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THE WEATHER.
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Forecast for -Atlanta and Georgia-
Local showers today and tomorrow.
NO. 241.
VOL. X.
DEFEATED IN
FIST FIGHT,
M’ELVEEN
IS HERO
Cracker Infielder Set Upon by
John Dobbs and Members of
Montgomery Team.
Crying Til get you or those stories
you’ve told' about me,” John Dobbs,
backed by three members of the Mont
gomery ball club which he manages,
attacked T. M. McElveen, third base
man of the Atlanta ball club, in front
of the Aragon hotel at 8:50 last night
ln d gave him a severe beating.
Dobbs and his cohorts, who had
come to the Aragon for the anouneed
purpose of giving McElveen a thrash
ing. found the Cracker ball player
sated in front of- the hotel. With a
concerted attack, ’Kid” Elberfleld, a
n,ember of the Montgomery club and
i scrapper whose prowess is recog
nized through three leagues, kicked the
iim ir from under McElveen, while
Dobbs struck the sitting man full in
the face, it was a tremendous blow,
delivered with the full force of trained
mu-cles, and it caught McElveen un
guarded and went home with a crash
and stunned the Atlantan.
In an instant the fighting became
general. McElveen, seeing he had no
nance against such odds and stunned
by the blow, fought back bravely as he
retreated into the hotel. Dobbs kept
after him and the struggling players
-harged into the hotel. Ry this time
McElveen was badly battered and
Dobbs, fearing arrest, whirled and
rushed down Peachtree street, just as
loe Aglet', first baseman of the Crack
er team, appeared with reinforcements
In the shape of a bartender, armed
with a useful bottle.
McElveen was helped to his room,
and after a bad night is not much the
worse for the beating.
The police, after an investigation,
"rested Dobbs. Norman Elberfleld. Joe
Rills and Raleigh Aitchison. Dobbs
and Elberfleld were placed under SSO
bond and Bills and Aitchison were
given copies of charges and notified
lo appear in police court Saturday
morning.
''Unjustified.” Says McElveen.
McElveen was located in his room
a' the Aragon this morning and gave
his version of the affair. Said McEl
veen.
'There is absolutely no reason in the
world why Dobbs should have attacked
■ We never had any trouble while
I was a member of the Montgomery
team, nor since then, either."
He is just jealous 'cause you made
soud with Atlanta after he let you go.
Id give S6O if I had been there.” in
'erposed Shortstop Harbison. McEl
veen's oommate at the Aragon.
Dobbs. Elberfeld. Bills and Altchi
-on came up to where I was sitting in
"ont of the Aragon,” continued the At
;|iita third baseman, "and Dobbs asked
me why 1 had been saying things about
h 'm. I replied that 1 hadn't said any
thing about him. 'Lou have,' and 'I
’at ent passed between us once or
’ ' ice. and then Elbergeld, without any
'arning. kicked the chair out from un.
me. As he did so Dobbs landed on
1 'Kht eye. You see what hat lick
'’hl. it just closed up the e ye. 1
knocked Dobbs down and as I leaned
'• r him Elberfeld struck me. Bills
-ml Aitchison were both in the fight
r, o had as much to do with it as
' ’ther of the other two.
Yes; I’m going to play this after-;
Ccntinued on Page Seven.
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10 HEISE
CIPTOOE
Os CHIEF
Lupo the Wolf Most Closely
Watched Prisoner in Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary.
"Lupo the Wolf.” once leader of the
most daring criminals in America. Is
the most thoroughly guarded prisoner
in the Federal penitentiary today as a
result of two efforts made to teach him f
in his cell by confederates planning !
the assassination of the detectives who ”
put him behind the bars.
Warden Mover had been warned that .
Lupo and his band of assassins ate
plotting to take revenge upon Seen t
Service Detective William .1. Flym..
District Attorney Smith, United States
Judge George Ray and half a dozt t.
others of the New York authorities who
hunted and imprisoned the Mafia chief
"Lupo the Wolf" has 23 years of .
25-year term to serve in the Federa
prison, tn another cell is his chief lieu
tenant, Giuseppe Morello. The prison
authorities know that neither man in
tends to serve that sentence if away
of escape can be successfully plotted,
the plot to be carried out by the hun
dred-odd members of their band still at
liberty. The Wolf’s band terrorized the
North and much of Europe for years.
But dispatches from New York say
that Lupo's friends are bent upon re
venging his conviction even while they
await the opportunity of his escape.
Lupo, on his way to Atlanta, vowed
that before he died lie would "get"
Flynn, who with a score of men. ar
rested him in a farm house at High
land. N. Y., where he was caught coun- ,
terfeiting. j.
