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SPEEHREPLIESTD HUFF'S CHARGES mras Federal Judge Refuses to Pre side Over Trial of Contempt Case He Instituted. MACON, GA., July 31.—Judge Emory Speer today refused to preside over the hearing of the contempt case against M". A. Huff, the 81-year-old ex-mayor of Macon. After overruling the demur rer to dismiss the charge, he defended himself eloquently in reply to the se rious accusations of official corruption and perfidy brought against him by Colonel Huff. With sobs in his voice and tears in his eyes, he said he would not preside further over the case, but would allow-another judge to try it. It is probable that Judge Shepard, of Florida, will be asked to serve. He made this decision at 1:40 o’clock this afternoon. Huff Files Demurrer. When Colonel Huff was arraigned in court his counsel filed and argued a demurrer, pleading the lack of juris diction of Judge Speer, demanding an indictment by grand jury and trial by jury-. The demurrer was overruled, The defendant then filed his answer to the charge of contempt, denying the con tempt, but admitting that he sent the letter. At this juncture Judge Speer said h* desired to make a statement, and then for 30 minutes he addressed an audi ence that packed the court room, speak ing with his old-time eloquence and unusual fervor, and denying and ex plaining Colonel Huff’s charges in de tail. Judge Speer's Defense. Judge Speer denied that he had gone to Eagle River, Alaska, at the expense of Huff’s receiver. He said he paid his own way, going and coming, and that the bearskin that was sent to him came with charges collect. He said he owned stock in a mine at Eagle River, lawfully acquired. He denied the charge of showing favoritism to a so-called "family bank,” of which his brother in-law is vice president. Judge Speer said that it appeared there was a conspiracy to traduce his character by publishing Colonel Huff’s letter and sending it broadcast through out the country. He said it was not customary for money on deposit in the possession of the court to draw Inter est. He declared that the Huff estate had increased 100 per cent in value during its thirteen years in the custody of the court. All other charges brought by Colonel Huff were bitterly and sweepingly denied. When We Say SALE, the Whole Town Takes Notice!!! The popularity of our Summer Sales is due to the unqualified and absolutely known values a normal scale of prices provide, but reduced liberally as we have done for our August discounts, the invitation to come in and participate in the avantages offered, is positive ly’ irresistible The sale includes, with but extremely few exceptions, our entire stock of men’s wear. Contract goods over which we have no jurisdiction in the matter of discounts, are not included. However these few exceptions have so little apparent effect in the great ensem ble of wearables at a discount, as to be scarcely worth while mentioning . . . We cordially invite you to call Call early. While stocks are abundant, variety most pleasing, and styles sufficient to conserve your individual taste. Yet discounts ■vili begin to show their havoc without much delay, and the suggestion to make early selections is well advised. Sale begins tomorrow morning at 7 o’clock sharp 1! A UNDERWEAR SHIRTS! /X'' s I I | -n. 1 .■ SI.OO Shirts now 75c J /"Xu Per Cent Reduction. $1.50 Shirts now $1.15 25 PER cent reduction. 7/ A J AX 50c quality, now 40c $2.00 Shirts now $1.40 $15.00 Suits, DOW ... .$11.25 ZMI I analitv now 60c now $1.75 /Wk S18.( M ) Suits, now ... $13.50 J ' q 7’. 5 ,r ! Rnow /A*-«o.on Suits, now ... $15.00( \I . \i/J Or-per Suit , $1.15 7?"" Suitsi U™ :i: :$205 $1.50 quality, n0w.... $1.15 Lounging and Bath ■ LX/ .1 S-iL-Tx s:;nnn Suits, now $22.50 / \ \Jf /\4 $2.00 quality, now ... $1.50 Robes \WV'A WMI ! R ■ V-T /I Z\<J,il NP *35.00 Suits, now ... $26.25 / \t» I qprCTAt I qCRTVFN 331-3 PER CENT REDUCTION \\BWYWi K i MZJ w s eks iven Ki A I/Illi llinililll ' liThlBH OrlJ Trnuenrc I If I $.