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VOL. XVI
U.S. TORECALL TROOPS ON MURMAN
Congressional Probe Commiitee May Visit Argonne Battlefield
HUNS FORCED BY FOCH TO SIGN NEW ARMISTICE
(By Imternational News Serviced
WEIMAR, Web. 17.—Provisional
President Frederick Ebert and Philip
Behmeidemann were accused of the
anurder of Karl Leibknecht and Rosa
baxemburg, radical leaders, in an ad
dress before the National Assembly
bere by Herbert [Haase.
New Armistice
Sa%ned by Huns
(By International News Serwice.)
TREVES, Feb. 17 The new armis
tice was signed at 6:30 o'clock last
nighkt in the salon of Marshal Foch's
private car.
Ia addition to forcing Germany to
abandon all offeusive movemantsl
against the Poles, the new armisflce|
prohibits Germany from sending any |
'troops acrass the foreign line I‘rom!
the Russian frontier west of Luian- |
feld, the French high commission an- l
nouneed from its New York office to
day !
The line goes east of Grosse Ne&l
drof, south of Sadtchin, south off
Schodziesen, north of Exin, south of |
Sann, north of Charnikau, west of‘
Birnbaum, Bentschen, Wolstein Lis
su and north of Wiernchow,
(By Internationa! News Service.)
COPENHAGEN. Feb. 17 - The Ger- |
man Government has decided to ac
ecept the terms of the Allies’ armis
tice conditions
The Weimar corrcspondent of The
Politiken wires his paper, under date
f Sunday, 6:20 o'clock p. m., that the
agreement t¢ aceept the conditions
wis reached at a conference of party
eaders
A cessation of the German offensive
& inst the Polea is one of the terms
of the new armistice, which prolongs
the terms of the last armistice indefi
nitely amd reserves the right of the
Allies to terminate . upon giving
three days’ notice apon failure of the
Germans to comply with the condi
tione set forth November 11, Decem
ber 12 and January 16.
Marsha! Foch nad informned the
German Grmisctice commission that
the armistice would expire at 3 o'clock
Monday morning and that the last
hour for signing would be 8 o'clock
Sunday evening. e declured 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
eouncil of the great powers again
took up the Russian question at this
moming'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
appoimtment of a commmission to take
evidemee from each organized group
The suggestion is w 0 invest the com
mission with fall powers of arbitra
tiom,
The new plan does not provide a
meeting of the Bolsheviki and the
other governments who deelined the
invitation to attend the gemeral con
ference at Princes Island,
Before his departure for America
President Wiison expressed eoncern
ower the conference’'s inmabiMty to
take any practical measures to re
store Russia He enjoined the
Ameriean delegation to the peace
econferenee to operate cordially In any
workahle scheme in that direction
British Premier Calls
Conference on Labor,
(Exclusive Cable by the international
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
LONDON, ¥eb. 1 Premier Lioyd
Gieorge has decided to call a eational
congress of representatives of em
plovers and labor to deal with the
critieal situation 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 ™
ithey say
France Seeks Biggest
Army in the League
BY ROBERT J. PREW, ‘
Staff Correspondent |. N, 8.
PARIS, Pab. 17.—France will sup
port the Lg@hknn of Nations covenant
a 3 a whole, was learned today from
an authoritative source While her
delegates on the special committee
suggested several features which were
not included In the final draft, her
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Copyright by International Film Service.
William W. MeAdoo, former Seeretary of the Treasury, is now in the movies, having ac
cepted the position as counsel for the United Artists Corporation, with Douglas Fairbanks, Mary
Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, D, W. Griffith and William S. Hart, the ““big five”’ of the film indus
try. Photo shows members of the McAdoo party at the Fairbanks rodeo held at the Lask stu
dio in the San Fernano Valley, February 4. Left to right, Mrs. Joseph Cotton, Mrs. George Frank.
lin, Mrs. W. G. MeAdoo, George Anderson, Douglas Fairbanks and Mr. McAdoo.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17-—"Reck
ifess use of public money on pet proj
ects of members of Congress” wns
denounced by Senator Kenyon (Re
publican), of lowa, in the Senate to
day during debate on the rivers and
harbors appropriation bil.
