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VOL. XVIII 24-Hour{ lad ruil Universal News | Service
SAVIETS RISING UP IN GERMANY
RUTH RANDALL’S DIARY REVEALS WORKINGS OF HER SOUL;
FINAL ACTION ON PEACE TREATY SCHEDULED FOR FRIDAY
First Part of Young Wife’s Diary
Shows Gradual Alienation of
Differing Temperaments.
Dramatis Personae.
(In the Diary of Ruth Randall.)
RUTH VAIL RANDALL, graduate
of a Chicago high school and mat
riculate of University of Chicago,
who, planning death, wrote a record
of her unhappy life.
NORMAN BROWN RANDALL, her
husband, whom she loved until he
neglected her. -
LESLIE HART, Randall's chum,
who sympathized with the wife and
became her wiiness in the divorce
suit. He loved her and wanted to
marry her—but
CAPTAIN CLIFFORD BLEYER,
whom Randall introduced to her, lay
siege to her affections, won her, cast
her aside and then died by the pistol
which took her own life.
By The Rev. W. H. CARWARDINE.
CHICAGO, March 18.—I have been
permitted to read the diary of Ruth
Vail Randall, who has been accused
of having slain Capt. Clifford Bleyer
and herself. I consider it a great
moral lesson. I am glad te present it
to the readers of the Atlanta Geor
gian and Sunday American, for I be
lieve it tells more of what a )'oung\
husband or a young wife should |
know; more that a young man or‘
woman on the threshhold of marriage ‘
should know; more that a father or
mother should know than any single
document I have ever read.
Ruth Vail, in death called a vam-‘
pire, was one of the most accom- |
plished and charming of the svchool‘
girls of her age. She was berefy
through her parents’ divorce, of thel
training a young girl should have. She
married a boy of her own age at less
than 20—too young to know what
is demanded of the marriage state,
too inexperienced to support her,
Her story provides its own moral—
the human document follows: ‘
THE DIARY: |
1f this be read some reason may be
found for what I have done. ‘
RUTH RANDALL. |
ot
La vie est vaine, \
Un peu d'amour |
Un peu de haine, ‘
Kt puis bonjour.
A translation of this follows: ,
Life is vain,
A little love,
A little hate.
And then—good-by.
.DIARY OF RUTH RANDALL.
Account of my husband and self,
each day from December 1, 1911, to
September 13, 1916 and beginning
June 20, 1917, Clifford Bleyer and
myself,
WANTS CONSTANT PETTING. I
“December 1, 1911-—Just a mt);)th|
today I have been living in this dear[
flat. Norm was out at }iawthornel
and I at my easel drawing. Bought
four picture frames, |
“Every night for a week he has |
come home dead tire. ‘
“After kissing me dutifully he goes |
to sleep with my head on his arm.|
One night there was no arm offered; }
not even a god night kiss. I turnedl
over and wept myself to sleep. Oh,
“Yish my husband knew how much i
ink e loved. I tell him, but
Monddy wew .
oung girl, inex?e that I mean 1|
yesn't get much crer rinute he is |
z and giving a good . ,
.em to think it very natu.. spt |
“culd. Perhaps, remembering !
nother. No wonder every one love
iior. 2
Sunday. March 3.—My boy's twen
_Tei <t “iethday, We have been hap-
East Point, -
Thy Virtues
Are Many!
The Georgian has received the sub
joined poem entolling the virtues and
joys of Atlanta’s sister city:
EAST PQINT.
There is a place callea East Point,
A famous place of some renown,
Just down the A. and W. P. Railroad
Seven miles South of Atlanta town.
The people are all social and clever—-
As clever and social as can be;
They meet together often
And have a jubilee.
They study famous men.
Those to the world best known—
And in their social number
They boast of one of their own.
We have a clever mayor
And council true and tried,
Whose laws are made for keeping
And must not be defied.
Such things as fuss and fighting
Are seldom ever seen.
And scraps between her neighbors
Are few and far between,
And when it comes to stealing
They know not what you mean,
Because they have a record
That's aksolutely clean,
The union in her churches
And Sabbath schools as well,
Just shows the Christian spirit
In which her people dweli. ~
To those who want a rome
Where peace and pleasure dwell,
We know no place like East Point
Where they can do as well
- Written by Joseph H. Cook, Cook
Construction Company, 124 East Tay
lor avenue, East Point. Ga.
Woman Disappears;
.
