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VOL. XVIII 24-Hour{ Dol fui Uaiversal News | Service
KAPP CLAIMS BRITISH SUPPORT
NOSKE REPORTED MARCHING ON BERLIN AT HEAD OF ARMY;
ATLANTAN IS FEARED LOST IN EVERGLADES OF FLORIDA
Head of Big Construction Firm
Missing in Swamp—Was Due
to Return Last Thursday.
MIAMI, Fla.,, Mareh 15.—J. B. Mc-]
.
Crary, head of the J. B. McCrary
Company of Atlanta, a leading pav
ing and road building concern, and
L. Roderique of this city are believed
to be lost in the Everglades, and an
airplane from the local Curtiss sta
tion left this morning with -food in
search of the missing men. 1
They left this city Tuesday to in
gpect land 40 miles west of her in
the heart of an untracked whder
ness and were expected to return last
Thursday. 1
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Texas Town Is-Still on |
Fire; Loss $1,500,000
(By International News Service.)
GRANDVIEW, Texas., March 15.—
With 900 homeless and property loss
estimated at $1,500,000, the business
section of this city was still burn
ing early this morning. The fire'
originated in the Southern part of
the city and the flames, swept by a
43-mile wind, soon were out of con- |
trol.
Seven business Plocks and about
175 of the city’s finest residences have
been furned. |
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Would Use War Surplus
Profits to Pay Bonuses
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 15—Sur
plus undistributed war profits of cor-‘
porations would be confiscated to pay
a 4 bonus to former service men by‘
the terms of a joint resolution imm-‘
duced in the House today by Repre- |
sentative Little, Republican, of
Kansas, ‘
Mayor Key Confined to
Home With Slight Illness
Mayor Key was confined to his
home in Pence de Leon avenue Mon
day with the slight illness that at
tacked him last week, following his
work in an effort to help settle the
street car strike.
Comer Is Sworn in
As Alabama’s Senator
(Py Internati¢nal News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 15—Brax
ton Bragg Comer was sworn in by
the Senate this afternoon as United
States senator from Alabama to suc
ceed the late Senator Bankhead.
President Wilson Takes
2-Hour Motor Drive
(By Universal Service.) /
WASHINGTON, March 15.—Pres
ident Wilson, accompanied by Mrs.
Wilson and Rear Admiral Cary T.
\rayson, his personal physician, en
joved a two hours' outing Sunday.
ft was the longest motor drive the
President has taken since his illness.
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Four Americans Burn
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In Siberian Barracks
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 156.—Fire
in barracks of the American forces
in Siberia on March 6 resuited in the
death of four men, the war depart
ment was advised today by General
Graves, in command at Vladivostok.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Fair and warmer
Tuesday.
Temperatures: 6a. m, 43; 8
a. m., 49; 10 a. m., 56; 12 noon,
60; 1 p. m, 62; 2 p. m,, 83,
Sunrice, 5:48; sunset, 5:46,
.
He Gives $lO for 1
Homeless Couple,
But Hides His I\la,me
dos His Name
In a way, this is a very defective |
story from the newspaper stand
point—for it can not even give the
name of the hero!
But in another way, it is a very
fine story—for it shouts to tne
world that people’s hearts are often
in the rightest kind of place, even
though modesty may urge them to
hide that position from the public
gaze.
About a month ago, the Rev. L
S. Smith of Hapeville culminated
a soldier romance by marrying Guy
r Wallace, a returned soldier, to the
choice of his heart. A little house
was furnished in Hapeville with the
last dollar of the couple’s funds, and
they settled down to happiness—
and the valiant battie of the age-old
dual alliance with life.
But last Wednesday, the wily
enemy marshalled the meanest of
his forces and shattered the lines,
almost at the outset of the cam
paign, with a crushing defeat. He
used General Fire; and General
Fire ruthlessly destroyed house,
i furniture, o@thing—evtrything, in
- fact—and left the alliance without
% a single possession, or a single dol
lar with which to acquire one, in
! the world.
; The Hapeville minister told The
Georgian about the destitute con
~ dition of the couple last Thursday
morning, and The Georgian told
Atlanta about it in a little story.
