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VOL. XV
WILSON, GREATER THAN EVER, LEAVES FOR HOME
FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF FIRE AT
__ SAVANNAH; LOSS PUT AT $3,000,000
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After paving the way for the sale
of 10,000 bales of Georgia cotton to
the new Czecho-Slav republic, and.
arousing the National Food Admin
istration to a probe of alleged dis
ermmination against Georgia farm
ers by hog buyers, Lem B. Jackson,
director of the State Market Bu
reau, left Washington Friday night
for Atlanta. He is expected here lase
Saturday.
Mr. Jackson arranged for the sale
of about $1,500,000 worth of Georgia
eotton to the Czecho-Slavs through
Charles Pergler, American commis
sioner‘m the new republic. He went
to see Mr. Pergler concerning the
cotton requirements of his country
men and *was informed that a pur
chase of 0060 bales was contem
plated. - Pergler agreed to cable to
his country at once for further de
teils and then to come to Atlanta for
final negotiations.
Hr. Jackson expects no trouble in
ring the export license and put
ting the deal through. Therefore he
plans to locate the cotton needed as
soon as he gets back to this city
Another matter to be taken up by
the market director upon his arrival
home will be a thorough investiga
tion of the Georgia hog market. He
reported to Chief Snyder.of the meat
division of the food administration,
that at an auction sale at Valdosta
No. 1 hogs brought only 11 1-8 cents
in the face of the Government's sta
bilizing price of 17 1-2 cents. Allow
ing the 2-cent differential which the
trage has established against peanut
1(--"hugs in favor of corn fed nogs,
Jackson clainmms that the prices being
paid in Georgia are too low. He is
rot willing to admit that peanut fed
hegs should be so penalized, but
waiving that, he still contends that
Georgia farmers are discriminated
agaiinst by hog buyers. Consumers,
he says, are charged the same price
so: pork, whether it be the peanut
or corn variety,
Jackson has been instructed by the
food administration to look into the
matter thoroughly to ascertain wheth -
€. the buyers in Georgia are not
taking excess profits, and to report
to Washington. If conditions warrant,
the whole matter may be referred
t¢ the Federal Trade Commission for
investigation and action.
Glass Says Congress
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Should Aid Railways
(BI International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ib.--If (ongress
fails to provide the appropriation of
$750,000,800 requested by Director Gen
eral Hines to add to the $500,000,000 al
ready provided as a revolving fund for
the railways under Federal control, the
effect will be distressing, Secretary of
the Treasury Glass told the House ap
propriations comrmittee during its hear
ings on the bill, it is learned.
“H the railways are compelled to 2o
mto the open market for the money they
may need -probably SI.OOO 000,000 it
would have a disturbing effect upon the
next, and [ hope the last, Liberty Loan
and it may have a very distressing and
demoralizing effegt on business gener
ally,” the Becretary declared.
A bih unbodymf the request will be
presented to the House,
.
More Army Units Are
Scheduled for Return
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.-—The fol
lowing units of the Amerlean expedi
tionary forces have been assigned to
carly roturn to the United States, the
War Department announced today
Bvacuation Hospital No. 1, Eghth
Sguadron, base hospitalg Nos, 29 and
47, and photograpnic seMions of the
M wek W, Nos. 17 and 23, :
Full International News Service
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~ (By International News Service.)
MADR'D, Feb. 15.—A state of siege
was declared at CGgenada today, fol
lowing riots in 'vhicir three persons
v ere Killed and twenty injured.
1 Unequal distribution of food was
said to be the cause.
. The custom house was burned by
the rioters.
Berlin Warehouse
Strikers Riot
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 15 —Consider
able rioting has marked the strike of
the warchouse workers in Berlin, ac
cordigg to a dispatch from there today.
Forty thousand workers are out
Gover nt Seizes |
overnmen elzes ‘
Belfast Plants
(By International News Service.)
