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THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Showers today; generally fair to morrow. VOL. X. NO. 238. WAR OPENS TO SMASH STEEL TROST Theodore Roosevelt To Be Called as Witness to Tell of the Deal. MORGAN, ROCKEFELLER AND CARNEGIE NAMED Big Corporation Lawyers on Hand for Great Battle—The Taft-T. R. Break Figures. NEW YORK, May 6.—-Prominent cor poration lawyers and men high In the affairs of the world of big business gathered in the customs house today for the opening of the government’s suit for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation, Henry T. Brown, the examiner appointed by the United States circuit court, had all ar rangements made to begin taking tes timony in the action this morning. In all probability Theodore Roosevelt will be a witness when the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany comes up in the proceedings. It is expected that the hearings here will last two months, and more wit nesses win be called than in either the Standard Oil or the American Tobacco Company cases. The Suit will even tually be carried to the United States supreme court, no rriltter which way th" circuit court disposes of it. Most Sweeping Anti-Trust Action. This suit is the most sweeping anti trust action ever brought by the gov ernment. It was filed at Trenton on October 26 last. The government asks not only for the dissolution of the United States Steel Corporation, but of its 36 subsidiary companies as well. It is alleged that they all have combined to “maintain or attempt to maintain a monopoly of the steel business.” Among the prominent defendants who are named individually are J. P. Morgan. John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Charles M. Schwab. George W. Perkins. E. H Gary, John D. Rocke feller. Jr., Henry ('. Frick. Charles Steele. James Gayley, William H. Moore. J. H. Moore, E. C. Converse, Percival Roberts. Jr.. Daniel G. Reid. Norman B. Ream. P. A. B. Widener and William P. Palmer. Roosevelt Misled, They Declare The government's petition is filled with sensational allegations. It de nounces the steel corporation's acquisi tion of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company during the panic of 1907, and declares that former President Roose velt was misled in that direction by E. K. Gary and Henry C. Frick when they told him “that but little benefit will come to the steel corporation from the purchase." This feature of the case is of par ticular interest just now, because many believe it was the allegation about the former president, which he later vigor ously denounced, that caused the final break between him and President Taft, whom he held responsible for it. and because in a statement issued last night ex-President Roosevelt charges that President Taft repeatedly and emphat ically approved of his course in up holding the Tennessee Coal and Iron deal. LAWSUITS FIRST. THEN A DUEL FOR ZEPPELIN BERLIN. May 6.—Count Zeppelin, the builder and operator of airships, has challenged Theodore Lerner, who was secretary for the Zeppelin Arctic expedition, to a duel, but the matter has not yet been decided, pending the outcome of several lawsuits between the' principals. SAN FRANCISCO MAY HAVE 9-MILE BRIDGE LOS ANGELES. May 6.—With the passage of a bill by the United States senate granting Allan C. Rush, a Los Angeles engineer, a right of way across Goat Island, the first step was made toward the execution of the plans for Spanning San Francisco bay with a S26,o«ii.oo<\ suspension bridge. It is to be the longest in the world. The bridge as planned will be nine and a half miles in length. It will be suspended 150 feet above the water level, thus admitting vessels without interruption to traffic. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results Veteran of 72 Walks 932 Miles to Reunion; He's Seeking a Bride MACON, GA., May 6.—Though scar red by time and tried in the fires of war, J. C. Williamson, a Confederate veteran, of Louisville., Texas, aged 73 years, says he is not too old to marry a Georgia girl if he can find one that will have him. FOr the two-fold purpose of seeking such and attending the reunion, Mr. Williams has walked exactly 932 miles. He began his trip from Louisville Feb ruary 26. He landed in Macon last Saturday, none the worse for wear, with a twinkle in his eye and youth in his heart. “I’m like the giant who. every time he was thrown to the ground, got up with renewed strength,” said the veteran as he told his story. “I’ve been getting younger ever since I was one day old. When I went to war I was filled with myself. When I finished some of my self had gone, and I felt mighty sad for a while. But I’m here now, and I’m here principally because they say that Georgia is the dimple of the uni verse. I could tell when I hit the Georgia line by the pretty women I saw.” When pressed for further informa tion, both as to his journey and his quest for a wife, he waved away his inquisitors. “I’ve found out that talking and good looks don’t always win a woman. So I am going to do something else. I’m going to station myself right in the principal part of town until I see the girl I want. Then I’m going to find out if she wants me." The girl he wants will look like this, says Mr. Wiliams: She will be plump and merry; she will have some sense, but not too much; she will laugh most of the time, but she will know how to cry; she will wear white, with a rose in her hair, but she must look well in widowss weeds, for there is no calculating when she will have to wear them. She mustn’t know a thing about cooking, nor must she have talent of any sort. Last, but not least, she must have a dimple in her chin. SARTORIAL LONDON IS CRIPPLED WHILE ITS TAILORS STRIKE LONDON. May 6—The strike of the London tailors spread - rapidly today,, and at noon it was estimated that 20.