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With' a record registration for a
bond election, 15481, Atlanta voters
staried to the polls early Wednesday
to say whether or not a bond issue of
$1.060,000 shall be authorized, and
whether the city ad valorem tax rate
of §1.25 per SIOO will stand, or be in
creased to $1.50 to allow the Board
of Education to improve the schgols.
Indications at 4 o’clock were that
more than 8,000 votes had been cast
and that the total would go well over
10,000 before the poiis closed at 7
o'clock. This would represent the
record vote in any municipal election.
City officials were pleased at the heavy
voting and expressed the belief that
the outpouring of voters meant the
success of the bonds and tax increase.
Maror Key issued a statement urg
ing the voters to come to the polls
ami express their sentimenis, ‘whether
for tr against the issues at stake.
While calilng attention to the grave
danger should either of the issues
fail. the M:yor expressed confidence
that both the bonds and taxes wouid
receive the indorsement of the ma-
Jority of Atlanta voters, :
Concern was expressed by W, H.
Fervell, member of the Board of Hd
ucation from the First District, that
opposition of negrees to the tax in
crease would defeat the profect. The
defeat of the increase at the first
election_was laid to this guarter.
Terrell First to Vote.
“l was the first person in the First
Ward to cast a vote for the bonds
and tux increase,” said Mr. Terreil
“WWhile 1 was at the polling place
tewenty other voters came, most of
them negroes. The latter voted,
without exception, against the tax in
crease,
“The negroes carried in several
instances, marked ballots. In other
cases they voted without hesitation,
If thisrstart is pursued, the $1.50 tax
is Kkilled as far as the First Wara 1s
eonce:ned. It is up to progressive
citzens all ovy: Atlanta to rally to
the cause jof schools and vote for the
incvease. ' The negroes seem to be
satizfied with conditions.”
The bond election decides the pro
posed issuance of §SOOOOO in bonds
for improvements at the waterworks,
including pumps, a new coagulating
Pasin und additional reservoir space;
2100000 for the erection of a sultable
hyilding to house the historic picture
of the Ba'ile of Atlanta, now in a
fraome building at Giant Park; SIOO,-
400 for the motorization of the At
lume fire department, and $300,000 for
an c.ectric generating ‘plant at the
city c¢remitory, to enuble the city to
util ze 2,000 horsepower of steam now
geing to waste at an annual loss esti
mated at $50,000, ’
Schools Would Benefit.
The preposed tax increase would
provide 2n additional revenue of ap
proyimately $500,000 for the city gov.
ernment, but tae schnool department
is t¢ be the main beneficiary if the
isrue corries,
The Board eof Education will be
given an increase of $2,0.000 per vear,
with which it is iniended to give the
teachers sn increase in salaries, to
erect new, buildings and to improve
conditions generally,
For the bond issue to carry there
must be approximalely §OOO votes i
fover of the issue.. The State law
woverning hond issves provides that a
1 onosed/ isstie must have a two
thirds majority of those voting, this
two-inirds to concatitute a majority
of the regist-atior. The estimat: cf
some members of the city's campa gn
committee that there will be 2,000
voles agninst the bonds meamns that
10,060 voters must visit the polls,
which is 1,500 more than voted at
the mayoralty campaign last year,
when the city was seething with a
hot campaign.
The hope of the cily's committee is
that through proper civic interest on
the part of Atlanta citizens, and the
work of a large number of girls, who
will use the telephone all day, a suf
ficlent number of voters will be drawn
to the polls, If only 7,000 votes are
cast and all of them are for the
bonds, they will be defeated,
Atlanta Man to Attend
London Masons Meet
SAVANNAH, April 23.-—Colonel
Robert J. Travis, grand master of
Masons in Georgia, announced today
he has appointed Raymund Daniel, of
Atlanta, as his secratary on a trip he
wil: make to London, England, about
the middle of June, upon invitation of
the Duke of Connaught to attend a
world peace conference of Masons.
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THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Fair Wednesday night
and Thursday.
