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Forecast for Georgia: Rain Sun
day, possibly turning to snow in
the northwest portlon:‘older in north
and central portions with a cold wave
at hight; Monday fair except rain
near the coast, much colder in south
portion,
VYOL.-V., NO. 43. - Yok AAk
GERMAN SOCIALISTS ASK PEACE;
U. S. IS PUT ON NEVW FOOD BASIS
Garfield Removes All Doubt as to‘
Ruling, and Many Places That!
Remained Open Last Monday
Must Close Tight,-He Says,
Drug Stores May Sell Drugs,
Medical Supplies and News
papers Only—Large Powers
Given Local Administrator,
{(By International News Service.) ‘
"WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. : Dr. Har
ry A. Garfield, fuel administrator, is
sued his prders tonight for a rock
ribhed fuelless Monday. He removes
all doubt in his new rulings and says
fuel is anything that is burned for
iight, heat or power. Tt includes r‘nnl!
coke, wood, charcoal, natural and ar
tificial gas, gasoline, kerosene and al-“
cchol. “
Some of the places which sought to
remain open last'3lond:l)' and whivhi
must clese tight Monday next are:
Departnient stores, all wholesale or
retail stores selling food except where
necessary distribution is endangered
by closing, and this must be deter
sined by the local administrator, who
will notify the fuel administration in
each case of exemption. All such
food stores will sell nothing but food
on Mondays. This does not apply ta
stores selling food for animals.
“News stands, cigar and stationery
stores may remain open only for the
1 urpose of selling newspapers and pe
riodicals.
“Drug stores may sell drugs, medi
cal supplies and newspapers only.
“So-called news stands in hotels
and other public places are requested
to sell nothing but newspapers and
periudicals.
“Candy stores are not exempt.
Amusement Places.
““The various places of amusement
remaining open Monday may contin
ue open Monday night until their us
ual closing hour, even if it is after
midnight, Entertainments or special
functions which have been nd\'xtised
on or before January ¥9 to the extent
that tickets have been sold or invita
tions issued, or written, which “have
otherwise been advertised in the
printed public notice, may be held as
planned. I.odges or other fraternal
organizations accustomed to hold
meetings on Mondays may continue
to do so.
t‘ “The spirit of this law is to discon
inue the sale of liquor everywhere on
Mondays. 4
_ "“Candy stores, candy manufactur-
Lers. tobacco factories, shoe stores,
fi-lgar stores, drug stones may sell only
' drugs and medical supplies, news
' stands, stationery stores and hotel
. news stands may sell only newspa
pers and periodicals.
&cpres of inquiries have come from
automobile users, because they burn
gasoline for bYower. Automobiles are
‘ruled exempt, although one day’s op-
L eration of them takes as much gaso
iline as all the war automobiles use
'on any single day.
. Three general classes ofk‘ manufac
fturing plants are exempt—all ship
‘building and airplane plants and mills
manufacturing explosives.
F “In interpreting the order with re
“gard to firms exempt because of Gov
_ernment work,” says Dr. Garfield’s
*ruling, ‘st should be understood that
nearly half of the manufacturers of
e country are working directly or
directly on Government work and
: t the possession of a Government
Continued on Page 2, Column 1.
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'Frenchmen Drop
| Tons of Explosives
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§ On German Towns
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(By International News Service.)
§ ONDON, Jan. 26.—Eight
3 L thousand kilograms of ex
i plosives were dropped by
French airmen upon the German
industrial cities of Ludwigshafen
¢ and Freiburg in the last 24. hours,
2 while others bombed the German
%military works and railway, at }
Thionville. Observation planes }
penetrated nearly twenty miles be- |
hind’ the German front. Aerlalg
photographers took 300 views. ?
The Germans on their part sent )
a number of flyers to .drop bombs g
on the coast bases of Calais and §
Dunkirk, Berlin reporting “goodg
effect.”
¢ Fighting activity was again con- ¢
? fined to raids on all fronts. {
Explosion Killing Five or More!
Leads to Belief That Spies ' |
Were at Work,
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—A search
ing investigation into the cause of the
fatal explosion at the Newport tnr-l
pedo station was instituted by the]
.\‘a\;‘\' Department tonight., Secretary
Daniels ordered that a full report be
made to him without delay. :
Occurring .éimultanenusly with the
great fire at Newark and Baltimore,
some officials see more than a coin
cidence in the Newport explosion
The official report that no suspicious
circumstances attached to the occtr
rence is looked upon as “preiiminary.”
T'he names of the dead and injured
had not been.received at the Navy
Department tonight. Secretary Dan
iels' statement was: !
