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■ GM IN CUM NEWSPAPER WAR First Rioting Occurs in Strike, and Police Are Called Out to Protect Men. CHICAGO, May 4.—-Newspaper stere ot'iws at midnight joined the striking pressmen, newsboys and wagon drivers of the Chicago daily newspapers. Morning papers today were issued in four-page form, but distribution was greatly handicapped. No morning pa pers were on sale in the downtown sec tion except in the newspaper offices, and very fey. - were sent to the suburb stations Arrangements were made to day to resume street selling. Extra guards will be furnished the newsboys who desire to handle the paners. Following attacks yesterday on news boys in many parts of the downtown districts by thugs and sympathizers with the strikers, at least half a dozen boys today are in hospitals as a result of the injuries they received. In some cases the police found it difficult to cope with the situation, and extra pa trolmen were rushed, to the corners where the attacks occurred. Strike May Spread. Possibility that the strike may spread to other mechanical departments of the newspapers was faced by the publish ers today. Some of the leaders of the compositors have objected to the set ting of type for non-union pressmen and sympathetic strikes have been dis cussed. Most of the printers, however, have urged the men to stay at work, declaring that their contract ought not to be violated. A spread of the strike to the’ coal wagon drivers, preventing delivery of coal to the newspaper plants, has also been discussed. No strike has been called. The third dav of the strike finds the newspapers able to print their papers in spite of the walkouts in the me chanical department. The distribution of the papers has been seriously handi capped, however. Attempts to sell at news stands have been the signal for violence. The rtriko of the wagon drivers has mad’ tt difficult to deliver papers and has handicapped the regular carrier circulation, although thia has been handled to : 'me extent. A riot in which three arrests were mad* and shots were fired occurred today in the alley back of The Tribune building. Max Annenburg. circulation manager for The Tribune,- was attack ed as he stepped into the alley'. After he had been struck a number of blows, he managed to draw his revolver and fire several shots. His attackers fled but three of them were captured’by policemen attracted to the scene by the shooting. The men arrested gave the names of George Bell, former driver for The Tribune; C. M. Strickler, former driver f or The Examiner, and George Reader, a laborer. One pressman who refused to go out has asked the police for protection. He has received a letter from the strik ers. ho says, which threatened him with phvsical harm, and asserted his home would be dynamited unless he stopped work. The men themselves are not thor oughly in sympathy with the strike, ac cording to the publishers, who say that many of them have gone to the pub lishers and told them that they did not want tn' strike, hut they were forced’ to leave their work by threats of vio lence. The stereotypers strike was voted in defiance of an order of Internationa! President James J. Free!, who had warned the locals here against violat ing their contract. Cited for Court Contempt. George Bell, C. M. Stricker and George Raider, arrested today in con nection with an attack on Max Annen berg. circulation manager of The Tri bune, were cited for contempt of court for having violated an injunction granted by’ Judge Burke at the request of f The Tribune forbidding strikers in terfering in any way with the printing and circluation of the newspaper. The hearing was set for Monday, and will be tried before Judge McDonald; Mrs. Theresa Gonzales was the vic tim of an attack by strike sympathiz ers Four men entered the station of the Northwestern elevated at Fullerton avenue, seized her, took the papers she was selling and, tearing them in two, threw them on the floor. The station agent saw the attack and telephoned for the police. The men fled, shouting back as they ran:. “You've got to quit selling, papers or something will hap pen to you." ASTRONOMER SUN SPOTS AFFORD WEATHER FORECAST SAN JOSE. CAL., May 4.