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VOL. XI. NO. 39.
CHEF ULIS
MK
PHDBEDF
POLICE
Refuses Records Until Commis
sion’s Consent is Gained by
Investigators.
PRISON ASSOCIATION IS IN
SWEEPING INVESTIGATION
Secretary Weltner Says Many
Changes Are Needed—Probe
Recorder’s Court.
An investigation of Atlanta police
methods by the Prison Reform asso
ciation was temporarily blocked today
by the determined stand taken by Chief
of Police Beavers. The chief informed
Philip Weltner, secretary of the asso
ciation and the young lawyer who spent
a da> in the chaingang to leA-n how it
f. It, that the police commission would
have to be consulted before th* .de
partment s books and iecords ,v m'd be
open to inspection. He insisted that
th>- hoard's consent be gained to the
reformers' activities around police
iiearioiinrters. •
Weltner spent yesterday in and about
s court, beginning what he ex
pects to be a two months study of the
local police system, which in the end;
the prison assoc i ition hopes to tevolu
tionize. Weltner's investigation will be
such as to <li oi..nd access to all polk e
records, and that is whit the -Wf ob
jects to without p'*r:nission on the part
>f the police commission.
The investigation results from reso
lutions adopted by the prison associa
tion last spring < ailing for a more sci
entific administration 'of the ttlanta
police department. These . os* >bi”ons
wef subscriber to by a committee of
the chamber of Commerce.
Weltner Thinks
He'll Get Records.
“1 anticipate no trouble in getting a
permit to look over police records,
said Weltner today. "Then I expect. :
put in two months at police headquar
ters in an attempt to find out exactly
what the police department needs :o
make it reach the individual offender
rather than the case."
His plan contemplates an increase in
the probation system, so that the pro
bation officer will have power to look
Into the facts before the case goes be
fore the recorder. In this way Weltner
believes that many cases can be dis
posed of nut of court. At least, he as
serts. the recorder will get all the facts
obtainable before the trial, a thing not
possible under the present system.
"Atlanta should have fewer arrests,”
he continued.
"Some real reform is needd in this
matter. When you consider that Judge
Broy ! . > in a single year dismissed 3.0(10
cases you can see what I mean. The
fact that he dismissed these eases
proves that many of them should not
have been made. A policeman is a
guardian of the peace, not i* rely an
a:resting officer.
Urges City Map
Os Vice Centers.
"A more complete system of statis
tics is needed for many reasons. At
present the police department, I un
derstand, keeps no record of the cases
dismissed by the desk sergeant, except
the brief history’ on the ‘blotter.’
A real history of all eases should
bp kept, so that vice centers of the city
could be established. To this end a
map of the city should be kept, in
die ing the places in which most of
the rrests are made. Upon the estab
shnu'nt of vice centers, remedies can
h ‘ applied.”
taken as kidnaper
AS HE TRIES TO FLEE
WITH HIS OWN CHILD
savannah, ga„ sept, is.—-ira m.
Langdale. a printer, living in Winns-
S. ('., was arrested at Central
I’ini tion and brought back to Savan
"ti a charge of abducting his two
!-old daughter. When found Lang
' was clasping the child in his arms,
was brought to police headquarters
1,1 ’he automobile used by him in flee
ing the city.
'h' man wept as the child was taken
him. His wife, f rom whom
has been separated several
r ’hs. looked on. apparently unmov
"Ud shortly walked away with the
in her arms. ,
" father came to Savannah to es
t a reconciliation with his wife, but
would not see him. He deeared
bduction was on the spur of the
■ nt, and that he did not come to
• mtah to get the ehlhl.
' couple was married three years
t Walterboro, S. sifter a atren
■ ourtshlp follow <<i by an elope-
M.s l.ingdalt then eixte-'P
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Crowd at Depot to
Meet Mail Bride-To-Be,
But She Fails to Come
Georgian Wins Arkansas Widow
By Letter—Thinks She Yet
Will Keep Promise.
HAZLEHURST. GA.. Sept. 18.—Eli
sha Turner, a farmer of this county, 38
years old, advertised for a wife and
was "taken up” by a widow living in
Arkansas, who said she was 33 years
old and had a son of twelve.
It did not take them long to agree to
wed, and Turner wired two tickets. He
met the early train yesterday with the
hope of avoiding publicity. The train
did not arrive until 4 .p. m. The secret
had got out and the station was packed
with cheering people.
The woman failed to arrive, and
while Turner showed signs of great dis
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
ST. I,ol’lß. Sept. 18.—Who married
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 case 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. Y., testified that
he was the son of Jeremiah Moynihan’S
sister, Mrs. Kate Moynihan SutlifC. 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
RAIN;COURT DELAYED
CORDELE. GA.. Sept. 18.—An epi
demic of malaria fiver and other kin
dred ailments, said to be prevalent
throughout the greater portion of Wil
cox county, resulted In superior court,
which was convened at Abbeville yes
terday by .T”dge 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, ha
several times been overflowed.
HUNGARY DEPUTIES
AGAIN RIOT; ATTACK
AND BEAT MINISTER
BUDAPEST, Sept. 18.—Rioting was
resumed 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 at
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 by Professor M. O. Wiggins, of
Wofford college, Spartanburg, S. C.
