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2 A HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1913. Japan Has a WeIl=Drilled Army of 40,000 Men Already in California, Declares German Officer President Wilson and Secretary Bryan in Hurried Conference After \i Ambassador’s Note AMBASSADOR CHINDA T ph h ot ^ Sfrapli of the Japam'HH Ambassador to the United States was takell recently in Washington. Ambassador t.'himia yesterday issued what amounts to a flat ultimatum to the United States in the matter of the alien-land hill in California. Mayor Sees Movie i Plot in Muzzle Law OLD HUD HILL FIGHT IN FREE CHARGES FALSE moved with more haste than he has at any time since lie became the head of the Department of Stale. Ambassador Oliinda was asked to return in two hours and (fet his answer, after Mr. Bryan had talked with the President. The conference at the White House lasted some time and be fore it was over a messenger was sent, to the .Japanese embassy to say that the President was sending a telegram to Governoi Johnson which would obviate the necessity of a return call from : the ambassador to-day. BRYAN REFUSES TO TALK. When Mr. Bryan left the President's office he said: "I can not talk about this matter now without disclosing more than I think should be made public at this time. The Presi dent and I have been discussing a telegram which will be sent to Governor Johnson.” “Will you send the message or will it go from the Presi dent 1” was asked. “It will he the President’s message, no matter who sends it,” replied Mr. Bryan. “I am not sure whether it will go from the White House or from the State Department. ” A few minutes later, President Wilson sent out word that the form of the message to Governor Johnson hud been decided art the conference and it would be sent from the office of the Secretary of State. The events of the last few days have made it obvious to the heads of the War and Navy departments that a crisis is being reached in the Japanese controversy where the unpreparedness of the United States for war was the chief concern of all. The Navy Department has received specific orders that no ships be ordered to the Pacific for the present, hut the plan to send the Atlantic fleet on a “joy cruise” to European waters is understood to have been abandoned. In the meantime, all movements of fighting ships to ports from which they would be more available for duty on the Pacific or in the vicinity of the Panama Canal have their own sig nificance. Here is the explanation made of the order by which the submarine flolilla was hurried to sea from Newport Inst night, with orders sending them to Norfolk : “Taking advantage of the necessity of sending some of the submarine flotilla at Newport to the Norfolk yard for minor re pairs. the department yesterday tested the speed with which the crews of the submarine could he gathered, got on hoard and the lioats sent out to sea. Without any previous warning, emergency orders were issued yesterday from Washington, directing 1hat the submarines be sent to sea with the greatest possible speed. The rapidity with which the crews were gathered together and the boats got under way is exceedingly gratifying to the depart ment.” Japs Drill Daily on the Coast, Says Maj. Werner NEW YORK. May 10. “If war were declared between Japan and the United States you would find that Japan has a well-trained, highly- effleient standing army of 40,000 men right in California and along the Pacific Coast. These men are pa triotic to the core and would be a se rious menace to the safety of our citizens if war broke out.” The foregoing statement was made to-day when Major Heinrich Wer ner, of the German army, sailed for Germany. Major Werner, on his re tirement from active service, came to this country ten years ago and made his home in San Francisco. He has become wealthy and has decided to live permanently in Germany joining States intend to get rid of the Japanese as fast as they can. Hut they want to feel that everybody ie concerned for the future of California and do not regard it as a foreign pos session. The Japanese question Is vital and I can not help but feel that much harm will follow if the United States Government does not t\ct firmly and promptly.” The Major added that Australia will never permit Orientals to re main in large numbers and that the situation in California has been al lowed to exist too long. Picked Up Fat Roll; Arrested for Theft “What 1 tell you now is the re sult of close study of the Japanese on the Pacific,” continued the major. “The mobilization of a small army has been going on secretly