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VOLUME XIII.
ATLANTA. GA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1913.
NO. 18.
ALTAR AWAITS COUPLE
IN WHITE HOUSE WEDDING
so
Claims Huerta's Men, Though
' Armed- With Cannon, Fled
From Constitutionalists at
Terra Blanca
House Adjourns Over Bridal
Day and Senate Will Quit
Work Tuesday
(By Associated Press.)
EL PASO, Tex„, Nov. 24.—General
Francisco Villa, commander of the con
stitutionalist force, has returned to
Juarez from the south with fifty men
and reported that the federals after a
brief battle fled from the constitution
alists below Terra Blanca,. twenty-two
miles south of Juarez.
General Villa said his battle line ex
tended for four miles at a point below
Terra Blanca and that the federals were
in retreat. Villa said a federal train
came up in £he night, but that the fed-
crals, when driven back, boarded their
train again and left for the south.
“They trned their cannon on us when
we were several miles away,” said Fier
ro. “We had no artillery, but kept
moving toward them. Myf men were
not mounted, but they did not hesitate
a moment to go against the enemy,
who outnumbered us greatly. Imagine
our surprise when we got within a mile
of the train to see the federals reload
their artillery and back down the track.”
Though Nearly Bankrupt
Huerta Says He’ll Stick
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 24.—Resigned
apparently to those conditions which
make it necessary to carry on a dilatory
campaign against his enemies, President
Huerta and his official dependents ap
peared serene today, convinced that the
United States will not take more dras
tic measures toward the Mexican gov
ernment than those already taken.
It has been rumored that congress
would not continue to meet; that it
would be automatically dissolved, and
that General Huerta was about to quit
office. All these rumors have been dis
proved by congress launching itself into
what promises to be a prolonged ses
sion. It is expected that today congress
i\ill take up the ratification or nullifi
cation of the presidential elections, and
it is understood that these will be an
nulled, that new elections will be called
and that President Huerta will remain
at the head of affairs.
IN DESPERATE; STRAITS.
According to his intimates, no one
realizes more fully than General Huerta
the desperate straits of his government,
but he has reiterated his intention of
pounding away at his enemies until he
or they have won. At the national pal
ace the idea of intervention is scoffed
at and the suggestion of a blockade is
.received with skepticism; while his
ports,might be taken easily, it would be
impossible for invaders to get as far as
the capital.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Finishing
touches on arrangements for the White
House wedding were in evidence in "the
historic east room today and a rehearsal
of the ceremony late in the afternoon
completed all the plans for tomorrow’s
program when Jessie WilsOn, the presi
dent’s second daughter, will become the #
wife of Francis Bo\^es Sayre.
Gifts and guests Continued to arrive
during the day. While the number of
guests will be much smaller than at the
wedding of Alice Roosevelt and Nicho
las Longworth, a distinguished company
has been invited and the ceremony to
morrow promises to be brilliant scene.
The house of representatives has ad
journed until Wednesday, and while the
senate has planned to work on the day
of the wedding it may adjourn in time
to .permit those of its membership who
have been invited to attend.
Dr. Winfred T. Grerifell, the Labrador
coast mission worker and close friend of
Mr. Sayre, who is to be best man, ar
rived here today. Mrs. Sayre, mother of
the groom-to-be, was expected late in
the afternoon to be a gdest at the
White House. Numbers of guests from
Princeton also began arriving. Many
members of the Princeton faculty and
veteran residents of the town who have
been long and ctose friends of the prest
ident and Mrs. Wilson and their daugh
ters have been invited.
Although no guest, list has been per
mitted to become public at the White
House, it is known that the invitations
have been limited almost entirely to per
sonal friends of Mr. Sayre, Miss Wilson
and the two families. No invitations
have been issued to senators or repre
sentatives, as such, though a few have
been invited, and outside Of the cabinet,
the diplomatic corps and^ some high of
ficials of the army and navy, invitations
to official Washington have been very
scarce. The commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia, who are the heads of
the local government, have not received
invitations.
