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MOISE DeLEON BACK HOME
THE WEATHER I
Fair tonight and Sunday. Tern- I
peratures: 8 a. m., 45 degrees; 10
a. m., 48 degrees; 12 noon, 58 de- I
grebs; 2 p. m., 60 degrees.
VOL. XI. NO. 102.
NUM
WINS ■[
FOR H
IM
Middies and Soldiers Put Up
Fierce Struggle on Frank
lin Field.
THREE TRIES FOR FIELD
GOALS ARE FAILURES
West Pointers Start With Rush,
But Soon Are Checked
by Sailors.
FRANKLIN FIELD, PHILA-
DELPHIA. Nov. 30.—Final score:
Navy, 6; Army 0.
FRANKLIN FIELD. PHILADEL
PHIA. Nov. 30.—Under ideal weather
conditions and before a crowd that tax
ed the capacity of the stands and filled
every inch of standing room within the
big inclosure, the Army and Navy elev
ens lined up at 2 o’clock thjs afternoon
in their annual battle that brought the
1912 football season to a close.
The Army won the toss and chose to
receive the kickoff
Brdwn kicked off to Devore, who was
downed on his own 39-yard line. (In a
fake kick Hobbs ran 23 yards to Navy s
40-vard line. Keyes made nine yards.
Keves made a first down on a line
plunge, but the Middies threw Hobbs
for no gain when he tried the line.
Standing on his own -3-yaid line.
Keyes failed at an attempted goal from
the field. .
The Sailors put the ball into play
their own 20-yard line. Leonard reeled
off four yards and Harrison added two
more. A fake kick, with Hall carrying
the ball, failed to gain an inch Gil
christ punted to Pritchard, on the A
- 40-yard line. Hobbs went straight
ahead for four yards, and the bah was
on the Armv's 47-yard line
punted over the goal line, and the Mid
dies put the ball into play again on
thele own 20-yard line.
Mcßeavy went straight ahead toi 1-
yards. and Harrison took the ball to his
own 40-yard line on the next play.
Mcßeavy kicked to Pritchard. " t
was downed on his own line.
Keves kicked to Rodes, who brought th.
ball back to his own 43-yard line befoie
i winne First period
being thrown by M inn
ended here. Score Army 9. Naty 0.
SECOND PERIOD.
It was the Navy’s ball on their own
f /.vard line. Rodes stepped around
tight end for an advance of four •jans
Mcßeaw's punt was blocked by Mar
Roe, who picked it up ami ™ ‘ *
Vavv’s -0-vnrd line before Mcßeavy
Xv him‘from behind On a wide
, run Benedict fumbled and ’«•!-
en(i run i .’ |V the Navv on their
Christ recovered toi tne
own 16-vanl line.
Mcßeavy kicked on tire first piny t.
•«e th £ kicked short to Rodes on the
«. a fake Kick, swept 35
cards to midib ld. A
?' '!7 ' -nt’
was fumbled •’> •
In forßalston for *' * n^' pßichard. who
Mcßeavy k k d to )irlP
n-as ’ liro " n ’„J.I on a line play and
ff<»t • ' t h e Army a first
Xavy °"jh/ir mvn 13-vard lino. Hobbs
down on then n . ■;:;. v . ( rd line,
kicked poorly to hi- _ " swi . e) ,
M ' d°and before another plav
■
' " H! ' : 'third period.
going out of 1 ... pnt |n for Hobbs,
card line. bu ' ' t 0 Rodes, who
Hie b'H ' k 10 hls T” p 8 ’
brought tn< n, lf)st , var ,i s when
yard Uno- ~T' , al , Mcßeavy then
he a ?Mb. )a d who was thrown
kicked to I H t , n ’ bis own 14-yavd
hard by In-’ •* ’ jt Milburn < Arry«
line ' •’ vards and Key s
Lrked'to. Roiled ;h " " : ' S t,,ro "’ n ° n
his o"’ n s6 ' y “ Limed whin tackled.
Rode® was injury _ yitr(] HnP .
Standing on attempted l'lio-<
Brown inis-ed • put ttle ba ji j n ,
cent kick and th- ar<l Hne . Bene-
play on he' K eyes kicked to:
diet *' ,t h wa- downed on his own 40-|
Rodes, who was o
yard line.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results.
boycott on
Sift LEWS
lOW
PROBE
City Board Orders Investiga
tion of Refusal of Dairymen
to Sell to Informer.
HEALTH LABORATORY PLAN
OF COMMERCE CHAMBER
Station to Prepare Pure Food
For Infants Projected to
Help Fight Typhoid.
