Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 17, 1912, EXTRA 2, Image 1

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the weather I Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: generally fair "Tuesday and Wednes day. VOL. XL XO, 38. HUD BULES 111 Will 01 SMOKE Council to Make Regulations Stricter as Result of Effort to Modify Them. MAYOR FIGHTS MOVE TO ABOLISH HIS BOARD Effort to Wipe put Commission Is Held Up by Its Resolve to Rescind Action. Leaders in council planned today to draft a more rigid smoke ordinance than is now in force, as a result of the efforts of the smoke commission to Wi lken the present law. If the smoke commission is not abol ished. itj power will be lessened. Coun it itself will dictate what law shall be enforced. There is particular opposi tion to the phrase of the smoke ordi nance which says that no prosecution shall be conducted against a violator of the -moke ordinance without the con sent of the smoke commission. Coun cilmen say the duty of the commission is to enforce the law made by council. No action was taken at the meeting of council yesterday afternoon. The whole affair has been left to the ordi nance committee, which will meet on October 1 and allow a public hearing. Winn to Fight Wiping Out Board. Beta use of the declaration of Chair man Harwell, of the smoke commis sion, that the board would rescind the rules which amended council's ordi nance. the movement to abolish the board is temporarily held in check. Mayor Winn, who appointed the smoke commission, has informed Coun cilmen Charles W. Smith and Claude C. Mason, the two members of the ordi nance committee who have publicly an nounced that the smoke commission should be abolished, that he would veto any measure of council's abolishing the commission. The plan to abolish the commission, appointed by Mayor Winn to supervise the abatement of the smoke nuisance, grew out of the belief that a majority of the members of the commission were not in sympathy with the move- 1 nt. Mayor Winn appointed them after careful consideration. Aldermen John S. Candler, James E. wren and Councilman Clarence Hav erty, the other members of the ordi nance committee, all said that the smoke nuisance must be stopped, and that the ordinance of council was very liberal. They added that they wanted investigate the matter before ex pressing a definite opinion as to what r, ’:l'] be done in the conflict between im ilmen and the smoke commission. POLICE CHIEF OUSTED IN VICE CRUSADE LED BY VIRGINIA BROOKS CHICAGO. Sept. 17.—Mayor Wosz cyznski. of West Hammond, is sitting the lid today. Chief of Police Tul ’ is hunting a job and tonight a r ad of the police department will bi inducted into office. I this Is the result of the anti-graft usade headed by Miss Virginia B v "oks. The crusade reached a dra- 1 climax in the hearing last night °ri the city council in which the chief was ousted. After the vote announced deputy 1 sheriffs were d upon to preserve order so threat ening was the attitude of the allies of th. vice ring. : • chief was found guilty of en ' • uraging wide-open conduct of vicious of allying himself with the sa ’n k. t.'pers, and of disobeying the or "rs of the mayor to clean up the town | POLICEMAN AND TWO CHILDREN BITTEN BY A DOG WITH RABIES * I 'biunted Policeman Roberts, Kath "n Quinn. 8 years old. and Homer ' utiai in. i> are being given the Pas b'Ur treatment at the state board of dth today as a result of being bitten rabid dog which terrorized McAfee '■t yesterday afternoon. ' 'meet Roberts was bitten in a battle 1 the dog in a room in the Quinn Before the policeman could ' " h the animal unconscious with a 1 1,1 the dog sank its teetli into the "f his leg. inflicting an ugly wound. Kathleen Quinn and Homer Entracli |’ dog's Other two victims, were Ir • r, ‘d but slightly. The Quinn girl wis '•> on the thigh, and tin Entrauln on the linger The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Blind of Macon Form Club; Only Sightless Can Join Organization I Launched With Membership of Nineteen—Will Campaign Against Street Mendicants. MACON, GA., Sept. 17.—A blind man s ciub. whose membership is re- I stricted to men absolutely sightless, : was organized here today. There are now nineteen members, but more will be added. The organization is headed by Professor Cheatham and Judge Bur nett. i The club will conduct a campaign 'against blind street mendicants. It is the aim of the organizers also'to dis cuss at the club's meetings topics of special interest to the sightless and means of mutual assistance. This is the first club of its kind in the South. 