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VOL. XI. NO. 46
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Human Buffer Saves Life of
Painter Hurtling From Scaf
fold to Pavement.
HERO SEES PLUNGE AND
BRACES SELF FOR IMPACT
Victim Strikes the Shoulder of
Rescuer and Suffers Only a
Sprained Ankie.
Victor Ranson’s foot slipped as he
was painting from a swinging scaffold
at the third floor of Child’s hotel in
Broad street early today. He shot
downward toward thfe stone sidewalk.
In a moment he would have been killed
or injured badly. But Claude Ranson,
his brother, was standing on the curb.
He heard no cry. but something told
him to look up. He saw Victor hurtling
toward the ground, ran forward five or
six feet and caught the falling man on
his shoulders. Both went to the side
walk under the impact, but Victor es
caped with a sprained ankle and Claude
rubbed a bruised shoulder and went
back to wmk.
A repott' went to Seek Claude Ran
son a few m'nu’.es afterward. The
painter, with a companion, was stand
ing on a narrow swinging scaffold just
under the eaves of the hotel, painting
away with no bother about shaken
nerves or any thing else.
“I Just Caught
Him,” says Hero.
Being -interrogated persistently, he
admitted that his name was Claude
Ranson, he was 23 years old, lived at
15 Weatherby street and intended to
stick on the job until it was finished.
His brother, he stated, was 25 years old
and lived at 16 Oliver street.
“It wasn’t nothing," * said Claude.
“His rope must have give way or some
thing. He wasn’t up so high. Just the
third floor. Yes, I reckon he’d have
been bruised up considerable if I hadn't
caught him.
"No, I didn’t hear him holelr. Don't
think he had time to holler. I was on
the sidewalk and I looks up. I see Vic
tor coming down, turning sideways, and
I take about three steps and catch him
"n my shoulder. Yes, he knocks me
down and bruises me up some. Not
enough to bother about, though.
“Have you heard from Grady hos
pital? How’s he getting on? Just a
sprained ankle, eh? That’s good. He
might have been hurt bad If I hadn't
happened to see him."
And Claude Ranson dipped his brush
in the bucket and went on painting the
cornice.
STRIKERS FIRE AGAIN
IN DARK ON TROOPS
IN COAL FIELDS WAR
CHARLESTON, W. VA„ Sept. 26.
After quiet had prevailed for 48 hours.
1 >■ warfare between state militia and
miners in West Virginia was resumed
' irly today.
The outposts of Company I, state
militia, at Keeferton, in the mountain
district, was attacked in the darkness
of early morning. The state soldiers
’■‘-[died to the firing and several of the
attacking force were wounded.
Wh<n news of the attack was re
ceived by Major James I. Pratt, who is
In command of the district, a trainload
of soldiers and bloodhounds were sent
to t ail the assailants.
The strike situation in the Kanawha
Aallej, fields at present as far away
from settlement as ever. The miners
:i '“ adding to their armed forces and
love established camp in the moun
’::mous country.
HEIRS WAR FOR $4,000
REMNANT of great
DR. PEARSON ESTATE
‘'HK'AGO, Sept. 26.—Litigation over
*h>‘ distribution of $4,000. all of the
’1."00.000 estate of the late Dr. I). K.
f’’arsons not given to charity, is threat
ened among the heirs-.
I’he principal claimant is Mrs. Belle
Mappin, of Philadelphia, who wants
'ho entire $4,000. She will present let
“ts showing an agreement by which
s ' was to have received an amount
r ß*r than this for living with Pear
as his housekeeper until bis death.
'' 'i- relatives says he acted as house
k' 1 i only thri e weeks.
of the he.irs are talking of a
Suit to break the win
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Electricity Is Cure For
Insomnia; Turn Switch
And Sleep AH You Like
German Physician Says He Has
Tried It With Success
On Animals.
BERLIN, Sept. 26. —Electric sleep,
which may be turned on and off at will,
is the alluring prospect offered to peo
ple suffering from insomnia, by Dr. Na
gelsehmidt, who describes his inven
tion for this purpose, in a medical mag
azine.
He asserts he has devised a new form
of electric current which, when applied
to the base of the brain, will produce
a narcotic effect, able to be inaintalnel
as long as is desired. It has been
tried with the greatest success, and
without any injurious effects, on dogs
and rabbits. Dr. Nagelsehmidt is con
vinced that it can be equally applied
to human beings.
