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VOL. XVIII
TERRIFIC STRUGGLE ON WITH SPARTACISTS FOR BERLIN;
SPOT COTTON AT 42 CENTS, HIGHEST ATLANTA EVER HAS KNOWN
kil
Staple Jumps 35 Points Wednes
day—Higher Prices Recorded
at Other Markets in Georgia.
Atlanta spot cotton Wednesday
jumped 35 points to 42 cents a pound,
basis good middling—highest price
ever officially quoted here.
This represents a gain of more
t}in 3 1-4 cents from the February
Iz The advance was due to the
#stablishment of new high records
n the future contract markets, with
arch options at New York climb
ing to 40.24 cents and 37.74 cents for
May and 34.88 cents for July.
Heavy rains, buoyancy of the se
curity market and more optimistic
politica] news from Germany were
the chief stimulating items.
Spot cotton throughout Georgia is
bringing a higher price than in At
lanta. The market at Athens was
reported to be at 43 cents Wednes
day, and practically as high at Ma
rietta.
At 42 cents a standard size bale—
-500 pounds—is worth $2lO. Although
sales are not officially announced
here, it is conservative to estimate
that 1,000 bales changed hands at
the new high record, equivalent to
approximately $210,000.
530 R RAR
Dernocrats Gather for
Committee Meeting
A meeting of the subcommittee of
the State Democratic Executive Com
mittee was to be held Wednesday
afternoon in the Kimball House to
consider replies received by Chair
man J. J. Flynt to the questionnaire
sent out two weeks ago to ascertain
the attitude of the committeemen on
the subcommittee's action in requir
ing all presidential prefererrce candi
dates to declare their party affilia
tion beforg their names are placed on
the ballot.
Those here in attendance include
Chairman Flynt of Griffin; J. H. Mil
ner, Eastmag‘: Secretary Hiram
Gardner, Eatonton; Fermor Barrett,
Toccoa; J. H. Parker, Moultrie; H.
H. Dean, Gainesville, and Miller S.
Rell, Miliedgeville. Chairman Flynt
sra‘ed before the meeting that of the
toial seventy-three questionnaires
gent to members of the State com
mittee, he had received forty-eight
endorsing the subcommittee, eight op
posing it and that nineteen or twenty
had not been heard from.
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British Had Battle ‘
To Get Turk Capital
LONDON, March 17 —Fighting
accompanied the British occupation
of Constantinople, it was admitted
in the House of Commons this after
noon by A. Bonar Law, government
leader.
Nine Turks and two British were
killed in the skirmikhes.
The British now dominate the tele
graphs, postal service, the Bospho
rus and will continue to do so, Law
stated, until peace has been signed.
Ptomaine Fear Causes
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Destroying of Olives
(By International News Service.)
NEW ORLEANS, March 17.—The
government has seized 101 barrels
and 95 kegs of olives shipped by Sam
Streva of Los Angeles to a local
firm. They will be destroyed. None
was sold before the seizure, which
was made as a precaution against
ptomaine poisoning, as the barrels
contained almost all brine.
Governor Turns Down
Requisition for Bennett
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 17,
Extradition papers form Raymond
Bennett, well known member of Chat
tanooga's younger set, have been re
fused by Governor Roberts of Ten
nessee, :
Bennett was indicted on a charge
of assault upon two members °t the
Bast Lake Club of Atlanta.
24-Hour{ 15i sl Caiversas News ¢ Service
.
St. Patrick’s Day Is
.
Not Quite Gay, for
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Erin’s Sons, Today
St. Patrick was the man, they
say, who drove old Ireland’'s snakes
away, but there’s no word in his- l
tory to say he banned pottheen. So
that’s why all of us today pin on a
sprig of shamrock gay and whistle
as we dodge the rain, “The Wear
ing of the Green,”
The day is marred by clouds and
wet, but sons of Erin won't forget
theres hope for joy in Ireland yet. |
They're watching their loved island.
