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RIOT AT POLLS IN CITY PRIMARY the weather X Fair tonight and Thursday. Tem peratures: 8 a .m.. 62 degrees; 10 a m.. 66 degrees; 12 noon, 69 de grees: 2 p. m., 72 degrees. VOL. XL XO. 51. FIST FIGHTS IT POLLS GILL OUT POLICE City Electrician Turner Is At tacked. and His Defender Clashes With Assailant. WOODWARD-CHAMBERS RACE RESULT IN DOUBT Heavy Vote Cast in Exciting Election, and Second Pri mary Seems Certain. Intense excitement in the city pri mary for mayor mid oilier city officers reached a climax at the Fourth ward voting precinct, 354 Edgewood avenu* . Today in a riot, qu-iled only by tlie ar rival of the police. V. P. Raoul, .’m . :* tary of tlie .Moving Picture operators union, rushed into a :*ovvd :;d knocked R • Turner, city -iectrn ian and a candidate lor re-> let on, .i ..isiancc if ten feet. Turner ■ .igg* cd ,t; t a tri ■■ and ft 11 to tlie ground, ui' ruing to . y<• w itnesses. Before Raoul had time o be on his guard, i rod Hart. I- oil -:i)-law ol Turn' . st’licK hi u o !»'ow on the ’■l'.aii. Raoul staggered Im .Id not fa I. Police Summoned; Spectators Intercede. B. staudvrs help' d Tarn r up ami a slated him into a nearby drug slur,, "ther- separated Ramil mid Hail. Sergeant Whatley v-.tH-.-il tor tin po lice patrol, v. bile Captain Pool* tom-, i targe of Raoul, but when the patrol arrived spectators interceded and Raoul *as released with a copy of charges. '‘Turner, you told a d lie.' Raoul is reported to have said when lie walk ed up to Turner. He held a printed statement in his hand by Turner that lie had fired Rami, .m an examiner for motion pictur*- opi-ratois because Raoul had been unfair in allowing coached men to stand the examination. I did?" said Turner, calmly. " ’th that Raoul struck him a blow in the mouth. Turner corroborated the story, when seen today. Chambers-Woodward Supporters Clash. it was hardly fifteen minutes later when D. W. Yarbrough, a Chambers supporter, came upon lite scene,, In the presence of C. P. Goree, a Woodward supporter, ho denounced any citizen would support Woodward. Accoiding to Sergeant Whatley. Mr. (’free took the statement as a personal reflection. Ho started for Mr. Yat- I':'"urli. but Sergeant Whatley, who was •''landing nom. ran between them and Ptev- nted another fight. Ry this time Police Chief Beavers sud several other officers had l ushed to flic scene in an automobile. Over 5,000 Votes Cast By 3 O'clock. Hq’iy ~.ona votes had been cast in the 1 ' up to 3 o'clock. There are many workers at all the polls. Feeling is ginning high over the contest between and Woodward for mayor «nd Turner and Miles for city electri ",n Rut officers are on duty at every * and serious trouble is antici- 1 ■ '* ’ ontest lor mayor was decidedly A ' en ’ hambets and Woodward. ■ h were very few workers for either ■'""u or Johns ion at the polls. and Johnston were getting biggest votes in the Sixth and .’ e ’ 'wud> While and I y, .(Hi ;1J , leading in both of these 11 i> impossible to tell which v <*i)y them. I’Mt) >afe that ('hambera Continued on Page Two. BILLYSMITH WILL REPORT WORLD SERIES FOR THE GEORGIAN UeSaic the Red Sox Play Tuesday—Read What He Thinly of the Team in His Story on the Sporting Page The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Resu'ts. 4 Companies to Camp NearForsyth Jail to Guard Against Lynching at Trials ATLANTA TROOPS ESCORT. NEGROES TO CUMMING / JlWWina' . —■■ ■ 1 . ■ ■ ... _ f*' .Vt s. ■> - JK nL ’wE' tafeJoSP*"'- IsPi ■<•<> „"'JMjWltffflii? 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In the twenty-second lap Tetzlaff was fully nine minutes in the lead. DePalina had tire trouble and took 40 seconds out. In this lap Hughes took third place from Wishart. Tetzlaff took first time out. through tire trouble and gasoline snortage. at 1:04. but only lost om minute and for ty-four sei'omis. Wisnart was second in thi' eighteenth lap. about twelve miles behind. DePalina was third. Twice tin- intrepid la-Palma was obliged to stop for tin repair. Ralph Mulford an early confeder. was offlcinlly declared out of the race in the third lap after having magneto trouble. Ther< was no :ie, i, .nt up to the eighteenth ap. but the • .