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VOL. XVII
PRESIDENT ARRIVES IN FRANCE
Albright Case Might Be Put In Jury’s Hands By Noon Friday
REDS REPORTED LOSING IN BERLIN FIGHT
The taking of testimony closed at
8:20 o'clock Thursday afternoon in
the prosecution of William H. Al
bright on the charge of slaying Car
lisle H. Christy before the residence
of Mrs. Gay C. Febuary on January
2, and Attorney Ralph MeClelland
opened the argument for the defense.
By waiving the right to introduce any
evidence except the statement of the
defendant, the defense won the right
to open and close the argument in
the case.
Dr. P. H. Kennedy, of Charleston,
8. C, 4hen spoke for the prosecution,
and it was expected that Attorney
John S. McClglland would speak for
the defense and Assistant Solicitor E.
A. Stephens for the State before the
adjournment of court. This would
leave Solicitor Boykin and Attorney
Reuben Arnold to close the argument
Friday morning.
The State introduced only three
witnesses in rebuttal of the statement
made by Albright, J. B. Nisbet, of the
Miller Book Store, testified that he
was on the car with Albright, Christy
and Mrs. Febuary and did not notice
any disorder. 8. B. Hamlett was re
called and repeated his original testi
mony. C. F. von Hermann, head of
the Weather Bureau, produced rec
ords to show that the night of Janu
ary 2 was rainy, sleety and dark.
Albright's statement follows
“I work for the General Fire Ex
* tinguisher Company, 1 have been
there over six years. 7The reason I
was at work instead of in the army
was because I was turned down when
1 volunteered for service anJd was put
in the fifth class in the draft exami
nation as physically unfit,
“Ten years ago my mother moved
to Atlanta from North Carolina, and
~ bought out a boarding house here.
?r. and Mrs. Febuary boarded with
her. 1 was just a boy of 15 at the
time and waited on the table. Mr.
Febuary used to take me to picture
shows and baseball games. After
they moved away I visited their
house often ahd took Mr. Febuary
to different places of amusement, re
membering how Kkind he had been
to me.
Friend of Febuary.
“After they bought their home on
Mathewson street I used to go out
and stay with Mr. Febuary while
Mrs, Febuary was away on these de
tective trips.
“On the afternoon of January 2
Mr. Febuary called me at my place
of business and asked me to come
out for a game of cards. He said
that Lndsey and my brother, Dr. Al
bright, would be there. After I got
home the weather was so bad that
1 called him up and asked him to
put the game off to some other time,
He said Lindsey had already left his
office and there was no way to get
in touch with him, and that my
< brother was going away and it would
be his last chance
“After supper my brother and 1
went up to our room to wash up and
my brother f®Muarked that he had
S2OO and no place to leave it. [ had
S4OO, including my salary and bonus
check. Knowing that the Febuary
home was in the woods and it being
such a dark night, I decided to take
my pistol,
Man Annoys Mrs. Febuary.
“The pistol had five hullets in it.
When I got on the car | saw Mrs,
Febuary on a seat by herself and a
man sitting in front of hep She mo
tioned to me to sit hy her, and I did
The man in front demanded that she
sit by him. Mrs. Fehuary suid he was
mlnklnu and to pay no attention
“l sat there talking to Mrs, Feb.
uary, when Christy leaned over and
asked what I wns saving I said 1
was talking to Mrs. Febuary She
leaned over wund started talking to
¥ Christy I told her everybody was
notieing, but she sald she couldn't
help it, that Christy was drinking
and had a gun and | mustn't start
anything. She begged (‘hristy not to
start any trouble He kept saying,
‘l'm going home with you. llf he can
go, I can go.'
“I got scared and excited 1 had
intended getting off the front, but [
didn't want to pass Christy, so we
got off at the back, Mr. Fehuary
was waitinz and we all three got un
der his umbrella and started to the
house
“Christy followed us up i‘he street
Febuary asked who he was, bhut 1
, didn’t answer. When I noticed him
Continued on Page 2, Column 1.
Full International News Service
The Jingles in
The Headlines
By HARVE WESTGATE.
