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VOL. XVI 24-Hour{ tnd
HOLD oHIFS. SENATE COMMITTEE oAYa:
~ REPURLICANS T ORN EDWARRS IN GEORGIA
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Bul] Moosers of Georgia Name
Delegatesto Chicago—Endorse
Suffrage, Lodge’s Article X.
The Progressive Republican party
of Georgia, in State convention in the
capitol Saturday, took the following
action:
Nomgnated Harry Stillwell Edwards
’t Macon, author and fbrmer post
master under Theodore Roosevelt, as
a candidate for United States sena
tor against Senator Hoke Smith.
Declared in favor of the Lodge pes
ervations to the League of Nations
V.age.
Went on record as an absolutely
“white party,” rejecting an invitation
frcm Roscoe Pickett of Jasper, chair
man of the old line Republican com
mittee, to affiliate with that organi
zation,
WAR ON PICKETT FACTION.
Declared war on the Pickett fae
tion, which was termed the “negro
party” of the State.
Elected H. G. Hastings, prominent
Atlanta merchant, as State chairman
of the Progressive party. "
Rlected delegates to the national
Republican convention at Chicago.
The convention elected only dele
gates from the State at large, the
delegates from the Uifferent congres
sional districts to be named later by
the chairman of the respective dis
tricts. The delegates named by the
convention were W. J. Massey of
Macon; Harry Stillwell Edwards, al~
ternate; F. G. Boatright, Cordele; J.
Kugene Peters, Fort Gaines, alter
. nate; George H. Williams, Dublin;
Norman I Miller, Atlanta, alternate;
““@ L. Sibley, Milledgeville; alternate
‘he named later.
EN HAVE PLACT.
\ omen also will have a place on
e progressive delegation, Chairman
Hastings being ‘authorized to name
two women delegates from the State
at large. He will announce his ap
i pointment within the next few days.
The delegates will go to the Chi
ecago convention uninstructed, no ef
fort being made to endorse any of the
presidential candidates.
The invitation to the progressives
to join forces with the Pickett fac
tion of the Republicani produced a
storm in the convention, and brought
forth the saltiest kind of reference to
this faction.
BDATRIGHT'S VIEWS,
F. 8. Boatright of Cordele, declared:
“This progresgsive movement s a
revolution to free downtrodden voters
from political bondage and to give
white men a chance to voice their
real convictions through the balolt,
I would rather lose at Chicago with
the progressives than to win 100
times with that other crowd.”
Mr. Boatright declared Georgia is
Democratic, not from principle, but
beeanuse it simply votes the Demo
cratic ticket, and said the white Re
publican party would give dissatis
fied Democrats a chance to vote their
real sentiments,
. H. Peck of Atlanta further
sfirred the temper of the meeting on
the Picket invitation when he sug
gested that the progressives have no
recognition from the Republican Na
tional Committee, and urged that the
progressives ghould go in with the
stand-patters and gain control of
that faction. Mr, Peck was ruled out
of order and goveral delegates shout«
ke his seat. Mr. Peck
geated, however, and
dr clared he intended to ba heard.
Continued on Page 2, Column 5,
Overess News F Service
100 Pounds of
Fat Cut Off;
at vu :
Sees His Feet
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, Feb., 21.—For the
first time in ten . years,
Paul Biese, formerly known as
Chicago’s fattest musician,” saw
his own feet today while stand
ing up and possessed a lap while
sitting *down. 4
He left the American Hospital |
following a second operation
whereby Dr. Max Thersk,Chicago
surgeon, removed 100 pounds of |
fat from tis abdomen. He for
merly weighed 400 pounds.
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Union Men Call at White House
With Appeal to the
President. . -
(By Internationai News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—“ There
is little likelihood that Congress will
be able ‘to reach an agreement that
will insure a prompt disposition of
the question of wage demands of the
railroad workers,” declared a letter
submitted to President Wilson today
by a committee of three representa
tives of the railroad labor organiza
tions.
The letter protests against the pro
visions of the Cummins-Esch bill,
“wherein it provides for a minimum
guaranteed return of 5 1-2 per cent
based on the aggregate value of the
property of the carriers.”
