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SIH MO DIDN'T THINK OF LIVES OF DROWNING Possibility of Saving Titanic’s Victims Never Occurred to Duff Gordon, He Admits. DENIES BRIBING SAILORS TO ROW FROM DROWNING Lady Gordon, on Stand, Says Sailor Pitched Her Bodily I Into Lifeboat. LONDON, May 20.—Prominent so ciety people, including members of the nobility, tinned out again in full force today for the government's inquiry into 'he Titanic disaster. The attraction "as the presence of Sir Cosmo and I.adv Duff-Gordon at the hearing, and • e introduction of further evidence re lating to their behavior at the time of tite disaster. Among the mem bets of the nobility (resent «ere Prince Albert of Schles wig Holstein and Prine- Leopold of 1 Fla ttenburg. Sir Cosmo was recalled and quea- | tinned keenly by Sir Rufus Isaacs, the • attorney general. "I don't know w hat officer told inc to I -"t into the lifeboat." said Sir Cosmo In answer to a question. "From wha; I have learned since 1 believe tha.t*ii vas F ifth i.mi, er Lowe. I did not know Lowe and I have been told that he ag>- ■ (• cached my wife and asked: 'Are you ; r ady to leave, Lady Duff-Got donbut I did not hear this." Sir Cosmo, was questioned closely as i" w hen he Moi offered each member of the crew manning the lifeboat a five i- njnd ts2.i) note. The witness was a 1 tic vague on this subject. Referring to his escape from the ship, he said: Saw No Others Near Empty Lifeboat. "I simply saw an empty lifeboat, and as I had two ladles with me I asked the officer In charge whether I could ac company them. There were no other passengers near, so far a« 1 could see.’ Sir Cosmo s.ajfi he did not hear any order given on hoard the ship that the women and children should be saved first. While the witness was testifying a 1 dispute arose, hetiyeon counsel as to the. nature of the questions, and Attorney-: Henry Duke, counsel for the DuIT-GoF dons. served notice that he intended to Duff-Gordon to the stand to refute reports which had been circulated about her. > Witneps'pleaded faulty memory when asked whether he could hear the cries of passengers in the water pleading to be -lived. li never occurred to me that we could save anybody," began the wit ne‘-. When one of the lawyers angrily broiv- in with ‘‘you considered when ym had saved yourself that all others might perish" Do you think that question fair?” asked Lord Mersey. ■This witness’ position is bad enough now." I intend to press that question," an .-■'-cred the lawyer, at which there was a hurst of applause from the crowded g lilei ies. Denies Trying To Bribe Sailors To Row. Mr. Harbinson. lawyer represent iD” families of some of the Irish steer passengers. wanted io kno" if any one in the lifeboat had given orders or made suggestions what to do. The witness replied that one man gave or ders all night. Then Harbinson wanted to know if Sir Cosmo's offer of 825 to each member of the crow had any of* f- ct. •Why don’t you put your questions plainly?” demanded Lord Mersey. Here is what you want to say." and then turning to the witness. Lord Mer sey demanded: "Did you promise the seamen rowing your lifeboat pounds apiece to row away from drown ing people?” Sir Cosmo’s face blanched, but before h< could reply Harbinson was on his "That is precisely what I wanted to say,” he cried. Then, why didn't you say it?" quer i-d the presiding judge while applause rippled over the galleries. Sir Cosmo denied that he had bribed tae boatmen and he also denied insinu. I a Jons that he had made arrangement s v ith Ismay to have a lifeboat put at his -sonal service. Duff-Gordon followed her hus l.jiid on the witness stand. She de uced that it was not a question of choice with her about getting into a lifeboat. She said a seaman picked her J - .ind pitched her bodily into the boat. COLLEGE GIRLS WILL PI AY HIAWATHA FOR STATE ODD FELLOWS GAINESVILLE. GA.. May 20.—The voting women of the Rrenau School of oratory tomorrow night will pre , 6en t -Hiawatha" complimentary to the Odd Fellows in Gainesville at that time fv " the annual grand lodge convention. The session of the grand lodge will be-dn Wednesday morning at 8 o’clock, wimn the grand lodge degree will be conferred at the armory of the Candler He se Guards on North Bradford street. Tlteit will follow the parade through the cite and the welcoming addresses on th, campus of Brenau college. The nd lodge convention will be held in f, auditorium and ih. Rehcknh ibly in the Masonic hall. CLUB WOMEN SPEND THE DAY WITH GIRLS AT AGNES SCOTT V\ //Op-..