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VOL. XVII
OUR MEN TO QUIT MURMAN COAST
FOCH'S THREAT FORCES THE HUNS TO SIGN NEW ARMISTICE
{By International News Service.)
WEIMAR, Feb. 17.-—Provisional
President Frederick Ebert and Philip
Schneldemnann were accused of the
marder of Karl Leibknecht and Rosa
Laxemburg, radical leaders, in an ad
dress before the National Assembly
here by Herbert Haase.
New A rmistice
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Signed by Huns
(By International News Service.)
TREVES, Feb. 17.—The new armis
tice was signed at 6:30 o'clock last
night in the salom of Marshal Foch's
private car
(By Internationa! News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Feb. 17.—The Ger
man Government has decided to ae
eept the terms of the Allies’ armis
tice eonditions.
The Weimar correspondemt of The
Politiken wires his paper, under date
of Sunday, 6 20 o'clock p. m., that the
agreement to accept the eonditions
wius 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 slo terminate it upon giving
th¥ee Gays” notice upon failure of the
Germans to comply with the condi
tions set forth November 11, Decem- |
ber 12 and January 16. i
Marghal Foch nad informed the
ierman armistice commission that
the armistice wonld expire at —:o'(‘|o(‘,kl‘
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 ne
longer be in force
Russ Problem
Up Again in Paris.
By ROBERT J. PREW.
(By International News Service.)
PARIS Feb, 17~ The supreme
eouncil of the great powers again
took up the Russian question at thml
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
evidenee from each organized group.
The suggestion i 8 to invest the eom
misgion with full powers of arbitra
tion
I'te new plan does not provide a
meating of the Bolsheviki and the
other governments who declined the
invitation to attend the general con
ference at Princes Island
Before his departure for America
President Wilson expressed concern
over the eonference's mability to
take any practical measures to re
store Russia. He enjoined the
American dejezation to the peace
conference to operate cordially in any
workable seheme in that direction
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Germany Proteste
Surrender of Ships.
(By International News Service.)
BERNE, Fab, 17.—The German
Government has protested to Herr
Fehrenbach, former president of the
German Reichstag, against the sur
render of German merchant ships to
the Allies Fohrenhach alwo is urged
to resist the plan to have the ships
manned by German crews under Al
fed direction
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British Premier Calls
Conferenee on Labor.
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
LONDON, Feh, 17.-Premier lloyd
Gieorge has decided to eall a mational
wngress of representatives of em
ployers and labor to deal with the
eoritical situation and review the en
tire camnses of the unrest among the
working classes. The congress wil
form a permanent asscmbly
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,
Stats Correspondent |. N, 8,
PARIS, ¥eb. 17.—France will swp
pori the League of Nations covenant
as a whole, it was learned today from
an authoritative sounrce While her
delegates on the speefal committee
suggested several features which were
not included in the final draft, her
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Edna Culver, Savannah stenographer, believed to have eloped
| The search for Edna Culver, pretty
‘Suva.mmh girl, who disappeared Fri
day, was continued in Atlanta and
othe: Georgia cities Monday. The
only indication 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 antomobile dealer, and married
him there,
This information the father, W. B
Culver, telephoned from Savannah to
her brother, who is in Atlanta direct
ing the search through North Geor
gia. The brother, fearing that the
report from Millhaven might be with
out basis, did not relax his efforts at
this point.
