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VOL. XVIII
CAR MEN OUIT: TIE-UP GOMPLETE
GREAT NATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNEY OPENS AT IP. M.;
- NEW TAXES TO BE LAID TO MEET LOSS FROM STOCK RULING
Tourney Opening Today in Audi
‘torium Will End Saturday With
World’s Champions Decided.
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Everything is ready at/the Audi
torium for the opening game at 1
o'clock this afternoon in the national
championship basketball tournament,
which has brought to Atlanta the
finest teams in America—which
means the finest in the werld.
Atlanta has long keenly followed
the indoor game because of the ex
ploits of the Atlanta Athletic Club
team, but the bringing together here
of the finest fives in the country has
greatly increased interest.
At 1 o’clock the greatest basketball
specialists in the country get busy.
At that hour the Spartanburg Y. M.
C.'A..and the Kansas: City Athletic
Club begin the first game of “the
world’s basketball series and from
then until a late hour Saturday night
basketitis will rage. Near the mid
nighit mark Saturday the successful
téam will be crowned 1920 world’s
champions.
Atlanta, is agog over the cage fes
tival. Every team ‘'booked for the
tournament had reached town Wed
nesday morning and all were in read
iness for the test.
PLAY:ALL AFTERNOON, .
A continuous performance will be
served from the first game until 6
o'clock, whepn a recess of two hours
will be given, @and at 8 p. m. the
teams get going again on a siege that
will last until near midnight. Fol
lowing the first affair, the Northern
Paper Mills team will take the floor
against the famous Crescent Athletic
Club team.
At 3 o’elock the world's champion
Tos Angeles quintet will go against
the K. & I T. team of Louisville,
Ky. At 4 o’clock New York Univer
gity meets the Houston Triangles,
and at 5 o'clock the University of
Utah clashes with the Chquotte X]
clan. After this affair a recess will
be declared.
Then at 8 p. m. the fireworks start
again, with the.University of Geor
gia battling Rutgers. An hour later
the University of Ténnessce takes on
the Atlanta Athletic Club, Southern
champions, and at 10 o'clock the Y«
M. O.'s will scrap it out with Union
Club. 4
TOURNEY ENDS‘ SATURDAY.
That's .the program for the day.
omorrow the tourney will be contin
wed, with four gamés, Friday two
games ‘and Saturday a duo of con
tests will close out the tournament,
with the championship béing award
ed at the finals.
Most of the clibs participating in
the tourney have been in town for a
. ‘day or so and have been taking work
outs at the clup and on the new Au-
Aditorium floor. These practises have
convinced the fans that some of the
best baskethall.material in the coun
try will compéte here.
The meet is being staged under the
quspices of the A'tlanta Athletic Club,
wl}h A. A. Doonan in charge of ar
fangements, and through the efforts
of the club with the aid of the Con
vention Bureau the meet was ob
tained that the eye of the nation
{ might be turned on Atlanta for a
week.
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Coyncil of War Called
/ To Meet at Cologne
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, March 10.—A council of
war has been summoned at Cologne
under Marshal Foch, to consider
mearns of insuring execution of all
treaty terms, the disarmament of
German fortresses and the surrender
of German war matermi» the Journal
anpounced today,;
24-Hour{ 183 i Uaiversal News f Service
Whole Country for
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Hero Who Wouldn't
Pay $25 for Ham
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, March 10.—If a
monument’ is ever built to perpet
uate the memory of Robert H.
Mainzer, wealthy Nassau street
banker and honorary deputy fire
chief—now, fortunately and happi
ly, very much alive and in no im
mediate need for a monument—a
“ham should figure prominently as
a bas-relief, even if not more proms
" inently displayed.
Mr. Mainzer, whose refusal to
pay $25 for a New Year's ham, de
livered at his home by the Ruben
Purd Food Shop, on the ground that
no ham in the world ever was
worth $25, Noah’s oldest son hav
ing failed to leave any schedule of
his estate, has been acclaimed from
all parts of the United States as a
kind of “ham hero.”
