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’ THE weather Showers tonight •«<* ‘borrow. - Mature.. Ba. m.. 71 degree.: ,6*7 m.. 77 degree.: 12 noon. 80 de gree.: 2 p. m.. 82 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 237. FSHTHtIn LIGHTPLANT TIES UP BIG GOWtGT / -- Financial Institutions Balk and Destructor Company Vainly Seeks Capital.. COMPLETE COLLAPSE OF PLANS NOW THREATENED Council to Grant Two Weeks Nore Time. But Helpless Tangle Darkens Outlook. Advocates of the Destructor Com pany’s proposition tn build a garbage disposal, plant declared tofay that the employ bad not been able to carry out Its eontrct with the city because flpan rial interests of the city would not finance the building of a municipal light and power plant At the same time they would not assert that tiie Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany. with which the city plant would compete, had displayed ans active op position. Two of the leading bonding concerns have offered to give the Destructor Company a bond to the entire amount of its bid. $376,000. Financial institu tions have offered to underwrite the building, of a garage disposal plant for $276,000. But tile capitalists refuse to hegotiatf the city’s (Moral obligation fo> SIOO,OOO to build an electric power plant in ion.iuuetiun with the garbage Cp'aul. by which to light the j’white Two Weeks More Time To Be Given. Though members of council fear that the contract for the combined garbage disposal and electric power plant is in a hopeless tangle, the council will today grant an additional two weeks' time to the company to try and finance its proposition. If the company fails to finance the deal, the city holds its cer tified cheek for $37,000. which can be declared forfeited. I am willing to give the company two weeks mor*-*lime to carry out its contract," said Councilman Orville Hall I Ta;.', one of tlie members who op i 'S ’'- C” purchase of the plant. "1 <’ obt if the cotipany will be able to ' : c out the contract, for it was pro- Vl "' i that work should begin ten days after the contract was let. The con -1 nt wa ■■ on June 4." No Immediate Action Probable. ' inanv inomhcrs- <>f the council are out of i no city that a settlement of the matter toulii hardly be attempted this ito'rnoon. I'he giving of more time to te ■ ompany io obtain underwriters for ’ ’ l ’" 1 virtually is postponing action for two weeks, 11 IS said the Georgia Railway and Electric Company has made no fight Against the building of a city plant, but ■ 'ii the capable financial institutions simply refuse to underwrite the con 'l’o'i ..f the Destructor Company. Since m. . on: root wa« first let W. K. Dowd. O". topi < tentative of the company, has I " • n Tying to negotiate through banks 'he - promise to pi < .• the of he plant. Will Ask City To Change Contract. Mr. Dowd said late today that his ompanv would be ahi,. ,o finance the m dine of the plant if council would X kp fi 7 a ">endment S to the contract, ’he first was that the deferred pay ment. should be made o n February 1 of U- b t ear. am,’ the second that his com pant should retain title of the prop v^m"’h"ti'’,l nn " P, ° vi ' ,r!t onl - v that PaW cash anrt 'hat ’ "'Cmmnts shah be ni ade each , ' until the total $376 non paifl . Bv » ivin K up the title to the '■>’> 'he city would simply pay on! nuil lontal until the purchase price U P. a substitute for the citv's obltgatton for the deferred pay ''O'Mdbe su'bmitted'to' 11 ' 1 ’ I ? ropoßltit,n 'nd rX r Jod tothe U fln' t " lsaf '- mittee for investie-oH lh fl , na nce com. ™ ->•’ know w" Sa,r ’ ” e nove for the ritv to n-,7 ” ROOd had no. had_tUTo 30 MADE CITIZENS OF U. S. BY ATLANTA COURT ,'? a m S !'t h7 S 0 addit 'unal nephew. '• celebrate the Fourth of ,j uly an " vrattted Citizen.bin^ P - e "man today "Iter- Ther? ate r ? »ig teen RmssP ,2 ' " ’he number Aruns'. Sl a tt :U h . r 7 w^ r A ,,an ’' Austrian ot)f ( one ’’* rni,n of tXm-bu '<• The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result». I WILL DEFY DEATH,SAYS GRACE, TO JAIL WIFE Wounded Man Declares That He Will Go to Court in i Invalid’s Chair. STILL BITTER AGAINST HER: DENOUNCES ‘LIES’! i , I After He Has Helped Convict Her. He Says He Will Sue for a Divorce. “If it costs me Hie life that is coming back to me I am going to be at the trial to help put behind the bars the woman who tried to kill me. Anti after that I will divorce her so that sjie may never again call herself by the name of Grace. These two things I will tjo or die