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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 | THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON | Copyright, 1912. by International News Service lb i • i}/ (fSuRtST Hiwsjk. j' ■ ■ I l f « : s wOfem' E>hau) liiit \ k'l It lul ktm rh _ '/// 1 /x il ! I &/ 111 11 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. [XTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE Ires‘white SLAVE PLOT SECRETS IK GOURI 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