And while they watch and wait
they wear with loving heart and
jaunty air the triple leaf from Erin
fair. They ne’er forget “that’s my
land.”
Wilson Sends Williams’
.. Nomination to Senate
(By International News Service.) ‘
WASHINGTON, March 17.—’I‘he1
President sent the following nomina
tions to the Senate this afternoon:
William Martin Williams of Ala
bama, to be commissioner of inter
nal revenue in place of Daniel C. Ro
per, resigned.
“Dry” leaders will battle to pre
vent confirmation of Williams.
President Wilson's - appointee is
generally understood te have had
liberal tendencies on the subject of
prohibition. Mr. Willlams was silent
on the liquor question except to say
that if confirmed his duty will be
to enforce the law as it stands.
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iSkull of Mastodon Is
~ Dug Up in Washington
i (By International News Service.)
l SPOKANE, Wash,, March 17.-A
}ske]eton, believed to be that of a
'mastodon, has been unearthed at
Penawawa on the Snake Rlver, near
‘here. it is announced by the Rev.
‘M. W. Fink of Penawa.
} The gigantic bones wer discovered
by a road construction crew. The
'skull of the animal is reported to be
itwo and a half feet in width between
‘the eye sockets, the tusks to be eight
inches in diameter at the base and
the teeth four to five inches across.
An effort will be made to unearth
the hindquarters of the skeleton.
President Takes a Ride,
And Submits to Cameras
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Pres
ident Wilson submitted to the pho
tographers today for the first time
since his illness. The presidential
chauffeur was ordered to drive
slowly for the benefit of the photog
raphers,
Abattery of photographers went
into action, and the chief executive
smiled, lifting his cap and turning
from right t oleft so all of the cam
era men might get a fair chance.
Dr. Grayson and Mrs. Wilson ac
companied the President.
Limerick Sport
Is Continued
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TR LEADING NEVWSPAPER %‘,‘&l}’%@\{?’ e® N
S Ve AN X 74 OF THE SOUTHEAST # |3 ¥
F. A. Hulsey, Officer Sought for
Alleged Part in Auto Theft,
Escapes in His Bare Feet.
While his wife fought off a squad
of detectives sent to arrest him, F.
A. Hulsey, a patrolman suspected of
a part i nan automobile theft, es
caped barefoot from his home at 312
Oakland avenue, Wednesday.
.
Reserves were called upon when
Mrs. Hulsey's efforts were successful
in holding off her husband's pur
suers,
The attempted arrest of Policeman !
‘Hulsey followed the arrest of J. C.
King, an automobile salesman, Tues
day afternoon, after three detectives
had heard the story of M. L. King
of Jackson, Ga., who had purchased
'a Ford automobile alleged to have'
‘been stolen from Raymond Brown, a !
neighbor of Hulsey at 308 Oakland
avenue,
The revelations that followed de
cided the detective department to or
ider the arrest of Policeman Hulsey.
Detectives Lowe, Campbell and Stur
‘tevant were given tha detail. Upon
‘arrival at Hulsey’'s home, one of the
squad beheld the policeman in the
kitchen of his home through the
window. Inquiry from Mrs. Hulsey,
however, brouglit a vigorous denlal
that her hushand was at home,
'WIFE FIGHTS.
l When the detectives Insisted that
Hulsey was in, Mrs. Hulsey is sald
}to have become thoroughly excited’
and a hand to hand fight issuea|
;which finally resulted in a call for
the police reserves. During the fight
Hulsey escaped in his bare feet
through a back door. A general alarm ’
for his arrest was posted.
It was stated that there was no one
injured in the struggle with Mrs.
Hulsey. The detectives were handi
loappod by a desire not to injure her.
iHer explanation of her attitude was
that she was not dressed to recetve
visitors and no one could enter until
she was.
At detective headquarters it was
stated that numerous burgldries have
happened on the beat patrolled at
various times by Policeman Hulsey.
An investigation was started into the
former activities of the missing po
liceman. Hulsey is also wanted to
explain an alleged theft of an Oak
land automobile.
CAR TRACED.
