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STREETS REFORM PLAN TAKEN UP DE COUNCIL Reorganization of Construction , Department Considered at Meeting Today. i Leader s of council met today and agreed upon a program of reorganiza tion of the chief of construction depart ment which they will submit to council this afternoon. Aidermen John S. Can dler. James R. Nutting, Councilman Al dine Chambers and Claude C. Mason ■were among the aggressors in the movement, and after a conference in the city attorney's office they were con fident that the plan would be adopted by council. The program is to broaden the quali fications for the office so that a busi ness man as well as an engineer will be eligible and to prescribe that he shall work under the direction of council. The chief of construction is still to be elected by the people, but the number of assistants he is to have will not be de termined until next year’s budget is made up. Other details of reorganiza tion will be left to whomever is named chief of construction in the fall elec tion and tile city council. To Broaden Qualifications. The present qualifications are that a man to hold the office must be an engi neer of ten years' experience. He is elected by the people and is practically independent of council. The charter specifies that he shall have four assis tants. This gives the chief of construc tion an opportunity to make up a ticket before running before the people, and, it i.\ charged, is too strong an influence in favor of political appointments. While other plans have been suggest ed, it is believed th n t the one agreed upon today will be adopted. Councilman Aldine ('hambc'S said to day that with the changes made by the charter amendment bill and the im provements he was confident the coun cil would make in the chief of construc tion department. Atlanta’s street im provement system would be thoroughly reorganized for greater efficiency. Not only are these reforms assured, but as a result of The Georgian’s cam paign for better streets, better streets has become a platform plank of the numerous candidates for mayor and council. This plank is sure to stand at the head of the program of next yea '» administration. • The council, through the recent char ter amendment, has authority to make any changes except that the head of i the department still must be elected by the people. The other charter amendments af fecting street improvements, already in effect, are: That council and not the property owners shall have the authority to de termine the character of paving for a street, and that council shall have the authority to condemn any street or sidewalk or new paving at any time it sees fit. The fact that the property owners pay two-thirds of the cost of the pav ing and the character of pavement to be used is left to the property owners has been one of the principal causes for delay, it is said. Wilmor Moore Give* Suggestions. That the council shall requa-i op erty owners to make all pipe connec tions before a street is pavetl. If the property owners, neglect to make the connections the city will make them and assess the property owners for the cost. This will prevent the past system of cutting up paved streets. That guttering shall be put down along with curbing to prevent the curb ing from washing away. This cost has always been assessed against the prop erty owners, but the guttering was not put down until the street was paved. There is ten miles of curbing laid in the city now which has no guttering to protect it in times of rains. Wilmer Moore, president of the Chamber of Commerce, gave these sug gestions for reforms today: By WILMER MOORE. A spirit of civic awakening is arousing an interest tn the ques tion of city planning, or replanning. This is a fixed plan by which the city, in all of its municipal im provements, discontinues the vague efforts of working along Indefinite lines. This is not altogether a question of the development of the •■City Beautiful." but its purposes are fundamental It provides fa cilities that are for common good, serves everybody, develops all sec tions, and seeks to save waste in , both time and money. It elimi nates the possibility of favoritism, and the development of certain re stricted areas or sections for the benefit of the influential individ uals It is a practical method of building the modern progressive town or city. It is no new thought or method, but has been adopted by many of the European oities for more than 100 years. • Other Cities Spending Big Sums. As Atlanta continues to grow and expand It will be necessary for us to spend larger sums in order to correct the mistakes which we have made In the past, due largely to the lack of funds in the hands of the niunicipalllv at the time the origi nal work was done, and also to lack of vision as to Atlanta’s greatness and future growth and Importance Chicago has a plan which calls f, r an expenditure of over $250,- ’ mu, <iao, Baltimore $13,000,000, t'leve- J and 120,0<>0.000, H< iltie 115,000,000, l s ,<‘lt> 11 J.ooo,‘too, Han Fran «»< u, Lx Holl and St. Louis «»< h Dr. Matheson Resents Slurs on Colleges TRAINED MEN NEEDED IN DIXIE -5 & ts, ” hnJ < a >.l flfl ) •€ Ww ' X Mflfl ‘Ji fl Uy jbWb k's -a - ’ wSIv iiw Dr. K. '(>. Matheson, president of Georgia Tech, who says the demand for college-trained men far exceeds the supply. Becomes Insane on His W edding Day ASKS TO BE LOCKED UP Almost prostrated with anxiety and fears as to the fate of A. Hurst, of Griffin, whom she married last Thurs day afternoon and who has been strange ly missing since the ceremony was per formed, a girlish bride today learned that he is a prisoner in the police station, held as a lunatic. It is thought that ex citement over the wedding may have tem porarily unbalanced his mind. Within a few hours after he and the girl, whose home is in a fashionable suburb, had been married by Dr. Virgil Norcross, Hurst approached Policeman Hardy at Broad and Marietta streets, and calmly remarked: “Officer, I wish you would lock me up. I’m crazy, and I'm afraid to be at large.” Officer Hardy, who had noticed that the man was acting queerly and had been watching him. told him he was just think ing of locking him up anyway. He then sent Hurst to the police station, where he has since been held in a cell while the police were seeking information concern ing him. It developed today that Hurst and his bride, immediately following the wedding, left the home of the minister and boarded a trolley car. When they arrived down- Johnson Off on Campaign Tour SACRAMENTO, Aug. 26. Governor Hiram W. Johnson left here today to begin his campaign as vice presidential candidate of the Bull Moose party. The governor will speak tonight in Los An geles. At midnight he will take a train for the East. His first stop will be Salt Lake City. Utah, where the second address of the trip will be delivered. He is accompanied by A. L. McCabe, his private secretary. James Cordell. James Cordell, 90 years old. died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Josie At kinson, 65 Alamo avenue, just before noon today. Mr. Cordell resided with his daughter. The funeral arrangements have not been made. and so on down to as small place as Roanoke, Va. We have an illustration of the piecemeal work done and now be ing done in Atlanta in Spring and Luckie streets, and the proposed work on Ivy street and West Peachtree, also on Peachtree. If the city would, at an expenditure of $2,000 to $5,000, have an able and experienced man. such as Olm stead or Burnham, visit the city and make a general survey and then employ them for complete plans and specifications In the couise of 10 to 25 years Atlanta would be made on* of the most beautiful cities In the country and that, too. possible at a smillei ex p*ndl.tute than «■ m* now wasting 1 on pkcenivul work. , THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1912. town. Hurst gave his bride a transfer, put another car. and told her to return to her home; that he would join her there at “6 o’clock.” That was the last seen by the girl of him. Instead of joining his bride, Hurst took up his stand in the entrance to a drug store near Broad and Marietta streets. His actions soon aroused the suspicions of the druggist, who notified Officer Hardy and asked him to watch the stranger. Hardy at once determined that something was wrong with the man, and had just decided to take him into cus tody when Hurst announced that he was crazy and requested that he be confined. Hurst's father, George 1> Hurst, arrived in Atlanta today and immediately called at the. police station. He said he would take his son back to Griffin during the day to have his sanity investigated. Hurst could not be tried here for lunacy, as he is a citizen of another county. The tragic turn of the romance is such a severe blow to the girl that she is hys terical. Members of the family and close friends are using every effort to console and comfort her. She and Hurst, it is understood, had been sweethearts fnr a long time. Both she and Hurst are prom inently connected. LYMAN ABBOTT AND STAFF (T. R. ISON IT) BRANDED HERETICS WINONA LAKE. IND.. Aug. 26 charges interpolated in a sermon by Rev. Mark A. Matthews, moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly, that Rev. Lyman Abbott and his associate editors of The Outlook are heretics, har created wide discussion here today. Rev. Mr. Matthews’ charge was drop ped into a sermon on the fruits of the resurrection of Christ. Theodore Roose velt is an associate editor of The Out look. “Perhaps some of you young minis ters study The Outlook." he said, "and think yourselves very wise. If ever there was a publication by a heretic, The Outlook is that sheet. It is edited by a bunch of heretics. If you con tinue to read it you will have theologi cal meningitis, sociological neuritis and political gastritis. "The publication is under the ban of the pure food law because it never had a baked article in It nor an unadulter ated one.” • M, S. HUIE NOMINATED FOR THE STATE SENATE M S Huie, of Clayton, formally was nominated for senator to succeed