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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1919.
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Negro Trying to Ride
In Pullman Saved
From Florida Crowd
PENSACOLA. FLA.. May 19. Tl.*|
timely signal of the conductor for the
‘•nglncor to start the train saved a!
n* xrn from rough treatment at the j
hands of a crowd of angry men at
DeFuniak because the negro had
purchased a Pullman ticket and at
tempted to "ride In style” in a Pull
man car occupied by white person*
.1 T hVnn. Representative in th< j
la gislat ur* . and members of hia fair
Y OUNG society folk who have import'nt p *rts in the comedy to be presented by the At
lanta Players' Club at the Grand Theater May 30 Left to right . Marsh Adair, Miss
Hildreth Burton-Smith and Lamar Hill. Here they are showing in a scene from the play,
which promises to be the best ever staged b) r the Players.
lly were among the occupants of the I
Pullman buffet car when a welt-1
Asks Senate to Probe Contracts;
With Armor Plate Trust Which !
Mulcted U, S. of Millions.
WASHINGTON. May 19.—Sensa
tional charge* of a maladministration
of naval fund* that has cost the Gov
ernment over f6.n0ft.000 and endan
gered the impregnability of the moat
formidable vessels in the American
fleet were made against the Taft ad
ministration to-day by Senator Ash-
urst, of Arizona, who has a resolution
before the Senate tailing for an in
vestigation of Glass A armor plate
contracts awarded the armor plate
trust for the dreadnought Pennsyl
vania.
"My investigation of this matter, .
said the Senator, "has convinced me
that a most deplorable state of af
fairs existed with regard to the pur-
chaw of armor plate during the last
administration As I have heretofore
stated in the case of the dreadnought
Pennsylvania. approximately 8,000
tons of Class A plate was let to the
trust at $454 per ton. I have an ex
pert who is willing to testify that a
good profit could he made on such
plate at a price of $254 per ton.
"The difference in these prices net
ted the trust $1.6OQ.O0ft.
Millions in Swollen Profits.
"I wlfh to add to that statement
that if those figure* he found to he
correct. Glass A armor plate contracts
on the dreadnoughts Arkansan. Neva
da, Texas and Florida, which were let
to the trust at $420 per ton, netted
that organization a swollen profit of
$4,571,972 on 24.542 tons of this com
modity. None of this material, I am
credibly informed, was passed upon
by a Government expert, for the very
simple reason that there was no man
in the employ of this country capable |
of this important duty.
‘I am not a Jingoist or a large navy |
man." continued the Senator, "but 1
do want the United States to get a
square deal, and I intend to see this
matter through to the finish."
The Senator said that for years the
.Midvale Steel Company, the Carnegie
Steel Company and the Bethlehem
Steel Company, comprising an abso
lute monopoly in the manufacture of
armor plate, had maintained a lobby
In Washington and that they had con
spired to mulct the Government of
millions of dollars.
In this connection, the Senator
called attention to the investigation
started in the House some years ago
by John Sharp Williams, which re
sulted in tlw# finding of a defective
plate, ahd in the fining of the Car
negie Steel Company. This and other
armor plate, said the Senator, had
been furnished the Government at a
profit of approximately 50 per cent.
Senator Ashurst declared that not
only would he push his resolution for
the investigation of the contracts of
Class A armor plate for the dread
nought Pennsylvania, but that he
would endeavor to enlist his col
leagues In a campaign to break up the
armor plate trust and substitute Gov
ernment manufacture of this com
modity.
At the Bureau of Ordnance of th*
Navy Department it was ascertained
that approximately 8,000 tons of Class
A armor plate had been let to the
trust at $454 per ton for the dread
nought Pennsylvania, and 27.542 of
Class A plate had been let to the .name
organization for the building of the
dreadnoughts Arkansas, Nevada.
Texas and Florida.
COURT TO HEAR STORY OF
FEUDIST'S ASSASSINATION
LEXINGTON, KY„ May 19—The
story of the assassination of Ed Cal
lahan, the lac’t of the famous Breath
itt County feudists of the Kentucky
mountains will he told this week at
Harrodsburg. where A. H. Patton, of
Jackson, one of the best known law
yers in the State, will be placed on
triaj for subornation of perjury
growing out of the recent trial of fif
teen alleged assassins in proving al
leged alibis for the men accused of
actually tiring the fatal shots. More
than U»0 feudists are at Harrodsburg.
which is a Blue Grass town. Chief
vilness. s in the murder trial will tes
tify in Patton's case.