The Ford car stolen from Ravmond‘
Brown was taken last Wednesday
night and Detectives Jack Malcolm
and E. D. Meeks were given the case.
The garage where Brown kept his
car was only a few doors from the
home of Policeman Hulsey. Malcolm
and Meeks traced the missing car to
Jackson, Ga. There, according to the !
story of the detectives. snbstantiated‘
by the statement of H. I. King, a
relative of J. C. King, the Ford car
was sold for 8760 in cash a few days
ago. - }
According to M. L. King. his rela
tive and Hulsey ecame to Jackson
and sold him the Ford. Afterward.
he said, he became suspicious of the
trade and came to Atlanta to report
the affair to the police. The inves
tigation that led to the arrest of J.
| ¢, King followed and further inquiry
brought the decision to arrest Po
liceman Hulsey.
At police headquarters, it was said.
J. C. King is an automobile salesman
and no other criminal charges have
been placed against him: except that
of being implicated in the theft of
Mr. Brown’'s car,
Policeman Hulsey has heen a mem
ber of the Atlanta police force since
November 14, 1916, and his record
until recently was said to have been
clear.
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Narn Anproprintiop
| Rill Renorted to House
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 17.—The
navy appropriation bill for 1921, car
rying g total of $420,450,000, was re
poretd to the House today by the
tHouse Naval Affairs Committee.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1920
Shields Resolution Voted Down.
Other Measures to Provide
Plebiscites for Little Nations.
By J. BART CAMPBELL,
Staff Correspondent of I. N. 8.
WASHINGTON, March 17.—8 y a
vote of 21 to 54 the Senate this aft
ernoon tabled the Owen-Shields-
Thomas reservation making self-de
termination for Ireland, Korea and
Egypt a condition of ratification of
the peace treaty by the United States.
Senator Reed, Democrat, of Mis
souri, offered a reservation to the
effect that such territorial :7 Jdjust
ments as he regarded as necessary
under the League of Nations may be
effected if desired by the peopl of
th territory involved.
By a vote of 21 to 46 the reserva
tion was tabled.
A reservation by Senator Harris
of Nebraska, providing for self-de
termination for KEgypt, was defeated
by a vote of 51 to 15.
Senator Owen then introduced an
other reservation for the recogni
tion of the independence of Egypt
Provision for a plebiscite by which
the peopls of any small or subject nas
tion could, under the League of Na
tions, secure independence was Ppro
posed by Senator Borah, Republican,
of Idaho, in the Senate this afternoon.
Borah's proposal that the people of
a small or subject race®should be
given full opportunity to set up their
own form of government by endowing’
them with the right of suffrage was
pres<nted in a new reservation to the|
peace treaty. J
CALLS IT “RIDICULOUS.”
Senator King, Democrat, of l.’tahf
‘offered a substitute for the Owen-
Shields-Thomas reservation. King's
reservation, like Borah's, provided
for a plebiscite by which Ireland,
Korea and Egypt could secure self
determination and membership on the
League of Nations. 1‘
Senator Kellogg, Republican of |
Minnesota, charging senators were
“playing politics,” declared the
“whole proposition to be ridiculous.”
Kellogg made a motion to lay the
Owens-Shields - Thomas reservation
and all pending substitutes on the
table.
~ Senator Lodge, Republican leader,
is still determined that final action
on ratification shall come before the
}week end. He has not changed his
[purpose to ask for unanimous consent
for a vote Friday.
LENROOT HAS “SOP.
Several other reservations beside
the Owen-Thomas-Shields one are
yet to be disposed of, including one
|of Senator Lenroot, Republican, of
;Wlsconsln.
| The Lenroot reservation is re
garded as a “sop” to the administra
tion forces, it is said, the hope being
expressed by some of its supporters
that it will cause enough Democratic
}‘senators to vote for ratification to
prevent the defeat of the treaty, It
l Continued on Page 2, Column 7.
‘Most Pathetic
Story Ever Read.’
