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VOL. XVI
REVOLUTIONISTS STILL IN CONTROL
- BUT POWER APPEARS WEAKENING
LODGE MOVES FOR FINAL VOIE FRIDAY ON PEACE TREATY
Shields, Democrat, Would Include
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Acknowledgment of ‘Republic’
in Ratification of the Treaty.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Rec
ognition by the United States of the
“Irish republic” and of its right to
self determination under the League
of Nations covenant as a condtion
of the Senate's ratification of the
peace treaty was proposed in the
Senate Tuesday afternoon by Sen
ator Shields, Democrat of Tennessee,
a member of the Senate Forign Re
lations Committee.
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Final Vote Friday
Sought in Senate
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
WASHINGTON, March 16.—A
move to secure unanimous consent for
a final vote Friday on ratification of
the peace treaty was 1o be made
today in the Senate by Senator
Lodge, the Reépublican leader.
All sides in the treaty fight con
ceded the vote on the resolution of
ratification embodying the Lodge
reservations would be ‘“cloge.”
No senator appeared seriously dis
posed, however, to dispute the gen
eral prediction that the treaty would
be defeated again even though by a
narrow margin.
» Senator Hitcheeck, the administra
tion's treaty manager, persisted in
his claim that he would be able to
hold fourteen administration sena
tors in line to block ratification for
the second time on the basis of the
Lodge reservation program.
Substitute for
Article X Adopted
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Th
Lodge substitute reservation on Arti
cle X was adopted by the Senate
Monday afternoon.
By a vote of 56 to 26 the Senate
replaced the original L.odge reserva
tion with the substitute reservation.
The vote showed there is not a
#sgfficient number of Democratic sen
atvwrs willing to support the reserva
tion whén incorporated in the resolu
tion of ratification to insure ratifi
cation.
It was generally agreed ratification
of the treaty is impossible,
The Senate recessed until noon to
morrow, when it will take up again
'fine'Owen reservation on Egypt.
Offers House Bill to
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Loan Germany Billion
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—A loan
by the United States to Germany of
£1,000,000,000 is provided in a bill
introduced in the House today by
Representative Smith of New York.
The bill proposes that the loan be
used as a basis for re-opening trade
between the United States and Ger
many and further provides that the
edministration of the loan shall be
placed with the war finance corpo
ration, Germany to pay interest at
the rate of 6 per cent per year.
MecCormack Tax $125,000;
Messenger Pays $6,500
(By International News Service.)
- NEW YORK, March 16.—Some of
the nation's biggest financiers paid
he'r income tax here in person—in
cluding Percy Rockefeller, Thomas
W. Lamont and Charles H. Sabin.
Jwhn McCormack, the tenor, parted
with sl2s,ooo—thus beating Enrico
Lnruso, whose assessment was some
what less. Galli Curei paid “about”
§75.000, M. Tetrazzini paid more
= AN $4,000 for the first quarter.
A inpessenger boy paid $6,500 and a
telephone girl $7,500,
THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Clou%y tonight and
Wednesday, propably rain.
Temperatures: 6 a. m., 52;
Ba.m, B 7; 10 & m, 03; 12
noon, 68; 1 p. m., 69; 2 p. m., 71.
Sunrise, H:47; sunset, 5:46.
24-Hourq 104 fall Caiversar News F Service
Poor Basco! A 'Gator
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Gregarious and Gay,
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But Flu Writes R.L.P.
By R. W. BRADFORD.
Gone but not forgotten is the pet
alligator of Mrs. Sam Wolf of 270
Capitol avenue. Keeping late hours
during the cold nights last week
is thought to have been the cause
of his untimely death.
His name was plain ‘“Bas
co,” and his ancestry could b€
traced no further back than to the
Everglades of Florida, but during
h‘is seven years' stay in Atlanta,
as a guest of Mrs. Wolf, he made
a great many friends: every child
near his home witnessed his de
parture with a tearful sigh.
Basco came to Atlanta when he was
about 3 months old. Mrs. Wolf ac
corded him all the hospitality of the
good old Southern brand. A warm pen
was made for his habitation, and all
the children in the neighborhood
were introduced to him. |
The children entertained him by
feeding him choice bits of food, jab
bing his tough sides with sharp
pointed sticks and various other
little forms of amusements that are
reputed to be especially restful to
voung alligators. Basco, in return,
would delight the children by open
ing his mouth very wide, wagging
his tail, and when accorded an ex
ceptional favor, or when he would l
naturally feel so inclined, by emit
ting noises from his system that
the delighted children declared to
be an alligator song.