Negro Shot in Mouth
Spits Revolver Bullet
Out and Gets Well
THREE COMMISSIONERS
NAMED EOR PHILIPPINES
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-President
Wilson today nominated the three fol
lowing named for American members of
the Philippine commission:
Secretary of public instructions and
vice governor of the Philippine islands,
Henderson S. Martin, of Kansas.
Secvretary of commerce and police,
Clinton L. Riggs, of Baltimore. Md.
Secretary of the interior, Winfred T.
Denison, of New York.
Wanamaker to Tell
Of Failure to Pay
Duty on His Goods
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—John Wan-
amaker, of Philadelphia, one oi the best
known merchants in the country, appear-
. ed late today before Attorffey General
McReynolds at the department of jus
tice to tell what he knows of the alleged
1 allure of his Philadelphia hous4 to pay
1 the full duties on thousands of dollars’
worth of goods imported during a period
covering many years. Mr. Wanamaker
appeared with his attorney, Henry A.
Wise, former United States district at
torney at New York.
A previous case against the Wana
maker firm was settled in the closing
days of the last administration by the
payment of $100,000, acknowledged by
officials familiar with its ramifications,
possibly to be twice the amount of duty
that should have been collected. Since
the Wilson administration came into
power, Henry Arnold, special assistant
lo the attorney general, has spent sev
eral months in further investigation of
Lhis case, and has developed a new line
of evidence. The department had no
comment to make tonight on the case,
but a decision as to whether it shall
be pressed will be reached soon.
BANK BANDIT
GETS THE COIN
LAUREL, Miss., Nov. 24.—Unobserved
except by his victim, a robber entered
the Bank of Heidelberg at Heidelberg,
Miss., shortly before noon today, held
the cashier up at a pistol point, got
about $2,000, locked the cashier in
a vault and escaped on a
freight trttin thaht passing nearby.
The cashief was liberated half an hour
later and gave the alarm.
Women Boycott Egg
Dealers in Attempt
To Bring Down Price
j CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—In an effort to
reduce the price of eggs from 47 cents
(.0 32 cents a dozen, members of the
Chicago Clean Food club today began a
two weeks boycott of egg dealers.
“Last year when the price of eggs
soared, we had an egg sale,” said Mrs.
Caroline Bley, president of the club.
“This year we cannot do it because the
wholesaler is at fault and not the re
taller.”
On indisputable authority, a negro
who was shot in the mouth the night
of November 11, spat the bullet out al
most immediately, and ten days later, or
last Saturday, he was dismissed from
Grady hospital as cured, notwithstand
ing he had a hole about as big as a
half dollar in the top of his skull where
the surgeons had taken put a piece- of
bone.
Dr. F. K. Boland the Atlanta surgeon,
is the authority Who vouches for the
ithenticity of this story, which the
hospital records and attaches confirm in
detail.
Will Jones is the name of the negro.
He is twenty-three years old. In a
fight November 11 he was shot in the
mouth and his skull was broken by a
blow with a bludgeon. A negro physi
cian patched him up, but next day he
Was so nearly dead from the lick on his
cranium that his relatives hurried him
to Grady hospital. Dr. Boland operated,
on him that day, to relieve the depressed
fracture of the skull.
After that was done, a search was be-
un for the bullet. No hole in the back
of his neck showed its point of exit-
Assuming that it remained in the ne
gro’s neck, the surgeons examined him
under the X-ray. No tnillet was visible.
Two particles of lead were seen imbed
ded in the back of the negro’s throat.
Then it was related that the negro’s
brother, accompanying him to the nos-
pital, had told a strange yarn about
Will spitting the bullet out of- his
mouth right after he was shot, and had
been laughed at for his information. It
became plain at once that the negro
had told the truth, for the bullet was
gone.