FORCED TO LEAVE
CITY FOR IMPROPER
TALK OVER PHONE
Dock Stout, a barber in the Equi
table building, today saved himself
from a fine In police court by volunta
rily exiling himself from Atlanta.
He told Councilman Guess, acting re
corder. that he would immediately leave
the city and stay away, if he would not
impose a fine. The court agreed. Stout
was arrested at an early hour for using
improper language over the telephone
in a drug store.
SHEEP LOCKED IN VACANT
HOUSE DIE OF STARVATION
GADSDEN. ALA., Sept. 18.—Eighteen
sheep on the Elliott fruit farm were
found locked in n vacant house yes
terday evening. They had starved to
(hath A reward has been offered for
lb- arrest ami, <onvictiofi of parties
glliltv of the cfltlle
TRUSTSCJN
BE BROKEN
MIS
nsM
In Speech Denies Assertion of
Roosevelt That Monopolies
Are Inevitable.
MOOSE PLAN SUGGESTED
BY PERKINS AND GARY
Wouid Give Interests Satis
factory Control of Labor,
Says Candidate.-
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., Sept. 18.—
Governor Woodrow Wilson. Democratic
candidate f >r the presidency, arrived in
.Minneapolis today on his first Western
campaign trip. The New Jersey execu
tive was fresh and rested after last
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 of Theodore Roose
velt and the Progre : s.ve and trust
problem. In his speech here he said:
"The one proposition upon jvaich this
campaign turns is whether monopoly is
inevitable. That I deny. If monopoly
Is inevitable, then the. thing ito do is
for the government to take hold of mo
nopoly and regulate it. If monopoly is
not "inevitable, Vie taw. 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 things in their
program, nevertheless start with the
proposition that tin* .cmnbinatLons are
Inevitable and that the best we can do
Is to establish art ■fndustr.ini commis
sion which will take ehitritmof them.
"I deny the firniMmental. proposition
"The.proposed nWhbd of regulating
the trusts was suggested in the inquiry
by the house of representatives. E. H.
Gary ami George IV. Perkins; Carry
out the plan and you will hftvt* given a
control In .the market: for labor which
will suit these gentlemen perfectly.
"I an) not imagining these things. .Vs
a friend of mine sdfd, ‘I am not argu
ing with you; I am telling you.' These
are the.adtual facts of dur existing in
dustrial system.”
"These .are the- actual facts of our
existing industrial system," said the
governor. her, is the parting of
the 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 the trusts
were built-up? You say, 'Are you going
to return to the<ol(i 4 fashioned competi
tion?’ f say no. It is the old-fashioned
competition that enabled these mon to
build up combinations.
Regulate Competition
His Alternative.
"Now. the 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 the purpose of profit) than
to squeeze out a competitor shall be an
offense against the criminal laws of
the United States, and that anybody
who attempts it will have to answer at
the 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 the Intimate counsel oi
great corporations and have never ad
vised them to do anything illegal, but
there are a great maip* legal things that
you can do now that will put the little
man out of business.
' “And that Is the thjng we want to
change, not the lawyer. You can change
the law and then the whole atmosphere
will elfar. The lawyer will be obliged
to sAyi’ 'Yes. my dear sirs, that is a
very fine scheme, but if you follow it
you will get Into the penitentiary. You
h#Ve been fourid out.' ”
Clark and Gore at
Kentucky Rally
LEXINGTON. KY, Sept. 18.—The
Democrats of Kentucky will formally
open the presidential campaign in die
state with a rally here tomorrow, at
which Chump ("lark and Senator Gore
will be the chief speakers. An im
mense barbecue, at which It is planned
to feed 30.000 persons. will be a feature.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912.
Dr. Oscar Dowling and Educa
tional Train Leave Atlanta
for the East.
"It is my plain duty to urge the cities
through which I pass to clean up. That
is why 1 said Atlanta needed a#cl<*an
ing. I have never S'en a city that did
not need the mop and the broom and
the hose. I know Atlanta does," was
Dr. Oscar Dowling's parting shot to
the Gate City when he left for Wash
ington with his educational health train
today.
"I really wanted to tarry in jour city,
especially to talk to the people on in-
fant mortality. 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 paints of his lectures,
so the health expert believes strongly
in the concrete method of illustration.
His educational train, be asserts, is a
health sermon more glowing and com
prehensible 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. 1 have ex-’
plained the principle to hundreds ano
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 I have tried to do with
the train. To place the main features
of public health work before everybody
in a simple but forcible manner."
The train, which left Atlanta today
for Washington, will be parked for a
day in Spartanburg, Greensboro and
Lynchburg, where Dr. Dowling will
.peak. The train is expected to be tht
feature of the International Congress
of Hygiene, scheduled for Washington
September 23 to 28.
Dr. Dowling denied today that he ex
pected to resign as head of the Louis
iana state board of health because <f
the clash with Dr. Sidney D. Porter,
the hookworm expert. He declared the
contest was simply one of authority.
IV. Porter, he asserted, refused to fol
low the directions of the board and was
suspended.
