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IW ABSOLVED M CENSURE BL ENGLISH Report of Titanic Probers Fixes No Blame -- Duff ’Gordon Bribery Story Unfounded. LONDON, July 30. —Excessive speed is held responsible for the Titanic dis aster in the report of the British com mission of inquiry which was presented in Scotich Drill hall today. J. Bruce Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, is absolved from blame for jumping into a life boat and saving his life, while hundreds of other pasengers went to their doom. There is no censure of the conduct of Captain Smith, of the lost liner, in the report. In driving his ship at high speed through the Ice region he was merely following the general custom of shipmasters, the report states. Practically the only adverse criticism in the report is visited upon Captain Lord, of the Leyland liner Californian, who might have saved many, if not all, of the lives that were lost, the commis sion finds. Lord Mersey presided when the com mission was called to order and person ally read the conclusions of the body. Ship Properly Officered. "The loss of the Titanic was due to a collision with an iceberg, brought about by the excessive speed at which the ship was navigated,” the report says, "but the ship was efficiently offi cered and was supplied with the proper chart*." Don’t Kick about your stomach take HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS Let it kick out all the disor ders, such as Gas Pains, Foul Breath, Constipation, Kidney, Liver and other complaints. Then it will add strength, energy and vigor to your blood and body. 60 years without a rival. 4%~ QnSavings Your Bank Account I is the measure of your material I | success. | With money in the Bank you I can ace world unflinchingly I : snvf/ —y° u W1 a man among men j . Y —you know it. we know it, and ■! i the world knows it. 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Holder says he has been put In an entirely false light with respect to his attitude on the proposed county of Barrow constitutional amend ment, by enthusiastic but misinformed friends of that now practically defunct proposition. The speaker says he is opposed to the creation of the county of Barrow, be cause he was elected to the house specifi callj' instructed against the measure, and has never intimated that he would favor it, save in certain remote circumstances which never have arisen. The proposed new county would take a section of territory from the county of Jackson, Mr. Holder's home county, and he naturally would oppose that, unless there were some compelling reason for the separation. There has been strong opposition to the new county upon the part of the people of Jackson, but certain friends of Barrow thought they had this objection overcome, and to those friends Mr. Holder admits saying that he would not oppose the measure in the legislature, if the objec tion of his home people should be re moved—that If the Barrowites could show undisputed sentiment in favor of the new county among the people of Jackson. The speaker says the Jackson county objection was not only overcome, but is quite as rampant as ever—hence his at titude of opposition to Barrow county. The speaker says he has nothing but the kindest and friendliest of feeling for the people who wish to create Barrow county, and that he does not charge that he has been willfully placed in a false light, but he feels that In opposing Bar row county, he is representing the real Interests and desires of his immediate constituents, which he considers a para mount duty upon his part. A Georgia legislator wishes to limit debate to ten minutes on each propo sition brought up. If only he had thought of that bright Idea earlier in the session! “The club”—whatever that is—as The Savannah Press calls it, has nominated J. Randolph Anderson for the state sen ate, and the Honorable J. Randy has ac cepted, and settles it in Savannah—he will be the next state senator from that vicinity. “The club”—don’t be peevish, that’s the only description one can get from The Press —also has indorsed Joseph Mc- Carthy and Pleasant Stovall for the house, and if they want the jobs, they can have them, for whatever “the club” says goes, in Savannah. “The club” has a few alternates up its ample sleeve, and it may become neces sary to trot one of them out, provided there is a break in the ’’indorsements’’ somewhere, by reason of non-acceptance: but the chances are the alternates will have to remain in the background for the present—being young and good-natured, and fairly well disciplined, anyway, they will not mind that ' Oh, yes—“the club” has indorsed Alex Lawrence, too! (N. B. —It’s Alex’s club!) “A lot of Macon people got a free ride to Atlanta to boost the capital removal scheme,” notes The Savannah Press. Move to amend by striking the last four words. Alexander A. Lawrence, “the walking delegate from Chatham,” is the real guar dian of the capitol. While others rave and Imagine vain things, Mr. Lawrence prowls around and about the old building looking for things that need fixing up and renovating. Just why the capitol is so very em- THE ATLANTA GKUKGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 30, 191 z. phatically on the mind of the gentleman from Chatham, nobody knows, but it