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PREMIERS’ REPLY ON WAY; WILSON PLAN BELIEVED A CCEPTED;
RAILROAD BILL TO BE ATTACKED AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Conference Is Considered Only
Way to Amicably Settle Entire
Muddle in the Adriatic.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feh. 27.—Accept
ance of President Wilson’s proposal
for the settlement of the Adriatic
problem by a conference between
Ttaly and Jugo-Slavia, is hoped for
by officials here who are today
arfxiously awaiting the reply of the
allied premiers to the President's
latest note. The reply is understood
to have left London last night and
should be in the hands of the Presi
dent today. -
,Hopes for settlement of the entire
Adriatic controversy by @ Treopening
negotiations between Italy and Jugo-
Slavia were strengthened here by
reports from Paris that the quick
reply of the allied premiers wa.§ due
to the action of Premier Nitti "of
Italy in agreeing to reopen negotia=
tions with Foreign Minister Trum
bitch of Jugo-Slavia. '
This is accepted here as almost
certain proo\t Lloyd George and Pre
mier Millerand have notified the
President they will withhold further
metion in the Adriatic problem until
. the proposed conference between Nit
' ti and Trumbitch has been completed.
The quick reply interpreted here
as an acceptance of the President's
proposal, and it is understood the
Italian government is willing to hold
a conference with Jugo-Slavia in an
attempt to reach an agreement, If
the proposal for a conference is ac
cepted and it fails to reach an agree
ment satisfactory to the United
States, Great Britain and France,
then Italy and Jugo-Slavia must
. stand by the proposals made by the
other allied countries.
ONE WAY OUT. .
. The proposed Jugo-Slavia-Italian
confercnce was the only hope held
out here today for an amicable set
tlement of the entire situation, for in
the ‘entire exchange of notes it
loomed up as the one possible way
.+ out, since President Wilson and the
entente premiérs have shown no dis
position to swerve.
President Wilson's flat statement,
however, that such a confa’renco
could not agree as to the disposition
of territory other than that which in
rectly concerns either Italy or Jugo-
Slavia, brought some pessimism, for
there were many high officials here}
who believed neither of the countries
concerned in the Adriatic controversy
would be able to reach an agreement
unless they were given additional
concessions,
NOTES SHARPLY WORDED.
The publication of the notes and
weznoranda bearing upon the dispute’
between. Italy and Jugo-Slavia, re
’ wealing a certain frankness, not to
say sharpness of language used by
President Wilson, as well as the
¥rench and British premiers, has
proved as muah of a sensation in
political circles here as was the orig
inal news over the crisis in the
Adriatic,
That the Unted Btates ia etill hesi
tating to enter he League of Na
tions appear a cerfainty, for in the
last Anglo-French note theer is no
ceding of ground to the President,
while in the latter's reply, to Prime
Ministers Lloyd CGeorge and Mille
rand, he flatly states that he has “no
choice but to maintain the position
he has all along taken,” as regards
the settlement of the dispute over the
Dalmatian cogst.
Text of Notes
*ls Made Public
(By Universal Service.)
WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.~"The
government of the United States
gtands pat.”
This was the official congruction
Continued'on Page 3, Columa &
N.Y.Democrats
.
Pick Women
As Delegates
(By *Universal Service.)
ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 27—
Women demonstrated their
influence in politics when the
unofficial Demoeratic State
convention named Miss Eliza
beth Marbury of New York and
Miss Harriet May Mills of Syra
cuse as members of the “big
four” delegates at large to -the
Sah Francisco convention, and
Mrs. Maurice Connolly @Bof
Queens and Mrs. Nettie Hewitt
of Carthage as alternates.
