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The final chapter of ‘the famous
Crawley brothers case was written in
the Federal Court here Tuesday
afternoon. ‘
A jury, after a short but thorough
trial, returned a verdict of guilty in
the cases of Felix and ¥rank Craw
ley on charges ‘of lla.ijoring deserters
during the war, pafeig, "
“ They were promptly sentenced.
Felix was given two months’' sen
tence,
Frank was given four months.
They are now in ‘the Fulton County
Tower and sentences will be served
at the Federal Prison here.
A brother, George Crawley, under
sentence of death for the murder of
United States Deputy Marshal Ben
Dixon, was one of the witnesses for
_ihe Crawley brothers during the
afternoon session of the trial.
The killing of the United States
officer occurred in Union County,
mountain district of Georgia, and
caused a sénsation. ¢
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Christmas Rush On in
Earnest at Postoffice
The Christmas rush is beginning
to open in real earnest at the At
lanta nostoffict and the lobby is
crowded almost during *he entire day
with hundreds of people coming in
to get their Christmas packages off.
The rush has necessitated the ob
taining of an additional force of
clerks and new men ' and . women
clerks are being added daily to the
present force. By ' Christmas the
capacity of the clerical force will be
almost doubled, Assistant Postmaster
Staton said. i
Thousands of people are heeding
the advice of the department and
mailing their packages early to avold
the eleventh hour rush and the pos
sibility of congestion in the railway
mail service during the last few days
before Christmas. :
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Aldermen Will 0. K.
. City Pay Schedule
The pay schedule of city employees
as fixed Monday by council in fol
lowing the report of a .conference
committee will be concurred in
Thursday by the aldermanic board
without change, it.- was believed Tues
day at the City Hall.
For the most part, it is a formal
ity to comply with the law requiring
that the salary of every official to be
slected next year shall be fixed this
vear. Clerks and other employees of
department and pablic welfare nurses
were raised- slightly, . 1
1t was' because of the higher raises
granted these employees at the pre-‘
vious session of council 'that the‘
board of aldermen declined to add ]
its approval. This made necessary
the appointment of a conference eom- |
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Austria Appeals to
U. S. for $100,000,000
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, Dec. 18—The supreme
council met todav at Premier Clem
encean’s residence and listened to a 1
appeal froma Chancello® Renner cf
Austria, in behal® of the starving
people of Austria:
It was decided that the only means
of preventing Austra from going
into bankruptey would be for the
United sitates to advance her SIOO,-
900,000, \
24-Hour { 1 Jetrrpaiional, News. F Service
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I.N.S. Is Praised
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By Gov. Coolidge
s § ’
Forßaring ‘Leak
(By International News Service.)
BOSTON, Dec. 16.—"The press
of the United States have al
ways co-operated in the support
of law and order, and their ef
forts to prevent such corruption
as stock jobbing on the United
States Supreme Court decisions
is another example of their ef-’
forts in this line,” declared Gov
ernor Calvin Coolidge Tuesday,
commenting on the leak expos
‘,ure by the International News
Service.
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(By International News Service.)-
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 16—Alex
Howatt, distriot president of the
United iMne Workers in Kansas, and
trict No. 25, in Missouri, will answer
charges of contempt of court in con
nection with .the coal strike in Fed
eral Court here next Monday.
Howatt, who is chardcterized by
the gowernment as a “general trouble
maker,” was ordeféd to appear for
hearing Monday when indefinite con
tinuance was garnted in the con
tempt cases against 96 other union
leaders in Federal Court Tuesday.
Announcement that Frampton had
been ‘“requested” to appear also was
made later by Dan Simms, special
United States district attorney, and
counsel for the miners gave assur
ance that he would appear without
a formal order of court.
Howatt is charged with preventing
men whom he had called cut in the
local strike last July from returning
to work following thelndianapolis
agreement’ last week.
A similar condition is said to exist
in Missouri, where Frampton last
July called a local strike in sympathy
with the Kansas strike.
. SIMMS MAK'ES CHARGE.
The action against Howatt was a
surprise.
Dan Simms, special United States
district attorney in charge of the
goyernment’'s action against the
miners, said the government Is ad
vised all the local unions have gone'
back to work with “possibly two ex
ceptions.”
“All, men in Indiana, I know, are
back, excepting two Linton locals,”
he said, adding that the Kansas and
Missouri fields were the exceptions
to which he alluded. |
KNOWN: AS BEER STRIKE. ‘
“One of the exceptions to which
I refer is the local strike in Kansas
which Howatt called July 17,” said
the assistant “district attorney,
“This is knowm among the mine
workern as a ‘beer stdike. The then
president—whose name I can not re
call—in the Southwestern Missouri
district, called a.sympathetic strike.