That's what Mrs. Martin Kent Northam, of the State Board,
Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs, said after he had
read the diary of Mrs. Ruth Randall, the Chicago beau
ty, who eommitted suicide after killing Captain Clifford
Bleyer.
“‘Tt contains a great lesson for all of us. . . We can not be
too patient with such girls,”” added Mrs. Northam.
““Ruth’s Diary,”’ the first ingstallment of hich appears Thurs
day, will be printed in full, daily and Sunday, in The
(teorgian and American. B
Irish Give U
- p’
St. Patrick’s
Day Parade
(By Universal Service.)
DUBLIN, March 17.—For the
first time in 100 years many
cities in Ireland will not hold St.
Patrick’s day parades today. The
majority of the Irish people de
cline to apply for the necessary
permits from the government,
which has announced that the
military will break up any un
authorized parades,
$40,000 Is Offered Toward New
Span Over Chattahoochee
at Roswell,
Fulton County has been awarded
$40,000 from the United States gov
ernment road building fund as an
aid in building a $199,000 conerete
bridge over the Chattanoochee River
at Roswell, but no money was al
lowed on the county’s application for
government aid in paving the Ros
well road from Buckheaa to the riv
¢r and seven miles on Stewart ave
que, it was made known Wednesday.
This information came in forma!
notification to copunty officials by
the State Highway Commission,
through which the government funds
are distributed.
The report wili go before the
county public works committee at
its reguiar session Saturday after
noon, at whick time the county was
expected to decide whether it will
accept the 840,000 and proceed with
the proposed nrew Roswell bridg.
Undr terms of government aid, this
money will have to be used for the
purpose named.
The reason given for the failure of
the Roswell road and Stewart avenue
paving projects was that the allot
ment of government money for this
year in this daigtrict has been ex
hansted. The iack of government
aid, it generally was concede dby of- 1
ficials, would knock out both of thpt‘
proposed improvements for this year.
The application for government :«ml{
will be renewed the first of nextl
year,
The applicaticn for the Roswell
bridge and the two road paving
projects is the first of the govern
;ment road buiioing money to be asked
by Fulton County.
i In evert the county accepts the
offer of $40,000, the matter imme
ldlate]y will be taken up with offi
!cials of Cobb County, which would
' share with Fulton in the remainder
| of the expense, as river bridges are
gowned jointly by the two counties.
' SBOO Vote Is Cast in
i Primary at Albany
ALBANY, Ga, March 17.—1 n the
i closely contested primary Monday one
citizen was so anxious that no one
see how he voted that he put into the
ballot a perfectly good and unpaid
note for more than SBOO, thinking it
lto be his closely folded ballot, which
he had in his vest pocket when he
| left his office.
l The election managers laid it aside
to be returned.
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Fifteen Per Cent Increase in Pay
Included in the Agreement.l
Closed Shop Idea Omitted,
Final settlement of differences be
tween the Georgia Railway and
Power Company and its motormeh
and conductors came Wednesday
when the 1920 contract of services
was signed by representatives of the
company and the men. ‘
Theé confract intludes a 15 per cent
increase in wages for conductors and
motormen, which was the figure
board. The increase is to be com
puted on the hourly figures of 3%,
38 and 40 cent as allowed by the war
labor board in 1920.
The contract did not include the
‘(-lnsed ‘shnp provision, one of the
' points for which the men were con
tending. It did not include several
otehr demands, among them certain
Sundays off and annual vacations.
The contract called for time and a
half for over time. Student motor
men were granted an increase of five
cents an hour, Shop and barn work
ers are to receiev a 15 per cent wage
increase. Roadway and maintenance
foremen ar to be compensated on a
straight salary basis for a sixty-hour
week, with time and a half for over
time.
