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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. XL NO. 18.
T.R.EHGEHTD
THESTIII
TO ANSWER
188010
I Disclosures of Oil Magnate
Make Colonel Change Mind
About Testifying.
“DELIBERATELY FALSE.”
HE BRANDS STATEMENTS
Points Out That Inquiry Was
Directed at Him, Instead of
Explaining for Penrose.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.+-That Colo
nel Rons’ veil will appear on the s»tand
before th, dupp committee in the en
cleaver to refill. tm testimony of John
D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil Com
pany. that the corporation gave $125,000
to tin Roosevelt campaign fund in 1904
and' ih.it la v. as assured that both
Colon, Roosevelt and the national
chairman. G< >rg< B. Cortelyou. knew
am: approve, it. is the opinion ex
pressed by political leaders of all shades
of belief here today.
Colonel Roosevelt is said to be anx
lo;to have al! tin evidence concerning
tb.P 1904 campaign fund made public,
fearing a "roorbach” may be sprung
' just before election if hearings are de
layed. .
On the arrival of Senator Luke Lea,
' of Tennessee, today the ClaYp com
mission is expected to decide whether
to go ahead now in its investigation
of political campaign funds or to ad
journ to October 1.
Colonel Rot s . It . ,'cently said that
ft would be absurd for him to appear
h fore the committee, but because of
th, charges made by Mr. Archbold, it
•fs understood, ho has now changed his
mind am! is willing to testify and even
otnxi us to do it without delay.
Committee Split
On Future Course.
’rhe commit:, ■■ is divided as to its
future cours, Mr. Archbold will be
recalled on his : ,'turn from Europe, and
some arc in favor of adjourning until
he c. ;s back. Several members favor
transferring the hearings to New York
at once and calling Colonel Roosevelt,
Co ,-rg B. Cortelyou. George W. Per
kins and directors of the Standard Oil
c, !.'■ my. Senator Penrose says he will
insist that Roosevelt be called.
:t probable that Senator Pomerene,
eV t.hio. who represented tne absent
I>. mocratic members of thb committee
■ <so rda'.'. will -be made a permanent
im mb. r in place of Senator Paynter, of
Kentucky.
I ast night Colonel Roosevelt gave out
a st itement in r. ply to the testimony of
Archbold, branding the whole as false
* ami "frarm up" to injure him. and
p anting out that no attempt was made
to explain Archbold’s connection with
Senator Penrose, for which he ostensi
bly was called, but that the efforts of
the inquiry were directed entirely to
ward him.
Archbold's Evidence
Hearsay Only-
Colonel Roosevelt said:
In the first place. I wish to ca,ll at
n to the fact that even if Mr.
Archbold's statements are true they
I, , mint 'lllv t , saying, so far as lam
eonemned. that Mr. Bliss told him that
I had knowledge of and approved a re
quest tor sl"li,min from the Standard
Oil Company, which was grahted, and a
fl ,. i r,. j r< qu. st for $150,090, which was
not granted. This is n pure hearsay
statement, and even if made in good
faith would be utterly valueless.
"Not only did I never know anything
of such a request being made, but my
published letter, and telegrams show
that when the tumor that there had
* been i contribution reached me. I acted
at on,e, 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
cner'iied. consists of the repetition of
he.,'.- ,v asse'tinns which were instant
tv disproved by the production of my
letters and telegrams. I wish to reiter
ate that until Mr. Penrose made his
speech, I never had heard it suggested
that Mr. Archbold contributed to the
campaign or had been the means
though which any contributions had
been made. Rut I do not for one mo
no nt believe that Mr Archbold's testi
mony is truthful Ho apparently pos
s> s, s such a moral standard that he
do. s not understand the infamous ac
, | itlon he Is making against Mr. Bliss.
M Bliss is tmw dead But during the
. -cv>n veals that elapsed before Mr
| ■ death after M Archbold claims
h< ma b die contribution in question,
Continued on Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result*
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 into the transmitter.
The baby had been placed in a bas
ket on a stand near the telephone, the
receiver to its ear, and it was lulled into
dreamland by the soothing tones of the
mother’s voice.
