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THE WEATHER.
Forecast: Showers tonight or to
morrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 66:
10 a. m,, 68: 12 noon. 72; 2 p. m.. 76.
VOL. X. NO. 236.
LIVING COST
IN Mil
HIGHEST IN
IIIBS
Prices of Important Staples
Go Sky High and Keep
Going.
MEAT HIGHER THAN
EVER: STILL SOARING
Retailers Say Wholesalers Are
Worse Than They Are.
Plead Poverty.
Wholesale prices of staple food prod
ucts in Atlanta are higher today than
at any time in the past 31 years, and
while retail prices have jumped re
markably during the past month, they
have not increased in proportion to the
' w holesale.
1 During the month of April the gen
*|rai advance was almost 20 per cent.
uF Here is the story of the increased
of living in figures:
May 3, Aprii 3, May 3,
1912 1912. 1911.
Wfcteat. No 2 red... .$1.23’4 1.0844 .96
C®. No. 2 mixed... .92 .83 .62
Oats, No 3 white 64 .61 .39.%
F’our. Minn, patents. 5.80 5.50 510
Choice lard 11 30 10.00 8.45
Mess pork, bbl 20.25 19 00 18.25
Beer family 17.00 15.50 15.25
Cbfee 14% 14% .11%
The foregoing quotations are whole
sale But on the wholesale price de
pend al! the fluctuations in the cost of
living. Transportation, middlemen's
profits, cold storage the trusts, all are
to a forger or less degree constant
factors.
Great Staples
In Close Sympathy.
Fut ’ hen corn gets to its present
record price of 92 cents, a price that
would have been unusual for wheat fif
teen years back, the price of beef is
inevitably boosted. For the farmer
finding 1’ unprofitable to raise beef with
grain so high goes out of the business
and'sells his grain direct. The result
is the falling off almost immediately of
the supply of beef.
And the great staples are so closely
related and in such warm sympathy
with each other that a sudden increase
in any one of the more important food
products means an immediate jump in
the others. The housewife going to
market finds beef so high that she de
cides to have a leg of lamb for dinner
instead, other consumers do the same
thing, and up goes the price of lamb.
If she tries tn find relief by passing
through the beef stalls anh on to the
fish corner of the market, a like result
at once follows:
Meat Prices
Jump 33 Per Cent.
Meats in the Atlanta retail markets
have advanced 25 and 33 per cent in
price during the last month and worse
yet is expected. While the retail mar
ket was advancing at that rate the
wholesale market was taking even
greater leaps. Its advance -was from 34
to 40 per cent. z
The Atlanta retail meat market to
day is about 15 per cent lower than
those of the East, because the retail
ers have not advanced their prices on
the same percentage as the wholesalers,
thee say and ftre making less profit on
their sales than a month ago. But
toda; ’s figures do not mean that prices
have reached their highest. They are
still climbing, and anoth r 20 per cent
increase is expected during the coming
month.
Never since the year 1892 has meat
soared tn such prices, declare whole
sale meat dealers and local butchers.
They say it is due to the short supply
in cattle, which has been growing
smaller in proportion to the growth of
demand each year. The long and se
vere winter caused many thousands of
cattle to perish. Cattlemen have been
forced to feed their stock on corn and
that grain has gone to 92 cents. The
spring floods have been another factor
in the price of cattle on the hoof.
Hew Living
Cost Keeps Going Up.
Here are the figures of the retail
meat markets of Atlanta showing the
increase in prices over last month:
Today. Anril 3.
Round steak .... 20c 15c to 17c
Tenderloin 25c 15c to 20c
Sirloin .. 25c 15c to 20c
Porterhouse .... 30c 20c to 25c
Beef Stew 10c 5c
Leg of Lamb . . . 25c 15c. to 20c
Lamb Chops ....25c to 35c 15c to 25c
Shoulder and
Stew 13c to 18c 8c to 15c
Pork Chops .... 20c 15c to 18c
Roasts 20c 13c to 18c
“Prices must go higher,” said one
butcher today. “The wholesale mar-
C=ntinued on Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Railroad a Pauper;
President Swears It
Can't Pay $lO Costs
The Atlanta and Carolina Railroad
Company today filed a pauper’s affida
vit in superior court pleading its in
ability to pay the necessary $lO costs to
put its case before the state supreme
court.
This ie the only pauper’s affidavit
filed by a railroad company in the his
tory of the Atlanta courts.
