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THE WEATHER Forecast: Showers today and to morrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m„ 73 degrees: 10 a. 73 degrees: 12 no°n, 75 degrees: 2 p, m., 78 degrees. VOL. XL NO. 32. ■MH MDKIILED FORSLUR OlflFE Dr. A. Lee Curtis Goes to Mis sissippi Town to Help His Relative at Trial. _ I VICTIM WAS ACCUSED OF DEFAMING WOMAN 1 ' Slayer. Former Atlantan, De clares He Shot Book Dealer 1 in Self-Defense. i i Di, A. Lee Curtis, proprietor of sev eral drug stores, and a former councils ■ man. left today for Jackson. Miss., to aid his brother. W. H. Curtis, who is held in jail there for killing J. H. Hel :on last Sunday. Young Curtis shot Helton dead with an automatic pistol, , and then surrenderee] to the police. The , kil’ing was the aftermath of a fight be- ’ tween the two men, and the trouble f grew out of alleged remarks by Helton * r< fleeting on Curtis’ wife. I W. H. Curtis was well known in At- j lanta. where he lived untfl a few_ years ( ago Two brothers reside here—A. L. j and H. C. Curtis —both druggists. For j two years XV. fl Curtis has been living in Jackson. ; Dispatches from Jackson say that . Helton was sitting in the office of Dr. , A. S. Applewhite when Curtis came in. , The doctor heard Helton make an ex ■ , Carnation. and turned to see him facing < the door, with a pistol in his hand. > Then a shot was heard, but by this time the physician had taken to his heels. Turning back at the foot of the i -■tairs. he saw Curtis coming dow> with ; a revolver in his hand. Helton Is Struck By Six Bullets. The place was soon filled with men drawn by the shots, and it was found that Helton had been struck by six bul lets. Curtis had used a rapid-fire au tomatic pistol, and had emptied it into Helton's body. The slayer went to the police station and gave himself up aft er the tragedy. Curtis will enter t plea of self-de- ' sense. it is reported, but he steadily has ■ refused to discuss the case with news- : paper men or officials. His relatives say that when he entered the physi (inn's office, he saw Helton draw his pistol, and fired first. ( The dispatches state that the shoot ing followed an encounter of several weeks ago. when Helton was badl) beaten by Curtis and L. A’. Sykes, the father of Mrs. Curtis. It was asserted then that Helton had made remarks reflecting on Mrs. Curtis’ character. ( Some time previous Helton had sued ( Curtis and Sykes for SIO,OOO damages. , alleging defamation of character, and ( it is alleged that he wrote Mrs. Curtis ? . letter agreeing to withdraw the suit. . provided she would meet him for an. interview. It is alleged that she gave 1 this letter to her husband, and the beat, ing followed. Mrs. Curtis and her father have vis ited Curtis in jail, and their meetings cere affectionate, but all refuse to dis uss the case further than to say everv thing will come out at the trial. , Curtis and Sykes arc engaged in , building ami contracting .work, while i Helton "as in the book business. Ho ' was a young man. and went to Missis sippi from Kentucky several years ago. ’ I REFORMATORY fight IS TAKEN INTO COURT - BY RICHMOND BOARD ; AUGUSTA. GA., Sept. 10. —The Rich- 1 mond county commissioners are suing ! ihe Richmond county reformatory for ( *60.000, which the county has expend ed on the latter institution since its ■ existence of twenty years. As long ( as Judge W. F. Eve was commissioner 1 of roads and revenues the reformatory . "ns unmolested, but when E. F. Ver- 1 'i’-ry was made chairman of the board of five commissioners the trouble start ed. I he county commissioners have been the enemies of the reformatory, hold ing that it is a useless institution. ' However, 26 consecutive grand juries ! hate indorsed the institution. Ihe commissioners want to thro" ' J 1 ’’ < foi niatory in bankruptcy by get- !i ~ a judgment of $60,000 against it. , neeting of the commission' rs ( G H Nixon made a motion io drop the suit until after the 2d of!’ when the peoplt of Richmond!' ounty will vote on whether or not thei I ' ant a reformatory The motion was,* 1 thrt” i,, two. and the ease "ill . ' -'i' H-.tu-r’ay before Judgtl; «tnrj c Hamnwry • ? » The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Women of Savannah Plan League to Solve The Servant Problem Only Good Negroes Will Be Al lowed to Register—None But These Will Be Hired. SA\ ANNAH, GA.. Sept. Hl. At a meeting at the armory September 15 to organize the Housekeepers Protec tive league, it is probable there wi<! be present not only a majority of the housekeepers of Savannah, but a num ber from other Georgia cities. Since the announcement of the fact that local