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THE WEATHER. Forecast—Showers late to-night or to morrow; warmer to-morrow. Temper atures—-8 a. m„ 60; 10 a. m., 67; 12 m., 71; 2 p. m., 74; sunrise, 4:56; sunset, 6:16. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit GEORGIAN WANT ADS Use For Results EXT 'RA VOL. XI. NO. 224. # ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, APRIL'24, 1913. 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE more 0 Alderman Denies Alleged Official Corruption and Makes Serious Counter Charges. INVITES A SUIT FOR LIBEL Intimates Close Relations With Big Corporations, Brewers and Crooks. Alderman James W. Maddox re plied to Alderman John E. McClel land’s charges of corruption with a violent attack to-day. The reply was ; n the form of a letter to Aldennan^ McClelland, asking a number of pointed questions reflecting on Al derman McClelland’s character and official conduct. Alderman Maddox denied that lie legally or morally guilty of mi»- onduct in having sub-contracts with the city. He said he would not pre tent counter charges before th Council investigating committee this afternoon on account of Alderman McClelland’s mental and physical ondition, but resorts to McClelland nvn tactics and invites a suit f<> libel. ^ Maddox Asks Questions. The questions, introduced by tin statement that Alderman McClellam •* being used by designing men for political purposes, follow: 1 Why were you so viciously op- 11 -ed to anything like a contract with • • Georgia Railway and Power Com pany last year, and so vehement in denouncing all members of Council who supported it, as being improperly influenced, and even charged that cor ruption existed and insisted that the city build a competing plant, and then i his year suddenly changed to equally violent opposition to the same com peting plant, and even voted at all times to repudiate the city’s previous- ! made contract, for which you had voted? Is it possible that >ou have accepted the “thirty pieces of silver” so frequently mentioned by you last year as well as the hundred pieces you have recently so brazenly admit ted receiving? Why did you appear in court as hp attorney at law’ in a suit against the city of Atlanta, w’hen you knew hat this appearance was in direct violation of the laws of the city? Counsel for Pickpockets? 3. Why do you represent, to the extent of consultation at least, nearly all of the worst pickpockets who are arrested in this city? How much fees do you get for appearing for them in violation of the law’ of the itv and your oath of office? 4 Why did you appear in the Su perior Court of Fulton County this morning, as counsel for the defend ant in the case of State vs. E. T. Darden, charged with murder, and un- der indictment therefor, with the prosecutor therein set out as W. A. < 'hewning, a member of the police f t< e of the city of Atlanta ? Why did you state in your place as such attorney, that you were his leading counsel, and ask for a checking of the •nse because of your physical disa bility, and thus delay justice and violate the laws? Represents Brewers. •"> Why do brewers appear in your "dice and go into your private sanc- uim. behind closed doors, while they 1 e applications pending before the Police Committee of Council, of " Inch you are a member? ' Why do you give legal advice to bn wing agent.)* touching the validity *nd effect of a lease on a place of business for which an application is ii pending before the Police Com- "'ttee of which you are a member? How many clubs have paid fees t" your firm to represent them in le- ' matters, while they had applica- l '" ns pending before the Police Com mittee of w’hich you were a member; u a t services were to be performed md how much was paid? ^ How many women of the under- ’’ H d do you represent in ‘civil mat- ms - other than Eva Clarke? What a5 e of a civil nature did you plead "or her, anyway? Personal Conduct Questioned. 