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THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday. Tempera tures 8 a. m., 32 degrees; 10 a. m„ 36 degrees; 12 noon. 39 degrees; 2 p. m., 41 degrees. 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 dix 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 • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a Wood s Visit Crucial Point in Brigade Post Move ARMY HEAD CITY’S GUEST \ 1 z 7 j | ÜBwY ■ilex / 1 ‘WJ! Ik i la B 8L ■ ? W- M mA* - ; ilai (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• riraiL EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE me™ 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-