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T • 1 • t > i /'• i • ) THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NFAYS^MOXDAY, APRIL 28, 191.3 Souls Are Sold for Clothes, Says Poteat Miss Helen Payne, whose marriage to Mr. Charles T. Hopkiiy*, Jr., takes place to-morrow evening, was honor guest at a luncheon given by Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Hopkins to-day at the Capital City Club. The guests were limited to members of the two families. The central decoration for the table was of daisies, arranged in a basket adorned with tulle bows. Miss Payne wore a semi-tailored gown of hyacinth blue matelasse over a white chiffon blouse. Her smart hat of black taffeta was trim med in goura feathers. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. Carroll Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Smith, Jr., Miss Nancy Hill Hopkins, Mr. Charles T. Hopkins. Jr.. and other family members. On account of the recent illness of the bride-elect, all entertaining for her has been postponed until the re turn from the bridal trip. Varnell - Fitch. Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson Varnell announce the engagement of their daughter, Eula Isabel, to Mr. James Briggs Fitch, formerly of Manches ter. N. H., now of Atlanta. The wed ding will take place June 4. For Mrs. Dudley. Mrs. Robert Witherspoon will give a luncheon to-morrow for Mrs. Ken neth Ward Smith’s guest, Mrs. Guil ford Dudley, of Nashville. The other guests will bp Mrs. Cleveland Kin- lock Nelson, Mrs. Samuel Inman and her guest, Miss Margaret McPheet- ers, of Raleigh, N. C., Mrs. Alfred E, Buck and her guest, Mrs. Dudley, of Maine; Mrs. John King Ottley and Mrs. Bulow Campbell. Yesterday Mr., and Mrs. Frank E. Block entertained at dinner for Mrs. Dudley. Box Party for Visitors. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ward Smith will give a box party this evening for their guest, Mrs. Guilford Dudley, of Nashville, and for Mrs. Thomas B. Felder’s guest, Mrs. Marie Graham, of Chicago. 4 House Party at Roan Cliff. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Alston gave a house party at their country home, “Roan Cliff, last week, which included Mrs. Alston > aunt, Mrs. Samuel Campbell, of Chattanooga; her uncle, Mr. C. L. Hutcheson, of Chattanooga; Mrs. Algood Holmes, of Panama City, Fla., and Mr. Henry Stewart, of Chat tanooga. Mrs. Campbell, Mr. Hutche son and Mrs. Campbell returned home to-day, Mrs. Holmes leaving for a ▼isit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Britton,, in Reading. Pa. Atlanta Art Association. The monthly meeting of the Atlanta Art Association will be held Wednes day at 11 a. m. at the Carnegie Di- bra ry. For Miss Elizabeth Wynne. Mr. Frank Callaway will give a box- party at the Forsyth Wednesday evening for Miss Elizabeth Wynne, of Richmond, Va., who is visiting Mrs. Hugh Lokey. Mrs. Frank Boland will entertain at bridge for Miss Wynne. • Mrs. Hugh Lokey Hostess. Miss Elizabeth Wynne, of Rich mond, Va., will be the honor guest at an informal tea to-morrow afternoon, given by Mrs. Hugh Lokey. Mrs. Lokey w-ill be assisted in entertaining by Mrs. Samuel D. Hewlett, Mrs. Frank Boland, Mrs. Philip H. Alston, Mrs. Kemp Slaughter and Miss Edith Bowron, of Birmingham. Banquet at Y. W. C. A. The annual meeting and banquet of the Y. W. C. A. will be held to-mor- rdw at 6:30 p. m. Cantata at First Baptist. The choir *of the First Baptist Church will render “The Triumph of David.” by Dudley Buck, next Sunday evening, May 4. at 8 o’clock, under the direction of J. P. O’Donnelly. The soloists will be Mrs. Peyton H. Todd, Mrs. James H. Whitten, Mr. Solon Drukenmiller. Mr. H. R. Bates. They will be assisted by a large chorus. Miss Watts Hostess. Mips Louise Watts entertained in formally at tea this afternoon at her home on Spring Street. Her guests Included Miss Roberta Slade and Miss Emily Groover, of Columbus; Misses Nancy and Rena Clarke, of Tarboro, N. C., who are with Miss Nell Waldo; Misses Helen and Emma Taylor, Miss Williford, of Americus, the guest of Miss Lois Williford: Miss Lucile Lan dis, of Nashville: Mrs. Bedell, of Ope lika. who is visiting Mrs. John Gil more; Mrs. Kenneth Goode, of New York; Mrs. Edward Miller, of Louis iana, and Mrs. William Meehan, of Asheville. Mrs. Ewing Hostess. Mfss Cornie Fore, of Charlotte, N. C., who Is visiting Miss Marian Field er. was given a bridge party of six