! BELFAST, IRELAND, Feb. 15.—Gov
ernment troops today took possession
of the gas works and electrie power sta
tion The Mayor has aprealed for vol
unteers to carry on the municipal serv
ice
Special Board Examines
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Conscientiouc Objectors
(By International News Service.) |
LEAVENWORTH, KAN., Feb. 1).--
When Judge Mack, "of Chicago, and
Dean Stone, of Columbia University,
special investigators of the War De
partment, arrived at Fort I.(».'l\'n-nwurth}
they immediately began reviewing and
going over the cases of the 450 or more
conscientious objectors now confined to
the barracks As in the previous 0-x~‘
amination of the objectors, fnll()\\ln;!‘
which 113 of the objectors were re
leased from the barracks upen recom
mendation of the investigators. the men
appeared before the examiners and were
asked questions and statements of their
cases are taken
It is thought the present session of
the investigating board will occupy
several weeks.
!Would Provide Funds
To Try New Tor pedo
. (By International News Service.)
| WASHINGTON, Feb, 15.—The experi
mentation by the United States Gov
ernment of the operation of terpedoes
and “undeg-water carriers of high ex
plosives’ —“with the view of determin
ing the advisability of constituting this
marvelous invention as part of the de
fense system of the United States—and
the appropriation of $417,000 with which
to carry out these trials, are recom
mended to Congress in the fortifications
appropriation bill for the fiscal year,
1912, just reported to the House
John Hayes Hammond, of Washing
ton, D. C., is the inventor of the radio
dynamie torpedo, and although the in
vention for some time has been under
investigation by a joint army and navy
board, this ig the first step toward act
ual demonstration by the Gowernment
of the radio torpedo,
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Michigan Wants Yanks |
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Withdrawn From Russia
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 15 Awpelmon
signed by 105,000 cilizens of Michigan
and calling on Congress Lo request the
War Department at once to withdraw |
American troops from Russia or mln-‘
force them, has been presented in the
House by the Michigan delegation, act
ing jointly in behalfl of the Michigau
citizens.
THE WEATHER. |
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SAVANNAH, Feb. 15.—The fire god
has wreaked vengeance on Savannah
within the past twelve hours., Fol
lowing the 8. A. L. and Southern
Fertilizer and ("hemical disaster yes
terday afternoon, half of a city block
at Habersham and Thirty-first was
wrecked by fire this morning. Six
frame houses were ruined by fire and
water, entailing losses aggregating
more than $60,000, One fireman was
badly injured, though probably not
fatally.
At the same time Savannah was
threatened with another , Yamacraw
disaster such as visited the eity sev
eral years ago. A blaze broke out on
Farm street in a densely populated
and inaccessible section. It was ex
tinguished with great difficulty. A
small fire occurred in Collinsville,
with small loss, this morning. During
the night the Aimar Woodyards suf
fered a seriogs fire, with SIO,OO loss,
Two More Fires. |
While the flames raged on the ter
minals vesterday, two fires of minor
importanee broke out in the ecity and
one near the city. A near-gale is
sweeping Savannah today, and the
fire-fighting forces are very anxifous
ly awaiting possible calls With every
passing moment,
Included in the cotton losses by the
fire in the 8. A, l. wharves was a
solid train of 28 cars of l.ouhcltnu
and Texas cotton which arrived Fri
day morning just in time to be placed.
The staple had not been removed
from the ears, but circumstances pre
vented the moving of the train. Ni.
trate losses include three shiploads of
material which had just been dis
charged on the 8. A, 1. plers. This is
valued around SBO per ton. 8. A. L.
ATLANTA, CA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1919
tom‘sial- stood on their burning piers
as the fire progressed and offered city
‘merag« firms any amount of money
they might demand for liters to
‘tmnuporl from the ¢ity to the island
pumpers and engines of the city fire
department, .
| Only One Pump Working, ~
Other efforts were made to procure
city fire engines to use both on the is
land and on lighters, moving tehm
about on lighters with tugs as regular
fireboats, An inspection of the situa
tion this morning by 8, A. L. officials
showed that at the time the fire broke
out In their wharves there was steam
in only one pwmp of the fire system,
Three other big pumps lay idle while
,the flames spread from pler to pier,
swept onward under a light gale, A
huge electric pump, the largest thing
of its kind on the terminalg, lay idle
during the conflagration because It
was wired overhead and the first fire
in the fertilizer plant broke its con
nectitng, The pump and s fireproof
hosing stand intact now.