In appreciation of his stand, hams
have been sent to him as gifts from
' Norfolk and Pulaski, Va., real Vir
ginia hams—and from Evansville,
Ind., while Riverside, Cal,, and Sa
vannah, Ga,, sent. gifts of boxes of
nuts. g
Moreover, when Ruben's suit
against Mr. Mainzer comes up in
the Fifth 'District Municipal Court,
the. defendant- ean, if ‘he wishes,
* avail himself of the offer of a prom
inent lawyer to:defend him free of
charge. Letters from 139 persons in
various parts of the country have
commended him. for declining to
pay $26 for a ham.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Warns ‘Curb Spending’
(By'lnternational News Service.)
| CHICAGO, March 10.—The Amer
ican peopie are on a spending spree,
which will be followed by hard times
unless it }s curbed at once, 'e.t was
declared by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
in an interview here today. He also
asserted prohibitiop is bringing pros
perity to the country.
Touching on the Interchurch World
Movement Conference, which he
came here to attend, Mr. Rockefeller
said organizatlon of all the Christian
churches in such a movement, pri
marily to combat evil, will have a
healthy effect on American business.
Religion, he declared, stands at the
foundation of any nation’'s business
integrity. 3 3
Dollar Haircuts Comit?,
Union Official Belives
. (By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, March 10.—The dollar
haircut' is in sight. Leon Worthall,
general organizer of the Barbers' In
ternational Union, says so. “It may
not come right away,” he said. “The
next jump may be to 75 cents. From
there it will jump to a dollar, Heavy
rents, increased cost of supplies and
higher _wages will simply, force the
‘master barbers to the $1 figure.”
So now it's up to the man who
shaves himself to learn to cut his
own hair or have his wife learn to.do
it for him.
Theater War Taxes Are
Exempt in Income Tax
(By Universal Service.)
JERSEY CITY, N. J, Marth 10.—
You rémember, of course, that penny
war tax ynu paid when you went,to
the movies, or the 50 cents you paid
as war fax for a couple of seats for a
real show when you felt flush and
“blew” your wife? -
Well, you are privileged to claim
exemption from income tax on these
sums—provided you have saved the
ticket stubs, according to a- ruling
made here today by Deputy Revenue
Agent Charles Levering, -
Auto Tax Fees Bring
2 In $1,250,000 to Date
~ About $1,250,000 has been paid into
‘the State treasury by the secretary
.of . state, representing receipts from
1920 automobile tags. It is estimated
therc ig about $5000,000 to be re
ceived, which will make the total
$1,750,000.
The total of applications is expect
ed to be about 159,000,
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Three Way Split in Vote of Two
Extremes and Compromise
Seekers Make Outlook Grey.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 10.—The.
Senate will grapple again with the
much disputed Article X of the
League of Nations covenant today. ‘
The Lodge reservation, to which!
President Wilson is opposed unalter-‘
ably, will be taken up. Some Re
publican and Democratic senators
are ®xpected to go through the mo-i
tions of supporting a compromise on
it which are considered likely to ;:J
solve themselwes eventually. into.
,‘litl__cal gestures.
' In -an amended form, with old
wordes twisted out of it and new
words twisted intp it, the reserva
tion may be adopted by a substan
tial majority on the basis of such a
compromise, |
Senator Hitchock, the administra
tion's treaty manager, served notice
he and his adherents would have
nothing to 'do with it. ;
Senator Borah, Republican, of
Idaho and the rest of the ‘‘“irrecon
cilables” who have fought consist
ently against the unreserved commit
ment of the American people to Arti
cle X also announced they would not
be a party to the compromise. ]
Georgia Democrats
Want Reed on Ballot
* Petition that the name of Senator
James A. Reed of Missouri be placed
on the Georgia Democratic presiden
tial list will be presented to Sec
retary Hiram Gardner by Carl
Hutcheson, Atlanta attorney. Mr.
Hutcheson ‘prepared the petition and
says he is confident the 100 signa
tues necessary will be obtained.
A §trong sentiment among. anti
league Democrats of Georgia for Sen
atori Reed has seen found, Mr,
Hutcheson said. ' .
Police Seek Mother of
; Deserted Infant Boy
Police are seeking the mother of
a pretty three weeks old baby boy
left by a fashionahly dressed ‘young
woman at the home of Mrs. John
Wiggins, 89 West Baker street, Tues
day. 2
Mrs. Wiggins says the young
woman rodeup to her house in a
limousine, engaged a room and asked
her to look after her baby until she
¢ould get a dray to hau lher trupk.
She has not been seen since.
Another Georgia
Town Gets Fame!
