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®he Atlanta Wurnal VOL. XXII. NO. 114. DEFENDANT DENIED APPEAL FOR CHI® . OF 180 CFIURT Campbell Courtroom Crowd ed to Capacity as Woman Faces Trial—Mother and Father Arrive Late BY WARD GREENE. (Staff Correspondent of The Journal.) FAIRBURN, Ga„ Aug. 11.—A jury of seven farmers, one blacksmith, one mechanic, one truck driver, a lumber dealer and a Baptist preacher will decide whether or not Mrs. Kathe rine <Jueen Bradstreet is guilty of k the charge of conspiring with Wil- I Ham B. Green to embezzle thousands of dollars from the Fairburn bank ing company. This was the jury chosen by 11:30 o’clock this morning, just three hours and a half after Mrs. Bradstreet’s trial began. Only two panels and part of a third were exhausted before the last juror was chosen. As each man was examined Mrs. Bradstreet, seated witn her lawyers at a table in front of the hot, packed court room, scanned his face closely, it was the nod or the shake of her head that decided, in each instance, whether the juror was acceptable to the defense. The twelve who will hold her fate in their hands all were approved by her. Nervous at first, breaking into tears when her mother arrived at 9 o’clock, Mrs. Bradstreet gradually grew more composed. She whispered to her lawyers and even smiled and chatted with her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Queen. Her hus band, Clarence Bradstreet, was not in court. Two big palm leaf fans were • kept busy by her and Mffe. Queen, for it was intensely hot and the crowd was so thick it jostled her now and again. Mrs. Bradstreet’s trial got well un der way only after three attempts to delay it had been made by the defense. Defense Loses First Skirmish A series of attempts by the de fense to delay the trial of Mrs. failed one by one this morning, with the result that at 10 o’clock the picking of a jury began. It was assured that probably by the end of the week Mrs. Bradstreet will know whether she will be con victed or freed of the charge of con spiring with William B. Green to em bezzle thousands of dollars from the Fairburn Banking company. First the defense asked for a change of ven.ue. This was denied. Next the defense asked for a super sedeas, while appealing this decision. This was denied. Third, the defense declared it could not announce ready unless William B. Green was present as chief material witness for their case. Green’s lawyers assured the court that Green would appear when want ed, and on this assurance the de fense said it would waive his pres ence now and go on with the trial. Despite the heavy downpour that drenched the red hills of Campbell county this morning the courthouse at Fairburn was packed to suffoca tion for the trial of Mrs. Bradstreet. Court Called to Order When court was called to order at 8 o’clock, judge, attorneys, tales ijnen, witnesses and spectators, who filled every bench, were present, but Mrs. Bradstreet had not yet ap peared. Ninety-five per cent of those in the courtroom were men. Four women of Campbell county occupied chairs near the front of the court room. Mrs. Green was not in court, nor was her little daughter. An extra panel of talesmen was summoned and sworn, then the case of The State vs. Mrs. Katherine Bradstreet was called and Sheriff Jenkins departed to fetch Mrs. Brad street from the jail, about 200 yards from the courthouse. While court waited Judge Ben H. Hill, of counsel for Mrs. Bradstreet, introduced a petition, asking for a change of venue in the case on the ground that too much prejudice ob tained in Campbell county for Mrs. Bradstreet to have a fair trial. ' Mrs. Bradstreet Enters The petition charged that all jurors summoned to try Mrs. Bradstreet had heard the evidence introduced at Green’s trial and denunciatory speeches against Mrs. Bradstreet, which also had been published in the press and widely circulated. Among other grounds for a change of v(nue, the defense declared an inflammatory petition had been circu lated by women of Fairburn, demand ing an immediate trial for Mrs. Bradstreet. "Passion and prejudice have been so aroused in the county against Mrs. Bradstreet that she cannot get a fair trihl here,” declared the pe tition. When Judge Hill finished reading the petition there was another wait until Mrs. Bradstreet arrived to swear to the charges recited in it. There is only one entrance to the courtroom, the front door. Around it and wedged in a solid jam down the single aisle were men. At 8:30 Mrs. Bradstreet was escorted in by Sheriff Jenkins, who pawed away for her through the staring spectators, whom she brushed as she passed in with bowed head. Mrs. Bradstreet was dressed in black taffeta, simply but stylishly. She wore a dark blue picture hat, the underside lined with white. She wore no ornament or jewelry what ever save a hatpin and her wedding ring. She carried a velvet handbag. This she deposited in her lap, as a split-bottomed chair was brought for her, a white pillow placed on it, and she took her seat at the front table between her lawyers, Judge Hill and Fred E. Harrison. Senator Smith’s Speech In Covington Brings Many Assurances of Support COVINGTON, Ga„ Aug. 11.