Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, March 10, 1920, Morning, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text350 Awarded Every Day for the ‘Best Last Line’ to Limericks in the Georgian---See Page 3 The Convention City. BUUST The Heart of the South. WONDER G Grand Opera City of Dixie. % Georgia’s Educational Center. = The “Pinnacle City” in Climate. quANIP Federal Reserve Bank Headquarters. l Distributing Center of the Southeast. i s sit Shsteimes el VOL. XVIII LODGE ATTACKS PRESIDENT’S LETTER "STOCK DIVIDEND RULING TO COST HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS; CONGRESS TO GIVE BONUS TO SERVICE MEN, FORNDEY SAYS Congress Ledders Disapprove Supreme Court Stand—Will Raise Corporatioh Stock Values (Bv Universal Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—The Supreme Court’s decision holding stock dividends to be non-taxable &paves the way for ‘“super-tax eva sions to the annual extent of hun dreds of millions, according to Rep resentative Hull, Demoerat, of Ten nessee. Mr. Hull is a member of the Ways and Means Committee. which reported out the war revenue bill and is considered an expert on fiscal mat ters. He was the auther of the in come tax provision. Reprasentative Kitchin, Democrat, of North Carolina, 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 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 oni the Ways and Means Com mittee. Representative Longwerth, Repub ean, of Ohio, member of the com mittee, said he was advised by the astuary of the treasury department Dacember 18 that refunds which would have to be made under an adverse decision would amount to $38,000,000 for 1917 and 1918. It 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 she probable course that will be pjrsued temporarily will be the issuance 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 confusion and sent market stocks tumbling. MISTAKE BREAKS MARKET. Two of the news services which eupply the ticker agencies sent out bulleting announcing that the Su preme ourt 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 marxset 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 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 runtil the entire declsion 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 information. Its correrpcendent wait ed until the exact contents of the court’s docizion wera 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 buildifigs. There were no passengers. TAGGART WON'T RUN. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., March 9 — Thomas Tazgart has withdrawn his candidacy for the Democratic nomina tion as a senator from Indiana. In 2 letter to A, C. Sallee, Democratic State chairman, today he stated that ill-health forced his action, and that ;ﬁvimduwing was the hardest task wbds _political carser.” 24-Hour{ Tni st Tniversas News F Service Judge Pro Tem. Joe Sentences Himself For Being Drunk Prisoners don’t often sentence themselves. But Tuesday mor_'ning 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 his 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 judge and 1 were in your shoes what would you do about it, Joe?” “Change places and let my try it, judge,” said Joe unabashed, who has boasted that the fines he has paid ths city for drunkenness wouid 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 prison on water. Chattahoochee River water, with no bread,” intoned Judge Joe pro tem. raising bleary eyes to the recorder, “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 ~ Dies From Pneumonia . Unable to overcome an attack ot pneumonia, Vivian Gray, 6, daugnter 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 survived 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 wouwd recover until pneumonia set in. 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 automobile tires contain ing cotton fabric, effective Monday. Truck tires of solid rubber have ad vanced approximately 10 per cent, and carriage tires of rubber will re main at former prices. 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 the price of truck tires is caused chiefly by advanced labor costs. Another Georgia Town Gets Fame! You mnever can tell! The Georgian, you know, l\ad an incompleted Limerick about a gay dog’ from Grant Park who strolled around quite a bit after curfew. One would think an Atlan tan would get an idea for a ‘‘last line’’— wouldn’t you? ‘ But the winning last line is from a Georgia town not so very far from At lanta. : Just six words in the “last line’’ which brings in SSO. Next? ‘ Ry THE =—_—~ P ——— =7 g -='ﬁ=-=“'m§-=-=—' I \ A ‘_ligitttﬁﬂﬁ§=". = A T ~ EADING K 2 YA eE 3¢/ OF THE SOUTHEAST F{7 ¥ ] R Y CEADING NEWSPAPER \Jio/ J/RS Jediß 1/ OF THE SOUTHEAST 2= ] Fifteen Per Cent Increase Or dered for Street Railway Work ers; Attorney for Men Objects. Higher