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Situation Is Very Gr_:avf‘e,\Majo;fityx Léagler Says
MINERS LEADERS TO GIVE BOND
Y
(By International News Service.)
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 4—Jonn L.
’.lr).wis, .acting president; William
Giieen, secretary, and three other of
ficials' of the United Mine Workers
of America who are in Indiana, were
to appear today at the office of the
United States marshal and give bond
of SIO,OOO each for their appearance
in Federal Court next Tuesday,
‘when they will answer charges of
criminal contempt because -of alleged
bad faith in connection with the re
call of the codl strike order.
Seventy-nine other defendants will
pe arrested in States where they may
be, and will be allowed to give bond
to United States authorities there.
¥rank Farrington of Illinois and Alex
Howatt of Kansas are among these.
Besides the eighty-four who are
aefendants «in the original injunction
proceedings, thirteen officials of thé
Clinton, Ind., local unjon face con
tgnpt charges for alleged distribu
in of strike benefits,
Serving of capiases on the miners’
officials follows the filing late yes
terday of an information by the gov
ernment charging bad faith in failure
to put seals and signatures on the
strike recall order. Sixteen dir¥ct
charges are .made, and it is alleged
that John L. Lewis r2fused to com
wunicate with locals explaining that
the strike rescinding notice was a
good faith order.
Capiases wergs ordered issued im
mediately following the information
«nd bonds were fixed at SIO,OOO each.
lleo.;"‘flg on the contempt charges was
get y®or 10 o'clock next Tuesday
morning.
Kansas Will Seize
Barton County Mines
(By International News Service.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 4—Fol
] ing an all day conference with
*\W. Lukins, president of the South
western Coal Operators’ Associatiof,
and State officials, Governor Gardner
announced the State will seize and
operate the coal fields of Barton
County.
The miners, according to the gove
¢rnor's announcement, will be given
an opportunity to resume work at
wages received prior to the coal
¢trike, plus the 14 per cent increase
offered by Fuel Administrator Car
tield, but in case of a refusal volun
{eer miners will be summoned to
opo'r;ue Missouri’s “strip” mines,
which, it is gstimated, can produce
000 tens of coal daily.
)By nightfall, it is understood, the
“irst battalien of the Seventh Regi
ment, N. G. M., complate, will/be on
duty in the Barton County coal field.
Miners’ Officials
Cited for Contempt
INDIANAPOLIS, Deec. 3.~—~Approx
fmately 100 officials of the United
Mine Workers were cited Wednesday
afternoon for contempt of court by
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“‘She and Allan’, H. Rider Haggard’s New Story sum'¥'s iuzrican
24-Hour {524 foternational, News. & Service
Farmers Burn
Fence Posts and
Corn; Coal Out
(By International News Service.)
IMPERIAL, Nebr, Dec. 4.—
Farmers in this section of the
country started burning fence
posts and corn today when the
last of the supply of coal was
exhausted.
At Belfast and Wayside the
coal supply also has been ex
hausted and ear corn is being
burned. x
French Opera House |
In New Orleans, 60 ’
Years 01d, Is Burned
NEW ORLEANS, Dee, 4.—The his
toric French Opera House, erected in
185 r, was destroyed by fire early this
morning. v . .
The origin has not been: 'ascer«
tained.
Several years ago the opera fiouse
was purchased by W. R, Irby, rich
banker and tobacco manufacturer,
and presented to Tulane University.
The amount involved then was said_'
to be close to a quarter of a million
dollars,
The French Opera House was one'
of the landmarks of the old downtown
section of New Orleans, It was three
stories high, located on Iberville
street, five blocks from Canal street,
and in the heart of the French sec
tion. Across the street is the French
consulate, and within a stone’s throw
is the historic St. Louis Cathedral,
Jackson Square,: Pontalba buildings
and Cabildo. -
The Mardi Gras or Carnival bqlls.
with the exception of the Rex parade,
which was held in the day time, were
staged in the French Opera House.
Proteus, Momus, Comus and the!
other social Carnival organizations
crowned their kirgs and queens there l
and the ceclebrations of Mardi Gras
although in mime, rivalled in splen
dor and grandeur and cost the old
court festivities of France. .
Blaze Does $160,000 |
Damage at Newark, O.
