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TITANIC PROBE'S' SPOTLIGHT IS ON HOT GOOOON Seaman Says on Her Plea He Rowed Away From Drown ing Passengers. LONDON. May IL—The govern-' ment’s Titanic inquiry was made the occasion for a society gathering today tn expectation of a sensational develop ment relative to the part which Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and his wife, Lady Duff Gordon, played in the .great ocean tragedy. The Duff Gordons were «not present l at the opening, but arrived later. The throng of society lights who thronged Scottish Drill hall were rewarded as the investigation turned to this phase of the disaster immediately, after the Sittings were resumed. Charles Hendrickson, a flrhnian on Titanic, who was one of the crew which manned lifeboat No. 1, in which the Duff Gordons were passengers, and who had testified that, despite the fact that the lifeboat was only partially filled, Lady Duff Gordon prevented him from returning to the scene of the dis aster to pick up men and women who were struggling in the water, was again called to the stand. Hendrickson had also testified that he,- as well as the other seamen manning the boat, had been rewarded with a five-pound note ($25) by Sir Cosmo. ■ Witness Unshaken In His Story. Hendrickson was recalled by Barris ter Henry E. Duke, of counsel for the Duff Gordons. He stuck to his previous story and was unshakable by cross examination. The fireman swore that, although his lifeboat was only a few hundred yards away from the spot where the Titanic plunged to the bottom, the seamen were persuaded to row away from the scene. Those in the boat could sec men and women struggling in the water, but Lady Duff Gordon insisted that the boat would be swamped if they returned to the scene, he said, and she was second ed in this declaration by her husband. Steeling their hearts to the scenes of suffering and cries of grief behind them, the seamen pulled away with their partially filled lifeboat, leaving the victims in the water to sink to their death. “It we go back we will be swamp- * ed,” was the declaration made over and over again by Lady Duff Gordon, ac cording to the witness. *’* Premier Asquith's Wife a Spectator. Among the early.arrivals in the spec tators’ gallery was Mrs. Asquith, wife of Premier Asquith. The spectators included many brilliantly gowned wom en. whose names are conspicuous in society. They listened with keenest in terest to the testimony, and especially that relating to the Duff Gordons, and regarded Fireman Hendrickson cu riously through gold-mounted lorg nettes. Before -testimony taking began, per mission was asked for the Duff Gor dons to be represented by counsel. In granting tile request, Lord Mersey, the presiding judge, said that he believed that ft was a reasonable petition, be cause evidence might be Introduced casting reflections upon Sir Cosmo and his wife. Just before noon a wave of excite ment swept over the court room when Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff Gordon un expectedly entered. Every eye was upon them as they made their way through the crowded aisle to the coun sel table, where seats were provided for them. They were just iri time to hear Mr. Duke ask Hendrickson: “Wheat you: received your five pounds from Sir Cosmo, did you believe every, body on board the boat had done his duty?” •Well, to a certain extent." replied the witness. ■•You do?" asked Lord .Mersey in surprise. "No, I don’t believe they did." amend ed Hendrickson. Hendrickson had testified earlier: * After we were taken on board the ‘ arpathia. 1 met Sir Cosmo on deck, and he offered me n cigar. Then he -aid, 'I am going to mat. a present of five’pounds to cui-h of you PJ.'-n. to make good your kits which you lost on the Titanic.’ ” * Witness ‘ ‘ Interviewed ’' About His Testimony. The next witness, an able seaman on ihe Titanic, named Symonds, caused ai sensation by declaring that an agent of i rhe Duff Gordons had called upon him at his home in Weymouth early this week relative to the testimony he (Syjnonds) would give, at the bearing. Symonds' reluctance to tell what had passed between him and the agent caused him to be questioned on this point. The witness responded in the following angry and ungrammatical' manner: •'What takes place in my private . home is no business of nobody’s." Attorney General Sir Rufus Isaac asked if anything had been said at this private interview about the money Sir Cosmo had given the men in the life boat. “Yes.” the witness replied: “and I told him that it came as a great sur prise to me.” Symonds testified tnai he had. helped , -.