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urao owed
Hundreds of Thousands Are
Now Homeless and Badly in
Need of Food.
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Crowley, Ra«’ne. Lafayette. Opelou'.at
and Alexandria. 5.00 P,
In th* Achafalya section. comprising
Marksville. Naples Lacour and Mel
ville, 3,000.
Tn the East bank region, comprising
■Baton Rouge. Port Hudson and adja
cent villages. 3 son.
There are a number of places where
persons have been rendered homric:-
which were not included in this re
port.'
Government figures from the
quadrangle section bounded at its four
corners by Arkansas fity. Rosedale.
Miss.; Natchez and the mouth of the
Red river, give 105,000 as the total
number of hopeless persons therein.
Work Desperately
To Save Refugees.
Less attention was paid today to
strengthening the levees than to sav
ing refugees. Motor boats, dories. rafts
and barges were commanded and press
ed into service. Many of them were
inarmed by government employe- and
each one was in charge of a respon
sible river man.
- Twelve negroes and two white wom
an were drowned in the "battle ax'
district of t oupe early today when a
skiff in which they were being towed
to safety by a government lauch cap
sized?
Fraah refugees flocked into Baton
Rouge by the hundreds during the
night. Dr. Oscar Downling, of the state
board of health is in that city, and t:
In charge of the housing preparations.
He Is taking strict precautions to see
that" the quarters of the refuges are
equipped with sanitary safeguards to
prevent any outbreak of disease.
Loss $12,000,000
Say U. S. Experts.
■ The drawbridge of the Texas and Pa
cific railroad, over the Cross Tete
bayou, was swung Into lino with the
current today and locked in that posi
tion to prevent Its frying washed away.
Traffic on that section of the road has
been completelv suspended.
The towns of Maringouin and Cross
Tate, which are in the flooded district,
have been turned Into Island', but as
they are on elevated ground it is not
believed that they are In danger of be
ing destroyed.
, Offers ar* constantlv being received
f at the state house from towns outside
, Ute danger sone offering to care for
refugees. Subscriptions are oelng made
up and stores of clothing and food are
being received.
’ Cnited States government engineer
estimated that an area of at least 877
.Square miles is under water, and the
loss so far through crop and property
damage amounts to at least $12.00(1.000.
The lowest estimates of lumber opera
tors, are that at least 51 per cent of
the hardwood mills of Arkansas. Louis
iana and Mississippi have been forced
to suspend. Production is at least 40
peritept below normal and as a result
pricer are being raised.
9 WOMEN DENTISTS
TO BE GRADUATED
BY SOUTHEASTERN
?
Nine young women will receive their
diplomas from the Southeastern Den
tal university tonight, and will be full
fledged dental assistants. They are:
Miss Caroline Anderson. Miss Vivian
Daßardelkbep. Mis? Effie Garrett, Miss
Ruth E Meckel. Miss Jennie 'Marie
Odum. Miss Elizabeth M ilcox Sherrill.
Mita Mary Witham White, Miss Pear!
Elizabeth tVoodliff and Miss t'ommev
Belle Wynne.
. -William H Liner. Thomas A Price
and Idus Whitton will be graduated a
dental surgeons
- Commencement exercises of the col
lege ar<- tn be held in the building
174 1-3 Whitehall street, beginning at S
o'clock. The young women are the first
to be graduated in the South.
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whether Nizhni \o' t tp f name
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parlor game. It :s neither. In these
day*' of discoveries invention, it
migh' be th* name given to a German
chemical combination m a »<- <
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it *OO years old. so ft isn ■ i breakfa.-1
food not is it a recent di • ,y t ßm
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says. Yes, but the average Amerl-an
doesn t know it. and it is the averaa
American that should b> • nligh’ ■ ,
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presents the Standard Atlas and <
nological History of th>- Wor-i in
this useful volume the namt of all
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General C. Irvin? Walker, of Charleston. S. C.. is presiding
over the old soldiers’ sessions at the reunion in Macon. He is a
candidate to succeed himself as commander-in-chief.