’ “The people are beginning to won
der whether Congress cares a tink
’Pr'u damn how it spends the publie
| funds,” shouted Kenyon. He decried
'the “efforts of his colleagues, in the
fm\.- of the mation’'s war debts, to en
courage extravagant appropirations
| provided in the pending bill."
l Particular attack was made by
| Kenyon upon an amendment offered
'by Senator Wletcher, providing a
ll.lrm' sum to improve the Ochlawaha
t River in Florida.
“Why, you might as well appropri
ate money to beautify Lizard creek
that runs through my farm in lowa,”
Kenyon said
. “The people are growing siek and
tired of this waste of public funds.
| We never will be able to hold down
Ltaxntlnn in the United States unless
| we start now and cut off these use
lless expenditures,
“The treasury very soon will start
another loan drive. Are you going
out to ask the peopie to buy bonds
in order to spend money on such
things as the Ochlahawha iflw-r
project? The people will not stand
for it. Tam going to vote to head oft
icuch extravagance as this”™
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Austrian Socialists |
‘ Ahead in Elections
(By International News Service.)
| VIENNA., Feb, 17.—The election
| Sunday proceeded in an orderly man-
I ner, and early indications are that
| the Socialists have trinmphed, al
though it is likely that a coalition will
ibo neceasary. 1
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Americans Made
Money Out of War
Work in Germany
By H. J. GRENWALL.
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
BERLIN, Feb. 17.—American fac
tories in Germany are intact and in
readiness to restart operations as
Soon as the peace treaty Is signed,
Privy Councillor Herrman Riders,
custodian of enemy property, an
nounces. The American factories
have been operated under German
supervision and accounts kept of
the surplus profits, which will be
available to the owners after 1 per
cent charge for bookkeeping and
the war tax has been deducted.
Owners, it is pointed out, therefore
will be able to draw profits from
the manufacture of arms and mu
nitions used against the Allies.
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Alleged Slaper of Girl
Is Held for Grand Jury
VALDOSTA, Feb. 17.-Will Collins,
chargod with the killing of Robbie Mo-
Gee, S.year-old danghtier of Lacy M-
Gee, in a fight with the child's father
at lmiy City, a week ago, was given a
commitment trial before Justice W. A,
Moore, at Nashville, and bound over to
awalt aetion by the Grand Jury on a
charge of murder,
Colling sought to show that the child
was killed by a shot from her father's
gun instead of by Colling, who denied
having a gun. "he tmiedy occurred
at MecGee's home, and the only eye
witnesses were the parents of the little
girl.
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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 directed innum
erable atrocities, Roger F. Simmons,
American (C‘onsular Agent at Moscow,
decjared this afternoon before the
H«i-u committee investigating Bol
& ik propaganda.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1919
The City Council Monday afternoon
unanimousty approved the joint plan
of the School Board and the City ¥i
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 eleetion in March,
In the event the tax raise is approv
ed by the voters the matter then will
£0 before the Legisiature for a charter
amendment. Under the plan propos
ed, 40 cents of the increare 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 system will
be raised to $1,0560,000, incluniding a
State fund of $131,000, which the
schools will receive in its entirety
this year.
An antieipated fight on the plan in
Counceil failed to materialize Alder
man Harvey Hatcher, who had fought
ft in the joint session of the school
board and finance ecommittee, 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 principle.
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All Alien Radicals to
Yy rs
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
Secretary of Labor Wilson to Joseph
H. Wild, president of the Internationl
Association of Mechanists, of Drook
lyn, N. Y. The letter was an answer
to protest made by the association
that the 58 alien radicals about to be
deported were not given the advane
tage of due process of the law.
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 Mayvor had a conference with
Charles B. Gramling, president of the
Federation of Trades: J. W. Bridwell,
councilor 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
tions: The general contractors, the
electrical contractors, the electrical
employvees and the Building Trades
Council. Every effort will be made
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 trcuble which may bring about
a walkout irrespective of a national
movement. It hinges on the deelared
intention of the Atlanta Builders' Ex
change to work on the open-shop sys
tem,
The various unions in the building |
trades.. have been under contract with |
the employers, with wage scales smdl
hours agreed on. But when the eon
tract with the electrical workers ex
pired a short time ago the cmn‘oyt'mi
declined to renew it, declaring that
work would be “open shop” in tuturP,l
with union and nonunion men em- |
ployed when needed. The electrieali
workers declined to work on this ba
sis and walked out. I
The contract with the plumhm’}
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-i
ber 1 of this year. Labor men de<'
clare the various trades will quit as
their time runs out.