The Atlanta and Carolina railroad, a
projected trolley line from Atlanta to
Augusta, with 30 miles of right of way
graded in Fulton and DeKalb counties,
was recently thrown into the hands of
receiver by numerous creditors. Cred
itors’ injunction suits against officers
of the company were also granted by
superior court.
Attorneys for the defunct railroad
gave notice of an appeal, but today ad
mitted that the company was without a
penny and the case could go up only
through the poverty route. M. Mason,
president of the company, made the
pauper’s affidavit.
Preacher, Voluntary
Bankrupt Owes $ 1,793
And Is Without Assets
John W Rowlett, pastor of the Uni
tarian Church of Our Father. 126 Spring
street, filed a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy today in the Federal court
Mr. Rowlett gives his liabilities as sl,-
793.87 and states that he is without as
sets.
The liabilities consist almost entirely
of unsecured claims. Part of them are
notes for more than S7OO given to At
lanta banks, and others are notes of
various amounts given to banks and in
dividuals in Weatherford, Abilene and
Merkle, Texas The balance, consist of
accounts with several clothing stores
and other firms in Atlanta. Mr. Row
lett lives at 186 East Pine street and is
represented bv Attorney Rollin H.Kim
ball.
Neither Mr. Rowlett nor hlg attorney
would discuss the circumstances that
led to the filing of the petition, other
than to say that the action of certain
, creditors made it necessary.
Love Affairs Mustn't
Interfere in Militia
Duty, Reads Order
Local militiamen will let Dan Cupid In
: terfere with duty at the risk of court
• martial.
Captain Harrison Jones, of the Fulton
Blues, has told his men that they can
not have any love affairs, at least , on
Tuesday night Should any man be ab
sent and no reason shown a squad will
be sent after him, and the orders will
be to arrest the delinquent, whether in
lady's parlor, theater or case
Squads have been sent out before, but
did not usually attempt to arrest a soidier
unless the latter was In some public
place.
Flood Over Dike in
New Orleans: Fight
Hard to Stay Waters
NEW ORLEANS, May 3.—Water
from the flood swollen Mississippi river
began to lap over the levee here at two
points today, at the foot of Esplanade
avenue, a fashionable residence street,
and at the foot of Canal street, the
chief business thoroughfare. The breaks
were quickly repaired.
The water is even with the top of
the levee and a desperate fight to keep
out the flood is being waged.
CONVICTS ORGANIZE
LAW AND ORDER BAND
PHOENIX, A.RIZ., May 3.—Two
hundred convicts in the Arizona peni
tentiary- at Florence have organized
themselves into a so-called “Law and
Order league.” the constitution of which
sets forth the belief of the members in
prison reform, and names the purpose
of the league to be the promotion of
better morals and the abolishment of
crime.
The membership includes 96 percent
of the prisoners.
EXAMS TOMORROW
FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS
Examinations for applicants for po
sitions in the public schools began to
day in the Boys High- school building.
The examinations will continue tomor
row. There will be a. number of va
cancies to be filled in the teaching force
of Atlanta, and the examinations are
open to al! who care to apply,
JUDGE McCALL MAY RUN
FOR SENATE IN SEVENTH
QUITMAN, GA., May- 3.—A petition
quietly circulated here asks J G. Mc-
Call, former judge of the city court of
Quitman, to enter the senatorial race
In the Seventh district. It is Brooks
county’s time to furnish the senator.
Judge McCall will probably formally
announce next, week S. M. Turner, for
mer solicitor of the Quitman city court, Is
now the only avowed candidate.
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
METHODISTS
LIFT BAN ON
CARDS AND
DANCING
Big Conference Decides to
Leave Them to Conscience
of Individual.
ADMIT HELPLESSNESS
BEFORE BIG GAMBLING
Resolution Hitting Secretary
Wilson Adopted, and Taft
May Be Opposed.
MINNEAPOLIS. May 9—The board
of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
church reported to the general confer
ence of the church here today in favor
of lifting the church ban from dancing,
card playing, gambling and attendance
at horse races, theaters and circuses.
In making this radical change the
24 active bishops who formulated the
report declared that the American peo
ple are too far advanced longer to be
restricted bv church rules as to what
their amusements shall be. It is sug
gested that eaep individual follow the
dictates of bis own conscience.
Still Refuse to
Approve Dancing.
