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VOL. XL NO. 118.
STATELIQUOR
MEN »JI
FEDERAL
AXE
U. S. Court Decision Forbids
Intrastate Shipments by the
Wholesalers of Georgia.
MONOPOLY ON BUSINESS
IS SOUGHT BY FLORIDA
Point Raised by Jacksonville
Dealers. Who Lay Claim to
Sole Right to the Trade.
■ i.uiesa ■ liquor dealers in Georgia
. re m-aitiiig anxiously today the action
- Federal authorities, following a de
<ision ilanded down in Jacksonville
•-sb-N.y by United States Judge John
.-,1. Cheney. enjoining the Southern Ex
press Company from accepting liquor
shipments from Georgia dealers con
sig.-eu to intrastate points.
in effect, Judge Chetjpy's mandate, I
..tiieh will be appealed from by attor
neys for the Southern Express Com
pany at a hearing scheduled for tomor
row, prohibits wholesale dealers in Sa
■ annah, Augusta and other Georgia
’ ties, where they are said to operate,
from doing a shipment business inside
this state.
The court held that the consignment
of liquor from one point in Georgia to
another was interference —a violation—
ci’ the Interstate rights of the Florida
liquor dealers, because the Georgia pro
hibition law had declared the sale of
liquor in Georgia to be illegal.
Means Wiping Out
Qf Liquor Business in State.
The decision, if upheld, means that
tne so-called wholesale liquor business
in Georgia from Georgia cities will be
come a thing of the past. In addition,
it will give the hundred odd wholesale
liquor houses, lining block after block
in Bay street in Jacksonville, free swing
at the Georgia business.
It is understood that the Georgia
I tuor houses, which have proceeded
cautiously because of the existence of
the prohibition law, Ijave made no at
' nipt to invade the Florida field with
their wares, but were content with
Georgia points.
According to the Southern Express
Company attorneys, the bill brought by’
the Jacksonville dealers seeking to en
join the express company from carry
q Georgia shipments to Georgia points
asserted that the interstate commerce
law gave a property right to a monop
y of the Georgia business.
Robert c. Alston, general council for
■■ Southern Express Company, ex
plain d the contentions of the Florida
•leali-rs, as set forth in their bill, and
’U li’ 1 in part, at least, by Judge Che
ney, as follows:
Florida Dealers Claim
Sole Right to Business.
’’ho Jacksonville liquor dealers
n.iiri that the prohibition law of Geor
gia. .n effect, creates for them and
i liquor dealers out of the state a
? right to a monopoly of the
1 yia territory for the sale of intoxi
’ ■oikg liquors.
1 lay seek an injunction because
allege this property right is being
| red by certain persons in Georgia."
arced to bring their bill on inter
grounds, the Jacksonville dealers
- I nack on the interstate commerce
and maintained that Georgia deal
;,r- violating its provisions, !><-
am- the Georgia, dealers were poach
" on >ri erupted preserves—poipi.- in
Georgia.
n iously enough, Judge Cheney held
tor a dealer in Savannah to ship a
,Sl "f whisky to a person in Dublin
" J| o be an interference with inter
commerce, and for the Southern
•v'l'iess ( ompany or any common car
’"l to accept such a shipment would
a violation of the interstate law.
! raffic Nuisance,
Declares Judge
str- FLA., Dec. 19.—1 n re
iT u' nR th . e out^ern Express Company
’ carrying liquor from one point to
' ’ic eI 111 Ntate of Georgia. Judge
in Federal court here, declared
‘><oi no jurisdiction in the case in the
11 wing language:
. ,J“ the consideration of this case, the
question to be met is that of the
.... . r ’ s i ur l‘ s 'liction, and cites in support
‘ ' ,' s < ;Om., i l tlon Atlantic Coast Line Itall-
' jiuipany vs. Macon Grocery Com-
L ' .‘ I’ederul reports, 806. satin. Mi.-
'■ruviry Company vs. Atlantic Const
Continued on Page Two,
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit-GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use For Results
. Have a Care! That Fair
| Damsel on Whom You
Smile May Be a Cop
i Policeman. Wearing Hobble and
'Store Hair.” to Trap Mash
ers and Purse-Grabbers.