--Father Pi card of the Santa Clara college observa tory Issued the following statement: “The eventful solar group of spots has reappeared, according to expectation. It stands now near the eastern limb in lati tude 10 degrees south and longitude 65 degrees from central. “All the weather disturbances based upon it since March 6 have been veri fied to the very date, and we venture to sketch the weather'of May as follows: “There will be disturbances on the coast from May 3 to 6, from May 6 to 11. from May 14 to 17 and from May 22 to 26. The first two already have been announced privately. "According to advices received from W. T. Foster, of Washington, and from Prof. Nodson, of France, a great , solar manifestation will occur, on which, the weather of June could be delineated even now. Hence it appears to be a mistake on the part of certain writers to s4y boldly that nothing is known as to the cause of sun spots; they are due simply to planetary influence at the time es heliocentric conjunctions, appo sitions and even quadratures." WHY TYPHOID FEVER COMES EVERY SUMMER iMj • i JU g JiMWar » 'wlEiibfe 4 WORk.v. ?■ “W i *: J®- r A'jbg— * BBffW' * Iff;- n ,* MMg life. WwlWWWwi * li 'tuv ' •“Wms..J „ ( -Z/il* f if / v\ jF ; I A J i-1 -f \ / \ - /• H Jf -1 tiwr - ——— ..,4, IToro anothfr photoaraph which tells the story of sickness spread by the slipshod methods of the Atlanta street cleaning department. Wiim uncovered rjapbage xvagons are. driven through the streets, scatterin j haeteria-laden refuse as they GffIDJKITS LOCKER CLUBS Recommends That Legislature Institute Reforms— Urge Ad ditional Superior Judge. .Atlanta, locker clubs will he forced tn go slow if the recommendations that the Fulton county grdind jury made to Judge Pendleton today carry weight with the Georgia legislature. , In making its presentments the jury took occasion to censure the conduct of the Atlanta looker clubs and recommended that the legislature make these organi zations real social clubs instead of bar rooms, as the jury asserts they have in many instances become. Want Another Judge. The jury strongly urged that the legis lature give Fulton county an additional superior court judge to conduct the crim inal division. The jury found the Fulton, county jail to be crowded with accused men awaiting trial and the present system of three judges utterly inadequate. What Grand Jury Urges. Briefly the jury’s recomriienda’ions are: Stringent laws for locker clubs. An additional superior court judge. Abolition of the justice court system, with recommendations for a municipal court. Padded cells for lunatics in the Tower. Improvements in the grounds and build ings at the county aims house. Additional power to the juvenile court. A reformatory for negro boys. A law tn make it a misdemeanor to con tribute to the waywardness or delinquency of a minor. A law to make the purchase of salaries by loan companies on an interest basis of more than 5 per cent a month a misde meanor. The line between petit larceny and grand larceny b»* raised from SSO to $lO9. The renting of quarters in the Temple Court building for the records -of the office of tax collector. That the recommendations of the grand jury be followed. Officers Are The county institutions and officials, without exception, wore commended. The city police were congratulated for their work in rounding up blin4 ligers and it was recommended that the recorder be given niore power to deal with of the prohibition law Contrary to the findings of several other juries, todaxls report showed that crime in Atlanta was not greater than in other cities of the same size. The \tlanta po lice, this jury asserted, were handling the situation in an efficient manner. ARMY ORDERS WASHINGTON, May 4. Colonel D. D J. Rumbaugh, First artillery, to Hot Springs, Ark., for treatment Major W S. McNair. Sixth field ar tillery, to Fort Sill, Okla . at school of fire for field artillery officers of the or ganized militia. - First Lieutenant .1. Regan, infantry, as signed to Ninth infantry. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY. MAY 4. 1912. SEARCHINGSIDELIGHTS ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAME S B. NEVIN. Now that the presidential primary has passed into history, and the returns, like some of the candidates, are all in. a few will be given over to the exclusive use of the I told-you-sos, and then that other big show, the gubernatorial campaign, ■.'