Temperatures—6 a. m.,, 60; 8
a. m, 66; 10 a. m, 71; 12 noon, 77;
Ip-m,81; 2 p. m, 84
| Sunrise, 5:57. Sunset, 7:15,
Full International News Service
The Jingles in ;
The Headlines 1
By HARVE WESTGATE. g
HE nations that would rule (
the world (at least, it so ap- (|
pears to me) are clutching
' at each other’s throats, for some
how they can not agree: Old John
ny Bull gets out his club, and then
Old .Rome goes tearing loose, un
til it looks to me, by gum, as if
they’d kill the Golden Goose. While
cannon roared and war was on,
the nations helped each other out,
and when the Teutons came in
view they massed their men and
; won each: bout; but now that )
! peace is in the air and they have
% cinched each bloody fray, the vic
tors fight among themselves, and
¢ pull some rough stuff every day.
The voters will decide, by Jjings,
just what Atlanta's going to do;
they're goingz to show ug where (
{ we're at, and' what this burg is }l
§ coming to: they'll vote some cash |
§ for decent schools (if 1 can read {
? the signs aright), but if they fail $l
2 they'll rue the day and leave us in g
¢ an awful plight. And now the wire |
§ men of the land are going to drop ?1
g their keys and quit, and show to §
Mr. Bur-le-son they've got a kick l
g within their mit; but if they strike {
¢ I'll lose my job, and pine away and }
{ get the Dblues, because, you see, I ¢
{ could not get a single line of jingle g‘
{ news. |
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 23.—Eleven
more transports, brin:ing 24,000 officers
and men back to America, have sailed
from» Fnench poris, the War Depart
ment announced Wednesday afternoon.
They are: The Sofla, with 1,200 troops,
sailed for New York on April 20; the
battleship Nebraska, with 1,215, from
Brest, due at Newport News May 3;
the St. Louis, 1,427, due at New York
May 3; Agamemnon, 5,814, due at New'
York April 29; the Canadaigua, with
1,368, due at New York May 2; Generai
Goethals, 1,417, due at New York May
1; the Susquehanna, 2655, due at New
port News May 1; the l.ouisville, 2,338
officers and men, 64 soldiers’ wives and
nine children, ten sailors’ wives and
three children, due at New York April
50, the Pastores, 2,117, due at Newport
News May 1; the Mallory, 2,062, due at
New York May 1; the America, with
2,274, sailed April 21 for New York.
On the Sofia are bakery companies
226 and 306, 408th telegraph battalion
suppiy and medical sections, headquar
ters company, Companies D and E,
Camps Dodge, Travis and scattered:
465th lingineers, pontoon train, Camp
Dix: headquarters company, First
corps sanitary -train, s?utc‘red; 161st
ambulance company, 161st field hos
pital, 162 d ambulance company, 162 d
field hospital, 163 d ambulance company,
Camp Dodge; 163 d field hospital, Camp
Lewis; casual companies from Tennes
see and South Dakotla.
The Nebraska is brm(fing the head
quarters, ordnance an medical de
tachments, Companies A to D, and de
tachment of Company E of the 114th
Engineers, mostly for Camps Pike,
Shelby and Sherman.
Aboard the St, Louls are: Medical
detachment Third Battalion of the the
307th Infantry, Camp Upton and scat
tered; 372 d Aero Squadron, detach
ment Base Hospital No. 76, Camp Ur
ton: Seventy-seventh Division Mili
tary Il’olice Company, Camp Upton, and
casuals.
The Agamemnon has the 304th,
306th, 306th Field Artillery complete,
mostly for Camp Upton; 152 d Field Ar
tillery HBrigade headquarters, Camp
Ipton; detachment of the Seventy
seventh Division headquarters, Camp
Upton; PBrest convalescent detachments
207 to 211, and casuals; Brigadier Gen
eral Pelham Douglass Ford, command
ing the 152 d Field Artillery Brigade.
On the Canandiagua are fleld ana
ptaff, headquarters and sups)ly com
panies, ordnance and medical detach
ments, Batteries A, B and F of the
3024 Field Artillery, to Camp Devens,
headquarters company, ordnance ana
sanitary detachments, Companies A,
B, C and D of the 145th Machine Gun
Battalion, to Camp Bowie; motor sec
tions he:uhluart('rs and Truck Com
pany D, First Arm_v‘ arnller'{ park,
scattered; Seventeenth® and wenty.
