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■IL SESSION
OF GUMM
BUSHOMI
Mrs. Pennybacker. President of
National Federation. Is At
lanta's Guest of Honor.
Continued From Page One
presidents of the Georgia tideration.
Mrs Lindsay Johnson, Mrs. A. <).
Granger, Mrs. Hugh M. Willet, Mr?
James Jackson and .Mrs M A I.ips
i >tnb.
Baroness Opens
The Convention.
The address of the Baroness Von
Suttner at the Auditorium last night
marked the informal opening of the
convention. Most of the delegates had
arrived and the scene in Taft hall was
a brilliant one. The Baroness, who had
arrived only shortly before the meeting,
was escorted to the stage by Mrs. John
M. Slaton, who is entertaining her for
her stay in Atlanta, and was presented
to Governor and Mrs. Joseph M. Brown.
She was formally welcomed to the con
vention by Dr. and Mrs. H. C. White
and Mrs. Charles J Haden
The Baroness wore an evening gown
of black velvet with garniture of cut
jet, with a jet tiara from which hung a
veil of lace. She is a handsome wom
an, whose features apeak of generations
of high breeding, and she was thor
oughly at home upon the platform.
No other woman has done so much
for the cause of world peace as Bertha
Von Suttner, author of that .potverful
work. "Lay Down Your Arms.” Fo*
years she has traveled and labored in
the cause of universal disarmament and
took an important part in tha Boston
Peace congress of 1904 and the London
congress of 1808
The Baroness speaks English almost
perfectly, but with an accent that has a
charm all Its own. Occasionaly in he>
address she would pause for a word
and turn to Mme. Andrea Hofer Proud
foot, secretary of the International
Peace league, who quickly would sup
ply the word needed. She paid a high
tribute to American women and said
she believed they were responsible tut
placing America 50 years ahead of other
nations in the movement for peace
Always Longed
To Visit Georgia.
"I've always wanted to visit tins part
of the South. I’ve passed through
Georgia often, but always on fast
trains, and the Georgia folk I met only
made me hungry to stop a while with
you. And now that I’m here I’m going
to enjoy Georgia to the utmost.”
That was the way Mrs. Percy V.
Pennybacker greeted Atlantans who
met her at the train. She is president
of the General Federation of Women’s
t 'lubs, which has 8,000,000 members, and
she is here for the clubwomen’s con
vention, She was met by Mrs. Bolling
Jones, who will be her host tn the city,
and by Burton Smith, who was once her
schoolmate, and she began chatting
away as freely and happily and just as
much at home as though she had lived
here all her life and was among child
hood chums.
Mrs. Pennybacker doesn’t give one
the impression that she is a militant
suffragette or one of those clubwomen
the funny papers describe as leaving
their children unwashed and unfed. She
la just a bright little motherlike wom
an. so ready to please that she endured
being dragged about to give the came
ras a good light, promised any inter
view wanted and didn’t say a word
about a long railroad journey on a train
tar behind time. She lives in Austin.
' Texas, and is the third Southern wom
an to head the general federation.
Mbs. Pennybacker will deliver an ad
dress before the federation tonight at
Taft hall. Her subject will be "Some
Things Which Threaten the American
Home.”
FANNIN DEMOCRATS
CONTEST ELECTION
OF G. O. P. TICKET
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The executive department today re
ceived notice of contests in Fannin
county against several of the recently
elected county officers.
The contestants have asked that the
recent elections in that county be de
clared null and void, because not held
according to law. The cases will be
carried to the state courts and settled
there, but the law requires that notice
be given the executive of a determina
tion to contest.:
The election officers are Republicans,
and the contestants Democrats. The
election of Georg, Curtis as clerk of the
court is being questioned by J. C. Pow
ell: A. S. J, Hull, as ordinary, by J. R.
Kinkaide: .1. V. Curtis as tax collec
tor. by J. T. Forrester; T. P. Jenkins,
a» sheriff, by W. A. Thomas, and Lee
McClure, as tax receiver, by T C. Par
ker.
