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VOL. XXIV. NO. 98
EX-CROWN PRINCE
PROVEN A COWARD
BY DISOWN BOOK
Book With Advance Sale
Surpassing Masterpieces
of Centuries Is Criticized
by Maximilian Harden
BY MAXIMILAN HARDEN
Germany’s Foremost Publicist
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
BERLIN, May 15—Throughout
Germany there had been an advance
Bale of 200,000 copies of the book
which appeared yesterday entitled
“Memoirs of Crown Prince Wil
helm.” As the father still signs
himself “kaiser and king,” so this
eldest son still calls himself “crown
prince,” although he officially has
renounced all claim to the imperial
Prussian crown. Nobody contra
dicts as official documents still speak
of “royal house” and the law does
not compel the Hohenzollerns to use
the family name, nobody marvels
that these Prussian kings and
princes nominally survive the mon
archy.
After the French revolution a
book whose author called himself
Dauphin of France was confiscated
and when the exiled Conte de Cham-
Lord called himself King Henry V
he became the laughing stock of
the Paris boulevards. Even Aus
tria, which seemed inseparatingly at
tached to its ancient imperial house
has abolished all titles of nobility
and after the revolution never called
the emperor anything but Carl
Hapsburg.
Time alone will show whether
these superficialties are as unimpor
tant from the viewpoint of popular
education as Republicans here de
clare. I myself do not believe it.
Those who overthrew the monarchy
which existed for half a century
should banish its ornaments and not
allow celebrations of the “all high
est’s birthday” nor titles like maj
esty, imperial, royal highness, etc.
Otherwise the development of a Re
publican spirit will be difficult.
I was hopeful that young Wilhelm,
after 42 months in simple Wieringen
would have acquired a serious out
look on life counteracting an er
roneous popular conception of him
as a malicious blockhead. The book
of this 40 year old man painfully
disappoints this hope. Written with
the help of a skillful literary man it
d.scloses no new important facts. It
glor.fies the military monarchy al
most without censure. It represents
all Hohenzollerns as models of moral
and intellectual virtue and repeats
all that Ludendorff, Hindenburg
and company have said about the
conspiracy against Germany. It
tries to awaken in the reader the
thought that no human being ever
experienced such ingratitude as this
hard-working crown prince who fore
saw everything in war and peace,
lived only for his people .and his
soldiers, and now is obliged to live
in misery.
The Hohenzollern Cowardice
This is what this Hohenzollern
calls a “frank honest representation
of facts.” His mother is a saint,
his father noble in the highest sense
of the word, brothers brave and in
telligent, army commanders wonder
ful strategists and heroes. Not a
word of manly just recognition of
the enemy armies and leaders. No
where the least feeling for the suf
fering of the people whose land was
the scene of the war and in whose
unfortified towns German bombs
made deep wounds. On the con
trary the worst invective is used to
prove the malice of the victors and
the unexampled baseness of the
peace treaty which this prince calls
criminal and the “birth of blind vin
dictiveness” seeming to forget what
terms his family and generals had
decided to impose on the enemy.
The political contents are a mere
repetition of what already has been
said a thousand times in Germany’s
defense and are not worth contra
dicting. Ministers are scolded in the
tones of a general yet they were
appointed by the “noble kaiser” and
during the war -were only puppets
of the military dictatorship. They
are blamed because peace was not
concluded at the right time, before
the great disaster, as if peace would
have been acceptable to Ludendorff
or to a nation taught to believe cer
tain victory always was obtainable.
The fault always is put on others
and his own blunders nowhere are
recognized. He even holds ministers
and generals responsible for the
flight to Holland of the kaiser, and
war lord by Divine Right.
By his own confession the All
Highest War Lord, who had sent
millions of Germans to the firing
line fled because he might be in
danger for the first time. In much
less danger, of course, than any
rear trench soldier who would have
been shot as a deserter if he had
tried to flee. The physically cour
ageous crown prince has so little
moral courage that he follows his
father’s bad example fleeing over
the Dutch frontier by night and
stopping to call an old militiaman
a “miserable devil” and to swear at
him because he complained that his
officers were well fed while he him
self was starving. The prince re
lates this proudly not realizing the
incongruity of the deserter who had
not suffered a moment from the war
but dared to preach to the old half
starved warrior who, though com
plaining, leastways was doing his
duty tending cattle.
Allied Debt to U.S.
