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VOL. XVI
TRUCE IN STRIKE: MOST OF CLERKS RETURN TO WORK
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Mistrial Asked by Defense When
Crowd Applauds Child Wit
ness—ls Denied.
MARIETTA, March 17.—Applause
i the courtroom following the testi
mony of little Mary Hosea against
Mrs. Naomi V. Campbell this after
noon caused Herbert Clayfi of coun
sel for the defense, to ask that the
court declare a mistrial, but Judge
Newt A. Morris overruled the mo
tion and the trial proceeded.
The little Hosea girl had just tes
tified that Mrs. Campbell, who con
ducted the Undenominational Or
phanage on the Atlanta-Marietta
trolley line, had made her hold Baby
Marjorie Florence against a grate
until the child was burned, and she
stuck to her story despite vigorous
cross-questioning.
Mrs. Campbell is under seven sep
arate indictments, charging her with
cruelty to the children, following the
stories told by them six weeks ago
when Mrs. Campbell was arrested.
Her husband, C. C. Campbell, is out
on bond under six indictments, but
is not being tried jointly with his
wife.
The Cobb County courthouse today
was filled with eitizens drawn to the
trial by the published stories of Mrs.
Campbell’s cruelty to the orphans, as
revealed by the investigation follow
ing her arrest, and it was evident
that feeling against the woman was
running high. She has been confined
to the Marietta jail since her arrest.
Child inmates of the home provided
the principal witnesses for the State,
summoned by Solicitor General John
T. Dorsey. Mary Hosea, a 13»yvur—|
old girl, testified first, alleging that |
Mrs. Campbell had burned little Mar
jorie Florence, a 4-year-old, who dis
obeyed her.
Says Woman Threatened.
“Mrs, Campbell made me and Car
rie Bell Bateman hold Marjorie on
the grate until she was badly burned,”
said Mary “She said that if we
didn't do it she would break every
bone in our bodies. 1 was afraid not |
to, for she would have beaten meg to
death.”
Mr. Dobbs, cross-examining the
child, tried to make her admit that
Mrs. Campbell did not give such di
rections, but the little girl was stead
fast in her story.
“l suppose that if she had told you
to cut the child’s head off you would
have done it?" he suggested.
“l certainly would have,” said
Mary. *“Mrs. Campbell would have
beaten me to death if I hadn't.”
Carrie Bell Bateman, the next wit.
ness, told a similar story,
It appeared at 2 o'clock that the
trial would last far into the after
noon, at least 1
Crowd Applauds Child.
When Mary finished her testimony
the cirowd in the courtroom applaud
ed vigorously. Judge Morris rapped
for order, and said that any further
offenders would be brought before
him and fined. The Sheriff sm-n-een’e(i‘
in restoring order, ‘
Many of these children had been
summoned to the court from the
homes to which they had been re
moved after the orphanage was brok
en up by the arrest of its head In
many cases the children had been
taken to other parts of the State by
their relatives, who had placed them
with Mrs. Campbell and who were
paying for their care
The jury was quickly drawn when
the case opened. It Is composed en
tirely of T'obb County farmers, with
the exception of one, M, E. Echols, a
200kkeeper. The other jurors are
W. W, Bell, J. E. Dawson, William
Garnett, J. R. Robinson, G. T, Felder,
C. A, Sewell, J. T. Seay, H. B. Powell,
A. B. Mediock, J. P, Upton and W, W,
Bagwell,
William: Butt, Assistant Solicitor
General of the Blue Ridge Circuit, is
associated with John T. Dorsey, So
licltor General, for the prosecution,
Britt Craig, Newspaper
Man, 11l in New York
Britt Craig, widely known Atlanta
newspaper man, is critically ill with
pneumonia at the Roosevelt Hospital
in New York, according to advices
received here Sunday
Mr. Craig left Atlanta several weeks
ago to accept a position on the edi
torial staff of The New York Sun,
He was for many years employed on
an Atlanta newspaper and returnea
here after being discharged from the
aviation service, in which he ranked
as lleutenant.
