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CLAY MUST HANG TOMORROW - • [The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. OL. XL NO. 111. ■iw ms [rst fight |OH SALARY [system ■dqe Pendleton Upholds Act ■s Constitutional While Ex f tending His Sympathy. ■oULD HAVE OPPOSED IT I IF MEMBER LEGISLATURE "iB County officials fighting tne new sal ’.aw were given a iolt today when J. T. Pendleton, of the Fulton court, upheld the mandamuses by the county commissioners Andrew P. Stewart, tax collec .l. W. Armistead, tax receiver, and R. Wilkinson, ordinary. is the first time since tne salary was passed that it has been tested ,hp courts - and tlle county officials jaMm appeal Judge Pendleton's decision the supreme court of the state. The e contend that the saiar\ act is nn- :optional, and for that reason nave to make a report of expenses to running their offices. ■With J D. Kilpatrick representing three officials and Luther Z. Rosser, sßuVv attorney, acting for rhe board of the mandamuses came fl>r bearing before Judge Pendleton. -owing arguments by Kilpatrick and . the court declared that he must the mandamuses and declare new law constitutional. Budge Extends Sympathy. "There are a number of ugly features .he new law. but I do not think that affect its validity or that they "However, I sympathize these officials and their stand. Had ■Mbe.n in the legislature which passed *?Mlis act. I would have voted against it.” ■■ Ail the other county officials except Bi three mandamused have turned in schedule of expenses. The hear before the supreme court will not up for many months, in the it is thought that the ofli- BMlals will continue to operate their of- S under the old fee system, which new ,aw renders obsolete. declares Act Is ■Jnfair to Officials. aB Asserting that the act gave the coun auditor power to do everything but an official’s cigar account, Kil trick attacked the constitutionality of new law. aS "It is a fine example of unfair legis- said Kilpatrick, “instigated by who believe that any reform Bh-y advocate should be rammed down throats of the people. It is like the that seeks to give the re- additional power so that a man ®San be sent to jail for six or twelve because he doesn’t follow the certain people direct. It is bad law be traveled." Ml He launched his attacks on the law :; - \ari.ius angles. leaving hardly a of the legislation untouched. 1 " said that it was unconstitutional in ways. [accuses husband OF T AK 1 N G LODGE FUNDS HELD BY HER H '-sorting that her husband was not Bl'""tent to live off her earnings alone. ■ ‘tic took funds belonging to a lodge of i B ieh she was treasurer, Mrs. Annie I ■ 1 ■ Barry told superior court today ■ "■anted a divorce from William R. I ■ ’iai i-y. she also asked an alimony ver- I ■ ■ t. hoping the court would make Rar- | ■ ' go to work. B, 'lts. Barry said tiiat shortly after I wr marriage her husband told tier to I ■ ‘t a job and earn some money. As I ■ ’? as she obtained employment, she I Bi'?' Ile quit wor k and lived from her; ■ 'me. When funds were short he ■ upped into the treasury of the lodge, I k ’' nr ’b p was forced to make the short- ■ ' good. In addition to this, she as- I iied, he treated her cruelly. 115-YEAR-OLD SLAYER ASSERTS HE WAS DRUNK I SI'NBURY. PA.. Dec. ll.—Peter Ber- ■ fifteen-year-old slayer < f ■ hirles Augustine, of Exchange, was ■ “d before Judge Moser and as teats ■ • oiled down the boy's cheeks he was ■ 'deneed to serve a term of ten years ■ purate confinement and hard labjr ■ Im county prison H 'hen asked why he had killed \u- ■ ' the boy said lie did not know. ■ ’’'ng he was drunk at the time of ■ crime. Write It 12-12-12: YotTll Not Get Chance Again in Your Lifetime These Identical Numbers for Month, Day and Year Will First Occur Again in 2012. When you took your pen in hand to day and dashed off the date in your usual hurry, you did something you never can do again in your lifetime. You wrote three identical numbers for the month, day and year—l 2-12-12, just like that. Just a year and a month and a day ago there was a combination of six straight lines, 11-11-11, for the date. But this is the last time you'll ever have the three numbers all alike. For there isn’t any "13” month. The three-number combination will not occur again until 2010. The three twelve combination can not be used again until 2012. However, if you're fond of thirteens, tomorrow will be Friday, the thir teenth, an excellent day to refrain from betting on what Mr. Woodward will do next, or when the smoke nuisance will be abated. CONFESSES PLOT TO SLAY WILSON ON HIS RETURN TO COUNTRY NEW YORK, Dec. 12. —On his con fession that he planned the assassina tion of President-elect Wilson on his return from Bermuda as well as that of a former employer, Herman Steinberg was held for the grand jury w