TECH ADDS 2 NOTED
EDUCATORS TO ITS
FACULTY THIS YEAR
Among the new instructors at the
Georgia School of Technology the com
ing year will be Professor B. H. Far
quhar. formerly instructor in mathe
matics and physics at Washington and
Lee university. Professor Farquhar is
a Louisianan and has been identified
with the educational interest of his
native state for several years. He comes
to Tech strongly Indorsed. He has been
elected to the English department.
Another noted educator added to the
English faculty of Tech is Professor
Benjamin B. Strang, who comes direct
from Columbia university. New York.
Professor Strang is from New Jersey
and holds diplomas from Columbia uni
versity and also the Teachers college.
Professoi Strang is of quiet and unas
suming' manner and bids fair to make a
name for himself at Tech.
MRS. ROBERT GOELET
DYING FROM CANCER;
SON CALLED TO PARIS
PARIS, Aug. 24.—Mrs. Robert Goelet.
the wealthy American who is supposed
to be dying from malignant cancer, ar
rived here today from Havre under the
care of physicians and nurses. She was
met by her son. Robert Goelet, Jr., who
had just arrived from New York, call
ed by the "serious condition of his
mother. A report from Havre stated
that the private million-dollar yacht
Namaha, Upon which Mrs. Goelet has
been cruising, was put into dry dock
in the basin there, apparently for a
long period.
Mrs. Goelet has already undergone
three operations for cancer, the disease
which caused the death of her hus
band.
BANDIT SHOT BY HIS
OWN GUN CONFESSES
$1,400 TRAIN ROBBERY
TOPEKA, KANS., Aug. 24.—The
young man who robbed the mail car on
the Union Pacific train out of Kansas
City early Friday and was shot with
his own pistol after he hid in a Pull
man berth on the train, today gave his
name as Wells Lounsberry, of Medford,
.Oreg., and confessed he had held up
several trains. He said he had never
been caught before. His best haul, he
said, was $1,400 taken from a mail ear
on the Southern Pacific train near Red
Bluff. Cal.
At the hospital it was said today that
the man would recover.
IN DAYJS DIVORCE~AID, IS
HIMSELF FREED. REWEDS
CINCINNATI, Aug. 24.—Acting as
witness in a divorce suit, getting an
other divorce decree for himself, and
marrying hgain the same day, is the
record here of R. W. Waters, a clerk.
PHONE SYSTEM PUT IN
PEN USE
PITTSBURG, Aug. 24—A telephone
system for the use of the convicts is
being installed at the Riverside peni
tentiary by Warden John Francis, who
is known as "the convict’s friend."
GETS SHOCK EVERY TIME
HE TRIES TO GO TO WORK
POTTSVILLE. PA.. Aug. 24.—0 n be
ing arraigned here for begging James
Carden told the court he could not work
because he was so full of electricity that
everything he touched gave him a
shock
WINSHIP LOSES IN 8188.
MACON, GA.. Aug. 24. —A recount of
the legislative race elects Minter Wim
berly, Ben Fowler and Wallace Miller
from Bibb county. The recount dis
placed Nat Winship amt substituted
Miller.
STIRS INTEREST IN CHURCH.
Dr. B. P. Robertson, superintendent
of tile Atlanta Baptist association, has
prepared a series of addresses, urging
various pastors to conduct "enlistment
services" to stir their congregations to
personal work in the cause of the
church. *
EDITOR IN PULPIT.
Rev Tbomwell Jatobs, D.D editor
of The Westminster Magazine, will oc
cupy the pulpit of the Central Con
gregational church again tomorrow.
ATLANTA, GA,. SATURDAY. AUGUST 24. 1912.
POTTLE MEN
CLAIM TIE
IN JUDGE
RACE
Broyles Apparently Is Ahead
by the Narrow Margin of
Eight Votes.
2 COUNTIES REPORTED
AGAINST HIM CHANGED
Official Count May Yet Give
Different Turn to Neck
and-Neck Contest.
It will require the undisputed official
figures to determine who is the winner
in the court of appeals race. Broyles or
Pottie.