John M. Slaton as member from the Thirty fifth district by the regular district sen atorial convention, assembled In room 401, Kimball house, at noon today. Mr. Huie was a member of the last I house, and was named by Clayton to be |'■enutor, without opiai'ltioii. Tech Head Declares There Always Is Place in Business for College Graduates. Demand for college trained men throughout the South is greater that, the supply by a tremendous ratio, de clared Dr. K. G. Matheson, president of Georgia Tech, before he left Atlanta for a brief visit to Culver. Ind., prepar. atory to the opening of the regular ses sion of his school. The declaration was made when his attention was called to a statement made by Dr. Orison Swett Warden, of New York, before the Southern Cali fornia university that the entire pres ent-day system of college education is wrong and that the colleges of today do not fit men for the battle of life. Dr. Marden said: "The average college graduate goes out in the world carrying under his arm his diploma as an insurance policy against failure. Instead of being fitted to fight a man’s battle in a man s world, he is a weakling. Colleges year ly turn out graduates who are helpless citizens —men who, despite their edu cation. fit into sls a week niches for years before they are advanced in stead of producing men who are fitted upon graduation to do real work and hold responsible positions. Scores of Appeals For Men. "This shows how manifestly unfair this statement is." and Dr. Matheson turned to his desk and drew out a drawer labeled "positions for gradu ates." A score of letters were con tained in the package. “These are applications from business and industrial firms and institutions,” said Die Tech president, "asking me to send them men to fill positions of re sponsibility. These applications here were left after every graduate of Tech of this year had been provided with a place. I didn’t have enough men to fill this demand. “I take it that the same is true of practically every Southern school and largely true of the Northern institu tions. “The South is making tremendous progress from an industrial point of view, and these industries are looking for trained, college equipped leaders. The figures -vill prove that, despite the comparatively few men in this section who receive college educations, there are far more college men at the head of these industries than men who did not receive college training. Leaders in Public Life. “The same is true of the leaders in public life also. I don’t necessarily mean the politicians, but a great per centage of the political leaders are col lege men. Law. medicine and all the kindred professions are being led by graduates of institutions of higher edu cation. "Now. I must say that the old system of education along purely classical lines has its drawbacks. When a young man has completed four years in high school and four years in college and goes out in the world he ought to be equipped with something more definite than is given him by the old system. I do not decry' its value. “The foundation it gives is absolute ly necessary for success in any profes sion. The point I make, that while this foundation is being obtained the stu dent should be getting it with a defi nite alm. I am glad to see that this is being done In most of our Southern uni versities. "I believe that the time Is coming when classical and technical education will march hand in hand. It is doing it to a degree now. When this system is perfected there can be no harping on the uselessness of college education such as the statement of Dr. Marden." | DEATHS AND FUNERALS | E. A. Perry. E. A. Perry, aged 67 years, died early today' at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. L. B. Coley, 118 Richardson street. The funeral will be conducted tomor row morning at 10:30 o’clock at the res idence, with interment jn Westview. Mr. Perry is survived by' two daughters and three sons. Miss Huida Walts. The funeral of Miss Huida Waits, 72 years old, who died yesterday morning, was held at the residence. 90 Ira street, shortly after 3 o’clock today. Interment will he at Oakland cemetry. Miss Lorena Armstrong. The body of Miss Lorena Armstrong. 48 years old. who died at Clarkston. Ga Sat urday. was taken from Barclay <? Bran don’s chapel today to Norwood, Ga , where the funeral will be held She is survived by two sisters and one brother. Mrs Annie McDade. Awaiting the arrival of a daughter from Baltimore, funeral arrangements for Mrs Annie McDade, who died at a sanitarium yesterday, have not been completed. Mrs. Prank Ray, the daughter. Is expected In Atlanta tomorrow morning Mrs. Emma J. Reiss. The body of Mrs. Emma J. Reiss, wife of W. W. Reiss, of 80 Ira street, who died late yesterday, is at Barclay & Brandon s chapel awaiting the arrival of relatives from Birmingham. Mrs. Reiss is survived by her husband and three small children. J. A. Redwine. J. A. Redwine, 60 years old, of No. 566 Central avenue, is dead at his residence. He had been in bad health for several weeks and died last night. Three chil dren, A J.. L. J. and Miss Elizabeth Red wine. survive him. Z. T. Haley. The funeral of Z. T. Haley, who lived at Cross Roads, near Atlanta, was held at the Sardis church at 1 o'clock this after noon Interment was in the church yard. Mr Haley died Saturday. Mrs. Caroline Werber. Mrs Caroline Werber. 