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VOL. XL NO. 39.
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POLICE
Refuses Records Until Commis-1
sion's Consent Is Gained by
Investigators.
PRISON ASSOCIATION IS IN
SWEEPING INVESTIGATION
Secretary Weltner Says Many
Changes Are Needed—Probe
Recorder’s Court.
\r •nv.’.-•ligation of Atlanta police
rr-thod’ by the Prison Reform asso
ciation was temporarily blotked today
by the determined stand taken by Chief
It- ice Beavers. The chief Informed
Philip Weltner, secretary of the asso
ciation and the young lawyer who spent
i day in the ehaingang to learn how it
it. that tin police commission would
i to bi consulted before rhe de
nent s books and records .v mid be
mi i m inspection. He insisted that
ii-. rrl's consent be gained to the
r.l !(<■:.• activities around police
) headquarters.
Wi ltner spent yesterday in and about
r .-nnler's court, beginning what he ex
pects to boa two months study of the
. police system, which in the end
prison association hopes to revolu-
Weltners investigation will be
ait to demand access to all police
tr.oiiis, and that is what the chief ob
jects to without permission on the part
■f : police commission.
I 'l'm investigation results from reso
: adopted by the prison assocla
:i"ti spring calling for a more sci
, irifn administration of the Xtlanta
ii'partmcnt. These lesihi-ions
-üb-iiibcd io by a committ°e of
■ 'Tiamber of Commerce.
Weltner Thins
He’ll Get Records.
icipate no trouble in getting a
: to look over police records.”
| s.ii'l Weltm-r today. "Then I expect to
I pin in two months at police headquar-
I ins in an attempt to find put exactly
tin police department needs to
m.ikc it reach the individual offender
■'’ln ’ than the case.”
His plan contemplates an increase in
probation system, so that t-he pro
'ation officer will have power to look
| into the facts before the ease goes be-
r ('i' tin recorder. In this way Weltner
relieves that many cases can be dis
pn.'i'ii of out of court. At least, he as
serts. the recorder will get all the facts
obtainable before the trial, a thing not
oihlo under the present system.
"Atlanta should have fewer arrests."
M ' continued.
"Some real reform is needd in this
!i irr. When you consider that Judge
b s in a single year dismissed ",000
i a-es you can see what I mean. The
that ho dismissed these cases
i'cs that many of them should not
wve been made. A policeman is a
an of the peace, not t*i rely an
ai resting officer.
Urges City Map
0" Vice Centers.
noro complete system of statis
i.ceded for many reasons. At
tile police department, 1 un-
I. keeps no record of the cases
'•■d by the desk sergeant, except
■ history on the ‘blotter.’
i n' history of all cases should
'O that vice centers of the city |
be established. To this end a
i the city should be kept, in
the places in which most of
rr> -t- are made. I'pon the estab
t of vice centers, remedies can
TAKEN as kidnaper
AS HE TRIES TO FLEE
WITH HIS OWN CHILD
UNNAU GA., Sept. 18.—Ira M.
''ie. a printer, living in Winns
-I'., vas arrested at Central
) 1 and brought back to Savan-
■ 1 ' barge of abducting his two-
I I daughter. When found Lang-
I ~ clasping the child in his arms.
| biought to police headquarters
automobile used bv him in flee
) ' ; i'- city.
'"in Wept us the child was taken I
ui. His wife, f torn whom I
been separated several
looked on. apparently unniov-I
■hortly walked away with the i
1,1 her arms.
'•uber came to Savannah to es-i
' ' "nelliat top with his wifi, but i
'ld not see him. lie decured I
'i'lion was on the spur of the)
and that he did not come to'
to get the child.
"'lple w a mat ril'd till ee > eat s )
A ■Il I I bo i ", S <' , a 111 r n st ten
"‘"l ldp followed ll.' an elope I
1 iaitigdule wis then Hlxi' v>>|
i
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit— GEORGIAN WAN! ADS~Use For Results.
Crowd at Depot to
Meet Mail Bride-To-Be,
But She Fails to Come .
i
Georgian Wins Arkansas Widow
By Letter—Thinks She Yet j
Will Keep Promise.
HAZLEHURST, GA., Sept. 18.—Eli
sha Turner, a farmer of this county. 38 '
I years old. advertised for a wife and I
i was "taken up” by a widow living In •
Arkansas, who said she was 33 years
i old and had a son of twelve.
ft did not take them iong to agree to
■ wed, and Turner wired two tickets. He
■met the early train yesterday with the
I hope of avoiding publicity. The train ■
I did not arrive until 4 p. in. 'The secret
■ had got out and the station was packed 1
with cheering people.
