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KEY SEEKS TO PREVENT STRIKE
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Mayeor Key Monday began steps toi
prevent a labor war in Atianta which |
effectually will prevent all bawilding |
operations through a strike involying !
all branches of the building trades. |
The Maver had a conferemce with |
('harles B. Gramling, president of Lhe)
Federation of Trades: J. W. Bridweld, |
eounciior’ of the Department of La
bor, and other labor officials to try to |
arrive at some solution of the prob
lem. He announced afterward that
he will confer soon with representa
tives from each of these organiza
tiomns: The general contractors, the
electrical contractors, the edectrical
employees and the Buailding Trades
Council. Every effort will be made
by him to bring about arbitration or
some other settlement of the differ
ences betwees employers and em
ployees.
Walkout May Be Near.
Besides the nation-wide building
trades strike which is likely to be
ealled by the national organization at
any time, the local condition is filled
with trouble whieh may bring about
a walkout frrespective of a national
movement. - It hinges on the declared
intention of the Atlanta Builders' Fx
change to work on the apen-shop sys
em.
The varions unions In the building
trades. have been under contract with
the employers, with wage scales and
bours 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 wounid be “open shop™ in future,
with union and nonunion men em
ployed when needed. The electrical
workers declined to work on this ba
sis and walked out.
The contract with the plmmbers’
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
elare the various trades will quit as
their time runs out.
At an executive sesszion of the
Building Trades Council Sunday, at
tended by represemtatives of all the
fourteen affiliated organizations and
the executive board of the Atlanta
Federation of Trades, the local situn.
tion in the building industry was
thoroughly disenssed and the full
moral and financial support of the
council was pledged to the electrical
workers' organization, first of the lo
eal labor organizations to clash with
the building trades employers. It was
indicated that no action looking to
ward a genecral walkout woeuld be
taken until it became apparent that
the electrical workers' difficulties
could be settled in no other way, or
until positive instruction had been
received from the American Federa
tion of Labor.
Assistance Pledged.
The following resolution was adopt
ed at the Sunday meeting:
*rhe Building Trades Council
pledge themselves morally and finan
¢ially to assist the electriral workers
tn their fight to resist the insidions
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
ballding trades industry.”
A delegation from the Atlanta Fed
eration of Labor, which includes all
the labor unions in the ecity, called
upon the Building Trades Council at
its meeting and agreed to have these
resolutions presented to the general
federation. It was composed of Wil
lam Wier. printers Louie P. Mar
guardt, tailors; Fred Ehler ma n
ists; J. P. Miller, barbers; John Ter
rell, city firemen
Want to Avoid Stmke
Local labor leaders are fully alive
to the seriousness of the situation and
express the desire to ay L 1 I i
ble, a state of general industrial war
fare. They assert, however, tl if
employers are determined upon a pol
fey of refusing to renew agreements
as fast as they expire with the bulld
ing trades labor organizations the
“battle royal” will begin in earnest
and the united strength of the Amer
jican labor movement will be called
into play in self-defensce
The agreement of the International
Brotherhood of [lectr 1 \
expired January IS nd the refusal
of electrical contractors to renew it
pl‘wfiun;\h-n! a general w ot of that
eraft shortly after that date The
Continued on Page 2, Column 6,
Full International News Service
Grins and
Day’s N
ay s News
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Feb. 17,
Government experts are using afr
planes in their search for pink boll
worms in Texas eotton fields. The
experts, under the direction of H.
H. Hensley, are carried to the va
rious cotton plantations throughout
the State in army airplanes driven
by army aviators.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 11.--Dr. Da
vid L. Macht, of Johns Hopkins
University, has discovered a new
local anesthetic in benzyl alechol
or phenmethylol. The drug itself
is not new, but its properties as an
anesthetic are in the pature of a
complete discovery.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Feb, 17,
Vassar girls are up in arms against
the eollege bill of fare. Three hun
dred of them have joined in a com
plaant against the “persistent pars
mip,” “bean strings. ™ “concealed
eurry sauce” and the “semihob
domadal fish dinner.”
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. SEATTLE, Feb. 17.—The Boishev
!ms of the Northwest have been de
| seated. Cooler heads have prevailed
in the councils of the shipyard work
!ers with the resatt that the strike
| of the metal trades workers has been
' called off. Announcement of the end
ling 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 |
i here. 1
| The men struck omn Janmary 21,
itul\owing stormy wunion sessions In
" which Bolshevistn and Mooney talb |
t predominated, for a dollar a day in- |
| crease in wages. They return to |
'\vurk this morning. that is, as many
of them as are still in Seattle return
tc work, at the old secale.
