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YOL. XVI
STRIKE PARALY/ZES PORIS
GATES SWING OPEN FOR 1919 FAIR
FIRST ARREST IN FAIRBURN CASE
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Saturday Preparation
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) Day at Great Fair
R M. STRIPLIN, secretary of
s the fair association, at
noon Saturday made the follow
ing statement to The Georgian:
“SBaturday is always known as
: preparation Day. Some of the
" exhibits are dlways incomplete
.on Saturday, but this year the
fair is far more complete on the
opening day than ever before.
All new exhibits are in, but some
exhibits that are to come from
the Alabama fair at Birming
ham, the Des Moines fair, the
Virginia fair at Richmond, the
Grand Circuit races at Lexington
and the county fairs In North
Georgia, were still arriving Sat- | |
urday. They will all be in place
by Monday, when the entire fair
will be complete and the formal
program will be carried out.
| The amusement part of the fair
\ will be open Sunday free of
charge to the public, and there
will be a free band cencert. The
exhibit part of the fair will be
roped off and will not be open
on Sunday.”
Although the Southeastern Fair for
mally opened Saturday at Lakewood
Park, it will get in full - swing
Monday, at whih time it will be
until Monday, at which time it is ex
pected that all of the exhibits will be
ready and the amusements along the
midway will all be open for business.
The first day was spent largely by
exhibitors getting ready for next
week, although the grounds were
visited by many from the time the
gates opened. )
Many of the exhibits are coming
from fairs that will not close until
Saturday night, and this is one of the
reasons set forth by the management
for the failure to be ready on the first
day. The Johnny J. Jones Carnival
Company will not leave Birmingham
until late Saturday night, but will ar-|
rive in Atlanta early Sunday morning
and will be ready for the opening
Monday. |
Most of the first day crowd was.
composed of those who are in the city
attending the Confederate Reunton,
Many of the exhibits were being put
in shape while®work had not been
stasted on others.
NO SET PROGRAM. ‘
There was no set program for
the first day. This was explained by
Secretary R.'M. Striplin, who declared
that the gates were closed primarily
for the purpose of speeding up the ex
hibitors and giving them an oppor
tunity to get ready for Monday, when
the actual opening will take place, 1
The a'gricultural and live stock ex-!
hibits were the center of interest for
the first day crowds. They were;
more comp]e'tc than the others and
farm maachinery demonstrators had a}
banner day. |
There is an exhibit of practically |
every make and kind of modern farm'
implement at Lakewood, and the
farmers spent most of the day in this‘
vieinity. There were few anusements‘
Continued on Page 2, Column 2.
Full International News Service
'Wilson Again aGins
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Slightly and Has
.
Comfortable iNght
(By International News Service.)
WA%HINGTON, Oct. 11,—Presi
dent ilson passed another com
fortable night and continues to gain
slightly in strength, it was unoffi
cially reported at the White House
l early today.
(Exclusive Cable to the I. N. S. and
The Daily Express.)
LONDON, Oect. 11.—King Victor
Emmanuel of Italy has intimated his
intention to adbicate if the sedition in
Italy continues to spread, according
to high diplomatic sources today.
Capt. Gabriele D’Annunzio’'s raid
and the occupa;flon of Fiume was
said to have led to a serious internal
situation in Italy.
' The government finds itself defied
by a majority of the ar}ny. |
(By International News Service.)
ROME, Oct. :11.—Capt., Gabriele
ID’Annunzio, leader of the Italian
troops that occupied Fiume, has or
ganized a ‘‘cabinet” with Whitney
Warren, a prominent New York ar
chitect, as a member of it, said a dis
patch to the Epocha today. Mr. War
‘ron was in Paris when D’Annunzio’s
coup was executed. He had planned
to said for New York but was so in
spired by the patriotic motives of
D’Annunzio he decided to go to Fiume
and cast his lot with the celebrated
Italian warrior-poet.
Jugo-Slav troops are preparing to
occupy Klagenfurt until Gabriele
D’'Annunzio’s Italian forces evacuate
Fiume, according to a dispatch to
ithe Tempo. Rival claims are being
}made to Klagenfurt by the Croatians
‘and Italians. l
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(By International News Service.) I
BOSTON, Oct. 11.—Considerable
mystery surrounds a call for assist
ance from the United States Shipping
Board’'s steamship, Amnonoosue, Nor
folk to Genoa. A radiogram saying
the steamship was disabled and drift
ing was picked up late yesterday by
wireless stations along the coast. üßt
since the first message nothing fur
ther has come from the disabled ves
sel. Her position was not given in
the message.
