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VOL. XI. NO. 225.
ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 25. 191:
CENTS EVERYWHERE p M or£°
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
udienve composed of the diplomatic
representatives of the nations of the
,rth Secretary of State Bryan, with
M„. approval of President Wilson,
■ submitted his proposal for in-
i mational agreements to delay war.
it-garding his proposal, Mr. Bryan
'-a' 3 '-
• The following statement embodies
r„e principal points of an agreement.
w-iiicl» the President of the United
states is Willing to enter into, with
-hf- consent of the Senate, with all
Trier nations. It does not attempt to
go into details, but is only intended
t0 ,. et forth the main proposition
namely, that the President desires to
, ater 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
s intended to close the gap and leave
no dispute that can 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
in different eases, but any time, how
ever short, furnishes an opportunity
to investigate and deliberate, and it
hoped the time for investigation
and deliberation will be sufficient to
Sf-eure a -ettlement without a resort
to war.
It will be noticed that each party
.•tains the right to act independ*
ently after the report is submitted
t it is not likely a nation will de
an war after it has had oppor
tunity during investigation to confer
with the opposing nation. But
whether this proposed agreement ac
complished as much as it is hoped for,
It is at least a step in the direction
of universal peace.”
The text of the memorandum given
the diplomats for transmission to
their several governments follows:
Arbitrate All Disputes.
‘The parties hereto agree that a!
questions of whatever character and
nature, in dispute between them
shall, when diplomatic efforts fail, be
submitted for investigation and re
wit to an international commission
composed (the composition to oe
agreed upon), and the contracting
parties agree not to declare war or
begin hostilities until such investi
nation « made and report submitted.
The investigation shall be con
ducted a.- 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 th' date of the^submission of
'iisputi, and neither party shall
utilize ihe period of investigation to
augment its military or naval pro
gram, but the parties hereto reserve
tile right to act independently on the
subject matter in dispute after the
report is submitted.”
Atlanta Is After
City Plan Congress
Delegates to Chicago From Improve
ment Association Will Extend
Invitation.
Hoke Smith Doesn't
Think $20,000 Too
High for Ty Cobb
Pores Over Star’s Contract and
Big League Laws to See if
‘Trust’ Exists.
WASHINGTON, April B4.—“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.
“I want to do anything I caiisfor my
distinguished fellow citizen. The peo
ple of Georgia, as well as the rest of
the country, like Ty Cobb, and they
want to see him get all he earns.
“It may seem romantic to talk of
a 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 be
entitled to a salary in proportion.
T have received Cobb's contract
and I am reading the laws of the
organization by which he has been
employed. I don’t know just yet
whether we shall have an inquiry into
the workings of the baseball trust.”
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 creat
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 for the suffragettes. Po
licemen rescued the women.
'Pie Cutting’ Delay
Nettles Georgians
Congressman Edwards, Home Under
Doctors’ Orders, Says Stovall Will
Get Switzerland Post.
SAVANNAH. GA.. April 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 to
Congressman Charles G. Edwards,
who, with other members of the
Georgia delegation in Congress, vis
ited President Wilson several days
ago and expressed dissatisfJltion at
the slow distribution of patronage.
Congressman Edwards has re
turned home under order of his phy
sicians.
Mr. Edwards 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.
An effort will be made to land the
ity Pan Conference for Atlanta in
'■L4 To further plan', a meeting of
executive committee of the At-
Anta Improvement Association will
he held in the Chamber of Commerce
rooms Tuesday afternoon at 3:30
o'clock. Alec W. Smith is chairman
°f the committee. The call for the
fo-eting.was issued this morning.
The City Plan Conference has de-
e) oped into one of the strongest and
organizations in the country,
'r uid Atlanta succeed in landing
year’s convention it would bring
'nousandp of visitors and delegates.
rv .-gates will be named to repre-
• fcm Atlanta at this year's conference
T| ''hicago.
STftiKfc PiCKET SLAIN.
KOPEDALE, MASS.. April 24.—
•nhlio Dacchiocchia. srtike picket,
,s shot and killed to-day during
” ''.'Mie between the police and strlk-
”'■* The strikers say 1 >acchiocehia
•t hy a
policeman.
