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WILYON TO ARM SHIPS ANYHOW
By DUDLEY GLASS,
Staff Borrespondent of The Georglan.
ROME, GA., Feb. 28.—The armor
plate board of the Navy Department
today wag being shown the four tracts
of land which Rome offers free to the
Government for a site for the pro
posed armor plate plant which will
cost more than $11,000,000
Four automobiles bearing parties
of Rome citizens left early today es
eorting Admiral Frank F. Fletcher,
Commander Frank H. Clark and Lieu
tenant Commander R. E. Backhus to
the sites.
Yy The members of the board first
were driven to Shorter Colllege, from
which a magnificent view was ob
tained of one of the sites under op
tion, the background of which was the
ridge of mountains containing the
iron ores necessary for the manufac
ture of armor-plate steel. The party
then made a trip to the site itself,
going over the ground required for the
plant. 1
After this the visitors were dr\vonl
to a site in East Rome, near the Lin- |
dale Mills, and shown an equally good |
tract,
The third site visited was a tract of
land close to the city limits, and more
level than the others
After this the visitors were mkon‘
for a drive through the Berry School,
of which they had heard, and In
which they expressed great interest.
Interested in Rome. |
Admiral Fletcher and his associates
showed plainly they were interested
in Rome's offerings, in the way they |
asked detailed information and took
ecareful notes. They seemed particu
larly desirous of being shown level
ground, for the plant will demand a
large amount of trackage and several
big buildings, and they stressed the
importance of having comparatively
little expensive grading.
ILieutenant Commander Backhus,
the engineer of the board, and a grad
uate of the Massachusetts Institute of
echnology, was extremely careful in
{8 questioning as to details.
It was clear, from the questions
asked by Admiral Fletcher and his
companions, that the board still was
open-minded in its choice and deter
mined to give every competitor a
ehance. They made careful inquiry
into railroad facilities and other de
tails, and revealed a great deal of in
terest in Rome’s claims.
The whole city, including civic offi
elals, members of the commercial or
ganizations, finanviers and landown
ers, appeared to have joined heartily
in the work of showing Rome's ad
vantages for a plant of this type.
Options have been secured at rea
sonable prices on every avallable site
around the city, n!d there has been
absolutely no tendéncy to hold up the
elty or the Government for high
~ prices.
r Atlantans Come to Aid.
| In the Atlanta party, which arrived
this afternoon to add its influence to
promoting Rome's claims, were Ivan
* E. Allen, Walter G. Cooper, W. B.
Willingham, W. J. Davis, B. M. Hall,
Bam Wilkes and Rawson Collier.
B. A. Tyler, president of the Dal
ton Chamber of Commerce, came
, down to speak for Whitfleld and Mur
ray Counties, and Rawson Collier,
representing the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, at the Rotary lunch
eon assured the board that electric
power would be furnished in ample
quantity and at a rate as low or lower
than any section could furnish.
Admiral Fletcher said he expected
o have the board's report completed
April 1.
A decision on the location should
zron follow.
Visitors were entertained last night
a! an informal dinner by Chamber
of Commerce officers.
The members of the board will
leave tonight for Atlanta. where they
will remain until Thursday at noon,
Mfore Jenving for Washington.
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BETTY LEE.
Betty Lee, St. Charles Place, At
lanta, Ga. :
That's the way Miss Betty Lee, so
clety dancer and singer of Southern
lullabies, who echarmed the fashion
able folk of New York, will register
in the future.
That ig, if Miss Lee registers any
where. For she has come home to
live—to live in her owan little cottage
out among the pines of Druid Hills,
which she purchased this week.
Miss Lee is the Atlanta girl who
made a fortune in war Pflden—Belh
lehem Steel, to be exact. A tip on
the market a small investment of her
treasured savings, a frantic market—
a rich girl!
