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ATLANTA. GA.. SATYR DAY. APRIL 19, 1919
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
BETTER; CRISIS
BELIEVED PIST
Pontiff Has Bible Read to Him,
Then Dozes Peacefully..
Has No Fever.
HOME, April 19.—Hope that the
crisis in the condition of Pope Pius
X lias been passed was aroused to-
i] a v by reassuring bulletins from the
Vatican physicians. Dr. Marchiafava
and Dr. Amici.
It was announced at the Vatican
that the Pontiff had passed a tran- |
quil night and that his cough and ex
pectoration had diminished.
Owing to the improvement shown
in the Pontiff’s condition, the doctors
, v c defided to issue only one bulle
tin daily hereafter unless there is an j
•expected turn for the worse.
Has Bible Read to Him.
At 11 o’clock this morning (5 a. m..
Atlanta time) the following an
nouncement was made from the sick
room, through the channel of the |
papal secretary of state:
•The condition of His Holiness is
satisfactory. His temperature is 98.”
This temperature is normal and
shows that the fever has left the sick
Prelate.
Earlier this bulletin was issued:
The Pope is resting easily and
dozing peacefully. He had the Bible
l-eail to him for half an hour. The
sick room now is perfectly quiet."
Lips Move in Prayer.
I'i.is bulletin had been issued -till
criien;
The Pontiff is wakeful, but trail-,
ot this hour. His lips ar. mov-
i..,*, evidently in player. Only one at
tendant was present, as he insisted ,
that all others retire.”
Up to noon to-day His Holiness had
been without fever for three days,
and Hie chief cause for worry was
tils weakness and the disordered con
dition of his stomach.
While the Pontiff is much better,
the danger of death has not been
removed by any means. In the weak
ened condition of the Pontiff he is
■ isceptlble to the slightest adverse
circumstances.
Rejoicing Throughout Rome.
There were signs of rejoicing
throughout Rome when the news was
circulated that the Pope was not
only holding his own, but was gain
ing. Prayers of thanksgiving were
offered up, and if the improvement
untinues prayers of thanksgiving
will be formally offered in the
churches to-morrow.
As usual, rumors were circulated
teat tlie Pope laid suffered a relapse,
hut t’.iose were without foundation
and were inspired chiefly by the se-
ctvey which Cardinal Merry Del Val,
Papal Secretary of State, lias thrown
around the Pontiff's illness.
This secrecy gave rise to suspi
cions The attendants a* the Vatican
are sworn to silence and it is said
that even Anna and Maria Sarto,
the sisters of the Pontiff, have been
kept in ignorance as to his real, con-
D r. r. j. h. de loach,
new Director of the
State Experiment Station, who
is reported to oppose “long
distance” salary drawing.
D'
NEY. oi Cincinnati, who
is slated to succeed Willis L.
Moore as Chrf of the U. S.
Weather Bureau.
11$; 12 HURT
|
Memphis Millionaire, in Switzer- No Evidence of Plot Found in In
land, Requests That Inquiries vestigation of Wreck of
for Him Cease. Macon Express.
Asks About Church Affairs.
Dr. Starr, of New York, who at
tended J. P. Morgan, declared tha!
his impression from the Vatican bul
letins is that the Pope’s chief danger
now' comes from impairment of the
kidneys. Mr. Starr also thinks that
the Pontiff is suffering from arterio
sclerosis, so that the absence of l’e-
v er means very little.
His Holiness got snatches of sleep
throughout the night that refreshed
him, and lie was brighter to-day, ask
ing alter the progress of church af-
despite the warnings of In's doc-
against thinking of his clerical
duties at this time.
“I can think of nothing.” responded
'he Pontiff.
Dr. Marchiafava denied a report
hat the Pope’s heart is diseased.
"The Pope will be celebrating mass
in ? month,” said Dr. Marchiafava.
Washington Editor Dead.