“When the general strike was
called October 31, the government is
informed, this merged all strikes.”
Mr. Simms said Howatt, however,
felt justified in returning all men
called out by the general strike or
der; following the Indianapolis agree
ment, but held out the men who were
implicated in the July strike,
"Phe output of the Kansas mines af
fected by the local strike constitutes
23 per cent of the State’s normal out
put and the same is true in the Mis
souri field, said Mr. Simms.
After the close of court, however,
Mr. Simms stated that “this turns
out to have been a mistake.” He ex-
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g THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Clear tonight and
Wednesday, continued cold.
Temperature—B a. m., 26; 10
- {a m,31; 11 am, 87; 12 m,, 42.
\ Sunrise: 6:37; Sunset: 4:31.
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Announcement was made at 2:30
o’clock Tuesday afternoon that the
total funds raised for the relief of
West Point flood suffers is $21,-
101,80, This sum does not include
SB3O raised at the Tuesday session of
the Rotary Club and several com
mittees have not yet submitted their
reports, Lo y
Atlanta's goal for the West Point
relief fund is $50,000 and all ‘commlt-i
tees will continue their active work‘
in raising money until every ci-tizenj
has had an opportunity to conttibuté,|
according to’ an' annbuncement at!
campalign hea:lquaters in the Cham-§
ber of Commerce Bu‘ding Tuesday. |
Harry P. Hermance, general chair
man of the committee, sent out a
letter urging' all committee workers
to remain in the field until Atlanta’s
fund has reached tne quota. While
many generous responses have been
made Mr. Hermancg sald Atlanta has
not yet done all that should be done
for the relief of the sufferers in the
stricken city. v
’ CLOTHING ACCEPTABLE. |
- It was announced that merchants,
iboth wholesale and retail, can ship
clothing, food and. other'supplies di
reet to the relief committee at West
Point. When such .shipments are
‘made they can report them to the
committee and they will be entered
the same as cash subscriptions to
the relief fund. Several merchants
have made such shipments B and
others are preparing’ to send goods
and supplies to West Point.
Members of the Rotarians who at
tended the West Point relief mass
meeting last Sunday pledged $5600
from the Rotary Club for the flood
sufferers—but—
At the meeting held Tuesday noon
at, the Piedmont, the members of
the, club beat this subscription by
§305, making the club’s total subscrip
tion SBOS. *
This money will be turned into the
general relief fund being raised in
Atlanta for the sufferers of the flood,
Mempbers of the club also announced
a stag dimner for next Monday night
at the Cap&al City Club, which will
take the place of the club’s -annual
Christmas dinner.
Soldiers at Camp Jesup raised S3OO
in a short time; Sunday schools and
religious organizations are sending
in subscriptions for various amounts;
‘the staff at Grady Hospital turned
in more than S7O; banks, business
men, institutions, newspapers, labor
unions, theaters and clvic organiza
tlons are represented in the list of
subscribers. :
. MASONS’ AID SOUGHT.
Masons of Georgia have been asked
to aid the West Point sufferers, a
telegram being received by The
Georgian from B. J. Mayer, worship
ful master of West Point Lodge No.
43 to this effect. Following is the‘
telegram: |
“To all Free and Accepted Masons
in Georgia: Many of your brothers
have sustained great losses. Will
appreciate any aid from any and all
lodges.” |
Councilman J. R. Nutting and
Mayor James L. Key held a confer
ence Monday and arranged for a
$2,600 subscription by the city which
was ratified at a meeting of council
held Monday afternoon.
Chairman Harry P. Hermance of
the Atlanta committee :announced
Tuesday that the campaign is pro
ceeding smoothly, but the committee
will speed up action Tuesday in or
der to raise a large total by Tues
' day night. Tt'is the hope of the com
mittee to raise $50,000 for the fund
in Atlantg. ~
Bubscriptions announced Tuesday
noon follow:
Atlanta Cotton Ofl CO. .....e0005..3 50.00
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ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1919,
Georgian’s News Service
The Georgian yesterday told ewclusively how agents of the United States
government are investigating evidence of collusion to profit by edvance in
formatiop on decisions of the Supreme Coult of {he nation. :
The facts leading to the investigation were turned over to the govern
ment by Marlen E. Pew, general manager of the International News Service,
one of the two great agencies which supply The Georgian with its national
and international neis. o
Mr. Pew, in the subjoined article, gives the complete story of his evi
dence and of the steps that have been taken by the government.