third Photograph sections air service;
Casual Company 70, Camp Sherman,
The General Goethals has aboard
medical detachment, Companies A, B
and C of the 3234 Field Sl§na| Bat
talion, Camp Custer; 90th, 161st, 487th,
494th, 655th Aero Squadrons; 656th
Aero Supply S(}uarlron. 318th Replace
ment and Salvage Company, tank
corpg, Camp Upton,
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Alex Dittler, Widely
,
Known Atlantan, Dies
Alex Dittler, for 22 years secretary
of the Temple congregation on Pryvor
street, and for many years in the of.
fice of the Superior Court clerk, died
suddenly Wadnesday afternoon at his
rooms in the Imperial Hotel,
~ Mr. Dittler was one of the most
widely known men in Atlanta. He
‘had been identified with various Jew
ish charitable organizations for many
vears. He ig survived by four sons
and three daughters,
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President Seeks to Prevent New Conflict
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The great monument to the Con
federate dead, planned for years by
the United Daughters. of the Confed
cracy as the most fitting memorial to
the memory of the heroic men who
fought under the Stars and Bars, is
to be made a monument to all South
ern heroes who fought in the Amer
ican wars from the Revolution to the
great world war.
This decision was reached Wed
nesday morning at a meeting of the
Stone Mountain Confederate Memo
rial Association ‘at the Hotel Ans
ley The suggestion to change the
plan came from Mrs. James W. Roun
saville, of Rome, who has been elect
ed president of the association. The
action. was regarded as a manifes
tation of the wave of nationalism'
that swept the couniry at the out
break or the world war and wiped out
all sectionalism within the United
States.
The entire mountain is to be built
into one grand monument under the
direction of Gutzon Borglum, the fa
mous sculptor, who originated fthe
idea. While the monument as a
whole is to be in honor of the South
ern men who died in all wars. the
great -central figure of the creation
will be the monument to the Con
federate dead. '
Those at Meeting
The meeting Wednesday was at
tended by Gutzon Boiglum, Mrs. H.
M. Franklin, State president of the U,
D, C.:. Mrs. J. E. Hays, vicé presi
dent of the Georgia Federation of
Women's Clubs: Mrs. Frank Harrold,
vice president of Georgia U. D. C.;
Mrs. Z. 1. Fitzpatrick, chairman of
Georgia Woman’s Liberty Loan Com
mittee; Mrs. J. O. Wynn, Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Willet, Hon, Hooper Alex
ander, Mrs. James Rounsaville, of
Rome; Mrs. W, E. Hays, of Mon
tezuma; Miss Alice Baxter, Mrs. A.
MeD. Wilson. Mrs. T. T. Stevens,
Mras, James R, Mobley, Mrs. W. 8,
Coleman,. Mrs. Will Percy, Hon. Wil
liam Terrell. Will Plane, Mrs. Helen
Plane, Mrs Prark Mason, Mrs. Staf
ford Sideil, Mvs Wylie and others.
The foi'ow'ng officers of the asso
clatirn were elected Wednesday:
‘Officers Elected.
President, Mrs. James W. Rounsa
ville, of Rome; vice presidents, Miss
Alice Baxter, Mrs. T. T. Stevens, Mrs.
Samuel Inman, Mrs. J. E. Hays, Mrs.
R. P. Stephens; recording secretary,
Mrs. Lollie Bell Wylie; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Stafford Sidell; his
torian, Dr. Lucian Lamar Knight;
treasurer, Mrs. James W, Bedell,
The State Legislature passed a res
olution two years ago making May 20
Stone Mountain Memorial day, when
collections were to be taken through
out the South for the monument. The
Governor will not be asked to pro
claim-.the special day this vear on ac
count of war conditions, but May 20
next year will be set aside for this
purpose,
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under the hnadm? “Go To Church.”
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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1919
“Aida,” Verdi's colorful, magnifi
cently spectacular Oriental opera,
though being presented for the fourth
time in Atlanta, bids fair to draw an
audience Wednesday night which will
equal that of the opening. For “Aida"”
has never lost its charm. Thousands
have heard it again and again; it
holds the record for number of per
formances in New York.
Atlantans familiar with “Aida” will
find especial interest in the fact that
an entirely new cast is to appear, not
one of the principal singers ever hav
ing sung in the work in an Atlanta
performace, Several singers who have
never before appeared in this city
are in the cast.