—A crowd in, which farmers predomi nated overflowed the Newton county courthouse here yesterday afternoon upon the occasion of Senator Hoke Smith’s visit to Covington. The senator was given an attentive hear ing and his speech was interrupted frequentl}' by outbursts of applause and cheering. Senator Smith followed generally the lines of the address he delivered earlier in the day at Conyers. He planted himself squarely on the San Francisco platform and behind the presidential candidacy of Governor James M. Cox. He devoted the two hours he talked to a discussion of the great constructive record of the Democratic party and a full and frank review of his public record as governor of Georgia and in the sen ate of the United States. As at Conyers and in all of his other utterances during the cam paign, Senator Smith's speech was marked by the absence of personali ties and abusive comment respecting either of his opponents in the-~fcen ate race, and the hostilities of his enemies in Georgia, excepting only a reference to the Atlanta Constitu tion, which provoked laughter and applause. a “Os course;-! know you don’t be lieve what you read in the Atlanta Constitution regarding myself and my candidacy,” said Senator Smith. “The Atlanta Constitution doesn’t like me and you good people of Newton county partly are responsible for its bitterness and hostility. You helped me’ to defeat Clark Howell in his race for governor in 19W, and the Atlanta Constitution has never for given me. Its unfriendly comments date from the defeat of its editor and its hostility has been unceasing. It never publishes the truth in mat ters concerning me.” Convert Interrupts Speech Senator Smith was interrupted once during his speech. A gentleman arose to remark that he had enter ed the courthouse with a firm resolve to oppose the senator’s re-election, "but," said he, “I have changed my mind since hearing the speech. I am for Hoke Smith stronger than ever before, and my coat is off dur ing the remainder of this campaign.” The sentiment thus voiced was loudly applauded by the crowd in the courtroom, and at the conclusion of the speech Senator Smith was sought out by scores of representative citi zens who offered voluntary assur ances of support. Among them were many who had never voted for him in his previous races and others who opposed him in the recent presiden tial primary. ’ Senator Smith drove from Conyers to CovingtJn. He arrived only a few minutes before the -scheduled time of the meeting, and found a crowd at the courthouse. Among them were Dr. N. J. Boswell, of Mansfield; C. D. White, J. L. Stephenson, E. W. Fowler, R. R. Fowler, T. G. Galla way, J. B. Ellington, Steve Hayes, A. L. Lord, of Newborn, ordinary-elect; Ed Adams, Mansfield; J. W. King, Frank Ballard, ex-representative; N. S. Turner, J. C. Stewa,rt, J. E. Cook, Oxford; Judge A. D. Meador, ordi nary; Mestor Smith, Mansfield; Rance Harwell, Oxford; J. C. Up shaw, Brad Morgan, J. E. Thompson, D. A. Thompson, W. S. Scruggs, Sam Chesnut, Bryce Thompson, J. C. Stewart, Green Mitchell, Dr. J. H. Randall, A. J. Johnson, J. P. Wil liams, Mansfield; C. U. Skinner, Starrs ville; W. L. Gibson, R. W. Campbell, P. B. Leach, S. H. Adams! Ike Robinson, Capers Robinson, Fe lix Franklin, Boykin Robinson, Char ley Sockwell, Captain R. F. Wright, Reuben M. Tuck and many others. Cox and. Smith Agree J. Claude Upshaw introduced tne senator and referred to the fact that Mr. Smith and Governor Cox are in agreement respecting the rati fication of the League of Nations. Senator Smith outlined the views of the twenty-three Democratic sen ators who favored reservations to the league that will protect Ameri can interests and institutions, when reservations, he pointed out, were approved by Governor Cox, jn his speech of acceptance. The senator took up the legislative record of the Democratic party in detail and dwelt upon the great good that it has accomplished in lightening the burdens of the people and improving the opportunity of every one. The big problems confronting the country were illuminated by the sen ator, and his plans for improving legislation already enacted and for protecting many of the great acts of the Democratic administration won the approval of the crowd. As in his previous speeches, Sen ator Smith invited interruption and interrogation. He expressed not only a willingness but a desire to answer any questions that might be asked, and assured the crowd that any one dehiring to interrupt would be given the most cordial and con siderate treatment. "We can’t agree about everything,” he said, “All of us are human, and being human we are fallible. Mis takes all of us have made. I know I have erred, but I have never com mitted an error that was not prompted by ■what I conscientiously believed to be, the right thing. “I believe I have been of service to the people of Georgia. I know that my experience in Washington and in public affairs fits me to be of further service to Georgia. If I didn’t feel that I could serve the people I wouldn’t seek any office. “Service, to my way of thinking, unselfish service for one’s fellow man, is the greatest joy in life, and it is because I want to serve you that I am offering for re-election to the senate.’’ Many Converts Won » Senator Smith’s speech made a deep impression on all who heard it, and about the streets after the meeting words of praise and com mendation were heard on all sides. His old friends and supporters were convinced that his speech had help ed his candidacy in Newton county, and many others who have not sup ported him conceded that his address made many converts. The senatorial race in Newton county is squarely between Senator Smith and Thomas E. Watson, who woij the county in the presidential primary. It is conceded that Mr. Watson has a strong following in the county. Governor Dorsey has developed practically no strength, and the Smith men believe that many who otherwise might support the governor will join with them in re deeming the county for the Demo cratic party. Falls Five Stories; Goes Home Unhurt NEW YORK —Frank Marcino, eight, of 5 Chrystie street, while flying pigeons on the roof of 113 Mulberry street, late yesterday afternoon, fell five stories to the yard below. His fall was broken by an awning roof of a shed in the yard. The boy got up and went to his home. What Diplomacy Does to Health r~ ■i \ x WI \ .-I lb\s i i fßtflh i WWc-X- St I A LLO VT> &EO&& E' LONDON.—Wilson’s health broke. So did Clemenceau’s. Lloyd George, the other member of the Big Three world statesmen, held out longest, but now he, too, has been ordered by his physicians to take a vacation with “absolute rest.” Whether the little Welshman will obey the doctors remains to be seen. He got similar orders from* the medical men sev eral weeks ago—which he ignored. B 0 080EMPLIJYES . RECEIVE RUSE GF IK CENTSAN HO CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Thirty mil lion dollars was added t-oday to the nation’s express bill. The United States railway labor board awarded the 80,000 employes of the American Railway Express company an in crease of 16 cents an hour. The de cision is retroactive to May 1, 1920. Under the terms of the Esch-Cum mins transportation act, the express company will be permitted to raise its rates sufficiently to meet the in creased labor cost. Arguments in the rate case already have been pre sented before the interstate com merce commission at Washington. Today’s award does not go into the question of rules and working condi tions. As was the case last month, when the board granted a $600,000,- 000 increase to railway employes, it was announced that a decision cov ering new working rules would be handed down later. The express decision applies to all express employes save 2,500 shop men who were given an increase of 13 cents on hour in the railway award last month. The award to ex pressmen is slightly better than the average increase to the railroad men, the board finding that express em ployes, as a class, were not so well paid as men in other lines of rail road work. Four unions are affected by the board’s decision. They are: Unions Affected The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station *Employes. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Local No. 720, of Chicago. The Order of Railway Expressmen. ’ For the purposes of the award the board divided express employes in five classes but the increase granted was in each case the same, 16 cents an hour. Messengers and other em ployes in the train service whose hours are computed on a scale of a 240-hour- month will receive an in crease of $38.40. 700 IN CHATTANOOGA AFFECTED BY INCREASE CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 10.— The increase in wages of 16 cents an hour to employes of the Amer ican Railway Express company by the railway labor board will affect ap proximately 700 employes in Chat tanooga, which- is general head quarters for the south and south west. The local increase 'will amount to $25,000 a month, or $33.28 per e m p lo ye, May Abandon Plan to Expose Draft Evaders WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—The war department may give up its plan to publish the names of draft evaders. Secretary of War Baker said today that “he was quite certain” what would be done, although definite an nouncement was made some time ago that the names would be given out for publication. 