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7 TTTE ATLANTA CEOECIT \N AND NEWS, FRIDAY. MAY 2, 1012. Publisher of Militants' Paper Is Jailed, Eight Leaders Arraigned in Drastic Warfare, LONDON, May 2.—The Govern ment continued its drastic warfare against the militant suffragettes to day. F. J. Drew, manager of the Victoria House Printing Company, where the militants’ newspaper, The Suffragette, was issued yesterday, was placed under arrest charged/with complicity in an illegal act. In spite of the arrest, the women editors, of the paper declared it would be on the streets this evening as usual. While officers were taking Drew Into custody, the eight prominent members ‘'‘and officers of the Wo men’s Social and Political Union, ar rested Wednesday Tn a raid upon the Union’s headquarters, were be ing arraigned in Bow Street Court. The women arraigned were Miss Barbara Kerr, secretary of the Union; Miss Annie Kenney, business mana ger; Flora Drummond, known as “General,” and adviser to the “Vio lence Committee;” Miss Bake, Miss Lennox, Aliss Barrett, Mrs. Saunders and or.e other. Aeroplane Campaign Planned. They were charged with destruction :>f property, conspiracy and inciting others to violence. Scotland Yard has learned of a new plan, that of having several aero planes 11 v over London, deluging the City with suffrage literature and dropping dummy bombs in the streets. The bombs will bear such inscriptions as the women have used on the placards and implements of destruction. Miss MacCauley, who presided at last night’s demonstration of mili tants. declared to-day, “It is now war to the knife.” “Home Secretary McKenna will find that he has adopted a game that two can play,” said Miss MacCauley. "He will find we are not children and that we have just begun to fight.” Miss MacCauley would not say what dire consequences would follow' If the Government continued using iron hand methods against the mili tants. Rail Disaster Averted. A di osier in which many lives might have been lost was averted to ds v at the Piccadilly Circus Station t of the Subiay when a track walker found a package containing a bottle of nitroglycerine on the track. He just had time to remove it from the rails when a crowded express train thundered by. The attempted outrage is attributed to the suffragettes. In spite of the raid yesterday on the suffragettes’ headquarters, The Suffragette, somewhat diminished in size, appeared on sale. “It is the greatest blow the mili tant women have yet received.” ac cording to The Daily Chronicle, speaking of the raid. “It is the first step toward the complete suppression of the militant suffragette movement,” says The Daily News. , Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst. who is out of prison on ticket of leave be cause of illness resulting from a hun ger strike, was* mysteriously remove this afternoon from the Nursing Home in Norfolk Square to another nursing home in Woking. Detectives followed the automobile in whfch Mrs. Pank- - hurst was moved. Pictures Must Wear Clothes in Chicago Also Songs Must Be Such as Not to Require Ear Muffs for Pious Censors. CHICAGO, May 2.—The City Coun cil has passed an ordinance prohibit ing public exhibition of mode paint ings or pictures and the singing indecent songs. Police censors will attend all -cabaret allows and arrest any person who shall sing any song “the words of which are suggestive of indecency or immorality." The Council had before 'them seven songs. The penalty is a fine of $25 to $100 for each offense. Public dancing in cafes has been stopped by proprie tors on hints fr x om the Mayor. in TO WILSON NARROWLY MISSES SMASH-UP IN AUTOMOBILE NEW YoliK. May 2. President Wilson narrowly escaped an automo bile accident to-day. While speeding O’Neal of Alabama Removes En tire Clerical Force in the Executive Office. OBITUARY NOTES. J. A. Hawkins, aged 56, died at a local ; sanitarium Thursday morning. He Jf came from Sewanee, Ga., and is il survived by a wife and four chil- f dren—C. E.. C. J. and R. D. Haw- j kins and Mrs. J. F. Covington. Fu- * ..'jneial announcement later. Tbe funeral of Neel Correll, aged 68, who died at his home on Sandtown Road Thursday afternoon, will be hold this morning # at the New Hope Church. Ho is survived by his wife .and seven children. The funeral of Calvin Depnis, nine- months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dennis, who died at the res idence, 140 Oliver Street, Thursday J morning, was hejd this morning ■from Poole’s chapel. Interment in Hollywood. Funeral services for Hugh T. Edmon son wore held/this morning at 10 o'clock at the* residence. 