Motives Recognized.
Since the seizvre and deportation
by the Government of the alien agi
tators who kept Seattle's union in un
.rest, cooler econsideration of work
'ing conditions has been nad. The
!men are beginning to recognize 'he|
| motives of the foreign agitators and |
|tc refuse to support them in their
| universal strike demands.
{ NXhipyard owners today officially |
| admitted they plan to reopen lhmr;
Qpl'mts, beginning Wednesday morn- |
ing.
The wages offered will be the same ’
as on January 21, when the 25500 |
metal trades men struck, eclosing all
steel and wooden shipyards and all
contract sghops. |
To Abide by Decision. !
In an announcement issued by uix]
{ steel shipbailding 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 the |
United States and the international
president of the unions as expressed
by the President of the United |
States.”
This is taken to mean that whvni
the yards resume operations the Gov- |
ernment’s closed shop practically will |
he adhered to, but that the dictates
of the local officers of 'j)e metal trade
will not be heeded. 1
The men were called out by the
Metal Trades Council officers Janu
jary 21 as a protest to the Macy board
{wage award which provided a mini
;nmm wage for laborers and helpers
of $4.16. The metal council demand
tml a basic scale of SB, §7 and $6 a
| day
| No official announcement as to the
l:ntnndn of the Metal Trades Coun
cil officers has been made, as James
IA Taylor, president, and other offi
| cers of the council have gone to Port
iland to attend the district counecil of
| metal trades of the Pacific coast,
{whh'h opens today.
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!htnkmg Miners Flee
N v 2 y
| From Sheriff’s Posse
(By International News Service.)
PEKIN, lILI., Feb, 17.--Btriking
| miners, led by 1. W. W, and Bolshe
|| viki, who had threatend to destroy the
! Groveland mine near here, unless men
lwh-n had refused to join their strike
'| were digeharged, marched to the mine
{ today, but on seeing Sheriff Robert
li Clay and a posse of armed deputies on
guard, left hurriedly without causing
‘ any trouble.
iiStflkers’ Pickets and
| .
| Mounted Police Clash.
| (By International News Servies.)
| LAWRENCE, MASS., Feb 17—
| Nine arrests as the result of frequent
| clashes hetween the strikers' pickets
| and the mounted police marked the
| epening of the third week of the tex-
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MILK PRIGES
IN ATLANTA
ARE HIGH
The investigation into the prices of
foodstuffs and milk authorized by the
City Federation of Woman's Clubs at
its last executive session has revealed
4 puzzling state of affairs so far as
the price of milk is concerned, ac
cording to Mrs. A. McD. Wilson, pres
ident of the City Federation. That
the price of milk in Atlanta should
remain stationary while in every oth
er eity of the nation it is dropping
back to pre-war levels, is a fact for
whieh the investigution has as yet de
veloped no cause.
The prices of all dairy products in
other cities show marked declines, ac
cording to figures received by the in
vestigating comunittee. Cheese espe
eially is shown to have declined in
price, even im Atlanta, 10 cents on the
pound.
N. Y. Milk at 15 Cents.
Fligures received by the committee
from New York show that good milk
is being sold there for 16 cents a
quart, while the Atlanta price re
mains at 256 cents. That Atlanta is
forced to pay the highest price for
milk of any of the Southern and
astern cities heard from, is the con
clusion of the committeemivng oo -
General materials and foodstuffs
used by the dairies appears to fluctu
‘ate in accord through the country,]
except Atlanta, the clubwomen say.
Reductions in prices of raw materials
in Eastern and Souwthern cities ap-'
pear to be umiform and the reduection
in milk prices in ecities other than,
“Atianta has been in proportion to the
reduetion in costs. }
' Many Babies Perish. |
“The City Federation of Woman's|
Clubs is moved in its desire to get at|
'lt.hc truth,” Mrs. Wilson said, “by its]
| @eep concern over the increased num- |
| ber of deaths during the past few
| months of infants in famihes 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—l
mer and a consequent larger demand
for milk for babies, the women of’
Atlanta feel keenly the necessity fnrl
!seeing that plenty of good, pure milk
'is available at reasonable prices.
