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rHE D" TING POP] p’c PR A YFR ™ —iU 1 i VIk 1 J—jX \ “I AM READY!” ION SERIOUS?" K DONE!” THE WEATHER. Forecast—Fair to-night and Thursday; warmer. Temperatures—8 a. m., 50; 1C a m„ 57; 12 m., 64; 2 p. m., 65; sun rise, 5:04; sunset, 6:11. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS- Use For Results HOME EDITION VOL. XI. NO. 218. ATLANTA, <IA„ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.1913. ★ 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p ^° F. SUSSED nr PRESIDENT Nson Discharges Weather Bu- jeau Head Involved in Alleged Political Scandal. AIDES ARE MENTIONED (iHerrmann, Atlanta Forecaster, |ls One of Those Concerned in the Affair. | WASHINGTON, April 16.—Wil- i L. Moore, Chief of the Weath- Bureau, was summarily re- h»ved from office to-day by Lsident Wilson. I Moore's dismissal followed a nference between the President Ird Secretary of Agriculture louston, after which it was an- Itunccd that “the Chief of the | Weather Bureau has been re- ved for serious irregularities.” |Moore's resignation was accept- by President Wilson about |ree weeks ago, but was not to nto effect until July 31. |A successor has not been sp linted. Washington, April i«.—seven- i Weather Bureau officials In as cities tare concerned In the l, al!“srcd by the resolution fot | -ligation introduced in the u Congressman Fowler, of Hearst Flood Relief FundTotals $28,473, With More to Come Newspapers Affiliated With The Georgian Will Collect at Least $30,000. The Hearst newspapers have been able to have a most substantial hand in the work of extending relief to the flood sufferers of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Reports up to yesterday of money raised by the Hearst newspapers put the total at $28,473. It is certain that by the time the fund is closed the amount will reach $30,000. Wilson Sees Clash Over Jap Alien Bill Diplomatic Tangle, Though, Will Make Him Interfere With California's Action. Not lost. If not all, had something to i h the campaign waged by Pro le; Willis L. Moore, chief of the Idler Bureau, for Secretary of Ag- Bture under Wilson, in which, it is toed, Moore used Federal em- lees and money. |r feasor Moore to-day branded the fges against him as “false and Icious.” VonHerrmsnn In Liet. .weather officials concerned are; |.VonHerrman, Atlanta, Ga.; Pro- |or Henry J. Cox, Chicago. Frank ngley, Washington; Professor J. en Smith, Columbus, Ohio; F. J. |t, Louisville, Ky.; A. J. Mitchell, uonville, Fla.; J. F. Voorhees, Vine, Tenn.; Lee A. Denson, Ral ls'. C.; Alfred Thiessen. Salt (City, J. W. Smith, Boston; Har- , Gerin, Columbia, S. C.; George happen, Des Moines, Iowa; Isaac bine, New- Orleans; W. S. Belden, j Joseph, Mo.; Ulysses G. Pursell, 1 Paul, Minn.; Harold G. Noyes, iington, Ky„ and Thorp B. Jen- |s Topeka, Kas. are the men who took part i conference In Atlanta last No- Iber, at which, It is charged. Pro- Moore's candidacy was talked It was at this meeting also, it is |her charged, the* prominent citl of Atlanta o 1 ..ther Southern i vere askea to indorse Moore Report Tolls of Work, kcording to information in Mr. fiefs possession. Mr. VonHerr- p. weather official at Atlanta, ex pel time and energy making prep- lions for the convention at which p for Professor Moore's candidacy worked out and in seeking to |onholc persons lo gel their in- sments for Professor Moore. ! a report which Mr. Fowler will pit, it is said, for instance: ft. C. F. VonHerrmann was un- | to secure from the city of At- or from the State of Georgia |fsvc,ruble recommendations.” tis, if true, indicates Mr. VonHerr- |o spent some time on the task, fh failed. If it were government the may find himself in difficulty the administration. 1 the men who took part in the f'-a meeting, the following are to have received advances in o during the conduct of their campaign; Salary Increases Made Cline, from $2,400 to $3,000; Smith, of Boston, $2,400 to ’ •> Warren Smith, $2,600 to JC J. Mitchell, $2,000 to $2,400; Thiessen, $1,800 to $2,000; L. A. ffn, $1,600 to $1,800; H. O. Gerin. ,0 $1,800; J. F. Voorhees, 11,- *1.800. and G M. Chappell. ' to *1.200. P ‘We many other promotions L* s ° , ' v ice during Moore's cam- F. Ff m any that the funds of the i f ® ureau If" about 0 Meeting expenses. WASHINGTON. April 16.—The Japanese protest against the passage of the California alien land law de livered to the President by Ambassa dor Chinda yesterday formed tile principal topic of discussion at the White House to-dav. The President discussed it with members of the Cabinet. When the alien land bill lias passed both houses and has been signed by Governor Johnson the President will issue a statement addressed to the Japanese Ambassador, in which he is expected to say the Federal Gov ernment does not see that it can in terfere in a State's rights question. this, the President Is aware, may bring on a diplomatic clash, but this would be preferable to an infraction of the century-old Democratic doc trine of the sanctity of States’ lights, the administration says. The utmost reprisal that the Japanese could for mulate would be a boycott of Amer ican goods and that would injure principally California, tnc State re sponsible for the whole problem. Plagues in Wake of Mississippi Floods Levees Weakening Near Rosedale, Where Crest Now Rages—Mem phis Situation Is Relieved. MEMPHIS. April 16.