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VOL. XXII. NO. 72.
Knox Scores President in Peace Proposal Debate
AIRPLANES USED BY
CIRW TO BOMB
FORGESJF REBELS
Generals Loyal to Govern
ment Tricked by Foes and
Forced at Pistol Point to
Join Revolution
WASHINGTON, May s.—Secretary
Daniels today ordered a division of
destroyers, now at New York with
the Atlantic fleet, to sail immediately
for Key West, where they will be
held for possible duty in Mexican
waters. '
The destroyers are the Isherwood.
Case, Lardner, Putnam, Beale and
Reid. The flotilla is commanded by
Captain Byron Long, on the tender,
Black Hawk, which will accompany
the flotilla. Captain Long was in
conference Secretary Daniels
here last night and left immediately
afterwards for New York to get his'
ships ready to sail today.
The secretary said today that Cap
tain Long had been given full in
structions as to the policy to be pur
sued in the event it becomes neces
sary to send the destroyers to Mexi
can ports.
The vessels should reach Key West
by tomorrow night or Friday and the
run from there to Tampico or Vera
Crus would be a matter of only a
few hours.
The state department announced
Monday that it had asked the navy
department to send destroyers to
those two Mexican ports. The re
quest was based on reports receiv
ed from the American consuls, who
desired to have ships on hand to take
off American citizens if that became
hecessary.
Thus far no reports of any seri
ous disturbances in the Mexican ports
have reached the government, but
revolutionists are active not far from
those places.
At the state department today itl
was said that reports thus far re
ceived had not indicated that the
lives of any American citizens had
been endangered anywhere in Mexico
as a. result of the revolution.
Apparently unable to get underway
any offensive military expedition
against the revolutionists. President
Carrana has begun using airplanes to
harass rebel-held towns in the neigh
borhood of the Mexican capital, ac
cording to advices to revolutionary
agents here. Cuernavaca, capital of
Morelos, and Cuautala, in the satne
state, are two of the points that have
been smartly bombed, the reports
stated. The information through of
ficial channels yesterday that Pablo
Gonzales, formerly an ardent sup-
Atrrter of Carranza, had entered the
evrolution at the head of a detach
ment of revolting federal troops, also
was contained in the rebel advices.
Further indication that Torreon
again is to become, the objective
the contending forces was contained
in the report that General Dieguez’s
force that had been trying for more
than three weeks to make its way
through the state of Jalisco north
ward into Nayarit, to check the So
norans on their march to the south,
had been turned about and is on its
way to Irapuato, from where it may
move northward toward the state of
Chihuahua.
CARRANZA OFFICERS ARE
FORCED TO JOIN REBELS
JUAREZ, May s.—Juarez today
continued its process of adjustment
to the new revolutionary regime,
which assumed control upon the
city’s defection from the Carranza
government to the movement in
augurated by the Sonora state gov
ernment. The civil government func
tioned as usual today, but it was ex
• pected numerous changes eventually
would be made.
With the expected arrival here of
approximately 800 Yaqui troops from
Casas Grandes, another chapter will
have been written in the story of
the defection of their commander,
General Francisco Urbajejo, from
the ranks of the Carranza forces.
How General Urbalejo and Colonel
Eduardo Porcayo, also of the Casas
Grandes garrison, were captured
Monday night and induced- to join
the revolution has just been re
vealed.
A party of officers was ordered
to Casas Grandes by General Jose G-.
Escobar, commander of thfe Juarez
district, to meet the two command
. ers and ascertain their sympathies.
General Escobar’s envoys met the
Casas Grandes officers at Barreal
station, forty-one miles southwest of
J uarez.
Unaware that the Juarez garrison
had revolted, Urbalejo and Porcayo
were on the way to the border for a
brief visit. They were accompanied
by a small body guard.
Escobar’s officers greeted the two
commanders cordially and invited
them ow the train for “a friendly
chat." xne f>alr accepted and when
separated from their men were
menaced with pistols and placed un
der arrest.