The father, the daughter and a son
formed the happy family circie at
home, now shattered by the girl's dis
appearance, Mr, Culver is chief elec
trician for the Savannah Warehouse
and Compress Company, and Kdna,
17 years old, was a stenographer in
the wsame big plant. Cultured and
attractive, she was widely popular at
the plant and at home., There was
no shadow on their home,
But Edna disappeared last Wriday
morning, a few hours before the great
fire which absorbed attention. Fath
er and brother searched for her, and
at last Jearned she had bought a
ticket to Atlanta. The trall ended
there. Somebody who knew her said
she had eloped with a handsome sol
dier,
Mr. Culver and his son came to
Atlanta on the next train and asked
the loeal detectives to help them
find the girl. She is deseribed as be
ing slender, weighing about 120
pounds and with light hair. She wore
# brown tailored suit, a large hat and
slippers
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Bolsheviki Financed by
Huns, Says U. S. Man
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17,—Germany
financed the Bolsheviki propaganda
in Russia, furnished men to officer
the Red Guards and direeted Innum
erable atrocities, Roger E. Simmons,
American Consular Agent at Moscow,
declared this afternoon before the
Senate committee investigating Bol
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The City Council Monday afternoon
unanimously approved the joint plan
of the School Board and the City Fi
nance Committee to increase the city's
ad valorum tax from $1.25 to $1.50,
thus insuring the submission of the
proposition to the people in the ap
proaching bond election in Mareh,
In the event the tax raise is Approy
ed by the voters the matter then will
go before the Legislature for a charter
amendment. Under the plan propos
od. 40 cents of the Increase will go
to the schools and $1.05 to the city
for general expenses With this in
crease it was estimated that the an
nual fund for the school gystem will
be ralsed to $1,060,000, incluiding &
State fund of $131,000, which the
schools will receive in its entirety
this year
An anticipated fight on the plan in
Council failed to materialize. Alder
man Harvey Hatcher, who had fought
it in the joint sesston of the school
board and finance committee, stated
that he would not oppose it on the
floor of council, explaining that he had
made his previous fight merely as a
matter of prineiple,
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All Alien Radicals to
Go, Says Sec. Wilson
WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.-—~The de
portations from this country of alien
radicals who advocate the overthrow
of the United States Government by
force are to continue, was indicated
in a letter sent Monday afternoon by
Becretary of Labor Wilson to Joseph
H. Wild, president of the Internationl
Assgeiation of Mechanists, of Brook
l\n",.\' Y. The letter was an answer
to Arotest made by the association
that the 58 alien radicals about to be
deported were not given the advan
tare of due process of the law.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1919
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—A Con
gressional committee may go over
seas as soon as the present Congress
ends to investigate charges of ill
treatment of American officers and
“doughboys,” was was strongly inti
mated by Representative Garrett,
Democrat, of Tennessee, Monday aft
ernoon when Governor Allen, of Kan
sas, appeared before the House Rules
Committee, to back up his recent
charges that the 35th Division, which
included Kansas troops, had been
“needlessly slaughtered” in the Ar
gonne fighting because of lack of ar
tillery, aircraft and medical support.
Garrett said it might be necessary
personally to question General Persh
ing and other officers of high rank “in
the fleld” in order to determine the
exact truth of all the charges revently
made in the House against the War
Department and the General Staff in
the conduct of America's participa
tion in the war.
Brigadier General Clarence R. Mar
tin, who was relieved from the infan
try command of the 36th Division just
before it plunged into the Argonne
fighting, will be ‘the first of the Na
tional Guard officers to testify before
the Rules Committee with respect to
the charges that such officeps were
“hounded, dismissed and demoted” by
the so-called “Leavenworth clique,” it
was announced by Chairman Pou, of
the committee.
When Martin signified a willingness
to back up Allen's charges, Chairman
Pou said the committee would hear
him Tuesday.
Allen named Lieutenant Colonel
Bennett Clark, son of Speaker Champ
Clark, and other officers as among
those who could present “some mighty
interesting and illuminating testi
mony.” ‘
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 result 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 mem struck on January 21,
following stormy union sessions Is
which Bolshevism and Mooney talk
predominated, for a dollar a day in
crease in wages. They return to
work this morning, that is, as many
of them as are still in Seattle return
te work, at the old scale,
Motives Recognized.