$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
famous “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 $1,000 from the Sun
day Schools of that city and Fulton
county, in response to the executive
committee’s appeal for $G,000 to carry
on the convention work in Georgia.
Quickly the other counties caught the
spirit and the entire $6,000 was
pledged.
Macon, Waycross and Milledgeville
ape asking for the Convention next
year. Milledgeville will probably be
chosen.
J. Ham Lewis ‘Totes'
Washwoman’s Pack
Senator Carries Basket of Clothes Up
to Mansion of Illinois
Governor.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., April 24. In
stead of walking up to Governor
Dunne's executive mansion with a
basket of Federal jobs for the hun
gry and patriotic, United States Sen
ator J. Ham Lewis surprised the Gov
ernor by approaching the Governor’s
domicile balancing on his shoulders
a basket of clothes which he carried
to relieve the burden of a washer
woman.
At the gate to the mansion grounds
he put the basket down, whistled to
a group of schoolboys, banded half a
dollar each to three of them and cau
tioned them to be careful not to spill
out the clean clothes. Then lie en
tered the Governor's house i«» confer
about j«»bs.
High Death Toll in Pennsylvania
Shaft Laid to Owne'rs Refus
ing Federal Aid.
HELP ARRIVES TOO LATE
Gas-Filled Passages Are Strewn
With Bodies, Declare Surviv
ors—Investigation Begun.
F1NLEYVILLE. PA„ April 24.—
That the Monongahela River Consol
idated Coal and Coke Company’s ef
forts to minimize the 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. Johnston, attorney for the
mine company, after talking with
company officials, to-day issued a
statement declaring that 35 bodi-s
have been recovered and 85 men are
yet in the mine. The company re
fused to admit that the men yet ip
the mine are (lead, but place the num
ber of possible dead at 120.
Declined Federal Aid.
According to tile reports current to
day, the company was notified of the
disaster about 1 o’clock yesterday.
The officials of tile Bureau of Mines
at Pittsburg offered their services
about 3 o'clock, ai d, according to ’ha
officials, could have had a mine res
cue ear on the scene an hour later.
The company's officials, however,
declared they had heard no details t;f
the explosion and refused the prof
fered aid. saying thpy twd a first-aid
crew which could handle the situa- 1
tion.
Federal aid was not summoned un
til late in the afternoon, and as u
result the Government experts did n k
reach the mine ntil 6:35 p. m.
No blame is attached to the Federal
authorities, hut many declared to-day
that had the 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 report 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 mine equipped
with oxygen helmets, hut 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 has 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
Fifth Aviator Is Killed Outright in
Series of Accidents in
Germany.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. April 24.—Three aeropalne
accidents, in which one flyer was
killed, three others were fatally hurt
and a titled woman was perhaps
mortally injured, occurred to-day in
Germany.
While maneuvering over Johannis-
tliat Aerodrome, Aviator Dumnitz lost
control of his machine while It was
1,000 feet In the air. The aeroplane
careened and fell u> the ground, Dum
nitz being crushed to death.
Herr Abramovitch, 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.
Two German army nflieeis. both
members of the aviation corps of the
Bavarian Infantry, were mortally in
jured while making a flight at the
S- hi*-H-lie Aerodrome, Munich.
Appeal Will Delay
Wilburn-King Trial
Counsel to Fight Decision Denying
Change of Venue for Con
fessed Slayer.
MACON, GA., April 24. —Neither
Nick Wilburn nor Mrs. King will go
to trial next week l’or the murder of
the latter’s husband. James King, tile
Jones County farmer. Attorney JJbhn
It. Cooper announced to-day that he
would appeal from the decision of
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. She already
has .six children, none over IS years
old.
In the hearing before Judge Park on i
the motion for a change of venue,
Frank Wilburn, the defendant's broth
er, swore he had heard residents of
Jones County say they would lynch
Nick Wilburn if the court did not
sentence him to be hanged. R. L.
Bradley, a grand juror, swore that his
mind was made up before he signed
the indictment.
Wilburn’s presence at the hearing
was waived, his counsel stating in
open court that he was afraid for
Wilburn to return to Jones County
unless under military protection.
