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Wilson to Fight for fiFood Control by Hoover
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. First Call for Men Possibly Will
Be Made in Atlanta Early
Next Week.
Official lists of the numbers draft
ed are expected to reach Atlanta ex
, emption boards from Washington by
Tuesday, members of the boards said
Monday morning, and the men are to
be notified to appear for examination
by the first of next week, perhaps.
The division boards are preparing
: for speedy work. Press Huddleston,
. schairman of the second division, has
begun preparing his written notifi
pations from the list of names pub
lished in the newspapers, and will
make any necessary corrections when
the official lists arrive.
The divisilon boards will pass on
physical condition, acting upon the
jecision of the physician member, and
lhe entire board will pass upon claims
of dependent families and similar rea
sons for exemption, Claims based
| upon employment necessary to the
rountry, will be passed upon by the
" #opellate boards appointed from
Washington. There will be three
slasses of exemption-—absolute, tem
porary and conditional.
Chairmen of the division boards
. pgree that more than twice Atlanta's
‘ 4uota must be called for examination,
‘r is they felt sure more than 50 per
gert would be éxempted for good
k cause. Their estimates ranged from
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Khakette uniforms that have reached Atlanta for members of
the National League for Woman’s Service. Left to right they are
the suit for the members of the motor division. the military cape
coat and the plain automobile overcoat. The styles here are shown
by models at the store of J. P. Allen & Co., where the new uniforms
have been received.
60 to 80 per cent of exemptions. Near
ly all the negroes, it was expected,
would claim exemption, and numbers
of them would establish a claim of
dependent families,
Draft Objectors to
. .
Picket White House
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, July 23.—One hundred
draft objectors will go to Washington
to picket the White House this week.
The demonstration will be made in
conjunction with a bill to be intro
duced by Senator LaFollette in be
half of conscientious objectors.
Where Reliable Folk
Find Desirable Homes
Through the Want Ad columns of The Georgian-American
people who rent houses or rooms come in contact with
folks who seek them. In other words, The Georglan and
American are the medlums of quality on both sides of the
house or room renting question.
And the time to advertise is NOW!
If you are looking for quarters which have a home at
mosphere and are cool and comfortable, you'll find them
among the offerings in the “For Rent” columns.
Turn to them now, and if you fail to find just exactly
what you want, look again in tomorrow's paper. Success
is sure to reward those who seek.
If you are in a hurry for a location in some particular
neighborhood or district, there's a way to quicken results:
Write an ad of your own, giving your precise require
ments, and leave it with or
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Women Work for Bill
Miss Minnie E. Hogan, regent of
Piedmont Continental Chapter, D. A,
R., has issued a plea to all Daugh
ters of t he Confederacy, Daughters
of the American Revolution and other
ratriotic societies to be present Tues
day morning when the bill for the
orevention of the desecration of the
flag comes before the Senate,
Mrs. Richard P, Brooks, of Forsyth,
has worked faithfully to get the bill
passed, and Miss Hogan asks that
those interested in the movement ral
ly to her support Tuesday.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JULY 23, 1917
Kaiser Lobbies With Socialists
(By International News Service.) |
WASHINGTON, July 23.—A test of
strength between the President and
the section of the Senate that suc
ceeded in amending the food control
bill to create a three-man commis
sion in place of giving Herbert Hoo
ver complete authority 18 at hand.
The White House allowed it to be
come known today that the Adminis
tration stands firmly on its demand
‘that the one-man directorship be re
tained.
It had been thought the President
would be content to overcome the
commission feature by appointing
men completely acceptable to Mr.
Hoover, with Mr. Hoover as chair
man, but President Wilson is unalter
ably opposed to this and@ will person
ally inform leaders in Congress that
the conferees on the bill must strike
out the commission amendment.
Scope of Prohibition
Nov% With Committee
By ROBERT B. SMITH,
Staff Correspondent of the Interna
tional News Service.
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Prohibi
tion’s fate now rests with the con
gressional conference to which the
House is expected to send the food
control bill today.