Late into the night Savannah, to
the farthermost limits, glowed with
the glare of the wharves. thousands
of bales of cotton and thousands of
barrels of naval stores, Throngs spent
half the night on the river front
watching the flames: Later the smoke
-settled down hmwil‘y all over the city.
Throatened Entire Plant.
The fire originated in the fertilizer
prlent of the Southern Fertilizer and
Chemical Company and ecarly threat
ened the entire plant, including the
chemical secticn, the huge Seaboard
Air Line wharves, on which were
thousands of bales of cotton and
many thousands of barrcls of naval
Continued on Page 2, Column 5.
Marvelous Inventive Genius Is
Disclosed in Arrest of H.
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Kilso Hailey.
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 15 It ap
pears that the immense sensation
caused by the arrest as an illicit dis
tiler of H. Kelso Hailey, society man
and club member, is not lkely to dim
his reputation as a business man,
whatever it does to his social stand
ing and prestige. H. Kelso's plans to
make a good thing out of his suill in
the basement of the Altmore apart -
ménts, which he built and owned,
were just about to materialize, with
the likelihood of a gross income esti
mated at $2,000 a day,
A Model Distillery.
Officers who inspected the “ptant”
declare solemnly that it is the largest
and finest illicit still ever scen in this
part of the world. In a labyrinth of
passages the cunningly constructed
still was installed, with a special con
sumer to prevént the escape of tell
tale fumes and gases. An electric ex
haust motor carried them into the
furnace flue, so that the coal smoke |
concealed -the whisky odor.
In Use More Than Year.
The plant was eqnipped with corn
grinding mills, run by waste steam
from the apartment's heating dystem
-and this eclaborate apparatus had
existed, it is said, for more than a
vear in the very heart of the citv and
had done a tremendous manufactur
ing business.
Hailey appears to have veen actu
ated by a powerful desire I‘Mj suddan
wealth. Improvements in his ul‘xm]
had raised its capacity to 100 g’ullun.a"
a day, which at the current hootleg
prices of $6 a quart would figure out &
gross income of 32000 a day
Still Some Mystery.
THe selling end of M H.;iln\\;
business is yet a mystery, but tln-l
revenuers are scearching for a con
cealed storage tank, whicih they sus
pect 15 buried underneath the founda
tion of the apartment.
The arrest of Hailey has shocked
the community In addition to hxsr
standing as one of the wealthy men |
of the city the “distiller” has enjoyed
a scocial prominence second to none,
How he has found time to perfect has
marvelous basement plant is puzzling |
those who have known of his Muul
and society activities
Senator Hoke Smith
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Heads (Georgia Society
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 -—Senator
Hoke Smith was elected president of
the Georgia Society at the meeting
held last night.
In addition to Senator Smith, the
following officers were chosen: Miss
Jessie Dill, first vice president; Jesse
E. Mercer, wno is the retiring presi
dent, second vice president; Miss
Laura Berrien, third vice president;
Lieutenant G. L. Williams, fourth
vice president; W. A, M, Sheldon,
fifth vice president; Miss Nellie
Adamsoi, secretary, and Miss Anna
bel Matthews, treasurer,
Atlanta Man Hurt
In Pennsylvania Wreck
é}!{ International News Service.)
ITTSBURG, Feb. 156.—Twelve per
song on the Pittsburg and Cincinnati
train No, 104, east bound on the Penn
sylvania Rallroad, were injured, none
seriously, last night, when a sixty-foot
girder on a west bound freight train
sideswiped three of the coaches at Oak
dale, near here
Among the injured are: W. G, Mer
rick, of Atlanta, Ga.; Ralph, Davidson,
of Sandoval, 11l.; Mrs. W, A. Keller, of
Steubenville, Ohio, and C. C. Copeland,
negro, of Perry, Ga
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British Liner, Afire,
Races Toward A:zores
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 15.—The British
liner Moorish Prince, bound from
Philadelphia to Lordon, is afire off
the Azores, sald 4 dispateh to Llovds
today. At last reports the vessel was
racing toward an Azores port,
(The Moorish Prince is a vessel of
6,943 tons, hailing *from Newcastle,
KKngland.)
