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VOL. XVII
MAYOR KEY MOVES TO PREVENT ATLANTA LABOR WAR
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cerned May Get Together and
Agree on Compromise Plan. ‘
Mayor Key Monday began steps ml
Prevent a labor war in Atlanta whwhi
effectually will prevent an bm'ldingi
operations throwgh a strike mvolving
A& branches of the building trades. ]
The Mayor had a eonference with
Charles B. Gramling, president of the |
Pederation of Trades: J. W. Bridwell,
eouncilor of the Department of La- |
bor, and other labor officials to try m:
arrive at some solwtion of the prob- |
. He announced afterward that
be will confer soon with represvnm-‘
tives from each of these organiza
tions: The general contraetors, the
atectrical contractors, the electrical
employees and the Ruilding Trades
Council. Every effort will be made
by him to bring about arbitratdon or
wome other settlement of the &iffer
ences betweem employers and em
ployees.
Walkout May Be Near.
Besides the nation-wide building
tradee strike which is likely to be
ealled by the national organization at
any time, the local eondition is filled
with trouble which may bring about
& walkout trrespective of a matiomal
movement. It hinges on the declared
mtention of the Atlanta Builders’ Ex
ehange to work on the open-shop sys
wm,
The varions amions in the building
trades.: have beem under eontract with
the employers, with wage scales and
hours agreed on. But when the con
tract with the eiectrical workers ex
pired a short time ago the employers
declined to renew it, declaring that
work would be "open shop” in future,
with union and nonunion men em
ployed when needed. The eleetrical
workers deciined to work on this ba
sis and walked out
The contract with the plumbers
union expires March 1, and they are
expected to quit on that date, Con
tracts with other unions expire at
various dates, the last being Septem
ber 1 of this year. Labor men de
clare the various trades will quit ag
their time runs out.
At an execcutive sesston of the
Building Trades Council Sunday, at
tended by representatives of all the
fourteen affiliated organizations and
the executive board of the Atlanta
Federation of Trades, the local situa
tion in the building industry was
theroughly discussed and the full
moral and financial support of the
council wagr pledged to the electrical
workers' organization, first of the lo
cal labor rganizations to clash with
the bailding trades employers. It was
indicated hat no action !ooking to
ward a general walkout would be
taken until it became apparent that
the electrical workers difliculties
could be settled in no other way, or
antil positive instructions had been
received from the American Federa
tion of Labor,
Assistance Pledged.
The following resolution was adopt -
ed at the Sunday meeting
*“The Building Trades Couneil
pledge themselves morally and finan
cially to assist the eléctrical workers
in their fight to resist the insidious
and subtle effort of the employers
to tighten the chains of industrial
slavery through the open shop upon
the limbs of the men engaged in the
building trades industry.”
A delegation from the Atlanta Fed
eration of Labor, which includes al
phe labor unions in the eity, called
upon the Bailding Trades Council at
its meeting and agreed to have these
resolutions presented to the general
federation It was composed of Wil
liam Wier. printers; Louie P. Mar
quardt, tallors; Fred Ehlers, machin
ists; J. P. Miller, barbers; John Ter
rell, city firemen,
Want to Avoid Strike.
Local labor leaders are fully abive
to the seriousness of the stuation and
express the desire to aveid, if possi
ble, a state of general industrial war
fare They assert, however, that if
employers are determined upon a pol
ey of refusing to renew agreements
as fast as they expire with the build
ing trades labor organizations, the
“battle royal” will begin in earnest
and the united strength of the Amer
ican labor movement will be ealled
into play in self-defense
The agreement of the International
Brotherhood of Flectrical Workers
expired Janunary 28 and the refusal
of electrical eomtrastors to renew it
precipitated a general walkout of that
eraft shorily after that date The
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Full International News Service
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Grins and
Groans in th
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Day’
ay's News
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Feb, 17.
Government experts are using air
pianes in their search for pink beoll
worms in Texas cotton fields. The
experts, under the direetion es H.
