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< •—— REPORTS FROM ! POPE S BEDSIDE j DIFFER WIDELY Papal Physicians Assured Pon tiff's Strength Will Carry Him Through Recent Relapse. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian ROME. April 18.—Pop# Pius X held hi* own throughout th# greater part of to day, although late thi* afternoon report* were circulated that he was fast losing strength. Inability of the Pontiff to re tain nourishment on his stomach and an acceleration of his cough were the principal contributing factors to this weakness. A drop sical condition is said to be devel oping in the left leg. On account of the condition of hi* stomach it may become nec essary to make food injections, as was done in the cats of J. P. Mor gan. ROME. April 18 — Th* condition of Pope Pius X wan to-day aubject 10 ''onfltctinff reports. According to tlie morning bulletin of the doctors. His Holiness showed improvement and gave indication that his strong con stitution would ultimately be able to overcome immediate danger Information from another source, however, is that the Pontiff still Is In a precarious condition, being ex tremely weak from lack of nourish ment and from the cough which ac companies attacks of bronchitis. In support of the latter report it Is significant that Cardinal Oreglia has been notified to keep in readiness day and night to respond to a call from the Vatican. At 10:30 o'clock this morning (4:30 Atlanta time) the following bulletin was Issued from Drs. Marchigfava and A mici: Improvement is shown in the Pope's catarrhal affection. His general condition ie satisfactory. The temperature Is 98. The moderation of the Pope’s tem perature gave cause for hope at the Vatican, but His Holiness was again warned by Dr. Marchiafava not to *>ver-exert himself. Sees Humor in Warnings. Your Holiness must not confuse a temporary rally for permanent im provement," explained Dr. Marchia- f« va. In spite of his emaciated and weak ened condition, the Pope sees humor In the constantly repeated warnings of the doctors and smiled as he promised to obey to the best of his Judgment. It was but 48 hours ago that the belief was general that the Pope’s hours of life were numbered and the n mazing rally that he has made, chiefly through his determination to set well, has aroused the wonder the world. The fear has been communicated to Cardinal Merry Del Val. papal secre tary of state, that the Pope may die suddenly. Anxiety on this point has beset the mind of the ailing Ponliff and led to numerous requests that the last macrament be administered. The life of the Pope was compared by his nephew', Mgr. Parolln, to a flickering lamp. The flame is waver ing. now higher and now lower, and may be snuffed out at any minute. Nephew Fears the Worst. We pray for the be«. M Mgr Parolin said, but the unmistakable signs of sorrow in his demeanor pro- claimed the forebodings in his mind The Pope siept for intervals of two and three hours throughout the night. Once his heart became so weak that he was awakened so that oil of camphor might be injected. As soon as he awoke this morning and had partaken of a cup of weak gruel, he immediately asked to be allowed to sit up. Both Dr. Marchiafava and Amici protested emphatically against this. The following bulletin had been is sued at 12:30 a. m.: The Pope i« resting more easily than last night, but his breathing is superficial and his pulse is very v\ eak. At 4:15 the following bulletin was forthcoming: The Pope is sleeping and seems r-iiSier, but his prostration is ex- <-es*4ve. Brandy was admini* lered. but was followed by a lit of vomiting. Awoke Nearly Suffocating. A i 5 o’clock this bulletin w as is sued". The Pope awoke suddenly and seemed to be suffocating. This aused a paroxysm. He after ward took the yolk of an egg and tome milk. A few minutes later he fell into a sound sleep and his nervousness seemed relieved. The Italian Government is making daily inquiries on behalf of the King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Mar- gherita. When Dr. Marchiafava asked the Pope how he had spent the night, the latter replied: 1 dreamed J was saying mass. ’ Dr. Marchiafava smiled a9 he said. In a month it will be a reality." If you have anything to aell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar- fMfc^circulation o* any Sunday news- the South. S B MARKS, of Atlanta, • who was re-elected president of the State Federa tion of Labor at the meeting now on at Augusta. FOR LABOR CHIEF State Federation to