ithout bail this afternoon by Magistrate Cornell in the Tombs police court. Steinberg, who said he w-as nineteen years old, had been arrested an hour previous to his arraignment outside the Oak street sta tion by Detective Gorevan. When searched a revolver, full loaded, which he said he- had purchased in Hartford. Conn., to carry out his plan of assassination, was found In his pos session. LOCKER CLUB CASES TO BE HEARD SOON IN CRIMINAL COURT Indictments returned by the Fulton grand jury some six months ago against the officers of ten Atlanta locker clubs are booked for an early trial in city criminal court. Because the true bills charge the locker organizations with violation of the prohibition law, a mis demeanor, the authorities had the cases transferred from superior to city court. Judge Calhoun announced yesterday that he hoped to call the first locker club case today If the run of his docket permitted it. These indictments were returned last spring after the grand jury, of which T. K. Glenn was foreman, had made an Investigation of locker club conditions. Mr. Glenn financed the investigation and as a result of testimony- given to the jury- by his detectives, indictments were returned against the proprietors of ten organizations. HELD FOR KILLING AFTER ONCE BEING EXONERATED WAYCROSS, GA., Dec. 12.—J. O. Brown, returning here today to an swer to charges that grew Out of the killing of P. W. Sweat, an Atlantic Coast L’ine section foreman, was con fronted with a w-arrant charging mur der, after he had been exonerated by a preliminary- hearing. Bail has been allowed. The trouble between Brown and Sweat was because of relations Sweat claimed Brown bad with one of his daughters. RACES ENTRIES. AT JUAREZ. FIRST —Selling, two year olds, fur longs (8): xGreen Cloth 100. xLoan Shark 100. Azurea 102. Maud McKee 102. xGarden of Allah 102, Pretty Dale 102, Janus 105, Tom G. 105. SECOND—Selling, four y ear olds, 8 fur longs (16): xßarney Oldfield 105, Oswald B. 106, Quick Trip 106, Annual Interest 106, Rye White 106. Sir Barry 106, Prin cess Industry 106, Guy Spencer 106, Black Mate 106. Ki" l'"l. l’f<.re 106. Sw-<l« Sam 106, Godfather 100, Suffragist 109, Bell Snicker 109. THlßD—Selling, three year olds and up. mile I 151: El I’atO 103. Lehigh 103. Hughie Quinn 106, xßalcliff 107. xßuby Knight 107, Folk 112, Dorothy Ledgett 112. Aragonez 112, M. Cambrni 112, John Louis 112. Lambertha 112. Rose Vale 112. Lotta Creed 112. Force 115. Judge Walton 115. FOURTH Banduni', all ages, 7 fur longs (5): Cross Over 98. Loween 100. Lack Rose 105, G. M. Miller 112, Melton Street 113. FlFTH—Selling. 3 year olds. 6 furlongs (6): Evelina 102, Tilford Thomas 105, Mlmorioso 108, Russell McGill 108, Oak land 111. Sepulveda 114 SIXTH Selling. 3 year olds ami up, mile i 5): Sister Florence 95. Mycenae 101 Ymir 108. Flying Eeet 108. Eeather Duster 113. xApprentlce allowance claimed. Weather cloudy; track fast. THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 29; 10 a. m„ 30: 12 neon. 32; 2 p. m., 34. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1912. ROCKEFELLER IKK KBS CHE 8F ll PSNIC Coup in Copper on Wall Street Brought Disaster to Nation. Probers Hear. POCKETED MILLIONS AND BROKE LITTLE INVESTORS WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Having established the facts that a vast ma jority of the transactions on the New- York stock exchange are speculations wherein nothing of value passes be tween purchaser and seller, anil that the Rockefeller-Rogers group made mil lions out of a. market coup in Copper in -1907, the Pujo congressional com mittee investigating the money- trust settled down today to hear further in iquities of Wall Street. According to evidence before the committee, the copper coup, carried off by William Rockefeller and H. H. Rog ers in the spring of 1907, was largely responsible for the panic that year. After driving the price of copper to a high water mark, Rockefeller and Rog - ers unloaded their holdings, making millions in profits, and thousands of little investors were wiped out. * Immense Longs > Daily for Speculation. . . That 110.000,0<)0 is the average amount lent daily for the transaction of busi ness on the New York stock was among the startling testimony given today. Sometimes the amount has run as high as $35,000,000. The witness who gave this testimony was J. H. Griesel. wh" has be» n a mem ber of the New York stock exchange for 29 years. In tiis testimony Griesel spoke carelessly of vast sums as thougli he were discussing dollars and cents instead of millions. The biggest lenders, the witness said, are the ('base National bank, the City bank, the National Bank of Commerce, the First National bank, Speyer & Co., Kuhn Loeb & Co., and J. P. Morgan & Co. The witness described himself -as a member of the “loan crowd” on the New