Full International News Service
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Ex-Soldier Found
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An Illicit Still
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Lonnie Eason, of Fayette County, |
charged jointly with his ‘brother, {
Henry Eason, with running an il
licit distillery near his home, was
found guilty in Federal Court Mon
day morning. Henry Eason is now
a member of the A, E. F., while
lLonnie has just been discharged
from service,
The two brothers were arrested
by Revenue Agents Harris and
Whatley last April but before be
ing brought to tria! had been draft
ed into the army.
Babe Murph¥, negro, also of Fay
ette County, was fined $25 by Judge
W. T. Newman, after he pleaded
guilty to having five gallons of con
traband whisky in his possession.
The negro had already been fined
$125 in the State courts.
Seab Horton and Emmett Martin,
of Fayette, were charged with run
ning a still on a branch near Hor- ‘
ton's home. Horton, a 15-year-old -
boy, said that the two were cap- |
tured by the officers while going |
down into the pasture after a steer, ‘
Both defendants econtended that
they ran onto the still just a few
minutes before being caught, and
had not known it was in the vi
cindity before,
Fifteen cases originating in Fav
ette County were called Monday,
in fourteen of which J. W. Culpep
per was attorney for defendant,
.
Husband Says Wife
Was Shot by Woman
-She Robbed of Spouse
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March 17-—On infor
mation furnished by David N,
Murray, hushand o Mrs. Eva Mur
ray, reported dving today of a gun
shot wound which, she says, was
“self-inflicted” several days ago,
police began a search for a woman
who, while dressed in man's
clotres, is said to hauve shot Mrs
Murray because she lured her hus
band from her, Murray was out
of town when his wife was ghot.
He returned to Chicago last
night. He went to the hospital
where, after hearing his wife's sto
ry. he branded her “a liar,” denied
he was the father of her unborn
baby and left after expressing re
gret that “the shot did not kill
you,” returning last night to
Wheeling, W. Va., where he ig em
ployed,
“If my wife lured this man om,
she is a plain vampire. She was at
tractive and could piay the role .
well,” Murray told newspaper men.
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Clash of Americans
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And Japs Not Serious
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 17-—Press
reports of a clash between American
soldiers and Japanese police at Tien
tain were exaggerated and the situa
tion in the Japanese concession is
quiet, acocrding to a brief dispatch
from Consul General Heintzleman at
Peking. received at the State Depart
ment Saturday and made public to
day. j
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Here are figures in the pretty love
story that grew from a visit of a
Red Cross worker to Fort McPher
son. Above, Mrs. Lillilan Gail Ben
nett Pandtle and Sergeant Ray Jmm‘
Pandtle. |
The courtship of Sergeant Ray
Jean Pandtle and Miss Lillian Gail
Bennett began at Fort McPherson,
with a flower given the soldier by
the girl, who was brightening the
hospital wards by her work with the
Red Cross.
It culmiated March 1, with the
marriage of Sergeant Pandtle and
his “flower girl,” and their marriage
was kept secret until Sunday, when
they told the bride's parents, Mr, and
Mrs. J. H. Bennett, No. 95 Bast Lin
den street. After Pandtle receives
his discharge the young couple will
live in his home in New York.
Sergeant Pandtle was very ill when
he received the first flower from the
Atlanta girl, but he began improving
rapidly. When he recovered and was
transfered to Camp Gordon she also
transfered her visits to that post.
They had intended waiting until
Pandtle was discharged, but it's hard
to wait sometimes, so on March 1
they were married at the home of the
Rev. J. E. Dickey, of the First Meth
odist Church. The men of Sergeant
Pandtle’'s company—Company B, de
velopment battalion No. 1-—will give
him a dinner Wednesday evening.
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N. Y. Harbor Traffic
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Is Paralyzed by Fog
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 17.-Two col
lisions, the sinking of a tugboat, a
number of minor acecidents and gen
eral paralysis of harbor trafhe were
the result of a heavy fog which
blanketed New York waters today
Mariners declared the weather was
the thickest experienced this winter,
The tughoat Jameson, chartered by
a sugar refining company, sank when
it was rammed by the steamer lex
ington, inbound from Providence, in
the East River.