U. ware, mashers and Christmas purse
snatchers!
The next pretty girl on whom you be
stow a sly smile or wink, or whose
purse you grab may seige you roughly
by the shoulder, slap a pair of steel
bracelets on your wrists, and send you
I on a quick trip in the “hurry-up" auto
jto the police station. For the “pretty
! girl," in that ease, will be a police.offi
cer, “made up."
It’s a plan, new to Atlanta, adopted by
Police Chief Beavers to put an end to
these two nuisances—mashers and
purse snatchers—both of which species
are especially conspicuous at this sea
i son of the year, in tile throngs of
' Christmas shoppers.
One of the youngest, best looking,
fairest and pinkest cheeked officers of
the police force will be dressed up in
the latest feminine finery—hobble
skirt, false hair, and all—and will be
sent out through crowded Whitehall
Peachtree and other down-town thos
' oughfares to tempt possible mashers
I and thieves.
The "young wM/inan" will carelessly
swing the customary handbag, which
always brings joy to the heart of the
purse snatcher, and will give him every
opportunity for a grab. And then,
when the grab is made, the denouement
promises to be spectacular, as well as
surprising.
There may be mon than one mas
querader. too. The chief so far has de
termined on but one, but he is consid
ering th” advisability of putting out a
special squads of “alluring beauties.”
The chief has not made the selec
tion of his first, female impersonator,
but he has several likely young police
men tn view, and is carefully weighing
their respective “feminine qualities.”
STOCKHOLDERS ASK
RECEIVER BE NAMED
FOR MINE COMPANY
•J. C. Williams. Mrs. J. C. Williams,
R. A. Cason and S. Y. Pierce, stock
holders, who say they control 17,737
shares or a majority of the stock of
the CoosY Creek Power and Mining
Company of Union county, filed suit
for a receiver for the concern in supe
rior court today. The stockholders also
■ asked for an injunction restraining
| John D. Dickson, president, and G. G.
I McCranle, secretary and treasurer,
from disposing of the company’s as
sets.
The petitioners alleged that assets
listed as worth $16,295 are in reality
worth but SI,OOO. They assert that the
Guarantee Bank and Trust Company of
Atlanta is about to bring suit to recover
$4,000. McCranle. it Is maintained, on
one occasion collected $4,000 and made
no accounting of it.
Judge Pendleton granted the peti
tioners a temporary- restraining order
and set the hearing for January 2.
LITTLETON LOSES IN
ELECTION CONTEST
FOR MAYOR’S OFFICE
AUGUSTA, GA., Dec. 19.—The demur
, rer in the Hayne-Littleton mayoralty con
test, by which the Hayne forces offered
to vindicate themselves of the charges of
fraud filed by the followers of Dr. .1. R.
Littleton, was ordered sustained by Or
dinary A. L. Walton today, who ruled
. that the notice of the contest, petition
and amended petitions filed by Dr. Little
ton in the contested mayoralty election
case be dismissed. The attorneys rep
resenting Dr. Littleton consider this de
cision final and deem it unnecessary to
attempt an appeal.
William H. Fleming, one of the attor
> neys for Dr. Littleton, said today that Or
dinary Walton had rendered the decision
I because of the lack of legislation, and
there seemed to be no appeal to the find
ing. He further declared that it was a
1 great pity that some higher court could
not correct the errors of the lower court.
Mr. Fleming said that, with the evidence
• before him, he felt assured that Dr. Lit
tieton had been “swindled out of the
election.”
CUT TWO APPENDIXES
OUT FOR PRICE OF ONE
i SCRANTON, PA.. Dee. 19.—Two ap
' pendixes were removed from R. A.
I Spangenberg. of this city, who now is
recovering at Ills home. The case is
said to be unprecedented. At the Hah
nemann hospital Spanginberg was op
! erated on for acute appendicitis. When
I the incision for the first appendix had
I been made and as the surgeons were
I about to remove it they discovered the
second, about three-quarters of an inch
I from the first. They made no extra
charge for removing the second appen
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GIRLS. AGAINST SUFFRAGE.
