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VOL. XVII.
YAARAB BEAND TOPLAY FOR EMPTY STOCKING FUND
Senator Johnson Asks Why We Are Fighting in Russia
A strong protest was voiced by the
Atlanta Federaticn of Trades at its
meeting Wednesday night against
granting the proposed 6-cent street
car fare asked b ythe Georgia Rail
way and Power Company, as long as
the company’s attitude toward organ
ized labor remains unchanged and
without definite assurances of better
street railway service.
It was pointed ont by a number of
the delegate~ that the problem was
three-corneg 1: the employees want
ing more M ney, the public wanting
better service and the company de
manding a greater income in order to
meet these demands. The opposition
of the central labor body was based
on the lack of definite assurances
from the company that better service
was to be given and that the com
pany’s opposition to the principles of
unhampered organization and collec
tive bargaining in dealing with its
employees.
Opponents of the proposal to in
crease fares to 6 cents, frankly stated
that the financial considerition would
have no bearing with them and that
they would willingly pay the in
creased fare if the company would
agree to treat with {its employees
recognizing the principle of the closed
shop and further agree to restore the
quality of the railway service to what
it was before curtailments began a
year or so ago.
Men Have No Grudge.
It was made plain by all of the
delegates that there was no desire, on
the part of organized labor, to use its
irfluence against the company be
cause of what has happened in the
past, and that the local labor move
ment would back any proposal made
to it which contained all the elements
of fairness to the public, the em
ployees and the company.
Whether the members of the Amal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees would
ask the people of Atlanta to grant
the increases asked for, it was not
possible to ascertain Thursday morn
ing, but it was generally believed in
well informed labor circles that an
agreement was imminent between the
conflicting elements in the contro
versy that would lead to such action.
No information on this point could be
obtained from the street railway men
or the company early Thursday
morning.
A constitutional amendment to the
laws of the federation was adopted,
after a warm debate during the ses
sion Wednesday night, making all of
ficers of the body eligible for re-elec
tion,
A resolution putting the federation
on record as opposing the proposed
change from central to eastern time
was unanimously adopted., The reso
lution stated that the workers were
in harmony with the idea of changing
the time during the summer, as it
was done by order of the national
Government last summer, but opposed
to placing the extra hardships that
earlier rising would entail during the
winter on the workers,
Car Raise Opposed.
The resolution placing the federa
tfon on record as strongly oppoasing
#ny increase in street car fares in
Atlanta and appointing a committee
of three to place the organization's
objections before city officials, pre
cipitated one of the warmest out
pourings of oratory in the history of
the body, being adopted by an over
whelming majority vote. It was
charged that the increase sought
would, of itself, pay the entire salary
expense of the street railway com
pany, and that very little of the raise
would go teward bettering service or
increasing wages,
Charles B. Gramling, of the steam
engineers, president of the hody for
the past two years, was re-elected by
acclamation,
The following vice presidents were
elected: C. 1. Edwards, of the Ma
chinists’ Union; F. R. Martin, of the
Elevator Constructors’ Union; Cap
taln John Terrell, ©of the Firemen's
Union, and Heney, of the Black
smiths, The new board of tiustees
consists of James Miller, chairman, of
the Barbers' Union; J. L. Puckett, of
the Rallway Clerks, and Howder, of
the Carpenters and Joiners,
Picture of Houston,
Karl Karston, of the Musicians'
Union, was re-elected secretary and
treasurer; William Van Houten was
elected recording secretary and
Hardy O. Teat, of the street rajilway
men's union, was re-elected sergeant.
it-nrms
The finance committee for the en
suing term is composed of W. C.
Carraway, typographieal union;
Yames Alleyn, pressmen’s union, and
Fred Ellls, of the machinists’ union
This will be the last meeting of the
city federation this yvear, The new
officers will be Installed at the first
meeting of the body In January,
which will be held at the Labor Tem
ple on the second Wednesday of the
month,
A life-size photograph of Clint C,
Houston, former president of the At
lanta Federation of Trades and mem
ber of the Georgia Legislature, who is
at present editor of the Denver Bulle.
tin, was presented to the federation
by Delegate W, C, Carraway, and or.
dered hung in the gallery of the fed
eration,
Full International News Service.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Crying,
“Ts it true? Is’it trme?" Is it true?”
Senator Hiram Johnson, of Califor
'ni:l, this afternoon propounded a se
ries of startling questions to the
United States Government on its pol
icy in Russia, and introduced a reso
lution in the Senate calling for all
documents on the Russian policy and
information on the numbers and ac
tivities of American troops in Rus
sia.