The captives were brought back
to Juarez and finally were convinced
that the part of wisdom was to join
the revolution without further strug
gle.
First details of the fall of the
Chihuahua city garrison" were re
ceived from Chihuahua City today.
On April 26, Generals Eugenio Mar
tinez, Joaquin Amaro and Colonel
Manuel Gama, with all other chiefs
there, repudiated the Carranza gov
ernment and assumed control of the
city after twelve hours’ fighting
with the Sixty-second battalion, com
manded by General Figueroa.
Figueroa then surrendered the
barracks. There were no civilian
casualties.
Colonel Oteo Gama was killed out-
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center. Miss Elizabeth Fryer; lower,
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Williamson.
LOS ANGELES? —Pacific coast of
ficials tracing the record of “Blue
beard” Charles Newton Harvey, re
port that he has married 26 women
during his career. The body of Miss
Pryor was exhumed from a shallow
grave at Spokane. She had • willed
her savings to Harvey.
Harvey married Mrs. Williamson
under the name of “Lewis.”
Wife Refuses to Return;
Husband Dies of Shock,
Then She Comes Back
NEW YORK, May s.—Death led
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, mysteriously
missing since April 10, back to her
home here today.
Her aged husband. Joseph Smith,
and their grown children were unable
to explain her disappearance. He suf
fered a nervous breakdown. While
at the Iroquois Yacht club Friday
one of his daughter received a letter
from Mrs. Smith, merely announcing
she would never return home. When
the contents of the letter were tele
phoned to Mr. Smith he dropped dead
from thS shock.
Mrs. Smith appeared at her home
today, unnounced. She said she had
read in the newspapers of her hus
band’s death and had returned for the
funeral. She refused to explain why
she had left home or where she had
been. '
Profiteering in Meat
Charged to Armour’s
New England Branch
BOSTON, May s.—Profiteering in
meat was charged today against Ar
mour & Co. and Its New England
manager, John E. Wilson. The lat
ter was arrested on a warrant issued
by United States Commissioner
Hayes on evidence transmitted by
the United States district attorney’s
office that lamb bought for less than
ten cents a pound plus freight
charges of about four cents a pound,
had been sold here for 25 1-2 cents.
Pupils Hold Parade
Indorsing Teachers’
Strike for More Pay
NEWPORT Ky., May s—When the
entire teaching force "of the public
grade and high schools of Newport
went on “indefinite vacation” this
morning, because their demand for
a salary increase of S3OO was re
fused by the board of education,
the 2,963 pupils rushed from the
buildings, paraded the streets and
shouted “more pay for teachers.”
Average Pay of Rural
School Teachers Small
WASHINGTON, May s.—Commis
sioner P. P. Claxton, of the bureau
of education, today made public a re
port showing that 40 per cent of the
rural school teachers of the United
States receive less than S6OO a year,
nearly 30 per cent less than SSOO,
and 15 per cent less than S4OO.
Mr. Claxton said estimates show
that New YorK City this year will
spend $250,000,000 on automobiles and
but $36,000,000 for teachers.
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(JOHNSON LEADS IN
CALIFORNIA: WOOD
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Governor Cox Has Big Ma
jority of Delegates in Ken
tucky—Hoover’s Manager
Concedes Defeat
SAN FRANCISCO, May s.—Returns
tabulated early today from yester
day’s presidential preferential election
showed Senator Hiram Johnson, of
San Francisco, leading his rival, Her
bert C. Hoover, of Palo Alto, Cal., by
a wide margin.
Incomplete returns from fifty-four
of the state’s fifty-eight counties and
representing 3,959 of a total of 5,729
precincts, showed the following vote
on the group of twenty-six delegates
pledged to support Senator Johnson
at the national convention and a rival
group of twenty-six pledged to’ Mr.
Hoover:
Johnson group 283,487.
Hoover group 155,765.
At ten o’clock last night Ralph P.