The ferryboat Queens smashed hor
bhows and made her slip at B¢, George,
8. I, with great difficulty after ram
ming a freighter at anchor just be.
low the Liberty Statue. The munici
pal ferryhoat Mayor Gaynor grazed
another freighter in the same vicin
ity and lost a small section of her
upper deck.
g THE WEATHER, §
$ Forecast—Probably showers and |
;Qhunderltorml Monday night and |
{ Tuesday. §
é Temperatures—6 a. m., 58; 8¢
(& m, 61; 10 a. m,, 63; 12 noon, 66; §
Ip. m, 66; 2 p m, 66
Sunrise, 5:46; sunset, 5:47, E
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ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1919
J. W. Webb Slain and Deputy,
House Wounded by White
Man, Who Makes Escape.
Officers of both Fulton and De-
Kalb Counties hunted Monday for an
unidentified white man who shortly
before midnight shot and killed Dep
uty Sheriff J. W. Webb and wounded
Deputy R. T. House, both DeKalb
County officers, while they were
searching a mysterious automobile
they had found in the woods just off
of the Druid Hills road, in Druid
Hills, and about one mile from the
Decatur courthouse.
Deputy Webb was slain instantly,
the bullet entering under his right
ear and passing through his head.
Deputy House was wounded only
slightly, receiving a bullet in his righl‘
shoulder.
At 2 o'clock Monday no word had}
been heard from the slayer or the
car, although Sheriff McCurdy had|
telephoned to every town within 100
miles of Decatur. He said the car
might be identified through two bul~‘
let holes in the rear curtain. It is a
Ford touring car. ‘
A reward of SSOO has been offered
by DeKalb County for the captire of
Webb's slayer, J
The slayer had been found asleep
in the automobile by the two officers
and had been awakened and ques
tioned. He statéd that he had run
the car into the woods to make re
pairs and had fallen asleep. The of
ficers were suspicious of his story and
told him they would have to search
his ear. He demurred to this, and
warned the officers not to molest the
.car. By this time he was on the
ground and had walked a short dis
tance away. :
Regardless of his warning, how
ever, the officers began the search.
No sooner had they started than the
stranger opened fire from the dark
nes, the first bullet striking \\'(-hh‘
and the second hitting House in lhk“
shoulder. The assailant then darted
into the woods \
House immediately gave attention
to his comrade. but found that he al
ready was deayd. Believing that it
would be useless for him to chase
the fugitive alone, House hurried to
his own home, but a short distance
away, and telephoned to Sheriff Mc-|
Curdy, at Decatur, for assistance. As
he was returning he heard the auto
mobile speeding away. The slayer
kad returned, jumped into the car and
had driven away in the direction of
Atlanta.
City and county authorities here
were notified and a hunt put under
way immediately.
House reported that he and Webb
had just picked up a pair of old
overalls at the time the first shot was
fired. He said there was a suit case
and a box of dry goods supplies in
the auto.
Webb is survived by a wife and two
children,
Mr. Webb is survived by his wife,
two sons, George and Charles; his
parents, Mr. -and Mrs. G. W, Webb,
Lithonia; two sisters, Mrs. J. H. St.
| John, of Lithonia, and Mrs Lela
Stewart; four brothers, Dr. W, A,
| Wehb, J. A, Webb, of Lithonia; G.
'A. Webb, of Augusta, and Lee Webb,
- of the United States signal corps,
Fort 'Bliss, Texas Funeral services
- will be held Tuesday at the First
| Methodist Episcopal C‘hurch at Li
thonia, the hour to be announced
later. The Rev Marvin Williams
| will officiate, and H. M. Patterson &
| Son will have charge
.
Souther Field Flyers
.
Still Are in Atlanta
Lieutenant Walter Sutler, Lieuten
ant William Vance, Licutenant Ed
ward A. Burgtorf and Lieutenant
Herbert Gi. Blakeslee, members of the
Souther Field Aviation corps, are stijl
in Atlanta, having been weather
bhound and unable to fly back to
Souther Field with the group of avia
tors who flew here to welecome Colo
nel W, A, Bishop, the British ace, last
week
These aviators did not leave last
Friday when the other members of
the reception committee returned, as
when they were ready to make their
start it was found that they could not
reach Souther Field before dark. The
planes are still at Kast Lake, and as
soon as the clouds permit cf a flight
they will start home, The flyers are
at Hotel Ansley,
Deaths Show Increase
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Over Preceding Week
The report of City Health Officer J. P,
szn-dv. for the week wndin% at mid
night Saturday, shows 71 deaths, an in
crease of 11 over the preceding week,
One death was reported from influen
za, five from influenza-pneumonia, and
nine from pneumonia. Three deaths
were reported from accidents, while
tuberculosis claimed five, peilagra 1,
ztémmlcn 1, and noncontagious diseases
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Villa Bandits Reported
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Planning Border Raid
(By International News Service.)
