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i DAILY EDITION Other Town in the World the Size of Grants Paw Has a Newspaper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service 1 -V8 " . ' " 1 ' i VU VII., No. 110. QRAATt PASS, MSEPHIVI OOVNTT, OBBOOM, . Tl'EHDAV, MAV SEi, 1917 WHOLE 1CVMBER MM, FUNS A LARGE PART 'OF ATLANTA ONB r THK WOItST KIRKS SOUTH HAS EVER KNOWN SWEEPS RBHIDKNOB DISTRICT TEH THOUSAND ARE HOMELESS Only by I'alnf Large QwaaUUes of lyiiamlte Waa All-aJgfct Fire I'm Vndflt Control Atlanta. Oa., May 22. Having burned through (ha heart or Allan ta'a residence dletrlit, making 10, 000 persons homeless and destroy ing at laaal three million dollara worth of property, on of to worat flies the south haa aver known, waa finally gotten under control here early today. Thar waa only one daatb. Mlaa Howie Ilodgea died from ahock. Sixty persons were In jured. The cause of tha (Ira, which atarted In a atorage house on De catur street, la unknown. Fire au thorltlea believe ltwaa Incendiary. Mayor Candler believe It wan acci dental. Today's great taak 'la caring for tha tbouaanda of homeless and des titute, who loat averythlng In the frames. Vandallan waa throttled before dawn by the arrival of stu dent imri officers from Kurt .lii' I'herunn, who are In control of the altnatlon. Residential section untouched by the liliine threw open their doora to the sufferers and Mayor Candler an nounced that while outside olTera were appreciated, the city would take cars of Ita own. The fire waa brought under control only by the liberal line of dynamite, Families and Individual got away In every aort of conveyance and on foot. Many of thmn thought the city waa doomed. Hundred came straggling back along country rnada thla morning. Acrea of beautiful homea were blown from their foundation In the twelve-hour fighting. The heavy de tonation thundered and ahnok the city through the night, adding to the terror and misery of the homeless folka hurrying off Into the dnrkno from the great blate. Fire, fighting apparatus from the neighboring oltlea rendered aide ser vice and today continued to direct atreama of viator on the long line o mouldering ruin. WAR SPIRIT CONTROLS San Frane,leco, May 22. t'nele Sum hn (0 more commlHslonnd of ficer In hi reserve rorpa today. A half hundred men aervlng at the presidio (mining ramp, received com mlaalon lat night. They will con tinue their (ruining, but receive the pay of their rank. A general atlffenlng up of drill to a fether wlt,h aome 1,300 aore arm n 4) a reault of Saturday' viici-liiatlonx, made the opening day of tin! second week more arduoua than laat week, but( the . men, despite, the medical corps, are getting the army spirit, , Illl.Ulh 1H IfXI'KCTKll TO MAKK WAR ON GERMANY tlo d Janeiro, (May 22. Uraxll may declare war on Germany today. Such a course by tha government wa predicted by newspaper and of ficial today. The greatest Intereat waa mnnlfeit In tha text of a apeclal meaaage to eongresa which Prealdont Brat announced would bt tranamltted lata today. PROBE BAD IP SHELLS Two Heriou Accident oa AoterirM Miipa Start Inquiry on Vitality of Munitions Furalhed . Waablngton, May 22 Tha whole aubject of ahella supplied the navy may be probed, a) a reault of two re cent strange occurrences aboard armed Americas merchant ship. The Mongolia Inoldent, wherein two nurses were killed and tha cue of tha worthless sheila aboard the liner St. Loul have perplexed nary ordnance aiperta. Aa a reault a thorough Investigation in both cases la under way today. The Mongolia case appears to be, on tha whole, aa unaccountable accident; the8t. Louis case ausploloualy Ilka an Incident of malicious tampering with tha ahella. There la some talk In both raaea that faulty ammunition may have torn supplied the government. though If Inspection waa proper, thla theory could not hold. It la known that there have been complaints from abroad In the baste that Am erican munitions makers were turn ing out ammunition that failed to function properly. Whether thla aame brand of munitions la being foisted on the government, will be determined undoubtedly aa a reault of probe now under way. BILL WOULD MAKE. II Washington. May 22. A re-draft of the administration food bill, even more drastic In Ita terms than the original, wa to be Introduced In the house today by Chairman l-ever of the Agriculture committee. Appoint ment of Herbert C. Hoover to be food administrator, wa one reason for the re-draft or the bill. In the new bill President WiUon will be given practically every con ceivable power to control food and food price. Chairman l,ever expect formally to report out the new bill to the house late tills week. It will be con sidered probably next week after pnKNnge of the revenue bill and the bill to permit a food census and to provide money for buying garden seeds, MK.XIt'O PlttrTKMTH ON Hl'llMARINK WAItKARK London, May 