“In our analysis of the labor pro
visions of the act we have set forth
reasons, coupled with our hours of
practical application and experience
in negotiating wage adjustments,
which in the United States seem suf
ficicnt to warrant the definite con
clusion . that the Congress has not
proposed a method of procedure ac
ceptable at any time and entirely
inadequaté to meet the present sit
uation,” declared the letter,
A memorial was presented to the
President setting forth in detail la
bor’s original criticisms of the Cum
mins-Esch bill and urging that the
President take immediate steps to ap~
point & wage tribunal regardless of
the Cummins-Esch bill,
Bert Jewell, head of the railroad
department ©f the Federation of La
bor; Timothy Shea, head of the
Brotherhood of Railway Firemen, and
J. B. Manion, head of the railroad
telegraphers, conferred with Secre
tary Tumulty on the matter,
The vanguard of the general chair~
men of the railroad labor organiza
tions who are to meet here Monday
to take action on President Wilson’s
proposal for a wage tribunal! began
to arrive today. It is expected 2,000
delegates will be present, )
Those arriving today were of the
opinion the President’s proposal will
be accepted if assurance is given of
early action.
Flat denial that the government has
taken steps to cope with a rallroad
strike by injunction precess was made
at the White House by Secretary
Tumulty. Published reports that thie
matter was taken up yesterday at a
conference between Secretary Tu
multy, Attorney General Palmer and
Director General Hines were declared
by Tumulity to be unfounded. He sald
the subject of the conference had
been.an appeal from New England for
an embargo on the export of coal
after the rallroads are returned to
their private owners.
Director General Hines sald rail
road laborers would be fdily protect
ed in all of the retroactive features
of the national wage agreement, and
that all pending questions brought
forward by the men will be adjudi
cated under his personal supervision
to the end that the men may be as
sured all the government has prom
ised them both as to wages and to
working conditions.
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Majority of 10 to 50 Expected in
House — Senate Republicans
Ready to Jam It Through,
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.--Withina
few days a demand will be made on
KLongress for $846,000,000 for the rail
roads by Director General Hines, it
was announced to the House today by
Representative Esch, chairman of the
House conferees on rallroad legula-‘
tion, 3 |
By J. BART CAMPBELL, |
Btaff Corerspondent of the I. N, 8,
~WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—8 y a ma-
Jority runging from .10 to 50, the
conference report on the Esch-Cum
mins »ill t¢ govern the return of the
railroads tc private owners.aip March
1 was expected to be passed by the
House today, /.
Labor icaders and government
ownership advocates oppo=3d to the
compromise measure admitted there
was scan: prospects of preventing the
House from adopting the conference
}rerart «mbodied in the bill
The House was to meet at 11
o'clock this morning, an hour earlier
than usual, to take up the report.
Debate was to be confined to five
hours, the cpponents and propon2nts
of the bill t¢ share equally in the
exchange of arguments.
A stormy s#crsion was anticipated.
At the conclusion of the debate, it
was agreed, a vote should be_taken
’to decide whether the report be
'adopted or recommitted to conference
}wllh recommendations that it is fur
ther amended. A final vote was ex
lpected about 6 o'clock.
\’ Representative Esch of Wisconsin,
Republican, chairman of the House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee, was to lead the support
ers of the bill. The fight was ex
' pected to be made largely on party
'lines, although Representative Sam
Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, a mem
ber of the ¢committee, has urged his
colleagues on the Democratic side not
Jto attempt to stand in the bill's way.
~ Comsiderable Democratic opposition
was promised, however, because it
' was claimed by leaders of the minor
ity the guaranty of a 51-2 per cent
income to the railroads, proposed by
‘the bill, would result in increased
rates amounting to an additional
| $1,250,000,000.
Adoption of the confevence report
by the House would pass it on to the
Senate, whose Republican leaders are
already prepared to jam it through.
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Gen. Pershing Praises
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Georgian-American
Legion Department
Gen. John J. Pershing has written the following letter to the editor
of The Georglan and American’s American Legion department, David
J. Meyerhardt.
" AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES .
Office of the Commander in Chief,
FORT SILL, Okla, Feb. 9, 1020,
Mr. David J. Meyerhardt, P. O, Box 012, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Mr. Meyerhardt : I have recelyed your letter of January 20, and
regret extremely that, due to the press of affairs, I can not at present find
time to write the article which you desire. 1 do, however, wish to take
this opportunity of congratulating The Atlanta Gurorgian-American on
its plan to inaugurate an American Legion department, as any publicity
given to this organization will, T believe, result only in public goed. I
can not speak too highly of the organization, its present efforts, and of
the great guture it has before it as a steadying, conservative, law
abiding force in the country. Sincerely yours,
JOHN J. PERSHING.
The American Legion Department is appearing each
week in The Sunday American.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920.
Benson Is for
Great Mari
rea arine,
Biggest Navy
(By International News Service.)
CH!CAGO, Feb. 21.—A big
merchafit marine and a
navy serond to none were ad
vocated today in an interview
given by Admiral W. 8. Ben
son, U. 8. N, mewly nominated
chairman of the United States
Shipping Board. Summarized,
his views were:
“The United States should
have just as big a merchant
marine as is commensurate with
its commerce and progress, a
navy as big as any in the world
and more efficient and universal
training should be inagurated,
not for militarist purpoeses, but
for the Americanization and ed
ucation of all our young men.”
Admiral Benson came to Chi
cago to address a Knights of
Columbus meeting Sunday
night.,
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UL Houy i
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Herbert Hoever will be asked for
mally by the subcommittee of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee if he wishes his name placed on
theballot in the Georgia presidential
primary of April 20 under the rule
of the committee providing that any
Democrat may have his name in
serted on the ballot on his own appli
cation, or on petition of 100 white
‘Democratic voters.
llf Mv. Hoover wishes to qualify as
a Democrat, his name will go-on the
ticket—if he has no disposition to
run as a Democrat, then nis name
will be omitted. This was made
plain by members of the committee.
Chairman James J. Flynt of Grif
fin, in correcting a report that the
primary rules had been changed so
as to bar Mr. Hoover from the Geor
gia primary, explained that the com
mittee merely had decided to ask him
if he desired to qualify as a Demo-~
erat and run in the primary. Demo
cratic leaders pointed out Saturday
that no change in the rules was nec
essary, for, should Mr. Hoover de
cline to designate himself a Demo
erat, he could not expect to be voted
on as a Democratic candidate. For
instance, it was suggested, should
Georgia's delegates be instructed to
vote for Mr. Hoover in the National
Democratic Convent};’m in San Fran
cigsco on June 28, they might be faced
by the embarrassing fact that Mr,
Hoover already had been nominated
by the Republicans in Chicago on
June 8.
The question of whether Mr.
Hoover's name will appear on the
Georgia Democratic ballot will be de
termined on receipt of his reply to
the subcommittee’'s query.
The subcommittee consists of
Chairman Filynt, Hiram Gardner,
lEatontcm; ¥ermor Barrett, Toccoa;
T. H. Parker, Moultrie; Herman
Milner: Fastman; Miller B§, Bell,
Milledgeville, and E. H. Dean
Gainesville,
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Union Forces Lining Up to Assail
~ Records of Candidates—Many
. . .
~in the White House Section.
‘ By MILDRED MORRIS,
~ Staff Correspondent of the I, N. 8.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—8 ix sen
ators ‘are tied for first place on the.
American Federation of Labor's con
gressional blacklist, it was lumed‘;
today. }
These senators are Smoot of Utah,
Ilonrl of Montana, Sherman of li
linois, Thomas of Colorado, Cummins
of Jowa and Underwood of Alabama.
There Jead. the list of those who will
be terly !‘v(‘;";
The first named three, along with
Pomereneé of Ohiao, King of Utah,
Phipps of Colorado, Lodge of Massa
cousetts and Penrose of Pennsylva
lnla, who are not up for re-election,
‘have the “blackest” anti-labor rec
ords in the Senate, federation offi
clals announced today.