RAILROAD OFFICIALS
DISCUSS PUTTING ON
TRAINS FOR WINTER
For the purpose of discussing putting
on winter trains, representative- of
railroads in this territoi, met at 'be
Georgian Terrace this morning, /.in. mg
them were J. M. <’ulp, vice president of
the Southern; C. H. Cepelan vice pi. s.
ident and general manager of the
Southern: W. .1. Craig, passenger truf
fle manager of iho Atlantic Coast Lin, .
H. F. Smith and J. W. Thomas, of tl
N„ C and St. L.; W. S. Andrews, su
perintendent of transportation ~i the
Queen and f'resc-nt; \ . Ft . li;
and General Maimgi i Im. ,
H’x.G Centtai.
BECKER, POLICEMAN TRIED AS SLAYER
QC Mr My A A#
will!
Becker s attitude is nearly al-1
ways the same, no matter how j
startling the testimony.
BECKER CASE TO
JURVIOMIORROW
Arguments Will Close Today.
State Witnesses Denounced
as Actual Slayers.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The four chief
witnesses for the state in the trial of
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for
the murder of Herman Rosenthal were
denounced as the actual assassins of
the gambler informer by John F. Mc-
Intyre, chief counsel for the defense, in
hls closing address to the jury today.
Mr. Mclntyre began his speech im
mediately after court reconvened. He
said that it would probably take him
three hours and a half to finish. The
state will conclude its argument before
court adjourns tonight and the case will
be given to the jury tomorrow morning
by Justice Goff.
Calls Accusers Vile.
Attorney Mclntyre’s speecii was a
calm, forceful analysis of the testimony,
becoming oratorical only when he de
nounced Jack Rose, Harry Vallon. Sam
Sehepps and Louis Webber as the men
who actually plotted the death of Ro
senthal. At this point Mr. Mclntyre
cried:
"I atn defending an American, not a
murderer. His accusers are vile —not
lovers of the flag nor the institutions
under which we live, but a tawiess anti
degenerate set seeking filth and infamy.
"This trial had its birth in the career
of four murderers —Rose, Webber, Val
lon and Schepps. self-confessed assas
sins, all of whom, when it is Over, will
be free men again in this city, to mur
der again if they please.”
Mr. Mclntyre told the jury that the
only evidence against Becker was that
of "crooks, gamblers and blacklegs;”
that such evidence was not worthy of
credence, and that no twelve men have
the right on their own conscience to
send a man to the electric chair on such
testimony.
DavidsOn, Quaking, Arraigned.
The summing up was interrupted
when “Red” Phil Davidson, the man
who murdered "Big Jack” Zelig. the no
torious gang leader, was arraigned be
fore Justice Goff, upon application of
District Attorney Whitman, that a spe
cial panel of talesmen be called for his
trial. Mr. Whitman asked that David
son’s case be set for October 30. adding
that he hoped to have not only Zelig’s
trial out of the way before Christmas,
but also those of the gunmen in the
Rosenthal case. "Gyp the Blood,”
"Ijefty Louis.” "Dago Frank” ('iroficl
and "Whitey” Lewis. Zelig is alleged
to have furnished the gunmen who slew
Rosenthal.
When Davidson was arraigned he
stood at the bar within four feet of
Becker, shaking like a leaf. As the
brief proceedings went along Davidson
became hysterical and began to cry.
He was on the verge of collapse when
taken from the room. A plea of not
guilty was entered for Davidson by his
lawyer, and Justice Goff ordered the
calling of a special panel for his case
next Wednesday. Then Davidson was
taken back to the Tombs, and Mr. Mc-
Intyre resumed summing up where ho
had broken off.
MANY WILL TESTIFY
ABOUT BATTLE HILL
PHTHISIS HOSPITAL
So many persons have expressed a
desire to testify in regard to the con
duct of the Battle Hill Tuberculosis
-anilurium befor, tile special commit
tee of the city council appointed to in
vestigate th, charges us mismanage
ment. that chairman W. G. Humphrey
said today he was afraid tire council
chamber would not hold them.
The commute, will m.-et Friday aft
• moon at ~ o eie, a. The members made
< personal ihsp. etfop Os the Institution
yesterday r 11 > ii.. There were com
plaints from a number of the patients.
