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VOL. XVIII
ARRITERS MEET FOR WAGE VERDIGT
STOCK DIVIDEND RULING TO COST HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS;
; LODGE ASSAILS PRESIDENT FOR ‘SLUR ON FRANCE’
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Congress Leaders Disapprove
. Supreme Court Stand—Will
¥ Raise Corparation Stock Values
(Bv Universal Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—The
Supreme Court’s decision holding
stock dividends to be mnon-taxable
paves the way for “super-tax eva
gions to the annual extent of hun
i dreds of millions, according to Rep
resentative Hull, Democrat, of Ten
nessee. Mr. Hull is a member of the
Ways and Means Committee. which
reported out the war revenue hill. and
18 considered an expert on fiscal mat
ters. He was the author of the in
eome tax provision.
Representative Kitchin, Democrat,
.of North Carolina, chairman of the
committee at the time the revenue
bill was passed, said:
- ' “Phis 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
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. Rain.,
Democrat, of Illinois, arother fiscal
expert on the W’ayé and Means Com
mittee, i
Reprsentative Longworth, Repub
fiean, of Ohio, member of the com
mittee, said he was advised by the
agtuary of the treasury department
De#cember 18 that refunds which
would have to be made under an
adverse decision would amount to
$36,000,000 for 1917 and 1918,
Tt was the consensus of opinion of
the¢ 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
issuance of short term treasury cer
tificates.
"Phe 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 confusion and sent
market stocks tumbling.
MISTAKE BREAKS MARKET.
Two of the news services which
supply the ticker agencies sent out
bulletins announcing that the Bu
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 arror appears to have been due
“purely to the effort of certain of the
correspondents to ‘“‘socore a beat’ on
the news of the court's decision. The
opening paragraphs of the decision
conveyed the impression that the
court’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 and
sought to correct it,
The International News Service, a
Hearst organization, was not one of
the offenders who carried the mis
tzinformation. Its correspondent wait
“ed until the, exdact contents of the
court’s declelon were known,
Three Coaches Burn on
Third Avenue ‘L’ Train
(By International News Service.)
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.
There were no passengers.
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Judge Pro Tem. Joe
Sentences Himself
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For Being Drunk
. Prisoners don't often sentence
themselves. But 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 priscner to name his own
punishment.
“Joe,” said Judge Johnson, “I've
tried the buttermilk cure on Yyou.
I've put you behind bars on water
and crackling bread. I've fined you.
I've suggested the trench cure and
yet you come back. Now, lt;you
were in my place as judge and I
were in your shoes what would
you do about it, Joe?”
“@Ghange places and let my try it,
judge,” said Joe unabashed, who
has boasted that the fines q’e 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, .
*1 sentence myself to three days
in prison on water. Chattahoochee
River water, with no bread,” intoned
Judge Joe pro tem., raising bleary
eyes to the reeorders - ——wo—
“Let it be the judgment of the
court,” affirmed Judge Johnson.
And it was written in the rec
ords of the court.
Girl Shot by Brother I
~ Dies From Pneumonia
| Unable to overcome an attack Qr|
Ipneumonla, Vivian Gray, 6, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Gray, 396
IPiedmont avenue, who was accident
lally shot by her 8-year-old brother
Harold March 3, died Tuesday at a
‘priv&te sanitariyvm,
Besides her brother, she is survived
Iby her parents, a sister, Mildred, and
her grandmother, Mrs. C. E. Wells,
all of Atlanta. The funeral will take
Iplaee 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
ler 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
irecover until pneumonia set in. I
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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-
Inounced an advance of from 18 to 20
per cent on automobile tires contain
ing cotton fabriec, effective Monday.
'Truck tires of solid rubber have ad
‘vanced approximately 10 per cent.‘
and carriage tires of rubber will re-I
main at former prices. I
It is said the advance is not equal‘
to the advance in cotton fabrics,
which is made possible by an in
creased output. The advance in thel
price of truck tires is caused chiefly
by advanced labor costs. |
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McAdoo’s Financing I
Attacked in Senate
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9%-Charg
'es that William G. McAdoo, by “wild
‘extravagances in hig 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 afternoon by Senator |
Kellogg of Minnesota.