AILWAY clerks refuse to
R listen to the voice of Uncle
Sam, and whole trains of
cheese and garlic are now in an
awful jam; they declare they see
the scheming of the raiiroads in
the fight, and they'll stand or fall
together, for they think they're in |
the right. Eugene Debs lets loose
some language, 'ere he goes to
serve his time, and attacks our
courts and judges and besmears
them all with slime; calls them
names and paints their pictures as
bewhiskered, powdered gents, and
allows as how the judges make a
noise like thirty cents. Murder
trial is now in progress, and, of
course, the crowd is there, as they
always come in bunches for a
chance to hear and stare; but the
woman witness failed them, and
they called the “show” a frost, ana
they voiced their keen displeasure
at the time that they had lost. Old
Bill Bishop’s in our city, and he's
going to make a spiel, and en
lighten us and tell us just how
good it makes him feel, when he
wakes each morning early, at the
rising of the sun, and recalls his
flights in Europe when he helped
to lick the };m,
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 13.—Attor
ney General A, Mitchell Palmer to
day took steps to protect the public
against high prices of meat products
that might result from hoarding by
speculators of available supplies. The
food 2dministration’s sudden action
in letting down the bars by removing
restrictions against storage for more
than a period of 60 days, has aroused
a storm of protest from many quar
ters, chiefly from those Government
agencies in Washington which are
trying to force down the cost of liv
ing.
Secretaries Houston and Redficld,
at a Cabinet meeting, were foremost
in bringing to the attention of the
Attorney General the necessity for a
prompt and vigorous step to nip in
the bud attempts at unlawful hoard
ing of meats by the big packers or
their affiliated concerns.
Soon after the food administration’s
crder lifting the restrictions was pro
mulgated, there followed over the
wires reports—said to have been in
spired—of probable great shortage in
pork and pork products. These re
ports attributed coming shortage and
higher prices to tremendous foreign
orders. But officials scouted these re.
ports, traced their origin, and, acting
on the direction of the Attorney Gen
eral, Federal agents in every impor
tant meat producing and storage cen
ter were instructed to watech for cases
of hoarding and to report violations
to the Department of Justice. The
Department of Justice wiil proceed
under the broad powers conferred by
the Lever act, forbidding hoarding of
foodstuffs for unreasonable perfods,
during times of scarcity in any par
ticular commodity. Prosecutions will
be handled by District Attorneys in
the districts wherein the violations
oceur
Federal prosecutors will “handle
without gloves” every individual, high
or low, who attempts o influence
prices through hoarding of meats or
any other of the staple commodities
over which the food administration
has relaxation. Department or Jua
tice officiale made 1t very emphatic
that its agents and Inspectors will
keep a careful check upon packing
houses and their branches throughout
the country, and that in this task they
will be aided greatly by the inspectory
of the Department of Agriculture
Mrs. Abbott Pays Visit
To Grave of Husband
Mrs. John Abbott, recently convicted
of voluntary manslaughter and sen
tenced to serve a term of ten years for
the death ot her husband, now out un
der bond of SIO.OOO pending a hearing
on motion of her attorneys for a new
trial, Wednesday afternoon visited the
grave of her husband at Greenwood
cemetery Mrs., Abbolt was accompa
nled by a friend and remained at the
grave only a few minutes, She was per
vceptibly weakened, but stood the ordeal
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‘ Ticket service at the Terminal Sta
tion, suspended for a few hours
Thursday by the walkout of station
employees, was restored to some ex
tent about 2 o'clock, when several
general passenger agents and other
higher officials of the roads operat
ing into the station took places at the
ticket windows and provided passen
geérs with transportation. It was
stated by railroad authorities that
this service would be augmented fur
ther, and that the public would not
be inconvenienced by the walkout.
Several experienced baggage men
were said to have been engaged to
care for the baggage passing through
the Terminal, removing trouble at
this end.
The walkout at the Terminal Sta
tion, Union Station and the Consoli
dated ticket offices included ticket
sellers, train callers and baggage men
a4s a protest against the action of G.
B. Harris, district passenger agent,
and other officials of the N, C. & St.
IL. Railroad in selling tickets and
checking baggage for service on the
rw. & A.-N, C. & St. L. route. '
The walkout in the Terminal Sta
tion was the most effective, practical
ly every employee there going out.
The number who struck at the Termi
nal Station totaled more than 100
men and women, while twelve went
out at tke consolidated ticket office
in the Flatiron Building and thirteen
went out from the Union Station.
Few on Job.
