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'T' *sc; THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia— Probably showers to-day and to-mor- The Atlanta Georgia] M HOME row; colder to-morrow. Read For Profit—GEORGIAN W’ANT ADS -Use For Results lCOU 11 11 Uni i 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 Cfl p irr « * 0 LI 0 ]QJ VS DOCl • j fH 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 C- 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 1 h •pie. trkn the p. grand fat Continued on Page 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. " ' % l James' \ Brunch, heading eoung 'll **teh aU /