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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS,
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SCENE AT PIEDMONT PARK LAKE, A-SWARM WITH FROLICSOME BATHERS
Hotel Keeper Asks for Room
When He Finds They Are
Not Married.
PHILADELPHIA, June 4—Mrs.
Daisy Opie Grace, who was acquitted
in Atlanta of attempting to kill her
husband, furnished the gossips two
spicy morsels by announcing, first,
that she was not the wife of Charles
H. Oldham, and. second, that they ex
pected to marry as soon as she gets
her divorce.
Mrs. Grace made the announce
ments immediately following re
ceipt of a request from David Mar
tin that she vacate her apartments in
the Swan Hotel, at Coatesville, of
which Martin is proprietor. Oldham
some time ago told acquaintances
that Mrs. Grace had become his wife,
d society matrons at Coatesville, j
lieving that they were occupying,
e same apartments, were shocked
yond expression yesterday when !
ey heard the ceremony was still in j
ntemplation. f " ' '• f
Mrs. Grace expressed amusement at j
e whole affair. She said She and J
r. Oldham went to Coatesville that
e might avoid publicity attendant
.on her divorce decree, which she
pects any day, but that they oecir-
>d separate apartments. When the
/orce is granted, she said, she and
r. Oldham intend to marry. ,
This is just a prying woman’s
>rk." said Mrs. Grace. “I am being
itched by detectives, I know, and I
is foolish to take on so mans
ends. Mr. Oldham and I are occu-
ing separate apartments. T thought
was funny when he told some of
, friends I was his wife. We will
married as soon as I get my di-
ree. which I am expecting any day
Just because the unfounded scan-
1 talk was hurting Mr. Oldham’s
siness, Mrs. Grace said, they in-
ided to leave and go in riiffe-reqt di
ctions—she to th* mountains and .he
mewhere else. Then "hen hei di-
rce is granted they will be married,
rely, and the goesips will have
thing to talk about.
0,215,000 Microbes
bund in One Mud Pie
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LYONS, FRANCE, June 4.—A not
ed basteriologist of this city aston
ished his little son. whom a few days
ago he found making mud pies. Cu
riosity led the father to take a pie
home for examination.
He found 10,215,000 dangerous mi
crobes in the few cubic inches ot
earth, classified as follows: •
Diphtheria, 1.800,000; measles,
450,000; smallpox, 900.000; tetanus,
.1 000 000; dysentery, 900,000; pneu
monia, 575.000; tuberculosis, 620,000,
RICHMOND AND RETURN
$16.70 VIA SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
Tickets on sale J line 7 and c
8. Through Pullman Sleeping!
I Car leaving Atlanta 2:45 p. m.i
daily, arriving Richmond 8:40j
a. m. Dining car. City TicketJ!
Office, No. 1 Peachtree Street. j
j Make State and Coun-
! ty tax returns now. Office
, corner Pryor and Hunter
> Streets. T. M. Armis--
itead. Tax Receiver.
Friedmann Cure Is
Given First Patient
In South at Atlanta
The first patient to take the Fried
mann tuberculosis treatment in the
South, Mrs. J. G. Carpenter, of Lock
hart, Ala., is awaiting in Atlanta
Wednesday the restilt of an injection (
of the serum given by Dr. Julius Mey
er, of the Friedmann institute, at the
Kimball House.
The form of tuberculosis treated
was spinal. It was understood that
Mrs. Lockhart, who came to Atlanta
with her husband, paid the physician
a fee of $1,000 for the one injection.
Mr. Carpenter stated that lie and
his wife would return tq Alabama at
once and had not decided whether
or not a second course of the treat
ment would be taken.
Germany and Prussia
Floating New Loans
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. June 4.—Announcement
that the Imperial and Prussian Gov
ernments are floating two more large
public loans caused dismay in finan
cial circles. The empire is borrow
ing $12,500,000 and Prussia $42,750,-
000 with interest at 4 per cent.
The loans redeemable in 1935 will
both be issued June 12. The motley
is wanted for the extension of state
railroads, particularly military stra
tegic lines.
Shirley Kellogg a
Bride in London
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, June 4.—Miss Shirley
Kellogg, an Americus chorus girl, who
at one time was reported engaged to
"Diamond Jim" Brady, of New York,
was quietly married to-day to Albert
Pierrade Courville.
Miss Kellogg is a member of the
chorus of a musical review at the
Hippodrome, and her place may be
taken by Evelyn Thaw, wife of Harry
K. Thaw, who has been engaged to
sing and dance there.