wages for street car em ployees of the Georgia Railway and Power Co. were granted Tuesday aft ernoon by the board of arbitration picked to settle the demands of the men for an increased wage scale. An increase of 15 per cent was recom mended. The board's decision was a com- John D. Humphries, representing the public; Luther Z. Rosser for the county, and Madison Bell as repre sentative of the car men. The boards decision was a com mentary on the high cost of living, and recognized the justice of com plaints by the men that they are un able to live well under the existing scale. At the same time it was rec ognized that the companys plight is the same as that of the men, with every detail in.the operation of pub lic utilities costing more than for merly. The decision of the board was not unanimous. Madison Bell dissented. Both sides to the arbitration al ready have stated their intention to abide by the boards finding. } The wage demands of the union,| on which the arbitration was held, were 55 cents, 568 cents and 60 centsi an hour, based on length of service, and time and one-half for overtime on the basis of a 10-hour day. Five apnual holidays, New Year Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, also were asked, time and one half to be paid for work on them, l The new scale will be first three months of service, 42 cents an hour; next nine months, 44 cents an hour; after one year, 46 cents an hour. The scale granted by the war la-' bor board in 1918 was 36, 38 and 40 ‘cems an hour for the respective iclasses. ~ “I have absolutely nothing to say regarding the decision,” said Hardy] 0. Teat, business agent for the union. 1 am surprised that the opinion o(’l ‘the arbitration was made public this ‘afternoon. It was agreed that it wusi ‘not to be given out to the public un til after the meeting of the union men Tuesday night, when an official ireport was to be made.” . Mr. Teat seemed surprised when told that the board had granted the men an increase of 15 per cent in stead of 50 per cent, as asked for in the union demands presented to the !Georgia Railway and Power Com pany early in December., He asked that the figures be repeated and said ‘that he had nothing more to say other than that the matter would be taien up by the union at its regular ‘meeting. When informed by The Georgian of | the arbiters decision, H, M, Atkinson, chairman of the board of directors of the power company, said: ; “The award means there wiil be an inecrease in our payroll of $450,000 per annum, including the scme rate of increase in all other departments which will necessarily follow. The' company is not earning sufficient to pay this and maintain the present service, “However, we submitted the wage question to arbitration by agreement and bound ‘ourselves to abide by the result. We will, of course, carry out the award. Additiona)] revenue will be needed to meet it and I hawe no doubt the public will be willing to{ see that the company receives suf-‘ ficient rates to permit it to pay the wages fixed by the arbitration board and in order to furnirh the service which it demands.” | Flu Ban Off at Tower; . . - . Visitors Again Admitted The influenza ban at the Tower has been lifted, it was announced Tues day, which means that prisoners again may receive visitors, With the lifting of the ban also came the announcement of a new schedule of 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 b o’clock in thef afternoon on all days. The jail is now entirely free of in it was annownoced, ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1920. Denies He Was ‘Pro-Britishy* 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 vestigating 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 don't they send. a m»GQWY&% here with a trunkfull nf 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 ‘“‘vacil lating policy” of the navy department during the early months of the wari was responsible 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- | 'clzu'ed. “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 unpﬁ-‘ 'pared. despite two years in which we saw it coming. We were unorgan llzed and the department had no plan. It pursued a vicilating policy dur t!ng 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 thei jfirst 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 ;pllel.” 