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the weather. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: generally fair tocla y and tomorrow. VOL. X. NO. 258. I, I. POLICE SHIELU'.NC WEDS’ Men Wanted for Killing Herman Rosenthal Frequent Usual Haunts. It’s Charged. NO EFFORT MADE TO ARREST GUILTY ONES I Suspects Trying to Establish ... ns Fear “Bridgie” Web ber Will “Squeal.” j YORK. July 25.—That the | y . y •. police are shielding the real 1 . <>f Herman Rosenthal, the ot clown after he had ac , i.nlice of levying blackmail, , <)-.og" openly made by the • ,pers ■ f this city today. They ■ ; three of the five men whom r , fess to be "anxious to appearing daily in their n:s without any attempt at ( tyeaiment. ■ . soapet today heads its story titration in biack type: ■ i.. ( - pave elapsed since Her- i -■•■■.hal was assassinated be tssembalge of half a hun ... . in f ont of the Metropole in, the men who committed the still at large." ttto’ney Whitman was told ,r the men he wants were at . ?nth street and Sixth avenue ,st Harry Horrowitz, - -Gio the Blood." has writ si he will attend a ■■■ Sam Paul association G 1 tn Zjf pjd Os Budgie Webber. i e in who got the letter is a ■i : snnal friend of Lieutenant A. Becker. "Gib the Blood' may be expected to ride : . lit. headquarters at any qiv< himself up as others I tme xtract front his let- V . I. how they can't getany \o I'm afraid of is some ' ■■■ will blow on me be- • t'-ioefs squared. Are they _ m Britlgie?” ■ ■• d he has been having h’s alibi in shape. The • :m . is working today on ■ • B i igie Webber took : n- a and gangster to the - ->t<-l at Bath Beach the ■ 1 the murder and to Nev York Sa’.utday. n not be found. 1 I' r. better known as Harner," who was locked .j er In had denied under • had told tb.e district ai .. . •c'le: - that he saw Webber . .; f om the Metropole after f R,,s, nth il, has promised knows !> puty Dough- ■ alk with the repentant bar and left immediately in an saving as he sped away, inks better every minute." P'ci'ing Holes In Alibis. uli lais and district at- ■ pi. king holes in several ■ ' by t h prisoners, but "ins to be the object of their Tiny ; ,i\ , strong hopes of him to talk freelt and it Is '■: th- oth : s involved seem to i|*an any tha' Webber will known is "Chick” Beebe is of the district attorney, by, al.as Vallon, proved by '■ s v es that he was in bed al ' s' Fourteenth street about "I lie mm del Harry Signal, f d on's employees, and Sig ' stifled to this. But Reebe aniarily told the district attor h- -aw Mallon at the Metro ■mi ten minutes of the murder. 'l' I - said to have been seen at Fitchburg, Mass., whore ■ ' I' in a barn. He had ' nts jn money. He displayed Mr to the stable hands, and told is bound for Canada. He is have returned to New York to ’ ’ to make a new attempt to MATES OF BOYS HOME HELP FIGHT FIRE K.’l'lY CITY, N. J., July 25.—A ' I'bssure in the water mains I" "f $40,m)0 as a result of a ’■ 'oday in the Hudson County o y at Arlington, N. .1. ' •■ i. 'Vi red when 150 boys, the home, wire at mass in ' 1 ' by. They helped fight ".ou s with a bucket brigade. The Atlanta Georgian head For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results •••• aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa •Pedestrian, 63, • • Completes Walk ; Os 12,648 Miles- i• • ; • NEW ORLEANS, July 25. • • Claiming the world's pedestrian • • championship. W. H. Chapman. 63 • • years old, a ranchman of Wyom- • . • ing, arrived in New Orleans today. • • concluding what he asserts was a • • 12.648 mile walk. Chapman says • • he left Denver May 31, 1911, with • • seven other contestants, went to • ■ • Chicago, thence along the Great * I • Lakes to the northeastern extrem- • I • ity of the United States, down the • i • Atlantic coast to Florida and • , ' • westward to Mobile and New Or- • • leans. He says by doing this he • • has won a purse of $12,575 qffered • • by the stockmen’s association of s • Colorado, » • • I •••• a » aa « aaaaaaaaaa c a an» a » Say, You Sinners, How's This for a Call-Down Right Out the Pulpit? l lt May Sound Like an Extract From a G. 0 P. Speech, but It Is Not. WORCESTER, July 25.—“ You folks .that have been saying hard things [about modern political methods, listen Ito this: You heard how Taft and 'Roosevelt discussed the issues of the campaign and how 'honeyfttlger' and 'man of straw' were shot back ami forth. Does this sound familiar? "You poor, moss-backed sinners, .von rum-soaked, smoke-inhaling whelps, why you poor old broken-down sin- | covered transgressors, if some one took I you and cleaned you up and stood you I up befoie a mirror, you’d surprise I yourselves.” Political speech? No, that’s the ] way the Rev. B. S. (Cyclone) Taylor i addressed an audience of 900 person.