At the corsolidated ticket otfice
tickets were still being sold by five of
the officials of the Railroad Adminis
tration, but the crowds who failed to
'arrivp long before the usual time lim
its were forced to go away ticketless.
The Union Station force walked out
in a body, but tickets were being
sold Thursday by the station agent
[mu‘] baggage was being checked from
this station by . B. Harris, district
[p;maenger agent of the N, C. & St. L.,
- whose actions at the Terminal Sta
lnun precipitated the general walk
out. At the Union Station there was
’(I 'm of passengers at the ticket
window and great confusion in the
Dagrage rdom, wnere tlarris was at
tempting to handle the work of sev
eral men.
Director Explains. |
B. L. Winchell, direetor of rail
roads for the Southern region, made
the following statement concerning
the administration’s side of the con
troversy: ‘
It is a matter of regret that the
’ public will be temporarily and un
necessarily inconvenienced by the |
| action of the ticket sellers, baggage
| clerks, mail handlers, gate men and ‘
| certain other classes of ‘employvees |
' who thave heretofore served the
railroad administration w
) We received a demand this morn- |
ing that the ticket agent at the |
Terminal Station (not a member of
the Clerks' Brotherhood), must re-|
fuse to sell tickets and that the ‘
general baggage agent must check ‘
| no baggage over the Nashville,
Chattanooga and BSt. Louis Rail
road; further, that the “trains of
that line should not be announced
in the station for the information
| of the public and that the stgtion
| gates must not be opened to allow
passengers to enter or leave the
Dixie Flyer.
The gate was very properly open
ed by the superintendent of the sta
tion for the publie accommodation,
Strike Called.
The local chairman of the Broth
erhood at the Terminal Station
now advises, ‘“as a result we have
| suspended business in the ticket
‘ office and around the Terminal Sta
tion.,”
The U'nited States Railroad Ad
ministration will take the steps
necessary to resume the operation
aof this station and to replace the
ticket clerks at the consolidated
United States Rallroad Administra
tion ticket office who have also ad
vised us of thel rintention to retire
from the service at 10:30 o'clock
| this morning
1 Terminal in Confusion,
, Widespread confusion prevailed at
| the Terminal Station, with no one but
military and city policemen to direct
'the outgoing and incoming ecrowds
Even the information bureau sus
pended business, Passengers desiring
5-“ take traing at this station were
compelled to leave what baggage they
rhnd except what could be carried in
their hands; they could secure no In
formation, purchase no tickets, and
had to find their own trains. There
were no callers to eall the departing
trains, no gatemen to direct passen
gers to the proper tracks and no signs
to indicate on what track the various
out ng traing were standing
Passengers who went out on the
Dixie/Flyer, just at the time the men
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Continuec on Page 3, Column 1 ]
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1919
Deplore Vulgarity of
(By International News Service.)
LONDON'* (by mail).—New York's
i howl against the Beautiful Young
| Foolish who insists on wearing ber
new gown as if were about to spill
out of it, backward, has its exact
echo right here in London, where the
staid women are throwing up their
hands at the vulgarity of the new
gowns.
With no hesitation, a London vicar
protests against the ‘‘‘mmodesty of
the evening gown of 1919,” dnd his
cry has been taken up stoutly by the
mothers of Mayfair.
“I can asure you,” said one of them
discussing what she termed the very
dangerous situation of the young
women going out into public scarcely
half dressed: ‘I have seen very scant
garments at a so-called quiet dance
last week. When I went (o a dress
maker to buy my two girls pretty
gowns for their coming out, she
showed me lkir(r’ that were mere
fringes to hide the limbs from the
knees downward. Vapor gauze, she
described them, and that describes
the thickness of these immodest dance
garments, shown as suitable for giris
of eighteen and nineteen.”
“I am shocked myself,” said a dress
maker, “by the two fashions. One is
that of having the front of a ball
gown high and guctlca\ly no back at
all, as it is cut V-shaped right to the
waist. The second is that of four V
pieces to form the bodice, leaving no
material under the arms. 1 strongly
resent such fashion, but the demand
u!reuL"
0, you see, it is not the poor dress
maker, who wants to sell all her
gowns, but the wearers themselves -
and with the cost of everything going
u‘p so tremendously, some do not
blame them for economizing on ma
terial,
li‘!re on U. S. Hospital
. ays
Ship Imperilied Many
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 13.—The story
‘of how wounded American veterans
fought and put out a fire which en
dangered many of their bed-ridden
I(‘omrades on the hospital ship Com
fort while crossing the Atlantic was
‘related upon the arrivgd of the ship
here Thursday with 417 sick and
wounded aboard.
