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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
BY PEGGY HULL

Fifteen Russian girls, dressed in
their confirmation clothes, were
dragged from church one Sunday
morning in Spasskoe, Siberia, by
Japanese soldiers and criminally as
.saulted. Their frantic mothers ran
screaming to the American garrison
across the street and begged that
their daughters be saved. The priest
and RUSSIAN colonel, n. Ivanoff.
home on leave followed on theft
heels and pleaded with the officer
in command to prevent the outrage.
All [ could do was call on the
Japanese commandant and ask him
to control his men," explained the
American officer. of course, 1 was
too late, but L could not turn my
troops out because l had been in
structed to remember, on all occa-
,sfons, that the Japanese were our
af1ies.'
THE Russian community was so
aroused over the crime that the Japa-
-neSe regiment was removed from
Spasskoe after the facts had been
laid before the Japanese command
ing general in Vladivostok.
Yanks in Skirrnishes to Stop Out
RACES
This, however, is one of. long
list of similar outrageS. The Jap
anese have treated the Russians as
a conquered people and have exer-
cised Prussian methods in all their
dealings.
An American officer who was sta
toned for several months near
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Cornell Student Held on Murder Charge While
Grapplers Drag Lake for Body Of Vanished Girl

Hazel GRANGE and Fether, with
three other Cornell students and
three girl friends of Miss GRANGE
went down the lake to attend a
dance at the Glenwood hotel about
three miles north of Ithaca, on the
according to his own and the girls
friends story, had known Miss
GRANGE only a few days.
AT Glenwood Fether and two stu
dent companions between them
drank two-thirds of a quart bottle
of whisky, but the young man de-
MES that he was drunk and there
is no evidence that he appeared to
be intoxicated. About 10 o'clock
Fether and the girl left the dance
hall and that was the last seen u
her.
Fethers story of what happened,
told to reporters and the authori-
ties, is that Hazel did not want
to dance, and he suggested a ride
in a rowboat. She preferred a
canoe, so they borrowed a canoe
Fether says they sat in the middle
of the boat, that they put their
arms about each other and that
then the canoe upset and as they
went over they separated. Though
he swan about for twenty minutes,
he declares he never saw Miss
GRANGE again.
He kicked off his trousers and
kept swimming until finally he be-
came frightened and called for
help. The first to arrive was Dis
trict Attorney Arthur Adams, who
says he found Fether swimming
around in the water trouserless
but with his shoes on and the
overturned canoe some distance
away. Fether told him the girl was
missing and they searched in vain
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Turtle Becomes Sprinkler
For LOnn Beach Eremen

water cart turns turtle Moth
ing remarkable about that. Turtle
turns water cart" Well, that's diff
ferent.
Some one gave the fire department
at Long Beach, Cal, a giant turtle
recently. But who wanted the tur-
tie? Then a genius conceived a use
for it. He strapped hose and
sprinkler to the turtles back and
turned him loose on the fire house
lawn with the water turned on.
Careful observation showed that
the turtle was most efficient as a
water wagon. He stayed just long
enough in one place. to keep from
flooding the area and at the same
time he'd just about cover every
inch of the lawn. Furthermore, it
saved moving the sprinkler every
half hour.
The turtle has a steady job, but
scientists are losing weight, sleep
and hair trying to determine whether
the turtle moves to keep wet or
moves to keep dry.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Snake With Two Feet
Found in PENNSYLVANIA

The direct descendant of the snake
made famous by Eve in the Garden
Of Eden was found at Brownsville,
at the foot of the Blue mountains,
south of Waynesboro, Pa, the other
day, when a copperhead snake with
two Well-formed feet was killed by
Ira L. KastZel.
The reptile measured feet
inches long and 1-2 inches in cir
cumfer ence. The feet are located
about six inches from the tip of the
tail. The legs are "a of an inch in
length, while the feet are round and
about twice the size of the legs, and
are covered with a hard gristle. The
snake has been preserved in alcohol.
Many persons swarm to the home of
Mr.. Kastzel to see the freak.
Many pink flowers may be turned
blue by exposing them to the fumes
of ammonia for a few minutes, and
many blue flowers become pink when
exposed to various acids.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22

