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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgiy:
Generally fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. XL NO. 96,
IVILSCN Bill
BEHISDWS
loss, sirs
rags
There’s No Such Thing as
Leading Him, Adds National
Democratic Chief.
CABINET SLATES ARE ALL
GUESSES. HE DECLARES
Boh Adamson Looks Pained
When Asked if He's To Be
President’s Secretary.
‘ Woodrow Wilson .will be safe and
ip mid steady. And you can put it
in italics that lie will not be led
..if his course by the advice of misguid
ed friends. There isn’t any such thing
as leading Woodrow Wilson. You can
go as far as you like with that state
ment.”
That ans the opinion expressed today
li-. William F. McCombs, of New York.
■ hairmari of the Democratic national
. umnittee, who is in Atlanta for a brief
\i.-it. With him is’Robert Adamson,
> >:-Georgian, now secretary to Mayor
G i nor. of New York, who is looked]
, i n. in Georgia at least, as certain to
1 >. i retary to President Wilson after
.March 4 next, though he declines to
■ iseuss the subject. The two have been
i a hunting trip and will be in Atlanta
Hi long enough for a luncheon given
i 'lark Howell and a dinner tonight
which James R. Gray is to be the
\s to the incoming cabinet, all I]
ay is that it will be a line open J
.li for gin ssilig between this ahtl i
mil March 1.” continued Mi Mi-]
•ribs. ”1 do not know anything i
...i; that.
Bob Adamson Not
I cussing His Prospects.
I'li ? V ell. the Democrats have I
i <, it in the cold for these many
i ~v and naturally there are
is in the party willing and
■ ■■.• re their country. And it
, : i iiin'l to assume that in the
c . le Republicans have held
, f hi in have grown aged
; i| ~i mid incapacitated for fur-
ll' 'Jt.fits."
' i < .. ib- spent yesterday in Sa
o -i curious coincidence
. , a■ (i .■ . William Jennings Bryan
. i.lking up Bull street. Mr. Bryan lias
b< .-n among those prominently men
tioned for secretary of state under
President Wilson, but both he and Mr.
McCombs said, after their talk, that
111 c question of cabinet matters hadn’t
been discussed and the meeting purely
was an accident.
of course the first question fired at
Bob Adamson was whether he will be
Wilson’s secretary- The man who has
io pt Gay'nor from getting too gay for
s -veral years look pained.
"Looks like they’ve got it all set
tled down here.” he said, paintively. ”1
know at least a dozen good men who
have been picked for that place. If
Mr. Wilson appoints everybody in the
imminently mentioned list he’ll have
io build a white house annex to keep
• hem in.”
Both Specimens of
Progressive Southerner.
The two visitors are good specimens
he young Southerner who has gone
X’s-w York and made good. Neither
looks past his thirties, though there is
•hi ever-widening expanse of deseit at
ill. brick of Mi. Adamson’s cranium. Mr.
Mi Combs has for several years been a
lawy-cr with a reputation for winning
' uses, and Mr. Adamson rose from
newspaper work in the metropolis to
■■■ come the right-hand man of William
•I. Gaynor, mayor of New York. Which
■‘s about as difficult a. position to fill
nd keep out of trouble as being im
! • sario and guardian to a grand opera
oprano with temperament.
McCombs was born of a Kentucky
father and an Alabama mother and
cent his early youth in Arkansas; so
Im is a Southerner all round. Natural
ly he chose Princeton for his college,
is graduated there in 1898 and ab-
•>i ueil an admiration for Woodrow
Wilson, then president of Princeton.
Inch a three-year post-graduate
air sc- at Harvard didn't squelch in fa
vor of Taft.
“My father used to fear I'd become
' R* publican when I settled in New
York." he said today. "If he were alive
.1 hope he would change his mind.
McCombs Foresaw
Victory Long Ago
Snorily after Wilson became govern
" 'll N w Jersey. Mr. McCombs began
" -• C Visions of Wilson in th. white
A'lot of Princeton men had th-
and of dream, but most ot them
Continued on Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit— GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results,
Former Atlanta Girl,
Now Bride of Aviator,
Stops His Flying Game
i Lieutenant Ellyson, Navy Aero
naut, Accepts Edict of Helen
Mildred Glenn.
| RICHMOND, VA., Nov. 23. —Lieuten-
■ ant Theodore G. Ellyson, in charge of
| the navy aviation station at Annapolis,
i will have To quit flying and come down
j to the more material things of earth
and water. Such is the edict of his
bride, who was Miss Helen Mildred
Glenn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Thomas Glenn, formerly of Atlanta,
; now of New York, whom he married
Jin Washington Friday of last week.
