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YOL. XI. NO. 225.
ATLANTA. HA.. THORS DAY. APRIL 24. 191:
CENTS EVERYWHERE p ^rS°
State Secretary, Wilson Approv
ing, Proposes an International
Agreement to Delay War.
SEEKS TO AID ARBITRATION
Scheme Intended to Supplement
Treaties and Close Gaps That
May Lead to Hostilities.
WASHINGTON. April 24.—To an
audience composed of ttie diplomatic
representatives of the nations of the
earth. Secretary of State Bryan, with
rhe approval of President Wilson.
io-.lay submitted h1s proposal for in-
lernational agreement* to delay war.
Regarding his proposal, Mr, Brjan
said:
■ The following statement embodies
the principal points of an agreement,
which the President of the United
States is willing to enter into, with
,he consent of the Senate, with all
other nations. It does not attempt to
go into details, hut is only intended
to set forth the main proposition
namely, that the President desires to
enter into an agreement with each
nation severally for the investigation
of all Questions whatever.
“This agreement is intended to
supplement any arbitration treaty
now in existence or any made here
after. Arbitration treaties always
except seme question from arbitra
tion. The proposal by the President
Is Intended to close the gap and leave
no dispute that ' an become a cause
of war.
Hoped to Prevent War.
“The form in which the report is
to be made Is left to be agreed upon,
and It may be that the time will differ
a different cases, but any time, how
ever short, furnishes an opportunity
to investigate and deliberate, and it
Is hoped the time for investigation
»nd deliberation will be sufficient to
a settlement without a resort
tin
Hoke Smith Doesn't
Think $20,000 Too j
High for Ty Cobb
Pores Over Star’s Contract and j
Big League Laws to See if
‘Trust’ Exists.
WASHINGTON, April 24—“I an
for Ty Cobb,” was the platform an
nounced by Senator Hoke Smith, of
Georgia, when asked where he stood
on the baseball trust.
”1 want to do anything I can for my
distinguished fellow citizen. The peo
ple of Georgia, as well as the rest of
the country, like Ty Cobb, and the.
want to see him get all, he earns.
"It may seem romantic to talk of
salary of $20,000 for a baseball star,
but that salary is an established fact
with stars of the theater, if a man
draws the crowds that bring great
sums into the box office, he should bo
entitled to a salary in proportion.
"I have received Cobb's contract
and I am reading'the laws of the
organization by which he has been
employed. 1 don't know just yet
whether we shall have an inquiry into
the workings of the baseball trust.”
HAST; RESCUE
t W ia, Plot.Girl’s Plea to Bigamy Charge
Counsel to Fight Decision Denying
Change of Venue for Con
fessed Slayer.
MACON. GA..
Nil k Wilburn nor
to trial next week
April 24.—Neither
Mrs. King will go
for the murder of
to
contracting
secure
to war.
•‘it will be noticed that each party
. -alns the right to act indepeml-
ntly after, the report is submitted
I it is not likely a nation will de
clare war after, it has had oppor
t unity during investigation to confer
with the opposing nation. But
whether this proposed agreement ac
complished as inUcli as it is hoped for,
it is at least a step in the direction
uf universal peace.”
The text of th ■ memorandum given
the diplomats for transmission to
their several governments follows:
Arbitrate All Disputes.
The parties hereto agree that ail
questions of whatever character and
nature, in dispute between them,
shall, when diplomatic efforts fail, be
submitted for investigation and re-
port to an international commission
> ompos-jd (the composition
agreed upon), and the
parties agree not to declare war or
begin hostilities until such investi
gation is made and report submitted.
“The investigation shall be con
ducted as a. matter of course without
the formality of a request of either
party; the report shall be submitted
within (time to be agreed upon),
from the date of the submission of
dispute, and neither party shall
utilize the period of investigation to
augment its military or naval pro
gram. but the parties hereto reserve
the right to act independently on the
subject matter in dispute after
report is submitted.”
Atlanta Is After
City Plan Congress
Delegates to Chicago From Improve
ment Association Will Extend
Invitation.
Mob Tries to Duck
Militant Speakers
Women, Who Narrowly Escaped Be
ing Thrown Into Trafalga Foun
tain, Are Fined.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, April 24.— Mrs. Despard,
president of the mildly militant Wom
en’s Freedom League, who, with two
other suffragettes, was arrested in
Trafalgar Square, last night for oreat.
ing a disturbance, was sentenced to
day to pay a fine of $25 or serve two
weeks in jail. The other two were
given smaller fines.