(By International News Service.) |
NEWARK, Ohio, Dec. 4.—Fire,
which followed four explosions in the |
Long hardware store in the heart of |
the business district early today,{
spread rapidly and in a short time‘
the Riderblick Music Hall, Odd Fel
lows’ Building and the Advocate‘
Newspaper office were all ablaze. The ‘
fire raged eight hours before it was
brought under control and the losn!
will reach $160,000, 50 per cent of
which is ecovered by insurance. 1
Firemen suffered from the cold,!
the mercury being 10 above zero. The
families escaped in their night cloth
ing from apartments,
Alexander Nominates ‘
Meyerhardt for Post
David Meyerhardt's appointment as
assistant district attorney to succeed
Basil Stockbridge, wib résigned re
cently, has been recommended to the
attorney general at Wachington by
Hooper Alexander, United States
district attorney.
Mr. MeyeMhardt was formerly asso
ciated with Mr. Alexander, resigning
his position to enlist in the army.
Rome Elects Hamilton
To Succeed Vandiver
ROME, Dec. 4.~—Judge Harper
Hamilton was elected successor to
John M. Vandiver on the board of
city commissioners from the Second
Ward, defeating Samuel M. Lowry
by a vote of 129 to 84, Judge Hamil
ton wlll take office at the meeting
lnf the ecity commisgsion Thursday
night.
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Miss Willie Maude Ballenger,
formerly nurse in an Atlanta hos
pital, and who was bequeathed a
large sum of money in the will of
the late Charles E. Curier, for sev
eral years president of the Atlanta
National Bank, has been made de
fendant in a suit for $200,000 for
allenation of her husband's affec
tions, filed in the Supreme Court of
New York by Mrs. Adele G. Sea
mans, wife of Merritt G. Seamans,
formerly of Atlanta,
The three principals in the suit
are well known in Atlanta. Miss Bal
lenger was popular and stood hign
in the estimation of the nurses of
Atlanta. She was engaged as nurse
for Mr. Currier during his last ill
ness and performed her duties ro
faithfully that in his will he left her
the bulk of his estate.
Relatives of Mr. Currier threatened
to contest the will and a compromise,
variously estimated to involve from
SIOO,OOO to $250,000 as Miss Bal
lenger’'s share, was agreed on,
SEAMANS' LEFT HOME.
Mr. and rMs. Seamang came to At
lanta from Barnesville several years
ago and Mr., Seamans ws branch
nyanager for Bal'ard and Ballard,
flour delers, 290 Mriett street, until
July, 1915,
Miss Ballenger, it is said, became
acquainted with the Seamans family
when she was engaged as a nurse
for Mrs. Semans. Mr. Seamans dis
appeared from his home March #2B,
1917, 1t Is s:'iid, and Mrs. Seamans
heard nothing from him until June,
1918, when he is reported to have
sent her a messdage to join him in
Washington, with their young
daughter, which she did and a recon
ciliation was éffected.
According to reports from New
York, Mr. Seamans again left home
last July and Mrs, Seamans, with
the aid of detectives, traced her hus
band and Miss Ballanger to 334 Wes:*
Fifty-eighth street, New York.
In her suit against Miss Ballanger
the wife says that she and her hus
band lived happily together until
1917, when Miss Ballenger “by means
of wiles and money,” alienated his
affections. She also charges the
nurse induced Seamans to desert his
wife and child last July.
NOTIFIED WHILE AT DINNER.
' According to the New York dis
}xratchcs Miss Ballenger was served
with notice of the suit while she
‘wa,s dining with Seamans in a res
taurant at 304 West Fifty-eighth
street, Mrs. Seamans taking her law
yer there and witnegsing the serv
‘(ng of the papers|
At the same time notice was
served on Seamans, directing him to
appear in, the court of domestic re
ilatlons and show cause why he could
not provide for the support of his
wife and 13-year-o'd daughter.
Seamans, it is reported, did not
appear in court to answer the sum
mons and at the house where it was
alleged he and Miss Ballenger liver,
it was said they had left in a taxi
cab.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1919
J
“Business as usual” despite the
coal shortage and the consequent re
strictions on light and fuel, appeared
to be the rule in Atlanta Thursday,
following modifications of the regu
lations ordered By the coal commit
tees
Permission to open for business as
early as desired and to stay open as
late as desired, provldedlno electric
light or power or heat derived from
coal, wood or gas was used, gave the
business men all they needed, it
gseemed. Every store was open at its
regular hours, even though clerks, ac
countants and customers might have
‘to ghiver for the first hour or two.
But most of the stores had retained
gufficient heat from the day before to
make them fairly comfortable.