■ONT REIGNS
on wk oom
Report on Squabble of Year
Ago Finds Peace Among
Once Warring Factions.
The rules committee of the park
hoard is today laboring over the re
port of the investigating, committee ap
pointed eight months ago to make a
report on all the whys and wherefores
of a fight between two factions in the
board.
The board is mindful of the fact that
harmony now reigns where factional
ism uns once rampant, and that there
probably would have been no report
had n->t <'onimissioner Frank Wilhy and
others urged that the committee make
some sort of a statement.
M. B Young is chairman of the in
vestigating committee and It «:ts un
der his direction that a thorough probe
waa made. R. A. Burnett and \\ . P.
Anderson signed the report with him. It
includes the fololwing recommendation:-
rertirding happenings in the board a
year ago
Won’t Demand Carey's Head.
That the resolution requesting the
resignation of General Manager Dan
Carey be withdrawn and that Mr. Ca
rey apologize for the remarks he made
following the adoption of this resolu
tion.
That the superintendents of Grant
and Piedmont pa’ i-s- ha'l have full con
trol of the work done in their parks
and shall make monthly reports to the
board.
That the board have lan- passed
making it a distinct corporate body,
with pone- t > levy taxes and expend its
monev --s it sees fit
That the genera' manager shall have
regular office hours from 3 o'clock to 5
o'clock in the afternoon.
Th's Squares Everybody.
The report is lengthy and in a pream
ble set- forth th.T if the inform i»i in
received by certain members of the
board had been corre”. thex would
lave been justified tn asking the resig
nation of Mr. Carev. blit that the in
fo: it ■ n u' l-ii t i ? 'us for i •king
hie .nation was not correct and
that ih > then for,no: justifi.-d.
.1. i", i ’ io. . io is now president
of the b0a.,1 <n,i who Introduc’d th<
.‘■sduti -n asktng the rcstKiiattoi- of Mr
Carey, re i: hew- n->t m-i eto rescind
tl’.r ft H* says » warts
dead • » bitty its dead and he
> ~ ’th ng rih.ri! rhe r> of the
committe- tX'ppt as it afYeets present
eondUivn -
Hatchet Is Buried.
i • >, therefor*', not expected
tn apn'-’7’. ■ * for his» rem'i’'kf Put h?
and M: < > -ran have been lhe best of
friends t>r som* m<.r
Rv • .•? •*o t' '■ ' ->ard turned
down -b* -,f rhe
nue F r ’ r ”■> hold services in
Grant pirk on ?u",
The u n 5 th c : dr■ ■»p' ii f ®d to
drain the
build a Sunken garden there.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. 1912.
BIGIIESONK
MOBMON ELDER
Woman Says He Acted as
Such While Preaching in the
Baptist Church..
BOSTON. May S.—That Clarence V.
T. Richeson is a Mormon and that he
be< nine an elder of th* pol? gamrius
church in order to win the affections
of another woman is the Charge now
brought by Mrs. Louise E. Brittain
against the ex-minister who is to be
electrocuted on May 19 for the poison
ing of Avis Linnell.
Mrs. Brittain, herself only recently
converted from the Mormon cult, de
clare:- that Richeson secretly superin
tended the Mormpn proselyting cam
paign in Boston. At the same time he
preached in his Baptist church. In.her
affidavit, made to Justice, of the Peace
William Thibodeau, she says she has
known Richeson for several years, first
meeting him three years ago at a Mor
mon canferenye on Staten Island,
where, she says, the Baptist clergyman
was recognized as one of the Mormon
elders, and was active in,the affairs of
the conference. She has since seen him
many times in and about Boston, and
lias given him the Mormon signs, which
always were answered.
Richeson an Elder.
She says she attended a Mormon
conference at Provindence, R. 1., a little
over a year ago. at which Richeson was
present, and that she received com
maim. from him as a Mormon elder at
Boston gathering of the leaders of
the church.
