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VOL' XVI Bf (',l?g:gcfi)rxl?an Co.
RUSS AGAINHOLD UP PEACE PLAN
Baker Declares U. S. Has Reason to Feel Safe
OFFICER ENDS LIFE; MYSTERY THOUGHT CLEARED
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—“The
people of the United States are en
titled to feel secure!”
That was the message Secretary of
War Baker today delivered to the
Senate military affairs committee. It
was his reply to the puhlic declara
tion of the members of the commit
tee that *he is spreading a false
sense of security by optimistic state
ments of war preparations.”
Mr. Baker again today clashed
with the members of the committee.
Throughout his testimony and cross
exgmination he said that all “hu
manly possible” had been done to
arm the forces and make them com
fortable.
Charges that commanding officers
have made inaccurate statements
were made by the Secretary of War.
He was plainly aroused by a report
recelved this morning by the com
mittee of a shortage of blouses at
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio.
Baker Orders Report.
The Secretary of War immediately
ordered a report by telegraph from
the commanding officer.
“We have very definite testimony
which you seem to contradict,” com
mented Senator Hitchcock.
Secretary Baker, explaining the re
organization of the War Department,
declared that the organization up to
January 1, 1917, was “impossible” in
that it laid a mas of detail on the
Secretary of War.
At the present time, Secretary Ba
ker said, the ordnance quartermas
ter's department are being co-ordi
nated under the power of the war
council.
“Do the functions of the war coun
cil duplicate those of the general
staff?” asked Senator Chamberlain.
Functions of Boards.
“I think not; the general staff ad
vises on technical military matters,
the war council deals with the needs
of the army in the field,” answered
Secretary Baker.
‘Do you think General Crozier's
jepartment and General Sharpe's de
partment are up to standard?” asked
McKellar.
“Their work has been of a very
high standard,” answered Secretary
Baker.
Secretary .Baker gaid the present
organization of the ordnance depart
ment has been greatly improved since
apretl 1.
Senator Weeks asked Baker why
1,200 machine guns, now held by the
‘War Department, had not been dis
tributed. The Secretary replied that
they were being distributed now.
Secretary Baker showed charts de
picting how the power of the War
Department is being decéntralized un
aer plans of reorganization.
Business Experience Favored.
‘I am attempting to select military
men who have business experience
to worik with civilian experts,” said
Secretary PBaker.
Under the present plan, Colonel
Pierce will have full charge over sup
plies, the Secretary said, with civilian
exper-ts to aid him.
Senator Wadsworth criticized this
plan, stating that brigadier generals
will have control over the acts of
major generals.
“That is not unprecedented,” said
Secretary Baker.
A reorganization of the quartermas
ter's department is now under process
by General Goethals, Secretary Baker
said.
Under the new plan, the needs of
the navy, the army, the shipping
board and the Allied purchasing board
will be cared for by the clearance
#sa:d of the war industries board
Secretary Baker said. This commit.
tee, he said, will direct where sup
plies may be obtained and will appor
tion the resources of the country.
Opposes Munitions Chief.
Secretary Baker came out flatly
against a secretary of munitions, de
slaring such a Cabinet officer would
have too many duties to perform.
“What is your serious objection to
a secretary of munitions?” usked‘
Chamberlain. 1
“I have no right to comment on the ;
addition to tne President’s Cabinet.
My objection to your bill is that no
person can be found who could per
form all of the duties you give him.
In other words, you would have anl
industrial dictator over all of tr.\'e in
dustries of the United States,” an
gwered Baker,
1,200 Tons School
Coal Will Be Sold
At Rate of $6 a Ton
Coal in the bins of the Atlanta city schools will be sold to resi
dents of the wards at 30 cents the hundred pounds, or 15 cents
for fifty pounds, it was announced Saturday, the distribution to
begin at once. No deliveries will be made, the limit will be one
hundred pounds to a customer, and the sale will continue until the
coal is exausted or the situation relieved. The schools have on
band about 1,200 tons of coak
Mayor Candler took charge of the situation Saturday by call
ing a special meeting of the City Council, which voted him authori
ty to sell the coal stored in the school buildings. The alderman
and two councilmen from each ward were made committees to take
charge of the school sales in their respective wards.
