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VOL. XVII
BUILDERS MAY FORCE LABOR WAR
DOUGHBOYS T 0 GO TO BERLIN
TRICKED, CRIES DRIVER OF DEATH CAR
Still showing the effects of Hquor
or “dope” and with his mind befud
dled and his narrative ragged and
wandering, A. J. Webhb, No. 96 Me-
Afee street, found himself Tuesday in
a cell at the police station, charged
with “reckless driving of an automo
bile while drunk.” He declares he
was not at the wheel of the car.
H. Rice, a street car conductor, is
dead, the victim of Webb's “reckless
driving of an automobile while
. drunk.” He was struck Monday night
while he was changing his trolley in
front of the Brookwood Station, out
the Peachtree road. Webb's arrest
was the culmination of an unusual
chase by witnesses to the fatality.
Admits Drinking Party.
Webb declares he knows nothing
about killing Rice or striking any
body. He insisted Tuesday that his
light taxi earlier in the night was
hailed by two men, M. V. Ragsdale,
a switehman of No. 107 Payne ave
nue, and Pride Wynne, No. 236 Cam
eron street. They had him drive them
out Marietta street, produced a bot
tle of whisky and everybody took a
drink or two
“All 1 remember is being at the
corner of Bellwood avenue and Ma
rietta street,” said Webb, “Then I
got kind of dizzy and sleepy. 1 don't
remember anything except that 1
wasn't driving Ragsdale had the
wheel
Claimed He Was Tricked.
“The next thing I knew we were
way out past bßrookwood, and Rags
dale was shaking me 10 wake me up.
He told me he was going to get out
and leave and | must take the wheel,
1 moved over to the driver’s side, still
groggy. The next minutes these oth
er men drove up in the big car and
commenced beating me.”
Ragsdale and Wynne, the latter a
19-year-old boy, were found in a bil
llard room after Webb's arrest and
taken to the station for examination.
They stoutly denied any knowledge of
the accident, or of having been in
Webb's car. They were locked in the
“State cell” and reporters forbidden
to question them, but the detectives
were to put them through the “third
degree” Tuesday and test their sto
ries.
Citizens Give Chase.
Webb's capture was the finish of a
pemarkable road race. There have
been many instances in Atlanta of a
motorist’s striking a vietim and artv
ing on, and most of these escaped
with ease But five or six men,
some of them passengers in the street
car which had just stopped, saw Con
ductor Rice killed, and a hot wave of
resentment stirred them to action., A
big car was standing in front of the
station, and they jumped into 1§
without the loss of a moment, and be
gan the chase of the death car out
Peachtree road
It is hardly a route for fast driving
in the night, for one ‘side is closed for
repairs and the whole road littered
with paving materidl, but the driver
did not slacken speed for that. He
was chasing a ear with one headlight
twisted out of position by the impace
with its vietim, so that its beam
. Bhot out to one side at a sharp an
gle There wag no mistaking that
car while its lights were shining
Death Car Caught.
They ecaught it at Buckhead, where
the Pace's Ferry road turns out of
Peschtree, and swung in front of it
1o block the way., They swarm »d into
the smaller car, in which Webb was
alone., He put up a fight. but they
dragged him out, his clothing torn
and his face bruised, for they han
dled him roughly in their rage. They
tied him hand and foot, put him in
tr.e car they l'ad borrowed and g'nrt
ed back to the scene of the fatality,
where they turned him over to the
police
The meny whose quickness of
thought and readiness to act brought
Wehb into the hands of the authori
ties were K. W. Wallace, No. 174 Cen-
Continued on Page 2, Column 1.
Full International News Service
.
Irish Set Trap for
.
U. 8. Linen Trade
.
And Tourist Traffic
(By International News Service.)
DUBLIN, Jan. 25 (by mail).—
The Irish people are bent upon
achieving two things, when they
are not busy with political ques
tions. The first is the eapture of
the American linen trade and the
otner is winning of a big share of
the touris€ traffic from America.
Before the war Ireland supplied
about half of America’s manufac
tured linen goods. At the uume her
chief competitors were Germany
and Holland. During the war most
of the mills were converted to war
work in Ireland. But steps are un
der way to resume operations on
a bigger scale than ever before.
