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THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday: Tempera- tures: S a. m., 76; 10 a. m., 80; 12 noon, 85. VOL. XL NO. IS I R OPPOSES HMG MOLD ONSTAUD Roosevelt Repeats That Such a Course Would Be Absurd. His Purpose Served. “DELIBERATELY FALSE,” HE BRANDS STATEMENTS Points Out That Inquiry Was Directed at Him. Instead of Explaining for Penrose. OYSTER BAY. N. Y.. Aug. 24. Colonel Roosevelt is not disposed to take the stand before the senate com mittee investigating campaign contri butions. The ex-president feels that he has made ample explanation of his action with respect to the Standard Oil gift to the 1904 campaign fund. Roosevelt regards the investigation nothing less than a ‘'fishing excursion" to gather ammunition for the Demo cratic campaign this fall. Asked today if he would consent to go before the senate committee, Roose velt snapped: "I answered that question three days ago in Wilkesbarre. It is absurd to ask me.” At that time the colonel said such a thing would he absurd. The colonel had nothing to add to his dictated statement of yesterday re garding Penrose and Archbold. He considers that he had made it clear that he was bitterly opposed to Stand ard Oil money being taken in the 1904 campaign. He is willing, he says, to rest upon the letters and the telegram to George B. Cortelyou forbidding the acceptance of any Standard Oil con tribution. On the arrival of Senator Luke Lea, of Tennessee, today the Clapp com mission is cxpi vted to decide whether to go ahead now in its investigation of political campaign funds or to ad journ to October 1. Committee Snlit On Future Course. The committee is dtvidvd ,ts to its future course. Mr. \rehbold will be recalled on his return from Eurppe. and some are ir favor of adjourning until he gets back. Several me/nbers favor transferring the hearings to New York at once and calling Colonel Roosevelt, George B. Cortelyou, George \V. Per- Kins and directors of the Standard Oil Company. Senator Penrose says he will insist that Roosevelt be called. It is probable that Senator Pomerene, ( f Ohio, who represented the absent Democratic members of the committee yesterday, will be made a permanent niemb* v in place of Senator Paynter, of Kentucky. Last night Colonel Roosevelt gave out 8 statement in reply to the t< stimoifj of Archbold, branding the whole as false and a "frameup” to injure him, and pointing out that no attempt was made to explain Archbold's connection ' with Senator Penrose, for which he ostensi bly vis ailed, but that the efforts of the inquiry were directed entirely to ward him. Archbold’s Evidence Hearsay Only. Colon 1 Roosevelt said: “In the first place, 1 wish to call at tention to the fact that ■ ven if Mr. Archbold's statements are true they amount only to saying, so iat as 1 am concern' d. Miat Mr. Bliss told him that I had knowledge of and approved a re quest for SIOO,OOO from the Standard Oil Company, which was granted, and a further request for $150,000, which was not granted. This is a pure hearsay statement, and even if made in good faith would bo utterly valueless. "Not only did I never know anything of such a request being made, but my published letter- and telegrams show that w hen the tumor that there had bet n a contribution reached me. I acted at onee, reiterating my demand again and again that the money should be immediately returned, if it had been given. Therefore, then on the assump tion that Mr. Archbold is telling the truth, his testimony, so far as I am concerned, consists of the repetition of hearsay arse, lions which were instant ly, th< pt oduction of rriy ], tt.rs an telegram . I wish to r iter ate that until Mr. Penrose made his speech, I now had heard it suggested that Mr. Archbold contributed to th. campaign or had been th.- mean-' t, 'High which any contributions had b. en made But Ido not for one mo no nt b 'levi that Mr. A■ etibold's t'-sti ,. one is truthful H< apparently pos s..