Y’esterday it looked as if Pottle has
won by the narrow margin of four con
vention votes.
Two counties. Lincoln and Union,
both originally reported for Pottle, have
since been reported for Broyles. But
neither report is absolutely official.
Charlton and Echols, yesterday re
ported in doubt, have been carried by
Broyles.
If Lincoln and Union be found in the
official returns for Broyles, then
Broyles has won over Pottle by eight
votes.
May Go To the
Convention a Tie.
If either goes to Broyles, he still will
be a winner by four votes.
If both be found finally where they
were first reported, in the Pottle col
umn, then Pottle and Broyles will tie
in the state convention, with 184 votes,
respectively.
The chances seem to favor victory
for Broyles, through the last reported
switching of Lincoln and Union to
Broyles, and Pottle's loss of f'harleton
and Echols to Broyles.
Notwithstanding the probable Broyles
victory, however, the Pottle supporters
still are hopeful that their man may, at
least, have broken even in the count.
The nomination for the agricultural
commissionership will be made by the
state Democratic convention in .Macon
next Wednesday.
No one of the candidates has a ma
jority in -the convention vote. Returns
received by The Georgian give Blalock
36 counties, with 92 unit votes; Brown,
59 counties, with 144 unit votes, and
Price 51 counties, with 132 unit votes.
PROBE INTO WORKING
CONDITIONS AT STEEL
PLANTS COMPLETED
CHICAGO, Aug. 24. —The investiga
tion of working conditions at steel
plants undertaken by the department of
commerce and labor on a resolution by
Senator Borah has been completed. The
last work of the agents of the depart
ment was done at the plants of the Illi
nois company, in Chicago and in Gary,
Ind.
The investigation has been going on
for two years. The agents of the de
partment returned to Washington to
day and will begin work at once on
theiY report.
MAN SWALLOWS ACID WHEN
WIFE REFUSES TO KISS HIM
WASHINGTON. IND., Aug. 24.
Morton Gregory, age 29. killed himself
at a hotel by drinking carbolic acid.
Gregory swallowed the poison after his
wife had refused him a kiss when they
retired for the night.
Leaving his bed. Gregory borrowed
a dime from the hotel proprietor, went
to a drug store, bought the acid and re
turned to his room, drank the poison in
his ’■’ife's presence, after writing a note
to 1, s father. Crazed from the effects of
the acid, Gregory chased his wife from
the hotel and fell limp in an alley.
A reception in honor of the marriage
of one of his sisters was being held
when he committed suicide.
MAN HAS OWN OBITUARY
PUT IN GRAVE WITH HIM
NOBLESVILLE, IND., Aug 24.
When Samuel H. Yeaman. an aged man,
of this city, was buried yesterday after
noon there was placed in his coffin an
obituary written by himself It was
written with an Indelible pencil and
put into a bottle. In doing this the
relatives complied with Mr. Yea man’s
wishes. He made the statement in his
obituary that he wish the obituary bu
ried with him so that If the body should
ever be moved the writing would serve
to identify if when all other means of
Identification had disappeared. A
tombstone will be placed over the grave
which ti< made himself.
Edwin P.Ansley Tells of Atlanta's Needs
BUILD FOR A CITY OF MILLION
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Better Busi- L
ness Methods I
mAfunic/paZ \¥
Affairs
Present “Makeshift” Policy Is
Blamed for Bad Condition of
Streets and Sewers.
Edwin P. Ansley, real estate man and
a leader in the business world of At
lanta, in a striking statement, today
shows the need of sweeping improve
ments in this city. Mr. Ansley shows
up the present terrible condition of the
streets and attacks the present system
as a "makeshift." His statement is of
especial interest and timeliness in view
of the city council’s meeting to reor
ganize the chief of construction de
partment on Monday.
Here is Mr. Ansley’s statement:
Atlanta is the Gateway of the
South, and its location, together
with the fact that perfectly graded
and paved public roads and inter
urban car lines are planned to in
tersect all the country within 200
miles of Atlanta and that within
100 miles there is already a popu
lation of more than 1,000,000, helps
to make Atlanta the ."Metropolis”
and the financial and commercial
center of the South. No other sim
ilar area of the South can show so
great a population, not excepting
New Orleans and Louisville with
their surrounding territory.