in doing them. Lying helpless in bed a: his mother's | home in Newnan, still paralyzed from i the bullet that In says bis wife fired! into his body while he lay asleep, Eu- ‘ gene H. Grat'" held up his right hand I as one who swears an oath when he: made that declaration. "Daisy Grace comes to trial In A.t- ] lanta July 22." he went one "My doc-' tor says that i will still be paralyzed] then—that there is little hope that I I will be able to move my, lower body 1 or my limbs for months to come. But I know that if I am a: that trial she will be convicted though the law pre vents my testifying against her. arid] so I have already ordered the invalid's chair that will carry me to Atlanta. : and I am going to lie in the court room I by my lawyer's side to help them prove her guilt from her own lips. - ’ Declares He Never Wrote Alleged Note. As Grace told of his vow and the fight he is going to make against Daisy Opie Grace, his hands worked nervous ly at the counterpane, his teeth snap- I ped together in the intensity of his I devolve and now and then pie par- ] alyzed legs twitched suddenly beneath! the bed covers from reflex action the the doctors say Is the promise of his recovery. "It is a lie." he continued, "that I j ever wrote that I would not prosecute I my w ife. I did mot write that letter to Dr. Fetter in Philadelphia, My nurse | wrote it. but she did not say I would j not prosecute. That prosecution is my first ambition. It is why I am trying so bard to get well. Listen, that woman shot me while I slept because she thought she saw away lo get the $27,- 000 life insurance policy that 1 had laken her own request. "Shi had duped me into marrying her. She was a lobster palace ladv She was clever in the way of those adventuresses who have had much ex perience beneath the White Lights. I was less experienced. I brought her lo Atlanta, Well, she could not be sat isfied with Atlanta after the life of New' York. I did my best to make her happy. But she tired of me. When She’s Convicted He’ll Sue For Divorce. "She could not r are fm one mtm j alone. So she thought she saw her way j to be rid of me, and at the same time win for herself a fortune and 3 free re turn to the White Way that she loved. And while I slept she shot me. Could a woman do anything worse in God s sight or man's? Do you wonder that I am going to live to see her put behind prison bars? And do you wonder that when she has been convicted I am go ing to sue her for divorce as soon as I have lived in the state a year? "I would have been nearly well by this time," said Grace resentfully, "if the Atlanta doctors hfld operated when they should. Rut they said an opera tion would only hasten my death. And so I had to come down here to my mother’s home 4n New nan to a ‘country doctor' who did the operation that all of the city experts said could not he done. He knew it could be. done be cause he had done It before. Used Negro For A Test Operation. "There's a negro down here in New- I nan named Level. One night eight I months ago he went out to a frolic with other negroes, and in the figli: ' that followed the whisky he wa- shot) in the spine as my wife shot me, only I the bullet that the negro got struck 1 him through the fifth vertebae, w Itrlc the bullet in my spine Iles low i t in the ninth "Well. Turner, tht- country doctor Continued on Page 2. Testimony of GirL 12, Wins Divorce for Her Father in !0 Minutes Sallie Myers Says Strange Man “Came to See Mama When Papa Was Away.’’ Sallie Myers, twelve years old. daugh ter of J. R. Myers, won a divorce suit for her father today her birthday. Mr. Myers was suing Mrs. May White My ers for complete divorce, charging de sertion. and the testimony- of the little girl caused a jury in superior court to grant the request of her father. As the child took the stand the at torneys questioned the judge as to whether or not she should be sworn. "Do you know anything about swear ing to tlie truth, little girl?" Judge Ellis queried. "Yes: I know you have got to tell what's so or tlie bad man will get you,” she replied simply. So she took the oath. "A strange man used to come home with mother quite often." she testified. "When, he did my mamma would give me money and tell me to go to a near by store and get some candy. One day I came home and found the doors locked. Mamma was angry when she opened the door. She was in her night gown and a man was with her." Tlie decree was granted Myers in ten minutes. J ÜBi * V* •s»l*** nJ./di mil KW V - - i k. y z ll? I Ito \WI '"a ■ .Mi,< Willie Muse, one of the j favorites in the society, tourney. I smashing the ball over the net. Iler sister. Miss Caroline, today is playing in the finals. GEN. WOOD KEEPS JOB BY PROVISIONS OF NEW ARMY BILL WASHINGTON. July I.