York exchange, and testified that the lending usually began at about 11 o'clock, or an hour after tlie stock mar ket opened in the morning. When the witness began to use tech nical terms, Attorney Samuel linter ineyer, counsel for the committee, asked the meaning of the phrase “renewal rate,” which Griesel had mentioned sev eral times. This, said the witness, was the amount of money known to be avail able each morning for exchange pur poses. Mr. Griesel qualified as an authority on the subject when he said he repre sented a number of big banking houses on the New York stock exchange. “Kuhn Loeb & Co. and J. P. Morgan & Co. do a big business, but do not stay in the market all th ■ time.” said the witness. "Sometimes they are out of the market for a month at a time. No body goes to Morgan & Co. unless they need help badly.” “The City bank.” he testified, “did not loan as much money a- Kuhn Loeb & Co. Sometimes Kuhn Loeb & Co., when they get a lot of money from a bond is sue, lend out $15,000,000 a day, “This is true of the other big lenders also.” Untermeyer asked the witness if he had a record of his business on Novem ber 29, when call money at 20 per cent. Griesel thought he loaned $20,000,- 000 on that day. Griesel said the bulle tin record of the loans at the money stand did not cover any loans made after 12 o’clock. On November 29 about $5,000,000 was loaned before noon. On that day the witness loaned $10,000,000 between 2 and 2:30 o’clock. Brokers Never See Collateral. The loan brokers. Griesel said, never saw the collateral. The loan clerks in the banks took care of that. Steel stock was considered the best collat eral, even when it paid no dividend. "Steel always had a wide margin,” said Griesel. Untermeyer wanted to know if Steel got a "wide margin" because It was thought good collateral. The witness said he could not answer that “You cun put mon- New York Central common into n loan than Steel," finally said the witness, trying to make a dis tinction between the character of col lateral and the amount of money that ould be rained on a particular stock. ■ Chorus Girls to Sell Georgians for Christmas Fund ATLANTA EAGER TO AID SANTA ( EMPTY! 2) : • -mrißi ••• n-- . -- I • - 1 • - : it; ■; WnMEMMH - iiiiiiif « liSSib s > • • W - <■ IH •; ... ; F z ik. AW- ’ Jml ■ —• 1 Gus Edwards and Troupe Will Entertain at Five Points for Poor Kiddies. The contributions to date follow: J. M. Slaton $25 F. J. Paxon 25 R. F. Maddox 25 Forrest Adair 25 J. W. English 25 John E. Murphy 25 W. T. Gentry 25 George Adair 25 Joe| Hurt 25 W. H. Glenn 25 E. H. Inman 25 A friend 25 John W Grant 10 Henry Durand 10 R. J. Guinn 5 E. P. Ansley ... 21 5 E. C. Peters 5 M. L. Thrower 5 S. B. Turman 5 M rs. J. M. Slaton 10 Mrs. E. L. Connally 10 Mrs. Robert Maddox 5 Mrs. J. M. High 5 Mrs. George McKenzie 5 Mrs. P. H. Alston 5 Oscar Elsas 10 M. H. Wilensky 5 A friend 5 J. S. Akers 5 Clifford L. Anderson 5 Dr. E. G. Ballinger ... 5 Chief J. L. Beavers 5 Carlos Mason 10 Marion Jackson 5 A friend 5 Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kiser ... 10 Morris Brandon 10 Dr. George BrCwn 5 J. P. Allen 5 Robert L. Cooney 5 J. J. Disosway 5 Marion Cobb and Florence Jackson Bryan, Jr 5 Total $490 Pretty chorus girls will sell Georgians at Five Points next Saturday afteinoon for the Empty Stocking Fund, while Gus Edwards, composer, dancer and pianist, will rip unlimited ragtime out of a piano it. a big automobile truck. That’s tin contribution of Manager Hugh Cardoza, of the Grand theater. Continued on Page Two Banish the Ghost of an Empty Stocking From Your Xmas Feast On Christmas mornin" your children will .jump from their warm beds to run laughing in glee to the well-filled stockings at the mantel, filled in the night by a Santa Claus whose liber ality was limited only by your good fortune in a year which has been prosperous. They will shout with joy over the good things Santa has bought, and you, smiling at their joy. will find the greatest happiness of your own Christmas clay. But if you could look through the walls and across many streets you might see a little room, dark and comfortless, where a child is sitting on a tireless hearth, clasping an empty stocking. hung there on Christmas eve because the unquestion ing faith of a child was stronger than the cold reasoning of the parents who knew only too well that Santa Claus comes not to the homes of the penniless. Ts you could see that picture on Christmas morning wouldn’t you pause in your happy merriment and say: “If I had only known in time!” The Georgian, by its Empty Stocking fund, is trying to tell you in time. Contribute as liberally as yon can, and your Christmas morning will be happier for the realization that you i did what you could. Send your contribution to the Christinas Editor of The Georgian. GIRL, WOUNDED BY TOY PISTOL, LOSES EYE; MAY NOT LIVE Following a surgical operation for the removal of her left eye, Bessie Tug gle, the ten-year-old girl shot by her small brother with a toy pistol, still is unconscious in Grady hospital. It is believed the bullet is imbedded in he brain. The condition of the little girl is pre carious, and the physicians are in doubt as to her chances of recovery. Whether a further operation will b<i performed In an •■ffoii to locate th ■ bullet has not been decided. • NIGHT EDITION ♦ UNION TELEGRAPHERS OF WESTERN UNION CO. THREATEN TO STRIKE SIOUX CITY, IOWA, Dec. 12.