“And when I gol out of the market
I quit,” she told friends who chatted
with her at the Piedmont Hotel Wed
nesday. {
“] have worked hard in my life,
with one aim in view—a home of my
own and retirement. Now it has
come. | want nothing else—no glory,
no more of the applause that so
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thrills the artist and no more of the
spotlight.”
Now that Miss Lee's fortune has
come it seems that luck is just rain
ing on her. An offer to go into mov
ing pictures was wired to her at her
hotel Wednesday, Henry W. Sav
age wants to star her in a comic op
era, the people of New York are just
clamoring for her to dance at their
exclusive affairs, and things llke that.
“And just to think,” she says, “three
vears ago when 1 was working with
all my might trying to make a dollar
g 0 as far as it possibly could, there
was no comic opera place for me, no
motion plcture contracts-——nothing but
hard work, work, work."”
Miss Lee doesn’t have much to say
about her fortune for she is a very
modest young woman. But she does
admit that at the beginning of the
war’she had only SI,OOO to her name—
having sold all of her earthly prop
erty-—and that a friend advised her to
buy Bethlehem Steel. Now she has
a home in Adantic City, ore in Druid
Hills, and it would take a chxck with
six figures to buy the bohds and
stocks and securities she has stored
away.
Miss Lee is in Atlanta to have her
home at St. Charles place decorated,
She will move there with her parents,
Dr. and Mrs. John Henry Coyle, and
will open the house during the week
of Grand Opera. With her mother,
ghe will return to New York Friday
for a short stay.
“Just one more little trip back
there” she says. “New York was
2ood to me because | was a Southern
girl and New York peo love South
erners”
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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1917
GERMAN PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE
LACONIA WILL CAUSE WAR
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That blaze of glory investing the
Southeastern Automobile Skow at the
Auditorium has become nothing less
than a conflagration.
Entering upon its fourth day Wed
nesday, the show had justified its ad
vance notices and the enthusiastic
ravings of its friends In announecing
that It was to be the most superla
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tive of shows.
There was something of the glamour
of Tuesday night still hovering about
the glistening showroom Wednesday.
Echoes of the tumult and the shout
ing that arose when the million-dollar
band from Yaarab Temple took
charge of the festal gathering were
still in the air.
Wednesday night's events will be
no less salubrious, it 18 promised. At
lanta Rotarians will be in the sad
dle or at the wheel, as the case may
be, and will perform their well-known
function of whooping things up. The
particular nature of their stunts is
still shrouded in impenetrable mys
tery, but the enshrouding veil will be
lifted at 8 p. m. or thereabouts. l-‘nr!
one thing, each lady attending thni
show will be given a beautiful bou-|
quet of flowers. This the an.rinna'
announced pos-i-tive-ly Wednesday. f
And, whatever the program is,
there is always the crowning pleas
ure of viewing the million-dollar dis
play of automobiles, which, after all, |
is the big answer to the whole show,
After three days of exhibition, the
cars had evolved an intoxicating qual- |
ity to the atmosphere, so that their
perfections create an exceedingly
dangerous lure to every visitor, Es
pecially s this so in view of the fact
that prices are temptingly low for the
little cars, and that the big cars are
temptingly beautiful and convenient.
| A number of the cars on exhibit
'bhave been sold to visitors who camae,
saw and were enraptured. There's a
‘sorr of spell about the affair that
makes such things possible,
Wedemeyer's Band will give its reg
ular concert Wednesday afternoon
and night.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—By a
vote of 17 to 4 the House Foreign
Affairs Committee today voted to re
port favorably the Flood bill author
izing the President to arm American
merchantmen, but denying the Presi
dent the right to employ “other in
strumentalities and methods.”
Instead, the President is authorized
to protect such ships and the citizens
of the United States “against unlawful
attack while in their lawful pursuits
on the high seas.”
The committee al?o adopted a pro
viso prohibiting the war risk insur
ance board from issuing insurance to
vessels carrying munitions of war.