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Thermometer Registers 18 Friday
Morning—Crest of Atlanta’s
Cold Wave Reached.
l The crest of Atlanta’s cold wave
was reached at' 6 o'clock Friday
IMw@
ter at the weather bureau. pegistered
18 degrees. Observer C. F. von Herr
mann says it will. be about 30 de
grees Saturday morning and above
freezing Sunday with warmer weath
er thereafter,
'l'hp lowest temperature recorded
in Atlanta Thursday was 26 degrees.
i'rm.s was thought to be the lowest
| the cold wave would bring, but an
| unexpected drop occurred: during the
imgm. ; Fra e |
Observer von Herrmann reports
fair and cold all over the United
; States with a slackening of the winds
lin the Atlanta seetion. These will
‘shm to the south during the next
twenty-four hours being about a rise
lin the temperature. }
{ Reports from Florida station indi
| cate a maximum temperature of 32
'at Jacksonville Friday morning with
!a frost. This cold may. coutinue in
ithat State twenty-four hours lon:er‘
with little indications, however, that
the frui and vegetable crops will be
}damaged.
] State School Site To Be
| Selected Wednesday
l Selection of a site for the State
| School for Mental Defective has been
been postponed by the committec
until Wednesday of next week.
A second meeting of the board,
composed of Governor Dorsey, At
torney General Walker and Dr. T. F,
'Abercrombie, secretary of the State
Board of Health, was held Thursday.
Augus‘a’s representatives, headed by
Hugh Alexander, presented their
clalms, offering the Tuttle Newton
home, Claims have been presented
by Macon and Atlanta, i
O Y——————
Alleged Baggage Theft
Frustrated by Sleuths
Arresting one man at the Terimnal
Station. and taking another into cus
tody before an outgeing train had
passed Peachtree Station, Detectives
Cody and Hornsby, frustrated what is
ume%m to be a-wholesale baggage
steal, e
} :N. ‘Higgins, taken from the train
‘at Peachtree Station held baggage
cheeks for severdl suitcused alleged
0 have been stolen fro mthe Oxford
' Hotel, while L. Woulfe, arrested at
the Terminal Station is charged with
complieity, H‘X: men had been reg
istered at the ford Hotel,
Paper Says Geddes
Accepts Post to U. S.
(By International News Service.)
LLONDON, Feb, 27.--Bir Auckland
Geddes, minister of national service,
has definitely accepted the post of
British ambassador to Washington,
succeeding Viscount Grey, the Daily
Telegraph stated teday.
Italy to Return to
The Food Card System
" (By International News Service.)
ROME, Feb, 27.-~The war time sys
tem of cards for bread, fats and
sugar and a system of meatless days
will be Inauguarated next Monday in
Italy, Thebaking of cakes has been
prohibited.
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Remainder of Stocks in the Gov
ernment Stores Will Be Dis
posed of Direct to Dealers.
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By GEORGE H. MANNING,
Washington Correspondent of The
Georgian.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The di
rector of sales of the war department
Thursday issued the following state
ment in regard to the plans for clos
ing the army retail stores, one of
which is in operation in Atlanta.
“No army quartermaster retail
store or branch store, of which there
are at present seventy-seven in op
eration in various parts of the United
States, will be closed until its supply
of items has been practically ex
hayeed or until its overhead gxpenag,
exceeds 10 per cent=of -its siles re
ceipts. More than 90 per cent of the
items adapted for sale through the
retail stores already have been sold.
The supply, therefore, having been
greatly diminished, pargicularly of
those for which there is the greatest
demand, the expense of operating
these establishments is materially
increasing.
“Afer the stores have been closed,
a new method of disposing of the
balance of the quartermastér corps
surplus will be put into effect. Lists
will be prepared covering the re
maining items and giving a descrip
tion of the material, location, and
quality. In all cases the minimum
quantity on which bids will be re
ceived will be fixed as the smallest
practical shipping unit, regardless of |
the total quantity offered. l
“This method will make it possible
for the small retail dealer: to pur-g
chase direct without making it neces- |
sary for the material to pass thrnugh‘
the hands of the manufacturer, job
ber. or wholesaler. Each bid will be
closed on a specified date, and the
‘utmost publicity will be given”
The government store in Atlnnta(
will close tomorrow, according to an- |
nouncement made recently by Ulu!
zone supply officer, [
Troops May Be Ordered
To Leave Montesano
(By International News Service.)