Plan For City of 1,000,000.
We must plan for a city of 1.000.-
000 people or more and build ac
cordingly. We must plan for the
future, and not for the present
alone.
Reorganize Every Department of
the City Government.
As we have no commission form
of government, we should place an
expert at the head of each depart
ment of the city. Not a political
expert, but an expert who can stop
the waste that has been going on
up to the present time.
it will cost the taxpayers millions
of dollars to perfect Atlanta's water
and sewer system and perfect the
grades and pave the streets of the
city.
Employ the best sewer and street
experts In America and contract all
this work. Let the city and county
combine and perfect the trunk sew
er system, and then lay all lateral
aewers and water mains on unpaved
streets by contract at about $1.40
to $1.50 per lineal foot, or piaetfcal
ly at cost to tt»« owners of prop
erty on the street Thia will perfect
thcHc systems at a minimum expense
and within a minimum period of
time
Street Work by Contract,
City and county forces should do
Continued on Page Two.
FLEEING AUGUSTA
G.®IIEH GIUGHT
Employee of Swift & Co., Taken
in Mobile, Ala.. Admits the
Theft of $2,000.
MOBILE. ALA., Aug. 24.—Admitting
the theft of $2,000 belonging to Swift
& Company of Augusta, and telling of
his flight from that city by foot, of be
ing lost in the woods south of Augusta
for two days and nights, then finally
getting back to a railroad and boarding
a train for this city, Joseph H. Bruce,
until Tuesday cashier for Swift &
Company, was arrested here last night
in company with T. W. Leutje, a ch rk
for the same concern.
Luetje 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. Instead of depositing the
money, he met Luetje ami they h ft the
city. Os the amount $562 "was in cur
rency, the balance In cheeks. He <ll
vided the currency with Luetje. The
cheeks, representing about SI,OOO, Bruce
says lie mailed to Swift <K- Company,
after reaching Montgomery.
When arrested $473.65 was found on
the two. They said that it was part
of the currency stolen. Both will re
turn without requisition.
MONTENEGRINS AND
TURKS NEAR CLASH;
PREPARED FOR WAR
VIENNA, Aug 24. War betwe-n
Montenegro and Turkey Is inevitable
unless the other powers intervene, ac
cording to a dispatch from f'ettlnl l . re
celved here today. This tm-ss ig, si id
King Nicholas, yielding to popular
clamor, has signed n decree mobilizing
the Montenegrin army Fighting l» -
tween Montenegrin -oldieia and Turk
ish gendarmes along the frontier ha
been contlnuou- for several w- .-ks It
Is expected formal der-lat'a t ion of no»
tillties will he made now.
The message al-o s.,\- Austria has
sent troops to O' copy the comuilllie of
Novlbazar. Th(-r< w.i -i,
Austnan garrison m tin town ~f No
vlhazar, tli< capital ot tin commune, a
tow 11 of 12,'IUV.
, ffISTMLIJ SPLIT
rBWONUS’
I
i Plan to Give Mothers
$25 Made an Issue in Po
litical Campaign.
; MELBOURNE. Aug. 24.—The an
i nouncement by the federal labor gov-
I’ emment of the details of Its maternity
grant scheme —or “baby bonus,” as it is
i termed—has set Australia discussing
' the limits of social subsidies from a
; new standpoint.
, The popularity nf the plan under
which every needy mother Is to receive
I $25 on the registration of a newly born
[ child is undoubted.