—Breaks were threatened in the Mississippi River levees between Rosedale and Coahui- ma, Miss., according to reports reach ing Memphis to-day. Sand boils have appeared in several places and the walls were expected to cave any min ute. Water to-day was covering Desha and Chicott Counties in Arkansas. The situation was greatly improved at Memphis. The river stage was 43 feet and all the levee walls were holding. Smallpox and meningitis are caus ing alarm in several towns back of the Golden Lake crevasse. Burns Confident Band Holding Memphis Millionaire for Ran som Will Be Taken Soon. RAID NETS DRAG RESORTS Theory That Gang of Card Swin dlers Decoyed American Basis for Gamblers’ Arrest. Hurt Chasing Melon Thieves, Asks$10,000 W. T. Akridge Sues Power Company for Injuries Received in Fall ing Into Quarry. W. T. Akridge to-day filed a suit for $10,000 damages against the Georgia Railway and Power Com pany for injuries he is said to have sustained last summer when chasing negro watermelon thieves. Akridge asserted he had a healthy watermelon patch near the company s quarry at Proctor Creek. One night he set out in pursuit of some negroes who had successfully invaded the patch. With his eye on the fleeing men he said he did not see a large hole on (he company's premises. As a re sult he plunged head foremost into it, sustaining serious injuries. 111. If $6,000 W, H. GILLEM IS FREED ON CHARGE OF ASSAULT The Fulton County Grand Jury to day failed to find a true bill against W H. Gillem. charged by W. H. John son. former County Police Chief, with assault With intent to murder John S. Owen, foreman, said a sufficient cause for holding Gillem on so se rious a charge was not shown in the evidence. MISSISSIPPI SENATORS INDORSE SUFFRAGE MOVE JACKSON. MISS.. April 16.—Mis sissippi suffragettes, here in annual convention, to-day postponed until to-morrow the adoption of anv reso- lutlon requesting the 1 -<“8 i -‘ l ‘ a ture m take action to order a vo.e in M •-is- ytppi on the question of « the r women should be allowed the hal o Telegrams from Senators < r ■ man and Williams were read imiors ing the movement. LONDON. April 16.— After thirteen days of flne-toothcomb searching on t„. O.-linen!. Joseph Wilberforce yC/unc&., the Memphis millionaire wiio disappeared mysteriously in this city, has not yet been traced to the place where his captors secreted him when detectives got hot on their trail in Lambeth yesterday,'although Detec tive William J. Burns believes lie will be located soon. There was great excitement early to-day in the neighborhood of Picca dilly when the police raided two re sorts and arrested fifty gamblers on the theory that some of them may have been connected with Martins disappearance or may have soma knowledge of it. Trailing Woman Now. Scotland Yard sleuths are trailing a woman known as ‘‘Baby Ruth” who, frot,i her record, may .Rosstbly have > otrnecMwi wt4h •>. • was alleged. Both the private and public detec tives are convinced that a woman is implicated in the disappearance of the rich American and both squads are working along this line. The Lambeth and Kensington dis tricts of London are swarming with detectives, searching for the house where Martin is said to be held cap tive by a- hand of kidnapers. Call for Mr. Sherlock Holmes! According to a well-established theory. Martin was decoyed by a band of card sharps whose members are known to the international police. The Arkansas land deal which Mar tin put through on the eve of his strange disappearance involved $6,- 000,000. Mr. Martin was said to have a large sum of ready cash in his pockets when he dropped out of sight. Amateur detectives are attempting to employ Sherlock Holmes methods of deduction from the known facts and from the circumstances attend ing the finding of Martin's opera ha'., pocketbook and watch chain. The suggestion has been made to j. Lockhart Anderson, the English friend of Mr. Martin, that he lay the facts before Sir A. Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and ask Sir Arthur’s aid in running down th<- kidnaping band. Woman Once Lived in Memphis. MEMPHIS, TENN . April 16.