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By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the |, N, 8,
PARIS, May 24, -Reports printed
from “inspired” American sources in
the United States that a number of
the members of the American peace
delegation have resigned were char
acterized In officlal circles today as
contemptible untruths,
It is true that about half a dozen
experts who have been here asgsisting
Bernard N. Baruch, head of the war
industries board, are returning to the
United States, but their task has been
completed, and there is nothing more
for them to do. A majority of the
American experts will leave just as
soon as the Austrian jreaty is com
pleted. /
A notable exception, however, is the
retirement of Dr. Bullit, former Phila
delphia newspaper man, who was at
tached to the American mission in a
minor capacity.
Dr. Bullit, aceompanied by a com
paaion, was sent into Russia to in
vestigate conditions. He met Nich
olai Lenin and Leon Trotzky and gave
them assurances that the United
States was friendly.
Upon returning to Paris, Dr. Bullit
presented a report to President Wil
sot characterizing the Russian re
gime as trustworthy and declaning
that it should be given assistance.
The report denied stories of murders
by the Bolsheviki and insisted that
order is being restored.
As soon as President Wilson re
ceived the report he directed that it
no: be published and demanded an ex
planation as to why Dr. Bullit and his
cormpanion, both known as radicals,
had been intrusted with the Russian
mission.
Dr. Bullit was very much chagrinned
because his report was not made pub
lic, and withdrew from the peace del
egation without any delay.
Sinee his retirement Dr. Bullit has
peen insisting that the failure to ac
cept his Russian report “was “the
gravest error” on the part of the
President. |
Woman Leaps From Auto
To Catch Trolley; Injured
Striving to catch a street car mov
ing off from the Camp Gordon ter
minal early Saturday morning, Mrs.
Deila Edison, of Chamblee, jumped
from the automobile of her nephew
while it was still in motion and was
thrown to the ground with great
force. A fracture of the skul. is feared
Fer son, Alfred, who sat beside her,
saw the accident, and, with the neph
evs, W. H. Pureell, also of Chamblee,
hurried his mother to Grady Hospital.
H-r condition was declared to be
grave,
Mrs. Edison, who is a widow, had
several hundred dollars on her per
son After the mother had been at
tended, he took the money to their
home, declining a deposit vault at the
hospital offered him.
Lt. Conyers Is Sufferer
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From Typhoid in N. Y.
Tieutenant William M. Conyers, of
Atlanta, is ill wtih typhoid fever at
St Mary's Hospital in New York, ac
cording to information received by his
wife. He has just returned from
France, and expects to leave for home
within a few days. Lieutenant Con
yers was commanding officer of Truck
Company No. 530 of the 425th Supply
Train, and has been stationed at Mar
seilles, France, for the last eight
months.
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106th Ammunition Train
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Intact, Writes Atlantan
Reports that the 106th Ammunition
Train, containing a large number of
At'anta boys, has been disbanded, are
corrected in a letter from Wagoner
H. W. Sosbhee to his father, J. H. Sos
bee No. 33 South Humphries street.
Wesagoner Sosbee staets that the com
pany still is intaet and that Compa
nies A and B are stationed at Lan
gres, Company C at Issurtille and
Company D at St. Izier.
Judge Relents When He
Sees 7 Tots; Father Free
His seven children ranged before
the bench in Police Court, the young
est in the arms of its mother, won
freedom under probation Saturday for
A J. Prtt, 47, of No. 6 Delta street,
wken he was arraigned for drunk
enriess.
“I can not send you to jail,” the
judge told him. Glancing at the chil
arrn, he explained: ‘‘There are too
many arguments against § i
Waycross Now Has
New Modern Hotel
WAYCROSS, May 24—Ever since the
destruction of the LaGrande Hotel by
fire four vears ago, Waycross has been
sorely in need of another good hotel
This necd has been supplied by the New
Willard, which opened yesterday even
ing under the management of John W.