With regard to the tourist traf
fic Queenstown is already on the
alert. The shipping interests
there are handicapped by the de
cigion of American mail steamers to
cease calling there and have
launched a campaign to get them
back, and more.
The City Federation of Clubs has
accomplished one thing early in the bat
{ tle against high milk prices in Atlanta.
| It has put the dairyvmen and the dealers
!nn the defensive and brought a bar
jrage of explanations. The producers
| blame the retailers for the admitted
]f;«r( that prices are higher here than
‘in any other large ecity of the United
| States, and the retailers come back with
a counter-charge against the dairymen.
Then they get together in a combplaint
against the live stock salesmen and the
feed store. So far there has been no
attempt to blame either the Democratie
party or the Weather Bureau
Most of the milk men admit that the
retail price of milk here is from 5 to 10
cents a quart higher than in other
cities. The dealers say the high price
results from the failure of the producers
to raise their own feed, and the neces
sity of payving war prices to feed stores,
The retailers insist that they are deriv
ing only a fair profit.
Producers Explain.
The producers come right back with
the claim that they are xellin§ milk at
| the lowest possible price, consic ering the
amount they must pay for their cows
and the price of feed. They claim that
they get only 45 cents a gallon in some
instances, and the rest of the dollar goes
to the retailers, who are responsible
for the high prices
There have been a few attemfr(s to
claim that milk prices are as high in
other cities as they are here, but these
alibis have faded in the white light of
investigation, The Atlanta Georgian
published comparative prices several
weeks ago, showing that A!lantans&)uy
almost twice as much fer milk as New
Yorkers, and Philadelphians, and Chica
goans, and other big city residents,
Additional investigation reveals that
'milk sells for 13 cents a quart in De
troit, 18 cents In Memphis, 14 cents in
St. Louis, 16 cents in Baltimore and
11 cents in Cleveland.
The dealers have found some consola
tion in the claim that Macon pays 20
cents for milk and Savannah 24 cents,
but these cities have mothing like the
milk supply there is here, and the in
creased prices have been attributed to a
shortage.
W. V. Zimmer, president of the Bel
mont Farm and Dairy Preducts Com
pany, claims that the milk producers are
selling milk for 45 cents a gallon, and
can not reduce thelr prices until feed
comes down. He sald he had gathered
statistics to show ithat the producers
#ell their milk cheaper here than in
Birmingham, Macon, Augusta, and other
cities
Blames It On Feed Prices.
J. H. Helmer, proprietor of the Gate
| City Dairy, charged the milk prices to
the failure of the Georgia farmers to
|r;npw their own feed He sald that
feed has not descended in price along
with other products that have been go
ing down since the end of the war,
fi H. Friedman, proprietor of the
South Pryor Street Creamery, pointed
{out that butter and cheese are coming
‘duwu, and said he saw no reason why
the price of milk should not drop, too,
IllN butter and cheese are milk producte
A. 8. Kuhng, proprietor of the Inman
Park Dalry, sees hope for lower milk
prices in the fact that milk cows are
becoming more plentiful. He believes
that the price of cows and feed wMh
drop soon
W. . Butt, operating a dairy on
Highland avenue, states that dairymen
are paying S2OO a head for cows they
bought at S4O and SSO a few years ago,
and are likewise paying much more
for cotton seed hulls, hay, and other
| feed He says milk is sold at as low
[a price as possible
' Simllar views were expressed by W
|H. Burt, president of the Capital City
(dairy, A. W. Sudan, Of the Forest alPrk
I(inh'). and others ‘
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Atlantans Accepting the
.
Pneumonia Serum Offer
Thousands of Atlantans have taken ad
| vantage of the opportunity offered for re
| celving pneumonia prophylaxsis at Fort
'\l.-|'|“r~nn Major Denson, in charge of
lHu- Inhoratory, states that the average
number per day I 8 now 100 The offcr
lr--nnunu open to the public bSerum al»n‘
wilt bhe sent where application is made
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BY JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
ON BOARD UNITED STATES
SHIP GEORGE WASHINGTON AT
SEA, Feb. 17 (by wireless).—The
weather cleared during the night and
today and it was bright and warm.
President Wilson, taking advantage
of the change, walked on the deck
of the George Washington for exer
cise. The President is continuing to
get all the rest possible following his
arduous peace labors in Paris.
