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FIRE CHIEF INQUIRY CALLED PLAN TO GAIN VOTES
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The great stir in the Atlanta firei
department that originated a few |
days ago when Fire Chief Cody for- |
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mally requested the hoard of firemas- |
ters to investigate him and his office, |
in view of certain criticisms by men |
in the department, took a new turn !
T'hyrsday through a demurrer to the
chief's charges filed by Attorney Har- |
fvey Hill, as counsel for H. R. Daniel, |
lan alarm operator at headquarters, in |
twhich it was charged that Chief Cody |
is seeking to bring about an investi- |
gation merely in the hope of obtain- ;
ing a vindication that will enhance !
his chances of re:election. |
This proceeding Mosely followed the |
filing of a series of salty charges |
against the chief by Fred Straub, |
who then resigned his place with Fire |
Company No, 11, t
Daniel's charge was made whiloi
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_ Above, Mrs. Pearl Hayes, matron of women’s ward in the county prison, the *‘Little Mother’ who has won Mrs. Abbo
friepdship ; below, Mrs. Abbott’s quarters in the Tower and her companion, who ecalls her * Bombshell,”’
the council committee, named to in
:Vcstlgate all accusations against
Chief Cody, prepared for a public
hearing before noon Thursday. Coun
cilman Al H. Martin is chairman of
the eommittee.
Would Stop Probe.
Should the firemasters sustain the
demurrer, the charges made by Chief
Cody against Daniel and Straub and
other members of the fire department
as to their alleged criticism would
i be thrown out and there would be no
investigation. ‘ b
; Daniel was still on the job Thurs
f day as alarm operator, and it was un
derstood that there is no likelihood
g T“ resigning.
1~ Attorney Hill also filed an answer
. for Daniel at the same time he filed
. the demurrer. Daniel, in the answer,
~ ‘admits that he had repeated criticism
. of the chief as mdde by others, but
"' denied he had originated it. He said
. he did not know how many men had
- made charges against the chief.
The an#Wer also quoted from
Chief Cody's commun?(-atlon to the
firemasters, in which, in referring to
members of the fire department, he
was sald to have stated:
‘“They have a perfect right to sup
port whon}floevor they ' please for
chief.” /
Danie! Agreeable.
Daniel said he would admit that
the chief was entirely correct on this
point,
Daniel set up several grounds in
his demurrer in asking that the chief's
proposed investigation be halted. In
intimating that the chief's desire for
@a probe has a political coloring, Dan
‘anything, save to enhance the chief's
iel said:
' “The investigation will avail no one
“ candidacy for re-clection, It appears
Taimply to be a dragnet to bring about
an exoneration of the chief on charges
referred against himself.”
Full International News Service
BREATH OF HOME IN CELL
OF MRS. ABBOTT IN TOWER
All the comforts of a tranquil home
and fireside are in the room at the
Fulton Tower where Mrs. John Abbott
awaits trial for slaying her husband.
And although the walls are gray the
morning sunshine filters through the
big windows of the room and make the
place look like anything but a prison,
Thursday Mrs. Abbott broke the si
lence she has held so obdurately since
her incarceration in the Tower- and
talked to a - Georgian reporter who
found her very busy when he called.
And she seeins always busy—busy with
her Kknittting né®™dle—purling away
throughout the long hours of the day
and the wakeful hours of the night.
Sometimes she reads, for upon her
boudsir table is a copy of ‘“The Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come' and “Rob
inson Crusoe.” Then there are the
daily papers which are brought to her
by the matron--Mrs. Pearl Hayes, the
“Little Mother” of the grim old Tower
which has held within its walls so many
famous prigoners,
There are flowers too, that help to
brighten the corners of the prison roum
—and pletures, beautiful pictures,
copies of the old masters, |
Likes Flowers,
“I'm very fond of flowers,”” she said.
“But 1 am partial to carnations. Those
are narcissus,” she said, smiling, as she
nointed to a vase of preity flowers on
a nearby table. ‘T don’t care much for
them, but they are very sweet when
they are fresh,” she added.
*1« of Mrs. Abbott’s two boys was
sedted at her side leaning on the arm
of the big rocker.
‘He is the youngest one' she re-
marked, “He is only 9—that is, he will
be 9 in March. Our oldest boy is 12 and
our other would have been 10 if it had
lived. They are all 1 have to live for
now,"” she said.