“Captain Beach, mspector of ord
nzu}ce. in charge, reports that an ex
plosion of fulminate of mercury at the
naval torpedo station at Newport,
R. I, occurred today, resalting in the
death of five or six men and the_in-
Jjuey of about the same number. ‘
“So far as is known, no suspicious
cucumstances attached to the occur
rence, Captain Beach states, but he is
investigating and will make a full re
port later. The names of those killed
have not yet been reported to the de- |
partment.” . ]
Eight Dead; Ten Missing./- |
NEWPORT, R. L, Jan. 26.—With
cight dead and as many injured as'
the result of the expiosion this after
noon in the naval torpedo station, ten;
other men wer~e unaccounted for late
tonight. It was believed they were
killed in the wreckage of the blast.
It was leancd tonight that two un-.
idertified injured meh had died at
the naval hospital after being taken
there in ambulances. - »
One of the dead men was badly dis
'membered, parts of his body being
found on the ice in Narl&ganselt Bay
}ha]f a mile away. > ¥
The explosion occurred in magazine
’ No. 1. About 1,000 men and 200 wom
en were employed at the statio. None
jof the women employees was injured.
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Soldier Shot by Man
‘Who Had Robbed Him
! Privite Frank Tynam, of Company
‘A, 328th Infantry, Camp Gordon; was
‘shot and seriously wounded last mid
night by an unidentified civilian, who
’escaped. Tynam was removed to the
base hospital at Camp Gordon, where
‘it was feared he might die. 5
.~ Tynam had been playing pool in
"a, place on Marietta street and dis
tcovered that he had been robbed of
isfi‘ He thought le knew who. had
ot his money and seized a young
’man he suspected and started to the
police station with him. On Decatur
street, near oilins, the “prisoner”
said he would pay back the $6 if the
soldier would let him go. He reached
to his pocket, supposedly for the
money, but instead whipped out a
| gun. Tynam grappled with the man,
and in the scuffle the gun was dis
lt'h:u';:ed and a bullet penetrated Tyv
illll!]'\‘ abdomen. Tynam fell to the
sidewalk “and his assailant fled.
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Agreement Between Chicago ‘‘Big
Five” to Control All Cattle,
Hogs and Sheep in America Ex
posed at Probe in Washington.
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“Slush” Fund Used to Hire
- -
Agents to Trail Federal Inves
tigators and to Fight Unfriend
ly Members of Congress.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 —Tearing
the veil away from the secret manipu
lations. of the so-called “big five”
packers combine, Francis J. Heney,
special Federal investigator, today
presented evidence before the Fed
eral Trade C'olnmission to prove that:
1. Agreements were made 1o con
trol all the cattle, beef, hogs and
sheep in the United States.
2. The activities of the packing
magnates extended to the manufac
ture of powder with a $20,000,000 Gov
ernment contract.
3. The “big five” adopted a per
centage system to defray expenses of
political contests against unfavora
ble Congressmen.
4. Kansas City Traction System
was dominated by the interests be
hind the packing industry.
5. American tin industry included
in plans of nation-wide control plan
Banks in Combine.
6. Banking institution® in New
York and: other cities allied with the
meat combine.
7. “Slush” fund used to employ spe
cial agents in Washington to watch
Federal investigators.
8. Obtained possession of confiden
tial information in the offices of the
Federal Trade Commission. |,
9. Employed Colin H. Livingstone,
of Washington, associate of Charles
W. Morse, as a general agent
10. Tabbed Congressmen who sup=
ported Representative Borland in his
resolution for a judiciary committee
investigation of packing conditions.
11. Agreed to compromise on an in
vestigation provided immunity from
criminal action was assured,
Delving into the private coyre
spondence of the Swifgs, Armoufs
Morrises, Wilsons and Cudahys, Heney
held up to exposure the most confi
dential deals through which the pack
ers, he_said, hoped to evade investi
gation under the Borland resolution
‘introduced in Congress in 1916 and
followed by the present inquiry or
‘dered by President Wilson.
‘ Through these documents he aimed
to convince the Federal Trade Com
mission that the aspiration of the
packers was to extend their control
ibe,\ond the meat industry as it was
organized all the way down the line
of the ranches.
| Designes on Cattle.
. “The evidence shows proofs that
'the packers were in a: combination to
ltake over all the cattle, hogs, beel
’and sheep in this country,” Mr. Heney
[summed up. “When investigations
were pending cattle loans were
called. If an independent wanted to
borrow money the bank would ask
Mr. Wilson or Mr. Armour about ex
tending credit. And the files show a
close relation between Armour and
the DuPont Powder Company.”
