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2 STRIKE ISSUE UP IN fIIS US BOTH SIDES BLUFF » .. - - Union Chiefs Hurry to Atlanta for Conference on the Joint Terminals Situation. Continued From Page One. president of the Louisville and X.ish ville railway, is pulling the wires di recting the Georgia railroad -trik. sit uation: that he and his interests are preparing to crush the organization of trainmen and conductors, even at the cost of a general strike which will tie up the whole South, is the opinion of some Atlanta railroad men and impor tant shippers who hate given close study to the situation They believe that a general strike Is imminent and that it will not end until the roadshave broken the power of the unions or have fought to their last ditch and lost. From ('hairman Charles A. Wieker sham’a office this afternoon It was said a concession had been made to the striking trainmen, in that the ter minal company had offered to take hack a part of the striking terminal employees It also was said a number of the strikebreakers brought here to take the places of the strikers are ex perienced railroad men and w ere prom- j ised regular employment. Then are others who were not promised perms- | nent positions. The terminal company insists it will retain the former, let the latter go and give places to such of the •trikets aa It can use. There are 46 striking terminal employees and more than half would be given their old places under this agreement. This has! not beeig satisfactory to the strikers, who demand the reinstatement of all or none. City Could Stand Sixty Day Siege The attitude at the terminal offices was that exerr reasonable concession had been made and nothing further could be done. In case a strike is ordered which will •top operations on all the roads rn- ■ taring Atlanta, the city would Itave ■ enough foodstuffs on hand to last about I fiO days. according to a prominent flour I and grain dealer who has studied the t sltuntlon. "Atlanta has only a normal supply ■ on hand, but a great share of this is destined for shipment to the out-of town retail trade," he said. "Os course, any strike which prevents trains com ing in will prevent them going out. and this supply of food could be used for local custom. There would be a scarcity of fresh meats and a marked shortage of feed for live stock, but At lanta would have plenty to eat for about two months." Atlanta shippets are beginning to protest against the strike and most of their wrath is directed at the Georgia road. It is they who blame Milton H. Smith and the high financial powers in the railroad world for the present IC-Pound Pail • Hogless Lard 98° ARGO Salmon 1 CC Regular 25c value I J FANCY PINK QI SALMON Qi Full lb. cans, 20c val. Libby's Large OOC White Asparagus L L 21-2 lb can, regular 50c value Libby's Aspar- j 71 agus Tips.. ■■ 2 Regular 35c value 10c pkg. Corn Flakes 5c Quaker Oats 8c 25c Blue Label Ketsup 171-2 c Lee & Perrin’s Sauce 21c I lb. Royal Bkg. Powd’r 39c 1 lb. Rumford’s Powder. 21c Fresh Country Eggs.doz. 25c Eagle Milk 1412 c Meadow Gold Butter, lb. 35c 40c Coffee 28c 30c Coffee 22c 25c Coffee 19c Instant Postum 19c | Florida Limes, per 100 35c CASH GROCERY CO. j 118-123 Whitehall SI, Mrs. Rosenthal To Be Main Witness Against Policeman BECKER'S DEATH DEMANDED - '■ . ■■ -- , ■■ ■■ . ■■■ -- , , | „ , , ~ MMMM Mr ■ fifiS ■k W / W. (ty/ F? a • / JWrJr-vt. 'b i|Sl;■■ ■ - 7 kSoA Bi X /i- j/ltowd F. . .. / / RS V - A : | d i'W -7 c..' z?. ; , ’ ”jk g. :J situation. They believe the roads are ready to fight out a strike at any cost to themselves and the cities which would suffer from lack of transporta tion. anil the government ownership of’ railways Idea has taken a big bound in public favor in the past wick. The tangled financial condition ol the railroads in the South has led to th • belief in tlte directing hand of Milton 11. Smith. It is pointed out that his road controls the Georgia and it was he who directed every move in the noted firemen's strike on the Geor gia four years ago. The 1.. and X. and the Coast Line are tin same interest. The L. and X. prac tically owns the Georgia. Tlte I. and X. owns the X , C. atffi St. 1., and lite X. C and St. I. leases the Western and .Atlantic The ownership of the West Point, a short but important con necting link, is problematical, but it is understood that the Southern has a big finger in the West Point pie. All