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ATLANTA MILK IS TOO HIGH, SAYS BAHNSEN
Mrs. Abbott Goes to Trial
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The greatest crowd assembled in
she courthouse since the trial of the
famous Candler blackmail case was
packed in the Criminal Court room
Wednesday morning at 9 o'ciock when
Mrs, John Abbott formally was placea
on trial for her life before Judge
!‘lumphriu for the slaying on Janu
ary 27 of her husbaund, daring driver
_@af Fire Chief Cody's “red devil” auto.
The ease was called immediately
an the conyening of court,. and the
irial was put under way after both
the State and the defense had an
nounced ready. .
Mrs. Abbott had been ‘brought to
the courthouse from the Tower about
fifteen minutes before the ovening of
eourt, and appeared calm and com
posed when she tooK her seat at the
defense table beside Attorneys Reu
ben R. Arnold and E. W. Martiu, her
counsel.
» Many Women There.
Many women were in the erowd
that had gathered,to hear the sordid
details of the tragedy recited from
the witness ’l:llld and to get a glimpse
of the woman who had Killed her
husband. Many of the spectators, in
order to gain the choicest seats, had
arrived at the courtroom mgre than
an hour before Jndge Humphries as
cended the beneh to start the 4rial.
Deputy Sheriff Gorden Hardy, who
had charge of arrangements in the
courtroom, gave instructiong to offi
ecers alding him to prevent the court
room from becoming overcrowded
and to preserve order. OQOlfficers were
stationed at each of the courtroom
doors to carry out these instructions.
Mrs. Abbott in Court.
Mrs. Abbott, dressed in a black
suit, a large black hat and a black
veil of medium weight, entered the
Aourtroom with several] relatives
They were her sistar, Mrs, Myrtis
Reese: her uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. F. C. Fenn, and her father, L.
H. Fenn. Her friend, Mrs. Edna C
Rives, also accompanied her. They
were all seated at the defendant’'s ta
ble, Mrs. Abbott between Mrs. Reese
and Mrs. Rives. The latter held the
defendant’'s hand for a part _ef the
time.
The two little sons of Mrs. Abbott,
John H., J. :and Plerce, entered the
courtroQr.’ " " "ho party and were
the occasiv . Of 2reat interest, espe
ecially to th ethrong of women who
filled the rdom long before the trial
wa# scheduled to begin
’ Mcintyre Main Witness.
C. M. Mcintyre, who occupies an
apartment at No, 63 Bass street, the
scene of the tragedy, and who rent
ed the apartment from the Abbotts,
will be the star witness for the
State, it was made known Wednes
day. Mellntyre will be one of the
first witnesses to go on the stand,
following completion of the jury, in
proving the- circumstances of the
slaying of Abbott, and, it was under
gtood about the comrthouse was ex
pected to give some sensational tes
timony. 1
- The State will charge, it was said,
that Mrs. Abbott, after Mary Power,
the girl in the case, had called over
the telephone to speak to Abbott,
cursed her husband and applied to
him a vile epithet, at the same time
demanding to know the name of the
woman., Melntyre, who a few min
wtes previous had been in the Ab
bott apartment and who was in his
own room at the time, was said to
have heard the conversation between
Mrs, Abbott and her husband, and
will tell of the alleged epithets used
by Mrs, Abbhq“ to her husband,
Say Killing Planned.
The State further will contend, it
was made known, that the slaying
was premeditated and was not
brought about in a jealous rage. The
State will set out that Mrs. Abbott,
following the alleged denunciation
of her hushband, summoned her father
to the house. It will be charged fur
ther that the pistol was in the Ab
hott bedroom, and that she went in
titere and brought it out, and that
iAbbott was shot as he sat in a chair.
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Full International News Service
Grins and
Groans in the
Day’s News
CI{ICA(}% Feb. 19.—Stock sales
men are n peddling stock in the
Consumers Packing Company.
