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THE WEATHER
Forecast to Atlanta and Georgia.
Cloudy Tuesday; Wednesday unset
tled. probably local rains.
VOL. XL XO. 128
woodwardi
TO FOLLOW
EXPERT’S
ffIIGE
Mayor-Elect Will Insist on the
Adoption of Some of Sands’
Reform Suggestions.
HEADS OF POLICE AND
PARK BOARDS ANGERED
Criticism of These Departments
Resented—Report Backs Up
The Georgian's Stand.
.d iyu -elect James G. Woodward to
declared that the Sands probe re
sort was full ot excellent ideas for re
t’mtns and that besides urging a care
fa consideration of every item of it by
th- general council, he would insist
upon the adoption of a number of the
-uggestlons.
On the other hand, many of the offi-
• i < s in the city hall bitterly resented
the criticisms.
The report absolutely backs up The
Georgian’s charges of inefficiency on
part of the construction department
and points out that not only a more
nesslike administration is needed,
but that the head of the department
should be appointed instead of electea
\ the people, thereby removing the
department from so much political in
fluence.
Other Reforms Urged
By Georgian Approved.
The Georgian’s editorial suggestions
> >ub-police stations and combining
■” duties of regular policemen and in
!■■ ctors also are concurred in. as well
- the plans to abate the smoke nui
sance and discontinue secret sessions
of the finance committee and other of
ficial bodies.
The time has come when we must
out into effect many such reforms, as
Expert Sands recommends, or the peo
i b will vote commission government,
"iping out the whole present system.”
aid Mayor-elect Woodward. "The sys
•m is inefficient, and everybody in
Atlanta who stops to think knows it.
There will be bitter opposition from
the men affected by these changes. You
•an bank on that. Each is a little czar
into himself now. They can do as they
please, for there is no one to direct
hem or see that they do their duty.
His criticisms of the construction
part ment are very true. That de
partment has done poor work. There
no common sense in having the chiet,
elected by the people: he ought to bt
appointed by the mayor or council.
Shows Mayor Is
Without Authority.
He shows that the mayor is without
luthority. Look at the police depart
ment; there’s proof of that statement.
The chief of police ought to be directly
under the mayor. Police problems are
made the Issues in mayoralty cam
paigns and when a man gets a majority
of the votes for mayor he ought to have
some power over the department.
“With the police commission in con
trol of it he virtually has none.
“I agree with him about the water
department. Its organization is ridicu
lous.
The council apropriates the funds to
operate the department. But council
<an’t say where.a singi* water main |
shall be laid.
“Council elects a cohmiission to run |
the, department. The people then elect I
• general manager to run it. There i
• I'' the mayor and council, the board,
•nd the general manage r. differently I
'‘•l< <‘ted. and. th'd fore, conflicting '
City Needs More Aid
From the County.
The mayor-elect said he did not think
the suggestion to consolidate the city
end county governments hardly was
practical, because so much of th* coun
ty lay outside tor city. He did say that
there was great need for more co-opera- !
ticn between the city and county gov-’
ernments, and especially was there al
general demand for more work by the;
county convicts inside the city.
' There are too many beautiful boule- |
vaids running around our city. Wei
n» • d more paved streets inside the city
in from of the property that pays the
county taxes,” he said.
Chairman Carlop H Mason, of the
police commission, is displeased with
ih< comments of the expert on the po
department
'lt is only ci. .nan’> opinion.’ he
• iid. ’I might empire an expert who
• wild see the police department as en
tirely different--th-, y have, in fact.
got tm h- police depart- i
I
Continued On Page Two.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit--GEORGIAN WANT ADS--Use For Results
Army of Detectives
Wait With Subpenas
For Win. Rockefeller
House Officer Bound to Serve
Oil King's Brother to Pujo
Investigation.
i NEW YORK. Dec. 31. —A small army
!of under Sergeant-at-Arms
<’harles F. Riddell, of the national house
of representatives, and his assistant,
, Richard White, guarded .the town and
country homes of William Rockefeller
i today In an endeavor to serve Mr.;
Rockefeller with a subpena to testify
before the Pujo money trust investigat
ing committee in Washingion.