The rapidity with which an after
noon newspaper reaches its readers
was demonstrated Wednesday after
noon,
The fuel committee did not give out
its modifications of the rules until
after 1 o'clock. These appeared for
the first time in the home edition of
lThe Georgian, which was selling on
the streets at 2:30 o’clock. Within a
'half hour nearly every merchant
whose ' light and power were not to
be usged after 4 o'clock had provided
his store with lamps or candles, and
instead of closing at 4 o'clock the
stores were kept open until the reg
ular elosing hour—a boon to Christ
mas shoppers.
CONFERENCE CALLED.
W. Rawson Collier of the Georgia
Railway and Power Company, who is
the public utility représentative on
.the fuel committee, has called a con
ference of puhlic utiiity heads in At
lanta and the representatives of all
Southern region companies are ex
pected to arrive by Thursday after
noon or Friday morning, to discuss
the situation on lights and power.
The ruling made Wednesday by the
committee permits the use without
curtailment of light or power pro
duced wholly by hydro-electric pow
er, but 1t is necessary for such utili
ties to show the committee that they
do not usg any auxiliary power de
lrived from fuel. It is said that only
a few companies have sufficient
water power to make them entirely
independent of coal during the heav
fest husiness periods.
Chairman 8, L. Yerkes Thursday
announced that all individuals, cor
porations and organizations which
have 1,000 tons or more of coal’in
stock must send immediately a re
port to the committee. giving the
supply on hand. It may be that this
information will be followed by a
confiscation of a part of such sup
plies, but the situation so far does
not demand such action. The com
mittee claims the power to make
such confiscation, under the Lever
act and the proclamations of the
President. .
INTERPRETATIONS MADE., -
Definite interpretation of the com
mitee’s modification of the restric
tions was made officinlly Thursday.
Pergons or business houses affected
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old Whisky Keg
Game Resurrected
.
In Albany Twice
ALBANY, Dec, 4.—Three hundred
dollars a quart for whisky is the
price two Albany men unwittingly
paid a distiller who claimed to have
several ten-gallon kegs of double-run
whisky. The operator announced his
willingness to sell the booze at S3OO
a keg, and this price was acceptable
to the Albany men who wereé to meet
him a few miles from the city. When
they met at the appointed place, the
Albany men decided to make an in
vestigation to see that they were not
being victimized. They drew off a
quart from the first keg and it sam
pled all fight. ‘The keg was shaken
and the sound of liquid inside con
vinced them that there was more of
the same kind. The second keg was
subjected to the same test and given
an o. k. Paying the S3OO apieee, the
men returned to Albany congratulat~
ing themselves on' being able ta get
gsuch a ligh grade of liquor at $7.50
a quart. Taking it home, they found
that each keg contained but a little
more than a quart of whisky, which
filled the small space above a false
bottom, and that the remainder of
the keg wag filled with water.
2,600 Men Idle W hen
Strike Closes Shipyard
MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 4—When the
machinists employed at the plant of
the International Shipbuilding Com
pany at Pascagoula, Miss., near here,
building steel ships, quit work Wed
nesday, the company closed the place.
The result was 2,600 men are thrown
out of work. The machinists want
more money,
A special train operating bétween
Pascagoula and nearby towns was
immediately discontinued by the
Louisville and Nashville road com
pany. | .
St. Louis Republic
- Suspends Publication
(By Universal Servicé.)
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4—The St. Louis
Republic suspended publication to
day. The.paper, which was founded
in 1808, has been bought by Globe
Publishing Company, the only other
morning paper here,
Despite its name, the Republic has
always been Democratic in politics.
Since 19156 David R. Fracis, Ameri
can ambassador to Russia, has been
its owner.
Van Valkenburg Wins
Over Long in Decatur
J. E. Van Valkenburg Jr. was suc
cessful over A, W, Long in Decatur's
one councilmanic contest Wednesday
in the general election. Van Valken
i)éxlrg received 145 votes, and Long
Without opposition 1. J. Steele was
re-elected as nfayor and W. W, Free
born,'N. G. Goss and John A. Camp
bell as councilmen,
CF BRINGING ON WAR
Next Sunday’s American will be the only paper in At
lanta to print the findings of the commission appointed
by the new German republic to fix the blame for the
world war. You ecan’t afford to miss these remarkable
historical doecuments. Marked by the kaiser’s own pen
cil, they prove him guilty. Remember, they will appear
only in .