Their idleness :s due to a ruling by
Federal Judge Landis late yester
day that until the affairs of the
company had been thoroughly in
vestigated “it would be advisable
to sell no more stock,”
NEW YORK, Feh 19 —"Keep
alert, keep occupied, keep in touch,
read the news—and your health in
99 cases out of 100 will take care
of itself,” Dr. Stephen Smith, 30
years a member of the State char
ities board, declared today, in ecle
brating his ninety-sixth birthday.
He says he has never smoked, but
for 50 years has prescribed smok
ing for others, because ometimes a
charge does good. .
MONROE, MICH., Feb 18—
Thirsty individuals in this section
“saw a ray of hope” today in the
decision handed down late yester
day by the Michigan Supreme
Court, which ruléd that a search
warrant must be obtained before
liGguor could be seized from build
ings, automobiles, suit cases, ete.
In other words, Michigan's search
and seizure law is illegal.
1,000,000 CITY
BOND DRIVE ON
An intensive city-wide drive to as
sure the carrying of the $1,000,000
municipal emergency hond issue at
the polis March 5 will be begun at
once by every members of City Coun
cil and by the special citizens' bond
commission named by Mayor Key
Tuesday afternoon, in order to ob
viate the possibility of what city of
ficials describe as an absolute finan
cial catastrophe for Atlanta.
Not on‘?' are all of the items con
templated under the bond issue con
sidered absolutely essential to the
welfare of the city, but in the case ot
the waterworks department the city
government will be brought face to
face with absolute disaster unless the
bond issue carries at the polls, as
more than $300,000 has already been
expended in this department for bad
ly needed new facilities, and if the
authorities are forced to take this
sum from gurrent revenue it will
mean nothing less than the shut
down of at least two departments for
lack of funds.
Besides the $300,000 for the water
works department, the issue is de
signed to provide money for motori
zation of the fire department; for fa
cilities to utilize thg steam generated
at the crematory "and to supply a
building which will house, properly,
the Ceyelorama picture of the “Battle
of Atlanta.”
A meating of the hq‘nd committes
of Coyncil, of which Councilman A.
3. Orke is chairman, wa sheld at
City Hall Tuesday afternoon. Mem
bers of the committee considered the
situation very frankly. They de
scribed it as the most serious ever
faced by the city, and stated that on
March § Atlanta either will receive at
the hands of the voters the necessary
indorsement of this very vital project
or will be given a sethack from which
it will take years to recover. Sev
eral members of the committee ex-|
pressed the belief that the question is
not taken seriously enough by the
voters, and they declared that only
the complete and untiring support of
City Council, d every civie, com
mercial and lm?:atrlal organization in
the city will be sufficient to put the
issue over. \
The citizens' bond commission.
named by Mayor Key Tuesday to su
pervise the expenditure of the money
from the bonds, s made up of W.
M. Middlebrooks, for the First Ward;
Lsaac Schoen, Second Ward; Dan \t.
Gireen, Third Ward; J. Walter Mason,
Fourth Ward; W. H. Johnson, Fifth
Ward; Charles Austin, Sixth ard; E.
V. Carter, Seventh Ward; Frank H,
Inman, Eighth Ward; Ben R, Padgett,
Jr., Ninth Ward, and 1. N. Ragsdale,
Tenth Ward.
Plans for the bond campaign so far
inelude, besides a general proaganda
to educate the voters, a half holiday
on election day and a big parade by
every department of the eity govern
ment and all civie and commercial
organizations in Atlanta. These plans
are being worked out by a committee
of which Councilman Al H., Martin
is chairman. In additlon, it is planned
to have ward committees appointed
immediately by Mr. Key to do per
sonal misslonary work in the ten
wards of the city, A
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MF} TING NEWS Lwflf}%g J;}._"L‘E__A T 8 N N