But < ’hairmaii flumphr.y ,-nid the in
•titi’iion In .1 .indoubt, dly done .. great
work. Thee, are 1"1 iuii»mts In the
hospim
Till: VI LANTA GEOHGLL.N AND NEWS WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER Wt_.
lb- sits with Ins deep lined, cruel face constantly scowling at
the witnesses, his expression betraying but little of his thoughts
or emotions.
Blue Millinery Made Unanimous by Clubwomen
OLD TIME KISS STILL LIVES
Hats of turquoise ulue have chased
those ee:ist things to tire woods and
kissing hasn’t, gone out, despite ad
vanced thought on hygiene and sanita
tion.
Those-jue the chief impressions ab
sorbed at the club woman’s convention
by a male reporter more used to train
wrecks and hangings titan pink teas
and receptions. These, and the fact
that last season’s wraps have emerged
very successfully from the ceda. chest
without a moth bite, are the principal
crop gathered at the Auditorium. Oh,
yes, the women are enthusiastic and all
that, and they seem to know what It’s
all about. But there was so much con
versation in the last rows that re
porters near the door couldn't hear
much of the reports read by the va
rious secretaries on the platform.
Wraps Really Necessary.
The wraps were really necessary, be
cause it was cold today and the weath
er bureau had failed to notify the Au
ditorium authorities that winter was
on its way. And, of. course, you can’t
expect womankind to equip itself with
11113 model coats until they see what's
gping to be worn this season. That’s
why fur eoats, .chinchillas, auto wraps
and polo coats were worn indiscrimi
nate ly today, giving a spice of variety
to the scene, even if they ,id look
queer above extra sheer silk hose and
shoes cut decollete. But the heat was
ready by the end of the opening ses
sion.
Those blue hats were as prevalent as
the coughs which helped drown the
secretaries’ reports. The messenger
boy who arrived lute with a forgotten
handbag for a lady with a blue hat had
his choice of 57 consignees ami it took
him a long time to deliver the goods.
Almost everybody had a' bit of blue
gauze or lace, or whatever kind of
flummery you call it, to cap her lid. and
it seemed to become the grandmothers
as well as the buds. It is evident that
the splashes of red which made last
year’s football grandstands look like
an anarchists’ convention won’t be there
this season.
Same Old Kissing.
But kissing! There doesn’t seem to
be any new twist to that this tall. Mrs.
Jones, of Newnan, meets Mrs. Smith,
of Valdosta; they shake both each
other’s hands nervously, push their
veils up under their noses and give
each other the same little peck on the
AFTER BLUFFING SON,
FATHER PAYS YOUTH’S
FINES FOR SPEEDING
When asked today by Recorder
Broyles why he had failed to appear in
court a few days ago to answer the
charge of violating the automobile laws,
J. H. Gwinn, son of a shoe dealer, said:
"It was pure fear, your honor, that’s
all. My father had told me that if I
ever got caught for speeding I would
have to go out to the stockade and work
it out, or get up the money myself for
the fine. He said he would have noth
ing to do with it. and I was just afraid
to face the music.”
As a result of this year, young Gwinn
annexed another charge against him
self. He was fined $25.75 for failing t<
appear in court, and was fined another
$25.75 on the original charge of speed
ing.
His fat.hei vias present and paid the
tines
ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
SHOW READY TONIGHT
owing to an accident in getting lite
machine readv. the lantern pictures
which were to have been shown at
Five Points last night, under the aus
pices of tlie Anti-Tuberculosis associa
tion, hud to be postponed until tonight.
But the machine is now in ship-shape,
and tin- pictures will be presented every
night this week, from 6 to 9 o’clock.
They will include pictures dealing
with tuberculosis, methods of preven
tion ami elimination, pictures showing
loeil conditions which need remedy, in
terspersed with comic scenes The
showing of these pictures will be di
rected toward creating nn interest in
Tuber, uk,sis day. October 27. and tlie
.oik uf.it it is intended to siemtllze.
By A MERE MAN
left, cheek as of yore. Then they say.