The George Washington is sched
uled to poss the -Amseres tomeorvow
(Tuesday)
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 Secret
Information, which will not be in
cluded in his speeches at Boston and
New York, will be given members
of the Senate and House foreign re
lations committees by President Wil-
Imm at the White House dinner to be
held on his return to Washington.
This information was given today
to Senators who expressed their re
sentment over the President's plan to
take the people into his confidence
before discussing the covenant with
the C(Congress,
The President is expected at the
dinner to give those who have been
invited the full story of his difficul
ties with Premier Clemenceau, of
France, and other foreign diplomats
He expected to disclose whether there
is any real danger that France will
lu-.’wsn to ratify the league of Na
| tions constitution because she wants
|an armed force, and to appeal for
support for “the American idea.”
Congress to Hear All. :
The President is ready to take the
Congress into his full confidence
Senators were given®* to nnderatand,
Senator Lodge has accepted the
President's finner invitation but
there was the distinet possibility to- |
day that one or two other opponents
of the league would decline The
theory is that every word 1l passes
at the White House is “confidential”
uniess the President gives permission
{to make the informatio public
It I 8 expected the President will
have prepared a formal statement of
what occurs at the dinner and that
Senators and Representatives will be
required to withhold all informatior
not included in his public statement
Senators have verv excellent chan
rels of information—some leading di
rect to the peace table These mer
have been kept in closest touch with)
| developments abroad and they said
| today they wished to be free to im
| part this information to the public
through the medium of Senate
speeches if the necessity to do sol
i rises,
Vacant Chairs Likely.
There was the possibility therefore
that there would be one or two \':«-‘
cant chairs at the President’'s dinner
a week from Wednesday night An- |
| other source of embarrassment |~l
that debate on the league of nations |
may break out in the Senate at any
| time Half a dozen Senators are
lknown to be preparing addresses on
lv)n- subject and all of them say H.\~\|
will go on when they are ready in |
I"nm- of the President’'s request that |
|debate be delayed until after he has
| conferred with the two committees
The President’s telegram 1s thought
to have removed the possibility that
IHu‘ President will address Congress
n Joint session upon his return. It
was predicted today that ne will take |
thls course only if the results of the
White House dinner are entirely un
| satisfactory to. him ‘
|
| Income Tax Return
y y
. Forms Now Are Ready
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 1S Tax pay
ey fall in line for your return forms
The rovenue bureau announced to-1
day that persons witl incomes nil
‘(' 000 or less may now oblain income
l!:.\ return formns at offices of reven Av'
collectors or banks Those for In-|
comes of more than $5,000 and other |
tux return forms, will be ready in ov«u|
wee ks, it was stated
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1919
‘Pep’ and Good Looks
Bring Small Return to
Chorus Girl in London
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb. 18.—Pretty
American maids who have stage
ambitions and would even start in
the chorus, had better fight shy of
+England, where the top salary for
chorus girls averages sl2 a week
This sum, penuriously spent, might
buy food for one in London, but
nothing else.
In addition to thesfact that there
is a plentitude of girls—a glut in
the market, in fact—amply meet
ing the needs of the British stage
which seemingly demands graven
images in the chorus, an Ameri
can chorus girl would find that all
“pep” she puts into her work toe
tally out of Kkilter here.
Smiling, vivacious, kfock-em
dead chorus girls evidently have
not been discovered by the produc
ers of musieal comedies. Nor are
they wanted,
The London chorus girl, who has
about as much chance of subsist
ing on sl2 a week in London as a
house-fly In Alaska, is showing
signs of unrest. She wants more
money and, after consultation with
managers, is told that the only
way to get 1t is for the salaries of
the stars to be reduced. The chorus
girl contends a star is paid 85 per
cent for reputation and 15 per cent
for actual work done.