But all good things must come to
an end in one way or another. Bas
co's end ¢éame when he wandered
from his pen one cold night last
week and slept in the garage, Rep
tilian influenza is believed to have
set in. Just what time he died
could not be learned, for e had
been there several days before he |
was discovered. The r\:ealth au
authorities finally found him and
sent him to the city crematory.
Peace to his ashes!
.Basco is survived by his adopted
brother, Jack, who is a small ter
rier dog.
Prejudice in Certain
Class Rates, Says 1. C, C.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
Interstate Commerce Commission to
day ruled that class and commodity
rates from Ohio and Mississippl
River crossings, Chicago and related
points, were unduly prejudicial to
Meridian, Miss., and unduly preferen
tial to New Orleans, Mobile and
Vicksburg. Class rates from Chlca
go, Cairo, St. Louis and Louisville
and rates on grain from Cairo ana
St. louis were found unduly preju
dicial to Jackson, Miss., and unduly
preferential to New Orleans, Vicks
burg and Natchez.
Atlanta K. of C. to
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Receive Major Degree
A number of members of the
Knights of Columbus in Atlanta will
receive the major degree in that or
der in Columbia, S. C.,, May 2. The
exemplification will be held in the
new parish hall. More than 300 can
didates will receive the fourth de
gree,
A dinner will follow the degree
work and at the toastmaster’s table
will be speakers of note from all
parts of the country. Applicants for
the degree are receiving blanks from
L. R. McCaddon, secretary of the
Knights of Columbus community ser
vice in Columbia.
Navy A pproprifztwn
Bill Ready for Report
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Carry
ing an appropriation of $424 450,000,
the navy appropriation bill for the
fiscal year, 1921, will be reported to
the House tomorrow from the House
Naval Affairs Committee, This ap
probriation is over $200,000,000 less
than for the year 1920, and $300,000,-
000 less than estimated by the navy
department as necessry in 1921,
“ Provision for a permanent naval
personnel of 142,984 is made by the
bill, but pay appropriation is made
fore an average of 12,000 personnel,
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Officials of All Lines Meet Here
~ to Talk Plans—Freight Rate
Association To Be Revived.
Details of re-organization for the
change from public to private ad
ministration were considered at a
mass meeting of officials of pruc-{
tically all railroads of the South
eastern region, which began Tuesday\
in the Healy Building. The meeting‘
will last probably several days. ‘
It was indicated that the Somh—“
ern freight rate association will be |
revived and will take over all mat-‘
ters now handled by the SOULhern{
freight inspection bureau, the South
ern classification committee and lhol
Southern freight traffic committee,
which were formed during govern
ment control. l
CAPPS 1S CHAIRMAN.
Charles R. Capps, of the Seaboard
Aid Line acted as chairman of the
general meeting, and called atten
tion to questions that had come up
during government control, and sug
gested that as nearly as possible,
former administrative features be re
vived, and the matters handled by
the different bureaus established by
the government be taken over by the
associations.
Disposition of accounts of these bu
reaus came up, and it was decided
that a special committee be formed
to devise means of handling it. The
committies were to receive sugges
tions from the general meeting, and
were to outline means for handling
these accounts. At another general
meetifig in April, these means will
be ratified.
L. E. Chalenor, chairman of the
Southern Freight Rate Association,
who acted as secretary, suggested the
constitution of the association be
opened for revision before the asso
ciation resumed its work.
CHANGES ADOPTED.
Several changes in phrasing were
offfered, and it was decided that the
executive committee, which has full
power to act, be changed from thir
teen to eleven officers, to be elected
by majority vote.
Another change was that all rail
roads and steamship lines be eligible
for membership instead of those men
tioned in the constitution.
The Southern Passenger Traffic
Association will meet Wednesday at
10 o’clock for revision of its consti
tution and discussion of matters that
have arisen from the government
control of the roads.
He Had a Hunch
And Gets Winner
“I think this is a winner”’
is the note he tacked to
his ““last line’’ Limerick
sheet.
A fifty-dollar hunch!
He got a good idea for
the George Washington
Limerick in The Geor
gian's series, and, with a
hunch, he produced the
winning ‘‘last line.”’
By the way, The Georgian
has paid just $1,550 for
best last lines to Limer
icks.
You're eligible!
Try for that fifty!
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1920
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Will Also Ask America to Aid
Further to Internationalize
Entire War’ Debt, Says Fess.
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(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—The
Allied nations soon will launch a
drivq for the cancellation of the loans
of $10,000,000,000 made to them by
the United States during the war
and for further (‘ontributions'by this
government toward internationaliza
tion of the entire war debt.