>.00 values now $3.35 'v. p\\ \VvX \ M -Ar*** 7i/ Zi nl llllill / //ff/A UUu 1 IHUscla A 75c quality, now 50c $6.00 values now $4.00 xxxW vXx\ \ iIRr WB Hill /' /lUllllffAu 25 per cent reduction. -«*T X- ■"T . $6.50 values now $4.35 vk xxvX 'Vl\v ' L'Pwi $4.00 odd irousers now , $3.00 Neckwear Pajamas and Night $7.00 values now $4.70 /A«4i Silo Odd Trouws Z $375 25 PER CENT reduction. Shifts values now $6.00 \ ill HUI 'I HI *10(1 okl Trousers now $4 50 B °® T,es '. n ? w j/oo 25 PER CENT REDUCTION. values now $5.35 'N Uv ’W’lirfw' /////ffl sf>.( Ml Odd Trousers now . $4.50 or 3 for SLOO 50c valuefi now 40c $9.0(1 values now $6.00 \ 4 $6..10 Odd Irousers now ..$4.90 ?!?„ X,®® 1 "® $1 15 75c values now 60c 4:10 00 values now $7 50 \n\\\\WlU l Jw $7.00 odd Trousers now ..$5.25 n n 0 ™ .W'.W .i f iso 0.00 values now 75c SIO.OO values now $7.50 \ToL \ Otl<l Trousprs now ■ $5.65 »2.50 Ties, now $1.«5 values novZ s<so Bathing SujtS Wash Neckwear . 331-3 per cent reduction. C T_J / | 17 C ykyTZ . IVlOildll, and Odd Coats = lc Union Suits HS'XZ $!:“ Im lifer *. 7M", .ftT, ”.« DUCTION S2 65 " EDUCTION -7 5 . j2..-,o » O w «.« >25 per cent reduction M Z ,g !Z s ' now Hosiery :: :::. nm vah.es now $2.70 tans, patents, vicl if so.oo 1 oats, now $3.75 DOES NOT include black » n ] . , M . a , <h E o C kb.ih) ('oats, now .... $4.50 and navy solids. Straws and Panamas Belts $<.(X) Shoes, now. $5.35 bl 'w! fflfi s«.u(> Coats, now $4.90 va i?"'X X::i U: 25 per cent reduction. 25 P«R CENT REDUCTION $6 00 Shoes now $4 75 H I ■lil lIM <1 / > 4 eKCK 50c values, now 35c SI.OO Hats now 75c 50c values 40c tU.UV FHlOe. , IJOW Syi.lD II wMMK Hlkl'llH s<.’>() ( oats, now .. . . .•90.0D or 3 pairs for SI.OO $1.50 Hats now $1.15 -• va i llp „ gOe a»-zw, co \vaXWL\ I Hill ✓ mKHMH’oats now $7 50 fancy silk sox, no plain $2.00 Hats now $l5O 2 1 ™ sn.oo Shoes, now $3.75 xWmbA gi / Id' IH/ X ipio.wu t <)cll>, now . ...<pi.uu SOLID COLORS. $2.50 Hats now $1.65 SI.OO values 75c ' ’ T 1 $12.50 (’oats, now ... $9.40 SI.OO All SUk Sox. now 75c $3.00 Hats now $2.25 $1.50 values $1.15 $4 (»() SII(H‘S HOW $315 x 4 (Ml OK 51.50 All Silk Sox, now ... $1.15 $3.50 Hats now $2.65 ’ J ipt.VV OIKH >, MOW q)O.XU /Z \ ( oats, HOW .. . .$11.25 $2.00 All Silk Sos now ... $1.50 54.0« Hats now $3.00 $2.00 vahtPS $1.50 1 1? DANIEL BROS. ft *' Deacons Enjoin Singer From War bling Hymns In Church Choir Loft Row in Albertville, Ala., Baptist Congregation Is Carried Into Court. GADSDEN, ALA., July 31.—J. P. Emmett, a vocalist, has been restrained by injunction from singing in the hirst Baptist 'church of Albertville. The in junction is made returnable before Chancellor Simpson, of Decatur, and was issued upon the prayer of the dea cons of the church. Emmett was prominent in the circles of the church, but had a misunder standing with some of the officers, and it is alleged that they objected to him taking part in the services, and secured the injunction to restrain him from joining in the song service. VETERAN, 101, WALKS ACROSS 3 STATES TO HOME;DISAPPOINTED KANSAS CITY, July 31.—Joseph Meyer, a Confederate war veteran, who says he is 101 years old. and walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Kansas City, found yesterday that his journey had been in vain. He came to Missouri expecting to enter the home for ex- Confederate soldiers at Higginsville. Judge John B. Stone told him he was not eligible, because he has not been a resident of Missouri two years. "Well, 1 will go to Arkansas then,” Meyer said. "1 know a man in the Confederate Home at Little Rock. I think he can get me. in.” And the old man hobbled off, stooped and feeble, feeling his way along with a cane, for he is almost blind. He will walk to Little Rock. Meyer says he lost his wife, three children and property worth $35,000 tn the Galveston flood. Since then he has been a wanderer. He says he walked from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic two years ago, and last year walked from New Orleans to Buffalo and back. NEGRO TAKEN AS THIEF AS HE PAWNS SUITCASE When detectives saw Russell Rich, a 20-year-old negro, trying to pawn a suitcase in Decatur street, they ar rested him. Among the things found in the grip was a gold medal inscribed with the words “Effie Boykin, present ed for general excellence in the junior class.” A gold watch and heavy chain, a bunch of keys, several pocketbooks, four suits of clothing and four extra coats also were recovered. The watch and bunch of keys have been claimed by H. Cristopulos. 