MORE OPERA STAR WEEPS
THE FATTER SHE BECOMES
MILWAUKEE. May If. Maggie
Teyte. a grand opera singer, attempt
ed to reduce her weight by weeping.
The more she cried the heavier she
became She is laughing now to grow
fat.
we will do »'>me enter-
said. "but father is go-
diplomat, not a society
Gash Grocery Go,
118 and 120 Whitehall
Country
Fancy
Lemons
Dozen
Good 4 r
Coffee, I J
Pound I
CASH GROCERY CO,
118 and 129 Whitehall
dressed negro entered, hung up his
hat and sat .down to breakfast.
Representative Fenn and three!
other prominent Florida m* n started I
toward the negro, w hen he grabbed I
his baggage and hastened to the ne- j
gro day coach.
The operator ;it DeFuniak heard o
message about the incident going to
Superintendent Saitinarsh and tool
some of the loungers around the de
pot. When the train reached De
Funiak angry men boarded the train,
searching for the negro
Miss Page’s Husband I
Must Be an American
PHILADELPHIA. May 19 Miss
Kathleen Page, daughter of Walter
Hines Pag* 1 . American Ambassador to
England, admitted at Pembrooke
Hall, Bryn Mawr, that she was look
ing forward with interest to her visit
next month to the Court of S*.
James.
"1 suppose
tainfng.” she
ing to be a
man."
When asked if she thought she
might become so attached to England
that she wouJd want to make her
home there and perhaps marry an
Englishman, she replied:
"I haven't had time to think of!
marriage, but when I do the man)
must be an American, and just half,
as good as father."
Six-Day Babe Weighs 1
Only Pound and Half
SYRACUSE. May 19. The village
of Minlius, nine miles east of here,
boasts of naving the smallest six
days-old baby on record In Central
New York. The infant —a boy—was
born la?'t Saturday to .Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Foote. It weighed at birth a
trifle more than a pound, and has
been gaining an ounce or more each
day It tipped the scales to-night at
a pound and a half.
The infant is well formed, but is
In a weak condition. Mr. and Mrs.
Foote have five other children, and
none of them weighed less than nini
pounds at birth One weighed twelve
pounds.
Burt, Once Famous
Railway Figure, dies
CHICAGO, May 19. Horace Greeley
Burt, once president of the Union Pa
cific Railroad, died to-day at the
Oak Park U n apital He war operated
on three weeks ago for a malignant
trouble. Complications involving the
heart caused his death.
Mr. Burt started in railroad work
as a rod man and worked his way up
to president of the Union Pacific. He
was succeeded in 1904 by the late
E. H. Hardman After his retire
ment, Mr liarriman paid him $30,000
a year to investigate railroad possi
bilities in Japan and China.
U. S. Theatrical Man
In Jail in England 1
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. May 19. Salter Hansen,
Chicago theatrical man, arrested on
the charge of making threats of phys
leal violence against Arthur Bour
ehier. his opponent in the war started
by Han Men’s objections to the produc
tion of Dr Henri DeRothschild’s play.
"Croesus." at the Garden Theater,
was arraigned to-day?
Counsel for Mr. Bourchier staled
that Hansen had used "abominable
language" toward his client, and had
frequently threatened him.
The hearing was adjourned until
Friday, and Hansen was remanded
in the meantime Hansen has appealed
to the United States Embassy against
detention.
Cochran to Deliver
Graduation Address
Ralph O. Cochran, real estate man.
legislator-elect and candidate to suc
ceed Senator Hoke Smith, will go to
Palmetto Friday night to deliver the
annual commencement address of the
public schools. Palmetto is Mr.
Cochran's native heath, and he al
ways receives a warm welcome there.
Mr. Cochran will go Monday night,
May 26, to Lithonia to deliver the an
nual address at the public schools
there. Roth addresses will be edu
cational in character.