- 000 men and wd’men were out. The leaders delared that they would make the strike one of national scope, tying up business in every city in the United Kingdom, if.they could. Fashionable West End firms are crippled to the extent that they have had to cancel thousands of dollars worth of orders today. Rich American tourists who are here for spring and summer clothing will have to make their purchases either in New York or somewhere on the continent. DALTON FOR CHATTANOOGA AS REUNION CITY IN 1913 DALTON, GA., May 6.—Miss Euge nia Bitting has been chosen sponsor and Miss Will D. Watles maid by the Frank Jackson camp No. 671, United Sons of Confederate Veterans. The camp also chose the following repre sentatives for the Macon reunion this week: Delegates, W. M. Graves. J. P. Mc- Knight and J. E. Russell; alternates, C. D. McCutchen, F. T. Reynolds and M. C. Tarver. The camp completed its organization by electing the following officers: M. C. Tarver, second.lieutenant com mander; J. C. Fincher, treasurer; Rev. J. E. Russell, chaplain; W. M. Sapp, historian, and H. L. Erwin, color guard. The camp will send a good delegation to the reunion and will vote for Chat tanooga as the reunion city for 1913. THOMASTON SOON TO HAVE WATER AND SEWER SERVICE THOMASTON, GA.. April 6 —Despite the fact that the continued rainy weather for the past four months has delayed work on the $50,000 water and sewer system here, it is rapidly near ing completion. C. W. Murray & Co., who have the contract, have had a large ditching machine in use and have practically completed the water and sewer mains. The 100,000-gallon tank, which will be more than 100 feet high, will be erected by the R. D. Cole Company, of Newman. The settling basin and pumping stations are being rapidly pushed. The city has contracted -with the Pittsburg Meter Company for me ters. Plumbers are now busy install ing equipment, and it is expected that more than fifty families will have wa ter and sewer connections the day the systems are completed. The city council has fixed the water rate at $1 per month for 4.000 gallons. POLITICS ACTIVE IN MURRAY. DALTON. GA. May 6—Murray county politics has opened up in ear nest. four new candidates entering the field for count-} offices. The race for tax receiver has assumed the inter esting stage D. W. Bond, Sam Hig don and G. L. Moore have announced. The other county candidates are G. T. Smith, for tax collector; J. M. Camp bell. for ordinary; W. B. Robinson, for superior court clerk, and R. T. Spring field, for treasurer. WARRANTFOR POTTS AS HE QUITS GOT Will Be Arrested for Slaying Harper as He Leaves the Grady Hospital. SELF-DEFENSE TO BE ACCUSED MAN’S PLEA Has Recovered Sufficiently to Quit Doctor’s Care—Plans Fight for Bail. Kell Potts, of 21 East Fifth street, who killed C. Richard Harper in a knife duel in Manhattan avenue last Thurs day, will be released from Grady hos pital this afternoon. A warrant charg ing him with murder will be served on him as he leaves the ward and he will be held at the county jail, unless bond is granted. Chief Beavers, of the Atlanta police, was notified today that Potts had re covered from his wounds sufficiently to permit his discharge from the hospital. The chief instructed Chief Lanford, of the detective department, to go before Justice R. B. Ridley and swear out a warrant charging Potts with murder. Potts has asserted that Harper at tacked him first, and he will enter’a plea of self-defense. Under the cir cumstances it is possible that Justice Ridley will permit him to be released on bond. KING SOON TOMAKE ANDREW CARNEGIE AN ITALIAN COUNT ROME, May 6.—The American am bassador has handed over to the direct- Bap-K-Qt Italy jiUfc rep- resenting 3,937,300 Iwfs (about yf/ir;- 000), being Andrew Carnegie’s gift for the foundation of an Italian hero fund. It is reported in well informed circles here that the king has asked Mr. Car negie to accept the title of count. WIFE SAYS HUSBAND DESERTED HER FOR TOOTHLESS AFFINITY • • MILWAUKEE, May 6.—Charles Rave, charged with abandonment by his wife, was placed on probation for one month by Judge Neelen. His wife accused Rave of having an affinity who is “cross-eyed and toothless.” DEAD NEGRO LEFT IN DEPOT WAITING ROOM WEST POINT, GA.. Miy 6.—When Lewis Norman, a young white man of this town, entered the waiting room of the Atlanta and West Point passenger station Saturday night, he found a dead negro. The body was that of an un known! man who had been killed by Atlanta and West Point passenger train No. 37, just about 8 o’clock Sat urday night. Several men were stand ing near the negro when he was struck, and picked his body up and carried it in the station, where it was left alone during the entire night. NEW RACE OFFISH BRED BY OPENING OF CANAL WASHINGTON. Mav 6.