housekeepers have decided to inaugurate an active campaign for an adjustment of the “servant problem,’’ interest in the project has spread with remarkable apidily. Among those who have written commending the scheme are a number of south Georgia house keepers. It is the purpose of those back of the movement to have all th? housekeep ers of Savannah join in a protective association and establish a central em ployment bureau, under the supervision of the league, with an experienced man ager in charge. All the good servants will be registered at this bureau. The members of the league will be pledged to employ no servants who are not so registered. The fact that worthless ne groes could no longer obtain employ ment would be calculated to have a dis tinct beneficial effect upon the race ALEXANDER SPENT $2,259 IN CAMPAIGN. H. H. PERRY $10,367 Hooper Alexander's expenses in his race for the Democratic nomination for governor were $2,259.42, according to a statement filed with the comptroller general today. Os this amount, the candidate ex pended $683.42 of his own money. $1,411 from friends in Atlanta and elsewhere throughout the state. $162 from friends in Waycross and $63 from friends in Rome. By fat” the larges’ amount 'spent by any one of the unsuccessful candidates, and the second largest amount spent in the entire state campaign, win or loge, was that distributed by H. H. Perry, of Gainesville, unsuccessful candidate for the United States senate against Senator Bacon. Colonel Peryy spent $10.36182 The Alexander items covered railroad fate, clerk hire, hand bills-and a small amount of newspaper advertising. The Perry items covered a large amount of newspaper advertising, rail road expenses and clerk hire. FATHER GIVEN 10-DAY JAIL SENTENCE FOR “STEALING” HIS SON Rudolph Getter, recently arrested in Macon and brought to Atlanta to an swer a charge of kidnaping his three year-old son. Theodore, was given a sentence of ten days in the county jail by Judge George Bell, in superior court, today for "stealing” the child from its mother. The child, who was with Getter’s sis ter. Mrs. R. R. Smarr, at Griffin, was in court and announced that he had rather be with his mother than his father. He was given to Mrs. Getter, who took him to her home at No. 9 Nesbit street Mr. Oetter recently took Theodore from the child's mother and took him to Mrs. Smarr’s home, at Griffin. He left the child there, then went to Ma con. where tie vas found several days later by the police. He surrendered and was returned to Atlanta EAST S IDE SUBURBS BEGIN CAMPAIGN FOR GOOD ROADS TO CITY Citizens of Kirkwood. East Lake. Lake view and west central DeKalb county will meet Thursday night. September 19, to protest against the fact that they pay taxes without getting anything in the way of returns in road improvement. They will gather at the Kirkwood audi torium to organize an improvement club. A name has not been selected, but it is likely that the organization will be called the West DeKalb Improvement club. At a meeting held last night at the residence of Stephen A Hook, at La Re view, a committee of five was appointed to draw up a constitution and by-laws. This committee will meet tomorrow’ at noon at the office of H. Clay Moore and start work on the constitution The new organization will encourage the building of a direct paved road from East Lake, through Lakeview and Kirk wood to Atlanta. It is planned to work on the Boulevard DeKalb and to get It connected with Moreland avenue. ITALIAN WARSHIPS BOMBARD TURKISH SEAPORT SUDDENLY CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept 10 Italian warships off the coast of Asia Minor re sumed their activity today, bombarding the port city of Scalanova, 50 miles south of Smyrna. According to advices received here, an Italian fleet appeared suddenly off the city, at the sight of which many real dents fled It was thought that the batle ships were looking for Turkish merchant men. but suddenly the ItaUan ships opened fire and later steamed away ft is reported that several were killed and wounded and that a number of build ings were demolished. The island of Samos lies * fT Scalaio The city lies a few miles south of Uie famous ruins • of Ephesua PARDLENOW IN SIGHT FOR 31-YEAR CONVICT Sentenced for Mysterious Mur der, Jolly’s Plea Refused by Six Governors. WOMAN’S DEATH KEPT SECRET FOR 2 YEARS Brown Inclined to Free Him. But Insists He Must Not Seek Pardon. Governor Joseph M. Brown has prac tically dele'mined to parole James Jol ly. a white man convicted of the murder of a woman in DeKalb county more than 31 years ago. and who has served the state as a convict ever since in a most