» By MARLEN E PEW, - * S
Editor and General Manager of the International News Service.
‘ .. (Copyright, 1919, by International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—An audacious scheme of a coterie of Wash
ington speculators to interfere with the orderly processes of the most
sacred American political institution, the United States Supreme Court,
has been frustrated by publicity through informatior furnished to,the
. government by the International News Service. 4 4 |
Whether a crime has been committed is a matier to be deter
mined by the members of the nation's mfinguww FopupAl et
| the executives of Wm%fl R AR Ry
- Whether men, two of them lawyets, who are known by th‘.l’ le
partment of justice officials to have speculated in Wall Street on what
' was claimed to be advance information leaking from the.sacred pre
cincts of the court, are to be disbaried or otherwise discilpined, re
mains for govermental ‘action. i : :
But whatever official action fs *aken, it is certain thgt ‘“sure
thing"” stock gamblers of Washington are quaking with fear at the dis
clog’ugds of yesterday concerning an attempt to trafic in Wall Street
with the alleged advance information concerning the deelsion of the
Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of the liquor law.
Secret Service Bureau Busy 5
The department of jusetice investigation, which was conducted
under the supervision of Assistant Attorney General C. B. Ames, at
‘he instance of Chlef Justice Edward White, is continuing and an
element of mystery I 8 thrown about offi¢ial conduct of the case,
William J. Flynn, chief of the investigation bureau of the depart
ment of justice, and his, force of secret service men have before them
the task of unraveling ‘he facts concefhing an alleged system of Su
preme Court decision “leaks” which, it is belleved, has been in oper
ation for more than two years. i
The question of whether this alleged system represents an actual
leak from a gourt attaché or a “system of deduction” by which law
vers “guessed” ‘he decisions and speculated on their "hunches” remains
for Chief Flynn and his aldes to determiine,
, The fact is, ‘however, that on lecember 6 I was able to notify
Judge Ames and Chief Flynn, upon Information given to me by a man
in a position to know, that a certain Washington lawyer was in New
York claiming to be is pogaeuion of ‘he Supreme Court decision in the
hard liquor case which was handed down by the court soon after noon
yesterday, ’ ' ;
I immédiately notified Judge Ames and Chief Flynn that this de
cision, agcording to my information would uphold the constitution
ality of the dry ac‘. A : i
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It 1s also d matter of record that this lawyer went to Wall Street
and made, an arrangement to.trade ig United Sta‘es Food Products
stock on “information” that t*be decision of the court would cause this
' stock to decline in price. - For some unknown reason, the court dld not
hand down the decision on the liquor guestion a week ago Monday,
as had been anticipated, and the lawyer returned to Washington.
: It is a matter of record in the department of justice that this
‘same lawyer appeared in New York Saturday, December 13, and again
opened nego‘iations to speculate on Monday morning In United States
Food Preducts stock, his idea bßing to sell it short on the dry de
cision. ‘ *
It was at just this juncture that Chief Flynn s‘epped fn and in
terrogated this lawyer. Chief Fiynn had been in Washington on the
previous Sunday and had there questioned a lawyer employed in the
department of justice and also the secretary of one of the members
of the Supreme Court.¢ The latter two men were found to be well
acquainted, and in fact were partners in a small commercial institu
tion in Washington. i
’ Chief Flynn said: ‘T interrogated these three men. The lawyer
connected with the department of justice admitted he knew the lawyer
I later interr‘ogared in New York and he confessed he had been in New
York with this lawyer, and had speculated in SoutHern Pacjfic stock on
Monday, November 17, the day the Supreme Court handed down its
adverse decision in the oil lands ca.so. 3 .
Admitz 3-Pgirt ‘Clean-Up’
* «rphis man also admitted that he had sold the stock short and had
cleaned up about three points.
“The secretary of one of the members of the court vigorously de
nied he had ever made a dollar out of stock speculatfon or had used
any court information, and he scemed entirely unsophisticated as re
gards stock market operations, .
“Jt was true that hs was associlated with the department of justice
lawver in a small commercial business. Bith the department of Justice
lawyer and the lawy®r I interrogated in New York on Monday denied to
me that there wis any actual leak, and both set up the ¢laim that they
were operating on a system of deduetion
“Just how they could anticipate a decision like the dry verdict of
yesterday taxes credulity. It is true that the department of justice
was warned by Mr. Pew, through the investigation, made by the Inter
" national News Service, that one of these lawyers, in a 4 conversation in
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Harry P. Hermance, Southern dis
trtet manager of ‘he ‘Waoolworth
Company, was slated for election as
president of the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce for 1920 to succeed Sam
C. Dgbbs, whose term has &xpired,
[u the meeting of the board of direc
‘tora of the organization which be
gan in the directors room a‘t 3:30
o’clock.