-- / z •' *; ■ /ok’/ • w\ /■r \- N \\ v 1 A * 1 \\- * --- —Y- \ W- JaSk: -f 193 H/ W ; - Ik They Join in College Routine and Say They Had a Lovely Time in School. Club women and college girls, two generations, met on the campus of Ag nes Scott college at Decatur and for a whole afternoon swapped views of top ics of mutual interest. It was “college day" at the Woman’s club and the members went to the school as the guests of Miss Nanette Hopkins, dean of Agnes Scott The club women didn't interrupt the routine of the college. They entered into it. They strolled with tire girls on the campus, w atched their tennis games and.basket hall practice, spent an noui in the gymnaisum .and paid a visit to the laborato- iee where young women are taught all kinds of mysterious sci ences. “College day" is an annual event in the Woman's club. East year the girls visited the chib. This year the club went to the girls, and next year they will probably join and go together to some other interesting place. And the students of yesterday seemed to enjoy their day as much as the club women of tomorrow . VALDOSTA PLANS BONDS FOR BIG IMPROVEMENTS VALDOSTA, GA.. May 20.—Tt is probable that the question of a bond issue of SIOO,OOO for extension of water works, paving and sowers, will bo sub mitted to the voters of Valdosta within the next few weeks. The city is facing the need of an addition to the water works, and the extension of the city limits to Pino park, which will be made this year, will call for considerable ex penditure In paving and sewerage. If bonds are issued the funds will be used in about the following proportion: $60.- 000 for waterworks and lights: $25,000 for streets and sidewalks, and $15,000 for sewers. Notice is being published now of the proposed introduction of a bill in the next legislature extending the city lim its about one mile to ilie north, and .iking in the new college which is now being built near Pine park. This new section will have to be served with water, lights and sewerage. SAVANNAH COMMITTEE TO RUSH COMMISSION PLAN SAVANNAH, GA.. May 20—State ments that the commission form of government plans will not be brought before the people of Savannah for a vote this year are declared totally with out foundation by Major W. W. Wil liamson. chairman of the committee of ten appointed by Mayor George VV. Tiedeman, the father of the movement, to draw up suitable plans to be laid before the people. A tentative plan has been prepared by the original committee of ten. which will be submitted to an enlarged com mittee for final approval, and will then be placed before the people. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION PAYS TRIBUTE TO DAVIS Thai the wonderful success of grand opera in Atlanta is due in great meas - ure to the work of Professor B. C. Da vis, who became director of music in the public schools 22 years ago. is the credit given Professor Davis in appro priate resolutions on his death adopted by the members of the Atlanta Teach ers association. BANKING HOUSE LEASED. VALDOSTA, GA.. May 20.—A five year lease has been closed by A. C. Mizell one of the, leading stockholders in the proposed new bank here, for the McK( y building. coiner Ashley street, and Central avenm " bich will be the h"iuc of the tie" in-titution.' iITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: .MONDAY. ALW 2b. IHI2. /]■» * IBBr ' 7 iwiiJßt S EAR CHING SI D E LIG HT S ON GEORGIA POLITICS By JAMES B. NEVIN. Nothing byway of politics locally interests Georgians so much today, perhaps, as the probable results in to morrow's Ohio primaries. This acute concern applies to both the Republican and Democratic situations. The primary fight in Ohio tomorrow will accomplish two things—it wilt put either President Taft or former Presi dent Roosevelt out of the running for the Republican nomination, and it will either put Judson C. Harmon in th' race or leave him where he is now in the matter of the Democratic nomina tion. In the hotel lobbies one hears today far more Taft, Roosevelt and Harmon than Hudson or Slaton talk. The truth of the matter is that the public interest so far made manifest in the state campaign is very small, whereas the interest in the presidential contest is marked and extraordinary. From the Democratic standpoint, the general impression in Georgia today appears to be that Champ Clark is making what The Washington Post not inaptly terms “a runaway race for the nomination." The idea seems to be crystallizing rapidly that the nominee either must be the speaker or somebody not now in the running. The Wilson boom seems to have gone to pieces with the Georgia Underwood victory. In the event of a particularly tight deadlock. Underwood’s eventual nomi nation is not highly improbable: but if things continue to go Clarkward for the next two weeks as they have for the past two. there will be no tight deadlock Republicans from Ohio, or other.-, who ate familiar with Ohio conditions, generally predict that the President will win out. there tomorrow. In protesting physically against an insult from the grandstand. “Ty" Uobb seems to have made a unan imous hit with the Georgia delega tion in congress. Blessed be the "Ty” that binds! Having accepted an invitation to walk right in. sit right down, and make himself at home inside the Democratic household, far be it from the Hon. Thomas E. Watson to turn tight around and walk tight out again! The friends of Colonel .1 ft. Way of Liberty county, are urging his na'me as one that surely should appear among Georgia’s ' Big Four" delegates to th" national Democratic convention in Bal timoi" Liberty county is in tin first con- gressional district, and it gave Oscar Underwood the banner majority there in. too. The First generally hangs pretty "ell together in things political, and Chat ham usually points the way. It has been said—and with apparent justification—that the First is invaria bly the best “organized" district in Georgia, in any campaign, and it does seem trite that the minds of the people in that political division of the state bunch up with persistent regularity, as a rule. In the Wilson-Underwood fight, how ever, Chatham led off with a Wilson majority which wasn't followed throughout the First with that degree of enthusiasm one might have expect ed. A number of counties seem to have “forgotten their raising" and jumped Chatham'.