Gone Since Saturday
Mrs, Fay Covington, wife of Frank
Covington, guard at the United
States Penitentiary, has been miss
ing from her home, »82 Washington
street, since the afternoon of Sat
urday. Mrs. Covington had been for
some time in a nervous condition. in~
duced by ill health, and:left home
without suitcase or purse, and with
but $5. Mr. Covington had planned
to take her on a visit to her sister
in Saluda, S. C., within a few days.
Mrs. Covington was last seen Sat
urday at 6:45 p. m., leaving the Aus
tell Ruilding, at which time she told
a friend she was going to a picture
show., She was wearing a white
middy blouse. black skirt, Dblack
shoes, long black coat with black
velvet collars and cuffs, and a black
straw hat with a turnel up Napoleon
brim. Mrs. Covington is very fair,
about 35, has big blue eyes, and light
brown hair. .
Mr, Covington has notified the po
lice and has communicated with his
and Mrs. Covington's relatives, bu.
with no results. He may be reached
by phone at Main 5233-W until 4
p. m. each day, and after that ‘hour
at Main 700.
Atlantan Lands
Patriotic Line
You remember the Limerick
about the British and the
American ‘‘kale’’—don’t
you?
An Atlantan gets over the
“hest last line.”” And he
gets fifty dollars in gold
by calling today at The
(Georgian and asking for
the limerick editor.
It was a fine opportunity
for all patriotic Ameri
cans, and it drew a lot of
‘‘last lines.”’
There's an easy one in The
Georgian today” for the
limerick fans to complete,
And the reward for the
““hest "’ is fiftv in gold.
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NITA. M
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Atlanta’s Sunday Laws Rapped as
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‘Narrow’ by Chamber’s Speak
ers—New City Form Pushed.
Less rigid Sundays laws, taxation
of property on a basis of the income
it produces and a more modern and
efficient city government were rec
ommended Wednesday afternoon at
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a group meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce by prominent business
men gathered to make suggestions
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for the 1920 program of the organiza
tion, ‘
The first two recommendations
came from Nat Kaiser and the latter
from Alderman Harry Goodhart, who
offered a mass of statistical informa-:
tion showing the relative merits of
the systems of government in AL-‘
lanta ard Birmingham.
l Hervey Laird presided over the
y meeting and Forrest Adair followed
his introductory remarks with a short
talk in which he urged members of!
the chamber and Atlantans generally'
to get together on a concerted pro
gram. He declared the tax system
’to be too widely separated with in
dications of becoming even more so
lif the school board is permitfed Lo‘
levy taxes separate from the city.|
county and State. i
i Mr. Kaiser said Atlanta’'s Sundfly“
laws were too narrow-minded. He“
said Atlanta heads are trying to run
a big city on a small town basis and
he urged more liberality in Sunday
laws to allow more harmless amuse-!
ment to people whose day of rest!
would be made more enjoyable, I
Mr. Kaiser also assailed the pres-I
ent tax system, telling of one or
two instances of unequal assessment.
He said the plan should be revisedi
{so that taxes would be based upon |
! the amount of income a property pro- |
tducod for the owner. He said the
| System now in vogue is working un
due hardships on many property
owners.
Mr. Goodhart led a group of sug
{geslions that city government reform |
is badly needed in Atlanta. He said]
Erhe city’s resources are sufficicnt.l_\"
large to care for her needs, but that |
lthe system of administration does
! not permit careful distribution of
‘tlw funds. He showed that otherl
cities operate on less financial in- |
come than Atlanta and serve a larg-l
er area with greater facilities. |
He said that in 1918 Birmingham |
lwas accredited with a population
almost as large as that of Atlanta.l
but that an area almost twice as
large as this city was served on less
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expenditure because the city com
mission form of government was used
| instead of the old aldermanic form
used in Atlanta. |
He said the need for better streets,
better schools and other improve
ments mentioned during the cham
ber conferences are all subservient
to the adoption of a new city charter
improving the form of government
| "A charter which will give the city
|a businesslike form of government
;and one not subject to the hand of
| the policitian with his bickerings and
| inefficiences is needed now,” he said.
?"lr is not' the City Hall crowd so
| called that is subject to ecriticism,
| but the system under which they are
| forced to operate and the thousand
|am] one disadvantages they are forced
|to bear. They do the best they can
lundnr the circumstances and it is up
| to the people of Atlanta to change
lth(' conditions so the city can ad
i vance."”
| He emphasized the fact that a
ir‘r\rmin element would bitterly oppose
(an)' changing in the form of govern
| ment because they like the political
| business which is inspired by the al
i dermanic form.
| W. D. Manley said the public
| should be called into a mass meet
{ing and told of the conditions exist
ing and they would take steps to do
|away with a wasteful! form of gov
| ernment which was not producing the
"rlnuirn'l resulte for the majority of the
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ATLANTA, GA.,, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1920
Names Not on Official Ballot
May Be Inserted by Voter.
