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VOL. XVII
NO U. S. MILITARY AID IN RUSSIA, BIG 4 DECIDES
15,000 Die in Greatest Eruption Since Pelee Disaster
Finance Committee Again Refuses
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to Include $17,500 for Hous
ing Cyclorama at Park.
Confronted with the task of reduc
ing the January apportionments to
the various city departments by only
$145,000, after $205,000 in unexpected
'“revenue \had been found, the finance
committee of City Council adjourned
at 1 ofclock Monda yto have lunch at
the Grady HMospital as the guests of
Superintendent Steve R. Johnston.
An afternoon session was called to
meet at 3 o'clock, when it was ex
pected that the June finance sheet
would be adopted and ready for sub
mission to Council at its next meet
ing.
The committee refused to place in
the sheet $17,500 as this year’s appro
priation for the construction of a fire
proof building to house the cyclorama
at Grant Park. Several members of
the committee took the stand that the
Park Board having started court pre=
Sz‘edings, they would take no action
, antil the issue was decided. Aldine
" Chambers, attorney for the Park
Board, intimated to the committee
that a compromise might be effected
should the committee appropriate the
fund for this year, and expressed the
* pelief that should it fail to do so, it
would be in a more precarious posi
tion if the Supreme Court should
hand down a decision late in this
year.
Refuse Appropriation.
The committee refused to make the
appropriation, and Mr. Chambers
then asked that they Afake a stand,
either for or against the matter. He
asked that they either make the ap
propriaion or refuse to do so. He was
‘requested to put this question before
Council, who makes all appropria
tions. -
The largest increase in the city’s
revenue was $87,500 from the general
tax, $30,000 from the increased street
tax from $1 to $3, while SIB,OOO in
creased gross receipts tax from the
Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany and the Southern Bell Telephone
atd Telegraph Company is already in
the tresaury, Comptroller B. Graham
West reported. |
Other increased revenue items were
Dray and hack Hcenses, $2,000; gen
eral city licenses, $5,000; insurance
returns, $5,000; Recorders Court, $15,-
000: Battle Hill Sanitarium fees,
$1,000; water receipts, $5,000; Mar
shal's fees, $1,000; interest from Lib.
erty bonds, $6,175, and miscellaneous
receipts, $22,500. |
All these sums made up a total un
anticipated when the January budget
was compiled by the finance commit-j
tee.
The decrease in appropriations for
the entire city departments under thef
new sheet are much smaller than was
expected after the sheet was worked
over in May. Notably among these is
the sanitary department, which was
cut $45,000 in May, but under the new
sheet will only lose $16,000. The cut
in this department when first submit—l
ted was $21,500, but after Sanitary‘
+ JChief John Jentzen appeared before‘
the committee $3,000 was restored for
the purchase of ten mules, $2,814.20
for a new truck and $2,500 to place
a new roof on the crematory. The
city garage was given §9,490 increased
funds on which to operate when it
was shown that they have already
used more than half of the January
appropriations.
Other Reductions.
The City Clerk was reduced $2,000
for legal advertising, law department
pay roll $335, police department
$2.000, Marshal's office s3,ooo,City Hall
$6.250, fire department SI,BOO, Audito
rium-Armory S7OO for organist's payl
roil and SSOO for supplies, insurance
$3,000, department of health (mos
quito fund) S4OO, dairy and farm
$2,500, sanitary department $16,000,
sewer department $13,200, Grady Hos
pital SB,OOO, Battle Hill Sanitarinm]
$2.500, mechanical engineer $25, Chiet
of Construction $1,162, street depart-]
ment $40,600, bridges SIO,OOO, relief
$2,700. I
Restorations to departments over
the new sheet adopted by the com
mittee in May were as follows: Cliy
Hall, SSOO, building inspector, $125;
crematory roof, $2,500; mules, $3,000;
truck, $2.814, and new lights, +51,750.
