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VOL. XI. NO. 101.
MITES HEID
111 PEDNIGE,
IEFHEEES
USSERT
Five Men Flee Tennessee Con
struction Camp and Tell of
Barbarous Treatment.
DECLARE WORKERS ARE
PRISONERS. OFTEN BEATEN
Crippled Youth Who Escaped
Reaches Atlanta—His Body
Scarred from Club Blows.
Declaring'‘they were forced to work
.■it th' poirj <>f guns and beaten with
iui s .viien they protested, five intel
i white men have appealed to the
Salvation Army in Atlanta for aid dur
ing tile past "eek. They had escaped
from a construction camp at the Ten
nessee Power Company’s dam near
Parksville, Tenn.
In the last three years more than 150
nail from the same place have been
aided by the Salvation Army, said Ma
jor Horace Dodd, who has been in
charge of the local relief station for
that time. All of them tell the same
story, he said, and most of them bore
bruises and cuts to bear our their
statements. Some men have been scar
ed so badly they were unable to work
Tor weeks, w hile others suffered broken
nones and deep cuts.
Lawrence Cardenny, nineteen years
old, from Philadelphia, appeared at the
Sa'-, ation Army’s hotel several days
ago. alung with a number of others
who also had escaped in tW dead of
night while the guards around the camp
were not vigilant.
Cripple Forced
To Do Heavy Work.
('ard'-nny is suffering from a mal
formation of tin- right arm which prac
tically deprives him of the use of that
iTwinber, yet, he declared, when he ar
’ iVed at the dam the transportation
agent forced him to take up pick and
shovel and labor beside others who
also had been forced into the heaviest
o's th-, work.
i !'e»‘ lit- protested, alter
;••• -,; ig wiirk.- . .-. single day. Tht- trans
portation spun then took a club, he
raid. :m< pi-iil him severely. Then he
took his pistol and smashed the boy’s
101:1:1 with the handle. As the boy
told Ins story he showed old bruises
111 his body and point <1 10 .ars caused
by cuts which he devimed were in
dicted by flic agent's blows. .
I’iii same day. he added, nineteen
m.-a e.-cap. d from the camp. Four
teen were < aught and brought back be
fore the muzzli of shotguns. The agent
and guards took clubs and beat them
while other guards stood by with load
ed guns to keep them from fighting
back. Soim of the men were beaten
so severely they Could hardly crawl
to their tents. That night seven es
caped, Cardenny being one of the
seven. He < ante t< Atlanta with two
of them and lodged at the Salvation
headquarter acre he nas
endeavoring to earn sufficient money
to take him hack his Northern home.
500 Held Virtual
Slaves, He Declares.
The boy, who appears to be unusually
intelligent, said he was a plumber’s
helper and was employed In that capac
ity’ by the New York employment head
quarters of the Tennessei Power Com
pany. He was -old there lie would be
given light work which lie. even with
Ids maimed arm, could accomplish, and
that his wages would be good.
It took six days to make the trip
from New York to Parksville, he said,
and 3H men were with him. . The day
after their arrival, though most of the
men had entered into contracts to do
skilled labor, the agent forced them at
the point of pistols to take up pick
and shovel.
There are five camps on the work
now being done by the company, and
something like 100 men are employed
in each camo. Each night. Cardenny
declared, many men brave the danger
of the guards' guns and escape from
their peonage. Must of them are
Northerners, and on this ami their lack
of knowledge of the country the men
in charge of the power work expect to
be able to hold them.
ALLEGED SLAYER IS
SPIRITED FROM MOB
ELLWOOD CITY. PA.. Nov 29.—Alex
andru DePhilipl'o. alleged slayer of Mrs.
Dominick Suzllla. who was threatened
with lynching by a mob which surrounded
the Jail, was early today-spirited fnm
here to Beaver by the authorities
As the bearing ,lle £ison-
er aped away, two shots were flted by
members of the mob, but both went wild.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Goes Broke at 2AJVL I
Calls Police to Raid I
Game: Seven Nabbed®
Nesbit Says He Was Cleaned Out
at Poker—Others Say They
Played Set-Back.
The wail of a loser caused a raid
early today on the Leland house, 31
Houston street, in which seven young I
men were arrested on the charge of
playing poker. T. W. Nesbit, the man
who wailed, was among those arrested.