Senator Kellogg attacked a pro
posal to reduce taxes, which he said
McAdoo made recently. ‘
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Fair Tuloda’ 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., 88,
Sunrise, 5:56; sunset, 5:41,
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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
IMunl Committee predicted at the
‘hearing on soldier beneficial legis
lation. ¢
Mr. Fordney’s statement was
prompted by the repeated assertions
of other members of m*,fomn;mee
that the financial condigion of the
treasury might
to do anything for theg 28 of.th
’world,.w 1t iTI .
I 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,
Harris Asks Explosive
For Reclaiming Land
WASHINGTON March 9.—Senator
Harris has requested Secretary of
War Newton D. Baker to turn over
to the department of agriculture some
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 Georgia had large
areas of uncleared fertile land avail
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 train
operated last summer by the Geor
gia State College of Agriculture and
the United States Railroad Adminis
tration, with the opportunity of ac
complishing a great deal of work of
this kind.
Flu Ban Off at Tower;
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Visitors Again Admitted
The influenza ban at the Tower nas
been lifted, it was announced Tues
day, which means that prisoners again
may receive visitors. |
With the lifting of the ban .lso;
came the announcement of a new
schedule ?f visiting hours. General
visitors will be admitted to the pris
on on Wednesdays between 8:30 a, m.,
and noon, while lawyers will be ad
mitted between 2 o’clock and 5 o'clock
in the afternoon on ail days. |
~ The jail is now entirely free of In-}
fluenza, it was announced, |
American Murdered ‘
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By Mexican Clerk
~ (By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—Ray
mond A. Corcoran, an American cit
izen, aged 35, a superintendent of the
Santa Gurtedis Mining Company, an
American concern neat Pachuca, Mex
ico, was murdered by his Mexican
clerk on the afternoon of February
28, according to state department ad
vices today from ‘the American con
sul at Nuevo Laredo,
The clerk is under arrest.
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&;{mt the public may pass on
his pré& med candidacy.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920.
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Denies He 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 reamgured to
| day before the Senate committee in
ves h_ Ming his controversy with Sec
o i S e
1J" . ne was “pro-Briti :"
He ‘*';hw,;; fither was an AméM-
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can of révolutionary stpck and "he
chanced® tg. be born in{ Canada
cause His @@sther nappi t
%g_'t’o gea, visit t er,.
who was a Canadian,
When he was told during the war
he was being accused of being “pro
'British” he said he replied: “Why
‘don’t they send a pro-German over
‘here with a trunkfull of bombs.”
~ While he said the “American navy’s
part in the war was one of marked
efficiency once we got' into it,” Ad
miral Sims declared that the "vacl[l
lating policy” of the navy department
during the early months of the war
was responsibie for prolonging the
war ‘several months.
DELAY WAS SERIOUS. .
“Had we been 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
#ared, despite two years in which we
saw it coming.. We were unorgan
ized and the department had no plan. l
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 nov place to go,”
Sims declared. “Our army ran the
risk at all timeés of being caught in a
position of being impotent to obtain
victory because of a lack of sup
pliés,” Sims added.
“There was the gravest anxiety
about enough ships being available
to carry supplies as well as troops.”
HANDICAPPED, HE SAYS.
“The American navy’s part in the
war was eof 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 handicaps
overseas because he was 3,000,000
miics away from the navy depart
ment. -
“l have raised no question what
ever as to the efficiency of our navy |
in the war viewed as a whole,” s:‘ms!
said. "“And apart from those who |
directed it, the work the navy dld,!
such as it was, was beyond alli
praise, !
“My criticism was directed malnlyg
at the faults committed in the first
months of the war, and their talluro'
to act promptly.
“Apparently the navy department}
‘believed that I and allied officials had
overestimated the seriousness of the
situation. They failed to respond,
lund I am convinced that this failure
Ito get adequate support during the
first six months of the war seriously
lendangered the- outcome and pro
longed the war several months.”