New Dances Require
Rubber Sole Pomps
BOSTON, June 4.—The bunny hug
and other dances, names too numer
ous to mention, have brought to man
ufacturers of pbmps a demand for
specialized designs.
To master this new art in the danc
ing world the smooth bottom slipper
will not fill the bill; therefore sev
eral factories are working on a pomp
with a leather bottom and a patch of
rubber triangular or otherwise shaped
John D. Defendant
In $99,250,000 Suit
CORSICANA, TEXAS, June 4.—At
torneys for the Magnolia Petroleum
Company admit that John D. Rocke
feller and H. C. Folger, of New York,
are large stockholders. The attor
neys asserted that these men hold
stock only as individuals.
The Magnolia and Standard Oil
Companies and their subsidiaries and
officials are sued for total penalties
of $99,250,000.
I. W. W. Prisoners
On Hunger Strike
PEORIA, ILL., June 4.—Ten mem
bers of the Industrial Workers of the
World,, in jail here awaiting trial on
charges of conspiracy and rioting.
* were on a "hunger strive” in the
etftmty jail to-day.
-For 72 hours none of the prisoners
has ton hed food. Several of the
"strikers” have fainted from weak
ness.
White City Park Now Open
Painter Was
Business Plans
Refused Policies
*!*•*
Suffered Check
WASHINGTON, June 4. The pend
ing treaty between the I’nited States
and Nicaragua, which will prevent
Heflin, in Speech,
Scores Suffrage
By HUGH S. MILLER.
WASHINGTON. June 4.—In a
speech at the celebration of the birth-
Measure, Expected To Be Pre
sented First of Next Session,
Approved by President.
WASHINGTON. June 4.—Chairman
Jones, of the House Ins'ular Affairs
Committee, announced to-day he
would call his committee together
next week to frame a bill, to be re
ported on the first day of the next
session, to grant independence to the
Philippine Islands. President Wilson
still believes early action on this Is
necessary.
Jones declared to-day it wa« possi
ble that the bill might pass the House
at the present session, the Democratic-
caucus rule which restricts general
legislation of the session to currency
and tariff being subject to amend
ment at a separate caucus.
He declined to disclose the result of
a conference he had with the Presi
dent on this subject several days ago,
but it was learned that the President
asserted he was fully in sympathy
with the principles of the Philippine
bill which passed the house some tim«
ago and which granted full independ
ence to the Philippines after a period
of eight years and qualified independ
ence in the interim.
Sees Bar to Jap War.
“Independence for the Philippines,'
said Jones to-day, "would eliminate
the chance of war between the I’nited
States anu Japan. With the Philip
pines neutral territory, the Japanese
would he less liable to rush into com
bat. They know that as long as the
Philippines are in the possession of
the I’nited States, we would be under
a handicap.”
It was declared. however. that
Hou^e Republicans would fight the
Philippine measure.
"It would be a crime to surrender
the islands,” said Representative
Kahn, of California. "The Filipinos
who assisted us in the war with the
revolutionists might meet a terrible
fate. It is not long ago that they
buried men alive in the Philippines."
Representative Shirley, of Ken
tucky, is one of the Democrats of the
Home who is opposed to early free
dom for the islands. He argued
against hasty and ill-advised action
on this question.
"I am in fayor of Filipino independ
ence.” Representative Kinkead, of
New Jersey. Democrat, said, "but 1
am not prepared to indorse all of the
features of the Jones bill.”
Urges Careful Consideration.
"This is a very grave matter," said
Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the
Senate Philippine Committee, "and
OQe which we must consider care
fully before legislation giving the
islanders independence is enacted.”
Senator Lane, also a Democrat,
stated: "I am for giving the Filipinos
their liberty and I am willing to vote
upon the matter at any time my col
leagues get together.”
"Although I have no 4 ; talked the
matter over with Chairman Hitch
cock." said Senator Fletcher, ranking
Democratic member of the commit
tee, "it seems more than probable
that extended hearings will be held on
.this question. We have assumed the
guardianship of the Filipinos and we
must look out for the future welfare
of the islands."
U, S, Boys Touring
World Stranded
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June 4.—The forty-seven
California boys who are being sent
around the world by the Columbia
Park Boys' Club of San Francisco,
and who have been stranded h( re for
a week, raised enough money to-day
to continue their journey to-morrow.
Funds were raised through the ef
forts of Wallace Crismore, one of the
bov who has unusual histrionic abil
ity.
Theory Offered That He Needed
More Insurance to Protect
Stockholders,
By COLE E, MORGAN.