for years, and what 1 have observed I have observed with military eyes, and am, therefore, better qualified to appre ciate what constant military training means. “In isolated parts of California, which 1 have visited in my automo bile, I «have come across Japanese spending their noon hour and their evenings in drill. I have watched small companies of them marching and parading to the orders of Japa nese officers, who are earning their living in this country by doing me nial work. They have organized small survey parties and made maps of ev ery spot in California and the infor- rained mation they have less valtle to them. “You people in the Has all a Joke. You are o\ and you think if Japai war it would simply mi mutter of sending a coup lean battleships to end has battleships and mon ing Japan has an am compare for efficiency wii in the world and what i has already a strong foo: ceuntrv. “The people of Califnr of price - nk it is onfldent xrted a a small Amer- Japan ‘ build- lat will jre she this W. P. Brooks, Saw Mill Man, Loses Wallet Containing $200 in Forsyth Street Place. “That nice, fat roll was lying there on the floor and 1 juRt natural ly couldn't help picking It up,” was the manner in which Jame9 I). Bran non, with no permanent residence, ex plained to the officers at police sta tion Saturday night his possession of more than $100. Brannon was arrested by Detec tives Vickery and Hamby just after he hud boarded a train for Waycross. The arrest was made on the com plaint of \V 1\ Brooks, of Brooas Bros., a sawmill firm of Meansville, who told the officers that he hhd been robbed of $-00. Brooks said that he came to Atlanta Saturday to hire some mem The roll disappeared in a ?»aloon on Forsy Street, between Hunter and bama. “But there wasn’t $200 In Brannon protested. “There was on’v $167.” Brannon had discarded his old clothes when arrested and had pur chased new trousers, a new shirt, a new overall jumper, a shave, a bath and a shine. He will receive a hear ing Monday before Recorder Broyles. Ala- it. Going Into Society? STODDARDlZE! dresM'd all women and Ik VO! are <roiug to enter the whirl of society, then S101 )1 >AR1 >1ZL ! It s the correct thinjf nowadays to have one s clothes STODDARDlZE!)—it keeps on. ou tline! Practically all Atlanta society STODDARDlZE! A H agon for a Phone ('a') e way) on Out-of-Town O ma g 1 26 Peachtree Stre. t tic)) Phone. Ivy 43 Atlanta Phone 43 Orders of $2 or more. Dix c's Greatest Dry- Cleaner and Lieutenant Governor of Illinois Was Not Guilty of Miscon duct, She Declares. Scenario Pictured Has Policeman and Patrol Chasing Offender in Woods Near Buckhead. CHICAGO, May 10.—At the first meeting of the committee appointed by the Illinois Senate to investigate charges involving the morality of Lieutenant Governor O’Hara here to day Mias Maud Robinson jind Lieu tenant Governor O'Hara were wit nesses. The charges against tne Lieutenant Governor were made in an affidavit signed by the Robinson woman, a Springfield divorcee, and Insinuated that O’Hara had registered with her at the Hotel Sherman here as man and wife. The affidavit also insinu ated that Thomas D. Vredenburgh, of Springfield, had also registered as man and wife at the same hotel with Mrs. Mabel Davidson Inbusch, of Madison, Wis. Charges Unsubstantiated. The testimony of Miss Robinson failed to substantiate the charges o misconduct on the part of the Lieu tenant Governor, n revealed that the BELL THE WILL ATTACK HAM APPOINTMENT Dy t who wrote “The New Freedom” knows nothing at all about the real merits of the fight on me by the lieutenants of a water power trust. I have been tried, condemned and executed without the oppor tunity for proper defense, which is in violation of the spirit of our republican institutions. I believe there are men in the American Senate who wish to preserve our republican institutions in all their integrity. I address this appeal to them. In my struggle against a water • power trust down in tile good old Democratic State of Georgia I have represented a people’s longing for the triumph of Jus tice. Though for the moment discredited by as high an author ity as the President of the Unit ed States, the cause is not dis credited and it can not fail, for it is the cause of mankind. Cares Not for Result, She Saye. What results to mo in the struggle can be of little moment; granted only that 1 have shown great devotion and been willing to spend my efforts in the worthy cause. It is not my purpose to try to defeat the confirmation of my successor, but I desire that It shall be held up long enough for me to defend my record against the