Now $11,329,000,000
, Is Latest Estimate
WASHINGTON, May 15. —The
allied debt to the United States
now amounts to $11,329,000,000,
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States estimated Saturday.
This figure represents principal
and accrued interest
NEW HIGH MARK
MMEBYCOTTON
BY ESTES DOREMUS
Memories of the 1921 bull move
ment on the New York cotton ex
changes were recalled Monday when
all new crop deliveries pased the
20-cent mark, establishing a new
high record for the present season.
Frenzied buying carried values up
from $4.50 to $5.50 a bale over the
previous close, $8 a bale over the
close of Saturday a week ago and
approximately $25 a bale over the
low levels reached last March.
Atlanta spots reflected the big
bulge within a gain of $3.50 a bale
at 19.75, New York spots were up
$5.50 a bale at 21.25 and New Orleans
spots gained $3.10 a bale at 19.50.
It was the high point for spots here
for 1922, and the highest reached
May contracts led the advance
with a gain of $5.45 a bale and the
later deliveries were up nearly $5
a bale over the closing figures of
Saturday.
The gain scored in New York was
the biggest for any single day this
year, by about $1 a bale. The pre
vious record for one day was made
the first Tuesday in May yvhen the
gain was slightly over $4 a bale.
The market opened strong on op
timistic Liverpool cables, sales of
20,000 bales there, better conditions
in Manchester, more bad weather in
the cotton belt and a sharp demand
for spots. May was the only option
to open above 20 cents and in the
first few minutes of trading was
back at its old high of 20.35, with
distant deliveries following the ad
vance. May later went to 20.93, July
to 20.87, October 20.38 and Decem
ber 20.37.
There was some profit-taking aft
er the early bulge, but the market
paid little attention to the selling
pressure and consistently sought
highej; levels.
Opinions of trade houses are bull
ish and the belief that the end-May
conditions figures will be discour
aging is giving longs an opportunity
to take complete control of the
market,.
Another factor in the advance was
the renewed strength in foreign ex
changes and the alarm shown by
shorts at unsettled weather in the
southwest. There was considerable
covering of short accounts in addi
tion to the general scramble for long
commitments, and the active buying
of new crop months, probably was
for foreign trade account.
Bill CHARGED
WITH MBDEB
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 15.—Miles
G. Buckingham, capitalist, and head
of an insurance agency here, was
arrested Saturday on a warrant is
sued in Madison county, Miss., charg
ing him with the murder of his wife,
Mrs. Loraine Harris Buckingham,
who was shot and fatally wounded
near Pickens, Miss., last Tuesday
while en route in an automobile with
her husband from Biloxi, Miss., to
Memphis.
Mr. Buckingham, who accom
panied his wife’s body from Jack
son, Miss., where she died Wednes
day after being taken to a hospital
there for treatment, explained that
the wound which caused her death
was due to the accidental discharge
of a pistol.
Arthur Harris, brothere of Mrs.
Buckingham, who telegraphed the
sheriff of Hinds county, Miss., ask
ing that an investigation of the
shooting be made, arrived here to
day from San Antonio. Tex., and
conferred with other members of the
family. Several relatives of Mrs.
Buckingham previously had stated
they were convinced the shooting
was accidental.
First Georgia Peaches
Arrive at Monroe, Va.,
Well Ahead of Time
Running nine hours ahead of
schedule, the first car of Georgia
peaches of the 1922 season reached
Monroe, Va., in the Southern rail
way system’s special peach train No.
1 at 3 o’clock Monday morning, ac
cording to reports received by South
ern officials in Atlanta. The peaches
are destined for New York and will
be on the market there Wednesday’
morning.
The first car was shipped from
Byron, Ga., over the Central of
Georgia railway and was delivered
to the Southern at the Fair street
interchange track at 1:17 a. m. Sun
day. It was moved to Inman yards,
a distance, of four mlies, and placed
for icing at 1:34. Icing was com
pleted at 1:40 and the car was placed
in a waiting train composed of other
perishables and high-class freight
which departed at 1:50, the entire
operation having been completed in
33 minutes.
The car will be delivered to the
Pennsylvania railroad at Potomac
yards some time during the day,
giving a wide margin for its arrival
in New York in time for the Wed
nesday morning market.
