The Atlanta Constitution
December 30, 1920

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He. said he was leaving Fiume by airplane. This was semi-officially an‘ nounced here this afternoon, togeth- er with the announcement that the Fiume agreement may be regarded as concluded. Settlement of the Fiume question based on recognition of the treaty of Rapallo, disbandment of d’Annun- zio’s legionnaires and general am- nesty, is expected following receipts of late advices from the blockaded aregz. The suspension of hostilities previously ordered has been pro- longed. Negotiations for surrender are proceeding with the municipal coun- ceil of Fiume, to which d’Annunzio has ceded his powers. D’'ANNUNZIO SURRENDERS POWERS TO COUNCIL. Fiume, December 28.—(By the As- sociated Press.)—Gabriele d’Annun; zio early today surrendered all his powers to the Fiume communal council. General Caviglia, commander of the regular Italian forces, will ar- range the conditions of peace with a delegation of the council today. MILITARY OPERATIONS ARE SUSPENDED. Fiume, December 29.—(By the As- sociated Press.)—A conference for the purpose of arragging the final cessation of hostilities between the regular Italian forces of General Caviglia and d’Annunzio’s legion- naires was set for this morning. Meanwhile, all military operations _ AMNESTY IS EXPECTED — FOR D’ANNUNZIO’S MEN ; j ’ _ Legionnaires to Be Dis- Nave been suspended. D'ANNUNZIO EXPECTED _Fiume between Italian government ~ troops and @’Annunzio’s egionnaires has been suspended for a time at least, it was réported here today. A dispatch from Rome stated that ' delegates appointed by the mayor ' of Fiume met General Ferrario, in _ direct command of the Italian reg- ulars, at Abbazia yesterday, and - agreed to the terms laid down for the capitulation of the city. D’An- nunzio was expected to sign them this morning and a truce was ar- ‘ranged until noon today. | The Duke af Aosta, cousin of ' King Victor EHmanuel, was said to _be-on his way to take part in the _ negotiations. D’ANNUNZIO’S MEN FIRE POWDER MAGAZINES. -Rome, December 28.—D’Annunz!- _an legionnaires at Fiume set fire toa powder magaégine in the Recena ' night, according te a report from _Abbazia. The explosion set fire _t® the woods surrounding Fiume /and great clouds of-black smoke | rélled down over the city. In-some quarters the belief was expressed that a petroleum refinery near the powder magazine had also been set ‘+: on fire. ' _ Italian regular troops surrouna-) ing Fiume continued to advance | west and north of the city yester- day, while on the eastern side the situation was unchanged. The _ fiercest fighting occurred west of +: Fiume, where Alpini advancing from _Castra reached the public gardens. When they had forced their way that far they found all the houses _ surrounding the gardens had been ' transformed into machine gun nests. , from which aterrific fire was * poured upon them. : An armored car advance against EXPORT BANK'S CAPITAL TO G0 TO TEN MILLION Secretaries of Bankers’ Associations of Twelve States Meet in New Or- scriptions to Stock. 3 ADDITIONAL STATES MAKE RAISE CERTAIN North Carolina Promises to Reach. Its Quota. Oklahoma and Virginia Financiers Soon to Fall in Line. New Orleans, December 29.—Sec- retaries of bankers’ associations of twelve states met. here today for the purpose of perfecting plans to increase the capital stock of the Federal International Banking com- any from $7,000,000 to $10,000,000. Reports made today indicate that the desired amount will be sub- scribed before the organization meeting here on January 7. When the organization and cam- paign committees met here on De- cember 17 only nine states were represented with reports, but these nine oversubscribed the $6,000,000 mark by $1,000,000. Since that time assurances have been received from North Carolina that the quota as- signed to that state will be sub- scribed. An executive meeting of the Ok- lahoma Bankers’ association will meet Thursday to take action on the matter. Nothing definite hag been heard from Virginia, but the. secre- taries here today .were confident that Virginia bank. will fall in line, Greatest P Makes Sun Shrink To Peanut’s ‘Size 5 , Chicago, December 29.—Results of the first successful experiments on astronomical device at the Mount Wilson (Cal.) observatory reveal- ing that certain remote stars in the firmament are many thousand times larger in size than astronomers had ever surmised, was discussed today by Prof. A. A.