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I K MAIN SHEET-Pan IL ALL THE LATE? I.jAVI'. MAIN SHEET-Part IL ALL THE LATEST NEWS. ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1913. President Yuan Shi Kai Cables Appreciation from New Republic of China Honorable William Randolph Hearst, New York, N. Y. I thank you heartily for your cablegram (congratulating China on its recognition as a Republic by the United States.) Our citizens, as well as my self, feel highly gratified at the lead taken by President Wilson and the people of the United States in the formal recognition of the Republic of China. Our National Assembly, having perfected its organization, is now in session. The Provisional Government, while approaching the expiration of its legal term, has not slackened its efforts to promote peace and order in the country and to do all that lies in its power to strengthen the founda tion of the new Commonwealth. We appreciate highly the cordial and sympathetic expressions contained in your cablegram. YUAN SHI KAI, President of the Republic of China. L L Georgia Men Lead in Action to Recover Investments in Silver Claim Development, Parcel Post Service Costs One Cent More DENOUNCE WHOLE PROJECT History of Company Is Told in Action Begun in the Fulton Superior Court. Stockholders in the Las Coloradas Mining Company are suing in the Superior Court to recover their in vestments. They charge that— An abandoned silver mine was bought for $40,000 and sold to the Las Coloradas Mining Company for $100,000. With this $40,000 “hole in the ground” in the State of Chihua hua, Mexico, as sole asset, the Las Coloradas Mining Company was organized with a capitaliza tion of $5,000,000. No mining ever was carried on. No satisfactory report of the condition ever has been made. The promoters took over the “mine,” on the ground that the company had no money with which to pay the taxes, and as they personally paid the taxes, the property revested to them under the laws of Mexico. The stock is worthless. The whole scheme was intend ed simply to defraud investors. James J. Hightower, Jr., of Atlan ta, is one of the stockholders, who says he put $8,000 into the venture and wants it back. John Bostwlck, of Bostwick, Ga„ also has filed suit. He says he is out $1,260. ,T. T. Pittard, of Winterville, Ga.; William Eberhart, of Cornelia, Ga., and O. E. Barron, also of Cornelia, started a similar suit, but were paid $4,940. in full settlement of their claim, and dropped the litigation. Other Georgians to Sue. Suits are being prepared and soon will be filed for Sam P. Thompson, president of the Bank of Covington, Ga.; P. A. Stanton, president of the Bank of Social Circle, Ga.; Judge Samuel H. Sibley, of Union Point, Ga.; U E. Green & Co., of Watkins- vllle, Ga.; E. L. Paw. of Marietta. Ga.; J. N. McClure, of Norcross, Ga.; J. L. Chupp. of Lithonia. Ga., and H. H. Daniels, of Lithonia, Ga. These and a few others invested about $40,000 in the Las Coloradas Mining Company for something like 150,000 shares of stock. Among the defendants named are * W. M. McKenzie, president; W. W. Continued on Page 4, Column 6. This Section. Figures Compiled by Department Show Delivery Has Added Litt4e to Expenses. WASHINGTON. May 17.—Figures available to-day at the Postoffice De partment show that the cost of the delivery on parcel post packages for the 50 largest cities in the United States is less than 1 cent additional in the cost of each package above the ordinary cost of service. A total of 1,644,699 packages were delivered in these cities in the six days between April 14 and 19 at a cost of a ninth of a cent a pound. Automobile deliveries prove to be the most expensive, notably in San Francisco and Cincinnati, where the cost is almost 15 cents a parcel. In the 50 cities the average cost is 5.92 cents a pacakage. The low average rate on all deliv eries is due to the fact that most of the packages are delivered by carrier, where little additional expenditure is necessary. FAULTY TEETH Free Brushes, Paste and Mouth Wash Weapons to Be Used in Combating Evil. ALL SHOULD BE INSPECTED Recent Tests at Two Schools Showed 95 Per Cent Were Defective. Search Is Renewed For J. D, Mattiford Wealthy Clubman Wanted on Charge of Kidnaping Barwick Children. Mrs. JetPr Also Sought. Renewed efforts were made