- load—and of that bolting contingent, was Liberty. And it is because Liberty jumped so far and so emphatically in the direc tion of Underwood that Colonel Way's friends think no reward less thahn a membership on the "Big four" delega tion should be set aside lot that con nty. Elmo Ballew, agent of publicity for "Plain Dick” Russell before that gentle man's gubernatorial aspirations rush ed recently not to glory, but the grave, is back in Georgia from a long trip through Kentucky. Mr. Ballew discusses polities most gingerly, and declares that the situa tion in Georgia nevet has been quite clear to him. anyway, since he guessed 105 counties for “Plain Dick' and drew about that many militia districts. Bombarded with questions from all quarters with respect to this. that, or the other phase of the political situa tion. locally or nation; l!y« all that Mi Ballew would venture, either byway of opinion or prophecy, was that il looks as if "Roosevelt is going to cause iron, ble in this counity ." Colonel S. Gtiyt McLendon thinks that a prettier compliment to Mr. Wat son than electing him a member of the "Itig four" delegation to Baltimore would be his elect ion as a delegate from his home district, the Tenth. He say s: "11. is in the old Tenth district that Thomas E. Watson has fought his hardest tights, achieved his biggest vic tories. and suffered his most distress ing defeats. If the name of Watson has stood for more anyv. hen- in these United States than right there al home. 1 do not recall the place. Why not pay Mr. Watson the supreme compli ment - if the convention is to honor him at all of sending him to Baltimore not as a delegat e-at-largo but as a dele gate from the Tenth district? “1 advance the suggestion respect- ■ fully, and invite its earnest attention at the bands of the powers that Ire in the forthcoming si.Ho contention in At lanta.” ONE-TEIBILLIS iraGESTION President’s Speech Inspired Clayton to Offer Measure for Six-Year Tei ure. w XSHINGTON. Mey ::o. The resolu tion to make >he length of service of the • ■hies executive six 'car? and give to a i»reM< ■ * but one tern., which recently v,;is iutr. lim ed in the house by Repre- , senta h ve Clayton, of Alabama, was sug i jested. G e author explained today by a j deela’etion made by President Taft in a ' re<oni speech when he said ’hat a presi- I dent o’.:gb' not to be permitted to suc . e.'d himself. This lestihnion is now pending in com mittee. It probablx will be taken tip for < on<idcrai ion when the resolution of Rep- ■ i ( tentative Henry io change the date of ■na gura i'in from March 4 io the last [ Thursda.' in April, is considered. It is l.e purpose of Representative Clayton 1 hen io off r hts resolution as an atiiend •nent to that of Representative Henry, .widt h ha 1 ? been favorably reported from the commit tee on the judiWary. Change Would Dignify Office. it is argued bv the advocates of the • •ne-term measure that it would take the president directly out of politics, after his ♦•lection, and preserve to the office of the y Miss Anna Monlgom- cr\. one of Agnes Scott’s gtjgftN crack lennis players, and ihree members "I the college, ' AtSW' 11 ask c 1 ba 11 1 *’ ” n 1 1 0 m 1,111 so r 'S h t . IWr ‘ 'I is s<> s Mary TiSik WHi I’iflard. -I a n e Zwffl. h’ " •’ 1 s ami Kulliryim Ken * " \ VfTFXJa* \ \\ tinker chief executive of rhe country the dig nity and absence of political strife which, it is declared, the framers of the consti tution intended for it. Thai the office has been thrown from this high plane is declared to have been proved by the developments of the pres ent campaign for tire Republican nomi nation for tiie presidency. Advocates of the pomp and dignity that they declare should go with the office of the president, point to this embroglio as a strong argu ment in favor of the six-y ear term with out succession. They also deplore the fact that a former president should find it necessary, in the furtherance of his political ambitions, to help to lower the dignity of the office by indulging in a campaign of "mud sling ing " Consequently. friends of the movement are lining up their forces in the effort to get the resolution through congress, de claring it is time that tlie office of tlte president of tlie United States was free from tlie strife of political activity, and restored to the high position in which the fathers of the country intended it should