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THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight and Wed nesday. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 34 degrees; 10 a. m.. 36 degrees: 12 noon. 40 degrees; 2 p. m., 43 degrees. VOL. XL NO. 122. INTRASTATE SHIPMENTS OFLIOUOR REFUSED Southern Express Company Tells Georgia Agents Not to Accept Consignments. ORDER OF U. S. COURT IS OBSERVED STRICTLY Jacksonville and Chattanooga Merchants Reap All of the Christmas Harvest. Wholesale liquor dealers, said io be operating in various Georgia cities, are vie today, enviously watching Jack -onvllle and Chattanooga merchants monopolize the much- prized Georgia ■ 'hristmas trade. A recent injunction granted in favor ,f the Jacksonville dealers by United States Judge John M. Cheney, order ing the Southern Express Company to refuse liquor shipments from Georgia dealers consigned to Georgia points, has crimped all plans for a Christmas cleanup. Complying with the order of the Fed eral court, General Manager John B. Hockday, of the Southern Express Com pany, lias Issued orders to all Georgia •gents to refuse liquor shipments con signed anywhere in the state. Geor gia, as far as the state dealers are con cerned, is as dry as a bone. Georgia Dealers Completely Shut Out. Whether Judge Cheney’s eleventh pour injunction has caused a falling off of liquor shipments over Georgia is a matter of conjecture. Express compa ny officials are authority for the state ment that there is no way of deter mining the weight of the traffic at this “ason. especially this early. But the JacksonviUians in the West Bay street liquor section, with their bill and their theory about their property right to a monopoly of the Georgia busi ness. because of this state's prohibition law, have shut the Georgia dealers out f tlie killing completely. Southern Express officials said today r.i'.t the general traffic in Atlanta was heaviest in years, but that it was ving more rapidly than usual. This, • y ar; •< fifing t’o admit, is due to the u<- .- ' xpi ess company system, designed n. ordered into effect in September by interstate commerce commission. •This is the first Christmas business . bo handled under the new system, . liieh Is uniform throughout the tvhole ountry. and operates alike on every •xpress company. People Take to Nev/ System Quickly. The system is simplicity itself, and s marked success in aiding the pub end the express companies in han dling the Christmas rush is said to be due primarily to the fact that it is uniform. Under orders of the interstate cotn c'l, ~ commission, all collect pack s are required to be stamped with lit'- labels, and a duplicate of the yblll, also white, pasted on the pack «e Prepaid packages are stamped a. yellow label, and the waybill on " paid package is yellow. Local express officials are enthusias ovc ■ the system, and they say they H getting away the bulk of Atlanta’s business this year with unusual dis patch. According to estimates given, 90 to wagons are being operated in At •'* to handle the business from the 11 ’ > in the Terminal station. I'tuple are becoming educated rapid to the new system,” said one offi "Thls idea of initiating them, so ’ K )>eak, into the working of the ex- • companies has greatly facilitated " company’s work. They know what ” d‘> now, and explanations and much i one are saved. There are less incor tly directed packages than usual. 100.” I $1,000,000 ROOM FOR MRS. WIDENER IN VILLA AT NEWPORT NEW YORK. Dee. 24.—The American 'ft News. Just out. says that an art h m of this city and London has re-j wed a commission to arrange an en-1 room decorated with panels by the i tlst Boucher in' the Newport home of '■ s. George W. Widener. 1 he cost of the room is put at sl.- •'OO and it will be a feaeure of the 'OO,OOO villa, for wrtlch ground has ’ “ broken. Hr. Whlener, who was a Titanic vie upproved the plans for the house “fore his death. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit--GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use For Results ••••••••••••••••••••»•»«*» : ‘Lovely Day/ Official j : Forecast for Xmas: • Lapsing into the language of • | • the common people, the weather • • man declared that Atlanta will • | • have a “lovely day” tomorrow. It • I i • is not often that the weather man • j • speaks thus. Usually he talks of • ] I • highs and ‘ lows" and climatic • • and meteorological conditions. • • Tomorrow will be even lovelier • • than today, he declares. He ex- • , • plains this promise by the fact • , • that the smoke of the factory dis- • • trict will be cut off, and the skies • • will be clear enough to inspire • • poets to rhapsody. It will be no • • colder than today. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Miss Lucy Hoke Smith Loses $5,000 Brooch At Navy Yard Dance Georgia Senator’s Daughter Tells Police She Thinks Diamond Pin Was Stolen. J WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Miss Lucy j Hoke Smith, daughter of Senator Hoke | Smith, of Georgia, today reported to the police the loss of a horseshoe brooch containing 30 diamonds and valued at $5,000. ' Mirs Smith says she lost the brooch at ! the navy yard dance last Saturday night. It is believed the gem was stolen and ’ Miss Smith spent several days in personal 1 detective work before she took her fath er’s advice ami reported her loss to the police today. Miss Smith is one of the season’s de butantes and as the navy yard dance is one of the chief society events in the capital, the loss of the brooch has cre ’ ated a stir in the smart set. EDOUARD DETAILLE, FAMOUS PAINTER OF WAR SCENES, DEAD PARIS, Dec. 24.—Edouard Detaille, the famous military painter, died here late last night, at the age of 64 years. He was known as the military artist because his greatest paintings had been those of military subjects. He saw > service in the Franco-Prussian war, in order to secure the real atmosphere of . conflict. His “Le Regiment Qui Passe (Tho Passing of the Regiment)’’ brought him : fame, as did “The March of the Ar tillery of the Guard.” Other famous paintings by him were "En Reconnaisance," 18’5. and “Salut Aux Blesses," 1877. Among his portrait works he painted the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Connaught, the emperor of Russia and many other notables. He was born in Paris October 5, 1848, and was the most distinguished pupil , of Mesisioniere, who noted his wonder i ful ability when still a lad. EMPLOYERS MUST PROVIDE SEATS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS H. M. Stanley, commissioner of com merce and labor, has made a very im portant ruling of Interest to all mer cantile, manufacturing and mechanical establishments employing women and girls. He holds that under section 3150 of the civil code and section 130 of the penal code, suitable seats must be pro vided for all female employees in all mercantile, manufacturing and mechan ical establishments in Georgia, and their use permitted when such females are not necessarily engaged In the duties for which they were employed. Commissioner Stanley rules that al though there happens to be a seat the female employee might use—for ex ample, seats for customers In mercan tile establishments —this would not be a compliance with the sections cited, but that seats must be especially provided for all female employees. 4 VASSAR GIRLS TAKE I BABY BOY TO MOTHER AT CHRISTMAS TIME CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-—John Williams, six months old, accompanied by four young ladies from Vassar college, passed through Chicago today on his way to Minneapolis. John Is going to pay a Christmas visit to his mother. The mother, Mrs. John Williams, was compelled to allow the baby to go to a , state home at Albany, N. Y. She has j employment In Minneapolis and sent I for the child. She had no money to , I pay railroad fare and her request was ; refused until the four college girls' heard of the case and determined to > bring the baby with them. CHILDREN, SENDING LETTERS TO SANTA IN FLUE, BURN BABY LOUISVILLE. KY. Dec. 24.—Left alone by their mother while she did Christmas shopping this morning, Mar garet and Russell Sehubnell, aged five and seven, were sending letters up the chimney to Santa I laus, when they set fire to the baby buggy containing their eleven-months-old sister. The bugg.v was consumed and the infant burned to a <;riu» TURNEHAGAIN DEFIES CITY COUNCIL IN LIGHTWAR Declares He Did Mot Infer j Grafting —Reiterates Charge I of ■‘Undue Influence.” ACCUSED BODY CONVENES MEETING TO ARRAIGN HIM Electrician Asserts He Is Will- j ing to Face Men Who Have Branded Him "Liar.” i Facing an investigation anil possibly; impeachment by the general council. I City Electrician It. C. Turner today de- • fiantly declared that several member.-'; of council owed him an apology so: calling him a liar. “They should have asked me to ex- ! plain what I meant by my eommunlea- I tion to council before jumping up and I denouncing me,” he said. "I did not mean that they had been i grafting when I said .that they had ' been ‘seen.’ "I did mean that undue influence had been brought to beat on them. Thinks Several are Disqualified to Serve. “As a matter of fact. 1 think several members of the committee are disqual ified to serve on it. -While I did not, call any names in my communication, the affiliations of some of the members of the committee with the Georgia Rail way and Power Company are obvious. “The brother of Aiderman John S. Candler L one u. iij< d.re.io! - “A number of the directors were ac tive in behalf of Aldine Chambers for mayor. He. naturally feels under obli- . gations to them. “J. C. Rushin, of the Atlanta Gas Light Company, a subsidiary company, was one of the principal supporters of Orville H. Hall for council. “Councilman Claude C. Mason has al ways been opposed to me. He had the regulation of gas put under the city smoke inspector to keep me from hav ing anything to do with It.” Declares McClelland Owes Him Apology. Aiderman John E. McClelland was the only member of‘ the committee Electrician Turner did not say was dis qualified. But as Aiderman McClelland had denounced him as a liar, he said the aiderman owed him an apology. Mr. Turner concluded by saying that he did not "yet feel that he owed coun cil an apology” for charging that mem bers of the council electric lights com mittee were favoring the new street lighting contract because of the desires of the president of the Georgia Railway and Power Company, and “that their conduct indicated that they had been seen.” Members of council won’t apologize. They are much aroused over the charges and have announced that they will seel; to impeach Turner, He is certain to undergo a gruelling cross-examination, for no member of council has shown a disposition to defend him. The members of the electric lights committee were anxious to go into the Investigation yesterday afternoon, but the city electrician could not be found. Council then voted to meet as a com mittee of the whole this afternoon, and the marshal was instructed to have j Turner present. Willing To Go Before Council. Turner said today that he would go before the body In response to a mere request, adding that it would not take legal force to produce him. It w ill be one of the liveliest sessions ; that Council has held in a long time, for all the members of council are of fended at the accusations, and they are united on a plan to prove the city elec- ! triclan a “liar and a faker,” according I j to Councilman Claude C. Mason. I Aiderman John E. McClelland, chair- ' I man of the electric lights committee,; i said that Turner's charges were the j i “dirtiest, filthiest lies lie had everj heard." N. The contract with the electric com- j I pany for the street lighting is as yet I unacted upon by council. It will be j considered at the next meeting, and.! with the favorable report of the elec- I trie lights committee, there is no doubt ! that it will be adopted $4,884 ON DRUNKEN MAN SHOCK FOR POLICEMAN JERSEY CITY N. J.. Dec. 24. -Pa-j trolman Fayer almost died of shock when he discovered $4,884 on tin- pi r son of David O’Keefe, retired butcher, whom lie found lying in a stupor and who is in Jail charged > T'h intoxica tion. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1912. Christmas Editor Santa Claus to 600 Poor Kiddies MOTHERS ALSO REMEMBERED TOMORROW! .A lil ZjEr Z S i “•'fW S; i i M S' 1 I \ ■ ■* N, 9 V« // \ \ /1 \\ > // \ / ♦ •// \\ /■ JBk v ' <“W / / \ .. . ■ . 'itiii'rr'ftrr’jwlWll t‘ z :. , X'"/ —- .1 %W\ WATSON TO SUSPEND PUBLICATION OF HIS j “PROGRESSIVE” PAPER Through his son, J. D. Watson, Thom as E. Watson announces the suspen sion, with the current issue, of his weekly newspaper, The Progressive Democrat, published at Thomson The venture was launched some 18 , months ago, but has been a growing ( financial burden upon Mr. Watson since ( its first issue. The editor says, more- ( over, that it has been extremely diffi- j cult to keep The Progressive Democrat , from lapping over Into the field of an- , other Watson publication. The Jeffer- | sonian Weekly. , Mr. Watson announced some time , ago his intention of coming to Atlanta j to start a morning daily, and it may be that the suspension of The Progressive | Democrat is a step in that direction. | The impression, however, is that it was 1 suspended merely because it lias been a I pronounced financial failure and a drag i upon the other Watson periodicals. MEAT INSPECTION J SERVICE ESCAPES CONGRESS PROBE WASHINGTON. Dec. 24. —The house | committee on expenditures in the de- , ' partment of agriculture has decided not ] j to investigate alleged irregularities