Those voting against a favorable
report of the bill were Representa
tives Cooper, of Wisconsin, Republi
can; Porter, of Pennsylvania, Repub
lican; Shackleford, of Missouri, Dem
ocrat, and Huddleston, of Alabama, |
Democrat. |
Minority Reports to Come. |
The members /who voted upz.'kinsti
the bill plan to submit minority re
ports reflecting their views on thel
present international situation. Rep
resentative Thompson, of Oklahoma,
la Democrat, also plans to submit a re
port. |
| The committes was opposed ml
!mlopting in any form an amendment
' denying authorization of arm;umvnt‘
to ships carrying munitions or llmlt-l
ing such armament to ghips carrying |
noncontraband. Instead, as a con- '
cession to the opposition, the commit
tee voted to except ships carrying war
munitions from the protection of rh.-i
war risk insurance bureau, :
There was no opposition to grant.
ing the President $100,000,000 to carry
out the provisions of the bill.
The Rules Committee will meat to
morrow morning to adopt a rule lim- |
iting debate on the Flood bill, so its
early passage through the House may |
be assured. |
In his minority report Representa- |
tive Shackleford advocates the sur
render of American right to navigate |
the high seas. |
“In my judgment,” saild Shackle
ford, “our interest counsels that we
should remain at peace, that we
should forego our rights to navigate
the high seas embraced in the war
Continued on Page 2, Column 6. ‘
Pin Faith
OnVictory
ByU-Boats
comameiei— i
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 28.—Ger
many does not believe the sinking
of the British liner Laconia will
provoke a declaration of war from
the United States. But the Ger
man people do not belleve war
with the United States can be
long postponed.
The first expressions of Ger
man opinion on the Laconia sink
.ing reached here in brief dis
patches today. These did not re
fer to the loss of American lives,
and ecarried no intimation as to
whether the fact that Americans
perished is known to the German
public.
The Laconia, one dispatch as- ~
serted, was formerly in the Brit
ish Admiralty service, though she
was later restored to her owners.
In view of this fact, the subma
rine commander was justified in
attacking her even regardless of
Germany’s new declaration that
she would sink all enemy mer
chantmen, German officials held.
They declared that the U-boat ‘
captains necessarily could not be
kept informed of constant shifting ‘
of ships from Admiralty to pri
vate service,
Leading Germans, not alone in
Berlin, but throughout the Ger
man Empire, are pinning their
faith to their U-boats to strike
the victorious blow for the father
land. They feel certain a U-boat
act which will range the United
States among their enemies can
not be long delayed, but they do
not view the prospect with appre
hension.
lHollweg’s Speech ]
~ Heartily Appla,udedi
BERLIN (via Sayville wireless),!
Feb. 28.—“ Hearty applause greeted.
almost every utterance of Imperial
!(‘hancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg's
ispopch to the Reichstag,” said the
' Overseas News Agency today In re
lportlng the occaslion. |
} “The Chancellor,” It continued,
“gspoke In a most vivaclous manner,
‘and with especial energy and bril
{liancy. Almost every sentence was
laccompanied by expressions of gen
eral approval on the part of his hear
ers, and frequently members of the
Parliament applauded. After he had
finished, there was general applause
and handclapoing, in which the gal
leries joined.”
The Chamber was crowded. Prac
lncn,lly all the diplomats remaining in
'Berlln were present,
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Minister Is Cited on
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| oman-s arges
l CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 28—
Charges preferred by Miss Frances
‘lmnuhuu-, of Coshocton, Ohio, against
the Rdv. C. E. Clark, former pastor
of the Highland Park M. E. Church,
of this city, resulted today in his in
dictment upon sgixteen counts before a
committee of ministers,
Miss Donshue alleged that Clark
horrowed $2,000, which he never re
turned, after promise of marriage,
\Gerard and Party
Embark From Spain
CORUNNA, SPAIN, Feb, 28.—For
mer Ambassador to Germany James
W. Gerard and his American diplo
matic party are on the last leg of
their homeward journey today. A
great public reception was tendered
the Americans when they boarded the
Spanish steamer Infanta Isabel,
which sailed vesterdav
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By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
l Staff Correspondent of the International News Services
~ WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—President Wilson waited today oa
ECongress. He will take no additional step to bring the general in
ternational crisis, caused by Germany’s announcement of unre.
