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VOL. XI. NO. 223.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,1913.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P ^ R £°
I Framers of Underwood Bill Say
Measure Will Spur American
Manufacturers to Increase Ef
ficiency to Hold Home Market.
[Improvement of Processes and
Machinery, They Further Claim,
Will Enable Yankees to Invade
Foreign Commerce Strongholds.
|Report Containing This Prophecy,
by Ways and Means Committee,
Says Income Tax Will Provide
$170,125,000 for Big Deficit.
Ex-Convict Steals
Stripling’s Bible
Year on State Farm Old Not Reform
Dallas Fallin, Again
Under Arrest.
COLUMBUS. GA„ April 22.—
Spending a year on the State farm
did not reform Dallas Fallin, who
has fallen into the toils of the law
again, his offense being committed
this time In Muscogee t'ounty, when
• sold a Bible intended for Thomas
Edgar Stripling, who is serving a
life term for murder, and kept the
proceeds from the sale.
Last week Fallin appeared In Co
lumbus ind going to the Stripling
home stated he was Will Proctor, a
guard at the State farm, In the city
on business, and that knowing her
husband, he thought probably she
would want to send him something.
Mrs. Stripling had recently purchased
a new Bible which she Intended
sending her husband and she gave
it to him to be delivered to Strip
ling. When the deception was dis
covered, Fallin was arrested. He is
now in Muscogee County jail.
Militant Chief Fined
For Carrying Pistol
Would Have Killed Any Man Who
Spoke to Her, English Suffra
gette Tells Court.
WASHINGTON, April 22.—’That the
| A rtorican manufacturer, spurred by a
iitive tariff to greater activity
, ta n control of his home market,
, i; ruase his < fficieney to such an
junt that he will make new trade
., i.usts abroad is the prediction of
, i iti< members of the House
v,.v, and Means Committee, who
ne»l the Underwood tariff bill.
Their report, signed by the four-
I n Democratic members of the com
ini t tee. was presented to the House
day. They estimate that for the
(fiscal year following the passage of
the bill the receipts of the Govern -
be les.^ than the disburse
ment# by $08,790,000. To meet this
jiit licit the income tax has been
I framed. It is estimated the revenue
(from this tax will be $170,125,000.
According to the committee’s est
imate, the customs revenues from the
I I’nderwood bill will be $37,896,000 less
I man the customs receipts from the
I Payne law in 1912.
Difference in Revenue.
Estimate# of the difference in reve-
ue on separate commodities are
|given in the following table:
Underwood
Commodity. Old Tariff. Bill.
Ichemicals . $12,239,742 $12,985,000
I Earthenware ... 11,156,221 9,497,000
Metal 17,346,221 15,549,000
(Wood 3,042,834 898,000
I Sugar . ...... 50,951,000 40,196,000
I Tobacco 25,571.000 26,002,000
I Agricultural . . . 34,146,000 21,569,000
(Spirits 17,409,000 20,987,000
(Cotton 11,085,000 11,257,000
I Flax, hemp, jute. 49,062,000 15,987,000
I Wool 27,072,000 12,774,000
(Silk .. 13,695,000 16,212,000
I Pulp and paper. 4,886,000 2,857,000
(Sundries 59,952,000 26,931,000
The average reductions in duties
I from the present Payne law to the
I I’nderwood bill by schedules are as
I follows:
Chemicals, from 25 to 19 per cent;
|earthenware, 50 to 33; metals. 34 to
wood, 12 to 3; sugar, 48 to 35;
I agricultural, 29 to 16; spirits, 83.98 to
I*13.30; otton, 45 to 30; flax, 45 to 20;
I wool, 55 to 18; silks, 51 to 44; pulp
(and paper, 21 to 11; increases, tobac-
o, 82 to 85. sundries, 24 to 33.
It is estimated that the amount of
Idutiable importations under the bill
[would increase in value from $759,-
■200,915 to $798,956,000. The average
jduty under the Payne law is 40.12 per
en as against an estimated average
under the Underwood bill of 29.60
I per cent.
425,000 Incomes Taxable.
Crider the income tax law it is esti-
Dud that 425.000 incomes, includ-
|' n £ corporations, as well as individ-
wili be taxable. The greatest
amount of revenue, according to the
alculations, will be derived from in*
I ■ ' within the range from $25,000
|t° $10o,000. Over 100 incomes taxable
t 1 per cent as well as 1, 2 and 3 per
mt surtaxes, are included in the
fcckoning.