Following are the increases granted
various departments over the entire
appropriations for last year: Con
tagions, $2,447; prisons, $4,640, and
schools, $41,000.
Under this appropriation the schools
will be short less than half a month’s
salary fund, as the total is estimated
at $70,000 per month under the sal
ary schedule adopted by the Board of
Education. If it is possible to raise
$720 000 now from any source for the
department, it will not be necessary
for the schools to close down during
the fall on account of ‘msufl‘lcient!
funds. |
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l 1919 Registration Fee 1919
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ATLANTA, GAZ%7£.%—l—;l9
RECEIVED OF/ WNol bl .
One Dollar, Primc;yp%/;egistration Fee for 1919. °*
LUCIEN EQRRIS, 5]
T vT 1B L R WA g T ge g
The first of Atlanta’s newly enfranchised women voters to become qualified for voting in the
city white primaries. First at the window was Mrs. Amelia R. Woodall, followed by Mrs. Fran
ces Smith Whiteside, Mrs. George K. Horne, Mrs. W. 1. Baker, Mrs. Beatrice Eaglin and Mrs.
Benjamin F. Bolton, shown here in order named.
Below, a reproduction of the registration, certificate of Mrs. Woodall, the first to be given
a Georgia woman. On another page of The Georgian is given a list of the women who registered
up to 2 o’clock Monday afternoon.
An appropriation of $5,000 for spe
cial traffic policemen to stop speeding
in Atlanta was passed unanimously
by the finance committee of Council
Monday morning when the committee
met to make up the June finance
sheet.
The motion was introduced by Al
derman John S. Mc¢Clelland, and while
there was some discussion, when sub
mitted to a vote, it was passed unan
imously.
Under Alderman McClelland’s res
olution, the present police force will
not be depleted. Special officers will
be hired to police the boulecards and
principal streets of the city where so
many speeders abound. He stated
that he felt no doubt that should the
Recorder impose adequate fines the
amount appropriated will be back in
the city treasury within one week.
Detective Chief Lamwr Poole, who
was present, stated that the fines im
posed now are approximately SI,OOO
por day,
it —— i - ?Mfi SoyiSAN IR A SRG.. IS— S -
ATLANTAm GE ORGIAN
L AN TA i L
fr %) LEADING NEWSPAPER e/ 1) N ¢OF THE SOUTHEAST #Yv oy '
r (laimants that women take no ln-Il
terest in politics saw their theories|
[go awry Monday merning when the{
office of County Tax Collector Lucien |
}Harris filled long before business |
hours with members of the fair sex
anxious to qualify as voters in the‘
coming white primaries. The rush
did not subside all morning and at
2 o'clock exactly 266 women had
stepped up to the window, paid their
%1 registration fee and walked proud
ly away with the slip entitling them
to help choose members of Atlanta's
future city government.
The first woman to register was
Mrs. Amelia R. Woodall, fiesident of
the Atlanta Woman Suffrage Associa
tion, who was chosen by common
corsent from the score or more of
women who appeared an hour ahead
of time as deserving of the honor.
Ciosely following Mrs. Woodall were
Mrs. Frances Smith Whiteside and
Mrs. A. G. Helmer, president of the
Equal Suffrage Party. As she took
up the pen to register, Mrs. Helmer
| said: ‘
“I have been coming to the office of
the Tax Collector to pay taxes forv
nearly 40 years, but I have never paid
lin a sum that pznve me greater pleas
ure than this dollar registration fee.
‘\‘V(‘ have at last caught up with the
Isnirit of 1776—'N0 taxation without
representation.’”
l Two of the women gegistrants—
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Continued on Page 3, Column 6,
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, MAY 26, 1919
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i Georgia has been given 205 auto
‘mobile trucks valued at approximate
ly - $700,000, as her initial allotment
of road building machinery and ac
cessories, which will be turned over
to the ‘States free by the Government.