exemplar) manner. Jolly was sent up for life for murder ing Victoria Norris, under most pecu liar circumstances, and his petition for clemency has been passed upon ad versely by no less than six governors preceding Brown, and once by Blown himself. The governor today made up his mind to parole Jolly, if it can be done with an understanding that (he parole is not to be used as a stepping stone to a pardon. The present governor will not pardon Jolly. Jolly is now over 62 years of age. He began his term of service in April, 1881, four years after the crime for which he was sent up wa_s committed. Dedared Excitement Killed the Woman. The murder took place in 1877, so long ago that there are now no rec ords of it to be found. The trial was held in DeKalb, under Judge George Hillyer the present rail road commissioner, and Judge Ben Hill, of the present court of appeals, was the solicitor general handling the state's case. Railroad Commissioner Murphy Candler's father was one of the attor neys for the defense. According to a statement filed with the governor by Jolly, he was con victed of killing the woman, purely on circumstantial evidence. She was found dead in a wagon. When last seen alive by witnesses, she was riding toward town in that wagon with Jolly. Jolly says he never killed the roman, but that he did insult her. and in resenting the insult, became excited and fell from the wagon, breaking her neck. Death Concealed For Two Years. Jolly for fear he would be suspect ed of murder, took the body into the woods and buried it. For several years after the death of the woman Jolly wrote, or caused to be written, letters to the woman's people In Alabama, tell ing of her supposed iife in DeKalb, and assuring her kinsmen that she was get ting along all right. Finally something aroused the suspi cions of the woman’s people back in Alabama and investigation disclosed the woman’s death, more than two years back. Jolly was arrested, and told his side of the story . He led a searching party to the woman's grave, deep in the woods, and the body was exhumed. De spite its total decomposition, it was identified by certain pieces of cheap jewelry found with it. Jolly was tried and convicted of murdering Victoria Norris, and for more than tirty years he has served in the Georgia penitentiary in atonement of his alleged crime. During all these years Jolly has stout ly maintained his innocence. He Im pressed many of his penitentiary asso ciates with the justness of his conten tion —that he really had not murdered the woman. James W. English, then employing Jolly in the Chattahoochee brickyards, wrote the governor at one time interceding for Jolly, but without avail. Governor Brown is not convinced of the entire truth of Jolly’s story, but ho inclines to parole him. upon the recom mendation of Judge Ben Hill and for , mer Judge Hillyer. Both these officials ’ heretofore have refused to recommend clemency, but yesterday they reversed their former attitudes, and the governor accepted their recommendations in good faith. Governor Brown thinks that Jolly has perhaps been confined at hard labor as long a“ humanity and a due regard for the law and the fitness of things de mand. He will release Jolly on parole because of his good conduct and faith ful work as a convict. Jolly has long been a “trusty” in con vict camps, and might have escaped dozens of times, had he eared to, If the governor finds that he can le gally parole .Toll,', with a condition at tached that he is not to apply for a full pardon, the parole "ill issue. If the 1 govcrnoi finds otherwise, it may or may not issue, i ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 1912. I RUSH OF HOMECOMERS [BREAKS R. R. RECORDS | Himself: Nicks His Ear M ACON. GA., Sept. 10. -Charles I. «ier Macon man. came anta last night and tade his wife to return dm. but she refused. h“ bought a pistol. sat mirror and tired three >rt to kill himself One n ear. another cut off a nd the third tore the hat. Policemen then irrested him for shoot limits. rs that upon his release nish the job. utes his bad aim to // k> * bSMIF MffW MH JiKil > 1 r I MB! mHMI SI it 1 MBSS-w g ffi —WK' I ’ BgfrSd ImhH Ww L’ • IbMme fIH Wrjfr *-- - S i A pretty homecomer at the Union station and just a few of the trunks the baggage men are wrestling with these days as the last vacationists hurry back to Atlanta. • ..J, IS INDICTED FOR SEILING VOTES More True Bills Are Expected From Morgan County Grand Jury Investigation. MADISON. GA., Sept. 10 -Fourteen men have now been indicted on charges of selling their votes and one, Glover Walker, on charges of buying votes by the Morgan county grand jury in ses sion