Rule Regarded as Hoover Move
Voters of Fulton County may vote
for any candidate for President in
the primary of April 20, regardless
of whetner the name is on the of
ficial ballot, according to a ruling
Thursday by the subcommittee of
the county Democratic executive com
mittee.
Under this 'ruling, supporters of
Herbert Hoover or any other can
didate may insert his name with pen
or pencil on the official ballot and it
will be counted.
BLANK ON BALLOT.
Claude C. Mason, chairman of the
subeommitiee, said a blank will be
left on the official ballot for in
serted names. Managers and clerks
will be instructed ta count them.
Whether inserted names would be
recognized by the State Democratic
Committee, however, was another
question. Chairman - Mason an
nounced tkat, should the name of
Herbert Hoover be inserted in the
ballot by a majority of the voters,
his name would be certified by the
county committee to J. J. Flynt,
chairman of the State committee, It
would then be up to the State com
mittee to rule on whether the votes
were valid
COMP FOR HOOVER?
The action of the county commit
tee in providing space on the official
ballot for other candidates will be
received with particuiar interest, in
view of the action of the subcom
mittee of the State committee in de
clining to place the name of Herbert
Hoover on the ticket, brcause of his
refusal to declare himeself a Demo
crat,
While the announcement of the
Fulton subcommittee was that a
space would be left on the ballot
that the “voters might vote for any
one they might choose for Presi
dent.” it generally was regarded as a
move to allow Fulton supporters of
Hoover to vote for him, and thus out
wit the State committee in its de
termination to keep his name off of
the State ticket.
Committee Favors |
Party Statement f
With a majority of replies to ques
tionnaires sent to members of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee by Chairman J. J. Flynt approv
ing the action of the subcommittee
fn requiring presidential preference
candidates to qualify as party mem-
Lers before their names are placed
on the forthcoming primary ballot,
it is not considered necessary to call
a meeting of the full committee at
this time.
This wa« decided Wednesday at a
meeting of the subcommittee held in
the Kimball House. Of the answers
in the hands of Chairman Flynt 48
favor the subcommittee's action and
8 are opposed. Taere are yet a score
'to be heard from.
. Tollowing the conference the fol
lowing statement by Mr. Flynt and
Hiram L. Gardner, secretary of the
committee, was issued:
At a meeting of the subcommittee of
the State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, held at the Kimball House this Hay,
the following members were present;
| Messrs. J. J. Flynt, chairman; Hiram L.
. Gardner, secretary; H. H, Dean, Fermor
Barrett, J. H. Milner, T. H. Parker
The subcommittee proceeded to canvass
the replies from the State ezecutive com
mittee ag td their approval v{r digsapproval
of the action of the subcommittee aa to
lita request upon Hoen. H. (. Hoover to
<r|nn\.fv under the rules, before putting his
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Slip by Porter
May Cost Good
Cu)s’tomer Wife
(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, March 18.—An
Ethiopian faux pas, perpetrated
by a Pullman porter is expected
to win a divorce here today for
Mrs. John A. Martens.
Mrs. Martens testified in the
hearing of her case that when
she Iparded a train with her
husband, often taken by him on
business trips, the porter looked
her over appraisingly and re
marked to Mr. Martens: -
‘“Well, boss, yo’ sho’ made a
pretty good pick this time.”
Persecution, Neglect and Cruelty
’ Charged.to Him by
His Wife.
(By Universal Service.)
LLOS ANGELES, March 18.-—Mil
dred Harris Chaplin, vouthful bride
of Charlie Chaplin, has found mar
riage with her film comedian hus
band a failure. Mrs. Chaplin today
admitted she will file suit for di
vorce. »
And with her confession, made at
her home, 674 South Oxford street,
that she and Chaplin had separated
several months ago, came a story
of heart aches, alleged cruelty, neg
lect and charges of persecution. It
is on one of these grounds that Mrs.
Chaplin will seek ner freedom.
Without cause and so frequently
it has made life unbearing, Mrs.
Chaplin asserts her hushand has left
her alone and neglected, while she
waited for him in vain at home,
finally deserting her a.together and
making his residence at the I.os
Angeles Athletic Cluh.