H. Hensley, are carried to the va
rious cotton plantations throughout
the State in army airplanes driven
by army aviators.
BALTIMORE, Feb 17 -Dr. Da
vid L. Maeht, of Johns Hopkins
University, has discovered a new
loeal apesthetie in benzyl aleohol
or pheninethylol. The drug itself
= not new, but s properties as an
znesthetic are in the pature of a
complete discovery
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Peb. 17,
Vassar girls are up in arms against
the coflege bill of fare. Three hun
dred of them have joimed in a com
piaant against the “persistent pars
ni@” “bean strings.” “concealed
curry sauce” and the “semibob
| Saiaial St Blaner”
SEATTLE, Feb. 17.-—The Bolshev
ists of the Northwest have been de
feated. Cooler heads have prevailed
in the councils of the shipyard work
ers with the resuit that the strike
of the metal trades workers has been
called off. Announcement of the end
ing of the strike was sent out to
workers last night by union leaders,
and it is expected that by the end
of this week all work will be re
sumed in the Todd, Foundation, Skin
ner and Eddy Seattle Dry Dock and
Construction and other large plants
here.
The men struck on Janmary 21,
following stormy union sessions In
which Bolshevism and 'Mooney taik
predominated, for a dollar a day n
crease in wages. They returm to
work this morning, that is, as many
of them as are still in Seattle return
te work, at the old scale.
Motives Recognized. 4
Since the seizure and deportation
by the Government of the alien agi
tators who kept Seattle's union in un
rest, cooler consideration of work
ing econditions has been mad. The
men are begimning to recognize the
motives of the foreign agitators and
te refuse to support them in their
universal strike demands.
Shipyard owners today officially
admitted they plan to reopen their
plants, beginning Wednesday morn
ing.
The wages offered, will be the same
as on January 21, when the 25500
metal trades men struck, closing all
steel and wooden shipyards and all
contract shops,
To Abide by Decision.
In an announcement issued by six
steel shipbuilding concerns it is de
clared that “we emphatically denied
that we operate open shops, and we
wish to advise our employees as well
as the public that the steel ship
builders intend to abide by the agree
ment between the Government of Vhe
United States and the international
president of the unions as expressed
by the President of the United
States.”
This is taken to mean that when
the yards resume operations the Gov
ermment's elosed shop practically will
be adhered to, but that the dictates
of the local officers of the metal trade
will not be heeded
The men were called out by the
Metal Trades Council officers Janu
ary 21 as a protest to the Macy board
wuge award, which provided a mini
mum wage for laborers and helpers
of $4.16. The metal council demand
ed a basic scale of SB, $7 and $6 a
day
No official announcement as to the
attitude of the Metal Trades Coun
cil officers has been made, as James
A Taylor, president, and other offi
cers of the couneil have gone to Port
land to attend the district couneil of
metal trades of the Pacifie coast,
which opens today b
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Striking Miners Flee
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From Sheriff’s Posse
(By International News Service.)
PEKIN, ILL. Feb 17.~Striking
miners, led by 1. W. W, and Bolshe
viki. who had threatend to destroy the
Groveland mine near here, unless men
who had refused to join their strike
were discharged, marched to the mine
today, but on seeing Sheriff Robert
Clay and a posse of armed deputies on
guard, left hurriedly without causing
any trouble
Included in the Sheriffs posse were
severa]l members of the Home Guard
Sheriff Clay had asked Governor low
den to permit the Home Guards to
wear their uniforms, but on instrnc
tions from the Governor the guards
wore civilian clothes,
The trouble at the mine grows out
of a strike of surface workers last
Thursday. One man who refused to
Jjoin the strikers was severely beaten.
Sunday the strikers are alleged to
have sent word to the mine that they
would attack with rifles today if the
men at work were not discharged
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Strikers’ Pickets and
Mounted Police Clash.