twe @fS!e gears gears old, Of 1e Los An
geles, a Cornell sophomore, is be-
ing detained in the county Jail at
Ithaca, N. Y, without bail on the
charge of murder in the first de-
uga lake to try to find the body of
Miss Hazel GRANGE, eighteen, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward GRANGE
of Ithaca, whom Fether is accused
of having killed on July 10.
No trace of the victim of the
sensational drowning has yet been
found.
The grapplers are at work near
the spot where the trousers were
found worn by Fether on the night
when the canoe in which Miss
GRANGE and he had set out on the
the young woman disappeared.
Trousers Cause of Arrest
The trousers furnished the evil
dence on which Sheriff Charles
Green swore out the warrant for
Fether's arrest on the charge of
face they were found turned inside
out and tied in a one-loop knot
a little above the knee When the
grapplers caught hold of Fether's
trousers they thought that they
had located the body.
were being pulled up the load on
the hooks was quite heavy. but
that when the hooks were within a
dozen feet of the surface the load
lightened perceptibly, suggesting to
them that the trousers may have
been fastened about the girls neck
or body, which slipped out of the
moose under the strain of the pull.
Story of Disappearance
The details of the disappearance
of Miss GRANGE are as follows:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Little Points That Aid
Toward Poultry Success

Be sure that the male at the head
of the flock is pure bred.
The Mediterranean or egg breeds
are: Leghorn, Minorca, Ancona
Spanish. and Blue Andalusian.
The American or general-purpose
breeds are: Plymouth Rock, Wyan-
dotte, Rhode Island Red, Java, Dom
Unique, and Buckeye.
The Asiatic breeds are: Brahma,
Cochin, and Langshan.
The English breeds are; Sussex.
Cornish, Dorking, Orpington, and
Redcap..
For general farm use the Ameri-
can breeds are probably the best.
Pure-bred poultry means unifor..
nifty Of products. Uniformity of
products means increased profits. if
products are properly marketed.
Given the same care and feed.
purebred fowls make a greater profit
than mongrels.
Subscribe for one or more good
poultry papers.
Every poultry keeper who is in
terested in breeding better. poultry
should have a copy of the American
: Standard of Perfection.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Where'II They Bury
John D.? Is Asked

Residents OF Cleveland, OHIO, are
wondering if John d. Rockefeller
is going to carry his feud with
Cleveland even to the grave. Rookie
Teller has an imposing monument
on a plot in Forest Hill cemetery
where members of the Rockefeller
family lie. But dispatches tell of
the burial of Andrew Carnegie
near the Rockefeller lot in larry
town cemetery. Now, Clevelanders
ask, isn't John DIS last resting
place to be in Forest Hill? Rookie
Teller moved his residence from
Cleveland in high dudgeon because
he objected to the inroads tax as
SCISSORS made on his income.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
N. Y. Traction Strike
Is Settled; Collision
Charged by Attorney

lays were operating as usual
ssday following a tWo-day strike
tint caused the worst traffic conges-
ton in the city's history.
The strike was settled on the basis
of an immediate % per cent wage
increase for employees and arbitra-
ton of their demand for an addi-
tional % per cent. Other questions
at issue between the company and
it's employees also will be arbitrated.
Members of the striking brother
hood, an organization fostered by
the Interborough company, accept
ed the terms which had been
negotiated at a meeting of leaders
of both sides, brought about by Pub
lie Service Commissioner Lewis Nix
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Strikers Get Raise
Annd Hire UnderIinuS

Genoa longshoremen recently
f fol' themselves e1aS3e IN twenty
men to employers of labor.
They obtained through the
strike a day wage rate of $3.50
and the following day hired other
men for their jobs at 50 a day,
thereafter living easy lives on
the remaining $3.50 for eight
hours management of the $2-a-
day underling.
Instances of strike winning
with subsequent subletting of jobs
according to the Genoa idea has
been prevalent during the inter-
mittent labor troubles throughout
Italy.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Jap TROOPS DRAG GIRLS FROM
8 CHURCH; AT TACK UNEIINDERED

