Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, September 21, 1912, EXTRA 1, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textthe weather Forecast: Fair tonight; tomorrow unsettled. Temperatures: Ba. m., 70 degrees: 10 a. m -< 74 degrees; 12 n o o n. 79 degrees; 2 p. m., 82 degrees. "vol. XI. NO. 41. WOMEN WIN WOO-MILE n SLEUTHS I Captured After Three Months Pursuit by Pinkertons, They Obtain Freedom. CHARGED WITH $1,500 JEWEL THEFT HERE Trailed to White Plains. N. Y., Magistrate There Unexpect edly Releases Them. \ Captured after a three months chase j through a half dozen states, marked j by a spectacular automobile escape, and frustrated time and again by the cleverness of the quarry, two women, Loraine Belmont and Alice Smith, ac cused of the theft of diamonds worth 11,500 from the Durham Brothers Jew elry Company at 20 Edgewood avenue, succeeded in eluding the Pinkertons again today by convincing the magis trate at White Plains, N. Y., that there was not sufficient evidence against them. This unexpected turn, coming just as Deputy Sheriff George Broadnax and Detective Sam Webb were starting for the prisoners, astounded the Pinkerton office here, *hich hds been manipulat ing the chase, and a telegram instruct ing rearrest of the women was dis patched immediately. How the Swindle Here Was Worked. The detectives declared that Broadnax so i) weeks ago secured . the necessary papers and, with Governor Brown's sig nature attached to them, took them to New York, where Governor Dix had agreed to the arrest of the two women. They were astonished that the women should have been freed before the At lanta man arrived to give evidence. The swindling of the Durham com pany took plade on June 20, when, ac cording to the detectives, the two wom en disappeared with $1,500 worth of jewels waich they had secured on the payment of $135 In cash after securing the recommendation of a prominent Atlantan. . The women were accompanied by two brothers, Sam and Jack Herman, I who posed as their husbands. Hhe Pinkertons got on the trail at once and through baggage checks traced the quartet to Greenville. N, C., thence to Richmond and Norfolk. There the four had evidently taken the boat to New York and the detectives hurried to Manhattan, where the quarry was final i h located in a boarding house run by B ank Herman, a brother of Sam and •lack Herman, They remained in hid , Ing about New York until about two weeks ago, when they were discovered, \ n the Herman rooming house. \ squad of detectives surrounded the Herman place the night the cap ture was to be made, but the pursued dashed into a waiting automobile just before the Pinks got to the house and ni.tr:> their escape after a wild ride through the streets of New York. Through one of the underworld in the tn. rloin of New Y< rk the detectives fin ‘ \ learned that the two women and 'h. men had gone to White Plains and ’rst night all four were arrested. The rtons here were notified to have officers call and Broadbax and Webb were all ready to start this morning. '!':>n this surprising telegram ar rived: . n't send officers; White Plains 1 ■ .-trate released prisoners, declar i 4 • vidence insufficient.” ‘ local Pinkerton office expects the ■t of the women before night. 'her the women fled from White a immediately after their release ' 't known, as no details of the pro ngs there have been received. It ■ garded as practically certain, how that they are still under surveil as the Pinkertons are deter to prevent their escape, two women came to Atlanta sev months ago, ft is said, in company the two Heiman brothers, remain liere just long enough to make a "• up" on the diamond game. They -aid to be known on The Pacific in Texas cities, New Orleans, innati and other places. EVELYN THAW SUED: FAILED TO PAY RENT •'■E\V YORK, Sept. 20.