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 conditions has been nad. The
men are beginning to recognize the
motives of the foreign agitators and
tce refuse to support them in their
universal strike demands
Shipyard owners today officialty
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, cloging all
steel and wooden shipyards and aid
contract shops,
Striking Mmerij 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,
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Strikers’ Pickets and
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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
open.inx of the third week of the tex-
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City Goes Wild,
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Simply Wild, Over
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‘Ace’ Rickebacker
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Feb. 11.—
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, Amer
ica's ace of aces, was welcomed to
his home town Monday. Columbus
has honored him before when he
has returned home victorious from
automobile races—but in no such
fashion as on Monday.
Every one in Columbus knows
him and everyone in Columbus was
at the station to greet him. Busi
ness houses closed. The Legisla
ture adjourned. The courts sus
pended. But if they have not they
have been deserted. A half holiday
was proclaimed by the Mayor.
The day was chosen to honor
Columbus’ returned soldiers, many ‘
of whom have been discharged
since the signing of the armistice. }
Headed by Governor Cox and Mayor
Karb, followed by Captain Ricken- ‘
backer with fifty airmen as an es
court, local elubs, school children
and veteran organizations, they
marched through the streets.
The Columbus Automobile Club
wus to banquet Captain Ricken
backer Monday night.
l The investigation into the prices of
!rm-dsnm‘s and milk authorized by the
City Federation of Woman's Clubs at
its last executive session has revealed
a puzzling statel of affairs so far as
the price of mih& is econcerned, 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 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.
Tre prices of all dairy products in
other cities show marked declines, ac
cording to figures received by the in
vestigating committee. Cheese espe
cially 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 25 cents. That Atlanta is
forced to pay the highest price for
milk of any ot the Southern and
llastern cities heard from, is the con
clusion of the committee. ‘
General materials and foodstufls
used by the dairies appears to fuctu
ate in aecord through the country,
except Atlanta, the elubwomen say.
Reductions in prices of raw mawruu-‘
in Eastern and Southern cities ap
pear to be uniform and the rednction
in milk prices in cities other than
Atlanta has been in proportion to the
reduction in costs
Many Babies Perish.
“The City Federation of Woman's
Clobsg is moved in its desire to get at
the truth,” Mrs. Wilson sald, “by Its
deep concern over the ncreased num -
ber of deaths during the past few
months of infants in families where
the dollar is a tremendous item. Ev
ery ilndication is that hundrede of
children have died from malnutrition
starvation, to put it plainly-—and
with the coming of spring and sum
mer and a congequent larger (lumuntly
for milk for babies, the women of
Atlanta feel keenly the necessity flfl"
seeing that plenty of good, pure milk
Is available at reasonable prices,
“There are hundreds of familles n
Atlanta where 26 cents a quart for
milk might as well be a dollar a
quart, so far as the ability to pur
chase is eoncerned, and, strangely
enough, these are the very homes
where a plentiful supply of pure milk
is most essential
A Crying Shame.
“We are not eoncerned with any at.
tempt to start anything sensational
nor do we wish to he put in the light
of ‘going after ¢ nyone,' but it will be
a crying shame if the people of At.l
lanta permit innocent babessto die of |
starvation because of the lack of milk
which can not be hought at the prices
now prevailing, We want to ind out
Just why it is that milk prices do not
Ro down and try to remedy this
cause We want to see that 10 cents
additional cost gn each quart of milk
does not stand §etween mmnpocent ba
bles and the right to live and grow
it
Continued on Page 2, Colomn 5
Mayor Key Monday began steps to
prevent a labor war in Atlanta which
effectually will prevent all building
operations through a strike involving
all branches of the building trades.
The Mayor had a conference with
Charles B. Gramling, president of the
Federation of Trades: J. W. Bridwelil,
councilor of the Department of La
bor, and other labor efficials 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
tions: The general contractors, the
electrical contractors, the electrical
employees and the Building Trades
Council. Every effort will be ma.de‘
by him to bring about arbitration or
some other settlement of the differ
ences between employers and em
ployees,
Walkout May Be Near.