75 years old. of 42 York avenue, died there today. She was a widow with two sons, A. <’. and C. A. Werber The latter is purchasing agent of the Atlanta Gas company. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock in Patterson’s chapel Inter ment will be in Westview cemetery S. J. Butler. S .1 Butler, who resided on the Brown s .Mill road near \tlania. died at his home ilils morning He It survived hy a son. three daiigliteis and his widow The twaly will he carried to Roewell. Ga tomorrow morning at 7 u'cliak for interment. BROYLES-POTTLE TIETODEADLDGK CONVENTION Should the Popular Vote De cide the Winner. Atlanta Man Would Lose. With the certainty of a deadlock in the state convention at Macon Wednes day in the matter of the court of ap peals nomination, politicians already are beginning to speculate as to the final outcome. Broyles and Pottle each will go into the convention with exactly 184 unit votes to his credit. Pottle has 1,762 the advantage over Broyles in the popular vote, however, and in four the number of counties car ried. Pinal and complete returns were not received from all counties until late Saturday night. The commissionership of agriculture also goes to the convention, neither Brown. Price nor Blalock having a ma jority, which is necessary to nominate. Popular Vote May Decide. Tn the court of appeals race, both candidates. Broyles and Pottle, will go into the convention backed by delega tions composed of their known friends in the various counties carried bt each. There is no established rule or prece dent to fall back upon in deadlocks of this kind, but the executive committee of tile state did provide that in certain cases a plurality of the popular vote should decide the winner of a nomina tion. porvided a majority of the unit vote was not shown for any candidate in these races. If that test should be applied in the Broyles-Pottle contest. Pottle would win, for he received 84,25 7 popular votes, as against 82,495 for his adver sary. Pottle also overlapped Broyles in the number of counties carried, winning 76 against the Atlanta man’s 71. It is further pointed out by Pottle’s friends that the nomination of Judge Pottle, in the circumstances, would leave things as they have been —Judge Broyles safe and snug in his position of city recorder of Atlanta and Judge Pottle safe and snug in his position of appeals court judge. Curiously enough, too. both positions pay the same sala ry, $4,000 per annum. Believe Pottle Has Shade. Judge Pottle's friends also call at tention to the fact that had the electoral vote been counted under the present apportionment, rather than under the new apportionment yet to go into ef fect. Judge Pottle would have won out over Judge Broyles by ten convention or unit, votes. On the surface of things, therefore, the politicians are figuring today that Pottle has a shade the better of it, al though they admit, without question, that there is nothing binding upon the convention in any of these suggestions. The convention may, in its final wis dom. reject, if it likes, both Broyles and Pottle, but the trend of talk is decidedly unfavorable to the suggestion of a "dark horse." The convention alone has authority over the nomination now. Judge Broyles is not in the city' to day, and Judge Pottle did not care to discuss the status of affairs, further than to express his satisfaction that a definite result seemed to have been arrived at, in so far as the primary out come is concerned. Georgian Gave Pottle Hope. Had it not been for The Georgian’s failure ever to admit unequivocally the nomination of Broyles over him, Judge Pottle likely would have conceded his defeat to Judge Broyles Saturday. "The other papers insisted so posi tively, and upon such good authority, apparently, that Judge Broyles had won,” said Judge Pottie today, “that I had about concluded to send my con gratulations and best wishes to my At lanta adversary, and let it at that. ”1 believed I had a chance either to win by a narrow margin or tie the race, but the newspapers of Atlanta stood two to one against that idea, and it looked, by the rule of preponderating evidence, as If I were out of the run ning. "The Georgian, however, persistently refused—or failed—to admit my defeat. It stuck to it that 1 might tie the race, anyway, although it did say that if two unofficially returned counties went against me 1 was defeated. "The Georgian had been so accurate in its forecasts on the governorship race that I concluded it surely must know what it was talking about in the court of appeals race, and that my chance for either a nomination or a tie, however seemingly slim, was worth waiting for and hoping for. No Feeling, He Sayi. "Besides, the Georgian’s attitude, while utterly impersonal, as I realized, coincided with some information of my own. not in accord with the statements of other papers. "Therefore. 