.ill get under full steam ahead. Many booms long in the bud will burst into bloom and otherwise—within the next few weeks, and it will not be very long before prospective voters will be able to get a fairly straight line on what they are to be up against in the August primaries Gubernatoriaily. there appear to be three sure bets—John M Slaton and Thomas G. Hudson and Joe HU! Hall. But I, G. Hardman, of Commerce, has a lightning rod, up. and something may hit it; while rumor has been very busy of late with the names of Thomas S. Eelder and Thomas William Hardwick. It is given out with considerable show of authority that Mr. Hardman undoubt edly will be in the race; and, at least, the Felder boom is very much in the possi bility class as yet. Hardly less interesting than the guber natorial tight will be the tights for the three railroad commissionerships and the vacancy to occur in the agricultural de partment. There will be something like one dozen candidates for the first named office, and three or more candidates for the last named. There will also be a fight for the attorney generalship. As for legislative and solicitor general ship contents they will be just about too numerous to keep up with save in their respective localities. Undoubtedly. the results in Colorado, Massachusetts and Florida, which imme di.irrl;- prc.-cded the Georgia election, and which gave cold ♦omfort to the Wilson boosters, > it considerable figure in Wed nesday's result in Georgia. The Florida victory especially gave heart to the Underwood enthusiasts and proportionately depressed the Wilson boomers. For the result in Florida an swered the most telling argument used against Underwood in the entire Georgia campaign the argument that Underwood was running in Alabama alone, and there merely as a ''favorite son," and that there was no real sincerity behind his candidacy, nor chance for his nomina tion in Baltimore. With the delegates of Alabama, Flori da. Georgia and Mississippi (which he is sure to get), I’nderwood will go into the convention with a most formidable strength, especially in the event of a deadlock. <>f course, the nomination of Speaker Champ Clark seems the most likely thing now; hut, failing Clark, what more prob able nominee than I’nderwood looms on the horizon of Uemocratit hope.' The nomination, which Is equivalent to election, of William H. Burwell to repre sent Hancock in the next legislature gives immediate interest to the matter of the next speakership of the house. Mr. Burwell and his local opponent for election to the house agreed to submit the question for settlement in the presi dential primary, and Mr. Burwell won nut handsornelv This cleared the decks all right for Mr. Burwell's speakership contest. The speakership of the house has been a prize of most attractive attributes ever ,-*ip. e the late Governor Atkinson made, it the stepping stone to the governorship. It is a position of great | distinction, and carries with it just enough power and prestige to make it useful to its oc- I'unant. without affording him too man’- pass; when battered and wide-open garbage cans stand on the street corners for passing dogs to pillage, when side streets and alleys, are ankle-deep in muck, even Atlanta’s altitude and cli mate can not protect the city from discomfort and disease. ; opportunities to make enemies. In the immediate past, the speakership has been held ,by such men as the late Senator Clay, former Governor John AT. Slaton. National Committeeman Clark* Howell, Senator Bacon and others of more tha nstatewide fame. It furnishes a man in public life in Georgia a means whereby lasting and in fluential political friendships may be es tablished and maintained. <‘ne of the prerequisites to election to the speakership in Georgia has usually been long continued and conspicuous service in the house This latter qualification Mr Burwell possesses in a large measure He has' been a member from Hancock county a half-dozen times, and has representer! his senatorial district once. It is not surprising that Mr. Burwell, in all the circumstances, seems likely to achieve the speakership without serious dispute frnm any quarter. There have been others mentioned for the honor, but Mr Burwell’s election, at this time seems assured. Besides great executive and parlia mentary- pbility, Mr. Burwell is an ex tremely- popular man with his colleagues, in the present house many of whom will come back to the next legislature pledged to him for speaker. Certainly there is in the Georgia legis lature today no more influential member than William H. Burwell, of Hancock. G. R. Hutchens, of Rome, has lifted the hoodoo that seemed of late years to pur sue Floyd county campaign managers. The manager of the only campaign of Joseph M. Brown that ever went to wreck in Georgia was a Floyd county man, and the man behind the “Plain Dick” Russell guns in the gubernatorial race last fall was another one. Both yvere nice fellows and meant well, but neither got anywhere in particular. Hutchens put his job over magnificent ly. It hardly seemed probable that the Floyd county hoodoo could —or would persist forever. Hutchens deserves much credit for lift ing it, nevertheless. The friends of t’arl Hutchenson are con gratulating him upon