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JL mtr ^ > VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1913. NO. 39. Servia and Bulgaria to Throw Combined Armies Against Fortress at 7 o’Clock Mon day Afternoon (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Feb. 3.—The war between Turkey and Bulgaria, Greece, Montene gro and Servia will begin again at 7 o'clock this evening unless the last peace efforts of the powers should sne ered or Turkey decide at the eleventh hour to surrender. It has even been decided who shall fire the first shot, as Turkey has stated that she will allow her adversaries to take the aggressive. The immediate object of Hie allies’ armies is the capture of Adrianople, which has hitherto presented such a firm front to its besiegers. Upon this fortress the combined Bul garian and Servian armies, the latter well supplied with siege artillery, will concentrate their exertions. For the present, at any rate, the Bul garian generals will simply try to hold the Turkish troops at Tchatalja. KING GOES TO FRONT. King Nicholas, of Montenegro, has started again for the Turkish’fortress of Scutari, The king himself will take the direction of the renew r ed attack. He hopes -by /capturing the city and. thus establishing an accomplished fact, to ob tain a better chance of keeping definite possession of it when peace finally comfis. In the western Turkish province of Epirus, which touches the Grecian bor der, the Greek troops under the com mand of Crown Prince Constantine have great hopes of breaking down the splen did de'fense which the Ottoman army has thus far offered. The Servian armies alone of the Balkan allies have complet ed their campaign, and have now placed many of their troops at the disposal of their comrades. - . ALBANIAN UPRISING. Some, however, must be kept in Al bania, where a rising against the invad ers has been organized. It is declared that the Albanians, with 80,000 rifles under the command of Austrian officers, are taking the field and it is rumored that they have ought a battle at Dibra, -where the Servians lost heavily. The Albanians are said to be greatly irritated by the wholesale arrests of those suspected of having interest in the provisional government. The Turkish government, like that of Bulgaria, will not allow newspaper cor respondents to accompany the armies in the field. Mounhoum Pasha, stated emphatically today that he would not allow’ any correspondents within twenty miles of the lines. tor Hoke Smith entertains a hope that | of that section of the water front the house will agree to a conference on j b urne( j early Sunday morning. The Mer- the agricultural extension bill which c hants and Miners’ Transportation com- recently passed by the senate by sub stitute. He believes it possible that the conferees could w’ork out a measure satisfactory in its terms to the friends of agricultural extension work and voca tional education. If, however, the two houses fail to agree at this session, the senator will re-introduce the bill at the extra session of congress and keep ham mering away until its passage has been secured. Discussing the matter today, Senator Smith said: “I still hope that the house will con sent to appoint conferees to consider the bill which was introduced by Mr. Lewis in the house and myself in the senate, and which lias passed the hoqse, but for which the senate, by one majority, substituted what is known as the Page vocational educational bill. INCORRECT REPORTS. “The published accounts in Georgia of the provisions in the Page vocational bill for agricultural extension work were not correct. These published accounts in Georgia confused the provisions of the bill which had passed the house •with the provisions of the Page bill, and really gave the provisions of the house bill attributing them to the Page bill. ’Woman’s Declaration He Did Not Attack Her Will Be Only Evidence RAIN ADDS FEAR IN FLOODED DISTRICTS in Twenty-Hour Downpour Mississippi Swells Rivers (By Associated Press.) JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 3.