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VOLUME XII.
. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1913.
NO. 41.
British Antarctic Explorer
Found Pole January 18,
1912, Just Forty-Five Days
Behind Roald Amundsen
OAMARU, New Zealand. Feb. 10.—
Captain Robert F. Scott and his party
were overwhelmed by a blizzard on.
their return journey from the south
pole. The entire party perished.
They reached the south pole on the
18th of January. 1912.
This was just forty-five days after
the date which Captain Roald Amund
sen is reported to have reached the
southern extremity of the globe. Amund-
■en reported that he found the pole on
December 14, 1911.
The records of Scott’s discovery and
a partial history.of his expedition were
found with the perished party.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott was born
at Outlands. Devonport, England. June
6. 1868.
He was educated at Stubbington
House, Fareham, and entered the royal
navy in 1882. He was made a lieuten-,
ant in 1887, and a captain in 190/, in
recognition of his services as an ex
plorer.
He f was a member of several geo
graphical societies, both in England and
on the continent.
He commanded the national antarctic
expedition of 1900-4, and on his return
from that voyage published an account
of the expedition in two volumes enti
tled *The Voyage of the Discovery.”
He was married in 1908 to Kathleen,
daughter of the late Canon Lloyd
Bruce.
SIXTY-SIX DIED.
The news of the appalling disaster
which befell Captain Scott and his com
panions was brought to this port by a
signalled message from the Terra Nova,
the vessel which had carried the ex
plorer and his expedition to the antarc
tic, and which late last year went once
again to the south to bring him and j
his companions back.
The total number of deaths involved j
in the calamity is not exactly known, |
(but it is believed that sixty-six scien- j
lists and sailors lost their lives.
FOUND AMUNDSEN’S TRACKS.
Captain Scott's party reached the ex
act point where Roald Amundsen plant
ed the Norwegian flag at the south pole.
Thaii. found there the hut constructed
.and leff behind by Amundsen’s party.
These facts were recorded in the doc
uments found on the bodies of the dead
explorers when they were recovered.
SMITH SEEKS TO AMEND
THE NEAL BANKING LI
Senator Wants Authority Giv
en National Banks to Ac
cept Real Estate
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Senator
Hoke Smith introduced a bill in the sen
ate today to amend the Neal Banking
law, extending the power of national
banks to lend money on real estate. He
disagreed to the view’ that real estate
is not a liquid security and believes
that his amendment to the law' will be
helpful in the rural districts of the
country.
The bill proposes to amend section
5137 of the compiled statutes of the
United States for 1901. The bill was
referred to the finance committee and
printed in the record. It w-ill not be
pressed at this session of congress, but
Senator Smith expects to urge its con
sideration at the next regular session.
He considers the bill as a step nec
essary under the present system to
aid in the development of better facili
ties for the use of rural credits in the
procurement.
“The necessity for making use of for
eign credits and facilitating the demand
for currency by those engaged in agri
culture is pressing at this time,” said
Senator Smith.
“I regard real estate as the best of
all securities and the thing of most
permanent value in the country. «I un
derstand the theory that banks should
take securities which are quickly and
easily convertible into currency.
“The prejudice against real etsate as
a security grew out of the English pro
cedure that equity, for a foreclosure
on mortgages on real estate which in
volved much dfelay. Now in nearly
every state, real estate security can be
put in shape where it can be converted
into money almost as quickly as collat
eral securities.
“Aside from this, however.' I do not
believe it right that a banking system
created and supervised by the national
government should exclude the thing
of greatest value and most perma
nency from being made available as a
basis of turning credits into money.
‘‘The exclusion of real estate as a
means of making credits by an indi
vidual available to obtain currency de
prives a large part of the people from
using the best security they have to
meet their temporary necessities.”
The Southern Commercial congress
recently created a commission to go to
Europe next spring and study plans that
have been worked out to meet the de
mands for currency in rural sections.
