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VOL. XL NO. 55.
SETTLEMENT
OFSIBIKE
HOW
worn
Georgia Officials Refuse to Re
employ 40 Men in Atlanta
Joint Terminals.
SCHEME TO BREAK UNION
OF TRAINMEN. SAYS CHIEF
Settlement of the Paschal and
Morgan Cases Reached--Tie
Up of Road Complete.
AL'GI'STA, GA.. Oct. 7.—-According
.to a statement made Monday afternoon
h\ Vice President James Murdock, of
tiir Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
,iie Georgia railroad strike would have
n settled and al! the men would have
son back to work this morning if offi
i lalt of the road had not refused to take
back the men working in the Atlanta
joint terminals who went out. There
me about 40 of these men. It is charged
io M Murdock that the road has en
■■.. ;\ored for a long time to separate
. se men working there from those
working on the road itself. The charge
made is that the road would like to
jave the men in the Atlanta terminals
b oken away from the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen so that the road
otrd "hire and fire" them at will.
The statement made by Mr. Murdock
'owes as a surprise, as this was the
first intimation of any question regard
ing he men In the Atlanta, terminals,
'he seitlement of the Bachal and Mor
gan a’er it- generally understood,
vou'd have ended the trouble.
According to Mr. Murdock, the (Geor
gia railroad has recently injected the
’etminal affair Into the controversy. A
basis of settlement in the Paschal and
Morgan cases was reached last night,
the termlna.l affair alone is now a
bone of contention. Just how the Pas
’■'lal and Morgan cases had been set
tled is not stated. However, the break
in tlie negotiations caused by the At
lanta. terminal ca.se may cause every
thing to be gone over again.
The Georgia railroad officials refuse
to make, any statements in regard to
their future plans and do not indicate
whether or not they will ask for a Fed
eral court injunction so that they may
operate their mail trains.
Sunday Train to
Atlanta Last One.
Efforts are being made by the man
agement of the road to handle some
cars on the Augusta belt line to re
lieve the local congestion of cotton, but
on the main line and on the branches
no effort has been made to send out
trains since yesterday morning, when
Engineer Harry Craig carried passen
ger No. 1 to Atlanta.
Ith no freight, mall and passenger
service, the people along the Georgia
railroad have been inconvenienced to
he point of actual suffering. Not since
a ’t Tuesday ha» a freight train been
» into this city, and the passen
ger service since that time has been
-pasmodlc. Even when trains ran.
passengers. unless forced by necessity.
“Trained from riding in them, for fear
' ,f Possible injury.
■'h ie the road is tied up and busl-
1 f ”' ' a > a standstill, efforts toward
continue through Dr. Charles
[ nited States commissioner of
rnr He has worked incessantly since
arrived here Friday to bring the
'winding parties together, but so far
s not had much success. No
*'atement will be made in regard to
S that is being made toward
■’’“diation, but it is certain that no set
"‘ment is In sight,
statement has been made by the
toad authorities that no attempt will
to operate trains until the en
announce that tliev arc readv
0 resume their runs.
Complete
1 p roday
■ ■
Georgia road is completely tied
Not since the strike went
1 a week ago has the traffic
absolutely blocked. Not a
ja- turned today, not a train has
Atlanta station since Saturday.
t " n not Ba V when an attempt
■mother train will be made.
time since the strike on
t >ad began, one week ago.
Mn No. 2 was left in the
yesterday, with no at
•nd I; on iis run No. 2,
lr to lea \ e for Augusta a '
not even made up or I
!|, i'>n and pn«mfti< re an-
'H'nued on P» q , Two |
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Resuf ts.
CLERCTBKK
OSO IN
Niroi
FIGHT
Decide to Uphold Stand Taken
by the Men and Religion
Leaders.
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
IS HINTED AT BY JACKSON
Pastors Convinced They Mis
understood 'Bulletins Extra.’
One Refuses to Give In.
Ma’ion Jackson and John J. Eagan,
leaders of the Men and Religion For
ward Movement, and their advertising
campaign as it affects the mayoralty
situation, were given unqualified in
dorsement by the Evangelical Ministers
association today.
AA ith but a single exception minis e s
who Sunday denounced the now famous
"Bulletins Extra" for what they claim
to have been a support of James G.
Woodward for mayor, today admitted
that they had misunderstood or mis
read the bulletin The Rev. G. M
Eakes, of St. Johns Methodist church,
alone stood by his guns and voted
against a resolution to indorse the
committee advertisements.
"Mr. Chambers has answered this
question asked him to my satisfaction.”
said the Rev. Mr. Eakes, "and for that
reason I can not support a resolution
which will put this body Into polities
again and befog this issue.