The "bishops declared that the church
reiterated its opposition to the theater
going and gambling, but the ecclesiastic
rule in force since 1872 could not fix
the point between the turf and the stock
market This report, which was sup
plemental to one read by Bishop Ear!
Cranston, of Washington. D. C., in part
read:
“We would joyfully acclaim the day
when every Christian would abstain
from the amusements which have been
prohibited, but we can not repress our
conviction that John Wesley dealt more
wisely- with the danger.
“As a church we can not approve of
dancing and theatergoing. They are
questionable amusements To us, as to
several of our sister churches, they who
justify these amusements as consistent
with the. spiritual life seem to manifest
a deplorable lack of spiritual concep
tlOYl
Bishops Admit
Their Helplessness.
“The bishops therefore recommend a
return to the consistent treatment of
this subject bv Wesley and the more
earnestly because we are dealing with
American people and the Intelligence
of the twentieth century.”
A resolution condemning Secretary
of Agriculture James Wilson and vir
tually threatening to vote against the
Taft administration was adopted by a
vote of 544 to 241, after a sharp fight
on the floor of the convention. The
reslution was the outgrowth of the
Brewers congress, of which Wilson was
made honorary chairman.
The resolution was introduced by
Rev. J. W. Anderson, of Missouri. It
cites the election of Secretary Wilson
as honorary chairman of the Brewers
congress and his "stereotyped and friv
olous excuse” in reply to the Methodist
petition which is branded as an "in
sult to the Intelligence of Christian
people," and concludes:
“Therefore be it Resolved. That while
we pledge ourselves to remain loyal
citizens of the United States and to
support those in authority over us in
every laudable, lawful and legal way,
we do hereby announce as our convic
tion that aiding the beverage liquor
traffic by their persistent indorsement
of the said Brewers congress in the
face of our most earnest protest, those
in authority have forfeited all claim to
the future franchise of th» Christian
and sober manhood of the nation."
“In our absolute helplessness before
this question we must continue to al
low the world to suspect that the larger
the stake and the more reckless of pub
lic weal the gain, the less vicious the
crime, provided the winner pays tithes
to religion or benevolence.
’ Again we stand unitedly against
gambling and we recognize clearly that
it is the same sin Wall Street that it is
in the lowest resort, but we have never
ventured legislatively to fix the point
where the race track gambler passing
from the turf to the. stock market be
comes a respectable business man eligi
ble to church membership and the
chairman of the board of trustees.”
BRIDGEPORT TUGS RUSH TO
RELIEF OF STRANDED BOAT
BRIDGEPORT. CONN. May 3—A
two-masted schooner, apparently a
yacht, with all sails set, is on Penlift
reef, partly submerged.
Local tugboats have gone.to her re
lief.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1912.
UNCLE TRUSTY!
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“Well, William, it was a tough fight in Massachusetts! T see by the papers that several hun
dred silk hats were smashed and a large number of umbrellas were broken ' That was a thrilling mo
ment when you swatted Theodore in the nose and he landed on your ear! Talk about dignity—the
whole country was proud of both of you! Run and get my slippers, Elihu!”
HUSBAND SHOT,
WIFE ARBESTED
E. Batta, Dying, Says He Did It
Himself. But Police Hold
Woman and Roomer.
Mrs. Theresa Batta, of 407 Fraser
street, and Gilbert Bodough. a tailor,
were taken into custody this afternoon
by Detectives Webb and N. F. Bullard,
pending' investigation of the mysteri
ous shooting of E, Batta, husband of
the woman, at their Fraser street home.
Batta. lying at the point of death in
Grady hospital, protests that he shot
himself in an effort to end his life, but
certain suspicious circumstances
caused detectives to hold his wife and
Bodough. The prisoners also say that
Barta shot himself. Mrs. Batta explain
ing that she was dressing to go down
town to start divorce, proceedings when
she heard the shot.
Wife Tried It Twice.
Mrs. Batta made an attempt to shoot
herself just after her husband was
shot, but the pistol was wrenched from
her hand by Bodough. It was the same
pistol which Batta had used. Mrs.
Batta says she snatched it from his
hand when he fell to the floor.
Batta Is a tailor and has a shop in his
home. Bodough has been working for
him and occupies a room in the house.
About five months ago Mrs. Batta
tried to leap from a fourth-story win
dow in the court house. She was
caught by officers and pulled back to
safety.
This case was the outgrowth of a
scene when Batta made charges
against his wife and an Atlanta man.
