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VOL. XVII
MOVE IN SENATE TO BLOCK WILSON'S PLANS
Knox Would Limit President’s Power at Parley
HOLLAND MUST SURRENDER KAISER
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(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Dec. 3.—*The last word has
not been said in the sinister history
of the Hohenzollerns,” said The
Homme Libre today, commenting on
the recent German plot to restore the
ex-Kaiser,
The paper continued:
“Prussianism won’'t admit defeat.
The most notorious of the Pan-Ger
mans are plotting the restoration of
William in oraer to resume the
war."”
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Dec. 3.—The conference
of Allied statesmen, which opened
here yesterday, has decided to ask
Holland for the surrender of the ex-
Kaiser without delay, The Evening
News stated today.
The Daily Express understands that
the inter-allied conference decided on
& joint plan to press Holland soon for
the extradition of the former war
lord.
Suggeetions for bringing the Kaiser
to trial have been discussed.
An imperial war conference was
teld at Premier Lloyd George's offi
cial residence in Downing street this
morning just prior to the resumption
of the sessions of the inter-Allied
conference.
While the Allied conference now in
session here is in absolute agreement
regarding the proposed punishment
for the ex-Kaiser, it has been decided
not to act until President Wilson ar
rives in Burope, The Evening News
stated this afternoon.
If Holland refuses to surrender the
former German Emperor without the
consent of the German Government,
pressure will be brought to bear upon
the Dutch Government to secure the
ex-war lord's extradition, it was said
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Ex-Kaiser’s Loyal Troops
Are Marching on Berlin
(ay International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 3.—Several
regiments of German troops that re
mained faithful to the ex-Kaiser are
marching toward Berlin from Grodno
(in the Russian province of Lithua
nia) to attempt the overthrow of the
Ebert government, according to infor
mation received here today. The
Germans, who are commanded by
Junker officers, are reported to have
plundered and burned a number of
towns in Poland.
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Difference of Opinion
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As to Ex-Kaiser’s Fate
By HENRY G. WALES,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
PARIS, Dec, B.—Diplomatic circles
do not believe &hc Allles intend to
make a martyr 6f the ex-Kaiser, al
though extremists and international
lawyers are sending numerous arti
cles te the press supporting the de
mand for the extradition for trial and
execution of the one-time war lord.
“If the Allies undertook to punish
all of the malefactors ilt would mean
wholesale execution, probably a
couple of thousand,” said one high
officlal. “Besides the Kaiser there is
the ex-Crown Prince and cruel com
manding officers of prison camps, air
laiders and submarines, as well as
town mayors, responsible for the de
portations and atrocities in Belgium
and northern France.
“Remember how the world shud
dered when the British executed Mad
Mullah's chieftains and a louder cry
would be raised if the gulity Huns
were shot, owing to their great
numbers. If the German penple are
really undergoing a change of heart,
they will deal with the Kaiser them
selves better than we could without
martyring him. Holland will rid her.
pelf of her visitor at the proper time.”
Belief was expressed that the ex-
Kalger may return to Germany vol
untarily-or otherwise-—-when the
German people will have an oppor
tunity to demonstrate the true scope
of their change of heart and their
reformation in politics.
If the former Kaiser Is received it
will prove that the German people
condone the junkers and militarism
But if the Fatherland is really dem«
ocratized the erstwhile emperor, as
well as others guilty of starting the
war, will be properly punished, it was
declared.
Holland Gets Square
With Hun Coal Order
(By International News Service,)
AMSTERDAM, Dee. 3.--~Holland
today =topped the export of goods to
Continued on Page 5, Column 1,
* Full International News Service
Cotton Should Go
.
To 40 Cents in 90
Days, Brown Says
MACON, Dec. 3.—lt is the opin
fon of J. J. Brown, Commissioner
of Agriculture for Georgia and
president of the Cotton States
Marketing Board, who is here to
attend the meeting of the Farmers'
Educational and Co-operative Un
ion of America, that cotton will be
selling for 40 cents or more within
ninety days. He hinges his fore
cast on the condition that the
planters hold their cottofd for that
length of time.