in < the Federal meat inspection service, i which, it was charged, grew out of fa voritism to the packers. ( It ha? been decided that evidence < ; produced at. the spectaular hearings last » 1 summer, when the Rev. Caroline Bart- ’ i letc Crane gave sensational testimony, > I is not sufficient to warrant another in- 1 Iquiry. ' t ALLEGED EMBEZZLER , RETURNED TO ATLANTA > t J. D. Adams, former bookkeeper for , the Dougherty-Little-Redwine Compa- < ny. recently indicted by the Fulton j grand jury on three counts charging f larceny after trust, was brought to At lanta. today from Sibley, Texas, by Dep uty Sheriff Plennle Miner. Adams is ■ • charged with having embezzled some t $350 of the company’s funds. 1 “VINEGAR KING’’ MOURNS BRIDE. , POUGHKEEPSIE. N. Y„ Dei-. 24. , Stephen Scott, tin “vim-gar king," to- , day is disconsolate over t ie continued ( absence of hie ninetecn-year-old bride, •< huii In married Ins summer. Pathetic Scenes as Gift Pack ages Are Given to Parents at Office of The Georgian. A line of women stretching from the second floor down the stairs to the street thronged The Georgian office early today. Mothers with bent shoul ders and wrinkled cheeks, shivering even on a mild Christmas eve like this because their clothing is worn thin; women whose dull life of toil and hard ship has not driven out the mother love; they came Intent on bearing home the packages of toys and garments the Christmas Editor had promised them for their children. For ten days the good people of At lanta had been pouring their contri butions into the Empty Stocking Fund. For a week the Christmas Editor and his volunteer assistants had been shopping and packing. And when the fund was closed and all the money counted, it was found that enougli had been received to give 600 t bildren a package of shoes and clothing and a big bag of toys and fruit. $2 Bill For Each Mother. And more than this, there was a new two-dollar bill In an envelop- for every mother on the list. Those two-dollar bills helped a lot toward putting a Christmas dinner in the pantry for to-, morrow. With the assistance of the Associated Charities, which made up tile list of children in need of help and which aid ed In delivering the gifts when delivery was necessary, the distribution went on rapidly. In most cases the mothers were sent a note inviting them to call at The Georgian office for a package for the children. The Christmas Editor did not care to humiliate any mother or child by mak ing public delivery of a "charity” pack age. In Home cases, where the mother was unable to call, the gifts were sent out In a plain delivery’ truck with no indication that it came from a public fund. Pathetic Scene in Toy Room. It was a pathetic scene, this line of silent women waiting at the door of the toy room. They clutched their cards tightly in chapped and reddened hands and huddled together in a corner while their packages wen- being looked, up. They seldom spoke among themselves. There was none of the cheery , reckless good fellowship that prevails among Continued on Pane Two. SUES FATHER-IN-LAW FOR $25,000 DAMAGES FOR KILLING HUSBAND DALTON, GA., Dec. 24.—Mrs. Martha Ludie Davis, widow of Hewlett Davis, who was shot and killed by h|s father, A. R. Davis, has brought suit against her husband’s slayer for $25,000 dam ages, the sulf being tiled in the clerk's • office here Monday afternoon, by her • attorneys. W. E. Mann and W. C. Mal tin. In her petition for damages she al . leges that the defendant killed her . husband "without any fault or cause” , on her husband’s part, "and the death , resulted from the crime and criminal and other negligence of defendant." She alleges further that her husband was 30 years of age. in good health and with an earning capacity of $750 per I year, having had a reasonable expect- L ancy of 35 years to live. The suit is returnable to the April [ term of Whitefield superior court. —————— MAKES COFFIN OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS; KILLS SELF IN IT DENVER COLO., Dec. 24.—Kenneth . K. Kane, a railway mail clerk, collect ed packages containing Christmas presents, arranged them in the shape of a coffin on the floor of the kitchen in his home, placed a Christmas card from ■ his sister Miss Bernice Kane, who is 111 In a Chicago hospital, at the head, and lay down inside the casket of gij’t:;. Then he sent a bullet crashing through i his brain. A neighbor found his body. "I am pretty near through with the • whole thing,” Kane told the neighbor several hours before he took his life. > ”1 want to get along with everybody, but it makes me mighty sore when I think of the big crowd my wife has • invited for Christmas dinner. I asked her not to have any one there, so that , we could be by ourselves.” Mrs. Kane returned from a visit out of town today. INMATE OF POORHOUSE 1 GETS $500,000 FORTUNE - ■ - MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Dec. 24.