339 East Georgia Avenue. Mr. Edmonson died Wednesday night and is sur- vivet}. his mother, three brothers a ml two sisters. The funeral of W. J. Connolly, former Atlantan, wjjl be held here to-mor row. The body is at the Burkert- Siinmons undertaking establishment. Hi* is survived oy two daughters, Mrs. Annie L. Herndon and Miss Mary Elizabeth Connolly; and two Sons. Janies M. and George W. Con nolly, all >nf Atlanta. Th e funeral of William B. Cass, aged 30, who died at the residence, 50 < ’hickainauga Avenue, Wednesday • night, will be held at Barclay & - Brandon’s chapel this afternoon at 3 o’clock. Interment will be in Westview. He is survived by his •mother, one sister, Mis. Dr. Kdians, of Sheffield, England, and two brothers* Eugene and Stewart. THE PLAYS THIS WEEK Forsyth Offers Good Bill. Smashing attendance records is an old trick of the. Forsyth, and though the new season is but a few days old, the figures for attendance already eclipse any past records. The vaudeville bill is a good one. The house has been crowded ut every performance. There has not been a wasted second in the entertainment. All the acts have scor ed real triumphs in hits. For the coming week the star act will be Gus Edwards’ Kid Kabaret. This is a combination of seven pretty girls and eight juvenile comedians, who have been appearing in New' York and Chi cago exclusively since last September. Miss Bell Story will be an extra added fealwre. This young lady has never been seen here before. She is a delight ful entertainer, using her own songs and exhibiting a wardrobe that will be interesting. Others on the bill are so important in modern vaudeville that it is believed the show w'iU be voted an event of the season. “Butterfly on the Wheel" To-night. To-night Miss Billy Long and her company, which is playing a summer season at v the Atlanta, will return to the city and again give “A Butterfly on the Wheel,” the sensational divorce play,-which has scored a hit. The play will also be given at Saturday’s matinee and Saturday night. Next week “The Girl From Out Yonder," a rare comedy, will he played by the company. This play has never been seen in Atlanta but one time, and then scored a hit. Miss Long appears first in a sailor hoy’s costume, and is as cute as Billie Burk< in it. The entire comedy is.w'ell cast. Two new members also make their debut | Monday night in the play. Seats now selling. “Billy, the Kid,” at Lyric. It doubtless will be unwelcome news to patrons of the Lyric to know that the present attraction Will he the last of the regular theatrical season at this house. “Billy, the Kid,” has played to large audiences, and lovers of melo drama have voted the attraction one I of the most pleasing in a melodramatic [ way of the season. The three remain ing performances should draw large audiences, as the advance sale gives promise of good attendance. Stock Planned for Lyric. With the closing of the Lyric to morrow night this house will undergo a thorough renovation, pending the or ganization and rehearsing of a stock company to present high-class plays during the summer season. The Lyric has been the home of some excellent stock organizations in past seasons and patrons of the house will doubtless he interested in knowing ' that plans for summer stock are again under way. MONTGOMERY. ALA., May 2.— Governor O’Neal has dismissed his private secretary, his recording sec retary and his personal stenographer, thereby removing the whole clerical force of the Executive Office. The resignations were demanded yester day afternoon late and all three of ficials complied immediately with the request. The retiring officials are John D. McNeel, private secretary; James H. Nunnally, recording secre tary, and T. D. Simpson, personal stenographer. The ornor said that as McNeel is a candidate for a position under the Wilson .administration and Nunnally is a candidate for Secretary of State of Alabama, their connection with his office is embarrassing. No reason is given for Simpson’s removal. The public takes the Gover nor’s statement with a grain of salt and believes something else is behind the removals. Mr. McNeel is succeeded by Daniel Troy, a prominent Montgomery law- yer, who will assume his new duties to-day. Mr. Nunnally is succeeded by John Moffatt, for years chief clerk aft the Exchange Hotel. No announce ment has been made as to Simpson’s successor. SURGEONS USE FINGER TO REPLACE WOMAN’S NOSE LOS ANGELES. May*^.