4 Why did the officers of the city, "hen endeavoring to round up a of lawbreakers in a certain hotel f this city, find you in a room there- ‘u. a hen the said hotel was within bteen minutes’ walk, ten minutes by a: and five minutes by automobile r from your home? 10. Why did you act in such man- ber as to cause a certain prominent minister of the.gospel of this city to from his pulpit that a member ' , the General Council of this city pad been guilty of such conduct as bring reproach to himself and 5 name upon the city? 1. Why are your friends or rep resentatives engaged now in seeing men who know things concerning >our conduct, and who may be sub- Pjraed as witnesses, and asking nese men either to forget that they now anything or to evade the ques- °ns when asked? When you have answered these **veral questions, there may be oth which it will be equally difficult lor you to explain. Julian Hawthorne \\ ho is Prisoner No. 4435 in the Federal Prison, wrote the following tribute for Good Words, the prison magazine, and it is first published to-day: ENRICO CARUSO We sit in our rows of sodden gray • I p there in the great blank hall: Through the window-bars the great blue day And the golden sunshine call, Call 11s, as Christ called Lazarus, dead. To rise and come forth from his grave. But Christ cares not to free us, we said. To give back the life God gave. Better the dead than the living dead Whom the World shuts out and the bars shut in, Man-made scapegoats of all men's sin! Then, in the hush of the great blank hall, God wrought a wondrous miracle. For a voice, like a glorious trumpet-call, Arose as a soul from the deeps of hell, And our souls rose with it on wondrous wings. Rose from their prison of iron and clay. Forgot the grime and the shame of things! We were men once again in a sunlit day. Sin and grief and punishment—all Were lost in that human trumpet-call. Not bars nor banishment can abate The strong swift wings of the deathless soul Roaring aloft over grief and fate \s the tones of the master of music roll "i hrough the gloom and doom of the prhon-pen, Distilling Ihe fragrance of flowering song Into hearts that remember Youth again And innocent loves that knew no wrong. How then, if such be music's spell, •Shall we doubt that Christ still conquers hell? The aboce poem trus umpired bp gratitude for Caruso's gracious act in singing for the prisoners this afternoon. PROBE, FUSES WIFE; BLAMES C. Q. 0.10 GOBBI LURF OF OPERA “Georgia Peach” Didn’t Say So, but Facts Show Magnates Are in Panic. HOLD-OUT GOING TO DETROIT GAIRIN2YEARS. IN 0. S. PEN; “King of Forgers,” Held in San Francisco, Will Be Tried There Before Atlanta Gets Him. A modest income of $200,000 in the last two years was netted Benjamin W. Brumby, of Marietta, by the handicraft of his clever forgeries, if the substance of his confession tele graphed to-day from San Francisco, where he is under arrest, to Atlanta, is true. Bocal Pinkertons have been on the trail of the “king of the forgers" since last December, when he broke jail in Montgomery, and they would like to get him back here, where he is want ed for three forgeries, two on one bank, but the San Francisco authori ties wired Chief Beavers to-day they have two strong cases against him there He will be prosecuted there, and when the Western authorities are through with him he will be held for the Atlanta police. Far from being reticent when he was arrested in the West. Brumby was talkative, even boastful. He re lated at length and with a showing of considerable pride the forgeries he had made and the money he had collected. He declared that he had forged checks aggregating more than $200,000 In the last two years and that he never had failed to cash them. Atlanta Pinkertons are inclined to believe that Brumby has overesti mated the amount of his forgeries. They say their records show he has forged this amount since he started operating in 1900, but not in the last two years. Traced by Trail of Checks. After sawing his way from the Montgomery jail, where he was held for the Atlanta authorities for his $1,000 forgeries here, he started west ward and the detectives were able to trace him by his trail of worthless checks. He made four banks in Den ver his victims, getting an aggregate of $2,400 from them. He was next heard from in Okla homa City, where one bank was gath ered into his net to the extent of $1.