Monday morning a young man
called at The Georgian office.
«Here is ten dollars,” he said.
~ “Won't you see, for me, that Sol
' dier Guy Wallace and bride receive
i
3 “See here! Let us make a story
~of this! What's your name?”
| “Oh, never mind that! I was
‘ burned out once myself. Just print
. an announcement asking the soldier
. or the preacher to come to The
. Georgian office and get it. That
‘ will make a story, wont it? And
} —er— put the announcement where
. other pebple can see it won't you?
r I don’'t think my ten dollars is
enough.”
So, a story it is—without the
name!
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|Seventy Persons Face
Starvation in Icfvéam
(By International News Se| e.)
CHICAGO, March 16.—Facing
starvation unless rescued by night
ltall, seventy passengers and mem
bers of the crew of the Goodrich
liner Illinois, caught in a gigantic
ice jam fifteen miles off the St. Jo
seph, Mich., harbor early today, wire
| lessed their dire plight to officials
of the line here. A steamer is rush
ing to its assistance with provisions
but unless a fevorable wind comes to
break the immediate pack, the res
cue ship may not be able to reach
the helpless vessel.
The Illinois has been caught among
ice floes for a wyek. ’file last ounce
of food aboard the Illinois will be
consumed today, the wireless 8. O.
8. declared. For several days the
passengers and crew have been on
| ghort rations.
St. Patrick’s Parade in
Ireland May Be Banned
By DANIEL O'CONNELL,
Staff Correspondent Universal Service
DUBLIN, March 15.—An order pro
hibiting St. Patrick’'s Day proces
sions throughout I*eland is reported
to be under consideration by the
Dublin Castle authorities.
It is also expected the curfew order
will be extended, making it a crim
inal offense to be on the streets after
8 o'clock in the evening in this city.
25 Per Cent Tax Put
On Paris Dance Halls
(By Universal Service,)
PARIS, March 15.—Acting on tae
principle that it is inadmissible that
a small minority should be allowed
to dance while the majority of the
people work, the municipal council
has decided to levy a tax of 25 per
ecent on the receipts of dance halls
up to & o'clock in the evening.
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President Is Curt in His Refusal
of Senator Lodge’s New Word
ing on Article X Reservation.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—A curt,
flat rejection bty .the President ofi
Senator Lodge's proposed substitute
for the original reservation to Article
X rendered ratification of the peacej
treaty more hopeless today.
“This is not acceptable.—W. W.”
This was written by President Wil
son across the top of the letter he
received from Senater Hitehcock on
‘Friday or Saturday in which the
Lodge substitute for the original res
ervation to Article X was described,
it \was learned this afternoon rrom‘
official sources. |
He indicated he was displeased that
he should have again been asked
to pass upon a proposed reservation
to Article X which, in his judgment,
was just as objectionable to him as
those which had previously been sub
mitted to™him.
WON’'T DEPOSIT TREATY.
The President made it plain that
unless the Senate was prepared to
accept Article X substantially as ’n
himself wrote it into the League of
’Nations covenant at Versailles he
|woulcl refuse to deposit the treaty
at Paris.
He left no doubt in the , short,
pointed message he inscribed on the
back of Senator Hitchcock’'s com
munication that he was not only
vexed by the latest developments in
the treaty situation but that he ex
pected senators professing allegiance
to Ism to again vote against the
Lodge reservation program eveh in
its present modified form.
COMPROMISERS REBUKED.
In discussing the President's
l"note“ privately Hitchcock conveyed
the impression that its tone was a
rebuke to those administration sen
ators who have been “fiddling
around” a compromise in Article X
in an effort to bring about ratifica
tion.
~ The President reiterated the posi
‘tion he assumed at the Jackson Day
dinner and on other occasions when
‘he has opposed the Lodge and other
proposed reservations as “cutting at
the heart” of the treaty and the
League of Nations covenant, "
He made it known once more that
he favored the submission of the
treaty to a referendum of the peo
ple in the coming campaign.