-.- alien a inmi' stand.!'•' that hi not und'.i land the inf inions a< - tu ~ma h< I- in.ii'it-a against ..It Jim Continued on Page 7 wo. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Uss For Results Mothers, From Bridge Tables, Soothe Babies At Home by Telephone Fretting Youngsters Are Carried to Dreamland by Lullabies Sung Into Transmitter. STEUBENVILLE, OHIO. Aug. 24. Putting babies to sleep by telephone is the latest innovation in socitey circles here. This method of quieting fretting youngsters whose mothers leave them at home while they enjoy bridge was ; introduced by Mrs. Harry G. Zanier. The nurse phoned Mrs. Zanier that her baby was crying. Mrs. Zanier went to the telephone and. began singing a ' soft lullaby int" tile transmitter. ■ The baby had been placed in a bas- : j k*et on a stand near the telephone, the i I receiver to its ear, and it was lulled into ! ■dreamland by the soothing tones of the | ; mother’s voice. 'MADDOX COMPLETES ,| HIS WORK AND TAKES AWAY STEAM SHOVEL I Alderman J W Maddox's -team j I shovel today is missing f<s n th< <x |eavation at Forsyth and Lueki" streets, I mid peace and quiet ■ igns in the vicin- I : ity of the Elkin-Goldsmith sanitarium. ' This condition, however, i- nut the' result of court action,'but the fact that! the afilernmn finished the jab of ex- i cavating and moved his steam shovel! away four hours before police court I convened yesteiday afternoon. When: • i the cast against the aiderman, in w hich | he was charged by the sanitarium ofri- Jeials witli faipng to abate a nuisance .■was called by Recorder Pro Tern Prcs- I’lton. it was shown that the steaus.-lmvel ! had gone. 11 "Under this showing then there i: ‘ ■ Ino nuisance to abati and no action for! Jthis court to take." remarked Judge' [Preston, as he dismissed the , I Aiderman Maddox smiled am! ;,.f ■ I court room. ! CAPITOL VIEW WILL VOTE ON ANNEXATION PLAN SEPTEMBER 2D Ordinary J. R. Wilkinson has called 'lan election for September 2 to deter mine whether that part of District 14 ■ adjoining the southern section of At -1 lanta shall be taken intg the city. The > section is part of (’anltol View n nd was 1 omitted when Atlanta wa.s ('tended ' last. It is said a majority of the citizens ; of that particular strip are in favor of ■ going into the city. They are the only ones entitled to vote at the election. The following managers have been named for the election: John <'. Shan-' non. .1. McLendon. J. A. Smith, Solon Johnson. G. 1). Coleman ami \V. G. i ('ooper. The strip of Lind in question oom- , prises about two land lots. AUTO CRASHES INTO POST: TWO WOMEN IN IT ARE UNINJURED John McMillan, of 241 West I’l .ieh tree street, while driving his sister and I a companion of hers in an automobile, j ran the machine into a. post a,t the cor- ! nor of Peachtree street and North are- ' nue today about noon. The front of the automobile was torn off, but no one i was injured. Young McMillan was coming toward I town. At the corner where the acei- | dent occurred a policeman was crossing ' ■ the street. McMillan ve'ered the ma- I chine and it turned too sharply, striking the post. 80(Y MARINES OFF FOR PAN AAI A TO BE NEAR NICARAGUAN REVOLT PHILADELPHIA. Aug 24. The I'nited States transport Prairie, carrying SOO bluejackets and marines, sailed from here for Colon at 12:50 o'clock this after noon. The Prairie bas on board ammunition | and stores for six months. Work of load ing the vessel went on all night. From Colon the marines probably will be sent to Nicaragua. BISHOP GRAFTON NEAR DEATH AT MILWAUKEE MILWAUKEE, WIS., Aug. 24.—Bish- ' | op ('hairies ('. Grafton, one of the best l known prelates in the American Epis-I | eopalian church, is at the p int ofi i death. The doctors have abandoned ! ' hope and the end is only a matter of a 'few hour-, it is believed. Bishop Graf ton came to the diocese of Fond Du Lae ' when tin- state was a backwoods dis- i triet. KILLING' OF YANKEE IN AFRICA TO BE PROBED W ASH IN( ;T< >N. Aug. 34.