'FAMILY RECEPTION IS PLANNED BY THE REAL ESTATE MEN Real estate men are planning to turn their October meeting into a reception for their wives and women friends, and a committee headed by M. C. Kiser, one of the most popular among the bachelors of the real estate board, Is hard at work on the details. Just where or how the entertainment will be carried out has not yet been decided, but the affair/will be made the largest gathering of the year among the board members. At the monthly dinner, which is to be held at 7 o’clock Friday night, at the Case Durand, Ralph O. Cochran, former president of the board, who has been elected to the legislature, will discuss legislation immediately pertaining to ma terial resources and business interests of Georgia. All members of the board have been sent special invitations to be present and listen to this address, and to discuss the initiation of the real estate exchange and plan of exclusive listing which is to be put into oj>eration October 1. A custom recently started by the board is for different members to act as hosts and furnish the “smokes” for the even ing T. C. Holmes, of Holmes & Luckie, has been selected for this honor Friday night, and will preside at the meeting. BINDER TRUST HEADS NOT TO GET CHANCE OF IMMUNITY BATHS CHICAGO, Sept. 17.—Cyrus H. Mc- Cormick, president of the International Harvester Company of America; Geo. W. Perkins, Charles Deering and others instrumental in the formation of the company’s organization will not be called in the present hearing of the government's dissolution suit against the concern. This became known today with the resumption of the taking of testimony in the case here. The government attorneys have de cided not to call these men in order not to administer immunity baths such as were given the packers. If these men appeared in the civil suit they w ould be immune from prosecution In any crim inal action that might he brought later. Alexander Legg, assistant to Clarence S. Punk, general manager of the con cern, was the first witness at today's hearing. TWO HOLD-UP VICTIMS BELIEVED TO BE HELD CAPTIVES BY NEGROES SAVANNAH, GA.. Sept. 17.—N0 word has been received from Leon Fisher and P. Gorowitch. who were held up by a hand of negroes while on theii* way from a lumber camp, near Dorchester, to the railroad station, and who have been missing since that time. Isadore Fisher, brother of Leon, one of the men who fled to the woods when the wagon was stopped and the Hunks taken off, has gone to Minesvllle to confer with the Liberty county sheriff. Tlie missing men are believed to be wandering about in the woods near Dorchester. They may have been killed or wounded or held captives. The ne groes were said to have been led b\ a white man. BARBOUR THOMPSON UNDER THE CARE OF VIRGINIA PHYSICIAN RICHMOND, VA.. Sept. 17.—J. S. I Barbour Thompson, president of the I Atlantic Compress Company, is a pa- Itient at Johnston-Willis sanitarium in this city, being under treatment for a I complication of ailments. It develops that Mr. Thompson was brought here from an Atlanta hospital two weeks ago to be under the special care of Dr. Douglas Vanderhoof, a i noted diagnostician. Mr. Thompson Is a nephew of the late John S. Barbour, former United States senator from Virginia and a leader of Democracy in this state in Reconstruction days, Mr. Thompson's condition is not re garded as particularly serious. He is receiving visitors at the hospital daili CHORUS CHOIR RESUMES. The chorus choir of the Central Con- ] gregational church will again meet to . night at 8 o’clock for practice Young i people with taste for music and who de- ] sire to receive Instruction in chorus sing I Ing under Hie direction of .Miss I'arria Porter have been invited to attend There I is tin charge fur instruction ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. 1912. ROOSEVELT PROMISES J SfECIIE SESSION Will Waste No Time in Putting Program Into Law if He Is Elected President. TO BEGIN A T ONCE ON REFORMS ADVOCATED Colonel Makes First Definite Statement of His Plans in Arizona Speech. TUCSON, ARIZ.. Sept. 17.—1 f Colo nel Roosevelt is elected president, he will at once call a special session of congress to enact the laws affecting in dustrial problems that he has advo cated during his campaign. This defi nite promise was made here today to an enthusiastic crowd of Progressives that had gathered to greet the colonel. In a brief outline of his program, made more definite than any yet given out, the colonel said that first he planned to extend the new order of things to the government service, then to the District of Columbia, where reg ulation of corporations could be at tempted: then to Alaska and finally to business in interstate commerce. The colonel, speaking earnestly and emphatically, told the crowd that he was in earnest in his purpose to find a way to curb the corporations