Satur day to effect the capture of John D. Mattiford, wealthy clubman, and Mrs. Annie Laurie Jeter on Grand Jury in dictments charging them with kid naping the two children of John A. Barwick. head bookkeeper of the Exposition Cotton Mills, whose wife and children disappeared several weeks ago at the same time as Mattl- ford and Mrs. Jeter. Indictments against the couple were returned by the Grand Jury yesterday. Descriptions of Mattiford and Mrs. Jeter, who Is the mother of Mrs. Bar wick, have been sent broadcast over the country. They are believed to be in the East with Mrs. Barwick and the missing children. Barwick de clared Saturday that he intended to prosecute the alleged kidnapers to the extent of the law. Peace Union Would Cede England Land Joint Bill To Be Introduced in Con gress Affecting Alaskan Coast Strip. Washington. May it - a nroposai to cede to Great Britain the coa?* strip of Southeastern Alaska, 6S6 miles ’ong. and in some places eight or ten miles wide, was made in a joint resolution in troduced to-day by Representative Ste phens, of Texas, at the request of the Universal Peace Union at Philadelphia. The resolution requests President Wilson to negotiate with Great Britain for a commission to investigate the pos sibility of rectifying the boundary of Southeastern Alaska, for the benefit of both parties. It sets forth that the border should he adjusted to remove the unnatural boundary by which British territory is shut off from the sea by the American coast strip and suggests that such a move would set an example in the policy of mutual concession that would consti tute a “glorious achievement in his tory." YUAN SHI KAI, PRESIDENT OF CHINA STATE MEETING A. P, Coles and Hartwell Financier Almost Clash Over Attorney Park, Who Retains Place. Court Reform Aim Of Legislative Bill Measure Defeated Last Year Will Be Reintroduced This Year—Has Judges' Approval. A bill giving all criminal court judges in Georgia legal authority (o suspend sentence and giving coun ties the right to appoint probation officers will be reintroduced this June in thg Legislature. The bill was defeated last year by thirteen votes’. The measure has the sanction of the Prison Association of Georgia and the indorsement of all Superior Court judges In the State. Safeguards are contained in the measure. No person convicted of a crime, the maximum penalty of which is more than ten years imprisonment will have the right to benefit by the act. THIS WEEK’S PENNANT PRINCETON Regulation colors: Orange and black, with mascot tiger head, in four colors. Size, 12x30 inches.* An attractive addition to The Sunday Ameri can pennant series. The series now includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgia Tech, Georgia University and Auburn. The Pennant Coupon on page 6, City Life Sec tion, of to-day’s Sunday American, will entitle you to any of these handsome pennants at the special reduced price. . Your newsdealer can get them for you, or write to us. Address HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN 20 East Alabama St. ATLANTA * 35 Peachtree St. Tooth brushes, tooth paste, mouth wash, distributed free, if necessary, to the school children of Atlanta are weapons which the city's dentists would bring into play in the fight against defective teeth. Compul sory care of the mouth among school children, is ufgent, thinks Dr. George S. Tigner. who yesterday told of the co-operative campaign being con ducted by the Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta Dental Society, and the public school authorities, to bring about such an end. “Dentists of Atlanta have for a long time recognized the need of den tal inspection among school children/' said Dr. Tigner. “Teeth and effieien* Cy are related. Bad teeth make for bad scholarship and bad health in more ways than one. And the great proportion of the school children of Atlanta have defective mouths.” He told of a recent inspection of the teeth of childien of the Crew Street and Bell Street schools, con ducted by members of the dental so ciety who volunteered their aid to the Chamber of Commerce in the work inaugurated by that institution to remedy deficiencies in the teeth of the children Ninety-Five P*r Cent. Bad. “The first inspection." he related, “revealed the fact that 95 per cent, of the children had