Notice® to that effect was received
. Monday morning by Judge T. E. Pat
terson, chairman of the State High
way Commission, from the director of
the office of public roads, which is
|supervising the distribution of mil
| lions of dollars’ worth of machinery
'and materials for highway construc
tion.
The War Department turned over
'to the United States Agricultural De
‘parlmem all the machinery, imple
ments and material that had been col
‘lected and manufactured for war pur
|poses, and which are of no use to the
| Government now.
| Application for Georgia's share was
{put in about a month dgo through
the State Engineer, There will be
| several million dollars’ worth of ma
chinery and materials to be awarded
* Continued on Page 3, Column 7.
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The Salvation Army fund Monday
still was $15,000 short of its $85,000
goal.
Some scattered contributions
reached Chairman Edwin F. Johnson
Sunday and Monday, but they did not
aggregate enough to make any large
difference in the figures reported at
the meeting Saturday night.
The campaign, not in Atlanta alone
but all oyer the United States, is
dragging, and the time has been of
ficially extended to Thursday night.
The need in Atlanta is for addition
al workers, to help the little band of
"faithful who have turned in subscrip
tions every day, giving all the time
they can sSpare to the work.
It is pluir’l that Atlanta is willing to
give to the Salvation Army, but al
most everybody is waiting to be asked
in person. The canvassers find it easy
to obtain subscriptions, but there have
not been enough canvassers. Hundreds
of business men have not been asked
to contribute,
Chairman Johnson Monday urged
al: men who would work for a day to
communicate with him and obtain as
signments. He also urges all persons
who desire to contribute to mail him
their subscriptions or telephone his
office, Ivy 7063,
The executive committee will not
stcp work until the full sum is
made up.
U. S. Will Surrender
. .
No German Shipping
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 26.—MNo Ger
man shipping now in possession of the
Urited States is to be relinquished.
Following reports that a large por
tion of the vessels taken over by and
allotted to America probably would
go to Great Britain and other coun
tries, President Wilson, it was learned
today, has assured Washington offi
cials that “no one’ need have any
fear” that this will be the case, and
that “an agreemnt has been reached.”
Seventeen Other Towns Are Par
tially Destroyed, Says Report
Received in London.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, May 26.—Fifteen thou
sand persons were killed and twenty
villages were completely wiped out
by an eruption of the volcano Kloct,
on the Island of Java, in the Dutch
East Indies, said a Central News dis
pateh from Amsterdam today. Sev
enteen other villages were partiaily
destroyed.
There are fourteen active volcanoes
in an area 26 by 35 miles in this
immediate vicinity: They have de
stroyed hundreds of thousands of
lives. In 1686 the Ringghit, one of
the loftiest of the group, blew off
most of its peak and in a series of
internal explosions that followed more
than 10,000 persons were killed,
The Island of Java, with a popula
tion of about 30,000,000, has frequent
ly been visited by disastrous erup
tions, there being numerous active
and extinct volcanoces in its mountain
chains. The best known volcanoes on
the island are Tengger and Galun
gung.. In Galungung’s eruption in
1822 many thousands lost their lives.
There are about 65,000 Europeans on
the island. The casualties from this
latest disaster probably were largely
among the natives inhabiting moun
tain villages.
The London reports indicate that
this latest disaster may rival the
ones caused by the eruption of Minot
Pelee, which destroyed St. Pierre,
Martinique, with a death list of 30,-
000, May 8, 1902, and the volcanic
earthquake which virtually wiped
Messina off the may December 28,
1908.
Kloct is one of the smaller volca
noes in the western end of the Island
of Java. In May, 1901, it broke into
eruption after a period of inactivity
lasting several vears, enveloping
towns 150 to 250 miles distant, killing
about 200 persons and destroying the
sugar crop of the entire western end
of the island.