^hu income from the tax on these
t mense incomes will bring in all
$0,824,00. The committee esti-
3 that 126,000 incomes between
|34.‘>uf» and $5,000 will be subject to
he 1 p^ r cent tax, yielding $630,000.
j wording to the estimates, how-
I the greatest nuumber of taxable
I c mes will be in the range of 15, -
r° t'* ?10,000. These will yield to the
I Government, if the expectations of
LONDON. April 22.—Anna Bell, a
militant suffragette, who was arrest*
ed outside of Holloway jail for car
rying a loaded revolver, to-day was
fined $25, with the alternative of serv
ing three weeks in jail.
The judge ordered an inquiry into
her mental condition. She was found
to be normal, but in a highly ex-cita
ble condition.
“I would have killed any man who
touched me or even spoke to me,” the
prisoner told the court.
She said she was doing picket duty.
‘Slaying Easier Than
Divorce in Chicago’
General Tom Powell Says One
Woman in Twelve Indicted for
Killing Husband Is Convicted.
3 ALDERMEN TO
Accused Councilmanic Trio, How
ever, Will Deny They Violated
Law in Any Way.
M’CLELLAND TO BE ABSENT “NATIONAL HONOR AT STAKE
Probe Comrflittee to Begin Taking
of Testimony To-morrow—“No
Whitewash,” Says Candler.
WASHINGTON, April 22.—“It is
easier to get rid of a husband in Chi
cago by the murder route than
through the divorce courts,” accord
ing to General Tom Powell, a promi
nent Democrat of Ohio, in Washing
ton to watch other Democrats get
jobs.
“One woman out of twelve indicted
for killing her husband Is found
guilty,” he added. "It is impossible
to enforce the laws against murder, it
seems.”
The general predicted the complete
disintegration of the Republican party
in Ohio.
Would-Be Suicide Is
Foiled by Landlady
Mrs. O. T. Johnson Snatches Razor
From Frank Wilkerson Before
He Can End His Life.
Frank Wilkerson, of SO 1-2 Capitol
Avenue, is in a serious condition at
Grady Hospital to-day from a self-
inflicted gash across his throat. He
attempted suicide in his boarding
house last night at 11 o’clock because
of broken-down health and the rav
ages of tuberculosis, he said.
Wilkerson called his landlady, Mrs.
O. T. Johnson, to his room and as she
approached drew a razor across his
throat. Mrs. Johnson succeeded in
taking it away from him before he
severed the jugular vein, and sent in
an emergency call for Grady Hos
pital.
Speer Denies He Is
After Bacon’s Seat
p re fers Seeing Him in Senate to
Anyone That Could be Suggested,
Macon Judge Says.
MACON, GA„ April 22.—Judge Em
ory Speer to-day made the following
statement:
“You can say that 1 would not run
against Senator Bacon if I were
sure I could be elected, and 1 would
prefer to see him Senator to anyone
whose name has been suggested or
who could be suggested.
“I am not in politics and have not
been in any sense in the twenty-eight
years f have been on the bench.”
Admission of all the facts in the
councilmanic graft investigation will
be made by the three Aldermen ac
cused in John E. McClelland's state
ments. J. W. Maddox stated at the
meeting of the Council Investigating
Committee to-day that he would sub
mit his statement in writing to-mor
row afternoon. I. N. Ragsdale and
F. J. Spratling will take the stand
and tell their stories.
“There won’t be any need for any
more witnesses after my clients, Al
dermen Ragsdale and Spratling. have
made their statement**,” said Attor
ney Luther Z. Rosser. “They will
tell all the facts.”
When it met to organize for the
probe the investigating committee
discovered that it had no prosecutor.
Alderman McClelland, who filed the
charges of corruption against the
three Aldermen, was not present and
he informed the committee he did not
intend to appear in the role of prose
cutor.
Ellis Claims To Be Adviser.
Assistant City Attorney W. D. El
lis. Jr., was there, but announced that
his capacity was only that of ad
viser. City Attorney Mavson was not
present, it is said, because he ex
pects to be called as a witness to de
fend Alderman Maddox.
“I think the resolution ordering this
investigation instructs the City Attor
ney to take,charge uf the case,” said
Attorney Ropser.
“It authorizes me to get the truth,”
said Mr. Ellis.