Urge Com pulsory Arbitration and Em ployers’ Liability Bills. AUGUSTA, GA., April IS. "he fol- lowing officers were elected this aft ernoon by the Georgia Federation of Labor: S. B. Marks. Atlanta, president; W. A. Michael, Macon, first vice presi dent; J. W. Luqulre, Augusta, sec ond vice president; W. C. Puckett, At lanta. third vice president, and Rob ert Feichner, Savannah, secretary- treasurer. Macon will probably be »he next meeting place. It is expected that the session will come to an end during the afternoon. This morning the report of the leg islative committee was made. A large number of resolutions of various char acters were reported favorably and passed. It was decided, on the recommen dation of the legislative committee, that a compulsory arbitration bill, an employers’ liability and a working- mens compensation act and the addi tion of two factory inspectors to the staff of the Commissioner of Labor be the three measures on which labor w ill concentrate Its efforts at the next session of the Legislature. It was explained that with concen tration the labor men would have a better chance to get these measures passed, instead of having many bills and not so much force behind each bill. Resolutions were passed during the morning asking that the Legislature pass a "full crew” bill; a kindergarten bill, providing school facilities for children between 4 and 6 years of age; a compulsory education bill; a bill providing that shelters be pro vided for car repairers; a bill limit ing the amount of work to be done by section foremen; a bill providing that all street cars be vostibuled, and one providing that women not be required to work In telephone offices or in stores over 10 hours a day or 54 hours a week. Georgia Land Fake Worked for $20,000 New Mexico Farmer Fleeced on Bo gus Jonathan Block Titles—At torney Searches Records Here. Another victim of Georgia’s -hoary land swindle was discovered Jo-day through the presence here of Tomlin son Fort, a former Atlanta attorney, who came all tlie* wav from New Mexico only to find this morning that his client had been cheated odt of property worth in the neighborhood of $1*0,000 Mr. Fort said ihai the "land sharks" came to the West with abstracts of title for many acres of land In Eman uel County which were represented to have been granted to Jonathan Block May 19,.1794. Mr. Fort's client, a well-to-do but unsuspicious farm?r, was persuaded to trade aoout 250 acres of perfectly good and unusually fertile land in the Pecos Valley of \\ w Mexico for the worthless ab stract. The New Mexico attorney was in the office of Secretary of State Cook to-day, poring over the old records. His investigation showed that the ab stract was entirely bogus. He will institute criminal proceedings against the swindlers on his return. W. & A. R. R. CONDEMNATION BILL IS DEFEATED, 15 TO 14 NASHVILLE, TK.N.N.. April IS — The Bass bill, authorising the city of Chattanooga to condemn the West ern and Atlantic Railroad yards in Chattanooga for the opening of Broad Street, was defeated by a vote of 15 to 14 in the Tennessee Senate to-day. IC.I.P.SE1AT0RS PUN ROT FICRT OR THRIFT BILL Entire Schedule of Underwood Revision Measure Will Be Bitterly Fought. WASHINGTON. April 18.—In- tending to strike a blow at the rubber trust, Representative Hardwick, of Georgia, offered a resolution to transfer raw rubber from the free list to the dutiable list, with a duty of 10 per cent. His resolution was lost by a vote of 53 to 33. Representative Borland, of Mis souri, thsn moved to put all the manufactures of rubber goods on the free list. His motion was lost almost by a unanimous vots. WASHINGTON, April 18 A bitter light will be made on the Democratic tariff revision bill. The forces op posed to the so-called ITnderwood measure are now ready for the battle. Backed by reouests from many In terests for hearings on certain sec tions of the Underwood bill. Republi can Senator# have made a demand upon members of the finance commit tee for hearings, snd attack the "se cret legislation’’ now going on in the Democratic caucus of House mem bers. Democratic Senators, replying to the attack, have made it clear that the finance committee does not plan to grant any public hearings. Sena tors Williams and Stone insisted full hearings had been given by the House committee before the bill was pre pared. while Republican Senator# de plored that these hearings had been of little value because the rates of the Underwood bill were not then known. Will Oppose Entire