22. Mexico has pre sented a formal note of protest agulhat the aulnnarlno warfare to the German foreign office, according to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam today. The Mexi can minister In Berlin held a lengthy conference with the foreign office yes terday. BRITISHIMAKE GOOD IPRKPOolS Undon, May 32. British force spent today consolidating their new ly won position on tha lllndonburg line and In scattered raid, aimed to'dlscover the strength and tha na ture of 'the opposing (ierman forces, llonnrnl Unix's report revealed no major fighting actions, but ahowod Affective shelling by British gun. "On the Arraa-Cambral road north eitHt of Queant yesterday evening, a large German ammunition dump wagon waa destroyed," he aald, "The shock of the explosion waa fell a grout distance behind our lines. "Northeast of Kpehy and north of Armentlero we carried out success ful raid during the night. Kaat of Bullecourt,' south of tHe Arra-Cra Ibrol roud and Went of i' Lens, the enemy artillery wa actlva all night.' FRENCH GAIN -; VANTAGE ON HIGH CREST MORE THAN FIPTKEN THOUSAND GKKMAX8 LOOT IN IiATKST FRENCH ADVANCE i STRATEGIC POUTS 1 HELO Fierce Night CoauUer-aUacts With Heavy Canaoaadlng by Teatotur Are Repulsed With tha French Arnilee In Franca, May 22. Since Sunday Oermany ha loat more than 16,000 men In killed, wounded and missing. In the fighting by which the French had today gained full poasesalon of all Import ant pointa on all dominating crests of the Moronvllller crest. The figure are those of headquarter. They give an adequate Idea of the full extent or the victory achieved In the latest French double-advance. General Nlevelle'a men are now In command of all Important pointa be tween Mount Cornlllel and Teton. They are within half-a mile of Mor onvllller Itself. From where tha French lines were pushing forward today there la a clear- way down the valley of the Sulppa. Tha new positions were at tained arter tierce itgnung in an aa vance smash executed on both the euatern and weatern extremities of tha Moronvllller crest. Parla, 'May 22. One thousand prisoner were taken by French forces In the advance by which they are now holding the Moronvllller crest, today' official atatement aald. The heavy German counter-attacks agulnst positions In this sector-conquered yesttaday, were repulsed dur ing last night. The war ofhVe reported violent cannonading on the plateau Vau- clere aector. 11. W. Radcllffe. of Portland, spent a few days In the city leaving this morning for Koseburg. i THE ONLY PIECE OF LAND HE WANTS. M&s. Wks tr wwyaV 'wji y vs .ams GERMAN HAND BEHIND MEET AT STOCKHOLM GOVERNMENT ORANTw ORDINARY PRIVTLaXUfiB TO GERMAN DELEGATES OTHER MTIQHS KNOW OF PLOT Ha-ataa Social lata Ptaai a Ooonter Meeting Free Froca Aay Taint aa Teuton Domination Amsterdam, May 22. All German socialists except one of both ma jority and minority partly, who hava been designated by their two or ganization a delegatea to Stock holm peace conference, were granted passport by the German government today. The lone exception wa Adolf HofTman, of the radical aocial lt group. It wa announced that hla application to leave Germany had been refused because of hia re cent connection with the general strike agitation. Granting of permission to leave Germany to these socialist delegatea la an extraordinary concession by the government and strengthens still mora the belief of .German plotting In the pseudo-"aocialist" peace con feience at Stockholm. Since the lat ter part of April all permission to depart from Germany, haa been re fused traveler. From the exclu sion of Hoffman It Is apparent the German government la only creden tlalllng those on whose pro-government leaning they can depend. The Stockholm conference la to be held In June. Russian socialists, re alising the German domination of the "peace" conference, originally agitated by Philip Scheidemann, Ger man majority aoclallst leader, re cently Issued a call for a Stockholm conference of their own which waa to be fully representative of aoclal lst of tha world and which would be free from suspicion of any German tinge. Kvane in Baltimore American, 1 WIFE SUICIDES AJPORTUI Proaaioeat Physician 's OUca Scene of Family Tragedy Betansa of Too Match Goanaway Portland,- May 22. Mr. Hasel riaber died thla morning from the affects of-lodyne poisoning, taken with suicidal Intent, and bar hus baad. Or. 