~ Cummins was regarded as a friend
of labor until he introduced the anti
strike bill. The measure that has
“blackened™ his record is sufficient,
in the opinion of the congressional
committee, to class him with such
opponents of labor as Pomerene and
Smoot.
UNDERWOOD’'S RECORD,
Senator Underwood of Alabama
had a “pretty fair” reecord when he
was a member of the House, labor
leaders say, but his statement that
he was really responsible for the ahti
strike legislation and his vote for it
make him one of the group of candi
dates the federation is planning to
attack with all its mignt at the/polls.
Senator Harding of Ohio and Sen
‘ator Poindexter of Washington, pres
jdential candidates, are on the black
list, as is Senator Gilbert Mitchcock
of Nebraska.
} Others on the senatorial side of the
‘llnt are Senators McCormick, Knox
of Pennsylvania, Moses of New
Hampghire, Nelson of Minnesota, New
of Indiana, Watson of Indiana, Rans
’dell of Louisiana, Robinson of Ar
kansas, Elkins of West Virginia, Edge
}nnd Frelinghuysen of New Jersey,
Spencer of Missouri, Wadsworth of
New York, Kellogg of Minnesota,
! Hale of Maine, Jones of Washington,
| MecLean of Connecticut, MeCumber
‘of North Dakota, Brandegee of Con
necticut, Curtis of« Kansas, Colt of
Rhode Island. Walsh of Montana and
Warren of Wyoming.
~ All voted for the anti-strike bill
' ON HOUSE SIDE,
. On the House side the blackest
‘marks are against the names of Blan
ton of Texas, “Uncle Joe” Cannon
'of Ilinols, Representatives KEsch of
Wisconsin and Nicholas Longworth
. of Ohlo.
Speaker Gillett is on the list be
eause of his recent remarks against
the Federation. Representatives Gra
ham and Davey are there becavse of
thelr anti-sedition bills. Representa
tives Gns Gardy and Will Valle of
Colorado are others on the list,
Attorney General Palmer has the
“blackest record” on the presidential
lst ag it now stands, labor officials
said.
Other candidates for the White
House on the list are Senator Hard
ing of Ohlo, who has declared himself
for anti-strike legisiation, General
Leonard Wond and Senator Poindex
ter of Washington.
HOOVER MAY BE NEXT.
| It the charge chat Harbhert Hoover
fln for antl-strike courts is found to
' he true, he will go down on the list.
Phe rallroad unions will “black!ist"
him., whether or not he is omitted
from the Federation's list, because of
his advocacy of private ownership of
'thn rallroads.
MecAdoo, Cox of Ohle, T.owden of
| inols and Hiram Johnson of Call
fornia have the best labor records
‘among the presidenfinl coandidates,
The only thing against MeAdoo's rec
ord is the order he issued while Adirec.
tor general of the rallroads prohibit
ing the raflroad employees from tak
ing active part in politics,
President Has Verified
Charge, Says Brandegee
(By international News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—President Wilson and Premier Lloyd
George of England had a secret agreement relative to the disposition
of the former German ships, Senator Brandegee, Republican, of Con
necticut declared in the Senate today, commenting on the reply yes
terday of the President to the Senate resolution.
“The reply of the President verified the report | had relative to the
secret agreement,” Brandegee said. Brandegee said he could not un
derstand why the President should hold the agreement with England
until the peace treaty has been disposed of.
“The agreement provides for the turning over of all money for the
sale of these vesseis to the reparation commission or payment for them
by the United States if they are not sold,” Brandegee declared.
. “1 compliment the President for his frankness in laying the facts
before the Senate,” Brandegee said.
Gets $30,000 Verdict Against
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Nurse in Alienation -
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| News from New York Saturday told
of a verdict for $30,000 against Miss
Willie Mdude Ballenger, former At-;
lanta graduate nurse, in the SIOO,OOO
suit for alienation of affections
brought against her by Mrs. Adele
G. Seamans, alse a former resident
of Atlanta. |
Aceording to the New York ad
vices, Miss Ballenger ‘offered no de
fense to the suit. She and Mrs. Sea
mans' hushand, Merritt Garland Sea
mans, were reported to have been
living in West Fifty-eighth street,
New York, last December, the last
sajd to have been heard of them.