Hipolito Lazaro, the Spanish tenor,
will sing Rhadames, the part former
ly taken herg by Caruso and Marti
nelli There'hvuld be a great mo-.
ment in the first five minutes of this’
opera, which late-comers will miss,
when Lazaro sings the famous ‘“Ce
ieste Aida.” The new tenor is espe
cially noted for the beauty and clari
ty of his high tones-—ne takes a high
E flat with perfect ease, it is said,
and “Aida" wiil give him excellent
opportunity.
Margarete Matzenauer, one of the
Lest contraltos who ever has been on
the Metropolitan list, also is making
her Atlanta debut in “Aida,” singing
the role of Amneris, second only to
the title role in prominencge. The part
has been sung here by Homer and
Ober.
The Aida will be Claudia Muzio,
the soprano who made her debut two
years ago and sang here in “Trova
tore” and “Tosca.” -Mme. Muzio has
a powerful and beautiful voice, and
her dramatic interpretation of Tosca
two years ago gives assurance that
her Aida will be well done.
Thomas Chalmers will be the bari
tone of the evening, singing Amonas
ro, the Ethiopian king. Mr. Chalmers,
an American, sang here several years
ago with the Boston Opera Company.
Jose Mardones, the basso who mada
such an excellent impression on Mon
day night, will be the High Priest,
Ramfis, in “Aida.” Marie Sundelius
is cast for the brief but trying part
of the priestess. Roberto Moranzoni
will conduct.
There was widespread regret at the
Georgian Terrace just before noon
Wednesday when Rosina Galli and
her mother emerged from their rooms
and announced they were departing
for New York. Miss Galli, as pretty
as anyone could well be and live, had
become ill Tuesday, and was not suf
ficiently recovered to dance in “Ailda”
Wednesday night. But she refused to
bid anyone good-bye. 1t was only
“Au revoir,” she said, for she will
come back next season, ghe insisted,
and take pains to be very well in
deed,
But Miss Galli's absence, it was
said, will not totally spoil the ballet
in “Aida,” for there are several scenes
where incidental dances are intro
duced, and in which the premier
dflnuvu..‘m is not altogether necessary.
Audience Sways to
Music by Faust
BY DUDLEY GLASS,
An audience not so large as that
of the opening, night, but still almost
filling the big Auditorium, swayed
to the rippling measures of the ker
messe waltzes and the stirring beut
of the soldiers’ chorus In Gounod's
“Faust” Tuesday afternoon, the old
opera’'s second presentation in Atlan
ta, It is a beautiful opera, with Its
succession of choruses, duets, trios
and solo arias, and it was beautifully
sung, .
Frances Alda, the Marguerite; Mar
tinelli, the Faust, and Leon Rothier
the Mephisto, shared the honors of
the afternoon with the chorus. Le
nora Sparks sang the mezzo role
of Siebel very well, indeed. Thomas
Chalmers, as Valentine, was plainly
not at hig best, though his naturally
fine baritone rang out well in the
trio preceding his death scene.
Mme. Alda was heard for the first
time as Marguerite, and when it is
said that she sang the role with the
same crystal clear tones and the
same artistry she gave us as Desde
mona, a 8 Mimi and as Jrancesca,
‘nothing more is needed. The jewel
song sparkled anew" as she sang it
and the delicate prison scene, heart
breaking in s pathos, was given
Mxvory possible heauty,
Mr., Martinelll made a handsome
figure as Faust, and his singing of
the “salut demeure” at the opeinng
of the garden scene was splendidly
done,
Mr. Rothier, as Mephisto, was given
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Fire Destroys Stores
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And P. 0. in Colquitt
COLQUITT, April 23.—Colquitt was
visited last night by one of the most
destructive fires since 1902, when the
town was destroyed. The fire origi
nated in Hunter's garage, starting
from the explosion of a vulcanizing
plant. Three stores and contents
were burned. The postoffice was
burned, part sos the contents being
saved. Hunter lost several thousand
dollars, with no insurance. Bell lost
several hundred dollars, no insur
ance. The buildings were owned by
L. E Calhoun, who is in an infirmary
in Atlanta. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
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Work on the new $125,000 apart
ment house at Nos. 683-685-887-689
Peachtree “street, to be owned by C,
C. McGehee, will be started Thursday
by the Mackle Construction Com
pany. The building will be one of the
largest and most valuable in the city.
It will be constructed of brick and
stone, and there will be a restaurant
in the basement. Officials of the con
struction company estimtae the work
will be finished Oectober 1.