Mr. Brown declares that he is
particularly anxious for producers
to reallze that cotton prices are
not going to improve if cotton is
marketed under existing condi
tions. He says in his trips through
out the State he has found that
farmers are planning smaller
acreage, figuring that it will bring
him more returns to hold his 1918
crop and cut down his next year's
yield.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Dee. 3.—Boris Litvinoff,
tormer Bolshevik envoy to England,
has arrived at Stockholm “to open
peace negotiatiosn with the Allies,”
said a dispatch to The Daily News
from that city today.
“We want peace and will'grant the
Allies any concessions excepting de
mande relating to Ruasian internal
arfairs,” Litviroff wag quoted as say
ing in an interview. “Immediate
payment of our debts is impossible,
but I would suggest a moratorium on
compromise lines involying the
granting of commercial and mining
concessions and the payment of such
pold as is in the country nuw,
“Russian peasant opposition to the
Bolshevik is now a thing of the
past.”
As to executions by the Bolsheviki,
Litvinoff said:
“Official records report only four
hundred execuations in Moscow and
40 per cent of the victitis were crim
inals, Tn Petrograd the situation was
worse because there was no unifica
tion of auth n;tty." & |
Germans in Esthonia ‘
Killed or Captured ‘
LLONDON, Dee, 3.—Bolshevik
troops have killed or made prisoners
all ¢f the German garrisons In Es
thonia, said a Copenhagen disputch
to The Dally Express’ today,
Bolshevik warships have bombard
ed the whole Esthonian coast. 'l'wo
thousand Bolshevik soldiers have
been landed at Narva.
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Street Car Men Strike
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Against Women Workers
(By International News Service.)
CLEVELAND, Dec. 3. —Every
street car in this city stopped run
ning at 5 o'clock this morning when
2 000 street car men walked out ask
ing that the company cease employ
ing women conductors,
Exten of Injury to Nat
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Goodwin’skyesl ndecided
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Dec. B—Dr. F. F.
Irwin, who operated on Nat Good
win, the actor, issued a statement to.
day in which he said “physicians are
not yet positively sure that the eye
sight will be unimpaired, still they
are fairly confident it will be o. k."
Mr. Goodwin suffered an Injury to
his eyes when he used chloroform
liniment recently as an eye wash
through mistake.
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(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Dec. 3.—That the Allies
will occupy all of Germany is the
prediction made by the Socialist
newspapers Vorwaerts, of Berlin, ac
cording to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen this aft
ernoon.
Marshal Foch has sent an ultima
tum to the German armistice com
mission demanding that Germany
deliver up her strongest and best
railway locomotives, dispatches
state. This ultimatum expired at 10
o'clock yesterday.
Mathias Erzberger, German Secre
tary of State, protested to Marshal
Foch that it was impossibel for the
Germans to carry out this demand on
time and asked for a respite.
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Promotions in U. §.
Faster Than Abroad;
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McKellar Asks Why
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3—An in
quiry into alleged discrimination
agalnst men overseas in the mattetr
of army promotions, was proposed
in a resolution introduced in the
Senate today by Senator McKellar,
of Tennessee,
The resolution invites Secretary
of War Baker to transmit to the
Senate all information with regard
to army promotions both in this
country and abroad.
“Promotions of men overseas has
been exceedingly slow, according to
my information, while men in the
service in Washington have been
Jjumped up at an amazing rate,”
Senator McKellar said.
“l am told at the War Depart
ment that it has no control over
promotions abroad, that all that is
in the hands of General Pershing.
I am informed, too, that the promo
tion on this side are right and nec
essary, 1 should think it would
be the other way around, that
fighting men would be advanced
more rapidly than nonfighting men.
At any rate I wish to get the
facts.”
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Girl’s Knee Broken in
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Panic on Piedmont Car
Passengers on a Piledmont avenue
trolley car were thrown into a panle
Monday night when the controller stand
suddenly burst into flames near Ivy and
Cain streets. Five persons were slight.
ly hurt as a result of the scramble to
leave the car., Miss Kinnie Manley, of
No. 500 Piedmont avenue, a telephone
operator, received a hroken knee. Three
negro women and a negro boy were
taken to Grady hospital, where it was
found they were only slightly bruised
Both members of the crew did good
service. C. N. Snears, the motorman,
was kncked from the front platform by
the rush of passengers and badly hurt.