The woman failed to arrive, and |
while Turner snowed signs of great dis- I
appointment, he says she will be here ’
on another train.
Before returning to his home, nine
'miles in the country. Turner arranged,
. to have a friend meet every incoming ;
: train.
WHO MARRIED JERRY’S
SISTER? THAT’S ISSUE |
IN MOYNIHAN CASE,
i ST. LX)LUS, Sent 18. Who married
I Kate Moynihan?
This question will become an issue in
the now famous contest of nearly 600
claimants for the $64,000 estate of .Jere
miah Moynihan.
When the ease is called before Judge
Holtcamp. Jeremiah and Daniel O'Connor,
of Oswego, N. Y., are expected to pre
sent their claim as Moynihan’s nephews,
based on the assertion that they are the
sons of Mrs. Katie Moynihan O'Connor,
Jeremith’s sister, who preceded him to
this country from Ireland and settled
in Oswego.
At a hearing. Welcome Sutliff Rich
ardson. of Hamilton. N. T., testified that
he was the son of Jeremiah Moynihan’s
sister. Mrs. Kate Moynihan Sutliff. whose
second husband was named Richardson.
He took his stepfather's name, he said.
His testimony contained nothing about
any marriage of Kate Moynihan to an
O’Connor. He introduced a photograph
which he said was that of his mother and
Moynihan.
LAWYERS AND JURORS
ILL IN WILCOX FROM
RAINiCOURT DELAYED
CORDELE. GA.. Sept. 18. —An epi
demic nf malaria fever and other kin
dred ailments, said to be prevalent
throughout the greater portion of Wil
eox county, resulted in superior court,
which was convened at Abbeville,yes
terday by Judge Walter F. George and
Solicitor Max Land, being adjourned
until the fourth Monday in October.
The malady is said to embrace law
yers. jurors and litigants of the court on
the sick list, and is attributed largely to
the excessive rains throughout the year,
as a result of which the Ocmulgee riv
er. on which Abbeville is located, has
several times been overflowed.
HUNGARY DEPUTIES
AGAIN RIOT: ATTACK
AND BEAT MINISTER
BUDAPEST. Sept. IS.—Rioting was
resum'd in the Hungarian chamber of
deputies today when the second day's
sitting opened.
Minister of Commerce Boothy was
attacked and knocked down and was
being beaten when rescued.
Fighting was started by the anti
government deputies who attacked the
pro-government representatives as soon
as the latter entered the chamber.
The demonstration grew furious al
the entrance of Count Tiza. president
of the chamber.
The ill-feeling originally resulted
from the government’s opposition to
electoral reform bills.
UNCLE REMUS’ HOME
WILL BE PURCHASED
AS MEMORIAL DEC. 9
At the first fall meeting of the Uncle
Remus Memorial association, held yes
terday afternoon at the Carnegie libra
ry, announcement was made that the
purchase of the Uncle Remus memorial
home was to be made on December 9,
which is the anniversary of the birth
day of the famous writer.
Mrs. A. McD. Wilson presided over
the meeting, a feature of which was an
! address bi Professor M 11 Wiggins, of
I Wofford college. Spartanburg. S. C.
FORCED TO LEAVE
CITY FOR IMPROPER
TALK OVER PHONE
Dock Stout, a barber in th Equi
table building, today sated himself)
front a fine in police court by volunta
rily exiling himself front Atlanta.
He told Councilman Guess, acting re
cord' r. that lie would immediately leave
the city and stay away, if he would not
! Impose a tine. The court agreed. Stout )
was arrest' d at .in early hour f"f using I
improper languagi over the telephone 1
in a drug store.
SHEEP LOCKED IN VACANT
HOUSE DIE OF STARVATION
GADSDEN LI.A.. S'| t Is Eighteen,
shei |i on II" Elliott fruit farm were'
found Iti' L'C in ' tU'.itit holts, les- )
terdat evening 'l'llei I'Uil starved to
(1...H1 V revard ha- lien "fi> red (or '
■.ln .ii.t and i "ti 11't lon of purt i* '
isuil'.' "t tin ' nit"
ATLANTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1912.
TRUSTSCAN
BE BROKEN
UP, SAYS
WILSON
I
In Speech Denies Assertion of
Roosevelt That Monopolies
Are Inevitable.