City Council will meet as a body at 4
o'clock Tuesday afternoon to constitute
itself a campaign committee for the tax
rate increase from $1.25 to $1 50, which
it voted Monday afternoon to recom
mend to the next Legislature. Council
also will give an initiai impetus to the
municipal emergency bond issue to be
submitted to the people on a referen
dum vote March 5
! These inter-related issues have the
unanimous backing of Council and the
Board of School Commissioners as the
ire.-nun of Monday afternoon’'s Council
meeting. Opposition to the tax rate in
crease, indorsed by the School Com
missioners and the finance committee of
((‘,onm'n as the one practicable relief
measure for the financial stringency in
the schools and all city departments,
had been expected in Council but it did
not develop The proposition was in
dorsed unanimously by that bod many
i of the members pledging themselves to
B€t out and actively campaign for it
’ Without the tax rate increase the bond
issue projected by both the city and the
school department, would be impossible
to fleat. As far as bonds for non-reve
| nue purposes are concerned, the city is
| bonded up te its sinking fund capacity
at the present time, though it has a
llmmllnu capacity of more than $10,000,-
000 for bonds of a revenue nature, The
increased tax rate would increase the
sinking fund of the city and schools suf
’flvn'ml\ to make the necessary bond is
sues feasible.
Tuesday afternoon’'s meeting will be
held in the Council chamber, and will
|h9. in effect, a special meeting of Coun
cil as Alderman John 8. McClelland
Mayor Pro Tem, announced the meeting
during Monday afternoon's session of
Council and strongly urged every mem
ber of the general body to attend
Under the agreement reached by
the finance committee and the school
board on the tax rate increase before
the jssue went to Council, the schools
will receive 45 cents of the new rate
and the city $1.05. If the voters in
cieate their approval at the bond
election March 5, when the issues will
be submitted to a referendum or
straw vote, the Legislature will be
asked to amend the city charter and
alter the present school law in a way
’ln make the new arranecement effoct
ive, If the voters reject the proposi
tion at the March election, it will die
at the polls |
However, Councilman A. J. Orme,
’«'h.ln'nmn of the bond committee of
Coungll, and many Councilmen al- |
‘rvnd_\' have lined up actively behind
‘.’l campalgn to educate the public a |
to the necesgity not only of the bond |
‘is-uu-_ but of the tax rate incrs 186 |
as well. Several members of Coun- |
eil Monday afternoon told of opposi I
tion to the joint measures which the \[
' have detected and urged the necessity
of the entire councilmanic hody ex
erting itself If the issues are to be
successful
The city has planned a $1,000,000
bond issue and the schools an issue of |
about 2900000 A good part of the
city’'s issue would be devoted to vi
tally needed improvements in the wa
ter department and the schoo! com
mission plans to build new schoo!
puildings and improve those now a
part of the system with its bond mon
ey
!
The sum of $55,000 for the city
waterworks and the improvement of
a number of important city streets had
been insured Tuesday through an ap
propriation by the county to the city
of 3205,220.58, but, likewise, a long list
of other proposed city .mxwm\vlm-nls‘
was knocked out when county com
missioners declined about $200,000
worth of additional requests
At the same time, the county served
notice that no further requests from
the city for financial aid this year
will be entertained, owing to a seri
ous financial shortage faced by the
county by reason of recent lw:a\',\*]
| drains made on its treasury |
i It was pointed out by commission ‘
| ers, who acted on the city requests in
'.. special session, that if the vuumy‘
should do no more than pay the|
money it has promised che city and
| maintain ”T own current v.\i-'-n,\»-.\.l
without dolng any work whatever
in the county, outside Atlanta, it uxll‘
end the fiscal year, October 1, with a |
i shortage 6f $84,000, as shown by fig
ires submitted by Clerk Henry M
| Wood As a matter of fact, however
the county has planned a prluzl‘uml
of $300,000 worth of IHI[»IU\'-‘IIn'llla!
{outside of the city, thus facing thn-]
| county with a total indebtedness of!
| $384,000 for the year, |
| The total running expenses of the
i(nunl\ for the year, outside of ,nn)‘]
Improvement work will be 855,000
f|n-r month, Clerk Wood explained
| Chairman W. M, Poole and other
{ members of the®commission said the|
| county had done the best it could for
| the eity under the circumstance '
! Chairman Oscar Mills, in w--mi'»|
ting the recommendations of the pub
lic works committee for ecity aid,]
said |
! We must call a halt somewhere or. |
i the outpourings of the county !u-;n.vi
[ur the time has now come when we
\ will have to consider seriously our
|own finances.” '
In addition to the sum appropriated
| for the ecity for the remainder of !h--{
vear, it was shown that the county, |
| since the first of last September, be- |
!ginning of the fiscal year unu-i»l‘
ha tided the cit in the sum of!