the roads are so interlocked by finan cial control that they have a commun ity of interests which soon draws all of them into making common cause when one is attacked. That the Louisville and Xashville is preparing for a strike is indicated by the fai t th it it has begun routing its shipments from the West into Atlanta | byway of Xashville and the Western and Atlantic, instead of through Knox, jiille and tlte Louisville and Xashville, as usual One of the roads threatened with a general strike because of switching in I the Atlanta yards for the Georgia rail road already has agreed not to con tinue, and it is said the otheis will probably igrei this afternoon Southern Thought to Have Made Pact. Vai Fitzpatrick vice pi.sident of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, saiil he knew one of the roads had come to terms, but would not give tin name of the road It Is supposed that it is the Southern which has agreed to do no more switching for the Georgia road, as Fitzpatrick and General Manager Copelan, of the Southern lailway. who arrived in Atlanta today in his pri vate car. had a long conference, and the rumor became prevalent immediate ly afterward The conference which w|| be held be t w een Cum tn is si one i X'cilJ and the thi e< union leaders in Augusta today is ex pected to end about U o'clock this after noon. I'pon Its result hinges the strike Situation on the Georgia road, though It is thought no action will be taken by them in reg.nd to the switching in I the Atlanta turns, as it now that tlie other three road- will agio. Ito discontinue ail swltining foi the ' Georgia road The Southern th. X.is ivt e. Ciiat •anooga ami St Louis and the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic are the roads' (which ha • given greatest offense by aiding the svst,m s w horn t« ■ n itial <• : . | id.yees ar« on sttike. but other •■ys terns also may b. involved. Tltositua-i •ion Is tin outgrow tli of the strike of . 16 ■ up-oy. ,a of flu Atlanta joint termi ' i:..s whh a V. emed a small matter at I I fir*st. but which has no v be. om< th, only l-em tn the general strike on the, ii> orgia to.td I’he Geo g. raiToau ' ‘ nipjovt.-e are re u v to tecurn to Work! |'' I 1 " r<>»' 1 gi.ni’. d their de- i n. t. met. t ol thi ,i it i. imma i . ui- | tgiident Brand ’ n tin grout ■ tb it tin v ' I . not h .mi .io, nut th.... of th | ; Join- o null , . I M . KTA GEORGIAN AND N’EWS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1912. Lieutenant Charles j&r liei’ki r. on trial for planning the assassi J&Sd nation of I lennan Rosenthal Prosecutor Whitman Outlines ■ Case Against Police Lieuten ant on Trial as Slayer. XKW YoltK Oct 10. Death in the electric chai for Lieutenant Becker was the demand made today in«the opening address of District Attorney Whitman in the trial of that official ac cused of the murder of Herman Rosen thal. After outlining his ase, the dis trict attorney said: "1 know that we can show that a powerful motive for the murder existed in the hin t of the prisoner at the bar, su h a motive as no one else living could have hud. W e are going to claim that in spite of the fact that Becker may not have used the fatal weapons, notwithstanding the fait that he may not have been present at the scene of the crime, conceding, of course, that otheis ate guilty of the awful crime of feloniously taking human life: that tile real murderer, the most desperate crim inal of them all, was the cool, calculat ing. scheming, grafting police officer, who med the very offices with which the people had entrusted him. the very power which was his tor the enforce ment of law and order, to tempt and force others Into the commission of .•rime to extort graft and blackmail from the gamble s. and finally to sacri fice human life for the protection of which the very offices which lie held was created Wanted Rosenthal "Croaked." Heckel sent for .lack Rose and told him that R. etithal was becoming dan geious and his exposures must be stopped and tiiat his voice must be si >need forevet He said, ‘Now, you have just done a favor foi Zelig (Big •lack Zelig, tlte gang leader who was shot to death Inst Saturday nightt. I want you to go to him and tel; him he must do a favor for me 1 want him to have his gang croak Rosenthal.'” Mr Whitman went along with charges that Becker was in constant > ommuniv.it lon with R>,e. utging him ! to hasten the death of It sentlial. Beck er became angry at the delay which \\ hitman . ha ged mid finally a meeting was arranged between Hei ket and I Lewis \v ebbe . the gambling house pro | into’ who has b. . ome a witness aga.nst Becker 1 Here." said Mi Whitman, "he .