MONTESANO, Wash., Feb, 27.—~With
the ultimatum of the attorney for the
defense of the ten alleged I. W, W,
changed with the Centralia murders
that either the troops or he must
leave this city today, the court is
faced wih a problem.
Judge John M. Wilson, it i ex
pected, will today order that the
‘troops be withdrawn. He has already
‘expressed himself as averse to the
presence of troops in this city. Judge
‘Wilvon said “there has not been the
slightest apparent noceultmr the
‘mldm. There may be in ation
showing a need for soldiers which I
do not possess and I should like to
have all of it
Irish Parliaments to
" Have One Chamber Each
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 27.~The Irigh
Parllaments which the gowernment
'will seek to establish under the new
home rule bill will consist of a sin
gle chamber each, according to the
forecast of the Times today upon the
details of the measure. The first
election of members to the two Leg
islatures will be under the propor
'tlona.l system, the Times sgays, |
The Morning Post announced that
the text of the bill would be made
public tonight. It has been an of
ficial secret so far.
Bir Bdward Carson, leader of the
Ulster Unionists, anti-home rulers)
will leave for Belfast on March 4 to
meet the Ulster couneil. ‘
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920.
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’Lodge Reservation Prohibitingl
) U. S. Accepting Mandate Over
~ Other Nations Without Per
l Other Nations Is Readopted.
} Sr———
\
| By JAMES R. NOURSE,
Staff Correspondent Universal Service
. WASHINGTON, Feb, -27.—The
Lodge reservation to the peace treaty
—which prohibits the acceptance by
the United States of a mandate over
any other nation without an affirma
‘tive act of Congress—was readopted
lat eThursday by the Senate as a
part of the resolution of ratification.
The vote was 68 to 4,
There was a veritable landslide of
Democratic votes to the support of
e resrvation, thers being thirty
ocrats and mmm&.fiifi
cans on the majority side,, The four
Ivotes in oppesition were cast by Sen
imors Jones, New Mexico; Kendrick,
Wyoming; Walsh, Montana, and Wli
liams, Mississippl.
‘ Senator Hitcheock, the Democratic
leader, was present, but did not vote,
~ The reservation adopted is as fol
lows:
“No mandate shall be accepted by
the United States under Article xxil,
part one, or any other provision of
the treaty of peace with Germany.
except by action of the Congress of
the United States.”
This is the second reservation
adopted thus far by the Senate in the
Tenewed struggle for ratification, the
resrvation on withdrawal from the
league having been adopted last week.
The reservation on Article X of the
league covenant, number two on the
list, one of the chief stumbling blocks
in the way of ratification, was tem
poranily laid aside at the opening of
the session on Senator Lodge's mo
tion. It is probable similar action
will be taken when the minor reser
vations may be disposed of before
the Senate settles down to essential
reservations. §
The willingness of so many Demo
crats to vote for the Lodge reserva
tion occagioned little surprise, in view
of the position taken by a number of
the administration men that they
should make every possible conces
sion to bring about ratification, When
the same reservation was voted on
last November it was passed by the
vote of 43 to 33, and ony Ifour Demo
«rats voted for it, these being Reed,
CGore, Shields and Walsh of h;ama'
chusetts.
Dr. Noe Saus Theory of
Spiritualism Fraud
“Jesus Christ must be the only
‘Medium' between us and our lovmll
ones,” assterted the Rev. Israel H.