WASHINGTON.—Roy S. Barnwell,
editor of The Washington Gazette-
Chronicle, is dead at his home here,
following a lingering illness of about
four months.
Worsham and White
Fight Ouster Move
Experiment Station Officials Declare
They Give Full Return for *Lo^g
Distance’ Salaries.
E. Lee Worsham, State Enionu le
gist, and Dr. 11. (\ White, of the
State University, for whose r» in< vai
from the staff of the Experiment
Station at Griffin an agitation has
been started among the farmers of the
State, are preparing to show ; ; t.
while they are drawing “long dis
tance’’ salaries, they ar<* giving full
return for the money paid them.
The fight against the retention «*f
the two men on the station staff is
based on the ground that they are
not continuously at the experiment
farm, Worsham being at his office in
the Capitol much of the time and Dr.
White necessarily being at the Uni
versity.
Dr. R. J. H. DeLoach. new director
of the station, denied to-day ho m;d
announced a light against Worsham
and White. Worsham was one of
those who led the campaign against
DeLoach when the board of directors
of the station met to elect a new
head.
Dr. White to-day said the published
report in The Georgian was the first
he had heard of the effort to oust
him.
Girls Make Profit
On 10-cent Lunches
Cheap Meals To Be Made Permanent
Thing for Employees in
Chicago Shops.
CHICAGO, April 19.— Officers of an
organization of young women known
as the Bethany Girls to-day an
nounced that a profit had boon made
on the 10-cent dinners served last
right to girl employees of downtown
stores.
The girls who ate the dinners
said the food was good and that
there was plenty of it.
“Mother" Carrie Stewart Bessener,
of the organization, announced to
day that the ten-cent dinners may
be made a permanent tiling for shop
girls in the loop district.
Co-Eds to Vote on
Banning'Rag’Dances
Test of Popular Opinion Will Be
Made at Northwestern Following
Clubwomen’s Crusade.
CHJUAGO, April 19.—Strenuous ef
forts in opposition to the Lvanston
Woman’s Club to forbid the tango
and like dances*at student affairs de
veloped to-day among the co-eds of
Northwestern Univtrsity.
Mis« Irene Blanchard, dean of Wil-
ford Hall, to-day requested all the
gir’s of the school to discuss the
abandoning of the "rag" dance num
bers in sorority and other social
events, and to be prepared to cast a
referendum vote on the question at a
mass meeting on Monday.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, April 19.—A second tele
gram supposedly from Joseph W.
Martin, the missing Memphis, Tenn.,
cotton broker, was received here to
day by Captain Prior, one of Mar
tin’.- friends, and set at rest all doubt
as to the American’s safety.
The telegram came from Yevey,
Switzerland, and was a counterpart
of the message received last night 1>;
J. Lockhart Anderson. It said:
‘‘Cease inquiries. All well. Am
writing. JOSEPH W. MARTIN.”
The search for Martin has ceased,
and it remains for Martin to clear up
the mystery of his disappearance.
Detective William J. Burns, who
dropped out of the case yesterday,
made a significant remark when ask
ed why he abandoned his hunt.
“My first obligations are to the
American Bankers’ Association,” said
Mr. Burns.
This remark, taken in connection
with an earlier report that nearly
3,000 warehouse certificate- held by
Martin’s firm for stored cotton had
been found to be forgeries, was re
garded as highly significant.
Investigation to-day established be
yond a doubt that a broken rail, not
a plot, was the cau-o of the wreck
of Central of Georgia passenger train
No. to. Macon to Atlanta, near Love-
joy, Ga., last night, in which a dozen
persons were more or 1 *ss seriously
injured.
The track was cleat fd by I o’clock
this morning and traffic was resumed
without any .serious delay.
Capt. A. J. FI. yj, conductor, had
his back and right B a badly sprained.
B. M. Gordon, a news agent, had his
back and hip hurt, and Mrs. J. T.
Matthews, of Butler, a tubercular pa
tient on her way To an Atlanta san
itarium was badly shakt n up.
