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Forecast for Georgia: Rain Sun
day, possibly turning to snow in
the northwest portion; coider in north
and céntral portions with a cold wave
at night; Monday fair except rain
near the coast, much colder in south
portion,
VOL. V. NO. 43.
GERMAN SOCIALISTS ASK PEACE;
U. S. IS PUT ON NEW 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.)
WASHIKGTON, Jan. 26.—Dr, Har
ry A. Garfleld, fuel administrator, is
sued his orders tonight for a. rock
ribbed fuelless Monday. He removes
all doubt in his new rulings and says!
fuel is anything that is burned torl
iight, heat or power. It includes coal,
coke, wood, charcoal, natural and ar-l
tificial cas, gasoline, kerosene and al
cr,hol.’ \ I
Some of the places which sought t(.v|
remain open last Monday and which
must clese tight Monday fext are:
Departrient stores, all wholesale or
retail stores selling food except where
necessary dis&gbution is endangered |
by closing, and this must be deter
mined by the local administrater, whql
will notify the fuel administration in
each case of exemption. All such
fond stores will sell nothing but/ food
on Mondays. This does not apply to
stores selling food for animals.
“News stands, cigar and stationery
stores may remain open only for the
purpose of salling newspapers and pe
riodicals. |
“Drug stores may sell drugs, medl-i
cal supplies and newspapers only. |
“So-called news stands in hotels
and other public places are requested
to sell nothing but newspapers gnd
perivdicals. ¢
“C‘andy stores are not.exempt.
Amusement Places.
“The various places of amusement
remaining open Monday may contin
ue open Monday night untll their us
ual closing hour, even if it is after
miinight. Entertainments or special
functions which have been advertised
on or before January 19 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.
“The spirit of this law is to discon
tinue the sale of liquor everywhere on ‘
Mondays.
“Candy stores, candy manuhctur-!
ers, tobacco factories, shoe stores,
cigar stores, drug stomes may sell only
drugs and medical supplies, news
stands, stationery stores and hotel
news stands may sell only newspa
pers and periodicals. \ ‘
Scores of inquiries have come from
automobile users, because they burn
gasoling for power. Automobiles are
ruled exempt, although one day's op
eration of them takes as much gaso
line as all the war automobiles use
on any single day.
Three general classes of manufac
turing plants are exempt—all ship
building and airplane plants and mills
manufacturing explosives.
“In interpreting the order withsre
gard to firms exempt because of Gov
«rnment work,” says Dr. Garfield's
ruling, “it should be understood that
nearly half of the manufacturers of
the country ate.working directly or
indirectiy. on Government work and
that the possession of a Government
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Frenchmen Drop
.
Tons of Explosives
On German Towns
(By International News Service.)
ONDON, Jan. 26.—Eight
L thousand kilograms of ex
plosives were dropped by
French airmen upon the German
industrial cities of Ludwigshafen
and Freiburg in the last 24 hours,
while others bombed the German
military works and rallway at
Thionville. Observation planes
penetrated nearly twenty miles be
hind the German front. Aerial
photographers took 300 views.
The Germans on their part sent
a number of flyers to drop bombs
on the coast bases of Calais and
Dunkirk, Berlin reporting ‘“good
effect.” 3
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 tor
pedo station was instituted by thel
Navy Department tonight. Secrctary
Daniels ordered that a full report be
made to him without delay.
Occurring simultaneously 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 occur
rence is looked upon as “preliminary.”
I'ne names of the dead and injured
had not been received at the Navy
Department tonight. Secretary Dan
iels’ statement was:
“Captain Beach, inspector of ord
nance, in charge, reports that an ex
plosion of fulminate of mercury at the
naval torpedo station at Newport,
R. I, occurred today, resulting in the
death of five or six men and the fh
ju" of about the same number, |
So far as is known, no suspicious
circumstances 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. ‘
j NEWPORT, R. 1, Jan. 26,—With
wreight dead and as many injured as
‘the result of the explosion this after
inoon in the naval torpedo station, ten
iother men were unaccounted for late
tonight. It was believed they were
killed in the wreckage of the blast.
It was leantd tonight that two un-l
idertified injured men 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
fourtd on the ice in Narragansett Bay
half a mile away.
The explosion occurred in magazine
No. 1. About 1,000 men and 200 wom-]
en were employed at the station. None‘
of the women employees was injured.
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Soldier Shot by Man
.
Who Had Robbed Him
Private Frank Tynam, of Company
A, 328th Infantry, Camp Gordon, was
shot and seriously wounded last mid
night by an unidentified civilian, who
escaped. T}'nam was removed to the
base hospital at Camp Gordon,,where
it was feared he might die.
Tynam had been playing pool in
‘a -plape on Marietta street and dis
| covered 'that he had beén robbed of
lse. He thought he knew who had
cot his money and seized a yvoung
‘man he suspected and started to the
1 police station with him. On Decatur
street, near Collins, the “prisoner”
said he would pay back the $6 if the
soldier would let him go. He reached
lm 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
’k'harged and a bullet penetrated Ty
imm's abdomen. Tynam fell to the
{sidewalk and his assailant fled.