‘“T'here are hundreds of families in
Atlanta where 25 cents a quart for
| milk might as weil be a doliar a
!quar(. so far as the ability to pur
{ chase is concerned, and, strangely |
enough, these are the very homesi
’ where a plentiful suppty of pure mllkl
1 is most essential.
‘ A Crying Shame.
“We are not concerned with any at
|tmm to start anything sensational
| nor do we wish to be put in the light
| of ‘going after smyone,’ but it will be
a crying shame If the people of At
| lanta permit innocent babes to die of
' starvation because of the lack of milk
which can not be hought at the prices
| now prevailing. We want to find out
{ just why it is that milk prices do not
g 0 down, and try to remedy this/
cause. We want to see that 10 cents
l:ndditmn;\l cost on each quart of mllk‘
| does not stand between innocent ba
‘bms and the right to live and grow
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In Gardening
Knowing the s=oil and Its
needs, the plants and the
seeds you put into it, means
your success as a gardener
r a farmer,
Knowledge in these essen
tials is obtained by :olnfi to
the dependable dealers
who sell the best in seeds,
plants, and fertilizers. They
will start you right, and
then, with a little care, re
sults are assureda,
You will find these dealers
:ul\‘nr!mmf over in the
“Seeds, Plants, Fertilizers”’
columns of The Georgian
and American. For the
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If you are a dealer in seads,
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great clientele of readers.
Thousands of them are
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patches and farm lands.
They read The Georgian
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Atlanta’s Want Ad Directory
20-22 East Alabama Street
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919
AT NEW ORLEANS.,
FIRST -~Maiden 2-year-olds, purse S6OO,
3% furlongs; Ira Wilson 116 (Carroll), 10
to 1, 4 to 1, 8 to 5, won; Peccant 116 (T
Rice), § to 1, 2 te 1, 4 to 5, second; Bone
Dry 116 (1. Gentry), 8 to 5, 3 to 5, 1 to 4,
third. Time, :43. Frank W., ¥Fraosch,
Eilan, Boopeville and Sandy Mac alse ran
sl oo oh AT NEW ORLEANS, .. .. ++
First—For maidens, 2-year-old, fillies
31-2 furiongs (12) and (6)—Edith K,
115; Ormdale Mamie Worth (M. Korn
bloom); Alice Gm.ngfiu'. 114; Chief Jim
Gaffney, Glidinfi Bell (J. J. Omalley):
Rib, 115; Miss Horner, 11; Modiste, 11&;
Lady, Pataud, 115; Fun, 117; Fernleaf,
115; Guaranteed, 115; Quick Fire, 115;
Precious Pearl, 115, flao Eligible Bo
hernabreeena, 115; Smile, 115: Margaret,
115; Blue Jean, 115; Goldie Rose, 115;
Nellie Witwer, 116,
Second, Clauning, 3-year-oM, 8% fur
longs (12 and 69—J. P. House, 119; Hab
rian, 110; Agnes Cook, 106;: Black Wing,
106; Democracy, 110; Pluviada, 163,
Rahinda, 1056: Klorence Webber, 105;
Byrne, 110; Elizabeth Marie, 14, Lego—i
tal, 105; Swift Comet, 105; also bimftble.‘
Lasiar x-105; 'I;L,g X-106; Uil& ?rk,\
11v; Lillian 6., 100, Positive, 100; John
J. Casey, 110. (Note—Ten excluded.)
Third ~Claiming, 3-year-oid and up
ward, 5% furlongs (12 and 6): Lively,
115; Blaiz, 115: Tumma, 110; Courtgal
lant, 106; Portlight, 115, Seafarer, 113;
Stiteh in Time, IWS; 1 Win, 102; John,
Jr., 115; Tom Goose, 113; Discussion,
105; ’{opeoa!.. 113; also eligible, Billie,
115: y lLaxury, 108; Harry Bur
govne, 113; Sabretash, 113; Tingaling,
113; Leicester (lmp.), 112, Note—Kight
excluded. )
Fourth—*“Panama™ hadicap, 3-year
old and 0%5 furlongs (3): Pickwick,
128; W. g , 110; ;Underfire,
101; Charlie lLeydecker, 112; Uitima
thule, 108; Cobweb, ¥; Walnuthall, 110:
,Marle Miller, 104
~ Fifth-—-Claiming, 3-yer-oid and up,
mile and a siteenth (8): Harvest King,
115; llslite, 110; Kewpie Snell, x-10Z;
Irish Kiss, 112; Hank Oday, 110; Antoi
nette, x-90; Lord Herbert, 112; Sanysim
ing, 110,
. Sixth—Claiming, 3-year-old, one mile
- (9): Cain Spring, 106; Jack Healy, 103
Water Willow, 98; Thomas F. McMahon,
' 106; Vision, 93; Frank Shannon, x-106;
| James A. Sheridan, W 3; Rae Samuels,
1”5 Sylvano, x-106.