-Michelson, noted sci- entist of the University of Chicago, who perfected the device, before the American Physical society, meeting bere in conjunction with the Ameri- can Association for the Advance- ment of Scence. Under the direction of Prof. Michelson, astronomical experts here just computed the diameter of Al- pha Orionus, one of the stars in the constellation of Orion. The orb is found to be three hun- dred million miles in diameter, mak- ing it 300 times the sun’s size. Its volume is 27,000,000 times as great as the sun. The sun being almost a million times greater in volume than the earth, this planet seems most insignificant in compari- son with Alpha Orionis. 1-POUND XMAS BABY IN ROBUST HEALTH Abiline, Texas, December 29.— A one pound baby born Christmas night to Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Pruitt, of this city, displays evidence of robust health. The child is kept ' Centinued on Page 5, Column 5. | reores in cotton and takes nour- ishment regularly. Uncertainty Leads to Lost |) Money When You Are | Buying VF } 4 | / > » It is decidedly hu | | | fy less. * thin : a A ~ Pie ‘what you desire an a pay for it. | Lae a % More money is wasted because people don’t know where to go for best values than. in any other way, certain price for something and then. to find that a friend or neighbor has paid ‘The one certain way to avoid such is through reading CONSTITU- TION ADVERTISING. «There you have the chance to compare prices and descriptions and to set down d the price you will | miliating to pay a Read Constitution Advertising Care- fully Daily | lanet ' ' ' ’ ; i ; pee reo Sesiator Asharst Trails Mine Bill Into White House “Siege” of Several Hours Gains Him Little Infor- mation as to Status of Measure. * Washington, December 29.—Press- ed“by his constituents for informa- tion as to the fate of the mine as- sessment bill sent by congress to the president December 21, Senator Ashurst, democrat, Arizona, today spent several hours fices, the interior department and even the white house itself, and found out nothing beyond the fact that the president had not as yet signed the bill. The senator from Arizona, bent on his mission of obtaining informa- tion, walked into the white house executive offices shortly after 1 PERSHING PLEADS | FOR DISARMING OF ALL NATIONS America’s Greatest War- rior Declares Step Is Necessary Unless Civil- ization Has Reached trailing the* measure through the executive of-! | , o’clock and found Secretary Tumulty | absent. Being told that the bill about which he was seeking in- formation was with the president, and having pressed white house at- taches vainly to announce to the president his desire for a confer- ence, Senator Ashurst walked di- rectly up the path leading to the residential section of house, declaring that “as an Ameri- | can citizenanda United States sen- ator,” he proposed to obtain this information. Couldn't See the President. At the white house door the sena- tor was met by an attendant, who led him to a seat within and went to} seek Mrs. Wilson. ‘Tite president had just finished his luncheon and had retired to his study on the sec- ond floor. Mrs. Wilson directed the attendant to tell’ the senator he would have to take up his business first with Secretary Tumulty, as thea bill had not been received by the president, whereupon Senator Ash- urst retired again to the executive offices in pursuit of the bill. After waiting for Secretary Tum- ulty for a short while, , Senator Ashurst left the executive offices for the interior department, to which bills relating to mining are generally referred by the president, He had gone only a couple of blocks when the executive offices received word that Mr. Tumulty was return- ing, and a messenger was dispatched after the senator. Mr. Ashurst re- traced his steps and, upon Mr. Tumulty’s arrival, requested a “frank and manly” statement as to the status of the bill. He was in- formed by the secretary that every- thing possihle would be done to ex- pedite action on the measure. Sena- ’ ' ‘ | the white ' ' ; i tor Ashurst thereupon set out again | for the interior department in quest|gloomy commentary upon world con- of whatever information might obtained there. 