At an executive session of the
Builling 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 situa
tion in the building industry was
thoroughly discussed and the full
moral and financial support of the
council was pledged to the electrical
workers' organization, first of the lo
cal labor organizations to clash with
the bailding trades employers. It was
indicated that no action looking to
ward a general walkout would be
taken until it became apparent that
the electrical workers’ difficulties
could be settled in no other way, or
until 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 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 lmbs of the men engaged in the
building trades industry.”
A deiegation from the Atlanta Fed
eration of Labor, which includes all
the labor unions in the city, 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
linm Wier. printers; Louie P. Mar
quardt tailors; Fred Ehlers, machin
ists; J. P. Miller, barbers; John Ter
rell, eity firemen,
Want to Avoid Strike,
Local labor leaders are fully altve
to the seriousness of the situation 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 bulid
ing trades labor organizations, the
“battle royal” will begin in earnest
and the united strength of the Amer
ican labor movement will be called
into play in self-defense,
The agreement of the International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
expired January 28 and the refusal
of electrical contractors to renew it
precipitated a general walkout of that
craft shortly ter that date, The
Continued Page 2, Column 6.
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(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 field” 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 conduet of America's participa
tion in the war.
Brigadier General Clarence R. Mar-.
tin, who was relieved from the infan
try command of the 35th 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 te
the charges that such oflicers 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 commitiee 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 {lluminating testi
mony.”
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! SEATTLE, Feb. 17.—The Bolshev
istg of the Northwest have been de
feated. Cooler heads have prevailed
in the councils of the shipyard swork
ers with the result that the strike
of the metal trades workers has been
I 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 January 21,
following stormy union sessions Im
which Bolshevism and Mooney talb
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.
Since the seizure and deportation
by the Government of the alien agi
tygtors who kept Seattle’s union in un
rest, cooler consgideration of work
ing conditions has been nad. The
men are beginning to recognize the
motives of the foreign agitators and
te refuse to support them in their
| universal strike demands.
Shipyard owners today officially
lndnnlnwl they plan to reopen their
plants, beginning Wednesday morn
ing.
l 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
I(-mnmct shops.
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Striking Miners Flee
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From Sherifl’s Posse
(By International News Serviee.)
PEKIN, ILL., Feb. 17-—SBtriking
{ miners, led by I. 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 harriedly without causing
any trouble
Strikers’ Pickets and
Mounted Police Clash.
(By International News Service.)
LAWRENCE, MASS, Feb. 17—
Nine arrests ag the result of frequent
clashes between the strikers’ plokets
and the mounted police marked the
opening of the third weck of the tex-
Continued on Page 2, Column &
lssued Dally and Kutered as Secend-(ass Matter o
the PostoMes ot Atianta Under Act of March 3, \STH
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City Goes Wild,
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Simply Wild, Over
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‘Ace’ Rickenbacker
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Feb. 17.—
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 ciubs, school children
and veteran organizations, they
marched through the streets.
The Columbus Automobile Club
was to banquet Captain Ricken
backer Monday night, I
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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
a 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 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 flgures received by the in
vestigating committee. Cheese espe
ciadly is shown to have declined in
price, even in Atlanta, 10 cents on the
pound, ‘
Figures 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 26 cents. That Atlanta is
forced to pay the highest price for
milk of any ot the Southern and
Ilastern cities heard from, is the con
clusion of the committee. |
“The City Federation of Woman's
(Mlubs is moved in its desire to get at
the truth,” Mrs. Wilson sald, “by Its
deep concern over the increased num
ber of deaths during the past few
months of infants in families where
the dollar is a tremendous item. Ev
ery indication is that hundredes of
children have died from malnutrition
starvation, to put it plainly—and
with the coming of spring and sum
mer and a consequent larger demand
for milk for babies, the women of
Atlanta feel keenly the necessity for
seeing that plenty of good, pure milk
is available at reasonable prices.