. Sevenah -Claiming, 4-year-old and up,
| one mile and furlun{ (14): Bajazet,
' 115; Slumberer, 109; Virginia W., 104,
Dickery Dare, x-104: Benefactor, x-102;
. Bombast, 112; Jason, 109; Leta, Puts and
' Calls, x-104; Kebo, 109; Yermak, W 9;
. Regresso, 109; Say, x-104; Brown's Fav
orite, x-Md.
| x—Apprentice allowance claimed.
I Wheater clear and fast track.
s
Rabbi Marx to Talk
.
At Gate City Lodge
An open meeting followed by a
smoker, to be given by Gate City Lodge,
Independent Order B‘Nai B'Rith, Tues
day night, will be addressed by Rabbi
David Marx and V. H. Kricgshaber,
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
gathering.
The subject of Dr. Marx’'s address will
be *“Americanism and Judaism.” His
views on this subject, voiced at the re
eent Distriet Grand lLodge B'Nai B'Rith
meeting at Charleston, received the
hearty indorsement of many of Amer
ica's foremost Jews. Mr. {\?mgfihfllmr
will speak on the work of the War Com
munity Service and especially the work
being done for Jewish soldiers.
The mreeting will be held in the vestry
es the Temple, Pryor and Richardson
streets.
Suffrage Amendment |
Again Offered Senate
{ (By International News Service.) |
i WASHINGTON, FFeb. 17.--The Fed
leml woman saffrage amendment,
llv\n‘v defeated at the present session,
i was reintroduced in the Senate this
jufternoon by Senator Jones, of Wash
[ ington. |
l Jones, as the ranking Republinan'
member of the committee on woman |
!x-mfh'uue, took this action when the
| chairman, Senator Jones, of New
| Mexico, declined to reintroduce the
‘ resolution
' If the President, when he returns to
itho United States, is able to secure!
' one vote for the suffrage amendment |
it will be brought up and passed in
:th last days of the present sesslon
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Austrian Socialists ,'
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‘ Ahead in Elections
{ (By International News Service.)
| VIENNA, Feb, 17.--The election
{ Sunday proceeded in an orderly man
iner, and early indications are that
the Socialists have triamphed, al
though it i= likely that a coalition will
Ib" necessary
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| Laurier, Former Premier
v
| Of Canada, Passes Away
{ (By International News Service.)
| OTTAWA, ONT., Feb. 17 le‘
| Wilfrid Lanrier, former Premier of
i Canada, died at 2:50 o’clock this aft
| ernoon, He suffered a paralytie
stroke Sunday.
THE WEATHER,
Forecast—Fair and somewhat
l warmer tonight and Tuesday.
r r——— ;
(By Intermnational News Service.)
WEIMAR, Feb. 17.—Provisional
President Frederick Ebert and Phnip‘
Schneidemann were accused of the
murder of Karl Leibknecht and Rosa
Luxemburg, radical leaders, in an ad
dress before the National Assembly
here by Herbert Haase.
New Armistice
s
Signed by Huns
(By International News Service.)
TREVES, Feb. 17.—The new armis
tice was sigmed at 6:30 o'clock l;ml}
night in the salon of Marshal Foch's
privale car.
(By Internationa! 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 wires his paper, under date
of Sunday, 6:20 o'clock p. m., that the
agreement to accept the conditions
wag reached at a conference of party
leaders.
| A cessatfon 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
fnilé-ly and reserves the right of the
i 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
im‘r 12 and January 16,
l Marshal Foch nad informed the
! German armistice commission that
| the armistice would expire at 5 o'clock
| Monday morning and that the last
}]'u‘“' for signing would be 8§ o'clock
{ Sunday evening. He declared if the
| armistice was not signed that he
lwnuld leive Treves and it would no
llnnu(-r 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 thu‘
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 lakel
evidence from each organized group.