Merritt, campaign manager of the
Hoover Republican Club of California,
conceded thp election of the Johnson
delegates, but declared the issues rep
resented by Mr. Hoover would con
tinue to "command the attention of
the country and eventually at the Re
publican convention Hoover will be
nominated for the presidency.”
In addition to delegates to the Re
publican convention, an uninstructed
Democratic delegation and a prohibi
tion party delegation, pledged to
Henry Clay Needham, of Los Angeles,
for the party presidential nomination,
were chosen.
In all but three counties Senator
Johnson had a lead. In Los Angeles
county the Hoover ticket led the
Johnson ticket by a vote of 39,709 to
30.528. ,
In San Francisco city and county
with only two of the 381 precincts
missing, Johnson’s vote was 68,777,
and Groover’s 25,016.
MOST OF KENTUCKY’S
DELEGATES FOR COX
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May s.—Only
Kentucky’s delegates from the state
at-large were instructed last night
by the Democratic state convention
to vote for Governor James Cox, of
Ohio, “os long as his name remains
before the national convention,” no
mention being made of the twenty
two district delegates. Governor
Cox, however, will have twenty of
the state’s twenty-six votes, sixteen
of the delegates having been ordered
by their districts to do so. The
other six are uninstructed.
When the instructions were read
just before adjournment of the con
vention at 1:30 : o’clock this morn
ing, many delegates misunderstood
them because of noise, and this led
to the erroneous belief that the en
tire delegation had been instructed
for Governor Cox.
Johnson N. Camden, Versailles,
former United States senator, was
elected national committeeman after
a fight on the floor that plunged
the convention into an uproar just
before adjournment. He defeated
Marion L. Taylor, Louisville, by a
vote of 1,634 to 968.
For the first time in history, Ken
tucky women attended a Democratic
state convention. Three of them and
five men, all with a half vote each,
were elected delegates-at-large to
the national convention.
The report of the resolutions com
mittee was unanimously adopted. It
denounced what it termed obstruc
tive tactics used by Republicans In
congress toward constructive legis
lation; indorsed without reserve the
administration of President Wilson
and called attention to his “war
achievements.” As regards the
peace treaty the report indorsed the
administration’s stand and approved
placing the issue before the coun
try.
WOOD LEADS, JOHNSON
SECOND IN INDIANA
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 5.
One thousand nine hundred and nine
ty-seven precincts out of 3.387 in
Indiana for Republican presidential
preference in yesterday’s • primary
gave Wood, 51,062; Johnson. 47,009;
Lowden, 23,210; Harding, 12,699.
WILSON FACTION TO CONTROL
TEXAS STATE CONVENTION
DALLAS, Tex., May s.—Belated re
ports from Democratic county con
ventions held Tuesday gave further
assurances that the party’s faction
favorable to the administration of
President Wilson would control the
Texas Democratic state convention
May 25.
The administration forces will now
control 1,300 of 1,400 votes, it was
indieated by the reports.
Georgia and Alabama
Towns Show Increase
In Population Figures
WASHINGTON, May s.—The cen
sus bureau today announced the fol
lowing population figures:'
Marion, Ind., 23,747, increase 4,388,
or 22.7 per cent: Ironwood. Midi.,
15,739, increase 2,918, or 22.8 per
cent; Brenham Tex., 5,066, increase
348, 'or 7.4 per cent; East Orange,
N. J., £0,587, increase 16,216, or 47.2
per cent; Troy, Ala., 5,696, increase
735 ,or 14.8 per cent; Punxsutawyney
Pa.. 10,311, Increase 1,253, or 13.8 per
cent; Gainesville, Ga., 6,272, increase
347; or 5.9 per cent; Toccoa Ga., 3,-
557. increase 447, or 14.3 per cent.
Populations of Jacksonville, Fla.,
and Baton Rouge, La., will be an
nounced at 10:30 a. m. tomorrow.
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920.