At Mr. Rockefeller's town house at
11 689 Fifth avenue the detectives divided
| their activities by watching the adjoin
' ing mansions. The houses flanking the
Rockefeller mansion on both sides are
occupied by sons-in-law of the oil mag- '
j nate and the three are known to be
connected by secret passageways
A report was current in the morning ■
that the much wanted witness was
safely secluded upon nis great country
I estate at Tarrytown, but detectives on •
; guard there reported that Rockefeller
had not been seen.
J “It Is now a question.” said Mv. Rid- i
► dell, “whether Mr. Rockefeller is a big- I
> ger man than the United States.* It
• seems to me that it should not be pos- J
i sible for one man to set the government
of this great republic at defiance. More
(over, if Mr. Rockefeller eventually es-
• capes service the power and authority
j of the national house of representatives
1 will fall into disrepute and it will be
I difficult for us to get servic on any
' One in the future.”
121 ATLANTA GREEKS
WILL SAIL FOR HOME
TO HELP FIGHT TURK
. I -
II In response to a call from tlzir na
i tive land for volunteers in the war against
; the Turks, twenty-one young Greek resi-
. dents of \tlanta will leave tomorrow i
i afternoon for New York, where, on Jan
-1 uary 4, they will embark on the steam
- ship Laconia, bound for Greece.
> The party is made up of Greeks from
every part of Atlanta, and is not bound
' into an organization. They will leave At
lanta together, having secured transpor
i tation in a body, but the group will dis
, integrate upon reaching the shores of
, Greece, each member betaking himself to
the detachment representing his native
community.
A call was made by the Greek gov- :
ernment upon the declaration of the war j
with Turkey. The Greeks in America
; who still owed allegiance to the native
• land were given four months grace in i
which to wind up their affairs in this I
, country before leaving. Impatient, how- »
ever, a detachment of 150 left Atlanta
several weeks ago. and those who will ■
; leave Wednesday have yet much respite I
■ left.
Several of the twenty-one who will leave J
Wednesday are American citizens, and
. owe no duty to Greece. Each of the
party will pay his own expenses of trans
portation and subsistence.
WINECOFF HOTEL
PERMIT BRINGS 1912
TOTAL TO $9,970,000
i
A permit to build the Winecoff hotel.
■ at the southwest corner of Peachtree
and Ellis streets, has been issued by
Building Inspector Ed R. Hays. This
; permit was held up a few weeks ago
because the inspector contended that
■ the erection of the structure under the
plans would violate the building ordi
nance. The objection was to a balcony
which would overhang the sidewalk.
This has been eliminated.
Building permits issued up to noon
today brought the total for 1912 up to
within $30.1)00 of the $10,000,000 mark.
Unless some energetic citizen applies
tomorrow for a permit to erect an;
• apartment house, store or fltindsome
■ residence. Atlanta can't get in the sl'i.-
000.000 class.
OVER 539.000,000 TONS
OF COAL MINED IN
AMERICA THIS YEAR
• I
PITTSBURG. Dec. 31. -A record-break -
I ing tonnage, rise in prices anil a big in
|crease in over-seas trade secured by the
I producers in this country, marked the
I progress of the coal industry in the I'nited
I States during the year 1912, according to
ia summary of the coal situation appear
i ing In today’s issue of The Coal Trade
, Bulletin
I During the year closing today, the total
l tonnage for bituminous coal was 157,202,-
1000 and anthracite 82,500.000 tons, total
ling 539,702.000 tons.
! The total in 1911 was 406,188,398. West
Virginia was second and Illinois, third in
I bituminous coal tonnage.
WILSONS ARE INVITED
TO CHICAGO ARABIAN
NIGHTS CHARITY BALL
CHICAGO. Dec. 31. President-elect
j Woodrow Wilson, Mrs Wilson and Miss
’ Wilson have been Invited to attend the
i Arabian Nights charity ball, to be held in
\ Chicago January 10.
i The president-elect is scheduler! to
1 speak in Chicago January 11, and those
lin charge of the ball extended an invl
| tation In the hope that It might be pos
sible to change his plans and arrive a
| day earlier A special box lias been or
dered decorated and reserved, pending the
answer from the New Jersey g werner.
