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VOL. XL NO. 116.
ME MEET
BPEHSWim
CUSH OF
ams
Turks Start Proceedings by De
manding Greek Delegates Be I
Barred From Conference.
WILL NOT SIT WITH THEM
WHILE WAR CONTINUES
Session Comes to End Without
Progress—Allies Renew Their
Pledge to Stand Together.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—A serious dead
lock developed at the very beginning of
the negotiations in the Turko-Baikan
peace conference today when the Turk
sh delegates served positive notice that
the Greeks would have to withdraw
from the deliberations because “Greece |
was still at war with Turkey.”
After a three hours session in the art
gallery of the St. James palace, the
conference adjourned without anything
having been accomplished.
Although the meeting was adjourned
until tomorrow, it is understood that
there will not be another session until
Thursday.
The Turkish envoys were in deep
conversation among themselves as they
left the palace, and it was rumored that
a hitch had occurred which made it
necessary for the delegates to commu
nicate with their home governments be
fore assembling again.
No Demand Made
To Give Up Adrianople.
Dr. S. Daneff, head of the Bulgarian >
representatives, said that the allies de- i
mand that Turkey surrender Adrianople '
had not been presented.
"Only general matters in reference to
the peace protocol were discussed.”
said Dr. Daneff.
Immediately after the meeting was
called to order, Osman Mizami Pasha,
chief of the Turkish envoys, entered a
protest against the presence of Pre
mier Venizelos, of Greece, and the other
Greek representatives on the ground
that Greece is still at war against Tur
key.
The Turkish delegate alluded to
yesterday’s dispatches telling of a na
val engagement between Greek and
Turkish ships off the coast of Asia Mi
nor and declared that “It was a farce”
for two nations at war to come to
terms.
Finally Osman Nizami Pasha said his
colleagues must refuse to sit longer
with Hie Balkan delegates unless or
dered to do so by the Porte. They were
prevailed upon to sit pending further
Instructions from Constantinople, and
the regular business of the session was
resumed.
Turks Keep Up Protest,
Causing Adjournment.
After a conference of barely three
' c a the session was adjourned until
tomorrow because of the persistent
protests of the Turks against the pres
' >.■'? of the Greek delegates. The Turks
kept interrupting the proceedings at
egular intervals to present arguments
vhj the Greeks should retire.
I’ r :or to the assembling of the dele
gates at 11 o’clock the envoys of Bul-
i S.-rvia, Greece and Montenegro
- •’i a conference at which their pledges
'<• stand together unitedly were re-
I the capitalistic gossip of Europe
,iy,.,i against the Balkan allies was
'■ statement Imre this afternoon by
I' ' Daneff. leader of the Bulgarian
envoi to tlie* London peace conference.
1 iaanciers are attempting to make
' ’ iterms by maintaining the in
' grit’ of the Turkish debt, which
' ans that the capitalists are arrayed
st the allies," declared Dr. Daneff.
’Vill Fire On Adrianople
If Turks Refuse Demands.
believe the conference will be
■ful, but if Turkey refuses to ac
’ boundary lines we have laid
! for her I will telegraph to Sofia
'! • > lire upon Adrianople at once,
will cede Rodogto. and the terms
: indemnity demands may be re
id, but the principal demands, in
, -trig the disposition of Salonika and
must be met reasonably bv the
°i'mman delegates.
'1 tile session today the Turks de
( ' I, at their powers did not author-
to go beyond the stipulations
II tlte armistice recently conelud
' ' Chutalja.”
Balkan envoys, Dr. Daneff said,
' powers of plenipotentiaries,
'Uld sign a peace treaty and
it binding if they cared to take
te.sponsibility without consulting
w ir home
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
New City Directory Is ’
‘Menagerie* of Names; I
Foxes and Birds Galore!
Smiths Winner Over Jonses,
1,311 to 950—Estimated Atlanta |
Has 217,000 Persons.
A veritable “menagerie” of names is
contained in the new city directory,
published by the Atlanta City Directory
Company, Joseph W. Hill, president.
There are 35 Foxes. 10 Wolfs, 20
Birds, 4 Parrotts, 15 Hawks, 4 Bears, 3
Fish, 10 Wrens, 4 Partridges and 1
Sparrow. Also there are 2 William
Bryans. 6 George Washingtons. 3 Jack
Johnsons, 2 William Penns. 1 Thomas
Jefferson. 1 William Shakespeare and
I 46 W. Wilsons.