?he said that to th* best of her be-
■»' Richeson was converted to Mor
won sm while a student at William
Jewell college in Liberty. Mo., from
whi h he wis expelled in 1889
In that time Richeson became at
tached to a young woman who now
m>k's her home in Sait Lake City. To
•ins young woman Is due Richeson's
onnectlon with the Latter Day Saints.
His Sister Appeals.
Miss L. V RicheSon, who arrived
~ , IF f evening from her home in Vir
c:ni i '.ilked today with Governor Eos*
■ m behalf of her brother. 'The subject
■ "i - • >! was the plea which has been
, .• for < ommutatton of -Richeson's
■ h it-li sentHi * on the ground that the
clergyman is unsound mentally
ami has been so always.
NEWSPAPER sxß INCHES
SMALLEST IN AMERICA
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.. May B—The
smallest new.-vaper in the United States
Is published weekly at Chesterfield. 111.,
bv O. P Cornelius and is named The
Chesterfield New -
The paper is a single sheet. 3 by $
inches, and has reading matter on one
and advertisements on the other.
The first i-.-ue stated the subscription
cr: was ’sn a year, but the editor
■ ometed this to 50 cents. • .
GUBERIUTORUL
HUGE WK UP
Slaton to Open Headquarters,
With Ulm Helping—Hudson
and Hall Touring State.
By JAMES B. NEVIN.
The announcement that John M. Sla
ton is to open campaign headquarters
immediately, name his campaign man
ager and get right down to the serious
business of being elected governor of
Georgia Is a sure indication that the
fight for the succession to Governor
Brown is now on in dead earnest, and
that from this time forward things are
going to happen.
Thomas G. Hudson has had head
quarters open for more than a month —
for a time in the Kimball house, recent
ly removed tn West Alabama street.
Joe Hili Hall will make his headquar
ters in Macon.
While the presidential primary fight
was progressing in Georgia, an effort
was made by al! parties concerned to
keen the lid on state politics as tightly
as possible. The presidential mix-up
cut into the political affairs of ail the
state candidates somewhere along the
line, and frequently most uncomfort
ably.
Everybody was perfectly willing—
anxious would be the better word—to,
s'.t steady in the boat and let things
drift until after May 1. And everybody
did sit as steady as possible, even if the
boat did wabble now and then.
Ulm Will Figure.
Mr. Slaton has not given out the
name of his campaign manager yet. but
it may be taken as a fact that A Hardy
Ulm will figure heavily in headquar
ters.
Mr. Hudson has given no hint of the
name of his campaign manager, but is
expected ’o make that interesting an
nouncement v ithln the next few days.
Whether Mr. Hall will have a cam
paign manager other than himself no
body save Mr Hall knows yet.
Mr. Slaton is hard at work framing
his formal platform, and will give it
publicity within the next ten days. It
will concern itself with mans’ matters
of great interest and importance, espe
cially with the matter of a permanent
registration list —one of Mr. Slaton's
pet measures—the great desirability of
the state's retaining ownership of the
Western and Atlantic railroad and im
proving it. and liberal support of agri
cultural educational Institutions, and
the state's educational facilities gener
ally.
Mr. Slaton will particularly address
himself to the. question of elections,
regular and primary. He-will advocate
uneempr-omialngly. the county unit plan
tn a11.
Hudson in Macon.
Thomas G. Hudson ’is invading Joe
Hill Hall territory this week; He. is
having a look in on The Confederate re
union in Macon.
Mr. Hudson is expected to promul
gate hie formal platform between this
time and June 1. He has been activelj
campaigning for several weeks, and ex
presses himself as entirely satisfied
with th* situation as it exists tmlay.
There probably is not a man in Geor
gia vtho is move widely acquainted than
Thomas G, Hudson. He has been iden
tified with troorgla politics for a num
ber of years, and Is credited- with un
usual political sagacity and astuteness.
ARNOLD BUYS HOUSES.
Dr. W; A. Arnold has purchased’
houses at 331 and 533 Ira street from
F. E. Radensleber. administrator of
the Mary H. Mueller estate, for Sl.noo.