These were Senator Johnson’s
questions:
“I 8 it true:
“1. That the soviet government of
fered to the American Government a
basis of military and economic co
operation and sought our help to pre
vent ratification of the Brest treaty,
‘and that this Government never re
| plied?
| Intervention Issue.
| “2. That the Assistant Secretary of
State, speaking for the President in
' March last, when intervention was
urged to save the Russian people
from the rigors of starvation and the
'red terrors ‘before the unity of the
) peasants and workers against the Al
’lies had been established,’ replied
that to intervene in Siberia ‘would be
doing in the east exactly what the
l Germans are doing in the west.'
“3. That the soviet government of
fers a program for making the United
States the most favored of foreign na
tions in trade and commerce and in
volving the control by the Allies of
all supplies most desired by the Cen
tral Powers?
. “4. That American Red Cross rep
}resentntivos remained in Moscow un
til October 5 and Petrograd until Oec
ltober 16 unmolested, even while
American troops were fighting the
' soviet government, and then were al
lowed to depart under safe conduct
of the soviet government
| Shipment of Supplies.
“5. That the State Department has
refused to allow the Red Cross to ship
supplies to Moscow and Petrograd for
the relief of returning Russian war
prisoners and was this refusal baged
on Creel information and the fear
that these supplies weuld be turned
'over by the starving people to Ger
many?
Ҥ. That the Ambassador and the
British high commissioner recom
mended co-operation with the soviet
government through the American
railway mission, and that the soviets
promised to place the Siberian rail
way in the hands of the mission, but
that the recommendations were re
jected ‘largely because of the misin
formation received through the old
regime in Russia?
“7. That the refusal of these rec
ommendations prevented the evacua
tion of large amounts of war sup
plies which subsequentiy fell into the
hands of the Germans
Attitude Toward Kerensky.
“8. That the British high commis
sioner stated over his signature ‘that
the soviet government had co-op
erated in aiding the Allies and that
he believed that intervention in co
cperation with the soviet government
was feasible as late as May 5, 1918’
“9. That the American Government
so delayed co-operation with the
Kerensky Government ‘as to con
tribute largely to the overthrow of
Kerensky and the success of the Bol
shevik revolution’
“Are We to Blame?
Johnson made it plain he had no
sympathy with “Bolshevism,” but at
the same time thought the time had
come for full information
“Bear in mind.,” he sald, “that the
rews which comes to us from Russia
is all colored. I have no doubt that
terror exists, that many worthy peo
ple have been cruelly and outrageous
ly murdered. I have no doubt that
starvation stalks among the people,
but, as I read of the net of steel cast
around Russia by the Allles and our
selves by which no food can enter
that unhappy country, I ask the ques
tion, '‘Can it he that we, in any de
gree, are responsible for the bloody
terror there existing?'
“Can it be that we, in any measure,
are responsible for starving poor and
misguided peasants'”
The (‘reel bureau, Johnson declar
ed, “apparently has been engaged
not in Aeveloping facts for our peo
rle, but 1n justifying a course sub.
sequently pursued at variince with
our worids,'
Johnsor asked the meaning of the
change 'n the term of the armistice
as regards the evacutalon of Russian
territory. {
Field for Speculation, '
“What a fleld for speculation this
modification of the armistice terms
presents.” he exclaimell, “Can it bhe
that the German-bribed Bolshevikd,
acting in conjunetion with Germany
and doing Germany's will, rhast le
kept in order by German troops?” |
Continuing his questions, Johnson
asked: |
“What is the policy of our nation
toward Russia? Are we now engaged
in destroying Bolshevism? If we are,
what have we decided shall take its
place? Are we again to put the Rn-‘
manoffs on the throne? Do we seek
a dictator for this starved land? Is
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At the Walter Reed Hospital, at Washington, where those of our boys who were erippled ‘“over there’’ ar ebeing tanght va
rious trades so that on their discharge from the service they will become self-supporting, the erippled bdys have issued a newspaper
all their own and have christened it ‘*The Come Back.”’ The photos show one of the linotype operators on the sheet. In spite of the
loss of his right arm in action, he is getting along splendidly with his left. The other photo shows a Red Cross worker at the hospital
with a copy of the first issue of ‘‘The Come Back.”’