4 _« Planning to Jump Claims. ' Secretary Tumulty, during the senator’s absence and upon return of President Wilson from his daily automobile ride, went to the white house for a conference with the president. Senator Ashurst shortly after 6 o’clock visited the executive offices for the fourth time and an- nounced after his visit that he had been promised an answer by tele- phone within an hour after. Mr. Tumulty had talked with Secretary of the Interior Payne at Pinehurst, North Carolina. Senator Ashurst at 7:30 o'clock had received no word from the ex- ecutive offices and announced to Centinued on Page 2, Column 3, “TIN PLATE” PRINCE EXPECTED TO WED GREEK PRINCESS New York, December 29.—Willlam B. Leeds, 18-year-old son of Princess Anastasia, of Greece, who may mar- ry Princess Olga, niece of King Constantine, was left about $7,000,- 000 in 1908, upon the death of his father, William Bateman Leeds, American “tin plate king.” Young Leeds, son of the elder Leeds by his second wife, was taken to Europe by his mother in 1915. At the time she explained that “rich men in America grow dissipated,” and she wanted to remove her son from “such influences.” Prior to that the boy had been established in a mansion in Mont- clair, N. J.. where he was under constant surveillance by a gov- erness, a private detective and 18 Personal servants. He went daily in a carriage to a Montclair acade- my, and on Sundays attended an Episcopal church accompanied by a troop of women servants. Daffy ca- ble messages of his welfare were sent to his mother, who remained abroad. LIQUOR PERMITS WILL BE REDUCED ‘in the next twelve +missioner Kramer, BY GOVERNMENT Washington, December 29.—By the Associated Press.)—Plans for reducing the number of federal permits for the handlifig of Nquor ths were an- nounced today by Prohibition Com- who said the new issue of licenses would be held to a, strict minimum in an ef- fort to ¢gheck illegal sales. The greatest reduction will be in | wholesAl@ permits under Mr. Kra- ;mer’s pFfogram, but other dealers lentitled to operate under the Vel- stead act will be considerably af- fected, e commissioner said it was his {ntention to refuse to re- issue between “50 and 75 per cent” of the wholesale licenses now in effect. ? The enfortement staff has been engaged for, several months ifn studying the records of the 77,000 odd permit holders to ascertain who have committed overt acts undér the prohibition statutes with. the view of eliminating them from the texicants. next year. = tex of those who may handle in- mn | chief of the A. E. F., d Pershing declared not an aggressive nation and that | solemnly. f } i a Point of Self-De- struction. WAR BUDGET ALARMS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF } BY Hips to Furnish Hooray in Gotham New Year’s Eve Camel Can Have Place in Celebration, But He Had Better Bring Along Humidity. , — WILLIAM SLAVENS W’NUTT, United News Staff Correspondent. New York, December 29.—Prohibi- tion has ruined the festive New ' ' possible. Year in New York in the same de- gree that the munition makers were ruined by the war. The camel may be in the New Year parade on Broadway this year, but if he wants to feel at home, he’ll have to bring his own aridity with him. The slogan of the eve- ning is to be: “dip, hip; hooray.” The two hips make the one hooray Instead of calling upon Declares That Time Has |'?? 222°r4 to fill the flowing bow! the call is upon the tailor to make | Come Among Enlight- | the pockets larger—and stronger. ened People When Pow- iting Their Forces. BY FRED 8S. FERGUSON, Tnited News Staff Correspondent. New York, December 29\—Genera] John J. Pershing, commander-in- America’s only living full general and her outstand- ing fighting man, brought 1,000 men and women to their feet cheering at the Commodore hotel Wednesday | night when he strongly urged steps toward disarmament “through cur- tailment of expenditures for the maintenance of armies and navies. No one nation can reduce unless all | it | with some. do, Pershing said. America she wanted no territory. “Therefore,” he continued, “if oth- ! er nations have the same attitude, | pagne,” The cafes and | will be just as crowded this year ers Must Agree on Lim- |?" ' get broken as at any time in the ,\days when on which all the good resolutions the spirit of the occa- | sion Was brought in on a-tray by was | ‘a waiter instead of on the hip by | the cash customers. j “All booked up for New Year's eve,” says M. J. Shanely, proprietor |of the Expensive Lunch Room, on Broadway of the same name. “Res- ‘ervations $10 per each. tertain about 800 people. dancing. No booze.” “What do you mean, ‘no booze?” we asked. “I mean that we won’t sell any,” he replied. “Naturally we can’t help if some’ miscreant sneaks in Can we?” “Of course, not,” We assured him “What about cham- Music and ; | pagne?” “There isn’t anything about cham- he replied. “That’s the it seems to me unreasonable not to 'tought part of it.’’ believe that all would be willing to | “Same old = thing,” said Mr. Prove it by consenting to limit arm- |Churchill} who runs another quick aments.”’ “As we contemplate the causes of war and realize its horrors, every right thinking man and woman must | feel like demanding that some steps | be taken to prevent its recurrence,” he continued. An would be to curtall expenditures for the maintenance of navies armies. “The estimates recently presented to our congress for naval and mili- tary appropriation contemplate an appropriation for the next working day in the year. ditions that expenditures several] times greater than ever befor in are only one of the many nations that cotemplate taking upon them- selVes such an enormous burden, in Continued on Page 5. Column 5. FAST POINT MAN ~ DIESIN AGCIDENT Grady Bailey Succumbs at Local Hospital, After ered by Passing Street Car. Grady Bailey, 23 years old, a store- keeper, of East Point, was fatally injured early Wednesday night when he was run over at Forrest agjenue and Main street by a street car in East Point, both legs being severed above the knees and his head being bruised, Officials of the Georgia Railway and Power company stated late Wednesday night that no definite details of the accident had peen re- ported, but that they understood that Bailey was struck by an automobile and thrown upon the *racks. The injured man was rushed to the Georgia Baptist hospital for medica] treatment, arriving at about 9 o’clock and succumbing to his in- juries three hours later. The body was removed to the chapel of Donehoo & Bazemore, where it is being held pending fu- neral arrangements. Relatives of the dead man who visited the chap- el were prostrated with grief and were unable to give details of the accident. According to reports received from East Point police, it is believed that Bailey was struc kby an automobdle and was thrown on to the car tracks, where he lay in an unconscious con- dition until the trolley car passed over his legs, severing them both. The motorman did not realize that his car had run over anyone, the unconscious body being discovered by Bailey's business partner just after the trolley had passed. It was reported that Bailey’s part- ner stated that he heard a woman ‘scream as the car passed, and he rushed to the street to ascertain the cause of the disturbance. He found the body of his friend, & is said, but saw no traces of the womaa, who had disappeared. TILDEN WINS FIRST DAVIS CUP MATCH Auckland, New Zealand, Decem- ber 30.—William T. Tilden, 24, world’s champion tennis player for 1920, defeated Norman E. Brookes, of the Australian team here today in the first event of the Davis cup important step: and’) fiscal | year of over $5,000,000 for every |a few It is a | Us. Both Legs Were Sev- ‘lunch joint and jazz jiggery a lit- ‘tle further up Broadway. “Dancing jand confetti and alt that sort of | thing. Reservations $10. Expect 'capacity business.” | “Expect any one to bring hootch?” , we asked. | “We can’t help it if they do, can 'we?” he asked in™ an aggrieved | Voice. | “Worried about prohibition en- ager weap officérs?” we continued. “I’m worried about trying to sell | ham-and-eggs,” he assured “T can’t keep track of what the customers use to wash it down with.” While hip-hootch will be the or- i peace times. shauld--be“ considéred [der of the eVening ‘in- the™ gilded necessary, especially when the most | palaces, rigid economy in governmental ad- 'pockets and no flasks to put in ministration is essential if we would | them if they did haVe them will not avoid national bankruptcy, But we !need to go dry. still ‘those who have no | The mierry mix- lture can be bought across the | bar in many a den of iniquity all ‘over the town and the man with a grouch and the price of relief in his purse will still be able to walk in jane by laying down the normal ‘price of a normal pair of shoes in normal times purchase the where- withal to achieve a temporary illu- sion of New Year’s normalcy. Noses are red, Reformers are blue And the man with the price Can still get a few. SUICIDES, LINE UP! CONSTANCE AND DOROTHY ELOPE New York, December 29.