Several members of the league
mounted the Nelson column at Trafal
gar Square and began ringing bells
and screaming. “Votes for women.”
Soon a hostile crowd gathered.
“Duck them in the fountain.' shout
ed some, one in the crowd, and a rush
was made lor the suffragettes. Po
licemen rescued the women.
‘Pie Cutting’ Delay
Nettles Georgians
Congresoman Edwards, Home Under
Doctors’ Orders. Says Stovall Will
Get Switzerland Post.
SAVANNAH. GA.. Aprii 24.—All
Republican postmasters and Govern
ment officials In Georgia .should be
put out of office at once and Demo
crats put in their places, according ;o
Congressman Charles G. Edwards,
who, with other members of ihe
Georgia delegation in Congress, vis
ited President Wilson several days
ago and expressed dissatisfaction at
the slow distribution of patronage.
Congressman Edwards has re
turned home under order of his phy
sicians.
Mr. FMwards said the President
told the Georgians that it was his
intention to appoint Colonel Pleas-
ant A. Stovall as United States Min
ister to Switzerland.
$6,000 Fund Raised
By ‘Atlanta Spirit'
Pledge of $1,000 Brings Other $5,000
for State Sunday School
Work.
ELBERTON, Ga„ April 24.—That
famolTr “Atlanta spirit” was in evi
dence here last night in the Georgia
Sunday School convention when Dr.
Joseph Broughton, C. V. Lecraw and
C. D. Montgomery, of Atlanta, pledged
a contribution of 5,1,000 from the Sun
day Schools of that city and Fulton
county, in response to th« executive
committee's appeal for $0,000 to carry-
on the convention work in Georgia.
Quickly the other counties caught the
spirit and the entire $8,000 was
pledged,
Macon, Way cross and Milledgeville
are asking for the cinvention next
year. Milledgeville will probably bo
chosen.
High Death Toll in Pennsylvania
Shaft Laid to Owners Refus
ing Federal Aid.
HELP ARRIVES TOO LATE
Gas-Filled Passages Are Strewn
With Bodies, Declare Surviv
ors—Investigation Begun.
FIXLEYVILLE, PA.. April 24.—
That the Mononcaheia River Consol
idated Coal and Coke Company's ef
forts to minimize tile extent of the
Cincinnati mine disaster here, which
resulted in the loss of at least 100
lives, probably caused a heavier death
toll than there would have been oth
erwise was the report being investi
gated by Coroner James Heffran to
day.
T. M. Jolinsion, attorney for tiie
mine company, after talking with
company officials, to-day issued a
statement declaring that 35 bodies
have been recovered and So men are
yet in the mine. The company re
fused to admit that the men yet in
the mine are dead, but place tho num
ber of possible dead at 120.
Declined Federal Aid.
According to the reports current to
day, the company was notified of the
disaster about 1 o'clock yesterday.
The officials of the Bureau of -Mines]
a: Pittsburg offered their services |
about 3 o’clock, aid, according to :he j
officials, could have had a m'ne res
cue car on the scene an hour later.
Tile company's officials, however,
declared they had heard no details • f
| the explosion and refused the prof
fered aid, saying they had a first-aid
crew which could handle the situa
tion.
Federal aid was not summoned un
til late in the afternoon, and as i
result the Government experts did no:
rearii the mine htil 6:35 p. m. .
No blame is attached to the Federal
authorities, but many declared to-day
that had tho Government experts been
called earlier some of the men might
have been taken out alive.
Rescuers in Peril.
Rescuers worked frantically all
night endeavoring to break through
the walls of debris so that the bodies
could be reached.
Outside at the various entrances
stood hundreds of relatives and
friends of the entombed miners, wait
ing patiently for some word regard
ing their loved ones inside.
According to the mine foremen. 178
men were in the mine at the time of
the explosion.
An unconfirmed rpport to-day de
clared that several members of a gov
ernment rescue crew had been over
come by the fatal gases and that one
was dead. According to the report,
the men entered the mfne equipped
with oxygen helmets, but after going
some distance something went wrong
with their apparatus.
General Manager George J. Schleu-
derberg, of the company, refused to
discuss the explosion or estimate tne
number of dead.
Despite efforts of Government res
cuers, the seat of the explosion has
not been definitely determined. Nei
ther lias the cause been ascertained.
Miners declared the Cincinnati mine
always had been gaseous. It was one
of the oldest in the Monongahela val
ley. It was opened 80 years ago.