--Th< house (today unanimously passed the wsolu-I ! lion introduced by Repl esi ntall v< Nor- I ‘ rls. of Nebraska, directing th< stale de- . p.’irtment to iiiwsiigaH tin diath of i James W. Rogei-, w iio was killed b; British soldiers in Central Africa. WINSHIP LOSES IN 8188. MACON, GA Aug 24. A recount of! I tin legislative r." • e|e<:.- Mint, i Willi i lietl.v. It'll I'owlei aid Wallace Vliller: (from Bibb county. Tin recount dis. i I'l," • d Nat \\ in. hip aud »ill.; titub d 1 MHlvr. ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1912. irtITTLEPINS HOPE OH TIE 111 JUDGE RACE Broyles Apparently Has Won by the Narrow Margin of ’ Four Votes. I 2 COUNTIES REPORTED AGAINST HIM CHANGED Official Count May Yet Give Different Turn to Neck and-Neck Contest. ——— i On the face of apparently authentic I returns. Nash h. Br ivies, of Atlanta i has defeated Jude.e Bober: Pottle for; the court of appeals by a narrow mar- I gin of four convention voles. Judge Pottle, at 1 o'clock today, de- I I elined to admit his defeat, however, and I I gave it as his opinion tiiat it will bi [ I neeess try for the state convention, to I i assemble in Macon next week, to de- 1 I Clare set erally the stills in lite vtt-! rious counties, before lie < xaet and I pr>" isi result maj be determined be- I 'vend lie po-sibiiitv of argument or. doubt. •"1 it.id about concluded at no ::im : ; tills morning to concede my defeat-, and i I hav ■ no feeling in th" matter now.' [ -aid Judge Pottle. "But I have re- 1 ' eeivi'd informaticn, ." uiingly trust ' worthy uni reliable, .hat two count; s reported against me hate, in r<-aiiry ! gone for me, trod that the final and in- ' disputable returns will so show. Dm , of these counties is a four-vote eoun- : ty. and rhe other is :i two-vote eoun [ . ty. if I gel tfa'-se two I will have th d my opi bnent. a■ way. T'.:> r other two-vot.e counties in doub! -at I least, in my mind. If I should get either ilti> of those counties, in addition to ■ the two heretofore mentioned, 1 would j win. Perhaps the clement "f doubt is | : sum. what against me, and it may be I ' thal I have lost. If <>. id right. The ■ precise truth should b? istablishcd, • however.” Two Counties Not Reported Officially. ! According to the figun sin Tire Geor- I ! iti in ofliee. Bi oylcs has 186 convention I I votes to his ert'dil, whereas Pottle has! I but IS2. Regardless of other figures and re- | i turns. The Georgian’s figures show the I 'foregoing standing between the candi-' I dates. : In two counties--Lincoln and Union —-I I absolutely official returns have been I received by nobody. Ba' wemingly linos', 'reliable inlormation obtainable ■ gives these two counties to Broyles. I If be has carried them, he has won safely. If he lias lost them, the •vote [ may be tie Judge Broyles is convinced of his I nomination, and has issued a note of ■ formal thanks to his friends and sup porters. Judge Pottle insists tiiat every doubt should be cleared up. before victory is awarded. B’alock May Throw Strength to Price. With tile cwtainty of a convention deadlock in the eommissionership of agriculture vote ahead, there is taik among tile politicians today of a prob able combination of Price and Blalock ! strength, to the* "nd that Price may be nominated. It is rumored that Blalock much pre fers Price to Brown, as the convention! nominee, and tiiat he would, in a "show - | down." throw such of his strength as he! | could to the Oconee county man, pro i viderl s-uch a movement met proper en- I comagemi nt in the Price camp. I Blal' i k ran with the avowed purpose I [of making Hon. E. E. ''abaniss his as-i ■sistant. if elected. Some of Blalock’s I friends arc quoted as saying today that j they would consider it a likely solution lof t!ie | i 