There was nothing so unusual about
that utferance, except possibly that it
was very simply spoken. . . , .
“They are all 1 have to live for now."
. . .+ She had sald the same thing
over and over again, to reporters, to
lawyers and to &undreds of curious vis
itors—hunters ter the unusual. But
to this woman it must mean much-—-
and there was a touch of pathos to it
as she put her armg around her boy
and as he snuggled up close to her and
she stroked his red locks—yes, it must
mean a whole lot to this woman-—this
mother—and she must think about it
day and nlght,
riends Are Kind.
“1 am very comfortable, though,” she
remarked. “Mrs, Hayves Is simply won
derful-—and Miss Tyler, too."
Viola Tyler, convicted counterfeiter
and now the only companion of Mrs.
A%hott,'wa'cheu over her day and night
and waits on her fellow prisoner ten
derly, pumnf a personal touch to every
thing #ind always trying to make Mrs.
Abbott fUI‘FPL
“Why, ‘Bomb-Shell’ is just a Jjolly
good fellow, she is,”” Viola Tyler com
mented Thursday., “Bombh-shell” is the
:\Scknamt that has been given Mrs. Ab
yott,
“We get along together flne,” Viola
Tyler declared, with a degree of empha
sis, “She is a companionable little
woman, and 1 have learned to love her
very much,’”” she added,
“We have whatever we want to eat,
for we ean cook it on our little electric
stove i our room,” she vontinued. "For
breakfast we have grapefruit, grits,
ham and eggs, coffee and hot biseuit;
for dinner we have tomatoes, maca
roni, chease, fried sweet potatoes, cof
fee and sometimes fried chicken and
tien we have a light supper,
Mrs. Abbott Unworried,
“We have coffee three times a day.
Mrs, Abbott seems pertectly delighted
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day night destroyed the northern por
tion of the big warehouse operated
by the Atlanta Milling Company at
the foot of Houston sireet, consum
ing feed valued at several thousand
dellars. The blaze gave the firemen
an all-night struggle, despite the fact
that the warehouse was supposed to
be fireproof,
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Wednesday night and a general alarm
was sent in as soon as Chief Cody
surveyed the gituation. There was a
large amount®*of hay in the blazing
section, which made the flames much
harder to control. The entire depart
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blaze in Tmnd, and therc was still
some flre Thursday morning after
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job throughout the night.
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steel doors. In the section burned
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the company, stated Thursday that he
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lose until he ean check up the amount
of feed stored in the destroyed por
tion of the building. The bullding and
the contents, except a small amount
stored within the last few days, was
covered by insurance, s
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1919
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Chicago Man Asks
Naval Flying Boat~
For Tri
or Trip to Europe
o CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—~Captain Benja
min B. Lipsner, of Chicago, today is
anxiously waiting 4 reply from Secre
tary of the Navy f):mivm to his tele
graphic request last night for use of
the navy flying boat :\‘c,'~f. in which
Captain Lispner says he will “start at
onee' on a flight ncross the Atlantic
landing “on the continent within ’.'&
hours.” :
I'u¥mm Lipsnér Saturday offered to
bet 310,000 he would make a trans-
Atlantic fight within 30 days If given
nge of the NC-1.
“I don't eare who makes thsgjight,"
sald Captain Lipsner today, “but if the
United States does not make the trip
within the next few months some ather
nation will selze the opportumty and
honor.""
o st ety
Says Husband Praised
Other Wonen; Sues
Mre. Clara Bell York, in a divorce
suit filed In Superior Court by Afttor
neys Graham «? Byors agoainst Henry
Grady York, sdald her husband contin-.
ually braised the superiority of other
women, which she characterized as
eruelty. He also nagged her in other
ways, and abuszed her, she declared,
Mre, Cleo Camp brought sait tor di
voree from Fred B, Camp, charging
that when she remonstrated with him
u!m‘)t his conduect he choked her almost
to death. Camp. worked but little, and
what money he did make he spent in
riotous living, the wife said.
STOLEN AUTO RECOVERED.
« The county rollce‘ have recovered a
Buick automobile thiat was stolen Mon
day night from B. J. Massell, . The car
was found on the side of the Bast Point
Road, near Fort Meghcmn, where it
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Two powerful strokes for a higher
city tax rate in Atlanta were an
nounced Thursday. “Oné was the in
dcrsement by the Atlanta Federation
of Trades of the tax rate increase
from $1.25 to $1.50. The other was
the joint maljority report of the fi
nance commitiee of council and Ihe|
board of school commissioners recom
mending that the present tax rate (nf!