Bill. With many complaints and objec tions before them, Republican mem bers of the Senate are preparing for a general attack on all schedules of the bill. Senator Smoot has put two experts at work to analyze the Un derwood bill and previous measures to give the protectionist forces a basis for their fight. Other Republicans, who claim that Important industries would be wiped out by the Underwood bill, will again insist that business men and laboring men should have an opportunity to be heard before the new bill is passed. The Democratic House caucus wmrked over the Underwood bill throughout yesterday, upholding the Democratic House leaders and Presi dent Wilson upon all contested points. The woolen schedule was under fire all day. Attempts to put ready-made clothing on the free list and to alter other rates in the bill were defeated. Late in the day, after the wool schedule had been approved without change thfc caucus disposed In short order of the silk, pulp and paper and sundry schedules, voting down all proposed amendments. The free list was under consideration when ttie Democrats adjourned. Certain Mills Doomed. Representative Underwood address ed the members on the scope of the bill and its effect. He declared that reductions in wool rates undoubtedly would Injure some factories*, but that it would benefit the Industry as a whole. Certain factories of old equip ment and less advanced business methods, Mr. Underwood said, prob ably woUHd be forced out of business. Such concerns, he argued, were not economically entitled to live and with them out of the way the industry as a w hole would benefit. Representative Phelan, of Massa chusetts. to-day in the tariff caucus offered an amendment to transfer hoots and shoes from the free list and make them dutiable at 5 per t ent. The amendment was* lost without a divi sion being demanded. The caucus voted down the resolu tion to put a tax of 10 per cent on row silk, which Is on the free list in the Underwood bill. Discussion of the Income tax was then taken up. Free Sugar Would Make U. S. Target of Producers. WASHINGTON, April 18.—That <he free sugar provision In the Under wood bill, if enacted Into law, will make Ihe United States a target Tor all the sugar-producing nations in the world is shown by a report Issued by the Department ot Commerce to-day. in which It Is stated that this country annually consumes one-flrth ot all ihe sugar produced. The United States uses an average of 8,285,771 long tons of sugar a year. The United Kingdom comes next with a consumption of 1,707,956. The average world's production is 8.457.178 long tons of cane sugar and 8,982,220 long tons of beet sugar. Republicans Not to Offer a. Tariff Bill. WASHINGTON, April 18.—The Re publican "open" conference of the house met to-day in a room in the House office building. Representative Burke, of North Da kota, called attention to the fact that the rules of the Capitol operated against open or public conferences In the House chamber, A new meeting place, therefore, was chosen. Tariff legislation was the program for discussion, with this Question to be determined: Shall the minority offer substitute schedules for those of the Underwood bill the Republi cans merely condemn the Democratic bill without training opposition meas ures? 'LIVING IDE' Six Burned in Oil Explosion in Hotel Fire Near City Hall j White Clerk at Fairiie House Injured as He Trie» to Save Negro Cook. : Professor Patten, University of i Pennsylvania, Predicts Wilson’s I Failure to Solve Problem. PHILADELPHIA. April 18 "The Republican Party, cleansed. strength ened and made more responsive to Ihe people, will return to national power. The Democratic Party, I be. lieve ran not meet the expectations of even the minority that voted it into control of the National Government.” These are the predictions of Dr Si mon Nelson Patten, professor of po litical economy In the University of Pennsylvania “Tariff will prove the undoing of Democracy," Dr. Patten write* "It has before it two alternatives: One is a. small reduction of tariff and virtually no change in the costs of articles that are deemed necessaries In the American standard of living. The other alternative is a radical re duction in tariffs and the consequent stoppage of many important Ameri can industries. “Viewing the situation wholly as an economist, it seems to me that, whichever l orn of the dilemma is se lected, President Wilson and his col leagues are certain to disappoint a large body of the people who have entrusted them with power. Hun dreds of thousands expect to see cost of living measurably and speedily re duced.’’ Plea for Living Wage. Dr. Patten sees the restoration of Republicans on a platform of living wages, equitably distributed as part of their protective party. “Thousands of girls are now pressed to the edge of moral endurance. The least push will put them into the street. Who will take the responsi bility for this?” Professor Patten asks. “There is one' matter upon which I may speak with some degree of em phasis. That is the inevitable read justment of wage conditions by cer tain protected manufacturer#. The day has gone by when $5 a week is the basis for a working woman’s wage. When the Republicans return to power—as I believe they will in the next national election—they must come as a party pledged to definite reforms, and as a party whose ener gies will be devoted to keeping the?e pledges. “Of these promises, the most im portant will be a readjustment of tariff benefits, so that the worker shall receive his fair share of the re newed prosperity. “The manufacturer who stuffs into hi# pocket the largest share of pro tection benefits is the one who can best afford to meet the changes pro posed in the tariff laws. “There is one fundamental law true, both in biology and economics. Struggle helps the strong and crushes the weak. With cut throat competi tion the rich grow richer and the poor become poorer. When the tariff is re duced, the low waged workman lose, not their employer. And of these low waged ones the working giri w'ill be the worst sufferer. Dollars and Virtue. • In addition to predicting w.hat the effect of free sugar will be, the Pres ident should state his doctrine of the relation of dollars to virtue. “The Government b.v granting pro lection to certain industries acquires a right to supervise the operation of these industries. The protective tar iff of the future will, I believe, be based upon some form of Governmen tal supervision which will assure to the public honestly and well made goods, and to the workers a fair divi sion of tariff benefits. • The Republican Party of the future will make this proposed law* and will abide by it. “There is no radical difference be tween the Republican and Progres sive Parties. Both agree upon the protective tariff theory. Progressive ideas will become part of the Repub lican platform of the future, and Pro gressive lenders will fight shoulder to shoulder with honest intentioned Re-* publicans who are now opposing the Progressive ideal. A white man and five negroes were burned, one of them perhaps fatally In a gasoline explosion in the kitchen of (he Fairiie House, near the city hall, this afternoon. The white man was John Duggan, clerk at the hotel, whose clothing caught fire when he attempted to save the life of Grace • Wallace, ihe negro cook. Duggan was severely burned about ihe lege and body. bill it is not thought his injuries will prove seri- ious. The Wallace woman was probably fatally burned. When Duggan ran Ino the kitchen she was afire from head 10 feet and her hair was blaz ing. When the flames were exting uished she had been seriously burned about the head and body Both Duggan and the negro woman were taken to Grady Hospital. Four of the negro waiters ai the hotel were slightly burned on the hands and arms when they tried to extinguish the flames without call ing the fire department. The explosion w f as the result of a mistake on the part of one of the negro waiters. He saw a can of gasoline setting on the floor and started to fill the kettle with it. The damage to the building was small. Aide in Row Fatal to Infant Loses Appeal Supreme Court Holds Lou Miller Responsible for Part in Heard County Slaying. An echo of a famous Heard County sheeting case came to-day when the Supreme Court sustained the Heard County Court in its denial of a new triai to Lou Miller, convicted of mur der as the second principal in the killing of an Infant child of D. S. (“Doc”) Bell during a gun fight at Bell’s home. It was brought out in the trial that Daniel, the principal, and had urged Miller had‘procured a rifle for John Daniel on. Miller denied this. His attorneys asked for a new trial, asserting that additional evidence had been obtained. • Police Start War On Wandering Dogs Ten Are Killed in Various Parts of the City After Appeals Are Made by Frantic Women. Ten dogs—some mad and others exposed to rabies—were killed to-day in the police war of extermination to relieve Atlanta’s maddog peril. Pryor Street, Central