1 reversed my original notion to concede my defeat, and held my peace. "I have no feeling in the matter, and have had none. I merely thought the truth should be established. Closest R»ce in State History. The Georgian, upon its own figures and rejecting all others, In its noon and home editions of Saturday, suggested the likelihood of a tie in the court of appeals race. Seemingly. Broyles had it by four unit votes, provided the two counties unofficially returned to The Georgian as having gone for Broyles really went to Broyles. Saturday night, however, one of these counties was found not to have gone to Broyles. The result then was a tie. or a narrow margin of victory for Pottle, When finally the other county was reported officially as having gone to Broyles, the result —a tie—became ab solutely definite. Never before in Georgia has a race been sn closely contested us was this one. and nwei before was the exact apd precise result so difficult to deter, mine. NEW EVIDENCE SECURED OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL Wonderful discoveries of every de scription have been brought to light by the readers and users of Geor gian Want Ads. The w'ays to make money are many. For example—if you want a po sition, desire help, wish to buy. sell or rent, it can be done at a small cost. You will be surprised at the rapid rate the replies will swoop down on you, no matter what you advertise. GANGER DOE TO ~ LACK OF POTASH Disease Caused by Methods of Preparing Foods, Declares Physician. LONDON. Aug. 26. —"The treatment for cancer is easy for any doctor who is qualified to administer castor oil and to perform a surgical operation," said Dr. Forbes Ross, lecturing at the Eus tace Miles Restaurant on "Cancer—ls , the Problem Solved?" He argued that the disease was due i to the deficiency of potassium salts in , the body, owing to the popular cus tom of pouring away the juices of cook ed vegetables which contain potash and ■ other valuable natural salts. i "While lime, magnesium and sqdium.’’ • he said, "are to he found in practically every form of food, potassium was often absent, and the English fashion of cook- ■ ing results in people eating ‘muck minus minerals.’ "Fifty years ago 500 women and 200 I men per million died of cancer, and to- • day the figures are 1,000 and 800 re spectively. "The savage never suffers from the ■ disease, nor did the negro and other > native races until they began to cook in ’white man’ fashion. Food ought to I be cooked conservatively and eaten ■ with the natural Juices. I ; OHIO CAPITAL’S BIRTH TO BE REPRODUCED IN SERIES OF PAGEANTS COLUMBUS, OHIO. Aug. 26.—The most spectacular and imposing series of pageants ever staged in the mid- I die West will be witnessed during the Ohio-Columbus centennial celebration. , which opened today to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of a , permanent capital in Ohio. What is said to be the greatest his torical tableaux ever attempted will be seen on the second, third and fourth days of the centennial entitled "The Story of the State.” It will depict scenes of the old northwest territory and Ohio from the day of the mound builders to the present Thursday will be "Federal day," with President Taft as the guest of honor. Chief Justice White, of the United States supreme court; Justices Hughes and Day, former Judge Alton B. Par ker, of New York; former Vice Presi dent Fairbanks and the governors of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon sin also are scheduled to be present. CARUSO IS INDIGNANT AT POSTPONEMENT OF SUIT MILAN, Aug. 26.—Caruso is thor oughly indignant over the postpone ment until next winter of the trial of the defamation of character suit he is pressing against Signorita Giachettl, the contralto: his ex-chauffeur, Rotnati, and Achille Loria, the New York theatrical agent. Signorita Giachetti cabled from Buenos Ayres she could not be in Italy before October or November. AUGUSTA COMPLAINS OF NEW VEGETABLE RATES WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.—The Cham ber of Commerce of Augusta, Ga., today , complained to the Interstate commerce commission of rates over the 8., R and P. railroad on cabbages, apples, onions and potatoes. It is charged a new schedule advanced the old rates on these commodities from New' York city to , Augusta three cents a hundred pounds. TO PROBE HOOKWORM. BRUNSWICK, GA.. Aug 26.—Dr. T. . T. Abercrombie has been detailed from the field department of the state board of health to hold a five weeks investi gation of the hookworm problem in . Camden county. Dr. Abercrombie will begin his campaign on October 15 and will direct his work principally to the ’ children In the rural schools. TO TRY PLAINVILLE RIOTERS. CALHOUN. GA.. Aug, 26.