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DeKalb Confiscates
Carload of Coal That
l Stood Idle on Siding
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| DeKalb County officials at De
~ catur Saturday confiscated a car
- load of coal which stood idle on
the siding at Belt Junction and
were distributing it in small lots,
among consumers who had faced
a night of extreme suffering.
This stringent action was taken
by <County Commissioner R. J.
Freeman, Sheriff J. A. McCurdy
and County Warden W. S. Mec-
Curdy, who say they found fifty
cars of coal standing on the Belt
Junction siding.
They imquiate!y took over
enough of the fuel to relieve suf
fering among prisoners in the De-
Kalb County jail, after which
they began to distribute the re- ‘
mainders to consumers who called
with baskets, buckets and carts.
Dr. W. S. Ansley, county fuel
administrator, approved of the
action regarding coal for prison
ers, but believed the public had
been relieved earlier in the day
when a car from the Atlantic Ice
and Coal Corporation had been
distributed in lots of 500 pounds
to each person. Mr. Freeman,
hcwever, contended that this car
did not meet the demand.
The number c¢f the car from
which the coal was taken was
record and the owner will be
r2imbursed. Records are belng
kept by the officials, and coal is
being distributed to those who |
are unfible to pay for it. |
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reaty ¥ith Japan
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The Car
ranza Government in Mexico is anx
ious to negotiate a preferential treaty
with Japan. A commission now is
on its way to Tokio for that pur
pose. |
The mission headed by former Con- |
sul General Burns of New York, and
including General Buche, chief of
staff under President Porfirio Diaz;
Senor Frago, Meaxican Consul Gener-‘
al to Japan, and four others, now are
en route «n a Japanese steamer. |
State Department officials said to
day they had complete knowledge of
the Mexican mission.
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Hotel Guests Driven
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Out Into Blizzard
(By International News Service.)
SAGINAW, MICH., Jan. 12—Three
men are missing, three are injured
and thirty or more guests were driv
en into the street in their nightclothes
with the temperature 10 degrees be
low zero by a fire which gutted the
Wright Hotel here early today.
Ernest Matthias, of Elkhart, Ind.,
was injured.
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To Bury Father Die
In Electrified Pool
WEST POINT, GA., Jan. 12—
John = and Abesco Roughlin,
brothers, were instantly killed
late Friday at Shawmut, Ala., |
when they stepped into a puddle
of water which had just been
charged by a fallen electric wire
carrying 55,000 volts. The men
had gone to an undertaker’'s at
Shawmut to make arrangements
for the burial of their father, J.
T. Roughton, who had died a few
hours before,
2 Brigadier Generals
rigadaler uenerais
Relieved From Duty
eileved rrom vuty
(By International News Service.) }
WASHINGTON, Jan. lZ.—-'l‘wo‘
brigadier generals of the national
army have been honorably discharged
by direction of the President for
physical disqualifications, the War
Department announced this after
noon. They are Brigadier General
David F. Foster, of the Sixty-sixlh|
Infantry brigade, Camp l.ogan, 'Texas,
and Brigadier General Cecil C.
Vaughan, of the Fifty-eighth Infantry
brigade, Camp McClellan,... Anniston,
Alabama,
General Foster was appointed from
Illinois and has served forty years in
the Illinois National Guard. General
Vavghan was appointed from Vir
ginia, '
Face Partial Closing
(By International News Service.) '
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—A1l unim
portant industries, including saloons,
theaters and other amusement places.
may be closed for three days each
week while the coal crisis lasts, in
New England, New York, Pennsylva
nia and Maryland.
Such action was recornmended at
a meeting of fuel administrators herel
today. Final decision will rest withl
D>, Garfield.
Bill Aims to Draft
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~Aliensin U. 8. Army
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 12.—Subjects
of all entente nations and aliens of
any nationality who have resided in
the United States for more than two
vears would be drafted into the mili.
tary service if of draft age under an
amendment to the selective service
act introduced by Representative
Tague, of Massachusetts.
Little Girl Burned
By Scalding Water
Mabel Sears, 6, of No. 111 Jefferson
street, was taken back to her home
Saturday afternoon after being treat
ed at the Grady Hospital for burns
received from scalding water at her
home earlier in the day. ‘
The child was painfully but not
dangerously scalded.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1918
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(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Jan. 12.-—Death and the
most intense suffering known in
years stalked through the middle
West today in the wake pf a driving
blizzard that paralyzed 'itransporta
tion and cut hundreds of cities and
towns off from the outside world.
