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VOL. XL NO. 54.
OR AGG WINS
GRUND PRIX,
DEPILMA
DYING
Italian Driver Crushed Under
Car After Many Minor Mis
haps—Near Leader.
VICTORY IN SIGHT WHEN
SPEEDING CAR UPSETS
Barney Oldfield, in “Come-
Back” Effort, Finishes
Fourth in Contest.
MILWAI'KEE, WIS., Oct. s.—Caleb
Prngg. eleventh hour starter, won the
Gr.iml Prix automobile race today.
. narrow nfargin over Ralph
I; Puma, who was in the lead part
of he MJ', but who vas pursued by
nurl hoodoo and was forced to
; fl ...inently at the pits, Bragg
, .'=s the tape first.
time was 359 minutes 25
; was secund and Anderson
- s time was 374 minutes. 58.38
sons time was 375 minutes,
■ends, r
,i. id finished fourth. His time
■ '7;i; .'.4.<59.
>’i De Pul ma's Mercedes turned
• i :ii . lift.'.-second anil last lap
.<c . ills ■ar turned over as
- >n. king a wonderful burst of
in an effort to overtake Caleb
1 . .. vho was leading by a few min
n tiie race. The ea>r turned com
l < \ DePalma was caugiit
ut n>.ilh. Reports received by the
of i> z-av that DePalma is dying.
.. .o.fdint occurred on :he nar
k I . etch when both ais own
r . -g’s ear were running at 74
< n hour. Bragg reported that
' . roiled over and both DePalma
his mechanician. Alley, were
t under it. Bragg ba: ely stopped
ape, picked up officials of the
nnd started at full speed for
no of the accident.
. of th accident was kept from
owd of speed fans in the grand-
>wds Tiogan veiling for De-
Fams..
it’s th< matter with DePalma?"
- outed when his car failed to
’ v minutes after the accident it
. o ted that the Italian driver
breathing, though he was
a'.ily hurt.
’> D? Palma's fegs were broken
I.nil was fractured.
he mechanician, was injured
1 !.'• It is believed he will re-
Fiat. leading at the end of
th lap, went into the ditch in
i| -fir. t lap. The ear apparently
nt: an axle. Driver and mechani
'<)>' hurled from the ear. Tetz-
• hurt, but got to his feet and
• the pit. As the plucky driver
11 "00 people in the stands rose
• him a monster demonstration.
i’.nnieian. Hill, was not hurt.
■w< nty-ninth lap Tetzlaff led
tree minutes and seven sec-
■ Palma was ten minutes be-
■ •> ’■ gg.
-• of unique accidents that sent
x off the track, but put only
Lozier and Tetzlaff's Fiat
running, marked the race.
' the twelve starters had with
it the beginning of the thirty
- those of Tetzlaff. Burman,
. Wishart nnd Fontaine.
of the drivers are protesting
the aeroplane flying overhead,
mg it as a perpetual menace to
ut's tints.
■ ’ 0.-.cioik Robert Burman, in
• t Benz, was sent away first in a
twelve. At intervals of
nthe other cars crossed
ting line and the race
I'hc track was in the best con
es been in since the racing
D ivers pronounced it both
mid fast.
iff made the first lap in 6:20,
’ time for a lap yet made on
'■ The cars all made the first
i’t time, and Starter Wagner
t the average for the race
above 75 miles an hour. Tetz
md lap was made in 6:17 —an
m >t 75 miles an hour.
tnc. ip a Lozier, narrowly es
-• rious accident when his car
<■ bales piled at the Fon
" ' title turn. The car jumped
four deep. Fontaine and his
ten. Franklin, were hurled
. but escaped injury. They
" ' 1 and. got back on the
■■ding away with only a
•c The accident occurred
Continued on Page Two,
The Atlanta Georgian
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SMITH MH
FDRPRDHE
OF BATTLE
BILL
Active Head of Sanitarium
Tells Health Board to Go
Ahead and Investigate.
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS MAN
ATTACKS MANAGEMENT
Hospital Chief Denies Blocking
Efforts to Co-ordinate La
bors of All Workers.
Dr. Claude M. Smith, active head of
the Battle Hill sanitarium, today in
vited a complete probe of the manage
ment of the sanitarium as a result of
a clash with Dr. R. R. Daly, of anti
tuberculosis clinic.
Councilman F. J. Spratiing, chairman
of the council committee supervising
the sanitarium management, will intro
duce a resolution- at the next meeting
of council asking for an investigation.
