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4 r ■ ► b I Colonel Roosevelt in Action. ROOSEVELT IS BEATEN IN FIGHT IN OHIO Convention indorses Taft and Names. Six Delegates to Chi cago Instructed for Him. COLT-MEI'S. OHIO. June 4.—Amid the most tempestuous scenes ever at tending a Republicai, convention in Ohio; the Taft forces triumphed here today in the selection of the six dele gaies-at-large to the Chicago conven tion. By a vote of 3.83 1-2 to 864 1-2 the following "big six" delegation, pledged to "vote for William Howard Taft at all times and under all circumstances,” v.a> elected: Senator Theodore E. Burton, of Cleveland; H. M. Dougherty, of Co lumbus; Warren G. Harding, of Ma rion David J. Cable, of Lima; Charles P. Taft, of Cincinnati, and A. I. Vorys, of Lanca stir The Roosevelt mon, who' placed y delegation in nomination headed by TVs Iter F. Frown and former Secretary of Interior James R. Garfield, made the open charge upon the floor of the con vention that the Taft men "had used steam roller methods and defeated the Mil! of the people, who, declared them selves in the recent primary by a ma jority of 10,000 in favor of the nomina- | tion of Colonel Roosevelt." Primary Not Representative, Said Taft Men. The Taft men on the other hand declared that the primary "was not truly representative of the Republican constituent ;. in that only a small por tion of the voters took part." The convention recessed at 11:45 a. m until 3 o’clock. July 2, when the state ticket and platform of principles will be drawn up. A ma.i rip. repori indorsing the Taft admi.-iiS'ration. presented by the resolutions committee, stir id up the R'-osevelt men and they went into th< convention this morning with a minority report providing for the appointment or presentation of no platform until after the Chicago convention. The minority report of the resolutions committee, providing for the indorse ment of Colonel Theodore was lost by a vote of 359 1-2 to 393 1 -2. Temporary Organization Is Made Permanent. Another big factional fight came with the seating of contested delegations. No state ticket will be named until after the Chicago convention unless the rural delegates succeed in overruling the al ready adopted program of the leaders. The morning session began at 9:30 Continued on Page Three. Blossoms Are Shy But the country is bright with homos that can be purchased at liargains ami on time and small payments if seekers for them will only consult The Geor- I gian Real Estate Ads : on the Want Ad pages, where these flowers of : investments are each day. •Just over the city line, or as far away as ton like, you < an find the house of* your drcams in The Georgian Real Estate Ads. Read th'in for profit. I. r. beatenTnohioTdeclaresboss WAR “This is a fight between the plain people and the bosses, with back of them the great sinister in terests, which are endeavoring to sustain the cause of privilege by perpetuating the combination w||y between crooked politics and crooked business.” Colonel Roosevelt today picked Senator Root and William O. Barnes as the arch bosses. Root, he said, represented the interests, while Barnes stood for the politicians. On top of this statement of Colonel Roosevelt, the Republican convention of Ohio, which state the Colonel carried overwhelmingly in the primaries, today repudiated a resolution indorsing Roosevelt by a vote of 359 1-2 to 393 1-2. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results VOL. X. NO. 264. IDEEP INQUIRY INTOSGHODL SCANDAL BEGINS Inspector of Buildings Will Probe Defects of Every New Structure. A rigid inspection of all the city schools involved in the building scan dal which has startled the city was begun today under the direction of Ed R. Htyes. city building inspector. Ar chitects and contractors of each of the schools will accompany him on these investigations. Within a few days Mr. Hayes will submit a detailed report of the defects in each of the .schools to the board of education and the bond commission. ■ The architects and the contractors will I then be called upon to remedy these de ‘ fee’s. If they refuse, the whole matter will he turned over to City Attorney • Mayson with instructions that he sue for their bonds. City officials have changed their at titude. They no longer consider the school scandal as a “tempest in a tea pot." The evidence brought out at the meeting of the board of education and the bond commission showed conclu sively the most glaring defects. ■Schools Too Cheap, i Says Candler. While the architects and contractors have been principally blamed for the situation, the statement of Aiderman John S. Candler that all the schools were built too cheaply throws a great part of the responsibility back on the supervising city officials. "This is not the time longer to daily about what officials are responsible for