Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, March 09, 1920, Final Home, Image 1
%50 Awarded Every Day for the ‘Best Last Line’ to Limericks in the Georgian---See Page 3 The Convention City, The Heart of the South. Grand Opera City of Dixie. Georgia’s Educational Center. | The “Pinnacle City” in Climate. Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters. Distributing Center of the Southeast. DNDER GiT By OF THE . SOUTH i m _:—lm I VOL. XVIII LODGE SCORES WILSON’S ‘SLUR’ ON FRANCE STOCK DIVIDEND RULING TO COST HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS; CONGRESS TO GIVE BONUS TO SERVICE MEN, FORDNEY SAYS E A | E £ F r ‘ : - . . Congress Leaders Dlsapprove‘ E Supreme Court Stand—Will ; " b | - Raise Corporation Stock Values . (By Universal Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—The Supreme Court’s decision holding {tock dividends to be non-taxable paves the wayjfor “super-tax eva slons to the annual extent of hun dreds of millions, according to Rep resentative Hull, Democrat, of Ten nessee. Mr, Hull is a member of the I Ways and Means Committee. which E' reported out the war révenue bill. and is considered an expert on fiscal mat ters. He was the author of the in come tax provision. Representatiye Kitehin, Democrat, of North Cafolina, chairman of the committee at the time the revenue bill was passed, said: ‘“This decision means that the gov ernment no longer can collect any taxes from corporations.. Hereafter all dividends will be paid in stock dividends. The decision also means 4 an increase in the value of stock of corporations of at least $3,000,000,000.” CALLED ALARMING. “Very alarming,” was the comment of Representative Henry T. Rainey, Democrat, of Illinois, arother fiscal expert on the Ways and Means Com rrittee. Representative Longwerth, Repub- Hean, of Ohio, member of the com wittes, said he was advised by the artuary of the treasury department Drcember 18 that refunds which : would have to bhe made under an adverse decision would amount to $36,000,000 for 1917 and 1918, It was the consensus of opinion of tht¢ committee that no action will be taken immediately to provide new sources of revenue to take the place of the stock dividend. It was said that the probable course that will be pursued temporarily will be the issusnce of short term treasury cer tificates. The eagerness among correspon \ dents of rival Wall Street ticker agencies to be the first on the street with the news of the decision led to considerable confugion and sent market stocks tumbling. MISTAKE BREAKS MARKET. Two of the news services which & supply the ticker agencies sent out bulletins announcing that the Su preme Court had upheld the constitu tionality of the law on this contested point. The result was a sharp break in the market. Ten minutes later the correct news of the court’s de cision flashed across the wires and the marxet reacted sharply. The ~rror appears to have been due purely to the effort of certain of the correspondents to “score a beat” on the news of the court’s décision. The opening paragraphs of the decision ‘gonveyed the impression that the coul¥s opinion would he favorable to the constitutionality of the law. The correspondents rushed out upon their wires the news that the law had been declared constitutional It was not until the entire decision was, read that they learned of the error aund sought to correct it, | The International News Service, a Hearst organization, was not one of the offenders who carried the mis information. Its correrpondent wait k until the exact contents of the sourt’s deci<ion wera known. Three Coaches Burn on Third Avenue ‘L’ Train . (By International News Service.) A NEW YORK, March 9.—Fire on a Third avenue elevated express train at 142nd street early today destroyed one car, badly damaged two others and routed scores of tenants from buildings. I There were no passengers. 24-Hourq 131 fui Universas News p Service Judge Pro Tem. Joe Sentences Himself . For Being Drunk Prisoners ,don’'t often sentence themselves, Bus Tuesday morning Judge Johnson, at a loss what to do with Joe Schmidt, an “old timer,” up for drunknesses for no one knows how many times, told the prisoner to name hizs own punishment. “Joe,” said Judge Johnson, ‘T've tried the buttermilk cure on you. I've put you behind bars on water and crackling bread. 've fined you. I've suggested the trench cure and yet you come back. Now, if you were in my place as judgesand I were in your shoes what would you do abput it, Joe?” “Change places and let my try it, judge,” said Joe unabashed, who has boasted that the fines he has paid the city for drunkenness, would buy the city prison. So the judge sat and let old Joe plead guilty and sentence him self., : “I sentence myself to three days in ptison on water. Chattahoochee River water, with no bread,” intoned Judge Joe prg tem., raising bleary eyes to the recorder, °, S “Let it be the judgment of the court,” affirmed Judge Johnson. And it was written in the rec ords of the ceurt. Girl Shot by Brother Dies From Pneumonia Unable to overcome an attack ot pneumonia, Vivian Gray, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Gray, 396 Piedmont avenue, who was accident ally shot by her 8-year-old brother Harold March 3, died Tuesday at.a private sanitarium. 