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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia; Fair and warmer today and tomor row. 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 / ~~ ■ ~ / / . " ~=== = J I ■ / * —‘ Brlß A iHI ► I K-. ftfvyr —' I 1f..-' - J s I IBA \WoWlwlfiiii sfe ’• i I I KMffiWKFA - 'll \* I I \ ■ESMmk « ill \ /W’.* • - \ '’ z - . - -- / / r-M \ w ' // / \ . - // / x\ / / Atlanta Eats 25,000 Lbs. of Thanksgiving Bird 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. Ixffi 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. } r i 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.