Besides the nation-wide building
trades strike which is likely to be
called by the national organization at
any time, the local condition is filled
with trouble which may bring about
a walkout irrespective of a national
movement. It hinges on the declared
intention of the Atlanta Builders' Ex
change to work on the open-shop sys
tem,
The various unlons in the building
trades. have been under contract with
the employers, with wage scales and
hours agreed on. But when the cun-|
| tract with the electrical workers ex
| pired a short time ago the :mp‘o_vr-rs;
Idocllm\d to renew it, declaring that
work would 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 eontract with the plumbers’
’unlon expires March 1, and they are
expected to quit on that date., Con
'Lflcts with other unions expire at
i various dates, the last being Septem
}b&r 1 of this year. Labor men de-'
elare the various trades will quit ag
their time runs out.
At an executive session of the
Building Trades Council Sunday, nl-l
tended by representatives of all the
‘rouruen afliliated organizations :mdl
the executive board of the Atlanta|
‘Fe«lvmlmn of Trades, the local situa- {
tion in the building industry was
thoroughly discnssed and the full
moral and financial support of the
‘counril was pledged to the electrical
‘\vurk«rs‘ organization, first of the lo
cal labor organizations to clash with
'the building trades employers, It was
indicated that no action 'ooking to
‘ward a general wa'kout would be
taken until it became apparent that
the electrical workers' difficulties
‘could be settled in no other way, or
until positive instruetions had been
received from the American Federa
tiom of Labor.
| Assistance Pledged.
The following resolution was adopt -
ed at the Sunday meeting
“The Building Trades Council
pledge themselves morally and finan
clally to assist the electrical 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 Wed
eration of Labor, which includes all !
the labor unions in the city, ealled |
upon the Bullding Trades Council at |
its meeting and agreed to have these
resolutions presented to the general |
federation. It was composed of Wil
lianm Wier. printers; lLouie I, Mar
quardt, tailors; Fred Ehlers, machin
ists; J. P. Miler, barbers; John Ter
rell, city firemen.
Want to Avoid Strike.
Local labor leaders arc fully alive
to the serfousness of the situation and
express the desire to avoid, if possi
ble, a state of general industrial war
fare They assert, however, that if
employers are determined upon a pol.
iey of refusing to renew agreements
as fast as they expire with the hml-l.|
ing trades laber organizations, the
“battle royal” will begin in uurn--n('
and the united strength of the Amer
fean labor movement will be called
into play In self-defense,
The agreement of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
expired January 28 and thg, refusal
of electrical contrastors to renew It
precipitated a general walkout of that
craft shortly after that date The
Continued on Page 2, Cobumn 6.
lasued Datiy and Eutered ae Second-(ass Matter st
the PostofMce st Atlanta Under Act of Mareh &, 1879
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AT NEW ORLEANS.
FIRST —Maiden 2-year-olds, purse S6OO,
3% furlongs; Ira Wilson 116 (Carroll), 10
to 1, 4 to 1, § to 5, won; Peccant 116 (T.
Rice), 6§ to 1, 2 to 1, 4 to 6, second; Bone
Dry 116 (L. Gentry), 8 to 6, 3 to 5, 1 to 4,
third Time, :43. Frank W., Fraosch,
Eilan, Booneville and Sandy Mac also ran.
SECOND—Claiming, purse S6OO, 4-year
olds and up, 6% furlongs; True as Steel 113
(Itice), 7 to 2, 6 to 5, won; Jack K. 115
(C. Robinson), 6 to 1, § to 2, 6 to b, sec
ond; Lubelia 108 (Rowan), 20 to 1, § to 1,
4 to 1, third. Time, 1:08. Sinai, Irish
Maid, Azalea, Hasty Mabel, Honolulu Boy,
Mar Tom, Approval, Neg and Sister Mar-
Joric also ran.
THlßD—Claiming, purse S6OO, 4-year
olds and up, 6% furlongs; Mumbeo Jumbo
113 (J. Rodriguez), 20 to 1, § to 1, 4 te 1,
won; Kildare Boy 112 (Pauley), 9 to 2, 2 to
1, even, second; R. H. Anderson 113 (Can
field), 16 to 1, 6 to 1, 3 to 1, third. Time,
1:07. Hasty Riches, Kittiwake, Commigan,
Bert Williams, Bon Otis, Ophelia, Sir Wils
lam Johnson, Lady Small, Ermitana also
ran.