Three Killed When
Auto Wrecks Train
BUFFALO, N. Y., May 15.—Three
persons were killed and fifteen in
jured when the crack Black Dia
mond express on the LeHigh Val
ley railroad was derailed at North
Lvßoy, near here, today.
The train, passing a west-bound
train, struck an automobile driven
by Thomas Groeig, 70, and after
carrying th emachine several yards
left the track and plunged down a
steep embankment into a creek.
Three coaches, crowded with for
eigners, a parlor car and a diner,
were derailed.
J. P. MOM SAILS
TO ASSIST EUROPE
WITH HERFINANCES
Lamont Predicted Before End
of War That World Would
' Have to Help Germany Pay
Indemnity
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1922.)
WASHINGTON. May 15—J. P.
Morgan saifed for Europe today to
advise European bankers how an
American loan may be floated to
help Germany pay the damage she
did in the war. That’s the simple
announcement of the day, but it is
full of significance for the future.
It is the beginning of a series of
steps of far-reaching importance to
American industry and commerce
and recalls a hitherto unpublished
incident which illustrates how far
sighted bankers can be.
Just two months before the armi
stice of 1918, Thomas W. Lamont, a
member of the firm of J. P. Morgan
& Co., visited the White House, and
had a long talk with President Wil
son about the possibilities of world
economic reconstruction should the
war come to an end. On the train
to New York, Mr. Lamont said to
this correspondent:
“The war is not over and I sup
pose it would create great consterna
tion to say it, but when the war is
over and Germany has to pay a
big indemnity, you will find the allies
lending the money to Germany to
pay her indemnity.”
“Do you mean that the United
States will do such a thing?”
Lamont’s Foresight
“Yes, the people of America and
Great Britain have the money to
lend. I suppose it sounds fantastic
—that we should lend our enemies
the money but that’s what will hap
pen. I have just been reading what
occurred after the Franco-German
war of 1870. At that time France
had to pay Germany, and she bor
rowed the money, and the investors
in the other European countries, in
eluding Germany herself, lent that
money. It may not be popular to
write about it now, but put it in the
back of your mind for future use.”
Mr. Lamont foresaw, therefore, as
early as September, 1918, the pros
pest on an interest loan. Nearly
four years have,- elapsed since ..then
and' the problem of Germany in
demnity payments has not been solv
ed. The reparations commission
created the Versailles treaty is sup
posed to regulate the flow of Ger
man payments. The commission
knows Germany can’t pay at once
or even periodically without some
sort of loan. Bankers of all coun
tries have been invited to give their
advice. Mr. Morgan will meet his
partner, Thomas W. Lamont, who
is already in Europe and together
they will advise what can be done
with an international loan if float
ed in America.
Certain assurances will have to
be given of stability in Europe
otherwise American investors will
not feel safe in lending their money.
That means some definite under
standings between France and Ger
many so that the reparations ques
tion will not be a constant source
of worry and irritation.
Allies to be Benefited
And when once arrangements are
made for Germany to borrow the
money wherewith to pay her indem
nity, the allied countries will be ben
efited because the money they re
ceive' will help to reduce their bur
dens of international taxation and
business and commerce will be stim
ulated.
Curiously enough the danger in
the future doesn’t lie on the side of
the defeated country—Germany. It
works just the other way. The vic
torious countries are in danger of
over-speculation as a result of the
flow of indemnity money in their
direction. History of the period im
mediately following the Franco-
German war of 1789 shows that
Germany the victor suffered a se
rious industrial and financial crisis
and her industries began to expand
on an extravagant basis and the in
coming funds stimulated unwise
speculation. The government itself
spent its money for public enter
prises which were paid for at high
rates of wages and at absurdly high
contract figures. France, on the
other hand, came through the crisis
splendidly and financed herself by
borrowings of foreign capital which
she gradually paid back by increas
ing her domestic and foreign trade.
Future Trading Act
Defective, Declares
U. S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, May 15.—The su
preme court today held Section 4 of
the future-trading act was unen
forceable. tl held that Section 3, 9
and other sections could be enforced.
The court announced that the in
junction against the Chicago Board
of Trade and its officers and the in
junction against the collector of in
ternal revenue and the district at
torney should be granted so far as
section four is concerned and the
regulations of the act interwoven
' within it.
Section four, declared to be un
enforceable, proposed to levy virtual
ly a prohibitive tax of 20 cents per
bushel on all luture trades banned
under the act. It made exceptions
of actual owners of grain or legiti
mate hedging contracts.