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POWER OF TRUSTEES OFSTATEUNIVERSITY CURTAILHJjiY HOUSE Curtailment Is Applied to G? N> and I. C. Places Follow ing Charge of "Trust” Methods Employed Following charges by Representa tive Lankford, of Toombs county, to the effect that the friends, at taches and alumni of the board of trustees of the University of Georgia were in a political trust that threat ened to prevent anyone from holding an important state office without the approval of the university, the house of representatives Tuesday after noon curtailed the power of the trus tees to the extent of taking from them the authority ot name three ex ifficio members of the trustees of the Georgia Normal and Industrial col lege. Some of the debate on the meas ure carried the implication that the university trustees, as powers in the alleged “political trust,” followed their political inclinations in select ing trustees or educational branches subsidiary to the State unversity. The bill, a senate measure, was passed by the overwhelming vote of 112 to 55, after a substitute measure by Mr. Pace, of Sumter, requiring the university trustees to remove ex officio members of branch boards upon a recommendation of the ma jority of the board members, was killed. The present ex-officio members of the Georgia! Normal & Industrial col lege board are Judge George F. Go ber, of Atlanta and Marietta; Byron Bower, an Atlanta lawyer and for merly a member of the house from Decatur county, and Hugh Rowe, editor of the Athens Banner. “You can talk about your oil trust and your coal trust and other trusts, ‘ said Mr. Lankford in discussing the bill, “but the most damnable trust that has ever been formed in Geor gia i sthe state university trust. It is getting to the point where a man cannot be elected governor, speaker of the house or to any important of fice unless he pleases the universi ty trust ” Representative Carswell, of Wil kinson, explaining his vote for the measure, declared tha the believed the educational system of the state should be run from the capitol and not “from the campus of the Uni versity of Georgia.” Opposition to the bill was based mainly on allegations that it would impair the university system. Others advanced the argument that the meas ure was directed against Judge Gober and that other ex-officio members of the board should not be made to suf fer because of the opposition to one man. Opposition to the bill was led by Representative Moye, of Ran dolph; Covington, of Colquitt; Pace, of Sumter, and Brown, of Clarke. The bill now goes to Governor Dor sey for his approval or disapproval. Although it is known that he was a supporter of Judge Gober in the lat ter’s controversy with Dr. M. M. Parks, the president of Georgia Nor mal and Industrial college the gen eral opinion is that he will approve the bill. For him to disapprove it would array against him the mem bers of the legislature who support ed Dr. Parks in the controversy, as well as the students, alumni and friends of the Georgia Normal and Industrial colloge. The passage of this bill by the house wrote the final chapter of the complete triumph of the Georgia Normal and Industrial college in its controversy with Judge Gober and the University of Georgia following generally. When Judge Gober, Editor Rowe and Mr. Bower, with the sup port of certain other members of G. N. and I. C. board, put through a resolution last June to take out of the hands of the president and fac ulty of the college the admission of students, and place it in the hands of the county boards of education over the state, friends of the G. N. and I. C. got ready for war. Hostilities commenced immediately upon the convening of the legisla ture. The friends of the college in troduced a bill to place, by law, the admission of students in the hands of the president and faculty, where they thought it belonged. This bill passed very early in the session. BIG NEWS! Red-hot, three-cornered races are now raging in Georgia for the United States senate and the Governor’s chair. Cox and Roosevelt are bidding for Democratic vic tory all over the country, .while Harding is rallying the Republicans from his front porch in Marion. The Bolsheviki and the Poles and Ireland and other peoples and nations are turning things topsy-turvy over in Europe. Here’s a Great Chance to “take it all in”—to have a front seat at “the big show!” The Atlant aTri- Weekly Journal °“*soc I From Now to February Ist This Special Offer gives you The Tri-Weekly Journal for MORE THAN 5 MONTHS for only half a dollar I Mail Your 50c Today and you’ll get The Tri-Weekly Journal three times a week for more than twenty weeks. Another Fine Offer Send us four new subscribers at 5o cents each and we’ll send you The Tri-Weekly Journal WITHOUT COST until February 1. Use This Coupon THE ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. Here is 50c enclosed, for which send me THE TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, from now until February 1, 1921. Name R. F. D P. O State EXTRA SESSION OF LEGISLATURE SEEMS SURE IT JESEID Adjournment Will Leave Mil lion Dollar Appropriations in Addition to Present Def-. icit of $600,000 That Governor Dorsey would be forced to call an extra session of the legislature to extricate the state from its financial crisis seemed most