Noe, condemning the theories of Sir
Oliver Todge and the tenots of
Spiritualism at the Union Lajum
service for local Episcopal Churches
Thursday night at St. Lake's. Church,
Mr. Noe declared that the messages
which purpot to come from the spirits
are trivial and even jejune, that 90
per cent of the mediums are frauds,
the abode of the spirits material and
the gospel they give to us, one which
will appeal only to those lazy 'in mind
wid irrespongible in morals.
Winner of SSOO Essay
Contest To Be Announced
The name of the winner of the Washington's birthday
essay that Wwon SSOO for less than a thousand words, to
gether with the names of the hundred other contestants
who will be presented with silver medals, will appear in
NEXT SUNDAY’S AMERICAN
Says Ice Cream
.
Is Tapioca, Glue
And Corn Starch
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb, 27.—“ Much
so-called ice cream in New
York is not what the name im
plies,” said Ole Salthe, acting
director of bureau of food and
drugs of the health department,
in a report.
“It is a mixture of a small
percentage of milk with fillers
of corn starch and tapioca and
a binder glue to keep these ma
feria.ls together.”
Boner Law Says U. S. Has Un
duly Retained Imperator
and Other Vessels, |
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 27.—The British
government is considering whether it
should “claim_compensation from the
United States for the delay in turn
ing over to Britain the German ships
allocated to this country by the peace
conference. ‘
This was announced in the House
of Commons by Andrew Bonar Law,
government spokesman. He declared
considerable loss had been caused the
British government by the retention
0f such steamships as the Imperator
after completion of their services for
the United States.
Representations on the subject
have been made to the Washington
Bovernment by the British ministry
of shipping, he added.
The ships referred to in the above
dispatch are not those the sale of
‘which was stopped recently by W.
R. Hearst's injunction, but vessels
which were temporarily turned over
to the United States to complete the
repatriation of American troops.
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Her Story of Conference
With Colby Is Probed
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, Feb, 27,~Mrs. Louise
Latimore, said to be a Pittsburg
society woman, is held without bail
today while police investigate M(;rifii’
she told folling her arrest on a charge |
of obtaining money under false prwi
tenses. She took her 15-year-old
daughter, Margaret, with her into the l
cell,
The woman told detectives she had !
an appointment with H:\in!fl'hlm"
Colby, new secretary of state. Inquiry l
at his office showed she had held a
congultation with him a few days
ago. A police officer from Swarth
more, Pa., Is walting to take her
there to face a charge of obtaining
$l6O from a Swarthmore woman,
Relay System Used by
Atlanta Auto Thieves
Relay Joy ride by automobile
thieves in Atlanta is the latest.
An Oakland coupe, owned by Dr,
I. B. Clurks, and used in the first
lap was recovered by the police, but
the second car, an Oakland, stolen
from L. Van Staveran, is still miss
ing, :
According to Detectives Hornshy
and Cody, the first car, taken from
East Falr streef, near Whitehall, was
found at 2 St. Paul avenue, where
the thieves continued thelr trip in
the car owned by Mr, Van Btaveran
BRIEF FILED
P
Attorney for Unions Says Cum
mins-Esch Railway Measure
Can Be Attacked on 3 Points.
By MILDRED MORR!S,
Btaff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The
railroad unions and the farm organ
izations which have gone on record
against the Cummins-Esch bill are
planning to attack the constitution
ality of the bill by court action in
event the Presideat signs he mea
sure, it was learned today.
It was-learned that’ Glenn R.
Plumb, attorney for the railroad
brotherhoods, has filed a brief with
the President attacking the consti
tutionality of the bill
. “The measure is subject to con
stitutional attack on three grounds”
Plumb said today.
STRIKE STILL FEARED.
Railroad union leaders who have
been working to prevent a nation
wide - strike today expresesd alarm
at the outlook.