21.26 be increased to $1.50 of \\'hiwh;
45 cents would go to the schools. It!
will be submitted to eity council :xti
its regular session Monday afternoon. |
The report also will carry thé rm-nmoi
mendation that the State «--lm-u(n-n;nl‘!
fund of $131,000 be turned over to |
the school department in addition. i
Nutting Puts Motion. {
The report was framé® on motion |
of Councilman J. E. Nutting after,
numerous other propositions designed |
to give the schools a larger propor- |
tign of the advalorem taxes had been |
voted down, i
The session lasted more than 3|
hours. The school vnmmi.-::imnvrsi
fought hard first to secure the rec
ommendation of the plan to reduce |
the tax rate from $1.256 to sl,lO and
to levy a separage school tax of 50
cents, then, when'this had lost out, |
they fought to obtain at least 47 cents |
of the proposed increase to $1.50,. Fin- |
ally when it seemed that the session !
would be forced to adjourn with noth- |
ing accomplished the «-nmmismnnuru?
indicated their willingness to ;.n-q-u-mi
the 45 \‘HQ( substitute offered by Mr. |
Nutting
Four Oppose Plan. ‘
Aldermen Hatcher, Garner uwl
White and W. N. Terrell of the school !
board voted against the plan;, the,
aldermen holding that such an ap- |
portionment of the increased taxes |
would discriminate unfairly against |
other e¢ity departments in favor of |
the schools, and Mr. Terrell contend
ing that the plan would not furnish
suflficient money for the school de
partment, \
Mayor Key ther made a plea for a
vote to make the repo®™ unanimous |
in order that a sgolid front might be
presented by the two bodies, but when |
Mr, Hatcher again put the n|m-q||(m'
the vote stood as hefore, % '
Would Increase Funds.
nde: Mr. Nutting's plan’' the!
school's part of the increased taxes
baged on the $203,000,000 assessed val- |
uiation of taxable propertysin the city,
wounld be 20130500, with the $131,000
State fund and an estimated $6,000
from nonresident fees, would hring
the total up to $1,050,600, or an in-|
crease of more thah s¥o.ooo over the!
amount given them under the arbi
trary provisions of the recently en- |
acted school law. Mr. Nutting .M-m;
pointed out that in the future this
amount technically would he increas. |
ed by about $30,000, as this js the sum |
to be expended on our schools in 1019 |
and may be used for other purposes
after this yvear, The scheol commis :
sloners had fixed upon $200,000 as the |
minimum amount they ecould :n-m-pt:
and still earry through their program
of general improvements in the de
partment
Mr. Nutting argued that the money |
the schools would receive under his|
plan would be sufficient to give vn:'h'
of the 725 teachers In the system a
flat Increase of SIOO, or $lO a month
over a ten-month period. With this
$71.500 subtracted, he sald, the de- |
partment still would have $59,000 to |
take care of the interert and sinking |
fitnd on SBOO,OOO of honds for new
schoo! bufldings and still have ;1:--i
proximately $50,0000 for a contingent
fund,
Should Council decide to aet on the
malority report recommending the
plan, it will be gubmitted to a refer
endum at the bond election March 0, |
If it receives a popular indorsement,
the next session of the State Ilfldfl-l
Continued on Page 2, Column 2,
Issued Datiy and Eutered as Second- Class Matter at
the PostoMce st Atlanta Under Act of March §, 1879
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BERLIN (via London), Feb, 13.
Martial law was declared at Ham
burg today as a result of pillaging
md constant clashes hetween armed
bands and troops. Motor (rucks tilled
with Government scldiers are disarm
ng the mobs,
By H. J. GREENWALL,
(E xclusive Cable by the International
News Sesvice and The L.ondon l
Daily Express..
