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VOL. XI. NO. 226.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY. APRIL 2"). 1912.
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
Makes New Attempt for Freedom
From the Yoke Which the
South Keeps on Her.
LONDON, April 25.—Protection for
tlie cotton trade of Lancaster, by fos
tering the supply of cotton indepen
dent of America, was the gist of
Chancellor Lloyd George's argument
on introducing in the House of Com
mons a resolution permitting the Brit
ish Government to guarantee a Sudan
loan of $15,000,000 for the develop
ment of cotton growing along the
Nile.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer
remarked that occasional difficulties
with regard to supplies of American
, otton. arising from the market being
cornered and thus causing a short
age here despite abundant crops,
made it necessary to foster the
growth of cotton where it would be
under British control.
Egyptian cotton, he claimed, was
better from the point of view of the
manufacturer because of the quality
of the goods obtained from that prod
uct, and also better from the point of
view of the workman, because it was
i leaner and more healthful to w ork
than American cotton.
The resolution was adopted with
out division.
Millions Spent by Europe.
With the $16,000,000 Sudan loan,
England will have spent $17,347,869 in
attempts to become independent of
the cotton fields of the Southern Unit
ed States. Germans' and France com
bined have spent about $1,000,000 in
the same way, and Russia has pour
ed out money like water for irri
gation projects In Asiatic possessions,
v here cotton is grown. These figures
include not only Governmental ex-
ditures, but also funds raised by
spinners.
The United States raises something
like three-quarters of the world’s cot
ton crop. The great cloth industries
of Europe are absolutely dependent
upon the American farmer. A short
crop, or manipulation in the futures
markets, has made the European
manufacturers pay "through the nose”
time and again.
The attitude of the Southern cotton
men in the face of the desperate at
tempts to grow an important quantity
of cotton elsewhere is "we should
worry.”
Causes Only a SmiU.
Lloyd-George’s statement about the
superiority of Egyptian cotton is not
to be challenged, but it provokes a
smile.
Egyptian cotton is better—so much
better that America Itself imports
iarge quantities of it.
Egyptian cotton ha? a long, silky
staple, from which the finest grades
of hosiery are made. Its nearest rival
is the sea island cotton of Georgia
and the other Atlantic States. It
competes with silk, not with other
cotton.
It is, and always will be, too high
grade and too expensive for use In
ordinary cloths. With improvements
in mill machinery, the spinners are
striving every year to make the same
grades of cloth from shorter and
shorter staples, with the consequent
economy.
Georgia Acreage Is
Less, Says Estimate
New York Authority Thinks This the
Only State With Smaller
Area in Cotton.
NEW YORK, April 25.—According
to the estimate of more than 1,000
correspondents of The New York
Commercial, the cotton acreage for
1913 is placed at 36,455,810 acres, a
gain of 6.9 per cent from the previous
year. Georgia is the only State show
ing a decrease.
The following table shows the esti
mate by States
Acres.
4,890,000
3,916,000
2,274,656
1,354,930
3,353,900
I, 565,000
3,036,320
2,734,200
878,990
II, 962.000
491,000
I—Indicates decrease; others
gains.)
r he crop is about half planted in
eastern belt.
States.
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee ....
Texas
Others
Powers Arrange to
Exchange Children
European Nations Plan to Increase
Knowledge of Languages and
Break Race Barriers.
8Pedal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, April 26.—Exchange of
school children by Germany, France,
Belgium. England, Switzerland and
Norway is being arranged by an inter
national committee with headquarters
in Berlin. The plan, if adopted, will
give several hundred pupils a summer
vacation in a foreign land at the ex
pense only of railroad fare. It has
long been the custom of German fam
ilies to exchange daughters on the
theory that the girls learn house
keeping better in some other home
than their own.
Tlie international exchange was
founded by teachers for the purpose
of stimulating the knowledge of lan
guages and breaking down the bar
riers of race.
Militant Dynamiters
Now Terrorize Wales
Attempt to Blow Up Bank Owned
by Lloyds’ at Cardiff Foiled
by Police.
CARDIFF, WALES, April 25.—
Militant suffragettes are now spread
ing terror throughout Wales. Early
to-day the police found a bomb on
the doorstep of Lloyd's Bank in Al
bany Road just in time to extinguish
the fuse and prevent the building
from being wrecked.