1t was learned that Mr. Hermance
was the unanimous choice of the di
rectors if he would consent to serve
in the position.
He is a director of the organization
and has taken a leading part in the
administration of its affairs.
Mr, Hermance has been stationed
in Atlanta for several years and hs
tken an active prt in all public en
terprises ' and movements, 0
He has been a liberal oontrlb'umr]
to Atlanta institutions, recently gives
ing join‘ly with his wife $60,000 to
Oglethorpe University.
George F. Eubanks, prom&nenfit-w
lanta - business man, was nominated
for president of the Kiwanis Club
for 1920 by the nominating commit
tee at a session held Tuesda§ after
noon at the Kimball Hotel. He will
be elected at a meeting to be held
on the first Tuesday in January,
nomination being virtually ; equiva
lent to election,
Other officers nominated by the
committee were R. 8. Wessels, first
vice president; J. Sam Slicer, second
vice president; Olin M. Stanton, sec
retary; C. 'T. Bergstrom, associate
sceretary; W. R. Branham, treasurer.
Heflry C. Heinz, retiring president,
was nominated as chairman of the
board of directors.
Four new directors were nomi
nted, these being Lee Hagan, George
‘W, West, C. E. Sciple and _W. C,
Barnwell. The four hold-over direc
tors are Frank H. Reynolds, C, D.
‘Knight, John D. DuPree and A. L.
Zachry. .
Members of the nominating com
mittee are Frapgk T. Reynolds, chair
man; A, L. Credelle, A. D. Barksdale,
James MecNally, Leßoy Webb, Byron
Kistner and Paul R. Smoak. 3
It was announced that the Kiwanis
Club will take full charge of the
Christmas tvee _ this year for the
Home of-the Friendless. C. W. Barn
hardt is chairman of the committée
on arrangements. At the session
Tuesday $250 was raised to provide
presents for the oceupants of the
home. ]
Tre Kiwanis Club has officially
‘agopted” the Home for the Friend
less following an appeal recently
mivle to the club by Mrs. E..P. Mc-
Burney. A contingent fund im the
treasury amounting to more than
si%‘xjo will be turned over to the home.
‘The club in the future®*will charge $1
a plate at the luncheon and 25 cents
of this money will go .to the Home
for the Friendlessa
Isued Daily, and Entered as Second at
the Pustofice st Atlanta Under Act dmn
Man Who Ordered
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First U. 8. Shot
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Fired Guest Here
Maj. I. R. McLendon, who .ave
the command to fire the first Ameri
can shot in the world war, was a
guest Tuesday at the Rotary Club
lancheon at the Piedmont Hotel, the
guest of Del.os Hill and John K.
Gewinner,
l Major Melendon was shot in the
faceé and lost nearly all of his lower
'Jo.w. He has been in the hospital
for moré than a year, while surgeons
’performed marvelous feats of recon
‘struction, and ' within a short tinie he
‘will be wtll again. He speaks now,
blit with considerable difficulty.
Maor McLendor, who wears the
Cross of War with the palm, was a
captain in the Sixth Artillery with
the expeditionapy forces when he
gave the command to fire. A ser
geant of his command actually pulled
the ianyard - which discharged the
gun. :
The Rotarians at the luncheon
contributed $1,030 to the West Point
relief fund, this not including gifts
made by members previous to the
meeting.
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By JAMES ‘R: NOURSE.
Universal Service Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, .Dec.. 16 —Demo
oratic senators view with resent
‘ment anger ap undisguised alarm
‘President Wilson's latest declaration
on the peace treaty in which he as
serted his opposition to any com
promise on th@ question of ratifica
tion.
By these senators the statement
given out at the White House is gen
erally accepted as a direct notice by
the President that he will make the
treaty an issue in the 1920 cam
paign, with himself as a third term
candidate. : W
This means that every Democratie
senator who comes up for re-election
‘will have to go to his people on the
itreaty question. There are fifteen of
the Democrats whose terms are about
to expire who voted unresrvedly for
ratification. If the President forces
the treaty issue into the fight, there
fore, every one of these fifteen Dem
ocrats will be compelled to defend
his opposition to the Americanizing
‘reservations proposed by Senator
Lodge's committee or desert the lead
ership of President Wilson and make’
the fight for re-election upon inde
pendent issues. :
SEE ELECTION DANGERS.
