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5 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30. 1013. Aldermen Accused by McClelland .Tell Own Stories—None Acts as Prosecutor. Council's probe of the McClelland graft charges probably will be con cluded this afternoon. Alderman John E. McClelland has completed his case, but declines to act as prosecutor; Assistant City Attorney W. D. Ellis, Jr., the city's legal representative in the matter, has made it clear that does not intend to appear in such a role, and the investigating conimiL- tec has been content to allow the wit nesses to tell their ow n stories. The defendants, however, are repre sented by able lawyers, Aldine Cham bers acting for James W, Maddox, and Luther Z. Rosser for Aldermen I. N. Ragsdale and F. J. Spratling. When Attorney Rosser demanded more definite proof from Alderman McClelland, Attorney Charles T. Hop kins, representing Alderman Mc Clelland, made it clear that the com mittee had the power to obtain all the books and records bearing on the alleged transactions. Furnishes New Sensation. While on the stand yesterday aft ernoon Alderman John E. McClel land gave a new' twist to his sensa tlonal accusations. He was telling the committee that Alderman F. J Spratling himself had confessed to borrowing money from near-beer dealers.’ j “Didn't Alderman Spratling tell you that as a friend and in confi dence?” asked Attorney Rosser. “Yes,” answered Alderma^ Mc Clelland, “but his conduct sifice ab solved me from any obligation.” “Didn’t y.ou and Alderman Sprat ling alw’ays vote the same on these near-beer matters?” Aldine Chambers always told him how to vote/’ answered Alderman Mc Clelland. “My information is that Aldine Chambers is attorney for the crematory company.” Attorney Rosser demanded specific details. Alderman McClelland finally 'declined to give them. Later Aldine Chambers gave out this written state, ment: • “Alderman McClelland is both men tally and physically so diseased and deranged as to be totally irresponsi ble If any able-bodied man will make such a statement I will call him a liar so quick it will make his head swim.” Winn Tells of Discoveries. Former Mayor Winn took the stand and told how he had found Alderman Maddox at work on a city sewage disposal plant. He said he dismissed the matter when City Attorney James L. Mayson ruled that the Alderman was within his legal rights. He next told how he had discovered that Alderman Spiraling had bor rowed money from near-beer dealers. He said that Alderman Spratling had .asked to be appointed chairman of •the police committee, and that he had decided to appoint him, although he had never told Alderman Spratling so. “When I discovered these debts T called Alderman Spratling to my of fice and told him I could not ap point him.” Chester A. Dady, city sewer con tractor, said that he had a written contract with Alderman J. W. Maddox for excavation work. He promised to produce it. The case of Alderman I. N. Rags dale. charged w ith buying horses and ■ mules for the city, will be taken up this afternoon. Pair Held in $16,500 Life Insurance Fraud J. C. La France and Wife, of Marsh^ field. Ore., Charged With Sub stituting Body. MARSHFIELD, ORE., April 30.— 1 b C. La France an 1 wife arc under ar rest at Coquille, charged with insur ance fraud. La France is alleged to have in sured his life for $10,000 in the Pos tal Life Company, of New York, and $0,500 in other companies, and to have gone on a hunting trip on the Clackamas River. A few months later a ccc^unpo'-ed body was identi fied as that of La France. After the insurance had been paid to the wife it was discovered, it is charged, that La France had passed off another's body as his own. New Jersey Bishop Selects Own Grave Then, Although in the Best of Health, He Places Order for His Tombstone. TRENTON, N. J., April 30.—Al though the Rt. Rev. James A. MoFaul, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton, is enjoying good health, he has selected his grave and given a stonecutter an order for a tomb stone. The Bishop v\< nt to Lawreneeville and visited the Home for Aged Wom en. He suddenly stopped in front of Morris Hall, and said, "Here is where I want to be buried.” Several priests and laymen laughed, but the Bishop said he was not jesting, that his re gard for the hone- was such that he wanted to be buried in front of it when he died. * Four Big Topics for Peace Delegates Americans in Congress in St. Louis To-morrow Hope to Shape The Hague Program. ST. LOUJ.S, April 30.