probable Wednesday when the senate commenced work upon the appropria tion bills. , There was every IndSbation that the adjournment of the legislature, at a late hour Wednesday night, would confront the governor with appropriations aggregating $1,000,- 000 on top of an existing deficit which has been estimated at §600,- 000. And these additional appropria tions on top of an existing deficit would be presented to him without the accompanying legislation, desir-, ed by him, to raise additional reve nue. If it is impossible for the state to pay appropriations made by the leg islature in 1919, and approved by Governor Dorsey, how much more impossible will it be to pay an ad ditional deficit created by $1,000,000 of new appropriations? Nothing can extricate the state from the financial crisis except ad ditional revenue. This fact is pat ent and is not denied. Additional revenue could be raised in different ways. It could be raised by increas ing the ta,x rate, or by imposing new taxes, or by reorganizing the tax system. All of these methods have been suggested. The method favor ed by Governor Dorsey was an in come tax. A bill to amend the constitution so as to authorize the legislature to im pose a state tax upon incomes, which would be in addition to the existing ad valorem tax upon real and person al property, was introduced at this session. It passed the house and died in the senate Tuesday by a most decisive vote. But while it refused to pass the income tax bill, which was strongly opposed by the bankers, manufac turers and other business interests of the state, the senate is not likely to refuse to pass the appropriations put up to it by the house. About $1,250,000 of appropriations came over to the senate from the house last week. The senate appro priations committee on Tuesday aft ernoon shaved them down to about $1,000,000. The senate commenced work on them Wednesday, and the prospects were that a large portion, if not all of the $1,000,000, would be passed. Friends of Governor Dorsey do not believe that he will hand over the state’s financial crisis to his succes sor without exerting every possible effort at this time to place the state on a sound financial footing. To accomplish this result and leave the succeeding administration a clean financial slate will, they say, necessitate an extra session. Inas much as additional revenue can only be obtained by constitutional amend ment, and inasmuch as the newspa per advertisement of any amendment which may be passed must start not later than September 2, there is no time to wait, they say. If an extra session Is called, there fore. it will have to be called Im mediately. Governor Dorsey was not in the city on Wednesday* to dis cuss the situation, having gone to Rome to deliver an address to the Rome Rotary club. Man of Trunk Mystery Sought Aboard Vessel NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—A wireless message ordering the arrest of a man believed to be Eugene Leroy, wanted by police in connection with the “trunk murder” of his wife, was sent today to the steamer Rembrandt on the high seas bound for Rio De Janeiro. . Leroy, according to information supplied the police by Harry Mart lett, seaman, shipped aboard the Rembrandt, as a common seaman at Hoboken, August 3. SIR THOMAS WINS A BET- FAMOUS BACHELOR IS KISSED * A ? . .... .. x ... H NEW YORK.—-Sir Tbm Lipton lost the yacht cup race, but he won a bet that almost makes up for it. One of Sir Tom’s guests on his "grandstand yacht” Victoria, was the famous Baron Thomas Dewar, Scotch whisky manufacturer, an adamant bachelor who is supposed to be a ter rible, terrible “woman-hater.” Sir Tom’s bet with another mem ber of the party was that the baron Policeman and Suspect Stage Dizzy Battle on Roofs and Fire -Escapes NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Patrolman Patrick J. of the East One Hun dred and Fourth street station, made an arrest and locked up a prisoner late yesterday afternoon in the East Eighty-eighth Street station, but only after a series of struggles that car ried him and his prisoner to the edge of the roof of a five-story building, where they hung over the coping while hundreds of dwellers in near by apartment houses stood aghast. Off duty and in citizen’s clothes, Patrolman Carr was visiting friends in the apartment house at 168 East Ninety-Sixth street, when Mrs. Ber tha Raehfeldt, who occupies an apart ment on the second floor and had been visiting the tenants upstairs, started back to her own rooms. She noticed a shadow on the glass of the parlor door and rushed through the hallway crying for the police. Patrolman Carr heard her appeal, and with her entered the apartment. They surprised a man, who they said already had filled a valise with S3OO worth of clothing and was preparing to fill others. Holding the valise in one hand as evidence and the pris oner with the other, Patrolman Carr started for the East Eighty-eighth street station house. At Third avenue and