersey, Massachu
setts, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Mis
souri federal courts.
Ed H. Rhodes Says
Ex-Service Men Are
For Senator Smith
As an evidence of the inaccuracy
of some reports which have gone
forth from Clark county to the effect
that ex-service men are opposing
Senator Smith, the following tele
gram from Carlisle Cobb, of Athens,
will be read with interest:
"ATHENS, Ga., April 19. —Edward
H. Rhodes, of Athens, a prominent
young broker, who was one of the
first from Clark© county to volunteer
his services, who spent twenty
months in France and Germany, and
who at present is adjutant of the
Allen Fleming post of the American
Legion, here, brands as false the
eleventh-hour reports that have gone
out from Athens to the effect that
ex-service men are opposed to Sena
tor Smith.
"Mr. Rhodes heartily Indorses Sen
ator Smith and his principles as the
salvation of the Democratic party,
and. in his opinion, a large majority
of former service men in the Eighth
congressional district are for Sen
ator Smith.
(Signed) "CARLISLE COBB.”
Brooklyn Steamship
Terminal Threatened
By Fire on Monday
NEW YORK, April 19.—Fire start
ing on the steamship Halfried, which
was loaded with nitrates, today
threatened the destruction of the
Bush Terminal, in Brooklyn, one of
the largest steamship terminals in
the world. Two piers quickly caught
fire and firemen,. attracted by four
alarms, endeavored to prevent other
piers burning.
After two explosions were heard
across the East river, ambulances
were sent to the terminal. Early re
ports were that at least five men
had been seriously hurt. Tugs from
over all New York harbor hurried
to the scene to remove threatened
ships to safety.
Mine Workers and
Operators Agree on
New Wage Increase
BALTIMORE, April 19.—Mine
workers and operators today agreed
on a wage scale at their confer
ence here. The new scale, which rep
resents virtually a 45 per cent in
crease, covers the “pick” and “ma
chine” mining of bituminous coal
in thin and thick seams and for
wide and narrow work.
Representatives of northern West
Virginia coal operators association
and district No. 17 United Mine
Workers of America signed the
agreement, effective at once. The
new scale affects virtually 27,000
miners and 450 mines in northern
West Virginia.
Requested Rail Fund
Reduced $30,000,000
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Reduc
tion of $30,000,000 in the $420,000,000
asked by the railroad administra
tion to wind up its affairs was made
today by the house appropriations
committee.
The new appropriation would bring
the total of funds granted the rail
road administration to $1,750,000,000.
ARKANSAS STORM
KILLS SCORE AND
INJURES MANY
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 19.—A
score of persons were killed and
many injured in storme which swept
several counties in northwest Ar
kansas last night, according to
meagre messages received today
over demoralized wire service.
WOMAN AND TWO
CHILDREN ARE KILLED
FORT SMITH, Ark., April 19. —
Mrs. Charles Zacharay and two
chlldre were killed and more than
a score of persons are reported se
riously injured in a tornado which
badly damaged the village of Hickey
town, Ark., last night. Hickeytown
is sixteen miles south of Clarks
ville, in Johnson county. Its popu
lationis estimated at about 200.
JIM CROW LAW
UPHELD BY U. S.
SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, April 19.—The
United States supreme court today
upheld the Kentucky separate coach
act requiring the separation of white
and negro passengers and holding
that it applies to the South Coving
ton and Cincinnati street railway and
the Cincinnati, Covington and Er
langer railway company while op
erating betwen points in Kentucky.
Justices Vandevanter, Pitney and
Day dissented in part.
Levee Gives Way on
Mississippi River and
Orange Groves Suffer
NEW ORLEANS, April 19. —The
first break in the Mississippi river
levee system since the present high
water took place today when a sec
tion o? the west bank of the river
caved in just above Fort Jackson,
fifty miles south of this city, and
carried with It about 450 feet of the
levee.
Two feet of water is pouring
through the crevasse over orange
groves and a rich trucking section.
The area to be flooded is small. The
break occurred just above Fort Jacfl
son, which is just a few miles above
the end of the levee system. The
government reservation probably
will be flooded unless the break is
closed, and engineers left this even
ing in tugs with material to repair
the break.
The 'United States engineer’s of
fice’ issued a warning to all steam
ers to limit the speed of their ves
sels to the lowest point consistent
with the safetly of the ship during
the present high water.
Robbers Secure $ 16,000
In Two New York Hauls
NEW YORK, April 19.—New
York today had its second payroll
robbery in two days. Three masked
men took $6,000 from George Kond
chier, 57, treasurer of the Hope
Clothing company in Brooklyn as
he entered the firm’s building on re
turning from a bank. Kondchier was
removed to a hospital with a skull
fracture and three broken fingers
suffered in the fight with the ban
dits. Yesterday robbers obtained
SIO,OOO when they held up the
cashier of a firm situated next door
to a police station.