The City Building Inspector issued
a permit for the work Wednesday
morning. .
Other permits issued were as fol
lows:
One-story brick and concrete ad
dition on Whitehall street building
Majer . & Berkele, owners; A. V.
Gude & Co., contractors; A. Ten Eyck
Brown, architect, to cost $6,500.
Two-story frame apartment house
at Nos. 24-26-28 Lyons avenue; B. J.
Davis, owner; Alex D. Hamilton &
Son, builders: to cost SIO,OOO.
™ Repairs at No. 180 Whitehall street,
Breitenbucher estate, owners, to cost
$4,000.
Other building activities were dis
closed by W. D, Beatie, who will be
gin next Monday the construction of
a six-room house on Stewart avenue,
He will soon complete a five-room
house on Cochran street and a six
room house on Dell avenue.
. . .
Railroad Commission
Takes Up Power Case
Complaints of the Rome Raillway and
Light Company against rates fixed by
the Georgia Rallway and Power Cof)-
pany were taken up by the Georgia
Railroad Commission at begining of a
series of hearings Wednesday morning.
The Rome company claims that it had
a contract with the Georgia Railway
and Power Comgany. calling for a cer
tain rate, but that its terms were in
creased by recent action of the com
mission in franting general increases for
light and power to the Atlanta concern.
The petitioners claim that their con
tract should be respected.
The commission alse took ur peti
tions of the Consolidated Telephone
Company for permission to increase
rates; the American Railway KExpress
to dlscontinue its agencies at Dearning
and Wheless; the Mutual Light and
Power Company at Athens to increase
rates; the Consolidated Telephone Com
pany to issue $40.000 of first mortgage
bonde, and e Summerville Telephone
Company to increase rates,
3is a
Men of 82d Division
Want to Come to Gordon
The great majority of the members of
the 82d Division, which still is in
France, are eager that they be demob
ilized at Camp Gordon, according to
several letters recently received in At
lanta. It was regarded as very unlike
ly, however, that the War Department
would waive its rules and permit the
entire division to ecome back to Gordon.
Under thesge rules the men must be de
mobilized within 250 miles of their
homes,
Nearly 800,000 Troops
Returned From Overseas
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, April 283.—0 n
Aprit 21, 731,889 of the oversgeas per
sonnel, ineluding army, navy and ma
rine corps, had actually returned to
the United States, and on that datc
120,278 were on their way home, the
War Department announced this aft
ernoon,
the best opportunity which has fallen
to his veteran basso in his many sea
sons in Atlanta, He sang with pow
er and sonority, giving the devil his
full due, and unlike the villain of the
melodramas, shared in the applause,
But, after all, it is the concerted
numbers which make “Faust” the fa
vorite it 18, And there has rarely
been heard here anything better done
than the quartet in the garden stene,
the trio of tenor, baritone and basso,
and the great prison scene trio at the
end. " And 1T ean not recall anything
loveller than the succession of love
duets which Alda and Martinelli sang
in Marguerite's garden,
The program was cut short and a
great deal of disappointment caused
by Willlam J, Guard’s announcement
from the stage that there would be
no ballet, as Mme, Galli had suddenly
become {ll,
Issucd Daily and Bntered as Second-Class Matter al
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of Mar ch 3, 187¢
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, April 12—The Bavarian
Red army is now reported to be com
manded by two former officers in the
German army—Baron Seller and the
Prince of Wied, said a dispatch from
Zurich to The Petit Journal today.
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, April 23.—Czecho-
Slovak troopsinvading Hungary are
gnoving swiftly upon the capital, and
at latest advices from Vienna were
but one hour's march from Budapest.
The Czecho-Slovaks have reached
Veiocksen. -
Troops of Four Nations
Fighting Hungarian Reds
(By International News Service.)
' GENEVA, Aoril 28.—Czecho-Slovak
and Serbian troops have begun to
advfnce into Hungary, it was report
ed from Vienna today.