tables this afternoon by Mrs*. Morris Ewing. Pink honeysuckles were used in decorating the rooms where the game was played, and the ices and mints were in pink. The prizes were a water color pic ture, a bridge set, and to tin* guest of honor was given a piece of hand-em broidered lingerie Mr. Morgan Entertains. Mr. Brooks Morgan entertained at dinner last evening at the Piedmont Driving Club for Mrs. Marie Graham, of Chicago, Mrs. Thomas B. Felder’s guest Others present were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ward Smith and their guest, Mrs. Guilford Dudley, of Nash ville. Mrs. Troutman to Entertain. Early next week Mrs. Henry Trou:- man will give a tea for her guest, Miss Lillian Beattey. of Columbus. Ohio, and for Miss Hildreth Burton - Smith's guest, Miss Josephine McClel lan. and for Mrs. G. K. Selden's guests, Miss Marion Roberts, of Utica, X. Y.; Miss Annie Selden. of Wash ington, D. C. and Miss Marion Field er’s guest, Miss Cornie Fore, of Char lotte, N. C. Carter-Gibbs. Mrs. L. A. Carter announces the marriage of her daughter, Willie Dean, to Mr. Charles Dana Gibbs, Saturday, April 26. The Needlework Guild. The Atlanta Branch of the Needle work Guild will meet in the assembly room at Carnegie Library Wednesday at 3 p. m. Uncle Remus Memorial Association. The monthly meeting of the Uncle Remus Memorial Association will he held in the assembly room at Carne gie Library to-morrow at 10 a. m. Nature Club Observation Walk. The members of the Burroughs Na ture Club will meet at Peachtree Road and Peachtree Circle to-rr orrow at 2 p. m. for their observatior walk Members are requested to be prompt. PERSONALS Accused of Thefts From Society, Mysterious Suspect Relates Strange History, NEW YORK. April 2S.—"Mrs Fits- hugh,” awaiting trial on a charge of stealing mesh bags from society wom en and whose real identity lias puz zled the police of several cities; to day disclosed a part of her life his tory. “I belong to the ‘Fighting Ran dolphs of Virginia,’ ” she said, “and when my caw goes to trial my real and unquestioned standing will be known. "The statement that I am Catherine Fennell, a notorious woman known to the police of Washington, is absolute ly false. I was born near Manassas. Va. , “I was educated in a convent and after graduation went to Chicago. I married Fitzhugh Randolph. H< died, and when I returned to Fairfax. Va., I went to the Western State Hospital in Staunton, Va., whyo I recovered from a fever. “In 1911 I married Alfred S. North- rup, a Government lawyer in Wash ington.” Miss Augusta Gardien returned home to-day from the Semple School, in New York. Mrs. Eldred Woolwine, of Nashville, Tenn., is visiting her mother, Mrs. James Murphy. Mrs. Edward T. Miller, of Louisi ana, is visiting Mrs. J. R. Watts or. Spring Street. Mrs. Floyd Ross, of Macon, who has been visiting Mrs. Thomas Peters, re turned home yesterday. Miss Caroline Cummings, of Au gusta, the guest of Miss Laura Ans- ley, returned home to-day. Miss Kittie Thornton, the guest of her sister, Mrs Ernest Kontz, has re turned to her home in La(’.range. Mr. Jack J. Spalding, Jr., connect ed with the Pennsylvania Steel Co. in Harrisburg. Pa., is visiting his parents. Mrs. C. H. Essig has returned from New York and has her sister, Mrs. Joseph Dunglingson. of Selma, Ala., as her guest. Mrs. Marie Graham, of Chicago, is spending a few days with Mrs. Thom as B. Felder after visiting Mrs. Jack J. Spalding. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Richardson, of Vicksburg. Miss., returned home yes terday after visiting Mr. and M s. Hugh Richardson for grand opera. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp Slaughter, who recently came from Baltimore to live in Atlanta, have taken an apartment in the Berkeley, West Eleventh Street. Miss Lillian Beattey, of Columbus, Ohio, arrives to-morrow to be the guest of Mrs. Henry Troutman on West Peachtree Street for several weeks. Miss Grace Jones, of Danville. Va., who has been visiting Mm Harwood Haynes in Inman Park, will be the guest of Mrs. Ervin Dickey after to morrow. Mr. J. LeVin is at the Elkin-Gold- smith Sanitorium, where he submitted to a second operation on his eyes. He is doing well, and his friends are anticipating his early recovery. Miss Gladys N. Payne has returned to Ashley Hall, Charleston, S. C., after entertaining Miss Chilian Phinizy, of Lincolnton, N. C.; Miss Leila Rogers, of Madison. Ga., and Miss