Nesbit telephoned to the police sta
tion at 2 o’clock this morning that he
had just gone broke in a game and
wanted the police to raid it. When
Plain Clothesmen Carter and Boyce ar
rived they’ found that the game hail
broken up.
They took all the young men in the
room, however. They’ were H. B. Down
ing, M. H. Pierce, H. V. White. W. W.
Pye. E. K. Lenwood, R. W. Kennedy
and Nesbit.
All of the young men, save Nesbit,
l declare they were playing “setback.”
i They will be tried today.
I
| DEMOCRATS ACCUSE
. TAFT OF POLITICS IN
POSTOFFICE ORDER
WASHINGTON. Nov. 29.—That an effort
will be made to suspend President Taft’s'
executive order of October 15 whereby
about 36,000 fourth-class postmasters
were placed under the civil service be-
I came known today, when Representative
I Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, said the Dem
■ ocrats In congress who are already in
I Washington have conferred informally on
I the subject, and that there was an over
i whelming sentiment in favor of the order
i being revoked.
Representative Hull declared that
President-elect Wilson, under the civil
service law, would have the power to re
voke President Taft's order.
"Coming- at the time and under the
.circumstances that It did,” said Mr. Hull,
| "this order of the president is patently
I steeped in the deepest political dye and
constitutes within itself a gross viola
tion of the letter the spirit and the
whole purpose of the civil service law,
because it places this immense horde of
Republicans—to the exclusion of Demo
crats- permanently In office without ex
amination or test as to merit or effi
ciency.
“If carried out, this order would make
honest civil service a farce and prove the
greatest setback to its administration,
extension and progress jn a generation.
1 have heard of no demand for this re
cent roder of President Taft, save from
the 36.000 Republican postmasters in
question.”
CHINESE IN AMERICA
ASKED TO BE READY
FOR RUSSIAN WAR
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.—That
the Chinese republic, which is barely a
year old, is on the point of declaring
I war on Russia’because of the occupa
, tion of Mongolia by Russian troops, is
the information conveyed to the Chi-
1 nese consul here in telegrams from Pe
i kin and to Chinese newspapers.
I Loyal Chinese in the United States
are asked to contribute $lO each to a
great international war fund which is
being gathered and Chinese fit for mili
tary service are required to hold them
; selves in readiness to return home and
fight.
Leaders of the Chinese six companies
in this city will meet today to make
1 “war plans.”
SCRAPS OF CLOTHING
LEAD SEARCHERS TO
BODY OF LITTLE GIRL
PITTSBURG, Nov. 29.—Detectives
land many angry’ citizens today re
|sumed the search for the mu derer of
Mary Shadle, age twelve, whose body
’ was found in a reservoir in East Pitts
-1 burg after having been missing since
’ Wednesday, when she was sent to a
grocery to purchase dainties for the
Thanksgiving dinner.
Scraps of the girl’s clothing and small
bundles which she had bought led to
■ the discovery of the body. Detectives
s. believe she may have been lured to the
vicinity of the reservoir by a man in an
automobile, as It is considerable dis
tance from her home. ,
2 PHYSICIANS HELD
1 IN 2 GANGS ACCUSED
OF $250,000 ROBBERIES
’ CHICAGO. Nov. 29. —Seven men held
’ nt the three Chicago police stations to
-1 day were declared by the police to have
t been responsible for robberies totalling
• j $250,000. Property’ worth $5,000 and 60
pawn tickets have been recovered. All
; ' of the men under arrest posed as me-
I ehanics and physicians. The two phy-
I sicians resided In a pretentious brown
' stone residence at 3419 South Pa:k
■ avenue. Two truckloads of valuables I
1 were recovered by tie police in a barn |
> near the residence, in addition to the
t $5,000 worth of property recovered from
> the "lead pipe gang” suspects.
’ WHOLE TOWN IS RAZED
BY FIRE ON PRAIRIE
PINE RIDGE INDIAN AGENCY, S. D,
I Nov 29. A prairie fire which devastated
’ a section 100 miles long and ten tidies
wide swept over the Sioux reservation.
The town of White Owl Is reported de
i stroyed and dozens of homesteaders were
. burned out. A fourteen-year-old Indian
boy was surrounded by flames. J. B
Brown, of Valentine, Nebr., wrapped a
. wet blanket around his body and drove
J- his automobile through a sheet of tire and
l, rescued the bo;
[BLOODSTAINS
HOLD PAIR
IN SLAYING
MYSTERY
Man and Woman Taken by
Police as Killing of Peddler
Is Probed.