The decree of the lower district
court was reversed to the extern
stated. In announcing his dissent
Justice Erandeis stated he could no’,
agree with Ihe opinion of the court,
Which in substance held the law in
valid.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1922
PRINCESS FATIMA DEPARTS
AFTER TURBULENT VISIT
Sells Famous Family Dia
mond for a Song—Depar
ture Is Marked by Much
Secrecy.
BY JANE COMPTON
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1922.)
NEW YORK, May 13.—The Prin
cess Fatima, Sultana of Kabul, at
last has shaken the dust of America
from her royal feet. Today she is
out upon the high seas bound for
Bombay, and once in India, it will
rest entirely with herself as to
whether she will remain there or
proceed to her native land of
Afghanistan.
The princess and her three prince
ly sons, Asim, Hashim and Ahkber
Khan, slipped quietly away from
New York Wednesday on a British
freighter bound for Alexandria and
points east. About all that she took
with her in addition to the princes,
was the famous blue sapphire which
adorns the right nostril of her rath
er prominent nose. How her numer
ous creditors happened to overlook
that' precious stone will probably
forever remain a mystery.
Fatima, who came to New York
ten short months ago in a blaze of
Oriental splendor, left dismally as
a dejected deportee. There were no
ship news reporters or cheering fel
low countrymen to see her off. She
left so secretly in fact that the news
of her departure only leaked out to
day. The British government, gent
ly urged by the American state de
partment, arranged for her sailing,
and saw to it this time that there
was no mistake. Six weeks ago it
was arranged that Fatima should
quit our once hospitable shores, but
after she had stepped into a taxi
to go to the steamship dock, she in
structed the driver to go in the op
posite direction. For a time she dis
appeared, but soon she found it nec
essary to apply once more to the
British authorities for support.
Stone Sold Cheap
Fatima explained at the time that
she did not wish to leave this Amer
ica until her famous family diamond,
the Dayai-noor, about the size of a
hickory nut, was disposed of. The
diamond at the time was in the cus
tody of the sheriff, for Fatima had
MINE TREASON CASE
COMING TO CLOSE
CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., May 15.
(By the Associated Press).—The
state expects to close its case against
William Blizzard on a charge of
treason next Wednesday or Thurs
day, A. M. Belcher, chief prosecu
tion counsel, announced in court to
day. H. W. Houston, chief defense
attorney, said he wished to know
in order tn nn'ify some witnesses.
Walter Morris, of Coal Fork, a
union miner, said he heard of the
killing of a man named Gwynn, the
night after “Mother” ones made her
speech. The following mornring he
saw the body being taken out, he
added, but on cross-examination, ad
mitted he knew nothing of how the
ma nmet death and was not posi
tive who he was. Cross-examina
tion also brought out that he heard
only of the intention of organizing
mine workers in Logan and Mingo
counties ad nothing of plans by the
men at Marmet to nullify martial
law.
The state delved again into the
use of union funds in connection
with the march against Logan coun-
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bin-rowed $2,000 on it, several cred
itors had filed liens against the
stone, and to make matters worse,
Uncle Sam had stepped in with a
big claim for duty. Fatima had ex
pected to sell the diamond for not
less than $300,000. It is said that she
refused $25,000 for it. Last Tuesday
it was sold at public auction and
brought $5,500, of which none too
princely sum the princess t received
the royal residue of $136. Uncle Sam
got $1,400 in duty.
This was the last straw. After this
blow had fallen, Fatima was willing
to go, vowing to the high heavens
that never did she care to look upon
the face of this fair land again. The
British bought her passage as an act
of friendship for the United States and
not through any love of the princess
Afghanistan technically is not a Brit
ish possession, but there is a sort of
implied protectorate arrangement
which induced the state department
at Washington to suggest to the
British authorities that Fatima had
best be on her way.
Pleasant Memories
While her stay in America was
one dismal disappointment after an
other, Fatima, now aboard the lug
ger, Bombay bound, can look back
upon one or two moments of su
preme happiness and achievement.
She can picture again her reception
at the White House in Washington,
where President Harding accorded
her all the deference of her royal
ranks; she can live over again the
cordiality of her welcome at the
state department, and the conster
nation a dusky daughter of the
Orient brought to the colored messen
gers in the corridors of the state,
war and navy building.