'Besides her Brother, she is survivgd by her parents, a'sister, Mildred, and her grandmother, Mrs. C. E. Wells, all of Atlanta. The funeral will take place Wednesday afternoon from the chapel of Barclay and Brandon, with interment in Westview. The child was shot through the chest while playing with her broth er in the Gray home. The boy play fully pointed a pistol at is sister and pulled the trigger, not knowing it was loaded. She was rushed to a hospital. It was thought she wowd recover until pneumonia set in. e ki Tire Prices Going Up; Fabric and Labor Dear Owing to the increased cost of cot ton fabric and labor, principally the former, the larger dealers have an nounced an advance of from 18 to 20 per cent on artomobile tires contain ing cotton fabric, effective Monday. Truck tires of solid rubber have ad vanced approximately 10 per cent, and ecarriage tires of rubber will re main at former prices. ; It is said the advance is not equal to the advance in cotton fabrics, which ig made possible by an in creased output. The advance in the price of truck tires is caused chiefly by advanced labor costs. McAdoo’s Financing I Attacked in Senate (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—Charg es that Willlam G. McAdoo, by “wild extravagances in his mode of financ- | ing while an official of our govern ment, has cost this country more than $1,000,000,000,” were made in the Senate this aftermoon by Senator Kellogg of Minnesota. | Senator Kellogg attacked a pro posal to reduce taxes, which he said McAdoo made recently. Rose Pastor Stokes Granted New Trial (By International News Service.) ST. LOUIS. March 9.—The United States Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinign handed down here today, reversed the verdict by which Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes, wealthy New York Soclalist, was convicted in Kan sas City in June, 1918, of violating the espionage act and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. It re manded the case for a new trial ——— THE . | A | \ = _:. PRI a *:.-é ] J s 3 A 4 ,\fi-_-' & |L - FAUINITAD I - I | ' / I . ‘ ; | Agreement Expected = Tuesday I ~ Afternoon by Board Consider- I ~ing Pay Demands of Car Men. The three arbiters in . the str_ee’c railway wage dispute, who began their deliberations Tuesday morning at 9:30 oclock, adjourned at noon with the announcement that a final ‘deci sion was expected to be reached Tues day afternoon. The conference will be resumed’at 3 o’clock. No intimation was given of a deadlock on any of the issues involved. Judge John D. Humphries on emerging from -the conference chamber said: | “The deliberations have sbeen of a.' pleasant and harmonious nature. We are going over the entire matter thoroughly. We will resume the de liberations ‘this afternoon with the hope of reaching a decision.” ' The arbiters are Judge Humphries, representing the public; Luther Z. Rosser, for the Georgia Railway and Power Co., and Madison ‘Bell; for the employees. . i -Harris Asks Explosive § i For Reclaiming Land WASHINGTON March 9.—Senator Harris has reguested Secretary of War Newton D. Baker to turn over| to the department of agriculture so'me‘l of the TNT remaining from the/ war supplies, for experimental and! demonstrational use in reclaiming the cut over pine lands and overflow in the State of Georgia. Senator Harris informed Secretary Baker, who took the matter under consideration, that Georgla had large areas of uncleared fertile land avau-l able for agriculture, and one of the most important things to be done! toward getting this land under cul ivation is clearing the cut over land and draining the overflow land. He told Secretary Baker of the special | land clearing demonstration tra.ln’ operated last summer by the Geor-l gia State Cellege of Agriculture and | the United States Railroad Admlnls-l tration, }ith the opportunity of ac-[ complishing a great deal of work of this kind. Appeal for Near East Relief Up in Schools Endorsement of the Near East re lief appeal by the Atlanta schools was announced Tuesday when Fred E. Winburn, president of the Board of Education, and W. F,-Dykes, superin tendent of schools, gave permission for the campaign organization to present the appeal before the children. The Junjor Red Cross, Miss May Hardin, chairman, will conduct the campaign in the schools. Talks will be made in all the schools in the week of April 4 to 10. Wood to Stay Out of California Primary (By International News Service.) LLOS ANGELES, March 9.—Major General Leonard 'Wood has declined to allow his name to be submitted in the Presidential primary of Califor nia, according to A. G. Browne, of the local “Wood for President” Club. It is said the reason is to avoid a three-cornered ' split ‘'in the Repub lican vote for Johnson, Hoover and Wood. THE WEATHER. Forecast—Fair Tuesday night and Wednesday; much warmer. Temperatures—6 a. m., 30; 8 a. m, 36; 10 a, m., 43; 12 noon, 50; 1 p. m, 51; 2 p. m., 53. Sunrise, 5:56; sunset, 5:41, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920. | I Sy IDenies Me Was ‘Pro-British,} and | Charges Vacillating Policy of . . | Navy Delayed the Armistice. - (By International News Service.) ’ WASHINGTON, March 9.