The vast railroad systems of the
middle West are in the worst tangle
in history, and hundreds of passen
gers in snowbound trains are in dire
peril. The fate of many of these
trains, with their passengers, proba
bly will not be known for hours or
maybe days. Reilef parties have been
sent in search of these traing where
possible.
Reports of towns where fuel and
food famines are imminent came
pouring into Chicagae today frem all
sections of the Mississippi valley.
Temperatures ranging from zero to
nearly 40 degres below are reported
from various points,
In Chicago four persons are known
to be dead as a result of the storms.
Illinois, lowa, Indiana, Kansas,
Oklahoma and other Mississippi Val
ley States are buried under heavy
snow and swept by bitter winds. Zero
temperature is reported from all sec
tions of the Middle West.
All transcontinental railroads tra
versing the Middle West are either
entirely blocked by snow or forced to
operate trains under almost impossi
ble conditions. Movement of fuel is
almost entirely suspended, and wide
spread suffering has resulted.
Train Traffic Hampered.
In the southern section of the Mis
sissippi Valley unprecedented snow
and cold is being experienced. New.
Orleans, Houston, Memphis, Louis
ville, Chattanooga and ather Southern
cities rerort a serious situation as the
result of the storm. Traffic on South
ern railroads also is hampered by the
storm, and a fuel famine is immi
’nent in some sections.
‘ Army training camps in various
%sectlons of the South and Middle West
‘are being hard hit by the storm, and
in many places training maneuvers
have been abandoned.
Chicago, the metropolis of the Mid
g@le West, is virtually cut off from the
outside world today. More than twen
ty inches of snow, the result of the
severe storm of Sunday and the later
one which began yesterday, blocke
streets, car lines and railroads.
The city has been put on coal ra
tions in a desperate effort to avert a
serious fuel famine. Delivery of milk
throughout the city is impossible.
War Work at Standstill. ‘
Officials and employees of the Chi
cago surface lines are making a dese
perate fight to keep the lines open.
All elevated trains are running on
slower schedules. .
In the munitions factory section of
East Chicago, Hammond and Gary,
Ind., work on war contracts is virtual
ly at a standstill. Towns there also
are in danger of a food and fuel fam
ine because of the blocking of the
railroads. It is estimated that 20,000
men in steel plants and munitions
factories in that district are idle to
day because of inability of the plants
to operate,
The entire State of Illinois is snow
bound, and temperatures of below
zero are reported in practically ali
parts of the State. In Chicago the
temperature stood at 8 helow zero
early today, and a further drop was
predicted. Outlying points reported
10 degrees below and lower.
Would Fix Prices of {
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Life's Necessities
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Estab
lishment of a commission “to estab
lish and regulate the maximum price
which shall be paid for the commonl
necessities of life” is authorized in
a bill introduced in Congress by Rep
resentative Fuller, of Massachusetts,
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'And Mail Piles Up
(By International News Service.)
| ONTGOMERY, ALA. Jan
| M 12. — The Montgomery
| postoffice is demoralized
as a result of the cold wave and
storm,
~ The canceling machine has been
out of operation since early Fri
day afternoon because of the fail
ure of the electric current to op
erate. As a result stacks of mail
were piled up this morning unde
livered. Most Friday afternoon
and Friday night trains were late
~and this mail may not be dis
tributed for twenty-four hours.
'~ The three Montgomery newspa
pers were without power to operae
tuntil 11 o’clock this morning.
' Telephone and telegraph wires are
' being rapigay repaired. No deaths
are repor from the cold wave
in this im: \Jll iate vicinity.
‘ The first case made under the new
food regulation fixing Irish potato
prices at 31-2 cents a pound and for
bidding their sale by measure was
that docketed Saturday against Mr.
and Mrs. M. Nissenbaum, who conduct
a grocery at No. 182 East Georgia
avenue.
W. C. Puckett, city {investigator,
went to the store to buy potatoes. In
stead of being weighed, th‘y were
measured in a peck measure. Mr,
Puckett demanded that they be
I\\'eighod, and the scales showed only
twelve pounds instead of the fifteen
pounds required in a Government
peck, making the rate about 4 cents
a pound. Mr. Puckett had a case
entered against the Nissenbaums.