The houses are widely apart on the
liquor question. Bpth have tabooed
whisky-making. It remains for them
to get together on what shall be done
with beer and wine. With the Presi
dent himself opposed to beer and
wine prohibition, it is the prediction
of the best-informed leaders of both
houses that these two beverages will
be exempted from the ban.
What is to be done with the whisky
now in bond is another question for
the conference to decide. The House
has authorized the President to exer
cise his discretion about comman
deering whisky in bond for munition
purposes. The Smoot amendment,
adopted by the Senate and declared by
‘many Senators to be unconstitutional,
flatly directs the President to take
over all spirituous liquor in bond and
pay the distillers what it cost them to
make it.
Amendment Is Expensive.
The Smoot amendment would cost
the Government, in revenue and out
right expenditure, a sum variously es
timated from $600,000,000 to $1,000,-
000,000, While it is being fought out
in conference, legislative activity will
remain practically at a standstill. The
Finance Committee will make no ef
fort tb press the big war revenue bill
until it can clearly foresee the fate of
the Smoot amendment.
If the conferes throw It out as
unconstitutional, the war revenue bill
can be considered in its present form,
but if they decide to validate it and
keep it in the bill the revenue pro
gram will have to be largely rewrit.
ten,
Wheat Clause Contested.
An equally hot fight is anticipated
over the Seaate provislon flatly fixing
the minimum price of wheat at the
principal interior primary markets at
$2 a bushel. The suggested compro
mise is a provision authorizing the
President to fix the price, although
the Senate once voted this down.
The disposition of the Senate
amendment creating a joint congres
slonal committee on expenditures In
the conduct of the war remains to be
decided largely by the view of the
Administration. The amendment was
put into the bill by Republican votes
and is expected to meet with deter
mined opposition from the Adminis
tration 3
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Abusive Remarks on .
Draft Are Charged .
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To Man Under Arrest
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Lee Harkness, 47, No. § Lucy
street, was being held at the po
lice station Monday, while Gov
ernment officlals inquired into
charges that he had made offen
sive remarks about the draft.
Harkness, who is a carpenter
working at Fort McPherson, was
at Forsyth and Marietta streets
Sunday morning when he over
heard J. P. Therrell and P. M.
Ezell, railrcad men, discussing
the draft and their serial num
bers. Me volunteered a few re
marks, they sald, cursing and
abusing President Wilson and the
draft system in zeneral,
“Where do you get that stuff?”
asked one of the railroad men.
“You haven't been reading Tom
\ Watson, have you? returned
Harkness, they sald. “That's
where 1 got it.”
The two men called Policeman
MeDaniel, who took Harkness to
the police station.
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Resignations Denied
Bylghip Board Firms
(ly/lntornnionul News Service.)
WASHINGTON, July 23.—Em
phatic denials of reports they have
resigned from the Shipping Board
were made today in the offices of
Captain John B. White, of Kansas
City, and John A. Donald, of New
York. |
It was stated positively in a New
York morning paper both had handed
their resignations to President Wil
son.
Mr. Donald’'s secretary told news
paper men early today he had been
instructed by Mr. Donald to denounce
the statement as an unqualified false
hood. .
Captain White, when called on the
telephone by Chairman Denman ana
asked whether he had resigned, re
plied that he certainly had not.
Committee Preparing
Fortified with ideas gained on their
recent trip to Fort Oglethorpe, the
committee in charge of recreation ac
tivities for the soldiers who are to be
in camp here will begin during the
latter part of the week active prep
arations for the amusement features.
The committee spent Friday and
Saturday Investigating the operations
of similar activities at the Oglethorpe
camps, and gained much valuable in
formation, according to Viector H.
Kriegshaber, president of the Atlanta
division of the War Department com
mission on training camp activities.
The other members of the committee
are Louls D. Hicks, Z. Nespor, Albert
8. Adams, Frank Coffee and Richard
Barby.
Decatur Policeman
Shoots Fleeing Negro
W. W, Hazelrigg, new member of
the Decatur police force, was on his
second night’s duty Sunday night
when he shot Clarence Sims, a ne
&ro, who was at Grady Hospital Mon
day, seriougly wounded in the ab
domen. Hazelrigg surrendered after
ward to Deputy Sheriff Rowe, but no
charges were made against him,
Hazelrigg, with €. H. Livsey and
B. M. Trimble, deputy United States
marshals, were looking for a negro
who had been engaged In a stabbing
affray the night before, and their
dogs led them to Rampeck's row, a
negro community in Decatur., The
negro ran out, and when ordered to
stop turned on the officers, andHa
zelrigg shot him. * He proved to be
not the man wanted.