The conflagration occurred in one
lof the surgical wards below decks,
Iwherp there were 60 patients, and
was caused by the explosion of a mo
tion picture machine with which they
were being entertmined. Most of the
patients had suffered the loss of arms
or legs
Private Fred Hofer, of Falls City,
Nebr.,, who left his left leg at Ver
dun, and Private George lenry, of
Philadelphia, who lost his right leg in
the Argonne forest, hopped to the fire
and smothered the flames with their
bed clothes,
Wood Makes Plea for
. .
Soldier Without a Job
MILWAUKHKEE, March 13.—Neglect
‘the returned soidier and he will drift
“into the hands of the agitator, the
’Hnlnhv\iki. the reds and other damna
ble agencies,” declared Major General
Leonard Wood, commander of the Cen
‘tral Division, In a speech here last
nlg':m.
Irging Milwaukee to take steps to
provide work for returned soldiers Gen
eral Wood said: ‘“The man who has
gone back to his job is not a cause for
.worry. It is the nmn without a job, the
man who is not sure he wants to BO
worry,"”
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}G. 0. P. Committee
| Backs Mann on Test
(By International News Service.)
. WASBHINGTON, March 13.-—By a
vote of 156 to 35, the Republican com
mittee on committees Thursday aft
ernoon defeated a motion by Repre
sentative Johnson, of North Dakota,
to add to the steering committee the
names of four Representatives who
would have overcome the Muann ma -
Jority on that body. The Mann op
‘ptmn-nvn wore able to muster the votes
of only South Dakota, Ohio, Ne
braska, Kansas, Massachusetts and
West Virginia
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\6OO Quarts of Liquor
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Stolen at Camp W heeler
MACON, Mareh 18.--Bix hundred
kqunrls of whisky were stolen from
the buase hospital at Camp Wheeler
!IMM night, according to a report made
today to the Sheriff's office by Cap
tain Ralston Fleming, intelligence
officer,
Entrance to the hospital was made
through a window in the medieal
wupply warehouse, The whisky was
that used in the treatment of patients
’ullflorlnu from mfluenza and pneu
monia,
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Canadian Farmers Kill
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Daylight Saving Plan
(By International News Service.)
OTTAWA, March 13.—~The Cana
dian Government has decided to re
peal the daylight saving act because
of the bitter opposition from mem
"wrn representing rural districts,
BRITISH IDEA OF INDEMNITY.
LONDON, March 13- The policy of
the Government is that we should
‘l:nlw all that Germany i& able to pay,
in the opinfon of our commissioners,
declared Bonar Law in the House of
‘('nmmnns. concerning the indemnity
lqueouon.
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(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 13~-By a surprise
jattack the German Government troops
'have outflanked and driven back the
th‘;un!;u‘uh‘s at Lichtenberg, an east
ern suburb of Berlin, said a Central
| News dispatch from Amsterdam this
| afternoon. The reds fell back in panic,
'abandoning material
The main force of Spartacides 1s
reported to bave been isolated with
the Government troops advaneing,
| wiping out “nests.”
| Government troops began their sys
| tematic assaults on the Spartacist
{stronghold at Lichtenberg Wednes
!day, said another news agency dis-
Ip.'m:h from Copenhagen,
| The eastern part o fßerlin is being
!(\m'llpn'rl by the troops supporting the
{Government. Driven into a corner
‘the reds are committing brutal atroc
| ities, said another dispatch from Am
| sterdam. Both sides are fighting
\ without mercy.
{ The Berlin streets are littered with
iruins and wreckage caused by artil
{lery fire. The unfortunate inhabitants
jare in a pitiable condition
) Among the Spartacides shot in the
| fighting vesterday were several Rus
| sians, =
That the Spartacist counter revolu
tion at Berlin has collapsed was indi
cated by a German radigram pieked
up here todav* It stated that Minis
| ter of War Gustave Noske had de
imandvd the unconditional surrender
| of all Spartacist soldiers and the sur
| render of all their arms
I The Reds, the dispatch said, had
asked for a truce, but Noske replied
it would be granted only on the terms
mentioned
But even if the situation has be
come quieter at Berlin, rioting has
spread into the provinces.