It develops that Miss Glenn imparted
* the substance of this edict to one of the
guests at the Crenshaw-Robins wed
ding in this city several weeks ago. On
: that occasion she was one of the
I bridesmaids, while Lieutenant Ellyson
figured in the role of a groomsman.
Although the two were practically
’ inseparable at the reception, following
| the ceremony at fashionable St. Pauls
. ; Episcopal church, there were few who
'; guessed they were to be married so
I soon themselves.
According to the law laid down by
I' the young aviator’s bride, he must
I echew the role of birdman within a
I year's time, oi stand the consequences.
. In fact, it is said that a promise to this
I effect was exacted of him before Miss
Glenn agreed to become his bride.
i Lieutenant Ellyson is a son of Mr.
i and Mrs. H. Theodore Ellyson, of Rich
mond, and is a nephew of Lieutenant
Governor J. Taylor Ellyson. Before
he was promoted to his present aerial
position he was regarded as an expert
and authority on submarine matters
and devoted most of bis time to things
underneath the water.
CREDITORS CHARGE
INTENT TO DEFRAUD
IN SALE OF ESTATE
CORDELE, GA., Nov. 23. —Through a
j petition charging that Mr. and Mrs. M.
A. Tripp, former prominent residents
of Cordele, had adopted methods that
would defraud creditors of the estate of
the late W. H. Tripp out of about SB,-
000, the estate has been placed in the
hands of a temporary receiver. The
property holdings of W. H. Tripp wer*
estimated at approximately $15,000.
i Several months ago W. H. Tripp’s
j widow married M. A. Tripp, his brother,
ilt is charged that in October Mrs.
Tripp, who had been made Jidiuipistra
trix of the estate, advertised the realty
, to be sold on the first Tuesday in No
‘ vember. All of the property was bid in
by M. A. Tripp, though, it is charged,
he m ver paid the money to his wife to
settle with the ci editors. However, she
| made her husband a deed to the prop
erty, who in turn deeded half of It to a
brother, C. M. Tripp, of Dublin.
Mr. and Mrs. Tripp were in the aet
of boarding a train to their home at
Gainesville. Fla., when they were served
■ with a notice by the sheriff of the ap
pointment of the temporary receiver.
The hearing for the appointment of a
permanent receiver will take place be
fore Judge tV. F, George on Decern-
. her 4.
goingTnto mine”for
FUEL, TWO SONS AND
FATHER ARE KILLED
PEORIA. W. VA., Nov. 23.—When
they entered a eoal mine on the George
Berry farm with a lighted lamp, a ter
rific explosion occurred last night, re
, suiting in the death of Fay and John
Lindsay, brothers, and the injury of
their father, Ad Lindsay, which will
prove fatal.
Lindsay and the two boys nad en
tered the itiine for the purpose of get
, ting a supply of coal. When 60 feet
from the entrance they encountered a
, pocket of gas which exploded. The
, explosion was so terrific that hundreds
of windows were broken in this town.
' The body of Fay Lindsay still re
mains in the mine, rescuers being un
able to enter, as tire broke out shortly
j afterward and is still raging.
FUNERAL STOPPED,
HUSBAND ARRESTED
AS SLAYER OF WIFE
i
i C'Hlt 'AGO. Nov. 23.—Police went to
; i the home of John J. Regam where fu-
I neral services were to begin over the
i ■ body of Regan’s wife, and arrested him.
i I Rumors of violence had reached the
i I police leading to the discovery that
I i Mrs. Regan’s skull had been fractured.
; With the appearance of the police at
l the house the hearse that was to have
carried the dead woman to her grave,
• forever hiding the secret of her death,
I i was dismissed. Regan was taken to a
i cell to await the post-mortem exami-
j nation. It revealed a fractured skull
.Jand later the funeral went on. Regan
is an employee of an ice company and
' J is said to have often abused his wife.
OLLIE JAMES’ HOME
TOWN TO BE FIRST TO
ELECT POSTMASTER
■ I HOPKINSVILLE. KY., Nov. 23.
’ ■ Marion, the home of United States Sen-
'ator-elect Ollie James, is perhaps the
first town to arrange to elect a post-
Una ter. Senator-elect James announces'
that he will Indorse the man receiving
k , the majority.
j There is already a hot race and many
'candidates, limited, of course, to Demo
■ii.it-, Are campaigning. The election
' will be held January 18.