SEAMSTRESS SAYS SHE
KNEW ROBBERS' VICTIM
Denies. With Companion, That
She Can Tell Anything of
Aged Vender’s Death.
Blood stains on an abandoned suit
of clothes of Robert Le Sloan, a Ros
well, Ga., found in his room at 106 Gil
mer street by police today, are believed
by detectives working on the case to
connect him with the slaying of Wil
liam Franklin, the aged peddler, found
slugged In Decatur street Sunday.
Sloan is being held at police station
pending a thorough investigation. Miss
Chloe Austin, a seamstress, in whose
house Sloan was arrested Thursday
night, also is being detained.
Miss Ruby Gaither, the landlady of
the lodging house in Gilmer street, gave
the police the information in reference
to the stained clothes. She also in
formed them that the day after Frank
lin was found Sloan bought a new suit
of clothes and put the stained gar
ments in a closet In his room.
Sleuths Say Woman
Bought New Apparel.
Detectives say Miss Austin bought
an entire outfit.of new wearing ap
parel the same day Sloan made his
purchases. Money, which they sus
pect was taken from the peddler, they
believe was spent on the new’ raiment.
Sloan denies any knowledge of the
case. He says he Is a married man of
family in Roswell and has no con
nection with Miss Austin, save that he
is a friend of her mother. He says he
was paying a simple social call last
night when he was taken.
The seamstress admits that she knew
Franklin, but also denies any knowledge
of how he met his death.
Motive Believed *
To Have Been Robbery.
The police are endeavoring to trace
ail the movements of both Sloan and
Miss Austin during Sunday and a few
days just previous thereto. Although
no formal charge has been brought
against either, detectives working on
the case declare that their investigation
will show that if Sloan and the woman
are not directly responsible for the
slaying they will be able to give valu
able information to aid them Jn their
search.
Franklin, they declare, had quite a
sum of money always on hand. They
assert that he never banked it, but al
ways carried several hundred dollars
on his person. He was penniless when
he was found and robbery is believed to
have been the motive for the slaying.
DIXIE EDUCATORS
GIVEN WELCOME IN
LOUISVILLE, KY.
LOUISVILLE, KY., Nov. 29.—The
general session of the Southern Educa
tional association was resumed today
at the Warren Memorial church. The
attendance of the delegates was grati
fying.
In connection with the regular meet
ing, fourteen meetings of the various
departments of the association had been
I arranged, each with its separate pro
-1 gram.
The convention began yesterday. The
delegates were welcomed to Louisville
by Dr. 1. N. Bloom, president of the
local board of education, and Bishop
Charles E. Woodcock, of this city. Re
sponse on behalf of the association was
made by the Hon. J. N. Powers, state
superintendent of education, Jackson,
Miss.
After the reception of the delegates,
papers on educational subjects were
1 read by members of the association.
I Among those who addressed the organ
ization on this subject were the Rt. Rev.
Thomas F. Gailor, bishop of Tennessee,
Memphis, Tenn.; Dr. E. E. Rail, pro
fessor of education, University of Ten
nessee, Knoxville. Tenn., and Dr. Wil
liam Dinwiddle, president of the S. W.
Presbyterian university, Clarksville,
Tenn.
BEAR IS TRAINED TO
TAKE CARE OF A BABY
BOSTON, Nov. 29.—Blitzen, a New
Brunswick bear, has been trained to
mind the baby while his master. Rev.
.Chauncey L Hawkins, and wife attend
to social and household duties.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1912
Puzzle: Where Is That Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner?
THE DAY AFTER THE FEAST
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TOTURKEY DINNER; $6,875
Atlanta's turkey dinner weighed
25,000 pounds, dressed, not counting
the stuffing and side-fixings, and it cost
$6,875 at an average of 27 1-2 cents a
pound.
Those are the figures given out to
day by the leading produce house In
Broad street.
"Everybody ate turkey yesterday,”
said the head of the firm. "The de
mand has been far ahead of last year
and the supply rather short. There
was hardly a turkey left in the market
except for the ragtags and bobtails,
the skinny birds which nobody cares to
buy. <>f course, every house has some
of those left on hand.