Intimation Made of
Independent Candidate.
The action of the ministers associa
tion means that the quasf-political bul
letins of the Men and Religion Forward
Movement, under the entitlement of
"The Churches In Our Midst,” will con
tinue with the support of Atlanta di
vines.
The interrogation seeking an indorse
ment of Police Chief Beavers and his
action in closing the houses in the
segregated district, will be hurled at
the two candidates for mayor a second
time. x i
And unless one or the other answers
this question to the satisfaction of the
movement and the ministers an inde
pendent candidate, backed by the move
ment may enter the mayoralty lists at
the general election In December.
Facts Distorted,
Declares Jackson.
AU this and more took place at a
meeting of the Evangelical Ministers
association, held in the First Baptist
church today. Here what promised
Sunday' to prove a disintegration of the
concerted movement against vice in
Atlanta was pronounced a misunder
standing. The fight whether or not it
involves political questions. will be
fought out along the line Marion Jack
son and John J. Eagan direct.
Tn a vehement defense of the "Bulle
tins Extra,” the advertisement which
caused the trouble, Marion Jackson de
nounced the Woodward campaign com
mittee for what he termed a willful mis
construction of the facts.
Want to Know Who
Will Support Chief.
"If any man on God's green earth,”
he ’sa.ld, “can construe that bulletin as
to be in favor of one candidate for
mayor as against another. I want him
to give me his logic. The Woodward
campaign committee used isolated
phases and sentences to suit their pur
pose.
"On this point, however, I and my
associates will be Insistent. The Men
and Religion Forward Movement and
the ministers of Atlanta have asked
Chief Beavers to do this thing. He has
done it. Now the churches and the
movement must support him, and we
have the right to know, and will know,
who will support the police chief for
his courageous act and wh<f will knife
him."
Planning Beavers'
Political Death.
"Already forces are at work in At
lanta planning Beavers’ political death.
Is it right for the churches which have
demanded that he close these houses
fail now to support him in every way?
For this reason we have asked both
candidates to state publicly their at
titude regarding Beavers and his ac
tion. This and nothing else.
"And let me say here, whether or not
the ministers of Atlanta continue to
ask this question. I will while there is
breath in my body.”
"In case neither candidate. Wood
ward or Chambers, answers this ques
tion. for whom should we vote?" asked
a minister
"I would say that no right-thinking!
man could ■ ast a ballot at all." an- |
-wfred .1 <■ kson swift "if tec ra i»
who! x brtwe/n til'- two."
This intimation that the movement
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•POLICE ROUT strikers:
• Atlanta police we-e called today •
• to prevent strike disorders for the •
• first time, and Chief Beavers and •
• a squad or mounted men forced a •
• crowd of 1.000 strike sympathizers •
• out of the Union station. Only one •
• arrest was made theie. As a re- •
• suit of the renewed troubles the •
• road is tied up completely. •
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r 200 CASES BEFORE
PARDON BOARD AT
; MONTHLY SESSION
The Georgia prison commission met
- this morning in the state ca pitol for its
regular monthly sitting as a board of
pardons.
, There are more than 20 cases to be
e brought to Its attention this month. The
r cases in which executive clemency is
J sought run well over 200. and include all
I classes of crime, from simple larceny
• to murder, committed by defendants
male and female, the latter largely pre
dominating.
! The commission today has had under
; advisement the case of Jack Baldwin, a
> negro convicted of murder in Stewart
' county, under sentence to be executed
! on Fridaj’ of this week. Commutation
' to life imprisonment is asked in this
case, and a recommendation for or
against clemency will be made within
the next 24 hours.
and the churches might put an inde
pendent candidate in the field caused a
' sensation.
Reformers Win
Complete Indorsement.
General discussion of the past action
of the executive committee of the
movement in regard to the political sit
uation brought forth a resolution from
, Dr. John E. White, of the Second Bap
, tist church, which proved to be a com
plete indorsement of the past action ot
the executive committee, "bulletin ex
tras and all.
Marion Jackson's bulletin, to be is
j sued tomorrow, an explanation of the
II advertisement whb h stirred lhe min
lisici on Sunda,' bx w ha' wa« consid-
,'i d an indorsement of the candfdaex
I of Woodward, w as read and discussed
ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1912.