HACHITA, N, MEX., March 17--A
detail of the Twelfth Cavalry today pa
trolled the border near Hermanas, N
Mex., following reports that a band of
Villa adherents had occupied the home
ranch of the Palomas Land and Cattle
Company, 18 miles south of the horder,
and were preparing to raid border towns.
Savannah School
.
Boys Strike on
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St. Patrick’s Day
AVANNAH, March 17.—A
S strike in the Savannah High
School was pulled this morn
ing by the boys of llrish descent,
who refused to go to classes on
St. Patrick’s Day. They joined the
big parade of the Ancient Order
of Hibernians. Far the greater
part of the boys claiming Irish de
scent joined the strike, which is
the first affair of its kind in the
city schools in six years.
Former Governor John M. Slaton
and Attorney Arthur Heyman en
gaged in a fisticuff Monday in Judge
W. D. Ellis' division of Superior
Court that halted the court proceed
ings for several minutes and drew
for the belligerents a fine of $25 each.
Neither of the combatants was in-
Jjured, and, at the close of the inei
dent, shook hands and imade up and
laughed about it.
Governor Slaton, according to
statements, slapped Mr. Heyman on
the face with his hand and barely
grazed his face with another blow—
a right swing, the force of which
was broken by interference of Depu
ty Sheriffs Byfield and Rolader.
Blows by Mr. Heyman failed to land
for the same reason.
Fight Before Jury.
The fight occurred directly in front
of the jury box. The jurors calmly
remained in their seats, displaying no
excitement. Judge Ellis immediate
ly declared a recess of fifteen min
utes, in order to permit the situation
to readjust itself.
The clash came at the close of the
evidence in a suit brought by the
Childs Restaurant Company, of New
York, against the Childs hotel and
case in Broad street, to prevent the
use by the latter concern of the name
“Childs.” It was brought about by
an argument hetween Governor Sla
ton, of counsel for the Broad street
place, and Attorney Heyman, of poun
sel for the New York concern. over
the admission of certain documentary
evidence by Mr. Heyman.
Slaton in Objection.
This evidence was in the form of a
record of another court concerning a
previous action against the Broad
street hotel and case. Governor Sla
ton objected to the introduction of
this paper, and said there was an un
derstanding between him and Mr, Hey
man relative to such evidence, Words
between the two followed and then
the blows came.
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Gives $20,000 Liberty |
Bond as Payment
Twenty thousand dollars in Liberty
bonds will form the initial payment
by the Lowry Company, a plumbing
concern, for the Hemphill property
at Nos.-29 and 31 South Forsyth
street, the sdle of which has been
authorized by a special order signed
by Judge George L. Bell, in the mo
tion divisicn of Superior Court. The
sale was requested by Mrs. Lula
Quinby and other heirs,
The purchase price to be paid by
the Lowry Company is $50,000. The
remaining $30,000, after the $20,000
worth of Liberty bonds have been
paid, will be secured by a series of
notes covering twelve years. The
property is 41 by 200 feet. It is now
occupied by the Lowry Company.
The sale will he conducted by two
commissioners, W. F. Cruselle aand
R. A. Hemphill. ?
Congressman McFadden
Raises Ire of Glass
(By International News Service.)
WASHNGTON, March 17.-—De
claring that he recognizes no obliga
tion to respond to such “an offen
sively impertinent and deliberately
mendacious communication,” Secre
tary of the Treasury Carter Glass
this afternoon returned to Represen
tative Mcladden, of Pennsylvania, a
letter sent by the Congressman to
Glass in reference to the recent re
nomination by President Wilson of
John Skelton Willlams as Comptrol
ler of the Currency.