FOURTH—Purse SI.OOO, 3-year-olds and
up, one mile; Diversion 106 (Pauley), § to
2, 2 to 5, won; The Cullen Bon 83 (Boyle),
20 to 1,7 T to 1, 3 to 1, second; Kohinoor
101 (J. Rodriguez), 3 to 1, even, 2 to 5,
third. Time, 1:39 3-6. Hanovia, Medusa,
Kate Bright, Fern Handley also ran.
. AT NEW ORLEANS. .
First—For maidens, 2-year-old, fillies
81-2 furlongs (12) and (6)—Edith K,
115; Ormdale Mamie Worth (M, Korn
bloom); Alice Granger, 114; Chief Jim
Gaffney, (jlidlnfi Bell (J. 3 Omalley):
Rib, 115; Miss Horner, 11; Modiste, 115;
Lady, Pataud, 115; Fun, 117; Fernleaf,
115; Guaranteed, 115; Quick Fire, 115;
Precious Pearl, 115; also Elliible Bo
hernabreeena, 115; Smile, 115; garet,
115; Blue Jean, 115; Goldie Rose, 115
Nellie \Xilgl:f‘, 115. s 5% fur
Second, b -ye‘r-olil -
longs (12 and :"3—"] P. House, 119, Hab
rian, 110; Agnes Cook, 106, Black Wing,
106; Democracy, 110; Pluviada, 108;
Rahinda, 105: Florence Webl?r_ 105;
B{ma, 110; Elizabeth Marie, 18 ; Lego
tal, 105; Swift Comet, 105, :Lo Elll,lble.
Lasiar x-10%; Tu, x-100, Cll&. ark,
110; Lilian dw? . Positive, 100; John
J. Casey, 110. (Note—Ten excluded.)
Third—Claiming, 3-year-old and uP
lwnrd, g turlon*l (12 and 6): Live {
115; Blaiz, 115; Tumma, 110; (.‘ourlqu~
lant, 105; Portlight, 115; Seafarer, 113;
‘Stuch in' Time, 105; 1 Win, 102, John,
Jr., 115; Tom Goose, 113; Discussion, |
'H opeoat, , also e, ie,
'lo' T 113 1s dlmfl Billie,
' 115: Lady Luxury, 108; rry Bur
govne, 113; Sabretash, 113; Tingaling,
113; Leicester (Imp.), 112. Note—Eight
excluded.)
Fourth—" Panama” hadicap, 3-year
old and u&' s'fi furlongs (8): Pickwick,
128; W. . Hastings, 110; ;Underfire,
101; Charlie Leydecker, 112; Ultima
thule, 108, Cobweb, % Walnuthall, 110:
Marie Miller, 104
Fifth--Claiming, !-{ar-old and up,
mile and a siteenth (8): Harvest Kinq.
115; Islite, 110; Kewplc Snell, x-102;
Irish Kiss, 112, Hank Oday, 110; Antoi
nette, x-90; Lord Herbert, 112; Sanysim
ing, 110,
Sixth—Claiming, 3-year-old, one mile
'(!): Cain Hprln{. 106; Jack Hen.nlz. 103
EWu'.er Willow, 98; Thomas F. McMahon,
106; Vision, 98; Frank Shannon, x-106;
James A. Sheridan, 103; Rae Samuels,
98, Sylvano, x-106
~ Sevenah--Claiming, 4-year-old and up,
one mile and !urlon‘, (14): Bajazet,
115; Slumberer, 108; irginia W., 104;
Dickery Dare, x-104: Benefactor, x-102;
Bombast, 112; Jason, 109; Leta, Puts and
Calls, x-104; Kebo, 109; Yernmwk, 108;
Regresso, 109; Say, x-104; Brown's Fav
orite, x-104.
x—Apprentice allowance claimed.