List of Injured.
Others Injured \\ re:
Julia Pope, Albany, l
Coot crushed.
Pearl Evans. Ala
bruised.
Ethel
ankle
and
T*
slightly
inasvjiie, badly
Heirs to Fight for
$76,000,000 Estate
Kansan Interests San Bsfbardinc,
CaU Relatives for ii,
Louisan’s Fortune.
BAN BERNARDINO. CAL., April
19.- Plana were made to-day by heirs
of Henry Garner, who died many
years ago in St. Louis, to begin liti
gation in an effort to obtain a share
of his estate, appraised by the St.
Louis courts in 1900 at $70,000,000.
T. F. Gainer, a cattleman of Dodge
City. Ivans., arrived here to-day to
unite in the proposed litigation San
Bernardino relatives of the St. Louis
pioneer.
Garner explained that a 99-year
lease on the estate had recently ex
pired and that about 50 relatives were
interested in a property division.
Alice Thaw, Former
Countess, Off to Wed
Has Left for Georgia in Special Car
To Become Geoffrey Whit
ney's Bride.
•
WASHINGTON, April 19.—Mis.
Copley Thaw, formerly Alice. Coun-
, tors of Yarmouth, has left Washing'
ton in a special car for Cumberland,
Ga.. where she will be mar
ried on Tuesday to Geoffrey Whit-
j hey, of Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Copley Thaw was accom
panied by her mother. Mrs. William
i Thow and a party of friends. The
j marriage will be solemnized at the
winter home of the brother-in-law
i and sister of Airs. Thaw, Mr. and
j Mrs. George L. Carnegie.
UNION LABOR MEN PLAN
BIG COLONY IN FLORIDA
PENSACOLA, FLA.. April 19.—
Members of Typographical and other
trades unions are about to start a
'mammoth colonization scheme in Es
cambia and Santa Rosa Bounties,
which, it is claimed, will bring 40,000
residents to the two counties.
A deal is said to be practically
I closed for 3 0,000 acres in Escambia
and 20.000 acres in $anta Rosa, but
if is Impossible to ascertain the puv-
j chase price.
DENVER MILLIONAIRE AND
WIFE HURT IN AUTO CRASH
ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 19.—A
big touring car, in which Walter
Cunningham, a Denver millionaire
toilet goods manufacturer, and hie
wife, formerly Miss Marjorie Ham
ilton, of Chicago, were riding, plunged
down an embankment near here late
j last night, and both were seriously
! injured.
. Cha: tanoogc. bruised.
Bi ooke, < ’hattunoogu.
FIc V. kins, Americiis,
sol) and two
Tenn, badly
Macon, nose
rien
shaken up.
Lula Brook
Airs. L. E.
bruised.
Maybe 11c
bruised.
Mrs. H. J. File. G»,
bypisvdi*
.Mis. Red G. lb mb-,
children, Knoxville,
1 shaken up.
Joseph P. Hamilton,
i broken, skull contused.
W. W. Scott, Atlanta, hip and leg
hurt.
Peter Turner, New York, knee
bruised.
Charles Newman, New York, fin
ger broken.
The fact that the derailment hap
pened in a cut with an embankment
on either side is responsible for the
slight injuries and small loss of life.
When the five cars left the rails in
stead of overturning, they rolled
: against the embankment. The en
gine and express ear, not derailed,
stopped within a train length. Pas
sengers were transferred at Jones
boro and rushed through to Atlanta
where they were given medical at-
| tention.
Captain Floyd, veteran conductor,
told this running a graphic story of
the happening. His horpe is at 105
Lawton Street. He was most seri
ously injured of the passengers, and
, he expects to he on his run again
within the next few weeks.
Captain Floyd’s Story.
“We were running at about 45-
miles an hour when we struck the
cut. The fourth car was the first to
leave the tracks, the fifth and sixth
cars next, and these three pulled off
the third car from the front. A rail
«»n the inside of the curve had col
lapsed after the engine passed over it.’’