This warning was served on the
House by Representative Fess, Re
publican of Ohio, during debate on
the bill authorizing the United
States Grain Corporation to sell its
surplus of five million barrels of low
grade flour to Peoland, Austria and
Armenia for cash or credit. Mr. Fess
is chairman of the Republican con
gressional campaign committee and
one of the recognized leaders in the
House.
WILL SEEK CREDITS.
The European countries, he de
clared, will demand further exten
sions of government credit before
the present Congress expires and if
the demand is granted they will de
mand another increase within four
months.
But if the United States is to stay
out of the vortex into which Europe
has been plunged, the Ohio congress
man urged, ‘“we must stop extend
ing government credit to Europe.” .
Mr. Fess sald he had no objection
to the pending bill but he was cer
tain it would be followed by other
demands upon thia oo
aid in Europe. The bill was passed
283 to 12 with two members voting
“present,” and now goes to the Sen
ate:
Congressman Fess gave as his
authorities for the assertion that the
Allied nations will soon make a drive
on the United States for cancella
tion of their debts to this country
and internationalization of the en
tire war debt, Paul Ribot and
Jacques Sternes, noted French fi
nancial experts, and J. M. Keynes of
England. Mr. Keynes represented
the British treasury at the peace
conference and also was deputy for
the chancellor of the exchequer of
the Supreme Economic Council,
EUROPE MUST WORK.
f“The one solution for Europe is to
be compelled to go to work,” said
Mr, Fess.
Representative Madden, Republi
can of Tlllinois, charged that Her
bert Hoover wants this relief legisé
lation passed because he thinks he
can change some of the boundary
lines in BEurope-as fixed by the peace
conference, He added:
“And 1T am not one who is willing
to let Hoover use food relief granted
by this country as a club to change
‘boundary lines. We have had about
iall the oon‘lca'tlom in Europe we
want.”
Georgia Manufacturers
To Meet at Macon
The fifth annual convention of the
Georgia Manufacturers’ Association
will be held in Macon on April 14
and 15, it was announced Tuesday at
headquarters here. Industrial unrest,
State and national legislation, work
men’'s compensation, and financing
and industrial welfare work are
among the subjects to be discussed.
1t was expected that fully 300 indus
trial leaders of Georgia would attend.
A number of entertainment features
have been planned by the manufac
turers of Macon and the Macon
Chamber of Commerce.
}f;- A. Kimball, secretary of the as
sociation, said indications were that
the Macon meeting will be the great
egt ever held by the manufacturers.
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London Claims
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Of Compromise
(By International News Service)
LONDON, March 16.—“ We
have confirmation that a
compromise has been reached
between the rival German gov
ernments,” the secretary to
Premier Lloyd George an
nounced today. He added that
the confirmation does not come
from Germany. ;
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Atlanta Engineer Thought Lost
in Everglades Explains ‘
His Delay.
J. B. McCrary, Atlanta engineer re
ported Monday as. missing in the
Everglades, is safe.
Asurances came Tuesday in a tele
gram he sent to his brother and as
sociate, J. A. McCrary, in Atlanta.
The wire said he had reached Mara
thon, Fla., a point of communication
in the Everglades. ’
The telegram contained an expla
mation of the delay. He had under
taken, with a Miami real estate pro
moter and an Indian guide, a survey
of a projected road which the Mec-
Crary firm has been commissioned to
construct.
He was due to return from the sur
vey last Thursday, but instead of
turning back at a point set for that
maneuver, he continued’ with his
party to the West Coast because of
rising water behind them.
Cuts Throat With Razor;
Near Death When Found
J. M, T.hompson, 60, of Greensboro,
Ga., who had been a patient of the
Piedmont Sanitarium, 267 Capitol
avenue, for several weeks, was found
Tuesday morning in the rear of 260
Capitol avenue with his throat cut
rand a razor at his side. He died
before a physician arrived. It was
reported by officials at the sanita
rium that Thompson’s mind was un
settled by continue dillness. Queer
actions had been noticed by nurses
and physicians. The body was taken
to the chapel of Barclay and Bran
don, whera an inquest will be held
} Wednesday.
Sheriff on Way Here to
| Pay Reward for Son
Sheriff Scarborough of Bishop
ville, 8. C.,, was expected to reach
Atlanta Tuesday night er Wednes
day to get his son, for whose arrest
on a charge of robbery he had of
fered a reward of $lO9. Young Scar
' borough was arrested by Policeman
' W. C. Hardy on a charge of idling
and loitering, which was dismissed
|in Police Court Monday afternoon
|after Sheriff Scarborough had noti
fied the police he would come here
' for his son and would pay-the re
ward of SIOO.