“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 i nyone,’ 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 bought at the prices
now prevailing, We want to find out
Just why it is that milk prices do not
go down, and try to remedy this
canse. We want to see that 10 cents
additional cost on each quart of milk
does not stand between innocent ba
bies and the right to lMve and grow
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Febh. 17.—Ameri=
can troops in North Russia are to be
be withdrawn “at the earliestt possi
ble moment that weather conditions
in the spring will permit,” according
to a cablegram sent by General Tas
ker H. Bliss, one of the American
peace delegates to Secretd®y of War
Baker. The cablegram, whoch was
sent at the President's request and
forwarded this afternoon to Senator
Chamberlain, chairman of the Senate
Military Affairs Committee, follows:
“l just received a cablegram fromy
General Bliss, sent at the President's
direction, in which I am told that the
President has approved the sending of
two American railway companies te
Murmansk for the following objects:
First, to assure greater safety during
the winter of the Allied forces both
along the Murmansk and at Arch
angel and south of Archangeu; sec
ond, the much better supply, and if
necessary the reinforcements, from
Murmansk of the advanced detache
ments south of Murmansk and Arche
angel; third, to facilitate the prompt
withdrawal of Americans and Allied
troops in North Russia at the earliest
possible moment weather conditions
in the spring will permit. The Presi
dent has directed me to communicate
the foregoing to the Allied Governs
ment, which I have done. The Presis
dent desires that his action and the
reasons for it be made to the milis
tary committees of the Senate and
House for their information,
“In. addition to the above, General
Bliss tells me the British Covernmeng
is sending a force aof about 2400 men
to Murmansk and that they have re
quested the co-operation of the Press
ident to the extent of two companies
of railroad troops ahbove referred to.
The operations of the railroad to the
southern extremity of the White Sea
lutély necessary to guarantee the
prompt movement of reinforcements
is believed by the Britisn to be abgo=
and supplies to Archangel and the
troops south of Archangel, General
Bliss algo informs me that the Brits
ish military authorities do not feel
any apprehension as to the military
situation at Archangel”™
Wilson To Be Busy ~
On Return Home
| BY JUSTIN H. FORREST
| Staff Correspondent I. N, S,
WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.—President
Wilson’s stay in Washington probs
ably will be*the busiest in his busy
career and administration leaders are
wondering how it is going to be hu~
manly possible for him to accomplish
all that is laid out for him to do.
First, of course, will be the task
of setiing Congress and the publie
right on the great matter of the
League of Nations. He is expected te
arrive here Wednesday, the 26th,
and will talk the whole covenant
over that night at dinner with me;;
bers of the Senate foreign relati
committee and the House foreign af
fairs committee.
Eartier 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 s
stgnature, and he is expected w&
#ome time to that, as well as the
measures of smaller importance, and
he has made it a custom to read
every bill before appending his sig
nature,
Then there are vacanciés to be fifk
ed—chief of which is that of Attors
ney CGeneral to succeed W. T. Groge
ory, 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, heing represent
ed in the cabinet, But New England
generally objects to the office going
1o Massachusetts, so that in the event
there is too serioussan argument it
is possible It may go to Senatoe
Lewis, of Illinols, who seems to be the
second choice of most of the New
England States, if their “favorite
sonsg” do not land it
That A. Palmer Mitchell, alien props
erty custoddan, would leave hl;om
there, which is even more im
during reconstruction times, for Gregs
ory’s post i douvted, and Shermam
8. Whipple, of Boston, it is not bes
lieved, has the backing of Senators
elect Walsh, .o
McCormick’s Successor. Vet
Then there must be a new D
cratic chariman designated to
ceed Vance MeCormick. Homer S\
Cummings, aoting chairman, fs des
clared to be the cholce of the coms
mittee, but friends of James Cuffesw
of Pennsylvania, declare he has the
presidential O. K. Committee M
bers insist, however, Cummin n
be picked, so there may be friction
there, Al
No successor ever has been named
for Interstate Commerece i
sionar Harlan and that mw
- The President is pledged f
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