- 000. At Salt Lake City he swindled two banks for a total of $1,330. and in San Francisco he victimized two before he was caught. According to dispatches, he is wanted in a dozen other cities about the country. Golden Voice of Greatest Tenor Touches Hearts of Eight Hundred Prisoners. GRAND OPERA L\ PRISON. By Enrico Caruso. World’s Greatest Tenor. “O Paradise," L'Africaine-Myerbeer “Idealle," a ballad Tosti “Ridi Pagliacci” («ob song), I Pagliacci—Leoncavallo This is the incomparable pro gram the golden-voiced tenor sang for the prisoners at the Federal Penitentiary this afternoon. The great bell of the Federal Pris on tapped sharply at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The little group of priv ileged visitors waiting in the main corridor heard the rattle of heavy holts as they shot back from the cells, the sharp, staccato commands of the guards, the shuffling of two thousand feet on the concrete floors. Into the corridors, past the iron grat ings. marched the strangest audience the greatest tenor in history ever has charmed. For Caruso was to sing to the con victs. The prison auditorium was full to the last seat when the march had ended. There were beardless young sters paying the penalty of an hour’s indiscretion with some other man's money; wrinkled old offenders who sat sullenly in their chairs and sneer ed under their breath—at first—at the break in the prison routine. There were old men with the prison pallor in their faces clad in the rough wool en of the prison garb, who had one day driven in their own carriages to the Metropolitan and listened to Ca ruso from the diamond horseshoe, where society finds its greatest dis play. There were bent and haggard moonshiners from the mountains, shut inside four walls, perhaps to find release by tuberculosis, the great pardoner of all prisoners. They sat and waited, while behind them stood the warden and his deputies, watch ing. always watching. Behind these, in their elevated chairs, sat the Continued on Page 2, Column 4. Tigers’ Owner Burns Wires to Summon Star After H. Smith Calls for Contract, BY PERCY H. WHITING. That President Frank Navin, of the Detroit Baseball Club, wired Ty Cobb to go to Detroit just six hours after Senator Hoke Smith made his threat of a Federal investigation of the al leged Baseball Trust— That this threat has the leaders of organized baseball thoroughly fright ened— That they will force Navin to sign Cobb, in the hope of quieting the fiery Georgia Senators and Representa tives, who are explosively irate at what they consider the rough treat ment of their favorite ball player. That the so-called Baseball Trust fears an investigation— These are the facts gleaned from an hour's talk with Ty Cobb. But he did not say them, hint them, sug gest them or even mean that such conclusions shduld be drawn. Begs Privilege of Silence. "What about it. Ty?’’ I asked him. All he said was, "Being a hold-out is h—1.’’ "Don’t ask me to talk." said he. and I’ll tell you why. Frank Navin asked me not to discuss things any more and I promised him yesterday by wire I wouldn’t.” “Now’, here’s my attitude, ’ contin ued Ty, refusing with one breath a shampoo, massage and hair tonic. "I'm keen to play ball. 1 believe that President Navin and 1 can get to gether. I am going there at his request. He asks me not to talk any until the thing is settled one way or the other It may mean—well. I'm not saying the sum. but it may mean a lot of money to me." "Let’s see, when did you get the telegram?" Ty was asked. The “Peach” produced the yellow document. The day and hour of its arrival was clearly marked. A little arithmetic told the story. It was sent just six hours after Senator Hoke Smith an nounced to the press that he had wired Cobb for a copy of his contract, and that he and others of the Geor gia delegation were considering whether to have the alleged Baseball Trust investigated by Congress or whether to have the Department of Justice proceed against it. Here’s the Present Status. Now consider the situation: Cobb’s contract ran out last fall. He saw President Navin before he left Detroit at the end of last sea son and stated w’hat his terms would be for this season. President Navin made no decision then. Cobh all along has refused to state for publication what he asked for. Newspapers at the time said $16,000 a year, and doubtless that is not far wrong. This spring Navin sent Cobb a contract calling for a salary, so the rumor said, of $9,000 a year. This was sent back. Since that time neither Cobb nor Navin has done much nor said much, though the papers have been full of the case. A week or so ago it became evident that the magnates of the American and National Leagues had banded to gether to make an example of Ty Cobb. In fact, they as much as said that. Navin. in particular, talked a lot about disciplining Ty. At the start he had alleged that he just couldn’t afford to pay Cobb $15,000 a year. * Delegation Gets Busy. Then the Georgia delegation start ed something noisy in the halls of Congress. Six hours later Cobb re ceived his message to come to De troit. The conclusion is obvious. What evidently