THROWS CAN OF CORN
IN QUARREL: KILLS MAN
MARK El* TREE. \RK . I 31. Wil
liam John and Alex Smith quarreled over
a girl. Johns throw a ran of r*»rn. which
ihii Smith • n in- Id’ii- and killed him
Johns was arrested
1116 SUH
10 IE IM
infill
TERM
Judge Park Not Likely to Call
Special Session of Court,
Despite Petitions.
MRS. KING REFUSES TO
SEE ANY BUT RELATIVES
In Second Confession Woman
Tells of Other Plots to
Kill Her Husband.
iIACOX. GA.. Dee. 31.—Notwith
standing that petitions for a speedy
i trial so. Mrs. Katherine King and Jesse
i Nick Wilburn are in circulation in Jones
1 county, it is not likely that the con
; I'-ssed slayers of James King will heat
j their doom pronounced until the rega
lia ;■ April term of the Jones county it
, ptrior court.
It is stated by those in touch with tin.
situation that Judge James B. Pa '
■ does not favor special terms of couc
i bili-vine two they engender feeling at; I
promote ait unhealthy sentiment, ad
verse to the defendants. No reques
tor a special term of court will route
from Solicitor Joseph E. Pottle, so i.i
otto is ordered, the action will be take,
in response to the petitions now beiiiy
signed at Round Oak. Hillsboro, G it.
■ and Bradleys,
The petitions recite that the killin'.
I of Janies King by Wilburn, as tne ■
' suit of the plotting of Mrs. King
• he worst and foulest crime in the ati
i mil; of Jones county, ami that the gm
I people of the county, condemning sue'
louriag-s. desire that the guilty part:
i shall be given early trials and ih< , >
i vindicated.
Mrs. King Refuses
To See Visitors.
Airs,. King has requested rftteriff Rob
erts to turn away all persons other
than lie relatives who ca l to see her
unless the visitors want to pray with
her 'nd give her spiritual encourage
i ment. Slo' has not seen a single one
; of hi t' relatives since her jail eonfine
! ment. A Bible lias also been furnisheil
her, by urgent request.
The woman is heartbroken at tiie
refusal of her children to visit her, and
today wrote Nina, her sixteen-year-old
daughter and favorite child, begging
her not to forsake her mother.
Sheriff Roberts allows no one to send
Mrs. King articles unless first inspect
ed closely by him. He declines to per
mit food to be given her other than by
himself.
A quart of buttermjlk sent by a wom
an was poured on the ground by him
today.
“I don't know whether anything is in
that milk or not,” he explained
Tells of Poison in
Another Confession.
In another confession to Detective
I Moore last night. Mrs. King admitted
I that sue had put morphine in his coffee.
I but th< poison hardly affected him. A
| second attempt was made when Wil
. burn, at her suggestion, but strychnine
I in tiie husband's whisky, and this failed
i because Mrs, King saved his life with
l.t narcotic. The third attempt, when
l the man was shot with his own gun,
! was successful.
Mrs. King also declared that two
months ago she and Wilburn planned to
i kill King with a pistol, using a weapon
belonging to Prank Wilburn, Nick's
brother. They wet< then to take the
■ discharged cartridge out of the pistol
and put it In King’s revolver to make
lit appear that he committed suicide.
.This piau was never executed because
I ihe could not get King alone, one of
■ the children always being present.
Mr-. King’s second confession shows
■ that tor at least four months she and
1 Wilburn dailj plotted to end the life
I of her husband.
WHITES AND BLACKS
ALIKE MAY BID FOR
JOHNSON PROPERTY
CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Auction of the
Judson C. Sherntan estate at Dake Gen
eva, on which an option was purchased
by Jack Johnson, negro prize fighter,
will be heltl in Geneva Thursday
morning The sale will be conducted in
front qf the property, and whites and
blacks will be given an equal opportunity
to bld.