Eighty-eighth street the prisoner wrenched his arm free. The policeman swung for him. They grappled, and as they struggled the two of them crashed through the plate glass window of a candy store, squashing bonbons and sending them flying in all directions. The prisoner extricated himself first and darted through the hallway of the building, five stories high, and up to the roof. The policeman reached the roof in time to see the prisoner start to descend a fire es cape leading to the rear yard. He grabbed him by the collar and jerked him back to the roof. He reached for his revolver and found that in the melee down on the street it had fallen out of his pocket. Then began a struggle on the roof in which the two wrestled and rolled, now on their feet, now lying prone, from one part of the roof to the other. They reached the coping. The pris oner tried to roll him over it, Carr said. Their twisting bodies projected far over the edge. The dwellers in the apartments to the rear had heard the sounds of the struggle. They gazed with horror at a struggle such as had o?<en thrilled them in the movies. Their suspense was ended by the appearance on the roof of Patrolman Paul Schaefer, of the East Eighty eighth street station, C’ho had been attracted by the crash glass in the street. He seized the struggling pair, just as they were about to fall. Dragging both back to safety, he “covered” them with his revolver, whereupon Carr revealed his identity. At the station house the prisoner described himself as Morris Gold, thirty years old, a laborer out of work and living in a Bowery lodging house. Patrolman Carr was treated for a fracture of the nose, a lacerated forehead and abrasions elsewhere by Dr. Marino, of Reception hospital. He went then to his own precinct, re ported sick and went to his home, at 105 East Eighty-ninth street. Gold was locked up on Charges of burglary and felonious assault. 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ALEXANDER WILL MAKE THE RACE FOR CONGRESS United States Attorney Hooper Alexander Tuesday entered the race for congress from the Fifth District of Georgia against William D. Up shay, the incumbent, and B. M. Blackburn, who announced his pur pose do make the race. Mr. Alexander’s announcement was made at the conclusion of a confer ence of approximately seventy-five citizens representing every county m the district, in the office of Former Congressman William Schley Howard In the Peters building. Thomas J. Callaway, a prominent business man of .Rockdale county, acted as chairman. After discussing the congressional situation, the unanimous verdict of those present was that Mr. Alexan der should be again urged to make the race, notwithstanding his recent refusal due to the conflict his candi dacy might have with his official du ties as district attorney. Mr. Alexander was communicated with by telephone and apprised of the decision of the conference of his friends. He reached the conference a few minutes later and made a short talk, in which he yielded to the wishes of the conference and an nounced that he would enter the race. SOUTH GEORGIA FARMERS ARE TO TOUR MID-WEST MOULTRIE, Ga„ Aug. 11.—To ob tain new ideas and instruction in modern agricultural methods and live stock raising, a large number of farmers from Colquitt and other counties along the line of the Atlan ta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad will visit Kentucky, Ohio, Ilinois and other midwest states in the lat ter part of August and during the first days of September. The party will go on a special train and the members will travel at their own ex pense. The tour was arranged by the State College of Agriculture in co operation with the A., B. & A. rail road. Several other railroads in the state will run similar trains, it is stated. The party from Moultrie and other points on the A., B. & A. will leave Atlanta Sunday night, August 28. Stops will be made at Lexing ton, Ky., Champaign, 111., Chicago. Bloomington, Columbus and a num ber of other points. Automobile tours will be made through the Blue Grass section of Kentucky. The fa mous stock farms in that state will be gone over. The railroad has granted a special rate of SIOO for the round 'trip. This includes din ing car and Pullman fare. Reser vations so far indicate that it will take about nine Pullmans to accom modate those who wish to make the trip. First Cane of Season WAYCROSS, Ga„ Aug. 11.—The first matured sugar cane of the sea son is reported by J. Walter James, of Pearson, and he exhibited a stalk something over five feet tall, with eleven well-formed joints. The cane was of the red variety, and Mr. James states that he has three acres of the product, which will be on Che market in a few dayft. Scents a copy. $1.50 A YEAR. RAY OF HOPE IS SEEN INCONDITIONSMADE HF SOVIEnEJDEBS These-, It Is Believed, Will Prove Acceptable Red Army Crosses Danzig Rail way Corridor CI.AIM POLES FAILED TO ATTEND TRUCE MEET COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11.