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Professions
' Fan Insanity
Among Women
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, March 2.—lnsanity
is increasing among women
because they are taking a much
greater share :n the world's
work, according to a report by
Dr. Edward Osward, superin
tendent of the Glasgow Royal
Asylum.
The strain reacts mostly on
professional women, he says;
women of the working class are
not so likely to break down.
+There has been a notable in
crease in the number of school
teachers and students admitted
to insane asylums in Great
- Britain.
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Forecaster Says Cold Weather s
Broken for the
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| Spring is here!
In spite of 30-degree weather, a
heavy frost and frozen radiators, C.
F. von Herrmann, official forecaster,
said Tuesday marks the beginning‘
of spring.
The mercury stayed well above 30
degrees Monday n{ght and through
the early morning, and commenced
climbing with the sun. The ther
mometer will not drop below 45 de
grees Tuesday night; and will climbl
to 80 Wednesday. It was indicated
that the last of the bitter weather is
past, and that the coal problem auto- |
matically will solve itself. ‘
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Boy Inventor Missing I
With Wireless Device
(By International News Service.) ‘
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 9.-—
Harold Sever, Harvard's “boy scien
tific marvel” of two years ago, has
disappeared, together with a priceless
wireless invention in = which the
United States government is inter-I
ested. |
The boy inventor, who is 22, I‘el'tj
his workshep in Valparaiso, Ind., for
Chicago early in February. He had
with him all his plans and 2001
pounds of apparatus reresenting his
finished inventian. He has not been!
seen since.
Word of Sever’s disappearance was
brought to Cambridge today by de
partment of justice agents tracing
his associations while at Harvard
radio school. .
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 High
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 fletting that
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Also Flays President's Stand on
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~ Adriatic, Saying ltaly Is En
titled to Keep Hold on Fiume.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
WASHINGTON, March 9-—What
he termed an ‘“unfair and unfortu
nate reflection on France,” in the
President’s latest letters to Senator
Hitchcock on the treaty was se
‘verely criticised in the Senate this
afternoon by Senator Lodge, the Re
publican leader.
~ Lodge also declared the President’s
lntmuae in the Adriatic dispute to
be wrong and said Italy was enti
tled to possession of Fiume if only
a 8 .2 strategic base to protect her
Trom futdre invasion. i
RESERVATION ALTERED.
By a vote of 28 to 49, the four
teenth Lodge reservation was
amended this afternoon to make the
opening part of it read:
“Until part one (of the peace
treaty), being the covenant of the
League of Nations, shall be so
amendéd a# to provide that the
United States shall be entiled to cast
a number of votes equal to that
which any member of the league and
its self-governing dominions, colonies
or parts of empire in the aggregate
shall be entitled to cast, the United
States assumes no obligation to boI
bound by any eleetion, decision, re
port or finding of the couneil or as
sembly in which any member of the
league and its self-governing domin
ions, colonies or parts of empire in
the aggregate have cast more than
one vote.” g
Senator Lodge declared the Pres
ident ‘had reflected unjustly” on the
allies in that paragraph of his letter
in which he stated that “militaristic
ambitions and imperialistic policies
are by no means dead, even in the
councils of the nations whom we
most trust and with whorh we most
desire to be associated in the tasks of
peace.”
CRITICIZES WILSON’'S STAND.
“l think that is something that
should not be said about France, and
I regret exceedingly slich a reflec
tion upon one of our allies in the
gréat wur."*Lodge said.
“I* feel we owe France a great
debt” of gralitude, I am sorry the
President saw fit to say what he dld.‘
I regret also the President has seen
fit to assame the position he has in
the Adriatic dispute,
“That Italy should desire to pro
tect herself by holding the strategic
points in the Adriatic is only right
under the pact of Londen, 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. 1 only
wish the United States had bpeen
looked after as well. And there has
been a reservation proposed which
would have protected 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.