—The climax to a twenty-hour rainfall came early today in this -vicinity in a startling electrical display. For tw’o hours the lightning was vivid and almost continu ous, with constant loud thunder. Rain fell in torrents. Pearl river, already 7.5 above flood stage, will probably reach last year’s high stage mark at thirty feet by the middle of the week. Thousands of acres of lowlands opposite the city are under water. TARIFF REVISION BILL Ways and Means Committee Submit It to Party Caucus (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—Democratic members of the house committee on ways and means today began prepara tion of the bill for the revision of the tariff with the plan of holding daily executive sessions until the w’ork is completed. It is expected this result will be effected about March 15. Chairman Underwood will submit the plan to a Democratic caucus of the house the first week of the extra ses sion of congress. Upon the approval by the caucus of the form in which the revision shall be made—schedule by schedule or as a single measure—he will call in the Republicans of the com mittee for a perfunctory formal vote and then be ready to report to the house. The Democratic majority of the com niittee, which is vested with the duty of framing the original tariff of the in coming congress, consists of Represen tatives Underwood, Randall, of Texas; Harrison, of New York; Brantley, of Georgia; Shackleford, of Missouri; Kitchin, of North Carolina; James, of Kentucky; Rainey, of Illinois; Dixon, of Indiana; Hull, of Tennessee; Ham- nion, of Minnesota; Peters, of Massachu setts; Palmer, of Pennsylvania, and Aftsberry, of Ohio. Mr. James has been elected to the senate, and Representa tives Brantley and Randell will not be in the next congress. A number of new members will sit on both the Democratic and Republican fide3 of the committee in the new con gress. The first schedule planned to be taken up by the committee in executive meet ing today was schedule “A,” chemicals, oils and paints. On this schedule goods of the value of more than $47,000,000 were brought in last year, resulting in a tariff revenue of $12,239,000. Georgia Senator Is Working for Agricultural Extension Measure (BY RALPH SMITH.) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 3.—Sena- TO FIRE-SWEPT Burned Area Is Half Mile Length and Over 200 Yards Wide (By Associated Press.) SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 3.—Plans are already under way for the rebuilding BEACH EXPECTS WIFE L (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) AIKEN, S. C., Feb. 3.—The declara tion of Mrs. Frederick O. Beach that her husband did not attack her will be the only evidence that her millionaire hus band will introduce Tuesday when he is called in general sessions court to an- iii ficuciai ocooiuua v-uui L iu cm . swer a warrant, technically charging r i2£f property, “assault and' battery with intent to kill. It is understood that Beach’s lawyers will rest the case on Mrs. Beach’s evidence, w’ith the confident belief that no other testimony can be offered by the state to overcome her declaration that her husband did not attack her. Solicitor R. L. Gunter declined to say today that he thought he had a strong case against F. O. Beach, and declined to deny the report generally made here that the case would not go beyond Mrs. Beach’s testimony and -would result in an acquittal. MYSTERNODS ATTACK. The hearing Tuesday is the sequel to a mysterious attack on Mrs. Beach on the lawn of the handsome Beach resi dence here February 26, 1912. In addi tion to being badly bruised, the million aire’s wife sustained a serious cut on the throat. Immediately after the assault it was announced that Mrs. Beach had been at tacked by a negro. It was stated that she was in the act of taking a note from a negro, to be delivered to one of the Beach servants, when her injuries were inflicted. Great excitement followed the an nouncement. and rewards aggregating several thousand dollars were offered for the apprehension of her mysterious as sailant. Detectives ,were put on the case»and consternation was caused in the winter colony here as well as in New York City by the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of F. O. Beach, charging him with the assault. Mr. and Mrs. Beach sailed for Europe and bonds for the appearance of the^ former were made nere by wealthy friends. Some expressed the opinion that Mr. Beach never would be arraigned in court. All doubt, however, was ended last week by the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Beach, accompanied by Mrs. J. B. Taylor, of New York, sister of Mrs. Beach, and counsel. Pearl Hampton, a negro woman who is said to have witnessed the attack on Mrs. Beach, and a detective employed by the town of Aiken to investigate the case, probably will be the state’s chief witnesses. 