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VOL. XII. NO. 109.
ATLANTA, OA., SATURDAY. DECEMBER (j, 1919.
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BRYAN FLEES FROM SUFFRAGISTS
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McAdoo Favors Regional Banl[ for Atlanta
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PERISH IN TEXAS FLOODS
Declares Secretary Told Hoke
Smith City Is Ideal Place for
Currency Branch.
When it comes to a “friend at
xmrt” in the matter of designating
regional banks. Atlanta can count
with a very gratifying certainty on
no leas a person than Secretary XV.
G. McAdoo as being favorable to the
location of one of the great Govern
ment banka here
Robert F. Maddox, vice president of
the American tional Bank, brought
that new? from the Eaet with
him v. turned Saturday.
' I he whole, that I may
*ay m\ - excursion was a suc-
csa Mr. M.uldox said. 'Tilwas taken,
of course, in behalf of Atlanta's hope
to be awarded one of the regional
banks under the pending currency
bill.
“I went pretty thoroughly into af-
airs in Washington, and I want to
say right here that our two Senators,
Smith and Bacon, have done wonders
for Atlanta In the way of creating a
sentiment favorable to locating one
of the banks here. Tf we get It, too
much credit can not be given to those
men.*'
Takes no Credit Himself.
As to Mr. Maddox’s own part, ir
really was a. pity that a third person
ouldn’t have had the telling of it,
because Mr. Maddox absolutely de
fined to put in any bid for fame.
“All I did was to carry on an array
>f facts and figures.'* said Mr. Mad-
Jox, “in an effort to help the good
cvork along by showing how excel
ently fitted Atlanta, was to receive
*nd support a. regional bank."
But it had been said by others that
her Mr. Maddox departed on his exc
ursion he was loaded for big game—
ind the report trickled back from
Washington that be was not sparing
ibe ammunition.
He laughed a little when the report
<vas mentioned.
“Oh, never mind about that," he
parried, “here’s something worth
while. now.
Board's Membership Uncertain.
“After the bill Is passed—and I
Don't believe that will be until about
'be middle of January—President
Wilson will appoint a. national re-
sc**ve board, and that body will llx the
points at which the banks will be
located. Nobody knows now who will
be on. that board, so no work can be
lone specifically as yet.
“But it is certain that Secretary
McAcoo will he a member. And S*c-
fetary McAdoo has told Senator
Smith that he regards Atlanta as an
excellent place for one of the banks—
f bat he believes a bank ought to be
located here, in fact
That’s a big point, let me tell you:
but Senator Smith was so confident
°f the Secretary’s attitude that he
save me permission to quote him con-
,: *rning what Mr. McAdoo ha'd told
him."
to banking and financial condi-
ions in New York, Mr. .Maddox said
core was a big demand^ for money,
n th every prospect that the high in-
‘ c T-eer rater, would be maintained in
definitely.
Country Marking Time
The whole country is sort of mark-
; pg time, in a business way,” Mr.
M iddox said. “No doubt about it.
Dds radical legislation is having its
meet, no matter how much good we
T.ay expect ultimately to receive from
11 Personally, however. I am much
‘':aseci and encouraged b.v the at ti
le of President Wilson
* 1 beard the President's speech to
ongiessy arid it was firmly impressed
me that he was in favor of a let-
'P in radical legislation. The coun-
r V has be^n well stirred up, and the
- >atir»n i« bound to ( onmiiu* un;
Mail Christmas
Packages Early,
Says Postmaster
if you w ant the parcel post to carry
your Christmas gift, get it into the
Atlanta postoffice as long before
Christmas as possible.
That Is the advice of Postmaster
Jones.
“Next Monday the rush ought to
begin.” he said. “Then we can handle
the flood of Christmas packages in
some sort of order. But I do not see
how we can handle the great rush of
parcel post packages if it is delayed
until two or three days before Christ
mas.
“Only this morning five solid car
loads of unsoiled mail were received
at the Hunter Street terminal for
distribution over the Southern States.
The incoming mail has so increased
that a proportionate increase for the
next two weeks would swamp us.”
SCORES I
Collier Will Suit
Gets to Jury After
Long Legal Battle
POULTRY SHOW
ENDS IN CHORUS
OF LUSTY CROWS
Elizabeth Hurt. 13-months-old daughter of l!. 1. Hart, oi
College Park, and prize-winning Leghorn.
Judge Halts Row by
Fining Three Women
When Mrs. Lula Page, of No. '-7
Walker street, Saturday morning re
cited to Recorder Broyles the details
of a three-cornered hair pulling, she
remarked that Mrs, I. M. Blair, of No.
125 Walker street, ‘came at her just
like a cat."
Mrs. Lillie White, daughter of Mrs.
Blair, angrily turning on Mrs. Page,
said:
“Don't you dare call my mother a
cat! ”
Judge Broyles halted the row and
held that Mrs. Page was the aggressor
and fined her $10.75. Mrs. Blair and
Mrs. White were fined $5.75 each.