Lamar, of Milledgeville, during grand opera. Miss Martha Hill, of Nashville, Tenn., the guest of Mesdames James Murphy and John Varnell, is a dele gate to the sociological congress from Gatlinburg, Tenn., where she organ ized and has been principal of the Pi Beta Phi Settlement School. Miss Sara E. White is being enter tained as the guest of Mrs. John Hays Hammond in Washington. D. C. She was at a dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Hammond for tlie German Ambassador, and attended a reception given by Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall. Miss White will spend May in At lanta with Miss Rosa Wood berry. G. E. DOWNEY IS NAMED TREASURY COMPTROLLER WASHINGTON, April 28.—Upon the recommendation of Senators Kern and Shiveley, of Indiana, President Wilson to-day sent to the Senate the nomination of George E. Downey, of Indiana, to be Comptroller ol' the Treasury. Jack London Goes Into the “Movies" Author Will Play the Hero in All of His Dramatized Stories. LOS ANGELES, April 28.—Jack London will enact in motion pictures all of his novels and short stories. He made a deal by which a local concern gets the exclusive use of London’s stories in motion pictures all over the world. - “I shall appear as the leading ac tor in all my own short stories and novals, dramatized into motion pic tures,” said London. "I am going Into the pictures to give them ‘the punch’ that is almost impossible rn communicate to another.” RIOTS FEARED 1)1 ASHEVILLE STRIKE Strikebreakers Will Be Put on Street Cars Under Guard of Police and Troops. ASHEVILLE, N. C., April 3S.—For the second day not a wheel has turned to-day in the street car strike, and indications are that no cars will be operated for 24 hours to come. The town is low in a state of great ex citement. and trouble Is expected at almost any moment. Two carloads of strikebreakers, brought to town yesterday afternoon, ure camping under guard in the woods. They will go on board street ears, under protection of police,' deputy sheriffs and members of the National Guard. The strikebreakers were de nied admission by the hotels. This morning the statement was made by the company that cars will be operated if State troops have to be brought to prevent violence. The Mayor of Asheville. J. E. Rankin, in sists that the strikebreakers be hur ried back to Jersey Uity as rapidly as they were brought here. Last night the strike was discussed at a mass meeting by dozens of min isters, lawyers, business and laboring men. The striking motormen and conductors attended services at a lo cal church, where there is a revival going on. in a body this morning. Poor Bettors Carry Eggs Up Mountain And in a Spoon, at That, Whistling on Way, to Pay Election Wager. PASADENA, April 28.—Toiling up the precipitous foot trail to the top of Mount Wilson, whistling ditties at intervals of 200 yards and bearing hens’ eggs in tablespoons, John (’reighton. of Loy Angeles, and Abe Sanders, a Minnesotan, paid a long deferreu election bet to Edwin Carle., ton. The victims had six months in which to discharge their indebtedness and staved off payments as long as consistent. Creightoji required five and a half hours to make the trip of seven and one-tenth milee from Sierra Madre, and Sanders was nearly two hours behind him. ARKANSAS CAPITOL SUIT GOES TO HIGHEST COURT LITTLE ROCK. ARK., April 2S.— The State Supreme Court to-day af firmed the lower court’s judgment against Caldwell & Drake, former State Capitol contractors, who had sued former Governor George W. Donaghey and four other members of the State Capitol Commission for $250,000 alleged damages for refusing to allow them to finish the new State Capitol in 1909. The contractors held Donaghey and the other defendants were acting under an unconstitutional statute. The contractors will appeal to the i'nited States Supreme Court. CABLE NEWS Important Events From All Over the Old World Told in a Few Short Linei. BUENOS AYRES.—A petroleum field, which, it is asserted, is of im mense extent, has been discovered in the province of Salta. Emptror Frederick’s Surgeon Dies. HALLE, GERMANY, April 28.— Professor Fritz Von Bramann. one of the. best known surgeons in Germany died here to-day. He treated Emper or Frederick. Roumania Sends Envoy to Rome. BUCHAREST. ROUMANIA, April 28.