He held a bar and was dragged several
feet before J. W. Hubbard, the con
ductor, stopped the car from the rear
platform, thus saving others from pos
sible Injury.
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Glowing Tributes Paid
Memory of Rostand
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Dec. 3.-~Numerous mes
sages of condolence over the death
of Edmond Rostand, eminent dra
matlst, poured into Paris today.
Countess de Noallles, a friend of
the late playwright, declared that
“he had gone away to bring good
news to the soldier dead” All of
the papers print columns of eulogy
on the life work of M. Rostand.
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National Organizer for
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W.C.C.S. te Visit City
T. 8. Bettle, who organized the War
Camp Community Service for more than
one-third of the wsoldiers and wsallors
in the United States, will be in Atlanta
the latter part of this week, for a con
ference with Howard T. Cree, the local
executive secretary.
Mr. Settle has been promoted from
district representative of the Southeast
to be speclial district representative for
the United States, and his headguarters
have been removed from Richmond to
the offices of the Commission on Train
ing Camp Activities at the War Depart
ment in Washington,
Stone Mounatin Plans
Monument to Troops
A movement has been started by the
citizens of Stone Mountain to erect a
monument to the boys from that district
who were In the service of the United
Statex In war times
All} persons interested are Invited to
writalu Frank Guess Stone Mountain,
who will keep them informed of the
progress of the plan.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918
A material increase In the city's tax
rate to meet the shortage of next year's
funds resulting from the abnormal ex
penditures of the present year, was fore
cast by Alderman Harvey Hatcher,
chairman of the flnance committee of
Council, and Councilman Walter Dillon
during the debate on the proposed salary
increases in different city departments
at Monday afternoon’s meeting of Coun
cil.
In one of the busiest sessions of the
present administration, Council voted its
approval of the telephone merger pro
‘vldlng for the absorptian of the Atlanta
Telephone Company by the Bell sys
tem; passed up untii a later meeting the
question of abolishing the City Marshal's
|office, and added nearly SIOO,OOO to the
city’'s yearly payroll through salary in
creases.
The increases are effective only in the
fire and police departments, all other re
quests for more salary being referred
to next year's Council. After defeating
amendments and substitute motions all
designed to reduce the amount of in
crease, Council finally adopted an ordi
nance by Alderman John 8. McClelland,
providing for a general increase of $lO
a month in the pay of uniformed patrol
men and firemen, and of $5 a month
for detective sergeants in the police de
partment, and assistant chiefs and me
chanicians in the fire department,
Phone Merger Aprroved.
The approval of the telephone merger
was given by Council only, and it must
be approved by the aldermanic board
at its meeting next Thursday and then
by the Postmaster General and the Rail
road Commission before it can become
ofixerative. However, it is not believed
there will be any hitch in the proceed
ings. The Bell Company already has
signified its willingness to meet all the
conditions imposed by the ('ltg‘. and it is
understood that the Railroad Cemmis
sion approves of merging the two com
panies.
Action on the ordinance by Alderman
Jonas H. Ewing, to abolish th eoffice of
City Marshal, was deferred until a later
meetin(F automatically, with a motion by
the Alderman to place the ordinance on
its second reading before its final pas
sage, failed of a majority vote, as is re
%l:ir?d, the vote being fifteen for and
thirteen against further action. This
means that the office will be included in
the dallot at the general electon Wed
nesday, and a new incumbent elected to
succeed City Marshal James M. Fuller,
who died recently while serving his
eighth year in the office. There are five
candidates in the race, and all have in
structed the city clerk to put their names
on the ticket as the result of Council's
failure to declare the office abolished.
The tenure of office of the successful
candidate is llkely to be exceedingly
ghort, in as much as James l. Mayson,
in his rullnl that the successor to Mr.