The annual competition between the
I Joneses and the Smiths finds the latter
winners by a score of 1,311 to 950. The
| Smiths refused to be dislodged at the
final count last year, ’but there was
plenty of Jones money in sight this sea
son, and now the Smiths are collecting
Christmas money, hats and other good
things.
The directory is the thirty-seventh of
a series, and contains 54 per cent of
changes. It gives Atlanta 217,000 per
sons in the territory served by street
car lines. According to Mr. Hill, the
book contains two-fifths more informa
tion per person than any directory pub
lished in any city of 100,000 population
or over.
The first directory was issued in 1876,
when Atlanta had a population of 17,-
561. The now one is in a buff cover, as
distinguished from the red cover of
last year and the olive brown of the
year before.
POLICE THEORY IS
THAT SING KEE WAS
TONG WAR VICTIM
The theory that Sing Kee. the Chi
nese mysteriously murdered early Sun
day morning in his laundry, 246 Hous
ton street, was slain for revenge in a
feudal tong war, is being investigated
by detectives
It follows the receipt of a telegram
by Police Chief Beavers from Li Young
Yew. Chinese consul general in San
Francisco, requesting' that the police
probe the murder to the bottom and
use every effort to solve the mystery.
The Chinese official had received formal
notice of the crime from friends of
Sing Kee, who interested him in the
investigation.
When Sing Kee was found dead in
Ids laundry, a bullet in his heart, a roll
• of S6OO was also found in his pocket.
1 Nothing in the laundry was disturbed.
' There was no evidence of a struggle to
i indicate that the celestial had discov
; ered and fought with a burglar.
Detectives say that the man wno
killed Sing Kee had completed his job
and satisfied his motive when he put
the bullet in the laundryman’s heart.
The crime has created great excite
ment in the local Chinese colony and 1
is the chief topic of conversation De
tectives have questioned a number of
Chinese, but the interviews have been
fruitless.
HAULS
$20,000.00 ALL DAY AND
LOSES $105; ARRESTED
CHICAGO, Dec. 17—Raymond Rog
ers, express messenger in South Chica
go, is held at the police station today
because he failed to deliver a package
containing $20,000 to the national bank
there. Rogers started out with a load
of pig iron for the foundry and the
package containing the money. The pig
iron was delivered. Detectives follow
ed Rogers about South Chicago most of
the day. He hauled trunks, suit cases,
coal and cord wood. Finally the detec
tives caught up with him. Rogers pro
duced the package.
The money was short $lO5. Rogers
could not say where the money had
gone, but remembered that some of tlie
pig ir,on fell on the package and broke it
open.
KING WILL ATTEND
MEMORIAL SERVICE
TO WHITELAW REID
LONDON. Dec. 17.—Unless affairs of
state prevent. King George will attend
tlie memorial service to 11 hitelaw Reid,
late United States ambassador to the
court of St. James, on Friday, In West
minster Abbey, it was learned today.
This information came from a source
close to Lord Knollys. private secretary to
the king
The American society, of London, held
a meeting at the Savoy today, and drew
up fitting resolutions of regret for the
passing of the distinguished American
diplomat.
Messages of sympathy continued to pour
into Dorchester house.
Mrs. Reid, who was prostrated at her
husband's death, had somewhat recovered
today, although she is still unable to re
ceive callers.
YOW MENTIONED AS
NEW PRESIDENT OF
COSMOPOLITAN LIFE
It was reported today that 1.. M. low,
vice president of the Cosmopolitan Life
Insurance Company, will succeed General
Clifford L. Anderson, resigned, to the
presidency of the reorganized company.
It was shown at the stockholders meet
ing yesterday that .Mr. Yow had paid
for Ills stock in the company, and was
not included in those who offered stock
in exchange for the use of their names.
It was said that State Insurance Com
missioner William A. Wright will ap
point Mr. Yow to the presidency.
ATLANTA, GA,, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1912.
GAMBLERSII
Mil ST. TIE
IIP WEALTH
OF NITION
Cutting Speculation in Half
»
Would Release $350,000,000
to Country. Says Expert.
WHEN MONEY RATES GO j
UP THE LOANS INCREASE!
Lewisohn. on Advice of Coun
sel, Answers Queries of Pujo
Probers Asked Yesterday.
; WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—That there
. would be $350,000,000 available for the
use of the country at large not now so
available for industrial purposes
if Wall Street speculation we'e
cut in half was the startling as
sertion made today before the Pujo
committee investigating the alleged
money trust by J. B. Niven, of the firm
of Touche, Niven & Co., of New York,
who was especially directed by the com
mittee to investigate the movement of
the monev from the country banks to
the New York city banks.
Niven said ha had gathered figures
on 32 banks, all of them members of
the New York Clearing House asso
ciation, and constituting half that mem
. bership. The list included all of the big
banjts in New York city with country
correspondents, the aggregate capital
and surplus of which was something
more than nine billion dollars. He said
. there were about 19.000 out-of-town
banks that carry deposits in the prin
i cipal New York banks.
Country Banks Heavy
New York Depositors.
> Niven declared that the country in
stitutions had almost continually on
deposit in New York. Including both
> direct deposits in the New York insti
i tutions and loans made on their be
half on security of stock exchange and
similar collateral, upward of $600,000,-
000, the amount varying from time to
I* time, and recently exceeding $700,000,-
■ 000.
I The data further showed the amount
t loaned by reputable New York banks
and trust companies, rather on their
own account or on behalf of their coun
try correspondents, exclusively on stock
exchange or similar collateral. The sum
thus loaned reported by these institu-
I tions is generally in excess of $600,000,-
000, and on occasions is reported at
amounts approaching SBOO 000,000. On
January 1. 1912, the out-of-town banks
. had on deposit with 32 banking Insti
tutions In New York city upward of
$523,000,000, and on that date the New
j York city banks loaned for them on
stock exchange collateral upward of
$140,000,000, making a total of money of
out-of-town banks in these 32 New
. York institutions on January 1, 1912,
of $664,474,000. On July 1 this total
was upward of $691,000,000, and on No
vember 1, 1912, the total was close to
' $723,000,000.
Loans Go Up When
i Money Rates Advance.
The signifleent fact, sought to be
shown by the witness’ figures, was that
when the money rates are high the out
of-town banks loan on the stock ex
change far more money than when the
rates are normal. This was shown by
the result of November 1. 1912. on which
date the out-of-town banks loaned,
through 32 New York city banking in
’ solutions. on stock exchange collateral
on demand loans, $240,480,000, In addi
, tion to $483,000,000 at that time on de
posit with these banks; while on July 1,
when money was easy, they had only
1 $141,028,000 of loans made through city
’ banking correspondents,’showing a dis-
I ference of $100,000,000 attracted in that
way to New York city, through the high
i money rates.
It was the contention of the witness
that if half of the money in New York
that is devoted to stock exchange pur
. poses could be released by cutting down
I Wall Street speculation to that extent
there would be upward of $350,000,000
available for the purpose of the coun
try that is not now so available.
Lewisohn Answers
”0n Advice of Counsel.”
‘ When Frederick Lewisohn, the bank
' er who refused to answer L'ntermeyer’s
questions yesterday, was recalled his
. counsel, Martin Vogel, announced that
> In view of the belief that Lewisohn
1 "has some ulterior motive In refusing
! to answer” Vogel directed him to make
reply.
I The syndicate agreements in the Cal
. ifornia Petroleum deal which accom
; panted its listing on the New York
stock exchange were then produced.
One was an agreement dated Sep-
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Continued on Pogo Two.
CANDLER *lO
WOODWARD
Illi; Ml
IS SEE!
Mayor-Elect Sharply Criticises
Alderman’s Move to Save
Comptroller’s Clerk.
; POLITICAL CHIEFS EXPECT
I HOT FACTIONAL STRUGGLE
Row Starts Over the Ordinance
Curtailing Appointive Power
of City Executive.
Out of James G. Woodward’s visit to
the meeting of the city council yester
day afternoon and a sharp criticism by
him of Aiderman John S. Candler, po
litical critics today foresee a split be
tween the two which virtually will
mean two parties in the city govern
ment.
Aiderman Candler as chairman of
the finance committee was about to in
troduce an ordinance making the chief
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Snapshot a>f Walter de Mumm.
field on his visit to America a f<
him is Miss Billie Burke, the acl
s.
clerk to the city comptroller appointive
by the comptroller with authority to
, sign the name of the comptroller.
Comptroller Goldsmith has just been
elected for a new two-year term. His
chief clerk, Graham West, will be re
appointed.
Several years ago Mr. West was ele
vated to the place over the head of
John F. Kellam, head clerk In the
comptroller's office. Mr. Kellam and
, bis friends were-not pleased by the act.