—A heavy criminal docket awaited the opening of the Gordon county superior court to day. Besides a large number of civil cases. Including five divorce suits, there are 24 blind tiger cases and the eleven negroes implicated in the recent race riot at Plainville to be tried. * - - I I- I Crisp Indian Corn suggestion, You have the proper ring, In the morning give me Toasties, And I’ll breakfast like a King. I '• *■ '■ Written by Milk BELLED MILCAHT. 911 Fairfield Ave.. Bridgeport. Conn 1 On* of the 50 Jlnirleß for which tha Poatum Co., Rattle ('reck, Mich . paid >IOOO,OO in June. MRS. DE LEON IS SURE HUSBAND ISN'TDEM Chicago Police Attempt to Identify Body of Drowned Man as Contractor. "My h’usband will return. He is alive somewhere, and will come back to me. I am confident of that. I can not tell what has happened to him, but I have faith in his safety." That expresses the unwavering hope today of Mrs. Moise DeLeon, whose husband, the wealthy contractor, left Atlanta on August 6 for a fishing ex cursion and has not been seen since he left a Chicago suburb a few days later. Mrs. DeLeon has had no word from the missing man nor have any of his business associates received a clew to his present but they all feel confident that he will return. "We have no theory,” said Ronald Ransome, one of the receivers, today. "We just don't know, that’s all. But we shall go ahead with the work he left unfinished, stepping into his shoes as well as we can, and wait for news from him." Discredit Theory of Court House Worry. Mr. Ransome was inclined to dis credit the published report that Mr. DeLeon was worried about his court house contract, fearing he had submit ted a bld so low that he would lose. "We have gone over the papers,” ha said, “and while It is true that Mr. De- Leon's bld was the lowest by $22,000, he had been careful In his contracts for material, had bought at low figures and there Is no reason to believe that hs would not have cleared the profits he expected. “Whether we shaJl go ahead toward the completion of the court house work we can not say Just now. We are in structed to report next Thursday to the court, and the matter will be determined then. Mr. H. L. Fraser, the other re ceiver. is one of Mr. DeLeon’s office men and the work Is being carried on through the direction of the old office and hy the same force of men. About one-third of the work has been done. We shall engage experts to make esti mates on that and submit them to the court.” That Mr. DeLeon could have been involved financially seems impossible to Aie receivers, who have carefully gone over his accounts. They are confident that if any previously unknown credi tor existed he would have come forward since the wide publicity given Mr. De- Leon’s disappearance and filed his claim with the courts. But no such creditor has appeared, no unexpected debts have been discovered, absolutely nothing to account for DeLeon’s volun. tary absence has been found. Friends Fear Aphasia Attack. That the contractor, broken undet the strain of his several large under takings, is mentally unbalanced and wandering among strangers, Is a theory advanced by several of his friends. It may be that he has been attacked by aphasia, a mental shock which leaves one without memory, without knowl edge of one’s own name or residence But this is hardly likely, when it is remembered that DeLeon carried ample means of identification. He had a num ber of Masonic emblems, always car ried a quantity of papers bearing his name, and should easily be Identified in case of accident. The court house was the only piece of actual contract work Mr. DeLeon has under way. His men are at work on a number of other buildings, but these are being done for the owners on a percentage basis, and the owners will be permitted to complete them, reliev ing the DeLeon office of this responsi bility. As to the court house work, Mr. DeLeon is under bond for $244,060, twice the amount of his contract. In case the court decides not to permit the receivers to complete the work, the county commissioners will announce the default of the contract and the bonding company will then either com. plete the work or pay an Indemnity. Dispatches from Chicago state that P. A. DeLeon, a nephew who lives in New York, has arrived to assist in the search for the lost contractor. Young DeLeon visited the Chicago morgue to views the remains of a man killed by an automobile, but was positive that the victim was not his uncle. He stated that Moise DeLeon ha 4 about $2,600 in cash, several Masonic emblems and an expensive watch when he disappeared. The Chicago police are continuing the search, but have no real clew to lead them. CHICAGO. Aug. 26.—Police today at. tempted to identify the body of a man recovered from the river near Morton Grove as that of Moise DeLeon, of At lanta, Ga., who ■ mysteriously disap peared in Chicago. The description of the drowned man tallies in some par ticulars with that of the missing man. There were no marks of violence dis cernible on the body recovered from the river. Several boys saw it floating and summoned the'police. Nothing wa c found in the pockets that would estab lish identity. The body is thought to have been in the w ates for several days. 3