Placing as evidence a slip of paper
taken from the vault of Edward F
Swift, on which there appeared the
notation, “H. A. C., can you give me
percentage N. P, C.,” tne Federal in
vestigator asked Walter Twombley, a
special” agent of the commission, as
Continued on Page 2, Column 4,
ATLANTA, GA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1918
‘Baker Will Spring |
2 dKer wil dpring 3
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. Startling Facts in
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{ Reply toßoosevelt
§
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% ASHINGTON, Jan. 26.— ¢
W Secretary of War Baker !
has some surprises in store %
forsthe critics of the administra
tion's cohduct of the war. He will |
spring them Monday when he ap- i
pears before the Senate military
affairs committee. The Secretary
expects his statement completely |
to offset the impressions left on é
the country by Senator Chamber
lain and Colonel Roosevelt, !
§ The Secretary is arming himsell |
( with a mass of data and informa
glion. He stated tonight that he
{ plans to cover the entire situation. |
{ Only that which may disclose mil-
E itary secrets to the enemy will be 2
withheld. His previous testimony ¢
before the Senate probers will be 4
supplemented with many new and {
! convincing facts. S
Threat of Damage Suits After War
Made Against Present Plan
of Compensation.
(By International News Servige.)
}VASHINGT()N, Jan, 26,—Railroads
today -presented their legal argu
ment against President Wilson's plan
for Federal control of the railroads.
Alfred P. Thom, counsel for the
railway executive advisory council,
appeared before the Senate interstate
commerce committee and argued
against the present bill providing for
Federal control of the railroads.
Thom gave the Senate committee
plenty of room to infer that the rail
roads will not be satisfied with Pres
ident Wilson's plan for compensation
on a basis of an average of the net in
come for the last three years. He
intimated that after the war the rail
roads would seek damages by liti
gation,
There was every indication today
as the final hearings were being held
that the present railroad bill before
Congress will be largely rewritten be
fore being brought before the House
and Senale for debate,
Maxim Gorky Shot
In Petrograd Riots
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Jan. 26,—Maxim Gorky,
famous Russian novelist, has been
slightly wounded by being struck
with a rifle bullet during the disor
ders in Petrograd, it was reported
from the Russian capital today.
CHILD DIES OF BURNS.
MACON, GA., Jan. 26.—Burns re
ceived by Georgia Hogan, the 3-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. I.
Hogan, at the home of the parents,
No. 244 South College street, proved
fatal today. The child was playing
before a fireplace when her clothes
caught fire., She was hbrribly burn
ed before her mother could extinguish
the flames.
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Food Administration Announces
Enforcement Tomorraw of Re
duction in Consumption of
Wheat in Order to Win War,
Housewives Are Asked to Buy
With Flour an Equal Weight of
Other Cereals — Elaborate
Rules Given Out.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Imme
diate reduction in the consumption
of wheat and wheat products must
be undertaken by the people of the
écuntry to win the war. The food
administration announced today the
enforcement of a 30 per cent conser
vation program which will go into
effect tomorrow morning.
Victory bread is urged for use in
all the homes, restaurants and other
food places of the country. .It will be
made of 80 per cent wheat and 20 per
cent wheat substitutes. Men, women
anrd children are asked to eat it, bake
it, buy it and none other. It is not
a war bread; it contains far more
wheat than the bhreads used in Eng
land, France or Germany.
Coincidentay with the President’s
proclamation, Herbert !, Hoover, food
administrator, made public the rules
by which the country Is expected to
bring about the saving that is im
peratively necessary. They were for
mulated #vith the approval of the
President.
Here Are the Rules.
Some of them will "he enforced un
der the Lever food act; others are
voluntary and will depend for their
success upon public sentiment,
The food administration says:
‘l, The consumers of the country,
as their part in reducing the con
sumption of wheat flour, are called
upon in purchasing such flour to buy
at the same time an cqual weight of
other cereals (corn meal, corn starch,
corn flour, hominy, corn grits, bar
leyv flour, rice, rice flour, oatmeal,
rolled oats, bufkwheat flour, potato
flour, swect potato flour, soy bean
flour and feterit flours and meals).
“The house wife may use these
products separately in making bread,
cakes, pastry or mix them as she
thinks best, Retailers are to sell
wheat flour only with an equal weight
of these other cereals.
“2. Consumers will be able to obtain
mixed cereal bread from their bakers
who will be required under the li
cense regulations to mix § pei cent of
other cereals with their wheat flour,
both in bread and rolls and will be
required gradually to increase this
substigution until, beginning I'ebruary
24 a minimum of 20 per cent of such
cereals is to be used, The food ad
ministration, strongly urges on con
sumers the buying of this bread,
which will be known as ‘victory
bread,” and will contain not less than
20 per cent of cercals other than
wheat, Graham or whole wheat bread
also will be given that name because,
containing as they do 25 per cent
more of the wheat grain than ordina
ry white bread, they, too, will serve
theé purpose of saving white flour.
