Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-26
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population. but they should be abol
ished in larger cities, said Louis D.
Brsndes before the House Judiciary
Committee. He suggested that the
law against interlockina drectorstes
should at first apply only 70 Federal
| reserve banks and member bsnko,
rather than to all financial institu
tons. He would have State banks
brought IN later
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.--The res
oiution calling for the expulsion from
the House of Representative McOer-
| mott, Of Illinois, for alleged nniscon-
duct, as charged in the MulhslI lobby
investigation, was considered by
sub committee Of the House Judiciary
Committee. II was decided to refer
the matter to the meeting of the full
committee to be held next week.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-With
fierce fire raging in her forward hold.
the freight steamer Rapidan, bound
from Leith, Scotland, to Philadelphia,
was reported this afternoon to be
fighting her way up the ice filled Del
aware River to her dock The ship
passed Breakwater this morning with
flames visible from land. She does
not carry wireless.
PHILADELPHIA Feb. 25.-Csp-
tain Berry, Of the steamer Nantucket,
which rammed and sank the Old Do
minion liner Monroe off the Virginia
coast, admitted under cross essn1ina-
ton at his trial here to day that he
had violated an international sea
safety rule by running his ship At
full speed when he could see only a
quarter of a mile ahead in the fog.
ORANGE, NJ j., Feb. 25.-Ruined
by speculation in mining stocks, n.
A. Harvey. Jr., son of a famous in
ventor, committed suicide here to day
by shooting himself Harvey's faith
err was an enventor OF the process for
steel hardening known as HsrVeYiz-
ina.
TOULON. Feb. 25.-The French
cruiser Waldeck Rousseau, which
went ashore in the Gulf Of Juan on
Monday, was in a perilous position
to dav and her guns and ammunition
may have 10 he removed before she
can be relocated.
LONDON, Feb. 25.--M,ss Mary
Lindsay. the militant suFFraaette who
attacked Lord Weardale. a g. year
old peer. in Euston Railway station \
week ago, was fined $40 and costs TO
day
WASHINGTON Feb. 25.-"The su-
preme Court has killed the pure food
and drugs law" This statement was
made 20 day by DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
former Government Chief Chemist, III
reference 70 the high courts ruling in
the bleached flour cases. He said:
Under the present decision man
may add traces of arsenic food with
impunity. Strychnine and other drugs
of poisonous character can also !
thus be added. The fault according /
to the Supreme Court decision, con
sists in the phrase. Which may prove
harmful to health The reopIe should |
out that phrase
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-More than
score Of men and women were in |.
iured in a rear-end trolley car col I.
lison in Flatbush avenue near Sew |
enth avenue, Brooklyn, to day. Six /,
of the injured were seriously hurt. The |
accident was caused by the icy !
tracks on which the brakes of the
second car failed to work.
CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-Poice women |
will be assigned by Chief Gleason |
to fcnrIcis restaurant, on west KAN i
dolph street, against which the wait
resses' union has declared boycott. |
This was the one concession that |
committee of club women, in which |
were Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, Mrs. |
George Bass and Mrs Raymond Ro-
bins, got from Chief Gleason to day. |
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-By vote
of 80 to % the Senate to day de-
feated by laying upon the table the .
Norris resolution calling on the De
partment of Justice to inform the !
Senate whether il has entered or in
tends to enter upon a plan for the .
reorganization Of the New York. New |
Haven and Hartfo~d Railroad, where
by immunity would be given to former
officials or the rights of stockholders /
would be surrendered
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25-Search |
is being made to day for a robber who .
boarded a Southern Pacific train from I
Santa Cruz at BurIinaame late last /
night, robbed the conductor, brake
man and express messenger, wounded /
the messenger, then leaped from the /
moving train as II nearej this city.