Councilman \. 11. Van Dyke will urge
that the hospital be placed under su
pervision of the hoard of health.
Antagonism between the manage
ment of the sanitarium and the anti
ttibrri ulosis society is responsible for
the clash between Dr. Daly and Dr.
Smith. From statements made by both
physicians it is appar. nt that the two
institutions are at swords' points.
Blocking Work,
Says Dr. Daly.
Dr. Daly t-old the board of health
that the sanitarium was blocking the
work of the society in its attempt to
follow up tubercular path nts. The op
position of the hospital management,
he said, was to sidetrack a plan to
co-ordinate the work of the society, the
college clinics and the hoard of health.
This Dr. Smith denies, although he
acids he failed th state his objections
to the plan when ordered to do so by
the board of health.
"If there is anything wrong with the
management of the Battle Hill sanita
rium wc want to know it." said Dr.
Smith today, “and I have askad Coun
cilman Spratiing to order a probe."
Dr. Smith said that Dr. Daly was
miffed because he was refused a place
on the Grady hospital staff last spring.
This Dr. Daly denies. He said that he
lid not ask for a place on the Grady
staff, but merely the use of the Grady
operating room for his work in connec
tion with the anti-tuberculosis society.
This was refused him.
Charges Rubbish.
Declares Smith.
“This charge that the Battle Hill
sanitarium is blocking the work of the
anti-tuberculosis socitey is rubbish.” is
the way Dr. Smith answered the
charges.
"There is no question but that the
work of the society is handicapped by
the attitude of sanitarium manage
ment?" is w hat Dr. Daly had to say.
That the management of the hospital
is not what it should be. Dr. Daly
fhaintained, and he said today that he
would back his assertions that file
management was bad, if called upon
to do so.
In speaking of the management of
the hospital, Dr. Smith said:
"The hospital represents an expendi
ture of but $40,000 umd it is doing as
much work as other'instltutions which
cost the city $200,0J0. I will admit we
do not have room for many of the pa
tients that apply for treatment, but I
am certain, as head of the institution,
that the management is not bad.”
The Battle Hill sanitarium, built
jointly by the city and county, is under
the management of the council com
mittee on hospitals and charities, of
which F. J. Spratiing is chairman. Dr.
Claude A. Smith, city bacteriologist;
Dr. J. B. Kennedy, health officer, and
the mayor are ex-officio members of
the supervisory board.
“NANCY,” PALMIST. IN
TOILS FOR FAKING “TIP”
Recorder Broyles today directed that
a case be made against “Nancy,” a
palmist at 101 Gs.rtrell street, for vio
lation of the for.une telling law.
This action followed the trial of Tom
Tolbert, a ne ;ro, who was arrested
when the palmist is said to have de
scribed him to Amanda Fleming as the
thief who had stolen the latter's brace
let. There was no other evlden
against the negro and the case was
dismissed.
Los Angeles Times*
Building Is Burning:
Whole Plant Doomed
Former Office of Paper Was Dy
namited—Loss From Flames
Will Reach SIOO,OOO.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. s.—The plant
of The Los Angeles Times, located in
its auxiliary building and where the
paper has been printing since its main
office was destroyed by dynamite Octo
ber 1, 1910, is burning.
The building appears to be doomed.
The loss will reach SIOO,OOO.
Son Is Sentenced to
Term of Three Years
For Death of father
—————
Trivial Quarrel Over Scratching
Chickens in Hart County
Led to Killing.
HART \\ ELL, GA., Oct. s.—Robert
Gray was tried and convicted in Hart
superior court and sentenced to a term
of three years In the penitentiary for
killing his father on May 28.
The tragedy was the result of a quar
rel between father and son over a
trivial matter. The elder Gray was in
censed over the fact that some chickens
belonging' to a tenant working for his
son had been scratching up his corn
which had just been planted. Taking
his shotgun he went to the field to kill
the fowls, when his son Interfered. Hot
words and blows followed. Picking u,
| the gun which his father had laid upoi
j the ground, the son fired, the entir
i load taking effect in the hip, causin'
i the death of his father tn less than
I 24 hours.
The death-bed statement of the elder
Gray was no doubt the means of sav
| ing Robert from being convicted on a
| charge of murder in the first degree,
j He stated that he believed his son had
j no intention of pulling the trigger of
I the gun, and that he was the victim
iof an accident. The fact, however, that
I Robert did the shooting with bis fath
ers own gun, which lie picked up from
I tiie ground, was evidence enough to dis
j prove,the plea of accident, and the jury
I returned a verdict of voluntary inan
| -’laughter.