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 oncei 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 miis away from the navy depart ‘ment. “l have raised nmo question what ever as to the efficiency of our navy in the war viewed as a whole,” Sims said. “And apart from those whol directed it, the work the navy did,| such as it was, was beyond alll praise. “My ecriticism was directed mainly | at the faults committed in the firsL; months of the war. and their f&llure; to acdt promptly. | “Apparently the navy dt-.partment.' believed that I and allied officials had’ overestimated the seriousness of the situation. - They failed to respond, and I am convinced that this failure to get adequate support during thel first six months of the war seriously endangered the outcome and pro longed the war several months.” | 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,, 83, Sunrise, 5:56; sunset, 5:41, Professi rofessions Fan Insanity Among Women (B{ Universal Service.) L(_L\DON, March 9.-—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, Daniels Tells Committee of Need for Additional Protection of West. (By International News Service.) WASHINGTON, March 9.—Netes sity for the strengthening of the na val defense on the Pacific Coast was 'iexplained and urged before the House Naval Affairs Committee Tuesday by Secretary of the Navy Danieis in ex ecutive session. Daniels was accompanied by Rear Admiral Coontz. The transfer of a large part of the naval fleet to the Pacific Coast and the need for addi tional protection there was outliped by Daniels. Y | The secretary told the committee ‘the naval hase facilities available were not sufficient for the proper op eration of the Pacific fleet and for the protection of the Philippines and Hawaii. The establishment of an op erating base on deep water in the ‘Ban Francisco bay was urged by him %s indispensable in working out the program of the department. The Mare Island station would be used in the event of the creation of a new base as a repair and shipbuilding depot. The session was held behind closed doors so that the actual necessity of additional protection could be éx plained. The extent of the immedi ate necessity was divulged by the[ committee members. Basing his re quest on the fact that the large num ber of stations on the Atlantic Coast did no more than fill the needs in the recent war, where Atlantic Coast operations were necessary, the secre tary pointed out that a Pacific Coastl war would find the country unpre pared if only the present facilltlesl were maintained. | iHarris 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 |ol’ the TNT re'malning from the war supplies, for experimental and demonstrational use in reclaiming the cut over pine lands and overflow in the State of Georgila. | Senator Harris informed Secretary Baker, who took ‘the matter under ‘consideration, that Georgla had large ;areu 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 I'nited States Railroad Adminis tration, with the opportunity of ac complishing a great deal of work of this kind. ’ Hoover Petition Is . Started in Savannah SAVANNAH, Ga., March 9.—Peti tion te the State Democratic Kxecu tive Committee to put Hoovers name in the primary was granted here to day by W. H. Wade, The petition exempts signatories from support o'.&bHoover, askln;l merely that the public may pass on his preswned candidack, {, W—— Chairman of Ways and Medns 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. TFordney'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 farmer soldiers in a manner satis factory to them, “Some member of this committee 'may be endeavoring to kill soldier }bonus legislation by delay, but I, for one, want to draft a bill and get this question on the floor for action,” de clared Chairman Fordney. ‘ The committee decided to call rep resentatives of treasury department Thursday. ‘ ‘ Representative Kitchin, Democratlc‘ minority leader, ‘gave his first inti mation of hostility toward the bonus‘ proposition. “We must not do thls hastily as a raid on the trcasury——thel treasury can not stand it,” Kitchin said. ] Representative Frear, Republican, Wisconsin, suggested that the" draft ing of the bill be delayed until after March 22, when the executive com mittee of the American Legion will meet to take up bonus suggestions. Governor Harding of the Federa) Reserve Board, Secretary of the! Treasury Houston and Assistant Seo-i retary Leffingwell will be called by the committee, l ICashier 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. McNellis, vice president,and Jam s 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 ralso} 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 ibandns. AID RUSHED TO SHIP, ~ BOSTON, March 9.-Radio mes sages Tuesday said the United States coast guard cutter Seneca, from New York, was rushing to the aid of the shipping board steamer Lake Elli thrope, reported disabled and adrift near the rocks off Sable Island, N. 8, Another wireless message stated that the steamship M'aplomom was ut%nd ing by endeavoring to take the Kili thrope in tow. kD , World’ Jack Dempsey, World's . Champion, in New Senes Followers of the boxing game ecan not afford to miss these articles by the title holder in The Sunday American The next tells how to develop powerful shoulders and is illus trated with special photographs. It wil appear y In Next Sunday’s American . ¢ "EDITION Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter st the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 187% Baby Is Freed Of ‘Burden’ of Wilson’s Name (By Universal Service.) NBW BEDFORD, Mass., March 9.