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CflPITALDF MEXICO
President and Family Are in
Flight to the Eastern Coast
Accompanied by 1,000 Sol
diers Who Remained Loyal
Georgia Senator and Other
Speakers at Banquet Pre- _
diet His" Policy
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 10.—Uncertainty
as to what ^developments would follow'
the revolt of the army, Apy which Gen
eral Felix Diaz practically captured the
Mexican capital yesterday, prevailed in
Mexico City early today. Residents of
the city spent a quiet, but sleepless
night, expecting to see more fighting
in the streets today. In yesterday’s re
volt more than 200 persons were kjlled.
The populace did not know early to
day whether President Madero had fled
from the capital. With a following of
loyal troops, said to number 1,000 men
he took refuge in the national palace
yesterday, but it was reported at day
break that, under cover of night, he had
fled toward the eastern coast, taking
his family with him. It was alsp report
ed that all of the members of his cabinet
had resigned.
BLANQUET LEAVES MADERO.
The report of his flight was received
with credence, although it was without
confirmation. Madero’s decision to flee
the capital, It was said in the reports
that he had gone, was due to General
Blanquet’s refusal to stand by him.
General Blanquet arrived last night
with a small portion of his forces, sup
posedly loyal to .Madero, but he refus
ed to fight against General Felix Diaz.
Since the arrival of Blanquet’s force,
the bridges between the capital and To
luca have been burned.
It is recalled that during the Orozco
rebellion Madero stated w’hat course he
would pursue if the national capital
was captured. He said he would never
surrender, but in case Mexico City was
taken, he w'ould remain in the govern
ment palace as long as possible and
then, with whoever remained loyal, he
would transfer the seat of government
to the hills in the south, w'here he would
keep up the fight for constituted gov
ernment.
MADJSRO MAY RETURN.
The capital apparently was not con
vinced today that Madero would not be
sble to return to the city with enough
troops to wrest from Diaz ind his fol
lowers, the power they seized yester
day.
If Madero remained in the national
palace here, or took refuge in the palace
at Chapultepec, it was generally assurn-
§<L, n that .the bombardment of these pal
aces would follow.-
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FALL IN
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RED BATTLE
Capture of Hill at Scutari
Costs Montenegrins 2,500
Men Killed and Wounded,
Turks Leave 4,000 Dead
L GEORGIANS ATTACK
ANTI-TRUST MEASURE
Turpentine Men Testing Con
stitutionality of* Sherman
Law in Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The final
fight to keep certain officials of tlie
-"turpentine trust” out of jail for al
leged violation of the Sherman anti
trust law began today in the supreme
court when counsel filed an argument
to show that they were erroneously con
victed in the federal court of south
ern Georgia.
The first attack was on the consti
tutionality of the Sherman anti-trust
Taw as a criminal statute and counsel
held that the rule of reason interpre
tation by the court no man could tell
whether he was violating the law.-
W. VIRGINIA FAILS
TO ELECT SENATOR
(By Associated Press.)
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 8.—The
legislature in joint session today took
another ballot for United States sena
tor, •but there was no election. .
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.— ]
Closer relations in comity and com-!
merce with the South American and I
Central American republics are to be
fostered by the Wilson administration,
through William Jennings Bryan, secre
tary of state.
This was in effect the message given
to nearly a score of South and Central
American diplomats by men high in the
counsel of Woodrow Wilson and the
coming administration at a luncheon
given by John Barrett at the Pan-Ameri
can union yesterday.
Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
frankly stated to the diner£ that al
though he was not in a position to make
an authoritative statement, Colonel
Bryan has been spoken of as secretary
of state, and he then outlined the poli
cies for peace and comity that are to
be pursued by the Nebraskan.
There was but . one Republican at the
dinner, Senator Smith, of Michigan. The
list of Democrats included, besides Sen
ator Hoke Smith, Senator Gore, of Okla
homa; Senator Marline, of New Jersey,
and Congressmen Flood, of/ Virginia;
Fitzgerald, of New York; Clayton, of
Alabama, and Sherley, of Kentucky.