Shertnan asserted that the members of
j the millionaire colony were trying to
I block tiny sale of the property. He said
be needed cash ami the place would be
sold to the highest bidder. If the mil
lionaires in the neighborhood wanted to
bld against the I>lh' >i. aid they would
I welcome, but tha no laid would be
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1912.
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FALL OF SCUTARI
JGITATLSLNmSi
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: i Real Crisis of Peace Conference
Billed for Resumption of Ne-
I gotiations Tomorrow.
1
LONDON. Dec. 31.—Consternation
was caused among the Turkish peace
’• delegates today by a telegram from
' i Belgrade that Scutari had fallen before
'| a combined attack of Servian.-, and
■ Mont< ttegrlns Reiciiad Pasha, of the
k Ottoman delegation, declared that if
this proved true, it would show ila
'! grant violation of tiie t'hatHlja .irmis
' tice.
1 j Tomorrow will see tin real crisis in
* j the peace conference. Representatives
* ; of tb<* allies declare that if Turkey ron-
I tinues to balk the negotiations, when
* j they are resumed Wednesday, they will
y declare their mission at an n<l an ! ar
1 ! will be resumed.
* '
Situation at
i Durazzo Desperate
I i
r i !
ATHENS, 1 »e<-. 31. A desperate situa-|
, tion has developed at I’urazzo, the \l-|
, banian port, whose seizure by the Serv- ■
lans all but precipitated an European
■ war.
i Dispatches received io<la from Durazzo
state that 800 Servians and captive Turks
‘there are ill and lack medical attention.
, while famine threatens the populace.
' Because of the armistice conditions, aid
I can not be sent to the port by land and
r I the Greek blockade at Avlona prevents
the sending of succor by water.
Word from the scene says that hundreds
5 of soldiers have died from lack of medical
care and from starvation.
1
' FAILED WITH MORE THAN
i $1,000,000 LIABILITIES
ATHENS, GA.. Dec. 31. I'l’t chfil
f ule in the Fair, Boyd & Co.’s failure at
1 Maysville has been filed here with the
J United States deputy clerk ami shows
! that tiie firm and individuals failed
5 with more titan $1,000,000 liabilities and
j but half tha' amount of n<.-' ts. The
e figure'- liabiliti' sl,"39,Jitt.B*. and as
sets. ss'l9 4"0.«K
•Two Loads of Brick •
: Start Parcels Post •
• •
• G\RY. IND., D. ■ :l Pure. I •
j • post' troubles began Iter' oduj •
• when a brick dealer I'umi ■ ■ t •
• v.ugon 'oads of hr,' I :■■ t ■ •
• postofliee to be mailed nut tlm 11,■■■ •
• t ing W< dnesday The bi ii •
• samples •
• •
I NEW YEAR LID TO BE
LIFTED IN CHICAGO;
CLERGY INDIGNANT
CHICAGO, Dec 31. The lid will be
iHteu tonight in Chicago. Protest Hom
300 ministers who marched on the <’ity
hall failed to change the resolution of
Chief of Police McWeeny to allow case
and saloon proprietors to servo guests
who ordered liquors before 1 o’clock
and choose to remain until 3 a. m. to
consume it.
The ministers vore refus d an aufii
ence with Mayor Hn rlson. So indig
i ."nr were many of them thm pla'is for
tin possible impeachmord of tin ' it.' s
chief executive were dis<ussed to<la\ hy
| heads of the various reform organiza-
I tions represented In the parade. Tin idea
jof bringing impeachment pro'-' '-’’iigM
( was first, suggested at a meeting pie
i ceding the parade. Tin ministers held
I that extending tin- closing tinn beyond
‘that fixed by law is sufficient grounds
for the action.
MONEY TO BUY LAND
NEAR RESERVOIRS TO
BE REAPPROPRIATED
While Mayor Winn has vetoed the
resolution of council appropriating $16,-
000 of premium bond money to pur
chase the private land which borders
the city water reservoirs, members of
the water board and the bond commis
sion today prepared to introduce an or
dinance at the next meeting of council
making the money available.