VICE COMMISSION
GENERAL CITY
: Boy Dies While Drug •
: Is Held in Postoffice:
• •
• AMERICUS, GA . Oct 7.8e- •
• cause a package of medicine from •
• the Pasteur institute in Atlanta •
• bus held in the postoffice here yes- •
• terday, under the recent postal •
• order, abolishing Sunday mail de- •
• liveries, John Worthy, tbree-year- •
• old son of ati Americus patrolman, •
• is dead from hydrophobia. The •
• package of medicine wus deliv- •
• cred this morning, but too late to •
• save the child’s life. •
LAI) IS ARRESTED AS
“AXMAN” SLAYER OF
PARENTS AND SISTER
QL'INt'Y, ILL., Oct. 7. flay Pfan
schmidt was arrested today charged
with the murder of his parents, Airs.
Askmer and Mrs. Charles Pfanschmidt,
hi- sister, Blanche, and Miss Emma
Kaempen, who were killed ten days ago
on tlte Pfanschmidt farm neat here.
The murders were tit first attributed to
the dreaded axman.
Clothing said to have been worn by
Hay pfanschmidt was found today cov
ered with blood in the vault of an oul
houAe at a grading camp, where he was
employed Young Pfanschmidt declares
he is innocent.
PLANTER BREAKS NECK
IN FALL FROM BUGGY
AMERICAS GA, Oct. 7.-0 R Mc-
Tei-t. a wealthy planter, while driving
mi' 1 the <i'y. fell from nis buggy.
!>•• ikin'.: in- neck. Henri fa du re is
suppos'd to have <au»ed the fatal fall.
Atlanta baseball team, who is
an. was caught in a characteris
now m Xew York to report
ic pose by “Tad.”
FORGETS IT IS SUNDAY
AND DRIVES 20 MILES
FOR LOAD SHINGLES
DALTON. GA., Oct. 7.—<'ompletely
forgetting the day of the week, Riley
Giddens. ex-representative from Whit
field county In the state legislature,
drove into Dalton yesterday for a load
of shingles. It was not until lie dis
covered the lumber manufacturing plant
wa* closed that he remembered the day.
Mr. Gldden® lives about ten miles
north of here.
“GERMAN DAY’’ WILL
BE CELEBRATED AT
TURNVEREIN TUESDAY
Loyal German-American* in Atlan
ta will celebrate German day tomorrow
night act their hall in the Titrnverein,
26 1-2 South Pryor street, when
Speeches in German and English, mu
sic and dancing will be enjoyed.
There are more than 300 in the Ger
man colon} of Atlanta, and they will
join the National German-American
alliance in celebrating the anniversary
of the first German colony in America.
Ki ancle Daniel Pasol iou.« headed a
party of explorers who landed at the
present site of Germantown, Pa., on
October X. 16X3.
THREE KILLED IN STREET
BATTLE IN TEXAS TOWN
GREENVILLE. TEXAS, Oct. 7 in a
pitched battle in the streets of this
town early today, in which a police of
ficer and citizen took part, Policeman
Sant Simmons and Emmet Shipp and
Rov Harrington, civilians, were shot
to death.
The officer h (tempted tn arrest gi m .
mop', who »a® a wealthy cattleman,
on < minor c.Miip, The tight occurred
on the main street and caueed « panic.
Asks For Action Against White Slave
Traffic in Georgia and Declares
Daughters of Best Families Are Be
ing Lured Away in Atlanta.
Demands War on Assignation Houses and Cheap
Hotels—Suggests Health Certificates Before
Marriage. Home For Wayward and Com
mends Chief Beavers’ Crusade.
A crusade io eliminate the white slave traffic in Georgia and
tin street and assignation house evil in Atlanta is urged in the long
awaited report of the vice commission, submitted Io the city council
today.
t hies Beavers' crusade against the ’‘houses in our midst” is up
held. and a policy of repression is urged in dealing with the social
evil.
I'ln report is embodied in 27 typewritten pages, and goes into a
discussion of the social evil from psychological, economical and moral
viewpoints.
It declares that efforts have been made to lead astray young
women of the best families of the city. It declares that the worst
evidences of evil are the assignation houses—ninny of them on the
principal streets of the city—and
immoral women on the streets.
The commission urges a gen
eral clean-up of the city.
Lectures on Hygiene
In Schools Proposed.
The report goes into a detailed
discussion of the sources of the
evil, urging that parents instruct
their children as to their sexual
natures and that lectures on hy
giene be given in the public
i schools.
I It recommends thai separate parks be
provided for white people and negroes.
If urges better hospital facilities for
the treatment of venereal diseases.
A home for wayward girls is pointed
out as one of the city's big needs. It
declares that there is a "white slave’’
traffic in the state, engaged in luring
girls from the smaller towns to the
cities.
