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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! Copyright, 1912, by International News Service. . v f X m z, -» \ ves r dp // ' V. z \ VJ&X r'Z \\ "" Z - s' J? '/ZyZx -fay ,- A —| N > ‘ ' y-" I+‘■ dK|il j" lij | || W ®’lilln i Bill® ji'i I S3>r Hit® “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 - • 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.