They were reported to have disap
peared from the West Fifty-eighth
street house since that time.
Seamans was a flour broker, and,
according to Mrs Seamans, his af
fair with Miss Ballenger started sev
eral years ago when the latter was
nursing her, She told the court her
home was happy until the nurse came
between her and her husband. Mrs.
Seamans, who at one {ime was said
to nave owned her own home and
three automobiles, was reported now
to be working to support herself and
12-year-oid daughter.
Miss Ballenger came into promi
nence in Atlanta as a legatee of the
late Charles E. Currier, who was
president of tize Atlanta National
Bank. Miss Ballenger was nurse for
Mr. Currier and in his will she was
left a large sum.
Northeliffe Opposing
Geddes as U. S. Envoy
(By International News Service.)
LLONDON, Feb, 21.—The sugges
tion that Sir Auckland Geddes, min
ister of national service, be sent to
Washington to smcceed Viscount Grey
as British ambassador, was strongly
opposeéd by the Northeliffe press to
day.
“We can sympathize with the pre
mier in his desire to jettison the min
jster, but we can not agree that
Washington would be the proper
place,’” sald the Times.
The Dally Mall prints a renort that
Sir Auckland refuses to accept the
post.
The Central News publishes a state
ment from Sir Auckland Geddes, in
which he denfes that a decision has
been réached on the ambassadorship.
Young Woman Gets
Poker “Last Line’
.—and fifty dollars in gold
for it, too! You'd think
a man would know more
about poker and after.
thoughts, but a young
woman gets the ‘‘best
last line.””
Turn to Page Three for
the details.
And on Page Three
there's another incom
pleted Limerick for you
to work on.
(Get into the game.
Jssued Dadly, and Entered as Slecond Class Matter st
the Postofice at Atlants Under Act of March 3. 1879
Figure Fixed Instead of $5,000,-
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Justice
Bajley of the District of Columbia
Supreme Court today fixed SIO,OOO
bond for William Randolph Hearst
in the injunction proceedings against
the United States Shipping Board and
its officers, enjoining them from sell
ing the thirty German liners seized
during the war, as indemnity for any
loss due or wrong accruing to the
government from the writ.
Assistant Attorney General Ames,
for the government, had asked that
the court fix bond at $5,000,000.
In reply to a request from Justice
Bailey, the counsel for the shipping
board today said there had been no
regular advertising of the sale of the
seized ships, and the entire costs for
receiving the bids on the ships was
|:u.2c for circularizing the shipping
interests,
Request of counsel for the shipping
board to defer the signing of the in-
Junction until Tuesday to give the
defendants’ counsel an opportunity to
confer over the order, was agreed to
by Justice Bailey. Hearing was set
on the signing of the order for Tues
day morning.
COURT’'S ORDER.