—A tel egraph operators' strike in the Western Union Telegraph Company's offices throughout the country is Inevitable, according to statements by S. J. Konen kamp, president of the Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America. Konenkamp said he ha<] demanded of the officials that the six operators dis charged for joining the union be rein stated. The company refused. He will leave for Chicago tonight to go Into conference with othe: officials of the organization 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ’’i^l 0 BROWN AGAIN REFUSES TO RESPITE GUY Family Asks That Doomed Man Be Given More Time to “Prepare for Eternity.” SLAYER LISTENS UNMOVED TO BUILDING OF GALLOWS Two ne>< pleas were before Governo» Brown today- for clemency- in the case of Robert Lee Clay, condemned to die on the scaffold at noon tomorrow in Fulton county jail. His attorney, L. F. McClelland, went before Governor Brown and asked a stay of execution in order tiiat the case might be carried before the prison board for a hearing. ■ Tiie faithfuK’father and suiter asked that he be permitted to live another 30 days, if for no other reason than that h<- might “better prepare himself to meet his God." Both pleas were denied by Governor Brown, who announced that he would not Interfere in the case. Convinced Clay Has Had Every Protection. r The governor was late getting t<s ’hf'rf office today. He spent last night in Marietta, and It was well after noon when he reached Atlanta. He found the Clays waiting for him —this time fortified witli an attorney. The governor listened patiently- to ins petitioners, but it was evident soon aft er they had departed that no profound impression m the direction of clemency had been made upon his mind. He is convinced tiiat Clay lias had every protection tiiat he is entitled to, and lie is convinced, moreover, from a reading of the record in the case, thai the man's crime wg.s deliberate and malicious murder. He does not believe any end of justice would be served by executive interference. Women Sing Hymns For Doomed Man. He does not think, in addition, that he is called upon to say how much time a man shall have to prepare himself for death in circumstances of this kind. Dr. S. H. Green, county physician, made another examination today of Clay’s mental condition and declared that he is sane. He asserted that tho prisoner could talk rationally If he would. Dr. Green added that, for the first time the prisoner showed traces of nervousness and that he appeared to be on the verge of a collapse as he neared the noose. Three women called on the .slayer to day- and prayed and sang hymns for his soul. Relatives also called to comfort him. His silence unbroken and his expres sion of imbecility unchanged, was take;-, from his cell on the second floor of the Tower this morning and lodged in a lit tle box of a room adjoining the death chamber. Over the condemned man was placed a death watch and within sound of his eats jailers busied themselves during the morning with preparation for the execution. Clay exhibited no interest in the proceedings. He ate a hearty breakfast tit 7 o'clock and smoked cigarettes incessantly, but to his jailers he showed no sign of weakening. He sat silently cell starring straight ahead witlrtßns jaw dropped and his eyes fixed—exactly as he has sat for four months, wearing what three allenis's have pronounced a mask of insanity. Doomed Man’s Attorney Gives Up Hope. William M. Smith, the doomed man’s attorney, said today that he had given up all hope of saving his client’s life. The governor, he said, was the last te sort, and when the chief executive de cided not to interfere with the sentence of the court Clay's fate was sealed. Smith asserted that he hoped to have Dr. James Baird and Dr. S. H Green ma ke artexamination of Clay today. He said that Dr. Green had agreed to go to the Jail and repeat his tests, but the at torney de-dared that the doctors' exam ination probably would be unfavorable to the prisoner. He admitted that there was little or no chance to prevent Clay’s death "There is no chance to obtain a lu nacy commission to examine Clay,” said I Smith. "Th<- law requires that a show ing be mud .■ before tile governor if such