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TRIUMPHS OF
JMERIGMI
ITHLTTES
raiINUE
•
Start Day at Olympiad by
Winning First Heats of the
5.000-Meter Run.
SEVEN MEN QUALIFY
for 1.500- meter race
Yankees Expected to Make
Clean Sweep in Finals of
Event Tomorrow.
STOCKHOLM. July 9.—This was an
other day of triumph for the Star Span-
Banner at the Olympic games.
Once more the leather-lunged Ameri
can rooters hurst forth .in frenzy when
='.ven out of fourteen representatives
r, -he United States qualified for the
final heat of the 1.500-meter race. That
Yankees would make a clean sweep
tomorrow was the prediction openly
The successful Americans were Abel
m-. Lewis Madera. Mel Sheppard.
Xorman S. Tabor, John Paul Jones, Os-
Medlund and Walter McClure. Ki
viat was the only one forced to extend
himself, .and his time was only a sec
ond behind the record. The other
Americans took things easy to save
themselves for the final. John Paul
Jones was second in his heat, finishing
in splendid condition. It is expected
t .t a new record will be set.
Th' trial heats in the 5,000-meter
W re run off first and the American
contingent in the vast stadium roared
■.nt delight when Bonhag and Louis
s. both Americans, romped home
easy .tinners in the first and second
heats, respectively.
The =tadium, which accommodates
yt.uou persons, was comfortably filled
... h. n tl’.e athletes dashed out upon the
field.
The following were the results in the
5.009 meters:
First Heat—First, George Bonhag,
I’. S . 15 minutes, 22 6-10 seconds; sec
ond, DeCoteau. Canada, 15 minutes,
24 2-10 seconds; third. Hibbens. Great
Britain, 15 minutes, 27 6-10 seconds.
Second Heat—First, Louis Scott, U.
S.. 15 minutes, 23 5-10 seconds; second.
Keeper. Canada, 15 minutes. 28 9-10
seconds; third. Hutson. Great Britain,
15 minutes. 29 seconds.
Third Heat—First, Carlson, Sweden
15 minutes, 34 6-10 seconds; second,
Glover Great Britain. 16 minutes. 9-10
seconds; third, Porter, Great Britain.
16 minutes. 23 4-10 seconds.
The Americans kept up their vic
torious work when the trial heats of
'i‘ J .500-meter race began. The re-
i'i > Heat—First, Lewis Madera, U.
> University of Pennsylvania; sec
ru. Mel Sheppard, U. S. Time, 4 mln
-27 3-5 seconds.
Second Heat —First, Norman S. Ta
" .1 S Brown university; second,
Bak.- England. Time, 4 minutes
5-10 seconds.
Heat—First, Abel Kiviat, I'.
'• kish- American A. C.'; second, Ar-
■ 1 I’ ance. Time. 4 minutes 4 2-5
Tait, Canada, and N. J. Pat-
U. S., were eliminated.
l"'irih Heat—First, Jackson, Great
n; second. John Paul Jones, Cor
: ‘ university. Time, 4 minutes 21 7-10
Lewis Anderson, University
Nebraska. was eliminated. Jones
" ri' effort to win, but took things
m order to save himself for the
:r. i... tomorrow.
1 Heat-- First, Zander, Sweden;
Bjoern. Sweden. Time. 4 mln
i-10 seconds. Herbert N. Put
"f Cornel] university, was elimi-
i Heat—First, Vol Siegel, Ger
"'"nd, Oscar Hedlund. U. S..
' 5. A. Time, 4 minutes 9 1-5
’ ’’ Heat- First, Wide, Sweden;
Walter McClure. U. S„ of
club, San Francisco. Time, 4
6 seconds
Results in
Swimming Events.
1 '-meter back stroke swlni
'ont-st fr> r men resulted as fol-
Hc. lt . First. Hairy J. Hebner,
Athletic club, second, O.
’>■ rmany. Time. 1 minute 21
” "nds
' r v: Heat—First, O. Fahr. Ger
‘‘wond. J. Wenk, Hungary.
' minute 22 seconds.
Heat—First. A Barongl. Hun
ond. P Krellner, Germany.
■ inute, 22 seconds.