Fuller would have to be elected Wed
nesday, golmed out that Council could
abolish the office after the election of a
new incumbent as easily as before, and
a bare majority already exists in favor
of abolishing it
Ewing Drops Bomb.
A mild sensation was created hfy Al
derman Ewing toward the close of the
session when he introduced an ordi
nance declaring the office of the city
urchasing agent to be illegal because It
{l‘ld been provided for in an ordinance
voted on and passed by General Coun
ell instead of by a separate vote of the
two divisions. The city code provides
that all legislation .ooking towards the
expenditure of city funds must be pass
ed by the councilmen and aldermen vot.
ing separately. This provision has ham
pered Alderman Ewing in obtaining pas
sage of his ordinance to abolish the of
fice of city marshal, the city attorney
having ruled that the ordinan;e adopt
ed recently to abolish the office was
vold because both branches of Council
voted on it jointly,
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U. S. Loans to Allies :
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Total $8,196,576,666
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-The total
eredits now extended to all the Allles
by the United States amounts to
$8,196,576,666, ‘
This new total was announced to
day by Secretary of the Treasury Mc.
Adoo, with an additional loan to Bel
glum of $12,000,000, making the grand
total for Belgium $210,120,000, |
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British Cabinet to ‘
Ask Kaiser’s Surrender
LONDON, Dec. 3-—The British
war cabinet, including colonial rep
resentatives, has unanimously agreed
to request the Dutch Government to
surrender Kalser Willlam, according
to an Interview with Sir Frederick
Smith, printed yesterday in The Liv
erpool KEcho.
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Prominent Brunswick
.
Man Slain By Negro
BRUNSWICK, Dec. 3.-B. F. Jones,
ex.alderman and a large property owner
here, was shot and killed here today
hy flen oJrdan, a negro, in Jordan's
home, It {8 sald that Jones tried to
keep the negro and his wife from quar
reling, when the negro became enraged.
At old Army Hcodoo
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Is Killed Next Day
By BERT FORD,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
OF OCCUPATION, Nov. 30 (de
layed) —Believers in bad luck
signs can now point to the sud
den death of Lieutenant Alfred Ed
win Estep, of Urbana, 111, a sig
nal corps photographer, as a lesson
to support their superstitions.
Lieutenant Estep, who had been
assigned to take news photographs,
was injured by a shell in the fight
ing north of Verdun just before the
armistice was signed.
He was operating his camera
with an infantry platoon in the
first wave of attack when he lost
his life. The day before his death
Estep violated an old army super
stition by being the third man to
accept a light from a match. It
is army tradition that bad luck is
sure to follow if more than two
cigars or cigarettes are lighted
from the same match. Estep
laughed when reminded of the
signs and said he did not mind the
hoodoo.
PRIGE-FIXING
LAW 15 URGED
ogy International News Service.) |
ASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A law to
permit price-fixing, under certain re
strictions, was urged upon Congress
by the Federal trade commission to-|
day. Under the proposed law, if the,
manufacturer of an article produced
and sold under competitive conditions
Cesired to fix resale prices, he would
file with some agency to be desig
nated by Congress a description of
the article and the desired price
schedule. This agency, either upon
its own initiative or upon complaim,l
would be given the power to revise
this schedule.
There must be a eommon ground,
the commission points out, wherein
the “rights of producer, purchaser
and consumer may each be fully se
cured and equity done to all.”
In its efforts in this direction, the
commission, it was stated, arrived at
these conclusions:
1. That producers of identified
goods should be protected in their In
tanighle property right or good will.
2. That the unlimited power both tol
fix and to enforce and maintain a re-l
sale price may not be made lawful
with safety |
8. That unrestrained pricec utting
is not in the public interest. I
Such legislation as that favored by |
the commission, it is contended, wouid
be in accord with the spirit of the|
times, in that it is designed “to pro-l
mote the efliciency of manufacturing |
and commercial interests and so to
serve the interests of the consuming
publie.”
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Young Girl to Inherit
Great Gates Fortune
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Fifteen-year
old Dorella F. Ansell, of Lake Forest,
I, will ultimately inherit the at
fortune left by her aunt, the late fien.l.