(By International News Service)
LAWRENCE, MASS., Feb. 17.—
Nine arrests as the result of frequent
clashes between the strikers’ pickets
and the mounted police marked the
opening of the third week of the tex
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All Dairy Products at War Levels
Here, While Other Sections
Show Big Reduction.
The investigation into the prices of
foodstuffs and milk authorized by the
City Federation 6f Woman's Clubs at
its last executive session has revealed
a puzzling state of affairs so far as
the price of milk is coneerned, ac
cording to Mrs. A. McD. Wilson, pres
‘ide/m of the City Federation. That
‘th price of milk in Atlanta should
| remain stationary while in every oth
er city of the nation it is dropping
back to pre-war levels, is a fact for
which the investigation has as yet de
veloped no cause.
The prices of all dairy produets in
other cities show marked declines, ac
cording to figures received by the in
vestigating committee. Cheese espe
cialy is shown to have declined in
price, even in Atlanta, 10 cents on the
pound.
N. Y. Milk at 15 Cents
Figures received by the committee
from New York show that good milk
is being sold there for 15 cents a
quart, while the Atlanta price re
mains at 26 cents. That Atlanta is
forced to pay the highest price for
milk of any of the Southern and
Kastern cities heard from, is the con
clusion @f the committee.
General materials and foodstuffs
used by the dairies appears to fluctu
ate i accord through the country,
except Atlanta, the clubwomen say.
Reductions in prices of raw materials
lin Eastern and Southern cities ap
' pear to be uniform and the reduction
in milk prices in ecities other than
iAtlanta has been in proportion to the
ireduction in costs,
| Many Babies Perish.
: “The City Federation of Woman's
Chlubs ts moved in its desire to get at
| the truth,” Mrs. Wilson sald, “by its
| deep concern gver the increased num
ber of deaths during the past t'vw;
'months of infants in families where |
the dollar is a tremendous item. Ev
ery indication is that hundreds of!
children have died from malnutrition |
—starvation, to put it plainly—and
with the coming of spring and sum- |
mer and a eonsequent larger demand
for milk for babies, the women of
'Atlanta feel keenly the neeessity for |
seeing that plenty of good, pure milk |
is available al reasonable prices
“There are hundreds of families in
Atlanta where 25 cents a quart for
milk might as well be a dollar a
quart, so far as the ability to pur-|
chase is concerned, and, strangely |
enough, these are the very homes |
where a plentiful supply of pure milk '
is most essential
A Crying Shame.
“We are not concerned with any at
tempt to start anything sensational
nor do we wish to be put in the light
of ‘going after cnyone,’ but it will be |
a crying shame if the people of At-|
lanta permit innocant babes to die of
starvation because of the lack of milk |
which can not be bought at the prices
now prevailing. We want to find out |
Just why it is that milk prices do not |
Bo dowam, and try to remedy this|
cause. We want to see that 10 f‘t"ll??':
additional cost on each quart of milky
does not stand between innocent ba- !
bies and the right to live and t:ruwl
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Edna Culver, Savannah stenographer, believed to have eloped
' The search for Edna Culver, pretty
| Savannah girl, who disappeared Fri
| day, was continued in Atlanta and
‘other (ieorgia cities Monday. The
!or.ly indication that she is safe came
ito her father in a vague report that
i she had eloped to Millhaven, between
| Savannah and Atlanta, with a Savan
| mah automobile dealer, and married
ihlm there,
i This information the father, W. E.
f(‘ulw‘.r. telephoned from Savannah to
' her brother, who is in Atlanta direct
'in;: the search through North Geor-
Igiu The brother, fearing that the
} report from Millhaven might be with
out basis, did not relax his efforts at
this point.
The futher, the daughter and a son
formed the happy family circle at
' home, now shattered by the girl's dis
lappcurunre. Mr. Culver is chief elec
trician for the Savannah Warehouse
and Compress Company, and Edna,
!I? years old, was a stenographer in
. the same big plant. Cultured and
kultrarln’e-. she was widely popular at
the plant and at home. There was
no shadow on their home.