TO OPPOSE BOY DEBATERS
ROME. GA., Dec. 19.—Three pretty
girls and three buys of the Rome High
school tomorrow will debate the ques
-1 tion. “Resolved, Thai women should be
' allowed to vote." But the boys are go
-1 ing to contend that the fair sex should
' be granted suffrage and the girls are
going to argue that woman is unwilling to
1 I have this responsibllty shoved upon her.
GOLD BANDS ON HEELS.
PARIS. Dec. 19.—Narrow gold bands
on the b"«.-l. "t milady'.- shoes is the
latest 1-Tencli fashion fad. the first be
ing seen at the closing day of the 1912
racing at Auteui!
ATLANTA, GA.. THURSDAY. DECEMBER T 9, 1912.
ffIUHTHIfI
m urns
(Bi.m
PLEIDS
Oscar Bowers, Age 16. Caught
in an Attempt to Burglarize
House. Is Penitent.
TAKEN AFTER REVOLVER
CHASE THROUGH STREETS
Lad Fined for Cutting Affray
Declares Professional Crook
Asked for Aid.
’
Oscar Bowers, 16 years old, of 154
Greenwich avenue, is locked up at po
lice headquarters on a charge of at
tempting to rob a grocery store at 240
Edgewood avenue early this morning.
An accomplice in the attempted rob
bery escaped.
“I needed a little Christinas money,
so I attempted the job,” said Bocvers at
police headquarters. “I ought to be
kicked for trying it,” he said, "but I
quit my job a week ago, and was hard
up.”
Bowers was caught in an exciting
! chase, during which several shots were
: filed by Plainclothes Officers Newport
| and Smead, and in which Bowers fought
| off several street car motormen and
conductors who joined in the chase at
the Piedmont avenue car barns.
Shots Fired in
Chase After Boy.
Officers Newport and Smead were
near the Edgewood avenue grocery
when they heard a window crash in
front of a brick thrown by Bowers nr
his accomplice. They hurried to the
grocery, and saw Bowers and the /Oth
er man across the street.
The two men ran in opposite direc
tions when the officers approached.
Bowers was chafed, and several shots
were fired at him. The shots attract
ed other plainclothes officers and street
car men who had just left their cars at
the barns. The latter joined in the
chase, caught Bowers, and were having
a hard tussle with him when the offl
. cers placed him under arrest.
Bowers, who only recently was fined
$125 by Judge Roan, In the criminal
court, for an attack with a knife upon
R. J. Dunaway, a salesman for the
Vecht Piano Company, in the Temple
Court building, said he gave up a job
with the Royal Typewriter Company a
week ago and needed Christmas money.
Burglar Asked
Him for Help.
He said he was standing at the cor
ner of Broad and Marietta streets yes
terday afternoon when a man ap
proached and began talking with him.
“The man said he was a professional
burglar from Jacksonville, Fla.," said
Bowers, “and he asked me if I would
not help him pull off a job last night.
“I didn't have a cent for Christmas,
and didnt’ have a job. I agreed to help
in the robbery, and now I know 1 ought
to be kicked for it.”
RECORDER REDUCES
MAN’S FINE SO TOTS
CAN HAVE XMAS TOYS
When A. J. Walker, a deputy state
game warden, was fined $10.75 today- by
Recorder Broyles on the charge of curs
| ing a Decatur street merchant, Mrs.
• Walker, with tears streaming down her
face, pleaded with the recorder to reduce
j the fine.
“Judge, please don’t make him pay that
fine- L y >u do it’ll take Christmas away
from my little children,” begged the weep
; ing wife. “Please, judge, reduce the fine
i for mj sake and the sake of my little
I children.”
Touched by the pleadings of the worn
' an, and, with a vision of little tots crying
i because Santa Claus forgot to visit them,
, the recorder reached for his eraser and
vigorously scratching on his docket,
wiped out the $10.75 and substituted $5.75.
Thanking the judge profusely, Mrs.
Walker hurried downstairs and paid the
fine.