You mnever can tell! The
Georgian, you know, had
"~ an incompleted Limerick
. about a gay dog from
Grapt Park who strolled
around quite a bit after
curfew. -
One would think an Atlan
tan would get an idesa
for a ‘‘last line’’—
wouldn’t you?
But the Winning last line
is from a Georgia town
not so very far'from At
lanta. 4
Just six words in the *‘last
line’’ which brings in SSO.
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ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1920.
Sudden Rise in
Exchange Hits
~ Gamblers Hard
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~ Staff Correspondent Universal
Service.
LONDON, March 10.—Reports
| of heavy losses suffered
\)y New York exchange gamblers
caught in selling short on a ris
ing pound sterling market are
discussed in American banking
and financial circles here.
‘While no estimate of the losses
is available on this side, it is
asserted they run into hundreds
of thousands, and that private
bankers and speculators were
the chief sufferers.
American business men in Lon
don credit the reporty because of
the ' wide dealings by money
brokers who have cleaned up
millions on Europe’s chaotic fi
nance conditions. These brokers
it is believed, did not foresee
the sudden reversal of the sterl
ing ;exchange since both Lon
don and New York were dis
cussing the probability -of the
Englishh pound dropping to the
,three dollar point. The upward
leap of the pound ®aught many
unable to cover chegks on ii
fiz{n&éy issued ~befe
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If Really Called to Serve, He
Will, but He Declines to ‘
‘Make Campaign. 1
(By Universal Service.)
NEW YORK, March 10.—Herbert
Hoover reiterates his determination
not to undertake any propaganda or
organization for nomlna,tlo‘n for the
presidency, in a letter made public
by Ralph Arnold, representative of
the “Make Hoover President Club” of
California. The letter was in reply
to a number of questions put to Mr.
Hoover by a committee of California
Republicans after a meeting held in
the Hotel Astor Friday. The com
mittee inciuded: Capt. J. F. Lucy,
Mark Requa, Jackson Reynolds, John
M. Switzer and Charles M. Rand.
The Hoover .letter reads in part:
“I am an independent progressive on
the issues before us today. 1 think that
at this time the issues before the country
transcend partisanship. It is well known
that T was a progresslvs Republican be
fore the war and, I think rightly, a non
partisan during my war service, I stil
object as much to the reactign group in.
the Republican party as I do to the radi
cal group in the Democratic party. {
“'I am not seeking public office and, con- ‘
sulting my own personal inclinations, I do
not want public office. & I can not prc-{
vent any citizen or group of citizens from ‘
agitating that I should take public office,
but I can not comnscientiously particlpute‘
in any organization to that end. gl
“I thoroughly believe that I, like any
other citzen, should always be ready fnr‘
service when really called upon, bhut to go
out and try to persuade t#e public to eall
me (s opposed to my every instinet. i
“No man,can be so arrogant as to as
sume that ‘he can dictate the {ssues tu;
the Ameriacn people, or to the great
purties they support.’”
Oasis Found in Iowa;
Doctor Rescues Thirsty
(By Universal Service.)
FORT MADISON, lowa, March 10.!
This place has been discovered as the
oasis in the desert of America. lowa,
and especially Fort Madison, wijl be-i
come the mecca of the thirsty, it is
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predicted. , |
One hundred prescriptions, calling
for a pint of whisky each, have beeni
issued by a local physician ‘within
the five days. He ran out of blanks,
sent for more, and' is now prepared
to prescribe anew. .
The prescriptions call for doses of
“one tablespoonful every two ur three
hours,”
Secretary Houston Calls Confer
ence of Officials to Consider
Revision of Financial Program,
‘ (By Internationai News Service.)
' WASHINGTON, March 10.—Addi
;t1onal tax legislation may be ex
pected of Congress to meet the loss
of' revenues by the decision of . the
Supreme Court that stock dividends
are not taxable as income.
‘Sécrewry of the Treasury Hous~
ton today called a conference of
officials of his department to consid- |
er possible revisions of the financial
program of the treasury.
Early surveys indicated that a
Slump_in _revenues of $1,000,000,000
apnually may result from the court
decision. Secretary Houston was not
prepared to say what steps would be?
taken to meet this loss of revenue,
but it was pointed out by other offi
cials that the government would have
to borrow unless Congress estab
lihes some new ‘means of providing
revenues, ! .