Late Allotment Checks
Are Sent Out by Glass
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 26.—One mil
lion overdue allotment checks will be
sent out by-~the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance immediately, Secretary
Glass announced today, following the
receipt of President Wilson's cabled
assurance that he would sign with the
least possible deiay the deficiency
measure passed by Congress last
week.
Glass Reports Loan
As Far Oversubscribed
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, May 26.—The Vic
tory L.oan was oversubscribed by near
ly $750,000,000, the subscription total
ing $5,249,908,300, Secretary of the
Treasury (Glass announced this after
noon.
Victory for Prohibition
And Suffrage in Texas
DALLAS, TEXAS, May 26—Re-|
turns today indicated that pruhihitlnn‘
and suffrage for women carried in|
the general election Saturday. The
figures are: |
For prohibition, 52,994; Magainst,
43,900,
For woman suffrage, 51,751; against,
48,513, :
y .
World’s Biggest Plane |
Wrecked Near London
LONDON, May 26.—The world's
biggest airplane, the “Atlanticer,” ca
pable of carrying 40,000 pounds, was
wrecked in leaving the ground at
Farnborough, near London, today and
two of her crew were seriously in
jured. The airplane was nearly twice
the size of the American seaplanes
which flew to the Azores,
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THE WEATHER. !
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Forecast — Probably showers |
{ Monday night ‘and Tuesday. ¢
'/] Temperatures—6 a. m., 65; Ba.
S m. 70; 10 a. m., 72; 12 noon, 74;
Sop g N TR, W TV, 4
_§ Sunrise, 5:30; sunset, 7:40. {
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the PostoMoe at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
The Jingles in
The Headlines
‘ By HARVE WESTGATE.
DOD news is flashed from
G London, “Old Hawker's safe
and sound,” and he may yet
“hop off again, and fly the whole
world 'round; we thought that he
had perished, and we'd never see
him more, but now both Grieve
and Hawker, sir, are safe on Eng
land’s shore,
They're raising tens of miltions
as the churches pass the hat; the
members dump thelr purses in, and
let it go at that; but how they
hoard their pennies, and squeeze
their dimes, alas! when someone
asks d@onations for the winsome
Army lass. .
Each woman in the city today
will sign her name, and be pre
pared to take her part in each elec
tion game; she’ll march up to the
Courthouse, and sign the dotted
line, and swear that equal suffrage
gives a thrill that's really fine.
The airplane has attractions (it
must be great to fly), but every
husky birdman must be prepared
to die; for wings curl up and
wither, and engines spout with
flame, and then there’'s one less
pilot in the luring, daring game.
By 808 PIGUE.
MEMPHIS, TENN, May 26—
Cloudy skies greeted the fair partici
pants in the eighth annual women's
Southern golf championship tourma
ment, which got under way this
morning at § o'clock at the Memphis
Country Club, when the qualifying
round was played. About 100 golfers
from all over Dixie are here to par
ticipate, among them being Miss
Alexa Stirling, of Atlanta, national
champion. Miss Stirling is the fa
vorite, and her past great perform
ances on the links, coupled with the
fact that she is playing the finest golf
of her brilliant career, make her the
choice over all other partictpants to
win the championship.
However, there is plenty of chance
that Miss Stirling will find an abun
dance of opposition before she has
again copped the crown, for Memphis
boasts of several high-class women
golfers, all of whom will be in the
thickest of the fight in an effort to
dethrone the fair young Athlamtan, |
The best 32 scores today will quali
fy for championship play, while the
next 16 will play for the president's
cup. The third 16 will play in the
association trophy event, and the final
1€ will have a chance to play for the
consolation.
Miss Alexa Stirling, the champion,
was out on the links of the Country
Club Saturday and Sunday, taking a
95 on Saturday and a 90 Sunday, but
she was familiarizing herself with
the course, and today she expects to
go out and play the same high-class
golf that made her national cham
pion.
The qualifying round, which started
this morning, found Miss Stirling
paired with Mrs. Dave Gaut, one of
the Country Club’s leading golfers.