Plaofe, White hall Terrace, Hay good Street, Fair- view Avenue, Cooper Street and East Avenue, where their presence had created terror Frantic appeals to the police were made by frightened wo men and others. Police Call Officers John West and Bailey, on duty on the day watch, have been called on to shoot most of the dogs, and are known at the po lice station as the “official dog kill ers.” Fulton Salary Law Remains Undecided Supreme Court, However, May Rule on Issue Before Reconvening in May Session. The State Supreme Court adjourn ed to-diy without passing on the va lidity of the Fulton County salary law, which is being contested by three of the county officers, Ordinary John R. Wilkinson. Tax Receiver T. A. Armistead and Tax Collector A. P. Stewart. If the court observes its usual cus tom, it wil not hand down further de cisions until about May 13, but be cause of the importance of the issue a ruling may be made in the interim. Find in Sea Message Left by Col. Astor ATLANTA NEGRO TROOPER COMMENDED FOR BRAVERY Lionel Lewis, an Atlanta, negro serving in the Ninth Cavalry. U. S. A., at Naco, Arif,., has been com mended for bravery by the command ing officer, Major Read, in orders published at the camp recently. Lewis was serving as a member of a patrol near the boundary line to the west of Naco and reports say that during a skirmish, in which a number of shots were exchanged, he man aged to capture and take into the camp as prisoners two heavily armed Mexicans. Lewis formerly lived at 262 West Hunter Street. PITTSBURG SCHOOL HEAD FREED OF GIRL’S CHARGE PITTSBURG. A pril i8.—Superin tendent S. L. Heeler, of the Pitts burg public schools, to-day was ac quitted of charges made against him by Ethel I. Fisher, formerly employed as a maid in the Heeler home. After about one hour’s deliberation the jury late yesterday returned a .sealed verdict, which was presented when court convened to-day. J BOSTON, April 18.—Captain .T. Willis, of the British tramp steamer Lon scar, which arrived here to-^jay, reported picking up at sea a small board bearing a message and signa ture of John Jacob Astor. He has wired the contents to Mrs. Astor. BURNSCLUB GOES TO UTHONIA FOR OUTING Members of the Burns Club, of At lanta, will leave for Lithonia at 10:30 o'clock to-morrow morning as guests of the Burns Club of the Scottish Colony at Lithonia at the annual •Dogwood Day Outing " There will be a barbecue and picnic. U. S. MAY ORDER RECEIVER FOR S. P. AND U. P. LINES "WASHINGTON, April lx.—It wae •learned to-day that the Supreme Court of the United States probably will order the appointment of receivers for the Southern and Union Pacific railroads it Attorney General McRevnolds falls lo present a dissolution plan to the St. Paul court by May 10. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reada The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! SPEER ATTACK Governor Defends Action in Call ing Out Troops During the Augusta Car Riots. Devotion to Mother Leads Augusta Boy To Brave Jail Term Parole Granted Young Man Who Wandered Five Years Following Escape From Gang. The story of a boy’s yearning for home and his aged mother, so great that he returned to this State after five years of wandering and submit ted to being sent back to the chain- gang, from which he had escaped, waf told to-day in the granting of a paroie lo W. J. Collier, of Augusta, by Gov- Governor Brown replied to-day to Judge Emory Speer, who, in a speech this week before the Georgia Federa tion of Ijabor in Savannah, bitterly criticised the Governor's action in calling out the troops at the time of the Augusta street car strike. “The laws are on the books," said the Governor, “and I am going to obey them so long as they remain there. If the people of Georgia do not wish me to call out the militia in times of threatened or actual out break. they had better remove those laws from among the statutes." Governor Brown answered the charge that the measure had been sneaked” onto the statute books by remarking that if six readings, three before the Senate and three before the House, and a, consideration of thirteen months were not sufficient to get a proposed measure before the attention of people, then the legis lative procedure also should be changed. Law Passed in 1912. The bill was read before the Sen ate three times in the session of 1911, where it was passed unanimously by a vote of 37 to 0. It was read in the House twice in 1911, and the third time in 1912. Then it was put upon its passage in the