The report touches on poverty and
the small salaries paid working girls
as a matter demanding attention in a
campaign to wipe out the social evil.
It criticises extreme fashions, tight
“kills, and the like, as a stimulation to
sensuous desires.
The signers of the report are Joseph
A. McCord, Thomas J. Day, John S.
Candler. James It. Nutting. Orville H.
Hall. George H. Boynton. \V. G. Hum
phrey. Edgar G. Ballinger, George I.
Walker and R. N. Pickett.
Urges Campaign on
Questionable Hotels.
"The commission finds that one of the
greatest menaces to our young people
and an evil for which there is abso
lutely no excuse, is the assignation ho
tels and oorning houses on many of
our principal streets, which furnish a
place of ruin to the young girls living
at home and at work. They should not
be tolerated.
"We believe that the best way to
handle this question is to adopt a policy
of suppression, not in a spasmodic way,
but with a continued vigilance by police
authorities, and that this should also
extend to rooms occupied by women of
questionable character In the business
sections of the city, and that a general
clean-up campaign should be Instituted
in such sections.
"One of the greatest evils arising from
this source is the fact that many young
girls, having no proper places of
amusement and naturally seeking
pleasure in the evenings, are lured to
these places, frequently by companions
of their own sex, who are not known
to he immoral. Erlends are Introduced
who take them to places of amusement
frequently of doubtful character, and In
this mannet form a familiarity that
leads to their ruin
Police Should
Regulate Amusements.
"A great many children grow up
without the proper care and are left to
form associations that ultimately lead
them into vice.
"This condition also is brought about
by the fact that we have not yet suf
ficient schools along industrial lines
where these children ran be given a
proper training qualifying them for the
duties of life. We believe that the
board of education should give careful
thought to this particular phase of the
subject and consider Hie question of an
industiial course in the grammar
schools.
"There is Hliolhei class of children
that air neglected, whose parents do
not have to work, but w ho permit their
children to roam the streets and go to
places of questionable amusement, thus
forming habits that will almost certain
ly lead to Immorality.
Another deplorable fact is that la,gr
numbers of children of both races are
allowed to main the streets without
iiii'n guardian 01 chapeiun until late
hours nt the night, frequenting places
HOME
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
URGES
CLEAN-UP
JUDGE FITE TO BE
CITED BE COURT
OF APPEALS
State Tribunal Decides to Cah
Cherokee Jurist to Explain
Criticisms.
Unless it reverses its de term! nation
within the next few hours, the court
of appeals of Georgia will cite Judge
Augustus A. Fite, of the Cherokee su
perior court, before it for contempt.
The judge will be called upon to ex
plain away satisfactorily to the court,
of appeals certain contemptuous, sneer
ing ana unbecoming public criticism
of the court of appeals or suffer such
penalty for contempt as the court may
inflict, which is imprisonment for ten
days and a fine of SSOO, or both, in the
discretion of the court
rhe court of appeals recentlv re
versed Judge Fite, for the second time.
In a case from Gordon county. In
handing down its reversal the court of
appeals criticised the judge of the lower
court for the way in which he had
handled the case.
This brought forth from Judge Fite
a bitter and scathing attack on the
court of appeals. In which lie unmerci
fully lambasted the court. This was in
the form of a newspaper card pub
lished in Sunday’s newspapers of a
week ago.
The court of appeals took this matter
under consideration on Saturday last,
and since then lias been debating with
Itself whether to cite Fite for contempt
or not.
The court today decided to summon
him. and the writ likely will be given
to the sheriff of the court of appeals
for service this afternoon.
of questionable amusement, and we be
lieve that this should be remedied by
proper police regulation.
Recommend Schools
As Community Centers.
“We believe that more attention
should be given to helpful amusement
for the children and young people of
our city, and to this end would sug
gest that the board of education be re
quested to allow public school buildings
to be used as community centers, where
the children, with their parents, can
congregate in the afternoon and even
ings.
“We believe it would be a good idea
for the board of education to elect one
or more male instructors on sexual hy
giene for the boys of the seventh and
eighth grades of the grammar schools
and In the high .school, to visit these
various schools at staled periods, hav
ing the boys segregated to themselves,
and lecture and instruct them on this
subject.
"There is a class of women who fre
quent our prominent streets, accosting
men ami young boys, inviting them to
a life ol shame and degradation, and
owing to the Increasing population of
our city, this form of vice is becoming
a serious menace and should be oblii
orated, and. we believe, can be doti»
without evil effects, and we reeom
mend that our police commission tak<
pioper nens in thia direction.
"From a l areful in* < atigiilion «« a ■
led to doubt that whai U kn»wn as th