—The pisca torial experts of the Smithsonian in stitution say that the Panama canal will have the effect of intermixing the fish fauna of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. LINOTYPE kYnglsTn RENO FOR DIVORCE AND OUTING RENO. NEV.. May 6—Philip T. Dodge, president of the Mergrnthaler Linotype Company, is in Reno with the avowed Intention of securing a divorce. He says he will keep open house for the divorce colony. vet takestenthwife AFTER FIVE DIVORCES LITTLE ROCK. ARK.. May 6.—Sam • uel J. Killow, of Imboden, has just taken his tenth wife. She is Mrs. Frankie Crawford. Killow is a Confed erate veteran. Five of his wives were divorced from him. SECOND-RATE REMBRANDT BRINGS EXCELLENT PRICE PARIS. May 6.—Rembrandt's famous picture. “Woman Plucking a Fowl.” the most important painting In Madame Levaigneur's collection, was sold at auc- 1 tion recently at the Hotel Hrouot furl $95,000. The purchaser was Klelnberger. I NO CORNERSTONE TODAY. The cornerstone of the George W. Adair school, in Highland avenue, will ' not be laid this afternoon, as an nounced. The ceremonies have been postponed until next Thursday after noon. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. MAY 6, 1912. THOUSMIJSIN MUM FOB REUNION War Times Recalled as Grizzled Veterans Gather From All Over Dixie. HUNDREDS OF SOUTH'S PRETTIEST GIRLS THERE Tented City Rises For Heroes of '61 —Many Gay Festiv ities Planned. MACON, GA.. May 6.—Special trains and extra coaches on every regular train from every section of the South are pouring thousands of visitors into Macon today for the twenty-second an- J I nual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans and the annual gatherings of the kindred organization*, the United Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Confederate Memorial association. Grizzled old veterans who fought for the South for four long years In the sixties—this one minus a leg, that one an arm. this one bent with age, that one crippled ’from an old wound —are here to revive and perpetuate the mem ories of their war days. Knot* of the old soldiers are gathered in every ho tel lobby, on the street corners, in the veterans’ camp, and at other public places, retelling their experiences of half a century ago. Tattered old battle flags are unfurled, and the old soldiers point with pride to the bullet Holes in them. They tell of how the flags were carried over the ramparts at First and Second Manas sas. through the ’Wilderness, at Pe tersburg, up Lookout mountain, on Chickamauga, through Georgia to At lanta. in the Mississippi campaign and the Red river country. And with tear dimmed eyes they caress the old ban ners as they recount the last days at Appomattix. South’s Prettiest Girls All There. But the old veterans are not the only ones in Macon. Thousands of the pret tiest girls of the South, named as sponsors and maids of honor, are com ing in for the social festivities inci dent to reunion week. They are at tracted by the parade, balls and other affairs in which they will play conspic uous parts. In Central City park is a vivid re minder of war days. Hundreds of tents have been pitched here, and the old veterans not able to get accommoda tions in hotels boarding houses or pri vate homes will live in camp during the week. The camp was opened and dedicated yesterday when the flag was raised over the tented city. It is John B. Gordon camp; yarned in honor of that famous Georgfkn who so long was commander-ln-chief of the veterans. As the flag was hoisted, bands played, the veterans cheered and enthusiasm was unbounded. United Confederate Choirs Will Sing. The reunion actually begins tomor row morning at 10 o’clock, when Gen eral John W. Maddox, commander of the Georgia division. U. C. V., calls the veterans to order in the auditorium at Central City park. Just before this, as the veterans are assembling, the nu merous bands will play Southern airs— Dixie, Suwanee River, old Kentucky Home. Maryland. My Maryland, Bonnie Blue F'lag and all the others the South loves so well. Dr. it. I.ln Cave, of Nashville, chap lain general of the U. c. V.. will pro nounce the opening invocation, followed by song selections by the United Con federate choirs. Colonel Walter A. Harris. . g Macon veteran and chairman of the reunion Continued on Page Three. ATLANTA GIRL LEADS CAVALRY AT REUNION i I : . r 1 ■ i ’ i ’ f I. >j' • i 1 " i x (I r ■ ' ! ' A ’l' ' Jr V>■ ’ < ■ / , JU * jt g? Rlt ' Mm - ; I J I < ■bLf a fa * MgfeM 1 TAG DJI GIRLS CATCH 'EM ALL George Ware, of Ware & Harper, stepped off a car at Auburn avenue and Peachtree street early today Half way to the sidewalk he was met by two girls, both breathless and both impor tuning that he buy something. "What is it? What is ft?" asked Mr. Ware, and he looked as abashed as any man under the circumstances, could look. "Oh, buy a tag! Please buy one of our tags!” A btoad smile illuminated his face and he slipped his hand into his pocket, willing to help out