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A NEW CR— . 4 =5 K=y e T N R
Agreement Between Chicago ““Big
Five” to Control All Cattle,
Hogs and Sheep in America Ex
posed at Probe in Washington.
“Slush” Fund Used to ' Hire
Agents to Trail Federal Inves
tigators and to Fight Unfriend
ly Members of Congress.
(By International News SQrvico.}
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Tearing
the veil away from the secret manipu
lations of the so-called “big fiye”
packers combine, Francis J. Heney,
special Federal investigator, today‘
presented evidence before the Fed
eral Trade Commission to prove that:
1. Agreements were made to 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 ofl
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 Institutions in New
York and other cities allied with thel
meat combine.
7. “Slush” fynd used to employ spe
cial agents inl\Wahington to watch
Federal investigators.
8. Obtained possession of confiden
tial information in the offices of the
Federal Trade Commission. |
9. Employed Colin H. Livingslone,‘
of Washington, associate of Charles
W. Morse, as a general agent. ‘
~ 10. Tabbed Congressmen who sup
ported Representative Borland in his
‘resolutian\‘for a judiclary committee
investigation of packing conditions. {
- 11. Agreed to compromise on an in
vestigation provided immunity from
icrimlnal actipn was assured.
Delving .into the private corre
spondence of the Swifgs, Armours
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 ard
followed by the present inghiry 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
beyond the meat industry as it was
organized all the way down the line
of the ranches.
Designs on Cattle.
“The evidence shows proofs thal
the packers were in a combination to
take 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 theé fileg 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.
Wist, on which there appeared the
notation, “H. A. (~ can you give me
percentage N. P.°C."” tne Foderal in
vestigator asked Walter Twombley, a
apecial agent of the commission, as
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 1918.
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Reply toßoosevelt
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ASHINGTON, Jan. 26~ ¢
\x’ Secretary of War Baker %
has some surprises in store
{ for the critics of the administra-" )
§ tion's conduct of the war. He will }
{ spring them Monday when he ap- !
pears before the Senate military )
affairs committee. The Secretary )
expects his statemenl completely
' to offset the imprens!oxfi left on
the country by Senator Chamber- )
lain and Colonel Roosevelt. !
The Secretary is arming himself ;
with a mass of data and informa- ;',
| tion. He stated tonight that he 2
‘ plans to cover the entire situation. ?
{ Only that which may disclose mil- |
| itary secrets to the enemy will be
withheld. Hlis previous testimony g
before the Senate probers will be ¢
supplemented with many new and 2
) convincing facts. \
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Threat of Damage Suits Afterflar
Made Against Present Plan
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of Compensation.
(By International News Service.)
X WASHINGTON, 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
agalnst 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 Tast 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
InP '
~ In Petrograd Riots
1 (By International News Service.)
~ LONDON, Jan. 26.—Maxim Gorky,
famous Russian novelist, has been
‘s\ightly wounded by hofnl:' 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, L.
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 horribly burn
ed before her mother could extinguish
the flames, ‘
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Food Administration Announces
Enforcement Tomorrow of Re
duction in Consumption of
Wheat in Order to Win War.
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Housewives Are Asked to Buy
With Flour an Equal Weight of
Other Cereals — Elaboratel
Rules ‘Given Out.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26-—lmme
diate reduction in the consumption
of wheat and wheat products must
be undertaken’ by the people of the
ceuntry 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 unse in
all the homes, restaurants and other
food places of the country. It will be
made of 80 per cent wheat and 20 per
cen¥ wheat substitutes. Men, women
and 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 breads used in Eng
land, France or Germany.
(‘oincidentally with the President’s
proclamation, Herbert (!, Hoover, food
administrator, made public the rules
by which the country Is expected
bring about the saving that is iK
peratively necessary. They were for
mulated with the approval of the
President.
Here Are the Rules.
Some of them will be enfcreed un
der the Lever food act; others are
voluntary and will depend for their
sguccess upon public sentiment.,
The food administration says:
“1. 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 equal weight of
other cereals (corn meal, corn starch,
corn flour, hominy, corn grits, bar
ley flour, rice, rice flour, oatmeal,
rolled oats, buckwheat fiour, potato
flour, swect potato flour, soy bean
flour and feterxt“llours and ‘meals).
“The house fe 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 obtaln
mixed cereal bread from their bakers
who will be required under tae li
cense regulations to mix 5 per cent of
other cereals with their wheat flour,
both in bread and rolls and will be
required gradually to increase this
cubstitution until, beginning IFebruary
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
bre’ad,!‘ 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
the purpose of savipg white flour.
Buy Victory Bread.
“If you bake bread at home, use
wheat substitntes; if you buy it, buy
only victory bread,
i “3. Manufacturers of macaroni, spa
ghetti, noodles, crackers, breakfast
foods, pies and cakes and pastry are
lnol to purchase to exceed 79 per cent
Continued on Page 3, Column 6.