All of the speakers referred to the
good accomplished by the Pan-American
union, and a vote of thanks was ten
dered Director Barrett.
E D U C AT0 RsHwEEhT AT
NATIONAL CORN SHOW
(By Associated Pre?s. i
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 10.—Educators
and agriculturalists of note will feature
th© third week of the National Corn
exposition.
SENATE IS DEBATING
. .KENTON ANTI-JUG BILL
HENRY IS INDICTED EDO
BLEASE WINS PLEA IN
REFUNDING ACT CASE
A LITTLE EVOLUTION
(By Associated Press.)
PODGORITZA, Montenegro, Feb. 10.—
The Montenegrin army besigning the
Turkish fortress of Scutari carried the
great Bardanjoli hill by assault at 10:30
this morning after several hours of se
vere fighting. The victors lost 2,500
men killed and wounded. The Turks
left 4,000 men on the field.
The infantrymen on several occasions
came into such close quarters that hand
to hahd fighting was general along the
line. {
Bardanjoli hill dominates * Scutari
from the eastern side and the\Montene
grins are mountaining siege guns on the
heights to bombard the city’s principal
points.
Fighting has pone on since early*
i morning all around the city. The
! Turkish defenders are disputing the
I ground against the besiegers with fierce
j determination and courage. v
A Montegrin attack on tfi e heights
. of Tarabosch, which dominate Scutari
on the west, has been going on 'for
• three days. This onslaught is believed
j to have been as sanguinary as the en- :
gagement at Bardanjdll.
'Bulgarian Cannons Mow
Turks'Down Like Wheat
(By Associated Press.)
SOFIA, Bulgaria. Feb. 10.—The rout
of the Turkish army before Bulair on
Saturday is skid here to have been com.
plete. The Turks are reported to have
suffered enormous losses.
Tfic Turkish dead and wounded were
lying thickly everywhere. Twenty of-
l fleers were among the killed.
| The -war office says:
! "The number of men killed among
; the Bulgarians is not yet known, but
jit appears to have been insignificant."
CLARK MAKER TRREAT WILSON'S MARCH TO PASS MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND PAN-AMERICA TEELS
OF USING BIG STICK’ 9/ SALOONS, SHE SAYSi WEDS SUDDENLY MONDAY KNOX ALL IS TRANQUIL
Says House Must Get Down And All Will Be Crowded,
to Business-Another
Bill.’Passes
Supreme Court Orders a Ref
erence in Suit Alleging
Act Not Valid
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 10.—The su
preme court lias granted the request of
Governor Cole L. Blease and ordered a
reference in the suit brought by W. W.
Ray, a taxpayer, to have the refunding-
act. of 1912 set aside on the ground
that it is unconstitutional.
The court this morning ordered a
reference in the case and directed that
it be heard on the third Tuesday in
April.
This order is a victory for th^ gov
ernor and sustains him in his firj&t con
tention in the fight which he is making
to have the refunding act of last year
set aside.
Accidentally Shot
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
FORSYTH, Ga.. Feb. 10.—While plac-
uor comes high in Monroe county,
ing his shotgun in the corner of one
of iiis rooms to his house at Holly
Grove, in this county, on Friday after
noon, A. L. Caldwell shot himself in
the right hand, tearing off his influx
finger and injuring his thumb »n.d sec
ond finger.
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OF BLACKS TO WHITES
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Speaker
Champ Clark shook his gavel at mem
bers of the house today and declared
th^: must get down to business ^in the
few remaining days of the session.
When the house went into session
there was less than a dozen men on
the floor.
"The chair does not believe,” he said,
“that members realize the serious con
dition of things in the houso. We are
near the end of the session and there
are still half of the appropriation bills
on the hook.
"The chair does not want to see those
bills go over to the extraordinary ses
sion and I do not believe the members
do. The chair does not want to set
himself up as boss, but the only way
for us to get this work done is foif
members to stay in their places oil
the floor of the house.”