this bad condition." said Colonel W. R. Daley, president of the board of edu cation. “We must get to work and have these schools repaired and require the architects and contractors to pay.” Plan Referendum On School Tax. Councilman Aldine <’hambers has come to the rescue of the board of ed ucation on the plea of the members that they were hampered in their work by lack of authority. He Introduced a resolution in council providing for a special school, tax not to exceed five mills to be apportioned and expended solely by the board of education. The resolution was referred to the council committee on < barter amend ments. But the resolution provides that the voters of Atlanta be allowed to adopt or reject the new tax by refer endum. MAN. ILLEGALLY SENT TO ASYLUM.RELEASED AFTER 6 YEARS FIGHT ROME. GA.. June 4.—After being confined in the state sanitarium at Mil ! ledgeviile for six years, Samuel E I Whitemire, a well-known north Geor i gia newspaper man. has been released lon the ground that he was illegally I committed to the institution. He ar ' rived here today, and wip go to Chi- I cago to make his homo. In the fight that was made to secure his release, it I was charged that his w ife was instru- I mental in sending him to the asylum. GIRL HURT BY MOTORCYCLE RIDDEN BY COUNTY OFFICER Miss Ruth Taylor, aged 21 years, was struck and knocked down by a motorcycle ridden by County Officer Rogers today about noon at Washing ton street and Woodward avenue. Her injuries, while quite serious, will I not result tita’ly. ph si< •ns at Grady hnspi’tl said. Miss Tn’tr was crosa- I tng the rest when struck and did not • f< e the motore’cle until too late. ■ Fb.tr was rendered un< onsrious No case has been made against Rogers yet RASTUS SHO’ AM LIVIN' THESE DAYS; OPEN SEASON ON WATERMELONS Atlantans Eating Three Car- v ' loads of Luscious ‘Fruit o’ de Vine' Daily. gr.o •p. mne darl x eat ng • MV tn, ■n” T ' it imans the season's in ful. W ■> swing. Ft ’f Bae bus is god of ths fes- a ’!\o revci R..-tus is -urely the presid- c? Ing imp of ’;••• •.•.t.ymt.ion Atlan’ < ■ ->'<wa thro.- . arbyads of ' at ■■ ■ x" Sk / ** --V- " 7 watermelons a day now—all Florida fruit. The Georgia crop has not started to move yet and will not until about June 2i. Then it Is "good-bye. Florida melons" for most Atlantans refuse to eat any except the native fruit when it is In season. There is a reason—it is the best. T. F. Goodwyn & Co., for the past two seasons handling the first ship ments of melons to Atlanta, have re ceived nine cars to date this year. Fif teen cars have already been shipped into Atlanta since the Florida, crop be gan to move. The shipments from Florida will be heavy from now on. declare the brok ers. for the Everglades state has raised a record crop this year. The Georgia crop will be as good as usual. To the surprise of many, the Florida melons this, year are unusually fine. They are sweet and delicious, which is unexpected this early ,in the season. Melons or. the local markets today are bringing from 12 1-2 to 25 cents each in wagon load. lots. Most all of the res taurants are serving them now. Cantaloupes are corning by express from Florida, but as soon as the Geor gia crop ripens they will begin to come into Atlanta by the train load. This season the watermelon crop is slightly earlier than last. The first shipment last year came in barrels on May 25. This year a whole car ar rived in Atlanta on May 26. 'FRISCO SCHOOL GIRL SHOT AND KILLED BY REJECTED BOY SUITOR SAN FRANCISCO, June 4.—Bernice Lillian Godair, seventeen, a student of the Girls High school, was shot and killed at the threshold of her home early today by Charles Bonner, nine teen. whose affection the’ girl had spurned. The mui'derer was disarmed by his victim's grandmother. He wait ed for the arrival of the police. The police had difficulty in restraining \V. E. Godair, father of the girl, from killing Bonner. THUNDER SHOWERS STILL LINGERING AROUND TOWN Showers tonight or tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m„ 71 degrees; 10 a. m., 77 degrees: 12 noon, 78 de grees: 2 p. m . 78 degrees. Weather conditions, remain unchanged and thunder showers rr.av be expected for an*- time ’ate this afternoon. Umgh’ or tomorrow. No change In the temperatur* : !--r’ for at an early date and ♦ .*■ rrrr ir’ will continue to roost high up m the ATLANTA, GA.. TL T ESDA V, JUNE 4, 1912. Cotton Crop May 25 Was 78>9 Per Cent; 2.6 Below 10-Yr. Average Report of Government Shows Condition This Season 8.9 Under That of 1911. Washington, June 4.—Accord ing to a report issued today by the department of agriculture, the condition of cotton as of May 25. was 78.9 per cent of a normal crop, as compared with 87.8 on May 25. 1911. and 82 on .May 25. 1910. and 81.1 on May 25, 1909, and 81 .