'Wilson Waggle' Now
Fad in Washington
WASHINGTON. May 19. A new
walk called the Wilson Waggle" is
the latest here It can not be^ac
complished without low Mat heels, and
is described as "a graceful creeping.
The walk has been originated since
the President's family came to the
Capital.
PULITZER MAGAZINE WILL
MUCKRAKE MUCKRAKERS
WASHINGTON. May 19 Walter
Pulitzer, of New York, is in Wash
ington making arrangements to start
a magazine which he proposes to
bring out September 1.
Mr. Pulitzer said that his new pub
lication would be built to muckrake
the muckraker.
HITS 8-HOUR DAY FOR WOMEN
May 19.—Protesting
Edit-hour day law for
# Prescott, a manufac-
senatorial committee
it the proposed law was
d
COUNCIL MS UP
Special Committee To Be Named
to Report on Plan for Improve
ments, Says Thomson.
Councilman Albert Thomson Monday
said Council would approve his resolu
tion creating a special committee to
consider a sewer and park bond issue
Several Councilmen have shown inter
est in bis plan for municipal improve
ments. The object of the committee is
to have a detailed report on the advisa
bility of a bond issue.
Councilman Thomson's idea is that if
bond money can be obtained to complete
the sewer system outlined and to ex
tend the park system, the city's nor
mal income will he sufficient to carry
on street Improvements and other mu
nicipal works.
Among important matters presented
to Council Monday afternoon will be
Mayor Woodward’s veto message on the
fire probe committee’s report, published
in full in The Sunday American
The recommendation of the streets
committee that $30,000 be apportioned
for the regrading of Whitehall Street
will be read and referred to the finance
committee
Councilman Claude L. Ashley will de
mand a report from the police commit
tee on his race segregation ordinance
It is charged that the police committee
wants to kill this ordinance by pigeon
holing it A hitler fight will develop if
its adoption is insisted on. not only ne
groes being opposed to it. but many
influential white men. who own houses
rented to negroes.
The new dirt ordinance also will be
presented. Council Claude L. Ashley
championing it and Alderman lames W
Maddox, a grading contractor, leading
the opposition. The present dirt law
has proved ineffective
CANADIAN BANK THIEVES
CHANGE LOOT TO U. S. COIN
CHICAGO. May 19.—Almost $100.-
000 of the $271,000 in Canadian money
stolen from the branch of the Bank
of Montreal at New Westminster, R
C . has been exchanged for United
States currency by Chicago saloon
keepers. according to the assertion of
the superintendent of a detective
agency made last night.
White City Park Now Open
WOULD LIFT DUTY
ID PUNISH TRUSTS
Iowa Senator Proposes Putting
All Goods Made by Monopo
lies on Free List.
WASHINGTON, May 111. Senator
Kenyon of Iowa to-day introduced in
the Senate an amendment to the tar
iff bill which provides that when a
concern has been declared by the
courts a monopoly within the mean
ing of the Sherman law. the products
controlled, or substantially controlled,
by it shall go on the free list.
It will be the duty of the Attorney
General to notify the Treasury De
partment when a concern has been
declared by the courts a monopoly,
and it will then be mandatory on the
Secretary of the Treasury to relieve
of all duties articles controlled by
the monopoly.
Such a law would cover prod
ucts controlled by Standard Oil and a
number of monopolies.
Senator Kenyon says this is in har
mony with the old Iowa idea of "no
shelter to monopoly." He believes the
Senate Democrats can not refuse o
adopt it.
Foreman's House Wrecked With
Dynamite on the Farm of
James T, Anderson.
MARIETTA, GA.. May 19.—Cobb
County officers to-day are searching
for unknown men who early yester
day wrecked with dynamite a ten
ant house on the farm of .lames T.
Anderson, eight miles from Ma
rietta. The house was occupied by
a negro foreman.
It is believed the same men are
responsible for this as for other dep
redations in this county in recent
months, ail directed against negroes
in efforts to drive them from this
section. Heretofore one store was
burned near the Kennesaw Marble
Company’s plant and several notices
were posted in conspicuous places
warning negroes to leave. The per
petrators became so bold that special
watchmen were employed at many
factories and mills in and near the
city where negro labor is employed.
Mr. Anderson’s foreman was one
of those warned to leave and did so,
but a month ago was prevailed on by
Mr. Anderson to return.