The fortifications bill, the second sup
ply measure to go through both houses
was finally passed today. The executive,
legislative and judicial bill is the only
other measure sent to the president.
Five other appropriation measures have
been passed by the house and are pend
ing in the senate, one is under consid
eration in the house, two are on the
house calendar awaiting action, and
four have yet to be reported from the
various committees.
New Reidsville Lights
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
REIDSVILLE, Ga., Feb. 10.—Several
homes are being equipped with the new
electric lights. The lights are a great
improvement for Reidsville, and helps
the appearance of the town very much.
Worthless Paper Was
Substituted for Bundle
That Contained $4,200
Liquor Men Win First Bloodi New York Broker Refused to
When Webb Bill Is Not Divulge Information to
Substituted Money Probers
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON; Feb. 10.—The fight
against ‘‘Old John Barleycorn,” which
was waged with signal success in the
house on Saturday, was transferred to
the senate this afternoon.
The batteries of the white ribbon ad
vocates were trained on ‘‘Old John,”
and the senate was regaled with lots
of delightful temperance talk. The op
ponents of the measure met the issue
squarely, and it was agreed that a final
vote of the bill and pending amend
ments should be taken at 6 o’clock. The
temperance advocates have votes enough
to put over the measure, but there is
doubt as to whether they will get it
in such shape as to insure its final en
actment at this session of the con
gress.
The prohibitionists had hoped to sub-
*-‘itute the Webb bill as it passed the
house for the senate measure, known
as the Kenyon bill. When unanimous
consent for thi # s purpose was a3ked,
Senator Sutherland objected. This gave
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—George G.
Henry, of v New York, member of Salo
mon & Co., • bankers, was indicted by
the federal grand jury today for con
tempt of a congress committee, for re
fusing to tell the house money trust
investigators the names of the national
bank officers who participated in the
profits of a syndicate operation in Cal
ifornia petroleum stock. A bench war
rant for his arrest was issued.
to the liquor people a new hope. While
the Kenyon and Webb bills are the
same in general terms, their language
is different.
If the Kenyon, and not the Webb, bill
is passed by the senate, then the ques
tion goes to conference, where it may
be hung up for the remainder of the
session.
The plan of the prohibitionists is to
make another effort to substitute the
Webb bill for the Kenyon bill, and it
may succeed.
The senate galleries are crowded with
women interested in the legislation.
Roddenbery’s Bill Passes.
Only Eight Votes Against.
Measure
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 10.—The
house today passed Congressman Rod
denbery’s bill prohibiting the intermar
riage of the races in the District of Co
lumbia. The vote was 09 to 8. Repre
sentatives Mann, Fowler and Madden,
of Illinois; Kendall, of Iowa: Hamil
ton, of Michigan; Bartholdi, of Missouri;
Mondell, of Wyoming, and LaFollette
cast the only votes against the measure.
Roddenbery introduced the bill short
ly after the marriage of Jack Johnson
to a white woman in Chicago, lie has
made a couple of speeches on the sub
ject in the house. He and other south
erners are delighted with the progress
of the legislation. An effort vill be
made to put it through the senate at
this session.
It is the hope of Roddenfcery that
states in which the intermarriage of
the races is permitted will follow the
action of congress with reference to the
District of Columbia, and that within a
few months the marriage of negroes,
Chinese or Malays to white persons
will be outlawed throughout the coun
try.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 10.—Re
ward in the sum $550, has been offered
l)y the Hamilton National bank for the
capture of Urban Burnette, A. E., and
Bernard Darrah, suspected of substitut
ing a package of worthless paper for a
bundle of $4,200 in currency. If the
three boys sought are not captured to
day or early next week the reward will
be increased to $1,000.
Latest obtainable information is to
the effect that the boys are in Juarez,
Mexico, just across the line from El
Paso. The detectives are still waiting
in El Paso, hoping the boys will cross
the border back into America- Arrest
in Mexico would involve the necessity
of extradition.