happened was this; The heads of the baseball organiza tion read their evening papers. The story that the United States would at once move against the alleged Base ball Trust spurred them to action. They forgot about disciplining Cobb They thought only of saving their own skins. They must have consulted by phone or wire. There was one course. To quiet the Georgia delegation they must get Cobb signed and get it done Immediately. They can be Imagined dashing to the telegraph office and wiring. “Sign Cobb at any cost.” Before the ink was well dried on the papers carrying the story of the investigation of the Baseball Trust. Cobb had his first invitation to go to Detroit. He will be there to-morrow. He will be signed before the week is out. It isn’t that Detroit needs him Therefore it must be that the Base ball Trust w'ants the Investigation hushed tip. Missing Woman, Found in Mari etta, Returns to Atlanta Home With Her Husband. NO ELOPEMENT, THEY SAY Man Who Fled Peachtree Street Hotel at Same Time Succeeds in Eluding Police. H H. Oates, member of a well known Augusta family, but a resident of Atlanta for some time, returned this noon from Marietta with his young and pretty wife, with whom he declared he had become entirely rec onciled. Mrs. Oates’ mysterious flight last Saturday afternoon from the Peach tree Inn. where she and her husband were staying, led to sensational stories of an elopement, but the hus band to-day was most positive in his assertions that no other man was in volved in the case. It was a family quarrel, pure and simple, he said. His wdfe had become angered over a do mestic difference and had lefl him to go to Chicago. As the police had it. and as an ad vertisement inserted by Oates him self read, Mrs. Oates left the city with a decorator named Quintus De- lolons, and was traced through Delo- ion’s Scotch collie, also mentioned in the police alarm. Oates bounded oft the 1- o’clock car from Marietta before it had come to a stop at the Walton Street Station of the line. In his hand was a small suitcase. When he spied the crowd of curious persons, the questioning group of reporters and tile battery of cameras confronting him. he jumped back on the car more quickly than he had alighted. One of the reporters, by a sharp sprint, overtook the reconciled pair. "It is a lie that any other man was concerned,” the reporter was told by the breathless husband. "Of that I am confident. I* am satisfied that my wife was on her way to Chicago to see her brother, who is studying medicine there. She intended to take up vocal music. "When she is able we will leave Atlanta and try to forget the whole deplorable affair. We will never come back. It was most unjust that such a disgraceful construction was put upon her disappearance.” Blames Grand Opera. To grand opera Oates ascribes the greater part of his domestic trouble and the flight of his wife. He be lieves that his wife’s head was turn ed by the overwhelming desire to emulate the success of the beautiful Lucrezia Bori, whose coming to At lanta was heralded by the most flat tering press notices and the kindest words of the critics. “Her mother sent her a clipping a week or so ago,” he said, “telling of the scholarship in voice training won by a girl in Jackson, Miss., and one in Atlanta. "The girl in Jackson was at one time my wife’s schoolmate and at that time my wife’s voice was con sidered every bit as good as the oth er girl 8. Offer Turned Her Head. "Then came an offer from the book ing agent of a small opera company, and I could persuade Mrs. Oates to talk of nothing else. "She wanted to go on the stage, but I objected. I thought she had for gotten it, but the coming of grand opera to Atlanta aroused her longings lri this respect with increased force. "She read every word of the ad vance notices. She raved over the success of Lucrezia Bori and w'^pt that she had not had the opportunity to make a name for herself on the operatic stage. "Then came our little quarrel, and I think she decided then to start out for Chicago to study vocal music with the ultimate idea of supporting her self." James B. Duke Sails For Home in England Believed He and Wife, Former Fa mous Atlanta Beauty, Will Entertain Extensively. NEW YORK:, April 23.