She can recall 'the once vivid
dream she had that President Har
ding would be delighted to give her a
huge grant of land “somewhere in
the west,” where she could settle
down and live a life -of ease befitting
her station.-She always had heard
that America was open-handed and
welcomed the stranger within its
gates. Fatima said she wanted to
educate her sons in America, where
opportunity knocked at every man’s
door.
One by one her dreams Were shat
tered. She fell into the hands of
imposters, she suffered the ignomy
of being put out of some of our
most fashionable hotels and at length
she found herself in the teeming east
side of New York, an object of pity
and charity.
But now, her day of glory spent,
she has gone—gone to the engulfing
vastness that lies somewhere east of
the Suez.
NATIONAL CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE MEET
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Wash
ington today assumed the role of
business capital of the country as
hundreds of the keenest minds in
industry and finance gathered here
for the tenth annual convention of
the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States.
Four day will be devoted by the
convention to the task of mapping
out a route to complete economic re
habilitation.
While general sessions will not be
gin until tomorrow, the work of se
lecting seventeen members of the
board of directors was started today.
Forty-one men are candidates.
Discussions tomorrow will revolve
around European economic condi
tion and their effect on America.
ty Walter Hancock of Dry Branch,
testifying that the local to which
he belonged gave $350 for the pur
pose.
The state re-examined to show that
Hancock took no part in the second
march in connection with which the
murder charges were lodged.
probe of wehse
OF GASOLINE PRICE
ORDEREDJYSENATE
Committee to Determine and
Report Whether or Not
Companies Had Agreed to
Make Increase
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Inves
tigation of the recent nation-wide in
creases in the price of gasoline was
ordered Saturday by the senate.
Without a roll call and after only
brief discussion, the senate adopted
a resolution proposing the inquiry,
offered by Senator McKellar, Demo
crat, of Tennessee. The investigat
ing committee would determine and
report whether there had been an
understanding between the various
companies to raise prices.
Urging his resolution, Senator Mc-
Kellar said stocks of crude oil in the
country were greater than ever be
fore, and that prices were below
what they were some time ago when
the price of gasoline was less than
at this time.
GASOLINE RESERVES NEAR
1,000,000,000 GALLONS
WASHINGTON, May 15.—Gaso
line reserves will reach the stupen
dous figure of 1,000,000,000 gallons
by the end of the month, the bureau
of mines forecasts. This is nearly
250,000,000 gallons more than the
previous record, established in May,
1921.
In many parts of the country gas
oline is selling at 29 cents, or from
5 to 6 cents above the low of the
past winter. Next Monday an in
crease of 2 cents per gallon goes
into effect in a considerable portion
of the eastern territory.
Several new raises will become ef
fective within the next few weeks,
it is understood.
Ex-Gov. Catts’ Trial
On Bribery Charge
To Start Tuesday
LAKE BUTLER, Fla., May 15.
Sidney J. Catts, former governor of
Florida, under indictment in this
county in connection with charges
that while governor of Florida he
accepted money to influence his vote
In the matter of issuance of- pardons
to convicts, is here today for the
opening term of Union county cir
cuit court. Trial of his case is sched
uled to open tomorrow morning.
The case was postponed at the fall
term of court at the request of the
prosecution, and Mr. Catts told news
paper men in Tallahassee yesterday
that his counsel would make every
effort to have the charges disposed
of at this term. i
The former governor alsojis under
federal indictment for peonage,
which case will be tried at Pensa
cola.
Postmaster Arrested
And Charged With
Making ‘Moonshine’
SAVANNAH, Ga., May 13.—Al
bert Wise, postmaster at Clyde,
Bryan county, and also a magistrate,
together with his brother, W. H.
Wise, were arrested by federal pro
hibition officers last night on an
island In the Ogeechee river, while
"working” at a moonshine still, the
officers say.
I.ater the officers by hard work
located a group of three more big
stills in the Ogeechee river swamp,
and Boyd Harvey and Raymond
Cribbs, who had been arrested ear
lier as suspects when they attempt
ed to load a barrel of blackstrap in
a boat, confessed this outfit belong
ed to them, officers report.
CHICAGO LABOR MEN
FACINGJIRST TBIIL
CHICAGO, May 15.—Eight labor
men, indicted on murder charges in
connection with Chicago’s labor war,
will have preliminary hearings to
day before Kickham Scanlon, chief
justice of the criminal courts.