Princess and 4 Men
Dying in Air Mishaps
Asserrs She Was Forced to Wed
v» v v* v • -I-
Arrested Here With HusbandNo. 2
the latter's husband, James Kins, the
Jones County farmer. Attorney Jbhn
Ft. Cooper announced to-day tnat
would appeal from the decision ot j
Judge Park, of Jones Superior Court,
in denying a change of venue.
Mrs. King, who is closely confined
in the little jail at Grays, is destined
to be a mother again Hhe already
has six children, none over 18 years
old.
In the hearing*before Judge Park on
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Might Unknowingly Have Fired
While Under Its Hypnotic Induence,
Declares J. S. Liebman, M.D., Wit-
uess for Defense.
The Prosecution Charges:
That Appelbaum could not have died by his own hand by
the nature of his wounds. Physicians subpenaed by the state
testified that the wounds made suicide physically impossible.
That Mrs. Appelbaum and her husband quarreled all night
before the shooting: and he had threatened her life.
That she was perturbed over his “affairs" with other
women.
That the Daisie” letters substantiate the motive of
"jealousy."
That her incoherent statements to police officers after
the shooting were damagiug.
The Defense Replies:
That Appelbaum’s wounds could have been and were self-
inflicted. Witnesses for the defense told how Appelbaum
could have stretched full length on bathroom floor and fired all
three ...cits.
That Mrs. Appelbaum was under the influence of a hyp
notic drug taken the night before and moved in a trance.
That Mrs. Appelbaum loved her husband and had made
great sacrifices for him.
That Apnclbaum was in financial straits, had been
harassed by creditors, was at his rope's end and dsperate.
Mrs. CiiJlie Scott Appelbaum, ou trial for her life in criminal
] division of Superior • 'ohid. the slaving of her husband.
Jerome A. Appelbaum. in the Dakota Hotel, February 25. was
under the influence of variuol, a powerful hypnotic drug, on ihe
morning of the shooting. That was the starting testimony given
j to the jury Ibis afternoon by Dr. J. S. Liebman. a witness for the
defense.
I'nder its potent influence an
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McClelland Will Not
Reply to Accusations
Attorney for Maddox Says He Will
Force Alderman to Prove
Graft Charges.
Alderman John
cuser of Aldermen
E. McClelland, ac-
J. W. Maddox, F.
J. Spratlihg and J. N. Ragsdale, was
out of the city to-day. It was said
at his office that he would make no
reply at present to the counter
charges of Alderman J. W. Maddox.
Alderman McClelland’s refusal to
respond to a subpena and appear ai
the meeting of the t'ouncil investi
gating committee has given a new
twist to the graft scandal. Hr in
formed the committee that, because of
his health he did not intend to he
present during the investigation, but
Aldine Chambers, attorney for Alder
man Maddox, said he would endeavor
to force him.
Because Alderman McClelland rev
fused to attend the meeting or give
the list of witnesses to prove his
charges the committee complied with
his request and postponed the hear
ing until next week, when his attor-
ney, Charles T. Hopkins, will have
returned to tho city.
Mrs. Jack Mashburn, 17, formerly Miss Gus.sic Hannon, of L.a-
(jrailge, Jfa., held here as a bigamist. She declares she was forced
to wed a mail 47 years old.
Young Woman Accuses Her Grand
father of Coercing Her.
MRS. MASHBURN’S MARRIAGE PHILOSOPHY.
“I’ll go to the penitentiary bfore I live with him (her first
husband). I love Jack (her second). And I won’t live, with ay
man I don’t love.
“Marriage without love is hell, and I don't propose to live in
hell. J
“I said ‘no' to the questions whether I would love and cherish
him to the so-called marriage and I won’t." -
Declaring that she was forced by
An effort will be made to land the]
'City Plan Conference for Atlanta ini
1314. To further plane a meeting of :
the executive committee of the At -1
lanta Improvement Association will j
be held in the Chamber of Commerce]
rooms Tuesday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock. Alec W. Smith is chairman
of the committee. The call for the
meeting was issued this morning
The City Plan Conference has de
veloped into one of tile strongest and
livest organizations in the country,
b could Atlanta succeed in landing
next year's convention it would bring
thousands of visitors and delegates.
Delegates will be named to repre
sent Atlanta at this year’s conference
in Chicago.
STRIKE PICKET SLAIN.
HUPEDALE, MASS.. April 24.
Kmilio Dacchiocchia, sftike picket,
was shot and killed to-day during
a battle between the police and strik
ers. The strikers say Dacchiocchia
was shot by a policeman.