-t lifeboats ready on the Titanic’s starboard side at the forward end of tin ship. Two women ran out of the first sa- I, >n cabin and asked if they could get | tl .. the boat." the witness s tid. Fi st Offlcet Murdqek. who was m TRAVELERS TO HOLD QUAKER | _ banquet at the piedmont| JSboB / JF/ ; ® iWBHRT W rzS- -" -'1 w 1 ■ ' iat-.X-JK Zm v N7®"I nK' iU Im - fSjMkw 7 \ \lvC wf fIN iat \ \\ 9KSSI IKa- - -® - -Mgai They’ll Talk When the Spirit Moves Them at Dinner in the Piedmont Tonight. i The Georgia-Florida council of the I United Commercial Travelers, in ses i sion now at the Piedmont hotel, will ' have a banquet tonight. So far as appearances go. it will be the usual banquet. There will be white I table linen, silver looking silver, china plates and ebony colored waiters. Con somme will bo served first and demi tasse last. In between will be a good many more conventionals, such as filet de mignon, spuds au gratiri and a few . more well known American creations > with French entitlements. But it will not be the usual banquet. 1 say the 1' C. T.'s. because — Firstly, there will be no speeches— lhat is. there will be none of this "we have with us” line of oratory Nobodx will be asked to say a word or so about this or that, and when a speaker does get to his feet be will have nothing short of the wide, wide world to roam In. Calculating that there is no true eloquence unless it comes direct from I the heart, the f. C. T.'s are going to hold a Quaker meeting. Whenever the spirit strikes a brother he can rise and speak on any topic from the icebergs in the northern lane to the flies of Kam chatka. There will be a large attendance, and larger doings, it is predicted. Tomorrow is Bagmen's day. No ad vance information has been given out about tliis festival, except that the putj 'lic will be given a chance to see many didoes and observe many stunts. There will be a parade, beginning at 10 o'clock, followed by initiation exercises at the Pythian hall that night. The business session opened this morning at 9 o'clock and matters of in. terest to the order, but nobody else, wore discussed. This afternoon a meet ing place for ext year is to be selected and officers elected. C. K. Ayer, of Atlanta, is a candidate for grand secre tary's place. LOT OF TROUBLE FOR OFFICER WHO SHOT IN AIR. HITTING MULE MACON, GA.. May 17.—Last week Po liceman Pierce fired bis pistol into the air to attract the attention of a brother of ficer to a gang of escaping burglars. One of the bullets killed a mule on an adjoin ing block. The owner of the mule has I filed suit for damages against the city, | and Policeman Pierce will be tried this I afternoon for reckless shooting. charge of the work, told them they inighi. Then three men got into the boat, and it was ordeied away, although then' was plenty of room for more passengers. "The command was'given to lower ! awav. and on shipboard you hav to I obey orders. That wa 1 about half an 1 hout before the . hip sank ! Unfilled Boat (Left Women Aboard. "Was any effort made to find any more women and children for this boat?” asked Sir Rufus. Witness said. "J saw women running around. Os course. I could not criticise an officer." I Symonds was in the partially filled i boat to help man it. He said that his | boat could have accommodated at least eight more passengers. "When the ship went down. w<- hearu shrieks of the people in the water, and could see them kicking mound hut thought it not s,<r< to back.” h< ■■-aid THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AX!> NEWS: ERIDAY. MAY 17. 1912. ar wr I / / \\ ' x // \\4BHv v \ // \Wrw ( ~>S\ .. JL i - t r * x Miss Louise Lewis, of Atlanta, one of the women helping entertain the I.C. T. delegates, is pinning a badge on ('. K. \.ver. also of Atlanta, a leading candidate lor grand secrelar.v. Below is Tom Hampton, of Tampa, known as the chatnpion cracker salesman of the civilized world an dalso the greatest consumer of the wares he has helped make famous. KAUL BABES ILL II NSW Brought Back From New York, He Names Wrenn and Roddy Associates in Job. George Kaul, brought back from New York under Indictment for the $25,000 jewel robbery of several weeks ago, made a complete confession to Newport Lan ford, chief of detectives, today, and named George Wrenn and Car! Roddy his associates in the crime. He told > his story freely and after a long ex amination by detectives gave a written statement of the