—James B. Duke, formerly known as the Tobac co King of America, and his wife sailed on the Mauretania to-day for England, where they are to make their home. Recently Mr. Duke purchased Dor chester House, which has been the scene many notable gatherings, and it is believed that he and Mrs. Duke, who was Mrs. William Inman, of Atlanta. Oa., famous throughout the Shuth for her beauty, will enter tain extensively. Deluge Sweeping Over Mississippi Break in Rolling Fork Levee One Mile Wide—Thousands Heme- less—Fifty Towns Suffer. MEMPHIS. TENN , April 23. A break more than a mile wide near Bolling' Fork. Miss.. to-day permitted water 30 feet deep to overflow val uable lands in Mississippi. Several lives were reported lost. Government officers at river points below Memphis to-day began dis tributing 150.000 rations to destitute families. Thousands in the flooded district are homeless. Heavy damage was done to Grace. Miss., a town of 1.500 Inhabitants. More than 50 towns suffered slight damage. The levee at Pala Alto, La., was reported caving to-day. A high wind wss sending the waves against the dikes, making repair work dan gerous. More than 200 refugees on board tlie steamer Alice Miller reached Vicksburg to-day. Small boats con tinued patrolling the o\-..iowed sec tions, picking up hundreds. Wife’s Plea Frees ‘Blind Tiger King’ Governor Brown Commutes Dan Shaw’s Sentence to Present Service and $700 Fine. A heartbroken and almost penniless wife succeeded in gaining the clem ency of Governor Brown to-day for Dan Shaw, the Atlanta "blind tiger king," where m oves of his friend?*, many of them influential, had failed. Shaw, who was sentenced to a term of two years and a fine of $200 for persistent violation of the liquor laws, whs granted a commutation to present service on the payment of a fine of $700. Friends have had the money for weeks, but it was not until Governor Brown received a letter from Mrs. Shaw that he cbr.sented to the com mutation. Mrs. Shaw wrote that she had obtained a position for her hus band in Richmond. Va. Visitor Lauds Chief For Vice Campaign New Mexico Man Tells Beavers Eyes of the Nation Are on Atlanta in Approval. M rs. callie scott ap- PELBAUM, on trial charged with slaying husband, who aided her counsel select jury. \ 8. M. Johnson, of Roswell. N. Mex. in the city on his way to attend the National Good Roads Convention in Birmingham, to-day called at the po lice station to pay his respects to Chief Beavers and congratulate nim on his vice war. "The eyes of the whole country are on Atlanta, and the people of all sections are with Chief Beavers'," said Johnson. "The closing of these vice houses here is the greatest move for the betterment of a community that has ever been made by any city in this country. Atlanta is now the object of admiration for the whole nation.” All Decatur Joins In Spring Cleaning School Children Collect Bottles and Cans to Win Prizes Offered by Board of Trade. By Friday of this week thousands of bottles and old tin cans will be piled up in Decatur school yards. Children of the town or vying with each other for the honor of collecting the greatest number. it Is clean-up week in Decatur. The Board of Trade, the Woman's Club and the Sanitary Committee of the City Council have inaugurated a campaign similar to that of last year. Last spring more than 17.000 cans and bottles were collected by school chil dren. Prizes are offered Grand Operagoers Warned of Showers Weather Man Predicts Slight Rain For To-night or Early To morrow Morning. Operagoers are warned of possible light showers late to-night, the pre diction beini) a slight precipitation during the night or early to-morrow. Otherwise the fair weather of the wpek will continue. There will be a moderate rise in temperature to-morrow. The ther mometer registered 76 at 2 o'clock to-day. Pope Again Able to Sit by His Window ROME, April 23.—Pope Pius X again was able to leave his bed to day and sat for a short time in his armchair by a. window. The Pontiff was not so depressed as he was yesterday, his weakened condition being improved. Upon leaving the Vatican after his morning call. Dr Marohiafava said that His Holiness was showing satis factory improvement. 0 Women Tell Social Work Sex Has Done Health Problems Also Topic at Fed erated Club’s Convention in Washington. WASHINGTON. April 23. Wom an'? part in the national health move ment and some of the problems being solved by her activity in social lines were discussed by Mrs. S’. 