Troops of four nationalities are now
fighting the Hungarian reds, Rouma
nians, Poles, Serbians and C(zecho-
Slovaks. L
Many Persons Killed
In Hamburg Rioting
(By International News Service,)
BERLIN, April %2 (via London,
April 23).—Many persons have been
killed in rioting that has been raging
at Hamburg since Sunday, said a
dispatch from that city today. Many
buildings op the harbor front were
plundered. Most of the casualties
resulted from fighting between the
police and mobs in the suburbs,
Siberian Army Routs
Bolshevik Troops
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 23.—Admiral Kol
chak's anti-Bolshevik army has in
flicted another crushing defeat on the
Bolshevik forces, capturing 25,000
prisoners, said a news agency dis
patch from Omsk today. Izhevsk was
taken,
Much booty was captured from the
reds, who fled, panic-stricken, before
the advance of the victorious Sibe
rian army.
The Siberians have advanced 50
miles in the direction of the impor
tant and strategic city of Hr:*nl:urg.
Hungarian Reds Willing
Tos Confer With Allies
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 23-—Hungarian
Soviet Minister Bolgar has arrived in
Vienna on a special mission and noti
fied Colonel Cuninghame, the Allied
representative, that the Budapest
Government is wililng to continue ne
gotiations with 'General Smuts, sald
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Vienna this afternoon.
The Hungarian minister asked that
the Allies’ desires in the matter be
communicated to him,
General Smuts was sent’ to Buda
pest shortly after the red dictator
ship was proclaimed to look after
Allied interests,
Atlanta Concern Loses
$38,999 Damage Suit
A verdict for $38,999.20 was returned
by a jury in Judge Pendleton's division
of Superior Court Wednesday after
noon in favor of the Phosphate Mining
Company, of New York, against the
Atlanta OIF and Fertilizer Company
This marked the third trial of the
case, which has been in the courts since
1912, and which has been passed on
twice by the State Supreme Court. The
suit was based on an alleged breach of
A phosphate rock contract by the At
lanta concern
It originally asked $27.000, and later
whs amended, bringing the amount to
$38,999.30, the verdict of Wednesday be
ing for the full amount A verdict for
$1 was rendered in the first trial of the
case, The New York concern was rep
resented by Attorneys Kvins & Moore
and Robert P. Jones, while Attornevs
King & Spalding, Dan Mc¢Dougall, and
D. W. Blair, of Marietta, appeared for
the Atlanta Oil and Fertilizer Com
pany
Massey, Who Killed
.
Woman, Taken to Jail
.. 8. Massey, who killed Mrs, G, C.
Aiken in front of Fort McPherson on
March 23, and then shot himself, had
sufliciently rocovered Wednesday to
be removed from Grody Hospital to
the police station, for preliminary
hearing. It had been thought he
would not recover from his wounds,
ond he lingered close to death for
some time
. Massey was bound over to the State
14"unrt~< without the Recorder golng
lanm the detalls of the case, and held
im-dur SI.OOO boend. He was sent to
the Fulton County Jall to await trial
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Burleson Replies to
N. Y. World Attack
| (BX International News Service.)
- WASHINGTON, April 23.-—Postmast
er General Burleson, derendingb him
self today u\%ainat charges made by The
New York World, issued a statement in
which he asserted that instructions
were issued to the general manager of
the Postal Telegraph System to trans
mit messages, scheduling an attack on
Burleson, which The World News Bu
reau attempted to send Monday night.
At the same time the Postmaster Gen
eral directed the operating board to is
sue the following instructions:
“Direct the management of all tele
graph systems to suspend in so far as
messages referring to the Postmaster
Ceeneral are concerned, their rules pro
hibiting transmission of messages con
taining libelous matter.” ;
The Postmaster General's statement
pointed out that the rules “governing
the transmission of libelous matter’
were adopted by the telegraph oom&le-‘
nies to protect themselves against libel
suits long before the wires were taken
over by the Governmient.
New Envoy to France
Urges Enduring Peace
PARIS, April 23.—“1t is now the
task of the Allied nations to conteri
peéace upon humanity, but to first
unite the world in support of lt."{
said Hughie Wallace, new American
Ambassador to France, in presemlnq
his credentials to President Poincare,
of France. ‘
~ “Paris, for a time the capital of
the world, 18 now witnessing the erec- |
tion of the temple of peace,” he con
tinued.
~ “We hope to dedicate that temple
in the name of the league of nations
‘and make it home, for the great wWar |
was fought in defense of civilization
and had been the last conflict man
kind shall ever know. When victory
came it was complete, and the peace
'which follows it should be enduring.”
| e |
.