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Former Reichstag Chief
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Heads (German Assembly
(By International News Service.)
WEIMAR, GERMANY, Feb, 14 (via
Berlin and London), Feb, 15, Kon
stantin Fehrenbach, former president
of the Reichstag, was today elected
pregident of the national assembly,
succecding Eduard David, who re.
signed when he was appointed Min
ister without portfolio in the Cabinet,
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Golden Fails to Get
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Conference on Strike
COLUMBUS, Feb, 15.--After spend
g five days here in a futile attempt
to ohtain a conference with Columbus
mill owners, John Golden, president of
the United Textile Workers of America,
left last night for Tennessee and North
Carolina. He will return here later and
attempt a wsettlement of the textlle
strike
Approximately 5,000 striking opera
tives stuged an orderly parade on Broad
sirect yestorday.
Wl &Al HHAD
Governor and Lawyers in Chatta
nooga o Oppose Con- .
demnation.
Governor Dorsey and a delegation
of legal officials are in Chattanooga
to combat renewed efforts of the Ten
ness Legislature to condemn proper
ties of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, owned by the State of Geor
gia, at the Nashville, Chattanooga
and St. Louis terminals, which are
wanted by the city of Chattanocoga
for improvement purposes.
Accompanying the Governor are
Attorney General Clifford Walker,
John L. Tye, legal counsel, and J.
Grover Cohen, secretary of the West
ern and Atlantic Lease Commission.
The Tennessee Legislature is re
proted to have sent a committee to
Chattanooga to investigate the situ
aion, and hold conferences wih mem
bers of the Chattanocoga City Coun
cil.
In the last ten or twelve years the
Tennessee Legislature has made re
peated efforts to condemn valuable
lands belonging to Georgia, through
the Nashville, Chattanocoga and St
Louis, lessees of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad, Chattanocoga has
continually agitated a plan for run
ning a new street through the prop
erty and installing a sewerage sys
tem. Such a procedure, it is report
ed, will separate the tracks of the
railroad from the terminal and neces
sitates the abolishment of a num
ber of tracks. This would lessen the
terminal facilities of the Waestern
and Atlantic to such an extent as to
be wholly inadequate, it is said. ‘
The land in question is very valu
able, rough estimates having pl.um]j
its value viose to $1,000,000. Georgia
representatives contend that ane |
State has not the right to comlflmn!
properties belonging to another |
.\'!fnlv. and this argument has srnml|
off previous fights of the State .»1“’
Tennesee. 'The late Judge John C.
Hart and other State officials have |
found it necessary to go to Chatta- |
nooga in years past to fight against '
this serioug blow to Georgia and her |
;r‘l‘:'mm- fromi the Western and Atlan- I
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Six=-Months-Pay
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Club Is Growing
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Throughout State
The “Six Months’ Pay Club” is
growing by leaps and bounds. Near
ly everybody you mett now wears
one of the little service star but
tons The Atlanta Georgian gives
free for the askipg.
There have been a number of
cases right here at home where sol
diers have come back and been un
able to get their old jobs. In some
instances ‘ny felt they deserved
better jobs, but couldnt’ wait a day
to find them. Six months' pay
would avoid such difficulties. And
Georgians, who appreciate the great
service rendered by the men, are
getting behind the movement al
most unanimously,
The Atlanta Georgian is sending
the buttons all over the State, dig
tributing them through solicitors,
road men, district managers and
other representatives. There is a
supply on hand for Atlantans who
will, Just ask for Frank Stanton.