In addition, Mr. West began a number
of reforms in the purchasing of supplies
and put into effect some strict rules
regarding expenditures by the various
departments.
The ire of a number of department
heads was aroused.
Mr. Woodward sympathized with Mr.
Kellam. Mr. Woodward has the ap
pointment of the new finance commit
tee and under the old law that com
mittee would have tlie right to depose
Mr. West.
When Aiderman Candler was about
to introduce the ordinance yesterday
afternoon he showed it to Mr. Wood
ward, who was sitting in the council
chamber talking to Mayor Winn,
"It is dirty polities," said Mr. Wood
ward.
Alderman Candler looked surprised.
"I mean just what I say," said Mr.
Woodward.
Then Alderman Candler introduced
the ordinance and it was adopted.
It Is generally conceded in political
circles that Alderman Candler is the
most influential member of council.
The wise prognosticators have agreed
that Mr. Woodward does not intend to
give Aiderman Candler any of the more
i important committee chaii manships.
In the mayoralty primary Mr. Wood
ward was supposed to be opposed to
. the policy of Police Chief Beavers As
acting mayor, Alderman Candler ad
vised Chief Beavers that the course he
eventually followed, was his plain duty
and the only course for him to pursue.
Mr. Woodward has outlined a finan
cial policy widely at variance with the
program pursued by Aiderman Candler
as chairman of the finance committee
this year.
• They clearly represent opposite po
litical ideaife
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MYSTERY IN RICH
‘TIGER’S’ ESCAPE
LAGRANGE, GA.. Dec. 17. —James
■ Daniel, sentenced to serve twelve
i months on the chaingang for selling
1 whisky, is at liberty today following a
’ jail delivery that has stirred LaGrange.
Another prisoner. in the same room,
could have escaped, but made no effort
to leave the prison. There is much
mystery and speculation in regard to
the escape.
Some one secured the sheriff's keys,
• unlocked the door and let Daniel out of
prison. A reward of SIOO has been of
fered for his rearrest.
Daniel is a noted character about
town and generally regarded as a des
perate man. He has killed two negroes
within the last twelve months and has
been in several shooting scrapes. He
was arrested about six months ago for
selling whisky and. having been up
many times before on the same charge
and having always paid his fine, he was
this time sentenced to pay a fine of
$750 and serve twelve months on the
chaingang.
• Daniel is worth $15,000 to $20,000,
having, so it is claimed, made most of
it selling whisky.
MOTHER OF CHARLIE ROSS,
KIDNAPED YEARS AGO. DIES
PHILADELPHIA, Dee 17.—Mrs. Sa.
: raN Ann Boss, the mother of Charlie
Ross, kidnaped 38 years ago, is dead
here, aged 78 years. The fate of Char.
. lie Ross, who was stolen when he was
tour years old, has never been learned.
1
Mrs. Marie Rt nsimer Barnes,
Mie pretty American divorcee.
' vfi th whom Walter de Mumm. of
the family of champagne makers,
was infatuated, ami who is ac
cused by his family of shooting
him lasi week in her Paris apart
ments.
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MILES DNI DIME
Father Finds Ten-Year-Old Tif
ton Runaway at Her Uncle’s
Home in Jakin.
TIFTON, gA., Dee. 17.—After having
traveled 175 miles from Tifton to
Thomasville and thence to Jakin, with
only ten cents and no railroad ticket,
Ocie Davis, ten-year-old daughter of
W. N. Davis, was found today by her
father, who had gone in pursuit of the
runaway child. She was at the home
of an uncle at Jakin.
A report that the girl had run away
with a fifteen-year-old boy, which was
current here yesterday afternoon, was
fu ter found to be false. The child had
made the trip alone.
The girl left Tifton early yesterday
morning, boarding a southbound At
lanta, Birmingham and Atlantic train
for Thomasville. At Omega she was
put off the train by the conductor, but
succeeded in again getting aboard.
Then the conductor decided that all he
could do was to carry her on to Thom
asville—the end of his run—and turn ]
her over to officers to be sent back
home. At Thomasville site escaped and 1
boarded another train for Jakin, where
she arrived last night.
The child was sent by her mother to
a grocery store yesterday morning to
do marketing for the family breakfast.
She failed to return from that mission.
Then the family became alarmed and a
search for her began.
Mr. Davis ascertained that his daugh
ter had gone toward Thomasville and
he caught the next train to that city.