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, —Secreta
ry of the Navy Daniels, appearing be
fore the House merchant marine com
mittee today to urge complete Gov
ernment control of all wireless sta
tions in this country and its posses
sions, was criticised for “embarking
this nation on a policy of Govern
ment ownership without congression
al sanction.”
The Secretary was asked by Rep
resentative Edmonds, of Pennsylva
ria, why he had bought outright from
private concerns the wireless stations
along the Pacifie coast, and authority
for his action was demanded
Daniels replied that the purchase,
amounting to $1,450,000, was author
ized by an appropriation bill provid
ing for the general “improvement and
extension of the wireless system in
thig country.”
“It was also a good business deal,”
Daniels added. He explained that by
the purchase of Marconi wireless sets
from merchant ships at the time they
were requisitioned by the shipping
hoard for transport service rendered
the Marconi stations on the coast
useless to Marcon! and at the same
time valuable to this Government,
Vigorous opposition to the Secre
tary's plea for complete ownership
developed in the committee this aft
ernoon The opposition ig led by
Representatives Edmonds, of Penn
gylvania; Green, of Massachusetts
and Saunders, of Virginia
there a single faction, is there a sin
gle individual we intend to put in
power, after we have waded through
blood to Moscow and Petrograd?
When we have buried our dead of
cold, of privation and of fatigue, and
those who were slain in battle, are
we, with the American flags flying in
the streets of the Russian capital, to
set up one kind of government as
against another kind, one set of men
ns against another, or one man who
comes out of the old regime?
Proclaims Good Faith,
“l 1 ask these questions in the ut
most good faith. I do not know our
policy, and 1 know no other man who
Kknows our policy. 1 do know that we
are killing Russian soldiers and they,
when they can, or killing ours, and
that this we are do®ng upon Russian
soll, Is It presumptuous on the part
of one in this chamber to ask why we
are slaughtering Russians and why
do we sacrifice our own blood? |
warn yvou of the policy, which God
forbid this nation ever should enter
upon, of endeavoring to impose, hy
military force upon the various peo
ples of the earth, the kind of govern.
ment we desire for them, and that
they do not desire for themselves,
“We'll hear very much in the days
to come about '-übllmn:’ govern
ments,” he continued, “and the ‘sta
‘bilization' will always be by hostile
invasion and overpowering military
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1918
Reforms in the operation of the Mu
nicipa! Court, in addition to the abolish
ment of at least nine more of the court
positions, will be urged at the next meet
ing of the County Commission by Com
missioner Oscar Mills, who is leading
the fight to reduce the expenses of that
court, it was made known Thursday.
Commissioner Mills also declared that
he will specify the positions that are
regarded as nonessential and call for
their abolishment by the commission
unless action to that end is taken by the
five judges of the court before the first
of the vear This declaration bty Mr
Mills will serve to stir additional interest
in the Municipal Court situation for the
reason that Chief Judge K. D. Thomas
already has made it plain that no furth.
er move will be made by the judges, on
the ground that the recent lopping off of
seven jobs has cut the court force ns
much as is possible without erippling
its efficiency
Mr. Mills, who already has a list pre
pared and ready for the official ax, said:
“Unless favorable action is taken by
the judges, I intend publicly to announce
before the commission each of these non
essential jobs and ask that they be abol
ished. I'm not going to call the name
of the incumbent, but simply will specify
his Roh_ and gshow that it is useless.'
Although the list was not disclosed,
it was understood that special balliffs
to the judges, at least one more f"l' in
the Marshal's office, and several in the
clerk's office were involved
At the same time Mr. Mills declared
that he would digclose before the com
mission facts showing that the operation
of the Municipal Court this year has
cost SII,OOO more than it did last year.
“This does not mean SII,OOO more than
the total for last year, but it means that
the expenses of the court have been
SII,OOO more in proportion to the amount
of money taken in this year,” he gald
“The County Commission will not rest
satisfled with the Municipal Court un
til it is eut to the bone, thus saving
to the county a lot of useless expense.’
Judge Emory Speer
.
Undergoes Operation
MACON, Dec, 12-United States
District Judge Emory Speer under
went a serious surgical operation at a
local hospital last night for gall
stones. He was reported Thursday
as resting well.
forces. I want none of this for Amer.
sea., I want these boys, who now
wear our uniform In Europe, just as
soon as our obligation to the peace
treaty will permit, to return to their
homes., [ want them given the op
portunity to make their own careers,
to live their lives in their own way,
to have their firesides and their fagm
ilies and their loved ones, and te be
simple American «:mzcn,. 1 want no
poliecy in our republie of subjugating
or subduing nations or peoples who
do not think as we do. I want no
American militarism to impose by
force our will upon weaker nations.”