(i'.e. kei i | ut the proposition squarely |up to \\ i bl-, to the effect that Rusen tb i' nr:, be put out of the way that his < Roi.-ntha:'.<■ i ex; outes would ruin ,i ii w holi gi aft inatitution." Getiing'down to the morning of the imii:.:i' . M Whitman disclosed a line I if ev an. . idtlwito kept so et He tv . s-.a - ... > h..w insist, nt IL. ke W..S lha: R.,,w alu.uld 1,.. ■ I" 1 lie ...y 111 Itlng ' lie Ititlt I■■ t .1 a a :’*' ” It sic. W i-Ida | i ■ Mi i J. iff 4 i » Mrs. Jack Zelig. widow of the gang leader who was slain last Saturday night, just before the Becker trial was to begin. Zelig was depended upon to be a strong corroborative witness for the prosecution. His death is laid to the “system" which killed Rosenthal. cured the presence of the gunmen at Webber s place. "Wt shall show you Becker's pres ence near by and his communication with Webber's place after 1 o'clock on the morning of the sli. oting (Rosen thal was killed at 1:50 a. ml. The men were taken to the scene of the murder at lack Rose's direction. Rosen thal having been located by Webber, who repm t“d back to the murderets. AV e shell s low you how Rosenthal was killed and how after the escape of the murdt rers Rose notified Becker at bis home To use his own expression. The job had been done and that he (Ros i was much worried.’ or words to that effect. AVe Will show you that Becket :e --sponded that ev< rything would be all right: nd to worry. Becker went to the station house, where the body of Rosenthal was lying, and later he weni to Forty-second street, where he met Webber and Rose, both on the verge of co, aps. from fright and fca of discov ery. . shall show vou v here Beckei mad. a rang. im-ntx foi Ro-e and Web ber io pay the g.mni n Jl.oiio the next day to get out of town for a little Wile'' This was the first tim< that it be came known tha. Be. k r was in . om munl Ii W. bbei . nd R. s.- Im- rne .iat !y a fte; the mu: e. , Only Married Men Jurors. • u.»< I . < it. wdl be a . >.j w itlll s ■ .h .it st I-'. k< . HEARST LETTERS GENUINE, SAYS ARCHBOLD Admits Authenticity by Failing to Deny He Either Wrote or Received Them. Continued From Page One. purports to be a letter dated March 6, 1900, from you to Foraker. A. I have no doubt I wrote the letter. Q. It reads: “According to our un derstanding, J now inclose to you a certificate of deposit for $15,000.’’ | “Mr. Foraker is not at present in the | senate, but we are empowered to go into matters between you and members of the house and senate." A. The payments were for Senator I Foraker s service as our counsel in ! <thio. I Senator Clapp then called the wit |ness’ attention to another letter by j Archbold, sending $14,500 to Foraker. fThe witness explained this check with j the same words as before. All Explained As Legal Fees. I A third note, “enclosing $10,000,” was | next read. The witness acknowledged i having sent such a letter and check, .saying that this also was for Senator j Foraker’s legal fees. Five thousand dollars was the amount I mentioned in the fourth note and the I former Ohio senator, Archbold said, got : this money also for his services as I counsel. The chairman then showed the wit jness the remainder of the photographic copies in the magazine and Mr. Arch bold stated that while he had no spe cific recollection of them, he did not ■ doubt that he wrote them. < hairman t lapp read to the witness i from another number of Hearst’s Mag. ; azine a letter dated January 19. 1900. j to the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna. This tetter asked Senator Hanna to op pose two measures before the Ohio leg i islature. One of the measures was a j bill to amend the anti-trust law and ' the other was a resolution for the ap pointment of an investigating commit tee which the letter characterized as a most malicious measure. The letter , continued: We wish to enlist you promptly in the defeat of these measures. Will you do everything possible to accomplish their defeat?” “What have you to say to this?" asked Senator Clapp? Doesn’t Deny He Wrote the Letter. Archbold replied: "That was an era of so-called strike legislation and if I wrote that letter