—Admiral Sims declared there was a “cam paign of deliberate propaganda to dis credit him,” when he reappeared to 'day before the Senate.committee in- Ivestlxatinx his controversy with Sec retary Daniels, : . Sims denied he was “pro-British.” He said his father was an Ameri can of revolutionary stock and he chanced to be born in Canada be cause his mother nappened at the time to be on a visit to her father, who was a Canadian. }' -When he was told during the war he was being accused of being “pro- British” he said he replied: “Why i‘ofi‘fluy gend a pro-German, over here with a trunkfnlloLbombs . While he said the “American ng,vy,'s part in the war wass one of marked refflclency‘once we got into it,” Ad-. ‘miral Sims declared that the “vacil lating policy” of the navy department ‘during the early months of the war was responsible for ‘prolonging the war several months. | DELAY WAS SERIOUS. | “Had we Dbeen prepared at first, the war would have been shortened at .least four months,” Admiral Sims de clared. ‘“As the war cost an average of 3,000 lives a day and millions of dollars, the seriousness of this delay can be realized. | “But we entered the war unpre pared, despite two years in which we. saw it coming. We were unorgan ized and the department had no plan. It pursued a vicilating policy dur ing the first few months. “The war was won by a fortunate combination of circumstances, which it is unwise to count on in the fu ture,” Sims said. The American army during the first year of America's entrance into the war was threatened with “being all-dressed up and no place to go,” Sims declared. “Our army ran the risk at all times of being caught in a position of being impotent to obtain victory because of a lack of sup plies,” Sims added. “There was the gravest anxlety about enough ships being available to carry supplies as well as troops.” HANDICAPPED, HE SAYS. “The American navy's part in the war was ‘of marked efficiency once we got into it,” Sims .said. He de clared - his - first instructions were “vauge and unsatisfactory” and he had labored under serious mmdlcapsJ overseas because he was 3,000,000' miics away from the navy depart ment. “I‘have raised no question what ever as to the efficiency of our navy in the war viewed as a whole,” §ims said. “And apart from those who directed it, the work the navy did, such as it was, was beyond all praise. “My criticism was directed mainly at the faults committed in the first months of the war, and their failure to act promptly. 1 “Apparently the navy department believed that I and allied officials had overestimated the seriousness of the situation. They failed to reflpond.‘ and I am convinced that this failure to get adequate support during the first six months of the war seriously endangered the outeome and pro longed the war several months.” Hoover Petition Is Started in Savannah SAVANNAH, Ga., March 9.—Peti tion to the State Democratic Execu tive Committee to put Hoovers name in the primary was granted here to day by W. H. Wade. The petition exempts signatories from support of Hoover, asking merely that the public may pass on Hhis presumed candidacy. N Professions - Fan Insanity AmongWormmen (By Universal Service.) LONDON, March 9—lnsanity is increasing among women because they are taking a much greater share i the world's work, according to a report by Dr. Edward Osward, superin tendent of the Glasgow Royal Asylum, The strfin reacts mostly on profession. women, he says; women of the working class are not so likely to break down. Therd has been a notable in crease in the number of schgol teachers and students admitted to: insane asylums in Great Britain. Forecaster Says Cold Weather [s Broken for the ; Year. _Spring is here! .In" spite of SO-degree weather, a heavy frost and frozen radiators, C. IF. von Herrmann, official foracaster, said Tuesday marks the beginning 'ot spring. The mercury stayed well above 30 ; ‘degrees Monday night and through ‘the ' early morning, and commenced climbing with the sun. The ther mometer wjll not drop below 45 de grees Tuesday night, and will climb to 60 Wednesday. It was indicated that the last of the bitter weather is past, and that the coal problem auto matically will solve itself. | ———— | Flu Ban Off at Tower; s - . j Visitors Again Admitted ~ The influenza ban at the Tower has been lifted, it was announced Tuos~i Iduy, which means that prisoners ngu!n| may receive visitors. ‘ | With the lifting of (the ban also cdame the announcement of a new ischedule of visiting hours. Genora.l‘ jvisltors will be admitted to the pris on on Wednesdays between 8:30 a, m.l and noon, while lawyers will be ad»i mitted between 2 o’clock and § o’clock in the afternoon on all days. ‘ . The jail is now entirely free of in fluenza, it was announced. Earthquake Shocks Are - Felt in Tuscany, Italy (By International News Service.) LONDON, March 9.