State Rests in Trial |
| Of School Teacher
The State rested Wednesday in the
‘h’i;\l in Judge Hunv»hrlen' division of
Criminal Court of W. C, Adamson, in-
Structor in mechanic arts, accused by
several young girls, and the defense be
'xnn the introduction of testimony,
A large number of character witness
es were called to the witness stand to
testify as to the previous good char
acter of Adamson. It was thought like
‘ly that Adamson would go on tfie stand
in his own defense Wednesday after
’nm)n. The defense will make a com
plete denial of the charges brought
;u;xalqst him. |
.
Miners Return to Work
’
~ On Compromise Wage
LEADVILLE, COLO., April 28—
The wage controversy between the
operators and miners which resuited
in a walkout Sunday and the sus
“;enmun of operations at practically
al lof the big mines in the Leadville
14!lstru-t was settled by compromrise
Wednesday, |
. The new scale will be $4, which is
a cut of 60 cents, against the $1 ('ul‘
posted by the operators. |
France To Be Clear of
U. S. Troops by August
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, April 23.—France will be
cleared of American troops by Au-‘
gust, The Pall Mall Gazette stated
Wednesday, though possibly m-vmin{
units of the third army of occupa
tion will remain in the Rhine zone
after peace s signed. American
headquarters, the newspaper stated,
will be moved to Antwerp to |'vllevk“
the burdened FKFrench railways and
ald in French reconstruction J
NO. 225
|
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, April 23.—President Wik
son issued an official statement today
insisting that Fiume be internation
alized and made a free port instead
of being given either to Italy or Jugo-
Slavia.
The President repudiated the pact
of London on which the Italians have
‘been mainly basing their demands.
i The President pointed out in hie
statement that new conditions have
la,risen since the pact of London was
signed, notably that new states have
lbevn formed out of the d.tssolunon
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
i No Italian Statement.
No official statement was forthe
coming at headquarters of the lta’lifl.l
delegation when the Wilsan state
rmem was read, but from a source
close to the Italians it was stated that
in all probability Premier Orlande
will now carry out his threat to with
draw the Italian delegation from the
peace conference.
Exactly what effect thelr withe
drawal will have upon the plans teo
present a treaty of peace to the Ger~
man delegates early next week is nog
yet known.
Jap Delegates ;@fi
. s
May Withdraw
(By International News Serviced
LONDON, April 23~The Japanese
delegates have resolved to withdraw
from the peace conference if theivde~
mand for Kiao Chan is not satisfied
before the Germans arrive at Were
sailles, according to an Exchange Wel.
egraph dispatch from Paris todaw
The Japanese, say the correspondent,
are insisting on an immediate decie
sion,
Predicts Trouble v g 4
In Italy Over Fiume ,
By ROBERT J. PREW, g
Staff Correspondent of the 1. NB,
PARIS, April 23.—Revolution will
sweep Italy, accompanied by Bol«
shevism and the collapse of the pres
ent Ministry at Rome, if the Italian
delegates are forced to return to
Rome with the deeision that Flume
is going to Jugo-Slavia instead of
Italy, according to a prediction made
today by Dr, Scarfolgio, editor of the
newspaper Mattino, of Naples.
“Fiume has’'a total population of
32,000, of whom 27,000 are Italians,”™
sald the editor,
“T'he other 5,000 are mostly Croates,
We must firmly decline to leave the
fate of the Italians to the Jugo-
Slavs, We were prepared to make
the port free, giving the Jugo-Slavs
equal shipping rights, but we can not
agree that either the city or the port
be placed under Jugo-Slav rule.
Greed Is Charged.
“The splendid harbor works were
built by the Italians and the secret
of the whole fight is the Jugo-Slavs
desire to seize a ready-made harbor
and save themseives the trouble of
improving one There are fourteen
Adriatic ports we are willing to leave
in the possession of the Jugo-Slavs.
“Itallan publie opinion 18 emphat
ically hostile to any arrangement
which would leave the Serbians apd
Croatians the slightest vestige of aune
thority at Flume. If the delegates do
not agree to any decision this week,
our delegates probably will go home
and explain to the people they wera
unable to gain satisfaction regards
ing thelr aspirations, If Premier Or
land o and Baron Sonnino return to
Rome with this answer, or an il
satisfactory compromise, the Goveine
ment will fall and the /UHHII‘\: very
likely will be plunged into revolution
Unless the conference promptly rece
ognizes the (n:ve of public opiniom.