—-Four mat ters of worldwide importance will considered at the fourth American P, .ice Conference, which will begin here to-morrow. They ar< : V world court of arbitration; lim itation uj armament: Anglo-Ameri can peace centenary: Panama Canal irrat? ..dispute. We are trying to have the cou- « e.-is influeuee the program of the next Hague Conference ia 1S*1T.." ITo- f. >-*of Manley < >. Hudson, cl minimi) of too f’i.'.gram Committoo, has an- Ui'UUc. d. Wins Widow He Told of Husband’s Death Commander H. G. McFarland Mar ries Former Wife of Hero of Kearsarge Disaster. WASHINGTON, April 30.—Com mander H. G. MMcFarland w r ho bore the new's the death of Lieut. John Melton Hudgin^ to his widow, won the hand of Mrs. Hudgins and they were married in St. Thomas’s Church, New .York City to-day. Lieutenant Huagins was the hero of the Kearsarge disaster and died while trying to .-ave the men under his command. His >vidow is the daughter of Mrs. Francis Bergerman. a social leader of Washington, and heiress to a large fortune. Lieuten ant and Mrs. Hudgins had one son. Jack, who will be a page at his mother’s second wedding next week. ODDITIES —in the— DAY’S NEWS TRAVELED FAR TO END HIS LIFE.—When Max Beaver, of Daven port, Iowa, umbrella mender, w r as fished out of the water he told Chi cago policemen that he came all he way from his Iowa home to commit suicide in Lake Michigan. PREFERRED WIFE TO JAIL.— Unable to pay $50 which Mrs. Rachael Sparks, 50, charged he had stolen from her, Frank G. Girard, 56, Lex ington, Ky., offered himself to her in stead. She accepted and the two were married. FATALLY HURT AVOIDING KILLING CAT.—Turning out to avoid running down a cat, George Junkel, of Chicago, wrecked his motorcycle. Mary Shannon, aged 19, telephone operator, who was riding on the back seat of the machine, was fatally hurt. The cat was uninjured. EIGHTEEN WORDS IN HIS WILL. Roland Jacobs, of Chicago, who died just before his college career began, disposed of $1,200, w'hich he had saved, in an eighteen-word will, leav ing the money to his father, brother and sister. “LOVE'S LABOR LOST.”—“Neither of us wanted to get married anyhow. If the dollar is returnable, send it to her.” This request was attached to a marriage license w’hich was return ed to the county clerk's office in New York City by the near bridegroom. The fee wasn’t returnable. PRIZE BULL BRINGS $3,000.— John Arfman. of Middletown, N. Y.. sold a 6-w'eek-old Holstein bull calf to Dr. B. B. Cann, of Scranton, Pa., for the record price of $3,000. The sire of the calf is the $10,000 bull “King Alcartra,” whose dam. “E. K. Alcartra,’’ has a record of over 20 pounds of butter in seven days and producing over 15,000 pounds of milk in a year. CAN’T MAKE FEET BEHAVE.— “Every time I hear ragtime music 1 have to take an extra grip on my self to keep my feet still.” said the Rev. Arthur Popleman, of Philadel phia, at the County Christian En deavor Fonvention at Atlantic City, X. J. “If writers of ragtime music would stop putting questionable words to their lyrics their scores would live forever.” HYOMEI RELIEVES III FIVE MINUTES Help Comes Quickly When Hyo- ^ mei Is Used for Catarrh. Quick relief comes’ from the Hyomei treatment for catarrh and all troubles of the breathing or gans. smeh as stopped-up head, sniffles or morning choking. Put a. few drops of liquid Hyomei in the pocket inhaler that comes with every outfit, and before you have used the treatment five minutes you will notice relief from your catarrhal troubles. It gives a tonic healing effect to the air you breathe, kills the ca tarrhal germs, stops the poisonous secretions, soothes the irritated mucous membrane anr% makes a marked improvement in the gen eral health. Hyomei is not a cure-all; it has but one aim, the relief of catarrh and diseases of the breathing or gans. When there is no catarrh, the general health is improved, for then nature has a chance to build up the entire system. If you suffer from offensive breath, raising of mucus, frequent sneezing, husky voice, discharge from the nose, droppings in the throat, loss of strength, spasmodic coughing and feeling of tightness across the upper part of the chest, or any other symptoms of ca tarrh, use Hyomei at once. It will destroy the disease germs in the no.