Upon the infernal machine were
printed “Votes for Women.” On the
other side were the letters “R. I. P..”
supposed to represent the initials of
the Latin phrase, “Requiescat in
Pace.’’
The bomb had been rudely con
structed of a large tin cannister.
three-quarters filled with gunpowder
and another explosive.
The police declared there was
enough explosive to wreck the build
ing.
Churchill Robbers
Got Martin's $10,000
Scotland Yard Detectives Hear Mem
phis Millionaire Lost That Amount
in One Night’s Play.
LONDON, April 25—The woman
and two men who stole private naval
data and $2,500 from Winston Church
ill, First Lord of the Admiralty, at
Canned recently, have been traced by
Scotland Yard detectives. They have
little hope of recovering the papers
and money.
The suspected trio are now busy
"working” West End gambling houses
here. The detectives believe the same
three cheated Joseph Wilberforce
Martin, the missing American cotton
broker, out of a large sum of money a
night or two before he disappeared.
It is said they took $10,000 from Mar
tin at one night's setting in a gam
bling house on Pail Mall.
Vienna Plans Fight
On High Living Cost
City Market and Sale by Weight
Scheme to Protect Housewifes
From Extortion.
Per Cent.
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Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
VIENNA, April 25.—Viennese
housewives are in a plight similar to
that of their sisters in American
cities regarding the high prices of
vegetables and garden produce.
Despite abundant supplies, rec. ntly
the wholesale markets of Vienna v.-ere
glutted with cauliflower from Italy.
Huge quantities rotted and had to he
thrown away, but the housewh es
continued to pay extortionate prices.
The result is the renewal of agitation
against tlie constantly increasing cost
of living.
The city plans to erect a great,
market hall on tlie banks of tlio
Danube, where garden products can
be sold direct by growers to dealers.
It is proposed to sell vegetables ex
clusively by weight.
England’s ‘Gridiron
Club’ Quips Royalty
Telegram From ‘the Kaiser' Reads:
‘I'm Suffering From a Bad
Attack of Krupp.’
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, April 25.—Imaginary
telegrams read at the London Sketch
Club's smoking concert included the
following:
From the Kaiser—“Regret that I
am suffering Irom a bad attack of
Krupp.” ,
From ex-King Manuel of Portugal—
“Sorry, but I am prevented from com
ing by a previous engagement.''
From King Peter of Servla—"It all
depends upon whether yoa expect my
dear ally, Bulgaria* isrdy.”
57.m IN NOTES
Postal Authorities Search for a
Registered Letter Sent From
Washington, Ga., April 13.
Two registered letters sent from the
postoffice in Washington, Ga., on April
13, containing negotiable papers, thir
teen of them sent to an Atlanta bank,
approximating $7,000, have been re
ported as lost or stolen in transit and
an investigation*is on bv the postal
authorities to fix the blame.
The more valuable of the two let
ters contained thirteen notes being
sent to a bank in Atlanta by one of
the Washington banking institutios
for discount and credit. When ac
knowledgment was not received from
the Atlanta correspondent in regular
course by the Washington bank a
tracer was started, which developed
the fact that the registered letter had
never reached its destination.
Postmaster Poche, of Washington,
was in his office for the first train
leaving Washington on the morning
of April 13—Sunday—and was a wit
ness to the fact that the registered
letters were dispatched from the
Washington office by one of the clerks
The registered mail with three let
ters for Crawfordville. the first sta
tion on the Georgia Railroad from the
junction at Barnett, it is claimed,
was done up in a package together,
according to the postal regulation
known as “bracing.” and addressed:
“Georgia Train No. 1—local package."
It has developed that one of the let
ters addressed to a bank at Craw
fordville and containing checks and
cash items amounting to more than
$250 wan. also raisisng fRonh fhe pack
age.
This is the first instance in four
teen years of the loss of a piece of
registered mail handled either in the
outgoing or incoming mail of the
Washington postofflee.
Social Center Site
And Name Selected
Home for Working Girls at Irwin and
Hilliard Streets To Be Called
Belmont-Addams House.