—(By the Associated Press.) —A repre sentative of the Russian soviet command waited in vain at the front for s the Polish armistice delegation on the evening of Au gust 9, but neither the delegation nor any message from Warsaw arrived, according to Maxim Lit vinoff. the soviet representative here. / LONDON; Aug. 11.—Fall of War saw cannot be staved off much long er, unless the Polish and Russian delegates agree to end hostilities at today’s Minsk conference, dispatches from the front indicated today. Messages from various points near the fighting zone, relayed Ber lin, said the Poles were not serious ly resisting the Bolshevik! anywhere. On th 1 } southern front their retreat was described as “hasty.” At many points th« opposing armies lost con tact, due tc the Poles’ swift with drawal. Red cavalry was scouting between the lines gathering in con siderable numbers of Polish strag glers. The roads over which the Poles fell back were reported littered with abandoned war material. An official communique from Mos cow said the Russians were advanc ing rapidly on all sectors. They had occupied Sokoloff, the statement said, had forged the river Narew, forty miles from Warsaw, and were “grad ually encircling the capital from th* north.” Shakeup In War Office There was a hint of disintegration behind the Polish lines in the an nouncement from Warsaw that War Minister Lenisnowski had resigned. He was replaced by General Sutnow ski, and a “shake-up” in the war office' followed. A wireless message was sent out from Moscow calling on the sailors at Kronstadt, and the red army, to stand firmly against the entente plan to send a British fleet to support\ an attack by Finnish troops on Pet rograd. The object of this strategy, the radio, said, w’ould be to force the Russians to retreat from the War saw front in order to save Petrograd. Optimistic of Peace Members of the British cabinet, it was learned today, believe there is / a satisfactory basis of settlement / in the armistice and peace terms which the Bolsheviki were to pre sent to Yoland at the Minsk confer ence today. The terms were announced by Premier Lloyd George in the house of commons during the night aft er they had been handed to him by Leo Kameneff, one of the Russian representatives here. Bolshevik Terms In brief, the Bolshevik terms call for: Immediate reduction of the Pollak army to 10,000 men, with an annual draft for the army of 50,000 men hereafter. The time limit set on this demobilization is one month. The surrender to Russia of all superfluous arms. Prohibition of all shipments of troops or material into Poland from abroad. The granting to Russia of acccsc to the Baltic with commercial ad vantages. Handing over x to Poland of addi tional territory on its eastern fron tier to be given to the families of Poles killed in the war, as compensa tion. ♦ Demobilization of all Polish war In dustries. Withdrawal of Russian troops from the Polish front as rapidly as Poland demobilizes its army and fulfills the other terms. Fixing of the armistice line M the actual front when fighting ends, the Poles to withdraw thirty-four miles to create a neutral zone. PASSAGE OF STATE ROAD BOND ISSUE BILL NOT LIKELY , I As the result of the action of the senate appropriations committee m killing the Knight resolution pro viding for the distribution of the motor vehicle license tax among the several counties of the state, there is apparently little chance of securing the passage of the proposed state road bond Issue bill now pending in the house. There had been more or less definite ne gotiations between the senate and house relative to the passage of the Knight resolution and the bond is sue measure, but with the death of the Knight resolution in committee, all hope of a compromise disap peared- . „ Representative Knight, of Berrien, appearing before the committee late Tuesday afternoon, indicated in no uncertain terms that the advocates of his resolution would prevent the passage of the bond issue bill. His attitude was that unless the motor vehicle license tax fund.were distrib uted among the counties so ag. to give the people some tangible evi dence of the state highway construc tion program, the bond issue would never be- ratified by the voters of the state. It was stated by five members of the senate committee that a minority report would be brought to the floor of the senate in a final effort to put the Knight resolution over and thus carry out the proposed trade with the house on the bond issue measure. Even the supporters of the resolu tion admitted, however, that their chances for success were exceeding ly small. Arguing against tha. resolution, Professor Charles Strahan, chair man of the state highway commis sion, told the senate committee that its passage would mean the cancella tion of $8,000,00J worth of road con tracts already consummated and disorganize the highway program. In this view he was upheld by the com mittee by a vote of 7 to 5 the resolution.