“e, throat and lungs, and give a quick and permanent relief. Hyomei does not contain cue aim or aijy habit-forming drug. Tk complete Outfit costs . extra ) bottles if later needed. 50 cents. ( Druggists <■ v» i/when- Brain Food Ordered **^ , i | *^«V«Vw^V Mail Orders Invited. Out-of-town customers can share in this sale TO FIX HUES OF Howard M. Jones, of Nashville, Only Southerner on Commis sion Appointed by U. S. WASHINGTON, April 30.—The per sonnel of the board of engineers ap pointed by the Interstate Commerce Commission to assist in formulating plans foe. the physical valuation of railroads was announced to-day. It is composed of R. A. Thompson, now with the California Railroad Commission; Professor W. D. Pence, State Engineer of the Wisconsin Rail road and Tax Commission; J. B. Wor ley, of Kansas City, Mo., a consult ing engineer in private practice Howard M. Jones, of Nashville, Tenn consulting engineer in private prac tice, and E. F. Wendt, of Pittsburg Pa., president of the American So ciety of Civil Engineers and now in charge of the engineering work of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad. Efforts are being made through the War Department to have an army engineer designated for service with the board. The board will have charge of,car rying out the actual work of valuing railroad properties and at the same time make such recommendations to the commission as it deems necessary in expediting the work. for Harvard Students :g Oatmeal and Rice Replace Pies. Charlotte Russe and Cake on Memorial Hall Menu. ^2 BOSTON, April 30.—Remarkable to say, it is deemed necessary for Har vard students to build up their brains. To this end the Harvard Dining As sociation, w'hich caters for 1.200 stu dents in Memorial Hall, has tabooed pies, cake, pudding, charlotte rysse and all such enervating and brain weakening delicacies. In their place the menu offers for dessert at the noonday and twilight meals preparations of thought-stimu lating oatmeal and ice. It is very noticeable that the men who stand lowest In their classes pass their plates for a second helping. Lawyers Undecided On Darden Appeal Convicted Slayer of Goddard Awaits Transfer to State Farm or the Penitentiary. Elmer T. Darden, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for slaying C. M. Goddard, to-day is awaiting an order from the Prison Commission which will send him to one of the State farms, or the State penitentiary. His attorneys, who had said they would appeal the case if Darden was found guilty of murder, or sentenced to ten years or more, had not decided to-day whether they would take an appeal to a higher court. 3 U. S. SAILORS DROWNED. LOS ANGELES, April 30.—Three sailors were drowned when a launch from the U. S. Maryland capsized near the beach at Venice, a resort near here. fe KODAKS TN4 B«fft !»• Tfeat Eutmin pMe i(«k i Quick mall aenio* for cmi-c*t-tovm rwatouaorv 8tnd for Catalog and Prleo Llat. A. K. HAWKES CO. R p°, D A K CM Film* 14 Whitehall St.. Atlanta, • DEI KEELY'S KEELY'S KEELYS It won t take long for you to discover the reason for our immense shoe business. Just one visit to our Shoe Department, and you 11 know. All tbe prefered styles, witb a com plete range of sizes and widths, and salesmen wbo know bow to fit make it easy and pleasant to buy your shoes here. . Tbe pictures show three of the pretty styles that women favor this seaspn. Tbe new Colonial Pump in Dull or Patent Kid with light turn or medium welted sole with small tongue and covered buckle, Louis or Cuban Heel- —nothing prettier has been de veloped among new styles . $5 pr. Tbe new this season s models in pumps now so much sought for may be bad here in all tbe popular leathers and fabrics, with light or medium soles, high, narrow or low broad heels $4 pr. Smart button o xfords, another favored style this season that makes an attractive street or semi-dress shoe for afternoon wear, are here in all leathers Kids, Gun Metal, Tans and Patents, with high or low heels $3.50 pr. This but a few of many new styl es. All worth seeing. K eel 7 £ '3! M. RICH & BROS. CO. i me ■■■ 1 . - - m. Annual May Silk Clearance J Wherein We Distribute New and Fashionable Silks at Saving of an Average Half Rich s Annual May Silk Clearance starts to-morrow at 8:30 s harp. This is not a sale of shelf-weary