stricted submarine operations being resumed and emphasized by
the sinking of the Laconia with its loss of two American women, to
a head until Congress shall express itself.
l The President, officials close to him said, believed that when
the country has declared itself, Congress will give him the power
’he has asked.
| There has been no relaxation of the grim tension precipitated
by the sinking of the Laconia. None is immediately looked for, but
there was a generally growing belief in official quarters this after
noon that the sinking of the Cunarder would not be characterized
by the Administration as axf ‘‘act of war.”’
‘“The onus of the actual break will be placed on Germany,’’
was the word quietly passed out from official circles. The Presi
dent will arm American ships, no matter what Congress shall do,
and then he will wait to see what German submarines will do.
The address of the Imperial German Ohancellor yesterday
was accepted in administration circles as a direct challenge. Be
cause of itg tone it was believed that when the American line re
sumes sailings next week its ships will be in as great danger as
those of the Entente. 'But it was said that the President ig deter
mined that these. interrupted sailings shall be resumed and it is
certain that inasmuch as these liners are to be armed they will be
considered subject to attack by German submarines.
West Not to
Get Georgia
Judgeship
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—That
John West, of Thomson, will not be
appointed TUnited States District
Judge for the Southern District of
Georgla became known, despite the
indorsement of Senators Hoke Smith
and Thomas W. Hardwick.
The Department of Justice is con
vinced that the appointee should be
removed from any factional differ
ences between the Senators and the
House members, and indications now
are that there will be no uppolntmem}
until after Congress adjourns, and|
that the appointment then will go to
Thomas B. Felder, of Macon, or U. v
Whipple, of Cordele. Mr. Whipple
reached Washington today, and |is
pushing his candidacy,
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Disease Now Holds
Yarrowdale Crew
~ (By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 28 —The Americans
taken on the Yarrowdale and held
‘prilonern in Germany have not been
released, according to dispatches re
ceived today. The reason assigned in
Berlin is that an infectious disease
has been discovered ir the district in
which they are being detained, and it
would be inadvisable to let them go at
this time,
Cabe advices some days ago were
that the release had been officially or
dered.
ON TRAINS, 5§ CENTS.
PAY NO MORE,
. ““We are moving step by stag
and moment by moment,”’ e
plained a Cabinet member today.
‘““Because of this speculation is
unwise. We must do as we
think best, but ean not outline
a policy that might be changed
by some unforseen development
at a second’s notice. We are
hoping for the best, but are pre
paring for the worst."’
The domestic situation, In so far as
it relates to the international develop
ments, continues very much compll
cated. Senator LaFollette, of Wis
consin, as lead of the pacifist ele
ment in the Senate which {8 demand
ing an extra session, has blocked con
sideration, probably until tomorrow, of
the Senate bill conferring authority
upon the President to institute
“armed neutrality’” and to “take such
means as may be necessary” to pro
tect American rights.
Meanwhile pacifist leaders from all
over the country, with Colonel W. J,
Bryan as thelr leader, have hurried
here to stimulate Coéngress td resist
the President. They do not want the
Chief Executive allowed to arm ships
or to take' any step to increase the
tension existing between the United
States and Germany without it fiest is
debated on the floor of Congress, and
most of them also ask that all moves
be submitted to a referendum of the
people.
While the domestic confusion hour
ly is being Increased, a crisis with
Austria is imminent. All plans to
break with Germany's strongest ally
because she has indorsed unrestricted
submarine warfare have beem com
pleted, Ambassador Penfleld, at Vien.
na, has b in toueh with all of his
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