Ollr th heat of the 100-meter
“ at» frbe style for women
ir,n - v Dura«-h. of Austria, was
Continued on Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results
• Taft Jn, Didn't Say •
• Dad Was in Discards*
• •
• CHICAGO, July 9.—Robert Taft, •
• son of the president, was in Chi- •
• cago today. .Ie asserted he was •
• convinced his father would be re- •
• elected. •
• Taft became indignant when •
• told that It had been reported from •
• Elgin, 111., that he had said his •
• father had been .swept Into the •
• discard and had no chance for re- •
• election. •
• "That is absurd and ridiculous. •
• How could I mak’ such a state- •
• rnent? I never talked to any one •
• in Elgin. 1 don’t even know where •
• it is.” •
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ANOTHER EFFORT TO
CLOSE CONTRACT FOR
BIG DISPOSAL PLANT
_______
In another effort to finally close the
contract for the garbage disposal and
electric power plant with the Destructor
Company of New York, the finance com
mittee of council was today called to meet
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock by W. G.
Humphrey, vice chairman.
The company is unable to finance the
proposition itself on the city’s moral ob
ligation. and local financiers refused to
underwrite the part of the contract pro
viding for the building of a SIOO,OOO elec
tric power plant. The city must amend
the specifications so as to surmount these
obstacles before the New York company
will sign up.
The certified $37,000 check the company
deposited with the city when it submit
ted its bid is still held by the city. but.
it is said, that the city can not hold the
check if the company refuses to sign the
contract, for the original/ proposition has
been amended several times.
PURSE THIEVES IN
OFFICE BUILDINGS;
2 WOMEN ROBBED
Purse thieves have started operations in
the downtown office buildings, and the
detective department today, sounded a
warning to all stenographers and other
women employees in these buildings to
guard their valuables.
Two robberies have been reported, one
in room 710 Third National Bank build
ing, hte other in room 913 Fourth Na
tional Bank building. In the first named
office, the thief stole a purse containing
about $7, a gold watch, gold locket and
chain and other small jewelry. In the
other robbery a purse, with some small
change and a gold watch, was taken.
In both cases, the thefts were committed
while the young women victims were out
of the offices for only a few minutes.
FAMOUS ALIENIST
SWEARS H. K. THAW
IS NOT PARANOIAC
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.. July 9.
Adolph Meyer, the famous alienist, testi
fying today in the sanity hearing of Har
ry K. Thaw, who is trying to gain his
freedom from Matteawan insane asylum,
swore that in his opinion Thaw has not
retrograded mentally since being admit
ted to thS> institution. Clarence J. Shearn,
Thaw's attorney, regarded this as a vic
tory for the defense because ail medical
men regard paranoia as a progressive
disease. He said Thaw is not a para
noiac.
The testimony given by Dr. Meyer was
in distinct opposition to that of Drs. Flint
and MacDonald, who testified for the
state.
ARCHBALD’S COUNSEL
DECLARES JUDICIARY
COMMITTEE ERRED
WASHINGTON, July 9.—That the
house judiciary committee. which
brought articles of impeachment
against Judge Robert W. Archbald of
the commerce court erred in drawing
its conclusions from the evidence ad
duced at the hearings, is the substance
of a statement issued today by A. S.
Worthington, counsel for the judge, by
his authority.
The statement points out that if
nothing beyond the evidence be taken
into consideration by the committee,
an indictment alleging guilt on the
counts included can not hold under the
law.
VINCENT ASTOR GIVES
N. Y. TOWN BALL PARK
POUGHKEEPSIE. July 9.—Vincent As
tor is now a full-fledged citizen of Rhine
beck and if the sporting element of the
town had anything to say about it, could
have anything he wanted in that place.
By presenting to the Rhinebeck base
ball club a fine baseball park, he has
won the hearts of the baseball fans of
that community and the admiration of the
rest of the population. It became known
today that the young master of Fern
cliffe has presented the park to the base
ball club within two days after he learned
that such a park was needed.
FORMER AMBASSADOR
HEADS CHINA'S COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, July 9.—The state
department today received advices from
the Chinese republic of the appointment
of Lou Tsong Tsiang as president of
the council of ministers. Lou former
ly was minister to Holland. He suc
ceeded Tong Shao Yi, who recently re
signed
EX-SENATOR DAVENPORT
IS OUT FOR ROOSEVELT
UTICA, N. Y.. July 9.—Former Senator
F. M Davenport, of Clinton. N. Y., to
day declared himself for Theodore Roose
velt for president of the I nlted States
as a result of an investigation into the
renomination of President Taft.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1912.
BURGLAR AT
HOUSE FETE
IS ROUTED
BYCHILD
Baby Girl (4) Surprises Thief
in Guest Room and Scares
Him Away.
COMMANDS PRQWLER TO
LEAVE; THEN CALLS AID
Lee Hagan’s Tiny Daughter
Saves Hundreds of Dollars
From Intruder’s Clutches.