tag ends, “buyer’s mistakes,’ tender silks nor off shades. It is just the reverse—a sale of all the year round staple grades and silks highest in Fashion’s favor. Planned originally to profit by trade conditions—to help manufacturers and jobbers dispose of their surplus stocks, this May Sale has grown to be the largest trade movement of its kind in the South. Manufacturers and jobbers recognize it—they know that no lot of silks is too large for us to handle if style, quality and prices are right. So we get first choice of their surplus stocks—it saves them time and “peddling around.” Fully three-fourths of the silks in this sale are such surplus stocks—secured by our buyer on his special New York trip—and offered to-morrow for the very first time. # T he other silks come from our own select stock—silks which have been selling freely at their full price of a third to a half more than to-morrow’s figure. ■C mz sE m £ (Left Annex, Main Floor, at 8:30) $3.50 Chiffon Cloths $1.39 Imported chiffon cloths, the choicest product of the French looms. Soft and sheer with deep borders of Bulgarian, floral, martine and futurist patterns. Im pressionistic designs now the rage in New York, deep satin borders, the color combinations leave description dumb. Colors run the gamut of the color card. 44-inch. $1 & $1.25 Fancy Taffetas Soft fashionable taffetas in I lie pretty Dolly Madison and r? r? spaced floral designs, stripes, IJIJ G warp prints, jacquards and * changeable styles, 24 and 27 Inches wide. New $1 Messalines at 59c $3.50 French Silk Voile $1.29 *V dream of loveliness. One-half will be as sheer as gossamer, the other of crepe meteor or the beautiful Calot satin. Some have peacock stripes, others are in allover Persian patterns, still others are Dolly Madison or floral designs. Wonderful possibilities for stunning gowns. The ever-favore d all silk messalines in a wonderfully soft, supple quality, 20 full pieces, including the leading street and evening shades: 22, 24 and 27 inches wide. 85c Silk Foulards at 40 pieces from the most fa- ^ moils manufacturer in Amer- [Z fa _ ica. Spot proof from rain or water. The 40 pieces Include the fashionable space designs, dots, con ventional patterns, etc. About every conceivable color, including black and white. Trimmings : Half Price Three big lots of bands hii<1 fringes, gold, silver, embroidered crystal, chenille, etc. All just half. $1 Chiffon Taffetas at A beautiful quality of pliant chiffon taffeta for all dress purposes. Ketulls everywhere at $1 a yard. Sol id colors or changeables, 20 Inches. 59c I i $1 Yard-wide Black Taffeta This is our famous “Yellow Edge” which we always sell at $1. As long as 10 pieces last the price is 77c. Obo for our famous she “Purple Edge” yard-wide Mack taffeta, .lust 10 pieces. 77c 1 «r. $2.50 and $3.00 Bordered Chiffon 98c Solid color chiffons with single or double satin stripe borders, navy, brown, Copenhagen, light blue, pink, grey, tan, violet, wistaria., amethyst, taupe, navy, black and white. $1.50 Imp. Black Foulard A beautiful quality of im- _ ported French foulard, won- Ml O —^ derfull.v soft and pliable, ClC/ will drape delightfully, 42 inches wide. Black only. 75c to $1.50 Chiffons, Etc. One big lot of chiffons, ^ chiffon cloths and nets, light C — $1.50 to $2.25 Chiffon Taffetas 88c A tremendous assortment of fine chiffon taffetas in about every conceivable street and evening shade. (No black or white.) All a full yard wide. Not a piece in the lot that formerly sold for less than $1.50; many worth $1.75 to $2.25. Choice 89c. and dark colors, some slight ly soiled, others in odd shades, white nets Included, 44 inches wide, formerly 73c, $1, $1.23 and $1.50; now 39c. $1.50 White Pongee at All silk white Arab pongee p* for coats and smart suits. 27 inches wide. V* $1.49 for $2.25 Auto Cloth, of the pongee family, for coats, etc., yard wide. $1.50 Lining Satin at 98c $1.50 Silk and Wool Crepe 79c Splendid grade of white lining satin, yard wide, Arm, and closely woven, hut pliant and supple. Imported soft, crinkly Ori'iic that drapes with clas sic grace. Warp of pure thread silk, filling of linest Australian wool. A lovely combines beauty and service, amethyst, turquoise, grey. 44 fabric that Navy, tan, inches. $1 Black Messaline at 79c $1.50 Silk Suiting at 89c A feature of the sale. These silks come from the most prominent silk specialist in America—a man who brings out more than half of the season’s best sellers. Here are fine silk serges, wide diagonals, beautiful broches, very fine needle twills—all the silks that are in high favor for fine suitings and street dresses. In solid colors and neat designs. Wide color assortment of 22 pieces, 24 inches wide. $1 and $1.25 Fancy Messalines 69c Soft free flowing messalines in floral patterns, Jacquard designs, kin stripes, changeable effects, etc. 24 and 27 inches. 