United States naval wireless sta
tions tried all night and early today
to establish comunication with the
Amnonoosue, but without success. A
cutter may be sent out today from
New York or Norfolk to search for
the Amnonoosue. :
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Fertilizer and Meat
Price Not To Be Fixed
WASHINGTON, Oet. 11.—The gov
ernient will not fix prices on cetton
geed meal and fertilizers this year, it
is announced by the bureau of soils,
department of agriculture. If, hnw-l
evel. there is any profiteering in fer
tilizers, then the department will con
sider lixing vrices, it is declared here.
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' (By International News Service.)
CLEVELAND, Oct. 11.—Capt. L.
H. Smith, pace 'maker among the
flyers in the trans-continental air
derby from West to East, lost that
honor this morn’ir}g when Major
Spatz, in No. 61 took the lead.
Major .Spatz arrived ffom Bryan,
0., at 8:19 and_was followed in by
Lieut. E. C. Kiel, in No. 62 at 8:34.
Both planes had difficulty in land
ing at the loeal field but made it
safely.
Smith left Bryan about the same
time as the other machines, Major
Spatz reported, but so far he has not
been heard from.
Spatz and Kiel will take off for
;the east as soon as possible.
j Captain Smith narrowly escaped
being, put out pf the race when he
made a forced-landing east of here
while trying to locate Martin Field.
His plane nosed over and smashed
' the propellor. A wing strut was a'so
broken. ,
He secured an automobile and
}rushed to Martin Field where spare
parts were provided. His mechanic
is now feverishly working to complete
his repairs and get back in the race.
Major Spatz took the lead in the
race to the Atlantic coast when he
got away for Buffalo at 8:43.
Lieutenant Kiel took off for Buf
falo at 9:19.
Both said they would makg Mineola
by late afternoon.
Four Air Jockeys
Off at Chicago
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, Oct, 11.—Four more air
jockeys flying in the great aerial
derby took off from the Grant Park
landing field here today.
Lieut. J. B. Newman, the only rep
resentative of the marine corps in
the contest, departed at 8:12 o’clock |
for Rock Islahd, while Col. F. 8.,
Bowen and Capt. D. H. Young fol
lowed him dbout 30 minutes later.
Lieut. R.. 8/ Worthington, east |
pourrd, Yest for Bryan, Ohio, at nzoz.i
Agnes Scott Campaign ‘
Officers Are Named
Organization of workers who will
conduct the big endowment drive for
Agnes Scott College was perfected at
a meeting Friday of prominent At
lanta educators, business men and
alumnae of Agnes Scott at the Cham
ber of Commerce, Atlanta's quota of
the fund will be SIOO,OOO.
Ten colonels will direct the cam
paign. Each colonel will have four
captains under him and each captain
will have five team workers. The
final <cally of workers prior to the
campaign will be held Monday night
in the Chamber of Commerce. Spe
cial features will be introduced on
the program, including the appear
ance of the Agnes Scott Glee Club
and “jazz” band. |
The first meeting of the campaign
committee will be held Saturday 1 ight
at 7:30 in the office of Dr. Gaines
at the college. Plans for hr-ginnig‘
the campaign in DeKalb County will
be formed. The endowment w,m-‘
paign will be explained in Decautr at‘
a mass meéting in the court house to
be held Monday night. DeKalb Coun.J
ty’'s quota is $50,000,
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 19]9
5 .
Industrial Congress
l\;l tgsgia teel Strike
0 Steel Strik
1
Is Epxected Tuesday
(By Internationsd News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Prac
tically all ?gembers of the Indus
trial conference had scattered to
their homes and nearby cities to
day. The conference will not meet
as a whole until Tuesday. .
The committee of fifteen, gov
erning body of the conference,
Monday will meet with the princi
pal ebject of threshing out- the la
bor resolution compelling arbitra
tion of the steel strike. It is ex
pected the matter will come to a
vote - when the conference meets
as a whole on Tuesday.
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(By International News Service,)
PITTSBURG, Oct. 11.—Impressed
by what they ‘saw’ in ‘threit tour of
the ‘big steel centers in the Pitts
burg district, members, of .the Sen
ate = committee investigating the
strike of steel workers today began
the hearing of witnesses in the Fed
eral Building here.