~Woodrow Wilson Wil loughby of Edgartown, 14 months old, is now Hobart Lockett Willoughby. DBy 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. Leo A. Willoughby. The petition expresges the fear that the future the appellation “Woodrow Wilson” might be come a burden to the child, but did aot disclose whether politics, national or interanational, made “Woodrow Wilson" undesirable. L ; : | Missing Palmetto Banker Wrote Letter Admitting Losses in 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 f6llowed 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, mailed in Atlanta, saying he intended to keep up the speculation which had forced jhls flight, and that he ‘was confident he could win the money to pay back the shortage. 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 taken out in consequence, being placed in #he 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 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 indicated that a substantial reward for his apprehension would be of fered by the bank. Boy Inventor Missing With Wireless Device (By International News Service.) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March s 9.— Harold Sever, Harvard's “boy scien tific marvel” of two years ago, has disappeared, together with a priceless wireless inverition in which the United States government is inter ested. The boy inventor, who is 22, left his workshop in Valparaiso, Ind., for Chicago early in February. He had with him all his plgmu and 200 pounds of apparatus reresenting his finished invéntion. He has not been seen since. Word of Sever's disappearance was brought to Cambridge today by de gartment.of justicg agents tracing is associations while at Harvard radio school. NO. 200. T ‘Bl UI Pl EHIEF it ¢ Also Flays President’s Stand on Adriatic, Saying Italy 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 Hitehcock on the treaty was se verely criticised in the Senate this | afternoon by, Senator Lodge, the Ré publican leader, v Lodge also declared the Presidex\t'a attitude in the Adriatic dispute to be wrong and said Italy was enti tled to possession of Fiume if only as a strategic base to protect her from future invasion. RESERVATION ALTERED. By a vote of 28 to 49, the four teenth Lodge reservation was amended this afternoon to make the ‘operiing part of it read:’ " v “Until part one (of the peace treaty), being the covenant of the League of Nations, shall be 8o amended a® to provide that the United States shall be entiled to cast a number of votes equal to that rwhich any member of the league and its self-governing dominions, colonies ‘or parts of empire in the aggregate ‘shail be entitled to cast, the *United States assumes no obligation to be Ibound by any election, decision, re port or finding of the counecil 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.” ‘. 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 whom we most desire tgo be associated in the tasks of peace.” CRITICIZES WILSON'S STAND. 5 “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 sald. 4 “l feel we owe France a great debt of gratitude, I am sorry. the Presideht saw fit to say what he dl& I regret' also the President has fit to assume the position he has in the Adriatic dispute, § “That Italy should desire to pro tect herself by helding the strategic points in the Adriatic is only right under the pact of London. Since when has it become a crime for Italy to ‘protect herself? She has asked for a city as a strategic base with !which to protect herself from future war, b 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-Slays. “Arid 1 have no feeling against Great Britain, I do not bhlame her for looking out for herself. I only wish the United States had bveen looked after as well. And there has been a resérvation proposed which would have protected us,” Mr. Lodge sald, referring to the Johnson reser vation. . Senator Owen, Democrat, of Okla« ’hnma announced he would support the Lodge reservation program, as ap ’oxpresaion of the will of the majority of the Senate, rather than stand in the way of ratification. i FINAL MOVE BEGINS. $1 Republican leaders declared today they don’t propose to pemn‘t:: peace treaty to “be killed” 4n t Senate without first seeking to place full responsibility for its defeat on President Wilson. : They are prepared to 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 Senatéer Hitcheock, 2LI The Republican leaders deci k make the administration lid:ﬁ@ offer of a compromise on ”»ﬁx, bR B Continued on rm&ﬁ_ﬁ ’ )