Market Expert Here to
Survey Atlanta Needs
MeFall Kerbey, expert @f the United
States department of agriculture onl
public markets, detailed to assist
Mayor Key and the City Planning
Commission on the matter of a pub-'
lic market for Atlanta, said Wednes
day he was in Atlanta on a survey‘
mission rather than an advisor. He
conferred Wednesday with several in
trested leaders in the pyblic mar-!
ket movement and Wedensday after
noon was to be heard before the City
Planning Commission ,in the council!
chamber of the City Hall |
“My assistant and §,” said Mr. Ker.
bey, “will be in Atlanta for the re
mainder of the week. Our first duty
is, of course, to ascertain just what
has been done, and just where we
can be of aid to the people of At
lanta. All that we can do is to tell
what has been accomplished by other
municipalities and the methods used.
However, in Atlanta you have plans
which might be better than those in
vogue in other cities. We are always
looking for the most advanced ideas
and through conferences some sat
isfactory progress naturally results.”
Manget Announces New
.
T Egg and Lard Prices
‘ A new schedule of maximum prices
on eggs and lard wz:a announced
Wednesday by John A. MAnget, Geor
gia fair price commissioner, effect
ive Thursday. A maximum of 42
cents was placed on eggs from whole
saler to retailer, and 60 cents a doz
en from retailer to consumer, the
grade being fresh country guaran
teed. The commissioner said cash
merchants are selling the same eggs
as low as 43 cents a dozen. v
' Pure leaf lard from retailer to
consumer must not cost more than
127 cents a pound, bulk basis, or
dered the commissioner, who said
cash merchants are selling lard as
low as 23 cents a pound. On both
egg® and lard, he advised watching
advertisements. The communication
concluded:
“Irish potatoes are very high and
prices are irregular, so we make no
list for a few days., Advise consum
ers doing without for few days, then
watch ads for lowest prices.”
.
20 Sailors Are Burned
When Tank Explodes
(By International News Service.)
PENSACOLA, Fla., March 17—
Twenty sailors suffered from burns
last night when a gasoline tank
board the Il'nited States cutter
Lamden exploded while at anchor
here.
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lMarch Seems ,
BF?):'1 Blv{'(i)?ztlliln
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Those interested in the march of
events (and the events of March)
will find many likenesses and con
tr.ar-ts comparing Russia’'s revoiu
tion and debacle (as the highbrows
say) with what appearsz to be going
on in Germany.
The Russian revolution began,
vou probably don't remember, on
March 9, 1917, when 2,800 persons
were Kkilled in street fighting in,
Petrograd. The czar abdicated on
March 15, two days after Rodzianko,
president of the Duma, had an
nounced the formatica of a pro
visional government with the execu
tive committee of the Duma at
the head. The British tr.rough their
able ambassador, Sir George Bu
chanan, had a big part in the pro
ceedings, though apparently they
hoped to turn the reins of govern+
ment over to the Grand Duke
Nicholas, the great general. The
thing got away from them and they
accepted Prince Lvov as prime min
ister and real head of the State.
Now, the British, of course, were
actuated by motives of self inter
est, a 8 most nations are. They
knew German intrigue at the czar's
court was about to wost them the
war.
However, Lvov couldn't make
good. The mouliks were stirred up
and soon there arose Kerensky, the
boy orator of the steppes, who in a
few months became dictator. He was
a sort of half way bolshevik So
cialist, not a “whole hog” (which
is the exact Russian micening of the
word bolshevik).
But not even Kerensky’'s elo
quence and probable purity of pa
triotism could check the tide of
bolshevism, and soon Lenin and
Trotzky who were “whole hogs”
had the thing in hand. They still
have it, if you can impute control
to the head of an uncontrollable
thing.
‘We have had, then, in Russia, the
attempt to replace a rotten au
tocracy with a strong autocracy; a
temporary success, and then a com
plete railure.
. Let us look at Germany.
When the kaiser (the Teutonlc
word for Caesar, just as czar is the
Slavic for Caesar) abdicated, Prince
Max (a Teuton grand duke)
couldn’t hold the reirs given him.