Plot, Girl’s Plea to Bigamy Charge
■;.«v •!•••!*
Asserrs She Was Forced to Wed
v«v -;•••> •;•»•;•
Arrested Here With Husband No. 2
DI IS DRUGGED
APPELBAUM IT
R
Might Unknowingly Have Fired
W hile Under Its Hypnotic Induence,
Declares J. S. Liebman, M.D., Wit-
uess for Defen.se.
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 damaging.
The Defense Replies:
McClelland Will Not
Reply to Accusations
Attorney for Maddox Says He Will
Force Alderman to Prove
Graft Charges.
Alderman John E. McClelland, ac
cuser of Aldermen J. W. Maddox, F.
J. Bpratling and I. N. Ragsdale, was
out of the city to-day. It was said
at his office that he would make no
reply at present to tile counter
charges of Alderman J. W. Maddox.
Alderman McClelland's refusal to
respond to a. suhpena and appear at
the meeting of the Council investi
gating committee has given a new
twist to the graft scandal. He in
formed the committee that because of
his health he did not intend to be
present during the investigation, but
Aldine Chambers, attorney for Aider-
man Maddox, said he would endeavor
to force him.
Because Alderman McClelland re
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 the city.
4,592 Voters Plead
For Charter Reform
Citizen-Committee, Cards Counted,
Will Renew Fight for Sub
mission to People.
Mrs. Jack Mashburn, 17, formerly Miss Gussie Harmon, of La-
Grange, Ga., held here as a bigamist. She declares she was forced
to wed a man 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 a;,
man I don't love.
‘ Marriage without love is hell, and I don't propose to live in
hell.
“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
Paul Reese, secretary of the citl-
zens * charter reform committee, to
day received a certified statement
from the 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 per
sons whose names were not given on
the registration list.
With this indorsement the citizens’
committee will renew its fight be
fore Council.
Council killed what is generally
known as the “genuine reform
charier ’ of the committee of 2;». but
provided for the revamped charter to
o,, 10 th - Li-gi-l-iture and then to Hie
her wealthy grandfather to marry
a man thirty years her senior, pretty
Mrs. Jack Mashburn, 17 years old,
formerly Miss Gussle 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. _. Jack Mashburn.
a young machinist with whom she
eloped fiom the Doll's Hospital on
Luckie Street last Saturday after
noon, is also undei arrest.
Mashburn and his bride were ar
rested at a hotel on Broad Street this
morning by Detective J. B. Howell,
on information Com LaGrc'nge, Ga..
where it is alleged the girl was mar
ried on January 23 to Charles \\ •
Smith, 47 years old. Both will be
held to await the arrival of an officer
from LaGrange.
Denies He Knew She Was Wed.
The girl and young Mashburn v i re
married by Justice of the Peace
Girardeau last Saturday afternoon,
and Mashburn •!«■•« lares that he did
not know she had ever been married
before. He has known her for a
year, he says. Last Friday afternoon
she came to Atlanta and obtained
board at the Doll's Hospital on
Luckie Street. She disappeared Sat
urday 'horning, nr.d when she faile i
to return Saturday night the police
were notified and a search begun for
her. The search \a« abandoned when
it was le.irned that sin and Mash
burn w- murri. .
This morning the gi ! tod a r
markable st<*r\ to the po :< e .$ >!*»r\
which, if true, may cause wholesale
prosecution of prominent citizens of
West Point and LaGrange, including
her 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 the
sight of the green old thing. I'll go
to the penitentiary for life before
I’ll live with him. If f get a chance
I’m going to shoot him.
“Tne green old countryman Is try
ing to break up my romance.
I love Jack, and I won’t live with
a man I d n't love. Marriage with
out love is hell, and I don’t propose
to live in bell. And it makes me
think of hell tg even look at Smith.”
Father Is Rich, She Says.
'Hie girl is the daughter of J. W. |
hypnotic tr
February 2
hanee her
coolly
watching
■ as if to find th-
Cory was having
Defense.
Die ground-
theory that
Y a\
room
fig the pi*;;,|
first bullet pier.-.
«rm and continuing on
second entering- the
Harmon, of LaGrange. She says her
father is worth more than $100,000,
but that he never had much use for
her. At the time of her marriage
to Smith, she says, she was living
with her parents on a farm near La-
Gnuige. Smith is a farmer, living
about 11 miles from LaGrange, re
puted to be very'wealthy.