THIRD PARTY ■
IMTIBLE, lffiT
PDLITICALJ.EISDERS
Both Republicans and Dem
ocrats Convinced It Will
Comej Says Lawrence,
Discussing Primaries
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.)
WASHINGTON, May 5. —Both Re
publicans and Democrats whose in
fluence in their respective par'ies is
controlling and whose political judg
ment is usually accurate now are
convinced that a third party is in
evitable.
Primary results . in California
where Senator Hiram Johnson has
defeated Herbert Hoover have ac
centuated the lines of political
strength as the time for the two big
conventions approaches. Republican
senators friendly to Senator John
son concede that he cannot be nomi
nated at Chicago. They say he is
not really radical but behind him
are groups of voters whose support
of the Republican ticket is not so
much based upon a conversion to
Republican doctrine as it is upon
personal fondness for Hiram John
son. To permit Johnson to be nomi
nated would insure the domination
of these elements, something which
the conservative leaders of the Re
publican party do not welcome.
But to fail to nominate Johnson
means a possible defection and a
third party. The California senator
himself may be persuaded to remain
loyal to the party, but his follow
ing will not stay. It’s Johnson or
nothing with them. And prepara
tions already are under way for a
third party composed of some of the
elements which broke away in 1912
and . formed the Progressive party,
some of the radicals who like nei
ther the Republican nor Democratic
parties, the voters controlled by the
chain of Hearst newspapers, and
the numerous gi'oups who are irrec
oncilably opposed to the ratifica
tion of the peace treaty even with
reservations.
Where Support Would Come From
Many of the supporters of the
third party would be drawn from the
Democratic ranks. It looks for in
stance as if the Democratic conven
tion will not nominate a radical of
the Bryan type. Messrs. McAdoo,
Cox and Palmer, who are in the lead
for the Democratic nomination, are
more or less conservative.
They all favor the treaty and
League of Nations. Disappointment
ovei' the failure of the Republican or
Democratic conventions respectively
to recognize the Johnson or Bryan
strength would compel their sup
porters to turn elsewhere. They
would be welcomed with open arms
tn a third party.
The Republican leaders themselves
would prefer to go to the country
this year with a man admittedly
conservative than a candidate with
a taint of radicalism that
cause the bulk of. the nation’s vot
ers to turn to a Democratic con
servative. Republican leaders are
convinced that business efficiency
and conservatism in domestic and
foreign policy are demanded this
time and that the day of experiment
alism in government and quasi-soci
alistic theorizing is gone. While
some of them foresee a third party,
they do not fear it. They are hon
estly convinced that there are more
Republican voters in the country
than Democrats today and that the
formation of a third party would
draw almost as many Democrats as
Republicans and when those ele
ments had been subtracted from
both parties, the resultant strength
of the Republican party in each of
the important states still would be
sufficient to carry the electoral
votes for the Republican ticket.
But in the Democratic camp, the
forecast of a third party is accom
-panied by a sense of jubiliation and
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Democratic and Republican parties will
soon be staged —
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md enthusiasm—
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NEW YORK. —Paris has a brand-new fad—that of women wearing
feathers in their oxfords, with the idea of decorating ihe “kicks” and
protecting the ankles. And American girls wearing the winged shoes are
already thrilling Broadway.
Carolina Planters
Stand Firm for
Sixty-Cent Cotton
COLUMBIA, S. C., May 5. —Mrs. G.
H. Mathis, a prominent woman cot
ton planter of Gadsden, Ala.; B. C.
Maddox, of Georgia; R. H. Edmonds,
editor of the Manufacturers Record,
an : J. S. Wannamaker, president of
the American Cotton association,
were among the speakers today at the
semi-annual convention of the South
Carolina division of the American
Cotton association.
The organization song, "Organize!
Oh, Organize!” marked the formal
opening of the convention. A firm
stand was taken for sixty-cent cot
ton and decision was reached to
make a state-wide campaign for
farmers warehouses in all of the
counties.
Several hundred farmers and
prominent business men attended the
convention.