The Senate rejected this after
noon a substitute proposed by Sen
ator Frelinghuysen, Republican of
New Jersey, to the Lodge reservation
to Article X, seventeen to fifty
nine. This was the first move in
the final show-down today on Ar
ticle X on which unanimous consent
agreement between all factions must
come before the end of the calendar
day even if it is necessary for the
Senate to remain in continuous
session until midnight tonight.
SUBSTITUTES DEFEATED.
A proposal by Senator Kirby, Dem
ocrat, of Arkansas, for a change in
the Lodge substitute for the original
reservation to Article X was defeated
by a vote of 31 to 45.
By a vote of 30 to 46 the so-called
Taft reservation to Article X was de
feated. (
By a viva voce vote another subst!.
tute proposed by Senator King, Dem
ocrat, of Utah, was defeated.
Senator Simmons, Democrat, of
North Carolina, then proposed a sub-
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1920.
NewFrenchGun
Will Outshoot
Big Berthas
(By Universal Service.)
PARIS, March 15.—A mon
ster gun with a range of
more than twice that of the fa
mous “Big Berthas” used by
Germans to bombard Paris has
been invented by the French en
gineer Delamare.
The first of the new type has
been constructed in the Belgian
National Foundry at‘Llege. The
speed of the projectile is in
creased 40 per cent.
.
New American Fla
On Five Points’ Poige
Sought by Citizens
Opéning of a public subscription
list for the purpose of raising a new
American flag on the big pole at Five
Points is requested in the following
letter received Monday from Mathew
M. Samel, president of the Atlanta
Consumers’ League:
Editor Atlanta Georgian, City:
Dear Sir—Would it be asking too
much of you to start a campaign
for the purpose of raising money
enough to replace the badly torn
and otherwise disfigured American
flag that now adorns the flagpole
at Five Points?
A few moments ago I had occa
sion to be glancing across town,
through my winodw, and I was sur
prised and actually humiliated, to
say the least, but whoever’s busi
~ ness it is should see to it that if
~a flag is to be displayed at this
i point, or any other places for that
. matter, some attention should be
i paid to the condition and upkeep
of it.
Kindly put me down for any rea
sonable amount as part payment ¢f
a new flag. I shall be too glad to
do my part toward buying a new
one if a flag that is the emblem of
America is to be displayed. I am,
ATLANTA CONSUMERS’
LEAGUE.
M. M.“SAMEL, President.
Atlanta, Ga., March 15, 1920,
The Atlanta Georgian and Amer
ican takes pleasure in complying with
Mr. Samel's request and will receive
and acknowledge subscriptions to be
used for a new flag.
Mr. Samel could not be reached by
teelphone Monday afternoon to make
his subscription, so The Georgian and
American will start it off.
SUGSCRIPTION LIST.
Atlanta Georgian and American..s2s
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Buice Accidentally
.
Shot, Is Jury’s Verdict
Funeral services for George H.
Buice, who died SBaturday in his home
at 26 Virgil street from a bullet
wound, will be held Monday after
noon at 2:30 o'clock at Poole's
Chapel, burial to be in Greenwood.
Members of Capitol View Lodge No.
640 F. and A. M., of which Mr. Bulcei
was a member, will conduct services.
’Mr. Buice was also a member of the
‘Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen,
%represe,ntaflven of which will attend
the services.
A coroner’s jury Saturday returned
the verdict that the wound was accl
dental. Mr. Buice was shot through
the heart by a bullet from an old
‘Springfield army rifle. His wife and
three .mi‘jl daughters survive.
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‘Crushed by Engine, |
" N. H. Wallace Succumbs
! N. H. Wallace of 47 Foster street,i
‘was fatally injured by a Central of
Georgia switch engine beneath the
Bell street viaduct about 2:30 o'clock
‘Monday morning. He died at Grady
Hospital several hours later. |
| Ed Campbell was driving the en
gine. He said Wallace started
across the tracks hardly more than
ten feet in front of the approaching
‘engine. |
- The body was taken to Greenberg
and Bodn's. Mr. Wallace was 64
years old, and is survived by his
‘wife: five daughters, Mrs. Reese
Irving, Mrs. Bessle Mahaffie, Mrs.
