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TAFT'S ATTITUDE
ON TRUSTS LIKE
DIGCROOKS
—COL ROOSEVELT
Sherman Law Complete Fail
ure. Says Rough Rider in
Hot Statement.
OYSTER RAY. N Y.. Aug 15. The
Sherman anti-trust law was today
branded a complete failure by Colonel
Roosevelt. He replied to an attack
made on his policy in regard to trusts
by ex-Senator George F. Edmunds. of
Vermont, by asserting that the Pro
gressive party platform offered a spe
cific method of handling the trust ques
tion
The ex-president declared that Mr.
Edmunds' attitude was the same as
that of President Taft and of “every
great crooked corporation in Wall
Street and outside of Wall Street."
The colonel's statement was as fol
lows :
“Senator Edmunds is In thorough ac
cord with Mr. Hoekefellei ami the
American Tobacco trust people He
takes precisely their view. They tin
even better contented with the method
of enforcement of the anti-trust law- of
which he approves than he la himself.
I do not wonder that Senator Edmunds
and Mr. Rockefeller and the Tobacco
trust people feel that all that Is neces
•ary is to continue without change the
present anti-trust law and the present
method of its enforcement.
Results Represent
Nothing Satisfactory.
“To say that the results of the en
forcement of the anti-trust law against
the Standard Oil trust and the Tobacco
trust represent anything even moder
ately satisfactory in the direction of
solving the trust question is too pre
posterous to discuss.
“One of the most significant features
of the present situation is the way in
which all the big trusts, all the corpor
ation lawyers representing big trusts,
and every public man who now repre
sents or has represented the cause of
reaction and privilege in public life,
should rally to the defense of the pres
ent administration's method of enforc
ing the anti-trust law and admiringly
approve of the position held by Mr
Taft, Mi. Edmunds, .Mr Rockefeller and
all other trust magnates and trust law
yers. that no further legislation Is
needed
“Mr. Edmunds' proposal is in the In
terest of e\ cry great corrupt organir.it ■
thin and against the interest ol every
honest business man. He can not be
ignorant of the fact that the enforce
ment of the anti-trust law by Messrs
Taft and Wickersham against the
Standard Oil and Tobacco trusts has
resulted in an enormous rise In thf
value of tile stock held by Mr. Rocke
feller and his allies and the tobacco i
people, while the price of the commodi
ties to the consumer has slightly gone
up and the competing concerns are left
wholly at the mercy of the two trusts
Only Made Offenders
Richer and Stronger.
"Mr. Edmunds must know this; he
must know that while (lie supreme
court has unsparingly condemned the
Standard Oil and the Tobacco trus*
people, yet the only result of the deci
sion has been to add to the already
swollen and ill-gotten gains of the of
fenders. and still further to deny jus
tice to the public. Mr. Edmunds, with
his eyes open, appears as the apologist
and defender of the men and practices
against whom and against which It was
originally supposed the anti-trust law
was aimed. Every crooked corporation
lawyer and every crooked head of a
corporation will follow Mr. Edmunds'
lead in this matter and naturally and
properly will oppose the attitude taken
by the Progressives, for our attitude—
and our attitude alone - offers the
chance of really grappling with and
solving the problem of really controll
ing the trusts in the Interests of the
people as a whole and in the Interests
of the honest business man,
"The Progressive platform is explicit,
and my speech before the Progressive
convention was explicit. Every sincere
man who has studied the subject and
la honestly desirous of putting a stop
to the corrupt practices which, under
Mr. Edmunds' plan, are perpetuated and
rewarded will join with us.