'Sent tangle for Price to t.ik on Calrini-s a-- as-istant in the depart ment, in exchange so sufficient Bla loel. delegates to nominate Price. Little Chance Seen For ‘'Dark Horse," | Blalock carried thr foilowing eoun- I tbs: z | Bibb, Eulton, Muscogee, Uowet", | I'toup, Ware. Washington. Bm Hili,! Butts, Camden, ('ampbell, Catoosa. ><'la.vton. t'lincli, < 'off. < . Columbia.! I' awt'iid. t'lisp, Dade, Echols, Ellillg lui m. I .in mu. E:i' etti , Gilmer, H.i > t t... 1 I Heard, Jeff Dav Is. Jones, M.itrra,v, Poll Pulaski. Rabun. Tit: ne , Walker. Whit-j ; field, Way It' and W'lkiiison. It. is in the’delcgailons to the state I convention fcmi these ■ lunti'-s that! elthei Price oi Blown must fin I , ufli-I elcitt str. ngth to nominate. t Tin- 'mpresslon Is that the eonv<n [tion will nominate one of the taiidl 'd.iti -- ami that rm "dark horse" will he i Brew n’s frii nd- art not dim usstrvt t' mm oml> the' •' '■ sl'indlm: pat us B own, .itid uutihlfi;, developments I Bankrupt Merchant Wants Court to "ay His Wife- ' *BO W. L. Turner, c ks That She Be x .1 For St. W. 1.. Turner, a merchant of New nan. Ga.. who i- petitioning to he de clated a bankrupt under Federal laws, is trying to get the courts to pay his wife SIBO for six months' service in his store. His petition in bankruptcy show.- that his liabilities are $3,867, and that ! his assets are $7,359.35, of which his stock in trade amounts to $5.860.50, ano. I the renriinder is in unsecured accounts. i His .stock consists of almost every thing from diamond rings to umbrellas. GETS 2.173 CHANCES TO WED WESTFIELD, N. J. Aug. 2! -Chas,. Marchant, a policeman here, who re cently fell heir to SIOO,OOO. has rect iv '2,173 proposals of tn:itriage. w ; .. I Fit M // W « HhH i ; ‘ S" lies at the bio uio.'t fri.it nitirkeil the end of the public playground season in Atlanta. ; At the top. Aiiss Annie Hill, assistant director of Grant Park playground. Below, Miss Martha j Akers, director of Springvale pin\ ground, and a group of her boys." «TO STICK CIOSE TO HOME I ■ Mo Extensive Stumping Tour To Be Undertaken by Demo cratic Nominee. SEAGIRT. N. J.. Aug 24. -*GoV< rnor Wilson will take up the serious busi ness of the eamwiign nt a conference witli Vice Chairman William G. Mc- Adoo and the other members of the campaign committee in N. w York on Monday. "I am not going to make any extended stumping tour,” said the governor to day. "We will simply decide on Mon day the amount of s'p; aking I am to do and the places I am to visit. My present intention is not to mak< many speeches away from Now Jor-cy. "Krom my general correspondence I find a great majority of the people be lieve I ought not to make any great number of speeches. The country is tired of stumping tours. The argu- I moots on the other side of this ques tion come from men active in politics. They are horrified that the usual pro gram will not be followed in thi- > un- I paign. My private judgment is that i extended stumping tours are not the I most effective method of conducting a campaign. Has State Business. "I am governor of New’ Jersey and I must keep in touch with the business of the state.” At present Governor W ilson is sched uled to make four speech's as follows: Grangers picnic, Wiili.ims Grove, Hu., August 211; Yorkville Casino, N. Y. . Working Men’s' Wil ..n mil Marshall club. September 4: New York state fair, Syracus. , September 12, review of : tlm Aim rtenn■ Spanish war veteran-, I Atlantic City. September 10. i Governor Wilson would i rilw no coin, iini'iil for publication on the Hooscvelt ■ \ rihbold-Penrose i-ontrover y today. I He is watching the Washington Inve-ti | gation closely and w ill lia.e something to say. probably in the shape of u speech, when tlm testimony is all In. RUSSIAN EDITOR IS DEAD. ST. PIHTiItSBI ItG tur 'I M Sil voi'ln ow m i of tie new.