Mc(iee. The opening was marked by an
elaborate 7 o'clock dinner served to a
large number of local and transient
guests,
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Many Waycross Citizens
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Returning From War
WaAYCROSS, May 24 —Among the re
sent arrivels in Waycross from overseas
)re Liecuteonant Colonel Warren Lott, First
Yiecutonant Ernest Kontz Bennett, First
Lieutenant .B. H. Winchew, M. D. First
TAeutenant David J. Lewis and First
Identenant W. L. Sprouse With these
familliar faces seen again among the
prominent business and professional men
of this city, all of them good Waycross
boostors, Wayeross 18 fast assuming its
natural pre-war appearance.
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Quver for Boy’s Death
David Howard, negro chauffeur who |
san over and killed 11-year-old Hu- |
sert Clochran at Kirkwood Tuesday, was
sommited to jail without bond on aJ
murder charge late Friday i
He was defended at the rvrplimin:aryl
fearing before Justices Giles and House
sy former Congressman William Svhloy‘
Howard, in whose family the nvzrr)'s‘
tather had been a life-long servant. |
% A Man May Be Down,
But He’s Never Out!”’
, HELP .
THE SALVATION ARMY
Defeat Poverty, Honeor and Viee at Home.
Remember the Campaien Weel . May 10.96
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Mildred Kern, who won the singles from Corday Rice, 6-4, 6-2. Center, Florence Tunis, and right,
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Carrie Lou Reynolds, winners of the doubles match from Myrtle Carnes and Luecile Little, 6-1, 6-2.
HENDERGON 10
BOOST ROADS
County, Commissioners and officials
of the County Commissioners’ Asso
ciation of Georgia, which is to hold
its fifth annual convention in Atlanta
next Thursday and Friday, antici
pated Saturday as one of the big fea
tures of the convention an address
to be delivered by Leland J. Hender
son, of Columbus.
Mr. Henderson, who is president of
the Georgia Highway Association, is
to speak on “Permanent Highways in
Georgia and the Result,” and it was
expected that his address would
prove a big boost for the good roads
movement, in which the County Com
missioners’ Association is so deeply
interested. ' Mr. Henderson has been
a close student of improved highways
and highway building methods for a
long while, and will lay before the
County Commissioners many impor
tant facts stressing the importance of
more concentrated attention by coun
ties in the matter of road construc
tion.
Mr. Henderson also will preside
over a session of the highways' as
sociation that is to be held here at
the same time as the®County Com
missioners’ Association. Both of these
bodies will have under consideration
the indorsement of a plan of highway
legislation to go before the State Leg
islature at its session this summer.
In addition to Mr. Henderson, a
nU{nber of other prominent sepakers
will address the County Commission
ers’ Association. Oscar Mills, of the
Fulton Commission, and president of
the State organization, said Saturday
that indications were that the At
lanta meeting would be one of the
greatest and most successful since the
formation of the association, because
of the large number of commission
ers to nttend and the number of im
portant matters to be considered.
Texas Governor May 1
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Be Paid SIO,OOO a Year
DALLAS, TEXAS, May 24.—Voters
of _Texas are at the polls today de
ciding whether they will adopt four
important constitutional amendments,
Chief interest attaches to the outcome
of the vote on the prohibition and the
equal suffrage amendments. |
Proposals to increase the salary of
the Governor from $4,000 per year to
SIO,OOO and the creation &f a State
fund to enceurage home oWning also
are on the ballot.
Rain is falling throughout the State,
and it is believed this will result in
a light vote.
By a special act of the Legislature
discharged soldiers are permitted to
vote in today’s election.
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Graduation Fxercises |
At Gordon Start May 29
BARNESVILLE, May 24-—The annual
commencement of Gordon, which is al
ways an event of State-wide interest, will|
begin with a recital by music and ex
pression departments on Thursday ev
ening, May 29th, and will conclude with
the graduating exercises Tuesday even
ing, June 3rd, when Dr. E. T. Holmes,
president, will award diplomas to a large
class of voung men and women. The
program for the entire occasion has€ bheen
completed, and large crowds are €x
pected to attend throughout the week,
Dr. E. B. Hill, of the First Preshyterian
Church of Athens, will preach the com
mencement sermon Sunday, June 1, and
Dr. K G. Matthewson, president of the
Georgia School of Technology, will des
liver the baccalaureate address Tuesday |
morning, June 3, at 10:30 o'clock. |
Dr. Holmes states that this year has |
been the most successful one since Hm‘
school was established, the battalion
reaching almost to the 300 mark. Many
reservations have already been made for
the next vear which makes the outlook
very promising.