This should prove a hard-fought
moteh, for Mrs. Gaut is at present on
her game strong, and Miss Stir
ling is certain to have to extend her
self.
Save By Selling
That is, if there are any
good things in your posses
sion which you are not us
ing, and which you may
never. use again—save their
value to yourself and to
somebody else.
Get the cash for them and
let somebody get the good
service there is in them.
Things in your store room,
in your office, in your ward
robe—whatever it may be,
advertise it in the ‘‘Articles
for Sale” column of The
Georgian and American.
That is the way to dispose
of things quickly in Atlanta.
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Decision With Regard % Russia
Is Victory for Wilsop and
Lloyd Georges ¢,»
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By SIDNEY DARK.,
(Exclusive Cable to The International
News Service From The London
Daily Express.)
PARIS, May 26.—The “big fourhas
dectded that the United States shall
not give military aid to Admiral Kel«
chak’'s Omsk (anti-Bolshefk) govern
ment in Siberta, but that the Allies
will recognize the govermment pro
viding the troops supporting % cap
ture Moscow, it was learned today.
This decision is a victory for Presi
dent Wilson and Premier Liloyd
George.
President Wilson s planning a trip
to Brussels before leaving fer home.
Big Four Discusses
Austrian Reparation
. By JOHN EDWIN NEVIN,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S,
PARIS, May 26,—With representa-~
tives of Roumania, Poland and
Czecho-Slovakia and Jugo-Slavia
present, the big four today discussed
at length the reparation clause to be
inserted in the Austrtan treaty.
General J. C. Smuts, Andre Tar
'dieu. L. P. Locheur and Dr, Keynes
sat in with the big four.
Arrangements for the presentation
of the Austrian treaty are expected
to be completed by Wednesday,
The greatest question is whether
the Anstrian population of the states
created from former Austrian terri
tory shall make good & proportionate
share of tho reparation demanded.
However, despite its complexity, the
Austrian situation is not camsing any
serfous worry.
The Austrian envoys at St Germain
understand that everything possible
is being arranged for their benefit,
and they will undoubtedly accept the
terms, but under protest,
The problem of Asia Minor has now
resolved itself into a question of
agreement between the British and
French.
An American commission is leaving
for Asia Minor to make an independ
ent investigation,
The concession made by the big
four regarding the Saar basin wiH be
of benefit to Germany, but it was
pointed out today by Americast ex
perts that it would not be proper to
interpret the concession as a pro=-
German one. The actual facts are
that the modification was made along
the lines of the original American
viewpoint which provided that the
question of redemption should be de
cided by the economic experts and
the league of nations. If Germany
becomes a member of the league of
nations within five years, she would
be in a position to argue her own
rights.
That the concession was a materéal
one was recognized by Count won
Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the Teuu
‘tonic delegation, and others.
President Wilson wil delwer a
' speech on Memorial Day (Friday),
‘wh-n he is expecetd to make sharp
eriticism of the Socialists for their
propaganda aere. It was said to be
'the Socialists who started the rumor
of wholesale resignations from the
' American peace delegation because
of dissatisfaction over the treaty
terms. o
Armed Resistance Not
Possible, Say German
BY ALFRED G. ANDERSEN,
Staff Corerspondent of the I. N. S.
BERLIN, May 25 (via London, May
26).—“Armed resistance to the Allies
over the peace terms would be a
senseless sacrifice of human life.
Some foolhardy Germans may doubt
less take up arms, but the Govern=-
ment will not support them.”
This declaration was made to me
today by Gustave Noske, Minister of
Public Defense, and known as the
“strong man of the German cabinet.”
Herr Noske's statement was made
in reply to my question:
“Could Germany resist in a mili
tary way if the peace negotiations
should fail?”
Murder to Resist.
“(ermany has no army in the
field,” continued the minister. “We
have only a police force, having al
ready disbanded our military forces.
Also we have surrendered our mili-
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