“Every great malefactor w ill support
the Edmunds-Taft-Wickersham view,
for he know - that if that view prevails
he is certain of immunity; that the
only people jeopardized art the honest
business men who do not wish for
Immunity baths, but who do wish to
have a rational law, to know what the
Jaw is, and then to obey it "
George F. Sheldon, treasurer of the
Republican national committee in l'.H>6,
telephoned to Colonel Roosevelt today,
the colonel said to -ay that the testi
mony of ex-Gtivetnor <>de|| before the
senate committee in Washington yes
terday regarding the J24o.o<iu campaign I
fund raised in 1904 by E 11. Harriman
a.s not in accord with what Mi. ttdel’i
had told Mr. Sheldon flfefor, 1.. mad>
his statement that Roosevelt had known i
nothing of the Harriman fund until I
after the election Mr. Sheldon > id he
submitted it to Mr. Odell
t 'olonel Roosevelt said Mr Sheldon;
told him that the ex-gov ernut nft'f |
leading th' Sheldon statement, he said
that it w is correct.
AN EXCELLENT NIGHTCAP
Horstord's Acid Phosphate
Half a eastioonful of Horsford'.' Vcid |
i ' I' l ,- ' in half u glass of watet on re- i
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Children of the Regiment True Soldiers
PETS AT FORT MILITARY. TOO
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Twit beauiiftil children at Fort McPherson. Margaret Snyder, tlaughwr of Lieutenant Sny
der, on left, and Katherine, daughter of Captain Bankhead. Then, the soldierly dog “.Jack.”
: Butchers Blame •
: Government For
: High Meat Prices •
• __ •
• DETROIT, MICH . Aug 15 •
• The high cost of meat was put *
• squarely up to th. general govern- •
• mint in a report submitted today •
• by the legisla:ive tommlttee of tin •
• Master Butchers Association of •
• America, now in annual convert- •
• tion here. •
• t'liaiiman II ilex, of th.'' commit- •
• !•'< . explaining Ils report, say s the •
• master butchers nearly ten years •
• ago began pleading for the re- •
• moval f tin tat Iff on anim ds used •
• for food, and that they have pre- •
• dieted timt ami time again that •
• the price.- would go op to the •
• pie , nt high figure unless the pro- •
• hibitiv, 'arllf of two cents a pound •
• was removed. •
• •
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Up and Down
Peachtree
Prunes Join in
Living Cost Flight.
Where ate the prune-- of yesteryear'.'
Gone up—like beefsteak. Hour, pota
toes and everything else that man here
below cates to eat.
There was a time when prunes were
served breakfast, dinner and supper.
There was prune cake, prune pudding,
prune pie. prune syrup and the good
old Sunday supplement prune Joke,
which ran like this:
Landl&dy (passing the dish of
prunes) What are you bowing ami
scraping about. Mr, Stni lu>tii<|or'.’
Mr. Starboatdei I always salute old
acquaintances.
All of these have disappeared, how
ever, because prunes have, within the
last year, taken sinh an ascension that
they . m now be well classed as luxu
ries.
A well known produce merchant of
Atlanta stated today Hint prune'- had
advanced 100 per cent in price within
the last twelve months This puls
them quite out of the reach of the
"common rabble "
Little Danger of Kiss
Germs at Terminal Depot.
If mother or father or brother ot
sister of mini or uncle or well dressed
young man and his fiancee say a fond
farewell In Atlanta's Terminal station
just before making a summer trip, all
the well wishes, cautions or perhaps
last remembrances ate given with the
eyes —not the lips.
According to the station attaches,
there is little kissing done in the great
blinding which shelters the entrance to
trains, it is so much in the minority
that train callers, matrons mid regular
visitors there took on with mild sur
prise when tilt’ parting ones forget those
around them and kiss each other. When
kissing just must be done. It is usually
indulged in at the home down at the
husband's office -or may-lie in a car
riage.
Even Fritz o: Louie or Michael, fr sh
nt , this country, rarely evet greet rel
! ,ttv« or frl' tius who came before them
I with 11"- universally known smack.
They sometimes fall into one another’s
j.irms or ■ xpre«s their feeling with Vig
. oroiis pats <>n tl;, back, but not a
kiss I
—
TO FILE LIGHTING BIDS.
M.M'ttN GA. Aug 15. Bids from
I the Macon Railway and Light t'ompany
and 11 . .1 Masse,, s new company for
; new five-year lighting contra, t will
tin filed mx; Tii'-tljy night in open
council meeting mid opened immediate
ly Tim- no mlstakt s can per. Ildy o, -
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912.