At Dusseldorf, which has long been
a storm center, the revolution was
luv.phnmsml by Government troops
In~lm'. artillery and machine guns,
The real situation at Berlin is ob
scure. If the revolt has really been
| crushed the Government iroops acted
with great suddenness, for fighting
was reported in progress in and
around Berlin as late as Tuesday
night It must be remembered that
the Nauen wireless plant, from which
the repoit of the Government's vie
tory was sent, is in the hands of the
Government authorities,
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Report of Government
Victory Is Denied
By H. J. GREENWALL.,
(Exclusive Cable by the International
News Service and The London
Daily Express.)
BERLIN, March 12 (via London
March 13).—Despite the Wolff Agency
bulletin that the CGoverninent troops
had won a victory over the Sparta-
IlMn-~ “according to plan,” driving
them back a mile and inflicting losses
Il|w soldiers supporting the Govern
ment were forced to take tne defen
sive in the northern part of the city
last night
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Spartacists Making
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Progress in Poland
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Marech 13.—The Sparta
cists are making progress in the in
dustrial regions, factories and mine
of Poldnd weording o Centra
News advices received here Thursday
afternoon, Conflict between the Spa
tacists and the Polish troop has
ceased and the latter have been sent
to Galacia
% The Purpose of The
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and other live stock to sell
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ANOTHER SON |
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who has . : Vs‘ \ o
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Army. : B 5y |
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still limping \\// » =
from a 5 e 2 &
bullet wound 2 " - | :
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Captain Archie, ¥t i k D
was invalided v fi‘“ "‘ '
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LLT.-COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.,
PHOTO BY INTERNATIONAL.
Gloomy predictiong for Georgia's next
cotton crop were presented by J. J
Brown, commissioner of agriculture, fol
lowing his return Wednesday from E!
bert County, where he addresed a meet
Ing of 500 farmers In his talk there,
Mr. Brown pleaded in favor of lifting
the embargo on cotton shipments into
he centra: empires
Fixcessive raing since November have
et all crops, particular! cotton, back
about thirty days, Mr. Brown reported
On account of the boll weevil danger,
It Is customary to plant sea island cot
ton about March 16, which comes on
next Monday, but Mr. Brown pointed
out that this will be imposible, as the
ground is saturated, Short staple, which
should be planted by April 1, also wil
be delayed. he said
We have had a very warm winter
he sald, "and therefore the boll weevil
probably will be more active than in
the past, consequently we must turs
our attention more to food- crops. Grain
crops all over the State appear to be In
a thriving condition, but cottor snd
vegetables still are too far behind for
ug to have any reports on them
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Sleeping Sickness
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Death in New York
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 18 The MArst
death from "sleeping sickness’” to be
recorded by the health department of
New York City was announced
Thursday afternoon when Commis- |
sloner Copeland reported the death
of Erskine W, Martine, a steamship
company clerk, Martine had been il
for five days ‘
Caruso Pays $38,182 |
.
On His Income 'l'a.v“
(By International News Service.) |
NEW YORK March 13 Knrico
Caruso the noted tenor Thursdany
handed the local internal revenue col.
lector a check for $38,483.43, the first|
quarter of his income Lax, which w-‘
Lals $162,933.70,
A Paper for Atlant a,Georgta,
and the South
Seven huge airplanes similar to
those used in bombing raids overseas
flew over Atlanta shortly before noon
Thursday, having made the trip of
113 miles from Americus in 1 hour
and 10 minutes, a rate of little less
than 100 miles an hour. Colonel ¥, T.
Dickman was in command of the
squadron, which flew in battle forma
tion, and came to greet Colonel W, A
| Bishop, noted Canadian ace, who
‘r]m!:- in Atlanta Thursday night.