25 Washington street, who says his house was entered recently. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1912. “THIRD DEGHEE" BILL ISFAVORED Police Aroused by Probability That the Measure Will Be Passed by House. / By reporting favorably the bill of Mr. Upshaw of Douglas, prohibiting the use of the so-called “third degree” methods of police departments in the state, the house penitentiary committee has stirred up a hornets' nest at the local police station. "Those people simply don't know what they are doing,” declared Acting Chief of Detectives J. B. Hewell. “They are standing in their own light. There is not now and never has been any ‘third degree’ work here. All that we do is to question prisoners in order to gather evidence, and we don’t attempt to impose on anybody or go beyond the present law. The statutes cover the situation thoroughly. Forced confes sions are not admissible under the pres ent arrangement." Chief of Police Beavers said that questioning of defendants and wit nesses was all that was ever attempted, and this was no more than lawyers did in bringing forth evidence, "This is the 'third degree,’ ” asserted the chief, “and people don’t know what it means when they say ‘third degree.' They think it consists of hanging criminals up by their thumbs to force confes sions. If the house committee wants to come down here and have police methods explained, we have the ‘evi dence.’ Let them come.” When asked what he thought of the local situation. Judge Nash Broyles said: “There is no ‘third degree’ in Atlanta. Officers elsewhere might try to force confessions in the hope of large rewards, but I don’t believe there are any such officers in the local depart ment." Detectives who joined in the discus sion were of the opinion that the au thor of the bill and the supporters of it were lacking in information. The gen eral impression was that if the bill should pass it would cripple the ef fectiveness of police work in bringing criminals to justice and in recovering stolen property. ‘‘This wouldn’t hurt the police force.” explained one detective, "but it would hurt the public.” Aileen Gunn. Aileen Gunn, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Gunn, died at a sanita rium in Atlanta early today. The re mains were removed to Bloomfield & Co’s chapel, awaiting being carried to McDonough. Ga., for funeral and inter ment. SCHEME TO IMPEACH ARCHBALD WITHOUT HEARING ABANDONED WASHINGTON. July 31.—A sensa tional move by which it was planned to Impeach Judge Robert W. Archbald without taking of his testimony was abandoned today by the seven man agers of the case against the com merce court justiice at a meeting of the house judiciary committee. Some of the prosecutors and mem bers of the committee have urged Judge Archbald's conviction should be demanded of the senate because his reply to the impeachment charges ad mits all of the facts contained in the articles. After a lengthy debate, the commit tee voted to file a formal reply to Judge Archbald’s statement presenting the case for trial. HEARSE HORSES RUN CAUSE PANIC ERIE, PA., July 31. —Lives were en dangered in the Erie cemetery, when horses attached to a hearse containing the body of Otto Moyn ran away and were not stopped until they had over turned the hearse, knocked down a dozen tombstones, injured several mourners and dumped the coffin containing the body into a grass plot along the main drive way. . The jar did not loosen the coffin top and the funeral services were brought to a hasty conclusion. • f J F | r Z J M $ I r J rd Hard and Soft Coms Bunions and French Heel Cram» “Knob-Joint" J Remarkable Home Treatment . ripF \ For All Foot Troubles j i I A / This information will be welcomed by S’ / I W Mjr J the thousands of victims of dally foot tor- J < \ ”/f ture. Don't waste time. Get it at once. / 1 M matter how many patent medicines A, I Iff' you have tried in vain, this treatment, J.