attack of the Post office De partment in relieving me of the commission, and long enough to bring out Into the daylight the False charges on which I was condemned without being given the opportunity to refute them. I desire to uncover the process by which the Democratic patron age dispensers of Georgia pro ceeded to oust me from the postal service of the State of my birth while the patrons of the office were clamoring for my retention. For my integrity as a woman— that my efficiency record may be untarnished—for the sake of the dead soldier whose name I bear. I appeal to my countrymen, to the patriots of the American Sen ate. for “square deal.” which the Georgia spoilsmen have failed to give me. 1 appeal not to the chivalry, but to the sense of justice, of the men who have been called to the high est deliberative duty of the earth. When my record has been truth fully placed before the American people, and all reproach has been lifted from me, as officer and as citizen, and the full responsibili ty for my displacement has been fixed squarely where it belongs, 1 will turn over the Gainesville postoffice to my successor. Wilson Ignorant of Facts.” T have no wish to serve under an administration which does not desire to retain me. I shall al ways believe that President Wil son acted in ignorance of the real facts bearing on the Gainesville situation. I would have known In the beginning that my case was hopt less had I known that it was to be passed upun by the spoils men. because for eight years the Democratic member of Congress from my district has been threat ening to have me removed so ’> >n as a Democratic President was elected, notwithstanding the fact that I had been kind t* his two brothers, having given them the choice places in my office, that of money erder clerk and as sistant postmaster. 1 was able to say, in reply to my Congressman's oft-repeated threats, with a faith which seems not to have been justified by re cent developments, that even a Democratic President would not displace a woman whose efficien cy record could not be success fully attacked. I communicated to President Wilson that I had beggared my self In my struggle against the water power trust which is de stroying Tallulah Falls; and If he deprived me of the income of the Gainesville office I would lit erally be driven from Georgia to seek other work on the metropol itan dailies. I am satisfied that this commu nication never came to the per sonal attention of the President. Messages of good cheer are coming to me from all over the country, to gird me for the fu ture which I must face empty- handed. Cheered by Her Friends. A great woman who has stood with me in the struggle—she will pardon me for giving her name and quoting from her letter— Martha I^oulie Candler, daughter- in-law of one of Georgia’s most famous Governors, says: “Right is never defeated. Tf It seems best for you to return to Journalism it is because you are needed there, and can do a work 9 there that no one else can do.” The party spirit of Democracy is powerful only when it rises above the old system of “to the victor belongs the spoils,” con demned so long ago when the Is raelites came into possession of Canaan. We do not have to Judge. We can only “be still and know that t am God.” If the Tallulah Falls contest goes down with the fall of the Re publican party, it will be as great a loss to that organization as it Is to Democracy. The very cry of the I T nited States Courts for technical perfection In every’ business transaction will have re versed Itself and the spirit and motive of such transactions al ready is disregarded. There is nothing substantial left for them to rest on. The Democratic party 1s very strongly committed against the trusts, which startlingly empha sizes the luminous inconsistency of ousting me from the Gaines ville postotflee at the instance of oneo f the biggest water power trusts now doing business in the Western Hemisphere. Scores Democratic Party, A blue-backed speller contain ed a definition of political plat forms which a small girl memo rized on a sunny May day a long time ago. It read about like this: “Political platforms, like car platforms, are intended merely to get in on. There are soft up holstered seats inside. Nobody is expected to stand on the platform after the train starts.” The good old Democratic train has put on full steam. Cold and lonesome, I was trying to hang on to the rear platform, where there were not even any leather straps I lost my grip. I fell off and have been decapitated. I desire to bring to the atten tion of the American people the circumstances