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ORI GROPS IN 84D SHAPE RAIN NEEDED Cool Weather Also Retarding Growth of Cotton—All Cere als Far Below Normal. | In assembling its preliminary data in anticipation of its annual crop re port, the State Department of Agri culture already has gone far enough to discover that crop conditionsyg in Georgia are far below what they should be, and that the outlook is ex ceedingly gloomy. The rain report from all sections, without exception, is extremely ge pressing. And this, coupled with the univrsally cool weather for the early spring season, has served to hamper the growth of both the cotton and the grain crops. Late cotton is not coming up as it should, and the spring oats outlook is very bad. The late oats prospect, however, is reported better, but not so good as it should be. There has been a marked increase in the sale of fértilizer tags, but this year has been found by the depart ment not to indicate a heavy cotton crop as a great deal more fertilizer than usual has been used in culti vating the grain crops throughout the State. - While the department is not yet ready by any means to promulgate a formal report on the crop condi tions, the department is greatly dis couraged with the prospects. Unless conditions change for the better, not only will the cotton crop be small, but the grain crops will be exceed ingly so. The department will assemble its‘ report in detail within the next week or ten days. Tech Likely to Have The intention of the Georgia School of Technology to aid in the “uplift” of the drama and cultivate among its students a genuine love for gcod plays wis forecast Saturday in the announcement of plans for the school’'s Dramatic Club presentation of George Bernard Shaw's “The Dev il's Disciple” at the Grand Opera House June 6. The students will be assisted by Misses Bthel Neel, Louise Dorough and Mae Milliken, 1t is understood the presentation of the play will be followed by the fac ulty of Tech adding dramatics to the permanent activities of the school, and probably putting it on the col lege requirements. Miss Carolyn Cobb, of the Georgia Drama League, who has had charge of the Tech club since its organization, has been men tioned as head of the proposed new department, Shaw’'s play will be the third that the Tech players have produced, The first was ‘Brown of Harvard.” “The Magistrate,” a three-act comedy, also was staged successfully. : | Aerial Ferry Must . Carry Life Belts e | SAN FRANCISCO, May 21.—Silas Christofferson, who has inaugurated an intermittent aerial ferry service between San Francisco and Oakland, is required to supply each of his pas sengers with a life preserver. Ar rangements to this effect have been made by Local Inspectors of Steam Vessels Dolan and Guthrie, it is an nounced. . Urgent Deficiency . Bill Passes Senate WASHINGTON, May 22.—The urg ent deficiency bill passed by the House yesterday was passed by the Senate to-day withcut amendment, \r » A ———— Hore's 8 SN\) ] chance to Y/ . to make ? s day , and over. Jusé out, nothing else like it. Start)ing, sstonishing, tremendoas sel- ] ler. A long-felt want filled. Enormous | demand—wanted in every bome. Oarry T AMBREW (M L w = Boer in concentrated form. A cooling | « .pukunimu of beer mow for every-| | body. You 'upily the demand with i “AMBREW.” Baves the brewers Pa Y Vol enormous expenses snd mu. gLI L) conuniontwn cheap. it, ".—E: 5 | sell them all, anted everywhere dry or wet—strictly l.‘mnu_ Think of the many who want & cooling glass of Lager Beer. This is your big chance. Quick, easy aaies. By 1t takoB them by storm. They simply [ieren ) can't iowist. Territory baing snapped L /l Spend one cent to make thousands. ',_«’, Act quick—send no mone —just & postal <4 éfl for our l;r.:-.!rhl ””‘Juoo-b J e i ) m:ug w. 0. e THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIE!S. "OUN POWER™ EXPERT TELLS OAVANTS OF 18 NEW TESTS LONDON, May 23.—Engineers aund scientists filled the hall of the Society of Engineers to hear A. 8, E. Acker man's paper on “Utilization of Solar Energy.” This is the first paper of its kind, dealing as it does with the whole of the experiments so far mada during the past four years at a cost >f about $150,000. Mr, Ackerman, who has been carry ing out this important work in con junction with C, T. Walrond, touched on the determinations of the solar constant and proceeded to deal fully with the varying percentages of this quantity that are available through out the day for power purposes. He also gave some account of the Shuman sun heat absorbers and went on to describe in detail the result of his 48 trials of these absorbers, the latest pattern of which has bheen erectéd near Cairo, Egypt. A SHOTS AIT GIAL IN DUEL DVER WIFE-BEATING WAYYCROSS, May 22.