The steel operators and the strike
leaders were notified that they would
’be allowed ten witnésses each: The
committee, however, issued sub
poenaes for a number ‘of ,persons
whom the members wished to exam
ine.
The hearings will continue tomor
row and the visit will 2nd tomorrow
night when the committee will re
turn to ashington. It was r!anned
to go to Youngstown, 0., and Gary,
‘lnd.. but an urgent call summoned
‘the senators back to the capital,
! ‘While the senators would make no
formal statement as to what they
learned on their trip yesterday they
indicated that they were impressed
by two facts. One was that none
‘of the plants visited extept one
seemed badly crippled and the other
was that the strikers knew what
they were striking for,
Invar?ably the three leading ques
tions put to the strikers were regard
ed the wages received, their living
conditions and the reasons they quit.
Poor wages and long hours were the
principal complaints with many, in
cluding recognition of the union.
Army to Stamp Out.
Bolshevism in Strike
(By International News 80rvic§.)
GARY, Ind.,, Oct. 11.—Bolsheviki
and other radical agitators accused of
fomenting disorder among striking
steel workers in the Calumet distriet
are to be sternly dealt with by the
military authorities in control, it be
came increasingly evident ' today.
Plans for a fhorough and prolonged
campaign to stamp out anarchistic
elements in tHe strike have been
formed by 'the various government
agencies.
Following raids in which scores of
radicals have been arrested, measures
for the deportation of all against
whom evidence is found to warrant
such action are being considered by
federal authorities today. A stockade
is ‘being built in which the prisoners
will be housed and many of those ar
rested have been put to work cleaning
the streets.
Steel mills throughout the district
report a continued increase in pro
duction and declare that scores of
men are returning to work daily, |
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' (By International News Service.)
LONDON, Oct. 11.—The executive
committee of the soviet at Moscow
has Hepided to ‘declaré rartial law
~ and appoint a special committee
' with ‘the fullest:.authority tp fight
the counter revolutionaries, said a
l news agehcy dispatch from Hel
singfors today.
| (By International News Service.)
LLONDON, Oet. 11.—A counter revo
lution has broken out at Petrograd
and the counter revolutionaries have
captured several important buildings,
according to an Exchange Teliegmaph
dispatch from Helsingfors.
The digpatch 'said inférmation was
obtained from Russian newspapers
that have reached Helsingfors.
Serious: fighting -is- said¢ to be con
tinuing.
Russian Port on
Baltic Capturéd
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Oect. 11.—Riga, an im
portant Russian port on the Baltic,
has ben captured from the Letts by
the Russian and ‘German arm¥, com
manded by Coloned Bermondt, the
troops of the famous Iron Division,
under General Von Der Goltz, were
marching upon Riga.)
Helsingfors correspondent of the
Daily Mail telegraphed today.
(It was reported that German
Happy Veterans
.
Bid Farewell to
b » » 3 .
Atlanta Friends
Tired from the long walk which
man yof them made during the b'ig
parade, but still happy and cheer
ful, hundreds of Confederate vet
erang came to the doors of their
tents at Camp Joseph E. Johnston
late Friday afternoon to bid good
by to their friends.
Thousands of visitors flocked to
the camp shortly after the parade
was over to spend a few more
hour’s twith the old visitors. The
streets of the camp presented the
appearance of a great city. The
street cars going to the camp were
packed to capacity all through the
afternoon,
Chews and Smokes
'
Given to Veterans
"
By Righ Brothers
Smokes and chews were en
joyed Friday by thousands of vet
erans as a compliment from M,
Rich & Bros. Co.
The tobaeco was distributed
among the honored visitors by a
corps of pretty girl employees of
the big store under direction of
L.ucien York, geéneral manager.
Three automobiles were requlrt\rf
to haul the supply. The distribu- ‘
tion was made at Camp Johnston, ‘
the Piedmont Hote] and at the Au
ditorium Friday night, Many
hearty expressions as appreciation
came from the vets,
“We, feel very happy in having
pleased the veterans with this lit
tle courtesy,” said Mr, York Sat- J
urday
nsued Dally and Entered as Second-Class Matter al
the Postoffice at Atlanta U nder Act of March 3, 1879,
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The police dragnet thrown out in
many Georgia cities and towns for the
masked autoy bandits who rebbed and
burned the%‘atrhurn Bank Company
at Faiburn -eariy Friday, brought. its
lflrfix,nqql_ in the city of Atlaha Sat
urday, ¥
Detective Powers arrested as a sus
pect ‘s hdd giving the name of A. D.