“He began paying me attentions
in December.” she said this morning.
"On December 4 I accidentally shot
myself in the shoulder while clean
ing a gun. and was in bed for more
than two weeks.
“It was while I was sick that the
old pest began hanging around me.
My grandfather encouraged him and
wanted me t<* marry him. I told
u i.. iidf^t hi-r I h' ed imn. and every
Continued on Page 2, Column 4.
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 shots.
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 Appelbaum was in financial straits, had been
harassed by creditors, was at his rope's end and dsperate.
—
Mrs. Callio Scott Appelbaum, on trial lor her life hi criminal
I division of Superior Court, accused of the slaying of her husband,
i Jerome A. Appelbaum, in the Dakota Hotel, February 2.1. was
; under the influence of varinol, a powerful hypnotic drug, on the
i morning of the shooling. I liar was the starting testimony given
jio the jury this afternoon by Dr. J. S. Liebman, a witness for the
; defense.
I’nder its potent influence--an
influence that brings about sub
consciousness and a beys the ac
tion of ihe voluntary nervous
stem—the " Woman of Mys
tery night have walked in her
sleep and even fired a pistol with
out being cognizant of her ac
tions.
Dr Llebmans sensational testl-
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
after 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.
• I gave Mrs. Appelbaum five grains
of varinol on the night of February
24," said Dr. Liebman. “It was 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 doBe proved
insufficient."
The physician's statement came in
answer to Attorney Moore's question
as to Mrs. Appelbnum'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 .--cries 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,
w-ithout being conscious of it, shoot
a person, run down a stairway and
fa ini and know nothing about it at
ail 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 testlinon ywas supplemented by
Dr. E. H. Waggoner, an expert, put
up by the defense.
Dr W. B. I .ingle also testified that
he had given varinol to a young wom
an at a sanitarium recently and two
days after its 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 iti the court
room by •the injection of the ideu that
Mrs. Appelbaum j -> have niute-i in
Dr. Liebman
baum was
yv
to the
no bruises a;
m»ch as would
ice on ihe morning
tile prisoner did
change her demeanor. She
continued taking notes an
the jurymen closel
effect tiie unusual
on their minds.
I ndertaker Ed Bond, the first wr-
ness to take the stand fur the defense
told the jury the,-.- had been pow.iur
bums on Appelbaum's undershirt an
In the wound In his right arm.
Lay Grounds to
Bond’s statement laid
uork for tile deefnse's
Appelbaum. disrobed, deliberately
down on the floor of the bath
and shot himself, holdin
in his loft hand, the
ing the right
ino the side, the
thorax and the third the veiling
testified that Ap pe -
met h t , eiU ' er amb *dexterous , r
Oft-handed, and took up considerable
tune in the discussion of blood fl 0
following gunshot wounds
Some testimony was given
effect that there were
Appelbaum’s body
have resulted In a fall, and that tbe-e
was no blood on the bath room floo-
Attorneys for the deefnse asserted
at o clock, when court recessed, that
evidence would not be concluded be-
fore 5 o'clock.
Mrs Appelbaum 1* scheduled t..
take the stand to make a voluntary
statement after all her testimony- A
in.
Another “Dearie" letter. Uie sixth hi
the case, was Introduced in
this morning and came as
This is the letter which wa
been introduced at the Coroner's in
quest and which was not admitted, as
<hty Detective Waggoner was uqablu
at ioat time to swear that he had *u
ten the letter out of Mrs. Appelbaum .
effects.
He yvas placed on the stand this
morning by the prosecution and snore
to the identity of the letter and the
fact that he had gotten It out of Mrs.
Appelbaum's apartments along with
others.
Attempt to Establish Motive.
The State's last witness, sent up jji
an effort to substantiate the theory
that Mrs. Appelbaum killed hot- hus
band in a fit of jealousy, was W. I,
Brown, a roomer at the hotel at tho
time -T the ehootlag. -Broyvn testified
he had seen Airs. Appelbaum on thu
day before the killing, February 21,
and that she had asked him if he had
cy - r seen any other women go to Ap
pelbaum's room and told him that she
"was going (o have the room
watched." or “was having Ihe room
yvavched."
James t B an- h, ending counsel
evidence
eurpris _-.
nas to have