—When Herbert W. Wilsom engaged in a duel on Plant avenu to-day with his father-in-law, A. O. Smith, follow ing a brief argument in front of Smith's place of business, Miss Vergie Smith, the 13-year-old daughter of{ Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Smith, was hit by four shots from A, O. Smith's gun. Neither Wilson nor Smith was in jured. Both were immediately arrest. ed and placed under bond, Smith be ing charged with assault with intent to murder and Wilson with assault and battery, carrying -a concealed pistol, and having a pistel without a license. A warrant also was served on Attorney Leon A. Wilson, father of the young man figuring in the fight, charging assault and battery. Family difficulties growing out of a fight in which Herbert Wilson is said to have whipped his wife on March 25, are allaged to be at the bottom of to-day's trouble. Recently young Wilson was indicted by the Grand Jury for wife-beating and placed under bond. A. O. Smith claims that Herbert's father told him he would not let the girl be mistreated and then went be fore tgc Grand Jury, trying to prevent an indictment. 1 All parties concerned are promi nent, Senator Wm. Bradley WASHINGTON, May 23.—Senator William O’Connell Bradley, of Ken tv v, died here to-night at 9:45 o'clock. He was completing his first term in the United States Sen ate, which would have expired March 3, 1915, Senator Bradley was born near Lancaster, Ky., March 18, 1847, He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. John N. South, of Frankfort, Ky, she being at his bedside when he died. Senator Bradley had been ill but a few days, suffering from acute kid ney trouble, He was a Republican, Russia's Mark Twain . 3 Exiled; to Tour U. 8. LONDON, May V--M. Rubano vitch, who is known as Russia's Mark Twain, and who, under the nom de plume of Sholom Aleichem, has be come famous as a humorist far be yond the borders of his native land, is to be exiled again. He will sail fer New York and begin a lecture tour, Rubanovitch’'s latest offense was holding the Russian Government up to ridicule in connection with its anti. Jewish measures. All of his receat works have been confiscated. . . British Resent U. 8. Man as Rail Chief EDINBURGH, May ¥4.—That ths recent appointment.of an American as general manager of the Great East ern Rallway has not been forgiven the company by the rank and file of railway empwoyees in this country was demonstrated to-(gay at the con vention of Rallway (lerks’ Associa tiop here, when a resolution was passed protesting against the Insult to the rallway's salaried staff officers by Lord Claud Hamilton, when he de clared that British railway men were totally incapable of holding responsi ble positions, Some h}ltere,sung detalls followed, showing the facilities and also that the total steam output of a certain type of ebsorber can be calculated to a nicety, : Thus It has been ascertained that humidity adversely affects the guane tity of solar radiation arriving at the earth’s solid surface, but this is the first time that its effect on solar steam production has been quantitatively determined. The lecturer told his audience that two of the types of abgorbers did not move with the sun and one did. The gréater constancy of output of steam in the case of the latter is very marked. Finally, the author gave the resuls of his trials of the complete sun pow. er irrigation plant at Cairo and de scribed his design of a special form of weir tank for measuring greatly differing quantities of water. ALBANIA REBEL I OAM GAPITAL, RULERINFLIGHT DURAZZO, ALBANIA, May 23— Following receipt of news that the insurgent forces were close upon the Capital, Prince William, the Princess and their suite this afternoon fled the clty, taking refuge aboard the ltalian’ warship Misurata, G The revolt broke out at Tirana, and the rebels decisively defeated the Government troops. To-day the news came that the revolutionists, -aug mented by (Housanga ‘of followers of the deposéd Minister ‘of War, ssad Pasha, were advancing on the Capi tal, - VIENNA, May 23.—A wireless dis patch from the Austrian cruiser Szf getvera, which is at Durazzo, states that the insurgents began their attack on the Capital at 5 p. m. to-day. The attack is said to be a vigorous one, the rebels apparently being deter mined to take teh city before the ar rival of the ltaluvxzi warships sent to ghe aid of Prince William, A dispatch from Durazzo earlier in the afternoon confirmed the report that the Prince, with his suite, had taken refuge on the falian warship Misurata. Carnegie Hit by New . M British Farm Laws EDINBURGH, May ' .~—Andrew Carnegie and the British Radicals have parted confpany. The Radicals are greatly concerned about rural depopulation. In Scotland they set up a Land Court, whose business it is to'divide large farms into small ones and fix “fair rents.” Recently a lease on a farm on Skibo estate expired and Carnegie, instead of dividing it according to the Rad!