MOOSE PLAN SUGGESTED :
BY PERKINS AND GARY
I --- !
Wouid Give Interests Satis
factory Control of Labor,
Says Candidate.
MINNEAPOLIS. MINX. Sept. IS.—
G" ernor Woodrow Wilson. Democratic
candidate for the presidency, arrived in
Minneapolis today on his first Western
campaign trip. The Xew Jersey execu
tive was fresh and rested after la-st
night s address at Sioux Falls, and to
day plunged into a discussion of the
trust problem. He paid most atten
tion to the attitude <>f Theodore Roose
velt and the Progressive and trust
problem. In his speech here he said:
"The one proposition upon which this
campaign turns Is whether monopoly is
inevitable. That 1 deny. If monopoly
is Inevitable, then the thing to do is I
for the government to take hold of mo
nopoly and regulate it. If monopoly is
not inevitable, the law should break it
up and prevent it forming again.
‘ ‘ Combinations
Not Inevitable."
"I believe that monopoly can be
broken up. I understand that the lead
ers of the third party, who have a
great many attractive things in their
program, nevertheless start with the
proposition that the combinations are
inevitable and that the best we cat? do
is to establish an industrial commis
sion which will take charge of them.
"I deny the fundamental proposition
"The proposed method of regulating
the trusts was suggested in the inquiry
by the house of representatives. E. H.
Gary and George W Perkins. Carry
out tile plan and you will have given a
control in the market for labor which
will suit these gentlemen perfectly.
"I am not imagining these things. As
a friend of mine said, ’I am not argu
ing with you: I am telling you.’ These
are the actual facts of our existing in
dustrial system.”
"These are the actual facts of our
existing industrial system.” said the
governor. "Now. here is the parting of
tlie ways You say, 'Well, if we are
not going to regulate the trusts and
control them, what are we going to do'.’’
"Haven't you observed how tlie trusts
were built up? You say. 'Are you going
to return to the old-fashioned competi
tion?’ I say no. It is the old-fashioned
competition that enabled these men to
build up combinations.
Regulate Competition
His Alternative.
"Now, tlie alternative to regulating
monopoly is to regulate competition, to
say that to go into a community and
sell below cost for no other purpose < for
it can't be tlie purpose of profit) than
to squeeze out a competitor shall be an
offense against tlie criminal laws of
tlie United States, and that anybody
wiio attempts it will have to answer at
tlie bar of a criminal tribunal. ,
"We have been having trials and in
vestigations by congress, and we know
the processes of unrestricted competi
tion by which these men have accom
plished the setting up of their monopo
lies. and if we don't know how to stop
them, then the lawyers of this country
have lost their ingenuity and their in
telligence. I know scores of lawyers
who have been tlie intimate counsel of
great corporations and have never ad-|
vised them to do anything illegal, but |
there are a great many legal things that |
you can do now that will put tile little)
man out of business.
"And that is tin thing w< > t to'
change, not tlie lawyer You , an
| tlie law and then the whole atniusr'ieii
will clear. The law yer will be obliged I
Ito say, 'Yes. my dear sirs, that is al
very fine scheme, l»ut if you follow it i
you will get into the penitentiary You
haw been found out.’ ”
Clark and Gore at
Kentucky Rally
I .EXINGTt IN. KY Sept 18 The
l> moi ruts of Kentucky will foi iiially
j open the pi < sidential campaign In die
slut, with a ally hen tomorrow, al
whhli t’liamp ' link and Senatot Gore
I ..ill b' tin ihf si'cnk, s \n Im
linens. Inn fl,. ll' ■' which II I i.laiiU''.
1.1 feed 3",prisons', will lea I'cntuti
Hundreds Hear Health Expert Lecture at Auditorium
AGAIN URGES CITY CLEAN-UP
Dr. Oscar Dowling and Educa
tional Train Leave Atlanta
for the East.
"It is m\ plain duly to uige the eiticb
through which I pass tn clean up That
|is why I said Atlanta needed a vlean
. ing. I have never seen a cit\ that did
vol need the mop and the broom and
ihe hOJ*r. I knovx Atlajita does,” wa*
Dr. O>car Dowling’s parting shot to
I the Gate City when he left for Wasb-
I ington with his educational ’m «Ith trait-
I todaj.