japanese contingent had several
s'-irmishes with Oriental soldiers, to
prevent them from attacking wom,-
en-. One Sunday afternoon he saw
six Japanese priyates run up to two
Russian, girls who were walking
along the road with two Russian
men. Four soldiers attacked the
men while the other two tried to
drag the shrieking girls into an
empty building.
derby, their revolvers drawn, charg-
ed the Japanese, who recognizing
them as Americans, scattered with
out resistance.
There were many reports of in
stances where Japanese entered pri-
who were alone. Unless escorted by
Americans it wasn't safe for women
to be on the street at night.
Say Japanese Are Poor Soldiers
AS a rule, the American officers
said they found the Japanese poor
modern warfare and while they have
good discipline, they live like ami
mails and die like rats. Hundreds
died in Siberia last winter. They
froze to death at their sentry posts
and dropped on their faces in the
with warm clothing, but physically
unable to stand the bitter weather.
In their barracks the men sleep
on hay and cook their food over
small jars containing sand and a
few pieces of charcoal. They do not
use stoves of any kind and when
it was SO below zero they lowered
around these jars for warmth.
The officers are inclined to be
hysterical, and in Siberia their in
solent, overbearing manners made
them genuinely hated by the officers
of the allies. In Vladivostok, out of
an expedition of 10000. not more
than three Japanese were liked by
the Americans. Although the Jap
anese were in high command, the
Americans, British, French and
Czechs had grown tired of being ig-
nored when it came to the disposi-
ton of troops and other military
matters, and before I left they had
decided to run their own affairs
without consulting them, just as the
JapaneSe were doing.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
? esident' S Statement
At Treaty Conference

and preserve as against external
aggression the territorial integ-
rity and existing political indie
pendence of all members of the
league, and that engagement
constitutes "a very grave and sol
emn moral obligation. But it is
a moral, not a legal obligation,
and leaves our congress absolute
ly free to put its own interpre-
call for action. 1t is binding
in conscience only, not in law.
Article ten seems to me to
constitute the very backbone of
the whole covenant. Without it
the league would be hardly more
than an influential debating So
ciety.
1t has several times been sug-
gested, in public and in private
conference, that interpretations
of the sense in which the United
of the covenant should be en-
bodied in the instrument of rat
ification. There can be no rea-
sonable objection to such inter-
pretations accompanying the act
of ratification provided they do
not form a part of the formal
ratification itself. Most of the
interpretations which have been
suggested to me embody what
seems to me the plain meaning
of the instrument itself. But if
such interpretations should con-
stitute a part of the formal res
olution of ratification, long de-
lays would be the inevitable
consequence, inasmuch as all the
many governments concerned
would have to accept, in effect,
the language of the senate as
the language of the treaty be-
fore ratification would be com
Wants Treaty Unchanged
The assent of the German as
sembly at Weimar would have to
be obtained, among the rest, and
I must frankly say that I could
only, with the greatest reluct-
ance. approach that assembly for
permission to read the treaty as
we understand it. and as those
who framed it quite certainly
understood it. If the United
States were to qualify the docu-
ment in any way, moreover, L
am confident from what I know
of the many conferences and de-
bates which accompanied the
formulation of the treaty that
our example would Immediately
be followed in many quarters, in
some instances with very serious
reservations, and that the mean
ing and operative force of the
treaty would presently be cloud
ed from one end of it's clauses
to the other.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
FREE ECZEMA REMEDY

Sucn wonderful results IN eczema
ana all SKIN diseases instantly toll
low the soothing application of
krano-Zema, the new scientific treat
ment, and so confident is the Krano-
Zema Co. that they will gladly send
any reader a full-sized $1.0O treat
ment by prepaid mail without one
cent in advance. If satisfied after
using the treatment TWO weeks, pay
$1.00 but if not, you do not pay one
cent. Take advantage of this amaz-
ing free offer today. Send no money,
just your name and address to the
Krano .Zema Co., 81 Phillips Bldg,
Girard KanS Il AdVt.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
24-Year Courtship
Winds Up in Court