Several times since. she declares,
he has appeared at her Oxford street
home with declarations that unless
she accepts $25,000 and file suit for
divorce in Nevada on “nominal
grounds” he would institute a di
vorce action against her. After these
threats, she said, detectives followed
her constantly from home to studio,
from studio to home of friends, mak
ing inquiries and making life un
pleasant, ¢
Pleas, she declared were in vain.
Finally, unable to stand the strain
of persistent worry ard the pity of
her friends, Mrs. Chaplin asserts she
placed her case in the hands of an
attorney. The plans for the divorce
action followed,
When informed that her plans had
become known, Mrs. Chaplin, showing
the effects of the strain of trying to
keep her marital troubles a secret,
broke down and wept. She declared
shé had hesitated at a divorce be
cause of the publicity ecertain to fol
16w and because of a disiike of taking
the stand and exposing to the gaza
of the world her family secrets.
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Most Pathetic
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Story Ever Read.
That’s what Mrs. Martin Kent Northam, of the State Board,
Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs, said after she had
read the diary of Mrs. Ruth Randall, the Chicago beau
ty, who committed suicide "after killing Captain Clifford
Bleyver.
““It contains a great lesson forall of us. . . We can not be
too patient with such girls.”” added Mrs. Northam.
““Ruth’s Diary,”’ the first installment of which appears Thurs
day, will be printed in full, daily and Sunday, in The
Georgian and American,
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lLodge Seeking to Clear All Loose
Ends for Decision Tomorrow.
Senate May Remain Tonight.
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! By J. BART CAMPBELL,
| Staff Correspondent of the I. N. S.
1 WASHINGTON, March 18—Final
| action- on the peace treaty by the
| Senate is scheduled for tomorrow—
}four months after its first defeat on
November 19,
Senator ILodge, the Republican
leader, served notice he will hold
the Senate in session tonight if nec
essary that the resolution of ratifi
cation may be whipped into final
shape before the end of today's ses
sion
Under the rules of the Senate, the
resolution would lie over a day, or
until tomorrow. 'A suspension of
the rules, would, nhow=ver, permit a
final vote on it by toright.
VOTE SEEN FRIDAY,
Such a vote is not anticipated,
however, until tomorrow,
Senator Lodge plans to get rid of
all pending reservations and amend
ments and of other loose ends at
today's session,
Defeat of the trn\m_v for a second
time, despite last hour efforts to
force ratification. is generally an
ticipated on all sides. At least fif
teen Republicans and twenty-five
Democrats are expected to vote
against ratification as a result of
the coalition between the ‘irrecon
cilables” opposed to the treaty on
any condition and administration
senators standing unalterably against
the Lodge reservation program. Only
thirty-three votes are needed to block
ratification. 2
Tremandous pressure is being
brought to bear by outside influences,
political and otherwise, to compel
ratification.
RESOLUTION EXPECTED.
Defeat of the treaty is expected
to be followed by an attempt to end
the technical state of war still ex
isting hetween the United States and
Germany by the adoption of ‘a resolu
tion declaring peace to be re-es
'tabllshcd between the two countries.
A resolution by which the treaty
would be returned to the President
with a notification that the Senate
had failed to ratify it is also con
templated.
Whether the treaty :& ratified or
not, leaders of all factlons agree the
moot question of the entry of the
United States into the league of
Nations can not now be Kept out of
the eampaign in which the long dis
puted article X is rezarded as cer
‘tain to be out of the big issues,
MARK GAINS VALUE.
THE HAGUE, March 18—~The
German mark made a sensational
recovery in value on the stock ex
change Wednesday. One explana
j tion was that the followers of Von
Kapp ha.l purchased 50,000,000 marks.
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EDITION |
Issued Dadly, and Entered as Second Class Matter at
the Postoffice at Atlanta Under Act of March 2. 1379
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Kaiser Decreed
Right to Live
In Holland
(By Universal Sel:vice.)
L(JND()N, March 18.—Queen
Wilhelmina of Holland has
published an official decree
granting the ex-kaiser the right
to reside in Holland, according
to an unofficial dispatch from
The Hague,
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President’'s Nominee for Secre
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tary of State Is ‘On the
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Carpet’ Today. j
(By International News Service.)
WASHINGTON, March 18.—Bain
bridge Colby of New York wiil be af
forded a full opportunity to meet va
rious objections raised to his becom
ing secretary of state by appearing
today at an executive session of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Colby's nomination has been await
ing actiun by the Senate since Feb
ruary 25, as a result of which the de
partment of state is now without a
head.