“Well. I don’t mean to invite your
legal talents against me,” said Mr.
Rosser, “but I’ve seen this neutral at
titude tried by solicitors. You’ve got
to be on one side or the other.”
Put It Up to Committee.
Mr. Ellis finally said it was up to
the committee what attitude he should
take.
Charles T. Hopkins, attorney for
Air. McClelland, had to leave Atlanta
for Washington to-day, and he re
quested a postponement of the inves
tigation until he returned. But Attor
ney Rosser insisted on action, and the
committee decided to begin the actual
taking of testimony to-morrow after
noon.
Since securing his leave of absence
from Council, Alderman McClelland
has let it be known that he does not
intend to be present during the inves
tigation. This is displeasing to the
accused Aldermen, who relied on
counter charges to be made during the
examination of witnesses.
Offers Names of Witnesses.
John S. McClelland was present,
though, and he said he was ready to
give a list of witnesses by whom hi#
father's charges could be proved.
To prove the charge against Mad
dox of having sub-contracts with the
city the names of ex-Mayor Court-
land S. Winn. Chief of Construction
R. M. Clayton and Chester A. Dady
will be offered.
To- show that Spratling has bor
rowed money from near-beer dealers
the names of several officers of the
Fourth National Bank. T. O. Poole,
Albert Steiner, James Lynch, beer
dealers, will be given.
To show that Ragsdale has bought
and sold horses to the city, he will
suggest the names of several stock-
men to be called, as well as Fire Chief
Cummings and Sanitary Chief John
Jentzen.
All the committee. John S. Candler,
chairman; Jesse M. Wood. George H.
Boynton, C. D. Knight and Clarence
H Haverty, were present.
MRS. APPELBAUM TALKS
TO ANGER JAPS
President, in Message to Gov
ernor Johnson, Asks for Inof
fensive Alien Land Law.
Declares That Discrimination Wil
Bring Into Question Treaty Ob
ligation of United States.
Platform of “Progressive” Organiza
tion Advocates Revision of Gov
ernment Along Modern Lines.
PEKIN. CHINA, April 22.—The
Min Chu Tang. Tung Yi Tang and
Ivung Ho Tang political parties op
posed to the Kuo Ming Tang, or Dem
ocratic party—have been combined
and a nev\ party ( ailed Progressive”
has been launched.
The platform was draft' d by Pres
ident Yuan Shih Kai. It advocates a
strong central government and pro
poses to limit the power of the prov
inces by abolishing the office of pro
vincial governor, delegating the gov
ernors’ powers to taotals or district
attendants, appointed by the central
government.
The platform also advocates the re
organization of the whole government
along modern lines.
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Gives First Interview in Jail
committee calculators are borne
I ■ u experience, $5,340,000.
The income tax, says the com mi t-
1“ * report, furnishes an easily col-
p p aaily adjusted method of col-
Cortinued on Page 3, Column 1,
TRAVELERS’ AID SOCIETY
OF 48 STATES MEETS HERE
Members of the Travelers' Aid So
ciety of Atlanta are to-day making
arrangements for the entertainment
of representatives from " States,
who will meet with the Southern So
ciological Congress Friday.
A special luncheon will be given
to John Ilder. a New York social
worker, by men and women of At
lanta interested in housing the city 3
poor.
House Starts Probe
of “Baseball Trust”
Gallagher Introduce* Threatened
Resolution Calling for Investiga
tion by Congress.
WASHINGTON. April 22.—Repre
sentative Gallagher, of Illinois, to
day introduced a resolution directing
the Speaker to appoint a committee
to investigate the "baseball trust.”
Gallagher wants to know if unjust
discrimination has been practiced *n
favor of or against |>alyera, and
whether baseball magnates have ef
fected a combination in restraint of
trade.
The resolution directs the Attorney
General to determine whether club
owners should be prosecuted under
the Sherman anti-trust law.
The measures declare the ' baseball
t ru «." is "the most audacious and
aujyratic trust in the country."
SACRAMENTO, CAL., April 22.
The draft of President Wilson’s
second message to the people of
California, advieing moderation in
anti-alien land legislation, was
received by Governor Hiram
Johnson this afternoon. The Gov
ernor at once began the prepa
ration of a message submitting
President Wilson’s message to the
California Legislature. It was re
ported at noon that the message
would probably go to the Senate
late to-day
WASHINGTON. April 22.—Presi
dent Wilson to-day appealed to Gov
ernor Hir^m Johnson, of California,
and through him to the people of Cal
ifornia. not to pass any alien land law
which might antagonize Japan and
embroil the entire United States in a
conflict with the Japanese.