is, nevertheless. Every once in a while, Lawrence finds a corner that needs repainting, some brick work that needs pointing up, or something—and whenever he does, he is as happy as a ten-year-old kid going to his first circus. Recently, he browbeat the house into providing a new floor for the library, and yesterday he introduced a resolution looking to the removal from the basement of a lot of old books and things that have littered up the place just about as long as he proposes to stand for! By and by, he hopes to get a new dome to replace the old tin thing that now adorns the capitol, which is a black as the ace of spades, anyway. This, however, Is Mr. Lawrence's final pipe dream! The local flower markets are said to be distressing!)' shy of flowers. Per haps some citizens have been antici pating the death of the Tippins bill. Mr. Jones, of Meriwether, is tired hav ing folks kick the state’s financial status around. In delivering an oration before the house Wednesday, advocating the $50,000 appropriation to the state normal school In Athens, the gentleman from Meri wether took a fall out of the "calamity howlers,” as he called them, and said ftie statement or the intimation that the state of Georgia is "broke,” or anywhere near the verge of bankruptcy is “false.” "Georgia is not spending more than her income,” said Mr. Jones. "She has not spent more than her Income for several years. The reports of the treasurer show that I am right, and the comp troller general’s reports show that the other official is right.” "Every time an appropriation that a few big talkers in the house oppose gets up. we hear a great howl that the state is bankrupt and that she is living beyond her means!” "The statement is false, and I am sick and tired having this state published abroad as a pauper and a bankrupt, to her financial disadvantage in the great money centers, when there is no truth in the statement. The truth Is. a number of members of this house have political ambitions to serve that they are willing to serve by misrepresentation. They are willing to advertise Georgia as bankrupt, if it will push their little booms atong. “The state is solvent—the margin of solvency is wide, at least ample. Why seek to make it appear otherwise?” Mr. Jones served recently as chairman of the appropriations committee of the house, and is entirely familiar with the state's financial affairs. His vigorous challenge to those who pictured Georgia as about bankrupt cre ated something of a sensation in the house Monday. MORMON JAILED FOR SHOTS FROM CHURCH IN HARALSON COUNTY BUCHANAN. GA.. July 30.—Charged with having fired two shots from the Mormon church, four miles north of Buchanan, in an effort to kill Wofford Sanders, son of a wealthy Haralson county farmer, W. F. C. Brannon, a well-to-do farmer of that section, ha* been arrested and brought to jail here. The shooting took place at night while Sanders, with his sister and sev eral other young people, were return ing home from ati ice cream supper. One shot wounded Sanders’ mule and another barely grazed his sister’s head. Sheriff Parker, who was summoned, arrested Brannon and four companions in a thicket near the church. The shooting is said to be the resuit of feeling in this section against the Mormon church. Several months ago the Mormon house of worship was burned. Recently a new concrete struc ture replaced it. Brannon, a leader of the Mormon clan, is said to have kept nightly guard over the new church. YOUNG~ATLANTAN IS DROWNED IN ETOWAH RIVER AT KINGSTON Frank Woodruff,, of Atlanta, was drowned yesterday as he waded out to a fish trap in the Etowah river, two miles from Kingston, Ga. The body had not been recovered this morning. Woodruff, a son of W. W. Woodruff, well known formerly as an expert box er, disappeared under the water While a friend waded ahead of him. When his companion looked araund he was gone and a hurried trip back to the camp where they were stopping with a party of friends confirmed his fears. The widow of the victim and his mother were prostrated by the tragedy. Mr. Woodruff’s father left for Kingston today. FIRS T BALE OF 1912 COTTON RECEIVED AT SAVANNAH EXCHANGE SAVANNAH. GA., July 30.—The first new bale of cotton for the season raised in Georgia was received here to day by the Heyward-Williams Com pany and was immediately sold at pub lic auction before the entrance to the cotton exchange. The bale was grown and ginned by A. P. Petway. operating the Petway seed farm at Eastman. This bale is four days behind the first arrival for the season of 1911, but five days earlier than the *hrst bale of 1910. The earliest bale yet received came in m July 18. 1908. COLUMBUS PLANS DRUM CORPS. COLUMBUS. GA., July 30.