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THE WEATHER.
Forecast—Fair to-night and Thursday;
wanner. Temperatures—8 a. m., 50;
10 a. m., 57; 12 m., 64; 2 p. m., 65; sun
rise, 5:04; sunset, 6:11.
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DISMISSED BY
TIE PRESIDENT
Wilson Discharges Weather Bu
reau Head Involved in Alleged
Political Scandal.
17 AIDES ARE MENTIONED
VonHerrmann, Atlanta Forecaster,
Is One of Those Concerned
in the Affair.
Hearst Flood Relief
Fund Totals $28,473,
With More to Come
Newspapers Affiliated With
Georgian Will Collect at
Least $30,000.
The
The Hearst newspapers have been
able to have a most substantial hand
In the work of extending relief to the
flood sufTerers 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.
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Wil
lis L. Moors, Chief of the Weath
er Bureau, was summarily re
moved from office to-day by
President Wilson.
Moore’s dismissal followed a
conference between the President
and Secretary of Agriculture
Houston, after which it was an
nounced that “the Chief of the
Weather Bureau has been re
moved for serious irregularities.”
Moore’s resignation was accept
ed by President Wilson about
three weeke ago, but was not to
go into effect until July 31.
A successor has not been ap
pointed.
WASHINGTON, April 16.—Seven
teen Weather Bureau officials In aB
many cities mre concerned in the
scandal alleged by the resolution for
an investigation introduced In the
House by Congressman Fowler, of
Illinois.
Most, if not all. had something to
'do with the campaign waged by Pro
fessor Willis L. Moore, chief of the
Weather Bureau, for Secretary of Ag
riculture under Wilson, in which, it is
charged, Moore used Federal em
ployees and money.
Professor Moore to-day branded the
charges against him as "false and
malicious.”
VonHerrmann In List.
The weather officials concerned are:
C. F. VonHerrman, Atlanta,Ga.; Pro
fessor Henry J. Cox, Chicago; Frank
G. Ttngley, Washington; Professor J.
Warren Smith, Columbus, Ohio, F. J.
Walz, Louisville, Ky.; A. J. Mitchell,
Jacksonville, Fla.; J. F. Voorhees,
Knoxville, Tenn.: Lee A. Denson. Ral
eigh, N. C.; Alfred Thiessen, Salt
Lake City; J. W. Smith, Boston; Har
ry O. Gerln, Columbia, S. C.; George
M. Chappell, Des Moines, Iowa; Isaac
M. Cline, New Orleans; W. S. Belden,
St. Joseph, Mo.; Ulysses G. Pursdll,
St. Paul, Minn.; Harold G. Noye,s,
Lexington, Ky., and Thorp B. Jen
nings. Topeka, Kas.
These are the men who took pari
in a conference in Atlanta last No
vember, at which, It Is charged, Pro
fessor Moore's candidacy was talked
over. It was at this meeting also, it Is
further charged, that prominent citi
zens of Atlanta and other Southern
cities were asked to Indorse Moore.
Report Tells of Work.
According to information In Mr.
Fowler's possession, Mr. VonHc.r-
inann, weather official at Atlanta, ex
pended time and energy making prep
arations for the convention at which
plans for Professor Moore’s candidacy
weig worked out and in seeking to
, buttonhole persons to get their in
dorsements for Professor Moore.
in a report which Mr. Fowler will
submit, it is said, for instance:
"Mr. C. F. VonHerrmann was un
able to secure from the city of At
lanta or from the State of Georgia
•x>v favorable recommendations.”
This, if true, indicates Mr. VonHerr
mann spent some time on the task,
which failed. If it were government
time, he may And himself in difficulty
with the administration.
Of the men who took part in the
Atlanta meeting, the following are
known to have received advances In
salary during the conduct of their
chief s campaign;
Salary Increases Made.
1. M. Cline, from $2,400 to $3,000;
J. W. Smith, of Boston, $2,400 to
$3,000; J. Warren Smith, $2,500 to
$3,000; A. J. Mitchell. $2,000 to $2,400;
A. H. Thiessen, $1,800 to $2,000; L. A.
Denson, $1,600 to $1,800; H. O. Gerin,
$3,400 to $1,800; J. F. Voorhees, $1,-
•00 to $1,800, and G. M. Chappell.
$1,000 to $1,200.
There were many other promotions
jn the Berviee during Moore's cam
paign, so many that the funds of the
Weather Bureau fell about $5,000
short of meeting expenses.
Wilson Sees Clash
Over Jap Alien Bill
Diplomatic Tangle, Though, Will Not
Make Him Interfere With
California's Action.
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 the
principal topic of discussion at the
W T hite House to-dav. The President
discussed it with members of the
Cabinet.
When the alien land bill has 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’ rights,
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, the State re
sponsible for the .whole problem.
F
E
BEST SLEUTHS
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.
Plagues in Wakenf
Mississippi Floods
Levees Weakening Near R9sedale.
Where Crest Now Rages—Mem
phis Situation Is Relieved.
MEMPHIS, April 16 Breaks were
threatened in the Mississippi River
levees between Rosedale and Ooahul-
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 Ghioott 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.
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-duy 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 tile
patch.