Various witnesses have appeared
before the committee, including Her
bert Parsons, New York lawyer and
political leader and Brigadier Gen
eral Marlborough Churchill, chief of
the army intelligence.
Government Seeks to
y .
‘ End Boatmen’s Strike
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 18.—The gov
ernment today stepped into the strike
of 6,000 'ongshoremen and allied
workers on coastwise lines by send
ing a member of the wage adjustment
commission here, *who will imme
diately call a conference of strikers
and ship owners.
Cornsignees will begin to move tieir
own freight from the piers today in
an effort to alleviate the congestion
along the North River. More than
200,000 tong of freight is tied up.
Georgia Republicans
.
For Wood, Says Pickett
Atlanta Republicans were linter
ested Thursday in announcement
that the eighth and ninth district
conventions had indorsed Gen. Leo
nard Wood as the Republican can
didate for President,
Roscoe Pickett of Jasper, chairman
of the Republic State executive com
mittee, was in Atlanta Wednesday,
and predicted that all Georgia would
go 1o Wood. The Stale Republican
Convention will be held in the Capitol
April 7.
B b o
Hard Coal Miners’ Wage
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Demands ‘Marking Time
(By International News Service.)
NEW YORK, March 18.—Discus
sion of the miners’ demand for a 60
per cent wage increase occupied to
day’'s session of anthracite coal op
erators and the subscale committee
of the United Mine Workers.
The operators gave no indication
of their stand. No snag was struck
in the deliberations., Miners and op
erators apparently are marking time
until the soft coal digpute is settled.
Kaiser to Dodge Public 1
Eye for Life, He Says
(By International News Service.) 1
AMSTERDAM, March }wal"nllow-l
ing the inspection of his new hmnel
at Doorn, the ex-kaiser told friends
today he is confident he will pnsw“
the evening of his life quietly as an
NO. 207
Ebert Supporter Takes Military
Control, Claiming Sufficient
Troops to Crush Spartacists,
(By International News Service.)
The absence of direct news from
Berlin overnight left the situation in
obscurity, following the resignations
of Wolfgang von Kapp, the revolu=
tionary chancellor and General von
Luettwitz, commander of the revolu«
tionary troops. .
It was reported in Berlin that Von
Kapp had committed suicide, bug
this has not been confirmed. Nor is
there any confirmation of reports
that President Ebert and Minister of
Defense Noske, of the old constitu«
tional government, have returned to
Berlon frim Stuttgart.
At last reports the Spartacist3
were making desperate efforts to
control of the German capital and lo=
cal soviets were springing up
throughout the country. Orders
were given to call off the general
strike, but how far this has been
obeyed was not known this morning,
Von Kapp and f
His Chiefs Flee i
By FRANK MASON,
Staff Correspondent of the I. N, S.
BERLIN, March 17 (11 p. m.).—
Three of the chief leaders of the
revolution—Wolfgang' von" Kapp,
General von Luettwitz and Colonel
Bauer—have fled from Berlin, it was
learned tonight. Von Kapp and Von
Luettwitz left immediately. after
They handed in their resignations to
Vice Chancellor Schiffer (of the old
Ebert constitutional + government).
General von Seecht, who was left in
command of -~ the revolutionary
troops, promised to remove them
from Berlin immediately. 1
The situation is bad. TUnter den
Linden, the chief thoroughfare in
Central Berlin is filled with barbed
wire entanglement and manchine guns
The reichswehr (troops supporting
Ebert government) is threatening to
attack the Baltic troops (supporters
of Von Kapp) unless they are witha
drawn, :
It is estimated that there are 50,000 !
reichswehr in Berlin and environs
Their leaders claim to have enough
soldiers to crush the Spartacist
movement. Spartacist leaders con=
trol the strike situation, however,
Spartacist chiefs called upon Herr
Schiffer demanding the dismissal of
Noske and a revision of the Ebert
cabinet. Leaders of the independent
Socialists demand the surrender of
all persons responsible for the Ven
Kapp uprising so they can be tried
for high treason. They insist that
no amnesty shall be declared.
The Communists asked the de=
mobilization of the reichswehr on
the ground that these troops are re«
actionary and untrustworthy. This
request was rejected with -the ex
planation that if the reichswehr
were disbanded, there would be
nothing to prevent the Spartacists
from seizing power.
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German Farmers
Joining Soviets
(By International News Service.)
LONDON, March 18,—The Com=
munist movement in Germany is
spreading, according ‘to advices res
ceived here from German sources
just before noon.
Agreiultural workers are proclaim=
ing soviets. In Mecklenburg the