The suggestion is to invest the com
mission with full powers of arbitra
tion.
The new plan does not provide a
meeting of the Bolsheviki and the
other governments who declined the
invitation to attemd the general con
ference at Princes Island.
Refore. his departure for America
President Wilson expressed concern
over the conference’'s inability to
take any practical measures to re
store Russia. He enjoined the
American delezation to the peace
conference to operate cordially in any
workable scheme in that direction.
Germany Protests
Surrender of Ships.
(By International News Service.)
BERNE, Fab, 17.—The German
Government has protested to Herr
Fehrembach, former president of the
German Reichstag, against the sur
render of German merchant ships to
the Allles. Tehrenbach also is urged
to resist the plan to have the ships
manned by German ecrews under Al
lied direction
British Premier Calls
Conference on Labor. |
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London |
Daily Express.) {
LLONDON, Feb, 17— Premier Lloyd|
George has decided to call a .mHun:dl
congress of representatives of em
ployers and labor to deal with the
critical sltuation and review the en
tire causcs of the unrest among the
working classes, The congress will
form a permanent assembly
Labor leaders are unanimously in!
favor of the Premier's proposition, |
“It should have been done before™
they say.
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France Seeks Biggest
Army in the League
BY ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspondent |. N. S,
PARIS, Feb, 17~-France will sup
pori the League of Nations covenant
a 3 a whole it was learned today from |
an authoritative source. While her |
delegates on the special committee
suggested severad features which were
not ineiuded in the final draft, her
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‘ First Lieutenant Lon Albert !
l(‘nurh, 233, superintendent of the nm-‘
chanical repair shop at Camp Jesup,
was struck by an Atlanta and West
Point train at the Taylor avenue
crossing in East Point Monday morn.
ing, and it is feared may be fatally
injured. The train “if“"" him to the
jl"nr( McPherson Hospital, where it
was thought that he had suffered an
injury to the base of the skull, 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 Havnes
automobile when the train struck him
A string of box cars on a sidetrack
obstructed his view. The car was ..l»l
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 ot
Los Angeles, Cal, and has been in the
army for a number of years, He was
with General Pershing in Mexico .\':x!
months ago he was sent to Camp
Jesup from Fort Bliss, and had been |
assigned to the management of the
mechanieal repair shop, for which he
| hias been expecting early promaotion
- Lieutenant Couch resides at No, 303
| Jefferson street, College Park, with
ln,- wife and 13-year-old daughter
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Drops Dead in Street
Dabney Gulledge, about 60 years old,
dropped dead in Decatur Monday morn
ing at 10:30 o'clock while talking with
friends on MecDonald street, mnear the
courthouse square
Mr. Gulledge had jus trecovered from
an attack of influenza, and his death
is believed to have been caused by a
heart affection regulting from that dis
enge His home ig 3 miles from De
catur on the lLawrenceville road, and
hix family was notified immediately
Mr. Gulledge is survived by his wife,
two sone, Adolphus Gulledge, of Atlanta,
and Thaddeus Gulledge, of Tucker, and
| four daughters, Mrs. Ab Wages, Mrs,
i]‘-»m Knight, Mirses Willie and Sallie
Gulledge
Issued Daliy and Eutered as Second-(ass Matter at
the Postoflice at Atlanta Under Act of March 8, 187%
The search for Edna Culver, pretty
Savannah girl, who disappeared Friz
day, was continued in Atlanta and
other Georgia cities Monday. The
only indieation that she is safe came}
to her father in a vague report that
she had eloped to Millhaven, between
Savannah and Atlanta, with a Savan
nah automobile dealer, and married
him there.
This information the father, W. E.
Culver, telephoned from Savannah to
her brother, who is in Atlanta direct
ing the search through North Geor
gin. The brother, fearing that the
report from Millhaven might be with
out basis, dil not relax his efforts «t
this point.
The father, the daughter and a son
formed the happy family circle at
hume, now shattered by the girl's dis
appearance, Mr. Culver is chief elec
trician for the Savannah Warehouse
and Compress Company, and Edna,
17 years old, was a stenographer in
the same big plant. Cultured and
attractive, she was widely popular at
the plant and at home. There was
0o shadow on thelr home,
But Kdna disappeared last FPriday
morning, a few hours before the great
fire which absorbed attention. fath
er and brother searched for her, and
at last learned she had bought a
ticket to Atlanta, The trail cnded
there. Somebody who knew her said
she had eloped with a handsome sol
dier.