occupy. Mends Fences: Neglects Duty. Another phase of the situation, ad vanced hy the supporters of the new legislation, is that under present con ditions a president devotes too much time trf tlie work of strengthening his political fences, and in consequence neglects, to a great extent, the business of the state with which he is charged. in this connection it is pointed out that the average president spends practically half of his first term in the endeavor to obtain his re-election for another period and has scarcely become cognizant witli the workings of the office, before he turns his attention to the prospects of re-elec tion. tn consequence, it is argued, a president serving two terms, really gives only about five years of the entire eight to the business of his office. Again, it i pointed out. the feature of Federal patronage would not enter into tlie troubles of the president and he would be free to name men for the vari vus offices at his comand with the thought vnly of their fitness and without pressure as to their political claims on the admin istration. This, glowing, altruistic proposition, however, must be matched against the sentiment against change—so strongly marked in the capital. it is probable, therefore, that it will be strongly op posed by the reactionaries and in the end suffer the fate of so many schemes in volving a change in the constitution. GRADUATES ARE GIVEN DIPLOMAS OUTDOORS BERKELEY, UAL., May 20.—Com mencement exercises of the University of California were held in the Greek theater on the campus. An audience of s.Oiin persons witnessed the presenta tion of diplomas to 679 seniors. FOURTH HANGING IN 2 MONTHS. MACON. GA.. May 20.—The fourth hanging in Bibb county in the last two months will occur here tomorrow morn ing at 11 o'clock, when Oliver Sim mons. a negro, who killed a negro wom an, "ill di" <m tlie scaffold. 'Woman Teller* Sign Made Abominable by Jokesmiths at Bank Women pations of the Fourth Na tional bank are going to petition the j directors to change the reading of the I sign which hangs over the window where the majority of female depositors do business. The sign reads "Woman Teller." They say that the sign gives opportunity to every facetious man who would "pull" a "near joke." This remark made several days ago by one of the facetious men. is what started the agitation. The man had just made a deposit when he looked up and saw the sign. “Woman Teller." "Hub." he said, "every woman's a teller." The female patrons of the bank would have the sign read. "Teller foj Women." or something of the sort. 8 JOT RIDERS DIE IN DUER PLUNGE Disregard Danger Signals and Police Cries at Open Draw bridge—All Unknown. t’Hlt'AGO. May 20. -Six persons, three men and three women, passengers in a big black touring car that tore along at a rate of 30 miles an hour, were carried to death in the Calumet rivet at Ninety second street today when the driver failed to heed danger signals and warning cries from police at the bridge, and plunged through an open draw. Although the screams of the autoists. were heard by the crew of ■ two fireboats, the Illinois and Yosemite, i standing close by, and boats were put lout at once, only one body, that of a I woman, was recovered. Later police boats were summoned and grappling for the other bodies began. It is be lieved they are pinned under the heavy car. That the six persons who lost their lives may be Indianans who were on their way home after an evening in Chicago is the belief of the police. The car was running at a speed of at least 30 miles an hour, the police say, when they first sighted it. The party in the car were laughing and singing. The draw was open when the car came m sight, and a big ted danger signal blazed directly in its path. The driver paid no heed and did not check the Speed with which he approached the bridge. Seeing this, the police tried Io save the auto party. Jeer Efforts to Stop Them. They rushed toward the car. slioul- Jng at the top of their voices. The driver paid no heed, although the occu pants laughed and shouted, and the po lice believe the autoists thought they were in danger of arrest and were jeer, ing at the police who were trying to stop them. The police believe the chauf feur ’put on more speed in order to escape and drove straight at the bridge without looking to see whether the draw was open. A policeman at. the bridge entrance hastily stretched a heavy chain across the pathway of the car in a last effort to stop the machine. The car struck it, snapped it as though it had been a thread and then plunged over the brink into the river. When the machine leaped out over the river its occupants for the first time seemed to realize their danger. Their laughter changed to screams. The po lice and members of the firetug crews think that the young woman whose body was recovered jumped from her place as the car plunged downward. The woman struggled a few mo ments. but could make no fight against the current and went before the boats hastily launched could reach her. No mark on her clothing gave any hint as to her identity. She was richly dressed and appeared to be about 25 years of age. William Ropham, fireman on board one of the flretugs. was an eyewitness to the affair. He corroborated the po lice statement that there were six per sons in the car. FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF TALKING MOTION PICTURES LONDON, May 20.