—The oppo nents of General Leonard Wood today conceded defeat when ('hairman Hay. of the military affairs committee, re introduced tl:e army appropriation bill, without the clause legislating the chief of staff out of office. The clause providing a commission I of army officers to consider tlie reor ganization of army posts with a view to greater centralization also was stricken out. ! This is accepted to mean Wood will i be allowed to contlijue his present pol icy of army ! <Tonn without hindrance. SENATOR ASKS U. S. PROBE OF TAFT T. R. NOMINATION FIGHT WASHINGTON. July 1. Denouncing the pre-convention campaign of Pres ident Taft and former President Roose velt as the most disgraceful spectacle in American history. Senator Works. " f California, in tlie senate today intro duced a resolution a»king the appoint ment of four Republicans and three Democrats on a special committee to probe the activities of the presiden tial candidates and their lieutenants from the president and cabinet offierrs down to the government employees who assisted them. SHOWERS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. THE FORECAST ; - Showers are headed for Atlanta and we may expect to have rain tonight land tomorrow." says Forecaater Von | Herrmann, of tlie local weather bu- I ■•eau. No change In the temperature Its expected RED MEN TO INSTALL. • ’hiappewa tribe No. 50, Red Men, «i)l hold a juiblic Installation of officers tomorrow night st S o'clock In the wig wam. S 6 Central avenue. Refrt ahinente wIU be serve'l. ATLANTA, GA.. MONDAY, JUL Y 1, 1912. DARK HORSE REJECTED; WILSON IS NOW IN LEAD Society Racquet Stars Contest BUDS IN TENNISTOURNEY Atlanta society folk were attracted to the Piedmont Driving Club today lo watch the play in the finals match to determine tlie best woman player, in which two of the leading -oviety girls of the younger set. Miss Caroline Muse and Miss Esther Smith, were the con testants. These two fought, their way through the matches, showing skill and knowl- i As®! ***** HMfebZjr sBlIIL"’ W Ik *< v <w edge of tennis which stamped them as splendid players, and much interest is shown in today's match. Alex Smith, Jr., and H. M. Ashe were scheduled to play Joe Colquitt and Jesse Draper for the championship in men's singles today. The play in men s singles has not yet reached the finals. Tennis has been a source of great interest To Atlanta society folk who are yet in town, and the matches on the beautiful courts at the Piedmont Driv ing Club during the present tourna ment have drawn a large crowd each afternoon. AmonlJ those who have participated in lhe tournament are Miss Lula Denn Jones. Miss Esther Smith. Miss M. A. Phelan. Mrs. John Hill. Miss Katherine Crandall. Miss Mary Traylor, Misses Caroline and Willie Muse. Miss Mar garet Traylor. Among the mon Winshlp Nunnally, Alex Smith. Jr. Jesse Draper. Joseph Colquitt. Carleton Smith. Dugas Mc- Closkey. H. M. Ashe. Mr. Dorsey. Al bert Thornton, I’m bes Fitzsimmons, Union Hopkins, William Moore. VICE COMMISSION ASKS RECORDER BE GIVEN MORE POWER The vice commission, created at the instigation of* the leaders of the Men and Religion Forward Movement, to day will urge the council to appeal Io tin state legislature for a charter amendment giving the recorder the au thority to impose one-ycar sentences in the city stockade and sl,O(tn fines. The proposed law also provides a jury of fixe shall be allowed In the record er's court when requested by defend ants. The recorder's authority now is lim ited to 30-day stockade sentences ind TSOO fines Some months ago Reco'det Broyles declared that f the council would grant such Increase tn his authority he would guarantee to break up the blind ttg- r traffic in Atlanta. TORNADO SWEEPS CANS n DEAD Three Towns, Including Regina, Sask., in Ruins—Property Loss $10,000,000. WINNIPEG. MANITOBA. July L Rescue parties today searched the ruins of the region devastated by last night's tornado for the bodies of vic tims. At noon 34 bodies had been recovered and conservative estimates placed the number pf dead at 75. ' Early In the day the situation was still chaotic and estimates of the num ber of killed covered a wide range. It is reasonably certain, however. 