defective mouths They were bidden to seek remedies at the dental hospitals. So effective was the impromptu campaign, that a second inspection in the two schools revealed a great improve ment in the condition of the teeth of the children. A third inspection will be made shortly.” The two schools were selected for the experiment as being representa tive institutions. The effect of the work. Dr. Tigner said, points to the ufgent need for established periodi cal inspections among all the school children. A city ordinance probably will be necessary. In the law, Dr. Tigner explained, should be provisions for nurses and dentists to instruct the school children in the care of their teeth, and for the distribution of the necessary materials in cases where the parents of the children lack the means of purchasing. He even hint ed the efficacy of a dental hospital. "In Boston,” he explained, “the Forsyth Dental Hospital, established and sustained at a cost Of millions, is the answer to the question. In Atlanta the nearest approach to a public institution of this kind are the clinics of the two dental colleges, Ihe Atlanta and the Southern.” Clinics Great Power. These clinics, he said, possess a wonderful power for doing good, and already have accomplished much. There is material in Atlanta for great work in this line. “Atlanta turns out each year more dentists, from her two colleges, than any other Southern city," he declar ed. “There is possibility in the clinics for great service among the school children. This possibility and power is being realized, with much benefit." The graduating classes of the two institutions, he said, aggregate from 60 to 75 young dentists each year, and the total attendance is several hundred. So much in lamest was the Atlan ta Dental Society regarding the nec essity for the inspections that its members stood the expense of the work In the Crew Street and Bell Street schools, furnishing the neces sary materials for demonstration and use. Manufacturers helped in this by supplying the material at low cost.; Atlantans to Figure In Citizenship Meet Ministers Will Take Part in Confer ence of 20,000 Delegates at Portland, Oregon. Atlanta ministers will take a promi nent part in the World’s Christian Citizenship Conference to be held i»i Portland, Dreg., next month. Among the local men who will attend will be the Rev. Preston E. Wood. Rev. L. O. Brlcker and the Rev. Dr. McKel- way. The conference, which 19 expteted to attract 20,000 people to Portland, will be one of the greatest religious gatherings of the year. The Citizen ship is rapidly extending the scope of its work, and in fourteen States definite working organizations have been established. More than 100 of the world's great est orators are scheduled for ad dresses. Dr. McKelway, of Atlanta, is Included In the list of speakers, hi? subject being the child labor problem White House Phone Mystery Unsolved Secret Service Men Unable to Find Boys Who Called Up Presi* dent's Daughter. 16 OPPOSE HIS RE-ELECTION L. P. Hillyer, of Macon, Is Made President and Haynes McFad- den Secretary of Ass'n. WASHINGTON. May 17—“Id like to talk to Jessie,” said the boy on the telephone. Secret service men. it was learned at the Capitol to-day. have been un able to discover the identity of two page boys in the House who several weeks ago called up MfsS Jessie Wil son, the President's daughter, and made the foregoing remark on the telephone. The call was put in w r hiie the House was in session at night from one of the booths in the Demo cratic cloak room. After the call was in the boys disappeared. Tho White House operator traced the call to the Capitol. The boys, it is 6aid, called Miss Wilson merely as a joke. Mrs. J. J. Astor Ill; Needs Outdoor Life Titanic Baby In Best of Health Be cause It Has Always Had Fresh Air. NEW YORK. May 17.—Mrs. John Jacob Astor is ill and is preparing to leave for the country, where it is hoped the return to out-of-door life, of which she is very fond, will restore her former splendid health. W. H. Force, her father, to-day ad mitted that she w’as far from well and is under the doctor’s care. “The b?by," said Mr. Force, “has practically lived out of doors since it was born, and is a fine, big healthy child. We call him the ‘fresh air baby.’ because he has certainly thrived on that sort of life." DIVES 250 FEET TO DEATH AFTER ATTRACTING THRONG OAKLAND. CAL., May 17.