Four-year-old Julianne Hagan scared
a burglar away from the guegt room
in the home of John Hagan at 265 East
•Fourth street late last night and saved
hundreds of dollars in money and jew
els to the guests who were feasting
'downstairs. The burglar escaped with
a single pocketbook containing about
■s2o.
Little Julianne, who is the daughter
of Lee Hagan, president of the Hagan-
Dodd Company, had been put to bed by
'her aunt because she is a very little
girl and because the Hagans were
'holding a big reception to half a hun
dred guests in the brilliantly lighted
'dining hall below.
And while she lay alone in her dark
ened bed room upon the second floor
she heard a noise at the window of the
guest room, where all the wraps and
purses lay just beyond. Julianne crept
out of her bed and toddled into the
other room and came upon the burglar
bending over a bed on which lay many
hats and cloaks with the women guests’
pursue in the pockets.
Child Orders
Burglar To Leave.
The baby looked at the burglar as
the burglar hastily drew a silver mesh
purse from the pocket of a cloak that
belonged to a woman guest from Chi
cago. Then he confronted Julianne.
"Go ’way from here," cried the un
frightened four-year-old. "Go 'way
from here, ’cause you’re a naughty
burglar man. If you don't Um going to
call for my auntie."
"I ain’t any burglar," said the in
truder to Julianne. "I’m just here to
fix that bed there. You run back and
go to sleep."
“I won’t go back to sleep and I'm
going to call my auntie,” retorted Ju
lianne, and she did cry out lustily
so that the guests in the ball room
heard her screams and began running
up the staircase to find out what al!
the sudden trouble was about.
Thief Takes Some
Os Little Girl’s Candy.
The burglar took fright at their ap
proach. Curbing the little child who
still faced him boldly from the door of
the darkened guest room he thrust the
pocketbook he had stolen into his coat
pocket and bolted through the open
window, shinning down a porch post
and scooting through a back alley Just
as Mr. and Mrs. Hagan and half their
guests burst upon the scene.
Then Julianne knew that there wasn’t
any more danger and she began to cry
with fright.
The police were notified, after the
guests had searched the neighborhood
fruitlessly for a half hour. < iffieers An
derson and McWilliams hurried out to
the Hagan home and in the alleyway
they found the pocketbook, which the
burglar had thrown away after he had
taken out the money. They found, also,
that, the alley was strewn with disks
of vari-colored candy which they think
the burglar took believing they were
poker chips. The candy had been a
present from her uncle to Julianne.
Julianne was put to bed again, .after
all the guests had kissed her and told
her what a little heroine she was, but
she couldn’t go to sleep all night. All
she could tell about the burglar was
that he was a “great big white man"
and had something over part of his
face.
Julianne is the toast of the neigh
borhood. She is staying at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Hagan while her moth
er and father are away upon a motor
ing trip.
VOLIVA SEES THE FINISH
OF BIGGEST CITIES IN U.S.
<' 111<' A< >' >. July 9. Wilbur Glenn Vol-
Iva, overseer at Zion City, has predicted
the destruction of Chicago, New York
and o|he- large cities, and now he calls
on his followers to hurry to Zion City,
which he says will he the only place
spared when the devastation comes.
"God's judgment is going to fall on
the cities of the nations," he said. "You
must come out of Babylon. There is no
choice in the matter. I command you to
come to Zion City. Chicago will answer
for rejecting Dr. Alexander Dowle, and
jou must be in Zion City to escape.”
THE SLAP AT BROWN
Where shall the people turn
for relief? Even the substi
tutes proposed for this hill come
within the governor’s threat (to
veto the Tippins measure). We
are confronted by a slate of
open anarchy and forbidden to
remedy it! —Hooper Alexander,
championing the Tippins bill.
BABY GIRL SHOOS AWAY
BURGLAR AT RECEPTION
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Julianne Hagan, four-year-old
miss, who seared away a burglar
she found in the guest room at
the home of her uncle John Ha
gan. 265 East Fourth street, and
an illustration showing how the
burglar entered the Hagan home.
ATLANTA ASKS FOR
ELKS GRAND LODGE
CONVENTION IN 1914
PORTLAND, OREG. July 9. Elec
tion of officers for the ensuing year
and the choice of a meeting place for
next year's reunion is ties most im
portant business confronting the Elks
grand lodge in session here. Roches
ter N. Y.. and Louisville, Ky., are fight
ing hard for next year's meeting. There
is a contest for every office to be filled
with the exception of grand exalted
ruler and grand treasurer. Atlanta
delegates announced they will make a
light next year for the 1914 session.
TIPPINS CHAMPION
ATTACKS GOVERNOR
DRAWING COURSE
ON IN SCHOOLS
Manual Training Also Will Be
Re-established at Opening
of the Fall Term.