—Evelyn i wife of Harry K. Thaw, was lp d as- defendant today in a supreme t judgment for $219. • judgment was granted to Ed -1 Margoltes for a claim due for months rental of a studio. Mrs. is alleged to have failed to pay ' nt of this studio for December, I ■ 11 . and January, 1912 The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For ResuHs. Lays Fatal Accident To Clothing Catching On Nail; Asks $40,000 i Alleging that a protruding nail caught in the clothing of his* brother, W. C. Gordon, a brakeman on the Colorado, Gulf and Santa Fe railroad, and caused him to be thrown undet; the train and killed. E. M. Gordon today filed suit for $40,000 against that rail road in the Federal court. Sybil Gordon, four years old, is named las the only heir of the deceased and the suit is brought in her behalf. The petition shows that W. C. Gor don was killed last April at Heiden- ' heimer, Texas, while employed by the j I railroad. I $25,000 BANK LOOT, READY FOR POLICE “SPLIT,” RECOVERED CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Twenty-five thousand dollars of the $272,000 stolen from the branch bank of Montreal a' . 1 New Westminster, B, was "ec-jyi-r.-d |by Chicago police today. The story of: j the recovery of the loot was kept se- I i cret. It was found through views t’uat ; I were given the police \Vh-?n they first J learned that tw v ~r the live, robbers were hiding in Chic igo, With the recovery of the loot, Chief McWeeny began the investigation of a sensational rep->rt that certain police' , officers were involved in* a gigantic i graft plot to exchange the Canadian: I money for American cash, and were to I I receive a. big slice of the loot. It is' said that the robbers, who haj fre- ! quented the saloon of James Sidias in South \\aba‘h avenue, negotiated with a gambler who was intimately ac quainted with certain of the police. The | robbers, it is said, ofjgred a commis sion large enough to split several ways ■ The negotiations for the exchange of i the cash and the Canadian securities i had progressed so far that it woulc. I have been completed in a few day-, av- I cording to the report. TAFT TO ROOT FOR BOSTON’S RED SOX IN WORLD’S SERIES BEV l-.RIA. MASS., Sept. 20.—1 n the coming world’s series games in. Boston one of the leading ''rooters" for the Boston players, who- today were as sured-of the American league pennant when Phtllrtleffihla Tbsf ohe game' in Chicago, will be Presidertt Taft. Day by day the president has watched the Boston men keep up their strides j toward the pennant and tonight an nouncement was made at the executive offices that the president would be "down among th? fans" when the first game of the world's series is played in Boston. The president had hoped when in- ' came to Beverly that the Washington I American league team might win the I pennant and expected to see at l -ast ; one game on the Washington grounds i in which his favorite figured. KONG LEE, OWNER OF “YEE GUN,” HAS COURT HANGING ONTO ROPES ’ Judge Andrew Calhoun came down off his chair in criminal court. Solicitor Lowry Arnold showed real distress, and the jurymen gaped ar Kong " Lee, who runs a “yee gun" at 158 Decatur street recited his story on the witness stand today. An interpreter, Harry Loo, a Yale student, who was called in, said | that "yee gun” meant laundry. Not only did he tell the jure the: meaning of that expression, but he translated the entire testimony given by his countryman. Kong Lee was prosecutor in a case | against a negro girl charged with steal ing $3 from the Chinese severaifweeks ago. He could speak no word of Eng lish. RAIN POSTPONES VANDERBILT CUP OPENING EVENTS MILWAUKEE, Sept. 20.—The Wis consin cup and Pabst trophy races, scheduled to open the Vanderbilt cup meet, will be run next Tuesday. After a vain effort to send the. thir teen cars away today, the officials of the meet postponed the race half an hour before time to start. A first post ponement had changed starting time from noon to 2 o'clock. Rain failing after 1 o'clock made another postpone ment imperative, and the races were announced for 1 o'clock Tuesday. The Vanderbilt cup race will be run tomorrow. It starts at 11 o clock. LETTER CARRIERS FINED S2OO FOR DRINKING SODA CLEVELAND. OHIO, Sept. IT.