The sale was made through A. J. & H.
F. West at auction at the court house.
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pFO'S/terOM'S
too sorneefay s-ltW
Berirt it
The manyousee riding hr in his automobile
perhaps begun with smullev income than you
have now. Hut by depriving himself of ‘ u few
unnecessary extravagances he was able to. start
a bunk necount. It grew. Today he is enjoeing
the luxuries that he pnvs for out of money that
he does not miss; heeanse money makes ntonev.
The com fort he enjov s today is only the interest
on his E A R L Y EC <) X 6M V. Start a bank
account XOW.
Do YOUR banking with l,'S.
4 per cent on Savings Deposits
CENTRAL BANK & TRUST CORPORATION
Candler Building
BRANCH:
Mitchell and Forsyth Streets
Edison Is Planning
The Development of
"Movies* for Schools
ORANGE, N. J.. May B.—Thomas A.
Edison expects to spend $3,000,000 and
devote eight years to the work of per
fecting a repertory of educational films
that will meet the requirements he-has
set to mak a the moving picture useful
in the school room. What the inventor
has done so far and will do was told by
Arthur D Chandler.
He told the New Englanders that
Edison is confident that the moving
picture film is destined to become an
indispensable adjunct to the school
room. Edison has alread’- had a num
ber of films made, among them one
which shows, magnified millions ”f
times, the process of chemical crystal
lization of certain substances. To
watch the processes as shown'by that
film, according to Mr. Chandler, is to
be deeply impressed with the fact that
there Is something controlling even the
action of inorganic matter, and he said
po felt that the scientists in their
seav-hlng might yet find out-God.
Th° educator said ho was stipe that
the lioys who ha’e school and can not
'earn from books could not help being
interested- and Darning rapidly from
motion picture screens. Edison expects
to send Into all corners of the earth,
gathering material for his films.
MUST SHOW HORNY HANDS
AS A. PROOF OF INDUSTRY
MUNCIE, IND. Mat S. Judge Frank
Feeley ha? applied a new test to m c n
picked up as vagrants and who classify
themselves as hones* working men. It
is known as the “hand test.’’
When a supposed vagrant cotnes be
fore the court the judge requires him to
exhibit his bands.
’Tve been working hard for a long
time, but have, no work just now," said
Ira Bracken, when arraigned on a mi
nor charge.
"Let's see your Hands." said the
judge, and Bracken showed them.
"Just like velvet —30 days and the
usual fine and cos’s," said the court.
CHALLENGE IS ISSUED
TO HORSESHOE PITCHERS
CHICAGO. May 8. -Still inflated
vijh pride over their exploit of a ' ear
ago. when 'they won the horseshoe
pitching contest, John Mohler Stude
baker, head qf the vehicle manufactur
ing corporation at South Berni, and
John Ade. father of George Ade, have
issued a sweeping challenge to meet
any Hoosier state team whose com
bined age shall equal those of the,chal
lengers.
The ages of Mr. Studebaker and Mr.
Ade foot up ISO years.
MRS. WALDREP WANTS
CHUBBY PINNED DOWN
Mrs. Lola Waldrep asked n n t only
alimony from her husband. W. W.
Waldrep, in a suit filed in superior
court, but she wants her husband put
under bond to keep him in one-place
long enough, to get that alimony.
Mrs. Waldrep explained in her suit
that her husband was of "a rambling
nature” and if the court didn’t pin him
down he might he in British Honduras
at this time qext week.. The court did
not require Wal.drep to make bond..
PEACHTREE PROPERTY
SELLS AT $6lO A FOOT
Porter Langston paid s6l<l per foot
for a )nt fronting. S 3 feet,on Peachtree
street nea- Pine street at auction. The
lot is 19R feet long on one. side and 160
feet on the other. The total price paid
for;it was $38,430. Forrest & George
Adair made the sale.
WILSON,BFITEN,
DEFUSES TO OUIT
His Friends Plan Appeal to the-
State Convention for Recog
nition as Second Choice.
