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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 _____ /JK lb I /f|X At ' Jb k )) 111 . / I 7 / MU ' // nrr Jhk- // ' ■ X vte B . araLj J Jmßn \\ Hi ■' Edwin MMSfc' ir S P. Ansley, 4 \ Atlanta Real Estate Man - wh ° '' ■ Advocates / 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