The bullet, a pistol slug, went through
the right upper lip of the negro, N shat
tered several teeth, nicked his jawbone,
made a hole in the right side of hla
tongue, and knocked a dent in the back
of his throat, but did not enter there
deeply enough to stick; so he spat it
out a fe^r moments later while he still
was seeing stars and wondering what
had happened. He remembered nothing
about that part of the accident, physi
cians say.
Road Pays Only $750
To Mother of Soldier;
Judge Summons Agent
CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—R. J. Chester,
of Mobile, Ala., claim agent for the Mo
bile and Ohio railroad, is ordered to be in
Chicago Monday to explain to Federal
Judge K. M. Landis how he induced
Mrs. Mary Panek, a widow, to accept
$750 for the death of her son, Edward,
a United States soldier.
Panek, with others, lost his life in a
wreck near Ruckatunna, Miss., October
16. Mrs. Panek sued *the railroad for
$10,000 and when the suit was called,
Mrs. Panek notified the court that she
ha- settled with the claim agent.
“I got $750. At first the agent offered
$400 and graduallly raised until I
thought if I didn’t take $750, I wouldn’t
get that,” she said.
“Seven hundred and fifty dollars for
a United States soldier,” ruminated
Judge Landis. “I would like to know
how the claim agent persuaded this
woman to accept $750 for the life of her
son. Chester must be here Monday.
Authors Try to Reform
Worst Boy in Nation;
Jack London Is in Glut
PITTSBURG, Nov. 24.—Juvenile and
truant officers here were today asked by
Jack Robbins, president of the National
Fellowship club of Chicago, for assist
ance in finding the “toughest” boy in the
city. After he is found he will be offered
membership in the Last Chance Boys’
club and, with eleven others, taken to
a ranch near Reno, Nev., where he will
he given an opportuntiy to become a
good man.
Recently Upton Sinclair, Robert Hun
ter, Jack London and Jack Robbins
formed an organization having for its
object the saving of a dozen of the
worst boys in the country.
ANOTHER POSITION HE CONTINUES TO OCCUPY.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
FRACTICftLLY COMPLETE
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—President
Wilson’s annual message, which he will
read to congress, will be finished to
morrow, but just when it will be de
livered will depend upon the conven
ience of both houses in arranging a*
joint session. Hitherto thq president’s
message has been read the day after
the convening of congress.
It is expected that the president will
dwell considerably on the need for early
action on the currency bill, and that
he will develop in a general way the
attitude of the administration toward
trust legislation, leaving to the con
gressional committees the tasks of
writing specific remedies. He also will
refer to the Mexican situation.
( ‘Uncle Bob” Davis,
Slayer of His Son,
Is Dying in Prison
DALTON, Ga. <Nov. 24.—“Uncle Bob”
Davis, the aged Confederate veteran who
shot and killed his son, Hewlett Davis,
in Mill Creek Valley and was sentenced
to four years at the prison farm, is in
a dying condition. Yesterday afternoon
his relatives here received two tele
grams, asking them to hurry to Mil-
ledgeville if they wanted to see him
alive again. “Uncle Bob” is about seven
ty-five years old.
The old man has been forgiven, by
the members of his family, his broken
and sorrowful condition winning them
over after he had shot down the son
and brother, and when the telegram was
received four members of his family
hastened to Milledgeville.
Wilson Wedding Cake
Will Not Be So Large
As Reports Indicated
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Anyone sup
posing the White House will resemble a
bake shop during the next few days will
be disappointed, because Miss Jessie Wil
son’s wedding cake will be a very mod
est affair.
Hundreds of letters pouring into the
executive offices asking for a piece oi
the cake indicated the wide-spread im
pression that it would be an extravagant
exhibition of baking To comply with the
requests White House ‘officials would
have to get a hundred cakes.
Two big trucks rolled up to the White
House today laden with large boxes or
presents, mostly cut glass and “handle
with care” articles.
Aviator Beach Has
Close Call at Dothan
DOTHAN, Ala., Nov. 24.—Presence of
mind and prompt action saved A. C.