the Sheltering Arms and then forgetting all about the cause of the charity in the bright faces that importuned him. Miss Willie Cum mings, daughter of Fire Chief Cum mings, and. her sister-in-law. Mrs H B. Cummings, were stationed at the corner selling tags to the thousands of persons who pass there daily Mr. Wares hand came out of his pocket. A bill was in It. He dug down into another pocket, but instead of any coin, all he cbuld find was another bill. "Wait Just a minute." he said, and away he dashed to the neatest soda fountain The clerk handed out change for a five, and. dropping half a dollar into the little bucket held out to him. Mr. Ware started to cross the street. He had bought a tag and was secure. But on the next corner the same process >as repeated. This time he contented himself with a smaller coin and adorn ed with a tag on either lapel of his coat, he went on unmolested. Miss Etta Hardeman to Bear Stars and Bars Aloft at Macon. Miss Etta Hardeman, of 491 North Boulevard, will bear the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy at the head of the Georgia cavalry brigade at Macon in the reunion parade next Thursday. She was appointed by Commander E. G. Gilmore, of Milner. Miss Hardeman, who is an accom plished horsewoman, is one of 25 maids of honor appointed for the reunion. She was chosen for the honor of bearing the handsome new stahdard to be present ed to the cavalry brigade by the maids o By IM 'W > rr i ii,.' i_~ **** Miss Etta Hardeman, of 491 North Boulevard, will lead the Georgia cavalry brigade at the great Macon reunion, bearing aloft the Stars and Bars, of honor as a reward for her zeal in securing funds for the flag. She will ride at the head of the brigade, clad in Confederate gray, and will afterward present the flag to General Gilmore, who will receive it in the name of his comrades. Miss Hardeman is the daughter of A. J. Hardeman, of Gainesville, Ga., who served under Johnston and later under I Lee. being among those who witnessed < the end of the uneven struggle ndth the surrender at Appomattox. Miss Susie Woodward, of Atlanta, will be a maud of honor in the parade. SECOND FUNERAL SHIP INJLffI HALIFAX, May 6.—With her flags at half-mast as indicative of her mournful mission, the cable ship Minia. which succeeded the Mackay-Bennett in the search for bodies of the Titanic disas ter victims off the Newfoundland Grand Banks, arrived in port to day with fifteen corpses on board. Seventeen bodies in all had been picked up Minia, but of these two were buried at sea. Among the bodies on board the ship was that of Charles M. Hays, late pres ident of the Grand Trunk railway. The Minia landed at the same gov ernment pier as had been used by the Mackay-Bennett when she brought her burden of 190 corpses into port. The coming of the Minia. which had been announced in advance by wireless, oc casioned little excitement and only a handful of persons were at the dock to welcome her Half a dozen hearses and ambulances were drawn up in line at the pier when the ship was warped in and no time was lost in getting the bodies off the vessel and on their way to the morgue in Mayflower curling rink. There was a heavy police guard about the pier. EXTRA - PPTUF- O" Trains, FIVE CENTS. X i n Atlanta. TWO CENTS GRAND JURY TAKES UP GRACE CASE Accused Woman in the Towefl as the Famous Shooting Is Considered. FEW WITNESSES ARE CALLED TO TESTIFY] Dr. Goldsmith, on Stand, Telia Inquisitors About Eugene’s Wounds. The case of Mrs. Daisy Grafft, charged by her husband with attempt' to murder him, was taken up today by ] 1 Io W|L>j ft - t the newly organized Fulton county ; grand Jury and is now being considered 1 by that body. It is expected that the testimony will occupy but a short time, i as only the evidence of the prosecution . ’ is heard and comparatively few wit nesses are to be examined. Mrs. Grace will not appear before the grand jury. R. J. Guinn was chosen foreman of A the new Jury which began its term to day. After a charge by Judge Ellis, i which did not touch upon the Grace case, the members went to their room and immediately called in Dr. W. S. Goldsmith, one of the surgeons at tendant upon Eugene Grace when he was taken to St. Josephs infirmary im- * mediately after the shooting. Two de- '.A tectives and several others who had been present when Grace made his >,? ante-mortem statement were in at tendance at the courthouse, ready to give their testimony. Nine Weeks Tomorrow Since Grace was Shot. The accused wife has led an exciting life since her husband accused her of shooting him on March 5 in their home in West Eleventh street. Mrs. Grace j spent that night in the police station. From the quiet little Quaker girl of a j few years ago she had been transformed into a prisoner accused of a heinous crime. Since that time, nine weeks ago, she has been the center of interest in Georgia. Mis. Grace obtained bond the next ' morning, but the following afternoon S she was rearrested, on account of the serious condition of her husband. This time she was placed in the Tower and remained there two weeks. And here the accused woman had her first expe rience as a real prisoner. At the police s Continued on Page Thre». _ i ■* i