PROFIT MADE
of ATLANTA
DEALERS 1
CCORED
% Charges that the milk retatler is
making too high a margin of profit
are based on these figures, given
gby Dr. P. ¥. Bahnsen, "State vet
é erianian- ‘
3 Wholesale. Retail.
Savannah, per gal.. .65 . 76@51.00
{ Augusta, per gal.. .50av, .60@.72
) Vaildosta, per gal.. .50 a 2
z LaGrange, per gal.. .56 HA2I-2
) Macon, per gal .. 33 .80
Atlanta, per ga1...., 46 SI.OO
The contention of the milk produc
ers ihat they are selling their milk at
a reasonable price, 45 cents a galion,
to the retailer and that the differ
ence between that amount and the $1
a gallon paid by the consumrer goes
to the retailer, is receivirg some con
sideration from the various agencies
concerned with ascertaining why
milk is being sold iln Atlanta at from
four to fourteen cents a quart higher
tuan in other cities. |
The producers, who make and sell
their Lmtter direct to the conaumer.‘
introduce as evidence the scale of
butter prices in the leading cities in
Georgia, Country butter in Atlanta,
sold direct by the producer, retails at
30 cents a pound, while Augusta pays
85 cents and Macon and “Savannah
each pay 40 cents a pound. ’
Further in suppor: of their conten
tions, the producers point to the com
parative abundance of the Atlanta
supply, forcing them to sell at 45
cents in contrast with the shortage
of milk at Macon, Augusta and Sa
vannah, where more is paid the pro
ducer and less charged %he consumer,
The producers admit that in some
instances their feed prices are lower
than in other Georgia cities and as
sert that their prices to the retailers
are lower in proportion,
Further indications that the re
sponsibility for the higher prices of
milk in Atlanta lies with the dis
tributors is given in a table of com
parative wholesale and retail prices
prevalent in the lteading Gvnrmu‘
cities furnished by Dr. Peter ¥. Bahn
sen, State veterinarian, and presented
at the head of this column. ‘These
statistics bear out the comenno]n of
the producers that while they sell the
milk at 45 cents a gallon, the addl
tional 55 cents a gallon is tacked on
by the distributor, giving the Atlnmni
milk middleman a higher profit than
Continued on Page 2, Column 6. ‘
The Prayer Meeting §
Is an Informal
Gathering of Friends
It is really a family gather
ing to which the church
u‘wn. its doors on Wednes
day evening. -
s And it makes no difference
whether yflur IIMH;‘M l?) on the
3 c¢hurch rollgqor whether you
( “‘l-re a stranger, those who
; * come together for this hour
of prayer are made to feel
{ the l(rnnf family ties
which hol together the
$ people whose thoughts are
furned in unison toward the
I:\felpful. hopeful things of
e.
You will enjoy the praver
§ meeting hour and be great-
Iv helped by going $
¢
i On Sunday also, the churches |
welcome you. Read their
! invitations ‘Printed in The ¢
; Georgian's “Go To Church” '
i columns on Saturday. ¢
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1919
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All Governors and
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300 Mayors to Attend
Conference on Labor
(By Intermational News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Approxi
mately 300, mayors of cities through
out the cowntry, and the governors of
all the States, have wired their ae
ceptances to the invitation to the
Labor Conference to be held here for
the purpose of outlining a reconstruc
tive program. 'The date of the con
ference will be set by the President
when he arrives and it is thought it
will be a few days after March 4
The main subject of discussion will be
that of awakening the governors to
the necessity of starting public works
in their Btates,
(Exclusive Cable by the International
mg-q-. and London
aily Express.) ;
ESSEN, GERMANY (via London),
Feb. 19—Pighting between counter
revolutionaries and Government
troops has been im progress in the
Dorsten district of Westphalia since
last Friday. .
Six bundred reinforcements have
Joined the revolutionaries. They
are well supplied with artillery also.
Railway trestles have been blown
up to prevemt the Government from
sending in more soldiers.
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By H. J. GREENWALL,
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and London
Daily Express.)
ESSEN, Feb, 18 (via Londen, Feb,
19).—Essen, the seat of the great
Krupp Gun Works, is in the hands of
the Soldiers’ Council and there is talk
of a break off between this district
and Berlin with the policy of a sep
arate peace for the Rhineland if the
Entente would consider such a pro
ceeding.