"The Georgia turkey crop was fair,
but most of our supply comes from
Kentucky and Tennessee, and the early
rains there killed the young birds and
shortened thi? crop.
“And the meat business will have a
slump for a day or two. It will be hot
D.A. R. FIGHT AGAINST
REMOVING LEE’S BODY
FROM GEORGIA ENDED
BRUNSWICK, GA.. Nov. 29.—8 y ob
taining the consent of Mrs. Lucy Car
negie for permission to remove the body
of "Light Horse” Harry Lee from the
burial ground on the Carnegie planta
tion at Dungeness, Cumberland island, to
Virginia, what is believed to be the final
chapter in the fight made by the Geor
gia Daughters of the American Revolu
tion against the removal is closed.
A short time after the Virginia legisla
ture, last year, had named a committee
and appropriated SSOO to defray the ex
penses of removing the body from its
present resting place to the Lee burial
ground at Lexington, to be reinterred be
side the body of his illustrious son, Rob
ert E. Lee. the Georgia D. A. R. pro
tested on the ground that since the body
had rested on Georgia soil so long It
would be an act of desecration to dis
turb it now
It was the intention of the state D. A.
R. to have the matter brought before the
Georgia legislature at its last session,
rnemoralizing that body to take action in
the mater, but for some reason the reso
lution was not presented.
I turkey today, cold turkey tomorrow,
. turkey hash the next day, turkey soup
the day afterward. There’s no end to
a turkey, you know.
“The convicts at the Federal prison
ate turkey, too. The prison’s or
der was for 1,000 pounds. Fort
, McPherson's order for the soldiers’ din
ner was 1,500 pounds. The hospitals
, and orphanages in Atlanta used 1,000
pounds today.
'But if you’re talking high prices,
look at eggs. Fresh eggs are selling at
' 35 cents by wholesale today, which
means 45 cents to the retail trade. How
fresh? Why, in this kind of weather
1 an egg is fresh for two or three weeks
i after it is laid.
“The laws requiring cold storage eggs
to be so branded has boosted the price
of fresh hen fruit. People used to buy
storage eggs, thinking they were fresh.
Now, when they insist on fresh eggs
the increased demand has put them at a
premium. And the supply is short and
apt to stay so for a while.”
SUES FOR $127,500,
CLAIMING BREACH OF
INSURANCE CONTRACT
AUGfISTA, GA., Nov. 29.—J. S. Kim
ball, of Berkeley, Cal., has filed suit
against the Atlantic States Life Insur
ance Company of Augusta for $127,500,
alleging bleach of contract. There art
two suits, one for $122,500 ami the
other for $5,000.
The latter suit is lor the rci overy of
$5,000 said to be due the plaintiff be
cause of a contract for selling $35,000
worth of insurance stock which the de
fendant company is alleged to have
1 broken, and the former is for commis
sions on the sale of $10,000,000 of Insur
ance that the plaintiff had agreed to
place by January 1, 1915.
SHAKESPEARAN READER
BRANDS BRITONS SNOBS
NEW YORK, Nov. 29. Frank Barris
’ Shaki'spearen lecturer, gays all Britons
ate snobs and the average Englishman’s
knee* gvt weak when he sees a lord.
'!JUNK HEAP FOR
SLOT MACHINES
I
The first step toward sending the
nickel slot machines to the junk pile
will be taken at the meeting of the
council committee on legislation this
afternoon. The committee will recom
mend an ordinance to council barring
the machines from locker clubs and
near-beer saloons. The ordinance was
introduced in council some time ago
by Count liman C. D. Knight. It has
b< n approved by the police commit
tee.
Carlos H. Mason, chairman of the
police commission, is known to be in
favor of the abolition of the machines.
<>n account of the legal technicalities
he believes the simplest way to do it
would be for council to pass the ordi
nance prohibiting them in saloons and
locker clubs. < 'hlef Beavers and his
policemen would do the rest.
Saloon Men Have No Regrets.
Near-beer saloon men th, mselves de
clare that the machines should not be
permitted. While the large manufac
turing company that owns them gives
the saloon men 25 p'er cent of the prof
its. many of the saloon proprietors say
they have allowed them jn their places
only in self-defense. Their competi
tors had them and they were losing
trade without them.
It develops that after endeavoring to
comply with the law with all sorts of
technical mechanism, the promotors of
this gambling system have finally put
out machines that are as pure gam
bling devices as a roulette wheel.