—Prince Charles of Roumania left to-day for Rome on a special mission for the King. His visit has to do with the serious political situation in Europe. Hamburg Emigration Boom. HAMBURG. — A big emigration boom has started and four extra steamer*' have sailed with 2.940 emi grants for the United States and 2,100 for Canada. Many others will sail this week. Gift for Kaiser’s Daughter. ROME.—The King and Queen of Italy have sent a hair ornament of pearls and brilliants as a wedding gift to Princess Victoria Luise. the only daughter of tlie Kaiser, who will be married to Prince Ernst, of Cumber land on May 4. Swiss Like Revolutionist. BERNE. SWITZERLAND, April :‘s. Residents of the town of Locarno to-day forwarded a petition to the Government protesting the decree that Prince Kropatkin. the Russian revolutionist, shall be allowed to re main there only three months. The Russian has made himself so popular that the populace of Locarno want him to be a permanent resident of the place. Carolina College President Scores Society for Making Body “Rack for Fashions.” Dr. \\. L. Poteat, president of Wake Forest College, North Carolina, speaking at the Second Baptist Church yesterday, declared that both men and women were daily selling their souls for clothes. “Think of it." said lie, “the beauti ful body, great and noble, is used as a display rack for the fashions. II is made secondary to clothes. And your social set adopts clothes as its stand ard. “This is one of the most Insidious hindrances to-day in the work of so cial uplift. It is a bar that separates the strata of society.” Dr. Poteat also said in the course of Ids address; "Be.it said to the everlasting credit of Atlanta that she has stamped out segregated vice. The whole country is watching with open admiration the fight you ore making.” Priests Forbidden To Use Automobiles Bishop of Treves Says Cars Are Inconsistent With Humility. Special Cable to The Georgian. BERLIN, April 28.—The Bishop of Treves has issued an edict forbidding Roman Catholic priests to either ride in or own automobiles. The use of antomobiles, the Bishop declares, is inconsistent with the hu mility which should adorn the clergy, and on the ,ther hand the use of au tomobiles has often been the eausi of financial embarrassment of priests. Slayer Breaks Jail With Help of Wife Woman Slips Prisoner in Tampa Cell Hacksaw While Attending Religious Meeting. TAMPA, FLA., April 28- While at tending a religious meeting in the jail yesterday, Mrs. B. 1*’. Andrews slipped her husband a hacksaw and the man. charged with murdering .1. W. Alexander at Palmetto eight months ago. sawed out last night. An auto is missing, and it is believed An drews escaped in it. Andrews has been kept here for fear he would be lynched at Palmet to. Sheriff Spencer has offered $300 re ward for Andrews, who is the first white man ever sentenced to be hanged in Manatee County. He for merly lived near Greenville, Ala. SMITH WOULD RAISE PAY OF RURAL MAILMEN WASHINGTON, April 28.—Benatot Hoke Smith, of Georgia, to-day intro duced a bill to raise the maximum pay of rural carriers from $1,1 On a year to $1,400 a year, the additional $300 being intended to cover the ex penses of their teams. Senator Smith also introduced a bill to Increase the rate of interest which banks shall pay on postal savings bank money which the government deposits from 2 1-4 per cent to 3 per cent. U. S. Capital Destined to Be Known as ‘‘Wishy Washing ton,” Says Astor’s Paper. LONDON, April 28.—British news papers comment on Secretary of Stnte Bryan’s grape Juice dinner to the diplomatic corps In Washington, in honor of James Bryce, the retir ing British Ambassador. “Wishy Washington” should he the title of the American capital, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, William Wal dorf Astor’s paper. “Official life in Washington undu the Wilson-Bryan regime holds out little prospect of gaiety,” Its editorial says to-day. “We tefiv that the capi tal 'of the great republic is destined to be known as ‘Wishy Washington.’ Commenting upon the dinner, the Daily Express referred to Bryans policy as "teetotal diplomacy” and said that as a State Minister he luid no right to enforce his abstemious ideas on his guests. The diplomats, said the Expr c< ? had no choice, since to refuse th? Secretary’s invitation would have in volved them In the suspicion of in ternational discourtesy. Bryan, said the editorial, had no light to do. as Secretary of State, what he could ver> well have done as a private citizen. "Playful Girl With Not a Bad Thought" "She was just a little, playful girl, without a bad thought in her mind, and she has been made the victim of the blackest crime that can be perpetuated,” was the bitter denun ciation of the assailant of Mary Pha- gan by her uncle, D. R. Benton, yes terday. Mary and her mother lived with Mr. Benton at his home near Mari etta for several years following the death of Mr. Phagan. Then Mary’s mother married J. W. Coleman and the family moved from Marietta to East Point about 1907. Twelve months ago they moved to their little home in Atlanta. Dreams Parents Are Dying, Finds It True Hunt for J. W. Martin Is Kept Up by Police Woman Rushes to Home to Find 1 New “Clues” Received Every Day, Father and Mother Unconscious but No Result—Pestered by From Gas. Crazy Clairvoyant. NEW YORK, April 28.—In answer to the summons of her parents whom she dreamed she saw beckoning to her as they were sinking in a marsh, Mrs. May Allen and her husband, Charier* J. Allen, of Newark, called at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dorloy, and found the aged couple In an unconscious condition. One jet of the gas range was open. Both are expected to die. TWINS, THEN TRIPLETS. RAYNE. LA., April 28.—Mrs. One- zia Carter, a planter's wife, gave birth to three daughters to-day. Ail are living. Just a year ago twin bo vs were born to her. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian LONDON, April 28.—The Scotland Yard police are still prosecuting their ' inquiries in regard to the whereabouts j of Joseph W. Martin, the missing Memphis cotton dealer, but with no sucres?-, although “clues” reach police j headquarters every day. A clairvoyant had so many visions > and so persistently pestered the poli-e that she was forc ibly ejected from the police office several time**. Then she turned her attention to the big Lon- ■ don dailies and >*> impressed the edi torial chief of one journal that he j kept a. man watching a particular house in the heart of slumland two days before lie discovered that he war \ the victim of the illusions of a crazv woman. j WESTED 1 1 ru.es M UNION CnCCx j TELE 0kAM THKO. N. VAIL. PRESIDENT Cfeajb and CcrnMAtUrifc fwtccuJars ^ JeJytt&rrve/ THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY CHAMBERLIN=JOHNSON=DuBOSE CO ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS CASTOR [A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Sought Bears the Signature of ^/IsK. Mr. Foster During tilt* next month Atlantans will have an opportunity to secure authoritative information about summer traveling. 'I’llis service is purely complimentary, absolutely free to our friends. It is a unique proposition, one deserving of the interest of all who will travel this summer. It is helpful. 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Does not contain poisons, opiates or habit- forming drugs. For sale by all Ja cobs' drug stores, and other leading druggists. Ask for booklet telling of recoveries and write to Eckman Lab oratory, Philadelphia, Pa., for addi- , tional evidence. Great Hat SALE FOR THIS WEEK We offer unquestionably the greatest values in Trimmed Hats you ever saw. Our specials at $5.00 Are all the rage, every body is talking about them—they are so pretty and stylish. CHILDREN’S HATS A SPECIALTY. Hats for little women. Mrs. C.H. SMITH 115 Peachtree NEXT TO CANDLER BUILDING We invite your charge accounts. : S $1.50 & $2 Embroideries 79c I 27-ineh Swiss flouneiugs in charming Irish embroidery efl'eets. Beautiful patterns in neal 3E baby patients and bold striking designs for dresses and JJ. semi-flounces. None north less than $1.•'>(); tnauv-worth to $2. * 20c to 35c Baby Matched Sets J 2"£ 5 3 § jm - m US Dainty Swiss embroideries in charming matched sets for baby outfits. Swiss and in bands and edges. nainsook * $2.50 All-Over Embroideries 98c 1 : i X I % 43-inch Swiss flouncing in delightful all-over embroidery patterns. Now in great demand a’ for dresses, waists and semi-dress flouucings. JJP Sale of Real Laces Continues 3 — jr R»*al Filet, Irish, Rose Point, Princess, Duchess, Roe- heme, etc., in bands and edges, at. prices that approxi- SE mate half. (Laces—Main Floor, Right) 5 s Just in--New Ratines Most complete assortment we’ve had this season —beautiful qualities in several shades of navy and Copenhagen blue, brown, rose, pink, 40 to 43 inch. .$] .50. — (Wash Gooctg—Main Floor. 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