.
Gen. Peter F. Harris
Hears of Son's Wound
Thru Casualty List
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-——He had
not heard from his son in France
for months, and naturally he was
worried. He could have cabled, but
he refused to avail himself of the
advantages open to him as an offi
cial. Se¢ he scanned the casualty
lists each day.
And yesterday afternoon General
Peter E. Harris, adjutant general
of the United States army, whose
bureau has charge of all work on
the casualty lists received in this
country from (General Pershing, re
ceived word, through the usnal
channels, that his son, Captain
Charles D, Harris, had been wound
ed in action in France on October
20 last, and that he had been taken
prisoner by the (Germans, Adju
tant General Harrls does not know
in what camp his son 13, or even
whether he is still living.
Grand Opera Fund Over
Figure Required by $7,000
The guarantee fund to insure Atlan
ta's week of grand opera next spring
has passed by more than $7,000 beyond
the $95,000 figure required The total
amount subscribed up to Thursday was
$102,875 Some of the late subscrip
tions came from former guarantors, who
were absent from the city when the
fund first was opened. The directors of
the Music Festival Association expressed
themselves as elated over the generous
response by Atlanta to the guarantee
fund
The latest subscribers, as announced
by the association, were: Claude H
l{:nvhmum_ $100; K. Twitchell, $200; J.
D, Ballard, $1560; James C. Hunter, $100;
Lovick G. Fortson, $100; .Ynm']‘nh Zaban,
$100; B, Ed Corley, $100; Mre. I*. M. Rob
inson, $150; Dorothy Banks, SIOO. I're
viously acknowledged, $101,775. Total,
$102,875.
Norway Sends Its
.
Greetings to Belgium
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Dec. 11 (by British Wire
less Press).~-The Norwegian Storth
irng, soys a dispatch from Christiania
today, has sent the following message
to the Belgion Parllament:
“Norway's Storthing at lits sitting
today is rejoicing over Belgium's re.
gnined independence and grects the
Belglan people.”
Work on Acid Plant
Halted at Columbus
BRUNSWICK, Dee, 12.-Announce
ment has just been made from Wash
ington that the entire work on the Pa
('lgv acid plant here » to be abandoned
More than $6,000,000 |n construction ma
terial and lahor r;‘u nlrmdly bm-nl np;;n.
Eve man on the ground w e dis
chu::nd Immodlntfi and the place will
be completely abandoned,
Issued Daily and Entered as Second-Class Matter at
the PPostofice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1870
Three Alabamans, two Georgians, a
Texan and a representative of Ten
nessee are included in the latest
group of 160 convalescent soldiers to
arrive at Fort McPherson from vari
ous base hospital® in France. Five of
the seven were members of the Eigh
ty-second Division and saw consid
erable action before they were count
ed out of the fighting.
Statesboro is claimed by Private
George W. Spivey, of Company C,
328th Infantry, as his place of abode,
although the fact that his sister took
it into her head to get married while
he was away perturbs him consider
ably., It seems that George and his
sister had a farming venture in mind
and such things as marriage compli
cations were not counted on by Spl
- when he entered the service back
in April. Indeed what is to happen
to his farming prospects worries
Spivey appreciably more than the left
arm which hangs in a sling.
“They got me on the Verdun front,”
sald Spivey, “then I went to some fleld
hospital for a day-—don't ask me
where—then to Base Hospital 7, and
finally to Base 8 Next was New
York, then Atlanta, and now I'm try
ing to figure out about my farm.”
“Back to the Mines.”
Machine gun bullets also eaused
Private Howard T. Gaylor to be in
valided back to this country Like
Spivey, he was wounded at Verdun,
an October 8 Gaylor was a member
of B Company, 227th Infantry, and
was hit in the Index finger of the
right hand,
“Going back to coal mining In a
week or 80" he vouchsafed as he
headed toward the information desk
to find out about trains to Cupp,
Tenhessee
Clarence Day, a private In Com
pany A, 328th Infantry, also was
wounded In the Verdun offensive, on
the {dentical day that Spivey was
earried back This frail veteran of
severa! battles halls from loacha
poka, Ala., and holds a particular
grudge against shrapnel, a fragment
of which accounts for his being at
MePherson with a leg that Is slowly
responding to treatment.
Grins About Wound.