Then came a struggle, short and
bloody, with the Spartacists (who
were German bolsheviki, called
Spartaciste because one of them
wrote some newspaper articles and
signed himself Spartacus), The Ger
man conservatism ruled, however,
and the milder (or Kerensky-like)#®
Socialists got hold of the gevern
ment. So came the rule of Ebert
and his man-of-war Noske, till the
revolution of last Saturday, when
the Pan-Germanists or Junkers, or
Monarchists (they apepar to be all
the same) seized the official quar
ters at Berlin and called them
selves the government,
While they are fighting, the Spar
tacists are about to pre-empt
them all,
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The Pritish apparently were sup
porting the Monarchists, believing
their interests were safer with a
stronger party than Ebert's in con
tol.
But once again, bolshevism has
frustratad Lloyd George. For it
has been the Spartacists that have
ousted Von Kapp. /
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Truly a strange parailel. B O
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‘Brother Isaiah,’ the
Miracle Healer, Is 11l
(By International News Service.)
NEW ORLEANS, Mareh 17—
“Brother Isaiah,” the healer, is seri
ously ill from his continued work, and
fears are entertained for his recovery.
He did not try to perform any mira
cles Wednesday.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Cloudy Wednesday
night and Thursday, probably
rain; somewhat colder Wednes
day night.
Temperatures—6 a. m., 54; 8
a. m., 56; 10 a. m., 54; noon, 52;
1 p. m, 51; 2 p. m, 50,
Sunrise, 5:46; sunset, 5:47,
FINAL
Conservatives Say Ebert and
New Government Must Fight
Together to Prevent Chaos.
(By International News Service.)
BERLIN, Mch. 17.—(1 p. m.)
Wolfgang von Kapp, chancellor
in the revolutionary government,
has resigned, it was officially an
nounced this afternon.
(By International News Service.)
THE HAGUE, March 17—~The
Ebert government has been restored,
it was reported here following news
‘that Von Kapp had definitely re
;aigned.
| By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the . N.-8.
BERLIN, March 17.—A terrifie
‘struggle for possession of Berlin is in |
full swing. A
~ The conflict began Tuesday after«
'noon at'4 o'clock (the hour set for
the general strike), when Sparticists
seized the Strasburg and Vogelburg
railway stations in the suburbs of
Berlin.
The Americans took refuge in the
|o|d American embassy building,
Troops were active. J
| Officers reported the German bol
!sheviki are planning to proclaim a
isoviet republic and then release the
200,000 Russian prisoners in Ger«
many.
The “white terror” has arrived. A
number of communist leaders have
“disappeared without a trace.”
It is rumored some of the com
munists who took part in streef
fighting during the night were led
’by Russian reds.
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 17.—~Wolfgang
von Kapp, chancellor of the reveo
lutionary government at Berlin, had
not resigned, but was still in control
this morning, although his authority
was hourly growing. weaker, said of«
ficial dispatches from Berlin to the
foreign office at 11 o’clock.
Soviets had been proclaimed by the
German Spartacists at Frankfurt,
Dresden and Ruhr, the official tele~
grams to the foreign office added.
Sericus trouble is looked for, espe~
cially in the Ruhr district, where
many workers are armed.
A state of siege has been pro
claimed in Munich.
The foreign office announced Von
Kapp demanded recognition of his re
gime, but Lord Kilmarnock, the Brit
ish charge d‘affaires in Berlin, re
fused to make any promise on this
point and broke off all relations with
Von Kapp.
The Central News correspondent at
Copenhagen reports that the coem
munists at Berlin sent an ultimatum
to Von Kapp, but the latter disre
garded it. The dispatch follows:
“It is reported that the communists
in Berlin sent Von Kapp a list of
names from which to select a new
ministry. The list was accompanied
by an ultimatum. Von Kapp replied
by tightening martial law through«
out the city.”
By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the I, N, S,
BERLIN, March 16 (midnight).—
Firing has continued in many sec
tions of Perlin. The shooting was
especially heavy in Potsdamerplatz,
Alexanderplatz and Hallenghe square.
The revolutionary governmeéntifears
to withdraw its troops because,of the
threat of the Spartacists to occupy
the otity. The Spartacists are cene
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