The President’s message to Gov
ernor Johnson read:
I speak upon the assumption,
which 1 am sure Is well founded,
that the people of California do
not desire their representatives—
and that their representatives do
not wish nor intend—in any oir-
stances to embarrass the Govern
ment of the United States in its
dealings with a nation with whom
it has most earnestly and cor
dially sought to maintain rela
tions of genuine friendship and
good will, and that, least of all.
they desire to do anything that
might impair treaty obligations
or cast a doubt upon the honor
and good faith of the nation and
its Government.
Anxious to Avoid Challenge.
I therefore appeal with the ut
most confidence to the people, the
Governor and Legislature of Cali
fornia to act in the matter now-
under consideration in a manner
that can not, from any point of
view, be fairly challenged or called
in question.
if they deem it necessary to ex
clude all the aliens who have not
declared their intentions to be
come citizens from the privileges
of land ownership, they can do so
along lines already followed in
the laws of many of the other
States, and as many foreign coun
tries, Including Japan herself. In
vidious discrimination will Inev
itably bring in question the treaty-
obligations of the Government of
the United States.
Appeals to National Honor.
I register my very earnest and
respectful protest against dis
crimination in this case not only
because I feel it my duty to do so
as the Chief Executive of the na
tion, but also—and the more read
ily—because I believe that the
people and the legislative author
ities of California will generous
ly respond the moment the matter
is frankfy presented to them as a
question of national policy and
national honor. If they have ig
nored this point of view, it is, I
am sure, because they did not
realize what and how much was
involved.
WOODROW WILSON.
Californians Defiant.
Prior to issuing the appeal. Presi
dent Wilson conferred with members
of the California delegation. They
threw down the gauntlet of defiance,
saying that California is a sovereign
State and as such Is Justified in pass
ing such laws as she sees fit.
Representative Baker was particu
larly emphatic on this point, and in
dicated to the President that an in
fringement of the states’ rights prin
ciple would not only be hotly resent
ed by California, but It would hasten
the passage of a stringent anti-Jap
anese land law bill.
Ineligible Orientals
Only Are Affected.
SACRAMENTO, CAL., April 22.-
When finally amended the anti-alien
land bill will be worded to apply only
to Orientals ineligible to citizenship.
Administration leaders fear the re
sult of shutting out European capi
tal by making the measure apply to
all aliens.
“The bill," said Senator Thompson,
"will be amended to put the ques
tion up to us of excluding only such
aliens as are not eligible to become
citizens.”
Slaver Warrant for
Millionaire Denied
Los Angeles Prosecutor Refuses to
On Girl’s tSry of Organized
Vice Traffic.
LOS ANGELES, April 22. Deputy
District Attorney McCartney to-day-
refused to issue a warrant for the
arrest of Millionaire George H. Bixby,
of Long Beach, on a charge of con
tributing to the delinquency of
a score of girls.
The charges against Bixby were
made by Katherine Phillips, an ac
tress and author, who was arrested
on a charge of attempting to ^lack-
mail wealthy residents of Long
Beach.
Miss Phillips told the police that
there was an organized traffic in*
young girls in which a number of
wealthy men were involved. The
girls, she charged, were recruited
from department stores and restau
rants.
Diplomatic Post for
Bacon’s Old Partner
Judge A. L. Miller, of Macon, to
Get Some Foreign Ap
pointment
WASHINGTON, April 22.—Senaio'
Bacon, of Georgia, to-day refused to
discuss the expected appointment .f
his former law partner. Judge A. L.
Miller, of Macon, Ga., to a high post
in the diplomatic service, but he
checked himself when lie was on the
point of denying it.
“1 am under obligations not to give
it out,” said Senator Bacon. "The
only thing 1 can say is that he has not
yet been appointed."
This, of course, is manifestly true.
The fact remains, however. that
Judge Miller will be appointed, the
only question being where he will be
sent.
Thomas J. Buchanan
At Head of Veterans
Atlanta Camp Votes to Support
San Antonio as Place for
1914 Reunion.
Thomas J. Buchanan will head At
lanta (’amp, No. 159, United Confed
erate Veterans, t lie coming year.