The application of the current als >
eliminates pain from any part of the
body.
MRS. HOPE IRWIN TO
LIVE; INSANITY ONLY
REASON FOR TRAGEDY
MARIETTA, GA., Sept. 26.—Mrs.
Hope Irwin, who yesterday morning
was beaten into insensibility with a
baseball bat by her husband just before
he committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a razor, will recover, in
the opinion of Dr. W. H. Perkinson, the
attending physician. Dr. Perkinson
visited the injured woman this morn
ing and announced tha she would sur
vive unless unforeseen complications
arise.
Mrs. Irwin spent a good night and is
resting easily today. She is now able
to talk to the few relatives and friends
who are admitted to see her. She is
still unable to offer any explanation
of the tragedy save a sudden insanity
brought on by epilepsy from which he
had suffered at times for years.
MENINGITIS IS FATAL TO
YOUNG PRINCE OF PARMA
VIENNA, Sept. 26. —Prince Charles
of Parma, aged 7, the eldest son of
Prince Elias of Parma, and a grandson
of Archduke Frederick, died today of
miningitis. The foremost specialists
made an unsuccessful effort to save the
boy’s life.
BAVARIAN RAILWAYS
BARS KISSING IN TRAINS
BERLIN, Sept. 26.—The Bavarian
state railways have issued an order pro
hibiting kissing In their trains. Even
husbands and wives are included.
MAN LOST TEN YEARS
IN HILLS
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Sept. 26.
Ragged and covered with hair and
barking like a fox, Arthur Britton, who
has been missing for ten years was
found in the Pawling mountains near
here.
SEES HUSBAND. MISSING
3 YEARS; CAPTURES HIM
NEW YORK, Sept. 26. —Mrs. Samuel
Schwartz, out for a walk, met her hus
band, whom for three years she had
believed dead. In a panic he fled. She
outran him, however, and turned him
over to the police.
TO OPERATE HOTEL.
VALDOSTA, GA., Sept. 26.—A local
corporation has been formed here to
lease the new Valdes hotel as soon as
improvements now under way are com
pleted. E. D. Ferrell, Jr., T. E. Herri
ford, J. R. Dasher and O. D. Dalton are
actively interested in the lease.
IS IT THE QUESTION OF
WHERE TO RENT THAT’S
WORRYING YOU MOST?
How many sleepless nights, dollars,
useless steps, not to mention the worry
and valuable time, have you spent in
searching for desirable rooms, apart
ments. houses and boarding places to
your liking?
The above paragraph is the sentiment
and voice of thousands in Atlanta and
surrounding territory, and no doubt
yours.
The Georgian fully realizes the prob
lem of what a task it is to find the place
that you desire, and has never ceased
in its efforts to solve this hard prob
lem. Special representatives are em
ployed to search the town thoroughly
each day for all the desirable places
for rent of all descriptions for “The
Georgian’s Rent Bulletin.” for the bene
fit of its patrons. This bulletin ap
pears daily on the Want Ad page-.
Why not do your renting and search
ing through this bulletin that is gotten
up especially for you? Certainly you
can see from many standpoints that
this Rent Bulletin is helpful, worth
while, and a great convenience.
Consult it as you would a business
guide, thus saving time and money;
then give this time to your business
and other affairs that need your at
tention.
Remember, when you have anything
tn rento r desin to rent, that "The
Georgian’s K> nt Bulletin" Jills the bill.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1912.
UNCLE TRUSTY!
Copyright. 1912, by International News Service.
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‘‘Theodora, you nan anitiso yourself a few minutes eatinp those Rocky Ford melons that
were given to you the other day, and William can tear off a few wigks of sleep while the Peo
ple s Investigat nv Committee tries to get some information out of me! ,Say, it's a scream!
Elihu is a nifty little lawyer! I've got a contract with him! It begins. ’ln consideration of
one dollar b,\ each to the other in hand paid.’ etc. He never paid me'his dollar, though!
After the committee gets through examining me I’m going to hold 'em all up and frisk
their pockets!”