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American Is Killed
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By Yaqui Indians
(By Internationa! News Service.)
NOGALES, ARIZONA, May 24.—H. 8.
White, an American, is reported to have
been killed by Yaqui Indians, who at
tacked a truck train of La Coloerado |
mine while it wag en route from San |
Xavierto Hermosillo, Sonora, with a
load of ore. Only meager information
concerning the attack has been receiv
ed here. 1
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Funeral for Man Who
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Committed Suicide
Funeral services of C. A. Scott, a
butcher, who committed suicide
Thursday morning at his home, No.
50 Jones street, by shooting himself
through the right temple with a pis
tol, were held Saturday at 11 o'clock
¢ *he chapel of Harry (3. Poole. In
terment was in Greenwood. |
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, May 24.—8 y hav
ing his disputed resolution—providing
for the subtission of the peace treaty
to the Senate without further delay—
made “unfinished business” at the
close of yesterday's stormy debate in
the Senate, Senator .Johnson, Pro
gressive Republican, of California, to
day had succeeded in a parliamentary
maneuver that will permit discussion
of the treaty and the league of na
tions covenant to be resumed at any
time in that body until his measure is
finally disposed of.
Joknson expressed himself today as
being more than satisfied with havin‘g
opened up a “free and full” discussion
of the treaty and covenant which will
keep the dual document before the
Senate from day to day, until the
President’s return from overseas.
Sherman to Start Fight.
Serator Sherman, Republican, of
Illinois, will, he announced. call up
on Monday, when ihe Senate recon
venes, his resolution providing for
the separation by that body of the
jeague covenant from the treaty. His
promised action is regarded as cer
tain to provoke another heated de
bate.
Senator ‘Reed, Democrat, of Mis
souri, who is another uncompromising
foe of the proposed entry of the Unit
ed States into any league of nations
“which “would involve the American
peorle in entangling foreign alli
ances,” was prepared to deliver one
of his characteristic attacks on cer
toin aspects of the league Monday.
Senator Johnson also planned to speak
Moriaay.
The first of the administration Sen
ators to deliver a prepared speech in
behalt of the league will be Senator
Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas,
who is scheduled to address the Sen
ate next Tuesday. .
A large part of next week was ex
pected to be consumed by the Senate
in debating the treaty and the leazue
covenant. The Republicans and Dem
ocrats were agreed on but one feature
of the document—that embodying the
provisions for compelling Germany to
make full reparation for provoking
the world war.
Hot Arguments Likely.
There were unmistakable indica
tions that the Senate would continue
to be a storm center of hot argu
mants for and against the league
right_up to the time the President ap
pears at the Capitol to explain the
treaty.
The suggestion of Senator Penrose,
of Pennsylvania, and other Republi
can Senators that the President, as
well as other American participants
in the peace conference, be called be~
fore the Senate foreign relations com
mittee when the treaty is considered
by it, was reported to be gaining in
favor at the Capitol, although Sena
tor Lodge, of Massichusetts, was said
to be still withholding his “O. K.” of
the plan.
Agreement on Portion
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Of China Is Denied
(Exclusive Cable to the International
News Service From Il Secolo Milan.)
ROME, May 24.--A report that Eng
land, France and Japan have entered
into an agreement for the partion of
China into spheres of influgnce, was
denied at the Japanese kEmbassy to
day
Taft to Succeed House
On League Committee
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, May 24-—Colonel E. M.
Hcuse’s membership on the commit
tee of organization of the league of
nations is only temporary, and he
probably will be succeeded by former
President Taft, according to The Ma.
tin today.
