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First Men From Burned Colum
bian Reach Port With Har
rowing Tale.
BOSTON. May 9.—Harrowing tales
of the horror of fire and explosions at
sea which sent the ILeland liner Co
lumbian to her doom were told to
day when the thirteen survivors, res
cued in an open boat by the Cunard
liner Franconia, were brought in on
board that vessel here to-day. Sev
eral of the survivors were in 80
serious a condition that they were
#ent to the Marine Hospital at Chel
sea. :
The body of a fourteenth member
of the Columbian's crew was also
brought on the Franconia.
Owing to the weakened condition
of the survivors, Captain David F.
Miller, of the Franconia, who had
talked with all those rescued, told the
tales of the survivors.
“The ropes on the boat in which
the thirteen survivors and the dead
man got away,” he said, “fouled in
the block while the boat was being
lowered into the water, and the boat
was left suspended in the air about
five feet above the surface of the wa
ter. Abotve the flames were burst
ing from open portroles.
Cut Ropes of Boat.
“Finally they got the boat in the
water by cutting the rope with an
axe and letting it drop into the sea.
“The flames scorched the men and
threatened to set fire to the boat. On
the surface of the water some oils
or chemicals were burning flercely
and two men who had jumped over
board were badly burned about the
face.
“The first steward died in the boat
and two hours after his death three
huge sharks came alongside. The ac
tion of these sharks affected the men
greatly. They had been in the boat
several hours and were weakened by
exposure, but they desperately tried
to fight off the sharks by striking
themm with boathooks and oars. But
the sharks merely moved out of reach
and continued to swim around the
boat.
“So quickly did the fire break
through the hatches and ventilators
that the men in the forecastle had
great difficuity in making their way
aft to the boat deck and many of
them were burned or scorched at that
time,
First Missed by Liner.
“Boatswain's Mate Invor Iverson
pays there were forty-nine men in the
crew. | have received a wireless
from the steamer Manzatlan, which
picked up the captain's beat, saying
that Thomas Connor was among those
saved in the captain’s boat. Con
nor was a lamp trimmer and was
supposed to have fallen into the hatch
after the big explosion.
“After getting away rrom the ship
early Monday in their burned and
exhausted condition, with their boat
Jeaking and the steward dying, the
wind began to freshen. It blew a
gale and the men almost gave up
hope.
“Just at dawn a big passenger
steamer passed close by them. They
nearly collapsed when they thought
they had not been seen. It was the
Franconia and half an hour later we
{:a.saed again and picked up the
oat."”
Seed Men to Meet
T .
At Warm Springs
The famous Warm Springs, Ga.,
has been selected as the meeting
place for the annual convention uf
the Cotton Seed Crushers’ Associa
tion of Georgia. Notice to this effect
was sent out Sataurday by Secretary
E. P. Chivers, of Atlanta. The dates
will be June 15 and 16.
The officials of the association are:
B. L. Bond, president, Royston, Ga.;
P. D. McCarley, vice president, At
lanta; E. P. Chivers, secretary-treas
urer, Atlanta.
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Mrs. Wilson 11l From
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Wedding Excitement
WASHINGTON, May 9. —Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, wife of the Presi
dent, who has just recovered from an
illness of several weeks, is indisposed
again after the excitement relative
to the wedding of her daughter to
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo on
Thursday.
While Mrs. Wilson takes a ride in
the White House automobile every
day, she has canceled all the engage
ments for next week,
Reserve Board Place
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Accepted by Harding
BIRMINGHAM, May 7.—W. P, G.
Harding to-day accepted the appoint
ment to membership on the Federal
Reserve Board tendered by President
Wilson. |
J. H. Barr, vice president of the
Mr Hamlings smcoudsor 1o the presi
” 's successor to the
- df that jmstitution.
THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS
'DORSEY TO BE IN RACE
" FOR GOVERNORSHIP
Hugh M. Dorsey, Solicitor General
of the Atlanta Circuit of the Supe
rior Court of Georgia, is to be a can
didate for the Democratic nomina
tion for the Governorship.
While no formal announcement (o
that effect has been given out direct
ly by Mr, Dorsey himself, the fact
that he is to enter the forthcoming
primary for the Chief Magistracy of
‘the State comes from gources of the
‘mcest dependable and authoritative
ikmd. and the Solicitor himself does
‘not deny that he is to try for the
Governorship.
? Dorsey has been the recipient liter
‘ally of thousands of letters, telegrams
‘and verbal petitlons of late that he
;make the race for the Governorship,
and, while it is a fact that he at
‘tached far less importance to these
communications in the beginning than
lhe has of late, it is known that he
ihas been Impressed for some time
with the idea that there is a real,
lgenulne and far-reaching demand
\that he permit the people an oppor
tunity to say whether he shall go
‘higher in the public service.
‘ Wins Fame in Frank Case.
i The Solicitor's successful handling
‘of the most famous criminal case in
the history of the State unquestion
‘ab!y has won him countless admirers
and well-wishers.