"I really wanted tn tariy in your < ii v
especially to talk to the people on in-
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fant mo lality. I emphasized the meas
ures which will save the babies at the
Auditorium last night. I wanted to
talk to more Atlantans on this sub
ject."
Just as he uses motion pictures to
demonstrate the points of his lectures. |
so the health expert ’ believes strongly!
in the concrete method of illustration. I
His educational train, he asserts, is a
health sermon more glowing and com- j
prehensibb than any ever put into
words.
Shows Necessity of Good Air.
"Nothing." continued Dr. Dowling,
"has Impressed upon people the neces
sity of fresh air for babies as much as
my little electrical model illustrating
the principle of ventilation. I have ex
plained the principle to hundreds and
ten understood, but every one gets the
meaning of the model. The whole prin
ciple of ventilation is acquired at a
glance.
"That is what 1 have tried to do with
the (lain. To place the main features
.of public health work before everybody
in a simple hut forcible manner.
The train, which left Atlanta today
for Washington will be parked tor a
day in Spartanburg. G eensboro and
Lynchburg, where Dr. Dowling will
speak. The train is expected to be the
featur. of the International Congress
of Hygiene. scheduled for Washington
September 23 to 28.
p r ling denied today that he ex-
I pected to r esign as head of rhe Louis
iana state board of health because <f
the clash with D . Sidney D. Porter,
[the hookworm expert. He declared the
I contest was simply one of authority.
Dr. Porter, he asserted, refused to fol
low the directions of the board and was
s uspended.
Hundreds Hear Lecture.
"Thert is nothing left for- him to do
.but to resign." said Dr. Dowling
Hundreds of Atlantans w.-nt to the
Auditorium last night to near th- lec
tor' Members of the Pulton County i
yp dical association, at whose behest I
Di Dooling came to Atlanta had given
his appearance publicity and Atlantans
turned out en masse
Th- Louisiana state educational train
was parked in tin Western and At
lantic yards yesterday at noon an!
throngs of people visited it during the
afternoon mid early evening In Dr
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Dr. Oscar Dowling, president of the Louisiana slate board of
health, who was in Atlanta yesterday with his health train,
warning a negro hoy not to carry milk through the streets in
I an open bucket.
ATLANTA POSTOFFICE
RECEIPTS SHOW BIG
GAIN OVER LAST YEAR
The Atlanta postoffice still continues
to mark the progress of the city. Post,
al receipts, in both first and second
class mail, for July and August show
a healthy gain over receipts for the
same months in 1911.
Statistics show that 3.706,20" pieces
of first-class mail passed through the
Atlanta office in July this year against
3,308,275 for last year. In August. 1912,
the receipts were 3.991.54" to 3,837,105
for August, 1911 For ttie first fifteen
days in September, 1912, the receipts
were 2,(190,4"" against 1,960,675 for the
same period, in 1911. The poundage ini
second-class mail for August. 1912. was
1.900,262. a big gain over last year.
WOMAN IN COUNTY
JAIL SINCE JULY 28
INDICTED AS SLAYER
\l>- Francis V Tedder, charged
with the murder of her husband, Frank
Tedder, at their home. I" Pittman ave
nue. in July, today was indicted by the
Pulton grand jury for the crime.
Mrs. Tedder has been in the county I
jail since July 2x. where she was placed I
shortly after the shooting. She has
be<m trying to gain her freedom The
courts failed to order her release.
COMMERCE CHAMBER
CALLS SMOKE MEETING
t meeting of the smoke cornmittt
tile Chamber of Commerce has been
called for Thursday afternoon by J. M
Vanllarlingen, chairman. The mem
bers of the city smoke commission and
the . mim fl’s ordinance committee have
been invited to attend
The ■ ffm t of tin smoke commission
to amend th. smoke mdinance and the
i oiuitvi movi mi nt of members of i
council to abolish the emmms-ion will I
1.. . mi-luereu
STEERS ON THE HOOF
BRING 11 CTS. POUND. I
HIGHEST SINCE WAR
< Hli'Allt). Sept. 18.—Several thou
sand dollars changed hands today at
the slock yards, where steers for the
first time since the Civil war sold for
sll a hundred pounds. The previous
high mark was made several weeks ago
w hen the price reached $10.90.
Not only was a new record set, bur
the quality of the steers was below
standard. Sonic of them were branded,
which mak'-s their high price seem even
high-r Then were sixteen of the cat
tle and they were bought by Armour &
Co. A .'car ago the same steers were
not worth more than SB.