and read just conditions so that the wage earner would get the advantage of defi nite government supervision of big business. Until his speech here the colonel had contented himself with a general statement that he would try to get leg islation enacted us soon as possible in case of his election. “My distinct purpose," he said, "is to have congress immediately take up the matter of establishing among the gov ernment employees the ideas 1 have advanced as to the shorter working hours, the minimum wage and work ingmen’s compensation. That is one phase of it. Congress has power to do it.” Reform to Start in Government Service. “In a special session the whole prob lem can be threshed out. The start will be made, as I have it in mind, right in the government's service, "The second step I have in mind is to put into effect exactly the same con ditions In the District of Columbia In the district, more than in the gov ernment service, we can carry out the ideas we have as to the government control of corporations. "My third step is to put the indus trial .scheme to practical work in Alas ka. Besides that, the government may extend its power over interstate busi ness. But that is something that will have to be worked out with great care "Now, I promise that this program will be faithfully carried out if I am elected. Within a short time after I assume the presidency —if the people decide they want me—l will issue a call for the extra session, and the work of establishing the new order will be gin." To get to Tucson, the colonel's itiner ary through Arizona had to be altered. He loft Los Angeles earlier than had been planned, and made a long run to reach here. From here the colonel goes to Maricopa, the first scheduled stop of the day. The day's run ends at Phoe nix. Bryan, on Stump, Hits Taft and T. R. GREELEY. COLO., Sept 17.—Char acterizing President Taft as a "man who went into office witli a plurality of a million and who will go out by unani mous consent." William Jennings Bry an has begun a campaign speaking tour that will end only with the dawning of election day The Nebraska commoner referred to Theodore Roosevelt as "the most dangerous man In the country." He attacked the third-term idea. Btyan will follow Colonel Roosevelt through many of the states in which the head of the Bull Moose movement will speak. GREEN PAPER SHOWER FOR HER DOG IS $1,200 NEW YoHK, Sept 17. Four-year old Maty Barrett picked up u satchel and dumped th- green paper it con tained over h-t dog Tlie 11.200 was dtopiHil by a woman who hysterically claimed it. LAST ALLEN CLANSMEN FINALLY OCCUPY CELLS Sfßw K * Il IK w ■• ■ > • ■ W' - 1/ ■ asfo® ■ Ley rr I. i IJW - I I I • ' I 1 IL II I I £no 1 ww Wesley Edwards, nephew ofi Sidna Allen, aiid a member of the gang. Two Missing Men in Virginia Prison After Capture in Des Moines, lowa. ROANOKE. VA„ Sept. 17.—Sidna Al len and Wesley Edwards are at last in a Virginia jail. The two Hillsville gun men captured Saturday at Des Moines. lowa, have arrived here in charge of their captors, and are now locked in cells. There was no demonstration, although the prisoners were greeted by crowds. Business in Roanoke almost stopped on their arrival. While Wesley Edwards is occupying a bunk in his cell in the city jail, his fiancee. Miss Maude Iroler, occupies a room in a hotel just across the street. The Allens who were already in jail here were delighted to see their kins men when they arrived. Floyd shook hands with his brother and greeted him heartily. There was a general all round handshaking, and when this was over, the two latest arrivals were given a cell close by those occupied by the others. Miss Iroler left here this morning for her home at Cana, Carroll county. She said that she knew her father would be angry, but that she was going home nevertheless. The two prisoners will have to be taken to Hillsville to answer the in dictments against them and then should a motion for change of venue be made this will have to be argued. While Sidna Allen expressed a wish to have his trial at Hillsville, it is certain that the commonwealth will ask for a change of venue. Nothing has been definitely decided concerning the rewards for the arrest of the men, but it is understood that Detectives i.ucas and Mundy will each get a third. VERSATILITY WINS PASTOR CALL TO A MACON CHURCH MACON. GA., Sept. 17.