John W, Gates, it was made known to
day in a statement by Mrs. Gates' ex
ecutors, The will has not been pro-|
bated, It is estimated the Gates for
tune is more than $20,000 000,
The will, according to the executor's
statement, gives her brother, Edward J.
Baker of St. Charles, 111., a life lnterut[
in one-half of her residuary estate. He
also will get $500,000 nulrfyxht. On his |
death the principal will go to Miss An-‘
gell who, in the meantime, will be sup
gorted from the income of the romllningl
alf of the estate until she Is 21, After
that she will receive the whole income,
a quarter of the grlnvlpnl when she is
30 yvears old, another quarter when she
is 35 ,and the remainder when she is 40,
After the death of John W, Gates,
Mrs, Gates resided at Port Arthur,
Texas.
Car, Driver and 6 Suit ’
Cases of Liquor Held
A twin-six automobile, its driver,
H. H. King, 20, of No. 16 Cleland ave
nue, and six suit cases full of liquor
were taken Monday at the Terminal
Station by Patrolman Pittman and
sent to the police station.
Tht machine was held in the pollee
garage under lock and key, the liquor
was stored In the big money vault,
and King was placed under a SIOO
bond for a preliminary hearing before
Judge Johnson later. He sald he had
been employed for the trip and knew
not what the suit cases had in them
His story apparently was corrob:
orated, the other man escaping.
150 Men Released From
Service at Camp W heeler
MACON, Dee, 3,-One hundred and
fifty moldiers, members of the develop
ment battalion, have been mustered out
at Camp Wheeler. Fifty were coal
miners and a majarity of the others were
former rallroad n. There ara 4000
members of the velopment battalion
who are up«*to&to be mustered out
during the next days,
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The liner
George Washington, on which Presi
dent Wilson and the peace delegution
will sail to France, is ready to sail
whenever the President and his party
get aboard.
Captain C. B, Morgan, of Rear Ad
miral Cleaves' staff, announced today
that preparations were complete and
only sailing orders are necessary. Na
val officials admitted, however, that
the time of sailing and the methods
by which the President will embark
are being closely guarded.
The big liner has been completely
overhauled in preparation for the trip
abroad. Forty-nine staterooms, for
ty-six bathrooms, two smoking rooms,
a conference hall, a ladies’ lounge, a
large mess hall and the main “C
deck” corridor have been redecorated
and newly furnished.
The President’s suite of three rooms
on the port side of the main deck
consists of a study, parlor and bed
room, fitted with mahogany furniture
and decorated in hangings of gray.
‘Mrs. Wilson's suite, across the corri
dor from that of the President, has
been decorated in a lighter tone, pink
Leing the deminating color.
The main promenade has been in
closed in glass and more than a hun
dred men have been employed in re
decorating the liner.
The President and his immediate
party will dine in a private dining
room, it was said today. Louis Seres,
Biltmore Hotal chef, will have charge
of preparing the presidential menus.
The chef and his assistants have been
sworn _into the navy for nya trip.
President Will Sail
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For France Wednesday
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—President
Wilson will sail for Europe tomorrow.
He will land at Brest, France, De
cember 11 early in the afternoon. By
that date the President and his fel
low delegates, who will represent the
United States at the coming peace
conference, will have completed their
program. There will be a good many
conferences en route
Although no official announcement
was made, it was indicated that the
President would start for New York
about midnight and that the George
Washington, upon which the presi
dential party will make the voyage,
would pull out of her pier about 10:30
tomorrow, Secretary Tumulty will ac
company the President to New York,!
where he plans to remain two or three
days. 1
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20th Division To Be
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Sent From Camp Sevier
GREENVILLE, 8. C, Dec. 3.—An
nouncement was made at Camp Se
vier yesterday that orders had been
received for the transfer of all but
one battalion of the four infantry reg
iments of the Twentieth Division to
other camps,
The Forty-eighth Infantry is to go
to Camp Jackson. The Fiftieth In
fantry will go to Camp Dix. One
battalion of the Eighty-ninth Infan
try will go to Camp Greenleaf, one
to Camp Wheeler, and one battalion
will remain at his camp,
Of the Ninetieth Infantry, one bat
tallon will go to Camp Greene, one
battalion to Camp Hancock and one
battalion to Camp Wadsworth.