Hundreds Hear Lecture.
"There Is nothing left for him to do
but to resign.” said Dr. Dowling.
Hundreds of Atlantans went to the
Auditorium last night to hear the lec
ture. Members of the Fulton County
Medical association, at whose behest
Dr. Dowling came to Atlanta, had given
his appearance publicity and Atlantans
turned out en masse.
The Louisiana state educational train
was parked in the Western and At
lantic yards yesterday at noon and
throngs of people visited it during the
afternoon and early evening. In Dr.
Dowling's party were Dr. George B.
Adams, a hookworm export; Dr May--r
Newhauser, a state board inspector;
Miss Agnes Moris Curye it >b* rtson
and Miss A Butts.
Hundreds Hear Health Expert Lecture at Auditorium
AGAIN URGES CITY CLEAN-UP
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health, who was in Atlanta yesterday with t his health train,
warning a negro boy not to carry milk through the streets in
an open bucket.
ATLANTA POSTOFFICE
RECEIPTS SHOW BIG
GAIN OVER LAST YEAR
The Atlanta postofflee 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 3,706,200 pieces
of first-class mall passed through the
Atlanta office in July this year against
3,368,275 for last year. In August. 1912,
the receipts were 3,991,540 to 3,837,105
for August, 1911. For the first fifteen
days in September, 1912, the receipts
were 2,090,400 against 1,960,675 for the
same period in 1911. The poundage in
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
Mrs. Francis V. Tedder, charged
with the murder of her husband, Frank
Tedder, at their home 10 Pittman ave
nue, in July, today was indicted by the
Fulton grand jury for the crime.
Mis. Tedder has been in the county
jail since July 28, where she was placed
shortly after the shooting She has
been Hying to gain her freedom. The
courts failed to order her release.
COMMERCE CHAMBER
CALLS SMOKE MEETING
A meeting of the smoke committee ot
the Chamber of Commerce has been
called far Thursday afternoon by J. M
VanHarlingen. chairman. The mem
bers of the city smoke commission and
the council’s ordinance committee have
been invited to attend.
The effort of the smoke rMinmisslon
to amend the smoke ordinance and the
counter movement of members ■ f
council to abolish the lommls’lon will
be considered
STEERS ON THE HOOF
BRING 11 CTS. POUND,
HIGHEST SINCE WAR
CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Several thou
sand dollars changed hands today at
the stock 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
when the price reached $lO 90.
Not only was a new record set. but
the quality of the steers was below
standard. Some of them were branded,
which makes their high price seem even
higher. There were sixteen of the cat
tle and th"y were bought by Armour &
Co. A year 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. They
had never tasted anything but grass.
They brought $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
moniing. there not being sufficient evi
dence t<> sustain the chaj-g>-
FOUR PRISONERS SAW OUT.
TOLEDO. t»Hl‘>, Sept. 18 Four
prisoners confined in th<- Lucas < aunty
Jail awaiting trial on * haig* s of forgery
and burglary made their es<ap<- early
today by sawing the bars of their <<■)!»
lon tin- .-* ■ on*! Hoot and dropping to tit*
I 4■ outni b* low
IxtK
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
CISmEHOT
BEAD,M
IMOIEIB
SISTER
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 Mrtlckw, th* bank <*«h_
ler of ETlenwood, Ga_. who disappeared
mysteriously ten days ago, Is known to
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 received a let
ter from him in which he said he left
because he was despondent.
A blow on the head, received fn a
football game at Locust Grove acade
my years ago, is believed by hfa friends
to be the cause of Herbert MdVlcker*a
strange disappearance from hls home.
It was believed just after McVicker re.
cefved this Injury that his brain would
seriously be affected, but he soon re
covered and gave no sign of mental
trouble. His friends now believe that
Increased business cares of the past
few months brought about pressure on
the brain from a piece of the fractured
skull, and resulted tn McVicker’s mor
bid despondency and hts sudden deter
mination to disappear and abandon his
a rra i rs.
Business Affairs i
Found in Good Shape.
The letter received by Mies 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 bora the
postmark of a Western railroad, show
ing 1t had been mailed en a train, and
that McVicker did not divulge Ms prea.
ent address. In the letter he meekly
stated that unusual despondency tedlto
his disappearance.
For the past ten days the ptlMee/ef a
dozen cities, bank officials and Mends
have been trying to find the nrfeslng
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 re
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 to
working for a salary moat of hts life
and the Increased worry of the pest
few months was too much for Mm.
DeLeon Story May
Have Been Cause.
"His accounts are correct. He bad
not touched the bank deposit of a firm
in which he is partner, but had drawn
only the small amount of cash tn his
own personal deposit. His business af
fairs were all right, but they caused
him a great deal of worry. The ease
seems to be almost Identical with that
of Moise the 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, Kept. 18—Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Bailey left
Washington tpday for Dublin. New
Hampshire, to confer with Kecrelatv
MawV<-agh < <in>-erriins tit* advfsabili •'
<*f extending »’',.<W«,ooo to national
stilng<n<-j incident to the niovemett
lte< <-nt > xamlnatiorts of the nation