Beach, the well known aviator, from
serious and perhaps fatal injury here
yesterday when his motor stopped while
he was making an exhibition flight be
fore three thousand spectators.
Mr. Beach had just left the ground
on his sdbond flight when his motor
suddenly stopped. The aeroplane was
passing over an orchard and headed
over a skirt of woods at the time. Turn
ing half way round Beach cleared the
orchard and made a safe landing in a
corn field, breaking two stay wires and
displacing a joint in the frame work
of his machine. Repairs were made
in about forty-five minutes.
Beach displayed remarkable nerve by
rising from the corn field and contin
uing his flight, making most spectacu
lar maneuvers and dips.
SALOONS DOUBLE LOCKED
BY RUtiC, SAYS WRIGHT
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ROME, Ga., Nov. 24.—That the recent
opinion of the supreme court in the Ma
con near-beer cases has been miscon
strued by press and public; that it
closes and double locks the near-beer
saloons throughout the state, instead of
favoring them and allowing them to re
sume business; is the statement made
by Seaborn Wright, who has just re
turned from a lecture tour throughout
the state. Mr. Wright declares he will
devote the ensuing year, if necessary,
to a fight to close every near-beer saloon
in Georgia.
Today he issued the following state
ment:
“The report of the effect of the de
cision sent out from Atlanta and pub
lished in most of the daily papers was
not only misleading but absolutely
false. I presume, of course, that it was
ignorance and not a deliberate effort to
deceive that inspirea the Atlanta re
port.
“The supreme court sustains in its
decision every contention I have made,
and the order of Judge Mathews closing
the Macon saloons, as amended by the
supreme court, makes it tne order 1
have taken when the saloons and clubs
have been closed in Rome.
“I repeat what I have said a hundred
times: a near-beer saloon cannot operate
ii- Georgia as they do today, and any
one citizen in any city in Georgia can
close the doors of all of them by the
injunction method.
“The decision of the supreme court
did not open the Macon saloons; it dou
ble locked them, and it will close and
double lock every saloon in Georgia.
“All that the law enforcement forces
in Georgia ask of the daily press is a
fair fight in Georgia. If officers elected
by the whisky and beer element in our
cities will not enforce law, private citi
zens will. Private citizens have today
the same power that our governor and
solicitor general have always had; the
only difference is that a governor or
solicitor in Georgia could close Qiem ail
in a day if they believed in law enforce
ment.
“I have cancelled most of my lecture
engagements after Christmas. I will
give a solid year, if necessary, fighting
the brutal domination of the cities of
Georgia by the whisky trust and brew
ery combine.”
Woman Who Wrote
“ Votes for Women” at
White House Is Fined
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Miss Lucy
Burns paid a fine of one dollar in police
court today for chalking the White
House sidewalks with “Votes.-for Wom
en,”
The judge proposed to release Miss
Burns on her personal bond not to re
peat the offense, which is a violation
of a city ordinance.
“I want this thing settled and over
with,” said Miss Burns, so the court
made it a dollar, and she left, the center
of admiration of her suffragette sisters.
Maine Woods Claims
12 Victims of Hunters;
Thought Them Deer
PORTLAND, Me., Nov. 24.—Twelve
fatalities have been reported in Maine
since the hunting season opened Oc
tober 1, and there is still another month
in which game may be shot. Ten
serious accidents also have been record
ed. Of the fatal accidents three were
due to the victims being mistaken for
an! mala
IED INCREASE WEIGHT
LIMIT! PARCEL POST
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Nov. 24.—Postmaster
General Burleson has recommended to
the interstate*commerce commission that
the maximum weight of parcel post
packages be ii\reased from twenty to
fifty pounds for all distances.
* Before the weight limit is increased
it will be necessary under the law for
the commission to pass affirmatively
on Mr. Burleson’s recommendation. It
Is expected to take such action.
The* proposed change will not affect
existing parcel post rates. The lower
rates will continue to apply only to mat
ter transported within the first and sec
ond zones.