—Two of | America's best beloved sweethearts, 'Dorothy Gish and Constance Tal- |madge, will *be America’s sweet- hearts no more. Sisters-in-law, per- haps, but fiancees, no. ¥ At precisely 6:01 last Sunday eve- ning, after a happy post-Christmas party in New YoPk, Constance be- came the bride of John Piogolo, a tobacco merchant, who Hves at the Plaza hotel, New York, in the lit- tle office of Justice of the Peace Meade, at. Greenwich, Conn. After a brief clinch, the Piogolos, mister and missus, fell in ‘behind Dorothy Gish and James Rennie, an actor, and at 6:03 precisely, the fateful “I does” had been mumbled by this pair. Miss Gish and her impending hub- bie stood as witnesses for the Tal- madge-Plogolo ceremony and they in turn signed as witnesses to the Gish-Rennie .articles of agreement. MUSIC.TEACHERS OF NATION SEE DEMISE OF JAZZ Chicago, December 29.—The de- mise of jazz music and a renais- sance of good music were predict- ed by delegates to the National Mu- sic Teachers’ association today. “Music,” declared R. G. McCutch- eon, secretary of the association, “will give the country the emotional stimulus. formerly taken by boove. A singing nation is a con : tion; music will drown out fie in- sidious muttering of red agita- tors.” \. Caruso Has Developed Superlative Pleurisy; _ Condition Is Serious New York, December 29.—Enrico Caruso, tenor, who has been serious- ly ill In his apartment here for more than a week, has developed super- lative pleurisy, attending physicians said tonight. Surgical aspiration was success- fully accomplished, the physicians announced, and added, although that he had improved slightly during the ‘Sandry Civil and Post-; ' office Appropriations | : ; ' ' ; ‘ { ‘ ! hotel restaurants | the night before the morning | We'll en- | | } | | | | | | | | |claring that there was { 4 , . TWOMONEY BILLS | CARRY INCREASE, DESPITE SLASHES - $17,000,000 Over Present Year, as Reported to House. MUSCLE SHOALS PLANT TO RECEIVE NO FUNDS —— Increase of $69,530,021 Over a Sum Given for Ru ginning Next July. Washington, December 29.—Two of the fifteen bills carrying appro- priations to run the government during the year beginning next July reached the house today and were given more than the usual prelimi- nary scrutiny because of the an- nounced intention of republican leaders to cut government expendi- tures. The sundry civil bill, which con- tains tre miscellaneous appropria- tions, as reported, carries a total of $383,611,292. This total represents a Slashing of $420,914,192 from the estimates submitted by the govern- ment departments, and a reduction 'of $52,237,514 from the amount ap- propriated through the same bill last year. The cut in estimates for the post- office bill, the other appropriation measure submitted, however, was not so great, and the expenditure recommended represented a consid- erable increase over this year’s ap- r'ropriation, The measure as report- ed carried $573,964,721, a reduction of $11,442,181 from the amount ask- ed by the postoffice department, but an increase of $69,530,021 over the appropriations for the current year. Demoeratic leaders were prompt | to point out that the sum total carried by both bills, if passed, as submitted by the appropriations committee, would add about $17,- 600,000 to the cost of running the government next .year. Republican leaders were equally prompt in de- abundant ground for gratification on their part, inasmuch as they had used the pruning knife on estimates of dento- cratic department heads without Pmercy, Service Men Cared For. Qutside of the $223,000,000 provided for the care of the disabled service men and dependants of those killed, the sundry civil measure left only Continued on Page > aT) THREE MEN DEAD. Column 4. INR. R. GOLLISION L. & N. Freight Trains Meet Head-On Near Crandall, Ga.—Crews of Both Trains Injured. Knoxville, Tenn., December 29,.