Wheater clear and fast track,
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Laurier, Former Premier
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Of Canada, Passes Away
(By International News Service.)
OTTAWA, ONT., Feb. 17.--Bir
Wilfrid Laurier, former Premier of
Canada, died at 2:50 o'clock this aft
ernoon. He suffered a paralytic
stroke Sunday,
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Fair and somewhat
warmer tonight and Tuesday. |
Knowing Is Succeeding
In Gardening
Knowing the seil and its
needs, the plants and the
seeds you put into it, means
your ?uvw-na as a 4 gardener
or & farmer,
Krmwl«lfw in these essen
tials is obtained by going to
the dependable dealers
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Keb, 17.—Tha
United States and Great Britain have
agreed to withdraw their troops from
the Murmansk district, President
Wilson has cabled Secretary Baker, it
was learned this afternoon. The See
retary is said to have notified the
members of the Senate and House
military affairs committee to this ef
fect, but members of the committes
decline to discuss the report,
It was said that the present pro=
gram will see the troops removed by
early spring, and that two companies
of American engineers would be sent
in “to facilitate the withdrawal” of
the Americans, and that Great Brits
ain would send 2,400 men for the
same purpose,
Wilson To Be Busy
On Return Home
BY JUSTIN H. FORREST,
Staff Correspondent |. N. é
WASHINGTON, Feb, 17 —President
Wilson’s stay in Washington prob
ably will be the busiest in his busy
career and administration leaders are
Iwnnderlng how it is going to be hu=
manly possible for him to accomplish
all that is laid out for him to de,
' First, of course, will be the task
of setting Congress and the publie
right on the great matter of the
League of Nations. He is expected to
arrive here Wedhesday, the 26th,
'.md will talk the whole covenant
jover that night at dinner with mem
bers of the Senate foreign relations
Ivunlnlilh-o and the House foreign af
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
Revenue Bill Ready.
The revenue bill is waiting for his
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 fill=
ed—chief of which is that of Attors
ney General to succeed W, T. Greg
cry, who has resigned, to take effect
March 4. A great question ha« arisen
over the appointment New England
wants it, not now, for the first time
since the Civil war, being represent
ed in the eabinet. But New England
generally objects to the office going
to Massachusetts, so that in the event
there is too serious an argument it
is possible it may go to Senator
Lewis, 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
thare, which is even more important
idurmx reconstriuction times, for Greg
-1..“',‘ post is doubted, and Sherman
8. Whipple, of Boston, it is not bes
lieved, has the backing of Senator
‘rlu'( Walsh
| McCormick's Sueccessor,
Then there must be a new Démeo
eratic chariman designated to sue
ceed Vance McCormick,. Homer 8.
Cummings, acting chairman, is de
clared to be the choice of the come
mittee, 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 friction
there,
No successor ever has been named
for Interstate Commerce Commis
sloner Harlan and that must be set
tied
The President ts pledged to attend
a conference of Governors and May
ors called by Secretary of Laboe
Wilgon to discuss the labor and re
employment question and this wih
take much of his time. He has ot g 8
be known, too, that he is keenly the
terested in this work and expeets
to get results—just as he got resulls
in France §
Republicans Are Eager
To Attack League Plan,
(By International News Service) '
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Despite
the President's suggestion rhat coms
grossional debates on the leagwe of
nations be postponed until he bas &
chance to “talk 1t over” with the
members of the foreing relations and
foreign affairs commitioes of the twe
houses of Congress, there wees -
dieations today that some members
of the upper body would not be able
to eontain themselves until February
26 Mostly, of course, these are Re- i
publicans, but should at‘acks upos .
tae plan materialize ndm:nhm:.lo‘;,
Sepators would feel thumlelr. uly
boand to raply i by
Four Senators, it beeame knowsy
this afternoon, will net 'tmmv
themselves bound by the B fdent's .
injunction. They are eSnators Poltts
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