“The derailed cats leaned against
the side of the embankment without
turning over. There was more ex
citement than real fright or injury.
Passengers literally swarmed from
the windows.
Their principal concern seemed to
be whether any one hud been injured
or killed.
“I have been in several wrecks,”
he said. “In many of them several
persons were killed and I was not
injured at all. Now it seems that 1
was about the only person anyways
badly hurt.”
Captain Floyd telegraphed a re
port of the wreck to Atlanta and Ala-
con as soon as he could reach Love-
joy, the nearest station, and wrecking
trains were sent out. from both places.
A relief train was made up at Jones
boro that arrived with the passengers
, at Atlanta at 10:04 o’clock. The en
gine of the wrecked train brought the
relief train in.
A number of ambulances and a
corps of physicians met the train at
the Terminal Station, but a greater
number of the injured went to their
homes.
Gale Extinguishes Fuse of Infer
nal Machine, Saving Smeaton
Tower From Destruction.
. M< i.faUL-LNU.! A i .til 19.*- -Vliip
f
bomb?.
An infernal machine with “vptou
for women” and “death in ten /min
utes” painted tipon it. was found to
day against the inner gate to Smen -
ton Tower, near Hoe. a rocky promt*
tcry near the edge of this city.
A gale extinguished the fuse, less
than ten minutes before the explosive
would have been reached, an investi
gation showed.
The bomb contained a large quanti
ty of high power blasting powder
with slugs.
Search is being made, for tlm per
sons who placed the bomb. They arc ■
believed to be members of the wo- |
men's social and political union.
The wave of terror created by the
suffragettes is spreading all over Eng
land.
Keep Falling in Love
and Y ou ’llKeep Y oung
So Says Dr. Oldfield, Who Would
Drown All the Loveless
Folk.
Gen, Sickles Again
In Peril of Prison
! On a State Claim |
Order of Arrest Is Expected to Come I
Within the Next
Fortnight.
NEW YORK, April 19. - I expect
body execution against General Dan-
1 iel E. Sickles within a fortnight,*’
said Sheriff Julius Harburger. “When
It comes I shall ha ve no recourse but
I to place the aged hero of Gettys
burg under arres* and take him t?
; jail, to remain there until the $24,-
1 000 he owes tne State has been paid.’’
This $24,000 is the amount of rhe
Khortage in General Sickles’ ac
counts as chairman of the State
Monuments Commission.
General Sickles has no resource
So far. only $1,000 has been raise-,
by popular subscription to aid Gen
eral Sickles.
Heir to Austria’s
Throne Is Attacked
By Tuberculosis
Archduke Franz Ferdinand is Suf
fering From a Return of 20-
Year-old Malady.
VIENNA, April 19.—It is reported
from Trieste that tlie Archduke
Franz Ferdinand, heir lo the thrum,
is- seriously ill, having been again at
tacked by tuberculosis, from which
he suffered twenty years ago.
The Archduke has spent the !a>i
, three white s in Switzerland and the
spring on the .»dii. ‘ic coast. He G
now stopping at Miramar. near
Trieste.
Democratic Senators
In Cheap Food Strike
They Start an Inquiry to Cut Pro
tection Prices m Capitol
Restaurant.
WASHINGTON, April 19. -Small
cuts of pic at ten cents, tiny mourn,*
of rice pudding at fifteen cents,
i twenty-five cents a bowl for soup
and fifty cents for a portion of cold
meat has started a hunger strike
fn the Senate restaurant.
Democratic Senators, who for long
years have been compelled to pay
prices that looked reasonable to Re
publican members of the Millionaires'
j Club In charge of tfie restaurant, now
1 having the authority, have begun an
inquiry to see*just how fat the prof
its of the manager are and cut prices
| down to a more popular figure,
i A full meal for a hungry constit
uent is enough to flatten the purse
of a Democrat, and there are mat .
hungry constituents in Washington.