WEIMAR, Feb. 12-VIA lA!\'l)H.‘\_‘
['ebh. 15.-—Philip Scheidemann will be
he tirst Premier of Ge 'many under
President Ebert Gustav Noske, for
mer Minister of Demobilization arnd
before that Goverror of Kilel, hos
evn 1 pointed Minister of Avmy and
Navy ®
Other members of the Cabinet are:
Minister of Interior, Herr P'reuss
Minister of Justice! Herr .\m,l.s-l
hevg
Miniscter of Commerze, Herr Mulle I'.l
Minister of Labor, Herr Bauer |
viinister of Foreign Affairs, Cfouwnit |
von Brockdorif-Rantzau, former Ger I
man Minister to Denmari
Unider Foreign Minister von” i::“h»‘
Ltholen i
Minister of Finance, Herr Schiffer. |
Minister of Posts and Tole '.'l.;;;|~J
Herr Geisberg ‘
Ministers without porifolio, lntt
Mathias Mrzbergex rmistice com
missioner, former State Secretary and
leader of the Centrist party, Edward
David, president of the national as-|
gembly, and Herr Wissel
Scheidemann will not participate in
the peace negotintions It is likely
however, that Herr David will be a
German envoy
War Declarations,
War declarations require “special
legislation” under the terms of the
temporary constitution which has just
been adopted by the German national
assembly.
Entrance of Germany into the pro
posed league of nations must have the
combined sanction of the national as
embly and the State committee (rep
resenting the various States making
up Germany)
The Presgident retains office until
his successor | elected by the na
tional agsgsembly and the assembly will
have the power to vote on its confi
dence in the cabinet when grave mat
ters are at stake The cabinet will
have supreme control of the army and
navy.
Mr. Greenwall's eablegram Indicat
ed that Herr Scheidemann had not
been actually appointed. An Exchange
Telegraph dispateh to The Interna
tional News Service from Amsterdam
today sald Scheidemann's appoints«
ment had formally taken place
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Parley With Germans
1 ) . .
On Food Is Broken Off
(By International News Service.)
Vi RLIN (via London), Feb, 13
Vernal negotiations over (he ship
ment of food supplies into Germany
have been broken off at Spa, it was
innounced today by the subcommit
tee of the German armistice cornmi
itn dealing with relif The pro
pects of food skipments into Germany
are now uncertain
\ecording to the suhcommittee, the
breax resulled from incr-aged shij
ping demands by the Allies
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Bolsheviki Execuing
1 . . .
Germans in Lithuania
BERLIN, Feb, 12--VIA LONDON
ab, 13 Russian Bolsheyik troops
under orders from Nicolai Lenin, are
invading Lithuania to unite the Spar
tocans and the Bolsheviki, according
to information received here, today
Nixty-five German clvilians were ex
ecated when the golsheviki captured
the viliage of .uoiyu.,_‘"_“ eRN
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U. S. Army Has
$2,775 000,000
(ioods on Hand
(By Intgrnational News Service.)
‘X ,ASHINGTON, Feb., 12—
Supplies the American
_army now has on hand,
according to estimates presented
to the House Wednesday after
noon by Chairman Dent, of the
military affairs committee, are
valued as follows: Quartermas
ter’'s department, $1,650,000,000;
ordnance department, $600,000,-
000; signal service, $25,000,000;
air service, $500,000,000; total,
$2,775,000,000. »
Fight to Collect
Millions for Youth
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.--Red Cross '
oflicials today took up the fight of
Daniel 1. Tolman, 18, Great Lakes
sailor, for his share of the fortune
of the late Daniel H. Tolman, loan
agent, variously estimated at from
$6,000,000 to $65,000,000,
The boy is said to have been
positively identified as the “miss
ing heir” to the fortune left by the
late multimillionaire loan agent,
According to his story, his father,
John Henry Tolman, was disowned
by his grandfather for marrying
against bis will, He says his moth
er died when he was 13 vears old
and that sipce then he has been
“wandering around.” He recently
read of a search being made for
the “missing heir” and after com
municating with a Philadelphia
law firm gave power of atlorney Lo
Philip Herman, Philadeiphia law
yver
The Red Cross had the power of
attorney rescinded and are now
inding the boy in his fight for his
share of the fortune.
Three Young Runaways
,‘ 2
Are Sought by Police
Three young runaways were sought hyi
police Thursday George Huft, 15, son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Huff, of Center Mill,
and Cecil Clements, 17, son of Mrs, Ma
rian Clements, No. 49 Crew street, both left
their homes without sayving goodby,
Mrg. Huff stated that her son ran away
Wednesday afternoon, and Ceell Clements
i# reported to have heon gone since Feh
ruary 7 Neither has been heard from
since
Klsie Brandes, 14, of Ball Ground, made
her escape from the Juvenile Detention
Home Wednesday night by crawling
through n door transom
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Capt. Wright Presentcd
v
l Gold Badge by Men
Captain Joss Wright, head of the police
department identification system, Thurs
day wore a handsome new gold bhadge--a
gift from members of the police and de
toctive departments in recognition of his
‘ Hervices,
| He was presented with the badge Wed
nesday afternoon when the evening watch
went on duty The presentation speech
| Wus mnde by Detective Bergeant Hobh Wag
oner. #aptain Wright responded in a haps
||.v speech of thanks
.