4 It is understood that MrSi Beach will take the stand and will xeiterato * the story of the attack made public just after she was injured. from a point juts Westt of West Broad street to the Ogechee chnal, which divides the docks of the Ocean Steamship company from those of the Merchants and Miners’. Because of the peculiar location of the fire, the fire department found it very hard to fight it. The river blanketed one Sside of the burning mass and the other was enclosed in massive warehouse walls, which were hard to get into and in which it was almost impossible to fight the flames because of the large freight accumulation. A block away from the center of the fire lies Yamacraw, a densely populated section of the city, made up largely of small wooden houses, and it was realized that if the fire reached this section the loss would run much greater than it did. The efforts of the fremen were directed largely to saving this section and keep ing the flames from spreading eastward toward the newer portion of the city. - In this they were largely successful. SUPREME COURT REJECTS JACK JOHNSON’S APPEAL Chicago Attorney Says Case Against Black Will Be Tried at Once (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The su preme court today dismissed the appeal of Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, in dicted in Chicago on charges of violat ing the federal white slave act, from tile decision of the federal court of northern Illinois. Johnson’s appeal was from the Illi nois federal court's refusal to sustain a tvrit of habeas corpus by which the pugilist’s lawyers sought to test the constitutionality of the white slave act, in violation of which Johnson was charged with transporting In interestate commerce Belle Schreiber, ’from Pitts burg to Chicago. Justice Lamar announced the deci sion of the court, which held that a person was not entitled to raise the constitutionality of a law on habeas corpus unless all other means of test ing its validity had been exhausted. )n the meanwhile, the court pointed out, Johnson bad been released on bail. pany, whose wharves were, destroyed, has made arrangements for a temporary wharf and the Ocean Steamship com pany and Central railway, which,owned much of the destroyed property will at once begin its reconstruction. It is cxpetced the new wharves will be in many ways superior to those de stroyed. A large number of insurance adjusters reached the city this morning to take up the question of losses for settlement. The question of losses for low the actual financial losses. FIREMEN WORN OUT. Many firemen are laid up today, suf fering from various causes, as the re sult of their long tour of duty. Most of them complain of- the effect upon their eyes of the heavy smoke, which was in some instances laden with fumes of acids stored in the burned ware houses. Practically a half mile of the most valuable portion of Savannah’s water front w r as raked by a fire at an early hour Sunday morning that did probably million and a half dollars’ worth of damage and for several hours threaten ed the city with the most serious con- fiarration it has experienced in many years. The magnificent wharves of the Mer chants and Miners’ Transportation com pany, with warehouses filled with freight just brought into port by steamers from Baltimore and Philadelphia, were quick ly turned into a ruined mass by the flames. Large storage warehouses filled with many articles of value were wiped out by the fire in a short time. LOSSES ARE HEAVY. The heaviest losers are: The Ocean Steamship company, which owned the docks under lease to the Mer chants and Miners’ Transportation com pany; the American Steel and "Wire com pany, which had an immense storage warehoyse filled with its products in tended for distribution to many points in the south; the Conklin Tin Plate com pany,’ which also had a distribution point here, and the Crane company, large dealers in plumbing supplies, whose warehouse had just been replen ished for the early spring business. The Atlantic Coast Line railway also had an office with valuable records in the ruins of the Planters’ rice mill a few blocks from the center of the con flagration went up in smoke with the HOKE SMITH ATTENDS “TAR HEEL” DINNER Governor Locke Craig Guest of Honoj of North Carolina Society (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Fob. 3.—Governor Locke Craig, of North Carolina, was the guest of honor at the annual banquet of the North Carolina society of Wash ington Saturday and made the principal address to the large gathering of North Carolinians which included not only residents of Washington, but a number who had come north for the occasion. Dr. J. A. Holmes, chief of the bureau of mines, and president of the society, was toasi master , and the speakers in cluded Josephus Daniels, Democratic national committeeman from North Car olina. Senator Simmons and Overman and the North Carolina members of con gress were present, as was George W. Connor, speaker of the North Carolina lower house; United States Senator Smith, of Georgia, and Johnston, of Ala bama, and Senator-elect Webb, of Ten nessee. SHOE MACHINERY CO. NOT CLASSED AS TRUST Government Suffers First De feat of Its Recent Anti- Trust Campaign (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The govern ment today suffered its first big defeat in the recent anti-trust campaign when flie supreme court held that the