—Two Cleveland letter carriers Were fined S2OO each for stopping on their rounds to have an ice cream soda. Eight other carriers have been given equally severe fines for trivial infractions of the pos tal rules. Letter carriers here assert they are being persecuted. Backed by the Na tional Letter Cartiers association, they will employ attorneys ami fight the de partment at Washington. Political revenge by the Taft admins istration is back of the department’s activities, they charge. Several of I those who hive been fined for practi * tally no reason at all are Bull Mousers- ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 19 12 WOULD PUT JOHN 0. IN ' PRISON Attorney Calls Oil Magnates in Contempt for Disobeying the Dissolution Order. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—The arrest of John D. Rockefeller and his asso ciates in the old Standa rd Dil Company I for contempt of court and. th' - appoint-, \\ ® 1 ' W \\ I UK* faMH .// // W J Ji /OMT L/ / ~ > / -,‘ O’ J /f UMK |i . / / ' \ -- ’WZf J f / 1 /fe ■ r JjL ’ miß » j f /« WP 7 . Ij l • / -fsi. Hr 1 Ik < L lAt top, MAs Henrietta AFasseling j telling her little friends an In-, i dian story. The children are, i left to right, Isabelle Breiten | burlier, Lucille Breiteiibueher anil I Th'lina Mi*ler. I j ment of .1 Federal receiver for each of! 1 the' former Standard subsidiaries may! follow the disc Insure- being brought out < in the heaving of the Standard Oil-1 Waters-Pierce suit, now going on be-1 fore <'ommi"sioner A. L. JaCobs. This course of procedure was threat ened today by one of counsel for the Wateis-Pieree Company, which is being sued because it refused to recognize I the election as directors of men whom I it chai <es represented the old Standard crowd, s-.a-king by this method to re gain control of the company. ‘'lt is astonishing that the govern ment ofli. i.ils could be so easily taken | in as to believe there ever was such a thing as a dissolution,” said this at tornej. "Kvery bit of evidence so far produced has shown that in eve ry one of the old subsidiaries of the Standard Rockefeller and his associates still own a controlling interest, and that not one of the subsidiaries has tried in any way to increase The scope of its busi ness, contenting itself with doing busi ness in the same territory in which it worked before the dissolution order came from the supreme court. Dissolution Only Change of Names. •The only change that the dissolution order brought about was the resigna tion Os some of the old directors of the subsidiaries and the' Immediate Idling of their places by men chosen by Rockefeller and his associates. "Not only has the Standard evaded the court ruling as regards dissolution, but it begin evading just as soon as the Federal action wis begun. Tin state of Texas began action against the Security and Corsicana Oil Companies, operating in that state. hen the courts finally ordered that the concerns be dissolved. it was found these com panies no longei existed -that almost immediately upon the filing of the suit the name was changed to John C. Se- ly A- Co. and later to the Magnolia Petroleum Company. "Before we have finished examining witnesses in this ease, we Intend to show,, through the testimony of wit- I nesse- and the records of the different subsidiary companies, that the dissolu tion order was never carried out. With these facts In our possession, we will presept them to the court and ask, as the facts warrant. Tor the jailing for contempt of Rockefeller and his asso ' I .Hates and the appointment of a re ■'reiver, so that the independent oil deal ers may be assured of a- square deal.” Nat Goodwin Doomed To Be a Life Cripple: May Never Act Again LOS ANGEI.ES. Sept. 20.—Nat C. Goodwin, comedian, whq has delighted thousands of audiences, probably will never again appear the foot lights. Physicians declare he will be a erinpie for life as the result of the frac ture of his pelvic* bone, which happened i August 15 w hile Goodwin was boating I in tlfe Pacific. Ty carry out a whim of Miss More i land, an actress to whom lie was ce ll ported engaged, he ventured into dan gerous waters in a small craft. A huge I breaker upset the skiff and dashed j Goodwin against the rocks. 0/ / y A I Oh- 'F'A 1 ? MHHH >• aww# i • A.