W alker, who lives at 33 Lampkin street,
' denied he had cursed the merchant.
CORONER CALLED TO HOLD
INQUEST OVER DEAD MULE
ROME, GA., Dec. 19.—A dead mule
found on the lot adjoining the county
court house is surrounded by mystery
and for the first time in the history of
the county, and perhaps the state and
country, a coroner has been called upon
to investigate.
Although the dead animal was found
|on a lot belonging to the county, Sheriff
Dunehoo thought that the city should
remove it. H« conferred with Sanitary
Inspector Bryan and this official dis
agreed ttith ■r, sberifi'. Thereupon
both oth* e:> deeh.ed to let the coroner
’investigate and settle the issue.
(11l UPHELD
IS KOI
LOMU
CLUBS
Judge Pendleton Declares It Is
Not for Court to Go Back of
Atlanta Officials.
MYSTIC KNIGHTS NOT
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
Sweeping Investigation of the
Places on Probation To Be
Made Following Victory.
Declaring that it was his intention to
hold that the Knights of the Mystic Ari:
was not a bona fide social club. Supe
rior Judge Pendleton brought the first
of the club suits under the city's- new i
ordinance to an abrupt -lose today.
Upon the jurist’s declaration, attorney.'
for the club requested a sui leejens.
and. being denied, voluntarily dismissed
the suit.
Three similar suits ate tiding be
fore Judge Pendleton and will t,.- put
on trial tomorrow. These suits were
brought by the Bees, the Southern and
the Georgia Athletic clubs at the same
time the Mystic Ark organization went
into court. All four suits allege prac
tically the same things.
The court action means that the city
can close the doors of the Knights of
the Mystic Ark. for the club, denied a
permit by the city council, was operat
ing under a temporary Injanctlun
granted by Judge Hendiettm io t> to
.ber. aiOts wVtM -HHd.
Upholds Power
Os City Officials.
The judge interrupted the argument
in the case today by declaring that he
would hold that tbe club was not t
bona fide social organization.
“Even if the court <•!<! not hold this,"
said Judge Pendleton, “ther- is nothing
in the evidence that would warrant a
Judge in going back of the judgment of
the mayor and city eoun-U in holding
that this elub was not a bona fide so
cial organization. It would have to be
proved that fraud or oppression had
been exercised by the city authorities
In denying the club a permit. This has
not been done and there is nothing in
the evidence to show It.”
Gober & Jackson, attorneys for the
club, asked at once for a supercedeas,
but the court denied it.
Thorough Probe
Now Scheduled.
“I will ask the court then to take an
order dismissing the action." said Judge
Gober.
In addition to the four clubs denied a
permit outright by the city council this
fall, several local clubs are In the pro
bation class. The city council has not
acted finally upon their cases.
It made public today that the police
committee of council-would on Janua y
1 make a complete Investigation of
locker clubs, especially those now on
probation.
WIFE REBELS WHEN
FORCED TO LIVE IN
WILDS OF ARKANSAS
" ■
To be required to live in the wilds of
; the state of Arkansas proved disastrous
Ito the marital happiness of Mr. and Mrs.
'J. H. Dooley, according to the divorce
action instituted by Mrs. Laura Dooley
today.
Mrs. Dooley asserted that she was <»f a
confiding and tender nature and had ex-
I illicit confidence in her husband and his
i actions. She said "he was d’sillusioned in
| Arkansas and Dooley finally deserted her
| in that state.
I
• Send Your Old Toys •
• To the Poor Kiddies •
• Now that your Christmas shop •
• ping has filled your hiding places •
• with biand new toys for your lit- •
• tie folks', why not gather up the •
• last year’s dolls and wagons and •
• building blocks the children have •
• discarded and send them to The ■*
• Georgian for other children not so •
• fortunate as yours? •
• Surely there are toysWcattered •
• about your nursery which would •
• be as good as neyv to some little •
• boy or girl in Atlanta. The Christ- •
• mas Editor will see that they go •
• where they will be appreciated. •
• Look over your home and see •
• what you have. Don’t send toys •
• broken thi •
• Chool •
• new” for practical purpo.es, iin •
• lr some of th' paint is oft •
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Wood s Visit Crucial Point in Brigade Post Move
ARMY HEAD CITY’S GUEST
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(ien. Leonard Wood, from pho
tograph taken in Al Jania recently.