House Votes Increase
For Disabled Soldiers
WASHINGTON, April 19. —By
unanimous vote the house today
passed a bill increasing by S2O a
month the war risk insurance pay
ment of the government to 25,000 dis
abled soldiers and sailors now re
ceiving vocational rehabilitation. Un
der the measure, which now goes to
the Senate, single men would receive
SIOO a month and married men $l2O.
V ious organizations of world war
veterans supported the bill.
French Morale Low In
1917, Says Pershing
NEW YORK, April 19.—The mor
ale of the French army and the
French people was so low in the
spring of 1917, it required great ef
fort to keep France from getting out
of the war altogether. General Persh
ing said at a dinner to Hen
ry P. Davison, head of the Red
Cross, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
General Pershing said the “whole
truth about the matter has never
been told.”
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NOW SftY SENATOR i
WILL WIN IN 115
CDUNTIBTUESDAY
Assert That Claims Made
Saturday Night Were Too
Conservative in Light of
Later Reports From State
Pulaski Committee to
Follow Rules Despite
Senator Harris’ Appeal
J. M. Lanier, of Hawkinsville,
has wired The Journal that the
Pulaski executive committee will
elect delegates to the state Dem
ocratic convention in accordance
with the rules of the state execu
tive committee, notwithstanding
the urgent letter of Senator Wil
liam J. Harris asking that dele
gates pledged to indorse the ad
ministration’s position on the
League of Nations and all other
measures to be chosen. Mr. La
nier’s telegram to The Journal
follows:
"HAWKINSVILLE, Ga.. April
19.—County committee will '’ol
low rules of state committee, del
egates to be friend of winner in
county, whether friend or foe c*
Wilson. No outside advice fcought.
"J. M. LANIER."
With the primary one day off,
Hoke Smith headquarters In the
Piedmont hotel announced Monday
that reports from all over the state
Indicated a sweeping victory for Sen
ator Smith.
It was stated by the Smith cam
paign committee that their estimate
of 107 counties for Senator Smith,
made in the Sunday papers and based
on reports received up te Saturday
noon, was too conservative. Tele
grams and letters that poured In
Saturday night, Sunday and Monday
morning, they said. Indicated that
Senator Smith would carry at least
115 counties.
H. Y. McCord, X. R. Smith and
Arthur Lucas, campaign managers
for Senator Smith say that the
senator’s position on the League
of Nations is In line with the
practically unanimous thought of
the state. The campaign of vilifica
tion and abuse, which .they J
been unparalleled In the history of
Georgia’s politics, has stirred the
Indignation of the people, and they
are planning to go to the polls to
register their protest against such
tactics.
Palmer’s headquarters In the Kim
ball House had no additional state
ment to make Monday. On Sjinday
the state campaign committee
claimed ninety-five counties.
Headquarters' Statement
Senator Hoke Smith’s headquarters
today authorized the following an
nouncement:
"We wish to revise the estimate
given out Saturday as to the prospect
of tomorrow’s election. Based on the
reports which we received yesterday
and this morning from all parts of
Georgia, we feel perfectly safe In
stating that we are certain of not
less than 115 counties. Several coun
ties which we had In the doubtful
column have reported that there can
no longer be any doubt as to Senator
Smith’s carrying them.
"While we place our certainties at
only 115 counties we confidently be
lieve that there are many of the oth
ers which are now placed in , the
doubtful column are strongly Inclined
to Senator Smith, and that the num
ber actually carried by him will ex
ceed 115, which number we state
merely as a minimum.
"It looks like one of the old-time
Hoke Smith ground swells, which
starts about ten days before the elec
tion day and reaches its full flood on
election day. •
"We have already heard from a
surprising number of sections In
which Senator Harris’ astonishing in
terview of yesterday Is creating the
bitterest resentment.
"There is nothing on earth the peo
ple of Georgia resent more than an
effort to stack delegations, tamper
with election machinery and pilfer
from a successful candidate the
fruits of his victory. The county ex
ecutive committees especially resent
this appeal of Senator Harris. They
tell us they are not that kind of
Democrats, and that whoever carries
their counties will get an honest,
fairly selected delegation.
"The resentment of Senator Harris’
unfair appeal, the prospects for a
large vote, and the reports we have
received since Saturday fully justify’
us in revising ,our estimate and in
creasing the statement as to the
number of counties we will carry.”
Dr. Tracy, Anti-Toxin
Pioneer, Is Dead
TROY, N. Y., April 19.—Dr. John
G. Tracy, pioneer in the use of diph
theria anti-toxins and for forty-five
years prominently identified with the
medical profession in this section, is
dead at his home in Chestertown.
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