'Ralph Flatter, prominent Portland physician, and once football star, faces charge of violating the prohibition law aad of disorderly conduct, riaher waa captain of tha Ireland Stanford university football team several year ago. Mrs. Fisher want to bar husband's office Monday night. and fonnd him entertaining two nurses. These women Mary 8. Cain and Mary J. Roy, are held In Jail today without bail. Mra. Fisher aaaalled her husband rigorously, the police aay, aad she finally called the officer, when the police arrived aha stepped Into her husband's surgery room and waa lifting' a bottle to hat lipa when one of the officers knock ed It from her hand. She turned, picked up another bottle and drank deeply before the officers could inter- fare. Sha threw the partly empty bottle at one of the officers, shatter ing the lodyne on hia clothea and face. Tha tragedy enacted In Fish er's office Monday night was not made public until today. sun en OF PEACE CONDITIONS New York., May 22. Russia ia planning exactly to define the term "peace without annexations and con tributions" In her war alma and is making ready to call for a revision of war Ideals by the allies, according to a special Petrograd dispatch, pub lished today by the New York Times. Commenting on the revision of war alms statement, the Times' ar i tide says: "It Is thought here the allies will call a conference to consider the whole question of Russia's future In tha war. Wa are on the ere of a aeries of Important and far-reaching negotiations between Russia and the allies on tha question of a revision of war alms aa outlined In their re ply to President Wilson. Teresa cn tanko, who entered on his duties at the foreign office yesterday, saw tha allied ambassadors the same after noon, and I' understand the matter was formally discussed." LUIFJITV LOAN MOM)S OVER STORE COVXTKH8 Chicago, May 22 Liberty loan bonds soon will be sold over the Counter of big department stores here, If plans suggested at a meeting of Chicago bankers are adopted. SEN. HARRY LANE IS San Francisco, May 22. United I States Senator Harry Lane, of Ore gon, Is fighting for his life at St. Francis hospital, where he has been lying 111 for several days. It was stated at the hospital early today that his condition was unchanged, after attending physician who held a consultation, had Indicated that his condition was growing worse and that there was little hope for his re covery; He Is suffering from heart trouble and a nervous breakdown re sulting from the strain of hla work during the present apeclal session of congress. He has been )U for nearly a year, but his condition did not (be come serious until lsst week when he was stricken, while en route from Washington to Portland. GOUT FACES FIRST ' HARD TESTS inW FRENCH CABIXa MIST WEATHER STORM Of QCHS TIONS AND OPPOSITION nun toiornois -sooo Mania! JoaTra Is Stffl tha Moat Pem- alar War flfauw tha Rs INabtlc Today Parla, May 22. Premier Bibot taeas tomorrow tha lrst test of strength of hla naw cabinet when tha ehaasbar of deputies reconvenes. A secret session la likely at once to . discuss tha multitudinous Interpel lations already announced. All re fer to the military situation and par ticularly tha French offensive of thla aprlar Blaise Daigne, ona of tha three negro deputiea in tha French lower honsa, la to aak about disposition of French colored -troops. M. Renaa del, who since Jaurea' assassination . and elevation of Albert Thomas to the cabinet, haa been leader of tha hundred or so socialist dapntiaa, aaa announced hia intention of interpel lating government leaders on tha general subject of future military mner questions win touch on (lis- trtbutlon and conservation of food' supplies and the sanitary service. While normally . such questions would prove highly embarrassing to the government in power. It Is be lieved that the last reorganisation 'of the military command will ap pease the moat critical opponents of the government and forestall a crisis. Parliamentary experts believed Rlbot would weather .the storm safely. One source of speculation today was whether the popularity of Mar ahal Joffre might not exert some ef fect In this discussion of military commands. Joffre Is the most popu lar military figure In Franca today. Ha had hla opponents In and out of tha chamber, because of hla methods, which were "alow," but ha haa retrieved his popularity of lata, and la regarded aa a soldier without any political strings. Newspapers once Inclined to Iba critical of Joffre. now talk of him aa "notra Joffre," ("Our Joffre.") s Madrid, May ' 11. Ten Persona were killed and fifty injured in ser ious food riots at Lisbon today, ac cording to word received here. Troops had difficulty in quelling tha Disturbance. A number of bakerlea In tha city were sacked by the townspeople. An other dispatch from Badjoa today said that rioting Is spreading all over Portugal several provinces re porting mat urbanees. The strict cen sorship is preventing details. RKI'VBIJCA.VS OPPOSED ' TO CENSORSHIP PLANS I.MIIIUBWH, una & . iiuuav rw publicans today agreed, practically unanimously, to oppose all censor ship provisions of the administration spy bill, when a conference resort on tha measure Is reported to the house. Petrograd, May' 22. A general congress of workmen and soldier from all over JAusala haa been called for June 14, to discuss ' war, peace land and ntttar nmhlnnni IimwUu to announcement today.