GUNN j® S 5
ffIMRIDE
Farmer Who Failed to Get
Wedding Fund from Governor
Is Happy Anyway.
A. J. Gunn, of McDonough, Henry
county, who last week wrote Governor
Brown a “touching” appeal for $5,
wherewith he might purchase a mar
riage license and come to Atlanta to
claim his promised bride, came to At
lanta anyway today and got his bride,
notwithstanding the fai t that the gov
' ernor failed to respond to the re
quest.
Gunn arrived in Atlanta's midst this
morning and was joined in awful wed
. lock to Mrs. Nancy Bell by Justice < >rr
—and he gave the justice an entire
half-dollar for putting the ceremony
• across.
Gunn didn't explain how li. manngi'd
1 to get the remaining $4.50 which he
told the governor he needed to get the
wedding bells going, but he hail it. At
least, he had tile 50 cents he paid the
Justice and $1.75 in addition, which
went for a license.
Besides, he and Ills bride didn't walk
back home after the ceremony.
Gunn is a farmer, who gavi liis age
as 42. His bride gave l.er age as 45,
unblushingly and without a stammer
or an instant of hesitation.
Gunn wrote the governor last week
that he needed $5 to get the license
and the bride, ami he told the. execu
tive a moving tale of how misfortune
had pursued him to the extent of mak
ing his wedding an Idle Un-am, unless
somebody came to tlie scratch with $5.
Somebody did come, it seems, for
Gunn got both the license and tlie
bride and he expressed himself as
' mightily satisfied with the situation,
.'.in if the m ' i-ssart coin did not come
from Governor Brown and the state
' | house officers.
>
, MERCER MEN TO MEET.
J More than enty neinTSt s< 1 the
, University eitsß who are Mercer unl
, versity men will hold their regular
i monthly social meeting at the club
• I bouse tonight, at 8:39 o'clock.
Noted Warrior To Be Principal
Speaker at an Elaborate
Banquet Tonight.
When Major General Leonard Wood,
chief of staff of the United States army,
leaves Atlanta tomorrow afternoon At
lanta will have either won or lost the
first decisive move toward obtaining
for this city a brigade post which will
bring several million dolin's annually.
General Wood’s recommendation will
have much to do with the action of
congress in establishing a brigade post
in the South.
Atlanta will do all in Iter power to
show tlie army chief that tills city is
located ideally for such a post, and
from the time he arrives this afternoon
at 4:30 o’clock ovei the Seaboard until
he leaves tomorrow every effort will be
made to prove this to him.
General Wood and General E. M.
Weaver and Colonel E. St. John Greble,
two field chlefi' who aceompn ny him,
will be entertained and have facts
thrust upon them from every angle
They will be met at the station by a
reception committee Loaded by John E.
Murphy ami taken to the Georgian Ti ■-
race, wher I hey will stay during their
sojourn in the city.
Tonight there will lie one of the
most elaborate banquets ever given at
the Capita l city club. Gem i Wood
is to be in piincipai "peak. ••. tlie
evening, and the batiqu. . given In
answer to his wish to talk to Atlaiitans
about tile army. What General Wood
will have to say about tlie b Igaib- post
Is not known, but, as he was educated
at Tech, it is hoped that he wilt be
favorably inclined toward this city
Wilmer 1., Moon' wili preside and Gov
ernor Brown will speak.
Tomorrow morning tlie students at
Tech will hear a speech from the fa
mous war leadei who once was a h-ader
on the football field of that school.
General Wood will go to the school
after taking breakfast with General
Robert K. Evans and Colonel c. H.
Barth .at Geneial Evans’ residence on
Peachtree street.
JOHN D. BUYS S4OO
RED CROSS STAMPS
NEW YORK, Dee. 19. John H.