\ fjf L “/ which w'as formerly known only to doo- /A xj IX / tors, will do the work. “Dissolve two / I j IV / tablespoonfuls of Caloride compound in a / \ I ll' I basin of warm water. Soak the feet for /, __ I 1 J full fifteen minutes, gently rubbing the L/Z t » f V / sore parts.” The effects are marvelous. J f Vv / All pain goes instantly and the feet feel 'xwttaE*/ simply delightful. Corns and callouses can be peeled right off; bunions, aching feet, sweaty smelling feet, get Immediate Compound relief Use this treatment a week and Ingrown Callouses your foot troubles will be a thing of the Nalls past. Calocide works through the pores SWEATY and removes the cause. Get a 25c box TENDER OFFENSIVE from any druggist, usually enough to cure ACHING FEET the worst feet. FEET STATE STILL HAS TALLULAH LUND S. G. McLendon Declares Grant Given by Governor Is Invalid Under Georgia Laws. S. *G. McLendon, former state rail road commissioner, in a statement is sued today declares that the state of Georgia owns the grand chasm at Tal lulah Falls and land lot No. 11 in Ra bun county, adjoining the falls. He expressed the opinion in a letter to Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet. president of the Tallulah Falls Conservation as sociation, stating that Jte had exam ined the surveys and copies of the grants which bear upon the land title situation at the falls, where the Geor gia Railway and Power Compant ' s building a big dam. Under the state laws, his letter states, the governor has no right to make title or issue a grant to such property- and it can only be disposed through a public sale by the county ordinary. He says there is no record of any such title and that the state still owns valuable property at the falls. He declines In his letter to suggest what action the legislature should take. NEW “RIP VAN WINKLE;” HE’LL HAVE TO BE SHOWN LIBERTY, MO., July 31.—The mod ern Rip Van Winkle lives in Liberty. His name is Gus Bishop. In 41 years he never has been out side the city. He never has seen a tel egraph instrument, never has seen an aeroplane, never has seen a moving picture show, never saw a 'passenger elevator, never saw an electric street car. never was inside a theater, never saw a horse race. There are scores of buildings in the little town that Gus Bishop never has seen Bishop is" a graduate of Liberty’s William Jewell college, class of 1869. The college buildings are only three blocks from the public square, but Gus Bishop has never been inside one of them since the day he graduated. Vflfog fhat_ thosfate That Same money /a ‘ ...... thefSanh // I&EnKKH yroa/ct Sojnecfqy\ FWBHsiF' / or ap in Dusmess EXTRAVAGANCE is one of those insidious habits that creep upon us and takes away our money, wastes our time, and ROBS US of a comfortable old age. Those small sums that we fritter away from week to week, would look very handsome a few years from now in the bank. After you jiave started a bank ac count, you will find that it is no sacrifice to deny yourself many of the useless pleasures that really take so vast an amount of money. 4 Per Cent on Savings Deposits - ' - T - _ - == HI W ~' iflft w I*l *1 ” j I • . “J UNEARTH OLD PANTRY >rt 0F ROGER < t PROVIDENCE, R. 1., July 31.—The pantry of the home of Roger Williams, founder of the state of Rhode Island, is believed to have been uncovered by work men in excavating near the place where a big fireplace, which authorities have marked as belonging to the Williams home, was discovered- five years ago. Dishes and crockery of various sizes and styles, with bones I>elleved to be human, were unearthed by diggers, who broke many of the articles before they realized the possible Importance of their find. PAINLESS BULLETS OFFERED U. S. ARMY WASHINGTON, July 31.—Alexander F. Humphrey, of Pittsburg, Is endeavoring to Impress the war department with the desirability of equipping the United States army with his new sleep produc ing bullet. The bullet is coated with a. preparation, of morphine which renders it painless after it has entered the body and puts . the wounded man to sleep. 7