Festal Days Figure
In Divorce Petition
Christmas eve and George Wash
ington's birthday figure in a petition
for divorce filed in Superior Court
Saturday by Mrs. Alma de Lucia, who
asks' a separation from Anthony de
Lucia.
The couple were married at ti p. m.
Christmas eve, 1910, and on February
22, 1913, the husband deserted her for
the sixth and last time, the petition
declares. His address is believed to
be Washington. D. C.. according to
the petition. Mrs. de Lucia asks for
the custody of their child, Gladys. Ebp,
de Lucia.
Court Faces Record
Divorce Suit Session
With more than 500 divorces al
ready granted in 1913, the Superior
Court next week faces the heaviest
divorce calendar in the history of
Fulton County. Already 179 suits
have been fisted and before the day is
past the number is expected to reach
185.
Upon Judge Ben H. Hill will fall
the task of hearing the cases.
Profit by
Experience
of Others
Every day the malls bring
us notes of thanks for the
quick and satisfactory resuits
received from Hearst's Amer
ican and Georgian “Want
Ads.”
THIS LITTLE AD
FOR SALE -Lsrgr Radiant
Home stove; .almost new; very
cheap. Ivy 1912-L or 333 Myrtle
street.
appeared in one issue of
Hearst's Sunday American,
and herd's vvhai Mr. Atllcr has,
to say:
Atlanta. Gd.
The “Want Ad Man” Hearst's
Daily Georgian and Sun
day American. Atlanta,
Ga.:
Gentlemen—I <io not tare to
renew this order, as I have
had more than sufficient re
sults from the one insertion
of this ad in The Sunda>
\merican. Yours truly.
Many Still in Peril Clinging to
Roofs of Flooded Houses
and Tree Tops.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. 6.— Reports
of additional deaths in \he flooded re
gion of Central Texas co-dav brought
the total to 75. Ten persons to-day
were reported drowned at Hearne,
eight, at Bryan and six at High Bank.
A score or more persons are missing.
The additional deaths reported to
day were discovered by rescuers in
motor boats who have been explor
ing the flooded districts.
Many farmers who sent members
of their families to places of safety,
but refused lo leave their live stock
to the mercy of the n>ing waters,
have not been lvea-id from for several
days.
The motor boat crews during the
night picked up more than 150 per
sons who had been marooned. Most
of them wei*e suffering from hunger
and exposure.
Scores of persons in a. doben com
munities are still ill peril, clinging to
roofs of houses and tree tops. Res
cuers were powerless to aid them, be
cause trains could not carry consign-
merits of boats to all the inundated
towns.
Among the dead reported was Hen
ry Martin, vice president and general
manager of the International and
Great Northern Railroad, who was
drowned attempting to rescue a ma
rooned family at Valley Junction. His
body was not recovered.
All but 1,000 person^ marooned by
the flood waters along the Brazos had
been taken to safety to-day. The
weather was cold and many of the
marooned victims suffered from ex
posure during the night.
Wilson Better; Does
Five Minutes' Work
WASHINGTON, Dec. ti.—Presi
dent Wilson, who is suffering from
grippe, was so much better to-day
that he disregarded the advice of his
physician and family and went to
the exeutive offices adjoining the
White House.
He spent five minutes at his desk
signing important papers, and then
returned to his room, where he ex
pected to spend the remainder of the
day. He received no callers
Vedrines in Turkey on
Flight Around World
CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. 6.—
Pierre Jules Vedrines. the famous
French aviator, arrived here early
to-day in his aeroplane, having trav
eled 405 miles from Sofia without
making a stop.
Vedrines said he would continue in
an effort to fiv around the world.
The aviator set out from Nancy,
France, on November 20. He was
shot at by troops while flying over
Austria.
Senate Votes Long
Currency Sessions
WASHINGTON. Dec. 6 — By a vote
of 41 to 18 the Senate to-day passed
the Kern resolution providing for ses-
siosuw of the Senate from 10 o’clock in
the morning- until 11 o’clock at night,
with two hours recess for dinner.
This order will stand until the curren-
| ay bill is passed.
J Nine Republicans voted with the
I>emoerats. They were Senators Bo-
1 r.ili. Ready. Fpmmins. Bronna. Ken-
ri« Perkin? and
The will suit of Sanford \\. (..oi
lier against his brothers, George W.
Collier and John \V. Collier, for $45,-
000 of his father's estate went to the
jury Saturday afternoon, after a long
charge by Judge Ellis.
Arguments lasted more than two
days. The time of hearing evidence
was more than three weeks. The suit
has been in the courts five years.
Sanford Collier alleges that his
brothers misrepresented, the value of
the estate and that he sold his inter
est for a small sum.
Having worked for four days as
dish washer in a Broad street restau
rant, the first campaign of a strenu-
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Guatemalan Army
Head, Former Dixie
Journalist, in City
Colonel J. Perry Fyffe, commander-
in-chief of the Guatemalan army, was
in Atlanta Saturday, the guest of his
boyhood friend, Frank Reynolds, of
Hotel Aneley.
Colonel Fvffe is well known in the
South, having been connected with
Chattanooga newspapers. During the
Spanish-American War he was colo
nel of the Third Tennessee Regi
ment, which served in the Philippine
Islands.