Rockefeller has purchased S4OO wortli
of Red t'ross seals and other indlvid
uai. as well as business concerns have
addtd to the Red Cross fund by liberal
purchases. More than $!0,o00 has al
ready been taken in at the Red Cross
likuui narl•
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EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
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IMPOSSIBLE,
DEMES
MORGAN
Concentrate All You’re Able.
You Can’t Control Finances.
He Tells Probers.
STEEL CORPORATION IS
HIS SERVANT. HE SAYS
Deposits in His Bank Total
$160,000,000: Five Million
Stock in Vault Negligible.
WASHINGTON. I> v. 19.—That there
ett-.t be no sum tiling m a money trust
was emphatically told to the Pujo mon
ey trust committee of the house today
I by John I’ierjont Morgan, financier,
' banker ami power of Wall Street, whom
* the committee hud summoned to give
his story of the itisldi operation!-, of
i America’s financial center.
"If you concentrated all the money in
(’hristendom,” the financier told Coun
sel Untermeyer, emphasizing his words
' with quick, nervous movements of his
hands, "you would not have control.
No on. man can control all the money,
all the banks, or all the credit. Money
is the om- thing in which you can’t
have a trust."
Morgan said tlie deposits of his firm
amounted to about-one hundred million
dollars. This figure is only about twen
ty million dollars in excess of the
amount which interstate corporations
have on deposit there.
‘‘Control of Directors”
Not Improper.”
Tlie witness saw nothing improper In
creating toting trusteeships to control
boards of directors. He insisted that,
.-ven under such conditions, the direc
tors maintain their independence.
The financier explained to tlie com
mittee that the pre; ent spirit of finan
cial paternalism exists because stock
■ holders neglect their duties. He said
I (here was no harm In having the same
| <iit- ctors or boards partly the same, be
i-ause the directors did not know the
actual business of the banks.
“Then they are mere figureheads?”
inquired Untermeyer.
The banker modestly denied that he
was the boss of J. P. Morgan & Co.
The firm, lie said, did lots of things
without wafting for his approval. But
lie did not say that lie was a figure
head. In dealing with his holdings in
the First National hank and 'he Na
tional Bank of Cotnnieri-e. Air Morgan
indicated that he did not think one mil
lion or even five million dollars ’vas a
big blot I. of stock. Hi .ai 1 he quite
disregarded it.
] Admits He Is Master
•Os Steel Trust.”
That lie virtually dictated the direc
torship of the Steel Trust, and that the
directors were responsible to him, was
admitted by Air. Morgan.
"Did yon determine who should go on
the directors of the United States Steel
Uorpurition uni who should not'. ' ho
was ask' d.
"I probably said who was to lay
I off," was th' reply. ‘ I will ray.” added
I ihe banker, ''that nobody went on the
1 board without my approval. They
were all responsible to me.'
“Did you fix th prle<-s at which the
subsidiary firm.- can into ttie Steel
Corporation?" was asaed.
“I t pprovetl them," he answered.
“Who put .Mr. l-’ri.-k on the finance
cnmrnitti "
“1 did, I suppo.-c,” v.a.s the reply,
j "Who mao-- .1. I’. Morgan & Co. de
' | isitory of th'- Steel Trust?”
“1 gm - I did, ex-offh to,” he ad
j rnltted.
SIOO 000.000 Deposits
In His Bonks.
When .Morgan took the stand
nt 10:30 o’clock this morning
Samuel Untermeyer, the comnjlt
j tee's counsel. I" t to question him
| about the total deposits of the firm of
; 1 P. Morgan & Co. Untermeyer al
' ready had developed that interstate cor
i;•■•rations carried deposits In Morgan’s
bank totalling nearly $100,000,000. The
purpose was to show that this private
Institution had great sums on deposit
that were entirely outside the scope of
national supervision and largely be
yond the power of legislation by the
Ne v York state authorities.
By Air. Untermeyer: Can you give
tn< committee the total deposits in
your hands on November 1?
A. I haven't it here.
Q. You have told of $81,000,000 of
interstate corporation deposits, how
much more is there?
A. Oh, about $20,000,000; about SIOO,-
900,000 in all.
i Morgan said members of his firm
wer« til vetqrs In some of the inter-