Because Gus Castle couldn't buy fresh
milk for his baby daughter after deal
ers in his section had practically boy
cotted him. the city board of health has
ordered Dr. Kennedy, city physician, to
investigate the matter, and the Cham
ber of Commerce is planning the estab
lishment of a central milk laboratory
for supplying really pure milk to all
Atlanta. The men behind the move
ment believe It will mean better milk
for the babies when next spring brings
the annual danger of typhoid and in
fant diseases.
.Mr. Castle, who lives at 99 West
Peachtree street, was boycotted, he be
lieves, because when his baby contract
ed ptomaine poisoning from impure
milk he had tire dealer arrested and
fined. The story of how other dealers
refused to sell him milk was published
yesterday in The Georgian, and it
aroused a storm-of indignation among
city’ officials and citizens generally. It
is taken as a quiet determination on
the part of milk dealers to so intimi
date their customers that they will be
afraid to prosecute or report dealers
for violations of law.
City Board of
Health Gets Busy.
I Dr. S. A. Visanska is chairman of th?
milk committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, with Dr. Michael Hoke,
Ivan Allan and Oscar Elsas. When
Dr. Visanska read the story in The
'Geo’gian yesterday afternoon he called
| up the Castle family, details of
| their troubles and at once laid the mat
ter before the city board of health. That
’board met yesterday afternoon and in
structed Dr. Kennedy to ascertain from
the city attorney just, what powers the
city has to prevent such a boycott. It
is believed that the custom of granting
annual permits to milk dealers may be
used as a "club” and that dealers re
fusing to sell milk to any customer un
less for some good reason, may be de
nied permits in future.
“Certainly some way must be found
to prevent milk dealers from entering
into a combination lo intimidate custo-
Continued on Page Two.
HALLET S DAVIS PIANO CO
PIANOS®^/«« VIRTUOLO PIAYER-PIANO
ESTABLISHED IB3S FACTORIES BOSTON
BOSTON OFFICE 146 BOYLSTON ST.
ATLANTA WAREROOMS. 50 NO PRYOR ST
Nov. 26, 1912-
The Geo rg ian-
Direetly through on ad In your paper
we have received an order for a Hal let & Davis Vlrtuolo, ,
the wonderful instinctive play«r piano, from the
Western section of Mississippi. This shows the Georgian
to be a splendid adverti«lug medium out of the State . <
as well as in Georgia-
Rich Soil
Confessed Forger, Is
I Dying in Charity Ward
John T. Fletcher, Jr., of Colum
bus. Wanted in Atlanta, Ad
mits Passing Checks.
NEW ORLEANS. LA.. Nov. 30.
Wanted in Atlanta and several other
cities in the United States and Canada
and son of a wealthy manufacturer in
Columbus, Ga., John T. Fletcher, Jr.. 30
years old. arrested here last night on
charges of passing worthless checks, is
'dying in the Charity hospital.
At 2 o’clock this morning, half an
hour after being placed in a cell at the
central station, the alleged forger was
stricken with appendicitis. Hi was dy
ing when taken to the hospital. If ho
lives this afternoon an operation will
be performed to try and save him In
order that the courts may send him to
the penitentiary qa his own confessions.
Fletcher has a wl.’e in Columbus, Ga.,
and nine years ago spent his honey-
I moon here. Drinking and n omen, he
I blames for his downfall.
“Don’t let the girlie know about this,”
he pleaded with the police. "God knows
it isn't her fault. I'll be dead soon, so
keep it quiet until tlfen.”
“Girlie" is his pet narn'e for his wife.
They 'nave not been living together for
some time. •
Fletcher passed cheeks on three ho
tels here under assumed names. The
amounts aggregate S3OO. His check
schemes are said to have netted $25,000
in six months.
Fletcher admits he is wanted in At
lanta, Memphis, Chicago, Nashville, St.
Louis. Winnipeg and Toronto.
JUDGE ADVISES MAN
SHOT AS BURGLAR TO
‘QUIT LOCKER CLUBS’
I “Young man. this, certainly ought to
be a lesson for you. If you belong to a
: locker club, hand in your resignation
’ immediately. Don’t lose a moment. '
Recorder Broyles today thus advised
3s M. DeLoach, a machinist at the steel
- hoop works, who was shAt ami badly
wounded 'a«fe w nights ago by Nathan
King, a negro, of 33a. Handover street,
who mistook him for a burglar. De
-1 Loach, who admitted that he had been
’ drinking, said he was lost and was
1 merely trying to find a place to warm
‘ himself at the time he was shot. Ho
> informed the recorder that he doesn't
1 belong to a locker club and that “near
-1 beer caused it all.’’
On evidence that King had chased
DeLoach and fired three shots at him,
’ the recorder bound tiie negro over on
bond of SSOO on the charge of assault
with intent to murder.