- ! in a sermon at the Douglas camp ground yesterday afternoon. DRUG-CRAZED MAN CAUSES NEAR PANIC IN OFFICE BUILDING; — [ Crazed from cocaine, Andrew Fitz- | gibbdns, a young white m in with a long [ police record, nearly scared tenants of the Atlanta National Bank building into ■ panic early today when he wildly ! rushed through the halls and sought a i hiding place. Several of the tenants heft the building by the nearest exit. Fitzgibbons escaped from Deputy Sheriff Haygood at the Union passen ger station, where the two were await ing a train to take them to Milledge ville and the state sanitarium. He j rushed across the railroad tracks and : was soon lost in the bank building. The officer followed and took :i post at the ! corner of Whitehall and Alabama. | where he could watch both entrances. Then he summoned Chief Deputy' John Owen and a fellow officer, John i Suttles. Thirty minutes later tin- es- I caped prisoner was found in an office I on the top floor that had been left un locked by the occupants. GEORGIA TENNESSEE POWER COMBINATION IS CHARGED AT ROME ROME. GA., July 25. That the i Georgia Railway and Power Company! will control both the East Tennessi ;■ | Power Company and the Rome Railway 1 and Light Company in Rome in a | year's time is the belief of Mayor Ben I C. Yancev. The East Tennessee Power [ Company and the Georgia Railway ami I Power Company are in danger of losing i their franchises because, it is claimed, [ they have violated the terms of their, franchises and combined. 1 At a recent meeting the Rome city 1 council the mayor's proposition to ac- ; cept a contract from the Rome Railway ' and Light Company was turned < own, ; and in a statement afterward be de- i dared that in a year's time the city | would have to pay dearly for power lie- ’ cause he feared a combine. Councilman ' Copeland says he has evidence t.!>at| two companies have already combined. | and he has already introduced a reso lution to annul the franchises of the : Ea.-t Tennessee I’o■ , r I'ompan.v and | i the Georgia Railwa) anad Power Coin- : pany. UNWRITTEN LAW AND EMOTIONAL INSANITY PLEAS SAVE STARNES ROME. GA., July 2.'.. Ai eused of i killing Douglas Harris, an eighteen, i year-old boy, in the lobby of the '’her- i okee. hotel last Deceinbi r. Uriah I. Starnes was acquitted in the superior court yesterday afternoon, on Starnes' first trial the jury was deadlocked. Starnes based his defense on the un- j written law and emotional insanity. He claimed that Harris, who c.nne from one of the best known families of LaGrange, boarded at his home and alienated the affections of his wife. on tlie evening of December 28. 1911. Starnes walked into the lobby of the Cherokee hotel, where Harris wa clerking at a cigar stand. After nearly an hour's conversation, Starnes drew his pistol and killed Harris Walking to a barber shop, he communicated over a telephone to some one and is alleged to have aid "I got him; he’s dead.” •••• aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa \TLAXTA, G. T.R.’S SACKER I FORESEES WILSON’S VICTORY Munsey Tells London Papers Situation Indicates Demo cratic Success. HAD SAID IN NEW YORK ROOSEVELT WOULD WIN I Publisher Says He Still Has Hopes That the Bull Moose Has a Chance. NEW YORK, July 25.—A cablegram from London, in which Frank A. Mun sey, chief idvocate of Colonel Roose velt'.- re-election, is quoted as saying that tin present situation in America points to "a change of political su premacy through tin administration of | affairs of the country passing into the hands of the Democrats," was the sen- Isation of today in political circles. Be | fore having America Mr. Munsey de clared Roosevelt was assured of vic- | tory. The dispatch quotes -Mr. Munsey as 1 follows: "The political struggle has special significance this year, and at this par ticular juncture, for the reason indica- I tions just now point to a change of po [litical supremacy through the admln [istratiort of the affairs of the country [passing into the hands of the Derno [ ciats. and as it is stated that the Dem ocrats have always been for a tariff for : revi nur only -and a tariff at times ' verging on free trade—men who be lieve in protection in the economic pol jicii - that have prevailed in the Repub ; lie an parti will naturally feel deep con- I tern, even real alarm. T. R. May Change Aspect. "But tlie present view of the situa tion may be changed with the actual opening of the campaign. Roosevelt