200 persons were killed and the total The amount of property loss and damage approximates $10,000,000. The greatest loss of life occurred in Regina. Sask., near the center of the storm-swept area. A farming district 70 miles long and several miles wide was hit by the hurricane. Reports from isolated points were meager early today, but it is not be lieved there was great loss of life out side the cities. Among the larger cities in the swept district were Qu'Appelle and Melville. Telephone Girls Buried in Debris. At Regina the local telephone office was wrecked and the fifteen girls em ployed there were buried in the ruins. The telephone exchange building, the Standard block, the First Baptist church and tlie Bird and Bottell build ings are among the buildings destroyed. All wires, with the exception of one telegraph’wire, are down. The iattgr Is crowded with private messages from persons who are safe A special train left Winnipeg shortly aftc " o'clock last night with doctors, nurses, telegraph and telephone repair men. The tornado came from the -outh and first struck the new parliament building just completed at a cost of $1,000,000. The building Is of steel and concrete and while it still stands, is severely shaken. Then It swept north ward, mowing f. swath six blocks In width in the most fashionable residence district, transforming it into a mass of w reekage. Along Victoi ia street front Sixteenth to Eleventh streets 200 houses were destroyed and mans Inhabitants killed Automobile' filled win prsmi' were hurled high in the air. Speakers Friends Renew Determina tion to Stand by Him Uncompromis-V ingly to the Very End—Minority Block Will of Majority. BALTIMORE, July I.—Wyoming switched her 6 votes from Clark to Wilson on the thirty-first ballot today, and Alaska gave Wilson 3of her 6. The totals were: Wilson 475 1-2, Clark 446 1-2, Underwood 116 1-2, Foss 30, Harmon 17, Kern 2. BALTIMORE. -Inly I.—On the thirtieth ballot today lowa broke the unit rule by which 26 votes have been cast for Champ ('lark in the Democratic national convention and split her vote 12 to Clark and 14 to Wilson. This put Wilson ahead of Clark for the first time since balloting began. The official count on the thirtieth ballot was; Wilson 460, Clark 455, Underwood 121 1-2, Harmon 19. Eoss 30. Kern 2. The deadlock, which existed since the first ballot on president was (,aken at last Thursday's session of the national convention, continued today with les signs of ending than at any previous ses sion. The first ballot of today showed very little change from the last ballot of Saturday night. On the twenty-eighth ballot Indiana shifted 29 votes to the Wilson column, hut outside of that, only slight changes were shown as the balloting continued. The Clark men entered the con vention this morning with renew ed determination to stand by the speaker to the very end. They took the position that since the speaker on former successive bal lots had received more than a majority of the vote of the con vention. he should he given the necessary two-thirds vote, the j failure of the convention to ex tend this vote to him making the minority of the convention in control negatively, and the ma jority powerless to carry out its expressed will. Before the con vention assembled the Clark men held a mass meeting at which they agreed to stick uncompro misingly by the Missourian. The developments of the day also eliminated the prospects of a dark horse, W. J. Bryan published a list of five as available and suitable dark horses—Senator Kern. Senator-elect James, Senator O'Gorman. Senator Rayner and Senator Culberson. Lead-' ers immediately wiped out the list with but little consideration, generally agreeing that at least four or five are obviously - impossible at this time for one or more reasons. With the deter mination of ail sides to continue the fight without compromise, and the elim ination of the probability of a dark horse winning out, attention turned to I lie prospects of adjournment without a choice after a few more ballots are taken, and a new convention being held next month after a new call has been issued and new primaries and stat» conventions have been held and an en tirely new list of delegates has been chosen. This was accepted by many as the only probable solution of the sit uation. Bryan Cheered as He Entered Hall. The Democratic national convention began its tenth session at 11:03 o'clock this morning After the meeting had been called to order by Chairman Ollie James, Rev. Carroll Hogue, of the First Methodist Episcopal