SIX ARRESTED AS
GAMBLERS FREED;
, INFORMER FINED
, T. W. Nesbit, the student who earned
‘ a raid early yesterday on the Leland
hotel, in Houston street, failed to make
! good in police court on his first story to
the police that poker was being played,
1 and the remaining six young men ar
rested were treed by Recorder Pro Tern
t Preston.
, Nesbit, however, was fined $10.75 on
’ the charge that lie was drinking and
acted disorderly in the hotel, after hav
ing been ejected from the room by the
other men prior to his “squeal.”
Nesbit declined to repeat in court his
I charge that the men were gaming. The
, others -protested they merely wire
playing “setback,” afid, as thei* «
no other evidence against them, the
cases were dismissed.
ATLANTA, GA.. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 30, 1912.
SHANGHAIED, SAYS DeLEON,
AFTER AMAZING GLOBE TRIP
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SOUNDS DOOM OF
CAMINO DEVICES
The doom of the slot machines in
near-beer saloons and locker clubs was
sounded by the council committee on
legislation yesterday afternoon, and to
day the leaders in this fight expect
council to be unanimous in voting to
prohibit the use of the machines in
locker clubs, near-beer saloons and mo
tion picture shows when the ordinance
is submitted at the meeting Monday aft
ernoon.
The committee is unanimous in its
recommendation of the ordinance. There
was no protest against it at the meet
ing of the committee yesterday after
noon, The recommendations will be
signed by Charles W. Smith, chairman;
lames E. Warren, Claude <’. Mason and
John S. Candler. Clarence Haverty,
the other member of the committee, is
out of the city.
\V. D. Ellis, Jr., assistant city attor
ney. said he believed that the machines
were gambling devices, lie said that
be had signed a written agreement with
Attorney John W. Moore, representing
tiie owners of the machines, that no
more eases would be made against the
owners until tiie legal status of the
matter was decided by the courts. But,
he said, council could bar them by
adopting the proposed ordinance, with
out interfering with his agreement, lb’
said:
"By taking tile slot machine ease to
the court of appeals, by agreement, it
was expected that a decision would be
obtained within «" days. The superior
court already has held that they are
gambling devices."
Chairman Smith told the committee
that the evil of the slot machines had
spread to such an extent that Imme
diate action was demanded of council.
I He said they shotgd be stopped at once.
I regardless of whether they technically
evaded tiie gambling statute.
Moise DeLeon, Who Was Shanghaied
GDNGDESS Fffi
EDGIEST SESSION
1 WASHINGTON. Nov. 30.—The fall of
’ gavels in the senate and house at high
1 noon Monday will call to its final ses
sion tin* sixty-second congress and
: sharply remind the national legislators
’ of tiie immense amount of work to be
1 lone before March 4.
This short session of congress will be
‘ the busiest in its history. There will
bardlv be a moment to spare on either
the senate or house side, and night ses
-4 sions of both bodies may be frequent.
2 Coming down to close figuring, there
■ can not be even a three months session,
■ for the Christmas holiday intervenes
and congress will adjourn about De
cember 20 until the second or third of
1 January.
’ ’Fifteen bills, appropriating approxi
mately $1,000,000,000, must be parsed by
both houses and approved by President
Taft before he leaves office.
Eliminating the days which must be
1 devoted under the bouse rules to cer
-1 tain types *of legislation, the time for
’ attending to the appropriation bill is
’ woefully short, and it Is expected that
some of the regular calendars will have
to be set aside to allow time for the
' supply bills. Representative Under
wood. the majority leader, who has
reached Washington, said today that he
anticipated but little general legislation
during the short session.
’ HUNTERS SLAY 64-POUND
BEAR IN HELL HOLE SWAMP
CHARLESTON, 8. C„ Nov. 30.—Hell
e Hole swamp, near Charleston, In Berk
-1 eley county, springs into fame by pro
viding for tiie guns of a. party of local
sportsmen the biggest black bear ever
y heard of in these parts. The beast,
killed by buckshot, weighed 645 pounds.
Contractor Staggers Into Wife’s Arms
and Recounts a Remarkable Story.
Robbed and Kidnaped, He Worked
as Stoker on Ship From X’ancouver
to Sydney, Australia, While His
Brain Was in a Daze.
Awoke to Consciousness in Antipodes to Find
• Himself Destitute-—Helped by Masons He
Makes Way Back to Atlanta and Declares
He Will Straighten Out Tangle-—Joyous Re
union at Home.
.\\-rves shuttered, a shadow of his former self. Moise DeLeon,
prominent Atlanta contractor, who disappeared in Chicago, Au
gust 9. staggered into his home, 744 Piedmont avenue Thursday
night, and told his wife the dramatic story of how. crazed by
brain fever, he had wandered to the Pacific coast, where he was
shanghaied and compelled to work as a coal heaver across the
broad Pacific from Vancouver. B. C.. to Sydney, New South
Wales.