this is my excuse." To another inquiry from Senator Clapp as to what he knew of this let ter Archbold replied: “I really have no recollection of shat communication." “Have you searched among your files for such a letter?” "I have and I find none. 1 may have written a letter such as you have read, but I have no recollection of it." Senator Clapp read another maga zine letter to C. H. Grosvenor “in closing $1,000." This was in 1900. Archbold said that it must have been a contribution to one of his campaigns. A printed copy of a letter from Archbold to Senator Hanna followed. Archbold said he had no recollection of ft. Q. You made a search for it? A. I did, but I could not find it. Os course, if I did receive it. it was stolen from my files. 1 am not a handwriting expert, but it* looks like his signature. The letter stated that Hanna did not believe with Archbold that he (Hanna) would have a walkover and added: “J am the target. The demands on me are simply awful.” Other photographed letters followed The witness denied any recollection of these communications, hut said: "They look like Hanna's handwrit- I ing” I “It Looks Like Hanna's Signature.’’ The witness was shown a letter dated September 16. 1903, signed by- Senator Hanna, to John D. Archbold, in which the writer said he could not go Eaet at that time and could not “leave the situation for a day.” Han na added: “I have no doubt you will do the fair thing, and I want the Republi can party to have a subscription from you.” Q. Do you recall receiving this let ter? A. 1 have no recollection of having received it. Q. In your opinion, is it in the hand writing of Marcus A. Hanna? A. It looks like it. A communication from Archbold to Hanna, antagonistic to the candidacy of S. W. Bennett for the attorney gen eralship of Ohio, tb»« followed. “We are surprised beyond measure to find that S. W. Bennett, associated with F. S Monett in the fight against us. is in tile race for attorney general ship of Ohio,” wrote Archbold to Sen ator Foraker on the same day that he sent his other communication to Sen ator Hanna. The witness hud no rec ollection of the document and he ad mitted he might have written It. A letter dated October 3. 1901. from Archbold to (’. II Grosvenor was in troduced and identified by the witness as having been written by him. The note concerned the employment of a "Mr. Bond." a nephew of General Grosvenor, by the Standee .. Hi! t’otn pany At tbo’d was shown a photographic copy of a letter and sanl h» had a 1 V.igui r> o ectioii of having tecclvej THESE TWO COUNTIES < SIMPLY DIDN’T VOTE ON THE AMENDMENTS 1 Secretary of State Philip Cook to day received the election returns from Towns and Union counties. Although approximately 1,000 votes were cast in these counties, not a state house officer, judge or solicitor gen eral received any votes in either. Not one of the constitutional amendments proposed was voted for by anybody. John A. Corn was elected a member •of the house of representatives from ' Towns and J. W. Handricks from Un | ian. Towns and Union are two remote mountainous counties near the Ten nessee line in north Georgia, where sometimes they hold elections and sometimes they do not. BEAT WOMAN AND LOOT HOUSE AS CHILDREN SLEEP SCRANTON. PA., Oct. 10.—Two bur glars entered the home of Henry Har loss, at Taylor, last night, and while eight small children slept soundly they beat Mrs. Harloss into insensibility and ransacked the house. They took $35 from a bureau drawer and escaped. such a communication from General Grosvenor. The letter was on paper, headed “Committee on Merchant Ma rine and Fisheries.” It was dated 1904 and was sent from Athens, Ohio. The letter referred to correspondence with "our mutual friend Sibley, who sug gests that I come to see you." The letter continues: "If you think neces sary. I will come to New York. Could I see you on Sunday. October 4?” "Os course, this letter is not in my files, said Archbold. “I do not recol lect replying to the letter and I am very sure General Grosvenor did not come to see me.” From the July number of Hearst’s Magazine Archbold was shown a letter dated September 6. 