SAVANNAH, GA., May B.—Friends
of Governor \A ondrotv Wilson in Sa
vannah are discussing plans for taking
a hand in-the forthcoming state con
vention, to the extent of having the
convention instruct the delegates to
Baltimore for Wilson as second choice.
Under the ruling of the state com
mittee already passed upon by the peo
ple. all the delegates to the Atlanta
convention must he from among the
friends of Underwood, and. while Wil
son's friends realize this, and many of
them doubt that any recommendation
the state committee might now make
would be of any force whatever, they
contend, nevertheless, that Wlfson car
ried 40 counties, and a petition from
his friends for recognition might not
be unavailing in the convention.
Fear Displacement of
Executive Committee.
Th* Wilson people of Savannah also
express the fear that the factional ele
ment that will control the state con
vention in Atlanta may undertake to
control the present state executive
committee---even to displace jt-a-not
wlthstanding the fact that its lease of
life runs until after the August state
primary. They base this belief upon
the idea that the present committee is
said to favor the candidacy of Hudson
for governor, rather than the candi
dacy of Slaton.
Just how far the Wilson enthusi
asts really intend to go in the matter of
securing an expression from the state
convention making Wilson Georgia',
second choice for the presidential nom
ination is problematical, of course, but
that they are just now proceeding in
deadly tamest is not to be doubted!
SAMUEL TALIAFERRO LEFT
ESTATE WORTH $20,000,00
The will of Samuel Mobley Taliafer
ro. pioneer resident of Atlanta, who
died a month ago, was probated today.
The estate, which is valued at s2fi,ooo.
was divided among his widow. Mrs.
Emma Taliaferro, and his two children,
Mrs. Mildred H. Ellesby and W. JJ- Tal
iaferro. W. E. Taliaferro was named
as executor. .
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Man Is Best at 45,
Declares President
Os the Rock Island
CHICAGO, May B—According to H.
U. Mudge, president of the Rock Island
road, the contention that a man who
passes the 45-year age limit, is no
longer- useful is the veriest nonsense.
Mr. Mudge IS fifty-five years -old anfi
says he never felt better fitted for
work.
"A man over 45 years of age no
longer useful?" he responded in repeat
ing the.question. "That's al! bosh. Im
55 mj self, and no one can say I'm not
active. A man is in his prime at 45.
Os course, there is. an unofficial rule
that a railroad company does not want
to/ take new; men into th* service at
45. We want them before they get to
the prime stage, so that they will be
prime in the service at 45."
WOMAN IS RECORDER
OUT IN CALIFORNIA
DALY CITY. CAI?.. May B—Miss
Clara Alice Jess has so far done well as
city -ec order.
Miss Jess has the honor of bring the
first member of the gentler sex to be
appointed to a judicial position in the
state. There is- no salary attached to
the office, the fee system for each csflf?
being in vogue for the city recordship
in all municipalities of the size of Daly
City.
Miss Jess -has : worked as stenogra
pher in law offices in San Francisco and
is familiar-with Blackstone. She is a
youthful appearing woman of small
stature.
PIPE KEEPS HEALTH GOOD.
82-YEAR OLD WOMAN SAYS
. Northfield. Minn . May 4.—Mrs.
Dennis Bebaut, who has just celebrated
her eighty-second birthday, attributes
her long life and excellent health to
the use of tobacco. She has been a
smoker practically all her life.
She had her first ride on a train last
St. Patricks day. when she rode from
Faribault to Comus, a distance of a few*
miles, but lopg enough for her. as she
took the day coach and had to refrain
from smoking' v hile on the cars.
LABEL BACHELORS AND
MARRIAGEABLE WOMEN
BOSTON,- May 8. —Mrs. Frank Page
advocates the wearing of badges or
buttons by all unmarried men and
women to denote their eligibility for
marriage. She believes that the eligi
bility of both men and women should
not remain a mystery or depend upon
the frankness and honesty of the per
son whosd position is at issue.