—The first public demonstration of the new Gaumont "speaking films" has been given at the Palace theater. First, a Gallic cock thrown in colors on the screen crowed. Then an amusing scene showed a Pari sian telephone subscriber in troubl-. His facial expression went along with a flow of language in away that awoke the sympathy even of those who could not follow the spoken tongue. A scene in a lion's den, in whic h the roar of the wild beasts was heard, gave evidence of variety in the films. Generally speaking, the demonstra tion was distinctly successful, and those proprietors of picture theaters who ex pressed an opinion saw in the inven tion an acquisition which all up-to-date theaters will eventually be forced to adopt. BANK IS A YEAR OLD: HAS NOT A DEPOSIT VIDALIA, GA.. May 20.—Vidalia has a bank that is now well past its first birthday and has never had a deposit, notwithstanding the fact that it has been open for business everv day. Its strength is unquestioned and the cash ier- is popular. However, these facts do not discourage the bank officers and the stockholders seem very well satis fied with the conditions. The institution is the postal savings bank, and the people of this place do no l seem inclined to patronize it. JEWS OE KIEFF IN MOB PERIL ON Murder. Charged to Mythical Sacrificial Custom of Race, Fans Russians’ Frenzy. BERLIN. May 20—A danger noxv men acing the Jews of Kieff is causing much anxietx io their co-religionists throughout the world They are being accused once more of carrying out “blood sacrifices,’’ and the unreasoning passion of the mob is being worked up against them. And the usual results of race hatred against the Jews in Russia are known to every body. A year ago a boy named Andrei Yuschinsky was murdered at Kieff, and on very slender evidence a Jew has been arrested and charged with the murder. The in<iuiry is now in progress, but wh’ether the accused man is guilty or not is not the point. The crime has been seized on by mob orators, who assert that the boy Yuschinsky was murdered by Jews in order that his blood might be. taken and used for ritual purposes, in obedience to an alleged Jewish law. The best-known Russian scholars, authors and artists have made a vehement protest against the spreading of this dangerous fiction, and now the foremost Jewish people throughout Europe have joined their protest t«» that of the Russian in tellectuals. “Ritual Murder" Charge Reversed. So seriously is the position regarded that a pamphlet issued in connection with the protest says that •the fortunes of six million Russian Jews, never too secure at the best of times, are at the present, moment menaced by the hideous accusa tion that has been brought against one of their number '' The act with which the Jew now in custody at Kieff is being charged by the mob is a revival of the “ritual murder” charge, which from the middle ages has been responsible for the most terrible anti-Jewish excesses, and which. In spite of its repeated refutation* by popes, monarchs and distinguished scholars of all creeds, still commands be lief In various parts of the world It is not definitely known how the myth first originated, but it was in 12:.S that this idea, which had been propagated by .lew haters for many years past, resulted in the first massacre in Europe, m this year the blood accusation was raised at Fulda, a town in Hesse-Nassau, and 34 Jews and Jewesses were massacred in consequence. Frederic 11. the German emperor, had thr affair investigated, and as a result of it exonerated the Jews of Germany from all suspicion. King Powerless to Stop Accusers. In spite of this imperial pronouncement, however, and many more like it, includ ing the opinions of three popes, the “blood accusation” spread and increased in virulence. A murderer had only’ to se lect the time preceding Easter and the feast of the Passover for the committal of his crime to bp sure of being able to fasten the guilt on to the Jews of t.h« town. The accusation now being made at Kieff is a, direct descendant of this medi aeval persecution, and in newspapers photographs of the murdered boy are being shown with the legend: “Orthodox. Russian people, remember the name of the youth, Andrei Yuschinsky, tortured by the .Jews! Christians, watch your children!" It is against this dangerous and infamous propaganda that the Jews are now pro testing. and in Germany particularly the movement of indignation and protest has taken large proportions. Babp’s A) Voice - ’ Every woman's heart responds to the charm and sweetness of a baby’s voice, because nature intended her for ’ motherhood. But even the loving nature of a mother shrinks from th» ordeal because such a time is usually i e period of suffering and danger. 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