inis so gi nuine a following, so big a fol lowing with the voters of the country, I that nobody can predict with any eon- I sic'.'l aide di give of accuracy what the I renditions will be in the early part of i ()ctobi r. > "it is certain that he only dangerous (opponent Wilson will nave to meet is ; Roosevi • President Taft has not foi llowing enough to endanger Democratic i success. If the election of a president is wrested from the Democratic party, it will be done by Roosevelt, and. difficult as this looks at the present time, it is, nevertheless, an easy pos ; sibrlity. | "There are naturally many difficulties ! in the way of a brand new party, but difficulties are always worse in perspec- i Colonel to Attend Illinois Convention CHICAGO, July 25. -That Colonel i Tiw-odor. Roosevelt would attend the | ::■■■< ling of th- Illinois Bull Moose con [ • -ntion at orchestra hall on the Satur [ day preceding the national third party | c.invention h'".e was announced today Iby the ; wr. ssive kaders. Giwernor Hiram Johnson of Callfor l nia and Gil'fcwd Plnchot, former chief 1 !'. a’.' r of tile United States, atso will •bi In n fm' the Illinois convention, [ who ■ - \|.. • ted to start the enthu- Isiasm in tin third party movement. Roth Johnson and Pinchot will be ~an..me the :--|u akers, and others who I have taken a prominent part in the na tional move. Pent will be added to the : list. Another Taft Elector Resigns i CHAMPAIGN. ILL., Jul) 25.—C. D. ■Tliom..-'. nominated for presidential on tin Republican ticket, has [resigned. In a letter io the st.-itt Ro | publican committee. Mr. Thomas says l the >'■ - Ignntimi follow: a personal in vistlgal.oti of the nomination of Pres ident Taft. “The so- .d'i d n minaiion of Taft,” [the letter s.avs, was fraudulent.” No Third Party Ticket in Oregon PORTLAND. <>REG., July 25. The third party convention to name five delegates to tin- national convention in Chicago v. s scheduled to meet here to. day. T'm lenders will not put a third partv ticket in the field here. The call for the eolivention was issued by the National Progressive club of Oregon, of which Charles W Ackerson, one of Oregon's delegates to the Republican rational convention, is the head. .. THURSDAY, JULY 25;-1912. Georgians Start on 10,000-Mile Wedding Journey to Shanghai [ i Griffin Young Man Takes Bruns-1 wick Bride to China to Make Home. BRUNSWICK, GA., July 25.—With a 10,000-mile wedding journey before them. Mr and Mrs. Hart Westbrook are now on their honeymoon, following their mar riage here yesterday. Their destination is Shanghai. China, where Mr. Westbrook is being sent as professor of English in [ the Baptist university of Shanghai by the i foreign missimi board of the Southern [ Baptist convention. Mr Westbrook, whose home is at Gris- ! fin, Ga., is a graduate of the literary de- I partment of Mercer university at Macon. [ He has also taken a pos'-graduate course at Harvard university and recently grad- | uated from the Yale divinity school. Mrs. Westbrook, formerly Miss Annie i May Arnold, is the daughter of Mr. and i Mrs. C. E. Arnold, of this city. She is a [ graduate of Bessie Tift college at For- I syth, and during the past year was an , instructor in music at that institution. Y. AL C. A. HOME IS TO 1 BE 10 STORIES HIGH IF PEOPLE GIVE FREELY Tentative plans submitted by Chicago ’ architects for the new Young Men’s Chris- I tian association building call for a ten- [ story structure of unique design. The ten stories wj.ll be constructed if the sub scriptions come in as promised. The committee has announced plainly that it will not go into debt to construct the building, but will make it just what At lantans show by subscriptions they want it to be. The structure, as planned, will be of massive design, built of cream colored brick with terracotta and stone orna-. mentation and covered with a sloping roof of red tile Balconies and a roof gaj-den will relieve the massiveness of the struc ture. Work will start by the end of this year and the building committee hopes, to complete it within a year. Strictly speaking, there will be three buildings instead of one. Tlie part of the structure intended for men will be di- [ vided from that used by the boys. These : two divisions will face Luckle street, op- ' posite the Tabernacle. Directly back of ( them will stand a two-story structure for bathing pools, gymnasiums, and ail sorts of indoor sports. DAMAGE TO GEORGIA ROADS FROM RAINS MORE THAN $1,000,000 Returning from a tour r>f inspection ’ | of the roads in Georgia, Professor John ; i C. Koch, of the engineering department of the state