But Edna disappeared last Friday
morning, a few hours before the great
fire which absorbed attention. Fath
er and brother searched for her, ant
at last Jearned she had bought a
ticket to Atlanta. The trail ended
there. Somebody who knew her said
13?)0 had elopéd with a handsome sol
dier,
~ Mr. Culver and his son eame to
Atlanta on the next train and asked
the local detectives te help Lham‘
find the girl. She is described as be
ing slender, welghing about 120
pounds and with light hair. She wore.
a brown tailored suit, a large hat and |
slippers,
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Rabbi Marx to Talk
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At Gate City Lodge
An open meeting followed by a
smoker, to be given by Gate City Lodge,
Independent Order B'Nal B Rith, Tues
day night, will be addressed by Rabbi
David Marx and V. H. Kriegshaber,
Many Jewish men, now serving in the
army and navy, and also many who
have retired from service, will be pres
ent All Jewish men, both in service
and out, are invited to this patriotic
gatherinu"
The subject of Dr. Marx's address will
be “Americanism and Judaism.” His
views on this subject, voiced at the re
cent Distriet Grand Lodge B'Nai B'Rith
meeting at Charleston, received the
hearty indorsement of many of Amer
jca's foremost Jews, Mr. {(rw;znrmbur
will speak on the work of the War Com
munity Service and especially the work
being done for Jewish soldiers,
The rm-elinT will be held in the vestry
of the Temple, Pryor and Richardson
streots,
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Sir Wilfred Laurier
Is Reported Dying
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Feb, 17 —Bir
Wilfred Laurier, former Premier of
Canada, who suffered a paralytle
siroke Sunday, is dying. His condi.
tion took a turn for the worse this
WDOrning.
First Lieutenant Lon Albert
}fim«-h, 33, superintendent of the me
| chanical repair shop at Camp Jesup,
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- was struck by an Atlanta and West
;l‘mm train at the Taylor avenue
;«-russnn: in Kast Point Monday morn
ing, and it is feared may be fatally
injured. The train rushed him to the
Fort McPherson Hospital, where it
was thought that he had suffered an
injury to the hase of the sklll, or in
ternal hurts. No limbs were broken,
but he remained in a subconscious
condition for several hours.
Lieutenant Couch was on his way to
Atlanta in a seven-passenger Haynes
automobile when the train struck him.
A string of box ecars on a sidetrack
obstructed his view. The car was al
most in the middle of the track when
the locomotive hit it. The car was
demolished and the officer was partly
under the train tender when picked
up.
Lieutenant Couch is a resident of
Los Angeles, Cal,, and has been in the
army for a number of years. He was
with General Pershing in Mexico, Six |
months ago he was sent to Camp
Jesup from Kort Bliss, and had been
assigned to the management of the |
mechanical repair shop, for which he
has been expecting early promotion.
Lieutenant C'ouch resides at No. 303
Jefferson street, College Park, with
his wife and 13-year-old daughter,
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U. S. to Launch First
Seagoing Tug Today
(By International News Service.)
BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 17.-The
first sea-going tug for the United
States navy will be launched this
afternoon at the Ferguson Steel ;mdl
Iron Company's shipyard Addresses
will be made by Mayor DBuck and by
the president of the ("hamber of Com
merce. The Buffalo, for that is the
name which will be given this tug, is
the first tug to be launched by any
contractor anvwhere on the contract
of 24 given out by the United States
navy. The tug is 1056 feet long and of
modern design.
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Admiral Wilson on Way
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Home in His Flagshipp
(By International News Service.)
WARHINGTON, Feb, 17~~Vice Ad.
miral Henry BB Wilson, who has been
eritical'ly i of pneumonia following
an atteck of influenza, is returning to
America on his flagship, the New
Mexico, It was announced at the Navy
Department today e New Mexico
18 escorting the George 'Vashington
on which Presidert Wilson is making
kis return trip.
Supreme Council of the Allies
Again Takes Up the Russian
Question in Paris.