—Harold McGill, City Clerk of Oakland, to-day climbed the dome on top of the new City Hall and. after shouting and waving his arms to attract the at tention of persons on the street 260 below dived to his death MACON. GA.. May 17—After the liveliest and most personal contro versy in the history of the Georgia Bankers’ Association, Orville A Park this afternoon was reelected general counsel for the association in t^ie closing minutes of the final session of the State convention. Sixteen bankers, led by A. P. Cole* and Carl H. Lewi*, of Atlanta, fought Mr. Parks' nomination. Mr. Coles spoke fof nearly an hour, and once nearly had a personal encounter with J. G. Crafts, a young banker from Hartwell, w’ho said that the Atlanta man was .“h6t acting decently” in holding the floor so lohg. As the two men started for each other a score of bankers intervened. They later with drew their respective remarks and apologized for their conduct. Lewis Attack* Farit. Mr. Lewis demanded the right of personal privilege to declare to the convention that ne would not vote for Mr. Park under any circumstances. “His usefulness as attorney for this association has expired." declared Mr. Lewis. Mr. Coles declared that if the con vention took away from the execu tive council the right to elect the gen eral counsel, not only would the pre cedent of the association be broken but the convention would commit a disgraceful act. He Said that Mr Parker drafted a hill for the Legisla ture last year without conferring with the legislative committee of the bank ers and that for that reason the Leg islature did not pass the bill. Atlanta Delegation Overruledl. Four tintes the contentions of the Atlanta delegation on parliamentary points w’ere upheld by the chair, B. W. Hunt presiding, and four times did the convention ovefrule the chair. There were only about 50 bankers present and a majority Of them were Mr. Park* friends afid mostly Macrtn financiers. L. P. Hlllyef, the newly elected president, led the fight for Mr. Park, who, he said, had been done a great Injustice. He declared that Mr. Park’s remarks on how' to control the Legislature were spoken In jest and should not be held against him. The convention indorsed Atlanta for the 1914 convention of the Amer ican Bankers’ Association. Ban Pirt on Politic*. A resolution to thank President Wilson for the appointment of W. J. Harris as Tensas Director was de feated on the ground that it savored of politics. An agricultural committee was cre ated to promote closer and friend* lier relations between farmer and banker and a sum was appropriated for agricultural extension work In Georgia. Joseph A. McTord, of Atlanta, made a report on hi* recent visit to Wash ington in regard to the tariff bill, w ith special regard to the income tax fea ture. He said that the bahkers se cured an important amendment to this bill. N®w State Officers. Officers elected by the association to-day are- President, L. P. Hillyer, Macon; first vice president. L. D. Council America*: second vice president, R O. Barksdale, Washington third vice president, C. A. Shelton. Brunswick; fourth vice president, L. C. Hall, Mil- ledgeville; fifth vice president. J. S Calhoun. < ’artersvnle; secretary Haynes McFadden, Atlanta, re-elect ed; treasurer, E. c. Bmith, Griffin. The selection of too n< xt meeting place was left With the executive Broyles to Speak At School Closing Atlanta Recorder Accepts Invitation to Deliver Baccalaureate Ad dress at Eatonton. nnimclL t Recorder Nash Broyles will deliver the baccalaureate address before the Eatonton, Ga.. High School on May 26. Judge Broyles has announced his acceptance of the invitation, which was presented by prominent officials and citizens of Putnam County. The Atlanta Recorder’s fame as a public speaker ha* spread rapidly throughout the State, and he is now much ,4h demand. He has spoken before large gatherings at several different places during the past few weeks. CINCINNATI PRIEST WILL PREACH AT ST. ANTHONY Rev. Father Flavian Larbes. a Franciscan priest from Cincinnati, will preach at the Novena to St. Anthony this year when the exercises open at St. Anthony’s Rectory, West End. on June 4. Confirmation will be admiri Uerod at St. Anthony’s Church June 8. The first communion of the < iiil dren will be held at the end of t!i celebration on June 18. All Catholic and non-CatholicS hav been invited tr* knar thn Rfl-.nnns l-I li’-thB.