Headquarters of &he Twentieth Di
vision, together withe engineers,
signal corps and sanitary train, will
remain here until further orders. One
hundred and one Tennessee coast ar
tillerymen from Fortress Monroe will
be sent to this camp to be mustered
out of the service, it was announeced.
The movement of the Infantrymen
from this camp probably will begin
within the next week or ten days.
Pioneer Schoolboys
To Banguet Tor\ ht
The Ploncer Schoolboys, an orgaNiza
tlon composed of several hundred Ate
lantans of all walks of life, will dine
Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at Folsom's
Case, No. 134 Peachtree street, and, fol.
lowing the feast, will elect officers for
the new year and enjoy a number of
good talks from “schoolboys’ of the
old days, 40 and B 0 years ago, Clark
Howell, James M., Mayson and Judge
W. R. Hammond will be the principal
speakers.
The members range in age from B 6
to 80 years, and they always produce
a lively time when they get together,
All members have been urged ta be on
hand Tuesday night,
LIEUTENANT McMILLAN SAFE,
Mr, and Mra, Willlamm Vernon McMil.
lan, of No. 29 East Fourteenth street,
have recelved a cablegram from thelr
son, Lieutenant Vernon McMillan, Jr,,
stating he s well and safe, I
Gy anns
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CARTER GLASS.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The nom
ination of a successor to William G.
McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury
probably will be sent to the Senate by
President Wilson this afternoon. No
hint as to the identity ot the man
selected was forthcoming in White
House circles, but for the last few
days the name of Representative Car
ter Glass, of Virginia, chairman of the
House ccrhmittee on banking and
currency, has been prominently men
tioned in connection with the post.
That the President would name a
successor to Mr. McAdoo as director
general of railroads today was con
sidered doubtful. The President and“
Mr. McAdoo held a long conference'
last night, and today it was reported“
that as a result of the meeting the!
latter had consented to remain at
head of the railways until the Presi
dent’s return from his European trip.
Soldier and Wife
Of Italian ‘Bunkie’
Try to Flee U. S.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 3.—Her warm
Italian heart afire with love, Mrs.
Angelicia Vito has not only got
herself into serious trouble with
the Federal authorities, but also
has caused Frank E. Hulock, a
Camp Hancock soldier, to stand in
the shadow of the penitentiary.
The woman is now in jail nere and
will have a hearing before United
States Commisioner Skinner this
morning on a charge of persuad
ing a soldier to desert the colors.
Hulock is confined at Camp Han
cock on a charge of desertion,
It appears from the accusation
filed that Mrs, Vito is the wife of
Rocco Delvito, also a soldier at
Camp Hancock, and came here
from her home in Brooklyn to see
her husband a few weeks ago, She
soon became linfatuated with her
husband’s “bunkie,” young Hu
lock, who is a handsome youth,
and they often met clandestinely
in Augusta, it is alleged.
Last week Mrs. Vito persuaded
the young soldier to fly with her
to Mexico, and they had reached
Del Ric, Texas, on their way, when
apprehended and brought back
here, arriving in Augusta Sunday
night at a late hour,
It is said that one of the pretty
Italian woman's arguments to per
gsuade Hulock to elope with her was
to threaten suicide in case he re
fused, and to evidence her serious
intentions in that respect, she even
bought it is alleged, a small vial
of carbolic acid,
The couple are presumed to have
left here ten days ago, shortly after
which time the husband put the
Federal officers on their trail,
Savannah Man May
Succeed Ramsey at Macon
MACON, Dec, 3.-~Although It Is not
known when an appointment will be
made, it I 8 generally rumored among
rallroad men in Macon that Henry Bald
win, of Savannah, superintendent of
the Southwestern division of the Cen
tral of (’lvnu,:ln Railway, will succeed
the Jate Marlon A, Ramsey as superin
tendent of the Macon-Atlanta and Chat
tanooga division, Mr. Ramsey died last
Sunday from pneumonia,
Claude Bn?dwln. Macon Terminal
trainmaster, may become superintedent
of the Southwestern division,
Monoplane Sets Record
With 145 Miles an Hour
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Carrying a
full military load, including four guns, a
Loening monoplane, in a recent test at
Dayton, Ohlo, developed a speed of 146
miles an hour, thereby exceeding any
record ever made by a Europegn lfin e
geater combat machine, the ar Ihu
partment announced lfldfl)fl#flu the
same machine, carrying two engers,
climbed 20,000 feet in recol me.