LONDON.-A story of twenty-four
years courtship was told at Birming-
ham when Florence Annie Hunt, post
mistress at Earlswood, brought an
action for breach of promise against
sci explained that the courtship start
ed in 1895 when the lady was eight
cen, and the defendant. persuaded
her to give up another yuong man
and accept his exclusive attention.
Three years later they became en-
was given to postpone the wedding
day. The plaintiff alleges Wright
was paying attention to another
woman last winter. He denied this
The jury awarded Miss Hunt $1,750.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22

you need. Take three or four every
day. The healing oil soaks into the
cells and lining of the kidneys and
drives out the poisons. New life and
health will surely follow. When your
normal vigor has been restored con-
tinue treatment for while to keep
yourself in condition and prevent a
return of the disease.
Don't wait until you are incapable of
fighting. Start taking GOLD MEDAL
Harlem Oil Capsules today. Your
druggist will cheerfully refund your
money if you are not satisfied with
results. But be sure to get the origina
| imported GOLD MEDAL and accept
no substitutes. In three sizes. Sealed
J packages. At all drug stores.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
SAFE, GENTLE REMEDY
T BRINGS SURE RELIEF

For 200 years GOLD MEDAL Haar-
lem Oil has enabled suffering human
-ity to Withstand attacks of kidney
: liver. bladder and stomach troubles
and all diseases connected with the
urinary organs, and to build up and
restore to health organs weakened by
disease. These most important organs
must. be watched because they filter
IND purify the blood; unless they do
their work you are doomed.
!. WEAKNESS, sleeplessness, nervous
ness, dependency, backache, stomach
trouble pains in the loins and lower
abdomen, gravel, rheumatism, sciatica
: and 1un1bago, all warn you of trouble
with your kidneys. GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules are the remedy
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Fortunes Exchanged
For Booze in Russia

Three silver fox skins, for
which $4,000 has been refused in
London, were obtained in Arch
angel for six bottles of whisky
by a. British officer who has just
returned to London from North
ern Russia.
Another officer traded a case of
champagne for a diamond neck
lace said to be worth thousands
of dollars. Returning sol@iers say
any possession a native has may
be obtained with intoxicants.
The hunter who parted with his
fox skins had little pleasure out
of the whisky. Immediately on
obtaining it he went into a room
and drank it all. He was found
in a serious condition and re-
luired hospital treatment to save
his life.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
GIRLS! USE LEMONS
Z FOR SUNBURN, TAN
Try it! Make this lemon lotion
to Whiten your tanned or
freckled skin

Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
of Orchard White, shake we'll, and
you have a quarter pint of the
best freckle, sunburn and tan To-
ton, and complexion whitener, at
very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
Seny drug store or toilet counter
will supply three ounces of Or
chard White for a few cents. Mas
sage this sweetly fragrant lotion
into the face, neck, arms and hands
and see how quickly the freckles,
Z sunburn, windburM and tan disap-
pear and how clear, soft and white
the skin becomes. Yes! 1t is harm
less.-(Advt.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Precedent Broken
By Conference in
White House Room

The White House conference held
Tuesday in Washington to discuss
the peace treaty and the League
of Nations, was unprecedented in
American history. President Will
son discussed the peace treaty with
the senate foreign relations commit
tee, answered questions put by SEN
atorS, and gave out a stenOgraphic
transcript of the proceedings to the
public.
Some Of the inside details of the
peace conference, how the League of
Nations covenant was drawn, and
other historic happenings were hand
ed out verbatim for the world to
read, in contrast to the time-honored
procedure of secrecy, presidential and
senatorial confidence"
Nothing approaching the confer
ence in that respect is recalled since
George Washington went to the SEN
ate to discuss troubles with the In
dams.
Making a plea for ratification of
the treaty that the world may be
turned wholly back to a peace basis,
the president said he saw no reason
able objection to the senate express
ing its Interpretation of the League
of Nations covenant so long as those
/ interpretations did not actually be-
come part of the act of ratification.
The president said the United
States would have complete freedom
of choice as to the application of
force" in carrying out article ten,
of the league covenant.
Discussing article eleven, under
which the league could take any ac-
ton deemed appropriate" in case
war occurred or was threatened, the
president said the action contemplate
ed also would rest entirely on a
moral obligation.
Senator Borah questioned the pres
ident at some length about the right
of withdrawal from the league. The
president said his Interpretation was
that the council had no power to
pass on withdrawal of nation or
to decide whether it had fulfilled it's
obligations.
1.-THE only restraining influence
would be the public opinion of the
world" said the president.
That, the president said, was the
view of the commission which drafted
the league.
New York state now has $4,000
motor cars, or more tnAn II per cent
Of the 100000 in the United States.
Owls are becoming so numerous
and bold in Republic, Kan, that they
attack people on the streets after
dark.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Looking Backward-~-AIong Deck Of Mississippi