CORROBORATION OF
SCHEPPS TESTIMONY
PLEASES WHITMAN
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—District At
torney Charles S. Whitman returned
from Hot Springs, Ark., today, accom
panied by Mrs. Whitman and Assistant
District Attorney Robert Rubin.
Mr. Whitman was elated at the result
of his trip and declared the testimony
of Sam Schepps, chief witness against
Lieutenant Charles Becker, the police
official indicted for the murder of Her
man Rosenthal, had been corroborated
in every particular by five witnesses.
“The people’s case against Lieutenant
Becker has been strengthened 100 per
cent by mj trip to Hot Springs," said
the district attorney. "The testimony
of Schepps has been corroborated by
more than five witnesses whom I per
sonnally questioned.
"If application is made for a new
commission I shall fight its appoint
ment and shall use my every endeavor
to defeat such action. The state is
ready to go ahead with the trial on Oc
tober 7.”
District Attorney Whitman will leave
nothing undone to protect Captain
Howell, of Hot Spring' and other wit
nesses for the prosecution from the in
timidation of Becker’s friends.
EARLY SNOW FALLS
OVER MIDDLE WEST;
GRAIN IS LAID FLAT
CHICAGO. Sept. 26.—A cold wave
has gripped the middle West today. The
mercury is 25 to 3b degrees lower than
it was yesterday morning. In Duluth
snow fell, and throughout Minnesota
and the Dakotas there were light snows
reported.
| At Fargo the snow was so heavy that
j uncut flax and corn were laid flat.
| Three inches of snow fell at Crook
; ston, Minn. Rockford. 111., felt a slight
I earthquake shock just before it turned
I cold. In Chicago a sharp wind em
| pha-ized the drop in temperature.
HEARSE HIRED SO PARTY
CAN BREAK SPEED LAWS
I
NEW YORK. Sept. 26.—Ten North
Bergenites. after picnicking, had to
catch a Hoboken boat in a hurry.
Knowing a fast motor car would be
held, they rented a hearse automobile.
| They won. The police gave it the right
of way.
JAPAN DEVASTATED
BY GREAT TYPHOON;
300 LIVES ARE LOST
TOKIO. Sept. 26.—More than 300
lives have been lost in a terrific ty
phoon which swept the southern coast
of Japan and cut this city off from the
world from Sunday until last evening.
Wire communication with points east
of Tokio was only restored today, and
the full extent of the disaster Is un
known.
The torpedo boat destroyers Fubuki
and Tachibana were driven on the rocks
on the northern coast of Yokaichi, and
two other naval boats were blown
ashore. The entire crew of one of the
destroyers was lost. Hundreds of naval
coasting boats, fishing smacks and
other small craft that ply between the
numerous islands on the south coast
and the mainland were sunk.
Thousands of buildings were blown
down or washed away by streams
which were swollen out of their banks
by the cloudburst which accompanied
the typhoon.
At Nagoya, capital of the prefecture
of Aichi, part of the city was destroyed
and twenty persons were killed. Thou
sands there are homeless.
The island of Shikou was swept by
the storm and tremendous damage done
there. A score of fishing villages were
devastated.
It is estimated that the damage will
aggregate $5,000,000.
The government is taking relief meas
ures and l« sending supplies to the
storm sufferers.
PROHIS MEET TO
NAME ELECTORS;
NEWTON TO TALK
The Georgia Prohibitionists met at
the Piedmont hotel in convention at
1:30 o'clock this afternoon for the pur
pose of organizing, selecting presiden
tial electors and attending to such oth
er business as might come before them.
Organization was perfected by elect
ing Hf. \V. \V. Manney, of Brunswick,
chairman; <’. E. Davis, of Atlanta, vice
chairman; George Gordon, of Atlanta,
secretary, and W. S. Witham, of At
lanta, treasurer.
Mr. Gordon and Mr. Witham were
elected national committeemen from
Georgia for the next four years.
This afternoon presidential electors
will be named and an address will be
delivered before the convention by Hon.
George E. Newlin, national Prohibition
leader, of Indiana
MARCONI, INJURED IN
AUTO CRASH, MENDS;
NOT TO LOSE HIS EYE
SPEZIA. ITALY. Sept. 26.—Gugliel
mo Marconi, inventor of the wireless,
who was injured in an automobile col
lision yesterday, was reported at the
royal naval hospital today to be great
ly improved,
It was feared at first that Signor
Marconi would go blind or at least lose
the sight of his right eye, but after an
examination by a specialist it is be
lieved the sight will not be impaired
unless unlooked-for complications de
velop.