-paper Novoi Vrenijn, 111* mo t .owerfut per- paper in llu la, died l-nla>, ageu ,s. Thousands See Big Games Festival PLAY SEASON IS ENDED " 'WSSO ~»lillllfaMM|l|KWßHr// ...\ _ // /M- J»L ■■ v. -A\ ‘ A >/' ,A\ Five Hundred Children Take Part in the Athletic Contests at Grant Park. Atlanta's’playground season is over and the thousands of school children , who have been kept interested this summer by the various are now preparing for the opening of school. It. a grand rally yesterday afternoon on the baseball field at Grant park mote than 50(1 children took part in the final exercises, the older boys and girls play • ing games which required much skill and study and the little tots engaging m the old-fashioned game of "drop-the h;i ndkerchief." Krom the start of the games w hen fill 'he children played “build-the-house." i game of high jumping, until the final attraction of the afternoon, the "snail game,” in which all joined hands and marched around the field, there was a' kaleidoscope of childish merriment and ' beauty. At the close of the exercises the chil dren were given as souvenirs small boxes of candy. Relay Races a Feature. Features of the afternoon's entertain ment were the relay races, which were run from the center of the field to the outer circle and back, making an evet - changing wheel. In these races, as in tall conti -ts of the day, the playgrounds were not pitted against each other, but the children contested against their own playmates. The playground which finished first was considered to have done the best, and its colors were raised amid the shouts of all the rest. "Crossing the river," a test in broad jumping, was an exciting game. Sev eral games of volley ball, in which the boys anil girls joined, followed this, and other features of the program were "scientific tugs of war," "slap date," "throwing quoits," "whipped to the right," and "eat .and mouse.” Miss Mary 16. Barnwell, the play ground supervisor and director, was on tin field all th- afternoon, overlooking and directing the exercises which she had planned, and she was the recipient of much congratulation from members of the park board and tile si veial thou sands of mothers and fathers who were pt i s' nt. EMPEROR HAS GRIP. i’ASSI I. HIISSI'I NASSAf, Aug. 24 Kmpeioi William is suffcrlnr from an iiti.uk of Influenza The intendin'.; phy.-t' iaii d'' ac that there is ri" iliirm and that flu kaiser will have re i overed in a few du - \ f, a minor • lig.i ;■ mi nt lluve be. n vuuveileil. ’ FI.EEMM HER CAUGHT i Employee of Swift & Co.. Taken in Mobile. Ala., Admits the Theft of $2,000. i I MoBII.II, AI.A., Aug. 21. Admitting ! the tin ft of $2,000 belonging to Swift <<• Company of Augusta, antj telling of I his flight from that city by foot, of be • Ing lost tn the woods south of Augusta I for two days and nights, then finally 1 getting back to a railroad and boarding I a train for this cit\. Joseph ll.« Bruce, ' until Tuesday cashier for Swift A.- I Company, was arrested here last night in company with T. \V. Leutje, a clerk ’ for th' same concern. ' l.uetje had been dismissed the pre vious Monday for a small shortage. Bruce had been given something over $2,000 to deposit in an Augusta bank ' last Tuesday. In-P .d of depositing the money, he met l.uetje and they left the city. Os the amount $562 was in cur rency, the balance in checks. He di vided the currency with l.uetje. The cheeks, representing about SI,OOO, Bruce says he mailed to Swift & Company, after reaching Montgomery. When art . sti-d $473.65 was found on the two. They said that it was part of the currency stolen. Both will re turn without requisition. OUTFIELDER SISSON IS BOUGHT BY CRACKERS I he Atlanta Baseball association an nounced today the purchase of Charles Si. son an outfit Ider, from the Colum bus team of the Sally league. As the South Atlantic league ends September 2, Sisson will report to the Crackers about the .’ld, which should be in time fur him to have a good tryout before th. end of llu Southern league season. II is not known just who will be re . isi.il to make room for the new gar dener. but it will likely lie Mike Lyons, who I.as tie. n unable to connect with H e ball -in . hi joined the Crackers. REV. C. W. WEATHERS HOME. Rev. i' W Weathers, pastor of the 11. t \tlnnta Methodist church, lias n turn' ll t" l:‘ i barge, after conducting a m rie- of mi i tings in eastern and inlddl. Geoigla and a few dux.