- cal ideas, is advertising it for lease to one tenant. It is considered cer tain that when the Land Court visits Skibo 1t will not only break up Car negie’s larger farms, bul reduce hig rents. Savannah Far From Canal as Charleston SAVANNAH, May 23.-—Charleston is only one mile more distant from the Panama - Canal than Savannah, although the two ports are widely separated on the coagt and Savannah apparently much nearer. The United Stateés Hydrographic Office is respon gible for the statement., j Man Who Shanghaied . Georgia Lads Paroled MOBILE, ALA. May 23 —William Oberirch, a sailors bgarding house master, who was convicted of the shanghaling of two Columbus, Ga., boys aboard the Italian bark Mencio, compelling them to take forced pas sage to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was paroled on Satux;#v by President Wilson after servi three months of a twelve months’ sentence. Waco, Texas, Police . . Are All Christians WACO, TEXAS, May 2.L.—The en tire police force has professed Chris tianity and promised to live Chris tian llves to the best of their abllity. So far as can be ascertained, Waco is the only city on earth of fts size having a police force composed en :h-oly of men who profess Christian ty, JLATON GOULD WIN TOMORROW MANAGER SAYS Newell -Believes 125 Counties . . . 9 Already Are in Line—Giant Committee FormingS , Alfred €. Newell, chairman of the John M. Siaton Senatorial campaign committee, is optimistic over the out lock for the Governor's triumphant election to the Senate, and says that the big 10,000 Slaton Club proposed not only will be filled up soon, but also is likely to go far beyond that number, Mr. Newell figures the Governor would carry 125 counties if the elecs tion should be held Monday, and ex pects conditions to continue satisfac tory until election day, Speaking of the Governor's race for the Senat:, Mr. Newell Saturday night said: : “We have heard this week from more than one-half of the 3500 members with which the John M. Slaton campaign comiuittee began, Virtually everjr one of those heard from suggested fr#m 10 to 60 names of friends of Mr. Slaton in their counties gnd communities for mem pership on the committee. During the first two-days, Monday and Tues day, we recelved more than 5,000 names. . Altogether to date, in one week's time, we have received the names of more than 10,000 of the Governor's active friends. “Starting with 3,000, the commit tee has grown already to more than 5,500, not including those in Atianta who “have volunteered their services These latter already aggregate more than 1,000, .In one day, Friday, more than 50 of the Governor's supporters in Fulton ‘advised me they would serve on the committee, “His race is in splendid shape and ir'tHe election were to occur fo-mor row he wWould "carry more than 125 counties. » “It will be in better shape on elecs tion day. ' “Instead of getting 10,000 on our committee in a month, as originally intended, we expect to have that many before the end of next week.” Gen. James P, Graves . W . Dead in Washington WASHINGTON, May 23.-General James Porterfield Graves, an adju tant general in General lLee's army, dled in Washington to-day. He was 94 years old, - General Graves was born in Geors gla‘and was the oldest living alum nus of the University of Georgia. He is survived by two sons, Colonel John Temple Graves and Major Hal .T. (iraves, both residing in Washing= ton at the present time. General Graves was well known in Atlanta. TFor some years he resided in C'ollege Park, near that city. 's Wife Held Farmer’s Wife Hel As Mail Box Robber LAPORTE, IND, May 22.-Mrs. Hattiec Hardesty, 27, wife of a lLa- Porte County farmer, was arrested by a United States Marshal charged with rifling rural route majl boxes. The woman's husband declared to day that hig wife was possessed of an uneontrollable mania to steal - . To Build Memorial at . . McKinley Birthplace ¥ e e e # NEW YORK, May 22.--The trus tees of the National McKinley Birth place Memorial Association decided to-day to expend $200,000 in the con struction of a bullding to perpeluate the memory of the late Presidenl at his birthplace, Niles, Ohio, A site for the building has been glven by the city of Niles. . . v Convicted of Slaying - . ’ Wrecker of His Home GREENSBURG, PA., May 21.--Dr, Martin E. Griffith, on trial for Lhe murder of W, L. Robinson, the Pilts burg music teacher, who died as tha result of mutilation inflicted by the surgeon, when Robinson was discov ered in the Griffith home, was found z:my of voluntary mansiaughter tos y. Electric Headlights Ordered on Engines PHOBNIX, ARIZ, May 21.—-The State Corporation Commission has is« sued an order requiring ali locom tives used in hauling trains in A:l? zona to be equipped with electri headlights within 60 days. A The lighty prescribed shall not be of less tham 1,000 candlepower, 5