‘Susie Stanidge, Miss Ollie Wallace,
all of Milstead, Ga., and Mrs, Kate
| Rody of Atlanta: and a son, Fred
Wallace of Atlanta.
Lloyd George Calls in Diplomats.
Foch Orders His Troops to
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Move Farther Into Germany.
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(By Internatioral News Service.)
LONDON, March 15 (1 p. m.).—All
of the allied ministers and ambassa
dors at prsent in London were called
into conference by Premier Lloyd
George this afternoon. ‘
Millerand Asks
Council of Premiers
(By International News Service.)
PARIS, March 15.—Premier Mil
lerand has telegraphed to Premier
Lloyd George and Peemier Nitti sug
gesting a speeial meeting of-the su
preme council for an exchange of
views on Germany. If the develop
ments warrant, the conference may
be held in Paris Wednesday or Thurs
day to outline a new allied attitude
toward Germany. ‘
'Heavy Forces
Being Concentrated
' (By International News Service.)
PARIS, March 15.—French troops on
the Rhine have begun a forward
movement on orders from Marshal
Foch, it was reported today.
Heavy forces” of French infantry,
supported with artillery, are being
concentrated in the French zone of
occupation in Germany,
The French army of occupation is
already making.its way through the
Rhineland villages, it is reported.
The French foreign office received
a long cipher dispatch this morning
from the French charge d'affaires in
Berlin. As soon as it was decoded
a copy was sent to Marshal Foch at
Mayence. This was the first direct
official telegram from Berlin in more
than 24 hours. s
Fighting between German political
factions is threatened at Hamburg,
the chief German commercial port in
Northern Germany, according to ad
vices to the Journal. One Jdispatch
reported troops, led by Colonel
'Schwinfurt, were marching on Ham
brug. The dispatch did not explain
‘which side these troops supported.
Immediate doubling of the French
garrisons at Wiesbaden, Neustadt and
Bonn is under consideration by the
government, according to the Petit
Parisien, according to the Petit
corporated today, adds 175,000 to the
French army.
Washington Awaits |
Report of Gen. Allen
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 15.~The
war department is awaiting a re
port from Maj. Gen, Henry T. Allen,'
in command of American troops !n’
Germany, as to the effect of the Ger- |
man revolution on the allied torces.!
Marshal Foch was to have conferred
with M#ajor General Alien today and
it was expected that detailed re
port of the plans of the allied lead
ers would be forwarded to the de
partment. ’
While officials here declared theyl
can not comment until they havel
more complete Information, it was
generally believed that the American
forces would be ordered to maintain
peace :n districts over which they
have jurisdiction. There were some
predictions that the general !trlkea
would cause the first trouble, as press
raports reaching Washington indi
cated that Major General Allen had’
given orders that he would take over
control if strikes threatened the or
der of the district he commands,
Advices to the state department
have besn meager,
Prediction that the revolution is
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Eitel Friedrich, second
son of the former kaiser,
who, it is reported, will be
proclaimed emperor by the
new (German government.
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New Jersey Granted Permission
to File Brief on Prohibi
tion Laws.
(By International News Service,)
WASHINGTON., March 15.—~The
Supreme Court today granted the
petition of New Jersey to file its bill
attacking the constitutionality of the
prohibition amendment and the
Volstead act,
Emergency Court to
Aid Judge Humphries
An emergency division of Criminal
Court, with Judge W. K. Thomas of
Valdosta on the bench, was convened
Monday to aid the regular division,
presided over by Judge Humphries,
in dosposing of the mass of felony
business accumulated in the past few
weeks., e
Judge Thomas' court is holding its
gession on the eighth floor of the
| courthouse. in the courtroom of Judge
| 1. F. McClelland of Mumicipal Court.
It will be in session all week. Judge
Humphries’ court is in its regular
courtroom on the second floor,
| Solicitor John A. Boykin is con
|ducting proscutions before Judge
Humphries, while Assistant Solicitor
‘P‘.. A. Stephens is on duty with Judge
| Thomas.