Buy Victory Bread. ™
“If you bake bread at home, use
wheat substitntes; if you buy it, buy
only victory bread. \
“3. Manufacturers of macaroni, spa
ghetti, noodles, crackers, breakfast
foods, pies and cakes_gnd pastry are
not to purchase to r\:‘f&d 70 per cent
Continued on Page 3, Column 6.
(Copyright 1913 by the
Georglan Company.)
2 Wheatless Days
Each Week Called
®
For by President
Proclamation ['1;(\(7;0__1:(—1“ Efforts Toward
Food Conservation—U, S. Bears Burden
of Feeding Allies.
(By International News Service.)
ASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—President Wilson today issued a
W proclamation calling on the people to make their greatest
effort toward conservation of food for the Allied forces.
He says the reduced productivity of Europe, the partial fail
ure of crops and the destruction of shipping have placed practi
cally the entire burden of subsistence upon the shoulders of this
country. His proclamation reads: ,
Many causes have contributed
to create the necessity for a more
intensive effort on the part of
our people te save food in order
that we may supply our associates
in the war with the sustenance
vitally necessary to them in these
_days of privation and stress. The
reduced productivity of Europe
because of the large diversion of
man power to the war, the partial
failure of harvests and the elimi
nation of the more distant mar
kets ' for foodstuffs through the
dsstruction of shipping places the
burden of their subsistence very
largely on our shoulders.
The food administration has
formulated suggestions which, if
followed, will enable us to meet
this great responsibility without
any real inconvenience on our
part,
1n order that we may reduce our
consumption of wheat and wheat
products 'by 30 per cent—a re
duction imperatively necessary to
provide the supply for overseas
= __wholesalers, jobbers and retail
ers should purchase and resell
to their customers only 70 per
cent of the amounts used in
19i7. Al manufacturers of ali
mentary pastes, biscuits, crackers,
pastry and breakfast cereals
should reduce their purchases and
consumption of wheat and wheat
flour to 70 per cent of their 1917
requirements, and all bakers of
bread and rolls to 80 per cent of
their current reguirements. Con
sumers should reduce their pur
chases of wheat products for
home preparation to at most 70
per cent of those of last year or,
when buying bread, should pur
chased mixed cereal breads from
the bakers.
To provide sufficient cereal
foods, homes, public eating places,
dealers and manufacturers should
substitute potatoes, vegetables,
corn, barley, oats and rice™“prod
uets and the mixed cereal bread
and other products ¢f the bakers
which contain an admixture of
other cereals.
.
Rain, Perhaps Snow,
Predicted for Today
Atlanta’'s semiweekly cold wave is
due tonight, the weather forecast
promising that today there will be
rain which probably will turn to snow
by night, with much colder weather
to follow. It likely will be down to
20 degrees by Monday morning and
probably even colder by Tuesday.
By the way, Professor Snider, in
his long-distance forecast for the en
tire year, had the following, among
many other things, to say: “January
27 (which «is this day) lookout for
snowstorm, followed by a sweeping
cold wave.” The Professor has been
batting around a thousand most of
the winter.
Daylight Saving Bill
Is Offered in House
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—A day
light saving bill more drastic than the
Senate _measure was introduced today
by Representative Sims, of Tennessee,
chairman of the House interstate
commerce committee, It providés
that the act shall become effective
twenty. days after its passage and
continue during the war,
In order that consumption may
be restricted to this extent Mon
days and Wednesday should be
observed as wheatless days each
week and one meal each day
should be-observed as a wheat
less meal, »
In both homes and public eat
ing places, to reduce the con
sumption of beef, pork and sheep
products, Tuesday should be ob
served as meatless day in each
weel, one meatless meal should
be observed in each day while, in
addition, Saturday in each week
should further be observed as a
day upon which there should be
no consumption of pork products,
A continued economy in the
use, of sugar wHI be necessary
until later in the year.
It is imperative that all waste
and unnecéssary consumption of
all sorts of foodstuffs should be,
rigidly eliminated.