“How well you’re looking!" and, "Oil,
what an exquisite hat!” and break
away so;- the next round.
But theyTg strictly businesslike when
they get down to work on the floor.
Mrs. H, C. White, president of the fed
eration, lias a gavel with a trusty han
dle, and when she pounds it on the
desk there is order everywhere—for a
moment.
The first day was given over princi
pally to reading reports of officials.
Written reports are seldom marvels of
human interest, but their authors read
them today as eloquently as though
they had an offer for dramatic lights
in their morning's mail and the dele
gates listened, too. The news that one
club had added a bunch of new mem
bers was received with applause, and
the announcement of some task well
done brought rounds of cheers. And
when anybody wanted to address the
Convention it was done in the proper
way. too, with all the parliamentary
law in the book of rules.
Handsome Salesmen There.
The back of the hall is given over t< -
exhibits this week, with everything
from elecffic vacuum cleaners tocrefim
separators being demonstated by
handsome and affable salesmen. There
is a model sanitary kitchen outfit with
out a piece of wood in it except the
handles of the rolling pin. and an outfit
f brushes warranted to starve a germ
to death in 4x hours. There’s a pure
food exhibit from the state laboratory,
with a booklet reporting a long list of
dealers whose goods were adulterated,
benzoated or imitated. Dr. Claude
Smith, the city bacteriologist, has his
mosquito hatchery in operation in the
convention hall, though the drop in
temperature ather discouraged the in
cubation process.
Around the had are also tin.- exhibits
of the mountain schools and other in
stitutions fostered by the club women.
The girls from Martha Berry’s school
are showing cases of embroidery and
hand-woven baskets, and other institu
tions have sent specimens of handi
work. Gutside, in the chilly corridor,
the National Peace society has on sale
the works of the Baroness Von Suttner,
who spoke last night, for the peace
makers depend largely upon woman’s
influence io disarm the world and are
spreading their propogapda through f h<-
homes.
1100 WOMEN WILL BF
AT RECEPTION OF
FEMALE “MOOSERS”
More than 100 Atlanta women wili
participate in the reception to be held
by the women's executive committee of
the Progressive party at the Aragon
hotel on Saturday afternoon from 4 to
7 o’clock.
The hour has been set late. .4<j that
many business women, who are mem
bers of the Progressive party and lead
ers in the feminine movement in Geor
gia, can take part.
In the circulars sent out by the com
mittee it is stated that the reception is
to be a political and not a social one.
r. e members of the committee are, Mrs.
Thaddcus Horton. Mrs. Paul Romare.
Mrs. Robert L. Cooney, Mrs. Henry
Grady, Mrs. E. M. Horine, Miss Sophie
Thornbury. Mrs. William J. Tilson. Mrs.
Amelia Woodall, Mrs. S. B. Turman
and Mrs. Frances I>. Shaw.
HIGH MEAT ANGERS
BERLIN WOMEN, WHO
ATTACK BUTCHERS
BERLIN, Oct. 23.—A mob us Ger
man women today attacked the mu
nicipal markets because the butchers
having stalls therein refused to handle
imported meat and thus reduce the cost
of living.
The most serious trouble occurred in
the Wedding district, which is inhabit
ed chiefly by working people. Police
men had to be culled to defend the
butchers, who were being roughly Icm-
Kled when rescued.
Tin- housewives threw the domestic
n\eats Into the streets an 1 tried to burn
d >wn tlie market l>o,p v before they
v re driven of!
Listening to the striking testi
mony of Mrs. Herman Rosenthal,
wife of the dead gambler.
EXPERTTDPROBE
STREET MODS
Council Committee on Con
struction Reorganization to
Secure N. Y. Engineer.
Council's special committee on the
reorganization of the construction de
partment, appointed as a result of The
Georgian’s campaign for better streets,
has decided to postpone its recommen
dation on the department until after
the investigation bv an expert from
New Yoik. This expert has been em
ployed by the municipal research com
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce,
and he will begin his work, which is to
be the beginning of a sweeping investi
gation of all city departments, about
November 1. Chairman Charles W.
Smith announced the intention of the
committee today.