It Is fiercely denounced by fusion pol
. iticians as a “low down bribe” to the
women, and as a kind of offset to the
• labor party> abolition of postal vot
; Ing. But thoughful Liberal leaders like
Mr Deakin do not take this line. They
r* ( <»gniz*- the justice of some aid at the
maternity period of the life of a woman
whose husband Is so poor as tn bo un
. able to give her essential comforts. It
is an open secret that long before the
labor ministry’s announcement several
hading Liberals were quietly feeling
( their way toward a workable scheme,
i As it is. at least one Liberal organi
zation has made public its ideas con
cerning an alternative., Only today, at
the second annual conference of the
Tasmanian Liberal league, at which 120
delountes were pr*‘sent. it was unani
mously agreed that a state fund bo es
tablished for the relief of poor widows
‘ left with young < hildren. < Gradually the
prite lple of state aid Is being conceded,
i and the discussion is converging on
safeguards from fraud and questions of
thrift contributions, and, above all, of
cost.
BISHOP CRAFTON NEAR
DEATH AT MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE:. WIS , Aug. 24 Bish
op ('h.ti les <Grafton, one of the best
known pr« ia'e.s in the American Epls
( upalian < hutch, h at the point of
«b itji The doctor' have abaiuioned
f hope an<l the **nd Is only a math i of a
feu li iut ,it is believed Bishop Graf
ton • tine to the (|h*c< . of E'»ml 1)11 Lite
i wh»n tin iftutv w.ui a btii’Kwuudj] dis
trie l.
tXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
fiECEMS
NAMED FOB
VANISHED
DELEON
Fulton National Bank, Claiming;
To Be One of Biggest Cred
itors, Makes Move.
DECLARES HE’S SOLVENT:
SEEKS ONLY PROTECTION
Rich Contractor Is Strangely
Missing in West, and Police
of Many Cities Hunt.
Affairs of Moise DeLeon, wealthy
contractor of 744 Piedmont avenue,
were thrown Into the hands of receivers
today 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
De Leon’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
his 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 $19,000
outstanding indebtedness, it further set
out that he was possessed of ample
property to secure this.
The action was only taken, it was
reflted, to kep the affairs of the miss
ing man from falling Into the hands
of irresponsible persons with resulting
injury to his creditors.
A pay roll of $1,200 on the court house
work had to be met today, and this was
the cause of the hurried action. Tho
contract provides for the work on the
county building to be completed In a
specified time and the surety did not
wish to endanger its forfeiture by any
delay of however short duration.
Mystery of His
Disappearance Deepes.
The receivers were named to take,
charge and control the contractor’s af
fairs until such time as he should ap
pear in court in person or the court
should be definitely informed that he is
permanently lost.
In the meantime tho mystery of De-
Leon's disappearance deepened.
Though, at the instance of his brother.
E. W. Dee Lon, president of the Cas
ualty Company of America, of Chicago,
the detective force of that city in
which he was last seen. August 9,
scoured it toflnd trace of the man. and
though the poplo that patrol the Mich
igan wilds, where he was supposed to
have gone on a fishing excursion have
made a systematic search, no clew to
his whereabouts has yet been ascer
tained.
At his offices in the Walton building,
tho employees had received no word of
their chief. At his home, 744 Piedmont
avenue, the door was closed to all vis
itors.
The contractor left Atlanta August 7.
He had not been in the most robust
health and it was his plan to spend
Severn, weeks in the Michigan woods
to restore his vigor. Two days later
he was heard of in Chicago, where he
visited friends in Wilmette, a North
Shore suburb of the Illinois city. He
told them that ho intended leaving the
next day for Saginaw, Mich., and would
then strike out for the woods.
Brother Alarmed
For De Leon's Safety.
He never appeared in Saginaw, ac
cording to the authorities there They
pont out that he might have arrived,
obtained the .services of a guide im
mediately and th* ii have struck out
without reglslering at a hotel or !eav«,
ing other trace of his having beer,
there Persons familiar with the woods
in which DeLeon intended to fish say
that ii man and guid* could sta\ In
them an unlimited |>eriod of time with
out leaving trace of their whereabouts
\\ hen da\r pas-« d <u«l h ngthenvd
into w«»-ks without word of his lu'other,
th»- <‘M< i-pt 1»u1,.’4»n grew alarmed. He
nought th* aid of the I’hlcag*) police and
a thorough • uuh of the city wax In
stitut'd without avail \t the same titmi
tli* Mhiiigati iiitiiotlliiM bcvUiUv UU*
uve in the hunt