Early Sunday occupants of the
foreman's house were thrown from
their beds by a#terrific explosion. No
one was injured, as they were sleep
ing at the far end from where the
dynamite was set off.
Investigation revealed that the per
petrators had driven in a buggy to
within 30 feet of the house and, with
a long pole, had pushed the dynamite
under the building, setting it off wtth
a three-foot fuse. They drove off be
fore it had time to explode.
The Sheriff was notified and hur
ried to ine scene with a posse and
dogs, but the buggy tracks could not
be followed.
Gitizens here are indignant over
these continued depredations and
have started a fund as a reward for
the apprehension of the guilty parties,
who are supposed to be low-class
white men.
Mr Anderson declares that his fore
man is an industrious negro who does
not interfere with outsiders and sel
dom leaves the place.
Senate Lifts Duty
on Panama Exhibits
WASHINGTON, May 19.—The Sen
ate to-day passed a bill by Represen
tative Kettner. of California, provid
ing for the exemption from duty of
exhibits for- the Panama-Pacific Ex
position at San Francisco in 1915.
This bill already has passed the
House and now will go to the Presi
dent for his* signature.
KODAKS
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send for Catalog ond Prlco Llot.
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M Wh.twi.ll St., Atlonto,
IT IS THE
COMBINATION
THAT COUNTS
Safety
Strongest State
Bank in the
South
Interest
4 Per Cent
Compounded
Semi-Annually
Trust Company of Georgia
Capital and Surplus $1,800,000
Equitable Building Pryor Street
Forecaster Predicts Scorching
Weather for Atlanta Follow
ing Mercury Rise.
“1 by see the papers, suh." said the
Atlanta colonel, "that the weather
man prophesies mint julep weather.”
Forecasts by G. F. VonHerrmann.
Section Director of the United States
Weather Bureau, Monday announced
that Atlanta is in the path of an ap
proaching heat wave. Local temper'
alure, which Sunday registered at its
height 88 tfegrees, is on the rise. Tues
day will see a temperature of 90 de
grees, Mr. VonHerrmann said, and
advances above this will follow rap
idly.
Monday morning at 7 .o'clock the
thermometer registered 72, but grad
ually rose'ot 89 degrees.
“Summer weather's arrival in At
lanta is rather late this year, how
ever." remarked the forecaster. "As
a rule we have 90 degrees dtiring the
first five days of the month. With
the advent of the 90s in temperature
summer is generally understood to be
on in full force. The weather will
continue to have maximum degrees of
90 and above until in October. The
last day for a maximum of 90 de
grees in October during the last dec
ade was in 1911, when we bad no
more high temperatures after the
third day."
Hot All Over East.
Mr. •* Vonrterrmann's report for
Monday read as follows:
"The weather is generally clear over
most of the country east of the Rocky
Mountains, excepting that showers
fell during the past 24 hours at a few#
stations on the North Pacific coast
and in the St. Lawrence Valley. The
temperatures in the East are high,
especially in the eastern portion of
the cotton belt
"A moderate disturbance exists this
morning over Colorado, with the at
mospheric pressure below 29.65 inches
at Denver. This is accompanied oy
generally cloudy threatening weather
over the entire country’ cast of the
Mississippi River.
"Temperatures are generally above
40 degrees* this morning except at a
few places. Conditions are favorable
for thunder showers to-night or
Tuesday.”
Despite the approaching hot weath
er. the nights will continue to be cool,
according to Mr. VonHerrmann.
“Atlanta enjoys the coolest nights
during the summer of almost any
other Southern city. 1 would advise
everyone to fH up sleeping porches. A
good rest at night, unannoyed by heat,
will enable a person to withstand the
hot day*' much easier than otherwise.
Let Ice Water Alone.
"Above all, people should not drink
cold liquids during the summer. They
are most destructive to the vitality.
‘‘The best way to handle children,
especially babies, in hot weather is to
put as few clothes as possible on
them and then let them alone. Do not
wrap hot, stuffy blankets around the
babies or put safety pins next tn their
bodies. Place them on the floor,
W’here they will come in contact with
nothing that would induce warmth.
Babies suffer from heat more than
grown persons."