NO. 104
crFORT NOW
ron LEAGUE
UF NATIONS
UPPOSED
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A resolue
tion limiting the American delegates
at the peace conference to discussion
of “the aims for the attainment of
which the United States entered the
war,” was introduced in the Senate
this afternoon by Senator Knox, of
Pennsylvania, former Secretary of
State,
The resolution would declare it to
ke the sense of the Senate that the
digcussion of any league of nations, or
any alteration in international law as
it relates to the seas, should be put
over for discussion at a future time,
to be participated in by all nations of
the world.
The resolution speaks for a perma
nent association with the present al
lies of the United States for dealing
with any future menace “shouid the
same necessity arise,”
Hits at Wilson's Powers.
It recommends the removal of
American naval and military forces
from foreign territory and waters so
soon as the terms of the armistice
are complied with. In addition, it
would strip from the President all his
extraordinary war powers, in the in
terest of a speedy return to the con
ditions of peace.
The resolution declares the United
States entered the war “in order to
vindicate the ancient rights of navi
gation as established under interna
tional law, and to remove forever the
German menace to our peace.”
The resolution was referred to the
foreign relations committee. It
reads in part as follows:
“Be it resolved, That the purposes
of the United States of America in
these conferences should pe confined
to the aforesaid aims and matters
germane thereto;
“1. That for the safeguarding of
those aims the first essential is a
definite understandinf that, the same
necessity arising in the future, there
shall be the same complete accord
and co-operation with our chief co
belligerents for the defense of civ
ilizations
League of Nations.
“2. That any project for any gen
eral league of nations or for any
sweeping change in the ancient laws
of the sea, as hitherto recognized as
international law and violated by the
Teutonic powers, should be postpon
ed for separate consideruation not
alone by the victorious belligerents,
but by all the nations, if and when
at some future time general confer
ences on those subjects might be
deemed useful,
“Be it fruther resolved, That im
mediately uponu compliance with the
terms of the armistice and the guar
anteed attainment of the war aims
as aforesaid, the army and navy of
the United States should be with
drawn from foreign territories and
waters, except insofar as their re
tention might be temporarily neces
sary to establish the status contem
plated by the armistice; and,
“Further, That the extraordinary
power conferred upon the President
for the prosecution of the war should
be withdrawn and the country re
stored to a normal condition of peace,
with the greatest possible celerity
consistent with the national intere
ests,” .
Two Other Resolutions,
Forgetting all other tasks before it,
the Senate centered its attention to
day on two other resolutions connect«
ed with President Wilson's trip
abroad,
The first, the Cummins resolution,
would send a select Senate commits
tee to Paris to watch the peace con
ference and report on it to the Sen=
ate,
The second, the Sherman resolu=
tion, would declare the presidency
vacant and ecall upon the Vice Presi
dent to assume the office of the Chief
Executive for the remainder of Pres
ident Wilson's term,
It was believed today that neither
of these resolutions would pass the
Senate, but both will prove vehlcles
of debate that will allow Senators to
glve expression to many sentiments
they have entertained, but not dis
cussed, during the war period.
Much Debate Likely.
Viee President Marshall refused to
recognize Senator Sherman when he
gought to introduce his resolution
yesterday. The resolution will be put
in today and will be sent off with a
gpeech by the [llinois Senator. Sen
ator Knox I 8 exnected to seize the
opportunity to deliver a speech on the
responsibility of = the Senate for
treaties entered into by the Governs
ment, which he has had in preparas
tion ever since the last sesgion ad-
Jorrned,
The Insgistence of Democratl Sens
ators on adjournment limmgkiately
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