- ' I U / \\ < / \\ w / 7/ j j / / \yjpz! / / Deeply interested in a legend* of tin* red men, is little Isabelle Breiteiilnieherglistening to a favorite story. YAWN DISLOCATES JAW OF WOMAN TWICE IN DAY BARTLESVILLE, OKLA.. Sept. 20. When Mrs. John Palmer, of Dewey, "yawned” today she dislocated her jaw. A physician was called and reduced the fracture. / Mrs. Palmer Said she felt better and the physician departed. He had n< t gone mo'.e than lot) yart|s from thi house when Mrs. Palmer yawned a sec ond time. y The physician was hailed, and, upon returning, found the woman's jaw dis located agfln. It was reset, and, fear ing the woman would yaw n,again, the I physician remained in the house. • U. S. to Look Into Standard Dissolution WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—A report based on apparently authentic infor mation was current here today that the department of jus'iee will reopen the entire Standard Oil case and make a complete investigation of the charge th:it the oil trust has violated the man date of th" I'ni’i d States supreme court ordering its dissolution. Wondrous Tales Carry Kiddies to Land of Myth STORY HOUR IS POPULAR J; J » '■ WIL , 1 X > W&fcißrW* ft 2,000 ARE VACCINATED: PITTSBURG FRIGHTENED PITTSBCRG, PA, Sept. 20. Mor< than 2,000 persons have been vacci nated - at the public safety building within the last 24 hours. The majority were children. One myn died today oi smallpox, three new easts were report ed and ten suspected bases weie put ujlder quarantine. The city council has decided that Health Director E. R. Walters must stand trial on the charge of malfeasance. He is in the pesl liouse, a victim of smallpox, afld there has been some public sympathy tha* threatened to vindicate him without 1 rial. BAD HABITS PART OF ’ SUCCESS, SAYS EXPERT CHAMPAIGN. ILL , Sept. 20. "Men ' who are here only to study had better! go elsewhere. The lack of bad habits | is a negligence. I never knew a man in my life that amounted to anything who had no bad habits," said Presi dent Edmund J. James, of the I'ni versity of Illinois at a convocation ad dress to 2,000 students this afternoon. He ascribed many failures in college to the use of liquor and tobaei o. and urged students to take as their motto, "Touch not, taste not, handle not.” Youngsters While Older Ones Hear of Chaucer. AH i nta cdiildren have turned their minds and .thoughts to the land of ■ myth with the return of the enjoyable «ttci y-telling hour nt the Carnegie 11- ; brary. On Wednesday afternoons Miss , 111 iirii lto Masselllng. the story-teller, iiusi s ami instructs young Atlanta at he Anne Wallace branch of the llbra r on latekie street: on Friday after noons at the main library on Carnegie way. For the little boys and girls who cluster ardund her chair to the number < f several score and listen, wide-eyed, I,nd with childish terror sometimes, she (e]i« stories of the American Indians. Some of th< in are stories of actual fig ure- among the red men and again of ’he heroes of their mythology. old. r children arc told the familiar “Canterbury Tales,” but Miss Massell ing says she does not try to pro mum. tiie words in the way in which Chaucer spelled them. The American Indian stories will re count at first much of the mythology told long ago by medicine men of wan dering tribes to the young warriors, deny of the original legends which Aiwrican poets have made famous in prose and poetry will be told. Then 1 lab s of the first American settlers will be reeountt d and the little children, who go to bed every night confident in tin thought that their home is safe guarded against almost any possible barm, will Icarne of the children of the original settlers who often were snatch'd from a blazing cabin and rush'd into the stocktide fort to pre vent th"ir being scalped. Indian war riors and heroes will be introduced in th -i stories. Most of the Indian war i rlors told of are those who fought I .