The order which Justice Bailey is
expected to sign on Tuesday is as
follows*
“Upon conslderation of the bill of
complaint herein and the rule to show
cause igsued thereon, and the admis
slon by the defendants in open court
of the facts alleged in said bil} of
complaint for the purpose of the
application for injunction pendente
lite, and it appearing to the court
that the defendants, John Barton
Payne, Thomas A. Scott, John A, Mc
lnonald and Raymond B. Stevens,
commissioners composing the Unit
ed States Shipping Board and the
United States Shipping Board Emer
gency Fleet Corporation, a corpora
tion, are without the power to sell
the ships mentioned and described in
paragraph four of the bill of com
plaint, which it is alleged by the de
fendants that they intendea to sell,
it is by this court this twenty-first
day of February, 1020,
v "Ordered, adjudged and decreed
that a preliminary injunction be, and
Is herebv issued. pursuant to the
prayer in sald bfll of ecomplaint, re
straining and erjoining the sald de
fendants and each of them from sell-
Ing the following vessels mentioned
and described In paragraph four of
sald hill of complaint, to-wit:
“Grosser Kurfust (Aeolus), Kaiser
Withelm II (Agamemnon), Amerika
(America), Koeln (Amphion). Neck
ar (Antigone), Bohemia (Artemis),
Rhaetia (Black Arrow), Prinz Eitel
Frajdrich (DeKalb), Wittekind
(Preedom), Peruv (Hten), George
Washington, Frederick Der Grosse
(Huron), Vaterland (Leviathan),
Konig Wilhelm II (Madawnska), Mar
tha Washington, Barbarcassa, Mer«
eury, Prinz Joachim (Moceasin),
Kronprinzessin Cecelie (Mount Ver
non), Pennsylvania (Nansemond),
Oskar (Orion), Hamburg (Powha-
Oskar (Orion), Hambure (Powhat
tan), Princess Irene (Pocahontas),
Rulgaria (Phillppines), President
(irant, Ptincess Alice (Princess Ma
toika), Rhein (Spsquehanna), Mark
(Swanne), Kronpring Wilhelm (Von
Seuben), Wyandotte, until further ov.
der of this court; upon the plaintfff
giving security in the sum of $lO,-
000 conditloned übon the payment of
such costs and damages as may be
incurred or suffered by the defend
ants, or either of them, who may be
found to have been wrongfully en
joined or restrained thereby.”
FINAL
EXTRA]
Excess Value of Ships Seized by
U.S. to Go to Nations Who Lost
More Than They Captured.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 —The
Senale Commerce Commitice went oW
record today as opposing the sale of
the thirty former German passenger
ships the shipping board attempted to
atetion off for $28,000,000, ana as
advocating their retention as an im
portant part o’ the Anerican mer
chant marine. : f
In a report submitted in the Sen
ate this afternoon by Senator Jones,
fm#‘wmnm. i mnw-% i
that “these ships are urgently needed
in our foreign business.”
“Regular routes between this coun
try, South America, Europe and the
Orient should be established as
promptly as possible,” the committee
urged. "These ships when repaired
and reegnditioned are highly suitable
for this purpose.
“They were also considered the best
of their gind in the world before the
war. They were taken from an en
emy. We have spent millions of dol
lars on them and they have carried
hundreds of thousand of our boys to
and from the battlefields of Europe
and were a great factor in saving
modern civilization from military
autocracy. This fact ‘probably has
much to do with creating an almost
universal sentiment among our peo
plé against their sale.” ;
President Admits
Secret Agreement
WASHINGTON, Feb, 21.—1 n the
same communication to the Senate
Friday afternoon in which he flatly
denied the charge made by Senator
Brandegee that he had an agreement
with British officials regarding the
disposition of the seized German lin
ers, President Wilson for the first
time made public the fact that he had
reached an understanding with Liloyd
George in May of last year concefn
ing payment for seized German ships.
This agreement was to be subject
to approval by Congress. It provided
in substance that any nation which'
had seized German ships in excess of .
its losses during submarine warfare
was (o pay to the reparations com
mission for the credit of Germany
the excess value. The total of these'
sums was to be distributed in pro-.
portion to the losses, among those al
lied nations which had suffered loss
es greater than thelr seizures.
The effect of this would be that the
United States, which had seized ene
my ships worth far more than fits
losses, would pay a great sum of
money through the reparations com
mission, to finally reach Great
Britain, which had lost far more ton
nage than it had seized.
WILSON'S MESSAGE,
The President's message to Con
gress was as follows:
I have the honor te acknowledge
the receipt of a resolution passed by
the Senate on February 14 requesting
the President to inform that body
whether any, and if so, what, agree
ment or understanding exists between
him and officlals of Great Britain
concerning the disposition by the
United States of America of the Ger
man ships which the shipping board
is proposing to sell, or which weis
acquired by the United States after
‘the termination of hostilities between
‘said United States and the Central
Buropean Teutonic powers.
‘ The ships for the purchase of which
bids have been asked by the shipping
lhonrd were taken over by executive
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