59c Colored Messalines at warp prints, neat lair line and Pe- Wide color range. About 10 pieces of messalines, chiefly light colors. 19-inch in the 39c $1 Colored Messalines at 59c 24 and 27-inch colored and changeable messalines in light and dark colors. Fine soft, free flowing quality. Fine quality kimono silks in floral, Dolly Varden and characteristic kimono pat terns. Has a rich satin fin ish. Blue, rose, violet, purple, tan and black grounds with contrasting colors. Silk Ratines Reduced Just five pieces, plain weaves lasse. Customers will recognize this instantly as our “Yellow Edge,” the best yard wide black messaline in the city for $1. 10 full pieces of it go in the May Clearance at 79c. $1.25 Silk Crepe Taffeta 69c Something new—shown for the first time this sea son. Soft crinkly crepe with the sturdy wearing qual ities of a taffeta, all the leading street and evening shades, 27 inches. $1.50 Tussah Crepe de Chine $1.19 The season's novelty. Combines the soft delightful qualities of a clingy crepe de chine with the striking rough appearance of the Tussah silks. Very smart. Navy, black, Copenhagen, Alice, cafe an lait, tan, brown, reseda. Note the width, 36 inches. 85c & $1 Spotproof Foulards 69c The same standard qualities that retail everywhere at 85c and $1. More than 75 pieces in every desirable color. Some with two tone dots or floral designs, geo metrical figures, etc., 24 inches. Don’t miss this. Clearing $2 Woolens at 69c One big table of fine wool- ens in serges, tweeds, novel- ties, vigereaux, English suit- f* ings, crashes, etc., all short length of 2 to 10 yards. Many are the Iiest of I his season’s styles—for best pieces sell fir*t—bi light and dark colors. 44 to 50 inches wide. Former prices $1.50. $2 and $2.50. Choice, the yard, 09c. $1 Kimono Silks at 69c and niate- Zg. Good-bye to Dress Patterns With a very few exceptions every silk dress pattern in stock has had its price lowered a half or more. Many of these are the exclusive patterns we import direct, others are silks loo expensive to meet the popular taste and purse. There are jacquard crepe do chines, Calot satins in Cubist and Bakan patterns, em broidered chiffons, matelasse, gold and silver fabrics em broidered in black satin, crepe chiffons, brocaded crepe de chines, etc. Chiefly in one of a kind, some better sellers than oth ers, which accounts for a $25 pattern selling in one in stance for $6.95 and in another at $9.95. All the patterns grouped variously under these three prices: $25 to $45 silk patterns $13.95 $20 to $35 silk patterns $9.95 $1.3 to $23 silk patterns $6.95 59c All Silk Foulards 33c This is great. These are the ail silk foulards which many stores feature as great values at 59c. We Iwve 65 full pieces in spaced floral designs, stripes, dots and conventional patterns. Chiefly white designs on navy, ’Copenhagen, brown, tan. grey, ami black grounds. $1 Firm Dress Taffetas 59c A soft lively silk, firm but supple with wonderful draping qualities. One of the finest dress taffetas in the market to-day; retails at all the better stores for $1. Solid colors in white, light, blue, Alice, navy, gen darme, Copenhagen, violet, lilac, tan, red, garnet, rese da, maze, pink, grey, etc., and the same combinations a ' and colors in changeables. 27 inches. 3r) New $1.50 Wash Silks at 89c 5* Check these silks when they go to the laundry. jjp Note that they wash and wear as well as linens of the t same texture, for they are pure silk, sans zinc, sans tin, 3c) sans gum or loading of any kind, just beautiful silks in JJF beautiful patterns for shirt waists, shirts and dresses. m Black and colored stripes on white grounds and some 5; all colored. 62 inches wide, , $2 All Wool Crashes at 89c Beautiful qualities, soft, medium weight woolens for soils and skirts. 56 inches wide. Drey, tan, fawn. blue. ^]|||I1|III M. RKiH & SROS. CO. 52-56 Whitehall Street