of the accident In order that sympathy in the un wonted situation may not he lacking HELEN D LONGSTREET. affidavit was obtained from her by the member of a firm in Springfield who was to be called as a witness before the Senate Welfare Commission. Lieutenant Governor O’Hara was head of this commission and the object of the affidavit, according to the witness, was to block the efforts of the com mission to obtain testimony from the heads of the firm. Lieutenant Governor O’Hara fol lowed Miss Robinson on the stand. He made a sweeping denial of the charges involved in the affidavit and charged the existence of a conspiracy intended to crush the legislative vice inquiry. Mrs. Inbusch. named as the fourth member of the party of four alleged to have registered at the Sherman House under assumed names and as husbands and wives, denied over the telephone from her home at Madison that she had been a member of the party. Later dispatches from Madi son say that she has left home to “visit friends” and could not be found. Miss Robinson, on the stand, was asked: “How did you happen to make the affidavit?” Urged by Davis. “I was urged and asked to do so by Mr. Samuel Davis, of Davis, Ensel & Company, liquor dealers of Spring- field. Mr. Davis told me it was pure ly for personal use and never to \be made public under any circumstances —the main purpose being to work a bluff." When asked if there was any im propriety or especial misconduct on Mr. O’Hara’s part when she met him, the woman replied: “Absolutely not. There was no in timation of any intention to misbe have.” • First Christian in Lead by 7,000 Points Assured of Success in Great Sunday School Contest Which Closes To-day. With 7,000 points margin, the First Christian Church Sunday school Is assured of success In its three months’ race with the Second Bap tist school, which will be brought to a close Sunday. The First Christian scored 10,987 points last Sunday, when Atlanta had the record Sunday school for all the world. The total standing to date Is: First Christian 55,344 Second Baptist 48,080 The First Christian's lead of the world will be kept, if plans which are being made by the .energetic workers of the organization are car ried through successfully. “The Fly ing Squadron,” the corps of workers who did such wonderful work during the week, have become possessed with unbounded enthusiasm and they are determined to keep up their good work. Among the big events they are planning will be “Flower Day,” which will be held on Sunday, May 25. Another of the features will be “May Feast Day” next Friday. PREVENTION OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS CHAMBER’S AIM Precautionary measures for the prevention of accidents, particularly in connection with railroads entering Atlanta, will be discussed at a meet ing of the committee on public safe ty of the Chamber of Commerce Fri day afternoon. The special matter of the elimina tion of grade crossings will be taken up. In this connection correspond ence between W. J. Lowenstein, chairman of the committee, and Mur phy Candler, chairman of the Rail road Commission, will be read. In the operation of the new dog muzzling ordinance, which Mayor Woodward yesterday vetoed but ex pects Council to pass .anyway, the Mayor sees a humorous scenario for the motion picture people. Quoting the ordinance, “It shall be the duty of the police to arrest and take down to the police station any and all un muzzled stray dogs,” Mayor Wood ward gave this word picture of the police in action. “A bench-legged dog, strolling around the BrooJcwood neighborhood, will be spied by the policeman on that beat. He will call for the patrol. That dog will start towards Buck- head, but seeing he Is being over taken. will take to the woods. A foot race through the woods will en sue. Four policemen may catch him after a half hour’s run and the use of $4 worth of gasoline—more or less. Then there will be a trial before Judge Broyles ” Veterans Fight Over Memorial Exercises General Julian S. Carr and Major J. W. Hamilton Have Fisti cuff at Durham. DURHAM, X. C., May 10.—General Julian S. Carr, State Commander of the United Confederate Veterans, and Major J. W. Hamilton, Commander of the. Durham Camp, engaged in a fistcuff here to-day because of a dispute over the Confederate Memo rial Day exercises. General Carr asked the veterans if they were ready to parade. They replied they were not. Then General Carr said Commandant Hamilton was to blame. Major Hamilton passed the lie to General Carr and they clenched. They were .separated by comrades. Both men are wealthy and prominent. A few veterans paraded, but the majority remained out of the line of march General William Cox was orator of the day. Republicans May Cut South’s Delegation Hilles Calls Executive Cofnmittee to Consider National Convention to Change Representation. NEW YORK, May 10.—Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican National Committee,, yesterday is sued a call for a meeting of the executive committee at the New Wil lard Hotel, in Washington, May 24. The meeting will consider the de mand for a special national conven tion to change the basis of repre sentation. Senator Cummins and other lead er? want the basis on the vote cast in each State for the Republican candi date for President, thus reducing the power of the Southern States in the convention. The “Old Guard” Is op posed to any change. Bryan’s Crape Juice Inspires New Dance Society Instructor Honors Secretary of State With the ‘Grape Juice Wallow.’ WASHINGTON, May 10.—Uriel Davis, who teaches the smart set of Newport, New York and Washington to dance differently, has a new dance which he has named the Grape Juice Wallow.” Mr. Davis has dedldtacted this dance to Secretary William Jen nings Bryan. The dance is a combination of the “Fish Walk” and "Seasick" dances with a little dajh of “Horse Trot" thrown in. It is guaranteed not to leave a headache in the morning. First Lady of the Land to Presentt Atlanta Battalion With a Bouquet of Roses. President and Mrs. Woodrow Wil son will receive the Old Guard Bat talion of the Gate City Guard when it arrives in Washington Tuesday cn route through Eastern cities to meet again the military and other organi zations that so warmly indorsed the “Mission of Peace” of this command 34 years ago. At the reception, which will take place in the East Room of the White House, Mrs. Wilson will present the Old Guard with a bouquet of rdses picked from the lawn of her old home in Rome, Ga. The organization will leave Atlanta Monday morning under auspicious circumstances, including a military escort of the Seventeenth United States Infantry from Fort McPher son and the local officers of the Geor gia National Guard. The trip will include visits to the Fifth Maryland Regiment at Balti more; State Fencibles, Philadelphia; Old Guard of New York; Twenty-first Infantry, New York National Guard; Putnam Phalanx, at Hartford and Washington Light Infantry. Visit Famous Organizations. The present membership of the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard is: J. F. Burke, colonel; E. J. Spratling, captain and adjutant; Bolling H. Jones, captain and quartermaster; A. McD. Wilson, commissary. Staff—W. M. Crumley, captain; Dr. E. L. Connaly; Louis Gholstin, colo nel; Benjamin B. Crew. First Company—George M. Napier, captain; Charles P. Byrd, first lieu tenant; John W. Murrell, second lieu tenant. Second Company—F. J. Cooledge, captain; P. F. Clarke, first lieutenant; A. H. Davis, second lieutenant. Non-Commissioned Staff—Ben Lee Crew, color sergeant; F. T. Ridge, color sergeant; E. L. Bergstrom, color corporal; W. P. Andrews, color cor poral. Non-Coms and Privates. Non-Commissioned Line Officers— W. E. Hancock, first sergeant, First Company; Harrison Jones, first ser geant, Second Company; W. O. Wil son, second sergeant, First Company; F. M. Berry, second sergeant, Second Company. .F” PRIVATES- W. W. Austell F. M. Akers O. L. Anderson M. N. Armstrong J. Epps Brown A. M. Baneker C. B. Bidwell H. Bleckley C. A. Bowen M. L. Brittain W. C. Bennett H. C. Beerman H. M. Beutell P. Burkert Frank M. Byrne P. T. Blackshear Claude Buchanan J. H. Buesse W. M. Camp Dan Carey W. B. Cummings Thos. M. Clark J. D. Cloudman R. H. Comer E. C. Callaway A. P. Coles L. J. Daniel J. \V. Davis Geo H. Donovan M. C. Donnell H. M. Dorsey AN*. D. Ellis Geo. F. Eubanks Thos. C. Erwin Julian Field James S. Floyd Fenn Flbyd T. Fleming J. M. Fuller Wm. A. Fuller Fred Geissler P. B. Green C. J. Gavan C. P. Goree Geo. Harrington J. J. Hastings L L. Harris, Jr. S. R. Johnston Jos. Jacobs H. W. Johnstone V. H. Kreigshaber W. T. Kuhns T A. Keren W. S. Lounsbury H. Y. McCord T. H. Morgan W. A*. McMillen Sam Meyer. Jr. G. H. Morrow Jos. A. McCord E. AV. Martin W. McElreatn J. A r an Holt Nash J. S. Owens F. J. Paxon Dr. J. H. Powell Thomas H. Pitts P. P. Reese J. D. Rhode5 AV. AV. Reid H. N. Randolph W. AV. Rush ton M. Sharp AV. M. Stephenson F. C. Smilie C. A. Smith H. L. Schlesinger J. A. Shields H. F. Scott Edward Schaefer W. B. Stovall I. F. Scott C. C. Thomas M. L. Thrower S. B. Turman NA’alter Taylor Samuel Tate Ed L. Wright J. J. Woodside Dr. W A. Graham Herbert L. Wiggs F. B. Green H. H. Hirsch E. Hardeman H. P. Hall G. M. Hope J. T. Holleman AV. A. Hay good W. L. Hancock A. M. Weems George AA r inship W. S. AA’itham A.. J. West AV. Woods White David AVoodward G. A. Wight C. G. Winn. Sugar Senators Line Up With Men From Sheep States in Formidable Array. WASHINGTON, May 10.