-—Earthquake shocks were felt throughout Tuscany, Italy, today, said a Central News dis- | patch from Rome. Many persons | fled from their homes but the dam- | age is believed to be slight. ‘l Tuscany is a department in | Northwestern Italy bordering the Mediterranean Sea. It contamns a number of industrial cénters, chief of them being Florence, Leghorn, Pisa and Pistoja. . American Murdered o By Mexican Clerk (By International News Service.). WASHINGTON, March 9.-—Ray mond A. Corcoran, an American cit izen, aged 36, a superintendent of the Santa Gurtedis Mining Company, an American eoncern near Pachuca, Mex- I fco, was murdered by his Mexican clerk on the afternoon of l-’s-hruury’ 28, according tc state department ad vices today from the American con sul at Nuevo Laredo, The clerk is under arrest, » » Titus Declines To Be o Shipping Board Member (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9-—Louis Titus of California, nominated by the President to be a member of the shipping board, has asked l’rnsidnml Wilson to withdraw his nomination because of criticismn of the appoint-l ment. | I r & | Chairman of Ways and Means Committee Declares Country Can Well Afford to Pay Bonus. (By Universal Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—Con gress will provide for some form of bonus for ex-service men, Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee predicted at the hearing on soldier beneficial legis lation. Mr. Fordney's statement was prompted by the repeated assertions of other members of the committee that the financial condition of the treasury might make it impossible to do anything for the veterans of the world war, He declared the United States is the richest nation in the world and could well afford to compensate the former soldiers in a manner satis factory to them, Cashier Slain,Others Shot In Attempted Robbery (By International News Service.) KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 9.— Glen M. Shawkey, cashier of the South Side Bank, was killed and J. M. Mc¢Nellis, vice president,and Jb.meu} Smith, negro porter, wounded in a gun battle with four bandits who| attempted to hold up the institution just before 10 o'clock this morning. The robbers drove to the bank in a nautomobile and three entered. Mc- Nellis and Shawkey refused to raise their hands. The bandits opened fire. Shawkey fell dead. McNellis was wounded. Smith, attracted by the shooting, ran into the corridor and was shot. Five arrests were made soon after ward, Police declared four of the suspects answer’ the description of bandits. V Advertising Club 20 Hear Expert Thursday P. F. Nichols, Atlanta advertiser, will speak on “Advertising as a Pro fession” before the Atlanta Adver tising Club dat noon Thursday in the Kimball House. Howard See will act as harpoonisgst and music will be furnished by Joe Elliott and singers. Mr. Nichols is with the Advertising and Sales.course at the (Georgia School of Technology. Twenty new members will be elected. Plans for the membership campaign now being waged will he announced. The club plans to double its membership in four months There are.more than 250 members enrolled. Reports will be submitted by the vig ilance and educational committees with a special report by the commn-] tee on Americans. | Atlanta Girl Is Winner of No. 24 And, having got over the best last line to Limerick 24 in The Georgian’s series, she is going to cele brate with the other girls in the office. A six-cents a glass celebration, you know ! . It’s a right good last line— the one about the IHigh Cost and Pants Problem. There’s another incom pleted Limerick in The Georgian today for you to complete in the hopes of getting over ‘‘the best’’ and getting that SSO. -~ FEOITION Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Clasa Matter at the Postoflice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879 Baby Is Freed Of ‘Burden’ of Wilson’s Name (By Universal Service.) NBVV BEDFORD, Mass., March 9.—Woodrow Wilson Wil loughby of Edgartown, 14 months old, is now Hobart Lockett ‘Willoughby. By court decree, Judge Everett Allen Davis of the Dukes County Probate Court changed the child’s name on petition of hig parents, Mr, and Mrs. Leo A. Willoughby. The petition expresses the fear that the future the appellation “Woodrow Wilzgon” might be come a burden to the child, but did no* disclose whether politics, national or international, made “Woodrow Wilson" undesirable. Missing Palmetto Banker Wrote Letter Admitting Losses in - Speculation, . The bubble of fortune through cot !ton speeulation still floats before the vision of R. C. Bacheller, vice presi dent of the Bank of Palmetto, whose disappearance last wek was followed by discovery of a shortage in funds. Dr. T. P. Bullard, president of the bank, in a long distance telephcne message from Palmetto Tuesday, told The Georgian that a letter had been received from Bacheller, mailed in Atlanta, saying he intended to keep up the speculation which had forced his flight, and that he was confident he could win the money to pay back the shortage. Doctor Bullard Tuesday swore ouf a warrant charging Bacheller with embezzlement. Rumors were afloat about Palmetto that Bacheller had not left town, and the warrant was taken out