“I got mine about 9 o'clock In the
evening. From then 1 simply went
from one hospital to another, reached
New York November 24, and here |
am, nearer home than I've been In
some time, The shell got me in the
right leg and back and got twelve
others, too. Not bad for one shell,
eh” And Day grinned the grin that
has marked the American doughboys
all over, whether In treneh or hos
pital, firing line or rest billets
A husky Texas ranger is Irby Co
mer, of Company G, 327th Infantry,
who lost his left hand at Argonne
Forest on October 7. But the loss of
a hand does not worry him a bit, and
he is going back to Austin to take
up farming as soon as the authorities
will let him. Sam H. Blue, an Ala-
SENCSMILE” PICTURE,
MAUE FOr BOY 3 OVERSEA
ALSO WILL BE SHOWN
By O. B. KEELER.
Today we have a big announcement
to make, and you'll do well to write
down in your little date book or on
your cuff, or simply tie a knot in
your memory,
- The date is Friday, December 20.
The place is the Auditorium. The
show is the Million-Dollar Shrine
Band of Yaarab Temple, directed by
Byron Souder.
And it's all for the Empty Stock
ing Fund.
Now, that would be quite some
combination, left to itself. If I were
permitted to expend adjectives in this
newspaper of the home I would cut
loose a slather of them like spectac
ular and unparalleled and stupendous
and even magnificent. You know the
Shrine band--or do you? Well, it's
21l of that, and you'll do well not to
miss the show.
And, listen here.
Along with the concert we are go
ing to show that world famous film
made a couple of months ago at
Piedmont. Park—the “Send-a-Smile”
film on which a mile or so of Atlanta
smiles will greet the Georgia soldiers
in Europe this coming holiday sea
son; as like as not in Berlin and Vi
enna—somewhere in Germany, any
way. And if your smile was filmed
with the others, this will be the first
chance you will have to see yourself
as the boys will see you. Anyway,
you wamt to see how it looks. And
this is the first Atlanta showing of
that famous film.
Remember the Date!
Get the date down right now—¥Fri
day night, Decembher 20. At the Au
ditorium. The Shrine Band and the
Mile of Smiles. And all for the
Empty Stocking Fund. Don’t forget.
In the meantime the fund is being
swelled by the earnest and tuneful
activities of the Liberty Quartet,
touring the city on a large Reo truck
with one of Mr. Cable's most upright
pianos. These lusty-lunged young
gentlemen under the chaperonage of
Dave Frank are causing the welkin
to ring in every direction, and I am
just going to call the roll again so
you will know them when you see
them, or at least when you get within
100 yards of them, when you indu
bitably will perceive that they ara in
the vicinity.
The cast consists of Mr. Frank, the
manager of the Teo Feist musie
house; Dave Schulman, Lester Gun
ning, Leonard Arnstein and Harry
C‘oe, composing the celebrated quar
tet; with Jesse Gireer at the plano.
They are singing all over the place
and collecting the gate receipts in
stockirgs and canvas sacks-—and it
all goes, every penny, to filling stock
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Dee, 11.—~An investi
gation was started today by the War
Department of the charge embodied In a
telegram addressed to Minority Leader
Mann, of the House, that several hun
dred wounded American soldiers from
overseas had arrived at a West Baden,
Ind., hospital “‘broke”’ because they had
not recelved any pay for months.
At the request of Representative Swa
ger Sherley, of Kentucky, chalrman of
the House appropriations committee,
General Taylor, chief of the division of
finances of the quartermaster's depart
ment, has Instituted inquiries as to the
truth of the charge
Mann read the telegram in the House
while he and other Republican members
were voleing ceriticlsm of the delay they
declared American soldiers in this coun«
try and abroad were experiencing In re
celving their pay.
Sherley subsequently took the matter
up with General Lord when the latter
appeared before the pruning sub-com
mittee of Sherley's committee. General
Lord assured Sherley that an Investiga
tion would at once be begun and prom
fmed to communicate the result of that
investigation to Sherley as soon asg pos
sible Sherley expects to hear from
General Lord some time today.