IHWOMM
SHOMII
■ STOLE
FORHEO
! .
Member of Divorce Colony Is
Fatally Wounded, and As- •
sailant Kills Himself.
[“SHE RUINED HUSBAND’S
LIFE AND ME.” SAYS NOTE
Baltimorean Claims Victim Had
“Thrown Him Over” for
Another Man.
I
RENO, NEV., Nov. 23.—Physicians I
attending Mrs. Estelle Baggott, of Loh i
Angeles and New York, who wa shot
yesterday by Harry S. Weems, of Bal
timore. who afterward killed himself.
I today held out no hope for her recovery.
Weems, whose meteoric career in
I matrimony included four unhappy mar.
i riages, left a note addressed to Police
| Chief Hllhouse. explaining his act, part
of which follows:
"I am awfully sorry to resort to such i
a measure, but when a woman runs
away after making a man go to ex
tremes to get money’ for her and then
refuses to come to hie aid, it’s time to
quit. And yet I idolize her. Now that
, she has another, she leaves me to face
the penitentiary. Kindly notify’ my
brother in Baltimore. This woman, Es
telle Baggot, has ruined my life. She ;
has already ruined one life, her hus- |
band whom she comes here to get rid ■
of. This is my second attempt and I ;
hope it will be the last."
Planned Tragedy
In Advance.
Toe authorities said tim; iVeeaiß
family had claimed his remains and
that they would be shipped to Balti
more.
Weems had planned the shooting in I
advance and he left several letters tell- I
ing of his intentions. One was ad- I
dressed to Los Angeles admitting that j
he had embezzled. He also told of his i
past marriages. His first wife was
from Charlotte, Va.; his second was
Ada Crosby, of Richmond, Va.; his
third was Iva Moore, of Washington,
and his fourth was Catherine Moore, of
Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. Baggot. who was a member of
the divorce colony, was shot while in
the dressing room of a bath house at
Moana Springs. The bullets entered
her abdomen, causing mortal wounds.
U. S. TO ENLIST MEN
FOR CLERICAL WORK
AND SKILLED TRADES
On account of regulations that have
gone into effect in the quartermaster
corps of the United States army, the
soldiers now enlisted at Fort McPher
son will not be obliged to do any more
menial work.
Orders tiansmitted through Major
General W. W. Wotherspoon, acting
chief of staff, by’ Secretary of War
I Stimson, call for the enlistment of a
special detail as cooks, laborers, stable- ,
men, watchmen, teamsters, packers, I
gardeners, firemen, bakers, janitors, j
clerks, stenographers, school teachers,
cargadors, printers, painters, farries,
storekeepers, blacksmiths, paymasters,
plumbers, horseshoers, carpenters, in
terpreters, etc.
Men to do these jobs will be enlisted
in the army just the same, but will be
specially’ assigned. The effect of the
new order will be practically to in
,! crease the enlistment of men.
PACKERS TO BATTLE
DRINK BY TREATING
TEETH OF EMPLOYES
' CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—T0 promote so- j
' briety among the employees of its plant,
Morris & Co., meat packers, have added
a dental establishment to their other
' social resources.
' “Our medical department found,” said
Edward S. Labart, a representative of
, the company, "that many men and ■
women in our employ’ are suffering from !
! diseases attributable to bad teeth. Many I
of the men drink when their teetli both- '
er them. The company not only loses j
their services when they are drunk, but 1
they are not fitted for full capacity of j
yvork when they return.
i “The plan to give out employees free |
‘ dental attention is partly philanthropic j
and partly good economics.
PREACHER GOES TO WORK
TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY •
/
5 SYRACUSE. N. Y.. Nov. 23.—Rev. 1
Karl Heyne. an Episcopal minister, has |
• quit the ministry’ and gone to work as ]
-a wood finisher, claiming that ids sal
: ary as preacher was ln=uffb ient to keep
a family.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1912
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WHITING TO REPORT VANDY-AUBURN
GAME FOR GEORGIAN THIS AFTERNOON
Read the late afternoon editions of The Georgian today for
complete football returns. Percy 11. Whiting, the Georgian's
football expert, is in Birmingham to telegraph back a play-by
play story of the great Vanderbilt-Auburn battle. He will de
scribe every detail.
The Georgian has experts at New Haven to cover the Har
vard-Yale game. They won't overlook a single move on the
part of the gridiron warriors. The result of every other foot
ball game of importance in the country will be found in the
late editions of The Georgian.