White House Dinners
Scheduled for Year;
Eight Affairs on Bill
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Announce
ment was made at the White House
today of the dates on which official
receptions and dinners will be given by
the president and Mrs. Wilson during
the coming winter season. They are:
December 18—Dinner to the cabinet.
January 6—Reception to the diplo
matic corps.
January 13—Dinner to the diplomatic
corps.
January 20—Judicial reception.
January 27—Dinner to the supreme
court of the United States.
February 3—Congressional reception.
February 10—Dinne: to the speaker
of the house.
February 17—Army and navy recep
tion.
Explosion of Alcohol
Heater on Steamship
Almost Causes Panic
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Passengers on
the steamship Anacona, which reached
New York from Naples, had a bad
scare Monday when an alcohol heater
exploded in a pantry and started a fire
which spread rapidly to the saloon pas
sageway and the foyer companionway.
Officers and crew seized fire extinguish- 1
ers ci.nd put out the flames after half an
hour’s work.
Many of the passengers had retired
when the explosion occurred, and were
inclined to be panicky until the officers
assured them the vessel was in no dan
ger.
German Divorces Gain;
Marriage Crisis There,
Declare Investigators
BERLIN, Nov. 24.—Statisticians have
confirmed that a great increase in the
number of divorces and a large' decrease
in the* number of marriages in Germany
have occurred during recent years, and
claim to have discovered a “marriage
crisis.”
The year 1911 shows 15,780 divorces,
or 24 per cent of 100,000 inhabitants as
against 12,180 or 20 per 100,000 in 1906.
The number of marriages per 100,000 in
habitants in 1906 was 8,200, as compared
with 7,800 in 1911.
The divorce statistics relating to Ber
lin show an average of 96 per 100,000
in 1911, against 62 per 100,000 for the
period of 1901 to 1904.
H. ROBINS' FUNERAL AT
TRINITY CHURCH TUESDAY
Atlanta Pastor Stricken Fatally
While Preaching in El-
berton Church
BY REV. EDWARD G. MACKAV.
ELBERTON, Ga., Nov. 25.—Follow
ing special memorial services a big
delegation of ministers and laymen left
here shortly after noon today for At
lanta as a special escort for tlje body
of Dr. John B. Robins, pastor of Trin
ity church, Atlanta, whose death oc
curred 4 here last night following an at
tack of acute indigestion while he was
preaching to a congregation of 1.200 in*
the First Methodist church.
Thd funeral train is ‘scheduled to
reached the Atlanta Union station at
4:55 o’clock this afternoon. It will be
met by the stewards of Trinity church,
and delegations from the Scottish Rites
bodies, Knights Templar and the
Shrine and taken to Trinity church,
where it will lie in state until 10
o’clock Tuesday morning, when funeral
services will be held.
The funeral services will be con
ducted by Rev. A. W. Quillian, pastor
of the Inman Park Methodist church,
Atlanta, and Rabbi David Marx, of the
Jewish synagogue, Atlanta, assisted by
Rev. R. C. Cleckler, of Elberton, and
Rev. W. P. King, of Monroe. The in
terment will be in West View cemetery.
Dr. Stiles, Bradley, a former pastor
of Trinity* now of the Congregational
church, Worcester, Mass., and a close
friend of Dr. Robins, was asked to as
sist in the funeral services, but was in
Chicago, and could not reach Atlanta
in time.
Affecting scenes marked the special
memorial service held by the North
Georgia conference this morning in
tribute to Dr. Robins. Friends spoke in
the. highest terms of his life and work,
and\£ollo)ving the services the entire
conference marched with bared heads
to the railway station, where the body
was placed cm the train for Atlanta. I
Dr. Robins was fatally stricken while
preaching at the First Methodist church
here last night, and died an hour later
at the home of the pastor of the church',
Rev. R. C. Cleckler.
