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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. BY PARCELS POST 03' I w ia® fe » /'' A. f‘wßi \ WWSk of ; 1 ZJM 111 ■ ' HI € I i * wiw i! \ I Jr & - -X e toll 'V 7?. 7 ’ 1 ~ FALL OF SCUTARI JGITATLSLNmSi I i : 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. ....... ... * 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