Their attorneys have been in
structed to ask for habeas corpus
writs, thus forcing the state, if it
wishes to hold them without bail, to
produce evidence upon which hang
ing verdicts are to be asked for the
“Big Three” labor leaders, “Big Tim”
Murphy* head of the Gas House
Workers’ uninon; Con Shea, of the
Theatrical Janitors’ union, and Fred
Mader, president of the Chicago
Building Trades council. To support
their demand for release on bail, the
labor leaders will be represented by
a strong of legal talent.
For this purpose, it is alleged by
Henry Barret Chamberlain, of the
Chicago crime commission, the labor
men are equipped with a million-dol
lar “slush fund.”
Polie and state attorneys connect
ed with the case assert they have
sufficient evidence to warrant con
tinued confinement of the indicted
men without bail.
“We have established that those
against whom rpurder indictments
have been lodged actually engaged
in a conspiracy to commit crimes
out of which killings occurred,” Mr.
Chamberlain said. “We have three
astounding confessions.”
Alleged illegal tactics employed by
Fred Mader in obtaining the presi
dency of the building trades coun
cil were bared today by members of
that organization, who asserted that
many members, said to be antagonis
tic to Mader, were kept away by
sluggers from the meeting at which
he was elected. Fewer than one
third of the members of the organi
zation were present when Mader
was elected, they allege. They have
not taken part in the council meet
ings since then, they declare.
The building strike scheduled by
Mader for next Monday and involving
65,000 men, has unofficially been
called off, it is said. The strike
ballot was to have been submitted
to the thirty-two allied unions of the
city for a referendum vote.
The men were asked to go out on
a strike as a protest against the
open shop, declared in the twelve
trades blacklisted by the citizens’
committee, an organization to en
force the Landis wage award, a de
cision handed down by K. M. Lan
dis, former federal judge, then act
ing as arbiter, which was intended
to settle differences between con
tractors and members of the build
ing trades council.
None of the thirty-two unions has
voted on the question and leaders
asserted that no vote would be taken
until the council had been reorgan
ixed and men of clean record put in
charge.
WOMAN MISSIONARY
DRIVENFROMMEXICO
EL PASO, Tex., May 15.—Miss
Elizabeth Streator, a Methodist mis
sionary worker of the Torreon dis
trict, is at Durango City suffering
from a broken thigh received when
she was thrown into an irrigation
ditch by a member of a Mexican mob
that drove her and five Mexican
co-workers from San Juan de Mez
quital, on May 4, according to re
ports received from the interior to
day.
Rev. J. P. Lancaster, presiding
elder of the district, received news
of the mob’s action in a telegram
at Torreon City, and hurried to
Durango, according to advices re
ceived here by Mrs. Lancaster, who
said her information was that one
of the Mexican workers was also
badly injured. The co-wokrers con
sisted of one woman and four men.
Thirteen Killed
When Street Car
Leaves Tracks
.MEXICO CITY, May 15.—8 y the
Associated Press.) —Thirteen persons
were killed and more than seventy
injured today when a street car car
rying a holiday crowd catapulated
into a deep canyon near Santa Fe,
a small village adjacent to the capi
tal, after colliding with another car
at the top of the hill. Most of the
victims were women and children.
The car, filled with pleasure
seekers on their way to Desireto de
los Leones, a popular resort near
the Capital, crashed head-on into a
city-bound car. The collision did
but little damage, but the car sped
backward down the incline, the
brakes failing to hold. It left the
rails at a sharp curve, and was
hurled into the gulley.
There were no Americans in the
party, but several Germans and oth
er foreigners were on board. The
death list will probably be augment
ed, as many of the injured are in a
serious condition.
Eight Persons Dead
As Result of Sunday
Disorders in Ireland
BELFAST, May 15.—The body of
an elderly woman, who had died
of bullet wounds, was found in Great
George street last night, bringing
the total of known £ead in Sunday’s
shootings to eight.
DAIL EIREANN STAYS
IN SESSION ALL NIGHT
DUBLIN, May 15—(By the Asso
ciated Press.) —The peace commit
tee of the dail eireann, which met at
9 o’clock last night, was in session
until 10:25 this morning, when ad
journment was taken until 4 o’clock
this afternoon.
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AMERICA INVITED
TO HELP EOROPE
SOLVE RUSS TANGLE
Formal Invitation Delivered
to United States to Partici
pate in Conference at The
Hague
GENOA, May 15.—The Genoa con
ference having failed to achieve its
main object, the United States has
been invited to assist the allies in
reaching agreement with Russia.