{ $2%,994.89, which will make a tot .]i
|.:r;;|..;.r ation for the year of $234,..1
[ 215.47 |
1 Among the big street improvements |
‘H\\H)v-“ by the county are he paving
of Whitehall streel, Marietta street,
Pryor treet, and Luckie street, The |
m of $15,000 also wa itllowed for|
a public comfort station, $ 000 was
| given for the completion of the
nurses’ dormitory at Grady Hospital
slo,oo¢ wi given the Battle Hill
Sanitariurn ind SIO,OOO for t m
pletion of the swimming poo 1t
' Grant Parb
l List of Improyements. {
The complete list of street im- |
provements and the amount of the
city’'s share, which the county is tol
beat 18 follow |
15 3 n street $4,200 Simpson |
| street $3.700 dgewood wvenue
I chtree to Pryor, $1.600; Edgewood |
venie Boulevara to the bridgs 3 !
i 1 Fdgewood avenue, the bridge tol
' ¢ street $1.6% Whitehall
treet, s2l 4P8%; Marietta street, North |
enue to the bridege it the KxXpos
tio Cotton Vi $23.,69¢ Pryor
treet, from the railroad to Mitchell
eet, $5 9.68; Pr I reet, Mitchell
|to Garnett, s£3 4¢ Laackie treet, Bar ‘
tow to North avenue, $7.9 Murphy
venue, (ilent reet S6OO
| Yor stree Nort Ve to Thir- |
' t $11.970: I Shoa
Viyiie street to South Moreland, $2
“4 |
In th maltter of rity appropria- |
i ut t reares were given—— |
| 1 ¢ Atlanta O . tion Lurean was
| 1 ed from § ) to S3OO per month
land the Atlanta Woman Missionary
| Assoclation, from 376 to SIOO per|
| month, Appropriations for the Asso- |
: ited Charitie ind the Holme In :
titute, colored re held up for fur
| ther investigatic with indica Hvl\l
hat the m for the forme SSOO per
month—would e reduced ind the
Holmes lustitute appropriation rais
ed The Y. W. ( A, nlso war added
|‘ 0 per montl All of the remainder
of the charities were given the ‘A““l
i imotlnt as Jast vear
Does Atlanta face a labor war of
the proportions reached in the recent
Seattle imbroglio, with a consequent
stoppage of all building operations
and a possible tie-up of all her indus
trial activities? lls the issue of the
closed versus the open shop of suf
ficient importance to warrant a battle
involving all the almost unlimited re
sources of the organized employvers
a 8 against the equally unlimited re
sources of the organized labor move
ment?
These are gome of the questions be
fore Atlanta men who had antici
pated a building boom of ynprece
dented proportions to follow immedi
ately upon the heels of the war, with
the consequent release of building
materials and the great productivg
power of war work plants 1..x1‘
;lnrnnl into industrial producing
channels
I Statements of Sides.
The issue between the contending
factors was clearly defined Monday
’wnh the issuance of statements from
| the Building Trades Employers’ As
ism'inlmn composed of 152 firms and
« Individual contractors, and the Atlan
'(.o Building Trades Council, com
l posed of fourteen labor organizations,
with an aggregate membership of 10,
11»1»0 men
| Disclaiming any connection with
the Atlanta Builders’ Exchange, the
Master Builders’ Association or any
|lenr' organization, the Building
| Trades Employers’ Association issues
| a declaration against the “closed shop
!;mlu'\ " striking at the heart of or
| ganized labor discipline, with the fol
lowing statement of aims
Open Shop Plan,
“We believe that everyone in At
’hnln has a right to join a labor un
;I"Yl or any other organization, if he
‘uuw to do so. Therefore, we shall
L employ union labor, but not to the
lnu-. Ision of nonunion labor
‘ We believe that the returning sol
| diers, sailors and marines from the
war have a right to earn a living
We do not believe it necessary for
them to pay dues to a labor union
wgent in order to secure the right to
work Therefore W shall employ
them whether they belong to labor
unions or whether the refuse Lo be
ong to labor unions
Wage hours, working conditions
or anything else, have nothing to do
with the situation We have simply
decided that we will not sign cor
tracts with labor union agents which
would force us to agree not to employ
competent, skillful and reliable me
chanics who do not belong to labor
infons
When labor union agents are wil
ing to agree that the mechanic who
does not pay dues to them has a right
to live, buy food and clothe his fam
iy with money earned from h labor
the point of difference between them
and us will no longer exist.'"