The department of drawing and manual
training will be re-established in the pub
lic schools at the beginning of the new
term, according to a decision of a num
ber of the members of the board of edu
cation at a conference held today. It
was further decided that a meeting of the
teachers’ committee of the board should
be held this week to plan the details of
the system, which, it is declared, will be
more simple and practical than the one
formerly- used.
Since the majority of the board voted
a month ago to abolish this department,
Mayor Winn, W. R Daley, president of
the board, and others have been working
for its re-establishment. It developed to
day the opposition of the majority was to
the system as then conducted rather to
drawing itself.
The principal change in the system is
expected to be in the method of training
the teachers in this art. Many of the
teachers formerly had been required to
attend normal classes in drawing and
manual training. They constantly were
protesting against this requirement.
FELDER TO TESTIFY
IN S. C. DISPENSARY
PROBE NEXT FRIDAY
AUGUSTA, GA., July 9. -The testi
mony of Thomas B. Felder, of Atlanta,
In the investigation of alleged graft in
the South Carolina dispensary' system
will be taken here on Friday at the
Richmond county court house.
Santos Sottile. J. Henry Doscher and
J. P R. O'Neil. Charleston whisky
dealers, will appear as witnesses before
the investigating committee of the
Carolina legislature In addition to Mr.
Felder.
The members of the investigating
committee are State Senator H. R. Car
lisle. of-Spartanburg, chairman; Sena
tor J. H. Clifton, of Sumter; Senator
G W. Sullivan, of Anderson, and Rep
resentatives J. J. Evans, of Marlboro;
W. L. Daniel, of Saluda, and F. jf*
Fury, of Oconee.
“What Shall the People Do When the
Executive Will Not Enforce the
Present Law and Threatens to Veto
Measure Meant to Remedy Condi
tions?” Asks Hooper Alexander.
Contrary to expectation, a vote was not reached on the Tip
pins hill in the house of representatives today, and a desperate
fight, marked by a vicious attack on the governor, went over un
til tomorrow-
So many substitutes and amendments are pending, and so
many members wanted to speak upon them, that the leaders
agreed at the last minute to permit the speaking to proceed, even
though it did carry the bill over another day.
The interesting feature of today’s debate was Representa
tive .Alexander’s attack upon the governor, and the defense of the
governor by Representative Hall, of Bibb.
Both of these addresses were
listened to in almost breathless si
lence.
The bill will conic to a vote
about noon tomorrow. There are
two more speeches to be made in
its favor, and five in opposition.
Woman Temperance
Champion Attends.
Conspicuous in the gallery today
throughout all the speaking was Mrs.
Mary Harris Arr Sour, the famous tem
perance leader. She waved her hand
kerchief and applauded every speaker
in favor of the bill.
Representative Anderson, of Chat
ham, will close for the opposition tomor
row. and Acting Chairman of the Tem
perance Committee Beck, of Brooks,
will close finally for the bill,
Alexander Attacks
Governor Brown.
At 10:30 o'clock this morning tn the
house of representatives the great fight
over the Tippins bill was resumed.
Mr. Alexander, of DeKalb.’concluded
his address of yesterday with a tjhort
summing up of his previous reasons
for favoring the Tippins bill and a
‘sensational attack on Governor Joseph
M. Brown, charging him with confes
sions of inability to enforce the prohi
bition law and with threats to block
any further legislative enactments
whatsoever with respect to the same.
Mr. Alexander also took occasion to
remove any impression that might ex
ist in the public mind that he had
sought deliberately to criticise the
courts harshly or unfairly.
"I would not willingly be put in the
attitude of employing harsh terms or
criticising the judges, and if the hastily
written and necessarily fragmentary'
reports of what I said yesterday have
so represented me or left that impres
sion, Ldeslre now to correct it and to
disclaim any language attributed to me
that comments or condemns.
"No man will say, and 1 so declared
on yesterday, that the judges in th< se
circuits are hostile to the law; no man
will say that they are incompetent: no
man will say that they are afraid.
‘When great numbers of good citizens,
puzzled by this condition, appeal to
the governor, whose whole duty' is
summed up by' the constitution of the
state in the mandate 'to take care that
the laws are faithfully executed,’ he
publishes the statement that he is ‘as
helpless as a baby’ to enforce the law.
1 am now told that he denies saying it.
Then the fact remains that he can en
force the law, but does not.
“Court Also Powerless,
They Plead.’’
"Turning to their chief magistrate,
who is specially charged by the char
ter of his office to take care in every
emergency that the laws are enforced,
they are told that he also is powerless.