here. Twelve men were indicted yesterday and three were added today. Bench warrants have been served on all th defendants. The men under charges are all farm ers of Morgan county and some of them prominent men. There remain a num ber of witnesses to be examined and many other indictments are expected. The grand jury is working slowly but painstakingly and seeming without re gard to personal feeling or political connections. The following men are under indict ment for selling their votes in the coun ty primary last May; U. T. Almand. G. T. Adams E. M. Hooper J. M. Hooper. G. L. Hooper. J. H. Hooper. M. B. Moody. E. F'. Heater. Daws Ruarks. P. C. Ruarks. W. W. Harper. W. H. Harper Berry Farmer. Bud Haynes. The grand Jury reconvened at 9 o'clock this morning and resumed the examination of the few remaining wit nesses to be called. Other indictments are expected. It is generally understood that the actions now being brought are aimed not so much to punish for past offenses as to prevent repetition of the corrupt practices. The movement "as put under way because of public Sentiment aroused by the flagrant and open corruption in the county primary. The foreman of the grand jury is Hon. Grant l> f»< it y. a 1 wealthy plAntet and -cnatoi-cleet from •the Twenty-eighth di trict. I- Railroad Employees Kept Hus tling by Rush- School Open ing Closes Vacation. Trunks piled to the ceiling of the baggage room, leaving aisles so nar row a fat man could not pass through; rumbling trucks bringing a dozen more so; the stack; the great elevator creak ing up with a heavy load; more trucks beside the tracks below with negroes snatching baggage from the train just arrived; wagons clattering up the sta tion and bearing away cargoes which make’the horses strain at their collars; a horde of men and women, dusty from the train and tanned dark brown from exposure clamoring to be waited on. That’s the scene at me Terminal sta tion these first days of September. "De mo’ dey come, de wuss dey git My back’s done broke smashin' bag gage," grumbled Eph Wiggins, one of the husky roustabouts. “Hit looks to mo like eve'ybody in Gawgy done tuk a notion to < omo home f’um de springs de same day." Surely all Atlanta, has been away on a vacation, to judge from the scones at the station. Th« trains have been bringing them home forth- past ten days in such number that extra cars have been required to transport them. The Terminal station has handled from 3.000 to 4,000 pieces of incoming baggage a day. One train from the East b'Ollght in UDO pieces a day or two ago. “It’s the opening of school.” said the veteran baggageman. “Everybody wanted to get home in time to buy the kids some new duds and send them off to school today. Most everybody’s back now.” He stopped to explain to a pretty girl with a bag of golf dubs that the big trunk with R. A. J. in white letters on the end really had not come in. Then lie insisted that the three truhks and a bird cage for I'mpsty-Steen West Peachtree had started on their way two hours before. “Folks are unreasonable." he con tinued. "They can't expect the trans fer companies to keep < nough teams and wagons to handle the traffic in an hour whin a rush like this is on There's b6und to be. some delay. "It's the biggest season we > u-i ha ' Atlanta folks mu-t be prosm -ou- hum the way they’re traveling this tea They’re going East to the lashionabu resorts and out to tip fa Northwest in the fishing <oim: Tin- . a., a lot of I units coming - auh Eut-pean iu dels on them, too.” CUMMING NEGRO CAUGHTBTPOSSE Black Said to Have Confessed Complicity in Girl’s Death. Town Aroused. i . , CUMMING, GA.. Sept. 10.—The eap i ture today of another negro, charged with being accessory to the murder of a young girl eight miles northeast of Cumming yesterday, has stirred to fever heat the community which had become quiet with the safe imprison ment in Atlanta of the man who con ' fessed the crime. The streets are fill ed with men from the surrounding hills, bearing shotguns and pistols. The negro was caught near the scene of the crime by citizens, and news came to Cumming that he had ■ confessed complicity rhe sheriff and a party of men bit at once for the scene in - automobiles, but nothing has been heard from them. The telephone wires ate working badly and nothing can be learned from the point where the ne gro wa,s eaught. Whether he was lynch ed before the arrival of the sheriff -Is uncertain. Although Ernest Cox, the confessed slayer of an 18-year-old girl, locked safely in the Atlanta Tower, and the six negroes charged with previous crimes held in jail at M irietta, the lit tle town of t’ujnming. in Forsyth coun ty, is