Lieutenants Eric Ellington and
, Hugh Kelly Added to Long
List of Dead Flyers in Mili
tary Circles
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Nov. 24.—Lieuten
ants Ellington and Kelly, first division
army aviation corps, were killed today,
in a fall of about eighty feet in an
aeroplane. The accident occurred across
the bay from San Diego oir the grounds
of the army school on North Island.
Hugh M. Kelly was first lieutenant in
the Twenty-Sixth infantry and Eric
Ellington, first lieutenant In the Third
cavalry. Lieutenant Kelly was a native
of \Louiseille. He had been commandant
at the State university. He was a son
of Colonel R. M. Kelly, who was well
known for many years as editor of The
Louisville Commercial.
Lieutenant Ellington was born in
North Carolina In 1889 and his next of
kin is a brother, J. O. Ellington, of Ral
eigh. He was detailed to the aviation
service in September, 1912, and has
seen service on aviation fields at Mar
blehead, Mass., College Park, Md., Palm
Beach, Fla., and Texas City. He went
to San Diego last Juno. Lieutenant Kel
ly was detailed to the aeronautics di
vision last March and has been at Texan
)ity and San Diego.
The deaths of Lieutenants Ellington
and Kelly today make a total of fuor*
teen fatalities from aviation in the gov
ernment service, thirteen in the army
and one in the navy, since experiments
first began at Fort Myer in 1908. Seven
have met death this year.
In aviation accidents of all kinds the
world over, 368 persons have been killed
since 1908, this year's numbering 197.
Everybody Does Tango
But Father, and He's
Taking Lessons Now
Imperial Limited Train
Wrecked in Ontario;
Many Narrowly Escape
(Special Cable to The Journal.)
LONDON.—“Mother, I've got something
so important to ask you-”
“Oh, I thought I told you a girl of your
age has nothing of importance to thins
about. Now, understand and quite clear
ly, dear, if the something important is
a love affair there’s no use our gping
into the matter for at least another
year."
“Much more serious than that, moth
er.”
“More serious than marriage? Queer
views you modern girls hold, to be sure!
Well?”
“Mother, may I learn the Tango?"
“Really,*the tango! What next, I won
der? I suppose you’ll be wanting to go
to music halls!”
“Say yes, mother!”
“Certainly not! I’ll have no daughter
of mine wriggling herself around ball
rooms with strange men.”
“I’ll do it with father."
“Indeed, and where’s father going to
learn the tango?"
"Oh, but he is learning it, mother.
Look, I found this book of tickets—mind,
you’ll tear them if you snatch it like
that."
“Hold your tongue—the beast! He’s
paying half a crown ft lesson more than
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov. 24.—
Many persons narrowly escaped death
early today when the first section of the
Canadian Pacific railroad’s Imperial
Limited, westbound from Montreal to
Vancouver, was wrecked near Caldwell*
175 miles east of Fort William, Ont The
locomotive fireman was drowned.
The wreck was caused by the engine
jumping the track at a point where the
road skirts Lake Superior on a ledge
thirty to fifty feet above the water. Thei
#n&ind plunged into tire-
the fireman to his death. The engineer
escaped by jumping. Baggage cars, duly
and dining cars and the heavily loaded
Pullmans remained on the top of the
grade.
A storm had prostrated telegraph
wires and Canadian Pacific railroqld of
ficials experienced difficulty in commu
nicating with trainmen at the wreck.
At first it was thought the accident
had occurred near Ross Port, where a
sink hole has been giving considerable
trouble.
I am!"
“Oh, mother! So you’re learning it too.
All right. It’s a bargain. I shan’t tell
tales."
Everybody’s doing the tango.
Tsarina Most Unhappy
Woman Although Stork
Is Hovering Over Palace
(Special Cable to The Journal.)
ST. PETERSBURG.—An interesting
event is shortly expected in the Rus
sian Imperial family. The tsarina is at
Livadia, the tsar’s residence on the
Crimea coast, and her rr edical attend
ant has recently been ordered there.