Play Dropped for “Attention”
When They Hear “Star I
Spangled Banner,”
It was afternoon and dress parade
was on ; t | j.'oit McPherson.
A long, unwavering line of rifles
eaught the sun. A shaft, staccato re
sounded niiies the parade ground. A
sonorous crash of melody came from
the post mnsieians and the glittering
band wheeled from the line and started
dis march Ihe length of the column.
Everything at the fort was rigid. The
soldiers in line were at "parade rest,"
the domestics alwut flu- place w ere filled
with sudden martial spirit. Even the
convicts felt the melodic cadence.
The sounds of It brought the wives
to the front windows in officers row,
ami they threw their shoulders back a
triflic while their pulses kept time with
the martial beat.
Jack Breaks Discipline.
But to Katherine Bankhead and Mar
garet Hnyder. daughters of Captain
I Bankhead and Lieutenant Snyder, it
might have been “parade rest" or It
might have been “mess < all" for all that,
they heard. With a zeal more severe
than was in the manner of any of the
soldiers, they were laboring in an ef
fort to persuade ' Jack'' to sit on his
haunches. Put Jack itelttg a bulldog
of the most militant sort was diffident,
nay positively reluctant to perform
while ‘Sempci Fldells" was being
played.
"t.'emt- to attention there. Jack," ad
monished Margate) severely, “or you'll
be sent to the guard house."
Jack must have doubted her author
, ity. for he eontihued to sniff about in
disobedience.
"Jack.'' wheedled Katherine, "won't
you sit up for us after all the beefsteak
ami bread we gave you',"'
Children at Salute.
•lark turned a whimsical glance upon
her which as much as said: "I've paid
you back malty a time ami oft for that
little bit of meat —besides. I want to
listen to the mtiSii ."
".lack." said Margaret, taking het
• turn. "1 don't believe you know your
I manual. I think you will have to be
placed In the green squad until you be
. i-mne a real soldier."
, This must have touched Jack's pride,
for lie iminediatley sprang up on his
hind feet and remained there until a
shari> word from the two children
brought him to ground again.
By this time the band had completed
its '-Iteult. The sound of “Open ranks”
was heard, the cannon boomed and
' then with slow majesty the tlrst few
1 notes of the "Stat Spangled Banner"
1 fell upon the ears of the play ing chil
dren. Whereas before they had been
playing with absolute disregard to
everything that was going on about
• them, they now sprang to their feet,
drew their heels together, held up their
’ chins, threw out their chests, braced
their shoulders and brought their tight
hands to the salute.
Kiddies of the Post.
‘ At first glance the platoon of ehil
dren sons and daughters of officers—
who play about the grounds of the fort
’ seem exactly like all other children.
Military life seems to interest them but
little, in fact, the average boy outside
of lite army is much more eager to don
the army blue than the average child
of the post.
One small lad at the p, st was asked:
"Ate you going to be in the artny
when you glow up.'"
Naw ," ho rrSpobded: the army tl be
over by then.”
This same boy. however, has an in
timate nequalntam e w ith the inside of
a earbine, knows tit, military divi
sions from squad to brigade, knows the
meaning of every bugle call, knows the
I uniform, know -- everything, in faetl
I that be «■*!! could know about army
I lite.
Firaim
FomraDE
Conference Committee of Con
gress Reaches Agreement on
Panama Bill.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. —Free pass
age is denied tg American owned snips
engaged in foreign trade, foreign ship
building materials are admitted free of
tariff to tire United State?, and the in
terstate commerce commission is given
powe; to break up any combinations
of comp' ting raYbajid which
it finds are not'T«r-*'jhe'-pubHe_gnod" in
flu- Panama <ati4T bill tuireetl upon by
the conference oominlttefe of the house
and senate.
Two of the six members of the com
mittee. Senator Brandegee and Repre
sentative Frederick (Stevens, of Min
nesota. declined to sign the report.
As perfected in the conference com
mittee, the ,-anal bill now provides in
brief:
Coastwise Ships Free.