Morrello Also
Vows Vengeance.
When Morrello was nabbed a little,
later after a desperate battle in a Nev,
York den he. too. vowed that Flynn
must die and with him the secret -ei -
vice men who tore the gun and knives ;
from his hands and dragged him away!
unconscious to the Tombs.
More than all this Lupo wants re- ‘
venge upon the spies of Flynn's secret |
service staff who. after years of dan-I
gcrous work, succeeded in getting into [
the councils of the Mafia band, made |
themselves Mafiaists and then tipped i
off their chief when the moment camel
to make the captures.
Lupo iia.s framed the revenge plot •
in his cell at the Federal prison, tin. i
secret service men think and it is I
believed he sooner or later will seek I
to gain some word with his lieuten- I
ants, still at large, to give them or- ■ I
ders. The authorities have arranged | I
thai no man shall see him in the prison '
who might even inadvertantly carry
some inkling of that plot to the out- .
side world.
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Lupo never is allowed to speak even
with Morrello unless a guard is with J
them. His letters to and from the
prison are investigated as zealously as 1
though he might try to send a message
in invisible ink or written with orange 1
peel. If he lives to serve out his '
prison sentence evry moment of his ’
day and night in prison will he as c
closely' guarded.
Plotters Must
Use New Ruse. s
If he succeeds in send ing forth his <
plans for revenge or rescue it must be t
done by some means that criminals or x
tin authorities have never dreamed of I
before. 1
Meanwhile, biding his time, some- i
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JI’LY 5. 1912.
V animan Airship Snapped in Its 1,000-Foot Plunge
FIRST VIEW OF THE DIRIGIBLE DISASTER
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there tn this country is a Sicilian who
ias sworn he will have the life of
Lupo the Wolf' the moment the Mafia
■hfef quits the Atlanta prison. Lupo
tilled this man's brother in Sicily
welve years ago in cold blood one night
vhen he refused to join the Wolf’s
oreign vendetta. Lupo fled his native
ountry before the brother could reach
lim with the knife he has carried for
hat purpose since the slaying of his
mother. Dispatches from New York
ay this Sicilian is so desperate in his
letermfnation to nave his revenge upon
he Wolf that he has told friends he
vill come to Atlanta in the hope that
le may find an opportunity to slay the
Jafia chief while be still is a prisoner
n the Federal prison.
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lantic City, earn ing to death its inventor. Melvin \ animan. and his crew of four, photographed
Just as it started on the latal Hight. Below, al left, the dirigible snapped in its 1,000-foot plunge
just after the explosion had wrecked it. Below, at right the wrecked air craft floating in the
water, with the first of the rescue boats searching for bodies of the victims.
TEXAS WOiN IS
CLUB PRESIDENT
SAN FRANCISCO, July s.—With the
election of officers out of the way. the
chief topic among the delegates to the
biennial convention of the General Fed
eration of Women s Clubs was the se
lection of a meeting place for the next
ga titering.
The main social feature of today was
a luncheon given by the Chicago wom
en delegates at the Palace hotel, at
which the newly elected officers were
entertained. Chicago is one of the
prominent aspirants for the meeting of
1914.
Following is the national ticket elect
ed :
Mrs. Pennypa<ket. of Texas, presi
dent. won by 301 votes over Mrs. Philip
Carpenter, of New York. The ballot
was 556 to 255.
First vice president. Mrs. R. L.
Blankenburg. Philadelphia.
Second vice president. Mrs. Samuel
B. Sneath, Ohio.
Recording secretary', Mrs. Mary L.
Keefe, Nebraska.
Corresiwhding secretary, Mrs. Eu
gene Reilley, North Carolina.
treasurer, Mrs. John Threadgill,
Oklahoma
Auditor. Mrs. Charles H. McMahon,
Utah.
Directors. Mrs. William E. Andrews,
Washingtno, D. C.; Mrs. Francis D. Ev
erett. Illinois; Mrs. Grace Julian Clark,
Indiana; Mrs. J. Creighton Mathewes,
Louisiana; Mrs. William P. Harper,
Washington; Mrs. A. S. Christy, Mon
tana: Mrs. Frank White. North Da
kota. and Mrs. Lucy White Williams,
Michigan.
ATLANTA
GEORGIAN’S
SOUTHERN
LEAGUE
SCORE CARD
MONTGOMERY
VS.
ATLANTA
AT PONCEY PARK
JULY 5, 1912
GAME AT 4:00 P. M.
VICE COMMISSION OF
ATLANTA CRITICISED
BY STATE SOCIALISTS
MACON. GA.. July s.—Atlanta’s
vice commission was severely criti
cised by speakers in the annual con
vention of Socialists of Georgia to
day. It was declared that the commis
sion was an absolute failure, because
it was seeking to operate along the
oretical rather than practical lines. J.