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Anniston Soldier Returns
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With Rainbow Division
ANNISTON, ALA., May 24 —R. L. Bit
tie, of this city, who has been serving |
for the last year or more as t member |
of Company I, Sixth Infantry, has been
discharged from the serviee
M:. Bittle is slightly lame in his left
leg from the effects of a hig! -\;-ln.‘-‘l'.“‘
ullet which penetrated his leit thigh last
summer, during the fighting on the '\~-r‘!~i
ern front, but he thnks the injury to his |
limb will not incapacitate him 1
A Clean Newspaner for Southern Homes
aIIFFRAGIST3 T
REGISTER EARLY
Registration of women voters will
start Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock
in the Courthouse, with Lucien Har
ris, County Tax Collector, in charge
of registration. It is expected that a
large number of women will appear
early for registration, and plans are
being made for the accommodation of
all who may appear.
Mrs. Gordon Johnstone and Mrs. W,
A. Maddox, co-chairmen of the Ninth
Ward League for Women Voters, have
issued an appeal to all women of the
Ninth Ward to report early at the
Courthouse with their dollar registra
tion fee in order to avoid the fush
expected later during the day. ILead
ers in the Ninth Ward are predicting
that at least 90 per cent of the women
eligible to vote will register within
the first few days of the registration
period.
The registration books will remain
oper through July.
All that is required is the dollar
registration fee, a declaration that the
weuld-be voter is over 21 years of age,
that all taxes that may be due have
been paid, and that the nominee of
the primary election will be given
full moral support in the general elec
tions.
New meetings of women voters are
being held daily in the various wards.
The meeting Friday afternoon in the
Carnegie Library branch, corner Geor
g'a and Capitol avenues, was well
attended, and the addresses by Miss
Saslie Fanny Gleaton and James M.
Hollowell were enthusiastically re
ceived. Mrs, Charles P. Ozburn, who
presided at the meeting, announced
that a meeting of Third Ward women
voters will be held next Friday after
noon at W. F. Slaton School to perfect
a ward league of women voters. A
full attendance of Third Ward women
on this occasion is urged.
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Flying Officer
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Can’'t Stand Wife
Who “Beabies” Him
Lawton Vasque Smith, who was
an oflicer in the aviation corps at
the time of his marriage, didn’t rei
ish the .idea of his bride treating
him like a ch#ld and “chastising
him in the presence of his friends,”
as he declared she did, and so Sat
urday he brought suit for divorce
from her in the Fulton Superior
Court. .
'The “chastising bride,”” Mrs.
Elizabeth Vashti Smith, was un
derstood to live in New York, in
which city the couple married Au
gust 7, 1917. The aviator set out
that they separated in Desoronto,
Canada, October 21, after less than
three months of married life.
The husband made no explana
tion in the suit as to the exact form
of punishment embraced in the
chastisements administered by the
bride, merely stating that she
treated him ‘“as a child.”
But this wasn’'t the only thing
complained of by the husband. He
. declared his bride ‘“smoked ciga
rettes and drank liquor,” that she
was insanely jealous, and continu
allv nugged him. She began to dis
play irritation toward him within a
week after the marriage, he set out.
Another decidedly brief matri
monial venture was recited in a
divoree suit brought Saturday by
Mrs. Frances English against Wil
liam W. English. This couple mar
ried in February, last year, and
came to the parting of the ways in
March. The bride charged that
English was always quarreling, and
that he beat her with his fists,
Both suits were filed by Aattorney
(Carl Hutcheson.
Thespians Threaten
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Strike on Broadway
NEW YORK, May 24.—An actors’
strike, it was reported along Broad
way today, may follow the action of
the Producing Managers' Association
last nigHt, in refusing to alter the
present standard contract under
which actors and actresses are em
ployed.
The Actors’ Equitw Association,
which is said to include %0 per cent
of the well-known actors and ac
tresses on its membership rolls, will
hold a meeting here Monday to de
cide its future actions.
The actors want extra pay for
playing special heoliaay matinees.