A site for the proposed social cen
ter for working girls in Atlanta has
been selected and the institution will
soon be a reality, according to an
nouncement made to-day. Four
houses at Irwin and Hilliard Streets
will be connected by verandas form
ing one building. The name selected
is the Belmont-Addams House, in
honor of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont and
Miss Jane Addams.
The home will be modeled after
the famous Hull House in Chicago.
Mrs. Ada T. Ralls, whose efforts
have made the institution possible,
will be the head of the home. The
board of directors comprise Mrs. Ada
T. Ralls, chairman; Mrs. Amelia
Woodall, secretary; Mrs. E. L. Brew
er, Mrs. Margaret McWhorter and
Mrs. Mary fj. McLendon.
Classes of art will be taught, books
and magazines furnished, sewing, do
mestic science and business courses
will be provided.
Ship Leaves Husband
Bride Grows Frantic
Absent-Minded Denver Man Is Put
Aboard Liner From Tug After
Heart-Breaking Chase.
NEW YORK, April 25.—When th<
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosso, steam
ing to-day across • the briny deep,
pulled out from Hoboken a frantic
woman crowded to the rail, waving
her hands and screaming. Two deck
stewards restrained her, and whil6
she struggled with them she cried:
“Jimmy! Jimmy! Oh, Jimmy!"
And on the pier was “Jimmy,
Jimmy,” her husband, and he Pad the
passage tickets end all the money.
A nice situation for a charming
bride. “Jimmy” is James W. Philips,
a wealthy mining man of Denver.
Col. Mr. Philips is absent-minded.
“Stop the ship! Stop the ship!”
My wife's on board” cried the frantic
brides groom, who was finally put
aboard a tug, and after a heart
breaking chase placed aboard the lin
er with his bride.
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Hearst Editorial
Goes Into Official
Record of Congress
Representative Willis, of Ohio,
Makes It Part of Tariff
Discussion.
WASHINGTON, April 25.—The edi
torial by William Randolph Hearst on
the Federalists ideas and the tarilT
views of President Wilson has beer
put into The Congressional Record by
Representative Willis, of Ohio.
Twice Democratic leaders defeated
Mr. Willis in his effort to have the
editorial printed in The Congressional
Record t*o that it might have the
broadest possible circulation in con
nection with the tariff discussion.
Representative Hardwick (Georgia)
was the first to object, and later Rep
resentative Fitzgerald frustrated Mr
Willis.
Mr. Willis, however, obtained per
mission to address the Hous-e for one
minute. He announced he desired to
have the editorial printed as u part of
his remarks. There was no comment
as the stenographer took the printed
copy.
FIREMAN KILLED AS HE
LEANS FROM ENGINE CAB
STEUBENVILLE, OHIO, April 25.1
A. O. Gilson, of Denison, Ohio, a fire-j
man on a Pennsylvania passenger
train, running west of this city, was
killed to-day when he stuck his head
out of the cab window and was struck
by an eastbound passenger train.
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Verdict in Case Is Expected Before Night
Accused Widow Ready to Take the Stand
Believed Woman of Mystery Will Re
peat Assertions of ‘I Don’t Remem
ber’ When Questioned About Hus
band’s Death- -Few Women Present.
Republic’s Action Fans War Scare
Caused by Montenegro’s Defi
ance and Austria’s Threats.
Mrs .Callie Scott Appelbaum reading one of the letters whi ch have figured prominently in
th etrial.
DYE FROM DOLL’S SHOE
CAUSES BABY’S DEATH
ST. PAUL, April 25.—A tiny red
shoe on the foot of his first doll caused
the death of Robert, the 6-month-olc!
child of Air. and Mrs. S. W. Wicks.
Poisonous dye. which faded from the
shoe, was swallowed by the infant,
and, without a moment’s warning to
the parents, he expired. A physician
said the dye had affected the heart.
LINER FEARED LOST AT
SEA REACHES HAVANA
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND, April :
The liner Rio Janeiro, which, it was
feared, had gone down at sea in a
gale, with her 85 passengers and crew
of 55, is safe to-day in Havana har
bor, according to a cablegram re
ceived by her owners, John Glynn &
Son. %
The Riu Janeiro was i eported by
cable to have arrived at Havana last
night, ten days overdue, owing to a
break in her machinery.