the helpful part he played in the Underwood victory. Mr. Hutchenson was attached to the state headquat ters at the Aragon, and was, in many respects. Manager Hutch ens' right-hand man. MORPHINE KILLED JONES: FOUND DEAD IN A HOTEL Death from morphine poisoning was the coroner's verdict today after an in vestigation of the death of A. Joryr, aged 37, who died after being taken to Grady hospital from the Can non hotel. H“ went to the hotel early yesterday afternoon and later .was found in a dying condition by one of Jhe clerks. He is believed to have been habitu ated to the use of morphine and to have caused his own d«-Hih without directly intending to commit suicide. Jones had figured in police court on charges of carrying liquor on his person. FIGHT ENDS FATALLY. GAINESVILLE, GA., May 4. -Ed Lo gan, a negro, is dead as the result of a fight with-another negro named Bar rett. The killing took place in a South ern railway construction camp near here. Barrett escaped. No inquest was held HARPER AVERTED FIGHT FOR POTTS Was Peacemaker Before He Was Slain—Only One Knife Used. Police Declare. The police say today that only one knife figured in the slaying of Colonel <R. Harper, the insurance agent, and the wounding of Kell Potts, Southern Express Company clerk, who fought a duel to the death yesterday morning. Gnly one knife was found on the scene of the tragedy, and. despite energetic efforts on the part of police arid de tectives, no other knife can be found. This revelation throws new light on the possible manner in which the tragedy took place and has set the police hard at work to arrive at the truth. Harper Peacemaker. It also developed today that just two hours before the tragedy’ Potts had trouble with an unknown man in front of the Forsyth building, at Luekie and Forsyth streets, and that Harper, act ing as peacemaker, prevented a fight by leading Potts away. At that time Har per and Potts seemed to be on the. friendliest of terms. The police are trying to find this third man, in order to learn from him just what tpok place before the tragedy. A According to G. XV. Bailey, of 8 Spen cer street, night watchman In the' For syth building. Harper, Potts and two other men had been in the Atlanta club in that building and all were drinking. Harper. Potts and the man with whom Potts was about to fight came down on the elevator together. Bailey says, and waited on the. sidewalk for the fourth man, wJto came down later. The two men, whose names are as yet unknown, became involved in a dis pute on the sidewalk, Bailey says, and one of them, a large man, knocked down the fourth man, who was much smaller in size. Pott-s is said to have inter fered and was about to engage In a fight with the large man when Harper separated the two, advised them »to have no trouble and led Potts a short distance away. Bailey says the small man, who ap peared very ill from drinking, left his companions. The trio than remained about the corner for some time, Bailey says, going away together about 1 o'clock. Advance New Theory, Detectives now advance the theory that Harper was cut to death by Potts after they had first clashed and had again made friends. This theory is based on the fact that but the one knife figured in th* affair. This knife was found in the cab in which Potts had just started away from the scene of the tragedy when he was stopped hy Po licemen Garner, XVhitley and Snead. Harper's friends have informed the detectives that he never carried a knife No knife was found on him when his clothing was searched in the under taking narlors of Greenberg & Bond. Potts is reported at Grady hospital todav as resting easy. The attending physicians believe he will recover, al though he is badly slashed. He Is'un der the constant guard of a policeman POLITICS DELAYS ACTIONBY JB Indictments Against Near- Beer Dealers Held Off Until After County Primary. The Fulton, county grand jury today returned 82 indictments against as many near-beer dealers for failure to pay license taxes for 1912. True bills against 27 more dealers for infractions in 1912 and 45 dealers who failed to pay for 1911. will be returned by the new jury, which convenes on Monday. All the near-beer dealers Indicted and to be Indicted had violated the state law on January 1, 1912, and the delay In bringing bills against them is openly said to have been due to the fact that an election was pending. Both Ordinary Wilkinson and Solicitor Gen era! Hugh Dorsey admitted that the grand jury was not furnished with In formation until It was requested, be cause of the fact that an election was imminent. The ordinary’ was re-elected last Wednesday. Governor