Others elected with him were:
First lieutenant, Janies C. Huff;
second lieutenant, 8. Dalton Mitchell,
third lieutenant, James O. Carlisle;
fourth lieutenant, B. M. Zetler; ad
jutant, Captain William H. Harrison,
historian, Joseph T. Derry.
The ckmp pledged itself to vote
for San Antonio, Texas, as the meet
ing place for the 1914 general re
union when the veterafis meet this
year at ('hattanooga. The State re
union will be held this year in Bruns
wick.
[ Have Clear Con
science,” Declares
Widow, Facing Trial
To-morrow On the
(-Large of Slaying
Husband In Hotel.
Compromise to End
Strike in Belgium
Premier Announces Arbitration of
the Manhood Suffrage Question.
500,000 Workers Idle.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BRUSSELS, April 2Z.—Premier
Brouqueville announced this after
noon in the Chamber of Deputies that
the national manhood suffrage strike,
which began a week ago last Monday,
ed has made 500,000 men Idle, will be
compromised.
REINSTATING OF GEORGIA
CADET FAVORED BY COURT
WASHINGTON, April 22. A court
martial has recommended the rein
statement at West Point of John D.
Christian, of Virginia; T. M. Simp
kins. of Georgia; E. II. Freeland, of
Florida, and R l. Sasse, of Delaware,
dismissed October 6, 1911, for having
intoxicating liquors in their posses
sion.
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
paper in the South.
Mrs. I allie Si-oil Appeibaum, who posed for The Georgian's
photographer to-day ill the county jail for the first picture she
has had taken since her arrest on the charge of killing her husband.
FORGER BRUMBY ’IRSHAM. WHITE
CAUGHT IN WEST GET SALARY CUTS
Youth Escaped Montgomery Jail
as He Was Held for Crime
Committed in Atlanta.
Benjamin YY Brumby, known to ih»-
Pinkertons as “king of the forgers’
and wanted in Atlanta for three al
leged forgeries on local bank” is un
der arrest in San Francisco, accord
ing to a telegram received to-day
by the local branch of the Pinkerton
Agency.
Brumby, at one time, was almost
in the hands of the Atlanta authori
ties. He was arrested in Montgomery,
Ala., after he fled this city and waa
being hMd in the jail there* to await
the arrival of Atlanta officers Last
Christmas night, a day or two after
his wife had vleited him in the jail,
he sawed ills way through tin* bars
and made a clean escape. It always
has been the belief that his wife
aided him in ills escape.
Brumby was charged with forging
the names of Alex. W. Smith and
Thod A. Hammond to check# aggre
gating more than $1,000. One was
for $592.60, another for $380 and a
third for $56. His plan was to gain
access to tlie offices of prominent
business men by the use of skeleton
key#, botain canceled checks and also
a supply of blank checks. Using the
canceled checks as modajfi, he would
fill out the blank checks for any
amount he desired. In this the Pin
kertons say that he has probably no
superiors in the country. Two of the
Atlanta banks were his victims
Brumby’s record is said to include
two terms in the Missouri State Pen
itentiary and a term in Sing Sing
Ab well as being one of the cleverest
forgers with whom the authorities
have had to deal, he is regarded as a
desperate man.
The telegram from San Francisco
said that Brumby had confessed to
forgeries there and would be pros
ecuted. Chief Beavers wired the
Western authorities to hold him when
they were through with him so that
he might be brought back to At
lanta.
Experiment Station Board Trims
Entomologist and Chemist $960
and $800 Respectively.
GRIFFIN, GA.. April 22.—The fight
on “long-distance salaries" being
drawn by officials of the Georgia Ag
ricultural Experiment Station staff
came to a climax to-day, when the
board of directors of the station met
here to elect the new; staff to take
office July 1, when R. J. H. DeLoach,
the new station director, succeeds
Martin V. Calvin.
Dr. H. C. White, of Athens, now
vice director and chemist, with i
salary of $1,800, fs retained as station
chemist at a salary of only $1,000, a
reduction of $800 per year. The office
of vice director is abolished.
E. Lee Worsham, station entomol
ogist, at a salary of $960, is retained
in that office without salary, he to be
paid fees for such work as he actually
does for the station at the request of
Director DeLoach.
J. M. Kimbrough is retained as ag
riculturist and assistant director, >n
condition that he retire at the end of
the term for which elected to-day.