PROBE IS BEGUN OF MINE
DISASTER FATAL TO 120
FINLEYVILLE, PA , April 25.—The
Coroner’s jury to-day eatrted its in
vestigation into the cause of the ex
plosion in the Cincinnati mine of the
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke Company, near here, which
j resulted in the deaths of from 111 to
120 men.
Thirty-three bodies were recovered
♦ arly to-day. bringing the total known
dead up to 52.
Reno Divorce Crowd
Greater Than Ever
700 Temporary Residents Flocking to
Cafes and Public Resorts
“Killing Time."
RKNO, April 25.- Never has this
city witnessed such a crowd of wom
en and men seeking divorce, par
ticularly the former, in its hotels,
apartment houses and cottages, walk
ing its streets and flocking to its
places of entertainment, cafes and re
sorts.
Fully 7(>0 of such temporary resi
dents are here for no other purpose
than securing a legal separation from
their husbands or wives. They are
spending an enforced seven to nin**
months in any manner which will
most pleasantly “kill time” until the^'
are maritally freed.
MISSES DEATH TWICE
W'jlLE IN BARBER SHOP
PATKRSf
of Ridgewo*
capes from
while being
here. A big
along and r
over a sma
through the
shop. It st
inflicting a
Day jumped
escaped has
razor.
IN, April 25.—James Dav
od, had two narrow e3
death at the same tirn
shaved in a barber shoj
brewery truck thundere*
>ne of the wheels passei
II stone and threw i
* window of the barh^
ruck Day ur Jer the ea
gash which bled freely
up and by merest chan
ing his thtoat cut by *h
BROUGHTON AGAIN HEADS
SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS
KLBKRTpN, GA., April 25. In tile
closing hour of the 1913 convention
of the Georgia Sunday School Asso
ciation, Milledgeville was selected by
unanimous vote as the meeting place
for next year. Also the following of
ficers were named;
President. I)r. Joseph Broughtini.
Atlanta, re-elected: vice presidents. A.
H. Merry, Augusta; f\ D. Montgom
ery, Atlanta, and A. R. Moore, Sa
vannah; treasurer, Paul Fleming, At
lanta: assistant treasurer. J. V. Well
born. Atlanta; auditor, A. B. raid-
well. Atlanta: recording secretary, P.
It. Johnson. Thomson; general and
financial secretary, D. W. Sims. At
lanta: assistant. Miss Flora Davis,,
Atlanta.
Professor E. < >. Kxcell, of Chicago,
will be in charge of the convention
music next year.
NEW $10,000,000 MAIL
ORDER HOUSE IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 25.—A mail order
house capitalized at $10,000,000 was
licensed to do business in the State
of Illinois to-day. The company is
organized under the laws of Dela
ware, hut the main offices will be in
< Tiicago.
The new organization will use the
parcel post for delivery of its mer
chandise.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement in the next issue will sell
goods. Try it!
“I am innocent of shooting Mr. Appelbaum as an angel in
Heaven."
Mrs. Callie Scott Appelbaum started her statement on the
witness stand with that declaration in her trial for the death of
her husband this morning. She continued:
"At 12:20 midnight of February 25 he lay down beside n J
with a revolver in his hand and said:
"You’ve got just five minutes to live."
"I put my head under the cover and told him to shoot. I give
you my word of honor I do not remember anything else till I was
in the housekeeper 's room the next morning and some kind lady
was bathing my head."
With every prospect of her fate being decided before the
niglil, Mrs Callie Scott Appelbaum, on trial for the death of her
husband in the Hotel Dakota on February 25, left her quarters in
the county jail this morning, fully recovered from her collapse of
yesterday, ami with the declaration:
"I feel like saying good-by
now.”
Every trace of her fainting
spell in the courtroom yesterday
removed, the prisoner in the
sensational ease looked brigh':
and confident and ready to take
the stand to tell her brief story.
Her very air bespoke assurance
of a favorable outcome.
“I know I will be free before thi-
night falls,” she told deputies.