-.ere several narrow escapes !>• Palma inis-inu a crowd at the graxe yard tuin b> a lew feet. Tile average time of Tetzlaff for eighteen laps was 74.3 miles an hour. BETTING ODDS IN MAYOR RACE FAVOR WOODWARD TO WIN Chess Lagomarsino, well known sporting man. gave the following odds as the basis for practically all of the betting on the results of the city pri mary today: Two to one that Woodward will lead for mayor. Even money that the result of the primary will show the standing of the candidates to be Woodward, Chambers. Blown and Johnston. Two to one that Turner will beat Miles. Even money that Turner will beat Miles 1,000 votes. He said that he had observed scarce ly any wagers being staked that any one would get the nomination on the first primary. He said that odds were great against Brown and Johnston leading for mayor and that no bets were being placed on that proposition. The odds on Woodward are against Chambers, he said. ELECTION EXTRAS Look out for The Georgian's •lection extras tonight. The results will be reported with speed and precision and the public may depend upon The Georgian, as in the past, to furnish all Ihe news l-'lh'NT. VLLAXTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1912. SEARCH IS OK FOR MISSING TECHITE J. E. Gillespie, a retired lawyer of Birmingham, is in Atlanta today search ing for his son. Tillman B. Gillespie, a Tech student, w ho disappeared myste riously from the engineering school on September 19. Young Gillespie Is known to have had s2oo when last seen in At lanta. Gillespie senior, who has notified the police of a score of cities to be on the lookout for the boy. said he did not be lieve the stories going the rounds at the school. "I don’t believe the reports circulat ed about Tillman s disappearance. He is a good, clean boy. H.- probably is on his way to Boston to visit his sister. I am sure that he will be located shortly." Students at Tech who knew Gillespie, where he was matriculated last year, say that the youth went to Jacksonville for a trip He told a girl friend the /rigtit before lie left that he had S2OO ,'aml was going to travel a bit. Gillespie did not matriculate at Tech this year. He arrived in Atlanta on the due the school opened and made out a registration card. but failed to pay his entrance fees. He told fellow students that In wanted to go to Boston Tech, but his fatlr-r hail decided that he spend anotln r year in Atlanta. He lias a sis ter, Mis. V\ i Towne, living in Brook line. Mass., where it is expected h» will be found. These negroes are being taken to Cumming for trial as the assailants of two white women and the slayers of one. Live of the prisoners are men. one a woman Four Companies, of 167 Men, Take Train at Noon to Take Charge of Town Under Martial Law. .Six negroes, handcuffed in pairs, man bed down the streets of Atlanta this tnoining in the midst of 167 picked men detailed to guard them from mob violence. The negroes are to be tried in Cumming tomorrow for art attack upon a white woman of Forsyth county. The picked men were from Atlanta's own regiment, the Fifth regiment. Na tional Guard of Georgia, and will re main in Cumming until the trial is over. Shuffling along with downcast head 4, tin- negroes weie surrounded by Cap tain Harrison Jones' company, ami were specially guarded by a detail of six men, headed by Lieutenant Rucker McCarty. Each member of the guard had orders to shoot at any time neces sary, and the entire battalion marched with loaded rifles The squad of six arrived at the Tow - er where tin- five negro men and one woman were brought some time ago in o tier- to avert any trouble In Cumming, almost half an hour before the bat talion arrived. Lieutenant McCarty signed a n-ecipt fo t - Ihe negroes and they were ri rrerl over Io tile guard who waited inside the jail until tire arrival of the main body of troops. Outside sove.al hundred curious persons, many of whom were negroes, gathered about and peered in at the windows. Headed by Major J T Catron, the four picked companies comprising the flower of the Fifth, arrived at the Tow er at 11 o’clock and the negro** w-ere placed In the center of the second com pany. The entire battalion swung down Hunter street to Peachtree, and from Peachtree to the Terminal station, where a spe.