My. Culver and his son came to
Atlanta on the next train and asked
the Jocal detectives to help themy
gnd the girl., She is described as he
ing slender, weighing about 120
pounds and with light hair, Bhe wore
4 brown tallored suit, a large hat and
slippers.
U. S. to Launch First ‘
Seagoing Tug Today
(By Intornational 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 and
Iron Company's shipyard., Addresses
will be made by Mayor Puck and by
the president of the Chamber 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
eontractor anywhere on the contract
of 24 given out by the United States
navy, The tug is 105 feet long and of
modern design,
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EDITION
(By International News Service)
WASHINGTON leb. 17.~The
United States and Great Britain have
agreed to withdraw their troops from
the Murmansk district, President
Wilson has cabled Secretary Baker, it
was learned thls afternoon. The Sec
retary is suid to have notified the
members of the Senate and House
military affairs committee to this ef
fect, but members of the committee
decline to discuss the report.
It was said that the present pro
gram will see the troops removed by
early s#pring, and that two companies
of American engineers would be sent
in “to facilitate the withdrawal” eof
the Americans, and that Great Brits
lain would send 2,400 men for the
’sume purpose,
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;Wllson I'o Be Busy
' On Return Home
BY JUSTIN H. FORREST,
Staff Correspondent |. N. 8.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 —~President
Wilson's stay in Washington nrob
ably will be the busiest in his busy
career and adminisiration leaders are
wondering how it is going to be hu
manly pessible for him to accomplish
all that s laid eut for him to do.
i First, of course, will be the task
of sertinig Congress and the publie
'nghr on the great matter of the
| League of Nations. He is expected to
':-rrlvo here Wednesday, the 26th
and will talk the whole covenan®
over that night at dinner with mem
| bers of the Senate foreign relations
' committee and the House foreign af
ii‘m‘s committee,
| Barlier 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 Presidens
and the troops.
Revenue Bill Ready.
The revenue bill is wailting for W
signature, and he is expected to give
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 sig
nature,
Then there are vacancies to be fifle
ed—chief of which is that of Attors
ney CGeneral to succeed W. T. Greg
cry, who has resigned, to take effect
March 4. A great question hzs arisen
over the appointinent. New England
| wants it, not now, for the first time
!hlnr‘v the Civil war, being represent
{ed in the cabinet. But New England
!p.'--w-rully objects to the office going
| to Massachusetts, so that in the event
l')n‘rk‘ is too serious an argument it
lis possible it may go to Senator
Lewis, of Ilingis, 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 eustodian, would leave his 'Ol
{there which is even more importan
| during reconstruction times, for Greg
iuv\'r» post is doubted, and Sherman
{B. Whipple, of Boston, it is not be=
[lieved, has the backing of Senatore
elect Walsh
McCormick’'s Successor,
Then there must be a new Demo«
eratie chariman designated to sues
ceed Vance MeCormick, Homer 8.
| Cummings, acting chairman, is des
clared to be the choice of the com=
‘n;z;'--n but friends of James Guffey,
of Pennsylvania, declare he has the
presidential O, K Committee mem -
bers insist, however, Cummings will
|be picked, so there may be frietion
‘Yy,uvll
| No sucecessor ever has been named
for Interstate Commerce Commis
sloner Harlan and that must be set
| tlea
i The Fresident is pledged to attend
a conference of Covernors and May«
lw""' called by Secretary of Labor
'Wilson to discuss the labor and re
| employment question and this wih
| take much of his time. He has let it
be known, too, that he is keenly in
terested in this work and expects
to get results--just as he got results
| in France
Republicans Are Eager
To Attack League Plan.
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.-Despity
the President’'s suggestion rhat eon 4
gressional debates on the league
nations be postponed until he has
chance to “talk it over” with
members of the foreing relations an
forelgn affairs committees of the twd
houses of Congress. there wees In+
dications today that some membery
of the upper body would not be abi
to contain themselves until Februa
26 Mostly, of course, these are Re
publicans, but should atiacks
toe plan materialize admi
Senators would feel themselwes du
boand to reply
Senator Borah and Sennter Poi
dexter, of Washington, both of 'fio':
are unalterably opposed to the pla
and who, after preparing publlg
statements against it, first withhe'q
inwmA then made them puble, werd
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