—Steps are to be taken in Columbus looking toward the organization of a drum and bugle corps such as Atlanta and Macon have. Sparkling j ep 5 bl AT Jacobs' Pharmacy FEAR FOR LIVES IN SHIPS’CRASH Vessels Collide at Night, and Passengers Are Thrown Into Sea During Rescue. BOSTON, July 30. —The steamship City of Rockland, on her way to Bos ton from Bath, Maine, with 350 passen gers, was struck and seriously dam aged early today by the collier William Chisholm In a head-on collision during a dense fog off Tatchers Island. It is feared that Ilves may have been lost in the confusion of the rescue work. Passengers of the City of Rockland, amid great excitement and danger, were put into the steamer’s lifeboats and were finally transferred to the steamer City of Belfast on her way to Boston from Rockland. According to passengers, three or four of the lifeboats of the City of Rockland filled with water, throwing as many as 75 passengers into the sea All of them were saved from drowning, it was claimed bj' the ship’s officers. Several were hurt. The collision happened about 12:10 o’clock this morning and all the pas sengers were in their berths at the time. The noise of the collision awak ened them and sent them scurrying to the deck, most of them scantily clad. In Water Half Hour. The City of Belfast with her own and the passengers of the Rockland on board arrived at the Eastern Steamship Company’s dock here at 8:40 o’clock this morning. Theodore Weddelton, of Everett, said the first boat launched had sunk, and that the captain’s gig was also capsized. He said he was in the water half an hour before he was rescued tjy the crew on the coal barge, being towed by the Chisholm. The sinking of the lifeboats was de clared by passengers to have been due to bad seamanship. One lifeboat filled with passengers sank because a plug in the bottom was gone. One passenger declared the men passengers and the crew did their work like heroes. As soon as the passengers had run to the decks the order of "women and children first” was given. This was strictly obeyed, so that the first to get into the lifeboats were the women and children. MISS LEAH, SWIMMER, HURTJVIAKING DIVE Miss Nora Leah, the professional swim mer and diver of New York, Is in the Grady hospftal today as the result of in juries received yesterday afternoon In ex ecuting a standing-sitting dive from the springboard at the Piedmont park lake. She is expected to be out in a few days. Miss Leah jumped high into the air from the springhoard, and the board struck her as she descended, wrenching her spinal column and throwing her into the water. She made her way back to land with difficulty and was carried to the hospital In a waiting automobile. READ THIS. Th* TeiM Wonder cures kidney and Madder troubles, removing gravel, cures diabetes, weak and lame backs, rheuma tism, and all Irregularities of the kidney* and bladder in both men and woman Regulates bladder troubles In children. If not sold by your druggist, will be sunt by mail on receipt of SI.OO. Ona small bottle is two months’ treatment and sel dom fails to perfect a cure. Send for tea tlrr.onlals from this and other states. Dr E W Hall. 2920 Ollve-at.. St. Lout*. Ma Bold by drucrtsta ■ ! ' . . mill Many Firms Ask for Peg Count of Atlanta Phone Appreciating the recent remarkable growth of At lanta Phone 'traffic, many firms have asked for peg counts. In this way they learned exactly how many calls were being received in a day. in almost every instance, this has led to ordering ad ditional trunk lines and ex tra stations. We will glad ly furnish these tests that tell their own story of the growing appreciation of our “Rapid Fire Service.’’ Atlanta Telephone and Telegraph Co. A. B. CONKLIN, Gen. Mgr. tUnconscious! Underwear! ■ Absolutely no weight, scarcely any price. This state ment ought to “cool you off,” eh?—well—to make a long story short, we’re going to have another up-slashing sale of men’s cool Nainsook Under wear, tomorrow, Wednesday! Coat cut Shirts, quarter and no sleeve styles, knee length draw ers, made of that peer of all cotton fabrics—cool, sweet, refreshing Nainsook —small AX i checks and broad plaid bars. Sizes —Shirts, 32 to 50; fl ■ [O Drawers, 28 to 50. Strictly strong values. Tomorrow Z\J VVll LkJ for quick selling, per garment Union Suits /A a UNION SUITS of Nainsook. Quarter and no sleeves, K-r x-r VVll knee length garments. Splendid values. Tomorrow. .. . DANIEL BROS. CO. « The Latch-String Is Out In Atlanta Atlanta wants to show you, if you will only come, the way she keeps on growing, and she’s a-growing some. She’s going to put on record, in AUGUST’S FIRST TEN DAYS, a stunt that will surprise you and fill you with amaze. She’ll have an EXPOSITION of things she makes to sell, and though she makes Five Hun dred, there’s some YOU’D make as well. It’s all in getting started, in knowing how to go; then, when you’ve learned the secret, just grow and grow and—GROW. Atlanta’s invitation is cordial, wide and free. She says to all of Dixie: “Come, neighbors, come and see! I’ve got a lot to show you, my busy wheels a-whir, my skilled and deft mechanics, my facto ries’ hum and stir. I want to give you, neighbors, an insight into facts; to show how dreams of progress come true in useful acts. “My goods, no doubt, you’re selling. Now, surely, if you knew just HOW I MAKE these pro ducts, you’d sell them better—true! “You’ll take a greater interest in stuffs you’ve SEEN produced, and maybe GET IDEAS THAT WILL GO HOME TO ROOST. “If I can help, I’ll do it. No strings are tied to this I simply make an offer, ’twill pay you NOT TO MISS.” Vacation in Atlanta? You sure can make it pav. Three thousand folks are coming. Won’t YOU decide today? Atlanta Manufacturers Exposition THE FIRST TEN DAYS OF AUGUST ■•j.. l . ' ._-.___.-L l -- . ~ . 11 EVERY U/AhlT Ah HAS A MEANING GEORGIAN I MU' ALL ITS OWN BOTH TELEPHONES 8000 7