Tepublican leaders declared »toduy'
they don’t propose to permit the
peace treaty to “be kiiled” in thol
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FINAL
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
Baby Is Freed
Of ‘Burden’ of
Wilson’s Name
(By Universal Service)
NEW BEDFORD, Mass,, March
9.—Woodrow Wilson Wil
loughby of Edgartown, 14 months
‘old, is mow Hobart Lockett
‘Willoughby.
By court decree, Judge Everett
Allen Davis of the Dukes
County Probate Court changed
the child’'s name on petition of
his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Lec
A, Willoughby.
The petition expresses the fear
that the future the appellation
“Woodrow Wilson” might be
wome a burden to the child, but
did aot disclose whether politics,
national or international, made
“Woodrow Wilson" undesirable.
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Missing Palmetto Banker Wrote
Letter Admitting Losses in
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Speculation,
The bubble of fortune through cot
ton speculation 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 telephone
message from Palmetto Tuesday, told
The Georgian that a letter had been
received from Bacheller, malled 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 bs.ck‘
‘the shortage. |
1 Doctor Bullard Tuesday swore out
a warrant charging Bacheller with‘
‘embezzlement. Rumors were afloat
‘about Palmetto that Bacheller had
‘not left town, and the warrant was
Itaken out in consequence, being
Iplaced in the hands of the Campbell
County sheriff, ; I
Doctor Bullard insisted, however,
‘that the rumors were without foun
‘dation. He gave his opinion lhat‘
Bacheller was in New Orleans® or
New Yofk.
~ Doctor Bullard said confidence in
‘the bank had been completely re
stored, and that a number of depos
itors who had withdrawn their ao=
counts had returned. C, J. Ander
son and J. D. Camp of Atlanta have
been obtained to make a new audit
of the bank's affairs.
No definite clues as to Bacheller’s
whereabouts were in the hands of
any investigators Tuesday. It was
indicateq that & substantial reward
for his apprehension would be of
fered by the bank. !
Shopmen Decide to
Call Off Strike Plans
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March §.-—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 willl 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 N&ws Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 9.-—Bale of
four vessels of the shipping board to
the Lloyd Royal Belge and three to
the Socletie Maritime Francais, at
the standard terms of S2OO per dead
weight ton, were announcéd by the
ship sales division of the Shipping
Board today. The sales were made
through the- Anderson Ovemeaséjor-l
poration, \
The vessels range from 8.0“8".0
4,000 tons each.
NO. 199,
Agreement Expected Tuesday
Afternoon by Board Consider
ing Pay Demands of Car Men.
The three arbiters in the street
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 Tu.s
day afterroon.
The conference was resumed at
2 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 wt noon, sads ~ o aden L L
“The deliberations have been of ‘&
pleasant and harmonious nature. We
are going over the entire mattér
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. ;
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Cashier Slain,Others Shot
In Attempted Robbery
(By International News Service.)
KRANSAS CITY, Mo, March 9.—
Glen M. Shawkey, cashier of the
South Side Bank, was killed and.J.
M. McNellis, vice president,and James
Smith, negro porter, wounded in &
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 im
a nautomobile and three entMlO-y}‘¢~
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. ’
1 Five arrests were made soon after
ward, Police declared four of the
'suspects answer the description of
bandits.
Earthquake Shocks Are
~ Felt in Tuscany, Italy
(By International News Service.)
~ LONDON, March 9.—Earthquake .
shocks were félt throughout Tumng/f:}
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. e
Tuscany is a department in
Northwestern Italy bordering the
Mediterranean Sea. It contains a ;
npumber ‘of industrial centers, chief
of them being Florence, Leghorn, |
Pisa and Pistoja. i
Titus Declines To Be ¢
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 President
Wilson to withdraw his nomination
because of criticism of the appoint- v
ment. sl
SCAFFOLD FALLS; 2 KILLED,
ST. LOUIS, March 9.—Two men
were. killed and . thirteen injured,
some of them seriously, when a hfl- i
folding on which they were working
at the plant of the Gemeral M & :
Company, Union and Natural Bs
avenus, collapaed. s -