—The mysterious woman ,n the disappear ance case of Joseph W. Martin, the Memphis cotton broker who is being sought in London, lived at a hotel in this city during the winter and part of the summer of 1912, according to private detectives working on the Memphis end of the case. She posed as the wife of a cotton buyer, and said her home was in England, the detectives said. Her description tallies with the de scription of the woman the London | police are trying to locate, 'according i to the Memphis sleuths. Important developments in the fail ure of the Martln-Phillips Company, of which J. W. Martin is president, were expected this week. The assets of the company reported to the Fed eral Court included 1,800 bales of cotton on which loans had been ob tained. T. G. Speers, owner of the ware house where the cotton was stored, said there were not more than 94 bales there belonging to the company. He said he had signed receipts for 900 bales of cotton, but that most of it had been removed without • his knowledge. DEW SCOTT Danish Nobleman Plans to Use Pulmotor to Restore Frozen Explorer’s Life. BRIDGEPORT. CONN., April 16. “Convinced that the body of ('aplain Scott, the English explorer whose life was lost a year ago returning from the South Pole,-is frozen in the snow in a. perfectly heatyhy condition, 1 am confident that I can reach him and restore him to life. An expedition will leave San Francisco in August for New Zealand and from there we will commence the journey for the place where Captain Scott’s body was left by his comrades.” This was the announcement made to-day by Count August De<'astellane Seymore, a Danish nobleman. With the use of the recently invent ed Eipenberger respirator, the pulmu- tor and other scientific- appliances. Count Seymore believes he will he able to resuscitate Captain Scott, de spite his condition of a year’s stand ing. i DEATH OF POPE IS NEAR +• V *r#n* +•■5- Feared He Can t Survive Night •!•••!• Not Expected to Side With Great *•* Brain When H. Makes l© ( QJltiff MakeS H S LaSt WUl Public His Attitude. WASHINGTON, April 16—Mr. W it- sun will not speak on the Panama C$nal tolls issue until hr has to. Then his utterance will be direct anti Ur the point, declared Secretary Tu multy to-day when questioned as to reports from London that the Chief Executive had assured Ambassador Bryce that Great Britain’s protest ever the free passage of American coastwise vessels through Hie Pan ama Canal would be regarded as valid by this Government. The President, it was slated at the White House to-day has not made if fly declaration of his views on the canal question. When he does, it is pot expected that they will coincide With those of Great Britain. If you have anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. 8 New Playgrounds |U. S. Flyer Beady to Urged for Atlanta Try Trans-Ocean Trip ■ Both Whites and Neg-oes Would Be , Milwaukee Aeronaut Plans to Start $400,000 P0ST0FFICE NOW ANTICIPATED BY AUGUSTA AUGUSTA. GA., April 16 — Augusta is to have a postoffc e to cost prob ably $400,000, instead of $250,000, as originally planned. A $250,000 appropriation would not permit the use rtf Georgia marble, so Crtnci*es.sman Hardwick tacked on an additional $150,000 to the sundry civil bill vetoed by President Taft, but wJuUTiias been i (.'introduced. Given Places to Romp Under Com mittee's Recommendation. Six playgrounds for white children In Atlanta and two for negroes this summer is a recommendation before the Park Board to-day. The report, with this recommendation, was made by a special committee appointed to make an investigation. The grounds the committee sug gests be set aside for the white chil dren are Mims Park, Grant Park. Joyner, English Avenue School. Pine Park and Hill Park. The opening of a playground in the woolen mills dis trict is under advisement An adverse report was made on the proposition of showing moving pic tures at Grant and Piedmont Parks Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. The Sunday American goes every where all over the South. If you have anything to sell The Sunday Amer ican is “The Market Place of the South.” The Sunday American is 4he best advertising medium. , in Dirigible From the Canary Islands To-day. LAS PALMAS, CANARY ISLANDS, April 16.—The dirigible balloon Su- < hard, in which Joseph Brucker, for merly of Milwaukee, proposes to make a trans-Atlantic flight, has been in flated. Captain Brucker announces lie will start for America to-day or Thursday, if the present favorable w ind holds. WOMAN ACCUSED OF TRYING TO BURN NEIGHBOR FAMILY LEXINGTON, KY.. April 16. Mrs. Bud Pendleton, member of a wealthy family, and a 13-year-old serv ant were arrested to-day at Lan caster. Ky., charged with burning the home of Lincoln Miller in an effort , to cremate his family. Miller and ibis wife were badly burned. Blood* ; hound a followed a |rall to the Pendle- • ton residence. M^s. Pendleton's two ’ sons went on her liond. Family trou- i bles are said to have caused the affair. Police to Hold Big Spring Picnic May 15 Program of Features Expected to Lure Record Crowd to Warm Springs. Atlanta’s “finest” have sounded a real note of spring. They announced to-day the polite picnic at Warm Springs on Thursday, May 15. and have commenced prepa rations to make It the most success ful outing in the history of the po lice department. The police didn't have a picnic last year, and they missed it. They have determined this year td make up for it by giving their friends one of the biggest picnics ever run out of At lanta. The program of features has not been completed, but it will contain music, dancing, games and athletic sports galore. The bluecoats expect several thousand Atlantans to enjoy the day at Warm Springs as their guests. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! Man, in Delirium, Calls Runaway Wife Woman in Atlanta, Says Strange Let ter and Advertisement From Columbia, S. C. The Georgian to-day received a strange letter from Columbia, 8. <*.. asking that an advertisement be in serted for a runaway wife whose hus band has been prostrated ever since she left and calls for her in his de lirium. This is the advertisement sent for insertion: Deathly sick husband begging to sec his runaway wife. Calls her Polly and Sara. B. C JAMES, Columbia, S. (\ The woman left Columbia over a week ago. according to the letter. She had $32 on her p< r>on, and U said to have come to Atlanta. “If she sees this ad she will come back ” the writer says. “It seems as if brother will go into fits about it If she does not.’’ The Sunday American goes every where all over the South. If you have I anything to cel! The Sunday -Amer- I ican i% ‘‘The Market Place V^f the 1 South." The Sunday American 5s the best advertising medium. Temperature of His Holiness Again Rises and Critical Night Is Predicted: Patient Inquires of His Peril. Venerable Prelate and Brother. Long Es tranged, Forgive and F o rget Di fferences i n Touching Scene. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BULLETIN Rome, April 16—7 p. m.—(1 p. m. Atlanta time)—Dr. March- iafava and Dr. Amici have frankly expressed the fear that Pope Pius X will not live through the night. At this hour indications from the sick room are that His Holiness is sinking rapidly. ROME. April 16.—Pope Pius X suf fered bis most serious relapse late to-day. Beginning at mid-afternoon his fe ver rose and lie seemed lq be losing strength rapidly. Stimulants were administered. An extremely alarming night was predicted for the Pope at the Vatican, and members of the family, the Cardinals and the Curia and the accredited ambassa dors to the Vatican were warned to be in readiness to hurry to the sick room at any moment. Dr. Marchiafava. the chief physi cian. showed grave anxiety. He said he would hold himself ready to re spond to any call made. Dr. Amici went to the .sick room to spend the night there. Earlier in tlie day Signor Patriaca, legal representative of the Holy Sec, visited the V atican and, according to reports, drew up the Pope’s will. Early this morning the following bulletin was issued at the Vatican: His Holiness rested easily for several hours last night. His temperature is 98.2. Expectora tion is easy and the condition of his heart is good. From mother and reliable source It was learned that Pope Pius is greatly weakened by his inability to take suf ficient nourishment and from lack of sleep. This same Informant, contrary to the Vatican bulletin, declared the Pontiff found expectoration very hard during the night, and at times was in danger of suffocation. Still Fears of Pneumonia. Fears of pneumonia have not yet passed. The Pope’s left lung is in flamed and his throat is raw and swollen. Stimulants were adminis tered during the r.ight to assist the heart action. The lawyer Patriarch who repre sents the Holy See was summoned 10 the Vatican this morning. The same . lawyer drew up the last testament of Pope Leo XIII, and the inference is that he has been asked to do -he same for Pope Pius X. The lawyer Patriarch was sum moned after Professor Marchiafava.* the Pope’s physician, had had a long conference with Cardinal Merry del Va 1, Papal Secretary of State. Earlier in the morning the Pope's sisters entered the Vatican and were received by Mgr. Parol in, the Pope's nephew, who held them waiting in an ante-chamber until the doctors had ended their visit. They then en tered the Pope’s chamber. Later they adjourned to an adjoining chap°l, where they heard two masses. Asks About His Condition. The Pope's physicians have become very clever in eluding would-be in terviewers. They enter sometimes by one door and sometimes by an other and there is an infinite number of entrances to choose from. If they s- a group of newspaper men wait ing before the great bronze door, they go in by the side entrance, and so on If they should hanper* to be caught by any one, they are utterly .non-committal.