The Nissenbaums were bound over
by Recorder Johnson to await trial in
the City Court on charges of cheating
and swindling.
’ Spurned by U. 8. Ship
~ (By International News Service.) “
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—“ Never!”
This was the grim, laconic re-‘
sponse flashed by radio from the
American steamer J. L. Luckenbach,
when, after a four-hour battle with
a German submarine, she was urged
by a United States destroyer, speed
ing to her rescue, not to surrender.
And she did not. Although nine of
the 225 shots fired by the U-boat
found their mark, the Luckenbach
battled on until the arrival of the
destroyer, which esco*ed her to a
convuy end to saiety.
Tne detailed account of the battle,
Octoter 19, was made public by the
Navy Department today.
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Huns Sink U, 8. Ship;
Watch Crew Perish
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Jan. 12.-—Another ex
ample of the callousness of German
submarine crews came to light to
day. It was stated that a British
merchant ship of 4,000 tons was sunk
in the Mediterranean January 7, and
that the submarine stood by and
watched the crew struggle in the
water without offering any assistance.
Seventeen perished before a French
ship came upon the scene.
TWO DEAD IN BLIZZARD.
SOUTH BEND, IND., Jan. 12.—
Two are dead here as the result of
thé blizzar which struck the city
during the night, leaving South Bend
under twenty-four inches of snow
and lowering the temperature to 19
degrees below zero at § o’clock this
morning.
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. CAMP FUNSTON, KANS., Jan. 12.
Solution of the mystery in the mur
der of four men, wounding of a fifth
and the robbery of an army bank
here Friday night is believed cleared
up this af{ernoon by Captain Lewis
R. Whistler, of the 354th United States
[nfantry.
Captain Whistler shot himself
twice in the head. He used a reg
ulation army rifle. The first bullet
struck his cheekbone and glanced. The
second entered below the right eye
‘and penetrated the brain. Captain
‘ Whistler left a nete to a woman whom
i the authoritfes are hunting. The con
fession says:
“I have been thinking of commit
ting suicide for a long time, but I
have never had a good reason. Yes
terday I went out and made myself
a reason.”
The table was smeared with blood.
The captdin borrowed two hatch
ets from a supply company and today
borrowed two more. The authorities
have not attempted to explain why he
borrowed hatchets today.
The suicirde followed immediately
the issuance of an order to every cap
tain in the camp to report at head
quarters and have his finger prints
taken. This was believed to have
been after finger prints of the slayer
had been found at or near the scene
of the quadruple crime. \
At noon today Cashier Kearney'
Wornell, frightfully wounded, re-!
gaired consciousness for a few sec
onds and stated a single man did |
the killing. ‘
Cashier Wornell recovered con
sciousness a second time this :.ru‘r-‘
noon long enough to make a state
ment lapsing into 'mq_'onsoifmsnes:a‘
soon after. His statement follows: ‘
“The murder was committed by a
captain., He wore no mask, He came
into the bank and said he was slmrl'
of money and hated to do it. The
man’s face is familiar to me, but 71
don’'t know his name. Winters wag
well acquainted with him.”
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Negro in Bad for
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Selling Army Coats
E. L. Belvin, negro proprietor of a
second-hand shop at MNo. 144 Peters
gtreet, is in trouble with the police
and also the provost grard.
Digplayed in his windows for some
days past were ten soldiers’ coats,
tagged at $1.50 each.
This display attracted the attention
of members of the provost guard
and Captain B. J. Sells now is inves
tigating. The police also desire to
know why Belvin did not report the
acquisition of the coats, as second.
hand dealers and pawnbrokers are re
quired‘ to do.
$2,500 Stolea From
Jeweler's Window
The show windows of Loftis Broth
ers & Company, jewelers, at No, b
South Broad street, had a big hole
in its plate glass window Saturday
morning when the bosg came down
to work, and the rings and stickpins
which had formed the display were
missing. |
Detectives Cowan and Gillespie‘
were detalled to find out who smash
ed the window and stole the jewelry.l
The loss was estimated at $2,500,
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LUCY MOWER.