Hence the demand for cheaper price s.
Swings Indian Clubs
107 Hours, Collapses
Famous Australian Athlete Become*
Hysterical Under Strain in Lon
don and Attacks Attendants.
Detectives Declare They Have Evi
dence Enough to Fasten Guilt for
Theft of Bank Shipment on One
or All of Three Persons.
The $5,000 package of money taken from the Southern Ex
press Company has been recovered.
A train messenger to-day admitted that he had taken the
money.
Arrests are expected to-day in tlie mysterious disappearance
of $5,000 in currency in transit between the Brunswick Bank and
Trust Company and tlie Central Bank and Trust Corporation of
this city.
With the newspaper clippings that were substituted for l"ti
de Sam’s good money as one of a few meager dues, the detec
tives working on the ease announced that they have sufficient
evidence to fasten theft on one or all of three persons.
iresent indications the
I Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON April 19.—‘*Keep on fac
ing in love,” Is the advice Dr. Josiah
I Oldfield offered in a lecture on the
secret of perpetual youth.
“If you are married the thing is
wimple enough. Fall in love oil over ;
; again with your husband or wife. If
you do this you will never find time j
to adopt the nagging habit. Nothing
ages one like matrimonial nagging.
“As for bachelors and spinsters,
| don’t waste time. Above all, let none
j of you be senile enough to tell me
! you are incapable of falling In love j
\ or have no inclinations to do so.
“A person who has never been In 1
love and never wants to be ought ro i
be drownev That is my conviction/'
REV, W, H. HOPKINS IN
CONGREGATIONAL PULPIT
At the morning service of (Central
Congregational Church. Carnegie Way
and Ellia Street. Rev. W. H. Hopkins
will preach in the place of the minis- !
I ter. Dr. George Loring Hanscom. Mr.
Hopkins recently was appointed Con
gregational superintendent for the
South, transferring from Colorado,
where he had been superintendent of
the Congregational Home Missionary
Society.
Dr. Hanscom has arranged to have
| Philip Weltner, superintendent of the
Prison Association of Georgia..occupy :
the pulpit at the evening service. Mr. j
Weltner will speak on “The Pris-
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, April 19.—After swing
ing Indian clubs continuously for 107
hours in order to establish a new
record, Tom Burrows, the famous
Australian all-round athlete, became
hysterical at Aldershot to-day and
attacked his attendants with his clubs.
Burrows originally set out to swing
the clubs 100 hours without rest, but
when he reached that mark he learn
ed of an old unauthenticated report
of 112 hours and determined to beat
that time.
Early to-day the long strain over
came him. With n yell, he darted at
his attendants, who Tied in eveiy di
rection. Burrows then fell exhausted
and went sound asleep'. He could not
be aroused and was put to bed.
MILLIONAIRE SPIRITUALIST •
LEFT TENN. PROPERTY
CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. April 19.
James H. Harris and Paul I). De-
Laney, of Denver, are now in Chat
tanooga in connection with the es
tate of Alonzo Thompson, Sr., a Den
ver millionaire spiritualist, whose
death Wednesday of last week and
subsequent developments have since
attracted much attention in the Mid
dle West.
11 was rumored to-day that Thomp
son’s will would be probated here, in
view of the fact that he owned ex
tensive property in Tennessee.
From
Southern Express Company, the
carrier in the mystery, will be
the only loser. The company is
said to have announced its in
tention to make good the loss 10
the Brunswick bank.
Sleuths Follow Nine Line*.
In tracing (town the person who ob-
the $5,000 from the package
s« r.t by the Brunswick Bank and
T tr*f Go&patiy to the UentfaJ Bank
and Trust Corporation, the detectives
are following nine general lines.
The men who have already been
veen. or will be before the investiga
tion is over, ale:
The person in the bank who made
up the package.
Clerk at the express office in Bruns
wick who received the package.