-iaj train was waiting. At 12 o'clock the train left After a flf teen-mlle hike from Buford the troops and negroes will arrive in-Cumming at 6 o'clock tonight, where martial iaw will be proclaimed. I he armory presented an appearance rarely seen, except In times of actual warfare, w hen the men assembled from all parts of the city to gather their kits together and report to the com manding officers. fentg and every accessory for camp life ate included in the baggage which will be taken by the national guards men, and during the entire trial they will bivouac just outside the Forsyth county jail, determined that no lynch ing shall take place The whole city of Cumming will be under martial law and the troops will supersede the sher iff and the police. Tile guardsmen have been picked for theia .bility and reaponsibiilty and the offic’-r* of the battalion are confident that they will be able to prevent any Continued on Page Two. HOHL tPITIOH 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Gl. RAILWAY PIMLBEDi STRIKERS FIRM Big Road Completely Tied Up by Walkout of Employees. Some Mail Moved. UNION MEN HERE MEET: DECIDE TO HOLD OUT No Real Attempt Is Made to Break Strike and Road Still Hopes for Settlement. Not » wheel hag turned on the Geor gia railroad between Atlanta and Au gusta since the strike order went into effect last night at 6:30 o'clock, except for those trains which had already be gun their runs at that hour. The Union station In Atlanta Is quiet today, with a passenger train waiting under the shed tor men to operate, it. There is no indication that service wifi be re sumed today; no sign of a strikebreak er The road seems absolutely tied up. The order for the strike wae* issued yesterday at Augusta by Vice Presi dent T. A. Gregg, of the Order of Rail way Conductors, and Vice President James Murdock, of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and was at once put into effect. It followed tiatfons between unions and road offi cials. About 3(Pi men are said to be af fected by the order and It is reported that every man went out. Oan't Say When ) 1 / Trains Will Run. The Strike was caused by th* dis charge some months ago of Conductor J. T. Paschal, of Atlanta, on the charge that he violated the sixteen-hour labor law by allowing his engineer to take his train to its destination after the expiration of sixteen hours of continu ous service instead of side-tracking it and reporting to the dispatcher The union demands the reinstatement ol Paschal, with full pay for the time ha was laid off. and the railroad officials refused to accede to this demand. Strikers Decide # f To 'Stick It Out.” About 100 striking conductors and trainmen met at 10 o’clock today ire the hall of the Order of Raii-waqr Con ductors in the Hlllyer building in Ala bama street. For two hours bits of eloquence and rounds of applause float ed over the transoms, but a sentry was posted at the doors to seq that news paper reporters and others heard noth ing that was going on. After the meeting members of the conductors said it had merely been a ■’social session.” at which the men had gathered to talk things over. “We shall stick It out,” said ore of them. “The unions have plenty o< money in the treasury and the national organizations are backing them up. A national officer of the trainmen, James Murdock, wIH arrive from Augueta to morrow and take charge of the local situation. Os course, any negotiations will be handled at Augusta, headquar ters of the road. "There won’t be any dtaorder. We are not looking for trouble and do not want any." The strikers will meet every day at the O. R. C. hall as long as the strike continues. There are a number of At lanta men tn the employ of the road and perhaps SO men from Augusta ami other points were <-augh( tn Atlanta when the strike order went into effect. "When can I get a liain to Augusta?’ the ticket agent was asked today. "You’d better take the Central to Millen and change there for Augusta." was the answer. "Can’t say when we ll have a train out." "Any chance of a Georgia train to day? How about going as far as Li thonia ?" "Nothing doing," returned the agent.