PERJURY CHARGE IN
FENN DISAPPEARANCE
CASE UP NEXT WEEK
—
CORDELE. GA., Nov. 23.—When su
perior court of Crisp county takes up
the criminal docket next week one of
I the most Important cases to be tried
J will be that against R. H. Roberts,
charged with perjury.
Roberts was one of the principal wit
nesses in the famous disappearance
case of Augustus J.- Fenn, the former
wealthy Cordele lumberman, located at
New Orleans several weeks ago, after
his wife had entered suit in the courts
to recover 115,000 insurance carried on
the life of her hissband. It will be
charged against Roberts that he swore
i in trials over the insurance money that
he saw Fenn drowned in the Appa
ilachicola river.
BONDSMEN CAUSE
BLIND TIGER KING’S
ARREST IN ILLINOIS
Dan Shaw, once king of blind tigers
in Atlanta, again is in the toils. Chief
Beavers was notified today that Shaw is
under arrest in Granite City, 111., on in
formation that he is wanted here for
J skipping several boiids and on a war
j runt charging attempted criminal as-
I sault.
i Station Sergeant George Bullard will
, leave tonight for the Illinois town to
j bring Shaw back to Atlanta. His ar
i rest was sought mainly by his bonds
j men in blind tiger cases, who feared
! Shaw might not, be here when his, cases
j finally are decided by the court of ap
-1 peals.
AGED VETERAN DIES.
j BERRY, GA., Nov. 23.—John R. Par-
I nell. who died at his home near Elko
| this week, was buried in Evergreen
I cemetery. He was 72 years old and
1‘ lived near Perry for a number of years.
He served through th* Civil war in the
Confederate army. He is survived by
four sons.
TOWER PRISONERS
TO EAT ROAST PIG
THANKSGIVING DAY
Pig and potatoes is to be the Thanks
giving day menu at the Tower, accord
ing to the announcement made by Sher
iff C. W. Mangum today. The sheriff
said that, after years of experience in
feeding prisoners, he lias come ‘to the
conclusion that frills don’t make a hit.
‘Tve tried chicken,” he said, “and
I’ve given them fruit, candy, cranber
ries and various other things that go
with a. holiday bill of fare, and they al
ways kick because they don’t get roast
pig.
“Nine out of every ten prisoners in
tile Tower think tlie best dinner in the
world is roast pork and gravy, with
browned potatoes. That is what they
want, am going to give it to
them."
TWO MORE STUDENTS
TO SECURE FUNDS FOR
COURSE AT GA. TECH
Two Tech scholarships were made
possible today by donations to the mu
tual scholatship fund, founded at the
school by Professor Gardner, the reg
istrar, to aid worthy young men in re
ceiving >i technical education. The
money was given by two Atlanta wom
en. whose names are withheld.
Professor Gardner declated that he
has a number of applications for schol
arships from wohld-be students, finan
cially unable to attend school.
Two of these will be granted imme
diately. With the pair of scholarships
today five have now been furnished
since the fund was started.
EDITOR WANTS POSTOFFICE.
PERRY. GA., Nov. 23.—Since the
election there are no less than a half
dozen applicants for the Perry post
oftice. Among these is Editor John H.
Hodge, of The Houston Home Jour
nal. Tile present postmaster. 1.. E.
Boughton, was commissioned in D*-
cemb*r. 1910, for four years.
PEACE IS IN
SIGHT NOW
■ t
Bulgaria has modified her armistice
terms to Turkey. Official announce
ment was made today at Sofia that ne
gotiations betwene the Turkish and
Bulgarian plenipotentiaries have been
resumed, with a view to bringing about
peace.
YOUTH, 21, IS ON TRIAL:
BEAT WOMAN TO DEATH
LEWISTOWN, ILL., Nov. 23.—Open
ing statements were made to the jury’
in the murder case of Earl Gray, 21
years old, charged with beating to death
Mrs. Emma Mabelle Windsor, 37, living
near Bryant. Gray’s younger brother
got into a fight with one of Mrs. Wind
sor’s sons and Mrs. Windsor came to
her boy’s rescue. The state charges
that Gray struck her with a mine prop
and kicked her in the face after she had
been rendered unconscious. She died
from her injuries.
SKIN OF DOG GRAFTED
ONTO ARM OF A WOMAN
CHICAGO, Nov. 23. —Announcement
lias been made at a soutli side hospital
of the successful outcome of a case of
skin grafting, in which a large piece of
tlie skin of a skye terrier was placed
over a wound on the arm of Mrs. H. W.