Get An Abundant Harvest
’
From Your Planting
Whether vou are growing
fruits, flowers and vmiul:u
¢ bles for profit ‘or for pleag
-5 ure, it I 8 highly pru"!lzl
that you make your efforts
5 result in the most abun
¢ dant harvest, That harvest
§ depende greatly upon the
) seeds you sow, the plants
$ which you put into the
ground and the ‘quality of
§ fertilizer you use
§ Give vourself a good start,
! Byy fvrmr seeds, plantg and
fertilizer from reliable deal
-5 ers who will supply you with
{ the best obtainable, They
$ muake their announcements
in the “Seeds, Plants, Feor.
tilizers' column over in the
5 Want Ad section of The
5 Georglan and Am(h'lrun.
: Direct your buying wisely
d by reading this column
) carefully, ;
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The Georgian and American 3
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Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
Read for Profit-Use for Resulgs .
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NO. 166
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 13, —"“President Wil
son threatens he will not hesitate to
order a resumption of fighting if Gere
many is faithless,” was the "streams
er head” printed by The Evening
Nesw on the first page today over its
peace conference story from Paris,
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the I, N, 8.
PARIS, Feb, 13.~Whether Presi
dent Wilson will be able to carry @
draft of the league of nations consti
tution back to the United States with
him depends on the progress made
by the league of nations commission
teday
This commission met this morning,
followed thi ifternoon by the finai
session of the supreme . inter-Allied
War Council,
The new armistice terms to be im
posed upon Germany Monday are un
derstood to be an amalgamation of
the French and American vig wpoitns
ind a 4 result of the decisions Gepr
many will be compelled to comply im
mediately with all of the clauses of
the original agreement
U. 8. Wants Hun Ships. %
The American representatives are
extremely anxious to secure Interned
German merchant ships, including the
new Bismarck, to expedite the recurn
of United States solaiers. So fa: the
Americans have met with EOome oppo
sition from some powers to oceyupy
German tonnage themselves for llr
resumption of their own commerces "
Should the commission Ipon the
league of nations agres complete upon
the constitution, so that it can be
ratified at a plenary ession of the
peace conference Saturday President
Wilson will have the honor of moving
its adoption
Should an agreement he impossible
the President and Mrs. Wilson likely
will leave Paris tomorrow night and
ul Saturday instead of Sunday,
May Leave Monday,
If a plenary session of the peaca
conterence is held Saturday for rati
i lon of the league of nation’s con
titution the President will delay his
departuer until Monday
High interest is felt here over the
detalls of the new armistice terms
it they will not be made public un
til Marshal Foch has presented them
to the German envoys at Treves. The
discussions at the meeting of the war
ouncil Wednesday were said to have
een animated, President Wilson and
Premier Clemenceau took a leading
part in the conversations over the
term The question of idealism was
horoughly thrashed out, it was said.
The Americans insist that the posi
m originally assumed be carried out
ompletely nd Germany be held to
trict accountability and that changes
n the mistice conditions be made
only when justified by the reports of
the economie visers council, which
Las been ivestigating internal con
dition in Germany
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J. B. Thompson, Civil
» y
War Veteran, Is Dead
fTohn B. Thompson, 7% a Confederate
riat nd ploneer resident of Atlanta
" ' 1y ifternoon at his resi-
A ' Poplar treet He was
horn it bersham county and served with
th Phirty-eighth Georgla regiment during
I \r At one tup® Mr. Thompson was
' { 1 t husiness het and later
t up u large business in live stoek
it neg ' the widow one daugh
-1 M Jultan. Thompson: one son, Wil
Thompson: twe hrothers, W. W., of
A : t A ust by, Texas,
e ok Wak vt be the anaat
‘w Patt on & 8¢ ! neral ar-
L rangoement
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| WIDENMAN WILL FILED. 4
" ) Ihursday
wi enman 100 g TR
man's prog wig bequeathed to rela
tives, 'Mr Agna Sehillinger and Mrs:
August Kappe jgvere named as. execu-
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