(Copyright 1913 by the
Georglan Company.)
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Proclamation Urges Greater Efforts Toward
Food Conservation—U, S. Bears Burden
of Feeding Allies.
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(By International News Service.)
ASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—President Wilson today issued a
W proclamation calling on the peopls to make their greatest
effort toward conservation of food for the Allied forces.
He says the reduced produectivity of Eur?pe. 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 to save food in order
that we may supply our associates
in the war with the-wustenance
vitally necessary to them in the:
days of privation and ntren.'-m
reduced productivity of Europe
because of the large diversion of
man power to the war, the glrthl
failure of harvests and the elimi
nation of the more distant mar
kets for foodstuffs through the
dastruction 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.
In 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
1917. All 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 requirements. 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 sufficlent cereal
foods, homes, public eating places,
dealers and manufacturers should
substitute potatoes, vegetables,
corn, barléy, oats and rice prod
ucts and the mixed cereal bread
and other products of the bakers
which contain an admixture of
other cereals.
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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 i= 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 Rims, of Tennessee,
chairman of the House interstate
commerce vommittee, It provides
that the act shall become effective
twenty days after its passage and
continue during the war,
In order that consumption may
be restricted to thls extent Mon
days and Wednesday should be
observed as wheatless days each
week apd 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
week, one meatless meal should
be observed in each day while, in
addition, SBaturday 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 will be necessary
until later in the year.
It is imperative that all waste
and unnecessary 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 waste 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 impalir the
strength of our people and will
enable us to meet one of the most
pressing obligations of the war.
1, therefore, in the national in
terest, take the liberty of calling
upon every loyal American to take
fully to heart the suggestions
which are being circulated by the
food administration and of beg
ging that they be followed. Tam
confldent 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;
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 s 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 labor dispute was set
tled this morning at 1:35 o’clock. Out
of eighteen questions 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 hours will be ef
fective as of Jgnuary 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 Fallowing Sections:
l==Late News. 4~Editorial, CHy Life,
2-~Firing Llne, Finanoce, Movies, Autos,
Farms, Want Ads, s—Magazine,
3—Saclety. 6—Comios. e
BE SURE YOU GET THEM ALL®
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Philip Scheidemann Tells Relchs
tag Defeat of France and Engw
land Will Not End Struggles
Riots in Berlin Reported,
k Epi——
Austria Is Compared to Seething
- Cauldron as Result of Demands
~ for Peace—Negotiations With
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~ Russia Are Continuing,
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~ (By International News Service.)
‘\ AMSTERDAM, Jan. 26.—The Ger<
man majority Sociallsts, whose stead«
fast support of the Government in
the past has time and again saved
the empire’'s ‘“home front” from
‘crack'ng. has bolted at last. The
cause I 8 Chancellor von Hertling's
deflant speech replying to President
Wilson’s peace terms.
Thelr leader, Philip Scheldemann,
Just back from an extended and mys«
terlous stay at Stockholm where he
was seen in the company of Bolshev«
Ik emissarfes, 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 have
failed, he sald, and even if Franoe
and England were beaten to thelr
knees Germany still would have te
face the mighty armed and economlie !
power of America. He Insisted the
Brest-Litovsk parleys must not be
allowed to break up. He plainly
threatened action by the Germanm
'masses if junkerism further hindere
'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 {s meen the open«
ing gun in a vigorous German Soe
clalist campaign against the contems«
ploted supreme drive in the west,
Sarcastic Comment.
Characteristic of the Socialist view
of Count von Hertling’s speech alse
was ‘this sarcastic comment by Vore
waerts.
“The speech is a real masterplece
inasmuch asg it could be interpreted
in favor of both the annexationists
and the pacifists,”
Other remarks by the majority So«
clalist spokesman showed his party is
complete harmony with the stand
Austria has taken toward President
Wilson’s peace terms and toward
Russia.
i “A complete and honorable rein<
statement of Belgium is our duty,”
isnld Scheidemann, “Let us try to
'save the world from new bloodshed
‘in the spring.”
l Promptly one of the chief journalis
‘[nv swashbucklers, the junkerist
Kreuz Zeitung, came out with a vio=
lent article demanding Scheidemann
and l;lnirt. who had made similar re
marks a few days ago, be shot as
| tralitors.
The ink was still wet and the
presses still rolling when the military
authoritips ordered the paper sup=
pressed for an indefinite time,
Action Significant.
No more significant action has been
reported from Berlin in months, for it
| means that the Government is aware
:int‘ the Socialist power and deemed it
| the batter part of wisdom to repudi=
(?IM: this attack upon Ulf‘i" V"‘““"O“‘m
| Tomorrow is the Kaiser's fiffy=
[»ur"‘ birthday In ordinary times
| this is the most solemnly observed
| nonreligious holiday in thp empire.
| The temper of the Teutonic peoples o
s;'-;‘ dispatches show beyond a W*‘,g
l“ iture of a doubt, is far from t‘m-;;’
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