President Thinks Belief That
Americans Regard Them as
Inferior Riled Orientals,
WASHINGTON. May 19.—The State
Department Indicated to-day that the
administration has completed its con
sideration of all points in the reply to
the Japanese protest against the Cal
ifornia land law. and it will be trans
mitted to Viscount Chlnda. Japanese
Ambassador, either to-night or to
morrow. when, it is anticipated, the
State Department will make public n
official statement outlining both sides
in the controversy.
Secretary of State Bryan believes
this will be the best method of rid
ding the nation of Its "war scare.”
Calls Pride Cause of Row.
That President Wilson believes the
root of the whole trouble lies in the
national pride of the Japanese was
indicated at the semi-weekly news
paper Cabinet meeting to-day.
The President has concluded that
Japan is not so much annoyed by the
Webb bill as at the intimation that
Americans do not wish to meet the
Orientals on equal terms. This fee 1 -
ing. he considers, was born of the
Chinese exclusion act.
See Insult to Nation.
The Japanese, as a nation, do not
care particularly whether their broth
ers hold land in California, but they
feel a prohibition of this provides an
insult to their race and country.
Kaiser Picks Prince
For Albanian Throne
>n»rlal Cable to The Atlanta Georgian,
VIENNA, May 19.—Announcement
was made here to-day that, at to
morrow's conference of the Ambassa
dors in London, the German Ambas
sador will propose Prince Frederick
Wied. a Protestant, for the throne of
Albania. Prince Frederick is a nephew
>f Queen Elizabeth of Roumania
King Charles of Roumania is a
member of the German Hohenzollern
family, but not the branch from
which the Kaiser comes.
PAULINE WAYNE RIVAL
APPEARS IN OKLAHOMA
DURANT. OKI.A., May 19—A. M,
Hall probably has the best milk-pro
ducing cow in Oklahoma and he ig
willing to make affidavit that at on€
milking recently he filled a pail six
times and left the calf a square meal,
The cow is a Jersey and 5 years old,
EXCURSION
TALLULAH
FALLS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21
$1.50
ROUND TRIP
Special train leaves Ter
minal Station at 8 A. M.
CHAMBERLIN -JOHNSON-DuBOSE CO.
ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS
It Is the South's Greatest Stock
CHAMBERLIN■ JOHNSON■ DuBOSE CO.
These Are Wash Goods That Women Want
Right Now and They Are Priced
There are signs of a crowd in the prices!
We have been going through the Wash Goods Department
Vith a sharp eye for all stray lots—for, as the best housekeepers
know, things will lie overlooked, misplaced and forgotten in the
best regulated households—and stores.
This is an instance.
Also this is an instance of the way Cliamberlin-Johnson Du-
Bose Co. set things aright.
And, since these are the materials women want for their
summertime dresses, skirts and waists, and since qualities are
just what you would expect here at the original prices, you may
judge that the setting-aright will be quick.
At French Piques, regular-
/il UdK, ly 50c They are 28
inches wide. Choose from about all
colors and white and white with
dainty stripes. Also at this price
A | -JA« French Piques, regularly
35 C) 28 inches wide, in
colors, in plain white and in white
with colored stripes. A splendid
material for dresses and skirts.
are colored checked piqnes and
piques with a ratine stripe. These
were 65c a yard.
At 9Ql* Embroidered Mulls,
t\\ Avv regularly 65c; 32 inches
wide; very soft quality, with small
dots embroidered over their sur
faces—all white; also colored strip
ed French voiles with embroidered
dots.
At French Voiles,regularly
rll tfwt 90c. As sheer and sum
mery a fabric as ever the looms
clacked off. In colors, daintily
striped; with these are white ba
tistes embroidered in colors. Both
32 inches wide.
At AQi> French Lingerie cloth,
rll Xe/L regularly $1.50. Sure to
go very, very quickly. White, em
broidered in open-work patterns.
32 inches wide.
Chamberlin=Johnson=DuBose Co.
We have brought
it to just this
point—
Those who have
Furniture and
House Furnishings
to buy owe it to
themselves to see
the wonderful col
lection gathered
into this big five-
s t o r y furniture
store right now.
CHAMBERLIN-J0HNS0N -DuBOSE CO.
ATLANTA NEW YORK PARIS