It is admitted now there is slight
prospect of averting a strike of the
400,000 maintenance of way em
ployees and shop laborers if the
President signs the Cummins-iSsch
bill without providing a special wage
tribunal and guarantecing immediate
relief,
The Brotherhood of Railway Clerks,
with a membership of 200,000 in
cluding steamship clerks, freight
handlers, station and express em
ployees, is also threatening strike ac
tion. \
The feay of the leaders is that the
strike of one union will extend until
there is a nation wide stoppage of
work, so disgruntled are the workers
in all organizations.
SENTIMENT STRONG,
In event the President signs the
Cummins ?Esch bill, there is also dan
ger, it was said, that the sentiment
1!0!‘ a general strike will be so strong
rus to force concerted action by the
fourteen organizations in the new
railrond alliance, despite all efforts
of the leaders to prevent it.
Significance is attached to the fact
that all fourteen, in the reports of
their separate conferences submitted
to E. J. Manion, secretary of the al
llance, announced their future course
hinges on the President's action on
the Cummis-Ksch bill, x
ANI grand officials of the United |
Brotherhood of Maintenance of \\':lyl
Fmployees and Shop Laborers, the
Order of Railroad Telegraphegs, the |
Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks and |
the Order of Railway Signalmen, are
remaining in Washington to attend
the mass meeting to be called as soon
as the President takes action. Only
the chief executives of the other or
galzations remain, These, however,
have authority to act
Atlanta Lawyers Will
Hold Meeting Saturday
The Atlanta Bar Association will
hnald its annual mesting at 7:30 p. m-l
Fehruary 28 at the Capital City Club.
Officers of the association are ex
pecting a large attendance, ‘
A dinner will be given to members. |
Thaere will be * geveral inlni'nmli
speeches, ;
President Eugene R. Black will|
preside, i
GGeorge W. Hanson Once |
More Stricken by Flu,
George W. Hanson, president of lhv'
Hankon Motor Company, who a fn»w‘
days ago became able to be up Mt«l]
@ three weeks' illness with influenza,
guffered a relapse Thursday after
noon and is again confined to bed at
his home, 4156 Peachtree place,
Hig condition 18 not thought by his
physicians to be dangerous.
| .
_EDITION.
Issued Dodle, and Entered as Second Class Matier at
e Postoflice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1870
' |French Editor
-
{ Sees Soviet As
Strikers’ Aim
By ALFRED CARPUS,
Member of the French Academy.
PARIS. Feb. 27.—1 t is ridicu
l lous to shut our eyes ‘o the
truth. The French raiimen usre
striking not for the stupid pre
text of the dismissal of one
man, but to foster nationa'iza
l tion of the railway lines of
France,
Neither the. government nor
the public ‘has Sany illtisions
aboul this movement, which is
directed by extremists who are
thus starting a bolshevist revo
lution.
Alfred Carpus is editor of
I*igaro, one of thg leading news
papers of Paris,
Dublin Streets Are Patrolled by
British Troops—Three Are
Killed in- Skirmish,
(By International News Service.)
DUBLIN, Feb, 27.—8 inn Fein head
quarters were raided agaln early to
day by the British military author
ities. Dublin has the” appearance of
a beleaguered city with the streets
patrolled -at night under the glare
kot numerous searchlights,
British troops are scouring County
t(fiork in the vicinity of Timoleague
and Mount Pleasant, where at least
three persons were killed in a three
hour attack on the police barracks.
'The death 'list may reach ten. A
'bnd!y wounded civilian told the con
stabulary he had seen seven men,
)appm-ontly JSatally hurt, carried from
'the battlefield.
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Caillaux Trial Goes
l Over to Next Tuesday
. (By International News Service.)
PARIS, Feb, 27.—Cross examina
tion of Former Premier oJseph Cail
leux wll be resumed when his trial
on the charge of having treasonable
dealings with the enemy in war time,
is continued next TueAlay before the
Senate sitting as a high ocourt of
justice. l
There was no session of court 10-1
day. ‘
British to Try to Talk !