Neither Berlin nor Weimar knows
what is about to happen here
Reecruiting for the German national
army has bean stopped and the revo
lutionaries have mounted machine
guns and are blowing up bridges
around Essen. While seeking a trav
eling pass at Essen 1 was asked by
one member of the people's commis
| saries whether the Entente would
likely make a separate peace with
the Rhineland. This German said the
people of this community wanted to
break off from the rest of Germuany
Burgomaster Hans Luher admitted
1o me that the Soldiers’ Council is
in control,
Heinrich Jager, one of the leaders
of the strikers, said he did not con
template any trouble unless Govern
‘mn nt troops attempt to overrun all
of Westphalia,
10,000 Homeless in
Eastern Galicia
(By International News Service.)
CRACOW, ¥Feéb 18 (via London,
Feb, 19) —Ten thousand persons are
homeless in Eastern Gallcla as a re
sult of the devastation caused by the
fighting between the Ukrainians and
- Hungarians,
Three thousand persons have been
wounded in the bombardment of
Lemberg. The city is upder shell
fire dally. Several towns in Eastern
Galicia have been I|vav.rmu| entirely
Decree of Abdication ‘
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Sought by Austrians
(By International News Service.)
VIENNA, Feb. 18 (via London, Feb
19) A formal decree of abdication
will be demanded from former Em
peror Charles, thus ending the Haps
burg dynasty forever, It wus an
‘nmmm-d today by President Seitz, of
the German-Austrian Republie
This action, added President Seitz,
will be taken as a result of the So
clalist victory in the recent slection,
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Big Building Increase |
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Predicted in Atlanta
Atianta will experience a big un'vou.-
in building activity within a few weeks
I 8 the prediction of local really dealer
Developments in real estate operations
Tuesday were marked by an inerease
in the transfer of bullding lots
{:uunl lots are the best buy in local
markets at present, was the declaration
of James 1. Togun, prominent reul cos
tate man 5 ;
N OF PEAGE
PARLEY BY
JUNE NOW
PROBABLE
By ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspondent of the L N. 8,
PARIS, Feb. 19.—Opinfon is crys
tallizing among the peace envoys that
it might be possible to summon the
German, Austro-Hungarian, Bulga
rian amd Turkish delegates in a full
congress by the middle of April or the
first of May,; and that peace can finals
Iy be conciuded by the beginning of
June.
When President Wilson returns to
Parés the middle of March he will
find the labors of the eonference con
siderably advanced and a eut-and
dried program ready upon which hel
will be able to get to work. The
biggest question engaging attention
at this moment is the milltary and
naval strength that will be left to
Germany after peace is formally de
clared. )
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| Austrian Move Watched.
The peace conferees are closely
‘watching the Austrian movement to
form the German-speaking peoples of
Burope into a solid biee,
~ The American unofficial view is
j that Austria, if she exercises the right
of self-determination, should be al
lowed to threw in her lot with her
'stronger northern neighbors if she
should elect to do so.
' Another view, propounded chiefly
,b_\' the French, is that .mgch a bloe
would constitute a menate for the
‘mst of Burope and that peace conld
'be best guaranteed by forming the
German people into as many different
states as possible,
l The question is bound to come be
fore the council of ten before long,
rul\hough probably not until Presi
‘dent Wilson returns from the United
'States. It is now understood that the
German army will be fixed at a
‘maximum of twenty-five divisions or
\roughly at half a million men and
that no part of this force xhall be |
garrisoned near the Franco/German
frontier, At the same time f‘u-"many‘
will be abseélutely forbidden to use
a single submarine.
| Question of Training.
. The question of allowing Cermany
to continue training men without!
equipping them for war will probably
be settled by the league of nations
council (the executive council) as in«
deed will the whole question of con
seription and submarine warfare and
world navies in general
One view that likely will be pressed
under article twelce of the consti
tution of t.hen)akue of nations is
nonconscription” for Germany for at
least ten years. If such a proposi
tion is adopted it is said there will
absolutely be no_ frontier danger rur\
France to face ass that France, ftaly
and other nations will be only too
ready to take advantage of the
finanekal relief thus afforded by abol
ishing conscription in their own couns
tries. i
It is believed that if the principal
powers go without conscription for
o period of ten years there will be
no disposition to take it up later,
Under the same article of the
league of nations covenant (No. 12)
it s expected the submarine will be
banned by ‘all navies, even for le
gitimate uses of naval warfare,
taly’s refusal to accept arbitration
of her territorial differences with
Jugo-Slavia caused no surprise in
Paris.