A Dollar
If You’re
There!
In the “WANT AD”
Section of The Georgian
every day appear fif
teen names, those ap
pearing receiving a new
dollar bill if they have
it marked when the
“WANT AD” man ar-
rives in the Speedy
Cartercar. Your name
may bQthsfcgsad item,
Fifth Aviator Is Killed Outright in
Series of Accidents in
Germany.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, April 24.—Three aeropalno
accidents, :n which one flyer was
killed, three others were fatally hurl
and a titled woman was perhaps
mortally injured, occurred to-day in
Germany.
While maneuvering over Johannis-
tiiat Aerodrome, Aviator Dumnttz lost
control of his machine while it was
1,000 feet in the air. The aeroplane
careened and fell to the ground, Dum-
nitz being crushed to death.
Herr Abramovttch, an aviator, and
Princess Szarkowski, a passenger,
were perhaps mortally injured when
the motor of their Wright biplane
slopped and the machine clashed to
the ground. „ s
Two German army officers, ’ootl.
members of the aviation corps of the
Bavarian infantry, were mortally in
jured while making a iljglil at tin
jgehteische Aerodrome. Munich.
4,592 Voters Plead
For Charter Reform
Citizen-Committee. Cards Counted,
Will Renew Fight for Sub
mission to People.
Pau! Reese, secretary of the citi
zens' charter reform committee, to
day received a certified statement
from th«- American Audit company
that 4,592 registered voters of At
lanta had sent in post cards urging
Council to submit two proposed new
charters to a vote of the people.
There were 891 cards signed by peT-
sons whose names were not given on
the registration list.
With this indorsement the citizens'
renew its fight be-
committeje will
fore Council
Council killed
known as tii
L.-gi
enerally
reform
j:.. but
h rter til
i to the
her wealthy grandfather to marry
a man thirty years her senior, pretty
Mrs. Jack Mashburn. IT years old,
formerly Miss Gussie Harmon, of
LaGrange, Ga., a bride of a week,
to-day is a prisoner in the matron’s
ward at police headquarters, accused
of bigamy.
Husband No. 1, Jack Mashburn,
a young machinist with whom she
eloped fi om the Doll’s Hospital on
Luckie Street last Saturday after
noon is also unclei arrest.
Mashburn and his brick were ar
rested at a hotel on Broad Street this
morning by Detective J. B. Howell,
on information from LaGrange. Ga..
where it is alleged the girl was mar
ried on January 23 to Charles VY.
Smith. 47 years old. Both will be
held to await the arrival of an officer
Irom LaGrange.
Denies He Knew She Was Wed.
The girl and young Mashburn were:
married by Justice of the Peace
Girardeau last Saturday afternoon,
and Mashburn declares tHat he did
not know she had ever been marriei
before. He has known her for
year, he says. Last Friday afternoon
she came to Atlanta and obtained
board at the Doll’s Hospital <
Luckie Street. She disappeared Sat
urday morning, end when she. failed
to
return Saturda
re notified and
r. The search w,
a as learned t .
night
which, if true, may cause wholesale
prosecution of prominent citizens of
West Point and LaGrange, including
hei grandfather, J. K. P. Harmon
“I was forced to marry Smith,” the
girl cried. “I never loved him, and I
never will live with him. I hate th©
sight of the green old thing. I’ll go
to the penitentiary for life before
I’ll live with him. If I get a chance
I’m going to fchoot him.
“The green old countryman Is try
ing to break up my romance.
T love Jack, and I won’t live with
a man I (kn’t love. Marriage with
out love is hell, and I don’t propose
to live in hell. And it makes mo
think of hell to even look at Smith.”
Father Is Rich, She Says.
The girl is the daughter of J. VV.
Harmon, of LaGrange. She says her
father is worth more than % 100,000,
but that he never iiad much use for
her. At thr* time of her marriage
to Smith, she says, she was living
with her parents on a farm near La
Grange. Smith is a farmer, living
ibout 11 mile from LaGrange, re
puted to be very wealthy.
“He began paying me attentions
in December,” sh* said this morning.
"On December 4 I accidentally shot
myself in the shoulder while clean
ing i gun. and was in bed for more
than two weeks.
I was sick that the
hanging around me.
encouraged him and
marry him. I told
ted mm. and every
“It was while
old pest began
My grandfather
wanted me to
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Column 4.
influence that brings about sub-
consciousness and alleys the ae
tion of the voluntary nervous
system the " Woman of Mys
tery" in^ht have walked in her
sleep and even tired a pistol with
out being cognizant of her no
tions.