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GALES PREDICTED.
NEW ORLEANS, May 24.—The
weather bureau here has ordered
Southeastern storm warnings from
Mcrgan City, Fla,, to Corjus Christl
Teoas. Gales and thunder squalls are |
predicted on the Texas coast.
The police Saturday morning were
investigating three accilents in which
two pedestrians and o bicyelist were
run down by automobile drivers, The
most painfully injured vietim was
parents at the Atlanta Hotel. J. B,
Turner, 13, of No. 38 Capitol avenue,
and N. E. Barker, of No, 100 Syca
more street, Decatur, were slightly
hurt,
At the request of the injured lad's
father, no charge will be brought
against the driver of a truck of the
D, V. Cartridge Company which in
jured little Jack Davis, in Ivy street,
between Houston and Baker streets,
late Friday afternoon.
The father, Lieutenant Marion
Davis, of the Atlanta Hotel, investi
gated the affair and concurred in the
belief of the police that the driver was
without blame.
It was determined that the child
darted from between two wooden
buildings in the streets used as tool
houses for construction work and
dashed into the side of the truck.
The chauffeur, 1. S. Anderson, stopped
his truck within its length. An auto
mobile following closely behind
rammed it.
Anderson hurriedly picked up the
boy and drove him to the Davis-
Fischer Sanitarium, afterward report
ing to the police. The injury to the
child’s head was declared not to be
serious. .
Turner, a Postal Telegraph messen
ger boy, was s](;zhll_\' injured early
Saturday morning when the bicycle
ke was riding was struck by a Salva
tion Army truck at the corner of
Mitechell and Pivor streets. Accord
ing to Herbert Daly, the driver, Tur
ner made a sharp turn directly in
front of the truck. Daly stated that
he put on brakes, but could not stop
the machine on the slippery streets.
The boy was taken to Grady Hospi
tal and then sent home,
A large automobile mounted the
‘sidewalk in front of the Ivy telephone
exchange in Auburn avenue Saturday
‘morring and struck Barker before it
‘(-ould be stopped. His injuries were
'slight. The chauffeur, Jim Matthews,
of No. 61 Gartrell 'street, was arrested
by Patrolmen Anderson and Webbh.
Mattheaws, a negro, was fined SIOO
and his license revoked for 30 days
by Recorder Johnson. He declared
he lost control. Y
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Southern Munitions Co.
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Buys Anniston Plant
ANNISTON, ALA., May 24.—A deal has
just been concluded nhere whereby the
Southern Munitions Company. @ subsi
diary of the Alahama Power Company,
purchased all of the property known as
the ecar works plant, and its early opera
tion to full eapacity is an immediate in
dustrial prospect for Anniston. The steel
mill and the forgings departments have
been in continucus operation for some
time, and with the consummation of the
deal for the buying of the entire plant
unlimited capital will be available for
the making of the plant into a substan
tial and perpetual industry of the high
est type.
The plant waas put in operation early in
the days of the war as a shell factory,
but was later transformed into an elec
tric steel mill, and was engaged during
the latter part of the war in the manu
facture of war materials,
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Warren's Champion
Bond Buyer Is Here
B. H. Baker, reported to have been
the champion bond buyer of Warren
County, is in Atlanta at the Piedmont
Hotel, during his wife's convales
cence at a local hospital. Mr. Baker
invested SIO,OOO in bonds of each is
sue, a total of $50,000.
Since he has been in Atlanta, Mr.
Baker received a telegram from his
friends in Warren County stating that
a little more money was needed to
put them over the top in the Method
ist Centenary drive. Mr. Baker sent
a check for $2,000,
Atlanta May Getl 1920
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Hardware Convention
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.,, May 24.—
The annual convention of the South
eastern . Hardware Association, com
prising the States of Georgia, Florida
and Alabama, was closed here Friday.
Atlanta is expected to be named as the
1920 convention city by the executive
committee.
The State associations also adjourn
ed after electing State presidents as
follows:
Georgia: B. F. Delamar, Hawkins
ville; Florida, S. K. Guernsey, Orlando;
Alabama, R. O. Nugent, Attalla.