NEXT SUNDAY’S AMERICAN
By NEWTON C. PARKE,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
PARIS, Dec. 4—The Supreme
Council today decided to send a sharp
note to Germany on the reported de
cision of the German government not
to sign the treaty ratification proto
col. The notz may go forward to-
INOrrow.
At the same time the allies will
send their reply to the German note
protesting against further reparations
for the sinking of the German f{leet
at Scapa Flow.
The Supreme Council was in ses
sion all morning discussing the new
gitnation which has been created by
Germany’'s announcement that ghe
will not accept the protocol with pew
terms. -
Assistant Secretary of State Frank
L. Polk made the positive announce
rent that he and the other American
peace delegates will leave early next
week if they can possibly get away.
ATTITUDE NOT BLUFF.
Assistant « Secretary of State
Frank L. Polk of the American dele
gation, and his colleagues who,
forty-eight hours ago, were inclined
to believe that Germany was bluf
fing, are now seriously concerned
over the positive declaration of
Baron vgn Lersner that Germany
would not sign the ratification pro
tocol in its present shape, but would
prefer to revert, “not only so armis
tice conditions, but even to a state
of war.”
The only ray of optimism is the
feeling that Von Lersner perhaps
does not represent correctly the at
titude of his gowernment or may
possibly be engaging in a monu
mental bluff. One American diplomat
commenting upon the latcst utter
ance end activities of Von Lersner,
(l(rglared he was acting “like a mad
man."”
PEACE ENVOYS CONFER.
Before Mr. Polk left to attend the
council meeting he discussed the
German ' situation at length with
Henry White and Gen. Tasker H,
Bliss.
A series of informal early morning
conferences were held bbfore the su
preme council met. These were for
the purpose of discussing effective
steps that are to be taken for the
military and economic coercion of
Germany in the event it develops that
Baron von Lersner is correctly con-
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Issuod Dally, and Entered as Second Class Matier at
the Pustoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
|
i Text of Senate
.
| Resolutions on
| Mexican Crisis
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(By Universal Service.)
WASHINGTON, Decc. 4.—The text
|of the resolution on Mexico, intro
| duced in the Senate by Senator Fall
{of New Mexico, and which' will be
| taken up today at a special meeting
|of the Foreign Relitions Committeo,
{ called by Senator Lodge, is as fol
lows:
“Resolved, That the action taken
by the-department of state in ref
erence to the pending controversy
between this government and the
government of Mexico should be
| approved; and further, that the
President of the United States be
and is hereby requested to with
draw from Venustiano Carranza the
recognitior heretofore accorded him
by the United States as President .
of the Republic of Mexico, and to
sever aIF diplomatic relations now
existing between this government
and the pretended government of
Carranza.”
The resolution introduced by Sen
’atnr Ashurst of Arizona, which calls
for an increase in the armed forces
of the United States along the Mexi
can border and which was referred
| to the Committee on Military Affairs,
is as follows. |
“Resolved, That the secretary of
war be and is hereby authorized
and directed to employ the mili- -
tary forces of the United States in
protecting the lives of American
citizens in_the United States, but
| whose safety, nevertheless, is im
' periled by the threats and obvious
ly hostile attitude towarz citizens
| of the United States on the part of
armed Mexican bandits, murderous
outlaws and the various belligerent
factions now assembling in Mexico
adjacent to the international boun
dary line separating the United
States and the Republic of Mexico.”
l MACON, Dee. 4—Hotel men from
lall over Georgia are in Macon today
|to attend the thirteenth annual con
| vention which opened this morning,
anpd will continue through tomorrow.
The convention was opened at 11
o'clock by Mr. Royer, Mayor Glen
"l‘nvl(' welcomed the visitors. At noon
{T. Willle Hooks of the Hatel La
nier entertained the visitors at
I luncheon. Tonight the hotel men and
{IOO Macon business men will banquet
‘at the Hotel Dempsey. Jesse B,
| Hart, president of the Chamber of
Commerce, will be the toastmaster.
The closing session of the conven
tion will be tomorrow morning. At
noon the association members will
lenjoy an oyster roast at Killkare
{¥Farm, thirteen miles froms the cigy.
| The Georgia Hotel Men's Associa-
Ition was organized in Macon thirteen
years ago, It now has a membership
jof nearly 200, The association, will
|adopt resolutions at their closing
| session to put on a membership cam
pa gn, Macon will make a bid for
the 1920 convention.