1900, to President A. J. Cassall, of the Pennsylvania rail road. concerning the candidacy of L. Emery, of Pennsylvania, in which Em ery was referred to as “the old-time agitator." whose election "would be a great misfortune." "I have no doubt I wrote it,” said Archbold. Senator Clapp then read from a pho tographic copy of another letter from 'John D. Archbold to W. A. Patten, of the Pennsylvania railroad, dated Oc- J tobcr 5, 1900, which also related to the defeat of Emery and asked him to call | off a railroad detective working for | Emery against Sibley. A letter to John A. Archbold from Congressman Sibley, appearing on pages 37 to 40 of the July Hearst’s Magazine, dated February 26, 1905, was next exhibited. It was the long Sibley letter in the Hearst col lection dealing with a conversation with "Mr. 8., a Democrat, who is in tolerably opposed to the president,” as of the courage and ability to make a legal argument on the floor of the sen ate. One great man at the proper time will be a power of strength and safe ty.” Sibley Letter, Too, Probably Genuine. "I have no recollection of it." re plied Archbold, “but it looks like Sib ley’s handwriting." There were many letters dated prior to 1900 and, theferoe, not within the jurisdiction of the committee. A letter dated February 18. 1900, however, was shown to Archbold, which was signed by him and sent to former Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania. The letter informed Quay that Arch bold had a talk with Penrose about the new California senator and had or dered four people to do all they could through the Santa Fe.” “I have no doubt I wrote it." said Archbold. [TURKISH Mfji TUT ORE money | A is spent for | Fatima Turkish- I blends than for | I any other cigar- i ette in the coun- I Why?—a package of 20 will tell you I and please you. In consideration of the inexpen sive package, the price is ''DutincUtcly fndh>idi;id , ‘ POLICE SLAYER OF BOY IS INDICTED FOR MURDER Uncle of Victim Tells the Grand Jury Negro Witnesses Have Been Spirited Away. After being freed by a coroner’s jur and the case against him apparency dropped, Policeman E. H. Parham, w . shot and killed John Wright, a whr youth in Johnson street three weeks ago, as the boy fled from arrest w ■- indicted for murder by the Fulton coun ty grand jury this afternoon. Inform.,, tion upon which the true bill was turned was furnished the jury by J y Austin, uncle of the slain youth. Parham lives at 1250 Marietta street and Deputy Sheriff Plennie Minor w H « sent to arrest him. He will be taken t , the Tower. The most startling feature of the in dictment developed in tne testimon? given the jury by Austin. He main, tained that all the negro witnesse connected with the case, who had test fled before the coroner’s jury, had been spirited away. Negro Disappears. Austin asserted that he made a thor oug.h search for Sanders, the negro whose place the shooting occur.ed and could find no trace of him Three police officers sent to the m > from headquarters, and who. it «.,= said, had made an investigation favor able to Parham after the shooting v e .„ not allowed to testify. Patrolman Be, der, who was on the same beat «i,, Pa: ham the night of the shooting br gan his story before the jury but v stopped by Solicitor General Dorse The grand jury hears only prlma f H . evidence to support the state’s ca<r According to Austin, the dead bov < uncle, the case will be prosecuted an' he 'vih use every effort to unearth ah the facts connected with it. He st,' today that he got information fron several of the negro witnesses, but the, disappeared and he has not been abb to locate them since. PnTu ree Weeks ago Sunday morning Parham was. appealed to bv a nezi ■ named Sanders living In Johnson sire with the story that a man was prow ■ ing around his barn attempting to qr ■> his cow. Parham went to the placeman-' as he approached the barn Wright ran out. He failed to stop at Parham’s ha : ana the latter fired two shots The b-i' ns S tan n tu red b ° y * back ’ killing h ' m mm "Law Brotherg for Quality" Ten Special Suit Values Choice of ten splendid I . pure wool patterns, ele- I gantly tailored, embody ing the very best work- I manship, for men or young men. at only $25. An unusual opportun- ity to get a genuine I high-grade 3-piece Suit I at a popular price. We tailor suits at $25 to $45. See Our Window Displa\*~~ The ATLANTA Tonight 8:P I HENRY B. HARRIS PRESENTS THE QUAKER GIRL COMPANY OF 100 WITH VICTOR MORLEY All the Week. Mats. Wed. and Sat Nights 50c to $2; Mats. 50c to $1.50 SEATS ON SALE THURSDAY. MADAME SHERRY WITH ADA MEADE Monday and Tuesday. 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