- spent at the Satid> Spring vumpmeeling. w IDITION 2 CUNTS EVERYWHERE P^ R V RECEIVERS NAMEDFOH DELEONAS MYSTERY DEEPENS Nephew Visits Morgue in Chi cago and Finds Victim Is Not Missing Contractor. THEORY NOT CREDITED: MANY CONTINUE HUNT Court Acts at Request of Big Creditor, But Financial Con ditions Are Sound. ; With the appointment of receivers to prqtect creditors, and a country-wide hunt for a clew to his whereabouts, the my stery of the disappearance of Moise DeLeon, wealthy Atlanta contractor, of 744 Piedmont avenue, deepened to day. Special dispatches to The Georgian from Chicago, where DeLeon is said to have vanished early in August, de clare' that it is feared there he may be the unidentified man who was found dead in the pathway of an automobile, the probable victim of auto bandits, at Twenty-second street and Ashland avenue on August 22. These' dispatches say that the de scription furnished the Chicago police by Mr. DeLeon’s nephew, who arrived from New York to aid in the search, tallies with that of the slain man. They also add that Mr, DeLeon carried $2,60(1 ■ in i ash in his pockets and wore jewelry valued at $3,000 when he was last seen, ' Not Likely That I! He Had Jewelry. Mrs. DeLeon, alarmed over the strange disappearance, told The Geor gian over the telephone today that Mr. DeLeon never had any such Jewelry. Generally, not much credence was put in the Chicago theory. Here is the Chi cago dispatch: CHICAGO. Aug. 24.—1 t is feared here that Moise DeLeon, contractor . of Atlanta, Ga., who came to Chi cago August 7, may have been the unidentified man who was found dead in the pathway of an automo bile at Twenty-second street and Ashland avenue August 22. The description of the Atlanta business man as furnished the po lice by a nephew who arrived here from New York today, tallies with that of the slain man. DeLeon carried $2,600 in cash in his pock ets and wore jewelry' valued at $3,000 when he was last seen. On the night of August 22 a man was found cut and unconscious in the street. His pockets were empty. His clothing appeared to have been rifled. A large black touring car was sc-'n speeding from the scene of the tragedy. It is held probable that the man may have been slain by auto bandits and then left dead in the streets. A dispatch from Chicago late this afternoon declared that Mr. DeLeon’s nephew had visited the morgue and that the body of the automobile victim there was not Mr. DeLeon. DeLeon’s affairs were thrown into the hands of receivers to day by the Fulton National bank, when it became known that he had been mysteriously' missing since Au gust 9, and that both Chicago and the wilds of Michigan are being vainly searched for trace of him. Ronald Ransom and H. L. Fraser were named receivers by Judge Bell in superior court immediately on the filing of the petition and at once took charge of the business of the missing man. No (Question of DeLeon’s Solvency. The suit was instituted by the bank on the ground that it is one of De- Leon’s heaviest creditors, and there is no one in Atlanta authorized to assume ills responsibilities. There was no question as to the contractor’s solvency. Though the petition set out that De- Leon owed the bank $17,500 secured by promissory notes and had $19,00C outstanding indchtedness, It further set ' out that he was posseaxed of ampk ’ propertv to secure this. Tlte action was only taken. It wai 1 i' < Iti d, to keep the affaits of the miss Ing iiiun from lulling into the iiundt