Johnson, of Menominee, Wis. The
wound hail been left after, an opera
tion for a tubercular arm.
It is said to be the first operation of
its kind, and was performed ten days
ago. The patient has returned to her
home, taking with her the dog, which
contributed to her convalescence.
GIRL DROP? DEAD ON WAY
TO SEE FOOTBALL GAME
CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Nov. 23.
Miss Nellie Poindexter, sixteen-year
old daughter of P. S. Poindexter,
dropped dead on the street here at the
corner of Seventh street and Georgia
avenue.
The young girl was suddenly stricken
with heart failure ;iud life was almost
extinct when her body’ was lifted from
the street.
She was en route to the Central
High-City High football game, when
she was stricken.
POLICEMAN EXONERATED.
AUGUSTA. GA., Nov. 23.—Sergeant
Robert Peebles was exonerated by the
board of police commissioners of the
charge of sending an anonymous letter
to the chairman of the police commis
sion reflecting upon Chief Elliott.
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Young Nurse Accuses Theat
rical Company Heads and
Demands Punishment.
WILL TELL OF ALLURING
PROMISES—AND REALITY
| Most of Troupe Quit City—De
fense of Prisoners Is, Young
Woman Was Incompetent.
Alluring promises held out to stage
struck girls by theatrical agents and
managers and the shocking reality that
follows will be told of on the witness
stand in recorder’s court this afternoon
when Genevieve Goodwin, a pretty 1
elghteen-year-old trained nurse of Cin
cinnati. appears against Atlanta stage
people, whom she accuses in an alleged
“white slave” plot. .
Four members of the Metropolitan
Musical Comedy Company, to join
which the girl deserted her post in a
Cincinnati hospital, ate held in police
barracks to answer her charges. They
declare that they are legitimate theat
rical people and their arrest is due to
the fact that the Goodwin girl was dis
charged from the company as an in
competent.
in the meantime other members of
the company have deserted the board
ing house at 34 Garnett street, whert
they had been rehearsing for weeks,
and trace of them has been lost. Board
ers at the place declare that the stage
people said they were departing for
Lithonia, where their show opens to
night.
.Girl Says She’ll
Fight to the End.
Miss Goodwin, held by the police as a
material witness, expressed her deter
mination today not to rest until tha
men and women she says have tried
to degrade her are punished and the
agent, who she declares fooled her, is
made to pay for her humiliation.
"My father is a professional man of
high standing,” she declared this morn
ing. "Os course I will not tell his
name, but I am going to telegraph him
today to come to Atlanta and help me
in fighting this case.
"1 guess I was foolish to listen to
these people,” she continued. "I know
it now, but ever since I tvas a little
girl I have been anxious to go on tha
stage, and I have studied and prac
ticed for years. Several months ago I
applied to |he International Theatrical
agency, of Cincinnati, for employment.
Heard They Needed
Her Type of Soubrette.
“Several weeks ago, I was told that
a high-class musical comedy organiza
tion was being formed in Atlanta, and
they needed a soubrette of my type.
The agency manager told me all sorts
of things of how my life would be dif
ferent from that of a chorus girl, how
pleasant a time I would have and what
opportunities this offer held out for
professional advancement. 1 leaped at
] the opportunity.
"Thursday I reached Atlanta and, ac
cording to directions, found the com
pany being formed at 34 Garnett street.
My first sight of the company shat
tered by illusions, but I was deter
mined to make the best of it.
"Tlie entire company was assembled,
and they were all smoking cigarettes
and drinking beer. Mrs. Emma Pauline
Hudson urged me to join the drinkers,
but I refused, protesting that I was silS
fering from a headache after my long
ride on the trains. She then offered me
a cigarette and I took it and smoked
it-, fearing that If I did not 1 would of
fend all the rest of the people who were
smoking.
I “When the time came to talk busi
ness. I was told by Manager Ponder 1
was expected to be a chorus girl.
Declares She Will
Sue For $50,000.
"He said my salary would be Jiu a
week. Still 1 decided to stick it out un
til something better offered. Later,
though, I was taken aside by Mrs. Hud
son and Miss Hazel Barrington and
told that members of the chorus were
expected to select some man of tha
company with whom to live as husband
and wife, because it saved expenses on
the road. They told me there were two
‘odd’ men in the company and I could
take my pick.
“I refused and left the house, going
to a hotel. Later two men called on me
there. I understand they were the ‘od<T
men I then decided to appeal to the
police.
"I am now determined to see this ,
lea-e through, and not only that, but tiq