officials of the United Shoe Machinery company had not violated the Sherman anti-trust law by organizing that company. The court, however, did not pass upon legality of the system by which the company leases machines on terms that no “independent’’ machinery be used. The action of the supreme court today grew out of the Massachusetts federal court’s annulling one of two indictments brought againts the Shoe Machinery company officials. The Massachusetts court took the position that the indict ment did not state an offense under the Sherman law. The government appealed to the su preme court by virtue of the criminal appeals act of 1907, on the ground that It did state an offense. E TAX IS II PURI OF U.S. SEEING HIS SHADOW KING MENELIK AGAIN DEPORTED AS DEAD t * Monarch of Abyssinia Will Be SuceOded by Prince Lidji Jeasu (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Feb. 3.—King Menelik, of Abyssinia, is dead, according to a dis patch received here from Addis-Abeba today. His successor, Prince Lidj Jeasu, one of his grandsons, entered the capi tal on Sunday with great pomp. No official confirmation has been re ceived here of the death of Menelik, who has on several previous occasions been reported dead. Prince Lidj Jeasu, "who is said to have entered the Abyssinian capital as the new emperor, is only seventeen years of age. 1-Ie was selected some years ago by Menelik himself as his successor. There have been many rumors during the past five years of Menelik’s death. It was reported at one time that the fact was being suppressed and that the empress was conducting the affairs of the Abyssinian kingdom until Lidj Jeasu was old enough to take the government into his own hands. This was denied officially. At the beginning of last year Menelik was re ported to be paralyzed below the waist and since then there has been uncertain ty as to whether he was really dead or alive. GIRL CASHIER A PRISONER DURING PANIC IN MOVIES She Sees Crush Which Killed Two Women-Couldn’t ' Escape Booth (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—A prisoner in the little ticket booth at the Houston street moving picture theater, where the explosion of a film and cries of “fire’’ started a panic among the 400 spectators last night, Rose Siegal was forced to be a witness of the strug gle in which two women were tramp- eled to death and a dozen other persons badly injured. “I heard a cry from the inside, then a rush,’’ she said. “There was a crowd of persons in front of my booth seek ing to enter the theater when those in side rushed out. There was a crush against the doors; little girls, boys and men and women all seemed to shoot out together. My little brother, Ned, came running down the steps in front of the first rush and I saw him get safely around the corner of the entrance. “The first half dozen or so got down the steps all right and then they be gan tumbling. As soon as they struck the bottom landing others were on top of them, and soon there was a large semi-circle of bodies on the pavement over which the other persons ran. More fell and at one time it seemed as though the pile was seven ’feet deep. 1 couldn’t get out of my booth because the doors open inside. I just had to stay there, helplessly hearing the cries.” The panic was caused by a boy cry ing “fire” when a film burned. It was a false alarm, for the blaze did scarce ly a dollar’s damage and was put out in a few seconds. The flash which the spectators had seen, however, was enough to terrify them. WALL STREET SENDS COMMITTEE TO SULZER (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The New York stock exchange today appointed a. com mittee to confer with Governor 5$ulzer regarding proposed legislation affecting the exchange. BROOKS BANKER LEAVES AGGOUNTS ARE GORREGT Friends Gannot Account for Strange Disappearance of Arthur Digby (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) GRIFFIN, Ga., Feb. 3.—Arthur Digby, cashier of the Bank of Brooks, Brooks, Ga., left his house last Friday night un der mysterious circumstances and ef forts so far to locate him have been futile. H© left a note at the bank, stat ing that he would leave that night for parts unknown, carrying with him only $200, and leaving on deposit nearly $2,- 000. President Boykin, it is said, examined the cash in the bank Saturday and does not believe Diglfjy is short in his ac counts, but can offer no excuse for his strange disappearance. The stockholders of the bank are mak ing a searching investigation in the affairs today, but it is not known what discoveries they have made, as the wires are down and the little village can not be reached by phone. Mr. Digby was about forty years of age, unmarried, and had the confidence of the entire community, and it is believed his suden departure was caused by private affairs. DALTON WILL ASK F|R E RATE REDUCTION (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) DALTON, Ga., Feb. 3.