Persons who worked in the office
with him.
Clerk directly in charge of money
shipments, and who placed the money
shipments in the special safe in the
express car.
Messengers making the trip with
the car.
Clerk who receives money ship
ments at the Atlanta end.
Clerks associated with him in nis
work. *
Clerks who delivered the package to
the local bank.
Clerks in the local bank who re
ceived the package.
Each of these lines is being thor
oughly investigated, and to-day ih:
net is beginning to close.
Glerks at the Central Bank and
Trust Corporation* have been entirely
absolved of any participation in the
mystery. While the local bank signed
for the package, discovery of the loss
was made immediately and the ex
press company notified.
With the investigation getting fur-
I ther under way, the indications grow,
1 according to the detectives, that the
robbery was oommited while the
package was in the care of the ex
press company.
Labeled as Containing $5,000.
The money was put up in the pack
age by the bank and labeled as con
taining $5,000. It bore the bank’s
seals. Whether the clerk receiving
| the money for the express company
really saw the money is one. of the
vital points. In most instances the
bank puts up the money and sends
the sealed package to the express
company, while the company takes
the bank s word that the package
! contains the amount specified. This,
i is regarded as the one weak point
in a system otherwise nearly thief-
j proof.
One cleric received the package
while another one checked up be
hind him. When time for shipment
arrived these clerks placed it in the
special safe in the express car, the
combination of which is not known
to the messengers.
Another safe is carried in the car
for lesser valuable packages, to which
the messengers have the combination.
' A clerk in the Atlanta office had the
Combination, and these two are the
only ones supposed to know.
Opening of the package, removing
the money and substituting paper
clippings, then resealing the package
would have been an easy matter foi
any of the clerks handling the pack
age. Here enters the possibility of a
quiet sneak thief, either among ex
pends company employees or an put-
sider, wjio may have slipped into the
office compartment of
; clerks.
j It would have been u
i easy matter for any
I the combination of the
; committed the thefi.
Wax used on the seal;
l Brunswick Bank was red.
the money
•omparatively
ime knowing
safe to have
age apparently had been opened. Liu*
ted wax on one end having been pried
loose, the paper bent back, the money
removed and the paper substituted. *
Then the end had been resealed, black
wax being used over the red wax. The
express company uses black wax. Ap
parently this clew indicates that the
theft was committed while the pack
age was in care of the express com
pany.
But. working on a deeper theory,
the detectives might suspect another
than an express clerk. Black sealing
wax is easily obtained. Perhaps th ■
thief decided to “put one over." so as
to fasten suspicion Immediately on
the express clerk.
About one express office in 50 is
well lighted. In the rush of business,
with the sunlight barely fighting its
way through dust-colored windows
the clerk receiving the package might
never notice a slight part of black
wax upon the end and receipt for the
package in good order. It might thus
have traveled all the way to its des
tination without the express company
employees becoming suspicious.
Difficult Job.
The robbery leaves plenty of work
for tlie detectives. It means that
many innocent men come under sus
picion and maj-e have a hard time
proving heir innocence.
“The express companies take a
greater risk than any other common
carriers or business or banking
firms," said a company employee
“While the bank has great sums of
money in its care it is able to pro
vide immense steel vaults for its pro
tection. The express companies have
to depend upon the honesty of its
employees, and no matter how tight
the system may be wound about
them there are constant yieldmgs to
tempetation. Then the company takes
its great risk when it undertakes to
remove the money from one town to
another. This provides greater ave
nues for a* tiiief to get in his work.
It requires constant watching for the
money germ is apt to get the most,
honest man in the service. While
there is the knowledge that it is al
most impossible for an employee to
steal the money in his car and not
get punished, the sight of so much
money day after day often breaks
through their scruples and in a weak
moment they yield to temptation.
“I have known lots of fellows who
stole from the company, and all but
one of them were punished. One
committed a minor theft and disap
peared, while no great effort was
made to locate him.”
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