—Rev. Leroy M Anderson, of Ada. Okla., accepted the invitation of the First Christian church and preached two sermons to the congregation Sunday. He told the metnebrs that he win not only a min ister, but a printer a carpenter, a mu sician who played four Instruments, an ex-newspaper reporter, and the fattier of seven children The congregation, pleased with ills appear ance, his abil ity, his versatility, rind Iris record, voted unanimously to extend him a cull. He han accepted. Sitlna Allen, leader of the out law juing. PROTECTEDVICE CHARGE PROBED City Investigates the Opera tions of Private Sleuths Ac cused by Woman. The entire machinery of the city de tective department is in motion today in a searching investigation of the charges made to Police Chief Beavers by Mrs. Hattie Barnett, woman detec tive, to the effect that unlicensed pri vate detectives are furnishing protec tion to illegal houses. Following his conference with Chief Beavers, Chief of Detectives Lanford gave al] of his detectives specific in structions to spare no pains in arriving at the truth of the situation. As a re sult the workings of private sleuths will be closely scrutinized. So far Mrs. Barnett has had no fur ther conference with Chief Beavers, but she indicated she would within the next few days. This conference will be awaited with interest hy the police of ficials, as Chief Beavers has informed her that he can not proceed without definite evidence, and Mrs. Barnett has promised "something more Interesting." Both Chief Beavers and Chief Lan ford say they never have heard com plaint concerning any private detec tives. and that so far as they know the private detective business here is con ducted in a perfectly legitimate man ner. They say, however, that Mrs. Barnett's charges are of such a nature that they are compelled to make an investigation. COUNTESS’ BROTHER COMES TO IDENTIFY BODY AFTER 18 YEARS YORK, Sept. 17.—Through the testimony of Franz Menschlk, a postal clerk of Vienna, who arrived from Eu rope today, the Austro-Hungarian con sulate today expects to clear up the mystery surrounding the family of the Countess Rosa Menschlk Szabo, for whose murder Burton W. Gibson is held in Jail at Goshen, N. Y. Franz Men schik Is a brother to the countess, ac cording to the contention of the con sulate, and he will be asked to identify the body now interred at Jersey City as that of his sister whom he has not seen in 18 years. Menschlk was called from ids home as a witness before Surrogate Fowler when the local officials of the foreign government found that it would be es sential to have a blood relation testify before a case could be presented looking to the removal of Gibson us executor of the will of the countess. It will be necessary to exhume it for a second time. Gibson In ihs cell at Goshen insists that the young man will not be able to Identify the body for the reason that the woman buried In Jersey City is not his sister. The Issue Is clearly made by the Imprisoned lawyer, 20 KILLED IN COLLIERY. BERLIN, Hept 17. Twenty m--n were killed outright and a number of otheis wounded today In the eollapsi of a partition In the Augusta Victoria colliery at Hei kllnghau»--n In the W'-st phallan coal fieldt Rescue worker, at once entered the shaft. MIIS HU HUE TRAIN; MIL CM LOOT MT REACH J 300.000 F our Robbers Appear at Stevenson, Ala., Force Clerks to Throw Up Their Hands, Then Leave, After Search, With Three Registered Pouches. — Express and Passengers Not Molested, and Not an Occupant of the Pullmans Is Disturbed.. Posse Organized at Huntsville and Start iro Pursuit With Pack of Bloodhounds. CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Sept. 17,-Fonr bandits hold up and robbed the New York and Memphis east bound fast mail and express, known as the “Memphis Special,’’ on the Southern railway, at Steven son, Ala., 30 miles southwest of here, at 1:30 o’clock this morning bound the four mail clerks and got away with all the registered let ters and valuable registered mail. Postoffice authorities saythis sort of mail is very heavy, and the loss will reach $300,000. The express and passengers’! were not molested, nor was a sin-1 gle shot fired. When the train stopped at Stevenson for coal one j bandit rapped on the mail car door, saying “open it. this is McMahon, the conductor.” In stantly the door slid back and the mail clerk looked into the barrel of a revolver. One bandit jumped into the car and ordered all hands up. James Flint, one of the mail clerks, .attempted to pick up a Winchester rifle near him and the bandit told him quiet ly to "forget It and fall In line.” Flint, with his co-workers, Frank Hamlet. John Bruce and L. E. lowers, was lined up against the side of the car. One bandit tied their hands and feet and gagged their mouths so they could not call for help. Took Three Bags of Registered Mail. Three bandits stood guard. Before the registered mall was found the train started. It ran about fifteen miles, when one of the men pulled the train cord applying the airbrakes and bring ing the train to a stop. Taking three sacks of registered mail, the robbers jumped off and escaped. When Conductor McMahon came for ward he saw the mail car door open. Looking Inside he found the mail clerks bound. They were released and the train proceeded to Huntsville, Ala., where a posse was organized and sent back to the scene. The posse has a pack of bloodhounds. Conductor McMahon said the men were undoubtedly professionals. They went about their business coolly and deliberately without firing a shot or disturbing the nassengers in the sleep ers. SHOW GIRL’S HOME BESIEGED BY SWAIN ONE WHOLE NIGHT ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17.