There he learned she had started to
ward Jakin. He’followed her there and
fcur.d her at Lsi lo ck’s bon:, enjoying
herself immensely.
Father and daughter will return to
Tifton tonight
ELOPES WITH GIRL OF 13;
GETS SIX-YEAR SENTENCE
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Dec. 17. Rob
ert W. KCpple, 35 years old, formerly
prominent in Cincinnati church circles,
was taken to Charlestown state prison
to begin serving a six to eight-year
sentence for eloping witli 13-year-old
l Stella Turner, of Cincinnati. The two
lived here as man and wife, Kepple
i associating himself with a South End
. Boston religious society;
HOHL
IDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
IH. HEARST
MEALS NEW
\ DIL LETTERS
Dll STAND
’ 1 gMy
Publisher Is Witness Before the
Campaign Fund Investigating
Committee of Senate.
ARCHBOLD MADE $50,000
LOAN TO SEN. FORAKEFU
More Interesting Correspond
ence Between Oil Head and
Officials Revealed.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—The mys
tery surrounding the origin of the Arch
bold letters which have been appearing
in Hearst’s Magazine for the past year
was partially dispelled today when Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, proprietor of the
magazine hearing His name, testified
before the Clapp committee of the sen
ate that he had obtained the photo
graphic copies of th<- documents from
John L. Eddy, now residing In London. , |
Mr. Hearst seemed loath to tell the
name of the man who gave him the fac
simile of the documents, hut finally ad
mitted that it was Mr. Eddy, formerly
editor of The New York Evening Jour
nal and managing editor of The Bos
ton American. Mr. Eddy, the publisher
'said, gave him the photographic copies
in Columbus. Ohio, in September, 1908,
and has never asked for nor received
any compensation for them.
Mr. Hearst said that he had never
i doubted the authenticity of the letters
, and saw no reason to do so now. Many
of them had been acknowledged either
by their writers or by their recipients.
He also showed the committee a.
number of other letters from John D.
Archbold Io Senator Foraker and Sen
ator Penrose which have not been
printed, and promised to produce some
more which he did not bring to Wash
ington ‘‘because of their irrelevancy.”
Penrose Didn’t
Give Money's Worth.
John L. Kennedy, of this city, was
the only other witness called today.
He was a member of the industrial
committee of 1900 on which Penrose
also served. He said that the Pennsyl
vania senator did not attend the meet
ings of.the committee and took no in
terest In Its proceedings. His testi
mony was calculated to show that the
Inference that the $25,000 which the
Standard Oil Is alleged to have sent.
Penrose for some service to the com
mittee was not warranted.
At the close of Kennedy's testimony
the committee adjourned, subject to the
call of the chairman.
Mr. Hearst gave his occupation as
"journalist and publisher” on taking the
stand.
By Senator Clapp:
Q. You are owner of Hearst’s Maga
zine?
A. I am.
Q. During the past year there have
been published -in this magazine a
number of letters purporting to have
. passed between John D. Archbold, ot
the Standard <)il, and several men in
1 public life. Do you know of these let
ters?
A. I do
Q. Have you any othe. letters?
A. I have n few.
Hearst denied that he had the origi
nals of the Archbqld letters published
in Hearst’s Magazine.
Photos and Letters
Given to Committee.
Senator Clapp then asked the wit
| ness to produce the documents. Hearst
! handed over a number of photos and
1 letters. K
Q. Do you not possess tlie origins;.
letters?
A. No. I do not
Q. Under whose di:ection were these
photos taken?
A. Ido not know. They came to mt
in their present form.
Q. hen did you get them?
A. Tn September, 1908.
q. Do you know where the originals
are?
A. No -
The letters concerning which Hearsi
was questioned were those published
In Hearst’s Magazine, showing that
iJohn D. Archbold, of the Standard Oil
Company, had intimate correspondence
with men in public life, had paid th4m
money and was in a position to demand
. favors of them.
■ Former Representative Charles H
Grosvenor, former Senator Foraker ot
Ohio, former Representative Sibley ot
Pennsylvania. Senator Penrose of Penn
• sylvania. and others were impllcatec
1 by these letters. Archbold, wlien call
! ed to testify at the last hearing, admit
' ted that he had written virtually all o.
‘ the letters accredited to him.
Q. From whom did you get the pho-
1 tographlc copies?
A. Senator, I am willing to testify to
t