The aviators proceeded directly to
the country club at East Lake, where
they landed on the west side of the
golf course 'he landing was with
fmn incident, save slight damage to
jthe wing of one machine incugred in
jan effort to dodge a flag left standing
on the golf course A committee rep
'u senting the Southern Aero Club and
{the Atlanta Woman's Club met the
;!I,om, who were given luncheon at|
{the East Lake Club house, Their exe.|
!hlln'mn flight over the city wag post«
| poned until 2:30 p, m. because of the
tardiness of Colonel Bishop's train,
On previous oceasions when alr
planes have vigited Atlanta there
has been but one or two and they
have drifted over the eity unheralded
and unsung This time a schedule
had been arranged, which was fol
lowed rigidly
The Southern Aero Club had two
reception committees named for the
dav, one to [neet the visiting avia
tors from Souther Field and one to
meet Colonel Bishop upon his arrival
Mayor James 1. Key extended a
welcome to Colonel Bishop on behalf
of the city A luncheon was given
the vigiting flyers at Fast Lake by
the Woman's Club of Atlanta imme
diately after they landed and while
the gasoline tanks of their machines
were being filled
The Woman's Motor Corps furnish
ed cars for Colonel Bishop and the
vigiting flyers. This corps has been
disbanded and the members released
from their obligatory war-time sery
foes but they volunteered g thelr
services in their eagernoss to nl‘vr(- in
paying honor to the war's groatest
fiyer on his visit bere,
NO. 191
WILSON 15 I
“HU 1O
WD LP
- WORK
(By International News Serviced
WASHINGTON, March 13.—The
American liner George Washington
with President Wilson and party ar
rived at 8:40 o'clock p. m. Thursday
French time—in the harbor at Brest,
Just three months to the day—his
lucky thirteenth-—after his arrival on
his initial voyage.
Announcement of his arrival %&l
received in a dispatch to the execu
tive offices of the White House,
Wilson in Hurry to
Get Down to Work :
By John Edwin Nevin.
Staff Correspondent of the Interna
tional News Service.
ON BOARD THE U. 8. 8. GEORGE
WASHINGTON, EN ROUTE TO EU
ROPE WITH PRESIDENT WIL
SBON, March 12, night—by wire
less.—~With the French shores draw
ing nearer every hour, President Wil
son today sent off a number of wire,
less messages to Colonel B, M. House,
Secretary of State Lansing and other
members of the American commission
in Paris, outlining his plans and ex
pressing the hope that nothing will
be allowed to interfere with his get
’tln. down to business immediately
after his arrival in Paris.
President and Mrs. Wilson were
guests of Captain Edward McCauley,
Jr, commander of the George Wash
ington, at dinner tonight,
It is now expected that the George
Washington will arrive at Brest be
tween 8 and 8:30 “clock tomorrow
night. If the present plans are car
ried out the President will leave for
Paris right away on a special train,
arriving there about 9 o'clock Friday
morning.
King to Give Banquet
In Wilson’s Honor
(By International News Serwvice.)
BRUSSELS, March 12 (via London,
Mareh 13) ~President Wilson is ex~
pected to arrive here on his visit to
King Albert's capital between March
26 and March 30. A reception will be
held at the Hotel Deville and a ban
quet will be tendered at the palace.
During his stay in Brussels the
President will live in the Princess
Clementine's palace adjoining the pad
ace of the King.
The present program calls for the
President to visit Liege, Dinant and
the Yser distriet.
Mann to Push Bill for
Y
Suffrage Amendment
| (By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON, March 13.—Pas
{sage of a woman suffrage constiti
tional amendment will be the fiswt
act of the next House on its recon
struction program, and every effort
will be made to get it through with-
In & week after Congress convenes.
This announcement was made late
Thursday afternoon by James R.
Mann, following his election uchm-,
man of the woman's suffrage com
mittee,
Other Representatives chosen on
the committee were Little, Kansas;
Elliott, Indiana; Nolan, California;
Edmonds, Pennsylvania; Burroughs,
New Hampshire;, Nelson, Wiseonsin,
and McCrate, New York.
12,000 Spartacides Are
v
Captured, Says Report
(By International News Servige.)
AMSTERDAM, March 13~Twelve
| thousand Spartacides have been cap
|tured by German Government troops
and are awalting court-martial, ae
cording to advices received from Ber.-
lin
Government troops took 400 Hflfi
126 machine guns, 2 fleld pleces an
a quantity of ammunition when they
captured the marine building in Ber
lin, the advices state,
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Shipping Board Busy
On 22 Large Vessels
(By International News Bcrvio...}
WASHINGTON, March 13.-~The
shipping hoard is now building twen
ty-two ships of 12,000 tons each for
passenger and cargo trdde with South
America, Chairman Fdward N, MHur
ley revealed late Thursday aft non
in an address before s
wradde conferench, T