Says Dry Law Costs
$88,000,000 a Year
WASHINGTON, May s.—Enforce
ment of prohibition will cost the
United States $88,000,000 a year, In
contrast to a pre-dry period revenue
of $444,000,000 from liquor sales,
Representative Gallivan, Massa
chusetts, declared in a speech to the
house today.
Mr. Gallivan asserted there are
more illicit stills today than ever be
fore. He said most of the Anti-Saloon
league fund of $28,000,000 wa’s for
hiring spies to hunt down violators
of prohibition laws.
Holder Not to Resign
From House to Make
Gubernatorial Race
John N. Holder, speaker of the
house of representatives and candi
date for governor, is quoted in a
statement from Jefferson, the county
site of Jackson county, where he
lives, that he will not resign the
speakership to make the race. His
Ostatement follows:
“I shall not resign the speaker
ship. It might be of great political
advantage to me to resign so that I
could devote my entire time to my
campaign for governor, but the peo
ple of Jackson county, whom I have
served eighteen years in the general
assembly, are not favorable to it, and
many members of the house and
other citizens of the state believe
my resignation would precipitate a
contest, create disturbed conditions
and impair the work of the next
session of the legislature.
“The achievements of the last
session of the general assembly
were almost without parallel, and
the splendid work so well begun
last year should by all means be
consummated this year. The speaker
pro tem., John vV. Bale, has resigned
and, if I should do so, then our suc
cessors this summer would be with
out experience as presiding offi
cers. . x
“I have the aspiration to be gov
ernor of Georgia, and I purpose to
use every possible legitimate effort
to win that high honor, except to
neglect the duties of the office I
now hold. The welfare and interests
of the state have first consideration
with me and, believing I can be of
service to the state in the next ses
sion of the assembly, I will be found
at my post of duty and will remain
there as representative of Jackson
county and as speaker of the house
of representatives during the entire
session of 1920.”
Says Rail Workers
Os South Will Take
“Vacation” Shortly
WASHINGTON. May s.—Railroad
workers in southern cities are ex
pected to go on a “vacation too?-/
or tomorrow, James Eubanks, of St.
Louis, declared here today at the
conference of the non-recognized rail
road yardmen’s association. Mr. Eu
banks asserted this action
close the gateways to the cotton belt
and isolate the oil fields of the south
west.
The formation of a national or
ganization in opposition to the broth
erhoods will not be perfected, Eu
banks said, until the present dispute
has been settled and the men have
gone back to work. A general con
vention will be then called, he de
clared. The yardmen declare they
will stick with the board until they
are heard and if necessary will fol
low it to Chicago when hearings be
gin there May 17.
Walkouts are expected in a day or
two, Eubanks said, in Little Rock,
Texarkana, New Orleans and Shreve
port. The Cotton 801 l will be com
pletely tied up, he declared, and fur
ther walkouts in other sections of the
country will follow until the de
mands of the men are met.
Railway Strike in
Paris Virtually Over
PARIS, May 5. —Announcement
that the strike of railway workers
throughout France virtually was over
was made in official quarters here
last night. Since Saturday, traffic
has been seriously embarrassed, but
volunteers have given material aid.
and yesterday a large number of
strikers returned to their posts.
Miners in the Anzin basin have
voted to go on strike May 7, but the
situation in northern France seems
to be improving.
In the principal French ports the
strike of naval and dock workers is
almost complete.
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Senator Outlines Basis rtn
His Belief That War Is
‘ Over and the World Is at
Peace
WASHINGTON, iftay s.—Opening
debate on his resolution to declare
the state of war with Germany and
Austria at an end, Senator Knox,
Republican, Pennsylvania, declared
in the senate today that President
Wilson was arbitrarily maintaining
that the nation technically was at
war in order to coerce the senate rat
ifying the treaty of Versailles.
“There was no excuse Whatsoever
for greatly prolonging the war be
yond the signature of the armistice,”
Senator Knox said, “and the only ex
planation for so doing was the de
liberate aim to retain all those auto
cratic compulsory which
the executive had been endowed for
the prosecution of the war, in order
that they might be used for other
purposes.