To U. S. by Wireless
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, Feb, 27,~Within the next
fortnight attempts will be made at
the British wireless station utl
Chelmsford to hold wireless tvlophon«‘
conversations with the United Stmm!
and Australia, the Daily News an
nounced today. i
.
College Girl Is
Winner of No. 15
Limerick Number 15, of
course !
And she gets SSO in gold
for her ‘‘best last line’’
to the Limerick about the
flivver,
Maybe they’ll have a
party and make some
fudge or something else
‘““real exciting’’ at the
college when the news of
the student’s prize gets
there,
Anyhow, she gets SSO for
a line.
There's a new incom
pleted Limerick today for
z'fll The Georgian readers
to finish.
NO. 190.
i
Union Men Withhold Views on
Probability of Strike—Work
ers to Hold Meeting Called.
With representatives of the ecar
men’'s union standing “pat” on their
demand that Mayor James Key be
named the. third arbitrator on the
platform méi's ‘wage qquestion, the
negotiations betweén the unions and *
the Georgia Raillway and Power Com-~
pany Friday morning were approach«
ing a crisis,
Union officials refused to make &
positive statement on . the strike
question, pending a meeting of the
men Friday night at the Red Men's
Wigwam.
The railway officials have refused
to yield to the demand of the uniont
for Mayor Key for the “third man.”
It was learned from an authentit
source that it was beyvond questior
that the union would stand on their
demands for Key. And from the
published statement of H. M. Atkin
son, chairman of the company’s board
of directors, that the mayer's selec
|tion would mean “not an arbitration
int all, but a lynching,” it was as
sumed that the company also would
!smnd fast, i
TALK NEAR END.
A statement attributed to G. H.
Reardon, an international officer of
the union, said to have been made
to Mayor Key in a conference late
Thursday, was that “all hope was
hpamsed"' the men having grown
| restive/ and wholly dissatisfieq by the
long negotiations conducted by a
rommittee of union. men with offi
clals of the company, over which a
strike threatend two weeks ago.
| In these negotiations all points
were settled except the amount of
‘pay. The men were understood to
!domand 60 cents an hour instead of
|4O cents, last year's contract rate,
iflmn and one-half for overtime,
| Sundays and holidays, and two weeks'
‘,’vumtiun annually on full pay.
‘ The company appointed Luther Z.
Rosser, attorney, as its arbiter. and
the men named Madison Bell, who
‘had acted as their attorney in the
negotiations. As Mr, Bell's position
immediately was for the full demands
of the men, it was said, the appoint
ment of a third arbiter became nec
sssary befors wag enegotiations were
begun,
CONFERENCES HELD.
In correspondence and statements
made public late Thursday it was re
vealed that the two arbiters held
several conferences, in which each
urged that the other should make the
first nomination This resulted
Thursday morning in Bell's suggest
ing Hayor Key, insisting that ne
other arbiter would be accepted by
the men.
Mr. Rosser Immediately objected,
the correspondence revealed, declar-
Ing the mapor was an active enemy
of th company. He suggested any
one of the following: Joseph Mec-
Cord, John T. Pendleton, Harry M.
Reld, George M. Brown, of the Geor-
Kl Savings Bank and Trust Coms
pany; Dr. Blalock, president of the
Fulton National Bank; Fuller Callas
way, Joseph Gray, ex-railroad coms
missioner, and Eugene Black, presi
dent of the Chamber of Commerce,
but Mr. Bell declined to consider
any but Mayor Key, on the ground
that the public's elected representas
tive should be the umpire,
Although the last conference be
tween the two arbiters was ended
about 11 o'clock Thursday, no hint
of an impending strike was given
until after ' o'clock when Bell, ace
companied by Hardy Teat, business
agent of the union, W, B. Honea, the
president, and Heardon, appeared at
the mayor's office.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. ;
e By Ryt
g doors, in which, :
::?:1‘ Lt‘:f:’:“r:\a)'\'rr was informed fully
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