—Word believed by the authorities to be authen tic has come to Charles Drake, an in mate of the county poorhouse, that a rel ative lias left him an estate valued at ’ | nearly a half million dollars. Drake, who Is 5C years -ild. has been a county de | for five yean HOHL IDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE ’’^h’S 0 I (01. JOE NASH TO BEMIDE HEJODF Milllll William G. Obear Will Be Os sered His Old Position of Quartermaster General. CHANGE WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1 Captains Eubanks and Coch ran. Veterans in State Serv ice. May Be Affected. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Van Holt Nash. Jr., of Atlanta, will be appoint ed adjutant general of the state of Georgia on January 1. succeeding the present holder of that state house of fice, General William G. Obear. General Obear will be tendered i old position of quartermaster general by the governor, but will not say whether he will accept the office. Governor Brown is understood to have h.-id Colonel Nash in mind for the adjutant generalship for some time, but for reasons personal to Colonel Nash has delayed the appointment. General Obear is holding his present commission to office from Governor Hoke Smith. Governor Brown did not reappoint General Obear when Govern, or Smith vacated the executive office— the adjutant general holds office at the pleasure of the governor—but permit ted him to continue as adjutant gen eral. under Governor Smith’s commis sion. Governor Smith Combined Offices. Governor Smith, by executive order, had previous!} - combined the office ol adjutant general and quartermaster general, and placed General Obear in charge, relieving the then adjutant gen era,!. A. J. Scott. When the legislature passed an act last summer combining the two offices, the present governor vetoed it. And today it became apparent, in the an nouncement that General Obear was to be offered his former position, some thing of the idea the governor had in mind when iie killed the act. General Obear has been informed of the impending change and proposal with ■■ respect to himself, but declines to sa> what he will do. Colonel Nash and Governor Browi, . have been close friqnds for many year and It long lias been an open secret ii> Georgia military circles that Nash might have been adjutani general lon , ago had he asked for the position. General Obear was appointed on Au gust 7, 1911. The position carries with 1 it the title of brigadier general and chief of staff to the governor, and pays $2,000 per year salary. Both Veterans In State Service. Colonel Nash has been connected with the state military for twenty-odd years and is one of the best known and most popular men in Georgia. He is now a member of the governor’s staff. General Obear Ims served about the same period of time, and has a long record of efficiency. The impending change may afftect the two military clerks now serving tn the adjutant general’s office, Captain Eu banks and Captain Cockran, because they were placed In their present po sitions when the office of quartermaster general practically was suspended by , Governor Spilth’s executive order com blning it with the adjutant generalship ami the salary formerly paid the quar termaster was divided between the twe clerks. If the office of quartermaster is re vived and General Obear accepts it, it may displace entirely Captains Eu banks and Cockran, both of whom live In Atlanta and have been in the mili tary service of the state for years. BLEASEPARDONS’79, INCLUDING SLAYERS, ON CHRISTMAS EVE COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec. 24.—Govern or Blease today gave Christmas pres ents in the nature of pardons or paroles to 79 inmates of the state penitential’} and today the free men are pouring through the doors of the prison. The crimes against the men range all the way from first degree murder down to minor offenses. COAST LINE CHANGES. SAVANNAH, GA. Dee. 24.—0. T Waring, superintendent of the Atlantic Coast Line at Florence. S. C., has been appointed engineer of roadway, with offices at Savannah, succeeding T. S Tutwiler, who has been assigned :■ special duty. The change becomes es fective January 1.