Mother Gives Life
To Save Her Child
From Dashing Auto
(fly Associated ±*ress.)
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 10.—Realiz
ing that she could not escape the
wheels of an onrushing automobile
which was approaching her, Mrs. Harry
C. Langemo, twenty-four years old,
threw her eighteen-months-old baby to
the curbing of a downtown street today
and was herself crushed beneath the
machine. She was fatally injured, but
her child was saved. The driver was
arrested.
Says Mrs, Armor, Ar
raigning-Washington
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, D. O., Feb. 10.—That
the administration of affairs in the dis
trict of Columbia is dominated by the
brewers of Milwaukee, and that Wash
ington. instead of being an example for
every city in the country, is a haven for
brewers, are the charges brought against
the present administration by Mrs. Mary
Harris Armor, who conducted a mass
meeting in the new National theater yes
terday afternoon. Mrs. Armor, who is
called “the Georgia cyclone,” is making
a campaign in favor of the Kenyon <‘red
light” bill and the Jones-Works excise
bill.
Long before the time scheduled for
the meeting to begin the theater was
filled and enough people were on Penn
sylvania avenue to form an overflow
meeting. The greater number of the
audience were men, which fact Mrs.
Armor commented on, saying that it
pleased her to see these who might do
good to the bill showing interest in its
fate.
Mrs. Armor stated that those who
were opposed to the bill were caup ;
it to be delayed because they kneyL
was a sentiment in favor of the'%.;
ure and the opponents were afraiT
let the matter come to a point. As vt
was, she declared, the inaugural parade
will have to pass by fifty-seven saloons
on its line of march, every one of which
will be crowded with men degrading
themselves with whisky.
Wife of Ex-President Marries
Professor Preston Earlier
■ Than Was Expected
Yeggs Get $6,000
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 10.—A Jas
per, Tenn., special says the Marion Trust
and Banking company vault there was
blown by yeggmen and about $6,000 in
cash and $350 in jewelery taken. A
telephone operator was held up to pre
vent an alarm.
Jailer Sends His Family Away
• and Will Defend
Negro
(By Associated Press.)
AIKEN, S. C., Feb. 10.—The capture,
confession and bringing to the Aiken jail
of Harris Miles, the negro who killed Mr.
Bradford Courtney, produced a near-
lynching Sunday.
It was generally understood that the
negro would be* brought here from Au
gusta late Sunday, but Sheriff Howard
slipped him into the jail Sunday morn
ing. Though he kept the fact very quiet,
during the day a crowd began to form
Later information came to Aiken that
another crowd was coming from Horse
Creek Valley, and the negro would be
taken.
Lynching talk increased and Solicitor
Gunter and the mayor were notified.
They held a hurried meeting, which re
sulted in Jailer .Nollie Robinson sending
his family away from his residence, in
side the jail wall, and putting a force
of armed deputies in the house.
All night the jail was guarded by
armed deputies on/the inside of that
building and other deputies in the jail
er’s house.
Sheriff Howard has declared that he
is fully determined that the negro shall
not be taken, but will go to trial in the
court house for his crime.
(By Associated Press.)
PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 10.—Mrs.
Grover Cleveland and Th'hnas Je^ Pres
ton, Jr., wei»e married at 10:30 o’clock
this morning by President John Grier
llibben, of Princeton university in Pros
pect, the executive residence, of the
university.
No preliminary announcement had been
made of the marriage and the utmost
simplicity wa^ observed in the cere
mony.
Because of the recent illness of Mr.
Preston, the wedding was private, the
other guests in addition to the mem
bers of the two immediate families be
ing President and Mrs. Hibben, Miss
Elizabeth Hibben and Andrew F. West,
dean of Princeton’s graduate school.
The bride wore a simple silk gofan
and carried roses.
Mr. and Mrs. Preston will spend the
remainder of the winter in Florida.
The ceremony was performed in the
main drawing room of President Hib-
’ in’s home.