It is a situation which all the
Democratic senators realize is fraught
with hazard and peril to their
chances of re-election. Therein lies
the cause of the bitterness and re
sentment which were reflected in
‘cloakroom gossip throughout the
day. 4
‘ Other developments arising out of
‘the President's statement were:
f 1-—Beveral senators expressed the
belief that tl.e refusal of the Presi
dent to listen to compromise would
‘tend to make more probable the dec
laration of peaca by legislation. It
was thought that if determined ef
forts were made to pass the Knox
resolution, declaring that péace with
Germany exists, these efforts might
be successful: It was believed the
Supreme Court decision on the pro
hibition law might stimulate these
efforts, & l
2—Senator Borah, in a statement |
to the press, congratulated the Presi- |
dent upon his *‘courageous and pa-l
triotic” coursg in making the treaty
a campaign issue. He emressed'
willingness to meet the Presidehtl
upon this ground and declared that
in such a contest before the peopls, |
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’ Rigid enforcement, without fear &
| favor, of the Fulton County fair pric
' committee regulations, governing foos
and clothing, has been started, it wai
announced Tuesday through operad
tions of ten special agents of thd
United States department of justice.
| Activities Tuesday were ceritered ou
|the five-cents-a-cup coffee and milh
ruling of the Fulton committes of
the food administration, as the order
went into effect at 9 o'clock in ‘theé
morning., i *
ALL VIOLATORS ALIKE.
Violators of the fair price commit
tee ‘regulations—large and small, in
fluential or inconsequeénitial—will bé
prosecuted in the United States Di#é
triet: Court, .
Profiteering of any anu all kindd
will not be tolerated in Fulton Coun«
ty if the government agents can helg
things, sald John A. Manget, the
chairman of the Fulton committee.
Mr. Manget was asked by a come
mittee of soda fountain proprietors
‘Tuesday to modify his order requirs
ing reduction in the price of oo!fel‘;
tea, chocolate, cocoa, chocolate-milk,
milk and buttermilk. They presented
many reasons for modification, mé
asked a conference -of -the full fair
price committee t 6 hear them. s
Mr. Manget consented to call t!ng
meeting provided they secured the
consent of each individual member of
the body. He said that he had prom
ised them that no meeting would be
called before the holidays.
- The soda men's committes was
composed of Thomas H. Pitts, Sin~
clair Jacobs and others. It called
upon Mr. Manget following a meet
ing of the clgar fnd soda, dealers’ .
section of the Atlanta Retall Mer
chants’ Association at noon, when it
was voted to demand an immediate
conference of the fair price commit
tee to go into the mattersthoroughly,
Twenty dealers concerned attended
this meeting, : ;
“Such practises as this must be
stopped,” said Mr. Manget, when ad<
vised of the incidemnt. “Of oaum%
ruling has been made rmmmw
lbeing served with coffee, but the rul<
ing requires the wrestaurant, -
tain or hotel operator to serve r 4
Just as it does sugar. 4 bR
“I have figured out that a profit of
20 per cent can be realized on coffee
at 5 cents a cup and this is all the
seller is entitled to under the fair
price ruling. Coffee costs them on an
average of from 42 to 46 cents a
pound and they can get 30 cups from
each pound. 5 el
PROFIT ONE-FIFTH. *
“Most dispensers serve two lumps
of sugar with each cup they have
formerly been charging 10 cents for.
There are siixty-tmlxr-lumn of sugar
to the pound, costing an average of
20 cents. This makes the two “’;;
cost them about two-thirds of a cent,
“Milk costs the restaurant, foun
tain and hotel men an average of
from 55 to 70 cents a gallon and
there are twenty-one glasses ifi“
gallon. ; You cag figure it out sa"‘
yourself about how " cups of
coffee can be supplied wit{l ' '
of milk out of a gallon.” The w
thing calculated to the best margin
shows that a cup of ceffee OM@:
with two lumps of sugar and milk
will net the dispenser a fair
of 20 per cent. e
“Relative to the sale of‘eaflu,-‘t &,
chocolate, cocoa, ochocolate milk,
sweet milk and buttermilk, all cups
and glasses must be of sufficient
size to contain six fluid ounces, with
the exception of ~»f
must be served in ten fluid cunce
glasses. The cost of these drinks te
the consumer must not eed §
cents, W
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“There is one slight exception &
the price of hot chocolate of A 8.
This 1s when it is served v ith whipe
ped cream end wafers. ' If serv
without these the price must ‘be
cents, if with, the price may be |
cents axtra for the whipped ebe
and crackers. e
A complicated feature of co 1y :
with the fair price order has
met by the Atlanta hotel men, ms
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