The Inventor's.right cheek was badly
cut. and it was feared a splinter had
penetrated the eye. At times his tem
perature reached 100, and he suffered
great pain, but he bore it with forti
tude.
Signor Marconi, accompanied by his
wife, was returning from a trip to the
Coltano wireless station when the ma
chine collided with a motor car con
taining seven women. Both cars were
overturned, but the injuries to all but
Marconi consisted only of bruises.
ALABAMA GOVERNOR
UNDER FIRE IN FIGHT
AGAINST TAX RAISE
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Sept. 26—A
partial analysis of the disposition of Gov
ernor O'Neal's contingent fund will be
presented by a committee of business men
at a mass meeting of Montgomery tax
payers, to be held in this city tonight to
protest against citations Issued by the
state tax commissioner, supported by the
executive, raising property assessment in
this county from 6 mills to 10 mills
The statement as to the governor’s
contingent fund promises to be a sensa
tional feature of the program, and Is likely
to develop into a personal attack on the
chief executive. Members of the com
mittee stated Wednesdaj that the fig
ures have not been obtained for an at
tack on the governor but to show the tax
payers the extravagance of the state, but
they are willing to let the chips fall
where they may.
THIRD GIRL IN FAMILY
KILLS HERSELF FOR LOVE
SEDALIA, MO., Sept. 26.—The third
daughter of Frank Dunton to kill her
self because of unrequited love died
here from poison. She was Minnie,
sixteen years old. When her sister,
Daisy, seventeen, ended her life in 1903
the father killed her admirer, for which
he is serving a 28-year term in prison.
An older sister killed herself in St.
Louis several years ago for love.
286 PUCES OUTSIDE
HMCr DEFY HI
JOSES TELLS POLICE
“I Have the Names and Evidence,” He
Declares to Captain Poole as He Re
ceives Notices to Close, But Refuses
to Divulge Information.
Chief Beavers Says He Is Ready to Act at Once
If Jones Will Give Up His Evidence—Re
formers to Visit Tenderloin Today to Offer
Aid to Women—Many Hit by Decree Quit
ting the City.
New and startling developments in Chief of Police Beavers' war
ot extermination on the tenderloin of Atlanta came today with the
declaration by Charles C. Jones, saloonkeeper and well-known sport
ing man. that he had in his possession evidence to prove that there are
286 illegal houses in this city not included in the “restricted district.”
This sensational announcement was made when Police Captain
Poole, carrying out the orders of his chief, served Jones with notices
that three houses he was reported to own in the district must be
vacated within the specified five days.
Jones accepted the service calm
ly. He had announced that he
would not attempt to block in any
way the police department's work,
but as he put the notices into his
pocket he pulled out a bundle of
papers.
286 Places Run
Illegally, He Says.
“I have here,” he aaid, ” the names
and addresses of 286 places in Atlanta
run Illegally. I have the names of the
owners and the proprietors. I have the
evidence.”
Captain Poole informed Chief Beav
ers of the charges today. He declared
that he had asked Jones for his evi
dence, but that he had refused.
“Jones, as a citizen of Atlanta,” de
clared the chief, "should produce this
evidence, and if he does I will act upon
it. 1 will put these places out of busi
ness, or do my best to, just as 1 will
all other places run in defiance of-the
law. They all must go."
District Residents
Begin to Quit City.
The chief added that he was giving
Jones’ charges serious consideration
and had not decided yet whether to
make formal demand for his evidence.
Police authorities are inclined to doubt
whether he had the power to take such
action.
Residents of the restricted district
have already begun to leave the city
and a general exodus is expected. Many
of them have gone to Birmingham and
others have left for cities in the state.
There is little hope that many will be
induced to take advantage of the offer
of the Men and Religion Forward
Movement leaders.
Offer Aid to All
Women Who Will Accept.
Leaders In the Men and Religion For
ward Movement and a number of min
isters and social workers of Atlanta
will meet at noon today to begin a can
vass of the restricted district and offer
the exiled women opportunities to turn
to a better life. The workers have a
cash fund of SIO,OOO available for car
ing for the women who will accept as
sistance and say there are enough sit
uations pledged to take care of all the
women who will accept them.