Prof. Preston and the members of
his family, including his father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pres
ton, of Aurora, N. Y., his brother-in-
law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. John
Hoppen and his other sister, Mrs. Flor
ence Preston-Jones, arrived in Prince
ton this morning and went directly to
"Prospect.”
The members of Mrs. Cleveland’s
family included her debutante daughter,
Esther; her younger daughter, who
came here from school in Connecticut;
and her two sons, Richard and Fran
cis.
State Department Says Dis
patch of Gunboats' Is
Simply Precautionary
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Movements
of the United tSates warships to Central
America, which became fully known to
day, put th6 Central American lega
tions here into a state of flutter and sent
the Latin-American ministers hurrying
to assure Secretary Knox that all was
tranquil in their countries. 4
Before noon practically all the min
isters had communicated with the state
department to inquire the reason for
the naval demonstration and disclaim
existence of any conditions indicating
trouble.
At any rate, the state department was
unaffected by any of the representa
tions, as was evident by the fact that
in addition to the four warships, either
under way or about to be ordered to
Central America, the gunboat Tacoma,
at Boston, ( was also added to the list
and her commander was instructed to
hold his ship in readiness to relieve or
Reinforce the vessels oil the Atlantic
coast of Central America. - *
It was intimated in official quarters
that the purpose of the naval move
ment to maintain the status quo in Cen
tral America, so far as that can be
done by the restraining influence of
warships, until the Incoming adminis
tration has had an opportunity to de
fine its policy and decide upon its atti
tude toward the Pan-American repub
lics.
Authentic reports of uprisings, coin
cident with ,the change of admifiistra-
tion in this country, determined Secre
tary Knox to guara American interests
by having a strong American naval
force at-strategic points. It was point
ed out today that his action does not
in any way commit the incoming admin
istration, which, of course, may with
draw the warships at once, if that
course is regarded as desirable.
SNEED FACES TRIAL FOR LARGE ATTENDANCE AT
E FIRST DISTRICT SCHOOL
Boyce Eloped With Texan's
Wife-Acquitted Tor Killing
Elder Boyce
(By Associated Press.)
VERNON, Tex., Feb. 10.—The case of
J. B. Sneed, charged with the murder of
A1 Boyce, Jr., at Amarillo, Tetf., Sep
tember 14, last, was called here today.
Sneed lias been twice tried for killing
A. G. Boyce, Sr., father of the man
who eloped' with Mrs. Sneed. The first
trial was a disagreement of the jury
and the second an acquittal. Sneed also
had a habeas corpus hearing at Amaril
lo after killing young Boyce and two
weeks ago Beach B. Epting, a-ciised of
acting as Sneed’s accomplice in killing
young Boyce, was acquitted at Memphis,
Texas.
The Amarillo killing, which Sneed
does^ not deny and for which his trial
is called today, occurred nearly a year
.after the elopement. Sneed, as testified
at his habeas corpus hearing, lived in
Amarillo disguised as a bearded laborer
for several days before he saw Boyce,
whom he shot on sight. As justifica
tion the defense claimed this was the
first meeting of the two men since the
elopement and also that Boyce had been
plotting to get Mrs. Sneed a second time.
After the Canada elopement Mrs.
Sneed returned to her husband.
Over a Hundred Pupils Now
in Attendance, With Fine
Outlook
STATESBORO, Ga., Feb. 10.—The
First District Agricultural school is
well into the spring term, with one
of the best attendances it has ever
experienced.
There are now about 125 pupils in
attendance at this school, and the in
stitution is in a most flourishing con
dition.
It hasfbeen the policy of Prof. E.
C. J. Dickens, head of the school, nev-
ed to turn away an ambitious pupil
who wanted an education but who
might be without sufficient means.
It has been his policy also to se
lect the best possible talent for his
facuty, with th e result that the cur
riculum at this school has no superior
of its kind anywhere.
The progressive policy will be fos
tered more and more every year, the
idea being to make the course at this
institution as complete and thorough
in its way as that of the colleges and
universities. ^