Dr, Liebman’s sensational teeti-
mony, which indicated that attorneys
for the defense might seek a line of
procedure not wholly in the direction
of the suicide theory, came shortly
nfter the prosecution had closed, con
tent with the chain of circumstances
forged about Mrs. Appelbaum by the
testimony of police officers.
Tells of Giving Her Varinol.
T gave Mrs. Appelbaum five grains
of varinol on the night of h ebruar?.
24.' said Dr. Liebman. “It wan ad
ministered because of her highly ner
vous condition, and the fact that she
was unable to sleep. She took five
more grains with her to take during
the night if the original dose proved
insufficient.”
The physician’s statement came in
answer to Attorney Moore’s question
as to Mrs. Appelbaum’s physical con
dition on the day prior to the shooting.
Leaping to this as a possible new
lead. Solicitor Dorsey put the witness
through a rigid cross-examination, di
recting at him a series of hypothetical
questions.
"Could a person take varinol late in
the afternoon or at night and even
sleep through the night, get up in the
morning apparently without waking
ir: the sleep take a revolver and.
without being conscious of it, shoot
a person, run down a .stairway and
faint and know nothing about it at
all when she came out of the faint?”
asked the prosecutor.
Call Action Highly Probable.
Dr. Liebman said that such an ac
tion under the influence of varinol
was possible, even highly probable.
His testimon ywas supplemented by
Dr. E. H. Waggoner, an expert, put
up by the defense.
Dr. W. B. I .ingle also testified that
lie had given varinol to a young wom
an at a sanitarium recently and two
days after Us administration she was
found walking in the hallways, ap
parently under a hypnotic spell.
With its early witness the defense
clung to the suicide theory. Evidence
was given to the jury by G. Cohen.
Harry Silverman and several doctors
to refute the State's case.
In the stir created in the court
room b\ the injection of the idea that
Mrs. Appelbaum may have mu\ * d in
hypnotic trance «>n the morning off
February 2,’>, the prisoner did no *
change her demeanor
continued taking notes and
the jur
/
fc ASS
>>he cooil vi M
id watchhicl ,•
tlw Jurymen closely, as if to find th*\
fffcot the un us tin I story was bavin* *
on their minds. 'IgflH
Undertaker Ed Bond, the first wjl .
m-ss to lake the stand for the defense
tnld the jury there had been rxw.l t*
burns dn Appelbaum’s undershirt amt
in the wound in his right arm.
Lay Grounds tor Oefenss.
Bond's statement laid the grourx.-
work for the deel'nse’s theory thaeV
Appelbaum, disrobed, deliberately av
d°W" oil the floor of the bath room
and shot himself, holding the pisp.l
iu his left hand, the first bullet pier „
ins the right urn, and continuing ou
im« the side, the second entering the
thorax and the third the ceiling
Dr. Liebman testified that App*;,
bauni was either ambidexterous
left-handed, and took up considerable,
time in the discussion of blood flow
following gunshot wounds
Some testimony was given to [be
effect that there were no bruises on
Appelbaum’s body such tie wouiJ
have resulted in a fall, and that thee*
was no blood on the bath room floor.
Attorneys for the deefnSe asserted’
at 1 o’clock, when court recessed, thac
evidence would not he concluded be*
fore 5 o’clock.
Mrs. Appelbaum is scheduled i<*
take the stand to make a voluntary
statement after all her testimony in
in.
Another “Dearie” letter, the sixth l#i
the case, was introduced in evidence
this morning and came as a surprise.
This is the letter whicli was to have
been introduced at the Coroner’s in
quest and which was not admitted, as
<’ity Detective Waggoner was unable
at that time to swear that he had goc-<
ton the letter out of Mra Anpelbaum’s
effects.
Ho was placed on the stand
morning by the prosecution and swore^Rl
to the identity of the letter and the
fact that lie had gotten it out of Mrs.
Appelbaum’s apartments along with
others.
Attempt to Establish Motive.
The State’s last witness, sent up m
an effort to substantiate the theory
that Mrs. Appelbaum killed her hus
band in a fit of jealousy, was W. L
Brown, a roomer at the hotel at the»
time of the shooting. Brown testified
he had seen Mrs. Appelbaum on fh«
day before the killing. February 24,
and that she had asked him it he had.
ever seen any other women go to Ap-
pelbaum’s room and told him that, sh* 5
- going to have the rooju i
•> icred or “was having the
I watched. " ' %
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