(.gainst the New England settlers and the Dbtch who first settled where New York city now stands. England's first national poet will be ippreciated by young Atlanta before they reach the high school age, for the to i. lor the older children dealing with Chaucer’s tales are to be . made -imide enough for the children to un idcrsland. and yet w ill not histoid so as I to cause a loss of interest. At the second story-telling today at the main library several score of children attended each »ec tioii, and as the coo] days come on and I less of summer’s pleasures can be en joyed, the attendance is expected to become larger than ever before. The ‘story hour for the little children begins !at J:3o o'clock, and the tales for the | older children at 4 o’clock. TX® 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p *^ c SMOKEWRD DECUIHES MHOS EIIL Chairman Says It Will Proceed Against Violators of City Ordinance. “UP TO COUNCIL IF THE ' MANUFACTURERS KICK” Chamber of Commerce Urges Action, But Asks Suspension of Judgment. The city smoke commission declared war against smoke today through Its chairman. R. M. Harwell. The many offenders who have been under proba tion will be required to comply with the city ordinance at once or they wiU be summoned to appear before th« re corder. Forced by public sentiment, she smoke commission will not only re scind its aertlon in amending the citv ordinance, hut it will change its'atti tude from a diplomatic corps to a mili tant body. We ha.ve been sincere in our ef forts," said Chairman Harwell today but we did not understand that the council and the public Intended that we should begin prosecutions so early We thought we could gain the desired results* through co-operation with the owners of smoke producers. Will Enforce City Ordinance. "If the manufacturers kick about our going too strong now, it will be up to council to answer them. We are going to enforce the law. The law permits black smoke to br emitted from a stack only twelve minutes to the hour" Mr. Harwell said the commission had not met yet, but that he had con ferred with most of the members. He said they would meet as soon as Smoke Inspector McMichael, who had been called out of town on account of the illness of his mother, returned. He said the commission did not in tend to inflict any undue hardship on the manufacturers. Where there is reasonable cause, time will be given all to comply with the law. But experts and city officials asgert that 50 per cent of the smoke nuisance can be elimi nated in 30 days. J. M. VanHarlingen, chairman of the smoke committee of the Chamber of < 'ommerce and a new appointment on the smoke commission, said that half the smoke comes from small plants and that it could easily be prevented. He said that E’resident Wickersham, of the Atlanta and West Point railroad, had prevented smoke in the Terminal station and that it could be prevented from railroad engines all over the city. One of the. principal reasons for smoke is lack of intelligent firing ol furnaces, it was pointed out. The smoke committee of the Cham ber of Commerce, at its meeting yes terday afternoon, adopted a resolution calling upon she smoke commission tc enforce the law. "If the smoke board will not enforce the law, we will not hesitate to recom mend that it be abolished,” said Wilmet L. Moore, president of the Chamber ol Commerce. Smith Not To Move For Abolishing Board. Councilman Chasles W. Smith said he would refrain from introducing an ordinance to abolish the smoke com mission if the commission showed it intended to carry out the law. He said he Intended to urge more stringent laws against smoke as soon as it would not be too great a burden on the man ufacturers. Both Mr. Smith and Mr. Moore said that Oscar Elsas, a wealthy manufae | turer and one of the members of the i smoke commission, who urged extreme I conservatism, had placed himself in a I delicate position by accepting a place on the commission. Mr. Moore said he believed Mr. Elsas' membership was one of the causes of the public criticism against the board. "Mr. Elsas is a fine citizen.” said Mr. Smith, "but on account of his business connections Mayor Winn should not have appointed him on the commis sion." Mr. Moore said that Mr. Elsas was complying with the law in his own far ! tory and that he was the best informed Iman on smoke on the commission. I The resolution formally calls on th* commission to enforce the smoke law | expresses confidence in the integritj lof its members and urges all to sus ■ pend judgment of the commission until it has had a reasonable time to demon strate its ability to abate the stnoke nuisance. The resolution asserts that if th< commission fails in its duty, the Chant Iber of Commerce will not hesitate t< us ■ Its influence to get council t strengthen the present ordinance.