Lindberg and Mr. and Mrs. Al
Schwartz, of Atlanta, and Poul G. Den
nie. of Augusta, were the speakers.
The Socialists nominated the follow
ing candidates for state officials: A. F.
Castleberry, of Columbus, for govern
or; W. O. Selgler, of Augusta, for
comptroller general; W. E. Johns, of
Tifton, for commissioner of agricul
ture. and M. W. Gibbs, of Waycross,
for secretary of state.
SUGGESTS SOUTHERN
SCHOOLS FOR DEAF
TEACH_LIP READING
Dr. Dunbar Roy today made the sug
gestion that in case a school for the
deaf is made part of the public school
system, as has been advocated, only
the most modern methods of teaching
be adopted, and that the deaf children
be taught the science of lip reading.
The newest and most practical meth
od of teaching deaf children Is through
lip reading, according to Dr. Roy. The
old method of the sign language Is be
ing rapidly superseded by the one
adopted from a scientific study of deaf
people, and in not having adopted the
new system or any system at all the
schools In this section are far behind
those of the North and East, says the
Atlanta physician.
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. HURLED 50 FT. 8T
EMIOIM
Hurled fifteen feet Into the air by
the explosion of aceytelene gas In a
pit over which he was working. D.
S. Hodges narrowly escaped death at
the gas plant of the Western and At
lantic railroad today.
Hodges, who Ilves at 73 Nelsgn
street, and is employed by the rail
road to generate its car-lighting gas
in the plant on Manhattan avenue, had
gone to the pits outside the plant to
turn a supply of the gas into-the ca s
of a train. Wheethet a match caused
the flash is not known, but workmen
saw that Hodges was stooping down
over the closed pit when there came an
explosion which tore up the ground for
yards around. Hodges rose in the air
with the blast of flaming gas and land
ed by the ear tracks unconscious.
He was picked up badly burned and
bruised and rushed to the Grady hos
pital, where it was said that he prob
ably would recover.
No one else was injured and the oth
er gas pits held intact.
MAJORITY OF OFFICIALS
OF COLUMBUS RE-ELECTED
COLUMBUS. GA.. July 5 —City
Clerk Moore, Treasurer Matthews,
Marshal Burrus. City Physician Bland
ford. City Health officer Moncrieff and
Fire Chief Pearce were re-elected
without opposition. Aiderman Frank
D. Foley defeated Recorder Wynn for
re-election, while T. T. Miller, the
present city atorney, defeated his op
ponent. H c MeCuthen.
LIXTR4
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £ A O Y RE NO
I.S.FEEOEH
IWF M
HO LIFE,
HE sm
Attorney General Announces
That He Will Not Seek the X
Governorship.
SAYS HE HAS PLEDGES
OF FINANCIAL HELF
Slaton's Great Lead Believed tc
Have Influenced Decision.
His Statement.
Attorney General Thomas S. Folder
today announced his determination not
to enter the race for governor and
dispelled the expectations of hundreds
who had been looking for an old-fash
ioned Smith-Brown factional battle.
The attorney general, who had been
in conference with friends for many
days past, declared In a formal state
ment that he considered it too late to
get into the fight now.
Mr. Felder declared he had been as
sured of much financial support. He
made no reference to any of his rivals,
but the great lead which John M. Sla
ton is conceded to nave in the race
probably ha<T much to do with influ
encing his- decision.
Here is Mr. Felder's announcement:
Believes Time Too
Short for Campaign.
To My Friends Throughout the
State;
For some fiionths past I have
been urged by> friends in all sec
tions of Georgia to make the race
for governor, but had not serious
ly considered the matter from the
simple fact that I was without the
means to defray the xpenses of a—
campaign. Within the past few
days, however, ardent friends at
home and in other parts of the
state have guaranteed to raise aM
the funds needed and are strongly
Insisting upon mv entering the
race. They are satisfied I can win.
The matter has thus reached s
point where I have not only to con
sider it, but to declare my decision.
After mature consideration. I
have decided not to become a can
didate for the governorship. I
reach this conclusion because I am
convinced that it is now too lata
within tlie limited time before me.
to organize and conduct a cam
paign. F must recognize, too. that
many of my friends are already
committed to one or the other of
the two candidates now in the field.
I can not bring myself to enter
this rave, the expense of which is
to be borne by my friends, unless I
felt confident of the result.
I b»g all my friends to believe
that I am profoundly grateful for
the generous interest they have
shown in my political fortunes.
T. S. FELDER.