(By International News Service.)
TREVES, Feb. 17.—The new armis
tice was signed at 6:30 o'clock iast
night in the salon of Marshal Foch's
private car.
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 17.—The Ger.
man Government has decided to ac
cept the terms of the Allies’ armis
tice conditions.
The Weimar correspondent of The
Politiken wirass his paper, under date
of Sunday, 6:20 o'clock p. m., that the
agreement to accept the conditions
was reached at a conference of party
leaders.
A cessation of the German offensive
against the Poles is one of the terms
of the new armistice, which prolongs
the terms of the last armistice indefi
nitely and reserves the right of the
Allies to terminate it upon giving
three days’ notice upon failure of the
Germans to comply with the condi
tions ;set forth November 11, Decem
ber 12 and January 16.
Marshal Foch nad informed the
German armistice commission that
the armistice would expire at 5 o'clock
Monday morning and that the last
kour for signing would be 6 o'clock
Sunday evening., He declared if the
armistice was not signed that he
would leave Treves and it would no
longer be in force.
Russ Problem
Up Again in Paris.
By ROBERT J. PREW.
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Feb. 17—The supreme
council of the great powers again
took up the Russian question at this
morning’s session. The council de
bated the idea of Winston Spencer
Churchill, who was heard at Sat
urday’s meeting, of asking all parties
in Russia to cease hostilities and the
appointment of a commission to take
evidence from each organized group.
The suggestion is to Invest the com
mission with full powers of arbitra
tion.
Bolsheviki Are Ignored.
The new plan does not provide a
meeting of the Bolsheviki and the
other governments who declined the
invitation to attend the general con
ference at Princes Island.
Refore his departure for America
President, Wilson expressed concern
over the conference's inability to
'mkfl any practical measures to re
'mnre Russia. He enjoined the
American delezation to the peace
conference to operate cordially in any
workable scheme in that direction.
Lloyd George |s Anxious.
Premier ldoyd George, of Great
Britain, also is extremely anxious to
solve the problem, in view of the
unsettled labor conditions in Eng
land and the leanings toward Bol
shevism of certain labor leaders,
Premier Borden, of Canada, in a
week-end speech, urged the delegates
to the peace conference to speed up
their deliberations. He dectared that
over three months had elapsed since
the armistice, and that the soldiers
believe that much time has been
wasted and are amazed at the de
liberate methods employed,
Germany Protests
Surrender of Ships.
(By International News Service.)
LERNK, Fab., 17.-The German
| Government has protested to Herr
Fehrenbach, former presidemt of the
German Reichstag, against the sur
render of German merchant ships to
the Allies. ¥ehrenbach also is urged
to resist the plan to have the ships
manned by German erews under Al
lied direction.
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British Premier Calls
Conference on Labor.
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
[ LONDON, Feb. 17— Premier lLioyd
(George has decided to call a aational
‘l'onl:rann of representatives of em
ployers and labor to deal with the
‘eritical situation and review the en
tire canses of the unrest among the
working classes. The congress will
form a permanent assembly,
Labor leaders are unanimousty in
favor of the Premier's proposition
"It should have been donc before”
they say.
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France Seeks Biggest
.
Army in the League
BY ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspondent I. N, S,
PARIS, Feb, 17~France will sup
port the League of Nations covenant
ad a whele, it was learned today from
an authoritative source. While her
delegates on the special committee
suggested several featnres which were
not included in the finai draft, her
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lasued Daliy and Eutered as Secend- ass Matter sf
he Postofce at Atanta Under Act of March §, 1878
Cheer Up! Color
Scheme Found to
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Make Happiness
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Jan. 23 (by mail).—
Kemp Prosser, the famous English
color specialist, has been conduct
ing some interesting experiments
in health colors which he hopes the
British Government will adopt for
decorating houses during the re
construction period. He maintains
that the adoption of his color
schemes will make the British pub
lie both healthier and happier.