—Pleading on his knees before a photograph of Miss Margaret Mather that he be allowed to see her and tell of his love, resulted in Walter P. Walsh, a salesman, being sent to the observation ward of the city hospital. It was said there Sat urday he was affected mentally. Walsh, who is 33 years old. began a siege of Miss Mather’s home at 11 o'clock at night, and continued it until 11 o’clock next morning. Miss Mather’s brothers, Frank and Albert, Jr., were loath to cause his arrest, because the families long have known each other and are friendly. Miss Mather is nineteen years old ■ and one of the "Minstrel Maids" at the Princess theater. She was returning home at night when Walsh met her at the corner, near the Mather home. "I want you. Margaret,” he said. Miss Mather screamed and her brothers went to her aid. Walsh went to the Mather home and pleaded on his knees to be allowed to see the girl, Albert Mather said. When he was refused, he walked back and forth in the Mather yard until 3 a, m. He departed, but returned later and was admitted to the house. He imme diately fell on his knees before Miss Mather's picture and began to pray, Mather said. ACCUSED IN WAYCROSS SLAYING. SHOT BY OFFICER WAY<'R<»SS. GA. Hept. 17. Rich ard Knight died this morning from a gunshot wound, alleged to have been filed bi Aiiiok Jackson. Jackson was shot when h< resisted arrest, but was caughL EXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ R N fe ° + ——————— —-« CHILD POISONED; MILKMAN FINED • Gus Castle Appears Against Dairyman in Court—Girl Is Critically 111. z • Charging that his only child had ; been made critically ill by pofeoned milk. Gus Castle, president of the Cas tle Bicycle Company, with a residence at 99 West Peachtree street, apepared in court today in & dramatic arraign ment of C. H. Beuchler, who runs a dairy at Piedmont park. Beuchler was fined SSO and costa after Mr. Castle had declared that hia if his little girl, Lillian Augustus, di r d the dairyman would be responsible. He charged that Bouchier's driver had bought the milk “on the street" with out determining whether it was pure or not, and that the driver had said hen was acting on his employer’s orders. The girl was taken ill two weeks ago and was at the point of death on Sun day. but has rallied slightly since. When the fine was Imposed Beuchlen announced that he would appeal and 1 Judge Preston retaliated with a threat, to increase the penalty at once to s2oo* Beuchler said then that he was con tent to abide by the fine. Dr. Claude Smith, city bacteriologist* who was in court, announced that that health board was determined to vigor ously prosecute infractions of the mills laws to guard the lives of Atlanta chil dren. SCREAMS WHEN DAD, GONE 30 YEARS, EMBRACES HER ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17,-When D* Franklin Osborn, an aged farmer, of; Wichita. Kans., arrived at the National 1 stock yards, in East St. Louis, in charge of a load of cattle and met "Ben” A.| Welliever, an electrician at the yards,/ he was surprised to learn Welliever was the husband of his daughter,! whom he had not seen for 30 years. Osborn, then a carpenter at Oska loosa, lowa, left his wife and three; children to seek better employment, and. after a long Illness, lost track of his family. Welliever gave him his first clew of the whereabouts of the* others. Welliever and Osborn hurried to hie daughter’s home. He found her in the kitchen, rushed to her and grasped her in his arms. Mrs. Welliever, not rec ognizing her father, struggled to escape and screamed for help. He explained his identity, and. after passing the aft ernoon with his daughter and five grandchildren, departed for Hale, Mo., where he will visit a son whom he has not seen for 30 years. Osborn has since married and has eight children by his second wife. BELLBOY IS KILLED. MAID HURT, ON CYCLE <■< U,I’M Bi s. OHIO, Sept 17 —Ben jamin C. Atkinson, 22. was killed and Ivh Lyman. 24, was seriously injured at 1 o’clock this morning seven miles west of Columbus, when a motorcycle on which they were riding collided with a farm wagon Atkinson was a bell hoy at the Hart man hotel and Miss Lyman a chamber maid there.