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Ruth’s Diary Is
Lesson in Morals
Mrs W. H. Hart, president of the Illinois Federation of
Women’s Clubs, of Chicago, has read the diary of Mrs. Ruth
Randall, the Chicago beauty who killad herself after shooting
Captain Clifford Bleyer to death,
““The diary of Ruth Randall,”’ says Mrs. Hart, ‘‘shows
most forcibly o my mind the truth of the old saying ‘No one
is altogether bad.” One can no fail to be impressed by the re
cital of her early struggles to preserve her good name and
character. The diary contains many lessons.
““In this case, as in many others, we are clearly shown the
folly of any attempt at a double standard of morals. A sin
gle standard of right living for men and women is the only
way to prevent such tragedies as this.”’
“Ruth’s Diary’’ will appear in installments in The Geor
gian and Sunday sAmerican beginning Thursday, March 18.
!Von Kapps Crowd, Ebert’s Group
and Spartacists in Struggle.
- Civil War Still in Prospect.
NEW YORK, March 16 —(Summary
of Cables to the International News
Service).—The struggle for supre
macy in Germany has apparently re
solved itself into a miglhty three cor
nered fight between {he revolutionary
government of Von Kapp, the old
government lead by President Ebert
and the Spartacists.
Violent fighting is reported from
Berlin, Dresden, Essen, Hambarg, Al
tm’m. Leipzig and Frankfurt. Civil
war seems inevitable, -
Despite conflicting reports of ne
gotiations between the revolution
fury regime and the Ebert government
}:lt Stuttgart, the one reiiable indica
tion is that the attempt to effect a
compromis2 has failed.
The principal phase of the situa
tion is the activity of the Spartacists
(Communists) who have taken ad
vantage of the confusion to intervene
with armed forces, meanwhile add
ing further pressure by widespread
strikes,
Advices indicate that at every
point whoare there has been fighting
the Spartacists were involved. The
determined nature of the struggle is
shown oy the large numbers of Killed
and wounded. Official igures are not
available, but press dispatches show
there were hundreds of casualties.
There are unconfirmed reports that
local soviet governments have been
proclaimed by the armed workers at
Hamburg, in Northern Frussia, in the
Ruhr district of Western Pruussia,
and in South Germany.
The Von Kapp regime is holding out
in Berlin, but its zone of authority
is said to be comparatively small.
The Ebert regime has summoned the
National Assembly at Stuttgart to
morrow in an effort to regain its
powers,
Congressman Asks
Status of the A. E. F.
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Chalr
man Kahn of the House Military Af
fairs Committee announced today
that he will introduce a resolution
in the House today requesting the
President and Secretary of War
Baker to state the policy of this gov
ervment in connection with the use
of 15,000 American troops now in
GGerman territory. 'The resolution
will inquire whether these troops
may he used to suppress the German
revolution.
Chairman Kahn said it was ap
parent there is a sentiment in Con
gress against use of American troops
to suppress the revolution and he
believes it will be best to have a def
inite statement of the policy this
government, will follow.
FINAL HOME
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Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 3, 1879
Why Reports
On Revolution
Are Conflicting
You may have read in an after
noon paper Monday that the fac
tions in Germany has agreed to
call off the general strike.
The strike, however, still is in
force,
You may have read in a morn
ing paper Tuesday that the Ger
man revolution had collapsed.
'flle German revolution, however,
has not yet collapsed.
The conflict between Monday's
reports and Tuesday news may
leave you somewhat mystified.
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But here are some of the fac
tors that cause conflicting reports
and prevent the publication of the
truth:
The German revolutionists, who
seized the government in ' Berlin
Saturday, have established a cen
sorship which permits the passing
out only of such news as pleases
them.
The old Ebert, or constitutional,
government is at Stuttgart, in full
control, and is passing out only
such news as pleases it.
The British government in Lon
don is telling now and then what
it wants to happen,
The French government in Paris
is telling what it wants to happen.
These factors, as you may sur
mise, are playing fast and loose
with the truth.
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* Here are the likely truths:
1. The Von Kapp revolutionary
government has not collapsed, but is
finding the going harder than it
expected,
2. Negotiations for a compromise
were under way, but were broken
off, each faction suspecting the
other of greater weakness than the
other will admit.