After a long meeting yesterday aft
ernoon. however, the committee decided
upon a number of improvement re
forms.
They declared for uniform street pav
ing specifications, with more definite
time limits in which tlie work should
be completed.
They declared that al] city depart
ments and the public service corpora
tions .should put tn their pipes and
tracks tit the same time, so as to pre
vent unnecessary delays, as in the case
of Peachtree street.
It was agreed that all street im
provements for the year should be plan
ned before the first meeting of council
in March that the work might be begun
early in the year.
A sub-committee was appointed to
confei with officials of the trolley com
pany on a plan to have the com
pany transport stone for street paving
and haul city convicts to anil from the
stockade.
All the members of the committee,
with the exception of Harvey Hatcher,
chairman of the council streets com
mittee, agreed that the present street
improvement system needed some dras
tic reforms. The committeemen de
* laved that what had already been done
since tlie beginning of The Georgian’s
campaign was good, but that more re
forms were needed.
ATLANTA THEATER
| M OC FORE R d 2^h d 2Qt ham'A.lHr at '
SEATS ON SALE THURSDAY
BOUIS I A N A
World’s Record Musical Comedy.
' O (J 356 Times In Chicago.
Prices 25c so $1.50 6 Comedians,Singers. Dincers
CRAMn SUBfRB KEITH Mating foefc,'
VAIJDEVIUE Tonight .t £:’o
Lilian Herl sin. Prima Donna Star > naiiv
W. L. ABINGDON A CO.
Star Flavian | BARGAIN
Will Dillon Cao. Roland *Co MATINEES
Mnoleal Gordon Kighlnndorw-f.dlet ! oceT - c .-_
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Kent Wook The Apple of Paris j 250
* ats ’ Tue »- Thur. Sat.
rundl In NIGHTS AT 8:30
LITTLE 1 A CRMT L | TTLE
EMMA A GREAT lORD
BUNTING PLAT FAUNILERCY
Ne«t Weak ”TEXA»"
LYRIC X.k
Matinees Tues.. Thurs. and Sat.
EUGENIE BLAIR
In the “MOTHER LOVE” Droma
MADAME X
Next Week—“ The Traveling Salegman”
*
Is there anything you could
use a Want Ad for tod»y?
Both Phones 8000.
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BAIL FOR OFFICER
BITTEBLYFOUCHT
But Parham. Who Shot and
Killed John Wright. Gets
$5,000 Bond.
That the prosecution of E. H. Par
ham. tlie policeman who shot and killed
John Wright as the latter lied from ar
rest in Johnson -treet some weeks ago,
will be waged to the bitter end, was
shown by tlie, opposition made to Par
ham’s application for bond in third di
vision of superior court today.
Although Judge Bell, in fixing Par
ham's bond at $5,000, refused to go into
the facts of the case, lie admitted that
many of its features, as brought out in
tlie coroner’s inquest, bore a myste
rious aspect.
"This bond will be granted because it
is customary to grant one in such
eases,” said the .in: ist as he sanctioned
the formal writ of habeas corpus pre
sented by J. D. Kilpatrick and William
Smith. Parham’s attorneys.
Henry Sanders. negro of 5 Johnson
street, who summoned Policeman Par
ham, asserting that WriglV was in his
barn trying to steal his cow, did not
appear. The prosecution maintained
that Sanders and several other negro
witnesses who testified at the coroner's
inquest had been spirited away.
It is said that the prosecution wiil
attempt to show that the negro Sanders
was a notorious blind tiger, and young
Wright had visited his house in quest of
liquor on several occasions. Both San
ders and his wife told the coroner's
jury that Wright came to the house
and knocked on the door a short time
previous to the shooting.
Parham, who was freed by the cor
oner’s jury, but later indicted by the
grand jury, was released on $5,000 bond
signed by Assistant Chief Jett and two
other men.
FIRES AT PROWLER
WHOSE NIGHT VISITS
FRIGHTENED NURSES
Nurses in the nurses' home at Wes
ley Memorial hospital are all aflutter
today- over the night prowling of a
mysterious man who seems very much
inclined to pay them a late call, but
who, they hope, has changed his mind
as the result of three shots fired at him
early this morning.