Interviewed in his two “health
rooms,” one with walls of sunlight
yellow and the ceiling sky blue,
with blue net curtains at the win
dows, Mr. Prosser declared that his
purpose is to bring outdoors inside.
“l am doing away with my pic
tures.” he said. “Instead I am in
stalling these bowls of fruit, as
you see, on pedestals dn.imu the
background of the sunlight walls.
These embroidered cushions on the
chairs aid in carrying out my pur
pose with their flower designs.”
Then the color specialist led the
way to the other room, in which the
dominating color was apple blos
som pink.
“This is the mormal color,” said
Mr. Prosser, “because | have found
that 99 people of 100 are happiest
in rooms of this shade.”
Suffrage Amendment
Again Offered Senate
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—The Fed
eral woman suffrage amendment,
twice defeated at the present session ‘
was reintroduced in the Senate this
afternoon by Senater Jones, of Wash.
ington.,
Jones, as the ranking Republinan
member of the committee on woman
suffrage, tooxk this action when the
chairman, Senator Jones, of New
Mexico, declined to reintroduce the
resolution.
If the President, when he returns to
the United States, is able to secure
one vote for the suffrage amendment
it will be brought up and passed in
the last days of the present session.
Daniels Has Own Plans
For an Overseas Flight
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb., 17.—The
Navy Department will not consider
loaning Captain B. B. Lipsner the
N. (-1, or any other seaplane for
the purpose of attempting a trans-
Atlantic flight, Secretary Daniels an
nounced today. Lipsner, who was
formerly superintendent of the air
mai! service of the Postoffice Depart
ment, recently announced he had re
quested the use of the giant plane
and expressed the belief he could
make the fight
Secretary Daniels said the decision
was prompted by the fact that plans
already are under way for a trans-
Atlantic flight by navy aviators, These
plans were proceeding satisfactorily,
he said.
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lE'ngland May Continue
. Bread and Meat Control
{ (By International News Service.)
LONDON, Jan. 26 (by mail).—The
bread subsidy and Government meat
control make it certain that there
will be some measure of food direc
tion in England until September, at
least, and possibly longer. The bread
subsidy amounts to $250,000,000 an
nually and may increase. The price
of a four-pound loaf of bread is now
18 cents, but without the subsidy the
same loaf would cost 32 cents, since
American wheat is used in part. The
subsidy was brought forward as a
war measure to keep down discon
tent, and is expected to continue un
til industry is normal and wages have
been readjusted.
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DeKalb County Man
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Drops Dead in Street
Dabney Hull«lfe, about 60 years old,
dropped dead in Decatur Monday morn-
Ir'l'g‘ at 10:30 o'clock while talking with
friends on McDonald street, near the
courthouse square.
Mr. Gulledge had jus trecovered from
an attack of influenza, and his death
is belleved to have been caused by a
heart affection resulting from that dis
ease. His home I 8 3 miles from De
catur on the Lawrenceville road, and
hig family was notified immediately
Mr. Gulledge is survived by his wife,
two sons, Adolphus Gulledge, of Atlanta,
and Thaddeus Gulledge, of Tucker, and
four daurhters, Mrs. Ah Wages, Mrs,
Tom Knight, Misses Wilie and Sallie
Gulledge
.
Alleged Slayer of Girl
Is Held for Grand Jury
VALDOSTA, Feb. 17.—Will Collins,
charged with the killing of Robbie Me-
Gee, 9-year-old daughter of Lacy Mo-
Gee, In a fight with the child’'s father
at Ray Clity, a week ago, was given a
commitment trial before Justice W. A,
Moore, at Nashville, and bound over to
awalt action by the Grand Jury on a
charge of murder
Collins sought to show that the ehild
was killed by a shot from her father's
gun instead of by Colling, who denied
having a gun The tragedy occurred
at McGee's home, and the only eye
u.:.:n:mn were Lhe parents of the little
girl.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast-—Fair and somewhat
warmer tonight and Tuesday.