COUPLE WED IN DECATUR.
Fain Almand, of Atlanta, and Mrs,
Willie Davison, of Kast Lake, were
married Sunday in Decatur, Ordinary
James George conducting the cere
mnnv
Progress of U-Boat Warfare Is
Taken Up and Monarch Still
Sees Success.
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, July 23.-—Before
leaving for the eastern front, the
Kalser held a conference with various
Reichstag leaders, sald a dispatch
from Berlin today. Among those with
whom the Kaiser talked were a num
ber of Socialists.
The conference was held at the res
idence of Vice Chancellor Helfferich
and included in the topics under dis
cussion were the progress of the
| U-hoat warfare and the proposed do
mestic reforms for Germany.
The dispatch describes the Kniur;
as ‘“being in an affable mood” and
as predicting that the ruthless subma
rine war would eventually bring the
doom of England.
.
Chased by Submarine,
Mrs. Astor Is ‘Game’
(By International News Service.)
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, July 28—
A submarine pursued the liner aboard ‘
which Mrs. Vincent Astor was a pas
senger, en route to France, but Mrs.
Astor “certainly was game,” wrote
Duncan F, MacDonald, Jr., who was
aboard the same boat, to his father, ‘
“All the fellows admired Mrs. As
tor's pluck,” sald MacDonald. “Her!
only remark was, ‘Well, If that thlngi
catches up with us I shall wish that I
was where the walking is better thanl
it is around this ship."” ‘
The U-boat kept up the chase for
nearly two days, but finally gave up,‘
MacDonald wrote,
Anniston Planning
.
ToEntertain Wood
ANNISTON, ALA, July 28 —Ex
tensive plans are being made locally
for the entertainment of General
I.eonard Wood when he comes to An
niston to inspect the work that has
been done at Camp McClellan. Miss
Emily Tyler has tendered the use of
her spacious lawn at Tyler Place and
members of the Red Cross will be
hosts to the distinguished visitor at a
large garden party in his honor.
Man Drowned After
.
Eating Heavy Meal
(By International News Service.)
ST. LOUIS, July 23.—Swimming in
the Meramec River just after he had
eaten a heavy meal, August Gutt.
mann, 24, was drowned. A few hours
later another swimmer, George Moel
ler, 21, was drowned in the Missouri
River near here.
Guardsman Loses
. . .
Life in 40-Foot Swim
(By International News Service.)
LAPORTE, IND.,, July 28.—Carlton
Terry, 17, of Union Mills, an Indiana
National Guardsman, was drowned in
Pine Lake while trying to swim to a
vast 40 faat Pram ahave lact nioht
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! 15 Teuton U-Boats
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(By International News Service.)
§ EW YORK, July 23.—The
2 N Kaiser's U-boat fleet has
! suffered considerably at
' the hands of American gunners
| since the United States entered
2 the war, if the stories told by offi
, cers and enthusiastic passengers
{ on arriving ships are entirely cor
{ rect. In the less than four months
S(hn have elapsed since the war
{ declaration, American gunners are
;,’ credited with having accounted for
¢ fifteen submarines.
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German Airmen Aim
Many Bombs at Bank
Y . e
Of England in Raid
(By International News Service.)
AN AMERICAN PORT, July 23, |
German airmen made strenuous
efforts to destroy the Bank of
England in the great air raid on
London July 7, according to pas
sengers arriving from England
today.
A squadron of nearly twenty
planes swooped down upon the
bank while anti-aircraft guns
~ from high buildings in the neigh
. borhood poured in a hot fire. The
Germans threw down dozens of
~ bombs, but none of them struck
the Bank of England. One struck
the Swiss Bank, where a number
. of persons had sought refuge, and
injured several persons.
| One bomb fell into Bt. Paul's
‘ Church yard, broke several of the
‘ stone monuments and destroyed
~ the iron railing on the north side.