The maintenance of the health
and strength of our own people
is vitally necessary at this time
and there should be no danger
ous restriction of the food sup
ply; but the elimination of every
sort of ywaste and the substitu
tion of other commodities of
which we have more abundant
supplies for those which we need
to save will in no way impair the
strength of our people and will
enable us to meet one of the most
pressing obligations of the war,
I, therefore, in the natlional in
terest, take the liberty of calling
upon every lofiAmerican to take
fully to heart the suggestions
which are being circulated by the
food administration and of beg
ging that they be followed. Tam
confident that the great body of
our women who have labored so
loyally in co-operation with the
food administration for the suc
cess of food conservation will
strengthen their efforts and will
take it as a part of their burden
in this period of national service
to see that the above suggestions
are observed in the throughout
the land.
Lump Coal All'Gone;
ump ;
Bureau Closed Today
The fuel distribution bureau at the
Auditorium will be closed all day to
day. Dealers will deliver, so far as
possible, all orders received, up to last
night.
~ Orders for lump coal have been
taken in excess of the supply, and
those bearing the later 'numbers can
not be delivered until more is re
ceived. No orders for lump coal will
be taken tomorrow. Announcement
will be made in the afternoon papers
tomorrow as to taking lump orders on
Tuesday.
PACKING STRIKE OFF.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—~The
packing house\la.bor dls\pute was set
tied this morning at 1:356 o'clock. Out
of eighteen questibns submitted by
the workmen's delegation, twelve
were agreed upon. The six remaining
questions were referred to arbitra
tion. Any increase in wages or
changes in working hotrs will be ef
fective as of January 14.
COAL FAMINE HITS YALE.
NEW HAVEN, CONN, Jan. 26—
Yale has cancelled all recitations for
next week on account of the coal
shortage.
THIS EDITION CONSISTS OF
The Following Sections:
I—bate News. 4—Editorial, City Life,
2—Firing LM®, Finance, Movies, Autos.
Farms, Want Ads. s—Magazine,
3—Soclety. 6—Comics,
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Philip Scheidemann Tells Reichs«
tag Defeat of France and Eng«
land Will Not End Struggle.
Riots in Berlin Reported.
Austria Is Compared to Seething
Cauldron as Result of Demands
for Peace—Negotiations With
Russia Are Continuing.
(By International News Service.)
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 26.—The Ger=-
man majority Socialists, whose steads
fast support of the Government in
the past has time and again saved
the empire's “hote front” from
cracking, has bolted at last, Thet
cause is Chancellor von Hertling's
defiant speech replying to Prcsidqnt
Wilson's peace terms.
Their leader, Philip Scheidemann,
Just back from an extended and mys
terious stay at Stockholm where he
was seen In the company of Bolshev -
ik emissaries, made sharp - front
against Count von Hertling’'s stand
on peace, Addressing the Reichstag
main committee he made a passion
ate plea for peace by understanding
before spring. The U-boats hava
failed, he said, and even if France
and England were beaten to their
knees Germany still' woulé have to
face the mighty armed and economia
power of America, He insisted the
Brest-Litovsk parleys must not be
allowed to break up. He plainly
threatened action by the German
masses if junkerism further hinders
ed peace,
“In the event of a disappointment
of our hopes regarding the western
front,” said he, “what then, if not
a catastrophe?”
In this statement is seen the open«
ing gun in a vigorous German So
clalist campaign against the contem=
ploted supreme drive in the west,
Sarcastic Comment.
Characteristic of the Socialist view
of Count von Hertling’'s speech alsa
was this sarcastic comment by Vora
waerts,
“The speech is a real masterpiecey
inasmuch as it could_be im.erp?etev!
in favor of both the annexationists
and the pacifists.”
Other remarks by the majority Sos
cialist spokesman showed his party i
complete harmony with the stand:
Austria. has taken toward Presideng
Wilson's peace terms and toward
Russia,
“A complete and honorable reins
statement of Belgium is our duty®
sald Scheidemann, “Let us try g
save the world from new bloodshed
in the spring.” i
Promptly one of‘the chief journalis<
tic swashbucklers, the ‘“junkerist
Kreuz Zeitung, came out with a vios .
lent article demanding Scheidemann
and Ebert, who Had made similar re<
marks a few days ago, be shot ag
traitors, % :
The ink was still wet and the
presses still rolling when the military
authorities ordered’ the paper Supw
pressed for an indefinite time, »
Action Significant.
No more significant action has beer§
reported from Berlin in months, for it
means that the Government is awarq
of the Socialist power and deemed i§
the better part of wisdom to_ repudid
ate this attack upon their patriotisme
Tomorrow is the Kaisers flflh:;
ninth birthday. In ordinary tlmfl:
this is the most solemnly observed
nonreligious holiday in the e rée
The temper of the Teutdnic mfi
all dispatches show beyond a. 1 -
venture of a doubt,-is far from ’?‘
Sl Py
Continued on Page 2, Column & .