Mayor Winn said he thought th<
I money should be us.-d to pureha < tho
land, especially sima tin- health offi
cers had condemned It as in an Insani
tary condition; but he said he was
forced to veto the resolution because It
was passed without the bond ordinance,
which provided that tin money be spent
for other pttrpos - being rt-pealed. The
new ordinance will amend tie bond
ordinance, legalizing the expenditure.
stiiike nets
CMML NIGHT
’ New York Kitchen Workers
Start Walkout to Cripple the
New Year Eve Festivities.
NEW YORK. D'C. 31. A i.ii,* in
tended to h;t\ ■ it- full < ffvci ut tb
[height of New Yeai's »-v. < -debi u tion
■ | and cripple the big hotels ;<ml rvstitu
-11 rants was start*- ! !•'•)•- today when the
J kitchen help at th< Hotel Impeiini and
[Hollman jiouse walked out. The em
ployees dccla.ed they would ti* up
every hotel and r stauranl unless ib* y
( granted the union's demands.
The strike was plunm-d to have its
greatest effect on what is pm haps the
be.-: night iu the yea so th' hou ls
and '-stamants In all of • mi
vatfon l;ad been mail* !.• |.. ; lies ■• .).»
hoped t" watch tie old \.-.i out ami
the ne\ year in. usina Lotf's a!"
! glass( - as tebx-ope " iih whj«-|i l«>
? pew in o th'- fntm •
Ballotting on a sink* iut - !••• i. aoim
I on in the principal cities between Ik- 1
I and < ‘hicago and strik s have also !»<•» d
, orde.' il for tonight in Rodif Syn,.
‘•'i \lbany and Philadelp iia. Tim
« ad> ; • of the union say they a:* r;u:\
■ IO si iii p ill every big city between X.- ■
York and t’hli ago.
| The hole] workers assert that aft .
th.dr |n-t st- iki the employ..rs f.-iih-d to
I keep j oiuisus upon which the Irmi’dc
was ended.
“U. S. AGAINST 136
CASES CHEESE” IS
TITLE OF THIS SUIT
I 'The I nited Slates Government Against
1.36 <’ases of (Jicosp” is the title of a case
entered by I- Fam. >. ■ 1 States dis
trict attorney, in ih- t '< court this
5 morning A writ of s* . as procured,
■ authorizing th.- government officials to
■ I coikh um 1.36 < ts<s of <-h» «■.-♦ at Athens,
< <-onsigne<j- to a merchant of that eit> by
f Crosby X Meyers, of Nashville. Tenn
A violation of the government regula
Hon ’brough misbranding is alleged. tLe
-peciti' 11ton living that the <a« an?
| under v ( igb.t. Condemnation of the goods
* and probable vriminal proceedings against
the consignor firm will ensue.
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
FITE RENEWS
imCK ON
APPEALS
COUNT
Charges It Changed Recorder
Opinion in Contempt Case
and Calls Judge Falsifier.
JURIST CHALLENGES HILL
TO QUIT BENCH WITH HIM
Declares He Is Within Constitu
tional Rights in Terming the
Tribunal Incompetent.
Jlltiu \\ I'l’t . • nil'
iim i' for coni' ..ID', of couit. todaj re
newed his .iitark on the < l ourt of ap
i".i.: - \ in< H - oHvieied him ('hargihjx
: .ti II had i’h.;nurd publication its
■ e<L .1 o.'ini";•. ..nd d<” iat ing * tb.ai
.I 'dis' 1 l-lil . vvh<> s i in his • use. hn<3 ut-
Z'.ed ;in unirut’n
.1 i I*'ii»' <l< •O'l.iie • - Judup Hill !o
iis it'M'.lx on the man who prosecute I
lh" Xl* ' ’id' • Mssault e:ee which led
.•i ti< » '.n. •: ot iclioii and challenge' s
i. ,iu i - i ••'■'-ign with him inmwdi
\ .a. I- • ; I.tuii ( |. (Vide "who ha
i.au'gid 1 :< jin ««•$;? lobes through th*
i in< of pi isormi Mimm. injustice and
slande:
Tin ini -:* tie • .* i .it he wa? vvith-
■ (•• slilil u! lights hl eviticis
t:u- ,i j I. 'T -h. eoiiri »»f appeai«
< s iri'-fiiipetf ni.