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Wilson Coming Home
- With 2,232 Soldiers
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, FFeh. 18, On board
the George Washington, which s
bringing home President and Mrs,
Wilson, are 100 ofMicers and 2,232 men
of the American expeditionary forces,
the War Department has announced,
The announcement sald the ship s
due February 26. The port was not
named, although it has been an
nounced the President is to quit the
«ship at Boston,
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' George Clemenceau, the Tiger of France, reported victim
of attempted assassination
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FEEAACRES. A Reßactreass NEws SLG By
‘Dolly’ Lane, Atlant
olly’ Lane, Atlanta
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Peddler, Diesin N. Y.,
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$26,000 in Pockets
CHARLOTTE, N. C, Feb, 19—
“Dolly” Lane, Roumanian peddler,
well known iln this city, Atlanta,
Birmingham. and other Southern
cities, was found dead in his bed in
New York City, according to re
ports received here,
In his clothing was found a roll
of bills and checks amounting to
$25,000, “Dolly” was a naturaly
follower of the “wanderlust” and
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never remained in any one place for
any length of time
Since the opening of Camp
Greene here until about ten days
ago Lane had been selling souve
nirs from #a small stand in Inde
pendence square, He sold the
stand to a brother countryman re
cently and since then had not been
heard from until news of his death
was received last night..
While “Dolly” was known as a
“miser,” he was considerod a “poor”
peddler and the fact that he had a
large amount of money on his per
son when found dead came as a
surprise to hs friends, Death was
caysed by heart failure,
Lane wag In business In Atlanta
on a small scale on several occa
slons and never failed to visit the
Georgin metropolis on gala occi«
sion® as a peddler of popular sou
vanirs,
MORE AVIATORS ARRIVE.
NEW YORK, Feb. 18, -Beverul well.
knowy wuviators, 30 wounded soldiers
from them Eighty-ninth Divisgion and
9 casual officers arrived here yesters
day on the transport Hickman, which’
took 2¢ davs to cross the Atlantie,
Iwsund Daliy and Eutered as Second-Class Matter sy
the Postoffice at Atianta Under Act of March 3, 1879
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The firemasters’ probe of conditions
n the Atlanta fire department, which
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wis ordered at the request of Chief
W. B, Cody, as the result of rumored
charges of incompetency made ngainst
him Dy members of the department,
will begin in the Council chamber of
City Hall at 2:3 oo'clock Wednesday
ifternoon The probe will be very
earching in character and probably
will consume several days 1
Counciygman Albert H, Martin,
chalrman of the committee appainted
by the fire board to make a prelimi
nary investigation, announced several
da 1o thad nothing had been found
to sustain thé charges which the chief
iys certain of his men have made
against him. This report is expected
to weigh heavily with the board in its
- decision However, the boeard also
will consider detailgd written charges
mad )y Fred A, Straub, H. R, Dan
iels and wther members or former
Mmembers of the department, since the
Investigntion was ordered ‘
Str charge wlone include 62
stems, most of them tending to show
that Mr. Cody has played polities in
hig oflice, that he is brutal and un
fair in his treatment of | men and
that generally is incompetent to
direct 1t work of the department.