Temperatures—6 a. m., 28; 8 a.
m., 31; 10 a. m,, 39; 12 noon, #4; 1
p- m, 48; 2 p. m,, 52,
Sunrise, 6:21; sunset, 5:2%
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‘l A Paper for Atlanta, Georgia,
' andthe South
WILSON WILL
B BUSIEST
M NLS
ONRETUR
BY JUSTIN H. FORREv. :
Staff Correspondent I. N.'S.
l WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—-—Prum
Wiison's stay in Washington "
ably will be the busiest in his bz
career and administration leaders
wondering how it is going to be hu
manly possible for him to accomplish
Jall that is laia out foe hint te Bk
First, of course, will be the ]
of setting Congress and the pu
right on the great matter of the
1 League of Nations. He is expected to
arrive here Wednesday, the- 26th,
and will talk the whole covenant
over that night at dinner with mem-«
bers of the Senate foreign rel
committee and the House foreign -
fairs committee, ;
Earlier in the day he is pledged to
march with a body of returning Dis
trict troops as part of a celebration
of welcome for both the President
and the troops. 3
Revenue Bill Ready. W
The revenue bill is waiting for *
signature, and he is expected to l!*
some time to that, as well as the other
measures of smaller importance, and
he has made it a custom to read
every bill before appending his sige
nature, ok
' Then there are vacancies to be fifk
| @d—chief of which is that of Attore
ney General to succeed W, T. Gregs
cry, who has resigned, to take effect
I March 4. A great question hae arisen
Jover the appointment. New England
| wants it, not now, for the first time
|since the Civil war, being represent
ed in the cabinet. But New England
generally objects to the office going
‘I to Massachusetts, so that in the 01
‘lthere is too serious am argument
I 8 possible it may go to Senator
llmwis. of Illinois, who seems to be the
|second choice of most of the New
England States, if their “favorite
sons” do not land it.
That A. Palmer Mitchell, alien prop=-
erty custodian, would leave his work
there, which is even more important
during reconstruction times, for Greg
ory’s post is doubted, and Sherman
8. Whipple, of Boston, it is not be
{lleved, has the backing of Senator
elect Walsh,
McCormick’s Successor.
Then there must be a new Demo
cratic chariman designated to suo
ceed Vance McCormick, Homer Su
Cummings, acting chairman, is dee
clared to be the choice of the come
| mittee, but friends of James Guffey,
;uf Pennsylvania, declare he has the
| presidential O, K. Committee mem
ihc-rs ingist, however, Cummings will
be picked, so there may be friction
there,
No successor ever has been named
for Interstate Commerce Commis
sioner Harlan and that must be sete
tled,
The President is pledged to attend
a conference of Governors and May
ors called by Secretary of Labor
Wilson to discuss the lbor and re
employment question and this wilk
take much of his time. He has let it
be known, too, that he is keenly im=
terested in this work and expects
to get results—just as he got results
in France,
And, of course, there will be a joing
sesison of Congress, aceording to Eons
eral belief, which will mean a speech
which it will take time to prepare,
and conferences innumerable to des
cide the question of the date of the
special session, which certainly will
have to be called. And it is believed
he will be on his way back to France
by March SBat the latest. It wil be
a busy ten days
Republicans Are Eager
To Attack League Plan.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 17 Despite
the President’s suggestion rhat coms
gressional debates on the leagne of
nations be postpomed until he has &
chance to "talk it over” with the
members of the foreing relations and
foreign affairs committees of the twe
houses of Congress, there wemm in=
dications today that some members
of the upper body would not be able
to eontain themselves until Februarp
26 Mostly, of ecourse, these are Res
publicans, but should at*icks upow
toe plan materialize administration.
- Senators would feel themselves dulp
boand to reply. Yy,
. Senator Borah and Senater Polum
dexter, of Washington, both of whom
are unalterably opposed to the Pm
and who, after preparing pu ) -
statements agalnet it, first 5
them, then wade them )
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