church. offered prayer. < He prayed that the work of the con vention might redound to the greater glory of God and added: "We ask Thee, oh God. that thou wilt guide us in everything that is done this day. We pray that nothing may happen In this convention to mar Its glorious record.” As the la=t echo of the prayer died there came a shout. The galleries had discovered an object upon which to draw the first applause. After all eyes went to the left aisle, down which canu William J. Bryan, wearing a rose in his buttonhole, piloted by a couple of po licemen and with his face set for a fight. Chairman Jones made the following statement: "The galleries have been thrown open to the genera! public. This is the sixth day of our meetings. We want to proceed to our business. 1 hope that the galleries will appreciate the cour tesy. We de not want any applause that will disturb our business. The chair will not tolerate any demonstra tion that will interrupt business. If there is such 1 will be compelled do something 1 do not wish to do -to clear the galleries" Theodore A. Be|i. of California, came to the stand and said: "I rise for the purpose of asking ih unanimous < onsent of this convention that I may make a motion In favor of thr extension of i|me for the railroad FtioFa IPITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ; THE VOTE BY BALLOTS. * • Twenty-sixth Ballot (last vote • • Saturday)—Clark 447 1 -2; Wilson • • 405; Underwood 112 1-2; Bar- • • mon 29: Marshall 30; Foss 39. • • Bryan 1. t • • Twenty-seventh ballot—Clark • • 469; Wilson 406 1 -2; Underwood • • 112; Marshall 30; Harmon 29; • • Foss 38; Bryan 1. Absent 2 1-2. • • Twenty-eighth Ballot Clark • • 468 1-2; Wilson 437 1-2; Under- • • wood 112 1-2; Foss 38; Harmon • • 29. Bryan 1; Kern 1. • • Twenty-ninth Ballot —Clark • • 468 1-2; Wilson 436; Underwood • • 112; Foss 38; Harmon 29; Kern 4; • • not voting 1-2. • • Thirtieth Ballot—Wilson 46(f; » • Clark 455; Underwood 1211-2; • • Harmon 19. Foss 20; Kern 2. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* tickets of the delegates." There was no objection and he moved that a com mittee of three be named to wait upon validating agents of the railroads to get extensions on all delegate tickets. “All favoring motion say aye,” said the chairman. For once the convention voted as * unit. The motion was carried. The committee named by the chair to see the railroad people was Congressman R. Denver, of Ohio; Governor Emmett O’Neal, of Alabama: Hollis Randolph, of Georgia. New York Poll Gives Wilson 9. The twenty-seventh ballot was then ordered. It progressed rapidly until the New York vote was announced for Clark. It was challenged and a poll ordered. Governor John A. Dix wa« railed first on the list. He voted for Clark. Senator James A. O’Gorman was next. He was not present. Alton R. Parker voted for Clark. So did Charles F. Murphy. August Relmont sent an other Clark vote over. The Clark stream kept up. Herman A. Metr. vot ed for Clark. Borough President Al fred E. Steers, of Brooklyn, did like wise, as did John H. McCorey, the Brooklyn leader Abraham 1. Elkins, a leading New York lawyer, broke the line and voted for Wilson. William G McAdoo was another of the W’tlson ■voters. Lawrence Godkin voted for ■Wilson. Morgan J. O'Brien and Sam uel Untermoyer, the noted lawyer, voted for Clark. William Temple Em mett voted for Underwood, and John B Stanchfield, a noted lawyer, asked leave to explain his vote. He came to the stand for that purpose. Mr. Stanch field said that hts delegation repre sented 10,000,000 persons and 45 votes in the electoral college. No president, he added, could be elected without the aid of New York. He said that his state represented one-tenth of ths government of the United States. A Mi lligan delegate interrupted He wanted a time limit put on the speaker. "I would say to the gentleman from Michigan." resumed Mr. Stanchflei 1, "that New York has a right to a hea - ing in this convention.’’ He told the Bryan folk that he had been a fighter with Bryan tn the pate. He said he ran for governor In 1900 on the same ticket with William J. Bryan and Bryan got then more votes by too., non than he ever got before or since. Discussing the New York delegation, he said that It contained the governor and the lieutenant governor of ths state, a former candidate for president anti many* distinguished men, Them he said, were the mon Mr. Bryan had ■ ailed men of wax. H> then turned ', Colonel B'yan. "We say to that favor-seekitfg. office.