in. consequence, being placed in the hands of the Campbell County sheriff, Doctor Bullard insisted, however, that the rumors were without foun dation., He gave his opinion that Bacheller was in New Orleans or New York. Doctor Bullard said confidence in the bank had been completely re stored, and that a number of depos itors who had withdrawn their acs counts had returned. C. J. Ander son and J. D. Camp of Atlanta have been ebtained to make a new audit of the bank's affairs’' “ No definite clues as to Bacheiler's whereabouts were in the hands of any investigators Tuesday. It was indicated that a substantial reward for his apprehension would be rof fered by the bank | Shopmen Decide to . Call Off Strike Plans (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—Allan Barker, president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, today announced here that his or ganization has decided not to strike. “We don't feel we have had a square deal but we will go along with the others,” Barker said. “We'll try the new plan for railroad labor.” The organization has been consid ering strike action for seevral weeks, Seven Vessels Sold . . By U. S. Shipping Board (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—Sale of four. vessels of the shipping board to the Lloyd Royal Belge and three to the Societie Maritime Francais, at the standard terms of S2OO per dead weight ton, were announced by the ship sales division of the Shipping Board today. , The sales were made through the Anderson Overseas Cor poration. The vessels range from 3,000 to 4,000 tons each. k SCAFFOLD FALLS; 2 KILLED. ST. LOUIS, March 9—Two_ men were killed and thirteen injured, gome of them seriously, when a scaf folding on which they were workingi at the plant of the Ceneral Motors Company, Union and Natural Bridge avenue, collapsed. y NO. 199. ’GI fll PI BH'[F * Ty Also Flays President’s Stand on Adriatic, Saying ltaly Is En« titled to Keep Hold on Fiume, By J. BART CAMPBELL, Staff Correspondent of the I. N. s. WASHINGTON, March 9.—What he termed an “unfair and unfortus nate reflection on France,” in the President's latest letters, to Senator Hitchcock on the treaty was see verely criticised in the Senate this afternoon by Senator Lodge, the Re« publican leader, Lodge also declared the President’s attitude in the Adriatic dispute to be wrong and said Italy was entie tled to possession of Fiume if only as a strategic base to protect her from future invasion. Senator Lodge declared the Prese | ident “had reflected unjustly” on the allies in that paragraph of his letter in which he stated that “militaristie ambitions and imperialistic policies are by no means dead, even in the councils of the nations whom we most trust and with whom we most desire to be associated in the tasks of peace.” ¥ CRITICIZES WILSON'S STAND. ¢ “I think that is something that should not be said about France, and I regret exceedingly such a reflec= tion upon one of our allies in the great war,” Lodge said. “I feel we owe France a great debt of gratitude, I am sorry the President saw fit to say what he did, 1 regret also the President has seen fit"to assume. the position he has in ‘the Adriatic dispute, “That Italy should desire to proe tect herself by holding the strategic ipolnts in the Adriatic is only right | under the pact of London, Since 'when has it become a erime for Italy to protect herself? She has asked for a city as a strategic base with which to protect herself from future war, DOES NOT CONCERN US. “From my point of view, it is to be regretted that the President should interfere with a question that does not concern us. We desire to be friendly to Italy and the Jugo-Slavs, “And I have no feeling against Great Britain. "1 do not blame her for looking out for herself. I:only wish the United ,States had been ldoked after as well. And there has been a reservation proposed which would have protgcted us,” Mr. Lodge said, referring to the Johnson reser vation. Senator Owen, Democrat, of Okla« homa announced he would support the Lodge reservation program, as an expression of the will of the majority of the Senate, rather than stand’ in the way of ratification. FINAL MOVE BEGINS. Fepublican leaders declared today they don't propose to permit the peace treaty to “be killed” in the Senate without first seeking to place full responsibility for its defeat on President Wilson. They are prepared so meet the President squarely -in the campaign on the issue of reservations or no reservations, on the Americanization of the treaty, as described in the President’'s latest letter to Senator Hitcheock, The Republican leaders decided to ' make the administration side one last offer of a compromise on Article X. Senator Watson of. Indiana, one of their number, was selected to join with Senators Kellogg of Minnesota and Hale of Maine, two of the Ree publican “mild - reservationists,” in preparing such a compromise. ROOT AT CONFERENCE., ! The decision of the Republican leaders was discussed at a confers ence in Senator Lodge's office at which Elihu Root was present. Mr, Root agreed with them there was scant prospect for ratification and Continued on Page 3, Column & j