declares Ooinjon
Has Been Changed.
i • I-’ i 'i .it • . iion - ;»R so!-
'TO th* F' 'itie of T' • Georgian:
I ha Ve jiisl 1 ad I lie opinion of
•i <ourt of .ipp' j's’ in their con-
■i }»t < ;i-. again.': published iu
Ti Soin h .kloth Renoiior. volume
■9. No, id I )cef n ib< :\ 1912, which is
-ii'i’u different from the on< deliv-
r« d on the trial,
I would lmv<* 1(1 tiie case re»!
■•ro it was when some of the
■ h.H i oi ■ of the < ’herokee circui:
voluntarih paid the unjust lino, if
ii « oqri of . npeals had let it alone,
is the\ ztould have done.
Hut not satisth-d with what they
.ni ah uiy <; ( .i m the case of
own making, the court of ap
peal have since the trial so
;mged. tak> n from and added tn
• opinion linn delivered and
a.iioh had evidently bi on previous-
P pit pa!••'!. is to make It more
t st If-laudatoi y aiyl political har
.orr, ■ and tirade of oersonal abos<
than a .imii'-ia! opinion, and I will **
not lei it pass wi’hoiit a protest.
Ji dgc Hill Began
Row. Says Fite.
Judge Hill bo r n lids mis' o.n’y
n>\\ l»\ attackiog im* in rhp first
i<Vi ni of im* McCullough »ase, as
out in my mswei to the rule,
nd more, ■ at. my instance.
. - >iii< k: n I"o n the record of
i iai <a •. and of which the people
•)p not l»(vii informed, charging
in substance that I sentenced tiie
mgro ’inmantly” and with intent
to <!t p. i\ him of the right of poll
ing tie jury, which is untrue, libel
ous and .»nd< . ouz and he is now
trying to dodg- responsibility by
•.busing ami dunging me hav
ing begun it.
Rut. iortiin.il' \ for me. what I
nvt -it’d written and in print,
■m z'lat lit-' roan of appeals h.ave
>ai< . ”-o i.- written and in print:
iid i . h. the bar and the peo-
■ ■:• "f <;• oi-;. oil i.i'lg. us by the
acts, and no almso of me by the
• ; I a pp» als a ill help thorn or
hurt me.
Wiiat J’H'g* II I! say* as to the
Simp' <oni mp! i a.*»- in-my < ourt
’intrm and lie vent out of the
record to >uy it. and 1 have nioie
■ atisp to ati.idi fol eoijlCUipt file
judge.- o! the in r; of appeals for
' than Hi. Pad io attach me,
and ha\< mm h autiiority to do
o. as n • ' Oiii’i. like lhl irg, is a
- oii*i i. ution.i ■ ■ ■ . ;>nd ii •> my
duly to ma ini ain i integrity.
Charges Untruth
To Judge Hill.
II rt'ity s ' ni.- to no th;it if. ,>s a
i out t, I .mi hoiinil by their con-
Hruvtion of the li.> in my case, it
is my iluty, ns ;i <’ou.it, to attach
tin ni for what they say a# to my
alleaeil jmllvitil conduct in the
Sliopi ■ .<>•■■. which Is untrue, and. to
■' . -■■ > elvn rly libelous and slan
dorou.-. Tho 11 mb I did not find
im ■,<iilt.. of contempt, nor did
I put him in jail. Imt dismissed the
inlr on tho filing of a proper an
swer by him.
I ."'q' Hili - .itlavk on Mr. Kos.
■r. tin |io ' viiio. in tlm McCul
lough case a man who loved h's
hmm l>i- if. and his children