3. A lot of stret fighting is going
on throughout the.oid empire, with
the likelihood that a fine little civil
war will develop,
4. The British fomented the rev
olutionary movement, just as they
fomented the Russian revolution,
and the thing has got out of hand
just as Kerensky and later bolshe
vism played ducks and drakes with
Sir George Buchanan’s scheme to
substitute a grand duke for poor
old Nicholas.
5. It is quite apoarent Lloyd
George is befuddled. He told the
House of Commons Mcnday after
noon the revolutionists held thirty
five cities and were growing
stronger in power. Tuesday his
secretary announces the revolution
has collapsed. E. C.
Carl Chupp Speeding to Bedside
of Suffering Father
at Lithonia. ‘
Flying from an aviation field at De
troit in a fast plane, Carl Chupp was
on his way Tuesday to the bedside
of his father at Lithonia, a few miles
from Atlanta.
J. L. Chupp of Lithonia, former
member of the House of Representa
tives and president of the De Kalb
County Board of KEducation, is crit.
fcally ill of pneumonia at his home.
His son, Carl, who is in the aviation
gervice at Detroit, was telegraphed
Monday to come home at once,
The fastest train was not consid
ered fast enough by the son, accus
tomed to the high speed of an airs
plane, and he quickly obtained per
mission to use a government plane
for the flight home. He was report
ed to have started at once on his
flight to see his father.
Internal Revenue
Cashier Is Robbed
(By International News Service.)
SEATTLE, Wash.,, March 16.—Two
men held np R, E. Stafford, cashier
of the internal revenue officer here
this morning, forced him to open the
safe, took $20,000 in currency and
escaped
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General Strikers Not Only Oppose
Von Kapp, but Call Ebert
Despicable for Fleeing Berlin.
(By International News Service.)
THE HAGUE, March 16.—~The final
{ terms of the Ebert government to the
lrevolutionary regime at Berlin are
| that Von Kapp and his supporters
must retire from Berlin and the other
towns they have occupied without
making any further trouble, said a
dispatch from Stuttgart. These terms
were adopted at a cabinet council.
By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
BERLIN, March 16.—Street fight
ing broke out in Berlin during the
night. Nine persons were killed in
clashes between th> revolutionary
soldiers and crowds. Many were
| wounded.
The fighting started when troops
supporting the Von Kapp revelution
ary movement began dispersing
[strikeru. The general strike con
"tinues.
| Field Marshal von Hindenburg has
iwritten a letter to Imperial Chan
|t:olh'n- von Kapp advising him to
- withdraw his troops from Berlin
land abide by the new German con
stitution. He has sent another let
ter to President Ebert at Stuttgart,
informing him of the communication
to Von Kapp, and advising Ebert to
reach an immediate compromise with
Von Kapp on the calling of a gen
eral election.
A crowd of Berlin workers sur
rounded a detachment of sixty sol
'diers and disarmed them.
' The heads of the new government
jsaid they were continuing their ne
gotiations with the labor leaders and
‘hoped to end the general strike scon.
Chancellor von Kapp explained bl's
dela, yin announcing the appointment
of a new cabinet by saying negotia
tions with Ebert were coatinuing
and the new ministry wo1!d not be
proclaimed until these negctistions
ended,
Aerop.anes from Stuttgart or Dres
den flew over -the city drp)ag
copies of & proclamation sizned by
Ebcrt and Noske appealing to the
peopls not to support the revolu.ol
- regime
(By International News Service.)
THE HAGUE, March 16 —Fifty
persons have been killed and 150
wounded in sanguinary street fight
ing in Leipzig and Frankfurt, ac
cording to a report from the latter
city this afternoon.
At Dresden the Spartacists storm
ed the postoffice building but were
defeated by armed Socialists belong
ing to three different factions. The
Socialists at Dresden joined the
Ebert troops and supported the po
lice and garrison in restoring order,
Numerous violent encounters are
reported from South Germany where
the authorities generally are adher
ing to the Ebert government.
(By International News Service.)
STUTTGART, March 16.—“The
constitutional government refuses to
negotiate with the heads of the revo
lutionary regime at Berlin,” said an
official announcement today. It fol
lows, in full:
“The heads of the Berlin regime are
trying to make the people believe
they are negotiating. The constitu
tionalists refuse to negotiate with
Von Kapp.
“Negotiations can only occasion
distrust and confusion and prolong
the disorders. The only solution is
for Von Kapp, who has proclaimed
himself chancellor, to resign uncon
ditionallg."
The Ebert government announces
itis safejuarding the lines of commu
nication. Colleagues of Ebert ex
pressed belief the Berlin regime would
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