With his eye on the fleeing men he
said he did not see a large hole on
the company's premises. As a re
sult he plunged head foremost into
It, sustaining serious Injuries.
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
g 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 any reso
lution requesting the Legislature to
take action to order a vote in Missis
sippi on the question of whether
women should be allowed the ballot.
Telegrams from Senators Varda*
man and Williams were read indors
ing the movement.
LONDON. April 16.—After thirteen
days of flne-toothcomb searching on
the Continent, Joseph Wilberforce
Martin, the Memphis millionaire who
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 he 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 Martin’s
disappearance or may have some
knowledge of it.
Trailing Woman Now.
Scotland Yard sleuths are trailing a
woman known as "Baby Ruth” who,
from her record, may possibly have
some connection with the case, it
was alleged.
Both tH‘e private a tvd public detox*
tives are convinced that a woman is
implicated in the disappearance »f
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 band 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 $G,-
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 hit,
pocketbook and watch chain.
The suggestion has been made f >
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 the
kidnaping band.
Woman Once Lived in Memphis.
MEMPHIS. TENN., April 16.—The
mysterious woman in 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 detective- 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
to the Memphis sleuths.
Important developments In the fail
ure of the Martin-Philllps 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 ^ ren ar ”
it had been removed without his
knowledge.
$400,000 POST OFFICE” NOW
ANTICIPATED BY AUGUSTA
REVIVE SCOTT
Danish Nobleman Plans to Use
Pulmotor to Restore Frozen
Explorer’s Life.
BRIDGEPORT. CONN.. April 16.
“Convinced that the body of Captain
Scott, the English explorer whose life
was lost a year ago returning from
the South Pole, is frozen in tlie snow
in a perfectly healthy condition, i 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 DeCastellane
Seymore, a Danish nobleman.
With the use of the recently Invent
ed Eisenberger respirator, the pulmo
tor and other scientific appliances
Count Seymore believes he will be
able to resuscitate Captain Scott, de
spite his condition of a year's stand
ing.
DEATH OF POPE IS NEAR
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Not Expected to Side With Great! +•+
Britain When He Makes
Public His Attitude.
WASHINGTON. April 16—Mr. Wil
son will not speak on the Panama
(’anal tolls issue until he has to.
Then his utterance will be direct and
to 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
over the free passage of American
coastwise vessels through the Pan
ama Canal would bo regarded as valid
by this Government.
The President, it was stated at the
White House to-day has not made
any declaration of his views on the
canal question. When he does, it is
not 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.
Feared He Can t Survive Night
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Pontiff Makes His Last Will
Temperature of His
Holiness Again Rises
and Critical Night Is
Predicted: Patient
Inquires of His Peril.
8 New Playgrounds
Urged for Atlanta
Both Whites and Negroes Would Be
Given Places to Romp Under Com
mittee’s Recommendation.
AUGUSTA, GA., April 16 — Augusta
Is *to have a postoffice to < ost prob
ably $400,000, instead of $250,000, as
originally planned.
A $260,000 appropriation would not
permit the us*- of Georgia marble, so
Congressman Hardwick tacked on an
additional $150,000 to the sundry civil
bill vjfetoed by President Taft, but
which'has t«*£ reintroduced.
Six playgrounds for white children
in Atlanta and two for negroes this
summer is u 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 vet aside for the white chil-
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 the
best advertising medium.
U. S. Flyer Ready to
Try Trans-Ocean Trip
Milwaukee Aeronaut Plans to Start
in Dirigible From the Canary
Islands To-day.
LAS PALM AS, 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
he 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
his wife were badly burned. Blood
hounds followed a trail to the Pendle-
;ton residence. Mrs. Pendleton’s two
sons went on her bond. Family trou-
' bles arc said to ha4e 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 police'
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 to 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 AUantans 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
noods. 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 Utter from Columbia, S. C.,
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. (’. JAMES,
Columbia, S. <
The woman left Columbia over a
week ago. according to the letter.
She had $32 on .her person, and is 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
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is "The Dl
South.” The Sur
ivlnn
Venerable Prelate and
Brother, Long Es
tranged, Forgive and
Forget Differences
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 his most serious relapse late
to-day.
Beginning at mid-afternoon his fe- •
ver rose and he seemed to 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 w'ent to the sick room
to spend the night there.
Earlier in the day Signor Patriaca,
legal representative of the Holy See,
visited the Vatican 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 another and reliable source it
was learned that Pope Plus Is greatly
weakened by his Inability to take suf
ficient nourishment and from lack of
•teep.
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 yiro.it is raw and
swollen. Stimulants were adminis
tered during the night to assist the
heart action.
The lawyer Patriarch who repre
sents the Holy See was summoned to
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 the
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
Val, Papal Secretary of State.
Earlier in the morning the Pope's
sisters entered the Vatican and were
received by Mgr. Parolin, the Pope’3
nephew, who held them waiting in an
ante-cliamber until the doctors had
ended their visit. They then en
tered the Pope’s chamber. Later they
adjourned to an adjoining chape!,
where they heard two masses.
Asks About His Condition.
The Pope’s physicians have becomo *
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
see 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 happen to be
one, they arejyvig^
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