Sale of Season Tickels
For Opera Ends Saturday
The Atlanta Music Festival Asgocia
tion Monday called attention to the fact
that only one week remaing in which
season tickets to the Metropolitan
Grand Opera can be purchased at re
duced rates,
The sale I 8 being conducted at the
store of the Cable i‘l:nm Company. It
will close Suturday evening, and a week
later tickets for separate performances
at regular prices will begin, The sav
ing by purchasing season tickets is|
large. ‘
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Dept. of Labor Man to |
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Try to End Strike Here
Walter D, Davidge, representing the
Department of Labor, is on hig way
from Washington to Atlanta to act
as conciliator in the iron molders’
strike, dispatches announced Monday |
afternoon. The mo'aers hy e been on
strike for the last two v eks. The
vnion issueé underlics their valkout,
Man Is Held in SSOO ;
vy
Bail as Flimflammer
J. H. O'Kelly, 4. wias _bound over
in the sum of SSOO in Police Court
Monday, ageuged o»s o flimflammer
through the wghori-change —method.
O'Kelly was deelgred to have swin
dled a number u“ml.l founts and de
livery boys,
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lay of Treaty Seen by French.
By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN, I
| Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
i PARIIS, March 17.-—President Wil
son is “standing pat” on all the prob
lems of the peace conference, That
he has not changed his attitude and
that the American attitude in general
has not been changed was made plain
by the President today, to his peace
colleagues. In settlement of certain
perplexing questions the President is
insistent that the principles for which
he has declared himself shall be ob
served.
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By JOHN T. PARKERSON,
Staff Correspondent of the |. N. S.
PARIS, March 17.—American dele
gates to the peace conference do not
anticipate any difficulty in writing
the covenant of the league of nations
into the treaty, Foreign Minister
Pichon's statement that he did not
see how both documents could be
signed simultaneously is believed a
'“f('nler" rather than the final view of
the ‘French,
President Wilson's firm stand that
the league of ' nations constitution
must be included in the treaty brings
out emphatically the fact that both
are so closely related that one may
not prove operative without the oth
er. So many provisions of the treaty
refer to the league of nations for
their definition that there might be
confusion or even trouble after the
treaty is signed, unless the league of
nations is created simultaneous!y and
empowered to take up the qm‘stionxi
To sign the treaty without the
league of nations covenant, it is
pointed out, would be virtually the
same as if the framers of the Ameri- |
can Constitution had not set up the!
Supreme Court to safeguard it, ‘
The commission of the international
regime of harbors and waterways |
met this afternoon to consider the
claims of Switzerland for an outlet to
the sea by way of the Rhine,
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Paris Sees Danger of
Delaying Peace Treaty
By ROBERT J. PREW,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
PARIS, March 17.—A feeling of
nervousness has arisen in Paris to
day as a result of President Wilson's
determination so force the signing of
the covenant of the league of na
tions at the same time the German
envoys are ordered to place their
| signatures on the preliminary peace
) treaty,
Foreign Minister Pichon's state
ment that he believes it would be
impossible to sign the two docu
ments concurrently represents the
French view that the primary ne
tx-v.wil\' is to make tentative peace
with Germany and then complete the
,l'(l\"'nillll of the league of nations by
| the time the final treaty is ready.
Another factor making for delay is
the approaching departure of Pre
mier Lloyd George for London. The
labor situation in England cails for
the presence of the Premier in Lon
don and he is expected to leave be
fore the end of the present week.
Conferences Interrupted.
Delegates are deploring the fact
that the biggest driving forces of the
| conference—President Wilson, Pre
| mier Lloyd George and Premier
Clemenceau—are unable to get to
| gether more than a few days at u'
| time, when something happens to
take one or the other away from the
| peace work. The result is the round
{table labors drag
| During the absence of President
I\\'tlm-n in the United States both the
British and Prench delegates were
actually alarmed at reports from
Germany that the country was fast
falling a prey to Bolshevism
Their whole efforts heretofore had
béen bent toward putting through
l»-n'lw- peace arrangements which
waol expedite the demobilization of
their own armies and restore Kuro
pean trade and by allowing GGermany
immediately to resume ln!vrnullmm”
relations under restrictions, enable |
her to build up her wrecked com-|
merce and feed her starving millions |
with American food
Miracles Necessary,
There 18 a feeling in conference
circles that unless President Wilson |
is able to perform miracles, the pre
liminary treaty may not be signed
by March 20, but must be delayed|
|l‘ur several weeks, if the President's |
|leurm|nn(,mn to make the league of
nations covenant a part of it is des
tined to prevail
It was found, when Britsth eircles
were sounded, that they understood
the President's intention was to get
the preliminary treaty with (‘mrmany‘
out of the way first making the
league of nations covenant an inte |
gral part of the final treaty. Some
surprive was expressed in this quar- |
ter that the President's plan is to de. |
lay the preliminaries until the league !