Joseph M. Brown, acting upon Information received from the comptroller genera! a. month ago called Solicitor Dorsey's attention to the fact that the Fulton county dealers were making no effort to pay their state taxes. Fulton Only Delinquent. As a result Fulton county Is the only county in the state that has not made full returns for near-beer taxes to the state treasurer. About $9,390 has been received from Ordinary Wilkinson. Since the election near-beer dealers have made a rush to nav their taxes, and the books In the ordinary’s office today showed that 122 dealers out of 200 had paid up. T, K. Glenn, foreman of the grand jury which returned the bills, said that the jury made the indictment upon its own initiative, requesting the informa tion from the ordinary. Mr. Glenn denied that the grand jury’ had delayed action on Indicting delin quent dealers until after election. Glenn Explain# Delay. "Our committee did not take the mat ter up until a week ago,” said Mr. Glenn. 'We did not even think of the election In connection with the Indict ment of these beer dealers. It was our duty to return the bills -when we dis covered that they were delinquent— that is all.” Solicitor Geheral Hugh Dorsey said today’ that he did not present the bills to the jury until asked to do so by the members of the committee who has the matter In charge. Ordinary’ Wilkinson siald that the law that requires the ordinary to collect near-beer licenses is faulty In that it does not give him power to enforce collections except to give information for criminal indictments to the solicitor general. COLLEGE TO FIGHT FOR ITS STUDENTS’ RKjHTTO PRACTICE Eleven graduates of the Southern Col lege of Medicine and Surgery have-re ceived their diplomas, but will not be able to practice medicine this year, for the state board of medical examiners have refused to grant them licenses and will not grade their papers, because the board doesn’t consider the college prop erly equipped to instruct in medicine and sqrgery. Dr. W R IJngo, dean of the faculty of the college, when told of the action of the board, declared that he would man damus the state officials and compel them to Issue licenses to the institution's grad uates, as the law had been fully com plied with. "If the state board of medical exam iners-had turned down our graduates and makes the statement that we are not properly equipped, they are not well post ed on the law," said Dr. Lingo. "The law requires three years instruction in medicine and surgery, and we require four of our students. Every- one of our grad-, uates has spent three years in other In stitutions of medicine before entering the Southern College of Medicine and Sur gery.” SOLDIER WHO FIRED FIRST GUN OF CIVIL WAR DIES IN DALTON DALTON, GA , May 4.—" Uncle Dan” Carey, who. during his lifetime, claimed the distinction of having fired the first shot In the Civil war, Is dead, following a long illness of dropsq. Last week his wife died, and it is believed that her demise hastened his end. Mr. Carey was a member of the Charleston cadets who volunteered their services to the South when South Caro lina seceded from the Union. He was on picket duty on Morris'island, with orders to fire on any suspicious looking craft, and when he made out the outlines of “Star Os the West," carrying reinforce ments to the garrison at Fort Moultrie he fired his musket The Charleston ca dets then opened fire on the transport the ninth shot taking effect In the wheel house, and the boat backed out to sea This was prior to the bombardment of Fort Sumter. GASOLINE IN GARAGE COSTS PURCELL A FINE Fire Inspector Itls told Recorder Broyles today that the lives of firemen and numerous other persons were en dangered in the fire in the Purcell garage In Auburn avenue, Thursday night by reason of a violation of the gasoline law He said that two large drums of gaso line were exposed in the garage and that the firemen had to fight furiously tn keep the flames away from them and prevent an explosion. The law requires that gasoline in quan tities of more than two gallons, if kept in a garage, must be buried five feet be neath the ground, and. if kept outside of the building, must be two feet under ground. Judge Broyles fined T E. Pur cell. proprietor of the garage. $25.75. SISTER NOT INVOLVED In the published report of the Wlmpy- Tolbert suit it was stated that Mr. Tol bert had made the contract with Mr Wimpy on the chance that he would in herit bls sister's share of the estate This Mr. Tolbert says, was not a part of the agreement. FELDER 15 URGED FORTHEBIGFOUR Contest on for Places on Un derwood Delegation From State to