far from quiet, today, although . none of tin- negroes is within reach of . violence. Feeling in the county is such that the authorities refused to take the ( six n- groes from Marietta to Cumming i today to face a preliminary investiga tion, and they w ill r< main in Marietta until they have been indicted and their trial called. A preliminatv homing at Cumming has be* n set for next week but prob i able it will be abandoned, as the sher- j iff believes it would mean the negro’s eei tain d nth if he wer taken back Into Forsyth county so soon after his crime. Ilipiiieie- from Cumming today sa.. i th- town seething witli bittirness against tile negroes, but there was no disorder during the night. Twenty special deputies, arnmd w ith rifles, pa- I rolled the tow n all night but there wa- no effort b\ the people to vent | Hu i- w r till on iinvie nt negroes, and no , trouble was reported. HOMt imhoS 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE CANBLES FOR HIGHERTM umioiio SCHOOLS Acting Mayor Urges Jump From 1.25 to 1.50 to Re lieve Situation. “EVERY BOARD SEES ONLY ITS OWN NEEDS” New Teachers Needed, and Crowded Condition Reported in Many Schools. Replying to the appeal of the schools department for more money than tg provided in the budget. John S. Cand ler, acting mayor, declared today that the tax rate of Atlanta should be in creased from 1.25 per cent to 1.50 ppi cent. "Every department In the eftv Is suf fering from a lack of money,” he said “With our present income, we can not do what is expected to he done and what ought to be done. "The more I study the workings of ) our system, with Its many hoards the nearer I am convinced that one board should supervise all the city depart ments." continued Aiderman Candler. “Without meaning any reflection on the members of the boards, the situation is simply that any one board does not see further than Its department.” I New Teachers Needed At Once. A committee of the school hoard re ported to the mayor today that a num ber of new teachers were needed im mediately. Though no appropriation has been made for the salaries of addi tional teachers. Alderman Candler ad vised that the teachers be hired. In a number of the schools there are from 30 to 40 pupils more than can he taught by the present corps of teach ers. The need of two new teachers for each of the Fair Street and English Avenue schools is imperative Many of the school buildings are terribly over- • crowded. Acording to Superintendent SHaton’s report. Summit Avenue school, a negro school has twice as many pupils as there is teaching capacity and school room for. The negro schools all over the city are overflowing. Aiderman Candler said the Indica tions were that there would be an in- I crease of 2,0n0 In school children this year. official figures at the office of the su- I nerintendent of schools show the first day's attendance to have been 20,337 exclusive of the Glenn Street white school, the Virginia Avenue negro school and the four night schools. Ac cording to Superintendent IV. M. Sla ton. the opening attendance means 23,- 000 pupils for Atlanta schools for the year of The matter of transfers, which has ■ caused crowding In some instances, will , be settled this afternoon at a meeting of principals held in the superintend ent s office. It will be necessary to '■all a board meeting to arrange addi tional quarters for the students of the Boys Technological High school In Ma rietta street. Yesterday’s attendance was a distinct surprise and the quar ters provided by the board were found to he inadequate. Dr Robert G. Stephens, chief medi cal Inspector, today will begin exam ining pupils said to have gained en trance with tht vaccination certificates which do not comply wiyi the All children not properly vaccinated will be dismissed. Superintendent Slaton said that the board was in need of eight supernu merary teachers at once. A compe tent instructor for the deaf and dumb department, which is to be established at the Ashby Street school, also is sought. ARKANSAS VOTES TO REMAIN WET A WHILE LITTLE ROCK, ARK., Sept. 10.— State-wide prohibition has been de feated, according to returns up to noon today from yesterday’s special election. The Democrats rolled up a large ma jority for the state ticket. The result of the vote on the grandfather clause la v is in doula, but indications are it has been defeated. •SAYS CArTeRK INJURED STOMACH: ASKS 530.00 C MA<’<>N. i;\, Sept. in.—Doclarinj his stomach was dislocated by a stree ear turnirfk a sharp curve at a rapic talc Lucius D. Johnson, a local insur am- man, has brought suit against the Mfieon Railway and Light Company for I $36,000 damages.