Fiet passage for American coastwise
■thlps.
American registry for American
own,-,I foreign built ships engaged ex
clusively in foreign trade.
No tn-iff on foreign shipbuilding m.i
teilals for use in this country.
Trust owned salps prohibited from
u.-ing the canal
Railroads prohibited from owning
, mtpeting waterway lines operating
"through lite canal or elsewhere.” when
such ownership is tiet: imental to th’
public welfare.
Interstate eotmnerce commission tu
tlmiized to investigate control of watc-
Im'.-- by railroads and sanction it where
it is beneficial.
One-nmh government for Panama
canal and zone.
in dropping out the senate amend
ment giving free passage to American
ships engaged In foreign trade, theeon
ference committee met the opposition
of those who considered this a diree,
violation of the treaty with Great
Britain.
Ship Materials Duty Free.
The Senate amendment admitting
foreign built ships to American regis
try, when owned by Americans, was
supolennHied with the provision admit
ting shipbuilding material free of tariff,
to meet th, opposition of house mem
bets who claimed the American ship
building industry would otherwise suf
fer.
Practically all of the force of tiie
Bourne railroad amendment attached
to the bill in the senate was retained
by the eonfe ces. It was rewritten Io
give the interstate commerce commis
sion the right to determine whethet
■ailroads should be allowed to hold
water lim s. ami tn sanction such own
ership when it was in the public inter
est.
The railroad section of the bill is
drastit in its terms, and broad in th"
powers it confers on the interstat
commerce yommlssiun. it prohibit?
ail oads afti r July 1, 1914. from own
ing o; controlling competing steam"
lines, “operating through the Panatm
eanal or elsewhere;" and gives to th-
Interstate commerce commission th,
powe- to determine whether the rail
road and steamship lines are competing
carriers, within the meaning of the law
INHERITS SIOO,OOO ESTATE.
MAt'ON. GA.. Aug. 15.—Dr. Henry
McHatton Is the principal beneficiary
,In the will of his late mother, Mrs.
I lilixa Ripley, who died recently in
Brooklyn. N Y . h aving an estate worth
about 9100.00 H. He will go to Brooklyn
soon to settle up the estate.
CHILD LABOR BILL
AIDS HIT COPELAN
I
Secretary of State Commission
Says Measure Was Smoth
ered by Cotton Men.
A. J MeKelway, Southern secretary
of the child labor committee and acting
secretary of the Geo gia child labor
commission, vigorously protests the ac
tion of the Georgia legislature in chok
ing to death, in the lasi days of its
session. the child labor bill.
Mr. McKelway jays the bill was
passed in the shape it. was because the
advocates of a child labor bill on the
one hand and the cotton mill men on the
other supposedly hud leached a com
promise agreement In the matter, and
the cotton mill men had given assur
ance of their approval of the bill in its
final form.
Notwithstanding this approval and
agreement. McKelway charges that the
bill was smothered and prevented from
coming to a vote In the last Wednesday
night session of the senate, and that
i the 'mmthering was accomplished al
I the hands of Senator Copelan. n mem
ber of the cotton manufacturers asso
'•iatlon and a directly Interested party.
"Relic of Barbarism."
Complaining somewhat bitterly of
Senator Copelan'S action in this matter
and the failure of his association io
stand to Its agreement, Mr. McKelway
said today:
"Manifestly an agreement that binds
only one side is of no avail. The de
feat of this bill leaves the Empire state
of the South occupying the bad emi
nence as the only state In the Union
allotting ten-year-old children to work
in factories, and the 60-hour week al
lows them to work eleven hours a day.
Government statistics show that the
children of the cotton mills have a per
centage of illiteracy four times as great
as the white children of the same ages,
from ten to fourteen years, in the stale
at large Georgia can not present a
serene front to civilization while al
lowing this relic of barbarism to re
main untouched by law."
Mr. McKelway says the death of the
child labor bill at the hands of Senator
Copelan reopens the fight all along the
line, and that now the friends of child
labor bill will not rest until the battle
is carried to an absolute finish.