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|
| Atlanta Hotel
‘Men Go to Macon
’ Twenty Atlanta hotel and restau
rant men, headed by W. (. Royer
.:nnl Fred Houser, léft Atlanta at
:7:60 o'clock Thursdaye morning for
I Macon, where they will take part in
the program of the thirteenth annual
convention of the Georgia Hotel
‘Men's Aszoclation, Mr. Royer s
| president of the organization,
i Among the Atlanta men who left
lon the trip were W, C, Royer, Fred
{Houser, J. E..Raley, Frank T. Rey
nolds, Charles loridans, A. H. Waite,
Ansley Hotel; H. A.:Tisdell, Aragon:
'J. F. de Jarnette, Cecil; J. N. Couch,
'GGeorgsan Terrace; Hugh Galvin, Im-
Ipm-ml, C, L. Dinkler, Kimball;, Gus
{tav Kuhn, Kuhn's; J. Lee Barnes,
Majestic; J* G. Brown, Marion; J. P.
|.\|4-\ art, Princeton; Henry Silver-
Iman, B'lverman's Restaurant; K, W,
Pressler, Presslar's; Bruno Bukofzer,
Terminal Restaurant; Waliace Boyd, |
’l'<-r|nlnu} Hotel; E. 1. Thornton, At-‘
lanta Athletic "Club; A, B, Mlmdy,‘
Winecoff; Will V., Zimmer, Kimball
Housge Firm; Leo M. Jordan, :thur-J
ney.
_EDITION J
AGAINS.I- U| ‘5:
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CALEXICO, Calif, Dec. 4.—The
state department was informed today
by American Consul Boyie of Mexi
cali, of the third outrage against an
American citizen in that place within
the last few weks in the arrest and
fearful beating administered to W. K,
Milton, former American soldier, X ’
a Mexican police officer, it was a
nounced today.
| (By Universal Service.)
WASHINTGON, Dec. 4—The Unit
ed States today is on the verge of
armed conflict with Mexico,
The Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee will meet in special sesison to~
day to act on a resolution introduced
in the Senate yesterday by Senator
Fall of New Mexico, The resolution
requests the Presldent 'to withdraw
the recognition of the Ufited States
governmeut from Carranza and to
sever all diplomatic rélations with
Mexico.
‘ Senator Fall introduced his resolu
tion, it is learned, after a conference
‘with Henry P. Fletcher," American
‘ambasgador to Mexico.
~ Senator Lodge, majority leader in
the Senate and chairman of the For
eign R(-latlo\ns Committee, said that
the Mexican situation was “very
grave.” He believes the committes
will report out the Fall resolution to
cay and the Senate, it is believed, will
pass it later in the day.
ADMINSTRATION FLAYED.
The Fall resolution was the culmi
nating point of a bitter debate in the
Senate wherein two Demoaratic sena~
tors—Ashurst of Arizona and Shields
of Tennessee-—scathingly arraigned
the administration for itz conduet of ,
Mexican affairs, ;
Senator Ashurst introduced a res
olution ealling apon the war depart
ment to increase the force of Ameri
can troops along the border so they
could repel the aggressions of mur
derons Mexican outlaws on American
citizens and American property.
Senator Shields declared the Ash
urst resolution should be supplanted
with one declaring war against
Mexico,
If the Senate passes the Fall reso-./
lution and it is put into effect by
President Wilson, the next move will
be up to the State and War depart
ments. If the State department fol
lows precedent it will serve notice on
Mexico that the lives of American
citizens and the property of Ameri
cans in Mexico must be respected, and
if anything happens after this warn
ing the only thing the American gov
ernment can do will be to send jts
armed forces into Mexico to protect
American lives and property.
PARALLEL IN MEXICO.
This is the procedure that Sena
tor Fall thinks will be necessary. The
United States followed this plan
when Zelaya was dictator of Nica
ragua. It withdrew recognition from
him entirely and very shortly there
after sent the marines to the Central
American republic. There was actual
warfare when the marines landed,
but they soon defeated and disarmed
the faction, that opposed their oceu
pation of thg country. This was eight
vears ago and the marines are still
in Nicaragua. They have rid the
country of banditry, established a
stable government, Americans are no
longer in fear of their. This is the
state of afalrs which Senator Fall
would liKe to see in Mexico.
Senator Fall will present to the
Foreign Relations Committee today
a mass of evidence collected by the
gpecial Senate sub-committee which
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