JACKSONVILLE. FLA. June 4.—
Edward Okie Painter's family and
Intimate friends positively state their
belief that his death in the St. Johns
River on May 22 was accidental and
not premeditated or due to mental
.aberration, as is talked in Jackson
ville.
They declare his business was in
excellent condition, his home life idea!
and that he had no cause to seek self-
destruction.
The insistence of insurance sales
men to write policies, bwause he was
considered ah excellent risk, and be
cause a spirited competition among
insurance rivals had ensued this
spring, are the explanations offered
for his taking out a million dollars of
new insurance since February 1.
A persistent report in insurance
and business circles to-day, explain
ing the probable motive for suicide,
is thot Painter had been checked in
financial plans he had under way
when insurance companies refused to
issue additional policies on his life
within a Week before his death.
Planned to Increase Holdings.
According to this report.. Painter
had launched plans to double the
$350,000 book value capital stock and
surplus of the E. O. Painter Fertilizer
Company to $700,000 by the sale of
a new stock issue. It is said he pro
posed with these funds to enlarge the
company's operations, not only in the
United States, but in the West In-
diaji Islands and South America,
where the company already has hold
ings, to be prepared to extend oper
ations upon the completion of the
Panama Canal.
An explanation of the million dol
lars’. new Insurance, much of which
was made payable to the company
and the rest to his estate and family,
is suggested in that this would give
an added security to the company's
stock as a protection to stockholders
in the >V£nt of his death and there
fore would prove an ‘asset- of nego
tiable value.
It was planned to declare a 15 per
cent dividend on the outstanding
stock at a stockholders* meeting yes
terday afternoon, bfit this was not
done, the meeting adjourning \vi.tlv
practically no business transacted.
This dividend it is pointed out.
would have established the utmost
confidence in the minds of investors
coupled with Painter's high standing
in business circles.
Such a dividend would have rhafde
the sdle of additional ■stock a com
paratively* easy matter. Many plant
ers pgrticuiar.y in Florida and South
Georgia, it is stated, were ready to
purchase blocks of the new stock,
whereby they would be enabled to
reduce their fertilizer bills by buy
ing from .a. .cpnipany in which they
held stock and received dividends.
Organs at John Hopkins.
Coroner Abbott stated this after
noon tjtat aH of. Painter’s vital or
gans sent to Baltimore are in the
hand# of chemists there. said he
had received a message to-day that
Dr. Charles Glaser’, of Johns Hopkins,
had completed the chemical analysis
of the heart, stomach and other func
tional' organ* and that Dr. 'MeLeary
this afternoon, would . complete a
pathological examination of Painter’s
brain.
The repoTts of these chemists are
expected In Jacksonville by-the Upr.o-
ner on Friday afternoon, whereupon,
he will summon the jury and "it-
nesses for a complete investigation
into Painter’s death early next weak
He declared the whole story of
Painter's, death and affairs bearing
on it will be brought out then.
In addition to the $1,178,000 instif-
ance carried by Painter, it is known
that he bought $125,000 additional that
he did not secure. A $50,000 policy
was issued by the Equitable Life, but
before it was delivered the agent here
was instructed to hold it because
Painter was over insured. This policy
was taken to Painter the Saturday
before his death, but he told the
agent to hold it until Monday, when
he would give a check for the pre
mium and accept it. Before it could
be delivered on Monday a telegram
came from the home office that it
must not be delivered.
On April 12 a $50,00<> application
was made with the Travelers. On
May 15 the company postponed the
applicant for six months.
On May 14, Painter applied to the
Florida Life for $25,000 insurance, the
application was rejected by the com
pany's medical director the very morn
ing Painter was drowned, because he
was over weight. His blood pressure
showed 160 in the medical examina
tion.
On May 17 Painter asked the com
pany to give him a receipt for pre
mium notes that had accompanied his
application. This was done A f4 .er his
death the company offered to return
the notes, requesting that the com
pany’s receipt be given back. This
was refused at Painter’s office.
Miss Okie Painter, the dead man’s
only daughter and his namesake has
for several year? occupied a position
in his office, and has been one of the
directing soirjts in tile E O. Painter
Fertilizer Company. She is authority
for, the statement, speaking for the
family, that he had no reason to want
to die. She is typically a business
woman.
She disvusses the affair calmly and
deliberately, with little of the emotion
typical of her sex.