Against that which primarily was
looked upon as beavy odds, Dorsey
OLNEY DECLINES
DFFER T 0 HEAD
BANK BOARD
WASHINGTON, May 6.—Richard
Olney, of Boston, in a letter to Pres
ident Wilson received at the White
House to-day, declined tpe offer of
the governorship of the Federal Re
serve Board, on account of the press
of private business.
Olney’s letter read:
“My Dear Mr. President: I feel
honored quite beyond words by your
letter of the 30th ultimo—by the im
portant office offered and by the
friendly expressions of confidence
which accompanied the offer.
“But the act of C‘ongress, which
very properly requires each member
of the Federal Reserve Board to give
his entire time to his work, is an in
superable obstacle to my acceptance
of the office. In the course of a long
life I have in various instances as
sumed the duties and undertaken
trusts which from their personal na
ture can not properly be devolved
upon others.
Praises Administration.
“If the conclusion 1 have come to is
a disappointment to vou. I greatly re
gret it. But you can hardly be sor
rier than I am that [ am able to do
‘BO little in aid of an administration
whose first year of achievements
makes it one of the most notable that
the country has ever known.
“Trusting you will not suffer your
health and strength to be impaired by
the strain of the unusual difficulties
now attending the duties of your
great office, 1 am,
“Sincerely yours,
“RICHARD OLNEY.”
This is the second office from
President Wilson that Mr. Oiney has
declined within the past year, the
first being the Ambassadorship to the
Court of St, James, which Mr. Olney
found it impossible to accept on ac
count of his advanced age.
It was stated at the White House
that the President has reached no
definite conclusion with regard to Ol
ney's successor on the Federal Re
serve Board.
It is expected, however, that the
President will select a New England
man for the vacancy.
To “Designate” Banks.
The organization committee of the
new currency system to-day an
nounced that five banks in each re
serve district will be designated not
later than May 9 to execuie the “cer
tificate of organization” for the dis
tricts as provided by the currency
act. Representatives of the banks
designated are urged by the commit
tee to meet promptly in the reserve
city for their district so the certifi
cate may be filed with the Comptrol
ler of the Currency without delay.
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Mary Garden to Quit
CHICAGO, May 7.—Mary Garden did
not get & contract to sing for the Chi
cago-Philadeiphia Grand Opera Compa
ny next season because of a “‘misun
derstanding” with the diva over an item
of $l,BOO, it was revealed here.
The directors of the company say that
through a clerical error Miss Garnden
received an overpayment of $l,BOO last
year. ‘This year she was requested to
sing an extra performance in Milwaukee
without compensation to square the “er
ror.” She refused. y
has battled his way uninterruptedly
to victory after victory. :
His last victory, following a period
wherein the public mind seemed, per
haps, turning somewhat favorably to
Frank, for the first time since the al
leged slayer of Mary Phagan was in
dicted, was achieved on Wednesday,
when Judge Hill overruled Frank's
extraordinary motion for a:new trial.
Dorsey’s admirers now contend
that the record is practically closed,
and that he has won his spurs so de
cisively that further honors for him
are in order,
Made Solicitor by Brown.
Dorsey’s present office is the first of
a political nature he ever held. He
was appointed Solicitor by Governor
Joseph M. Brown, following the death
of the late Solicitor Charles Hill—
Judge Ben Hill's brother—and was
elected subsequently by the people of
the Atlanta circuit to succeed him
self.
He is a practicing attorney of
twenty years’ standing, and is con
nected with the well-known law firm
of Dorsey, Brewster, Howell & Hy
man.
Those who are best versed i the
run of politics in Georgia unhesitat
ingly predict that Dorsey will prove
to be & tremendous factor in the
forthcoming Governorship race, and
there are many who do not hesitate
to predict that he will win -over
whelmingly.
FRIEDMANN CURE
DIGPROVED BY
14M0S. TEST
WASHINGTON, D. C, May B.—
ObServing patients who had been
treated with Dr. Friedrich F. Fried
mann’'s vaccine for fourteen months,
Dr. Mannheimer of New York, declared
here to-day that this so-called cure
for tuberculosis has exhibited neither
curative nor preventive powers. He
made his report before the clinical
section of the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of Tu
berculosis, now in session here.
“In March, 1913,” said Dr. Mann
heimer, “eighteen patients were
treated under my supervision. Of
these, fifteen can be foliowed up, and
of that number, three are dead. The
number of injections in these cases
were one, iwo and four, respectively.
Of the remaining twelve patients, ten
received one, and two received four
injections.
: Causes Abscesses.
“Five of the ten patients who re
ceived one injection developed ab
scesses at the site of the injection and
were, therefore, unsuitable for fur
ther injections, according to the in
ventor. The other five patients were
not reinjected, either because they did
not see the improvement they had
been led to expect, or because they
had become worse and had lost con
fidence in Friedmann. As to their
present condition, five of them are
now unchanged and five are worse
than a year ago.