One of these days you may be look
ing at another picture of this little
girl, occupying a full page in one of
the big magazines, and the line un
derneath it will convey the happy in
telligence that *“this great serial will
be illustrated by Lucy Mower, now
ranked among the foremost artists of
America.”
In about ten or a dozen years, say.
Because Lucy is only 11 now, going
on 12, And at that she is already
something of an artist,
Lucy is a daughter of W, K. Mow
er, No. 358 Peachtree street. She goes
to school, and is in the fifth grade,
and she draws and paints in water
colors. Some of her work, which was
sent to The Georgian office, caused a
notable stir in the art department.
Lucy wants to start in an art
school as soon as she can,
“I'm saving my pennies now,” she
'snys, “and nickels and dimes-—they
all go in my little bank, and some
}day the bank will pay my way to art
'school.”
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cy’s dream may materialize as per
Paragraphs 1 and 1L
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New German Raider
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In Pacitic, Report
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- (By International News Service.)
TOKIO, Jan. 12.—Another German
raider is loose in the Pacific, aecord-
Ing to an unconfirmed report brought
to Nagasaki today by an officer of a
Duteh merchant ship.
The officer said the Japanese ship
Hitchachi Maru, which has beay,
missing for three months, was .ap
tured by some Germans between Co
lombo and Delagoa Bay and convert
ed into an auxiliary cruiser. |
He did not explain how the Ger
mans were able to take the vessel.
13 Indian Boys Die in
Fireat DWig%l’t School
(By International News Service.)
MUSKOGEE, OKLA. Jan, 12.—
Thirteen little Indian boys, all ex
cept two of them ranging in age
from 8 to 11 years, met death this
morning in a fire which destroyed
the boys’ dormitory at the Dwight
Indian School, near Marble City,
about forty-five miles southeast of
here.
Six other students and a teacher
were injured in jumping from win
dows on the second floor.
FIRST EDITION
A Paper for Atlanta, Georgia,
. and the South N
(By International News Service.)
PETROGRAD, Jan. 12.—Hostils
comment is directed against Presl
dent Wilson's war aims here today
by the newspaper Pravda. The
Pravda is the official organ eof the
Bolshevik Government.
(By International News Service.}
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—Follow
ing the receipt of information
;Lhat the Bolshevik peace envoys
'have consented to continue the ne=
;gotiatlons with the German envoys at
' Brest - Litovwi¥i¥ was reported that
‘the German Government has agreed
upon new terms along “militaristic™
lines for presentation to Russia.
This Indicated that the pan-Gers=
mans are in compleic control in Ger
many and that the “moderates,” who
were responsible for {he Rei¢hstag
resolution calling for peace on “the
principle of no annex:itions nopr in
demnities, have lost ou!'.
This apparently ends the German
crisis at least for the time being. .
There have been no important ope
erations on the battle fronts.
On all fronts vhere tioops of the
respective powers face each other tha
armigtice between Russia and Gers
many and her allles llas been extend
ed for 30 days.
The British Admiralty reports the
loss of the destroyer Raccoon, ih'a&
storm, with all on board, .
ROME, Jan. 12—It was reported
today, but without official conflnq:c.
tion, that the Pope has called the]p;t
tention of the German and Austrian
Emperors to the principles laid down
by President Wilson through the
nuncios at Munich and Vienna, and
this action was taken, it was explain
ed, to insure serious consideration of
the terms,
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Bolshevik Envoys:
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- Hold to Peace Terms
(By International News Scrvleof)“
STOCKHOLM, an. 12.—The Bol
shevik envoys at Brest-Litovsk will
stand upon the peace terms previ
ously announced, according to a dis
patch from Copenhagen this afters
noon. Germany is expected to pre
sent new terms, >
. Following the decision to renew the
‘parley at Brest-Litovsk, both the
Russian and German delegates went
into separate caucuses to discuss the
new trend the negotiations are talk
ing.
German officers on the eastern
front have issued orders against fra
ternization, evidently fearing the in
fluence of the Bolsheviki upon the
German soldiers.
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Military Peace Terms
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Planned for Russia
(By Internatinnal News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 12.—Germany
has prepared terms for a separate
peace with Russia along “militaristie
lines,” according to information re
ceived today from a reliable source.
These terms, it is understood, are
to replace the conditions for a general
peace announced at Brest-Litovsk by
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