Important Move by
Wood and Aides Likely
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March 10.—A statement
intimated to be of national impor
tance in Republican politics is to be
issued as the result of a conference
by General Wood, Frank H. Hitch
cock, his field marshal, and Col. Wil
liam Cooper Proctor, manager of the
Wood campaign.
Wise observers believe it will deny
Hitchcock is directing' the Wood
campaign to the exclusion of Colonel
Proctor. It is believed the statement
will show the two will work in har
mony, though in separate fields.
Poles Attack Ukraine,
Red Ally, Says Lenin
(By Universal Service.)
LONDON, March 10.—A wireless
message from Moscow quotes. Pre
mier l.enin as saying the Poles have
attack®™ the Ukraine, “which is an
ally of the soviet republic, and which
we are obliged to defepd, regardless
of the line of demarcation on the re
spective fronts.”
Another Moscow radio says the so
viet foreign minister, Wchitcherin,
has renewed his offer of peace nego
tiations to Poland,
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Two Autos Smashed in
Collision; Nobody Hurt
Twn automobiles were badly
smashed in a collision at Formwalt
and Richardson streets about 10
o'clock Tuesday night when a new.
touring car, driven by two unidenti
fied white men, struck a mAchine be
longing to W. R. Massengill, manager
of the McCray Refrigerator Com
pany.
Lewis Wadley, thé ' Massengill
chauffer was alone in tfie machine,
No one was injured. &
John D. Jr. To Be Quizzed
~On Dry Condition
(By International News Service.)
ALBANY, N. Y., March 10.—-John
D. Rockefeller Jr. will be asked to
appear before the Assembly Judlclar'y
Committee and explain if he pays
$15,000 a year to Willlam H. Ander
son, State -superintendent -of the
Anti-Saloon ‘League, which the As
sembly proposes to investigate, As
semblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, spon=
sor for@he inquiry, announced Tues
day. 2
According to Cuvillier, Mr. Rocke
feller has paid that amount to Mr,
Anderson by monthly checks drawn
through the Corn Exchange Bank,
Fifth avenue branch, New York City,
Send the Boys
Back to Farm,
Bankers Urge
(By International News Service.)
CHICAGO, March 10.—" If you
city folks want to eat, send your
boys and girls back to the farm.”
This was the sloga.. of more
than 100 bankers of the Middle
West, who gathered here today
for the ninth annual conference
of the Central States Bankers'
Association.
“The farmers are tired of pay
ing help $165 a month and hav
ing to kiss them every morn
ing to get them to work,” was
the way one banker expressed
the general sentiment. “They
are cutting down the size of
the tracts they are cultivating,
and will continue to do so un
til they can get help.”
{Sfips Taken to Prevent Uprising
I at Eastertide—Wholesale
i Arrests Expected..
By DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Staff Correlnpondont of the I. N. S,
DUBLIN, March 10.—Heavy move
ments of British treops are under
way in Ireland. Many trains bearing
soldiers, field guns and large caliber
artillery arrived here during the last
twenty-four hours. The forces are
being dispatched to the &m'erent
parts of the country.
It was authoritatively reported that
the military officials are taking pre
cautions against a Sinn Fein uprising
at Eastertide, the fourth anniversary
of the Dublin rebellion.
Sinn Fein leaders believe the mili
tary will make a big round-up within
a few days, arresting men who took
part in the 1916 uprising. All are
said to have been ticketed for arrest.
~Count Plunkett, who has long heen
a cbmmnnding figure in Irish affairs,
is said to be behind a movement to
organize moderate Irish opinion for
a settlement of the Irish problem in a
way that will meet with American
approval.
Count Plunkett, who was a sup
porter of the dominion form of gov
ernment for Ireland, similar to that
of Canada, favors the formation of a
league that will be midway between
the extremes of Ulster unionism and
Southern Sinn Feinism. He believes
Irish difficulties could be solved mu
tually through the establishment of a
constituent assembly representing all
Ireland, ‘
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College Paper Banned for
Printing ‘Sporty’ Pictures
¢ (By Universal Service.) *
SYRACUSE, N. Y., March 10.—The
Orange Peel, one of. the . Syracuse
University publications, was ord(-red:
suspended by Chancellor Day be- !
cause it contained pictures of chorus
girls who had peeled off their stock- |
ings and other portions of their ap
parel. “
William J. Dalton, managing editor
of the paper, also was suspended and
an investigation has been ordered
to place responsibility for the publi
cation. i
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Jack Dempsey, World’s
Champion, in New Series -
Followers of the boxing game can 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 will appear
In Next Sunday’s American ;
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Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the PostofMice at Atlanta Under Azt of March 3, 1379
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!Fiftcen Per Cent Increase in Wages, Majority
- Award of Arbiters, Opposed by Bell, Is Not
- Enough for Men, and Strike Vote Carried by,
Big Margin.