POLICE START WAR
ON STREET MASHER:
SIOO.OO FINE FOR ONE
The street masher must go.
j Both Chief Beavers and Recorder
I Broyles say so. Women and young
jgi'ls, they declare, must be protected
I from insults in the street.
(lie effect of til's declaration was
| manifest'd when Judge Broyles itn
l posed a fine of $100.75 or 30 days on J.
1 P. Kimsey. of Gainesville, Ga. accused
of addre ting an ins iltiug r. mant io u
giri at Broad and Mitchel! sir -ets. The
girl, who is employed downtown and
attends a business school at night, had
just ' U; thi school Thursday night and
was waiting for a ear at the time of tiie
alleged insult.
The girl called for help, and the
“masher" harried away. Determined
that he should not escape, however, the
gill followed and says siie kept her eye
on him until he entered a barber shop
in Mitchell street. She then point'd
out Kimsey to Policeman Rpndnll, who
took the young man into custody.
Kimsey denied he was guilty, pro
testing that it was a case of mistaken
identity.
TOM WATSON ATTACKS
MILITARY FOR THREE
KILLINGS AT AUGUSTA
AUGUSTA, GA., Oct. 5. —Major
Abram Levy, commanding the Third
battalion. First infantry. Georgia Na
tional Guard, today addressed a co:n-
I munication to Governor Joseph M.
Brown, calling attention to The Jeffer
sonian of this week, published by
Thomas E. Watson, at Thomson, in
which an attack is made on Governor
Brown, Mayor Thomas Barrett and the
national guard.
. Watson <!••< lares the killing of Messrs.
, Baker. Dorn ami Christie by soldiers on
duty here last week is nothing less
! than murder. He says Governor Brown
I ordered out the troops without inves-
I tigation.
TAFT'S BROTHER AND
I HILLES DUE FOR QUIZ
BY SENATE PROBERS
\\ ASHINGTON, Oct. 5. The sena
torial committee appointed to investi
j gate campaign contributions today de
| elded to call next week Charles P. Taft,
brother of the president; Charles D.
! Hilles, chairman of the Republican na
i tion.al committee: William B. McKinley,
i President Taft's pre-convention cam
! paign manager; Roger C. SulhVan, the
Illinois Democratic leader; Charles R.
| Crane, of Chicago, and several other
prominent politicians.
FAIR AND WARM IS
FORECAST FOR WEEK;
NO FROST EXPECTED
Fair and comfortably warm weather
for Sunday and Monday is the promise
of the w< ather man. and he dares the
| elements to contradict him,
ATLAXTA, GA., OCTOBER 6, 1912.
GEORGIA ENGINEERS QUIT;
SCOTT ASKS STATE’S AID
Q “CERTAINLY, I GAVE ROOSEVELT $150,000° "
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J. Pierpont Morgan leaving tiie investigating commit tee of
the I'nited States senate at W ashington, where he testified that
he personally gave s!•’().Odd to Roosevelt's campaign in 1904.
OPPOSES MEH
IN LOVE BATTLE
Mrs. Lula Mclvet, who lives on Fra
sgr street, today is free, but pondering
;i warning from Recorder Broyles, fol
lowing a dramatic scene in police court
[in which T. B. Pinkston, a young man
I 22 s * a. s of age, 16 Connally street, took
■ sides with Mrs. Mclvet against his
mother when the latter charged the
woman with "enmeshing" her son and
also luring her font teen-year-old
daughter into cheap theaters.
The rema kable action of the son
brought forth a scathing reprimand
from the court.
"Your inotJier lias a thousand time*
more sense than you have, and you
should take her advice and let this
woman alone," said the recorder to
I young Pinkston.
"Likes” Pinkston “Very Much.”
"Anyway, she's old enough to he your
mother," he added.
( In admitting that she “likes young
I Pinkston very much,” Mrs. Mclvet
; frankly said that she had been intend
ing to quit her husband, who Is now
I working in Mexico. Mrs. Pinkston de
clared Mrs. Mclvet had been Interfer
ing with her son, calling him over the
telephone, and had earned her a great
deal of trouble. She also said the wom
an had enticed her girl into cheap thea
ters.
Young Pinkston denied that Mrs. Mc
lvet was "interfering with him."