“The welfare and safety of the na
tion imperatively demands that we
know we have peace. The whole
world seethes with revolution. Out
own nation is in ferment and toil.
Force and strife are rampant and
threaten the destruction not only of
our property, but of our free institu
tions and even of our lives. And yet
we stand and have stood for months,
as a rudderless ship, foundering in
the trough of a tremendous sea.
“We must not dare longer to delay
a return to the order of government
of peace; we must not hazard a fur
ther postponement in turning our
undivided deliberations to our home
problems. They are great enough to
tax the utmost wisdom which we
possess. As a preliminary step, the
executive must be returned to his
peace-time powers and prerogatives.
Need, propriety, wisdom, cannot
qupestlon this.”
Fallen In Esteem
Declaring that he entertained only
sympathy for the president in his
illness and "sympathy for the coun
try which must suffer under him be
cause of it.” Senator .Knox said it
was an unwelcome task "to judge
one who has fallen in public esteem.”
He added, however, that when dan
gei’ threatened the nation, it must be
met forefronted and that “who ven
tures to intervene against the safe
and wise course must step aside or
be crushed.”
“The course of the president ever
since he cruised to Europe to par
ticipated in the peace conference,"x
continued the .former secretary of
state, “leaves no chance for doubt
that he will continue hereafter, as
heretofore, to thwart, so far as be is
able, every attempt on the part of
the senate, the congress or the peo
ple to take any action, immediately
or remote, affecting in however
slight a degree, through change vt
inodifycation, the provisions of the
treaty of Versailles as it came to us
fresh from his sig’nature.*
Launching into a 30,000 word dis
cussion of his resolution, the sena
tor said congress had the power to
“unmake” any of its acts and conse
quently had the power-to repeal the
resolution declaring a state of war
with the Imperial German govern
ment and with the Austro-Hungarian
empire.
Pointing out that the war declara
tion by congress' was directed
against the imperial German govern
ment, Senator Knox said that gov
ernment had ceased to exist and with
It the enemy named by congress. He
argued further that the war, so far
as the United States was concerned,
was ended by the “silent cessation”
of hostilities.
Nation Xs at Peace
Supporting his contention that In
ternationally the nation actually and
legally is at peace, the senator dis
cussed the terms and effect of the
armistice, declaring that by this doc
ument Germany had conceded its
capitulation. He contended also that
ratification of the treaty of Ver
sailles by Germany and the allies
made peace for the United States.
Reiterating opposition to the
treaty of Versailles, Senator Knox
said it was almost universally dis
credited and that the senate reser
vations did not Americanize the
League ®f Nations, but merely made
it safer for America to join.
Senator Knox said that although
America probably would secure prac
tically all it desires from Germany
without ratifying the treaty of Ver
sailles, a supplemental treaty with
Germany should be concluded.
Summing up his arguments that
the war was at an end. Senator Knox
said:
“First, the war is at an end by vir
tue of the armistice of November 11, »
1918, and of amendments and renew
als thereof, such armistice being in
fact a capitulation ending hostili
ties by virtual surrender of the en
emy.
“Second, the war is at an end by
the ‘silent cessation of hostilities,
which concluded the war in fact.
“Third, the war is at an end be
cause the government against wlilch
we specifically declared war has
ceased to exist.
"Fourth, the war is at an end be
cause we, together with associates
. . . negotiated with the people •
whom we had been fighting . .
a treaty of peace which provided
. . . that the war should terminate
and diplomatic relations be resumed
when the treaty came into force.
Senator Knox summed up the legal
aspects of the question as follows:
His Legal Contention
“First, war is actual hostilities.
“Second, that the power to declare
war was exclusively with congress,
which created the status of war by a
law, like any other law, could be
amended, modified or repealed.
“Fourth, that the purpose of the
war powers of the constitution was
to give the national government the
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