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2 20,0D0 CUT OFF urao owed Hundreds of Thousands Are Now Homeless and Badly in Need of Food. --Continued F'-om Page One, »*• ■ - 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. I |— i i . £ . . . ~L . u.._L _ . , NOT THE NAME OF SOMETHING TO EAT But It Sounds Like Something That Everybody Should Be Familiar With. ■ The average American do* n t know whether Nizhni \o' t tp f name of a tight-rope performer or a new parlor game. It :s neither. In these day*' of discoveries invention, it migh' be th* name given to a German chemical combination m a »<- < But it isn't. In fait. it is n new ■< it *OO years old. so ft isn ■ i breakfa.-1 food not is it a recent di • ,y t ßm • It is a <itx—a full-grown city founded! . ip the year 1212 "I knew that all the time .- mebodv ! says. Yes, but the average Amerl-an doesn t know it. and it is the averaa American that should b> • nligh’ ■ , With that end In view. The .. in presents the Standard Atlas and < nological History of th>- Wor-i in this useful volume the namt of all the principal cities of the wo: I a, given, with a concise description of eac h. In another section the population of the principal cities of the world is to be found, and in anoth» ire •u --rate maps of all states of the Union and all countries of the world. This Atlas should be in every home in A.tlanta It is. useful for old and young alike Every school child should !-.> o access to it It is ease to gr» tor al! you need to do is to present «i< head ing* of The Georgian and a -m.i!i ex pense fee to defray the exnen.-o items of distribution. Start to save those headings today. COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF VETERANS WANTS _ _ TO KEEP HIS OFFICE .. . / ■”* \ I ■ IW ' M W . 4 - . £ AJW \ I ■. '-?*** aAA, \ \I i \ 1 A I ■ 1 / * ■ / / ■ W* / / ci < p / IfMRW y// (H * ) y/ 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. .JBMHaZSSy**- MalL 11 , ; c- V 3 z lozz foe 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. . rrr wiHiryinwawgy {■«-rwY«y A■ !»£LW". ■ !T, AELm KEEP YOUR LAWNS IN GOOD TRIM By Using Our “KING SPECIAL” Mower The “KING SPECIAL” More Useful T ha n ■ Ornamental. The “KING SPECIAL" The jd? . Best Ball 8«tri”8 Mower oo the Market. ' We Have Oilier Good Mekes—The Jewel—The Royal O • The “King Special" $8.50 to SI 1.59 Pfif’PC 8 Tiie “Jewel" . . $5.09 to $7.50 111WO • He “R O j. a |" . . $3.00 to $5.95 s Garden Rubber Hose The Hose That Is f:J T/o Sag Pm. 1C“ ’36, 'S& PfOlOPtfid CAN’T WEAR OUT—GUARANTEED Grolv. wrappedl-2-in., 22c ft.; 3-4-in., 25c ft. Best Black.l-2-in., 18c ft.; 3-4-in., 20c ft. Red Rubber.l-2-in., 15c ft.; 3-4-in., 16c ft. Reg. 81ack.... .. 1-2-in., 10c ft.: 3-4-in., 12 l-2c ft. UMr RFFIC M num $2.59 nUOL iuuo M Wodil $1.25 LAWN SPRINKLER to attach to < 4 Hose; regular $2.00 value; special, at. KING HARDWARE CO. 53 Peachtree ST Whitehall • tii am lainiaim min 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.