Unfortunately, the health dt her maj
esty has given cause for so much un
easiness of late that Russia awaits the
expected event with m little anxiety.
Those who have seen the tsarina re
cently admit she has aged greatly; in
deed, since the mysterious illness of the
little tsarevitch, she has been a changed
woman. The long years she has spent
at the Russian court—years filled with
dread lest her husband should be as
sassinated—have also left their mark
on the unhappy empress, and for a long
time she has lived the life almost of a
recluse. The sad part of it all is that
before her marriage to the tsar in 1894
she had such a bright and happy dis
position that she was known everywhere
as “Princess Sunshine."
PITTSBURG, Nov. 24.-For three
weeks automobilists have been flirting
with death as they drove along Grant
Boulevard, the favorite motor track be
tween the fashionable east end and
downtown Pittsburg.
During that time patrolmen have col
lected 320 sticks of dynamite apparent
ly scattered systematically along the
road. Late yesterday they located
another lot in the boulevard and arrest
ed Herman Leidman, alleging he knew
something of the robbery of a con
tractor’s magazine from which they de
clare the dynamite was stolen.
Warm Weather Spoils
Many Tons of Meat;
Public Given Warning
Accepts Banishment to
“Dry’l State of Kansas3
In Preference to Prison
(By Associated Press.)
FRANKLIN, Pa., Nov. 24.—Given his
choice between a 30-year sentence c*
the penitentiary or banishment to the
“dry” state of Kansas by Judge G. S.
Criswell in criminal court yesterday,
William Hogan, of Franklin, chose the
latter. Hogan, who had pleaded guilty
to a charge of larceny, was liable to an
automatic sentence of 30 years because
he had twice before been convicted on
the same charge. Friends win make up
a purse so Hogan can go to Kansas.
CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Warning of dan
ger of poisoning from tons of meat
spoiled by the unusually mild weather
was Issued today by the city bureau of
food inspectors. A great quantity of
meats was distributed, in Chicago last
week for consumption on Thanksgiving.
The temperature rose and remained in
the sixties for several days. No prepa
ration had been made to keep the extra
stock of meat in the coolers and a con
siderable per cent of it spoiled,
Friday and Saturday the bureau con
demned 6,000 pounds of rabbits and hun
dreds of fowls, but the situation is be
yond the control of the inspectors. Dr.
B. E. Sherman, chief of the bureau, as
serted the Thanksgiving rush caused
producers to pack meats before the ani
mal heat had died out and shipped them
in non-refrigerator cars.
“Products in the state of decompo
sition can be detected by their odor,"
Dr. Sherman said. “B’owls and game
only slightly spoiled are harder to de
tect, but just as likely to cause severe
intestinal disorders.”
PHONE TALK
OVER OCEAN
They Use Autos to
Hunt Wild Turkeys
Down in Old Sumter
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
AMERICUS, Ga., Nov. 24.—While driv
ing in Americus late yesterday evening,
L. D. Lockhart ran his automobile ac
cidentally into a large flock of wild
turkeys crossing the road in Muckalee
swamp killing a big gobbler, which he
secured as a trophy. Another motoring
party ran into a flock of forty-seven
wild turkeys near town, but the entire
bunch escaped the wheels.
BERLIN, Nov. 24.—The transmission
for nearly 4,000 miles of a wireless tele
phone communication from Neustad.t-
Am-Ruebenberg, Hanover, to New Jer
sey, was accomplished on October 27,
by a German wireless company, accord
ing to a report submitted today by A^L
miral Gerog August Emsmann to the
German Shipbuilding society.
The message was sent and received in
the middle of the afternon, a time con
sidered unfavorable for wireless com
munication. The two stations are over
800 feet high. Earlier attempts had
proved that clearly emitted tones were
audible and finally a spoken message
was transmitted and distinctly received. »
Emperor William and Prince Henry,
of Prussia, have taken a great personal
interest in the experiment*.