Professor DeLoach is rejieved of the
duties of secretary-treasurer of the
station, the salary remaining at $2,600
per annum. M. G. Gamble is appoint
ed secretary-treasurer, at a salary of
$200 per year.
H. 'I'. Stuckey, horticulturist; T. A.
McLendon, botanist and plant pathol
ogist, and J. C. Temple, bactoriologist,
are re-elected.
The animal husbandman is to oe
appointed by Director DeLoach.
The department of poultry hus
bandry is discontinued, lack of funds
being assigned as the reason.
FLORIDA SENATE WANTS
U. S. JUDGES ELECTED
TALLAHASSEE, FLA.. April 22 —
The Florida Senate to-day passed a
memorial to Congress asking the
Florida delegation to support the pro
posed amendment to the Federal Con
stitution providing for the election of
Federal judges by the people
Prisoner, Apparently*
in Good Health and
Spirits A w a i ts
Chance to Clear
Name of Crime
Mrs Callie Scott Appeibaum to
day made her first statement aince
she entered the county jail to await
trial for the killing of her husband,
Jerome, who was found dead in the
Dakota Hotel.
“I have a clear conscience and
I do not fear the outcome of my
trial to-morrow,” said Mrs. Ap
peibaum to a Georgian reported.
"I will face the court confident
that any jury in the world would
acquit me. The trial can not
come too quickly for mo, because
I know it will lift from my name
the stigma that this ordeal has
attached."
Mrs. Appeibaum declined to make
further comment on the case except
to say: “Mr. Branch, my attorney.
will make my statements for me.”
Didn’t Want to Be Bothered.
“If you are going to take my picture
this morning," said Mrs. Appeibaum.
voluntarily, “please do It as soon as l
come clown, for I do not want to be
bothered later."
Again, when returning from the top
floor of the Jail, where she had will
ingly gone to pose for The Georgian
photographer. Mrs. Appeibaum, car
rying a bouquet of flowers, remarked:
“One of the girls gave these to me."
According to her attorneys, Mrs
Appeibaum 1s very friendly with all
the female prisoners in the county
jail. She gives them her newspa
pers and magazines.
"In fact.” said Attorney F. L. Jones,
of Charlotte, N. C., newly retained in
the rase, "she gives away almost
everything she has.”
Except for a slight paleness. Mr*.
Appeibaum is apparently enjoying
the best of health and is in excellent
spirits. Frequently she smiled pleas
antly as questions were addressed
her and she refused to answer.
Hair Shows Strands of Gray.
There are streaks of gray In her
wealth of wavy hair; there is a slight
furrow between the eyebrows. She
wag dressed simply, but attractively,
iter waist being of black chiffon and
her skirt of black broadcloth. She
wort silk stockings and neat oxford*,
and from her neck wan suspended a
large gold cross.
The table In her cell was bedecked
with flowers, and her workbags and
oilier little ftneries were of the best
material. An unusually handsome
silk parasol, with a gold handle, stood
in the corner.
Tite prisoner reads a great deal, the
electric lights being arranged for all
times of day to suit all the shadows
of the prison walls. A Bible, how
ever, was the only book on her table
to-day.
Mania for Girls Blamed
For Appelbaum’s Downfall.
A mania for girls and consequent
tangles with the criminal laws of
North Carolina caused the downfall
of Jerome A Applebaum in Charlotte,
according to J. Lawrence Jones, of
the law Arm of Jones & Flowers, of
that city, who is in the city to-day to
appear with Moore & Branch in de
fence of Mrs. Callie Scott Appeibaum.
charged with the killing of her hus
band here in February.
"Appeibaum had a number of girig
employed as demonstrators for the
Dryola Veneering Company, which
concern he promoted, and he was con
tinually mixed up with some of them.”
said Mr. Jones. "He had to leave
Charlotte because the directors of the
company, some of the best business
men in Charlotte, would not stand for
his dealings.”
"The Appeibaum case positively wik
be called first thing to-morrow morn
ing," said Solicitor Hugh M. Dorsey
to-day. Judge L. S. Roan, of the Su
perior Court, will preside.
Defense Eager for Trial.
"We shall be very much disappoint*
ed if Mrs. Appeibaum is not placed
on trial to-morrow morning,” saJd J.
\V. Moore, of counsel for the defense.
■ Mrs Appeibaum is much better now,
bu( she i9 still in bad health because
of her confinement in tne county Jail.”
"Yes, I came down to participate Is
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