— Three were killed and three seri- ously injured when Louisville and Nashville freight trains Nos. 43 and 54 collided near Crandall, Ga., this afternoon, according to reports re- ceived in Knoxville tonight. The dead: W. A. Milner, brakeman; B. F. Stephenson, brakeman; E. M. Hurt, fireman. The injured: J. M. Johnson, engineer; W. O. Ry- mer, conductor; A. L. Gurley, engi- nee, slightly injured. Johnson and Rymer were brought to Knoxville, and Engineer Gurley was taken to Etowah. An investigation is being made by officials of the Louisville and Nashville. It is thought that one of the crew passed signals, according to a Knoxville official. The Louisville and Nashville tracks will be blocked for about twelve hours. Trains between Et- owah and Martetta will be detoured by Blue Ridge. Crandall, Ga. where dent occurred, is located on the At- lanta division of the L. & N. rail- road, about 95 miles from Knox- ville. Officials of the Louisville and Nashville stated the crew of Train No. 54, running as a second division, overlookeal an order to lay out for the southbound train, causing the collision. W. A. Milner, a brake- man; B. F. Stephenson, also a brake- man, and E. M. Hurt, a fireman, all of Etowah, were killed, one of the men being decapitated. Wreck- ing crews tonight were worki in an effort to remove the bodies from the | J. M. Johnson, engineer, and W. ¢. Rymer, cond Ee? Veuerape ling Postal De-' partment for Year Be- the acci- | were | effects gies, be ew Congress Is Urged — ToReduceStrength Of South in House ~ VIGOROUS FIGHT/sssrsine 72, ace WAGED ON HUGHES Barred From Polls in Dixie, Negroes Seek Cut in the South’s Represen- ‘tation. GOING 0 CABINE| ‘STATEMENTS DENIED | ' BY SOUTHERN MEMBERS Prominent and. Influen- | tial Republicans Deter- mined Former Candidate | Shall Not Have Place. / Larsen Among Those De- , Claring That Laws Are _ Administered Without ’ | Regard to Race or Color;' ‘ONE-TRACK MENTALITY | x 1S CHARGED BY FOES | Washington, Decembtr 29.—Repe |Tresentatives of the Society for the {| Advancement of Colored People ask- led congress today to cu® down the ; | ' Ty ae : sq | Tepresentation from the south in Give Him Back His | 5. seen ob Sg Ree Wier ao Place on the. Supreme | that southern election laws are so a a | administered as to prevent negroes Court, They Urge, But from voting. Appearing before the . |} house committee considering con- Don’t Let Him Try tO | gressional éendiiiianiaaiis” they 99 | declared the laws of the southern Run State Department. Lathes ‘Sreve\'es Welded-tacts alae | Ply with the federal constitution BY LOWELL MELLET’?. ;and the fourteenth and fifteenth United News Staff Correspondent. |#™endments, but in their adminis- Washington, December 29.—Reit-| tration negroes were kept from the leration the past few days that | ballot box. Charles E. Hughes has been se- Southern lected by President-elect Harding to denied thege statements and de- be premier of his cabinet, has start- | cfired la were made and admin- ed a quiet, but extremely vigorous, | istered in the south without regard campaign by opponents of Hughes to “race, color or previous condf- to head off the predicted appoint- ‘tion of servitude.” In those cases ment. }in which there were complaints, Opponents of Hughes it Is devel- | they said, the negroes should take plentirul among Har- | the alleged discriminations to the ding’s advisors. Today certain of; courts and not to congress. A whole them asserted they have positive! Deople should not be punished, they assurance from the Marion man that/ asserted, because, perhaps, in one he has not definitely determined onj/or two instances there were com- /Hughes or any other person for| plaints. his cabinet. They are so sure on Reports Are “Hearsay. this point that it can be said that Representative Bee, democrat, any authoritative announcement! Texas, declared he was “tired” of from Harding now of Hughes’ 8€-| states being “insulted” on ‘hear- fection would make for the presi-|say” reports. Representative As- dent-elect a lot of angry friends. | wel}, democrat, Louisiana, declared The objection made to Hughes 18 no discrimination was practiced in his temperament. — | the south, and Representative Lar- “Let him have his place back on sen. demoerat, Georgia, said 1,365 the supreme court,” said one promi- negroes were registered in his ‘ho : nent and influential republican to- lion ampere at , was no republican | day, * but secretary of state—| ste ticket in the November elec- , never: | PE el tion in Georgia, he said. . One spectator during the testi- | He elucidated to this effect: F mony of Willlam Pickens, field sec- | “Hughes never was intended by na- cave ts léad am érebebien: bee. 6 retary of the National Association one-man band. The head of Har-|£°F the Advancement of Colored ding’s cabinet must be a political People, insisted on getting into the diplomat, second only to Harding, discussion and was finally told by ‘and Hughes never has displayea| Representative Siegel, republican, great talent in