. (C. X. BRalfour, of Sawnnah, was
elected presidt'l[ of the Southeastern
Retail Hardware Association.
‘ It was announced that the hardware
associations of Tennessee have voted to
formally join the Southeastern Associa
tion at the next convention.
Parents of Dewey Little
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Asks His Return Home
Teh parents of Dewey Little, 14, of
No. 137 Jones avenue, have asked the
aid of the police in 'looking for their
son, who left home last Tuesday.
\ J. D. Little, the boy’s father. de
scribes him as being about 5 feet tall,
with dark hair and blue eyes. When
‘l:m‘ seen he wore a green and brown
‘stripnd cap, a greenish coat, blue
knickerbockers, black stockings and
tan shoes with very pointed toes.
The boy's mother has been ill for
gseveral months and her condition has
}surt'm'f‘tl from worry caused by hls
absence.
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William B. Ahlgren Wins
Hamilton Douglas Medal
William B. Ahlgren, of Atlanta, was
awarded the Hamilton Douglas medal,
offered for the best individual debater
at the conclusion of the annual spring
debate of the Kilpatrick Literary So
ciety at the Atlanta Law School Fri
day night. Ahlgren was paired with
8. Mitchell on the negative of the ques
tion, “Resolved, That railroads should
be owned and controlled by the Gov
ernment.” M. R. Bratton and A. H.
Shoupe championed the affirmative.
James Work Completes
- Survey for Uncle Sam
After spending several weeks sur
veying titles for the land on which
the Government picrie acid plant is
located at Brunswick James G. Work,
secretary of the Atlanta Title Guar
antee Company, has returned to the
city.
The Government spent more than
$750,000 for the land on which the
plant is located, Mr. Work stated, in
which more than 100 owners partici
pated.
Bank Celebrates lis
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Twenty-fifth Birthday
WAYCROSS, May 24 The First Na
tional Bank of this city celebrated its
fith anniversary Wednesday The bank
teday is in the best financial condi®on
it has ever heen Its officers are Dr
J 1. Walker president: w Bel
linger, vice-president and €, B. Stanton,
cashier
MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919.
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U Raclleny Jlard s AN o T
UR old friend, the Hon.
Sqush Duggles, has returned
to our midst after an unex
plained absence of several months,
evidently spent indoors.
“I am surprised to see they're
fixing the pavements right up in the
ratail district,” he complained. "l
thought they always left that job
till just before Christmas.”
Atlanta courts are preparing te
turn out divorces at the rate of one
every five minutes, That's a little
behind Henry Kord's flivver factory
speed, but a divorce is expected to
last longer. ¢
Trans-Atlantic air travel may be
popular some day, but personally
I'd hate to spend from seven to
elcven days at the station waiting
for my ship to hop off.
TALLAPOOSA, May 24.—Oscar W,
Tolbert, Tallapoosa policernan, was
shot and almost instantly killed here
last night by Groyer Little, accord
ing te Walter W. Amos, who states
that he was an eyewitness to the
tragedy. The shooting occurred in
front of the store of J. B. Little, fa
ther of Grover Little,
It is stated that four shots were
fired and that the first shot was fired
by Little, Tolbert answered with
three shots, but apparently all three
of them missed. It is stated that the
police have suspected Little's store as
a place where intoxicants were kept.
Under normal circumstances the
store is closed after 7 o'clock and Tol.
bert, suspicious, stopped in front of
the store, the light being turned jon.
Auto Disappears.
Immediately following the shooting,
it is stated that an automobile stand
ing in front of Little's store started
off and turned around the block and
then passed in the rear of Little's
store, where it is supposed that Grov
er Little got intk the car. Tolbert
fell several feet fm where it is caid
he was shot. Parties who saw the
affair from a distance said that Law
rence Brown was seen to run across
the street from Little's store.