details of the theft. "We tr.rec worked together." he said. "We learned that Sol Gilsey had a trunk full of diamonds and other jewels I at the Piedmont hotel and laid our plans to steal the gems. I learned that the trunk was to be sent to the Termi nal station that night and saw it placed on the dray. Roddy was stationed in front of the Grand building, waiting for the wagon to pass. George Wrenn i followed the drayman and gave a signa! > to Roddy. Hirjd Negro to Drive Wagon. "He crossed 'he street and persuaded the negro driver to go into the Grant building and up to tb<'sixth floor to get a piece us baggage Then a negro we had hired drove the wagon away The j trunk was taken off a mi carried into the boarding house at x7 East <'ain street, and the wagon was driven into Alexan- ' der street and deserted. "We three—Wren, Roddy and I—took the jewels out of th*' trunk and carried them into the woods near Decatur, where we divid' d them into three equal shares. Then we separated.” Kaul was arrested in Mount Vernon. I N. Y., and was brought back to Atlanta i by Detective J. N. Starnes, arriving I early today. Wrenn, also under indict - I ment. was sent to the Tower last week, but released yesterday on SSOO bond I Roddy, who was caught in New Or- | leans, j<» still held at the poller station The jewels hay. p'urlv all been rceov ' : 'd. C PIONEER OF AIRMEN, WILBUR WRIGHT, ILL OF TYPHOID FEVER I>A YT( )N. ()H H>. M \ 17. - Wilbur WrigM, famous .1 ■ roplar.p builder and aviator, who has been ill for leu days, has developed tx phoid fever, according io a bulletin fr<>m In. D. B. Conklin, his attending physician. Dr. (’onklin stat ed. however, that there is no cause for alarm. Wright's lemporaiuie vx.as 101 when the bulletin xvas issued. NEW OWNERS TO IMPROVE VALDOSTA POWER PLANT VALDOSTA. GA.. Max 17. if. T Hart man. of Philadelphia, an official of (lie company which recently purchased the Consolidated he <V Power Company/ of this city, xvith E. II Mos< s, <»f Sumpter. S. C.. who will be temporarilx in charge, have been in \aldosia (hi: week arrang ing for extensive improvements. The former owners spent nearly SIOO,OOO last year in improvements. The new company paid $300,000 for the ’property and will spend probabl.x *150.000 in further addi- , lions MINNESOTA EXTRA SESSION TO RUSH THE PRIMARY LAW MINNEAPOLIS MINN. May 14. An extra .session of the .Minnesota leg islature will be called June 4 to enact a stall -yvide primary election law bc | fore the stale nominations scheduled to | occur in .July . The < all, « hit h it y'as ! expected w ould be issued today, is a result of tin indorsement of tin- pri mary plan by the lb publican state con vention here The tale's 2 1 delegates yyere pledged to 800 even, PIONEER GAS MAN DEAD. RALKIGII. N. .May 17.—Captain Sanna 1 E Linton, who erected the fir si gas plants in Salisbury. Charlotte, Co lumbia and Jacksonville, rlied in Ra ileigh today at the age of 7t> years. He was born in Philadelphia and came to [Salisbury in ISM>. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Ths Kind You Have Always Bought I i i yr iii’iii ii’iiir ' If ERILED BOST Captain and Four of Crew of New Submarine Aground. Face Death All Night. ATLANTIC CITY. > .1.. .May IL <: ..it waves d.-tsheil ovei I lie $170,0(1(1 submarine <' 2 as -he lay on a shoal In th cut l-lgg harbor today, with Captain I Dai:tr-nhatiei and sou daring members io, his cre-.v still aboard. Tin- Longport life-saving crew stood by throughout the nigh: a‘ t‘-i- taking off fourteen memis-rs of the crew. Tile tiny vessel was apparently in im inim nt danger of breaking up and th-'-e wa g.':,ii uncertainty as io whether , she would be able to last until the at :i..i! of a ii-y i-nue cutter, ami tugs were .■ailed io drag her from lie:- perilous po | sition. During the night light signals, lias ied [at ini' vals from the submnline, in fo im,l the yy.ueliets that ' AH's well. I and when a heavy fog lifted today the Ivi ss.