‘ Another was dropped in front of
~ the main entrance to the Cathe
} dral, but failed to explode.
New River Bridge at
Bolton Is Planned
> nne ‘
The Fulton County Commission, in
conjunction with the Cobb County
Commission, Monday had under con
sideration plans for the immediate
building of a new bridge over the
Chattahoochee River at Bolton, or the
repair of the present old wooden
structure—known as the Collins
bridge—because of reports that it is
in an unsafe condition,
It was expected that a formal con
ference between the commissions of
the two counties would be arranged
at once, in order that definite steps
may be taken to remedy the situation.
The matter also was expected to be
taken up at the same time with offi
cials of the Georgia Railway and
Power Company, as the Marietta in
terurban line of the company crosses
the river on the Collins bridge.
It was the general opinion among
county officials that a handsome new
concrete bridge would be bullt, al
though this will not be settled defi
nitely until the conference,
.
Youth in Durance for
.
Theft of Automobile
Detective Jameson turned jitney
driver Sunday night when he hauled
an all unwilling fare to the city jail,
Detectives Waggoner, Jameson and
Chewning were on the lookout for the
person who had stolen the car of Le
land M. Etheridge from in front of
Hotel Ansley, and when they received
a tip that a 19-year-old youth was
struggling with a 6-gallon can of gas
oline 'twixt the Reed Ofl Company’s
garage and the Georgian Terrace Ho
tel, they drove up In their car and
gave him a lift.
Cleo Edwards, tne youth in ques
tion, says he hails from Milledgeville,
The car to which he was carrying the
gasoline was lldentified by Mr, Eth
eridge as the one that had been stolen
Prrvm him
NC. 303 ‘
| (By International News Service.)
GENEVA, July 23.—Russian troops
have evacuated the Galician city of
Tarnopol and the Germans have either
entered it or are on the point of doing
80, according to unofficial advices
from Berlin today. The city was
partly destroyed by flames
(Tarnopol is 70 miles east tof Lem
‘berg and only 25 miles from the east
ern frontier of Galicia.)
The Russians still hold Halicz, but
Stanislau is seriously menaced by the
Austro-German offensive,
The Teutonic forces have driven a
deep wedge into the Russian lines,
reaching the Sereth River, and Hin
denburg evidently plans a desperate
effort to cut the Russian forces in two.
The dispatches added that the Rus
sian retreat continues.
Mighty Teuton Drive
Is Checked by French
\ (By International News Service.)
PARIS, July 23—Despite new con
centration of troops and guns, terrific
assaults with the bayonet and violent
bombardments, the Germans have
failed in their mighty effort to break
through the French front on the Aisne
River fighting line.
All day Sunday and all last night
infantry actions and furious artillery
duels raged between the Aisne and
Ailette Rivers, especially in the sec
tors of Cerny, Hurtebise, Corbeny and
the Californie Plateau, said dispatches
from the front today.
Enormous losses were inflicted upon
the Prussian and Westphalian troops,
for they were hurled forward by the
German Crown Prince again and again
in solid waves, only to be wiped out
by the pitiless machine gun and can
non fire of the French.
On the double plateau north of the
eastern end of the Chemindes-Dames,
where the Germans were able to pen
etrate the first-line trenches of the
French, counter assaults swiftly de
veloped and in the darkness the men
battled with bayonets and clubbed
rifles with the fury of maniacs.
Long and careful preparations had
been made for the big effort to smash
the French front along the rocky
'ground north of the Aisne. Picked
‘smrming parties were sent forward
after a bombardment that was de
scribed by observers at the front as
“unprecedented.” Batteries of heavy
guns were moved to this sector of the
German front and for many hours
they rained tons of steel upon French
trenches.
The German thrust in this region
evidently was aimed at the protection
of Laon as well as being an effort to
smash a hole in the French lines.
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258's On Draft List
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Given Theater Party
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, July 23.—Chicago’s 86
“two, hundred and fifty-eights” wiil
see “Turn to the Right” at Cohan s
Grand Theater tonight as the guesis
of the management. It is the 2.5 th
nmonfavmoenne «f the wlino