that direction. New York, chairman of the com- “He is a one-idea man—another mittee, that he would have to sit man with a single-track mind,” said|40Wn and keep quiet or leave the another Pp? and I. republican. He room. Pickens had stated that one almost sputtered as he said it. white man in Virginia had been the ‘There is something of the blood-|Subject of discrimination because hound in Hughes. Once he gets|he was a “repyblican,” but on be- started on a trail, he never knows/|!ng pressed for the name of the when to leave it. The hRext secre-|Man and the town by Chairman tary of state will be concerned with |Slegel, admitted his statemeft was too many diverse problems for a/hased on “hearsay” reports. man of the Hughes type. Foreign Negro women in Columbia, §. Cc. affairs have been a specialty of his,| were denied the right to register anyhow.” ‘ ‘and some of them were disqualified Not Good Listener. under the educational clause of the atate’s constitution, Pickens told the A third republican, of similar de- scription, voiced what is perhaps the! committee. Thirty-two of these women have begun proceedin basic objection of most of his op- ponents, against the registration officials in “Hughes,” he said, “won't listen!the courts, he said. to anybody else’s views. If he Ku-Klex Klan Accused. were secretary of state, he wouldn't Walter F. White, assistant secre- listen to Harding! He _ certainly tary of the assoolation, charged pty " as sere poste bette that several thousand negroes had reason we might feel we had a right been prevented from voting in Jaek- to be heard.” sonville, Fla., although they were If the three men quoted were qualified. He declared that 1,000 merely curbstone diplomats, or members of the Ku-Klux Klan had merely organization _ politicians, paraded the streets there on the their views of. Hughes would not Saturday night preceding the elec- : tion, in an attempt to terrify the negroes and keep them away from matter. But it happens that they oo oe are men who are in continual touch The members of congress oping, are with the successful candidate, and men with whom he has advised ever since he was nominated. One theory to account for thelr now undisguised distaste for the candidate of 1916, may be that they are much less positive than they seem that Harding has not resolved to appoint him. However, they make no reservations in their decla- ration that this is not the case. Weather FAIR Washington—Faoweast: Georgia—F air | and Fri- day, somewhat , Thursday- Lecal Weather Report. Highest temperature .. Lowest temperature Mean temperature .... Normal temperature . Rainfall in past 24 brs., inches Excess since ist of mo., inches Excess since Jam 1, inches.... Jam. Noon. 7 pm. 40 42 @eeeesreeneeee French Socialists Vote to Affiliate With Internationale ll 16.03 Dry temperature 25 Wet bulb .......-. 4 a1 Relative humidity 81 31 Reports of We®ther Bureau Stations STATIONS | Temperature. | Rain. and State of . —— eee | 36 hire WEATHER | 7p. m. | High. | Inches ATLANTA, clear. Birmingham, clr Boston, cloudy.. Buffalo, cloudy.. Charleston, clear Chicago, cloudy, Denver, p. cldy.... Des Moines, cldy. Galveston, cidy.. teras, clear..| Havre, rain..... Jackson'lie, clér Kansan City, clr. Memphis, clear... Mobile, celdr... Miami, clear ... Montgomery, clr. N. Orleans, clear. New York, cldy.. N. Platte, clear. . Oklahoma, clear. Phoenix, cloudy.. Raleigh Tours, France, December 29.—(By } the Associated Press.)—The French socialist party tonight by a large majority voted in favor of a abso- lute affiliation with the Moscow in- ternationale. A motion by the left wing to join the third internationale absolutely was given 3,208 votes, while an- other motion, introduced by Deputy Jean nguet, of the centrist sec- tion, requesting the congress to state unequivocally whether it would recognize the barring of Longuet and his followerg from the internationale, received 1,022 votes. There were 397 abstentions from voting. late tonight after efforts had been made to kéep the or iza- 4ion intact, the socialist party ar- Tived at a split into what may prove ee sections. MEMPHIS BANKER DIES FROM DOSE OF POISON Memphis, Tenn., December 23.— Prank S. Omberg, prominent Mem- phis banker, died today from the of a poison which, he ex- | swallowed in mistake , 8. Lake City, ely. Shreveport, clear/ Tampa, clear ..-. Toledo, cloudy... e ’ ¢ r. Washington, cly. Cc. F. von H ° es * - Bi eer =e Je. oe < ; * * . t we Me