Union Statement.
The leclaration of the Bullding
Trades Couneil, adopted Sunday with
reference to the electrical workers'
rike gainst the rdoption of the
open-shop” plan and before the |ir
tentions of the employvers in general
had become known, was as follows ‘
I'he Building Trade Council
pledge themselves morall ind A n- |
cially t 8 5t the electric workers
n their fight to resist the Insidious
nd subtle efforts of the emplovers
to tighten the chains of Industrial
glavery through the open shop upon
the limbs of the men engaged in the
building trades industr l
Commenting on the declaration ""i
the Kmr ors Agsociatior William
Pollard, business agent of the Build
ing Trades Council, agreed that "“the |
returning soldiers wlors nd ma
rine have a right to earn a living |
adding that he thought theyv were |
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lasued Daliy and Eutered as Second-(ass Matter as
the PosteMcs at Atlanta Under Act of March §, 187
'Grins and
Groans in the
Day’s N
ay s ews
ANDERSON, IND., Feb, 18- Six
passengers in a jitney bLus were
bruised when the bus was struck by
a runaway team of former fire
horses, drawing a garbage wagon.
The horses were transferred to the
garbage department when the fire
department was motorized. When
they heard a street car bell ringing
they ran pellmell down the street.
WASHINGTON, Feb, 18.—One
out of every four men drafted for
the army was illiterate to the ex
tent of being unable to read a
newspaper or to write home, ac
cording to a report submitted to
Secretary of the Interior Lane by
Surgeon General Ireland. The ex
act percentage of illiterary was
given as 249 or 286,196 of the
1,662,266 men examined,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—A total
saving of $13,810,370 has been ef
fected by the railroads of the Al
legheny region during the period
of Federal control, Regional Direc~
tor Markham reports. During Jan
uary, he added, there were 36 uni
flcations which will result in an
annual saving of $528,181.
DENVER, Feb, 18.—Charles A.
Gebhard, president of the Colorado
Packing and Provision Company,
banker and founder of the Denver
Stock Yards, died here yesterday,
NEW YORK, Feb. 18--Seeing
New York on one cent is easy if
you are a “gob.” William H. Scott,
of Oklahoma, is a “gob” who wanted
to see the sights, He had but one
cent to his name. But he left his
battleship, applied to the Soldiers’
and Sailors’ Club and was properly
chaperoned, taking a breakfast,
luncheon, dinner and a dance and
seeing the sights as well. When he
got back to his ship he still had the
cent.
NEW YORK, Feb, 18— Policeman
| Mike Gerry admits he can't throw
the bull, At least, Gergy will not
attempt to toss four-legged bovines
about very soon, following his he
roic attempt to capture a runaway
' bull in the suburbs of Brooklyn.
Gerry's attempt cost him a new
l uniform and a doctor's bill,
|
{
Alderman J u%-,nwuu' chalrman
of the boarg of firemasters, Tuesday is
| sued a statement to the effect that al
| tiremen who testify at the probe of the
{ department set so Wednesda Ljter
{noon, at the request of Fire Chief W. B
l< ody will enjo the same immunity
from any consequence esuiting from
|ly‘. r testimor as was extended to the
teachers who testified in the school in
‘\““ gation last summe
Carl F. Hutcheson, of Pounse for
| Fred A Strau fireman forme il
tached to Engine Compar No. 11. who
"v'-“ sensational harge wgainst Mr
Cody requested an assurance of Im
| munity for his w!tnesses from the board
land Mr, Seawright gave it without re
}\.y\.