Shortly after the shooting J. B, Lit
tle, proprietor of the store, appeared
on the scene with a gun and at about
the time he walked up he inquired as
to what had happened, and when in
formed by those present that Oscar
Tolbert had been Kkilled, it is said that
he let the crowd know that he felt as
though the killing of Tolbert was a
good job, and is said to have stated
that he was with those who did it.
Little apparently had been drinking.
Shortly after his return to his home,
he was placed under arrest.
Three Cthers Arrested.
The police also have under arrést
Walter W._.Amos, Joe P. Stevenson
and Lawrence Brown. So far as can
be ascertained, there is no particular
charge against Amos, he being held
by the police as an eyewitness until
‘he arrival of the Solicitor General
for this cireuit. The officers either
have warrants or will get warrants
for Grover Isttle, whose whereabouts
are unknown; George Gable, who is
said to have been an eyewitness, and
for P. Dial, who 1s alleged to have
been connected with the affair,
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Republicans to Revise
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Democratic Revenue Law
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May_ 24.—'‘Vexatious
and unproductive taxes and inequali
ties in the Democratic revenue law”
are to be weeded out by the ‘Republican
members of the ways and means com
mittee, Representative Longworth, of
Ohio, has announced. A general re
vision of the law will follow action
looking to the immediate repeal of the
taxes and legislation affording protec
tion to the chemical industry, espe
cially the infant chemical dye industry,
it was stated.
Decision has been reached also by the
committee to prepare a complete revi
sion of the Underwood-Simmons tariff
bill. Hearings are to be held begin
ning probably in August and the bill
will be introduced at the opening of
the regular session next December.
Negro Gets Four Years
For Shot in Robbery
Four years in the penitentiary—the
limit under the law-—was the penalty
imposed by Judge Humphries on
Rokert Stinson, a negro, convicted
late Friday afternoon of the charge
of assault with intent to rob A. Hor
ner, a merchant at West Hunter and
Devis streets, who was shot and
wcecunded by two negroes as he was
closing his store one’ night several
weeks ago.
Solicitor Boykin contended that
rolbery was the motive of the as
sault, but that the assailants became
frightened and fled after Horner had
been shot.,
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Anniston Boy, Slightly
Lame, Returns From War
ANNISTON, ALA., May 24.—Robert
Norton, a member of Company M, 167th
Infantry, left the Field Hospital in
France just three days before the regi
ment sailed for home, joined his com
rades for the homeward trip and is now
here at th: home of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J A. Norton Private Norton was
wounded in action last summer, and was
putsout of the fight temporarily.
Accompanying the Rainbow man to his
home here was a cousin, Porter Powers,
who fought in the Dixie Division, and
who hag heen deafened by gas, and othe
erwise injured Both of the soldiers ex
peet to lhe entirely well of their ail
ments shortly.
Atlanta Parenlts Hear
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Of Son’s Rise in Rank
Dr. and Mrs. Flovd Mcßae, of At
lanta, received a message Friday from
their son, Floyd W. Mcßae, announc
ing his promotion from captain to the
rank of major. Mr. Mcßae is well
known here as a surgeon, having been
stationed at Fort McPherson for a
lorg time. He is now on his way
home from Metz, where he has been
stationed for eighteen mionths.
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So Harry Lauder has been made
a knight, Well, he's made many a
night for the rest of us,
From the way the folks in New
York are entertaining Sergeant Al
vin York they promise to spoil a
first-rate second elder and moun
tadr farmer to make a professignal
hero.
but, anyway, it's the first time
any outsiders ever beat the vaude
ville managers to it,
Canada is going to abolish all ti
t'es and decorations. The promi
nent citizens who hanker after such
will have to move into these dem
ocratic United States and he elect
ed to offices in the grand lodge.
(By International News Service.)
COPENHAGEN, May 24.—Bolshe
vik troops have begzun to evacuate
Moscow, aceording to information re
ceived here today. State finances and
Government archives are being moved
to Kiev, it was said.” The situation
for the Bolshevik regime is described
as ‘‘desperate.”