Alderman J. R, Beawright, chairman
of the fire board, has announced that
firemen called as witnesse or who
prpen oluntartly will not jeopardize
their Jobs by testifyin 1L the inves
tigation, Carl . Hutcheson, of coun
sel for Straub, has stated that he exs
pects to callkmore than 100 witnesses
RTINS
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TTEMPT T 0
KL FRENT
‘ OREMER
REPINTED
(By International News Service.y
NEW YORK, Feb, 19.—At the ofw
fices of the French high commission
hdbe today it was stated a wireless
report had been received from Franca
that Premier Clemencean had been
shot, but that no further details had
arrived. "
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(By International News Service.J
LONDON, Feb. 19.—A report thad
an attempt had been made to assase
sinate Premier Clemenceau of Francey
presumably in Paris, was received in
Fleet street today in cable dispatchey
from New York, ’
Fleet street is the newspaper disw
trict of London. It was a eurious civm
cumstance that the report of the ate
tempted assassination should be re«
ceived fn London from New Yorg
rather than from Paris,
Premier Clemenceau, or “The Tigen
of France,” as he has been nick=
named because of his fighting procliv<
ities, was born m 1841 and has long
been a prominent figure in French
public life, He is serving his second
tenure as Prime Minister of France,
having been selected by President
Poinecare to form a new Cabinet in
the stormy days of 1917, He assem
bled a Ministry on Npvember 16
(1917“ taking the posts of Premier
ond Minister himself. When
peace conference formally met,
Clemenceau was named
chairman,
During the days of imperial Prance
’ M. Clemencean had to flee because of
his republican tendencixs. and lived
for a while | nthe United States. He
taught French in a school at Stame
ford, Conn,, and later mraried Mary
Plummer, a New York girl, from
‘whom he was subsequently divorced.
“Th eTiger” served his first term
‘as Premier from 1906 to 1909, After
his retirement, he continwed to wield
iu powerful influen through his
newspaper. M., C;nneonu called
‘his publication The Freeman, but
'when the censorship became very
Strict after the outhreak of the war
'he changed the_anme to The Man in
Chains. .
‘ When the Tiger became Prslniuf
for the second time he changed the
- name back tb The Freeman onep
more,
Relentless Fighter,
Throughout his long and ventures
some career M. Clemenceau had als
ways been known as a relentless
Mfighter and on many big questions in
‘the- Chamber of Deputies he led the
lopposition. His reputation for pere
sonal fearlessness made him a be-
Joved figure in France. Before he
‘was 30 years old M. Clemenceau had
fought half a dozen duels and had
won them all,
In a way the career of “The Tiger®
was something like that of the late
Colonel Roosevelt, Both were men
of tremendous energy and of diversi
fled activities. M. Clemencean early
In life studied medicine and always
he had a leaning toward political
economy, He studied sociology and
wrote voluminously qpn the subject,
After getting into journalism his
editorials were noted for theie
strength and grace of language.
Despite all of these labors, M. Clem~
encean found time to write several
plays. His comedies, however, were
not quite so successful as his politi
cal activities,
M. Clemenceau's ambition in late
years had beon to see the war through
to a peace that will give France all
of her old glories—a peace that shall
be enduring. M. Clemenceau opposed
some of Presldent Wilson's principles
on the league of nations, but‘hsfl.
as ever, it was_recognized th the
aged statesman Was inspired only by
love for France and Inspiring patcis
otism,
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Chaplin Has $1,000,000
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~ Job; Will Quit Big Five
| (By International News Service.)
KANSAS CITY, MO, Feb, 19.-=
Charles Chaplin, famous movie ecome
edlan, will withdraw from the pre=
cently formed “Big Five” combina
tion of stars to accept an offer of
$1,000,000 yearly salary made by an
organization of capitalists, race traclk
and moving picture men of New Ors
leans, according to reports from an
apparently reliable authority here,
Chaplin's withdrawal wounld leave
Fairbanks, Pickford and Griffith as
the remalning members of the “Big
Five™ organizatiop, as rumors have
been current for a week that Willlany
8. Hart had decided to leave the o
guanization,
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More Ships to Rush
U. S. Soldiers Home
'&By International News Service.)
'ARHIINGTON, Feb, 15, —«Definite 14
nomigement of the agreement to tal
over 00, 000 tons of :-nly»g»tng from lfl;
and nuvy control, will be made
Chatrman Hurley, of the shipping %
stute Jate yesterday afternoon,
agreoment will call for o faster -
ment of troops from overseas m
reduction of tonnage under na
military cnn«'f)l should bj
40 days, he added, .
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