Another feature of the stock yards
today was a consignment of steers fresh
from the ranges of North Dakota. The.,
had never tasted anything but grass
They bi ought $9.75.
The betting fans of the stock yards
are now preparing odds that the price
of first-class steers around Christmas
time will be sls a hundred pounds.
CAVALRYMAN. HELD AS
SLAYER. IS DISCHARGED
CHATTANOOGA TENN. Sept. 18.
Aubrey E. Mathews of Washington
city, private in the Eleventh United
i States cavalry, arrested recently charg
ed with the murder of Patrolman Clar
ence Livingston, was released this
morning there not being sufficient evi
dence to sustain the charge.
FOUR PRISONERS SAW OUT.
T<>LED<», onio. Sept. 18. —Four
■ prisoners confined in the Lucas county
I jail awaiting trial on charges of forgery
and burglary made their escape early
i today bv sawing the burs <>f their ceil.’
|on Hu -econd fliiot and dropping to the
ltd OU lid below,
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Girl Leading Hunt Gets Word
From McVicker—Contents
of Letter Kept Secret.
FOOTBALL INJURY OF
YEARS AGO BLAMED
Friend Believes DeLeon Disap
pearance and Despondency
Played Part in Mystery.
I. Herbert McViclcer, the bank cash
ier of Ellenwood. Ga.. who disappeared
mysteriously ten days ago. is known ti»
be alive and able to communicate with
his friends, though his present location
is still a mystery. His sister. Miss Ka
tie Lou McVicker, has let
ter from him in which he said he left
because he was despondent.
A blow on tlie head, received in ' a
football game at Locust Grove acade
my years ago, is believed by his friend
to be tlie cause of Herbert McVicker’s
strange disappearance from his home.
It was believed just after McVicker re.
ceived this injury that his brain would
seriously lie affected, but he soon re
covered and gave no sign of mental
trouble. His friends now believe that
Increased business .ares of the past
few months brought about pressure on
the brain from a piece of the fractured
skull, and resulted in McVicker's mor
bid despondency and his sudden deter
mination to disappear and abandon hi--
affairs.
Business Affairs
Found in Good Shape.
The letter received by Mjss McVick
er has not been made public, but a man
closely in touch with the .McVicker af
fair. who is in Atlanta today, said he
had learned that the letter bore the
postmark of a Western railroad, show
ing it had been mailed on a train, and
that McVicker did not divulge his pre*,
ent address. In the letter he merely
stated that unusual despondency led to
his disappearance.
For the past ten days the police of a
dozen cities, bank officials and friend'
have been trying to find the missing
bank cashier. An examination of his
books showed that he had not tampered
with the bank's cash nor was he in any
financial trouble other than worry over
some transactions pending which rev
quired a great deal of attention.
"Herbert had been building a cotton
gin and some other enterprises,” said
this friend today. "It was worry over
| increased responsibilities which caused
him to give up and drop out of the
world, lam sure. He had been used tr
working for a salary most of his life
and the increased worry of the past
few months was too much for him.
DeLeon Story May
Have Been Cause.
"His accounts are correct. He had
not touched the bank deposit of a firm
in which he is partner, but had drawn
only the small amount of cash in his
own personal deposit. His business af
fairs were all right, but they caused
him a great deal of worry. The case
seems to be almost identical with that
of Moise DeLeon, tlie Atlanta contrac
tor. it may have been that reading
newspaper accounts of DeLeon’s dis
appearance gave McVicker the idea of
quitting everything and leaving.
"McVicker was unmarried. He had
a sweetheart in Ellenwood, but she says
she had done nothing to make Herbert
leave. Their courtship had not been
broken off and seemed progressing as
usual.
"We folk in Ellenwood think Herbert
would willingly give a thousand dollars
to come back and resume his old life
without gossip about the past. We
wish he would return, for we all like
and admire him.”
$25,000,000 U. S. MONEY
MAY HELP MOVE CROPS
WASHINGTON. Sept 18.—Assistant
Secretary of tlie Treasury Bailey left
Washington today for Dublin. Ne.v
Hampshire, to eonf< r u ith Secretary
M " \ r.igli concerning the advisability
of extending $25,000,000 tn nationi 1
banks to prevent the impending mon ■
sttingency incident to (he movement
of crops.
Recent examination- of the nation ' 1
banks sliow a deci ease in reserv, in
the interim bank as city banks lia«
b i'll (Hllliig loans.
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