He says the anti-child labor advo
cates will go befoie the next legisla
ture asking no quarter of the cotton
mill men and giving none.
EX-BLIND TIGER~kING
OF MACON TO STAND
TRIAL IN OLD CASES
MACON, GA.. Aug. 15.—Chauncey
Groves, the former "blind tiger" king of
Macon, w ho is now a prosperous busi
ness man of Miami, Fla., and whose
pardon by Governor Brown last year
stirred up so much feeling here, must
stand trial on two charges at tiie ap
proaching term of the city court.
Groves came here this week and. to
gether with his bondsman. Nick Block,
made an urgent appeal to Solicitor
General Matthews to recommend the
dismissal of the indictments against
him. The solicitor general refused to
do this, and Groves must be tried. He
is charged With violating the prohibi
tion law and also w ith pointing a pistol
at another.
GroVes pleaded his residence in an
other stale and the fact that he has sold
all of his Macon property and retired
from business here as reasons why he
should not be prosecuted.
MARIETTA LAD RUM DOWN
AND HURT BY AUTOMOBILE
MARIETTA. GA.. Aug. 15.—The lit
tle six-year-old son of Mr. Woodruff,
manager of the Singer sewing machine
office here, was run down by N. M.
Mayes' automobile near Sams' drug
store while Mr. Mayes was driving out
Atlanta street. The little fellow started
across the street, but suddenly changed
his course, and before Mr. Mayes could
stop, the machine knocked him down,
cutting his forehead and one hand.
While his injuries are not serious, they
are painful.
DIES OF FROZEN FEET: WAS
TURNED OUT OF HOSPITAL
CHICAGO. Aug. 15.—Charles Anderson,
35, died here today from frozen hands |
aiid feet. Anderson, according to a Hlgned
statement, turned over to the coroner’s
jury today, was turned out of the Pun
ning hospital March 14, although he was
very sick. The next day he was found,
bis hands and feel frozen, and taken to
Alexian brothers’ hospital. Gangrene set
in and after months of suffering the man
died today.
EUROPEAN RURAL CREDITS
TO BE STUDIED FOR SOUTH
WASHINGTON. Aug 15 The senate;
today adopted the NeWlabds Joint reso I
lution providing for the appointment of
an American commission for the inves
tigation of the rural credit systems in
Europe The commission will be sent
abroad by the Southern Commercial con- I
gress and will be commended to the con
sideration of the diplomatic corps.
CONTRIBUTIONS BILL UP SOON.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.—Senator
Culberson, of Texas today served no
tice that on next Saturday he will press
ihe consideration o' bls bill to pro
hibit corporations from making cam
paign contributions and to limit the
amount of all gifts to political parties.
6-YEAR TERM BILL UPTOMORROW
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. — By unani
mous consent the senate today agreed
to consider the Works bill limiting the
term of the president to six years ai 4
I o'clock tomorrow it probably will be
I p ssed.
UNGLESOFSUIN
BOIOIMI
Relatives Will Probe Lynching
of Negro Who Killed
Cedron Land.
COLUMBUS. GA., Aug. 15. With'
two uncles of Cedron Land members of
the grand jury, an investigation was
begun today of the lynching of T. Z.
Cotton, alias T. Z. McElhenny, late
Tuesday afternoon, when the negro
youth was taken from officers in the
Muscogee county court house, just after
he had been sentenced to three years
imprisonment for killing the Land boy.
Judge Price Gilbert delivered a strong'
charge to the grand jury in superior
court today, denouncing the lynching
and ordering the jury to make a thor
ough investigation. Several witnesses
have been summoned before the in
quisitors.
There were eighteen men in the mob,
and it is claimed that a number of them
are known to the officials, but the in
vestigations of the grand jury are kept
quiet and nothing will be given out un
til it is ready to make its findings
known to the court. The men who en
gaged in the lynching are not residents
of the city and those who know' them
have refused to publicly divulge their
names up to the present time. The
lynchers were from the northern part
of the county, where the Land family is
prominent.