Judge Broyles said the evidence was
not sufficient and dismissed the case of
Mrs. Mclvet, but warned her that he
would give her the limit of the law if
jshe should be convicted in his court.
INTENSE FEELING
IH mm RAGE
Steady streams of visitors into the
campaign headquarters of the two
mayoralty candidates marked the prog
ress of the campaign today.
F> ling between the Woodward and
Chambers' factions is intense. Many
workers are busy on both sides. Indi
cations are that the fight will reach a
very bitter stage within a few days.
Predictions of leading politicians are
that a second primary will poll a lighter
vote than the first, because there is but
one race, while there were three hot
contests in tiie first primary.
Expect Only 7.500 Votes.
The average of the estimates of many
parties representing both factions Is
about 7,500. The vote in the first pri
mary was 9,500.
John H. Welch, a Woodward sup
porter,, wrote a letter to Tiie Geoigian
today insisting that the Democratic
executive committee have one Wood
ward supporter as a manager at every
voting precinct in the city. The com
mittee provides for two managers and
three cle ks at every voting place.
“No reflection is Intended on the
managers and clerks of the last pri
mary,” he wrote, "but it- is strenuously
insisted that it would not be fair to
have all Chambers men or all Wood
ward men as the managers and clerks."
Wards Are Organizing.
Mr Chambers said he had reports
from various wards in the city and that
larget campaign organizations were be
ing rapidly perfected. The new ward
organizations are an outgrowth of the
big citizens’ meeting held In the cam
paign headquarters yesterday.
The Seventh ward committee was or
ganized at a mass meeting last night.
Dr. John E. White was named chair
man.
Four Trains Mobbed on Georgia Rail
road This Afternoon at Lithonia,
Union Point and Harlem—Strike
breakers Driven Toward Atlanta.
Al (H SIA, GA., Oct. 5.—A1l engineers on the Georgia railroad
went out on an order to quit operating trains at 5:30 o’clock this aft
ernoon. The order was issued by Frederick A. Burgess, assistant
grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, who is rep
resenting that organization during the strike of conductors and train*
men on the Georgia road.
Mr. Burgess says he deems it unsafe for engineers to continue at
work, because of attacks on trains along the road. His order waig
precipitated hy the mobbing of trains at Lithonia, Harlem and Union,
Point this afternoon, following attacks on other trains Thursday and
yesterday.
Mr. Burgess notified General Mana
ger T. K. Scott earlier today that he
would order his men out if they were
not afforded adequate protection. Mr.
•Scott, this afternoon, asked Governor
Joseph M. Brown for state aid in pro
tecting the road and employees.
Dr, ''harles P. Neill, United States
commissioner of labor, is still in this
city and Is holding conferences with
the railroad officials and with the rep
resentatives of the conductors and
trainmen that are on a strake. Dr. Neill
is doing his best to bring about media
tion, but it is impossible to tell at this
time w hether or not his efforts will be
successful. If he succeeds, it will be
know n in a day or two.
Scott Asks State
To Protect Road
T. K Scott, president of the Georgia
railroad, wired Governor Brown about
2:30 this afternoon that, the situation
along the Georgia road was growing
more serious all the time, and asking
the governor to wire the sheriffs and
mayors along the road to use extra
diligence to see that order along the
road is maintained.
The governor declined to accede to
Mr. Scott’s request, holding that, un
der tiie law, he could not take the Ini
tiative In matters of that kind.
The governor suggested to Mr. Scott
that he wire the mayors and sheriffs
himself concerning the situation, and
invite their help and extraordinary dil
igence, in the circumstances.
At Crawfordville the strikebreaker
conductor of passenger train No. 2 from
Atlanta, named Wheatcroft, quit his
train, stating that he had had enough.
The train was attacked at Union Point
and the baggagemaster badly beaten.
Ihe latter’s wounds w ere dressed at
Crawfordville. Conductor Wheatcroft
look auto for Madison. The train was
| ordered run on to Augusta w ithout a
conductor.
A mob of 150 to 200 strike sympa
thizers held up a Georgia railroad
freight train at Lithonia at noon today,
is it arrived nt that station from At
lanta. and chased the strikebreaking
crew from the train, capturing one of
them.
Leaders of the mob caught the con
ductor In the woods near the edge of
town. He was told to "beat it” toward
Atlanta and lost no time starting. The
flagman and two brakemen were al
ready on their way, having outrun the
mob. They were also headed toward
Atlanta.