"Sending their representatives to the
capitol, after the patient and law-abid
ing manner of our ancestors, to
strengthen the harlds of both the co
ordinate branches of their government,
the people see them met by a message
that the governor will veto anything
they do about it.
“Where shall the people turn for re
lief? I asked it yesterday. 1 ask ft
again today. the substitutes
proposed for this bill come within the
governor’s threat. Anything we do
about it. he tells us. will be vetoed.
Where shall we turn? We are con
fronted by a state of open anarchy and
forbidden to attempt its cure."
In concluding, Mt. Alexander dis
tinctly hinted that a candidate might
yet be entered against Mr. Slaton and
Mr. Hall in the governorship race.
In this connection, he said;
“Let the People Decide
By Officers They Choose.’’
"The courts do not enforce the law.
The governor says that he can not and
that the legislature will not. The peo
ple can speak on August 21. They are
the masters of us all. It may- come that
sooner nr later we must appeal to them
to change their jtidges, hut a more Im
mediate and desirable appeal might be
made next month in the selection of
legislators and a governor freshly in-
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Y RE NO
structed as to the sovereign will and
altogether in harmony with it. what
soever It may be. If the people want
liquor sold in Georgia either by law or
in defiance of law, let them choose a
governor and legislators who so think.
If they want law enforced and its pow
er strengthened, let them say so by the
men they choose. Paraphrasing the
last counsel of a great patriot to his
people, I say to the people of Georgia.
.‘lf it seem evil unto you to obey law.
choose you this day, but as for me and
my’ house, we stand for the law and
will serve the honor of the state.’ ”
Substitute Bill
Includes Amendments.
Mr. Alexander, of DeKalb, and Mr.
Tippins, of Appling, this morning in
troducerr a substitute for the original
Tippins bill, which is generally accept,
ed to be the hill that the Tippins bill
advocates will undertake to pass,
which provides all the amendments to
the prohiibtlon law contained in the
original Tippins bill, with an addi
tional and specific prohibition of locker
clubs.
This is the law that the house will
be asked to pass in lieu of the original
Tippins bill, and was introduced just
before Mr. Alexander commenced his
concluding argument.
Mr. Alexander was followed by Rep
resentative Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, who
spoke against the Tippins bill.
Mr. Hall severely' criticised Mr.
Alexander's speech and said it was such
a speech as had never been delivered
in a Georgia legislature, and that it
■completely admitted all the criticism he
or any one might advance against the
bill.
“Unfair to Governor,"
Says Joe Hill Hall.
"The gentleman from DeKalb," said
Mr. Hall, “says that because of the
present prohibition iaw we are living in
a state of anarchy, and he seeks un
fairly’ and unjustly to saddle responsi
bility for this upon the governor.
"That.” continued the gentleman
from Bibb.” is. unfair to the governor.
The present governor was elected on
a distinct statement that he would veto
any proposed change in the present
prohibition law, unless it proposed a
referendum to the people. Why should
the gentleman from DeKalb arraign the
governor for saying now’ that he will do
what he said he would do in the plat
form upon which he was elected?
“if we are living under a state of an
archy under the present prohibition
law. as the gentleman from DeKalb
says, for God’s sake join me in voting
to repeal it.
"The gentleman Is mistaken in saying
that the governor's threat to veto cov
ers, mv proposed substitute. It does
not. for my bill carries a distinct pro
vision for its referendum to the peo
ple.”
Denies Hostility
To Prohibition Law.
Mr. Hall distinctly denied hostility
to the present prohibition law.
wherever it worked, but he favored,
and his bill sought tn provide, relief
whee it never has worked and where
public sentiment not only’ Is not be
hind it, but positively opposed to It.
"Taws must be supported by public
sentiment or they are worse than use
less," said Mr. Hall. "I have always
stood on this question free of influ
ence and independent. Let’s amend
this law sensibly, or leave it alone.
Let’s enact my substitute which holds
al! that is good in the prohibition law,
and gives relief where it is needed and
.should be extended."
Mr. Massengale, of Warren, followed
Mr Hall, in vigorous support of the
Tippins bill. Mr. Massengale deliv
ered a typical temperance oration and
addressed himself very briefly to th.,
merits of the measure.
Mr. Adams, of Hall, urged that his
amendment providing for a referen
dum be adopted, declaring that a vote
for the hill without the amendment
was a vote against the bill for the gov
ernor will veto it without the amend
ment and the nouse will not pass It
over his veto.
Mr. Darsey, of Spalding, advocated
the passage of the bill in a ten min
ues speech, characterized by much eitu