Parker, as. he. stépped from an in
coming rain from Winder, Ga.; at the
Terminal Station. Winder is about
forty miiles’ from Fairburn. |
The' susperct,” taken to police hend-‘
quarters, was. searched. No weapons
or money was foynd. He said he re
sided in Atlanta and that he had been
a street vat contiuctor.
As. the .search .of the suspec was
going on detectives say they found a
hat concealed in his clothes.
‘"SHERIFF ON WAY.
Deectives Powers declares that the
suspect will be questioned about the‘
burning of a barn six miles from Win
der and that the sheriff of Barrow
County is on his way to Atlanta to
guestion the prisoner.
Detective Powers added that the
prisoner is believed to have been one
of the two men who, according to a
police “tip,” was seen in an auto near
Winder Friday. The auto broke down
and the men disappeared, the police
were informed.
The entir' countryside in the
lvlcinity of Fairburn was still being
gone over Saturday. The bandith
’early Friday burned the bank
and the building of the Fairburn
lMarket Company, adjoining, and
'dnmaxed a third, after binding and
| gagging Cashier Willlam B. Green
!and making a futile attempt to get
into the time-locked safe, seem to
have vanished.
SYSTEMATIC SEARCH,
. Officers began a systematic Ine
vestigation Saturday all along the
twenty miles of road between Fair
'burn and Atlanta in the hope of de
veloping a definite clue, with the
posibility that some one might be
found who had seen the: speeding
bandit car and might possibly be
able to give a good description of the
car and the occlipants. At the same
time, Atlanta police and detectives
scoured the city for trace of the
bandits.
| Detectives Meek gnd Holley were
especiaily detailed on the case by
"])mectlve Chief Lamar Poole, and
expected to hold a conference Satur
’duy with officers from Fairburn with
!lhn particular purpose of obtaining
'the most complete description possi
‘bla of the two bandits, .
I Cashier Green- described one of the
lmhhora as tall and slender and the
’olhor as low and of stocky build.
‘Both appeared to be young fellows
and clean shaven, he said. As the
[f_aces of both men were half covered
}wnh masks, however, he was unable
to distinguish clearly their facial ex
-3 pressions.
w SANITATION EXPERT READY.
' The services of W. J, Langler, ex
pert on the installation of sanitary
closets, will be given free by the
State Board of Health to rural schols,
comunities or homes, it was anounced
Saturday by Dr. M. F. Haygod, sec
retary of the board. The only cost
will be the expenses of the expert.
Information can be ob{ulned from Dr,
Hayzoud.
79
_EDITION )
How Can Atlanta
Improve Her
Playground and
Recreational
Activities?
. Not “How MIGHT she im
prove” them; but “How CAN
she improve” tMem. “CAN"—
meaning “to be able”—and mean
ing, moreover, to secure PRAC
TICAL suggestions along this
vital line of civic development
for, The American Forum of
the next Sunday American,
We have secured them.
If you will read the discus
sion. Sunday, you may be
amazed to find what avenues
of progress lie upon to us AT
SMALL COST; and demanding
only YOUR AWAKENED IN
TEREST in this most impor
tant of qflestions for their suc
cessful approach.
The contributors are:
ALBERT BAUMBERGER,
Community organizer, Atlan
ta War Camp Community Sery
ive.
JULIAN V. BOEHM,
Chairman of the Committee
on Public Recreation, . Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce,
E. H: CONE, . :
President of the Rotary Club
of Atlanta. *
MYRA N. GRAVES,
- Birector of physical training,
Atlanta Public Schools. ‘
VICTOR H. KRIEGSHABER,
President and organizer of the
‘Aflanta Commission on Train
ing Camp activities.
ADA S, WOOLFOLK,
Sociological worker, now with
the Southern Division of the
Red Cross.
BLAIRSVILLE, ‘Oct. 11.-~The trial
of the Crawley gang, charged with
the murder of Marshal Ben Dixon in
January, ended last night with the
following verdicts:
George and Decatur Crawley, guilty
of murder.
Rose Crawley and Glaine Stewart,
guilty of murder, with recommenda
tion the the mercy of the cour,
Felix Crawley, not guilty.