As a husband can not testify against
his wife, there was no legal evidence
against Mrs. Batta. Then Batta en
tered suit for divorce, but withdrew
it a short time ago.
Mrs. Batta says she and her husband
had another quarrel this morning, and
that she began to dress, telling him
she was going to consult a lawyer and
file suit for divorce. 'Her husband, she
says, walker] into the room where she
was dressing, and. turning his back on
her, shot himself in the breast. The
bullet missed the heart.
Bodough says he was In the tailor
shop, in an adjoining room, w£en he
heard the shot.
The holding of Mrs. Batta and Bo
dough is based mainly on the evidence
of G. W. Johnson, a young man who
rushed to the scene. He says that he
found the revolver in Bodough's room,
while Mrs. Batta told detectives that
the pistol was not taken out of her
room.
City Medical College
Must Show Board That
Students Are Efficient
As a result of allegations made
against a local medical college, the fac
ulty will go before the state board of
medical examiners tomorrow to show
that graduates of the school have been
sufficiently prepared to take the exam
inations for doctors’ licenses.
Eleven applicants for license, al!
graduates of the school, appeared be
fore the board today and were allowed
to take the state examination under the
condition that the faculty could show
that they had been sufficiently pre
pared.
It was stated to members of the state
board that students had been graduated
from the school with but three years
preparation. The law requires four
years. The matter was laid before the
attorney today, and the board
was informed that It was up to the
board to make the decision.
EX-SENATOR AND NURSE
ACCUSED IN FRAUD PLOT
NEW YORK, May 3.—Former State
Senator Frank J. Gardner and George
H. Decker, a nurse, were today in
dicted by th« grand Jury of Kings
county for attempting to defraud Sam
uel Haslett, of 135 Remsen street, by
means of a will and a power of at
torney of his estate, estimated at more
than $250,000.
Gardner is already an inmate of the
Kings county jail, where he was sent
for contempt of court in failing to pay
alimony to his first wife. He and
Decker both pleaded not guilty.
HUDSON'S HEADQUARTERS
MOVED TO W. ALABAMA ST.
Thomas G. Hudson has moved his
gubernatorial headquarters from rooms
208 and 210 in the Kimball house to
No. 12 1-2, upstairs over the old Mad
dox-Rucker bank, in West Alabama
street.
The quarters in the Kimball house
were found to be too small for the
force necessarily kept at work by Mr.
Hudson in the prosecution of his cam
paign.
LIGHT WARMER.
SATS WEATHER PROPHET
Light April showers are due tonight
and tomorrow, according to the locaj
weather bureau, and the same condi
tions will probably hold for Sunday.
Cloudy weather for today is not ex
pected to bring any rain with It be
fore tonight. The temperature is due
to rise several degrees between npw
and tomorrow.
KILL ME QUICK,
PLEADS ALLEN
Outlaw Chief, in State of Col
lapse, Wails, "I Have
No Chance.”
BLUEFIELDS. W. VA,. May 3.—A
report received here today states
that detectives have surrounded
Sidna Alien and Wesley Edwards
I near Ivanhoe, .in Wythe .county,
Virginia.
They sent for remforcements last
night, and advices today state that
the two last of the Allen gang at
large probably will be captured be
fore night.
WYTHEVILLE, VA., May 3.—Floyd
Allen, leader of the outlaw gang that
wiped out the Carroll countv court at
Hill-ville. was In a state of collapse
while his trial for the murder of Prose
cutor Foster went on today.
He was pale ar>d trembled in every
limb when carried into court. Just as
court convened Judge Staples was in
formed that the prisoner last night
begged his guard to cut his throat.
“I’ve got no chance." Allen said to
the Jailer. “Kill me quick and have it
over with. I’m all in.’’
Judge Staples ordered that Allen
should hereafter be watched carefully
night and day to prevent suicide. The
guard will also be doubled over the
other prisoners.
Cyrus Gibbs, a civil engineer of Car
roll county, took up a great deal of the
early session of court explaining in de
tail maps of the Hillsville court house,
that the jurors might have a clear idea
of the conditions under which the
shooting took place.
Counting the 19 bullets which hit hu
man targets and the 38 In the building,
the witness said he assumed that 57
shots were fired in the affair at Hills
ville. Mr. Phibbs was then excused.