—Substan tial reduction of tariff rates without destroying any American industry, and reciprocity that will enlarge foreign markets to American prod ucts is the policy around which In surgent Democratic opposition to the Wilson-Underwood tariff bill is so lidifying in the Senate. This policy will have the support of such men as Ransdell and Thornton, of Louis iana. Shafroth, of Colorado; New- lands and Pittman, of Nevada, and Walsh, of Montana, and it is be lieved a number of other Senators will throw their influence also in favor of the plan. The fight of the sugar and wool men against free trade in those products is gaining strength. Protests are flowing in upon the committee from business and farming interests and (torn laboi organizations. Secretary of Commerce Redfleld had a long conference to-day with the committee. The probable effect upon 23 existing treaties of the pro posed R per cent reduction in rates on goods imported in American ships was under consideration. The com mittee inclines to the acceptance of this amendment regardless of the protests of other nations. Secretary Redfleld also urged the committee to postpone for two or three months from passage the time when the new rates become operative on woolen and cotton cloths and clothing. This he urged in order that manu facturers who have made up supplies on the basis of existing costs and duties may have time to get rid of their products. The committee looks with favor on this suggestion. Assistant Attorney General W. T. Denison discussed the income tax feature of the proposed law. He ar gued that this tax should not be come operative until the beginning of the new fiscal year, and suggested plans by which the amount of prop erty subject to the income tax should be assessed. The Assistant Attorney General and Assistant Secretary of the Treas ury, James F. Curtis, also suggested an amendment to make underval uations practically impossible. This amendment provides against fluctuating values, ignores the values fixed by the exporting firms, and gives the Secretary of the Treasury right to determine what the value should be and assess the duties ac cordingly. Kecorder Fines Men As Cause of Vice ‘They’re to Blame for Immorality,’ Preston Holds, as He Frees Women on Probation. Recorder Pro Tem Preston Satur day expressed himself from the bench on the vice problem, placing the blame on men. Pie then put his theory into prac tice by fining two men $15.75 each, and placing two young women on probation under the care of Proba tion Officer Coogler. He said he would give the women another chance. In passing judgment, Judge Pres ton cited the following remark made by a woman of the restricted district, at the time it was wiped out by Chief Beavers: “If the good people of this city should devote their efforts to the re forming of the men—then there wouldn’t be any vice problem.” GIRL'S VOICE, ON STAGE, WINS HER RICH HUSBAND SAVANNAH. GA.. May 10.—En- tranced by a girl’s voice as she sang in an amateur theatrical performance four years ago. Frederick G. Brad ley, of Savannah, son of the fertilizer magnate. and Miss Jessie Louiee Clark were married in Boston to-day. The Couple sailed for Europe. Bradley is superintendent of the American Agricultural Chemical Company in Savannah. His father is president of the company. Mrs. Brad ley is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Clark, of Boston. GIRL, DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE, DRINKS POISON COLUMBUS, GA.. May 10.—Be- cause of unrequited love. Miss Annie Mae Callahan, a young woman of Columbus, undertook to end her life by drinking the contents of a small vial containing carbolic acid this afternoon. Her act was discovered immediately after she drank the acid and physicians were summoned. They saved her life. If you want to see the prettiest and at the same time the highest class residence property Atlanta offers, drive out HABERSHAM ROAD through PEACHTREE HEIGHTS PARK We are willing to take your judgment upon our assertion of its excellence. There is going to be “something doing” in PEACHTREE HEIGHTS PARK right away. See your own real estate agent about it. He will tell you. Better still—look at the property first and then see him or see us. Call at “The Lodge” for in formation and plats. E RIVERS REALTY CO. 8 West Alabama St. J 4 r %<