FURORE TRANSITORIA
PLEA OF WOMAN WHO
KILLED HER HUSBAND
CHICAGO, Aug. 15. —Furore transi
toria made its appearance in a Chicago
court today. That Is the defense that
has been mapped out by attorneys
conducting the case of Mrs. Florence
Bernstein, charged with having shot
her husband, George Bernstein, to
death.
According to Attorney Charles E,
Erbstein, who is chief counsel for the
defense, furore transitoria is a technical
term meaning a state of mind super
induced by the condition of the parties
concerned.
Mrs. Bernstein took the stand in her
own behalf today and told a story of
domestic unhappiness. The woman,
pale and nervous, plunged at once into
the story of her first quarrel with her
husband. It came, she said, when her
husband insisted on her going with him
to the wedding of a former sweetheart
of his over whom they had quarreled
while they were engaged. Mrs. Bern
stein said she refused 'to go and that
her husband struck her.
“He hit me in the face," she testified.
"He knocked me down. My nose bled
and I fainted. He put me to bed. I
was very sick and asked him to get a
doctor, but he Would not.”
Mrs. Bernstein said that her husband
had compelled her to go to her father
to borrow money.
BROWN SWAMPED
WITH REQUESTS TO
VETO LOCAL BILLS
Because he vetoed one general bib
and one general bill with a local appli
cation, the idea seems to have gone
abroad in Georgia that Governor Brown
has embarked on a sort of vetoing jam
boree.
With five days in which to consider
legislative matter yet unapproved, the
governor is being swamped with peti
tions to veto this, that and the other
measure, particularly local bills.
Dozens of local measure*, passed
with the unanimous approval of the
county delegations in the legislature
affected, have been brought to the ex
ecutive's attention as matter worthy
of the governor’s sharpest dissent.
The present governor has vetoed only
one local bill In his entire career as
chief magistrate, and then lie was pe
titioned to do so by a heavy majority
of toe taxpayers in the territory con
cerned. Turner county, the locality af
fected. switched away from the gov
ernor's standard in the next campaign
and voted agaihst him to succeed him
sel f.
moultrTe'slew SCHOOL
BOARD GOES IN OFFICE—
M(H’LTItIIL GA.. Aug. 15.—The new
school law for Moultrie, recently passed
by the legislature, which revolutionized
the manner of conducting the local pub
lic schools, went into eeffet yesterday
when the new board held its first meet
ing. at which the new members qualified
for office. The bill abolished the former
board of commissioners and divided the
city into four wards, naming two com
missioners from each ward and one from
the city at large.
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF
SCHIFF VALET RENEWED
ALBANY. N. Y.. Aug. In.—The fight to
secure liberty for Foulke E. Brandt, for-
I mer valet of Mortimer L. Schiff, was re
: sumed today. Announcement was made
at the state prison department here that
a writ of habeas corpus had been served
upon the warden of Clinton prison at
Dannemora directing him to produce
Brandt in court tomorrow afternoon at j
o'clock before Justice Kellogg at Platts
burgh. N. Y.
JUDGE POTTLE INDORSED.
LA GRANGE, GA.. Aug. 15.—Judge
J. R. Pottle, of the court of appeals, has
been indorsed by members of the Troui
County Bar Association. The indorse
ment is signed by Attorneys E. A
Jones, R. M. Young. M. F.
R. L. Lee. E R. Bratifieltl, Jr.. M I'
Mocty. Henry Reeves. Benjamin H
HUI. I', M Longlet, \V R t’ampbc
Hutton Lovejoy and Arthur Greer.
GIRLUMBLETO
SAVEDROWNING
IDUNGHERD. '
Atlanta Youth Dies in Surf as
He Goes to Assistance of
Companion.
Miss’Emma Adele Finchier. 386 Spring
street.. reached her home today hys
terical. She narrowly etuiaped drown
ing in the surf off St. Simons island
yesterday. W. E. Hawes,, of Atlanta,
with whom ■ she was enjoying the wa
' ter, was drowned. He had (refused to
seek safety when he saw she was en
dangered. She barely wasAsaved, be
cause she recognized his peril! and tried
to help him to shore.
