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the weather Thunder showers tonight or Thurs day: cooler. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 72 degrees; -b a. 79 degrees; 12 noon. 81 degrees; 2 p. m„ 79 degrees. 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 e Jy A", w* . arjjji ' T - vt lit UlreWl < Jii ww . // Is / •// /■ k /| W A I IB' h 9L ay jRtV . ~.,w.s « r | W HL / a ’ -:a Dr: Oscar Dowling, president of the Louisiana state board of 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