Mr. DeLeon toda.x began the work of straightening out his
business affairs, which were imperrilled by his disappearance.
Friends assert confidently that in a few weeks he will be able
to resume his place as one of the South’s most prominent build- ,
"Y 3
mg men.
It was a real Thanksgiving night for the DeLeon family.
From the day. almost three months ago, that Mrs. DeLeon re- ’
eeived the cablegram announcing her husband was in an Austra
lian hospital suffering from brain fever, she has expected his re
turn every moment of every day.
His home coming was unannounced. He took a street car at
the Terminal Station and rode to his Piedmont avenue home. So
severe had been the ravages of the fever that he was not recog
nized at the station, although there were a number of his friends
there.
“I’m home,’’ he said, as his
ring. And before the family fir
story of his advertures.
On leaving Atlanta, he had
planned to spend several weeks
hunting and fishing in the Mich
igan woods. He went byway of
Chicago in order to visit friends
in that city.
Worked As Stoker
While In a Daze.
The contractor remembers reaching
Chicago and declares that on the after
noon of August 8, he went to a ball
game at the West Side park in the
Western metropolis. The next thing he
remembers is recovering consciousness
in the Sdilors hospital at Sydney and
being told that he had laid there for
weeks suffering from brain fever.
Practically all his clothing was gone.
Elk and Masonic emblems, which he
had always worn, were missing, and
$2,000 which he had carried to Chicago
with him was gone. In a money belt,
which was not his own, S6O had been
found.
The hospital authorities told him he
had reached Sydney aboard a Japanese
coal ship. Coal dust and the fact that
he was stripped to the waist Indicated
to them that he had been working as a
stoker. The ship had papers showing
that she had cleared from Vancouver.
Shanghaied, He Thinks,
In Vancouver, B. C.
Mr. DeLeon believes that he had
wandered to Vancouver and was there
shanghaied. A blow on the head, re
ceived when he was a boy and which
has troubled him several times, Is be
lieved to have caused the aphasia.
"Wife, Atlanta, cable,’’ were the first
words he spoke when he began to re
cover consciousness. A day later he
was able to identify himself and It was
then that the cablegram was sent to
Mrs. DeLeon.
In the hospital were several Masons.
Mr. DeLeon identified himself as a
member of the order and it was through
their agency that he was financially
able to return to Atlanta. As soon as
his fever subsided he booked his return
passage, coming byway of San Fran
cisco.
Mr. DeLeon is still intensely nervous
as a result of his experiences, but his
general condition is good. He at once
began work straightening out his af
fairs. For the present he Is keeping
close to his home and Is particularly
opposed to meeting newspaper report
ers. Later, Mr. DeLeon says, he will
give a complete account of his adven
tures.
HOME
IPITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R l°
wife answered the door bell’s
eplace be told the remarkable
MEDS SCBRf
IN FLODD SUITS
Newton farmers, claiming damages
from the backwater of the Octnulgee ‘
power dam. who went to the legislature ‘
for a special act so that they could sue
the Central Georgia Power CompaaM ID ,
their own county, won a first victoiy ’ S'
superior court today.
Judge L. S. Roan, sitting at the fuj. i
ton courthouse, but holding court foj ’
Newton county, told attorneys for ths
power company that the action of the |
legislature was constitutional, as far as
superior court was concerned, overruled
their special demurrers, and ordered the
trial of the damage suits, aggregating
$50,000, to proceed.
According to the allegations in the
suits, the dam has caused a backwater
extending over the country for seven
teen miles, creating a swamp of stag
nant water, causing sickness and de
stroying crops.
Under the old law, the Newton county
farmers were forced to journey to Ma
con to institute suit. They contended
that they couldn't get fair treatment in
Bibb county. -.130k
During the last session of the
lature, a bill was put through that pro
vided that a hydro-electric company
could be sued as a railroad company is
sued —in the county where the damago |
occurs
Under this act seven fanners repre- !
sented by James F. Rodgers, of Coving- 1
ton, tiled suits in superior court of New-. I
ton county for damages aggregating I
$50,000. J. F. Rodgers, attorney for six i
of the plaintiff*, submitted a brief on '
the question to Governor Brown whan
Felker’s bill was awaiting the chief
executive’s approval.
CHARGED WITH ROBBING " 1
WIFE, JURY FREES HIM
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 30.—1 t took a iiry
only five minutes to return a verdljf qtv
acquittal in favor of Charles I MerA’l
who was on trial in Judge Klhsey’s
court on the charge of stealing 05.000
worth of dlamonus from his former
wife, Mrs. Dora McClanahan, a hotel
owner of Fort Worth, Tex.