—City council will, at its meeting Monday night, take up the report of Chief Inspector Cates, of the Southeastern Underwriters’ asso ciation, relative to reduced insurance rates here. The report shows that the city can make improvements to the ex tent of about $5,000, and get reduced rates, which will save insurance patrons here between $5,000 and $10,000 an nually. Twenty fire alarm boxes and an ad ditional steam pump at the pumping sta tion are the improvements needed to give Dalton secondclass instead of the thiijdclass rates which now apply. STREETS OF PARIS AGAIN FLOORED BY RIVER SEINE GOTHAM POLICE TRY TO FERRET BOMR MYSTERY Woman Killed, Husband and Another Woman, Seriously Injured by Explosive (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The police today made extraordinary efforts to find ths perpetrator of last night’s bomb outrage in the Bronx, because they believed if they succeeded they would solve also the mystery of the death of Mrs. Heler. Taylor and of the attempt to kill Judge Otto Rosalsky, of the court of special sessions. , . They have discovered that the infer nal machine which killed Mrs. Madeline Herrera, last night in a Bronx apart ment house and wounded her husband and a woman boarder, was like those sent to Mrs. Taylor and Judge Rosalsky. All three bombs wer e in boxes con structed so that raising the lid closed an electric circuit and caused the ex plosion. John P. P’arrell, aistant janitor of the house where the Herreras lived, was held today as a material witness. Both Herrera and Miss Sarah Fughtmann, the third victim, arc in a serious condition. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. Pieces of the iron and lead pipe with v/hich the bomb was loaded flew in ev ery directipn. Mrs. Herrera was bending over the bomb and her face was torn and lacerated beyond recognition. .Miss Fughtmann, not so close, sustained a fractured skull and pieces of iron and lead penetrated the skull of Herrera, who also stood near. Almost everything in the room was shattered by the force of the explosion At the hospital Herrera said that he had never received a threatening letter and that he had no enemies so far as he knewu He said that he believed the bomb had b^en intended for someone ele. Herrera and his wife are about iforty- five veafs old. Miss Fughtmann is about thirty. Herrera is a cigar manu facturer. Deputy Police Commissioner Dougher ty in company with Inspector Fauret, of the photograph and finger print bureau, last night went to the apartment of Herrera and began an investigation. Shortly afterward Herrera wa made a prisoner*and taken to the Manhattan eye and throat hospital in the custody of detectives for an immediate operation. Wyoming l^akes the Thirty- Sixth State to Ratify Six teenth Amendment of Na tion’s Organic Law, (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—An income tax is now one of the provisions of the constitution of the United States. Wyoming’s ratification today of the income tax amendment—the sixteenth change in the constitution and the first since the reconstruction, complete a list of thirty-six states—three-fourths of the union, which have approved the provision. Congress now will enact a law to levy the tax and it probably will become ef fective during the extraordinary ses sion to be called by President-elect Wil son in March. The tax itself, its pro visions and its limitations are all left to (congress. $100,000,000 REVENUE. The new’ law probably would super sede the corporation tax and provide for a tax on all incomes above $5,000, although there has been some sentiment in favor of making the limit as low as $4,000. Congressional leaders who have been preparing for the final ratification by the states estimate an income tax would bring in about $100,000,000 a year to the government. Now tha^the tax is provided by the constitution, the proposed excise tax, framed by Democratic leaders In 1912, to meet the supreme court’s decision which held a former income tax uncon stitutional, will be dropped and some of its provisions may be included in the new law. West Virginia ratified the amendment last week. One house in New Jersey and one in New Mexico have approved it. Wyoming's ratification was wholly unexpected at this time. STATE’S HONOR ROLL. Following is the list of states which ratified the income tax amendment: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Califor- nia, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan Minnesota, Missis sippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New .York, North Carol! mw-Nart.U^, UtirtftUv—— Oklahoma, Oregon, South C&rpiina, South Dakota, Tennessee, i>xas, Washington, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Ohio, West Vir ginia, Wyoming. The following rejected: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah. No action or only partial action was taken in the eight other states. The provision authorizing ah income tax as now made a part of the Federal constitution Will be known as the "Six teenth Amendment” and reads as fol lows: “Article XVI.