Alabaman Selected for
Successor to Roper
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 15.—Presi
dent Wilson has selected Willlam
| Martin Williams of Alabama as com
lmlsnioner of internal revenue to suc
ceed Daniel C. Roper, it was an
‘nounrcd at the White House today.
Williams is now solicitor in the de
partment of agriculture.
The nomination will be sent to the
Senate today.
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the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1379
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Kiel, Essen and Hun Capital Fear More Blood=
shed—General Strike Is Spreading—Ebert’s
Government Refuses to Enter Into Negotia
tions With the New Regime of Von Kapp,
By FRANK MASON,
International News Service Staff Correspondent. i
. BERLIN (by wireless to New York), March 16—Gustav
Noske, Minister of Defense in the Ebert government, was reported
today to be-marching on Berlin at the head of an-army.
The new government, headed by Chancellor von Kapp, made
formal anmouncement that it has been given assurances of support
by the British.
The foreign office announces the military situation has been
settled. The heads of the government declare they will rule stern
ly, and that if the labor element and Sparticists attempt a counter
revolution, they will ‘‘make biood flow and deal with the situation
in an iron-fisted way that will make Noske’'s methods seem like
the gentlest dove of peace.’’
The city has begun to seethe with excitement. It is declared a
fall of the new government and the return to Herr Noske might
lead to bolshevism.
(NOTE.—~Formal denial was made in London Monday by the foreign
office that ‘‘the entente has recognized the new German government
headed by Von Kapp.” This apparently does not deny Kapp's claim of
“British support,” told of in Mr. Masons dispatch. It will be noted fur
ther in Mr. Mason's dispatch dated midnight the statement is made
that one of the foreign governments, presumably England, received ad
vance notification of the revolution. Mr. Mason was chief of the intelli
gence service of the United States army in Berlin after the armistice.)
LONDON, March 15.—Reports reaching London at 1:30 this
afternoon indicated fighting had broken out in Berlin. According
to a dispatch from The Hague, based on late reports received in
that city from Berlin, Imperial Chancellor von Kapp 's revolution.
ary troops control only the government buildings seized Saturday
morning.
PARIS, March 15—Herr Bauer, chancellor of the Ebert gov
ernment in Germany, may ask the Allies for military aid againsd
the new Berlin government, according to the Journal today.
PARIS, March 15.—Persistent reports were current here to
day, based upon advices from Switzerland and Holland, that Prince
Eitel Friedrich, second son of the ex-kaiser, would be proclaimed
German Emperor by the new Berlin government.
Pledge to Carry Out Treaty
By FRANK MASON, ;
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. 8.
(Copyrighted 1920 by the International
News Hervice.)
BERLIN, March 15.—The new
government recognizes all financial
obligations and the forelgn policy of
Germany will remalin unaltered, de
clared Dr. von Kapp in an interview.
He described the present situation
as being purely internal.
Throughout the interview, Doctor
Kapp spoke German, although he
gpeaks perfect English, having been
in the United States.
Outlining the policy of the new
government, he said:
“The terms of the peace treaty
will be carried out in every respect
which is compatible with our na
tional honor and fidelity and so far
as it does not mean the nation’s
suicide.
“Strikes and sabotage will be
ruthlessly suppressed:
“Phe new government guarantees
the freedom of religions and the re
establishment of religious educa
tional institutions.” :
Von Kapp declared he wished to
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emphasize this is not' a movement
for a monarchy. He described his
government as a ‘“‘civil dictatorship.’
“A monarchy is far distant from
our thoughts,” he said. “The Ebert
government was powerless. It was,
filled with corruption, and those who
have taken over the government have
fulfilled a patriotic duty to the father
land.”
Germany is ready and anxious, he
asserted, to establish cordial rela
tions with the western powers and
“particularly the United States.”
Concerning soviet Russia, Doctor
Kapp declined to talk.
“You must understand, gentlemen,”
he said to the correspondents, “that
at this time I can not discuss ques
tions_of a diplomatic nature.”
CENSORSHIP PROTESTED. x
The interview was given at the
chancellor's palace, &
About a score of American and
British representatives were present
at the invitations of Ignatius T.
Lincoln, the former epy, who has
been established as chief censor.
The correspondents voiced an in«
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