Thousands of suspected counter rev
olutionists are being arrested in
Petrograd and Moscow, ‘
Finnish troops are said to be mas
sacring refugees in their advance
toward Petrograd. |
Hungarian Bolshevik |
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Troops Capture City |
(By International News Service.) |
ZURICH, May 24 —Hungarian
communist’ (Bolshevik) troops have
cartured Miskolez from the Czecho-
Slovaks, according to a dispatch from
Vienna today, quoting a report put
out by the Budapest Government. The
Hungarians claim to have captured a
whole Czech battalion.
Miskolez is an important mountain
city 24 miles northeast of Erlau, It
is the capital of the county of Bor
sod and has a population of upward
of £O,OOO.
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Switzerland to
oy o
Bar Bolsheviki
(Exclusive Cable to the International
News Service From The London
Daily Express.)
GENEVA, May 24.—~The Swiss Gov
errment has decided to prevent the
entrance of Bolshevik revolutionists
into this country to avoil straining
relations with the Entente, it was
learned today.
The Swiss have a knotty problem
on their hands with 30,000 Germans
and 20,000 Austrians, in every station
of life from princes to peasants, seek
ing to live here.
It is announced that at Berne a new
Government department, consisting of
200 attaches, will be created to deal
with this question. All applicants for
admission will be closely lnv('.\‘lig;lled.i
.
Lieut. Robert Clarke
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To Return to City Soon
Lieutenant Robert C. Clarke, well
known young Atlantan and former
Police Commissioner, has arrived at
Camp Merritt from overseas and will
soon return to Atlanta, friends here
have been advised.
Lieutenant Clark entered the first
officers’ training ecamp at Fort Mc-
Pherson and graduated with a com
mission as second lieutenant in spite
of six weeks' sickness with pneumo
nia. He was asgigned to duty with
the Eighty-ninth Division and trained
with them at Camp Funston, Kan,,
under Major General Leonard Wood.
While here he was promoted to first
lieutenant,
After arriving overseas, Lieutenant
(Clarke’s command was brigaded with
the French and English troops, which
were among the first to break the
vaunted Hindenburg line. He has
notified friends here that he expects
an early discharge and return home.
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With more than $50,000,000 already
subscribed, those in charge of the
Methodist Centenary fund of $105,-
000,000 are confident of going “over
the top” before the end of the cam
paign, Bishop F. D. Leete, in charge
of this district, announced Friday
night.
Atlanta subscriptions so far tétal
$504,000, Bishop Leete stated, and be
fore the week ending Sunday is closed
it is expected that this will be large
ly augmented. Indications at pres
ent, he stated, tend to show that the
distriet will double this amount.
The fund is to be divided three
ways. Forty millions will be devoted
to foreign missions, $40,000,000 to
home missions, while $25,000,000 will
go to after-war construction,
The following subscriptions had
been reported to Bishop Leete Fri
day: First Church, Chattanooga,
$45,000; Sumter, 8. C., district, $102,-
000 in large §ubs(-riptions and prac
tically as much in sn{all amounts,
and Miami, Fla., area, $20,000 above
the quota. Central Church, Detroit,
former pastorate of Bigshop Leete, has
reported $175,000 for the week, and
expects to raise it to $200,000 by Sun
day.
One layman in Texas, Bishop Leete
stated, has given $750,000, and many
large subscriptions throughout the
country have been received, A cam
paign for moral conservation and
evangelistic progress being started
as an aftermath to the campaign, he
said, and a drive for 4,000,000 new
members of the church will begin im
mediately.
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After Fine War Record
’ After a year of service in the fa
'mous Red Arrow, or ‘“Les Terribles™”
Division, Thomas C. Bankston, former
Atiantan, has arrived in this country
and is now visiting his mother, Mrs.
M. F. Bankston, No. 9 South Princess
avenue. The division of which Mr.
Bankston was a member claims the
honor of having been the first Amer
jcan troops to set foot on German
soil, and it has a remarkable fighting
record.
Mr. Bankston had+not lived in At
lar:ta for several years prior to his
entering the military service, but he
probably will make his home here in
ilh(« future.
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