"I feel fine, and don’t think I will
have any more trouble. The place
was so crowded yesterday I couldn't
set my breath, and that was why l
felt so faint. I feel so good this
morning that I can’t believe I will he
brought back to jail a prisoner.’ 1
Many Expect Acquittal.
The case in expected to go to the
jury by 1 o'clock this afternoon, and
by 2 o’clock, those who have followed
the trial say, Mrs. Appelbaum will be
declared innocent of the charge ot
murdering her husband.
Mrs. Applebaum will go on the
stand eariy in the trial this morn
ing. By virtue of the evidence tend
ing to show she was under 'he in
fluence of the potential hypnotic drug
when the tragedy occurred, it Is not
unlikely she will repeat almost the
same remarkabble story she did at
the coroner's Inquest I don’t know
how it happened."
The defense lias only one other wit
ness to offer to-day. Dr. James X.
Ellis, who will give expert testimony
on gunshot wounds and the effects
of varinol, the drug physicians testi
fied Mrs. Appelbaum might have been
under the influence of when her hus
band met liis death.
Arguments To Be Brief.
At the conclusion of the evidence
of Dr. Ellis. Mrs. Appelbaum will ' <
placed on the stand and the defeidj.,
will close. Just how long the attor
neys will argue was not decided, hut
neither side will take longer than an
hour and a half, and at this rate the
Jury should lie retired between 1 and
2 o’clock.
The largest crowd that lias attend
ed the trial was in the court room
when Mrs. Appelbaum entered. There
were not over six or eight women,
and there was a noticeable absence
of girls of the age and type that fr?7
quented the Grace trial.
The accused was attired in t He
same faultless mourning attiie she
has worn since the beginning of the
trial. She entered with Deputy
Sheriff Pllnnie Miner, but Instead of
leaning heavily on his arm, as she
did when she left the room yester
day afternoon, she walked unassisted
and her step w'as light and buoyant.
She went immediately to the table
where her attorneys were seated and.
taking her notebook from a handbag,
read carefully the proceedings of the
last two days In court.
Read for Worst Trial.
When Judge L. S. Roan entered
she looked up and smiled pleasantly
and bowed to the jury that came in
shortly after. She kept up a running
conversation with Attorney James A
Branch, who was seated by her, and
when the Sheriff called court to or
der, she was, to all appearances, equal
to the moat trying ordeai of the
three-day trial—the scathing arraign
ment expected from Prosecuting At
torney Hugh M. Dorsey in his clos
ing argument and the long minutes
when she will be on the stand to tel!
for the first time everything she
knows of the tragedy.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, April 25.—Fresh impetus
was given to the European war sc8re
to-day by the announcement in Tito
Echo that the French Government has
begun preparations to move 20,000 ad
ditional troops to the German fr-o i-
tier, and that all the forts on the east
ern border will be strengthened.
it is believed the determination to
make tills heavy troop movement was
Inspired by the complications which
have followed the capture of Scutari
by the Montenegrins and by the de
mands and threats whiclt Austria is
now making.
A telegram from Vienna states that
the Austrian Government is getting
ready to take Independent action un
less tlie powers act in concert to re
move the Montenegrin army from
Scuta ri.
The ambassadors of the powers ate
trying to form a program which will
allay the feverish feeling in Europe
and the dangerous tension which is
growing up between the two big
groups of powers, the Triple Entente
and the Triple Alliance.
One of the most serious situations
which has arisen in Europe for many
years now presents itself. Apparent
ly peace or war hangs upon
negro. the
Europe.
smallest
Monte
kingdom in
French Want German Airmen Tried.
BERLIN, April 25.—The landing of
a German Zeppelin military balloon
on French soil still commands official
attention.
It in reported from
French Government
lodging an espionage
the German officers.
DR. NEILL RENOMINATED
FOR LABOR COMMISSIONER
Paris that the
contemplates
charge against
WASHINGTON. April 25—Dr.
Charles P. Neill has been nomi
nated by President Wilson for reap-
pointme it as United States Commis
sioner oi' Labor.
Among other nominations sent to
the Senate this afternoon was that of
Hayes H. Lewis to be Collector of
Internal Revenue for the district of
Florida. He will succeed the negro
collector, whose removal was recently
asked by the Florida Legislature. This
is the best paying Federal office in
Florida.
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