Baltimore. The question of delegates to the Bal timore National Democratic conven tion, now that Underwood has carried Georgia, is today’ absorbing the time and attention of Mr. Underwood’s friends in the state. The state convention, which assem bles in Atlanta on May 29, will elect 28 national delegates to Baltimore—24 from the congressional districts a.n<s four from the state at large. The district delegates usually go «■ the various districts wish, but the se lection of the “big four” is made from those most prominent in the fight for the successful candidate throughout the state at large. Among those mentioned for the lat ter honors— for places among the “big four are the plums most engaging-- are Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta; Charles R. Pendleton, of Macon” Thomas M Loyless. of Augusta; W S. West, of Valdosta; Joseph M. Brown’ of Marietta; G. R. Hutchens, of Rome' and Crawford Wheatley, of Americus. Felder To Be Urged, Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta, will b« urged by the Fulton county delegation for one of the "big four” places and It appears successfully. Mr. Felder was prominent in the Underwood fight, and is generally ac corded much of the credit for the Alabama man's victory. He gave a great deal of his time and political talent to the campaign, and took the stump at the latter stage of the con test. Mr Felder is one of Atlanta's best, known attorneys, and has figured con spicuously and generally successfully In many hard fought battles in Geor gia. The State Convention. Under the rules prescribed by the state committee, the various county ex ecutive committees must proceed im mediately to the selection of delegates to the state convention, which meets in Atlanta on May 29. In accordance with this rule several county committees already have begun shaping up their delegations. Those delegations must all come from friends of Mr Underwood, no matter how the several counties may have gone In the primary. It will be a solid Under wood convention. Local enthusiasts, in the front of the fight for the Alabama man, will compose these county delegations. Many of these delegates will be named as national delegates. Howell Out of It. Notwithstanding the fact that Clark Howell has been urged by friends of Mr. Underwood 1 iv head the Fulton county delegation to the state conven tion, he positively refuses to permit the use of his name in that connection. F. J. Paxon and James L. Anderson, local Underwood men, called upon Mr. Howell, and urged that, he take this place. In declining. Mr. Howell said: “I must not head the Fulton county dele gation. I appreciate the honor of the suggestion, but there are others who should be accorded thia distinction. I am extremely happy in the result of the fight in Georgia, but I desire that I be permitted to remain in the ranks, so far as the state convention Is con cerned.” FIGHT TO OUST ' TAFT DELEMTES Roosevelt Republicans have sent buS calls for mass meetings In every county' in Georgia next Saturday, as first steps to select a delegation to oust the In structed Taft delegation at the Chicago! convention. They claim that the Taft delegation was not selected in accordance with the Georgia law. It Is claimed that the del egation which will be selected nexf week will be the only legal one. Plans Announced. An announcement of the plans of th# Roosevelt wing in Georgia Is made to day by J. St. Julien Yates, organizer and chairman of this faction. He says the mass meetings will select represen tatives to congressional district con ventions to be held on Mav 18. and also representatives to a state convention to be held in the senate chamber of the on May 17. The district con-/ ventions will each name two delegates to the Chicago convention and the state convention will name four delegates at large. "XVe have opinions from State Attor ney General Felder and City Attorney Maysbn that no election prior to 39 daj s after the closing the registration lists is legal in Georgia," says Mr. Yates. "Hen ry S. Jackson's convention, which in structed delegates for Taft, was held two months before the registration list closed.” To Discuss Sunday Schools. The monthly session of the Atlanta Bap tist Sunday School association will ba held tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, at the East Point Baptist church The program is being prepared by the or phans home children, and addresses will be delivered by A. C. Briscoe and Rev. E H Peacock. The schools of the asso ciation are urged to send as large dele gations as possible, and all superintend ents and teachers are especially urged to be present. 3