The departmental investigation will be
‘u;u n'to the public and will be held in
‘vh. Councll chamber of City Hall in
stead of in the board room at fire head
quarters, in order that all who wish to
| may attend. The hearing will begin at
| 2:30 o'clock Wednesda)
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Blockade Still in Force
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| War-Trade Board Told
l WASHINGTON, Feb, 18 The In
| terstate Commerce Commission want
le to know wl the War Trade
Board was refusing license for cer
’l‘.m manufactured articles to neutral
| countries bordering on Germany and
| it asked the board for an explanation
‘ Today the answer LI It was a
| polite answe but boiled down it
| was just the Twenty-sixth Article of
| the armistice terms
. The existing blockade conditions
f' ... ire to remain unchanged
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Niagara Falls Would
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Be World League Seat
(By International News Service.)
NIAGARA FALLS, ONT, Feb, 18
Niagara I it Couneil today
passed a resolution toat the Mavor of
the Ly « vl ¢ peace conference at
| Pari ettir forth the dvantages of
| Niagara Fall 1% a permanent seat
| for the league of nations for universal
Jence n requesti the wuthoritios
of Niagara Falls, N Y, to co-operate
in the endeavors to have it im-n.‘d“
Fore
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(By International News Service.)
BASLE, SWITZERLAND, Feb. 18,
American troops will be sent inte
Berlin to guard the food sent into that
city by the United States, said a dise
patch from that city today,
Atrocity Trials
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For Hun Raiders
By FLOYD MACGRIFF,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
LONDON, Feb, 18.—“ Atrocity
trials’ of Germans known to have
coinmitted crimes against humanity
on tie Ligh seas will begin soon, and,
according to Rear Admiral Sir Regi
nald Hall, the German defendants will
ve executed if found guilty,
Rear Admiral Hall was in charge of
the British Admiralty's intelligence
1.1~-|‘.u:mvnl during the war. He is
now a member of Parliament from °
| )
Liverpool, having beeh retired,
A method vl procedure against the
German «ffenders has already beem
drafted, according to Sir Reginald,
I'he oftenders will be divided into twe
classes: (1) Those in authority whe
ordered deeds of infamy; (2) those
who carried them out.
If any German we now have m
custody proves he obeyed orders im
committing any sea crimes, then we
will proceed against the higher Gers
man authorities,” said Sir Reginald,
‘Our arm is long enough to reach
the higher-ups In the case of the
hospital ship Landover Castle, the
man who sunk her will be brought
to trial. He will be defended by couns
sel in open court, and if convicted he
shall die
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Deny German Foreign
. .
Secretary Has Resigned |
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, Feb, 18—Cound
von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Foreigm
Secretary in the German Cabinet, hag
not resigned, but is remaining in the
Ministr sald a Weimar dispateh teo
I'l'Ln Politiken today
| It had previously been reported
| Count Broekdorff-Rantzau had lefy,
}) German Cabinet, the intimation
being that a palitieal t erisis wias
| brewing at Weimar
. S ' .
| Spartacists Capture
'Munich Headquarters
| (By International News Service.)
' ZURICH (via london), Feb, 18.-=
- The headquarters of the Muniehl
| army that command the telegra
ind telephone stations and sever
newspaper plants were seized by the
Spartacists today
Machine guns were planted in the
windows of the Army Building “w
| Swee| the adjacent streets
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13-Cent Stamp To Be
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Issued by Uncle Sam
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON Feb 18, ~Unela
Sam, ever alert to serve his millions
of customers, s putting out a new
postage stamp It is of the 13-cemt
denomination and is Issued primarily
for use in prepaying a single rate of
letter postage and special delivery
fee, or for postage and registry fee
It tnay be used, however, for othee
purposes for which ordinary stamge
e used
The new stamp bears the head of
Benjamin Franklin, from Houdon'g
bust, looking to the left, and s privis
ed in yellow-green ink It is of thw
same shape and size as other ordbe
nary stamps of the 1911 series.
border design I 8 the same as that
the other denominations of the owsmd
rent issue above 7 cents,
IR MR N S A TILR i
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Cheaper Freight Rate
A .
On Limestone Soughs
Efforts to obtain cheaper freight
on limestone will be made by the 8
Agricultural Limestone Association.
Hackus, secretary, wns directed to
the matter up with the director geney
rallronds immedintely, at a moetieg
in Atlanta Monday Those e
were J. W. Grimes, Ashevithe; R 8.
or Spartanburg; I'h v o
Knoxvitle; P. D,
Dawvis, Atlanta,