—Surgeons in the Pasadena Hospital to-day were building a new’ nose on the face of Mrs. Mabel Johnson, of Los Angeles They w'ere using the third finger of her left hand, placing the Lip of tbe finger between her eyes and removing the bone nearest the palm of the hand to form the tip of the artificial nose. The doctors said the skin was knit ting well and that the blood supply apparently was uninterrupted. The operation will last several weeks. Recitals, to Pay Bills for Cheap Lunches for Working Girl Pupils, Planned. A benefit recital, billed as “neces sary because w'e haven’t enough money to pay bills for the last month of the Girls’ Night School,” will be given in Cable Hall. Satur day evening, by three girls of talent anti beauty who have volunteered their services. They are Miss Ethel Thornton, Miss Verna Ruth Harris and Miss Agnes Coleman, readers and elocutionists. The program will lie varied, with drama, humor and pathos promised in the selections. The recital is prima rily for the benefit of the Supper Fund of the School. Dialect sketches, playlets, thrilling bits . of famous poems with musical obbligatos^ are billed. Helps Pay Penny Meals. The Supper Fund of the Girls’ Night School is used to pay a consid erable portion of the expense of meals which are served the working girls attending the school. That they may come to the school directly up on leaving their places of work in the evening, the supper is spread at 6:30 o'clock, at the cost of a penny to them. The night school, in charge of Mrs. Laura White, superintendent, has an enrollment of 155 girls, all of them working girls who have been pre vented from obtaining an education. They range in ages between 12 and 30 years. Taught Only Essentials. In the schools the girls of Atlanta who work In shops, factories, offices, stores, some of them unable to write or speak English or solve elementary problems in business arithmetic, are taught the essentials of education. The school, a branch of the city schools, has not public provision for the Supper Fund, which is found necessary to its successful existence, and has obtained it by subscription from merchants and manufacturers who realize the value of the school. The recital which the three young women will give Saturday is the first of its kind toward this end. ever a crossing on the Kcorny Turn pike en route to the >s< w Jersey Old Soldiers’ Home, a Jersey City trolley car barely missed crashing Into the official uutofnobilft. % Quick action on riie part of the chauffeur prevented a serious stnash- up. BARTH DETAINED; BACK FROM WASHINGTON MAY 10 Charles li Barth has received a message from Brigadier General Robert K. Evans that he will return to Atlanta May 1<). General Evans has been in Washington for several weeks, making arrangements for the international rifle shoot at Camp Perry, Ohio, this summer. He has been detained there because of the. absence of General Leonard Wood. Before returning to Atlanta General Evans will go to Ohio ami complete the rrangements for the shoot. ADDRESED TO WOMEN IS YOURS A Case of “Nerves?” Hot flashes, dizziness, fainting spells, backache, headache, bearing-down pains, nervousness—all are symptoms of irregularity and female disturbances and are not beyond relief. Favorite Prescription is that of a famous physician unusually experienced in the treating of women’s peculiar ailments. For forty years it has been recommended to suffering womankind. Thousands of women can bear witness to its beneficial qualities. Perhaps its aid is all that is required to restore to you perfect health and strength. Now is the time to act, write Dr. R. V. Pierce’s, Buffalo. -Dr.