State Senator J. B. Conrad, of
GlenWood, a wealthy banker, has been
named acting president of the fertili
zer company, but has not taken
charge, being engaged in the legisla
tive session at Tallahassee. In the
meantime D. A. Morrison. Jr., secre
tary. is directing the company’s af
fairs, advising with Miss Painter upon
matters concerning the family’s inter
est.
A secret meeting of the stockhold
ers was held yesterday afternoon. It
is said a 15 per cent dividend planned
at this time was not declared because
of Painter's d^ath.
Painted a Self-made Man.
Painter was a self-made man. start
ing in business with a very limited
education. As his daughter grew up
he gave her a splendid education and
depended on her where he was defi
cient. Painter was a real leader in
Florida and Jacksonville. His word
was accepted without question. As
an evidence of his popularity he was
elected one of the Jacksonville port
comrpissioners in a recent election,
receiving th’e third highest vote
amoqg fifteen* candidates. This was
his. first political contest. ' He headed
the Board of Trade’s foreign com
mittee. Last December he represent
ed Jacksonville at the Panama Trade
Conference held in Atlanta. He was
active in charity enterprises, his fav
orite being r the Children’s Home So
ciety.
It is said that one condition he
exacted of the insurance agents who
wrote his recent policies was that a
percentage of the premiums go to this
society, of which he was secretary.
The Painter case has brought to
light a peculiar phase of Florida law.
There is practically no penalty pre
scribed for the mutilation of a dead
body before it is in the custody of
the Coroner. The only punishment im
posed is a misdemeanor for interfering
with an officer in the discharge of
his duties. Consequently, those who
performed or instigated the hasty
autopsy on Painter's body before the
Cbfbner's jury h^d seen it were to
all intents within the law, and no
legal question as to their action is
‘anticipated.
No Word From Baltimore.
Thu# far Coroner C. D. Abbott has
heard nothing of the results of the
analysis ordered In Baltimore. He has
directed that the report be sent to
him through the Barnet National
I4ank, while Dr P C. Perry, repre-
sertingthe family, has contended that
he is the proper one to receive it.
Ho is now in Baltimore.
Coroner Abbott’s authority in this
rase has been questioned because the
body was recovered on the South
Jacksonville side of the river and an
other coroner has jurisdiction there.
But it was landed on the Jackson
ville side, and for that reason Cor
oner Abbott was notified. The Cor
oner's jury that viewed the remains
<of. t,he body oply after the autopsy
was performed has had but one meet
ing since the day of the death, and
is awaiting the report from Balti
more.
The investigation here is at a
standstill. The insurance companies
are now doing practically nothing
pending the inquest verdict. No ad
juster here professes to know what
his company plans to do and the
mystery is as unsolved to-day as it
was a week or more ago.
• any foreign nation from building a
rival to the Panama (’anal in that
country and give the I’nited States
an excellent harbor and coaling sta
tion on the coast of Nicaragua, was
discussed at a conference to-day by
Secretary of State Bryan and Sena
tor Bacon, of Georgia, chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Bacon is said to be strongly in fav
or of the pact. Terms now are being'
drawn up by representatives of the
two Governments -
The treaty may be brought up for
ratification in the Senate during the
present extra session.
$425 Paid for Lee's
Appomattox Speech
PHILADELPHIA. June 4.—The
original copy of General Robert E.
Lee’s farewell address to his army at
Appomattox was sold for $425 yester
day at the 8ale of the collection of
autographs and manuscripts of the
late John Mills Hale, of Phillipsburg,
Pa.
Among other autographs sold were
those of Napoleon Bonaparte, $3];
Marie Antoinette, $42, and Cardinal
Richelieu, $50.
Marie Corelli Sues
Actor as Plagiarist
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. June 4 —Marie Corelli,
the famous English novelist, to-day
secured an injunction against George
Gray, a vaudeville artist, preventing
him from presenting his sketch, "The
People’s King.”
The complaint is that it Is plagia
rized from Miss Corelli’s novel. "Jem-
poral Power.”
Diploma Costs Girl
Student Her Eyes
CHICAGO, June 4.—Threatened
with total blindness because of over
study. Miss Maude Cooke, of Arka-
ilelphia. Ark., a student at North
western University, to-day was ex
cused from the final examinations.
Miss Cooke was in her junior year.
She has been a zealous student anu
as the result the sight of one of her
eyps is entirely gone and the other is
•affected.
Deaf-Mutes to Give
Playlet in Sign ialk :
MACON, GA.. June 4.—DeleRnte* to
the annual convention* of the Georgia
Association for the Deaf and Dumb
here to-morrow and Friday will /visit
the Georgia Academy for the Blind
under the ciceronage of Joe Hill Hali
and T. D. Tinniev, and Friday night
will attend a playlet, all the lines of
which will be "spoken” in the sign
language
About 200 delegates are expected.