- Miss Douglas Bride Of Dr, Henry Estees Groom Leaves Immediately After Ceremony to Accept Place in New York City. Mr. A. S. Douglus yesterday an nounced the marriage of his daugh ter, Kathleen, to Dr. Henry Grady Estees. The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. John C. Jen kins at the home of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. A. L. Anderson. Moreland Ave nue. yesterday at high ^oon. | The bride is one of tne most ad- ! mired and highly esteemed members j of the younger set. Dr. Estees is a i recent graduate of the A. C. p. and IS. He left for New York City im- I mediately after the ceremony to ac- ! cept an appnintment in one of • I leading hospitals there. WIFE HELD FOR SLAYING; ALLEGED AFFINITY FREED CHICAGO, May 17.—The Coroner’s jury, after deliberating three hours minutes, placed the re- on the shoulders of Mr and twenty sponsibilitv AugUstg DI j husband, G 1 found dead. | with a ham Th' jury ! also' (Void-1 nurdei *f lier l ■ wh' • ■ I head crushed in tz for tY ■orge H with his I1CT i rromrnerded that Mrs. ■] for the Grand Jury, but that there was Insuffl- • r<. '.odd George Nunn- President Yuan Shi Kai Cables Gratitude for the Publisher’s Influence in Obtaining Admis sion Into the Roll of Republics. Message Completes International Exchanges Which Began When Wu Tingfang Made Appeal for Aid When Freedom Was Won. Yuan Shi Kai, President of China, presents through The American to day the thanks of the new republic of the East to the American people for the recognition which the United States was the first to accord to the youngest member of the Sisterhood of Free Popular Government*. It is a message of peace and good will which completes a significant chapter in the history of the twen tieth oentruy. By his message to Mr. Hearst, President Yuan Shi Kai brings to a felicitous conclusion the series of international interchanges which be gan when, th© people of China hav ing made their successful stroke for freedom, F"oreign Minister Wu Ting- fang appealed to Mr. Hearst to trans mit to the civilized World the new republic’s plea for recognition; and came to a happy end when, follow ing the passage by Congress of a resolution inspired by The Amer ican, favoring the Chinese republic’s recognition, this recognition was ac corded by the Washington Govern ment. President Yuan Shi Kai now com pletes the chain in his cabled thanks to Mr. Hearst. The Hearst papers are proud to have been a medium of thus bringing about, in advance of all other nations of the world, the recognition by the United States of the Oriental re public. China's First Appeal. It was on November 15, 1911, fol lowing the first flash of the news thbt the Chinese people- had thrown off the yoke of the long intrenched Manchu dynasty and established a Government of their own, that Mr. Wu Ting-fang, long Chinese Minis ter at Washington and fully informed as to the widespread influence of the Hearst newspapers, cabled Mr. Hearst from Shanghai, incoking his aid in securing recognition for the new Government. “As one who is a steadfast lover of liberty,” wrote Mr. Wu. who had been given the post of Foreign Min ister in the new republic, “who is ever courageously fighting the bat tle of the oppressed, ^“may I ask you to transmit to the civilized world this appeal for the new republic of China, as written by me as Director of Foreign Affairs?” • “The Chinese nation,” wrote Mr. Wu, “born anew in the travail of revolutions, extends friendly greetings and felicitations to the whole world. “As the Republic of China it now’ asks such recognition by the civilized powers as will enable it, with the assistance of their kindly offices, to erect upon the foundation of honest government and friendly trade and intercourse with all peoples a peace ful. happy future. “The Chinese people are not untried In self-government. For counties? ages they ruled themselves and de veloped an observance of the law to a degree not known among other races. •Out of the chaos and dust of the failing throne emerges a free, enlight ened people, a great natural deniocra- v of 400,000.000 human beings. "ThuU hav.- nl»wu>«»