The report that the financial backers
of the underworld would establish a
new tenderloin outside the city limits,
but w ithin the county lines is not given
credence today. Sheriff Mangum, who
was quoted yesterday as saying he
would not interfere with such a move
unless forced to do so, denied making
any such statement and both the sheriff
and Chief Zach Rowan, of the county
police, say they will co-operate with
Chief Beavers in putting out vice.
Recorder Broyles' statement to The
Georgian yesterday that he would up
hold the chief by giving offenders the
limit penalty of the law, was borne out
in the first cases to come before him.
He held the lessee and manager of the
Albian hotel in Pryor street under SI,OOO
bonds for the higher court.
Two Stranded Show Girls
Help Police Crusade.
Two girls found in the St. Clair hotel
in Forsyth street under questionable
circumstances have told the police ot
numerous other cases where women
were using the "hotels” as a blind for
vice. The girls' story shows the evil
effect of some of the cheap vaudeville
theaters, too. They were brought to
Atlanta by a ten-cent theatrical troupe
which stranded here in two days after
arrival, leaving the girls penniless.
Marlon M. Jackson, head of the Met.
and Religion Forward Movement, de
clared that if houses in the city are
1 tented for immoral purposes in future
extra:
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R ; 0
the owners, aryl not merely the proprie
tors, will be put in jail. The state law
is plain on this subject and makes the
owner equally guilty with the manager.
"We shall not stop with fines,” said
Mr. Jackson. "The law says such an
owner Is subject to a fine of not more
than SIOO and imprisonment not ex
ceeding 30 days. Some of these rich
gentlemen will find out what the rock
pile means if they rent houses for im
moral purposes.”
Assist Police in
Ferreting Out Vice.
Two girls, members of a stranded
"theatrical” company, are aiding the
police force today in running down the
so-called hotels which are hotbeds of
vice, and their information has led to a
number of arrests. The girls. Erances
Willard and Margaret Hansell, say they
are from Asheville, N. and came <to
Atlanta with a cheap theatrical com
pany which went broke in two days
and left them without funds. The girls
were found in a lodging house in For
syth Street and arrested.
For three days the two girls sought
honest employment in Atlanta, they
say, and found nothing to do. At last,
hungry and penniless, they turned to
the "streets.” For three weeks they
had lived this life, and they had met
dozens of other unfortunates of tha
sidewalks. They learned of the nu
merous hotels and lodging houses which
make up the "system.” Some of these
resorts are being conducted In good
residence districts, they say. They told
the police all they knew, and under the
order of Chief Beavers the officers be
gan a series of raids.
The police realize that the closing of
the restricted district will bring about
an increase in the ranks of the "women
of the streets.” Plainclothes men have
been detailed to watch for such offend
ers. and this evil will be checked as
rapidly as possible. Chief Beavers has
pledged himself to go to the bottom of
vice in Atlanta, to eradicate the evil as
well as his force can do it. He be
lieves that this type of vice, though
never completely destroyed, will be
greatly reduced within a few weeks.
GIRL ARRESTS YOUTH FOR
CRITICISING TIGHT SKIRT
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Bessie Kaplan,
an athletic elghteen-year-old girl of the
Bronx, arrested a young man in a Brook
lyn "L” car and personally haled him to
the New Jersey avenue court several
blocks away.
There she charged him with having
brought public humiliation to her because
he had made comments on the tightness «
of her skirt that were heard by the other
passengers of the car. He gave the name
of Max Chasowitz, and was held under
SSOO bail.
RENO JUDGE SOUNDLY
FLAYS DIVORCE COLONY
RENO. NEV., Sept. 26.—1 n a state
ment from the bench here. Judge Orr
denounced the conduct of the divorce
colony, saying that those \4ho "flaunt
their wickedness before decent people
should be criminally prosecuted.”
SPEEDER IS FINED BY
PHONE;_REMITS IN MAIL
OMAHA, Sept. 26.—" You are fined $5
and costs.” said Police Judge Foster
over the telephone to A. D. Northrup,
caught speeding la: t night.
In the morning mall today Judge
Foster received Northrup's remittance
of $7.50.