of nations constitution 1§ framed
This must not be taken to mean that
the British are antagonistic to l'rr«-l
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The Jingles in
The Headlines
By HARVE WESTGATE,
AILROAD yards are swept
by fire, and some cars go
up in flames, and the goods
that were destroyed will bring
forth a thousand claims; there'll
be claims for beans and cheese,
and some more for lard /and soap,
and the druggists will be there,
with some claims for oil and dope.
Pistol duel is fought at night, and
one officer is dead, but the man
who used the gun grabbed a car
and quickly fled; but they know
which way he went, and they're on
his bloody trail, and it's almost
ten to one that they’ll land the
man in jail. Soldier boy is ill in
bed, and a girl stands by his side,
and they up and fall in love, and
he claims her for his bride. Clerks
once more are on the job, and
they’re moving stacks of freight,
and good cheer and pleasant
smiles take the place of werds of
hate; rumor says the strike is
c'er, that the clerks have won the
aay, and the man who caused the
fuss will be out and on his way.
A A API
Plan Ford Car Rival
Made Out of Cli
ade Out of Clinkers,
(Exclusive Cable by the I. N. §. and
The London Daily Express.)
LONDON, March 17.—An English
firm is planning to outrival Henry
Ford's plan for putting a $2560 automo
bile upon the market,
Th enew machines are described as
being “‘strong and durable.”
Hardly any wood will be used in the
construction of them and the parts will
be maae of a composition of slag,
clinkers and sawdust with a coating of
metal.
Power cia
ower Co, Officials
Prove His Charge
Branding as false Mayor James
L. Key's statement several days
ago that the Georgia Railway and
’ower Company was responsible
for the negro vote, which, it is al- |
leged, caused the defeat of the pro
posed tax increase, H. M. Atkin
son, chairman of the board of di
rectors, and Preston S. Arkwright,
president of the power company,
have called upon the Mayor for a
retraction of the statement, or else
to produ proof,
A lette; the power company
officials to . Georgian follows:
“On our return after a few days'
absence, our attention is called to
an interview purporting to be given
out by Mayor Key, published in
your paper. 1
“In the interview referred to,
Mayor Key states ‘the Gecrgla
Railway and Power Company is re
sponsible for bringing up the negro
vote, whieh killed the proposed in
crease in the city tax rate. ‘
‘“This statement is absolutely
false. If Mayor Key thinks he had
any evidence to justify his making
it, we call on him to produce that
evidence. If not, then in common
Adecency he ought publiely to retract
the libel.” §
Sen. Bowden Wants
Georgia Women to
I.et the women of Georgia them
selves vote on the woman suffrage
question, i the plan of J. E. 7T
Bowden, Senator-elect of the Fifth
Distriet,
Mr. Bowden purposes that the
State Democratic Executive Com
mittee should handle the matter, ‘
making arrangements for a pri
mary at which the women would
be called upon to cast their bal
lots for or aguinst woman suf
frage,
If a majority of the women vote
in favor of equal suffrage, the Leg- {
islature could take up the matter at
the 1919 session, he said, and pass ‘
upon it finally Mr. Bowden be
lieves an opportunity will be as.
forded to place the whole matter
before the next Legislature, as
there will be Introduced in the
House a plan to allow women to
vote on all matters pertaining to
the operation, maintenance and {
management of public schools, This |
proposition will be fathered by
Repregentative John Y. Smith
Atlanta
.
Automobile
and Truck
. .