All public schools of the city were closed Wednesday because
of the strike,
Not a wheel turned on the Atlanta street car system Wednes
day morning, with motormen and conductors of the Georgia Rail.
way and Power Company on strike,
| Abput 1,100 men were involved, and every portion of the
lines, including all interurban and surburben roads, was tied up.
It was announced at the offices of the company that road.
way and maintenanc® men had wone out with the platform
workers.
The strike was ordered by the carmen’s organization after bal
‘oting which was completed after midnight. The count, announced
t 3:30 o’clock Wednesday morning, was more than three to one
“r the strike. i
: The stxike wag a result of the*‘
‘men’s dissatisfaction with a wage%
}increase of 15 per cent awarded
by the board of arbitration ap
ponted to act upon ther wage
demands. | 1
ARBITERS DISSENT.
The employees held out for a high
er rate of increase. Madison Bell,
arbiter for the men, dissented fr=
the opinion of the other two arblter'..
Judge John D. Humphries, ®r the
public, and Luther Z. Rosser, for the
company. ;
The wage demands of the union,
'on which the arbitration was held,
were 556 cents, 68 cents and 60 cents
an hour, based or length of service,
and time and one-half for overtime
ion the basis of a 10-hour day.
~ Five annual 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,
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
cents an hour for the respective
classes.
The decision of the arbitration
board was presented to the men in a
meeting at the Wigwam in Central
avenue by Mr. Bell Tuesday evening
The temper of the men was unmis
takable, and it became aparent short
ly that a strike would result. The
meeting was prolonged, but there
seemed at no time an indication of
peaceful settlement. i
The first hint of the men’s attitude
came within a few minutes after an
nouncement of the board, when The
eorgian informed 'Hardy O. Teat,
business agent for the union, of the
result,
“I have absolutely nothing to say
regarding the decision,” said Mr,
Teat. 1 am surprised that the opinion
NO. 200.
of the arbitration was made public this
afternoon. It was agreed that it was
not to be given out to the public une
til after the meeting of the union
men Tuesday night, when an official
report was to be made.”
When informed by The Georgian of
the arbiters decision, H. M. Atkinsen,
chairman of the board of directors of
the power company, said:
¥The award means there will be an
increase in our payroll of $450,000 per
annum, including the s: me rate of
increase in all other departmeqtl
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. Additional revenue will
be needed to meet it and I hawve no
doubt the public will be willing te
see that the company receives suf
ficient rates to permit it to pay the
wages fixed by the arbitration board
and in order to furnizh the service
which it demands.”
STRIKERS TO MEET. i
~ The' statement of Mr. Atkinson
was given, like that of Mr. Teat,
}withln a few minutes after the .w'
was announced, It was announced
Wednesday morning that a formal
statement by officials of the company
was in preparation, with reference to
the strike situation.
The strikers were gathering Wede=
nesday morning in the Labor Temple
for their second meeting, which was
to be addressed by Mr. Teat and W,
H. Reardon, chairman of the inters@®
national executive committee.
It was announced the vote showed
a proportion of three .to one, with
sixty-one over, in favor of the walke
ott. There were 1,000 votes, the men
casting their ballots at the temple as
they were relieved from their posts.
There were 140 .votes not received
Tuesday night, and these were being
cast Wednesday morning. - -
Spokesmen for the men contended
that the statement of Preston S. Ark
wright before theé® arbitration board
that living costs have increased only
87 per cent and only 10 per cent since
November 18 is inaccurate. Theym
costs have increased at least 250 ¢
probably 300 per cent, ’
A statement was requested Tues
day by The Georgian of J‘m
Humphries, -the public’s repres
ti\i(; on the arbitration board. He
said: AT
“I do not think it would he proper
for me to make an comment mx
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