McClean Is Red Cross
. »
Field Director at Fort
Joseph McClean, who resigned from
the faculty of Agnos Bcott College tn%
enter Y. M, €. A, work at the beginning
of the war, has been transferred to the
Red Cross and Is now fleld direstor at
the Fort McPherson hase hnmnml.’.\mj
cording to a general announcement of
personnel changes hy the Atlanta Chap
ter of the Red Cross. Lieutenant Leon
R. Meadows, formerly attached to the
feld artillery at Camp Sevier but re.
lensed to the Red Cross because of 1)
health, will act as assistant fleld di
rector under Mr. McCloan,
bama sergeant of Company C, 325th
Infantry, who also arrived at the fort
Monday, is rapidly COHVIIMCM from
a compound fracture of the foot,
sustained while cleaning a pistol,
S
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ings for Christmas morning. You
get all kinds of plain and fancy musie
from the company; solos, duets, trios
and quartets, with incredibly ragged
plano syncopations and an occasional
spiel by Mr. Frank, announcing what
it is all about,
It's good stuff—the kind the war
Gepartment recommends for the old
morale of the doughboys. It will do
your morale good, if you have any,
and if you haven't, it will impart you
some, and kicking in with a quarter
or a half or some soft money torrx
Empty Stocking Fund will imp
the morale more than anything else;
and be good for the moral tone of the
community this holiday season, too,
Heart Interest in Cause,
Of course, we have the neart inter
est, too. That is one thing that
makes Empty Stocking pleas easy to
write. Taere always is something
turning up to make you blubber in a
most satisfactory manner and loagen
up the one-way pockets of the popu -
lace, which, after all, is the really
and truly Santa Claus for the foof
little kids that otherwise wouldn't
have a thing but a heart-ache on
Christmas morning.
This time it was an elderly woman
who walked silently to the city edi
tor's desk and laid down on it two $§
bills and two sheets of note paper.
The sheet with the most writing said:
“Glven in memory of a dear daugh
ter who always did what she could
for children less fortunate than her
self. It is hoped this may be the
means of making some little heart
happy on Christmas mormng.”
It will—and more than one.
The other note, with the other $§
bill, contained the unspoken tragedy
that every Christmas morning must
bring to a loving heart. There were
Just two words in the other note:
“The mother.” .
How can there be empty stockings
in Atlanta on Christmas morning
when Atlanta has hearts like that?
There CAN'T BE. That's the an
swer,
o B 2 L3OO B
Here lis e fund to .
Previously ackn0w1edged.........5418.48
A 0 MOUIAR vvvsiivaiiiaiin ¥ :
Cleveland and Preslee Griswell,, 3.
Mrs. Agnes Smith Zirbes, Wash-
IMPON, OB.cocvovisibibbairits 1..3
Mre. 3. 7, Jemes, Jr.. 500 siinee B
Miss Irene McDermon ........... 300
Ralph M. McCraney, Proprietor \
Crescent Billiard 1"ar10r5....... ‘D.g
Paul B. WHkes.......vcovsiniiics BB
Mrs. Mamie Adams .............. .'3
In Memory of a Daughter......, B.
The Mother ........iiceic e B
Calvina Wilkes, 4 years old. ...... l.g
Lucy V. Goss, Decatur ........ss &
8. 8. Campbell, Milledgevile....., 2.
Bt. M. Guscovnrsonsnsrrvevasnnpons BB
PhylllS ..couveiiiirernicrannensess 18
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Total ..eieviiisreocavionasess . 555000
(By International News ‘ONM)N
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—A far
reaching Congressional investigation
of meat in this country, even more
extensive than the probe of the “Big
Five” packing interests conducted by
the Federal Trade Commission, is
promised from the publie heartngs
the House ilnterstate and foreign
commerce committee is expected to
lnurt shortly on the Sims bill for Fed
eral regulations of meat transporta
tion and distribution. ¢
Representative Sims, of Tennesses,
chairman of the committee, conferred
with the members of the Federal
Trade Commission today on his plan
’ to develop testimony before the come~
‘mittr‘n that will reveal the relation,
he explained, of the stock raiser and
‘lhu consumer to the so-called meat
trust,
The measure, prepared by the Fed
eral Trade Commission, proposes, Mr,
Sims expiained, to empower the Pres.
ldent to control by Federal license the
means employed for carrying on the
packing business, except the actual
taking over of the packing houses
themselves, and, If necessary, to sup
plement Federal licensing by actual
lease or purchase by the Government
of such facilities for marketing,
transporting and storing meat as cat
jllo cars, refrigerator cars and cold
1-mrng¢ and freezing plants,
Sims added that he expected his
committee would start hearings on
the bill next week.
ANITA KING CRITICALLY ILL,
MICHIGAN CITY, IND. Dec. 135
Anita King, moving picture aectress, who
recently had a narrow escape from death
in an automobile accident hea was
stricken today with pneumonia "t the
home of her sister and is reporied arit
feally 1k ¢
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