Distributors
Urge every dealer in the
Southeast to attend “Deal
ers' Week” Convention in
Atlanta, starting Monday,
March 24, All latest mod
els will be on display and
contracts for ensulng year
made
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Federal Auditor Ottarson, Over
Whom Fight Arose, Likely To
Be Removed Temporarily,
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All striking railway clerks, oxcgt
those employed by the W. & A.-Ni
C. & St. L. system, Monday morning
returned to work ‘under an agree=
ment reached at 4 o'clock Monday
morning at a conference betweeén
grand lodge officers of the union and
officlals of the Railroad Administra
tion, pending negotiations for a com
plete settlement of the controversy
which resulted in the general walk
out of more than 7,000 clerks in Ate
lanta and dther cities since last Tues
day. 2
Final Conference,
A conference was begun shortly
before 11 o'clock Monday morning in
Regional Director Winchell's office
that was expected to bring about a
final settlement of the controversy
and end the strike. Representatives
of the brotherhood at this conferenee
included J. J. Forrester, national
president; H. M. Murray, chairman
of the national executive board; C. F,
Jackson, chairman of the N, C. & St.
L. system adjustment board, and .
M. McGhee, local chalrman. The
Railroad Administration was repre
sented by B, L. Winchell, regional
director; W. L. Mapother, Federal
manager, and others.
Mayor James L. Key was pres
ent representing the city of At
lanta in an advisory capacity to
both sides. It was largely due to
the Mayor's efforts and his influence
with the strikers that a temporary
truce was effected Monday morning
on all lines except those under Feds
eral Auditor A, P. Ottarson’s jurisdig=
tion,
Settlement Expected. Y
Expressions from both sides prior
to tne beginning. of this conference
indicated that a conclusion of the
strike would be effected during the
day. For the first time since the in=
ception of the strike, there were indi«
cations that both sides were practi
cally in accord und that the reasons
which brought the strike on and ap
peared to make its spread inevitable
were about to be removed.
The brotherhood officials retired at
1 o'clock for executive seéssion. When
they arose at 1 o'clock for lunch it
was stated that no decision had been
reached. Mayor Key said that pros
pects for a settlement were bright.
Deliberations were to be resumed
with the railroad officials at 2 o'clock,
No exact time limit was set by the
terms of the truce. That Federal
Auditor A. P. Ottarson would be tem«
porarily removed pending an investi«
gation into charges brought against
him by the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks was generally forecast as the
preliminary agreement which would
finally bring the tie-up to an end,
Mayor at Conference.
| The conference at which the teme
porary truce was arranged was ate
tended by J J. Forrester, national
president of the Brotherhood of Rail.
way Clerks; C, ¥, Jackson, system
chairman of the N, (. & St. L. broth.
erhood; K. M. MecGhee, local chair
man of the N, C. & St. L., and other
local chairmen, with Mayor James L.
Key, as representatives of the broth.
erhood, The United States Rallroad
Administration was represented by
Federal Manager W. L. Mapother, of
the N, C. & St. 1. and allied roads,
who arrived in Atlanta Sunday night;
Regional Director B, L. Winchell and
other freight and passenger represens
tatives of the roads affected,
The exact terms under which the
strikers returned to work were not
divalged from strike headquarters,
but it was understood that the truce
was predicated on the expressed wil
lingnes of the raiiway officlals to ef~
sect an immediate adjustment of the
controversy which brought about the
Officials Talk It Over,
Reglonal Director Winchell and
Federal Manager Mapother held a
preliminary conference Monday morn
ing In the Healey Building prepara
tory to golng into econference with
representatives of the clerks’ brothers
hood later in the forenoon. It was
confidently expected that an ARTOH~
ment would be reached hetween rep
resentatives of the clerks and the
raflway officials for a complete ad
justment of the controversy before
noon.
At the meveral freight and ticket
offices Monday business was being
transacted with the usual celerity
manifested before the strike. Praotis
cally every striker who could be no
tifted during the night was at his
post and others were stragghng in
as the news of the temporary truce
became circulated Monday morning
At strike headquarters the deepest
regret was expressed over the de«
structive fire which gutted the rail
way offices at Inman Yard Sunday
and it was said that the men were
moved largely in their decision to de.
clare a truce by that oecurre Oc
curring at the time it did, with only &
small force on duty, the . as
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