of the deck of a battleship doesn't
expose much waste space It's the
Mississippi, now a unit of the new
Pacific fleet. Note the scout plane
secured on the turret of the forward
guns.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
Will Fish Furnish the
Leather of the Future?

At this time when there is increaS-
ing popular concern about the high
and prospectively higher price of
shoes, it is interesting to note that
while the war has interrupted and in
creased the cost of transportation of
hides from South America, thereby
enhancing the value of one kind of
leather, it has been responsible for
the creation Of another kind of leath-
er, leather from shark and other fish
skins. Through the efforts of experts
under the direction of the United
States bureau of fisheries an i'm
portant and entirely new industry
has been established.
Experiments having been made to
determine whether serviceable le2th-
err could be made from the skins of
fish, Lewis Radcliffe, of the fishing
Industries division of the bureau,
applied himself to the task of over
coming the difficulties encountered.
Unsatisfactory attempts had been
made at tanning, so scientific meth
DDS had to be brought to bear on
the problem, An effective process OF
tanning was discovered and the next
step was to secure a supply of skins
and put in operation. a special net
was devised by the bureau, 500
yards long, 10 feet deep, 4 inch mesh.
The top and bottom are lined with
hal1-lncn NO. 10 unread rope, weight
ed with suitable leads below, buoyed
by corkS above. With one of these
nets 1000 big sharks were caught in
ten days.
Fishing stations were established
at Moorhead City, N. c., Fort Myers,
Fla, and Edmunds, Puget Sound. A
New York company has a tannery in
Newark, while the bureau of fisher.
les has a wonderful exhibition OF
fish leather in one of the rooms of it's
Washington building. There are to
be seen tables of shoes, black and tan
colored travelling bags, suit cases,
music rolls, card cases, pocketbooks
and novelties of various shades,
plain. embossed and grained, that are
a delight to the eye and without Of
tense to the nose, although every one
of them is made from a fish skin.
Near by are sheets of leather soft
and beautifully tanned, that once had
covered that useless fish, the shark.
or a porpoise or a devilfish.
Bruising is a very common cause
IF loss in new potatoes. This may
1e caused either by poor handling
methods or by poor containers.
The eeIwOrr1 disease of wheat
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22
VS. Like Not
FIax-Seed Poultice
HEALS STUBBORN OLD SORES
FROM BOTTOM UP.

Just like a hot flaxseed poultice, Allen'E
Ulcerine Salve draws out poisons and germs
from boils, sores and wounds and heals them
from the bottom up. 1t heals in one-thlru
time that common SaIves and liniments take.
Aliens Uicerine Salve is one of the oldest
remedies in America, and since 1869 has been
reach chronic ulcers and ole sores OF ionJ,
standing. Because it draws out the poisons
and heals from the bottom up it seldom
nent. By mail CSC. Book free. ]. P. Allen
Medicine Co. Dept. b, st. Paul, MINI.
Ira Davis, Avery, Tex, writes: 81 mad Il
chronic sore on my foot for years and doctors
said it would never heal without scrapins
the bone. One box of Aliens Ulcerine Salvc
drew out pieces of bone and lots of pus, and
1t healed up permanently. ~ Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22

of indignation over the country against
! practice which offers such countless dan
gers to the health and welfare of the pub
lie. This woman claims that instead of
obtaining increased strength and improved
health as she had with the true Nuxated
IRON. she was seriously upset and in fact
became i'll as a result of using the sub
stit1te. Such instances as these have led
musicians mentioned below to emphasize
hat health officials and doctors everywhere
should caution the public
oro;,e+ accentinp substitutes
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-22

Physicians Warn Public-Say That
Ordinary Metallic Preparations
Cannot Possibly Give The Same
Strength, Power and Endurance AS
Organic lron-Nuxated Iron.