-5 per cent, the average of the past ten years, on May 25. UNOCCUPIED LAND OF GA. TERMINAL CO. IS BOUGHT FOR $82,000.00 Forrest & George Adair today closed a sal* 1 fnr H. M Atkinson and S. A Schoonmaker, receivers of the Georgia Terminal Company, for about 60 par cels of land extending from the corner of Magnolia and Mangum streets out to the line of the Southern railroad at Howpll Station, for a consideration of $82,000 cash. The property was purchased by real ty investors, who propose tn subdivide the different parcels and put them on the maiket at once as investment prop erty. The various parcels that front the A., R & A. railroad will be offered to manufacturers. This property embraces all land owned by the Georgia Terminal Com pany excepting the railroad right-of way. ROOF COATED WITH FIREPROOF PAINT NOT TOUCHED BY FLAMES A satisfactory test of Salva, the fire proof paint was given at the circus grounds yesterday afternoon by G. J. Huffman, of Birmingham, the Inventor of the paint The test was made in the pres en< e of Fire chief Cummings and a rep resentative of the Southeastern Tariff as soc iati> tn Four fir* - - t» ere started on one roof, but the shingles covered u ith Salva was not Mr Huffman stated that a mill’.on-dol !ir corporation was in the process of ' r- ii’< -. and tha* the headquarters would probably be in Atlanta Collie Dog Is Jailed on Warrant; Owner Asks Writ of Habeas Corpus Man Bitten by Canine Declares Animal Is Mad, But Master Protests. DOUGL/AS, GA., June 4.—Upon a warrant sworn out before Judge \V. P. Ward in the court of ordinary of Cof fee county by E. J. Sweat, of Ambrose, Rover, a collie dog. belonging to the agent of the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic railroad at Ambrose, has been arrested by Sheriff Ri'-ketson and is now confined in the (•ounty jail at Douglas. Mr. Sweat wants the dog killed be cause he claims it Is road. He was bit ten yesterday by Rover. The ouner says the dog is healthy and shall not he killed. Roth parties have employed counsel. Judge Ward Issued the warrant un der the quarantine laws of the state and it was Immediately served by the sheriff, who arrested Rover and brought him to Douglas in an automo bile. He is being fed threp meals a day. which expense must later he borne by the loser in the « ase. The owner of the dng has sworn out a habeas corpus writ and this will be heard tomorrow by the ordinary. 2 ARE DEAD. 25 HURT IN N.J. RAIL COLLISION PATERSON' X J.. June 4. Two per sons were killed and more than 25 in jured. sex oral seriously, today when a passenger train and a freight on th# Susquehanna railroad < (illided The collision occurred fifteen miles from this city, and a train carrying physi- ALABAMA GOVERNOR KEEPS CLOSE WATCH ON LOWNDES COUNTY MONTGOMERY, ALA . lune 4 Gov ernor O’Neal has returned to Montgomery from the Auburn commencement to keep in touch with the lense situation in Ixiwndes county. He declared today that he was gratified tn learn that peace and order prevails in the community now He may return t<- Auburn tomorrow morning Ho will arrange to keep advised on con ditions in Lcwndo- count' WIFE FEARS FOR LIFE: POLICE SEEK HUSBAND police are looking for Thomas TVe’lbnrn. of 736 Elliott street, upon com plaint of b’s wlf* who ?ald tha* XVell bnrn -.uld kill her if he caught her < r.’d ng to Mr? Wellborn’a statement he* hu?tand i‘’emp’ed to stab her with , .b-jt ck* made him beat a retreat by drawing a hatchet on him. TABERNACLE OHS MO WR« PLAN 10 0011 IN DOUBLE RON H. B. Ethridge, Long a Church Official, Says Pastor Insulted Him and He Will Seek Another Church—Minis ter’s Friends Say Resignation Is Final. The war in the Baptist Tabernacle over the proposed reten tion of Dr. Robert S. MacArthur, reached a double climax this afternoon when friends of the famous minister said he would re sign his pulpit despite the majority decision of the members of his congregation tn retain him. Hard upon this, H. A. Ethridge, one of the leading deacons in the church, announced to The Georgian that he had demand ed his letters, had resigned as deacon, and, with all the other members of his family would leave the institution he has spent twelve years building up. whether Dr. MacArthur remains as pastor nr resigns. Ethridge declares that Dr. MacArthur has virtually insulted him and the other members of the committee which, at his own request, had been appointed to find another pastor for the Taber naele. He says that Dr. MacAr thur “in his age and childish ness.” has refused to apologize to him. though he has apologized to | other members of that committee But he declares that in spite of these apologies other deacons are going to leave the church. No Word From Dr. MacArthur. Joseph Broughton, brother of the Rev. Dr. Broughton, whom Dr Mac- Arthur succeeded as pastor of the Tab ernacle, has already asked to be re lieved of the superintendency of