Formal invitation to the American
government to participate in a con
ference on Russian problems at The
Hague on June 15 was delivered to
Ambassador Child yesterday and for
warded to Washington today.
GENOA, May’ 15. —(By the Asso
ciated Press.)—France has appealed
to the United States to participate
in the proposed international com
mission to investigate the Russian
situation. The American ambassa
dor, Rich- Washburn Child, in
formed the Associated Press Satur
day that such a proposal had been
submitted to him by the French dele
gation.
The ambassador understood that
the French proposal suggests that
the United States, if the invitation
is accepted, would hqve a dominant
voice in the action of the commis
sion, but would not be bound by'her
acceptance to any decisions of the
commission which she did not ap
prove.
If the United States accepts,
France would agree to the Russians
being represented in the commission.
No Solution Reached
Premier Lloyd George and M.
Barthou were in private conference
for two hours this afternoon, ap
parently without reaching an agree
ment for solving the Anglo-French
deadlock on the plans to continue
the discussions of the Russian prob
lem. The subcommission on Rus
sian affairs also met and argued
for more than three hours without
definite results.
Mr. Lloyd George will have a con
ference at his villa 'tomorrow morn
ing with Baron Hayashi, M. Barthou,
M. Jaspar and Signor Schanzer in
an effort to reach a compromise.
After the meeting of the subcom
mission, Sir Edward Grigg, secre
tary to the British prime minister,
said there had been progress but
gave no definite explanation of its
nature. The French and British
delegations were asserted to be well
on the road to an agreement, but
nothing definite was reached. Ac
counts of meeting by members of
other delegations, however, give lit
tle indication that a compromise is
any nearer.
One Point of Agreement
The Russians have- announced
that they will not accept any plan
excluding them from the discussions.
On one thing all the delegations
agree, the inviting powers, the lit
tle entente, and the Baltic entente
as well as the neutrals, namely, that
somehow the United States must be
induced to participate in the mixed
commission.
M. Colrat, French under secre
tary of state, informed the Associat
ed Press that he still felt confident
of an accord. France still is un
willing to have Russians sit with
the mixed commission discussing
Russian finances, but suggestions
have been made that a special com
mission of Russian experts be form
ed, which may be called in by the
mixed commission when it desires
information.
Again the Russians declare that
they will not accept any such plan,
as that would not be dealing with
them on equality basis and it is dif
ficult for the delegates to find any
plan appealing to both the French
and British and vet not offensive to
the Russians. >
Afternoon Meeting
The afternoon meeting of the sub
commission was chiefly an exposi
tion of the views of the powers
which had not entered into the dis
cussion at the morning session.
Japan, Poland, Switzerland and
Sweden, as well as France, and
Great Britain, set forth their views.
Viscount Ishii supported the Brit
ish position that the Russians should
participate in the mixed commis
sion. He regarded the task of the
Genoa conference as too important
to be lightly abandoned, since it
really concerned the reconstruction
not only of Europe but the whole
world. He finally expressed the hope
that the British and French would
agree on some method of procedure.
M. Motta, ex-president of Switz
erland, preferred that the mixed
commission should be named by the
conference but it might be possible
to have the governments participat
ing in the conference name the com
mission outside of the regular ses
sions. He favored having the Rus
sians participate, and said that
Switzerland was enthusiastic about
the proposed truce and expressed
the hope that the truce would be a
preliminary to a lasting peace pact.
Georgia Farm Loan
Allotment May Be
Largely Increased
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
408 Evans Building
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 15.
Senator Harris was advised Satur
day by the farm loan board that
2,130 applications amounting alto
gether to $5,672,295 had been re
ceived at the Federal Land bank,
Columbia, S. C., from Georgia farm
ers and associations as of date of
April 30.
Senator Harris asked for this re
port in connection with the farm
loan bond issue of $75,000,000 put on
the market this week.
The board expects to allot to
Georgia an amount over one mil
lion dollars more than previously
provided for loans.
Out of the applications pending,
a total of 1,062, aggregating $2,480,-
035, have been approved and are in
the process of closing, while th©
others are passing through the pre
liminary stages.
Senator Harris said the Columbia
bank informed him plans were un
der way to start accepting new ap
plications by allotment of a certain
number to each of the local farm
associations.