- pierce’s I AM NOW CURED Mas. Dominic Rodgers, of San Francisco. Calif , writes: •*I take pleasure in recommending your wonderful remedies, and wish to cay in behalf of your ‘Favorite Prescription’ and ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ that through their use 1 ain now cured of the various troubles that a woman Is heir to. These remedies cured me when others failed and I therefore resolve to take no other. I thank you for your advice.” YOUR DRUGGIST CAN SUPPLY YOU IN LIQUID OR TABLET FORM V.r - . ■ } •'*;< "‘v.ril THERE IS CLASS AND STYLE to THE MENTER CO. CLOTHES—AND LIBERAL CREDIT FOR THE ASKING. C. Come and seethe daintiest, neat est and most beautiful Ladies’, Misses’ and Juniors’ Suits and Coats on the market. Take your choice and charge it. You’re perfectly welcome. Pay the easy way. C. Ask to seethe newest Millinery, ^Dresses, Petticoats, Waists, Skirts, Shoes, etc. CHARGE EVERYTHING C. Men, do you want a good, conservative busi ness suit, something with snap, style and durabil ity ? Ask to be shown the 1913 models in Serges or Mixtures. Price, $15 to $25, payable a little each week. Don’t miss the new Norfolks when visiting the store. Have a new hat a*d some shoes or oxfords charged on the bill. C. Remember, we clothe the whole family on one.account, chil dren included. We guarantee every garment. THE MENTER CO. Davison-Paxon-Stokes Company The Children 1 s Store Is Aglow With the Lighter Apparel of Summer and Merry With the Buying of It Beginning with layettes for tiny babies, the sections of Infants’ Wear have cases of billowy frocks and lingerie for the coming season. Exquisite French, hand-embroidered things, simple or elaborate. Washable hats, caps and rompers. Diminutive bathrobes. All sorts of dainty and artistic gifts for babies. Toilet accessories—combs, brushes, powder boxes, baskets, pillows and covers for the? go-cart and carriage. —Third Floor. School Girls Are Outfitted in This Store —now gay with frocks and suits of summer weight tub dresses and coats for cool days or motor wear. T lation suits. Specially priced for Saturday, these | $5.00 and $6.00 Tub Dresses at $2.48 Dresses of distinctive styles and of beautiful materials; fine linens, reps, piques; white and colors. 6 to 14-year sizes Girls 1 $2.50 Wash D resses at $1.00 An assortment of slightly soiled dresses, but made of good washable materials; ginghams and madras; stylish and very desirable. Sizes 4 to 14 years; only a few of the smaller sizes. , * and colorings. Imported lingerie frocks, English rim tailored suits, including those of linen and regu- Children s Middy Blouse Dresses at $1.00 Becoming little dresses—among the season's most popu lar styles, made of pretty, fresh materials—pinks and blues; about a dozen styles in 6 to 14-year sizes. For Small Boys the Wash Suit Is the Thing for Summer We have never hud such suits for $1.00 as this season has brought. .Made of good wash materials in white and colors—checked and striped effects. Russian suits, 2 to 6 years; sailor blouse suits. 4 to 10-year sizes. All priced at $1.00. A Sale of Infants 1 Caps, Values Up to $2.50 at 98c ' Dainty Caps in many styles. Made of sheer materials, artistically designed and finished with lace edges, expert needlework, flowery wee bows and embroidered sprays he^e and there. They are soiled, and for that reason have lost most of their price. Children 1 s Hats c P to $3.50 at $1.98 Stylish, pretty straws in various shapes, colors and effective trimmings. For girls 2 to 12 years of age. / iiEADACHES IV'NEURALGIA "HD LAGRiPPE IVA Whitehall St. (Upstairs) 1st door below J. M. High Co. CHARGE ACCOUNT rjay?. ifw. uterlji a l .wi Ak cr.rTrsr wy. r 1 'iKZKrxtrsr* srs* * rTnrtmr* TTiMiiflrrTKif The Witchery of Ribbons Ribbons are hi git in favor for millinery, girdles, collars, cuffs. Also for hair bows, and toy all these demands we have amply provided. For Saturday the Prices Are Less--- 25c Novelty Ribbons at 19c yard Dresden and Persian effects, and some in new and Bulgarian designs and color tones; light and dark shades; Tor sashes, hat trimmings, hair bows, e^c . Beautiful Satin Taffeta Ribbons at 25c yard In such popular colors as royal blue. Nell rose and shades: for sashes, hat trimmings, hair hows. etc. A Wonderful Sale of Trimmed Hats at $5 and $7.50 An Event That Takes Precedence Over Any Similar Offering Here Scores of newly trimmed Hats in a bewildering assortment of styles, shapes and colorings —a wonderful style display m this assemblage of beau tiful Hats, in two assort ments from which you may choose ---at--- $5 and $7.50 Tc-morrow