-i was sighted at the same spot whei '- she struck yesterday vhile bound . uiu Newport N- ws. \a., to Bricge ipmt. i 'linn., to he turned over to the . go\ ermm-nl. Four Stay With Captain. Th., mon who elected to stay with , heir < 'pt-iiii when their comrades were ... o, ,1 \y . re Chief Electrician Parks. ,- 1 ■ i. fEn -r: m , E. Eek Jin, Assistant En - ot), , V. i|soii and Sailoi Jo" Hand i Tiiov ..'o',, given permission to leave .f I they V ished io do so. but decided to re main v blt ''aptain Dannpnhauei. ... Tl-oi ■ wa- danger inside tip- vessel as j we:l as fiom without. The engines had to lie kept going io keep the vessel from i being swep: ashore. The hard pound ling of lite engines made possible the I slat ting of some of ihe plates. Salt l water eoming in contact with the bat i leiies meant tlm formation of gases fa- I illl to life. Captain in the employ lid h Lake Ship Building Company, of ■ N. w port Nows, in command of the ves «-l. emleavoted to back it off the shoals i iluring the night, bnt without avail. I Heavy seas were running am! the 160- | foot craft was swung’ around and the I combers began .pounding her side to pyard the sands. Captain Dannenhauei I then sink tlm boat to await tile rise of I the tide in the hope of getting her off I then. 7 ■ - * I I OuyjMpM'.Q: Beautify the Complexion IN TEN DAYS yZ \ Nadinola CREAM ; / \ The Unequaled Beautifier ? 'j ■•.-’ I USED AND ENDORSED BY W’’ THOUSANDS Guaranteed to remove tan, freckles, pimples, liver-spots, etc. Extreme cases twenty days. Rids pores and tissues of impurities. [Leaves the skin clear, soft, healthy. Two sizes, 50c. and SI.OO. By toilet I counters or mail. NATIONAL TOILET COMPANY. Farit. 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The graduates are Misses Antoinett Milner Blackburn, of Adam •: Cornelia Elizabeth Cooper, of Atlanta; Marie Randolph- Maclntyre of Atlant »: Fan nie G< i (rude May>on. ot Atlanta; Marx Sadler <Toss\vell. <.,f Greenville. S. C. Nellie I-'a i gason. of Da xx son ; Martha Hall, of Adel: Maj Joe Lott, of Bruns wick: Annie Chapin McLane, of Pen sacola, Fh'.; Janette Ncxxton. of Gab bc.txilc'. Riuii Slack, of LaGrange, and Carol Lakin Stearns. <.f W<>rcester. Mass. JMkwiO’Ml'' 1 r t fib B K £9trtr gF tr Please Read These Two Letters. The following- letter from Mrs. Orville Rock will prove, howtinwisft it is for women to submit to the dangers of a surgical operat ion when it may l»e avoided by taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She was four weeks in the hospital and came home suffering worse than before. Then after all that suffering Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound restored her health. HEKK IS HER OWN STATEMENT. Paw Paw, Mich.—“Two years ago I suffered ’■ ■/A ' 'ff-L. “THERE NEVER WAS A WORSE CASE.” Rockport, Ind.—“ There never was a worse case of women’s ills than mine, and I cannot begin to tell you what I suffered. For over two years I was not able to do any! king. I was in bed for a month and the doctor said nothing but an op-ration would cure me. My father suggested Lydia. E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound; so to please him I took it, and I improved wonderfully, so I am able to travel, ride horseback, take long rides and never feel any ill effects from it. I can only ask other suffering women to give Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound a trial before submitting to an operation. —Mrs. Margaret Meredith, It- F. D. No. 3, Rockport, Ind. We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful —or that either of these women were paid in any way for their test imonials, or that the orig inal letter from each did not come to us entirely unsolicited. For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for fe male ills. Noone sick with woman’s ailments does justice to herself who will not try this fa mous medicine, made from roots and herbs, it has restored so many.suffering women to health. to LYDIA E. PINKHAM M EDK'fNECO. (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS., for ajdvice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered I by a woman and held in strict confidence. FAT MAN REDUCES MORE THAN 100 POUNDS t Without Drugs, Exercise or Starving—Tells How He Did It. , i • "Philadelphia's ('hampion Fai Man," as he was railed by most of his friends, has been giving those same friends the job of their lives. While all were deeply sorry for the enormously fat semi-invalid whose fal was such a burden he could hardly I walk, set they were wont some times to call him a "patent medicine fiend" on ac , count <»f his well-known penchant for spending his monos on various advertised "fat reducers' and quack nostrums which . always seemed to increase rather than di minish his size. I'inall' he lost patience with ah these ami <h dared that Im was through with such methods forever and ’ was going to try one he had discovered himself, largely by a-ddent . Xot long after, his friends were startled to behold a most remarkable change in . his app’earanee. His fa’ began to vanish at an incredible ratj*. and those who knew , him could hardly credit the evidence of 5 their own senses when, only a few vveks from the time be hogan to dwindle away > at the rate of a pound a day. he an nounced that he had lost WO pounds, could I stop reducing any time he wanted to and proposed to reduce a few more pounds ; just so he could say his weight was ex actly the right weight for his hdgiu. Dr. F. Turner, the man referred to above, was seen recently and said that since he reached normal weight of 150 pounds (from 254) his fat has shown not the slightest tendency to return. H« ex plained in detail the method he used, and while space will not permit a full de scription of it here, announcement is made that all of the stout readers of the Magazine of Mysteries can obtain the information free of cost. The method is highly scientific and require- the use of no drugs, medicines, exereuscs, starva tion diets, apparatus, purging, sweating or anything weakening in any way. I; could not possibly barm even a < hild or an invalid. Xot < orient with tjpducing hir <»wn weight Pt Turnti bad several PKHEMS DISCUSS SPORTS Southern Synod Asks Louisville Conclave to Probe Influence of Football on Collegians. I.'ll IS\ ILLE. KY . .May 17.—With Rm .Mark Allison Matthews, of Seat tle. Wash., presiding as moderator and wielding a gavel made of wood from the Lincoln cabin and from the home ot Henry (‘lay. the general assembly of th? Presbyterian church in the I’nited States of America today itarted into tlie real business of its session Reports of committees that are ex pected' io contain matter of interest were on the day’s progiam. Among the overtures discussed and io be acted upon today- are: line from th" synod of West Virginia asking that college presidents be me morialized to join in considering the influence of intercollegiate football upon students. One from the Portland presbytery on the subject of union among Presbyte rian. <’ongregational .and Methodist ehu rches. very severely with a displacement I could not be on my feet for a long time. My physician treated me for several months without, much re lief, and at last sent pie tQ Ann Arbor for an op eration. I was there four weeks and came home suffering worse than before. My mother advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound, and 4 did. To-day lam well and strong and do all my own housework. I owe my health to Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and advise every woman who is afflicted with any female complaint'to try it.” —Mrs. Orville Rock, R. R. No. 5, Paw Paw, Mich. ’ of ids friends try the method, some ot ’ these friends being in far distant cities Ktter using the method Mr. .1. \v. Moore at Monticello. Minn., wrote I have lost 90 pounds. Pams around the heart are • gone Mr. H. E. Purdell of Gloversville X. >.. wrote “My weight for 21 days was , reduced 22 pounds." Mrs. Elizabeth New kirk. Mt Carmel. 11l . wrote "Lost 15 . pounds in ’» days." Mr. Thomas Lock I wrote "I nave lost 36 pounds and can lace j my shoes now. something I have not done . m ten years." In all. more than WO persons have al ; ready written Dr Turner of their suc l cess in losing from 20 to 90 pounds of » fat by usipg this recently discovered method of weight reduction. Not a sin l gle one of them failed to obtain highly , satisfactory results Dr. Turner feels that i if he ran say not one hundred wrote him but five hundred -r even a thousand have t found his method successful, then ru» one 5 will doubt his word when he says it is practically infallible and never fails. I'n ti! such time Dr. Turner, whose present l address is Suite 603 N ('lark Building, Syr- I muse. X. Y. announces his intention to send full particulars absolutely fre? to any of »>uy stout readers who are suffi ciently interested to write him at above , address ami simply enclose 2-cent stamp • for reply. The more fat you are the more : welcome your letter will be to Dr. Tur- ■ uer. He is particularly anxious to have a man or woman weighing from 400 to 500 l pounds reduce to normal by using his method, such reduction to be effected by Dr. Turner entirely without expense to • the stout person in question. Dr. Turner ■ has agreed to hold this offer open to our ; readers only during the next ten days. ' when it will be withdrawn if he secures all the replies he desires. So if you desire ; the free information offered yqu are purged io write al once, before it is too late tn obtain it free of cost. and you can then t learn how to In gin immediate reduction I •)[ > our weight. c 3 A\ /j