The prowler has been noticed around
the home for the past few nights, peer
ing into the home as he walked stealth
ily* about It. He didn’t get into the
home, but. he did succeed In scaring the
white-capped ministers to the suffer
ing.
A neighbor saw the man in the early
hours today and fired several shots at
him. He doesn’t know whether he hit
him or not, but the mar vanished —the
nurses hope for good. The police have
been notified and will await his re
turn.
FIRE WAGON DASHES INTO
SAND: CONTRACTOR FINED
Failure to place red danger lights on
a sand heap in Auburn avenue last
night came near causing a serious acci
dent to a speeding fire department ap
paratus early today. And. as a result,
11. W. Chambers, u contractor, was
fined $10.75 by Recorder Broyles.
Two firemen appeared against Cham
bers. They said the tire wagon dashed
onto the sand pile and narrowly es
caped being overturned.
The “BROADWAY”
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/j I Prices rang'- from
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CARLTON
Shoe and Clothing Co.
36 Whitehall St.
PERKINS HELPEf
BEVERIDGE ER
Ex-Senator’s Former p ar t ner
Tells Clapp Committee of
Campaign Money.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—ta
Whitcomb, former law partner
ator Albert J. Beveridge, O s
testified before the Clapp
today that a campaign fund of v-• I
was furnished Senator Beveridg"''-"’I
George W. Perkins, Edward MclLn
Ohio, and Gifford Plnchot. 01
Neither Senator Bevr-ridge ••
Starr nor Harry Petit, ,L V
witnesses, was present when tie ' ’
mittee resumed its inquiry into
palgn expenditures.
The Indiana senator has
that lie be heard on Suturca-
Petit sent word that he . oU ' ; i n ',. 5 I
tend the inquiry today and
has not yet been located.
Mr. Whitcomb, ar. attorney O s k]
dianapolis, who had office :oo:ne
Senator Beveridge during 1904 ,’sE
question by Senator Pom-rene
cerning the existence of a lampairi
fund on behalf of the s?naior
Indiana.
When Perkins was on
Monday he testified he had sent a .'L ;
for slo,ooo to Beveridge, w.'.ieh Craft
was returned, and that lie ,ad se ,,t ~j
other money to the Indiana senator r. -
did he know of any campaign fur.t
Whitcomb today made :he direct
statement that $57,500 was s-nt to Sei.
ator Beveridge by Georg- W. Perkia;
Edward McLean and Gifford Plnchot
He -said that Perkins sent about Ja,.
000, McLean about $25,000 and Plnchot
the remainder.
By Senator Pomerene:
Q. Do you know what was cone wit!
the five checks for $57,505 sera to Bev
eridge?
A. Yes. They were ser. back
Q. All of them?
A. Every* one.
Whitcomb then testified that Bed
eridge went out of pract! e in 1<«
when elected to the senate, as lie dU
not believe that a man holding pubis
office should have priva e clients.
SMOKE COMMISSION
TO SEEK TO BETTER
CITY'S GAS SUPPLY
A meeting of the smoke- and g«.scoop
mission has been called for tonioi-w
morning at 11 o’clock, when the que’-
tion of appealing to the state raf’osi
commission to flx a standard of oualif
of gas for Atlanta wili be considers
At present the Atlanta Gas Light Com
pany fixes its own standard of qua'.::;
and the commission has !ad
coinplalnts against the co-.nitnr.;..
Paul McMichael, smol:“ and gas i«-j
spector, said the time limit given ut
railroads in which to comply with tht
smoke law had expired on Octoberli
and that there was much improvement
in smoke conditions from :a:’road en
gines. The board will consider tonior-.
row what cases shall be made against
offenders.
The second notices have been mallei
out by the smoke inspector to o-vners
of stationary furnace- that they must
comply with the smoke ordinance b?
November 1.
Are you looking for Ileal Estate to In
vest in or do you want to sell your prup-.
erty? Then read t’.» Beal Estate Aft
in The Georgian. Ever- dealer of im
portance tn the real estate business ’
this section, advertises !n The Georgian'
Real Estate columns.