—The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on Incomes, from whatever* source derived, without apportionment among the states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.” The change in the fundamental law of the land marks a new epoch in the American tax system. For the first time congress is given specific authority by a provision of the Federal constitu tion to levy an income tox. All pre vious efforts for a tax of this kin.1 have been without the explicit authority of a constitutional provision. The change also marks a broad development of the economic and fiscal system of the United States, permitting incomes to be a basis for taxation, similar to the sys tems now in force in Great Britain Austria, Switzerland,j Spain and various other countries. Fears of Repetition of 1910-1 Flood Are Aroused as Rue Watt Is Inundated (By Associated Pi\-ss.) PARIS. Feb. 3.—Fears of a repetition of the disastrous inundations which oc curred in Paris during the winter of 1910-11 have been aroused during the past forty-eight hours by the rapid rising of the River Seine. The water today is mounting about two inches an hour. In the low quarters of the city, es pecially in the southwestern district of Berey, the water has already overflow ed into the streets. The Rue Watt, near the Tolbiac bridge, was the first to be flooded. It is now under water to a depth of several inches and consterna tion reigns among the occupants of ad jacent houses. Rain ceased this morning ( in Paris itself, but it continues to fail heavily in the up-country regions. TUMULTY IS NAMED WILSON’S SEGRETARY Present Private Secretary to Jersey Executive Will Go to Washington With Wilson (By Associated Press.) TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 3.—Joseph Patrick Tumulty, at present private sec retary to Governor Wilson, will be secre tary to the president after March 4, ac cording to an announcement by Presi dent-elect Wilson today. The president-elect offered Mr. Tumul ty the secretaryship a week ago and the latter accepted today. Tumulty has been associated with Mr. Wilson since the gubernatorial campaign three years ago. He became his private secretary when Mr. Wilson was elected governor, but resigned last November to become clerk of the state supreme court ajt a salary of $6,000, a position to which he was appointed by the governor. He con tinued, however, to discharge the duties of secretary without salary. Tumulty has been in charge of the governor’s correspondence s.’nce election day and has been throughout a close confidential adviser. AIKEN HOTEL IS BURNED; GUESTS BARELY ESCAPE “Park-in-the-Pines" Is De stroyed by Fire That Causes Panic A (By Associated Press.) AIKEN, S. C., Feb. 3.—“Park-in-the- Pines,” Aiken’s picturesque tourist hotel, was destroyed by Are in a short time Sunday, the guests having to flee for their lives, leaving most of their per sonal effects behind. All escaped, in safety, but Colonel A. E. 1 )it’k, manager of the hotel, was overcome by smoke and was dragged from the burning building just before the flames reached him. The loss is estimated at $250,000. JEWELRY IS LOST. Mrs. John W. Nary, of Trenton, N. J., left on her dressing table about $2,000 worth of jewelry when she and her two daughters were compelled to quit then- suite. Several other guests reported large losses of jewelry and clothing. C. J. McCoud, of New York, who had a large display of rugs, laces and fancy goods on display in one of the upper rooms, saved none of his stock. The building was a three-story frame structure and contained 177 rooms. The fire is believed to have originated In a storeroom in the basement, directly at the foot of the elevator shaft. Mount ing swiftly through the aperture, the flames spread very rapidly. There was only forty-four guests in the hotel at the time and the fire had gained such headway when the first alarm was sounded that they had no time to save anything but themselves. USED FIRE ESCAPES. Some few of the guests tarried be hind in their rooms to gather up some of their belongings and the moments thus wasted came near costing them their lives despite the fact that the firo started just before midday in broad day light. When they reached the hallo they were turned back by a black vol ume -of suffocating smoke and had to make their way to safety by means of the tire escapes..