Young Hawes had an engagement to
take an early morning surf bath with
Miss Fincher and another young wom
an, both of whom were stoijjping at the
Arnold house at St. Simons. Mr. Hawes
was making the new hotel his head
quarters and hexwas late fior the surf
bath. Just as he arrived the young
women were preparing to return to the
bath house, having been in the water t
for some little time, but the young man
Insisted that Miss Fincher remain in a
little longer.
There was little surf rolling and but
few were in bathing. Unaware of the
fact that they were gradually ventur
ing out a little too far, the couple were
struck by a wave which separated them
It was then that they both realized
that they had gone out too far, and be
fore they had recovered from the first
wave another came along which knock
ed both of them off their feet.
Youth Tries Vainly _ z
To Save Girl.
The young man made an effort to
reach the young woman who was near
er the beach, but he was unable to
swim and had never regained his foot
hold on the bottom after he was knock
ed over by the wave. They both strug
gled for their lives, the young woman
being able to touch the bottom at
She made repeated efforts to aid he»
companion.
Leo Arnold, who is connected with
the Arnold house, was standing'on the'
beach and he rushed into the surf in an *
effort to rescue the young couple. Hs
reached Miss Fincher just in time, but
Hawes had gone down and did not ap
pear again. His body was recovered
yestepday afternoon when the incom
ing tide washed him ashore almost in
the identical spot where he had lost
his life.
Young Hawes arrived at the hotel
at St. Simons only a few days ago to
spend his vacation. He was connected
with the T. S. Lewis Cracker Company
of Atlanta.
In the morning mail, which reached
the island a few hours after the drown
ing, was a postal card and a letter
from the young man’s mother, wishing
him a pleasant time and warning him
to be careful while in the surf.
GOVERNMENT READY
TO TAKE TESTIMONY
IN HARVESTER SUIT
ST. PAUL, MINN.. Aug. 15.—The
replication of the department of jus
tice in the case of the government
againsl the Harvester trust was filed
in the United States district court he:e f
today by Federal District Attorney “
Charles C. Houpt. It states that the
answers of the defendant to the gov
ernment's bill asking for the dissolu
tion of the trust are untrue and affirms
the allegations contained In the origi
nal petition.
This is the last step In the litigation
before actual testimony is taken as to
the alleged violations contained In the
bill.
The government will proceed with
evidence about October 1 before an ex
aminer.
NASHVILLE IN LEAD
FORI9I3CONVENTION
OF UNION PRINTERS
CLEVELAND. Aug. 15.—A report of
the committee on subordinate unions will
be made late this afternoon In the'con
vention of the International Typograph
' leal union in session here. The report
will deal with the Chicago newspaper
strike. The place of meeting of the next
convention will also be fixed. Nashville,
Tenn.. Is the place that probably will be
named for the convention. Richmond,
\a . has asked for the convention in 191 i
and \\ a°hington lor the gathering in 1915
A walk-out from the meeting of the
M otnan's Auxiliary occurred when thu
convention refuged to name the private
secretary of Mrs. Frank Long official
stenographer of the convention. Mrs
Long, whose home is Cincinnati, was sec
retary of the auxiliary. ghe refused
either to resign or turn in her report.
When she left the convention four dele
gates walked out with her. Her place
was declared vacant
CONDEMNED MAN SLEEPS
18 1-2 OF EVERY 24 HOURS
BIRMINGHAM. ALA . Aug. 15. Arm
stead White, the negro who will he
hanged in Birmingham August 23 for
killing a negro In the mines near here
several months ago. sleeps m bls cell
eighteen and one- half hours out of each
twenty-four The negro talks to no one
cats the food that is passed to him dallv
ami refuses to answer questions put tn
him
FREIGHTER GOES ACROUND
HALIFAX, NOV.A SCOTIA. .Yug. 15 -
The British steamer Erie, bound from
Xrgentina to Quebec, went aground oft 1
Subic Island early today. Her crew wt, ■
taken off. The Erie, which is a vessel
of 3.900 tons, was loaded with maize.