8. Crockett to-day before the Council of Feder ated Women’s Clubs, in session here. This idea was further emphasized by MU*s Helen Louise Johnson in an address on "The Meaning of Home Economies.” The biennial council to be held in Chicago next year was discussed by Mrs. George Bass and Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath. Mrs. Philip N. Moore and Mrs. Harriet Bishop Waters also spoke. Doesn’t Like Opera; He Can’t Whistle It Alderman Candler Disappointed and Attorney Luther Z. Rosser Much Prefers His Sleep. Criticisms of grand opera are uni versal this week, of .course, but few comments have the punch of those made by Alderman John S. Candler and Attorney Luther Z. Rosser just before the convening of the council- manic graft investigating committee yesterday. “I heard Manon Lescaut.'" said Al derman Candler, "and I must admtl that I was disappointed. I can't whistle a single bar of it." “I have reached two very positive conclusions about life." said Mr. Rosser. "No preacher in the world can outpreach sunshine and no singer can outsing sleep." :LECT JURY Widow Accused of SI a y i ng Husband Calmly Aids Counsel Pick Men Who Will Decide Her Fate. Case. Halted 2 Hours by Absence of Wit ness for Defense, Taken Up This Af- noon at 1 o’Clock. Clad in black, veiled and slightly pale, but cool and almost eager to as sist her attorneys in every turn of her defense, Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum. accused of the slaying of her husband, Jerome A. Appelbaum, in the Dakota Hotel February 26. faced a jury in criminal division of Superior Court to-day and entered a plea of not guilty at 1 o’clock. After one witne** had been examined court adjourned until 3:30 p. m. Tbe trial began at 1:30 o'clock and five panels were exhausted. Two veniremen, George W. McCarthy and J. J. Osborn, told the court they were opposed to capital punishment where a woman was involved, and were ex cused. Tiie jurymen drawn wore W. H. O'Rear, T. J. Butler. D. P. Donehoo, H. W. Reese, L. J. Bentley. F. C. Wilkinson, E. E. Gilliland. W. H. Foster, G. W. Manning, W. E. Heard. 8 H. Marcus and H. G. Hackney. Defendant Takes Notes. Mrs. Appelbaum took notes con stantly while the jury was being drawn and time and time again in structed her lawyers to object to cer tain selections. G. Cohen, main witness for the de fense, whose failure to appear at 9 o’clock delayed the trial for two hour*, said he would tell on the stand the story that he refuged to affirm under oath before the grand jury a month ago. Upon Cohen's testimony, which will attempt to establish that Mrs. Appel baum left her husband's room after the first shot and was running in the hallway of the hotel when the second shot was fired, will hinge the de fense's theory of suicide. Son Defends Mother. Claude Henderson, 16-year-old son of Mrs. Appelbaum, sat in the court room with Jds mother and John Moore and James Branch, attorneys for the defense, signified their intention of sending him to the stand in his mother’s behalf. Following the selection of the jury. Solicitor Dorsey asked for a rule of court segregating the witnesses. This was done preparatory' to the introduc tion of testimony by the prosecution. Detective J. D. Doyle appeared in the role of prosecutor. Mrs. Appelbaum entered her plea of not guilty shortly after I o’clock. As she stood before the court in answer to Superior Judge Roan’s summons, she spoke clearly and without hesita tion. Her voice was audible in the farthest corner of the little court room. T. B. Thomason, clerk of the Dako ta Hotel, on duty the morning of the shooting, was the first witness to take the stand. He went up for the prose cution. but upon rigid cross-examina tion proved a capable aid to the de fense. Doctor to Testify. Under fire from Attorney Moore, Thomason admitted that he met Mrs. Appelbaum at the foot of the hotel stairway not ten seconds after he had hung up the telephone upon receiving the call that there had been a shooting in room 213. He had bare ly crossed the fifteen feet of the hotel lobby, he asserted, when Mrs. Appel baum. garbed in a kimono and hys terical, fainted in his arms. Dr. S. J. Liebman and the police officers will follow Thomason to the stand at 3:30 o’clock, when tbe tr£ is resumed. G. Cohen an 1 Alvin Rob erts, two men who occupied rooms in the hotel, and J. T. Lindsay anu J. Lawrence Jones will appear as char acter witnesses for the woman. Mrs. Appelbaum. before the trial began, said she had prayed constant ly. "But,” she added, “I do not rely entirely on prayers. The facts, when they are put before a jury, will clear me. I am innocent and I have no fear of the outcome.” No difficulty was expected in finding 3 jury, according to Mrs. Appelbaum'a j 4 }}