A freight train which left Augusta
shortly after 12 o'clock today was held
up at Harlem, the conductor and flag
man beaten and the train placed in the
sidetrack. The engineer was Thotnaa
Jones, of Augusta. The conductor and
flagman were strikebreakers and they
are said to have been driven toward
Augusta after being beaten very badly.
The conductor, according to advices
from Harlem, received a severe lick on
the head with a brick.
Passenger trains 1 and 2 were held
up at Union Point, and both conduc
tors wore badly beaten and cut up this
afternoon. A big crowd of strike sym
pathizers attacked the trains as they
rolled into the yards.
The strikebreaking conductors and
flagmen made a request for protection
today. At the present time, however,
they are running without arms or pro
tection of any kind.
NONE BLAMED FOR DEATH
OF “LEATHER BREECHES”
LAKE CHARLES, LA., Oct. s.—The
grand jury has Just made its final re
port. Although the Indictments are
withheld from publication, it is believed
there are no further ones in the Gra
bow riot cases. The grand jury reports
that it fully investigated the killing of
Charles Smith, alias “ Leather
Breeches," one of the men indicted in
the case, and finds that he came to
his death by resisting arrest, and that
the officers used every means to avoid a
fatal conflict.
It further reported that, in accord
ance with tiie charge of the judge, it
has investigated the conduct of the
Industrial corporations in this parish,
and finds that in every instance they
are obeying the law,
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
MOB, IN AUTOS.
PURSUES NEGRO
Father of White Girl Attacked'
by Slack Leads Chase—Of
ficers Flee With Prisoner.
AMERICUS, GA., Oct. s.—The pur.
suing party was only three minutes
behind the officers with the negro
Yarborough, at Andersonville, ' twelve
miles north of here.
AMERICUS. GA., October Led by
the father of a sixteen-year-old white
girl whom a negro named Yarbrough
attempted to assault here this after
noon, a mob in eighteen automobiles is
pursuing Deputy Sheriff Puller and
Chief of Police Rarrow, of Americus,
who put the negro in an automobile at
4:40 o'clock and left on the road toward
Oglethorpe. If the car of the officers
is fastest the negro's life will be saved.
As soon as news of the negro's at
tack became known, a t weTve-year-old
white boy organized and led a mob to
lynch the negro. They cased hira
through the outskirts of the city until
they caught him. The police arrived in
time to rescue the negro and hurried
him to the jail.
The father of the girl, an engineer
on the Seaboard railroad, got in from
his run just as the officer started Prortj
the Jail with the prisoner toward Ogle
thorpe. He Jumped into another cat
and started in pursuit, followed by seve
eral other automobiles, carrying meit
with rifles, revolvers and ropes.
BANDITS WHO HELD
UP OKLAHOMA TRAIN
FLEE TO MOUNTAINS
PORT SMITH. ARK., Oct. 5.—A posse
of more than fifty men plunged Into the
wilds of the Kavanaugh mountains at
dawn today in pursuit of three masked
men who held up the northbound Kan
sas City Southern passenger train No. 4,
near Poteau, Okla., last night.
The train robbery was one of the bold
est in the history of the Southwest. Ths
robbers boarded the train a short distance
from Poteau. Two of them walked
through to the express car, while the
third brought the train to a stop. When
the robbers reached the express car they
forced I. S. Kerr, the messenger, and J.
L. Williams, baggageman, behind a pile
of trunks, and then blew open two big
safes with nitroglycerine. They scooped
the contents nlto a flour bag, and, with
their companion, fled Into the mountains.
Express company officials say that the
total loot will not exceed SSO besides the
contents of some registered letters, but
other reports say that at least $50,000
was taken. The train’s passengers were
not molested.
NEW IMPROVEMENTS
NOT PROVIDED FOR IN
REVISED CITY BUDGET
Aiderman John S. Candler, chairman
of the council finance committee, said
today that the revised city budget vir
tually was ready to be submitted to
council Monday.
No new improvements are provided.
All improvements In progress are pro
vided with sufficient funds to be con
tinued.
The schools department is to get an
additional appropriation of about $lO.-
000 for new teachers and many new
Incidental needs. To the Marietta street
improvement fund S7,WO new money is
given.
The $25,000 appropriation for a girls*
English-commercial high school and the
$15,000 appropriation for a new cyclo
rama building are recalled.
Aiderman Candler said it would be
Impossible to begin work on either at
these buildings this year, but that ap
propriations for them would probably
be made next year, ,