Bad Roads Slow Up
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Autos in S. Georgia
THOMASVILLE, Feb. 16— More rain
and more bad roads is what South Geor
lxiu complains of now. Reports from the
countgy show that the very heavy raing
lulllnytm Thursday have again put the
roads of the county in such a condition
us to render automobile traveling un
pleasant and in some instances difficult,
Cars have been reported slurk‘n the
mud on some of the principal roafs, and
many people have heen delayed in their
trips to the different sections of the
county,
With the coming of warm weather
next month and during all of the spring
months many tourists will desire to visit
this section on their return from Flor
ida and numbers of them will be in
their automobiles, With good paved
roads South Georgla could hnve a con
#tant stream of such visitors, to say
nolmmf of the benefits to be derived
from the roads by the residents of the
towns and counties on their own behalf
Father and Son To Be
Tried on Murder Charge
SOPERTON, Feb. 15— 'The first term
of Treutlen Buperior Court will convene
here Monday. It will be held in the
new Masonic hall until & courthouse can
b‘n‘-l bullt, Judge E. D, Graham will pre
side,
The most Important case will be that
of the Alfords, the son and father, ac
cused of killing Deputy United States
Marshal J. Ben Wilson on November 13
last, Wilson was serving & warrant on
the elder Alford for illicit diunlllnfl when
they shot him. Since that time the Al- |
fords have been located In Montgomery
County jail There are several other
important cases that will come up for
trial at (his term, |
lssued Daliy and Euntered as Second-Class Matter s)
the PostofMce at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1379
Di H
The Tired Business Man is coming
into his own. He is to be given a
chance to dine with his own wife in
his own home, at his own leisure, and
not be disturbed eight or ten times
by a telephoned query as to the
exact hour the Somesorta Club is to
assemble week after next, or wheth
er there is any truth in the report
that Mrs. Neighbor did something
perfectly dreadful,
Several days ago a number of
prominent Atlanta club women were
gathered together and one of them
announced that she must resign an
executive position because the eter
called it—jingling of here telephone
nal-—as she calel it, or infernal, as he
had gotten on her husband's nerves.
A chorus of similar sufferers joined
in, and finally a remedy was suggest
ed. The Atlanta Woman's Club would
be asked to take it up,
Along with other movements for
public improvement, the Woman's
Ciub did take up the telephone situ
ation at a meeting Friday. It was
decided to ask every woman in At
lanta to confine her phone ecalls to
matters of importance only, and then
to make the callls before 6:30 o'clock
at night. Business women and teach
ers are the only ones who will be ex
ceptions to the general rule, and they
are urged to make their calls in the
daytime, if possible,
“You have no idea how it disrupts
the home for the woman to be called
‘,lrom the table six or eight times dur
ing the evening meal, and especiaMy
for some useless question which could
huve been answered by reading the
daily paper,” stated Mrs. B. M. Boy -
kin, acting president of the Atlanta
Woman's Club. “Our evenings are
the only time we have with our hus
bands, and it is no wonder they get
nervous when we are forced to spend
hours at the telephone in useless
conversation or idle gossip.
. “We are going to adopt the policy
of having the hours of club meetings
announced in the papers and insist
ing upon the members referring to
the papers instead of using the tele
phone. Then if they insist upon call
ing us up, we will have our replies
‘dulh-en-d by the maids,
"We are hoping that the movement
will not only quiet the nerves of our
husbands and ourselves, but that "
will give the telephone company am‘
opportunity for better service.”
Gri
rins and
-
Groans in the
Day’s News
NEW LONDON, CONN., #eb. 15.
The police believe they are on the
trail of a murder mystery today,
following the digging up of human
bones on a farm near Port Jarvis,
The bones were rooted up by pigs.
NEW YORK, Feb, 15 —Judge
Mcintyre, in the court of general
sessions holds that life .8 held too
cheaply in New York. “Men are
shot and killed for a h-cent piece,"
said Judge Mecelntyre, in sentencing
Joseph Gatto te (ifteen years' im
prisonment for robbery,
LAFAYETTE, IND., Feb. 15—
Two men were injured today when
John King's glass eye exploded
while he was working in a locomo
tive boiler. The intense heat in the
boiler caused the eye to explode,
The men were injured by flying
particles of the eye
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Two ban
dits entered a jewelry store Friday
afternoon, shot an employee and
one of them escaped with several
thousand dollars’ worth of gems,
The chauffeur of a passenger auto
mobile hurled a monkey wrench at
one of the bandits The missile
caught the bLuandit behind the ear
and knocked him unconscious. The
other bandit escaped.
. .