George W. Edwards, the next wit
ness. Is from the Fancy Cap district,
about seven miles from Floyd Allen’s
home. In a conversation with Flo”d
Allen before'the trial, he testified, Floyd
said that he did not think “Bill” Fos
ter would give him a fair show in that
court, and he "intended to knock the
biggest hole in that court that ever
was. ’
The witness was In court on the
day the Jury brought in its verdict.
He saw Vidna and Victor tn the room.
When the Jurors announced that they
had agreed, he testified, the two men
walked up to the bar, put their right
hands In their pockets and seemed to
catch hold of pistols.
j HOME
EDITION
PT? TCP.. On Trains, FIVE CENTS.
J7 . In Atlanta. TWO CENTS.
WILSON LOSS
OF GEORGIA
INCREASED
1014,211
Underwood’s Majority Mate
rially Swelled by Further
Returns of Primary.
ALABAMAN CARRIES 106
OF 146 COUNTIES IN STATE
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Professor’s Defeat Is Most
Humiliating in Many of
Its Aspects.
Underwood over Wilson 14.211
Total vote ca5t131.412
Underwood received .. 72.299
Wilson received 58.08.8
Clark received 701
Harmon received .. 324
Underwood carriedlo6 counties
Wilson carried4o counties
There are 146 counties in Georgia.
The Napoleon of the Woodrow Wil
son effort to capture the South, Sena
tor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, selected
this state to be the Wilson field of
Waterloo.
Like that other Napoleon who, for a
time, messed up the map of Europe so •
thoroughly that. Its best friends were
hardly able to recognize ft from one
day to another, Dixie’s self-appointed
Napoleon went forth to Waterloo to do
or die, but pretty sure. In his own mind,
that there was to be no dying fool
ishness about It.
It was proclaimed, with the usual
preliminary fanfare of trumpets, that
the South was about to be shown which
way It should go presidentially—shown
by Senator Smith and his political ma
chine.
Professor Wilson didn't know much
about what was going on; and, being a
guileless and unsuspecting sort of per
son. he let Napoleon have It his way.
The professor never had hutted in on
Southern politics, anyway; and Napo
leon Is a mighty persuasive and sweet
ly argumentative general now and
then.
The Professor
Played His Part.
So Professor Wilson said all right;
if Napoleon knew that Waterloo was
the place to pull off the big fight and
get away with the bacon, he (the Pro- t
fessor) would come down and Jolly the
dear people along the line, and trust t»)
Napoleon to do the real directing of the
Wilson star of destiny.
And Napoleon took the Wilson star
of destiny, loaded it In his biggest (
cannon, and fired it bang in the face of
“Little Joe” Brown—which the profes
"Little Joe” Brown—which the Profes
pen at all—and the impact left "Little
Joe ' standing right where Napoleon
found him, but it busted the’poor little
star Into so many fragments that all
the king's horses and all the king’s
men -will never be able to put it to
gether again!
Wilson’s Defeat
Overwhelming.
Even the I-told-you-sos have been
amazed almost to silence by the mag
nitude of the Wilson defeat, as the
final figures disclose it.
Os course, 243.796 people did tel! the
few Doubting Thomases at large tn
Georgia that Wilson was going to ba
so badly lost in the shuffle that he
never would be dug up again, but pre-;
clous few believed that It was going to
be as bad as It was.
Even The Atlanta Georgian, which
estimated Underwood's plurality from 4
12,000 to 14,000 at first, and then back
ed off to 10.000, eventually had to
admit it is slightly over its own out
side figure given out Wednesday night
at 9:30 o'clock.
The remote country counties coming
In at the last hour, some of them not
until this morning, showed up practi
cally solid for Underwood.
The farmers of Georgia lined them
selves stoutly and aggressively against
Wilson.
It was shrewdly calculated by the
Wilson people that Mr. Farmer would
not bother to vote in this presidential
campaign to any considerable extent—
and he might not have bothered so
much as he did, moreover, if Napoleon
hadn't undertaken to fix it so that the
small counties would be choked to death
by the big city counties in the final
count, no matter what happened.
The big city vote, which came in
first of all, showed Wilson’s getaway
bad enough, but better than it ever
was afterward.
As the country vote was reported,
Underwood pulled steadily farther and
farther ahead. As the very remote
counties were reported, his ratio of in
crease began to jump tremendously.
And the final summing up put Wilson
down and out even more emphatically
than his dearest enemy dared hope in.
Georgia when the polls opened on Wed
nesday morning.
Taken all in all, Wilson's defeat was
one of the most humiliating and com
plete ever recorded in the state.