House by a vote of 116 yeas and 9 nays. Governor Brown declined to reply to the attacks made upon him in the resolutions passed by the-Federation of Labor, saying that adequate re ply was contained in the address made by him last October on “The Supremacy of the Law.” Governor a Tool of People. “I am a tool,” he said. “1 am the tool of the people of Georgia. I wear a collar, but it is the collar of the law’s of the State.” He quoted the measure under which he acted in calling out the troops, which reads, in part, as follows: “Whenever any judge of the su perior court, or a city court, county court, county sheriff, mayor of afiy incorporated city, tow r n, or village, in this State, whose authority shall rank in the order named shall have reason able cause to apprehend the outbreak of any riot, rout, tumult, insurrec tion, mob, unlawful assembly, or combination to oppose the enforce ment of the law by intimidation, force, or violence, within the juris diction of which such officer is by law a conservator of the peace, which can not be speedily suppressed or effectually prevented by the ordinary posse comitatus and peace officers, it shall forthwith become the duty of the judge, sheriff, or mayor to report the facts and circumstances to the Governor and to request him to order out such portion of the militia of the State as may be necessary to preserve the peace, and it thereupon shall be the duty of the Governor, if he deems such apprehension well founded, to order out, or direct to be held in readiness, such portion of the militia of the State as he may deem ad visable for the enforcement of the law; and when the Governor orders out troops, as herein provided, he shall thereupon by proclamation de clare a state of insurrection in the locality in which the disorder is lo cated.” Nobleman Seeking Riches on U.S. Stage Grandson of Duke of Argyle Arrives in New York to Go Into Vaudeville. NEW TORK, April 18.—In the hope that by performing a few stunts on the vaudeville stage he can fill the family money bags which Just now gape at both ends and in the middle, the Macl.aine of Lochbuie, a grand son of the Dube of Argyle, arrived to day on the liner Mauretania, from his castle in Scotland. The MacLaine declared upon land ing that he wanted a wife. "But l don't want an heiress.'' he asserted. "My wife must he a poor girl, be good and pretty. Wealth is the ruination of feminine attractive ness and I wouldn't have a rich girl for a wife.” CORDELE.—W. B. McMiehael, of Atlanta, a former freight conductor on the Seaboard Air Line, has brought suit, in the Superior Court »f Crisu County against the road for *2B.OO<! for the loss ot u leg in an accident at Alton, Ala., last October. Ocilla Firm Fails. OCILl.A.—Tire mercantile firm o" Dickerson & Purvis, o£ this place, has been closed up by the Sheriff un der a mortgage foreclosure for $3,500 in favor of the Consolidated Grocery Company of Fitzgerald. Revival at Hawkinsville. H AWKINSV1LLE.—Rev. H, C. Buchholz. the dean of the Georgia Baptist evangelistic force, is conduct ing an interesting revival at the Bap tist Church of this place Consider able Interest Is being manifested. ernor Brown. Collier, who was a young man of 20 years when he was sentenced to two years on ihe chaingang for breaking Into freight cars, was brutally beaten b.v the whipping boss. After he had borne this treatment and suffering for several months, he made his escape one night and for five years remained undiscovered until he walked in upon the officers in Augusta and gave him self up. “J can not stay away from my mother and sister any longer," was al! that he said in explanation. An investigation disclosed that aft er Collier escaped from the brutality, of the whipping bot's, he went into another State and obtained employ ment. learning the painter's trade. He sent money regularly to his mother, who is old and feeble, and to his un married sister. Letters from his em ployers said that he was honest and straightforward in every respect. House Views Income Tax at Many Angles Many Representatives Think $4,000 Limit Too High—Insurance Companies Hard Hit. WASHINGTON, April 18.