There is not even any of the cheap
chewing gum In the late machines. In
stead of the indicator showing what
the result of the first play will be, every
play is a gambit .
Winnings For House Heavy.
It is said that the plan showing what
the winnings of the first nickel would
be hutt business.
i One proprietor of a downtown saloon
said that the winnings of the machine
In his place averaged about $75 per
i week. Another said the profits from
' the machine in his place reached $125
a week.
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
GIRLSHUHLED
25 FEET IN
WRECK OF
AUTO
Misses Gladys Miller and Chris
tine Hooper and H. L. Collier,
Jr., Have Narrow Escape.
BIG CAR IS SMASHED;
OCCUPANTS UNSCATHED
Machine Hits Depression ii>
Street at High Speed and
Is Demolished. }
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Miss Gladys Miller. Miss Christina
Hooper and Henry L. Collier, Jr, are
congratulating themselves today on a
remarkable escape from death yester
day in an automobile accident at the
corner of Ponce DeLeon and Highland
avenues. The machine in which they
were riding home from the Tech-Cletn
son game struck a depression in the
street and precipitated them headlong
Into a snow bank 25 feet away.
Miss Miller landed in a drift of snoO
and pile of autumn leaves just a few
feet from a log. Miss Hooper was
thrown still further, and young Col
lier, hardened with several seasons of
baseball pitching at Tech, came out un
scathed, although he took a five-foot
higher flight and a ten-foot longer dive.
The machine was mashed, but the
young women didn’t even lose their
hat., and the party of three went homo
on a street cars
Machine Good For ' ■ 1 z
Junk Only, Now.
The machine was badly bunged up. It
had crashed through ten red lights put
out by the city to warn pedestrians and
vehicles, and scattered glass, oil and
wicks In all directions; had given up
Its four wheels, which went rolling off
toward the curbstones, and lost Its ra
diator and top and all but its number.
Automobile experts looked it over to
day and declared It would have t. go
to the junk heap.
A motorman, who said he couldn’t
keep with the auto, and others who saw
the accident told of it today. Accord
ing to theim. Young Collier, who Is a
son of Henry Collier, of 252 Peachtree
street, and Frank Lewis, son of the late
T. S. Lewis, of the Grunner apartments,
106 Juniper street, were running abreast
out Ponce DeLeon, the latter In a high
powered National roadster and accom*
panied by hfs friend, Miss Wilson.
Pair Racing,
Honors Even.
They seemed to he racing, with hon
ors about even. At Highland avenue
and Ponce DeLeon avenue, the streets
are torn up for new paving, except for
a space between the car tracks, which
Lewis took safely. »
Collier, who kept straight ahead to
the right, was not so fortunate. Lewis
heard the crash that followed, and turn
ed in time to see the occupants thrown
out. He came back and offered the
use of his car, but the Collier party de
clared they were all right and could
get home on the trolley.
IVY PROPERTY BRINGS
SBOO PER FRONT FOOT
Realty dealers who are members of
the Atlanta Real Estate Board are be
ginning to see results in the multiple
listing system recently Inaugurated by
this organization. This system con
sists In part of listing with every mem
ber of the board all properties listed
with them separa/ “ly, and has made it
possible for the hoard to dispose of 25
per cent of all property placed with it
to date.
This percentage was attained with
the sale yesterday of 21-23 Ivy street
at an estimated rate of SBOO a front
foot, or a total of $40,000. The property
has a one-story brick building on It
and is 50x100, lying between Gilmer
street and the abutment of Exchange
place, adjoining a parcel recently
bought by Joel Hurt.
MACON POLICE LET BOYS
ENJOY THANKSGIVING SNOW
MACON, GA., Nov. 29. —Not even
when pelted himself did Chief of Police
W. B. Chapman put a ban on the throw
ing of snowballs by the boys of Ma
con. Several policemen, whose hats
had been knocked off by well aimed
balls of snow, appealed to 'he chief for
advice, hesitating about arresting the
youngsters. "Let them alone,” said the ,
chief, "because snow like this falls in
Mac.m only once every ten years or so,
and a boy Is a boy only once.”
The policemen even carried out th<
chiefs advise so far as to arrest Car
Jackson, a chauffeur, who struck t !
small boy who had hit him with , j
snowball.