4 of Leavenworth's
Banker Colony Out
LEAVENWORTH. KAN’S.. June 4
Max P. Emerich. Paul C. Gall apd
Harry C. Prinzler, of Indianapolis,
and W. J. Hogue, of Sar; Angelo, I
Texas, members of the "Bankers' Col
ony” of the Federal Prison here, were
relea?*ed on parole to-day
Emerich, Gall and Prinzler were
sentenced to serve five years each in
1909.
TWO HELD AS SLAVERS.
ANNISTON. ALA., June 4. Bert
Rose and Carl GaTrett, Anniston
youths, have been arrested at Louis
ville, Ky., on a charge of violating the
Mann act by taking Lillie Mae Glad
den and Alice McElreath to that city
for immoral purposes.
Lane Had Forgotten Name, but
Wool Interests’ Agent Sup
plies It Himself.
WASHINGTON, June 4—S. W.
McClure, who represents wool inter
ests in Washington, was identified in
person to-day a* a lobbyist by Sena
tor Lane, of Oregon, who was the
first witness called to-day. He said
that few men had called on him re
garding the tariff except "the very
handsome man sitting back there.”
Senator Lane could not recall his
name and, turning to McClure, said:
"What is your name?" McClure)
laughed aqd gave his name.
Senator Lane observed that each of j
the Interests seeking protection is out
for itself.
"It's a case of the devil take the
hindmost.” he said. Senator Mc-
<’umber said that he was interested in
farming 1,600 acres of North Dakota
land, which will be "seriously, almost
disastrously affected by the pending
bill.”
Admits His Vote Activity.
He was the first Senator to admit
that he had attempted to influence
the votes of others.
"If there was anyone I thought l
could influence on this bill I would
do it Just as quickly as I leave the
witness stand,” he said.
Senator MacCumber said he could
■not find a buyer for his farm since
tiie Underwood bill was published.
Senator Reed asked him to give his
loss in dollars, but the witness could
not.
Spreckels for Free Sugar.
Senator Newlands said that Claus
Spreckels, of the National Refining
Company, had talked to him about
sugar. Spreckels favors free sugar,
but admitted, said Senator Newlands,
that the fairest thing was to reduce
the duty to about one-half cent a
pound. - ^ •
The Senator said that Sidney Bal
lou, A. B. Baldwin. Henry T. Ox
nard and Truman G. Palmer had talk
ed to him about the same schedule.
Senator Newlands declared sugar,
wool, ditrus fruits and raisins to be
productions from which protection
should be gradually removed.
day anniversary of Jefferson Davis
last night, Representative Thomas
Heflin, of Alabama, made the prayer
that "our women may be kept in the
strait and narrow path and far from
the ballot box." It would mean, he
s-aid, repudiation of the men. His re
marks were applauded.
Mr. Heflin traced the prominent
part played by the South In Revolu
tionary times, in the formation of the
Republic and in its growth. He told
how the Southern women had in
spired the soldier in battle, minis
tered to him when he returned bleed
ing to his desolated home, and how
she helped him to build up his shat
tered fortune.
It was at this point that Mr. Heflin,
expressing confidence of the future of
the country, said he much preferred
to think of the women helping as they
had so truly helped In the pasrt, rather
than to picture her making speeches
from dry goods boxes.
Bank Employees Go
On Holiday Outing
Uneasy are the arms that work the
adding machines, and the jovial slap
on the back is a thing of the past in
the banks, for Tuesday the Atlanta
Chapter, American Institute of Bank
ing. held its annual outing at Indian
Springs. Bathing was the favorite
amusement, and the sun got in its
usual work—hence the sore arms in
the bronze cages.
Music, dancing and dinner at the
Wigwam, together with more or less
"scrub” baseball, filled the day for the
95 bank employees and their guests,
who went early Tuesday morning and
returned at 8 o’clock in the evening.
Special equipment was provided by
the railroad.
Judge Finds “Most
Dangerous Woman”
NEW YORK. June 4.—A big crowd
of curious persons flocked to Judge
Swann's room in criminal court to
see Miss Geraldine Wingate, called
by Judge Swann "The Most Danger
ous Woman in New York." who it is
charged used wayward girls to trap
wealthy men for her own profit.
A subpena had been issued for
Miss Wingate to come into court and
explain why she caused the arrest of
Joseph Rahoon May 7.
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