Berlin Police Arrest
,
~ Russ Bolsheviki Agent
BERLIN, Feb 14 (via London, Feb. 15)
Karl Radek the self-confessed agent
of the Russian Bolsheviki in Germany,
is being held here incommunicado, lir
Is kept heavily fettered, even in hisg eell,
Articipating his arrest, Radek had
conferred power of attorney upon a
friend, Siegfried Weinberg
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(By International News Servicey
BREST, FRANCE, Peb. 15.— A mide®
impressive scenes, President Wilson
]x.m-w! for the United States today
upon the liner George Washington.
Cheered by a greal multitude, #wd
President and Mrs, Wilson went on
Loard the vessel during the mornfng
ind at 11:15 o'clock the ship weighed
anchor and steamed toward the open |
sea, bringing to an end the first phesssg
of the historie visit of the first Ameri«
can President to set foot on Fremcly
soil
The departure of the American exe
écutive struck deeper into the publie
Interest than otherwise would have
happened because his great victory in
the leazue of nations negotiations ag
Paris was still fresh. )
Accompanied by Leorat.
General Leorat, of the French
army, adcompanied the presidential
party from Paris
A guard of honor, composed of sole
diers and sailors, was lined up on the
dock and stood rigidly. at attention
while the President walked slowly by.
A group of movie men ground
ceaselessly at their machines, regis
terin gthe historic scene
’ The streets leading to the pn“ and
’Hn- crowning hills overlooking! the
i"-u'l\ were all filied with crowdas.
Some cheered, others, touched by the
| soleminity of the occasion, stood sflow‘
and uncovered Handkerchiefs flute
tered from the hands of women.
Bouquet for Mrs. Wilson. .
Mrs. Josephine Lewis, of Cincime
nati, Ohio, in charge of the Red Cross
depot at Brest, presented Mrs, Wilson
with a beautiful bouquet of violets
and was graciously thanked. The only
other women on the dock were m!
Beatrice Allen, of New York, and
Miss Florence Harrison, of CMM‘c
All wore their Red Cross amiforms.
President Wilson saluted this Nttls
Eroup of women warmly as he passed,
A French sailor accompanied the
party, carrying a huge bouquet of
roses with ribbon streamers attached.
The party went out to the George
Washington on a Prench tender piled
with baggage. There were trunks,
bags, cases, and even piles of golf
clubs. A French naval officer, wear
ing a gold-hilted sword, was at the
wheel,
Waves Hat to Crowd.
Onee on board the George Washe
ington, the President hurried to the
rear deck, where he removed his hag
and waved genially at the crowd om
the dock.
Soon the liner got under way and
as she passed one of the French ports
# salute of 21 guns thundered out.
There was not a hitch and ev
thing moved with the precision
clockwork. :
Sergeant Fugene Merrymaa, whe
was in charge of transportation, was
one of the happiest men in Brest,
“Not a piece of luggage missing™
he cried, gleefully rubbing his hands
in satisfaction, 1s the liner wore toms
ward the Atlantic,
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Wilson’s Frestige
Greater Than Ever .
By ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N.-a
PARIS, Feb, 15— President Wil
salled for the United States from
Brest today clothed with even greates
jrestige than when he arrived in Bue
rope. This was due solely to hiw
magnificent achievement in getting
llhv plan for a league of nations
through the committee stage and be«
[f-n"- the peace conference before time
for him to !eave for home,
The French, who were somewhid
“touchy” at times, notably over the
President’s opposition to internationad
land, sea and air forces, now acc'alm
his work in the leagwe of nations
committee as the strongest peace
guarantee the world has ever k
The French are particularty gri
that the superstate idea has
overthrown,
Opposed Superstate |dea.
| As a matter of fact, no great Wee
tion was enthusiastic over the pross
pect of an international body worke
ng ke a medieval pope, superior 1@
the state,
~ Neither the Unied States,
Britain nor France was ready to sa
render a particle of state
ence or constitutional rights,
Newspaper comment today
the experts who imagined Preside
Wilton eame to Europe so
modern utopia now admit he
behind Yim a highly practieal,
and workable scheme which r
little amendment before it goes nd
actunl effect, By 14 Nati ,
Approved By ations,
As it stands, the draft reportsdil
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