the Tabernacle' Sunday school; W. C. Smith Is quitting the chairmanship of the institution’s ways and means com mittee. A. M. Smith is to leave the teaching of the famous primary school, and.it Is said that all thesp founders of the Tabernacle will quit the institution for some other. Dr. MacArthur, who left town for the lecture platform at Cordele early this morning before he had learned of th" action of the Tabernacle members last night, is not In eoTTfmunfcation with his friends today and no direct word has i orne from him In confirma tion of the statement of C. W. Hatcher, chief of his faction in the Tabernacle, that nothing that the institution Itself now could do would prevail upon him to remain aft Its permanent head. Mr. Hatcher said: "I am almost positive that Dr. MacArthur will not stay as pas tor of the Tabernacle The dis sension which arose some time ago and which cropped out in new places last night was such as to make me be lieve he will resign his pastorate if he has no' already made public such an announcement, in spite of the compli ance with his stipulations. "Dr. MacArthur has been grieved to the soul by the rift in his congregation. We have tried to point out to him that the dissensions were al! due to a mis understanding and that factionalism created by the report of the committee which advised engaging Dr. Rll>-y as permanent pastor should not count se riously with him against the groat love and confidence of the great majority of the Tahetnacle congregation. Dr. Mac- Arthur Is easily the greatest Baptist minister in the world today. But he Is a sensitive man and this split among the workers hit him so sorely that it Is now beyond the power of any or all in the Tabernacle itself to keep him in the pastorate. One More Effort To Keep Him Here. 'One more effo-t will he made to keep him here however. The board of dear'.ns will join in a meeting of many outside Baptists and many laymen to night in an attempt to bring about such HOHL EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS a genera! movement on the part of the denomination that he will give over his personal feelings and de£i<<> to do the great work that remains for him in At lanta. But though he has not talked to me since last night's meeting, I am al most positive that only a great denom inational movement can keep him here. If that does hot succeed, the Baptist denomination in the South will knu'W the pity of losing its strongest expo nent.” A Georgian reporter carried this statement of Dr. MacArthur’s friend to H. B. Ethridge, head of the anti- MacArthur faction, in his law office la the Atlanta National Bank building. “Well. I will not attend that meet ing tonight,” said Mr. Ethridge. ‘I, have asked that my letters to the emaclr be returned to me. I will re«i main there only until my financial con nection with the institution can b® settled. Then after twelve years o? sweating blood in the foundation and progress of an Institution I have loved as my very life. I shall take my fam-* ily to another church, whether Dr. Mac- Arthur remains as permanent pastor op whether he goes away." Resents Being Called “Meddling Committeeman.” That Mr. Ethridge felt the situatl-Mi very deeply was shown by his wholts attitude as he went on: "I could not stay in the church after Dr. MacArthur had pointed his finger at me and declared that I was a med dling committeeman and that he did not want to see me or any other of tha committeemen who. at. his own request, had submitted the name of Dr. Riley as permanent pastor. Others think as I do and they, too, feel that it is best that they should leave the church." "Mr. Hatcher says the dissension in the Tabernacle is all due to a pitiful misunderstanding. There is no misun derstanding at all. Let me tell you how it has been so that it may be known for once and all. "It is known that when the Rev. Dr. Broughton went away he recommended to us'that Dr. MacArthur carry on rhe work of the Tabernacle until we could find some man equipped for the insti tutional work it demanded as well as for the pulpit service. We knew that Dr. MacArthur was a fomotts preacher, but his work in New York had been aeons removed from the hospital, the schools and the other works which we had made a real part of the church. And we thought Dr. MacArthur under stood this when he came, and we were the more convinced of it when he as sured us that his one ambition was to live his last years as pastor emeritus of Calvary and suggested that we should appoint a committee to find some man who would take Broughton's work, so that he might become pastor emeritus purely, even within a week. Committee's Report Resented by Pastor. ■Weil. I was made head of that com mittee." con’inued Mr Ethridg' ar.d with some others we sought about and final! .’ came upon Dr. Riley, than whom (Continued on Page Three. )