“One patient who had four injec
tions, fecols well and presents signs
of an arrested lung-process, but he
has not gained in weight and has de
veloped a new tuberculous process in
another part of the body. The second
patient with four injections has tu
berculosis of the knee joint and is
decidedly worse than before. The
infiltrate of the fourth injection broke
down and discharged pus.
Not Recommended.
“Where abscesses resulted at the
site of the first injection, the wvac
cine apparently produced no addi
tional harmful effect. The disease
remained uninfluenced. Friedmann
neglected to prevent abscess forma
;ion., although he claimed to know
ow.
“To be very charitable, one might
judge from one case that decided nat
ural healing tendencies, aided by
common-sense treatment, will not be
hindered by the remedy. When in
a quiescent case the first subjective
and objective symptoms of a new
outbreak appear and one naturally
wishes to check it, the remedy is ab
solutely worthless for that purpose.
It can not prevent the tendency to
spread. if a case is so disposed.
“The method of its administration
has been anything but careful and
intelligent. For these reasons, and on
account of the absence of curative and
preventive powers in this series, it
can not be recommended.”
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Feast of Nails Is
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Fatal to Ostrich
VENICE, CAL., May 6.—The death of
one of the largest ostrichs on the os
trich farm here contradicts the belief
that an ostrich possesses a stomach that
will digest anything that it swallows.
Dick Bishop, who looks after the
birds, performed an autopsy and found
the bird had been feasting on nalls, one
of which had penetrated the stomaci.
Black Suspected of Theft Threat
ens Constable Who Searched
for Stolen Praperty.
AUGUSTA, May 7.—Charley Jones,
a negro, was taken from two officers
and shot to death by a mob last night
near Grovetown, fifteen miles from
Augusta, while being taken to Ap=-
pling, county seat of Columbia Coun=
ty, for safekeeping, according to in=
formation received here to-day.
A Grovetown merchant some time
ago lost a number of pairs of shoes
when his store was burglarized. Sus
picion is said to have pointed teo
’Jones, who lived about two miles
from town Constable Huffman was
;sent to Jones’ house yesterday to
’sea.rch for the shoes. Afterward the
negro came to town, threatening the
‘constable for searching his house.
Jones was seized by several white
'men, including the constable, given a
beating, and taken to the town lock
‘up, where the wounds about his head
were dressed by Dr. G. V. Baxley.
Fear that he might be taken from
the wooden lockup and lynched
prompted the citizens of Grovetown
to start him to Appling for safe keep
ing. It was while Deputies Percy
Blount and John Ward were on their
way to Appling with him that the
regro was taken from them and
killed.
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Poisoned Candy Sent
To Noted Authoress
MONTEREY, CAL., May 9-—The
authorities are investigating a mys
terious attempt to kill Alice Mac
gowan, the noted authoress, by poi
soned candy, which was sent to her
by a messenger. A Japanese cook in
the household ate a piece of the can
dy and died a few hours later.
The attempt on Miss Macgowan's
life followed several robberies in the
ranks of the literary colony at Car
mel-by-the-Sea, in one of which Miss
Macgowan lost $2,000 worth of jew
els. A number of women in the col
ony have recently received threaten
ing letters and warned that they
would be poisoned.
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Brothers Spirited
Away to Dodge Mob
COLUMBUS, May 7.—Henry and
Homer Irvin, of Harris County, have
been lodged in the Muscogee County
jail in this city by Sheriff Hadley, of
Harris County, to prevent mob vio
ience.
The Irvin boys are charged with
killing W. G. Teel Sunday, eight
miles west of Chipley. The Sherift
feared friends of Teel would under=
take to avenge his death.
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Woman Killed by
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Gas in Bathroom
WAUKEGAN, ILL., May 9.—Mrs,
Farl T. Langworth, wife of a Lib
ertyville merchant, was found dead
in a bathtub at her home to-day. The
house was full of gas fumes which
Fad escaped from a gas water heat
er.
It is supposed she was overcome
by the fumes and then drowned.
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Herrick to Run
!
For Burton's Seat
COLUMBUS, OHIO, May 7.—Myron T.
Herrick, Ambassador to France and
Governor of Ohio ten years ago, is to
seek the Republican nomination for
United States Senator to succeed Theo
dore Burton, it was announced here.
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Babies Checked as
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Their Mothers Vote
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y, May 7.—
At a school election for directors,
women checked their babies in an ad-
Joining room and then voted.
The “woman's ticket” was elected
‘ummlmously.
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Rose Thorn Scratch
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On Hand Kills Woman
WINSTED, lev 6.—Mrs., Ed
ward Peck died from blood poisoning as
a result of being seratched on the hand
by a rose tborn.
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Neckwear Abolished
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By Students of Paris
PARIS, May 7.—Declaring that col
lars are expensive, inartistic and un
healthy, Latin Quarter art students
all neckwear,