He was appointed Chief of Police
of the Panama Canal Zone,’ and
left the canal position to accept an
offer from the Government of Guate
mala to reorganize the army of the
Central American republic.
ous and extended warfare designed to
expose the inner workings of the cul- |
inary departments of local eating j
houses and hospital kitchens, Mrs. J
Grace Macey-Keefer. the wealthy di
vorced wife of David II. Keefer, whose
matrimonial troubles brought her
sharply before the public- eye recent
ly, is overcome with horror at pre-
\alling conditions.
“I have been told,” she said Satur-
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$250,000 a Year for
One Woman’s Clothes!
That’s the startling total of the wardrobe
cost for an American millionairess, according
to a Parisian editor. The joy or woe of it all-
depending on whether you are man or woman
will be detailed in
Next Sunday’s American
Order from your dealer or by phone to
Main 100.
*\\'hen the last spectator leaves the
Auditorium Saturday night and the
sleepy birds are being taken away to
their accustomed perches or being
prepared for shipment to the Bir
mingham show , the best exhibition of
the kind ever seen in Atlanta will be
over. The poultry show has been an
Immense success, except in a mone
tary way.
“As to. the financial disappoint
ment,” jaid J. M. Poole, secretary of
the Southern international Poultry
Association, “that isn’t going to break
our hearts. We expect to be here just
as strong next year, with a standard
exhibition.”
In addition to birds, however, there
is likely to be a. band next year.
”It seems Atlantans will not pat
ronize a proposition that savors of a
sporting contest—that, is, not for it
self. High-class birds don’t seem to
attract them as much as a band. So
we may add a band to the program."
There was a pretty good crowd
Friday, however.
Chicago to Stop
Tickling Plumes
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—Mayor Harrison |
has started a popular crusade in behalf !
of meek and long-suffering man. The |
Mayor issued an edict against hori
zontal plumes, aigrettes, pompons and
other devices which tickle or scratch
eye,s. ears or noses of men who are
Dupuy Attempts to
Form French Cabinet
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 6.—The French Cabi
net deadlock was unbroken to-day.
Senator Jean Dupuy at noon gave a
definite answer to President Poincare
accepting the commission to form a
new Cabinet, succeeding the Barthou
ministry.
M. Dupliy reported 'to President
Poincare this afternoon that he was
unable to form a Cabinet.
Increase in Bank
Clearings Continues
The clearings of Atlanta banks for
the week ending December ti totaled
$20,150,918.34. compared with $18,-
193,279.62 for the same period last
year—an increase of $1,957,638.72.
Indications continued favorable to
breaking the yearly record by many
millions.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Unsettled Saturday
night and Sunday; probably
local rains; colder in north
west Sunday.
ASSAILED
Head of Cabinet, Taken Unawares
in Speech to Government
League, Retires.
WASHINGTON. Dec. ti.-—The
first, militant suffragist outbreau
against nu official of the Ameri
can Government was staged to
day when Secretary of State
Bryan was challenged at the con
vention of the National Popular
Government. League with the. cry,
“TTow about justice for wo
men?”
The Secretary bad just concluded a
fervent address on behalf of popular
rule, declaring that no government is
strong except in proportion as it rep*
resents tin* will of all its people. A
tall, slender woman arose in a seat
near the front of the dark hall where
the meeting is being held, and called
out, “How about women Mr. Bryan ?
Are not women people?”
The suffragist champion was Miss
Helen Todd, a former Illinois State
Factory Inspector and now head of
the California Civic League for W orn*
en. Her act “floored” the Secretary
for a moment.
A dozen other women, with angry
gestures, chimed in.
“Yes. how about women. Air Sec
retary?”
Leaves by Side Door.
Mr. Bryan turned to the audience
and. struggling to control his voice,
said :
“Madame. I have no doubt that in
all your work you have followed your
conscience and your judgment. In my
work 1 have tried to follow mine.”
With that he left the platform.
Bryan left the hall by a side en
trance, while a. score of suffragists
began a buzz of excited comment
which* portended ill for every speaker
who should follow.
Senator Owen, in the chair, ignored,
the outburst and called upon Senator
Lane, of Oregon, to take up the next
subject on the program.
Nine new laws to establish “the
sovereign right of the people to ruie
themselves” were demanded by Sene
tor Owen in his speech. He enumer
ated them in his address at the open
ing of the first aanual conference « f
the organization, as follows:
Self Rule Remedy.
The Gateway amendment, b*
w hich the people may more ea.«
ily amend the Federal Constito
tion.
The initiative and referendum
in easily workable form.
The recall by which to d ism is*
public officials who are unfit.
The commission form of jot
eminent for cities, with the ini
tiative. referendum and recall.
The short ballot.
The mandatory direct primary,
A drastic, workable, thorough
going corrupt practices act.
The nomination and election of
President and Vice President or
Lite United States by direct_vote
of the people of the States, glw
ing each State its proportional*
electoral vote.
The democratisation of our in
stitutions from top to bottom k
through these agencies, and the
prevention of the putting of “joV.
n popular government bills