university, said more than a million dollars damage had been done to highways by rain. "The roads in many parts of the state are so badly washed out they virtually mjist be rebuilt," said Professor Koch. In Stewart county the grades have been reduced from a ten per cent maxi mum to two per cent in the effort to make repairs to the washed out high ways more permanent. Professor Koch says that in every county he visited citizens and county officials are co-operating in a splendid campaign for permanent road improve ment. NATION WIDE STRIKE OF BRITISH DOCKMEN NEAR; RIOTS FEARED LONDON, July 25 -Leaders of the orkers’ strike here today took steps I to carry on the war against the ship i owners in every port in the United King- | dom. They plan to call out 300,000 men. Rioting is feared. Special police guards today were placed about the residences of al! the cabinet ministers and around the home of Lord I ‘avenport, whom the strikers view as their bitterest enemy among the employ ers. Truce of a Day Called. BIRKENHEAP. ENG., July 25.—Strik ing dock workers and ship owners met here today and effected a 24-hour truce. Meanwhile the owners have promised not to attempt to put to work three train loads of strike-breakers that arrived last night. STORK INCREASES DESTITUTE FAMILY OF SLAYER’S VICTIM Friends today made happy a helpless mother with a new-born babe. The stork last night brought a girl to the l.omi of Mis. Aaron Morris, widow of tin barber who was stabbed to death I Inst winter while defending a white | «oman front a vicious negro. Morris loft three orphan children. But for friends, the family would have been destitute. Just after the murder of the father a fund of $2,001) was subscribed for thei family. It was put in trust, but the in- | come is too small to supply the needs I of the mother and her four babes. Dr. J. G. Earnest donated his medical 1 attention and several women supplied I other needs. The mother and child are j reported to be doing nicely. CHICAGO’S POPULATION ESTIMATED AT 2,381,700 ( HICAGO, July 25. -According to the I < it' school census that has just been I completed, the population of Chicago is ! I 2,381,700. This is an increase of 200,000 I I over the figure: shown in the govern- I i merit census of 1910. There are 1 87,975 babies in Chicago less than four years of age. The Six teenth ward carries off the honors with 8,754 of the babies, a majority of them | in this ward being of Polish parentage. 1 MRS. GRACE SPENDING MUCH TIME OUTDOORS H by WSBk X < As. , ■ vB - S Bb J ■ Mrs. Daisy Grace, unusually fond of pets, found a new friend in the big green parrot at Kim Ballville farm, which she visited with her companion, Mrs. Louise Wilson. Mrs. Grace is spending most of her time in the fresh air and is much stronger than when she left her cell in the Tower after making bond. MO BOOSTERS INUAO [ATLANTA Two Hundred, Headed by Bu gle Corps, Parade Streets, Dispensing Enthusiasm. Two hundred strong and headed by a fife and bugle corps, the Macon I boosters arrived today to make Atlanta ring with yells forth. Central City and to be guests of the Atlanta Ad Men’s club. Led by E. H. Hvntan. secretary of the Macon Chamber of Commerce, the I boosters started out for Atlanta on a special train at 7 o’clock. They made brief halts and the welkin ring at Barnesville, Griffin and one or two other towns < n route, then dashed into .the Terminal station at 10:30 o'clock. The Atlanta Ad Men had arranged I with the owners of 50 automobiles to [meet the Invaders and start them on their boosting campaign through the l city streets. With the bugle corps to : furnish music the Macon delegation I was scheduled to parade the principal j streets of Atlanta immediately after I arrival, letting loose a choice assort -1 ment of slogans and municipal enthu- I siasm generally. After the parade the Atlanta Ad | hosts provided a big reception at the I Elks club, including a big Dutch lunch- I eon. The Macon boosters will give lover the afternoon to sightseeing. MISSISSIPPI SLAYER HANGS, INDIANOLA, MISS., July 25. Char ley White was hanged in the county I jail early today for the mutdei of a * woman over a year ago. GA.SOLDIEBBOyS OBE HOME TODAY Fifth Regiment and the Gov ernor’s Horse Guard Break Camp at Anniston. Atlanta's soldier boys are coming home today. The Fifth regiment and the Govern or’s Horse Guard, some 600 Atlantans in all, struck camp yesterday and began packing up. They took trains out of Anniston this morning and are due to arrive here this afternoon. That all Atlanta will hail them gladly is not to be denied. There will be I numbers of the