Upon the freeing of Felix Crawley
’he was rearrested on the charge of
ishelterim{ a deserter from the arny.
.
80-Year-old Vet, Hit
By Motorcycle, Is
‘Too Young' to Die
I '
Claiming that 80 years old was
entisely "“too young’” for any one to
think of giving up a grip on life,
J. F. Pouncey, the Confederate vet
eran who was struck by a motor
cyele in front of the Kimball House
Friday was recovering slowly Sat
urday in Grady Hospital.
“T went all the way through the
war and didn't get ekilled, and I
ain’t going to let a motorcycle do
what the Yanks couldn't,” smiled
Pouncey from his cot in the hos
pital. The veteran appeared to he
enjoying his enforced rest and was
proclaimed the life of the ward.
Pouncey, who is a member of
the Stonewall Jackson Post of
Ozark, Ala., was watching the pa- |
rade when a motorcycie, ridden by
Motorcycle Officer L. E. Shumate, J:
collided with him., The veteran
was krocked to the pavement and ‘
narrowly escaped injuries that
would have caused his death.
He was taken to the hospital,
whero the officer assisted in dress
ing his wounds before he would
allow the surgeons to care for his
own injuries.
GOOD-BL, SUGAR BOWLS,
MOBILE, Oct. 11.—Sugar bowls
were ordered off all restaurant and
case tables here today as a means of
conserving sugar, and many soda
stands are using brown sugar. The
shortage Is »~mte
NO. 61
(By International News Service.)
N’gw YORK, Oct, 11.—Traffic in
the harbor was completely paralyzed
today by the worst marine strike inf
the history of the city. The long«
shoremen’s strike spread suddenly
and unexpectédly overnight to it,hd
workers on ferryboats, tugs and
‘lighters, and all were tied up. Strike
leaders declared the movement would
extend to the whole Atlantic coasf
from Maine to Florida.
Thousands of New Jersey commu«
ters literally fought to get into the
Hudson tube trains to get to work
in New York city. Men and women
were knocked down and, trampled in
the Jersey City stations and the jam
became so great and the menace to
life so dangerous that police reserves
were rushed to the scene to keep ors |
dr.
FOOD SHORTAGE FEARED.
There is danger of a food shortagd
and great stores of provisions lying
on the docks are in danger of spoil=
ing.
There were some ferries operated
‘by the Lackawanna Railroad running
duriig the early morning hours, but
the boats of the Erie, Jersey Central,
West Shore and Pennsylvania Raii«
roads were all tied up. 3
Thousands of vehicles were ma«
rooned in Jersey City, including &
score of ‘trucks with the city’'s morn«
ing milk supply. % g
Artuh Williams, federal food ad«
ministrator for New York, appealed
to the strikers to handle 5,000 ear=
loads of foodstuffs that are lying
upon the piers, but they made ng
move to do so.
“If this food is not moved soon, if
will not be fit to eat,” declared E’
}Willlams. The shortage caused k
' the damage to this supply would f
sect the families of strikers as wélf
as others. ;
1 U. 8. MAILS MOVE. . ¥
. United States mails were carried
across the Hudson on a single boat.
- There are approimately seventy
thousand men idle in all branches
of marine work. The strike was be«
gun by the lonkshoremen, who dgf
manded more money, and then spread
to the workers on the boatss .
~ Rourteen ocean going ships sched«
uled to leave port were held up by
the strike,
The National Adjustment Commis.
sion has been holding hearings in
this city and William Z. Ripley, di=
recor of the organization, planne-d“fi)
meet a committee of strikers thil
afternoon to make another effort tQ
induce them to return to work.
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30,000 Jews Slain in
Last Year in Ukraine
(By Universal Service.) J
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—Thirty
thousand Jews have been slain since
last November in the Ukraine, says
a statement issued by the Zionist
Organization of America,
Soldiers acting under Gewra! Pet
lura and Gregorieff have wiped out {
entire communities, the pogroms bes =
ing carried out both by bolshevik and =
anti-bolshevik forces, according to
the statement.
Robert Hecht Goes to -
World Cotton Meeting
Robert Hefiht. vice president and
treasurer of *the International CO€«"‘~ {
ton Proucts Company of Atlanta,
and branches, has been appointed &
delegate to the World Cotton Cop~
ference at New Orleans and has left
Atlanta to attend the meeting. ;i