—The in come tax, which is expected to yield the government $70,000,000 a year and make up for some loss of revenue caused by the free list provisions in the Under wood tariff measure, was discussed by the House Democratic caucus to-day. The bill levies a tax on incomes of more than $4,000 a year. A wide range of views was presented. Many representatives believe that the $4,000 limit was too high, while others believe it too low. A number of com plaints declared the bill as framed by Representative Hull, of Tennessee, im poses undue hardships on insurance companies. The provision which makes the incomes of families where the ag gregate is more than $4,000 subject to taxation, also has been criticised. It Is claimed the penalty which would be imposed on tax-dodgers should be graduated according to the amount of income. Seeks 7 th Divorce; 3rd From Same Man Michigan Woman Sues Eugene Mors, Her First, Third and Present Husband. KALAMAZOO, MICH., April 18 — Mrs. Eliza Morse made application for her seventh divorce. The woman’s first, third and present husband is Eugene Morse of this city. She mar ried him first more than fifteen years ago. After several years she got her first decree and married Albert Lat- son. In two years he got a divorce. She remarried Eugene Morse, who soon divorced her. Then she married Will Keep, divorced him and .married his brother, Milo Keep, whom she divorced when he was sent to prison for life. Next she married and di vorced William McLaughlin and re married Morse, and has lived with him for three months. Guardian’s Priority Is Denied by Court Son of Mrs. Hutchinson, Insane, Made Administrator, Over E. W. McCranie. That the insanity of an adminis trator leaves the estate unrepresented, but does not vest the administration in the guardian of the insane person's property, was the ruling made in a decision of the Supreme Court to-day. The case arose on the filing of a caveat in the Berrien County Court by E. W. McCranie, guardian of Mrs Sarah Hutchinson, insane, protesting against the appointment of a son of his ward as administrator and de manding the appointment himself. "As between the guardian and the son of the intestate, the latter is en titled to letters of administration." said the Supreme Court in affirming the judgment of the lower tribunal. efl plsxce \s~ n\eet friervcL/ CM. DfNECHAVD 9 VALTDfi ST — JUJT OTP P£ACttTR£E * "He’s Alive and Well,” Asserts American Sleuth—Reward Of fered by Friend Withdrawn, Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian LONDON, April 18.—Detective William J. Burns to-day withdrew from the search for Joseph W. Mar tin, the missing Memphis, Tenn, cot ton broker, who disappeared on April 3. According to Burns. Martin ig alive and well, and not in London, he save The detective eays he has received information from his New York office which satisfies him on this point. He will not say where Martin is, bat declares that the missing man is’ not in London, and adds: "My information compels me withdraw from the case, which is nn longer a mystery. Martin Is not in any physical danger." Some mystery attended the with- dravval of the famous detective, al though his action was not entirely unexpected. The offer of a reward for Martin previously issued by J. Lockhart An derson, the English friend of the missing'American, had already been withdrawn. Scout Kidnaping Theory. Private detectives working on the case, who intimate that they had "in side information" of which the pub lic knew nothing, declared that Mar tin is alive and that he was not forci- bly kidnaped. The latest word received at the p„. lice headquarters was that Mr. Mar. tin was well known in the fashiona ble West Side gambling resorts and that he had lost a big sum of money before he disappeared. The affairs of the Martin 'Cotton Brokerage House and of the Arkansas Land Company, which the missitiv American came here to promote, are under investigation. Georgia Physicians To Meet Here Next Speaker Before Savannah Convention Recommends Vice Commission to Control Social Evil. SAVANNAH, GA., April 18.—The annual address of the president, Dr. W. W. Pilcher, of Warrenton. and the reading of a paper on the social evil by Dr. J. Ewing Mears, of Philadel phia, occupied most of the morning session of the convention of the Med ical Association of Georgia to-day. Officers will be elected this after noon. The presidency will go to a Savannah physician, either Dr. T. J. Charlton or Dr. Ralston Lattimore. with the chances favoring the latter The Savannah physicians last night indorsed Dr. Charlton, but he does not seem to be a favorite with delegates Atlanta was selected as the next place of meeting. The invitation was extended through Dr. S. R. Roberts Dr. Mears recommended establish ing vice commissions in each Stats with power to correct and control the social evil. 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