fair sex on hand to ad mire th. soldierly swing that John or Tom or Harry acquired through ten days association with the regulars, and there will also be many a kind-hearted boss, who let that young fellow go, but who is glad to see him back to take up his work again. When the soldier boys reach the city they will parade through town, letting every one know that they are here, and then, after a trip to the armory for final inspection, it will be the soldier life no more, but back to offices and shops for twelve months. Officers of the regular army have spoken highly of the Atlanta troops, according to General Clifford L. An derson, who conversed with many of them. He considers that the ten days of maneuvering has done the Fifth regiment worlds of good from a mili tary standpoint, and has done more to bring the regiment to a unit than any thing else could have done. EXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE * A O Y RE NO 10 BITE FOB GRACE IN FIFE'S BEJBT Accused Woman Steadily Re fuses to Believe He Gave In terviews Attacking Her. , WE BOTH KNOW WHO SHOT HIM, SHE SAYS 1 . Defense Expects to Prove Not Only Accused’s Innocence, But Guilt of Another. When Mrs. Daisy Grace goes to trial■: j Monday morning charged with having! [ attempted to kill her husband, Eugene , 1 Grace, she will have no bitterness ind i her heart for him. Despite the fact! I that he has been quoted often and at length as saying that he believed her! guilty, she still cares for him and is [insistent in the belief that he was not responsible for the newspaper inter ; views. The basis of her defense will con ’ sist, no doubt, in the attempt to show that she could not have possibly shot I Eugene. While in Philadelphia Mrs. .Grace stated that her husband knew I who shot him; that she knew, and that' ' in a three-minute statement she could clear hirself before any jury. She had nothing to add to this statement today, nor to take from it. The stage is being set rapidly for the trial. The prosecution will call together its Witnesses Saturday for a final word. The defense, in addition to former witnesses, will call to tha stand friends ot' Eugene Grace's youth, who will testify as to his character before he was married. Mrs. Martha I Ulrich, Mrs. Grace's mother, leaves Philadelphia today and will arrive in Atlanta tomorrow afternoon at 5 o’clock. Grace Can’t Come To Wife's Trial. A promised feature of the trial—tha presence of the wounded man—will ba lacking. Though Grace has been sub penael, it will be physically impossi ble for him to be brought to Atlanta so that he can testify. Grace is still a paralytic and the probabilities ara that he will never recover the use of his limbs. Mrs. Grace still preserves an out ward calm, but little signs show that the ordeal will be a heavy one for her. The long days of prison life, of cross-ques|ions from officials, of stares from the curious and of being whirled about from place to place, wore hep nerves to a thin edge, and the seclu sion she has enjoyed since has been as balm to her. 6 GRANDSONS BEAR PIONEER ATLANTA .WOMAN TO GRAVE Six grandsons will bear the body of Mrs. 11. C. Fischer, a widely known At lanta woman, to the funeral services to be held at he residence, 140 Windsor street, late today. They are Dr. Crosby Swanson, Isaac Edge, William Edge, Jr., William Swanson, Dr. Paul Jean Peniston and Dr. Joseph Peniston. In terment will be in Westview. Mrs. Fischer, 77 years old, was for 24 years actively connected with work of the First Baptist church. She is sur vived by seven children—Carl H. Fisch er, H. R. Fischer, Dr. L. C. Fischer, of Atlanta; Mrs. T. B. Swanson, of Fair burn; Mrs. P. E. Peniston. of Newnan; Mis. Bertie Travis, of Senoia, and Mrs. J. M. Diffee, of Bainbridge, Ga. DALTON WOMEN BANQUET EASTERN STAR OFFICER DALTON, GA.. July 25.—Miss Tal lulah Atkins, of Cordele, grand worthy matron of the grand chapter of Geor i gia. Order nf Eastern Star, was honor guest at a banquet tendered by Dalton chapter No. 65, at the Buchholz res taurant last night, following her in spect i'-ii of the local chapter. Speeches were made by T. B. Ridley, associate gtand worthy patron of Georgia; H. B. Farrar, Judge J. A. Longley, S. E. Berry, W. M. Sapp and Dr. Douglas, worthy patron of the Chattanooga chapter. DALTON FIXES TAX RATE. DALTON, GA.. July 25,—City coun cil has fixed the tax rate for the cur rent year at ?I.M) on the SIOO. Council discussed a proposition made by the Georgia Railway and Electric Com pany relative to bringing its lines into i Dalton, and it now . ins certain that ■ the city and tlie company will come to terms.